Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser. (Philadelphia [Pa.]), 1800-01-27 00:00:00

Foreign Intelligence.
ZURICH, October 16.
The reserve of the French army has made a movement. General Massena, apprehensive that Prince Charles, who advanced with his army into the Grisons, would attempt to turn us at Bâle, has just sent the reserve to protect the Rhine on that point. Our troops during the short time they remained in Constance pillaged a part of the town. The Helvetic Directory having formally forbidden the payment of the loan of 800,000 francs, imposed on the inhabitants of Zurich, General Massena has sent from that town the Swiss troops who did duty there, and has replaced them by French troops.
ARAU, October 16.
On the night of the 14th, General Massena arrived here, and had a conference with the French Minister. Several circumstances inclining us to believe that the object of the conference was to impose a contribution on all Helvetia. Pétrel, the Minister, is not probably so much attached to that measure as Massena, or the Adjutant General, Deglovon, set out immediately for Paris. Massena appears to fear Suwarow less than the Archduke Charles. The enemy is on the other side of the Rhine, and occupies Dillingen, Sargans, and Thus, Massena has frequently wished to draw Suwarow into the plains, but the latter has carefully declined it. Lecourbe, it is reported, will return to take the command of his division. Conde's corps is stated to have lost 1200 men in the late action. Three hundred of them passed by this place as prisoners. The canton of Argovia is to furnish 1000 men, who are to work at the construction of the head of a bridge near Wattigen.
SCHWATZINGEN, Oct. 29.
Lecourbe arrived here to-day, and has published an energetic proclamation to the army.
Phillipsburg is again besieged by the republicans, who have carried the entrenchments which flanked the right of that place.
An Austrian battalion of the regiment of Brodia threw itself into Phillipsburg, two hours before our arrival before that place. All the corps of troops and corps of which were in the departments of the forests, the Ardennes, the Meuse, and the Moselle, have joined the troops on the Rhine, and form an army of some thousand men. This movement will produce the double advantage of dissipating all uneasiness respecting the Count d'Albin and his force. Great events are about to take place.
PARIS, October 30.
The Chouans are still marching their columns from commune to commune, but are very careful of stopping at those where they are well received. At Mans and Nantes they have shown themselves, and also at Port Brieux; they left those places however immediately, and went elsewhere, seeking men to kill and property to steal.
General Grouchi is dead of the wounds he received at the battle of Novi.
FALMOUTH, October 28.
Arrived this morning from off Brest, the Lurcher cutter, J. Betts master, being attached to a squadron of frigates under the command of captain Cunningham in the Clyde. By this cutter we hear, that she left the squadron on Friday evening, with advice that seven sail of the line and a frigate were then under weigh coming out of Brest, and that thirty-nine sail of the line were in the outer road, ready for sea.
On the cutter's passage to this port, she fell in with the Majestic, from Gibraltar, out of which she took an officer from Sir Sidney Smith, who landed here, and set off for town immediately.
The grand fleet was off this port on Friday afternoon, the day the above ships came out of Brest; and as the run from hence to Brest is not above 15 or 16 hours sail, it is hoped they were down on Saturday morning in time to fall in with the enemy.
PLYMOUTH, October 31.
The dollars taken aboard the San Brigada and El Thetis, Spanish frigates, have been landed and lodged in the citadel at this place under an escort of the military: those captured in the former consist of 308 boxes, and in the latter of 427, containing together 2,000,000, amounting to about 652,000 sterling, exclusive of their valuable cargoes. The line of march in which 63 artillery waggons conveyed the treasure extended near two miles.
TO LET,
Several Valuable
FARMS,
Situated in Benalem township, Bucks county, nineteen miles from Philadelphia.
For terms apply to
ELIZABETH ROBERTS,
Attleborough, Bucks county—or
JOSEPH R. JENKS,
No. 38, north Second street, Philadel a .
N.B. None need apply who cannot produce suitable recommendation.
Also for sale,
The Time of a Negro Boy,
Who is fifteen years of age, and has thirteen years to serve—He has been used to the business of a Farmer, and can drive a Carriage.
Apply to
ELIZABETH ROBERTS, as above.
January 23.
PORCUPINE'S GAZETTE.
THE Subscribers to this Gazette are informed, that the Parental Number is this day received at the Philadelphia Post Office. N.B. A Supplement of two or three numbers will be published, and duly sent on to the Subscribers.
January 24. THIS DAY IS PUBLISHED, Price 62 1/2 cents. AND TO BE HAD OF WILLIAM JONES, No. 30 N. Fourth, near Market street.
A WORK upon a plan which never before appeared in the United States, being a SPECIES of Directory, but different from the usual sort.
ENTITLED THE NEW TRADE DIRECTORY FOR PHILADELPHIA, Anno 1800:
OR, a Complete List of all the occupations and trades (SEPARATELY and alphabetically arranged) practiced in the City and Liberties with the names and residences of those who follow each of them respectively, also in alphabetical order: to which is added an Alphabetical List of all the Streets, Lanes and Alleys in the city and liberties.
If a MERCHANT or SHIP OWNER wishes for any reason to be acquainted with all the Shipwrights, Grocers, Inspectors, Gunners, Mastrs, Shipwrights, Shipcarpenters, Ship Joiners, Malt-makers, Boat builders, Block makers, Salt-makers, Riggers, Caulkers, Seamen, Mariners, or any Tradesman , he needs only look to the Index for the TRADE, and he will be referred to the pages which contain all the names and residences of those who follow it.
If a HOUSE-KEEPER wants quickly to find a Baker, a Cake Baker, Sea-fish-monger, White Washer, Washer, China Mender, School-master or Mistress, Glazier, Paper Hanger, Painter, Cedar-Boxer, Locksmith, Blacksmith, Bittern, Plasterer or Joiner . He can also turn to the Index and be referred to the TRADE in question. In like manner can the LADIES find out the residences and names of all the Manua-makers, Bannet-makers, Stay-makers, Dyers and Nurses, or a STANNAKER the most convenient Boarding House, Hair Dresser, Hatter, Tailor, Trunk-maker . &c. Nor is the utility of the work confined to these alone; for any Tradesman may trace at once the names and residences of the Masters and Journeymen in his own line.
In short it is more or less Useful to almost every Class of Citizens—And the Editor trusts that such an Expensive and laborious Undertaking will meet with suitable Encouragement.
Jan. 8. (44D)dtf
DANCING.
MR. FRANCOIS OF THE NEW THEATRE, RESPECTFULLY informs his scholars and the public in general, that he will re-commence Teaching on TUESDAY the 24th instant, at the Assembly Room, South Fourth Street. Days of tuition, Tuesdays and Thursdays.
TERMS. Five Dollars per Month, Ten do. per Quarter, No Entrance.
For further Particulars apply to Mr. F. 70, north Eighth Street. December 21.
