Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser. (Philadelphia [Pa.]), 1799-08-03 00:00:00

The Gazette.
PHILADELPHIA,
SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 3.
No. X.
To the Managers of the Alms House and House of Employ.
GENTLEMEN,
By your account last year, the number of Paupers received into the Alms House was 7266; that is 605 on the average of a month—a number far exceeding any former period, even the years 1793 and 1797, when the yellow fever prevailed.
To one of the causes of this incredible increase, I wish in a particular manner to call your attention, as it is inexpedient, and in the opinion of many very oppressive. I mean your determination to grant to the poor, no more pensions in their private habitations. By these means you force them from cruel necessity upon the public for entire support, when a much smaller gratuity than the sum which they cost you in the House, would render their condition more comfortable and considerably lessen the public burthen. There are other causes for this excess; I allude to all the apprentices that go to the Alms House to be bound to their trades and return from thence without breaking of bread. The Paupers sent by the Guardians to the Hospital are likewise included, although they are no expence to you but for cloathing and funeral charges: and it is well known that considerable numbers pass in and out 6 or 7 times in a year, who are always entered and count as distinct persons; all these contribute to swell your deceptive list, and create a false divisor that dwindles down the cost of a Pauper to a dollar a week, at the very time it is likely to be nearer two than one. But if I must allow that you have 605 in the House, I will tell you plainly that it is a measure of cruelty, unless I attribute your conduct to a want of judgment, which I am very willing to do; but I have no allowance to make for your Physicians. The owner of a Liverpool slave ship may as well boast of humanity, as they, when he weighs out air, with exactness by the ton, to a miserable crew, that are panting for breath. Is the poverty of our fellow citizens a crime, that should condemn them to be smothered in such a wretched place? Wretched do I say; yes miserably wretched; for your doctors know very well, that in your House you can never accommodate such a number of people in this climate; they also know, it is impossible for them to fulfil their own public and private engagements, and give at the same time good attendance to so many sick people. It would be a wicked undertaking, the very idea of which implies a degree of suffering at which humanity shudders, and which I charitably hope and believe they would never be the authors of inflicting. Your Physicians must therefore deny the presumptuous assertion of Semper ego, their Quixotical champion, in respect to the amount of Hospital cases, or submit to the charge of inhumanity and cruelty in their mode of practice. There is no other alternative.
A few words more will close this number. The whole tenor and spirit of the poor laws, that are made for the government of your Corporation, admit only of two ideas, viz. an Alms House and House of Employ, and although the former may partake in a very small degree of the nature of a Hospital, yet I deny the propriety of making it so, beyond what imperious necessity demands; more especially as it tends to ruin all manufactures, in the House, which forms a leading and principal feature in the laws. Will you not then make a momentary pause, and seriously consider what may be the consequence of raising yourselves, paramount to legislative acts that are made to limit your proceedings, before you lift the arm of your mighty power, against the Alms House and House of Employ. If however to gratify your own vanity, if to humour the whim and caprice of projecting physicians, or if from any other improper considerations you rashly determine to pursue your ridiculous scheme, of grafting a public hospital on that institution, the least you can do will be to relieve our well grounded anxiety for the lives of our fellow citizens entrusted to your care, by reducing your complex operations, to a more consistent system; for you now exhibit the only example I know, of a Hospital, in which only four Physicians, who attend their private practice, and some of them in other public institutions have the care of a Hospital that contains 261 patients on an average, of whose admissions, diseases, cures, reliefs, elopements or death, no account is given.
* Diseased cases subjects only for a Hospital, are proper for your list: draughts acquired by sturdy beggars who spend their time poring over papers in flower gardens, instead of picking oackum, ought not to be reckoned.
Murder of Bonnier and Roberjot.
IT is an ill wind that blows nobody good; and if the Directory themselves were not the contrivers of the murder, (no offence I hope to revolutionary humanity) it was certainly a most lucky event for them. The national enthusiasm was gone, and no limulus remained for the preservation of the Republic. Philanthropy exhausted by its millions of murders—the guillotine thrown by like a coat cut of fashion—Sanculo tism no longer presenting an image of glory—the ear of the nation grown weary of music, and Galconade done with the army of England, what resource was left for the salvation of the tyrants? They still indeed drew a hope from the Hero of Egypt; and it must be confessed, he did his best to keep
them from despair. Camels and Caravans, Mamelukes and Arabs, Alexandria, Rosetta, Cairo, Pompey's Pillar and the Pyramids, dance through his letters in all the mazes of jacobinic confusion, affording a most delicious regale to the frivolity of Frenchmen. But their frivolity, like their stomachs, requires vanity, and with the capriciousness of an infant, cries for new rattles. They now look for conquests and trophies, and the national vanity can no longer be flattered by unimportant, and often unsuccessful frays with a handful of Arabs.
But what can be done by the Directory and Councils? A most terrible coalition acting against them, without a friend in the world, and scarcely a dupe left for cajolery! They try the old cant—but in vain. They shake their robes—but it will not do. Peste! Austria, England, Turkey and Russia come thundering upon them. They fight, but are every where beaten. They trump up the worn-out tale of an expiring soldiery crying "Vive la Republique;" but their warriors, it now seems, like the notion of living themselves. Le Diable! What shall they do now? When lo! the virtuous Jean De Brie, the philanthropist who had proposed a Legion of 1200 assassins to murder the monarchs and aristocrats of Europe, sends them a whining detail of the assassination of his concitoyens. Instantly, as if blood and murder were as rare to a jacobin as rain to an Egyptian, they vote it the most horrible outrage that ever was perpetrated, and decree a funeral fete to the manes of the butchered innocents. Heaven and earth are invoked to avenge the deed, and the national energy developed the reiterated cries of Vengeance! Vengeance! Vive la Republique! Ah! Ah!
MR. PENNOY
Among the numerous labourers in the field of republicanism, who, with a disinterestedness, peculiar to exclusive patriots, have generously slept forward to eradicate the weeds and the thistles of priestcraft and aristocracy that have starved up so plentifully of late, none surely labor with greater energy, or are entitled to a more splendid reward than the six pure and spotless republicans who have appeared as the humble champions of democracy in our happy state. To be sure, sir, it appears rather a departure from their usual consistency, that they have ventured to instruct the Sovereign people in the choice of a Servant. But, perhaps they deem (and no doubt justly) that the people are not quite as sovereign in good sense and penetration as they are in power. This idea may or may not be erroneous. At any rate, we would not be so uncharitable as to notice with an improper view their trifling errors, while their virtuous and patriotic acts, as individuals, stand on records that we pray to God may be preserved with greater care, than the late public records of Georgia.
As one of those Sovereign People, whose footsteps have been guided through the dreary paths of superstition and aristocracy, to the land of liberty by the lamp of republicanism in the hands of those worthy six worthy men, I should evince a deficiency in the most exalted and most common attribute of popular sovereignty, gratitude, were I not to exert my talents in proposing a reward for our guides. I am not puzzled in fixing on the best method of rewarding. We all know their aversion to a pecuniary compensation; this favours of the features of a bribe; and we have been told often enough of the detestation in which they hold the principles of secret service money. Well, sir, it shall be a post of honor; there is but little doubt of their filling an honorable station well; well, be it so; in this arrangement I would wish to consult not only the talents of each for the station which he is to dignify, but their dispositions and their former practice; the ex-commissioner is certainly entitled to priority of notice on every ground.
Some twenty years since, we were honored with the visit of a number of foreigners from a certain European island; they arrived here well provided with the necessaries and conveniences of life, but unfortunately, in a short time they became embarrassed in their circumstances, and stood in need of a guide to conduct them through our dreary woods and marshes to a place of security. At this moment our patriot slept forward; his bosom glowed with every humane and patriotic sentiment, and became to this wandering tribe a second Moses. Now, as such has been the humanity of his practice, as we can possess no doubt of the purity of his intentions, at that time, and as from appearances we may expect another crowd of foreigners from another foreign country shortly, I would humbly propose that the state of Pennsylvania should afford a competent salary to the office of "President of the Emigration Society," and that this office should be offered to our worthy patriot. I would apologize for offering a station so humble as this to a man who deserves one so much more exalted, were he not a republican!
