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, PENN ON GOVERNMENT. No sooner, pays a celebrated writer, had William Penn settled his government, but (no natives of the country, instead of flying into the woods, cultivated by degrees a friendship with the peaceable quakers. They loved these strangers as much as they disliked some other pretended christians, who had conquered and ravaged this country. In a little time these savages, as they are called, delighted with their new neighbours, docked in crowds to become his vassals. It was a singular spectacle to behold a people, in a strange land, among uncivilized men, without arm?, for offence or preservation; a body of citizens, without any distinctions but that of public employments; and for neighbours to Jive together, without envy or jealousy. Montesquieu has saluted our lawgiver as the real Lvcurgus; and the sa-j gacityand wisdom of his frame of laws will demonstrate the justice of the eulogium. As the good people of this country are very frequently called upon to select persons for office, the following passages, from the introduction to our cl:l code, are worthy of profound meditation, in all those parts where

the rights of a ireeman have not been sur

rendered to the venajity of a caucus. Governments, says the venerable proprietor, like clocks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them .hey are ruined too: wherefore, governments rather depend

upon men, than men upon governments.

Let men be good, and the government can

not be bad; if it be ill, they will cure it.

But if men be bad, let the government be never so good, they will endeavour to warp and spoil it to their turn.

I know some say, let us have good laws.

and no matter for the men that execute them; but let them consider, that though

good laws do well, good men do better; for

good laws may want good men, and be abolished, or invaded by ill men; but good men will never want good laws, nor suffer ill ones. 'Tis true, good laws have some awe upon ill ministers; but that is where they have not power to escape or abolish them, and the people are generally wise and good; but a loose and depraved people, which is to the question, love laws and an administration like themselves. That, therefore, which makes a good constitution, must keep it, viz. men of wisdom and virtue, qualities that, because they descend not with worldly inheritances, must be carefully propagated by a virtuous 'education of youth; for which, after ages will owe more to the care and prudence cf founders, and the successive magistracy, than to their parents for their private patrimonies. These considerations of the weight of government, and the nice and various opinions about it, made it uneasy to me to think of publishing my frame of government and conditional laws, foreseeing both the censures they will meet with from men of different humours and engagements, and the occasion fhey may give of discourse beyond my design. But next to the power of necessity, which is a solicitor that will take no denial, this induced me to a compliance, that we have, with

reverence to God, and sjood conscience to!

men, to the best of our skill, contrived and composed the frame and laws of this government, to the great end of all governments, viz. to support in reverence with the people,

and to secure the people from the abuse oil power, that they may be free by their just: obedience, and the magistrates honourable for their just administration ; for liberty without obedience is confusion, and obedience without liberty is slavery. To cany this evenness, is partly owing to the constitution, and partly to the magistracy; where either of these fail, government will be subject to convulsions; but where botii are wanting, it must be totally subverted; then where both meet, the government is like to endure ; which.! humbly pray, and hope God will please to make the lot of this of Pennsylvania.

THE EAGLE. In a clear sky the royal eagle soars to a great height, but he flies lower in cloudy weather. He rarely quits the mountains to descend to the plains; and his muscular force enables him to encounter the most vi

olent winds. When Raymond had reached

the summit of mount Perdu, the highest of peltry and furs for salt, iron, and ammuni-

the Pvrenees, he perceived no living crea

ture but an eagle, which passed above him, flying with inconceivable rapidity from the southwest. When far aloft, and no longer discernablc by the human eye, its cry, which in that situation has been compared to the squeaking of a puppy, may still be heard; and such is the wonderful acuteness of its sight, that from the same elevation it will mark a hare, or even a smaller animal, and dart down on it with unerring aim. The male and female usually hunt together, and the mountaineers allege that the one beats the bushes, and that the other pursues the

started game. Each pair live in an insula

ted state, establishing their quarters on some

high and precipitous cliif, at a respectful distance from others of the same species, and

occasionally interrupting their silence by a sharp, piercing, and lugubrious cry. They

are extremely tenacious ol hte, whence pro-

oaniy originated the eastern notion, that they possessed the power of renewing their youth. Kcysler alludes to an individual, which liv

ed one hundred and four years at Vienna, though in a state of confinement. Nor is it

less remarkable for enduring abstinance, especially when deprived of exercise; for one, taken from a fox-trap, refused food for live weeks, when it was killed. Redi likewise informs us, that he kept two alive, the one for twenty-eight, and the other for twentyone days, without food. In old age, individuals of this species become more or less hoary, or partially of a pure white; and similar changes are produced by disease and protracted captivity or hunger. From their solitary and domineering habits, they keep all other birds of prey at a distance from their haunts, and delight in combats and rapine: but they seem to be averse to carrion, and to disdain the insults of weak and petty animals, attacking and bearing away lamps, kids, young gazelles, &c. Their strength chiefly resides in the beak, talons, and wings; and there is scarcely any animal that is a match for them, as they are capable of giving the most terrible annoyance without much danger to themselves, insomuch that a single flap of the wing has struck a man dead in an instant. Unless taken when quite

