Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser. (Philadelphia [Pa.]), 1800-01-10 00:00:00

Gazette of the United States, AND Philadelphia Daily Advertiser.
NUMBER 2277.]
PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 10, 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...
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.
TERMS. Five Dollars per Month, Ten do. per Quarter, No Entrance. For further Particulars apply to MR. F. 70, north Eighth Street. December 21.
IN THE PRESS, And in a few days will be published At Dickins's Book-Store, A SUPERB EDITION OF WASHINGTON'S ADDRESS To the People of the United States, on retiring from Public Life, Super Royal, 8vo. Ornamented with a capital Portrait by one of the first Artists.
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. DICKINS'S STATIONARY & BOOK-STORE, Will next week be removed to the house lately occupied by Mr. W. Cobbett. December 28.
LANDING At Wilcock's wharf from the schr. Lively, capt. Godfrey, from Halifax, 325 Barrels fine pickled Salmon 80 half Barrels 20 Barrels do. Shad 11 do. do. Mackerel FOR SALE BY NICKLIN & GRIFFITH.
N.B. These are some Goods on Freight on board the above Schooner, the names of the consignees of which are not mentioned, they are requested to make immediate entry of the same, otherwise they will be sent to the custom house as the vessel must be discharged without loss of time. Dec. 16.
UNSEATED LANDS. THE owners of Unseated Lands in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, are hereby notified, that unless the Taxes due on said Lands for the Years 1795, 1796, 1797, and 1798 are paid into the hands of JOHN WILKINS, Esquire, County Treasurer, on or before the 20th day of February next, they will be advertised for sale as the law directs. Ebenezer Denny, William Dunning, James Robinson, Commissioners. Pittsburgh, November 5, 1799.
TAKE NOTICE, THAT application is made to the Bank of the United States, for the renewal of the following certificates of Bank stock, which were lost in the brig Peggy, Captain Fluyer, on her passage from America to London. No. 2959 For Eight Shares of Bank Stock 2962 In favour of Samuel Ethridge. 2967 WILLINGS & FRANCIS. October 25.
NOTICE. ALL persons indebted to the Estate of JACOB THOMAS, of Washington in the State of Kentucky, deceased, are requested to make immediate payment. All persons having demands against said estate are desired to furnish their accounts legally attested to JACOB REESE, Administrator. Philadelphia, October 31, 1799.
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, South Front Street, Southwark.
WHO HAS TO LET, A BRICK STABLE, Sufficiently large to contain nine Horses. ALSO, For Sale or to Let, A NEW FRAME CARRIAGE HOUSE. Nov. 1, 1799.
TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD. RAN AWAY on Saturday evening the 13th July instant, from Colebrook Furnace, Lancaster county, a Negro Man named Cato, he is about 40 years of age, five feet six or seven inches high, tolerable black, with a downy look, squints, and 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 Nankeen; (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 goal in the United States, with reasonable charges if brought home. SAMUEL JACOBS. Colebrook Furnace, July 16, 1799. (O18)
THE CO-PARTNERSHIP OF THOMAS AND JOHN KETLAND Being Dissolved, By the death of MR. JOHN KETLAND, ALL persons who have demands against said Firm are requested to bring in their accounts for payment, and those indebted to the same are solicited to make payment to THOMAS KETLAND. October 21.
Just Imported, 135 Hogheads, 191 barrels, Prime SUGAR. 50 do. Green Coffee, 25 Boxes brown, 25 do. white, Havana SUGAR. 12 hds. James' River Tobacco, 30 Packages well assorted German Linens, Russia Cordage, assorted, 400 Pipes Barcelona Brandy, 4th proof, Hazelnuts in Sacks, Brown Stout Porter, draught and bottled, 40 Casks Shot, No. 1 to 6, Lead in Pigs, 3 hds. ground Lead, assorted, 4 Casks Glauber Salts, Cream Tartar, &c., 1 gross each, 4 Black quart wine bottles in crates, 1 gross each, Queens ware in Crates, Cannon, 4, 6, and 9 pounds calibre, with Shot, round, grape and canister, Swivels, Corks in bales, 1st quality, ditto in Sheets, Claret in cases, superior quality. Port Wine, ditto. Horseshoe's, Nails, Hangers, &c. Showing pieces and pistols in cases, Ship Musquets and Blunderbusses, in do. Bath floor Grates, for chimneys, &c., &c. FOR SALE BY THOMAS KETLAND, Walnut Street wharf. Nov. 1.
MADEIRA WINE, Of an excellent Quality and good Age, TO BE SOLD, By the pipe, quarter cask or less quantity, No. 107 South Second Street. December 21.
JOSEPH D. DRINKER BEGS leave to inform his friends and the public that he has taken into partnership DANIEL BARTOW. Their Mercantile Concerns will, in consequence, be conducted under the firm of DRINKER AND BARTOW, Who have just imported, per the West Point, arrived at New York, the Amiable Creole, and other late arrivals at this port from Hamburg.
A VARIETY OF GERMAN GOODS, Consisting of the following Articles, viz. Ticklenburghs, Creas, a la Morlaix, Dowlands, 3-4, 7-8, 4-4 & 9-8ths wide Flanders Sheeting, Silesia ditto, Rouan ditto, Fawn and white Platillas, Britanias, Weissgarbige Linens, 7-8 & 4-4 Silesia Sheeting, assorted, Diaper and Damask Table Cloths, Clouting Diapers, Diaper Zwillich, Oil Cloths, Glass Tumblers, Quarts, Pints and Half Pints, ALSO, Per the Elisa from London, Russia Sheeting, Ravens Duck, Men, Women and Children's Welsh yarn Hose. All which they offer for sale at their Store, No. 61 North Front Street, either by the package or smaller quantity, at the most reasonable rates, for cash or notes at short date. November 20.
TO BE SOLD FOR CASH, OR EXCHANGED, For property in the City, or within thirty miles of it, A PLANTATION or tract of Land in Milford County and State of Pennsylvania, within 20 miles of the river Juniata, containing about 300 acres. There are about fifty acres cleared, part of which is a rich bottom, watered by a constant stream that is strong enough to work an oil or a grist mill. Any person inclining to deal for it, may obtain further information by applying at the office of this gazette. N.B. If sold, credit will be given for part of the money. October 17, 1799.
Twenty Dollars Reward. RAN AWAY from Spring Forge, in York County, a negro man, named ISAAC, otherwise CUDJO, about 21 years old, the property of Robert Coleman, Esq. He is about 5 feet 8 inches high, has a blemish in his eyes, more white in them than common, by trade a Forge man; had on and took with him a drab coloured broad cloth coat, almost new, a sailors jacket and panteleous printed fancy cord, a fowndown striped under shirt, a red shirt, one fine and one coarse shirt, one muslin handkerchief, sprigged, two ditto striped bedtick, 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 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.
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 Elections, comprehending almost every Book in use, of the latest London and Irish editions. They will be disposed of from a single volume, to an entire Library at the same prices as have heretofore given such general satisfaction. By sundry vessels daily expected from London and Dublin, his stock will be usual kept up, so that gentlemen will seldom be disappointed when applying at his store. N.B. This day is published, Davis's Law Catalogue for 1799, of books for sale, which may be had gratis, on application as above. November 3.
FOR SALE, By JOSEPH & JAMES CRUKSHANK, No. 87 High Street Philadelphia, A FEW COPIES OF THE HARLEIAN MISCELLANY, Being a Selection of Tracts which principally regard the English History, and of which many are referred to by Hume. The scarcity and high price of the Harleian Miscellany, induced the editor to offer the present abridgement to the public, which is composed of a narration of those highly interesting events which have occurred in the History of England, and which are chiefly arranged in chronological order. The volume contains in quantity one sixth of the original work, and the price of it is one guinea, being only one twelfth of what the original book now sells for. November 21.
Philadelphia & Lancaster Turnpike Company. December 12, 1799. NOTICE. THE Stockholders are to meet at their Office, at 10 o'clock, on Monday the 13th January next, to choose their officers agreeable to law. WM. GOVETT, Secretary. December 12.