The next on our list is a Physician who has been equally successful in curing the disorders of the body politics, as those of the natural; or at least understands them equally; I feel myself at a loss to fix on a station that could possibly do honor to this man. I know indeed, of several offices that have been established for the purpose of issuing certificates, but as I must confine myself to the rule I have laid down, of consulting the practice and the inclinations of these worthy citizens, as well as their talents, I would not offer a post of this description to this patriot, but wait in expectation that the government, for his accommodation will erect one for the sole purpose of receiving certificates.
As to the Secretary, who appears next on the list, I will say nothing. A writer of good authority, a republican, has told us, that he has already his price, and if he will deign to mention to the sovereign people that
price, it will certainly be paid him without any inquiry as to the mode by which it has been calculated.
I will, probably, sir, take notice of the remainder of these worthy citizens at another time; but in order to accommodate the offices they are to occupy to their former practice and dispositions, I fancy we will be obliged to coin new ones, as well as the money to support them.
One of the sovereign people.
After the ministers of the empire quitted Rastadt, they went to Carlsruhe, and before quitting that place they held a long and serious conference, in which detailed species facti were drawn up respecting the tragic scenes of the French ministers near Rastadt. This paper, together with all the annexed documents, were carried, in the name of the Margrave of Baden, as reigning Prince of the territory where it happened, to his royal highness the Archduke Charles. We hope soon to be enabled to give this official account to our readers, which will terminate a number of vague conjectures formed on this event. [French Paper.]
Gazette Marine List.
Boston, July 27. This day arrived the armed ship Herald, captain Skerry, from Leghorn, 65 days, via Gibraltar, 50. No news later than before received by capt. Prince, arrived at Salem a few days since. Spoke July 18, long. 61, ship Fabius, captain Black, from Norfolk for Liverpool, 14 days out. July 20, long. 63, brig Commerce, Truxant, from St. Ubes, for New-Bedford, 56 days out. July 22, long. 66, Schooner Thomas, capt. Drew, 56 days from Gibraltar, for Boston. July 24, long. 62, brig Lilly, capt. Blake, from Lisbon, for Boston, 49 days out.
Yesterday afternoon arrived in Nantasket Roads ship Sylvania, Hutcheins, from Alicante, via Gibraltar, 65 days; sch. Betsey, Adamson, St. Croix; and a brig from St. Thomas.
Ship Sylvania, sailed from Alicante 8th May, in company with the Brig Pacific Trader, capt. Woodbury. Left there, Ship Belvidere, of Philadelphia; Ship Mobawh, of New York; and the Brig Byfield of Boston, 26th sent into Gibraltar, and departed the same evening. Left there, Ship John of Salem, Capt. Putnam, bound to Manila; Brig Alert, Capt. Rich, for Alicante, and a Sch. Capt. Rogers, for Barcelona, to sail in company the first fair wind.
Sunday, July 28. This day arrived brig Elizabeth, capt. Morle, from Oporto, 49 days. Nothing new.
Same day arrived brig Lilly, capt. Blake, from Lisbon, 54 days. Spoke nothing but what has arrived. Nothing new.
Same day arrived, brig Success, Girouler, 70 days, from Copenhagen. Sailed in company with the Essex, Henderson, for Salem; brig Exchange, Richardson, do. Barque Olivebranch, Knap, New-York; ship Star, Burchmore, do. brig Delight, Vickman, do. Left at Copenhagen, 15th May, Ship Betsey, Bryant, Salem; Rising States, Putnam, do. Aurora, Beckford, do; Francis, Besom, do; Concord, Wellman, do; Sally; Gaston, Boston; Four Sisters, Ray, do; Enterprice Jeffry, Salem; sch. Betsey, Lovell Beverly, Abigail, Stanwood, Gloucester; brig Eunice, Hodges, Salem, ship Adventure Barr, do; Brutus Crawinfield, do; Neptune, West, Providence; brig Cornelia, Brown, do; Celia, Martin do; ship Howard, Carpenter, New-York; Barque Virgilant, G. Clements, Salem Spoke July 30, brig Savannah, from Liverpool, for New-London, lat. 43, 27, out 30 days July 3, ship Favourite, Swain, from Dublin, for Nantucket, lat. 43, 7, long. 44, out 40 days. Same day, Ship Fox, Peckirk, and brig Philibert, Profess Prince out 14 days, from Marblehead, for Bilbao. July 17, sch. Rambler, Devereaux, out 9 days from do. for do. lat. 43, 18, long. 50, out 18 days. July 18, ship Hope, Parsons, out 8 days from Boston, for Hamburg, lat. 13, 18, long. 56, out 25, ship Commerce, from Boston, for Liverpool, out 3 days, lat. 42, 31, long. 65, 30. July 27, Boston Frigate, 7 sail under convoy, Capt. Cod, bore W by S. distance 12 leagues.
Capt. Girouler, informs that capt. Joseph Moseley late of the ship Enterprice, from Salem, on his outward bound passage to Copenhagen, was chased by a French private lugger, off the coast of Norway, capt. Moseley being American colors, which he struck on the lugger coming up with him—the capt. of the lugger supposing him to be English (being armed) that he lowered his colors to hoist English, fired a volley of small arms (which killed capt. Moseley) and boarded the ship; on examination found her to be American, expressed much regret at the death of capt. M. The remains of capt. Moseley was carried to Mandell, in Norway and buried.
Same day arrived, sch. Thomas, captain Drew, 65 days from Gibraltar. June 12, spoke ship Silvina, capt. Hutchins, capt. Clements on board, the snow Pacific, Trader, from the Straights.
Same day arrived sch. Delight, Burtus, from Trinidad last from Rainford Island.
Charleston, July 25. Extract from the log book of the Schooner Margaret, from Nassau.
"Monday July 15, at 4 P. M. was brought too by a Spanish brig, which at a distance showed English colours, but drawing close to us, and finding us to be a merchantman, hauled down the English and hoisted Spanish colours; ordered us to hoist out our boat, but finding us a long time about it, sent their own on board, ordered our colours to be immediately struck, and sent the captain and all hands, excepting
the mate, on board the brig, leaving two officers and four men on board our Schooner; after which they fell too breaking open our chests trunks and lockers, and plundering us of whatever they pleased, taking our papers and letters from us, together with nineteen hundred dollars the property of Mr. John Teasdale, and Kirk and Lifkens, merchant, of Charleston; they then manned the Schooner with five men and a prize master, and sealed up the papers, with an intention of taking her to some port; but after keeping us in possession four hours, they concluded with each other, and finding our foremast to be nearly gone, they took from us our quadrant, books and boat and a quantity of fruit and turtle, presents sent to gentlemen in Charleston, together with the chief of our wearing apparel, telling the captain he might go on board with his people and proceed on his voyage, with many hearty curses for the little plunder they obtained, —at 9 P. M. made sail to our first destined port.
Late Foreign Articles
PARIS, June 1. General Pichegru lives at Brunswick, in the most confidential intercourse with the reigning Duke.
General Mack is at Briancon, on his parole. The Pope is also in the same place.
A medical man of the name of Simon, at Paris, has, it is said, found out in the bodies of persons who are strangled, a cure for Epilepsies.
The Elector of Batavia has, the French papers say, recalled to his service all the luminaries whom his predecessor had banished from the court.
It is mentioned as a proof of the Archduke Charles' respectful attention to the forms of religion, that during the performance of mass, at four o'clock in the morning of the 1st March, previous to his defeating Jourdan, he continued bare-headed during the service in the front of his army though it poured a torrent of rain. His Royal Highness has, by causing the French manifesto to be translated into German and dispersed among his troops, added to the hatred they before felt for the republicans.
May 28.
Gen. Suwarow will not trouble himself to with taking forts. He is for pushing on, and attacking the main army of his opponents.
FLORENCE, May 9. A most horrid war is carried on between the French and insurgents.
TURIN, May 14. The Piedmontese insurgents on the right bank daily assume a more alarming appearance—they have sent to Mondovi, a French battalion of 900 men, whom they intercepted in their way to join Moreau.
LONDON, June 4. The Archduke is incessantly employed in preparations at Schaffhausen. Gen. Sterray daily reinforces the French on the Rhine and the Neckar, but they are continually harassed by the inhabitants of the country. They have abandoned Heidelberg, which greatly frightens Mannheim.
