they thought it would issue against their constituent, and leave the business still to be terminated by the harpies of the law. But as both the gentlemen, nominated by Sylvanus Planter, did attend through the whole of the business, I would ask, are they not bound by the ties of honour, conscience, and common usage, to continue to the close, and to sanction the judgment of their colleagues by their presence, if not by their signatures; or if they still resolve to secede, which has become very fashionable, of late, with Republican minorities: query, ought their absence to prevent or delay the final settlement? and are they not chargeable with all the evil consequences that may follow from such extraordinary conduct?

QUERIST.

The Querist has my thanks for his communication. I should really think, that he alluded to the recent conduct of the American Commissioners, had he not omitted a very material circumstance: to wit, that John Clothier (relying implicitly on the good faith of Sylvanus Planter for the due execution of the agreement) did give up a PLEDGE which he held for the payment of the sums due to him. The statement of the Querist, as far as it goes, is a fair one, and the method he has taken to bring the subject forward is ingenious and modest; but we must begin to speak plain on this important subject. It is an old remark, that fables had their origin in despotic states, where men dared not speak of persons and things as they were, and therefore hid their censure under the mask of a fable. I hope we are not yet reduced to the necessity of adopting such an artifice! At any rate I mean to try it. I clearly perceive, that I shall stand alone for a time; but, this will be no new thing to me.

Doctor Stock.-Extract from Bache's Gazette of 30th December, 1794, purporting to be a Copy of a Letter from Glasgow, dated 26th September, 1794. "The trials for high treason, which have taken place in Scotland, will doubtless claim attention, 66 even on the other side of the Atlantic.-Mr. "DOWNIE (who was hanged at Edinburgh) "bears his fate with all the fortitude and dignity "which virtue and patriotism naturally inspire.— "The grand jury also found a bill of indictment against JOHN EDWARD STOCK, a Student "of Medicine in this University, a young gentleman of promising abilities and amiable manners. He, "however, has fortunately fled to your hemisphere."

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[Now, reader, this is the identical DOCTOR STOCK who is so very, very intimate with DALLAS, at present the Secretary of the State of Pennsylvania, formerly an unsuccessful play-actor at Jamaica; I am told, and much am I astonished at it, that this DALLAS, the friend of Genet, Fauchet, Adet, and Yruje, and the patron of M‘Kean; I am told that this man, the open, the avowed, the bitter enemy of Great Britain, is frequently visited by British Consuls, Agents, and Commissioners. I wonder whether DOCTOR STOCK is of the party of these visits?]

McKean and Co.-Amongst the ridiculous parts of the Address, which Leib, Core, Miles, Dallas, &c. &c. have published in behalf of M‘Kean, is, the conclusion, in which they call upon their "FRIENDS AND FELLOW CITIZENS" to leave nothing undone to get him elected, because republicanism is in great danger in Europe. Whether," say they, "we consider "the intelligence from abroad, concerning the operations of all the mightiest of the despotic

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powers, &c. we are most solemnly affected with "the prospect that presents itself. A combination of Emperors and Kings is formed on a basis avowedly hostile to the theoretical, as well as to the practical, sovereignty of the people, throughout the "world."

Well! and what then?-Do you imagine, that your electing McKean will break up the combination? What is this poor old soul to do against "all the mightiest of the despotic powers?" Will his receiving two thousand pounds a year out of the pockets of the people of Pennsylvania prevent Marshall Suwarroff from marching to Paris? I'll engage that neither of the Emperors or Kings of Europe know that there is such a being in existence, except King George, perhaps, who may have read of him in the "DEMOCRATIC JUDGE.”The other four committee-men are stupid creatures, but was it not a shame, now, for you, Dallas and Coxe, to attempt to persuade the poor citizens, that, by their choosing this old man to govern them, they would prevent the Emperors and Kings from rooting out the comfortable doctrine of the "Sove"reignty of the people?"-Was it not a shame, I say? How you must have laughed to yourselves, when you saw Leib, Muhlenberg, and the other two, swallowing the bait, and pompously putting their hands to such a miserable bore!

McKean's Tavern Bill.-The Virtue of Economy as exemplified in the Conduct of Thomas McKean and his Aids.-York County.-The county had formerly to pay the tavern-club of the Chief Justice and his aids during the weekly sessions of the Court. The amount of those clubs may be seen from the annexed list. By the new constitution the Judge is allowed only four dollars a day for his travelling expenses while on the circuit, and we hear that since he has thus to pay his club

out of his own pocket, it never amounts to more than twelve or sixteen dollars a week.

that, the account stood as follows-Witness the

But before

Apostacy-To Judge Mr. M'Kean.-Sir, in your electioneering address, you say, that you are a "de"vout member of the church of Mr. Adams,”—Be it so, Sir; but you could not, then, I think, feel very pleasant, when you gave your daughter's hand to a Roman Catholic, and when you heard her renounce and for ever abjure what the Romish Church calls the "damnable heresies," in which she had been educated! When she uttered this solemn renunciation, your Presbyterian devotion must have received a most furious shock.

This young lady's voluntary entrance into the bosom of the Catholic Church has, by some persons, been thought a mere temporary expedient to answer purposes far different from those of religion; but, Sir, however you might be inclined to stretch a point for the honour of being called the father of a NOBLEMAN, I look upon your amiable

* Pennsylvania money is one third less in value than sterling : that is, three pounds Pennsylvania make two pounds sterling. Forty guineas a week for a Judge's tavern score, is not much amiss, especially when we consider that America is blessed with above Four Hundred Judges!!!!

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daughter's conversion as perfectly sincere, and I have yet hopes (notwithstanding your denial) of seeing you follow her pious example.-In the mean time, however, your anxiety to become our Governor, your patriotic desire to receive two thousand ponnds *a year, in place of the one thousand you now receive, has led you into many and great inconsistencies. Strange indeed is the conduct of a Presi dent of the Hibernian Society, who labours to clear his character of the "charge" of being an Irishman; and still more strange is the conduct of a father, who, to-day, gives his daughter's hand to a Papist, and to-morrow, thinks it necessary to come publicly forward and clear his character of the મંદ charge" of being a Roman Catholic! *

SEPTEMBER, 1799.

Canal Lottery.-Joseph Ball and Co.-This JOSEPH BALL is, very much to my astonishment, nominated by the Federalists of the city of Philadelphia, as a proper person to be elected a Senator for the said city, &c. I therefore republish, from my Gazette of the 11th and 20th of July, the statements respecting the CANAL LOTTERY, No. 2, from which statements, I think, it

* This is part of a letter addressed to M'KEAN, and signed "An Irish Catholic." The fact alluded to, respecting M'KEAN'S daughter, is a most shocking one. The SPANISH AMBASSADOR courted the young woman, but would not marry her, unless she first became a Catholic. Most of my readers know the humiliating ceremony that she must have gone through; and it is really true, that her father and mother assisted at the ceremony, during which she renounced the "damnable here"sies," in which they had brought her up, and in which they themselves still continued!!-Such are the accommodating principles of a republican Chief Justice!

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