Nutmegs, Segun dolls. 5 Linseed oil, Blankets, Bombazetts and stuff goods, Worsted and cotton hosiery, Buttons of all kinds, and moulds, Laer goods, 75 cts. per do. dolls. 1 50 lution concerning the payment, in England, by the bank, of dividends on the capital stock of the bank, held by persons residing in Europe, report: That, on the 28th of November, 1816, it was "resolved, that, at this time, it is expedient to establish an agency in England for the payment of the dividends on such portion of the capital stock of this bank as may be held by persons residing in Eu̟rope, and that John Sergeant, esq. be instructed to Question 17th. Have you any reason to believe, make arrangements for the payment there, at the that from the 1st March, 1815, to the 1st July, par of exchange, at the risk and expense of the 1816, there was more smuggling than at any for-bank." That, in pursuance of this resolution, an mer or subsequent period? If so state them spe cially. Clocks and time pieces, agency was established for the payment of the dividends, as follows: the dividends declared in Janua Answer. It is not believed that smuggling of any ry in each year, were to be paid in London on the consequence is carried on now, or at any other first day of July thereafter, and those declared in period, since the restrictive measures, and then July in each year, were to be paid on the first day the places were mostly confined to the eastern of January thereafter, and the bank agreed to pay Hines, and along the river St. Lawrence. From to the agents a commission of one half of one per the 1st March, 1818, to 1st July, 1816, goods cent. on all dividends thus paid. The following commanded a ready and profitable sale, there- form of a requisition on the part of stockholdfore the inducement was less. The evils of the ers, requiring the payment of dividends through auction system can here be introduced with this agency, was prescribed by the board: "Personmuch propriety, as through that channel almost ally appeared before me A. B. who declares that he all the smuggled goods introduced during the re- is a resident in Europe, and that his usual place of strictive measures, were scattered; it was well un-residence is and that he doth thereby re derstood, at that time, the amount that was intro- quest the president and directors of the bank of duced and sold at auctions was for account of the the United States, in conformity to their resolution smugglers; the facility to spread the goods, pre-of the 28th of November, 1816, to cause to be paid vents in a great degree the possibility of detection; the auctioneer is not bound to ascertain how the parties came by the property-whether stolen or otherwise. Question 18th. State your opinion of the propriety of the following regulations: appraisers to examine each package imported; surveyor of the port to examine each package exported for drawback; whenever a manifest is required by the existing law to be verified before the American consul at the place of exportation, all goods to be entered in a manifest of the place of export, (same as in the coasting trade) to be verified before the American consul, if any; If none, before the collec. tor, or other officer, having the superintendance of the customs. to him, or his legal representatives in the city of London, all such dividends as shall hereafter be de clared upon all stock standing in his name upon the books of said bank." That sundry holders of stock, who were resident in Europe, presented to the bank such requisitions, and the dividends heretofore made have been paid accordingly. The committee have attentively and maturely considered the resolution referred to them, and they are of opinion that it is inexpedient to continue the agency-that it will, probably, under no cir cumstances, be advantageous to the bank, and, under some, it may be very burthensome. The bank will, in all likelihood, be called upon to pay in Eng. land, when exchange on that country is high, and the stock held by residents of the United States Answer Collectors should be instructed to de- may be placed on the books of the bank, in the signate particularly the packages to be sent to the names of European residents, and the payment of public store from each invoice, for examination: the dividend required in England; while on the It would be well if it were the surveyor's duty to ex-other hand, when exchange shall be against Eng. amine every package exported for drawback. land, the bank may, and probably will, be called Question 19th. What is the value of a full cargo upon to pay in the United States; there is, thereof woolen and cotton goods, assorted for our mar-fore, no mutuality of advantages, either absolute ket; ditto of silks, and linens from Europe; ditto or contingent. The apparent advantage of paying silks and nankins from China; ditto of cottons and the dividends some months posterior to the periods anuslin shawls from Calcutta; ditto of glassware and when they may be declared, is illusory, for little crates from Europe? less time will be necessary to effect the requisite remittances. Answer, This question can only be answered by application to the secretary of the treasury, or applying at the custom house. The committee are also of opinion, that the bank is under no legal or equitable obligation to continue Question 20th. What number of vessels are em- this agency longer than its own views of expedienployed in the direct trade with England; say Ame-cy shali induce it to do so. They, however, jealous rican vessels, from the port of New York, and the usual number of