Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser. (Philadelphia [Pa.]), 1800-01-08 00:00:00

Gazette of the United States, AND Philadelphia Daily Advertiser.
NUMBER 2275.]
PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 8, 1800.
[VOLUME XVII.]
The price of this Gazette is EIGHT DOLLARS per annum to Subscribers residing in the city of Philadelphia. All others pay one Dollar additional, for enclosing and directing; and unless some person in this city will become answerable for the subscription, it must be paid Six Months in Advance.
DANCING.
MR. FRANCIS OF THE NEW THEATRE, RESPECTFULLY informs his scholars and the public in general, that he will re-commence Teaching on TUESDAY the 24th instant, at the Assembly Room, South Fourth Street. Days of tuition, Tuesdays and Thursdays.
THE CO-PARTNERSHIP OF THOMAS AND JOHN KETLAND
Being Dissolved, By the death of Mr. JOHN KETLAND, ALL persons who have demands against said Firm are requested to bring in their accounts for payment, and those indebted to the same are solicited to make payment to THOMAS KETLAND. October 21.
Now Ready for Sale, At GEORGE DAVIS's Law Book Store,
No. 319, HIGH STREET, A very valuable and extensive Assortment of Law Books, IMPORTED this fall and immediately before the late sickness, comprehending almost every Book in use, of the latest London and Irish editions. They will be disposed of from a single volume, to an entire Library at the same prices as have heretofore given such general satisfaction.
PROPOSALS FOR PUBLISHING AN HISTORY OF THE LIFE OF THE ILLUSTRIOUS GEORGE WASHINGTON,
Commander in Chief of the American Armies during our revolutionary war with Great Britain, first President of the United States, and since, Lieutenant General of the Army. BY JOSEPH SCOTT, Author of the Modern Geographical Dictionary, in four volumes octavo.
JOHN MILLER, Junr. No. 30 Dock, near Third street, HAS FOR SALE, Coffees, Mammodies, Tiffaties, Striped Doreas, Tangibs, Patna and Santipoor Handkerchiefs. The foregoing will be sold very low in order to close sales. ALSO, A FEW PACKAGES OF German Goods, Suitable to the West India Market; Received by the Fair American from Hamburg, October 25.
IN THE PRESS, And in a few days will be published At Dickins's Book-Store, A SUPERB EDITION OF WASHINGTON'S ADDRESS To the People of the United States, on retiring from Public Life, Super Royal, 8vo. Ornamented with a capital Portrait by one of the first Artists.
FOR SALE, By JOSEPH & JAMES CRUKSHANK, No. 87 High Street Philadelphia,
A FEW COPIES OF THE HARLEIAN MISCELLANY, BEING a Selection of Tracts which principally regard the English History, and of which many are referred to by Hume. The scarcity and high price of the Harleian Miscellany, induced the editor to offer the present abridgement to the public, which is composed of a narration of those highly interesting events which have occurred in the History of England, and which are chiefly arranged in chronological order.
OF the various methods which different writers pursue in order to convey useful knowledge to mankind, Biography stands considerably among the first. There is none more interesting—none more instructive and entertaining. The histories of distinguished heroes who have, by their exalted virtues, and noble and splendid actions, been the principal means of redeeming their respective countries from the corroding hand of tyranny, have in all ages been considered the most entertaining, instructive, and important to mankind. They afford example; and example is more powerful than precept. It strengthens, by a plain and easy mode of analogical reasoning, the principles of the timid, determines and fixes those that are wavering, and ultimately lays the basis for that harmony and coincidence of sentiment among the citizens; from which only, a nation can hope to derive rank, consequence and stability. Impressed with lively sentiments of the eminent virtues of that distinguished HERO and PATRIOT, the history of whose life I have undertaken to write; it was not till after much reflection I resolved on issuing these proposals. —The following considerations induced me to this; First, having obtained in the course of an extensive correspondence, with many gentlemen of the United States, a number of original materials concerning the life of this Illustrious Citizen; to give form and body to these, in the manner of history, will prove many important things that otherwise would most probably be lost. Secondly, as many of the most interesting transactions of his life, since he resigned his commission as Commander in chief of our revolutionary armies, are very imperfectly recorded, and little understood; yet the greater part of them being fresh in the memories of many, this must be the fittest time to embody them; before a succession of objects, which every day brings forth, wears off the minutest circumstances. There are many of these circumstances important and interesting; as it is universally acknowledged, that great actions, like immense rivers, flow from small beginnings.
For FREIGHT or CHARTER, For Europe or the West Indies, THE SHIP PACIFIC, PERKINS SALTER, Master, She is a staunch good Ship, well fitted, burthen about 2000 barrels, and ready to receive a cargo on board. For terms apply to WHARTON and LEWIS, No. 115 South Front Street, WHO HAVE FOR SALE, A parcel of Havana Molasses, Old Madeira Wine, Ground Ginger, Burlington Pork, &c. &c. November 21.
NO exertion or expense have been spared to render this publication complete, and altho' all the materials and workmanship are entirely American, the paper, printing and engraving have been allowed by good judges to excel any thing ever attempted in the United States.
Philadelphia & Lancaster Turnpike Company.
NOTICE. December 12, 1799. THE Stockholders are to meet at their Office, at 10 o'clock, on Monday the 13th January next, to choose their officers agreeable to law. Wm. GOVETT, Secretary. December 12. m&f.4w.
CONDITIONS. I. The Life of General Washington will contain nearly 400 pages octavo, printed on fine paper, and in a style of elegance equal to any work that has appeared from an American press. II. It will be embellished with a striking likeness of the General, executed by one of the first Artists. III. Subscribers' names will be annexed, as patrons. IV. Each subscriber is to pay two dollars, one half on subscribing, the remainder on the delivery of the work. Subscriptions in this city are received at No. 297 Arch street, next door to the north west corner of Eighth street. Philadelphia, December 30. co2w
A Quantity of Dry Goods ARE WANTED, FOR which real Estate in the Northern Liberties of this city, (a good Stand for Business) will be given in payment; the title is clear and good, and is now for a short time let, but possession will be given in about six months. Enquire at the Office of this Gazette. December 17. gotf
DICKINS'S STATIONARY & BOOK-STORE, Will next week be removed to the house lately occupied by Mr. W. Cobbett. December 28.
BANK OF THE UNITED STATES.
NOTICE. November 15, 1799. THE STOCKHOLDERS of the Bank of the United States are informed, that according to the Statute of Incorporation, a General Election for twenty-five Directors will be held at the Bank of the United States in the City of Philadelphia, on Monday the 6th of January next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon. And pursuant to the eleventh section of the by-laws, the Stockholders of the said Bank are also notified to assemble in general meetings, at the same place, on Tuesday the 7th of January next, at six o'clock in the evening. G. SIMPSON, Cashier.
COURT CALENDAR, AND GENTLEMEN'S Complete Pocket Companion, For the Year of our Lord 1800.
CONTAINING Every thing useful in other works of the kind, Besides a great variety of articles (Combining utility with entertainment), Not to be found in any publication whatsoever. Amongst these are, Complete and authentic lists of the ARMY and NAVY, (Carefully revised at the respective Offices); ALSO, correct statements of the NATIONAL DEBT, and of the ANNUAL RECEIPTS & EXPENDITURES of the United States. N. B. The CALENDAR, notwithstanding the vast variety of its contents, is very small in bulk. It is bound in red morocco, in the neatest manner, and may be carried very conveniently in the waistcoat pocket. December 31. co3w
ROSS AND SIMSON, HAVE FOR SALE, 3000 pieces 1st and 2d quality Russia Duck, 100 pieces Ravens Duck (Appriee) Boston Beef in Barrels, 4 few bales Bengal HUMHUMS, 1100 bushels St. Martins Salt. April 11. TO BE SOLD BY JESSE & ROBERT WALN. Old Port Wine, in pipes, bds. and qr. casks, Also Landing at their Wharf, From on board the ship Edward from Lisbon. Lisbon Wine, in pipes and qr. casks. June 25. Bank of North America. THE STOCKHOLDERS ARE hereby notified that an Election for Twelve Directors for the ensuing year, will be held at the Bank, on Monday the 13th January next, at 10 o'clock. RICHARD WELLS, Cashier. Dec. 2, 1799. dtE
UNSEATED LANDS. THE owners of Unseated Lands in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, are hereby notified, that unless the Taxes due on said Lands for the Years 1795, 1796, 1797, and 1798 are paid into the hands of JOHN WILKINS, Esquire, County Treasurer, on or before the 20th day of February next, they will be advertised for sale as the law directs. Ebenezer Denny, William Dunning, James Robinson, Commissioners. Pittsburgh, November 5, 1799. 3m.
Second Fundamental Article.
Not more than three fourths of the Directors in office, exclusive of the President shall be eligible for the next ensuing year, but the Director who shall be President at the time of an election, may always be re-elected. November 15. cftE
LOTS In the City of Washington.
A NUMBER of Lots in the city of Washington, the titles of which are unquestionable, their situations various, some pretty contiguous to the Capitol, are offered FOR SALE. For viewing the Plots and for terms, apply to BONSAL & SHOEMAKERS, No. 124, fourth Fourth street. Phila. Jan. 1, 1800. qe08t
CANAL OFFICE, November 28, 1799. Notice is hereby given, To the Stockholders of the Delaware and Schuylkill Hill, and Schuylkill and Schuylkill Canal companies that their annual Election will be held at the Companies Office, on Monday the 6th of January next, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, for the purpose of Electing One President, Twelve Managers and One Treasurer to each Company, for the ensuing year. GEORGE WORRALL, Secretary. November 29. mtf6hj
TAKE NOTICE, THAT application is made to the Bank of the United States, for the renewal of the following certificates of Bank stock, which were lost in the brig Peggy, Captain Fluyer, on her passage from America to London. No. 2959 For Eight Shares of Bank Stock 2962 in favour of Samuel Ethridge. 2967 WILLINGS & FRANCIS. October 25, d3m.