The Paris papers reckon much upon a rupture between Russia and Prussia, and of course a coalition between the King of Prussia and the five Regicides of the Luxembourg. As to the internal matters of France, they they are interesting, but we are obliged to defer our observations in this respect to another day.
The Hamburg Mail brings no news from Vienna or Italy of a later date than the date of the last Extraordinary Court Gazette; therefore the brilliant success it announces may be considered merely as a matter of report, without good grounds, or at least without proof, and certainly premature.
Several good Nurses WANTED.
FIVE or six capable NURSES may meet with immediate Employ at the public ALMS-HOUSE, On producing satisfactory recommendations—Matriced Men and Women would be preferred. Persons acquainted with suitable characters, are particularly requested to send them without delay to LUKE W. MORRIS, or CHARLES PLEASANTS, Committee of the Managers. July 27. dgt
TO BE LET, A Number of New Houses,
On Walnut-street, between Sixth and Seventh Streets, facing the Public Square. THE advantageous situation of those buildings is obvious, combining a vicinity to the trading parts of the city, with a pure air, and an open prospect interspersed with trees and herbage, resembling a Country Retreat. They need only to be viewed to recommend them as desirable dwellings for respectable families; so for the proprietor means to let them cheap—For terms apply at the office, No. 96, Arch Street, or on the premises to JOHN CREAN. August 1. dgt
NOTICE,
To the Creditors of Joseph Thomas. THE meeting of Creditors which was intended to be held to-morrow is postponed until further notice.
The Assignees not having been able to get the information they expected from one of the Western Counties is the cause of postponement.
SAMUEL W. FISHER, } Assignees. And WM. BUCKLEY, N. B.—Those indebted are earnestly requested to make immediate payment, otherwise their accounts will be put in suit. August 1. dat
Insurance Company of the State of Pennsylvania.
August 1, 1799. THE Directors have this day declared a dividend of THIRTY DOLLARS on each Share of the Stock of this Company for the last half year, which will be paid to the Stockholders or their legal representatives after the 10th instant. JAMES S. COX, President. August 1. dgt
For Port Republican,
THE SHIP
ORONO,
Richard Siles, master,
Mounting 12 six and nine pound cannon, men answerable, burthen about 360 tons, will sail rough mist—For freight or passage apply to the captain on board, at Vine Street wharf, or to Thomas & John Kelland. August 1. dgt
One Hundred Dollars Reward
FOR the Thief, and Ten Dollars for the Horse, STRAYED or stolen on the night of the 31st ult. out of the Pasture of the subscriber near Frankford, a Light Bay Horse, about 15 hands high, six years old, a natural Trotter, black mane and Tail, and small nip, good carriage, thin breasted and apt to cut; any person who will prosecute the Thief to conviction shall receive the above reward or Ten Dollars to return the horse. ISAAC W. MORRIS. Who has for sale a gentle Coach horse with blinds. August 2. dgt
United States. PENNSYLVANIA DISTRICT. } ss.
BY virtue of a writ of venditioni exponas, to me directed, by the honorable the Judges of the circuit court of the United States, in and for the Pennsylvania district, will be exposed to public sale, at the Merchants' Coffee House, in the city of Philadelphia, on Saturday the 10th of August next, at 12 o'clock, at noon,
Twelve Tracts of Land,
lying on the west side of Conewango creek, in the county of Allegheny, held by warrants under act of Assembly of 3d April, 1793, issued in the following names, and containing nos. of acres annexed.
Table with 3 columns: No., acres, perches. Lists land tracts for John Scott, William Scott, James Scott, Patrick Scott, Adam Scott, Robert Scott, Abraham Scott, Samuel Scott, Edward Abbet, Thomas Abbet, John Abbet, Daniel Abbet.
Nine Tracts of Land
On the Allegheny river, on the north and west side in Allegheny county, held by warrants under act of Assembly of 3d April, 1792, issued to the following persons, viz:
Table with 3 columns: No., acres, perches. Lists land tracts for Jacob Weaver, Daniel Weaver, Abra'm Weaver, Richard Adlum, Thomas Adlum, John Adlum, John Adlum, Jr., Joseph Adlum, Edward Adlum.
Sixty-four Tracts of Land
In Mr Dowe's district north west of the river Ohio and Allegheny and Conewango creek, lying on the Allegheny river, surveyed on warrants issued to the following persons, viz:
Table with 3 columns: No., acres, perches. Lists land tracts for Philip Weaver, John Rous, Daniel Long, John Long, William Long, Jacob Beishong, John Beishong, Jacob Keller, Daniel Keller, Leonard Keller, John Keller, John Spangler, Jacob Spangler, Rudolph Spangler, John Kertman, Henry Kertman, Peter Kertman, Isaac Kertman, Jacob Kertman, Henry Bozer, William Bozer, Samuel Tolbert, John Tolbert, Patrick Tolbert, William Tolbert, Robert Tolbert, William Roberts, William Murray, Samuel Murray, James Murray, Michael Forrester, John Forrester, Philip Forrester, Adam Forrester, George Guell, William Bell, Adam Bell, Reynoud Cullis, William Cullis, James Cullis, Richard Cullis, Jacob Lewis, Peter Lewis, Robert Lewis, Samuel Ingram, James Ingram, William Ingram, John Ingram, John Shevely, Peter Shevely, George Gill, William Gill, James Gill, John Gill.
Seized and taken in execution as the property of William Elwert, Esq. and to be sold by WILLIAM NICHOLS, Marshall's Office, Philadelphia, Aug. 1, '99. dgt

By this Day's Mail.
BOSTON, July 30.
From the MEDITERRANEAN.
Capt. A. Clement came passenger in the Sylvania, arrived in the outer harbor; and has made to us the subsequent communication.
The Sylvania, sailed from Alicante, the 30th of May; at which time 4 Spanish frigates were ready to sail with troops for Majorca; other troops were expected shortly to be sent from Alicante to the same place; and from the preparation, it was supposed an attack would be made from that Island upon Mahon. Persons from Minorca, as late as the 27th April, says, there were from 12 to 14 ships of the line and frigates constantly in and about the Island, that there were nearly 4000 effective troops at Mahon in high spirits. Since the capture of the Island they had perfectly repaired the famous Castle of St. Philips, which is now bomb proof, and contains 18 months provisions for the garrison. Many additional forts and batteries have been erected by the British troops for the greater strength of the Island, and it is now in a much better state of defence than when they took it from the Spaniards. Salt provisions are remarkably plenty, and wine and brandy they are abundantly supplied with from the great number of prizes made by the privateers on the coast of Catalonia. A Portuguese Convoy had arrived with sugar and coffee, and furnished a large supply of those articles to the inhabitants, who, it seems, are very favorably disposed towards their old masters, the English.
On the 19th of May, a little to the Eastward of Oran, on the Coast of Barbary, and shortly after having experienced a very heavy gale of wind, which continued 24 hours, we fell in with a Spanish fleet of men of war, some of which were entirely dismasted and others much damaged. A brig belonging to the fleet boarded us, and enquired for the French fleet. They said they were 5 days from Cadiz, and were then steering for Carthagena. In consequence of damages they had suffered in the gale.
On the 25th we fell in with an English frigate bound into Gibraltar, having lost her mainmast in the gale.
We arrived at and left Gibraltar the 16th of May. Ld. St. Vincent's had been gone 15 days, with 16 ships of the line under his command, in quest of the French and Spanish fleet which passed up the Straights May 5; which fleet consisted of 17 French and 3 Spanish ships of the line. By advice received at Gibraltar from Lord St. Vincent's he was only 50 miles distant from them; having fortunately obtained information from a Danish vessel, that had been boarded from the French fleet before he fell in with her—they were laying too off the Island of Ivica, waiting for the Spanish fleet from Cadiz.
Ld. St. Vincent had previously been joined by three ships of the line from Mahon, and obtained the information crowded sail to come up with the French fleet before they could form their intended junction.
The gale of wind, which proved so disastrous to the Cadiz fleet, must also have had an effect upon the French fleet off Ivica, and probably have not facilitated the English Admiral's design upon them.
