Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser. (Philadelphia [Pa.]), 1796-10-04 00:00:00

Washington Lottery. The Twenty-fourth & Twenty-fifth Days Drawing of the Washington Lottery, No. 2, are received at the office No. 234, Market-street, where tickets may be examined. N. B. Information given where tickets in all the other lotteries may be procured. October 1, 1796.
For Sale,  The Time of a Negro Man, Who is a good Cook. Enquire at No. 109, South Water-Street. Sept. 23.
For Sale,  SCHOONER LIVELY, now lying at Hamilton's wharf, built in 1794 by Mr. Yard at Kensington; of live-oak and red-cedar—her dimensions are 68 feet 3 inches length on deck—19 feet 6 inches breadth, of beam—8 feet 4 inches hold—and carries between 5 and 600 barrels flour. The Lively being well known here, any further description of her is unnecessary—suffice it to say, that she is not inferior to any vessel of her size in any respect whatever—For terms apply to EDWARD DUNANT, No. 149, fourth Front-street. Who will have landed on Wednesday morning next, from on board the Brigantine LIBERTY, Captain MURPHEY, at said wharf.
100 Hogsheads prime Havana Molasses. He has likewise for sale, A few packages of CALCUTTA GOODS —Consisting of, Pungim Cloths, Humhums, Tickerys, Baftas, Coffees, Barhar, Pulicat and Bandanno Handkerchiefs, Guzenahs, black Tassies, Choppa Romalls, Garrahs, Patna Chintzes &c. &c. Also A quantity of Rhode-Island CHEESE, Spermaceti CANS, OLES, and a few barrels BEEF. October 3.
Valuable Real Estate, For sale at Auction by Casper Thiel, of Hamburg, late the property of James and William Kinnear. For sale by public auction, on the 9th day of November next ensuing, at the sign of Gen. Washington, Wood's tavern, borough of Reading, Berks county, the following real estate, viz. No. 1. A TRACT of land containing 465 acres with allowance for roads, called the Purchase, situated in Brunswick township, Berks county, patented 18th Oct. 1788. This tract, of which about 25 acres are cleared, is of good soil, situated on the Tomagawa, or Little Schuylkill, well watered and timbered, on which is erected a good log dwelling house and stable. No. 2. A tract of unimproved land, containing 284 acres, with allowance, &c. called Hopewell, patented 28th October, 1798, situated in Brunswick township, Berks county, soil good. No. 3. A tract of unimproved land, containing 376 acres with allowance, &c. called Hillibull, patented 28th October 1790, situation, &c. as No. 2. No. 4. A tract of unimproved land, containing 388 acres, with allowance, &c. patented 28th of October, 1786, situation, &c. as No. 2 and 3. No. 5. A tract of land, containing 268 acres, and 57 perches, with allowance, &c. situated in Brunswick township, Berks county, on Tomagawa, or Little Schuylkill, 5 miles above the town of Hamburg, on which is erected a well finished two story squared log dwelling house, 22 feet by 35, within the distance of 100 perches from a forge, with the advantage of a ferry and public house; these advantages render this tract very valuable. No. 16. A town lot in Hamburg, enclosed with a post and rail, or board fence, containing in front, 60 feet, and in depth 182 feet, subject to a ground rent of 7/6 per annum. No. 17. A town lot in Hamburg, enclosed as no. 16, to which it adjoins, being of the same dimensions, and subject to the same ground rent, on which is erected a log stable, 16 by 18 feet. No. 18. A town lot in Hamburg, adjoining to No. 17, a corner lot, fronting on Main and Schuylkill streets, dimensions the same as No. 16 and 17, above described, subject to 10/6 per annum ground rent. On this lot is erected a large 2 story dwelling house, 45 feet front on Main street, by 34 feet in depth on Schuylkill street, pleasantly and advantageously situated for a store. N. B. The above described three town lots will be sold separately or together, as may best suit the purchasers. Conditions of sale—One third of the purchase money to be paid to the subscribers, or either of them in Philadelphia, at or before the expiration of one month from the day of sale, when a deed of conveyance will be executed; the residue payable in equal payments, at 6 and 12 months with interest, the payment whereof to be secured by mortgage on the premises. James Henderson, } Assignees to Frederick Montmolin, } the estate of Thomas Rogers, } James & Wm. Joseph D. Drinker, } Kinnear. September 26. m & th.
