Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser. (Philadelphia [Pa.]), 1796-08-06 00:00:00

J. Mc Dowell  Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser.
NUMBER 1220.]
SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 6, 1796.
[VOLUME X.]
Take Notice,
THAT the Subscriber intends to make application for the renewal of a Certificate, No. 1609, for 4000 dollars, dated the 14th December, 1795, bearing interest at 5 per cent. from 1st January, 1796, in the name of David Dunderdale & Co. of Leeds, in Yorkshire, merchants. The same is supposed to have been lost on its way to New York, under cover to Blacker & March, of that place, on the 6th of January last.
Thomas M'Lean.
Philadelphia, 22d June. 1796. $6w
Sales of India Goods.
The Cargo of the ship Ganges, capt. Tingey, from Calcutta and Bengal, CONSISTING OF A Large and general assortment of Bengal and Madras COTTON and SILK GOODS. A variety fine worked and plain Muslins, Doreas, &c. Also, A Quantity of Excellent Sugar, In boxes and bags—and BLACK PEPPER, For Sale by Willings & Francis, No. 21 Penn Street.
June 8. $
ELEPHANT.
This Animal is to be seen in High-Street, between the Tenth and the Eleventh-Street. HE will positively leave Philadelphia the tenth of September, for Baltimore, in his way to Charleston, where he will win. ADMITTANCE Half a Dollar—quarter of a Dollar for Children. THE PANORAMA, or the VIEW of the CITIES of LONDON and WESTMINSTER, Is to be open till the 10th of September, and the subject will then be removed to Baltimore with the ELEPHANT.
ADMITTANCE for the PANORAMA, One quarter of a Dollar. August 3. $
A well-finished, commodious HOUSE
For Sale, and immediate possession given, SITUATE on the north side of Spruce-Street, No. 111, between Fourth and Fifth Streets. The house, piazza and back buildings are three stories in height, and perfectly well adapted for the accommodation of a large family, as they contain twelve good rooms, exclusive of two enclosed garrets. In the yard, which is neatly paved, there are two pumps; one in a rain cistern, the other of as good water as any in the city. The cellars are dry and large. The terms of payment will be easy; a great part of the purchase-money in all probability may lay for years on interest. Apply at No. 109, next door eastward. July 30. $2w
Philadelphia, West-Chester, Strasburgh, Lancaster, York and Frederick-town S T A G E S.
THE proprietors of the above Stages, return their best thanks to their friends and the public in general, for the encouragement received in this line of business, and beg leave to inform the public, that they are determined to run their stages through from Philadelphia to Lancaster in one day, commencing on Tuesday, the 14th July instant, in the following manner,—viz. A Stage will set out on that day at 4 o'clock in the morning, from the house of George Weed, Market-Street, Philadelphia, and run by the way of West-Chester and Strasburgh, arrive in Lancaster the same evening, on Friday morning run to Wright's ferry and exchange passengers with the York and Frederick-town stage, return and arrive in Philadelphia on Saturday, and on Monday morning following, at 4 o'clock, said stage will set out from the said George Weed's, Philadelphia, and arrive at Lancaster the same evening, on Tuesday morning at 4 o'clock will set out from the house of Mrs. Edwards, Lancaster, and arrive in Philadelphia the same evening, and will commence again on Thursday morning following, and continue every week.—The price for each passenger from Philadelphia to Lancaster is three dollars and a half, to York, four dollars and three quarters, to Frederick town eight dollars, the like sums for 150 weight baggage, with the usual allowance of 14 lb. gratis to each passenger, and 5 pence a mile for all way passengers. 30—$4w
John Reilly, George Weed.
Insurance comp. of the state of Pennsylvania.
The Directors have declared a dividend of sixteen dollars on each share of the capital of said company, for the last six months which will be paid to the stockholders or their legal representatives on every day after the 10th instant.
S. W. Fisher, Secretary. August 1. dicit.
UNITED STATES, PENNSYLVANIA DISTRICT, } Sci.
Notice is hereby given,
THAT pursuant to a Writ to me directed, from the honorable Richard Peters, Esquire, Judge of the District Court of the United States in and for the Pennsylvania District,
Will be exposed to Sale,
at the Custom-House, on Monday, the 15th day of August, 3 Bags of COFFEE 1 Bbl. SUGAR 1 Half do. do. 2 Do. do. TAMARINDS 3 Kgs do. 2 Bags of Sugar and 1 Do. Coffee
The same having been libelled against, prosecuted, and condemned as forfeited, in the said court. WILLIAM NICHOLS, Marshal. Marshal's Office, 30th July, 1796.
Plans of the city of Philadelphia,
including the NORTHERN LIBERTIES and district of SOUTHWARK; Published, and sold by BENJAMIN DAVIES, No. 68, High Street, (Price one dollar.)
THIS plan is 26 inches square, and has been engraved by one of the first artists in the city, from a late and accurate survey. Purchasers are entitled to a pamphlet with each plan, giving some account of the city, its population, trade, government, &c. July 29. 11 & f f
For Sale, Freight, or Charter,
The Schooner ANGELICA,
ONE hundred and twenty tons burthen—six months old, a staunch, fast-sailing vessel, handsomely finished off, and well found in every particular. For terms apply to B. RHODES, On board said Schooner, lying at Bickley and Bohlen's wharf, the first above Market-Street.
WHERE THERE ARE FOR SALE, A few half-bbls. Prime Me's Beef. July 24. $
Jamaica Spirits
JUST arrived, and will be landed on Monday next, a few puncheons high proof Jamaica Spirits. For Sale by James Brown, No. 119 South Second-Street.
Who offers for Sale or Charter, The Brig M A R Y, BURTHEN about 800 barrels, 10 months old and well found. Aug. 3. $4t
For Sale,
Or for Charter to the West-Indies, THE SHIP C E R E S, Philadelphia Built, Of Live Oak and Red Cedar, burthen about 3500 barrels, now discharging at Latimer's wharf. This vessel is in excellent repair, well-found and will bear a thorough examination, and as soon as discharged will be ready to take in a cargo. For terms apply to John Vaughan. July 28. $
For JEREMIE, The Schooner Hope, AND Brig Betsey.
THEY are fast-sailing vessels, and have elegant accommodations. For passage only, apply to Richard & James Potter, No. 8 North Front-Street. Aug. 5. $
For Sale or Charter,
THE SNOW B O S T O N, BURTHEN about 2000 Bbls. of flour—she may be sent to sea at a small expence, her sails and rigging being in very good order—apply to James Campbell, or George Latimer. April 29. $
Just Arrived,
to the ship Molly, John Frost, Master, from Liverpool, 5000 Bushels Best fine stowed SALT, 600 Bushels HOUSE COAL, And 118 Crates of QUEENSWARE assorted, FOR SALE BY Philip Nicklin & Co. N. B. THE SAIL Ship M O L L Y, IS for SALE or CHARTER; she is 5 years old, Philadelphia built, of white oak, was well saved and carries about 4200 barrels of Flour. For terms apply as above. July 23. dit
This Day commenced Landing, At Millers wharf, the cargo of the Brig Lucy and Sloop St. Jago, from St. Jago de Cuba—consisting of White and Brown Box SUGAR. MOLASSES, of an excellent quality. COFFEE. HIDES and HONEY. Also, For Sale or Charter. The brig LUCY, A stout, strong vessel, will carry about 1200 barrels, and may go to sea with a very small expence. The above will be sold for cash or approved notes. Samuel Emery, No. 64, fourth Second-Street. July 27, 796. dit.
Landing
From on board the Nancy, William Belcher, master, from Bourdeaux, a cargo, consisting of— 360 Hhds. CHOICE CLARET, 232 Casks of 24 bottles each CLARET, 286 do. of 24 do. WHITE WINE, BRANDY, SWEET OIL, and 1 TRUNK of RIBBONS, For Sale by F. Coppinger. July 23. dit.