seamen in each? Answer. We refer you to the secretary of the treasury; we are unable to answer it. Bank of the United States. At a meeting of the president and directors of the Bank of the United States, on the 19th of July, 1821, the following report and resolutions were adopted, viz: of any appearance of a departure from the highest sense of rectitude, notwithstanding the bank is not legally or morally bound, think it will best comport with the character of the institution, to continue the payment of the dividends in England, in those cases in which requisitions, in due form, have been made, or shall be made within such reasonable time as the board shall now prescribe. In conformity with these views, the committee submit, for the consideration of the board, the fol lowing resolutions: The committee on the state of the bank, to whom 1st. Resolved, That the agency for the payment in was referred, on the 16th of February last, a reso-England, of dividends on the capital stock of this bank, held by persons resident in Europe, be, and is hereby, from henceforth discontinued, except so far as is declared in the resolution next succeeding. 2d. Resolved, That the bank will continue to pay the dividends on stock held by persons residing in Europe, according to its resolve of the 28th day of November, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, In all cases in which requisitions, in due form, have been received, or shall be executed in Europe, and be actually received at the bank in Philadelphia on or before the first day of September next; but such dividends shall cease to be paid in England, so soon as the stock shall cease to belong, bona fide, to persons residing in Europe. 3d. Resolved, That this report and these resolutions be published in the National Intelligencer, and in those gazettes in the city of Philadelphia, in which the bank is accustomed to insert public notices, and that a copy thereof be sent to Messrs. Baring, brothers, and company, the agents of the bank in Longested, that the secret of our distress was to be don. L. CHEVES, President. Attest-THOMAS WILSON, Cashier. Compliment to Mr Carey. FROM THE DELAWARE WATCHMAN. The citizens of Wilmington and its vicinity, friendy to national industry, have presented to Mathew Carey, esq. of Philadelphia, a piece of plate, as a testimony of their gratitude for his writings upon political economy. The article presented is an elegant silver urn, which is admired by all who have seen it, for the beauty of its design and workmanship. The inscription on it is in these words: "A TRIBUTE OF GRATITUDE to MATHEW CARey, Esquire, In approbation of his writings on Some of the friends of National Industry, in WILMINGTON, DEL. AND ITS VICINITY. April, 1821." Wilmington, July 4th, 1821. had been rapid beyond example, the scene became suddenly changed, and we behold this great coun try paralized in its finances, and its principal branches of industry-agriculture, commerce, and manufactures, sinking to the lowest ebb of depression. Before this great reverse had overtaken us, the science of political economy was in its infancy in this country-or, like other sciences, its know. ledge was confined to the bosoms and studies of the learned: the great body of the people, while sailing down the stream of prosperity, felt not the neces sity of enquiring into the causes of national wealth; and the wide spread embarrassments that ensued, found them equally at a loss to determine their origin, or to provide an adequate remedy. Absurd theories and narrow expedients, the offspring of ignorance or prejudice, were not wanting;, but they served only to establish error, and to darken the prospect around us. By some of these it was sug found in the disorders of our banking system; but since the reformation of our banks has failed to restore activity to commerce, agriculture, and manufactures, the fallacy of this hypothesis must be ob. vious to all. The misconduct of the banks, justly censurable as it was, was but a mere incident, a tributary stream, which served only to swell the tide of distress, and was almost lost in the overwhelming torrent that spared neither the cottage nor the city. By other theorists, a species of overruling necessity was contended for; and the evils of the times were pronounced to be "the inevitable effects of a transition from a state of war to a state of peace in Eu rope;" as if any necessity could exist why the peo ple of this great country should be idle, poor and shiftless, or as if its prosperity or adversity depended upon the shifting scenes of Europe, or the fickle temper of its sovereigns! We deny that such is our condition. It is not necessary to our happiness or prosperity that the flame of war or revolution should ravage the fields of Europe. We possess means of greatness and happiness within ourselves, perfectly compatible with the repose of the rest of the world. These means are, the general diffusion of employment among the people, and the protection of their industry by the government. This truth is becoming every day more clearly demonstrated.. The path of enquiry has been ably The following letter from the committee, appoint-explored by numerous writers, who early saw and ed on behalf of the contributors, accompanied the predicted that the system of trade pursued by this delivery of the urn: country was ruinous to its interests. Dear bought experience has come in aid of their predictions; SIR-The friends of national industry in Wil-and every one begins now to perceive that the counmington and its vicinity, feeling deeply impressed try