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FROM THE ENGLISH REPER
TORY OF AK I WC. ixo.
milk. By Amtoine.Ai.exts adt-
djl-Vaux, W" ofthe "dtm,Cf!l
- Society of Sciences &c.
, From the Dicade Phihkphqutc.
' I Publifhed,Jn the" Feuille de
Cuftivateuf," but at a timewhen the
thoughts of every one were abforbed
by the public misfortunes, a Angular
economical procefs for painting,
which the want of materials induced
me to lubftitute inftead of painting
in diftemner.
vv-Take fkimmed. milk, one. pint (or
two Pans pints J.
Frefh flaked lime, fix ounces.
Oil of car r a wajv or li ril ed or nut,
four ounces. ' -
Spanifh white, five pounds.
Put the lime into a vtiTel of ftone
ware, and pcur upon it a luflkient
nuantitvot milk to make a fmooth
mixture : then add the oil by de
erees. ftirring the mixture with a
mail wooden fparula ; then add the
remainder of the milk, and, finally,
the Spam In white, Skimmed milk
in fummer is often curdled, but this
is of no Gonlequence to our purpofe,
as its fluidify is foon reftored by its
contact with the lime. It is, howe
ver, abfolurely ncceflary that it fhould
not be four, for in that cafe it would
form with the lime a kind of vica
rious acetireyTuiceptible of attract
ing moiiture. , ,
'i he linn is flaked by plunging if
in water, drawing ft out, and leaving
it to 'all to pieces in the air.
It is indifferent which1- of the three
oils above.oeutionsd vveufe; hew
. ever, for painting, white, the oil of
carrawaysis to be preferred , as it is
colourlds. For, painting with the
ochres the commoneft lamp oil may
be ufed.
The oil, when mixed with the
milk and lime, difappears, being en
tirely dillolyed by the lime, with
which it forms a calcareous fat p..
1 he Span Ih white mail be cru:n
bled, and gently fprcad uponthe f'ur
ftce of the liquid, which it gradually
.imbibes, and at laff. finks' : it mult
then be ftirred with a (tick. Thio
paint is coloured like diflemper,
with charcoal, lerigated in water,
yellow ociire, &c.
Itj's uiedin the fame manner as dif
tcmper. '1 he quantity above-men' ioned is
fufficierit for painting the firft layer'
of fix toifes.
- On otthe properties of my paint,
which we may term . tpilk-aijleinper
paint, ( Feinture au at . Jrm fr,) )S, that
it will keep for whole .months, ar,d
requires ' neither, time nor fire,'" nor"
even manipulation ; in ie'ii minutes
we may prepare enough of it to paint
a whole hi ufe.
rw, n n i i
vuciiiay ucepiu ;i CiiamDcr ttie
night after Jt has: .been -pain ted
A lmgle coaung is- lufhcient for J
places that have already been' paint-1
d. It it not lieceflary to lay on two,
uhlefs where greafe fpots repcLth.e
firft coating ; thefe fhould be remov- I
cd by warning them with ftrong ILnjcittabl' foment qf flavery4-the ilknds,
water, or, a lejj)f fgap, or itruped
uu. L
New wood requires two coatings.
One coating is lufhcient for ji flair
cafe, palTape, or cieling. '.
I have ilnce given a far greater
degree of iqlidftyto this method of
painting, for it has been my aim, not
only to luMitute it in the place of
painting in diflemper, but alio of dil
Jjamt. ReftnJuMilkpainting,
'Vox ivorkj3ut of doors I add to
the proportions of the milk-diflem-per-pamtinp,
'.? . J
'I ' '. 2 ounces,
: Wh t Burpundy pitch 2 ounces.
1 he pitch is to be melted in the
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oil by a eestle hear, and added to-
the fmooth mixture of milk and oil.
In cold Weather the mixture ought
to be warmed, to prevent its cooling
the pitch too fuddenly, and to facili
tate its union with the milk of lime.
This painting has lome analogy with
that known by, the name of ehcau
ilic. -
I have employed the refinous milk
paint, for outlide window-fhutters,
that haq" previoufly been painted with
oil. ' .
There a'Duears to hp a miflakp
relpefting the quantity of Milk, oc-
two quarts ot milk are requmte tor
the materials mentioned or they may
be fo far diluted as o be fprcad con
veniently with a llrufh., ,
I'he cheapnefs of the articles for
this paint, makes it an important ob
ject lor thofe people that have large
wooden houfes and fences.
An experiment has been made
with this paint ifi this country, and
it, at prefent appears to anfwer per
fectly the defcription oi the inven
tor. REFLECTIONS
ON TDK
Late European Intkllicence.
I Continued.)
The lad event announced by the
late arrivals irom Europe, which
claims peculiar ai tenticn on this fide
of the Atlantic, is the rt-ejUblifbmtnt
of flavery in the French Weft-Indies,
and the revival cf the Jlave-trtde.
