Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser. (Philadelphia [Pa.]), 1798-10-17 00:00:00

Gazette of the United States, AND Philadelphia Daily Advertiser.
By JOHN WARD FENNO, N o 119 Chestnut Street.
NUMBER 1898.]
PHILADELPHIA: WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 17, 1798.
[VOLUME XIV.]
The Subscribers to this Gazette at Germantown, to whom (owing to recent disastrous events) their papers may not be particularly directed, will be furnished with them on application at the Post-Office, in Germantown, whither an extra number, for that purpose, will constantly be sent.
Remote Subscribers for this Gazette are requested to forward pr. post, the arrears due from them respectively. Postmasters who may have received subscriptions are earnestly desired to remit the same. At this interesting and distressing crisis, attention to this notice will peculiarly oblige the Editor.
POST OFFICE.
Philadelphia, September 26. THE Mail for New-Castle, Castwell bridge, Duck creek, Dover, Frederica, Milford, George town and Dagsborough, Delaware; Trop and Snowhill, Maryland, Horn Town, Accomack court-house, and Northampton court-house, Virginia; will be closed at this office every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at half past eight o'clock, A. M. until 18 day of April, 1799.
ROBERT PATTON.
September 26 ditto
Bank of the United States.
Philadelphia September 21, 1798. The public is hereby informed, that an Office of Deposit and Discount will be opened on Monday next, at the house lately occupied by SAMUEL RICHARD, near the Market House in Germantown—where the business of this Institution will be transferred during the continuance of the malignant fever now prevailing in Philadelphia. HENRY KUHL, Assistant Cashier. September 22 d
Wanted; a Person WHO will contract to supply the Marine Corps, with rations, &c. Apply to W. W. BURROWES, Major Commandant of the Marine Corps. Sept 29
Wanted to purchase.
APPROVED bills on Amsterdam, for which cash will be given at the rate of thirty seven cents per Guilder. Apply to the Cashier of the Bank of the United States. September 22d. 1798.
For Sale.
THE SUBSCRIBER, intending to decline the DRUG BUSINESS, offers For Sale, the whole Stock of Drugs and Medicines, Instruments, &c. The Shop is elegant, commodious, and sufficiently known for the extensive business done in the wholesale and retail line; the situation equal to any in the city, being at the corner of Walnut and Second Streets. The whole, or any part of the Stock, will be sold, as will best suit the purchaser. The terms may be known, by applying to JAMES MOORE, jun. Who has For Sale,
The PEGGY, about 30 tons burthen, Mulberry and Red Cedar frame, and remarkably stout, of an easy draught of water, rigging in good order.
The SALLY, about 30 tons, sails well, and in complete order for the lumber business. All persons indebted to the late firm of Goldsmith & Balcomb, W. B. Goldsmith, Goldsmith & Moore, or the subscribers, are earnestly requested to make speedy payment to JAMES MOORE, jun. august 3
Ship & Insurance Broker.
THE Subscriber, encouraged by the advice of his friends, offers his Service to the public as a Ship and Insurance Broker. He proposes to buy and sell vessels and every thing relating thereto—assist masters of vessels and others in entering and clearing at the Custom House, procuring and shipping freights, settling Insurance, and all other mercantile accounts, and have on hand the necessary Blank and Stamps. Papers in foreign languages translated, and information given in general mercantile matters—From a knowledge gained by long experience of every branch of business he hopes to be useful to those who place to favor him with their commands. SAMUEL EMERIT, Philadelphia, august 24th, 1798. §
City Commissioners' Office.
August 30, 1798. IN pursuance of an ordinance of the Select and Common Councils, passed the 22d day of May 1798. Proposals in writing will be received by the City Commissioners for one month from the first of September next, for letting to rent on lease for one year, to commence the 1st day of January next, the following public property of the city— The wharf and landing on Vine street, Also on Sassafras, Mulberry, and High Streets. Chestnut and Walnut Streets, Draw bridge, with the Scale and Fish houses, Spruce, Pine and Cedar Streets. The Cellar under the City Hall. The Tavern at the middle ferry on Schuylkill with the lots contiguous thereto (except so much thereof as shall be occupied by any buildings erected for the use of the Collector of the Tolls, or be necessary for the toll gates.) A listed meeting of the City Commissioners will be held at the City Hall on Tuesday morning at ten o'clock, during the present epidemic. eorm
TO BE LET.
And immediate possession given; A Large convenient well finished house, No 225 High-street, lately occupied by Doctor Wister, with Coach House and Stables—Enquire of WILLIAM SHEAFF, No. 162, High-street. july 31
Public Notice is hereby Given,
THAT Proposals under sealed covers, will be received on the behalf of the United States until the twentieth day of October next, by Jonathan Jackson, Esq. at Boston, Massachusetts; French Francis, Esq. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and John Swann, Esq. at Baltimore, Maryland, for supplying the following articles of clothing, for the army of the United States, viz.
FOR INFANTRY.
8,448 Hats, 504 Serjeant Coats, 504 ditto vests, 1,008 pairs do. woollen overalls, 1,008 ditto do. linen ditto, 2,016 ditto shirts, 264 Musicians coats, 7,680 Privates coats, 7,944 ditto vests, 15,888 ditto woollen overalls, 15,888 ditto linen ditto, 31,776 ditto shirts, 33,792 pairs of Socks, 33,792 pairs of shoes, 8,448 blocks of black leather, 8,448 flock caps, 8,448 blankets.
FOR CAVALRY.
6 Musicians coats, 26 Serjeant coats, 26 ditto vests, 104 ditto shirts, 348 Privates coats, 334 ditto vests, 1416 ditto shirts, 760 pair of Leather breeches, 760 pair of Stockings, 760 pair of boots, 380 Stocks of black leather, 380 Stock Claps, 380 Blankets.
1. Every article shall be made of materials, equally good, and in form, or fashion, conformably to patterns for the same, sealed with the seal of the War-Office, and which will be deposited with the several gentlemen, empowered to receive the proposals, as above mentioned.
2d. Sworn Inspectors shall be appointed on the part of the United States, to examine and determine upon the several articles aforesaid, when the same shall be ready for delivery, with full power to reject every article, which shall not equal, in goodness of materials, or to be made conformably to, the fashion of the standard pattern for the same; and no allowance shall be made, for any article which shall be rejected by them, for the causes aforesaid.
3d. The proposals must specify the number of articles, and their kinds, which the party is willing to furnish, together with, the lowest prices for immediate payment in money, and also to the prices, on the longest term, or terms of credit.
One third of each, and every of the several kinds of the above articles, to be delivered on the fifteenth day of December, one third on the fifteenth day of January, and the remaining third on the first day of March next; and the public will not be considered as bound to receive any of the aforesaid articles of clothing, which shall not be ready for inspection, and delivery, at the periods agreed upon.
4th. The clothing aforesaid will be received in the several states, at the places, and in the proportions following, viz. One third part of the whole at Springfield, Massachusetts, one other third at Philadelphia, state of Pennsylvania, or at Lambertown, state of New-Jersey, and one third at Baltimore, Maryland.
5th. No contract will be made, for a less number of each of the aforesaid articles of clothing, than is requisite for a company, viz.
FOR THE CAVALRY.
4 Serjeant Coats, 4 ditto vests, 16 ditto shirts, 1 Musicians Coat, 58 Privates coats, 59 ditto vests, 236 ditto shirts, 63 Socks, 63 Stock Claps, 126 pair of leather breeches, 126 pair of Stockings, 126 pair of boots, 63 blankets.
FOR THE INFANTRY.
70 Hats, 4 Serjeant Coats, 4 ditto vests, 8 ditto woollen overalls, 8 ditto linen ditto, 16 ditto shirts, 2 Musicians coats, 64 Private coats, 66 ditto vests, 132 ditto woolen overalls, 132 ditto linen ditto, 254 ditto shirts, 236 pair of Socks, 236 pair of Shoes, 70 Stocks, 70 Stock Claps, 70 Blankets.
JAMES M c HENRY, Secretary of War.
War Department, 21st Sept. 1798. §
West-Indian from Madeira.
Those Gentlemen who have Wines on board the West-Indian are informed she is now discharging at South-street Wharf, are required to hasten down their permits, the Vessel being immediately wanted. Peter Blight.
Who wants to Purchase,
100 Barrels of good Prime or Mels Beef, 100 ditto Pork, 7 or 800 ditto fine Flour, 4 or 5000 buthels Indian Corn.
LANDING.
From the West-Indian, A choice parcel of Phelps's old particular Wine in Pipes fit for immediate use. august 15
Wanted—A situation in a Pub-
lic or Merchants Office, or to go as Supercargo, by a person regularly brought up to the Mercantile and Insurance business in London, he has lately been a voyage from hence to the West-Indies as Supercargo, can be well recommended, —Please to enquire at the Printer's. august 11
HAPPY DISCOVERY.
A certain Cure for that alarming and distressing Disorder
The Yellow Fever.
As well as any other dangerous partial fever, fever and ague, and other intermitting and complicated disorders, by the use of the
POUDRE UNIQUE.
WELL known and patented in England, France, Poland, and all the capital cities in Europe, where the most alluring cures have been effected on persons judged incurable by all physicians. In a Treatise printed in London, on the properties of this powder, by T. Seymour, M. D. late Chemist to his Majesty, there are stated two hundred cases, where this most valuable remedy has proved infallible, in all kind of fevers, pleurisy, bloody flux, rheumatism, sciatica, apoplexy, paralysis, yellow jaundice, ringworm, worms in children and in grown persons, scabies, chronic head and stomach aches, hepatic and nephritis or stone cholic, the king's evil, scurvy and the most inveterate and complicated general disorders. It is likewise the best preparative for the small-pox and measles; at the greatest utility for young as well as for elder ladies at the critical epoch of their life. The efficacy of this powder in several of the above diseases has been discovered by chance, and to it has been in the yellow fever last year, by Mr. Mahy, who cured several by administering only two of the said powders, and lost not a single patient which he undertook to cure, as proved and attested by the heretofore mentioned certificates, whose original may be seen at Andrew Ellicott's umbrella shop, No. 131, corner of Chestnut and Fourth streets, the only place where these powders are to be had, with proper directions for the use of them.—Price two dollars.
The usefulness and certainty of this remedy being so great for so many dangerous disorders, any person willing to be provided with these powders, will please to apply very soon, as the quantity at hand is not very large, and it is doubtful if for a long time, or if ever any other equivalent will be imported, the secret consisting only in the hand of the inventor, in Europe, and never being communicated to, or discovered by any other person.
N. B. In the yellow and purple fevers, this powder must be taken the second, or at least the third day.
We the subscribers, during the late sickness in this city, having taken the yellow fever, applied to Mr. Mahy for his medical assistance, we do hereby certify, that by a certain powder, called the Poudre Unique, we were perfectly recovered from the said fatal sickness, and from an experience of the happy effects of the above most valuable medicine, consider it our duty to make the same known, for the benefit of our fellow citizens.
