Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser. (Philadelphia [Pa.]), 1796-07-01 00:00:00

Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser.
NUMBER 1190.]
FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 1, 1796.
[VOLUME X.]
For Sale or Charter, THE SNOW BOSTON, BURTHEN about 2000 Bbls. of flour...
Snow HEBE. FOR SALE, The Snow HEBE, Capt. GAY. A faithful Philadelphia built vessel...
Sugar, Coffee, Cocoa, and Pimento. Also, A Parcel of CHOICE PORT WINE.
For Cadiz, To sail on or about the 25th inst. from New-York, The ship HAZEN, B. COBB, master.
For Sale at Auction, ON Thursday, the 30th inst. at 7 o'clock, at the Merchants' Coffee-House, The Schooner Polly & Sally, BURTHEN 77 tons, well found, and may be seen at the wharf of Messrs. Jesse & Robert Waln.
Footman & Co. Auctioneers. FOR SALE, THE Cargo of the ship Catharine, John Farraday, master, from Hilpianiola...
The said ship, BURTHEN about 24 or 2500 barrels, Strong, well found, and may be sent to sea at a small expense. Apply to John Craig.
UNITED STATES, Pennsylvania District, Notice is hereby given, THAT in pursuance of a Writ to me directed...
Delight, With all and singular her tackle, &c. The same having been condemned within said court for the payment of Mariners' wages, &c. William Nichols, Marshal.
For Hamburg, THE AMERICAN SHIP HARRIET, THOMAS W. NORMAN, Commander, A remarkable fine, fast-sailing ship, with excellent accommodations for passengers.
T. NOBLE, BROKERS, RESPECTFULLY informs his friends and the public that he has removed his office to his house No. 347, Chestnut Street...
ALSO, WILL be kept a numerical book of the drawings of all the Lotteries now extant...
Mr. FRANCIS, (Of the New Theatre) TAKES this opportunity of returning thanks to his scholars and to the public.
TO LET, A GENTLE three story brick house, No. 70, North Eighth-street. For terms enquire of Mr. Francis as above.
Landing, This Day, at Willings & Francis's wharf, from the Brandywine Miller, A cargo of Rum & Sugar from St. Croix.
Take Notice, THAT the Subscriber intends to make application for the renewal of a Certificate, No. 1609, for 2000 dollars, dated the 14th December, 1795...
Wanted, A YOUTH of from 12 to 15 years of age, of respectable character and connections, as an Apprentice to the Mercantile business.
CINCINNATI, THE Members of this State Society are hereby notified that their Anniversary Meeting, for the purpose of electing Officers of the Society, and transacting such other business as may come before them...
A small Invoice, PER the ship Harriet, capt. Thomas W. Norman, from Hamburg, consisting of Ravens Duck, Damask and Diaper, Holland Linen, Cambrics, &c.
Gold and silver WATCHES, Which will be disposed of together or by the package. Apply to Isaac Harvey, jun.
TEN DOLLARS REWARD. LOST, JUNE 15th, between Shippen and Market streets, a red MOROCCO POCKET BOOK, containing a Check on the Bank of the United States...
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.
Fifty Dollars Reward. LOST, THE last evening, between 5 and 7 o'clock, a large Red MOROCCO POCKET BOOK, containing 20 or 30 Notes of Hand...
New Hat and Hosiery-store, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL, By WILLIAM M'DOUGALL, No. 134 Market-street, Third door from the corner of Fourth, South side Men's Black American and English HATS...
Ross & Simson, HAVE FOR SALE, French Checks, Stripes, Printed Cottons, Mullinets, Table Cloths and Napkins, Nankens of an excellent quality per the package, fit for the West India market...
For sale by the subscribers, IN PENN-STREET, 130 quarter Chcks fresh Hyson Tea; 100 ditto do. fresh Souhong Tea; 300 Boxes China, containing small tea sets of 42 pieces; 400 pieces Bandanoes.
NOTICE TO CLAIMANTS FOR BRITISH SPOLIATIONS. THE COMMITTEE
THAT every Claimant who has not already exhibited well authenticated proofs of his property, furnish, without delay, proof that the property claimed is bona fide American...
Wm. HOLDERNESS, No. 76 High Street, HAS received, by the latest arrivals from Europe and the East Indies, a well selected assortment of Silk Mercery, Linen Drapery and Haberdashery Goods...
A Gentle family wish to rent a COUNTY SEAT, in an agreeable situation, within a few miles of Philadelphia. If furnished, it would be more agreeable.
Just Arrived, In the Snow Boston, James Kirkpatrick, master from Liverpool, 5000 Bushels SALT; 100 Crates QUEEN'S WARE; and An Assortment of SHIP CHANDLERY.
For Sale, A Three story BRICK HOUSE and Lot, in Chestnut street, between Front and Second streets, in which Messrs. Calbraith & Co. have for many years (and now do) carried on business.
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.
TO BE LET, A LARGE Commodious dwelling House, No. 124 Spruce street, with a convenient stable and Coach House, Also for sale a Chariot but little the worse for use.
GEORGE DOBSON, BEGS leave to inform the Store-keepers in Town and Country, that he has removed from Market-Street to No. 25, South Third-street, where he is opening a Large and Elegant Assortment of the undermentioned articles...
RECEIVED, By the Brig Welcome Return, from Savannah, 27 Bales COTTON. By the Schooner Abigail, from Charleston, 100 Casks Prime RICE. And, by the Schooner John, from Boston, SEWING-SILKS, various colours, GURRAHS, COSSAHS, and India Bandanno Handkiefs.
CAMBRICS, A Small Invoice of CAMBRICS, To Sales by N. & J. FRAZIER, No. 95, South Front-Street.
FOR SALE, A very Valuable Estate, CALLED WITTENHAM, situate in the township of Upper Darby, and county of Delaware, 7 1/2 miles from Philadelphia, and half a mile from the new Western road...
CHINA GOODS, THE Ship ATLANTIC, Silas Swan, Commander, from Canton, will commence the discharge of her cargo to-morrow morning at Walnut-street wharf.
PROPOSALS, By BIRKEN & MADAN, For publishing by Subscription, that celebrated Work, Godwin's Political Justice.
From the last London Edition. TERMS: I. It will be published in two large volumes, duodecimo. II. Price to Subscribers, two dollars, handsomely bound, to be paid on delivery of the work. III. As soon as a number of Subscribers appear, sufficient to defray the expense, it shall be put to press. IV. The names of the Subscribers shall be prefixed.

PRICES CURRENT.
Philadelphia, July 1.
