Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser. (Philadelphia [Pa.]), 1798-03-13 00:00:00

Gazette of the United States, AND Philadelphia Daily Advertiser.
Epping N.H., By JOHN FENNO, N o 119 Chestnut Street.
NUMBER 1718.]
PHILADELPHIA: TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 13, 1798.
[VOLUME XIII.]
For Boston,
The Ship COMMERCE, Richard Waitcoat, Master. To sail in a few days. Any freight that may offer, will be taken on very moderate terms...
FOR SALE,
THE BRIG West Indian, Philadelphia built, live oak and cedar, is coppered, sheathed and bolted, 3 years old, fails remarkably well, carries 15 a 1600 barrels...
For Hamburg,
THE SHIP DOMINICK TERRY, JACOB DEHART, Master. Having credit part of her cargo engaged - For freight apply to Jesse & Robert Waln.
NICKLIN & GRIFFITH,
At their Store on Walnut Street Wharf - HAVE FOR SALE, 38 hds. of Jamaica Rum, Madeira Wine in pipes and hds., Teneriffe do. in pipes...
For Sale or Charter,
ALSO, Brig AMAZON. N.B. The late firm of Phillip Nicklin & Co. is now changed to NICKLIN & GRIFFITH.
For Sale or Charter,
The Snow GOOD HOPE Will carry about 1200 barrels, and is ready to take in a cargo. For terms apply to Pragers & Co.
To be Sold,
An elegant Country Seat, Containing 6 acres and 40 perches, with a neat two story brick House and kitchen thereon, an apple Orchard, &c. situate on the Irish tract lane...
For Sale by the Subscriber,
Forty-nine bales of Mullins, being the remains of the ship India's last cargo from Calcutta, and will be sold low, 7 Boxes of Umbrellas, 25 Pipes of finest particular Madeira wine...
Wanted,
An active, clean, industrious woman to cook and do the business of the kitchen. Such a one will be allowed good wages, and no other need apply. - Enquire of the Printer.
NOTICE
IS hereby given, that the Subscriber, an insolvent debtor, confined in the common goal of the County of Cape May in the state of New Jersey, hath presented his petition to the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas...
FOR SALE,
Several fonts of Types - half worn. Including Long Primer, about 400 weight, in good condition, and would answer the purpose of a country Printer as well as new. Enquire of the Printer.
Will be sold on Wednesday the
21st of March, at 7 o'clock in the evening, at the Merchants' Coffee House, for cash, A GREY BLY to the left will and testament of William Heydam, deceased, and possession given immediately...
Robert Heydam, or
Francis Bowes Sayre, Executors. CONNELLY & Co. Attys.
On Tuesday, the 10th day of
April next, at 7 o'clock in the evening, at the City Tavern, Second Street, in the City of Philadelphia, WILL be exposed to public sale, seventeen tracts or parcels of land situated in Point township...
CONNELLY & Co. Attys.
Fresh Teas.
Just Imported, in the ship Delaware, Captain Cooper, from Canton, And For Sale, by SAMUEL HOWELL, At his Counting House, No. 54, Chestnut-street, AND BY SAM. E. HOWELL, At his Counting House, Crooked Alley wharf, Bohea, Souchoong, Hylion, Young Hyson, Hyson skin, and Imperial TEAS.
A valuable Farm steadily stocked,
WITHIN 33 miles from Philadelphia, on the well side of Schuylkill, and near the turnpike. It is expected the tenant will find suitable persons to take care of a dairy and attend market, with all other necessary labour.
A Gardener - a Single Man.
None need apply, in either case, unless they can bring good recommendations. Enquire at No. 30 Market-street.
Notice is hereby given,
THAT a petition will be made for the renewal of a Certificate of a Share in the Bank of the United States, standing in the name of the Subscriber, No. 50-4, and dated July 11, 1797 - the same having been lost.
FOR SALE,
The House in Chestnut-street, NEXT door but one to the corner of Fifth-street, occupied by the subscriber. Its eligible situation is well known - The rooms are spacious and convenient, and finished in a handsome style - It has a double Kitchen, and excellent Cellars, with an Ice House and rain water Cistern, and there is a Pump of good water near the kitchen door.
TO LET,
A good dry store, Three floors high, and in an excellent stand for business. Apply to Thomas & Joshua Fisher, No. 5, Dock-street.
Landing this day,
From on board the Schooner Two Friends, Daniel Crawley, Master, 80 hds. and 12 pipes Jamaica RUM, FOR SALE BY George Latimer & Son.
Canal Lottery - No. II.
WILL commence drawing Monday, the 20th inst. Tickets for Sale in this Lottery, at Seven Dollars, at WM. BLACKBURN'S Lottery and Brokers Office, No. 64, South Second-street - Tickets in the Schuylkill Bridge Lottery, at Ten Dollars, where check books are kept for registering and examining in these, the City of Washington, No. 11, and Patterson Lotteries, and information where tickets may be had in most of the Lotteries authorised by law in any of the States of the Union.
A PRINT.
THE Print, representing GENERAL WASHINGTON and his family, all whole lengths in one group, will be ready for delivery by the 15th of March next. An unfinished impression is to be seen at Mr. M'ELWEE'S looking-glass store No. 70 South Fourth Street. The subscription will close on the 10th of March next. Subscribers may depend on having the best Prints at one guinea and an half. To non-subscribers, the price will be two guineas.
JUST RECEIVED,
FROM FORT-AUVRANCE, And FOR SALE, by the SUBSCRIBERS, 110 hds. Coffee 6 tiers do. 100 barrels do. 100 bags do. 110 hogheads of Muscovado Sugar 80 barrels of do. 40 hogheads of Molasses 4 bales of Cotton 2 hogheads of Cocoa WILLINGS & FRANCIS, Penn-street.
Landing from on board the ship
Tennessee, capt. Smith, from Hamburg, And FOR SALE by the SUBSCRIBERS, 325 pieces Quadruples Silesias 400 do. Plutillas 100 do. Creas 52 do. à la Morlaix 100 do. Doylas 20 do. red striped Arabias 20 do. blue Guingans 100 dozen bordered Handkerchiefs Eric & Lewis Bollmann, 123, South Third-street. ALSO, ON HAND, A case of printed Mullins and Calicoes march 12.
Hibernian Society.
A Special meeting of the Hibernian Society for the Relief of Emigrants from Ireland, will be held at Mr. M'Shane's, Third-street, on Friday next, the 16th inst. at 7 o'clock in the evening. The Anniversary Meeting of the Society, will be held at the same place on Saturday the 17th inst. at one o'clock P.M. Dinner will be on the table at half after three. Those who intend to dine with the Society, are requested to send their names to Mr. M'Shane, on or before Friday next. MATTHEW CAREY, Secretary.
The Creditors of the late Mr.
John Gould Are requested to meet at the house of William Smith, Walnut near Front Street, on Thursday the 16th inst. at 6 o'clock in the evening. march 12.
LANDING,
AND FOR SALE, The Cargo of the ship Fair American, James Burke, master, from Aux-Cayes, now lying at Bell's wharf, CONSISTING OF Molasses, Coffee, Sugar and Dye Wood, Apply to ISAAC HARVEY, JUN. 5, South Water-street. 3 mo. 6.
The Commission rs
FOR carrying into effect the TWENTY-FIRST Article of the Treaty of Friendship, Limits, and Navigation, between His Catholic Majesty and the United States of America, hereby give information to all Persons therein concerned - that in order to terminate all differences, on account of the losses sustained by the citizens of the United States, in consequence of their Vessels and Cargoes having been taken by the Subjects of His Catholic Majesty, during the late war between Spain and France, that they are ready to receive (at their Office, between the hours of ten and one o'clock, daily) all complaints and applications authorized by the said Article, during EIGHTEEN MONTHS, from the day of the date hereof, and that they have power to examine all such persons as come before them, on oath or affirmation, touching the complaints in question, and also to receive in evidence, all written testimony, substantiated in such manner as they shall think proper to require or admit. By Order of the Commissioners, PETER LOHRA, Secretary. Commissioners Office, No. 109, Mulberry-street, May 17th, 1797. Feb. 28, '98 - am
THE Subscriber informs those
to whom he is indebted, that a person will attend every day, Sundays excepted, until the 1st of April next, from the hours of 10 o'clock in the morning till 4 o'clock in the afternoon, at the house formerly occupied by him in Chestnut-street, for the purpose of showing all books, papers and letters regarding his past commercial transactions to such of his creditors as may think proper to attend and examine them. JAMES GREENLEAF. march 1.
For Sale,
By ELLISTON & JOHN PEROT, No. 41, North Water Street, London particular Madeira Wine, in pipes and quart casks, 4 years old and fit for immediate use. Inferior do. A few bales Allibad Coffee Bandanna Handkerchiefs Sail Canvas, No. 1, to 9 A few bags of Juniper Berries A parcel of Seal Leather, and A few boxes of China. march 3.
From on board the brig Benjamin Franklin,
capt. Jones, from Bordeaux, Claret of superior quality, viz. MEDOC Of the vintages of 1790 and 1791, in cases. WHITE WINE, Of the vintage of 1790 FOR SALE BY PHILIPS, CRAMOND & Co. march 7.
NANKEENS.
Ten thousand pieces Nankeens, FOR SALE on a liberal credit, by SAMUEL HAYS, No. 123, Chestnut Street. march 7.
To be Sold,
A BRICK HOUSE, together with the Lot thereto belonging, in the city of Burlington, New-Jersey. The house has three rooms below, and three chambers in the upper story. The kitchen adjoining is a frame building. The Lot has a front of 72 feet on Pearl Street, and the same front on the river Delaware. The length of the Lot is about 250 feet - The house commands a very pleasant prospect of the river, and of the Borough of Bristol, on the Pennsylvania shore. Immediate possession may be had. For further particulars, inquire of Mr. John Sunns, next door below the City Tavern in Philadelphia, or the subscriber in Burlington. THOMSON NEALE. Burlington, march 1.
TO LET,
And possession given the 1st April next, The House No. 258 High-street, At present occupied by P. BUTLER, Esq. Apply to Edward Shoemaker, No. 127, High street. February 24.
Prison Manufactory.
