National gazette. (Philadelphia [Pa.]), 1792-07-14 00:00:00

National Gazette.
By P. FRENEAU: Published WEDNESDAYS and SATURDAYS, at THREE DOLLARS per annum.
VOL. I.
SATURDAY, July 14, 1792.
NUMB. 74.
Continuation of the French LAWS relative to PATENTS.
LAW
Respecting the Rules on the Property of Authors of Inventions and Discoveries in every work of genius.
Given at Paris, May 25, 1791.
Louis by the grace of God, and, by the constitutional law of the state, King of the French, to all present and to come; Greeting:
The National Assembly has decreed, and we will and order what follows:—
Decree of the National Assembly on March 29th, 31st, April 7th, and May 14th, 1791.
Rules for the execution of the law of the 7th January 1791, on property of authors of inventions and discoveries in every work of genius.
RECORD I.
Article 1st. IN conformity to the three first articles of the law of the 7th January 1791, respecting new discoveries and inventions in every work of genius.
There shall be delivered, on a simple petition to the king, and without previous examination, National Patents, known under the denomination of Brevets of Invention , (of which the models are annexed to this regulation under No. II.) to all persons who wish to execute or cause to be executed in the kingdom, objects of ingenuity until then unknown.
Article 2d. There shall be established at Paris, conformably to the 11th article of the law, under the inspection and authority of the secretary of the inner department, who is ordered to deliver the said brevets,
A general deposite, under the name of the Directory of brevets of Invention : when these brevets shall be forwarded, following the previous formalities, and according to the mode hereafter determined.
Article 3d. The director of brevets of Invention, shall dispatch the said brevets upon the petitions which he shall receive from the secretary's office of that department. These petitions shall contain the name of the petitioner, his propositions and request to the king. To which shall be added, a packet containing the exact description of all the means he proposes to employ. To this packet shall be joined the drawings, models and pieces that are judged necessary for the explanation of the petition: with the signature, & under the seal of the petitioner & on the back of the cover of the packet, shall be inscribed a verbal process, (conformable to the rule No. 1.) signed from the secretary's office of that department, and by the petitioner; to which shall be added, a duplicate of the said verbal process, to establish the object of the petitioner: the lodging the necessary papers, the date of the deposite, the receipt for the duties paid, or the recognition to pay them according to the price, and in the time which shall be fixed in the present rule.
Article 4th. Neither the directors of the department, nor the directors of the brevets of inventions, shall receive any petitions which shall contain more than one principal object, of which object he shall give an exact account, and not introduce other matter that is not relative thereto.
Article 5th. The directors of the department shall be obliged to address to the directors of brevets of Invention, the packet of the petitioner, with all the forms here above prescribed, in the same week that the petition shall have been presented.
Article 6th. At the arrival of the dispatch from the secretary's office of the department, to the director of brevets of Invention, the verbal process inscribed at the back of the packet, shall be registered, the packet shall be opened and the brevet shall be immediately drawn up, after the mode annexed to the present rule (No 2) this brevet shall contain an exact copy of
the description, also, of the drawings and models annexed to the verbal process; after which, the said brevet shall be sealed and sent to the department under the seal of the directory of brevets of invention, who shall at the same time direct to all the tribunals and departments of the kingdom, a proclamation from the king, relating to the brevet of invention, in the form here joined (No. 3.) and these proclamations shall be registered according to their dates, and shall be published in the said tribunals and departments.
Article 7th. The descriptions of the objects, which the legislative body in cases provided for by the 11th article of the law of January 7th, shall have ordered to be kept secret, shall be opened and inscribed by numbers at the directory of invention, in a register particular for that purpose; in presence of commissioners appointed for that purpose, conformably to the said article of the law. After which these descriptions shall be re-sealed and the verbal process shall be drawn up by the said commissioners, the decree which shall order it to be kept secret, shall be written on the back of the packet, that it is a secret shall be mentioned in the king's proclamation, and the packet remain sealed to the expiration of the brevet, at least, without an express order from the legislative body for opening it.
Article 8th. The prolonging of brevets, which will very rarely happen, and never without the most powerful reasons, can only be allowed by an act of the legislative body, and that can only be for the length of time that they remain in their legislative capacity, shall be entered in a particular register of the directory of inventions, which shall be obliged to give an account of this entry to the different departments, and tribunals in the kingdom.
Article 9th. The acts of council, letters patent, descriptive memorials; all instructions and pieces relative to the privileges of inventions heretofore allowed as objects of ingenuity, in whatever public deposite they may be found, shall be collected together, and be sent without delay to the directory of brevets for inventions.
Article 10th. The expenses of this establishment, shall not be a public charge; but be defrayed by the money received for the duties; and the surplus employed to the advantage of the national industry.
FOREIGN NEWS.
Birmingham, May 22. About six in the evening the magistrates read the Riot Act in most of the principal streets, and warned the inhabitants to keep within their respective habitations, as in one hour after they had retired, the military would be dispatched to clear all the streets in the town.
About nine at night, the Blues, being reinforced with two troops from Kidderminster, and one from Bromsgrove, after having been insulted with stones and brick bats at the door of the Hotel, were dispatched in every direction with express orders to clear all the streets. They galloped off in a most formidable manner, cutting and driving every thing before them. They pursued the fugitives in full speed through all the narrow avenues and took many prisoners, whom they lodged in the dung-on, which had been previously guarded by a party of soldiers. This had the desired effect; for before ten o'clock, the streets were perfectly cleared, and peace and tranquility prevailed. Many were wounded; some had their heads cut open through their hats, and one had his hand nearly cut off, but it does not appear that any one was killed on the spot. Some of the wounded have applied to the workhouse, and others to the hospital.
Seven houses, it appears, have been completely gutted, and the principal part of the furniture destroyed. The windows of many others have been broken, and some other damage done to them. All
is peace and tranquility at two o'clock this afternoon, and thirteen, who were taken into custody last night, are now under examination at the Hotel.
Dublin, May 15. Last Wednesday bills of indictment were found by the Quarter Session Grand Jury of the city against Joseph Knight, the person who arrested Mr. Tandy on Monday the 13th of April last, pursuant and in virtue of a proclamation issued for apprehending that gentleman, by the Lord Lieutenant and Privy Council. In consequence of this proceeding, the validity of a proclamation, such as the one above mentioned, will be tried in a few days by a jury of Dublin citizens.
