s \ 
1800. | 
in through the medium of the houfe, or 
any houle, eftablifhed in London, as they 
will charge for commiffion: and you can 
not fo well avail yourfélf of the flu€@tua- 
tion in the ftocks. The beft way is to 
get a friend in America to draw upon you, 
when he thinks proper, by which means 
you get three months intereft, on account 
of the time which elapfes between drawing 
and prefenting the Bill. The interelt 
might be paid in the fame manner. 
This week a French privateer -brought 
into this port a Britifh veffel from Ircland, 
full ef paffengers; many of whom they 
have liberated. A vefiel from London 
came with feveral paflengers on. Saturday 
evening. 
A Dutch veffel came with Germans:a 
few days fince. I faw one hearty family, 
for whofe paflage a friend of mine paid 
feventy-two guineas.. The two old peo- 
pie were to be free; two daughters were 
to ferve three years, and three lads to be 
apprentices till of age. ‘This afternoon [ 
have preached for Dr. Allifon at the 
Prefbyterian church. 
Baltimore, OG. 6, 1793» 

LETTER VI. 
BEING at the houfe of Dr. Harfnipe, 
at Winchefter, in Maryland, on my. way 
from Winchefter, in. Virginia, to Phila- 
delphia and New York, and having jutt 
heard of a thip failing for Europe, which 
is to touch at Dover, and that there will 
be an opportunity of fending letters for her 
to Baltimore to-morrow, I am unwilling 
to lofe fo favourable an occafion of writing, 
though I wifh to write more at leifure, 
and mean to do fo, when I reach Phila- 
delphia. . 
rn ane * eae Ae # 
You will be pleafed to hear‘that I have 
a profpect of an eligible fettlement: an 
invitation was prefented to me, when in 
Kentucky, to become prefident of the 
Tranlylvania. college, eftablifhed at Lex- 
ington; a national feminary, and well 
endowed ; but hitherto little fought after 
or encouraged, having -been, indeed, no- 
thing but a mer¢.grammar-fchool, with 
twelve or fourteen fcholars; but the’ 
truftees are anxious to render it refmeCable ; 
and, fhould-it flourith, there will, in a 
year or two, be an opening for a lecturer 
in the Hebrew and divinity department, 
and you will eafily guefs to whom filial 
‘affeCtion would induce me to wifh to direé& 
the attention of the truftees, could he be 
prevailed upon to think of it. 
It is a moft rich and fourtihing country, 
Monruty Mas, No. 60. 
Letters from Mr. Toulmin of Kentucky. 
549 
and fettled with very refpectable »men. 
Lexington contains twelve /or fourteen 
hundred inhabitants, being a well buile 
town, nearly the fize of Wellington *. 
The inhabitants increafe very faft. From 
five to eight hundred new plantations were 
opened laft year in one county. There 
are from too to 120,000 inhabitants inthe 
whole ftate. Land of the beft quality, 
and in fituations as {afe from the Indians 
as Taunton, may be had from feven 
fillings and fixpence to thirty fhillings 
fterling per acre. A man wiil clear any 
quantity to have it rent-free three or four 
years. Dr, ————-— might be cértain of 
fufficient employment,.as a phyfician, if 
introduced by fome eminent medical pro- 
feflor. Living is cheaper than in any 
other country. Beef and mutton, one 
penny te two-pence per pound fterling. 
Manufagtured articles dear; but may be 
annually had from Philadelphia and Balti- 
more. ‘Houfe-building moderate; . but 

houfe-rent high, on account of the great~- 
intereft expected for money. My falary 
is to be from £100 (£75 fterling), one half 
of the tuition fees (£2 the half, value _ 
thirty Mhillings fterling, per pupil) and the 
ufe of 400 acres of the beft land, two , 
miles from Lexington, having thirty or 
forty acres cleared. Iam befides promifed 
(at leaft for one-year) £60 (£45 fterling) 
per annum, for preaching once on the 
Sunday. Should you be difpofed to let 

my fteward at once, as i muft either fell 
‘my land or have fome one to take care of 
wt: and I fhould like to have two or three 
lads, twelve or fourteen years old, to be 
bound as parifh-apprentices to twenty-one. 
We have a poft to and from.Philadelphia 
once a fortnight. ‘There is a packet-boat 
up and down the Ohio, from Kentucky to 
Pittfburg, once a fortniglit. I went. to 
Kentucky in November and returned to 
Winchefter March the 8th. 
Imight have mentioned, that there wer 
fome difficulties thrown in the way of my 
election by fome of the truftees, relations 
of the prefent prefident; who wifhed to 
give him the chance of another year, fliould 
he defire to continue, though he has been 
talking of refisning for fome time. I 
have every reafon, however, to believe 
that my election cannot be revoked; 
though in any cafe I fhould have fufacient 
encouragement on my own ground: hav- 
ing already the promife of feveral pupils ;_ 
, — 4 
* Seven miles from Taunton in Somerfet- 
fhire, : 
4B one 
come, you fee, Ican make him * 
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