HENRY BENBRIDGE
BEGS leave to inform his friends and the public, that he has commenced the business of a BROKER, at his Office No. 43 Dock-street, near the Bank of the United States, where he buys and sells on Commission all kinds of Public Securities, Stocks, Notes, &c. &c. and offers his services in any business in his line. Jan 14. d1w3aw6w
THE UNDERSIGNED
His Swedish Majesty's Consul General, and authorized to transact the Consular Business, for his Majesty the King of Denmark in the United States of America, residing at Philadelphia. Hereby gives public Notice, That in obedience to recent instructions received from his government, it is the duty of all Masters of Swedish and Danish vessels, before their sailing from any port in the said States, to call upon him or the Vice Consul, in order to be granted such Certificates for their Cargoes, which the exigency of the state of the Neutral Commerce and the several Decrees of the Belligerent Powers, render indispensably necessary, and that any Master of vessels belonging to the respective nations, or navigating under the protection of their flags, in omitting to take such certificates, will personally stand responsible for the consequences.
RICHARD SODERSTROM. Philadelphia, 18th December, 1799.
United States, Pennsylvania District, } ss.
Notice is hereby given,
THAT a Special District Court of the United States will be held at the City Hall, in the city of Philadelphia, in and for the Pennsylvania district, on Friday the 31st day of January instant, at ten o'clock A.M. for the trial of an information filed by William Rawle, Esq. attorney of the United States in and for the said district, against 1 Calk, and 1 Hogheads Spirits, distilled at a distillery within the city of Philadelphia, and removed from the same without being first branded or marked according to law—wherefore the same have been seized as forfeited.
By order of court, D. CALDWELL, Clerk Dist. Court. January 18, 1800.
CITY OF WASHINGTON.
THE POSSESSORS
OF OBLIGATIONS or CERTIFICATES signed by the subscriber, for undivided shares or Lots on his purchase within the city of Washington, who have not yet applied for and received their Deeds, are hereby notified, that their several Titles will be duly completed to the order of those who in conformity with the terms of the said Certificates, do make the Payments in full thereof, either to Thomas M'Eean & Co. or to the Subscriber at Philadelphia, on or at any time before the 31st day of May next.
Samuel Blodget. December 17
ANY Person or Persons, wishing to avail themselves of any opportunity of having a person well calculated to perform the necessary avocation of a DUN, will hear of one, by leaving a line at the Office of this Gazette, directed to A. B.
Any recommendations necessary can be given. January 22. dtf
NEW THEATRE.
This Evening, January 27. Will be presented, (for the third time in America) a much-admired new Comedy, called RECONCILIATION; Or, The Birth Day.
To which will be added, (for the 4th time this season) a Grand Dramatic Romance, called BLUE BEARD; Or, FEMALE CURIOSITY. With additional Scenery, Machinery and Decorations, entirely new.
Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre.
NOTICE.
A PERSON WHO will do any kind of business, either as a Labourer, an Accountant, a Clerk, an Assistant in a School, or any occupation by which he can make a living—wants employment. He is a stranger, but asks no wages till earned, and is willing to forego any he may earn in case he does not fully satisfy any person who may honor him with employment.
Apply at No. 58 North Seventh street, near Cherry alley, or to the Printer hereof. January 27. dtf
THE COMMITTEES
Appointed by the several Fire Companies in the City and Liberties, to devise a plan of association for the purpose of acting in concert at fires are requested to attend a meeting to be held at Cameron's Tavern, sign of the Golden Swan, in Third Street above Arch Street, on Saturday evening the 1st of February, precisely at 6 o'clock.
January 27. dtf
BANKRUPT OFFICE.
A SECOND Dividend of the Estate of George and Robert Gray, Bankrupts, will be paid to the creditors who have proved their debts under the commission, at any time when called for, at No. 109 Arch Street. JOHN JENNINGS, Clerk. January 30, 1800. taw3w
VALUABLE REAL ESTATE.
FOR SALE About 25 acres of Land, LAYING on the east side of the Falls Road.—On the East it is bounded by property belonging to Mr. Fanch Francis, sen.—on the South, by a road of two torches, and on the north by a lane, which separates it from Mr. McCall. It is proposed to divide this land into 3 equal parts in order to suit the purchasers. For terms apply to Samuel Mifflin, corner of Market and 11th streets. January 24. dtf
REPOSITORY
FOR THE SALE OF HORSES AND CARRIAGES. THE Subscriber informs his friends and the public, that he continues to keep his stables in Seventh, near Market Street, for the reception of Horses and Carriages at private sale. From his long experience and knowledge of horses, and the confidence his set of carriages placed in him for a number of years past, he flatters himself he may be of essential service to those who may employ him in that way—They may be assured every exertion in his power shall be done for the mutual advantage of both seller and buyer. Horses taken in at liberty on as low terms as any in the city, and particular care taken of them. WILLIAM DAVIDSON. January 23. d2am.twt.fct
TO BE SOLD FOR CASH,
OR EXCHANGED, For property in the City, or within thirty miles of it. A PLANTATION or tract of Land in A. Mifflin County and State of Pennsylvania, within 6x miles of the river Juniata, containing about 300 acres. There are about fifty acres cleared, part of which is a rich bottom, watered by a constant stream that is strong enough to work an oil or a grist mill. Any person inclining to deal for it, may obtain further information by applying at the office of this gazette. N.B. If sold, credit will be given for part of the money. October 17, 1799. dtf
TO BE SOLD,
Or Rented for a term of Years, A LARGE
TWO STORY BRICK HOUSE,
WITH a Lot thereunto belonging, SITUATE in Duck Creek, Crooks Roads Kent County, State of Delaware, fronting on the Main Street, there are on the lower Floor, five Rooms and an Entry, with a number of well finished Rooms up Stairs, a Cellar under the whole Building, a Brick Kitchen, a rump of good Water, with a Stable, Carriage House and Sheds, the whole Improvements are in good repair. The Seat is well calculated for either a Store or Tavern, the latter of which it has been occupied for a number of years with considerable success. The situation is dry and the Country around being very healthy and a place of considerable Trade, it will be well worth the attention of any person wishing to purchase or rent. For further particulars apply to the Subscriber at the aforesaid place. JOHN CUMMINGS. January 8. taw3in
Ten Dollars Reward.
DESERTED from the Company of Captain MATTHEW HENRY, 10th Reg. U.S. Infantry, an enlisted soldier named MOSES WATSON, born in Pennsylvania, by trade a shoemaker, thirty years of age, five feet eight and an half inches high, black eyes, black hair, fair complexion, has lost two of his fore teeth which is very perceptible when he talks. * It is known that he now lurks in this city. Whoever shall take up said deserter and lodge him in jail, or shall deliver him to the Subscriber at his quarters in Filbert between Ninth and Tenth street, shall receive the above reward and reasonable charges. BENJAMIN GIBBS, Jun. Captain 10th Reg. U.S. Infantry. Jan. 7.
The Gazette.
PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 27.
PITTSBURG ADDRESS.
To Thomas M c Kean, Governor elect of Pennsylvania.
SIR, FROM the verge and green end of the State we salute you. In your elevation, we see age honoured, services rewarded, talents employed, integrity trusted, and worth estimated.
Your gradual and mature advance to the highest place of dignity has given you experience, fits your own mind for the duty, and 'tis agreeable to the natural order of things. The services of half a century, at the bar, in the field, in the senate, in the cabinet, and on the bench, in public charities, in private good by counsel or by purse, has received acknowledgment by the vote of the people. Powers of mind naturally strong and highly cultivated, are preferred in vigor by a change of duty, refreshed by a difference of office and selected by a great state to execute her laws. Since it is in words and actions; honor and probity in private dealings; unimpeached and an unimpeachable degree of public trust, is chosen to secure confidence.
