Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser. (Philadelphia [Pa.]), 1800-01-07 00:00:00

The price of this Gazette is Eight DOLLARS per annum to Subscribers residing in the city of Philadelphia. All others pay one Dollar additional, for enclosing and directing; and unless some person in this city will become answerable for the subscription, it must be paid Six Months in Advance. No Subscription will be received for a shorter term than six months.
JOHN MILLER, Junr. No. 80 Dock, near Third street, HAS FOR SALE, Coffees, Mammodies, Taffaties, Striped Doreas, Tangies, Patna and Santipoor Hankerchiefs. The foregoing will be sold very low in order to close sales.
ALSO, A FEW PACKAGES OF German Goods, Suitable to the West India Market; Received by the Fair American from Hamburg. October 25.
For FREIGHT or CHARTER, For Europe or the West Indies, THE SHIP PACIFIC, PERKINS SALTEN, Master. She is a staunch good Ship, well fitted, burthen about 3000 barrels, and ready to receive a cargo on board. For terms apply to WHARTON and LEWIS, No. 115 South Front Street, who HAVE FOR SALE, A parcel of Havana Molasses, Old Madeira Wine, Ground Ginger, Burlington Pork, &c. &c. November 21.
A Quantity of Dry Goods ARE WANTED, For which real Estate in the Northern Liberties of this city, (a good Brand 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.
ROSS AND SIMSON, HAVE FOR SALE, 3000 pieces 1st and 2d quality Russia Duck, 100 pieces Ravens Duck (superior) Bolton Weft in Barrels. COSSAS A few bales Bengal HUMHUMS. 1100 buthels St. Martins Salt. April 11. TO BE SOLD BY JESSE & ROBERT WALN. Old Port Wine, in pipes, bds. and qr. casks, Also Landing at their Wharf From on board the ship Edward from Lisbon. Lisbon Wine, in pipes and qr. casks. June 25.
Bank of North America. THE STOCKHOLDERS ARE hereby notified that an Election for Twelve Directors for the ensuing year, will be held at the Bank, on Monday the 13th January next, at 10 o'clock. RICHARD WELLS, Cashier. Dec. 2, 1799.
CANAL OFFICE. November 28, 1799. Notice is hereby given, To the Stockholders of the Delaware and Schuylkill Canal companies, that their annual Election will be held at the Company's Office, on Monday the 6th of January next, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, for the purpose of Electing One President, Twelve Managers and One Treasurer to each Company, for the ensuing year. GEORGE WORRALL, Secretary. November 29.
MILITARY LAND WARRANTS. THE Subscriber having lately returned from viewing the land, surveyed and appropriated to satisfy the land warrants, issued by the Secretary of War, to the officers and soldiers of the late continental army; and having made arrangements with Mr. James Johnson, of Chester county, Pennsylvania, who he left on the land, and who, with the assistance of an intelligent inhabitant of that county, will spend five months in exploring the different sections. He will take regular notes, descriptive of the soil, situation, and natural advantages attached to each section in the whole survey; which notes will be placed in the hands of the subscriber previous to the period for locating, thereby enabling him to make the most advantageous locations the priority will admit. He offers his service to the holders of land warrants of the above description, throughout the United States, to receive their warrants, class them, (as no less quantity than 4000 acres will be required at the office of the treasury) have them registered agreeable to law, and attend to make the location at the time appointed in February next. For transacting the business, one tenth part of the land specified in the warrants will be required, and no other charge, except the postage of letters. All warrants forwarded and letters addressed to the subscriber, at No. 33, Penn-street, Philadelphia, will receive immediate attention. JAMES E. SMITH. September 2.
DANCING. MR. FRANCIS OF THE NEW THEATRE, RESPECTFULLY informs his scholars in 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.
IN THE PRESS, And in a few days will be published At Dickins's Book-Store, A SUPERB EDITION OF WASHINGTON'S ADDRESS To the People of the United States, on retiring from Public Life, Super Royal, 8vo. Ornamented with a capital Portrait by one of the best Artists.
NO exertion or expence have been spared to render this publication complete, and altho' all the materials and workmanship are entirely American, the paper, printing and engraving have been allowed by good judges to excel any thing ever attempted in the United States. DICKINS'S STATIONARY & BOOK-STORE, Will next week be removed to the house lately occupied by Mr. W. Cobbett. December 28.
LANDING At Wm. Cook's wharf from the schr. Lively, capt. Godfrey, from Halifax, 325 Barrels 80 half Barrels } fine pickled Salmon 20 Barrels do. Shad 11 do. do. Mackerel FOR SALE BY NICKLIN & GRIFFITH. N. B. These are some Goods on Freight on board the above Schooner, the names of the consignees of which are not mentioned, they are requested to make immediate entry of the same, otherwise they will be sent to the custom house as the vessel must be discharged without loss of time. Dec. 16.
UNSEATED LANDS. THE owners of Unseated Lands in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, are hereby notified, that unless the Taxes due on said Lands for the Years 1795, 1796, 1797, and 1798 are paid into the hands of JOHN WILKINS, Esquire, County Treasurer, on or before the 20th day of February next, they will be advertised for sale as the law directs. Ebenezer Denny, William Dunning, James Robinson, Commissioners. Pittsburgh, November 5, 1799.
TAKE NOTICE, THAT application is made to the Bank of the United States, for the renewal of the following certificates of Bank Stock, which were lost in the brig Peggy, Captain Fluyer, on her passage from America to London. No. 2959 For Eight Shares of Bank Stock 2960 in favour of Samuel Ehridge. 2961 WILLINGS & FRANCIS. October 25.
NOTICE. ALL persons indebted to the Estate of JACOB THOMAS, of Washington in the State of Kentucky, deceased, are requested to make immediate payment to the subscribers, and those who have any demands against the said estate are requested to furnish their accounts for settlement. SARAH WILSON, Administratrix. JOEL W. WILSON, Administrator. No. 295, South Front Street, Southwark. WHO HAS TO LET, A BRICK STABLE, Sufficiently large to contain nine Horses. ALSO, For Sale or to Let, A NEW FRAME CARRIAGE HOUSE. Nov. 1, 1799.
TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD. RAN AWAY on Saturday evening the 13th July instant, from Colebrook Furnace, Lancaster county, a Negro Man named Gato, he is about 40 years of age, five feet six or seven inches high, tolerable black, with a down look, squints, he is a cunning artful fellow, a great liar, and very fond of strong liquor, has been brought up to the farming business, is very handy at any kind of laboring work; he took with him a number of clothing, amongst which were, one suit plain Nankien; (some money). It is expected he has flapped his course for Philadelphia or New York. The above reward will be paid for securing him in any jail in the United States, with reasonable charges if brought home. SAMUEL JACOBS, Colebrook Furnace, July 16, 1799.
THE CO PARTNERSHIP OF THOMAS AND JOHN KETLAND Being Dissolved, By the death of Mr. JOHN KETLAND, ALL persons who have demands against said Firm are requested to bring in their accounts for payment, and those indebted to the same are solicited to make payment to THOMAS KETLAND. October 21. Just Imported, 135 Hogsheads, 191 barrels, 50 do. Green Coffee, 25 Boxes brown } Havannah SUGAR, 25 do. white, 12 bds. James' River Tobacco, 30 Packages well assorted German Linens Russia Cordage, assorted, 400 Pipes Barcelona Brandy, 4th proof, Hazelnuts in Sacks, Brown Stout Porter, draught and Bottled, 40 Casks Shot, No. 1 to 6, Lead in Pigs, 8 bds. ground Lead, assorted, 4 Casks Glauber Salts, Cream Tartar, &c. Black quart wine bottles in crates, 1 gross each, Queens ware in Crates, Cannon, 4, 6, and 9 pounds calibre, with shot, round, grape and canister, Swivels, Corks in bales, 1st quality, ditto in Sacks, Claret in cases, superior quality, Port Wine, ditto, Horsman's Swords, Hangers, &c. Fowling pieces and pistols in cases, Ship Malquets and Blunderbusses, &c. Bath River Crates, for chambers, &c. &c. FOR SALE BY THOMAS KETLAND, Walnut Street wharf. Nov. 1.
MADEIRA WINE, Of an excellent Quality and good Age, TO BE SOLD. By the pipe, quarter cask or less quantity. No. 107 South Second Street. December 21.
JOSEPH D. DRINKER BEGS leave to inform his friends and the public that he has taken into partnership DANIEL BARTOW. Their Mercantile Concerns will, in consequence, be conducted under the firm of DRINKER AND BARTOW, Who have just imported, per the West Point, arrived at New York, the Amiable Creole, and other late arrivals at this port from Hamburg. A VARIETY OF GERMAN GOODS, Consisting of the following Articles, viz. Ticklenburghs, Creas, a la Morlaix, Dowlands, 3-4, 7-8, 4-4 & 9-8ths wide Flanders Sheetings, Silesia ditto, Ronau ditto, Brown and white Platillas, Britanias, Weisgaruige Linens, 7-8 & 4-4 Silesia Sheetings, assorted, Diaper and Damask Taule Cloths, Clouting Diapers, Diaper Zwillich, Oil Cloths, Glass Tumblers, Quarts, Pints and Half Pints, ALSO, Per the Eliza from London, Russia Sheetings, Ravens Duck, Men, Women and Children's Welsh yarn Hose. All which they offer for sale at their Store, No. 61 North Front Street, either by the package or smaller quantity, at the most reasonable rates; for cash or notes at short date. November 20.