For Sale,
A Three story BRICK HOUSE and Lot, in Chestnut Street, between Front and Second Streets, in which Messrs. James Calbraith & Co. have for many years (and now do) carried on business. Possession will be given in one month, or sooner. For terms apply to WILLIAM BELL, or HECTOR CALBRAITH. April 21. $
Wm. HOLDERNESS,
No. 76 High Street, HAS received, by the latest arrivals from Europe and the East Indies, a well selected assortment of Silk Mercer, Linen Drapery and Haberdashery Goods; which he will sell, Wholesale and Retail, on the lowest terms; AMONGST WHICH ARE, Some fine India muslins embroidered with gold and silver Superfine Book, Jacquet, and Mouselin ditto. Do do do do Handkerchiefs Bandana Handkerchiefs Long and short Nankens English Mantillas of the first quality Darnask table linen and napkins, very fine Silk Hosiery, an elegant assortment Thread and cotton do. Umbrellas—green silk, oil'd do, and do cloth French cambrics, very fine Irish Linens, do. &c. &c. June 14. $
Just Arrived
In the brig Betsey, from Jeremie, and for sale by the subscribers. Forty thousand wt. of very prime Coffee in hogheads and bags And, in the Schooner Hope, from New Orleans. BEEF COTTON HIDES and LOGWOOD. A liberal credit will be given for Approved Notes. Richard and James Potter. July 27. dit
Just Arrived,
In the Snow Boston, James Kirkpatrick, master from Liverpool, 5000 Bushels SALT; 100 Crates QUEENSWARE; and An Assortment of SHIP CHANDLERY; FOR SALE On board, at Pine-Street wharf.—Apply to James Campbell, or George Latimer. April 29. $
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, and repealing the former acts for that purpose.—That there shall be levied, collected and paid, upon all 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 conveying of passengers, the several duties and rates following, to wit: For every four wheel carriage, 25 dols. upon every two wheel carriage, 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 pannels work above, with blinds, glass or curtains, 9 dols. upon four wheel carriages, having framed posts and tops with steel springs, 6 dols. upon four wheel top carriages, with wooden or iron springs or jacks, 3 dols. upon curricles with tops, 3 dols. upon chaises with tops, 3 dols. upon chairs with tops, 3 dols. upon sulkeys with tops, 3 dols. upon other two wheel top carriages, 3 dols. upon two wheel carriages, with steel or iron springs, 3 dols. For and upon all other two wheel carriages, 2 dols. upon every four wheel carriage, having framed posts and tops, and relying upon wooden springs, 2 dols.
The Collectors of the Revenue of the first survey of the District of Pennsylvania, will attend daily, on the 30th day of September next, for the purpose of receiving the duties on Carriages, at No. 117, in Race or Sassafras Street, in the City of Philadelphia, at the house of Daniel S. Clair, Esq. in the County of Montgomery; and at the house of Abraham Du Bois, 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 20 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 places, by the officers legally authorized to grant such licences. WILLIAM NICHOLS, Inspector of the Revenue of the first survey of the district of Pennylvania. Office of Inspection, at Philadelphia, 21st July, 1796. $ 30
Twenty Dollars Reward.
WAS STOLEN, last evening, from the pasture of the subscriber, a black Rockingham GELDING, 15 hands high, has a star, and some white under his throat, (the part being formerly chafed) has a leather on his neck, the mane on the near side, his foot-locks fretted with a clog, and is a horse of much bone and size. Whoever secures him with the thief, shall have the above reward, or for the Horse alone a very generous compensation. JOHN LAWRENCE. co4w
TAKE NOTICE,
THAT application will be made for the renewal of the following certificates, issued by Joseph Nourse, Register of the Treasury, in the name of Roger Griswold, Esq. of Norwich, Connecticut— 1 certificate, six per cent. domestic stock, No. 133907—dated the 17th December, 1795, bearing interest from the first day of January, 1791, for 1597 65-100 dollars. 1 ditto, three per cent. domestic stock, No. 10,682—dated December 16, 1795, bearing interest from the first day of January, 1791, for 904 30-100 dollars. 1 ditto, deferred stock, No. 9,166—dated the 17th December, 1795, bearing interest from the first January, 1801, for 798 83-100 dollars. Said certificates are supposed to have been lost or stolen in this city some time in December or January last. JOSEPH THOMAS, No. 59, North Front-Street. Philadelphia, July 21, 1796. d6w.
A Country Seat to be sold
ABOUT seven acres and a half of land near the three mile stone on the road leading to Gray's gardens and extending with a gentle declivity from the said road to the river Schuylkill—on which are erected, a convenient frame house suitable for a tenant, a frame barn and stable, a large Brick House forty-eight feet front, two stories high, a very elegant piazza fronting the river, the whole breadth of the house supported with turned pillars, floorboards with cedar plank, commanding an extensive and picturesque view of the Middle Bridge, Gray's Gardens, the Seat of Wm. Hamilton, Esq. the Turnpike Road and Canal. The improvements are all new—and the ground conveniently divided and inclosed by new cedar fences. For terms apply at No. 131 Market-Street. July 27. *7t
FOR SALE,
WINE, London particular Madeira, 4 years old, in pipes and hogheads Claret, genuine old, in cases Gin, in pipes, from Holland Earthen Ware, in crates Basket Salt, in hogheads Shot, Nos. 6, 7, 8 and 9 Bar Lead, Red and white dry lead Steel, German and Russia, in barrels Anchors, cables, junk, bunting, tarpaulin canvas, Tin plates—An invoice Stationary, by THOMAS & JOHN KETLAND. July 29. $
TO BE LET,
A large convenient three story Brick-House, pleasantly situated, on the west side of Second-Street, opposite to the New-Market; now in the occupation of Henry Clymer Apply to William Bingham. July 27.
CABLES,
From 16 to 9 3/4 inches, for sale by Jeremiah Warbler, No 12 north Third-Street. July 12. $
Washington Canal Lottery,
WHEREAS the State of Maryland has authorized the underwritten, to raise twenty-six thousand, two hundred, and fifty dollars, for the purpose of cutting a Canal through the City of Washington, from the Potomac to the Eastern Branch Herjour.
The following is the SCHEME of No. 1. Viz. 1 Prize of 20,000 dollars, 20,000 1 ditto 10,000 10,000 7 last drawn 5,000 35,000 Tickets, each } 6 ditto 1,000 6,000 10 ditto 400 4,000 20 ditto 100 2,000 55 ditto 50 2,750 5750 ditto 12 69,000 To be raised for the Canal, 26,250 5850 Prizes, 175,000 11650 Blanks, not two to a prize.
17500 Tickets, at Ten Dollars, 175,000 quired by the aforesaid act for the punctual payment of the prizes.
The drawing of this Lottery will commence, without delay, as soon as the Tickets are sold, of which timely notice will be given. Such prizes as are not demanded in six months after the drawing is finished, shall be considered as relinquished for the benefit of the Canal, and appropriated accordingly. (Signed) NOTLEY YOUNG, DANIEL CARROLL, of D. LEWIS DEBOIS, GEORGE WALKER, WM. M. DUNCANSON, THOMAS LAW, JAMES BARRY. City of Washington, Feb. 11. $
UNITED STATES, PENNSYLVANIA DISTRICT, } ff.
IN THE NAME AND BY THE AUTHORITY OF THE UNITED STATES, BY WILLIAM NICHOLS,
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS the Congress of the United States, at their first session of the fourth Congress, to wit, on the twentieth day of May last past, passed an act, to repeal so much of an act, intitled "an act to establish the Judicial Courts of the United States", as directs that the alternate sessions of the Circuit Court for the District of Pennsylvania, shall be held at Yorktown; and for other purposes, in the following words, to wit:
Fourth Congress of the United States: At the first session, begun and held at the city of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, on Monday, the seventh of December, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five. An Act to repeal so much of an act, intitled "an act to establish the judicial courts of the United States", as directs that alternate sessions of the said circuit court for the district of Pennsylvania, shall be held at Yorktown; and for other purposes.
Sec. 1. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That so much of the fifth section of the act, intitled "an act to establish the judicial courts of the United States", as directs that alternate sessions of the circuit court for the district of Pennsylvania shall be held at Yorktown, be, and the same is hereby repealed; and that all the sessions of the said circuit court shall, from and after the passing of this act, be held at the city of Philadelphia, excepting only, when at any session of the said court, the judges thereof shall direct the next session to be held at Yorktown; which they are hereby authorized and empowered to do, whenever it shall appear to them to be necessary.