Wednesday last the Attorney General moved, in the court of King's Bench, on the part of the king, at the prosecution of John Toler, Esq. his majesty's solicitor general, that the clerk of the crown may be at liberty to send up a bill of indictment to the present city grand jury, against James Napper Tandy, Esq. for sending a challenge to the said John Toler, Esq. his majesty's solicitor general, when the court ruled it—be it so.
Upwards of 7000. is mentioned to have been already subscribed to support Mr. Tandy against the court prosecution, and to enable him with effect to carry on his two prosecutions against the names annexed to the decree under which he was apprehended in the first instance, and against Knight who executed the warrant of it in apprehending him.
London, April 28. The established society for propagating political knowledge, held their first meeting at the Bear Tavern, Southwark, last Thursday, present one hundred and fifty-four members; when the following among other resolutions, were unanimously agreed to:
“Resolved, That all government was originally designed, by Divine Providence, for the exclusive good of the people, not for the aggrandizement of individuals.
“Resolved, That any government which is not found to answer the purpose, is defective in principle, practice, or both, though ever so uprightly administered.
“Resolved, That the repeated experience of many centuries, has evinced the fallacy of those public writers and speakers, who have uniformly asserted the perfection of the British constitution.
“Resolved, That an accumulation of unnecessary and oppressive taxes, laid on by an interested junto of parliamentary placemen, who, regardless of honest representation, seem only to represent themselves, is the most pregnant instance of existing corruption, both in the executive and legislative powers.
“Resolved, That a ministry by whose influence public grievances are disregarded, and parliaments, by whose corrupt obsequiousness and voluntary blindness, such grievances are continued, in direct opposition to the voice of the people, are evils of the most alarming nature, and ought to be redressed.
“Resolved, That this society send circular notices, inviting their fellow citizens of Great Britain and Ireland, to form similar establishments, and co-operate with them in the important and necessary work of disseminating political and constitutional knowledge in every part of these kingdoms.”
Confidential letter from the King of the French to the King of England and of Ireland.
Sir,—My Brother,
I send this letter by Mr. Chauvelin, whom I have appointed my minister plenipotentiary at your majesty's court. I embrace this opportunity to express to your majesty how sensible I am of all the public marks of affection you have given me. I thank you for not having become a party to the concert formed by certain powers against France. From this I see you have formed a better judgment of my true interests, and a more correct opinion of the state of France. Between our two countries new connexions ought to take
place. I think I see the remains of that rivalry which has done so much mischief to both, wearing daily away. It becomes two kings who have distinguished their reigns by a constant desire to promote the happiness of their people, to connect themselves by such ties, as will appear to be durable in proportion as the two nations shall have clearer views of their own interests. I have every reason to be satisfied with your majesty's ambassador at my court. If I do not give the same character to the minister whom I have sent to yours, you will nevertheless perceive, that by associating in the mission with him, M. de Talleyrand, who by the letter of the constitution, can sustain no public character, I consider the success of the alliance, in which I wish you to concur, with as much zeal as I do, as of the highest importance, I consider it as necessary to the stability, to the respective constitutions, and the internal tranquility of our two kingdoms; and I will add, that our union ought to command peace to Europe.
I am your brother, (Signed) LOUIS.
Paris, May 2. The reception given to M. Dillon's detachment by the Austrian army was so different from what the troops had been taught to expect, that in their panic and flight, an insinuation was industriously and fatally propagated among the soldiers, that there had been an intention to put them all into the hands of the enemy; that M. Dillon was a traitor, and that letters had been intercepted, proving his guilt. That quick suspicious temper, which incessantly makes the French the dupes of artful and designing men, drew them instantly into this snare. Their rage was raised in a moment, and overwhelming both reason and humanity, carried them to the most frantic barbarities. M. Dillon was their first victim. He took shelter in a barn. Not content with this horrid murder, they hung up the dead body, and shot at it for near an hour; after which it was mangled, torn limb from limb, and the fragments carried into the city of Lisle. M. Chaumont, his aid-de-camp, was hanged, and M. Berthois, the chief officer of the engineers, who had been wounded in the engagement, was not suffered to die of his wounds, but was also murdered. A Cure, on the pretence of his being a spy, was also hanged; and four Tyrolean soldiers, deserters from the enemy, and who had been employed as guides, being accused of acting as spies, were, with equal barbarity and madness, butchered in the same manner. Nay, in their savage and brutal fury, the limbs of these victims were flung into fires in the streets. Of all the troops at Lisle, the regiment of Languedoc only maintained a conduct becoming citizens and soldiers.
May 3. War having been declared against the king of Hungary, the French ministry thought it advisable to overrun the Austrian Low Countries with different bodies of troops. One of these under the command of Biron, was directed to present itself before Mons, in order to found the dispositions of the soldiers, and the inhabitants of the country. A corps of cavalry, consisting of ten squadrons, commanded by M. Theodore Dillon, Marechal de Camp, received orders to march towards Tourney.
M. Carl, with a detachment of 1200 men, was to proceed to Furnes. The object of the above movements was to divide the attention of the enemy, and Valenciennes was the place where the troops which the marechal de Rochambeau had drawn out of the garrisons, were to assemble, in order to sustain the forces under M. Biron.
The unhappy catastrophe that occurred to the troops belonging to M. Dillon, having obliged his corps of cavalry to retire to Lisle, all these dispositions were rendered useless.
M. Biron left Valenciennes on the 28th in the morning, took possession of Quiervain

that evening, dislodged the Austrians from all the posts which they occupied between that place and Mons, and arrived on the 29th within a short distance of that city.
He then perceived the Austrian army upon the heights, occupying an advantageous position, and appearing more formidable than had been expected. Nevertheless, M. Biron passed the night between the 29th and 30th, in the presence of the enemy, and took care to inform M. Rochambeau of his situation.
His army appeared to be in the best possible disposition; notwithstanding this, he soon learned that a party of the regiment de la Reine had retired. He immediately alone and unaccompanied, set off in pursuit of, and brought them back to the army, which he now found in the most utmost agitation.
These fugitives had propagated the news on their retreat, that the General had gone over to the enemy. The disorder which this false intelligence had thrown the troops into, did not fail to be perceived by the Austrians, who immediately commenced the attack, and M. Biron was forced to retire, although with bravery and firmness on the part of the French, who prevented the enemy from gaining any considerable advantage.
M. Biron attempted to regain the post which he had occupied the night before at Quievrain, but this was taken possession of by the enemy, whom he found it impossible for him to dislodge; he was therefore obliged to push for Valenciennes.