FOR SALE, At the Prison of the City and County of Philadelphia, Cut Nails of all sizes, from 3d to 20d Flooring Brads, Spriggs, faddle and card Tacks Oakum and chipped Logwood Shoemakers and Saddlers Thread Also - Sawn Marble, suitable for currier's tables, tomb and hearth stones, hearths, chimney pieces, platforms, slabs, facia, window heads, lills, c. All which may be had on reasonable terms. Shoes made and Weaving done at said Prison at a moderate price. Orders from a distance, directed to Daniel Thomas, agent for the prison, will be attended to. December 26.
James C. & Samuel W. Fisher,
AT THEIR STORE, No. 513, corner of Arch and Front street. HAVE FOR SALE, Cotton and worsted Hosiery in trunks, afforded A few bales red, white, and yellow Flannel Dito fusty romal Handkerchiefs Dito Pulleat silk ditto Dito Pondicherry and Madras ditto Dito Gurrahs Bengal black Taffeties 4000 pieces Nankeens, and Few chebs beet Hyson Tea 4/6 - 1500 boxes beet London Window Glass from 8/6 to 12/ by 14 - and 15 hds. Olas Ware assorted, which they will dispose of cheaper than any in the city. Nov. 18.
FOR SALE, AT
WM. YOUNG'S Book Store, No. 52, Second Street, the corner of Chestnut Street. REPORT of the Committee of the House of Representatives of the United States, appointed to prepare and report Articles of Impeachment against WILLIAM BLOUNT, a Senator of the United States, impeached of high crimes and misdemeanors, made in pursuance of a resolution of the House of Representatives, authorizing the said Committee to sit during the recess of Congress, and instructing them "to enquire, and, by all lawful means, to discover the whole nature and extent of the offence whereof the said William Blount stands impeached," and who are the parties and associates therein." Printed by order of the House of Representatives December 20.
FOR SALE,
WHEREAS a Certificate to HANNAH SHELLY, of Oxford County, in the County of Surrey, in Great Britain, Spinster, or her assigns, for two thousand five hundred and sixty-two dollars twenty-three cents, in the deferred stock of the United States, was lost in the ship Peggy, Capt. Hyer, bound from Philadelphia to London in the year 1796. The subscriber, the said Hannah Shelly, intends to apply to the Treasury of the United States, for a renewal of the said Certificate. Feb. 23.
HANNAH SHELLY.
FOR SALE,
400 barrels BEEF. Enquire of George Pennock, or Gid. Hill Wells. march 8.
NOTICE.
WILL commence drawing Monday, the 20th inst. Tickets for Sale in this Lottery, at Seven Dollars, at WM. BLACKBURN'S Lottery and Brokers Office, No. 64, South Second-street - Tickets in the Schuylkill Bridge Lottery, at Ten Dollars, where check books are kept for registering and examining in these, the City of Washington, No. 11, and Patterson Lotteries, and information where tickets may be had in most of the Lotteries authorised by law in any of the States of the Union.
FOR SALE,
The House in Chestnut-street, NEXT door but one to the corner of Fifth-street, occupied by the subscriber. Its eligible situation is well known - The rooms are spacious and convenient, and finished in a handsome style - It has a double Kitchen, and excellent Cellars, with an Ice House and rain water Cistern, and there is a Pump of good water near the kitchen door. For terms apply to GARRETT COTTRINGER. march 2.
THE term of Co-partnership between the subscribers, trading under the firm of John Miller, Jun. and Co. expires this day, and by mutual consent will not be renewed. The debts and concerns of the firm will be settled by John Miller, Jun. to whom all those indebted to the partnership, are earnestly requested to make payment to, without delay.
JOHN MILLER, Jun. ALEXANDER J. MILLER. February 19.
LANDING,
From on board the Ship SALLY, from Calcutta, AND FOR SALE BY THE SUBSCRIBER, 1600 bags prime Sugar, 300 do. Ginger 30 bales low priced piece Goods. John Miller, Jun. march 3.
FOR SALE, BY
JOHN MILLER, JUN. No. 8, Chestnut Street, A quantity BENGAL GOODS, AMONGST WHICH ARE - Gurrahs M meodies Balfas Sannas Guazanas Tana Coffees Guzzies Emeretics Blue Cloths Calicoes Palam-pooms Romall Handkerchiefs Amongst them are a great proportion of the manufactures of Patna.
British Dry Goods,
ALSO, Forty puncheons of high proof Rum. February 19. Alex. J. Miller & James Davis, Having entered into partnership under the firm of Alexander J. Miller & Co. INFORM their friends in town and country, that they have opened a Wholesale Dry Good Store, at No. 64, South Front Street, Philadelphia; where they now have, and intend keeping a general assortment of India, German, Irish, French and British Manufactures for sale, on advantageous terms for cash or a short credit. February 19.
Landing
From on board the Snow Maria, from Copenhagen, A few Tons Russia Clean Hemp 30 pieces Ravens Duck 250 pieces Russia Sheeting 200 bolts Russia Duck, and A quantity of Swedes Iron For Sale by JOSEPH ANTHONY & Co. Who have on Hand, 1st and 2nd proof Bourdeaux Brandy 4th proof Spanish ditto New-England Rum London Particular Madeira Wine in Pipes and quarter Casks, London Market Old Claret in Casks 24 hds. Coffee just arrived Best Boston Beef in barrels Mackarel in do. Halifax Salmon in do. A small Invoice of Rhode-Island Cheese Spermaceti Oil Tanacs ditto No. 1, 2, 3, Boston Sail Duck Russia Cordage, and An Invoice of Dutch Hollow Glass Ware. March 1.
FOR SALE,
BY THE SUBSCRIBERS, No. 21, Penn-street, The Cargo of the Ship Ganges, John Green, commander, from Bengal, Consisting of Baftas, of various qualities and prices, Coffees Punjum Cloths Sanhs Guzzey do. Humbugs Charconna Dorea Blue Cloth Tanjils Chintz and Calicoes Mulmula Mamoodys Checks Maharagonges Pains Hkfs. Ginghams Malmai do. Guzzanas Bandannoes Gurrahs Sifterloy Pinascoes Choppa Romals Salgatchys Sooty do. Gillie Romals Perfians of various col. Mock Pulicats 500 tons SUGAR 90,000 lb. PEPPER. Willings & Francis.
The Piece Goods
Of the Ganges are now open to sale at that commodious store the north west corner of Market and Fourth-streets. Also - A few Bales of Madras Hkfs. of elegant patterns and best colours. February 8.
ROSS & SIMSON,
HAVE FOR SALE, A few bales Baftas, Coffas, and a quantity of Bengal COTTON Bengal SUGAR, in bags and boxes Jamaica, St. Vincents, } RUM. and Bengal 300 casks RICE, and A parcel of ship building RED CEDAR. Oct. 27.
French Circulating Library.
JOSEPH E. G. M. De LA GRANGE, No. 110 Walnut-street, INFORMS those who wish to recur to the only means of becoming perfect in the French Language, that he has just opened his LIBRARY, consisting of upwards of 1500 volumes, the best calculated to afford either useful instruction, or pleasure. The conditions, together with a catalogue of the Library, may be seen at every book-seller's in town. N.B. All translations from and into the French, English and Spanish Languages, executed with accuracy and dispatch. Nov. 15.
Just Published,
And to be had of Messrs. Dobson, Campbell, Rice, Cary, and the other principal Booksellers in the city - price one dollar, twenty-five cents, in boards, New Views of the Origin of the Tribes and Nations of America. By BENJAMIN SMITH BARTON, M.D. June 20.

The Gazette.
PHILADELPHIA,
TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 13.
For the Gazette of the United States.
MR. BENNO,
A number of essays have lately made their appearance under the signature of an American Merchant. The strain in which they are written designates the author as plainly as though he had proclaimed his name, and he may again be seen using his endeavours to procure a surrender of our national rights, and prostration of our national honour, to the insolent and perfidious ambition of a foreign foe. Always desirous to undermine the independence of his country, he is careless in whose service he becomes the pioneer. At one time the servile minion of Great-Britain; at another the baser adulator of France. Once we have already beheld him actually guiding an enemy to devastation and plunder; he may now be seen in the no less honourable office of attempting by his writings to increase the disunion of a people, whose great, whose only real misfortune is their want of unanimity. Fortunately, however, his talents do not enable him to effect his views. His works are read but by few, and by those few they will be branded with the infamy of the political character of this author.
I have looked at one of his papers and have collected from it, that his object is to prove, that as Great-Britain began the system of lawless aggression upon the rights of neutrals, France is now justifiable in carrying it on, and that therefore it would be unjust and impolitic in the United States to suffer their merchant vessels to arm.
The idea is in itself so frivolous as to render it unworthy of notice; but it derives an artificial importance from being the constant instrument of deception upon the ignorant and unwary, by the fashion which has disturbed the peace and destroyed the prosperity of our country.
It is not true that Great-Britain first invaded the rights of neutral nations, although it should be admitted she was the first who made any considerable aggressions upon our commerce. On the third of November, 1793, France passed a decree which was as shameful a violation of the rights of every independent nation as the world had ever before witnessed. By that decree she declared that whenever the standard of insurrection should be unfurled by any people, she would lend them all the assistance in her power. What respect she had for the rights of neutral sovereigns may be here discovered. She established for herself in their territories the influence which arises from a well grounded hope of protection, and from the prospect of success. The policy she would have observed towards any party which had accepted of her proffers may be judged of by her subsequent conduct. The ruin of Holland, the groans of Belgium, and the hollow murmurings of partitioned Venice would leave no room for doubt or hesitation.
Her conduct towards Holland is another proof of her contempt for neutral rights, and is a violent and unjust. When Dumourier made his inroad into the Belgic provinces, Holland had acted in all respects a part the most inoffensive to France. No sooner, however, were the Austrian Netherlands under the dominion of the French arms, than the Scheldt was demanded. Without entering into an examination whether by the laws of nations, Holland had an exclusive right to prevent vessels passing through her own territories without her consent, suffice it to say that she held by the right of prescription; that her maritime greatness which was the sole support, depended upon it; and that when it was disputed by the Emperor Joseph she paid for it an immense price, in order to maintain that peace to which she had always been so fondly attached. If it be said that at least, at that time, and for some time afterwards, we had no reason to complain of any immediate violation of our rights, I answer that France had then a different game to play towards our country. It was then her aim to subdue us not by open violence, but by insidious artifice; the minds of our people were to be seduced, and their morals corrupted by Mr. Genet's machinations. We were to be soothed and ruined by her professions of respect and regard, not by piratical depredations upon our commerce, and a faction was to be here so firmly implanted that our government should be incapacitated from repelling any future aggression. To our misery we know she has but too well succeeded.
