Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser. (Philadelphia [Pa.]), 1797-01-13 00:00:00

Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser.
NUMBER 1357.]
FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 13, 1797.
[VOLUME XI.]
A Printing-Office for Sale; Situate in the city of Burlington, on the river Delaware, about 20 miles from Philadelphia.
Particular Teneriffe Wine. 50 Quarter-casks Particular Teneriffe WINE, Of a superior quality.
A BALL. 7. DOZOL'S BALL Will be held on MONDAY NEXT, the 16th of January, at Mr. O'Ellers's Hotel.
Dancing-School at the above Hotel. Hours of attendance for Ladies are from 10 to 1 in the morning, and for Gentlemen from 6 to 9 in the evening.
Boarding and Lodging May be had at No. 62, Penn-street, in a creditable family.
FOR SALE, The fast-sailing Schooner ORION; Seventy tons burthen; fifteen months old; her frame is of the best of white oak.
For Sligo and Kilkibegs, The American Ship NANCY, Cuthbert Riggs, master. Will sail with all convenient speed.
FOR SALE, THE SHIP MARY, SAMUEL PARKER, MASTER, Two hundred tons burthen. Apply to JOSEPH ANTHONY & Co.
For Sale, or Charter, The Ship DIANA, SAMUEL PILE, Master, Burthen 205 47-95 tons register, built in Philadelphia in the year 1792.
TEAS. Imperial, Hyson, and, Souchoong, 40,000 pieces Nankeens of the best quality.
NOTICE. THE Sales of LANDS of the United States, in the North-Western Territory, heretofore advertised in the several public papers.
FASHIONABLE WAISTCOATING. GEORGE DOBSON, No. 25, SOUTH THIRD-STREET, Has received per the Diana, from London.
SALT PETRE. A large quantity of Double-Refined Salt Petre for sale at No. 25, South Third-street.
Elegant Brussels & Turkey Carpeting, For sale by George Dobson, No. 25, South Third-street.
THE SUBSCRIBER WISHES to ascertain, whether a certain EDWARD NEVILL, by trade a Stone-Cutter, or Brick-Layer.
For Sale, By George Deschamps, No. 91, NORTH SIXTH-STREET, Nova-Scotia Prime Salmon, in barrels.
Also on hand, Madeira wine, very old, in pipes, hogheads and quarter casks.
FOR SALE, About 1,600 acres of Land, WELL situated, laying on and between Marsh and Beech Creeks, Milford county, Pennsylvania.
Notice. THE Advertiser is a person regularly bred, and has carried on in an extensive manner for these 30 years past.
Wanted on hire, A Cook, male or female—also a man servant to attend in a private family and perform the duties belonging to the dining room.
Wanted on hire, A Cook, male or female—also a man servant to attend in a private family and perform the duties belonging to the dining room.
Women's Cloaks. GEORGE DOBSON, No. 25, South Third-street, Has just received, per Eagle, Capt. Fofdick, via London.
WM. HOLDERNESS, No. 76, HIGH-STREET, Has received by the late arrivals, A Well Selected Assortment of Silk Mercery, Linen Drapery, and Haberdashery Goods.
Fresh Garden, Grass and Flower-Seeds, Roots, &c. &c. This day landing from the ship Eagle, captain Fofdick, from London.
Just Landing, At South-street-wharf, from on board the ship Sedgley, Captain Hodge, from St. Petersburg.
Cheap French China. THE Subscribers finding it impossible to supply their store with any more China from France.
For Sale, By J. WARDER, PARKER & Co. An Invoice of Cordage, Consisting of different sizes, from 12 inch cables down to rope of 2 inches.
Davis's Law Book Store, No. 313, HIGH-STREET. GEORGE DAVIS announces to his professional friends, and the Gentlemen of the Law, generally, through the Union.
A CARD. If Monsieur G. H. SÖLE, Who left Bordeaux the 20th June last, and arrived at Boston about the middle of August.
In order to comply with contracts, I will sell, for approved bonds, on 3 equal annual payments, A Square of LOTS.
Notice to Creditors. The Assignees of Bernard Dougherty late of Bedford County, will make a dividend of the effects in their hands.
WANTED, A MECHANIC, to erect Spinning and Weaving Machines by water, such as are used at my manufactory.
FOR SALE, At Whitefides' Tea Ware-House, No. 99, North Second Street. Imperial, Hyson, Young Hyson, Fresh Teas.
All persons indebted to the Estate of JOSEPH PASCHALL, deceased, ARE requested to pay their respective debts without further delay.
Public Notice, IS HEREBY GIVEN, that I have applied to the judges of the Supreme Court of this state, to supply the defect in my Title to a lot of ground.
For Sale, By the Subscribers—In PENN-STREET, 65 Pipes Excellent Madeira Wine, Imported by the Eagle.
Bank of Pennsylvania, January 4, 1797. At a meeting of the Directors this day, a dividend of sixteen dollars on each share was declared for the last 6 months.
A Quantity of Brandy, FIRST & 2d proof, Gin, of 4th proof, in pipes, Jamaica Spirits, 4th proof, in Hhds.
The Elephant, Now exhibited, was bought for Ten Thousand Dollars. He is 3 years old, 6 feet high, growing to 18 feet.

New Theatre.
THIS EVENING, FRIDAY, January 13,
Will be presented, A COMEDY, called The School for Scandal.
Sir Peter Teazle, Mr. Bates; Sir Oliver Surface, Mr. Morris; Joseph Surface, Mr. Wignell; Charles Surface, Mr. Moreton; Sir Benjamin Backbite, Mr. Fox; Crabtree, Mr. Harswood; Careless, Mr. Blissett; Sir Harry, with a song, Mr. Darley; Rowley, Mr. Warrell; Motes, Mr. Francis; Saake, Mr. Darley, jun.; Trip, Mr. Warrell, jun.; Lady Teazle, Mrs. Morris; Lady Sneerwell, Mrs. Harvey; Mrs. Candour, first time, Mrs. Oldmixon; Maria, Mrs. Francis.
To which will be added, A Comic-Opera, in 2 acts, called Peeping Tom of Coventry.
Peeping Tom, with the song of the Little Farthing Rush-light, Mr. Bates; Mayor of Coventry, Mr. Warren; Harold, Mr. Darley, jun.; Crazy, Mr. Francis; Earl of Mercia, Mr. Fox; Count Lewis, Mr. Warrell; Maud, Mrs. Oldmixon; Emma, Mrs. Warrell; Lady Godiva, Miss Oldfield; Mayors, Mrs. L'Estrange.
Box, One Dollar; twenty-five cents. Pit one Dollar. And Gallery, half a dollar. Tickets to be had at H. & P. Rice's Book-store, No. 50 High-street, and at the Office adjoining the Theatre.
The Doors of the Theatre will open at 5, and the Curtain rise precisely at 6 o'clock. Places for the Boxes to be taken at the Office in the front of the Theatre, from 10 till 2 o'clock, and from 10 till 4 on the days of performance.
Ladies and Gentlemen are requested to send their servants to keep places a quarter before 5 o'clock, and to order them, as soon as the company are seated, to withdraw, as they cannot on any account be permitted to remain.
VIVAT RES PUBLICA!
College-Hall.
READINGS and RECITATIONS,
Moral, Critical, and Entertaining.
MR. FENNELL
Respectfully informs the Public, that On SATURDAY EVENING, Jan. 14, at 7 o'clock
Will be delivered, (FIRST PART) THE EFFECTS OF REVENGE, Exemplified by selections from the character of Zanga, Dr. Young. (SECOND PART) THE PROGRESS OF JEALOUSY TRACED In the character of Othello, Shakespeare. During which will be recited Othello's speech to the Senate The celebrated scene with Iago And the most striking passages during his paroxysm of jealousy. (THIRD PART) THE EFFECTS OF JEALOUSY, Exemplified in Othello's soliloquies before and after the murder of Desdemona Alonzo's soliloquies before and after the death of Leonora With critical observations on the authors.
