Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser. (Philadelphia [Pa.]), 1799-09-30 00:00:00

Gazette of the United States, AND Philadelphia Daily Advertiser.
NUMBER 2191.]
PHILADELPHIA: MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 30, 1799.
[VOLUME XVI.]
The 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; and unless some person in this city will become answerable for the subscription, it must be paid Six Months in Advance.
For LIVERPOOL. The British letter-of-marque ship, THE LONDON, Samuel Roper, commander, Burthen 300 tons, coppered to the bends and mounting 16 six-pounders. A great part of her cargo being ready to go on board, she is intended to sail as soon as possible. For freight or passage apply to the captain on board, or to NICKLIN & GRIFFITH. august 15
For FREIGHT or CHARTER, FOR EUROPE. THE BRIG ENTERPRISE, A staunch good Vessel, well fitted, about three years old, and will carry about 1500 Barrels—can be sent to sea immediately. For terms apply to Wharton and Lewis in Germantown, near the Market house. Sept. 5, 1799.
JUST ARRIVED, In the ship Belvedere, John Frankford, commander, from Alicante and Gibraltar. 38 PIPES BRANDY, 27 pipes strong bodied RED WINE, 34 hogheads (strong bodied) RED WINE, 32 quarter casks, 15 butts, 60 quarter casks SHERRY, 100 quarter casks Malaga Wine, 200 kegs Raisins, 450 boxes do., 94 jars do. For SALE BY NICKLIN & GRIFFITH, Who also offer for sale, THE SAID SHIP BELVEDERE. SHE is New-York built, coppered to the bends, mounts 14 six-pounders, with small arms in proportion, and fails fast. august 13
FOR SALE. TO GRAZIERS. In pursuance of the last will and testament of General David Forman, deceased, will be exposed to sale, at public vendue, (on the premises) on Wednesday the 15th day of October next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon of that day. THAT very valuable FARM and PLANTATION, lying on the Long Marsh in Queen Anne's county, state of Maryland, containing about five hundred acres, about fifteen miles from Chester town, six from Church Hill, and twelve from the head of Chester. This property is an object of very great speculation, particularly to any person in the grazing line, and in fact to any person wishing to sell their money in lands. There is a very large proportion of laid farm laid down in timothy, and will cut grass sufficient, I doubt not, to pay a rent profit of 5.0 dollars a-year. There are also about twenty acres more cleared and fit to lay down in grass; and what renders it more valuable is, that when once the timothy is well set, it will last any person's life time: And what is called the bed of the Marsh, (of which there is a considerable part belonging to this farm) the soil is from four to six feet deep, of a blackish loam, and will average from two and an half to three tons of timothy an acre; and for two years past all the hay which could be spared from the farm, has sold at the stack for five pounds a ton. The arable land is calculated for wheat, rye, Indian corn, and particularly for what is called kite-foot or bright tobacco; it is well timbered, and contains maple swamps, that when cleared, will make meadows equal to any on the farm. Any person wishing to purchase, can view the premises on application to Mr. Stephen Forman, on said farm. The conditions of sale will be, one half the purchase money on the first day of January next, and the remainder on the first day of May following. WILLIAM G. FORMAN, Surviving Executor. Sept. 17, 1799.
By JAMES KINSEY, Esq. Chief Justice of the Supreme court of New-Jersey. Notice is hereby given, THAT upon application to me by Joseph P. Minnick, and John W. Bloomfield for themselves, by John W. Bloomfield in right of Ann his wife, William Bullus, John Moore, in the right of his wife Mary, John Bullus and Ruth Bullus, who claim an undivided sixth part of all that tract of land situate, lying and being in Springfield, Burlington county, containing eleven hundred and eighty-eight acres and a half of an acre or thereabouts, formerly devised by Mary Ludlam to Francis Bullus, who by his last will and testament devised the same tract to William Bowler, and John Turner in trust for Samuel Bullus his son in law, which said Samuel Bullus by his last will and testament devised the same to his children Francis Bullus, and the same Ann Bloomfield, formerly Ann Bullus, William Bullus, Mary Bullus, now Mary Moore, John Bullus and Ruth Bullus. I have nominated and appointed Job Lippencott, Esq. of Springfield aforesaid, Abraham Stockton and Chas. Ellis, both of the city of Burlington, commissioners, to divide the said tract into six equal shares or parts, and unless proper objections are stated to me on the 21st day of Nov. next, at my office in the city of Burlington at ten o'clock in the morning of that day, the said Job Lippencott, Abraham Stockton and Charles Ellis, will then be appointed the Commissioners to make partition of the said tract of land, pursuant to an act, entitled, "An act for the more easy partition of lands held by Co-partners, joint tenants, and tenants in common" passed the eleventh day of November in the year of our Lord 1789—Given under my hand the 30th day of August A. D. 1799.
JAMES KINSEY. Sep. 2.
140 barrels Green COFFEE, FOR SALE, By SIMON & HYMAN GRATZ, No. 232, Market Street. WHO HAVE ALSO ON HAND, 150 qr. chests Hyson Skin TEA, of latest 30 qr. chests Hyson ditto, } import- 10 chests Bohea ditto, } ation. Sept. 18. dim.
120,000 wt. COFFEE, Chiefly prime quality, in bags, and Barrels, AND 17 hhds. SUGAR, Just arrived at New Castle, In the Schooner Adventure, Capt. Devoreaux, from Port Republique, and for sale by THOMAS & JOHN KETLAND. September 17, 1799. d12t.
