Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser. (Philadelphia [Pa.]), 1796-09-23 00:00:00

Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser.
FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 23, 1796.
[VOLUME X.]
NUMBER 1261.]
For Charter, The Ship Dominick Terry.
Jacob De Hart, master: an excellent vessel, of about 3000 barrels burthen. Jesse & Robert Waln.
September 27.
For NEW-YORK, The Ship LIGHT HORSE.
To sail in a few days, and will take freight very low. Apply to, JOSEPH ANTHONY, & Co.
September 20.
For Sale, Freight or Charter, The Ship General Washington.
Now discharging her cargo from Liverpool at Rouse's Wharf—She is a fast sailing ship, and may be sent to sea at a small expense, having been docked and refitted in Liverpool. Apply to Kearny Wharton.
September 19.
For Charter, The Danish Barque BENEVENTURA.
Samuel Stub, master, A good vessel, of about two hundred tons burthen. JESSE & ROBERT WALN.
September 17.
FOR LONDON, The capital ship CERES.
To sail soon:—For freight or passage apply to DAUV ROBERTS & Co. or John Vaughan, Front-street.
September 10.
FOR SALE, The Schooner LARK.
One Hundred and twenty tons burthen. A new vessel well found, well built, & sails extremely fast. For terms apply to the master on board, or to Joseph Anthony & Co.
September 10.
FOR SALE, The ship STAR.
JOHN VANNEGAN, Master, Lying at Walnut-street wharf, Philadelphia, built of live oak and cedar, will carry about 3200 barrels, is two years old, and in complete order to receive a cargo—For terms apply to THOS. & JOHN KETLAND.
August 29.
John Whitesides & Co.
Have for Sale,
Venetian Red, Spanish Brown, White Lead, ground in oil. Shot, No. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. London Porter, in casks and bottles, Green Copperas. Several crates of Queens Ware, in sets, with desert ditto complete. Blistered Steel, German ditto.
Sept. 21.
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To be disposed of, THE time of a healthy NEGRO WOMAN, who has between four and five years to serve: She can be recommended for her sobriety and honesty. For particulars enquire at No. 132, Chestnut-street. August 3.
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NANKEENS,
Of the first quality, FOR SALE BY, RD. and JAS. POTTER.
For any quantity above five thousand Pieces a liberal credit will be given. R. & J. P. September 13.
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WANTED,
THREE JOURNEYMEN BOOK-BINDERS, GOOD steady workmen will meet with constant employment, and good wages; by applying to JOHN CURTIS, No. 43, North Fourth-street.
September 20.
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INDIA SALES.
ON Thursday the 22d inst. at 10 o'clock, A. M. will be sold at the stores of Willings and Francis, a large quantity of INDIA GOODS, imported in the Ganges, from Bengal, consisting of 2000 pieces Gurrahs 2000 do. Baftas, different kinds 3500 do. Coffas, do. 450 do. Humhums, do. 600 do. Patna hdkfs. for women 100 do. Addatas 80 do. Table cloths 300 do. Emerties 80 do. Punjums 300 do. Fine Mulmuls 200 do. Fine Dacca hdkfs. 100 do. worked Mullins 100 do. Doreas 100 do. Book Mullin 100 do. black and colored Persians or Taffeties 1200 do. Bandannos, chocolate, red and blue 100 do. Choppa Remals 40 do. coarse cakes of Hylon Tea of good quality 40
The coarse goods will be sold by the bale, the taffeties and bandannos in lots to suit the purchasers, the teas by the chest. The whole is entitled to the drawback, and will be sold for approved notes, on a liberal credit. The goods may be seen from the 15th inst. to the day previous to the sale. JOHN CONNELLY, Auctioneer. September 8.
French Goods.
Received by the Sally, Mitchell, from Havre-de-Grace,
20 Trunks } Ladies' SHOES of all colors sorts and sizes 1 Cafe } 1 Ditto white and colored Silk STOCKINGS 1 Ditto Fine LAWN 1 Ditto best fine CAMBRIC 1 Ditto Ladies' best shammy and Grenoble Gloves 1 Ditto Ladies' best shammy and Grenoble Gloves For Sale by THOMAS & JOHN KETLAND. Aug. 24
Wm. HOLDERNESSE,
No. 76 High Street, HAS received, by the latest arrivals from Europe and the East Indies, a well selected assortment of Silk Mercer, Linen Drapery and Haberdashery Goods; which he will sell, Wholesale and Retail, on the lowest terms;
AMONGST WHICH ARE, Some fine India Mullins embroidered with gold and silver Superfine Book, Jacquet, and Mullin ditto Do do do do Handkerchiefs Some extra black taffeties, interlaced and colored Persians Bandano Handkerchiefs Long and short Nankeens English Mantuas of the first quality Damask table linen and napkins, very fine Silk Hosiery, an elegant assortment Thread and cotton do. Umbrellas—green silk, oil'd do. and do. cloth French cambrics, very fine Irish Linens, do. &c. &c. June 14
70,000 Pieces Nankeens,
Of the best quality and on reasonable terms, FOR SALE BY Philip Nicklin & Co. August 26.
The Cargo of the Polacre Independent,
CAPTAIN CATHCART, from Alicante and Lisbon, landing at the subscribers wharf— 28 Pipes of Brandy 18 Bales of Spanish wool 3 do. of Aniseed 7000 Bushels of best Lisbon Salt 80 Boxes of Lemons For sale by WILLINGS & FRANCIS. A L S O, Seventy Hogheads of prime JAMAICA SUGARS, received by the ship Dominick Terry, Capt. De Hart, from Kingston. Sept. 13.
CABLES,
From 16 to 9 3/4 inches, for sale by Jeremiah Warder, No 12 north Third-street. July 21
Washington Lottery.
THE Twentieth and Twenty-first Days' Drawing of the Washington Lottery, No. 2, are received at the office No. 234, Market-street, where tickets may be examined. N. B. Information given where tickets in all the other lotteries may be procured. September 15, 1796.
FOR SALE,
WINE, London particular Madeira, 4 years old, in pipes and hogheads Claret, genuine old, in cases Gin, in pipes, from Holland Earthen Ware, in crates Basket Salt, in hogheads Shot, Nos. 6, 7, 8 and 9 Bar Lead, Red and white dry lead Steel, German and Russia, in barrels Anchors, cables, junk, bunting, tarpaulin canvas, Tin plates—An invoice Stationary, by THOMAS & JOHN KETLAND. July 29
THE PUBLIC
IS hereby cautioned not to trust any person or persons on my account, under any pretext whatever, as I shall not pay such debts as may have been, or hereafter may be contracted without my knowledge. THOMAS HOGGARD. Sept. 13.
INFORMATION
IS given daily of the drawing of the WASHINGTON LOTTERY, at the Office No. 147 Chestnut-street, between Fourth and Fifth streets. Also, where Tickets may yet be had. Sept. 15. The 20th and 21st Days drawing is arrived.
Lottery and Broker's Office,
No. 64, South Second Street.
TICKETS in the Canal Lottery, No. 2, for sale—a Check Book for examination—and prizes paid in the late lottery. Check Books kept for examination and registering, for the City of Washington, No. 2, and Patterson Lotteries, both of which are now drawing—information where tickets are to be had, and prizes exchanged for undrawn tickets. A complete list of all the prizes in the late New-Port Long-Wharf, Hotel and Public School Lottery, for examination. The subscriber solicits the application of the public and his friends, who wish to purchase or sell Bank Stock, Certificates, Bills of Exchange or Notes, Houses, Lands, &c. or to obtain money on deposit of property. Wm. Blackburn. Philadelphia, August 18, 1796.
FOR SALE,
A Complete Font of Brevier, Entirely new, and yet unopened. The weight of this font is about 314 lb. It is from the Foundry of Wilson & Sons, Glasgow, and will be sold at cost & charges. Also for Sale, a pair of Super Royal Chases. Enquire at the Office of the Gazette of the United States, 119 Chestnut-street. Aug. 19
Dissolution of Partnership.
THE Partnership between ROBERT ANDREWS and DAVID MEREDITH, under the firm of ANDREWS and MEREDITH, being dissolved. All persons who are indebted to, or who have claims against the said house, are requested to apply for settlement to the subscriber. ROBERT ANDREWS, No. 86, So. Wharves. Sept. 6, 1796.
WANTED,
A Middle-Aged WOMAN, who can be well recommended, to take charge of the entire management of children—Such a person will meet with suitable encouragement, and may hear of a place, by applying to the printer of this Gazette. Sept. 14.
For Sale,
(In an excellent situation for business,) A three-story brick House and Lot of Ground,
Eighteen feet front and twenty-five feet in depth, on the South side of Market near Front-street, now in possession of Samuel Read. Apply to Israel Pleasants, or Charles & Joseph Pleasants, Sept. 15.
For Sale,
A three-story BRICK HOUSE and Lot, in Chestnut street, between Front and Second streets, in which Messrs. James Calbraith & Co. have for many years (and now do) carried on business. Possession will be given in one month, or sooner. For terms apply to WILLIAM BELL, or HECTOR CALBRAITH. April 21.
A Book-Keeper,
OR Clerk's place is wanted by a person properly qualified, and whose character will be found unexceptionable. Apply to the Printer. Aug. 11.
Dutch Goods,
Received by the Pennsylvania, from Amsterdam. GIN, in pipes Morlaix Tickenburgs Osnaburgs German Haelern Hollands Ravens Bedticks, in ditto Brittagnes Platilles For Sale by THOMAS & JOHN KETLAND. Aug. 29
Sales of India Goods.
The Cargo of the ship Ganges, capt. Tingey, from Calcutta and Bengal, consisting of Large and general assortment of Bengal and Madras COTTON and SILK GOODS. AMONG WHICH ARE A variety fine worked and plain Mullins, Doreas, &c. Also, A Quantity of Excellent Sugar, In boxes and bags—and BLACK PEPPER, For Sale by Willings & Francis, No. 21 Penn Street. June 8.