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 Milford County and State of Pennsylvania, within six 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.
Twenty Dollars Reward. RAN AWAY from Spring Forge, in York County, a negro man, named ISAAC, otherwise GUDGO, about 21 years old, the property of Robert Coleman, Esq. He is about 5 feet 8 inches high, has a blemish in his eyes, wore white in them than common, by trade a Forge man; had on and took with him a drab coloured broad cloth coat, almost new, a fustian jacket and pantaloons printed fancy cord, a fustian striped under jacket; a rumus hat; one fine and one coarse shirt; one muffin handkerchief, sprigged, two ditto striped border, a blue Persian under jacket and two pair cotton stockings. Whoever takes up said negro and lodges him in any jail in this or any of the neighbouring states shall have the above reward or reasonable expenses if brought home. JOHN BRIEN. Spring Forge, October 23, 1799. N. B. As said negro formerly lived in Chester county, it is probable he may return there. November 5.
At GEORGE DAVIS'S Law Book Store, No. 319, High Street, A very valuable and extensive Assortment of Law Books, IMPORTED this fall and immediately before the late Seizure, comprehending almost every Book in use, of the latest London and Irish editions. They will be disposed of from a single volume, to an entire Library at the same prices as have heretofore given such general satisfaction. By sundry vessels daily expected from London and Dublin, his stock will be usual be kept up, so that gentlemen will seldom be disappointed when applying at his store. N. B. This day is published, Davis's Law Catalogue for 1799, of books for sale, which may be had gratis, on application as above. November 8. ruth.fant.
FOR SALE, By JOSEPH JAMES CRUKSHANK, No. 87 High Street Philadelphia, A FEW COPIES OF THE HARLEIAN MISCELLANY, BEING a Selection of Tracts which principally regard the English History, and of which many are referred to by Hume. The scarcity and high price of the Harleian Miscellany, induced the editor to offer the present abridgement to the public, which is composed of a narration of those highly interesting events which have occurred in the History of England, and which are chiefly arranged in chronological order. The volume contains in quantity one sixth of the original work, and the price of it is one guinea, being only one twelfth of what the original book now sells for. November 21. 31aw2m.
Philadelphia & Lancaster Turnpike Company. December 12, 1799. NOTICE. THE Stockholders are to meet at their Office, at 10 o'clock, on Monday the 13th January next, to choose their officers agreeable to law. Wm. GOVETT, Secretary. December 12. m&f.4w.
BANK OF THE UNITED STATES. November 15, 1799. NOTICE. THE STOCKHOLDERS of the Bank of the United States are informed, that according to the Statute of Incorporation, a General Election for twenty-five Directors will be held at the Bank of the United States in the City of Philadelphia, on Monday the 6th of January next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon. And pursuant to the eleventh section of the bye-laws, the Stockholders of the said Bank are also notified to assemble in general meetings, at the same place, on Tuesday the 7th of January next, at six o'clock in the evening. G. SIMPSON, Cashier.
Second Fundamental Article. Not more than three fourths of the Directors in office, exclusive of the President shall be eligible for the next ensuing year, but the Director who shall be President at the time of an election, may always be re-elected. November 25. epte.
One Thousand Five Hundred DOLLARS WAS delivered to the POSTMASTER here, in the Post-Office, on the evening of Tuesday the 27th ult. in a LETTER directed to Mr. John Mills, Merchant, BALTIMORE, containing two ALEXANDRIA BANK NOTES, No. 4320, in favour of William Taylor, and dated 30th April, 1798, for ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS, and No. 4522, in favour of John P. Pleasants, and dated the 10th of December, 1798, for FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS, which letter has been SUPPRESSED in a POST-OFFICE, and the BANK NOTES taken out—as the PUBLIC MAIL was not STOPPED, MOLESTED, or ROBBED. Bankers and merchants are particularly requested to watch the circulation of said notes, and stop them; and any person giving such information as will lead us to our money, shall have FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS reward. WILSON & SWANN. Frederickburg, (Vig.) Sept. 10. All Printers in the United States, are requested to publish the above, and we will pay them.
TWO or three Gentlemen with their families, may be accommodated with Lodgings and Breakfast, and two furnished rooms, at No. 83 north Fifth Street. November 27. wistf.
Lodging and Breakfast, FOR one or two single Gentlemen, in a genteel private family, with the use of a neat Portmanteau, and Board for Servants may be had at No. 28 north Fifth Street. November 26.
Three Cents Reward. RUN away from the Subscriber on the evening of the 28th inst. a bound Servant Girl, named Elizabeth Nowicki, had on and took with her three different changes of garments and money, proud, bold and impudent, a noted liar; any person apprehending her shall be entitled to the above reward—no costs or charges will be paid. N. B. She had 2 years and some months to serve DANIEL FITZPATRICK. Goshen Township, Chester County, July 29. august 6.
PROPOSALS FOR PUBLISHING AN HISTORY OF THE LIFE OF THE ILLUSTRIOUS GEORGE WASHINGTON, Commander in Chief of the American Armies during our revolutionary war with Great Britain, first President of the United States, and first, Lieutenant General of the Army. By JOSEPH SCOTT, Author of the Modern Geographical Dictionary, in four volumes octavo. Of the various methods which different writers pursue in order to convey useful knowledge to mankind, Biography stands confessedly among the first. There is none more interesting—none more instructive and entertaining. The histories of distinguished heroes, who have, by their exalted virtues, and noble and splendid actions, been the principal means of redeeming their respective countries from the corroding hand of tyranny, have in all ages been considered the most entertaining, instructive, and important to mankind. They afford examples; and example is more powerful than precept. It explains, by a plain and easy mode of analytical reasoning, the principles of the timid, determines and fixes those that are wavering, and ultimately lays the basis for that harmony and coincidence of sentiment among the citizens; from which only, a nation can hope to derive rank, consequence and stability. Impressed with lively sentiments of the eminent virtues of that distinguished HERO and PATRIOT, the history of whose life I have undertaken to write; it was not till after much reflection I resolved on offering these proposals. The following considerations induced me to this step, having obtained in the course of an extensive correspondence, with many gentlemen of talents and information, a large stock of original materials concerning the life of this Illustrious Citizen; to give form and body to these, in the manner of history, will prove many important things that otherwise would most probably be lost. Secondly, as many of the most interesting transactions of his life, since he resigned his commission as Commander in Chief of our revolutionary armies, are very imperfectly recorded, and little understood; yet the greater part of them being fresh in the memories of many, this must be the fittest time to embody them; before a succession of objects, which every day brings forth, wears off the minutest circumstances. There are many of these circumstances important and interesting; as it is universally acknowledged, that great actions, like immense rivers, flow from small beginnings. CONDITIONS. I. The Life of General Washington will contain nearly 400 pages octavo, printed on fine paper, and in a style of elegance equal to any work that has appeared from an American press. II. It will be embellished with a striking likeness of the General, executed by one of the best Artists. III. Subscribers' names will be annexed, as patrons. IV. Each subscriber is to pay two dollars, one half on subscribing, the remainder on the delivery of the work. Subscriptions in this city are received at No. 297 Arch street, next door to the north west corner of Eighth street. Philadelphia, December 30. co2w.
Just Published, and for Sale By JOHN MORGAN, No. 3 Front St. AND BENJAMIN DAVIES, No. 68 High St. THE UNITED STATES COURT CALENDAR, AND GENTLEMAN'S Complete Pocket Companion, For the Year of our Lord 1800. CONTAINING Every thing useful in other works of the kind, Besides a great variety of articles (Combining utility with entertainment), Not to be found in any publication whatsoever Among these are, Complete and authentic lists of the ARMY and NAVY. (Carefully revised at the respective Offices;) ALSO, correct statements of the NATIONAL DEBT, and of the ANNUAL RECEIPTS & EXPENDITURES of the United States. N. B. THE CALENDAR, notwithstanding the vast variety of its contents, is very small in bulk. It is bound in red morocco, in the neatest manner, and may be carried very conveniently in the waistcoat pocket. December 31. co3w.
LOTS In the City of Washington. A NUMBER of Lots in the city of Washington, the titles of which are unquestionable, their situations various, some pretty contiguous to the Capitol, are offered FOR SALE. For viewing the Plots and for terms, apply to TONSAL & SHORMAKER, No. 124, South Fourth Street. Phila. Jan. 1, 1800. geobf.
For Sale, or to Let, A two story Brick House, Situate on Duke street or Artillery Lane, in the Northern Liberties. HAVING two rooms on a floor, fire places in each, a kitchen and wash house; all in excellent order and built of the best materials. For further information inquire at No. 39, Arch street. At the HOUSE, No. 106, fourth Second street, to let enquire as above. Dec. 30. 2aw.6w.

