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VOLUME II. NEWBERN, N. C. SATURDAY, AUGUST 2 1, 1819. NUMBER 74 TKJMVIS. una CENTiNEii is PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY T' TI I. PASTEUR, 'At ruvu m.i. KP.fi npr annum. nrtt x i. .... -w - r t in advance. N-v paper, will oe discontinued until all art ' ' es air M''" UP "wjjv ai up- i i'k publisher. ; ot'Eitrisfi;ji3N rs inserted at 50cerits pa, j nre the first week, and 25 cents a 5 j j.ii : tor each succeeding insertion. M ISCELLANEOUS. FROM THE N. Y. MERJ ADVERTISER. JR. fl ctionn and experiments on cen tral forces, and or. the construction- f the Globe we inhabit. . -V ' ' 1 - C PY OF A LETTER To DR. MITCHILL. -v I , he Hoy, Genesee County y i ; , S. Y?July 22, 1819. $ . 5ir Al hough a granger, I shall m Kb no - apology ioma-ressing you .. ' v r ' t . i on , v interesting a subject to all' sci- ber of that pu lication, which con en ihc men. Accident brought me, tains aicusations fa is.- and scanda. tn rrfl-ct UDon -ihv lormoiion of thf ' 1 earth. aking it for granted that th s ear n n as oern oi a consistence , th.t would t- k, shape by motion, & Unix what has been discovered there.- an strong arg :mnts in its favour, : wH.ir woulo b its internal structure I i n ve ouscrvcu iu 4 it in mo ' 1 uairei chi. !, that a quick regular m ti n, v t 'd throw the cream upon the .'sides ,.f he churn, with ut any ' '.agi-., l any agi-s tavin, leaving none at me enasana i : j ..L . I -i l: J h id observed that a regular motion giv ntoa grindstone that yas hung pc" lecdv true, would ' retain water up on the t p of the stone, without th owing ii off ; I. considered ijhat th i itvs of nature and df motion must -be u -iio'rm. It occurred to r - hu m .ion must produce the and cruel persecutions. In the sjr n teffects on this earth that we time of Shak prnr says Dr John s r tit h-ve On smaller bodies.! . sop. the doctrine of witchcraft, at '1 h se considerations induced me to m ke a machine to demonstrate this a tor as I possibly t ouid. I accor jd'-igtv. prepar d an arnhnal gl')be, f.in i pine .log, about nine feet in cir umference, as near the k own sr.ipe ot tnis eartn, as possiok ; o- p trat tne poies, tne com avitv or tne. - iividc answerable to the convexity! of the outside, the aperture at the! fo't s answer .bis to about 36 degV oi. i he earth. I j'hen nxeu it on pi-, n qai: k m )tion. I then t urned V- r in the inside of the bull and pu: its in motion, and the event was a I had 'anticipated ; the w .tcr speaci itself smooth upon it, in a snv ; h even surface,' without any a? ( m ts t o fly offr I then perf ra ted the hall in a number of pla s ; it created, as m mv m-)st beautiful sp V of wat r up n the outside of th- bill, which satisfactorily accountjs t ne for the origin of springs, and of course, for rivers ; and it will prrss ihe water thro gh the pores e-' the wood suthcientlv to m i teM th- whole o itside of th surface; I contemplate fishioning the out bid- of the little Globe like un'o this earthrto cut out the oceans, conti- ntnts. rivers vallies. &c. anb if -1 can; quarrel with him, but was oily trans, contrive any m thod t counteract! ported with the heat of tH? times, th tf-ct that our atmosphere "will struck him over the head fvith his Bvura'lv have upon it, I have no1 cane as he got his last lasl, whuh ci"u!itvfp)m what I have. already ob- hit' him so fatally that he cjed of it Srved. of the eff -cts of motion, that immediately." Let the Bdinburg th rivers and v allies am be filled Revi-wers, or th English travellers wi K water from the inside, the o- search the United States fjo Pas Cr u. filled! the regular oceanic cur-' samaquod ly to Ncw-OrlearisTor a rem.,', formed, the water flowing; much; for this. V v will Jot dis f n the inside to the out through' pute the facts, when theyrecollect thJ nerforatinns fr.im the outside r- - ---- to the insfde throuch the D(les, and -vi .-. , .. imi . 1 o'- Su$fact rv manner, so that thte! process may be seen in min- lattire with the eye ; the polar at traction of the needle explained, arid th- ariati m of it accounted for. T find, bV placing the north end of the globe in a i rk. place, and hav ing a bright light plaC( d in the posi tion ttvtt the s in bears to the earih in a south latitude, the ra s of light are thrown in at the south pole, and J'iWcted at right angles, and pass it the n rth pole, in a rawner P rf cth c di ul.U'd to expUm the '. fi'iror:.horeali; a d sh w ir in a Eiuat bcautiiui mauacr ; and show- that the in-ide or hollow of the earth mav De as. well 'or better lighted and warmed by the sun than the outside. From these experiments, I am ful ly convinced of Symmes's theory, & that the Earth would be incomplete