JOHN MILLER, JUN. No. 80, Dock, near Third Street. Has for Sale. Coffees, Bases, Mammadies, Taffies, Colicoses, Poena, Romal and Handkerchiefs. Mulmul. The foregoing goods are now to be sold at REDUCED PRICES, N.B. Many of these Goods may be printed to advantage in this country. may 16 gawcf
New Landing from the ship Delaware, from Canton and for sale by the Subscribers. Hyson, Hyson Skin, Young Hyson, } TEAS. Suchong, Canton and Garden Fans, Naukans, China Ware, assorted. Umbrellas 13 to 30 inches, Silk Handkerchiefs, Hair Ribbons and Sewing Silks. They have also remaining on Hand Black Perfums, Choppa and Pulicat Romals, And a general assortment of Dry Goods as usual. Thomas & Joshua Fisher. 4th mo 26
ROSS & SIMSON, HAVE FOR SALE, 3000 pieces 1st and 2d quality Russia Duck, 100 pieces Ravens Duck (superior) Boston Beef in Barrels. A few bales Bengal } COSSAS HUMHUMS. 1100 bushels St. Martins Salt. april 11
TO BE SOLD BY JESSE & ROBERT WALN. Old Port Wine, in Pipes, Hhds. and quarter casks. Also Landing at their Wharf From on board the ship Edward from Lisbon. Lisbon Wine, in pipes and qr. casks. june 25
THE STORES Of the Subscribers are continued open as usual. THEY HAVE FOR SALE 70 hogheads Molasses, 20 bales Siam Cotton, 20,000 pounds green Coffee, 10 pipes Old Port Wine, 100 boxes Claret, 50 kegs Pearl Barley, 30 boxes Tumblers, (assorted) 200 boxes 8 by 10 Window Glass, 40 tons Hemp. Also an extensive variety of Silesia and other German Linens, Checks, &c. all which they will sell at reasonable prices and generous credits. ** Application by letter or otherwise, will be immediately attended to. PRATT and KINTZING. Philadelphia, 5th Sept. 1799. mwf.9t
Fashionable Millinery. ELIZA M'DOUGALL, NO. 134, MARKET-STREET, HAS just received per ship Thomas Chalkley and Adriana, from London, an elegant assortment of the most fashionable MILLINERY, viz. Chemille rosette FEATHERS Fancy flowers Black tiffany flowers Wreaths Pink, yellow and blue craps, full dress cases Do. do. and do. Nelson's bonnets Infant's pipe straw bonnets Maid's fancy do. do. Women's do. do. do. Do. do. shades Do. do. hats Fancy bugle fine robes Do. do. trimmings Black, white, blue, yellow, pink and orange craps, Black, white and green gauze veils Do. gauze cloaks N.B. And per Harmony, just arrived, a further assortment of Millinery. June 26
CATTLE. About Sixty-Six Head for disposal. Enquire of MATTHIAS BORDLEY, at the Island in Wye River, Eastern Shore, Maryland; or in case of writing, direct to him at Easton, Talbot County: Maryland. Wye, Sept. 2, 1799.
TO BE LET. Until the 15th of November next, A safe Retreat from Philadelphia, In a pleasant situation, about three miles from town. Application left at the Printer's addressed to A. B. will be attended to. august 22
SAMUEL POTTER, WM. PAGE, AND THOMAS PRICE, HAVE removed to GERMANTOWN, between the five and six mile stone, where they have for sale, a general assortment of DRY GOODS, a great part of which they have just received by the ship Boyne from London, via New York. N.B. Letters (Per Post) addressed to them Philadelphia, will be regularly forwarded. Sept. 3, 1799. dzw&uthfa tf
ROBERT KID'S COPPER WAREHOUSE, NO. 201, MARKET-STREET. Late ALEXANDER BILSLAND & Co. HAS JUST RECEIVED 31 Tons Patent Improved sheathing Copper & Nails, viz. 20, 22, 24, 26, & 28 oz. per foot, 1 3/4 x 1 3/4 inch Polished & unpolished Sheathing Nails, 80 boxes of Tin. LIKEWISE ON HAND, A Large assortment of Raised and Copper bottoms and sheets for Copper-Smiths, Lead & Block Tin, And a General assortment of Ironmongery for sale as above. August 15. w&td.
Patent Ploughs, To be sold for cash by Joseph Salter at Aston Richard Wells, Cooper's Ferry—Jonathan Harker, Woodbury—and Jesse 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 bested with wrought irons and coulters to be put on with ferrets 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
THE PARTNERSHIP HARRISON, LARGE & Co. and JESSE & ROBERT WALN, was dissolved 1 mo. 11, 1798, and the partnership trading under the firm of HARRISON & LARGE, was dissolved 15th of the 4th month last, all persons indebted to either of the above firms are requested to make immediate payment, and those that have demands to present their accounts. 7 mo. 13th
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
Samuel Miles, jun'r. Of the city of Philadelphia, merchant, having assigned over all his effects, real, personal and mixed, to the subscribers, for the benefit of such of his creditors as may subscribe to the said assignment on or before the first of August next. Notice is hereby given, To all persons indebted to the said estate, that they are requested to make immediate payment to either of the subscribers, or to the said Samuel Miles, who is authorized to receive the same; in failure whereof legal steps will be taken for the recovery of such debts, as are not discharged accordingly. GEORGE ASTON, CORNELIUS COMEGYS, JOHN ALLEN, } Assignees feb. 14.
FOR SALE, A variety of Lots, many of them very advantageously situated north of the city of Philadelphia, in different parts of the Land known as the Estate of the late William Martin, Esq.—many of the lots afford valuable sites for Country Seats, not excelled by any with in the same distance of the City, other lots are well adapted for Garden Grounds, Pasture &c. a third description is well calculated for buildings fronting upon Frankford road, Second, Third, and Fourth streets continued to the German Town Road and also on Crofts Roads designed to be laid out from Fourth Street to Turfers Lane, to which the property extends—For further particulars, application to be made to NICHOLAS HOLYDAY, on the Premises westward of Fourth Street. 8 july
A beautiful Country Seat, for Sale SITUATED on the bank of the Delaware joining lands of Matthias Siple 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, also a good garden and orchard—to acres of land will be sold with the premises, but more can be had if required. There is a gravelly shore at the river, the water flags for Burlington pass every day in the summer season, and the land flags 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. 101, South Second-Street. june 1.
