Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser. (Philadelphia [Pa.]), 1797-11-20 00:00:00

John M. Howell
Gazette of the United States, AND Philadelphia Daily Advertiser.
By JOHN FENNO, No. 119 Chestnut Street.
NUMBER 1622
PHILADELPHIA: MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 20, 1797.
[VOLUME XII.]
SALES BY AUCTION.
Stated Sales.
FOR DRY GOODS.
Monday - Edward Fox, No. 56, South Front-street.
Tuesday - Footman & Co. No. 65, South Front-street.
Wednesday - John Connelly, Old City Auction, No. 73 South Front-street.
Thursday - William Shannon, No. 183 High-street.
Friday - Peter Benfon, No. 74 South Third-street.
Saturday - Edward Fox.
Sunday - John Connelly.
Monday - William Shannon.
Sales of Lumber, &c.
WILL BE SOLD,
On WEDNESDAY, the 22d inst. precisely at 9 o'clock in the morning.
At C. EMLIN's Lumber Yard,
All the Personal Property there
remaining belonging to the estate of Caleb Emelin deceased, consisting of the following valuable articles, viz.
Several hundred of White Pine, Hemlock and Oak Logs, to be sold in lots of about three thousand feet each.
1-1-2, 2-1-2, and 3 inch Oak Planks assorted, most of which are of the best stuff for the use and building of ships.
3, and a 1-2 inch White Pine Planks for quarter Decks.
1-1-2 to 4 inch Ash Planks.
Hemlock Scantling assorted.
Six pieces Hemlock 20 feet in length, and 2 pieces 27 feet.
White Pine Scantling, Maple Scantling, Maple Boards, Quarter Rails.
Spinning Wool Stuff, Whale Pieces 40 feet long.
A valuable assortment of White Oak Flitch Stuff.
And several separate parcels of old Plank, &c.
Two large copper Still, with
Worms, Heads, &c.
A good forst Horse - an old Chaise and Sulkey
A large Spinning Wheel and Reel
A number of full House Jars, two log Trucks, a cutting Box and Knife, a large Feed Box, a small Anchor, a Scale with Beam, and a number of 50lb. Weights, a good Mill Saw, a writing Desk with sundry articles in Compagnie-Boite, two pair of good Pills, a parcel of old Iron, Cables, Ropes, &c.
The wheel works of a Horse
Saw Mill, complete and in good order.
Such persons as may be desirous of purchasing any part thereof, are at liberty to view them on the premises, where a man will constantly attend every day previous to the sale. Carpenters, Lumber Merchants, Builders, &c. may have a favorable opportunity of purchasing Lumber, &c. to more advantage at this sale than elsewhere, which no doubt will command their attention.
Purchasers to a larger amount than one hundred dollars may be accommodated with sixty days credit on approved indorsed notes.
Sold by Order of
JAMES VAUX, and
CHARLES PLEASANTS,
Attorneys in fact to MARY EMLIN, sole Executrix.
Footman & Co. Auctioneers.
November 13.
Samuel & Miers Fisher,
ARE NOW OPENING,
At their Warehouse, No. 27, Dock Street, a fresh assortment of Woolen and other goods, suitable to the season, received by the late arrivals from England.
They have also for Sale,
Lisbon
Teneriffe
Sherry, and Port Wines,
Assorted queen's ware in crates, &c.
10th mo 2d.
French Circulating Library.
JOSEPH E. G. M. DE LA GRANGE,
No. 12 Walnut-street.
INFORMS those who with to recur to the only means of becoming perfect in the French Language, that he has just opened his LIBRARY, consisting of upwards of 1200 volumes, the best calculated to afford either useful instruction, or pleasure. The conditions, together with a catalogue of the Library, may be seen at every book-seller's in town.
N. B. All translations from and into the French, English and Spanish Languages, executed with accuracy and dispatch.
COIM
DANCING SCHOOL.
WILLIAM M'DOUGALL presents his most respectful compliments to his former employers and the citizens in general, and returns his most grateful thanks, for the very bountiful encouragement he has experienced for these twenty-five years past, takes this opportunity of informing them, that his School will be open'd on Wednesday the 23d inst.
at his
Elegant Ball Room,
in South Fourth-Street, between Chestnut and Walnut-Streets. To begin at 10 in the morning for young ladies, and 6 in the evening for young gentlemen.
Practising Balls will commence on Tuesday, 6th December, and be continued every Tuesday, during the season.
Nov. 17.
For Sale by the Subscriber,
White Plattillas
Brown Hollands
White Sheeting
Dowlaties
Silesia bordered Handkerchiefs
Striped Stamoies
Black Ribbons, No. 3 and 4
Glass Tumblers, and Looking Glasses, in cases, &c. &c.
George Pennock.
November 6.
Teas of superior quality.
80 chests fine Hyson
27 chests young Hyson
2 chests Imperial
For Sale, corner of Second and Pine Streets, by
C. HAIGHT.
November 11.
Five years old Madeira Wine,
Of the very first quality, in pipes, hds. and quarter casks, just landed from the ship Edward, from Madeira, and for sale by
JOHN CRAIG,
No. 12, Dock-street.
WHO HAS FOR CHARTER,
The Brigantine
CHARLOTTE,
Burthen about 1200 barrels, just hove down and put in complete order, and now ready to receive a cargo.
Also, For SALE or CHARTER,
The Ship
JOSEPHUS,
Burthen about 1800 barrels.
November 6.
Wanted to Charter,
To one port in Hispaniola and back again.
A fast sailing Vessel, of the burthen of 6 or 700 barrels. For terms, apply to
BENJAMIN MORGAN, No. 120, South Front Street, or to
ROBERT ANDREWS, No. 86, South Wharves.
November 10.
PHILIP NICKLIN & Co.
HAVE FOR SALE,
At their Stores on Walnut Street Wharf,
Havannah Sugars, white and brown
25 hds. Jamaica
3000 pieces of broad Nankens
Imperial Tea, in quarters and eighths of chests
Quickfiver in tubs
Madeira Wine in pipes and hogheads
Teneriffe Wine in pipes
Old red Port Wine in hogheads
Salt Canvass, assorted, No. 1 to 3
8 cases of Manchester Goods, consisting of Dimities, Muslins, Ginghams, Thicksets, Corduroys, &c.
200 crates Queens' Ware, assorted
Nails, assorted
Black quart Bottles
Yellow Ores in casks
A quantity of writing Slates, slate Ink Stands, &c.
100 quarter casks Gun Powder
They have also for SALE or CHARTER,
The Ship
HAMBURG PACKET,
Burthen 320 tons, coppered to the bends, and completely fitted.
The ship MOLLIT, burthen 340 tons, a good vessel, and completely fitted.
The brig AMAZON, burthen 1300 barrels, may be ready for sea in a few days.
The whole of the above vessels to be seen at Walnut Street Wharf.
November 10.
For Sale or Charter,
The Snow
GOOD HOPE,
Will carry about 1200 barrels, and is ready to take in a cargo. For terms apply to
Pragers & Co.
No. 131, South Second-street.
Who have for sale - prime St. Croix Sugar and Rum, Madeira, Lisbon, and Teneriffe wine.
November 7.