Margaret Jones, Myliss O'Connor, Jesse Turner, Christian Rebecca Dow, Catherine Apple, Ann Grover, William Bills, David Williams, carpenter, William T. Donaldson, mail-maker. Mr. Mahy's well known Plaster, for all kind of wounds and sores, to be had at the above direction, No. 131, Chestnut Street. august 8
SEVERAL very elegant Situations for Summer Retreats, three and a half miles from the Court House, and on the Frankford Road; the lots will be made to suit the purchasers—These situations are considered in point of health, beauty and elegance, equal to any near the city, and the road known to be safe, and good at all seasons of the year. The title indisputable—A plan of the grounds is in the hands of the subscriber, who will make known the terms on application to him at his office No. 124 South Fourth Street. ABRAHAM SHOEMAKER. may 2.
John Haines & Wm. Jones,
BEG leave to inform their friends and the public, that they have commenced a Co-partnership in the SADDLING BUSINESS, which will in future be carried on under the firm of HAINES & JONES, in Market Street, No. 132, one door above the corner of Fourth, where they presume (at least to hope) that their attention to, and knowledge in business, their determination to serve on the best terms, and their known attachment as Native Americans to the Government and Constitution of their Country, will entitle them to the encouragement of a generous public. Although they cannot boast of having acquired their experience in any part of Europe, yet they take the liberty of pleading themselves, that their manufacture shall be inferior to none in this city. june 26.
OX BEEF.
100 Barrels of Beef of best quality, put 50 half Barrels up with care for long voyages. 100 Barrels of Connecticut Pork. 50 Barrels of Connecticut Tongues. W I N E S. 35 Pipes of Madeira Wine, 20 Pipes of Port, 30 half Casks of Sherry, 30 Casks of Lisbon, 300 Casks of French Claret, of excellent quality. 800 Barrels of Scraped FLOUR, 100 Barrels of Condemned, and 20 Boxes of best Durham Mustard. For Sale by John Skyrin, Landenberg's Wharf. may 4
James C. & Saml. W. Ely,
No. 13 ARCH-STREET, Have for Sale 200 Casks best refined Salt Petre, Best London Window Glass from 10 by 2 to 12 by 10, Dito Glass Ware in Casks assorted consisting of pint and half-pint Tumblers, Wine Glasses, Goblets, &c. A few Bales of Red, White and Yellow Flannels, Baizes and Kendall Cottons. june 27
CAT FOR OIL.
Is much wanted; Those who have it to dispose of will find a ready sale by applying to any of the Apothecaries. JOSEPH WORRELL, War. in. october 11.
A Quarterly Meeting of the
Carpenter's Company will be held at their Hall on Monday evening next at 6 o'clock. JOSEPH WORRELL, War. in. october 11.
ADVERTISEMENT.
WHEREAS JAMES CUMMING & Co. late of the city of Philadelphia, merchants, have assigned over all their effects, real, personal and mixed, to the subscribers, for the benefit of all their creditors, who shall subscribe the said assignment within six months from the date hereof.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, to all persons who are indebted to the said estate, that they are required to make immediate payment of their respective accounts, to the Assignees, at their office, No. 62, Dock Street, in failure whereof action will be instituted for the recovery of such debts as are not discharged accordingly. John Travis, John Waddington, James Taylor, Cornelius Couraggy, Assignees. august 18
TO BE SOLD,
THE time of an indentured Dutch Servant BOY who has ten years to serve. He has had the small-pox and measles, is active, hearty and strong, and fit for house work in town or country. For further information, enquire of the printer. august 4
FOR SALE,
For Sale, at the Stores of the Subscribers, on Walnut Street Wharf, 195 Casks of nails assorted, 20 bales of sail canvas, from No. 1 to 3, 53 Casks yellow ochre, 15 tiers bottled porter, 6 to 14 doz. each, London particular, Madeira Wines, India market, Teneriffa, in hogsheads and pip, Old Port do. in bales, Empty Cask bottles, 6 Casks of Cinghams, Lemons, Muscats &c. assorted for the West-India market, 4, 10, and 12 inch cables and 10 coils of cordage, Writing slates, inkstands and presses, 20 purehens Jamaica rum, 1 bale scanning twine, 100 bundles sheat ing paper. Nicklin & Griffith. tuth&staf. april 7
Bengal Goods,
CONSISTING OF BANDANNA HANDKERCHIEFS, Chintz Cossas, Chintz Guzzimas, Eliahah Batias, Long Drawers, Coarse Sugars in bags, fit for the European markets, ALSO, Carolina Indigo, Coffee in hogsheads. A few pipes of very old and very choice Madeira WINE. For Sale, on reasonable terms, by John Craig, No. 12, Dock-Street. mwstaf. july 14
To be Sold, at private Sale,
A Plantation and Tract of Land CONTAINING 145 acres, situate in White-Cmarsh township, in the county of Montgomery, about 15 miles from Philadelphia, and on the public road leading from Plymouth to the Broad-Ax tavern toward Horsham, and about one quarter of a mile from said tavern, all about the same distance from the Skippack road and about the same distance from the late residence of James Morris esq. deceased. It is bounded by lands of Anthony Morris esq. Jacob Reiff and Detwiler. About ten acres are good watered meadow, about 15 or 20 are under chesnut, and about 35 acres are well timbered. The buildings on the above farm consist of a two story Stone dwelling-house, a large Stone barn and stone spring-house. There is also on the premises a young orchard of about 150 apple-trees. This farm has great advantages of water, as there is an excellent never-failing stream passing by the house and barn, in such a manner as to supply the same as well as every field with a sufficient quantity. The spring over which the spring-house is built, is excellent water, and is also very near and convenient to the dwelling-house. The situation of this place is healthy and in a good neighborhood, and is near to several different places of worship, and within the distance of half a mile from two grist and saw mills, also near lime-kilns. This farm will be sold together or divided into two parts, as may suit the purchasers. All a two-story Stone house with a barn and carriage house and lot of land situate on Chestnut-hill. It is a very high and healthy situation, and commands a very extensive and beautiful prospect—Possession of part of the house may be had immediately. For further particulars apply to Henry Pratt, No. 94 North Water-street Philadelphia, or to CHRISTOPHER HETDRICK, on Chestnut-Hill. Chestnut-hill, august 14th, 1798. 22wt
Bank of Pennsylvania.
THE Bank of Pennsylvania is removed to Germantown—where the business will be transferred to-morrow, in the Union School House. JONATHAN SMITH, Cashier. september 4
NOTICE.
Bank of North America, August 28th, 1798. THOSE Persons who have Notes or Bills to pay at this Bank are informed, That regular Notices will be put under a sealed cover directed to the respective payee and lodged in the Post Office every Monday until the return of the citizens. RICHARD WELLS, Cashier. aug. 29
SOUTHWARK.
October 8, 1798. PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the Commissioners of the District of Southwark have removed their Hall to the usual place, commonly known by the name of James Lisle's School House, in consequence of the rapid decline of the Epidemic Fever, especially in the vicinity thereof. By order of the Board of Commissioners Wm. LINNARD, President. Attest, WILLIAM PENAGUE, Clerk, pro tem. October 9
This Day is Published,
AND FOR SALE BY J. FENNO, 119 CHESTNUT-STREET
AN ADDRESS
To the People of Maryland,
ON the origin, progress and present state of French aggression, with a sketch of the infamous attempts to degrade the Government of the United States, and some reflections on the late proceedings in Congress; written the last of April in the present year, by a Member of the House of Representatives. june 11
To be Sold, at Public Sale,
On the Premises, On Tuesday the 23d day of October, 1798, at half past two o'clock, in the afternoon. Several very elegant Situations for SUMMER RETREATS, Three and an half miles from the Court house near Frankford road, being part of the subscriber's estate.
These situations are considered in point of health, beauty and elegance, equal to any near the city; commanding a very extensive view of the Delaware, the shipping in the harbour, the City, Harrowgate, Frankford, and several elegant country seats.
Any person desirous of viewing the grounds, will please apply to HENRY HALLIN, on the premises, or to the subscriber, at Mr. Richards coffee house, Germantown.
The terms, which will be easy, will be made known at the time of sale. Should the weather prove bad on the above mentioned day, the sale will take place on the next fair day, at the same hour. W. MACPHERSON. october 9.
Pennsylvania Hospital,
NO person with an infectious disease, can be admitted into this house; it is therefore earnestly recommended to the citizens, not to send or ring any such patient to the house, who is ill with the prevailing fever. Several persons having been seen here improperly, is the reason of giving this caution. By Order of the 3 FRANCIS HIGGINS, Stew'd. Sitting Managers, 3
Ten Dollars Reward.
DESERTEd from the Guard House in New-Castle, this morning, STEPHEN BOWDEN, a private Marine, belonging to the Frigate United States. He is about 36 years of age, five feet ten inches high, fair complexion, light hair, blue eyes, born in England, and by trade a Bricklayer. Prior to the 5th of June, the date of his enlistment, he resided in Philadelphia, where it is probable he will endeavour to go. Any person who will apprehend the said deserter, and secure him in any jail within the United States, shall be entitled to the above reward. F. WHARTON, Capt. Marines. New-Castle, Oct. 8.
Ten Dollars Reward.
DESERTEd from my Detachment at Bordentown this day, a Marine, by name George Redman, a Native of Ireland, about 25 years of age, five feet eight or nine inches high, dark complexion, black hair tied; black eyes well made and quarrelsome, when in liquor is fond of singing—had on a blue seamens jacket light pantaloon, cotton Stockings, round Hat, and had under his Pantalons a pair of Nankin Breeches. Whoever apprehends and sends the said Deserter to the Marine Camp, shall receive the above Reward. OCTOBER 11, 1798. HENRY A. WILLIAMS, Lt. Marines.
PROCLAMATION.
BY virtue of a precept from JOHN D. COXE, Esquire, president of the court of Oyer and Terminer and general goal delivery for the trial of all capital and other offences in the county of Bucks; and HENRY WYMEON and FRANCIS MURRAY, judges of the same court—A court of Oyer and Terminer, and general goal delivery, will be held at Newtown, in the said county of Bucks, on Monday the 5th day of November next. All those who will prosecute against the prisoners in the goal of said county, are required to be then and there to prosecute against them as shall be just—and all the justices of the peace, coroners and constables, within the said county, are required to be then and there, in their proper persons, with their rolls, records, inquisitions and examinations and other their remembrances, to do those things which to their offices belong, in that behalf to be done, &c. DANIEL THOMAS, Sheriff. Oct. 4, 1798. 32w
FLOUR FOR SALE
By the Subscribers. Deliverable at any of the ports on the Delaware—who have also on hand at their stores, a quantity of Bar Iron, Pork and Corn—Letters by the post will be attended to. Levi Hollingsworth & Son. august 28.
WILLIAM M c LAW,
SADLER & HARNESS MAKER,
HAS Removed to the Corner of Chestnut and Twelfth-streets, on the Common, where he will receive and execute the orders of his friends and wholesale customers, with usual attention & expedition during the prevalence of the present Epidemic, where it has not made its appearance this season, nor during any of the years. august 25
FOR SALE,
The Cargo of the Schr. Sincerity Benjamin Montceth Master, from Laguire, consisting of 945 Fenegas of Cocoa, 4000 lb. of Flora Indigo, 210 Bales of Cotton, 4 Packages of Gost Skins. By Willings & Francis, No. Eleventh-street. july 23.
