Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser. (Philadelphia [Pa.]), 1799-05-01 00:00:00

LAST NOTICE.
All persons having claims against the Estate of John McLean, late of Caroline county, in the State of Maryland, deceased, are hereby requested to meet the subscriber in Denton, at Mr. Benjamin Dimey's, on the 3d Tuesday in May next, with their accounts properly attested, that there may be a dividend truck to said estate. All who neglect this notice will be after excluded. SAMUEL LEONARD, Administrator. Caroline County, April 8th. 10 $ [4 Dolls. 75 Cts.]
New Theatre.
Mr. Morris's Benefit.
WEDNESDAY EVENING, May 1, WILL BE PRESENTED, (Never acted in America) A celebrated COMEDY, called FALSE IMPRESSIONS.
Written by the author of the West-Indian, &c.
Sir Oliver Monteath, Mr. Warren. Algernon, Mr. Fox. Scud, Mr. Bernard. Earling, Mr. Wignell. Simon Single, Mr. Morris. Farmer Gaudry, Mr. Downie. Isaac, Mr. Blisset. Peter, Mr. Warrell, jun. Jack, Master L'Estrange. Frank, Mr. Warrell. Lady Cypres, Mrs. Morris. Emily Fitzallan, Mrs. Merry. Jenny Scud, Mrs. Francis. Mrs. Buckram, Mrs. D'Oror. Rachael Williams, Miss L'Estrange.
End of the Comedy, (by desire) will be given a MUSIC'L INTERLUDE , called
THE CATCH CLUB;
Or, The Sons of Anacreon.
With characteristic Scenery and Decorations.
To which will be added, not acted these two years a COMEDY, in two acts, called
LOVE-A-LA-MODE.
Written by Charles Macklin, Esq. Tickets to be had of Mr. Morris, No. 70, South Fifth Street, and at the usual places.
FOR SALE,
The Schooner NANCY , Thomas Hallam, Master, BUILT WHEN about 71 tons, is a stout, staunch built vessel, four years old, and sails very fast. Apply to JOSEPH ANTHONY & Co. April 30. dist
PROPOSALS,
BY THE Insurance Company of North America.
FOR INSURANCE against FIRE, on Dwelling-Houses, Ware-Houses, and other Buildings (and on Goods contained in such Buildings) distant from Philadelphia, in the United States.
1. Common Insurance, on hazards of the first class, will be undertaken at a premium of about half per cent. per annum. For extra hazardous risks a larger premium will be required, which will vary according to circumstances, seldom exceeding one per cent. per annum; but in some instances, where the property insured is not only in itself extra hazardous, but rendered still more so by the vicinity of extra hazardous buildings and occupations, the premium demanded will be raised according to circumstances. 2. Houses and Ware-Houses, the walls and partitions of which are wholly of stone or brick, well constructed, so as to be guarded as well as may be against fires from within, and free from extra hazardous buildings and occupations in their neighborhood, will be deemed hazardous of the first class, and may be insured to their full value. 3. Goods and Merchandize, not of an extra hazardous kind, in cases, bales, or packages, deposited in good buildings, to an amount not exceeding $500 dollars; but if more than this sum is required to be insured in one tenement, an additional premium will be required, in proportion to circumstances. 4. Insurances will also be made on buildings and goods extra hazardous, at premiums proportioned to the risk. But it is not easy to arrange these under particular heads or classes, so as to describe each with the necessary accuracy. Each case must therefore be decided upon according to the circumstances attending it; and their circumstances will, in general, appear from the description accompanying the application. 5. Buildings partly constructed of brick or stone, are preferable to those wholly wooden. And in both cases, the site of building, how they are occupied, how they are situated, the neighboring buildings, and how occupied, are considerations to be taken into view. And with respect to goods, their tendency, whether from their nature, or from the manner in which they are exposed, either to commence or to increase an accidental fire, and their liability in such state to receive damage by wet, or by sudden and hasty removal, or to be stolen in time of confusion and hurry, are all circumstances of weight; and the premiums must be proportioned accordingly. 6. The following conditions are to be understood by the parties. 1. The Insurance is not binding till the stipulated premium be paid; but it shall be deemed effectual from the time of such payment and acceptance thereof, whether the policy be immediately signed or not. 2. Insurances may be renewed at the expiration of the term of the policy, without further expense than the payment of the premium of the renewed term, the circumstances continuing the same as they were understood by the Insurers at the time the former insurance was made; but the payment of the premium is effectual to such renewal; and if the party insured suffers any time to elapse after the expiration of the former insurance, before he pays a premium for the renewal, he is not insured during such time; nor can the insurance be renewed on the former policy but by computing the commencement of the renewal from the expiration of the former insurance. The subject of insurance may nevertheless be open to treaty for a new insurance. 3. If any other insurance be made on the same property; it must be made known at the time of application, otherwise the policy made on such application will be void. 4. Goods held in trust, or on consignment, may be insured as such in a separate policy; but they are not to be considered as insured otherwise. 5. This company will not be liable or accountable for any loss or damage caused by any foreign invasion, or by any military or usurped force, or by reason of any civil commotion; or occasioned by gunpowder, aquafortis or other thing of like kind kept in the building, or amongst the property insured. 6. Bills of Exchange, Bonds and other Securities, Title Deeds, Money, Bank and other pro-
missory Notes, are not included in any insurance; nor are paintings, medals, jewels, gems, antique curiosities, or mirrors exceeding the value of twenty-five dollars each, to be considered as insured unless particularly mentioned and by special agreement.
7. No insurance will be made for a shorter term than one year, nor for a longer term than seven years. Persons choosing to insure for seven years shall be allowed one year's premium by way of discount: One third of a years premium shall be abated in like manner on an insurance for three years.
8. Losses sustained by fire on property insured, shall be paid in thirty days after due proof and liquidation thereof, without deduction.
A description of the property to be insured will be expected with each application, to be made by a master carpenter and signed by him, as well as by the owner of the building or applicant for insurance, and attested before a Notary or principal Magistrate, who will certify his knowledge of the parties and their credibility.
With respect to Houses and other Buildings. 1. The site and position; describing the street or road on or near which the building stands; its contiguity to water, and other circumstances relative to the extinguishment of fire in case of accident; and particularly whether any and what fire companies are established, and engines provided, in the place or neighbourhood. 2. The materials of which it is built, whether of brick, stone or wood, and what part of each, as well as to the outside walls as inside or partition walls, and their respective height and thickness; the style of the roof and of what materials; how secured by battlements or party walls; what kind of access to the top of the house; what kind of chimneys; whether any and what electric rods; the number and kind of fire places; and the kind of deposit for ashes. 3. The dimensions of the building and how divided, and the style in which it is finished so as to enable indifferent persons to judge in what manner it is to be repaired or rebuilt in case of injury; the age and condition of the building, and how occupied, whether merely as a dwelling house, or for any other, and for what purpose; also an estimate of the value of the house or building independent of the ground.
4. The situation with respect to other buildings or back buildings, whether adjoining or not, comprehending at least one hundred feet each way: what kind of buildings are within that distance, how built, of what materials, and how occupied or improved, whether as dwellings for private families or otherwise: whether any and what trade or manufactory is carried on, and particularly whether there be any extra hazardous articles used, or usually deposited in the house, or within the distance aforesaid, and of what kind.
Respecting goods in Houses, Warehouses, &c. 1. A general description of the building in which they are kept will be expected, similar in all respects, as to the danger from fire, with that required for Insurance on the buildings themselves.
2. A description of the kinds and nature of the goods, whether in casks or other packages, or opened; and whether displayed in whole pieces or in the usual form for retailing. And if the goods vary materially in kind, a general estimate of the value of each kind proposed to be insured; but in the last particular minutiae of description is not expected.
3. Articles of the following kinds are deemed extra-hazardous, though in various degrees, in whatever building they may be placed, viz. pitch, tar, turpentine, rosin, wax, tallow, oil, inflammable spirits, sulphur, hemp, flax, cotton, dry goods of an inflammable kind, opened - Glass, china ware or porcelain, especially unpacked; Looking glasses, jewelry; and all other articles more than commonly inflammable, or more than commonly liable to injury by sudden removal or by moisture, or particularly obnoxious to theft on an alarm of fire.
Letters post paid, directed to the Secretary of the Board of Directors, will be duly attended to. An order for Insurance accompanied by the means of paying the premium, will be immediately executed on the premium being paid. If the application contain an enquiry only, it will be answered.