MILLY ANDRE & Co. HAVE just removed out of town, and they have for sale at their healthy store, No. 88, Market-street corner of fourth Third street, A general assortment of DRY GOODS, ALSO, Full received from Virginia, 19 hogheads of best Virginia TOBACCO they will dispose of on reasonable terms. Sept. 23. gteod
Mr. Spence, Dentist, has removed to his house in St. Andrew's Square, 2 Squares N.W. of Bush Hill. august 28
OFFICE FOR THE SALE OF REAL ESTATES, AGENCY & COMMISSION BUSINESS NO. 14 CHESTNUT-STREET, Between 2d & Front-streets, Philadelphia. THE SUBSCRIBER, Being solicited thereto by a number of his friends, takes this method to acquaint the Public, that he has this day opened the above Office, and has for sale the following property, viz. TWO excellent well built frame houses, two rooms on a floor, completely finished in Christian, between Third and Fourth streets, Southward; two frame houses at the corner of Fifth and Christian streets; one three story brick, and one two story frame house in Queen street; one good accustomed tavern in German street, between Third and Fourth streets, Southward, known by the name of Weeks's Tavern. One Plantation and tract of Land in Salem County, New Jersey, containing 70 acres, with a frame dwelling house, and other improvements thereon, together with a good proportion of wood land—the above lies near a public landing. Also, 25 acres of wood land in Cumberland county, New Jersey; a number of valuable lots to be let on ground rent, in the district of Southward. Ground rents and debts collected with promptness and address, by the Public's Most obedient Humble servant, JOSEPH H. FLEMING. N.B. A smart LAD wanted, of good connections, who writes a tolerable hand. august 13
TO BE SOLD, An Invoice of Woollens, CONSISTING of Coarse and Fine Cloths—principally Dark Blue, and printed Cassimeres apply to Owen & Jonathan Jones, No. 151 Market-street. april 29
Received by the ship Adriana, captain Carlton, from London, A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF HAIR SEATINGS, Suitable for chair and sofa covers, consisting of striped and plain, and of the following widths, viz 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 26, 28, 30 and 33 inches. FOR SALE BY GEORGE PENNOCK. july 8
DUTY ON CARRIAGES. Notice is hereby given, THAT agreeably to an act of Congress of the United States of America passed at Philadelphia the 28th day of May, 1796, laying duties on carriages for the conveyance of persons, and repealing the former acts for that purpose—That there shall be levied, collected and paid, upon all carriages for the conveyance of persons, which shall be kept by or for any person, for his or her own use, or to let out to hire, or for the conveying of passengers, the several duties and rates following to wit:
Table with 2 columns: Carriage Type, Duty. Columns include: upon every coach (15), upon every chariot (13), upon every phaeton (12), upon every gig (9), etc.
The Collector of the Revenue of the 1st division of the first survey of the district of Pennsylvania, will attend daily until the 24th day of September next for the purpose of receiving the duties on carriages, at No. 49, North 3d Street, in the city of Philadelphia, of which all persons possessed of such carriages are desired to take notice. Notice is also given, To all real dealers in wines and foreign distilled spirituous liquors, that licences will be granted to them; one licence for carrying on the business of retailing of wines in a less quantity, or in less quantities than 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 Philadelphia, august 18, 1799.
N.B. THE STAMP OFFICE AND OFFICE OF INSPECTION IS REMOVED TO GERMANTOWN, the first house above the sign of the King of Prussia. Every denomination of Stamped paper to be had at said office. august 13
JUST RECEIVED, From the BOSTON Manufactory, A QUANTITY OF WINDOW GLASS, Of different sizes, FOR SALE BY, ISAAC HARVEY, JUN. N.B. Any size or sizes that may be wanted out larger than 18 by 12 can be had from said manufactory, on being ordered; and attention given to forward on any orders that may be left for that purpose. Apply at No. 9, South Water-Street, as above. july 8
Notice. ALL persons having claims against the Estate of Col. Edward Oldham (deceased) late of Cecil County, Maryland, are hereby warned to exhibit the same immediately, with vouchers thereof, to the subscriber. EDWARD OLDHAM, Jun. Attorney for Mary Oldham, Ex'rx. Bohemia Manor, Cecil County, Maryland, Sept. 1, 1799.
NOTICE. To the Creditors of Joseph Alexander, LATE of Lowtown, in the county of Middlesex, and commonwealth of Pennsylvania; who was a partner of the firm of Johnson & Alexander, I have applied to the Judges of the court of Common Pleas, in and for the county of Middlesex aforesaid, for the benefit of the laws of the said commonwealth, made for the relief of insolvent debtors, and they have appointed the second Tuesday of September next, for a hearing of me and my creditors at Lowtown, in said county, of which, please to take notice. JOSEPH ALEXANDER. august 23
THIS is to give notice, That the Subscriber, of Elton, hath obtained from the Orphan's Court of Cecil County, in Maryland, letters of Administration, on the personal estate of SAMUEL HEWETT, late of said County deceased. All persons having claims against the said deceased, are hereby warned, to exhibit the same with the vouchers thereof, to the subscriber, at or before the first day of March next—They may otherwise, by law, be excluded from all benefit of the said estate. Given under my hand this 13th day of August, 1799. JOHN MILLER, Ad'tr. aug. 17.
