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Marker I have frequently contemplated with emotion^ of astonishment and regret, the lavish exultation &nd j>rOud complacency "with which our fellow citizens of the United States dwell' upon the prosperous Condi tion of the republic, as it now stands, while they ? scarcely threw away a thought upon its future des -^ttnierror, if they do think of the object at all, seem insensible to the dangers which already threaten Co beset it, and regard wicft \an in difference hard to be accounted for, the momentous, indeed awful ques tion of its eventual durability or dc ~csy~.~ tuxuriaring in the t harms of froedom, independence, plenty, even to abundance, and the consci ousness of a state of earthly felicity before unknown a^d scarcely ima gined? they dance and pipe, and tu4$a the ring of enjoyment, e*riL tOiatiety, filled With con fi dence almost puerile, and puffed up in *5 perfect security of the perman ence 6f the blessings they now en joy as if along with them Frovi-j dence had vouchsafed to this repub lic, a privilege denied to all sublu nary things* arid wanted it a* ex emjHion troifi dfewftditions and ca* value* annexed^ eve y tenure on this'Aide of ctei riity ? from the ra vages vof" hum ah vice, from the en ?croacfftnent ot" accidenc, and from the outrages of time. ? With an apathy which nothing but short sighted ignorance, or the intoxica tion so otpnbjconjcquent t^ Jkuerne prosperity, could, redeem from sen* tence of guilt, they look heedlessly on, while the seed? of ddWnfal, long sown in our sociajfr)iabic& are spring ing around them, 8c growing up with baleful luxuriance in the rising man 'Iiers and ruliftg orincioles of the 'tUnes. The Ristorpof the world lyiag^>peii4>efot^them, ^where they may see written the sad, but inevi table fate of all past nations, they shut their eyes against the instruc tion it contains, and while ic pro claims in oqc uniform, unabating tone of language, that luxury is :hc fatal gulph in whieh the most proud And prosperous nations of the earth have terminated their career, and from which, not one that it had ev er grasped, was afctrwaids safely extricated, they gallop forward in that course with the blind ardor of youthful infatuation, every day ad vance nearer and nearer to the verge of the abyss and mSst . erelong, if not arrested in their progress, reach that point where the intensity of the attraction being too powerful ^fbr human resistence, thcty will be dragged along by it, a$d, yogether their republic, sink as all others have done, tmo irremidiable destruction* That the greatest ealamir/ that can befall a nation it the introduc tion of luxury among its people, especially When it becomes genet ai mid is carried to such a length that individuals either muse live beyond their means or incur the censure of meanness 2 and that its consequen ces are peculiarly dangerous to re publics, has been so fully and fre quently demonstrated by the experi ence of ages, that one might rea sonably suppose few were so igno rant as not to understand the wet. Tec, the manners of the times en counter that supposition* Aipea _ lit <*f every emasculating s-k Ivcfrjrvdegrading ^ani V -jweenin^ covetousness t>f money rp be lavished tn saucy aristocratic parade, insolent stateti* tiett, ostentatious finery a id splen dor, and sensual gratification, hive fastened Hke a deadly epidemic not only on those wealthier persons Of pride and fashion, who give the tone to our general manners, but on the inferior tribes? -cheir servile im itators, who without property to support, ape their vanity, and at the expcncc of the domestic rom forts, their family's food, -and the pockets of those who trust them, I follow their bad example, increasing by their number the mass of conta ! gion, and poisoning, by their ex ' ample again, the manners and prin I ciple> or those below them, down even to the negro slave, where the plague stops only for want of a sub jectof a subordinate condition to be acted upon. This certainly in dicates a total forgeifulness of all that had been tau^h? upon Lie sub ject* or else an entire or radical ig norance of man and His hist^rv. It therefore becomes ihe duty of those who assume the superintettdancc of the moral and political press, to in ter-pose in time) and, if possible, rouse the people to a sense of the danger, and to a recollection of those historical facts which, as they