Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser. (Philadelphia [Pa.]), 1799-06-11 00:00:00

Gazette of the United States, and Philadelphia Daily Advertiser.
NUMBER 2098.]
PHILADELPHIA: TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 11, 1799.
[VOLUME XV.]
Price of this Gazette is Eight Dollars per annum to Subscribers residing in the city of Philadelphia. All others pay one Dollar additional, for enclosing and directing; unless some person in this city will become responsible for the subscription, it must be paid Six Months in Advance.
UNITED STATES PENNSYLVANIA DISTRICT. NOTIS is hereby given that in pursuance of an order directed from the Hon. Richard Peters Esq. Judge of the District Court of the United States in and for the Pennsylvania District, to be exposed to public Sale at Philadelphia on Wednesday the 19th day of June (in) at ten o'clock in the forenoon.
The ship or vessel CALLED THE ELIZA. With all her furniture, guns, tackle, apparel, and furniture and the cargo found on board the same, consisting of one Trunk Umbrella, two hundred forty three cases of Claret, sixteen boxes of German Linens, nine boxes of German Linens, six boxes of Sheetings, two boxes of Glass, three boxes of Glass, one cask of Camphor, six boxes of Glass, one cask of Lamp, one cask of Mahogany Furniture, six boxes of Mahogany Furniture, four casks of Glass, eleven boxes of Glass, one cask of Glass, one box of Holland, thirty barrels Rice, two boxes of Glass, one box of Quills, two boxes of Holland, one cask of Flemish Linen, one box of German Linen, one box of Stripes, one box of three two bales of German Linen, one Trunk Sundries, three boxes of Sundries, fifteen bales of printing paper, twenty four bales of Rice, six boxes of Soap, one box of Glass, one box of chairs, twenty five half and one hundred twelve barrels Rice, eight boxes of Glass, one cask of Looking Glasses, one cask of bottles and two Dutch Ovens.
Also aboard at same wharf on Wednesday the 12th at ten o'clock in the forenoon, six hundred Barrels of Flour, seven casks of Hams, one hundred Kegs of Raisins, one large and seven small boxes of Cinnamon water, twenty-five Kegs of Raisins, twenty Kegs of Figs and eight Boxes of Manna. Receipted from a certain French vessel called La Telemache the same being heretofore labelled against, protested and claimed at the suit of Thomas Tingey Esq. Commander of the public armed ship Ganges, on behalf of himself and the other officers and crew thereof for Salvage.
William Nichols, marshal. At his Office, 7th June, '99. N. The inventory of the ship may be seen at my office.
FOR SALE, The fast sailing Ship SWIFT PACKET. She is well calculated as a Packet between this and the southern states, having ample and extensive accommodations for passengers. She is well suited for the freight or Welles trade, and can be sent to sea at a trifling expense. The inventory may be seen and the terms of sale made known by applying to N. & J. FRAZER, No. 95 South Front St. drw3wtf
The British Letter-of-Marque NIGER, For KINGSTON, (Jam.) Now ready to take her cargo on board and receive her freight. For terms apply to ROSS & SIMSON. m15
FOR BOSTON, THE SLOOP HERCULES, James Lathrop, master, Will in ten days, for freight or passage, apply to the captain on board at Chestnut Street wharf, or to JOSEPH ANTHONY & Co. drw
SHIP BROKER'S OFFICE, And Commission Store, N 139, SOUTH FRONT STREET, Next door to the Custom House. Subscribers, encouraged by the advice of a friend, offers his service to the public as a Broker and Insurance Broker. He proposes to assist all vessels and every thing relating to them, and all matters of business in general, mercantile matters. A knowledge gained by long experience in each branch of business he hopes to be useful to those who please to favor him with their commands. SAMUEL EMERY. m2w
Will be Sold, At 11 o'clock on Thursday next, at the Court-house on the First Presbyterian Church in Market Street, between Second and Third Streets. FIFTY PIPES OF GENUINE OLD PORT WINE, In pipes, half pipes and qu. casks. Conditions of Sale—all purchasers of two pipes and upwards, approved notes at ninety days, and all purchasers of one pipe and under, cash.
CONNELLY & Co. Auctioneers. June 6. Just Received, By the late arrivals from London and Hamburg, and for sale by the Subscribers, 80 tons Spanish Hemp, 500 pieces English Sailcloth, 2 trunks, containing Satins, Ribbons, Silk Handkerchiefs, Persian and Gauze, 3 cases fashionable Ladies' Hats, &c., 10 cases Bristles, 8 bales Ticklenburgs, and A few packages of Dowlas, Creas a la Morlaix, Checkes and Stripes, Bretagnes, 25 Hhds Bourdeaux Brandy, 10 pipes Spanish do., 40 Hhds Bourdeaux Claret. Erick & Lewis Bollmann. No. 100 Spruce Street. off
ROSS & SIMSON, HAVE FOR SALE, 300 pieces 1st and 2d quality Russia Duck, 100 pieces Ravens Duck (superior), Boston Beef in Barrels, A few bales Bengal } HUMHUMS. 1100 bushels St. Martins Salt. april 11
New Landing from the ship Delaware, from Canton and for sale by the Subscribers, Hylon, Hylon Skin, Young Hylon, Souchong, Canton and Garden Fans, Nankinees, China Ware, assorted, Umbrellas 13 to 30 inches, Silk Handkerchiefs, Hair Ribbons and Sewing Silks. They have also remaining on Hand Black Perfumery, Choppa and Pulicat Romalls, and a general assortment of Dry Goods as usual. Thomas & Joshua Fisher. 4th mo 26
The subscribers have on hand, and for sale at reduced prices, the following articles, viz. Seventy Pipes London Particular Madeira Wine, the vintage of '96, since when they have lain in a store well adapted to their improvement; 25 Casks of Young Hylon Tea; An Invoice of well-assorted China—original cost between 8 and 900 dollars in Canton. HIGBEE & MILNOR. march 21.