Five ships of the line and two frigates from England, came to Gibraltar 18th May, and proceeded immediately to join Ld. St. Vincent. They will, however, not be able to come up with him, before he must have engaged the French fleet; But I presume, from the firing we heard the 20th and 21st, they might have fallen in with a part of the Spanish fleet, flanking over for Carthagena, where they were to repair the damages done by the gale.
NEW-YORK, August 2.
Last week the citizens in the vicinity of Centries-slip, were alarmed by the appearance of a disease resembling in its symptoms the Fever of 1798. The number of cases was small, probably not exceeding eight at most, of which five terminated fatally. We are happy to remark, that it now appears to have subsided entirely. On enquiring in that neighbourhood yesterday, we could not learn that a single new case had occurred this week, and that two persons are still indisposed, though far advanced in convalescence.
Two opinions are entertained of its origin. Some ascribe it to the ship Gen. Wayne, from Havana—others to local causes. Though the truth may not, perhaps, be accurately known, 'tis said by some that if it be now extinct, and do not appear again, it will not be easy to establish that it arose from causes existing on the spot.
We thought it necessary to make this brief statement, after particular enquiry of Physicians and others, more especially for the information of our distant readers, who have no doubt been imposed on as usual by the most exaggerated rumours; an idea is rendered the more probable, from the contradictory and unfounded reports which we know have been circulated even in town.
The sloop which we mentioned in yesterday's paper, to have been on fire to the hull, proved to have been on fire to the beam. The Betsey, capt. Pritchard of St. Thomas, owned by the re the house of Messrs. Fogarty and Co. She sailed from hence on Tuesday morning, and was discovered to be on fire under the caboose about 1 o'clock P. M. Every exertion was made to get it under; but before it was discovered, it had made so much progress—they then ran her a ground, and she burned to the water's edge. During the time she was on fire, several sloops passed her, but none of them would render the people any assistance to save the property; except one, which anchored as near as she could with safety after she went aground. The cargo consisted of lumber, tea, and dry goods; a very small part of which were saved—The vessel and cargo were valued at about 10,000 dollars.
Dr. Crome, in his Statistic Journal, lately published in Germany, gives the following as the probable amount of the losses in men and money of the belligerent powers, sustained in the present horrible war, from 1792 to the end of 1796:
Table with 3 columns: Country, Men, Guilders. Rows include Austria, Germ. Emp., Russia, England, Holland, Spain, Portugal, Naples, The Pope, Sardinia, France, and a Total row.
Allowing each Guilder to be equal to 30 cents it will appear, that the above sum is equal to the astonishing number of one thousand eight hundred and seventy two millions nine hundred and seventy five thousand dollars, together with the destruction of one million seven hundred and thirty thousand innocent fellow creatures.
So much for the expence and blood of four years of the war!
The Gazette.
PHILADELPHIA,
SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 3.
PRICES OF STOCKS.
Table with 3 columns: Stock Type, Price, and Notes. Includes 6 per Cent, Deferred 6 per Cent, Three per Cent, BANK United States, North America, Pennsylvania, Insurance comp N.A. shares, 8 per Cent Stock, Do. Scrip with five Installments, Do. the 5th Installment only, East-India Company of N. A. par, Land Warrants, and COURSE OF EXCHANGE.
MARRIED—On Thursday evening last by the Rev. Doctor Smith, Mr. JOHN STEEL to Miss ELIZABETH BLAIR, both of this city.
Extract of a letter from Newport, dated July 29, 1799.
The ship General Greene, capt. Perry, arrived here on Saturday last, from the Havana; has lost 20 men by the yellow fever, and has 38 now sick. Among the dead is the Doctor, Purser, Steward and Carpenter.
William Duane, who has been hired for some time past, to conduct Bache's Aurora, was brought up before Judge Peters, on Friday morning, and bound, himself in 2000 dollars, and two sureties in 1000 each.
His trial is expected to come on before Judge Paterson, in October next.
There were two people who appeared as his securities—one of them, a man of the name of Barker, who distinguished himself in the attempt of Israel to get into the Senate; the other proved to be Guy Bryan, a Government Contractor.
Yesterday, in the Select Council of this City, FRANCIS GURNEY, Esq. resigned his seat as President of that body; HENRY PRATT, Esq. was elected to the office.
A letter from Surinam of the 9th ult. announces the arrival (at the mouth of the river) of the U. S. sloop of war Portsmouth, capt. M'Neil, on the 7th, where she had taken her station for the summer. The Norfolk, and Pickering armed brigs, were daily expected there to take any vessels under convoy (for home) that might be ready. Before the arrival of the Portsmouth, Surinam was completely blockaded by the French privateers. She has, however, cleared the coast, though several captures were made a day or two before her arrival. A French 20 gun ship is now blockaded by the Portsmouth.
"Get her for me, for she pleaseth me well," was the impatient demand of an ardent and enthusiastic lover of the east.
Samson, whose amours the Preacher is now about to consider, appears to have been as much distinguished for warmth and precipitancy of passion, as for strength and vigor of body. His attachments were hasty and strong, and his resentments, bitter and implacable. This precipitancy led him into many serious difficulties, in his intercourse with the world, and, among others, involved him in the unfortunate love-intrigue, which gave birth to the words of our text.
Far be it from the Preacher to attempt to loosen, much more, to sever those bonds of
affection, which connect, in sweet alliance, the hearts of his hearers; or to rend even the delusive veil of happiness, which indulgent nature has been pleased to cast over the "ills that flesh is heir to." Far be it from me to discourage those mutually pleasing emotions, which promote and sweeten the intercourse between the sexes, enliven and invigorate the noblest sentiments of the soul, and spread a delightful charm, over the afflictive occurrences of life. Suspect me not, my young hearers, if a desire to poison your minds with that stolid pride, which affects to scorn "above life's weakness and its pleasures too," or to blast, with the chilling breath of forgetful old-age, those enjoyments which arise from the exercise of virtuous love. On the contrary, my duty and inclination both concur, in urging me to offer my fatherly hand to lead you, along the road of reason, to the enjoyment of your desired happiness; and at the same time, to point out those devious windings of passion, in which Samson and many others have been bewildered themselves, in their pursuit after conjugal felicity.
That the passion of Samson, for the young lady of Timnath, proceeded from those bewitching charms of beauty and personal accomplishments, which irresistibly seize and fascinate the hearts of volatile and inconsiderate young men, rather than from any known excellence of her mind or disposition is sufficiently evident from his own narrative and her subsequent conduct. He manifestly betrays that palpitation of the heart, that distraction of the mind, and those painfully pleasing and agitating sensations, which indicate
"the very ecstasy of love, Whose violent property foredoes itself And leads the will to desperate undertakings."
At his return from his tour to the land of the Philistines, with more than even the ordinary impatience of a traveller, he hastens to acquaint his parents with his discovery abroad. "I have seen," said he, "A WOMAN, in Timnath, of the daughters of the Philistines;" and with still greater earnestness adds; "now, therefore get her for me to wife." His father, disposed to make some enquiry upon the subject and to recall, to his memory, the laws and usages of his nation, replies with a mixture of irony and paternal reproof; "Is there never a WOMAN among the daughters of thy brethren, or among all my people, that thou goest to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines?" Samson, indignant that his father should oppose, to the progress of his enjoyment, the barriers of reason, or attempt to retard his anticipated bliss, by the suggestions of duty, deigns no direct or satisfactory reply to these expostulations, but more impatiently and peremptorily demands, in the language of the text! "Get her for me for she pleaseth me well."