BANK OF THE UNITED STATES. November 15, 1799. NOTICE. THE STOCKHOLDERS of the Bank of the United States are informed, that according to the Statute of Incorporation, a General Election for twenty-five Directors will be held at the Bank of the United States in the City of Philadelphia, on Monday the 6th of January next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon. And pursuant to the eleventh section of the 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.
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.
One Thousand Five Hundred DOLLARS WAS delivered to the POSTMASTER here, in the Post-Office, on the evening of Tuesday the 27th ult. in a LETTER directed to Mr. John Mills, Merchant, BALTIMORE, containing two ALEXANDRIA BANK NOTES, No. 4320, in favour of William Taylor, and dated 30th April, 1798, for ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS, and No. 4522, in favour of John P. Pleasants, and dated the 10th of December, 1798, for FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS, which letter has been SUPPRESSED in a POST-OFFICE, and the BANK NOTES taken out. As the PUBLIC MAIL was not STOPPED, MOLESTED, or ROBBED. Bankers and merchants are particularly requested to watch the circulation of said notes, and stop them; and any person giving such information as will lead us to our money, shall have FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS reward. WILSON & SWANN. Frederickburg, (Vig.) Sept. 10.
All Printers in the United States, are requested to publish the above, and we will pay them. TWO or three Gentlemen with their families, may be accommodated with Lodgings and Breakfast, and two furnished rooms, at No. 83 north Fifth Street. November 27.
Lodging and Breakfast, FOR one or two single Gentlemen, in a genteel private family, with the use of a neat front Parlour, and Board for Servants may be had at No. 28 north Fifth Street. November 26.
Three Cents Reward. RUN away from the Subscriber on the evening of the 24th inst. a bound Servant GIRL, named Elizabeth Howickel, had on and took with her three different changes of garments and money, proud, bold and impudent, a noted liar; any person apprehending her shall be entitled to the above reward - no costs or charges will be paid. N.B. She had a yoke and some months to serve. DANIEL FITZPATRICK. Goshen Township, Chester County, July 29. august 6.
PROPOSALS FOR PUBLISHING AN ILLUSTRIOUS HISTORY OF THE LIFE OF 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.
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 examples, and example is more powerful than precept. It strengthens, by a plain and easy mode of analytical reasoning, the principles of the timid, determines and fixes those that are wavering, and ultimately lays the basis for that harmony and coincidence of sentiment among the citizens, from which only a nation can hope to derive rank, consequence and stability. Impressed with lively sentiments of the eminent virtues of that distinguished HERO and PATRIOT, the history of whose life I have undertaken to write; it was not till after much reflection I resolved on issuing these proposals. The following considerations induced me to this; First, having obtained in the course of an extensive correspondence, with many gentlemen of talents and information, a large stock of original materials concerning the life of this illustrious Citizen; to give form and body to these, in the manner of history, will preserve many important things that otherwise would most probably be lost. Secondly, as many of the most interesting transactions of his life, since he resigned his commission as Commander in chief of our revolutionary armies, are very imperfectly recorded, and little understood; yet the greater part of them being fresh in the memories of many, this must be the fittest time to embody them; before a succession of objects, which every day brings forth, wears off the minutest circumstances. There are many of these circumstances important and interesting; as it is universally acknowledged, that great actions, like immense rivers, flow from small beginnings.
CONDITIONS. I. The Life of General Washington will contain nearly 400 pages octavo, printed on fine paper, and in a style of elegance equal to any work that has appeared from an American press. II. It will be embellished with a striking likeness of the General, executed by one of the best artists. III. Subscribers' names will be annexed, as patrons. IV. Each subscriber is to pay two dollars, one half on subscribing, the remainder on the delivery of the work. Subscriptions in this city are received at No. 297 Arch street, next door to the north west corner of Eighth street. Philadelphia, December 30.
Just Published, and for Sale, By JOHN MORGAN, No. 3 Front St. AND BENJAMIN DAVIES, No. 68 High St. THE UNITED STATES COURT CALENDAR, AND GENTLEMAN'S Complete Pocket Companion, For the Year of our Lord 1800. CONTAINING Every thing useful in other works of the kind, Besides a great variety of articles (Combining utility with entertainment), Not to be found in any publication whatsoever. Amongst these are, Complete and authentic lists of the ARMY and NAVY. (Carefully revised at the respective Offices;) ALSO, correct statement 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.
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 & SHOALAKER, No. 124, South Fourth Street. Phila. Jan. 1, 1800.
For Sale, or to Let, A two story Brick House, Situate on Duke street, or Artillery lane, in the Northern Liberties, Having two rooms on a floor, fire places in each, a kitchen and wash house; all in excellent order and built of the best materials. For further information inquire at No. 39, North street. Also, a HOUSE, No. 106, fourth Second street, to let - enquire as above. Dec. 30.
JOHN MILLER, Junr. No. 80 Dock, near Third street, HAS FOR SALE, Coffees, Mamoodies, Taffaties, Striped Domes, Taugies, Patna and Santipoor Hankerchiefs. The foregoing will be sold very low in order to close sales. ALSO, A FEW PACKAGES OF German Goods, Suitable to the West India Market; Received by the Fair American from Hamburg. October 25.
FOR FREIGHT or CHARTER, For Europe or the West Indies, THE SHIP PACIFIC, PERKINS SALTER, Master, She is a staunch good Ship, well fitted, burthen about 3000 barrels, and ready to receive a cargo on board. For terms apply to WHARTON and LEWIS, No. 115 South Front Street, WHO HAVE FOR SALE, A parcel of Havana Molasses, Old Madeira Wine, Ground Ginger, Burlington Pork, &c. &c. November 21.
THIS DAY IS PUBLISHED, AND SOLD By R. AITKEN, No. 22 Market Street, AND By W. YOUNG, corner of Chestnut and Second Streets, Thermometrical Navigation, Being a Series of Experiments and Observations, tending to prove, that by ascertaining the relative heat of the sea water, from time to time, The passage of a ship thro' the Gulf Stream, and from deep water into soundings, May be discovered in time to avoid danger; although (owing to tempestuous weather) it may be impossible to have the lead, or observe the heavenly bodies. Extracted from the American Philosophical Transactions, Vol. II. and III. WITH ADDITIONS AND IMPROVEMENTS. "God helps them that help themselves." For Richard. January 2.
The American Ladies POCKET-BOOK, FOR 1800, PUBLISHED BY WILLIAM V. BIRCH, No. 17, So. Second Street, CONTAINING an elegant engraving of Ladies fashionable head dresses. An Almanack, ruled pages for memorandums, &c. New country dances; moral and entertaining pieces, in prose and verse; new songs; marketing table, and several other useful tables. ALSO, THE GENTLEMEN'S POCKET REMEMBRANCER, FOR 1800. Containing an Almanack, ruled pages for memorandums, and cash accounts, an abstract of an act passed the last session of Congress, relative to the collection of duties on imports and tonnage, duties on goods imported, stamp duties, duties on domestic articles; list of Congress, Departments of State, Treasury, Judiciary, Federal Courts of Law - list of the army and navy, several tables, and other useful and interesting matter. W. V. BIRCH, has for sale, English and American writing paper, merchants account books, playing cards, pen-knives, portable writing desks, and a general assortment of stationary goods. Dec. 2.
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.
W. V. BIRCH, has for sale, English and American writing paper, merchants account books, playing cards, pen-knives, portable writing desks, and a general assortment of stationary goods. Dec. 2.
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.
W. V. BIRCH, has for sale, English and American writing paper, merchants account books, playing cards, pen-knives, portable writing desks, and a general assortment of stationary goods. Dec. 2.

Foreign Intelligence.
FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE.
Downing-street, Oct. 26.
Lieutenant-Colonel Clinton, Aid-de-Camp to his Royal Highness the Duke of York, arrived this morning at the office of the Right Hon. Henry Dundas, with dispatches of which the following are copies.
Head quarters, Schagen-Brug, Oct. 20.
