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&4a« a* tk mTolutioii of the ir.oft tender' connexions. Life being riii-ly thf beginning this been the cafe* the whole city would have been a heap of ruins. rf«. «!toTid K iVpanuion o°nly fiS At Grains, in France, three thoufand ;Ct , r aftc-.w' red in hope of people were killed by the explohon oi a •M"°L .... - r, magazine near the town; and at Dublin, one hundred men we.e dtliroyedby the blowing up of 2 18 barrels of powder. On the 4'h of January, 1649, fixty houf¬ es, including a tavern full of people, were blown up in 'the city of London, by the ac¬ cidental explolion of a lew barrels of powder at a fhip chandler's. A child in a cradle was carried on the leads of a chinch, and found bl omirt£ with redoubh u freilmek, and *m . . i-cfuHv employ (he intermediate (pace in (Lh preparations as ihdl make us mare wor- :',v of the meeting we implore. Fiiend- jVp* in lh\* view, when founded en virtue ;l .1 clLcm, a union of mteielK and aiIec"tions, ;. fympa.hy of feeling and inclination afltime 3 n- w value ; iJiey are nut for a day but for et^rarty—they may he fufpeuded for a fhort '.!-..•, tint they will be renewed. For we are lirX to i'npyof'.-, 1 hot tl«ere are no friend Ibps fa )...:r- -.—ev.ry intelligent b.-ing augments h:H frlwy by participation ; he that has ij ver had a friend u a lirangcr to lorne of the ii .. t etootioB's and to one of the molt ex- qi--i,;.e afcejio'tt of the human heart ; and ivhat augnnmts our virtuous felicity hue, .. i.'i aojfiiitui it hereafter. Ye$, my friend, oar eouuexfo■■*. will he n■ newed with a thou¬ fand advantages unattainable here ; we lhall be 1111 i moicueferving vi' mutual eftecm and we f. .1 no longer be liable to change — Such are !o 1 e ( f t e reflections which ef- taWiiu the polition that we illal 1 know each other in heaven. They will footh if they en 1 cure our prefuit afflictions, which vvj.il U no longer ini?Aerab]e, but like a cloud pb$i noting 1 he beams of the fun—you walk b f< v.- llep-. and get from under its (hade.— The grave to the chtillain has little in d dreadl;.), it is a fhep till the' morning of the joyful » 'rreCtion. !_■.. ivl. <.,f Edinburgh lofl his amiable j'-"-.n r whom he tenderly loved, at the birth (■£ her fourth child. Being- a man of cx- t|M.i it; feeUn*r* his trrief ku« w no bounds.—• 1v took the greater}, delight in cherifhhig it, and Cho.it: I) le deceived poiilely the at¬ tentions of hii friendii, it v.-ao evident th.it the'v afforded him ro < oniolaiion. Hi- health i tftu * lapiulv lo <h c 111 cr aid !iL friends wv-tre fi'kd with anxiety and alarm. To himie'i t . n. ^ ..1, ^,^ yj ;.. , L1.1H. 1 «,J V_^_ L1WH LI.J IHUl'VIUll. ;•• ,f \ti th it co'i'n^es yon. Look at the v. . .Ll iii.it: Ui [Ui\i(±fi's ol-OUl 'Ok. I'run 1 1 'i*)**" **)' \ n K: For the Kingston GjzitTM* MR. rr:roR, THK late fires wh'ch have threatened us a few d-iyia pill at the barred;;, within a few yards « i the powder mp.snzwe. puts me in n.ii.d (;i ourpenluus Gtuation, in cafe the magazine ihoiild t;:keiie. The luilory of Inch events is not ii poiTtlEjn of many rea¬ der, ; bur few are able to calculate en the trrnb'eand fit;d eflecl-. of an explolion from a certain quantity of powder, at a given dif- tance. Hie following well atulunticated FviCls are fubmiited to public confideratioh. They a-e a ftw from a much greater nurn- be- in the hands of ilie writer. " i the year 1 769, the lightning fet rire to the povvdci n agyzine at Brefcia, in Italy, containing upwards of 800 ton?.—Thi3 terri¬ ble event almoft ruined thrit larpe and b< au- t:ful city ; a Ijxth part of the houfes were thrown down bv the violence of the exnlo- » • lion, and the reft were fo much Shattered, that ih-y tT,rc-ateued deftruclion by their fall, to ihoC who iahib.ted tiiern. Three thou- i:nd peifons perifhed by this accident. A ti w. 1 of cut (rone, built ova the vault which contained the powder, was carried wholly in¬ to the a'r, and in different parts fell like a mower ol (loses, which deflroyed a great number of churches, hotels and private hou- fes. By tlii- explofi )n large Hones were car¬ ried to the difhmee of a mile and a half.__ The damage occasioned by this accident was valued at more than two millions of ducats. On th.- 18th Aoguft, 1783, the powder ma -a/.ine at Malaga took hie. A great part of t l,e edifice was thrown down, and the whole city would perhaps have been entire- lv d.