So he did: But when Samson had obtained her, his felicity, as we might expect, was "momentary as a sound." It did not last even the short period of honey-moon. Before the close of the nuptial feast, we find her planning and executing a stratagem to betray him. Do not be too hasty, young man, to reply; that she was a base and treacherous woman; that such is a rare instance, and very little to be feared among women, whose company, you keep. The assertion, that she was base and treacherous, is without proof. In the eyes of Samson, she was a charming girl, possessed of all that perfection, which he artlessly, though forcibly, expressed, when he said, that he had seen a woman; or which your own fancy discovers in the object of your midnight sighs. The fault was chiefly his, and may be yours. Having merely seen her, he determined to marry her, and, without giving her, a sufficient opportunity to become acquainted with him and to persuade herself, that she also had seen a man and the only man, whom she could wear in her "heart of hearts," he makes known to her this determination and carries it into execution. The natural consequence was, that though, from motives of prudence or policy or something else, she had consented to be his, she had not contracted that strong attachment to him which could swallow up all other considerations, and induce her to embark herself, solely, in his interest and to bear up against the stormy threats and solicitations of her countrymen and friends. Overborne by their persuasions and menaces, she consents to extort from him, a secret and betray it to them:—a secret, to be sure of no very great importance, in itself; but, in its consequences, ruinous to his felicity and dreadfully fatal to herself and family. In all this, we discover the marks of timidity,
rather than of any extraordinary depravity, which should distinguish the Timnathites from the women of other countries and of later times. Nor will I consent, that her conduct be ascribed to any peculiar malignity or inconstancy common to all women;
"For, however we do praise ourselves, Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, More longing, wavering, looser, loft and won Than women's are."
It is properly to be ascribed to a principle or a weakness of human nature and we always deceive ourselves and bring trouble upon others, when we hope to reap the fruits of strong attachment or consolidated friendship, without sowing the seed, and allowing the time which are necessary for the production of such a harvest. Wild adventures, of this kind, lead persons into strong temptations to inconstancy and unfaithfulness. Likewise, by dissipating the affections and unking the principles of morality and good manners, they have a most unhappy influence on the minds of those who engage in them.
After a manœuvre of this kind, we might naturally enough look for any young man, where we actually find Samson,—in the chambers of a harlot. This last piece of folly, as it usually does, brought its own punishment with it by involving him in fresh broil with the Philistines. His ungovernable temper, however, incapable of being subdued by chastisements of this kind, hurried him on to a similar intrigue with Delilah, another daughter of the Philistines, in which after being wheedled and outwitted by a false and deceitful woman, he "died, as a fool dieth," in the land of his enemies and of his unlawful amours.
Thus have I, imperfectly, sketched the course and consequences of that love which arises from caprice and is indulged without discretion. "Reason, my son, should choose himself a wife:—reason, which first approves, then esteems, and afterwards, draws into its train the affections and the heart. There is an essential difference between that love, ripened upon friendship, which grows out of a rational approbation, of a woman's character; and that fungus, mushroom passion, which is ready to spring up at the sight of a handsome face or a wanton gesture, and which poisons the soul and prevents the growth of every virtuous affection. The former is a pleasant and salutary fruit, which may be freely and safely taken, for "it bringeth no sorrow therewith;" the latter is a luscious, but, at the same time, noxious potion, which, if ever productive of lasting happiness, is still to be suspected and avoided; "for beauty is a witch," which throws a charm over every imperfection and converts the grossest faults into fascinating ingredients to inflame the draught of love. Trust not your happiness with the woman, whose graces "ride sparkling in her eye;" but with her who has them "placed about the thoughts and the counsels of the heart." See that she possesses compassion, benevolence, mildness and discretion; that she be a "keeper at home;" and one, who "looketh well to the ways of her household;" "for in her shall thy heart trust safely." "When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid; yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet." But beware of a strange woman, and "lust not after her beauty, in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eye-lids;" "for though, at present, she pleaseth thee well, the time may come when she will shave thy head and take away thy strength."
The Lay Preacher of Pennsylvania.
ELECTION.
AT a meeting of a number of the inhabitants of the Township of Germantown, held at Riter's Tavern on Thursday the 1st of August, it was
Resolved, That the inhabitants of Germantown, Bristol, and Roxborough, friends to the election of JAMES ROSS, Esq. as Governor of this Commonwealth, be requested to meet on Thursday the 15th inst. at 3 o'clock P. M. at the sign of Gen. M'Pherson in Germantown.
THOMAS DUNGAN, Chairman. August 1. d15
NOTICE.
WHEREAS Messrs FOOTMAN & CO. have assigned all their property both real and personal, to the subscribers, in trust, for the benefit of their creditors; Therefore all persons who are indebted to said firm, or to Richard Footman, or Richard S. Footman, prior to the 23d March, 1799, are requested forthwith to make payment or they will be immediately put in suit, and those who have claims against them are desired to exhibit them properly attested, to either of the subscribers.
SAMUEL PRICE, Affixes appointed. SAMUEL YORK, Secy by the Court. Philadelphia, July 31, 1799. d1m
Health Office,
New-York, 1 Aug 1799. P. M.
THE Commissioners of Health, knowing that much alarm has been excited among the Citizens of New-York by the Death of six or eight persons in Yellow Fever; and knowing from various citizens, and particularly from Philadelphia, that our condition is believed by our neighbours to be infinitely worse than in reality it is, have judged it advisable to inform its citizens, that no new case of Yellow Fever has been reported to them during the last forty eight hours, at which time they knew of but two suspicious cases in existence.
They have the pleasure to add, that the testimony of the Physicians in general concurs in declaring the state of health of this City to be at least as good as it ordinarily is at this season of the year.
GABRIEL FURMAN, Chairman.
On the 26th ult as Mr. Charles Stantin, of this city was bathing at the public baths, he was unfortunately drowned. The body was found the next day, and decently interred in Trinity Church burying ground. He was a good and honest man.
Had our minister at Paris, when he was threatened with imprisonment, if he did not take himself out of France, left the city the same night with 3000 jacs in his pockets there would have been vagabonds enough outside the gates to rob him, and murder him afterwards. He knew where he was and was more wise. He waited, though many weeks, till he obtained a passport.
French presumption and petulance would not suffer the deputy of the grande nation to wait at Rastadt a few hours for a passport; they set out in the night without it, and shortly after fell by the hands of ruffians, perhaps of their own nation and kidney. (Fed. Gaz.)
The directory, in other matters as well as their intrigues and negotiations, have over reached themselves. Forgetting their own characters, they gave out that the frightful Suwarrows intended to give no quarter, take no prisoners. They took care to convey, this calumny to their armies, in hopes of renovating their former frenzy and mad enthusiasm; but mark, it had the contrary effect. The idea of seeing men laid to be as ferocious as themselves filled them with horror. In every onset since, they have in thousands thrown down their arms and begged. Quarter has been given them, and what now enrages the grande nation and their minions, is, that they can find no cut throat like themselves. (ib.)
Port of Philadelphia.
August 3.
No arrivals at the Port.
Ship Belvedere, of this port was at Alicante the 8th May. Also the ship Mohawk, likewise of this port.
Brig Fame, Whelen, from hence, has arrived at Surinam.
FOR CHARTER,
The British Letter of Marque SHIP LONDON, SAMUEL ROPER, commander. BURTHEN 330 Tons, coppered, sheathed, mounting Twenty guns, and will be ready to receive a cargo in about 14 days, for terms apply to NICKLIN & GRIFFITH.
WHO HAVE FOR SALE
ON BOARD SAID SHIP, 40 Tons Patent Sheathing COPPER afforded from 18 to 32 ounces to the square foot. Composition Nails, Spikes and Bolts of various descriptions. 20 4lb. guns of 4 cwt. each, 40 6lb. do. 6 cwt. do. 12 12lb. do. 12 do. 16 do. do. with carriages, 12 cwt. each, 240 crates Quarts Ware, afforded, 200 Tons Fine Stoved Salt, 45 do. Houle Coal, and a quantity of Paints august 3 oodif
JUST RECEIVED,
And for sale by the subscribers, 30 Tons LOGWOOD, ERICK & LEWIS BOLLMAN, No. 113, South Third Street. august 3 d3t
COUNTRY HOUSE,
NEAR GERMANTOWN, To be disposed of by Private Contract an Elegant COUNTRY RESIDENCE, consisting of a Stone House, Stone Barn, a Spring House, Coach House, Stables, &c. with every other convenience necessary; excellent Gardens, with the choicest kinds of fruit trees, with from ten to fifteen acres of Land, seven acres of which is thriving young Woodland.
Further particulars may be known by enquiring of the broker.
If required, more Land may be had to suit the purchaser. august 3. d1w
A court of common pleas held at Union town for the county of Fayette, the fourth Monday of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety nine, before the Judges of the same court.