IN my last communications I have represented to you the circumstances under which I found it expedient to withdraw the army from its forward position, in front of Alkmaar, within that which is at present occupied, and which, I trust, will have appeared to his Majesty sufficient to warrant the measure. The season of the year, which has already assumed the aspect of winter, gave me, from day to day, additional reason to apprehend that any attempt towards a prosecution of the campaign in this country could not be attended with decisive advantages, whilst the impossibility of covering the troops in the narrow district of the country in our possession during the winter, and the precarious state of supplies to be expected in that season, added to the conviction I felt, that the most advisable measure to be pursued was to remove with the army to England: an operation which, although it might have exposed the army to some loss in its execution, I judged in my mind preferable to any other which could be adopted.
Under this impression and considering that serious loss might ensue from delay, I have been induced to conclude an armistice, in connection with Vice-Admiral Mitchell, with Gen. Brune, commanding the French and Batavian armies, of which the conditions are included, and which, although they provide for delivering up a large number of prisoners of war, now in our hands, yet I trust will not be thought by his Majesty an inadequate compensation for many valuable lives which must have been lost, after the object which has hitherto directed them, no longer promised success; and when the only means which presented themselves of ensuring success a secure retreat were those of resorting to the destructive measure of inundation from the sea, which, as it would have involved the inhabitants of the northern part of this province to ruin for a series of years, must have been highly repugnant to the feelings, as well as contrary to the character and practice of the British nation. I rest confident, that the motives which I have here detailed, will excuse me to his Majesty for having acted without writing for previous instructions from home, and that I shall have the satisfaction of knowing that my conduct, in this respect, has met with his Majesty's gracious approbation.
I am, &c. FREDERICK. (Signed) Right Hon. HENRY DUNDAS, &c.
ARTICLES
Agreed upon between Major General Knox, duly authorised by his Royal Highness the Duke of York, Commander in Chief of the combined English and Russian Army, and Citizen Rostollant, General of Brigade, and Adjutant General, duly authorised by Citizen Brune, General and Commander in Chief of the French and Batavian Armies.
Art. I. From the date of this convention, all hostilities shall cease between the two armies.
Art. II. The line of Demarcation between the said armies shall be the line of their respective out-posts, as they now exist.
Art. III. The continuation of all works, offensive and defensive, shall be suspended on both sides, and no new ones shall be undertaken.
Art. IV. The mounted batteries taken possession of at the Helder, or at other positions within the line now occupied by the combined English and Russian army, shall be restored in the state in which they were taken, or (in case of improvement) in their present state, and all the Dutch Artillery taken therein shall be preserved.
Art. V. The combined English and Russian army shall embark as soon as possible, and shall evacuate the territory, coasts, islands, and internal navigation of the Dutch Republic, by the 30th of November, 1799, without committing any devastation, by inundations, cutting the dykes, or other ways injuring the sources of navigation.
Art. VI. Any ships of war, or other vessels which may arrive with reinforcements for the combined British and Russian army, shall not land the same, and shall be sent away as soon as possible.
Art. VII. General Brune shall be at liberty to send an officer within the lines of the Zuyp, and to the Helder, to report to him the state of the batteries, and the progress of embarkation. His Royal Highness the Duke of York shall be equally at liberty to send an officer within the French and Batavian lines, to satisfy himself that no new works are carried on on their side. An officer of rank and distinction shall be sent from each army respectively, to guarantee the execution of this convention.
Art. VIII. Eight thousand prisoners of war, French and Batavians, taken before the present campaign, and now detained in England, shall be restored, without conditions, to their respective countries. The proportion and the choice of such prisoners, for each, to be determined between the two republics. Major General Knox shall remain with the French army to guarantee the execution of this article.
Art. IX. The Cartel agreed upon between the two armies for the exchange of the pri-
soners taken during the present campaign, shall continue in full force till it shall be carried into complete execution; and it is further agreed that the Dutch admiral de Winter shall be considered as exchanged.
Concluded at Alkmaar, the 18th of October, 1799, by the undersigned General officers, furnished with full power to this effect. J. KNOX, Major-General. (Signed) ROSTOLLANT.
LONDON October 28. The mails of the 4th instant, for Hamburg, sent on board his majesty's ship La Lutine, of 32 guns, were found floating near the bank on which the ship was lost.
A private letter from an officer in our army in Holland, dated the 20th, states, that Col. Cunningham is still alive—His chin being shot away, the skin of his neck is sewed to his upper lip; he is in good spirits, and likely to recover. Major Grey is in a dangerous situation. Capt. King of the guards, is alive, tho' a ball passed through his body. Prince William of Gloucester has shipped his carriages. The flux increases for want of rice. There is a great want of straw. None of the officers have beds, they all sleep on hay.
The following account of the late detention of Gen. Don, is given in a letter from the Hague of the 14th inst.—Gen. Don arrived at the head-quarters of Gen. Dendels at the moment of the attack on the 6th instant. The Duke of York expected that he should beat the left wing of the French on that day, which might open the road for negotiation with the Dutch. Gen. Dendels sent Gen. Don to Gen. Brune, who detained him as a prisoner of war; a summons to the Batavian government to commence negotiations with England, signed by the Duke of York, being found amongst his papers.
It was with concern we learned yesterday, that a private letter received yesterday from Bengal by a respectable individual, announces the death of the gallant captain Cooke, whose exertions on board La Sybille were lately so honorably noticed on the part of the directors of the East India Company, by the present of a sword: He was a young man of the most splendid abilities and acknowledged bravery.
MANHEIM, October 14. Since yesterday the French have passed the Rhine on several points between this place and Mentz.—One part of our troops has marched against them.
LINDAU, October 17. Yesterday Field Marshal Suwarrows arrived before our city with an army of 24 thousand men. The General himself, the Grand Duke Constantine, and their whole staff, took up their quarters in this city, but the army is encamped before it. To day they were about to march, but a courier arriving from the Archduke, who is at Donaueschingen, their departure was countermanded, and it is now said they will remain here.
This evening we received the certain news, that General Korsakow, with his whole corps will arrive by to-morrow, to join the army of Suwarrows, probably to penetrate with their united forces into Switzerland, from the side of the Rhine than, while the Archduke passes the Rhine near Schaffhausen. At present, the United Russian, from the centre, the Austrian army in Italy the left, and that of the Archduke the right wing of the allied army.
VIENNA, October 19. The accounts received from Switzerland contain nothing of importance. They only state that Field Marshal Suwarrows has taken a position in the smaller cantons, and that the Archduke's army is stationed along the Rhine.
The troops for completing the regiments of Preiss and Deutschmeister have been sent off for Italy, a few days since, in waggons. General Frulich, with the troops under his command, and 4000 Russians, who landed on the Neapolitan territory, has received orders to return to Upper Italy; but whether the Russians will remain there, or proceed to Switzerland, is not known.
It is said that the Spanish Cardinals will take no share in the election of a Pope.
(From the Court Gazette.) According to advice received from his Royal Highness the Archduke Charles, dated Donaueschingen, October 8. the enemy crossed the Rhine on the 4th, in several places, attacked a piquet of Ulahos, belonging to the advanced posts of the Prince of Schwartzenberg, near Sandhofen, when both parties made some prisoners, and the enemy retired. Near Selz the enemy also made an attempt to cross the river, but were unsuccessful. General Meerfeldt was attacked at the same time, with considerable force, near Kehl, and repulsed at first, but he soon succeeded in driving the enemy beyond their entrenchments at Kehl. On the 6th the enemy made a reconnoiring party against the bridge head at Buggingen, and the position of the Russian Lieutenant General Korsakow; on the 7th, that General attacked the enemy and drove them with great loss from the heights of Trullikon, but the French receiving reinforcements from all quarters, General Korsakow was obliged to retreat to his former position. The enemy upon this made two repeated attacks with great impetuosity upon the bridge head, but were each time repulsed and driven back with the loss of 1500 men, several prisoners and a howitzer, to the heights of Trullikon.
According to accounts from the General of cavalry, Melas, the enemy on the 9th inst. in the morning attacked our ad-
vanced posts in the neighbourhood of Coni, in different points, and actually succeeding in repulsing the two posts of Margaritta and Bucca; but three battalions of Grenadiers and Lobkowitz dragoons hastening to the support of Generals Gottesheim and Marozzo, the enemy were every where driven back, and the troops re-occupied their former positions, will be able to meet the repeated attacks of the enemy with vigour.—Meanwhile the enemy quitted their position at Col de la Rouste which was taken possession of by our troops, who are now making excursions onto the mountains to observe the motions of the enemy.
