Many connexions have been formed and carried on under the mild appelation of friendship, upon no other bafis, than the fordid hope, which one, or perhaps both, of the parties, entertained of accom. plishing fome felfish purpofe through the means of the other. But fuch a connexion is fo bafe and deteftable in its very nature, and fo temporary in its existence, that it would be needlefs to spend time in demonftrating it to be totally unworthy of the title of friendship. Equality of age is favorable to friendship. The paffions and purfuits of infancy, manhood and old age, are fo different from each other, that the man will feldom be difpofed to converse with the boy in preference to one who has had the like experience in the world with himself; and the old man will with for the company of fome ancient friend, with whom he may fpeak of the days of former years" and think, 66 "Of joys departed-never to return, I believe I may venture to affirm that fome of the moft fubftantial friendships are often found between perfons of the fame fex. If refemblance of tafte, of opinions, of manners, be favorable to friendship, this certainly must take place. The diftinction which nature has established between the fexes, and the different occupations which they are led to purfue in this life, have all a tendency to difpofe men and women to enter into habits of intimacy with perfons of their own fex, in preference to those of the other. Young girls have their favorite diverfions. The boys have theirs. The girls knit and few together, confult each other about their drefs, and affociate at their idle hours. The boys prefer the fociety of their equals of the fame fex, until fuch times as their hearts begin to finfh with the trong impulfe of a recent paffion. This gentle paffion, undoubtedly, caufes the youth to prefer the fociety of his fair Dulcinea to that of his deareft companion, and the virgin to view her female affociates with a jealous eye, while fhe fears that their alJuring charms may win the heart of her favorite Adonis, whofe fond regards the wishes to engage. death and to receive them as his bofom friends. The power, both of love and friend. fhip, is finely illuftrated by the following narration. Two male negroes, belonging to an English gentleman in the island of St. Chriftophers, were nearly of the fame age, and very eminent among their fellow flaves, for their gracefulness of figure, dexterity and adroitnefs. They were alfo diftinguished for their reciprocal friendship, and likewife for their mutual attachment to a young female flave, who was confidered as the most beautiful of her complexion in the island. The young female appeared to be equally pleased with both her lovers, and was willing to receive either of them for her husband, could one confent to yield to the pretenfions of the other. Neither of them was willing to relinquish hist claim, nor to infringe the facred rights of friendship that exifted between them. The two youths, therefore, long fuffered the fevereft affliction while their hearts were violently, torn between love and friendship. At length, when they were no longer able to endure the conteft, (being ftill unable to reprefs the love they bore their dear coun tryman, and incapable of violating the laws of friendship) on a certain day, they, together with the object of their ill-fated love, retired to a wood antiguous to the careffing the lovely fylph, calling her by fcene of their labours. There after fondly thouïand endearing names, and lamenting their own unhappy fates, they ftabbed a knife into her breaft, which, while ftill reeking with her immaculate blood, was by them, each in his turn, plunged into his own. Her cries reached the people at work in the neighbouring fields; fome of them ran to the place, and found her juít expiring, and the two youths already dead by her fide! FOR THE balance. Neighbour Crofwell, BEING a EING a conftant reader of thy paper, I obferve thou haft made great objettions to the purchase of Louisiana: but the mol important objection has, in my opinion, been overlooked by thee. It ap pears that the foil of that vaft territory cannot be cultivated but by flaves. I am forty to fay that the good name of thefe United Many inftances might be brought to States, is already too much stained by the fhow what an afcendancy it is poffible for barbarous cuftom of holding human be. friendship to gain over the human heart.ings in flavery; and it is much to be reThe well known ftory, of Damon and Py. gretted, that any measure has been adoptthias, affords us a ftriking example. Theired by our government, that will extend generous friendship wrought fo powerfully on the favage heart of Dionyfius, that it caufed him to repeal the rigid fentence of this dreadful calamity, and enlarge the measure of our guilt. I with not, howev. er, to engage in political diffention, but believing that thy fentiments coincide with mine, refpe&ting negro flavery, I requeft thee to publifh in thy widely circulating paper, the fubjoined fevere ironical rebuke against its advocates. It is copied