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is defpaired of. Still more exafperated by 
this defeat, the ftudents, to the number of 
#00* ,refolved to ftorm the guard-houfe the 
following day, and wreak their vengeance 
on: the; watchmen. The Profeflors were 
greatly alarmed at thefe riotous proceed- 
ings; and fent meffengers to the circum: 
}acent-places; to call in the dragoons 
quartered there to the proteétion of the 
city. Towards evening, feveral detach- 
ments of the dragoons actually halted be- 
fere theisgates-of the city: but the ftu- 
dents nowife intimidated by thefe prepa- 
Fationsy,proceeded, in the evening, to at- 
tack theguard-boufe. The dragcons gal- 
loped- with drawn {words into the city; 
which then had the appearance of a fort 
taken by-(torm, and given up to plunder. 
The-ttudents were at laft forced to defift, 
but\not before they had vented their rage 
again(t the windows and houfe of Profef- 
for ‘Meiners, to whom the police of the 
city has; for fome years been committed, 
and who;had taken a very aétive part in 
fupprefimg this tumult. Morethan four- 
teen of the ftudents were dangeroufly 
wounded, and fome of them will be 
cripples for: life. Many! will be exiled 
trom. the, Univerfity, and all their hopes 
of future happine{s and advancement blatt- 
ed forever :— 
Tantum unus Bruno potuit fuadere malorum. 
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: For the Monthly, Magazine. 
LETTER O# KENTUCKY, from MR. TOUL~ 
iOMING replying to certain QUERIES. 
TOSERS 
Hii really afhamed that IT have fo 
it Jong delayed replying to your letter 
dated Oétcber 15; 1800. That letter in- 
deed was not mtended for me, being di- 
re€ted to ‘* The Proprietor of the new 
Settlement ‘of Kentucky ;”” but no fuch 
man exifis: we are a country of land- 
holéers, and know no fuperior but the 
commonwealth, who, after portioning her 
pofieffions amorg her children, has fcarce- 
dy retained any for herfelf. Your atten- 
tion, no doubt, was drawn to this coun- 
try by fome large fpeculator in land, whofe 
name you have very happily forgotten, as 
in confe,uence of it you have probably 
efcaped fome great bargain, which you 
wouid have regretted all your life after. 
‘The direction on your letter being fo ge- 
* The whole aumber of ftudents at the 
Univerlity of Gottingen generaliy amounts to 
7.00. 
€ 
Letter on Kentucky, from Mr. Toulmin. 
f O&ober J 3 
neral probably occafioned its: being fent of 
to Frankfort, the feat of government in 
this ftate, where it was put into my 
hands by the pott-mafter,obierving,! fup- 
pofe, that it was from fome one of my 
countryrien ; and I feel a pleafure im at- 
tending toit; though I have been fo long 
in giving myfelf that pleafure. 
As you do not mention the parti¢ular 
trast of jand which excited your attention, 
I can of courfe give you no account of 
it. Indeed there is a tremendous rifk in 
purchafing ine England” lands~ lying in 
Kentucky. Information refpeéting the 
titles, which can be got. no where but on 
the fpot, is abfolutely neceflary. It may 
likewife be fubjeét to forfeiture, in confe- 
quence of its not having been entered for 
the payment of taxes; or, being entered, 
it may have been fold to:pay the taxes ac- 
cruing upon it. Landholders: refiding 
in England have fometimes agents at 
Philadelphia, or fome-other fea-port, who 
have no more ‘intercourfe ‘with Kentucky 
than the principals themfelves; others 
have no agents any» where. Hence the 
taxes are not paid; the owners are noti- 
fied by advertifement that their lands will 
be fold, but ‘they fee not the advertife- 
ment: they are expofed to fale: there are 
few bidders, and but little money; and 
no information relative to the title or the 
quality of the land; hence 5000 or pér= 
haps 10,000 -acres will be facrificed for 
too dollars, and poffibly the land be 
worth a dollar an acre, and poffibly no- 
thing atall. 225,000 acres of land, be- 
loaging to Mefirs, Brown, Embree, and 
others, will be advertifed to be fold next 
November, for 2775 dollars, being the 
amount of taxes due on the tract at this 
time, together with what will then be due. 
They live, I am told, in England, and 
there are many other Englifhmen in the 
fame ftuation. The land of fame is fold ; 
others may yet fave it by applying imme- 
diately to fome one in Kentucky, to pay 
their taxes, and authorifing them to draw 
for that purpofe. 
I will now proceed to anfwer your que- 
rics, and in my way will notice others 
propofed to me by another countryman, 
equally a ftranger to me with yourfelf, 
which may poffibly be interefting to you, 
or to fome of your friends, as well as to 
him. 
1. The Climate.—We have more rain, 
and lefs frot, than in many parts of Ame- 
ricae itis healthy and agreeable. Thus 
far we have not had this winter alteges 
ther three weeks of colder weather than 
we have in the Northof England in the 
month 