WILL BE SOLD, BY PUBLIC VENDUE, On the 21st October next, On the Premises, In the town of Dover, Kent County, Delaware State, EIGHT LOTS OF GROUND adjoining each other, on the west side of King-street, containing in front about 305 feet, and extending in depth westward about 422 feet, on which are erected a two story brick dwelling house, and another brick building, suitable for a store or office, together with several frame tenements—a stream of water runs through the fourth part of the lot, where a tan yard might be improved to advantage. Payment of a part of the purchase money will be required—the remainder may be at interest for a number of years by giving the premises in security, &c. Septmber 24, 1799.
Valuable Property for Sale, In Chestnut, near Sixth Street, directly opposite CONGRESS HALL, A LOT of ground, about 31 feet front in Chestnut Street and 73 feet in depth, whereon is a good frame house, now in the tenure of Samuel Berge subject to a ground rent of 200. per annum. The advantageous situation of this property requires no comments, for it must be known, there are few in this city to equal it, an unexceptionable title will be made to the purchaser. Apply to JAMES GIRVAN, no. 198. Chestnut Street, next door to the premises. march 5
TO BE SOLD, TWO new frame two Story Houses pleasantly situated near the Jolly Post-Tavern, upper end of the Village of Frankford. There are in each house, besides a kitchen, two rooms on the first floor, three on the second, with roomy garrets, all well finished; there are also to each, a good garden lot, stable and coach house. Part goods will be taken in payment. Any persons wishing to become purchasers are requested to view the premises, and for terms apply to JOHN MCCLELLEN. Frankford, July 13
THE Springetsbury Grounds. ON Thursday the 26th September, at two o'clock P. M. at the Upper Ferry on Schuylkill, will commence, the sale of the remaining lots of the Springetsbury Estate. Purchasers paying one fourth of the money down, may have credit for the remainder as follows: Six months from the day of sale for one fourth, Nine months from ditto one fourth, Twelve months from ditto one fourth, J. CONNELLY, and Co. Auctioneers.
HALF A CENT REWARD. RAN AWAY from the subscriber on the 8th inst. an apprentice lad, named Joseph Barnett, paper maker by trade, about 20 years of age five feet eight or ten inches high, light complexion, downy look, wore his hair queue, remarkable for being a noted liar, had on when he went away a half worn, brown mixture cloth coatee, striped velvet waistcoat, and many other clothes. Any person that will take the said apprentice up and bring him home shall receive the above reward and no charges paid. PETER BECHTEL. Lower Merion Township, Montgomery County, September 10, 1799.

By this Day's Mail.
Latest from Europe.
LONDON, August 3.
EAST INDIA HOUSE.
"Tigre, Jaffa, May 30, 1799."
"My Dear Sir,"
"In compliance with your wishes, I send you the enclosed paper, as containing all the information you can wish to convey to your principals, and a proof of my wish to further their interest and your intentions to the utmost of my power."
Your very faithful humble servant, (Signed) "W. SIDNEY SMITH." "P. Toone, Esq. &c. &c. &c." Gonl'anthople."
To Rear Admiral Blanket, commanding his Majesty's ships in the Red Sea, and to J. Wilson, Esq. Agent to the Honourable East India Company, appointed by the Governor and Council of Bombay.
"Tigre, St. Jean D'Acre Bay, May 16, 1799."
"Your letter of the 27th of February, from Jeddah, announcing your mission from the Honourable, Governor in Council of Bombay, has reached me here."
"Buonaparte, finding his population and his resources diminished in Egypt, made an incursion into Syria, in hopes to make himself master of the treasure amassed by Gazar Pacha, and having taken Gaza and Jaffa, after a feeble resistance, advanced to this town which he laid siege to on the 18th of March last. The Pacha having sent me timely information of his approach, I hastened to this anchorage, and arrived before the French army time enough to put the place in some state of defence to resist Europeans. I was enabled to furnish Gazar Pacha with heavy guns and ammunition, without dismantling the ships, having the good fortune to intercept Buonaparte's battering train of artillery on board his flotilla from Alexandria and Damietta, the whole of which, to the number of eight guns, while they were a great loss to the enemy, afforded us the most effectual means of annoying them in their approaches. The town standing on a rectangular point of land, in the form of a square, of which two sides are washed with the sea, his Majesty's ships could likewise afford the protecting of their guns to the garrison, and to the working parties detached from them, to throw up two ravelins, which taking the enemy's nearest approaches in flank, have considerably impeded his operations. It would be difficult to give a detail of the events of this most singular siege; suffice it to say, we have been within a stone's throw of each other for near two months. The enemy having very early made a lodgement on the crown of the glacis, and mined the tower, forming the inland angle of the town wall (which is composed of curtains and square towers after the manner of the 14th century,) Buonaparte having transported cannon from Jaffa, and effected a breach on the 14th day of the siege, attempted to storm, and was repulsed; since which, he has made no less than eleven desperate attempts to carry the place by assault, in each of which he has been unsuccessful, and obliged to retire with the loss of the flower of his army, and eight General officers killed and wounded."
"The army, totally dispirited and worn down with fatigue and disease, refused to mount the breach any more over the putrid bodies of their companions; they were consequently paraded yesterday, and furnished with shoes and water gourd to enable them to cross the desert again. My emirias in the French camp inform me that Suez is mentioned there as the object of Buonaparte's speculation, though without any hope of a disguised, diminished, and exhausted army ever reaching it, at least to act offensively. I am taking measures to cause an active and harassing pursuit."
"I trust to hearing from you by all possible opportunities through Egypt, as well as by way of Aleppo. I shall of course endeavour to keep you informed of what passes on this side the Isthmus."
"I have the honour to be, &c." (Signed) W. SIDNEY SMITH.
