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Prefident of the United States, and to bring 
him into contempt and difrepute, and to ex- 
cite againft him the hatred of the good people 
of the United States, on the 2d of Novem- 
ber, 1799, in the diftriGt aforefaid, and wi:h- 
in the jurifdietion of this court, wickedly and 
maliciouily did write, print and publifh a 
falfe, fcandalous and malicious writing a- 
gainft the faid Prefident of the United States, 
of the tenox and effe& following, that is to 
fay :—** Nor do I (himfelf the f2id Thomas 
‘Cooper meaning) fee afiy impropriety in 
making this requeft of Mr. Adams: (mean- 
ing John Adams, efg. Prefident of the United 
States} at that time he had juft entered into 
office, he (meaning the faid Prefident of the 
United States) was hardiy in the infancy of 
political miftake: even thofe who doubted 
his capacity (meaning the capacity of the 
faid Prefident of the United States) thought 
well of his (meaning the faid Prefident of the 
United States) intentions. And alfo the 
falfe, fcandalous and malicious words of the 
tenor and effe&t following, that is to fay:— 
Nor were we (meaning the people of the 
United States) yet faddied with the expence 
ofa permanent navy, or threatened under his 
{meaning the faid Prefident) aufpices with 
the exiftence of a ftanding army. Our credit 
{meaning the credit of the United States) was 
not yet reduced fo low as to borrow money at 
eight per cent, in time of peace, while the 
unneceffary violence of official expreiiions 
might juftly have provoked a war. 
And alfo the falfe, fcandalous and malici- 
ous words of the tenor and effeé following, 
that is to fay:—Mr. Adams (meaning the 
faid Prefident of the United States) had not yet 
projeéted his (the faid Prefident of the United 
States meaning) embaffies to Pruffia, Ruffia 
and the Sublime Porte, nor had he (the faid 
Prefident of the United States meaning) yet 
interfered, as Prefident of the United States, 
to influence the decifions of acourt of juftice— 
a ftretch of authority which the monarch of 
Great Britain would have fhrunk from—an 
interference without precedent, againit law, 
and againft mercy. ‘This melanchely cafe of 
Jonathan Robins, a native citizen of America, 
forcibly imprefled by the Britifh, and deli- 
verted up with the advice of Mr. Adams 
(meaning the faid Prefident of the United 
States) to the mock trial of a Britifh court- 
martial, kad not yet aftonifhed the republi- 
can citizens of this free country; (meaning 
the United States of America) a cafe too lit- 
the known, but of which tie people (meaning 
the people of the faid United States of Ame- 
rica) ought to be fuliy apprized before the 
eleQtion, and they fhall be,”*—to the great 
fcandal of the Prefident of the United States 
—to the evil example of others in the like 
cafe offending againt the form of the a& of 
the congrefs of the United States in fuch cafe 
made and provided, and againft the peace and 
dignity of the faid United States. 
J. Buyers, efq. W.Raw Le, Att.Gen. 
Witnefs, 
“SLDWELLe 
Litercry and Phibfophical Intelligence. 
[ Sept. 1, 
Mr. Cooper condufted his own defence 
ina very fpirited and independent manner. 
The jury found him guilty, and the court 
fentenced him to pay a fine of 400 dollars, 
to be imprifoned for fix months, and at 
the end of that period to find furety for 
his good behaviour, himfelf in 1000 dol- 
lars, and two fureties in 500 dollars each ! 
The Britifh reader will not wonder that 
the popularity of Mr. Apams fhould be 
en the decline in the United Sates, and 
that Mr. Jerrerson fhould have the 
greater chance, at the pending eleétion, 
of being raifed tothe fiiuaticn of Pre- 
fident. 
CHEMICAL EXPERIMENTS afd OBSERVA- 
TIONS on the EXTRACTION Of SUGAR and 
SIRUP from INDIGENOUS PLANTS, dy 
SIGISM. HEN. HERMBSTADT. 
From the chemical analyfis of vegetable 
fubftances, and the knowledge of their cons 
fiituent and other particles contained and 
mixed with them, it is fufficiently evident 
that the Ea@ and Weft Indies are not the only 
countries provided by nature with faccharine 
plants; but faccharine matter is abundantly 
found in other produ@ions of the vegetable 
kingdom, and it only requires an affidvous 
examination to point out thofe vegetables from 
which it may be moft copioufly and in the 
leaft expenfive way obtained. 
Among the plants hitherto examined, none 
deferve to be ranked fo near the true fugar- 
cane as the whole genus of maple trees, and 
of thefe, particularly the fugar and filver 
maple, Acer faccharinum, and A Dafycare 
pon Ebrh: Both trees have been ufed for there 
fifty years, to obtain fugar from them (a), 
which inthe laft eight years has proved to 
be particularly profitable. (6) By my own 
experiments, which J have repeatedly made 
fince the winter of 1796, I found out, that 
from all fpecies of maples fugar may be, 
with more or lefs profit, obtained, and that 
the fugar and filver maples, growing even in 
Germany, though not in the beft foil, give 
avery good raw fugar, noc inferier to the 
belt Wet india cane fugar, and which Is got 
fo cheap, that a pound of it will come no 
higher than 18 or 20 pfennige, or about two- 
pence halfpenny, and- only a grofben, or a 
penny, when inftead of charcoal common 
coal or turfare employed for boiling the juice, 
and particularly when the operation is made 
upon a large fcale, as one labourer is able to 
attend soo trees during the period of tapping 

(2) An Account of a fort of fugar made of 
the juice of maple, in Canada. Philofophi- 
cal Tranfaf&tions No. 171.—Kaim, in the 
Tranfaétions of the Royal Swedifh Academy 
of Sciences, year 1751.—Memoires fur le 
fucre d’Erable ufité dans le Canada, in Nou- 
vel Gicon. Hitt. 1757. 
(4) Notices fur 1Erable a fucre des Etats 
Unis, et fur le moyens d’en extraine le fucres 
&c. par M. Ruth, in Rozier’s Obfervations 
furla Phyfigue, &c. T. xli, Paris, 1792. 
them 
