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loyalty, and patriotifm. Whilft you are 
eheared with this reflection, Sir, under 
the unfounded charge which has been ad- 
vanced again‘t your paper by the Rev. 
Stafford Smith, you will, we doubt not, 
partake in the fatisfa€tion which we and 
the public of this city muf neceffarily 
experience from the conviction, that the 
. pretenfions of the Rev. Charles Daubeny 
tothe COMMAND OF THE BATH PAPERS, 
are never likely to be realized,—you will 
unite with us in thanking Providence 
that the principles of the conftitution, and 
the laws of the realm, have fufiiciently 
fecured the INDEPENDENCE OF THE 
PRESS: that ne individual (not even the 
Archdeacon of Sarum) can affume the 
COMMAND of thole vehicles of inform- 
ation, thofe guardians of morality, and 
thofe watchmen of liberty, the Puspiic 
Papers; and that they are fill both au- 
thorized and willing to hold up to the 
_ contempt, odium, and repiobation of the 
‘world, any practices that may bring dif- 
houbin: on religion, or injure t the intere(ts 
oi moraliiy. We are, with efteem, Sir, 
Your obedient fervants, 
W. FALCONER. 
Tuomas FaLconer, 
RicHARD WARNER. 
Bai, 3th Dec. 1805. 
“Sh, Of Fete, 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SPR 
AVING condu&ed my readers acrofs 
Hi the line which feparates Maryland. 
from Penolylvania, I flatter myfelf ¥ thail 
not trefpals much on ‘igo room, oh their 
leifure, if I induige nee elf in a few. re- 
marks on the ftates* which I have left. 
Maryland, originally a proprietary go- 
vernment, 1s divided from Virginia, fora 
coniiderable length of country, by the 
river Potomak. It is allo divided isto 
two irregular divifiens, catled the Eattern 
and Weilern Shores. by the Chefapeak. 
In each sivifion there are very many 
wealthy pianters. The eaftern civifion is 
low and flat, 
pecially as a grazing country. The reads 
ale very pieafant to travel upon, being 
perfectly level. It is deeply indented by 
numerous ange and navigadle rivers, 
whch, connecting with the Chefapeak, 
_ are_well fupphied with fith ; among which, 
* Strictly fpeaking, I had only ~paffed 
through one ftate, viz. that of Maryland ; 
Alexandria was formerly a-part of Viens 
but now of the diftrict of Columbia. 
Obfervations in a Tour through the United Statese 
‘faid fo: if he did, 
but is very productive, ef- 
[Febo ey; 
in the feafon, the foft hell crab is the 
greateft delicacy. Thefe lowlands being 
often covered with waters, which on their 
fuhfidence are operated upon by a burn- 
ing fun, too frequently fubjeét the inha- 
bitants to all the various grades of fever, 
from a fimple intermittent to a highly 
bilious fever. Hence the eaftern fhove of 
Maryland may be confidered as unhealthy, | 
partictlatly to new fettlers. Hence aifo 
thofe myriads of mui paar whofe in- 
fernal hum, far worfe than their bite, 
chafes fleep from the eyes of the weary 
traveiler.” Some of thefe plagucs are very 
large, and are called gally-nippers, and 
thele ‘bite very feverely. They will not 
however juttify what is lerioufly afferted by 
Mr. Weld, in his Traveis through the 
United States, that General Wafhington 
had affured him that in the higher parts of 
New York they would bite through a 
boot. I cannot believe the General ever 
he muft have feen the 
difpofition that gentleman had to flarder 
our country, and therefore mentioned it 
as a trial how far his prejudices would 
induce him to credit fuch an affertion. 
Few authors have difolayed more preju- 
dices than Mr. Weld againft this country; 
and yet his book contains many faéts, 
though ag hte to fuit his own views. 
Although i in the weftern fore of Mary- 
Jand there are (ome marfhy grounds, par- 
ticularly near the mouths of rivers, yet, 
generally {peaking, the country is hilly: 
and picturefque. No country in the world 
can afford a greater variety of beautiful 
views than that which we are now {peaking 
of. The great inland fea of the Chefa, 
peak is very nearly furrousded by Virginia 
and Maryland. The Potomak, and Iam 
told all the other great rivers which empty 
into the Chelapeak, are full of fifh; yet 
itis a faét that the tables in Alexandria, 
George Town, -and Wathington,-are not 
regularly fupplied therewith. Fifh-oil 
might be procured in immenfe quantities 
from the Potomak fifth. On *he Sunday 
preceding the day I left home, 1 was told 
thar in ong fingle draught of the seine 
there were caught, oppofite to Alexandria, 
130,000 heitings : tois, although I did 
not witnefs, I believe, as it was not men- 
tioned as a very extraordinary matter. 
The Potomak fupphes us with fhad, rock 
(which I chink very good), and’ eels ‘m 
great pleniy. Sturgeon are very plentiful, 
though not at ail r- gapded“here;. though 
you: in. Evgiand kaow what: a/delicac 
they gre when nicely pickled) We have 
vail abandance of oyfters, awhich fell from 
one-fourth 