But it is said, our tameness in submitting to British injuries, is the true and just cause of the treatment we receive from the rulers of France. The assertion has been so often, so ably, and so fully refuted, that scarcely a new idea can be broached. But if this be really the case, whence does it proceed that the other neutral nations are now placed in the same predicament with ourselves? The magnanimous firmness of Denmark and Sweden have constantly been extolled to the skies. Their conduct has been held up as a glorious example which ought to have been imitated and profited by. They did arm; they entered into no treaty; they never violated the pretended modern law, nor is it said that they have done so; yet they are included in the late decree. The argument is almost too absurd any longer to be dwelt upon—I shall, however, in a future paper endeavour still farther to confute it. MILO.
FRENCH (ANTE-TREATY) SPOLIATION.
BOSTON, February 5. 1794.
MR. RUSSELL,
AMONG the various instances of Algerine, committed by the French against the persons and property of our fellow citizens, the capture of a Schooner belonging to Messrs JOHN C. ELIS and Co. of Providence, ought not to be forgot. This vessel sold her cargo at Barbadoes, and loaded back for Providence with the proceeds; but on her passage she met a French privateer, the Capt. of which compelled the master of the Schooner to go on board his vessel with all his papers, which he had no sooner possession of than he tore them to pieces and threw them overboard; after this daring outrage, boarded the Schooner to Martinique, where he imprisoned the master, mate and crew, and in a few days a mock trial was had, the result of which was, that not only the cargo, but the vessel also, was condemned and sold. Providence, Jan. 20, 1794.
MR. BENNO,
I know not another city in the world in which such a nuisance would be suffered, as that which prevails almost in a torture every person who passes the square between 12th and 13th streets, on Market Street. It has nearly stifled the hoofs of passengers for 5 days past—they put their handkerchiefs to their faces, and ride or run as fast as possible to get beyond the extent of the horrid
stench, issuing from large parcels of the most offensive and PUTRID MASSES scattered over 60 or 80 square rods of ground; and if there be a wind from east or west; it reaches beyond the power of a person on foot to escape it, until he has with a death like sickness. Is it within the jurisdiction of the city police? If so, the Corporation are guilty of a most unparelleled negligence—it is sufficient to breed a YELLOW FEVER, and were the authors, or tolerators of the offence only to fall by its fatal misfate, I do not know who ought to regret the event. A STRANGER.
From the COLUMBIAN CENTINEL.
THE PURSE STRINGS—No. I.
On an EXAMINATION of the late ALARMING attempt in CONGRESS, to concentrate all power in the House of REPRESENTATIVES.
FELLOW CITIZENS,
AN attempt has been made in two instances, to undermine our constitution, to reduce us again to a state of revolution, or in the language of Judge Craik, to place a "Check mate" upon the operations of government.
One clause in the constitution is seized upon by revolutionary hands, and is declared to be paramount, and to be competent to annihilate every other power and authority delegated in that sacred instrument.
The right to originate Money Bills is alleged to be the just authority to destroy and defeat every executive and every legislative act. We are indebted to a Frenchman for this sublimation of power.—Albert Gallatin, in the year 1795, discovered this new and monstrous property, attached to the house of representatives.
It is extremely natural that a Frenchman should have originated the thought.—It is indeed a revolutionary movement, but it cannot in this country be justified by the pretext of imperious necessity.
Every honest man, every admirer of the American constitution, every citizen who loves his own country better than any foreign nation, must wish to see this new doctrine discussed and exploded. The subtlety, the sophism, the logic, and the deceptive eloquence of the opposition, have been exerted in congress, to force down this novel and dangerous principle. Many honest and well meaning men, who love liberty better than they understand the means of securing it, have been carried down the tide of popular prejudice. They have ranged themselves on the side that they falsely term the popular branch, in opposition to the aristocratic members of the government.—To combat these prejudices—to, remove these errors—to demonstrate the absurdity, and the danger of Gallatin's doctrine, shall be my endeavor.
In the discussion, I shall be candid and ingenuous; but I shall be compelled to extend my essays to three or four numbers, tedious perhaps to men of science and reflection, but highly necessary to the great body of my fellow citizens, for whom they are especially designed.
I shall lay down a series of axioms, which I am prepared to establish, and which shall lead the mind by a regular climax, to perfect conviction.
The object and the end of every government, ought to be the happiness of the people. This happiness is secured by the unopposed exercise of the rights of person and property. Liberty consists not in the power to do what we choose, but in the secure enjoyment of what we possess. Experience and refined reasoning have conspired to prove, that every simple, uncheckered and unbalanced government is a despotism, and of necessity, that every free government must be in a considerable degree, complex. By a simple government, we mean, one in which the whole power resides in one body, whether it consist of one, or of a few, or of many persons. It is wholly immaterial, whether it be called, an empire, a kingdom, a principality, a republic, or a democracy—or whether it be governed by a Doge, a King, an Emperor, a Sultan, a Committee of Safety, a Convention, or a Rump Parliament—it is still a despotism—it is uncheckered—it is uncontrolled;—the more numerous the assembly, the more dangerous, because the less responsibility;—it will inevitably draw all power into its fangs—it will bring all authority into its vortex—it dreads no punishment, because it is above control—it fears no censure, because shame is divided and disgrace is destroyed by numbers. It forces its way like a wedge, the strongest, at the same time the simplest power in mechanics. In short, it embraces the whole physical force of society, and tyrannizes over the very power which contributes to its energy. LIVY.
From a Connecticut Paper.
I wish with the war in Europe to continue one year more. THUS says Dick the debtor, and Jack the miser. The former hopes, by the continuance of war, to free himself from the embarrassment of debt. The latter hopes to increase his quantity of useless silver and gold.
But let us examine the import of this wish.
The continuance of war implies the evil consequences of war: and it is not to be expected, that the war in Europe will be continued for another year at less expense than fifty, or one hundred thousand lives. If, then, these selfish souls have their wish, such a number of mortals, must, probably, in an untimely manner, leave the land of the living. Some of them instantaneously dropping into eternity; others, dying with lingering and excruciating torments; many of them valuable characters, and others altogether unprepared. This destruction will likely produce a million of mourners. Many loving, and lovely wives will become desolate widows. Parents will be bereaved of their promising sons and many children be left helpless orphans.
There must also be a multitude wounded, mutilated and mangled, and vast numbers of families reduced to a state of wretchedness, obliged to
leave their habitations, to be ravaged by a victorious enemy.
No considerate person can expect that a war can continue among nations so powerful and numerous, without producing such a multitude of distressing scenes as would be sufficient to shock humanity. Yet how many unfeeling souls, like Dick and Jack, are wishing for the continuance of war? Would not any one of these think his physician a monster, until he were, should he wish him to be sick for five months, that he might have the profit of a large bill of expense? Yet the same relentsoul can wish a continuance of war, which must, probably, produce, in different multitudes, the pains of broken bones, the pains of sore bereavements, the pains of hunger and distress, the pains of death, and even the pains of hell. Those who thus desire the continuance of war, in effect, wish for seas of blood, and deeps of human woe, upon which they can sail to a profitable market! O the depravity of the human heart! How evident that such creatures must be born again, or never see the kingdom of God! And how suitable, that such characters should be forever excluded from benevolent society, in which public felicity is the source of individual happiness!
COMMUNICATION.
THE propensity which has often been noticed, of assigning deep causes for events where obvious ones appear, is remarkably conspicuous in the production signed a Frenchman, republished from a New-York paper in Porcupine's Gazette of the 21st inst. Those who read this Gazette will have observed a sort of amicable contest between the Editor and the Frenchman upon the merits of their respective nations. In this discussion, the Frenchman was understood to say, that there existed a British faction in this country, which gave activity to every other:—But he rejects this imputation, and asserts, that his meaning was, that the faction alluded to, existed in France; that it was active in promoting the revolution and still rends in pieces that unfortunate country.
Now, who but one of the unthinking vulgar, of the F— women, who ascribed to the aristocrats the scarcity of bread in Paris, or a man ambitious of being vastly profound, could think of assigning this, as a principal cause of the revolution! Pitt no doubt, and the whole of the British Cabinet, were not displeased at seeing the embarrassment of a rival power, which had long been looked upon as a natural enemy; but to say that they fomented the revolution is too absurd to be believed. Mr. Burke, however, must have disapproved of this policy, nor can I think Mr. Pitt so shallow a statesman as to assist in kindling a conflagration which was to set fire to the four corners of Europe. We have, indeed, heard of physicians propagating infections where their own carcasses were secure, but what sort of a man must he be who could excite a pestilence which threatened universal destruction? But if Pitt really aided in overturning the captive, he must have instruments for the mischief;—but I can no more persuade myself, that he had the influence to convert Frenchmen into Cannibals, Atheists and Philosophers, than that the Duke de Choiseul effected the American revolution. No; their Robespierres, their Du Pons and their Condorcets, are all their own, and the glory or infamy of their revolution is exclusively Gallic. But even admitting the monstrous position of the British minister aiding the revolution, and that the Foxes and Greys, the Priestleys and the Paines, were but the dopes of his designs, who can believe, that he is not by this time heartily sick of his folly, instead of being yet employed in encircling a flame which finds ample fuel in every quarter of the globe?
But I never yet could understand the politics of a Frenchman—Democrat, or Aristocrat, he is equally unintelligible. He is only steady in his hatred to the English and all their derivatives; and I never conversed with one of them, who, on the subject of politics, had not an admirable talent of bewildering himself in absurdities. In searching for causes, they are in the habit of diving too deep. Look, for instance, at the intercepted letter of the profoundly sagacious Jof. Fauchet.
If, in fact, there is a British faction now at work in France, it must be to restore the old order of things, and who would not suppose this was what the French Gentleman wanted? But yet he complains of this faction. The Quakers profess non-resisting principles, but Frenchmen really possess them; and power being so extremely sacred among them, is some apology for human nature, in the great sacrifices they make to obtain, and to preserve it. [Harris's Pap.]
NEW-YORK, March 10.
Extract of a letter from Jeremie.
A great fracas took place lately among our officers; and a very severe judgment was issued.