Sec. II. And be it further enacted, That all such process of the said court, as may have issued before the passing of this act, and all recognizances returnable, and all suits and other proceedings that were continued to the said circuit court for the district of Pennsylvania, on the eleventh of October next, in Yorktown, shall now be returned, and held continued, to the same court, on the same day, at Philadelphia. And to the end that suitors, witnesses, and all others concerned, may have notice of the alteration hereby made, the Marshal of the said district is hereby required to make the same known, by proclamation, on or before the first day of August next.
JONATHAN DAYTON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. SAMUEL LIVERMORE, President of the Senate, pro tempore. Approved, May the twelfth, 1796.
GEORGE WASHINGTON, President of the United States. Deposited among the Rolls, in the Office of the Department of State,
TIMOTHY PICKERING, Secretary of State.
I DO HEREBY MAKE KNOWN, that all such process of the said court as has, or may be issued, and all recognizances returnable at Yorktown aforesaid, on the eleventh day of October next, will be returned to the Circuit of the United States, at the City Hall, in the city of Philadelphia, on Tuesday, the eleventh day of October next, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon. And that all suits and other proceedings that were continued to the said court at Yorktown, will be held and continued at the said Circuit Court, at Philadelphia, on the same eleventh day of October next, of which all persons concerned are desired to take notice, and give their attendance thereat.
GIVEN under my hand, at my office, in the District of Pennsylvania, the twenty-seventh day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-six, and of our Independence the twenty-first.
WILLIAM NICHOLS, Marshal.
July 27. $2w
Board & Lodging in the Country.
A Single Gentleman may be accommodated with board and lodging near Germantown, with the use of a stable, and grass for one or two horses: as an agreeable society is the chief object, the terms will be made perfectly easy. Enquire of the Printer of the Gazette. August 4. 3t

PRICES CURRENT. Philadelphia, August 6.
   PER QUANTITY—DOLLARS AT 100 CENTS.   Dolls. Cts.     ANCHORS, pr. lb. 10    Altum, English, pr. cwt 7 75    Ditto, Rock, pr. lb 170    Altum, pot, per ton, 150    Pearl, 150    Arack, per gallon, 10    Bacon, Shoulders, pr. lb. 13    Flukes, 13    Brandy, common, 1 60     Coniac, 1 67 1/2    Brasiletto, per ton, 80    Briks, per M. 7    Bread, ships, per cwt. 6    Ditto, pilot 12    Ditto, small water per box, 90    Beer, American, in bottles, per dozen, bottles included, 1 60    Ditto, per barrel, 6    Boards, Cedar, per M feet 30     Heart, 30     New England, 26 80 26 80     Oak, 26     Merchantable pine, 28     Sap, 18     Mahogany, pr. foot 18    The above are the shallot prices, for the yard price price, add 1 dollar, 33 cents, pr. M.    Brimsstone in rolls, per cwt. 2 61    Beef, Botton, per bbl., 1 1/2 16     Country, ditto 14     Fresh, cwt. 1 10 3/4    Butter, per lb. 18 3/4     in kegs 14    Candles Sperm, per lb. 56     Wax 40     Myrtle Wax 40    Cheese, English, per lb. 28     Country 11 3/4    Chocolate 23    Cinnamon 66    Cloves 1 50    Cocoa, per cwt. 18    Coffee, per lb. 25 to 28    Coal, per bushel, 30 to 40    Coppers, per cwt. 3    Cordage, American, per cwt. 16 to 18    Cotton, per lb. 33 to 40    Currants 10    Duck, Russia, per piece, 1 1/2 18     Raven 11 50    Dutch Sails Duck 24    Feathers, per lb. 66    Flax, ditto 11    Flaxseed, per bushel 69    Flour, Sup. per barrel 10 50     Common 9 1/2 to 10     Bur middlings, bbl. 8     Meal, Indian 4 50     Ditto Rye, 4 50     Ship stuff per cwt. 3 33     Fish, per ton, 25     Gin, Holland per cwt., 7 50      Do. per gall. 1 93    Glue, per cwt. 4    Ginger, cut, per cwt. 18     Ditto, common 16     Ditto, ground 24    Ginseng, per lb. 30    Gunpowder, cannon, per gr. cwt. 23     Ditto, fine grained, 28    Grain, Wheat, per bushel 50 3/4     Rye, 1     Oats, 60     Indian Corn, 90 to 93     Barley, 1 20     Soft hulled pr. lb. 1 20     Buckwheat per bushel, 75    Hams, pr. lb. 13    Hemp, imported, per ton, 300     American, per lb. 10     Herring, per bbl. 6     Hides, raw, pr. lb. 8 29    Hops, 9     Northfield hops per M. 30     Indigo, French per lb. 1 67      Carolina, 1     Irons, soft pr. ton 133 33     Iron, casting per cwt. 4     Pensylvania bar scarce 113 33     Russia per ton 97     Pig 32     Sheet, 224 33     Nail rods, 128 15     Gun, per cwt. 5     Lord, hogs per lb. 14     Lead ingots, per cwt. 5 33      in bars, 7      white, 13 33      red, 9     Leather, sole per lb. 22     Lignum vitae per ton, 24     Logwood, 40     Mace, per lb. 11     Mackerel, best per bbl 12      second quality 8     Madder, best per 20     Marble, wrought per foot 60     Mast spars, ditto 60     Molasses, per gall. 56 3/4     Muscovado, per lb. 46      flour, in bottles, per dozen, 1 20  
COURSE OF EXCHANGE.
   On London, at 30 days, per £1.100 sterl. par.    at 60 days, 165 1-2    at 90 days, 161 1/2 to 162 1-2   Amsterdam, 60 days, per guilder, 42  
JOHN PAUL JONES.
INFORMATION is hereby given that the late John Paul Jones was a proprietor of five shares (amounting to about 5867 acres) in a tract of land purchased by the Ohio Company, in the territory of the United States of America, north-west of the river Ohio; and that his heirs, or legal representative, on application to the directors of said company, at Marietta, in the territory aforesaid, will receive a deed of the said five shares, or rights of land.
The application may be made personally or by an agent, but proper documents must be produced to prove the claimant or claimants the legal heirs or representative of the said Jones.
N.B. As it is not known in what country the person or persons interested reside, it will be an act of benevolence in every printer in America and Europe, who shall insert this advertisement in his paper.
In behalf of the directors of the Ohio Company, RUFUS PUTNAM.
Foreign Intelligence.
From late English Papers.
A second Cock-lane Ghost has for several days and nights past, played its ghostly pranks at a lodging house, No. 16, Newcastle-court, Butcher row. The difference between this and the Cock-lane Ghost is, that it appears in propria persona .—One woman lodger declared, that she was ready to make her davy, that she had hold of his coat, and attempted to stop him, but she instantly fainted away.
This ridiculous buff has made some noise in the neighbourhood, and the affair has been transferred to Bow-street to be investigated.
The chimney sweepers apprentices decked in the gaudy and glittering paraphernalia of their order, had on Monday their annual fete in Mrs. Montague's garden; they ate their beef and pudding, and drank their ale with a gusto , that their superiors might envy, and after having enhaled copious draughts of British Burgundy, received their yearly fee of a shilling each, without those degrading conditions which being sometimes tacked to the annual fees of our high characters, give their salaries strong symptoms of bribery and corruption.
His majesty has been very successful this season as a grazier, having fed some well-bred Heresfordshire Oxen up to the weight of 175 stone on the average, and for which he obtained the top market prices.
A new creation of Peers takes place immediately on the prorogation of Parliament; and the following gentlemen are to receive that honour, viz. Mr. Pierrepont, Sir John Rous, Lord Broome, son of Marquis Cornwallis, the hon. Charles Townshend, Sir Francis Basset, the earl of Galloway, Mr. M c Kenzie of Seaforth, &c. &c.