-il.oycd, had not the inhabitant* by a fphired rehlUnce, fucccedcd twu years before in the removal of it, to a place a league dif- twit from the t »wn. This magazine gener¬ ally contained fix thoufand cuintals of pow¬ der. On the 4th of May, 1785, the magazine r..ar Tmgkn explode \ The building was b!;v. n up w:th a dre.df.l l!0ife, and the grea¬ ter; part of the neighbo:irg houfes were throwi down. The mock was fo violent th it the whole city was fhak. n. and the doors 8i,fi windows v-ci,- all broken Luckily a gr«i1 part of the powd,, bad been taken out a h'v ii3»p h-f .-e, ai|f| fhere remained only cn« hundred ;..-.d twenty quintals. Had not ucutariy One thoufand houfes, and a prodigious - Wrtiio ui'iiurt. number of inhabitants, were fwept away by an exploi-on of the magazine at Bremen, and by the lame accident at Abbeville, in Fiance, one hundred buildings were tin own down, and no lefs than one bundled and fif¬ ty inhabitants peiilhed in the ruins. On the Ifland of Corfu, belonging to the Venetians, 1800 men were killed by the ex¬ plolion of feventy two thoufand pounds of oowder : and more than ilnee hundred lives were loft at the blowing up of a magazine" near the town of Trinchinopoii, in the Eaft Indies. The powder mills in the plains de Gran- adis, in France, were blown up with (o vio¬ lent an explohon, that windows were broken at the diftance of three leagues, and neatly 1000 people were killed or wounded. It would exceed the limits intended for this communication, and be a trefpals on the reader's patience, to detail the many (hock- fng circumllances which accompanied the ex- p'ofnn of a powder magazine at Civita Vecchin, in Italy, bv which it was almolt totally dettroyed ; or to invite a more par¬ ticular attention to the efiecU of the fame accident, experienced fome years fince i)\ the Weft India ifles, and in the year 1762, at the city of Cl'.arleilon in South Carolina. We only hint at thofc tragical events ; tho' a minute detail of them would prove more interfiling, and perhaps be more ill point to the relative fituatiou of this town. To write them is by no means a pleafing taik ; k may however not be unprofitable to hear them. I cannot cone'ude this fubj cl, Mr. Ed¬ itor, without reminding you ot an event that took place during the American war. A ho rip i« iMjr lu trie foulh well of Auii'.iy'^ uhaif, and aim oft equi-dtltant from New- York and Long Ifland fliore^, was Itruck by lightning, when her magazine, containing yco barrels of powder, exploded. The ef¬ fect was dreadful. A viiTcl, at the diilance of a! out 200 y:uds, liad thirteen of her deck beams fhivciM to prece«, and ieveral of her timbers completely diilodged. She was aa mere wreck. The city of New-York fnffer-- ed much damage from this accident. Houi- er.. fi .nj. the $llitre of 'lie ex »Iofion tco Whitehall and to Peck Slip, were fome oi them unroofed, the windows generally droves in, gl-.fTcs broken, china and aoekery were. demolifhed. A lady then at Burling Slip mention-, that (he was in a meafure Unpifiedl by the violent conc.nTion of the air, and t.haL lit r young woman was driven by it the length, of a large room. The gentleman who informed the writer- of thofc particulars, and whole vera: ity is un-. quellionable, was then fitting in a renr piaz¬ za of a houfe, and together with his friends*, wars caft down and driven fome yards from his ftat. The intervention of a huge b'iek bu'iding, whi- h lelTened the force of air that ruflictl in upon them, he fuppofes the meana of lav:, g their lives. The velTel lay from this place, by the befl comp itation, a mile. I only add, that the explolion was fo vidi lent, that at the diftance of one mile and a half on the Long Ifland fide, feveral doors and window mutters were unhinged and thrown down. The reader mould remember that thefe are the aftonifhing effects of fifteen tons of gunpowder ! Quere—What effed would the fame quantity produce in the event of explolion, on houfes not more than a (tone's throw from a magazine ? How would the blowing up of 500 or a thoufand barrels op¬ erate on the t- vvn of Kingfton ? There u no harm in anfwering theft queries, nor in deviling ways and means of fafety ; ft is the firft law of nature" Who will fuppofe ii ab- furd in individuals to pay a decent relpeCt to the prefervation of life and property, and to mark thofe who endanger boih ? Is not this the language of HUMANITY > intentions, do more harm than good no one . deny. The legiOature fliould therefcte giftrate mould be clearly defined, anu by providing forms and declaring the amount of fees, guard againft thofe errors to which the clafs of men to which I belong are par* i-lv liable. ut farther preface, then, fuller me to afk, to whom is this warrant of detention to be directed I to the Hie. iff of the diftri&, ot to any conitable of the town or townfhip ? — Is any and what form to be ufed ?