PARIS, October 24. Generals Larache and Legrand are now before a council of war: The former for having surrendered Manheim, the latter for having evacuated Abenheim. It is said that the Chouans have entered Mana a second time.
Six thousand men have marched from Paris for the Department of the Sarthe. It is said that Berthier is to have the war department. General Massena has formed four battalions of the French grenadiers of his army, consisting of upwards of 1000 men each. It is at the head of these battalions that he proceeds when the troops give way on any side.
An English corvette which was bringing to La Vendee 300 emigrants, was met opposite the coasts of the Lower Loire, by a French frigate, which sunk it. No emigrant would surrender, and they all perished; the crew were saved, and are at Nantz. Frejus, where Buonaparte landed, is the native town of Sieyes. It received its name from Julius Cæsar, and possesses some remains which attest its antiquity—an aqueduct, an amphitheatre. It was the country of Agricola, Tacitus's brother in law. A Spaniard, belonging to the Spanish Legation at Vienna, and a courier from Berlin, arrived yesterday with important dispatches.
Buonaparte, it is said in one paper, is to set out immediately for Berlin.
Portugal decidedly refuses to acknowledge Paul the first as Grand Master of Malta.
In the night of the 14th of October, Massena, and Parochel, our Ambassador in Switzerland, held a conference at Aram.
We hear from Berlin, of the 11th of October, that from the representations of the Chargé d'Affaires of France, an order has been expedited from the Cabinet, to Gen. Breuchner, commander of the Cordon of Welophelia, to send immediately from the line of demarcation all the Dutch officers which are assembled on the frontiers of Holland.
October 26. The King of Prussia has recalled his resident at Hamburg.
Eighty couriers from Breff are now due. We have just received the first part of the Convention concluded between the General of division, Garnier, commanding the French, Italian, and other troops in the Roman State and Commodore Trowbridge, commanding the English squadron, forming the blockade of Civita Vecchia. We shall give this important paper at full length as soon as we shall receive the whole of it.
They write from Giaras, of the 14th of October, that the French troops had possessed themselves of Scholberg, where the enemy was strongly entrenched; but the fear of being turned had obliged them to pass the Rhine, and retire into the Tyrol. Admiral Massaredo is immediately to depart for Breff.
October 27. The army of General Brune is about to reinforce the army of the Rhine.
They write from Marfeilles, October 16. "We have had here for some days, under quarantine, the garrison of Civita Vecchia."
This Day Published, AND FOR SALE BY JOHN ORMROD, No. 41, Cheapside Street, A Funeral Oration, On the Death of General Washington, DELIVERED At the request of Congress, on the 26th of December, BY MAJOR GENERAL LEE. [Price 12 and half Cents.] January 9.
RICHARD ROBINETT AND FREDERICK KISSELMAN HAVING entered into Copartnership under the firm of ROBINETT AND KISSELMAN, inform their friends and the public that they will always have for sale a large and general assortment of Groceries at their wholesale store No. 105 South Water street. Jan. 6.
IN CUSTODY In Middlesex Gaol, the following Negro men, to wit:
A DAM HILL, says he belongs to William Mc. Mattee, of Philadelphia, 21 years old. Henry Hall, about 6 feet high, supposed to be about 26 years old, and some gentleman's coachman or waiter, and from his dialect, judged to be from Maryland or Virginia. Isaac Harmon, 5 feet, 6 or 7 inches high, very black, about 20 years old, says he lived at the Head of Elk, state of Delaware.
The owners of the above Negroes are requested to pay charges and take them away, before the 21st of January ensuing, or they shall on that day be sold to defray expenses and gaol fees at the city of New-Brunswick, and State of New-Jersey. PETER KEENON. December 31-9.
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 Banham handkerchiefs, 100 pieces of black Perfians, Spermaceti Candles, Sheet Copper and Copper bolts, Printing, writing and wrapping paper, A few hogheads of Tobacco, Richmond in specimen Jan. 6.
TO BE SOLD BY JESSE & ROBERT PAUL. Old Port Wine, in pipes, hds. 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.
ROSS AND SIMSON, HAVE FOR SALE, 3000 pieces 1st and 2d quality Russia Duck, 100 pieces Ravens Duck (superior) Botton Beef in Barrels, COSSAS A few bales Bengal HUMHUMS. 1100 bushels St. Martins Salt. April 11.
MADEIRA WINE. THE Subscriber, has just received a quantity of HILL'S First Quality London Particular Wine, In Pipes, Hds. and Quarter Casks. GIDEON HILL WELLS. Philadelphia, Nov. 12. 31w2m
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.
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 SEECE, Treasurer. Philadelphia, January 1, 1800.
CITY OF WASHINGTON. THE POSSESSORS OF OBLIGATIONS or CERTIFICATES signed by the Subscriber, for undivided Shares or Lots on his purchase within the city of Washington, who have not yet applied for and received their Deeds, are hereby notified, that their several Titles will be duly completed to the order of those who in conformity with the terms of the said Certificates, do make the Payments in full therefor, either to Thomas M'Lean & Co. or to the Subscriber at Philadelphia, on or at any time before the 31st day of May next. Samuel Blodget. December 17.
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.
United States, Pennsylvania District. 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 Lackawaxen, 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 Roberts, John Till, Stoppel Medera, George Warton, Zachariah Ferris, Benjamin Hancock, George Till, Edward Welsted, Thomas Wiggins, James Thompson, George Morton, Joseph Whitehead, George Streeton, Patrick Connolly, Friend Streeton, Thomas Griffy, 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. Marshall's Office, Philadelphia, Jan. 4.
These two tracts do not contain the full quantity of the original warrants; part of them having been conveyed away. 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 looks 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, Jun. Captain 10th Regiment Infantry. Jan. 7.
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 of Mr. Francis. Mr. F's Balls in future will be on every other Thursday. The second ball to be on Thursday the 23d inst. Mr. Francis likewise informs his Scholars, that proceeding his first Ball, a PRACTISING NIGHT will take place on Thursday the 9th inst. (for his Scholars only) and be continued in future every other Saturday. Days of instruction at his Academy, Tuesday's and Saturdays at 3 o'clock in the afternoon for his young pupils, and at six in the evening for those of a more advanced age. N. B.—The Ball Room may be engaged on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, for private Balls, Concerts, &c. For terms apply to Mr. F. No. 70, North Eighth Street. November 6.
THE MARSHALL'S OFFICE Is removed to No. 250 High Street. January 6.
MATTHEW M'CONNELL Having opened an Office in Cbesnut street, (A few doors above Fourth) At No. 141, AND again commenced the business of Negotiations, in the various kinds of Public Stock, Bills of Exchange, &c. &c. Engages to do every thing in his power to give satisfaction to those who may think proper to employ him. He means to confine his transactions to the Agency and Commission line, in all such business as is common to the profession. The purchase and sale of Houses and Lots in and near the City will be attended to, and also of Lands, when that business again revives. November 19.
Southern Mails. THE Mails for all the Offices on the main line, between this Office and Petersburg, Virginia, will be closed here every day, (Sundays excepted) at half past 7 o'clock, A. M. And the Mails for the Post Towns on the main line, through North-Carolina, South-Carolina and Georgia as far as Savannah, will be closed with the Southern Mails every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. The water Mails between this and Charleston are discontinued. Post Office, Philadelphia, December 30, 1799.
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 10th instant. G. SIMPSON, Cashier. January 6.
BANK OF PENNSYLVANIA, December 31, 1799. THE STOCKHOLDERS of the Bank of Pennsylvania, are hereby notified that their Annual Meeting will be held at the Bank on Friday the 31st day of January next, at ten o'clock. And the Stockholders of the said Bank, are also notified, that an election of six new Directors to serve for one year, will be held at this Bank on Monday the 3rd day of February next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon. JONATHAN SMITH, Cashier.
