Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser. (Philadelphia [Pa.]), 1797-09-23 00:00:00

Gazette of the United States, AND Philadelphia Daily Advertiser.
By JOHN FENNO, No. 119 Chestnut Street.
NUMBER 1573-1
PHILADELPHIA: SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 23, 1797.
[VOLUME XII.]
SALES BY AUCTION.
Stated Sales
For DRY GOODS. Monday Forenoon—Edward Fox, No. 56, South Front-street. Monday Afternoon—Footman & Co. No. 65 South Front-street. Tuesday Forenoon—John Connolly, Old City Auction, No. 75 South Front-street. Tuesday Afternoon—William Shannon, No. 183 High-street. Wednesday Forenoon—Peter Benson, No. 74 South Third-street. Wednesday Afternoon—Edward Fox. Thursday Forenoon—John Connolly. Thursday Afternoon—William Shannon. Friday Forenoon—John Connolly. Friday Afternoon—Peter Benson.
HAVANNA SUGARS.
FOR SALE. 1400 boxes and casks prime white Havanna SUGARS. On board the ship Hamburg Packet, Silas Swain, Master, now lying at Marcus Hook. For terms, apply to Capt. Swain, on board, to Capt. SAMUEL SMITH, in Front, near Walnut-street, or to
Philip Nicklin & Co.
Who offer the said Ship Hamburg Packet FOR SALE or CHARTER. She is 320 tons register, coppered to the beams, sails remarkably fast, and can be ready to receive a cargo in a few days. Sept. 21. dzw
Antigua Rum,
JUST arrived at Wilmington, Delaware State, and now landing from on board the Brig Active, William Williams, Master. One hundred hhds. 3d & 4th proof, And for Sale by
Jehu Hollingsworth & Co.
Wilmington, Sept. 21. N.B. The above Brig, and the brig GAYOSO, are also for Sale or Charter, and now ready to receive a cargo on board, at Wilmington. Apply as above. dzf
For Savannah,
The fast sailing ship, SWIFT PACKET, PATRICK GRIFFIN, Master, Now lying opposite the mouth of Frankford Creek, has handsome accommodations for passengers, and will sail on or about the 1st of October. For freight or passage apply to the master on board, or of the subscribers at Frankford, 5-1-2 miles from Philadelphia.
Nalbro & J. Frazier.
Frankford, Sept. 18. dtf(O).
For HAMBURGH,
THE Copper Bottomed Ship FAVORITE, JOHN THOMPSON, Master, now at Bright's wharf, and will be ready to take in on Monday next, part of her cargo being engaged and ready to go on board. The ship is so well known, that it is needless to describe her. She is now in complete order. For Freight or Passage, please to apply at Mr. Jeremiah Warder's Compting House, No. 12, North Third street, or to the Master on board. August 30.
For SALE,
On board the said Ship, Swedish Iron, assorted Hollow and Window Glass, Demyjohns, Wrapping Paper for Sugar Refiners, Rugs of 1 & 2 Quality. Please to apply as above. wfk&mw
White Havanna Sugar.
1401 boxes of very superior quality now discharging. 77 hhds. lying from the ship Hamburg Packet, at Walnut Street wharf—and for sale by
Philip Nicklin & Co.
N.B. THE SHIP Hamburg Packet, SILAS SWAIN, Master, For Sale, or Charter. Aug. 24. coft
TO BE SOLD,
And possession given immediately. A LARGE two story brick House, handsomely situated in Princeton. There are four rooms and a large entry on each floor, and five rooms in the garret, a range of back-buildings 51 feet in length, and a piazza of 57 feet. There is a pump in the yard, an excellent kitchen garden, at the farther end of which are a carriage house and two stables, one of which is new, 44 feet long, with stalls in the two stables for 27 horses. The healthiness and pleasantness of its situation, and the number of genteel and agreeable families in and near the town, render it a desirable retreat for a gentleman from the city. The commodiousness of the house, its central position, and the largeness of the stables, make it every way suitable for a tavern, for which it has always been considered as a capital stand. Inquire on the premises, of ISAAC SNOWDEN. Princeton, Aug. 25. 29-dtwzawf
NOTICE.
IF TERRY O'HARA, who for some years since kept School at the Nine Bridges, Queen's County, Eastern Shore, Maryland, be living, he is hereby requested to call on, or write to, the Rev. Ambrose Marshall, near Warwick, Cecil County, Eastern Shore, Maryland, from whom he will receive interesting information. August 4. mw&faw
Imported in the ship MANCHESTER,
BENJAMIN SHEWELL, Master, From Bordeaux, and for sale by the subscriber, No. 11 Walnut Street. Bourdeaux Brandy } Entitled to Irish market claret in cases } Drawback. Medoc wine, in do. do. Sauterne, do. do. Thomas Murgatroyd.
WHO HAS FOR SALE.
Sherry Wine in pipes and quarter casks do. Rota do. Pimento in bags 4000 bushels Liverpool salt. Aug. 24. tut&stf.
WANTED
Bills on Amsterdam, at a sight not exceeding sixty days, and with approved indorsers, to the amount of two hundred thousand guilders—for which cash will be paid at the rate of thirty eight cents a guilder—Applications to be made to George Simpson, Esq. Cashier of the Bank of the United States. Sept. 14. dtf
Young Hyson Tea.
40 chests of a superior quality—Also, 100 do. of Hyson, Imported in the Woodrop Sims, and for sale by the subscribers, corner of Second and Pine street. C. Haight. June 21. coft
Imported in the ship Pigeon,
And for sale by John Morton, No. 116, South Front-street. Hyson } TEAS. Hyson Skin } Imperial } April 20. coft
The Norfolk Mail STAGE.
THIS Stage starts from the GEORGE Tavern, at the corner of Second and Arch Streets, in Philadelphia, every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, at 3 o'clock, in the morning; arrives at Dover the first day, at Snowhill the second day, at Northampton Court House the third day, and on the morning of the fourth day the passengers find a safe and comfortable packet to convey them to Norfolk. A packet leaves Norfolk for Northampton ferry, every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, and the Stage starts from this ferry for Philadelphia, every Monday, Wednesday and Friday; arrives at Snow Hill the first night, at Dover the 2d night, and arrives in Philadelphia in the evening of the third day. The distance on this route, between Philadelphia and Norfolk, is 80 miles less than on any stage route between those places. Too much cannot be said in favor of the road, which is most excellent indeed. The proprietors willingly engage to return the whole fare to any passenger, who, after having performed this route, will say that he ever travelled in a stage for the same distance, so good a road in America. August 11. dnm. coft.
This Day Published,
And to be sold by WILLIAM YOUNG, corner of Second and Chestnut Streets, Price 3-8ths of a Dollar.
Observations on certain Documents
Contained in No. V and VI of "The History of the United States for the year 1796," In which the CHARGE of SPECULATION against ALEXANDER HAMILTON, Late SECRETARY of the TREASURY, is FULLY REFUTED. WRITTEN BY UNSEEN. This publication presents a concise statement of the bare means practised by the Jacobins of the United States toasperse the characters of those persons who are considered as hostile to their disorganizing schemes. It also contains the correspondence between Mr. Hamilton and Messrs. Monroe, Muhlendburgh and Venable, on the subject of the documents aforesaid, and a series of letters from James Reynolds and his wife to Mr. Hamilton, proving beyond the possibility of a doubt, that the connection between him and Reynolds, was the result of a daring conspiracy on the part of the latter and his associates to extort money. A discount of one third from the retail price will be made in favor of wholesale purchasers, for cash. Orders to be addressed to Mr. YOUNG. August 25.
No. 188.
District of Pennsylvania, to wit: BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the twenty sixth day of July, in the twenty second year of the independence of the United States of America, JOHN FENNO, of the said district, hath deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit: "Observations on certain documents contained in No. V and VI of 'The History of the United States for the year 1796,' in which the charge of speculation against Alexander Hamilton, late Secretary of the Treasury, is fully refuted—Written by himself." In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, "An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned."
SAMUEL CALDWELL, Clerk of the District of Pennsylvania. July 27. w4w
MRS. GRATTON
INFORMS her friends, and the public in general, that her house, No. 192, Market-street, will continue open during the sickness. Board and Lodging in a separate room, TEN DOLLARS, in a double room, EIGHT DOLLARS. For the convenience of those gentlemen who have not their families in town, Mrs. GRATTON will receive gentlemen to dine at HALF A DOLLAR a day. August 29—6t
Imported in the latest arrivals from
Amsterdam and Hamburg, and for sale by
B. & J. BOHLEN,
A large assortment of fine French Cambrics, Platiilas } Russia and Dutch sailcloth Brittannias } Writing, post, and printing paper Rouanes } Douch calf skins Brown Holland } Prune madder Checks and Stripes } Shell'd Barley Ticklenburgs } Looking glasses Oznaburgs } Hollow glass ware White sheetings } Slates Diaper } Coffee mugs Brown rolls } Brass kettles Umbrellas } Scythes and draw knives Hair ribbons } Toys assorted in boxes Black and white laces } Bell Holland Gin in pipes London particular Madeira Wine July 24. m&thtf
Cedar Shingles.
THE subscriber has a quantity of 3 feet Cedar Shingles of a superior quality, for sale at 13 dollars per thousand. William Hallowell, No. 103 North Third-street. July 27. coft2.
Lately Published,
In one vol. 8vo. (price one dollar in boards) sold by WILLIAM YOUNG, corner of Second and Chestnut Streets, A Collection of Papers on the subject of Bilious Fevers, prevalent in the United States for a few years past. Compiled by NOAH WEBSTER, jun. Containing letters from Doctors Scanlan, Smith, Buel, Taylor, Ramsay, Monfou, Reynolds, Mitchell, on contagion, &c. &c. Sept. 11. ct
City Commissioners Office,
August 29, 1797. IN pursuance of an Ordinance of the Select and Common Councils, passed the 22d day of May last, Proposals in writing will be received by the City Commissioners for one month from the 1st of September next, for letting to rent on leases for one year to commence the first day of January next, the following public property of the city—
The wharf and landing on Vine Street, Also on Sassafras—
Mulberry, And High Streets, Chestnut and Walnut Streets, Draw Bridge, with the Scale and Fish Houses, Spruce, Pine and Cedar Streets. The cellar under the City-Hall.
The Tavern at the middle ferry on Schuylkill, with the lots contiguous thereto, (except so much thereof as shall be occupied by any buildings erected for the use of the Collector of the Tolls, or be necessary for the toll-gates.) Aug. 3. 3twf.m.
LOST,
ON the Paffyunk Road, between the Blue Bell and the city, a Fowling Piece, with a brass barrel and silver sight; on the plate of the butt are the letters "Jamaica, Q. 99"—and on the barrel near the lock "London" and the Tower Ramp. Whoever will return the said piece to John Barnard, at the sign of the Blue Bell on the Paffyunk Road, or the office of this Gazette, shall receive a reward of Four French Crowns, Sept. 12. *3t
DUTY ON CARRIAGES.
Notice is hereby Given, THAT agreeably to an act of Congress of the United States of America, passed at Philadelphia, the 28th day of May, 1796; laying duties on Carriages, for the conveyance of persons, which shall be kept by or for any person, for his or her own use, or to let out to hire, or for the conveyance of passengers, the several duties and rates following, to wit:
upon every Coach, 15 dols. upon every Chariot, 12 dols. upon every Post Chariot, 12 dols. upon every Post Chaise, 12 dols. upon every Phaeton, with or without top, 9 dols. upon every Coach, 9 dols. upon other Carriages, having panel work above, with blinds, glasses or curtains, 9 dols. upon four wheeled Carriages, having frames, four poles and tops with steel springs, 6 dols. upon four wheeled Carriages, with wooden or iron springs or jacks, 3 dols. upon Carriages with tops, 3 dols. upon Chairs with tops, 3 dols. upon other two wheeled Carriages, 3 dols. upon two wheeled Carriages, with steel or iron springs, 3 dols. For and upon all other two wheeled Carriages, 2 dols. upon every four wheeled Carriage, having framed poles and tops, and reeling upon wooden spars, 2 dols.