"P. S. JAFFA, May 30, 1799. I write you via Aleppo, on the 16th instant. I am enabled to send this duplicate of my letter by the good offices of Ismael, Bafhaw of Jerusalem, whom I have the satisfaction of joining here, in pursuit of Buonaparte's beaten and retreating army. He was obliged to raise the siege of Acre on the 20th. Knowing his intentions as above mentioned, I preceded his van column as far as Gaza, in his march along the beach, and harried it where it turned inland, but not unmolested by the Arabs. The pride of the vanquished ci-devant conqueror, not allowing him to make the natural overture in favour of the wounded, after having closed all intercourse by an insolent letter to me, for fear of the consequences of the general defection of his army, he carried these poor wretches to this place by land, where it being found impracticable to carry the worst of them farther, they were embarked on board all the vessels to be found here, together with his twelve and eight pounders cannon and howitzers, which were too heavy for land carriage in the sand. These vessels were sent to sea, to proceed to Damietta, without water, provisions, or seamen to navigate them, which I must attribute to precipitation and want of arrangement, rather than any thing else. Be this as it may, those poor wretches who could move, decided to flee straight for us in perfect confidence of our affording them the good office of humanity; in which they were not disappointed. We are thus put in possession of the twelve pounders, by which
the first breach was made; as to the 24, 18, and mortars which made the last, they lay scattered along the road with the dead and dying, the whole way between Acri and this place. The remnant of this mighty host is creeping towards the confines of Egypt, in such a state, that if the grand army could but come up with them they would fall an easy prey. Buonaparte trusts to meeting reinforcements from Grand Cairo; but I have, I hope, found occupation for the portion of his army left there; so that whatever part of his force reaches Suez, it cannot be formidable to India. Be pleased to forward a duplicate of this letter to Captain Wilson, at Judda, for the information of the government in India."
"I have the honour to be, &c." (Signed) W. S. SMITH.
From the London Gazette. ADMIRALTY OFFICE, Aug. 3.
Copy of a letter from Sir William Sidney Smith, Knight, Captain of his Majesty's ship Tigre, to Evan Nepean, Esq. dated at Acre, 3d of May, 1799.
Sir, I have the honor to enclose you copies of my letters to Earl St. Vincent, of the 7th April and 2d instant, for the information of my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty; as also a sketch of the position of the forces. The enemy have made two attempts since yesterday morning to force the two British ravelins, but were repulsed with loss. The works have now cannon mounted on them, and are nearly completed. We have thus the satisfaction of finding ourselves, on the forty-sixth day of the siege, in a better state of defence than we were the first day the enemy opened their trenches, notwithstanding the increase of the breach which they continue to batter with effect; and the garrison having occasionally closed with the enemy in several sorties, feel greater confidence that they shall be able to resist an assault, for which they are prepared.
"I have the honor to be, &c." W. SIDNEY SMITH.
"Tigre, St. Jean D'Acre Bay, May 16, 1799."
"I have the honour to inform your lordship, that as soon as the return of fine weather, after the equinoctial gale, allowed me to approach this unheltered anchorage, I resumed my station in the bay with the squadron under my orders. I found the enemy had profited by our forced absence, to push their approaches to the counterescarp, and even to the ditch, of the north east angle of the town wall, where they were employed in mining the tower, to increase a breach they had already made in it, and which had been found impracticable when they attempted to storm on the 18th instant. The Alliance and prize gun-boats, which had been caught in the gale, had fortunately rode it out except one; and captain Wilmot had been so indefatigable in mounting the prize guns, under direction of an able officer of Engineers, colonel Philipsaux, that the fire therefrom had already slackened that of the enemy; till, however, much was to be apprehended from the effect of the mine, and a sortie was determined on, in which the British marines and seamen were to force their way into it, while the Turkish troops attacked the enemy's trenches on the right and left. The sally took place this morning just before day light; the impetuosity and noise of the Turks rendered the attempt to surprise the enemy abortive, tho' in other respects they did their part well. Lieutenant Wright, who commanded the seamen pioneers, notwithstanding he received two shots in his right arm as he advanced, entered the mine with the pike-men, and proceeded to the bottom of it, where he verified its direction, and destroyed all that could be destroyed in its then state, by pulling down the supporters. Colonel Douglass, to whom I had given the necessary step of rank to enable him to command the Turkish colonels, supported the seamen in this desperate service with his usual gallantry, under the increased fire of the enemy, bringing off lieutenant Write, who had scarcely strength left to get out of the enemy's trench, from which they were not dislodged, as also Mr. Janverin, midshipman of the Tigre, and the rest of the wounded. The action, altogether, speaks for itself, and says more than could be said by me in praise of all concerned. I feel doubly indebted to colonel Douglass for having preserved my gallant friend lieutenant Wright, whose life, I am happy to say, is not despaired of by the surgeon. We have, however, to lament the loss of a brave and tried officer, major Oldfield, who commanded the Theleus's marines, and fell gloriously on this occasion, with two of the men under his command. Our loss in wounded is twenty-three, among whom is lieutenant Beatty of the marines, slightly. The Turks bro't in about sixty heads, a greater number of muskets, and some intrenching tools, much wanted in the garrison. A farther attack on the enemy's second parallel was not to be attempted without a greater number of regular troops. The return of the detachment was well covered by the Theleus's fire, captain Miller having taken an excellent position to that effect."
"The result of our days work is, that we have taught the besieger's to respect the enemy they have to deal with, so as to keep at a greater distance. The apprehensions of the garrison are quieted as to the effect of the mine, which we have besides learnt how to counteract with advantage, and more time is gained for the arrival of the reinforcements daily expected." I have the honour to be &c. W. SIDNEY SMITH.