For Hamburg,
The Ship
WILMINGTON,
Captain Hilman;
Staunch, fast sailing, Philadelphia built vessel, of live oak and cedar, is now in complete order, and will sail with all possible speed, having great part of her cargo already engaged. For freight or passage (having excellent accommodations) apply to the captain on board, or to
Summerl & Brown.
Who have on hand,
Gonaives Cotton, Sugar, Molasses, and a few thousand weight of excellent Cordage, including several Cables of 3/4 & 11 inches.
November 1.
For London,
THE SHIP
WILLIAM PENN,
James Josiah, Master.
Will sail with all convenient expedition - For Freight or Passage, apply to the Captain, or to
Jesse & Robert Waln.
Oct. 31.
For London,
THE SHIP
J E A N,
Daniel M'Pherson, Master.
To sail with all convenient speed - considerable part of her cargo being already engaged. For terms of Freight or Passage, apply to
Ross & Simson.
Oct. 27.
Port and Madeira Wine,
Now Landing,
By ship Edward, from Madeira, and Betty and Peggy, from Oporto, in Pipes and Hogheads,
For sale by
PETER BLIGHT.
WHO ALSO OFFERS FOR SALE,
The Ship
AMITY,
Four thousand barrels burthen, in excellent order - ready to take in a cargo - about three years old.
Likewise,
The Schooner INDUSTRY,
Burthen 800 barrels, ready also to receive a cargo - and a quantity of
Jamaica Rum and Sugars,
Just landed from the above vessels at South Street Wharf.
Nov. 1.
For Charter,
THE SHIP
John Bulkeley,
Samuel Volans, Master.
HIS vessel is built of live oak and cedar, of about 3000 barrels burthen, and ready to receive on board a cargo.
Jesse & Robert Waln.
Oct. 31.
FOR LONDONDERRY,
THE BRIGANTINE
S U K E Y,
William Whitten, Master.
A strong good vessel, about two hundred tons, to sail with all convenient speed, a great part of her cargo engaged - now lying at Willing and Francis's wharf. For freight or passage, apply to the captain, or
JOHN SKYRIN,
Landerberger's wharf.
Who wants to Charter,
A Vessel of about three hundred tons.
Nov. 18.
For Savannah, in Georgia,
THE SHIP
Sally Butler,
Captain CRISHOLM,
A new vessel, with excellent accommodations for passengers - Sails on the 10th of December. For Freight or Passage, apply to
ROSS & SIMSON.
Who have to dispose of,
A small invoice of GLAUBER SALTS
INDIGO, and a parcel of HOLLY WOOD.
November 18.
For Hamburg,
The Brig
MARY,
Peter York, Master.
Lying at Ruffel's wharf, near Pine Street, is now ready to take in a cargo, and will sail in ten days. For Freight, or Passage, apply to
GURNEY & SMITH.
November 16.
RUNDLE & LEECH,
Have just received, and hay for Sale, at No. 9, 9, Walnut Street,
Liverpool and St. Ubes SALT
Do. best house COALS
Queens' WARE in crates, assorted
Bourdeaux BRANDY of an excellent quality
Do. CLARET in crates, do.
THEY HAVE ALSO
FOR SALE or CHARTER,
THE SHIP
PEGGY,
Burthen 225 tons, in excellent condition, and may be sent to sea with little expense or delay.
Likewise,
THE BRIG
WILLIAM,
Burthen 201 tons,
November 16.
For Sale or Charter,
THE BRIG
ABIGAIL,
(Lying at Morris' Wharf, near the Drawbridge)
SHE is a staunch, well fitted vessel, almost new, burthen 113 tons, and is supposed will carry 11 or 1200 barrels, and sails fast. If not sold in a few days, she will take Freight for Boston, Salem, Newburyport, Portsmouth, or the West-Indies.
Apply to
WHARTON & LEWIS.
No. 113, S. Front-Street.
Wholesale for sale,
Madeira Wine, Jamaica Rum, Brandy, Juniper Berries, and 70 barrels of Liver Oil.
A quantity of Potatoes selling from on board land brig at 2s. 6d. per bushel.
November 15.
For Sale or Charter,
The fast sailing brig
TWO BROTHERS,
Lying at Gurling's wharf, an excellent single deck'd vessel, burthen about 1600 barrels - not twelve months old, and in complete order. For terms apply to the master on board, or to
Joseph Anthony & Co.
Nov. 1.
For Liverpool,
THE SHIP
CLOTHIER,
Nathaniel D. Gardner, Master.
Will sail about the 15th inst. For freight or passage apply to the Captain, at Vanuxem's wharf, or to
JAMES OLDEN.
No. 41, N. Front-Street.
For Sale by the Subscribers,
Prime Rice in casks and half tiers
Double Brandy
Teneriffe Wine
Molasses
Georgia and Carolina Indigo
Ravens Duck and one hoghead of paint brushes.
N. & F. Frazier.
No. 95, South Front Street.
Nov. 7.

Now Landing, AND FOR SALE by the SUBSCRIBERS, 30 hhds. BRANDY 62 tierces, } RICE 14 half do. } 7 hhds. Carolina TOBACCO Phillips, Cramond, & Co.
The Commissioners For alleviating the distress of the Citizens of Philadelphia, have removed their office to the Old Court House, High Street. EDWARD GARRIGUES, Secretary.
LANDING, From on board the ship Cleopatra, Samuel Newell, commander, from London, 60 tons of the best clean Russia HEMP 60 cases of bottled BROWN STOUT. For sale by the subscribers, No. 21, Penn-Street. Willings & Francis.
Just arrived, From Port-au-Prince, and for sale by the subscribers, No. 21, Penn-Street, 6 hogsheads, } 5 tierces, } Prime Coffee 53 barrels, } 640 bags, } Willings & Francis.
FOR SALE, BY THE SUBSCRIBERS, No. 21, Penn-Street, The Cargo of the Ship Ganges, John Green, commander, from Bengal, Consisting of
Bafins, of various qualities & prices  Coffees } Pongam Cloths  Scalps } Guaz y do.  Hanbuns } Charconna Dores  Blue Cloth } Tanjha  Chints and Calicoes } Malmils  Maharajones } Checks  Ginghams } Patas Hhls.  Cassavas } Mulmul do.  Garras } Bandanas  Mulees } Silees  Salgatchy } Choppa Romals  Gillie Romals } Sooty do.  Mock Fultacs } Persians of various colours  200 tons SUGAR 90,000 lb. PEPPER. Willings & Francis.
The Piece Goods Of the Ganges are now open and exposed for sale at that commodious store the north west corner of Market and Fourth Street.
FOR SALE, BY  Joseph Anthony & Co. No. 5, Chestnut Street, A cargo of choice Bourdeaux Brandy, 1st and 2d proof, just landed 250 bales of Bourbon cotton of a superior quality 9 do. Surat, do. do. A quantity of heavy black pepper in bales Bourbon Indigo of the first quality High proof Jamaica Spirits Old London parti var Madeira wine } In pipes & qr. casks. do. market do. } New Egypt and rum in hogsheads Genuine Holland Gin in pipes Claret in casks Spermaceti candles and stearin d'oil Prime Boston beef Choice Halifax Salmon in barrels and half barrels do. Herring in do. do. Bell Bourbon Mackerel in barrels of the fall fare. New-England new Linnen A few tons of Russia cordage Russia Feather beds Clover and Timothy seed in sacks Long whale-bone No. 1, 2, and 3, Boston sail duck A few chests first quality Hyson tea Carolina rice in whole and half tierces and An invoice of Dutch hollow glass ware. November 8.