WAS delivered to the POSTMASTER here, in the Post-Office,
on the evening of Tuesday the 27th ult. in a LETTER directed to Mr. John Mills, Merchant, BALTIMORE, containing two ALEXANDRIA BANK NOTES, No. 4320, in favour of William Taylor, and dated 30th April, 1798, for ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS, and No. 4522, in favour of John P. Pleasants, and dated the 10th of December, 1798, for FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS, which letter has been SUPPRESSED in a POST-OFFICE, and the BANK NOTES taken out—as the PUBLIC MAIL was not STOPPED, MOLESTED, or ROBBED. Bankers and merchants are particularly requested to watch the circulation of said notes, and stop them; and any person giving such information as will lead us to our money, shall have FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS reward. WILSON & SWANN. Frederickburg, (Virg.) Sept. 10. All Printers in the United States, are requested to publish the above, and we will pay them.
A two story Brick House,
Situat on Duke street, or Artillery lane, in the Northern Liberties, HAVING two rooms on a floor, fire places in each, a kitchen and wash house; all in excellent order and built of the best materials. For further information enquire at No. 39, fourth street. Also, a HOUSE, No. 106, South Second street, to let—enquire as above. Dec. 30. 22w.6w.
To the Holders of MILITARY LAND WARRANTS. THE Subscriber having lately returned from viewing the land, surveyed and appropriated to satisfy the land warrants, issued by the Secretary at war, to the officers and soldiers of the late continental army; and having made arrangements with Mr. James Johnson, of Chester county, Pennsylvania, who he left on the land, and who with the assistance of an intelligent inhabitant of that county, will spend five months in exploring the different sections. He will take regular notes, descriptive of the soil, situation, and natural advantages attached to each section in the whole survey—which notes will be placed in the hands of the subscriber previous to the period for locating, thereby enabling him to make the most advantageous locations the priority will admit. He offers his service to the holders of land warrants of the above description, throughout the United States, to receive their warrants, class them, (as no less quantity than 4000 acres will be registered at the office of the treasury) have them registered agreeable to law, and attend to make the location at the time appointed in February next. For transacting the business, one tenth part of the land specified in the warrants will be required, and no other charge, except the postage of letters. All warrants forwarded and letters addressed to the subscriber, at No. 3, Penn-street, Philadelphia, will receive immediate attention. JAMES E. SMITH. September 2. mtf6hj
NOTICE. ALL persons indebted to the Estate of JACOB THOMAS, of Washington in the State of Kentucky, deceased, are requested to make immediate payment—All persons having demands against said estate are desired to furnish their accounts legally attested to JACOB REESE, Administrator. Philadelphia, October 31, 1799.
WILSON & SWANN. Frederickburg, (Virg.) Sept. 10.
Two or three Gentlemen with their servants, may be accommodated with Lodgings and Breakfast, and two furnished rooms, at No. 83 north Fifth street. November 27. wtf
Lodging and Breakfast,
FOR one or two single Gentlemen, in a genteel private family, with the use of a new front Parlour, and Board for Servants may be had at No. 28 north Fifth street. November 26. RUN away from the Subscriber on the evening of the 28th inst. a bound Servant GIRL, named Elizabeth Howekel, laid on and took with her three different changes of garments and money, proud, bold and impudent, snored lyar; any person apprehending her shall be entitled to the above reward—no costs or charges will be paid. N. B. She had 3 years and some months to serve DANIEL FITZPATRICK. Goshen Township, Chester County. July 29. august 6
NOTICE. ALL persons indebted to the estate of THOMAS WILSON, late of Southwark, deceased, are requested to make immediate payment to the subscribers, and those who have any demands against the said estate are requested to furnish their accounts for settlement. SARAH WILSON, Administratrix. JOEL W. WILSON, Administrator. No. 295, fourth Front street, Southwark. WHO HAS TO LET, A BRICK STABLE, Sufficiently large to contain nine Horses. ALSO, For Sale or to Let, A NEW FRAME CARRIAGE HOUSE. Nov. 1, 1799. dtf.
Twenty Dollars Reward.
RAN AWAY from Spring Forge, in York County, a negro man, named ISAAK, otherwise CUDJO, about 27 years old, the property of Robert Coleman Esq. He is about 5 feet 8 inches high, has a blemish in his eyes, some write in them than common, by trade a Forge man, had on and took with him a drab coloured broad cloth coat, almost new, a sailors jacket and pantaloons printed fancy cord, a swansdown striped under jacket; a rorum hat; one fine and one coarse shirt; one muslin handkerchief, sprigged, two ditto striped border, a blue Persian under jacket and two pair cotton stockings. Whoever takes up said negro and lodges him in any jail in this or any of the neighbouring States shall have the above reward or reasonable expenses if brought home. JOHN Brien. Spring Forge, October 23, 1799. N. B. As said negro formerly lived in Chester county, it is probable he may return there. November 5
TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD. RAN AWAY on Saturday evening the 13th July instant, from Colebrook Furnace, Lancaster county, a Negro Man named Cato, he is about 40 years of age, five feet six or seven inches high, tolerable black, with a down id look, squints, he is a cunning artful fellow, a great liar, and very fond of strong liquor, has been brought up to the farming business, is very handy at any kind of laboring work; he took with him a number of clothing, amongst which were, one suit plain Nankien; (some money). It is expected he has shaped his course for Philadelphia or New York. The above reward will be paid for securing him in any jail in the United States, with reasonable charges if brought home. SAMUEL JACOBS. Colebrook Furnace, July 16, 1799. (O18) d6m

WILLIAM COBBETT, OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, Has in the press and will soon publish, THE LIFE AND CAMPAIGNS OF PRINCE SUWARROW, WITH A most elegant PORTRAIT OF THAT REOWNED WARRIOR.
The first edition of this work was published in London about four months ago, and such was the curiosity and admiration it attracted, that it passed through several editions in the space of one month. It is comprised in one thick 8vo volume, which the re-publisher will endeavour to make equal in elegance and correctness to the best of the London editions. The Portrait is in the hands of one of the first Artists (if not the very first) in America. December 31.
EDWARD DUNANT, No. 149 South Front-street, HAS FOR SALE, Bohea Tea in whole, half, and quarter chests. A few chests of Hyson Tea, Hair ribband, Umbrellas, Boxes of Paints, brushes, &c. complete, 3 bales of Banhan handkerchiefs, 200 pieces of black Perians, Spermaceti Candles, Sheet Copper and Copper bolts, Printing writing and wrapping paper, A few hogheads of Tobacco, Richmond inspection. Jan. 6.
KEARNY WHARTON, Has Removed his Counting-House to Morton's Wharf, AND HAS FOR SALE CORN MEAL, In hogheads & barrels.
French Brandy, Madeira Wine, and an Invoice of India Silk. Phila. Jan. 1. 1800.
CAUTION. All persons are hereby cautioned against purchasing or receiving in payment, two Drafts of Thomas Fraxton on William Paterson, in my favor, dated 17th September last, endorsed by the Commissioners of the Federal building in the city of Washington and myself, one payable at nine months after date, for 67 dollars 71 cents, the other payable at six months after date, for 175 dollars 83 cents, the same having been forwarded from the Post Office in this city on the 6th inst. enclosed in a letter from the Commissioners aforesaid, (the proprietors of said drafts) to David Harris, Baltimore, who has not yet received them. Mr. Paterson being apprised of the misfortune of these drafts, will not pay them to any person or persons without hearing further from the Commissioners.
THOMAS MUNROE, Washington, 2d December, 1799. A YOUNG MAN ACQUAINTED with Accounts, wishes to engage as Supercargo to any port in Europe or the West-Indies.—Satisfactory recommendations can be given. Enquire of the Printer. Jan. 2.
A YOUNG MAN ACQUAINTED with the West-India trade, wishes to be employed as a Supercargo. He will engage on moderate terms. Satisfactory recommendation will be produced. A line directed to A. B. left at the Printing Office will be immediately attended to. December 12.
A JOURNEYMAN PAPER MAKER, Who can work well at the Vat, Will meet with good encouragement by applying at No. 104 North Front Street. December 27.
WANTED A COOK. A WHITE WOMAN to serve in the capacity of a cook in a small family—None need apply who does not perfectly understand her business, and cannot produce an unexceptionable character. Apply to the printer. October 18.
TO BE DISPOSED OF, The Time of a strong healthy Negro Wench, Who has seven years to serve. She is acquainted with all kinds of house work, and is a good plain Cook. Enquire of the Printer. January 7, 1800.
One Cent Reward. RAN AWAY from the Subscriber, an Apprentice named James Welsh, about 5 feet 6 or 8 inches high, has short red curly hair.—Whoever will apprehend the said apprentice and bring him back, shall receive the above reward, and no charges paid. WM. MANNING. Jan. 2.
Ten Dollars Reward. DESERTED from the Company of Captain MATTHEW HENRY, 10th Reg. U. S. Infantry, an enlisted soldier named MOSES WYNN, born in Pennsylvania, by trade a shoemaker, thirty years of age, five feet eight and an half inches high, black eyes, black hair, fair complexion, has lost two of his fore teeth which is very perceptible when he talks. It is known that he now lurks in this city. Whoever shall take up said deserter and lodge him in jail, or shall deliver him to the Subscriber at his quarters in Filbert between Ninth and Tenth street, shall receive the above reward and reasonable charges. BENJAMIN GIBBS, Jan. Captain 10th Regiment Infantry. Jan. 7.
MARSHAL'S OFFICE Is removed to No. 250 High Street. January 6.
MATTHEW MCCONNELL Having opened an Office in Chestnut Street, (A few doors above Fourth) At No. 141. AND again commenced the business of Negotiations, in the various kinds of Public Stock, Bills of Exchange, &c. &c. Engages to do every thing in his power to give satisfaction to those who may think proper to employ him. He means to confine his transactions to the Agency and Commission line, in all such business as is common to the profession. The purchase and sale of Houses and Lots in and near the City will be attended to, and also of Lands, when that business again resumes. November 19. d2w (D5 def)
CITY OF WASHINGTON. THE POSSESSORS OF OBLIGATIONS or CERTIFICATES signed by the subscriber, for undivided Shares of Lots on his purchase within the city of Washington, who have not yet applied for and received their Deeds, are hereby notified, that their several Titles will be duly completed to the or of those who in conformity with the terms of the said Certificates, do make the Payments in full therefor, either to Thomas M'Kean Esq. or to the Subscriber at Philadelphia, on or at any time before the 31st day of May next. Samuel Bldget. December 17.
BANK OF THE UNITED STATES, January 6, 1800.
THE DIRECTORS HAVE this day declared a Dividend for the last six Months, of sixteen Dollars per share, which will be paid to the Stockholders or their legal Representatives, after the 16th instant. G. SIMPSON, Cashier. January 6.