Extract from the seventh section of the Act of Incorporation. "Article 2nd. Not more than fourteen of the Directors elected by the Stockholders, and actually in office, exclusive of the President, shall be eligible for the next succeeding year; but the Director who shall be President at the time of an election may always be re-elected."
BANK OF PENNSYLVANIA, January 1, 1800. THE Directors have this day declared a Dividend of eighteen dollars on each share of Bank Stock, for the last six months, which will be paid to the Stockholders or their legal Representatives, after the 10th inst. By order of the Board, JONA. SMITH, Cashier.
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.
INSURANCE COMPANY OF THE State of Pennsylvania. THE STOCKHOLDERS are hereby notified, that an Election will be held at the Company's Office, on Monday the 13th January next, at eleven o'clock, for Thirteen Directors for the ensuing year. JAMES S. COX, President. December 16.
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.

The Gazette.
PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 10.
MR. FENNO,
The Author of the following Extract in compliance with the solicitations of several of his friends, has permitted me to hand it to you, for publication. Yours,
A Subscriber.
Extract from a Sermon, "on the shortness, uncertainty, and consequent value of Human Life," preached, December 29, 1799, in Christ Church and St. Peter's, by the Rev. Mr. ABERCROMBIE, one of the assistant Ministers of said Churches.
"BRETHREN; another year of our probation is almost gone, and all our thoughts, words, and actions, during its silent, yet rapid revolution, are recorded in Heaven's awful register; on whose important page depends our future happiness or woe. Tremendous thought! But, what says Conscience, that still, small, piercing voice within? Can we with composed and sedate gaze behold, in the unclouded mirror of the Gospel, our late departed hours pass in review, and say the whispers peace? Or rather, during such inspection, doth not that faithful monitor proclaim, that they are gone to testify against us "trumpet-tonged;" and that, like Belshazzar of old, when weighed in the balance of the Sanctuary, we shall be "found wanting?" If so, well may we, like that unhappy monarch, be "greatly terrified, and the thoughts of our heart trouble us;" since Life is so uncertain, Death inevitable, and Judgment the sure consequence.
To creatures, therefore, of a day, whose every passing moment hangs suspended by the trembling hand of Time, over Eternity's immeasurable gulph, by a tie tighter than air; to creatures of such uncertain duration, surely the termination of a year is a most important event, and should induce a solemn pause, in which we should seriously review our conduct during the past portion of our life, and form such resolution for the improvement of that which is to come, as will enable us to give an account with joy, and to render up our stewardship with the consciousness of fidelity. Time to come, like that which is past, will assuredly be accompanied by disease and death; and if reflection extends its scrutiny only over the expiring year, it will furnish many affecting proofs of the uncertainty of human life. How many hearts have been rent and torn, by the agonizing pangs of separation from their fondest, their closest connections? And do we not now behold the Ensigns of the universal and irresistible Conqueror of our species displayed in this solemn Temple, to mark his triumph over one of the most celebrated of the sons of men? Over one, in whom was centered the affections and confidence of a whole nation, however its individuals were distinguished by sect, or separated by opposition of political sentiment; over one, who was elevated by the general suffrages of his countrymen, to the most conspicuous superiority of station, both in military and civil life; over one, of whom, could the wishes of a grateful people have availed to protract his life, they would have been loudly expressed, in one voice, with the ardor and enthusiasm of Eastern sublimity, O WASHINGTON, LIVE FOR EVER! —Yet, even he, this far-famed Hero, Sage, and Patriot, now lies numbered with the mighty dead: at a period too, the most interesting and eventful in the annals of time; amid the convulsion of empires, and the general distress of nations! He is gone down, however, to the grave, "the house appointed for all the living," in peace,
"Bearing his blushing honors thick upon him," and at the same time exhibiting a striking example, of the indiscriminate, and sometimes unexpected arrest of death, to a mourning continent, and an admiring world.
As some majestic Promontory, which rears its awful head on high, the pride and ornament of its native soil, is, by the unceasing torrent of the ocean, gradually undermined, and at length tumbles, with terrific noise, and wide extended ruin, into the vast ocean; —so fell this distinguished Chief, —suddenly exchanging Time for Eternity.
When uncommon worth forsakes the world, 'tis impious not to mourn: Yet, even under the present bereavement, tho' the sigh of patriotism, and the tear of affection, pour forth their natural but unavailing tribute of affliction, the soothing accents of Religion, whose peculiar office it is to administer consolation, forbid us to indulge excess of grief, or to "sorrow as those who have no hope," by affording us the most unquestionable assurance, that the next state of existence, being a state of retribution, will prove to the virtuous a state of reward and happiness supreme, where "there shall be no more sickness, sorrow, pain, or death."
But one unclouded, never-ending day, Of Peace, Serenity, and Joy.
MR. FENNO,
A Correspondent wishes to be informed who is the Editor of the Aurora, a newspaper published lately in this city by B. F. Bache. —It has been said, the Editor is one Duane—who published a pamphlet with the signature of "Jasper Dwight of Vermont," insulting the late General Washington for recommending a regard to Religion, in his farewell address, upon quitting the Chief Magistracy of the Union.—Others have been named as being the real, if not nominal Editors. There is so little regard for decency, or truth in the late ebullitions which have made their appearance in that paper, that information who the Editor is, will be grateful to the public. A. B. January, 9th, 1800.
There is every prospect, that Mr. Wooton, Fellow of Nassau Hall, Princeton, a Federal Gentleman, of the first class, and a man of various, extensive and solid powers, tho' not brilliant and flashy, will succeed old Havers, the Shelter-Island Philosopher, so untimely gone to the other Continent.
"Extitum Nymphæ, crudeli funere, Daphnim Flant." The conduct of Monroe, Madison, Burr, &c. towards the younger fry of sedition, is like that of their prototypes, the French revolutionists, towards their conscripts. These are sent forward to bear the brunt of opposition, while the veterans skulk secure behind them, their stalking-horses.
MARRIED—Last evening by the Rev. Mr. Shaeffer, Germantown, Mr. JOHN EDMUND HARWOOD, to Miss ELIZA FRANKLIN BACHE.
The following letters were sent on Wednesday to Congress, by the President of the United States.
Gentlemen of the Senate, and Gentlemen of the House of Representatives,
IN compliance with the request in one of the resolutions of Congress of the 21st of December last, I transmitted a copy of those resolutions by my Secretary, Mr. Shaw, to Mrs. Washington, assuring her of the profound respect Congress will ever bear to her person and character—of their condolence in the late affliction dispensation of Providence, and entreating her assent to the interment of the remains of GENERAL GEORGE WASHINGTON, in the manner expressed in the first resolution.—As the sentiments of that virtuous lady, not less beloved by this nation, than she is at present greatly afflicted, can never be so well expressed as in her own words; I transmit to Congress her original letter.
It would be an attempt of too much delicacy, to make any comments upon it; —but there can be no doubt that the nation at large, as well as all the branches of the government, will be highly gratified by any arrangement which may diminish the sacrifice she makes of her individual feelings. JOHN ADAMS. United States, Jan. 8, 1800.
Mrs. WASHINGTON'S LETTER.
Mount Vernon, Dec. 31, 1799
Sir, WHILE I feel with keenest anguish, the late dispensations of Divine Providence, I cannot be insensible to the mournful tributes of respect and veneration, which are paid to the memory of my dear deceased Husband; and, as his best services and most anxious wishes, were always devoted to the welfare and happiness of his country, to know that they were truly appreciated, and gratefully remembered, affords no inconsiderable consolation.
Taught by the great example, which I have so long had before me never to oppose my private wishes to the public will, I must consent to the request made by Congress, which you have had the goodness to transmit to me, and in doing this I need not, I cannot say what a sacrifice of individual feeling I make to a sense of public duty.
With grateful acknowledgment and unfeigned thanks for the personal respect and evidences of condolence expressed by Congress and yourself,
I remain very respectfully, Sir,
Your most obedient and Humble Servant, MARTHA WASHINGTON.
The President of the United States.
ANCOCUS TOLL BRIDGE.
AT a meeting of the President, Managers and Company, held on the 6th day of January, 1800, a Dividend of Nine Dollars and an half, on each share was declared, and will be paid on application to the subscriber. WILLIAM COXE, Jun. Treasurer. Burlington, 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.