PER QUANTITY—DOLLARS AT 100 CENTS.
Table with 4 columns: Item, Quantity, Price, and Notes. Includes items like Anchors, Allum, Absinthe, Arrack, Bacon, Beans, Brandy, Bricks, Bread, Beer, Beef, Butter, Candles, Cheese, Chocolate, Cinnamon, Cloves, Coffee, Copper, Cordage, Cotton, Currants, Duck, Dutch Sail Duck, Feathers, Flax, Flour, Grain, Hemp, Hops, Irons, Lead, Lard, Leather, Linen, Logwood, Mace, Madder, Marble, Mustard, Nails, etc.
COURSE OF EXCHANGE.
Table with 2 columns: Location, Rate. Includes London, Amsterdam, etc.
By an Artist resident at Mr. Oellers's Hotel, MINIATURE LIKENESSES
ARE taken and executed in that elegant and delicate style, which is so necessary to render a Miniature Picture an interesting jewel. He will warrant a strong and indispitable resemblance...
N. B. Specimens are to be seen. May 11.
FOR THE GAZETTE OF THE UNITED STATES.
MR. FENNO,
The power of pardoning is vested in the Governor of Pennsylvania in the same ample and extensive manner, as in England, it is exercised by the king of Great-Britain. The ninth section of the Constitution, on the powers of the Executive Magistrate, enables the Governor "to remit fines and forfeitures, and grant reprieves and pardons, except in cases of impeachment."
If we are warranted in this position; and any doubts should arise touching the power of the Governor, to dispense with the penalty in any instance; an appeal to the law would be highly proper for a solution of the question. Let it be supposed, for example, we were desirous of deciding the point "in what cases the Governor may release or discharge a recognizance";
The restriction on prerogative mentioned by Braxton—"non possit Rex Gratiam facere cum Injuria et Damno aliorum; quod autem alienum est, dare non possit per suam Gratiam"—is consonant to the soundest principles of reason and justice.
The great distinction on the subject appears to be this—Where surety for the peace is taken by a magistrate ex officio, or is ordered by a Court, as part of the sentence, the recognizances in these cases, may be discharged even before forfeitures.
If a recognizance be taken upon the complaint of the party, it is certain, in this case, that before the condition broken, the executive cannot discharge it; because the party has an interest in it—his personal safety depends upon it.
In all cases where a recognizance is taken without the complaint of the party, it is a debt created without his act or intercence; and in such case, he can no more be said to have an interest in it, than where a fine is imposed by the court without his consent, which there is no doubt the executive may remit.
It is true, it is laid down in the books, in general terms, "that the king cannot pardon a recognizance for the peace before it is forfeited." But this should be understood of recognizances, taken in the usual and general course of business; which every body knows, is on the complaint of a particular person to keep the peace towards him.
ing the passage should be understood as corroborating the idea now contended for.
If the executive has power to pardon the foundation, it seems reasonable to assert, that he can pardon every thing depending thereon, or proceeding from it.
To say the executive can pardon one part of the sentence only, is a doctrine perfectly novel, and is a limitation on the pardoning power, not to be found in the books, unless in some special cases, particularly on acts of parliament—and the doctrine, in the present instance might lead to very serious consequences.
It is a fact as notorious, as it is melancholy, that the most usual objects of the criminal jurisdiction of courts, are the poor and friendless, who have generally made themselves so by their vices.
With respect to releasing a recognizance taken by a magistrate ex officio, or that has been ordered by a court as part of the sentence, the legal effect of such discharge, agreeably to the principles here stated, must be, to prevent an arrest and demand of sureties for the same cause; just as a pardon will operate in other cases.
In support of the preceding observations, we shall refer to two authorities; the one extracted from an abridgment, to which more weight is due, than to any other compilation of the like nature—the other, from the very oracle of the law.
"After a recognizance is forfeited, the king may pardon the forfeiture; but he cannot release the condition before it is broken; because the party at whose complaint it was taken, has an interest in the condition."
The statute Westm. 2. chap. 20. was made to prevent trespasses in parks and fish ponds—and in case of recovery in an action founded upon the statute, the trespasser is not only to pay heavy damages, but to suffer three years imprisonment—and at the expiration of the imprisonment, is to make ransom to the king, to find sureties that he will not afterwards commit the like offence, and for want of such sureties, he is to abjure the realm.
Even in a civil action, founded upon this statute, the king may not only remit the fine, but by pardon, discharge the defendant, from that part of the judgment, that requires him to give sureties, or to abjure the realm.
HAMBLEN. Hills of Berks County, June 24. * Broke's abridgment, recognizance, pl. 22. id. Chart. de pa. 3 pl. 24. † Sir Edward Coke's 2 Inst. 200. 3 id. 171. FOR THE BENEFIT OF MR. WELLS, Box-Book-Keeper.
New Theatre. Last night this season of the company's performing.
On FRIDAY EVENING, July 1, Will be presented, a Comedy, called
THE DESERTED DAUGHTER
[Written by THOMAS HOLCROFT, author of the Road to Ruin, &c. &c.]
As performing at Covent Garden Theatre, London, with universal applause.
Table with 2 columns: Character, Actor. Includes Mordent, Cheveril, Lennox, Item, Grime, Clement, Donald, Joanna, Mrs. Sarnet, Mrs. Enfield, Betty, Lady Ann.
End of the Tragedy. A Concerto on the French Horn, By Monsieur ROSIER, being his ad performance in this country.
To which will be added, (not performed this season) an OPERA, in two acts, called
Rosina.
[With the original Overture and Accompaniments, composed by SHIELD.]
Table with 2 columns: Character, Actor. Includes Belville, Capt. Belville, William, Rustic, 1st Irishman, 2d Irishman, Rosina, Dorcas, Phoebe.
BOX, One Dollar—PIT, Three-Fourths of a Dollar—and GALLERY, Half a Dollar. No money or tickets to be returned; nor any person, on any account whatsoever, admitted behind the scenes. Ladies and Gentlemen are requested to send their servants to keep places a quarter before five o'clock, and order them as soon as the company is seated, to withdraw as they cannot, on any account, be permitted to remain. Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. WELLS, at the Front of the Theatre.
VIVAT RESPUBLICA
A special meeting of the American Philosophical Society WILL be held at their Hall NEXT FRIDAY EVENING at 7 o'clock. As the occasion of this meeting is mournfully interesting, all the members now in the city are requested to attend. By order of the Vice Presidents, ROBERT PATTERSON, Sec'y. June 28
AN ACT Making further provision relative to the revenue cutters.