JUST ARRIVED, from Lisbon,
And for Sale by the Subscribers, Lisbon Wine, In pipes and quarter-casks; 5000 Bushels Lisbon Salt. Jesse & Robert Waln. Sept. 10.
At a special meeting of the Board of Directors for establishing useful Manufactures, held at Paterson, July 8, 1796.
RESOLVED, That a special meeting of the Stockholders of the Society be called on the first Monday, being the third day of October next, at Paterson, by ten of the clock of the same day; then and there to take into consideration the propriety of dissolving the said corporation, agreeably to the law in such case made and provided—and the Stockholders are earnestly requested to attend the said meeting in person or by proxy. August 27.
DUTY ON CARRIAGES.
THAT agreeably to an act of Congress of the United States of America, passed at Philadelphia, the 28th day of May, 1796; laying duties on Carriages, for the conveyance of persons, and repealing the former acts for that purpose.—That there shall be levied, collected and paid, upon all carriages for the conveyance of persons, which shall be kept by or for any person, for his or her own use, or to let out to hire, or for the conveying of passengers, the several duties and rates following, to wit: For and upon every Coach, 15 dols. upon every Chariot, 12 dols. upon every Post Chariot, 12 dols. upon every Phaeton, with or without top, 9 dols. upon every Coach, 9 dols. upon other Carriages, having pannel work above, with blinds, glasses or curtains, 9 dols. upon four wheel carriages, having framed posts and tops with steel springs, 6 dols. upon four wheel top Carriages, with wooden or iron springs or jacks, 3 dols. upon carriages with tops, 3 dols. upon chairs with tops, 3 dols. upon chairs with tops, 3 dols. upon sulkeys with tops, 3 dols. upon other two wheel top carriages, 3 dols. upon two wheel carriages, with steel or iron springs, 3 dols. For and upon all other two wheel carriages, 2 dols. upon every four wheel carriage, having framed posts and tops, and rolling upon wooden spars, 2 dols. The Collectors of the Revenue of the first survey of the District of Pennsylvania, will attend daily, until the 20th day of September next, for the purpose of receiving the duties on Carriages, at No. 117, in Race or Sassafras street, in the City of Philadelphia, at the house of Daniel S. Clair, Esq. in the County of Montgomery; and at the house of Abraham Dubois, Esq. in the County of Bucks; of which all persons possessed of such Carriages are desired to take notice. Notice is also given, To all retail dealers in Wines, and foreign distilled spirituous liquors, that licences will be granted to them; one licence for carrying on the business of retailing of Wines, in a less quantity, or in less quantities than 30 gallons—and one licence for carrying on the business of retailing spirituous liquors in less quantities than 20 gallons, at the same time and at the same places, by the officers legally authorized to grant such licences. WILLIAM NICHOLS, Inspector of the Revenue of the first survey of the district of Pennsylvania. Office of Inspection, at Philadelphia, 21st July, 1796.
Notice is hereby Given,
THAT agreeably to an act of Congress of the United States of America, passed at Philadelphia, the 28th day of May, 1796; laying duties on Carriages, for the conveyance of persons, and repealing the former acts for that purpose.—That there shall be levied, collected and paid, upon all carriages for the conveyance of persons, which shall be kept by or for any person, for his or her own use, or to let out to hire, or for the conveying of passengers, the several duties and rates following, to wit: For and upon every Coach, 15 dols. upon every Chariot, 12 dols. upon every Post Chariot, 12 dols. upon every Phaeton, with or without top, 9 dols. upon every Coach, 9 dols. upon other Carriages, having pannel work above, with blinds, glasses or curtains, 9 dols. upon four wheel carriages, having framed posts and tops with steel springs, 6 dols. upon four wheel top Carriages, with wooden or iron springs or jacks, 3 dols. upon carriages with tops, 3 dols. upon chairs with tops, 3 dols. upon chairs with tops, 3 dols. upon sulkeys with tops, 3 dols. upon other two wheel top carriages, 3 dols. upon two wheel carriages, with steel or iron springs, 3 dols. For and upon all other two wheel carriages, 2 dols. upon every four wheel carriage, having framed posts and tops, and rolling upon wooden spars, 2 dols. The Collectors of the Revenue of the first survey of the District of Pennsylvania, will attend daily, until the 20th day of September next, for the purpose of receiving the duties on Carriages, at No. 117, in Race or Sassafras street, in the City of Philadelphia, at the house of Daniel S. Clair, Esq. in the County of Montgomery; and at the house of Abraham Dubois, Esq. in the County of Bucks; of which all persons possessed of such Carriages are desired to take notice. Notice is also given, To all retail dealers in Wines, and foreign distilled spirituous liquors, that licences will be granted to them; one licence for carrying on the business of retailing of Wines, in a less quantity, or in less quantities than 30 gallons—and one licence for carrying on the business of retailing spirituous liquors in less quantities than 20 gallons, at the same time and at the same places, by the officers legally authorized to grant such licences. WILLIAM NICHOLS, Inspector of the Revenue of the first survey of the district of Pennsylvania. Office of Inspection, at Philadelphia, 21st July, 1796.
WANTED,
An APPRENTICE to the Printing Business. Enquire at this Office. Aug. 9.
FOR SALE.
PORT WINE, and HOLLAND GIN, of the first qualities in Pipes, FRAUNCES and VAN REED, Brokers and Commission Merchants, No. 63, So. 3d St. Who discount approved NOTES of hand. N. B. An APPRENTICE Wanted. September 14.
THIS DAY IS PUBLISHED,
By W. YOUNG, MILLS and Son, Corner of Second and Chestnut streets, Price 12 1-2 cents.
The President's Address
To the People of the United States, INTIMATING The resolution he has formed to decline being considered among the number of those out of whom a choice is to be made, at the ensuing election of a President of the United States. Sept. 20.
Great is TRUTH and must prevail.
JUST PUBLISHED, And for sale at No. 41 Chestnut-street by J. FORMROD,
An Apology for the Bible,
By R. WATSON, D. D. F. R. S. Bishop of Llandaff, &c. Being a complete refutation of Paine's Age of Reason, And the only answer to the Second Part. August 30.
THIS DAY IS PUBLISHED,
By W. YOUNG, MILLS and Son, [Price 50 cts. in boards, 62 1-2 neatly bound]
An Apology for the Bible,
In a series of Letters, Addressed to Thomas Paine, author of a book entitled The Age of Reason, part the second, being an investigation of true and fabulou theology. By R. WATSON, D. D. F. R. S. Lord Bishop of Llandaff, and Regius Professor of Divinity in the University of Cambridge. Sept. 15.
For sale by the subscribers,
IN PENN-STREET, 130 quarter Casks fresh Hylon Tea; 100 ditto do. fresh Souchong Tea; 300 Boxes China, containing small tea sets of 40 pieces; 400 pieces Bandannos. Willings & Francis. January 30.
One Hundred Dollars Reward.
SOME villainous person or persons having, in the night of the 7th inst. broken and much injured the Marble Steps at Mr. Pierce BUTLER's door in High-street, No. 315, the above sum of 100 dollars will be paid immediately to any one who will discover the perpetrator or perpetrators, so that he or they may be apprehended. Apply to PIERCE BUTLER, or SAM. MAGAW. Sept. 15.
TAKE NOTICE.
THE subscriber intends to make application for a renewal of the following certificate, supposed to be lost on the passage to England in April 1794: Certificate No. 10335, dated 15th November, 1793, for 2830 dollars and 92 cents—Six per cent. domestic debt, on the books of the Treasury of the United States, in the name of the Hon. John Trevor. ROBERT BIRD, at John Warder's. Philadelphia, August 30th, 1796.
India Tamboured Mullins.
A small, handsome assortment of Mullins, viz. Fine tamboured Malda and Santipore Mullins, various patterns and prices. Plain 6-4 Jacomet. Corded and cross-barred Mullin Shawls. Ditto ditto 6-4 and 4-4 Doreas, Mullin Handkerchiefs, fine and coarse, Japan Mullins, and A few pieces extraordinary fine Long Cloths. FOR SALE BY Thomas Tingey, No. 121, South Third-street. Sept. 12.
TO BE SOLD,
That Neat and Convenient HOUSE, WHEREIN the subscriber now lives. There are four rooms on a floor: the house is two stories high with a good garret above: under the whole is an excellent cellar, with a dry well, in which is a convenient framed chamber for preserving meat, butter, &c. in warm weather. Attached to the house is a Stable for three horses, hay-loft, granary, and carriage-house, a wood-yard paved with stone, and a garden with soil of a fine quality. An indisputable title will be made to the purchaser. For further particulars apply to the subscriber in Princeton, or in her absence to Thomas D. Johnson, Esq. or the rev. Samuel S. Smith. ANN WITHERSPOON. Princeton, Aug 24.
Plans of the city of Philadelphia,
Including the NORTHERN LIBERTIES and district of SOUTHWARK, Published, and sold by BENJAMIN DAVIES, No. 68, High street, (Price one dollar.) THIS plan is 26 inches square, and has been engraved by one of the first artists in the city, from a late and accurate survey. Purchasers are entitled to a pamphlet with each plan, giving some account of the city, its population, trade, government, &c. July 19.
FOR SALE,
By N. and J. FRAZIER, No. 95, S. Front-street, Prime Boston Beef, in barrels. Georgia Cotton. Carolina Rice and Indigo. Sherry and Tenerife Wines, of excellent quality, Ravens Duck. India Bandannos. Sewing Silks, various colours. Coffahs and Gurrahs. Sept. 17.

Mr. FENNO,
The following extract from a late address is a precious morsel; it ought not to escape notice. Some of your readers may prefer rhyme to prose; that all may be suited, please to annex to the extract the paraphrase in Doggerel, and oblige a CORRESPONDENT.
To the Electors of the City of Philadelphia.