from Montefquieu's Spirit of Laws, Book 15th Chapter 5th. ON THE SLAVERY OF THE NEGROES. WERE I to vindicate our right to make flaves of the negroes, these should be my arguments. The Europeans, having extirpated the Americans, were obliged to make flaves of the Africans for clearing fuch vaft tracts of land. Sugar would be too dear, if the plants which produce it were cultivated by any other than flaves Thefe creatures are all over black, and with fuch a flat nofe, that they can fcarcely be pitied. It is hardly to be believed that God, who is a wife being, fhould place a foul, elpecially a good foul, in fuch a black and gly body. It is fo natural to look upon colour as the criterion of human nature, that the Afiatics, among whom eunuchs are employed, always deprive the blacks of a refemblance to us by a more approbrious dif tinction. The colour of the skin may be determined by that of the hair, which, among world, was of fuch importance, that they the Egyptians, the best philofophers in the put to death all the red-haired men who tall into their hands. The negroes prefer a glafs-necklace to that gold, which polite nations fo highly value: Can there be a greater proof of their wanting common fenfe ? It is impoffible for us to fuppofe thefe creatures to be men; becaufe, allowing them to be men, a fufpicion would follow, that we ourselves are not chriftians. Weak minds exaggerate too much the wrong done to the Africans, for were the cafe as they flate it, would the European powers, who make fɔ many needlefs conventions among themselves, have failed to make a general one in behalf of humanity and compaffion? A propofal is made by a fociety of lite rary gentlemen in New-Orleans, for pubifhing, in monthly numbers, a Louisiana Journal, to contain a general and particu. far biftory of the country, corre&ting the errors or fictions of ignorant or pretended travellers in that country; with fuch other mifcellaneous matter, as may tend to inAruƐ and amule the reader. The Hon. Samuel L. Mitchell, is chofen by the legislature, Senator of the U. S. in place of Gen. Armstrong. for by a particular ftatute of the state of New-Jerley, if the ftroke be given in New-Jerfey, and the death enfues in another flate, it is murder. No doubt there. fore remains of the nature of the crime, Meffrs. Calvin Goddard, John C. Smith, Samuel W. Dana, Roger Grifwold, John and that the grand jury have been correct. Davenport, jun. Benjamin Talmadge and [U. S. Gaz.] Jonathan O. Mofely, are chofen to reprefent the ftate of Connecticut in the eighth Congrefs of the United States. Federalism is triumphing in Massachufetts. Mr. Quincey, a federalift, has been elected member of Congrefs in the room of Dr. Euftis. The commiffions of the following perfons, as juftices of the peace, have been revoked by the Legiflature of Conne&icut, on account of their having publifhed a falfe and feditious declaration, that that ftate has no conftitution, and that its government is an ufurpation : The French frigates which have for a long time been blockaded in the harbor of New-York, by the British frigates off the Hook, have at length efcaped through Hell. gate and the Sound. GENERAL MOREAU. By the arrival at Wilmington (N. C.) on the 9th inft. of the brig Orange, Capt. Pelham, from Cadiz, we learn that Gen. MOREAU and family arrived at that place about the 8th of Auguft, in a fmall Spanish veffel from Gibraltar. The Governor of the province of Andalufia, who ex William Judd, Jabez H. Tomlinson,pected his coming directed the Health-Of- We learn from Rutland, that in the Southeaftern and Northeastern Districts, there is no choice for Reprefentatives to Congrefs. In the Southwestern, Gideon Olin, Fiq. is re-elected; and in the Northwestern, Martin Chittenden. Thursday, the 15th November, is appointed as a day of public thankgiving and prayer in the flate of Connecticut. ficer to fend a boat to the veffel immediately, for the General and his family. He alfo ordered the gates of Cadiz to be opened at 12 o'clock at night, and went him. felt to conduct them into the city. The gates of Cadiz were never before opened after dark, which is there confidered the greatest mark of respect that can be fbewn to the most exalted individual. The General was waited upon and welcomed by all the diftinguished perfonages, both French and Spanish, in the city. The French papers fay, that in July, Lord Nelfon fent a frigate, with a third Meffenger to Algiers, to demand the ref toration of certain veffels, the release of a number of feamen, indemnity for certain loffes; that the British Couful fhould be received again, and that the Dey fhould a The Dey not The Vermont democrats, notwithftanding their political terpitude, difcovered in the late election the characteristic threwd. nefs of Yankies. They very readily gave their fuffrages to a democrat, for Lieutenant-Governor; becaufe they confidered him as a kind of fupernumerary officer;pologise for his conduct. but when they came to vote for Treasurer, they looked out for one in whom they were willing to entrust the Public Money;ing large fums of the English before he reand finding none of their own party, they cieves the Conful again. voted for and elected a Federalift. This [Bolton Centinel.] CASE OF COL. BURR. only fill continues to refufe to comply with thofe demands, but he infifts on hav. The violent fquall which occurred about 8 o'clock yesterday morning, drove the Ship Fortune from her fafts at the Lazaretto, and overfet her within one hun paffengers who happened to be on board were drowned.