WILLIAM COBBETT, OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, Has in the press and will soon publish, THE LIFE AND CAMPAIGNS OF PRINCE SUWARROW, WITH A most elegant PORTRAIT OF THAT RENOWNED WARRIOR.
The first edition of this work was published in London about four months ago, and such was the curiosity and admiration it attracted, that it passed through several editions in the space of one month. It is comprised in one thick octavo volume, which the re-publisher will endeavour to make equal in elegance and correctness to the best of the London editions.
* * The Portrait is in the hands of one of the first Artists (if not the very first) in America. December 31. d7w
The American Ladies POCKET-BOOK, FOR 1800, PUBLISHED BY WILLIAM V. BIRCH, No. 17, So. Second Street,
CONTAINING an elegant engraving of Ladies fashionable head dresses. An Almanack, ruled pages for memorandums, &c. New country dances; moral and entertaining pieces, in prose and verse; new songs; marketing table, and several other useful tables.
ALSO, THE GENTLEMAN'S POCKET REMEMBRANCER, FOR 1800.
Containing an Almanack, ruled pages for memorandums, and cash accounts, an abstract of an act passed the last session of Congress, relative to the collection of duties on imports and tonnage, duties on goods imported, stamp duties, duties on domestic articles; list of Congress, Departments of State, Treasury, Judiciary, Federal Courts of Law—list of the army and navy, several tables, and other useful and interesting matter.
W. V. BIRCH, has for sale, English and American writing paper, merchants account books, playing cards, pen knives, portable writing desks, and a general assortment of stationery goods. Dec. 2. d7w
THIS DAY IS PUBLISHED, AND SOLD By R. AITKEN, No. 22. Market Street, AND By W. YOUNG, corner of Chestnut and Second Streets,
Thermometrical Navigation, Being a Series of Experiments and Observations, tending to prove, that by ascertaining the relative heat of the sea water, from time to time,
The passage of a ship thro' the Gulf Stream, and from deep water into soundings, may be discovered in time to avoid danger; although (owing to tempestuous weather) it may be impossible to have the lead, or observe the heavenly bodies.
Extracted from the American Philosophical Transactions, Vol. II. and III.
WITH ADDITIONS AND IMPROVEMENTS.
"God helps them that help themselves." Poor Richard.
January 2. e03w
Three Hundred Dollars Reward.
LAST NIGHT THE Pocket of the Subscriber was cut from his coat at the Theatre, containing a black Morocco POCKET BOOK with the following Notes. 2 of Five Hundred Dollars each, 1 of One Hundred, 5 of Fifty each, 2 of Twenty each, and 1 of Ten, all of the Branch of New York; 2 of One Hundred each, on the Manhattan Bank, N. Y.
Any person apprehending the said Thief, and securing the above Notes, shall receive the above reward; and Two Hundred Dollars will be given for the Book and Contents, and no questions asked.
JONATHAN STANLY. Apply at Mr. Hardy's Hotel, No. 98 Market Street. January 4. d7w
A YOUNG MAN ACQUAINTED with the West-India trade, wishes to be employed as a Supercargo. He will engage on moderate terms. Satisfactory recommendation will be produced.
A line directed to A. B. left at the Printing Office will be immediately attended to. December 12.
A YOUNG MAN ACQUAINTED with Accounts, wishes to engage as Supercargo to any port in Europe or the West-Indies. Satisfactory recommendations can be given. Enquire of the Printer. Jan. 2. d7w
CARD.
THE Subscriber returns his thanks to his fellow citizens for their exertions to save his property at the fire on Tuesday last. If any property of his is in their care, information of it will be thankfully received at No. 65 Dock-street.
JAMES O'ELLERS. December 19.
One Cent Reward.
RAN AWAY from the Subscriber, an Apprentice named James Welsh, about 5 feet 6 or 8 inches high, has short red curly hair. Whoever will apprehend the said apprentice and bring him back, shall receive the above reward, and no charges paid.
WM. MANNING. Jan. 2. e01w
THE MARSHAL'S OFFICE Is removed to No. 250 High Street. January 6. 6c
MATTHEW MCCONNELL. Having opened an Office in Chesnut street, (A few doors above Fourth) At No. 141,
AND again commenced the business of Negotiations, in the various kinds of Public Stock, Bills of Exchange, &c. &c. Engages to do every thing in his power to give satisfaction to those who may think proper to employ him. He means to confine his transactions to the Agency and Commission line, in all such business as is common to the profession.
The purchase and sale of Houses and Lots in and near the City will be attended to, and also of Lands, when that business again revives. November 19. d7w (D5 dtf)
CITY OF WASHINGTON.
THE POSSESSORS OF OBLIGATIONS or CERTIFICATES signed by the subscriber, or unissued 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 therefor, either to Thomas M'Kean & Co. or to the Subscriber at Philadelphia, on or at any time before the 31st day of May next. Samuel Blodgett. December 17.
BANK OF THE UNITED STATES, January 6, 1800.
THE DIRECTORS HAVE this day declared a Dividend for the last six Months, of sixteen Dollars per share, which will be paid to the Stockholders or their legal Representatives, after the 16th instant. G. SIMPSON, Cashier. January 6. d6t
WATER LOAN.
THE Subscribers to the Water Loan who have completed their Shares, are hereby informed, that the Certificates of Shares are ready to be delivered, and that the Interest will be paid at any time after the 10th instant, on application to the Treasurer, No. 29 Eibert Street above Ninth Street. JOHN SHEE, Treasurer. Philadelphia, January 1, 1800. ditto.
WANTS A PLACE, A YOUNG MAN, Either in a Store, or waiter in a Tavern—Can be well recommended.
Enquire at 180 High Street. January 6. d7w
MARSHAL'S SALES OF INDIA GOODS.
BY virtue of an order of the Honourable the District Court of the United States for the New-York District, to me directed and delivered, I will, on Wednesday the 8th day of January next, at ten o'clock in the morning, at the Store of Isaac Moses and Sons, No. 123, Greenwich Street, commence the sale of the following
GOODS, Imported in the ship Amelia, from Calcutta—viz. 239 bales of Piece Goods, 600 bales of Bombay Cotton, 1488 bags of Sugar, first quality. The sales to continue daily until the whole are sold.
And, on Monday the 13th of January, at 12 o'clock, at the Tontine Coffee House, that very valuable and faithful built:
THE SHIP AMELIA, AS she came from India, about 5 years old, near 400 tons burthen, coppered up to the beams—mounting 14 carriage guns—well found in every respect, and may at a small expense, be fitted for another voyage to India. She was built in this city—her inventory to be seen at this office. A. GILES, Marshal. Marshal's Office, Dec. 20. [14]
TO BE EXCHANGED For a PLANTATION in New Jersey, A VERY VALUABLE
Grist Mill and Plantation, SITUATE in Salem county, Upper Alloway's creek township, about six miles from the town of Salem, and about one mile and a half from a landing on Alloway's creek, where shallows constantly ply to Philadelphia. The Mill has two water wheels, (over-shot) two pair of stones, one of which are burrs. The bolting and boiling gear go by water, and attached to the Mill is a large Kiln for drying corn, built upon the most approved plan; the whole mill work and bolting clothes, &c. have lately been either made new or completely repaired. The plantation consists of one hundred and fifty acres of land. The buildings exclusive of the mill house and kiln, are a large dwelling house, a barn, stables, corncrib, &c. &c. For particular information apply to RICHARD WISTAR, No. 119 Market Street. tuth&haw December 21.
THE UNDERSIGNED, His Excellency the 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.
BALL. MR. FRANCIS,
RESPECTFULLY informs his Scholars, and the Public in general, that his first Ball for the present season, will be on Saturday the 19th of January, 1800, at his Academy, South Fourth St. Gentlemen's tickets as usual—Ladies' tickets to be had by applying to Mr. F. or the scholars of Mr. Francis.
Mr. F.'s Balls in future will be on every other Thursday. The second ball to be on Thursday the 23rd inst.
Mr. Francis likewise informs his Scholars, that proceeding his first Ball, a PRACTISING NIGHT will take place on Thursday the 9th inst. (for his Scholars only) and be continued in future every other Saturday.
Days of instruction at his Academy, Tuesday's and Saturdays at 3 o'clock in the afternoon for his young pupils, and at six in the evening for those of a more advanced age.
N. B.—The Ball Room may be engaged on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, for private Balls, Concerts, &c. For terms apply to Mr. F. No. 70, North Eighth Street. November 6. dtf.
PRATT & KINTZING, No. 95 M. Water Street,
HAVE ON HAND, [January the 18th, 1800.]