By order of the Board, Ebenezer Hazard, sec'ry. Office of the Insurance Company of North America; Philad. Feb. 1, 1798. feb 1
Notice is hereby given,
THAT separate proposals will be received at the office of the Secretary of the Department of War, until the expiration of the 25th of July next ensuing, for the supply of all rations, which may be required for the use of the United States, from the first day of October, 1799, to the thirtieth day of September, 1800, both days inclusive, at the places and within the two districts herein after first mentioned; and also that separate proposals will be received at the said office until the expiration of the 25th day of July next ensuing, for the supply of all rations which may be required as aforesaid, from the first day of January in the year 1800, to the thirty-first day of December in the same year, both days inclusive, at the place and within the several states herein after mentioned, viz.
First —Proposals to supply all rations, that may be required, at Olwego; at Niagara; at Presqu'isle; at Michilimackinac; at Fort Franklin; at Le Boeuf; at Cincinnati; at Picque town, and Loramies stores; at Fort Wayne; at Fort Defiance; at any place below Fort Defiance, on the Miami river to Lake Erie, at Fort Knox, and Ouatapon on the river Wabash; at Massac; at any place or places on the east side of the river Mississippi, above the mouth of the river Ohio, and upon the Illinois river.
Second —Proposals to supply all rations that may be required, at any place or places, on the east side of the Mississippi river, below the mouth of the river Ohio to the southern boundary of the state of Kentucky and within the said state; at Knoxville; at all other posts and places within the state of Tennessee; at South West Point; at Tellico Block-house; at St. Stephens on the river Tombigby and any place or places within the Cherokee boundaries; below the southern boundary of the state of Tennessee and within the boundary of the United States.
Third —Proposals to supply all rations that may be required, at Point-Pierre; at Colesaine; at Savannah, and at any other place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the state of Georgia; at all forts or stations on the Oconee and Alatamaha, and at all other places in the Creek Nation, within the limits of the United States, where troops are or may be stationed.
Fourth —Proposals to supply all rations that may be required at Fort Pinckney, at Charleston, or at any other place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited in the state of South Carolina.
Fifth —Proposals to supply all rations that may be required at the Fort at Wilmington, Cape Fear; at Beaufort Island, Ocracoke; at Charlotte; at Fayetteville; at Salisbury, or at any other place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited in the state of North Carolina.
Sixth—Proposals to supply all rations that may be required at Norfolk, at Portsmouth, at Kemp'sville, at Char oneville, at Winchester, at Staunton, at Richmond, at Alexandria, at Leesburg, at Frederickburg, at Carter'sville, or at any other place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited, in the state of Virginia.
Seventh —Proposals to supply all rations that may be required at Fort M'Henry, at Baltimore, at Annapolis, at Frederick town, at Leonard town, at Hager's town, at Bladensburg, at George town, at Harper's ferry, at Eutaw, at the Head of Elk, and at any other place or places, where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the limits of the state of Maryland.
Eighth —Proposals to supply all rations that may be required at Fort Mifflin, at Philadelphia, at Darby, at Lancaster, at Wilkesbarre, at Reading, at Bristol, at Yorktown, at Carlisle, at Lewistown (Mifflin county) at Bedford, at Greensburg, at Washington, at Easttown, at Wilmington, at Christiana, at Dover, or at any other place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the limits of the states or Pennsylvania and Delaware, except the posts within the state of Pennsylvania, enumerated in the first proposals aforesaid.
Ninth —Proposals to supply all rations that may be required at Hackensack, at Elizabeth town, at New-Brunswick, at Burlington, at Woodbury, at Trenton, or at any other place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the limits of the state of Jersey.
Tenth —Proposals to supply all rations that may be required at New-York, at West-Point, at Flushing, at Harlem, at West-Chester, at Poughkeepsie, at Kinderhook, at Sullivan, at Newburg, at Albany, at Conesjoharie, at Cherry Valley, and at any other place or places, where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the limits of the state of New York, except the posts within the said state enumerated in the first proposals aforesaid.
Eleventh —Proposals to supply all rations that may be required at Hartford, at Hebron, at New London, at Brooklyn, at Windham, at Litchfield at Guilford, at New-Haven, at Fairfield, at Danbury, at Middletown, or at any other place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the limits of the State of Connecticut.
Twelfth —Proposals to supply all rations that may be required at Fort Wolcott, at Branton's Point, at Newport, at Providence, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the limits of the state of Rhode Island.
Thirteenth —Proposals to supply all rations that may be required at Portland in the District of Maine, at Gloucester, at Cape Ann, at Salem, at Marblehead, at Boston, at Springfield, at Uxbridge, and at any other place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the limits of the state of Massachusetts.
Fourteenth —Proposals to supply all rations that may be required at Portsmouth, at Exeter, at Windsor, at Bennington, at Rutland, or at any other place or places, where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the States of New-Hampshire and Vermont.
The Ration to be supplied, is to consist of the following articles, viz. Eighteen canes of bread or flour, or when neither can be obtained, of one quart of rice, or one and a half pound of sifted or bolted indian meal, one pound and a quarter of fresh beef, or one pound of salted beef, or three quarters of a pound of salted Pork, and when fresh meat is issued, Lbs. at the rate of two quarts for every hundred rations, soap at the rate of four pounds, and candles at the rate of a pound and a half for every hundred rations.
It is expected the proposals will also extend to the supply of rum, whiskey, or other ardent spirits at the rate of half a gill per ration, and Vinegar at the rate of two quarts for every hundred rations. The proposals will specify the price of the several component parts of the ration, as well as those of substitutes or alternatives for parts thereof.
The rations are to be furnished in such quantities as that there shall at all times, during the term of the proposed contracts, be sufficient for the consumption of the troops at Michilimackinac, Detroit, Niagara and Olwego, for six months in advance, and at each of the other posts on the western waters, for at least three months in advance, of good and wholesome provisions, if the same shall be required. It is also to be permitted to all and every of the commandants of fortified places, or posts, to call for at seasons when the same can be transported, or at any time in case of urgency, such supplies of like provisions in advance, as in the discretion of the commandant shall be deemed proper. It is to be understood that the contractor is to be at the expense and risk of lifting the supplies to the troops, and that all losses, sustained, by the depredations of an enemy, or by means of the troops of the United States, shall be paid for at the price of the article captured or destroyed, on the depredations of two or more persons of cretable characters, and the certificate of a commissioned officer, ascertaining the circumstances of the loss, and the amount of the articles, for which compensation shall be claimed.
The privilege is to be understood to be referred to the United States of requiring, that none of the supplies which may be furnished under any of the proposed contracts shall be issued, until the supplies which have or may be furnished under contracts now in force have been consumed, and that a supply of the same in advance may be always required at any of the fixed posts on the Sea-board or Indian frontiers not exceeding three months.
JAMES M'HENRY, Secretary of War. march 29
ELECTION.
Pennsylvania Hospital, 4th mo. 4, 1799.
The Contributors to this institution, are hereby notified, agreeably to the Charter of Incorporation, that a general election will be held at the Hospital on the 6th day of the 5th month 1799, being the second day of the week, at 3 o'clock, P. M. for twelve Managers, and a Treasurer for the ensuing year.
By order of a Board of Managers. SAMUEL COATES, Sec'ry. codt6m
To Printers or Publishers.
ONE of the most lucrative establishments in the above lines of business in the United States, is now offered for sale on liberal terms. The establishment consists of the publication of a very extensive circulating, commercial Newspaper, in a capital city; and an office furnished with letter sufficient for the execution of other work.
Further particulars may be known on application to A. B. No. 47, north Third-street; but none, other than principals, or persons fully enabled to make a purchase of some considerable magnitude will be treated with, April 23.
The Gazette.
PHILADELPHIA,
WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 1.
From the London MORNING CHRONICLE, January 17.
A short Essay on the Origin of the Yellow Fever, which has appeared in the towns of the United States of America.
MANY erroneous opinions having been circulated in Europe relative to the Yellow Fever in America, I think it necessary that the situation of a country with which we have so many connections, should be well understood; and I take the liberty, therefore, to request you will publish a few observations which I have been able to collect from a long residence in the United States, particularly at Philadelphia, while the fever raged there in 1793, and from authentic information I have since received.