General worth of character justifies the promotion and is a lesson to youth, and an example to manhood, that, to the temple of honor amongst us, as amongst the Romans we go through that of virtue.
In your elevation we see a choice uninfluenced by expectants of office, holders of stock in the funds, great wealth; but carried against all these; a proof that Public Spirit like a giantess has arisen from her slumbers; that the quicksands of speculation are past; that the mass of the people govern; that equitable industry and successive services will alone lead to estate and preferment; and that the day is not far distant when the letter of Mosaic will be inscribed on a monument as a testimony of a wise man against degenerate times.
What is more in your elevation, we see a revival of the whig spirit peculiarly necessary at this period, when the dangers of '76, and from the same foe, seem imminent, and our independence is again menaced by the Queen of Isles and the Leviathan of the Ocean.
Taking our leave of you, we wish you health, and we pray God to preserve you during the period for which you are elected, and give you life for that which you are eligible—the father of your family and of the state, a terror to evil doers, and praise to them that do well.
This address is made to you on behalf of a number at this place as their committee.
Samuel Ewalt, H. H. Brackenridge, Nathaniel Irish, Andrew Richardson, Addison Tannehill, George Robinson, Ephraim Jones. Pittsburg, November 22, 1799.
To Messrs. Ewalt, Brackenridge, Irish, Richardson, Tannehill, Robinson and Jones, a committee on behalf of a number of citizens of Pittsburg.
Gentlemen, THE cordial salutation which you have presented on behalf of my friends in Pittsburg upon the event of the late election has peculiar claims to attention and respect. The distance of the scene; the little intercourse that I have enjoyed with its inhabitants; and the fair advantage possessed by my competitor from personal and local considerations must enhance the merit of your attachment and enliven the sense of my obligation.
It is true that I have lived long and have endeavoured to Live Well; but I am conscious that much still remains to be done to entitle me to the esteem which you have so eloquently pronounced. On the principles however that have hitherto actuated my public conduct. I promise to persevere in the service of my country—manifesting my gratitude for the station which she has conferred upon me in the Temple of Honor by my veneration and solicitude for her Peace, Liberty and Independence.
Affure our fellow-citizens, gentlemen, that it will be a favourite object of my administration to promote the prosperity of this state, (the great mart of our western commerce.) And accept of my best thanks for your personal kindness.
I am, Gentlemen, Your obliged friend and humble servant, THOMAS M c KEAN. Lancaster, December 8, 1799.
On Friday the 3d instant, the joint committee of the Senate and House of Representatives of this state, appointed to visit the Pennsylvania Hospital, made the following report.
The committee appointed to join a committee of the Senate, and visit the Pennsylvania Hospital, made report, which was read as follows, viz.
That they have performed that service December 24th last, and found the apartments very clean and in good order.
The committee had the satisfaction to observe from the annual accounts, that the capital stock at interest has increased this year four hundred and twenty seven pounds one shilling and eight pence, and that it now amounts to twenty thousand eight hundred and five pounds thirteen shillings and ten pence.
The legacies and contributions of the last year, are four hundred and ninety-one pounds sixteen shillings.
The museum is just improved by several valuable anatomical preparations, and a remittance of two hundred pounds sterling, is on its way to London to enrich the Library, the funds for which are raised by young students who pay for the privilege of attending the practice of the house and for the use of the books.
There have been received into the Hospital in the course of the year, one hundred and ninety-five patients, viz. eighty-seven poor and one hundred and eight poor, of whom sixteen were lunatic. Of these
68 were cured, 9 relieved, 32 died, 6 were taken by their friends, 6 escaped, 1 sent to the City Hospital with the yellow fever, 73 remain, of whom 54 are lunatics.
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In addition to these, it appears that three hundred and two poor out-patients have been attended at their private dwellings with medicine and advice.
224 of them have been cured, 13 relieved, 17 died, 4 removed to the City Hospital with the yellow fever, 2 taken by their friends, 4 returned to other physicians, 1 delivered in child bed, 37 remain under care.
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At the time the committee visited the Hospital, there were seventy-one patients in it, viz. thirty poor and forty-one pay. Of whom—
2 were from England, 1 France, 6 Scotland, 6 Germany, 16 Ireland, 1 Virginia, 1 Jersey, 16 Philadelphia, 2 County of Philadelphia, 16 other counties of this commonwealth.
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All of these are comfortably provided for and well taken care of.
Roderer assures us, that the Son of LA FAYETTE fought in the advanced guard in Batavia under General Brune, against the Anglo-Russians. Paris Paper.
Married, on Thursday evening last, Capt. William Ross to Mrs. Rachel Hazelwood, both of this city.
NEW-YORK, January 25.
Yesterday morning arrived here, the United States ship of war Portsmouth, Capt. M c Neil, mounting 24 guns, from a 12 months cruise; during which time she has lost only two men, the surgeon, of a consumption, and a marine officer, of a fever. The Portsmouth, perhaps, has been one of the most useful vessels on the West-India station, having conveyed three different fleets of valuable American vessels from Surinam besides picking up a number of marauding boats which proved very destructive to our commerce. There is hardly a navigable place amongst the islands where the Portsmouth has not been. She left Porto Rico the 5th inst.—is to pay off her crew in this port, and prepare for another cruise. On her anchoring she saluted the town.
CONGRESS.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
FRIDAY, January 24.
Report of the committee on the message of the President, together with the letter of Mr. Randolph.
Mr. Smith moved the recommittal of the report to a committee, on account of some improper reflections and censure on the file and application of Mr. Randolph.
The second, third and fourth paragraphs of the report we think proper to reinstate because of the references made to them in the debate.
On the file of the letter to the President, referred to the consideration of the committee, they forbear any other remark, than to express their regret that a member of the house has conceived himself justified in deviating from the forms of decorum customary in official communications to the chief magistrates of the United States, justly due to his place and character, and essential to that harmony between the different branches of the government which should be circumspectly cherished by their respective members.
In Mr. Randolph's letter, he states that for words of a general nature, uttered in debate, in the House of Representatives, on a proposition for reducing the army, he had been publicly and grossly insulted, by several persons, officers of the army or navy, and demands of the executive authority, redress for an attack on his independence and rights as a legislator.
Your committee being of opinion that the matter of complaint relates the privileges of the House, inherent in its own body; and there exclusively cognizable, cannot but consider the appeal in this instance to the executive authority, however otherwise intended, as derogating from those rights of the House, with which are intimately connected, both its honor and independence, and the inviolability of its members.
Mr. Rutledge did not know whether the gentleman from Maryland meant to refer it

to the same committee who reported, if he did, he could expect no other report, because it was an opinion which they had given, and it was improbable they would change that opinion.
Mr. Nicholas believed that as the committee had given their opinion on the business, if the House disapproved of that opinion, the only way to express it was by recommitting the report, either to the same committee or to some other. For himself, he objected to every opinion the committee had given, but particularly to that on the file of the address of Mr. Randolph.
He should go on and state his ideas at large, and the reasons why the house ought not to act on the present report.