Mordecai Lewis, HAS FOR SALE, At his Store, No. 25, Great Dock-Street, 250 bales of Bengal Goods Containing Bafins Coffees Guazs Moragungungas Tookery Check and Stripes Bandana Handkerchiefs Manoodys Calicoes 11 boxes Irish Linens 1 do. Diapers 7 do. Umil rellas 20 cauldrons Java Sugar 78 bags black Pepper 126 do. East India Ginger 100 casks roll Brimstone 70 pipes Madiera Wine 57 casks Gin A quantity of sheathing Copper and Nails. October 30.
For Sale, by the Package, For cash, or good notes at sixty or ninety days, viz. Book and Jacquet Muslin plain Stripes, and Checks } Afforded in packages. do. do. Tamboured do. Ladies handkerchiefs, & gentlemen's neck do. Jacquet chintz muslin for home and the West India markets, Pollicote and linen handkerchiefs, for do. do. printed do. do. common purple and chintz shawls. The above goods entitled to drawback on exportation. Also a few Scotch cambricks and an assortment of muslin by the piece. The whole of the above being a consignment from the manufacturers in Britain. To be seen at WILLIAM BLACKBURN'S Office, No. 64, South Second Street. Nov. 6.
To be Sold,  A Valuable Plantation, Of upwards of One Hundred Acres of Land, about 7 miles from this City; the buildings may be made to accommodate a large family, at a moderate expense, and possession had in a few weeks. Part of the purchase-money being paid, a reasonable credit will be allowed for the remainder. Enquire of the Printer. November 3.
All Persons who are indebted to the estate of WILLIAM HERSHEY, sen. of Philadelphia, deceased, are requested to make speedy payment; and those who have any demands against said estate, will please to present them, properly attested, to the subscribers. William Heyburn, } Executors. Robert Heyburn, } Francis Bowers Sayre, } November 6.
The Gazette. PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 20.
For the GAZETTE of the UNITED STATES. MR. PENNO.
Dr. Currie has asserted in the letters addressed to Mr. Wynkoop, inserted in your Gazette, upon the subject of the origin of the late epidemic, the following opinions: 1d. That intermitting, and remitting fevers, the general offering of vegetable putrefaction or marshy exhalation are never contagious. 2d. That the bilious yellow fever of all hot countries and seasons, is not a more violent species of the remitting fever of the same places, but essentially different therefrom, being a higher degree of the common typhus or hospital fever, and proceeding from the confinement of animal effluvia in dirty, hot places. 3d. That no exhalations from putrid vegetables, ever produced a contagious fever. As these positions are laid down in the face of facts published by the first authorities in medicine, and as it is of more consequence for the citizens to know the danger their diffusion annually exposes them to, than to be informed who will fill the vacancy in the executive directory in France, I shall take the pains of stating to the public, the authorities to prove that the whole of Dr. Currie's positions are totally false.
I shall also prove that Dr. Currie's late notions concerning imported contagious diseases, are directly contrary to those he formerly avowed in his "account of the diseases of America."
Dr. Claghorn in his account of the diseases in America found tertian fevers infectious in that Island. "Tertian fevers of various forms appear among people of all ages, and spreading from one to another by contagion, they continue to increase till about the time of the autumnal equinox, when they rage with the utmost fury amongst persons of all ranks, whether natives or foreigners."
Dr. Clark, vol. 1. page 151. in his observations on the diseases of long voyages to hot climates, observes: "So far as my observations go, I must subscribe to Dr. Claghorn's opinion. I have frequently seen agues appear, when there was no reason to impute the cause to marshy effluvia; but merely to contagion. The following are a few of the many instances, which might be adduced in support of this opinion. Several years ago I attended a lady in a valley, who lived in a town where no ague prevailed, and was confined to a three pair of stairs room: yet, nevertheless, she took a tertian, where no occasional cause could be imputed except contagion."
"A few years after, a gentleman ill of the palsy, as also his servant maid, were attacked with intermittents, and no other cause could be assigned, except the visit of a number maid servant, who lived in the country who was ill of an ague."
"A person ill of an ague visited a child, in a high and airy situation; and when the feverish state began to subside, had much intercourse with it. The child in a few days took the disease."
"An adult person whose habits and manner of life, made him by no means subject to an intermittent, called upon a friend who was sweating profusely in the paroxysm of a tertian. The effluvia arising from the patient's body, he said, he received by inspiration; the scent, of which he never afterwards could get rid of: In a few days he was seized with an intermittent, with severe quotidian paroxysms, attended with delirium, and great irritability of stomach. In the third paroxysm I visited him; and he then appeared to be in so great danger, that every measure was instantly made use of to break the force of the next fit; which succeeded; but he continued for some weeks extremely weak."
"Since I was elected physician to the New-Castle infirmary, in May 1788, I have had six instances of agues being communicated from one person to another by contagion. And the same thing has happened to some of the other medical gentlemen in the hospital. The infirmary is situated in a dry, airy situation; and agues have not been known to happen in the house, except when other patients have been admitted labouring under the disease. In the cases I have alluded to, the persons infected with the ague were in the high wards; and lay in beds, contiguous to patients who communicated the distemper."
"The remittent fever, which proved so destructive to the imperial army in Hungary, spread by contagion; became exceedingly mortal, and was propagated over Germany, and great part of Europe."
"Dr. Schott, a German physician, supposes that the contagion, which produced the remittent fever at Senegal, in 1788, was brought from Goree, by some black messengers; but Dr. Clark observes, that this does not seem to be clearly ascertained—for the remittent fever there, generally happens during the rainy season; but when the rains are heavy and overflow the island, the fever assumes a malignant continued form."
"The author gives this fever the name of synochus atrabiliosus; but it appears to be precisely a remittent fever, of a malignant nature—and indeed he confesses, that it only differs in the beginning from the fever which is called bilious, or from that which goes by the name of yellow, by the severity of its symptoms."
"Dr. Lind, in his "observations on the diseases of hot climates," p. 118. observes, "That the remarkable dissolution of the blood, the violent hemorrhages, the black vomit, and the other symptoms which characterize the yellow fever, are only accidental appearances in the common fever of the West-Indies. They are to be esteemed merely as adventitious, in the same manner as purple spots and bloody urine are in the"
small-pox, or as an hiccup in the dysentery; like these, they only appear when the disease is accompanied with a high degree of malignity, and therefore always indicate great danger. They in general proceed from intense heat and a peculiar unhealthfulness of the air, though from a gross habit of body, excessive drinking of spirituous liquors, and being over-heated in the sun, may perhaps dispose to them."
Page 121. "I have perused many English accounts both in manuscript and print, of this fever, (remitting) in most of which the authors have agreed only in the common epithet of yellow, from the skin's being frequently tinged with that colour. But the same appearance is also usual in most intermitting fevers, in some contagious fevers, and in many other fevers, so cannot properly be a distinguishing mark of this."