Subscriptions are received by Mr. Zachariah Poulton, jun. at the Library, where the Ladies and Gentlemen who may be inclined to honor the undertaking with their patronage, are respectfully requested to send their names and receive their tickets.
Occasional admission tickets to be had of Mr. Poulton, jun. at the Library; at Mr. McElwee's looking-glass-store, No. 70, South Fourth-street; and at Mr. Carey's, Book-seller, Market-street—Half a dollar each.
MRS. GRATTAN
Respectfully informs her friends, and the public in general, that on Tuesday the 10th day of January, she proposes opening, at No. 39, North Sixth-street, a
Linen and Muslin Warehouse.
Book Muslins, from 6/3 to 12/11 per yard. Jacquet ditto, from 8/8 to 9/8 per yard. Striped ditto, from 7/10 to 10/10 per yard. Fine Gossacs. Tambour'd Book Muslins, from 13/9 to 21/ per yard. India Muslin, from 11/3 to 15/ per yard. Sheetings Muslin. Jacquet muslin Handkerchiefs, from 4/3 to 6/ per hdkf. Book muslin Handkerchiefs from 5/3 to 10/6 per hdkf. Muslin color'd and border'd Handkerchiefs. Dacca Handkerchiefs. Tambour'd Cravats from 10/8 to 13/11. Pocket Handkerchiefs. Cambric, from 11/3 to 16/3 per yard. Table Cloths. Huckabuck Towelling. Women's Cotton Hdkf, from 6/3 to 13/ per pair. Dimity from 5/10 to 6/11. Men's Silk Hdkf. Tambour'd muslin Handkerchiefs from 13/11 to 13/2. Irish linens for Gentlemen's Shirts, from 5/5 to 9/7. And a variety of other articles. N. B. Orders received for all kinds of ready made Linen, Gentlemen's Shirts, ruffled or plain, Cravats, Pocket Handkerchiefs, &c. &c. Household Linen, &c. &c.
A plain shirt, made and mark'd, 3 1-2 dollars. A full ruffled ditto, 4 dollars. A plain shirt, made and mark'd, 5 dollars. A full ruffled ditto, 6 dollars. A plain shirt, made and marked, 5 1-2 dollars. A full ruffled ditto, 7 dollars. A plain shirt, made and mark'd, 6 dollars. A full ruffled ditto, 7 1-2. A plain shirt, made and mark'd, 6 1-2 dollars. A very fine ruffled ditto, 8 dollars. January 13. $
Bank of the United States,
January 2nd, 1797.
The Directors have this day declared a Dividend of Sixteen Dollars on each Share for the last six months, which will be paid to the Stockholders after the 12th instant. G. SIMPSON, Cashier.
CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Monday, January 2, concluded.
The order of the day was next called for on the report of the committee of ways and means, on the balances due from individual states to the United States. The House accordingly entered into a committee of the whole on the subject, Mr. Muhlenberg in the chair, when
Mr. Cooper said he had no expectation when this business was first brought forward, that he should have taken any part in the debate that might arise on the mode of dunning the state of New York for a balance of about two millions of dollars said to be due to the United States. Yet, when he heard a gentleman from Connecticut, (Mr. Coit) seem to pride himself that a settlement had been made, and our state found in debt, and treating our complaints of errors in that settlement, as laughable or childish; when he heard a gentleman from New-Jersey (Mr. Dayton) declare, in a serious tone of voice, that no consideration would ever induce him to relinquish that claim; although errors may have existed, although frauds may have been introduced, although we may have many large and just demands not brought forward at the time of settlement, notwithstanding all this, it seems the gentleman's ears are shut to our complaints. When he heard a gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Nicholas) bring forward a resolution to sequestrate, or in milder words, withhold the stock which the state of New-York has in the funds of the United States: when he heard a gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Baldwin) who had been on the floor of Congress almost from the beginning; when he had heard that gentleman, with all his experience in the money concerns of the nation, declare, that the United States was always considered indebted to the state of New York until the settlement was made, and by this declaration bringing into view high-toned evidence that errors did exist against us in that settlement; for I contend, said Mr. Cooper, that men and governments always have a pretty correct idea of their general concerns. To hear all this and be silent, said he, would be criminal: yet to argue on the subject, seemed to be of little use; for, when we look the United States in the face, and demand of them neither more nor less than substantial justice; when we complain that egregious errors exist in the general settlement; when we state that many just charges of large amount were not brought forward; when we state that large quantities of wheat was delivered by our state to the armies of the United States, at the depressed price of one dollar per bushel, according to a price-limiting statute of our state, existing at that time, and certificates issued by the officers for this less than quarter-price; when we state that some other states received certificates at five dollars per bushel for their quotas of wheat, and that those certificates counted on their face at the time of liquidation and settlement with ours; when we state that powder-houses were erected at the expense of our state, and the proceeds turned into the magazines of the United States, and the charges never brought in at the general settlement: when we complain of these hardships, what answer do we receive? Why, from Connecticut, the settlement is had; we do not understand you;—from Massachusetts, a still more disagreeable tone, even a sort of intimation that we are quibblers;—from New Jersey, a solid declaration that no consideration ought to diminish or dismiss this demand—giving our complaints to the wind, without a hearing;—from Virginia, a still more tough pill, even an attempt to sequestrate our stock. And why? or for what cause, are we thus roughly handled? Is it, said he, because our government, in order to keep up the armies of the United States, gave a bounty of six hundred acres of land to such as would serve three years? Is it because our troops were in the hands of the enemy during the whole war, our towns consumed with fire, and our merchants driven to the mountains? Is it because our frontiers were over-run with white men from Canada, and savages from the wilderness—our flourishing villages laid waste, and the inhabitants carried into savage captivity? Is it because our middle counties bore the burthen of being the seat of our own armies for several years? Or is it because the revenue which our state produces to the union, is not more than a quarter of the whole revenue of the United States, that several states, whose revenue to the union is next to nothing, are so deal to our complaints of errors and hardships on our part in that settlement?
What opinion, said Mr. C. should we have of a merchant, who should refuse to correct an error of great amount in a settlement made with his fellow merchant, but should plead the settlement, and thus hold what he had got by mistake or by a trick? Why this would be his true character, that the man who is only bound by the law, would do any unjust thing were it not for law; yea he would if you please, pick pockets, were it not for the penalty that follows.
An honest man is never afraid to have his charges examined again and again; knowing that the more the truth is rubbed the brighter it shines. If the charge of the United States against our state is a just one, it will not be the less so for a new hearing. I again repeat it, said he, what individual would refuse a re-examination of his accounts, if stated in the face by a fellow-trader, stating that he had obtained great part of his wealth by an error in settlement? No man would, no man dare. The frowns of society would prostrate him for ever were he to attempt it, and more especially if the person of whom he had taken this advantage, was a man of good fame and of equal standing with himself. And, in this point of view, I contend, said he, that the state of New-York is of sufficient responsibility in the union; and of such reputation as to her accounts, as to have a fair claim on the United States, that an order may be had for a new hearing.
We further complain bitterly of the rule under which this settlement took place. In short, said he, if it is honorable; if it is dignified, for the United States to refuse us a re-hearing, or attempt to sequestrate our stock, it is not less honorable, it is not less dignified for our state to sell and transfer their stock in the public fund, and withhold payment of the same until the errors which exist against us, can be corrected.