The yellow fever, like the plague, is certainly a disorder originating in the warm climates of Asia or Africa, from whence both of them may be clearly traced: the plague itself was first introduced into Europe in some degree by the armies returning from the Crusades, but chiefly by commerce; for many ages it ravaged most of the European cities, particularly the commercial ones: in London it prevailed fourteen different times with dreadful violence, between the reigns of Edward III. (when it was first introduced) and George I. when the quarantine laws were passed; these institutions, which seem to have been generally adopted about the last period have ever since preserved Europe from the plague, and confined it to the countries of the East, where the warmth of climate, and manners of the people, still keep it constantly alive.
In a similar manner the yellow fever was introduced into the West-Indies, by the African ships, and has now become general to the Islands, whose warm climate keeps it in continual existence; in time of peace the ease of removing from it, renders it little dreaded, and prevents its extension; but during a war, when the inhabitants are confined in beleaguered towns, and fleets and armies maintained in situations so favorable to disease as ships, camps, barracks and hospitals, its ravages were uncontrollable.
Europe is preferred from it by the length of the voyage from the West-Indies, and perhaps by the fleets arriving generally in seasons sufficiently cold or damp to check it; but the immense commerce of the United States, with the shortness of the voyage, which is little more than a fortnight, renders the West-Indies to them the same source of contagion that the Levant is to Europe.
During the present war, though the fever has ravaged most of the Islands, it has been more severely felt in the French, particularly Guadeloupe and St. Domingo, which have been the principal scenes of military operation. With these Islands the American commerce has been chiefly conducted to a degree far beyond all former times: as it consisted very much in carrying provisions, it has been prosecuted to ports and fleets in such situations, as to render it impossible to escape contagion; and the vessels in their return being generally crowded with passengers, with baggage, and every species of goods, have perhaps constantly conveyed it home: when it has arrived during the winter, or moderate seasons, it has doubtless been destroyed; but during the heat of summer, it has produced the ravages we have heard of.
Although advantage has been taken of every circumstance which could admit of doubt and difficulty that might be supposed to occur, in traces the origin of the fever in some instances, from the crews of vessels being dispersed, or goods sold to a variety of different persons, and removed to places distant from the spot where they were first landed, so that the contagion might appear in many places at once, yet there is not only the most positive proofs of the introduction of it in this manner, in every instance where it has attacked the United States, but the strongest collateral evidence, arising from the identity of the disorder, and from a variety of other facts.
The idea of its originating in the United States, was first mentioned by a physician of Philadelphia, in 1793, who is remarkable for the eccentricity and enthusiasm of his systems, which were prosecuted almost to a degree of insanity, contrary to the general opinion of the faculty, and the good sense of the citizens at large: to these systems every fact was perverted or overlooked. Unfortunately too, the rivalry and jealousy of the other towns of the continent, of a city which was so eminently leading in its commerce and population, at first led them to attribute the fever to causes existing there, until they were themselves attacked by it, and found from whence it originated; thus the opinion has been circulated to an extent scarcely to be reached by the numerous facts which disprove it.
In examining the origin of the Yellow Fever, it is necessary strictly to discriminate it from diseases of an inferior tribe, such as intermittent, bilious and purid fevers, and others of the like kind. These undoubtedly originate from causes immediately depending on reason, or local situation; and the cities of the United States are subject to them in the same manner, though not in a greater degree than those of Europe: but the Yellow Fever, which is unquestionably of the same tribe as the Plague, is not only traced like that disorder, and the Small Pox by a regular process of contagion, but it is so different, and so far more extensive in its effects, that whenever it has appeared, it is marked with characters which prove its entire distinction from the lesser tribe of local diseases.
Though the Yellow Fever is a disorder of the same class as the Plague, it is for inferior in malignity: no time or art has ma-
rially lessened the destruction of the Plague, even in those countries where it continues to exist; while the Yellow Fever is so much reduced in the West-Indies to the power of medicine, as not to be dreaded by the natives more than other disorders, and is chiefly fatal to strangers. Its extensive effects in North America might perhaps be adduced as one proof of its novelty and origin from a foreign cause; but, even in its worst appearance, the proportion of individuals who recover is considerable; and, in 1793, it was known to attack whole families, without the loss of a single person.
No regulations in Europe proved effectual to relieve its Cities from the Plague, until quarantines were generally adopted, and many ages passed before they were established with such rigour as to render them effectual: the dreadful prevalence of the disease at Marseilles, and other towns, in the beginning of the present century, seems at last to have occasioned the present laws, which are perhaps the most severe, and best executed of any that exist; the partial regulations of the kind in the United States have doubtless been attended with very good effects, but as yet they have never been adopted with the rigour of Europe, and reasons have been too little noticed, or punished.
The cities of the United States have now existed, many of them near two centuries, and Philadelphia itself more than one; during this period, by clearing and cultivating the country, they have overcome all the natural disadvantages of new situations and have decreased in local and autumnal disorders, inasmuch that their bills of mortality prove them to be as healthy in general as the cities of Europe; but at no period since their existence have they been ravaged by disorders similar to the Yellow Fever, until within a few years past—it is impossible therefore to suppose, that a climate which for so many years, and under more disadvantages than it now labours, could thus all at once engender diseases, of which the history of mankind does not furnish a similar instance.
In the year 1760, during the French war, the Yellow Fever first appeared at Philadelphia, and was traced to arise from the clothes of a young man who died of it in Jamaica, which were sent to his friends in Philadelphia; those friends were the first who died of it, and though it extended to others, its ravages were not very extensive.
It was not afterwards known in America, until the year 1793, when in the month of June, a great number of vessels who were at Cape Francois, during the dreadful capture of it by the negroes, brought away from it all the wretched inhabitants that escaped; many of these vessels arrived at Philadelphia in July, full of passengers, and goods of every description; in the latter end of the same month the fever broke out in the lodging houses which accommodated the crews, of those vessels, and among the shipwrights who repaired them—so minutely was this fact investigated, that the first persons who died of it were the sailors from these lodging houses, and nearly all the families of one or two ship carpenters in whose yards the vessels were repaired them.
The quarantines which were immediately established, and the attention to every circumstance that could increase the health of the city, and prevent communication, probably preserved it for the ensuing four years, as it did not appear there again until 1797; in the mean time, however, other towns were attacked by it.
In 1794 it appeared at Baltimore, where it was brought by a vessel from the West-Indies; it broke out, and was nearly altogether confined to a part of the town, seated on a high point of land, and on a wide river, which forms the port, distant near a mile from the city itself, to which it was scarcely communicated.
In 1795 it appeared in New-York, when it was also traced to have arisen from a West India vessel.
In 1797 it again appeared in Philadelphia, and was clearly traced to a vessel from St. Domingo, as it broke out at the Quay where she was unladed, and among the merchants and others who were about her; on this occasion much blame seems to have been imputed to the physician of the port, and to the want of proper vigilance in the health officers.
During the last summer it has appeared, not only in Philadelphia and New-York, but in many other of the commercial towns, in all of which it is not only traced to the causes I have mentioned, but the following facts have occurred to support its foreign origin:
First, It appeared in no town which had not had some immediate connection with the West-Indies.
2dly, Since the vessels from the West-Indies have been prevented reaching Philadelphia, it has broke out in all the little towns and out-ports on the river Delaware, where they have been obliged to unlade their cargoes; while it has never appeared either in the country towns near them, or those near the metropolis.
3dly, It has ravaged the smaller towns to which it has been thus introduced, nearly in as great a proportion as the great cities.
4thly, It has been more felt in the towns of the Middle and Northern States, in the most favourable situations, but who carry on great trade, than in those of the Southern states, unquestionably in less healthy climates, but with less commerce.
The history of the plague, the small-pox, and disorders of the same tribe, are not only regularly traced, but the authorities agree that they never originated in the cities of Europe, and that the causes which create the smaller diseases, are not adequate to produce them: but, of all the reasons assigned for the Yellow Fever being of local origin, there is none which is general to the many places in which it has appeared in the United States, nor none which do not exist in a far greater degree in most European cities—Great population, crowded streets, filth, and want of common sewers, &c. if they existed in the greater towns, could not influence the smaller ones; and low or unhealthy situations

cannot be attributed to those which are featured on bold prominent and on the margin of the ocean: the climate of the United States, though here, is not hotter than the middle or South of Europe, and it is corrected in Winter by frosts far more continued and severe.
A variety of reports which have existed in Europe relative to the situation of the cities of the United States, and to their construction, are untrue, and originate either in those who were ignorant of them, or in the misrepresentation of those who wanted other reasons to support the idea of the local origin of the Yellow Fever. In fact, rather than that credit should be given to the plain demonstration of its being an imported disease, numerous stories have been propagated relative to their crowded construction, want of common sewers, and other causes generally assigned as the source of disease.