Here again we witnefs that pronen
fity in human na ure, to go from oneJ
extreme directly to theoppoarc. Uut
alew years have elapli fince.jvve
marked with furprife the firft refor
mers of France; ky decrees pafled
without refleclon, and by mito;,
at once emancipating men wnole
ives had been palled under the yoke
of" flavery. While we applauded
their entnuliaim rcr liberty -we con
i r t
demned their want of prudence.
Inltead of Drocejding with caution
and liberating the children, born af-
ter a certain penou lptead ot ef-
e&i nc a gradual abb trtion of fla ver y
among the", adults, facldenly-in the
phrenzy of revolution, they elevate
to all tne ngnrsor nee citizens, men
who had neither the knowledge nor
the morals requifitc for' members cf
l Republic, i r.;m this extreme, we
nowuenoici, tne rrci.cn aovernment
by a re -aetioii as violent as the iirft
evolutionary inanku puffing not only
,to the reftoratjon of' flavery in thofe
iilands where the blacks were in. The
molt iolemn manner emancipiitetl,-but-to
the renewal of that molt irtfa
"uious traffic in human ilei'h. v.hich
ihe United States have prohibited,
itoder the .fe'veielt penalties ; an-i-wtnch
tlie friends of humanity. in'
:vreat-li itain,-unaer - tne-guKia;;ee
of a benevolent Wn.CF.aPORCiM have
long been endeavoring to aboh!;i.
In Paris it is now the faflirpn to a;v
'proximate as rapid'y as, pomble to
the maxims, the habi;s and manners
of the ancient regime. From the
ntelikcnt travellers fay that the
French government will al!o fhort
ly relfore the cwee and' vaMie 'two
of the mott oppreflive taxlcs under"
the monarchy) Thefe' even's, we.
may reasonably apprehendere long,
will produce feme convulfion in
France. Should fome bandofcon
lpirators, headed by a new'firutus
and Caflius. fucceed in removing
the prefent Chief Con-full it is high
ly probable that we mail witnefs a
frefh eruption of that revolutionary
volcano, wihich is now . reprefied by
th,e genius of Buonaparte ,
" But ihould the life of this extraor
dinary, man h prefetved for a few
years, it is not improbable but that
he may purify France from thofe
monftets, who, in the'name o f
ana equ,uiy, nave ror lo many yeajst
hoji uwi uaiKuig uinr country in
blood-and thus eftablifh his nnwer
on a baiis, which 01 Europe- cannot
inatce. ,
From the manner in which w
have een the French Revol ution.
thus terminate, we are led to a re
view ot the many crimesind horrors
which have marked its progrefs ; all
which are to be traced to the practi
cable fchemes of a few theoretie phi
lofopHcrs, aiming at a vifionary li-
U I I " .t I k M'
vcTiyyi taicuia ea ratner lor -ravage
ihan'w mari--and rejecting all the
luch nen as. Voltaire. Condoreet
and" Tom Paine have been thVtrue
authorof all the milery, the blood
fhed and anarchy, which Have for
many yers paft, difcraced one of
the taiidt portions of the globe
While the t-rench revolution, like
a blazing comet, has been paffing i
its orbit, and "
" with fear of change,
-'. m Perplexing tnonarchs,"
a kind ' providence has prefer ved
the e Ihtes from thofe evils to which
the uliruly paflions of many of our
citizens would have expoied them,
by clbtlung with 'the chief executive
autnnty, luch men as Wafhington
and Adams, ; and by difpofmg the
majoluy of our citizens to approve
and Lp'pon their meafures Dread
ful uUeed, jnull have been Dur.- fitu
atioiL had an adminiftration, with
the Revolutionary, theoretic and
narrow fentments, of the men, now
at tHe head of our affairs, polTefied
theitihs of authority, at .the time
whei Genet, Fouchet and Adet,re-prelieittedie.Jriuirftr.piWic--to-Ainerica.
Had fuch been the cafe,
we fhould have made a common
caufe with our " fifter republic
We fhould have had the honor to lend
her mil ions, never to be repaid
Our trade would have been annihi
latedour agriculture of courfe
would have been crippled ; and in
place oi thofe immenfe profits which
we have reaped from-our neutrality,
we inould, like hoain and Holland.
after iuftaining a long and luinous
war, Uen crucified at the peace of
n miens, to'aggrandize the power of
I ranee.
But thanks to heaven, at this im
portant crifif, wc had men to con
duct our national affairs, who ws.re
firacliral politicians - who underflood
and purfued the true interclts of
their country, unfeduccJ ami unbi
afed by. thole fal(e and hollow fyltems
of phiiofophy and goven'rinent which
are . juft i ntroduced into - America,
w hen they are ridicufed and difeard
ed in Kurope. With -the, recent
proof in France, added to the longr
.catalogue in former periods ot time",
of democratic revolution and. anar
chy, terminating in military defpo
tjlm, it is not likely that the good
fenle of the people of this country
will permit them, to err into thofc
excelfes and crimes which have
marked the French revolution -But
the lame Tpirit ' vhich governed
Frenchmen, itill is cherifhed by
in this country.
