of flaughtered Britons. But to the point. Being a foldier of fortune, as I profess-and having ftudied from my infancy the science of arms, practical war is now my purfuit, as a profeffion moft congenial with my princi. ples and difpofition; and thousands, of Americans (officers in the late war) pant for an opportunity to ferve this country. The banks of the Ohio and Miffifippi, are actually alive with the first American characters of this ftamp, and called upon from thence by my heroick brethren of the army-honour, virtue, and the bias of an ancient intercourfe and former habits, incline me to affift them. From the Natches to the Kafkafkies-from Pittsburg to St. Mary's-river, they are prepared to pour forth with the greatest ease 50,000 veterans in arms, in defence of their commercial rights, throughout the navigable rivers of the fouthern parts of this empire.

-The grain is actually germinating, fown by the pride, avarice and folly of a certain extern power, which the pure air of liberty working at the root, and the laws of nature, fuperior to the narrow policy of any foreign court, must finally and very speedily raise into a host of myrmidons, the children of Anahim; the fons of the earth; irrefiftbile in this land, at leaft by any force that may obstruct their pretenfions or affail them.

The important drama, may it please your Excellency, is now approaching; a new drama, in which the tragedians of the queft are to appear in the military bufkin-and I am invited to act as a character of fome confequence among them-Time will tell how decifively my part fhall be performed. Of this I am fure, that I fhall exhibit to my atmoft the part of a foldier. A very inconfiderable time muft inevitably call forth to trial, the mighty energy of the Ohio and Miffifippi; and incidents and events are gradual ly teaming into birth, which will shortly open a fpacious field for a daring spirit to explore.

May it please your Excellency, the States of Georgia, Franklin, and Kentucky, confederated; the counties of Bourbon, &c. on the Natches; the fettlements on Cumberland, Kafkaskies, and the Wabash, and the government of Pittburg, Weftmoreland, &c. abound with the feeds of war; nor will any obstruction from New-Orleans to the Blaife, impede the overwhelming inundation preparing to pour down along the waters of the Miffifippi, into the Bay of Mexico. The torrent will be irrrefiftible; the crop is actually in the ground; harvest is ready for the hook, and the hook for the harvest, the reaper has introduced his fickle; combustibles are laid into a pile; nay, the very brand is already applied, and the fire only requires to be fanned. The permiffion of Congrefs will not be folicited on this occafion. In Congrefs this people are not reprefented. I am now on my way to the western waters, where people too long confined to unnatural boundaries, are ready to float with the current of the Miffifippi into the fea, and with irresistible

irruption and impetuofity to burst over every artifical barrier and mound which may ob struct their free paffage into the ocean. The Americans are amphibious animals. They cannot be confined to the land alone. Tillage and commerce are their elements. Both, or neither, will they enjoy. Both they will have, or perish.

I have the honour to remain, with the ut moft deference, your Excellency's most obedient, and moft humble fervant,

JOHN SULLIVAN, Late Captain 4th regiment, American light dragoons. P. S. In the alternative of peace or war, I fhall ever entertain the highest respect for your Excellency, and fhould be happy in the con tinuance of a candid correfpondence. In this cafe, inclofe my addrefs to Major Thomas Washington of Georgia, who is acquainted with my routes.

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To bis Excellency the Spanish

Minifter, at New York.

From the Charleston Morning Poft.
Mefirs. Printers,

AT this important crifis, when the minda of men are fufpended in expectation of events on the Western Waters, the smallest incident must afford gratification to the publick.

There is beyond doubt a noted officer of the late continental army now in this city, who is employed by the ftate of Franklin and other fettlements, in purchafing confi derable quantities of arms and ammunition. It is ftrongly fufpected that a daring enterprize against New Orleans is in agitation. As I am no politician, I leave it to others to decide whether the people weftward of the mountains, have a right to make war inde pendent of the permiffion of Congrefs. Be this as it may, there is certainly fomething a brewing ; and Mr. Gardoqui has remonftrat ed to Congress concerning the audacity of the people of Kentucky in prefuming to float on the waters of his Catholick Majefty. I am apprehenfive, Mefirs. Printers, that the inhabitants of the Western Country will pay but little attention to the joint admonitions of Congress and the King of Spain, respecting the navigation of the Miffifippi.