"This fever has been supposed by some to have been first imported to the West-Indies by a ship from Siam: an opinion truly chimerical; as similar diseases have made their appearance, not only in the East and West-Indies, but in some of the southern parts of Europe, during a season when the air was intensely hot and unwholesome. This happened at Cadiz in Spain in the months of September and October 1764, when excessive heat, and want of rain for some months, gave rise to violent epidemic bilious disorders, resembling those of the West-Indies, of which an hundred persons often died in a day. At this time, the winds blew mostly from the south, and, after fun-let, there fell an unusual and very heavy dew."
Doct. John Hunter, in his observations on the diseases of the army in Jamaica, says, "the yellow fever is to be considered, only, as a more dangerous form of the remittent fever. And there can be no doubt that the remittent fever not only appears in different seasons and situations with very different degrees of severity; but also that while the remittent fever prevails in its usual form in the West-Indian islands, some individuals, particularly those who are newly arrived, will be affected with very remarkable yellowness, as well as bilious and black vomitings."
Doctor Lind (of Windsor) also mentions, That the putrid remitting fever which raged at Bengal in the year 1762, was highly contagious. Page 36. And Dr. Lind (of Hadar) relates, that a hospital at Jamaica was entirely deserted, in consequence of its situation; high a marsh which very shortly converted the most simple intermittent into yellow fevers. Page 178. Diseases of hot Climates. Dr. Lind (of Hadar) speaking of the remittent fever, observes, that this disease is the autumnal fever of all hot countries, the epidemic disease between the tropics, and the disease most fatal to Europeans in all hot and unhealthy climates:—The most powerful of all the remote causes is justly thought, by him, to be the effluvia of marshes; and hence, evidently, proceeds the extreme unhealthiness of a place called Culpepe, on the eastern banks of the Ganges; the shores about it are full of mud, and the banks covered with trees. Opposite the place where the ships lay there is a creek, and about a mile from its entrance, stands the town of Culpepe; the ships lay about a mile from the shore; none of the sailors on board the ships at this place enjoyed their health. It was once customary to send some of the company's servants here to receive the cargoes of the ships and send them to Calcutta; but so many of them died on this duty, that the company was at length obliged to dispense with it. The noxious vapours arising from fens spread but a little way. Dr. Lind has often known ships crews at a very little distance from the shore quite free from this disorder. But although these marsh miasmata first bring on the disease, yet contagion particularly spreads it, and renders it more epidemic. Thus the Drake Indian continued free from the disorder for two weeks together, when she had no communication with the other ships; whereas, as soon as the disorder was brought on board, many were seized with it, within a few days, in such a manner as to leave no room to entertain the least doubt concerning its pestilential nature."
An English physician, quoted by Dr. Clark, vol. 2. p. 314. make the following remarks:—"The cold easterly winds, prevailing in the months of April and May 1790, gave most of the complaints of that season, the intermittent or remittent type. The former, in some parts of the country, were so common as to be epidemic; and, upon more minute inspection, one might easily trace contagion as one of the causes of the complaints. In a work of importance in the neighborhood, this disease raged with such violence, as to raise serious alarms for the consequences. My attendance being requested, I had an opportunity of observing the progress of the disease. At my first visit I found whole families attacked with the complaint, and no sooner had it entered a family, but the wife took it from her husband, and communicated it to her children."
MEDICUS. Republicanism in France, pure and undefiled! Two Directors and more than sixty members of the two Councils, arrested, banished and their property sequestered—and the elections of forty-two departments annulled—thirty-two Journals suppressed, their editors and printers arrested—by a sovereign and a despotic arrest of three Directors, in violation of all laws, of the constitution and of every principle of justice! Now, say the tyrants, the republic is saved! This surely must be a "terrible republic."
West. Star.  Freedom of the Press in France! The Executive Directory have ordered thirty-two Editors of Paris Journals to be confined in the Prison of La Force, all of them accused of being Conspirators. These it seems are to have the form of a Trial, although the Deputies were banished without such a ceremony. It is easy to foresee that the Editors will follow the Deputies.
R. I. Paper.
NEW-YORK, November 12. The news from Boston confirms our expectations of a continuance of the war.—We do not know the terms of peace which have been offered by the contending parties—but it is rational to suppose the Emperor and Great Britain with for peace on terms sufficiently humiliating, tho' it is not probable they would be willing to give all and obtain nothing by a pacification. France also wishes for peace, but the terms demanded are probably very high.
Our only hopes of peace have uniformly been founded on the ascendancy of the party which has been proscribed. This expulsion leaves no prospect of a pacification.—Whatever may have been the progress of the negotiation, or by whomsoever fault it has been broken off, one thing appears certain, that the violent revolutionists have had it in view and till persist in it, of demolishing all the old governments of Europe, or of bringing them all to the feet of the "Terrible Republic." The truce, the former pact, has only given those men the better opportunity to mature their schemes. The declaration of independence by the German Provinces on this side the Rhine, leaves no room to question that the Directory have been intriguing to bring about that event.—It is all one consistent plan of revolutionizing the world, proclaimed by the French four years ago. Europe must still bleed—and happy will this country be, to escape a convulsion.
A friend has put into our hands a petition addressed by a large body of the merchants of Nantz, to the Council of Five Hundred, in favour of the American commerce.—This was designed to counteract the effects of another petition presented by the merchants and owners of privateers, "praying the council to fix with certainty the political and commercial relations between France and the United States, and to put an end to the diversity of opinions on this important subject, whether among the members of the Directory, or the judiciary or the legislative body."
After answering many declamatory passages in the first petition, the merchants of Nantz reply to the charge against the Americans, that they had sold them a great deal of bad flour at exorbitant prices: This flour they state, was mostly purchased by the commissaries of the republic, and that which was shipped by private adventurers, was open to inspection—no frauds were practiced to obtain a high price. The merchants speak respectfully of the succours granted by our government and by private donations to the refugees from the Colonies.
In speaking of the arrest of March 2d, they say the decree was partial, precipitate, contradictory, and insufficient.—Partial, by involving many innocent persons, who had no suspicion of their intentions. Precipitate, in requiring immediate execution of a decree that ought to have been notified to American navigators, before subjecting them to its penalties. It is certain say they that none of them could suspect they had occasion for the role of equipment in the form prescribed by that arrest. The treaty of 1778 does not mention the role; but a passport only, and the form to which the 27th article refers, appears to require no more than the passport by means of which all the preliminary formalities are judged to be fulfilled. It is true, they say, that the most eminent jurists in France differ as to the real sense of the formula.—This should be a reason for judging the Americans with less severity. But, say they, why have not the Americans been notified that they were not in rule, when they were bringing corn to France and carrying on the French coasting trade. Men who have been so well received ought not to expect to be treated as enemies, without a declaration of war.—The arrest is contradictory; for an American captain who meets no privateer and reaches a French port, is received as a friend—but if he meets with a French privateer, he is taken and condemned.—It is insufficient, for the designed to prevent fraud, it only serves to conceal it the better.
They conclude by declaring that the arrest will bring ruin on many American families and on many of the French Colonies, the wrecks of whose fortunes are on board the captured vessels—it will reduce the capital of many merchants in Holland, Hamburg, and Bremen, whose debtors have shipped goods to them on board these ships, and who have no other means of discharging their debt—In fine, they say it will alienate, perhaps for a generation, the affections of a nation, which is mostly devoted to France.