The Collectors of the Revenue for the first Survey of the District of Pennsylvania, will attend daily, until the 30th day of September next, for the purpose of receiving the duties on Carriages, at Germantown; at the house of Daniel St. Clair, Esq. in the County of Montgomery; and at the house of James Chapman, Esq. in the County of Bucks; of which all persons possessed of such Carriages are desired to take notice.
Notice is also given,
TO all retail dealers in Wines, and foreign distilled spirituous liquors, that licences will be granted to them; one licence for carrying on the business of retailing of Wines, in a less quantity, or in less quantities than thirty gallons—and one licence for carrying on the business of retailing spirituous liquors in less quantities than 20 gallons, at the same time and at the same place, by the officers legally authorised to grant such licences. WILLIAM NICHOLS, Inspector of the Revenue of the first survey of the District of Pennsylvania. Office of Inspection at Germantown, 12th Sept. 1797. dam
IMPORTED
In the ship America, James Bwing, master, from Hamburg,
Brown Hollands } in cases. White Patillas } Tickleburgs } Coarse Linens } Tapes } Looking Glasses } Glass Tumblers } FOR SALE BY George Pennock. August 14. 3w
An elegant House in Arch Street.
To be let and entered on immediately a large and elegant house at the Corner of Arch and Ninth Streets. There are two drawing rooms and one dining room—the largest is 31 feet by 26—and two are to be connected by folding doors as to make but one. Also, five bed rooms, besides 5 in the garret, well finished for servants. There are stables and a coach house, with every convenience for a family. Enquire at No. 29, in North Seventh street, or at No. 218, Arch Street. Aug. 14. 22w3w.
PETER BORGER,
INFORMS his friends and the public in general that he has removed from No. 129, corner of Arch and Fourth, to No. 105 North Front, between Arch and Race streets. July 27. 22w4w
WINDOW GLASS,
Of Superior Quality, and cheaper than any other in the City—
OF VARIOUS SIZES, From 8 by 6 to 19 by 14, By the single Box or Quantity, may be had, at the Store of the Subscribers, corner of Arch and Front-street. James C. & Samuel W. Fisher. Philadelphia, June 9, 1797. 3twmwtlf
To be Sold at Public Vendue,
ON Friday the 29th instant, precisely at three o'clock in the afternoon, at the sign of the King of Prussia, near the market house in Germantown, a two story stone dwelling house, barn and stable and lot of 2 acres 29 16 perches of ground, part of which is an orchard of excellent fruit trees, situate near the middle of Germantown, on the north east side of the main street or road, containing in front on the 1st street or road 149 feet nine inches; bounded by ground of Dr. Betton and others and opposite to the mill-house and lot of Melchior Ming. The above lot is good clover meadow, and has a never failing stream of water running through it. Also three other lots of ground, each containing about two acres, situate on the fourth east side of Rittenhouse Mill road, commonly called Peter Smith's Lane, in Germantown township, at the distance of 270 yards from the fourth west side of the Germantown main street, bounded by lands of Conrad Carpenter, James Ogley, Jacob Keout, and Melchior Ming. The above lots are high and pleasantly situated, commanding a pleasing prospect of Germantown and the Schuylkill and Wissahickon hills, and are well adapted for gentlemen's country seats. The said lots are now in clover, and there are on the same upwards of 400 grafted fruit trees. A good and indisputable title, clear of all encumbrances, will be given to the purchaser twenty days after the sale, upon the payment of one half of the purchase money, and securing the other half by mortgage upon the purchased premises. Possession of the first described lot and premises may be had on the 17th April next, and immediate possession may be had of the three last mentioned lots. Any person, wishing to view the above premises, may see the same by applying to Benj. Lehman, in Germantown near the Market house. EDWARD FOX, Auctioneer. Germantown, 22d Sept. 1797. dtS
Sundry Lots
IN the following Squares in the City of Washington will be exposed to Public Sale, by the subscribers, on the second Monday in October next, at the Little Hotel, in the said City, to commence at 10 o'clock:—
Square No. 32, 42, 43, 44, 47, 48, 49, 50, 55, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 101, 102, 103, 118, 119, 120, 121, 62, 50, 34, 304, 87, 88, 89, 104, 124, 125, 126, 61, 166, 80, 103, square east of square 87, square south of square 104, square north of square 81, square east of square 36, square north of square 128.
These Lots are advantageously situated in the neighborhood of the President's Square, and deemed equal in value to any in the city, and will be pre-emptorily sold; clear and valid titles will be made to the purchaser, on receipt of the purchase money. Terms of sale, are, good notes, negotiable at the Bank of Columbia, one fourth part in one month, one other fourth in three months, one other fourth in five months, and the remaining one fourth in seven months. WILLIAM DEAKINS, jun. URIAH FORREST. Sept. 21. dtS
At the Federal Blast Furnace,
In Carver—for Slitting, Plating, and Rolling MILLS.
SEYMOUR'S Patent Rollers.
THEIR superiority consists in being free from holes and honey-combed places, which are commonly found in rollers cast in sand, or clay moulds. These patent rollers are cast in iron moulds, previously heated, and will be found to be more dense, solid and durable than any rollers heretofore used. Another important advantage they have over others, is, that the necks require no turning, but are immediately fit for use, and from their accuracy, run with less friction, and require less power to make them perform their Patent. They may be had by application to the Patentee in Plymouth, of Gen. Nathaniel Goodwin, or of Messrs. Footcher and Haysward. Boston, Aug. 31. Sept. 19. 6t.
MR. LAILSON,
WITH an intention to render service, and under-ceive those Performers, who during his absence Mr. Jaymond has thought proper to engage, thinks it would be wrong in him not to inform those that are engaged, that it is without his approbation, and that he will not in any way answerable for Jaymond's engagements. PHILIP E. LAILSON. Alexandria, Sept. 13, 1797. 6t.
THE SUBSCRIBERS,
ASSIGNEES of JAMES GREENLEAF, HEREBY give notice, that they have disposed of the property assigned to them for the securing the payment of the notes, acceptances, and endorsements given by Edward Fox, for the use of the said James Greenleaf; and the holders of such notes, acceptances, and endorsements, are hereby notified that the subscribers will settle with them for the amount of their respective claims, both PRINCIPAL and INTEREST, at any time before the 20th day of October next; after which day, the holders not applying, will be excluded, agreeably to the terms of assignment. Applications to be made at south-east corner of Dock and Second streets (the Dock-street side), between the hours of eleven and one o'clock every day; Sundays excepted. Henry Pratt, Tho. W. Francis, John Miller, Jun. John Alsley, Jacob Baker. Philadelphia, August 18, 1797. d
Just published,
And to be sold at the Bookstores of H. & P. Rice, No. 50, Market-street; J. Ormerod, No. 41, Chestnut-street, and W. Young, corner of Chestnut and Second-streets.
An accurate System of Surveying;
IN WHICH IS CONTAINED,
1. Decimal fractions, in a plain, concise, and easy manner. 2. The extraction of the square root. 3. Plain trigonometry, rectangular and oblique. 4. An exact method to cast up the contents of lands. 5. Field surveying. The whole being performed without the use of scale and compasses, on a table of logarithms. In which is given some account of the variation of the needle, and the causes of its attraction. By SAMUEL MOORE. August 1. 22w2w
THOMAS HERMAN LEUFFER,
North Fifth street, corner of North alley, No. 34.
HAS FOR SALE,
EXCELLENT red Bourdeaux Wine in cases and boxes; six years old. White Graves Wine in cases. Tickleburgs. Ruffia Sail Cloths. Ravens Duck. Bag Linen. HOLLANS. Diaper and Table Cloth. Empty bags. Common German Cloth. An assortment of black coloured Ribbons. Fine German Laces. About twelve tops Ruffia clean Hemp. Clover Seed. Italian Soap, in small boxes, for family use. Window Glass. Aug. 29—22w
THIS DAY WAS PUBLISHED,
And for sale by THOMAS DOBSON, at the Stone House, No. 41, fourth Second street,
EVENINGS AT HOME;
OR, THE JUVENILE BUDGET OPENED.
Consisting of a variety of Miscellaneous Pieces for the instruction and amusement of YOUNG PERSONS—Six Volumes handsomely printed and bound up in two volumes, price Two Dollars. The variety and excellence of these pieces are such, that the book needs only to be known to be universally esteemed one of the most valuable publications that can be put into the hands of young persons. "Delightful task to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe th' enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast." Thomson. August 24. mw4w
THIS DAY IS PUBLISHED,
By THOMAS DOBSON, at the Stone House, No. 41, fourth Second street,
Letters and Conversations,
Between several Young Ladies, on improving and interesting subjects. Translated from the Dutch of Madame de Cambon with alterations and improvements, Printed on fine paper, and neatly bound, Price one dollar. AMIDST the tide of modern Romances, painting tales of extraordinary distress, or of desperate or artful villainy, which "harrow up the soul," and which it would be for the honor of young ladies to be ignorant of, this little book comes forward to solicit notice, where, in a variety of incidents, not exceeding the bounds of real life, the proper, beauteous elegant and natural dignity and importance of the Female character is exhibited in an interesting point of view, and presents examples of real and attainable excellence. The publisher was so much pleased with the perusal, that he was persuaded he should do a pleasing service to the community by sending it into circulation. August 24—mw4w
To Masters and Pilots bringing up Vessels from Foreign Ports to this City.
Whereas sundry infringements have lately been made on the laws of this state for the preventing pestilential or infectious diseases, either from ignorance or inattention thereto, it is tho't expedient at this time to publish the following extracts from the laws of 2d April, 1794, 7th and 8th sections:
HEALTH OFFICE.
June 6th, 1794. Extract of an act for securing the city and port of Philadelphia from the introduction of pestilential and contagious diseases. Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, that every master or captain of any ship or vessel coming from sea (vessels actually employed in the coasting trade excepted) and bound to any port or place within the jurisdiction of Pennsylvania, shall cause his ship or vessel to be brought to anchor, or otherwise layed up in the stream of the river Delaware, opposite to the Health-Office on State-Island aforesaid, and there to remain until he shall have duly obtained a certificate or bill of health from the Resident Physician. And if, previously to obtaining such certificate or bill of health, any master or captain shall suffer his ship or vessel to approach nearer than the said Health-Office to the city of Philadelphia, or shall land, cause or suffer to be landed, or brought on shore, at any place or port within this Commonwealth, or at any other port or place, with the intent of being conveyed into this Commonwealth, any person or persons, or any goods, wares or merchandise, or, if after receiving such bill of health or certificate, he shall neglect, or refuse to deliver the same to the Health-Officer, then master or captain shall forfeit and pay, for each and every such offence, the sum of FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS. And the captain or master of every ship or vessel shall tend a safe and commodious boat to bring the physician on board, and shall in like manner convey him back to the Health-Office, after he has concluded his official examination; And while he is making such examination, or in case any subsequent examination by the Health Officer or Consulting Physician, agreeably to the directions of this act, the master or captain shall expose or cause to be exposed to the search of the Resident Physician, or of the Health Officer and Consulting Physician (as the case may be) each and every part of the ship or vessel, and shall present to his view each and every person or persons on board thereof, and shall also true and satisfactory answers make to all such questions as the Resident Physician, &c. at the time of examination shall ask relative to the health of any port or place from which the ship or vessel failed, or has since touched at—the number of persons on board when the ship or vessel entered on her voyage—the number of persons that have since been landed or taken on board, and when and where respectively—what persons on board they have been during the voyage, or shall, at the time of examination, be infected with any pestilential or contagious disease—and what is the present state and condition of the persons on board with respect to their health or diseases. And if any master or captain shall refuse to expose as aforesaid, or to the search of any of the officers aforesaid, or if he shall conceal any sick person, or in any other manner deceive the proper officers aforesaid in his answer, such captain or master, for every such offence, shall forfeit and pay the sum of FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS. Sec. 8. And if any person or persons whatever (the Resident Physician, &c. excepted) shall go on board any vessel, before the master thereof has received a certificate of health in the manner directed, every person so offending, shall pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS. It being absolutely necessary that the foregoing sections should be punctually complied with, the publisher, in compliance with his duty, must exact a rigorous observance of the same, or else be under the necessity of putting the laws in force. Wm. ALLERN, Health Officer of the Port of Philadelphia. July 14. 43w

PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 23.