Mr. Desbrosses, lieutenant-colonel of the legion of prince Edward, and commander of an out-post near Les Trois, was ordered for his service by Mr. Hallem, lieutenant-colonel of the 17th regiment, commandant of the district by seniority. Probably the orders were given in a harsh manner, which displeased Mr. Desbrosses; for, he went to far as to strike the commandant with a whip. Mr. Hallem drew his sabre immediately, and cut the aggressor.
Colonel Spencer, who commands at Jeremie, being informed of the fact, ordered the contending parties to be arrested. Several officers of the said legion, discontented with the arrest of their chief, resigned their commissions, which were accepted. Then col. Spencer ordered them to be carried to Cape-Nicholas Mole, as well as lieut. cols. Hallem and Desbrosses, in order to be tried by a court-martial; the latter being severely wounded, could not then be embarked—but has since gone.
The court-martial have acquitted lieutenant colonel Hallem, and sentenced lieut. col. Desbrosses to be beheaded! The resigning officers to be wholly expelled, after three of them being present at the execution. In the mean time, the court-martial recommends, to the king's benevolence, the officer sentenced to death.
"It is not unworthy of remark, that the com-
manded officers, and the members of the council of war, were all Frenchmen, and the acquitted officer a native of England.
January 31st, 1798.
"P. S. Col. Count Edward de Rouvroy, lately fought a duel at Port-au-Prince with M. de Piray; they went with seconders to the Spanish limits, and there fired at each other—the duel was successful, and his antagonist fell dead. He was an esteemed officer. (Whoever falls in such a contest, we have even to lament the loss of a brave man, whom courage might render more useful to his country. But the point of honour always commands an officer; it is (and must be so) his most ticklish part."
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
Extract of a letter from gen. Hasty to the Executive Directory.
Head Quarters, Mems. 10th Nov. 3d.
The troops of the republic are in possession of Mentz, as also Fort Cassel, which they entered this morning. The emperor's troops evacuated these places yesterday.
I gave them 24 hours for an entire evacuation, and possessed myself in consequence, of two gates, one of the town of Mentz, the other of Port Cassel; but all is now completely evacuated, consisting of eight battalions towards Ulm, passing by Heidelberg and Heilbronn, the rest passing by Achenbach, on their way to Bohemia. The different troops of the circles took the route for their respective countries.
BOURDEAUX, Jan. 4.
Government has invited all the merchants of this commerce to lend them all kinds of vessels rising to 10 tons. The commissary of marine, Bertin, invited a meeting of the merchants for the purpose of treating with them, accordingly the result has been highly flattering to the enthusiasm and patriotism of the merchants of Bourdeaux in promoting the expedition to England. Most of the merchants not only have lent all their vessels gratis, and such as could afford it have also provisioned them.
COUNCIL OF FIVE HUNDRED.
January 6.
Order of the day.—A message from the Directory demanding a special credit for the service of the Minister of Marine.
HAMBURGH, Dec. 25.
General La Fayette with his companions in misfortune, La Tour and Pafy, continue captives in a castle near Taltana. The general begins to recover his health, and he only waits for spring to proceed to the United States of America.
In a discussion in the Dutch convention of the 19th Dec. on the subject of their navy, there has happened a shameful fracas without example. About 30 members rose greatly agitated, in the same instant, rushed into the middle of the Hall, and were on the point of coming to blows. It was in vain the President attempted to order. The galleries took an active part in these violent agitations, and it was some time before calm was restored by adjourning the question to next day.
PARIS, January 3.
From Lisbon we learn, that after the present extraordinary collection of troops assembling there, that her most faithful majesty, is to summon the English admiral to take himself off, and evacuate the forts, the treaty with France being ratified. The court is only waiting the return of an express from Paris.
The council of five hundred have altered their law of salvage—when the articles saved belong to their enemy, the captors shall receive two thirds by way of salvage and the other to go into the public chest of marine invalids.
A resolution has passed for putting the constitution in force in the colonies.
The Swiss republicans in Appenzel have risen and parties have come to blows! The victory rests with the people.
Great failures have taken place in Copenhagen and which shook some principal houses in Norway.
A Polish courier was arrested on his way to Italy, and after examination of his letters the Russian government arrested some principal Polish personages, as Walkwytsky and Naguilly, charged with intimate connection with the Polish volunteers in Italy.
It is agreed that the diplomatic correspondence at Rastadt, shall, agreeable to ancient custom, be carried on in the Latin language. The Prussian legation is complete by the arrival of M. de Dohn.
The Italian prince Paterno has fallen into the hands of the Algerines, who demand 700,000 ducats for his ransom.
The levy of troops is continued in Franconia, under the pretext of supporting the negotiation of Rastadt.
A motion has been made by a magistrate of Balle, to grant the rights of a citizen to all the peasants—a symptom of revolution.
The French legislature have determined on a loan of 80 millions, to defray the expense of a descent on England.
The seizure of the English merchandise in Paris, Jan. 4, was performed with great regularity and tranquility, with the aid of the military. The value laid to be 3 millions.
A Paris article of Jan. 7, says, the English goods seized amount by estimation to 3 millions; and it was spoken of as a measure that would not wound the national hatred of England, to appropriate these goods to the payment of the debts due to the Americans, for supplies of corn.
Mr. Wilkes has given all his estate to the Countess of Huntingdon, except his house in Grosvenor-square, which is bequeathed to his daughter. He has given a thousand pounds to Mrs. Arnold, who lived with him at Kensington Gore, and two thousand to her daughter of 27 years old. These latter also take his house in Kensington Gore. Miss Wilkes and Mr. Montague are his executors. He ordered his body to be
carried to the grave by six poor men, who are to receive a black suit and a guinea each. The inscription on his tomb, "Here lies John Wilkes, a friend to liberty."
Advices under the head of Nantz, Rochelle, &c. speak of the low state of trade, the scarcity of species, and the destruction of confidence.
FRENCH OFFICIAL STATE PAPER.
PROCLAMATION
Of the Executive Directory, to the French, in Answer to the British MANIFESTO.
CITIZENS,
The interest of the Republic commands you one more important triumph. After innumerable combats from which you have returned conquerors, it remains for you to reduce the last, the most intractable, the most crafty of all your enemies.
The Executive Directory desires a general peace, the Directory wishes this peace for you and for Europe. But this year part and more, a faithless enemy agitates himself, stuns all the cabinets of Europe with a vain buzzing, proposes with a loud voice Peace, breathes secretly war, affects to desire to extinguish with one hand the torch which he lights again with the other; sends with eclat Pacifiers, and repels in effect all those overtures which alone could tend to a pacification. This enemy, you know that your indignation points him out to you and names him; it is the cabinet of St. James's; it is the most corrupting and the most corrupted of the governments of Europe; it is the English government.
It is not only against French liberty that this government directs its conspiracy; its plot embraces the whole world. Ah! too long since, that perfidious cabinet troubles, enslaves, desolates every part of the world. Speak, Americans; say who are, directly or indirectly, your true Dominators; unhappy Indians, say by what detestable art that government has established its tyranny among you; and you Europeans, more unfortunate still, innocent inhabitants of the plains of Franconia, and of the lofty Alps, innumerable victims of the scourge of combats, say who has been the most ardent instigator of this destructive war, in which have been sacrificed more than a million of men, in which immense treasures have been swallowed up, in which the eye of peace itself now only perceives on the field of victory but general misery, universal mourning, one vast scene of despair! Well! it is in the glare of these circumstances that the cabinet of St. James's reveals to afflicted Europe that Britain alone has felt nothing of the horrible disasters. Attend to this speech from the height of a Throne!—"Our revenues," said the King, "have continued to augment, our national industry has taken a new spring, our commerce has passed its ancient limits." If the king of England has told the
war, since war enriches it. That Government, nevertheless, in its late manifesto, are in its speeches of parade, dares accuse France of an insatiable avarice! It does not say that the English, first Devastators of our island of St. Domingo, have also taken without a blow the Dutch colonies, also the United Provinces were then their allies, and that they pretend to retain these thefts, which they will call conquests; and the king of England speaks to the powers of Europe of the ambition of France!
But the principles of the French towards other nations, are now manifested; vague allegations can no longer obscure them. If the French republic secures the limits which she has received from nature—if she repairs in this point the faults of monarchy, she disdains conquests foreign to that great aim; she does not oppress the secondary states and the weak powers; she thinks not of stripping her allies; she is faithful to her friends; she punishes her enemies yet without hating them; naturally generous, she does not even hate the English; and never in France will a minister have a right to the apotheosis for his abhorrence of that people. But every body in France is agreed in one point; it is that one is there put in mind of Toulon, of Dunkirk, of Quiberon, of the Vendee; it is that one detests and curses cruelty, perfidiousness, the bloody machinations of the British ministry, and that one deplores at the same time, the inconceivable blindness by which the English suffer themselves to be over-burdened, for to become the horror of the world.
This Great Nation will revenge the Universe, and to effectuate this, Frenchmen, more than one means presents itself to you; the most worthy and the most rapid is the invasion of England. Unheard of successes have accustomed you to count no more on the obstacles. In such enterprises, the name alone of the armies is the promise of triumph; and the justice of the cause is its warranty. It is no longer the time of laughing at projects of descent, and of discussing the means. At the height where the French are, their will is victory. Therefore, let the army of England go and dictate peace in London! and there also, republicans, you will find auxiliaries; and there also, you will find many men, whom reason has not sufficiently abandoned, to prevent them from being sensible of the odium which their government spreads over the English name; and there also, you will find those thousands of generous men who struggle this long while, in order to obtain a parliamentary reform; and there also, you will find those laborers without number, who sigh after peace, whom war, by contracting itself, reduces to misery, and who weigh, in the balance of their real wants, the splendid deceit of royal harangues, the illusion of manifestos, and the chimera of

conquests; and there also, you will find, the Irish nation, so many years oppressed, and which bears with so much uneasiness the chains of a court that nourishes itself with the toils of Irishmen, drenches itself in their blood, and scours at their despair.
Go, under these auspices, brave republicans: second the national and unanimous desire; conducted by the hero who placed you so often on the road to victory, you will have also for you the acclamations of all the just and virtuous souls that exist in the world; go, re-establish the liberty of the seas; restrict, in fine, within just limits, the disorderly ambition of that government, perturbator of its own country, as well as of the universe; secure the repose of the French republic, and that of Europe; there is the grand task which remains for you to accomplish. And since at this moment the British government, sneering coldly and with a ferocious smile at the disasters of the continent, applauds its opulence, force it to pay, conformable to justice, its quota of the expenses of this war, which that cabinet alone wishes to eternize, and which it well knows it may terminate as soon as it chooses to speak, to the French republic, a language that one may listen to, and that one can believe sincere.