On the petition of JOHN WILSON, praying that the act of Assembly providing that the person of a debtor shall not be liable to imprisonment after delivering up his estate for the use of his creditors; may be extended to him; the court appointed the first day of next term to hear the petitioner and his creditors, and order that he give his creditors public notice hereof in Fennor's Philadelphia paper, and in Yunt and Brown's Baltimore paper, for one week, ending at least four weeks before the day of hearing, and that he also give to John Gillespie and Jacob Airtart personal notice in writing to be served at least fifteen days previous to the hearing.
By the court, EPHRAIM DOUGLASS, Proth'y august 2 d6t

FOREIGN ATTACHMENT. NOTICE is hereby given that a Foreign Attachment has issued from the General Court of the Territory of Ohio, at the suit of John Williams, Charles Williams, & Matthew Brant, against the Lands and Tenements, Goods, Chattels and Effects, Rights and Credits of Levi Muncell, and that unless the said Levi Muncell appear by himself or attorney and give special bail to answer the suit of the said plaintiffs, Judgment will be entered against him by Default, and the property attached will be sold for the satisfaction of all creditors who shall appear to be justly entitled to a demand thereon, and who shall apply for that purpose. DANIEL SYMMES, Clerk of the General Court. Cincinnati 21th Nov. 1792. } July 23
FOR SALE, Glasgow Works & Farm, Situate in Montgomery county, about one mile and an half from Pottstown. THE Farm consists of upwards of eight hundred acres of land, about two hundred and fifty of which is woodland; a large proportion excellent watered meadow, besides clover fields, and a good orchard—There are about 125 acres of good wheat and rye now in the ground; 35 acres of indian corn and 15 of oats; from sixty to seventy tons of hay are made annually; the fences have been repaired within the last three years with twelve thousand new chestnut rails, none of which were made on the place. The Works consist of a forge for the manufacturing of bar iron, well manned; a tilt hammer; a grist mill with two pairs of stones, one pair of them burrs, with rolling screen, &c. a saw mill, and Smith's shop, the whole in good order. There is a sufficient stock of cord wood now on hand to supply the works for one year, and the Subscriber will engage to furnish with it a convenient distance, as much more, to be cut next winter, making together two years stock from this time. Near the works is the dwelling house large and roomy, and commanding an extensive view; a barn, stables for a number of horses, wains, smoke, ice, and milk houses, of stone; and two gardens included with stone walls, with a sufficient number of houses for the accommodation of workmen, and a large stone coal house. There has also been lately built a two-story stone dwelling house for a tenant who works part of the farm. The purchaser can be accommodated with wagons, horses, and every other kind of stock, necessary for carrying on the business. About one fifth of the purchase money will be wanted, and the remainder in yearly installments. The terms may be known by applying to Mr. James Rowland, no. 23, north Second Street, or to the subscriber on the premises. JOSEPH POTTS, Junr. July 8 32w3w
TO BE SOLD, TWO new frame two Story Houses, pleasantly situated near the Jolly Post-Tavern, upper end of the Village of Frankford. There are in each house, besides a kitchen, two rooms on the first floor; three on the second, with roomy garrets, all well finished; there are also to each, a good garden lot, stable and coach house. Part goods will be taken in payment. Any persons wishing to become purchasers are requested to view the premises, and for terms apply to JOHN McCLELLAN. Frankford, July 13 colf
TREASURY DEPARTMENT. May 29th, 1799. THE proprietors of certificates issued for subscriptions to the Loan bearing interest at eight per centum per annum, are notified, that at any time after payment shall have been made of the 5th installment, which will become due during the first ten days of the month of July ensuing, Certificates of Funded Stock may at their option be obtained at the Treasury or Loan Offices, respectively, for the amount of the four first installments, or one moiety of the sums expressed in the subscription certificates:—No certificates of Funded Stock will however be issued for less than one hundred dollars. Such subscription certificates as may be presented at the Treasury or Loan Offices in consequence of the foregoing arrangement, will be marked and distinctly marked so as to denote, that a moiety of the stock has been issued. OLIVER WOLCOTT, Secretary of the Treasury
Twenty Dollars Reward. DESERTEED, FROM the Marine Barracks, corner of Fifth and Thirteenth Streets, in the City of Philadelphia, the 28th day of this instant Two Marines, by trade Tailors, one John Crawford (the second time of his desertion) five feet seven inches high, fair complexion, hair cut close, dark eyes, lim built.—The other, Hilary Bishop five feet six inches high, ruddy complexion, sandy hair, a remarkable ringworm on the left of his lip.—(Went off in uniform.) N.B. They took with them one brown cloth Coat, one blue cloth Coat, and many other articles not known at present. W. W. BURROWS, Major Commandant of Marine Corps. May 29
To be Sold or Exchanged, FOR Property within twelve miles of the City of Philadelphia, and on the Bristol Road; A beautiful and very highly cultivated F A R M. For particulars, see the office of C. Lebarbier du Chesne, No. 25 South Third Street. June 29
Elis of Richmond TOBACCO, of an excellent quality, FOR SALE BY Peter Barker & Co. No. 148, High Street 6 mo. 12 colf
NOTICE. ALL persons indebted to the Estate of Jedidiah Snowden deceased, are requested to make payment to either of the subscribers, and those having any demands on the same to produce their accounts for settlement. ANN SNOWDEN, Administratrix. ROBERT SMITH, } Executors. ISAAC SNOWDEN, } July 8 22w4w
NOTICE. ALL persons indebted to the Estate of the Rev. Gilbert T. Snowden deceased late of Cranberry, in the State of New Jersey, are requested to make payment to the subscriber, and those having any demands on the same to produce their accounts for settlement. ISAAC SNOWDEN, Administrator. July 8 22w4w
TO BE LET, A Large Commodious Cellar, Under Friends Meeting House, in Keys' Alley. Apply at LEONARD SNOWDEN'S, No. 130, North Front Street. 7 mo : 6 204w
JOHN MILLER, JUN. No. 80, Dock, near Third Street. Has for Sale, Coffees, Bahas, Mamoodies, Taffaties, Colicoes, Pasta, Romual and } Handkerchiefs. Mulmul The foregoing goods are now to be sold at REDUCED PRICES, N.B. Many of these Goods may be printed to advantage in this country. May 16 32w1f
DONATION LANDS. Notice is hereby given, THAT Claims for Donation Lands granted by the State of Pennsylvania to the Officers and Soldiers of the Line belonging to the said State in the late war, will be received at the Office of Comptroller General of said State until the 1st September next inclusive, and that the subscribers authorized by law will sit as a Board at the said Office on every Monday from ten o'clock in the forenoon until one in the afternoon, to hear and determine all unsatisfied Claims already filed, as well as those which may be filed on or before the said first day of September next. JOHN DONALDSON, Comr. SAMUEL BRYAN, Regt. PETER BAYTON, Treasr. Department of Accounts of Pennsylvania, May 15, '99. } (16) drw (m.w.4a tf)
Valuable Property for Sale, In Chestnut, near Sixth Street, directly opposite CONGRESS HALL. A LOT of ground, about 21 feet front in Chestnut Street and 73 feet in depth, whereon is a good frame house, now in the tenure of Samuel Benge, subject to a ground rent of 20s. per annum. The advantageous situation of this property requires no comments, for it must be known, there are few in this city to equal it, an unexceptionable title will be made to the purchaser. Apply to JAMES GIRVAN, no. 198, Chestnut Street, next door to the premises. March 5 such fa tf
ALL PERSONS INDEBTED to the late Joseph Henry Esdaile, deceased, are requested to make immediate payment; and all persons having demands against said estate, are desired to furnish their accounts to the subscriber. Christian Claudy, Admin'r. July 15 w.&fa 3w
The Subscriber offers for Sale, THE FOLLOWING PROPERTY. AN Excellent three story Brick House, situated on the Point on Point road, being the first house to the Northward of the five mile stone; this house is about 60 feet front and 40 feet deep finished in a neat manner; there is a good garden and choice collection of the best fruit trees, Ice-House and other conveniences with about nine acres of ground—or if more agreeable to the purchaser, thirty two acres of upland and meadow may be added to it. A plantation in Biberly Township, Philadelphia county near the Red Lyon, about 13 miles from this city; bounded by the Northampton Road and Poquessing Creek, this Farm contains about 140 acres of land, a proportion of which is woodland and meadow; a brick dwelling-house, frame barn, and other out-houses, and there is said to be a good stone quarry on part of it, although it has not yet been opened, a further description is deemed unnecessary as no person will purchase without viewing the premises. A small plantation in Horsham Township, Montgomery county, nineteen miles from Philadelphia, adjoining to Grange Park, on which is an excellent new Stone House and Kitchen, with a large Stone Shed for the accommodation of travellers' horses; the house is now occupied as a tavern, and is suitable for any kind of public business; the land is good in quality, a good neighborhood, and a remarkably healthy situation; there is fifty acres of land and meadow in this farm—Also for sale, several tracts of land in different counties of this state. The House in Race Street first mentioned and one of the Houses in Water Street, are now TO BE LET, And immediate possession given. For terms apply at the South-east corner of Arch and Sixth Streets, to JOSEPH BALL. th&tf
TERMS Of Richard Folwell, in Philadelphia, FOR SUBSCRIBING TO THE JOURNALS OF CONGRESS, FROM THE COMMENCEMENT Of the American War, in 1775, to the present time, including The Reports of Heads of Departments, of Committees, and other Official and Private Papers of that Body now first permitted to be made public. TERMS. The work will be printed on a fine paper, and a new neat type, in large octavo. Each volume will contain above 500 pages, neatly bound and lettered. Uniformity in size, paper, and binding, will be observed throughout the work; so that, while the subscribers be come possessed of a valuable record, an ornament may be added to their libraries. The price to subscribers will be 2 dollars, 75 cts. per volume, in boards, and 3 dollars, whole bound, but, as the publisher does not intend to print more than the number subscribed for, a considerable sale on the price may be expected to non-subscribers. Each volume will contain about one third less of letter-press than the original edition; but, as the publisher is not yet enabled to determine the extent of the Private Journals, which he may be allowed to make public, he cannot ascertain the number of volumes which will comprise the work. Payments to be made on delivery of each volume. Subscribers will have it at their option, either to subscribe for the whole of the Journals, up to the present time, or to those only of the Old Congress prior to the organization of the Federal Government.