WATER LOAN. THE Subscribers to the Water Loan who have completed their Shares, are hereby informed, that the Certificates of Shares are ready to be delivered, and that the Interest will be paid at any time after the 10th instant, on application to the Treasurer, No. 29 Filbert street above Ninth Street. JOHN SHEP, Treasurer. Philadelphia, January 1, 1800.
WANTS A PLACE, A YOUNG MAN, Either in a Store, or waiter in a Tavern—Can be well recommended. Enquire at 180 High Street. January 6.
MARSHAL'S SALES OF INDIA GOODS.
BY virtue of an order of the Honourable the District Court of the United States for the New-York District, to me directed and delivered, I will, on Wednesday the 31st day of January next, at ten o'clock in the morning, at the Store of Isaac Moses and Sons, No. 123 Greenwich Street, commence the sale of the following G O O D S, Imported in the ship Amelia, from Calcutta via 239 bales of Piece Goods, 600 bales of Bombay Cotton, 1488 bags of Sugar, first quality. The sales to continue daily until the whole are sold. And, on Monday the 13th of January, at 12 o'clock, at the Tontine Coffee House, that very valuable and faithful built SHIP THE AMELIA, As she came from India, about 5 years old, near 400 tons burthen, coppered up to the bends—mounting 14 carriage guns—well found in every respect, and may at a small expense, be fitted for another voyage to India. She was built in this city—her inventory to be seen at this office. A. GILES, Marshal. Marshal's Office, Dec. 20. [24]
TO BE EXCHANGED For a PLANTATION in New Jersey, A VERY VALUABLE Grist Mill and Plantation,
SITUATE in Salem county, Upper Alloway's creek township, about six miles from the town of Salem, and about one mile and a half from a landing on Alloway's creek, where shallow boats ply to Philadelphia. The Mill has two water wheels, (over-shot) two pair of stones, one of which are burr. The bolting and hoisting gear go by water, and attached to the Mill is a large Kiln for drying corn, built upon the most approved plan; the whole mill work and bolting cloths, &c. have lately been either made new or completely repaired. The plantation consists of one hundred and fifty acres of land. The buildings exclusive of the mill house and kiln, are a large dwelling house, a barn, stables, corncrib, &c. &c. For particular information apply to RICHARD WISTAR, No. 119 Market Street. tuth&faw December 21.
THE UNDERSIGNED, His Swedish Majesty's Consul General, and authorized to transact the Consular Business, for his Majesty the King of Denmark in the United States of America, residing at Philadelphia, Hereby gives public Notice,
That in obedience to recent instructions received from his government, it is the duty of all Masters of Swedish and Danish vessels, before their sailing from any port in the said States, to call upon him or the Vice Consul in order to be granted such Certificates for their Cargoes, which the exigency of the state of the Neutral Commerce and the several Decrees of the Belligerent Powers, render indispensably necessary, and that any Master or Masters failing to do the same, or refusing to comply with the respective regulations, or navigating under the protection of their flags, in omitting to take such Certificates, will personally stand responsible for the consequences. RICHARD SODERSTROM. Philadelphia, 18th December, 1799.
BALL. MR. FRANCIS, RESPECTFULLY informs his Scholars, and the Public in general, that his first Ball for the present season, will be on Saturday the 11th of January, 1800, at his Academy, South Fourth St. Gentlemen's tickets as usual—Ladies' tickets to be had by applying to Mr. F. or the Scholars on every other Thursday. The second Ball to be on Thursday the 23d inst. Mr. Francis likewise informs his Scholars, that preceding his first Ball, a READING NIGHT will take place on Thursday the 9th inst. (for his Scholars only) and be continued in future every other Saturday. Days of Instruction at his Academy, Tuesdays and Saturdays, at 5 o'clock in the afternoon for his young pupils, and at 7 o'clock in the evening for those of a more advanced age. N.B.—The Ball Room may be engaged on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, for private Balls, Concerts, &c. For terms apply to Mr. F. No. 70, North Eighth Street. November 6.
PRATT & KINTZING, No. 95 N. Water Street, HAVE ON HAND, [January the 1st, 1800.] The following GOODS, entitled to Drawback, which they offer for sale at moderate Prices and liberal Credit: 150 boxes and bales Ticklenburghs, Hempen Linens and Osnaburgs, 50 boxes Patterbornes or white Rolls, 25 ditto Bilsfeld Linens, 11 ditto Creas and Creas a la Morlaix, 2 ditto Britannias, Brown Rolls, Ditto Hellsans, Polish Rolls, Bed Ticks, Seamois, Arabias, Empty Bags, Oil Cloths, Shoes and Slippers, Seal and Upper Leather, Quills and Sealing Wax, A package Gold and Silver Watches, 4 cakes Hoes, 40 cakes Nails, assorted, from 3 to 20, 16 cakes Ironmongery, assorted, 13 pipes old Port Wine, 25 boxes Tumblers, assorted, 200 boxes bell Hamburg Window Glass, 8 by 16, &c. &c. 1 chest assorted Looking Glasses, Several large elegant Ditto, 50 keys Pearl Barley, A few tons Roll Brimstone, 40 keys Yellow Ochre, A few barrels Naval Stores, 1500 cups Demijohns, 6 hogheads Coffee Shells, 10 hds. Hops Bristles, first and second quality, 40 tons Ruffett Hemp, Holland Steel, 2 hds Dutch Glue, Toys, Lentils, Slates and Pencils, Tapes, Blocking Twine, Stone Pickling Pots, &c. &c. January 4.
Southern Mails. THE Mails for all the Offices on the main line, between this Office, and Petersburg, Virginia, will be closed here every day, (Sundays excepted) at half past 7 o'clock, A. M. And the Mails for the Post Towns on the main line, through North-Carolina, South-Carolina and Georgia as far as Savannah, will be closed with the Southern Mails every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. The water Mails between this and Charleston are discontinued. Post Office, Philadelphia, Dec. 30, 1799. December 30.
BANK OF PENNSYLVANIA, December 31, 1799.
THE STOCKHOLDERS of the Bank of Pennsylvania, are hereby notified that their Annual Meeting will be held at the Bank on Friday the 21st day of January next, at ten o'clock. And the Stockholders of the said Bank, are also notified, that an election of nineteen Directors to serve for one year, will be held at the Bank on Monday the 23d day of February next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon. JONATHAN SMITH, Cashier.
Extract from the seventh section of the Act of Incorporation. "Article 2nd. Not more than fourteen of the Directors elected by the Stockholders and actually in office, exclusive of the President, shall be eligible for the next succeeding year; but the Director who shall be President at the time of an election may always be re-elected."
BANK OF PENNSYLVANIA, January 1, 1800.
THE Directors have this day declared a Dividend of eighteen dollars on each share of Bank Stock, for the last six months, which will be paid to the Stockholders or their legal Representatives, after the 10th inst. By order of the Board, JONA. SMITH, Cashier. d10th.
BANK OF NORTH AMERICA, January 1, 1800.
AT a meeting of the Directors this day, a Dividend of 5 per cent. was declared for the last half year; which will be paid to the Stockholders or their legal Representatives, at any time after the 10th inst. By order of the Board, RICHARD WELLS, Cashier. d10th.
INSURANCE COMPANY OF THE State of Pennsylvania.
THE STOCKHOLDERS are hereby notified, that an Election will be held at the Company's Office, on Monday the 13th January next, at nine o'clock, for Thirteen Directors for the ensuing year. JAMES S. COX, President. December 16.
The Gazette. PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 8.
MEDALS. There is nothing in which the superlative vanity of the French has been more conspicuous and disgusting than the article of Medals. The age of Louis the XIV. abounded in them; that of his successor, being more peaceful, produced fewer. The age of Louis XVI. (himself a mild, benevolent prince) was a series of political crimes, blunders, and misfortunes. The American revolution, which was promoted by his profligate court, was but the forerunner of others infinitely more destructive. On that occasion was struck one of the most curious Medals that modern times have witnessed; which, as a singular memorial of the political birthday of the United States, should be more generally known to their citizens. On the face of this Medal is the Bust of a beautiful maiden, with her tresses floating in the wind, such perhaps as they appear on some of the American coins, though of superior execution. The head is surmounted by a liberty cap, suspended at the end of the vindicta, or rod, used by the Roman magistrate on enfranchising a slave: "Hæc mea libertas; hanc nobis piles donant." Pers. Sat. 5. famelusque jugo laxatus herili Ducitur, et grato remeat securior idu. Tristis conditio pulsa fronde recedit: In Cyren, &c. Claud. Legend. LIBERTAS AMERICANA. 4 JUL. 1776.
The reverse exhibits France attired like Minerva, presenting her shield, with the gallic lilies in the field, to an affrighted leopard, under which emblem Britain is insultingly typified, while, with the right hand, she is prepared to bury her spear in his side.—Below this vaunting figure is a young Hercules, strangling the serpents that had assaulted his infancy. Legend. Non sine Diis animosus infans. 17 Oct. 1777. 19 Oct. 1781.
In this medallic galeade the citizens of America may read the origin of their boasted liberty. Look at the dates, and then recollect that, until you were enfranchised by the brave and generous French nation, you were miserable slaves. It was the treaties of 1777 and 1781 that made you free, and not your own spirit or prowess. So said the monarchs of France, and so likewise say the republicans: the latter, indeed, add that as they made you free, so they can unmake you, when they please—and, God forgive my want of faith, I am afraid they will some day realize their boasting. But this Medal was not intended merely to remind the Americans of their obligations; it was designed also to insult their ancient enemies the British. Behold perfidious France, whether governed by one tyrant, or by five, as your inveterate and implacable foe, and if a just Providence blest your arms with success, "BURTON, STRIKE HOME."
But I can see no propriety whatever in the lower figures. There is no analogy between the serpents and Great Britain, and quite as little between Hercules and the United States: perhaps Mercury with his caduceus would be a more just and expressive emblem. The brave son of Jupiter and Alcmena was the founder of the noble order of chivalry; he spent his life in clearing the world of monsters, and, if he were now living, would certainly shoulder his club and join the coalition. This part of the Medal is therefore inapplicable, either as a memorial of past events, or as an emblem of existing character; but with a small variation, by supposing that the serpents are strangling young Hercules, instead of he strangling them, it would be no bad type of French intrigue, which attacked the infant Commonwealth in its cradle, and will, I am afraid, attend it to its grave.