Citizens, you will recognize your own sentiments in the exposition of those of the executive directory. The same spirit animates your faithful representatives. In vain the cabinet of London exhausts its efforts to sow among them mistrust and discord, or to persuade that it has succeeded in it. The 13th Fructidor has destroyed English influence, and since that memorable day, the members of the council and those of the directory present the spectacle of the most affecting union.
Hah! all patriots have but one interest—There is in the republic but one opinion and one desire. War to the cabinet of St. James! it is the cry of France. What glory is promised to the army of England! It suffices to indicate it to such heroes.—Ah! to enslave our warriors with an invincible enthusiasm, it is only to put them in mind of what they have already done. The walls of the strongest palaces have fallen before them; the first captains of the powers of Europe have not been able to resist them. They have made prisoners, BENDER, at Luxemburg and WORMSSEN, at Mantua. By them the three coloured standard waves on the borders of the Rhine and on the Egean sea. After so many victories what speeches or what words could add any thing to the ardor of French soldiers? It is enough for them to hear the voice of their country, and to bear in mind their own exploits.
REVILLIERE LEPAUX, Pres'dt. LEGARDE, Sec. General.
PARIS, December 29. A new way.—The merchants and bankers of this city were met to a conference with the minister of finance at which the Italian Hero attended.—The question propounded was, "the best manner of supplying, in a prompt, expeditions manner, those means which the will of the government and the general will of the people call for, by a deficit on England ." The minister asked for a further loan, which he was certain would not be denied, as the demand was only for one half of what they might subscribe, to be advanced immediately; the mode in which this loan was to be effected was the only difficulty, and it was for this purpose that the meeting was called, as this loan is quite different from all others heretofore made, he desired their assent. He did not wish to fill them with ideas of enormous interest, nor, at the same time with to intimidate them to subscribe; he informed them of the only recompense they would receive instead of interest—That of revenging the wrongs of our country, and punishing the most perfidious government in the world; to annihilate it; and by that means give liberty to millions. The loan, at any rate, should be guaranteed, by government, in case of misfortune. It will have the security in the bravery of our armies, who seemed to have chained victory to their side.—They will find in the contributions which shall be laid on that perfidious country, a sufficient profit for their loans.—The merchants and bankers of Paris, will not be behind-hand, certainly, in efforts with the rest of the country to accomplish this much wished for expedition. He finished by saying that he was certain of meeting with that success, in hopes of which he had called the meeting.
Buonaparte joined his observations to those of the minister, and it was, as if by electricity, immediately resolved that a deputation should beg an audience with the Directory, and inform them that they were in transports of joy at the proposition. The proposed audience was given yesterday with all the solemnity which a measure of this kind demanded.
Fifteen merchants and bankers were introduced to the Directory, passing through two rows of grenadiers, who paid them military honours, and the music played those patriotic airs which always accompany victory.—In the hall were the five directors, in full dress, accompanied by all the ministers and several general officers. Any endeavours to serve the country certainly deserve applause, and these deputies certainly met with their share, in the acclamations of the public as they passed the streets.—The minister of finance opened the business of the audience. The deputation, by the voice of citizen Fulcheron, said, that to forward the views of the Directory and of France, the merchants of Paris were disposed to give an example of their perfect confidence in them, by advancing such sums as they might want, without the hopes of gain, and offering government the use of their purses and credit, and at the same time promising to inform their correspondents in foreign parts of their proceedings, and engaging them to the same purpose: that although they do not undertake
to answer for their fellow-bankers &c. in France, they offer for themselves, and are certain that the unspeakable satisfaction of conquering England will draw forth their patriotic exertions.
The president answered them in a suitable manner, and expressed the thanks of the Directory.—After which the deputation was introduced into an inner apartment, where they had a private conversation with the directory the result of which we do not know but we are assured the two parties were equally satisfied, and that there is hope the generous demeanor of the merchants and bankers of Paris will operate as an example to all true Frenchmen, and lovers of their country.
Tremble, in your turn, perfidious government, who, with your floating cañons believe yourselves invulnerable. Tremble at the vengeance of Frenchmen! In spite of the exhausted state of our resources, we have still enough left of both steel and gold, to conquer you, and punish your arrogance.
The result of the secret audience we do not know officially, but we are assured from unquestionable authority, that a first advance of 40 millions was agreed on, and further sums, if necessary, at a moment's warning.—Their example will be followed by all the commercial houses in France, and we have no doubt, but we shall soon see that sacred obligation fulfilled, which every Frenchman has given to his country, the destruction of the English Government.
COPENHAGEN, Nov. 17. The presidency of our academy of sciences, vacant by the death of Bernstorff, has been given to the count de Schimmelmann.
CONGRESS. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
MONDAY—MARCH 12.
Mr. D. Foster, from the committee of claims, made an unfavourable report on the petition of William Smith, Esq. of Baltimore, who prayed for compensation on account of loan-office tickets lost or destroyed.—Ordered to lie on the table.
Mr. Cochran presented two petitions, one from the western part of the state of New York, praying for an alteration in the post-roads; the other for George Nesle, an old soldier, praying to be placed on the pension list. The former was referred to the committee on post-offices and post-roads; the latter to the committee of claims.
Mr. Baldwin, from the committee to whom was referred the bill from the Senate providing for the amicable settlement of the limits of Georgia, reported the bill without amendment. It was committed to a committee of the whole for to-morrow.
Mr. Clopton, from the committee of enrolment reported the bill for the relief of the widows and orphans of certain deceased officers, and placing certain bounties, as etc., enrolled.
Mr. C. also presented the petition of James Creigh, praying for compensation for services in the war.—Referred to the committee of claims.
Mr. Champlin presented a petition from the inhabitants of Warren, in Rhode-Island praying that the Warren river may be flanked out at the expence of the United States.—Referred to the committee of commerce and manufactures, with power to report by bill or otherwise.
The Speaker laid before the house a letter from the Governor of this state, ascertaining the election of Mr. Heister in the place of Mr. Ege, who resigned, which was referred to the committee of elections.
On motion of Mr. D. Foster, the house resolved itself into a committee of the whole on the report of the committee of claims, to whom was referred the memorial and petition of Joseph Ball, and others, holders of bills of credit, emitted in pursuance of a resolution Congress of the 18th of March, 1780. The report was read as follows:
That a statement of the case of the holders of bills of this description is contained in a report of the accounting officers of the Treasury made on the 24th day of December 1795, in pursuance of an act entitled "An act relative to claims against the United States not barred by any act of limitation and which have not been already adjusted," in the words following, to wit:
"Class 8. The claims of this class are founded on bills of credit, commonly called bills of the new emissions issued on the funds of individual states, pursuant to an act of Congress of the 18th March, 1780. The following clause of the said act shews in what event the United States were to become answerable for the payment of these bills, 'that the said new bills issued on the funds of individual states for that purpose established, and be signed by persons appointed by them, and that the faith of the United States be also pledged for the payment of the said bills in case any state on whose funds they shall be emitted, should, by the events of war, be rendered incapable of redeeming them.'
"The interest accruing on them was to have been paid by the United States annually, if called for, in bills of exchange on Europe, and the amount charged to the states respectively. It does not appear however that any such payments were made."
"It is understood that the several states concerned have passed laws providing for the redemption of their respective portions of this money, and it is presumable that the far greater part thereof has been redeemed accordingly. The bills for which payment is now claimed are chiefly of those issued by the states of New-Hampshire, Massachusetts and Rhode-Island."
"This species of paper has never been considered as forming any part of the debt of the United States."
"In the various arrangements which have been made since the establishment of the present government, relative to the debt of the United States, no provision has ever been made for these bills; they appear from the face of them to be evidences of debt against the states individually who had issued them, and could not be provided for by the United States, without raising a charge against those states; and it was reasonable to be presumed that the states concerned would make such provision as the justice and equity of the case required."
The Secretary of the Treasury in his report
of the 16th of January, 1795, recommended that such of these bills as had been exhibited at the treasury in pursuance of the act entitled "An act relative to claims against the United States not barred by any act of limitation and which have not been already adjusted," amounting to the sum of 9,774 dollars should be provided for by taking the principal sum of them, without interest, on loan at 5 per cent. payable quarterly yearly, redeemable at the pleasure of the United States and payable in 30 years—he remarks
"That the resolutions of Congress, and the endorsement upon those bills, engage the absolute promise of the United States for the payment of the interest indefinitely, and their eventual guarantee of the principal, in case any state on whose funds the bills should be emitted should by the events of war be rendered incapable of redeeming them; which is in effect though not in form an absolute guarantee of the principal; for the United States are bound to pay the interest perpetual till that is discharged."
"Good faith demands that the United States should supply the omissions of the state, which issued the bills, by providing themselves, at least for the interest upon them—but it is not as easy to pronounce on what terms they ought to be provided for."
"On their face and according to the ware-woked resolutions of Congress they are of specific value equal to their nominal amount, bearing five per cent. interest."
"But it is known that they were issued by different states at different inferior values fixed by previous laws."
"The true nature of the contract, therefore, and the true equity of the case, are from these circumstances involved in some question."
"The proposition of the Secretary on this subject, was not adopted by Congress."
"It is a fact notorious that these bills sink in the same vortex of a depreciation with the old continental bills, and while they continued to circulate were generally in the ratio of some of the old, for one of the new."
"This unfortunate depreciation, which operated upon all the paper money, yates and certificates, issued during the war, necessitated the United States to adopt principles relative to them which cannot apply in cases of ordinary contract—the states, individually, have assumed similar privileges; and in making provision for the bills in question, in some instances, have considered them as a depreciated currency."
"The committee are informed, that all the states who issued bills of this description, have already made provision for their redemption, either at their nominal amount, or at a certain ratio of depreciation, except the state of Rhode-Island, and they think it is fairly to be presumed, that the states have made as liberal a provision as the nature of the case demanded."
"The United States have once made allowances to the several states in settlement of their accounts for the supplies for which those bills were issued; should they make any further provision, they must consider the several states as indebted to them for the amount of such provision."
"From an attentive consideration of all the circumstances of this case, which the committee have endeavoured fully to examine and present to the view of the house, they are of opinion, that it will not be expedient for Congress to make any provision for the payment of said bills; they therefore recommend that the petitioners, respectively, have leave to withdraw their petitions."