Fellow-citizens, YOU will be called on in a few weeks to exercise the greatest right which independent citizens can enjoy in the choosing of men to represent you in the House of Congress of the United States and in the Legislature of Pennsylvania. It becomes you therefore to reflect calmly and deliberately on the act you are about to perform, consider well the character of the different candidates who are proposed to you for your suffrage; if you find them men who buoyed up by their wealth consider themselves superior to the common mass of the people, if you find them men who were inimical to our secession from Great-Britain, if you find them men who in those "times that tried men's souls" shrunk from danger, you will appreciate their merits by the standard of their characters.
At this time when an aristocratical influence is daily pervading every corner of the United States, when a combination of old Tories, British agents and speculators, pretend to dictate laws to you, it becomes you as citizens of a free Republic to endeavor to crush them.
Think not that I exaggerate, every one who will but reflect on the conduct of a certain party among us for some time past, will find that it is but too true.
The doctrines these people hold up are that the swinish multitude must be annihilated in a measure, and that a choice few must have the management of every thing in order to give a certain energy to our government bordering on tyranny.
Exert yourselves therefore early, and unless you do, you know not but this may be the last time you will dare to exercise the privilege you now enjoy of choosing your lawgivers, and the last time I shall dare to address you in this way."
THE PARAPHRASE.
WHEN a few weeks are past away, Comes on your great election day; Then you'll be call'd to exercise The greatest right which freemen prize! To chuse for Congress and the State, Your wisest men to legislate. In doing this our club should guide, And on each character decide; For we now swear, you know its true, Ourselves, we soon to have in view: No—never shall our actions prove, Our country is our second love. "That we the public good pretend, While private interest is our end." The act you are about to do, With calm deliberation view; Consider well before you vote, Your ticket by our orders wrote. While we have watch'd the public weal With indefatigable zeal— Men, whom we therefore must despise, Have caught full many a goodly prize. Beware of such, their wealth is pow'r— The common mass, they will devour. These men were all with terror smitten, When we seceded from Great-Britain; A crew who never fir'd a gun, But in "foul trying times" all run.
At this time when an influence Aristocratic in each sense— Pervading ev'ry chink and cranny, Proclaims our enemies are many, A combination of old Tories, (Poh! do not laugh at Benny's stories) British agents, speculators, Who set themselves up for dictators— At such a season should we falter, How well we should deserve a halter! As men whose hearts with freedom beat, Let's crush the rep. lies with our feet; For we the maxim must maintain, We're slaves whenever we cease to reign.
Think not that I exaggerate, When I my fears so strongly state; For every one who will reflect, May see what party can effect; Your apathy you'll quickly rue, Experience proves it but too true. The doctrines that these people hold, Are that the world is led by gold; That we're a "swinish multitude," So devilish dirty, noisy, rude, That they can never live in peace, Until our clubs are made to cease; And here they quot- 't effect our ruin, What France has done, and still is doing.
The people too, our hobby horse, Have lately made the matter worse; They give no credit to our lies, But chuse to see with their own eyes. Of PEACE they feel the consequences, Dislike our tales, but trust their senses. A chosen set they swear shall rule 'em, And demagogues no more befool 'em. Not a pack'd crew in conclave made, Our schemes of anarchy to aid! But men who'll strong the union bind, And keep the peace with all mankind— To law give energy to firm, That we can only kick and squirm.
Therefore my friends yourselves exert; Be early—play with zeal your part. Time rapid flies—'tis quickly past, And this perhaps may be the last, That you may dare to exercise, Those arts on which our club relies: For don't you see these privileges, The people's sov'reign will abridges? There's not a town throughout the states, But what our system execrates— And I myself your great reporter, Feel my own tether growing shorter; Ere long so small will be the scope, That I may want an inch of rope.
NEW-YORK, September 21.
The Resignation of
THE PRESIDENT of the UNITED STATES, Some time locked for by many, is at length announced to us in form. We are persuaded there is no one we can say, that will fully express the effusion
in which his illustrious and important services are held by the citizens of this much favoured country; or that will equally express their regret at being deprived of the continuance of his paternal watchfulness and care. Yet his claims to a share of that repose in private life, which has been so repeatedly interrupted by the earnest voice of his country, "whose calls he has ever been accustomed to obey," are certainly strong and powerful. The prosperous and tranquil state of our country, in the accomplishment of which his exertions have been so eminently conspicuous, being particularly favourable to his retirement from office, gratitude for his eminent services, as well as the propriety of an experiment how far the stability of our government may be dependent on the popularity of an individual at its head, combine to favour that acquiescence with his wishes, which, under less flattering prospects, might be anxiously withheld.
The valuable legacy of good advice, which he has bequeathed on his departure from public life—the result of long experience, and expressed in the language of firmness and paternal affection, should, as we have no doubt it will, be engraven deeply on the minds of his fellow citizens, and transmitted with their sanctioning approbation to their posterity.
Their filial love And confidence are his unsailing treasure, And every honest man his faithful guard."
ELIZABETH, (HAGERS-TOWN,) Sept. 14.
To the EDITOR of the WASHINGTON SPY. SIR,
In your paper of Sept. the 7th, I observe what you call a particular and authentic account of the melancholy event which happened at Bath on Monday the 29th ultimo; but I must observe your intelligence has been shamefully misrepresented; the circumstances are thus:
That on Monday the 29th of August, a quarrel originated in the billiard room between Captain Randolph of Virginia, and Mr. Elisha Jarrett of Maryland. After their retiring from the billiard room, Mr. Jarrett conceived himself injured, which induced him to demand satisfaction of Capt. Randolph, requesting by a note to meet him, which note Capt. George Thomas was the bearer of, but Randolph refused, saying he knew no such character; Captain Thomas made no reply, but went immediately to Jarrett and informed him of Randolph's answer—then Jarrett procured certificates from gentlemen of veracity shewing him to be upon an equality with Randolph or any other man; which certificates Capt. Thomas was also the bearer of—Randolph still refused to give satisfaction for the insult he had given Jarrett—then came up Captain Blackburn and told Thomas that Randolph should see Jarrett in the morning, saying that he was Randolph's friend, and would represent him; Captain Thomas said he was satisfied, then Blackburn retired to his company; and after some time a Mr. Mercer and Capt. Thomas began to quarrel, after some warm words passing between them, Mercer went and brought Blackburn back again, then says Blackburn where is the d—n'd rascal who wishes to disturb any of my company, and said to Thomas, I thought I had given you satisfaction on that business before—Thomas replied he did not wish to quarrel or have any dispute with him, then Blackburn told him he was a d—n'd rascal, and Thomas replied he was a d—n'd liar; Blackburn then drew out his dagger and stabbed him, of which he expired in a few moments. Blackburn then made his escape for that night, but was followed and taken the next day at Williamsport, and sent to Martinsburg jail, and on Tuesday the 6th inst. came on his trial before a special court, where he was adjudged for further trial, at the district court to be held at Winchester, on the 5th of Oct.—Mr. Printer, I should not have troubled you farther than stating the facts, had not some cowardly and partial friends to the aggrieved party, by publishing lies and misstating facts, attempted to lessen the character of the deceased man and Jarrett; but whenever such circumstances happen as were in this dispute, it must of necessity create infinite mischiefs and disorders in society, good men will be injudiciously treated, while the bad are applauded and caressed. Nay, so far may the public be deluded by false and partial representations, that the best and most deserving of men may be pursued with the most cruel hatred and made to suffer the greatest wrongs, while the worthless and overbearing, shall be advanced to false dignity and honor. It is well known by all who were personally acquainted with Capt. Thomas, that his character stood fair and unblemished—he was a man who made his living by honest industry and application—no gambler; nor could he be considered a dissipated character; neither can any man bring forward any charge against Jarrett more than is common among young men, rather imprudent; but the most contemptible and false propagations have been attempted to traduce the character of both Thomas and Jarrett. Some cowardly and partial writer set forth in this, and the Winchester paper, the most palpable lies, saying that in two or three days after the quarrel, Capt. Thomas was boasting he had frightened some of the continentals, when from the beginning of the dispute till his death did not exceed five hours; also that Capt. Thomas offered to combat with Capt. Randolph at the time of delivering the challenge, which was as infamous a lie as the other.
J. T.
From late English papers.
Political correspondence of MALLET DU PIN.
THIS celebrated opponent of the French Revolution thus pursues his illustration of the position, that of all the causes, which have contributed to establish it "the most foreign is the war from without."
"It will not be one of the least absurdities of this era to have seen the French Republic adopted and recognized in the political hierarchy, at the instant when the governors and the governed avowed to themselves the impossibility of maintaining in France the Republican regime. That this was their confession, I affirm, although neither pronounced at the throne, nor in the pamphlets of the Directory."
"This then will have been the result of the war in full of ambition. It will have walled France without weakening the revolution, have loaded the nation with military glory and calamities, without
one advantage for her enemies, and have proved what in 1792 was unhappily undetermined—the Revolution is stronger than Europe."
"Therefore was it that the war terrified the virtuous and prophetic Louis XVI, those of his counsellors, whom the fury of party openly treated as Jacobins, and all those who, after the example of the monarch, suggested the horrors, which hostilities but little disinterested would accumulate upon the prince and his family, upon the monarchy and the nation. They recollected that throughout all the time nothing has been more futile, more disorganized, more potent than coalitions. They remember the speech of Trevisani to the Senate of Venice, when deliberating upon the propositions of Julius II, who hesitated whether he should accede to the league of Cambray. "To defeat coalitions it is necessary only to sustain their first effort. This presently excites amongst princes, whom an immediate interest has alone brought together, disgusts, which engender disputes, that produce ruptures."
"They remember, that, if Gustavus Adolphus, at the head of the Protestant princes, subdued the half of Germany, it was because this hero, at once general, statesman, legislator and sovereign, made a confederation, formed by himself, bend beneath his own genius; that he executed in person the plans, of which he was the author; that with the celerity of Cæsar he had his talents and his character; and finally, that Ferdinand II. his enemy, was attached to the Catholic league. They remembered, that, if Marlborough, the all-powerful favorite of his sovereign, and prince Eugene, a minister and generalissimo, made Louis XIV totter, a squabble between two women broke their alliance. They remember, that history does but once exhibit the magnanimous example of the Corinthians re-peopling Syracuse subdued, giving her just laws, re-establishing in her walls order, peace and safety, and leaving her an entire independence, after having delivered her from their tyrants and the Carthaginians!"