Poor Louis! when he was thus exulting in the success of his intrigues against a neighbouring prince, little did he think that this LIBERTAS AMERICANA would so soon destroy him and his family, his religion, and his country. Should Louis XVIII. recover the throne of his ancestors (for which he is by no means qualified) it will not be improper, in order to express his gratitude, as well as to commemorate the glorious event, to have another Medal executed to match the foregoing; and to let them both be preferred, among the most precious jewels of his cabinet, as an awful lesson to all succeeding heirs of the Gallic sceptre.
On the front of this Medal I would have a representation of the goddess of liberty (with the head of Medusa) trampling on the lifeless body of Louis XVI. and carrying his head, stuck on the end of a pike, round the stage of a guillotine; and below, a fanatical lotus, with a Voltairine in one hand, and an axe in the other, hacking to pieces a pulpit and an altar. Legend. LIBERTAS HOMICIDA, SOLIO, ARQUE EVERSIS, TRIUMPHANS. JAN. 1793.
On the reverse: George III. king of Great Britain, treading on the neck of the
* According to ancient Mythology, Mercury was the common News-man of Olympus, he presided over the speculations of commerce, and he was Jupiter's negotiator general—and where could he find more employment in all these articles than in the United States of America? It is true, there was something a little tricky in his character, he once outwitted Apollo himself, but that we have nothing to do with.
five headed monster, and placing a regal crown on the head of Louis XVIII. who is kneeling on one knee to receive it, and, at the same time, looking with terror at the monster expiring before him. Legend. Georgii III. M. B. Regis, Rus. et Germ. Imperatorum Armis, Lud. XVIII. In patriam Regnumq; Restitutus. A. D. 1800.
Gazette Marine List.
Port of Philadelphia. Ship Hannah, of and for this port, from St. Sebastians, has arrived at New York, in 77 days. Parted from the Manchester and Farmer two days after leaving St. Sebastians. The brig Lady Washington, taken by the French on her passage from Surinam to this port, is retaken either by an American or British cruiser. Schr. Fox, M'Allister, bound to Kingston, has put back to R. Island. Brig Paragon, Houlton, of this port, is taken by the British brig Pelican, on her passage from Port Republic to Cape Nicholas Mule; supposed in consequence of six French passengers on board. Several of her crew were sent into Gonaives, and two of them have arrived in the Spy, West, which was also chased 14 hours by the Pelican, but without effect. New-York, January 7. ARRIVED. Days. Ship Hannah, Oliver, St. Sebastians 77 Brig Peggy, Goodwin, Turks Island 13 Doris, Gravenkoop, St. Sebastians 71 Jane Maria, Jones, Curacao 19 Robert, Picire, C. N. Mole 25 Schr. Debbe, Starr, Savannah 3 Sloop Cleopatra, Troop, Martha's Vineyard 14 Maria, Jones, N. Providence 14
PROVIDENCE (R. I.) January 1. Arrived at Newport the ship Hope, from Batavia. Sailed from thence the last of August. Francis Malbone, Esq. who went out supercargo, has returned in good health. The ship Russell, of Newport, mounting 12 guns, was captured within about 50 miles of Batavia, while at anchor, by a French picaroon of two guns and 25 men, being the same vessel which took the Aurora, of Philadelphia. While the men of the Russell were engaged in handing the sails, the privateer, apparently coming to anchor, dropped along side, and made prize of the ship!
FIRE BUCKETS. The great inattention shown by a number of Citizens, by suffering their Fire Buckets to remain for days and sometimes for weeks in the streets and alleys, adjacent to where they have been used at fires, has induced the Mayor to direct the High Constable, at the expiration of four days from the time that a fire shall happen in the City, to have collected and removed to the City Hall, the Fire Buckets which he may find in the Streets after that period. The owner will thereby have an opportunity of recovering their Buckets, which perhaps, otherwise would have been lost by their neglect. A number is now at the City Hall. January 7, 1800.
The Printers will serve the Public, by giving the above a place in their papers for a few times when convenient.
First Day, or Sunday Schools. A stated meeting of the Society will be held, at Mr. Ely's School, in Third Street, back of the Presbyterian Church, at 6 o'clock on Wednesday evening, the 8th instant. As individual notices will not be served, and in addition to the usual business, an election for Officers will take place, the members are requested to be punctual in their attendance. Jan. 6.
CAVALRY. The second Troop of Volunteer Cavalry, of the United States, are desired to meet at William Ogden's Tavern, Chestnut Street, on Wednesday next at 6 o'clock in the Evening, on particular business. January 6, 1800.
An adjourned meeting of the young Men, of the City of Philadelphia, will be held at the City Tavern on Wednesday next, at 6 o'clock P. M. January 6, 1800.
THE STOCKHOLDERS Of the Lehigh Coal Mine Company, are hereby notified, that an Election for one President, eight Managers and one Treasurer, for the ensuing year, will be held at the house of Mr. Cammeron, sign of the Golden Swan, in Third Street, on Monday, the 20th of January next, at 6 o'clock in the evening. ISAAC WAMPOLE, Sec'y. Dec. 31.
Pennsylvania Population Company. THE Shareholders are hereby notified, that an election for officers for the ensuing year, will be held at the Company's Office, No. 53, north Fourth Street, on Wednesday the 8th January next, at 12 o'clock. SOL. MARACHE, Sec'y. Dec. 24, 1799.

Extract from a sermon, on the Death of General Washington, preached at Burlington, N. J. By the Rev. Dr. Wharton.
I. Maccabees, c. IX. v. 18, 20, 21, 22. Judas also was killed. And all Israel made great lamentation for him, and mourned many days, saying, How is the valiant man fallen that delivered Israel! As for the other things concerning Judas and his wars, and the noble acts which he did, and his greatness, they are not written, for they were very many.
WITH how much propriety these words refer to the illustrious Man, whose loss we now deplore, you, my hearers, will feel more powerfully than I can express. The achievements of the Jewish hero bear a strong resemblance to those of our late glorious fellow-citizen; and they, who read the books of the Maccabees, will readily perceive that Judas Maccabaeus was the Washington of his day. His exploits, indeed, and his virtues were too numerous to be written, as the labour of recording, in those days, was attended with many difficulties, which the art of printing has happily done away; whereas the transcendent accomplishments and unparalleled transactions of our great deliverer, stand recorded upon the pages of multiplied history, and are become even already the objects of admiration and applause among all civilized nations. Well, therefore, may I be excused from entering on a detail so familiar to every son and daughter of America; so familiar to the universe; well may I be excused from attempting to throw any additional lustre upon the brilliancy of that character, which for so many years has shone with the sweetest notes of the trumpet of fame, and borne upon the wings of unadulterated glory, has exhibited to mankind the first great spectacle of the most exalted heroism accompanied with dove-like meekness; of the most indefatigable patriotism united with mildness; of the soft irradiations of genuine magnanimity and greatness eclipsing the obtrusive glare of pride, and effectually suppressing the swell of arrogance and presumption. At the grand and soothing idea, that this greatest instance of human perfectibility, this conspicuous phenomenon of human elevation and grandeur, should have been permitted to rise first on the horizon of America, every citizen of the free states must feel his bosom beat with rapturous and honest pride, tempered with reverential gratitude to the great author and source of all perfection. He will be penetrated with astonishment, and kindled into thanksgiving, when he reflects that our globe had existed 6000 years before a Washington appeared on the theatre of the world, and that he was then destined to appear in America—to be the ornament, the deliverer, the protector, the delight! But alas! he is now no longer among us: He is gone, gone, to his death-bed, inclosed in the silent tomb; and all that is now left us, is "like all Israel to make great lamentation for him, and to mourn many days, saying, How is the valiant man fallen that delivered Israel!" My brethren, had the character of Washington rested solely on the basis of military achievements, and political sagacity; had the vast fabric of his immortal reputation been supported merely by the hollow columns of universal applause, and performed with no other sweets, than the incense of adulation; profaned by the wayward multitude to merit, often as false as it is glaring; had the virtues of the man been stained with the vices of the hero, or the Christian disappeared amidst the pretensions of the philosopher, with whatever delight you might have listened to his panegyrics in other places, you would have heard no tribute paid to his memory in this. The temple of God is not designed to display the importance and fascination of human glory and pre-eminence, but rather to exhibit the transient glory and emptiness of both. And yet, O holy and divine religion! who presided within these walls, I trust it will be deemed no violation of thy sanctuary to have just hinted at the genuine glory and unparalleled pre-eminence of character which adorned the great deliverer and beloved father of our country. His respect for thee was uninterrupted and sincere. In private and in public, his conduct and conversation were marked with an awful reverence for thy truths and ordinances; nothing profane ever dropped from his lips; nothing irreligious ever appeared in his behaviour; to Providence he ascribed all his success and his glory; he deposited all his laurels at the foot of the altar, and the affectionate addresses of his fellow-citizens, joined with the applauses of distant nations, instead of swelling his great soul, with the fumes of vain glory, seemed only to depress every sense of self-sufficiency, and rivet more firmly his confidence in the Almighty. In his last pathetic address to his country, he bears open and ample testimony to the functions of Revelation, and assures us all, that without religion neither the wisdom of laws, nor the precepts of morality will be able to preserve a state from destruction. Let this sentiment, my hearers, rest permanently upon our minds. It is the important legacy of our beloved Washington, calculated to promote our worldly and eternal happiness; and I trust that he now enjoys the blessed effects of its adoption. And now let us, from the death of this good and wonderful man endeavour to learn wisdom.