This report was advocated by Messrs Coit, It was opposed by Messrs. C. Martin, all, Livingston, Otis, J. Williams and Dayton.
The latter gentleman thought the report of the committee was incomplete, as it did not appear to have distinguished between the principal and the interest of these bills. He agreed with the committee, with respect to the principal, but was of opinion the United States were bound to pay the interest, and that as the states which had neglected to make due provision, for these bills were creditor states with the United States, any sum which Congress should agree to pay, might be justly let off against what was due to them. He hoped, therefore, the report would be re-committed, and a distinction made between the principal and interest.
After some conversation on this subject, in which it was stated, that there would be no end gained by a re-commitment, and that if the report was not sufficiently explicit, it might be made so, the question on agreeing to the report was put and carried, there being 62 votes for it.
The committee then rose, the house took up the report, which after being amended, by adding, after the word "bills," or any interest thereon, it was agreed to, there being 62 votes in its favor.
Mr. Livingston said, he was instructed by the committee of commerce and manufactures, to ask for the appointment of a member upon that committee in the place of Mr. Swanwick, whose ill state of health did not permit him to attend the house.—Agreed, and Mr. Otis was appointed.
Mr. L. added, that he wished to ask an explanation of the house respecting an important subject. Two acts of the British parliament had been referred generally to the committee of commerce and manufactures, and there had been some doubts in the committee as to the proper course to be taken. Some members thought the object of the reference must have been for them to state facts relative to their operation, or to report what measures may be necessary to be taken in consequence of this operation, which would seriously affect the commerce and navigation of the United States. In order to determine this point he proposed the following resolution for the adoption of the house:
"Resolved, that the committee of commerce and manufactures be instructed to examine the two acts of the British parliament referred to them, and report the operation thereof on the commerce and navigation of the United States."
On motion of Mr. Otis, ordered to lie on the table.
Mr. Bayard presented a petition from the District Attorneys, praying for some alterations with respect to their fees.—Referred to a select committee.
Mr. Sewall moved that the house resolve itself into a committee of the whole on the state of the Union, in order to consider the resolutions reported on Thursday, in consequence of the message of the President; but the usual hour of adjournment being arrived, a motion was made to adjourn, and the house adjourned.
The Gazette. PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY EVENING, March 13
From our Correspondent at Hamburg.
My letter which informed you of La Fayette's happy arrival, will have reached you. I saw him some days afterwards in good spirits, and very cheerful though in a large company, and besieged with questions. His lady and daughters were with him. They look somewhat pale, and Madame Fayette cannot walk very well, on account of the rheumatism. This will be better soon. Bureau de Pufy and his lady were also in the same company. De la Tour Maubourg, was accompanied by his lady and two daughters, as also his brother. R. Piller formerly adjutant of Gen. La Fayette arrived with them. The General and his family departed on the 9th of this month for Ploen, a town to the north in Holstein, where his brother in law has an estate. There he intends to pass the winter. They don't speak much of their sufferings. They knew nothing of what happened in the world, and it was at Dresden that La Fayette first heard of the existence of Buonaparte; a proof how closely they were confined; tho' it is false, the report that they were treated inhumanely, as to their dress, fare and dwellings.
The Emperor of Russia goes on with his reformation, often extremely severe, and even despotic and cruel, but well meant and said to be necessary. I must not be constrained to justify the means he uses. He is particularly to be blamed for adding insults to his punishments of negligent officers and servants of the crown. Their dismissal, or other punishment or rebukes, &c. are always published by his order in the Gazettes in very humiliating terms. His orders are often unreasonable—lately, for example, he ordered under severe penalties, that the ship wherein he was, when reviewing his fleet at Revel, should be called by every body a frigate, tho' it was but a sloop or yacht—the order was printed in the Petersburg Gazette. Yet with all this, he loves peace, order, justice and exactness in public affairs. The Empress, by her mild amiable temper, is said to mitigate his severity very often.
The French have taken from the Arsenal in Venice 6000 cannon and 100,000 small arms, the four famous equestrian statues of Corinthian bronze, which had adorned that city for 500 years; great numbers of pictures and antiquities, and especially most rare and precious manuscripts—The people wept and were indignant but could not help themselves.
Great failures have taken place in Copenhagen and which shook principal houses in
MR. FENNO, Sir having read in your Gazette of last Wednesday an enquiry concerning the society of United Irishmen be pleased to inform the English spy that the purpose of their meetings is to keep alive in their minds the sufferings of their country men under the British Government
PADDY
The British Packet arrived at New-York on Sunday last, with the January mail, and brings London papers to the 15th of the month.
HOUSE OF PEERS—Thursday, Jan. 11.
The affixed tax bill was read a third time, and passed.
The Lord Chancellor gave notice, that to-morrow he should move, that an account should be laid before the house (as soon as the same could be made out) of the sums paid by their lordships in consequence of the increase of the affixed taxes.
Lord Carrington said, he should add to the motion, that an account should be laid before the house of the voluntary contributions made by their lordships.
The house was ordered to be summoned for to-morrow.
Lord Grenville delivered the following message from his Majesty,
"G. R. His Majesty thinks proper to acquaint the House of Lords, that his Majesty has received various advices of preparations made and measures taken in France, apparently in pursuance of a design, openly and repeatedly professed, of attempting the invasion of these kingdoms."
"His Majesty is firmly persuaded, that by the zeal, courage and exertions of his faithful struggling for whatever is most dear to them, such an enterprise, if attempted, will terminate in the confusion and ruin of those who may be engaged in it. But his Majesty, in his anxious concern for the safety and welfare of his faithful people, feels it incumbent on him to omit no suitable precaution which may contribute to their defence."
"His Majesty, therefore, in pursuance of the act passed for providing for the augmentation of the militia, has thought it right to make this communication to the House of Lords to the end, that his Majesty may cause the said militia, or such part thereof as he shall think necessary, to be drawn out and embodied, and to march as occasion shall require."
Lord Grenville said, it would only be necessary for him to move a general address of thanks to his Majesty, assuring his Majesty of their Lordships' firm and zealous support in any measures which his Majesty might think it necessary to take for the defence of these kingdoms.
The address was agreed to nem. dist. and the house adjourned.
HOUSE OF COMMONS—Friday, Jan. 12.
The Speaker, and several members, attended at the bar of the House of Lords, where the Royal assent was given by Commission, to the Affixed Tax Bill, the Army Aggression Bill, and several private Bills.
Adjourned to Thursday the 8th day of February.
LONDON, January 13. All the Dutch prizes, except the Alkmaar, which is appointed to be a receiving ship at Blackwater, are gone up to Chatham, where they are to have a complete survey, for the purpose of ascertaining what repairs are wanting. The smallest of them
is intended, will be converted into store ships for different services.
ASSESSED TAXES.
We understand that lord Carrington has most munificently subscribed, in addition to his assessed tax, twenty thousand pounds to the immediate exigencies of this state.
The speaker of the house of commons, we learn from pretty good authority, subscribes two thousand pounds a year to the public service, during the continuance of war.
We are informed from good authority, that an elderly lady at Kensington, has declared her intention of giving one whole year's income, amounting to 16,000l. as a contribution for the defence of the country. The well known liberality and public spirit of Mrs. Lea, give us every reason to suppose that the information is well founded.
Citizen Talleyrand Perigord, the actual French minister for foreign affairs, has written a letter to citizen Callard, the minister of the directory, at Berlin, directing him to represent to the king of Prussia, that the dominions of the duke of Brunswick are a new Coblenz, and a rallying point for emigrants; and to request his majesty would cause the duke to expel from his duchy, without distinction of age or sex, the proscribed and emigrated French refugees, whose number amounts in the whole to 4000 persons.—The young king having complied, with the request, the duke has found himself obliged to order all emigrated or proscribed French families to quit his dominions within a month's time.
Among these unfortunate exiles, is the archbishop of Rheims, uncle of citizen Talleyrand, and also the mother of this minister.—About 1000 of these proscribed persons, being destitute of all means to raise the expence necessarily attending their removal, the country people have made a collection to supply them with money. Louis XVIII, on being informed of this order of expulsion, dispatched a courier to Peterburgh, to request permission, as is generally supposed, to withdraw to Mittau.
All the latest accounts from Germany coincide in stating, that this measure of expulsion is to be extended throughout that country.
Buonaparte is now caricatured in the Parisian shops, under the appearance of Robinson Crusoe, the English mariner on his raft. Instead of Robinson's Bible the French general has saved from the wreck, which is a vessel with the tri-colored flag, a volume of threats against the British Government.
By this day's Mail.
NEW-YORK, March 12.
On Saturday evening the British Packet Halifax, Capt. J. Rowe, with the January Mail, arrived at this port. She sailed from Falmouth on the 25th of Jan. but she has brought papers no later than Jan. 20.
The captain informs, that it has been officially announced at London (but he has no printed copy of it) that the conqueror of Italy, and retired from the army, after having prevented an immense devastation, is made therefore he has resigned. It may possibly be the case, but there is room for doubt! (Argus.)
A gentleman passenger in the packet, who left London on the 16th Jan. informs, that Mr. Pinckney had wrote his friends, requesting them to procure lodgings for him in London, as he intended to leave Paris shortly.
We hear that capt. Williamson, of his Britannic majesty's ship Agincourt, has been broke for not coming into action when the signal was made in the late defeat of the Dutch fleet by admiral Duncan.
NEW-THEATRE.
TO-MORROW EVENING, March 14,
Will be presented, the Comedy of THE COUNTRY GIRL. With the Comic Opera of The PRIZE; Or, 2, 5, 3, 3.
Subscription Ball. The last but one.
Mr. Francis respectfully informs the subscribers, that the third Ball will be to-morrow evening, the 3th inst.—Lady's tickets, and non subscribers tickets to be had by applying to Mr. Francis, No. 70 North Eighth Street—or at the Assembly-room South Fourth Street. March 12.
A Great Bargain.
WILL BE SOLD, if applied for immediately, Twenty Thousand Dollars in Bills of Credit, upon interest at five per cent. per annum, now lodged in the Treasury, and endorsed by the United States, with a promise to "pay the interest annually."
Enquire at the Office of THOMAS McEWEN & Co. March 12.
For Sale, THE SLOOP HARRIOT,
NOW lying at Russel's Wharf—Burthen 77 tons—three years old, built of the best materials and is well found—would answer well for a coaster, as she has excellent accommodations. For terms apply to Gurney & Smith. March 13.