which buys more than it sells, which throws open by a sense of the eminent services you have ren its ports to an indiscriminate admission of the products dered to that cause, and to our common country, and manufactures of other nations, while its own prohave appointed the undersigned a committee, to ducts are rejected and thrown upon its hands, is plung: procure a piece of plate, and to request your accepting deeply in debt, and "preparing for itself a scene ance of it, as a testimony of their esteem and regard. of sorrow and ruin." Among those who have lead In performing this duty, the undersigned avail the way in demonstrating these truths, your name, themselves of the opportunity it affords, of express- sir, stands conspicuous. With a spirit undaunted ing their own high sense of those writings which by opposition, and a perseverance unweared by difhave aroused the spirit of enquiry, and opened the ficuties, you have ably vindicated the great cause of eyes of a large portion of the nation to a full view national industry, asserted its title to the regard of of those sound principles of political economy, the people, and its right to the protection of the which, in their due application, have ever constitut- government. And when the day arrives, which we ed the true sources of the wealth and prosperity of believe to be now rapidly approaching, that both government and people shall unite in a system of The situation of our country, when you commenc-national policy, embracing within its scope, the fair ed the labors which it is our wish to commemorate, and equal protection of all branches of national inwas such as no patriot could contemplate with apa dustry, you will enjoy, in contemplating the pros thy or indifference. After a prosperous career of perity of your country, the noblest of all gratificamore than twenty years, during which our strides to tions-a consciousness of the benefits your labors individual and national wealth and aggrandizement, have conferred on it. nations. We are, sir, very respectfully, your obedient ser-harvests of human happiness. This policy, under vants, MATHEW CAREY, Esquire. JOHN TORBERT, W. P. BROBSON, WM. W. YOUNG,, ANSWER. Committee. Gentlemen-I receive, with sincere respect, this very honorable testimony of the kindness of the eitizens of Wilmington and its vicinity, approbatory of my feeble efforts in support of that portion of the national industry devoted to manufactures. the Edwards and Elizabeth in England, and under Sully and Colbert in France, sowed those beneficent seeds of prosperity, whose germination laid the foundation of the greatness of those powerful nations: in Prussia enabled the wise Frederick to repair the losses and heal the deep wounds inflicted on his dominions by the sanguinary seven years' war-to double or treble the number of artists in his country-and increase its population to an extent scarcely credible: furnished the means whereby Great Britain, subsidized half the monarchs in Europe, and maintained a long-protracted and stupendous conflict with the most formidable power ever wielded by one man: regenerated France in It is consolatory to find that correct views on this three or four years, after she had, for twenty, bled important topic, are rapidly speading throughout at every pore in the most tremendous warfare Euthe United States, even among those who have rope has witnessed for five hundred years; and after heretofore been hostile to legislative protection of she had been devoured for two or three years by manufactures. It is now admitted, as a clear axiom, wasting hostile armies, and subjected to an enorby all who duly consider the subject, that a nation, mous military contribution of one hundred millions thousands of whose citizens were devoted to idle- of dollars; while the United States, alas! onlyness for want of a market among their country- "scratched" by a brief war of two years and a half, men, while it gave full employment to greater num- and subsequently enjoying six years of profound bers of manufacturers at a distance of three thous peace, have been gradually declining in resources and miles, which manufacturers it was not allowed-are obliged to supply the deficiencies of revenue the poor privilege of supplying with food, could by loans, and have the uncomfortable prospect of not fail to be distressed and embarrassed as the excises and direct taxes, when, according to a reUnited States have been: that is to say, in other cent report, of a committee of the house of reprewords, that a nation which excludes nothing what-sentatives, (Feb. 6, 1821,) "the imposition of an exever from any part of the world, while its bread cise AT THIS TIME OF EXTREME DISTRESS, would be stuffs, the chief staple of one third of its popula- unwise, and is not demanded by the state of the treasury; tion, are, unless in case of scarcity or danger of fa-IF IMPOSED, it would be difficult to collect; and 18 COL. mine, excluded from consumption, by positive laws LECTED, it would, in some parts of the union, be in pain four nations, Great Britain, France, Spain and per little available." Such a picture of the state of Portugal, embracing one third of the population of the country, drawn by the highest authority, points Europe, pursues a most ruinous system, wholly des-out as clearly as "the hand writing on the wall," the titute of the shadow of reciprocity. necessity of a change of the policy by which it has been produced. The farmers now find, by dear bought experience, that the plausible advantages, depicted to them in With the numberless advantages, natural, moral, such