bear upon this momentous con cern, ought to be plaGcd prominent ly in the general view, in order the more effectually to serve as a bea con UMiarn off the thoughtless and unsuspecting ^Vith this view i propose to o& for you for publication in your val Itle paper, some rematks from ie to time, which though neglect- I by die sluggish mopes of fashion, | derided by the obstinate devotees of vanity and Vice, sneered at by the fair slaves of the toilet, and cursed as an illiberal bore by the swaggering intemperate coxcombry of the land-*? though they shpuid be hooted by the whole bodv of taylors, mi/Ii . erv, and mantua^-ma1 kers ? railed at by the formi labJe corps of liquor vender*, keepers of taverns* buaard tables and bro thels? and in shore, aiu hemauzed by the whole tribe who feed and j fatten on the vices, foUiest sensuali ty, vanity and luxury of che upstart ed monied aristocracy of the uni on, and their more contemptible imitators, will rcccivc the assent and approbation of all the wise, tiie well informed, and the virtuous men who read them. I am aware tft.-ac in the course of my intended lucubrations, I shall run the risk of kurcing the feelings of some, and of clashing violently with the pre possesions of others ; that T shall have to contend with the vanity and seW-lovc of the far greater part of ycftjr reader s,^nd above all, %ith that c convenient creed whic^9 for want of a better, (he disciples of fashion and sensu~ ality, high and low, have borrowed from the Epicureans, so well ex pressed by thc most brilliant mem* berof the sect,* Horace 2 Safiiaa j vina liquet% et ?fiaeio krrvi Sficm ionium retecea dum iotjuimur% fu~ invida Oeta ? ; ear fie Diem , quam minium credu/a fio*tero. So says the favorite of Moecenas and the adul&tOr of Octaviu* ** a moral sentiment which Gay puts, but in less elegant terms* into the mouth of his highwayman hero Macheath. 1 shall not, however, be deterred by such obstructions I am not one of those bland reform ers, who, like Pope's courtly Dean, "never mention hell to ears polite/' Nay, I think that by so much the more acutely as my observations shall be felt, by so much the mor<T evident will appear the propriety of urging them, and the more effi cacious too, will be their operation In such cases *e verity is mercy*? When, not merely the cause of vjr tut and domestic morality, but the Fecur^g^y^ermanence of the that ever on this globe, with the evil, be criminal. To w when an alarm ought VKgt and whett tlnrs ought to be extorted from mi&chievdua folly and vice, would, indeedt be ImJiti cumsacrts. No : they mast be 1rcld up as objects of reprobation ? JL it it ? well known fuel that ?lr Wrf It am fonti eouW not patiently efktahr to hear the epithet of AuguMu* prostituted '?? 'he appropriation of it to thia onprinei pi* $ and mean character. to and s<re>-n, m to ethers. 44 To lau^hevtn at fools," says a distinguished modern critic and po e:, 4< is superfluous ; if they under stand you, they wiiljoin in the mer riment? *but more commonly they ytUl sit Vrith vacant unconcern, and gaze at their own pictures. To laugh at the vicious is to encourage them ; jbr there is in such meiL __ ^wilfulness ? of ? disposition ia|hich prompts them to bear up against a shaflie, and to sh< w how littles t regard slight reproofs by becoming more audacious in baseness. Good ness, of which the characteristic is modesty v may, 1 fear, be ashamed j but vice, like folly, to be restrained^ must be overawed." In the course of my remark*, 1 intend to adduce historical exidence to demonstrate that luxury has been the common cause, without a sin gle exception to the contrary, of the fall of all the republics but those of switfcerlind,*' With this sin guter additional prooT to warrant my conclusion, namely, rhat the Helvetic republics *ere the on* ly ones that were constitutionally guarded against luxury by seveie sumptuary laws The Republics otGieeceand Rome, present ca ses in point ; they had no checki upon luxury, and therefore they fell. Even the superior wisdom of the British institution has ?ot been ! able to save that country irom the ! blighting influence ot luxury j and* ?' what is very extraordinary, and | would seem to reduce us, as intel j ligent beings ; almost to a level ? with the fnoth that flutters about i thr candle -flame till it burns it**lf to death, or to the bird which, 'while it screams%ith horror at the snake* yields itself up to its farina* tion, and flies into its deadly jaws, is that we srtiuse ourselves with comments and sarcastic remarks upon the deplorable state of Eng land, and the inevitability of her fail ? that we deride the luxury and parade of her nobles, and insist the extravagance and sensuality of her chief magistrate, without teeming once to reflect that, reckoning the existence of her constitution from the date of Magna Charta, she lias been more than six hun dred years reaching the point of luxury at which she now stands, and *hich unfortunately we have | nearly attained in the thirty-sixth J year of our national existence. 