New-York, and all the seaport towns in the Northern States, are built on situations remarkably elevated, and exposed to the air of the sea. In their construction they are equal to any towns in Europe, and in no instances so thickly built; in general they are remarked for having few of the common autumnal complaints, and can boast perhaps, of as high health as any towns in the world.
The city of Philadelphia is at a considerable distance from the sea; though situate on the banks of two noble rivers, it stands on a fine open plain equally elevated as London, and the country around it, on all sides but one, rises into gentle hills, like those of Middlesex and Surrey; on the river below it are some meadows, but they are equally drained and cultivated, and by no means so extensive as those on the Thames, around London; its water is in general excellent; its streets are wide, well paved, and perfectly drained; a considerable part of it is furnished with common sewers, and those parts to which they are not yet extended, have neither been so long, or so thickly settled, as to experience inconvenience for want of them; its houses are in general airy, and seldom contain more than one family; and the police of the city, the moral order, and the cleanliness of its inhabitants, will yield to no one in Europe, if equalled by them.
After having seen most of the European cities, I cannot but advance them as proofs against the local origin of disorders similar to the yellow fever; leaving the cities of the North of Europe, situate in climates which might be supposed in some degree to protect them, and in general of more cleanly habits, and with a better police, I shall speak more particularly of those of the South of France and Italy, especially of Marseilles, Milan, Genoa and Leghorn. If improvements have been introduced into these they are certainly not such as have destroyed the causes usually assigned for disease, and are confined to such parts of them as are newly constructed; the narrow streets in the old parts of those towns badly paved and often not paved at all, their being the general receptacle of all filth, without the attention of a police to cleanse them, the want of common sewers, the height and crowded construction of the houses, the numerous families with which they are filled, the rooms seldom cleaned, and the rooms covered with cotton and silk tapestry, in lieu of plaster, must have struck the attention of all who visited them; if, then, under such unfavourable circumstances, these towns thus situated, in one of the hottest climates, where the winters often have no frost, not only have never known either that, or any disorder of the kind to originate among them, but have been able entirely to rid themselves of the plague by their quarantines, and enjoy a high degree of health ever since they were adopted, it affords the strongest arguments against the origin of the yellow fever in the towns of North America, and in favour of their being wholly relieved from it by the establishment of similar regulations.
It is clearly demonstrable, that the disease does not remain in the cities of America from one year to another, but that in each instance it is produced by fresh contagion; cold and rain have in all instances totally destroyed it, and until last year it has never appeared twice in one place; in the year 1793 the 17th day of October was the most fatal to the city of Philadelphia; and yet, by the 3d of November the disorder had wholly ceased, and the inhabitants had returned as usual; in the present year, though so fatal in September, the citizens began to return by the last of October, and in all instances the rains and frost of the autumn and winter have immediately destroyed the contagion, and restored the cities to their usual health, without leaving a trace of disease, or any return of it in the succeeding spring.
I know very well there are many persons, who, from a love of speculative theory, may endeavour to establish opposite opinions, and some perhaps, from a wish to check our connections with America. Already the differences among the physical faculty in America itself, both on the origin, the nature and the treatment of the disease, have been prosecuted with an enthusiasm and rancour, which have proved one of the severe afflictions that has accompanied it, and has robbed the unhappy sufferers of all the comfort which confidence in a physician is capable of inspiring; these circumstances should teach the world to beware of information which they receive through such channels, and rather to trust the narratives of those persons who form them with plain good sense, and an attention to facts, without having systems to establish, or interest to serve. In judgment of a calamity so awful, afflicting to a country with which we are allied by so many ties, every humane mind will listen to those opinions which, founded on facts, bear a near resemblance to our own.
* In the towns of the South of France and Italy, not only all the circumstances here enumerated exist, but it is the custom to keep the streets constantly crowded with hay and straw, that by the rain, and the passage of people, horses, and carriages, it may be converted into manure.
former experience, and above all, appear the most likely to be remedied. The unhappy inhabitants of America have already exhausted almost every effort in perfecting the internal police of their cities, until attention to cleanliness can do little more; had they been equally attentive to establish general and rigorous quarantines, in all probability they would have been ere this free from the attacks of this dreadful disease. Instead, therefore, of calling away their attention to delusive theories, we ought to strengthen them in the resolution to adopt regulations which we have found effectual ourselves, and to cheer them by the hope that these will, under providence, ensure their future safety.
Domestic Articles. NORFOLK BOROUGH.
At a Hastings Court held the 22d day of April, 1799.
The clerk laid before the court sundry pamphlets containing an address from a majority of the general assembly to the citizens of the commonwealth, for the purpose of having them distributed under their authority, which was ordered to be read.
The court taking the same into their most serious consideration, are impressed with a firm belief that they cannot, consistently with their duty, take any steps in promoting a measure which to them appears to originate in the exercise of powers truly anomalous and alarming—injurious to the public welfare, and destructive of all order—to maintain which, is their peculiar province, as well as bounden duty. Acting under the obligation of a solemn oath to support and defend the constitution of the United States, and ever mindful of its sacred injunctions, and fully persuaded of the sincere attachment and unshaken fidelity of the citizens of this commonwealth to the government of their choice, they cannot allow themselves to be the instruments of disseminating opinions and principles tending to undermine the federal authority, and may probably lead to a dissolution of the social compact.
While the court are ready to applaud the vigilance of their fellow-citizens in watching over, and by a becoming jealousy preventing any encroachments upon the rights of the people by those in power—still it may be no less their duty carefully to avoid being misled by specious intrigues, who, concealed under the alluring garb of superior patriotism, are artfully projecting plans to promote their personal aggrandizement—to sap the foundation of our excellent constitution—to sever our union—and finally, to bring upon our envied and happy country all the horrors flowing from civil discord—than which nothing in the opinion of the court can be more calamitous. Invariable in their conduct, this court will, to the best of their skill and ability, faithfully and impartially discharge their duty, without regarding the frowns, or courting the smiles of any man, or set of men, in or out of power; and in no other manner can they satisfy their consciences, or their God.
For the reasons here enumerated, and not being bound to fulfil an act of the legislature destitute of the legal forms required by the constitution, though incapable of contravening any known laws of the land.
The court, after mature deliberation, unanimously determine, that the pamphlets transmitted to them, shall remain in the clerk's office for the inspection of those who are inclined to peruse them, subject to the future order of the Executive: that a copy of this proceeding, attested by their clerk, be forwarded to the governor, and published in the papers of this borough.
(A copy) Teste, ALEX. MOSLEY, C. N. B. C.
PROVIDENCE April 24.
On the night of the 16th inst. that most valuable manufactory of gunlocks, bayonets and trimmings for small arms, at Johnston, in this state, was consumed by fire. It was first discovered by a girl, who lived with Mr. Ezekiel Angell, the owner of said buildings. She immediately alarmed the workmen, to the number of 12 or 14 who did every thing in their power to extinguish the flames, but were unsuccessful; they then endeavoured to save the tools and materials; but with all their exertions the owner must have sustained a very considerable loss. Too much praise cannot be given to Mr. Edson, one of the head workmen, who on the alarm sprung from his bed and ran to the building; the door being locked, he jumped through a glass window naked as he was, and saved considerable property, although very much cut by the glass in his feet and other places. It is supposed the owner must have lost at least from 1000 to 1200 dollars; but we are happy to be informed a new building is now erecting by the spirited owner, and will be fit for use in ten or twelve days.
Died at Pomfret, on the 7th inst. captain Amasa Sessions, in the 84th year of his age. In 1755 he raised a respectable company in Connecticut, at the expence and for the service of Rhode-Island, which he afterwards commanded at Lake George, under Sir William Johnson. These several duties he executed with ability, and to the satisfaction of the government he served. The late Major General Putnam was appointed first lieutenant in this company, it being the first public notice taken of his military talents.
POST-OFFICE.
Philadelphia, April 29, 1799. LETTERS for the British Packet Weymouth, for Falmouth, will be received at this office until Tuesday, the 7th May, at 12 o'clock noon. N. B. The inland postage to New-York must be paid.
The Gazette. PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 1.