I shall be asked, said he, how this can be done? On which subject I beg leave to advance one thought that
has struck my mind as a thing that would be satisfactory to our state; and no more than substantially honorable and just on the part of the United States, which idea I shall cast before the committee, to the end that if the measure now before the committee should prove insufficient; something on its basis may be adopted,—that is that three commissioners be vested with full power from the United States, to join three commissioners from our state, with like power. Let them hear and determine whether any, and if any how much we are in debt to the union. I have no doubt, said he, such a measure would be satisfactory to our legislature, and I believe if found in debt, they would take order for payment. Should Congress refuse a re-hearing of the just complaints of that settlement, as it relates to our state, which is intitled to this sort of tender dealing; I shall be for no provision being made to pay the demand. On the other hand, should Congress offer this reasonable and fair thing of a re-hearing; and our state refuse or neglect to act; I shall be greatly disappointed in their attachment to the general government which I am sure is firm and of a durable nature.
Mr. Havens said, when these resolutions were first proposed, he did not think them very exceptional, being brought forward on the plausible ground of giving information to the different states of the sums in which they stood indebted; but, if his information was right, notification had already been made to the different states, of the amount of the balances found against them, and, therefore, these resolutions could only be looked upon as leading to something further, even to compulsory means being used to obtain a settlement. In this point of view, though the resolutions contained nothing directly objectionable, they became so, and it behoved the representatives of New York to oppose them.
Though Mr. H. said he was not authorized to say what was the opinion of the legislature of New-York of the settlement in question, amongst the most enlightened citizens of that state, he knew it was considered not only as unjust as to principle, but very greatly erroneous, and highly injurious to that state. He thought it probable that this was the opinion of the legislature also; and substantial justice required that any error in any account should be rectified; at least, that the party who thought there was an error should be satisfied. If the state of New York was satisfied with respect to the debt in question, he had no doubt, it would be paid.
With a view of putting the business into a less objectionable form, he would propose an amendment, viz. after "earnest request," "that if they (the said states) or any of them object to the principle upon which the balances have been made, they will make known their objections to the government of the United States; but if no objection, that they will cause provision to be made, &c." Mr. H. said he could see no objection which could be reasonably made to this amendment. If the state of New-York had any objections to the settlement, they would of course appoint an agent to enquire into the mode in which the accounts had been settled; this enquiry would produce satisfaction, and whatever was found to be the balance, it would be cheerfully paid; but if this amendment were not agreed to, he said there might be embarrassments thrown in the way; embarrassments which might prove insurmountable.
It had been remarked, Mr. H. said, that this was a kind of arbitration, and that the award was final. He never understood it in that point of light. If the business had assumed the face of an arbitration, it would have been settled in a public manner. An agent would not only have been appointed to bring in their own claims, but also to have examined those of others. But, the business had been settled rather in a private manner than otherwise. The books had been kept from view. If there had been no irregularity in the settlement, he could see no objection to its being laid before the United States at large. He had always understood there was some reason for keeping the accounts from public inspection, and it appeared somewhat strange. It looked as if there had been some errors committed which were improper to show to the people of the United States. At any rate such ideas had prevailed: they had at least prevailed in the state of New-York. For these reasons, he trusted, the amendment would not be objected to.
Mr. Henderson hoped the amendment would not prevail: it looked like inviting objections, at a time when there was no proof that any objections existed to the payment of the balances in question. It was allowed by the opposers of the report before them that at some period it would be proper to enter into a negotiation with the debtor states; he thought there could be no better time than the present, nor any better mode than that prescribed by the resolution before them.
Mr. Kitchell said it appeared to him as if the amendment was introduced for the purpose of giving the State of New-York an opportunity to make apologies for not doing what justice and honor required of them. It was extraordinary he said, that New-York had been notified two years of this debt, and that they should now require them to give some plea in justification of their conduct. The gentleman from New-York (Mr. Cooper) had painted the situation of that state during the war in very strong colours. Other states Mr. K. said, suffered equally with them. That gentleman had also dwelt much upon what that state had done during the war; he would say what the state of New-Jersey had not done. Mr. K. then went (too rapidly for us to follow him) over every thing which he conceived the state of New-York had done to its discredit during the war, which he said New-Jersey had not done. He said that state was now only called upon to pay the debt he owed. If they had objections to do this, they would make them; but they were not to cram them down their throats. Let them state their objections themselves. He did not believe the state of New-York had empowered their delegates to object to the payment of this debt; their business was of a general legislative nature, and he thought it would have been better for them not to have interfered in the business.
Mr. Havens said the gentleman from New-Jersey had dwelt much upon what that state had not done; he would just remind them of what it had done. Did it not lay a heavy tax on the lighthouse at Sandyhook? For his own part, he despised any thing like adverting to state merits. He thought
such practices had an unfavorable aspect to other parts of the Union, and therefore he would with always to avoid reflections on any state.
Mr. Kitchell said he did not mean to reflect on the state of New-York. He intended only to refer to what had been said about the industry and wealth of that state at the expense of all the other states. With respect to the tax laid upon the lighthouse, he would ask whether the state of New-York had not laid taxes upon every shallop and boat which passed from New-Jersey to that state?
Mr. Swanwick said it was of little importance to the house what taxes had been laid by the state of New-York or New-Jersey. He hoped the amendment would not pass, because it would seem as if they themselves doubted the justice of the debt. If they had objections to the demand, they would state them, without any provision for the purpose.
Mr. Livingston said he should confine his observations to the amendment, as that was under consideration. When the general resolution was under debate, it was objected by the representatives from the state of New-York, that she could not be bound to pay the balance in question, because she had not given her consent as a state to the law for appropriating the mode of settlement; but now they were told they must wait till that state make objections; that the delegates in that house had no right to object to it, yet the state was to be bound by this settlement which was made according to a law passed by the delegates of that state in common with others. But if the delegates had not a right (which was his own opinion) to object to the justice of the debt, they had certainly no right to frame the law originally, and then the resolution was wholly out of the question.
Mr. L. said he did not think the amendment of his colleague invited objection. The friends of the resolution told them that the application was made to know whether it was agreeable to the state to pay the money or not. Now the amendment made the explanation what they said it was, but what appeared to the delegates from New-York doubtful. He hoped therefore the amendment would prevail. If it should not, it would cause what gentlemen seemed to wish to avoid, delay; because, if it was negatived, he should think it his duty, to call for some delay, before the house agreed to pass the resolution before them. He therefore hoped, if gentlemen wished for celerity, or consistency with their own arguments, they would not oppose the amendment.
The motion was put and negatived, there being only 21 members for it.
Mr. Livingston then moved that the committee rise for the purpose of a postponement. He thought they had a right to ask this from the candor of the house. It was a subject, he said, which required mature consideration, and more time than gentlemen had been yet able to give. He hoped therefore this delay would be granted. He wished before he decided on the business to obtain the sense of his constituents on the subject. For his own part, he did not wish the decision to be put off altogether. He knew the disadvantages under which the representatives of what were called the debtor states labored, and he wished to have it determined whether the state of New-York was a debtor or a creditor, whether the whole transaction was to be binding, or whether the whole should be buried in oblivion.—The result he said might be this? The delegates from the state of New-York do not represent her as a separate state, but as a state of the whole. It was possible that that state might come to measures, as might induce her representatives in that house to withdraw farther opposition to the resolution before them.
Mr. W. Smith hoped, as the gentleman seemed so earnestly to wish it, that the committee would rise.
The committee accordingly rose and obtained leave to sit again, when
Mr. Livingston asked if it was in order to move to postpone the business to a certain day? If so, he wished it postponed till that day three weeks.
The speaker informed Mr. L. that the business was not then before them, and Mr. W. Smith moved that the house adjourn—it adjourned accordingly.
Republished by desire.
From the PHILADELPHIA GAZETTE.
