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neceflary funds will be on hand, and without 
employment. I fuppofe an amendment to 
the conftitution by confent of the States ne- 
ceftiry 3 becaufe the objects now recommended 
are not among thofe enumerated in the con- 
ftitution, and to which it permits the public 
monies to be applied, 
The prefent confideration of a national efta- 
blifhment for education particularly, is ren- 
dered proper by this circumftance alfo, that, 
if Congrefs, approving the propofition, ithall 
yet think it more eligible to found it ona do- 
nation of lands, they have it now in their 
power tu endow it with thofe which will be 
among the earlieft to produce the neceflary 
income. ‘This foundation would have the 
advantage of being independent on war, 
which may fufpend other improvements, by 
requiring for its own purpofe the refourfes 
deftined far them. 
' This, fellow citizens, is the ftate of the 
public interefts, at the prefent moment, and 
according to the information now poffeffed. 
But fuch is the fituation of the nations oi Eu- 
rope, and fuch too is the predicament in which 
we {land with fome of them, that we cannot 
rely with certainty on the prefent afpect of 
our affairs, that may change trom moment to 
monient, during the courfe of your fefMion, 
or after you fhall have feparated Our duty 
is therefore to aét upon thefe things as they 
are, and to make a reafonab'e provifion for 
whatever they may be. Were armics to be 
_yaifed whenever a fpeck of war appeared in 
our horizon, we never fhould have been with- 
out them. Our refources would have been 
exhaufted on dangers which have never hap- 
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pened, imftead of being referved for what is 
really to take place. A fteady, perhaps a 
quiskened pace, in preparation for the de- 
fence -of our fea-port towns and waters, an 
early fettlement of the molt expofed and vul- 
nerable parts of our country, a militia fo orga. 
nifed that its efteétive portions can be called 
to any point in the union, or volunteers in- 
ftead of them, to ferve a futhcienc time, are 
means which may always be ready, yet never 
preying on our refources until actually called 
into ule) They will maintain the public ine 
terefts, while a more permanent force tha!l be 
in a courfe of preparation. But much will 
depend on the promptitude with whcih théfe 
means can be brought into activity. If war 
be forced upon us, in fpite of our long and 
vain appeals to the juftice of nations, rapid 
and vigorous movements in its outfet, will go 
far towards fecuring us in its courfe and iffue, 
and towards throwing its burthens on thofe 
who render neceflary the refort from reafom 
to force. 
The refult of our negotiations, or fuch in- 
cidents in their courfe as may enable us to in- 
fer their probable iffue; fuch further move- 
ments alfo, on our weftern frontier as may 
fhew whether war is to be prefled there, 
while negotiation is protracted elfewhere, 
thall be communicated to you from time to 
time, as they become knuwn to me; with 
whatever other information I may poffefs or 
may receive, which may aid your deliberations 
on the great national interefts committed to 
your charge. : 
THOMAS JEFFERSON 
INCIDENTS, MARRIAGES axp DEATHS tn and near LONDON, 
With Biographical Memoirs of diftinguifhed Characters recently decased. 
TE 
GRAND fuite of apartments, upon a mag- 
*"~ nificent fcale, has been recently erected 
in Argyle-ftreet, for the laudable purpoie of 
rendering the amufements of the rich and 
great conducive to the intereft of the Fine 
Arts, and the Profeffors of Scien¢e and Tatte. 
At thefe rooms, an afiembly of perfons of rank 
and dift nétion is to be formed, for a certain 
number of nights in the feafon, with perform- 
ers calculated to gratify a tafteful audience. 
A fet. a: apartments, fitted up for the har- 
monic dinners of their Roval Highnefies the 
Prince of Wales and the Duke of Cambridge, 
are to be opened, daily, for the ufe of.a Belles 
Lettres Society, which is about to be efta- 
blifhed at this place, compofed of gentlemen 
who patronize the Fine Arts. In other fets 
of rooms, all the Daily Papers, Magazines, 
and interefting publications, will be found, 
for the ufe of the ladies and gentlemen, fub- 
fcribers to the inftitution. This plan, though 
adopted at all the principal places on the Con- 
tinent, is entirely new to this metropolis, 
and is fomewhat fimilar to the fub{cription- 
rooms at the watering-places ; except, indeed, 
that in the prefent eftablifhment, the mot 
fcrupulous care will be adopted to preferve a 
very feleét company, and fuch artifts as are 
defirous of expofing to critical examination 
fuperior works of fkill, on application to the 
Committee, will have their wifthes gratified, 
as gentus and talent, of every detcriptiony 
will here find encouragement and fupport. 
This eftablifhment will differ eflentially froma 
any other in Landon, and embraces a greater 
variety of objects or public utility and amufe- 
ment. Great judgment has been dilplayed in 
the arrangement o: the building ; the ceilings 
and walls of which are emblematically painte 
ed and decorated, in a very duperior manner. 
A handfome orcheiira, which occupies one 
end of the large room, is io contrived, as to 
be convertivle, in two hours, into an elegant 
little ftage, fuificiently capacious for al] the 
purpofes of privaye theatricals. At the other 
end, boxes are conftructed for the uie of his 
Royal Higinefs the Prince of Wales, their 
Royal Highnefes the Dukes of York, Suffex, 
and Cambridge, who are tubfcribers and pa- 
trons to the fubicription parties. This infti- 
tution, which promifes to unite refinement 
with amufement, and utility with tafte, is al- 
ready fupported by a numerous lift of the firft 
rank and character in the kingdom. 
The 