A view of his life must fill every citizen with astonishment, veneration and love—while his death conveys the most affecting lessons to a christian. Let us presume to follow his disembodied soul into the depths of eternity. There he now is alone with his God. What a sudden revolution takes place in all his sentiments and ideas! What avails him now, that he lived a solitary example of uninterrupted admiration and worldly prosperity; that he reigned in the affections of every virtuous heart; that his memory is honoured by the tears of his own
and distant nations; that the painter, the sculptor, the historian and the poet, shall vie with each other in conveying to future ages the benign traits of his countenance, the majestic symmetry of his person, the fair features of his expanded mind, and the fame of his achievements; what avails him now, that the most enlightened strangers from the European world, crossed the vast Atlantic, to behold the Joshua and the Solomon of America; that mighty vessels, and towns, and cities and provinces, bear his name; a name that seems to combine whatever is good and great and amiable among men! Alas! neither this mighty name, nor all the events that now agitate the earth, are any thing to him. The vast extent of eternity, now displayed before his eyes; his everlasting destiny in a new state of existence; the realities of the eternal world opened upon his view, fix all the attention and absorb all the faculties of his immortal spirit—thrice happy, I trust, to have learned from the blest religion, which he professed and respected, that all the successes and disgraces of this transitory state, when not referred to God, are little else than empty dreams; that there is no real happiness or misery but in eternity. These are lessons which our divine religion had delivered to the venerable and beloved father of our country: It was his happiness to believe them: The real now rent a sunder; and I doubt not but this great benefactor of mankind, is actually perceiving and feeling and approving them in the bosom of the eternal. And we, my hearers, shall very soon perceive these truths and approve them also. A few days perhaps, but certainly a few years, will put a period to our mortal existence. But were our lives to be protracted even through a series of ages, yet still the longest life would be only a moment; when measured upon the scale of eternity, the duration of the loftiest cedar upon Libanus, is not less contracted and precarious, than that of the humble shrub that grows in its shade. The whole of man seems to be "to be blown and to die." The space that intervenes between these terms of his mortality is so very short, that it appears to be just nothing. Genius, opulence, fame, authority and reputation; all the gifts and treasures of nature and of fortune, are evidently contained in a small vial of clay; which no sooner falls, than it is broken in pieces, and its scattered fragments lie useless on the ground. My hearers, let us accustom ourselves to think, as we shall think in eternity; to judge as we shall then judge. Happy, thrice happy, the venerable sage and patriot, whose death we now lament, that in life he regarded God as the sovereign master; religion as the sovereign law; the happiness of eternity as the supreme object that should interest his affections. To us, O Lord, it belongs not to penetrate into the depths of thy judgments; and well we know, that human merit, the most replenished and sublime, can entitle no man to the benefit of salvation. From thy pure mercy only can this grace be derived. This we trust has been extended to our beloved Father and Protector. Though a conquering warrior, he delighted in peace; and therefore we consider him as now called a child of God: With justice and humanity he judged his Israel; and therefore we humbly hope that he also has been judged according to the abundance of thy mercy. And if any remains of human frailty were still hanging about him, when ushered into thy presence, O! may the cleansing blood of the Lamb have washed every stain; may the gates of Sion have opened to receive him, and introduce this defender and benefactor of nations, into the everlasting repose of the elect of God.—Amen.
CONGRESS.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Tuesday, January 7.
James Sheafe, Esq. from New Hampshire this day, was qualified and took his seat.
Mr. speaker laid before the house a letter from the Hon. James M'Henry, Secretary of war, inclosing sundry statements relative to the National Army, which was read and ordered to be printed.
The bill intituled "An act for the preservation of peace with the Indian tribes," was read the third time and passed.
Mr. D. Foster, from the committee of Claims, to whom were referred the petition of Sarah Houton, reported that the prayer of the petitioner ought not to be granted; and the report being read a second time, was on motion, concurred in by the house.
The bill for the relief of John Vaughan, having been taken up in committee of the whole house, Mr. Morris in the Chair, was read and agreed to without amendment and ordered to receive its third reading to-morrow.
Mr. Nicholas called up for consideration, the resolution which he laid on the table on the 31st inst.—when the same was again read, in the words following, to wit:
Resolved, That so much of the act passed the 16th July, 98 entitled "An act to augment the army of the United States, and for other purposes," as authorizes the President of the United States to raise twelve additional regiments of Infantry, and six troops of Light Dragoons, and to appoint two Major Generals, an Inspector General, three Brigadier Generals, and an Adjutant General; and so much of the act passed the 3d March, 1799, entitled "An act for the better organization of the troops of the United States and for other purposes," as authorizes the appointment of a Commander of the Army, and a Quarter Master General—ought to be repealed.
Mr. N. then said, it was his intention to treat this subject in a manner that he hoped, would not excite the warmth common on
familiar occasion—and proceed to give his reasons in a speech of considerable length, why he conceived the resolution ought to be adopted.
He was followed by Mr. Marshall, who spoke near two hours against it; to which Mr. Nicholas replied—when the question being called for.
Mr. Jon's said, although he had listened with the greatest attention to the eloquent observations of the gentleman who had advocated and opposed the resolution, he was not yet fully decided in which way he should give his vote—he wished further time to consider a subject of such great importance, and therefore moved that it be committed to a committee of the whole house, for the purpose of being postponed till Monday next.
Messrs. S. Smith, Harper, Hartley, Mason, Gallatin, H. Lee, J. Brown, Claiborne, Jones and Randolph, spoke in favor of the commitment; and Messrs. Otis, Bayard, Rutledge and Dana, against it, when the question for commitment was put and carried, ayes 50, noes 40.
To-day to-morrow, Thursday and Monday were mentioned as the day for which it should be the order.
The question on Monday was put and negatived, ayes 41, noes 55.
The question on Thursday was also put and negatived, ayes 42, noes 54.
The question on to-morrow was then put and carried; 74 members rising in favor of it.
In the course of the debate on committing the resolution Mr. Dana, in replying to some observations which fell from Mr. Jones, was called to order by Mr. Christie, when the speaker declared him to be in order, Mr. Randolph appealed to the house; upon a division, there were in favor of the decision of the speaker, ayes 84, noes 2.—Adjourned.
A PROCLAMATION
By the President of the United States of America.
WHEREAS the Congress of the United States have this day resolved, "That it be recommended to the People of the United States to assemble on the twenty-second day of February next, in such numbers and manner as may be convenient, publicly to testify their grief for the death of General George Washington, by suitable eulogies, orations and discourses, or by public prayers;" and, "That the President be requested to issue a Proclamation for the purpose of carrying the foregoing resolution into effect." NOW THEREFORE, I John Adams, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim the same accordingly.
GIVEN under my hand and the seal of the United States, at Philadelphia, the sixth day of January in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred, and of the Independence of the said States the twenty-fourth.
JOHN ADAMS, By the President, TIMOTHY PICKERING, Secretary of State.
NEW THEATRE.
This Evening, January 8, Will be presented, (for the third time in America) a celebrated new Comedy, in five acts,
called THE SECRET; Or, Partnership dissolved.
Written by Edward Morris, Esq. and performed at the Theatre Royall, Drury Lane, with unbounded applause.
To which will be added, a favorite Comic Opera, in two acts, called
ROZINA.
On Friday, (by desire) "THE STRANGER," and the Grand Dramatic Romance of "BLUE BEARD."
SHORTLY WILL BE PUBLISHED,
Price 62 1/2 cents.
An Entire New Work—intitled
"THE NEW TRADE DIRECTORY"
FOR PHILADELPHIA,
ANNO 1800:
OR, a Complete List of all the occupations and trades (separately and alphabetically arranged) practised in the City and Liberties with the names and residences of those who follow each of them respectively, and in alphabetical order: to which is added an Alphabetical List of all the Streets, Lanes and Alleys in the city and liberties.
If a MERCHANT or SHIP OWNER wishes for any reason to be acquainted with all the Tradesmen, Grocers, Importers, Guagers, Measurers, Shipwrights, Ship-carpenters, Ship Joiners, Mast makers, Boat builders, Block makers, Sail-makers, Riggers, Caulkers, Stevedores, Mariners or any Tradesman, he needs only look to the Index for the TRADE, and he will be referred to the pages which contain all the names and residences of those who follow it.
If a HOUSE-KEEPER wants quickly to find a Baker, a Cuke Baker, Steamers, White Washers, Washers, China Menders, School-masters or Mistresses, Classers, Paper Hangers, Painters, Cedar Cooper, Locksmiths, Blacksmiths, Bicknells, Plasterers or Joiners. He can also turn to the Index and be referred to the TRADE in question. In like manner can the LADIES find out the residences and names of all the Mantua makers, Bonnet makers, Stay makers, Dyers and Washers, &c. or a STRANGER the most convenient Boarding House, Hair Dresser, Hatter, Taylor, Truck maker, &c. Nor is the utility of the work confined to these alone; for any Tradesman may trace at once the names and residences of the Masters and Journeymen in his own line.
In short it is more or less useful to almost every Class of Citizens:—And the Editor trusts that such an Expensive and laborious Undertaking will meet with suitable Encouragement.
Jan. 8. 5(4D)dtf
Law of the United States.
By Authority.
Sixth Congress of the United States
At the First Session, begun and held at the City of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, on Monday, the second of December, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine.
AN ACT
For the relief of persons imprisoned for debts.
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That persons imprisoned on process issuing from any Court of the United States, as well at the suit of the United States as at the suit of any person or persons in civil actions, shall be entitled to like privileges of the yards or limits of the respective goals, as persons confined in like cases, on process from the Courts of the respective States, are entitled to, and under the like regulations and restrictions.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That any person imprisoned on process of execution issuing from any Court of the United States in civil actions, except at the suit of the United States, may have the oath or affirmation hereinafter expressed, administered to him by the Judge of the District Court of the United States, within whose jurisdiction the debtor may be confined; and in case there shall be no District Judge residing within twenty miles of the goal where such debtor may be confined, such oath or affirmation may be administered by any two persons who may be commissioned for that purpose by the District Judge. The creditor, his agent or attorney, if either live within one hundred miles of the place of imprisonment, or within the District in which the judgment was rendered, having had at least thirty days previous notice by a citation served on him, issued by the District Judge, to appear at the time and place therein mentioned, if he see fit, to show cause, why the said oath or affirmation should not be so administered: at which time and place, if no sufficient cause, in the opinion of the Judge, (or the commissioners appointed as aforesaid) be shown, or doth from examination appear to the contrary, he or they may at the request of the debtor proceed to administer to him the following oath or affirmation, as the case may be, viz.