glowing colors, to arise from buying cheap and political, enjoyed by the United States-advanforeign goods, for which the wealth of the nation tages rarely equalled, never perhaps exceeded, has been exhausted, are mere "day-dreams," a de-the wise policy of the Edwards, Elizabeths, Sullys, lusive mockery; that in many parts of the United Colberts and Fredericks, could not fail to insure us States, it costs them three or four times as much of as high a degree of happiness and prosperity as the fruits of the earth, to purchase those cheap ever fell to the lot of any nation. humble servant, goods, as formerly to purchase the same quantity To have been in any degree instrumental in the when goods were universally dear; that the depres- dissemination of truth on this momentous topic, besion of manufactures has produced a two-fold dele-yond all comparison the most interesting to this naterious effect on the agricultural interest-it has tion, will afford me a solace which death alone can deprived the farmers of an invaluable domestic terminate. market, not only for raw materials, but even for food; as, by forcing manufacturers to become farmers, it has unhappily converted a host of customers into active and formidable rivals. In fine, that our policy bas fatally and completely realized the ancient fable of the belly and the members, so fraught with a profound lesson on those sordid maxims of politcal economy, of which the obvious effect is to bestow on strangers, that countenance and support which are denied to fellow citizens. It requires little argument to prove, that wisdom dictates to abandon a policy which has blighted and blasted the countless blessings so liberally bestowed by bountiful heaven on Ireland, Spain, Portugal and Italy; enfeebled and impoverished every nation by which it has been pursued; and produced here, for three or four years, a state of things, thus justly and mournfully characterised by the secretary of the treasury "Few examples have occurred of distress so general and so severe as that which has been exhibit. ed in the United States." Messrs. John Torbert, V. Du Pont, and MATHEW CAREY. Important Legal Decision A very important legal decision has recently been made in the district court of the U. States, for the district of Massachusetts, on the construction of the 41 and 43 sections of the act of congress of March 2, 1799, "regulating the collections of duties on imports and tonnage." The case was an infor mation filed in behalf of the United States, against 18 pipes distilled spirits-claimed by T. Rix. It was argued by Jas. T. Austin and Danl. Webster, The history of Europe abounds with illustrious for the claimant, and George blake, (district attørinstauces of a contrary policy, producing copiousney) for the United States: sumption of their liability to forfeiture, which could only be removed by the production of satisfactory proof on the other side; that the distilled spirits contained in them, at the time of seizure, had actually been imported into the United States, and the duties thereupon paid or secured." It appeared in evidence-first, that the casks of ant, must be deemed sufficient, in point of-law, to distilled spirits in question, were of such description maintain the "averment that the casks were found as were required by the act to be marked and ac-unaccompanied with the proper certificates," so companied with the usual certificates. And, as to justify the seizure and to raise a legal preSecondly, that on the 29th day of April last, they were found by the seizing officer, in the possession of a person unaccompanied by such certificates. It was shewn, by the testimony of sundry witnesses, that the casks in question, were filled at the time of the seizure, with a species of distilled spirits, and that each of them had been regularly marked at 2d. That a person having in his possession for the custom house in Boston, in conformity with the sale, a cask of distilled spirits, which has once pas. requirements of law, as containing foreign gin of sed from the custom house, and is accompanied by the first proof, imported in ship Packet, Turner, the marks and certificates required by the law in master; all the original marks and numbers re- that case, has no more right, without first obliterat maining as at first, without any change or oblitera-ing such marks, and surrendering the certificate, tion. It was furthermore proved that the claimant, to change, essentially, the contents of such a cask, being present at the seizure, was requested by the than he has to alter the marks, or to erase and falsiseizing officer to produce the certificates which fy the certificate itself that to do this, in either were required to accompany the casks; that in an case, is to tamper with an important public regu swer to this demand, the claimant declared that he lation; that it must be regarded as a fraudulent act had the proper certificates, and that he would go to of the party; and like the forging or falsification of his house for them, and bring them down to the a deed, or any other instrument, must forever debar custom house for the inspection of the collector.