In the laft iefficm--of Congrels, we
have AvitneiTed the firft foo:-fleps of
that innovating fyitcm, which, in de
fiance of oaths, of duty and interefls,
violates the- confliluiion.iiiutilates
the revenue, thrown away the means
ot defence -Ttnd to gratify th e claifrts
ol party-fpirit, removes from oihee.
men of ackhow ledged worth, and
without ftain .in their official con-1
duct when innovations like thefe
are fandliohed by general approba
tion ; - when a whole country will
permit the tools of pm-tj, to fupplant
menof the firft qualifications, in of
fices where talents and:inrcgrrrTare
indit)enfibly necefTary ; it is then
prepared for degradation and flave-
Vol. VIL JJu3?i
"la " " ' " 1 x'Mt
ft? thereijth
heil no loncer that vir
tue, which arequifue for a lree republic-Boris
there any longer that,,
inducement for men of fuptrkr
worth and endowments, to engage
in thefervice of their country, when
the rewards of official honor and
conffdencc are beftowed, riot on.men
of merit, but on party profehtes. :JSoon
may this fyftem be changed loon
roarve return to the maxims of a
Wafhington, and with them may we
experience the happinefs and we'-
fare, the honor abroad, and the con
fidence at heme, which character
ized the Washington Admini-
Frcm the Gazette ofthe U. , States.
We truft, that none of our read
ers have forgotten the reprefentati
oris which have been hatched up by
Duane, and republifhed in moftot
the JacoLin papers, refpecling the
500 dollars which were laid to have
been paid to Mr. Rols for " feint fer
vkes." 'J he following letter from
that gentleman to the Kditor of the
Aurora, contains "a full ftatement
of the bufinefs, and by it the pub
lic will know what was the founda
tion of all the calumnies which have
been heaped upon Mr. Rofs, and ihe .
laft adminiftration, on account of
uus iraniacrion.
to th. Editor of the Aurora.
At theclofeof the feffion of Con
greis which ended on the lftof June,
1 796, the fecretary of war placed
five hundred dollars in my hands
to be carried to Pittfburg, for the'
purpofe of compenfating certain
perfons engaged in tracing and Ac-"
teding the proirefs and mifchievous
4ntrguef myiat jsmpoyed oii
the weftern frontier . and amor.tf
tlic Indian tribes, hy!a foreign pow
er, unfriendly to the United State?
'1 he money vvas advanced with the
knowledge of the President and all
the heads of departments. " Before?
the iff of Auguft, 1796, 1 paid over'1
the whoie fum to the per.'cns thus
engaged. '1 he man principally ac
tive in this delicate bufinef, exacl
ed an ;?blolute promife that his nariie
fiiouid remain fecret. The depen
dent circumftances and local IJtua
tion ot ttiii man, forbid, a diliclofuTe
of his name, had no fuch promife.-..
been made. The whole-tranfaftion
paffed'With the "knowledge of gen
eral Wayne, governor St. Clair, a; ,1
H. H. Brackenridge, Ffq Gen.
Wane, ..who was charp.cd with the .
ultimate direclioii of "this hufiners, is
no more ; gen. .St. Clair is ready to
confirm the facl ; and jut'ge Brack- c
cnridge,who Hands very ; high in the
confidence of the prJlnt ac'mini
itration, by his jett.er, plated the fft
inftant, authoiiles me thus publicly .
t'o ov.rj, that the fum of five hundred
dollars wiis paid by meat t!;e time,
ior the-f tirpofe, under the piomife
f iecreey, and with .the knowledge
ot himfeif, of Gen. Wayne, and
governor St. Clair, as I have above
Hated that -the whole trnifaclion
was iunoc.nt, rudit.--meritorious.
The books,, of the accountant of r
thewat department (hew that the
money was advanced at .the time !
have mentioned, and it cannot be
pretended that any other pub'ic mo
ney was ever paid into my hands.
" j in t he fbthmef" of 1790; the ' acT
countalu wrote to me, that I was
charged with the fum of five I;un
dfed 'doftarsf .an -defired that I
fhpu'd fend vouchers to dofe the ac
count. When congrefs fefiemb'ed
in t h e Dcce mber fol lowing," I "gave
his letter to one of the heads of de
partment, all of whom having been
in office when the money was advan
ced, perfectly knew the nature of j he
fCrvice1 rendered, and the ftipu'ation ; "
of Tecjrecy which forbade the.filirg
of receipt in the ufual form. I there- T7
fore prefume it was (ett'ed as a fecret
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