young, they are scarcely to be tamed. In

Scotland they are still destructive of deer,

which they scrze between the horns, and soon subdue by incessantly beating the harassed quadruped with their wings. In the island of Rume, according to Pennant, they have nearly exterpatcd the stags; and in Shetland they are general plunderers, robbing the rock-birds, especially gulls and cormorants, of their young. In the Orknics, the nest of a pair has been observed on the same spot from time immemorial. Another pair seem to have once bred in Tintholm, one of the smallest of the Faroe islands, according to the testimony of Landt, who relates the following distressing incidents: An

eagle one day darted on an infant, who wasj ,

hood. It was situated on Buffaloe creek,! cob Miller, George Leiler, Peter Fullemvei

aoout twelve or imeen nines iiom its junction with the river Ohio. Previously to the attack of this fort, which took place in the month of September, 1783, several of the lew men belonging to the fort.

had gone to Hagerstovyn, to exchange their

tion, as was the usual custom in those times.

They had gone on this journey somewhat earlier that season than usual, because there had been "a still time" that is no recent alarms of the Indians. A few days before the attack on this fort, 300 Indians had made their last attack on

Wheeling fort. On the third night of the

investment of Wheeling, the Indian chiefs held a council in which it was determined,

that the siege of Wheeling should be raised,

two hundred warriors return home, and the remaining hundred of picked men, make a dash into the country, and strike a blow somewhere before their return. It was their

determination to take a fort somewhere, and

massacre all its people, in revenge for their

defeat at YV heeling.

News of the plan adopted by the Indians,

was given by two white men, who had been made prisoners w hen lads, raised among the

Indians, and taken to war with them. These

men deserted from them soon after ther council, at the close of the sies;e of Wheeling.

The notice was indeed short, but it reached

Rice's fort about an hour before the com

mencement of the attack. The intelligence was brought by Mr. Jacob Miller, who re

ceived it at Dr. Moore's, in the neighbour

hood of Washington. Making all speed home, he fortunately arrived in time to assist

in defence of the place. On receiving this

news, the people ol the fort felt assured that

the blow was intended for them, and in this conjecture they were not mistaken. But little time was allowed them for preparation. The Indians had surrounded the place before they were discovered; but they were still at some distance. When discovered, the alarm given, on which every man ran to his cabin for his gun, and took refuge in the blockhouse. The Indians, answering the alarm by a war-whoop from their whole line, commenced firing and running towards the fort in every direction. It was evidently their intention to take the place by asssault; but the fire of the Indians was answered by that of six brave ;md skilful sharpshooters. This unexpected reception prevented the intended assault, and made the Indians take refuge behind some log?, stumps, and trees. The firing continued with little intermission for about four hours. In the intervals of the firing, the Indians frequently called out to the people of the fort, "Give up, give up, too many Indian, Indian too Lm no kill." They were answered with deriance "Come on, you cowards ; we are ready for you. Show us your yellow hides and we will make holes in them for you." During the evening many of the Indians, at some distance from the fort, amused themselves by shooting the horses, cattle, hogs, and sheep, until the bottom was strewed with their dead bodies.

Aoout 10 o'clock at night, the Indians set

der, Daniel Rice, Georee Fellebaum. and

Jacob Lefler, jr.; George Fellebaum was

shot in the forehead, through a port hole, at

the second lire ol the Indian?, and instantly

expired so that, in reality, the defence cf

the place was made by only live men.

The loss of the Indians was lour, three of

whom were killed at the hist fire from the

fort, the other was killed about sun-down. There can be no doubt but that a number more were killed and wounded in the engagement, but concealed or carried oft.

1 - J , r il Jlire to a barn about o0 yards irom the tort, lying a little distance from its mother, and jrp, i , i r u i

i ' , . 1 1 1 1 1 i I a uu uai 11 as mi iiis ciina tun c.tttu

carnea n 10 us nesi, wincn was piaceu on a rock so steep towards the summit, that the boldest bird-catchers had never ventured to

The. number of blacks in the United States is about two millions; and their annual increase is said to be fifty thousand.

climb it. The mother, however, contrived; to ascend it; but she arrived too late, fertile! clrld was dead, and its eyes torn out. Again, in the year 1737, in the parish of Morderbongs, in Norway, a boy, upwards of two years of age, was running from the house to his parents, who were at work in the fields

at no great distance, when an eagle pounced on him, and carried him olfin their sight, in spite of all their screams and efforts. Anderson, in his History of Iceland, asserts that in that island children of four or five years of age have experienced the same cruel fate ; and Ray mentions that in one of the Orknies, an infant of a year old was seized in the talons of an eagle, and conveyed about four miles, to its evrv; while the mother, know.1 .'' i.i

ing me spot, pursued the mrd, iouna the child in the nest, and took it home unhurt. From Doddridge's JSvtcs on tht Jrestem Country. ATTACK OX RICE'S FORT.