Treasury Department, September 28, 1796. NOTICE is hereby given, that proposals will be received at the office of the Secretary of the Treasury until the expiration of the first day of March next ensuing, for the supply of all rations which may be required for the use of the United States, from the first day of June, 1797, to the thirty-first day of May, 1798, both days inclusive, at the places and within the districts hereinafter mentioned, viz. At Oswego; at Niagara; at Presque Isle; at Sandusky Lake, and on Sandusky River; at Detroit; at Michilimackinac; at Fort-Franklin; at Pittsburgh; at Cincinnati; at Fort-Hamilton; at Fort St. Clair; at Fort-Jefferson; at Greenville; at Piquie Town and Loramie's Store; at Fort Adams; at Fort Wayne; at Fort Defiance; at any place below Fort Defiance on the Miami River to Lake Erie; at Fort St. Joseph; at Fort Miamis; at any place from Fort Miamis to the mouth of the United States on the river Mississippi; at Fort Knox; at Ouatanon. If supplies shall be required for any posts or places not mentioned in this notice, all such supplies shall be furnished at prices proportioned to those to be paid at the posts before recited, or as may be hereafter agreed on between the United States and the Contractor. The rations to be supplied are to consist of the following articles, viz. One pound two ounces of bread or flour. One pound two ounces of beef, or fourteen ounces of pork or bacon. Half a gill of rum, brandy or whiskey. One quart and half a pint of salt. Two quarts of Vinegar. Two pounds of Soap, } per hundred rations. One pound of Candles. The rations are to be furnished in such quantities, as that there shall at all times during the said term, be sufficient for the consumption of the troops at Michilimackinac, Detroit, Niagara, and Oswego, for the term of six months in advance, and at each of the other posts, for the term of at least three months in advance, in good and wholesome provisions, if the same shall be required. It is to be understood, that the Contractor is to be at the expense and risk of idling the supplies to the troops at each post, and that all losses sustained by the depredations of an enemy, or by means of the troops of the United States, shall be paid for at the price of the articles captured or destroyed, on the dispositions of two or more persons of creditable character, and the certificate of a commissioned officer, ascertaining the circumstances of the loss, and the amount of the articles for which compensation shall be claimed. OLIVER WOLCOTT, Secretary of the Treasury.
CONTINUATION OF FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE, By the ship FANNY, Captain BRAINE, arrived at New-York, in 49 days from Greenock, and the ELIZA, Captain WILSON, from London.
BOLOGNA, June 25. The French have exacted a contribution of 5 millions from the legation of Bologna. The senate, in order to discharge the imposition without laying out the burthens upon the people, have resolved to devote the church plate; and in case that it should not be adequate to the purpose, the deficiency is to be supplied by individuals, who will be directed to bring their superfluous plate to the national bank. The Republic of Bologna engages to pay these contributors an interest of 5 per cent. but they refuse to give any indemnity to the churches and convents, not willing to augment their revenues, which are already enormous, and the contribution they consider only as a retrenchment of the superfluities of these religious establishments, and not as a diminution of their revenues.  VIENNA, July 16. All the exertions of our Ministry now tend to peace only. Our exchequer bills have, in consequence, experienced a rise of two per cent. Two deputies have arrived from Nuremberg. The garrison of Mantua made two more sorties on the 6th and 7th, killed a great number of the enemy, and took some cannon.
FRANKFORT, July 19. The Hereditary Prince of Denmark entered this place on the same day it was taken possession of by the French. His highness was conducted by one of the French General Bonnard's Adjutants. On the day following he went to Wilhelmsbad, and yesterday he dined with General Jourdan, at Gelnhausen.  STRASBURG, July 21. General Delais is at Stuttgart, and Moreau with the head-quarters, at Pforzheim. This last post was taken in consequence of a most signal victory. Jourdan has his out-posts at Darmstadt, and this advantageous position prevented the enemy from surrounding Mayence and Mannheim, where troops of the circle only are left. Both banks of the Rhine are therefore ours, with the exception of eight or ten leagues of country, in which are locked up the two armies of prince Charles and Latour. They combat as they retreat with enormous loss, and in a few days they will be behind the Danube. The emigrants are already there in shelter from our bullets.
All the German princes successfully demand peace. The emperor abandons them; but he will himself, in a few days, be forced to demand peace, if he wishes not that Moreau should shake hands with Buonaparte. By the report of the head commissary, the army of the Rhine and Moselle is completely supplied with every thing for the rest of the campaign. We are assured, that deputies from the island of Sardinia passed by Genoa lately, to visit Buonaparte. It is added, that the Sardinians have resolved to erect themselves into a republic, under the protection of France. They will no doubt be favourably received by the general and commissary. It is essential that Sardinia should be under our influence, to secure as the means of retaking Corsica. It further appears, that this island will be soon invaded. Several Corsicans, in concert with Salicetti and Buonaparte, announce that the English will be soon driven from thence. (Sentinelle.)
PARIS, June 30. It has been remarked that the decree of accusation against Drouet, was reported in the council of elders on the anniversary of the day on which, five years before, he stopped Louis the XVIth at Varennes. There seems to be an intention of renewing the absurd system of republicizing all the countries through which we pass, and of loading us by that means with the expense and embarrassments of their freedom. To be sure these countries, whose inhabitants have, for the second time, attempted to massacre our troops, appear perfectly ripe for liberty! Nevertheless the arrival at Paris of three members of the new municipality of Milan, is this day pompously and triumphantly announced. Their names are Gallazzo Perbelloni, Tiddelle Propanti, and Charles Nicholas, and the object of their journey is said to be a request that their country may be converted into an independent republic, under our protection. It is probable that the secret conditions of the treaty with the king of Sardinia, will prevent, at least in part, the execution of this plan.