Our loss as yet has not been ascertained; that of the enemy is said to be still more considerable.
The second battalion of the National guards of Paris, and the Huzzars of Esterhazy, performed prodigies of courage; but the 5th and 6th regiments of dragoons did not behave with equal spirit.
Most of the baggage, artillery, &c. have been saved.
M. le Marchal de Rochambeau, advanced with three regiments, to secure the retreat of the troops.
M. Biron was the last person who entered Valenciennes.
On the use of Oxen instead of Horses.
(From Catharine Phillips's Travels thro' England)
I will venture to recommend, as tending to reduce the high prices of provisions, the more general use of oxen for tillage, and even drawing of carriages, rather than so many horses. So much has already been written on this subject, as to demonstrate that it would be greatly to the advantage of farmers to till their land with oxen. I can see no reason for their giving the preference to horses, but that they do the work quicker; and if they would try oxen in the traces, instead of putting them under the yoke, perhaps that excuse would fail them. They will go steadier, faster, and I think, draw a greater burthen; and on public roads this method must be far preferable to yoking them. I have seen a waggon drawn by six or more oxen in the traces, and was told, the owner of them much preferred that method to the yoke; that they were employed in carriage as well as tillage, and that they drew his waggon loaded from his house to Exeter, which is full 17 miles, and returned again in a day. Prodigious weights are drawn and even carried by these animals in countries where they are generally used. And I doubt not if farmers and waggon-keepers would thoroughly try the before mentioned method, but much of our carriage as well as tillage might be done by oxen, whereby the prices of beef, tallow, leather, &c. might be reduced.
It appears to me probable, that an improvement upon the method used for drawing with horses in traces, might be made for oxen. As much of the strength of the ox is supposed to lie in its neck, which I conclude to be the reason for its being subjected to the yoke, might not an additional collar, perhaps best made of coarse linen, whereto a cord or light chain might be fastened, and that again fastened to the carriage or plough, in the manner the Laplanders attach their rein-deer to their sledges, so tend to keep down the neck of the ox, as that more strength might be exerted by that part, than in the usual method of drawing in the traces only. As this is merely my own conjecture, I only propose it for consideration. The oxen I saw draw in the traces, drew single; and I did not observe, nor hear, that their geer was any wise different from that of horses: even the shafts were filled by an ox, and all seemed to draw with more ease, than when wriggling under the yoke. As the thing was, to me, new, I took the more particular notice. But if these valuable beasts were more generally used, it might be hoped that their inhuman drivers would not be suffered to beat them, as though their flesh like that of the poor horses, was only fit for the dogs.
When it is considered that all parts of the oxen are useful, and divers of them very valuable, and how much less expense it is to breed and to feed them than horses, and that horses when worn out are worth but a mere trifle, it is admirable that they are not more generally used in this money-get-
ting nation. Their flesh, fat, hides, horns, hoofs, hair, yea, their very guts are used either for food, cloathing, or by our artificers, &c.
A celebrated French author (Buffon) says of the ox, "He is the most advantageous of all domestics to the farmer; he is the very source and support of agriculture. Formerly the ox constituted the whole riches of mankind; and he is still the basis of the riches of nations, which subsist and flourish only in proportion to the cultivation of their lands, and number of their cattle, for in these all real wealth consists: even gold and silver, being only fictitious representations, have no real value but what is conferred upon them by the productions of the earth."
Perhaps some of our modern farmers may be too wise, or too conceited, to receive these old-fashioned maxims, and may as reluctantly consent to do their business with oxen, as did the Irish to draw their ploughs otherwise than by the horses' tails. However that senseless custom is now, generally, in disuse; and we may also hope that horses will be more diffused in the course of time in agricultural employments. Our rulers have latterly been otherwise too busy to attend to such minutiae for the welfare of the nation, or they might think it worth while to encourage the use of oxen, by small premiums, or other benefits to the farmers, who are most likely to be convinced by present interests, of the utility of any measure proposed. If but the tolls of turnpikes were remitted them it might induce some to increase their number of these very strong and useful cattle; and I do not think the turnpikes would suffer much by this indulgence, as oxen in travelling do much less damage to the roads than horses. Certainly, the price of leather is so high, that if some measure is not adopted to lower it, the poor in England may be laid under the necessity of walking barefoot, as many of their children now do.
Form of a Passport for Commercial vessels belonging to France.
LOUIS, by the grace of God and the constitutional law of the state, king of the French, to all those to whom these presents shall come, greeting. The vessel named the _____, of the burthen of _____ tons, having been registered in, and belonging to the port of _____, and proved to be French property, we hereby declare that said vessel is intitled to sail under the National flag of France, for which purpose we have granted letters of licence and passport to _____ commander of said vessel, to depart from the port and harbour of _____ with instructions to govern himself according to the laws of the kingdom and the marine regulations.
We pray and request all sovereign powers, friends and allies of the French nation, and their subordinate officers; we command and enjoin all public functionaries under our orders, the commanders of vessels belonging to the state, and all others whom it shall concern, safely and freely to suffer to pass the said _____ with his vessel aforementioned, without interrupting him, or suffering that he shall meet with any trouble, detention, or delay whatever, but on the contrary to show him every favour, succour, and assistance whatever, where it shall be necessary.
In witness whereof we have put our signature, and caused the seal of state to be affixed to the present passport, and the same to be countersigned by the minister of the marine.
THE MINISTER OF THE MARINE. Delivered at the general office of the Marine, at No. _____ and dispatched.
Department of State, to wit.
THE preceding is a translation of the form of the passport now given by the government of France to the vessels of their nation, as officially communicated by their minister plenipotentiary, of which all whom it may concern are desired to take notice.
TH. JEFFERSON, Secretary of State.
Phila, July 7, 1792.
George-Town, Potowomack, July 7.
On the 4th instant being the anniversary of American Independence, the artists and workmen concerned in the erecting the Federal Bridge over Rock Creek in this district, met in procession at Mr. Suter's Fountain Inn, in this city, from whence they conducted the commissioners of the Federal Buildings, accompanied by Major Ellicott, and a number of the respectable citizens of this place, to the eastern buttment of the bridge, where the ceremony of laying the corner stone was performed by the Gentlemen Commissioners, in due form, and a discourse was delivered by Mr. William H. Kerr.—During the performance of the ceremony 15 toasts were drank, and a gun fired to each respectively—after which the company returned in the same order of procession to Mr. Suter's, where the remainder of the day was spent as the occasion merited.—The 13th toast was as follows: May the honoured name of Washington, with which this City is dignified, ever protect its inhabitants from the insolent airs of aristocracy.