From the VIRGINIA GAZETTE, &c.
No. VIII.
A DEVELOPEMENT OF THE CAUSES OF THE DISTURBANCES BETWEEN THE AMERICAN AND FRENCH REPUBLICS.
Addressed to the Citizens of America.
BY MY FELLOW-CITIZENS.
WHEN the letter from Mr. Jefferson to Mazzei was written, is not precisely ascertained, nor is it material in the present enquiry to be known. That it was written after the idea prevailed of the difference of sentiment between the people and government of this country; and that it is calculated to confirm that idea in France, every sentence of the letter itself proves; and therefore is the impropriety of it sufficiently ascertained, at whatever period it may have been written. It is suggested, however, by some of Mr. Jefferson's most intimate acquaintances and best friends (who I have heard admit that he wrote it) that it was written while he was secretary of state. To this extreme impropriety of official conduct, I will now add an article of information (which I have just received from a quarter that cannot be doubted) that will confirm, in a great measure, the important part which such letters and such conduct have acted in producing our present situation with France.
Soon after the successor of Mr. Jefferson retired from the office of state, and while the cause of his retirement was the prevailing topic of the day, a person, then high in office in Virginia, and now enjoying one of the most important appointments under the government of the United States, was heard to say, "that he" (Mr. Randolph) "never was in the confidence of" what he was pleased to style, "the republican party," to which it is well known that person always professed to belong, as a proof of which, he asserted, that but few of the friends of France had trusted their letters to that country through the office of state, since the resignation of Mr. Jefferson, but had sent them immediately through the hands of the minister of France;—that very minister, too, who had thus infamously and falsely pretended a criminal intimacy even with that secretary, who his party thus professed themselves afraid to trust with their secrets against the government of their country. This fact, my fellow citizens, (which I conceive an important one in the development of the causes of our present situation, as it opens a view not only to the secret, the mysterious, and very improper conduct of some of our countrymen, but throws a light upon the means which have been employed by them, in conjunction with the French, to destroy those who stood in the way of their secret projects) I flatter myself I shall be able to prove to your fullest satisfaction, if disputed; and, therefore, shall now draw the conclusion, which naturally results from such premises as the letter just examined into, and the corroborating testimony of one of the party, who has thus turned state's evidence against his own friends.
It is to be observed, that the confession thus made of the "fear of the party to trust their letters through the department of state," after the faithful, the trusty, and the devoted friend of France, had left it, was long before the letter of Mazzei was seen, or such an accidental disclosure of the contents of their letters was expected to be made. The confession was then a thing upon which no precise charge could be fixed, as it was not known what those letters "that they were afraid to trust through the department of state" contained. But having now seen a letter from the officer of that department himself, who they were willing to trust, and comparing the contents of that letter, with the confession thus made, what are the conclusions natural to be drawn? That there were letters written indeed, which were improper to be conveyed through the hands of our government, and which, therefore, could not be entrusted to that conveyance, after those had departed from office, who were not only sensible of their impropriety, but were equally interested with the authors themselves, in keeping the contents of such improper letters secret!
The letter just examined into, certainly warrants that or any other conclusion that can possibly be drawn. There is not only every thing improper in it, that can arise from the consideration of its being written by one who was assisting, in an eminent degree, in administering a government, which the letter itself holds up as infamous; not only the clearest proofs to be obtained from it, of those misrepresentations of the principles of our government, and the sentiments of the people towards it, which were calculated to bring upon us our misunderstandings with France; but the most satisfactory confirmation that there were many other letters of the same description, or perhaps worse, written immediately to France, which have not yet come to light in this country.
My God!—And is this the mighty friend to the people, who is thus accusing them of being the advocates of principles which they dare not promote in the appointment of their officers?—This the friend to American independence, who is thus secretly courting a foreign power to control us? This the immaculate head of republicanism in the great and flourishing empire of America, and the enemy to an Anglo-monarchical-aristocratic influence, who has thus travelled to the court of the Grand Duke of Tuscany, of all other places upon earth, to hunt out a proper confidant to deposit his secret plans for the promotion of those principles of republicanism with? This the hero who prefers the tempestuous sea of liberty to the calm of despotism, and talks so boldly of the timid men (but where he supposed it would never be heard of by them) who is now afraid to say whether he is author of that pretty little epistle to Mazzei or not?
"Others apart, Shunk in a castle visit'd" On the day of the festival given to the President of the United States, by the Citizens of Baltimore, the Jacobins held in some dark hole their civic orgies, and there drank, in many a flowing bowl, damnation to government, and curses against their country. This gave occasion to the following:
BENJAMIN'S FEAST. A PARODY.
'Twas at the civic feast by faction won, From BENJAMIN her foul Aloft in awful state, The pale-fac'd hero fate, A washing-tub his throne, His brethren all were plac'd around, From garret-loft and cellars under ground, Pick'd up where e'er they could be found. The lovely Followes by his side Sat like a fair BATAYIAN bride, In full-blown Jacobinic pride: Happy, happy, happy pair, None but such men. None but such men deserve thy care. The pious PEREZ sang To charm the jovial crew; The vaulted roofs re-echoing rang Around their savage pleasure flew. The song began from FRANCE Who, mischief's powers, at her advance, Vanquish'd, as pass'd by a trance; The loyalty and sense they once could boast With all their ancient glory lost; For round them like a snake the cord And fascinated half the European world— The lifting crowd the glorious tale admire, And fan with loud huzzas the democratic fire, With ravish'd ears BENJAMIN hears, Assumes the God, Affects to nod, And seems to shake the spheres— fung, The praise of THOMAS then, the sweet musician Of THOMAS PAINE admir'd by old & young; THOMAS to COLUMBIA comes, Sound FACTION's trumpets, beat her drums, Flush'd with a purple grace He shows his maudlin face. Pauze, & admire your chief—he comes, he comes, Tom, whom GALLIC bands have sung Gainst Kings and priests did FACTION's cause maintain, TOMMY's writing are a treasure, Drinking too is TOMMY's pleasure, Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure, Sweet is brandy after pain. South'd with the sound great BEN grew vain, Spoke pages from the works of PAINE; And thrice he guillotin'd the great, and thrice he flew the stain. Sage PEREZ saw the madness rise, His glowing cheeks and ardent eyes; And while he heav'n and earth desy'd, Chang'd his note, and check'd his pride; He chose a mournful muse, Soft-pity to infuse, He sang poor RANDOLPH once so grac'd; By two severe a fate, Fallen, fallen, fallen, fallen, Fallen from his high estate, Destruct and displaced. With downcast looks the joyless lawyer fates, Revolving in his anguish'd soul, The various turns of fate below; His thoughts upon his disappointments roll, Sure cause of all his ills, all his woe. Perez beheld his alter'd friend, And wishing all his power to lend, That every care he might dismiss, Chanted the Sweets of social bliss— Softly sweet in LYDIAN measures, Soon he sooth'd his soul to pleasures; Politics he said were trouble, Public office but a bubble, Never ending, still beginning, Real happiness destroying; If fortune e'er were worth thy winning, I think, O! think it worth enjoying. Lovely Followes sits beside thee, Meat and drink the French provide thee; The many rend the skies with loud applause, And PEREZ' eloquence obtain'd the cause; For BEN unable to conceal his pain, Gaz'd upon NAT, So round and fat, And sigh'd and look'd, sigh'd and look'd, Sigh'd and look'd, and sigh'd again: At length with friendship's force & wine oppres's'd, He brain'd the grunting giant to his breath. Now PEREZ try thy skill again, A louder yet, and yet a louder strain, Or rage will split you all asunder, For lo! I hear, I hear the federal thunder— Hark! hark! the horrid sound. Has rais'd up BEN's head, As awak'd from the dead, And amaz'd he stares around; Revenge, revenge, pale PEREZ cries— Lo! the President comes, O curse on those drums— joys, Groan and below my boys, to confound all their Behold the soldier bands, With arms in their hands, These, these are our foes, the curs'd federal train, And foes of TOM PAINE, Our brother in grain; Give, give the vengeance due, Curse, curse the tyrant crew, Who may pillories raise and gallows so high, To stop our poor Jacobin throats, And raise FACTION's most melodious notes. Enrag'd at the sound the whole company rose, And BEN seiz'd a bumper and curs'd faction's foes; NAT damn'd the administration, And eke the federal nation, And with they had numbersto back their words with blows. Thus once below, As godlike MILTON tells, Th' arch fiend and brother fiends in deep debate, Conven'd to show tow'r heav'n in their spite and hate, Blasphem'd the Almighty as the source of ill, Who crush'd their power, and curb'd their will. To Satan, then, ye caiffs, yield the prize, At least confess with him to share the crown; For he blasphem'd the God of earth & skies, You only curs'd the President and town
Thomas Armat and Son, OF PHILADELPHIA.
INFORM their customers and the public, they have removed a part of their merchandise to Wilmington; also, they have their store open in the city. At either place their friends can be supplied, and their orders carefully attended to. By the Cumberland, from Hull, they have received a handsome assortment of articles, suitable to the approaching season; and expect to add to it by other fall ships. Should the sickness prevail in the central part of the city, that branch of their business will be removed to Germantown. The communication by post is open and regular as usual. Sept. 18.
not?—This the virtuous accuser of the officers of our government, who, while an officer himself, made that office with which he was entrusted, the acknowledged channel thro' which information was sent to our enemy, that was improper to be conveyed through the same channel after he had left it!!!
At a time when France was endeavoring to diltract and divide all Europe; to set one nation up to destroy another; to stir up the people of all nations to oppose their own governments; in short, when she had shewn an evident willingness to promote her own views, at the expence of all the world besides, and for that noble purpose, had employed intriguing emissaries in every quarter of the globe, where any advantage could be gained in that way—Was it right for any of the departments of those governments, thus intrigu'd upon, to be made the immediate channel through which those wicked and destructive projects were to be promoted against themselves?
From the commencement of the French revolution to the present stage of it, through every step, and by all parties, these were the constant and avowed principles upon which they acted. Even while the king lived, and their pretensions were confined to a limited monarchy, they had views of distracting and disturbing Europe. Neckar in defence of the king, de Lellarts, who was minister for foreign affairs, and their minister at Vienna when the war broke out, all shew, that the disposition of the emperor, of Prussia and Austria, were pacific, and that they were all forced into the war by the system of France. And Brissot, in accusing the king in the convention of want of fidelity to the nation, confirms the same thing.
After the king's death, we have the strongest proofs from the heads of both parties, of the continuance and enlargement of the same plan. Brissot declares in one of his letters, that for the French to succeed in their revolution, it was necessary "they should set fire to the four corners of Europe." Camille Desmoulins, in answer to Brissot, in support of the party of the Robespierians, though violently opposed to Brissot in every thing else, agrees with him in the same particular. "To disorganize Europe," says the Robespierian, "was one of the sublime vocations of the convention." Their actions have always corresponded with their professions; and the most arful and insidious means have ever been employed to ensure them success in those atrocious projects.
At the very time when this was their plan at home, and preparations were making for its execution throughout Europe, they carried their deception, which was a principal part of their system, so far, as to assure the Emperor, that they abhorred the idea of exciting commotions and dissensions among nations. And even when they had laid one of the most abominable schemes, which belonged to the whole system, to destroy England, they carried their dissimulation so far, as to solicit the interposition of that nation to bring about a peace with Prussia and the Emperor. The scheme was this; to establish a popular government in Holland, thereby to place their forces under their command, destroy their trade, and, to use the words of one of the members of their own convention, "to place their assignats on the very delks of their counting-houses, there to ruin the bank of England, and bring about a revolution in the whole money system of Europe, &c."
