234 



Pendulum for ascertaining Time in Miific [Oct. 1, 



fame bafis of population with the hift, 

 there is eviTv iTalbn to believe thiit liute 

 will return twelve members. 



(Jhio, which at the lall enumeration 

 poflellcd i)ut 4 2,179 iiihabirauts, it is not 

 dotibteii will at tJKit period have upwards 

 of 200,000 citizens. 



Ivor are the luiiptonis of profperity 

 coniiiied ti> the. \\eliern Country. Our 

 filheries are becoming every day more 

 and more important, in June, HiOl, 

 out of 1;),'C vell'els at that time lilhing on 

 the Hanks of Nevvfuundland, 1U23 be- 

 longed to citizens of tiie llale of Malla- 

 (liuietts alone. In October <jf that year 

 the little lown of rortlanri, in tlie diltrict 

 of Maine, in that ftate, ariually poHelVed 

 11 tons of fliipjiing for e\ cry inhabitant 

 ' It contained, exelufive of velfcls building. 

 Thele facls may enalilc you fomcvvhat to 

 judi;e of our olTenfiv« powers, lliould 

 they be forced into action. 



Our imports from Great Britain and 

 li€r dependencies are very great, and 

 yearly increafmg. One velVel brou;,'ht 

 from J'lnslanfl to New-Yfirk, and depofit- 

 ed in the poll-ollire there, at one time in 

 the year lUOl, as n.any letters as produ- 

 ced to the poil-ofiicc edablilhment of the 

 United States upwards of 600 dollars. 

 In that year the weidit of the letters 

 which pafled through the poft-oilice of 

 the city of Walhinglon was eftimated at 

 upwards of 800,000lbs. TI.e increafe of 

 this eftabliflmicnt, and of eomfe of the 

 commerce and intercourfe of our coun- 

 try, may be calcubted by the following 

 farts, tii.it about \.> years buck, when 

 Mr. Pickering was poli-nialter-gencral, 

 the number of poft-otlices in the L'nitcd 

 .States was but lj6 : there are at this 

 hour l.'iT?. Our mails were then not 

 carried more than 2700 miles : now that 

 benefit is extended upwards of S.T.OOO 

 miles ; and the actual products of the 

 poll-olVices in either Xew-Vork or Phila- 

 delphia exceed the produc'ts of all the 

 oliiccs of the United biates during Mr. 

 Pickering's adminiftrat ion. 



Uncurfed hitherto with wars, oiu' male 

 population is calculated to exceed tlie fe- 

 Bialc at the rate of 100 of the foimer to 

 9(j of the latter. 



Thei'c are upwards of ."iOO newfpapers 

 publiftied in the Pnited States ; and it is 

 fupi>oled each paper averages 2000 read- 

 «'rs. And can fuch a people be expect- 

 ed to fubmit to injultioe .'' Will they not 

 rather prefer onen war to " war in dif- 

 guife?" J)eteftmg war as I do, yet I 

 hiive no Lciltation to fay they ought. 



Our national income daily increafes 

 and becomes Icfs dependent on com- 

 merce ; for as our population incrirafes, 

 fo does the demand for the v\ellern hauls 

 of the Unitcil Slates. In the year ««nd- 

 ing tiie ;jOth of June, 1800, t'hofe fales 

 produced only 121,000 dolhus. In the 

 year ending on thy fame day in 1801, 

 they produced 170,200 dollars : and in 

 the year which ended on the oOthoflali: 

 June, the fales yielded 2(36,000 dollars, 



.Such, Sir, are the rapid advances to 

 manhood making by the young giant of 

 the Well : cauie liiin not, I pray you, to 

 put on his armour ; for his anger will 

 be fierce, his wrath delliTictive. 



Tlie above facts are put together in a 

 very defultory manner. If, however, 

 thu inferences I have adduced are at- 

 tended to, thev may lead a country I 

 elteem, (for I was educated in her bo- 

 foin,) wliich contains a father I reve- 

 rence, and many friend.s that I love, to 

 adopt towards this, the faiieft feat of li- 

 berty and political hap|)inefs the world 

 ever witnelVed, a conduct, mild, concilia- 

 tory, and lionell, — fuch as will fecure her 

 our affection, and thereby nearly a mono- 

 poly of our traile. Britain, by fuch con- 

 duct, would become a depofit of our 

 wealth, and every increafe of our popula- 

 tion would increafe her commercial and 

 manufacturing importance, duplicate her 

 refourtes, and confcquently, on the fureli 

 balls, augment her power. 



I remain, Sir, refpettfuUy yours, 



11. Din MOKE. 

 Almindria, April 25, 1800. 



To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 



SIR, 



CIIAXCE has thrown into my way a 

 Collection of Sonatinas for the Pia- 

 no-ti»rte by IMclVrs. John and William 

 Crotch, which I mention on account of 

 their having prefi.xed to each niovcmpiit 

 the length of a pendulum proper to vi- 

 brate the qiiavei-s or crotchets of that 

 movement, and referring for further in- 

 formation to fome remarks on that fub- 

 }(tt in your Magazine for January, 1800. 

 J acknowledge that at the firll imprellioii 

 I readily conceived, and experiment has 

 convinced me, that it may be applied 

 with great utility to point out to perfor- 

 mers the true time deligncd by the com- 

 pofer, if he would adopt the plan of pla- 

 cing at the head of each movement the 

 length of the pendulum requiicd to raea- 

 fiire the duration of the quaver, crotchet, 

 or bar. But, I thiiik the idea may be 

 much. 



