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ETTE . N O R T H -CAROL I N A. " -1 D EN TO N: Printed : by HODG E . &r WIL L S, Printers to thcv S t a T e , by whom Subfcrip tions for this paper arc taken in at 25s. per annum, and advertifemcnts of no more length than breadth infcrted for 3s. the firft week and 4s. for every time afterwards; larger ones in proportion. i - Vol. III. M O N D A Y, November 17, 1788. Front the Massachusetts Centinsl; . The 'variety of important information-the jufl - and pertinent obferevations and the elegance of the report of the celebrated fpeecb of Mr. Sheridan, contained in the following letter tnujl make it ja ve ry acceptable treat to our, readers, tt was received per the Neptune f Captain Scott. - " London, Auguft 1, 178. c T AM exa&ly the lame Tort of being as' .v . JL when we laft conveifed together Eu rope having; had no effect in working the f.nal Je ft a 1 teratkwkhwnKmyHentar-orantmah nature excepting only that irhas caufed'me, to be rather more grave and contemplative, for want of that feniible and facetious fociety, to which I have been habituated hi America. I know not how it is, but really the more- intiv mate I become "with European modes of aclion and thinking, the more do American minds and.manners rife in my eftimation. a very few years we ihall equal, if not jjyal Europe. jn;r alHb6fe:ran fhe tranfcends uir young country. And when ever this eii ajrrives, the fiiperiority of the free citlzenTof our union, in all rcfpe&s whatfoc ver, over every other portion of the human race will be manifeft to the wholeVwWld. The eftablihment of-.the general government, the propoft-d plan ? of which I rejoice that nine Hates bave alreadyTatifiedwilt accelerate" tl)e" period of our welfare and renown. Europe at prefent feemstoo bufy in her own commotions to regard with very acute attention the meafures tf the United States ot America. Pray hea ven her domeftic occupation may continue and augment even until our national polities ' are ripened into fyftem and operation 1 Then if we mind our own bufinefs, andpurfue our own in terefts refoluiely and like men of fenfe, we may equally refift hcr allurements and her menaces. BELLIGERENT POWERS. j cc In the North the Ruffians, Turks and Germans are at war and feem likely to re main in this ftate of hoftility for fo me time. The Kingdom of Sweden is juft armed by fea I and land it is imagined to take an advantage of its-old enemy Rnflia, and fmiting her while ilie is engaged with the Turk c, obtain a little more territorial elbow-room for the Swedifh fubjecls. The Germans and Ruffians have niot yet gained much of the Turks on land but in a naval conflict which happened on the 19th of June the Ruffian fleet overcome that of the Tu rks. andiUnk,or ca ptured ight trips' , Vice Admtralrr-and took between four and five thoufand prifoners : So writes Prince JPbteoi kin to the Emperor of - Germany. . ... COMMOTIONS IN FRANCE. " Mean while the diftu'rbances which have prevailed in France for a year paft, continue to jeclure, as the army are formidable enough tq controul and over-awe the nation notwith ftandirig their fervour and unanimity in the public caufe. Both parties feem determined at prefent the one to iriforce the Kings edicts at the point ofthe fvvord the other by a pcrfeverr I xngj but pacific refmance and retufal to fulfil the mandates, paffivtly but effectually to de feat, a(l .innovations that proceed - from the Court. In this interior .derangementi ' of French affairs the. Britifli nation, is ftrengthen ing herfelf with' alliances, which fhe has re cently formed both with Pruffia and Holland j In the Court of the latter fhe dicTtates every mealure even of the internal government-- by meanj of the S tad ther, whom., fhe has newly created by her influence in the feparale zprovincesran remisi-patf offheonftirntro et the states General, An mitrument pro claiming the Houfe of Oi-ange an integral pirt of this conftitution, has lately been ratified by. Jh jijro vjnee Sojha fn France havenabled the rexe'trveofB'n-" tain fo" detach from her enemy two allies, and attach them to herfelf wha but for this tem porary debility of the French government, would nut have hazarded fuch a meafure on a ny.confideration. Britain now feerris to think herfelf a very great creature. She certainly has rather,-more afcendgnc;yJin;r.tIigLE.uropean worid tliaTvffie pofltfTtd at the peace of Paris "And Mr. Pi, her prime ; mini fter, feems re folute to exalt her Mill more by a fotmidable preparation for war, tofecure the emoluments; of peace. While France fhall continue occu pied in ;domeftic commotions, his fyftem may remain uninterrupted. But the next- hour af ter the fermentation fubfides, a war between t be countries mufi enfue. In that war I wifh we may not be involved. " I hope the United States will keep aloof from all the quarrels of Europe. ' " " : -7 exercifed upon the wretched 'nat ives of Oude both by him and his afTociates are tmdefcriba-ble.