The following GOODS, entitled to Draw-back, which they offer for sale at moderate Prices and liberal Credit:
150 boxes and bales Ticklenburghs, Hempen Linens and Osnabrigs, 50 boxes Patterbornes or white Rolls, 25 ditto Bilsfeld Li. cu. 11 ditto Creas and Creas a la Morlaix, 2 ditto Briantais, Brown Rolls, Ditto Heffans, Polish Rolls, Bed Ticks, Scamois, Arabias, Empty Bags, Oil Cloths, Shoes and Slippers, Soal and Upper Leather, Quills and Sealing Wax, A package Gold and Silver Watches, 8 casks Hoes, 20 casks Nails, assorted, from 3 to 20, 16 casks Ironmongery, assorted, 13 pipes old Port Wine, 25 boxes Tumblers, assorted, 300 boxes best Hamburg Window Glass, 8 by 10, &c. &c. 1 chest assorted Looking Glasses, Several large elegant Ditto, 50 legs Pearl Barley, 10 few tons Roll Brimstone; 20 kegs Yellow Ochre, A few barrels Naval Stores, 1500 empty Demijohns, 6 hogheads Coffee Mills, 10 hds. Hogs Bristles, first and second quality, 40 tons Russian Hemp, Holland Steel, 2 hds. Dutch Glue, Toys, Lentils, Slates and Pencils, Tapes, Blocking Twine, Stone Pickling Pots, &c. &c. January 4. d7w
Southern Mails.
THE Mails for all the Offices on the main line, between this Office and Petersburg, Virginia, will be closed here every day, (Sundays excepted) at half past 7 o'clock, A. M. And the Mails for the Post Towns on the main line, through North-Carolina, South-Carolina and Georgia as far as Savannah, will be closed with the Southern Mails every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. The water Mails between this and Charleston are discontinued.
Post Office, Philadelphia, } December 30, 1799. } December 30. dtf.
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 3rd 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 actually 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."
BANK OF PENNSYLVANIA, January 1, 1800.
THE Directors have this day declared a Dividend of eighteen dollars on each share of Bank Stock, for the last six months, which will be paid to the Stockholders or their legal Representatives, after the 11th inst.
By order of the Board, JONA. SMITH, Cashier. dtf.
BANK OF NORTH AMERICA, January 1, 1800.
AT a meeting of the Directors this day, a Dividend of 5 per cent. was declared for the last half year, which will be paid to the Stockholders or their legal Representatives, at any time after the 10th inst.
By order of the Board, RICHARD WELLS, Cashier. dtf.
INSURANCE COMPANY OF THE State of Pennsylvania.
THE STOCKHOLDERS are hereby notified, that an Election will be held at the Company's Office, on Monday the 13th January next, at eleven o'clock, for Thirteen Directors for the ensuing year. JAMES S. COX, President. December 16. dtf.
The Gazette. PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 7.
Funeral Oration, ON THE DEATH OF GENERAL WASHINGTON, Delivered, at the request of Congress, by MAYOR GENERAL HENRY LEE, M. C. from Virginia.
IN obedience to your will, I rise your humble organ, with the hope of executing a part of the system of public mourning which you have been pleased to adopt, commemorative of the death of the most illustrious and most beloved personage this country has ever produced; and which, while it testifies to posterity your sense of the awful event, faintly represents your knowledge of the consummate excellence you to cordially honor.
Desperate indeed is any attempt on earth to meet correspondently this dispensation of Heaven; for, while with pious resignation we submit to the will of an all gracious Providence, we can never cease lamenting in our finite view of Omnipotent Wisdom, the heart-rending privation for which our nation weeps. When the civilized world shakes to its centre; when every moment gives birth to strange and momentous changes; when our peaceful quarter of the globe, exempt as it happily has been from any share in the slaughter of the human race, may yet be compelled to abandon her pacific policy, and to risk the doleful casualties of war: What limit is there to the extent of our loss?—None within the reach of my words to express; none which your feelings will not disavow.
The founder of our federate republic—our bulwark in war, our guide in peace, is no more. Oh that this was but questionable! Hope, the comforter of the wretched, would pour into our agonized hearts its balm dew. But, alas! there is no hope for us; our Washington is removed forever. Possessing the stoutest frame, and purest mind, he had passed nearly to his sixty-eighth year, in the enjoyment of high health, when, habituated by his care of us to neglect himself, a slight cold, disregarded because inconvenient on Friday, oppressive on Saturday, and defying every medical interposition, before the morning of Sunday, put an end to the best of men. An end did I say—his fame survives! bounded only by the limits of the earth, and by the extent of the human mind. He survives in our hearts, in the growing knowledge of our children, in the affection of the good throughout the world; and when our monuments shall be done away; when nations now existing shall be no more; when even our young and far-spreading empire, shall have perished, still will our Washington's glory unfaded shine, and die not, until love of virtue ceases on earth, or earth itself sinks into chaos.
How, my fellow-citizens, shall I single to your grateful hearts his pre-eminent worth! Where shall I begin in opening to your view a character throughout sublime! Shall I speak of his warlike achievements, all springing from obedience to his country's will—all directed to his country's good?
Will you go with me to the Banks of the Monongahela, to see your youthful Washington, supporting, in the dismal hour of Indian victory, the ill-fated Braddock, and saving, by his judgment and his valour, the remains of a defeated army, pressed by the conquering savage foe? Or, when oppressed America, nobly resolving to risk her all in defence of her violated rights, he was elevated by the unanimous voice of Congress to the command of her armies: Will you follow him to the high-grounds of Boston where to an undisciplined, courageous and virtuous yeomanry, his presence gave the stability of system, and infused the invincibility of love of country: or shall I carry you to the painful scenes of Long-Island, York-Island and New-Jersey, when combating superior and gallant armies, aided by powerful fleets, and led by chiefs high in the roll of fame, he stood the bulwark of our safety; undismayed by disaster; unchanged by change of fortune. Or will you view him in the precarious fields of Trenton, where deep gloom unnerving every arm, reigned triumphant through our thinned, worn down, unaided ranks: himself un-moved.
Dreadful was the night; it was about this time of winter—The storm raged—the Delaware rolling furiously with floating ice, forbade the approach of man. Washington, self-collected, viewed the tremendous scene—his country called; unappalled by surrounding dangers, he passed to the hostile shore: he fought; he conquered. The morning sun cheered the American world. Our country rose on the event; and her dauntless Chief pursuing his blow, completed in the lawns of Princeton, what his vast soul had conceived on the shores of Delaware.
Thence to the strong grounds of Morristown, he led his small but gallant band; and through an eventful winter, by the force was measurable only by the growth of difficulties, he held in check formidable hostile legions, conducted by a Chief experienced in the art of war, and famed for his valour on the ever-memorable heights of Abraham, where fell Wolfe, Montcalm, and since our much lamented Montgomery; all covered with glory. In this fortunate interval, produced by his masterly conduct, our fathers, ourselves, animated by his resistless example, rallied around our country's
* The two Houses of Congress.
standard, and continued to follow her beloved Chief through the various and trying scenes to which the deities of our union led.
Who is there that has forgotten the vales of Brandywine—the fields of Germantown, or the plains of Monmouth; every where present, wants of every kind obstruding, numerous and valiant armies encountering, himself a host, he assuaged our sufferings, limited our privations, and upheld our tottering republic. Shall I display to you the spread of the fire of his soul, by rehearsing the praises of the hero of Saratoga, and his much lovd compeer of the Carolinas? No; our Washington wears not borrowed glory: To Gates—to Green, he gave without reserve the applause due to their eminent merit; and long may the Chiefs of Saratoga, and of Eutaw, receive the grateful respect of a grateful people.
Moving in his own orbit, he imparted heat and light to his most distant satellites; and combining the physical and moral force of all within his sphere, with irresistible weight he took his course, commiserating folly, disdaining vice, dismaying treason and invigorating despondency, until the auspicious hour arrived, when, united with the intrepid forces of a potent and magnanimous ally, he brought to submission the since conqueror of India; thus finishing his long career of military glory with a lustre corresponding to his great name, and in this his last act of war affixing the seal of fate to our nation's birth.
To the horrid din of battle sweet peace succeeded, and our virtuous chief, mindful only of the common good, in a moment tempting person aggrandizement, hushed the discontented of growing sedition, and surrendering his power into the hands from which he had received it, converted his sword into a ploughshare, teaching an admiring world that to be truly great, you must be truly good.
Was I to stop here, the picture would be incomplete, and the task unperformed. Great as was our Washington in war, and as much as did greatness contribute to produce the American Republic, it is not in war alone his pre-eminence stands conspicuous: his various talents combining all the capacities of a statesman with those of a soldier, fitted him alike to guide the councils and the armies of our nation. Scarcely had he rested from his martial toils, while his invaluable parental advice was still sounding in our ears, when he who had been our shield and our sword, was called forth to act a less splendid but more important part.
Possessing a clear and a penetrating mind, a strong and a sound judgment, calmness and temper for deliberation, with invincible firmness and perseverance in resolutions maturely formed, drawing information from all, acting from himself, with incorruptible integrity and unvarying patriotism: his own superiority and the public confidence alike marked him as the man designed by heaven to lead in the great political as well as military events which have distinguished the era of his life.
The finger of an overruling Providence, pointing at Washington, was neither mistaken nor unobserved; when to realise the vast hopes to which our revolution had given birth, a change of political system became indispensable.