TO BE SOLD, An Invoice of Woollens, CONSISTING of Coarse and Fine Cloths, principally Dark Blue and printed Calimerees apply to Owen & Jonathan Jones, No. 151 Market-Street. april 29
JUST RECEIVED From Barcelona, in the Danube brig Aurora, Captain Schlichting, 416 pipes high-flavored Brandy, 364 Sacks Hazie Nuts, and a quantity of Corks, FOR SALE BY Thomas & John Ketland. d144
Notice is hereby given, THAT application will be made to the Treasury of the United States, for the renewal of the following Certificates of six per cent. and Deferred funded Stock, standing in the following names, the property of JOHN CLARK, Esq. of Yorkshire, in England; the said Certificates having been lost on board the Swallow Packet, captain Kidd, from Falmouth to New-York. Dose. Cr. No. 5000 12732 dated March 9th, 1795, Register Certificate in favor of John and Francis Baring & Co. London. 3641 66 15070 do. March 17th, 1795, do. in favor of Frederick Kluppel Paehl & Co. of Amsterdam. 413 21 14823 do. Dec. 30, 1796, do. in favor of P. L. Braunberg of Amsterdam. 267 89 3336 do. March 15th, '96, do. in favor of do. do. 393 36 14235 do. May 17th, '96, in favor of do. do. 337 37 14678 do. Sept. 9th, '96, in favor of do. do. 3367 5 13242 do. May 27th, '95, in favor of Frederick Ludwig Braunberg of Amsterdam. 2711 8 3249 do. August 28th, '95, in favor of do. do. 2131 47 3305 do. July 23th, '95, in favor of do. do. 342 0 13860 do. Dec. 10th, '95, in favor of do. do. 298 22 3316 do. Aug. 28th, '95, in favor of do. do. 4000 0 13793 do. Nov. 16th, '95, in favor of John and Francis Baring & Co. London. 1500 0 13232 do. May 27th, '95, in favor of do. do. 1600 0 13798 do. Nov. 16th, '95, in favor of do. do. 9376 66 11965 do. Apr. 24th, '97, Commissioner of Loans of New-York, in favor of Jonathan Hoare of London. 36,014.97 6 per cent stock,
Dose. Cr. No. 7997 93 1143 do. Mar. 2d, '93, Register Certificate to Herman Katenkamp of Great Britain. 7000 0 5757 do. do. do. do. 1000 0 5883 do. Mar. 18th, '93, do. do. 1500 0 1176 do. do. do. do. 12000 0 900 do. Oct. 9th, '92, do. do. 700 43 912 do. Oct. 26th, '92, do. do. 10784 33 6076 do. May 13th, '93, do. do. 5000 0 6366 do. Aug. 6th, '93, do. do. 5000 0 6362 do. do. do. do. 8352 92 2868 do. May 16th, '95, Commissioner of Loans at New-York to Henry M. Bird of London, Philip Sanfom of London. 4000 0 1177 do. Nov. 2d, '94, do. do. 3618 69 1718 do. do. do. do. 2634 0 3968 do. Nov. 3d, '92, do. do. 5050 0 1724 do. Nov. 6th, '92, do. do. 74587 30 Deferred 6 per cent Stock. WILLING'S & FRANCIS. may 25
Notice is hereby given, THAT application will be made to the Treasury of the United States for the renewal of the following certificates of 6 per cent funded Stock the said certificates having been lost on board the Swallow Packet, captain Kidd, from Falmouth to New-York: No. 3074. Signed Joseph Nourse, in favor of Samuel and Henry Waddington, dated February 13, 1795, for dollars 2000. No. 2964. Signed Joseph Nourse, to William & Jan Wilink, and Nicholas & Jacob Van Staphorst & Hubbard, agents for the United States at Amsterdam, dated January 31st, 1795 for 500 dollars. WILLING'S & FRANCIS. may 25
NOTICE. THE Gentlemen composing the Committee of Chester County appointed for the purpose of promoting the Election of JAMES ROSS Esq. of Pittsburgh for Governor of the State of Pennsylvania, and such other Gentlemen of said County who are willing to support the Election of Mr. Ross, are particularly requested to meet at West Chester on Tuesday the 18th of June 1799. WILLIAM GIBBONS, Corresponding member of the Committee of Chester County. West-Chester, may 24th. June 8. dr881
NOTICE. THE Following certificates of shares of the Stock of the Bank of the United States have been lost or destroyed at sea, to-wit: 13 shares in the name of Peter Blight, of which 5 shares No 4185, 5 shares No 4186, and 3 shares No 4187, and 6 shares in the name of John Barker Church, No 2058, which were forwarded by the Countess of Leicester Packet from Falmouth for New-York—and ten shares of said Stock in the name of Stadnicki & Son, of Amsterdam, No 1796, which were forwarded by the Packet from Falmouth for New-York in November 1794; and for the renewal of which application is made at the said Bank, and all persons concerned are desired to take notice. CLEMENT BIDDLE. mar h 12
Notice. A CERTIFICATE of one share of Bank of United States, Stock standing in the name of DUGAS DE VALION, having been lost or mislaid, application is made at the said Bank for renewal of the same; all persons concerned are desired to take notice. Abraham Van Beuren. march 20.
Notice. A CERTIFICATE of one share of Bank of United States, Stock standing in the name of DUGAS DE VALION, having been lost or mislaid, application is made at the said Bank for renewal of the same; all persons concerned are desired to take notice. Abraham Van Beuren. march 20.
TO BE LET FOR FIVE MONTHS OR LONGER, A convenient three story BRICK HOUSE, situated in Eighth between Market and Arch Streets; has lately been papered and painted. Enquire at No. 110, South Second Street. N. B. A convenient Cellar to let. june 3
MAIL COACHEES Between PHILADELPHIA and BALTIMORE, LEAVE Philadelphia every day, (Sunday excepted) at 8 o'clock, A. M. arrive at Baltimore the next day, by 11 o'clock, A. M. Returning. Leave Baltimore every day, (Sunday excepted) at 4 o'clock, A. M. and arrive at Philadelphia the next day, by 9 o'clock, A. M. Between NEW-YORK and PHILADELPHIA. Leave Philadelphia every day, (Sunday excepted) at 12 o'clock at noon, arrive at New-York the next morning, by 8 o'clock. Returning. Leave New-York every day, (Sunday excepted) at one o'clock P. M. and arrive at Philadelphia the next morning, by 7 o'clock. Seats in the Mail Coachees to be taken in New-York, At Butman's Office, No. 5, Cortland-Street. In Philadelphia. At Francis' Hotel, No. 13, South Fourth Street, and at the Franklin Inn, No. 59, North Second Street. In Baltimore. At Evans' Tavern. Fare for Passengers, 8 Dollars from Philadelphia to New-York, and 8 Dollars from Philadelphia to Baltimore. All baggage over 14 lb. weight, is carried at 5 cents per pound. The Proprietors are not responsible for baggage. Agent for the Public Line, from Philadelphia to Baltimore. LEVI PEASE. WARD, BROADEHURST, JONES & Co. Proprietors of the Mail Line, from Philadelphia to New-York. General Post-Office, } May 1. } $
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, May 29th, 1799. THE proprietors of certificates issued for subscriptions to the Loan bearing interest at eight per centum per annum, are notified, that at any time after payment shall have been made of the 5th installment, which will become due during the first ten days of the month of July ensuing, Certificates of Funded Stock may at their option be obtained at the Treasury or Loan Offices, respectively, for the amount of the four first installments, or one moiety of the sums expressed in the subscription certificates:—No certificates of Funded Stock will however be issued for less than one hundred dollars. Such subscription certificates, in consequence of the foregoing arrangement, will be endorsed and distinctly marked so as to denote, that a moiety of the stock has been issued. OLIVER WOLCOTT, Secretary of the Treasury.
Loft or Mislaid, A CERTIFICATE of one share of the Bank of the United States, No. 4933, in the name of Julia Wadsworth Knox, and for which application is made at the Bank of the United States for the renewal of said certificate; and all persons concerned are desired to take notice. CLEMENT BIDDLE. may 23
NOTICE. THE partnership of Joshua B. Bond, and John Brooks, trading under the firm of Bond & Brooks, is this day dissolved by mutual consent, all persons indebted to them, are requested to make immediate payment to Joshua B. Bond, and those having demands to present their accounts to him for settlement. Joshua B. Bond. John Brooks. april 1
LAST NOTICE. ALL persons having claims against the Estate of John McGraw, late of Caroline county, in the state of Maryland, deceased, are hereby requested to meet the subscriber in Denton, at Mr. Benjamin Dimey's, on the 3d Tuesday in May next, with their accounts properly attested, that there may be a division of stock in said estate. All who neglect this notice will be after excluded. SAMUEL LECOMTE, administrator. Caroline county april 8th. 10
Valuable Lands for Sale. On Tuesday the 20th of August next, I shall expose to public sale, at the town of New-Market, in Dorchester county, all that valuable tract or parcel of land commonly called the Choptank Indian Lands, situated on the south side and binding on the Choptank river several miles, supposed to contain about six thousand acres, to be divided into lots to contain from 100 to 500 acres each. The terms of sale as follows, viz. Purchasers to give bond immediately after the sale with approved security, conditioned for the payment of the purchase money, with interest from the day of sale, in four equal annual installments, agreeably to an act, entitled, "An act appointing commissioners to contract for and purchase the lands commonly called the Choptank Indian Lands in Dorchester county, and for appropriating the same to the use of this state, and to repeal the act of assembly therein mentioned," passed at November session, 1798. WM. MARBURY. Agent for the state of Maryland. april 19.