-him from the privilege of resorting, afterwards, to The seizing officer requested him to do so, assur- the original voucher as affording the evidence of ing him at the same time that he would go imme. his rights. diately to the custom house in order to meet him 3d. As a conclusion from the foregoing positions,it there. The casks were accordingly removed by was laid down distinctly by the judge, that if, from the seizing officer to the store commonly used by the strong proofs which had been produced on the the collector, as a place of deposite for merchandise part of the prosecution, it should be the opinion under such circumstances: and thereupon, the of the jury, that any part of the spirits contained seizing officer went to the custom house, according in these casks were of foreign manufacture, or in to the arrangement which had been previously other words, were such as were required by law to made with the claimant, as above stated, in order to be marked and certificated; and that the contents wait there his arrival with the certificates. It ap- of the casks, at the time of the seizure, were espeared however that the claimant did not, on that sentially different from what they were when the day, nor at any time afterwards, produce the said certificates were issued, then that the certificates certificates at the custom house, as he had proposed ought to be rejected as wholly inapplicable, as afto do-and in fact that nothing further was heard | fording no evidence whatsoever that the spirits had of any such documents either by the collector or been legally imported, and the duties secured. In any other person representing the U. States in fine, that whatever might be the inconvenience or behalf of the prosecution, until they were produc-injury resulting to the claimant from this construced before the district judge on the second day of tion, it was such and such only as had been brought June following, when an application was made to upon him by his own indiscretion or fraud, in atthe said judge, by the claimant, for the delivery of the merchandise, upon giving bond for the appraised value thereof, in conformity with the provisions of the law in such cases. tempting to pervert the purposes of an important public document; and that he had therefore no reasonable grounds for complaining of any hardship.-Boston Patriot. Yearly Meeting. FROM THE PHILADELPHIA UNION. It was further shewn on the part of the United States, very clearly and satisfactorily, that notwithstanding the apparent conformity between the casks and the certificates, yet that the contents of the former at the time of the seizure, were essentially different from what they were at the time of their An American author has said, that the people being marked, and at the issuing of the certificates called Quakers are laughed at by fools and admired that the spirits now contained in the casks, instead by philosophers. There are certainly many things of being genuine Holland gin of first proof, accord-in their character which are deserving of admiraing to the purport of the marks and certificates, tien, and among others their method of doing bu were, in fact, a species of mixed, adulterated spirit, siness is not the least worthy of notice. composed (in the opinion of the witnesses) partly of foreign and partly of domestic manufacture; and although not much reduced, merely as to proof, yet so affected by the mixture as to have lost about fifty per cent. of the market value of the article as at the time of its original importation. The opinion of the judge, upon the several points which had arisen at the trial, was expressed to the effect following, viz: The yearly meeting in Philadelphia is probably the largest deliberative assembly in the world The members convene in two large buildings in Arch-street, not indeed as splendid as the capitol, but quite as commodious, and though they are not all the most fluent speakers, there appears to be among them a stock of good sense which would well atone for the lack of eloquence. They are of both sexes, and all ages. One house is com1st. That even if the certificates now produced posed exclusively of females, and confers with the were genuine, and found, in every respect, to com- other by means of committees! In this division of port with the marks and contents of the casks, still the assembly into two parts, the yearly meeting that the circumstance of their nonproduction, upon may be likened to our national legislature; but we the demand of the seizing officer, and their being fear that there are few other points in which a kept back, for such a length of time by the claim-[résemblance can be discovered; for here is no let Lithographic Printing. ter writing, newspaper reading, or long speaking. When a subject is broached, a member rises and Of all the modern inventions, noticed in the fogives his opinion of it in language at once concise, reign scientific journals, that of printing from comprehensive, and definite. A second follows stone plates seems to promise the most beneficial him, extending the view of the subject, if there is results. A person of the name of Solenhofer, a any cause for extension; if not, he expresses his ac- German, was the first who introduced this mode cordance of sentiment in a short sentence, such for of printing; but, owing to the bulky and heavy instance as "I am in unity with the friend who nature of the material which he employed, and has last spoken," or, "that friend speaks my mind," his keeping the manner of manufacturing the plates and down he sits very composedly. A third rises, a profound secret, it was not likely that other na delivering his opinion in like manner, or, if he dis- tions would derive much advantage from the dissents from the others, he expresses his disapproba- covery. All this, however, has been obviated by tion in a speech equally pertinent and laconic; and a Mr. Senefelder, of Munich, who has lately been thus a subject is broached, discussed, and decided at Paris, where, at