without the hollow. am, with iiiuL.u respect, 9 , Your most obedYservant, THOMAS TUFTS. Hon. Sanfl L. Mitchill. FROM THE BOSTON PATRIOT. V TheEnglish and the American character for humanity, compared. i I We said an our first number that the London Quarterly Review, was marked by ignorance, presumption, and malignity, in its general repre sentations of the character and con duct of us Americans, and . that of the British periodal publications, the Edinburg Review alone exhibited a candid spirit towards this country. i We had not then seen the 61st num the bla k peoph. In no civilized nation on earth. are neerroes treated i with sue h indulgence, as in New- b.ngland., Are thev not as . well treate d in the States of New-York, Jersey, & Pennsylvania as they are in Engl nd S In the Southern States in cngi nc.r in tne rjoutnern states it is a calamitous thing, & greatly to be lamented ; but who' introduced slavery., in au rica? Who com- slavery in m near Who com- menced this abominable traffic in human beings.; We auwer, the British. Whio emptied their . jails on our -hore ? The British'. Wno i - . i . i - ' l ' ' or- ' hung men and women in New-Eng- la d for witchcraft ?. TK'e Euglisli, who came over to thiscountn & iis- traced the land bv their fanatic raere once estaolished by law and by the fashion, it became not only impolite but! criminal to doubt it. 1 hey were not native Americans, but hn- glishmen, and Scotchman. With what face can a Briton pronounce us t oe a people wanting numanity, wnue tne penal coae or ootn coun- a tries are known to all the learned world ? Comp are our laws with the English contrast our punish- ments with theirs. in L,onrt m wo- : through the streets, and fixed in the j pillory tf be pelted by th - mob, in -I the rign of Cieorgethe 3d. ' la the ! reign of James th - 2dA the Rev. f'i- ;' tus Oats wis tied to a cart .and witp- tpd from OldgUe to Newgate, vn-ch f is full a mile, and the next dav he was as severely whipped h om New- j rrate to iiburn, wni:n is nearty j I miles, aad so the astonishm- the people he lived th o agh it. The extreme rigor of such whip ping was, sa s BhP Burnett, without a precedent. A person named LlanRern m unaerwrnt uic same dreadful puni-shm. ut ;, but says the Bishop, it had a mo refera ble conclusion, for a brutal stu dent of the law. who had m private that they were given by as honest a Scotchman as ever wrote a njstoi - n b t m n n TKiii riehrated Dr late tells us, that the prisoners tak en at the battle of Worcester were sent to the plantations anf there sold f if slaves. He also informs us that there was a gentlewoman in Lou don, a Mrs (fAUnt, wwas an ana baptist, and who spent a greater nf her life, in arAof charity, vis- Xutr the iails. ancToking after th -7 poor nt wnu persiaiu -vr Uicy mighrb,? (like 5. of oresent time, on" . J jei- '!H witchcraft, undet quoteI by Johnson.in hi Ail i '-xauon on aaKspears iVlacbeih. , w v.W I ieries called a rebel, found her out, and she harboured him in her house, and was looking for an occasion of sending him out of the kingdom. King James declared that he would sootier pardon the rebels than those who harboured them So he wen' out and delivered himself up, and accused her that harboured him She was seized on, tried, csandemned and burnt, as the law directs in th case of women convicted of treason! She died with a constancy even to cheerfulness, that struck allvyith awe that saw it : she said charity was part of her, religion, as well as faith ; that her crime, at . worst, was the feeding an enemy ; so she hoped' she h id her reward with those for whose sake she aid this service : she re- joiced that God had honored her to be the first that suffered by fire Aate their differences.- In their an in hi - reign James 2d ;) and that I nual assembl e, all the disputes of the her suffering was a martyrdom lor people were heard and determined ; that religion which was all love ; but though the v h id power to decree 1 hen Burnett adds, as if doubtful reFards and punishments, yet, su h wht thtr posterity would believe as disobeyed their decisions were him. ' Penn. the Quaker ( he cele-- neither tortured or burnt alive. To brated founder of Pennsylvania) told me he saw her die," and that cV.J A .u. k-w' e- burning herself speedily, and behav- ed herself in such a manner Lhaf all the spectators melted into tears. These are the deeds of an English King, in 165, and of his favorite King, in 1685, ai Judge J fferies; judges and peoj fled fr m as fro: of a Kinc court. ple our forefathers fled fr m as from so manv tve-rs -Ji... . O and hyaeaas, and whose decendants accuse us, Americans, of occupying the lowest grade in the scale of hu- ma; ity. .... , ' ;:' I-n the same year