-Two were fathers of families, who, by this accident, are left delitute, in a country with the habits, cuftoms, manners, and language of which they are unacquainted. A grand jury of the ftate of New-Jer-dred yards of the wharf. Three of the fey having prelented a bill of incimet for murder, against this gentleman, it has become an interefting queftion, whether the crime of which he has been guilty is really murder in legal fignification. By the common law, if the ftroke of which one dies be given in one county and he die in another, it is not murder in either. The cafe being much stronger between different states, it is fuppofed that as Gen. Hamilton died in New-York and not in New-Jerley, Col. Burr cannot be guilty This veff: arrived from Embden more than a fortnight ago after a tedious paffage of go days, during which twenty perfons had perished of a contagious fever, generated by her crowded state, and of which 41, including the Captain, were landed ill on her arrival. [Philad. Paper.] WASHINGTON, OCT. 29. Commodore Barron arrived at Gibraltar with his fquadron on the 12th Auguft laft. On his arrival he found feveral difpatches from Mr. Simpfon our conful at Morocco, all flating in frong terms the hollile difpo fition of the Emperor of Morocco against our commerce, and the preparations making by him to fend out three frigates and two galleys upon a cruise. Mr. Simplon urging the indifpenfible neceffity of leaving two of the frigates upon that ftation, the commodore accordingly left the Congrefs, capt. Rogers, and the Effex, capt. James Barron. The following extract of a letter from capt. Rogers to the Secretary of the Navy difclofes the refult. United States frigate Congress, SIR, GIBRALTAR BAY, AUG. 30. I have the honor to inform you that I without any appearance of fuccefs, and fearing that a further attempt on the fubject might lead to fufpicions unfavorable to a good understanding, I made fail and purfued my courfe back to Tangier where I again on the 27th joined the Effex. At Larache I found the fhip Mefhouda (cidevant Tripoline) in a ftate of ordinary, but at Arzilla and Mamora there was not a fingle veffel of any difcription. On my return again to Tangier I made the ufual fignal to communicate with our Conful, and in an hour atter had the pleafure of receiving advices from him corroborating my own opinion" that whatever grounds there might have been for fufpicion, that they were fo far removed as to admit of one of the fhips leaving the coaft." Two days after I left Tangier for Salle, the two galleys which the Effex was left to watch, failed, and one of them was board. ed by her in fight of Tangier. This circumftance ferves to prove that they had no orders to capture American veffels, or they the Eflex was in fight. certainly would not have gone to fea while Thefe two gal. have this inftant arrived here with the Congrefs and Effex dire& from Tangier from which place I failed on the 27th infl. our paffage has been long owing to a ftrong Levant gale which lafted from the nightleys, with the three fhips at Salle, comof the 27th until the morning of the 26 h, and drove us through the Straits into the prife the greater part, it not the whole maritime force of Morocco. Since the Atlantic. In my laft communication dated Tan-galleys failed I have heard of their being gier Bay, 17th inft. I informed you of Commodore Barron's having fent the Congrefs and Effex on this coaft in confe. quence of advices received from Mr. Simplon our conful at Tangier, of my intention to leave the Effex to watch the conduct of two galleys at that place and of my proceeding immediately to Sille to inform myfelt, of the movements, and if poffible, of the intentions of the Emperor's three fhips mentioned in Mr. Simpfon's Communications to Commodore Barron, copies of which the latter gentleman has forwarded to you: I did fo and arrived and anchored before Salle on the 20th (taking Arzilla, Namora and Larache in my rout) where I found the three fhips in queftion & to all appearance nearly ready for fea. After lying three hours at anchor within about five miles of the Town with American Colours flying and a fignal indicative of friendfhip and a wifh to com. municate with the fhore, without any ap. parent difpofition of the like on their part, I weighed anchor and flood within the range of a common fhot of the fhips without any further fuccefs of bringing about a communication, although every means which a friendly demeanour could fuggeft, were used. However I have no reason to fuppofe that hoftile intentions on their part were the caule of my not