It is time, moreover, to repeat, and the late insurrection of the imperialists, renders the repetition a duty—that if we engage in these ridiculous crusades—if we are not more politic and reserved in our conduct in Italy, that country will ultimately prove the grave of our army. We should do better to think of accelerating a conclusion of peace, than to pursue new conquests, which by dividing our forces too much, will annihilate them. But let Montequieu speak, whose authority will probably have greater weight than our own.  MONTESQUIEU TO BUONAPARTE. "Conquests are easy to make, because they are made with our whole forces; they are difficult to preserve, because they are only defended by part of our forces." "In conquests it is not enough to leave the conquered nation in possession of its own laws—it is, perhaps, more necessary to leave it in possession of its manners, because a people always understand, love and defend their manners better than their laws." "The French have been expelled from Italy nine times, according to historians, on account of their insolence to women, married and unmarried. It is too much for a nation to be exposed not only to the pride of the conqueror, but also to his insinuation, to his indiscrimination, which are doubtless more intolerable, because they lead to an infinite multiplication of insults."
LONDON, July 23. Dispatches were received yesterday from Vice Admiral Kingmill, at Cork, stating the capture of the Terrible French brig, mounting 14 guns, by the Hazard sloop of war, of 16 guns, commanded by Captain Ruddach, after an action of four hours; and that the Trompeuse sloop of war of 18 guns, Capt. Watson, was unfortunately wrecked on the 15th inst. in working out of Kinsale bay, where she had called to take in stores.
July 30. The progress of the French in Germany, it is now understood, is to be stopped—all other means having failed—by a new manifesto from the Empress of Russia. Her declaration, from her account, being more powerful than any armed interference. During the early months of the French revolution, the house of an unpopular character was attacked by the mob. An orator prevented their using violence, by addressing them in nearly these words. "Gentlemen, why should you attack the house? It is his landlord's. Why kill his wife? She is public property. Why injure his children? They are perhaps your own." According to letters from Peterburgh, of the 2d inst. her Imperial Majesty has granted the sum of 850,000 roubles for building sixty galleys in the place of those which were consumed in the late conflagration.
The merchants of this city, interested in the Portugal trade, had a meeting on Thursday for the purpose of presenting an address to Earl Spencer, requesting that the board of Admiralty would immediately send out a strong convoy for the protection of the homeward bound fleet from Newfoundland, as well as the Oporto and Lisbon trade. The late reports, respecting the intended invasion of Portugal by the French, with the frequent conferences held at the court of Lisbon, have created much alarm in the minds of the merchants, who took this method of securing every protection to their property, which it might eventually require. Yesterday a court of admiralty was held in Doctors' Commons, for the trial of prize causes, when his Majesty's Procurator General, pursuant to notice, moved for the condemnation of the unclaimed parts of the cargoes of upwards of fifty Dutch ships, which had been captured during the present war with France.
The following particulars are stated in a letter from a gentleman on board the Kingaron, hon'ble C. Boyle, commander, dated Corunna harbour, June 17. We received information on the 10th, that a French privateer, then in Ferrol, intended sailing the next morning, in order to intercept an English packet then hourly expected, saying, that the likely state we were in would not suffer us to venture out. We prepared instantly for sea, and at four o'clock in the morning got under weigh. At six, spoke with a Spanish coaster, who informed us, that the lugger in the S. W. of us was a French privateer. We immediately chased her; and at twelve o'clock ran her ashore on the open coast, below high water mark, and not in sight of any Spanish fort or colour. Finding we could not destroy her with our guns, owing to the quick motion of the vessel from a heavy swell, captain Boyle agreed to let the master, and twenty other men, all volunteers, leave the ship in order to scuttle her. The master and twelve men, through a heavy surf, boarded, and soon after took possession of her, tho' the French continued to fire on them from two four pounders. The French had left a train to her magazine; and immediately on our boarding her, she blew up, when eight of them lost their lives, and the master was so severely wounded, that he survived only three days. One of the other men was taken by the French, who fired on him, broke one of his legs, and with their cutlasses almost separated one of his arms from his body. The remaining three escaped. Last week, the lord chancellor gave judgment in the great cause, so much disputed, concerning the marquis of Annandale, which, his lordship decided according to the statute of distribution among heirs, of Edinburgh, fir R. B. Johnstone, baronet, of Hackness, and Charles Johnstone, esquire, of Haverford West. The property exceeds 500,000 pounds.
August 1. Arrived at Liverpool, the Amphitrite, Garner, from the Greenland Fishery, with 7 fish, and the Peggy, Nicholson, with 10 fish. At Hull, the Manchester, Matien, with 4 fish, 388 seals, 1 bear, and 1 unicorn. The Fanny, Taylor, with 6 fish, so remarkably large, that they filled 120 butts. And the Caroline, with 5 fish, and 1500 seals. At Lynn, the Experiment, with 8 fish. The North Briton, Edmonds, with 7 fish, is arrived at Hull from Davis' Straights.