To effect this, and at the same time to break the maritime power of that nation, which stood so much in the way of their wicked projects of "setting fire to and disorganizing all Europe," it was necessary that the United States of America, like those of Batavia, should be engaged in their service. Accordingly, Genet came here charged with instructions to use every means in his power to bring about a commercial treaty with this country, which evidently was intended to have that effect; who, agreeably to deceptions practis'd on several of the European nations to complete their plan, used every artifice in his power, and not entirely without success, to kindle here a little of the disorganizing blaze with which they had "set fire to the four corners of Europe," and thereby place us too under their controul.
Genet, although he had actually distributed French commissions in Charleston, and had endeavoured to engage the people of southern parts of America in the immediate service of France, when he arrived at Philadelphia, had the wretched lesson of hypocrisy and deceit (with which their whole system abounded) so well by heart, as to induce us to believe that France did not wish us to join her in the war. Nevertheless, it appears there were those in America who understood him from the first, and were apt scholars, in those compound lessons of French politics, so necessary for the completion of their plan. That there ever was, and still is, a party in America, who wished her to come into this grand disorganizing scheme for the aggrandizement of France, while they assume to themselves the credit of being her only patrons , there is no sort of doubt. And that a coalition, so important to France as the one proposed with America, for the completion of this grand destroying plan, was to be relinquished when she saw a party for it in this country, was not to have been expected. What she had failed in accomplishing by treaty, through Genet, she soon perceived the means of bringing about by a division among ourselves; and to this the authority of our own citizens, that we were already a divided people, gave decided weight. It is the last expedient which has
* See Cheffard's speech, made and approved of in the Convention, in which this whole scheme is explained.
† The letter from the Vice-President to Mazzei now explains us fully what Genet meant in his reply to his letter to Governor Morris, when he insinuates that the Secretary had expressed very different sentiments in that letter, from what he had always done to him in private. The letter to Mazzei, it is to be remembered, is one of his private communications; therefore, agreeable to his friend Genet, we have no right to expect to find it consistent with his public acts!
brought their plan so far on in the part of it which related to Holland.
To bring about that popular government in that deluded country, which was to place their forces under the command of France, and ruin the bank of England, the means which were employed are very striking, and serve as a strong evidence of the principle by which they have been governed in their conduct towards us. After they had driven off the Stadtholder, and overturned their government, under the pretence of giving them a free one, a convention was called for the purpose of forming a constitution, a great majority of which were in favor of a federal republic . The minority, who were for a full more loose and profligate system, because like all men of that description, extremely noisy, and formed a faction for the purpose of counteracting the will of the majority.—The French, with whose schemes of disorganization the establishment of a regular and firm government did not very well accord, were ready at once to seize upon the dissatisfaction of those factious few, to bring about a system more consonant with that spirit of disorder, which was the ground work of their plan. Accordingly, two deputies from the faction (Van Vreedee and Hoofe) were dispatched to Paris, to obtain the interference of France. France did interfere, and the majority were compelled to yield.—Had the majority, thus treated, been in a situation to resist, the consequence, there is no doubt, would have been war.
The coalition of America, which came next in their maritime system, that was to disorganize Europe in its governments and banks, when seen through and rejected, did not, as I have already observed, increase their affections for us; but on the contrary, determined them, as in the case of Holland, to force us into the plan. In this they were encouraged, in the same way that they had been then, by a party which they saw in America, ready to call in the pretended principles of their cause to aid in the destruction of our government; but the geographical difference of situation between this country and the United Provinces with respect to France, rendered a different course of coercion necessary from what had been practised there. What they had been able to effect in those neighbouring countries immediately by the menaces of their armies, which had been let in from Belgium by the assistance of the ice, they could only attempt in America (remote and separate from them as she was by the sea) through the medium of her trade. They accordingly attempted, through that vulnerable part, our interest , to overturn that system of policy which they found so much in the way of their abominable and selfish plan; hoping thereby, through the willingness of a part, which they already saw among us, to come into any scheme that would destroy our government, and the dispositions of the rest to avoid war, to subdue us to their schemes.
Situated as America and France were, this was the most effectual—nay, the only possible means that France could have devised, to make us subservient to her will, and ensure our acting as her tools in the subjugation of other powers, when she had failed in the double plans of enlistment and negotiation laid in the mission of Genet. France, it is to be observed, when she began her depredations on our trade, was engaged in the most troublesome part of the war. The combined powers all then engaged against her; convulsed by her own different parties within; her navy low, and her means for raising it more so; she had little chance to compel any nation, where she could not march her armies by land, to fall into her schemes, other than by affecting their interest in whatever way she could.
America, though separated from her by the sea, which she was not situated to pass in such numbers as would endanger our independence, while the naval power of Great Britain remained entire against her, was, nevertheless, she saw, extremely vulnerable in her commercial relations with that power. Just emerged from a state of slavery; the private fortunes of her citizens reduced by the long stagnation of the different branches of industry; and encumbered with a considerable public debt, incurred in supporting the war which had set her free; all her efforts were naturally bent, at the time when the French revolution began, to that single object of bettering her condition, by extending her trade; thereby encouraging her citizens to the acquirement of individual wealth, the sure means of national prosperity, credit and strength. Great Britain, the mother country, from whom she had just emancipated herself; with whom alone, almost, she had formerly traded; whose language was familiar; whose wants, from a long and habitual intercourse, had become reciprocal; and above all, whose enterprising disposition had given her a commercial ascendancy in all the four quarters of the world; it was natural should gain her principal intercourse in that way. It was that intercourse which was to increase the wealth, the power and the consequence of any nation (except herself) but particularly of Great Britain, that France dreaded, and in her secret ambition most heartily envied. Any thing, therefore, which would disturb and injure our trade, which she saw must, from a thousand combining circumstances, be connected with, and tend to the aggrandizement of that nation, it was easy to be perceived, would both oppress the one, and bring the other to co-operate with her in the scheme of "bankruptcy" which was to produce their final ruin.
To this scheme the conduct of some of our own citizens, at home, bore a perfect correspondence. It was that commercial connection with Great Britain, it seems, that blind prejudice against that nation in opposition to our own interest, which fills up a considerable part of those misrepresentations of the principles and sentiments of the people of this country, which first led France to act against us. "British merchants and those trading on British capitals,"
we find, close the catalogue of that contemptible few, who, it is represented to France, are opposed to all the "landholders and all that mighty mass of men of talents," who have loosed themselves from their Lilliputian ties in gratitude to her.
And while those misrepresentations were thus inviting France into a war against our commerce, that war, certainly, was best calculated, of all others, to make tools of us to that nation. The government of America, being a popular government, those who misrepresented the sentiments of the people towards that government, to France, well knew themselves, that to engage America in her service, it was first necessary, in fact, to change the sentiments of the people —and that was to be no way more effectually done, than by first slapping their interest, and then convincing them that that injury had been done them by the impolicy and wickedness of their rulers . This co-operation, with the French scheme we have seen for several years in this country.
Thus, my countrymen, our trade has been destroyed, our interests injured, and our government censured, to make us an overturn that government, and place ourselves in the fraternal , or rather infernal , grip of France.
AMERICANUS.
Richmond, September 3, 1797.
PROVIDENCE, September 16. At a town-council specially holden in and for the town of Providence, on Wednesday the 13th of September, 1797. State of the FEVER in PROVIDENCE. Since the report of this council, which was communicated to the public on Friday last, THREE persons have deceased.
By order, George Tillinghast, C. Ck.
At a town-council specially holden in and for the town of Providence, on Friday the 15th of September, 1797.
Whereas numerous unfounded reports have been circulated in the country, respecting the mortality of the fever prevailing in this town: To prevent the unfavourable impressions which such reports are calculated to excite in the minds of our fellow citizens in the country, this council have directed the following list, containing the whole number of the deceased, to be published. They at the same time assure the public, that no deaths have taken place since the date of their last report, and that Ten persons only are now confined with the disorder.
By order, George Tillinghast, C. Ck.
List of persons supposed to have deceased of the Yellow Fever.
   Name. Time of decease.     Robert Fuller August 18   Mrs. Mitchell, wife of Thos. Mitchell 19   Mrs. Goss, wife of — Goss 19   William Tillinghast 20   Mary Arnold, wife of James Arnold 20   Mercy Northrop 24   Joseph Arnold, son of James 22   James Arnold 22   Reuben Porter 25   Mary Tillinghast, wife of Jos. Tillinghast 28   Lemuel Pitcher Sept. 1   Henry Tillinghast, son of Joseph 3   Jerusha Townsend 3   D. Lawrence Haywood 3   Richard Goss 11   Benjamin Earle 11   Joseph Young 12  
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
CADIZ, July 11.
During three nights we have seen only 3 bombs fall on the town. Our chaloupes and small armed vessels having advanced, have prevented the enemy from reaching the town. We receive assistance of those vessels from Seville and Carthagena, and we shall soon have 100. The most cautious measures are taken for the sake of safety.
At Cadiz the magazines below the walls, which are bomb proof, have been converted into places of refuge for the inhabitants.—Death and immediate execution have been proclaimed against whoever shall commit robbery. The town has offered 50,000 piastres, and the merchants 100,000 as a reward to those seamen who shall act gallantly. General Massaredo has promised a thousand piastres to the crew who shall take or sink a British chaloupe.
The squadron is preparing to be in readiness to go to sea. General Massaredo has informed the commanders of vessels, that as soon as they shall have cleared the bay, he will make the signal for forming the line, which if any ship disobeys, instantly the commander shall be arrested, and the second in command shall take charge of the ship; if he shall fail, the third, and so on.
The court has returned an answer by the first courier from general Massaredo, and has authorised him to act according to circumstances, with permission to him to take in Cadiz what money he wants, from the sums offered by the merchants to the king. We are assured that the Spanish sailors appear to be much animated, two batteries being now finished and armed, and tartanes being prepared with 36 pounders and furnaces for red-hot balls. These precautions and means of defence make us easy respecting the attack of the British.
From a Paris Paper of August 5.
New addresses have been published from the army of Italy, which shew with what dreadful success the minds of all troops have been tampered with, against the Legislative Body. It appears clearly to day in the following address from the division of General Joubert:
"Royalism raises his audacious head and multiplies murders in the Departments. Prielhood fascinates the eyes, heats the heads, sharpens the poniards. The execution of a plan combined for the re-establishment of the Throne is openly followed in the Legislature. One Liberticide law is scarcely passed when another is proposed: The Directory, who are entrusted with the care of our constitution, accepted by our armies, and acknowledged by all Frenchemen, are accused without decency. Charges are

received against the Citizen who has rendered the most signal services, and who, at this moment, is entrusted with the greatest interests, in order to crown the labours of all the armies by a glorious peace, which would consolidate the republic, and annihilate all factions, and all parties except the friends of the government.
"Add to this rapid sketch, the return of the emigrants en masse, on which the members of the Council congratulate themselves in their success; the cries of death—the dreadful howlings of the Journalists of Louis XVIII. and you will have the mournful picture of the ruling counter-revolution."
"What! comrades, shall we have shed so much blood for the prosperity and glory of our country, and yet see it again plunged into the disorders of anarchy—into the fury of civil wars. Shall the odious CAPET, who for six years has carried his disgrace from state to state, constantly driven before our republican phalanxes, reduce us under the yoke? If this idea be disgusting to every citizen who has but once in his life been stimulated by the love of his country, how much more must it be to the old soldiers of the republic."
"Volunteers of the army of the Interior, the same men whom you so often repulsed on the Banks of the Rhine—whom you so completely humbled at Quiberon, are now at Paris, and in the Departments; they form an army in the presence of our own; firm to your principles, obey the voice of the Directory; be faithful to your glory. MAKE A RAMPART OF YOUR BODIES around the Constitution, which you have sworn to maintain: and rely upon victory, in the full conviction that the never will forsake the republican colours."