IN all countries, the proceedings in the commencement of their governments, are lost in darkness and obscurity, owing to a carelessness, in the succeeding generation, to preserve the public records, and the attention of the nation, in these rude ages, being called off from their domestic concerns, to engage in wars and conquests. Of what infinite value would the laws of Alfred be, had they been transmitted to our days! Time, that destroys everything, enhances the value of well authenticated public records, and renders them almost invaluable. It is hoped, that Americans will, therefore, cheerfully contribute their assistance in transmitting to posterity the labours of their ancestors—founders of the Columbian nation. The work will certainly be advanced with expedition and promptitude. The following will show the support it has already acquired: "Philadelphia, June 15, 1798." "To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States." "The MEMORIAL of the Subscribers, Citizens, &c. of Philadelphia, "Respectfully represents, "That having, in our respective avocations, frequent occasions to recur to the Journals of Congress, we experience inconvenience by the scarcity of them: That we understand that Richard Folwell, printer, of Philadelphia, has had it in contemplation to print that public record; and that he has obtained partial countenance from many individuals; but that he has delayed prosecuting the work, in expectation of encouragement from government, that may adequately indemnify him. We, therefore, respectfully solicit, as the publication is necessary to be disseminated among public bodies, that Congress will, in their wisdom, render him such additional encouragement, to that which he has obtained from private individuals, as to enable him to proceed with the work, to that your Memorialists may be enabled to purchase copies of that record for themselves." Thomas McKean, John D. Coxe, Charles Heatly, Samuel Levy, T. Ross, Wm. Moore, Smith, John Read, Wm. Tilghman, John F. Miller, Joseph B. McKean, John Beckley, W. Sergeant, John Thompson, Jared Ingersoll, Jasper Moulton, William Rawle, J. Thomas, William Lewis, James Gibbon, M. Keppele, Moses Levy, Robert Porter, George Davis, John Hallowell, James Oldden, Walter Franklin, James Milnor, John C. Wells, John L. Leib, Alexander I. Dallas, Joseph Reed, Thomas Willing, Samuel M. Fox, John Nixon, Robert Waln, Robert H. Dunkin, John Ewing, Jun. Edward Pennington, Hilary Baker, William Nichols, William Young, Robert Campbell, Stephen, Claypoole, James Cruckshank, Mathew Carey, Henry K. Helmsuth, Peter D. Haven, John Duval, Edward Shoemaker, John R. Smith, William Hall, David C. Claypoole, Thomas Armstrong, Samuel H. Smith, John Pennock. "True copy from the original Memorial, presented to the House of Representatives of the United States, on Monday, the 18th of June 1798: "WILLIAM LAMBERT, for "JONATHAN W. CONDY, Clerk." "RESOLVED by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives, be authorized and directed, to subscribe, on such terms as they may deem eligible, for the use of the Senate and House of Representatives, for four hundred Copies of the Journals of Congress, which are proposed to be published by Richard Folwell and such number of copies of deficient volumes of the less now in print, as may be necessary to complete the same. JONATHAN DAYTON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JAMES ROSS, President of the Senate pro tempore. Approved, March 2d, 1799. JOHN ADAMS. President of the United States. may 20. iawtf
Twenty Dollars Reward. DESERTEED FROM the barracks at Reading, in the night of the 5th July, 1799, the following soldiers in the 11th regiment in the service of the United States. Thomas Britton Beah, a private, born in Chester county, 25 years of age, 5 feet 8 inches and 3-4 high, dark complexion, brown eyes and long black hair which he commonly wears tied close to his head, by occupation a farmer; he is a stout, good looking fellow, and considerably marked with the small pox, is much addicted to liquor, and very as a buffalo when intoxicated; he was dressed in full infantry uniform except his hat—It is expected that he will change his dress as he stole a plain round hat and a number of citizens' cloaths. Also, James M c Millen, born in the county of Antrim, in Ireland, 36 years of age, 5 feet 7 inches and 1-2 high, fair complexion, grey eyes, short brown hair, which is very thin upon the crown of his head, of thin visage and a very pleasant countenance; by occupation a farmer, and was dressed in full infantry uniform. The above reward and reasonable expenses will be paid to any person who shall apprehend and confine in any jail, or deliver to any officer in the service of the United States, the above described deserters, or ten dollars and expenses for either of them. LEWIS HOWARD, Lieutenant 11th United States Regiment Reading, July 7 (19)
TAKE NOTICE. THE subscriber, having obtained letters of Administration on the personal estate of John Morton, late of Cecil County in the State of Maryland, deceased; all persons having claims against the said deceased, are warned to exhibit the same with the vouchers thereof, on the 6th day of August next, at the town of Warwick, in said county and State, that a dividend of the assets in hand, may be made agreeable to law. REBECCA MORTON, Admin'x. Warwick, July 2. [July 5] 32w16A
The Swift-Sure, A NEW LINE OF STAGES, NOW RUNNING BETWEEN PHILADELPHIA & NEW-YORK, By the short and pleasant road of Burlington, Newtown, Scotch Plains, Springfield and Newark. THE excellence of this road, the popularity of the country through which it passes, with many other advantages, which render it so far preferable to the Old Road through Bristol, Brunswic, &c. long ago suggested the propriety of its becoming the Grass Thorough-Fare from Philadelphia to New York. During the present year, a minute survey of it has been taken, and its superiority over the Old Road, both in winter and summer, has been clearly ascertained.—There are good bridges over all the other waters but the Delaware, and here the crossing is performed with great safety and in less than half the time required at the Trenton Ferry. The road is several miles shorter than the old road, but this is amongst the least of its advantages, because daily experience proves to us, that dispatch as well as comfort in travelling principally depend on the goodness of the road and the levelness of the country, and, in these respects, the New Road is, beyond all comparison, the best. It prevents none of those rocky hills, which render the Old Road so fatiguing between the Delaware and Newark. The hill, too, for the greater part, is such as to produce but little mud in winter, and very little dust in summer, which circumstance, added to the beauty of the country, and a considerable proportion of shade, must always render travelling in the latter season peculiarly agreeable. The Swift-Sure starts from PHILADELPHIA, at 6 o'clock every morning (Sundays excepted) from the GREEN TREE, opposite the Lutheran Church, North Fourth Street. It goes through Frankford to Burlington, where it stops to breakfast; from Burlington it goes through Newtown to Pennytown to dinner; from Pennytown through Hopewell, Millstone, Boundbrook, Quibbletown and Plainfield to Scotch Plains to lodge. The next morning it stops at Springfield to breakfast, from whence it goes through Newark and arrives at New-York at noon. From NEW-YORK it starts at 3 o'clock in the afternoon (from Paulus Hook) and arrives at Philadelphia the next evening. For seats at New-York, application may be made to Edward Bardia, Old Coffee House, to A. Mathieu, corner of Nassau and John Streets, to B. Many, no. 48, Courtland, corner of Greenwich Street, and to Michael Little, at his hotel, no. 42, Broad Street.