The house and committee appeared to possess but one opinion upon one of the points, that was, to procure every information respecting the nature of the intended insult upon one of its members, connected with his department in the house, for the purpose of bringing on a quarrel. It was unanimously determined to examine it, and there was no doubt of the propriety of that measure, and the fitness of the matter alleged for the house to act upon.
In his mind, Mr. Nicholas said, there could not be a more clear and necessary principle established than that a clear and apparent intention of bringing on a quarrel with one of the members of that House, on account of his public conduct, was an infringement of the rights and privileges of the house. It was a proper and right subject of enquiry, for if gentlemen were obliged to engage in defence of what they said in the house, out of doors, it was the same as though they were to expose themselves to personal violence and attack, and no less mischievous. In his idea it was a necessary prerogative to freedom of debate, and security under it.
Mr. Nicholas here read the report. In his opinion, Mr. N. said, the decision of the committee on the subject, though it was not a positive denial of the principle which they and the house had before admitted, which the house acted upon, and which was essential to the freedom of debate—that decision went to destroy the whole principle.
He confessed that the acts in themselves were of a nature sufficient, provided the intention was not explained away by contradictory testimony to constitute the crime.
It became, therefore, the question, as to the intention, and he supposed it was upon that question the committee had reported "a satisfactory explanation," respecting some part of the charge, "and others appeared to them to be of too equivocal a nature to justify reprimand and punishment."
Mr. Christie was in a situation to collect more of the conversation and conduct of these officers than any other person, except Mr. Van Rensselaer, whose deposition had not been taken: he said that from the conduct of these officers, he was determined to remain at the theatre, though he before intended to have gone out; to prevent it possible any disturbance. Their kind of conversation showed the most manifest and indubitable evidence of intention to insult Mr. Randolph, for talking of the men on the stage, one said "these raggamuffins are not Pennsylvanians, they are black Virginians." Certainly this might with propriety be supposed to refer to gentlemen from that state, and could not be considered a spontaneous groundless assertion—again, after "repeating the words raggamuffin and mercenary" they said "they were not well drilled, but would be better by next session of Congress" how could this have come into the conversation, except in alluding to a member of Congress, and what was said in the house connecting both together? It was in general necessary to prevent witnesses giving their opinions respecting circumstances they might relate, but it was impossible to repress it here, all the witnesses expressed an opinion, and it was generally thought there was an intention of insult towards Mr. Randolph, and to produce with him an actual quarrel. This kept Mr. Christie at the theatre, and he appeared to have good grounds for his apprehension.
Another, and a substantial objection Mr. Nicholas said he had to the report was, that Mr. Randolph's statement stood exactly upon the same ground with those of Mr. Reynolds and Mr. McKnight.
Was he not a competent witness; suppose he had been insulted or ill used when no person but himself was present, would his own testimony be rejected, and be denied justice on that account? He should have supposed there were gentlemen of sufficient legal knowledge on the committee to know that his own disposition was not inadmissible, but very proper. Mr. Randolph's competence was clear, and he was a respectable witness. There never was a case in which the credibility of a gentleman was less liable to question than in this, for Mr. Randolph was very unwilling to bring forward the business, and had throughout evinced a reluctance. Mr. Randolph's testimony was extremely necessary and important, because the principal facts of outrage were only known to himself.
If there was no other objection to the report, this was a material one.
Mr. Randolph had stated himself to have "had a sudden and violent pull by the cape of the coat" Mr. Nicholson heard Mr. Randolph call out "who was that jerked my coat" and saw Mr. McKnight at the moment before throw himself forward with one arm extended. In order to a proper understanding of the concomitant evidence, Mr. Randolph's affidavit was therefore essentially necessary, but as it had not been taken, Mr. Nicholas said he could not go into it.
Mr. Nicholas then asked wherein these circumstances were "satisfactorily explained" as the committee had been pleased to say. How were they explained? He declared himself perfectly at a loss to know, except it might have been in the statements of Mr. Reynolds and Mr. McKnight!
Not knowing of any explanation, he should be obliged to go through the testimony.
He read Mr. McKnight's statement.—There was not a denial, he said, of a single fact charged. It was perfectly conformable. His not knowing Mr. Randolph, his not having known he was to be at the theatre, could not prove him innocent of the intention and act. Indeed he had proved something of a combination. He had stated himself to be just returned from Maryland, but he had forgotten one material fact. How came he to know of the use of the terms Ragamuffin and Mercenary ? It certainly proved that though he stated himself to have been so much engaged in the short time after his return, yet he must have procured that knowledge somewhere before he went to that theatre.
Mr. Reynolds' statement, Mr. Nicholas thought went to prove the testimony as applied to the insult. He said that Mr. Randolph was pointed out to him. After that, it appeared from other testimony, Mr. Reynolds went into the box where Mr. Randolph was, and suddenly dropped down with violence by that gentleman's side.
By the acknowledgment of one of them in his statement the words " Ragamuffin " and " Mercenary ," were frequently used by them. These statements, Mr. Nicholas thought, were good evidence of their intention, and of the reality and application of the insult, though they denied the facts of insult or intention. What else could be expected?
Lieutenant Thomson's declaration only went to prove that he knew of no insult given to Mr. Randolph, and that he did not see either of them address himself to Mr. Randolph, or speak particularly of him. The fact was that he did not appear to hear or see what Mr. Christie did, and therefore his evidence amounted to nothing.
Mr. Hurst proved nothing more than Mr. Reynolds had declared, and consequently his evidence was useless, except it was that Mr. Randolph was pointed out to them by some gentlemen.
Capt. Taylor's testimony showed nothing, but that at leaving the box Mr. McKnight made an effort, which he supposed was in consequence of a desire to get forward. This gentleman further said there was no concert to insult Mr. Randolph, and that he saw no insult given to him.
One thing Mr. Nicholas said he would here observe, that the evidence of gentlemen in the same company was not competent. They could have refused to answer any question at all, left they might implicate themselves, and therefore the only evidence to be expected from them was negative, and as they had answered by negative testimony only, it amounted to nothing. If they had proved there was a concert to insult Mr. Randolph, every one of the same party would be alike amenable, and therefore their testimony was inadmissible, for it could not be expected that they would criminate themselves. But in neither of the depositions of Lieutenant Thomson nor Captain Taylor, nor either of the statements was there a denial of the frequent repetition of the words, nor a proof that they were not intended to insult Mr. Randolph.
What, Mr. Nicholas asked, would be the effect of such decisions as the committee had made?—Here was an apparent insult; such as impressed that opinion on the bye standers. How did the committee get over it? Why, by saying that of the testimony, some parts were equivocal, and other parts were explained to their satisfaction.—How explained? He repeated it could be only by the persons themselves! The effect would be a declaration made to the world that though the House had the privilege of debate, yet if any person infringed upon, and violated that privilege, all he had to do was to explain away the criminal intention, to give his conduct a different direction, and he should be clear.
Where then would be the security and inviolability of debate? Should a gentleman for what he thought his duty forced him to say in the house, be exposed to public insult and abuse? Such a dangerous principle would not meet support.
Farther, Mr. Nicholas observed with concern, that whilst the most material part of the evidence was treated with evident disregard, the gentleman himself who was insulted should be treated by the committee with the greatest severity. In two instances they had passed a censure on his conduct though they had so slightly looked over the faults of those who insulted him.