"You solemnly (swear or affirm) that you have no estate, real or personal in possession, reversion or remainder, to the amount or value of thirty dollars, other than necessary wearing apparel, and that you have not directly or indirectly given, sold, leased or otherwise conveyed or intrusted any person or persons, with all or any part of the estate, real or personal, whereof you have been the lawful owner or possessor, with any intent to secure the same or to receive or expect any profit or advantage therefrom or to defraud your creditors, or have caused or suffered to be done, any thing else whatsoever, whereby any of your creditors may be defrauded." Which oath or affirmation being administered, the Judge or Commissioners shall certify the same under his or their hands to the prison-keeper, and the debtor shall be discharged from his imprisonment on such judgment, and shall not be liable to be imprisoned again for the said debt, but the judgment shall remain good and sufficient in law, and may be satisfied out of any estate which may then or at any time afterwards belong to the debtor. And the Judge or Commissioners, in addition to the certificate by them made and delivered to the prison-keeper, shall make return of their doings to the District Court, with the Commission in cases where a commission hath been issued, to be kept upon the files and record of the same court. And the said Judge or Commissioners may send for books and papers, and have the same authority as a court of record, to compel the appearance of witnesses and administer to them as well as to the debtor, the oaths or affirmations necessary for the enquiry into, and discovery of the true state of the debtor's property, transactions and affairs.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That when the examination and proceedings aforesaid, in the opinion of the said Judge or Commissioners, cannot be had with safety or convenience in the prison wherein the debtor is confined, it shall be lawful for him or them by warrant, under his or their hand and seals, to order the Marshal or prison-keeper, to remove the debtor to such other place convenient and near to the prison as he or they may see fit; and to remand the debtor to the same prison, if upon examination or cause shown by the creditor, it shall appear that the debtor ought not to be admitted to take the above recited oath or affirmation; or that he is holden for any other cause.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That if any person shall falsely take any oath or affirmation, authorized by this act, such person shall be deemed guilty of perjury, and upon conviction thereof, shall suffer the pains and penalties in that case provided. And in case any false oath or affirmation be taken by the debtor, the Court upon the motion of the Creditor, shall re-commit the debtor to the prison from whence he was liberated, there to be detained for the said debt, in the same manner as if such oath or affirmation had not been taken.
Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That any person imprisoned upon process, issuing from any Court of the United States, except at the suit of the United States, in any civil action, against whom judgment has been, or shall be recovered, shall be entitled to the privileges and relief provided by this act, after the expiration of thirty days from the time such judgment has been or shall be recovered, though the Creditor should not, within that time, sue out his execution, and charge the debtor therewith.
THEODORE SEDGWICK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS JEFFERSON, Vice-President of the United States, and President of the Senate. Approved January 6, 1800. JOHN ADAMS, President of the United States.
JUST PUBLISHED,
By Wm. YOUNG, No. 22 Second Street, corner of Chestnut Street,
THE HISTORY
OF THE Destruction of the Helvetic Union and Liberty;
By J. MALLET DU PAN.
THAT the people of the United States may profit by the errors and calamities of Switzerland, is the object of the present undertaking. Here, the same means are employed, the same engines set at work, which, in their destructive progress, annihilated, the Helvetic Union and Liberty. Those who have a Union and a Liberty to preserve, will do well to attend to the pages of Mallet du Pan, and from his interesting details, wilfully and sagacious instructions, learn the salutary lessons drawn from the downfall of his own country.
Gentlemen who have subscribed for this work are requested to send for their books.
The ROMANS in GREECE.
An Ancient Tale, descriptive of Modern Events.
Extracts from the Preface.
The historical facts, as well as the parts which may be called the production of the imagination, only want the names of persons, of places and of nations changed, to be the faithful record of the present times. That the United States have hitherto escaped the evils which have desolated and enslaved so many countries, is owing to the sagacious, firm and patriotic administration of their government, rather than to the uniform correctness of public opinion. Let me the feelings of Americans be hurt by this observation, but let it rather now be a subject of grateful thanksgiving, that the mistaken opinions of the moment, though supported by the most powerful passions which could animate the human heart, have been made to give way to the deliberate councils of the sages of the land. Europe continues convulsed—the regenerated republics will probably soon be compelled to receive again their former systems of government, or to accept such new ones, as may be imposed upon them by the victorious arms of Britain, of Russia and of Germany.
WILBERFORCE REFUTED.
Letters to William Wilberforce, Esq. M. P. On the Doctrine of Hereditary Depravity.
By a LAYMAN.
The favorite tenet of Mr. Wilberforce, viz. Hereditary Depravity, so degrading to human nature, and discouraging to every virtuous exertion, has at length found a powerful and satisfactory refutation.
It might have been expected, in the present day, that the general prevalence of good sense, and more accurate ideas of the nature of justice in general, and of the divine benignity in particular, would have committed such a doctrine as that of hereditary guilt to the oblivion it deserves. But as it has met with an eloquent defender in Mr. Wilberforce, the error may acquire new strength to the injury of genuine christianity. That gentleman is zealous in support of the tenet, because he considers it as the foundation of all religion, and peculiarly of the christian dispensation; his opponent is equally zealous to confute it, from a conviction that true christianity cannot prevail, until this, so great a stumbling block, among others, shall be removed. The arguments on both sides are now before the public, and it is for them to decide, concerning the preponderancy of evidence. January 7. 3tawsm
United States, Pennsylvania District. } II.
BY virtue of a writ of venditioni exponas, to me directed, issued out of the circuit court of the United States, in and for the Pennsylvania District, of the middle circuit, will be sold by public vendue at the city tavern, in Second Street, in the city of Philadelphia on Monday the 17th day of March next, at 6 o'clock in the evening, all that certain tract or parcel of land, situate, lying and being on the river or creek called Lackawaxene, in the county of Wayne, containing 8000 acres and upwards; on which are erected a messuage, stables and sawmill, with the appurtenances. The names of the original warrantees of the said tract or parcel of land were as follows.
Mordecai Roberis, John Tilt, Staphel Medera, George Warton, Zachariah Perris, Benjamin Hancock, George Tilt, Edward Welsted, Thomas Wiggins, James Thompson, George Marton, Joseph Whitehead, George Streton, Patrick Connolly, Friend Streton, Thomas Griffith, John Oliphant, William Halbert.
Seized and taken in execution as the property of Robert Lettis Hooper, deceased.
JOHN HALL, Marshal.
N. B. A reasonable credit will be given.
Marshal's Office, Philadelphia, Jan. 4. } 207 M
These two tracts do not contain the full quantity of the original warrant; part of them having been conveyed away.
For Sale or to Let,
A large convenient Stone House,
WITH a large Entry and four Rooms on a floor, about half an acre of Land adjoining, situate in Buttleton on the new road to New York, about eleven miles from Philadelphia.
For terms apply to the subscriber in Buttleton.
THOMAS PAUL.
NB. Who offers for sale, several Building Lots, pleasantly situated in the village of Buttleton.
December 21. sawjw

Just Published, A COMPENDIOUS SYSTEM Of Practical Surveying and dividing of land; briefly comprized under the following heads, viz.
TWENTY-THREE Geometrical Definitions, eleven Geometrical Propositions, exhibiting to view the properties and dependencies of triangles; followed by problems and examples preparatory to Trigonometry, heights and distances. Then fifteen problems and examples preparatory to calculating a Survey, succeeded by seven surveys, the area of the four first is found geometrically, and of the whole number by difference of latitude and departure, shewing how to take an inaccessible boundary, find the bearing and distance of the closing line without running it, also the distances to an inaccessible corner from the two adjacent corners, followed by examples of offsets on to winding streams of water, shewing how to ascertain the area without the trouble of measuring the windings with chains and instruments—a crooked water course straightened, and a quantity of land on each side found by these offsets.
Ten examples of dividing land, with many sub-divisions, leading into the most critical circumstances that can occur in practice; an example of Intersections, and an example shewing how the bearings of a field may be truly taken where the needle is attracted, altho' the attraction may vary in quantity and denomination at every station; examples shewing the method of measuring by the chain only. All the rules are clear and explicit. This work contains the tables of difference of latitude and departure and of logarithms.
Orders sent to Joseph and James Cruckshank, Booksellers, No. 87, High-street, Philadelphia, Bonfair and Niles, 173, Market Street, Baltimore, or the Subscriber in Wilmington (Del.) will be duly attended to.
Those who have the care of subscription papers for this work, are requested to send their respective numbers as soon as possible, to whom the quota's will be sent agreeably to the proposals.
ZACHARIAH JESS. Wilmington, 9th 11 mo — 16. saw2m.
JUST RECEIVED, From the BOSTON Manufactory, A QUANTITY OF WINDOW GLASS, Of different sizes, FOR SALE By ISAAC HARVEY, JUN.
N. B. Any size or form that may be wanted can be cut larger than 8 by 10 — can be had from said manufactory on being ordered; and attention given to forward any orders that may be left for that purpose — Apply at No. 9, South Water-street, as above. July 8. dif
Valuable Property for Sale, in Cheyney, near Sixth Street, directly opposite CONGRESS HALL.
A LOT of ground, about 32 feet front in Cheyney street and 73 feet in depth, wherein is a good frame house, now in the tenure of Samuel Berge subject to a ground rent of 20s. per annum. The advantageous situation of this property requires no comments, for it must be known, there are few in this city to equal it, an unexceptionable title will be made to the purchaser. Apply to JAMES GIRVAN, no. 198 Cheyney street, next door to the premises. March 5. in this is it
WHEREAS,
An attachment was lately issued out of the inferior court of common pleas of the county of Essex, in the state of New Jersey, directed to the sheriff of the said county, against the rights, credits, monies and effects, goods and chattels, lands and tenements of John Cleves Symmes at the suit of William Wells, in a plea of trespass on the case to his damage three thousand dollars;
And whereas, the said sheriff did, at the term of June last past, return to the said court that he had attached the defendant by a certain bond given by Matthias Denman and Samuel Meeker to the said defendant, to the amount of near two thousand dollars, and also by sixty fixed warrants;
Now therefore, which the said John Cleves Symmes shall appear, give fiscal bail, and receive a declaration at the suit of the plaintiff, judgment will be entered against him, and his property herein attached, will be sold agreeably to the statute in such case made and provided.
Aaron Ogden, Clerk, &c. Elizabeth-town, July 8, 1790 (11) saw2m
TO BE SOLD,
THREE or four lots of about 30 or 40 acres each, more or less as may suit a purchaser. On each of which there is a good situation for a house—viz. one on the river Delaware, suitable either for a gentleman's seat, or for a person who might wish to engage in the lumber business having a good landing. One commanding a good view of the river from the highest ground between the Pennypack and Poguelin creeks; and another on the Bristol Road. Enquire of Mr. Gilpin near the 11 mile stone on the said road. ALSO
FOUR LOTS,
Of about 10 acres each with good situations for building; one of which is suitable for a tan-yard, and has a small stone house and a young bearing orchard on it, on the Newtown road near Snider's mill about 10 miles from Philadelphia, and one other lot of about 30 acres on the Pennypack—Enquire of Jonathan Clift who lives on the premises or of Mr. Gilpin.