How novel, how grand the spectacle! Independent states stretched over an immense territory, and known only by common difficulty, clinging to their union as the rock of their safety, deciding by frank comparison of their relative condition, to rear on that rock, under the guidance of reason, a common government through whose commanding protection, liberty and order, with their long train of blessings should be safe to themselves, and the sure inheritance of their posterity.
This arduous task devolved on citizens selected by the people, from knowledge of their wisdom and confidence in their virtue. In this august assembly of sages and patriots, Washington of course was found—and, as if acknowledged to be most wise, where all were wise, with one voice he was declared their chief. How well he merited this rare distinction, how faithful were the labors of himself and his compatriots, the work of their hands and our union, strength and prosperity, the fruits of that work, best attest.
But to have essentially aided in presenting to his country this consummation of her hopes, neither satisfied the claims of his fellow-citizens on his talents, nor those duties which the possession of those talents imposed. Heaven had not infused into his mind such an uncommon share of its ætherial spirit to remain unemployed, nor bestowed on him his genius unaccompanied with the corresponding duty of devoting it to the common good. To have framed a constitution, was showing only, without realizing the general happiness. This great work remained to be done, and America, steadfast in her preference, with one voice summoned her beloved Washington, unpractised as he was in the duties of civil administration, to execute this last act in the completion of the national felicity.
Obedient to her call, he assumed the high office with that self-distrust peculiar to his innate modesty, the constant attendant of of pre-eminent virtue. What was the burst of joy through our anxious land on this exhilarating event is known to us all. The aged, the young, the brave, the fair, rivalled each other in demonstrations of their gratitude; and this high wrought, delightful scene was heightened in its effect, by the singular contest between the zeal of the bestowers and the avoidance of the receiver of the honors bestowed. Commencing his administration, what heart is not charmed with the recollection of the pure and wise principles announced by himself, as the basis of his political life. He best understood the indissoluble union between virtue and happiness,

By Authority.
Sixth Congress of the United States At the First Session, begun and held at the City of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, on Monday, the second of December, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine.
RESOLVED , by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That it be recommended to the people of the United States, to assemble on the twenty-second day of February next, in such numbers and manner as may be convenient, publicly to testify their grief for the death of General George Washington, by suitable eulogies, orations and discourses or by public prayers.
And it is further resolved, That the President be requested to issue a proclamation for the purpose of carrying the foregoing resolution into effect.
THEODORE SEDGWICK , Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS JEFFERSON , Vice-President of the United States, and President of the Senate.
Approved January 6, 1800.
JOHN ADAMS , President of the United States.
A PROCLAMATION
By the President of the United States of America.
WHEREAS the Congress of the United States have this day resolved, "That it be recommended to the People of the United States to assemble on the twenty-second day of February next, in such numbers and manner as may be convenient, publicly to testify their grief for the death of General George Washington, by suitable eulogies, orations and discourses, or by public prayers;" and, "That the President be requested to issue a Proclamation for the purpose of carrying the foregoing resolution into effect." NOW THEREFORE, I John Adams, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim the same accordingly.
GIVEN under my hand and the seal of the United States, at Philadelphia, the sixth day of January in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred, and of the Independence of the said States the twenty-fourth.
JOHN ADAMS , By the President, TIMOTHY PICKERING , Secretary of State.
EDWARD DUNANT , No. 149 South Front-street, HAS FOR SALE,
Bohea Tea in whole, half, and quarter chests, A few chests of Hyson Tea, Hair ribband, Umbrellas, Boxes of Paints, brushes, &c. complete, 3 bales of Baubau handkerchiefs, 100 pieces of black Persian Spermaceti Candles, Sheet Copper and Copper bolts, Printing, writing and wrapping paper, A few hogheads of Tobacco, Richmond inspection. Jan. 6. mwf
RICHARD ROBINETT AND FREDERICK KISSELMAN
HAVING entered into Copartnership under the firm of ROBINETT AND KISSELMAN , inform their friends and the public that they will always have for sale a large and general assortment of Groceries at their wholesale store No. 105 South Water street. Jan. 6. mwlw
KEARNY WHARTON , Has Removed his Counting-House to Morton's Wharf , AND HAS FOR SALE CORN MEAL , In hogheads & barrels.
ALSO, French Brandy, Madeira Wine, and an Invoice of India Silk. Phila. Jan. 1, 1800. ddt
CAUTION.
ALL persons are hereby cautioned against purchasing or receiving in payment, two Drafts of Thomas Truitt on William Patterson, in my favor, dated 17th September last, endorsed by the Commissioners of the Federal building in the city of Washington and myself, one payable at nine months after date, for 617 dollars 71 cents, the other payable at six months after date, for 1751 dollars 85 cents, the same having been forwarded from the Post Office in this city on the 6th inst., enclosed in a letter from the Commissioners aforesaid, (the proprietors of said drafts) to David Harris, Baltimore, who has not yet received them. Mr. Patterson being apprised of the mischance of these drafts, will not pay them to any person or persons without hearing further from the Commissioners.
THOMAS MUNROE .
W. Finton, 2d December, 1799.
CONGRESS.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Monday, January 6.
Mr. D. Foster, from the C mmittee of Claims, reported a bill for the relief of John Vaughan, which was read a first and second time, and committed to a committee of the whole house to-morrow.
The House took up the consideration of the report of the Committee of Claims, on the petition of Nathaniel Libin, and concurred in the same.
On motion of Mr. Claiborne, the house proceeded to the consideration of the report of the committee of the whole house, (postponed on Friday last to this day) on the bill for the preservation of peace with the Indian tribes, and concurred therein—Whereupon it was
Ordered, That the said bill be engrossed and read a third time to-morrow.
Mr. Thatcher presented a petition of a number of merchants, inhabitants of the town of Berwick, in the district of Maine, (Mass.) praying that said town may be annexed to the district of Portsmouth, as a Port of Entry—which was read and referred to the committee of Commerce and Manufactures.
Mr. Harrison called for the order of the day on the bill to reform the Superior court of the Territory, N. W. of the river Ohio.
Mr. Davis moved that the further consideration of this bill be postponed till Monday next. He would propose, if this motion was agreed to, the adoption of a resolution (which would supersede the necessity of passing this bill at all) whereby the states of Tennessee, Kentucky, and the territory N. W. of the Ohio, should be erected into one district, for the purpose of establishing a Circuit Court.
Mr. Harrison spoke against the postponement, and Mr. Claiborne and Mr. Bird, in favour of it, when the question was put and agreed to.
Mr. Davis then moved the following resolution, which was adopted by the house. Resolved, That a committee be appointed to prepare and bring in a bill to establish a Circuit Court in the States of Tennessee, Kentucky, and the territory N. W. of the river Ohio.
Mr. Gallatin moved that this resolution be referred to the committee appointed to consider and report on that part of the President's Speech, made at the commencement of the present session, which relates to a revision of the Judiciary system—Agreed.
Mr. Nicholson presented a petition of sundry inhabitants of Caroline county, in the state of Maryland, praying for an alteration in the law establishing a post-office and post roads—which was read and referred to the committee appointed to consider and report on that subject.
Mr. Wain moved that the petition of Robert Pettit, which he presented a few days since, be referred to the Committee of Claims; but on suggestion of Mr. D. Foster, that it would be more proper to refer it to the Secretary of the Treasury, in the first instance, who would be able to give complete information as to the facts, the papers to ascertain which were now on file in his office—Mr. Wain withdrew his motion for the present.
Mr. Bayard, from the committee appointed to consider the expediency of adopting an uniform system of bankruptcy; reported a bill intitled "An act to establish an uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States," which was read a first and second time, and committed to a committee of the whole House on Monday next, and ordered to be printed.
Mr. Griswold called up for consideration the report of the committee of revival and unfinished business on the bill for mitigating or remitting fines, forfeitures and penalties in certain cases, which having been read, was concurred in by the House, and the committee ordered to bring in a bill to repeal so much of the said act as limits its duration to the expiration of the present session. Mr. Harper said, he had been instructed by the committee of Ways and Means, to move that the House do come to the following resolution, viz.
Resolved, That the Committee of Ways and Means have leave to bring in a bill for consolidating into one act, and for amending the several acts, laying duties on spirits distilled in the United States, and on bills used within the same.
Mr. H. laid the committee had it in view to amend the whole of the laws on this subject; but that whatever alteration or amendment might be agreed upon by them, would be specifically stated to the House in distinct propositions. It was only now intended by the committee to abolish the office of inspector in the several districts of the different states, and to substitute that of supervisor, wherever a superintendence may be found necessary; which alteration, it had been conceived would facilitate the operation of the law, by enabling the Secretary of the Treasury to receive that direct information which was indispensably necessary. Another object at present contemplated, was, to fix the compensation of these officers, not as at present by per centage, but by stated salaries. In some districts, Mr. H. said, the per centage allowed on the duties had been found too small, and in others much too large. He wished these officers, therefore, to have a fixed salary.
The question on agreeing to the resolution was put and carried.