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States, in Congress assembled, That from and after the first day of May, in the present year, there be allowed, in lieu of each compensation now established, to the master of each revenue cutter, fifty dollars per month; to each first mate, thirty five dollars per month; to each second mate, thirty dollars per month; to each third mate, twenty-five dollars per month; and to each Mariner, not exceeding twenty dollars per month; to be paid by the collectors of the revenue, who shall be designated for that purpose.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all penalties, fines, and forfeitures which may be incurred under the import laws of the United States, and recovered in consequence of information given by any officers of a revenue cutter, shall, after deducting all proper costs and charges, be disposed of, as follows: One fourth part shall be for the use of the United States, and be paid into the treasury thereof; one fourth part for the officers of the customs, to be distributed in the manner now provided, relative to that part of the forfeitures they are now entitled to: and the remainder thereof, to the officers of such cutter, to be divided among them, in proportion to their pay.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States be, and he hereby is authorized to cause other revenue cutters to be built or purchased, in lieu of such as are or shall, from time to time, become unfit for further service; the expense whereof, as well as all future expenses of building, purchasing or repairing revenue cutters, shall be paid out of the product of the duties on goods, wares and merchandise, imported into the United States, and on the tonnage of ships or vessels.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States be, and he hereby is authorized, to cause such revenue cutters as shall, from time to time, become unfit for service, to be sold at public auction, and the proceeds of such sales to be paid into the treasury of the United States.
Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That so much of this act as fixes the compensation of the officers and men on board the said cutters, shall be, and remain in force, for the term of one year, and from thence to the end of the next session of Congress thereafter, and no longer.
JONATHAN DAYTON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN ADAMS, Vice-President of the United States, and President of the Senate. Approved—May 6th, 1796. GO: WASHINGTON, President of the United States.
The Old Soldiers
OF the Pennsylvania line of the army (both officers and privates) are informed that there appears in the Massachusetts and Connecticut papers a design to take from them nearly all their lands over the Allegheny. Long publications have appeared at Stockbridge and Hartford, setting up the Connecticut claim (though extinguished by the decision at Trenton) to take the following lands given by Pennsylvania to the army.
Table with 2 columns: District, Description. Includes District No. 1, about 1-claimed as Connecticut's, Do. No. 2, The whole claimed as ditto, etc.
The Court of Commissioners was a regular constituted authority—There were among them two eastern members—They were all five unanimous. What should be thought of the Connecticut claimants by every friend to the peace and the laws of this country? July 1.
Bank of North-America.
July 1, 1796. At a meeting of the Directors, a Dividend was declared of six PER CENT. for the last half year, which will be paid to the Stockholders any time after the 10th instant. By order of the Board, JOHN NIXON, President.
A stated Meeting of the Pennsylvania Society for promoting the ABOLITION OF SLAVERY
&c. &c. &c. will be held at the usual place, on the fourth instant, at 8 o'clock in the evening. BENJAMIN KITE, Secretary. July 1.
Sugars for sale at Fox's Auction-room.
At 3 o'clock To-morrow afternoon, Will be sold by Auction, for approved Notes at 60 days, 60 hhds. prime St. Croix Sugar. EDWARD FOX, Auctioneer. June 30.
Lottery
Table with 2 columns: Prize of, Amount. Includes Prize of 5000 dollars is dollars 5000, 1 1000 1000, 1 500 500, etc.
6350 Tickets at Seven Dollars each, 44,450 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 drawing, and will continue until finished. A list of the Blanks and Prizes may be seen at the office of William Blackburn, No. 64 fourth Second Street, who will give information where tickets may be procured. Dated this 17th day of June, 1796. J. N. CUMMING, JACOB R. HARDENBERG, JONATHAN RHEA, Managers. June 18

Philadelphia,
FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 1, 1796.
ADDRESSES.
The Volumes of this Gazette are made up half-yearly—the present Number commences the Tenth, which will be completed on the last of December next.
Two years and an half have elapsed since the Gazette of the United States was published daily. The patronage it has received, is equal, it is believed, to that of any other daily publication, for the same period, and merits the Editor's grateful acknowledgements. Subscribers are continually added to the list; and its advertising patrons encrease; they will please to accept of sincere thanks for their liberality.
A full supply of new Types is hourly expected—When received, the Gazette shall appear in a new dress.
As it is the determination of the Editor to embrace Commercial objects more fully than heretofore, a Price Current will be published weekly; as correct as the present very fluctuating state of markets will admit. Marine information, local and general, will be given extensively. Advertisements will be promptly and conspicuously published, at 50 Cents a square for the first insertion, and 25 cents for every continuation.
The propriety of the addition this day made to the title of the Paper we hope will be justified by experience, in such a proportional participation of the public favor, as exactions may merit.
The price of this Gazette is eight dollars a year. Subscribers whose papers are sent per post are charged one dollar yearly in addition for enclosing and directing. Six months subscription to be paid in advance.
THE Officers of the militia of the city and liberties of Philadelphia are requested to meet at the Statehouse on Monday next, the 4th July, at 11 o'clock precisely, to proceed from thence to pay their compliments to the President of the United States, and to the governor of the State, on the anniversary of American Independence.
JOSIAH HARMAR, Adjutant General. Philadelphia, June 30th, 1796.
A report was circulated last evening that the President of U. S. was arrived in town. This is not true, nor is there any foundation for the report that he is expected in a few days. And it is difficult to assign any just reason for it. As the Husbandman said of the Devil who sowed Tares among the wheat, it may be said of this fetch of a certain Junto—"An Enemy hath done this."
ABSTRACT of the BILL For regulating the conveyance of printed votes, proceedings in Parliament, and printed news-papers, by the post, in Great Britain.
The preamble recites, that there is reason to believe that writings and other materials, now carried under the form of news-papers, to the detriment of the revenue, and that from the great increase of their numbers it has become impossible to examine them within the space allotted. The bill repeals in consequence all the existing privileges of franking news-papers, &c.
It enacts, that every person shall have the power of sending newspapers, which shall be directed on the part of the margin adjoining the title, date and stamp, and signed with the name, and place of abode of the person transmitting the same. The direction to be repeated on the cover, which is to be opened at the ends, and the paper to be put into the post-office, two hours before the time appointed for the departure of the mails.
Dealers to be allowed to send news-papers duty free, on entering into a recognizance, binding each in the sum of fifty pounds not to inclose any thing in writing or cypher; his name and residence as a further security, being either written or printed on the cover.
The persons employed at the Stamp-Office are enjoined to affix the stamp adjoining conveniently to the date and title of the news-papers.