This fort consisted of some cabins and a

small blockhouse, and was, in dangerous

times, the residence and place of refuge for

twelve families m its immediate neighbour-

hay. The flame was frightful, and at first seemed to endanger the burning of the fort,

but the barn stood on lower ground than the

fort. The night was calm, with the exception of a slight breeze up the creek. This carried the ilame and burning splinters in a different direction, so that the burning of the barn, which was at first considered as a dangerous, if not fatal occurrence, proved in the issue the means of throwing a strong light to a great distance in every direction, so that the Indians durst not approach the tort to set fire to the cabins, which could have been done at little risk, under the cover of the darkness. After the barn was set on fire, the Indians collected on the side of the fort opposite the barn, so as to have the advantage of the

light and kept up a pretty constant fire,!

which was as steadily answered by tnat or the fort, until about 2 o'clock when the Indians left the place and made a hastyretreat. Thus was this little place defended by a Spartan band of six men, against one hundred chosen warriors, exasperated to mad

ness by their failure at Wheeling fort. Their

names shall be inscribed in the list of the

heroes of our oarlv times. Thev were Ju-

MEMORANDA OF LAFAYETTE. Brandywine. "In which leg were you wounded at Brandywine," asked the author of these memoranda of General Lafayett:;. Here, my dear sir," pointing to the left. "And the ball what became of it? We should have been happy to have possessed and placed it among the archives cf American Independence, in commemoration of tho gallant vouth who left his home ilpra nevz orbis IAbcrtatc deccriabat." The countrymen of Nelson preserve, with pious care, the ball which pierced that hero's bosom." "The ball, my friend, went through and through. 1 was on foot when I received my wound: a part of our line had given way, but a part still held its ground; to these 1 repaired, and to encourage my comrades, and show them that I had no better chance of flight than they, I ordered my horse to the rear. The news of my being hurt was soon conveyed to the Commander in Chief, with the usual exaggerations in such cases. The good General Washington feelingly expressed his grief, that one so young," and a volunteer in the holy cause of freedom, should so early have fallen; but he was soon relieved hy an assurance that my wound would stop shoit of life, when he sent me his love, and grainlation that matters were no worse. On the field of battle the surgeon prepared his dressings but the shot flew so thick around us, that in a very little time, if we had remained, we should both have been 4 past all surgery.' Being mounted upon my horse, 1 left the fieldj and repaired to the bridge near Chester, when I halted and placed a guard to stop the fugitive soldiers and direct them to join their respective regiments. I could do no more ; becoming faint, I was carried into a house in Chester, and laid on a table, when my wound received its first dressing. The General officers soon after arrived,when I saluted them by besretin? that they would hot eat me up, as they appeared to be very hungry, and I was the only dish upon the only table in the house. The good Gen. in Chief was much gratified on finding me in such spirits, and caused a litter to be made, on which I was conveyed to the Indian Queen in Philadelphia, and was there waited upon by the members of Congress, who were all booted and spurred, and on the. wing for a place of greater safety, to hold their sessions. The enemy continuing to advance, I was again removed to Bristoland thence in the coach of President Laurens (and coaches were very rare in those days) to Reading; where I remained until so much recovered as to be able to repair to head quarters in 1778. In this eventful year I was entrusted with my first command; one hundred and fifty of Morgan's Riflemen, under the gallant Major Morris, and two hundred and fifty very fine young fellows of the Jersey Militia, composed my first adventure in arms. Furnished with a guide, we advanced upon the eneuvy, and routed a corps of Hessians. Our guide became bewildered, but we dashed on, animated by our success. Cornwallis determined to punish us for having so gaily beaten up his quarters and pushed forward his Light Infantry and

Grenadiers, whom we also forced from the field with loss, and then we bore off the scarfs of their slain officers, as spolia optima of our victory. "This little affair was productive of the best possible results. The grand army had

just lost two great battles; our success, small

as it was, reinspired confidence, and appeared like a presage of still greater things. The Commander in Chief w as pleased to notice the good conduct of my comrades in his despatches to Congress, and we w ere all made happy. Meantime I had forgot my wound. Unable to wear a boot, I wore a moccasin: the exertion in commanding produced intlamauon and pain, but it was my first command. Victory had crowned our efforts, and

v i c t o ry p h y ? ; c s p a m .

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