"Ah! their foresight was but too well justified."
LONDON, July 9.
That our readers may be aware of the calamitous advances this country has made towards ruin, we request their attention to the following statement of the progress of the national debt. In 1755 we owed seventy two millions.—In 1776, one hundred and twenty three millions.—In 1786, two hundred and thirty nine millions! And we find from Mr. Morgan's valuable tract, that the amount of the National Debt, Midsummer 1796, was no less than three hundred and sixty millions Sterling!!
Last week, the town of Douglas, in the Isle of Man, was thrown into no small commotion by the appearance of a stranger, who offered to sell any quantity of guineas at ten and eleven shillings each. The very highest authority in the Island was applied to, a warrant was issued, and executed; and the wagg upon the point of being committed to prison—when the sagacious informers, by some means or other, came to understand that ten and eleven make twenty-one!—The Humbug was undertaken for a trifling wager; it is superfluous to add, that "more than the winner shared in the laugh."
A few days ago the following plough team was at work in a field belonging to R. Boardman, in the township of Chadderton:—Three horses whose ages, with the driver and ploughman, together make 231 years. The age of the first horse is 30, the second 24, and the youngest 23 years.—The driver, Edmund Carwick, is 70; and the ploughman, Adam Boardman, 84 years of age.—These three horses can plough half an acre of any sort of land in a day.
On Thursday the 30th ult. came on at Holyrood house Edinburgh, the election for sixteen peers for Scotland, when the following were chosen:
  Marquis of Tweedale  Earl of Aboyne    Earl of Errol  Earl of Breadalbane    Earl of Cassilis  Earl of Stair    Earl of Strathmore  Earl of Glasgow    Earl of Dumfries  Lord Cathcart    Earl of Elgin  Lord Somerville    Earl of Dalhousie  Lord Torphichen    Earl of Northesk  Lord Napier  
The Earl of Lauderdale immediately protested against this return, and in his protest alleged that he ought to have been returned, and that the returning officers ought not to have received any votes for the Earl of Errol.
A new dramatic piece has lately been brought forward on the Venetian theatre, with universal applause, called
THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA. (ALTERED FROM SHAKSPEARE.)
ato   First Gentleman,  Signior Buonaparte    Second Gentleman  Signior Beaulieu    Lord Bogey,  Signior Affino    Windhamore,  Signior Apostato   Lancelot,  Signior Canningo    Dog Crab,  Signior Pittacchio    She Devil,  Signiora Catharina   With a Triumphal Entry into Milan—in which an Archbishop danced a Hornpipe.
The piece was highly applauded, and is likely to have a great run. N. B. Some of the principal performers have it in contemplation to visit Great Britain.
Jews, and a Forgery.
When the French general Buonaparte entered Voghera, he was addressed by two Genoese Jews, who proposed to him a forgery of the Debentures on Vienna and Milan.
The Debentures on Milan were the promissory engagements of the Emperor in the year 1793, relative to the silver plate which he wanted to borrow of the people, and which some of them were wise enough to lend.
Their infamous proposals were rejected by Buonaparte—the Jews were dismissed; and on any representation of such a fraud, he told them they should be executed.
There was another instance of generous virtue occurred at Pavia, where, in a zealous regard for science, he ordered his army, in an especial manner to respect the houses of the chief Professors, viz. Spallanzani, Scarpa, and Volta, Fontana; And they were respected accordingly.
THE EAST-INDIA SPICERY.
This immense trade, which is now likely to fall entirely into the hands of the English, was raised to its present magnitude by the following means—
After the Dutch had driven the Portuguese out of their settlements, and by a series of wars and victories against the natives, not only forced them into treaties of commerce, exclusive of all other nations, but to the admission of forts to be built upon such straits and passes as command the entrance into the traffic of such places, they proceeded to secure a monopoly of all the spice trade in those seas, and to establish a power sufficient to support themselves in them against any other state in the world. This was achieved by the multitudes of their people, who furnished out every year such a number of great ships, and supplied the loss of so many lives as the changes of climates destroyed, before they learnt the method of living, in those parts; and by the conduct of the East-India company, who raised a State in the East-Indies, governed indeed by officers appointed by the company, but appearing to those little nations in their neighbourhood like a sovereign state, making war and peace with their kings, and able to bring twenty or thirty men of war to sea, and 20,000 men by land into the field; so that they kept all those little princes in subjection to them.
From a long experience in this trade, they acquired a pretty exact knowledge of the quantity of each kind of spice necessary for the consumption of the European markets; so that their East-India company gave particular orders that no more should be imported into Europe, than was sufficient for such consumption; and if at their common sales it appeared that any part of what was imported remained unsold, at the price they fixed upon it, they ordered it to be burnt immediately; so that the prices of those commodities were kept up to what ever height they thought proper, and no other power could enter into a competition with them in this branch of trade, nor into that of Japan, of which they had likewise a monopoly and an exclusive treaty of commerce with the Emperor.
[The following article not only exhibits in the strongest point of view, the state of the freedom of the press in England, but also affords some traits by which the characters of parties may be ascertained.]
CAMBRIDGE, (Eng.) July 9.
JOHN HORNE TOOKE, Esquire.
The friends of this gentleman had on Monday, the 28th ult. a public dinner at the Crown and Anchor tavern, to celebrate the circumstance of his having two thousand eight hundred and nineteen votes at the late election for Westminster. William Bozville, Esq. was in the chair. Amongst the toasts were the following.
 The Independent electors of Westminster.  The Chairman said, we had been told at the Hufings, that we were tied to a tree—the tree of corruption—he would give a toaft.  Pull and pull, and pull again.  Security for the future and justice for the past.  The birth day of our liberties.  A gentleman desired to give JOHN HORNE TOOKE. 
Mr. Tooke's health being drank with three times three, and great applause—that gentleman addressed the company to the following effect:
"Gentlemen, it is impossible to thank you sufficiently for the honour you have done me. It was very much unexpected by me, because I understood that the Stewards would carefully avoid the mention of any man's name in this company. We met for principles, without the most distant personal idea of any man or any party; but certainly without injury to the principles which we all hold. I except, however, your kindness, and thank you for the health you have given to the principle. It is totally unnecessary for me to say one word on the approbation of that principle to a company like this, but perhaps it may not be unnecessary to say a word or two for our own comfort. Gentlemen, the reign of corruption, you may be assured, is coming towards its close. I ought to tell you on what I found that opinion. I will do it as shortly as I can. A very little knowledge of our history will shew that those Ministers, who principally directed their conduct by terror were shipwrecked upon that attempt to govern by terror. A little more than an hundred years ago, the Minister of this country and his minions, tired of the attempt of governing by terror only, endeavoured to secure themselves by murdering whom they pleased; but themselves were murdered for the murders they had committed. A different practice and a different scheme succeeded, and those who desired to be absolute in this country, not daring to begin with fear, followed up their desires with the coin and the plan of corruption. That corruption is drained almost to the dregs, and you have but little now to fear. In the course of the American war, Lord North pursued the plan of corruption, and he did it so long, that Mr. Pitt found but little remaining to corrupt with, because all he could lay hold of was barely enough for himself and his family. You therefore need not wonder that Mr. Pitt, thus situated, should have recourse to corruption of another sort; and therefore you find that he introduced a title which is rather new to us—the title of Marquis. At a former time we had none of that title, but at the present time, we have them in abundance. Unless I am mistaken, it was first attempted in the reign of Richard II. and the people of this country were so offended at the novelty of the title, that the man on whom it was conferred was compelled to make an apology to the then House of Commons, and get rid of the title. "I am only putting together titles, which you know as well as I do, were afterwards settled, and that it was agreed that the relations of Sovereigns shall not be among the number. Then followed another order—the order of St. Patrick—and then the order of Baronet, a diminutive of Baron. Upon the establishment of this order a number of persons said they were gentlemen, and they would not become Baronets, and so the force of that corruption then failed in much of its intended effect. This sort of artificial Ministers feel they cannot long profit by, and therefore they attempted our lives. They think that we are afraid to die, they mistake, but that

proves to me that they themselves are under the influence of terror. Gentlemen, I am happy that the ingenuity of the Minister has not exhausted here, for he, to carry on his plan, has invented a tax on houses. I am glad he has—by this tax you will know how many houses there are in the country, and if Mr. Pitt will give us a register of the house-keepers, who support him, we shall be able to tell to a unit how many fools there are in this country."
A speedy removal of the stinking rubbish of the present administration.
The Chairman said, he had been desired to give a toast—
The Right Hand of the People.
An effectual stop to the National Leak.
In the course of the evening Mr. Tooke said, that the Chairman (who, from his exertions, was a little hoarse) had desired him to give to the company the following toast; it was the sentiment of Mr. Fox; he should give it in the words of that gentleman—
Destruction to that Administration who have destroyed more lives in foreign conquests, than Louis the XIVth, and attempted more lives at home than Harry the VIIIth.
This being drunk with three times three, and with rapture.
An Elector, whose name we do not know, said that as they had drunk the universal cause of Liberty, he should be glad if Mr. Horne Tooke would state to the meeting, whether it is consistent or within the bounds of a member of Parliament to explain his opinion upon the subject of Parliamentary reform. He understood Mr. Fox did not like universal suffrage and annual Parliaments; and if Mr. Fox continued an enemy to reform he would remain in a minority. And if Mr. Tooke was an enemy to reform, he would remain in a minority also. He wished Mr. Tooke to inform the people how to regain their rights, and expel their ministers.