The creditors of the subscriber, ARE requested to take notice that he has applied to the court of common pleas, for the county of Berks, to extend to him the benefit of an act of the legislature of this state, passed the 4th of April, 1798, for the benefit of insolvent debtors, and the said court have appointed the 11th Monday in August next, to hear him and his creditors at the court house in the borough of Reading, in the county of Berks. JOHN MORROW. Reading, May 18. (21) d3w
BOARDING. A few Young Men can be accommodated with Genteel Board on reasonable terms, at No. 8 Cherry Alley—the situation is pleasant and healthy. may 25.
The Springettsbury Lots, REMAINING unfold will commence selling at 11 o'clock on Thursday next, on the place of the Coffee House, on Thursday the 13th of June, at 7 o'clock in the evening, where a plan may be seen, as also at Ogden's Tavern in Chestnut-Street. The elevated situation of many of these Lots, and the advantage of the adjoining Stone and Sand, on very reasonable terms must render them desirable to such persons as wish to enjoy fresh air in a city. The ground is laid out in Lots from about half an Acre to 3 Acres. The terms will be Cash for Lots of 30 feet front and under, and for those of larger sizes half Cash and the other half in six months. JOHN CONNELLY & Co. Aud'rs. june 7.
To Distillers & Owners of Stillis, WHEREAS by an act of Congress, passed the 8th day of May 1793, entitled "An act concerning the duties on spirits distilled within the United States," it is required of all persons having or keeping a still or stills to make entry thereof, between the last day of May and the first day of July, in each year, under the penalty of two hundred and fifty dollars. NOTICE is therefore hereby given to all distillers or owners of stillis, within the county of Montgomery, to make entry of them at the Office of Inspection, at the house of the subscriber, in Norriton township in the county aforesaid. Daniel St. Clair, Collector 3d Dist. 1st Sur. v. m. v. m. june 1
To Distillers & Owners of Stillis, WHEREAS by an act of Congress, passed the 8th day of May, 1793, entitled "An act concerning the duties on spirits distilled within the United States," it is required of all persons having or keeping a still or stills to make entry thereof, between the last day of May and the first day of July, in each year, under the penalty of two hundred and fifty dollars. NOTICE is therefore hereby given to all distillers or owners of stillis, within the city and county of Philadelphia, to make entry of them at the Office of Inspection, at No. 40, north Third Street, in the city of Philadelphia, within the above mentioned periods. James Ash, Collector, Of the Revenue of the first Division of the First Survey of the District of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, June 1, 1799. 22wtf3
To be Let, A Store and Loft, NEAR Market-street Wharf.—Enquire of the Subscriber, GEO. DAVIS, 319 High-Street. feb 11 2awtf
Samuel Miles, jun'r. Of the city of Philadelphia, merchant, having assigned over all his effects, real, personal and mixed, to the subscribers, for the benefit of such of his creditors as may subscribe to the said assignment on or before the first of July next. GEORGE ASTON, CORNELIS COMEGYS, } Assignees JOHN ALLEN, } 14. feb 2awtf
Freight to be had. THE Subscribers have 3000 bushels of SALT to ship to the Havana or New-Orleans—Any person who will take it at a moderate freight will please apply at No. 95, North Water-Street, to PRATT & KINTZING.
Who have for Sale, 70 tons Hemp, 14 pipes choice Old Port Wine, Claret, Rall Brin Stone, Havana Segars, Demyjohns, Windus Glass, Glue, Ticklenburgs and Osnaburgs, Clarks, Stripes, &c. &c. may 20 m & f 3w
A beautiful Country Seat for Sale SITUATED on the bank of the Delaware joining lands of Matthias Sipey and Mr. John Duffield, 13 miles from Philadelphia and 7 miles from Bristol. The buildings consist of a new two story Frame House and Kitchen adjoining—3 rooms on a floor, a Piazza the whole front of the House, a Pump of excellent water, an apple garden and orchard—to acres of land will be sold with the premises, but more can be had if required. There is a gravelly beat at the river the water flaps for Burlington pass every day in the summer season, and the land stages for New-York within half a mile; any person inclining to purchase may know the terms of sale and other particulars by enquiring at No. 12, Dock-Street, or No. 161, South Second-Street. june 1.
FOR SALE, That beautiful and healthy Farm called SUNBURY, ON Neshannoy creek, one mile from the bridge and three miles from Bristol. It contains 232 acres, 73 of which are good woodland, a proportion of meadow on which was cut 50 tons good hay last year; there is every convenience on this farm for a gentleman or a farmer; the orchard contains all sorts of grafted fruit of the best kind; it is so well known that further description is thought unnecessary—if it is not sold at private sale before the 20th instant, it will, on that day, be sold at the Coffee House. For terms apply to NICKOLIN & GRIFFITH, Attorneys in fact for WALTER STARS. dratch init. june 4.
Twenty-five Thousand Dollars IS yet to let out for one year on good real estate, in this city and its vicinity, by mortgage. The title must be clear and the properties insured. Apply to JOHN SHIELDS, Broker, No. 22, Chestnut Street. All kinds of Public Securities, Bills of Exchange, Notes, &c. &c. bought and sold on commission. may 30 32w 1m
WILLIAM BONNAR INFORMS the public that business of importance calling him to Europe, he is obliged to decline his trade in Market Street. ALL PERSONS indebted to him, and those to whom he is indebted, will please to apply to Mr. George Dobson, no. 92, Market Street, for the settlement of their respective accounts, who is duly empowered for that purpose. June 3
A YOUNG MAN Of respectable education, may hear of a situation in an Attorney's Office where he will have an opportunity of learning conveyancing, &c. by applying to the printer. Philadelphia, June 7
FOR SALE, At No. 246 High-Street, A Handsome Coach, Coachee, Harness & Pair of Horses, Either separate or together. Also—a handsome Narragansett Mare and Grey Horse, very easy gaited. may 24
FOR SALE, A Handsome Coach, Coachee, Harness & Pair of Horses, Either separate or together. Also—a handsome Narragansett Mare and Grey Horse, very easy gaited. may 24

The Gazette.
PHILADELPHIA,
TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 11.
From "Forester's Gazette."
REVIEW OF AMERICAN PUBLICATIONS.
Nothing, except intelligence of recent important events, is more immediately the province of a new-paper, than to give the public correct information respecting the opinions which foreign nations entertain of the literary productions of the country.
On Thursday I gave the Review of Gen. Hamilton's defence of his character; I this day give what is little less interesting; viz, the Review of Scipio's Reflections on the Conduct of the Executive, which has met with very great applause, but certainly not greater than it merits.
While I am committing this review to the press, a reflection of no very pleasing nature intrudes itself. I cannot help lamenting, that this work which is so much admired by foreigners, was never but little attended to, and is now nearly forgotten by those for whose instruction it was intended.
Extract from the Anti-Jacobin Review, Vol. II. page 224. AMERICAN PUBLICATIONS.
Art. XV. Reflections on Monroe's View of the conduct of the Executive, as published in fifteen Letters in the Gazette of the United States under the signature of Scipio. (No notice when where, or by whom printed.)
To the people of the United States these letters must needs have been as acceptable as they were important and useful; even in this country, though our interest in them be no doubt somewhat more remote, they will be read with pleasure by every man who, with us, thinks it of moment either to watch the progress of the new states, or still farther to ascertain the deep and almost diabolical art by which France seeks to effect her purpose of overturning every settled government.
Mr. Monroe, (a native, we believe of the much perverted and sadly degenerate state of Virginia,) it will be remembered, was introduced from the United States to the French republic, at an interesting period, and superintended by Mr. Pinckney. Before his mission and since his return, he has always been very active and a useful party in his country, distinguished chiefly by their enmity to Great Britain and devotion to France; of which Edmonson, the ruling purpose and aim are now well known to have been the taking the United States as a province to the French republic.