From the Pennfylvania Packet. Halifax, (Nova Scotia) June 28, 1787. Dear C✶✶✶

Every thing feems to wear a moft promifing afpect on this fide the water-the fron tier pofts being ftill in our poffeffion is a ftroke of policy peculiarly in our fovout-the rulers of your new empire do not feem to be fufficiently acquainted with the many dangers that threaten its deftruction-your pufillanimity in fuffering Britain to retain the frontier pofts--the want of energy in your federal head-the contracted ftate of your commerce-the British reinforcing the garrifons of Canada--the many thousands of troops which were disbanded and became fettlers in this province, at the end of the war, and who are ready to fly to arms at a mo

ment's warning, being tired of cutting down trees and endeavouring to cultivate unfruitful lands, are circumstances, which, unless guarded against, will rend America in pieces, and," like the baseless fabrick of a vifion, leave not a wreck behind."Keep thefe fentiments clofe, and by the first opportunity, let me know what your Grand Convention are about. Your friend, &c. RS

N. B. Direct for me as ufual, and by the fame conveyance.

CHARLESTON, (S. C.) August 6. By a gentleman lately arrived from South America, we have authentick information, that the kingdom of Mexico is at this inftant involved in the most violent infurrecsions. The Indians headed by a defcendant of the celebrated MONTEZUMA, have already defeated the Spaniards in a pitched battle. The flaughter was general and indifcriminate, and the remembrance of Spanish barbarity to their progenitors on this occafion, operated to their progrefs and fuccefs. This gentleman paffed through the greater part of our fettlements on the Western waters, and obferves, that the people thereof, conceiving this period a favourable one to open the navigation of the Miffifippi, have entered into a confederation in confequence.* What will be the event, God only knows.

BOSTON, Auguft 27.

On Thursday last, agreeably to the or ders of Colonel MAY, the Bofton regiment, including Capt. Jobafon's artillery, Captain Turner's Fufiliers, and Capt. Green's Light Infantry, all in uniform, appeared under arms, and at 10 o'clock, A. M. marched on to the field, as did the corps of Light Infantry, commanded by Captain Otis, where the whole formed a line, and performed various manœuvres and firings in a manner that drew from their respectable spectators the moft flattering applaufes-At two o'clock the whole marched into State Street; again formed the line, and were dismissed by companies.

Laft Monday evening the Hon. Charles de la Foreft, Vice Conful General of France for the United States, with his lady, arrived in town from Newyork.

Saturday, being the day for the feast of St. LOUIS, the fame was celebrated by every publick demonftration of joy, by the fquad. ron of his Moft Chriftian Majesty now in this harbour. The Viscount de Beaumont gave an entertainment on board the Patriote; at which was prefent, the Lieutenant Governour, and the gentlemen of the Council, the Prefident of the Senate, the late Governour, the principal officers of the late fedsral army, and other officers of diftinction. His Excellency the Governour, from indifpofition, could not have the pleasure of at tending. The ships of the fleet were decorated with the flags of all nations, among which the American ftripes were confpicuous, The feaft was fuperb. The polite nefs and attention of the Viscount and his

officers, gave the utmost pleasure to the gentlemen who had the honour of being prefents The following toafts were announced under the difcharge of cannon from all the hipe in the harbour :

1. His Moft Chriftian Majefty. 21guns. 2. The United States. 13 do. 3. Governour and Commonwealth 13 do. 4. Perpetual alliance between France and America.

5. Federal Convention.

6. General Washington and the Society of Cincinnati.:

7. The navigation and trade of America. 8. Peace and unanimity throughout America.

9. The memory of thofe who have fought and bled for their country.

10. The patriots who projected the American Revolution.

11. The late federal army-may America never want another as brave and difinterested to defend her freedom.

12. May the States be as happy in peace as their citizens have been virtuous and fuc cefsful in war.

13. The American ladies-may the mes be as brave as the women are fair.

The day was concluded by the difcharge of twenty one guns from each fhip in the fleet. By a gentleman from the fouthward we are informed, that Congrefs have permitted the Ohio Company, lately affociated in this and fome of the neighbouring States, to make a contract for nearly five millions of acres of land in the federal territory, fituated, in its greatest extent, on the Ohio, and bound on the east and weft by the Muskingum and Scioto rivers--That the officers and foldiers, who are of this affociation, may be indulged with their bounty lands within the purchase, provided they do not exceed one feventh part of the whole-That the donations of 46,080 acres, for a general and publick seminary of learning, 6040 for religious purposes, in every township of fix miles fquare, and an equal quantity for a publick school, are made by the honourable Congrefs to the proprietors of the foil, and their affociates forever...

We do not learn that the officers of government for this weitern territory are yet appointed but it is reported, that his Excellency General Arthur Sinclair, Prefident of Congrefs, is in nomination for governour.

"The conduct of Lord Dorchester, in regard to the infurgents of America," fays a late Jamaica paper, "should be well guarded, as it in a great measure depends on his procedure, whether the temper of America shall be inflamed or conciliated."

Died, at Portsmouth, univerfally lamented, Mr. Noab Parker. For feveral years, weekly, this gentleman was engaged, to ge neral acceptance, as a publick speaker, free of any pecuniary advantage, in the fociety there, of the profeffors of the doctrine of Univerfal Salvation, invariably sustaining, in all the walks of life, that most profitable of

all characters, the nobleft work of God, An boneft man.

