Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

BOSTON, July 12.

The legislature of France is turning its attention to the revival of manufactures. Three hundred millions have been voted to the object: and the Executive Directory has sent a very patriotic Proclamation to Lyons, and the other great manufacturing towns, praying the citizens to forget their animosities, and unite their exertions in measures to restore to France, one of the great sources of its wealth—the arts and manufactures.

By sympathy’s untutored voice,
Be taught the social ties to keep,
Rejoice if human heart rejoice,
And weep if human eye should weep.

We hope the citizens of Boston will not suffer themselves to be outdone in acts of benevolence. Their hearts are certainly as sincerely attuned to the pitying call of charity as any on the continent; and we hope they will yet set an example to the larger cities, by a liberal subscription for the relief of the citizens of Charleston, now suffering under the most severe calamity of the kind any town in the United States was ever afflicted with. It is true, that to some particular individual is the benevolent duty assigned to him: but some one must begin; and besides the consolation of having taken the lead, he will find enough to follow him—and when once begun the business will appear to be half finished.