The dissolution of parliament is shortly expected. Candidates are making their usual professions, and Borough-Jobbers their usual offers. Amongst other curious advertisements on this occasion, we read the offer of a PERPETUAL SEAT IN PARLIAMENT—that is, of a borough in the West of England, "which contains one hundred and fifty Electors: as the town has lately been consumed by fire, and three fourths of the electors are poor indigent people, it is presumed that the building 70 or 80 cottages, of about 40 shillings per year rent, would effectually secure a seat for the Borough."—The advertiser very properly adds, "this will be an excellent speculation for monied men." Some of the loan-contractors surely cannot do better than make the purchase, as they may probably indemnify themselves, by the profits of a future loan, and Mr. Pitt will, we doubt not, remember every exertion of this kind with becoming gratitude.
About 70 men of the 20th regiment landed at Plymouth on Tuesday last from on board a transport lately arrived from the West-Indies. Many of them are in an unhealthy state. They are the remains of 700 fine fellows, who have been thus reduced by the ravages of the yellow fever.
A strange accident happened on Monday last, in Blakeney near Manchester. The friends of a deceased person went up to the room to take the usual farewell before the coffin was screwed down, when the floor gave way, and the living and dead were precipitated to the lower apartment! The amazement and terror on this occasion may be better conceived than described.
A few days since a lady lost her purse, containing 4000l. in Bank notes by pulling out her handkerchief just as she left the bank, and has not yet recovered it, though she has liberally advertised that a reward of the whole sum should become the property of the person who found it!
The Minister and the Browsers have had another interview on the subject of a Beer tax: but what with his ifs and their buts, so many stumbling blocks were thrown in the way of negotiation, that the conference soon broke off abruptly without any satisfaction being gained on either side.
By the following Letter it would appear as if forged Bank Notes of England had been sent to France.
Head Quarters, Rennes, 15 Germinal.
The General in chief advises his fellow-citizens, that the notes of the Bank of England circulated here, are counterfeit, and as false as the assignats of Quiberon, and the Louis given to Stofflet.
(Signed.) HOCHÉ.
Certified, conformable to the original.
COCHIN.
Minister of Police.
There was a bank note came into the Bank the other day, the interest of which, calculated from the time it had been in circulation, amounted to more than 4300l.
The humanity of the Court of Common Pleas was on Monday solicited for a poor man, who has been kept in Fleet prison, for twelve years for the fees.—Good God! is this a land of humanity?
A very serious dispute has taken place between the Duke of Norfolk and Lord Malden, relative to the canals which have taken place at Leominster. It appears, that an agreement between the agents of these Noblemen had been entered into, for the purpose of putting a stop to those disgraceful scenes of riot and drunkenness which had lately taken place at Leominster. Lord Malden not only charges the agents of the Duke of Norfolk with an infraction of this treaty, but in a letter to his Grace, dated the 12th of April, says, that he considers him as personally answerable for those transactions which he had already censured in terms so strong. In consequence of the above mentioned dispute, the Duke of Norfolk arrived expects in town on Saturday morning, and, after making some necessary arrangements with his Solicitor, he instantly sent his friend, Capt. Wombell, with a message to Lord Malden. Lord Malden immediately returned Captain Wombell to Capt. Taylor, of the guards; and these gentlemen, as seconds, appointed a rendezvous at five o'clock that evening, near Paddington, on the Edgware road, where the parties accordingly met. Having taken their ground, and the word being given by one of the seconds, they fired without effect. The seconds then thought proper to offer their interference, and, in consequence of a conversation which passed while the
parties were on the ground, a reconciliation took place.
Last week at Winchester, Mr. Peter Woolbridge, a miller and mealman, was fined by the magistrates of that city, for neglecting to deliver a declaration that he would return a just account of the corn he should buy, 2l. for neglecting to make a due return, 1l. and for delivering a false return, 10l. by which false return the magistrates were compelled to set the affix of bread at 2s. 1d. instead of 16d., the half-peck loaf. The above several fines were laid out in bread, and distributed to the poor, and the effigy of the miller was carried through the city, and consigned to the flames with every mark of detestation.
Last week were committed to Fisherton Goal, Salop, John Martin, and John Dyke, labourers to William Barnes, of Endford, "to hard labour, for the space of one calendar month, having been convicted before two magistrates of ill-behaviour. "in neglecting to thresh out grain in a good workmanlike manner, being duly employed to do."
A little decency, one might have hoped, would have prevented the duke of Norfolk and Lord Malden, from bringing their electioneering tricks before the public. The former is in opposition, the latter a ministerialist, but both seem to have forgotten, that it is contrary to the laws of the land for a Peer to have any thing to do with Elections. It may perhaps be replied, the practice is common: the greater then is the shame. The duel which closed the above quarrel, serves for a further proof, that there are noblemen on both sides, who are equally regardless of the laws of God and of their country.
Cambridge Intelligence.
COUNCIL OF FIVE HUNDRED.
Sitting of the 20th Prairial.
A message from the Directory informs, that Marceau follows the example of the army of Italy.—That of the army of the Sambre and the Meuse has opened the campaign by two victories.
On the 12th Prairial the Republican army attacked the enemy at the Hundsruck, and drove them from all their positions. Generals Marceau and Championet, have executed with skill and bravery the orders of the commander in Chief, Jourdan.
Another army on the right bank of the Rhine marched to the Seig, and completely routed the Austrians, who, reduced to the necessity of abandoning this position, retreated towards Altkirch, to which place they were pursued. The enemy lost 2,100 men, of which 1000 are prisoners.—General Kleber and Moreau commanded the army.
From late Paris Papers.
Translated for the DAILY ADVERTISER. Extracts from the Courier De L'Egalite.
P A R I S, 30th Floreal.
We have read the justifiable memorial of Drouet; it is entitled, "Drouet, representative of the people, to the Legislative Body."—Printed by Vattier, and sold by Louvet, at the Palais Royal, and in the streets.—Drouet mentions that at the time of his arrest, he was in a private house with Ricords, Laignelot, Date, and two other citizens, whom he did not know, with an intention of breaking-falling with those known and unknown, and of consulting them respecting a letter which he intended writing to the Executive Directory. It is pleasant enough that the first conversation which a person in a public character, and of so high a station as a legislator should have with persons, with whom he was unacquainted, should be upon a subject so important.
After this frank declaration, Drouet speaks of his patriotism, his ardent love for liberty, equality, &c. "From the age of sixteen," says he, "the period at which I began to think, my heart was inflamed with the most sublime love for liberty, and for the political equality of citizens in the social order. My head was filled with the principles of Rousseau, Mably, Raynal, &c. in truth I had an innate aptitude for philosophical principles; I burned to signalize my zeal, and I waited but for an opportunity."
It appears that Drouet has lost part of his philosophical memory in riding post, for neither Rousseau, Mably, or even Mably, who at the age of 16, he certainly could not understand, have ever said any thing in their abstract theories, that resembled the principles put in action, by the constitution of 1793. The systems which they have advanced are so far from having that popular tendency, that they would at this day be regarded as a counter-revolution. What a rage these demagogues have for railing for support upon Raynal and Rousseau! Senseless Beings! ye have never read them! Every page of their writings contains your condemnation.
After having spoken of the constitution of 1793, as a masterpiece of the human mind, after saying that the idea of knowing that his country was sovereign and free by that constitution, (to wit, as suffocated, burnt and devastated) consoled him in his long captivity in Austria, he thus expresses the emotions of his indignant patriotism, when free and returning into France, he read the constitution of 1795. "Alas, cried I, in the presence of my colleagues, Quinet and Lamargue, and General Bourdonville, "it was not worth while to make so many sacrifices, to shed so much blood, to return to a system which bears such a resemblance to the government of our most cruel enemies. Here is an upper house and a lower house, there is nothing wanting but a king," &c. Still when he had arrived in France, Drouet changed his language when he found that the patriots had been the first to accept the English constitution, and that the Directory appeared to be endeavoring by every means to raise them from the humiliation into which they had fallen since the 9th Thermidor. But yet as in a few months every thing appeared to him to be changed, he became so indignant, that he was determined to retire into obscurity, and to send in his resignation; a project he was about executing when he was arrested.