In the address from gen. Serrurier's division, the following passage is remarkable: "Speak, Citizens Directors, speak, and instantly the miscreants who pollute the soil of the republic shall cease to exist. To annihilate them, it will doubtless be sufficient to detach some of our brave brethren in the armies of the Rhine and Moselle, and of the Sambre and Meuse; it is our design to partake with them the honor of purging France of her most cruel enemies."
LONDON, July 16.
The last Dublin papers announce, that on Saturday evening, about seven o'clock, Robert Thornton, Esq. chief clerk of the house of commons, put an end to his existence, with a pistol, at his apartment in North Earl-street, Dublin. No motive can be conjectured for this rash and melancholy catastrophe. Mr. Thornton had spent the last week on a visit with his friend and official predecessor Mr. Secretary Cooke, at his house in the Phoenix park, and usually came into town once a day; he had breakfasted the morning before with Mr. Secretary Pelham. He had declared his intention of going for England in a day or two; and for a fortnight past complained of a slight illness, but nevertheless was apparently in good health and spirits.
About five o'clock on the fatal evening, he ordered his horse to be saddled, which was accordingly done; but his two servants, on account of his state of mind, did not choose to go into his room, but waited to be called. A great space of time having elapsed, and no appearance of his stirring, they became alarmed, and agreed to go up stairs together. On opening the door they found him lying on his face, and the whole floor covered with blood. He had put the muzzle of the pistol close to his head, at the right side, rather beyond the ear, and a complete division of the skull took place by the explosion. His brains were scattered about. The sight was truly shocking. It was not without difficulty that the mangled head could be restored to its proper position, in order that his person might be identified before the coroner's jury. Another pistol lay on the floor by his side, and which he must have had in his hand when he perpetrated the rash deed. No one in the house heard the pistol fire.
An inquest was immediately held—verdict Lunacy. He had about his person between eighty and ninety pounds in gold, and bank and accountable receipts in his apartments to the amount of sixteen hundred pounds, lodgments for which it appeared he had made in the course of two years past. Mr. Sheriff Lindsay, we hear, took possession of his property in order to its being legally disposed of.
Mr. Thornton, whose death is reported in the last Irish papers, was a grandson of the last duke of Rutland but one, who had a very large family by a lady with whom he cohabited for several years, and who continued to live with him to the time of his death.
PARIS, August 2.
There are now 18 ships of the line in Brest harbor, ready for sea, together with a quantity of frigates.
The directory has come to a resolution, that the Palais Royal shall no longer exist in its present state, but shall be converted into different streets.
General Hoche has set out for Rheims. We are assured that he will form a camp under the walls of that city, and the army he is to command for a secret expedition, is said to amount to 22,000 men. L'Esprit.
Blood has again been shed at Tours. A conflict has taken place, in which the jacobins have been defeated, and two of them killed.
Fifty or sixty bombs have been thrown into Cadiz, which have forced about 30,000 of the inhabitants to fly.
Red Port Wine.
Just arrived, by the brig Iris, capt. Rhodes, from Oporto. Red Port Wine in pipes, hds. and quarter casks 6c wt. Cork, for sale by Philips, Cramond, & Co. July 27.
The Gazette. PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY EVENING, September 23.
Philadelphia, Sept. 13, 1797.
SIR, I have to acknowledge the receipt of your favor of the 16th, in reply to which the Board have requested me to inform you that as Doctor Leib is provided by the Board with a horse and chair, they cannot conceive any serious consequences can possibly arise to us as to endanger the inhabitants of Germantown, the distance from the city being so short, and as no cases of a dangerous nature have as yet occurred, they conceive his appointment sufficient. The reports from the 16th to this date are favourable and it is with much satisfaction that I can inform you that the present appearance of the state of our city wears a pleasing aspect. I have the honor to remain with much respect, Sir, your most obedient humble servant, WM. MONTGOMERY, Chairman pro tem. To his Excellency Governor Mifflin, Germantown.
No. II. Communications from the commissioners to the Governor.
SIR, In compliance with a resolution of this Board as intimated in our former report to you, we stated the probability of our expenditures doubling itself, already is that conjecture verified by our having relieved in the last week six hundred and fifty eight persons, chiefly heads of families, with five hundred and ninety five dollars and fifty cents, besides a considerable quantity of bread, and about five hundred and twenty persons of various occupations who were thrown out of employ and left destitute of subsistence for themselves and families, have been paid at the rate of seventy five cents per day for work done on the roads, &c. And here permit us to remark that the Board of Commissioners, taking the state of their funds into consideration, resolved that they would allow but fifty cents per day to the workmen to commence on the 18th inst. and that committees should be appointed to wait on the men to inform them of the necessity of the measure being adopted, and we have the satisfaction to inform you (and to their credit be it mentioned) it was acquiesced with by the people, and great harmony and sobriety prevail through the whole of the workmen.
With pleasure we inform you, that Franklin Wharton, John Gardner, jun. John Clifton, jun. Thomas Anderson and James Oldden, have generously offered their assistance to the Commissioners to superintend the tents near Schuylkill; and by their returns we have to supply two hundred and fifteen persons daily with rations, amounting to thirty-five dollars and fifty-six cents per day; and we also acquaint you that health and good regulation prevail there.
The guardians of the poor having generally left the city, a great number of those who depended on them for relief, are become objects of our attention; A committee has been appointed by us to wait on the mayor of the city to provide means of relief for them that our funds may not be applied more than can be avoided, to any other objects than the legislature contemplated.
From the general knowledge of the real and universal poverty that prevails amongst the mechanics and laborers of this city and suburbs, we are led to conclude that their sufferings will continue long after the disease may abate, and that they will thereby be deprived of the means to meet the approaching winter.
By order of the Board, ROBERT WHARTON, Chairman. To Thomas Mifflin, Esq. Governor of the State of Pennsylvania. State House, Philad. Sept. 18, 1797.
The following donations were received from the under-mentioned persons, for the poor at the tents:— William Lippincott, 20 bushels of potatoes George Latimer, one load of straw Thomas Cuthbert, one do. Peter and Henry Mircenke, one barrel sugar William Hunter, one load of straw, four bushels potatoes William Johnstou, a quantity of vegetables George Sterling, one hundred loaves of bread Published by order of the committee. JAMES OLDEN.
The Editor of the Aurora lately had some remarks on Jervis's attempt on Cadiz, which drew his supreme ignorance of the laws of war. It is idle to inveigh against practices sanctioned by the usage of ages. Philanthropy reprobates war not merely in its details, but altogether; and in the burning of a town even of an enemy, the humane mind is wrung with anguish and pity at the miseries of the wretched sufferers. Every body knows that the commissions of naval commanders, run—"to take, burn, sink and destroy," and that this is common to all nations. Whatever policy dictates, it is generally in vain to decry. The inhumanity of the practice is indisputable; but our indignation should revert to the cause of such calamities on the human race—to the French—the authors of this horrid, most unprincipled, piratical and treacherous war, that ever blackened the annals of a state pretending to civilization. As to the Spaniards, let Jacobins pity them!—their feeble and cowardly pity is all they deserve. Their treachery in first deserting a deserving ally who has always sacrificed herself to them, and afterwards turning their arms against her, will deservedly subject them to the severest chastisement which an indignant people can inflict.
the severest chastisement which an indignant people can inflict. But the peculiar circumstances of their case is such, that to pity them would be to partake of their cowardice. Twenty ships of the line blockading up thirty-three, in their own port, and at some thousand miles distance from the coast of the former—the latter with free access to arsenals and magazines, and aided moreover by tremendous fortifications, whose batteries can oppose the fire of a thousand guns to any attempt of the British fleet!
FROM THE AURORA. "Mark the inconsistency of the British faction; at one moment they tell you, that the Republican papers in this country are supported by French gold; and the next, that those papers have stopped and will stop for want of support. The story of five republican papers having stopped, however, we believe to be invented to introduce the vile remarks of the Fredericktown scribble; we have heard of no such stoppage. The fact we believe is, that the sentiments of the people are so completely with the republican press, that they are in no danger of being broke up; and on the other hand; that those of an opposite tendency are likewise insecure, as long as William Pitt has the controul over John Bull's purse."
Prove to a Jacobin, at any time, the baseness of his own faction, and you will immediately hear of "British faction," "the gold of Pitt," &c. &c. The people, says the above scribble, are with the republican press. If he means what he says, it is true. But it is necessary to translate this into plain English. Republicanism means any thing or nothing; the word has been filched by the anarchical faction, and is employed by them to cover their libricide designs: It is constantly made use of, to designate that venal faction which is kept alive in this country by French gold. To assert then, that the people are disposed to second this French faction, is a slander, which, tho' it comports with the whole tenor of the Aurora, is too gross to be borne by an independent people. The people are with the republican press!—that is to say, inclined to surrender their independence to the devouring republic! Gross and scandalous libel! Know, caustic, that the Federal republican press are in unison with the people, their own people, the people of America—And that if they thin one foreign power in disgust, it is not to give themselves up to destruction from another. What is there in the French nation, forsooth, that we should rush into her arms at the hazard, nay certainty, of being squeezed to death? Are not her hands still reeking with blood from the murder of all those Frenchmen who were valuable—all those who were our benefactors? But she is a sifter republic—Yes, as opposite to our own, as truth and falsehood, virtue and vice, light and darkness.—In our land, no thanks to our Jacobins, we have hitherto preserved those valuable institutions of our forefathers upon which our republic is founded.—But there, the holy Standard of the Cross has been hurled prostrate in the dust—Reason has been exiled from the land, and irrationality, like a shameless strumpet, assumes her name and erects the brazen front in her stead. The fanes of infidelity, the shrines of atheism, and the altars of idolatry, are still heaped with incense by the loose and giddy throng. The fair form of Virtue, ever confined to the breasts of a few, is no longer known at all, or peeps out her feared head but to be hooted out of countenance. To what a height will human madness rise, or where will impious daring fix its bounds!" While tyranny is inveighed against with Stentorian lungs—no effort is left untried to reduce mankind under the arbitrary influence of anarchy, the worst of all her numberless forms. In the name of liberty and equality—all liberty and all equality have been annihilated—and licentiousness, with desolating hand, spreads ruin around. Such is the condition of that land, whose happiness the Jacobins wish us to share. Fools, impious man! thinkst thou thou canst raise by thy breath, has quenched the orb of day? To-morrow he repairs the golden flood, And warms the nations with redoubled ray."
GAZETTE MARINE LIST. New York, September 22. ARRIVED. Days. Skip Nester, Revers, Curacao 22. Sch. Nancy, Black, Richmond 3. Sleep Commence, —, St. Croix 21. Capt. Rogers, Sept. 18, spoke a Schooner from Pensylvania, B. Coeur, master, bound to Norfolk. Captain Lewis, of the brig Alfred of this port, arrived here on Wednesday evening, via Philadelphia, from Port au Prince, was taken on the 5th ult. by a small privateer with 100 men, principally black; was under fire during the chase, but was not captured until after three hours of Cape Nicholas Male, was carried into New York, his papers taken from him and sent to the Cape, and he much abused and insulted; 12 days after, his condemnation of vessel and cargo arrived. Captain Lewis informs, it is not possible to tell the shameful treatment the Americans receive from the French, who consider themselves at open war with this country; from 1 to 3 vessels per day are burnt in and condemned, many bound to their ports, and condemned if their cargoes are of any value. List of vessels at Port au Prince, condemned and awaiting trial. Skip Two Sisters, from Port au Prince, condemned. Penelope, from Charleston, awaiting trial. Gull of Plenty, from Philadelphia, do. Brig Defiance, from New York, condemned. Harmony, do. do. Nathaniel, from Norfolk, do. Rawlins, from Philadelphia, trial. Harriet, from Baltimore, do. Sch. Teyman, from Philadelphia, condemned. Eagle, do. do. Alcione, do. do. Ardent, from Baltimore, condemned. Eliza, from Fredericksburg, do. Passerance, from Charleston, do. Polly, do. do. Lucy, from North Carolina, do. Lucy, from Boston, trial. Hazard, from do. do. Reprisal, from do. condemned. Sleep Polly, from Alexandria, do.