Madras and Ventapaulam
HANDKERCHIEFS,
Scarfaulkers and Carradarries, of the newest and most approved patterns, entitled to the drawback, just received, AND FOR SALE BY Alex. F. Miller & Co. No. 64, South Front Street. may 18.
FOR SALE, BY
JOHN MILLER, JUN.
No. 8, CHESTNUT STREET, 100 hogheads RUM, Of high proof and fine flavour. july 19.

LATEST Foreign Advises.
LONDON, August 19.
The Hamburg mail due on Sunday last, arrived this morning.
Per Hamburg Mail.
Augsburg, August 13.
The letters from Naples have not been received by the last Italian post, but advices have been received from other Italian ports, that an engagement has taken place between the French fleet under General Buonaparte, and the English under Admiral Nelson, the issue of which is not known.
Florence, July 31. We have yet received no advices of the arrival of Buonaparte in Egypt; but some accounts which have been brought to the French coast at Leghorn, have occasioned a number of reports relative to the French fleet. A battle, it is said, has been fought, in which Admiral Nelson has been conqueror, but has lost his life. General Buonaparte has likewise been killed. All these, however, are unconfirmed reports, deserving no credit. It is certain that the English agent at Leghorn has received a large packet for the English minister here, Mr. Windham, of the contents of which nothing has transpired.
Italy, August 1.
All the accounts which have been received in the different Italian ports, agree that the English and French fleets have met. According to some, Admiral Nelson, and according to others, Buonaparte, is killed. It is likewise said, that some of the French convoy, or according to other letters, some frigates have been taken. Other accounts say, that the French, after the battle, which was fought near Alexandria, arrived at that port, and effected a landing. No official intelligence, however, has yet been made public.
Vienna, August 11.
According to all the advices received from Italy, some events of importance have taken place between Buonaparte and Admiral Nelson, of the circumstance of which we can say nothing certain, as the reports are extremely various, and no official accounts have been received; however, they agree that Admiral Nelson has taken several French ships of war and transports.
Hamburg, August 14.
To-morrow, it is said, is the day on which the French army is to begin to advance; though others say it will not be till the 25th. A great number of carriages have been put in requisition, which carry daily six thousand loaves from this place and Hamburg to Altenkirchen and Hachenburg; and lists have been taken in the different districts, of the horses which may be employed as relays.
August 29.
We yesterday presented to our readers the various reports from the continent, of an action having taken place between Admiral Nelson and Buonaparte's fleet. These reports, it must be admitted, contain nothing circumstantial respecting the action, mentioning neither the place where, nor the time when it took place; but from the various channels through which this news has reached us, the increasing reports from the continent, and the obvious probability of the event, little doubt rests on our minds that it has actually taken place; and we know enough of the superiority of British seamen, and of the enterprising and gallant spirit of Admiral Nelson, to be assured of the happiest result.
The credit of the accounts of yesterday, however, do not rest entirely upon the articles extracted from the German and Italian journals—Many private letters from different parts of the continent, and particularly from Hamburg of the 21st inst. mention, that accounts had been received of that great event, to which the eyes of all Europe are turned with so much anxiety and expectation, a meeting of the two hostile fleets in the Mediterranean having taken place; the letters from Hamburg to which we allude, and one of which we subjoin, are of the best authority, and state that the English agent at Leghorn had publicly announced that Admiral Nelson had obtained a victory, and the French consul was remarked to preserve the most gloomy silence. The action is supposed to have taken place near Alexandria, and it is even conjectured that it happened before any part of the French fleet had reached that port. It is stated in the Florence article by the Hamburg wall, that the commanders of both fleets had been killed, and in another article that Buonaparte only had fallen. These, it must be allowed, are only general and vague reports, but it appears to us that they would scarcely be so general, or so often repeated, if they had not some foundation in fact. The best informed people entertain little expectation of official or authentic intelligence from Sir Horatio Nelson's fleet reaching London, till towards the close of the present month. Such intelligence may be hourly expected—that it will be cheering and gratifying to the bosom of every true Briton, we feel a most perfect confidence, and we shall of course have a most peculiar pleasure in announcing it to the public.
The following letter has been received from the postmaster at Hamburg, by a gentleman in an official situation, later than the date of the newspapers in which the same intelligence is stated:
Hamburg, Aug. 21.
Dear Sir,
Many reports are in circulation here, concerning a very bloody engagement, which is said to have happened between Admiral Nelson and Buonaparte near Alexandria.
The English consul at Leghorn, has announced a capital victory on the side of Nelson over the French; and the French consul at the same time observed a profound silence.
There is even intelligence by a private letter from a gentleman of consequence at
Florence, in which it is said Buonaparte is entirely defeated, and made prisoner.
I am, &c.
J. W. HANEY.
THE INVASION.
We have every concurrent reason to hope for a speedy and glorious account from our gallant viceroy.
On his march to Athlone, his attention and kindness to the troops under his command completely won their hearts: Like a true soldier, he sought no comfort or refreshment for himself while one of his men remained unsupplied, and even then showed himself content with the coarsest fare and the meanest accommodation. Inspired by the example of their veteran leader, the troops made rapid marches, and arrived in the highest spirits at Athlone on Tuesday last.
From thence on Wednesday morning, Lord Cornwallis, with a force of about 7000 men, moved forward on the road to Tuam; and it was expected that he would have yesterday morning reached that part of the county of Mayo in which the French troops were.
General Lake, with nearly two thousand men, has taken post in Tuam, and aided by General Duff from Limerick, covers Galway from any attempt of the enemy, while General Taylor, at Boyle, is so situated as to advance and cut off the retreat of the enemy or surround them as may be deemed necessary.
The enemy's forces are commanded by a French general named Tuoan, whose second in command is to be an Irish priest, name Kane, a native of the county of Mayo; the third in command was killed in the disembarkation by Sir Thomas Chapman, and the Carabineers. General Kilmain is not with his army.
The check received by gen. Lake is attributed to a stratagem. A few of the peasantry had, from fear or choice, joined the enemy's forces; their clothes were made use of to disguise the advanced guard of the French, who thus surprised the general's out posts, having been conducted by those who joined them through an unfrequented path over the mountains of Ballinagree, to the west of Lough Conn, while the pass at Foxford to the eastward, was occupied by Sir Thomas Chapman, after his retreat from Ballina.
Notwithstanding the unprepared state of gen. Lake's forces, and his inferiority in number, the event would not have been so unlucky had it not been for the superior force of artillery with which the French were provided. They had sixteen field pieces our troops but six. The Kilkenny regiment behaved with great gallantry, and lost a most valuable officer in major Alcock, who was killed on the first assault.
The following MANIFESTO was transmitted to us from the county of Mayo, said to be published there by the French general.
Health and Fraternity to the People of Ireland!
THE Great Nation has sent me to you with a band of heroes, to deliver you from the hands of tyrants; fly to our standards, and share with us the glory of subduing the world. We will teach you the arts of war, and to despise the low pursuits of toil and industry. You shall live on the spoils of war, and the labour of others. The acquisition of wealth is the acquisition of misery, and the enjoyment of ease is glorious. We have made all the nations we have conquered happy, by arresting their property; by applying it to the common cause, and confectating it to the champions of liberty! PROPERTY is a common right, belonging to the valour that seizes it. We have already destroyed the unspiring tranquillity of Switzerland; and the wealth, and the power, and the bigotry, of Italy are no more! When the justice of France has thus extended its reforming vengeance in unoffending nations, consider with how much more vigour it will visit you if you shall slight its benignity. Fly to our standards, and we will free you from spiritual as well as temporal subjection; we will free you from the fetters of religion, and the shroud of priestcraft. Religion is a bondage intolerable to free minds; we have banished it from our own country, and put down the grand impostor, the pope, whose wealth we have sacrificed on the altar of reason. Fly to our standards, and we will break your connection with England; we will save you from the mortification of seeing yourselves under an invidious government, and exalt you into the rank of those countries which now enjoy the benefits of French fraternity. Let not the ties of kindred, the seductions of ease, or the unnamely attachment to the comforts of life, teach you to neglect this friendly call of your countrymen and fellow citizens.
KILMAINE, Lieut. Gen.
August 18.
Letters have been received this morning by a gentleman of the navy officer, from Gibraltar, which state, that an action had taken place between Admiral Nelson and Buonaparte, in which the former had captured five sail of the line, and one hundred and fifty transports.
The Indians taken up as transports are under sailing orders. They take out the 10th regiment of foot, and some other troops, in all 1500 men, and are expected to touch at Lisbon for more. They go out under convoy of the Tigre of 80 guns, commanded by Sir Sidney Smith.
A gentleman lately from Spain, gives the following intelligence:
On the 3d of July a 74 gun ship and a frigate arrived at Ferrol from the Havannah, with sugar and five millions of dollars. Another ship of the line and a frigate were daily expected there with eighty millions of dollars.
At Ferrol were one ship of 90 guns, one 74, and one frigate; in dock, two 80 and
two 74 gun ships. On the 1st instant, a Croix in Spain, were one 74, one 44, one frigate, and two men of war brigs, with several English, Danish, and American prizes. On the 1st inst. three frigates 44 guns each, with 1500 troops, bound for the Grand Canaries, from thence to the Havannah, failed from Ferrol. At Bourdeaux, on the 5th inst. 14 privateers, of 22 guns each, all new, were fitted out, and to be at sea in thirty days.
August 17.
This morning arrived a mail from Lisbon, brought to Falmouth by the prince of Wales packet in 15 days. The following are extracts of a letter, dated Lisbon, July 28, the packet failed:
"A report is in circulation, that the 4th July decided the fate of Buonaparte's fleet, that the Orient, four ships of the line, and 57 transports, fell into the hands of our squadron, and that the commander in chief himself is a prisoner—that a battle has been fought, few entertain any doubt, and perhaps an express which arrived last night from Madrid, has made the government acquainted with the result."
The information respecting the defeat of Buonaparte, which we yesterday gave on the authority of a letter from Lisbon, is more detailed than that which we have been accustomed to receive, and is unquestionably correct as far as relates to the circulation of the report in Lisbon. The fact is mentioned in the great number of letters from that place. What credit is due to it, we leave to our readers to decide. No intelligence of any engagement is repeated in the French papers, though one of them states, that the report of a meeting between the two fleets maintained its ground. (Sun.)
August 11.
Of the proceedings at Rastadt, we are wholly ignorant; but it is stated as a general opinion, that the obstacles to peace are very numerous, and not to be easily overcome.
SUN OFFICE.
Three o'clock P.M.
We stop the press to announce the receipt, by Express, of Paris papers to the 8th inst. In the Echo of August 7, there is an extract of a letter dated Beaucaire, 26th July, said to be from the Commissioner of the Marine at Toulon, mentioning that Admiral Nelson and Buonaparte, had met near Alexandria; that the fleets had engaged, and that Admiral Nelson had lost three ships and two frigates. The Commissioner adds, that he does not give further particulars, because the Directory should know them first. The letter is stated to be written to the Citizen Cambette.