1 j LUCILiUS. Members of Kirsbaw Ledge No. 55. WHKREAS, I have ihit day ^received a C ommunicatton Irom ibe Cimud . Lodge to which we owe juri*dic>i<m, announcing officially the Umon of the two Grand Lod - f$e? of this btale, and accom^nicd by the aruOee. of the Umon, concurred in uoaut niou>iy by cacti r ? Ahd Wh*rtu*% I am required to lay the tame before the Officer* *i?i Members ot the Lodge over which 1 have (He honour to preside, in Lodge assembled, in order that they may take the saole into consider* at) on, and solemnly determine whether they will acquiesce in or disacnt from the Terms of the said Union. You ere there fore hereby notified and required to ghw your attendance st tho Lottyp Room M Camden, on the regular lodge cisely at 6 o'clock# which TUhSlMY the 23d day of July ne*t. The utmost punctuality is tnjeined on the members, as the business is of a Kb* mentous and interesting nature* CHAPMAN LEVY* Muter of IrrdM Lodge A#. If. June S3. *LV> i ?< '6l?*4f COPARTNERSHIP <R. V a: WILLI4W bare taken the Store formerly occupied br Mr- Paiir* *? Thomktow* en B oed-atreet, en# door be low the Msvtet* opposite I L Coisman'& ; where thef offer for sele English and Ame Hea? goTTorf GOODS. . \ l?r*j? mwiIwiw of CVT'KAItS. frottt 3<t to tOd | all of which Will be wild **tf lo< - NJp C1'-" ?% June 9, tf THE SUBSCRIBERS HAVE, received per the Milo, Captain tlronson ^twm Liverpool, a handsome ^Weiionef HA^OWAkB, CU riaftRY Stc. pnt op hi packages well assorted, which iher offer for sale at eJow advance. <T S. MURRAY te Co. Charleston, May 1? 10 If. rf . 1 veiung.pre* will be en L!.il OF 1 r- TTI- S.S Fern ahitrig in .hc / c*f Ojfict , < cmze"* <>? e . fro.n 1'ir \*t Ap.r\L 10 lue 30 h Ju\f% (B ) Bsrnet Micbatt. b?ykm Stcpft<?,3? liri on Mra. Ualen Richard, Ballard Wm. Hrieiil Dennis, Bradley May rant, Bloyse Vlary, lite ih wick Saml. hcuneti James, Brigs Doctor. Belk * ti>ann?h, Hlakely Amelia, Bradford Thomas Bryant J^mes. 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July I4 rot Mister, LETTERS Ranmining in the Po*t Office & X^nCatttr . Court-!/? ft) SO/AAw, I Git. A . Peter Aron, James, Adamson? B. Martha Baker, James Bates, Simon Bow* den, 2 . David Bates, Kennedy Bailey, Jas. Blacfcman? C. James Collins, Sa?ah Cas ton, Tirsah B. Cr?Jg, VVm. Cantuttgton, Thomas Cothran, John Connel, Elijah Croxton, Hugh Coffey ?D. John Dorety, David M., Davis ? 1L Jesse Edwmr<U? Ma ry Evans? A. Lucy Fundevburk, Johu Funderbut k? G. John , Gayden, George CMdoiv Reuben Graved John Gatnbfey John Gooch, //.William Hillard, Ni? thaniel Huff, Paul Howel, Benjamin Haile, Henry Hancock, Mat y, .Hood?/. Samuel Johnston, James Ingram, W mJngranv_ Wm. liom,Thoa Johnston F. In* ram- OK* Joseph Kiik. Nathan Ktmbral, 3? L, b ?? rah Lalhen, Bucknei l<anier, 3 John I <anyft John . Ljnn, J mum l,anutey? ^f. Joh^ M'Ardle, Ms^ojVMoHni JohnL. MiUif, lj Hu*h Mf Mullen. Alexander Montgomery ? N Fdwaid Nat im?re? P Coomod Ver, John ? anton-rR John Roger*, Jostpfc Ray, K.iz.bcih Ktchy, Jtsse M??ul S e*en*? James Scott. Shetod Sims* Jane Stevens-? T. Jatnu laylnf, JttrtMf Tubble, Joadoti Thompson, ,8-V. fv.tr Vaaighan? W. Drury Watson. John Wade, Nancy Welch, John Welcb, Prit* aUla Williamson* a tA :fr Wr ^ jr. STET J?er " m July 14 V Wholesale Prices Current. Corrected Jar thi* dau9paf&+ Cotum,Se* island A H Upl?tK?? Rice, prime new ewt Flour* Superflae Mi it Fine Camden Com, ? hu*h Wheat, ' do. TabaccO) Veaf lb n manufactured Whiskey, gal Butter, lb Bacon, Urd, Tallow* Bees Wax, Hemp,' Shoe Indigo, Dear Foreign Article** Coftei prim#! ib h Hugtr. alt, bu*h I'on, jt^UPO* gm iChUktiw JO 40.041 lo ST .? S? 4 00 .0 40 14 . 14 i 1 0 00. 1 40 o 4 . 0 J o oo.o it} 0 4<r.o fj< S 40 . 4 00 4 Ml .0 ?0 1 O 30.0 3T 0 25 .0 SO 62 otj .osr 1ft M*?o*a j 7s taa ? 1 f ? .0 fif