Waving the consideration of Mr. Monroe's very flagrant breach of conduct in publishing, without either authority or permission, the confidential correspondence between the President of the United States, and their minister in France; and waving also any distinct inuendoes on the servile devotion of this gentleman, to the ruling power of France, as contrasted by his extremely ungrateful, and even disloyal conduct to that of his own country, the writer of these letters proposes to confine himself to six specific charges.
The first of these is his not having complained, as he was instructed to do, of the decree which, dispensing with some articles of the treaty of amity and commerce was attended with the most ruinous effects on the American commerce.
2dly. That without any authority for such an opinion, he informed the committee of public safety of his well knowing, that if, upon consideration, after the experiment made, it should be their opinion that it produced any solid good to the republic to disregard the 2d and 24th articles of the treaty, the American government, and his countrymen, would not only bear the departure from those articles with patience, but with pleasure.
It is hardly possible not to pause a moment here to observe, en passant, how deep this examination is, in the most dangerous of the Jacobin doctrines. By the distinction heretofore, as existing between the government and people of a country, it is more than informed, that, should the government prove refractory and unmanageable, the people might easily be deluded by the usual arts of factious men, as actually to oppose the executive power, and violently enforce its acquiescence.
3dly. He either grossly misrepresented, or failed truly to represent the object of Mr. Jay's mission to the court of Great Britain.
4thly. He unnecessarily and improperly pledged to the committee of public safety in France to communicate to them the contents of the treaty negotiated by Mr. Jay with Great Britain.
5thly. He encouraged the French republic in a project to obtain by loan, a sum of money from the United States, to enable it to prosecute the war; a measure which his instructions positively forbade, which would inevitably have drawn them from a
state of neutrality, and would have rendered them dependent on the fortunes of France, to which from that time they would have been inseparably united.
6thly. He neglected for a long space of time, to use with sincerity, diligence and prudence, the means which were put in his power by the President, for satisfying the directory of France, that the commercial treaty with Great Britain, was proper and necessary for the peace and prosperity of the United States, and did not impair any prior obligations with France or any other nation and did not proceed from any motives unfriendly to France, as had been unwisely and wickedly misrepresented on both sides the water. P. 7. 8.
All these heavy charges we think this author has made good, and by the most irrefragable and satisfactory of all arguments, viz, the statements and admissions of the gentleman himself against whom they are alleged. In various points of view the circumstance is striking and important; in the first place it amounts almost to a proof, that this Mr. Monroe was not the unprejudiced and disinterested friend of his country, but the willing, zealous tool of his party, imposed on the executive power, and in an evil hour of unguarded confidence employed by them, undertaking the mission, on purpose to sell that country to France. Of any other guilt, or even error, in thus employing a power, hostile not only to their particular views, but to the general will and will of the States, than that of a want of sufficient foresight, or sufficient firmness to resist popular recommendations, we find no proofs; but the fact furnishes the world with another striking instance, in confirmation of an important assertion first advanced by M. Mallet du Pan, that the disorganizers of all governments effect their downfall, not by seducing the people at large, but by corrupting some of the persons entrusted by government: that this ambassador, and the party in his country with which he was confederated, were as much the creatures of the French directory, as the leading members of the council of 500 are, or any other of their more immediate and avowed dependents will now be doubted by no man, who has given due attention to the course of politics in the United States for the last two or three years. Happily for those, our quondam brethren and fellow subjects, the plans and projects of this desperate party were not seconded as they were in Switzerland, by intriguing generals and plundering armies; and, sensible of the imminent danger they have escaped, it is to be hoped the American government, as well as all others, will hereafter be more on their guard.
Besides these great points, this pamphlet has in it many occasional and incidental remarks well deserving our attention. There is much meaning in the following sentence, extracted from a letter of Mr. Monroe's, to the American secretary of state in the year '94. After extolling the power and success of France, he adds, "In any event it will produce such effects, that it America strikes the blow be soon interest dictates, and every other consideration prompts." (i. e. suppose, if America enters into an alliance, offensive and defensive, with France, and, in consequence attacks the British West-India possessions,) "it must be decisive; and if not ruinous to the fortune of that proud and insolent nation, (Great Britain) will certainly procure us the objects we have in view," (i. e. a large portion of British commerce.) See p. 44. In the next page we find some curious hints as to the loan expected, which France was to repay by securing to the Americans the navigation of the Mississippi, the western ports, and protection against the Algerines. p. 46. In short, American blood, and American treasures, were to have been lavished to gratify an insatiable republic, who would never have thought they did enough, till Great Britain should be added to her conquered countries. p. 47. Their fate, had they, according to the schemes of this party, really been thus fraternized, is thus faithfully and forcibly described in the picture he draws of Batavia—drained of millions to support the French armies, frugality and industry banished, commerce destroyed, all the useful employments of a peace establishment neglected or forbidden; in short, a republic without a will, and citizens with a power over their persons or property. p. 48. The anti-federalist, democratic, jacobin party in America, are said to be indebted for the notice which the public has bestowed on them, principally "to the malignant hatred which they have uniformly declared against Great Britain." They considered it as their pride and glory to "love France, and hate Britain, even with Gallic hatred; and they are said to have laboured incessantly, as in every where the practice of such parties, to render the administration, of the government odious to the people." p. 50. 51.
"It is a lamentable and undeniable truth that there has been, and is, a perfect concert of action between the French party here, and the ruling power of France." It is by this policy (viz. that of gaining over to their interest an active and daring party in any country) which France perfectly understands, and will never neglect, that she has added so largely to her territory during the present war; and which is to be guarded against only by a resolution in every government to exclude from their councils those faithless men, who, whether the dupes or guides of foreign politics, no longer deserve their confidence." p. 58. "That the weight of President Washington's services might be diminished or taken away, calumny and falsehood have been at work night and day; certain Gazettes in our country have teemed with every malevolent fiction that could be devised against him; and not content with taking editors and gazettes into pay, it may be believed the French Republic have hired several writers to criminate, revile, and libel the conduct of the late President."
How exact a counterpart is all this to what has too long been, and still is the case even in this country, where newspapers, and other publications of various sorts, together
with a still larger number of hangars and speech-makers, peril, with the most provoking effrontery, to insult the public with their foolish declamations in favour of French liberty?
Who the writer of this spirited pamphlet is we have not been able to learn; and therefore we can only say of him, that he appears to be both a well-informed and a well-principled man; and we know not where we could find a publication of its size that gives a greater insight into the present state of American politics. The style is plain, but perspicuous; and, excepting a few Americanisms, correct and sufficiently forcible.
ANECDOTE.
HULET, a noted actor, was happy in a fine strong, clear and melodious pipe; his being too sensible of this was the immediate cause of his death. He took an idle pleasure in hearing himself received upon a person and deafening him with a loud hum: he flew the strength and firmness of his lungs. As he was practising this trick one morning, at a rehearsal, by an extraordinary effort he broke a blood vessel, which killed him in 24 hours.
NEW-YORK June 7.
It affords us pleasure to give publicity to every new discovery, particularly when it bids fair to become of great utility. The following was handed for publication by one of the Mr. Goulds.