fucceeding, but that they either did not comprehend the meaning of the fignal, or were afraid to venture off. On the 21t after repeating again in the fame way as on the preceeding day, my wifhes to exchange civilities Correspondence. We acknowledge the receipt of the second cante of "The greater the truth, the greater the libel." In this canto, the writer lashes with considerable severity, a couple of partners-in-law, of Rensselaer county, who have laid their pretty heads together, in furnishing out several vulgar, pitiful, and abusive On account publications, touching the first canto of certain allusions which would not be generally understood, we decline giving the piece at length. The writer commences with the following invoca tion: "Hail, glorious falshood! at thy shrine once more It appears that the writer of the first canto had been called a foreigner in some of the paltry publications of his opponents, to which he thus alludes"I'm also call'd a rude " imported brat," And all vile names-except a democrat. So sung a native Bird, of sweetest note, Who like the nightingale attunes his throat." The lines copied from this nightingale's "wild numbers," and all allusions to them, are too vulgar for the Balance. But the following lines are chaste, and certainly possess considerable point and spirit: "They who contemn all foreign source of rhymes, Would Brandy prize, tho' brought from foreign climes; at Cadiz. The hips are infile of Salle Bar, and I have reafon to believe there is but little probability of their going to fea this fummer, as I am told there never has been an inftance of their large cruizers go. ing to fea for the purpole of cruizing, af. I fhall leave ter the 10th of September. this the inftant I get water on board fuffi cient for 6 or 8 weeks, which I am in hopes will not take longer than to-morrow evening, and proceed direct to Tripoli, Who can from him withhold due diference, where I flatter my felf, (if capt. Preble has not made a previous attack) I fhall yet arrive in time, to co-operate with Commotified if the Congrefs did not thare a part dore Barron; for I fhould be greatly mor of the credit to be derived from the reduc. honorable remembrance of her name on its tion of Tripoli, by infcribing a lafting and walls. The Unell. In this city, on Thursday last, Mrs. STIRLING, wife of Mr. David Stirling, in the 35th year of her age. And whilst they in the Muses' fountain dip, Imported Cogniac would, delighted, sip. Whose foreign genius baffles native sense? After deviating into several stanzas of truth, the ingenious writer thus turns again to his tutelar guide : "Most gracious falshood! see that beggar rude- shame, Whose bold intrusions much cbstruct my theme." Under the protection of Falshood, the wri.er proceeds; and addressing "great Neptune," says, "Long as our shores thy foaming fluid laves, Breath. EXTRACTS. [The following Epigram is copied from the Boston Gazette. It seems to be founded on the fact, that a certain representative in Cong ess from Massachusetts, by some republican art of making out accounts, received payment for two or three days (at six dollars per day) more than Congress was in session.-N. B. The representative had been a great dealer in Bullock's flesh.-Honce is supposed to be a nick-name for one Ben. Austin, a co-editor of the Boston Chronicle. Edit. Bal.] EPIGRAM. "And I, Sir," the youth was not slow in replying, casement." Diversity. THOUGHTS ON MODESTY AT London, in the month of Auguft laft, two tradelmen near Blackfriars had a difference refpe&ting a bet, which it was agreed next morning to decide with piftols. They met near the Windmill, below Petty France, when the feconds had the good fenfe to drop the bullets into the proper place their own pockets. One of the parties, who was let into the secret, dropped dead on the first fire! His opponent fled on the wings of fear, and next morning proceeded in a poft chaife to depart for Hamburgh or America, when he faw his deceafed antagonist very compofedly ferving his cuftomers behind the counter ! AN eafy and unaffected Modefty is a virtue not only graceful and excellent, but may be reckoned among the most durable beauties; it improves every look and feaA NEW invented carriage, called veloture, gefture and motion, atones for a mean cifere, drawn by four horfes, palled lately drefs, and fets off the richest with an addi- through the Ely fian Fields in Paris. It tional luftre. The standard of beauty vacarried no less than 35 paffengers, and ries in proportion to the various opin-will be no longer than 36 hours going ions of mankind in different countries; but modefty, like light, is the fame to all. Beauty, like a flower, is flow in its growth, fhort in its bloom, and its decay raises in us a fort of illnatured comI'm caught by the horns, and no mercy they show, paflion. But modefty, in its dawn has its Replies Honee, why stop them by still louder roaring.charms: and, when it has stood all attacks, SAYS Bullock to Honee, pray what shall I do, To stop the curs'd Feds, from incessantly boring; is entitled to our