PORTSMO U T H, August 18. By a perfon from Rochefter, we are informed, that on Wednesday laft the inhabitants of that town were greatly alarmed by a Tornado or Whirlwind, which paffed through the fame, and on its way took a house with eight perfons in it, carried them at a confiderable distance, when the house feparated and left them, two of whom were confiderably bruifed, the others efcaped without injury; the ruins of the building were found the next day as much as three miles from the fpot where it stood; a barn was taken and entirely carried off, which has not fince been heard of, and the trees, fences, corn, &c. are laid entirely level with the ground for about twenty rods in width.-We have not heard of any other damage being done. Who can fand the fury of him, who bolds the winds in his fift, and the fea as in the bollow of his band ?

Mr. Printer,

"In the variety of remarks which have been published upon the effects of lightning, I have wondered that no obfervations have been offered on the difference of its effects, in an open and in a close room; few or no intances have occurred where perfons have received any injury from lightning while continuing in a room with the doors, windows and chimney clofed. Every inftance of death or injury to perfons by lightning, which has come within my knowledge, has been at an open door or window, or by an open fire place."

Yesterday morning departed this life, a daughter of Mr. Jonathan Ayers, in the 20th year of her age, who, five minutes before her death, was as well as any perfon now living.

PROVIDENCE, August 11.

A correfpondent obferves, that on the proceedings of the federal Convention (foon expected to be promulged) muft thefe United States depend for political happiness, and national honour; and that to their wife deliberations must this truly diftreffed State, in particular, look for relief from its prefent complicated difficulties.

NEWPORT, Auguft 23.

The Hon. General Affembly of this State were to have convened agreeable to their adjournment, at Bristol, on Monday last; but neither of the members of the Upper Houfe attending on Monday to adjourn that houfe, a queftion on Wednesday arofe in the Lower House, whether the Affembly could be formed fo as legally to proceed to business; it paffed in the negative, and the members retired without doing any bufinefs; it was, however, propofed by the gentlemen of the minority, to hear the publick letters; and to advife his. Excellency the Governour refpecting the propriety of fpecially convening the Affembly before October Seffions:-A message was accordingly fent to the Gover.. nour, requesting the letters, but before they could be obtained fo many members retired,

that the letters were not read, and no advice was given.

WORCESTER.

Befides the accounts published in this Magazine, of the effects of the late tremendous Whirlwinds, we have received feveral others, which, except the two following, for want of room, must be omitted until next week. "Oakbam, August 23, 1787.

"The remarkable ftorm on Wednesday the 15th inftant, among other inftances, had confiderable effect in feveral parts of the town of Oakham, by feveral veins in the manner of a whirlwind, tearing up and throwing down trees, fences and corn, damaging buildings, &c. The houfe of James Hallet, in the foutherly part of this town, was wholly uncaped, and the body much shattered. Mr. Haffet himself, his wife and two chil dren, were all confiderably bruifed and wounded by the hurling of timber, &c. bue their lives remarkably fpared, and they are in a hopeful way of recovery; his barn, about 30 by 40 feet, though nearly full of hay and grain, was wholly shivered to pieces, not one stick standing; alfo his corn house in the fame manner; one large iron bar, about fix feet, and two other bars of iron, about four feet in length, were carried near ten rods; boards, shingles, timber, &c. scattered in pieces of all fizes for near two miles easterly. Is not a tribute of praife, for continual preferving mercy, due to bim who has not only bis way in the great deep, but alfo in the mighty winds ?"

"Rutland, Auguft 27th, 1787. "Mr. EDITOR,

"AS you had no particular account in your last Magazine, of the ravages of the late violent tornado, it may not be unpleafing to communicate to those who cannot fee the awful vestiges of its ruins, and who would with to fympathize with the unfortunate, the diftrefs which it occafioned a Capt. Bent of this town. This narrow column of air, not more perhaps than the 5th of a mile in width, came in a fouth westerly direction, through a lot of large, deep rooted white oak trees, and cleared a wide paffage for itself, twifting the turdieft of the trees from their roots, and scattering them in every direct

ion.

From thence it paffed through a field of corn, back of his houfe, and destroyed nearly half of it. Seemingly collecting new fury, it continued its courfe down the fide hill, juft ftruck a corner of his houfe, and played its terrible artillery upon the barn and orchard. The barn, filled with hay, was lifted into the air, feveral large heavy timbers thrown a confiderable distance, and four or five tons of hay loft; a blacksmith's fnop and part of a fhed, carried off entirely; near 200 flourishing apple trees, with the greater part of the walls and fences round the house, levelled to the ground; a wide heap of rubbish now appears where once were the fmiling fruits of cheerful industry, and the dear earned labours of long and tedious years,”

PHILADELPHIA, August 16. The complaints of the decay of trade, are without foundation. It should rather be faid that there is a decay of traders. A few merchants are fufficient to import and fell all the goods America requires. Let thofe of them who complain of hard times betake themselves to the cultivation of the earth, or to the establishment of fome useful manufactures. Until ninety nine of an hundred of the citizens of America are farmers, artificers or manufactures, we can never be rich or happy.