Memoirs of GENERAL WAYNE. ANTHONY WAYNE, late Major general in the army of the United States, was born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, in 1745. His grand father bore a captain's commission at the battle of Boyne, under King William, and was distinguished for his attachment to the principles of liberty. The General's father was a respectable farmer, and served for many years as a representative for the county of Chester in the General Assembly of Pennsylvania before the revolution. His son succeeded him as representative for the County in 1773. In this eventful year, he began his career as a patriot, and friend of the rights of man. He took an active part in all the measures of the Assembly for that year which were opposed to the claims of Great Britain, and in connection with John Dickinson, Thomas Mifflin, Edward Biddle, Charles Thompson, and a few other gentlemen, prepared the way for the decided and useful part which Pennsylvania afterwards took in the American revolution.
In the year 1775 he quitted the councils of his country, for the field. He entered the army of the United States as a colonel. His name recruited a regiment in a few weeks in his native county. In the close of this year, he accompanied General Thompson into Canada. Here he was soon led into action. In the defeat of General Thompson, he behaved with great bravery, and was singularly useful in saving a large body of the army, by the judicious manner in which he conducted their retreat after the General was made prisoner. In this battle the General, then Col. Wayne, received a flesh wound in his leg.—In the campaign of 1776, he served under General Gates at Ticonderoga. Gen. Gates esteemed him highly, not only for his courage, and other military talents, but for his knowledge as an engineer. It was said of him, that his eye was nearly equal to a measure, in judging of heights and distances, a talent of inestimable consequence in an officer. At the close of this campaign he was created a Brigadier General.
He bore an active part in the campaign of 1777. He fought at Brandywine, and for a long time retarded the progress of the British army, in crossing Chad's Ford. He fought at Germantown, and at the Paoli, on the Lancaster road. In the last of these battles (where he had a separate command) and in which he

was defeated;—his coolness and intrepidity in the midst of a most bloody scene, finally sustained his character above censure, and added credit to the American arms.
In 1778 he shared in the honor of the victory over the British army at Monmouth. In the same year he distinguished himself by a bold attack upon a block-house on the North River. It was rendered unsuccessful according to the account given of it by General Washington in his letter to Congress, only by the intemperate valor of his troops.
In 1779, he distinguished himself by surprising and storming Stony Point—in effecting this business, he marched several miles through a deep morass in the middle of the night. In the attack upon the fort, he was struck down, by a ball which grazed his head. It was expected that he was killed; but he soon rose to as rest on one knee. Feeling his situation, and believing his wound to be mortal, he cried out to one of his aids, "Carry me forward, and let me die in the fort." When he entered it, he gave orders to stop the effusion of blood by the sword, and to make the garrison prisoners of war. This humane command was the more generous as the garrison consisted of some of the troops who had used the bayonet without mercy, at the Paoli.
In the year 1781, he bore an active part in the campaign which reduced the army of Lord Cornwallis to the necessity of surrendering prisoners of war. After this event, he was sent by General Washington, to conduct the war in the State of Georgia. Here his prudence, courage, and military skill were amply tried. He contended with equal success with British soldiers, Indian savages, and American traitors. In a short time, he established peace and liberty in that once distressed state. As a reward for his eminent services, the legislature of Georgia presented him with a valuable farm.
Upon the return of peace he retired to private pursuits. In 1778 he subscribed as a member of the Pennsylvania convention the instrument which declared the present Federal Constitution of the United States to be part of the supreme law of the land.
In the year 1792, he accepted of the command of the American army, to be employed against the Indians, who for several years had carried on a successful and desolating war upon the frontiers of the United States. In this situation his military genius broke forth with accumulated lustre. He disciplined and created an army, and by uniting in his system of tactics Indian stratagems with civilized bravery, he led on his troops to victory over numerous and confederated tribes, and thereby gave peace in a single day to the United States.
He died of an acute disease, at Presqu'isle, in the service of his country, on the 15th of December, 1796.
Reader! whoever thou art, remember that the man whose name is hereby revived in the public mind, was thy friend. He endured hunger, cold, pain, watchfulness and fatigue, and he fought and bled, that thou mightest enjoy Liberty and Independence. He died in a hut in the wilderness, remote from his friends, that his countrymen might enjoy in safety, beneath domestic shades, and in cultivated society, the peaceful fruits of their labours. Traveller! whoever thou art, that shalt visit the shores of the lake, on which his body is interred, stop, and drop a tear in behalf of his country, over his grave. Plant near it a willow, which shall convey to the dew of Heaven, and cut upon its bark, in letters that shall grow with time, the name of WAYNE, with the precious epithets, of PATRIOT, HERO and FRIEND.
CONTINUATION OF Late Foreign Intelligence. By the arrival at New-London.
ABSTRACT.
From a Liverpool paper of November 25.
BY letters from R. Crauford, to the British minister, as late as the 27th of Oct. he says, after several defeats, Moreau was obliged to recross the Rhine on the night of the 26th of Oct. to Huningen. The last of his rear guard was this morning (the 27th) on the heights of Weilar, on which Moreau had constructed a large and solid work; but after a little skirmishing with the Hussars, they evacuated the heights and redoubt, before any infantry could come up, and nothing now remains on this side of the Rhine, but a few troops in a small Tete de Pont, behind which is a kind of horn-work, lately constructed on the island, called Schusterinsel. The French are stated to have met with great losses in cannon, prisoners, &c. both by Mr. Crauford's letters, and the dispatches to the emperor's minister in London, which detail the particulars. It is further stated, by this minister's dispatches, that the defeat of the French by Wurmser, Oct. 7, was most complete. The Vienna Gazette of the 19th, merely states, that Wurmser, after two fruitless attacks on Governolo, (near Mantua,) at last carried that place by assault, and put a whole French garrison to the sword. We are also to observe, that the official reports of the French generals and commissaries of the 15th and 17th of Oct. from the last Paris papers, make no mention of these affairs.
The news from the Lower Rhine is not important—it principally consists of alarms occasioned by the Austrian detachments now on the left banks of the Rhine. They make extensive incursions, and cause great alarm to the garrisons of Coblenz, Landau, &c.
The Imperial armies in Italy as well as upon the Rhine, receive daily reinforcements; and unless peace is concluded, the Imperialists will follow up their successes by a winter's campaign in France.
SWITZERLAND, Oct. 20.
A report prevailed that the army of Moreau was approaching our frontiers in its retreat from Swabia. Some cantons proposed to convoke an assembly of the states; but the canton of Basle declared with firmness, that troops ought to be assembled in the first instance. In fact, 15000 men marched to the frontiers, and this example was followed by the other Cantons.
LONDON, Nov. 15.
A corvette of 24 guns, one of Richery's fleet, is mentioned to be taken by an English frigate. There are 3 English squadrons cruising for Richery in the channel, Manu's, Thompson's, and Curtis's.
By the papers it appears that Lord Malmesbury was still at Paris; and it is observed, under London head of 15th Nov. from the total silence for some days on the subject of Lord M's negotiations, they hope, that things are going on in a train which promises fair for a speedy adjustment.
PHILADELPHIA,
FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 13, 1797.
MARRIED last evening, by the Reverend Mr. Abercrombie, Doctor JAMES GALLAGHER, to Miss MARGARET DOBSON, daughter of Mr. Thomas Dobson.
DIED, at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, after labouring under many hard struggles, Mr. DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY, of that place, in the 2d year of his age—His flock in trade will be sold at public auction.
The passengers and crew of the ship Barrington, Captain Stewart, lost on the Isle of Sables on the 22d of last September, are arrived at New-York from Halifax in 14 days.
The Common Council has resolved, unanimously, that the address of the President of the United States to the People be printed with their resolves and ordinances. Also, that an address be presented to him expressive of their high sense of the services he has rendered to his country, and their deep regret at his relinquishing that high office which for eight years he has filled with so much honor to himself and advantage to his country. These resolutions have been sent to the Select Council for concurrence.