the annual sitting of the Soupon, in less time, perhaps, than we have taken to relate the mode of proceeding; for these people do not think it necessary to use ten thousand words to communicate ten ideas, or give to ten ideas ten thousand forms. The ecclesiastical economy of the Quakers, it is well known, embraces more points than that of any other religious community. Many difficult cases come before the yearly meeting, which has in some instances an original, and in others an appellate jurisdiction. Some of these cases involve points of doctrine as well as discipline, and yet all the multifarious business growing out of the ecclesiastical concerns of the many thousand persons to whom its care extends, was transacted in 1821 by the yearly meeting held in Philadelphia, by adjournments from the 16th of the 4th month to the 20th of the same, inclusive." Thus much for good order, and good sense. But we will venture to say that, if "Friends" had adopted the mode of doing business at present in vogue with some de liberative assemblies, they would have been forced to continue their adjournments till the 20th of the Fourth month, 1822. There are certain general dicta, which, though the result of but partial experience, have acquired the character of universal truths. Among these are the vulgar dogmata, that large assemblies are incapable of transacting business judiciously and that a propensity to loquacity in the fair sex disqualifies them for every thing but talking.-That these are not universal truths is proved by the case of the yearly meeting; and we are happy that, in refuting erroneous opinions, we can both evince our gallantry, and serve a more important purpose which we have in view. The facts here adduced, place it beyond doubt, that the ability of a public assembly for business depends more on the character of the members, than their number, and that a great fondness for prolixity of speech is owing to the mind and not the sex of the speaker. Both sexes, and all ages, as we have before observed, compose the yearly meeting of Friends; but it must not be supposed that every one of the five or six thousand persons who form the two "houses," troubles the meeting with his or her observations. On the contrary, none speak but those who have something to say, and the speakers endeavor to include, in their discourses, not all that could be said on a subject, but all that ought to be said. ciety for the Encouragement of National Industry, he exhibited specimens of stone paper, which are light and portable, and as answerable for the purposes of lithographic drawing and printing, as the unwieldly plates of the original inventor. In a let-". ter, published in the London Literary Gazette, dated Paris, April, 20, 1821, it is stated, that "when Senefelder first established himself here, he found that in France it was very difficult to procure the stone proper for lithography, which is so abundant in the neighborhood of Munich. From that moment, his attention was wholly directed to the problem of substituting some other substance for stone; and he was not long in discovering a composition, which, being spread upon pasteboard, presented a smooth and polished substance, resembling stone:" After repeated trials, the artist satisfied himself that the old method of lithography was an imperfect art, very inferior to what it may become with the assistance of his new invention. The composition is described to be as white as writing paper, and costs no more than what was usually paid for polishing the stone. Its use, in printing books,and in multiplying drawings and manuscripts, is said to be incalculable. "When, for instance (says the writer,) a work of lasting merit is published, a proof of each sheet may be taken off on the lithographic pasteboard; and, when a new impression is required, it is only necessary to print from the boards, without the labor of re-composing the work." The secret of preparing this invaluable paper is kept by the inventor, who, very naturally, wishes to remunerate himself for the discovery. It appears, however, that Mr. Senefelder is likely to be deprived of a part of the gains on which he calculated, as an improvement similar to his, and apparently as well adapted to the purpose, has been brought forward in London, by Mr. Miller, the king's printer, who, it is stated, has, for these seven years, greatly contributed to the advance.. ment of lithography, and has actually been successful in manufacturing a substance which answers the purpose of stone plates. The prints of a drawing with a pen, taken from such a substitute plate, had been exhibited, and were found perfectly clear and distinct. A large folio size plate weighs 3 oz.; whereas a stone plate of the same size, one inch and a half thick, weighs 21 pounds. An art which promises so many advantages, and which, when the secret is known, will not fail to Thus, by avoiding all needless repetition and un- be imitated in every country, well merits the atnecessary declamation, and by an order as excel- tention of all governmonts disposed to patronize lent in other things as in debates, the yearly meet- what may be calculated to promote general utility, ing transacts business with ease and despatch, France and Great Britain have long been rivals in which, if brought before certain other deliberative the arts and sciences, as well as in arms. It will bodies, would perplex, vex, and weary the mem-give us real pleasure to find their rulers contendhers, be but half done, ill done, or not done at all. Jing in this instance, who shall be first in extend |