—Will thejultice and airelling officer be entitled to any and what fees ? or is it underftood that the one is to hTue the procefs and the other to ferve it without compenfation I The aft does not authoriie the magiltrate to hold to bail. Is it underjlood (for it were abfurd to en¬ quire if it be declared) that the perfon at reli¬ ed is to be conducted to prifon from a dift¬ ance of fixty or a hundred miles, for the p<t- ifnl fum of forty {hillings \ or is he to be detained in thecudody of the officer until a capias can be procured ? In the event of an cfcape, will the officer become liable for the debt \ I am, (ir, yours, A COUNTRY JUSTICE. FOR THK KINGSTON GAZETTE. " editor's journeymen. a To the Editor of the Kingston Gazette 1 WAS exceedingly gratified by obferv- ing among the a6ts palled at the lad feiTion of our provincial pa'liairu.nt, the titles of which you gave us in your lalt Gazette, "at) act »o extend perfonal arreft to the fum oi forty lhillings," and prcftimTng that the bill at the fame time pub'ifhed has become a law or this province, I take the liberty ol fubmiuing to the framer or fiamers of it it ftvv enquiries, which appear to me- the more neccffaiy, as the act is enure-ly (ilea! on tJU« MR. EDITOR, WITH emotions of indefciibable af- tonilhment, I lall week perufed the commu¬ nication of your correfpondent W— D—, and though I mould be lorry any one mould fuppofe lam mote afraid of a moderate dan* gerthan other people, yet I think the prefent oecafion will warrant a confeffion that I feel confiderably alarmed : For the puvpofe of obtaining for W— D— a degree of credit on the fcore of fagacity, it appears I am to be expofed to caftigation, to chevaliers de JMufquafoOy and three cubits and a fpan of ad refpondtndem ! I entreat, Mr. Editor, that every polhblc publicity may be given to this my folemn denial of the charge exhib¬ ited againft me. I declare, upon the word ot an honed man, that 1 know no more of or " the faintum faiictornm of Itarvation," than if I had fpent my life in Terra del Fueeo. I therefore lope that both my '• per/onaJ weliaie** aucJ ** poflhumous fame" will be taken into con- fideration by thofc aggrieved ; as they mult be aware that while inch mifchief-makers are fuiTeied to remain at large in the world, they may themftlves be rendered liable to the ef¬ fect of fimilar roifreprefentation. - So much for my individual exculpation ; but I mnfl now advert to a matter of much more intereft On perufing the paper in queftion, fome little time elapfed before I could poflibly conjecture what might be W— D—'s motives for fuch a proceeding. I am now however convinced that there is a plot on foot to overturn the government. Thofc numerous portions of his letter which are to mod of us perfectly unintelligible and void of meaning, arc, I have every reafon to believe, concerted modes of expreflion for the purpofe of conveying information to the difafiected in tin's part of the province.—It is of courfe impoflible for any but one of ihtmfelves to point out with certainty the exact meaning of any of the fufpicious paf- fages ; I lhall therefore, not attempt it, but I earnediy recommend that immediate deps may be taken to if poflible circumvent their diabolical project : in my humble opinion a general meeting of the county mould be im¬ mediately called, and a fecret committee cho- fen to collect all the evidence that can be obtained. I need not hint that I conceive the militia mould alio be warned to be rea¬ dy at a moment's notice. When I recollect: the foul attempt to im¬ plicate me in this traitorous undertaking, the longer 1 write, Mr. Editor, the more indig¬ nant I become, and my courage riiing pro- portionably, I think 1 feel confidence enough to demand proper fatisfaction ; this I here¬ by do, challenging the faid W__ D— to meet me, with or without fpectacles, at any time or place he may chufe to appoint. I remain, &c. Ice. &c. ABSALOM RANDY. to be believed, the law* refpecYmg the!,',}, ways become alniod a dead letter, artelwhol ]y inefficient for the valuablepurpofci wj,m they were intended to effect. Matter? hoc ever are not quite fo bad as all thik; though I fear that in fome