The Post-Master, or his servants, are empowered to examine every news-paper, and to see that it contains no writing. A penalty of five pounds is imposed on every person so employed, on proof of their detaining or injuring the news-papers.
Every news-paper unstamped, or containing any writing or cypher, to be charged according to the usual rate of postage. Every dealer trespassing against this regulation to forfeit his recognizance as above stated; every other person twenty pounds.
Letters directed to members of Parliament, at the place of their residence, to be exempted as heretofore.
Nothing in this act attaches to news-paper passing between Great-Britain and Ireland.
BY THIS DAY'S MAILS.
NEW-YORK, June 30.
MARINE REGISTER
Arrived at this Port
Brig Patty, Snow, St. Bartholomews 16 John, Webb, Charleston 7 Sloop Mary, Philadelphia 3 Sally, Woodward, Trinidad 25 Capt. Woodward spoke the British frigate Cleopatra, off Block-Island.
The reader will observe in some of the papers of this city, extracts from a certain Journal of a private Citizen, attempting to prove the Fever of last summer to have been taken from vessels arriving from the West-Indies. Truth is always a desirable thing; but error in the present case is a fatal evil. It will appear, from papers and documents on that subject now published and publishing, that there is not even a shadow of ground for the opinion, that the disease, was introduced and propagated by infection.
On the other hand, it will appear to be clearly demonstrated to have been produced by the pecu-
liar season, the filth of the city, and the negligence and imprudence of the people.
To be on our guard against infection, is wise and proper; but to attempt to make the citizens believe the yellow fever is not and cannot be generated in this city, is a most pernicious thing. The same disease has appeared in this city four or five seasons past, and will appear whenever the causes concur—to wit, a sufficient degree of heat and a sufficient degree of filth.
It is of infinite consequence to the health of the city, for the people to know or be convinced that the healthiness of the city depends mostly on themselves. If the citizens will not be convinced of this fact, they may be assured no vigilance of the government or the health officer will protect them from frequent Epidemics.
Yesterday the brig John, Capt. Webb, arrived at this port from Charleston.
The governor of South Carolina has issued his proclamation, dated June 20, recommending that FRIDAY the 8th July, be set a part as a day of FASTING, HUMILIATION, and PRAYER, on account of the late distresses of that city.
BOSTON, June 27.
ARRIVED.
January 23, Arrived Schooner Lucy, Holmes, St. Pierre, Martinique, 21 days. Left the Stork from Boston. Spoke a French 20 gun ship soon after sailing.
Schr. Harriot, Godfrey, Falmouth, Jamaica. Left sloop Peggy, Charleston, S. C. June 20, 40 leagues from Boston, spoke brig Cyprus, Blake 2 days from Boston, for Hamburg.
June 24, Brig Mary, Capt. Stone of Portland, 24 days from the Havana.
Ship Merchant, of Portland, Captain Fitch Giles 34 days from Kingston, (Jam.)—Left there brig Sally, capt. Stubbs, of Boston, to sail in a few days. Spoke Brig Betsey from Jamaica, for N. Carolina, out 16 days, capt. name Argonaut.
On Friday, Brig Acton, capt. Burnham, from Philadelphia. Monday, June 20, off Long-Island, Montauk Point, bearing about W. by N. was brought to and boarded by the British ship Assistance of 50 guns, who after examining his papers and people, informed he was from Halifax, on a cruise, 10 days out; the night before, took a Danish brig, bound to New-York, on account of having two different sets of papers on board. Two frigates sailed from Halifax, in company with the Assistance; and had parted the next day in a fog.
June 21, at 8 A. M. was brought to and boarded by the Hufar frigate, of 32 guns, who likewise examined his papers and people. The night before, they boarded a ship bound to New-York, and took out five of the people who had not got protections. The officers of both ships behaved politely.
June 23, Schooner John, capt. Smith, 30 days from Demerara. Left there, Ship Commerce, Cowell, of Boston; brig —, Geyer, of do; schooner —, Eathearn, of do; schr. Nancy, Derby, of do; ship Hannah, Wait, of do; capt. Laughlin, in a ship from Charlestown; capt. Lincoln, of Charlestown and capt. Gaudet, of Quebec, at Baltimore.
Same day arrived, schr. Sculpion, capt. Carter, from the Havana.
Same day arrived, brig Fox, capt. Hurley, 13 days from Guadalupe. Left at Petit-Canal, capt. Wyatt, of Newbury-Port, and capt. Cole of Boston. Ship Zahiah, Burgess, sailed in company with capt. H. for Boston.
Provisions at Guadalupe plenty and cheap.
[AUTHENTIC]
Extract of a letter from a gentleman of respectability belonging to this town, now in Paris, dated April 1.
"Wonderful to relate, you may purchase bills in Paris on any part of the world (where exchange is negotiated) from 7 to 18 per cent. discount. I shall leave you to guess how it happens, that in this time of distress, France has the exchange in her favor against every power in the world; and telling the neutral powers she can do without them—provisions are cheaper in any part of France, but especially in Paris, than in any other part of Europe. They are indeed "a wonderful people"—can do perfectly well without the rest of the world—have proved they can live without foreign trade—and appear as proud of the discovery, as a boy who has solved a difficult problem." Boston Chronicle.
SALEM, June 24.
Capt. Samuel Lambert, in the brig Hope, arrived last night from the Isle of France, in 85 days—May 10, at the Isle of Ascension, spoke the ship Hamilton, from Bengal for Boston. The Bellarius of this port, George Crowninshield, commander, may be expected from the Isle of Bourbon every day.
Capt. Hardy Ropes, arrived yesterday from St. Domingo, spoke on the 15th inst. Schooner Polly, of Charleston, from Aux-Cayes, then bound to Bermuda, (having been captured by the Spencer sloop of war) for adjudication.
Capt. John Foller, arrived on Wednesday from Baltimore. On his passage, was boarded by a Bermudian privateer, detained 6 hours, and then permitted to proceed.
An En lish ship is cruising between Gay Head and Block-Island.
Capt. Hardy Ropes arrived yesterday in 19 days from the port of St. Domingo, (in the Spanish part of the Island of the same name) says he heard nothing of any fleet having arrived in any port of that Island—He saw a frigate going in as he came out, but could not tell of what nation she was.
Liverpool Prices Current—April 29. Wheat 10 to 11s. per bushel of 70lbs. wt. Flour 35 to 40s. per barrel—dull sale. Indian corn 3s. 6d. old, but no buyers. Barley 2s. 6d to 3s. per bushel—vast quantities at market.
District of SALEM and BEVERLY.
Arrived, June 18—24.