Nantz, 30th Thermidor, (August 17) Here follow the names.
A Pamphlet is published in Connecticut, entitled "Georgia Speculation Unveiled," by Abraham Bishop, of New-Haven; in which the writer attempts to prove the sales of the Georgia Western Lands to have been fraudulent, and the notes given for them of course voidable for want of consideration. He maintains that by a pamphlet circulated by the Georgia companies, called a "state of facts," and by other representations made by the sellers of the land, the purchasers were made to believe and contracted for the lands under the belief, that the state of Georgia and of course the companies actually possessed the fee of the lands; and that the Indians had retained only the right of hunting and fishing on them. Whereas the fact was, that the fee of the lands was, as it still is, in the natives.
On the ground of fraud, and want of consideration in the notes, the author contends, that Courts of Chancery have a right to interpose and declare the notes void. He instanced the great case of the contracts for South-Sea Stock, which Parliament, on account of the injustice of applying the ordinary rules of law to them, interposed their sovereign power to modify, in order to save multitudes from ruin.
The cases are not exactly similar, but he maintains that the Georgia business was a scheme of swindling, worse in principle than the South-Sea bubble, and like that, is a case of such immense injustice and fraud, as to require a suspension of the ordinary rules of law.
The pamphlet is a work of ingenuity, and the subject very interesting. A second number will appear in a few weeks, in which the writer will publish the documents to substantiate his reasoning.
AFFAIRS OF ITALY.  CORRESPONDENCE, Between Gen. Buonaparte and the ministers of his Sardinian Majesty, relative to the late insurrection which broke out in Piedmont.
FIRST LETTER. From the Chevalier Damien Princea. Turin, July 11, 1797.
CITIZEN GENERAL, Some symptoms of insurrection have just manifested themselves at Pessano and its environs, the cause of which appears to be accidental, but which may involve consequences of the highest importance, unless they be speedily remedied. In communicating them to you, Citizen General, I am advised by a double motive: In the first place, that I may afford you a testimony of the confidence which his Sardinian Majesty's government reposes in you; and secondly, to acquaint you that his majesty, tho' resolved on employing lenient measures to restore tranquility, may perhaps be compelled to restore to vigorous ones, in order to subdue and bring back to a sense of their allegiance those who may prove more stubborn and pertinacious. His majesty reflects, with satisfaction, that should he be under the necessity of energetic measures, the French government, far from holding such a conduct derogatory to the constant esteem which his majesty entertains for them, would, on the contrary, attribute it solely to the mere desire of stopping the progress of ill-intentioned persons, if any such exist, and of maintaining in that country that state of tranquility so necessary to ends which the two governments are anxious to accomplish.
The position of Pessano, to the left of the Sura, may probably make it necessary to advance some troops beyond the ancient line of demarcation, which no longer exists, and to the distance of less than four miles from the fortress occupied by the French. As the general is informed of the object of these measures, he will be, doubtless, induced not only to oppose them, but also to refuse his countenance to the insurgents, should they apply to him for succour. Full of confidence in your loyalty and your sincerity, his majesty hopes that he may be soon enabled to acquaint you of the perfect establishment of tranquility.
I have the honor to be, With respectful consideration, Citizen General, &c. &c. (Signed) D. MIANO PRIOCCA.
Answer of the Gen. in Chief, Buonaparte. Head-quarters at Milan, 4th Thermidor. I do not perceive, Sir, any inconvenience that can arise from your advancing the necessary number of troops beyond the line of demarcation, in order to maintain tranquility and good order in the state of his majesty.
I have given the strictest orders to the garrisons of the different towns we occupy, not to intermeddle in the slightest manner in the interior affairs of your country. You may rest satisfied, Sir, of the interest I shall always take in doing every thing that may be agreeable to his majesty, and of the desire I feel to contribute in any shape to the tranquility of his realms. Mr. Borghese has mentioned to me his majesty's desire to draw some corn from the districts occupied by the French troops: I most readily acquiesce in it, and pray you to believe the singular consideration and esteem with which I am, &c. &c. (Signed) BUONAPARTE.
SECOND LETTER. From the Chevalier Princea. Turin, July 25.
CITIZEN GENERAL, The minister of foreign affairs M. Telli, has acquainted me with the establishment of the Cisalpine republic, and I immediately returned him such an answer as was calculated to maintain the best understanding between the two powers.
As you seemed to have at heart the acknowledgement of that republic, on the part of our government, I feel eager, citizen general, to apprise you of it, that you may thereby perceive how highly I value your councils, and the interest you feel for the happiness of this country.
The affairs of this country unfortunately begin to take a serious turn; the malcontents pursue their intrigues, and continue their movements with increased ardour. If under these circumstances, citizen general, you should deem it expedient to express, by some public writing, how unwilling the French republic is to give any room to suppose, that the malcontents were authorized to boast of the support of its agents, or of those of the Cisalpine republic, I should feel highly grateful for that new mark of your friendship, the continuance of which I would endeavour to deserve by every means in my power.
Mr. Telli will probably have the honor of giving you more particular accounts relative to the situation of this country: I have authorized him to remain at head quarters, in order to keep with you a more direct correspondence; and I entreat you to receive him kindly, whenever he may have occasion to entertain you with our confidence in the loyalty of the French, and with the respectful consideration with which I am, &c.
(Signed) PRIOCCA. Buonaparte's reply to this letter was, that his letter to the Marquis de St. Marfan might be published, which is as follows:

Letter from the general in chief Buonaparte to the Marquis de St. Marlin. Head-quarters, Milan, 21 Messidor. I have received M. le Marquis, the letter from M. de Priocca, minister of his Sardinian majesty, which you had the goodness to forward to me.
I, in consequence of it, gave orders to the general of division Souret, and to the general who commands at Cuneo, to allow a free access into the fortresses of Tortona, Alexandria, Cherasco, Ceva, and Cuneo, to an engineer officer whom his majesty may appoint, to inspect in person the works which M. de Priocca supposes are carrying on in these forts; and which, it should appear, occasion him some uneasiness.
The officers who shall be sent by his majesty will be able to assure him, that I carry on no works in the fortresses of Piedmont; that it is impossible to be more pleased than we are with the conduct of his majesty's cabinet towards the French republic; and that so far from wishing to give the least reason for any uneasiness, that on the contrary I am ready to do any thing his majesty may require, in order to assure him, and which may contribute to the tranquility and prosperity of a court, that for some months past has given us the most sincere tokens of its kind intentions towards us.
I have sent no troops from Lombardy into Piedmont, because it was never my intention to send any thither. Indeed it were my wish to send a battalion of Poles to Cuneo, in order to unite to the army the 45th demi-brigade. But if his Majesty signifies the least desire that such a measure should not take place, I will give it up; and I am also ready, if his Majesty is displeased with any of the generals or officers employed in his dominion, immediately to displace them.
Being informed, that M. Ranza was endeavouring by incendiary publications, to stir up an insurrection in his majesty's dominions; and being likewise informed that he was at Milan, I ordered him to be taken into custody, and to be confined in a castle of this city.