PRICES OF STOCKS PHILADELPHIA, APRIL 13. Six Per Cent. 16 3/4 Three Per Cent. 9 3/8 Deferred 6 Per Cent. 14 3/4 BANK United States, 23 per cent. Pennsylvania, 21 ditto. North America, 26 ditto. Insurance on N. A. shares 21 to 22 Pennsylvania, shares, 18 to 19 8 per cent Scrip par
COURSE OF EXCHANGE On London, 50 1-2 at 30 days Amsterdam, 33 1-2 at 37 1-2 90 days Hamburg, 36 3/4 at 32 1-2 per Mark Banco.
The delivery of the ANNUAL ORATION before the CHEMICAL SOCIETY, is postponed until Wednesday the eighth of May.
The Alexandria paper states that the Election of Gen. Henry Lee to the next Congress, is almost certain. His competitor is Dr. Jones, member of the last Congress.
The trial of John Fries, for treason, commenced in the Circuit Court of the United States yesterday morning—when the council for the prisoner, contended, that the trial ought to be held in the county where the offence was committed—but the plea was overruled by the court, and the trial ordered to be proceeded on this morning.
A LAWYER'S CONSCIENCE! A certain eminent lawyer was not long since extremely vociferous in denouncing Fries and his associates. He swore they should all be hanged—he insisted on the necessity of sending an army to quell the rebellion and seize the traitors—Now, forsooth, there was no rebellion—no traitors; nothing but a simple petty riot that should have been tried at the county sessions. Was he so anxious for the army to march that they might catch clients for him? He is not only to be their advocate at their trial, but endeavoured to defeat all trial whatever. In his concluding harangue on his motion to remove the cause to Northampton, he fell into the democratic cant about the liberties of the people—the oppressions of government, &c. &c. How soon bad company spoils a man! Some people who have not the gift of a double conscience, are a little surprised to see this man in close and brotherly counsel with Dallas, whom he has so often execrated as the vilest of mankind—O! Gold!
“Thou visible god, That foldest close impossibilities, And mak'st them kiss! that speak'st with every tongue, To every purpose! Oh, thou touch of hearts!” Surely those days foretold by holy writ are approaching, when the Lion shall lie down with the lamb, and the young child play with the serpent.
MALLET DU PAN.
To disprove the assertions of the directory, and their partisans, that the peasantry of Switzerland were oppressed by slavery and poverty, before they taught them the new rights of man, relates the following anecdote.
I cannot without pain recollect a scene which passed before my eyes about a year ago. As I was returning from Zurich to Berne, I fell in at a handsome village, three leagues from the latter place, with a rural wedding, which was at once a picture of the manners and prosperity of the country. It was a custom among the inhabitants who were in good circumstances, to give a wedding feast at some distance from home, at one of those better kind of inns which are to be met with in many villages. The bride and bridegroom with their relations and friends, arrived in two and twenty carriages, which were all of a green color, elegant and as full as they could hold. After the marriage ceremony, the company returned from the church to the inn; as they came near the band of music belonging to the regiment of militia, in which the bridegroom happened to be a non-commissioned officer, played several slow and solemn airs. Twenty-seven couples filed off in order and silence, their countenance and deportment indicating reflection. The bride was not more than four and twenty years old. She was ornamented with lace, a necklace, and much more by her beauty; her clothes were made of a superfine black serge, and in the fashion of the country; her hair hung plaited to her heels: the height and ease of her person, the delicacy of her features and the bloom of her complexion distinguished her in the midst of her companions; she was the picture of modesty. The bridegroom dressed in his regimentals (according to a rule scrupulously observed) was not inferior to his bride in personal endowments in youth and modesty. The whole party were much alike in point of appearance; they had no superfluous or affected ornaments, all was rich without being taudry.
The mirth of the day was tempered by a sense of religion, and the party did not forget at the inn the ceremony which had been performed at church, where a solemn engagement had been contracted in the presence of the D.ity. Dances preceded the repast which was sumptuous and abundant: the first toast was to the State, the next to the priest who married the young couple, and whose children were placed near the bride and bridegroom. They sat at table a considerable time, from which they rose for the ball; but throughout, decent gaiety, order and sobriety prevailed. The happy pair did not return home to their village for two days. The expence of
the inn had been previously agreed upon at 60 Louis d'ors, and the pay music, alms and presents, raised the sum to 75. On expressing my astonishment at this expence the inn keeper put an end to it by informing me, that the young woman was an heiress with 150,000 Swiss livres, (near 10,000. Sterling,) and her husband a farmer and linen draper, possessed of a fortune at least equal to hers.
These were the sort of people whom the Paris mountebanks, came to convince with their cannon shot, that they were slaves, and that the remedy to their misfortunes was to be found in the philosophy of Chenier , in the constitution of the year III, and in Tribune harangues!
It is in the midst of the affecting scenes an involuntary thought of the horrors of the French Revolution crossed my mind and cast a mist on the scene: seized with a secret dread, I implored the almighty to avert from this happy country the scourges which France was spreading through Europe; unavailing prayers! perhaps this young woman has been sacrificed to brutal violation, perhaps this happy farmer has fallen by the weapons of the plunderers who have enslaved his country, perhaps this union which I saw formed at the altar under the auspices of peace and safety, is now no more than a communion of wretchedness, discord and despair.
ANECDOTE.
The works of the greatest literary ingenuity are often neglected by the age in which they were written. Sensible of this, Dr. Goldsmith drew the following bill upon future ages. Mr. Posterity, Sir. Nine hundred and ninety nine years after the fight hereof pay the bearer or order a thousand pounds worth of praise, free from all deductions whatsoever, it being a commodity that will be then very serviceable to him, and place it to the account of &c.
James Morant, a cooper of Andover, was lately found by his son frozen to death. It is most remarkable, that about thirty years ago, the deceased found his father frozen to death: he had a brother who hanged himself, another who broke his neck, a third who cut his throat, and a sister who was drowned.
[Lond. pap.]
“During the last session of Congress, Mr. Livingston of New York called the Federal army mercenary troops . The epithet gave offence, and brought several severe remarks on the orator. Gallatin defended his brother democrat, and added, that there were mercenary LAWYERS as well as mercenary troops . Mr. Bayard replied to Gallatin in the following words:
“Mr. Bayard remarked upon the ingenuity displayed by the gentleman from Pennsylvania in defence of the epithet used by his friend from New-York. He had no doubt that gentleman well understood both the word and the thing. He spoke of mercenary troops and mercenary lawyers , but there were other mercenaries whom he had omitted. He might have added mercenary politicians , of whom we have but too many examples. He might also have said, that there were mercenary politicians imported from abroad , as well as mercenary troops [Mr. Eggleston rose to call the gentleman to order; and was proceeding to state the impropriety of personal reflections, but there was a general cry of order—that a member was on the floor. The Speaker desired Mr. Bayard to proceed.] Mr. Bayard believed he was not more out of order than the gentleman from Pennsylvania; but what fell from him might make a different impression upon the gentleman from Virginia. He was saying, that amongst other mercenaries there might be mercenary politicians . He did not know why he should be understood as having particular reference to persons in that house. Did the gentleman from Virginia mean to allege that any persons were described by what he said. He should be glad if the gentleman would point them out. When the gentleman from Pennsylvania spoke of mercenary lawyers , he supposed he did not allude to any honorable gentleman on that floor of that profession. He believed further with respect to mercenary politicians , that there were some who were doubly mercenary ; they received pay from their own government, and actually served a foreign government, whilst they are receiving pay of their own.”
Gazette Marine List.
Port of Philadelphia.
CLEARED. Brig Beaver, Elliott, Havanna Sch. Liberty, Archer, do Adventure, Devereux, Kingston Polly, Hall, Snowhill Duly Ann, McNamara, Fredericksburg Abigail, Chadwick, Newbern Harriott, Daniel, Edenton Betty, Gorden, Richmond Sloop Hiram, Ryan, New London
New-York, April 30.
ARRIVED Ship Nancy, Dees, Surinam Brig Integrity, Gellender, ditto Schr. Patty, Sheffield, from Newbern, is taken and carried to New Providence, vessel and cargo condemned on suspicion of being bound to the Havanna, though cleared for Jamaica; she was insured to Havanna and actually bound there. Ship Farmer, McCullum, from La Guira, has arrived at Philadelphia. Schr. Industry, Sellick, has arrived at Surinam from this port. Brig Lion, Alford, from Bermuda to New-York, put back in distress after being out a few days: it is reported she is condemned as unfit for service.