Brig Hope, Lambert, Isle of France Schr. Betsey, Ropes, St. Domingo Betsey, Townsend, Aux Cayes An English ship is cruising between Gay-head and Block-Island.
District of Providence—June 24.
ARRIVED.
Sloop Lucy, Hallet, Boston Rebecca, Hicks, Warren Hancock, Davis, New-York Lark, Godfrey, ditto. Aurora, Jackson, St. Croix Hiram, Earl, Charleston.
PORTSMOUTH, June 23.
We are authorized to inform the electors of New-Hampshire, that the Hon. John S. Sherburne, Esq. declines being considered as a candidate at the approaching election of members to represent this state in Congress.
Report also says, that the Hon. Mr. Gilman, another of the present members, will likewise decline.
In the course of three days, the last week, there were brought into this harbor (by vessels belonging to this and the neighboring towns) Ten Thousand Quintals of Fish! and all flaked in good order.
COOPERSTOWN, June 23.
On Saturday last, towards evening, information was received that the Hon. Wm. Cooper was on his way to this place; immediately an escort left the village on horseback, to attend him to his home—When his carriage had passed the bridge, he was welcomed by a double row of citizens, who testified their joy on his arrival by three cheers. Never was a character received with a more cordial welcome; all ranks of people united in manifesting their approbation of his conduct, thro' a long, arduous and an important session. In the evening the judge very obligingly attended his fellow citizens, convened at Huntington's inn, and in a concise and comprehensive manner recited the most important events of the session. During his entrance into Cooperstown, 16 cannon were fired, and every appearance of pleasure and satisfaction was exhibited.
The citizens of Cherry Valley addressed him, on his passage thro' that town as follows:
To the Hon. Wm. Cooper.
SIR, Impressed with a high opinion of your exertions of your firm and decided conduct, during the important question which has agitated the public mind from New-Hampshire to Georgia. It would be un pardonable, in us, not to express on this occasion our highest approbation, and warmest gratitude. Permit us to say, that, in a question in which is involved the peace and happiness, if not the very existence of our government, all former distinctions give place, and private or personal considerations cease to operate.
JOSEPH WHITE. RICH'D. EDWARDS.
In behalf of the inhabitants of Cherry Valley. June 18.
REPLY.
Gentlemen, The mode in which you have expressed your approbation of my conduct on the late constitutional question, which agitated the public mind, in every part of the United States, is highly pleasing to me—and much more so coming from the inhabitants of Cherry Valley; as it presents to my mind two very desirable objects; the form the argument assumed in Congress, and the final event, will it seems, have a tendency to cause a general unanimity of sentiments among the inhabitants of your flourishing town, in favor of the general government. And, that my exertions are the cause of extinguishing former dissensions among us, affords to me a consolation that is better felt than expressed.
WM. COOPER.
To Joseph White, Richard Edwards, and other inhabitants of Cherry Valley.
Extract of a letter from the Surgeon attending the child of Mr. Chamberlain, whose case was mentioned in our last.
"Dear Sir, I have the happiness to inform you, that Mr. Chamberlain's son, our patient, is in a likely way to recover; the wound digests kindly, no inflammatory symptoms appear, his fever has subsided, his appetite is good, and nothing new appears in the way of his recovery.
I am your sincere friend, DAN. FOOT.
Dated at Mr. Chamberlain's, June 19. Dr. Joseph White.
CHARLESTON, June 22.
In the great fire of January 15, 1778, the following list of houses were consumed viz. Currency. East Bay, D. Houses, 56 Valued at £. 177,425 Broad street, do. 28 72,700 Elliot-street, do. 51 89,900 Beden's alley, do. 13 28,753 Church-Street, do. 17 25,100 Tradd-street, do. 34 73,100 Union street, do. 32 20,760 Chalmer's alley, do. 9 9,500 Unity alley, do. 8 3,500 Queen-street, do. 2 8,000 Exclusive of kitchens, &c. 252 £. 507,855
In the year 1776, all the dwelling houses within Boundary street, amounted to 1434, and were valued at 2,523,525. currency.
The late fires are computed to have consumed, in houses and property, nearly 500,000. sterling.
Yesterday arrived schr. Esther, Wells, Savannah, 1 day; sloop Fortune, Johnson, Savannah, 1 day. The Spanish brig Yorick anchored at Port John yesterday, in 8 days from the Havana.
June 20. Yesterday arrived the brig Principe de la Paz, capt. Bustamante, from Havana, 9 days; ship Ophir, Stevens, St. Thomas's 9 days.
A Post-Chaise wanted.
WANTED immediately to purchase, a second-hand Post-Chaise, with Harness for a Horse and Buggy Furniture. It must be in good condition. July 1. Enquire at No. 73 South Front Street. *33.
Philadelphia, July 1.
The United States' brig Sophia, failed a few days ago from this port for Europe. She is to touch at Lisbon, for a short time, and from thence proceed to Algiers. We learn that the Sophia has on board the means of fulfilling the terms of our Treaty with the Dey and Regency of Algiers, for which purpose she was dispatched by the executive with Capt. O'Brien on board.
ARRIVALS AT THIS PORT.
Days. Brig Amiable, Paul, Havana 13 Anna, Maffet, Gonaives 13 Sloop Laurania, Stewart, St. Croix 11 Capt. Paul a few days before he made the Capes spoke the Danish brig Den Nye Prove, capt. Hansen from this port to Hamburg, out 2 days.
A Schooner from Port-au-Prince is arrived at the Port.
Ship Old Tom, Duplex, and the Schooner Betsey, McCullough, both from this Port are arrived at Kingston.
CLEARED.
Ship Four Friends, Smith, Hamburg Brig Theodosia, Vanlice, St. Thomas's Sally, Bradford, Washington (N. C.) Polly & Betsey, Shaw, Nixonton Schr. Conception, Bonnel, St. Ann's Mary-ann, Swail, Norf & Hispal. Is. Schr. Hannah, Phippen, Hispal. Is. Sloop Wealthy, Bray, St. John's (N. B.)
STOCKS.