Mr. Tooke said, nothing in the world ever gives me more pleasure than to be called upon as the gentleman has done. It is the manner in which gentlemen should call upon those persons who are their Representatives, or who offer to become their Representatives, and scrutinizing every sentiment they hold which relates to public Liberty. I am called upon for two things, one which I can answer, and one which I cannot. As far as relates to myself, I am able to do it, and I am glad to do it; but when I am called upon to explain the sentiments of a gentleman who is absent, I must beg to be excused. I think the best, and hope the best of Mr. Fox, although there are some things unexplained by him.—However it is possible the moment may arrive when you and I, and all of us, may compel him to explain himself, even if he were not inclined to do so.
The gentleman has supposed, that if I were in Parliament, I too should have continued in a minority. I believe not, for both the majority and Minority would have been unanimous to hang me. For the means which the people ought to pursue to obtain a reform in Parliament, I say, they ought to pursue any effectual means in their power. Individuals cannot do much; but, though the means they pursue should produce the most sanguinary measures on the part of the minister, they ought not desist, for liberty may arise out of their blood.
The privates in the ranks.—The consigned patriots of New South Wales, and the tried patriots all over the world.
Several songs were sung, and the evening ended in a very convivial manner.—The company appeared to be very well satisfied with all the occurrences of the day.
The Society of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, have adjudged their gold medal to James Denton, Esq. of Brandon, for having planted 38 acres with acorns.—They have also adjudged a premium of 20 guineas to Lewis Majendie, Esq. of Castle Hedingham, for dibbling 15 acres with beans and sowing the land the same year with wheat.
Washington Lottery, No. 2.
THE twenty-second and twenty-third days drawing are arrived at the office No. 147, Chesnut-street, between Fourth and Fifth-streets, where they will continue regularly to arrive, during the term of the drawing. This is mentioned to the public, to preclude the necessity of advertising daily, as usual, being attended with great expense.
Canal and other Lottery Tickets may be had at the above office, where all transactions in the line of a Broker are promptly attended to.
Thomas Noble.
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HAS just received, by the ships Molly and Hamburg Packet from Liverpool, and the Light Horse from Bristol, and is now opening for sale, at his store No. 177, Market-street, an extensive assortment of
Ironmongery, Cutlery, Hardware and Saddlery.
The ship Caroline, now on her passage from Liverpool to Philadelphia, brings the remainder of his fall importation.
N. B. At the above store may be had, a few elegant Mahogany Cakes for Table Furniture; also, a good assortment of the best kinds of Knives and Forks.
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PHILADELPHIA,
FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 23, 1796.
MARRIED, on Tuesday evening last, by the Rev. Mr. Abercrombie, James CHESTNUT, Esquire, of the State of South-Carolina, to Miss MARY COX of this city.
last evening, by the Rev. Bishop White, Mr. WILLIAM REED to Miss ANN MCCALL, daughter of Mr. Archibald M c Call, merchant, of this city.
DEATH's alleviating hand terminated, yesterday morning, the long and painful sufferings of the good, the amiable, Miss MARY BERRY of this city.
By returns in the Boston papers, it appears, that Samuel Sewall, and Ephraim Williams, Esq rs , are elected Representatives in Congress from the State of Massachusetts—the former in the room of Mr. Goodhue, and the latter in that of Mr. Sedgwick, both chosen Senators of the United States.
On the 14th inst. there was a violent storm, with thunder, lightning and hail, near Flemington, New-Jersey. Many of the hail stones measured from six to seven inches round, which indented the shingles and boards of the houses and fences, and destroyed a quantity of grain, &c. on the ground.
About half a mile from the town on the hill, at the cooper's shop, Thomas Jobs and his wife were killed on the spot. The child which they had in her arms, was a little burnt, but is expected to recover. A woman laying in bed, had her hair singed and was otherwise hurt; and a little boy was much hurt in the same house, and it is feared he will not recover the use of his limbs. The chimneys at both ends of the house are bursted, and the building was left a mere wreck.
The above Thomas Jobs and his wife having company, gave up their bed to their guests, and lay on the floor with their heads toward the chimney stack, when the accident happened. Those that were not injured lay on a bedstead. This terrifying tempest lasted from the early part of the afternoon with little intermission until eleven or twelve o'clock at night.
In a late article it was furnished, that Buonaparte was to penetrate to Vienna through the states of Venice. But though this route will be nearer than by Frankfort, yet the French will here have a long journey of 250 miles to take, through countries the most favourably disposed towards the Austrian government. Besides, when men are fighting for their liberties, pro aris & focis , the French will find their conquests not so easy as those they have hitherto made; these having been in detached countries disaffected to the Austrian government.
From the COURIER FRANCOIS.
To give a just idea of the situation of St. Domingo, we publish the following letter:—
CAPE, 6 Fructidor, (Aug. 23, 1796.)
Since my first letter, which accompanies this, there has occurred, and there is still occurring, what follows:—
At Port-au-Prince, and in the environs, the negroes are in a state of insurrection; they have burnt many habitations, which had remained untouched till this day. The negroes will not work.
On this side Grande Riviere, there is a great rising; the Brigand negroes have killed a negro chief named Gagnet, who commanded for the republic, his family and etat-major. Fifteen thousand men taken from the principal posts, are to go against the rebels; they doubt much the success of these new republicans. I deplore the unhappy fate of the inhabitants of St. Domingo. It is impossible for them to come with security to their habitations. The negroes who have returned to their habitations will not absolutely attend to speak to their masters: they are willing enough to be republicans, but point de travail, (no work)—they think it is contrary to republican rights—By this title, they are to be supplied with all that is necessary.
The mask is thrown off—The negroes say, haughtily, that St. Domingo belongs to them: on this condition they will work, otherwise not, &c. &c.
Here follows a letter of the Directory, and a proclamation of L. F. Sonthonax, dated August 18, relative to this insurrection.
This proclamation declares, that the Northern part of St. Domingo, is in danger. It orders, that all unmarried citizens from 16 to 25, who are not employed in agriculture or in the offices of the commissioners' be considered in a state of requisition.—Those who shall not obey these orders without assigning a legitimate reason, are to be declared and treated as traitors, and tried by martial law. Emigrations are forbidden, &c.
A letter appears in the Courier Francois of this morning from Henry Perraud, former Ordinateur of St. Domingo, &c. &c. in which, after saying that the accounts of the distressed situation of that island are fabricated by interested, evil minded persons, enemies of republicanism, &c. goes on to state, that Gonaives, Port-au-Prince, la Petite Riviere, and their dependencies, enjoy, under the orders of general Toussaint Louverture, the greatest tranquillity: the plantations near the enemy's camps promise a fine harvest. The cultivators rejoice in the sweets of liberty, and work constantly for the houses to which they are attached, &c. &c.
On this the Editor of the French paper observes, —We shall not permit ourselves to judge on circumstances so important. We leave our readers to decide between the accounts given yesterday, and the letter we have published to-day.
BY THIS DAY'S MAIL.
SALEM, September 16.
NAVAL COMBAT.
Captain Samuel Cook, who arrived here on Wednesday, from the West-Indies, via Charleston, was informed by a pilot from the Vineyard, that there had been an engagement between a French and an English frigate, off Gay-Head, in which the latter had her main and mizen mast carried away, and was otherwise much damaged; so much so, that she went into the Vineyard to refit. The action was
only about a mile from the land. Captain Cook saw the English frigate, but it was not known where the French frigate was.
BOSTON, September 19.
From Barbadoes.
Capt. Bacon, arrived here yesterday, left Barbadoes, August 24; he informs, that on the 19th of August, a frigate arrived there from Gibraltar, with the intelligence of WAR BEING DECLARED BETWEEN ENGLAND AND SPAIN, and that previous to his sailing, several privateers were fitting out, and one had actually failed on a cruise. It was supposed that the Dutch fleet would soon make an attack on that place, an event which seemed considerably to alarm the inhabitants. (Boston Marine List.)
By an arrival yesterday from Barbadoes, we are informed, that a packet arrived there the 19th August, direct from Gibraltar, with dispatches that SPAIN HAD DECLARED WAR AGAINST ENGLAND. In consequence of which, they were fitting out privateers at Barbadoes with the greatest expedition, to cruise against the Spaniards. One privateer had already failed on a cruise before the above vessel left Barbadoes. The day our informant left Barbadoes, signals were fired at all the forts in the island, as notice of the approach of a fleet, but whether English, or that of an enemy, was not known, as they were under apprehensions of a visit from the Dutch fleet at Surinam. (Federal Orrery.)
Prices Current at Barbadoes, August 24.
NEW-YORK, September 22.
Died, on Monday the 16th inst. Mrs. Mary M c Knight, widow of Dr. Charles M c Knight, late of this city, in the 44th year of her age.
CADIZ JOINT FLEET SAILING.
The following list was handed to our correspondent by an officer of the privateer La Vengeance, commanded by the lieutenant of vessel L'Eveille, who sailed from Cadiz in company with the said fleet, was sailing with them during three days, and is since arrived at St. Croix. Argus.
LIST
Of the FRENCH and SPANISH MEN-OF-WAR, who set sail from Cadiz on the 18th Thermidor, (August 5, 1796.)
FRENCH VESSELS,
COMMANDED BY RICHERRY.
Le Jupiter 74 Le Centaur 74 Le Barras 74 Le Berwick 74 La Victoire 80 Le Duquesne 74 La Revolution 74
FRIGATES.
La Felicite 40 La Friponne 44 44 L'Ambuscade 44
SPANISH VESSELS
COMMANDED BY DON JUAN LANGUARA.
1st Division. St. Trinidad 136 Firme 74 Mexico 112 Orianta 74 St. Nicholas 80 Atalanta 74 Neptune 80 Terrible 74 St. Telmo 74 Glorioso 74
FRIGATES.
Dian 34 Thetis 34 Cecilia 46 Ceres 40 Flora 34 Helena 36
27 Men of War, 9 Frigates, 6 Corvets.
Translated from late French Papers for the Argus. Extract of a letter from the commandant of the navy at Toulon, to the minister of marine and of the colonies, dated at Toulon, June 29.