LAW INTELLIGENCE.  HIGH COURT OF ADMIRALTY.  DOCTORS' COMMONS. Yesterday came on to be heard the case of the ship Clarissa, which was captured by a private ship of war at Surinam, as property belonging to the enemies of this country. The principal question before the court was, whether a Mr. Aphthorpe, who claimed restitution, ought to be considered at the time of the capture as an enemy to the crown of England, or as the subject of a neutral power? It appeared that Mr. Aphthorpe had resided at Surinam; that he had concealed certain of the ship's papers at the time of the capture, and had talked of retaking the ship. The learned civilist, as counsel for Mr. Aphthorpe contended with great zeal and ability, that as a native of America, he was entitled to restitution of his share of the cargo. The learned judge, after hearing counsel on both sides, was of opinion, that the claim of Mr. Aphthorpe could only be considered as an experiment to elude the justice of the Admiralty Court. Like that an American born, was an American in every country. "Once a Roman, always a Roman," was the proud sentiment of ancient Rome. The idea, however, was erroneous, and repugnant to the spirit
and wisdom of the law of nations. A man became a subject of that country under the protection of whose laws he lived. The learned judge felt himself warranted by the evidence to consider Mr. Aphthorpe as a resident Dutchman at Surinam at the time of the capture, and the cargo he claimed to be lawfully confiscated. Sir James referred the consideration of other parts of the cargo, until further proof be adduced, but condemned the share to the captors, together with the master's private adventure.
[The foregoing case furnishes a remarkable proof of inconsistency in the British principles, for it is on the principle of "Once an Englishman, always an Englishman," that is that a man cannot abandon his allegiance and citizenship, that the British ships are constantly impressing men from our vessels at sea and in the West-Indies. They claim British born men, as British subjects, whenever they find them, tho' they have been absent ten years, and actually become citizens of the United States. Yet the "Learned Judge" of the High Court of Admiralty, when it is a convenient excuse for confiscating American property, declares the principle erroneous. Let American seamen carry this case in their pockets, and when British captains attempt impressments, throw it in the teeth of those insulting sea-robbers.]
August 2.  DUTCH NAVY. The following statement of the strength of the Dutch Navy is translated from a Brussels paper of the 23d ult. The Dutch squadron, gone to the East-Indies, under the command of Admiral Lucas, is composed of two ships of 68 guns, one of 56, two frigates of 44, and four corvettes. The squadron, gone to the West-Indies under Admiral Braak, consists of one ship of 56 guns, one frigate of 44, two of 36, and four corvettes. There are in the Texel, under the command of admiral Winter, two ships of 74 guns, six of 68, one of 56, two frigates of 44, and seven corvettes, or other smaller vessels. In the other different ports of the Republic, there are two ships of 74 guns, four of 68, two of 56, two of 44, eight frigates or corvettes, of from 36 to 10 guns, and sixteen ships of war of less than 20 guns. There are building or repairing in the different dock yards of the Batavian republic, two ships of 74 guns, four of 68, one of 56, two frigates of 32, one of 26, and two corvettes of 18. The Dutch have besides, two frigates of 36 guns in the East-Indies; and in the West-Indies they have one frigate of 40 guns, three of 36, two corvettes of 24, and one of 16.
   TOTAL.     6 Ships of the line of 74 guns 16   6 68   6 56   8 Frigates from 44 to 40 14   23 Corvettes, 36 to 32   17 Smaller ships of war.   90 Total ships of war.  
PORTSMOUTH, August 2. The following ships from the East-Indies, this morning passed by, under convoy of the Standard man-of-war, viz. Barwell Isabella Francis Warren Hastings Hillsborough Charen Rodney Anna 1st Minerva Anna 2d Princess Amelia Duckinfield Hall Lord Thurlow Royal Charlotte London Surat Castle Lord Walsingham Young William Bellona Grand Pera Earl of Oxford Symes Marquis of Lansdowne Edward } Whalers. Princess of Wales The above ships have been two months and eight days from St. Helena.
Admiral Winter's squadron has sailed from the Texel for Bergen, to convoy from thence the Dutch Indiamen, and the several English vessels, prizes to the French and Dutch cruisers. This fleet is divided into three squadrons: Rytjes and Strong have commands under Winter. A French squadron, consisting of 7 sail of stout frigates, are said to be in the Channel. The lords of the admiralty have in consequence ordered reinforcements out to sir E. Pellew. The Concorde of 36 guns, is one of the vessels appointed to this service.
