his quoting a line from his own song, nor to approve of his presumption (to give it the mildest term) in stigmatizing the whole European world as governed by "corrupted systems of policy."-That part of the oration where he pledges himself, &c. &c. might have sounded well from General Washington; but I was very sorry to hear it from Mr. H.

Female Toasting." After the usual celebration of the 4th of July, at Middletown, Connecticut, the ladies also, animated with the spirit of patriotism, and desirous to give a proof of their attachment to the cause of their country, convened in the afternoon, in the grove belonging to Capt. G. Starr, where a cold collation was provided for them, and the following truly patriotic toasts were given :

"1st. The United States-May their sons ever continue brave and free, and their daughters virtuous and fair.

"2d. Mrs. Adams-May she offer to the fair of America, a model of imitation worthy the virtues of the President of the United States.

"3d. Mrs. Washington-May we in her ever recal to mind the valour, patriotism, and magnanimity of the hero who conducted us to freedom.

"4th. Valour and Patriotism-May they ever be united, and their joint efforts protect us from the yoke of foreign domination.

"5th. The Volunteers of America-May the spirit which animates them in the cause of freedom, incite them to actions worthy of the principle which actuates them.

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"6th. The Daughters of America-May their plausive smiles reward the patriotic youth who step

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forward in defence of their country, and their frowns appal the traitor or coward who dares to betray or desert it.

A number of gentlemen having joined them, they afterwards formed themselves into a procession, conducted by the two eldest of the ladies present, and followed by the gentlemen, proceeded through the principal street, to a liberty tree erected near the church, displaying a board, representing a divided serpent, on the point of being devoured by a dragon, with this motto: "Unite or Die." The sight of this device, though in some places nearly effaced by time, recalled forcibly to every mind the glorious era of 76; when the same board was first displayed. Such examples are truly worthy of imitation; when the fair exhibit such a spirit in their country's cause, who that is not a recreant, but would blush to remain inactive."

I don't like this. It is too much in the bacchanalian style. When a woman has swallowed six glasses of good Madeira, she is fit for any thing.

The meeting in the Grove too is another bacchannalian trait; and then, when they were got warm, being joined by a number of gentlemen seems to complete the affair. I remember nothing like it in any civilized country, either in ancient or modern times. CHAUCER tells us of companies of knights and damsels meeting in the woods and on the lawns, for various purposes; but never did the ladies of those gallant times preface the business by a drinking bout. I am persuaded, that neither MRS. ADAMS, nor MRS. WASHINGTON will feel themselves much honoured by the clumsy compliments of these toping dames, whose ridiculous behaviour on this occasion, will, I am sure, never meet with the approbation of any sensible man, nor of any modest and sober woman.

NOAH

NOAH WEBSTER..

"And e'en in pennance planning sins anew."

POPE.

My readers saw, some few days ago, a very striking instance of the malicious disposition of this despicable creature, in an infamous paragraph which I quoted from his paper. I have now to tell them, and I do it with great pleasure, that that paragraph produced a proper effect at New York; that is, it produced a a very considerable reduction in the number of poor Noah's subscribers. The wretch, who was deaf to the voice of truth and justice, listened to that of interest. He was alarmed at the influx of those who wished to be relieved from his trash; and the next day, he made a poor shuffling excuse. This did not, however, answer his purpose, he therefore recommenced his atrocious slander, before the penitent confession of his sins was hardly washed from his lips.

This new slander he introduces by an essay on the " savage violence of party spirit.' After paying a sort of left handed compliment to the people of England, in the true French style, he proceeds as follows.

"It is said the government is wicked and tyrannical. This is in a degree, true; but a man must be an idiot to suppose a French invasion will remedy the evil. If the English should resist successfully the attempts of France, that success must be purchased with infinite blood, treasure, and public and private miseries. If France should conquer, the misery of the inhabitants would be intolerable. The island would be in part abandoned—and the

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people that should remain would lose their industry and arts-capital and industry would vanish-and England would be little better than a sand heap. To this country, as well as to Europe in general, such an event would be a fatal catastrophe and barbarous must be the man who can wish for it.

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"There is no one point in which men are so much deceived as in supposing that revenge is satisfaction. It replaces no loss of property-it indemnifies for no loss of happiness-It is impossible for an American to read the Cannibal's Progress, published by Porcupine, without emotions of horror. wretch, however, should have been the last to publish in this country, the horrid accounts of the French barbarities in Germany, because it calls to recollection similar cruelties perpetrated in our country by his fellow soldiers-the violations of women-the murder of Mr. Caldwell and lady, and the hecatombs of Americans that perished in the Jersey prison ship,

"But whatever may have been the conduct of one nation or another, it is barbarous and savage to wish to see similar cruelties committed, even on the perpetrators. No man of one spark of humanity can desire to see one nation, whose soldiers have been guilty of such outrages, delivered over to similar calamities, for in the first place it is rare indeed that the guilty persons can be found and punished-the evil usually falls on the innocent. In the second place, the sufferings of a nation by way of revenge never atone for the evils intended to be revenged. There can be no reimbursement for pain. The original evil remains in all its force; revenge may double the miseries of life, but never can alleviate them.

"The wish and the endeavour of a good citizen, is to put a stop to evils-not to revenge them."

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Thus, you see, the spiteful viper's great object is, to keep alive a hatred against Great Britain.These paragraphs of his drew forth the following in the New York Gazette.

"Messrs. M'Lean and Long,

"It is the request of a number of citizens, that you publish the enclosed to morrow.

"Several very ill-timed pieces, having lately appeared in the Commercial Advertiser, with reflections upon a nation with whom we are connected by a friendly treaty, and both countries being assailed by the same unjust, ferocious and implacable enemy, render every thing of the kind, if not wicked, at least imprudent. Here rebuke should have stopped; but, upon reading that paper of last evening, a FALSEHOOD was advanced, which loudly calls for investigation; it says,

"It is impossible for an American to read the Cannibal's Progress, published by Porcupine, without emotions of horror: That wretch, however, should have been the last to publish in this country, the horrid accounts of the French barbarities. in Germany, because it calls to recollection similar cruelties perpetrated in our country by his fellow soldiers the violations of women, the murder of Mr. Caldwell and lady, and the hecatombs of Americans, that perished in the Jersey prison ship."

"Now, this assertion is a direct perversion of the truth, and in testimony whereof take the following extracts, without any comment, leaving Mr. Webster to the dissection of Porcupine himself.

"Elizabeth Town, June 20, 1780.

"Mrs. Caldwell had the misfortune to be shot by a random ball. What heightens the singularity of this lady's unhappy fate, is, that upon enquiry,

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