We trust it is true that from the French have met. Of the result, in that event, we are not apprehensive.
Guilleminet writes from Madrid, that intelligence had reached Cadiz of an action having taken place between Buonaparte and Nelson, in which the former had the advantage.
A letter from Genoa also states, that an action has taken place but the result was not known.
A letter from Vienna states, that an action had taken place between the English and French fleets, the result of which is not known.
By letters from the West Indies we learn, that Victor Hughes continues to preserve in a high degree the characteristic of the Great Nation—cunning, impudence, and oppression. His correspondence of late relating to prisoners and cartels, has been so arrogant with our commanders, that the latter have no alternative, but are compelled to meet it with silent contempt. In the mean time, we are sorry to observe, that about 300 of our brave countrymen are pining in fickleness and close confinement at Guadaloupe. Col. Leslie Brown is still a prisoner.
The Grand Master of Malta, Baron Hompesch, with forty knights of the Maltese order, has arrived at Trieste, and solicited his imperial majesty for permission to reside at Vienna. We do not yet know whether this request will be granted.
ADMIRAL NELSON'S FLEET.
Table listing ships and commanders: Vanguard (Rear admiral Nelson, K.B.), Orion (Capt. E. Barry), Calliope (Sir J. Saumarez), Swiftsure (Trowbridge), Zealous (Hallowell), Belleroophon (Hood), Audacious (Derby), Alexander (Gould), Thetis (Ball), Majestic (Miller), Defence (Wesfcott), Minotaur (Peyton), Goliath (Louis), Leander (Foley, Thompson).
(STATE PAPER.)
RASTADT, AUGUST 9. The conclusion of the deputation of the empire of the 7th was not approved by the imperial plenipotentiary. His excellency this morning at three o'clock dispatched a courier to Vienna to obtain instructions relative to its ratification. Not to obstruct the negotiation, however, the imperial plenipotentiary this day transmitted the conclusion to the French plenipotentiaries, without annexing his usual fashion. The conclusion is as follows:
The deputation of the empire could not observe, without satisfaction, in the note of the French plenipotentiaries of the 1st Thermidor, that further relaxations were acceded to respecting different points of the negotiation: it has also seen, with considerable pleasure, the solemn and reiterated declaration, that it was not the intention of the French government that the independence of the empire should be threatened or exposed; that, on the contrary, it was their earnest desire that this independence should acquire more strength and solidity. These intentions, manifested on the part of the French government, joined to the formal and reiterated assurances of their serious disposition towards a speedy conclusion of a peace, afforded still further hopes that the relations of amity between the two nations, in order to secure which the
Germans have recently consented to the greatest sacrifices, might soon be happily re-established, notwithstanding the difference of opinion that exists upon a variety of matters.
The French note of the 1st Thermidor begins with some preliminary observations relative to the mode of proceeding hitherto pursued. The deputation on their side, think it necessary to make, in answer to it, a few counter-observations.
The French ministers seem to look upon the starting of new demands immediately following those that have been discussed, as the simple effect of the progression of ideas, and as the successive development of their plan; they pretend that they have never renounced the idea of bringing forward fresh demands. The deputation of the empire have uniformly been persuaded, on the contrary, that the question would be continually declined and evaded; that it would be impossible to take in and comprehend the whole; and that the negotiation could never arrive at a fixed point, if the proposed conditions of peace were continually to be followed up by new ones. It was merely in this view that the deputation, previous to their agreeing to any basis of pacification, requested in their note of the 10th February of the present year, that the French ministers would explain and make known to them, in a satisfactory manner, the whole of the sacrifices which the French republic was disposed to require of the empire at the conclusion of this unfortunate war, and when afterwards, it was found necessary, in the note of the 10th of March to accede to the first basis of peace proposed by France, that agreement was grounded upon previous conditions, which excluded all the ulterior demands which might be made upon the empire; it was believed that these conditions would have checked every other sacrifice that could possibly be expected from the empire, in order to obtain a peace so earnestly wished for and it is for this express purpose that these previous conditions have been formally received in the notes of the 4th and 21st of April, as it is again done in the present; the deputation could not therefore but feel surprised, on observing the new pretensions contained in the French note of the 14th of May. Guided however, by their anxious desire to accelerate the conclusion of peace, they determined in the notes of the 18th of May and the 9th of July, to agree to some of those demands. The French ministers, in their notes of the 4th Messidor and 1st Thermidor, have somewhat excited expectations of some other demands, or have endeavoured to modify them; and the points that still remain under discussion, they have in part resumed, in seven articles in their last note. They shall be now answered article by article, and in a manner, that shall afford the most unequivocal proof of the ardent desire felt by the deputation to procure for Germany a peace, which it is so anxiously wished for, however dear it may be obliged to purchase it.
1. The Deputation has proposed to postpone the consideration of the objects relative to commerce and navigation till the conclusion of a treaty of commerce, in order to be enabled thoroughly to investigate, and discuss an affair of so much importance, and which involves so many considerations. At the same time, if the difficulties could be so easily removed as, without retarding the pacification, to admit the arrangement to be made on this subject to be inserted in any treaty of peace, the Deputation of the Empire are disposed to accede to it. They are readily subscribe to the desire manifested by the French Minister Plenipotentiary with regard to the toll duties on the Rhine, and they consent to their abolition, as the Republic, on its side, has consented to the suppression of those on the left bank of the Rhine, such as the warehouse duties and the custom paid by the waermen. At the same time, as the custom duties must form a certain compensation for the loss of considerable revenues derived from the tolls, and as their establishment will experience much difficulty, for the reasons mentioned in the former notes, it ought to be fixed as the condition that the complete suppression of those tolls shall not take place for two years. In this interval, the principles and rules which shall be observed in the establishment of the customs, may be determined, and agreeably to the proposition made in the notes of the 18th of May, and 9th of July, to secure entirely the free navigation of the Rhine from its mouth upwards, by means of a convention made with the Batavian Republic.
2. The Deputation of the Empire have consented that the principal navigable course of the Rhine, formerly called the Thalweg, as it has been fixed at various times by scientific persons with common consent, shall form the future boundary between Germany and France, from the place where, leaving the Duchy of Cleves, it enters into Holland under the name of the Wall. In the above Duchy, the canal which divides the Isle of Buderich into two parts, shall be considered as the Thalweg. With regard to the islands situated to the right of the Thalweg, they shall remain or be ceded to the Empire; and those to the left shall be ceded to the French Republic; this point is perfectly agreeable to the wishes of the Deputation. They make no difficulty therefore, to consent to the succeeding proposition relative to the part of the Rhine, which formerly constituted the boundary between Germany and France, viz. That the if a situated on the right of the Thalweg which were previously in the indisputed possession of France, shall remain so in future, under condition of a similar concession in favour of the Empire and the Sovereign of Germany, with regard to the islands situated on the left of the Thalweg, and which are now subject to Germany. They likewise agree to the new proposition of the French Ministers, that the changes which may take place in the channel of the Rhine shall not in future change the rights of sovereignty over the islands; that these shall remain henceforth in their present division, subject, as they stand, to France and Germany, although it should even happen that, by a change of the bed of the river, their relative position with regard to the Thalweg, might be changed. The private property of the islands, and the free enjoyment of its produce shall of course belong to the present and future owners, with regard to the line of separation through the Thalweg. In addition to these points, the neutrality of the navigation shall be scrupulously observed.
3. The Deputation of the Empire, or in order to discharge every duty which the important obligations they have to fulfil require, and animated with the most sincere desire as speedily as possible to obtain peace for Germany, have resolved, notwithstanding the severe sacrifices they have already made, to accede to the following propositions of the French Plenipotentiaries:—That the fortress of Ehrenbreitstein shall be demolished after the conclusion of peace. This consent, however, is given under the condition, sine qua non et resolutive, that the French Government, on its side, shall cause to be demolished all the fortified places on the right bank of the Rhine, and on the same side of the Thalweg, viz. Kehl, Calfel, the Fort of Mars, and the Isle of St. Pierre that all these shall be given up to the Empire, and all claims to them, as well as to the other places on the same side solemnly renounced. This deputation of the Empire in adopting the resolution to give up in future a bulwark which has hitherto been so useful, think themselves entitled to demand (which is likewise consistent with existing convention) that the blockade of Ehrenbreitstein be immediately raised, and that the measures taken to prevent the inhabitants of the Rhine from receiving provisions be likewise discontinued.
4. With regard to the bridges established for the purposes of commerce, they persist to believe, as has been already observed in the notes, of the 18th of May and 19th of July, that permanent bridges on a river which serves as a boundary between two nations, cannot be considered simply as relating to commerce, but also as points of contract connected with political and military operations. These motives have already prevented, in preceding treaties of peace, the establishment of bridges of the like. To this must be added that the bridge of Huningen would be out at the distance of half a league from that of Bâle; that it might touch on the right bank of Swiss territories with the same facility as those of the German Empire, since a part of the Isle des Condoniers as well as the terra firma situated behind that island belongs to the canton of Bâle. With respect to the bridge between the two Brises, as those fort of bridges ought not, even in the opinion of the French minister, to be established, but by the mutual consent of the inhabitants of the banks, it may be said, in opposition, that the inhabitants belonging to the house of Austria will not find this bridge either useful or necessary. It is hoped then that the French Government will not insist further on the establishment of these bridges.
Domestic.
SAVANNAH, Sept. 25.
The diplomatic fall of the French is daily unfolding itself. The late correspondence between Talleyrand Perigord and Mr. Gerry, has added a new leaf to the ample page. We have certainly thought too lightly of French intrigues and French influence. If the Directory have at their command a strong party in this country, of which they make such boast, it is not time that the conduct of this party should be examined? It is a melancholy truth that such a party has been formed in every country which has fallen a sacrifice to their arms; and to such parties, such intensive divisions, more than to their valor or numbers, have they owed their extensive conquests.
Let us then examine the conduct of the party in America, who are supposed to be devoted to the views of France. Let a candid but strict scrutiny of their actions and professions be made and if they have been falsely accused we may think our country of all others, the most fortunate.
A single instance of such an examination, will at present be selected—which refers to the correspondence abovementioned.
When the dispatches from our envoys were first published, there were many persons who accused the envoys of having been made the dupes of foreign agents, who were not countenanced either by Talleyrand Perigord, or by the Directory. Let it be asked who these persons were that made such an accusation. Did the unbiased mind of an honest, upright American ever produce an unworthy sentiment, of Gen. Pinckney or Mr. Marshall? Every man will answer for himself. Was it not a French Party in America, by whom such accusations were made? Was any person ever heard to countenance, much less to believe such an accusation, excepting those who have been constantly opposed to the Federal government? But if the French actually send their forces to attack us—say their partisans—we will then show our patriotism, we will join in defence of our country.
How far, let it be asked, must they be permitted to extend their hostility before such patriotism will be shown? Very suspicious would be the professions of that man who would assist our enemies to calumniate, to abuse, and plunder us, and then coolly say, that if we were actually attacked, he would join in our defence. If there yet remain a few among the opposers to our government, who are not actually devoted to the views of France, they ought to lose no time in giving the most unequivocal proofs of their patriotism—a death-bed repentance comes with a very bad grace.