Possession will be given in the spring, but building materials may be collected sooner. November 8. saw2f.
Taxes of Lycoming County.
JOHN KIDD, Treasurer, By Direction of the Commissioners of Lycoming county, attends at Philadelphia to receive the Taxes assessed upon unseated Lands in that County, from the holders thereof, in this City. Those who have filed with the Commissioners, statements of their Lands, are requested to call upon him, to know the amount of Taxes thereon, and pay them; otherwise, before his leaving the City, they will be put into the hands of the Sheriff for collection, agreeably to the act for raising county rates and levies. Those who have not filed statements of their lands with the Commissioners, and are desirous of having it done, to prevent sales without previous personal Notice, may file with the above Treasurer, their lists, stating the quantities returned, number and dates of the warrants and names of the warrantees, under which they held their lands. He will attend at Mr. Joseph Hardy's No. 98, Market Street for this purpose until the 18th instant. November 9.
Drawing School.
MR. BECK having been solicited by many of his friends to engage in a Drawing School, takes the liberty of announcing them and the public that he intends opening one at his house in Fifth street, opposite the State house yard, on Monday the 4th of November, on the following terms:
Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, Dols. Ladies from three till five, per quarter, 9 Gentlemen from half past 5 till half past 7, 9 Private Lessons, at home for one hour, 1 From home, two hours, 3
PERSPECTIVE, The essential ground work of all kinds of drawing, taught by a much more simple and short method than hitherto practised.
WANTED, A person to do house work; also a boy to attend the family and take care of a horse. November 27. saw2f
LANCASTER STAGES.
The Proprietors of the Philadelphia and Lancaster line of Stages DISPATCH return their grateful thanks to their friends and the public in general, for the past favors they have received, and inform them that in addition to the regular Line, they are provided with Carriages, Sleighs and careful drivers, to go through between the City and Borough in two days. Those who prefer this mode of travelling can be accommodated at the Stage Office, sign of United States Eagle, Market Street, Philadelphia.
Slough, Downing, Dunwoody & Co. Nov. 30. 21—$
The following Certificates
OF THE STOCK OF THE BANK of the United States
In the names of Nicolaus Van Staphorst and Nicholas Hubbard of Amsterdam, to wit, No. 29,160 for 5 shares, 29,161 for 2 shares, 29,162 for 2 shares, 29,163 for 1 share, 29,172 for 4 shares, and 29,176 for 5 shares; and the following certificates of the debt of the United States, on the books of the Treasury, to wit, No. 12,822, dated February 22, 1799, for 4000 dollars, three per cents, in name of Nicolaus Van Staphorst of Amsterdam, No. 12,824 same date, for 4000 dollars three per cents, in name of Jacob Van Staphorst of Amsterdam, No. 16,348 dated 19th February 1799, for 783 dollars 33 cents of six per cents, and No. 12,818 same date, for 633 dollars 33 cents of three per cents, in the name of Nicholas Hubbard of Amsterdam, and No. 12,817 dated 19th February 1799, for 3200 dollars three per cents, in the name of Jan Hendrick Kingbergen, knight of the Russian military order of St. George, were sent by the British packet Chesterfield, Captain Jones, which vessel was captured, and the said certificates lost, therefore application is made for the renewal of the same, of which all persons concerned are desired to take notice.
CLEMENT BIDDLE. October 12, 1799. d3m
ALL PERSONS
INDEBTED to the Estate of JOHN WHARTON, late of the City of Philadelphia, Merchant, deceased, are requested to pay the same, and those having demands against his Estate, to produce their accounts legally attested to KEARNY WHARTON, Acting Executor, No. 111, Spruce street. November 11. dif.
Horses to Winter.
HORSES will be taken to winter at Prospect Hill, at the 12 miles Stone on the Bristol Road, where they will have good Timothy and Clover Hay, well littered and cleaned and a field to run in when the weather is good.
Enquire of Mr. William Bell Merchant, or on the premises.
N. B. Will not be answerable for accidents or escape, but will take every precaution to prevent either. November 12. saw2f
TO THE PUBLIC.
THE time being fixed on, when the MILITARY LAND (commonly called Knox's) WARRANTS, granted to the United States' army, are to be registered and located, the subscribers have explored that tract of land on which those warrants are to be laid; with a view, and for the purpose of offering their services as locators.
We take the liberty of suggesting, "that we are at least as well acquainted with the situation, quality of the soil, &c. of the different townships in the aforesaid tract, as any other person;" this will, perhaps, appear more clearly, by observing, that WILLIAM C. SCHENCK assisted in running the Indian boundary line; at which time he considerably traversed that tract; he also assisted in surveying and laying it off into townships, and at other times ranged over it, to gain information. But to obtain a more complete and accurate knowledge, we have lately spent between two and three months, with several assistants, in particularly examining the different townships and quarter townships; by which means we have acquired an accurate knowledge of the whole district.—We now offer our services to the public, as Locators, with assurances that we will locate every persons warrants intrusted to us to the best advantage, agreeably to their rights of location, which is to be determined according to law. For our services we demand the one equal tenth part, either in lands or warrants, when we locate a full tract, of four thousand acres or more, for one person or firm; the land to be taken in a square, at a corner of the tract; which corner is to be equitably determined before the time of location.—The one equal sixth part, in cash or warrants, when we connect and locate any amount less than four thousand acres. We will be in Philadelphia from December next, until after the time of location, to transact this business. Any person wishing to satisfy himself farther, will please to call on us, by letter, (postage paid) or otherwise; when due attention will be paid, and such vouchers may be seen as we have to offer, which we hope will be satisfactory.
MARTIN BAUM, WILLIAM C. SCHENCK. Philadelphia, Oct. 9, 1799. cow.
LANDING,
From on board the brig Hetty, John Van-neman, Master, from Gonaives, at the Subscribers wharf, 15 Hogsheads } 21 Tierces } Prime Green COFFEE. 80 Barrels } 566 Bags } About 3 tons of Logwood and 100 Hides for sale by ELLISTON & JOHN PEROT.
Also for Sale,
THE SAID BRIG, AS she came from Sea—Burl-ton as per Register, 190 tons, sails fast and has made but one voyage.
December 24. cow.
TO BE SOLD,
BY THE SUBSCRIBERS,
NINE undivided tenth parts of a tract of LAND, in the State of Georgia; either together or in such parts as may suit the purchaser. The whole tract is bounded as follows, viz. beginning on the Mississippi river, where the latitude of thirty-two degrees, forty-nine minutes, forty seconds north of the Equator intersects the same river; thence running along the same parallel of latitude a due east course to the Tom Bigby river; thence up the middle of the said Tom Bigby river to the place where the latitude thirty-two degrees, fifty-nine minutes, twenty seconds north of the equator intersects the same; thence a due west course on the same parallel of latitude to the Mississippi river; thence down the middle of the said Mississippi river to the place at beginning; together with all the privileges, immunities and appurtenances thereof, including all islands within the said bounds, and containing at least One Million acres, probably more. The premises if not before disposed of by private sale, will be sold by Public Vendue, on Thursday the twenty-first day of November next, at eleven o'clock, A. M. at Concert-Hall, kept by Mr. James VILL in Boston. For further particulars and terms, apply to either of the subscribers CHARLES CUSHING, GEORGE LANE, M. M. HAYS, Boston, Oct. 2, 1799. saw2f.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
March 11th, 1799.
PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,
Pursuant to the act of Congress passed on the 14th of June, one thousand, seven hundred and ninety-six, entitled "an act regulating the grants of land appropriated for military services, and for the society of United Brethren for propagating the gospel among the Heathen;" and the act supplementary to the said recited act passed on the second day of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine—to wit:
THAT the tract of Land herein after described, to wit, "beginning at the North West corner of the seven ranges of townships, and running thence fifty miles due south, along the western boundary of the said ranges;—thence due West to the Main Branch of the Scioto river; thence up the Main Branch of the said river to the place where the Indian boundary line crosses the same;—thence along the said boundary line to the Tuckahoe branch of the Muskingum river at the crossing place above Fort Lawrence; thence down the said river, to the point where a line run due west from the place of beginning, will intersect the said river; thence along the line so run to the place of beginning;" has been divided into townships of five miles square, and fractional parts of townships; and that plans and surveys of the said townships and fractional parts of townships are deposited in the offices of the Register of the Treasury and Surveyor General, for the inspection of all persons concerned.
The holders of such warrants as have been or shall be granted for military services performed during the late war, are required to present the same to the Register of the Treasury, at some time prior to the twelfth day of February in the year, one thousand eight hundred, for the purpose of being registered; No registry will however be made of any less quantity than a quarter township, or four thousand acres.
The priority of location of the warrants which may be presented and registered in manner aforesaid, prior to the 12th day of February in the year one thousand eight hundred, will immediately after the said day, be determined by lot, in the mode described by the act first recited.
The holders of registered warrants, shall on Monday the 17th day of February, in the year 1800, in the order of which the priority of location shall be determined by lot as aforesaid, personally, or by their agents, designate in writing at the office of the Register of the Treasury, the particular quarter townships selected by them respectively, and such of the said holders as shall not designate their locations on the said day, shall be postponed in locating such warrants to all other holders of registered warrants.
The holders of warrants for military services sufficient to cover one or more quarter townships or tracts of four thousand acres each, shall, at any time after the Monday the 17th day of February, 1800 and prior to the first day of January, 1802, be allowed to register the said warrants in manner aforesaid, and forthwith to make locations therefor on any tract or tracts of land not before located.
All warrants or claims for lands on account of military services, which shall not be registered and located before the first day of January, 1802, are by the supplementary act of Congress herein before recited, passed on the second day of March, 1799, declared to be forever barred.
Given under my hand at Philadelphia, the day and year above mentioned. OLIVER WOLCOTT. Sec. of the Treasury.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
May 29th, 1799.
THE proprietors of certificates issued for subscriptions to the Loan bearing interest at eight per centum per annum, are notified, that at any time after payment shall have been made during the first ten days of the month of July ensuing, Certificates of Funded Stock may at their option be obtained at the Treasury or Loan Offices, respectively, for the amount of the four first instalments, or one moiety of the sums entitled to by the subscription certificates:—No certificate of Funded Stock will however be issued for less than one hundred dollars.
