Being filled in lefs than two hours. This machine was 70 feet high, and 46 wide. It contained 60,000 cubic feet; and it bore with it 16 or 17000 pounds. Certified at the cafle of Muette, at 5 o'clock in the afternoon. Signed Duke de Pelinac, Duke de Guines, Count de Polaftron, Count de Vaudrewil, d'Huraud, B. Franklin, Fauje de St. Fond, Deifle, le Roi of the Academy of Sciences. December 28. Several letters from Toulon affure us, that the Chevalier de Bonneval,in la Mignonne, has taken poffeffion of the island of Candia, and of Morea, which now belong to Louis theXVIth, to difpofe of as he may please ; and it is even thought the Ottoman Porte will be obliged to make further facrifices. For this fortnight paft the greatest alacrity has been used, in fitting out 15 fail of the line at Toulon, which joined to 1o Dutch and 15 Spanish men of war, will form a fleet of 40 fail, which are to cruize in the Mediterranean. About 6000 of our failors have entered into the Turkish fervice. Jan. 22. The public were too precipitate in their cenfures of the queen of Portugal, for her proceedings on the coaft of Angola. We now learn, with admiration, that that fovereign has deftroyed, along the said coaft all the Portuguese fettlements, where the Negro trade was carried on, having declared all the blacks to be free, and they are all to be made chriflians. It is well known that all the kings of Congo and Angola, are feoditary to Portugal, and are mafters of all the coaft from the river Dandas to that of Coanza. Upon this revolution, fo much to the honour of this age, the queen of Portugal has received the moft obliging letter from the Quakers in America, FRANKFORT, Jan. 6. The cold has been exceffive fince the end of last month, and according to the observations made at Manheim and Nuremberg, the weather has not been fo cold fince the beginning of the prefent age. HAGUE, Jan. 12. The States of Holland and Weft Frifeland, which affembled laft Friday, will continue their deliberations till Wednesday next. We learn that the States-General, not being yet able to obtain the fatisfaction their High Mightineffes had a right to expect from the republic of Venice, touching the affair of Meffrs. Chomel and Jourdan, have requested the Prince Stad tholder, in quality of Admiral General, to expedite orders to Vice Admiral Reinft, who is cruizing with a fquadron in the Mediterranean, to feize all the Venetian fhios he may meet with, till their High Mightineffes receive full fatisfaction from the republic of Venice, in regard to this LONDON, March 5. Yesterday the Houfe of Commons carried up an addrefs to St. James's, warmly advifing the removal of the Miniftry. It being a drawing room day, the Court was full of ladies. The fpeaker, attended by Mr. Fox, and many other members, went up to the Torone, and having read and prefented the addrefs, his Majefty delivered an answer, from a paper which he held in his hand, importing, that as no fpecific charge had been made against any of his Minifters, he could not confent to their prefent removal. We confefs ourselves at a lofs how to act, or in what language to exprefs our fentiments of the dreadful crifis to which the madness of a faction has brought us. We are now brought to the precipice of our fate; and the question is, whether we shall for two days more enjoy the conftitution which has for fo long a time made us the pride and envy of the world? The branch of the legiflature which is our own that branch which flows from us, which is in fact ourselves; by which we fpeak, by which we have individually our fhare in framing the laws, and impofing the burthens that are neceffary for the maintenance of the commainity; that branch is the evidence, the criterion of our freedom. Our house of commons is that which makes us different from, and lifts us aboveall other nations. Take that from the English conflitution, and what remains to make us free? To degrade it from its office, rank, and ufe it in the Legislature, is as compleat an overthrow of our liberties, as to annihi ate it altogether. France has its Parliaments, and thofe Parliaments have the exercife of the tongue; they frequentBy fpeak a fouited language, but what avails it? In the end they register the dicts, by which the flaves are governed. On monday next fome decifive mea. fure will be taken by the Commons. They will procraftinate and conciliate no more-- if the do, they will forfeit the high chara&er which they have acquired in, the country, and to which hiftery will do juftice. It is better that the Parliament thould be diffol ved fifty times better--that we hould fuffer all the tumults and in convenience of fuch a diffolution, than that things should go on as they are. Would not Mr. Onflow have refigned his gown, or laid his mace, as Mr. Powys fuggefted, on the table of the king's clofet, if he had received the auf wer of yefterday ? American News. By the United States in Congress affembled, March 4, 1784. Congrefs proceeded to the election. of five Commiflioners to negociate with the Indians; and the ballots being taken, Mr George Rogers Clarke, Mr. Oliver Wolcott, Mr. Nathaniel Greene, Mr.Richard Butler, and Mr. Stephen Higginson, were elected. RICHMOND, March 6. Extract of a letter from Washington, dated January 23. "The Indians lately took a lad of the name of Cox prifoner, ata ftation in Kentuckey, called the Crab Orchard. The Indians were followed and overtaken; they mercilefly murdered the boy; our people in purfuit made a prifoner of one of the enemy, without his receiving a wound. The favage, on falling into our hands, fhewed all the figns of confternation and defpair; and a good ufe, no doubt, might have been made of his terror, by making a certain discovery of what tribe of Indians has