In New York. Brig Boston, from Philadelphia, condemned. Schooner Polly, from do. bound to Guadalupe, with arms, was captured waiting trial, and would, without doubt, be condemned. Captain Black was boarded off the Cape of Delaware by a French privateer, and detained three hours—was then taken a brig inward bound, and delivered to Philadelphia. Boston, Sept. 19. Arrived Schooner Aurora, Brightman, St. Thomas. via St. Vincent, 16 days. Left at the former, brig Peggy, Smith, of Boston, for the Havana. Captain Brightman has five unfortunate American captives passengers, who have been taken and plundered of their property, by the French. Same day, ship Portland, Storer, Calcutta, 169 days. August 31, John brig Kitty, Dillon, from Baltimore for Philadelphia, 56 days out. in lat. 32, 17, long. 63. Captain Dillon, 16 days before, fell in with the wreck of the brig Resolution, Starv. of New-London, 22 days out. when foundered. Captain mate and three of the crew, were on board a vessel for St. Thomas, the remainder taken on board captain Storer, and are safely arrived here. The depredations of the French and Spanish cruizers on our commerce, exceed all precedent for extent and injustice. Captain Weyer from St. Ubes has furnished us with a list of vessels, prizes, at Algiers, July 23, which was brought to Portugal by Captain Ropes of New-York. It follows: Ship Eliza, Turner, of Boston, from London, vessel and cargo illlled; brig Nancy, Brown, of do. vessel and cargo condemned by the French Consul; brig Mary, Burnham, of Boston, cargo condemned, vessel libelled; brig Betsy, Kimman, of Boston, vessel and cargo libelled; brig Heck, Hall, of New-York, vessel and cargo condemned; sloop South Carolina, Andrews, libelled by the French Consul. The Franklin, Waters, from hence arrived safe at Dublin; and the Thomas, Fernald, at Bristol. At Hamburg, August 1. Ship Asia, Lamb; John Folsom, Perian, Diana, and Union, Blake, for Boston. The Fanny, of Portsmouth; and Catherine, of New-Burport, have been carried into Nantes. The Sally, Woodhouse, from hence for Hamburg, is carried into the Isle of Ribs. The Mary, Adams, from hence for Naples, is carried into Nantes.
Norfolk, Sept. 16. Arrived. Ship Eliza, Hinson, Martinique. Brig George and Mary, Darcus, Belfast. Sch. Resolution, Bararity, Nova Scotia. The brig Louisa, captain Lrevien, belonging to Philadelphia, put in here on Thursday in distress, having sprung a leak at sea about three weeks ago, on her passage from Liverpool for Philadelphia. Her cargo, consisting principally of salt and dry goods, is feared, is considerably damaged.
By this day's Mail.
NEW YORK, September 22. Yesterday arrived here the ship Nestor, Captain Rogers, from Curacao. Just before he failed, which was on the 26th of August, a sloop had arrived there from Leguira with the news of an insurrection on the Spanish Main—and that the Insurgents had taken the fort at Leguira. Their object, it seems, is to obtain a free trade upon similar footing with other ports belonging to European powers. Their plan is extensive, has been long in agitation, and is well digested.
Captain Rogers has no doubt of the above intelligence, for he conversed with several gentlemen on the subject, who were on the Main at time of the explosion.
Yesterday arrived in this city from Quebec, the hon. Lady Johnson, Lady of his Excellency Sir John Johnson, Governor General of the Upper Canada, accompanied by her two daughters.
BOSTON, September 10. Capt. Timothy Newman, of Newburyport, is appointed to the command of the Crescent frigate, at Portsmouth, designated for the Dey of Algiers. She is almost equipped.
A gentleman from New-Haven informs us, that at the anniversary commencement of Yale college, observed last week, the degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred on his hon. John Trumbull, Lt. Gov. of Connecticut; and the degree of Doctor in Divinity, on Bishop Watson, of London, Bishop Jarvis, of Connecticut, and the Rev. David Osgood, of Medford.
Thursday, the 12th day of October next, is fixed for the execution of Stephen Smith, a black man, now under sentence of death.
Died, at Lisbon, on the 5th of March last, to the great regret of all who knew him, capt. Timothy Rogers, aged 31, a native of Gloucester, Cape Ann, and a much esteemed, gallant officer in the earl of St. Vincent's fleet.
Honest, benevolent and brave, he ingratiated himself wherever he went. By his merit he had risen to be a master and commander in the British navy, and was universally regarded as an ornament to the service. With the bright prospect of rapid promotion before him, he was suddenly arrested in his career by a violent consumption, occasioned by an extraordinary exertion in the line of his duty; and after a short illness resigned his breath to the supreme Ruler of the universe.
HAY-MARKET THEATRE. To-morrow evening, Sept. 22, will be presented a comedy, called, SUCH THINGS ARE: or, The Patriot of the World. To which will be added a Musical Piece in one act, never yet performed, called, THE LAUNCH; or, Fanny for the Constitution. Written by JOHN HODGKINSON. The whole will conclude with a striking representation of Launching the New Frigate Constitution. Boats passing and repassing on the water. View of the City of Philadelphia and the neighboring country, taken correctly from Jeffrey and Kuffel's wharf. The scenery principally executed by Mr. Jefferson.
Ned Grog, Mr. Hodgkinson; Constant, Mr. Tyler; Lex, Mr. Hodgkinson; Old Bunker, Mr. Minto; Jack Hawley, with a Hornpipe; Mr. Jefferson; Tom Bowling, Mr. Lee; Sam Foxcastle, Mr. Leonard; Indiaman, Mr. Fawcett; Scotchman, Mr. Miller; and Nathan, Mr. Martin. Mrs. Lexington, Mrs. Brett; and Mary, Miss Brett.
CHARLESTON, Sept. 6. An election was held on Monday and yesterday, for a member of Congress for Charleston district, vice William Smith, Esq. appointed minister plenipotentiary to Portugal. On closing the poll there appeared for Major THOMAS PINCKNEY, 337 votes. anonymous.
PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 23.
CITY HOSPITAL REPORT, From the 22d to 23d Sept. in the morning.
Admitted, since last report, Edward Mager, Market street wharf. Rachael Tennet, sign Frigate, So. Water street. Anthony Joff, Francis's, Shippen street, between 2d and Front street. Nicholas Johnson, ship Glasgow, Jones's wharf. Charlotte Brown, Burn's, Water street, near Drawbridge. Nelly Dunkin, 87, So. Water street, Ann McLaughlin, corner Shippen and 2d street. Died, since last report, Elizabeth Smith, admitted 20th inst. Elizabeth Cotter, 10th. Caty Culinel, 19 hours after admission. Barney O'Neal, 10th inst. Richard Davis, 15th. James Stutton, 19th. Edward Mager, 16 hours after admission.
Table with 2 columns: Category, Count. Remaining last Report 58, Admitted since 7, Discharged NONE 65, Died 7, Remain in Hospital (Convalescents 19, Sick 38) 58. Four of whom are dangerous. Interred in City Hospital burying ground since last report: From the city and suburbs 10, From the city hospital 7. Total 17. (Signed) STEPHEN GIRARD, CALEB LOWNES, JOHN CONNELLY. Published by order of the Board, WM. MONTGOMERY, Chairman pro tem.
Table with 2 columns: Category, Count. Total of burials for 24 hours, ending yesterday at noon. Grown Persons: First Presbyterian 1, Third Presbyterian 1, German Reformed 1, Sweden 1, City Hospital 9, Kensington 1. Children: 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1. Total: 14.
ALEXANDRIA, Sept. 19. In the Winchester Centinel of the 15th inst. is the following paragraph: "One day last week the hon. Senator Blount's. Dear Carey was conveyed through this town to Philadelphia. It is to be hoped the Committee of Congress, before whom he is to appear, will obtain from him some private concessions."
There are several vessels at the fort below the town performing quarantine, from Philadelphia, Providence (Rhode-Island) Baltimore, and Norfolk. On board one of the vessels from Providence a passenger who had been taken in at Norfolk, died yesterday with all the symptoms of the yellow fever. There are people sick on board some of the other vessels. Through the humane attention of the superintendent of quarantine, we hear that a vessel is procured to be stationed a considerable distance below, for the reception of the sick.
NORFOLK, September 14. DIED, on Monday last, Mr. ASHTON REA, late of Hampton. Wednesday morning, of a very short illness, Mr. DANIEL HENERY, merchant of Baltimore. Last night Mr. LYON, of Alexandria. This morning, Mr. NATHANIEL EUSTACE, merchant, formerly of Boston.
CHARLESTON, September 2. Died, on Friday morning, after a short but painful illness, Mr. Joseph Foulke, native of Philadelphia, aged 26 years; he is much lamented by all his friends and acquaintances.
September 4. Yesterday arrived the armed Schooner Amiable, Frith, Bermuda, 17 days. On Thursday last, captain Frith fell in with the privateer Schooner Grouper, off the coast. She supposing capt. Frith would prove too powerful for her, hauled her wind and stood off.
Rice Birds are a delicacy nearly equal to the Oyster. Permit, me, therefore, Messrs. Printers, to ask the planters why the markets of Charleston are not, at this season, constantly supplied with them? For your correspondent is persuaded that they will pay well for powder and shot.
September 6. A letter from New-York, dated the 18th of August, mentions that Mr. Liancourt, (formerly the Duke de Liancourt Rochefoucault) has received permission to return to France, and that he was about to embark in a few days.
CUSTOM-HOUSE, Philadelphia, Sept. 22d, 1797.
THE Merchants who at this time prefer having their vessels and Merchandise entered and cleared at Chester or Marcus Hook,—are hereby notified, That in compliance with their desire, and upon a full conviction that the measure will be mutually beneficial to them and to the United States. The collector of the customs has made arrangements to establish for some time branches of the custom-house at those places, where every accommodation in his power will be given to the merchants.
A special Meeting of the select and common Councils of the City of Philadelphia, is to be held at the Pennsylvania Hospital on Tuesday the 26th inst. at 9 o'clock in the morning on business of importance, at which place it is hoped the members will attend—the Hospital being clear of the prevailing fever.
FRANCIS GURNEY, President of the select council. SAMUEL HODGSON, President of the common council. Sept. 22.

FIVE DOLLARS REWARD.
RAN away from the subscriber, an indentured servant girl, named Nancy Anderson, about twenty years of age, stout, thick set person, with short black hair; had on when she went away, a dark calico gown, an old black silk cloak, and a black hat. Whoever will secure said girl, and give information thereof to the subscriber, No. 2, Greenfield alley, or to the office of this Gazette, shall receive the above reward.
MARY ANDERSON. N. B. Said Girl is from Ireland, and has been in this country but a short time; she was sent to the work-house for misconduct, where she was taken sick and removed to the city-hospital, from which place she made her escape.
To be sold at Public Vendue, To the highest bidder, at the house of Mr. William Evans, the sign of the Indian Queen, in the city of Baltimore, on the 27th day of October next, at 11 o'clock, A. M. About seven thousand acres of land, the property of William Bell, of Philadelphia, lying between Redder's town and Wellsmiller, commonly called Little Winchester, (the turnpike road runs through a considerable part of these lands) the tract begins about 17 miles from Baltimore, within a few hundred yards of Redder's town, and extends to the distance of about twenty-three miles from Baltimore, and lies on the main falls of Patapsco river, from three to four miles thereon. Will be sold in tracts of one hundred and fifty to three hundred acres. There is a large proportion of meadow and wood land on each tract, some of them highly improved, with excellent buildings and fine groves.
A tract of seven hundred acres of land, called Clover Farms, within five miles of Bladensburg, esteemed very good for Grass. Richard Pensonby, of Bladensburg, will show this land to any person inclined to purchase.