To the Electors of the City and County of Philadelphia
ENCOURAGED by my friends, and grateful for your favours last year, when you placed me within five votes of the fortunate candidate, I take the liberty of again offering myself as County Commissioner.
MATTHEW HALE. Philadelphia, Sept. 24th, 1799.
The Owners or Consignees of GOODS, On board the brig Mercury, J. Yeardley, master, ARE requested to furnish their Permits, the said vessel having begun to discharge at Walnut Street Wharf. THOMAS & J. KETLAND. September 28.
Just imported, In the ship Wilmington, Captain Blair, FROM LONDON, 3 cales Creafila Morlaix, 11 ditto Westphalia Linens, assorted, 4 ditto ditto finer quality, FOR SALE By THOMAS & J. KETLAND. September 28.
JUST ARRIVED, From London, in the brig Mercury, Capt. Yardley, and intended to be landed in a few days, on Walnut Street wharf. 50 Hlds. Draught Porter, 96 Casks Brown Stout, do. in bottles, 40 cales Shot, No. 1 to 6, chiefly 3 & 4, 20 Hlds. Superior Whiting, 10 Casks Green Copperas, 8 Hlds. Ground Lead, viz. Red, White, Spanish Brown and Ground Paints, Black Yellow and Venetian, 4 Casks Glauber Salts. 1 do. each of Cude Antimony, Cream Tartar and Sal Carthartamac, 1 do. Allum com. 20 Half barrels Gun Powder, FF-C &c. ALSO, Said BRIGANTINE, As she came from sea, just coppered in London, with the best quality copper, armed with 12 eighteen pound carronades, and 4 long fives, small arms, boarding netting, &c. This vessel is completely equipped, and in a superior style, burden above 1200 barrels—Sails remarkably fast. For sale by THOS. & JOHN KETLAND. Sept. 23.
Notice is hereby given, To the OWNERS of MEADOW LAND, Within the District of Schuylkill Point, THAT an Election for Five Managers and a Treasurer for the ensuing year, will be held at Benner's Tavern, sign of the Blue Ball, on Tuesday the 8th of October next, between the hours of three and five in the afternoon. LAWRENCE SECKEL, Treasurer. September 28, 1799.
On Tuesday the 21st of October next, at the Robin Hood tavern, on the Falls road, at 11 o'clock A. M., will be sold by public auction, About eighty acres of Land, LAYING 4 miles from Philadelphia, on the east side of the Falls road, which bounds it on the west, and contiguous to lands of Mr. Clement Biddle. Mrs. Eliza Biddle, Mrs. Thomas Ketland, Mr. Montgomery, Mr. Thomas Clifford, Mr. Wilson and others. A road of two perches, leading from the Falls road, at the top of the Robin Hood hill, runs east through this land, and gives an easy access to the whole, which will be divided into lots of 7 to 10 acres, to suit the purchasers. The number of beautiful sites on this land, its healthy situation and pleasant neighbourhood, will no doubt attract the attention of the public. The whole now lies open, and a plot of it may be seen at the Robin Hood tavern after the 20th inst. The terms will be made known at the time of sale. CONNELLY & Co. Auctioneers. September 14.
Philadelphia, Sept. 24th, 1799. SALES of the following Lots, advertised the 20th inst. postponed in consequence of unfavourable weather, until FRIDAY, the 27th instant, At one o'clock, A.M. At which time will be Sold, On the Premises, ONE TRACT, containing about 50 acres, lying in Springfield township, Montgomery county, fronting on a public road leading from Abingdon, distance therefrom four miles, and one mile and a half from Flour Town. The country is remarkably healthy, and situation for a farm or country seat beautiful, soil good, and lime stone plenty. Also upwards of fifty acres, choice young chestnut timber land , divided in convenient lots, situate in Upper Dublin township, nearly opposite to the above. To be sold as part of the estate of the late Caleb Emlen, deceased, by JAMES VAUX, CHARLES PLEASANTS, Attorneys in fact to M. Emlen sole Executrix. 1247S.
Philadelphia, September 25, 1799. THE Court for the appointment of Guardians of the Four for the ensuing year, met this day according to law, at the City Hall, in the city of Philadelphia, but a sufficient number of county magistrates not appearing, and the new members of the Board of Guardians returned to serve, not being present, the Mayor, Aldermen and Justice Wheeler, adjourned the Court to the Almshouse, in the city of Philadelphia, at eleven o'clock the same day; when being assembled, together with ten members of the old Board of Guardians, including four members of the old Board of Managers, of the Almshouse, and none of the new members appearing, it was thought advisable to adjourn the Court to Monday the eleventh day of November next ensuing, then to meet at the City Hall, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, to which time and place the said Court is adjourned, of which all persons concerned are to take notice. ROBERT WHARTON, Mayor. JOHN JENNINGS, } Aldermen. MICHAEL HILLEGAS, } men. SAMUEL WHEELER, one of the Justices of the Peace for the county of Philadelphia.
To BOTANISTS, GARDENERS and FLORISTS.
AND to all other ladies and gentlemen, curious in ornamental, rare exotic or foreign plants and flowers, cultivated in the green house, hot house, or stove, and in the open ground—A large and numerous variety of such rarities is now offered for sale, being the acquirement of many years earnest application, great assiduity, and considerable expense.
The present proprietor having, from the natural growth and successful increase of his plants, as well as from frequent other acquirements and additions to his collection, so far increased it as to render the allotted apartments not sufficiently large and commodious, is induced to make this offer, or sacrifice. After reserving a general and suitable stock, he has to spare a well assorted and great variety of these things, comprising a beautiful collection, sufficient to decorate, furnish, and ornament a spacious or handsome green-house at once. The whole collection, for that department, will be sold on very moderate and easy terms; the proprietor may be induced to divide it into two equal lots; but he does not on any account intend to allow them to be selected or culled out by separately selling single plants or small lots in any thing like a retail way.