Six per Cent. - - - - - 17 5/8 Three per Cent. - - - - - 10 5/8 5 1/2 per Cent. - - - - - 16 6 4 1/2 per Cent. - - - - - 14 3/4 Deferred Six per Cent. - - - - - 23 7/8 to 8 BANK United States, - - - - - 27 pr. cent. Pensylvania, - - - - - 30 North America, - - - - - 48 to 50 Insurance Comp. North America, 33 Pensylvania, - - - - - 32 EXCHANGE, at 60 days, - - - - - 165 to 166 2-3
At a meeting of the undernamed judges of the court of common pleas, justices of the peace, and prothonotary of the county of Northampton, in the state of Pennsylvania, convened at Bethlehem in the said county, on the 11th June, 1796, in consequence of a circular letter of the 27th May last, from his excellency governor Mifflin, on the subject of intrusions on land within the territorial boundaries of this state, by rejected Connecticut claimants,
Present, Peter Rhoads, William Henry, and Robert Trail, Esqrs. Judges, &c. George Breinig, Nicholas Kern, John Starbuck, Philip Riggs, John Serfas, Jonas Hartzell, Isaac Shymer, Abraham Levan, William Latimore, John Shaw, Henry Cooper, John Thymer, Jacob Kuntz, Jacob Hornberger, Joseph Horsheld, and Henry Spreng, Esqrs. Secretary &c.
The said Peter Rhoads was unanimously chosen chairman, and the said Henry Spreng secretary of the meeting: And on motion of Mr. Trail, the letter aforesaid was read by the secretary.
It was stated to the meeting, by William Craig, Esq. that in travelling through the northern parts of this county, and within the jurisdiction of the same, he heard of a Mr. Stanton, that divers persons had been surveying lands under the Connecticut claim within the said northern parts of the said county,
Whereupon on motion of Mr. Henry, it was resolved, that the chairman be requested, on the oath of the said William Craig, to the circumstances, to issue his precept to bring the said Stanton, and such other persons as may be able to give information on the subject, before him, or some other magistrate of the county aforesaid, to be examined in the premises and dealt with according to law. On motion of Mr. Trail, it was resolved that a committee of two of the magistrates be named, who shall make it their particular business to go to the northern boundaries of this county, or otherwise inform themselves of any intrusions on the lands within the commonwealth by Connecticut claimants; and that the chairman name the said committee: Whereupon the said chairman named Nicholas Kern, and Jonas Hartzell, Esqrs. the committee aforesaid, who were agreed to.
And on motion, it was further resolved, that the sheriff of the county be requested to attend the said committee, or furnish an officer for the purpose of executing any process that may be issued on the occasion. Resolved that the proceedings of this meeting, be signed by the chairman, attested by the secretary and transmitted by them to his excellency the governor of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
(Signed) PETER RHOADS. Attest, H. SPERING, Secretary.
Bethlehem, June 14, 1796.
His Excellency Governor Mifflin; SIR, We have it in charge to transmit to your excellency the enclosed proceedings of a meeting of a number of the public officers of the county of Northampton, in consequence of your circular letter of the 27th May last, on the subject of intrusions by Connecticut claimants on the territory of Pennsylvania.
Permit us to assure you, that there is a firm disposition in the officers who composed that meeting to assert and maintain the authorities of the commonwealth according to their stations; that all legal ways and means will be pursued in bringing to justice those who have or may invade, or violate the same; and that any information which can be collected relative to any unlawful intrusions, will be readily communicated to you.
We have the honor to be, Sir, With due respect, Your Excellency's most obt. servants. (Signed) PETER RHOADS. HENRY SPERING.

PROPOSALS FOR CARRYING THE MAILS of the United States, On the following routes, will be received by the Postmaster at Savannah, until the first day of September next. 1. From Savannah by Sunbury to Newport Bridge, once a week. Receive the Mail at Savannah every Saturday by 9 A.M. arrive at Sunbury by 6 P.M. and at Newport Bridge on Sunday by 10 A.M. Returning, Leave Newport Bridge on Sunday by 3 P.M. and arrive at Sunbury in the evening, and at Savannah on Monday by 6 P.M. 2. From Newport Bridge by Darien and Brunswick to St. Mary's, once in two weeks. Receive the Mail at Newport Bridge every other Sunday noon and arrive at St. Mary's the next Wednesday by 5 P.M. Returning, Leave St. Mary's the next day, Thursday by 8 A.M. and arrive at Newport Bridge the next Sunday by 10 A.M. Note 1. If either of the routes are altered by law, during the continuance of the Contract, the Contractor is to observe such alterations in carrying the mail, and his pay is to be increased or diminished, in proportion to the distance increased or diminished by such alteration. Note 2. The Contract is to be in operation on the first day of October next, and to continue for four years until the 30th September, 1800, inclusive. Note 3. The Post Master General may alter the times of arrival and departure at any time during the continuance of the Contract, he previously stipulating an adequate compensation for any extra expense that may be occasioned thereby. Note 4. Fifteen minutes shall be allowed for opening and closing the mail at all offices where no particular time is specified. Note 5. For every hour's delay (unavoidable accidents excepted) in arriving after the times prescribed in any contract, the contractor shall forfeit one dollar. And if the delay continue until the departure of any depending mail, whereby the mails defined for such depending mail shall lose a trip, the contractor shall forfeit ten dollars to be deducted from his pay. JOSEPH HABERSHAM, Post-Master General. GENERAL POST OFFICE, Philadelphia, June 28, 1796. 12W6W
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, on the west 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 sky-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 three-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 camping-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.