A tract of land of about three hundred and thirty acres, within about two miles and a half of the President's house in the Federal City. It is nearly all wood land, and a fine high prospect, from which may be seen the city of Washington, Bladensburg, Alexandria and a part of George-town, and many miles down the Potomac river. Mr. Richard Pensonby, of Bladensburg, will also show this land.
Just Received, From Batavia (via Providence) A few Boxes of Spices, consisting of Nutmegs, Cloves and mace For sale by WILLINGS & FRANCIS, Penn. street.
Davis's Law Book Store, No. 319, High-Street. GEORGE DAVIS, BEING busied for some time past in preparations for removing into his present house, has been under the necessity of postponing until this day informing the gentlemen of the Bar generally thro' the United States, that his spring importation of law books is now arranged and ready for sale, on terms that he trusts will entitle him to the like preference he has experienced for several years past. Catalogues, combining the most varied collection ever imported into this country, are printed and will be delivered on application.
City Commissioners' Office, June 22, 1797. IN pursuance of an ordinance from the Select and common councils, passed the 22nd day of May last, appointing the city commissioners, and prescribing their duties, section 6th, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the city is divided into five districts, each to be under the superintendence of one of the city commissioners, who is to be individually responsible for the cleanliness of the same, and are as follows. 1. From the south side of Cedar-street, to the north side of Spruce-street, under the superintendence of Nathan Boys. 2. From the north side of Spruce-street, to the north side of Walnut-street, under the superintendence of Hugh Roberts. 3. From the north side of Walnut to the south side of High-street, under the superintendence of Joseph Claypoole. 4. From the north side of High-street, to the north side of Mulberry-street, under the superintendence of William Moulder. 5. From the north side of Mulberry-street to the north side of Vine-street, under the superintendence of Nicholas Hicks. The cleaning of High-street to be in common. A stated meeting of the city commissioners is held at the Old Court House, in High-street, every Tuesday evening at 5 o'clock.
Standards for Draymen, &c. In pursuance of an Ordinance from the Select and Common Councils, bearing date the 22nd day of April, 1797, providing for the appointment of City Commissioners, &c. Sec. 15th. The following places are fixed upon by the said City Commissioners for Standards for Draymen and their Horses. In Vine-street, east side of Front-street, on both sides. Sassafras, High, Chestnut and Walnut-streets, eastward of Front-street, on the north side only. Mulberry-street, south side from Front to Third-street. Front-street, east side from Vine-street to Eliza's alley. Front-street, from opposite to Black Horse alley to Hamilton's stores, east side. Water-street, west side from the north end of Stomper's or Moore's stores to Pine-street. Penn-street from Pine to Cedar-street, west side. Draybridge, north side, east of Front-street. Spruce, Pine and South streets, east of Front street, south side. Dock-street, between Walnut-street and the flag stone crossings, east side, opposite George Orkley's. Second-street, between Sassafras and Vine streets, west side. Fifth-street, east side from Chestnut to Mulberry streets. Sassafras-street, from Third to Fourth-street, east side. No dray or horse to stand within ten feet of any pump. STANDARDS FOR HACKNEY COACHES. Pine-street, north side from Fourth to Fifth streets. Fifth-street, between Chestnut and Walnut streets, west. Branch-street, north side, between Third and Fourth streets.
A Literary Treat.
Just published, handsomely printed on writing paper, price 1 dollar. A new edition of that popular and entertaining work, entitled THE FORESTERS, an American Tale; being a sequel to the history of John Bull, the Clothier—In a series of letters to a friend, with the addition of two letters, alluding to recent political transactions in America.
The following extract from the Clavis Allegorica, shows the principal characters that are introduced: John Bull, the Kingdom of England His Mother, the Church of England His Wife, the Parliament His Sister Peg, the Church of Scotland His Brother Patrick, Ireland Lewis, the Kingdom of France His Mistress, the Old Constitution His new Wife, the National Representation Lord Strutt, the Kingdom of Spain Nicholas Frog, the Dutch Republic The Franks, the French Republic The Foresters, the United States of America Robert Lumber, New-Hampshire John Codline, Massachusetts Humphrey Ploughshare, Connecticut Roger Carrier, Rhode Island Peter Bull Frog, New-York Julius Cæsar, New-Jersey William Broadbrim, Pennsylvania Cassifar, Delaware Walter Pipewood, Virginia His Grandson, George Washington Peter Pitch, North Carolina Charles Indigo, South Carolina George Trufly, Georgia Ethan Greenwood, Vermont Hunter Longknife, Kentucky Black Castle, Negro Slaves Rats, Speculators Mother Carey's Chickens, Jacobins This popular and entertaining satirical history of America is attributed to the Rev. Dr. BERNARD. It has a great share of originality and abounds with genuine humour. It is continued down to the present time, and characterises those late political transactions which have caused so much uneasiness in America. Sold by H. and P. RICE, Booksellers, No. 16, South Second Street, and No. 50, Market Street.
LAW BOOKS,
Latest London and Dublin Editions. H. & P. RICE, Booksellers, No. 16, South Second, and No. 50, Market Street. HAVE just received by the late arrivals from London and Dublin, their spring importation, consisting of a variety of the latest and most approved Law Books, which, added to those already on hand, forms the most extensive collection ever offered for sale in this country. They therefore beg leave to notice, that from the nature of their connections in Dublin, they are enabled to sell Irish editions (as they have hitherto done) at the very lowest prices. The following are among the latest publications. Vely, junr's Reports in Chancery, 2 v. o. Peake's Cases at Nisi Prius; Ridgeway's Reports in the time of Lord Hardwicke; Floyer's Reports Practice in the Ecclesiastical Courts; Barton's Treatise on a Suit in Equity; Tidd's Practice of the Court of King's Bench in Personal Actions, 2 parts complete; Ward's Law of Nations; Cruise on Utes; modern Reports, 12 vols. London edition. H. and P. Rice expect to receive by the first arrival from New-York the 6th vol. complete of Durnford and Baff's Reports, the 2d part of Gilbert's Law of Evidence by Lofe, and a number of new publications.
The History of Pennsylvania, By ROBERT PROUD, Is now in the press, and will be published, with all convenient expedition, by ZACHARIAH POULSON, jun. No. 80, Chestnut-street, Philadelphia, where subscriptions will continue to be received, and at the Philadelphia Library, according to the printed proposals, until the work is ready for the subscribers.
Printed Calicoes.
JOHN MILLER, Jun. & Co. No. 8 Chestnut-Street, Have for Sale FIFTY TRUNKS neatly assorted, very low on short credit. Richard and James Potter HAVE removed their Counting House to No. 45, South Fifth-street.
Lancaster, Harrisburg, Carlisle, Shippensburg and Sunbury STAGES. THE public are requested to take notice, that the partnership which has for some time subsisted between Mathias Slough of Lancaster, and William Geer, is now dissolved: but, not as M. Slough insinuates to the public without just cause; as will more fully appear by a letter on the subject from M. Slough to W. Geer, dated the 27th December last, a recital of which is now deemed necessary. Any gentleman who wishes to be more circumstantially informed of the merits of this business, by applying to W. Geer may have the perusal of M. Slough's letter, and then can be at full liberty to determine whether or not W. Geer is not perfectly justifiable in attaching himself to any other person in the prosecution of the Stage conveyance from Philadelphia to Shippensburg, or any other place.
Now from the liberal and generous support the public were pleased to confer on the first effort in this business, William Geer, in conjunction with Messrs. Reily, Weed and Witmer, is determined to prosecute and carry it on, with every care, attention and dispatch that a zeal to oblige the public can possibly exert. The above company, who are amply provided with carriages, horses, and every appurtenance to render the passage safe and commodious, inform those who wish to patronize and encourage the undertaking, that they can take their seats at George Weed's, the sign of the White Horse, Market Street, Philadelphia, on every Monday and Friday, to proceed to Lancaster, Harrisburg, Carlisle and Shippensburg. The fare as hitherto established. For the further accommodation of the public, a Stage will start every Wednesday from the house of Samuel Elder, in Harrisburg, arrive at Sunbury in Northumberland county, every Thursday, and return from thence and arrive at Harrisburg every Saturday, so that passengers destined for Lancaster or Philadelphia, may proceed on Mondays.
WILLIAM GEER.
Lancaster, Jan. 27, 1797. N. B. This Line of Stages starts from the house of William Ferrée, in Lancaster, on every Tuesday and Saturday morning at 6 o'clock; proceeding to the westward; and from the house of Mr. Samuel Elder in Harrisburg every Wednesday morning, on the same evening arrives at Patrick Cochran's in Shippensburg, and returns from thence on every Thursday; performing the same routine daily as in its tour from Philadelphia.
City of Washington.
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Of the Lottery, No. II, For the Improvement of the Federal City. A magnificent dwelling-house 200,000 dollars, & cash 30,000, are
 1 ditto 15,000 & cash 35,000 50,000  1 ditto 15,000 & cash 15,000 30,000  1 ditto 10,000 & cash 10,000 20,000  1 ditto 5,000 & cash 5,000 10,000  1 ditto 5,000 & cash 5,000 10,000  1 each prize of 10,000  4 do. 5,000 each, are 20,000  10 do. 1,000 10,000  20 do. 500 10,000  100 do. 100 10,000  200 do. 50 10,000  400 do. 25 10,000  1,000 do. 10 10,000  15,000 do. 10 150,000 
16,739,739 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 nett 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 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. SAMUEL BLODGET.
Tickets may be had at the Bank of Columbia; of James Weyt & Co. Baltimore; of Peter Gilman, Bolton; of John Hopkins, Richmond; and of Richard Wells, Cooper's Ferry.
From the Osgo Herald.
CAUTION. WHEREAS a combination of men in this county have undertaken to enrich themselves, by fabricating titles to fundy valuable tracts of land, the property of gentlemen living in New York, Philadelphia, London and Paris, for which tracts of land large sums of money have been paid to those fraudulent men, by innocent purchasers. It is therefore just that public information should be given, to the end, that the injured may seek redress while the men have property, and are to be found. Those who have been discovered are Truman Harrison, Joseph Witscomb, said now to reside in the county of Saratoga; Thomas Kelly and several others who go under fictitious names. It is supposed that the lands offered for sale on those fabricated titles, are at least worth fifty thousand dollars. Such as we have actual knowledge of are as follows: Lots No. 11 and 12, Osgo patent, thousand acres each, the actual property of William Dellyn, now of London; lots No. 58 and 64, same patent, thousand acres each, the property of Mr. Chaumont, now of Paris, and James Averill and others, of the State. There is some grounds to suppose that the lands of Richard Wells and Charles Wharton, of Philadelphia, are under their management. The Printers will do well to give this a place in their papers, as well to caution the public against purchasing those lands, as also to deprive those men in future from imposing on individuals, which their education and address have enabled them to do heretofore. Witscomb has been a shopkeeper of some note in this country.
The following affidavits will set in a clear point of view the wickedness of those men, which when the public have perused, will induce them to excuse the interference of Wm. COOPER. Osgo, July 28th, 1797. I Thomas Kelly, of the County of Osgo, having been led into an error, by John Witscomb and Truman Harrison, of the same County, to sign a deed to them, for lot No. 58, Osgo patent, which was the property of William T. Franklin now Mr. Chaumont's and others; and further the said Joseph and Truman did persuade me to do this against my inclination, which was made out on the 27th day of November, 1793, or for back two years so as to bring it to that time; and further the name of Pardon Starks to that deed was a fictitious name, there being no such person there. To this I make voluntary oath. THOMAS KELLY. 19th July, 1797. On the 19th July, 1797, came personally before me, Thomas Kelly, the subscriber to the above affidavit, and made solemn oath that it contains nothing but the truth. ELIHU PHINNEY, Justice of the Peace. August 3. 1aw4w.