The committee had first thought themselves at liberty to censure Mr. Randolph's file. With respect to this, Mr. Nicholas said he knew of no particular title or form in which man was obliged to write to man. Men had different modes of address to the President: some who wanted offices might think one file the most proper, others who were used to familiar intercourse with him would use another, there was no standard. Mr. Nicholas said he believed Mr. Randolph had used the file he always did, and which was most familiar to him.
Again, Mr. Randolph was censured for applying to the President, and not to the House, for redress.—This was strange doctrine. Suppose these gentlemen had gone farther, and been guilty of assault and battery, would not Mr. Randolph have then been obliged to appeal to the civil authority. But when he had been insulted, and by some of the Military, he thought it most proper to apply to the head of the military, who could correct the disorderly conduct of those under his command. The President himself had acknowledged his cognizance of it in one respect, and said he had directed the proper authorities to examine into it. Could any thing be more clear, than that he thought it was a proper appeal? But in such parts as related to a breach of privilege, he thought the House had cognizance of it.
Mr. Nicholas thought it was very wrong to trouble the House with any thing that could be done by other parts of the government; all necessary applications were independent, inasmuch as it might tend to disturb the peace of the House. But it was a little extraordinary, that the committee who decided against the charge, should have made it a serious cause of apprehension, because it was not brought to them in the first instance. He could not help thinking it an unjust and unjustifiable report, and therefore hoped it would undergo an alteration.
But, Mr. N. observed, though there was competent testimony to prove the design of provocation, and the reality of the insult; and though he viewed it as a breach of privilege on a member of the House in his official capacity. Yet, as no injury had been sustained—as this was the first instance of the kind, and as those officers were young, and might have considered themselves and their corps materially injured by Mr. Randolph's ardency for reducing the army, they possessed much zeal for their profession—For these reasons he was willing that the House should forbear to act upon it, and be satisfied with its having been brought up, in hopes that it would not be without its good effects. But he was not willing any unjust implication should be placed on Mr. Randolph by the committee, on which account he wished the report might be re-committed, and not go out to the world in this very exceptional shape.
Important.
By the Brig Annable Matilda arrived at New-York, from England, London papers are received, to November 30, which we have been favored with, by a gentleman of this city. The following are extracts from them, and we are pleased to find that they confirm in the fullest manner the recent
GLORIOUS INTELLIGENCE.
FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, EXTRAORDINARY.
Downing Street, November 28.
Dispatches, of which the following are copies, have been received this day from the Right Honorable Lord William Bentinck by the Right Honorable Lord Grenville, his Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Foreign Department.
Head Quarters, Montenau, Oct. 26, '99.
My Lord, I have the honor to inform your Lordship, that a report was this morning received by General Melas from General Kamczai, (who commanded a corps of 6000 men near Novi to observe the chief débouché from Genoa) stating that he had been attacked by very superior numbers of the enemy, and after a very severe engagement, had been obliged to retire with considerable loss to Alexandria, where he had taken up a position behind the Boemia. General Kray marched this morning with a considerable reinforcement, and I hope will arrive time enough to prevent the enemy from making any further progress. A resolution has been taken on the part of the commander in chief immediately to embody the Piedmontese army; these troops are to be placed in every respect upon their antient footing; they are to take the oath of fidelity to the King of Sardinia only; and are in no manner whatever to be made subject to Austrian discipline. The Piedmontese troops that are employed have behaved upon all occasions in the most gallant and honorable manner. Vast numbers of deserters come in daily, who all describe the distress of the enemy, for want of provisions, to be extreme.
I have the honor to be, &c. W. BENTINCK.
Head Quarters, Centalo, Nov. 6, '99.
My Lord, In my last letter I had the honor of acquainting your Lordship, that in consequence of information having been received that a large detachment of the enemy was coming from the side of Savoy, the army made a movement to its right. The French having taken Pignerol and Suza, and having advanced to Saluzzo, threatening our communication with Turin, General Melas thought it necessary to march still farther to his right and a camp was chosen between Bra and Fossano.
These operations, when connected with the system of defence only, upon which this army had so long been acting, deceived the French into a belief that the Austrians were in full retreat. The evacuation of Mondovì, which was determined upon for the purpose of adding a very considerable force to the army, confirmed still more this opinion. Elated with these hopes, they advanced on all points, and on the 3d took possession of Savignone.
On the 4th the enemy marched in three columns to attack the Austrian army. The first column marched from Savignone by Marenne, the second by Genola, and the third marched to the attack of Fossano, which had been put in a state of defence, and was occupied by a considerable garrison. It happened that the Austrian army moved with the same intent, at the same time, and in the same number of columns, and upon the same roads. Lieutenant-General Ott commanded the right column, Lieutenant-General Elnitz the centre, and Major-General Götterheim the left. The two armies met at Marenne and Genola. It was not till after a very severe engagement that General Ott obliged the enemy to fall back from Marenne: a part retired to Genola, and a part to Savignone. General Ott pursued the enemy to the latter place, where he took three cannon and above 1000 prisoners. The column of General Elnitz, that was destined for the attack of Genola, met with a much
more formidable resistance. The action lasted for several hours, and it was not till the arrival of the column of General Ott from Savignone upon the rear of the French that victory declared in favour of the Austrians. The two columns immediately proceeded in pursuit of the enemy: General Ott by Villa Fallette, General Elnitz by Valdigi. The army halted at night at Centalo. The column of General Götterheim repulsed the French from Fossano to Murazzo. It will appear surprising, that while our army was at Centalo, a division of the French army remained between Murazzo and Ronchi with the Stura in their rear, over which there was no bridge. Early in the morning of the 5th, the army marched in two columns to Ronchi and Murazzo. The enemy, surprised, made no resistance, and two hundred prisoners were taken without any loss. It appears that the French army was completely defeated, and that this division was left there without orders.
The Austrians have made in two days above 3000 prisoners. The army being extremely fatigued remained at Ronchi; but this morning, Gen. Melas having determined to follow up his success with the greatest vigour, the army marched in two columns, one upon the intrenched camp of the Madonna del Almo, and the other upon Caligula: the enemy retreated every where upon our approach; it is reported that the French are retiring over the mountains. It is impossible to do justice to the valour and perseverance of the Austrian army. The operations of the army prior and subsequent to this affair, when considered in a military point of view, entitle the commander in chief to the admiration of the whole world.
Accounts were received yesterday from General Kray, that he had attacked the enemy near Alexandria, and obliged them to retire to Pozzolo Formigolo, with the loss of 1000 prisoners.
I have the honor to be, &c. W. BENTINCK.
LONDON, November 30.