The whole is a truly valuable collection, such as is very rarely to be met with for sale on this side the Atlantic—indeed a moiety of them would comprise a very desirable and extensive variety, consisting of many or most of the tropical fruits, and other rare and curious finely ornamental trees, shrubs, and plants, with a numerous and abundant assortment of choice bulbous, tuberous, and fibrous rooted flowering and ornamental plants in mixtures; all of good or superior kinds, as may be seen by the catalogue. For which, and for any further necessary information, please to apply to John Cummings, at the Almshouse, Messrs. David and Cuthbert Landreth, gardeners and nursery-men, in High-Street, above Twelfth-Street, Philadelphia, Mr. William Booth, in the same line of business, Baltimore, or Mr. David Williamson, Greenwichtown, New-York.
N. B. It is now a good time and proper season to build a green-house, and to remove plants. Sept. 24.
THIS IS TO GIVE NOTICE,
That the subscriber living at George Town, cross roads in that county and state of Maryland, hath obtained letters of administration on the personal estate of William Dinsmore, late of Kent County, merchant, deceased.
All persons having any claims against the said deceased, are requested to exhibit them properly authenticated, either to the subscriber or to William Barron, Esq. her attorney, living in Chester Town Maryland. All persons indebted to the deceased, either on Bond, Bill, note or account, are earnestly requested to discharge the same without delay, otherwise suits will be commenced against them. ISABELLA DINSMORE, Administratrix of William Dinsmore deceased. George Town Cross-Roads Kent County. August 31, 1799.
One Thousand Five Hundred DOLLARS
WAS delivered to the POSTMASTER here, in the Post-Office, on the evening of Tuesday the 27th ult. in a LETTER directed to Mr. John Mills, MERCHANT, BALTIMORE, containing two ALEXANDRIA BANK NOTES, No. 4320, in favour of William Taylor, and dated 30th April, 1798, for ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS, and No. 4512, in favour of John P. Pleasants, and dated the 10th of December, 1798, for FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS; which letter has been SUPPRESSED in a POST-OFFICE, and the BANK NOTES taken out—the PUBLIC MAIL was not STOPPED, MOLESTED, or ROBBED.
Bankers and merchants are particularly requested to watch the circulation of said notes, and stop them; and any person giving such information as will lead us to our money, shall have FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS reward. WILSON & SWANN. Fredericksburg, (Virg.) Sept. 10. All Printers in the United States, are requested to publish the above, and we will pay them.
SPECULATION.
TO BE SOLD, AT Public Vendue, on Monday the 23d of September next, at 2 o'clock, P. M. at the house of the Subscriber, living in the town of New-Castle, State of Delaware, a number of valuable
LOTS,
suitable for building on, being the South square of the flourishing town of New-Castle aforesaid, distant from Philadelphia thirty-three miles. This valuable property is highly capable of improvement, being immediately on the river Delaware, having a number of wharf lots on it; and from the depth of the water (earth and materials for wharfing being easily procured) there is no doubt but wharves would bring a handsome interest.
This property consists of five acres more or less, in one body; lays high, and is divided into lots to suit every description of persons.—New-Castle is one of the most healthy, and flourishing towns on the continent; and from the immense scale of trade it has raised, property to four times the value it was seven years past—The number of vessels bound out and in, which stop for supplies of stock, &c. &c. and the whole carriage of goods between Philadelphia and Baltimore, is now through this place. The packets and stages from the aforesaid cities, &c. make it very lively: there is not, at this time, one house to be rented in the place; and the number of applications for houses make it an object for persons to improve. There are a number of elegant and useful buildings now going on a Public Academy and several private schools. The malignant Fever has never made any progress, and the Ague scarcely known; the number of children in this place is a convincing proof of the healthiness of it. The prospect of the river Delaware, up and down is delightful; as far as the eye can distinguish you may view the vessels in different attitudes. There is reason to suppose that public piers for the Navy will be built here, as vessels can sail from this place when the river is fast at Philadelphia.
The conditions of sale will be easy and more known on the day of sale. Places of public worship, market and mills are very contiguous. JOHN BARRAGH. N. B. A plot of the above will be exhibited any time previous, as well as on the day of sale. August 26.
ALMS-HOUSE.
September 25, 1799.
AT a meeting of the General Board of the Guardians of the Poor,
PRESENT, Charles Swift, Jacob Greble, William Preston, William Holdernesse, Luke W. Morris, Samuel Gatliff, Charles Pleasants, Matthew Vanduzen, Geraldus Stockdale, James Engle.
Whereas the distressed situation of many of the inhabitants of the city of Philadelphia arising from the present calamity, requires immediate relief; and whereas, from the general absence of the freeholders, and other taxable inhabitants, it has become impracticable to continue the collection of the taxes, appropriated for the support of the poor.
Therefore resolved, That Samuel Gatliff and Charles Pleasants shall be a committee from this Board, to negotiate a loan from either of the Banks in this city, amounting to ten thousand dollars, five thousand of which to be advanced immediately, and the other five thousand, when in the opinion of this Board it shall become necessary. Resolved, That such part of the buildings at Masters' Place, as belong to the Guardians of the Poor, be appropriated for the reception of such children, as may become orphans in consequence of the present calamity, and that Luke W. Morris be appointed to procure Nurses, and other proper attendants for them, and generally to superintend that part of the Encampment.