lately infefted the Kentuckey path, in the wilderness: But imprudently, one of the company gave him a Georgia parole; being no doubt provoked by the murder of the lad Cox. About the beginning of this month two men were killed on the waters of Salt River, in Jefferson county, one by the name of Archer, a perfon of fome note in that country. The 16th inftant, three men whofe names are yet unknown, were found dead on the path near Cumberland river; it appeared they were killed in their tent about two nights before: By fome token left, it is believed to be done by Cherokees; or rather a banditti of that nation, fettied below the Whirl on the Tenefee." ALBANY, March 27. Extract from the Journal of the Senate of the State of New York. "Refolved, That the delegates be inftructed to prefs Congrefs. for a decifion in the long protracted controver fy refpecting the right of this state, to expectations can be entertained of fuch decifion, and that this ftate, with whatever deep regret, will be compelled to confider herself, as left to pursue her own councils, deftitute of the protection of the United States, to whofe judgment they have cheerfully fubmitted, and c. whofe juftice they have hitherto relied. The committee further report it as their opinion, that if Congrefs should delay the decifion of faid controversy, at the time above lim ted, it ought to be confidered as a denial of justice. That the act, entitled, "An act to empower the Congrefs of the United States of America, to determine all controverfies, relating to certain lands in the counties of Cumberland, Gloucefler, Charlotte and Albany, commonly called the New Hampshire Grants," paffed the 21ft day of Oãober, 1779, ought to be repealed; in order that this legislature may be left at liberty, to propose an adjustment of the faid difpute in the mode prefcribed in the 9th article in the federal union, or to take fuch other measures as the prefervation of their country from lawless invasion and encroachment may require. PHILADELPHIA, April 5. The legiflature of South Carolina at their prefent feffion, have paffed an act vefting Congrefs with power to levy the five per cent. duty.--Alfo, to regulate the Weft-India trade, to take off duties on American produce. They have revised their confifcation a&t, and agreed to grant 29 eftates, free; 99 do on the amercement of twelve per cent. 33 do. on the amercement of twelve per cent. The proprietors being difqualified for feven years, for holding any office civil or military. They have paffed a tax bill, providing funds for raifing 35.4411. ferling, their quota to Congrefs; 9,8081. do. their civil list ; 71,6321. do, to pay the intereft of their flate debt; the two first payable in gold or filver; the laft to be paid by the intereft of their treafury indents to fink the fame. That a The General Affembly of Pennfylvania on the 11th of March last,_paffed the following refolve, viz committee he appointed to bring in a bill, authorifing the United States in Congrefs affembled, to prohibit the importation portation of any goods the growth product, or manufacture of any of the British Sugar Colonies into thefe United States, in British Chips; or to adopt any other mode of counteracting the defigns of Great Britain with refpect to the commerce of the Ufted States, fo long as the present restrictions fhall be continued on the part of Great Britain, Provided that this act all not be in force until all the other States in the union fhall have paffed fimilar laws. BROOKFIELD, March 30. This morning between the hours of fix and feven, it being cloudy, foggy, and mifty, and a mall breeze of wind from the eaft, it grew very dark and thundered. The cloud which was furcharged with the ele&rical matter feemed to pafs low, but very quick from west to eaft. A fmall shower of rain fell; at the beginning of which,the lightning ftruck the houfe of Mr. Jofiah Hobbs, of this town, and hattered it very much, and killed one of his fons, a young man in the 24th year of his age. It is probable the lightning fit Aruck the chimney, though the effects upon or near that, both on the outfide and the infide of the house, were but fmall. There were fcarce any difcernable traces from the top of the chimney to the bottom, yet near the fire place in the east room a board was burst off, and fome (plinters taken out of the middle of it; a confiderable quantity of foot and bits o' plaillering feil: and fome children in the room laid they faw the lightning come down the chimney. In the garret, on the oppofite fide of the chimDey, it might be traced almoft the whole length of the upper board in the roof, on the north side of the ridge pole, by a fmall furrow it made near the middle of the board, until it came to the outermost rafter or spar at the weft end, which extends down to the eaves of the kitchen on the north fide: This raiter was broken almoft in two near near the middle, and the lower part to the end fhivered to pieces, one half of it thrown into the chamber upon the floor: from this rafter it ran down on the outfide of a ftud (in which was a courfe of nails) at the weft end of the kitchen to the fill, rending off the boards and clap boards together with an entire window, frame and all, hi vering the ftud &e. At the fill it burft into a pantry or clofet, where. were a number of kitchen utenfils, of iron, &c. throwing things into diforder. From thence it paffed into the cellar making a hole at the bottom. It is to be observed, that in this northweft corner of the kitchen were depofited almof all the iron furniture: And directly over the aforementioned clofet near the foot of the demolished rafter, and nigh to where the moft violent effects were produced, lay a number of (cythes and other farming tools, together