If the French armies (which God forbid) should even secure a landing on the territory of the United States, it will then be asked—Who has encouraged such an attack? Who has led them to suppose that we are a divided people? Who has dared to say, that like the Dutch, the Swiss and Venetians, we shall fall an easy prey to the haughty conquerors? Such questions are easier prevented, than owned. It is always better to foresee and avert danger, than to trust to chance for its effects.
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OCT. 13. est.
PETER BLIGHT
HAS removed his Counting House to his House in the Northern Liberties, near Nice Town, Germantown road, august 21.

BY THIS DAY'S MAIL.
NEW-YORK, October 16. Number of deaths in this city for 24 hours ending Friday evening, 22—20 of the fever. For the 24 hours ending Saturday evening, 16—12 of the fever.
Number of deaths in this city for twenty-four hours ending Sunday evening, 18—16 of the fever.
The accounts of the meeting of the two hostile fleets in the Mediterranean cannot be questioned. They are not only strongly corroborated, but rendered indubitable by coming at once from various parts of Spain, Portugal, Italy, Germany, France and England. We have accurately compared dates and other circumstances, and can announce with certainty, that the British fleet had gained a decisive glorious and important victory; and we only have to lament, that the gallant Nelson does not live to enjoy those honors and rewards, which his distinguished talents and exertions so highly merit; and which his nation are wisely in the habit of bestowing with a liberality peculiar to itself, on those who render eminent services to the state.
On Thursday evening, one Bembridge, a young man residing at Dartmouth, who had for some time past discovered an attachment to Miss Ruffel, daughter of Mr. Ruffel of that place, went to Mr. Ruffel's house about nine o'clock, entered the room where the family were sitting, and expressed a wish to speak to Miss Ruffel. This Miss Ruffel refused, and expressed her displeasure at his attention to her daughter. This the villain probably expected, for having provided himself with a long butcher's knife, he took an opportunity immediately after, and buried it with the most savage violence in the bosom of the unfortunate girl, who almost instantly expired. The wretch then stabbed himself in two places, but we believe not mortally. Assistance was called; he was immediately taken into custody, and will doubtless suffer the proper vengeance of the law for his diabolical atrocity.
ed here that the emperor was killed; but no confirmation of it. The mail of this day brings the news of the negotiation at Seltz being broke up; Francois de Melfchateau set off for Paris, and count Cobenzel for Vienna. The Congress of Rastadt was to break up also, and there is a prospect of war again between Germany and France. This intelligence is dated Frankfort 9th, and Rastadt 8th July.
The Danes and Swedes, have eight sail of men of war out a cruising, and are determined to protect their trade against the French.
Report having been circulated that the United States frigate Constitution had sailed from the Chesapeake with a sickly crew, we are authorised to state that she was to sail from Hampton Road, the first fair wind after the 27th and that the officers and crew were in perfect health.
PITTSFIELD, Oct. 10. We are credibly informed that Mr. Lyon and his son, Jasad Spooner his printer, and Anthony Haswell printer in Bennington, are arrested for sedition, and carried before the District Court of the United States now sitting in Rutland. It is said Mr. Lyon applied for counsel, to two attorneys from Bennington, his particular friends, but they declined. Alas! that those men, who could rise from their beds "at dead of night, that solemn hour" and, with the ring of cannon welcome Lyon on his return from Congress, should refuse him their assistance in an hour of distress. Alas! for Jacobin depravity, and Sans-Culotte friendship.
DEDHAM, October 11, Plague on board the Constitution. Last evening we were informed, a vessel arrived at Boston, which brought news, that the plague had been communicated from a Spanish vessel to the Constitution—that the First Lieutenant, the Captain's son, and upwards of twenty of the crew have died, and that the life of the Captain was dispirited. We hope this is nothing but a report.
NEWPORT, October 9. COMMUNICATIONS. When Talleyrand undertakes in his last note to Mr. Gerry to contrast the conduct of the two governments, it would seem that Mr. Gerry had at last really given him the douceur to burlesque the "terrible republic." In his survey of the conduct of France, he has completely described the forbearance of the American government: In the pretended violence of the American government he has displayed a just picture of the conduct of France.
The American editors in their remarks on the recent correspondence between Mr. Gerry and Talleyrand, seem totally at a loss to discover what the French minister means—and it must be confessed that this confusion arises in a great degree from the confused manner in which he has expressed himself. One editor supposes that the firmness of our government has at last wrought a pacific change in the policy of France, and founds this opinion on Talleyrand's anxiety to negotiate, and the sorrow he expresses at the prospect of hostilities. We may, however, safely rely, that this pretended anxiety and sorrow are not the working of a contrite spirit . Talleyrand is no doubt hung to the foul at the disclosure of his infamy and corruption; and the gloomy discontent of his mind appears to pervade his correspondence; but we have more reason to suppose that this state of mind would increase his malignity , than engender remorse. This malignity will disguise at the same time that it embitters the draught that is preparing for us. We ought to believe every thing sooner than the professions of the French government: We ought to expect any thing sooner than the fulfilment of their promises. They must have lost, before this time, all hope of dividing the people of this country. Their only object will now be to annoy , and in pursuit of this object they will probably attempt to take us by surprise. The spirit of the people, and the energy of our government is about to disappoint them. They have long "cultivated peace with sincerity"—We are now preparing "to vindicate our rights with firmness."
Last week letters were received in this town by way of Madeira, from on board the ship Samiramis, Jacob Smith, commander on her passage from Canton, dated 23 days after her sailing; at which time she was up with the Cape de Verds Islands; all well on board, and had seen no cruisers of any nation.
The Health Office is kept open night and day, at the City Hall, where every necessary convenience is provided for removing the sick and burying the dead. WILLIAM ALLEN. Health Office, September 29.
The Gazette.
PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 17.
Extrait of a letter from S. Bourne, Esq. Consul General of the United States at Amsterdam, dated July 29, 1798, to the Secretary of State.
"Prior to the departure of the last American vessel in our port, I beg leave to inclose you a transcript from a Dutch gazette of this day, containing a late article of the Emperor of Russia, relative to French property.
The transcript above referred to. "His Russian majesty has, according to official account, given the following law, under date of 11th of June: "Being informed that the French have laid attachment on all vessels loaded with Russian goods, even laying in neutral ports; in consequence of which, We order, that in all Russian ports an attachment will be laid on all French merchandise, without taking any notice in what vessels they may be loaded, or to whom the said merchandise belongs."
Upon which Mr. Bourne remarks, That the arrest of the French government, which has given rise to the above order, and to which it refers, he does not recollect to have seen: but that the transcript seem to bear the mark of authenticity.
Amidst the general distress which has pervaded the Continent during the present season, the mind dwells with pleasure on the conspicuous instances of benevolence and liberal benefaction by which the more fortunate classes of citizens, and the men of wealth, as a body, have every where distinguished themselves. Such instances of sympathy, united with the will to gratify it, reflect unspeakable lustre on the individual, enlarge or dissipate narrow views, elevate the public sentiment, and extend and illustrate the national glory.
There is little doubt that Condit and Kitchell are elected to represent New-Jersey in the next Congress.
A fine sloop of war, called the Portsmouth , building at Portsmouth (N. H.) under a government contract, to carry 22 nines on one deck, will be launched in the course of two or three weeks.
FEDERAL ELECTION. Notwithstanding in the middle states, a Leib and a Livingston, have been returned to Congress by the arts of faction, it is pleasing to find, that in the extremities of the Union, men seem to be returning to a right sense of their political dignity. In New-Hampshire the federal phalanx of their last representation, is unanimously re-elected. In Georgia numerous indications present themselves of a radical reformation. The following merits notice for its bluntness, and point.
Extrait of the presentments of the Grand Jury of Glynn county at their last Term. We present as a grievance of the first magnitude the opposition of our representatives in Congress to the wise measures of the Executive, and lament that such conduct should so materially injure this country.
Charles Town, Sept. 27. Yesterday the United States brig General Pinckney , intended to mount 14 guns, and to be employed as a cutter to this port, was launched from the ship yard of Mr. William Pritchard. The brig Urania , and the British ship Boston , lying in the stream, fired salutes on the occasion.
On the 23d inst. a machine house on the plantation of Henry Middleton, Esq. was struck by lightning. Fifteen negroes were killed on the spot, and seven wounded. The brother of one of the negroes killed, on being told of the affair, was so overpowered by the relation, that he instantly expired.
The following is the letter which Mr. Gerry received from TALLEYRAND PERIGORD, before his departure from Paris: PARIS, 4th Thermidor. (July 22)
PLEASE Sir, to permit me to lay particular stress on the two last paragraphs of your answer of the 2d instant to my letter of the 24th Messidor. Easy as it may be to rectify the preceding ones, to attempt it would be retreating to no purpose into the circle of digressions. It is but natural that I should feel what, under the existing circumstances, you imagine you may owe to your government, and this consideration would alone suffice to stop me, if I let a self value on the attainment of a conciliation.
You again observe to me, that the government of the United States has invariably been disposed to settle by arbitration the differences that subsist between the two republics. This new assurance, at a moment when it holds out the appearance of hostilities, cannot but moderate their effects; but let a sincere, loyal, and truly friendly act specially realize these dispositions. Though they are far from being very prominent in the answers of the President to the addresses that have been presented to him from the different parts of the United States, it is a pleasure to me to discover in these expressions nothing but political expediency.
I do not, however, augur less favourably of the real intentions which you profess in its name, and I would not have requested you to guarantee the first proof which it shall be willing to give of these intentions, if the executive directory, that was ready to receive you, had not adopted a fixed resolution in that respect. A negotiation may be renewed at Paris, where I flatter myself you experienced nothing but tokens of friendship, and where a friendly and honourable reception shall always await an envoy who possesses your good qualities.
I am ignorant, moreover, Sir, why you should say that it is necessary to lop off from this negotiation every preliminary reference to a loan, and every explanation respecting the speech delivered by the President. Do but take the trouble to peruse the propositions which I transmitted to you on the 13th of June, and which contain all the ideas of the French government, and you cannot discover a word in them that justifies your recusing to those two questions. An odious intrigue had got hold of the dignity of the business; the dignity of the government could not brook this interference, nor would it suffer the purity of its views to be degraded by such an association.
As to the preliminary measures which you have suggested, the government has already anticipated your wishes—information which they have lately received, acquaint them, it is true that acts of violence have been committed against the commerce and the citizens of the United States, in the Antilles and on the coast. Do them but the justice to believe, that they need only to be informed of the facts in order to disavow all the proceedings that were contrary to the laws of the republic, or to its decisions. These grievances are about to be redressed, and orders are going out to the islands, to reduce every thing to its legal limits, till the moment arrives when a friendly arrangement between France and the United States shall have respectively re-established the two countries in the enjoyment of their treaties.
This moment, Sir, cannot arrive too soon. I cannot cease to regret that you have been so reluctant to forward it, convinced as I always am, that you enjoyed full powers to that effect. Accept my best wishes for your happy voyage, and the assurance of my perfect consideration. C. M. TALLEYRAND PERIGORD.