PHILADELPHIA.
JULY 14, 1792.
We are informed that the directors of the national manufactures, attended by the secretary of the treasury, met at the town of Paterson (N. J.) on Tuesday last, and after purchasing the lands from the respective proprietors, fixed upon the exact situation of the different mill seats, and other principal buildings of the establishment.—Instructions were given to the conductors of the different branches of the manufactory, immediately to remove thither and complete their machinery, with all convenient speed—that decisive and definite arrangements took place, respecting their future operations, entirely to the satisfaction of all concerned.
Our correspondent further adds, that the celebrated architect, Monf. L'Enfant, is expected there on Tuesday or Wednesday next, for the purpose of laying out the new town, the form of which is contemplated to be nearly circular, encompassing a delightful plain, intended for a bleaching ground. Nature has been particularly bountiful to this spot, a healthy and delightful country, excellent water both for domestic and mill purposes, abundance of good building stone is to be met with on the spot, plenty of fuel, the river and brooks around it abound with fish; provisions are very cheap, and the country thickly settled, these advantages, together with its contingency to, and easy communication with one of the first cities in the United States, makes it unquestionably one of the most eligible and desirable situations in the world for the permanent establishment of manufactory.
The officers of the regiment of Clermont and Clarendon counties in S. Carolina, have recently addressed Gen. Sumter, one of the representatives from that state in Congress, congratulating him on his return to his friends and connections, recapitulating some of his successful services in the late war, his patriotism, his fortitude, and active bravery in the cause of freedom and mankind, and concluding with their thanks for the true republican principles manifested by him on the floor of Congress.—The General returned a polite answer, expressing his gratitude for the obliging welcome they had given him on his return to his domestic scenes, the agreeable sensations he experienced in meeting the approbation of upright and honest men, and his acknowledgements for their favourable opinion of the general tenor of his conduct.
The legislature of New-Hampshire have chosen the hon. Samuel Livermore, Esq. a senator in the Congress of the United States.
By a late arrival at Salem (M.) intelligence is come to hand that Ankerstrom, the Swedish regicide, had been executed according to his sentence. He was publicly whipped three different times in the market places; ignominiously exposed to view in the pillory; his right hand was cut off; and finally he was beheaded, quartered, and exposed at the common place of execution. He gloried in what he had done, to the last; and even in the agonies of death rejoiced that he had rid his country of a tyrant.
Accounts have been published in several papers of the capture of Tippoo Saib's capital, Seringapatam, by the forces under Lord Cornwallis. The whole now appears to be a fabrication in London, for jobbing purposes. Later and authentic intelligence states, that Cornwallis had taken some small forts, was on his march towards Seringapatam, and that Tippoo had made some propositions for peace, which were not acceded to.
On Tuesday last, Mr. Jay arrived at his house in New-York, from the northward. Salutes were fired, on this occasion, upon his entering the city; and he was escorted to his own house amidst the acclamations, shouts, and plaudits of a number of citizens, who sit very uneasy under the administration of governor Clinton.
The assassination of count Dillon appears to have been attended with every circumstance of frantic cruelty that could disgrace the lowest order of savages.—Amidst the whole of the infernal scene, he to the last (say our accounts) showed himself firm and undaunted, and met death with that serene fortitude, which evermore characterizes a man truly great.
Letters from Lisbon state, that such immense quantities of wheat, and other grain, have been brought into that port from various quarters, and so promising were their crops, that all further importation would be absolutely useless for at least a twelve month to come.
According to letters from London, there is every reason to believe that the court party were determined, if possible, to hunt Mr. Paine out of England, and that, as the first step, the prosecution of him for a libel was in agitation. A secret attempt was made in May last to set fire to the English House of Commons, which miscarried through seasonable discovery.
The first stone of the new theatre in Norfolk, Virginia, was laid on the 4th of July,
instant, by Dr. James Taylor and Dr. James Harper, both of the Freemasons' Lodge. The materials for the building, it is said, are ready; and the plan such as will render it worthy of a town, which from its situation and other natural advantages, bids fair to become speedily one of the first capitals in the United States.
On the 26th of June a man named John Fuller, was executed at Charleston for attempting to pass a forged note, knowing the same to be forged.—He declared himself, to the last, innocent of the crime for which he was doomed to suffer.
A leading feature in the character of the regenerated French has appeared to be affection to the English; no longer influenced by those unjust prejudices, those mean jealousies, which formerly divided the two countries, they have taken every occasion to express with regard to the British nation the highest respect and confidence, and to show how desirous they are to cultivate a reciprocal good understanding, and establish a permanent alliance. This sentiment has appeared not only in those public transactions, which might be influenced by policy, but in the conduct of individuals, which affords the best, and indeed only criterion of real character.
Mr. Paine has published a third part of "The Rights of Man."—It is said the severe truths uttered in this pamphlet, in addition to those in his former two publications, were the great motive for the royal proclamation, issued on the 21st of May, reciting, that "divers wicked and seditious writings have been dispersed with treasonable views, and to raise discontents in the nation respecting the laws and the constitution, and to bring into contempt the revolution of 1688, &c. &c. It then goes on to enjoin all good citizens to guard against favoring any publications of this kind, as being subversive of all regular government and national subordination; exhorting them to discourage all political innovations that tend to riot and tumult, and commanding them to discover and deliver up to justice both the authors and printers of such seditious writings, as well as the dispersers of the same," &c. &c.
Serious warning is given the inhabitants of the United States in a Connecticut paper, of the mischievous consequences attending upon the use of copper and leaden vessels in families, particularly the latter, which are considered more injurious to the human constitution even than copper.—This writer justly reprobates those unprincipled persons, vintners, wine sellers, &c. who make use of what is called the sugar of lead to disguise the acid of their wines, than which nothing operates as a more certain poison.—"It has been observed (says he) that the colic has been less frequent in this country since the introduction of earthen instead of pewter plates—the introduction of iron tea-kettles, instead of the copper, lined with pewter, may be considered also as a salutary change in this respect."