A new SEA LOG has lately been invented by Messrs. CHESTER and CALVIN GOULD, for which they have received letters patent. The principles of it are as follows:—
"A wheel of copper, about 9 inches in length, and 6 inches in diameter, with a joint or screw in the middle of the axis, in order to let the vanes in an angular position with the axis, as it is to run endways through the water. The wheel will consist of 6 leaves or vanes, then will the motion of the wheel be regulated according to the quantity of angle contained betwixt the ends of the vanes and the parallel of the axis. The same wheel may be made to run from 20 to 40 feet at one revolution, but 33 feet is considered the most proper distance. This wheel is hung in the centre of a copper cylinder, so that it can turn at liberty. To this wheel a combination of 5 small brass wheels are connected the 4th of which will move a hand round a graduated circle once in 100 miles, and the 5th once in 2000 miles; so that the distance is shown by a inspection of the hands. The whole of the machine being made of copper and brass, will weigh from 6 to 8 pounds. It may run any convenient distance under water, according to the length of the rope by which it is towed, as from 5 to 20 feet, which will effectually remedy any errors arising from the heave of the sea; and the cylinder will guard it against cross currents. It will have to be brought in as often as the course of vessels is varied for inspection. If the vessel falls still or slow; it notices the distance accordingly, and never wants winding up. It has been tried from Philadelphia to this place, and performed with great accuracy, as was certified by the Captain and Mate."
"The above described machine is not at all liable to get out of order, and being well made, will last several years without repairing."
"Any person desirous of seeing the above machine, may be gratified by calling at the house of Mr. Michael Snagg, Murray-street, north-west corner of College-Green."
THESE may certify, that we have had Messrs. Chester and Calvin Gould's New Invented SEA LOG with our vessel from Philadelphia to New-York, observed its motion in rough and smooth water, and under swift and slow motion; and found it to perform with great accuracy, under every circumstance which attended it in the passage.
JAMES MARBLE, EPHRAIM MARBLE, Captain and Mate.
Yesterday commenced the demolition of the Old Exchange, lately occupied by Mr. Baker, late keeper of the Museum. The Market adjoining is also to be demolished.
June 8.
On the 31st ult. a body was found floating in the North River, opposite West Camp. It was picked up by capt. Samuel Magee, of the sloop William. After searching the body, it was found, that his name was HUGH GLEN, supposed to be a seaman; and that on the right arm was an anchor, compass and square, indented with China ink. The body was decently interred in West Camp Church Yard, by a number of respectable neighbors and brethren, who attended on that occasion.
"Alack! Alack! what blood is this— What mean these masterless and gory swords." "To lie discoloured by this PEACE OF PEACE—" "And keep it in blood! Ah! what an unkind hour." "Is guilty of this lamentable chance!"
We have seldom to record a more distressing and unaccountable catastrophe than was last Thursday night witnessed at the house of Mr. Treadwell Jackson, near Brooklyn, L. Island. Having returned from a visit to his brother's, where he had passed the evening, he soon dispatched his servant for him, but in his absence, impelled by causes which are unknown, he resorted to the horrid expedient of murder and suicide, by first shooting Mrs. Jackson, and presently after himself. We are only authorised to give this bare statement of the facts, being unacquainted with the particulars. Mr. Jackson was reputed to be a man in very easy and pleasant circumstances, and his lady an accomplished person.
Three or four gentlemen may be accommodated with Board and Lodging, at Mrs. M'CREA's, no. 29, north Eighth street. may 30 th. a. mo. tf
Gazette Marine List.
Port of Philadelphia,
ARRIVED,
Ship Amiable, Tillinghast, from London, 43 Sloop Hetty, Tenges, Wilmington, (N. G.) CLEARED,
Schr. Sally, Church, St. Mary's. Edward, Keifer, Bolton. Sloop Sea Flower, Pease, Providence. Willing Lass, Gault, Snow-Hill.
Yesterday arrived in this port, the ship Amiable, captain Tillinghast, from London, via Cork. Came out of the Cove the 21st of April in company with a large fleet of American and British vessels, bound to the United States, Quebec, Newfoundland, and West-Indies, under convoy of the Boston frigate, Captain Douglas, and Terminus sloop of war.
May 17. Lat. 42, 52, long. 36, 47, in blowing hard from the southward and thick weather, lost sight of the convoy—Same evening saw the following vessels belonging to Philadelphia—viz.
Ship Superb, Boyd, for Philadelphia, Thomas Chalkley, Clark, do. Adriana, Charlton, do. Harmony, Snell, do. Brig Pennsylvania, Douahue, do. Ship Eagle, Barry, for New-York. Orion, Hughes, do. Atlantic, Dean, do. Rebecca, Baltimore, Brig Light Horse, do. Sloop Sifters, for Charleston. Alknomack, for Savannah, and a number of others, about 50 sail.
May 30 Spoke the ship Roday and Betsy, one of the fleet, Nimmo, of and for Richmond, and parted on the 11th inst. in 31 fathom water, off Nantucket, in a gale from the westward. 7th spoke the ship Phoenix, Howland, from Falkland Isles, 63 days full of skins and oil, all well. Saw several strange vessels while with the convoy, and after separating; but none appeared like an enemy. Capt. Thomson, of the snow South-Carolina, of Charleston, died 10 or 12 days after the fleet came out; the vessel was left astern under Jury topsails and very leaky. Sunday last, near the ledge, spoke the ship Delaware, Clay for London.
Ship Emanuel, and ship Germany, from N. York, have arrived at St. Thomas's, ship Orlando, Smith, from N. York has arrived at St. Sebastians in 24 days.
A brig, name unknown, said to be a cartel, last from N. York, is below.
Brig Beaver, Elliot, from hence, has arrived at the Havana.
Ship Ann and Mary, Hunt, from hence to Bilboa, is taken and sent in to St. Antonio.
New-York, June 10.
ARRIVED. DIXIE Ship Nonpareil, Pease, Bristol 19 Uncle Toby, Goodrich, Havana 17 Brig Little Sarah, Russell, Cork 48 Nanny, Wade, Lisbon 45 Peggy, Roule, Cadiz 50 Sch. Experiment, Russell, Havana 15 Sloop George and Jane, Ward, Georgetown 10
Ship Janah, Cotton, is said to have arrived at Waterford from this port, and failed for Dublin with the Draper. The Elizabeth has arrived from Canton: she left there the 19th Dec. last.
The Ontario, and Swift were to sail two days after the Elizabeth.
Sunday arrived ship Galen, Nichols, St. Sebastians, 71 days. Left no American vessels there.
Same day, brig Little Sarah, Russell from Cork, 49 days; failed with the convoy. It lat. 40, 00, long. 60, 00 spoke ship Amsterdam Packet, Crockatt, from New York, to Greenock, out 4 days, all well June 2, lat. 40, 00, long. 67, 00, spoke the British sloop of war Swan, from New York to Halifax.
Same day, brig Fanny, Wade, 2 days from Lisbon. Left there ship Fair American, of and for Boston, to sail in two days; also, abrig and schr. of and for do.
The schr. Trio, Saffey, was to sail from Lisbon to St. Petersburg, the day after capt. Wade failed. A British fleet of merchantmen arrived at Lisbon the day before.
Same day, brig Peggy, Roule, from Cadiz 60 days, left from Tenerife, 44 days. Informs, that the brig Harmony, Capt. Marshall, of Charleston, taken by a French privateer of 20 guns, sent in there and condemned.
Same day, schr. experiment, Lewis, 18 days from Havana, failed under convoy of the ship Eliza, of 16 guns, of and for Philadelphia, in company with
Schr. Dispatch, Hudson, for New York, Betsy, Earl, do. Brig Dawley, Baltimore Sch. Rover, Smith, do. Geo. Sinclair, do. Sloop G. N. Green, Baker, for Newport, R. I. and another vessel, name not recollected.
The Experiment, on Friday last, was chased, off Hatteras, 6 hours, by a schr. which he supposed to be a French privateer. Capt. Lewis informs, that 3 American vessels had been taken 5 days before he failed and the others landed at Port Antonio.
Same day, ship Orion, Hughes, London, failed with the convoy, and parted company with them in lat. 43, 00, long. 46, 00, in company with three ships. The Boston frigate still with the fleet.