The Extraordinary Gazette , in our paper of this day, contains the pleasing account of the enemy having been defeated in Italy on the 4th, 5th, and 6th inst, in actions of great severity with the Imperial army.—There is very little mention made of the hostile operations in this quarter previous to the first of those days, when, according to their own official details, the French obtained several advantages, and possessed themselves of Pignerol, Suza, Saluzzo, Savignone, and Mondovì. These facts are however, admitted in general terms by Lord William Bentinck, the writer of the gazette statement, who says, that the evacuation of Mondovì was a measure of prudence on the part of the Austrians, for the purpose of strengthening their main body. Deceived by the movements of the Imperialists, and elated by their former successes, the enemy advanced on the 4th, with a view of cutting off the communication between the position of general Melas and the city of Turin. In this movement they were promptly met by three columns of the Austrian army. A desperate conflict ensued various directions. Success continued for some time doubtful; but in the end the enemy were defeated in all points. The French account of these actions says that "the Imperialists, availing themselves of the superiority of their forces, attempted to turn their left; that two of the Republican divisions took positions at Centalo, Murazzo, and Ronchi; and that the loss of their opponents was very considerable." Thus we find that the French on this occasion, did not claim the victory; and, every circumstance considered, there is no room to suspect that the account of Lord William Bentinck is not perfectly accurate.
On the 5th and 6th (of the proceedings of which days the French statements make no mention) Gen. Melas followed up his successes, and the French are supposed to have retreated over the mountains with the loss of 3000 men and prisoners. The enemy were at the same time attacked by general Kray (who was sent to the assistance of General Kamczai) near Alexandria, and forced to retire to Pozzolo Formigolo, with the loss of 1000 prisoners.—These advantages must be considered as of the highest importance to the cause of the allies, inasmuch as they are calculated to frustrate the plans of the enemy for the remainder of the campaign, if not to enable the Imperialists to drive them entirely from the Italian territories.—The French, it is probable, will not now be capable of maintaining themselves in the country of Genoa, and the undisturbed investment of Coni, the only Piedmontese fortress that remains in their hands, is expected immediately to take place. The army of Piemonte is forthwith to be embodied for the service of its own sovereign, who, it is thought, is about to return to his capital of Turin.
The Hamburg mail of Wednesday still remains due.
A letter from Berlin, dated the 8th inst. says, "Every thing here seems to have changed its face. Our troops ready to pass the Rhine on the one part, and the appearances here on the other, made us believe that in six months we should take an active part in the coalition against France; or that at least our Cabinet would be forced to declare itself against the republic. At present, however, our Cabinet is more discontent than ever with that of Vienna: ever since it learned the articles of peace made at Bell between France and the Emperor, in which Prussia is treated with little ceremony. The Baron Jacob Kieft is set out for his destination.—He is to have a conference with Barthelmi, the Ex-French Director, who is now at Hamburg, and it is said that he is to invite him to come and reside at Berlin."
The Russian troops now at Jersey, it is said, are intended to form a corps which is
to make a descent on the coast of France, In this case, we doubt not but that they will make a spirited attack on the batteries of Nitz as they did on the batteries at Bergend.
Extract of a letter from on board one of his Majesty's ships, dated off Brest, November 18, 1799.
"We looked into Brest this morning, and found our enemies completely inactive. The Spaniards have their yards and topmasts struck. We were in very close, and counted fifteen of the French ships dressed with flags, as if they had obtained some great victory; but having brought too a killing boat, the people informed us that Buonaparte had overthrown the Directory, had taken on himself the Executive Government to the great joy of the people throughout France, and that he promised them peace with Europe. The batteries have not lately fired upon us. The fishermen tell us the troops are all gone against the Chouans, who last week stormed Quimper, and liberated the prisoners. The seamen are doing garrison duty, and the Spaniards are in the town of Brest. This our own observation confirms, as we have not seen a soldier in a battery this day. They add, that the seamen are not paid, and that they desert very fast."
Thursday, November 28.
Government received advices yesterday from the coast of Brittany of the whole of the troops having been marched from Brest and in its neighbourhood to act against the Chouans, who have of late considerably increased in number, and who, according to private letters, proceeded last week against Quimper, and liberated a number of Royalist prisoners from that place. We also understand that the Republican army in that quarter is much divided on the subject of the late Revolution, and that a formidable spirit of disaffection has begun to manifest itself against the new order of things. The combined Fleets in the harbour of Brest are in a state of complete inactivity, and the batteries on shore are entirely manned with the sailors. As far as the sentiments of the people can be collected, a very general aversion to the Consulate prevails, and so great is the dread entertained by the despotic Triumvirate of the just resentment of the multitude, that they never, either collectively or individually, venture from home without a strong military escort. [ It should be borne in mind that the source from whence this Intelligence is derived, is virulently Jacobinical. ]
It was last night reported, that a desperate battle had taken place between the Archduke CHARLES and General MASSÉNA, of the result of which, however, no mention was made,
Three Hamburg Mails remained due when this Paper went to press. The cause of this delay we believe to be, that the whole of the packets, till within these few days were detained in Yarmouth Roads.
Whether the three Consuls are to form a part of the new constitution of France is a circumstance not yet known, we believe, even to Sieyes. From what has been so repeatedly said by the declaimers of his party, of the necessity of preserving an unity of action in the executive government, it may reasonably be inferred, however, that something like this is in contemplation. In theory at least it appears plausible, that an Executive of three persons is preferable to one of five, inasmuch as a majority of two to one is likely to be more potential than a majority of three to two. If we refer to experience, we shall find, that of the three revolutions in the Directory which have occurred within two years, two of them have been actually carried in favor of the minority!
The new appointment of Consuls in France is a poor affectation of terms taken from the Roman republic. The name, however, is not the most suspicious. Our Shakespeare very pointedly says, in his Coriolanus —
"They have chosen a Consul that will take from them their liberties!"
The savages of Louisiana, says Montequieu, when they are anxious for food, first cut down a tree, and then gather the fruits. Such, adds he, is the nature of despotic government, which is always destroying its own resources and supports. The new Consuls of France, under a regime not very different, have completely destroyed the tree of representation, on which their new constitution rested for support. What fruits they are to gather from its overthrow, it must remain for future events to determine.

TO THE PUBLIC.
THE time being fixed on, when the MILITARY LAND (commonly called Knox's) WARRANTS, granted to the United States' army, are to be registered and located...
We take the liberty of suggesting, "that we are at least as well acquainted with the situation, quality of the soil, &c. of the different townships in the aforesaid tract, as any other person;" this will, perhaps, appear more clearly, by observing, that WILLIAM C. SCHENCK...
MARTIN BAUM, WILLIAM C. SCHENCK. Philadelphia, Oct. 9, 1799. cow.
Valuable Property for Sale, In Chestnut, near Sixth Street, directly opposite CONGRESS HALL.
A LOT of ground, about 80 feet front in Chestnut Street and 73 feet in depth, whereon is a good frame house; now in the tenure of Samuel Berg...
WHEREAS, An attachment was lately issued out of the Inferior court of common pleas of the county of Essex...
And whereas, the said sheriff did, at the term of June last past, return to the said court that he had attached the defendant by a certain bond given by Matthias Denman and Samuel Mecker...
Aaron Ogden, Clerk, &c. Elizabethtown, July 8, 1799 (11) raw12m
TO BE SOLD, THREE or four lots of about 30 or 40 acres each...
On each of which there is a good situation for a house—viz. one on the river Delaware, suitable either for a gentleman's seat, or for a person who might wish to engage in the lumber business...
FOUR LOTS, Of about 10 acres each with good situations for building...
and has a small stone house and a young bearing orchard on it, on the Newtown road near Snider's mill about 10 miles from Philadelphia...
Taxes of Lycoming County.
JOHN KIDD, Treasurer, By Direction of the Commissioners of Lycoming county, attends at Philadelphia to receive the Taxes assessed upon unlocated Lands in that County...