Human weakness is discoverable in nothing more than in the pains some people are at to mistake their own abilities. To write, to any purpose, on the great subjects of legislation, government, and national politics, certainly requires some ability, some intercourse with, and experience of mankind, and an accurate knowledge in their history. Yet how often do we see coming forward, and arrogantly assuming the philosopher's pen, persons of shallow conception, who have hardly a capacity equal to the duties of a parish-clerk—In a sad situation is that cause which is left to the care of such miserable defenders: they will do it infinitely more harm than service, and by the indiscreet effusions which are continually flowing from their pens, their halfliness, their passion, their petulance, their impatience of contradiction, their evasions, their insinuations, garblings, grumblings, open and disguised falsehoods, cannot but ultimately work the utter ruin of the cause they meant to defend.
Further European advices just come to hand, state that, altho' no doubt the court of Russia is unfavorable to France, yet the emigrant princes have yet received nothing from that quarter except a supply of money, in bills drawn on in Amsterdam.—A new pretender to the throne of Morocco has made his appearance in that country, at the head of a powerful party—the late Count Dillon, who was so inhumanly massacred by his troops, fell a sacrifice to ill founded jealousy; he had belonged to the Irish brigade in France, and was a descendant of one of those families who formerly followed king James to France and whose successors since the revolution had, by the national assembly been deprived of their property in their respective regiments; M. Dillon had accepted of a command in the national troops, who regarding him as a malcontent, with respect to the popular cause, watched his every motion, from an idea that a man of his known high spirit could not be sincere. The ill success in the late attack on Tournay confirmed their suspicions of treachery, and roused the savage fury which put a period to the life of their commander, in the 64th year of his age and the fortieth of his military services.
A magazine of powder had blown up by accident at Marseilles, and almost entirely

destroyed a body of national artillery—accounts of some excesses committed on the frontiers of France in the late skirmishes were in several instances exaggerated—No Austrian prisoners were massacred, as reported—letters had been read before the National Assembly from M. Biron and M. Rochambeau, giving a detail of the various unfortunate events that had taken place among the troops on the frontiers, the former complaining much of want of discipline and obedience in the soldiers; the latter, that if no discretionary power is to be left him, but to be rigidly tied down to the orders of war ministers, he wishes to resign all command.
The effects of the tax on newspapers (says a correspondent) shew it to have been an unwise and an ill fated measure. The excessive height of it has disgusted generally. Many suspect that it was meant to obstruct the information of the people in regard to their public affairs. As the loss of the bill for lowering the rates proceeded from the Senate (and, as it was said at the time, by an instant, silent, general vote) and that branch of the legislature is known to favour secrecy in public matters, those suspicions gain the easier credit, and the unpopularity of that important part of the government increases in proportion. The newspapers being split into two parcels, being totally excluded from the mail stages, unless they pay the tax, and the attention to them divided, those that go in other conveyances than the mail stage, cannot be expected to have the same care taken of them as of the others, or as perhaps was taken before it was made the temptation of the post-offices to disfavour the conveyance out of the mail, whence a greater proportion of miscarriages must naturally happen, to the disappointment and discontent of the subscribers. In the distant states, the home-papers coming out, many of them, but once a week, and having state matters enough to fill up the greater part of them, can republish but a small share of what passes at the seat of Congress. Wherefore, the people in such states are deeply affected by the measure, and in danger of being kept sadly in the dark concerning the conduct of their public servants. The regulation having taken place also at the eve, as it were, of a general election, it will have the evil effect of keeping the people from knowing the conduct of the government and of their respective representatives, at the very juncture of time when they are to redress their grievances, if they have any; and there are many, who give into the suspicion, that this unseasonableness of the time was not mere accident, but that it might be intended, among other things, to favour electioneering cabals, and put the country people in general, as well as the remote states, in the power of a few who can lay their heads together and carry on their secret manoeuvres. Whatever may have been the secret designs of a few in this matter, candid demands that others should be acquitted of any ill views. It is nevertheless an unhappy affair, and will make the ensuing general election not so satisfactory a touchstone of the public mind as it ought to have been. For it is certain, that in many places where the information contained in the papers will not now circulate, the elections will turn very differently from what they would, if the people knew as much as is known here, on the spot. The evil is so much the greater, by increasing one of the heaviest inconveniences ever charged on the federal government by its opponents. For all the most sober and argumentative characters who set themselves against the great powers vested in the government always bent their objections principally against the vast extent of the country, inferring therefrom an impossibility of keeping the constituent body duly informed, and the consequent want of responsibility in the government, and of a sufficient check in the people over their rulers. And altho' this objection was carried much too far, yet it must be allowed to have weight thus far, that all possible ways and means of bringing the members of the government under the eye of the people by easy, quick, and cheap intelligence, ought to have been studied and promoted, instead of this ill-favoured tax at this suspicious time, which producing the contrary effect of putting the government further out of sight of the people, must be justly deplored by every man who is a true friend to the government and to right measures, without favour, affection, or partiality.
Extract of a letter from New-York, July 11.
"To read some of our papers, and to have no other information, a stranger at a distance would be led to suppose that we are upon the eve of a state-civil-war, and that the game of bloody noses, broken heads, and battered ribs, if not the total demolition of many frail tabernacles among us, had already taken place. Whatever may happen, fortunately things are not yet advanced to those lengths, and every friend to good order will deprecate brutal excesses. The present case I take to be similar to what is sometimes observed in courts, where the pleader who makes the most noise has generally the worst side of the question. It is somewhat extraordinary to see men, who were avowedly hostile to
the American revolution, in the dark days of adversity, now assuming the garb of patriotism and endeavoring to take the lead in government; men, who but the other day were begging pardon of their country for inimical conduct, now endeavouring to establish a government by committees, thro' the state. This, however, is one of the blessed effects of that policy, which professes to check the levity of popular government by the introduction of toryism, and controlling the predominant spirit of democracies by throwing the tory weight into the federal scale."
Leyden papers are received to the 27th of April--from which we have made the following extracts:
"What can be the motives of the war with France? not the possessions of the German princes in France, for that matter could have been adjusted by negotiation—It is the cause of the emigrants that provokes to arms. The king has done every thing in his power to prevail upon them to return into the kingdom, instead of which they continue in open rebellion against their country—Will not the new king of Hungary set a bad example to his own subjects by taking part with rebels and traitors? Was the arming of France a motive for war?--That was unavoidably provoked by the treaty of Pilnitz, and by the asylum afforded to the emigrants on the very frontier of France. In short, the arming of France was simply on the defensive, a proof of which was the king's having ordered no maritime armament. Certainly the French clubs and pamphlets could have been no motive for several European powers combining against the liberties of France---If so, those same powers, or even all Europe, must have long ago made a crusade against England. The present combination of powers against France is subservient of the public order and interests of Europe. It cannot be permanent, and must necessarily cease, if not during the war, at least immediately after. At all events, and let the war end as it may, Austria will soon find herself destitute, and drained of men and money. The more troops are sent into the Low Countries, the more will the people be irritated and disposed to revolt. Arms are out of the question when a people are determined to be free---the more they are opposed, the more energy they acquire---This concert of powers, therefore, having no real or justifiable object in view, is a political monster, which will and must fall to pieces by its own weight."