Books and Stationary, Wholesale and Retail, now opened and for Sale by WILLIAM YOUNG, Bookfeller, No. 52, Corner of Second and Chestnut-streets. AMONG which are ENGLISH, LATIN, and GREEK CLASSICS and DICTIONARIES, DIVINITY, LAW, HISTORY, TRAVELS, VOYAGES, MISCELLANIES, and the most esteemed NOVELS. WRITING AND PRINTING PAPERS, From the best manufacturers in Europe, and from his manufactory on Brandywine, viz. Imperial, plain and wove flatSmall folio post, plain Super-royal do. do. Ditto gilt Royal do. do. Blossom paper afforded Medium do. do. Transparent folio post Demy do. do. Superfine and common foolscap Glazed and hot-pressed folio Marbled papers. and 4to extra large post Thick brown in folio ditto do. London brown, afforded Ditto in 4to. ditto do. Hatters' paper Folio wove post, lined Stainers' paper Quarto ditto do. Common brown Ditto gilt do. Patent sheathing Common fine folio post Bonnet boards Ditto quarto, plain Binders' Boards. Folio and quarto post, gilt. Also, a variety of other Stationary Articles, viz. Wedgewood and glass philosophical flasks, well assorted; pewter ink chucks of various sizes; round pewter ink stands; paper, brats, and polished leather ink stands for the pocket; shining sand and sand boxes; pounce and pounce boxes; ink and ink powder. Counting house and pocket-penknives of the best quality, etc. Skin tablet and memorandum books. Red and colored wafers, common size, office ditto, Quills, from half a dollar, to three dollars per hundred. Black lead pencils, mathematical instruments, &c. &c. All forms and sizes of BLANK BOOKS, ready made or made to order. Bank checks, blank bills of exchange and notes of hand, executed in copperplate, bills of lading, manifests & men's articles and journals, &c. &c. June 18. 22W3W
War-Office of the United States, May 4th, 1796. THE following Rules, explanatory of those published the 15th February, 1789, are to be observed by all persons entitled to Lands, in pursuance of resolves of Congress. Every certificate of the acknowledgment of a deed or power of attorney, either before a notary public or other magistrate, must, in addition to what is usual, set forth that the person making the acknowledgment is known to the notary or other magistrate; for which purpose words of the following import must be inserted in the certificate. "And I do moreover certify that the said A B making this acknowledgment has been for personally known to me." If the notary or other magistrate has reason to believe that he is the person he represents himself to be, he will also certify it. And if the proof be made by a witness or witnesses, he or they must swear to some general state of their knowledge of him, which matter must be set forth in the certificate; and the notary public, or other magistrate, before whom the acknowledgment is made, must also set forth that the witness or witnesses who have been for upwards of personally known to him. If a justice of the peace is employed, the clerk of the court of the corporation or county must certify that such person is a justice of the peace of the county or corporation as the case may be, and that full faith is due to his acts as such. JAMES M'HENRY, Secretary of War May 12. 12W3W
PROSPECTUS Of a Cheap and Elegant Pocket Edition of Select and Entertaining Novels; Or, NOVELIST'S POCKET LIBRARY; Printed in so convenient a size that a volume may be carried in each pocket without the least inconvenience; being an agreeable travelling companion, affording amusement in the garden, the field, or the shady bower, and forming a valuable collection of Novels and Tales, written by the most approved authors, particularly Fielding Sterne Marmontel Cervantes Smollett Goldsmith Rastell Rousseau Richardson Brookes Hawkesworth Le Sage, &c. To commence with the 1st volume of the celebrated novel entitled The Mysteries of Udolpho , by the author of The Romance of the Forest , &c. &c. embellished with a beautiful engraved Frontispiece representing an interesting scene in the above, elegantly gilt, at only 75 cents. CONDITIONS. These select Novels shall be printed in handsome octodecimo pocket volumes, on good type and paper, and with a delicate new Bougeois type on purpose for the work, by which means the page will be uncommonly comprehensive; each volume containing in quantity a duodecimo, and sometimes an octavo volume, printed verbatim from the original copies. In addition to the elegance of the typography, each volume will be embellished with a beautiful engraved frontispiece, representing the most interesting scene that occurs in the respective volume. A volume will be published regularly every three weeks and delivered to subscribers neatly and uniformly bound and gilt, at only three-fourths of a dollar each, to be paid upon delivery. If a sufficient number of subscribers are procured, the work will be put to press some time in August, and a volume published every three weeks in regular succession. The encouragers of this work may rely upon every possible attention being paid to ensure elegance in the engravings, neatness and correctness in the printing, and uniformity in the binding, the whole being done under the immediate tendency of the publishers. Subscribers may withdraw and recommence their subscriptions at pleasure, so as to confine their choice to as few of the Novels as they think proper, or extend their collection to the whole that are printed, which will comprise only those highly approved novels which have been stamped with universal approbation. As The Mysteries of Udolpho  Humphrey Clinker Romance of the Forest  Annelia Sicilian Romance  Gil Blas Castle of Otranto  Peregrine Pickle Old Man of the Mountain  Devil upon Two Sticks Sidney Castle  Adventures of a Guise Desmond  Launcelot Greaves Family Party  The Sisters Tales of the Castle  Don Quixote Cecilia; or, The Memoirs of an Heiress  Count Rathom Adeline; or, A young lady's entrance into the world  Almonar and Hamet American Hunter  Sylvan and Almina Theodosius and Constantia  Tales of the Genii Chinese Tales  Moral Tales Anna St. Ives  Foul of Quality Tom Jones  Arabian Nights Entertainments Vicar of Wakefield  Arabian Tales, a continuation of the Arabian Nights Joseph Andrews  Julia, or the New Eloisa Roderick Random  Pamela Tristram Shandy  Clarissa Harlowe Robinson Crusoe  Sir Charles Grandison The publisher has not yet determined upon the arrangement in which the above novels shall appear; being determined to add and intermix other novels of equal celebrity, altho' he is conscious, that by comparing the above list with all former collections of this nature, the superiority of the present collection will appear obvious. British editors must necessarily exclude from their plans, all the new and entertaining novels that have been written within these last fourteen years, most of them being literary property. For further particulars see the PROSPECTUS at large which are to be had gratis of Thomas Condie, Book-binder, No. 140 Market-street, where orders and subscribers will be thankfully received. A liberal allowance to Booksellers, and others taking quantities. N. B. An apprentice to the bookbinding business wanted. June 25. 22W3W