I entreat you, M. le Marquis, to acquaint me before your departure from Milan, with every thing that I can do that may convince his majesty of the friendly sentiments of the French republic towards him; and with the desire I feel to make myself useful, and to contribute to the welfare of his majesty's dominions, and to his own private happiness. Be pleased to rest assured of the esteem and high consideration with which
I am &c. &c. (Signed) BUONAPARTE.
THIRD LETTER OF M. D. PRIOCCA. Turin, August 1.
Deeply impressed with the interest you take in the internal tranquility of this country, I have to inform you, that it would be perfectly re-established, if the brigands who particularly take refuge in the Genoese territories, did not spread themselves about in all directions, to take advantage of the disorders that may still prevail in some of the neighbouring provinces. As I am satisfied that you will bear with satisfaction, that the Piedmontese have evinced great energy against them, I flatter myself that I shall soon be able to acquaint you, that order and tranquility are restored on the frontiers. I beg you may rest assured of the loyalty of the king, and of his friendship for the French republic in all his measures; and of the sentiments of esteem he entertains for you. I have the honor to be, With respectful consideration, Citizen General, &c- (Signed) D. PRIOCCA.
BUONAPARTE'S ANSWER. I learn with satisfaction, Sir, that the critical situation in which Piedmont has been placed for a few moments, is happily gone by; and that you will hereafter have nothing to alarm you. I make no doubt, but that the wisdom of his majesty and of his ministers will speedily succeed in re-establishing the internal tranquility of the country. (Signed) BUONAPARTE.
By this day's Mail.
PORTSMOUTH, (N. H.) Nov. 8. On Wednesday the 22d inst. the General Court are to meet in this town, agreeable to adjournment.
Last week a lad living with Andrew Drew, Esq. of Somersworth, fell from the dam of a mill ten feet into the water, and passed under the water wheel, and was taken up sixty feet from the place he fell from, without receiving any injury.
The Stock of the Farmers has increased within these few years, in New-England, beyond calculation. In this season, for the sale of beef cattle, the world seems to swarm with them—Upwards of five hundred, were driven through Concord on one day, last week—246 of which were owned by capt. Weld, of Plymouth.
MONEY MAKING—Depreciating. On Thursday last, the two gentlemen from the State of Massachusetts, who have been in pursuit of our money making gentry for some days past, happened accidentally to find the plate and about sixty dollars of the counterfeit Union Bank Bills—at Lee. The person in whose possession these precious things were found, gave the pursuers leg bail. [Dover paper.]
NEWBURYPORT, Nov. 10. MELANCHOLY FIRE!! About one o'clock we were alarmed with the cry of Fire from the house of Mr. Moses Savory, which was so enveloped in flames before it was discovered, that it was in a short time entirely consumed with all its contents, and painful to relate, two young men apprentices to Mr. Savory, perished in the flames.
COLUMBIA, (S. C.) Nov. 3. Extract of a letter from a gentleman at Nassau, New-Providence, to his friend at Wilmington, N. C. dated Sept. 26. We have lately very providentially escaped a most hellish plot—A parcel of French negroes who have been captured and sold here, and who had run away from their owners, entered into a conspiracy (about thirty in number) to burn the town and make a general massacre of the whites. They had the promise of a great many slaves to join them immediately on the beginning of the horrid business. Their scheme could not have been planned by any set of men, and would undoubtedly have occasioned an immense bloodshed had they carried it into effect; but one of them who had been compelled to take the oath, divulged the secret to his master a few hours before the massacre was to have begun. A party of men were immediately collected and sent after the villains: only a few had yet assembled; five of them were taken; the principal ringleaders made two of that number; they were all condemned, and three executed; the other two who share the same fate in a day or two. The principal ringleader was a notorious fellow in the dreadful business of St. Domingo, who met his fate with the greatest composure and resignation, saying, as he approached the place of execution, that he was content to die, as he had murdered many a white man in his time.
The Gazette. PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 20.
CONGRESS. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20.
House met and received the report of their committee, on the unfinished business. A quorum of the Senate not being assembled, the House adjourned.
The Senators of the United States in town are, from the State of New-Hampshire { Mr. Langdon, and Mr. Livermore. Massachusetts { Mr. Goodhue. Connecticut { Mr. Tracy. Rhode-Island { Mr. Foster. Vermont { Mr. Paine. New-York { Mr. Lawrence. Pennsylvania { Mr. Bingham. Delaware { Mr. Latimer. Kentucky { Mr. Marshall. North-Carolina { Mr. Martin, and Mr. Bloodworth. South-Carolina { Mr. Read. Georgia { Mr. Gunn.
A certain great body will in a few days commence their operations; when, if some, stung with the wrongs and indignities of an injured country, assume the attitude of GLADIATORS or of MADMEN, it is to be hoped we shall not again see others in the degrading and insulting attitudes of BUFFERS, PROTEUS'S, French hirelings, and traitors.
The French Constitution of the third year, or the third French Constitution, never received the approbation of the writers in the Aurora. We know they are principled against every system but a pure democracy, a government of one branch, like that of Robespierre, or the former government of Pennsylvania.
The late tornado in France, which has swept away the two representative branches is therefore approved of by the Aurora, as a return to a single branch government. For this it cannot now be called a representative government, on a purely democratical plan, yet it may be queried whether more than four or five men are not the efficient agents in any popular single branch government that ever was formed. If demagogues did not believe, or know this to be the case they would never clamour for a simple democracy.
While the war shall continue in Europe, it is not probable, or scarcely possible that the United States can suffer more than they do at present by French depredation on their commerce. It is to be feared from present appearances, that France does not intend to alter her conduct altho' to an eye of reason it would appear that she has much more to expect from us by a just and honourable treatment especially while the war continues, than by pursuing her present system.
Our government has at present but a choice of difficulties; either to interdict foreign commerce, or to permit our merchants to arm. In the latter case we should preserve much property which is now plundered from us by the picaroons in the West-Indies. In the former, we might make our enemies suffer, and might possibly bring them to terms of justice; but at an incalculable sacrifice. Government will probably wait the result of the pending negotiations. All calculations on this point however, baffle conjecture for things are now strangely ordered in France.
It ought never to be forgotten that the enemies of the government of this country have been uniform apologists for every atrocity that has been perpetrated by the successful faction of the day in France. They are now in course, consigning the fallen victims of the dominant faction to obloquy. It is to be observed, that while they attempt to restore monarchy, they implicate them in all the principal measures adopted for the termination of royalty. If the characters given in the Aurora, of the transported deputies are just, it is evident that no men in the nation would have had less to expect from a restoration of the Bourbon family to the throne than they. If monarchy should ever be restored in France, it can only be done by means of the military. It appears that the directory is the only branch of the government that has intrigued with the armies.
To them the directory ascribe their success in the late contest with the legislative branches. Had the councils succeeded by the same means, the Aurora writers would have said that the Constitution of France, was annihilated.
Almost every member of the Council of 500, who were chosen for the new third last spring, have had their seats vacated by the directory, after holding them five or six months. This "extra-constitutional step" as the Autora would call it, was not taken, till the sense of the army was ascertained.
The condemnation of the members of the legislature of France, by the directory, without trial, is justified by the Aurora, on this ground. "They would have been found innocent by the tribunals. The judges of the tribunals in France are appointed in the same manner, in which their legislative councils are, immediately by the people."