"Peace, or a continuance of war with France, rests entirely with the court of Vienna. It is to be hoped, the new king of Hungary, before he proceeds too far, will take into consideration the horrid consequences of a long war with France, the expence, the inevitable loss of multitudes of men, and the almost entire ruin in which he must involve his kingdom, be his arms ever so victorious."
"War being now certain, the patriotic spirit in France is more and more consolidated, and the nation will act with determined vigour. Equally ardent are the leaders of the emigrants, who being ultimately decided not to submit to the yoke of the national assembly, will risque every thing to glut their vengeance. It now remains to be experienced whether the war into which they have had the address to engage several powers, will tend in any degree to the advantage of those powers.---The cause of humanity has certainly much to reproach them with, and both the present age and posterity will severely reciprocate upon them for advancing what they have the impudence to call, the cause of kings. A reflection of this kind ought surely to have some influence upon the court of Vienna, and would have had its weight were Leopold alive; but the disposition of the new king is utterly hostile to every step which seems to derogate from the honour of sovereigns, and the dignity of exalted rank."
EXTRACT.
IT is time that nations should be rational, and not be governed like animals, for the pleasure of their riders. To read the history of kings, a man would be almost inclined to suppose that government consisted in stag-hunting, and that every nation paid a million a year to a huntsman.---Man ought to have pride, or shame enough to blush at being thus imposed upon, and when he feels his proper character, he will. Upon all subjects of this nature, there is often passing in the mind, a train of ideas he has not yet accustomed himself to encourage and communicate. Refrained by something that puts on the character of prudence, he acts the hypocrite upon himself as well as to others. It is, however, curious to observe how soon this spell can be dissolved. A single expression, boldly conceived and uttered, will sometimes put a whole company into their proper feelings---and whole nations are acted upon in the same manner. [Paine's Rights of Man.]
The enemies of reformation in England cannot brook the boldness of Payne's writings, on the affairs of the government.
Lately they discovered a creditor of his, to whom he owed a considerable sum; and had influence enough to get him arrested for the debt. His friends however, by giving him timely notice, rescued him from this dilemma, and rendered the attempt to confine him, fruitless. He has now a more serious trouble on his hands, a criminal process having been instituted against him as a libeller. The prosecution is followed up with rigour, and the friends of the philosopher are not a little afraid that he will be condemned to the pillory, and to lose his ears. Such a cruel procedure would not be the first of the kind in England against those they call Reformers, that is, those who wish for a wiser and more equitable form of government than exists at present.
[Gazette de France, May 12.]
To those who are shaken by every breath of report relative to the ill success or possible miscarriage of the Revolution in France, the following question might be pertinently addressed: Can you seriously suppose that the present struggle of that nation is not the beginning of that universal reformation which is about to take place in the world for the general benefit of the human race, and which will unfold itself into successful reality? or, can you suppose, upon a candid review of the history of man that this globe is to be forever inhabited and governed, or rather wasted and abused, by so malignant and contemptible a being as in the ages past, thro' the influence of false government, man has shown himself to be? Certainly not: and such a supposition would imply a defect in that wisdom and due proportion of things which is generally observable (tho' its advances may have been gradual) in the inferior ranks of the animated creation, and the world of nature around us.
We observe, says a correspondent, with great satisfaction, a resurrection of the justice of our country in every part of the United States. The universal cry is now against the Congress of 1788 and 89, which funded the public debt into the hands of D— and Co. The infamous practices, by which this infamous business was effected, begin at last to be developed, and a stain has been discovered, by the enquiry, upon our national honor, that no time will wipe away.
The violent gust that took place on Sunday the 1st instant, we are informed, extended as far southward as Hatteras, Lat. 35. 6. A vessel in that latitude lost her mainsail by this momentary tornado, and was in imminent danger of foundering, from several water spouts which arose by the fury of the wind.
The intimation lately given in one of the Bolton papers, that it was agitated in that state to raise a body of American Volunteers to be dispatched to France, if necessary, to the assistance of the patriotic party, was highly pleasing to all staunch Americans.---As hostilities are now declared between Austria and France, the time seems to have arrived when these volunteers should be called forth and organized, as it is probable their assistance will be as acceptable in a short time as at any future period.
A correspondent doubts the propriety of a late translation of the French Revolution Song, Ca Ira .---Instead of this will do, this will do, &c. it should be, it shall go on, it shall go on ,---alluding to a visible suspension in the councils of the French nation, about two years ago, whether the revolution should proceed or not.
We hear from Maryland that a number of gentlemen of that state are about establishing a society in Port-Tobacco for the dissemination of useful political knowledge, the study of the constitution of their country, and the keeping up among the people as much as possible, a knowledge of their rights as free citizens of the greatest, and perhaps the only true republic in the universe.
The British have now a twenty-gun ship on Lake-Champlain; and another, of a similar denomination, to be launched in a few months.
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PROPOSALS to contract for the following purposes, will be received at New-York by Nicholas Low, at New-Ark by Elisha Boudinot, at New-Brunswick by John Bayard, and at Philadelphia, by Charles Pettit---viz:
 1st. To cut a canal from the river Passaick, beginning at a point near a station, where stands a stake marked No. 1, and continuing thence to the brink of a precipice at or near a rock marked No. 3. This canal must be thirty feet wide, and must be sunk to a level with the surface of the water in the driest season.  2d. To erect flood-gates in the said canal near to the brink of the precipice.  3d. To erect a dam on the river Passaick above the Great Falls, and below the place of the canal. The dam to be four feet above the level of the surface of the water at the driest season. 
4th. To erect a dry wall across a gully adjacent to the abovementioned precipice, in a direction from the said station No. 3, to another station being a stake marked No. 6, on or near the summit of a hill, extending from the one to the other; and to make a wooden trough upon the said wall sixteen feet wide by seven feet deep.
5th. To extend a trough of the same dimensions, from the said station No. 6, to another station being a tree marked No. 7, with a dry wall on one side, the whole length thereof, of the thickness of six feet.