Our correfpondent does not wish to exclude the learned profeffions from lending their aid to leffen the evils of human life, or of government. But let the lawyers and phyficians learn of the minifters of the gospel, who are fettled in the country, to derive part of their fubfiftance from cultivating the earth. Few of them have business enough at prefent to employ all their time. Their leisure hours might be employed in introducing the new and profitable modes of agriculture into our country-for their example would have an extenfive influence in this refpect. Among the ancient Jews, it was counted infamous for a man to fpend his life without planting a tree, or building a houfe. It were to be wished, that it could be made equally difreputable for a man to pass through life, in America, without enriching fome spot of ground, without clearing a field, or encreafing the quantity of meadow, and thereby adding to the products of the earth, and of courfe to the population and happiness of his country.

To encourage agriculture, it is to be hop. ed the prefent mode of taxing lands fo vily will be laid afide-otherwife, instead of feeing our merchants, fhopkeepers, lawyers and doctors retreat to farms, we fhall foon fee our farmers retreat to Kentucke, or to the fhores of the South Sea, in order to enjoy the fruits of their induftry.-An efficient federal government alone can relieve us from our oppreffive ftate fyftems of taxation, and realize all our hopes and wifes of national glory and profperity.

Auguft 18. An extraordinary mufical incident happened in the fixteenth century, which ferves to prove that the fongs of the Irish Harpers, in latter times, were founded in facts. The relation is given by Bishop Gibson, whose words are thefe: Near Bal lyfhannon (fays his Lordship) were, not many years ago, dug up two pieces of gold, d:fcovered by a method very remarkable. The Bishop of Derry happening to be at dinner, there came in an Irish Harper, and fung an old fong to his harp. His Lordship, not understanding Irish, was at a lofs for the meaning of the fong; but on inquiry he found the meaning to be this: That in fuch a place (naming the very spot) a man of a gigantick ftatute lay buried, and that on his breast and back were plates of pure gold, and on his fin gers rings of gold, fo large, that an ordinary

man might creep through them. The place was fo exactly defcribed, that two perfons then prefent were tempted to go in queft of the golden prize, which the Harper's fong had pointed out to them. After they dug for fome time, they found two thin plates of gold. Of thele two pieces his Lordship gives an exact engraving, of the fame form and fize, which the reader may find in the folio edition of Camden's Britannia, published in 1695, page 1022. It was thus the grave of the British hero, King Arthur, was difcovered; a circumftance which Doctor Warton "has enshrined in his golden lines."

But a much more remarkable inftance occurred last year (1785) in Ireland. This was the difcovery made in a manner fomewhat fimilar of the grave of an Irish hero, who must have died ages before Arthur was born; as the hero was a Pagan, and Ireland was converted to christianity in 432. It is related in an old Irish manufcript poem called Cath Gabhra (the battle of Gabhra) that Canau, an Irish Prince, while facrificing to the fun on one of the mountains, of (now the county of) Clare, was treacherously murdered; and his body was interred near a Druid's altar, under a stone, infcribed with an epitaph in Orgham characters; fo minutely is the fpot defcribed in the poem, that Mr. Theophilus O'Flannaghan, of Trinity College, Dublin, was tempted, on reading the paffage, to propofe to the Royal Irish Academy, to feek for the monumental ftone, under their aufpices. His propofal was acceded to. He went and fucceeded. He has given the world a most curious Memoir on this fubject, which was prefented by him to the Academy. Our readers will find it under the title of Obiervations on the Alphabet of the Pagan Irish, in Archaol." Vol. VII.

The debates of the Federal Convention continued until five o'clock on Monday evening; when it is faid, a decifion took place upon the most important question that has been agitated fince the meeting of this affembly.

We are informed that on Saturday evening laft, a poor invalid, who had just received his annual penfion, which amounted to about 4.6 10s. was robbed near the Arsenal, by a genteel, well dreffed young man, who, with "his gaurantee inftrument," a filver mounted pistol, foon obtained the booty, and made off without farther ceremony. And on Sunday evening, between 8 and 9 o'clock, as two young gentlemen were returning from the Falls of Schuylkill, they were stopped near the lane that leads to the back of Bush Hill, by two men armed with large cudgels; but on fpurring their horfes, difengaged themfelves without receiving any material injury.

One of the villains was a remarkably tall, ftout, young man ; the other a thort thick Negro. On finding themselves defeated in their diabolical attempt, they fprung over the fence, and, in a few minutes, were out of fight. It is imagined the white rascal was hurt, as one of the gentlemen rode over him.