Mr. Harper also moved a resolution for amending the act laying duties on stamped vellum, parchment and paper, so as to abolish the offices thereby established for the distribution of the same in the several states, and directing the establishment of one general office for that purpose at the seat of
with undisturbed serenity he closed his well spent life.—Such was the man America has lost—Such was the man for whom our nation mourns.
Methinks I see his august image, and hear falling from his venerable lips these deep sinking words:
"CEASE, Sons of America, lamenting our separation: go on, and confirm by your wisdom the fruits of our joint councils, joint efforts, and common dangers: Reverence religion, diffuse knowledge throughout your land, patronize the arts and sciences; let Liberty and Order be inseparable companions, control party spirit, the bane of free government; observe good faith to, and cultivate peace with all nations, shut up every avenue to foreign influence, contract rather than extend national connexion, rely on yourselves only: Be American in thought, and deed—Thus will you give immortality to that union, which was the constant object of my terrestrial labours; thus will you preserve undisturbed to the latest posterity, the felicity of a people to me most dear, and thus will you supply (if my happiness is now aught to you) the only vacancy in the round of pure bliss high Heaven bestows."
At an Election for President, Directors and Treasurers of the Company for erecting a Permanent Bridge over the River Schuylkill, at or near the City of Philadelphia, held the the sixth ultimo, the following Gentlemen were duly appointed:
President, RICHARD PETERS , Directors, John Perot, John Dunlap, Samuel Wheeler, Robert Ralston, John Raighn, George Fox, Nathan Sellers, William Sheaff, William Bingham, Charles Biddle, Ebenezer Hazard, Joseph Lewnes, Treasurer, John Dorsey, The Subscription Book is at the Office of the Treasurer, No. 13 Church Alley. January 7, 1800.
FIRE BUCKETS.
The great inattention shown by a number of Citizens, by suffering their Fire Buckets to remain for days and sometimes for weeks in the streets and alleys, adjacent to where they have been used at fires, has induced the Mayor to direct the High Constable, at the expiration of four days from the time that a fire shall happen in the City, to have collected and removed to the City Hall, the Fire Buckets which he may find in the Streets after that period. The owner will thereby have an opportunity of recovering their Buckets, which perhaps, otherwise would have been lost by their neglect. A number is now at the City Hall. January 7, 1800.
The Printers will serve the Public, by giving the above a place in their papers for a few times when convenient.
First Day, or Sunday School. A stated meeting of the Society will be held, at Mr. Ely's School, in Third Street, back of the Presbyterian Church, at 6 o'clock on Wednesday evening, the 8th instant.
As individual notices will not be served, and in addition to the usual business, an election for Officers will take place, the members are requested to be punctual in their attendance. Jan. 6. 3t
CAVALRY.
The second Troop of Volunteer Cavalry, of the United States, are desired to meet at William Ogden's Tavern, Chestnut Street, on Wednesday next at 6 o'clock in the Evening, on particular business. January 6, 1800.
THE Gentleman or Lady, in the Carriage which came up 4th Street, to Chestnut, and then proceeded up Chestnut Street, on Saturday, the 4th inst. precisely at 2 o'clock, are respectfully requested to send their address to the Office of this Gazette. The motive of this request is to ascertain whether a Dog which followed the carriages and appeared to belong to it was mad or not, he having shown symptoms of madness and having bit the advertiser. Jan. 6. 3t
An adjourned meeting of the young Men, of the City of Philadelphia, will be held at the City Tavern on Wednesday next, at 6 o'clock P. M. January 6, 1800.
THE STOCKHOLDERS
Of the Lehigh Coal Mine Company, are hereby notified, that an Election for one President, eight Managers and one Treasurer, for the ensuing year, will be held at the house of Mr. Cammeron, sign of the Golden Swan, in Third Street, on Monday, the 20th of January next, at 6 o'clock in the evening. ISAAC WAMPOLE, Sec'y. Dec. 31. rawtE.
Pennsylvania Population Company.
THE Shareholders are hereby notified, that an election for officers for the ensuing year, will be held at the Company's Office, No. 53, north Fourth Street, on Wednesday the 8th January next, at 12 o'clock. SOL. MARACHE, Sec'y. Dec. 24, 1799. tu.th.&fat.zw
between duty and advantage, between the genuine maxims of an honest and magnanimous policy, and the solid rewards of public prosperity and individual felicity; watching with an equal and comprehensive eye over this great assemblage of communities and interests, he laid the foundations of our national policy in the unerring, immutable principles of morality, based on religion, exemplifying the pre-eminence of free government, by all the attributes which win the affections of its citizens or command the respect of the world.
"O fortunatos nimium, sua si bona norint!" Leading through the complicated difficulties produced by previous obligations and conflicting interests, seconded by succeeding houses of Congress, enlightened and patriotic, he surmounted all original obstruction, and brightened the path of our national felicity.
The Presidential term expiring, his solicitude to exchange exaltation for humility returned, with a force entreated with increase of age, and he had prepared his farewell address to his countrymen, proclaiming his intention, when the united interposition of all around him, enforced by the eventful prospects of the epoch, produced a further sacrifice of inclination to duty. The election of President followed, and Washington, by the unanimous vote of the nation, was called to resume the chief magistracy: what a wonderful fixture of confidence! Which attracts most our admiration, a people so correct, or a citizen combining an assemblage of talents forbidding rivalry, and stifling even envy itself? Such a nation ought to be happy, such a chief must be forever revered.
War, long menaced by the Indian tribes, now broke out; and the terrible conflict deluging Europe with blood, began to shed its baneful influence over our happy land. To the first, outstretching his invincible arm, under the orders of the gallant Wayne, the American Eagle soared triumphant through distant forests. Peace followed victory, and the amelioration of the condition of the enemy followed peace. Godlike virtue which uplifts even the subdued savage.
To the second he opposed himself. New and delicate was the conjuncture, and great was the stake.—Soon did his penetrating mind discern and seize the only course, continuing to us all the felicity enjoyed. He issued his proclamation of neutrality. This index to his whole subsequent conduct, was sanctioned by the approbation of both houses of Congress, and by the approving voice of the people.
To this sublime policy he inviolably adhered, unmoved by foreign intrusion, unshaken by domestic turbulence.
"Iudium et tenacem propositi virum," "Non civium ardor prava jubentium," "Non vultus instantis tyranni," "Mente quatis solida."
Maintaining his pacific system at the expense of no duty, America faithful to herself and unstained in her honor, continued to enjoy the delights of peace, while afflicted Europe mourns in every quarter, under the accumulated miseries of an unexampled war; miseries in which our happy country must have shared, had not our pre-eminent Washington been as firm in council as he was brave in the field.
Perusing steadfastly his course, he held safe the public happiness, preventing foreign war, and quelling internal discord, till the revolving period of a third election approached, when he executed his interrupted but inextinguishable desire of returning to the humble walks of private life.
The promulg> The promulgation of his fixed resolution, stopped the anxious wishes of an affectionate people, from adding a third unanimous testimonial of their unabated confidence in the man so long enthroned in their hearts. When, before, was affection like this exhibited on earth?—Turn over the records of antient Greece—Review the annals of mighty Rome,—Examine the volumes of modern Europe; you search in vain. America and her Washington only afford the dignified exemplification.
The illustrious personage called by the national voice in succession to the arduous office of guiding a free people, had new difficulties to encounter: the amicable effort of settling our difficulties with France, begun by Washington, and pursued by his successor in virtue as in station, proving abortive, America took measures of self-defence. No sooner was the public mind roused by prospect of danger, than every eye was turned to the friend of all, though secluded from public view, and grey in public service: the virtuous veteran, following his plough*, received the unexpected summons with mingled emotions of indignation at the unmerited ill-treatment of his country, and of a determination once more to risk his all in her defence.
The announcement of these feelings, in his affecting letter to the President accepting the command of the army, concludes his official conduct.
First in war—first in peace—and first in the hearts of his countrymen, he was second to none in the humble and endearing scenes of private life; pious, just, humane, temperate and sincere; uniform, dignified and commanding, his example was as edifying to all around him, as were the effects of that example lasting.
To his equals he was condescending; to his inferiors kind, and to the dear object of his affections exemplarily tender: correct throughout, vice shuddered in his presence, and virtue always felt his fostering hand; the purity of his private character gave effulgence to his public virtues.
His last scene comported with the whole tenor of his life.—Although in extreme pain, not a sigh, not a groan escaped him; and
*General Washington, though opulent, gave much of his time and attention to practical agriculture.