6th. To erect at the town of Paterson, near the Falls of the Passaick, a stone building, fifty five feet long by thirty-two feet wide, four stories high, exclusive of a cellar at the whole length thereof.
7th. To erect another stone building at the said town of Paterson, seventy-eight feet long, by thirty-one feet wide, three stories high, exclusive of a cellar the whole length thereof.
8th. To erect another stone building at the said town of Paterson, thirty-eight feet long by twenty-seven feet wide, two stories high, exclusive of a cellar the whole length thereof.
9th. To erect another stone building sixty-eight feet long by thirty six feet wide, two stories high, exclusive of a cellar the whole length thereof.
10th. To erect fifty houses of stone or wood, as may be afterwards determined, each twenty-four feet long by eighteen feet wide, in height from the lower floor to the plate twelve feet, with a cellar and a garret. Two houses to be under one roof, with a party wall. The proposals will specify severally the rates at which these buildings will be undertaken in stone and in wood.
Descriptive plans of the several objects above specified, No. 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, may be seen in the possession of Nicholas Low at New-York, Elisha Boudinot, at New-Ark, John Bayard, at New-Brunswick, Charles Pettit, at Philadelphia and William Hall at the said town of Paterson. The said William Hall will give such explanations as may be necessary.
A descriptive plan of the building above specified No. 6, may be seen in the possession of the four first abovementioned persons and of Thomas Marshall, at the town of Paterson who will give such explanations as may be necessary.
A descriptive plan of the building above specified No. 9, may be seen in the possession of the four first abovementioned persons, and of William Pearce at the town of Paterson, who will give such explanations as may be necessary.
All materials are to be found, brought to the spot, and erected by the contractors, to whom liberty will be granted under certain restrictions to use the stones or timber which may be on the lands of the society.
The proposals may comprehend either the whole or any one or more of the foregoing objects. The proposers may accompany their proposals by the suggestion of any other methods which shall occur to them for constructing a competent wall across the gully from station No. 3, to station No. 6, and for conveying the water from thence to station No. 7, and the terms upon which they may be disposed to contract according to those methods.
All the works for conveying the water must be warranted for seven years.
Proposals must be in writing, and under seal addressed to the society for establishing useful manufactures; and delivered to one of the said persons first mentioned, on or before the twenty sixth of July instant.
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ODES ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS.
HE who does not read in the book of the Odes is like a man standing with his face flat against a wall: he can neither move forward, nor stir an inch backward. — Hau Kiou Choaun.
ODE I.
On the Fourteenth of July.
BRIGHT DAY, that did to France restore What priests and kings had seiz'd away, That bade her generous sons disdain The fetters that their fathers wore, The titled slave, a tyrant's sway, That ne'er shall curse her soil again;
Bright day! a partner in thy joy, COLUMBIA hails the rising sun, She feels her toils, her blood repaid, When fiercely frantic to destroy, (Proud of the laurels he had won) The Briton, here, unheath'd his blade.
By traitors driv'n to ruin's brink Fair freedom dreads united knaves, The world must fall if she must bleed; And yet, by heaven! I'm proud to think The world was ne'er subdued by slaves— Nor shall the hireling herd succeed.
Boy! fill the generous goblet high; Success to France, shall be the toast: The fall of kings, the fates foredoom, The crown decays, its splendours die; And they, who were a nation's boast Sink, and expire in endless gloom.
Thou, stranger, from a distant shore, Where fetter'd men their rights avow, Why on this joyous day so sad? Louis infults with chains no more;— Then why thus wear a clouded brow, When every manly heart is glad?
Some passing days and rolling years May see the wrath of kings display'd, Their wars to prop the tarnish'd crown; But orphans' groans, and widows' tears, And justice lifts her shining blade To bring the tottering bauble down.
July 12.
Foreign News, by the last arrivals.
The town of Newry has opened a subscription for raising a sum of money to be presented to the national assembly of France, to assist in repelling the efforts of foreign mercenaries, who with to govern France against the will of the people—The Austrian soldiers are continually deserting their colours and escaping into the territory of France. The king of the French, anxious to give proofs of his attachment to the constitution, gives up one fourth of the civil list to the nation, during the continuance of the war. Trial by jury took place in France, for the first time, on the fifth of April; multitudes attended this new mode of trial, and the whole was conducted with the most imposing solemnity. The Dutch Stadholder has received many letters informing him that he is in danger of assassination; this gives his high mightiness great alarm, especially as the fate of the king of Sweden is an event of such recent recollection. A plan is thought to be in agitation with several European powers, not absolutely hostile to France, to accommodate the present disputes by new modelling the French constitution from that of England, which by restoring an order of nobility, will in a great measure, alleviate the resentment of the emigrants. The English minister at Paris had officially declared to the king of the French, that if an invasion of the Netherlands should take place, on the part of France, Great-Britain would defend them with all her forces. The aristocratic council of Bern have condemned M. Rouffet, assessor of Bern, to 25 years imprisonment, for permitting the celebration of the 14th of July last.
The late disturbances at Birmingham are said to have originated from the following circumstance: A private of the blues stationed at Birmingham, went to a b-dy house, when on some dispute, one Bulby, supposed to be the bully of the house, struck the soldier so violent a blow on the head with a glass-bottle, that he died a few days after: this gave occasion to the ill-disposed part of the populace to rise, and under pretence of revenging the soldier's death, carried plunder and devastation through the town. Bulby and his companions were committed to jail, on a verdict of willful murder.
SHREWSBURY.
The hot weather having now seriously set in, the town will be for a time deserted by all who can afford it. Quill-dri-
vers, journeymen weavers, shopmen, and a variety of other descriptions of people who have not made their fortunes, will, if they are prudent, remain at home notwithstanding the heat, or at most content themselves with a ride to Gray's gardens, Harrowgate, or a promenade in the state house square.
To those whose circumstances enable them to travel further a-field, for some weeks residence, no place can afford a more eligible retreat than Shrewsbury, a delightful settlement in New-Jersey, distant about seventy miles, on a north east course, from this city.
No part of the sea coast of the United States can exceed, and very few parts, if any can be reckoned equal in all respects to this township, for the salubrity of its air, the beauty of its landscapes, and various other advantages at once conducive to pleasure, health, and retirement.
An excellent soil of grazing upland, with an intermixture of elegant groves, is extended to the very margin of the ocean, and when you stand on this verge of the Atlantic, and cast your view eastward, the tutored mind immediately reflects, with some emotion, that no other land lies in that direction, short of Europe and Africa.