William Young Birch, STATIONER, No. 23 South Second-street, between Market and Chestnut-streets. Has imported by the last ships from London, an extensive assortment of the best STATIONARY GOODS, which he offers for sale on equitable terms. Amongst other articles he has fine wove vellum drawing paper, viz. Antiquarian Elephant, double & single Atlas Imperial, Super Royal, &c. Writing paper of the first quality, viz. Imperial, super royal, royal, medium, demy, thick, thin, vellum, and bank post, folio, quarto, gilt and plain, copy foolscap, pot, &c. Merchants' account-books, viz. ledgers, single and double journals, waste books, cash books, letter books, bank check books, &c. Books of any size or pattern made to order. W. V. Birch respectfully informs merchants, traders and others, that the making of account books is a branch of his business which, having paid particular attention to, he flatters himself he shall execute in such a manner as to secure the approbation of his friends. And in order to do this, he has been careful to provide himself with a stock of paper from the most esteemed English paper-makers, for the purpose of a sufficient quantity of which he shall endeavor always to keep on hand, so as to enable him at all times to meet the demands of his friends. Quills and pens School bibles & testaments Ink and ink-stands, powder, India rubbers Wedgewood and glass philosophical do. Paper cakes, red and black Pewter ink-chucks Flat and round rulers Mahogany writing desks Pounce and pounce boxes Black ebony ditto Shining sand Ditto ditto ink-stands with plated furniture Scaling wax, superfine, fine and common Cards large and small gilt Wafers, red, black and colored, fine and common, large and small Copy-books ready ruled Types and ink for marking linen Copperplate copies Red morocco and black travelling cases Print and colored map files Black lines for writing Sand and sand boxes Pocket books Walkden's shining japan ink and red ink-powder Patent blacking cake for boots and shoes Ivory knives and folders Pen and sportsmen's knives Fine writing parchment Toothe powder and brushes Blank checks, bills of lading, and blanks for bills of exchange, bonds, bonds & judgments, powers of attorney, indentures, mortgages, &c. W. V. Birch has supplied himself with a complete stock of every article in the Stationary line, and as he shall be studious to execute his business in a manner the most satisfactory to his customers, he hopes to meet with encouragement and support. Country Store-keepers supplied on the best terms for cash. June 28. 22W3W
For Sale, A Few Casks of First Quality INDIGO. Enquire at No. 71, South Water street. May 2. 12W3W
SHOES Of 11 sizes, from 3 1/2 to 10, to Grape, Cambonics, Pots, and other castings executed, at the shortest notice. Nail rods, from rod to spike, Hoop iron, of all sizes, for casks or cutting into nails, from a broad to 1/2 inch nails, Anchors, from 17 Cwt. to 100 lb. Bar iron, A Quantity of James River Tobacco, Carolina Pork, Herrings in barrels, Kiln-dried corn meal in Hhds. and Bbls. Rye flour &c. to be sold by Levi Hollingsworth & Son. August 4. 22W3W
FOR SALE, A few hundred weight of Salt Petre in bags Best Sherry Wine 1 H in quarter casks Champaigne in cases of 50 bottles A quantity of White Lead, Bar Lead, and Shot in casks About 80 boxes tin plates. A few boxes of best Castile Soap entitled to drawback An invoice of Walking Canes and Perfumery Ditto Bandanna handkerchiefs, and Some Elegant Italian Stationery. Samuel Breck, jun. Roth's Wharf. June 18. 22W3W
JOHN PAUL JONES. INFORMATION is hereby given, that the late John Paul Jones was a proprietor of five shares (amounting to about 5867 acres) in a tract of land purchased by the Ohio Company, in the territory of the United States of America, north-west of the river Ohio; and that his heirs, or legal representative, on application to the directors of said company, at Marietta in the territory aforesaid, will receive a deed of the said five shares, or rights of land. The application may be made personally or by an agent, but proper documents must be produced to prove the claimant or claimants the legal heirs or representative of the said Jones. N. B. As it is not known in what country the person or persons interested reside, it will be an act of benevolence in every Printer in America and Europe, who shall insert this advertisement in his paper. In behalf of the directors of the Ohio Company, RUFUS PUTNAM. Marietta, May 20, 1796. [June 4] 22W3W
Treasury Department; Revenue Office, March 10th, 1796. PROPOSALS will be received at the office of the Commissioner of the Revenue, (No. 43, at the corner of Third and Chestnut-streets, Philadelphia) for building in North-Carolina, I. A Light-House upon Cape-Hatteras. II. A Beacon House upon Shell Castle island. Descriptions of each, and all other particulars, may be seen on application at the offices of any of the Superintendents of Light-Houses, or of the Supervisors of the Revenue, or of the Collectors of the Customs in any of the States; as also at this office. 22W3W
Bank of the United States, JUNE 14th, 1796. NOTICE is hereby given, that applications will be received at Bank, until the first day of July next, inclusive, for the purchase of the six per cent. stock bearing interest from the first day of July next, to be issued agreeably to an act of Congress, passed the thirty-first day of May last, entitled, "an act making provision for the payment of certain debts of the United States." CONDITIONS: 1st. Said stock will be sold in ten for notes with four, and five months, in three equal instalments. 2d. No sum less than one hundred dollars will be sold, nor any sum expressing a fractional part of one hundred dollars. N. B. The applications accompanied by the notes offered in payment are to be made in the same manner as for discounts, and are to be handed to the Cashier, from whom answers can be received on the second of July. By order of the Directors, G. SIMPSON, Cashier. 22W3W
Washington Canal Lottery, NO. I. WHEREAS the State of Maryland has authorised 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 last drawn } 5,000 35,000 Tickets, each $ 5,000 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, 175,000 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. 22W3W
The First Floor and Cellar, Of a three-story Brick House to be LET, situate on Dock-street, between Second and Walnut-streets. Very suitable for an Office or Wholesale Store. Enquire of JAMES KEEGAN, No. 64 Dock Street. June 28. 22W3W
For Sale, A Valuable Grist and Saw Mill, IN New Jersey, near the Rocks of Little Egg-Harbour. The Grist Mill is sixty by forty feet, two water wheels, and calculated for four run of Stones, with screen, fans and bunking-cloths, &c. The Saw-Mill has two saws and capable of cutting five to 600 thousand feet of Boards per year. A valuable piece of Cedar Swamp, within a mile and a half of the Mill, and within three quarters of a mile of a Landing. The Lumber, &c. may be taken by water from the mill tail. ALSO FOR SALE, Several Valuable Tracts of Land, In Pennsylvania, for all of which payment will be received in the notes of Messrs. Morris and Nicholson, or in Cash. For further information apply to the Printer. May 17. 22W3W
City of Washington. SCHEME of the LOTTERY, No. II, FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE FEDERAL CITY. A magnificent dwelling-house, } 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 4 do. 5,000 each, are 20,000 10 do. 1,000 10,000 20 do. 500 10,000 40 do. 250 10,000 100 do. 100 10,000 200 do. 50 10,000 400 do. 25 10,000 1,000 do. 10 10,000 15,000 do. 10 150,000 16,739 Prizes. 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 10 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 tentatively sold, 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 short suspension indispensable. SAMUEL BLODGET. S. Tickets may be had at the Bank of Columbia; of James West & Co. Baltimore; of Peter Gilman, Boston; of John Hopkins, Richmond; and of Richard Wells, Cooper's Ferry.
Urbanna Mill Seats, SITUATE in Cecil county, Maryland, on the banks of the river Susquehanna, about one mile above tide water, and commanding the water of that important river, the channel conducting the trade of which comes so near the Mill Seats as to make it convenient to speak the boats; and Mills may be so situated as to receive them along their walls, and by water lift take in their cargoes. There is a power sufficient for many and any kind of useful Water Works, and so much may be justly laid in commendation of this Site as would be inconvenient to insert in a newspaper publication. Those who may desire to be concerned, will probably find themselves well pleased on viewing the situation. Leases for any term of years may be obtained on application to the subscriber, living on the premises. CLEMENT HOLLIDAY. April 19. 22W3W
PRINTED BY JOHN FENNO, No. 119 CHESNUT-STREET. Price Eight Dollars per Annum