admiration. Beauty may With the men modefty gives rife to true DIED, lately in Germany, Tagek Tal pier, aged 120. He had buried ten wives; his laft, the eleventh, who is now living, is but twenty fix years of age. By her he had 5 children, the youngest is 5. months old. By his other wives he had 31 children, all of whom are living, married, and have large families. His memory was very retentive; he could recount a fuccinct hiftory of Germany and Europe generally, for more than 100 years paft, and was very loquacious and witty. He never experienced any kind of fickness, was of large flature and voracious appetite and very athletic. He came to his death [Sure his Rev'rence that day was dispos'd for a by attempting to leap over a gate 8 feet wrangle,] Through my casement I never can once put my head, Without seeing you strolling about the quadrangle, high: he paffed it, but unfortunately fell from Paris to Lyons, a distance of 110 leagues, or 330 English miles. This curious invention promises to be of the greatest ad. vantage, both for their commercial and military transports. The inventor has obtained an Imperial patent. [London paper.] Original. HUDSON, (New-YORK) TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1804. Hither the products of your closet-labers bring, Enrich our columns, and instruct mankind. FOR THE BALANCE. THE LIMNER. MY SHOP.WINDOW. FEARFUL, Mr. Editor, that fhould tire the patience of your readers and yourself, I broke off my sketches rather abruptly last week; but fome pretty prominent ones yet remain, and, with your leave, I will give fome account of them. I could not avoid obferving in a particular manner, one person who prefented Still himself at my window. He is a man of fortune, and, had he the difpofition, might be of immenfe benefit to the public and to individuals, without injuring himself ; but then, it is faid, his felfishness is for great, that it is doubtful whether he ever did a benevolent or charitable act. he is proud and oftentatious. He takes great pains to inform every body that he was bred a gentleman; and yet his condut contradicts the pretenfion in the moft forcible manner. Afk a favor of this man, and he will laugh at you, as if he fhould fay-Why should I grant a favor, when perhaps I may never want it returned? One fuch man is enough to fill a world. He neither wants nor deferves an affociate. Next came up a man with a hafty step. He had but little time to gaze. He at tended to his own bufinefs, and cared noi what became of the rest of mankind. He was rich, but was nevertheless delving for more money. He boafted of neither high birth nor breeding; but was perfectly willing to be confidered as a man of affluence, provided it would enfure him attention and respect. He was fond of feeing people flirring around him; for he wifely concluded that, without people there would be no traffic, and without traffic, he could add nothing to his riches. The next was one of the fimpleft faces imaginable. It was a clever fellow. Such a character reminds one of infipid broth without pepper. If boiling-hot, it will fcald the throat as bad as high-feasoned foup. As the next face came before the window, I could not avoid ftarting. Such a fieady, plotting, cold countenance ! Such iron nerves! I could think of nothing but the French revolution. This man's looks will never be obliterated from my memory. I felt relieved when he paffed on. Next was a wolf in sheep's cloathing. His fmiles and falutations coft him noth. ing. It was but little trouble to shake every body by the hand. But then, his fmiles, and falutations, and fhaking of hands, meant nothing-they were worse than nothing. Then came a wrong-headed old man. The next was a face as smooth as oil; but looking through the window of his eyes, I thought I plainly difcovered a vast deal of lurking malice. The laft I fhall mention, was a man fo very ignorant, and, at the fame time, fo very felf-conceited, that I thought it a * great pity that with all his knowledge, he had never learnt one important fecretviz,—that he was himself a fool. PETER PALLET. Editor's Closet. STATE FACTS, SPEAK TRUTH, AND DIE MARTYRS. TRUTH A LIBEL STILL. It will be recollected, that, early in last winter's feffion of the legislature of this ftate, a federal member introduced a bill for allowing the truth to be given in evidence on trials of indictments for libels. It will be recollected that previous to this, Ambrofe Spencer, while Attorney-General, had thanked God," with much apparent fincerity, that the common law doctrine was likely to be reformed. It will be recollected that Barber," printer to the flate," immediately after the introduction of the bill, publifhed a paragraph in his paper, in which he called the common law doctrine, "a hoary fyilem of folly injuftice and tyranny." It will alfo be recollected that the bill was oppofed, altered, cut, carved and mangled, by the democrats until there was fcarcely one of its original features left. Bearing thefe fa&is in mind, let us note a few of the many fal hoods coined by the democrats con |