Thirty Dollars Reward. FLOPED from the service of the subscriber, on the 19th instant, a negro man by the name of DICK, about twenty-five years of age, and five feet nine or ten inches high; by trade a carpenter, and is a very lively brisk workman. His countenance is very good—When spoken to, he converses with ease and confidence, and is pretty garrulous. I purchased the said fellow of Mr. Dubuey Minor, in whose name he has been advertised in the Richmond newspapers. During his last runaway trip (last summer) he was employed a considerable length of time, by some person near Dumfries, from which circumstance, I conjecture, he has taken another northern route. I forewarn all persons from giving him employment, of any kind whatever, and masters of vessels and others, from carrying him out of this state. The above reward will be given if he be taken within forty miles of this city; and an additional sum, in proportion to the distance he may be brought, or the trouble and expense the apprehender may be at, in bringing him to this place. AUG. DAVIS. N. B. His apparel was of the usual negro kind, but he had more cloaths than is customary for them to possess. A.D. Richmond, June 11, 1797.
Will be Landed,
From on board the ship Active, Capt. BLAIR, from Hamburg. 20 bales white Ruffia dula Hemp 2 casks Clover Seed For Sale by Thomas Herman Leuffer, North Fifth street, No. 34. June 26.
William Blackburn,
LOTTERY and BROKER'S OFFICE
No. 64 South Second-street. TICKETS in the Canal Lottery, No. II, which commenced drawing the 30th May, FOR SALE. The price of tickets will rise in proportion as the drawing advances, particularly on account of the five first drawn tickets, prizes of four thousand dollars each, on the last day of drawing. Check Books kept for examination and registering, in the Canal, No. 2, City of Washington, No. 2, and Paterson Lotteries. Also, tickets for sale in the Schuylkill Bridge and Perkiomen Bridge lotteries, which will begin drawing in the course of the summer. The business of a Broker in all kinds of Stock, Bills, Notes, Lands, &c. &c. transacted with the utmost attention. June 2. W.B.
Erskine's View of the War.
JUST PUBLISHED, By ROBERT CAMPBELL & Co. No. 40 South Second street, [Price 31 Cents]
A View of the Causes and Consequences of the present War with France.
By the Honorable THOMAS ERSKINE. May 15. 5
STATE TRIALS.
Sold by W. Young, Bookseller, No. 52, South Second-street.
The Pennsylvania State Trials,
Containing the impeachment, trial, and acquittal of Francis Hopkinson, Judge of the Court of Admiralty, and John Nicholson, Comptroller General—In one large 8vo. vol. Price, in boards, 3 dollars. W. Young has for sale, a general assortment of Books. Also, Stationery, retail and by the package, well assorted, and entitled to the drawback if exported. July 7—
THE SUBSCRIBER having been appointed by the Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of his Britannic Majesty, General Agent for assisting British creditors, and such particular agents as may be specially authorized, in prosecuting their claims before the commissioners for carrying into effect the sixth article of the Treaty of Amity, Commerce and Navigation between his Britannic Majesty and the United States of America, hereby gives notice that he has opened his office at his house the south east corner of Chestnut and fifth streets, Philadelphia, where he is ready to receive all claims or instructions for claims with the vouchers and documents thereof, for the purpose of bringing forward the same agreeably to the rules and orders which the board may think proper to prescribe. And as it will be for the interest of all concerned, that the several claims be so stated, and supported, as to prevent the delay which would arise from the necessity of obtaining further information, or additional materials, from persons residing at a distance, the general agent thinks it his duty to add, (for the direction chiefly of those, who, not having employed particular agents, may leave the prosecution of their claims to his charge and management) that all such claims ought in particular to set forth— 1st. The proper description and situation of the creditor or claimant, and original debtor, respectively. 2d. The date and nature of the original contract or debt. 3d. When, in what manner, and to what extent, the creditor or claimant was prevented or impeded, by the provision, operation or defect of law, the decisions and practice of courts, or restraint of execution, from recovering payment of the debt in question. 4th. The loss and damage incurred or sustained, in consequence of such impediments, whether the same may have arisen from the insolvency, change of situation, or death of the debtor, the loss of legal remedy from lapse of time, or other causes impairing the value and security of the debt, which would not have operated if such impediments had not existed. And 5th. The particular grounds and reasons on which the claimant maintains, in the terms of the treaty, that "by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, the creditor cannot now obtain and actually have and receive full and adequate compensation" for the losses and damages so sustained. The general agent thinks it his duty further to suggest that the several claims ought to be accompanied and supported by the affidavits of the claimants duly sworn and regularly attested, both as to the existence of the debts claimed, and such other circumstances as may be within their own knowledge respectively. And wherever the claimants in stating the nature of their evidence (which must in every instance be the best of which the case is capable) have occasion to refer to the testimony of witnesses, it will be proper to apprise the general agent of the names and places of residence of such witnesses and the facts to be established by their testimony. Wm. Moore Smith. Philadelphia, June 8th. 1797. d
For Sale,
That well known place, called VANDERGRIFT'S FERRY.
ON Neshannoy creek, 18 miles from Philadelphia, on the New York post road, containing 74 acres and 94 perches. Upon the premises are a large two story Stone house occupied as a tavern, and a good one story Stone kitchen, a large frame stable with a good threshing floor, and some out buildings—also a well of good water, and an excellent ice House. On this place is a most elegant situation for a gentleman's seat, commanding a view of the Neshannoy to its junction with the Delaware, and thence across to the Jersey shore. It has the privilege of one half the toll received from the bridge. For terms apply to the Subscriber. MORDECAI LEWIS. May 24. 3law6f.
COLUMBIA HOUSE
Boarding School for young Ladies.
MRS. GROOMBRIDGE with much pleasure and respect, returns her sincere acknowledgement for the liberal encouragement she has received during four years residence in Philadelphia; and assures her friends and the public, so far from intending to decline her school, she has made a superior arrangement for the more convenient accommodation of her scholars.—Every branch of useful and polite education is particularly attended to by Mrs. Groombridge and masters excelling in their respective professions. Corner of Spruce and Eleventh Streets. June 5th, 1797. 1law6f. The situation is perfectly healthy; and made more agreeable by an extensive garden and lot of ground adjoining the house.
Just Published,
And to be had of Messrs. Dobson, Campbell, Rice, Cary, and the other principal Booksellers in the city, price one dollar, twenty-five cents, in boards.
New Views of the Origin of the Tribes and Nations of America.
By BENJAMIN SMITH BARTON, M. D. June 20. 6t
Higgins' Specific
FOR THE PREVENTION AND CURE OF THE YELLOW FEVER.
EVER since this disease made its ravages in this city and New-York, the author has turned his attention to its causes and cure.—The result of his enquiries has convinced him that the reason why so few persons recover from its attacks, are from its not being well understood, and the consequent wrong method taken to cure it. He is persuaded that the excessive bleedings and mercurial treatment of the Faculty is highly injurious, and that the only rational mode of treatment is by the use of proper aids. Convinced of this he offers his Specific as a certain remedy, if used according to the directions. To be had in bottles, at one dollar each, of the inventor Gen. Higgins, Cherry street, two doors above Ninth street, (late manager of Jackson and Co's Medicine Warehouse, London); by S. Leblanc, No. 216; W. Griffith, No. 177, T. Pearce, No. 21, South Third street; T. Stiff, No. 55, New street, near Vine street, and J. Gale, No. 36, Race street. Aug. 25. truths 3t
COUGHS, COLDS, ASTHMAS, and CONSUMPTIONS.
Just received, by Wm. Griffiths, No. 177, South Second-street, a fresh supply of
Genuine Balsam of Honey,
A medicine invented by the late Sir John Hill (who knowledge as a Botanist procured him the appellation of the Linnæus of Britain) and is considered in England as a certain cure for the above complaints; it is also of singular efficacy in the Hooping Cough. It may also be had retail of W. A. Stokes, No. 61, South Second-street, and T. Stiff, 55, New-street, in bottles at 75 cents each. Wm. Griffiths having observed the happy effect of the medicine, (several cases of cures having come within his own knowledge) and the great demand for it has induced him to order a large supply, a part of which he has just received. August 3. 1aw3w
Insurance Company of North America.
THE Stockholders in this company are hereby informed, that, pursuant to the fifth clause of their Charter, and at the request of a "Number of Stockholders, who, together, are proprietors of Six Thousand Shares, and upwards," a general meeting of the Stockholders will be held at the Company's Office, on Monday the 25th day of September next, at 11 o'clock, A. M. for the purpose of filling up a vacancy in their Direction; and taking into consideration such Regulations or Bye Laws as may be presented in conformity with the Charter of Incorporation. EBEN. HAZARD, Sec'y. July 20. w&f825
Public Notice is hereby given,
THAT at June term, 1797, a petition was presented to the Court of Common Pleas, held at York Town, in the State of Pennsylvania, at the instance of James Short, praying the Court to supply a lost deed made by a certain Andrew Hickenluber, to Hugh Morrison, James Morrison, and John Sampie, executors to Hans Morrison, deceased, for six hundred acres of Land, situate in Menallen township, in the county of York:—All persons who have any objections to make to the object of the said petition, are desired to attend at the Court House, in the town of York, on the 27th day of September next, otherwise the lost deed will be supplied. JOHN EDIE, Clerk. July 18. col5
30 Dollars Reward.
RAN away on Saturday last, two indentured Servants, Gifford Daily, a mulatto boy, about 17 years of age, a slim built active fellow, can read and write, five feet seven or eight inches high, has a heavy countenance; had on a fustian coat and trowsers, a high crowned hat, fine shoes &c. Allan Mellons, a black man, about 24 years of age, five feet seven or eight inches high, a thick set clumsy built fellow, particularly about the breech; had on a sailor's blue jacket lined with fustian, dark striped vest, fustian trowsers, high crowned hat, coarse shoes, &c.; each of them had several shirts and several other clothes with them. Thirty Dollars will be paid for the runaways, or 15 dollars for each, and reasonable charges, on delivering them at No. 54, North Third-street. The black fellow is about a year from Lewis Town, in the County of Sussex, state of Delaware, and has taken the boy with him. July 31. mnu&f3w
To be SOLD or RENTED,
A LARGE 3 Story Brick House, on the South side of Filbert Street, between Eighth and Ninth, lately occupied as the Surveyor General's Office. The Building is 36 feet front and 35 feet deep, the lot 110 feet deep, with the privilege of a nine feet wide Alley, extending the whole length of the lot, to a thirty feet wide Court for Carriages to turn in. The House is not plastered, and may be turned either into one, or two dwelling Houses. It is suitable for a large Manufactory, or would make a good Tavern. Immediate possession will be given. Apply to No. 111, Chestnut-Street. Aug. 21. col4t.
Musical Instrument Manufactory,
No. 167, Arch-Street.
HARPER, harpsichord, grand, portable grand, fidd-board, pier table and square piano forte maker from London, returns thanks to his friends and the public, for their liberal encouragement, and hopes that by his assiduity and attention to every branch of his business, to merit a continuance of their favors. Piano-fortes made on the newest and most approved plans, with pedals, patent, swell, and French harp stop, which he flatters himself will be found on trial by unprejudiced judges, to be equal if not superior to any imported, and twenty per cent cheaper. Any instrument purchased of him, if not approved of in twelve months, he will exchange. N. B. All kinds of Musical instruments made, mended, and repaired with the greatest accuracy, dispatch, and on the most reasonable terms, for ready money only. Second hand Piano-Fortes taken in exchange. May 26. &am
Forty Dollars Reward.
RAN away from the subscriber on the second day of this inst. July, a Mulatto Man, named Will Bowzer, about forty years of age, five feet seven or eight inches high, rather clumsy made; had on when he went away, a drab colored cloth coat, striped purple trowsers and jacket. It is probable he will change his clothes, as he took a number with him. The said fellow formerly belonged to Mr. Charles Blake of this place; and it is expected he has made towards Jones's Neck, in the Delaware State.—Any person apprehending the said fellow, and securing him so that I can get him again, shall receive the above reward if taken out of the country, and Twenty Dollars if in the country, and all reasonable charges if bro't home. JESSE REED, Queen Anne's County, Maryland. July 3. w3t