"The officer of the gun-boat Le Nivose, has reported to me, that he saw the Britannia, British three decker, going into Leghorn to repair her main yards and shrouds, which were cut by the 36 pounders from our battery on Cape Sepet.
"Sixty commercial vessels entered this port on the 2d and 3d decade of Prairial, and sixty-nine failed thence.
"Citizen Bouvier, brevet ensign, commandant of the advice-boat la Louyre, writes me, that he has taken an English vessel of 500 tons, loaded with grain. I think it my duty to transmit a copy of his letter. The conduct of this officer for the last two years, has always been followed with happy success, owing to his prudence, activity and ability; the nomination of him to the rank of captain commandant, will be recompence and justice. Signed, THEVENARD.
Extract of a letter from citizen Bouvier, to vice-admiral Thevenard.
Two days after my departure from Algiers, I fell in with the Bridgette, English transport, loaded with grain on account of the British government, of 500 tons, armed with 6 cannon and 6 swivels, —Too strong for me; but determined to take her, I studied to substitute stratagem for force. I hoisted in consequence, the Algerine flag, and masked all my crew in Turkish habits, myself giving the example. By the aid of mustaches and whiskers, with a little red on the face, and a rolled towel on the head, in the form of a turban, our disguise proved effectual. I approached the vessel, which had the politeness to heave in stays for me. At this moment, hoisting the Republican flag and pendant, and firing a gun with shot to assure it, I called out in good French, for the enemy to strike their colours or I would sink them—they preferred to strike. Having manned my prize, I failed for Carthagena, from whence I write you. I hope it will not be the last time that I shall give misqued balls to the English.
Extracts from late Jamaica papers, received this morning. Schooner Delaware, arrived here this morning.
KINGSTON, August 14.
The Quebec frigate has driven on shore and burnt near Gonaives, citizen Olonier's privateer—16 of her crew were killed.
By letters from persons on board the fleet, which failed from this island in June, dated lat. 29. 6, we are informed, that the whole on taking their departure from Negril Point, amounted to 136 sail, and on the 30th of June, were only 127 sail in company, the others, (among which is the Orange Valley, captain Wade, for Bristol) have either been taken or parted with convoy. The letters mention, that the crews of the fleet were in general very sickly, and some vessels had lost many hands. On the 24th, to the eastward of Havanah, they saw three sail of French ships, one two decker, and two heavy frigates, which the Phoenix was sent to reconnoitre; they bore away, however, without attempting any thing, our force being too strong.
His majesty's ship Albicore, Captain Winthrop, arrived yesterday from a cruise. Under convoy came down the Danish brig Alexander, prize to his Majesty's ship Hannibal. She was taken by a French ship of war, and re-captured by the Hannibal off Cape-Francois.
The Brigands have lately made three different attacks on Jeremie, in all which they have been unsuccessful. Their Commander (a white man) fell, besides many others. The loss on our side was trifling, only two were killed, and a few wounded. Jeremie is now in perfect tranquillity.
GAZETTE OF THE UNITED STATES MARINE LIST.
PHILADELPHIA, September 23.
ARRIVED,
days. Ship Swift, Norwood, Hull 63 Brig Flora, Stephens, Havannah 11 Maria, Mason, Cape-Francois 17 Georgia Packet, M c Keever, St. Thomas 16 John, Marner, St. Croix 17 Diana, Guise, Havannah 15 Lydia & Polly, Jenkins, Boston 13 Eagle, Johnson, Port-au Prince 17 Nancy, M c Dougal, Peterborough 10 Nancy, Travers, Virginia 6 Sloop May-Flower, Lord, Richmond 6 Schr. Catharine, Wogloam, Virginia 4
CLEARED.
Snow Gustavus Adolphus, Marseilles Brig Swallow, Dorso, Martinique Cruger, Tinker, C. N. Mole Schr. Mary Ann, Swail, Norfolk Patley, Hugene, Fredericksburg William, do. do. Louisa, Shefer, Edenton Sloop Sally, Dickey, Richmond Chance, Woglem, Suffolk
Arrived at the Port.
Brig Hannah, Kenny, St. Croix Lady Washington, Tremels, St. Thomas Schr. Hetty, Mason, do. Sloop Sally, Buffer, Cape-Francois The brig Richard & James, and schooner Peudleton, both from Philadelphia are arrived at New Orleans. The schr. Fredericksburg packet is arrived at Gibraltar.
PROVIDENCE, September 16.
ARRIVED.
Schooner Nancy, Potter, Turk's Island Orange, Baley, Jamaica Abigail, Bates, Savannah Sloop Hancock, Davis, New-York Clementina, Anthony, do. Leopard, Farnum, Newport Lydia, Gladding, Bristol Mary Ann, Graves, Jamaica Lark, Godfrey, New-York Nancy, Child, Baltimore Brig Rebecca, Fenner, Surinam Ship Mary, Barton, Jamaica Haley, Taylor, Isle of France
On Thursday arrived the ship Halcyon, captain Gustavus Taylor, in 125 days from the Isle of France.—Left there Ships Washington, Sigourney; Confederacy, Jencks, Grand Turk, Malaby; Georgia Packet, Chipman; North Liberty, Geddis; Brig Betsey, White; and schooner Flora, Merick.
Same day arrived the sloop Mary Ann, Capt. Graves, from Jamaica. Provisions low; sold some Beef at 8 dollars, and brought back a quantity.
BOSTON, September 18.
Arrived, schr. John Jay, Captain Bacon, 27 days from Barbadoes. Left there, capt. Church of New London, and capt. S. Barbe, of this town, whose vessel had been tried and cleared, but from some information that one of the passengers gave, she was again libelled, and was to be tried the next day after capt. B. failed. Spoke in lat. 41, 11, brig Atalanta, capt. Whitefield of New-London, who informed him that in lat. 33 1-2, as he was bound to the West-Indies, he experienced a very severe gale, which carried away his masts, decks, load, &c. and that having ended jury masts, he was on his return to port. Capt. B. offered him assistance, but he said he stood in no need thereof. Aug. 31, spoke a brig, capt. Oram, from Portsmouth for the West-Indies, who informed that a few days before, he had lost his mate, by name Andrews.
NEW-YORK, Sept. 21.
ARRIVED.
Schooner Delaware Packet, Wood, Jamaica 32 American vessels sailed from Havre-de-Grace, July 15—23.
Brig Moses, Meyer, Couper, Loaded for Cadiz. Fame, Wilson, in ballast, do. Franklin, Shaffer, do. Bourdeaux. Diana, Roffiter, do. do. Minerva, Rathburn, loaded, Lisbon. Apollo, Hahbet, in ballast, do.
HAVRE, July 23.
The American vessel Sally, capt. Chipman, entered this port yesterday in 35 days from Charleston, with 79 French citizens from the West-Indies. Fell in with 3 British frigates off Barbary, and was visited by one of them.—[The captain informs of the fire at Charleston.]

LANDING, From on board the Brig REBECCA, Dominic Davine, Master, at Philip Care's Wharf, and for Sale by the Subscriber, London Particular Madeira WINE, In Pipes, Hogheads and Quarter Casks. There are in the above parcel 20 Hlds. of CHOICE OLD WINE, fit for immediate use. Robert Andrews, Sept. 6. mw&f No. 86, So. Wharves.
THIS DAY PUBLISHED, By J. ORMROD, No. 41, Chestnut-Street, (Price 12 1-2 Cents)
THE PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS To the People of the United States, Announcing his intention of retiring from public life at the expiration of the present constitutional term of presidency. September 20. d
JUST PUBLISHED, From the Press of MOREAU DE ST. MERY, And to be had at the principal Booksellers in the city, (Price five five-penny bits) A Humorous Pamphlet, entitled The Political Massacre; Or, Unexpected Observations on the Writings of our present scribblers. By JAMES QUICKSILVER, Author of the Blue Shop . Embellished with a curious Caricature. Sept. 19. dff
Brokers Office, and COMMISSION STORE. No. 63 South Third Street, opposite the national new Bank. SAMUEL M. FRAUNCES and JOHN VAN REED, have entered into co-partnership, under the firm of FRAUNCES & VAN REED, in the business of Brokers, Conveyancers and Commission merchants. They buy and sell on commission every species of stock, notes of hand, bills of exchange, houses and lands, &c. Money procured on deposits, &c. &c. all kinds of writings in the conveyancing line, done with neatness and dispatch; accounts adjusted, and books settled, in the most correct manner. Constant attendance will be given. They solicit a share of the public favor; they are deter- mined to endeavour to deserve it. N. B. The utmost secrecy observed. SAMUEL M. FRAUNCES, JOHN VAN REED. Philad. August 27, 1796. m&wtf
BRANDY, OF 1st and 4th proof, and equal in quality to that imported from France, may be had of the subscriber at his Distillery, No. 115. Story or New-Street, between Third and Fourth-streets, where the public, upon application, may judge for themselves, and will find it an object well worth their attention. RUM and GIN in any quantity, for exportation or home consumption, and of superior quality—by Thomas Cave. P.S. RYE, MALT, BARLEY, and MELASSES, will be purchased, or taken in exchange for spirits, upon application as above. Also any quantity of Claret or other wine fit for distillation. August 29 h, 1796. M4w
Now Publishing by the Printer, At No. 3, Lætitia Court, delivering to Subscribers, and to be had at the different Book-Stores in this City, Berriman & Co's CHEAP AND ELEGANT EDITION OF THE HOLY BIBLE. Containing the Old and New Testaments and the Apocrypha, with marginal notes and references. An Index; or an account of the most remarkable passages in the Old and New Testament, pointing to the places wherein they happened, and to the places of scripture wherein they are recorded. A Table of Time. Tables of Scripture measures, weights and coins; with an appendix, containing the method of calculating its MEASURES OF SURFACES hitherto wanting in Treatises on this subject. A Table of Offices and Conditions of men. CONDITIONS 1. The size of this Edition will be a LARGE FOLIO, printed on a beautiful new type, and good paper, made particularly for it. It will be published in Numbers, not to exceed 30, one of which will be delivered weekly to subscribers, at a quarter of a dollar. Those subscribers who prefer receiving the work complete, will be attended to by signifying the same on any of the subscription papers in the Bookstores in this city. 2. There will be an advance in the price, on subscribing after the first of August next. 3. In the course of the Work will be given an elegant Frontispiece—From an Engraving of the celebrated artist, ORDEGON. BERRIMAN & Co. gratefully acknowledge the very liberal encouragement they have met with and have reason to believe that the execution of their edition will answer every expectation, and speak its own praise. May 26. 32w6m.