No. 154.  District of Pennsylvania, to wit: It is remembered that on the 20th day of September, in the twenty-first year of the Independence of the United States of America, Abraham Bradley, junior of the said District, hath deposited in this office, the title of a Map, the right whereof, he claims as author in the words following to wit, "Map of the United States exhibiting the situations, connections & distances of the Post-Offices, Stage-roads, Counties, Ports of Entry and Delivery for Foreign vessels, and the principal rivers." By ABRAHAM BRADLEY, jun. In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States entitled "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 times therein mentioned." Samuel Caldwell, Clerk, District of Pennsylvania. The above map may be had at the author at the General Post-Office, next door to the War-Office in Fifth-Street, and at his house, No. 78, corner of Crown Street and Lowhill Streets. Prices from 3 3/4 to 5 dollars each, according to the manner in which they are finished. The pro-gress (or arrivals and departures) of the Mail on the Main Line may be had separate for 37 1/2 cents. Oct. 3. 1aw6w.
W A N T E D, An APPRENTICE to the Printing Business. Enquire at this Office. Aug. 9.

PHILADELPHIA,
TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 1796.
MARRIED, last evening, by the Rev. Bishop White, HENRY PHILLIPS, Esq. to Miss SOPHIA CHAI, daughter of the honorable Benjamin Chew of this city.
The Philadelphia Company OF PRINTERS AND BOOKSELLERS, Meet at the Golden-Swan, Third Street, THIS EVENING, at Seven o'clock.
ERROR OF THE PRESS.
In some of yesterday's GAZETTE, the word afternoon was inserted in the fourth line under the head COMMENCEMENT—The reader will perceive, that it ought to have been forenoon.
THE PROSPECT BEFORE US
At this season of the year, when the luxuriant bounties of a plentiful harvest are just gathered in—when we were fondly anticipating a reduction in the prices of articles of the first necessity, how are our hopes blasted! how is the scene overcast, and what glooms rest on the coming winter months, for the poor, the destitute, the annuitant, and circumstanced house keeper. The staff of life BREAD—the price of which regulates all other necessaries, is enhanced, and is continually rising. It has long borne a price disproportionate to any fair commercial speculation—in consequence of which, the people of the United States pay more for it than those situated in the forus of the European war. There is something wrong in this. The enormous price of flour will encase the price of every thing else connected with subsistence. This will be an evil which the majority of the community cannot balance or counteract. The consequence will be not an increase of wealth to the public, or individuals finally, but a serious, a fatal depreciation of the circulating medium. This perhaps is not the worst of the business—real distress will impend; and it behoves the prudent to foresee how the evil shall be averted.
ROBERT BURNS.
DUMFRIES (Scotland) July 26. Died here, on the morning of the 21st inst. in the 38th year of his age, ROBERT BURNS, the Scottish bard. His manly form and penetrating eye strikingly indicated extraordinary mental vigour. For originality of wit, rapidity of conception, and fluency of nervous phraseology, he was unrivalled.
Animated by the fire of nature, he uttered sentiments which, by their pathos, melted the heart to tenderness, or expanded the mind by their sublimity. As a larymury, emerging from behind a cloud, he arose at once into notice; and his works and his name can never die, while divine poetry shall agitate the chords of the human heart.
Actuated by the regard which is due to the shade of such a genius, his remains were yesterday interred with military honors and every suitable respect. The corpse having been previously conveyed to the town hall, remained there until the following ceremony took place—
The military here, consisting of the Cinque Port Cavalry, and the Angus three fencibles, having handsomely tendered their services, lined the streets on both sides to the burial ground. The Royal Dumfries Volunteers, of which he was a member, in uniform, with crepes on their left arms, supported the bier. A party of that corps, appointed to perform the military obsequies, moving in slow solemn time to the dead march in Saul, which was played by the military band, preceded in mournful array with arms reversed. The principal part of the inhabitants of this town and neighborhood, with a number of the particular friends of the bard from remote parts, followed in procession, the great bells of the churches tolling at intervals. Arrived at the church yard gate, the funeral party, according to the rules of that exercise, formed two lines, and leaned their heads on their firelocks pointed to the ground. Through this space the corps was carried, and borne forward to the grave. The party then drew up along side of it, and fired three volleys over the coffin when deposited in the earth. The whole ceremony presented a solemn, grand and affecting spectacle: and accorded with the general sorrow and regret for the loss of a man, whose like we scarce can see again.
From a late London Paper.
The following goods were lately shipped from this port, for a theatre in the United States of America, viz. 17lbs. of best genuine lightning, well glazed. 2 complete sets of thunder-bols, with spring bars. Alderman Arable's farm, with St. Paul's and Buckingham house.
A sky, 3 moons, a storm, a sea, and a flying dragon. 18 daggers, two gilt goblets for poison, the devil's punch-bowl, and O'Sullivan's water-fall. 10 witches' hats, 20 helmets, 50 shields, and 60 scymitars.
Jewels—3 brilliant diamond stars, 4 pair of ditto buckles, 2 ditto rings, 2 pair ditto ear-rings, and 2 ditto of necklaces.