Bermuda, April 6. Thursday evening arrived off these Islands, Admiral Vandepent, in his Majesty's ship Asia, Capt. Murray; Albans Capt. Pendle, and the Prevevoyante frigate Capt. Carter being in company. The squadron laid off and on all yesterday, as the wind was unfavorable; but this morning, the wind being fair, the squadron sailed for Murray's anchorage, and soon after the Admiral, attended by the Captains of the fleet, came on shore, where he was received by his Excellency the Governor and principal officers, &c. He was saluted by the artillery and 47 regt. and received every honor due to his rank.
The squadron was, this day joined by his Majesty's ship Affiance, Capt. Hardy, of 50 guns.
The Porcupine has removed the prisoners to the prison ship again, which has been properly fitted up, and will be ready to sail in a few days.
Sloop Nappy, Cox, has arrived at Bermuda from N. York.
Much invective has lately teemed from the American presses respecting Cap. Jones's conduct, of the Chesterfield packet, while lying in the harbour of New-York, on account of his ordering the mail to be sunk. The fact now appears, that the Chesterfield was boarded by as many of the New-York mobility as could get upon her deck just as she was ready to sail, under pretence of arresting the steward for a quarter of a dollar due to a carman, which the steward refused to pay, as the carman by neglect lost one of his parcels. Upon their taking possession of the vessel in that hostile manner, as well as of the Captain, he very properly ordered the mail to be sunk and the colors struck. The particulars in our next.
Three more American Ambassadors are appointed to treat with their Good and Great Allies, the Great Nation—but only one is to sail for France until they find what reception he meets with.
[Bermuda paper.]
Macpherson's Blues.
BATTALION ORDERS, May 1, 1799.
Artillery, Grenadiers and Infantry of the Blues, are ordered to parade at the Menage in Chestnut-street, on Thursday the 2d inst. at 4 o'clock, A. M. completely equipped.
By order of the commandant, JOHN M'CAULEY, Adj't.
This day is published, By B. DAVIES, at No. 68, High-Street, The IV. Number of
The Philadelphia Magazine & Review,
or, Monthly Repository of Information and Amusement,
If the Carrier has neglected to deliver any of the preceding numbers, the subscribers are requested to send for them, or to leave some notice of the omission with the editor, that the deficiency may be immediately supplied.
As there are some of each number not yet disposed of, those who wish to encourage the publication may still be furnished with complete sets.
may 1 45
Old French Brandy in large and small cases
100 boxes 7 by 9 & 8 by 10 Window Glass 20 chest pint & half-pint Tumblers, assorted 226 whole & 6 half-pints Rice, FOR SALE BY Gurney & Smith, may 1, 1799
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Pennsylvania District. NOTICE is hereby given, that in pursuance of Writs to me directed by the Hon. Richard Peters, Esq. Judge of the District Court of the United States, in and for the Pennsylvania district, will be exposed to public sale at the Custom-house, in the City of Philadelphia, on Thursday, the 16th day of May, instant.
1 barrel of Sugar 2 barrels of Molasses 3 chests of Sugars 3 and a part of a bag of Coffee 1 small box of Coffee 2 bags of Sugar 2 small cakes and 11 jars Tamarinds 4 kegs do 1 keg Sugar 2 hogheads of Rum 7 casks of distilled spirits 4 boxes of Sugar A quantity of Queens Ware 2 Looking Glasses 13 Pictures 4 Salt Cellars 1 Needle and Thread Case 4 Loaves of Sugar.
The same having been libelled against, prosecuted and condemned as forfeited in the said Court. William Nichols, marshal.
Marshal's Office, } 1st May, 1799. } 5
To be Let,
TWO HOUSES, No. 113 and No. 153, on the East side of Second street, near Spruce street, and three Grass Lots near the city. For terms, apply to CHARLES WHARTON, No. 136, South Second street, Who has for Sale,
Five boxes of Lenox One hundred boxes of Tea China Black, blue and colored Lutestrings Silk Umbrellas, &c. &c.
may 1 403
LANDING,
From the Schooner Sally, At Malley's wharfe, a quantity of First Quality
Surinam Cotton & Coffee,
for sale by ISAAC HARVEY, jun. No. 9, South Water-street
ALSO ON HAND,
Russia Duck, first quality Aux Cayes Molasses, Packages of Men and Women's C'mbs.
may 1 404

500 Guineas Reward. LOST this evening, between five and six o'clock, in the neighbourhood of Gracechurch Street, a BLACK CASE, containing the following
Bank Notes and Drafts, with sundry Bills of Exchange, not due: £1000 No. 1919, dated 1 Dec. 1798 1000 864, 26 Nov. Ditto 1000 284, 22 Dec. Ditto 1000 1712, 27 Oct. Ditto 1000 1712, 27 Oct. Ditto A Draft on Messrs. Hankey and Co. £53 13s. 6d. Ditto Doreen and Co. 367 7
A Bill drawn on Fleming & Wilks, Bow Lane, by Fleming, & payable to Ormerod, dated Nov. 25, two months after date, value £20.—One ditto on Fell, No. 12 Old Change, by Hall, and payable to Smith, dated Nov. 30, at two months after date, for £121 19s.—One ditto on Saywell & Sons, Wood-street, by Hall, and payable to Bradstock, dated Dec. 19, at two months, for £30.—One ditto on Eden, Wood-street, by Williams, payable to order, dated Nov. 1, at three months for £30 2s.—One ditto on Neale & Co. St. Paul's Church Yard, by Adams, and payable to Kennington, dated Dec. 7th, at two months, for £14.—One ditto on Stewart, Red Cross Square, by Young, and payable to Marshall, dated Nov. 22, at two months, for £33 2s. 9d.—One ditto on Royd's, Bullerbury, by Lord, and payable to Jackson, dated Dec. 3, at two months, for £18.—One ditto on Miller and Co. Gracechurch Street, by Redway, and payable to Harley, dated Dec. 6, at two months for £50.—One ditto on Spitta & Co. Lawrence Pountney Lane, by Lange, and payable to Hoyle dated Nov. 4, at two months, for £161.
Whoever may have found the above, and will bring them to Messrs. Atkinson & Robson, No. 2 Well End of Royal Exchange, shall immediately receive Five Hundred Guineas Reward without any other Trouble. N. B. No greater Reward will be offered, as payment of the whole is stopped, and the loss made known throughout this Country and Continent.
FOR SALE, 50,000 ACRES OF LAND, LYING in the county of Kent, situate of Virginia, on the south by the river Guett, and to the west by Sandy river. This tract (situate six miles from the Courthouse of the above county, 25 from the town of Abington, is well settled, and has likewise the advantage of a wagon road) is divided into tracts of 10, 15 and 1200 acres each, and will be sold, altogether, or in lots, as it may suit the purchasers, by one of the owners who will reside there during the months of May, June and July next, in order to inspect them who may become purchasers in possession. The plots duly authenticated and certified by the surveyors, are in the hands of the subscribers. Every satisfaction will be given with respect to the rights, to which the patents give full and ample testimony. Great accommodations will be made respecting payment, and every necessary information may be had, by applying to
FOR SALE, At the two mile Stone, on the Wessabickon, or Ridge Road. A Place containing about eighty acres, in part or the whole together, as may suit the purchaser. There is on the premises a house 47 x 24 feet front, by 33 x 12 deep, a poultry, milk house, pump, ice house, and barn house, a large barn, so let by 32, with stalls for 25 horses and cows, a carriage house, and a pump of good water in the barn yard, and a second milk-house supplied by a spring. The grounds are well managed, and laid out in good order, with an abundance of ornamental, and fruit trees, the situation healthy and high, commanding a view of the city and Delaware. There is also a small distance from the mansion house a farm house in good repair, with kitchen, stable, &c. and a pump of good water. For terms apply to
ALL PERSONS, INDEBTED to the Estate of ABRAHAM DICK, Esq. late Sheriff of the County of Delaware, are requested to make immediate payment, and all those who have demands against said Estate to authenticate and present them for settlement. Also, all those who have deposited writings with said deceased to apply for them to
THE COMMISSIONERS, APPOINTED by the Corporation to open Books of Subscription for a Loan to introduce WHOLESALE WATER from the River Schuylkill by means of Steam Engines (already contracted for) to the Center Square and from thence to be distributed through the City, give
NOTICE, THAT a book will be opened at the City Hall tomorrow, the 17th instant, and will be continued from day to day, until the Loan is completed, where the Commissioners will attend from 10 o'clock in the morning until one, to receive Subscriptions. By order of the Board, Jacob Schoemaker, sec'y.