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.
CONGRESS.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. THURSDAY, January 9.
Mr. Thatcher presented a petition of Nathaniel Pelican, stating that he had by means of great expense and trouble, procured the condemnation of a ship or vessel, for having been employed in the Slave Trade, a traffic inimical to the laws of this country; and praying to be allowed such part of the proceeds of the said vessel as may be deemed a sufficient compensation: Which was read and referred to the Secretary of the Treasury.
Mr. Gallatin presented a memorial of David Jones and William Rogers, Brigade Chaplains in the service of the United States during the Revolutionary war, praying for donation lands; which was read and referred to the committee of Claims.
The House went into committee of the whole on Mr. Nicholson's resolution for reducing the army establishment, Mr. Morris in the chair, when Messrs. Nicholson, R. Williams, Randolph, Jones and Cliborne, spoke in favor of it; and Messrs. Shephard Otis, Harrison and Hill, against it.
A motion was then made that the committee rise, report progress and ask leave to sit again, which was carried, 51 members rising in the affirmative. Adjourned.
Gazette Marine List.
Port of Philadelphia.
Brig Liberty, Duer, of this port, from Trinidad to Curacoa, was captured on the 22d Oct. in sight of and ordered for Cumana, by a Sbr. privateer of 8 guns and 35 men, chiefly Spaniards, owned by two Spaniards, and fitted out of Maracaibo, with a commission from Guadalupe. Papers were sent up to Guadalupe.
Schr. Boston of this port, is captured and sent into Cumana.
The Effie frigate, capt. Preble, arrived at Newport the 27th ult.
The United States ship George Washington, of 32 guns, now lying in the harbor of Newport, is advertised in a New York paper for sale—The principal part of her timber is live oak and red cedar. She is above 700 tons, very burthensome, and calculated for the India trade.
The convoy for the East Indies, we hear, was to sail from Newport in the course of last week.
The ship Hope, capt. Robertson, from Batavia, 117 days, arrived at Newport the 28th ult.
Mr. Brattell, 1st mate, and part of the crew of the ship Russell, of Newport, returned in the Hope. The Russell was captured on her outward bound passage in the freights of Sunday, by the same privateer which captured the Aurora, of this port.
Left at Batavia, ship Richmond, Glen, of Philadelphia, and Sidney, Nickerson, of Baltimore, expecting to sail in 10 or 12 days.
Dec. 11, lat. 26, 37, long. 59, W. capt. R. spoke the brig Eliza, from Philadelphia, bound to Antigua; the wind blowing fresh could not learn the captain's name.
Extract of a letter dated Cape Francois, Dec. 20, 1799.
A list of American vessels now in this Port: Ship Diana of Boston, J. Thomas, master. Schr. Happy Couple, of Philadelphia, Trummel.
Swan, of Plymouth, Bartlett. Jane, of Baltimore, Phillips. Two Brothers, Baltimore, Fry. Eutan, of Philadelphia, Eneas. Sloop Nancy, of do. Fullerton. Merchant, of Wilmington (Delaware) Gyner.
Schr. Trimmer, of Baltimore, Murphy. Patsey, of Charleston, Bever. Harriet, of Philadelphia, Shewel. Brig Tyger, of Baltimore, Baden. Schr. Minerva, of do. Durham.
Sea Flower, of Boston, Tredwell. Brig Daniel and Mary, of Boston, Fairly. Sloop Sally, of Philadelphia, Perry. Schr. Hetty, Baltimore, Manson.
Nancy, of Philadelphia, Logan. Mary of Newburyport, Davis. Brig Nancy, of Baltimore, Crieghton. Schr. William, of do.
Hannah, of Marblehead, Hooper. Eagle, of Savannah, Bland. Fly, of Norfolk, Grose. Beauty, of Duxberry, Smith. Sloop William, of Philadelphia, Webb. Schr. Swift, of Philadelphia, Barber.
The United States frigate General Green put in here to repair some damages sustained in a gale.
Gen. Toussaint is victorious over Rigaud and it is generally expected here, he will soon put an end to the war. The price of Coffee, Sugar and Logwood is falling very fast.
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.
NEW THEATRE.
This Evening, January 10, Will be presented (by desire) the celebrated Comedy, called
THE STRANGER.
To which will be added, (for the 3d time this season) a Grand Dramatic Romance called
BLUE BEARD; Or, FEMALE CURIOSITY.
Written by G. Colman, Esq.—Performed upwards of one hundred and fifty nights, at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London.
[With additional Scenery, Machinery and Decorations, entirely new.]
Abomeique, (Blue Beard) Mr. Warick—Selim, (Lover of Fatima) Mr. Cain—Ibrahim, Mr. Francis—Shacabec, Mr. Bernard—Hassan, Mr. Blissett.
Fatima, (betrothed to Blue Beard) Miss Broadhurst—Irene, (Sister to Fatima) Mrs. Warrell—Beda, Mrs. Oldmixon.
Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre.
Price one Dollar; Six, three quarters of a dollar, and Gallery half a dollar.
Gentlemen and Ladies are requested to send their servants to keep places, in the Boxes at 3 o'clock.
VIVAT RES PUBLICA.
ENGRAVING.
By TRENCHARD & WESTON, IN THE FOLLOWING BRANCHES, viz.
PORTRAIT and Landscape, Maps, Charts, Bills of Exchange and Promissory Notes, Type and Wood Cuts, Seal Cuttings, Jewellery and Silver work, &c. Every article in the above line will be executed with neatness and dispatch, and on the most reasonable terms by applying at the South west corner of Fourth and Spruce Streets.
N. B.—Orders from abroad will be thankfully received and punctually attended to. January 10. taw4w.
TO BE LET,
A large WHARE and STONE STORE, In the District of Southwark,
THE same where the Frigate was. The Whare has been occupied as a Lumber Yard for several years, and is very suitable for that business, being about one hundred feet front on the river. Possession will be given on the 1st of May next. Also, a Three Story Brick House adjoining the said whare, possession of which may be had immediately. Enquire of
JOSHUA HUMPHREYS. January 10. taw3w.
BUILDING LOTS,
TO BE LET ON GROUND RENT. SEVEN LOTS,
UPON Seventh Street, between Chestnut and Walnut Streets. These lots are in a neighborhood where large improvements are carrying on, and Property consequently much increasing in value. There is also a large quantity of building materials likely to be ready for sale near the spot in a short time, which circumstances render these Lots an object worth attention. Also to let
Three other Lots, upon Seventh Street, between Market and Arch Streets, and near the Mint of the United States. For further particulars please to apply to the Subscribers at their Office, No. 124, South Fourth, near Spruce Street.
BONSALL & SHOEMAKER. January 10. cod2w.
DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA,
TO WIT.
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the 9th day of January, in the 24th year of the Independence of the United States of America, John Rowlett of the said district hath deposited in this Office the Title of a Book, the right whereof he claims as Proprietor, in the words following, to wit:
"Table of Discount or Interest, (accurately calculated) from 50 cents to 5000 dollars, from 1 day to 123 days inclusive, at 6 per cent."
In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, intitled "An Act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts and Books to the Authors and Proprietors of such copies, during the time therein mentioned."
(Signed) D. CALDWELL, Clerk of the District of Pennsylvania. January 10.
DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA,
TO WIT.
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the 9th day of January, in the 24th year of the Independence of the United States of America, John Rowlett of the said district hath deposited in this Office the Title of a Book, the right whereof he claims as Proprietor, in the words following, to wit:
"Table of Discount or Interest (accurately calculated) from 50 cents to 5000 dollars, from 1 day to 123 days inclusive at 7 per cent."
In conformity to the act of Congress of the United States, intitled "An act for the encouragement of learning by securing the copies of Maps, Charts and Books to the Authors and Proprietors of such copies, during the time therein mentioned."
(Signed) D. CALDWELL, Clerk of the District of Pennsylvania. January 10.
GENTEELE ACCOMMODATIONS,
For several Gentlemen, At No. 39, North Sixth Street. January 10. df.
CAUTION.