Pease—The Way to get Married, An Harlequin Scutlation, The Wicklow Gold Mine, The Children in the Wood, Crotchet Lodge, Almeyda, A Man of Ten Thousand, Jane Shore, and The Two Murderers.
by the GAZETTE of the UNITED STATES.
WILLIAM PENN.
The founder of Pennsylvania, a statesman, a man of letters, a philanthropist, and a great and approved minister among the Quakers, and to whom nothing that was of importance in society was in different well aware of the consequences proceeding from bad administration of government, could not view the approach of an election without taking a lively interest therein, and occasionally exerting his talents to insure a choice of men who would, by moderation and found judgment, preserve the constitution inviolate, augment the national prosperity, and by wholesome laws, deal justice with an equal hand, to all who are in any way affected by the operations of government.
In the 2d volume of his works, page 678, written in the year 1679, is seen, an address to the freeholders, titled, "England's great interest in the
choice of this new parliament;" written in an energetic style, and abounding with judicious observations. But as the politics of England, previous to their revolution, were different from ours at the present day, a few extracts only shall be quoted; from which the reader may judge, how much he felt for the honour, the freedom, and the happiness of his country.
"If (says he) you are free, and resolve to be so—if you have any regard to God's providence in giving you a claim to so excellent a constitution—if you would not void your own rights, nor lay a foundation of vassalage to your unborn followers, the poor posterity for whom God and nature, and the constitution of the government have made you trustees—then seriously weigh the following particulars:
"In your present election, receive no man's gift or bribe to chuse him; for be assured, such will be false to your country, yourself, and your children. How can you hope to see God with peace, that turn mercenaries in a matter upon which depends the well-being of an whole kingdom, for present and future times? Since at a pinch one good man gains a vote, and saves a kingdom: and what does any county or burghs town know but that all may depend upon their making a good choice? But then to sell the providence of God for a little money, is the mark of a wretched mind. Truly, such ought not to have the power of freemen, that would so abuse his own, and hazard other men's freedom by it: he deserves to be cast overboard that would sink the vessel, and thereby drown the company embark'd with him.
"Review the members of the last parliament—their inclinations and votes, as near as you can and learn—the conversation of the gentlemen of your own county that were not members, and take your measures by both:—by that which is your true and just interest at this critical time, and you need not be divided or distracted in your choice."
From the above may be inferred, how much the great Penn thought it the duty of every man to contribute his mite in the choice of upright men to govern the political vessel.
Do we wish to follow peace with all men? If we do, is it not incumbent on every virtuous member of the community, to come forward at the next election, to chuse such men as shall, by their temper and sound judgment, by their independence of party, and by their love of country, justly appreciate the value of public tranquility? Do we value the great principles of Christianity, the love of the Supreme Being, and our neighbour? Then chuse men who will study the harmony of the universe; who look upon all nations as their brethren—all equally entitled to justice, good faith, & the offices of friendship: and in doing this, we may hope for a blessing from Him who is constant in acts of kindness to the whole family of mankind. Let us then, as Penn advises, review the members of the last congress, their inclinations, and their votes, and I think we need not be divided or distracted in our choice. Recollect the loss we are about to sustain by the retirement of our worthy President. Recollect the endeavours that have been made to break down the barriers which our wise constitution has established between the different departments of government; the disposition there appeared to hazard the peace, and with it, the growing prosperity of the country. Contrast our present situation with that of war and desolation, and let every man appeal to his own conscience, whether it is not a duty he owes himself, his country, and the world, to come forward, and to join his fellow-citizens in their endeavours to place good men at the helm of our political barque. In doing this, no man need join himself to intemperate parties, although some do. We should not argue against the use of just principles from the abuse of them: neither should any follow the example of the inhabitants of a cloister, and fly the duties of society, by putting their candle under a bushel, but come forward, and set an example for others to follow.
AMICUS.
At a meeting of the inhabitants of the eastern district of Philadelphia county, held at Buffetown, on Saturday the 1st of October, 1796, for the purpose of nominating suitable persons to be elected at the ensuing general election, the following persons were nominated—
Governor—Thomas Mifflin. } unanimously Congress—Robert Waln. } voted. Senator—Nathaniel Newlin. } Assembly—Thomas Pash, John Holme. SIMON BENNET, Chairman.
Philadelphia, 3d October, 1796.
Sir, I HAVE the honor to send herewith an account of the quantity of flour exported from this place in the last three months.
With great respect, I have the honor to be, Sir, Your obedient and humble servant, JAMES READ.
His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Governor of Pennsylvania. Account of the flour shipped at the port of Philadelphia, for exportation, in the months of July, August and September, 1796.
   Barrels flour. Barrels middlings.     Shipped in July, 18281 74   August, 17995 531   Sept. 10621 177   In all, 46897 728    JAMES READ, Inspector. Philad. 3d October, 1796. His Excellency Governor MIFFLIN.
NEW-YORK, October 1.