Philip Nicklin & Co. HAVE FOR SALE, Souhong } Hyson Skin } Young Hyson } Hyson and } Imperial } Yellow Nankeens } China Ware, assorted in Boxes and Chests } Quicksilver } Bandano Handkerchiefs of excellent quality in } chests } London Market } London particular } New-York Market } Teneriffe Wine in pipes and hogheads } Sugar Candy by the Box } Sail Canvas No. 1 & 2 } Lead in sheets } Casks of Cutlery assorted } A few chests of Manchester Goods, assorted thick- } cords, striped Nankeens, &c. } Small packages of black sewing-fines } Tierces Virginia Snake-root. } Nails assorted in casks } July 18. mwf
Mr. FRANCIS, (Of the New Theatre) TAKES this opportunity of returning thanks to his scholars and to the public. Mr. Francis intends, on his return from Maryland, to open a public academy for dancing, upon a plan entirely new. He flatters himself that his attention to his pupils hitherto renders any promises of concluding his future schemes on the most liberal and strictest terms, of propriety, totally unnecessary. N. B. Private tuition as usual. June 3. 12w
JOHN MILLER, Jun. & Co. No. 8, CHESTNUT STREET, Have Imported in the late vessels from Europe, &c. AND HAVE FOR SALE, A general assortment of GOODS, suitable to the Season— Among which are, BROAD and narrow CLOTHS, Plain and twilled COATINGS, Rose striped and point BLANKETS, FLANNELS and BAISES, HATS assorted in cases, IRISH LINENS, INDIA GOODS, generally, A Consignment of IRONMONGERY, Comprising a capital assortment to open a store—including Thirty Casks of NAILS. This invoice will be sold entire on very advantageous terms. September 20. d
Lottery FOR raising six thousand six hundred and sixty-seven dollars and fifty cents, by a deduction of fifteen per cent from the prizes, and not two blanks to a prize. viz  1 Prize of 5000 dollars is 5000 dollars  1 1000 1000  4 500 2000  5 200 1000  20 100 2000  99 50 4950  200 25 5000  2000 10 20,000  5 Last drawn numbers of 1000 dollars each, 5000 2332 Prizes. 444450 4018 Blanks.
6350 Tickets at Seven Dollars each, 444450 By order of the Directors of the Society for establishing Useful Manufactures, the superintendents of the Paterson Lottery have requested the Managers to offer the foregoing Scheme to the public, and have directed them to refund the money to those persons who have purchased in the former Lottery, or exchange the tickets for tickets in this Lottery. The Lottery has actually commenced drawings, and will continue until finished. A list of the Blanks and Prizes may be seen at the office of William Blackburn, No. 64 South Second Street, who will give information where tickets may be procured. Dated this 17th day of June, 1796. J. N. CUMMING, } Managers. JACOB R. HARDENBERG, } JONATHAN RHEA, } dff eo
Samuel Richardet, RESPECTFULLY informs the Gentlemen Merchants, that he has this day opened the CITY TAVERN and MERCHANTS COFFEE HOUSE in the city of Philadelphia. The Subscription Room will be furnished with all the daily papers published in Philadelphia, New-York, Boston, Baltimore, together with those of the principal commercial cities of Europe. They will be regularly filed and none permitted to be taken away on any account. Tea, Coffee, Soupes, Jellies, Ice Creams, and a variety of French Liquors; together with the usual refreshments, will at all times be procured at the bar. Gentlemen may depend on being accommodated with the choicest of Wines, Spirituous Liquors, and the most approved Malt Liquors from London and other breweries. The Larder will be supplied with the prime and earliest productions of the Season. Large and small Parties, or single Gentlemen, may be accommodated with Breakfasts, Dinners, or Suppers, at hours most convenient to themselves—a cold Collation is regularly kept for convenience, the Bill of Fare to be had at the bar. The Lodging Rooms will be completely furnished, and the utmost attention paid to cleanliness, and every other requisite. J. SAMUEL RICHARDET will be happy to receive, and execute the commands of his Friends, and the Public at large; and with gratitude for their favours, he pledges himself that nothing on his part shall be wanting to preserve that patronage with which he has been so distinguishedly honored. Philadelphia, April 19. mwf
Treasury of the United States. NOTICE is hereby given to all persons who are or may be Creditors of the United States, for any sums of the Funded Debt, or Stock, bearing a present interest of five per centum per annum. 1st. That pursuant to an Act of Congress passed on the 28th day of April, 1796, intituled an act in addition to an act, intituled "An act making further provision for the support of public credit, and for the redemption of the public debt," the said debt or stock will be reimbursed and paid in manner following, to wit: "First, by dividends to be made on the last days of March, June and September for the present year, and from the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven, to the year one thousand eight hundred and eighteen inclusive, at the rate of one and one half per centum upon the original capital. Secondly, by dividends to be made on the last day of December for the present year, and from the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven, to the year one thousand eight hundred and eighteen inclusive, at the rate of three and one half per centum upon the original capital; and by a dividend to be made on the last day of December, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, of such sum, as will then arise, according to the contract, for the final redemption of the said stock." 2d. All distinction between payments on account of Interest and Principal being thus abolished by the establishment of the permanent rule of reimbursement above described, it has become necessary to vary accordingly the powers of attorney for receiving dividends; the public creditors will therefore observe that the following form is established for all powers of attorney which may be granted after the due promulgation of this notice, viz. KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that
I do make, constitute and appoint my true and lawful Attorney, for me, and in my name, to receive the dividends which are, or shall be payable according to law, on the (here describing the stock) standing in my name in the books of (here describing the books of the Treasury or the Commissioner of Loans, where the stock is credited) from (here insert the commencement and expiration of time for which the power of attorney is to continue) with power also, an attorney or attorneys under him, for that purpose to make and substitute, and to do all lawful acts requisite for effecting the premises, hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney or his substitute, shall lawfully do, by virtue hereof. In Witness whereof, I have hereunto set my Hand and Seal the day of in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety six Sealed and Delivered in presence of BE IT KNOWN, that on the day of before me personally appeared whose name was acknowledged the above letter of attorney to be his act and deed. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my Hand and affixed the day and year last aforesaid. Given under my Hand at Philadelphia, this twenty-third day of July 1796, pursuant to directions from the Secretary of the Treasury. SAMUEL MEREDITH, Treasurer of the United States. July 23. 2w 1 1/2 9.