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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. dff
Valuable Property for Sale, in Chester, near Sixth Street, directly opposite CONGRESS HALL. A LOT of ground, about an acre front in Chester Street and 73 feet in depth, whereon is a good frame house, now in the tenure of Samuel Benge (who is to a ground-rent of a per annum). The advantageous situation of this property requires no comment, for it must be known, there are few in this city to equal it, an unexceptionable title will be made to the purchaser. Apply to JAMES GILVAN, no. 198 Chestnut Street, next door to the premises. March 5. tu th fa rf
WHEREAS, An attachment was lately issued out of the inferior court of common pleas of the county of Essex, in the State of New Jersey, directed to the sheriff of the said county, against the rights, credits, monies and effects, goods and chattels, leases and tenements of John Clives Symmes at the suit of William Wells, in a plea of trespass on the case to his damage three thousand dollars;— 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 Meeker to the said defendant, to the amount of near two thousand dollars, and also by sixty land warrants;— Now therefore, whereas the said John Clives Symmes shall appear, give special bail, and receive a declaration at the suit of the plaintiff, judgment will be entered against him, and his property herein attached, will be sold agreeably to the statute in such case made and provided.
Aaron Ogden, Clerk, &c. Elizabeth-town, July 8, 1799 (11) rawtam
TO BE SOLD, THREE or four lots of about 30 or 40 acres each, more or less as may suit a purchaser. 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 having a good landing. One commanding a good view of the river from the highest ground between the Pennypack and Poguelin creeks; and another on the Bristol Road. Enquire of Mr. Gilpin near the 11 mile stone on the said road.
ALSO FOUR LOTS, Of about 40 acres each with good situations for building; one of which is suitable for a saw-mill, and has a small frame house and a young bearing orchard on it, on the Newtown road near Snider's mill about 10 miles from Philadelphia, and one other lot of about 30 acres on the Pennypack.—Enquire of Jonathan Clift who lives on the premises or of Mr. Gilpin. Possession will be given in the spring, but building materials may be collected sooner. November 8. 3awtf.
Taxes of Lycoming County. JOHN KIDD, Treasurer, By Direction of the Commissioners of Lycoming County, at ends at Philadelphia to receive the Taxes assessed upon unseated Lands in that County, from the holders thereof, in this City. Those who have filed with the Commissioners, statements of their Lands, are requested to call upon him, to know the amount of Taxes thereon, and pay them; otherwise, before his leaving the City, they will be put into the hands of the Sheriff for collection, agreeably to the act for raising county-rates and levies. Those who have not filed statements of their lands with the Commissioners, and are desirous of having it done, to prevent sales without previous personal Notice, may file with the above Treasurer, their lists, stating the quantities returned, number and dates of the warrants and names of the warrantees, under which they hold their lands. He will attend at Mr. Joseph Hardy's No. 93, Market Street for this purpose until the 18th instant. November 9.
Drawing School. MR. BECK having been solicited by many of his friends to engage in a Drawing School takes the liberty of informing them and the public that he intends opening one at his house in Fifth Street, opposite the State House yard, on Monday the 4th of November, on the following terms: Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, Dols. Ladies from three till five, per quarter, 9 Gentlemen, from half past 5 till half past 7, 9 Private Lessons, at home for one hour, 1 From home two hours, 3 PERSPECTIVE, The essential ground work of all kinds of drawing, taught by a much more simple and short method than hitherto practised.
WANTED, A person to do house work; also a boy to attend the family and take care of a horse. November 27. 3tawtf
LANCASTER STAGES. THE Proprietors of the Philadelphia and Lancaster line of Stages DISPATCH, return their grateful thanks to their friends and the public in general, for the past favors they have received, and inform them that in addition to the regular Line, they are provided with Carriages, sober and careful drivers, to go through between the City and Borough in two days. Those who prefer this mode of travelling can be accommodated at the Stage Office, sign of United States Eagle, Market Street, Philadelphia. Slough, Downing, Dunwoody & Co. Nov. 30. 21—$
The following Certificates OF THE STOCK OF THE BANK OF THE UNITED STATES In the names of Nicholas Van Staphorst and Nicholas Hubbard of Amsterdam, to wit, No 29,160 for 5 shares, 29,161 for 2 shares, 29,162 for 2 shares, 29,163 for 1 share, 29,175 for 4 shares, and 29,176 for 5 shares; and the following certificates of the debt of the United States, on the books of the Treasury, to wit, No 12,823, dated February 22, 1799, for 4000 dollars three per cents, in name of Nicholas Van Staphorst of Amsterdam, No. 12,824 same date, for 4000 dollars three per cents, in name of Jacob Van Staphorst of Amsterdam, No. 16,348 dated 19th February 1799, for 783 dollars 33 cents of six per cents, and No 12,818 same date, for 633 dollars 33 cents of three per cents, in name of Nicholas Hubbard of Amsterdam, and No. 12,817 dated 19th February 1799, for 3200 dollars three per cents, in the name of Jan Hendrick Kingbergh, knight of the Russian military order at St. George, were sent by the British packet Chesterfield, Captain Jones, which vessel was captured, and the said certificates lost, therefore application is made for the renewal of the same, of which all persons concerned are desired to take notice. CLEMENT BIDDLE. October 12, 1799. d3m
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, produce their accounts legally attested to KEARNY WHARTON, Acting Executor, No. 111, Spruce Street. November 11. dff
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 and a field to run in when the weather is good. 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. 3tawtf
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,—the subscribers have explored that tract of land on which those warrants are to be laid; with a view, and for the purpose of offering their services as locators. 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 assisted in running the Indian boundary line; at which time he considerably traversed that tract; he assisted in surveying and laying it off into townships, and at other times ranged over it, to gain information. But to obtain a more complete and accurate knowledge, we have lately spent between two and three months, with several assistants, in particularly examining the different townships and quarter townships; by which means we have acquired an accurate knowledge of the whole district.—We now offer our services to the public, as Locators, with assurances that we will locate every person warrants intrusted to us to the best advantage, agreeably to their rights of location, which is to be determined according to law. For our services we demand the one equal tenth part, either in lands or warrants, when we locate a full tract, of four thousand acres or more, for one person or firm; the land to be taken in a square, at a corner of the tract; which corner is to be equitably determined before the time of location.—The one equal sixth part, in cash or warrants, when we connect and locate any amount less than four thousand acres. We will be in Philadelphia from December next, until after the time of location, to transact this business. Any person wishing to satisfy himself farther, will please to call on us, by letter, (postage paid) or otherwise; when due attention will be paid, and such vouchers may be seen as we have to offer, which we hope will be satisfactory. MARTIN BAUM, WILLIAM C. SCHENCK, Philadelphia, Oct. 9, 1799. cow.
LANDING, From on board the brig Hettie, John Van-neman, Master, from Gonaives, at the Subscriber's wharf, 25 Hogsheads 21 Tierces 80 Barrels 566 bags About 3 tons of Logwood and 100 Hides for sale by ELLISTON & JOHN PEROT. Also for Sale, THE SAID BRIG, As she came from Sea-Burgh, then as per Register, 199 tons, Tails fall and has made but one voyage. December 24. cow.
TO BE SOLD, BY THE SUBSCRIBERS, NINE undivided tenth parts of a tract of LAND, in the State of Georgia; either together or in such parts as may suit the purchaser. The whole tract is bounded as follows, viz. beginning on the Mississippi river, where the latitude of thirty-two degrees, forty-nine minutes, forty seconds north degrees, intersects the same river; thence on the Equator intersects the same river; thence a due running along the same parallel of latitude a due east course to the Tom Bigby river; thence up the middle of the said Tom Bigby river to the place where the latitude thirty-two degrees, fifty-nine minutes, twenty seconds north of the equator intersects the same; thence a due west course on the parallel of latitude of the said Mississippi river; thence down the middle of the said Mississippi river to the place of beginning; together with all the privileges, immunities and appurtenances thereof, including all islands within the said bounds, and containing at least One Million acres, probably more. The premises if not before disposed of by private sale, will be sold by Public Vendue, on Thursday the twenty first day of November next, at eleven o'clock, A. M. at Concert-Hall, kept by Mr. James Vial in Boston. For further particulars and terms, apply to either of the subscribers. CHARLES CUSHING, GEORGE LANE, Boston, Oct. 4, 1799. M. M. HANS.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT. March 11th, 1799. PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, Pursuant to the act of Congress passed on the 11th 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 act called an act 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, to 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 Tulafoora 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 so run to the place of beginning; has been divided into townships of five miles square, and fractional parts of townships; and that plans 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 location 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, delegeate in writing at the office of the Register of the Treasury, the particular townships selected by them respectively, and each of the said holders as shall not designate their location 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.
SCHUYLKILL PERMANENT BRIDGE. For the information of the Stockholders in the company, incorporated for the erection of a Permanent Bridge over the river Schuylkill, and others of our fellow citizens who are desirous that this useful undertaking should succeed, it is thought expedient and proper, by the President and Directors of that company to state the present situation of its affairs.
THE company was incorporated on the 27th day of April, 1798; and by a c. in the law authorizing this incorporation, the legislature may resume the rights, &c. granted to the company, if they do not "proceed to carry on the work" in two years, and complete the bridge in five years, after they had been incorporated.
As soon as practicable, the company proceeded to the choice of the officers required by law; and the President and Directors have been constant in their endeavours to encircle the number of subscribers to the stock. The number of shares subscribed when the company was organized, was 3216. With all the exertions made since, it is now only 3638; though of the 15,000 contemplated by law, 12,000 (at ten dollars each) are allotted for the active capital of the company.