We have authentic accounts from Newburyport, that the fever which carried off about 30 of the citizens of that place, and which has entirely subsided, was confined to Water-street, and a narrow dirty one leading from it. In those streets, some of the nurses and attendants, took the disease and died—but from the diseased who were removed in
to other parts of the town, there was no instance of infection.
These facts, which are received from a respectable gentleman of that town, concur with facts in other places to prove that dirt, filth and corrupt air, are the immediate causes of this disease.
The same authority states, that several persons died in Newburyport, the last year, with the black vomit—which he has no doubt was the same disease, tho' not then named, and of course gave no alarm.
We have also good authority to state, that a similar fever has carried off a number of the inhabitants of Boston, this summer.
Facts of this kind continually occurring, demonstrate that this fever is the production of our own country, and that for some years past, something like an epidemic influence has prevailed, to produce or extend it. Facts every where remonstrate against the mode of building our cities—with narrow streets, dirty unventilated alleys, and low wet cellars.
Citizens of America, believe me: The disease which is vulgarly called yellow fever, is only a milder form of the plague. In Philadelphia, it appeared with all its horrors—in New-York and other places, it has been less active; but in all places it has been as much the plague, as the situation of the town, the season and other circumstances, would admit.
It is idle and foolish, nay more, it is wicked, to attempt to keep facts of this kind out of sight. The laws of nature will be obeyed—those laws uniformly require that foul air should generate disease, and when the air of a great city shall become sufficiently foul, it will lay that city waste with pestilence, in the United States, as well as in Africa or Asia.
Think not slightly of this thing; nor think not that if you get thro' this season with the loss of fifty or a hundred lives of valuable citizens, and two or three months trade, that the next season will be more favorable. It may be so; but the chances are against you—in the general course of things, worse events are to be expected. And as surely as you do not arrest the present mode of building cities, the plague, with all its horrors, will infect the United States in less than a century, as regularly as it does the cities of Cairo and Constantinople.
GAZETTE OF THE UNITED STATES MARINE LIST.
PHILADELPHIA, October 4. The ship Eliza of Alexandria, Borrowdale, 65 days from Bordeaux, arrived at the Port yesterday—She sailed the 27th of July.
The Schooner Castries, capt. Waddel, belonging to this port, was overfitted in a gale, in lat. 27, 30. and lost—captain and crew saved.
Capt. Murphy, of the brig Liberty, from the Havana, 17 days, arrived at the port, informs, that he left at that port, about 12 American vessels, nine ships of war and seven frigates.
September 14th, lat. 24, 30, N. in the gulph, spoke the Schooner Active, from New Orleans, out 15 days, and bound for New-York: the captain informed him of his having taken up at sea, the master and crew of the Schooner Felicity, of Philadelphia, after being three days in their boat. She had upset in lat. 27, 30. Next day captain Murphy saw two wrecks on the reef, within quay Largo, & some Schooners within the reef at anchor, who were very busy in going to and from the wrecks; Capt. Murphy failed from Havana in company with a Spanish 74, and a merchant ship, for Cadiz; the 74 it was said had six millions of dollars on board.
Extract of a letter from the master of a vessel arrived at the port, to his owners in this city.
"On my passage from Jacquemel to Philadelphia I fell in with and was boarded by a French boat with twelve armed men, who took possession of the brig and told me I must go by their directions and carry them to Gonaives or St. Jago in Cuba; I told them I would prefer going to Gonaives as being least out of my way—but next morning they took the command and were running the brig for St. Jago; immediately after a ship hove in sight, which we took to be an English frigate, when nine of these people took the boat and went to the ship and surrendered themselves prisoners of war, in order to save the three left on board with me, one of whom being general and commander in chief of the island, another president of the delegation of the south; they were obliged to fly from Aux-Cayes in this little boat, to save themselves from the negroes, who threaten to kill all the white men in that part of the island, being persuaded by the mulattoes that those men are sent out from France to make slaves of them again."
Capt. Clark, of the brig Alexandria, 17 days from Gonaives, arrived at the port, relates, that he was taken into the above port by the vessel containing the national commissioners at Aux Cayes, who had been forced to fly from that place in consequence of an insurrection of the negroes planned by Rigaud, and the declaration of their intentions, to murder all the whites.
Off the Mole, spoke the sloop —, by which he learned, that captain Peden, formerly master, had died two days before.
NEW-YORK, October 4.
ARRIVED. Ship Olive, O'Brian, Days. British Packet, Anguilla 16 Triumph, Hazard, Falmouth Mars, M'Kinne, London 57 Young Eagle, Liverpool 62 ditto. Ship Ohio, M'Clacklan, Greenock, below. Port Mary, Liverpool, below. Bark Neptune, O'Connor, Jamaica Sch. Regulator, Stanwood, Leogane 17 Friendship, Talman, North Carolina 12 Sloop Prudent, Mallby, Turk's-Island 1 Sifters, St. Croix 29 The British Packet arrived yesterday from Falmouth and Halifax, with the July Mail. She is three weeks from Halifax. The British frigate La Raisin, Capt. Beresford, of whom some vague account of "a brush" has been circulated, had arrived at Halifax, but we do not yet learn what kind of hair this brush was made of. Barney's report had likewise arrived there. Various other vessels also arrived yesterday—vide Marine List—but none of them bring so late accounts as before received.