-They may be traced, however, in their melancholy e Reels. And from tbefe effefti fome faint idea may be formed of. the barbarj. -ty-of-menr"pr-raiherol "TribTiiHers, equally the difhonour of. their fpecies, and the difgrace of their country. In the evidence yotrr bar, your Lordfliips have heard, that in the reign of Sujab ul Dowlab, his dominion in Oude; was a perfeft garden fo highly was the whole country cultivated. That the villages wefe numerous r-frequent and crowded withnha- bitants vvho Jived in eale, comfort and plenty. You have alio heard,' that pndcr Afoph tit Dowlaby the fon of Sujab, the face of the whole country has nhinTie blau ty ot the fcene" is blemiflied that culture is no more that the buildings are in ruins that whole villages are vacant and empty that the race, which opce peopled diemj-arenherput agitatethefubjecls of Lewis the XWtrrrThct Clamour for liberty and a free con ftitutidn and all the Parliaments, moft of the nobility andclergyj with the bulk of the people, fay thefe objecls are unattainable but by a convention-of the States General. : The Monarch and his Minilter,"on thefother hand, are re'fo lute at the ? head of a few : hundred thoufand troops,-to eftablifh the ancient maxim of gov vern ment - th fvvereign's ' will is law. In p.nrfuance of which many hundreds of the no bility have been exiled-and fome committed lo theBaftile.. . A few days ago our friend the Brit tan v. were committrl tn th . 'Rart-IU -nt icr - pref enting.Tbut only "con fultjhg together iL!a? Pu'pofe of Jignihg a remonftrance to tneir Matter, again ft the harfh, impolitic meafurw-of .the French miniftry. How the conteft will terminatejt it not poffiWejto oni SHERIDAN'S SPEECH.! Since the departure of from hence, nothing has fo much contributed to re concile me to a refidence in London, as the, en tertainment I derived from the fpiech-of JVltv "Sberidanf in Weftrri infter-Hall, on a particu lar charge againft the great Eaft-India delin quent, Mr. Haftings. . This oratjon lafted during four days, and did really tranfeend every other effort of eloquence that I have hi therto witneffed. Nor am' I j fingular injthis. opi n ionforfwel lirerheihber, that on the fe-. con& ihif pf'tfrelpeechrTer tRe HuhTCoufi -had adj;ouraeitTrTHeTIo1nefT.o and the Commons tottherr own c1i amber; Mrrf B u ike ..expreifed himfelf concerningM the following effect. fpeecb fee the State Gazette No. 1 4 5 .1 After fuch an elpgium I wjfoT co'pld-fehd "" you augnt iiKe a reporr or tne ipeecn.ueir. But unfoi tunately every attempt to report it has hitherto. proyeiLrmifcrably abortive;.7tAll the news-papers; and pamphlets, in which any effortvhajs milreprefent, mutilate, and mangle the com exile and in one word, that a defolation, al- molt un iverlally,': has ovei fpi ead the whole ter ritory. But this dreadful change has not been wrought by any change of national politics on the part of the prefent Prince. He, like the other fovereigns of India, ftudied to. aid his -fubjefts, excite induftry, and "by countenan cing Jaencourage -their agriculture i rNo it wai occafloned by - the mercilefs rapacity, of Col Hanway' and the extortion of other Englifh officers under Mr. Haftings, who, placed far beyond the reach of. the Nabob's authority or controul imprifoned robbed and oppreffed . preyed upon the property tortured theperfons, and extinguifhed,iihe lives of his fubjecls. If a ftranger at this time had arrived in the king dom of Oude, ignorant of all that had happen ed finCe the death of Sujah ul Dowlah, that man, who mingled wi th afavage heart, m anv- an outline of great charatlcer j and who, witn all his rugged fiercenefs in war, with a culti vating hand, ftili preftrved to his country the riches it derived from a proliBc foil and benig nant fkies. If.this ftranger, ignorant of all -theakmiHesfherref-ime 1 11c muni imui iuikuuc uuici ving 111c W1QC waite furveying the general devaluation contem plating each particular horror of the fcenr beholding plains ynclad and uncultured fields bereft of verdure -gardens ftripped of foliage vegetation brown b urn t up and extirigiiilhed JLltafiUXlfikcnjdojffnuid, exhanfied tern pled, filent and folitary Great.: Qod t-wyuld lie norexclaim-i to what fhall we attribute this. poiltion motl. wretchedly. Fortunately I have preferyea fragment or two, which I commit ted to paper when I en tered my apartment each day as foon as the oration Had : concluded feme fentences of which I think you may depend. upona&, genuine - Thefbtlowing"deirip-"f?mutual lovtr-and extinguiftf kindred felicity tive and declamatory paffages forcibly .impref- 'ed-;v:auditb:!:r:!lS ' O F Col. 7i7zt'3y, as he is. now no mofcj univeriaT"defoIation ? "What has thus laid wafte the fields of this once fertile and beautiful coun' try ? Who has waged fuch dire warfare, : both - r, , againft the workmanftiin and the race of man ? Jfflbia hasagedfu tne rair emoeuunments ana 1 wee; opulence or nature? Did theminifte"r8 of divine vengeance defcend upon the nation and the land?-Did they dry up all the drops of the fountain, and - fcorch from the. furface of' the earth every ve ftage of green"? idI vH diflentions divide, cxafperate and deftroy.the devoted inhabitants ?, pid their rival princes con tend for empire, or v a difputed fucceflTon rend the fociety ?: Didar rancorous, deadly, domeftic feud excite con-" Aiding lathers,, children and brethren to ftifle T vvifh, my Lords, to fay nothing harfh or fe- vere p bu t notwithftarrdmgTfry fevRiceojf.t'be 'hillcim'' that nothing difrefpeclful ;fhuid be nttered of the decd" 1 am compelled, becaufe itkvem?V,roy duty toafibv thaw he cruelties Did it fefter in their alienated hearts; incenfeii "hatred, inflameftrife4 ajidj;mW IffenceiJDTdit quite feperate and tear aftunder v 5lLS5J0ilii:tPmun' tyfndjheejfullcoiinefti- on, that once poffefled thefe abodes in . content. and ti'aiquility ? Did; religions eal,ryirith an erroneous rage, or bigotry in her blind unholy "phrrxy,-pr31traxrt It 1' , 5 t mm m mi
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