THE SUBSCRIBER
Having explored the Land laid off for satisfying the Warrants due to the Officers and Soldiers who served in the war between the United States and Great Britain.
PROPOSES to locate Warrants to the best advantage, on being allowed a reasonable compensation. He will attend at Philadelphia at the time of locating; and as not less than 4000 acres can be registered or located, will receive any number of warrants less than that amount...
The subscriber proposes also to attend on the land immediately after locating, and they any section in which he may be employed. 515 Letters or warrants addressed to Alexander Addison, Esq. Pittsburgh...
January 16 WM. MCCLUNEY. cot12f
TO THE Holders of Military Land Warrants.
ZACHARIAH BIGGS AND JOHN MATHEWS
OFFER their services to the holders of military land warrants, to make the location on the 17th of February next, agreeably to the advertisement of the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States...
January 17 JOHN MATHEWS. raw3w
City Commissioner's Office.
January 1, 1800.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the following arrangements are made by the Board for the more effectual cleansing of the City.
District No. 1. Nicholas Hicks, from the north side of Vine, to the south side of Mulberry street. 2. Hugh Roberts from the south side of Mulberry, to the south side of Chestnut street.
Meetings of the Commissioners on every Tuesday afternoon, 2 o'clock, at the Old Court House. January 17. raw2w.
United States, Pennsylvania District.
BY virtue of a writ of venditioni exponas, to me directed, issued out of the circuit court of the United States, in and for the Pennsylvania District, of the middle circuit, will be sold by public vendue at the city tavern, in Second Street...
Seized and taken in execution as the property of Robert Lewis Hooper, deceased. JOHN HALL, Marshal.
N. B. A reasonable credit will be given. Marshall's Office, Philadelphia, Jan. 4. cot17M
* These two tracts do not contain the full quantity of the original warrants; part of them having been conveyed away.
TO BE LET, A large WHARF and STONE STORE, In the District of Southwark.
THE same where the Frigate now lays. The Wharf has been occupied as a Lumber Yard for several years, and is very suitable for that business...
JOSHUA HUMPHREYS. January 10. raw3w.
Horses to Winter.
HORSES will be taken to winter at Prospect Hill, at the 12 miles stone on the Bristol Road, where they will have good Timothy and Clover Hay, well littered and cleaned...
Enquire of Mr. William Bell Merchant, or on the premises. N. B. Will not be answerable for accidents or escape, but will take every precaution to prevent either. November 12. raw12f
ALL PERSONS
INDEBTED to the Estate of JOHN WHARTON, late of the City of Philadelphia, Merchant, deceased, are requested to pay the same, and those having demands against his Estate, to produce their accounts legally attested to KEARNY WHARTON, Acting Executor, No. 111, Spruce street. November 11. def.
A Quantity of Dry Goods
ARE WANTED, FOR which real Estate in the Northern Liberties of this city, (a good Stand for Business) will be given in payment; the title is clear and good, and is now for a short time let, but possession will be given in about six months. Enquire at the Office of this Gazette. December 17. cotf
To be Sold at Public Vendue, On the 1st day of February next, on the premises, A VALUABLE PLANTATION, (The property of the subscriber.)
SITUATED about two miles from Newtown, in the county town of Bucks, on the main road leading to Yardley's Ferry, on the Delaware, about four miles from the latter place, and about twenty five from Philadelphia, containing 121 acres, the whole under good fence and in high culture.
NICHOLAS WYNKOOP, or CHRISTIAN WIRTZ, Jun. Newton, January 11. raw3w.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT. March 11th, 1799.
PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, Pursuant to the act of Congress passed on the 1st day of June, one thousand, seven hundred and ninety six, entitled "An act regulating the grants of land appropriated for military services, and for the society of United Brethren for propagating the gospel among the Heathen;" and the act supplementary to the said recited act passed on the second day of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety nine—to wit:
THAT the tract of Land herein after described, to wit: "beginning at the North West corner of the seven ranges of townships, and running thence fifty miles due south, along the western boundary of the said ranges; thence due West to the Main Branch of the Scioto river; thence up the Main Branch of the said river to the place where the Indian boundary line crosses the same; thence along the said boundary line to the Tuckahoe branch of the Muskingum river at the crossing place above Fort Lawrence; thence down the said river, to the point where a line run due west from the place of beginning, will intersect the said river; thence along the line to run to the place of beginning;" has been divided into townships of five miles square, and fractional parts of townships; and that plats and surveys of the said townships and fractional parts of townships are deposited in the offices of the Register of the Treasury and Surveyor General, for the inspection of all persons concerned.
The holders of such warrants as have been or shall be granted for military services performed during the late war, are required to present the same to the Register of the Treasury, at some time prior to the twelfth day of February in the year, one thousand eight hundred, for the purpose of being registered; No registry will however be made of any less quantity than a quarter township, or four thousand acres.
The priority of allocation of the warrants which may be presented and registered in manner aforesaid, prior to the 12th day of February in the year one thousand eight hundred, will immediately after the said day, be determined by lot, in the mode described by the act first recited.
The holders of registered warrants, shall on Monday the 17th day of February, in the year 1800, in the order of which the priority of location shall be determined by lot as aforesaid, personally, or by their agents, designate in writing at the office of the Register of the Treasury, the particular quarter townships selected by them respectively, and such of the said holders as shall not designate their locations on the said day, shall be postponed in locating such warrants to all other holders of registered warrants.
The holders of warrants for military services sufficient to cover one or more quarter townships or tracts of four thousand acres each; shall, at any time after Monday the 17th day of February, 1800 and prior to the first day of January, 1802, be allowed to register the said warrants in manner aforesaid, and forthwith to make locations therefor on any tract or tracts of land not before located.
All warrants or claims for lands on account of military services, which shall not be registered and located before the first day of January, 1802, are by the supplementary act of Congress herein before recited, passed on the second day of March, 1799, declared to be forever barred. Given under my hand at Philadelphia, the day and year above mentioned. OLIVER WOLCOTT, Sec. of the Treasury.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT. May 29th, 1799.
THE proprietors of certificates issued for subscriptions to the Loan bearing interest at eight per centum per annum, are notified, that at any time after payment shall have been made of the 5th installment, which will become due during the first ten days of the month of July ensuing, Certificates of Funded Stock may at their option be obtained at the Treasury or Loan Offices, respectively, for the amount of the four first installments, or one moiety of the sums expressed in the subscription certificates:—No certificates of Funded Stock will however be issued for less than one hundred dollars.
Such subscription certificates as may be presented at the Treasury or Loan Offices in consequence of the foregoing arrangement, will be endorsed and distinctly marked so as to denote, that a moiety of the stock has been issued. OLIVER WOLCOTT, Secretary of the Treasury.
MEDFORD AND WILLIS,
Have received since their late Advertisement— 282 Crates Queens Ware, 200 Casks Nails, 6 Trunks Madras Pullicatts, 2 Cales Gloves, 1 Trunk Silk Hosiery, 1 Bale Superfine Broad Cloaths, 16 Bales White, Blue and Green, Kendal Cottons, 10 Bales Booking Baize, ON HAND, 2 Bales Spotted and Green Rugs, 1 Trunk Scarlet Cardinals, 2 Bales Sail Canvas, 5 Trunks Gingham, 11 Tons Peterburg Hemp. * * * Orders, remittances or communications for the following Houses, for whom Medford and Willis are agents, may still pass through their medium, viz. John and Robert Holt and Co.—Reichdale, William Dobb—Leicester, Claud Johnson—Birmingham. Enquire of JOHN DORSEY. December 10. raw8w.