Thus it appears, that the people of France are not to be trusted either in their elections of legislators or judges. Can it be believed that a few royalists have in almost every instance controuled the first free elections under the constitution of the third year? No—the most natural, the most obvious reflection is, that the people of France will for peace, and a state of internal security, which seven years' experience have shown them, it is vain to expect so long as their public affairs are bandied about from faction to faction. Hence their election of such men as judges and legislators, who were laboring to bring about peace, in a constitutional way. For this, they are proscribed and banished, without the forms of justice.
GAZETTE MARINE LIST. PORT OF PHILADELPHIA.
Table with 4 columns: Ship, Suter, Days. Includes entries for Aurora, Suter, Hamburg 47; New-England, Suter, New Providence 12; etc.
CLEARED.
Table with 4 columns: Ship, Suter, Days. Includes entries for Enterprise, Norvis, Hamburg; Commerce, Chamberlain, Portland, N. H.; etc.
The ship Concord, Thompson 104 days from Batavia, is below. The Concord left this port ten months ago.
The Aurora, Suter, 47, and Sally, Dofson, 57 days from Hamburg, arrived at the Port last evening.
The Pennsylvania, Williamson, and Holbrook, M'Call, have arrived at Hamburg from hence.
Captain Suter passed a ship in the Elbe, which he took for the Charlotte, Dannenberger, from hence.
The Nassau (late Indostan), Merchant, of this port, was ready to sail for Batavia, under Danish colours.
The Ariel, Tarris, had failed for Havre, several days before the Aurora.
The Aurora failed from Hamburg the 2d of October: Mr. Gerry had not arrived at Amsterdam the 12th September. Fayette was expected at Hamburg to take passage in the ship John, of Boston.
The ship Cleopatra, from Lisbon; the ship Roba and Betsy from Bristol, and several other vessels are arrived in the Delaware.
Arrived yesterday, in 14 days from New-Providence, the ship Asia, capt. Yard, who favored us with the following
Remarks.—The Asia failed from New-Providence November 4th, in company with brig Dolly, of New-York, a schooner belonging to Wilcaisset, and an English brig and sloop, under convoy of his Britannic Majesty's ship Squirrel, capt. Hardy, who saw us safe to the latitude 29. N. wished us well and parted.
Left in N. Providence the ship Circumnavigator, of Boston, from Havana, sent in by the privateer Seorge of Regicides. She will be suffered to proceed home without any papers.
The schooner Hawk, of Baltimore, bro't in on suspicion of contraband goods, not yet cleared.
Schooner Adventure, of Baltimore, bro't in with contraband goods; cargo condemned, vessel libelled.
Ship Two Friends, of New-York, from New-Orleans; part of her cargo condemned as Spanish property, the ship restored.
Brig Hector, from Charleston, with corn. A ship from Charleston, brought in on suspicion of contraband goods, not yet cleared.
The ship Louisa, Baltimore, Champlin, failed for Havana, after a few days detention.
In a violent gale of wind on the 15th and 16th of October, there were cast away and lost a number of vessels belonging to different parts of the United States, on the coast of Florida; the crews of several had arrived at New-Providence; the vessels and captains names are—brig Commerce, Baltimore, Gardiner, vessel totally lost on key Largo, after suffering the greatest hardships for three days, without either food or water, was taken off the key by an English privateer, and humanely treated.
Schooner Diligence of Portland, Capt. Crabtree. Vessel totally lost on Abano, part of the cargo saved.
Brig —, of Bristol, R. I. from Havana, Capt. Trownbowl, vessel totally lost on Florida, part of the cargo saved.
Ship Experiment, capt. Brownlow, from Charleston for Havana, foundered in the Gulf, after being 16 days at sea in his boat, he arrived at New-Providence in a dreadful situation from hunger, thirst, and exposure to the weather.
Several other vessels were lost in the same gale, but their names are not known.
All these unfortunate people were saved by the wreckers in New-Providence, and it is but justice to speak highly of their kindness and humanity to the distressed seamen, who must inevitably have perished, had they not come forward and exerted themselves to save their lives.
Nassau, (N. Providence) Oct. 31.—In the gale of the 16th inst. the ship Speedwell, Brownlow, from Charleston for New-Orleans, foundered in the Gulph.—The captain, with his passengers and crew, 21 in all, arrived here last evening in an open boat, after having, for fourteen days, been exposed to extremities which seem almost beyond the power of human nature to have surmounted. The benevolent disposition of the inhabitants of this place, which has been so often exerted in behalf of the indigent and distressed, we are confident will be displayed on the present occasion—and there rarely has occurred one which called more loudly for relief.
New-York, November 18. ARRIVED.
Table with 4 columns: Ship, Suter, Days. Includes entries for Margaret, Suter, London 53; Sally, Hotchkiss, Surinam 32; etc.
The following vessels were at Liverpool when the Brothers, capt. Cummings, left there 18th September, and were to sail shortly for the following ports:
Table with 4 columns: Ship, Suter, Days. Includes entries for Betsey & Hannah, Bartlett, for Wilmington, N. C.; George, Allen, St. John's, N. B.; etc.
Boston, Nov. 13.
Capt. Ellery, from the Straights, informs that the British fleet under Earl St. Vincents, were off Cadiz, the 8th Oct. but understood they were preparing to leave it for Lisbon.
Capt. Ellery, was taken by the French and Spaniards, but having the Ral d' Equipage, was not detained; he informs, that all American vessels unprovided with this protecting Paper, are in danger of capture and condemnation; capt. E. saw two Americans taken off Gibraltar, but could not tell who they were.
Flour was worth 10 dls. at Cape-Francois, 16th Oct.
Arrived brig Betsey, Norton, from St. Ubes, 70 days.
Arrived Sch. Hawk, Tresey, of Marblehead 56 days from Rotterdam. Left there, capt. Roberts, of Boston; and a brig belonging to Mr. Watson. The Ulysses, Tresey, of this port left the morning before capt. T. Oct. 12, lat. 36.33, long. 27.23, spoke brig George and Harriet, Hills, 34 days from Lisbon bound to Boston. Oct. 31, was boarded by an English privateer, who fired two guns with shot; otherwise treated politely.
Arrived ship Ulysses, Tresey, Rotterdam, 60 days. Left there ships Adelaide, Mun, and Friendship, Smith, of Baltimore; brig Brule of Philadelphia, from Charleston; brigs Delight, Dean, and Hazard, Roberts, of Boston; the Harriet, Story of Newburyport; the ship Lexington, M'Kenney, arrived the 6 Sept. 14. Frolic, bearing N. W. by N. distant 6 leagues spoke ship Sophia, M'Donald from Baltimore bound to Bremen; Sept. 21 lat. 58.20, long 15.30, spoke brig Aethusa, West, from St. Peterburg, for Providence, out 30 days. Nov. 6, spoke ship Galen, Mackay, off Cape Sable, 44 hours out from Boston, for London.
Arrived ship Eliza, Basset, London, 57 days. Spoke nothing.
Arrived brig Delight, Ferkitt, Lisbon, 55 days.
Arrived ship Alligator, Harris, Liverpool, 50 days. The Ranger, of Wilcaisset, failed in company with the Stockport, from hence, had just arrived.