To the State of Vermont, Dollars 28,000 New-Hampshire, 56,000 Massachusetts, 196,000 Rhode-Island, 28,000 Connecticut, 93,000 New-York, 140,000 New-Jersey, 70,000 Pennsylvania, 181,000 Delaware, 14,000 Maryland, 112,000 Virginia, 266,000 Kentucky, 28,000 North-Carolina, 140,000 Tennessee, 14,000 South-Carolina, 84,000 Georgia, 28,000
Amounts to 1,484,000 From which there being deducted for abatements, erroneous assessments and charges of collection, fifteen per cent. 222,600 There will remain the estimated net proceeds of the proposed tax, being 1,261,400
CIRCULAR.
Boston, December 22, 1796.
Gentlemen, I am informed that "Winterbotham's Historical, Geographical, and Philosophical View of the United States of America," first published in England, has been reprinted in this country.
It is apparent to every intelligent reader, and in the English edition it is acknowledged, that the author "has availed himself of the labours and abilities" of others; and that "he has often no other merit than what arises from selection and a few connecting sentences."
Part of my literary property has been in this manner invaded; and I am advised that the laws of the United States will give me a sufficient remedy against any person who shall reprint, import, publish, sell, or expose to sale, any part of the above work, which may comprehend any considerable portion of my publications.
As it is probable that some copies of the above work may be transmitted to you for sale, I have thought it friendly and proper to apprise you of my intention to apply the provisions of the law upon this subject to my relief, if it should become necessary.
I am, Gentlemen,
Your humble servant,
JEREMY BELKNAP.
To the Booksellers of the United States of North-America.
Yesterday the Senate of this Commonwealth waited on the President of the United States and presented to him the following address:
To GEORGE WASHINGTON, PRESIDENT of the UNITED STATES.
SIR,
YOUR late address to the people of the United States, whilst it awakens every sentiment of gratitude, deeply affects our feelings with regret.
The friendly counsel you have offered to your fellow citizens, to induce them to adhere steadfastly to their present union; to repress the spirit of party; to cherish religion, knowledge, and public credit; and to maintain a dispassionate and impartial, though amicable disposition towards foreign nations, meets with our warmest approbation. In your forcible exposition of the dangers which will result to their freedom, safety and prosperity, from a dereliction of those salutary maxims, we recognize that just discernment of the real interest of our country, and that firm adherence to the principles of true patriotism, which have always distinguished your public conduct. Your fellow-citizens, sensible that with your measures their dearest interests were intimately connected, have regarded them with anxious attention; they have beheld you, under the auspices of divine providence, leading their armies to victory, and guiding their councils to prosperity and peace; nor has the closest examination of your conduct produced any other effect, than to strengthen their reliance on your wisdom and virtue.
The various testimonials of attachment, which you have received from the people of the United States, must have fully convinced you, that those affectionate sensations towards them, which are so feelingly expressed in your address, are reciprocated by correspondent sentiments on their part. The signal instance of steady approbation, with which they have supported your administration, and the success which has attended it, have exhibited to the world a striking proof, that the most effectual method of securing the confidence, and accomplishing the welfare of an enlightened nation, is, to pursue, with undeviating firmness, a policy founded on the purest integrity.
The satisfaction we have derived from your faithful communications, is greatly alloyed by the information which has accompanied them, that we
are so soon to be deprived of those faithful services from which such important benefits have resulted to this in common with the other states. We are, at the same time, compelled to assent to the justice of your claim to that repose in the evening of your days, which has been so long sacrificed to the voice and interests of your country.
You will carry with you into retirement, the solid enjoyment arising from the applause of your grateful country, and the consciousness of a life devoted to virtue and public utility. In addition to these sources of happiness, may you long enjoy the blessings of health; may you largely partake of that national felicity, to the establishment of which you have so eminently contributed; and may your successors in office, be influenced by your example, in their efforts to promote the peace, safety, and dignity of the United States.
Signed by Order,
ROBERT HARE,
Speaker of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
To which the President returned the following answer.
To the Senate of PENNSYLVANIA.
Gentlemen,
I RECEIVE with great pleasure the expressions of your approbation of my public services. The general marks of satisfaction, and the various testimonies of select and discerning bodies of men among my fellow citizens, respecting my public conduct, while they have stimulated my exertions to be useful to my country, the sole object of all my aims and wishes, have also enforced the justness of your remark, "that the most effectual method of securing the confidence, and accomplishing the welfare of an enlightened nation, is, to pursue with undeviating firmness, a policy founded in pure integrity." And I shall be pardoned when I add, that conscientious integrity has been my unceasing support; and while it gave me confidence in the measures I pursued, the belief of it, by acquiring to me the confidence of my fellow citizens, ensured the success which they have had. This consciousness will accompany me in my retirement: Without it, public applause could be viewed only as proofs of public error, and felt as the upbraiding of personal demerit. In this retirement, to behold the national felicity will be largely to partake in it; and if with this felicity I enjoy health, which you kindly wish me, my hopes in this world will be consumed.
(Signed) G. WASHINGTON.
For the Gazette of the United States.
MR. FENNO.
It is proposed to submit a few observations on the question "Whether a citizen has a right to divest himself of his allegiance, without the consent of the society of which he is a member,"—as applicable to the case of captain Barney, who is said to be acting under a commission to capture the property of citizens of the United States.
To acquit captain Barney, or any other American citizen, in his situation, it will be necessary to prove, either that the right to emigrate , is a natural right , which man cannot be deprived of, on entering into society; or if not a natural right , one stipulated for in the social compact, into which he entered, or permitted by some act of his associates.
Is it a natural right ? We shall not apply to books for a solution of this problem. There is higher authority nearer at hand. We conceive that Americans , who have had a free intercourse with the savage tribes, and a pretty correct knowledge of the principles which govern them, are better able to determine, what are man's rights in a state of nature , than either Hobbes or Puffendorf. What do we learn from their experience? That the members of Indian tribes are attached each to his particular tribe—and that no instances are known of a savage leaving his associates, and connecting himself voluntarily with a different tribe to fight against his original tribe or nation. This fact, therefore, may be considered as a conclusive, though negative proof; that it does not belong to man, as an inherent right, to divest himself of his allegiance, or desert his tribe and turn his arms against those with whom he was an original associate.
Is it then under the constitution or laws of the United States, that her citizens acquire the right to abandon and plunder their associates? No—Neither the constitution nor laws favor or foster any such principle. On the contrary, the associates to the constitution, bind themselves " to a more perfect union ," which cannot mean a right to desert each other, and thus dissolve the union—" to establish justice ," which cannot mean a right to turn pirates—" to insure domestic tranquility ," which cannot mean a right to disturb it—" to provide for the common defence ," which cannot mean a right to weaken it—" to promote the general welfare ," which cannot mean a right to destroy it—and " to secure the blessings of liberty to themselves and their posterity ," which cannot mean, to secure them to the people of France and their posterity.
Such are the objects and purposes, as expressed in their constitution, for which the citizens of the United States have associated. They have solemnly bound themselves to abide by this expression of their will, and they have not yet altered these particulars by any subsequent instrument. As to the laws, these emanate from the constitution, and must be subservient to it—they cannot contravene its objects, or authorize what is calculated to destroy the compact itself. For, if captain Barney may lawfully make a prize of the property of the citizens of the United States, under colour of a French commission, and an oath of allegiance to the republic of France, every other American citizen may act in the same manner towards their associates, which amounts to a breaking up of the society.
But does not this interpretation of the compact trench upon man's natural liberty and independence? Man does not derive from nature a right to violate engagements, into which he has freely entered; nor a right to prey upon his associates, whose welfare he is pledged to promote; nor has nature given to man faculties and powers, that can render him independent of others, or enable him to live without society.