one of King James' tniitarv commanders named Kirk, ordered several prisoners he company looking on while seated at an ientertainmriit. At every new toast, another prisoner was hanged u'f; and they were so brutal, that observing the shaking of their legs in the agonies of hanging, they cried out that they we re dancing and or- dered the music to st ike up ? Did our Alohawk Indians ex :eed this ? .And yet this is the g .vernment, ki g, court and people, who have been the 4 bulwark of the holy re- hgnn we profess ! ! So tar from re ii gi n," she has been for ages the strongest bulwark of Satart. She ha long been not only, the bitter en- emy; wt civil and religious freedom. fut the enemy of human nature ! We c uld fill . folios wijh install to ptove our. assertion. I hey h shone proudly in literature, phil instances ive )SO, pav, and the arts ; but their cruelty among themselves, and in Ireland, Hindosian, the "Carribee Islands, Ce) Ion, some parts of America, & everywhere on the ocean, strongly mark them as the enemies of human ' nature, which has been outraged in ; their penal laws, m their military ' punishments, and even s in their a musements. We need go no far : ther than Shakspear's historical plays to learn the character of Eng lishmen. . , With what face can these hypo crites aci use us of cruelty arid in humanity, who Have betrayed and murdered all who have submitted to their protection ? The whole world cries loud against them yet it is said nevertheiess they are very res pecta'ble for their vast commerce & immense riches, But, " go to, ye rjchimen, weep arid howl, for your miseries are coming upon you." LIBRA. DRUIDS. The following, from the Eastport Centinel, contains an abridged aci ' count of the introduction and establishment of the Papal power in f nSlanU' Kc The causes, which co-operated to compel to quit their native country v and to "seek an asylum in America, commeored with the introduction of th?! authority of the ee of Rome within the kingdom ; and by degrees increased roth- nnh uded violence. described bv the vaiious hiotorians . ..-.-..--.-- . ' had taken, to be ha-g-d up at the lueir resp-cuv-i leaaers i ne monies titv of Fauoton, without sq much found no difficulty jn converting th as the form of a trial, he and his 'ngs of Kent and of the East Sax- of the rimes. y The D uidicd estab lishments, adopted by the Cumry, and venerated by the prince and the people, had no one known prin ciple of religious persecution. The jhiliosophy, taught in their retire ments, corresponded with the doc trines of Pythagoras, and the mo tions of the heavenly bodies, the na ture of things, the. powr & wisdom of the Deitr, were the chief 'employ ment of their studies". From their u quirements in natural knowledge, s well as in the affairs of policy and religion, they obtained a common respect, bordering upon veneration. They became the arbiters of all dis putes civil and religious, private & public, and sometimes had evea au thority enough to stop1 armies on the point of engaging and to acco'mrnoV excommunicate the offender, or ex clude him from public, assejnblies as a'nmnn. nlutpd wic a mmLh m-nt sufficient to them for the chief ends of their establishment, and the peace pf the Nrtioa or tribe. In the moral philosophy, the purest doctrines were inculcated, exercised D''.me Horn an rofitihY leavtne an ample field for that of his as-umVd authority. At the close of the sixth century of the Christian era, Au gustine the monk wjas sent with for ty others to commence thir opera tions with the i rnorant Saxons, who had established themselves in Kftt and other parts of England ; f irm- iaS seven kingdoms or states under Ons to the christian faith; an 1 in per suading them to be baptised. But when the monks attempted to bring the Bretons to a conformity with the church bf Rome, they found a strong opposstionNto their new imported doctrines. The religion of the Oumry, from what has been hereto fore stated, seems to have been established before the christian era, and to have had a common course with it, in the Colleges of the East. The ; pretended changes could not appear otherwise to the Bretons than an abolition oftheir most ancient Drutdical rites and ceremonies of the highest esteem amongst all na tions, which respected justice and purity of faith. Departing then from the spirit of the Gosj el, he persuaded his Saxon converts to massacre all the British professors of religion, wnicn mey couia nna in tne heptarchy ; and to reduce their ad herents and. followers to a state of slavery. This massacre, which was of more than twelve hundred persons, is the first, as it appears, which was ever made in England, on religious differences but the transactions of the