A Place Wanted. A SITUATION in a Merchant's, Compting, or House-keeper's, for a Youth, of the age of 17, of reputable connections, and possessing the requisite acquirements. Apply to the printer.
Mount Pleasant on Schuylkill. THE subscriber is willing to sell the estate on which he lives, at the end of the new canal, and about three and a half miles distant from this city. A pleasant place adjoining is also for sale. These situations are too well known to require description, especially as it is presumed the purchaser would choose to judge for himself.—If not sold before the first of May, the mansion house is engaged to be let. Enquire on the premises.
Notice is hereby given, THAT on Monday the 22d inst. the appeals on the Direct Tax of the United States, for the first and second Districts, in the state of Pennsylvania (containing the city of Philadelphia) will commence in the Ex. Chamber or the Old City Court House from 10 o'clock in the morning until two o'clock, P. M.
To be Sold at Private Sale, TWO tracts of Land, being the estate of doctor Samuel Cooper, lately deceased, lying in Talbot county on the Waters of Tuckahoe Creek in the state of Maryland. One of them immediately on the said creek is part of a tract called Hampton, and part of another tract called Rich Range, containing about Two Hundred acres; there are on the said plantation a tolerable good dwelling house and kitchen, and some useful outbuildings, an apple orchard, and a spring of excellent water; this place, about five or six miles from Tuckahoe Bridge, and about four miles from Kingstown, is bounded in part by lands now or lately of William Sherwood, and of Hugh Work, in the heart of the fisheries, and conveniently situated for a person in the trading or vessel line. The other is a Plantation one or two miles distant from the above, being part of a tract called Dudley's Choice, and part of a tract called Sherwood's Choice, containing about two hundred and thirty seven acres. This place well timbered, is bounded in part by the lands now or lately of William Heyward and of George Wilson; there is a dwelling house there a dwelling house thereon, and some other improvements not considerable. The payments will be made early to the purchaser, or purchasers, upon security being given in a satisfactory manner.—For terms apply
NOTICE. THE creditors of TODD & MOTT are requested to send their accounts calculating interest to the 22d of November, 1798, the date of Todd and Mott's assignment, with W. MOTT, no. 143, Market Street, on or before the first of July next, as a dividend will be immediately made after that time; those who neglected to send in their accounts will be excluded from that dividend.
FOR SALE, BY THE SUBSCRIBER, On Willings and Francis's Wharf, 200 Gin Casks, Also, a few bales of Bengal Goods. G. WILLING.
NOTICE. THE Following certificates of shares of the stock of the Bank of the United States have been lost or destroyed at sea, to wit 13 shares in the name of Peter Blight, of which 5 shares No 4185, 5 shares No 4186, and 3 shares No 4187, and 6 shares in the name of John Barker Church, No 2058, which were forwarded by the Countess of Leicester packet from Falmouth for New-York—and ten shares of said stock in the name of Stadtinick & Son, of Amsterdam, No 1796, which were forwarded by the Packet from Falmouth for New-York in November 1794; and for the renewal of which application is made at the said Bank, and all persons concerned are desired to take notice. CLEMENT BIDDLE.
Patent Ploughs, TO be sold for cash by Joseph Salter at Atkinson Richard Wells, Cooper's Ferry—Jonathan Harker, Woodbury—and Jesse Evans, Lumberton. Those who have used them give them the preference to any other kind, as they require less team, break the ground better, are kept in order at less expense and are sold at a cheaper rate—the plan is much simplified and consists of but one piece of cast iron, with the handles and beam of wood; they may be fixed with wrought iron and coulters to be put on with screws and taken off at pleasure. Patent rights for vending with instructions for making them may be had by applying to John Newbold, or the subscriber No. 212 North Front-street.
WET NURSE. WANTED immediately, a WET NURSE, an unexceptionable character will be required. Apply at No. 48, South Front Street.
Valuable Property for Sale. FOR SALE, THAT well known Estate, called SHREWSBURY FARM, formerly the residence of General John Cadwalader, situate on Sassafras River, in Kent county, Maryland—containing about 1900 acres of prime LAND, upwards of 500 of which are in woods. The Buildings are all excellent, and consist of a handsome Dwelling House, two large Barns with Cow houses, Stables for fifty horses, a spacious threshing floor under cover, a granary, two Jersey's houses, two ranges of two story buildings for Negroes (one of them new, and of brick), Corn houses a Smoke house, &c. &c. The whole Estate being nearly surrounded by water, it requires but little fencing, and has a good Shad and Herring fishery. It is conveniently situated for both the Philadelphia and Baltimore markets, with two landings on a navigable river but a short sail from Baltimore. There is a large Peach, and two large Apple Orchards on the premises; also, a variety of excellent fruits of different kinds. The soil is mostly a rich loam. The whole will be sold together or divided into smaller farms (for which the buildings are conveniently situated) as may suit the purchaser. The stock on said Farm, consisting of Horses, Cattle, Sheep &c. will also be disposed of. For further particulars apply to GEORGE HASTINGS on the premises, or to the subscriber, in Philadelphia. ARCHIBALD M'CALL, Jun.
Notice. THE subscriber, having been appointed administrator of the estate of Mr. John Lupton, late of this city, merchant, deceased, requests those who are indebted to said estate, to make payment, and those who have demands against the same to exhibit them to him without delay.
NOTICE. A Certificate of one share of Bank Pennsylvania stock, No. 725, in my name, having been lost or mislaid, application is made at the said Bank for renewal of the same; all persons concerned are desired to take notice. JOHN VAUGHAN.
NOTICE. THE Public are requested not to receive any drafts, notes, obligations or bills of any kind drawn in favor of or indorsed by Abijah Hunt, J. F. A. Hunt, Jesse & Abijah Hunt, Jeremiah & Abijah Hunt, Abijah & Jno. W. Hunt, Snodgrass, & Co. Those on whom they are drawn are also desired to suspend acceptances, until reference be had to the subscriber. About twenty thousand Dollars of bills of the above description having been taken from the carrier near the mouth of Tennessee river by a party of Indians. SAMUEL MEERER.
Valuable Lands for Sale. ON Tuesday the 20th of August next, I shall expose to public sale, at the town of New-Market, in Dorchester county, all that valuable tract or parcel of land commonly called the Choptank Indian Lands, situated on the south side and binding on the Choptank river several miles, supposed to contain about six thousand acres, to be divided into lots to contain from 100 to 500 acres each. The terms of sale as follows, viz. Purchasers to give bond immediately after the sale with approved security, conditioned for the payment of the purchase money, with interest from the day of sale, in four equal annual instalments, agreeably to an act, entitled "An act appointing commissioners to contract for and purchase the lands commonly called the Choptank Indian Lands in Dorchester county, and for appropriating the same to the use of this state; and to repeal the act of assembly therein mentioned;" passed at November session, 1798.
Just Landing, From on board the Schooner ALBERT, Joseph Paul, master, from St. Croix, A Cargo of excellent St. Croix RUM, FOR SALE, Enquire of JOSEPH SIMS.
NOTICE. ALL persons having any demands on the Chevalier de Freires, Minister of Portugal, are desired to present, without loss of time, their accounts to his Steward, Mr. Kapin, that they may be immediately paid. Franklin Court, the 26th April, 1799.
TO BE SOLD, An Invoice of Woollens, CONSISTING of Coarse and Fine Cloths—principally Dark Blue, and printed Callimanes—Apply to Owen & Jonathan Jones, No. 151 Market-Street.
FOR SALE, On Wednesday, the 18th of May, At the Horse Market in Seventh Street. An Elegant Riding Horse, Fifteen hands high, warranted four, five years old. WM. DAVIDSON, auctioneer.
At a Court of Common Pleas, held at Greencastle, for the county of Westmoreland, the second Monday in March, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety nine, present Alexander Addison, Esq. President, and his Associates, Judges of the same Court. ON the petition of LUCAS S. GIBBS, an insolvent debtor, to the Court of Common Pleas, for the county aforesaid, praying for the benefit of the laws made for the relief of such persons, and submitting a list of his creditors and effects on oath, the Court appoint the second Monday in June next, for hearing the petitioner and his creditors, and direct that notice thereof be given in Penno's daily paper of the city of Philadelphia, in one of the Baltimore papers, and in the Fayette gazette, by being inserted therein, in three successive papers, at least three weeks previous to the day of hearing.