But if we read the confession of faith of Drouet, respecting those whom he called patriots, it will easily convince the most incredulous of the pretensions of those pretended patriots of their false-
hood. In fine, of the plot which that aristocratic league, the most cruel that has ever yet appeared upon the earth, designs for France. "Still the patriots exist in great numbers, the remembrance of their former glory, shame at seeing themselves eclipsed by those who were concealed during the revolution, the evils which they have experienced, and the misery which overwhelms them, are so many oaths of hatred, which excite in their souls indignation, and a desire of vengeance."
"The violent measures which government may take, will only serve to delay for a while the bursting out of those passions, which are now suppressed. In vain will they hinder the union of citizens—In vain, will they engage on their side the most celebrated Journalists, it will not dissolve the sentiments which unites all the patriots from one end of the Republic to the other—They will revive all their lives to seize again the authority which they have lost, and for one who shall perish in the attempt, a victim of his zeal, thousands will press forward to avenge him." Still Drouet acknowledges, that their influence is gone. He wishes then "that they would rise at once in mass; that they would take with them their moveable property, their provisions, their instruments and their arms; that they would throw themselves headlong towards the frontiers of the Republic; that they would abandon a country which hates them; and that they would spread themselves like an overwhelming torrent, over the fertile countries occupied by the enemies of their mother country.—"It is there only, that they could in truth lay a foundation for the worship of the DEMOCRATIC TRINITY, LIBERTY, EQUALITY and FRATERNITY."
From the MARYLAND HERALD.
MR. COWAN,
IN reading over a late paper, I met with the following address to the people of the United States. As the sentiments and warning it contains are applicable to the citizens of our district, as well as to those of other districts in the Union, I request you, Sir, to publish it in your Herald, for the attentive consideration of our fellow-citizens.
I am, Sir, your humble servant, A SUBSCRIBER.
July 22, 1796.
TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES.
THERE are prevailing in this country two parties of very opposite sentiments. But without tracing them through all the distinctions by which they have respectively been known, it is sufficient to observe, and it is greatly important for every citizen to be informed, that one party is exerting all its endeavours to involve the United States in the calamities of war, and that the other party is wisely, and I trust successfully, employed in preserving our peace and happiness. To men, well acquainted with the true situation of our public affairs, this information is unnecessary; but too many of the people are inattentive to political objects, and appear unconscious of their danger. Being themselves in the possession of all the blessings which a good government wisely administered has bestowed, they do not imagine that turbulent and seditious men surround them, and labour to destroy their repose. And yet the better to deceive them into this fatal security, these turbulent and ambitious men borrow the language of patriotism, and hypocritically assume the character of patriots. But these blessings, dear and interesting as they are, are held at present by nothing but a thread: For while the war rages in Europe, be assured the situation of this country will remain immutably critical. The continuance of that terrible war, famous for the destruction of man, keeps alive the hopes of this malignant party; and they still expect, by artifice and fraud, to make us partake in all its horrors.
Let those, then, who are really the friends of peace, look around them, and make themselves inquisitive about the temper and character of every candidate for office: The ensuing elections for members of the House of Representatives in Congress will require all the caution and fortitude of which the human mind is capable. Citizens, be careful how you dispose of your suffrages—Pause for a moment, and consider how you turn out, and how you put in. Inquire minutely into the public conduct of those who have served you already: Do not judge of them by this or that particular instance, but by the general tenor and complexion, of their political actions. If you find that your member has sided with the partisans of war, and has fought to "stop the wheels of government" and embarras the honest views of our worthy President, turn him out without respect to his person, and elect the friend of peace. If on the contrary your present member has invariably supported the measures of peace, and united his endeavours to preserve amity between the United States and other nations, be sure to run no hazard—be sure to re-elect him; you are certain by repeated trials, that he is a friend to your prosperity and happiness; and from the proofs he has given of his firmness and fidelity you may safely depend upon his future exertions for the same desirable ends. By a change, the prosperity of our country may be hazarded, and our rights and liberties may be swallowed up in the terrors of a sanguinary revolution. But a prudent people, like a wise individual, should put nothing so valuable at stake—They should never give up a CERTAINTY for an uncertainty. Citizens, attend! Let PEACE be the watch-word of your safety.
A FARMER.
June 20, 20, 1796.
BY AN ARTIST, Resident at Mr. Oeller's Hotel,
MINIATURE LIKENESSES
ARE taken and executed in that elegant and delicate style, which is so necessary to render a Miniature Picture an interlacing jewel.
He will warrant a strong and indisputable resemblance; and he takes the liberty to lay before the public of this place his most earnest intention to deserve their patronage by his best endeavors to please.
N. B. Specimens are to be seen.

Philadelphia,
SATURDAY EVENING, August 6.
INSCRIPTION
On a very large and elegant VASE, or CUP and COVER, which came under the care of captain Wicks, of the ship Sally, lately arrived at this port, from London.
FROM
THE MERCHANTS
OF THE
CITY OF GLASGOW TO CAPTAIN JOHN HODGE,
OF THE
AMERICAN SHIP SEDGELEY,
In testimony of their high sense of his HUMANE AND HAZARDOUS EXERTIONS,
IN SAVING
THE LIVES OF 160 BRITISH SAILORS AND SOLDIERS,
FROM ON BOARD THE
AURORA, TRANSPORT,
WHEN SINKING,
FEBRUARY, 1796.
THIS Vase is of exquisite workmanship—ornamented with Oak and Olive Leaves, &c.—beautifully chased and frosted.
On the 5th July arrived at Fort-Washington, Major-General ANTHONY WAYNE, commander in chief of the United States Legion.
ARRIVED AT THIS PORT.
Brig Welcome Return, Labree, Savannah to Delaware, Dunphy, Port-au-Prince 15.
The following American vessels were to sail from Londonderry for America.
Ship Deborah, Palmer, for Newewcastle, Delaware,
May 10.
Adolphe, Wilder, Ditto, May 25.
Nancy, Lithgow, Ditto, Aug. 1.
Union, Cusfader, Ditto, May 15.
William & Henry, Carnes, do. and New York,
May 15.
Brig Eliza, McLeod, do. do. May 20.
Morning Star, —, do. do. 15.
CLEARED.
Brig West-Indian, Charlton, Jamaica
Schooner Hazard, Williams, Edenton
Adventure, Barnard, Currituck
Sally, Owens, Ditto
Sincerity, Copia, Alexandria
Sloop Industry, Guthrie, St. Bartholomews
Pricilla, Green, New-York
Mary, Lansford, Fredericksburgh
Arrivals at New-York.
Ship Juno, Harvey, Havre-de-Grace
Sloop Dove, Brown, St. Croix
Extract of a letter from a Gentleman in Gibraltar, to his friend in this city, dated May 30, 1796.
"Notwithstanding the superiority of the English in these seas, there are ten Republican privateers out of Toulon, Marseilles, &c. who have taken within the present month 47 English vessels, viz. 14 ships, 35 snows and brigs, all of which (except four) have arrived safe."
Three of the above privateers boarded Captain M'Call, from Leghorn and Gibraltar.
The New World.
SAMUEL H. SMITH,
INFORMS the public, that encouraged by a liberal patronage, and in compliance with numerous requests from Subscribers, he has determined to anticipate the publication of The New World. The first number will appear on Monday, the 15th August. Those who have seen his proposals are sufficiently acquainted with the plan and terms on which it is designed to conduct this newspaper. For the information of those persons who are not acquainted, it is necessary to observe, that it will be published twice a day, in the morning and evening; that the price is only Eight Dollars, being the same with that of newspapers printed but once a day; and that its plan will be comprehensive and liberal.
The Publisher offers a liberal compensation to any person well qualified to make a correct and full report of the Debates of the Federal and State Legislatures, which it is his intention to publish in the New World.
Advertisements will be inserted, from the appearance of the first number until further notice, when not exceeding a square, for forty cents for the first, and twenty cents for every subsequent insertion; and a considerable abatement will be made when they are steadily inserted. Those gentlemen who have expressed their intention of sending Advertisements, as well as those who have such an intention without having expressed it, are informed that the paper of Monday, August 15, will be open for their admission until the evening of Saturday preceding.
N. B. It is earnestly requested that all subscription-papers not yet returned, may be sent to the printer before the day of publication.