with a quantity of old iron. Contiguous to the closet a pair of back ftairs went up into the chamber, and landed near to where the shock was the moft violent. The young man had just opened the door at the foot of thofe fairs, in order to afcend them, when the flash came, and put an end to his life. Scarce any marks of the lightning were to be difcerned on his bodyor cloaths,excepting his right side, from his neck to his foot turned purple, almoft immediately, and the infide of his fhirt (which was woolen) was fomewhat fcorched; and no marks at all on the stairs, door, &c. where he was: But on the outfide of the roof the fhingles were ript off in a narrow but irregular courfe, from the end of the ridgepole to a point over these ftairs. There appeared not the leaft figns of life in the young man after he was fruck down, excepting a motion of his tongue, which very foon ceafed. H.s fitter, who was within a few yards of him, felt the greatest part of the day, a degree of numboefs in that fide, and a deafnefs in that ear next to which the fhock was. The reft of the family were providentially unhurt. Take ye heed, watch and pray, for ye know not when the time is. BOSTON, April 5. Extract of a letter, dated Paris, Sept. 10, 1783, figned John Adams, B. Franklin, and Jolih Jay. To Congrefs. We think we may rely on his (Mr. Hartley) doing every thing in his power to influence his Court, to do what they ought to do; but it does not appear they have as yet formed any settled fyftem for their conduct relative to the United States. We cannot sannot but think that the late, and prefent afpect of affairs in America, has had, and continues to have an unfavourable influence, not only in Britain, but through Europe. In whatever light the article refpecting the tories may be received in America, it is confidered in Europe as very humiliating to Britain, and therefore, one which we ought in honour to perform and fulfill, with the mofl fcrupulous regard and good faith, and in a manner leaft offenfive to the feelings of the King and Court of Great Britain, who upon that point are extremely tender. The unreasonable and unneceffary refolves of various towns, on this fubject, the actual expulfion of tories from fome places, and the avowed implacability of almoft all who have published their fentiments about the matter, are circumftances which are conftrued to the prejudice of our government. Popular committees are confidered here as with us, in the light of fubftitutes to conftitutional government, and as being only neceffary in the interval between the removal of the former, and the establishment of the prefent. The conftitutions of the different flates have been tranflated and publifhed, and pains have been taken to lead Europe to believe, that the American States, not only made their own laws, but obeyed them; but the continuance of popular affemblies, convened exprefly to deliberate on matters proper only for the Cognizance of the different legislatures and officers of government, and their proceeding, not only to ordain, but enforce their refolutions, has exceedingly leffened the dignity of the ftates in the eyes of these nations. Permit us to obferve, that in our opinion, the recommendation of Congrefs, promifed in the 5th article, fhould immediately be made in the terms of it, and published, and that the states fhould be requested to take it into confideration as foon as the evacuation by the enemy fhall be completed. It is also much to be wifhed that the legislatures may not involve all the tories in banishments and ruin; but that fuch difcriminations may be made, as to entitle the decifions to the approbation of difintereftsd men and difpaffionate pofterity." April 14. Several villains wore laft Saturday apprehended and committed to jail, for uttering counterfeit dollars in this town. The dollars are of the old ftamp, and dated 1768. They are well imitated; but the found will eafily denote them to be base metal. April 19: At a meeting of the Cenfors of the Maffachusetts Medical Society, on the 16th inftant, Mr. Mofes Willard, of this town, a Candidate for the practice of Phyfick and Surgery was examined, and approved. There is not, at the present moment, a nation in Europe, where literature and fcience are cultivated with greater ardour than in Ruffia. The youth of the Ruffian nobility travel for their improvement into Germany, France, and Great-Britain, refiding for years in each of these countries, at the most celebrated academies and univerfities, where they are generally allowed to diftinguish themTelves by their industry and application. It is the Emprefs that is the great foul of all this ardour, as proficiency in polite and useful knowledge is a fure road to her favour and protection. The Duke of Wirtembergh, whose family gave a Princess in marriage to the Grand Duke of Auftria, has established a univerfity in his dominions upon a plan, in the highest degree liberal and judicious. All the arts and fciences, every accomplishment neceffary to complete the characer of a gentleman and a foldier, is taught by the nobleft mafters. The Duke himfelf frequently visits his univerfity, and prefides in the Senatus Academicus. The ftri&teft difcipline is enforced, with military rigour, by military officers. There is an union, of the arma and toga. The ftudents are not left to fludy, or to amufe and diffipate themfelves as they please; but are compelled by every motive of ambition and emulation, to apply them felves with ardour to their ftudies. An Obituary for April, 1784, DIED, Laft month, at Machias, Dr. Tho mas Leverett, eldeft fon of Mr ThomasLeverett,late of this town, aged 27. the amiable confort of Mr. John WilApril 4. Mrs. Hannah Williams, kams, merchant, and daughter of the Late |