To be sold, A PLANTATION, in the town of Woodbury, county of Gloucester, and state of New-Jersey, containing about one hundred and fifty acres; a suitable proportion of which is woodland and improved meadow. A great part of the arable land is in a high state of cultivation, and very natural to the production of Red Clover. On said plantation there is a genteel two-story brick house, with four rooms on a floor, and a good dry cellar under the whole; together with a barn, corn-cris and carriage-house. The garden is large, and contains a good collection of the best kinds of grafted and inoculated fruit trees; the orchard consists of about three hundred grafted apple trees. Any person inclined to purchase said premises, may be informed of the terms by applying to ANDREW HUNTER. July 29. 3
To be Sold, At No. 128, North Second-Street, and by several of the Apothecaries in this City. TRANSFERS of the right to remove pains and inflammations from the human body, as secured to Dr. ELISHA PERKINS, by patent, with instruments and directions necessary for the practice. This mode of treatment is particularly useful in relieving pains in the head, face, teeth, breast, side, back, rheumatism, reum-gouts, &c. &c. In enhancing the utility of this practice, it is not presumed but there are cases in which this and every other remedy may sometimes fail. June 1. 12w
A Manufactory FOR SALE. A Valuable SOAP and CANDLE Manufactory, situated in a convenient part of the city; the works almost new, on an entirely original construction, and built of the best materials, and may be set to work immediately. Persons who wish to purchase, are requested to apply at No. 273, South Second Street. September 13. 1 1/2 11
City of Washington. SCHEME of the LOTTERY, No. II, FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE FEDERAL CITY. A magnificent 20,000 dollars, & 7 dwelling-houses, 5 cash 30,000, are } 50,000 1 ditto 15,000 & cash 25,000 40,000 1 ditto 15,000 & cash 15,000 30,000 1 ditto 10,000 & cash 10,000 20,000 1 ditto 5,000 & cash 5,000 10,000 1 ditto 5,000 & cash 5,000 10,000 1 cash prize of 10,000 2 do. 5,000 each, are 10,000 10 do. 1,000 " " 10,000 20 do. 500 " " 10,000 200 do. 100 " " 20,000 400 do. 50 " " 20,000 1,000 do. 25 " " 25,000 15,000 do. 10 " " 150,000 16,739 Prizes. 444450 33,261 Blanks. 50,000 Tickets, at Eight Dollars, 400,000 N. B. To favour those who may take a quantity of Tickets, the prize of 40,000 dollars will be the LAST drawn ticket, and the 30,000 the LAST but ONE. And approved notes, securing payment in either money or prizes, in ten days after drawing, will be received for any number not less than 30 tickets. This Lottery will afford an elegant specimen of the private buildings to be erected in the City of Washington—Two beautiful designs are already selected for the entire fronts on two of the public squares; from these drawings it is proposed to erect two centre and four corner buildings, as soon as possible after this lottery is sold, and to convey them, when complete, to the fortunate adventurers, in the manner described in the scheme for the Hotel Lottery. A net deduction of five per cent. will be made to defray the necessary expenses of printing, &c. and the surplus will be made a part of the fund intended for the National University, to be erected within the City of Washington. The Drawing will commence as soon as the tickets are sold off.—The money prizes will be payable in thirty days after it is finished; and any prizes for which fortunate numbers are not produced within twelve months after the drawing is closed, are to be considered as given towards the fund for the University; it being determined to settle the whole business in a year from the ending of the drawing, and to take up the bonds given as security. The real securities given for the payment of the Prizes, are held by the President and two Directors of the Bank of Columbia, and are valued at more than half the amount of the Lottery. The twenty-four gentlemen who by appointment of the late Commissioners assisted in the management of the Hotel Lottery are requested to undertake this arduous task a second time on behalf of the public; a sufficient number of these having kindly accepted, it is hoped that the friends to a National University and the other federal objects may continue to favor the design. By accounts received from the different parts of the Continent as well as from Europe, where the tickets have been sent for sale, the public are assured that the drawing will speedily commence, and that the care and caution unavoidably necessary to insure a safe disposal of the tickets, has rendered the amount suspension indispensable. SAMUEL BLODGETT. S. Tickets may be had at the Bank of Columbia; o James Wet & Co. Baltimore; of Peter Gilman, Boston of John Hopkins, Richmond; and of Richard Wells Wells Cooper's Ferry. co
WATSON'S ANSWER to GIBBON. JUST RECEIVED, And for sale by J. ORMROD, No. 41, Chestnut-Street, Apology for Christianity, In a series of Letters, addressed to EDWARD GIBBON, Esq. Author of the History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. By R. WATSON, D. D. F. R. S. Bishop of Llandaff. (Price 75 cents bound.) Watson's Answer to Paine, To be had at the same place. The enemies of Religion are awake! Let not her friends sleep. Sept. 1. mw&f
RAYNER TAYLOR, MUSIC PROFESSOR, No. 96, NORTH-SIXTH STREET. RESPECTFULLY informs his Scholars, that he has re-commenced his attendance after the summer vacation; and, as usual, teaches Ladies Singing and the Piano Forte. Sept. 3. 38
NOTICE. THE Subscriber, having been reduced in his circumstances, by sundry misfortunes, and being thereby unable to satisfy his just debts, hereby gives notice to his Creditors and to all persons concerned, that he intends to apply to the General Assembly of Maryland at their next session to be held on the first Monday of November next for the benefit of an act of insolvency. WILLIAM EDMONDSON Easton, 1st of the 9th month, 1796. 12w11m
To be sold, A PLANTATION, in the town of Woodbury, county of Gloucester, and state of New-Jersey, containing about one hundred and fifty acres; a suitable proportion of which is woodland and improved meadow. A great part of the arable land is in a high state of cultivation, and very natural to the production of Red Clover. On said plantation there is a genteel two-story brick house, with four rooms on a floor, and a good dry cellar under the whole; together with a barn, corn-cris and carriage-house. The garden is large, and contains a good collection of the best kinds of grafted and inoculated fruit trees; the orchard consists of about three hundred grafted apple trees. Any person inclined to purchase said premises, may be informed of the terms by applying to ANDREW HUNTER. July 29. 3
To be Sold, At No. 128, North Second-Street, and by several of the Apothecaries in this City. TRANSFERS of the right to remove pains and inflammations from the human body, as secured to Dr. ELISHA PERKINS, by patent, with instruments and directions necessary for the practice. This mode of treatment is particularly useful in relieving pains in the head, face, teeth, breast, side, back, rheumatism, reum-gouts, &c. &c. In enhancing the utility of this practice, it is not presumed but there are cases in which this and every other remedy may sometimes fail. June 1. 12w
WANTED, For any term from one to four years, A HOUSE, pleasantly situated in any of the principal streets within the pavement, and not very distant from the State-House, capable of accommodating a small family; the house must have stables and coach-house, and would be required to be ready by the first week in November next—Enquire of the printer. Sept. 14. 11f
FOR SALE, A very Valuable Estate, CALLED FITTENTHAM, situated in the township of Upper Derby, and county of Delaware, 7 1-2 miles from Philadelphia, and half a mile from the new West road; containing 230 acres of excellent land, 45 of which are good watered meadow, 90 of prime woodland, and the rest arable of the first quality. There are on the premises a good two-story brick house, with a room on a floor, and cellars under the whole, with a pump-well of excellent water in front; a large frame barn, stables, and other convenient buildings; a smoke-house and stone spring-house; two good apple orchards, and one of peaches. The fields are all in clover, except those immediately under tillage, and are so laid out as to have the advantage of water in each of them, which renders it peculiarly convenient for grazing. The situation is pleasant and healthy, and from the high cultivation of the land, the good neighbourhood, and the vicinity to the city, it is very suitable for a gentleman's country seat. The foregoing is part of the estate of Jacob Hartman, deceased, and offered for sale by Mordecai Lewis, Surviving Executor. Oct. 9. 11f
Washington Canal Lottery, No. I. WHEREAS the State of Maryland has authorized the underwritten, to raise twenty-six thousand two hundred and fifty dollars, for the purpose of cutting a Canal through the City of Washington, from the Potomac to the Eastern Branch Harbour. The following is the SCHEME of No. I. Viz 1 Prize of 20,000 dollars, 20,000 1 ditto 10,000 10,000 7 half drawn } 5,000 35,000 Tickets, each } 6 ditto 1,000 6,000 10 ditto 400 4,000 20 ditto 100 2,000 55 ditto 50 2,750 5750 ditto 12 69,000 To be raised for the Canal, 26,250 5850 Prizes, 275,000 11650 Blanks, not two to a prize.
17500 Tickets, at Ten Dollars, 175,000 The Commissioners have taken the Securities required by the aforesaid act for the punctual payment of the prizes. The drawing of this Lottery will commence, without delay, as soon as the Tickets are sold, of which timely notice will be given. Such prizes as are not demanded in six months after the drawing is finished, shall be considered as relinquished for the benefit of the Canal, and appropriated accordingly. (Signed) NOTLEY YOUNG, DANIEL CARROLL, of D. LEWIS DEBLOIS, GEORGE WALKER, WM. M. DUNCANSON, THOMAS LAW, JAMES BARRY. City of Washington, Feb. 11. 5
Mordecai Lewis HAS FOR SALE, NANKEENS, long and short. China, well assorted. Quickilver. Diapers. Bafkas. Coffs. Bandano Handkerchiefs. Roll Brimstone. Sept. 6. 11f
For Sale, A LARGE ELEGANT AND WELL FINISHED Three-story Brick House, (The late residence of General Walter Stewart) WITH A LOT OF GROUND thereunto belonging, the well side of Third-street, near Union-street containing in front 32 feet, and in depth 100 feet, to an alley leading into Union-street. The house is 32 feet front and 50 feet deep; the several rooms contained in it are large, commodious, and completely finished; the two first stories are each 13 feet high; there are 20 mahogany doors in the house; a geometrical staircase, with mahogany rails and a good fly-light. The kitchen is in the cellar, which is spacious and convenient, and finished with an oven, stew-holes and pantries, a servants' hall and large wine-cellar adjoining the kitchen, in front of which is an area in which there is a pump. The yard is vaulted. Communicating with the said building is a neat a re-story brick house, on the north side of Union-street, containing 30 feet front by 20 feet deep; the lower part of which is at present occupied as a counting-house, and the upper part divided into well-finished large chambers. This house may at a small expense be converted into a convenient dwelling: The front door is very handsome, and the front and back have Venetian window-shutters. Adjoining the last house, upon the lot belonging to the first, are erected bathing-rooms, &c. There are likewise very good coach-house and stables finished equal (or nearly so) with any in the city, on a lot containing on Union-street 30 feet, and in depth on the west side of said alley 52 feet. There are good cellars under the whole of the buildings, and a wine room over part of the stable, with a hay-loft over the remainder. For further particulars enquire of EDWARD BONSALL & Co. At their Office No. 64 Dock-street, between Walnut & Pear streets. 6th month 24th, 1796.
FOR SALE. A PLANTATION, ABOUT 12 miles from this City, situate in Abing-ton Township, Montgomery County; containing 70 acres, a new stone house, two stories high, 8 rooms on a floor, five places in each, a stone kitchen and stone spring house, over an excellent spring of water, a barn, stables, sheds, barracks, &c. A large apple orchard, and a variety of other fruit, about 12 acres of good meadow well watered, and wood sufficient for fire, and fencing the place. Possession may be had the 1st of April next. Property in this city will be taken in exchange, or MORRIS and NICHOLSON'S Notes in payment. Enquire at No. 27, Arch-Street. Philadelphia, September 13, 1796. 11f
WANTED, For any term from one to four years, A HOUSE, pleasantly situated in any of the principal streets within the pavement, and not very distant from the State-House, capable of accommodating a small family; the house must have stables and coach-house, and would be required to be ready by the first week in November next—Enquire of the printer. Sept. 14. 11f
FOR SALE, A very Valuable Estate, CALLED FITTENTHAM, situated in the township of Upper Derby, and county of Delaware, 7 1-2 miles from Philadelphia, and half a mile from the new West road; containing 230 acres of excellent land, 45 of which are good watered meadow, 90 of prime woodland, and the rest arable of the first quality. There are on the premises a good two-story brick house, with a room on a floor, and cellars under the whole, with a pump-well of excellent water in front; a large frame barn, stables, and other convenient buildings; a smoke-house and stone spring-house; two good apple orchards, and one of peaches. The fields are all in clover, except those immediately under tillage, and are so laid out as to have the advantage of water in each of them, which renders it peculiarly convenient for grazing. The situation is pleasant and healthy, and from the high cultivation of the land, the good neighbourhood, and the vicinity to the city, it is very suitable for a gentleman's country seat. The foregoing is part of the estate of Jacob Hartman, deceased, and offered for sale by Mordecai Lewis, Surviving Executor. Oct. 9. 11f
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