If man may at all fever himself & cmthose with whom he is an original associate, and entertain ob
ligations with a foreign nation; the new obligations can be no farther binding on him, than as permitted by his associates, or as they do not clash with anterior and primary obligations.
On this ground a government may naturalize the subjects or citizens of other governments—but cannot exact from them services , repugnant to their original obligations, unless they have been released from these, by some act of their associates.
These opinions are not new—they are but a transcript of the general sense of mankind touching this question, in all ages of the world.
I shall only add to these short remarks, an extract of an ordinance of France on the same subject—with a commentary thereon by Valin.
ORDINANCE.
Article III. "We prohibit all our subjects, from taking commissions , from any foreign king, prince or state, to equip vessels of war and cruise under their flag, unless by our permission , under pain of being treated as pirates."
COMMENTARY.
"To these general and indefinite propositions, there is no exception. They extend to commissions taken from powers friendly or allied, neutral or suspected. They relate also as well to a time of peace as war."
"The reason for so general a prohibition is, because it amounts to a species of desertion, combined with an engagement to serve a foreign sovereign. That of imploring his protection to cruise under his flag, in preference to the protection and flag of their own sovereign." "The alliance of the sovereign with the prince from whom the commission may be taken, cannot serve as an excuse, because though an ally, he is not less a foreign power. Besides, if the commission of the foreign prince, is to act against the power with whom he intends to remain neutral, it would be giving him just grounds of complaint—which might finally be the cause of a rupture." "It is therefore evident, that such commissions cannot be taken without the permission of the sovereign; and that a contravention merits the punishment due to pirates—as decided the 4th article of the declaration of the 1st February 1650—the arrest of council of the 26th August of the same year—and that of the 31st October 1662." "This same declaration, besides the words all our subjects , adds domiciliated or not domiciliated in our kingdom, or the countries under our dominion, which addition is to be understood of the above article—because Frenchmen having settled in a foreign country, are not less Frenchmen and subjects—at least they remain so for subjects that if they take up arms against the king or as against the French vessels —they deserve death as rebels to their king and traitors to their country." LOCCEMIUS. By this day's Mail. BOSTON, January 6. By an arrival at Marblehead, which left Rotterdam November 14, it is said, news is received, that the French have rejected the terms of peace, which the British plenipotentiary, lord Malmesbury, was authorised to offer. The schooner Phoenix, arrived at Marblehead from Holland, brought French and Dutch papers of a late date. By the arrival at New-London, letters have been received as late as November 30. Tuesday, Jan. 3. Arrived ship Financier , Parsons, Oporto, 54 days. Left there, brig Rebecca , Bruce, of New-York, likely to be condemned, as unfit for sea. Dec. 12, lat. 36, long. 61, 40, spoke sloop Gardner, 30 days from Martinique for Newbury. Dec. 6, lat. 40, 56, long. 58, spoke brig Mary, Ward, 6 days from New-York for Amsterdam. The brig Eliza , was spoke with Dec. 12, lat. 41, bound to Philadelphia, had sprung her foremast. On the 26th ultimo, the following vessels sailed from the port of Bath in the District of Maine. It is a good proof of the astonishingly increased importance of the eastern part of this State. Ships Nancy , Lord, for Liverpool; Gúris , Holbrook, for Trinidad; Mercury , Farnam for Demerara-Schs. Polly , Martin, for Demerara; Hannibal , Paterson, for do. and Guardian , Redman, for do. NEW-YORK, January 12. Captain Terry, of the brig Commerce , from Jacquemel, informs, that previous to his sailing, it was reported there, that the schooner Romp , Oliver Peck, master, belonging to Isaac Riley, was captured off the harbour of Jacquemel, by a British frigate, and supposed to have been sent to Jamaica; and that the captain, and Mr. Paul Richard Randall, supercargo on board, were put in irons, and sent to Mole St. Nicholas. War between England and Spain, was declared at New-Orleans, on the 17th December. Schooner Active , Wilcox, from New-Orleans, failed 18th December; left there, Ship Two Friends , Billings, to sail for the Havanna in 7 days. Brig Little George , Holden, to sail for New-York in 10 or 15 days. Pantheon, AND RICKETTS'S AMPHITHEATRE. Corner of Chestnut and Sixth-streets FOR EQUESTRIAN and STAGE PERFORMANCES. To-Morrow Evening, Saturday January 14, Will be presented a variety of Entertainments, as will be expressed in the bills of the day. The whole to conclude with, for the first time, a new comic Pantomime (under the direction of Mr. Jones,) called The Magic Feast. For Sale, Two Convenient BRICK HOUSES, Three stories high, 16 feet front, and 40 feet deep each, and adjoining; situated on the east side of Front, between Race and Vine-streets; Nos. 161 and 163. They will be sold on very reasonable terms, either separately or together. Apply to JOHN MILLER, jun. & CO. January 13 daW

In Council, 22d December 1796.
The Executive of Virginia will, on or before the first day of March next, be ready to receive proposals for the importation from Europe, of
Four thousand stand of Arms.
To be delivered at Richmond, in the course of the ensuing year—Each stand to consist of a musket, the length of the barrel to be three feet eight inches, and to receive a ball of the size of eighteen to the pound—a double bridled lock upon the best construction—neat brass mounting—steel ramrod, and to be well stocked with black walnut; and a bayonet one foot five inches in the blade—a cartridge box, suitable to the musket, to contain twenty-four cartridges, with neat black leather belts, mounted with brass buckles; together with a brush wiper for the pan, and pick for the touch-hole. The Executive will also be ready to receive proposals, within the period above mentioned, for the manufacturing within this State, the like number of stand of arms, to be delivered at Richmond, in the course of the year 1798.
By order of the Executive,
Attest,
A. Blair, C. C. Secy.
Jan. 6.
SWANN'S
Riding School, Horse Academy & Infirmary, Adjoining the Public Square, Market Street.
T. SWANN
RETURNS his sincere thanks to those gentlemen by whom he has been employed, during his residence in this City, and flatters himself that the success of his efforts, in the numerous, obstinate and dangerous diseases in Horses, in which he has been consulted, together with his moderate charges, will secure their future favors and recommendation.
He now begs leave to inform them and the public at large that his spacious and commodious premises, erected for the purposes above described are open for the reception of pupils of either sex, who wish to be instructed in the Art of Riding, and the right method of governing their horses, so as to ride them with ease, elegance, and safety—their horses will be carefully and expeditiously broke, for every purpose, and made obedient to the will of the rider; the natural powers which are shut up in them, will be unfolded by art, calling forth uniformity of motion, and giving to that noble animal all those beauties of action which providence has so bountifully bestowed on them.
Also, at his Infirmary, every disorder to which the horse is liable will be treated according to the rules of art, confirmed by long and repeated experience.
The utility of the above institution has never been questioned, that it has long been wanted in this city, every gentleman's stud will manifest, and T. SWANN as the first establisher of the veterinary art, solicits and relies upon the support of that public (which he is ever anxious in serving) to enable him to bring it to perfection. The idea of a subscription for that purpose has been hinted by several gentlemen, who wish to promote the institution—the amount of each subscription to be returned by services in any of the departments he professes, agreeable to the rate of charges stated in his hand bill. Such subscription is now open, and the signatures of many respectable gentlemen already obtained. He therefore informs his friends and such Ladies and gentlemen to whom he has not the honor of being known, that he shall in a few days take the liberty of waiting upon them and soliciting their support and protection.
N. B. Horses are properly prepared for those Ladies and Gentlemen who wish to be instructed.
Nov. 5.
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THIS DAY IS PUBLISHED,
A new method of keeping Bill Books, Adapted for the ease and convenience of merchants in general; but particularly for those who are extensively concerned in trade: exhibiting at one view, all the bills which a merchant may have to receive or pay, in the course of the whole year, for each month separately. And thereby preventing the trouble and inconvenience attendant on the mode now in use, of selecting the bills due in each month from the promiscuous entries of several months.