heptarchy, subsequent thereto, supply ample proofs of murders, treasons and every possible crime, committed by I thfe instigation of Priests & Monk$ Under the papal au thority of Rome. The Cumry resented this outrage, and invited the Danes ta assist them against the SaxOns, who had so grossly destroyed the lives 'of so many of their people, whom they re vered j and even at this time the verT language of an Englishman is held in contempt by many of the remnant of that nation, who retired, as before has been observed, into Wales and Cornwall. No Saxon or (Dim Satx) is the usual answer giv en to such as travelling in the coun try, ask even the common questions about the roads, inns, br other mat ters incident to their situation ; ancT OJpts Dyke, extending from the riv er Severn to the river Dee or blatk river, marks at this day,' the limits which no Saxon durst formerly go over with impunity the courts of : Wittenage Go mote, the Hundred, the Fythmg, the modern distnbu-; tirn of the estates ot Intestates,, the custom of Gavel-kmd ; i i.short all the Saxon laws, whica were m ages , , . -x- . , . . , followitiff after the conquest, cl m- e l an 1 secured by Vlagn Ch:,. 4 and other constitutional acts, M id their origin and existence wiih ths Aboriginal inhabitants ; the, Cumry before di scribed. The next perse cution of magnitide 01 account of religious tenets, was directed against the sam-f nation. It took place jrt the reign of Edward first,- nar the close of the, 13th cen'ury. The an cient orders of the D aid cl Intifi tion had not then ceacd t have great influence and au h jritv in " Wales ; and every attempt fu-her to persecute thit p-pV and. . 0 re duce their country to the Eng'isli forms of law and government in church and state was generailv deemed by them to be not b-'s th m oacinrgc, M.U COmM With ,e. wishes of the Pdaish Clrgv n.K' i. glahdahd otherwise pom ie lus designs to sub u hit ind-pendent nation of the ar cienr Cum h . ,er petrated the- m st warit rV, inhuni o m tss cre of d' the Birdi -r t ; h iving previously most , has baris - , unjustly, and y treachcrv desc oy ed their legitim ite pt in i:. L ? o i savage persecution raised the vVJc,i people to the ,m )t determined re-1 sistance. Vo calm th- gtaeral ' er ment Edward had resource 'to . 0 h. cy. He fl tttere I their pride anrl ifn proved their fortune by a . ii,. act of the 1-gislature, wrn h 1 force at this d iy. rue srfe'io.i Ir a which this ancient nation d ri ! , religious doctrine and dUcipk j; , couLl not assimilue with-.-.h p l 1 , tions of the R n in" cl. rgv. C- j sacred blood, sh -d b, rh oer; . .itig .bigotry of ..frign- 1. iests u i monies, gave, j dire ti n t r.., rent, which he reformers of to ceediag ge returned, -vi h ; :a Upon the oppressor .j-' kkI, ' . its souWes be hidden in th - ?b. s time, -and rn v not h iv - v p the whole Te , if h 'o-roi- strength to- 1'rot. st.mtT o minations ; and it cannot pu ar . im probable th t r mnanrv t h .1, i , pie, who had thu drank of U - imv. . tain ( of living water, shoo . J . for an asylum in the J;.. .:" North America, :g nnst th - ;h no:4 of bigotry, of rvt-giuus perseco ... and slavervr? . . C a m po-Bello, 1 8 1 ; . FROM THR MoNTR' AL HF.1AI h T. all Lodges ,r F x e io d Hi - v teff Masons, in the h a t, in v e Wt s', and in the South W. ng. ;;';'.' Resptcted Brethren, About eighteen annths since prompted by a mistaken sense "T du ty, I announced to the frattrnir y 3 renunciation of Frte iMasovry." He is actuated by a short-sighted policy who expects to purchase tra iq t itv with guilt. This s-ep, atro jous in us nature, has been fat-d to rrne pose. It was besides grounded on a false assun)ption. No Free Ma son can renourfce his order It would be found impossible if at tempted ; because the character of Free Masonry is as indelible as Tir cumcision. It would be wicked, if possible; ; because the principles of the Craft are in perfect unison .vitfi the. maxims of the Gospel. Here after may every similar attempt be branded with execration Fo- heP who is faithless to his Masoni ob ligations, can be faithful to no oh t 1 request tne orethren congr. g ted in Lodges throughout the unU v e, to take care on thereceint of these presents, as so m as each rVsl pective Lodge shall be convened Xr close tiled, that this solemn declara tion be read and recTdtd. . So mote it be A, L. 5823. A. D. 1819. ' ' A. O. 70i; A C. 505. - '-- CTt minx - tjiiii nr. 1 : . i vi'fi 10 wer-vanada, J ul 4 si 9, . . , " CENSURE. . ; . Account it no dUerace to be cenl sured by thse men, - whsc fa '-rs would do no credit mo thee. "IV thyself only khowest what th -i rt i thers onlv gu ss ar thee. H. l -tr nererore on their opimon, DUt uine owa conscience. t'.