As the public opinion, coinciding with that of the President and Directors, appeared to be fixed on the site at the west end of Market Street, it was deemed a primary object to obtain from the corporation of the city, their right to the ferry at that place. Negotiations were accordingly commenced for the purpose.—They ended in a contract with the city corporation, to the following effect—
1. 5000 dollars to be paid to the city corporation when the subscriptions to the bridge stock amount to the value of 11,000 shares—a like sum in four months thereafter with interest—5000 dollars further in eight months—and the like sum in twelve months, with interest. 2. The city corporation take, as payment for 2000 dollars, (to make the whole consideration monies 40,000 dollars) two thousand shares in the bridge stock, on terms detailed in the contract. 3. The 11,000 shares being subscribed, and the first instalment of the purchase monies paid, the right to the ferry and its enumerated appurtenances, with certain parts of the site and the brick tavern, to be conveyed to the bridge company, on their mortgaging the premises, in the contract mentioned, for 15,000 dollars, the residue of the pecuniary payments, with interest. 4. If the erection is not completed in the period fixed, or which may be fixed by the legislature, the property and rights are to re vest in the corporation of the city, on terms prescribed in the contract; which contains other subordinate arrangements, too lengthy to be herein particularly detailed.
The sum agreed to be given was unavoidable. We found the councils of the city inflexibly determined not to take less. We deemed it eligible to make some sacrifices (if any we have made) to avoid competitions injurious and embarrassing, both in the commencement and progress of an intended enterprise.
Warned by experience of the fatal consequences of beginning works, requiring extensive pecuniary support, without a certainty of its being within our power, we agreed to that part of the contract requiring 11,000 shares to be actually subscribed, before it takes effect.—We do not desire to conceal our indisposition to embark in this undertaking, until the number of shares subscribed shall, at least, equal that required by this contract. Not shall we engage in the business until the instruments directed by law shall be in the treasurer's hands, to an amount sufficient to encourage us to begin the work, with full prospects of complying with our engagements to those with whom we may contract.
We have received a number of plans in consequence of our advertisement for the purpose, but have made no selection. We shall prefer that which unites economy with stability, and accommodation to all circumstances attached to the place of erection. The site must be fixed before the plan is adopted. It must be perceived that a deficiency of subscriptions to our stock prevents our obtaining the site provisionally contracted for, which, however expensive it may appear, is certainly the most eligible and productive.
We have not called for the second instalment, from those who have already subscribed, because we do not think ourselves warranted, from present appearances, to commence the work. The monies already paid (one dollar on each share subscribed, deducting our necessary expenditures, which will appear in our accounts) lie useless to us in the bank. They must remain inactive, till by further subscriptions, we are enabled to proceed in the execution of our trust; as we have no authority to employ them for any other purposes, than those directed by the act of incorporation. Our minutes and accounts will be laid before the stockholders, at the next meeting for the annual election of officers. They are always open for the inspection of the members of the company.
All the books and forms required for the progress of the business are prepared; and we are otherwise completely ready to proceed, if the most essential requisite were in our possession. It will be seen that there is a deficiency of 5362 shares to give validity to our contract with the city corporation, and to justify us in commencing the work.
We have a strong persuasion, founded on accurate information of the product of bridges in other states, and calculations of profit here, that investments in our stock will be equal, in point of emolument, with those made in any other permanent funds in this city. The company may divide, in biennial dividends, 15 per cent. annually during twenty-five years; and if the bridge be made free, they are to receive its value on a fair estimate. The Charles River Bridge, near Boston (1500 feet long and 42 wide) cost 50,000 dollars, and yields from 20 to 24 per cent. clear of all expenses. The bridge at Cambridge (7000 feet long and 42 wide) cost 80,000 dollars; and yields from 12 to 14 per cent. Some deductions have been made, to remedy defects in the timber originally used, but these expenses will no longer be necessary. Immense bodies of ice assail these bridges without injury. Neither of them are better situated to command toll, than that we contemplate over the Schuylkill, which is only 400 feet wide. Whether we shall proceed or not, depends on the disposition of our fellow citizens to encourage the undertaking. We cannot help fostering the
flattering expectation, that, from motives of public spirit and private emolument, we shall yet be supported in our ardent wishes to complete a creation, eminently promotive of the interests, as well as the credit of our city.
The stock being in itself inviting, and the object of great public utility, as well to ourselves as to our posterity, we more confidently solicit subscriptions.
By order, RICHARD PETERS, President.
Philadelphia, Dec. 6. (11) 2aw3w.
The Swift-Sure, A NEW LINE OF STAGES, NOW RUNNING BETWEEN PHILADELPHIA & NEW-YORK, By the short and pleasant road of Burlington, Newtown, Scotch Plains, Springsfield and Newark.
THE excellence of this road, the populousness of the country through which it passes, with sundry other advantages, which render it so far preferable to the Old Road through Bristol, Brunswick, &c. long ago suggested the propriety of its becoming the Grand Through-Fare from Philadelphia to New-York. During the present year, a minute survey of it has been taken, and its superiority over the Old Road, both in winter and summer, has been clearly ascertained.—There are good bridges over all the other waters but the Delaware, and here the crossing is performed with great safety and in less than half the time required at the Trenton Ferry. The road is several miles shorter than the old road, but this is among the least of its advantages, because daily experience proves to us, that dispatch as well as comfort in travelling principally depend on the goodness of the road and the leanness of the country; and, in these respects, the New Road is, beyond all comparison, the best. It presents some of those rocky hills, which render the Old Road so fatiguing between the Delaware and Newark. The soil, too, for the greater part, is such as to produce but little mud in winter, and very little dust in summer, which is an addition to the beauty of the country, and a considerable proportion of shade, must always render travelling in the latter season peculiarly agreeable.
The Swift-Sure starts from PHILADELPHIA, at 6 o'clock every morning (Sundays excepted) from the GREEN TREE, opposite the Lutheran Church, North Fourth Street. It goes through Frankford to Burlington, where it stops to Breakfast; from Burlington it goes through Newtown to Pennypack; from Pennypack through Hopewell, Millstone, Bound Brook, Scotch Plains and Plainfield to Scotch Plains to lodge. The next morning it stops at Springfield to breakfast, from whence it goes through Newark and arrives at New-York at noon.
From NEW-YORK it starts at 3 o'clock in the afternoon (from Paulus Hook) and arrives at Philadelphia the next evening. For seats at New-York, application may be made to Edward Bardin, Old Coffee house, to A. Mathew, corner of Nassau and John Streets, to B. Many, no. 48, Courtlandt, corner of Greenwich Street, and to Michael Little, at his hotel, no. 42, Broad Street.
Fare for passengers, Five Dollars. Way passengers 6 Cents per Mile.
Each passenger is allowed to take on 14 lbs. of baggage carriage free; but all other baggage, taken on by a passenger, will be charged at 4 cents per pound weight.
With respect to packages sent on without passengers, the proprietors presume they have adopted a regulation, which, though unknown to other lines of stages, they think must meet with general approbation. They pledge themselves to make good every package on the following conditions. The person who delivers the package at the office shall see it entered in the stage-book, for which entry he shall pay 6 cents; he will then share the value of the package, and pay (exclusive of the carriage) one per cent. on the value, as insurance, and for which he will receive a receipt. Thus, for instance, if he estimates his package at one dollar, he will pay one cent. and if at one hundred dollars, he will pay one dollar insurance, and in like proportion for packages of any other value.
Very few persons it is presumed, will dislike this regulation; it will however, be optional with every one to avail himself of this security or not. But the proprietors think it right to state very explicitly, that they will be responsible for the safe delivery of no package, which is not regularly entered, and for which an insurance receipt cannot be produced.
In the distribution of the route, the greatest care has been taken to fix on such places and taverns as always afford a good accommodation and entertainment for the passengers at the most reasonable rates. The stages are well equipped furnished with fleet and steady horses, and committed to the care of intelligent sober and obliging drivers. The proprietors themselves live at the different towns, and villages where the stages will stop, so that the conduct of the persons they employ is continually an object of their attention. They take care also to see that the passengers are well provided for and politely treated at the taverns, and that no sort of chicane or insolence is practised upon them; in short, they have spared neither pains nor expense to render the SWIFT-SURE the very best line of stages in America.
The line has now run nearly a month, during which time a great number of gentlemen have gone through, both from Philadelphia and New-York. Every passenger has found the road to surpass very far all that has been said of its excellence; and the Proprietors of the Swift-Sure are extremely happy to hear the behaviour of their drivers, and the treatment at Taverns spoken of with the highest satisfaction.
JOHN MCALLA, Philadelphia THOS. PAUL, Burlington JOSEPH THORNTON, NICHOLAS WYNKOOP, Newtown JACOB KESLER, JOHN MOREHEAD, Pennypack T. KILLMAN, near Millstone ELIAS COMTES, Bound Brook R. SANBURY, Scotch Plains ISAAC RAWLE, Springfield ROBERT PEARSON, Newark. June 22.
PRINTED BY J. W. FENNO.