GAZETTE MARINE LIST.
HALIFAX, Sept. 15.
Thursday evening the Prevoyant frigate returned here from a cruise, and brought in with her the ship Bernhoff , laden with sugar; ship Little Mary , with Molasses and sugar; brig Free Mason , ditto; brig William , ditto; and Schooner Harriet , with sugar and some cash. These five vessels were part of a fleet of upwards of 50 sail, from the Savannah, convoyed by three or four armed American vessels, which the Prevoyant fell in with on the 26th ult. in long 79, lat. 29, bound for different ports in America. Three of them are under Danish colours.
Yesterday arrived his majesty's ship Theis , from a cruise.
Sunday arrived his majesty's sloop Lynx , capt. Hall, and Driver , capt. Scatter.
Tuesday arrived his majesty's packet Princess Royal , capt. Skinner, in six days from New-York.
The privateer fitted out at Liverpool, in this province, has taken a Spanish brig, which has arrived at Liverpool, laden with cocoa and cotton.
Boston, Oct. 17.
This day arrived ship Franklin , Chasseur, from St. Petersburg. Sailed 16th June, in company with the ships American , Henrietta , for New-York; Minerva , Gardner, for New-Bedford, parted with them in lat 53, N. long 37, W. in a gale; failed same day, brig Ruby , Simmons, for Boston. Left these ships John Ingraham, of Charleston, to fill in ten days; Sally, Love 1 of Boston, to fill in 12 days; Lucy, Meeks, Salem, to 12 days; Four Sisters, Ray, Beverly, do 12 days; Neptune, West, Providence, do 7 days; Joseph, Folt, New-York, do 4 days; brig Neptune , Barr, Salem, to fill in 10 days; George, Howland, Philadelphia, do 8 days; Jenkins, Newburyport, do 12 days; ship Nancy , Salem, do 12 days. Left Efficiency the 14th July, under convoy of three English sloops of war, with the English fleet, parted with them in the North Sea the 23th of July. In lat 45, N. long 48, W. spoke brig Rainbow , Gardner, 33 days out from Gottenburg, bound to New-York, all well. In lat 43, N. long 64, W. spoke with a fishing sloop bound to the Cape, who informed that he had spoke the same day, with the ship Commerce , from St. Ubes, bound to Newburyport, out 12 weeks, she had, in a gale offwind the 24th Aug. lost the captain and two of her men.
Same day arrived, ship Joel , captain James Whalan, 53 days from Hamburg. Left there August 16th ship Ocean , Coffin, New-York; Carrollton , Gardner, Baltimore, to sail in a few days; Abigail Hammond, Boston; Albemarle Marshall, New-York; Arenilla , Guthrie, New-York; Mary , Nye, Baltimore; Liberty Runager, Philadelphia; Charlotte , Grenfield, just arrived in the river from New-York; brig Nancy , Field, Boston; M'Kever , Philadelphia; Betsy , of Salem, in the river; ships Phenix , Gale, Boston; Isabella , Jones, 11, and ship John , Puram, Salem. The brig Hazard , Roberts, sailed 12 days before capt. W. for Boston. Spoke Oct. 2, long. 55 W. ship Four Sisters , Rev. 63 days out from Elsinore, bound to Beverly.
TO THE PUBLIC.
WE whose names are hereunto subscribed, residents at the Camp (Mather's Place) on behalf of ourselves and the other persons there, who voted at the election, on Tuesday last, by whom we are individually authorized; do (in refutation of certain groundless reports spread about to the prejudice of the Committee, and others amongst us, and injustice to ourselves) declare with the fullest and strictest truth, that no kind of persuasion was used with any of us to give our votes in favor of one side or party, on that occasion, more than another—but that having been several years acquainted with the characters of those we supported, and having consulted amongst ourselves, we gave our votes according to our best judg-
ment, without hope or fear, perdition, or self. John Zeller, William M c Mill, Philip Warner, Samuel Hyndman, Daniel Roberts, John Hatcher, John Buron, Thomas Coffinger, St. John Harvey, Thomas Batagh, Benjamin Duley, John Dowell, James Matthews.
CITY HOSPITAL REPORT. For the 17th October.
ADMITTED. Ann Giles Donald McDonald, James Grant, Sarah M c Curdy.
DIED. Nancy Regan, James Grant, John Daily, Sarah M c Curdy. Remaining in the Hospital 76, 33 of whom are on the recovery.
Interred from city and suburbs 7, City Hospital 4, Total 11.
PHILIP S. PHYSICK. CHRISTOPHER DARAH, Steward. By order of the Board of Managers. WILLIAM JONES, President. Attest, TIMOTHY PAXSON, Clerk.
TWENTY-SEVEN new cases of the prevailing fever, reported for the last 24 hours by 15 physicians.
List of all the Burials in the several Grace Yards of the City and Liberties of Philadelphia, as taken from the books kept by Clergymen, Sextons, &c.
[Collected for the GAZETTE of the UNITED STATES by ROBERT PAXTON.]
Table with 2 columns: Names of the Burial Grounds, Number. Rows include Christ Church, St. Peter's, St. Paul's, First Presbyterian, Second Presbyterian, Third Presbyterian, Scots Presbyterian, Associate Church, St. Mary's Church, Trinity Church, Friends, Free Quakers, Swedes, German Lutheran, German Reformed Presbyterian, Moravians, Baptists, Methodists, Universalists, Jews, City Hospital, Kensington, Coates's. Total for the last 24 hours 23.
A French Classical & Mathematical SCHOOL.
WILL be opened on Monday the 22d. instant at that large commodious room formerly occupied by Mr. Leo in Norris's Alley, No. 15, nearly opposite the City Tavern; under the direction of Messrs. Smith and Chandler both of liberal education, and long experienced in their respective professions—as they indeed, under the patronage of a discerning public, permanently to establish themselves in this undertaking, their whole study and attention will be devoted to the improvement of their pupils—There will be conducted upon the latest and most approved plan, through a complete course of academic studies, or such parts only that may be most useful to the student in his particular views in life—Certain portions of their time will be assigned for geography, history, extracts, composition, and declamation in French and English, in order to form early habits of writing and speaking with propriety—Visits from parents and literary characters, tending to excite a spirit of emulation, will be gratefully received. The hours of study are from 9 to 12 A. M. and from 2 to 5 P. M. They offer to translate the Eng. Lg. French, Spanish and Portuguese languages; and to draw in their proper modes and style, all kinds of writing, whether legal, commercial, or epistolary. The first Monday in November, they also propose to open an evening school for French book-keeping, surveying and navigation, of which they have a practical as well as a theoretical knowledge. As a number of French gentlemen will attend, the students of their language, by continually conversing with them, as well as their teachers, will acquire, along with the principles, a facility of expression.
AVIS AUX FRANCOIS:
Messrs Chaniller et Smith ont l'honneur de prévenir M m les François qu'ils se proposent d'établir une Académie en Norris Alley, No. 15; présage vis-à-vis la Bourse; dans laquelle on enseignera la langue Latine, Angloise et Française; l'Arithmétique, la tenue des livres, la Géographie et les Mathématiques. On fait aussi toutes forces de révisions dans les dites langues; et donne leçons chez les particuliers. Qu'on s'adresse à l'hôtel de Mr. Valicete au coin de même rue et Cherry Alley. October 17.
TEN DOLLARS REWARD.
DESERTE last night; a second time, from the M c Lean Camp, David Luper, a free man. He had when he went away, a plain blue jacket, a vest, light blue overalls, a round hat, which had been bound with yellow, and which he had ripped off in his first desertion, and a pair of new shoes. He is a Carpenter by trade, has grey eyes, lardy hair, a full complexion and a notch in his upper lip. His back is still sore from a flogging he got a few days ago. He may be discovered by his being, as he plays extremely well. W. W. BURROWS Major Com d of the Marine Corps. October 17.
The Subscribers to this Gazette residing in, and near Germantown, are respectfully informed, that their papers will be forwarded (daily) to Mr. Samuel Richbarden, in Germantown; where a list of their names will be left.
Madeira Wine.
A few pipes of remarkably fine MADEIRA WINE fit for immediate use, and at a reduced price—For sale by JAMES YARD. July 26.

PROPOSALS, BY THE Insurance Company of North America.
FOR INSURANCE against FIRE, on Dwelling-Houses, Ware-Houses, and other Buildings (and on Goods contained in such Buildings) distant from Philadelphia, in the United States.
I. Common Insurance, on hazards of the fire class, will be undertaken at a premium of about half per cent. per annum. For extra-hazardous risks, a larger premium will be required, which will vary according to circumstances, seldom exceeding one per cent. per annum; but in some instances, where the property insured is not only in itself extra-hazardous, but rendered still more so by the vicinity of extra-hazardous buildings and occupations, the premium demanded will be raised according to circumstances.
Houses and Ware-Houses, the walls and partitions of which are wholly of stone or brick, well constructed, so as to be guarded as well as may be against fires from within, and free from extra-hazardous buildings and occupations in their neighborhood, will be deemed hazardous of the first class, and may be insured to their full value.
Also Goods and Merchandise, not of an extra-hazardous kind, in casks, bales, or packages, deposited in such buildings, to an amount not exceeding 4000 dollars; but if more than this sum is required to be insured in one tenement, an additional premium will be required, in proportion to circumstances.
II. Insurance will also be made on buildings and goods extra-hazardous, at premiums proportioned to the risk. But it is not easy to arrange these under particular heads or classes, so as to describe each with the necessary accuracy. Each case must therefore be decided upon according to the circumstances attending it; and these circumstances will, in general, appear from the description accompanying the application.
Buildings partly constructed of brick or stone, are preferable to those wholly wooden. And in both cases, the site of building, how they are occupied, how they are situated, the neighboring buildings, and how occupied, are considerations to be taken into view. And with respect to goods, their tendency, whether from their nature, or from the manner in which they are stored, either to commence or to increase an accidental fire, and their liability in such state to receive damage by wet, or by sudden and hasty removal, or to be stolen in time of confusion and hurry, are all circumstances of weight; and the premiums must be proportioned accordingly.
III. The following conditions are to be understood by the parties.
1st. The Insurance is not binding till the stipulated premium be paid; but it shall be deemed effected from the time of such payment and acceptance thereof, whether the policy be immediately signed or not.
2d. Insurance may be renewed at the expiration of the term of the policy, without further expense than the payment of the premium of the renewed term, the circumstances continuing the same as they were understood by the Insurers at the time the former insurance was made; but the payment of the premium is essential to such renewal; and if the party insured suffers any time to elapse after the expiration of the former insurance, before he pays a premium for the renewal, he is not insured during such time; nor can the insurance be renewed on the former policy but by computing the commencement of the renewal from the expiration of the former insurance. The subject of insurance may nevertheless be open to treaty for a new insurance.
3d. If any other insurance be made on the same property; it must be made known at the time of application, otherwise the policy made on such application will be void.
4th. Goods held in trust, or on consignment, may be insured as such in a separate policy; but they are not to be considered as insured otherwise.