Some day, ship Nonpareil, Rossetter, London, another of the convoy.
A ship supposed to be the Atlantic, of this port, Saturday last at the back of the East Banks on shore, rolling yard arms in the water. She was obliged to cut away her masts, and we understand is bilged.
In the Peggy, Roule, from Cadiz, came passenger, a Catholic Bishop and thirty-one Spanish men, women and children. They proceeded shortly from this in the same vessel to Carthagena.
By this Day's Mail.
Late and Important.
FURTHER. Per the ship Cornelia, Capt. Fines, arrived at Portland from Liverpool.
GERMANY.
ROVEREDO, April 2.
After the French on the 3th ult. had made the fourth fruitless attack on the Austrians in Italy, under the command of gen. Kray, they on the 31st attempted a fifth, and gen. Scherer appeared determined to defeat the Austrians, and take Legnago and Verona before the Russians should arrive. With this view he continually brought up fresh troops, and reinforced himself with the divisions of Mantua from Pesciera; but all his endeavors failed, and on the 31st he was entirely defeated with great loss. The Austrians cut off the retreat of the French at Rivoli; and they lost in killed, wounded and prisoners, not less than 8,000 men.
(Another letter, same date.)
The Magistracy of this city have received the following Official Account, and Verona, head quarters of gen. Kray, 12 April.
In the night between the 30th and 31st, a French column passed the Age over a bridge of boats near Rivoli, took a position on the flank by the mountains, the right wing of the Imperial Army. The generals Kray and Kalim had recourse to the following expedient: They caused their Infantry to be almost entirely moved to Verona, in order to stop the French, while a corps of Cavalry, being with them 20 or 25 posts beyond, the bye roads and destroyed the bridge. The retreat of the French column being cut off, 2000 were killed and wounded, and the remaining 6000 laid down their arms. They had with them 11 pieces of cannon, and a great number of ammunition waggons.
LONDON, April 19.
Extract of a letter from Colonel Manners, March 27.
"I have just time to tell you, that a second battle took place on the 26th ult. in which the French have been beaten; as they have also been beaten at Hotze, near Feldkirch. In this latter battle the French have lost 4000 men. On the morning of the 26th, 150 waggon loads of wounded, each containing seven or eight men, arrived at Lindau. The loss, however, been considerable on both sides, though the number of the French was much larger than ours. The French, in consequence of the victory of general Hotze, are retiring from the Rhine with great precipitation before gen. Kray. I have not time to say any more."
A Newcastle paper of Saturday contains the following paragraph.
"We have just learnt that a neutral vessel who arrived at Sunderland on Thursday from Amsterdam, has intelligence that the French Directory have withdrawn a great part of their troops from Holland to reinforce their beaten army on the Rhine, the inhabitants of that part of the country had risen on the remaining French, whom they had entirely massacred, and refused themselves from the hands of unprincipled oppressors."
"General Hotze is marching to the Grison country, and a division of duke's army is proceeding into Switzerland by which means the French are likely to be between two fires."
It is reported that General Scharnhorst has been beforehand with General St. Cyr, and having got to Offenburg before him, in a manœuvre, he cut off that General from Kehl on the right bank of the Rhine.
Received by the Hamburg ship. The French have been beaten in every quarter: the whole of their plans are so completely deranged, that the loss of their defeated armies, retreating in every direction, will now endeavor to cover, if possible, their own frontiers, and to be on the defensive for the rest of the war.
HAMBURG, 16th. On the 30th ult. the French met the Austrians on the Upper Adige, near Verona, and Roveredo. At each place they obtained some success; but they were the same day repulsed with very considerable loss.

Accounts have been received from the Tyrol that the French force which had penetrated into that country had been obliged to evacuate it completely; and that General Jourdan's army, as well as a great part of General Moreau's, had repassed the Rhine, having left a garrison in Mannheim and in the fortress of Philippsburg. The Austrians have advanced to Friburg and Offenburg, and have summoned Kehl to surrender. Advices from Rastadt of the 8th April mention that Gen. Zbiay had gained a very considerable advantage over the French Gen. St. Cyr, as the latter was retreating from Freudenstadt to Offenburg, on his way to Kehl; and that the French had lost a considerable part of artillery.
Extracts of a letter from Paris, April 9. "Yesterday evening we learnt Gen. Jourdan had arrived in this capital, returned from his campaign on the Danube. We learnt besides, not only that he had been recalled from his command, but that the most sinister reports were circulated respecting the motives of his recall, the loss of the army, and its retreat to Gengenbach and Offenburg, or even to Strasbourg. Advantage was taken likewise, to increase the anxious curiosity of the public, of an order of the Minister of War, published yesterday in Paris, which enjoins every conscript, requisitionary, and other Military Men, absent from their Corps, to depart within 24 hours for their post, under pain of being arrested and punished as a Deserter! Although this Order be only the consequence of the existing Laws, and a means of carrying them into execution, malevolence will not let this opportunity escape, of circulating the report, that a new Requisition is about to be raised, on account of the dangers of the Commonwealth. We are anxious to destroy this false report, by observing, that the Government confines itself to pressing the departure of those for the army who ought, long ago, to have been there, and have no legal exemptions. At the same time, in order to convey an exact idea of the state of affairs, Government has published, officially, the following intelligence from the army of the Danube, now returning towards the Rhine:
"The Commander in Chief Jourdan, having been compelled by sickness, set off for Strasbourg, on the same day (3d of April) on which the attack was to be made on the enemy. He had before requested permission to come to Paris, and had proposed Generals St. Cyr, or Ferino, to command in his absence. The Executive Directory have appointed Gen. Massena, to take, ad interim, the command of the armies; but previously to his arrival, Gen. Jourdan had, on setting off, entrusted the command to Gen. Ernouf who, having been attacked in his advanced posts, ordered the retreat across the Rhine."
BOSTON, June 6. Yesterday the Schooner Minerva, Capt. Pepper, arrived here from Amsterdam, in 43 days. Dutch papers to the latter end of April, we understand, are received by this arrival; but we have not been able to obtain any of so late a date. From those we have received, we find nothing more respecting the operations of the conflicting armies, than what we have by the way of Portland.
The account, published under the London head as extracted from a Newcastle paper, of a rising in Holland, and the consequent massacre of the French troops, we believe, was its confirmation, as no such account, as far as we can learn, has been received by Capt. Pepper.
On Thursday Capt. Talbot took command of the Constitution frigate: to which he was introduced by Capt. Nicholson. The Merrimack, of 24 guns, Capt. Brown, yesterday failed on a cruise.
Extract of a letter from Rotterdam, to a respectable gentleman here, dated April 28. "The French have been severely beaten in Italy as well as in Germany. The Emperor of Russia has laid an embargo upon all the vessels of Hamburg in his dominions, and has made a demand on that city of 60 millions of marks, which if not paid, he threatens to send an army to Lubeck, and take the city. This is considered a political manoeuvre, which will compel the King of Prussia to declare on one side or the other."
much as I said? No, the people are not judges; and we have the government is not in such a state to negotiate as to permit even the appearance of a French mission at a time, when France is all that France wants; to resist by arms is all that we want. The French Minn wrote a mocking letter to Buonaparte; that looks as if he valued reputation too little, and employment by the five usurpers, a great deal too much. If he comes here on their vile errand, he will get rid of the last rag of character he has left.
PORTLAND, June 3. Arrived yesterday, the ship Cornelia, Capt. Benjamin Prince, 30 days from Liverpool. Left there ship Franklin, Tucker, to sail in 30 days, and Sch. Ennui, Thrasher, do. for this port. The ship Hiram, Whitney, the brig Atlantic of Portsmouth, Sch. Eiza, Noble, all for Boston, and ship Arethusa, for Philadelphia, failed 14 days before Capt. P. Ship Commerce, of Boston capt. Wm. M'Neil, and ship Callender, of New York, failed 10 days before capt. P. In lat. 48, N. long. 42, W. spoke ship, of Portsmouth, from Charleston, S. C. bound to Hamburg, out 21 days, all well. The American convoy failed from Cork, the 20th of April.