A faithful Printer wanted. Aug. 6 cot55th
Prime Rice.
One Hundred Tierces of Prime Rice, Just arrived in the brig Welcome Return, from Savannah, for sale by FOOTMAN & CO. Aug. 6
For Madeira.
The Brig PATTY, JAMES WICKHAM, Master, Expected to sail in all next week, will take a few barrels on freight. Apply to the master on board at Stamer's wharf, or to John Donaldson, No. 25 Walnut-Street. Aug. 6
LANDS,
In Harrison county, Virginia, for Sale. FOUR Tracts containing 5000 acres each, and a moiety of one other tract of 5000 acres, all situated on the waters of Elk and Hughes's river.
For further particulars enquire at No. 70 Chestnut-Street, where the Patents may be seen. Aug. 6
BY THIS DAY'S MAILS.
NEW-YORK, August 5.
Late last night arrived the ship Juno, capt. Harvey, of Boston, in 77 days from Havre-de-Grace. Capt. Harvey states that provisions were remarkably cheap in Havre; the best prime beef was selling at half a guinea per barrel, flour &c. in proportion.
Capt. Harvey left in Havre, the following American vessels:
Ship Belvidere, of New-York, laden with salt to sail in 5 days.
Ship Venus, of New-York, expected to sail for Bordeaux.
Ship New-Jersey, of Philadelphia, capt. Hefs, to sail in about ten days for Liverpool.
Capt. Harvey, on his passage spoke the following vessels:
May 20, spoke ship Betsey, of New-Port, from Copenhagen, bound to Rhode-Island, out 6 days.
May 24, was boarded by a British 74.
May 29, spoke ship Eliza from Charleston, bound to Bourdeaux, out 36 days.
June 7, spoke brig Anna, of Boston, from Surinam, out 30 days, bound to Hamburgh, John Holland, master.
July 6, spoke brig Speed, of Salem, bound to Bourdeaux, 9 days out.
July 13, spoke snow Sally, of Wells, from Oporto, bound to Boston, out 27 days.
FROM LATE PARIS PAPERS.
TRANSLATED FOR THE DAILY ADVERTISER. PARIS, 28 Floreal, May 18.
Saint Quentin, 16 Floreal.
Citizens, while we lived under a revolutionary government, while sans-coulottism, denunciation, proscription, blood and death were the order of the day; while our unhappy country was covered with crimes and with scoundrels, we then beheld among the constituted authorities, men without talents, without experience, without morals, and without probity. If, by chance, we found among them men of probity and virtue, we might say of them as in Virgil, Apparent rari nantes in gurgite vasto.
The people of Saint Quentin, wearied and fatigued with seeing themselves governed by such persons, tired of living under the yoke of these petty tyrants, have at length opened their eyes to their true interests. They have swept away the revolutionary vermin, those impure remnants of Jacobinism, who for more than 3 years past have, to the disgrace and sorrow of our city, tormented and driven to despair the honest part of the community.
These sans-coulote magistrates have been dismissed with shame, and sent back to their shops, where, by spinning or carding wool, by working at the anvil, or last, by turning the grindstone, or spinning wheel, by driving the shuttle or the plane, they will more usefully serve the Republic, than by interpreting and publishing laws which they do not understand, and which the greatest part of them can scarcely spell.
We shall no longer behold them gorged with wine and brandy, going from the tavern to the town hall, and there while intoxicated, deliberating upon the sentiments, the liberty, the fortune and the lives of their fellow citizens. These men, more than immoral, have been replaced by citizens who are wise, virtuous, prudent and enlightened; friends of the Republic, of the laws, of morals and of order. This choice which does honor to the people of St. Quentin, has not had, citizen, the suffrages of our Jacobins and our blood drinkers—condemned by the order and express command of the foreign people, to a painful and shameful insignificance, they have sworn by their red cap, and the names of Robespierre and Marat, that they will revenge themselves for the violence done to their patriotism; for those gentlemen dare, like Carrier, Joseph Le Bon, Collet D'Herbois and Co. to call themselves patriots.
The blow soon follows the threat. One of them an ex advocate, ex sub-delegate, ex-attorney general, ex-bailiff, ex-administrator of department, ex-royalist, ex-monachist, ex roman catholic, ex-constitutional catholic, ex-deist, ex-deistical professor in the popular society of St. Quentin, &c. &c. has been directed by his worthy and right worthy colleagues, to denounce to the Executive Directory, the members of the administration of the military hospital, at Ferrasses, and of course the municipality to whom the law has given the guardianship of those establishments. I have read the denunciation, and though it is expressed in general terms, it plainly points out the victims they would wish to sacrifice.
Under the reign of Maximilian Nero Robespierre such a denunciation would have been sufficient to conduct to the guillotine the directors of the hospital and the municipality who were to watch over them.
It is with infinite pleasure I render to the Executive Directory that justice which they merit. They would not judge without the knowledge of the cause. Commissioners were sent to St. Quentin with orders to inform themselves on the spot, and to make their report, arrived at the town-hall, they brought the seccuser in the presence of the accused, and in a public sitting they caused the act of accusation to be read, which was signed by Collier, and with his mark. Language fails me to paint to you the lengthened visage of the Jacobin denunciatior; he sweat blood at every pore, while the accused, strong in the testimony of their own conscience, preserved that calmness and serenity which are the attendants of innocence.
One of them, however, more animated than the rest, was about to let his stick fall upon the large shoulders of the patriot Collier, but upon more mature reflection he contented himself like the rest of his colleagues, with leaving the denunciation and the denunciatior to the contempt and indignation of the people. From the enquiry of the commissioners it follows, that the conduct of the municipality and of the officers of police and of health, attached to the military hospital of Ferrasses is free from the faintest reproach; that they have all paid to the sick, wounded and convalescent soldiers, the most pointed cares and unremitted attention, and that the
camelion Collier is a vile denunciatior, and a noted calumniator. Of all these faults they have made a statement, which master Collier has been obliged to sign, after having received from the commissioners a sharp admonition, and those just reproofs which he merited.
Be pleased, Citizen, to give my letter a place in your useful journal. We cannot make too public the conduct of the representatives who compose the public directory. They desire justice, and in rendering it they will cause the Republic to be beloved.
A large town in the department of Aisne, about 80 miles from Paris.
ARMY OF THE RHINE AND MOSELLE, May 18.
Defection is very great among the Austrian troops. Scarce a day passes that from twelve to twenty do not arrive within the compass of a brigade. In general they appear but little attached to the cause of the Emperor; whether it is on account of their great fatigue, their little success, or the fear of a new campaign, or rather a continuation of the war with the Turks. Whatever the cause may be, it concerns us but little; but if their forces are thus diminished we shall soon force them to an honorable peace.
MANHEIM.
Upon the arrival of the Pretender, alias Louis XVIII. at the army of Conde, he wrote to Field Marshal Wurmier the following letter;—"I have the pleasure to inform you that I have arrived at the army of the French emigrants, resolved to fight with them and at their sides, in the most just of causes which may it please heaven to favor. Your excellency need not suppose that I have the smallest intention of making the least alteration in the command, or to supersede either the Prince of Conde or General Latour, both of whom have acquitted themselves with so much courage and ability. No! I will as a soldier to partake with that brave corps in the dangers and toils of the war, and under the orders of your excellency, and those two generals, to make the campaign in the capacity of a simple soldier."
Extract of a letter from Bourdeaux, 20th Floreal, 9th May.
A captain of a privateer named the Adventure, arrived from Cayenne, relates the following circumstance:—The negroes of the city and country stirred up by some wretches, had agreed to murder nearly all the whites on Friday:—the day was not however definitely fixed, but might be postponed or delayed according to circumstances. Those of the city were to make themselves master of the fort, and inform the others of that event, by firing fifteen cannon.
The Privateer Adventure, arrived at Cayenne, the Wednesday before, and saluted the fort with 9 cannon—The fort answered it by 3, and they replied with one—The whole making the number 13. The Negroes, who took for the signal agreed upon, ran in crowds to the city armed with all sorts of iron utensils they could procure. They were however vigorously repulsed by the garrison, the inhabitants, and the crew of the privateer. The Negro chiefs have acknowledged the plot; but the white chiefs treat it as a chimera, waiting a better opportunity. This happened in Nivis last.