To the northward you have a romantic view of the bold and towering Never-sink. Glance your eye a point or two eastward, and you have a distant prospect of part of the south side of Long-Island, rising gradually in moderate swellings to its center. Between both, you at all times observe vessels gathering in from at least one quarter of the compass, and making the best of their way for the much-frequented port of New-York.
A small river puts in here over a dangerous bar, always covered with breakers, and proceeds northward several miles into the country. A branch of it runs westward a considerable distance; both well stocked with delicious oysters, and shell and scale fish of various kinds. And here those who are not excellent swimmers, or are afraid of being carried off by the under-tow of the surf along the main beach, may bathe themselves in quiet waters, as salt as those of the ocean, without danger or interruption.
Every flood-tide in the summer months, especially in the afternoon, brings in a fresh sea-breeze. Towards morning the wind is from the land, and when these phenomena are interrupted for a day or two, it may be concluded that bad weather is at hand.
Shrewsbury is universally a good neighbourhood; the people conversant, well informed, obliging, and hospitable; and suitable accommodations can easily be had in private families, at a moderate expense for those who incline to pass the whole, or a part of the summer in this agreeable retreat, on the verge of the vast expanse of another element.
July 12.
FRENCH MANIFESTO.
The following are the principles contained in the French Manifesto, drawn up by M. Condorcet, in consequence of the war now entered into between the French nation and the king of Hungary.
AS the French nation have for ever renounced the idea of conquest, so they are forced into a defensive war merely to resist tyranny, and defend the rights of man.
They will therefore consider the inhabitants of those countries, which groan under the despotism of the king of Hungary, not as enemies but as friends, and by opposing the tyrant that has enslaved them the French army will fight to set them free.
As the cause of France is the cause of all mankind, so the victories which she may obtain, will be the triumph of human nature.
They will neither plunder nor massacre, nor disturb, in any manner, their fellow creatures, tho' situated in the dominions of the tyrant they oppose; but they will shelter them under the glorious banner of freedom, and they will receive as brethren, all who may resort to it.
They only seek for glory, by promoting the happiness of mankind.
As the French nation have for ages been subservient to tyranny and aristocratical plunder, so they can feel for, and truly pity, those who are now in the state that France was in before the revolution.
Tyrants may lay countries waste, and desolate the globe; but freedom shall be
attended by mercy, and an olive branch shall be twined about its sword.
The deluded and wretched mercenaries who are paid to fight the battles of oppression, and to rivet their own chains for ever, even the blood of these men shall be spared, whenever the importance of the circumstances will permit.
The brave men who may quit the ranks of infamy, to join the animated army of the free, shall be honoured, cherished, and rewarded.
No letters of Marque shall be granted by the National Assembly, to sanction the abhorred plunder of individuals on the high seas; and if the creatures of their enemy are taken in the act of piracy, they shall be punished according to the law.
Of the French rebels who may be found in arms against their country, it is enough to say that they deserve to die.
E P I T A P H.
"Beneath this stupendous pile, rear'd by the hands of millions, a monster lies—of millions once the dread and pest—of tyranny the parent and the child; of slavery, the offspring and the nurse; of mad ambition, the pampered minion; of liberty, the scourge and victim; a hippogriff, in form not more terrible; a harpy, not more vile, rapacious, or insatiate; the stores of fertile Nile, nor all the fields of harvest-waving Sicily, nor all the cates that earth or ocean yield, could ever satiate his luxury or his appetite; Egeon's heads and hundred hands to his were few; not Typhon, nor Enceladus, so many acres overspread; nor could huge Etna's monstrous bale afford a grave sufficient!—Reader, wouldst thou enquire what Hercules this monster slew? 'Twas LIBERTY!—his grave is France, on whose broad base this glorious fabric securely rests! wouldst thou know by whom 'twas reared? THE FRENCH NATION—'twouldst ask the monster's name?—'Twas NOBILITY!"
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11. American Jest Book, in two parts, with two very neat engravings. Price bound, three-fifths of a dollar.
12. Garden of the Soul, by Bishop Chaloner. Price, bound plain, half a dollar, in calf and lettered three-quarters of a dollar; plain 1-2dol.
13. The Doxay Translation of the vulgate Bible, in quarto. Price, elegantly bound and lettered, 50/2—plain, six dollars.
Said Carey has for sale, a large assortment of books, European as well as American editions, which he will dispose of on the most reasonable terms, Country gentlemen, who favor him with commands, may depend upon being supplied in the most satisfactory manner. A liberal allowance to such as purchase quantities for public libraries, or to sell again. May 17. 6m. 1a. w.
TO THE PUBLIC.
THE Subscriber has it in contemplation soon to decline his present business—and having on hand a considerable quantity of superfine second and elastic cloths, together with a variety of other articles in his way, proposes to sell them at the following reduced prices, VIZ.
 Best Superfine navy blue 34/.  Ditto. ditto. Scarlet 36/.  Common colours superfine 32/.  Elastic stripes 9/.  London buff and white cassimers 15/6.  Ditto, coloured do. 15/.  Yorkshire do. do. 13/6.  Striped tollenets 34/.  Ratinefs 3/.  Striped Nankeens: 3/4. 
A variety of waistcoat shapes proportionably low Fancy buttons and trimmings do. London best silk hose, from 22/6 to 24/.
The above goods have been mostly imported from one of the first mercantile houses in London, and are of an equal quality to any imported into America; they will be sold per piece or smaller quantity as may best suit the purchasers, by the public's most humble servant, JOHN SHEPHERD.
Any person disposed to purchase the whole of the above stock, may also have on reasonable terms his present dwelling house, together with the store, a more eligible situation for business in the tailor's line is not to be found in this city. The advantage of this business being so well established by the proprietor will be very great, and from well known facts, needs no comment.
A lease of six years may be had of the house. May 14. 2aw. 3f.
TEN POUNDS REWARD.
BROKE goal at Monmouth court-house on Sunday evening, the 10th inst. a Negro Man, named SAM, sometimes calls himself George; is of a yellow complexion, high cheek bones, large white eyes, and impudent look; said negro is about five feet ten inches high, had on and took with him when he went away, a fleecing shirt and trowsers, oznabriss frock, and an old felt hat. Whosoever will deliver said runaway to his master, or lodge him in any goal, so that his master may have him again, shall be entitled to the above reward to be paid by me,
ELISHA JEWEL.
Freehold, Monmouth county, June 22, 1792. 1aw4t
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