Capt. Prince performed his voyage, out and home, in 98 days.
PROVIDENCE, June 5. On Saturday morning last failed from Newport harbour, the United States frigate General Greene, commanded by Christopher R. Perry, Esq. mounting twenty-four 12, and eight 6 pound cannon. Captain Perry is appointed commodore on the Havana Station. It is pleasant to observe, that from appearances, there is every probability of her proving a fast sailer, as the soon passed, under her top sails, every vessel in sight.
NEW-YORK, June 10. The following Extract from Cayenne, was sent us by a gentleman of this city, for publication: Extract of a Letter, dated Cayenne April 16, '09. "About three months since, some monopolizers had it rumoured here, that the British had taken the Dutch settlement of Surinam; and on the frivolous pretence that they would certainly carry off from Sinnamary the only two remaining members of the French Legislature, these were ordered immediately to Cayenne, 75 miles distant from Sinnamary; and though in a most deplorable condition, after a six months sickness, they were forced to perform the journey on foot, hurried on by five armed men. They crawled through deep sands, exposed either to the intense heat of the tropical sun, or heavy rains; after two months of painful alternative between slow convalescence, and relapse into dangerous crisis, they seemed at last to be in a fair way of recovery; when dreading their being sent back to such an unwholesome place as Sinnamary, they presented a petition to the agent of the Directory, for leave to stay at Cayenne—they had little doubt but that it would be granted, as Marbois had been previously promised it by the agent. They had already found lodgings and a person that would be responsible for them; they had bought furniture to replace that which they had sold at a great loss at Sinnamary; but at the very moment they were preparing to go to their new place of abode, they received orders to pay immediately their hospital expenses, and to embark for Sinnamary within an hour's time, in an open boat, where they lay the whole night exposed to the sun. When they landed at Sinnamary, Marbois was so ill that his life was despaired of. The cause of their cruel treatment is no other, than their having ended their petition by these words: 'Nous avons l'honneur de vous saluer;' instead of 'Salut et Respect;' and because they had mentioned their detention. Marbois was in hopes at least to find at Sinnamary, the peace and rest enjoyed in the grave. But a few days ago, some armed men and a sergeant with drawn swords, came to his house, and carried off all his papers of every sort, without his being able to obtain either an inventory of them or their being put under seal. No doubt the distrainers have been disappointed; for nothing can be found to hurt Marbois, who devotes his whole time, now, as he ever did, to study."
LATEST FROM FRANCE. Extract of a letter from Capt. David Travis, of the ship Motilda, dated St. Sebastian, April 24, to a gentleman in this city. "I am informed by a gentleman from Bourdeaux, that the French army on the Rhine, has lost 30,000 men—and that their head general had quit the army."
Our harbour was yesterday filled with vessels from foreign ports. Articles by them follow. Capt. Roufe failed from Cadiz March 29. On the 30th off Cape St. Vincent, was struck with lightning, which killed Moses Rogers, of Newburyport, Patrick Munyon, an Irishman, and an hog; the former were on the foretopgallant yard, fell overboard and were not seen afterwards. Same time sprung the head of the mainmast—put back to Cadiz, refitted, and failed again April 10. Passengers, Fr. Diego de Santa Maria, coast of Terra Firma, S. America—a Jesuit from Italy, going to the Province of Popia, S. America—and several Spanish King's Officers, some of whom are going to superintend the mint in S. America.
The Gazette. PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 11.
An Express from New-York brings the disagreeable information of the loss of the Ontario, of and for New-York, at the Cape of Good Hope, from Canton—No particulars are received—She is heavily injured in this City.
THE Philosophy of Frenchmen is at length put to the test; and the genius of turbulence and misrule gives ground before the steady steps of the faithful. In a little time there shall be no longer seen "captive Good attending captain Ill," nor Harlequins and Hostlers defiling authority to render it hateful in the sight of men. The years of the "Age of Reason" are numbered—the finishing hand is about to be put to the last of its work; it is the last page only that remains to be inscribed, and the volume is soon to be closed forever. That fortitude and that constancy which have enabled their possessors to shape a course of primitive simplicity amidst the tumultuous fluctuations of a vast ocean of absurdity and depravity, will shine through the last age of the shakemill of creation, with a lustre which no fortune can change, no convulsion obscure. Heavy and disastrous as have been the chances allotted to us in this tremendous commotion, ignominious as have been the humiliations to which we have stooped, there are yet some precious moments of reformation left us, during which to engrave on the durable tablet of time, our wrongs against the internal Revolution and the internal republic of France. The final hour of that Republic is at hand, and the phial of wrath is pouring out—It is the seventh phial. The fulmin tribe of pervert poets and false orators, the pregnant lift of venal patriots and brutal heroes, the blasted sets of philosophers and legislators, are allotted time only "of time's help to despair;" their forms of fantastic and outrageous tyranny, where private prosperity takes place of public, where even mobs themselves are invested with regalia, and vice is made "a national and popular characteristic," are soon to exist only in the haunted imaginations of their votaries. It only remains for us to join the general voice of mankind, by declaring our dissent also from principles tending to the subversion of the earth—the minions of France amongst us are then repressed in a breath, and the cloud of our miseries will vanish before the sun of joy.
We have heard it oftentimes said, with much pomposity, that "Buonaparte keeps his ground in Egypt." It would now seem that his ground is likely to keep him.
The valiant Scherer, who obtained such signal victories in Italy, retires it seems from the command of his victorious troops, along with the coupe-tête Jourdan, into the midst of the Parisian den. So unprecedented a step as the resignation of two leading Generals, is indicative of something more than ordinary. Perhaps these heroes wisely calculate, that when danger is toward, it is better to be in chimney corners, than at the head of armies.
The old Tories' Governor is getting his name up abroad: In a neat satire published in Vermont, (which a gentleman has done me the honor to enclose to me) and meted after the manner of Sternhold and Hopkins, I find this stanza touching the man of sin:
"But wicked folks at helm, I ween, Bade pious Moses budge, And though feditious as M'Kean, They would not make him Judge."
There is more of fixed and deliberate purpose to do evil, and less of misapprehension and error in the world, than is currently believed; and when I hear a man assigning crimes of the most hideous nature, to delusion, I consider the integrity of his principles to be violently suspicious.
It has been remarked of Frenchmen, that their attachment to country is less easily overcome than that of most other people: The ingenious Editor of the Vergennes Gazette, satisfactorily accounts for it, by attributing the predominance of this passion, in the breast of a Frenchman, to the contempt in which he is every where else held.
bored by the well meaning and considerate part of the community, that without a well disciplined army and a navy, we should in a little time have neither army, navy, loans, taxes, riches, liberty, or government.
The great effort of the Faction , both in and out of Congress, has been directed against the army and navy. Keep these down, has been the cry, from Gallatin in Congress, to Duane in the drain shop. Why all this noise against the army and navy? Is it not evident, that had the country remained without either, France would have made no advances to a negotiation, and equally certain, that our best negotiators will be our army and navy? Away with the army and navy therefore is echoed by the faction, and the factious newspapers, from Boston to Kentucky.
Was it before or since the commencement of our preparations for defence, that France lowered her tone of insolence, and menace, to the United States, and shewed some slender symptoms of returning recollection? Will any one, not a jacobin, on account of the expence , recommend, that we intermit these preparations.
Taxes and Loans may be represented as evils—as this as it may, it must be acknowledged, that they are infinitely less expensive and more pleasant to bear than a French Directory , in the United States, and the total loss of national honor.