MR. AMES.
LANCASTER, July 29.
[From a Correspondent.]
On Monday last the celebrated orator and patriot, Mr. Ames, (of Massachusetts) arrived in Lancaster. He has been on a tour to the southward for the benefit of his health, and it is with pleasure we find that he is considerably recruited since the ruling of Congress. On Tuesday a number of gentlemen of the borough gave a handsome dinner at Mr. Slough's to this American Cicero. On Wednesday morning he proceeded to Philadelphia, from whence in a few days he will depart for Massachusetts.
COOPERSTOWN, (N. York,) July 28.
We have this week closed the celebrated Speech of Mr. Ames—it has, already passed 4 or 5 editions—we feel pleasure in enriching the pages of the Herald with sentiments of genuine federalism—Mr. Ames has concentrated the force of all the potent arguments, offered on the floor of Congress in favor of the Treaty; and has immortalized them, by blending them with his own—His speech ought to be preserved by every freeman, who wishes well to his country; as it will furnish them with a fund of political knowledge, at the small expence of a few hour's reading—Whatever may have been the celebrity of the other ornaments of our national representation; we presume none will envy the particular notice taken of Mr. Ames; or endeavor to deprive him of that applause which is due from a generous and grateful people, to one of their best Patriots.
"Many Patriots have spoken excellently, but thou excellest them all."
CINCINNATI, July 9.
FORT WASHINGTON.
On the 8th inst. departed this life Major JOHN MILLS; his military services in the revolutionary-war of America, and the successful campaign of the Legion in which he has most reputedly discharged the important duties of Adjutant-General, had rendered him generally known and respected: common acquaintance, and all observers knew his worth and have acknowledged his merit, but by those to whom he was best known, he will be most lamented. He was interred from the dwelling of the Territorial Secretary (where he made his exit) with military honors; and a very general attendance of the citizens evince that they respected the Major's memory, and the sorrow of his friends.
NORFOLK, July 30.
Yesterday arrived here the Schooner Flying Fish, Capt. Allison, 19 days from Antigua. The day he failed, Capt. Caboon, of the brig Corn Planter, arrived there from Guadalupe, where his vessel
had been carried in, and vessel and cargo condemned. There had been several vessels taken into Guadalupe, and condemned in the same manner. The Corn Planter was on her homeward passage from Demarara, when captured by a French privateer. Spoke in lat. 20, 12, long. 65, the Schooner Mercury, from this port, bound to Antigua, out 18 days; all well.
The brig Janet, Whitbee, from this port, arrived at Antigua the 12th July.
The Eliza Leamy, Barron, was to sail for this port (via St. Thomas's) four days after the Flying Fish.
Extract of a letter from Wilmington (N. C.) to a gentleman in this town, dated July 18.
"A small French privateer has carried into Cape-Fear river, a ship and brig, belonging to the Jamaica fleet. They are not admitted to an entry. They are loaded with sugar and rum, and are estimated at 150,000 dollars value."
PORT OF NORFOLK.
ENTERED—
Schooner Flying Fish, Allison, St. Bartholomews, Dove, Crocker, du.
PORT OF BALTIMORE,
August 2.
ARRIVED,
Brig Fanny, Hopkins, Aux Cayes Schooner Mary, Vibert, Demarara Polly, Dennis, Salem Sloop Sterling, Maxwell, Martinico Polly, Hall, Port-au-Prince Nancy, Ebeck, Antigua.
NEW-YORK, August 4.
To the Editor of the Minerva.
Saten-Island, August 11, 1796.
Sir,
REPORTS of an alarming nature having spread through the country relative to the filthy state of New-York, I was led to enquire by letter how far those reports deserved credit, to which the following is an answer, and which, at my request, the author has consented should be made public.
RICHARD CHANNING MOORE.
New-York, July 20th, 1796.
Sir,
IT is true that a fever resembling the one which proved so great a scourge to our city the last year, made its appearance about Whitehall, and in the vicinity of the Exchange, early in this month; but fortunately for us, from a concurrence of happy events, the fever has entirely subsided. It had continued but a short time only, when it pleased a Gracious Providence, to send us hard winds, repeated thunder and lightning, inundations of rain, and cool weather. To these causes I think we may ascribe the suspension of a formidable disease which had begun to shew itself amongst us. And should it return again, I have solid reasons to believe that it will not be extended beyond certain limits.
You may recollect that in the frequent conversations we have had on the subject of the last year's fever, I have been uniform in my opinion, as to the causes of its production, namely, the accumulation of every species of filth and pestilential matter, on the low, new made grounds on the south side of the city, and the abominable custom of filling up slips and docks with similar materials: I have said that such causes, aided by a moist atmosphere and a hot sun, would not fail of producing the most baneful exhalations, and that their effects must necessarily be felt by those who are more immediately exposed to their influence.
The proprietors of the lots on the east side of White Hall Slip, carried out a bulk-head the last spring, with a view to extend the dock farther into the river. The dimensions of the dock are very considerable; and a maxim invariably adopted by the owners of the docks, is, that the cheapest mode of filling up is the best: accordingly carts were employed to collect such dirt and filth as all large and populous cities furnish in abundance; and with materials of this description was the dock filled up, and to give greater salubrity to the mass, there were occasionally added, dead horses, dogs, &c. &c.
The exposure of White-Hall, and indeed the whole of the west end of the city must be considered as naturally extremely healthy. The winds during the warm season, are commonly from the sea, and arrive at this part of the town uncontaminated by passing over no unwholesome grounds. Yet such is the fact, that the poisonous exhalations which have abounded in that quarter during the warm weather in the beginning of this month, had so changed the air, that the inhabitants on the south side of Pearl street, between the Old-slip and White Hall, almost all concur in their testimony, that the disagreeable effluvia has frequently obliged them, especially in the evening, to close the windows on the south side of their houses, and in several instances gentlemen have assured us, that the offensive smell has been such as to occasion vomittings.
The wharf on which Mr. Delafield's stores are erected, is in a state truly execrable; and the slip on the right and on the left, is in a condition little better. These and such places are visited by the dock fever—the yellow fever if you please, that murderer of our own creating. Were the proprietors of these and such like docks, compelled to live in their vicinity, the evil would soon be remedied; but people of this description are generally secure from the ravages of disease, in the cooler retirements of the country.
The present exertions of the common council, in giving a new surface of wholesome earth to the dock at White-Hall, will no doubt be productive of the greatest advantages to the inhabitants of that part of the city; and if the same measures were extended to other parts of the town, there would be much less reason to apprehend a return of the dock-fever. Thus sir, your questions are answered: you may have come to town with safety; you may come to town with safety. New-York, as I have said before, may be rendered as healthy a city as any under the sun; and when a more rigid police prevails and the nuisances with which the city abounds are corrected, you will hear no more of the ravages of particular diseases.
I am Sir, &c.
RICHARD BAYLEY.
To the Revd. RD. CHANNING MOORE.