Fare for passengers, Five Dollars. Way passengers 6 Cents per Mile. Each passenger is allowed to take on rails, of baggage carriage free; but all other baggage, taken on by a passenger, will be charged at 4 cents per pound weight. With respect to packages sent on without passengers, the proprietors presume they have adopted a regulation, which, though unknown to other lines of stages, they think must meet with general approbation. They pledge themselves to make good every package on the following conditions. The person who delivers the package at the office shall see it entered in the baggage-book, for which entry he shall pay 6 cents; he will then state the value of the package, and pay (exclusive of the carriage) one per cent. on the value, as insurance, and for which he will receive a receipt. Thus, for instance, if he estimates his package at one dollar, he will pay one cent. and if at one hundred dollars, he will pay one dollar insurance, and in like proportion for packages of any other value. Very few persons it is presumed, will dislike this regulation; it will, however, be optional with every one to avail himself of this security or not. But the proprietors think it right to state very explicitly, that they will be responsible for the safe delivery of no package, which is not regularly entered, and for which an insurance receipt cannot be produced. In the distribution of the route, the greatest care has been taken to fix on such places and taverns as always afford a good accommodation and entertainment for the passengers at the most reasonable rates. The stages are well equipped furnished with seat and steady horses, and committed to the care of intelligent and obliging drivers. The proprietors themselves live at the different towns and villages where the stages will stop, so that the conduct of the persons they employ is continually an object of their attention.—They take care also to see that the passengers are well provided for and politely treated at the taverns, and that no sort of chicane or influence is practised upon them; in render the SWIFT-SURE the very best line of stages in America. The line has now run nearly a month, during which time a great number of gentlemen have gone through, both from Philadelphia and New-York. Every passenger has found the road to surpass very far all that has been said of its excellence; and the Proprietors of the Swift-Sure are extremely happy to hear the behaviour, of their drivers, and the treatment at Taverns spoke of with the highest satisfaction. JOHN MCALLA, Philadelphia THOS. PAUL, Burlington JOSEPH THORNTON, NICHOLAS WYNKOOP, } Newtown JACOB KESLER, JOHN MORREHEAD, Pennytown. T. KILLMAN, near Millstone. ELLAS COMBES, Bound Brook. R. SANSBURY, Scotch Plains. ISAAC RAWLE, ROBERT PEARSON, } Springfield. June 22. colf
Notice is Hereby Given, THAT the Officers and Crew of the Confellona will receive their prize money for the capture of the L'Unitee, by calling on CHARLES BIDDLE, No. 245, Market Street, or HENRY BENBRIDGE. July 12 dim
An excellent Stand for Business FOR SALE, And possession immediately given. THAT valuable stand for business at the head of Chester Street county, Maryland consisting of a brick three-house, 20 feet by 60, two stories high, three rooms on a floor, well appointed for business, two twenty feet rooms for the reception of grain, and a counting room, and three rooms for goods, with an excellent cellar under the whole, completely garnered off for sale and pickling pork, with a log corn crib adjoining, 10 feet by 40.—This stand is situated in the handsomest and most advantageous part of the town for business and the prospect of returning good crops of wheat in the country around the head of Chester will tend to make it more desirable to those inclined to purchase. For terms, apply to Messrs. Levi Hollingsworth & Son, Philadelphia, or the subscribers near the premises, GEORGE V. MCANN W. THOMAS. P.S.—If the above property, is not sold in three months from this date, it will be rented. July 9 d8w
Ten Dollars Reward. DESERTEED from the Rendezvous, corner of Front and South Street, on the 21st instant, GEORGE GALLAGHER, born in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, aged 22 years and 3 months, five feet nine and a half inches high, swarthy complexion, black eyes, his hair is black and grey mixed, has the dial of a Chester County man. He had neither coat or waistcoat on when he went off, has been employed as a Labourer about this city. Whoever apprehends said Defter and delivers him to me at the Rendezvous in this city, or at Head Quarters in Bristol, shall receive the above reward. SAM. R. FRANKLIN, Lieutenant 10th U.S. Regiment. July 24 d8w
WILLIAM COBBETT HAS JUST PUBLISHED (PRICE 1 DOL. 50 CENTS) THE BAVIAD AND MEVIAD. By William Cobbett, Esquire. To which is prefixed, A POETICAL EPistle TO THE AUTHOR By an American Gentleman. [In introducing this celebrated work to the Gentlemen and Ladies of America, I have endeavored to give it a dress proportioned to its distinguished merit, and to the taste of those for whose amusement and delight it is intended. No expense has been spared in the publication; and I flatter myself that the work does not yield, either in paper or print, to any one ever published in America.—This edition has an advantage over former ones, as it contains by way of notes, the minor productions of the author; and, it has an advantage over every other edition, in the Political Epistle , which is prefixed to it, and which must be extremely gratifying to every lover of literature in this country, as it is a proof that there are Americans who have the taste to admire, the justice to applaud, and the talents to rival the Genius of other nations. Some Copies have been sent on to Mr. Saml. Elliott, Malden Lane, New York, also to Mr. Bell, Baltimore, and to Mr. Teyon, Charleston. Copies will be sent to Dujon and other places, as soon as occasions offer.] May 28
Samuel Miles, jun'r. Of the city of Philadelphia, merchant, having assigned over all his effects, real, personal and mixed, to the subscribers, for the benefit of such of his creditors as may subscribe to the said assignment on or before the first of August next. Notice is hereby given, To all persons indebted to the said estate, that they are requested to make immediate payment to either of the assignees, or to the said Samuel Miles, who is authorized to receive the same; in failure whereof legal steps will be taken for the recovery of such debts, as are not discharged accordingly. GEORGE ASTON, CORNELIUS COMEGYS, } Assignees JOHN ALLEN, } Feb. 14. 32w1f
WHEREAS, An attachment was lately issued out of the inferior court of common pleas of the county of Essex, in the state of New Jersey, directed to the sheriff of the said county, against the rights, credits, monies and effects, goods and chattels, lands and tenements of John Cleves Symmes at the suit of William Wells, in a plea of trespass on the case to his damage three thousand dollars; And whereas, the said sheriff did, at the room of June last past, return to the said court that he had attached the defendant by a certain bond given by Matthias Denman and Samuel Vetter to the said defendant, to the amount of near two thousand dollars, and also by sixty land warrants; Now therefore, unless the said John Cleves Symmes shall appear, give special bail, and receive a declaration at the suit of the plaintiff, judgment will be entered against him, and his property herein attached, will be sold agreeably to the statute in such case made and provided. Aaron Ogden, Clerk, &c. Elizabeth-town, July 8, 1799 (11) aw
A beautiful Country Seat, for Sale SITUATED on the bank of the Delaware joining lands of Matthias Spieer and Mrs. John Duffield, 13 miles from Philadelphia and 7 miles from Bristol. The buildings consist of a new two story Frame House and Kitchen adjoining—3 rooms on a floor, a Piazza the whole front of the House, a Pump of excellent water, also a good garden and orchard—10 acres of land will be sold with the premises, but more can be had if required. There is a gravelly shore at the river, the water stages for Burlington pass every day in the summer season, and the land stages for New-York within half a mile; any person inclined to purchase may know the terms of sale and other particulars by enquiring at No. 12, Dock Street, at No. 161, South Second Street. June 1.
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