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pendent.- Resolutions to tbis effect 
were passed on the 19th of May, more 
than thirteen months before the decla- 
ration of independence by the Con- 
gress, and ted were on the same day 
publicly ‘proclaimed, “amidst! the 
shouts and huzzas of a large assembly 
of people.” ‘The second and™third 
resolves, contained in the De¢iaration, 
will afford a good specimen of the 
spirit by which the whole was charac- 
terized. 
“Resolved, That we, the citizens of 
Mecklenburg county, do hereby dissolve 
the political bands which have connected 
‘us to the mother country, and hereby 
absolve ourselves from. all allegiance to 
tle British crown, and abjure all political 
connexion, cuntract, er association, with 
that nation, which has wantonly trampled 
on our rights and liberties, and inhumanly 
shed the innocent blood of American 
patriots at Lexington. 
Resolved,’ That we do hereby declare 
ourselves'a free'and independent people ; 
are; aud of right onght to be, a sovereign 
and self-governing association, under the 
control of no power, other than that of 
God, and the general government of the 
Congress; to the maintenance of which in- 
dependence we solemnly pledge to each 
oer bs mutnal co-operation, our lives, 
our fortunes, and our mast sacred honour, 
—The resolutions forming the decla- 
ration of independence were drawn up 
by Dr. Ephraim Brevard. 
picN MR. COKE. 
In Young’s ‘‘Survey of Norfolk,” 
page 19, we have the following account 
of the improvements of this celebrated 
agriculturist, | 
“In the specics of building pro- 
7 Ms ahd a to an agricultural 
report, greater exertions have, L be- 
lieve, been made in Norfolk than in 
any other county in the kingdom. One 
landed proprietor, Mr. Coke, has 
expended above 100,000/. in farm 
houses and offices; very many of them 
éyected ‘in a‘ style much superior to 
the houses usually assigned for the re- 
Sidence of ichants; and it gives me 
pleasure to’ find all that 1 viewed fur- 
nished by his farmers in a manner 
ewhat proportioned to the costli- 
fiéss ‘Of the edifices. When men can 
i “afford such exertions, they are 
ce dinly commendable. 
“One? of Mr. Coke’s barns at 
Holkham is built in a superior style: 
120 fect long, 30 broad, and 30 high; 
nd surrounded with sheds for sixty 
healt of cattle : itis capitally executed 
ju White brick, ahd covered with fine 
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blue slate. Af Syderstone be has 
built another enormous barn, with 
stables, cattle sheds, hog-sties,, shep- 
herd’s and bailiff’s houses, ,sarround- 
‘ing a large quadrangular yard, like- 
wise ina, style of expense rarely met 
with, &c. In all Mr. Coke’s new 
barns, and other offices, he has sul- 
stituted milled lead for ridge-tiles to 
the roofs, which is far more fasting. 
and ithe means of escaping the common 
accidents, in raising.a heavy ladder on 
tiling, in order to replace a sidge- 
tile blown off, 
“For :all Jocks, ‘particularly in 
stables, and other offices, Mr. Coke 
has found those with copper wards 
much more durable than any others. 
The front edge of his own mangers 
are rollers covered with tin, the man- 
gers themselves are plated with iron; 
and the bottoms of the stall fences 
are of slate. All these circumstances 
are found very economical in duration. 
“Mr. Coke hasat Holkham a brick 
manufactory, which ranks very high 
among the first in the kingdom; bricks 
in allsorts of forms are made, so that, 
in raising an edifice, there is never 
-a necessity for breaking a whole brick 
to have a smaller of a very imperfect 
Shape, which takes time, aud creates 
waste: cornice, round column, cor- 
ner, arch bricks, &c. are made in 
great perfection.” / ' 
DUKE OF ORLEANS, 
This is not the only French prince 
of this name who has been in Exeland; 
for, not to mention his own father, who 
came over here in 1790 and 1791, on 2 
diplomatic mission, Charles duke of 
Orleans and Milan, nephew of Charles 
the Sixth of ‘France, and father to 
ouis the Twelfth, visited this country. 
He had been ‘taken prisoner at the 
batile of Agincourt, on the 25th of 
October, 1415, and ‘detained’ as a 
prisoner during twenty-five, years,— 
the greater part of which period’ was 
spent in a modated mansion‘at Groom- 
bridge, in Suss¢x,— ws 
Where captur’d banners way'd -beneath 
the roof, PAO a ; 
To taunt the royal Troubadour of Gaul. _ 
He.is mentioned: among. the ‘Royal 
and Noble Authors”) of Lord Oxford, 
and an. entire new article bas| been 
given, concernimyg him, by Mr. Parke, 
in his, new edition of five volumes, 
octavo, , He appears to have attained 
a knowledge of the English language 
during his long and rigorous confine- 
ment. 