5th. This company will not be liable or accountable for any loss or damage occasioned by any foreign invasion, or by any military or usurped force, or by reason of any civil commotion; or occasioned by gunpowder, aquafortis or other thing of that kind kept in the building, or amongst the property insured.
6th. Bills of Exchange, Bonds and other Securities, Title Deeds, Money, Bank and other promissory Notes, are not included in any insurance; nor are paintings, medals, jewels, gems, antique curiosities, or mirrors exceeding the value of twenty-five dollars each, to be considered as insured unless particularly mentioned and by special agreement.
7th. No insurance will be made for a shorter term than one year, nor for a longer term than seven years. Persons choosing to insure for seven years shall be allowed one year's premium by way of discount; One third of a year's premium shall be abated, in like manner on an insurance for three years.
8th. Losses sustained by fire on property insured, shall be paid in thirty days after due proof and liquidation thereof, without deduction.
A description of the property to be insured will be expected with each application, to be made by a master carpenter and signed by him, as well as by the owner of the building or applicant for insurance, and attested before a Notary or principal Magistrate, who will certify his knowledge of the parties and their credibility.
With respect to Houses and other Buildings.
1st. The site and position; describing the street or road on or near which the building stands; its contiguity to water, and other circumstances relative to the extinguishment of fire in case of accident; and particularly whether any and what fire companies are established, and engines provided, in the place or neighbourhood.
2d. The materials of which it is built, whether of brick, stone or wood, and what part of each, as well as to the outside walls as inside or partition walls, and their respective height and thickness; the style of the roof and of what materials; how secured by battlements or party walls; what kind of access to the top of the house and to the chimneys; whether any and what electric rods; the number and kind of fire places; and the kind of deposit for ashes.
3d. The dimensions of the building, and how divided, and the style in which it is finished so as to enable indifferent persons to judge in what manner it is to be repaired or rebuilt in case of injury; the age and condition of the building, and how occupied, whether merely as a dwelling-house, or for any other, and for what purpose; also an estimate of the value of the house or building independent of the ground.
4th. The situation with respect to other buildings or back buildings, whether adjoining or not, comprehending at least one hundred feet each way; what kind of buildings are within that distance, how built, of what materials, and how occupied or improved, whether as dwellings for private families or otherwise; whether any and what trade or manufacture is carried on, and particularly whether there be any extra-hazardous articles used, or usually deposited in the house, or within the distance aforesaid, and of what kind.
Respecting goods in Houses, Warehouses, &c.
1st. A general description of the building, in which they are kept will be expected, similar in all respects, as to the danger from fire, with that required for Insurance on the buildings themselves.
2d. A description of the kinds and nature of the goods, whether in casks or other packages, or opened; and whether displayed in whole pieces or in the usual form for retailing. And
If the goods vary materially in kind, a general estimate of the value of each kind proposed to be insured; but in the last particular minute-ness of description is not expected.
3. Articles of the following kinds are deemed extra-hazardous, though in various degrees, in whatever building they may be placed, viz. pitch, tar, turpentine, resin, wax, tallow, oil, inflammable spirits, sulphur, hemp, flax, cotton, dry goods of an inflammable kind opened—Glass, china ware or porcelain, especially unpacked; Looking-glasses, jewelry, and all other articles more than commonly inflammable, or more than commonly liable to injury by sudden removal or by moisture, or particularly obnoxious to theft on an alarm of fire.
Letters post-paid, directed to the Secretary of the Board of Directors, will be duly attended to. An order for Insurance accompanied by the means of paying the premium, will be immediately executed on the premium being paid. If the application contain an enquiry only, it will be unanswered.
By order of the Board, EBENEZER HAZARD, Sec'y. Office of the Insurance Company of North America; Philad. Feb. 1, 1798. Feb. 14. ramif
Mills, Portage, &c. TO BE LEASED FOR A TERM OF YEARS.
To be leased, for a term not less than three, nor more than seven years, a VALUABLE PROPERTY at the Seneca-Falls, in the county of Onondaga, and State of New-York, on the Banks of the Seneca-River, two miles west of the Cayuga-Ferry, and eleven miles east of Geneva.
This establishment consists of an excellent grist mill, saw mill, dwelling house, barn, and a portage or carrying place, with between thirty and forty acres of land, under good improvement, and as much more in the vicinity, as may be required for future improvement.
The grist mill is a handsome, new and well finished building, of 50 by 30 feet, 3 stories high and furnished with a run of excellent Burr stones and another of Elopah stones, of the best quality—and the most approved bolting, &c. calculated to make all the different qualities of flour for exportation or for home consumption: It is accessible by water from every part of the Cayuga lake and Seneca-river, as well as from the Seneca-lake—and from its situation, commands a very extensive and increasing custom: The stream on which it stands, being the outlet of the Seneca-lake, the mill can never be in want of water; and as it has been kept working during the severest season of the last winter, it is not liable to be impeded by frost.
The saw mill is also new, situated on the same stream, now furnished with an ample flock of logs, of which a supply may at all times be procured by land or water, of the best quality.
The dwelling house is well calculated for the use of the miller, is new, and sufficiently large: The barn is about 40 feet square, and entirely new: The portage is 3/4ths of a mile in length, along the Seneca-Falls—over which were passed in the last year, nearly two hundred boats with their contents; this object is already productive of a handsome income, which must be increasing and permanent.
Among the many advantages of this situation, must be numbered the fertility of the surrounding country—being the best improved part of the country of Onondaga—the concentration of interests by land and water, the Genesee Waterway passing through it, as well as all water carriage to Geneva, and the counties of Ontario and Steuben; which renders it a most eligible stand for a Store or Tavern—The river and lakes abound in fish and fowl, and the country with deer and other game.
Besides the mills already erected at this place, it is calculated for any additional water works that may be found necessary—Fulling mill, bark mill, tannery, forges, &c. may be erected at a small expense—Iron ore may be brought in boats from the Cayuga lake; and it is thought to abound in the neighborhood.
The stock on hand will be sold to the lessee, and the cattle, utensils, &c. may be sold to the lessee, or let the premises.
If a purchase should offer for the whole or an undivided part of the premises it will be sold. Terms of sale or lease, apply to Mr. WILLIAM M'ANDERSON, at the Seneca Falls, or to the subscriber, at Schenectady.
STEPHEN N. BAYARD. june 25 ram2am
Federal Mills,
ADJOINING Georgetown, and the City of Washington, will be offered at Public Sale, on the 20th day of September next, at the Union Tavern, if not previously sold at Private sale.
Those mills in point of situation for business and natural advantages are generally admitted to be equal to any in America. The Merchant Mill is a large brick house, eighty feet by fifty, almost new, in which are erected four pair of Burr millstones with elevators, hopperbays and bolting cloths, completely finished and constructed in such a manner that the whole of the mills may manufacture flour at the same time. The country mill which is erected near the other, is entirely new, a strong stone building, containing one pair of stones, and built in such a manner that the second pair may be put up with little expense. This mill is conveniently situated, and calculated to carry on extensively, country work, of which it gets a constant supply. There is belonging to the said mills 274 acres of land, the whole of which will be sold with the mills.
One third of the purchase money will be required in sixty days from the day of sale, and for the balance a liberal credit will be given. Further particulars will be made known on the day of sale.
JOSEPH E. ROWLES, Surviving partner of JOSEPH E. ROWLES & Co. Georgetown, july 13. 23-3awts
LANDING,
At South Street wharf, the cargo of the ship Connecticut, from Batavia—
About 300 tons of Java Coffee, of the growth of 1794 and 1795
60 tons of Java Sugar, In canisters—for sale by PETER BLIGHT,
WHO ALSO OFFERS FOR SALE, Jamaica rum in hds 150 hds. choice Jamaica Sugars Brandy 1st and 4th proof in pipes, hds. and quarter casks Madeira in pipes Old Batavia Arrack july 2
FOR SALE,
A FARM on the road leading to State Island, within four and an half miles of Philadelphia, containing 25 acres in the highest state of cultivation 2-3 acres of which is meadow, the remainder upland. There are on the premises, a new frame House and Barn, with an excellent kitchen garden, containing a great number of fruit Trees—Immediate possession will be given. For terms apply to Thomas W. Francis, No. 98 South Third Street july 18.
To be Let,
An airy three Story Brick House, ON the South side of Filbert Street, between Eighth and Ninth Street, formerly occupied as the Surveyor General's Office—Enquire at No. 111, Chestnut Street. august 10
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, viz.
Table with 2 columns: Carriage Type, Duty. Rows include: For and upon every coach (15), upon every chaise (12), upon every post chaise (12), upon every phaeton, with or without top (9), upon every gig (9), upon other carriages, having panel work above, with blinds, glass, or curtains (6), upon four-wheel carriages, having same poles and tops, with steel springs (3), upon four-wheel top carriages, with wooden or iron springs on jacks (3), upon carriages with tops (3), upon chairs with tops (3), upon chairs with tops (3), upon other two wheel top carriages (3), upon two wheel carriages with steel or iron springs (3), For and upon all other two wheel carriages (2), upon every four wheeled carriage, having framed poles and tops, and riding upon wooden spars (2).
The Collector of the revenue of the first division of the first survey of the district of Pennsylvania, will attend daily until the 30th day of September next, for the purpose of receiving the duties on carriages, at Germantown, on the Main Street, a little above the sign of the King of Prussia, 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 licenses will be granted to them, one license for carrying on the business of retailing of wines in a less quantity, or in less quantities, than 30 gallons; and one license for carrying on the business of retailing spirituous liquors in less quantities than twenty gallons, at the same time and at the same place, by JAMES ASH,
Collector of the first division of the first Survey of the district of Pennsylvania. Office of Inspection at Germantown, 23d August, 1798.
Every denomination of Stamps to be had at said office.
The Stamp Press is removed
to the Office of Inspection at Germantown, on the Main Street, a little above the sign of the King of Prussia, where attendance will be given for the accommodation of those who with any instruments stamped, on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. august 22
For Sale at Public Auction, ON THE PREMISES,
FOUR LOTS on Harper and Keith's wharf, in Alexandria, on the 26th day of October next, if not sold at private sale before that time. One of these lots is near the end of the wharf, twenty feet beyond which the water is two fathoms deep, about forty feet out three fathoms, fifty feet out the water is four fathoms, and grows deeper until it comes to the channel, which is about forty feet from the end of the wharf. There is as much dirt belonging to the bank as will level the wharf, which may want raising about a foot near the end. There is in this site an half acre lot very fit for a warehouse; it is well watered, and an excellent stand for that business. This property will be sold for ready money, and although or perhaps, as may best suit the purchaser; it lies on the lower side of Alexandria, which is now improving very fast. A sketch of the ground may be seen in the hands of the Printer hereof. For terms at private sale, apply to WM. HARTSHORNE, or to the subscriber, in Alexandria. JOHN HARPER, september 3 ram8w
Wants Employment,
A YOUNG MAN, who has served a regular apprenticeship to the mercantile business in this city, wishes to engage in a Counting house or office, writes a good hand and understands accounts, can be well recommended and security given if required. Enquire at the office of this Gazette. june 21 ramtf
Bakenridge—for sale
IT consists of 920 acres, almost all of which is a fine rich Meadow, (the residence of the late Earl of Sterling). It may be conveniently divided into five farms, four of which are bounded on the East by the River Patuxent.