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No. 134. Difficulties of Pennsylvania, to wit. BE it Remembered that on the 23rd day of May, in the two hundred and twentieth year of the Independence of the United States of America, Francis SHILLING, 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: "THE DISAPPOINTMENT, or THE FORCE OF CREDULITY, A new Comic Opera in three acts, by Andrew Barton, Esq. 2d edition revised and corrected with large additions by the author." "Enchanting gold! that dost conspire to blind, "Man's erring judgment and misguide the mind, "In search of thee, the wretched worldly goes, "Nor dangers fears, tho' frowns of night oppose." 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 men- tioned." SAMUEL CATSWELL, Clerk Dist. Penn. The above Opera will be published in the course of two or three weeks. July 22. 1g
Treasury Department, August 3, 1796. Public Notice is hereby Given,
IN pursuance of an act of Congress, passed on the 28th day of May, 1796, entitled "An act providing for the sale of the lands of the United States, in the Territory north west of the river Ohio, and above the mouth of Kentucky river," that the sections or lots of land described in the annexed schedule, lying in the seven ranges of townships, which were surveyed in pursuance of an ordi- nance of Congress, passed on the twentieth day of May, in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five, will be exposed for sale at Public vendue, in the town of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania, on the twenty-fourth day of October next, and thenceforward, from day to day until the first day of December ensuing, unless the said lots shall be sooner sold, in the manner, and on the terms and con- ditions herein after mentioned, to wit: 1. The said sections or lots shall be sold under the di- rection of the Governor or Secretary of the Western Terri- tory, and such person as the President of the United States may specially appoint for that purpose. 2. The said sections or lots shall be sold to the highest bidder, but no sale can be made for less than two dollars per acre of the quantity of land contained in such lot or section. 3. The highest bidder as before mentioned, must depos- it at the time of sale, one twentieth part of the purchase money in the hands of such person as the President of the United States shall appoint to attend the sale for that pur- pose, which said deposit, if a moiety of the sum bid, including the said twentieth part, shall not be paid within thirty days from the time of sale. 4. Upon payment of a moiety of the purchase money in the manner before mentioned, the purchaser will be
entitled to one year's credit for the remaining moiety; and shall receive from the Governor or Secretary of the Western Territory, and the person who shall be appointed by the President of the United States, to direct the sale, a certificate describing the lot or section purchased, and de- claring the sum paid on account, the balance remaining due, the time when such balance becomes payable, and that the whole land therein mentioned, will be forfeited, if the said balance is not then paid; but if the said balance shall be duly discharged, by paying the same to the Treasurer of the United States, the purchaser or his assignee, or other legal representative, shall be entitled to a patent for the said lands, on his producing to the Secretary of State a re- ceipt for such balance endorsed upon the certificate. But if any purchaser shall make payment of the whole of the purchase money, at the time when the payment of the first moiety is directed to be made, he will be entitled to a deduction of ten per centum on the part for which a cre- dit is authorized to be given; and his patent shall be im- mediately issued. Given under my hand at Philadelphia, the day and year above mentioned. OLIVER WOLCOTT, Secretary of the Treasury
Schedule of sections of townships, or fractional parts of townships, to be sold at Pittsburgh, in pursuance of the 6th section of an act of Congress, passed on the 18th day of May, 1796.
   No. of Lot. Acres. 100th. No. of Lot. Acres. 100th. No. of Lot. Acres. 100th.     1st RANGE. 6th Township. 6th RANGE. 1st Township. 17 3 20   1st Township. 8123 640 each 1st Township. 14 640 17 3 20   28 5 65 17220 640 each 18 270   29 256 95 25336 640 each 21 8 50   30 240 75 8th Township. 22 166 40   34 240 90 3414 640 each 23 427   35236 640 each 3720 640 each 24 640   2d Township. 23 640 27 151 30   19 1 40 25430 640 each 28a 30 640 each   20 170 70 23336 640 each 43 58   21 185 10th Township. 34236 640 each   22 2 30 12 640 each 2d Township.   25 488 30 31236 640 each 1 120   26237 640 each 31236 640 each 2 440   28 560 17220 640 each 3 448   29 551 60 23336 640 each 4 456   30 504 12th Township. 5 404   31236 640 each 1214 640 each 6 472   4th Township. 17220 640 each 7 340   19 64 23336 640 each 8124 640 each   23 640 4th RANGE. 17220 640 each   26 387 60 1st Township. 23236 640 each   27 36 24 636 50 23236 640 each   31236 640 each 29 636 50 3d Township. 1 470   33 616 30 340 2 478   34 443 20 34 515 3 486   35 222 50 35236 640 each 4 494   36 16 20 2d Township. 5 502   5th Township. 2 265 60 6 510   6 139 20 326 540 each 7214 640 each   12 479 30 7 505 20 17220 640 each   17 304 15 8 538 23236 640 each   18 638 50 9212 640 each 5th Township.   23 450 75 12 635 1 518   24 640 14 240 2 526   29 180 17220 640 each 3 534   30 640 23236 640 each 4 540   35 312 80 3d Township. 5 548   36 640 1214 640 each 6 556   2d RANGE. 17220 640 each 7214 640 each 17220 640 each   28 7 20 23236 640 each 17220 640 each   34 6 50 1214 640 each 23236 640 each   3d Township. 7220 640 each 1 566   24236 640 each 23236 640 each 2 571 40   28 499 16 12 640 each 3 576   29 640 527 640 each 4 585 60   31233 640 each 1213 640 each 5 593   4th Township. 18219 640 each 6 601   11 2 40 7214 640 each 17220 640 each   12 397 50 17220 640 each 23236 640 each   13 51 50 30236 640 each 17220 640 each   15 2 50 1214 640 each 17220 640 each   16 255 20 17220 640 each 23236 640 each   17 524 23236 640 each 17220 640 each   18 64 17220 640 each 1214 640 each   19 63 1214 640 each 17220 640 each   20 584 80 17220 640 each 23236 640 each   21 621 21 23236 640 each 17220 640 each   22236 640 each 23236 640 each 17220 640 each 23236 640 each   5th Township. 1214 640 each 17220 640 each 23236 640 each   5 63 17220 640 each 17220 640 each   627 64 each 23236 640 each 17220 640 each 17220 640 each   23235 64 each 18th Township. 1214 640 each 17220 640 each   27228 64 each 12 274 40 17220 640 each 23236 640 each   32236 64 each 22 87 50 23236 640 each 17220 640 each   3 640 23 427 50 17220 640 each 23236 640 each   12 640 each 24 640 17220 640 each 23236 640 each   6 440 26 70 17220 640 each 23236 640 each   7 214 640 each 27 394 20 30 4 40 17220 640 each   17220 640 each 28 634 36 113 50 17220 640 each   23236 640 each 29236 640 each 2d Township. 3 35   9th Township. 31 18 4 62   6 640 32 584 30 326 640 each 9 296   8 12 30 33236 640 each 2d Township. 10212 640 each   11 64 3 430 17220 640 each 14 30   13214 640 each 4 448 17220 640 each 19 14   19220 640 each 5 456 20 96 23236 640 each   23236 640 each 6 464 80 23236 640 each 25 80   2d Township. 8 618 26 31 340 each 14th Township.   35 640 9214 640 each 17220 640 each 17220 640 each   16 600 23236 640 each 17220 640 each 17220 640 each   20 557 50 1214 640 each 23236 640 each 17220 640 each   21223 640 each 17220 640 each 17220 640 each 17220 640 each   23 609 17220 640 each 17220 640 each 17220 640 each   25236 640 each 17220 640 each 17220 640 each 17220 640 each   3d Township. 1214 640 each 17220 640 each 17220 640 each   9 138 60 17220 640 each 17220 640 each 17220 640 each   10 344 23236 640 each 17220 640 each 17220 640 each   11 267 1214 640 each 23236 640 each 17220 640 each   12 152 17220 640 each 17220 640 each 17220 640 each   14 202 30 23236 640 each 17220 640 each 17220 640 each   15 630 17220 640 each 17220 640 each 17220 640 each   16214 640 each 8th Township. 23236 640 each 17220 640 each   19 817 50 1214 640 each 17220 640 each 17220 640 each   20 626 75 17220 640 each 17220 640 each 17220 640 each   21236 640 each 23236 640 each 17220 640 each 17220 640 each   4th Township. 1214 640 each 17220 640 each 17220 640 each   1 170 17220 640 each 17220 640 each 17220 640 each   2 544 17220 640 each 17220 640 each 17220 640 each   3 320 23236 640 each 17220 640 each 17220 640 each   4 4 50 1214 640 each 17220 640 each 17220 640 each   5 120 17220 640 each 17220 640 each 17220 640 each   6 640 17220 640 each 17220 640 each 17220 640 each   7 563 23236 640 each 17220 640 each 17220 640 each   829 640 each 14th Township. 17220 640 each 17220 640 each   10 54 80 1214 640 each 17220 640 each 17220 640 each   11 521 70 17220 640 each 17220 640 each 17220 640 each   12214 640 each 23236 640 each 17220 640 each 17220 640 each   17220 640 each 17220 640 each 17220 640 each 17220 640 each   23236 640 each 17220 640 each 17220 640 each 17220 640 each