To which are prefixed, a table showing the number of days from any day any month, to the same day in any other month. Philadelphia, printed for and sold by R. CAMPBELL & Co.
January 2.
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Paterion Lottery.
FOR raising six thousand six hundred and sixty-seven dollars and fifty cents, by a deduction of fifteen per cent from the prizes, and not two blanks to a prize, viz
Table with 3 columns: Prize of, 5000 dollars, 1000 dollars, 500 dollars, etc. listing various prize amounts and their frequencies.
2332 Prizes. 4018 Blanks. 44450
6550 Tickets at Seven Dollars each. By order of the Directors of the Society for establishing Useful Manufactures, the superintendents of the Paterion Lottery have requested the Managers to offer the foregoing Scheme to the public, and have directed them to refund the money to those persons who have purchased in the former Lottery, or exchange the tickets for tickets in this Lottery.
The Lottery has actually commenced drawing, and will continue until finished. A list of the Blanks and Prizes may be seen at the office of William Blackburn, No. 64 South Second Street, who will give information where tickets may be procured.
Dated this 17th day of June, 1796.
J. N. GUMMING, JACOB R. HARDENBERG, JONATHAN RHEA, Managers. STATE OF THE WHEEL.
Table with 3 columns: Prize of, 5000 dollars, 1000 dollars, 500 dollars, etc. listing various prize amounts and their frequencies.
The five last drawn tickets, 1000 each. Being all the valuable prizes, besides a full proportion of the 10 dollars. As the Lottery is considerably more than one third drawn, the value of the undrawn tickets is greatly increased, and it is worth the notice of those who hold tickets in the old scheme, that they can exchange their tickets for those in the above, if they apply soon, and at a moderate advance considering the now real value of an undrawn ticket.
The tickets being nearly all sold, the drawing in future will be oftener, and the Lottery soon finished. November 12. naws
Clocks and Watches.
LESLIE AND PRICE,
No. 79, MARKET-STREET, PHILADELPHIA, HAVE IMPORTED, by the late arrivals, from London, a large assortment of WARRANTED WATCHES, consisting of horizontal, capp'd and jewell'd Gold Watches, with seconds, of superior workmanship and elegance; also capp'd and jewell'd and plain Gold Watches; capp'd & jewell'd, capp'd, seconds, day of the month, and plain Silver Watches; eight day & chamber Clocks; elegant French Clocks with marble frames; eight day and thirty hours, brass works, &c.
December 22, 1796.
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Bank of North-America,
January 2, 1797.
At a meeting of the Directors this day, a Dividend of Six per Cent. was declared for the last half year, which will be paid to the Stockholders or their representatives, at any time after the 10th instant.
By order of the Board,
de16th
JOHN NIXON, President.
CAUTION.
WHEREAS very large and heavy debts are justly due and owing from Messrs. Blair M'Clenaghan and Patrick Moore, of the city of Philadelphia, merchants, trading under the firm of Blair M'Clenaghan and P. Moore, and from Blair M'Clenaghan in his separate capacity; to which, by the laws of the land, all the joint as well as separate property of the said Gentlemen, is, and ought to be, liable. And whereas it is clearly and satisfactorily ascertained, that Mr. Blair M'Clenaghan, of the said firm, has conveyed away to Mr. John H. Mutton, his son-in-law, to his daughter, Miss M'Clenaghan, and to his son, George M'Clenaghan, several large and valuable real estates, as well as considerable personal property, in the city and county of Philadelphia, in the county of Lancaster, in the county of New-Castle on Delaware, and elsewhere, with a view, as it is apprehended, to defeat the Creditors in the recovery of their just debts. This is, therefore, to forewarn all persons whomsoever, against the purchase from the said grantee, or either of them, of any portion of the said real or personal property, as the most vigorous measures will without delay be taken to render the same liable to the just demands of the Creditors.
By order of the Creditors.
Thomas Fitzsimons, Philip Nicklin, Isaac Wharton, William M'Murtrie, Samuel W. Fisher, Committee.
Philadelphia, December 17th, 1796. 20th.
TO THE PUBLIC.
THE caution introduced into the public prints, warning all persons against purchasing from the grantees of Blair M'Clenaghan, any portion of the large, real and personal estates he conveyed away to his son-in-law and to his children was the result of a deliberation had upon the subject by a general and numerous meeting of the creditors as well of Blair M'Clenaghan and P. Moore as of Blair M'Clenaghan individually. It was no more than an execution of that trust confided in the subscribers by those creditors; a step which it would have been a breach of duty and honor in them to have omitted. The very statement of the fact therefore must dispel the imputation that it was either "precipitate or vindictive." It originated in a desire to secure the property of the debtor as a fund for the payment of his just debts. It was sanctioned by the advice of council as a measure necessary to the safety of the creditors. If the advertisement has been injurious to Mr. M'Clenaghan he owes that injury to his own unjustifiable conduct, not to the subscribers who have merely published the truth in terms as mild as the fact would admit, and who mean to investigate in a high court of justice the validity of those purchases of which Mr. M'Clenaghan so confidently speaks.
The subscribers therefore are bound by a sense of duty to the creditors in general to repeat their caution against purchasing of those grantees or either of them, and to extend the terms of it to a purchase from any other persons (if such there be) to whom Mr. M'Clenaghan may have made similar conveyances.
(Signed) T. FITZSIMONS, P. NICKLIN, ISAAC WHARTON, WILLIAM M'MURTRIE, SAMUEL W. FISHER.
Philad. Dec. 21, 1796. Those printers who have been requested to publish the first CAUTION, are desired to publish this also.
Washington Canal Lottery,
No. 1.
WHEREAS the State of Maryland has authorised the underwritten, to raise twenty-six thousand, two hundred, and fifty dollars, for the purpose of cutting a Canal through the City of Washington, from the Potomac to the Eastern Branch Harbour.
The following is the SCHEME of No. 1.
Table with 3 columns: Prize of, 20,000 dollars, 10,000 dollars, 5,000 dollars, etc. listing various prize amounts and their frequencies.
17500 Tickets, at Ten Dollars, - 175,000
The Commissioners have taken the Securities required by the aforesaid act for the punctual payment of the prizes.
The drawing of this Lottery will commence, without delay, as soon as the Tickets are sold, of which timely notice will be given.
Such prizes as are not demanded in six months after the drawing is finished, shall be considered as relinquished for the benefit of the Canal, and appropriated accordingly.
(Signed) NOTLEY YOUNG, DANIEL CARROLL, of D. LEWIS DEBLOIS, GEORGE WALKER, WM. M. DUNCANSON, THOMAS LAW, JAMES BARRY.
Cit of Washington, Feb. 11.
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A Manufactory FOR SALE.
A Valuable SOAP and CANDLE Manufactory, situate in a convenient part of the city; the works almost new, on an entirely original construction, and built of the best materials, and may be set to work immediately. Persons who wish to purchase, are requested to apply at No. 273, South Second Street. September 13. t t t u
DANCING SCHOOL.
WILLIAM M'DOUGALL will open his school on Monday the 31st inst. at ten o'clock in the morning, at his Elegant New Ball Rooms, In Fourth, between Chestnut and Walnut Streets. Hours of tuition for young ladies, from 10 to 1 o'clock on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays; and for young gentlemen from 6 to 9 o'clock on the evenings of the same days.
In addition to a number of new cotillions, he means to introduce a variety of Scotch Reels.
Note. The first practising ball to be on Tuesday evening, the first of November, and to be continued every Tuesday, during the season.
For terms, &c, enquire at his house, No. 134, Market-Street.
Oct. 17.
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Twenty Guineas Reward.