Fashionable Millinery.
ELIZA M'DOUGALL, NO. 134, MARKET-STREET, HAS just received per ship Thomas Chalkley and Adriana, from London, an elegant assortment of the most fashionable MILLINERY, viz. Chemisette rosette FEATHERS Fancy flowers Black tiffany flowers Wreaths Pink, yellow and blue craps, full dress caps Do. do. do. Nelson's bonnets Infant's pins straw bonnets Maid's fancy do. do. Women's do. do. do. Do. do. shades Do. do. hats Fancy bugle throat roches Do. do. trimmings Black, white, blue, yellow, pink and orange craps, Black, white and green gauze veils Do. gauze cloaks N. B. And per Harmony, just arrived, a further assortment of Millinery. June 26. cotf.
BANK OF PENNSYLVANIA, December 31, 1799.
THE STOCKHOLDERS of the Bank of Pennsylvania, are hereby notified that their Annual Meeting will be held at the Bank on Friday the 31st day of January next, at ten o'clock. And the Stockholders of the said Bank, are also notified, that an election of nineteen Directors to serve for one year, will be held at the Bank on Monday the 31st day of February next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon. JONATHAN SMITH, Cashier.
Extract from the seventh section of the Act of Incorporation.
"Article 2nd. Not more than fourteen of the Directors elected by the Stockholders, and a usually in office, exclusive of the President, shall be eligible for the next succeeding year; but the Director who shall be President at the time of an election may always be re-elected."
DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA, TO WIT.
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the 9th day of January, in the 24th year of the Independence of the United States of America, John Rowlett of the said district hath deposited in this Office the Title of a Book, the right whereof he claims as Proprietor, in the words following, to wit:
"Table of Discount or Interest, (accurately calculated) from 50 cents to 5000 dollars, from 1 day to 123 days inclusive, at 6 per cent."
In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, intitled "An act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts and Books to the Authors and Proprietors of such copies during the time therein mentioned." (Signed) D. CALDWELL, Clerk of the District of Pennsylvania. January 10. raw3w.
DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA, TO WIT.
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the 9th day of January, in the 24th year of the Independence of the United States of America, John Rowlett of the said district hath deposited in this Office the Title of a Book, the right whereof he claims as Proprietor, in the words following, to wit:
"Table of Discount or Interest, (accurately calculated) from 50 cents to 5000 dollars, from 1 day to 123 days inclusive, at 7 per cent."
In conformity to the act of Congress of the United States, intitled "An act for the encouragement of learning by securing the copies of Maps, Charts and Books to the Authors and Proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned." (Signed) D. CALDWELL, Clerk of the District of Pennsylvania. January 10. raw3w.
At a Court of Common Pleas held at Pittsburgh for the county of Allegheny, the first Monday of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety nine, before the Hon. Alexander Addison, Esquire, President and his Associates, Judges of the same Court.
ON the petition of David Wallace, a prisoner in the jail of said County, praying to be discharged according to the provisions of the acts of assembly made for the relief of insolvent debtors. The Court order that the prisoner be brought before them at Pittsburgh on the first Monday of March next, that his petition and his creditors may be then heard, and direct, that notice of his application be published in the United States and Pittsburgh Gazettes three weeks, the last of which shall be at least fifteen days before the time of hearing. By order of the court. JAMES BRISON, Proth'y. Jan. 3. raw3w.
Lodging and Breakfast,
FOR one or two single Gentlemen, in a genteel private family, with the use of a neat front Parlour, and Board for Servants may be had at No. 28 north Fifth Street. November 26.
JUST RECEIVED, From the BOSTON Manufactory, A QUANTITY OF WINDOW GLASS, Of different sizes, FOR SALE BY ISAAC HARVEY, JUN.
N. B. Any size or sizes that may be wanted cut larger than 18 by 12 can be had from said Manufactory, on being ordered; and attention given to forward on any orders that may be left for that purpose. Apply at No. 9, South Water-street, as above. July 8. def.
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Of what infinite value would the laws of Alfred be, had they been transmitted to our days? Time, that destroys every thing, enhances the value of well authenticated public records, and renders them almost invaluable. It is hoped, that Americans will, therefore, cheerfully contribute their assistance in transmitting to posterity the labours of their ancestors—founders of the Columbian nation. The work, will certainly be advanced with expedition and promptitude. The following will show the support it has already acquired:
"Philadelphia, June 15, 1798. To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States. The MEMORIAL of the Subscribers, Citizens &c. of Philadelphia, Respectfully represents, That having, in our respective avocations, frequent occasions to recur to the Journals of Congress, we experience inconvenience by the scarcity of them: That we understand that Richard Folwell, printer, of Philadelphia, has had it in contemplation to print, that public record; and that he has obtained partial countenance from many individuals; but that he has delayed prosecuting the work, in expectation of encouragement from government, that may adequately indemnify him. We, therefore, respectfully solicit, as the publication is necessary to be disseminated among public bodies, that Congress will, in their wisdom render him such additional encouragement, to that which he has obtained from private individuals, as to enable him to proceed with the work, so that your Memorialists may be enabled to purchase copies of that record for themselves."
Thomas M'Kean, John D. Coxe, Charles Heatly, Samson Levy, T. Rife, Wm Moore Smith, John Read jun. William Tilghman, John F. Millin, Joseph B. M'Kean, John Beckley, W. Sergeant, John Thompson, Jared Ingersoll, Jasper Moylan, William Rawle, J. Thomas, William Lewis, James Gibson, M. Keppels, Moses Levy, Robert Porter, George Davis, John Hallowell, James Oldden, Walter Franklin, James Milnor, John C. Wells, John L. Leib, Alexander I. Dallas, Joseph Reed, Thomas Wharton, Samuel M. Fox, John Nixon, Robert Waln, Robert H. Dunkin, John Ewing, Jun. Edward Pennington, Hilary Baker, William Nichols, William Young, Robert Campbell Septimus, Claypoole James Cruckshank, Matthew Carey, Henry K. Helmhut, Peter D. Haven, John Dunlap, Edward Shoemaker, John R. Smith, William Hall, David C. Claypoole, Thomas Armstrong, Samuel H. Smith, John Penno.
"True copy from the original Memorial, presented to the House of Representatives of the United States, on Monday, the 18th of June 1798."
"WILLIAM LAMBERT, for JONATHAN W. CONDY, CLERK."
"RESOLVED by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives, be authorized and directed, to subscribe, on such terms as they may deem eligible, for the use of the Senate and House of Representatives, for four hundred Copies of the Journals of Congress, which are proposed to be published by Richard Folwell and such number of copies of deficient volumes of the set now in print, as may be necessary to complete the same. JONATHAN DAYTON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JAMES ROSS, President of the Senate pro tempore. Approved, March 2d, 1799. JOHN ADAMS, President of the United States. may 20. raw12f
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