ALL persons are hereby cautioned against purchasing or receiving in payment, two Drafts of Thomas Truitt on William Patterson, in my favor, dated 7th September last, endorsed by the Commissioners of the Federal building in the city of Washington and myself, one payable at nine months after date, for 617 dollars 71 cents, the other payable at six months after date, for 1751 dollars 83 cents, the same having been forwarded from the Post Office in this city on the 6th in, enclosed in a letter from the Commissioners aforesaid, (the proprietors of said drafts) to David Harris, Baltimore, who has not yet received them. Mr. Patterson being apprised on the misappropriation of these drafts, will not pay them to any person or persons without hearing further from the Commissioners.
THOMAS MUNROE. W.ington, 23 December, 1799.
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, also 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 Tobacco, Grocers, Inspectors, Gaugers, Measurers, Shipwrights, Shipcarpenters, Lip Joiners, Mast-makers, Boat-builders, Black-makers, Sail-makers, Riggers, Caulkers, Sawdusters, Mariners, or any Tradesman, he need 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 Cakes Baker, Sea-cooks, White Washers, Washers, Chinamen, Men-servants or Maids, Glaziers, Paper Hangers, Painters, Cedar Cooper, Locksmith, Blacksmith, Bickelers, Plasterer or Joiner. 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, Shoe-makers, Dyers and Nurses, or a STRANGER to the small convenient Boarding House, Hair-Dresser, Haver, Taylor, Tank-maker. 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. ¶(4D)dtf
PRATT & KINTZING,
No. 95 N. Water Street, HAVE ON HAND, [January the 11, 1800.]
The following GOODS, entitled to Draw-back, which they offer for sale at moderate Prices and liberal Credit
150 boxes and bales Ticklenburghs, Hempen Linens and Osnabrigs, 50 boxes Pattembernes or white Rolls, 25 ditto Bilsfield Li. en., 11 ditto Crens and Crens à la Morlaix, 2 ditto Britanniass, Brown Rolls, Ditto Hessians, Polish Rolls, Bed Ticks, Seamois, Arabias, Empty Bags, Oil Cloths, Shoes and Slippers, Soap and Upper Leather, Quills and Sealing Wax, A package Gold and Silver Watches, 8 cases Hoes, 20 cases Nails, assorted, from 3 to 20, 16 cases Ironmongery, assorted, 13 pipes old Port Wine, 25 boxes Tumblers, assorted, 200 boxes best Hamburg Window Glass, 8 by 10, &c. &c. 1 chest assorted Looking Glasses, Several large elegant Ditto, 50 cases Pearl Barley, A few tons Rall Brimstone, 20 kegs Yellow Ochre, A few barrels Naval Stores, 1500 empty Demijohns, 6 hogheads Coffee Mills, 10 hds. Hogs Bristles, first and second quality, 40 tons Russian Hemp, Holland Steel, 2 hds. Dutch Glue, Toys, Lentils, Stales and Pencils, Tapes, Blocking Twine, Stone Pickling Pots, &c. &c. January 4. w5f3w
NEW LINE OF STAGES
To New York,
By the shortest and most pleasant road—passing through Frankford, Bullington, Newtown, Pennington, Millstone, Boundbrook, Union Camp, Scotch Plains, Springfield and Newark.
THE SWIFTSURE
Starts from the Green Tree, No. 50 North Fourth Street, at 8 o'clock every morning, and arrives at New York early the next evening. From New York it starts at 9 o'clock every day (Sundays excepted) and arrives at Philadelphia, early the next evening.
Fare for passengers 5 dollars, way passengers 6 cents per mile. Each passenger allowed 21lb of baggage. One hundred and fifty weight of baggage to pay the same as a passenger. All baggage to be at the risk of the owner, unless insured and receipted for by the clerks of the different offices. Rate of insurance one per cent.
*$6* Apply to JOHN M'CALLA, No. 50 North Fourth Street, Philadelphia, and to WILLIAM VANDERVOOT, No. 48 Courtland Street, N. E. corner of Greenwich Street, New York. January 3. codtf
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. df.
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 Bullington on the new road to New York, about eleven miles from Philadelphia.
For terms apply to the subscriber in Bullington.
THOMAS PAUL. NB. Who offers for Sale, several Building Lots, pleasantly situated in the village of Bullington. December 21. 2aw3w
One Cent Reward.
RAN AWAY from the Subscriber, an Apprentice named James Wells, 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. codtf

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 necessarily previous 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 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 frettained, and a quantity of land on each side found by these offsets.
Ten examples of dividing land, with many subdivisions, 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, Bookellers, No. 8. High-Street, Philadelphia, Bonfall 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. 3awam.
JUST RECEIVED, From the BOSTON Manufactory, A QUANTITY OF WINDOW GLASS, Of different sizes, FOR SALE BY ISAAC HARVEY, JUN.
N. B. Any size or sizes that may be wanted cut larger than 19 by 19 can be had from said manufactory, on being ordered; and attention given to forward on any orders that may be left for that purpose—Apply at No. 9, South Water-Street, as above. July 8. dtf
Valuable Property for Sale, In Chester, near Sixth Street, directly opposite CONGRESS HALL.
A LOT of ground, about 61 feet front in Chester and 73 feet deep, wherein is a good frame house, now in the tenure of Samuel Berge subject to a ground rent of $20. 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 Chestnut Street, next door to the premises. March 5. tuth fawf
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 fifty land warrants;—
Now therefore, unless the said John Cleves Symmes shall appear, give special bail, and receive a declaration at the suit of the plaintiff, judgment will be entered against him, and his property herein attached, will be sold agreeably to the statute in such case made and provided.
Aaron Ogden, Clerk, &c. Elizabeth-town, July 8, 1790 (11) sawiam
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 Poquelin 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 barn-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. sawif.
Taxes of Lycoming County. JOHN KIDD, Treasurer, By Direction of the Commissioners of Lycoming county, attends at Philadelphia to receive the Taxes affixed 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 informing them and the public that he intends opening one at his house in Fifth Street, opposite the State house yard, on Monday the 4th of November, on the following terms:
Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
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. sawif
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 patronage 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 Nicholas Van Staphorst and Nicholas Hubbard of Amsterdam, to wit,
No 29,160 for 5 shares, 29,161 for 2 shares, 29,162 for 2 shares, 29,163 for 1 share, 29,212 for 4 shares, and 29,216 for 5 shares; and the following certificates of the debt of the United States, on the books of the Treasury, to wit, No 12,821, dated February 22, 1799, for 4000 dollars three per cent, in name of Nicholas Van Staphorst of Amsterdam, No 12,824 same date, for 4000 dollars three per cent, in name of Jacob Van Staphorst of Amsterdam, No 16,348 dated 19th February 1799, for 383 dollars 33 cents of six per cent, and No 12,818 same date, for 633 dollars 23 cents of three per cent, in the name of Nicholas Hubbard of Amsterdam, and No 12,817 dated 19th February 1799, for 1700 dollars three per cent, 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 INTENDED 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. dtf.
Horses to Winter. HORSES will be taken to winter at Prospect Hill, at the 14 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, on the premises.
N. B. Will not be answerable for accidents or escape, but will take every precaution to prevent either. November 12. sawif
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. SCHENK 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.
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. 93r.
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. coif
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 of 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 of beginning; together with all the privileges, immunities and appurtenances thereof, including all islands within the said bounds, and containing at least One Million acres, probably more. The premises if not before disposed of by private sale, will be sold by Public Vendue, on Thursday the twenty-first day of November next, at eleven o'clock, A. M. at Concert-Hall, kept by Mr. James Villa in Boston. For further particulars and terms, apply to either of the subscribers.
CHARLES CUSHING, Boston, Oct. 2, 1799. GEORGE LANE, 1212. M. M. HAYS.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT. March 11th, 1799. PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, Pursuant to the act of Congress passed on the 1st day of June, one thousand, seven hundred and ninety six, entitled "an act regulating the grants of land appropriated for military services, and for the society of United Brethren for propagating the gospel among the Heathen;" and the act supplementary to the said 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, viz. "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 Tuckabatchee branch of the Mufkingum river at the crossing place above Fort Lawrence; thence down the said river, to the point where a line run due west from the place of beginning, will intersect the said river; thence along the line to run to the place of beginning;" has been divided into townships of five miles square, and fractional parts of townships; and that 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 twelfth day of February in the year one thousand eight hundred, will immediately after the said day, be determined by lot, in the mode prescribed 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 elected by them respectively, and such of the said holders as shall not designate their locations on the said day, shall be postponed in locating their warrants to all other holders of registered warrants.