Armies and Navies are expensive things, but what country can long maintain its rights, commerce, and independence without them?
FOR THE GAZETTE OF THE UNITED STATES. MR. FENNO. A Friend asked me, whether it was possible for a person who approved of the conduct of the French government, and wished them success in their undertakings, to be a good christian?
I told him, that however painful it was to answer the question in the negative, I thought myself in duty bound to declare, that I believed he could not; inasmuch as it was a government founded in Deism , or a disbelief of all revelation—the rulers and philosophers of that nation, discarded the religion, we were taught from scripture to venerate—in no one act of their public proceedings or detail of events, did we hear them acknowledge the existence of a divine being, or the superintendence of his providence. They had long since changed the original ground upon which they set out, and were pursuing a system of plunder, devaluation, bloodshed, and universal dominion. Hence the man who professed christianity, and was a well-wisher to such doctrines and practice, must at least be considered as acting very inconsistently, if not participating in the crimes above mentioned.
In a word, Mr. Fenno, the rage is so great among our jacobin christians, in favour of the French nation, that they even endeavor to explain the ancient prophecies in such manner as to prove that every thing it has done, and is doing, is warranted by scripture. One of them said a few days since "that no sacrifice was too great to accomplish the overthrow of all the governments in the world, that were not after the French model."
I admire our form of government, and believe it the most suitable for the American people, because the people are suited for the government; but I differ very much in opinion with many of the Democrats, both in France and America who seem to think that the people of every country are capable of maintaining the republican form. They are for cobbling up governments on their own model, without considering whether or not, the people are fit for them. There is something in habit, and much in knowledge, virtue, and modes of education. One truth these men seem to have lost sight of altogether, that religion is the best bond of society!
AN AMERICAN. IT is, at all times, a very desirable thing that the people should be well acquainted with the political, as well as moral character of those to whom they mean to confide the direction of their public concerns. And perhaps, at no period whatever, was this enquiry more particularly necessary than at the present, when the people are called upon to decide on the fitness of one of two characters offered as candidates to fill the executive chair. The person to be elected to fill this high and important station, ought not only to be a firm republican in principle, but also, as a pledge of security to the people, to have a just claim to consistency in political conduct. He ought not to be guided by the whim or caprice of popular prejudice, or popular clamor, which are too generally excited, by designing men, for party purposes; nor change from side to side as may appear most likely to promote his private views, but should pursue a line of conduct bottomed on well digested principles, and uninfluenced by party spirit, or private advantage. How far chief justice M'Kean is a republican in principle, and what claim he may have on the confidence of those who now support him, on the ground of consistency, appears by the minutes of the convention, which formed our state constitution. In that convention he moved that our state senators should be chosen by a number of electors equal to twice the number of representatives, instead of the people at large. In that convention he seconded a motion for substituting six years (the term for which a senator should be chosen) in lieu of four. And in that convention he also moved that no person should be a senator unless he should be seized, in fee simple, at the time of his election of five hundred acres of land within this commonwealth, or possessed of real or personal estate to the value five hundred pounds. In all these motions he had but very few supporters, and among these there is not one who would now support him. It
is well known that in that convention his principles were in formly and frequently opposed by the very same interest which now brings him forward for governor. Why then this extraordinary change of sentiment, and union of interest, in persons who advocated principles so diametrically opposite? Where shall we look for the great moving cause? Is it in the chief justice? If so let him reconcile it to his conscience. Is it in his friends—I believe no one thinks it is. Upon the whole it is but fair to conclude that all is not right, where a combination of such jarring principles should be so easily reconcilable.
An Election. It is truly incredible, at this glorious era of exultation and triumph, to read from various parts of the Continent, the impertinent notifications of certain peddling diplomats, prohibiting us from exporting articles of British produce or manufacture. Have we not only stifled the foul of Independence, but frightened away even its Ghost?
Extract of a letter from a gentleman at Gibraltar, dated the 22d March, to his friend in this city. "We have arrived here in the ship Mohawk, capt. Steel, after a disagreeable winter passage of 42 days. We had a fair passage, but were obliged to make use of our guns, or we should have been taken, as we were several times fired at by a French privateer, but we shewed the Frenchmen what they did not like by letting fly our stern chases, and our balls went pretty close to them. The privateer left us, but returned again in the dark of the evening—we fired again, and she veered off to the Spanish shore. We could see eight gun boats & slides this privateer."
"The Spaniards in the French in taking our vessels I have been here but eleven days, and there have been six vessels taken and carried into Algiers, some of them English, but mostly Americans; indeed scarcely an unarmed vessel comes into the Straights that is not taken, except it has a convoy, and even then they must be very careful if one or two of them be not taken. No English vessels were cut off from the convoy from England. From the place we can see the town of Algiers, and all the vessels that go in. A constant communication is kept up betwixt the two places, for conveying letters, provisions, &c."
"An American brig had lately a duel with a Malaga with a Frenchman. The French vessel came under the stern of the American, and desired him to strike. The American did strike with a vengeance—she gave him her stern chases, and a whole volley of small arms. She then rounded off, and fired a broadside, which made the poor devils cry out for quarter, and about twenty of them paid for their temerity with their lives."
PRICES OF STOCKS. PHILADELPHIA, JUNE 11. Six per Cent. 15/10 Three per Cent. 9/6 Deferred 6 per Cent. 14/4 BANK United States, 20 per cent. — Pennsylvania, 18 ditto. — North America, 46 per cent. Insurance comp N.A. shares 29 ditto — Pennsylvania, shares, 33 ditto 3 per cent Scrip East-India Company of N.A. 5 per cent. advance
COURSE OF EXCHANGE On London, 51 at 30 days — 50 at 60 & 90 days Amsterdam, 35 & 37-100 per florin Hamburg, 30 23/8-100 per Mark Banco.
Philadelphia Rifle Company are to parade in complete uniform, on Thursday next, at the corner of Ninth and Market streets, precisely at 4 o'clock, I. M. Punctuality is required. JOHN COYLE, Capt. June 10, 1799.
Lost or Mislaid. A CERTIFICATE of one share of the Bank of the United States bearing date 18th January 1793, in the name of Joseph Hornbrough, No. 5138, for the renewal of which application has been made at said Bank, and all persons concerned are desired to take notice thereof. ROBERT DENISON, Junr. Philadelphia, June 11. d3m
To Bricklayers and Masons. Proposals will be received for executing the rough stone work, and laying the Bricks of an Engine house in Center Square according to plans to be delivered to the Contractor, and under the direction of the Engineer of the city. The Brickwork will consist of plain straight wall plain and groined arches and backing to stone work. The drawings may be viewed by application at the office of the City, in Center Square where every information on the subject will be given and separate prices may be offered for each particular species of Brick work—All materials, scaffolding, Centering rope, planks and boards will be found by the City—The Contractor is to provide all labourers and workmen, tools and working tools, and to erect and take down the scaffolding—Proposals to be delivered to B. H. Latrobe, at his office in Center Square, before the 20th of the present month. June 11. d3m
FOR BALTIMORE, THE SHIP MARY-ANN, Will positively sail on Wednesday next, and take freight on reasonable terms. Apply to WILLIAM BELL. Phila. June 8. 3t
IS OFFERED FOR SALE, (if speedily applied for) A VALUABLE parcel of Land in Ann Arundel county, not far from the city of Annapolis and about 30 miles from the city of Washington. On one of these tracts is a most elegant two story brick Dwelling House, 4 rooms on a floor, beautifully situated in an excellent and healthy neighborhood—This body of Land will be sold in lots or in a large body. There are several tenements on said tract which rent for something considerable per ann. A further description is deemed unnecessary. Apply to the printer. June 1. 146w6m.