RANAWAY from the subscriber on the 23d October, a Dark MULATTO BOY, named MOSES; 21 years old; about 5 feet 8 inches high; had on a mixed green coat, with a green velvet cape and oval yellow buttons; a striped vest; a pair of dark spotted pantalettes, and whole boots much worn. It is probable he may change his name and dress. He has been accustomed to driving a carriage, and waiting. The above reward will be paid for securing him so that the subscriber may get him again, and if brought home all reasonable charges paid by Robins Chamberlaine.
Easton, Maryland, Nov. 10.
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Le Breton,
SURGEON-DENTIST,
Pupil of the celebrated Mr. Dubois, late Dentist to the King and Royal Family of France, member of the College and Academy of Surgeons at Paris, Keeps a complete assortment of every thing necessary to be used for the
Preservation of the Mouth and Teeth.
Patent Mineral Teeth, and Human & Ivory Teeth; Dentifrice in powder; Opiate; excellent Elixir for sweetening the mouth and preserving the teeth—he also furnishes Brushes and soft Sponges.
He lives in Chestnut-Street, No. 135, above Fourth-Street.
November 26.
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Horses taken in,
For the Winter Season,
And fed on clover hay at the Subscriber's place, 12 miles on the Bristol Road, where good stabling is provided, and great care will be taken of them
William Bell.
Nov. 23.
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SAMUEL RICHARDET
RESPECTFULLY informs the Gentlemen Merchants, that he has this day opened the CITY TAVERN and MERCHANTS' COFFEE HOUSE in the city of Philadelphia.
The Subscription Room will be furnished with all the daily papers published in Philadelphia, New-York, Boston, Baltimore, together with those of the principal commercial cities of Europe—They will be regularly filed and none permitted to be taken away on any account.
Tea, Coffee, Soups, Jellies, Ice Creams, and a variety of French Liquors; together with the usual refreshments, will at all times be procured at the bar.
Gentlemen may depend on being accommodated with the choicest of Wines, Spirituous Liquors, and the most approved Male Liquors from London and other breweries.
The Larder will be supplied with the prime and earliest productions of the Season.
Large and small Parties, or single Gentlemen, may be accommodated with Breakfasts, Dinners, or Suppers, at hours most convenient to themselves—a cold Collation is regularly kept for convenience, the Bill of Fare to be had at the bar.
The Lodging Rooms will be completely furnished, and the utmost attention paid to cleanliness, and every other requisite.
SAMUEL RICHARDET will be happy to receive, and execute the commands of his Friends, and the Public at large; and with gratitude for their favours, he pledges himself that nothing on his part shall be wanting to preserve that patronage with which he has been so distinguishedly honored.
Philadelphia, April 19.
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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, and at Fort-Franklin; at Pittsburgh; at Cincinnati; at Fort-Hamilton; at Fort St. Clair; at Fort-Jefferson; at Greenville; at Picque Town and Loramies 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 Steuben; at Fort Mafiac; at any place from Fort Mafiac to the fourth boundary of the United States on the river Mississippi; at Fort Knox; at Ouatanian.
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. 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 issuing 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 deposition of two or more persons of credible characters, 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.
Lottery and Broker's Office,
No. 64, South Second Street.
TICKETS in the Canal Lottery, No. 2, for sale—a Check Book for examination—and prizes paid in the late Lottery.
Check Books kept for examination and registering, for the City of Washington, No. 2, and Pattenon Lotteries, both of which are now drawing—information where tickets are to be had, and prizes exchanged for undrawn tickets. A complete list of all the prizes in the late New-Port Long-Wharf, Hotel and Public School Lottery, for examination.
The subscriber solicits the application of the public and his friends, who wish to purchase or sell Bank Stock, Certificates, Bills of Exchange or Notes, Houses, Lands, &c. or to obtain money on deposit of property.
Also Tickets in the Schuylkill Bridge Lottery for sale at Ten Dollars each, which will be drawn early in the Spring.
Wm. Blackburn.
Philadelphia, August 18, 1796.
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City of Washington.
SCHEME of the LOTTERY, No. II, FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE FEDERAL CITY.
Table with 3 columns: Prize of, 20,000 dollars, 10,000 dollars, 5,000 dollars, etc. listing various prize amounts and their frequencies.
16,739 Prizes.
33,261 Blanks.
50,000 Tickets, at Eight Dollars, 400,000
N. B. To favour those who may take a quantity of Tickets, the prize of 40,000 dollars will be the LAST drawn ticket, and the 30,000 the LAST but ONE.
And approved notes, securing payment in either money or prizes, in ten days after drawing, will be received for any number not less than 30 tickets.
This Lottery will afford an elegant specimen of the private buildings to be erected in the City of Washington—Two beautiful designs are already selected for the entire fronts on two of the public squares; from these drawings it is proposed to erect two centre and four corner buildings, as soon as possible after this Lottery is sold, and to convey them, when complete, to the fortunate adventurers, in the manner described in the scheme for the Hotel Lottery. A net deduction of five per cent. will be made to defray the necessary expenses of printing, &c. and the surplus will be made a part of the fund intended for the National University, to be erected within the City of Washington.
The Drawing will commence as soon as the tickets are sold off—the money prizes will be payable in thirty days after it is finished; and any prizes for which fortunate numbers are not produced within twelve months after the drawing is closed, are to be considered as given towards the fund for the University; it being determined to settle the whole business in a year from the ending of the drawing, and to take up the bonds given as security.
The real securities given for the payment of the Prizes, are held by the President and two Directors of the Bank of Columbia, and are valued at more than half the amount of the Lottery.
The twenty four gentlemen who by appointment of the late Commissioners assisted in the management of the Hotel Lottery are requested to undertake this arduous task a second time on behalf of the public; a sufficient number of these having kindly accepted, it is hoped that their friends to a National University and the other federal objects may continue to favor the design.
By accounts received from the different parts of the Continent as well as from Europe, where the tickets have been sent for sale, the public are assured that the drawing will speedily commence, and that the care and caution unavoidably necessary to insure a fair disposal of the tickets, has rendered the most supposition indispensable.
SAMUEL BLODGET.
Tickets may be had at the Bank of Columbia; of James West & Co. Baltimore; of Peter Gilman, Boston; of John Hopkins, Richmond; and of Richard Wells Cooper's Ferry.
By Authority.
Schuylkill Bridge Lottery.
Sold by WILLIAM BLACKBURN, No. 64, South Second Street.
SCHEME of a LOTTERY,
For raising Sixty Thousand Dollars, agreeably to an Act of the Legislature of Pennsylvania, passed during the last session, for building a Stone Bridge over the River Schuylkill, at the Borough of Reading, in the County of Berks.
Table with 3 columns: Prize of, 20,000 Dollars, 10,000 Dollars, 5,000 Dollars, etc. listing various prize amounts and their frequencies.
10,934 Prizes. 10,926 Blanks. 300,000
30,000 Tickets at Ten Dollars 300,000
All Prizes shall be paid fifteen days after the drawing is finished, upon the demand of a holder of a fortunate ticket, subject to a deduction of twenty per cent. The Drawing will commence as soon as the tickets are disposed of, or perhaps sooner, of which public notice will be given.
Philip Miller, Peter Kerschner, William Witman, Joseph Hiesler, James Diemer, Thomas Dundas, James May, John Otto, John Keim, Daniel Graeff, Sebastian Miller, COMMISSIONERS.
Reading, May the 9th, 1796. Tickets in the Canal Lottery, No. 2, to be had at the above office, where the earliest information of the drawing of the Washington No. 2, and Pattenon Lottery's, are received, and check books for examination and registering are kept.
October 7. 2awtf
PRINTED BY JOHN FENNO
No. 119
Chestnut-Street.
[Price Eight Dollars per Annum.]