Such subscription certificates as may be presented at the Treasury or Loan Offices in consequence of the foregoing arrangement, will be endorsed and distinctly marked so as to denote, that a moiety of the stock has been issued. OLIVER WOLCOTT, Secretary of the Treasury.
SCHUYLKILL
PERMANENT BRIDGE.
For the information of the Stockholders in the company, incorporated for the erection of a Permanent Bridge over the river Schuylkill, and others of our fellow citizens who are desirous that this useful undertaking should succeed, it is thought expedient and proper, by the President and Directors of that company to state the present situation of its affairs.
THE company was incorporated on the 27th day of April, 1798; and by a clause in the law authorizing this incorporation, the legislature may resume the rights, &c. granted to the company, if they do not "proceed to carry on the work" in two years, and complete the bridge in five years, after they had been incorporated.
As soon as practicable, the company proceeded to the choice of the officers required by law; and the President and Directors have been constant in their endeavours to encrease the number of subscribers to the stock. The number of shares subscribed when the company was organized, was 216. With all the exertions made since, it is now only 563; though of the 15,000 contemplated by law, 12,000 (at ten dollars each) are allotted for the active capital of the company.
As the public opinion, coinciding with that of the President and Directors, appeared to be fixed on the site at the well end of Market Street, it was deemed a primary object to obtain from the corporation of the city, their right to the ferry at that place. Negotiations were accordingly commenced for the purpose.—These ended in a contract with the city corporation, to the following effect—
1. 5000 dollars to be paid to the city corporation, when the subscriptions to the bridge stock amount to the value of 11,000 shares—a like sum in four months thereafter with interest—5000 dollars (either in eight months—and the like sum in twelve months, with interest.
2. The city corporation take, as payment for 20,000 dollars, (to make the whole consideration moiety 40,000 dollars) two thousand shares in the bridge stock, on terms detailed in the contract.
3. The 11,000 shares being subscribed, and the first instalment of the purchase monies paid, the right to the ferry and its enumerated appurtenances, with certain parts of the site and the brick tavern, to be conveyed to the bridge company, on their mortgaging the premises, in the contract mentioned, for 15,000 dollars, the residue of the pecuniary payments, with interest.
4. If the erection is not completed in the period fixed, or which may be fixed by the legislature, the property and rights are to re-vert in the corporation of the city, on terms prescribed in the contract; which contains other subordinate arrangements, too lengthy to be herein particularly detailed.
The sum agreed to be given was unavoidably. We found the councils of the city, in all probability determined not to take less. We deemed it eligible to make some sacrifices (if any we have made) to avoid competitions injurious and embarrassing, both in the commencement and progress of our intended enterprise.
Warned by experience of the fatal consequences of beginning works, requiring extensive pecuniary support, without a certainty of its being within our power, we agreed to that part of the contract requiring 11,000 shares to be actually subscribed, before it takes effect.—We do not desire to conceal our indisposition to embark in this undertaking, until the number of shares subscribed shall, at least, equal that required by this contract. Nor shall we engage in the business until the instalments directed by law shall be in the treasurer's hands, to an amount sufficient to encourage us to begin the work, with solid prospects of complying with our engagements to those with whom we may contract.
We have received a number of plans in consequence of our advertisement for the purpose, but have made no selection. We shall prefer that which unites economy with stability, and accommodation to all circumstances attached to the place of erection. The site must be fixed before the plan is adopted. It must be perceived that a deficiency of subscriptions to our stock prevents our obtaining the site provisionally contracted for, which, however expensive it may appear, is certainly the most eligible and productive.
We have not called for the second instalment, from those who have already subscribed, because we do not think ourselves warranted, from present appearances, to commence the work. The monies already paid (one dollar on each share subscribed, deducting our necessary expenditures, which will appear in our accounts) lie useless to us in the bank. They must remain inactive, till by further subscriptions, we are enabled to proceed in the execution of our trust; as we have no authority to employ them for any other purposes, than those directed by the act of incorporation. Our minutes and accounts will be laid before the stockholders, at the next meeting for the annual election of officers. They are always open for the inspection of the members of the company.
All the books and forms required for the progress of the business are prepared; and we are otherwise completely ready to proceed, if the most essential requisite were in our possession. It will be seen that there is a deficiency of 5363 shares to give validity to our contract with the city corporation, and to justify us in commencing the work.
We have a strong persuasion, founded on secure information of the product of bridges in other states, and calculations of profit here, that investments in our stock will be equal, in point of emolument, with those made in any other permanent funds in this city. The company may divide, in biennial dividends, 15 per cent. annually during the first twenty-five years; and if the bridge be made free, they are to receive its value on a fair estimate—
The Charles River bridge near Boston (1500 feet long and 42 wide) cost 50,000 dollars, and yields from 20 to 24 per cent. clear of all expenses. The bridge at Cambridge (7000 feet long and 42 wide) cost 80,000 dollars; and yields from 12 to 14 per cent. Some deductions have been made, to remedy defects in the timber originally used, but these expenses will no longer be necessary. Immense bodies of ice affail those bridges without injury.—Neither of them are better situated to command toll, than that we contemplate over the Schuylkill, which is only 400 feet wide.
Whether we shall proceed or not, depends on the disposition of our fellow citizens to encourage the undertaking. We cannot help fostering the
flattering expectation, that, from motives of public spirit and private emolument, we shall yet be supported in our ardent wishes to complete an erection, eminently promotive of the interests, as well as the credit of our city.
The task being in itself inviting, and the object of great public utility, as well to ourselves as to our polity, we more confidently solicit subscriptions.
By order, RICHARD PETERS, President. Philadelphia, Dec. 6. (11) saw3v.
The Swift-Sure, A NEW LINE OF STAGES, NOW RUNNING BETWEEN PHILADELPHIA & NEW-YORK, By the short and pleasant road of Buffleton, Newtown, Scotch Plains, Spring-
field and Newark.
THE excellence of this road, the populousness of the country through which it passes, with sundry other advantages, which render it so far preferable to the Old Road through Bristol, Brunswic, &c. long ago suggested the propriety of its becoming the Grand Thorough-Fare from Philadelphia to New-York. During the present year, a minute survey of it has been taken, and its superiority over the Old Road, both in winter and summer, has been clearly ascertained.—There are good bridges over all the other waters but the Delaware, and heretofore the crossing is performed with great safety and in less than half the time required at the Trenton Ferry. The road is several miles shorter than the old road, but this is among the least of its advantages, because daily experience proves to us, that dispatch as well as comfort in traveling principally depend on the goodness of the road and the levelness of the country, and, in these respects, the New Road is, beyond all comparison, the best. It prevents none of those rocky hills, which render the Old Road so fatiguing between the Delaware and Newark. The soil, too, for the greater part, is such as to produce but little mud in winter, and very little dust in summer, which circumstance, added to the beauty of the country, and a considerable proportion of shade, must always render traveling in the latter season peculiarly agreeable.
The Swift-Sure starts from PHILADELPHIA, at 6 o'clock every morning (Sundays excepted) from the GREEN TREE, opposite the Lutheran Church, North Fourth Street. It goes through Frankford to Buffleton, where it stops to Breakfast; from Buffleton it goes through Newtown to Penny-town to dinner; from Penny-town through Hopewell, Millstone, Bound-brook, Quibbletown and Plainfield to Scotch Plains to lodge. The next morning it stops at Springfield to breakfast, from whence it goes through Newark and arrives at New-York at noon.
From NEW-YORK it starts at 3 o'clock in the afternoon (from Paulus Hook) and arrives at Philadelphia the next evening. For seats at New-York, application may be made to Edward Bardia, Old Coffee house, to A. Mathieu, corner of Nassau and John streets, to B. Many, no. 48, Courtlandt, corner of Greenwich street, and to Michael Little, at his hotel, no. 42, Broad street.
Fare for passengers, Five Dollars. Way passengers 6 Cents per Mile.
Each passenger is allowed to take on 40 lbs. of baggage carriage free; but all other baggage taken on by a passenger, will be charged at 4 cents per pound weight.
With respect to packages sent on without passengers, the proprietors presume they have adopted a regulation, which, though unknown to other lines of stages, they think must meet with general approbation. They pledge themselves to make good every package on the following conditions. The person who delivers the package at the office shall see it entered in the stage-book, for which entry he shall pay 6 cents; he will then state the value of the package, and pay (exclusive of the carriage) one per cent. on the value, as insurance, and for which he will receive a receipt. Thus, for instance, if he estimates his package at one dollar, he will pay one cent, and if at one hundred dollars, he will pay one dollar insurance, and in like proportion for packages of any other value.
Very few persons it is presumed, will dislike this regulation; it will however, be optional with every one to avail himself of this security or not. But the proprietors think it right to state very explicitly, that they will be responsible for the safe delivery of no package, which is not regularly entered, and for which an insurance receipt cannot be produced.
In the distribution of the route, the greatest care has been taken to fix on such places and taverns as always afford a good accommodation and entertainment for the passengers at the most reasonable rates. The stages are well equipped furnished with fleet and steady horses, and committed to the care of intelligent sober and obliging drivers. The proprietors themselves live at the different towns, and villages where the stages will stop, so that the conduct of the persons who employ is continually an object of their attention. They take care also to see that the passengers are well provided for and politely treated at the taverns, and that no sort of chicane or imposition is practised upon them; in short, they have spared neither pains nor expense to render the SWIFT-SURE the very best line of stages in America.
The line has now run nearly a month, during which time a great number of gentlemen have gone through, both from Philadelphia and New-York. Every passenger has found the road to surpass very far all that has been said of its excellence; and the Proprietors of the Swift-Sure are extremely happy to hear the behaviour of their drivers, and the treatment at Taverns spoken of with the highest satisfaction.
JOHN MCALLA, Philadelphia THOS. PAUL, Buffleton JOSEPH THORNTON, NICHOLAS WYNKOOP, Newtown JACOB KESLER, JOHN MORRELL, Pennypack T. KILLMAN, near Millstone ELIAS COMBES, Bound Brook R. SANBURY, Scotch Plains ISAAC RAYLE, ROBERT PEARSON, Springfield June 22. seedf.
PRINTED BY J. W. PENNO.