Ship Olive, in lat. 29, N. long. 67, fell in with the wreck of the brig Deborah of Hartford, with her decks blown up, and spars lashed along side.
September 26, lat. 26, 30, long. 72, fell in with, and spoke the sloop Prudent of Philadelphia from Teneiff, out 39 days, dismasted and captain dead.
The ship Victoria of New-York that had been so long detained both by the English and French in the island of St. Lucia, was discharged about the latter end of August, and on her way home.
On the 24th of August, the general report at St. Vincent's, was, that a general engagement would soon take place between the British and Charaibs.
BALTIMORE, October 1.
Arrived on Thursday morning, Schooner Polly, capt. John Botner, in 17 days from Cape Nicholas Mole. The following is extracted from the Log-Book of the Polly.
Sept. 25, at 10, A. M. lat. 35, 11, N. long. 74, 30, W. saw a sloop to the northward, which we found to be the Charlotte, capt. Mathers, belonging to Mr. Fisher, of Philadelphia, from Teneiff, 34 days, loaded with wine—the was under jury-masts, and in such a leaky condition that they were obliged to keep the pump continually going: we spoke the Charlotte at 6 A. M. on the morning we spoke the Charlotte; she had also lost her boat, and was in distress for bread, which we supplied them with.
Sept. 27, spoke the Schooner Maria, of Baltimore in long. 74, 56, W. lat. 36, N. out 20 hours from Cape Henry, all well.
Capt. Botner informs, that at Cape Nicholas Mole there were four English 74's, 3 frigates, and a few transports, all lying at anchor.
With supreme pleasure we hand to the Public the following highly
Interesting and Agreeable Information:
By Authority.
Extract of a letter from Stephen Cathalan, jun. Consul of the United States at Marseilles, to Joseph Fenwick, consul of the United States at Bourdeaux—dated 20th July, 1796.
"Just now a Fisherman is sent to me by the Danish Captain of a ship entering into Pomegué (the island in this Road, where ships from Levant or Barbary are to perform quarantine,) from Algiers, with all the Americans who were there in slavery."
At a Meeting of a number of citizens, at Mr. Dunwoody's Inn, on the 30th inst. it was unanimously agreed to recommend to their fellow-citizens, the following tickets, for their support at the ensuing Election.
 Governor, Thomas Mifflin.  Congress, Edward Tilghman.  Senators, Nathaniel Newlin, (of Delaware County.)  Assembly, George Latimer, Laurence Seckel, Jacob Hiltzheim, Robert Waln, Francis Gurney, Joseph Ball. 
At a numerous adjourned meeting of citizens of Philadelphia, held at Little's School-House on the 27th September, 1796, the following tickets were unanimously agreed to be supported at the ensuing general election.
 THOMAS LEIFER in the Chair.  Governor, Thomas Mifflin.  Congress, John Swanwick.  Assembly, John Steinmetz, Samuel Wetherill, sen. Charles Pettit, Matthew Lawler, Joseph B. McKean, Jacob L. Swyler. 
By the Mayor, Aldermen and Citizens of Philadelphia.
AN ORDINANCE, Making Compensation to the present Mayor of the City of Philadelphia.
IT is hereby ordained and enacted, by the Mayor, Aldermen, and Citizens of Philadelphia, in Common Council assembled, and by the authority of the same, that there shall be allowed to Matthew Clarkson, Esq. the present Mayor of the city of Philadelphia (over and above the sums he has received from the treasurer of this corporation, and which are hereby confirmed to him) to be paid on the 10th day of October next, the sum of two hundred and sixty-two pounds four teen shillings and three pence; in addition to which he shall appropriate to his own use, without accounting to this corporation for the same, the fees which have been and shall be received by him from the 14th day of July last past to the said tenth day of October next; which sum of two hundred and sixty-two pounds four teen shillings and three pence, together with the fees aforesaid, shall be considered as a full compensation for his services from the fifteenth day of January last to the said tenth day of October next.
MATTHEW CLARKSON, Mayor. (L. S. C.) Enacted into an ordinance, at Philadelphia, the twenty-ninth day of September, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-six. WILLIAM H. TOD, Clerk to the Corporation.
Epistle to Porcupine.
THIS DAY IS PUBLISHED, by T. BRADFORD, No. 8, South Front Street.
A congratulatory Epistle
To the redoubtable Peter Porcupine, On his "complete triumph over the once towering but fallen and despicable fashion in the United States."
A POEM,
By PETER GRIEVOUS, JUN.
To which is annexed,
The Vision,
A Dialogue between Marat and Porcupine in the infernal regions.
OG. 4.