The holders of warrants for military services sufficient to cover one or more quarter townships or tracts of four thousand acres each; shall, at any time after Monday the 17th day of February, 1800 and prior to the first day of January, 1802, be allowed to register the said warrants in manner aforesaid, and forthwith to make locations therefor on any tract or tracts of land not before located.
All warrants or claims for lands on account of military services, which shall not be registered and located before the first day of January, 1802, are by the supplementary act of Congress herein before recited, passed on the second day of March, 1799, declared to be forever barred.
Given under my hand at Philadelphia, the day and year above mentioned. OLIVER WOLCOTT, Sec. of the Treasury.
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 of the 5th installment, which will become due 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 Office, respectively, for the amount of the four first installments, or one moiety of the sums expressed in the subscription certificates:—No certificates 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.
MEDFORD AND WILLIS, Have received since their late Advertisement— 282 Crates Queens Ware, 260 Casks Nails, 6 Trunks Madras Pullicatts, 2 Cases Gloves, 1 Trunk Silk Hosiery, 1 Bale Superfine Broad Cloaths, 10 Bales White, Blue and Green, Kendal Cottons, 10 Bales Bocking Baize,
ON HAND, 2 Bales Spotted and Green Rugs, 1 Trunk Scarlet Cardinals, 2 Bales Sail Canvas, 5 Trunks Gingham, 11 Tons Peterburg Hemp,
* * * Orders, remittances or communications for the following Houses, for whom Medford and Willis are agents, may still pass through their medium, viz. John and Robert Holt and Co.—Rockdale, William Dibbs—Leicester, Claud Johnson—Birmingham.
Enquire of JOHN DORSEY. December 10. 3aw8w.
FOR SALE, By SIMON WALKER, No. 78 Walnut Street,
ENGLISH PORTER and Brown Stout, in cases of 6 dozen each, Tin Plates, Sheet, bar and pig Lead, Cannon with carriages complete, 4, 6, 9 and 12 pounders, Shot, round, double headed and canister, Iron Crow Bars, Cutlasses, boarding Pikes, Muskets and Pistols, Rough Brimstone, Cream of Tartar, Porter, Wine and Claret Bottles, Six Inventors of Earthen Ware, each about thirty crates, assorted White and red Lead, yellow and black Paint, and Spanish Brown, Russian Bristles, Hardware and Sadlery, assorted in crates, An Invoice of German Platters and Britannias.
December 3. coibw
Fashionable Millinery. ELIZA M'DOUGALL, NO. 134, MARKET-STREET,
HAS just received per ship Thomas Chalkley and Adriana, from London, an elegant assortment of the most fashionable MILLINERY, viz. Chemille rosette FEATHERS Fancy Flowers Black tiffany flowers Wreaths Pink, yellow and blue crape, full dress cases Do. do. do. Nelson's bonnets Infant's pipe straw bonnets Maid's fancy do. do. Woman's do. do. Do. do. shads Do. do. hats Fancy bugle shoe rocs Do. do. trimmings Black, white, blue, yellow, pink and orange scraps Black, white and green gauze veils Do. gauze cloaks
N. B. And per Harmony, just arrived, a further assortment of Millinery. June 26. coif.
Genoa Silk Velvets. Two Bales of Genoa Silk Velvets of a very superior quality for sale by JOHN ALLEN.
ALSO, Sheathing Copper and Nails. 1100 pair of Men's ready made Shoes. Glass Ware in crates. Lamp Black. December 19. coist.
Schuylkill Permanent Bridge. THE STOCKHOLDERS ARE hereby notified, that an Election for a President, twelve Directors and a Treasurer, will be held at their office, No. 23 North Fifth Street, on Monday the 6th day of January next, at 10 o'clock. JOHN DORSEY, Secretary pro tem. December 4, 1799. sawie
Insurance of Company North America. THE STOCKHOLDERS ARE hereby informed that a Stated Meeting of the Company will be held at their Office on the 14th day of January next (being the second Tuesday in the month) for the election of twenty-five Directors for the ensuing year. EBEN HAZARD, Secretary. December 12. m&h.114j.
BUILDING LOTS. To be Sold or Let, on Ground Rent, FOUR LOTS of 25 feet 3 inches each front, on Chestnut Street, and 130 feet deep to a 16 foot Alley, being the same ground on which O'Ellers hotel stood. Also, FIVE LOTS on George Street, of 1 foot front, and 90 feet deep to a 16 foot Alley. ** For terms enquire of Thomas Billington, opposite the City Tavern, or Robert Kidd, Market Street, January 1, 1800. co2w
At a Court of Common Pleas held at Pittsburgh for the county of Allegheny, the first Monday of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, before the Hon. Alexander Addison, Esquire, President and his Associates, Judges of the same Court.
ON the petition of David Wallace, a prisoner in the jail of said County, praying to be discharged according to the provisions of the acts of assembly made for the relief of insolvent debtors. The Court order that the prisoner be brought before them at Pittsburgh on the first Monday of March next, that his petition and his creditors may be then heard, and direct, that notice of his application be published in the United States and Pittsburgh Gazettes three weeks, the last of which shall be at least fifteen days before the time of hearing. By order of the court. JAMES BRICEON, Proth'y. Jan. 3. 12*3w
FOR SALE, SEVERAL VALUABLE BUILDING LOTS, Near the corner of Arch and Ninth Streets. ALSO, To be Sold or Let, A number of excellent Pasture Lots, On the Wissahickon road, about half a mile from the city. Enquire at No. 39 North Sixth Street, November 15. dozwef
The Swift-Sure, A NEW LINE OF STAGES, NOW RUNNING BETWEEN PHILADELPHIA & NEW-YORK, By the short and pleasant road of Burlington, Newtown, Scotch-Plains, 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 Through-Fare from Philadelphia to New-York. During the present year, a minute survey of it has been taken, and its superiority over the Old Road, both in winter and summer, has been clearly ascertained.—There are good bridges over all the other waters than the Delaware, and here the crossing is performed with great safety and in less than half the time required at the Trenton Ferry. The road is several miles shorter than the old road, but this is amongst the least of its advantages, because daily experience proves to us, that dispatch as well as comfort in travelling principally depend on the goodness of the road and the levelness of the country, and, in these respects, the New Road is, beyond all comparison, the best. It prevents one 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 travelling in the latter season peculiarly agreeable.
The Swift-Sure starts from PHILADELPHIA, at 6 o'clock every morning (Sundays excepted) from the GREEN TREE, opposite the Lutheran Church, North Fourth Street. It goes through Frankford to Burlington, where it stops to Breakfast; from Burlington it goes through Newtown to Pennypack-town to dinner; from Pennypack-town through Hopewell, Millstone, Boundbrook, 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 Bardou, 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 rails, 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 feet and leaded horses, and committed to the care of intelligent sober and obliging drivers. The proprietors themselves live at the different towns and villages where the stages will stop, so that the conduct of the persons they employ is continually an object of their attention.—They take care also to see that the passengers are well provided for and properly treated at the taverns, and that no sort of rudeness or insolence is practised upon them; in short, they have spared neither pains nor expense to render the SWIFT-SURE the very best 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 the taverns, spoke of with the highest satisfaction.
JOHN MCALLA, Philadelphia. THOS. PAUL, Burlington. JOSEPH THORNTON, } New-York. NICHOLAS VAN KOOP, } JACOB KESLER, } JOHN MOREHEAD, Pennypack-town. T. KILLMAN, near Millstone. ELIAS COMBES, Bound Brook. R. SANBURY, Scotch Plains. ISAAC RAWLE, } Spring- ROBERT PEARSON, } field.
June 22. PRINTED BY F. W. FENN.