Wanted to live in the Country,
About five miles from this city, a fiber Ready Man who understands gardening and the management of a few acres of land, and would not object to attend a couple of horses. Such a one may meet with liberal wages by applying at the office of this Gazette. N. B. None need apply but those of unexceptionable characters. March 13.
TO RENT,
A good three story House, TWO rooms on each floor, with a convenient Kitchen—in Front, near South-street.—Enquire of the Printer. March 3—3aw3w

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
MARCH 1, 1798.
PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,
In pursuance of the Act of Congress passed on the sixth day of July one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven, entitled "An Act laying duties on Stamped Vellum, Parchment and Paper", and the Act passed on the sixteenth day of December, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven, entitled "An Act to postpone for a limited time the commencement of the duties imposed by the Act entitled "An Act laying Duties on Stamped Vellum, Parchment and Paper", that from and after the first day of July ensuing, the several Stamped Duties hereafter enumerated, shall be levied and collected throughout the United States.
For every skin or piece of Vellum or Parchment, or sheet or piece of Paper, upon which shall be written or printed any or either of the instruments or writings following—to wit:
Table with 4 columns: Description of instrument, Dls, Cts, Mils. Rows include: Any Certificate of Naturalization, Any Licence to practice, Any Grant or Letters Patent, Any Charter-Party, Bottomry, or Respondentia Bond, Any Receipt or discharge, Any Instrument of nature thereof, Any Bond, bill single or promissory, Any Note, Any Bill of Exchange, Any Inventory or Catalogue, Any Certificate of a Share in any Insurance Company.
The duties aforesaid will be collected and received by the Supervisors, Inspectors and other Officers of Inspection; in the several Districts, Surveys and Divisions of the United States; and by such other persons as shall from time to time be specially appointed and employed by the Supervisors of Districts for that purpose.
The Supervisors of the several Districts will, prior to the first day of July ensuing, and as soon as may be practicable, mark or stamp, without fee or reward, any quantities or parcels of Vellum, Parchment or Paper, with any of the rates of duties before enumerated, on payment of the said duties; Or stamped Vellum, parchment and paper may at the option of the Citizens of the United States, be obtained at the rates prescribed by law, by application to any Supervisor, Inspector, Officer of Inspection, or other person appointed for the distribution of Stamps, by the Supervisors of Districts.
GIVEN under my Hand, at Philadelphia the day and year above mentioned. OLIVER WOLCOTT, Secretary of the Treasury.
NOTICE. ALL persons who have any demands against the estate of WILLIAM FLEETWOOD, of Liverpool, late of Philadelphia, merchant, deceased, are requested to exhibit their accounts, properly attested; and those who are indebted to the same, are desired to make immediate payment, to GEO. DOBSON, No. 25, So. Third-street, Administrator. January 4.
Just Published, And to be had at the Book-stores of Messrs. ROBINSON, CAMPBELL, YOUNG and ORMEROD, in Philadelphia. OBSERVATIONS On the Causes and Cure of Remitting or Bilious fevers.
AN ABSTRACT of the opinions and practice of different authors: and an APPENDIX, exhibiting interesting facts and reflections relative to the Synodus Iteritidis, or Yellow Fever, which has occasioned so much distress and mortality, at different periods, in several of the seaport towns of the United States of America. BY WILLIAM CURRIE, Fellow of the Philadelphia College of Physicians, and Member of the American Philosophical Society. Feb. 1.—3m3
For sale or to be let on ground-rent, A valuable Lot of Ground; SITUATE on the north-east corner of Walnut and Fifth streets, fronting the State-House square. This lot is fifty-one feet front on Walnut street, and one hundred and thirteen feet and an half on Fifth street; there are at present two small two story brick houses, and a number of small tenements thereon. Also, for Sale, Two three story Brick Houses With convenient stores, wharf, &c. situate on Water street, between Mulberry and Sassafras streets, containing in front on Water street fifty-four feet, and containing that breadth eastward ninety-five feet, when widening to the south thirteen feet six inches. These houses have the convenience of a public alley adjoining on the north side, and area very desirable situation for a merchant, flour factor, or others who may have occasion for storage of goods. This property will be sold on very reasonable terms for cash. For further information apply to the printer. July 31. m.k.w.t.f.
PROPOSALS,
BY THE Insurance Company of North America.
FOR INSURANCE against FIRE, on Dwelling-Houses, Ware-Houses, and other Buildings (and on Goods contained in such Buildings) distant from Philadelphia, in the United States.
I. Common Insurance, on hazards of the first class, will be undertaken at a premium of about half per cent. per annum. For extra hazardous risks a larger premium will be required, which will vary according to circumstances, seldom exceeding one per cent. per annum; but in some instances, where the property insured is not only in itself extra hazardous, but rendered still more so by the vicinity of extra hazardous buildings and occupations, the premium demanded will be raised according to circumstances.
House and Ware-Houses, the walls and partitions of which are wholly of stone or brick, well constructed, so as to be guarded as well as may be against fire from within, and free from extra hazardous buildings and occupations in their neighborhood, will be deemed hazardous of the first class, and may be insured to their full value.
Also Goods and Merchandize, not of an extra hazardous kind, in cases, bales, or packages, deposited in such buildings, to an amount not exceeding four thousand dollars; but if more than this sum is required to be insured in one tenement, an additional premium will be required, in proportion to circumstances.
II. Insurances will also be made on buildings and goods extra hazardous, at premiums proportioned to the risk. But it is not easy to arrange these under particular heads or classes, so as to describe each with the necessary accuracy. Each case must therefore be decided upon according to the circumstances attending it; and these circumstances will, in general, appear from the description accompanying the application.
Buildings partly constructed of brick or stone, are preferable to those wholly wooden. And in both cases, the site of building, how they are occupied, how they are situated, the neighboring buildings, and how occupied, are considerations to be taken into view. And with respect to goods, their tendency, whether from their nature, or from the manner in which they are exposed, either to commence or to increase an accidental fire, and their liability in such state to receive damage by wet, or by sudden and hasty removal, or to be stolen in time of confusion and hurry, are all circumstances of weight; and the premiums must be proportioned accordingly.
III. The following conditions are to be understood by the parties.
1st. The Insurance is not binding till the stipulated premium be paid; but it shall be deemed effected from the time of such payment and acceptance thereof, whether the policy be immediately signed or not.
2d. Insurances may be renewed at the expiration of the term of the policy, without further expenses than the payment of the premium of the renewed term, the circumstances continuing the same as they were understood by the Insurers at the time the former Insurance was made; but the payment of the premium is essential to such renewal; and if the party insured suffers any time to elapse after the expiration of the former Insurance, before he pays a premium for the renewal, he is not insured during such time; nor can the Insurance be renewed on the former policy by computing the commencement of the renewal from the expiration of the former Insurance. The subject of Insurance may nevertheless be open to treaty for a new Insurance.
3d. If any other Insurance be made on the same property, it must be made known at the time of application, otherwise the policy made on such application will be void.
4th. This company will not be liable or accountable for any loss or damage occasioned by any foreign invasion, or by any military or usurped force, or by reason of any civil commotion; or occasioned by gunpowder, aquafortis or other thing of the like kind kept in the building, or amongst the property insured.
5th. Bills of Exchange, Bonds and other Securities, Title Deeds, Money, Bank and other promissory Notes, are not included in any Insurance; nor are paintings, medals, jewels, gems, antique curiosities, or mirrors exceeding the value of twenty-five dollars each, to be considered as insured unless particularly mentioned and by special agreement.
6th. No Insurance will be made for a shorter term than one year, nor for a longer term than seven years. Persons choosing to insure for seven years shall be allowed one year's premium by way of discount: One third of a years premium shall be abated in like manner on an Insurance for three years.
7th. Losses sustained by fire on property insured, shall be paid in thirty days after due proof and liquidation thereof, without deduction.
8th. A description of the property to be insured will be expected with each application, to be made by a master carpenter and signed by him, as well as by the owner of the building or applicant for Insurance, and attested before a Notary or principal Magistrate, who will certify his knowledge of the parties and their creditability.
9th. With respect to Houses and other Buildings, 1st. The site and position; describing the street or road on or near which the building stands; its contiguity to water, and other circumstances relative to the extinguishment of fire in case of accident; and particularly whether any and what fire companies are established, and engines provided, in the place or neighbourhood.
2d. The materials of which it is built, whether of brick, stone or wood, and what part of each, as well as the outside walls as inside or partition walls, and their respective height and thickness; the style of the roof and of what materials; how secured by battlements or party walls; what kind of access to the top of the house and to the chimneys; whether any and what electric rods; the number and kind of fire places; and the kind of deposit for ashes.
3d. The dimensions of the building and how divided, and the style in which it is finished so as to enable indifferent persons to judge in what manner it is to be repaired or rebuilt in case of injury; the age and condition of the building, and how occupied, whether merely as a dwelling house, or for any other, and for what purpose; also an estimate of the value of the house or building independent of the ground.
4th. The situation with respect to other buildings or back buildings, whether adjoining or not, comprehending at least one hundred feet each way; what kind of buildings are within that distance, how built, of what materials, and how occupied or improved, whether as dwellings for private families or otherwise; whether any and what trade or manufactory is carried on, and particularly whether there be any extra hazardous articles used, or usually deposited in the house, or within the distance aforesaid, and of what kind.
5th. A general description of the building in which they are kept will be expected, similar in all respects, as to the danger from fire, with that required for Insurance on the buildings themselves.
6th. A description of the kinds and nature of the goods, whether in casks or other packages, or opened; and whether displayed in whole or in the usual form for retailing. And if the goods vary materially in kind, a general estimate of the value of each kind proposed to be insured; but in the last particular minute-ness of description is not expected.
3. Articles of the following kinds are deemed extra hazardous, though in various degrees, in whatever building they may be placed, viz: pitch, tar, turpentine, resin, wax, tallow, oil, inflammable spirits, sulphur, hemp, flax, cotton, dry goods of an inflammable kind opened—Glas, china ware or porcelain, especially unpacked; Looking glasses, jewelry; and all other articles more than commonly liable to injury by sudden removal or by moisture, or particularly obnoxious to theft on an alarm of fire. Letters best paid, directed to the Secretary of the Board of Directors, will be duly attended to. An order for Insurance accompanied by the means of paying the premium, will be immediately executed on the premium being paid. If the application contain an enquiry only, it will be answered. By order of the Board, EBENEZER HAZARD, Sec'y. Office of the Insurance Company of North America; Philad. Feb. 1, 1798. Feb. 14.