iutlances, t\\ jg * much ground for the bnpuration. W<lCg]en( th grouna mr uic imputation■ Wnc»leA. and as the Quarter Seffi ms will be held in* few weeks, 1 vvifli to direct to this fiftLa he attention of thofe gentlemen wl,0art fumtr.oncd to attend there as Grand Jurcrf Coming from different parts of the diftrift they mud collectively pofiefs much 1^ knowledge on the fubjeSfc, and can prrfcnt defaulters without the obloquy and ill ^\\\ that too often follow the mod difinterdy individual informer. But this doe*not de. volve upon them as a matter of propriety only. They are fummoned in beha'f ufthe didrict for the exprcfe purpofe of taking Cog. nizance of thefe as well as other delinquen¬ cies. It is a duty therefore which they an mod imperioufly called upon to perform^ and which they cannot neglect witiiout dif- regarding the mod folemn and imprdlhe oath ; which it is to be prefunud they will not do to favor any offender. By fubmitting, thro' the medium of your paper, thefe obfervations to all partiescjp cerried, you will gratify many vvayfaim men betides, raring Youi humble tervant, VIATOR. Foreign Intelligence. o -f- o---■ A new decree hi London, Jan. 7. been iffued by the Danilh government, ly which all trade with England is prohibited,, under more fevere penalties than any yet in¬ flicted by the cruel Napoleon. It is declar¬ ed a felony, punifhable by death, in the c?p- tare <>f a ihio ttuttataiiiuig inu-rLomii v.u Engl ? Lf ana. Letters were received from Hol- l:md yciterday to the date ot the 2 j ft mftarjt. The coniVripiiort-was extended to children of the age of thirteen. The Scheldt Beet was moored in Ruppel. It is iaidthat in Norway, 3,000 men, intende-. to man tliefi^ps of war there, toj refilled to proceed to Holland, and that the Darri£h troops v.liicliwcj^ ordered to compel them had decU- ned any interference. liv j ' rr- 11 A \ r^ fa a y , v b ;:;/p •§ r?t that at length the Marque ■ Wellefley had i\ rioully appliCfjfj mind to the cimi«d&'&tion of th important qaefiion of the Orders in Council, and has advifed hu rl\ , n* - J L0IJ leagues in ofiice to a final refok tion on the fubject, day laft an order was lent £ e read - or an n i a-- a rrn. armed vefiel to h nient's notice to carry d'.(patches nd to America, and we uncierHarid they were yefterday difpatdied. On Sunday lafr, lord Grenvillc Harfan audience of three horns with the Prir.ee of Wales, fuppoied to be on bniireh 1 eipccl- ing the p-e!ent ftate of the kingdom Jan. 12. Yrfterday the deputation from both houfes of Parliament went up to Car;. ton Houfe to prefent to his Royal Highefi the refolutions to which, afur a long uii'cu!'. fion. the two houfes had agreed. The firft refolution exj^rciTes the neceffiiy of providing for the exerclfc oi the royal au¬ thority. The feeond refolution dates, that trie pow¬ er veiled In the IVnce of Wales*, (hall not extend to the granting of any rank or dig¬ nity of the peerage of the realm to any per¬ fon whatever. The third refolution prevents the regent from giving ar,y office in rcvei'lnni, or grant¬ ing any office for any other term than donaj* his Majciiy's plcrafuie, except huh as by law are required for life dming good behsrfof. The founh refolution prevents the dffpofi- tion of any of his Ma;efty*s real eltate, or re¬ newal of leufes. The Prince of Wales, in a very handfomfi rtp'y, ebferves, u I do not heliiate t.> accept the office and hi.uation ptjopofi'd to trie, \& ftrictcd as ilu-y are, Id'll retai».ing evtrf o« pinion expn iTed by me upon a ti.omer and ii.ni|ar dU4rtffit!g oci-affon." To the fords and g.nifmen, hi ol*fertC% ei Voli u.'lj communicate I his my anhVerM tl fr lc two h t.lcs, aeco.n.-.iiu'ed by Riy rno'i 'VMit vm"|!ms and [nayos, th ,\ the IV*^ will rnay extricate us a ,d 1 he nation CO.MM \Jti JC\ Tl.iN. Mr. ED,TORrWe hear from every nnar- ter complaints of the bad (late of the public roada, of neglect of duty on tl)e t ^ the commdhoners and overfee-rs, and of obiiinacy ° 7^ !" ^fe whole labor is to be d pl-dnnder.hcn-direaion. Yct „ ^ comes fo,wa,d with any fpecihe chaL, or •come a prolocutor in'whf -,-,., • , many othera a.e i.,ten.flrj ecmallu ^u! I * 'hp.n.rti.vn ih fcffl and thus, if thefe •■!,, y T "'" A |J *"" li; " •'"•• « I «««« -a^conn,lainUiirc vvmUi;^. fcJ f » tl ie gi n vo.is < ird.atr ill'.i M< «>' J '"' ll" , f« ut • s willing to he CCIildltli.n, by th'.- fpei-vl) icilut.-Hv.' M:jelly', Iw.dth." .i ol W I he d< |)ni iti,hi 1 lien v» ,.U '>■ x- ... (if** J i^ ^ u iil\ d i"l 1 I hi i.i