There are on it a number of buildings, forming a square of nearly three acres—The dwelling house is a very convenient one and a small expense would put it in complete repair.
The orchard consists of 1500 fine bearing engrafted Apple Trees—and there is on other parts of said tract near 300 other Apple Trees—as also a great variety of other fruits, particularly Cherries of the best and most delicious kinds.
Also, a great number of beautiful Exotics and Forest Trees, that add to the beauty and convenience of the place. Its situation is about 18 miles from the towns of Newark and Elizabeth: 100 from Morris-Town, and 12 from Springfield—it is wooded and watered.
To save trouble, the price is five pound pr. acre in cash, on delivery of the deeds. Please to enquire of T. M'CUEN & Co. No. 78, Chestnut street. eodtf february 2.
Patent Ploughs,
To be sold for cash by Joseph Satter at Atson Richard Wells, Cooper's Ferry—Jonathan Harker, Woodbury—and Jeffs Evans, Lumberton. Those who have used them give them the preference to any other kind, as they require less team, break the ground better, are kept in order at less expense and are sold at a cheaper rate—the plan is much simplified and consists of but one piece of cast iron, with the handles and beam of wood; they may be fixed with wrought iron lays and coulters to be put on with screws and taken off at pleasure.
Patent rights for vending with instructions for making them may be had by applying to John Newbold, or the subscriber No. 212 North Front-Street. Who has for Sale; Or to Lease for a term of Years, A number of valuable tracts of Land, well situated for Mills, Iron Works or Farms, mostly improved, lying chiefly in the county of Huntingdon state of Pennsylvania. Those who may incline to view them will please to apply to John Canan esq. near Huntingdon. Charles Newbold. july 17 ramtf
FOR SALE,
BY THE SUBSCRIBERS, NO. ELEVENTH-STREET, 18 Bags Fresh Cloves. Willings & Francis. june 29. dtf
AN ACT
For the relief of the Refugees from the British provinces of Canada and Nova-Scotia.
Sec. 1. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That to satisfy the claims of certain persons claiming lands under the resolutions of Congress, of the twenty-third of April, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-three, and the thirteenth of April, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five, as refugees from the British provinces of Canada and Nova-Scotia, the Secretary for the Department of War, be, and is hereby authorized and directed to give notice in one or more of the public papers of each of the States of Vermont, Massachusetts, New-York, New-Hampshire and Pennsylvania, to all persons having claims under the said resolutions, to transmit the same to the War-office, within two years after the passing of this act, a just and true account of their claims to the bounty of Congress.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That no other persons shall be entitled to the benefit of the provisions of this act, than those of the following descriptions, or their widows and heirs, viz. Birth, those heads of families, and single persons, not members of any such families, who were residents in one of the provinces aforesaid, prior to the fourth day of July, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-six, and who abandoned their settlements, in consequence of having given aid to the United Colonies or States, in the revolutionary War against Great-Britain, or with intention to give such aid, and continued in the United States, or in their service, during the said war, and did not return to reside in the dominions of the king of Great-Britain, prior to the twenty-fifth of November, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-three. Secondly, the widows and heirs of all such persons as were actual residents, as aforesaid, who abandoned their settlements, as aforesaid, and died within the United States, or in their service during the said war; and thirdly, all persons who were members of families at the time of their coming into the United States, and who during the war, entered into their service.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the proof of the several circumstances necessary to entitle the applicants to the benefits of this act, may be taken before a judge of the supreme or district court of the United States, or a judge of the supreme or superior court, or the fifth justice or first judge of the court of common pleas or county court of any State.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That at the expiration of fifteen months from and after the passing of this act, and from time to time thereafter, it shall be the duty of the Secretary for the Department of War, to lay such evidence of claims as he may have received, before the Secretary and Comptroller of the Treasury, and with them, proceed to examine the testimony, and give their judgment what quantity of land ought to be allowed to the individual claimants, in proportion to the degree of their respective services, sacrifices and sufferings, in consequence of their attachment to the cause of the United States, allowing to those of the first class a quantity not exceeding one thousand acres, and to the last class, a quantity not exceeding one hundred, making such intermediate classes as the resolutions aforesaid, and distributive justice, may, in their judgment require, and make report thereof, to Congress. And in case any such claimant shall have sustained such losses and sufferings, or performed such services for the United States, that he cannot justly be classed in any one general class, a separate report shall be made of his circumstances, together with the quantity of land that ought to be allowed him, having reference to the foregoing ratio: Provided, that in considering what compensation ought to be made by virtue of this act, all grants except military grants, which may have been made by the United States, or individual States, shall be considered at the just value thereof, at the time the same were made, respectively, either in whole or in part, as the case may be, a satisfaction to those who may have received the same: Provided also, that no claim under this act, shall be assignable until after report made to Congress, as aforesaid, and until the said lands be granted to the persons entitled to the benefit of this act.
Sec. 5. Be it further enacted, That all claims in virtue of said resolutions of Congress, which shall not be exhibited as aforesaid, within the time by this act limited, shall forever thereafter be barred.
JONATHAN DAYTON, Speaker of the House of Representatives TH: JEFFERSON, Vice-President of the United States, and President of the Senate. Approved, April 7, 1798.
JOHN ADAMS, President of the United States. Deposited among the Rolls in the office of the Department of State.
TIMOTHY PICKERING, Secretary of State.
Pursuant to the above Act, Notice is hereby given to all persons having claims under the resolutions of Congress, of the 23d of April, 1783, and the 13th of April, 1785, to transmit the same to the War-Office within two years after the passing of the said Act, viz. the 7th day of April, 1798, a just and true account of their claims to the bounty of Congress.
In the proof of Claims, a strict attention must be paid to the requisitions of the 2d and 3d Sections of the Act.
JAMES M'HENRY, Secretary of War. july 19 ram6w
AURORA OFFICE,
October 10, 1798.
Reports having been circulated that THE AURORA was not to be re-published. The public are hereby respectfully informed that the want of hands alone has prevented its re-publication several days ago; but that such arrangements are now making as will assure the appearance of the paper in the course of the present, or the first week of the next month. 8t
CAUTION.
WHEREAS a certain person swindled from me on the first inst. by giving me an unauthorized forged check on the Bank of North America, a note of that date, drawn in my favour by Mr. John Travis, and payable in six months, for three thousand four hundred and fifty seven dollars and forty-six cents. ALL persons are desired not to receive any transfer of it, as it will not be paid by either the drawer or endorser unless recovered by law.
WILLIAM NICHOLS, Race Street. august 6.
This Day Published,
And for sale at the Office of the Editor, No. 119 Chestnut-Street, (Price 1-8th of a Dollar,) AN ORATION, Pronounced July 4, 1798, At the request of the Inhabitants of the Town of BOSTON, in commemoration of the anniversary of American Independence. By Josiah Quincy.
The inroads upon our public liberty, call for reparation—The wrongs we have sustained, call for Justice. That Reparation and that Justice, may yet be obtained, by Union, Spirit, and Firmness. But to divide and conquer was the maxim of the Devil in the garden of Eden, and to disunite and enslave hath been the principle of all his votaries from that period to the present.
Observations on the Boston Port-Bill, &c. p. 28 by the late J. Quincy, jun. august 11
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
June 27, 1798.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That by virtue of an act, passed during the present session of Congress, so much of the act entitled "An Act making further provision for the support of public credit, and for the redemption of the public debt"—passed the third day of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five, as bars from settlement or allowance, Certificates, commonly called Loan Office and final settlement Certificates, and Indents of Interest, is suspended until the twelfth day of June, which will be in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety nine.
That on the liquidation and settlement of the said Certificates, and Indents of Interest, at the Treasury, the Creditors will be entitled to receive Certificates of funded Three Per Cent. Stock equal to the amount of the said Indents, and the arrearages of interest due on their said Certificates, prior to the first day of January one thousand seven hundred and ninety one.
That the principal sums of the said Loan Office and final settlement Certificates, with the interest thereon, since the first day of January, one thousand seven hundred and ninety one, will be discharged after liquidation at the Treasury, by the payment of interest and reimbursement of principal, equal to the sums which would have been payable thereon, if the said Certificates had been subscribed, pursuant to the Act making provision for the debt of the United States, contracted during the late war, and the payment of other sums, equal to the market value of the remaining Stock, which would have been created by such subscriptions as aforesaid, which market value will be determined by the Comptroller of the Treasury.
OLIVER WOLCOTT, Secretary of the Treasury. ramtf june 28
General Post-Office,
PROPOSALS for carrying the mails of the United States on the following routes, will be received at this office until the 20th day of September next inclusive.
1. From Pittsburg P. by Cannonburg, Washington, W. & Liberty, Wheeling and Wills-town to Zanes at the mouth of Licking-creek, on the Muskingum, estimated 140 miles. Leave Pittsburg every Friday at 2 P. M. and arrive at Zanes the next Monday by 3 P. M. Returning—Leave Zanes every Tuesday at 5 A. M. and arrive at Pittsburg the next Friday by 10 A. M.
2. From Zanes, at the mouth of Licking Creek on the Muskingum, by Chillicothe and Maffey's to Mayville in Kentucky; estimated 140 miles. Leave Zanes every Tuesday at 5 A. M. and arrive at Mayville the next Friday by 10 A. M. Returning—Leave Mayville every Friday by 2 P. M. and arrive at Zanes the next Monday by 8 P. M.
The carriage of the mails to commence on the first day of November next and continue until the first day of October 1800. Payments will be made quarterly. The usual penalties for delays and failures will be stipulated in the contract.
Joseph Habersham, Post-Master General. Philadelphia, July 13, 1798. m&th6w
HEALTH OFFICE.
Philadelphia, 18th May, 1798. Extract of an act to alter and amend the Health Laws of this Commonwealth, passed 4th April 1798.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That every house-keeper within the city of Philadelphia, the townships of the Northern Liberties and Moyamensing, and district of Southwark, within a mile of the limits of the city, taking in boarders arriving by sea or by land, from any foreign port or place, and having any boarder in his or her family, who shall be taken sick of any disease whatsoever, between the first day of May and the first day of November in any year, within twenty days next after such boarder shall come to lodge in his or her house, shall within 24 hours next after the knowledge of such sickness, make report at the Health-Office of the name of such sick person, the time of his or her arrival at the house and of his or her being taken sick, and of the name and place of abode of such house-keeper; whereupon the Physician of the Health-Office shall forthwith visit the patient, and report to the office his opinion of the nature of such disease, that measures may be taken to prevent the spreading of the infection; and if any house-keeper shall neglect to give information in the manner and within the time aforesaid, and shall be thereof convicted, in any court of criminal jurisdiction within this Commonwealth, upon indictment by a grand jury, or conviction, he or she shall forfeit and pay a fine to the use of the said hospital, not less than twenty dollars, nor more than one hundred dollars, to be imposed at the discretion of the court, according to the circumstances of greater or less aggravation attending each particular case.