For Sale, A good situation for a Country Seat, FORTY acres of land on the Old York Road, within eight of Germantown and about five miles from the City, the whole being under good fence, and in excellent order as pasture ground. For further information and terms, apply to JOHN ELLIOTT CASSON, at his office for the sale of Real Estates, Conveyancing, &c. No. 54, High-street. 2d mo. 26th. 22w2w
Bakenridge—for sale IT consists of 920 acres, almost all of which is a fine rich Meadow, (the residence of the late Earl of Sterling). It may be conveniently divided into five farms, four of which are bounded on the East by the river Passaic. There are on it a number of buildings, forming a square of nearly three acres. The dwelling house is a very convenient one, and a small expense would put it in complete repair. The orchard consists of 1500 fine bearing engrafted Apple Trees—and there is on other parts of said tract near 300 other Apple Trees—as also a great variety of other fruits, particularly Cherries of the best and most delicious kinds. Also, a great number of beautiful Exotic and Forest Trees, that add to the beauty and convenience of the place. Its situation is about 18 miles from the towns of Newark and Elizabeth: 10 do. from Morris-Town, and 12 from Springfield—it is wooded and watered. To save trouble, the price is five pound pr. acre in cash, on delivery of the deed. Please to enquire of T. McEUEEN & Co. No. 78, Chestnut street. codf February 2.
House and Lots, in Bordentown. TO BE SOLD, a handsome two story House, with the Lot on which it is erected, situated about the middle of the beautiful and healthy Village of Bordentown. The house is forty two feet in front, and is one hundred feet on the main street, and extends with the same breadth to back street. Also, a large Lot, containing nearly four acres, separated from the former by back street. One third only of the purchase money will be required upon executing a deed, and for the remainder, such credit will be given as the purchaser may chuse. The remaining time given. For further particulars enquire either of Dr. William Burnes, residing in Bordentown, near the premises, who will shew the same, or of PETER THOMPSON, Conveyancer, No. 43, Mulberry-street. December 2. 3awtf
Valuable Property for Sale. FOR SALE, THAT well known Estate, called SHREWSBURY FARM, formerly the residence of General John Cadwalader, situate on Sassafras River, in Kent county, Maryland—containing a bout 1900 acres of prime LAND, upwards of 900 of which are in woods. The Buildings are all excellent, and consist of a handsome Dwelling House, two large Barns with Cow houses, Stables for fifty horses, a spacious treading Floor under cover, a granary, two Overseer's houses, two ranges of two story buildings for Negroes (one of them new and of brick), Corn houses, a Smaok house, &c. &c. The whole Estate being newly surrounded by water, it requires but little fencing, and has a good Shad and Herring fishery. It is conveniently situated for both the Philadelphia and Baltimore markets, with two landings on a navigable river but a short sail from Baltimore. There is a large Peach, and two large Apple Orchards on the premises; also, a variety of excellent fruits of different kinds. The soil is mostly a rich loam. The whole will be sold together, or divided into smaller farms (for which the buildings are conveniently situated) as may suit the purchaser. The Stock on said Farm, consisting of Horses, Cattle, Sheep, &c. will also be disposed of. For further particulars apply to GEORGE HASTINGS, on the premises, or to the subscriber, in Philadelphia. ARCHIBALD M'CALL, JUN. February 24. 2aw6w
New-York, February, 1798. PROPOSALS BY GEORGE FORMAN, FOR PRINTING BY SUBSCRIPTION, A New and Valuable Work, which has been expected only six months entitled
PROOFS of a CONSPIRACY against all the Religions and Governments of EUROPE, carried on in the secret meetings of Free Masons, Illuminati, and Reading Societies. Collected from good authorities. BY JOHN ROBISON, A. M. Professor of Natural Philosophy, and Secretary to the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Nam tus res agitur paries cum proximis ardis.
THIS work will be put to press as soon as 400 subscribers are obtained, and no money required until the work is completed. It shall be printed with an elegant new type, and on paper of superior quality, which will comprise about 400 pages neat octavo, handsomely bound and lettered—the price will be one dollar and fifty cents. Those who procure 12 subscribers, and become accountable, shall have a 13th gratis—and the usual allowance to booksellers.
The above work comes from the pen of J. Robison, of Edinburgh, a gentleman in high estimation in the literary world—the facts therein recorded are well substantiated; and the reasoning and arguments thence deduced, while they discover the found judgement and penetration of the writer, are calculated to amuse as well as to instruct. A scene of villainy is developed by the author sufficient to appal the steest heart. The danger to be apprehended from secret societies is clearly pointed out; the degeneracy of human nature awfully illustrated, and the hazard of every deviation from the straight path of religion and of virtue, incontestibly proved both to the politician and the christian by stubborn and incontrovertible facts. 4th Subscriptions taken in by G. Forman, No. 46, William-street, opposite the Post-Office, and by the respective booksellers in New-York and Philadelphia. February 28.
CUSTOM HOUSE,
District of PENNSYLVANIA, March 6th, 1797. THE MERCHANTS of PHILADELPHIA, who may have any account or knowledge of the capture or detention of any ship or vessel, cargo, or other property, belonging to citizens of the United States, residing within this district, by or under the authority of foreign nations, since the first day of October, 1792, are particularly requested to give in information thereof, to the Collector of the Port of Philadelphia, as soon as may be convenient; specifying the name of the vessel, the captain's name, the number of tons, the estimated value of the vessel, if condemned, the estimated value of her cargo, or other property, whether carried, and by, or under the authority of what nation captured, with such observations as may be thought necessary upon the circumstances of each case, in order that statements thereof may be transmitted to the Secretary of the Treasury, who is required to lay the same before the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States. March 7. 410r
Boston Glass Manufactory,
THE citizens of the United States are hereby informed, that the manufacture of Window Glass is now commenced at the Glass House in Boston. It is needless to say any thing of the excellent quality of the Boston Glass, as it is so well known throughout the United States to be in every respect greatly superior to any ever imported from Europe. It will be cut to any size commonly used; and may be constantly had by applying to Charles F. Kupper, at the Glass House. Orders from the distant States to be addressed to Mr. Samuel Gove, Court-street, Boston. Two or three good Glass makers are wanted at the above works; such as can produce recommendations for good behavior, may be sure of employ, by application to Mr. George L. Linds, at the works. Men without families will be preferred. However unacquainted with the method of making Crown Window Glass, they will meet with the same encouragement. Boston, January 16. 22w6w
At a Meeting of the President
and Managers of the DELAWARE and SCHUYLKILL CANAL COMPANY, February 27th, 1798. Resolved, That ten dollars on each share of Stock be called for; and that the Treasurer be given public notice thereof agreeable to law. Extract from the Minutes. GEORGE WORRALL, Secretary. AGREEABLE to a resolution of the President and Managers of the Delaware and Schuylkill Canal Company, the Stockholders are hereby required to make a payment of ten dollars on each of their respective shares on or before the 1st of April next, to WM. GOVETT, Treasurer. February 28. 22w1A
Three or four Single Gentlemen,
may be accommodated with Genteeel Boarding and Lodging, On reasonable terms, by applying at No. 37, North-street, between Fifth and Sixth-streets. February 23. codf
City Commissioner's Office,
January 12th, 1798.
FOR THE INFORMATION OF THE CITIZENS. THE following arrangement is made by the said commissioners. District No. 1.—From the north side of Vine street, to the south side of Mulberry street; to be under the superintendence of Nicholas Hicks. 2. From the south side of Mulberry street, to the south side of Chestnut street, to be under the superintendence of William Moulder. 3. From the south side of Chestnut street to the north side of Spruce street, to be under the superintendence of Joseph Claypoole. 4. From the north side of Spruce street, to the south side of Cedar street, to be under the superintendence of Hugh Roberts. When pumps are out of order south of High-street, please apply to Thomas Dacey, at the corner of South and Fifth-streets, or Godfrey Gebler, in Fourth, near Chestnut-street; and north of High-street, to Dacey and Dehaven, in Sassafras-street, between Sixth and Seventh-streets. New-York, January 24, 1798. PROPOSALS
By Arondt Van Hook, Proprietor of the Reading Room; For Publishing by Subscription, An Appeal to Impartial Posterity, BY MADAME ROLAND; Wife of the Minister of the Interior in France. CONDITIONS. These scarce and very valuable Historical Memoirs, (which ran through two London editions in a few months,) will be comprised in 2 vols. octavo, of 400 pages each. They will be printed on fine paper and a new type, and delivered to Subscribers, neatly bound and lettered, at a dollar and 50 cents per volume—one third of the Subscription money to be paid on delivery of the first volume—the remainder when the work is complete. To Printers, Booksellers, and others, who acquire Subscriptions, the usual allowance will be made.
Subscriptions are taken at the Reading-Room, No. 129, Water street—the Printing-Office, 149, Pearl-street—and at the different Booksellers in New-York—Also, by William Young, corner of Second and Chestnut street, and the Editor of the Gazette of the United States, Philadelphia. As soon as a sufficient number of Subscribers are obtained, the work will be put to press, and completed with the utmost dispatch. Feb. 20. codam
PROPOSALS,
FOR PRINTING BY SUBSCRIPTION, A NEW AND INTERESTING WORK, ENTITLED, A TREATISE
ON THE POLICE OF LONDON, Containing a detail of the various crimes and misdemeanors, by which public and private property are, at present, injured and endangered: And suggesting remedies for their prevention. BY A MAGISTRATE, Aiding for the counties of Middlesex, Surrey, Kent, and Essex; for the city and liberty of Westminster; and for the liberty of the Tower of London. CONDITIONS. This work will be printed in a large octavo, on an excellent English paper—it will be delivered to subscribers, bound in boards, at the moderate price of One Dollar and a half; although the last London edition, on inferior paper and meanly bound, is now sold at two dollars and a half. To non-subscribers the price will be raised. Whatever encouragement may be given by subscription, it will be committed to the press without delay; and, barring accidents, will be ready for publication early in April. Subscriptions will be thankfully received at Benjamin Davies's book-store, No. 68, High-street, and by most of the other booksellers in the city; by George Hill, in Baltimore; and by Samuel Campbell, and A. Drummond, in New-York. January 31. 22w1A