By order of Court, THOMAS HAMILTON, Proth'y.
At a Court of Common Pleas held at Pittsburgh for the county of Allegheny, the first Monday of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety nine—Before the Hon. Alexander Addison, Esq. President, John McDowell, John Gibson, George Thompson and George Wallace, Esqrs. Associate Judges of the same Court. ON the petition of Alexander Sumrall, a prisoner in the jail of said county, praying to be discharged according to the provisions of the act of assembly, made for the relief of insolvent debtors. The court ordered, that the said prisoner be brought before them at Pittsburgh, on the fifth Monday of June next, that his petition and his creditors may be then heard, and direct that notice of his application be published in the Gazette of the United States, and in the Pittsburgh Gazette, and continue three weeks in each, the last of which shall be at least two weeks before the time of hearing. By the Court, JAMES BRISON, Proth'y.
REAL ESTATES. THE SUBSCRIBER, Offers for sale the following described property, ON HIGH-STREET, A LOT of ground on the south side thereof, between 7th and 8th streets, containing in front 23 feet 8 inches and extending in depth southward 326 feet. The improvements on this lot are a substantial Brick Dwelling House, three stories high, with garrets and an extensive range of back buildings, also of three stories—an spacious drawing room—back parlour—kitchen—wash house, &c. and a great number of bed chambers. It has the privilege of passage into Market-street, through a 3 feet wide alley communicating with the yard. Another lot on the same situation and next adjoining, well situated to the one above described, containing in front, on Market street, 20 feet 8 inches by 326 feet in depth, on which are erected a two story frame dwelling house and kitchen well calculated to accommodate a small family. The back ground of both these lots is rendered healthy and pleasant by gravel walks and grass plots and a number of fruit and forest trees growing thereon. Each lot has the privilege of a passage into Eighth-street through a 15 feet wide alley extending to the same from the back ends. One other Lot of ground adjoining to and eastward of the subscriber's Dwelling House, containing in front 33 feet and extending southward to the depth of 306 feet on which are erected a substantial Brick Dwelling House, 2-story Dwelling House, 18 feet front, with garrets and very convenient back buildings of the same height and materials. Also a Carriage House and Stables built of wood.
A Lot of Ground on the north side, and between Seventh and Eighth Streets, containing in front 102 feet, and extending in depth northward 178 feet. This Lot is also accommodated with a passage into Eighth Street, through the above described alley. In the town of Dover, KENT COUNTY, DELAWARE STATE. Eight Lots of Ground adjoining each other, on the west side of King street, containing in front on the same 505 feet, and extending in depth westward about 404 feet, on which are erected a two story Brick Dwelling House, and another Brick Building adjoining, suitable for a Store or Office together with several frame tenements—a stream of water runs through the fourth part of the lot, where a tan-yard might be improved to advantage. Payment of a part of the purchase money will be required—the remainder may be at interest for a number of years by giving the premises in security, &c. RICHARD RUNDLE.
Removal. THOMAS CLAYTON, Hatter, HAS removed to No. 126, South Front Street, where he intends carrying on his business as formerly, and has on hand a complete assortment of his own manufactured ladies, gentlemen and children's HATS.
Canada Beaver & Musk-rat Skins, With a complete assortment of FURS, always for sale—He has received per the late arrivals from London, a complete assortment of Fashionable English Hats, Which he now offers for sale at very reduced prices.
The Subscriber offers for Sale, THE FOLLOWING PROPERTY. AN Excellent three story Brick House, situated at the corner of 7th and Race-streets; the house is about 25 feet front and well finished in every respect; the Lot is 76 feet front on Race-street and 88 feet deep, the situation remarkably airy, having a public square open in front of it. Two three story Brick Houses, Brick Stores, and good Wharf, situate in Water-street, between Arch and Race-streets, the lot on which these buildings are, is fifty four feet front on Water-street, and continues that width about 95 feet, then widens to the south 13 feet 6 inches, so that the front on the water is sixty seven feet six inches, this lot adjoins John Steinmetz esq. on the south, and has the advantage of a public alley on the north, and is a very desirable situation for the business of a Flour Factor, or Merchant. A large elegant two story Stone House, situate on the Point no Point road, being the first house to the Northward of the five mile Stone; this house is about 60 feet front and 40 feet deep finished in a neat manner; there is a good garden and choice collection of the best fruit trees, Ice-House and other conveniences with about nine acres of ground—or it more agreeable to the purchaser, thirty two acres of upland and meadow may be added to it. A plantation in Bibbary Township, Philadelphia county near the Red Lyon, about 13 miles from this city; bounded by the Northampton Road and Poquessing Creek, this farm contains about 140 acres of land, a proportion of which is woodland and meadow, a brick dwelling-house, frame barn, and other out-buildings, and there is said to be a good stone quarry on part of it, although it has not yet been opened, a further description is deemed unnecessary as no person will purchase without viewing the premises. A small plantation in Hockessin Township, Montgomery county, nineteen miles from Philadelphia, adjoining to Grange Park, on which is an excellent new Stone House and Kitchen, with a large Stone Shed for the accommodation of travellers horses; the house is now occupied as a tavern, and is suitable for any kind of public business, the land is good in quality, a good neighborhood, and a remarkably healthy situation: there is fifty acres of land and meadow in this farm—Also for sale, several tracts of land in different counties of this state. The House in Race-street first mentioned and one of the Houses in Water-street, are now TO BE LET, And immediate possession given. For terms apply at the South-east corner of Arch and Sixth-streets, to JOSEPH BALL.
Library Company of Philadelphia. The Annual Election FOR Directors and a Treasurer of the Library Company of Philadelphia, will be held at the Library, in Fifth street, on Monday the sixth of May next, at three o'clock in the afternoon, when the Treasurer will attend to receive the annual payments. As there are several shares on which fines are due, the owners of them, or their representatives, are hereby notified, that they will be forfeited, agreeably to the laws of the Company, unless the arrears are paid off on the said sixth day of May, or within ten days after. By order of the Directors, BENJAMIN R. MORGAN, Secretary.
To be Let, A genteel, convenient three story BRICK HOUSE, IN SPRUCE STREET, (No. 64) THIS house has been newly papered and painted, and was not occupied during last fever.
To be Let, A Store and Loft, NEAR Market-street Wharf.—Enquire of the Subscriber, GEO. DAVIS, 319 High-street.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT. JUNE 27, 1798. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That by virtue of an act, passed during the present session of Congress, in much of the act entitled "An act making further provision for the support of public credit, and for the redemption of the public debt"—passed the third day of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five, as bars from settlement or allowance, Certificates, commonly called Loan Office and final settlement Certificates, and Indents of Interest, is suspended until the twelfth day of June, which will be in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety nine.
That on the liquidation and settlement of the said Certificates, and Indents of Interest, at the Treasury, the Creditors will be entitled to receive Certificates of funded Three Per Cent. Stock equal to the amount of the said Indents, and the arrears of interest due on their said Certificates, prior to the first day of January one thousand seven hundred and ninety one. That the principal sums of the said Loan Office and final settlement Certificates, with the interest thereon, since the first day of January, one thousand seven hundred and ninety one, will be charged after liquidation at the Treasury, by the payment of interest and reimbursement of principal, equal to the sums which would have been payable thereon, if the said Certificates had been subscribed, pursuant to the Acts making provision for the debts of the United States, contracted during the late war, and by the payment of other sums, equal to the market value of the remaining Stock, which would have been created by such subscriptions as aforesaid, which market value to be determined by the Comptroller of the Treasury. OLIVER WOLCOTT, Secretary of the Treasury.
Weavers. SEVERAL WEAVERS may find employment by applying to Isaac T. Hopper, No. 39, Pine-street.
Valuable Property for Sale, In Chestnut, near Sixth street, directly opposite CONGRESS HALL. A LOT of ground, about 51 feet front in Chestnut street and 73 feet in depth, whereon is a good frame house, now in the tenure of Samuel Benge, subject to a ground rent of 20s. 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 GURVAN, no. 198, Chestnut Street, next door to the premises.
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 nine, entitled "An act requiring 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, namely, "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 Muddy-kings 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 plots 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, 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 thereon 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.
To be Let, A genteel, convenient three story BRICK HOUSE, IN SPRUCE STREET, (No. 64) THIS house has been newly papered and painted, and was not occupied during last fever.
To be Let, A Store and Loft, NEAR Market-street Wharf.—Enquire of the Subscriber, GEO. DAVIS, 319 High-street.
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