Arrived brig New Adventure, Worth, Lisbon, 44 days. Left there ship Russia Merchant, Thompson, of Providence; ship Dominick Terry, De Hart, of Philadelphia, ship Calais, Weyer of Boston; ship Glory Ann, Coffin, Boston; brig —, Norris, of Newburyport; brig Polly, Tufts, Boston; with a number of other American vessels; failed to days before capt. Worth, ship Friendship, Atkins for this port. Oct. 20, lat. 43.54, long. 49.41, spoke ship Swan of New London, from Liverpool for New-York, out 32 days; Nov. 10, spoke ship Florence, John Portmouth for Surinam, 44 leagues from Cape Ann.
Arrived ship Ruthy, Stover, Surinam, 42 days. Left there about 14 sail of American vessels; but brought no list. Sep. 24, lat. 35. N. long. 62.45, W. spoke sch. Clarissa, from Plymouth, for Guadalupe, out 7 days; Nov. 3, lat. 57, N. long. 70.51, W. spoke ship Prosperity, 8 weeks from Liverpool, for Philadelphia.
Arrived ship Industry, Shaw, 75 days from St. Ubes. Sailed a week before capt. Tupper, who arrived on the 4th inst.
Arrived, brig Atalanta, Ellery, Malaga, 41 days. Left no American vessels there. Spoke 10 days since, in lat. 43, long. 62, schr. Nancy, 63 days from Amsterdam for Boston.
The Mount Vernon, from Liverpool for Baltimore, was spoke Oct. 6, in lat. 46, 12, N. 14 days out, all well.
The Stafford, of Portsmouth, has arrived in England.
The ship Sally, Buzzle, has been taken by the French privateer Pandora, and sent into Hispaniola.
The Medical Lectures
In the University of Pennsylvania, are postponed until the last Monday in November next. October 14. 22W4W.
The printers in the United States are requested to insert the following Observations in their papers, by which the public will be served, as well as their obedient servants. B. LINCOLN, Superintendent of Light-Houses, State of Massachusetts. BY order of the United States, a Light House has been erected at the Clay Ponds, on Cape Cod; the lamps in which are to be lighted on the 15th inst. The light house is erected on, and elevated about 150 feet, which with the elevation of the lantern makes the whole height 200 feet above high water mark. In order that this Light may be distinguished from the Boston and other Lights on our coast, an Eclipsed is erected, which will revolve around the Lamps once in 80 seconds so that the light will be nearly excluded from the eye of the approaching mariner about thirty seconds, in one revolution of the eclispher. To render the benevolent design of Congress as extensively useful as possible, the Marine Society in Boston, by a large Committee from their body, whose views have been seconded by others, have taken such distances and bearings as they thought necessary; which observations giving light and safety are added for the benefit of all interested—and are as follows.
Vessels outward bound, from Boston Light-house, and would with to fall in with Cape-Cod the course is E. S. E. distance 15 leagues, thence 3 leagues to the Light-house. When up with the Light-house and it bears S.W. 2 leagues distance, you then steer S.E. which will carry you out of the south channel.
Vessels inward bound, and fall in with the back of Cape-Cod, bring the Light to bear S.W. 2 leagues distance, then you may steer W.N.W. for Boston Light-house.
If you would wish to go into Cape Cod harbor, you may keep the shore aboard about a mile distant, where you will have 10 fathoms water. There is a bar lies off the back of the Cape, about half a mile from the shore.
When up with Race-point, which is very bold, and about three leagues to the westward of the Light-house, and may be known by a number of fish houses on it, from 1 to 3 miles to the southward of Race-point, is what is called Herring Cove, where you may have good anchoring half a mile from the shore, the wind from E to N N E in 4 or even 3 fathom water.
If bound into Cape Cod harbor, your course from Race-point to Wood end, is S.S.E. 6 miles distance, bring the light to bear E by N and run for it about two miles, you will then be clear of Wood end—then you must steer N.E. until the light bears E by S—then run N.W. for the harbor, until you have from a to 3 1/2 fathoms water, where you have good anchoring, the light then will bear E by S 1 1/2 or 2 miles distance.
In running from the Race point to Wood End—after you pass the Black Land or Hummocks, you will come up with a low sandy beach, which forms the harbor; extending between 2 and 3 miles to Wood-end, which is difficult to be distinguished in the night—it is very bold—you will have 25 fathom water within half a mile of the shore.
In beating into Cape-Cod harbor, you must keep the eastern shore aboard, until you get into 5 fathom water. Stand no farther to the westward than to bring the light to bear E by S as there is a long spit of sand runs off from the western shore, which being very bold, you will have 13 fathom water within a stones throw of shore.
In case it blows so hard that you cannot beat in the harbor, you will have good anchoring without, from 1 to 15 fathom water.
Vessels in Boston bay and would with to put away for Cape Cod harbor, must endeavor to fall in with the Race. If in the night, and you cannot see the land, you must bring the Light to bear E by N and run for it until you have foundings in 14 or 15 fathom water, then steer north east until the light bears E by S then run in N.W. for the harbor.
At full and change, it is high water off Race Point at 10 o'clock and 45 minutes. Vessels in leaving Cape Cod bound to Boston, should calculate the tide, as the flood sets strong to the south west.
JOHN FOSTER WILLIAMS, Committee. NATHANIEL GOODWIN, from the. JOHN CRUFT, Marine. JOHN HILLS, Society. THOMAS BARNARD, A branch Pilot for the port of Boston.
SOLOMON COOK, Residence at Provincetown. ELIJAH NICKERSON, Vice-Admiral Cape Cod. At a Meeting of the Marine Society, held at Concert Hall, on Tuesday 7th Nov 1797—the above Report of its Committee was read and approved and ordered to be published. By order of the Society, THOMAS DENNIE, President. WILLIAM FURNISS, Sec'y.
NOTICE.
THE partnership between JOHN INSTONE and JAMES BACON, under the firm of Instone and Bacon, is this day dissolved by mutual consent. All persons who stand indebted to said firm are requested to make immediate payment of their respective accounts, to JOHN SKETIN, on Landsberger's wharf, who is duly authorized to receive the same; and all persons having any demands against the said firm, are desired to bring in their accounts immediately to him for settlement. John Instone, James Bacon. november 20. codist
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Joseph Milnor's Draft, payable to the subscriber or order, for Four Hundred and Twenty Dollars, 25 Cents, dated November 15th, 1797, at Sixty Days after Date, on Rossion and Paul, with their acceptance. If found, a reasonable reward will be paid on delivery. George Pennock. november 20. 45
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MR. & MRS. BYRNE, of the New Theatre, RESPECTFULLY inform the Ladies and Gentlemen of Philadelphia, that Mr. BYRNE'S Academy will commence on the 1st, and Mrs. BYRNE'S on the 2d of December next. november 20.
The Canal Lottery.
Will re-commence drawing, on Monday the 20th inst. ROBERT BROOKE, Check Clerk. Nov. 11. ditto.
FOR SALE.
A Team of five excellent Horses, with a Wagon and Gears. The Horses are all young, strong, true to the draught, and capable of hauling as great a weight as most in the country. The Wagon and Gears are strong, and in good order. Apply to ROBERT GREEN, West Town, Chester county, or to Thomas Fisher, No. 142, S. Second Street, Philadelphia codist. 11 100. 2.