Resolved, That William Holdernesse, William Preston, James Engle, and Matthew Vanduzen, Guardians of the Poor, in conjunction with Dr. Samuel P. Griffiths, John Evans, Thomas Harrison and John James; shall be a committee for granting relief to the poor and distressed inhabitants of the city of Philadelphia, the District of Southwark, and the Northern-Liberties, which committee shall keep an account of the persons relieved, and the sums expended; having also power to appoint such persons as they may deem qualified to assist in visiting all and every house in which sick or distressed persons are resident, in order that full and effectual relief may be afforded.
Resolved, That Luke W. Morris be the Treasurer of the above committee, and that the money which may be borrowed from the Banks, agreeably to a resolution of this day, be lodged in his hands to defray the expenses of the above committee, and such as may be incurred in maintaining the orphan children at Masters' Place. CHARLES SWIFT, President.
THIS is to give notice, that the Subscriber, living in Warwick, Cecil County Maryland, hath obtained letters of Administration on the personal estate of JOHN MORTON, late of Warwick, in Cecil County, deceased.—All persons having claims against the said deceased, are hereby warned to exhibit the same, with the vouchers thereof, to the Subscriber, at or before the first day of March next—They may otherwise, by law, be excluded from all benefit of the said estate. Given under my hand this 15th day of August, 1799. REBECCA MORTON, Administratrix. aug. 17.
THIS is to give notice that the Subscriber, living in Warwick, Cecil County, Maryland, hath obtained letters of Administration (Debonis Noni) on the personal estate of JOHN VANCE, late of Warwick, in Cecil County, deceased.—All persons having claims against the said deceased, are hereby warned to exhibit the same, with the vouchers thereof, to the Subscriber at or before the first day of March next—They may otherwise, by law, be excluded from all benefit of the said estate. Given under my hand this 15th day of August 1799. REBECCA MORTON, Administratrix. aug. 17.
SHIP BROKER'S OFFICE, And Commission Store, NO. 139, SOUTH FRONT STREET, Next door to the Custom House.
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 freight, settling Insurance and all other mercantile accounts, and have on hand the necessary Blanks and Stamps. Papers in foreign language, translated, and information given in every mercantile matters.—From a knowledge gained by long experience of every branch of business he hopes to be useful to those who please to favor him with their commands. SAMUEL EMERY. November 10.
FOR CHARTER,
The British Letter of Marque SHIP LONDON, SAMUEL ROPER, commander. BURTHEN 330 Tons, coppered, sheathed, mounting Twenty guns, and will be ready to receive a cargo in about 14 days, for terms apply to NICKLIN & GRIFFITH.
WHO HAVE FOR SALE
ON BOARD SAID SHIP, 40 tons Patent Sheathing COPPER assorted from 18 to 32 ounces to the square foot. Composition Nails, Spikes and Bolts of various descriptions. 20 alb. guns of 4 cwt. each, 40 6lb. do. 6 cwt. do. 12 9lb. do. 12 do. 16 do. do. with carriages, 12 cwt. each. 240 crates Quercus Ware, assorted, 200 tons Fine Stoved Salt. 45 do. House Coal, and a quantity of Paints august 3.

The Gazette.
PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 30.
PRICES OF STOCKS.
Table with stock prices including Philadelphia, August 24, 1799. Columns: Stock Name, Price.
Blanchard, accompanied by Lalande, was to make his 48th aerial ascension at Paris on the 25th July.
From Paris papers. PARIS, July 24, 1799. The Minister of Justice to the Central administrators...
CITIZENS. The law of the 24th of this month is designed to destroy once more the vain hopes of royalism.
Blood the most pure has flowed: Citizens known for their attachment to the revolution, the revolution, have fallen the victims of their principles...
Evils of such magnitude have rendered indispensable means at once energetic and adequate to arrest the disastrous effect of these proceedings.
The Legislative Body has found these means in the subjoined law, inferred in the Bulletin 295 No. 3199, relative to the repressing of robberies and assassinations...
It is to you citizens administrators, that it will belong to prevent private passions from adding to their severity.
The Legislative Body has thought it useful to announce this important law by an address which passes with energy, all the miseries attached to civil dissensions.
May it convince all men who breathe the air of France, whatsoever may have been their opinions, their sufferings or their hopes...
Health and fraternity. The Minister of Justice, LAMBRECHTS.
The Legislative Body, after having declared urgency, makes the following address:
The Legislative Body to the French People. FRENCHMEN!
It is upon your most dear interests, it is upon the inappreciable benefits of internal peace, it is upon the means of recalling and fixing it among you...
Frenchmen, bitter civil dissensions seem already to spring up afresh in some departments of the west and the south...
To arrest their course, your legislators are about to take the most severe but necessary measures...
But the bridle of the law must not remain isolated by the voice of reason.
It is above all to you, simple men, whom the machinations of the ill disposed have too often led astray...
The perfidious men! they feign to complain of you, and they will only to irritate you...
In speaking to you of your interests, they dream but of their own, and they will only to re-occupy their antient usurpations.
And what! I would it be for the re-establishment of the Dimes, of the corvées, and of feudalism...
Good and honest inhabitants of the country, how could you regret such a system, or call it to mind without indignation?
Citizens of all the states, inhabitants of the cities and of the fields, could you have forgotten that your political regeneration was touching and sublime to you...
No, such impressions cannot be effaced, and you would not now resume those chains which you broke with indignation.
And you too, lethargic men who say the revolution without enthusiasm but without hatred...
Your interest above all, is to ward off from the French soil this torrent of miseries, which would inundate it, if certain criminal hopes could be realized.
Let civil dissensions cease, then, that we may have no other cares left but those of repelling the external foe.
Citizens, in the midst of a terrible war, which, perhaps, cannot much longer exist, and at the close of a disastrous administration...
They will know how, in concert with the regenerated directory, to gather, when it shall present itself, that peace worthy of the French people and of its allies.
But that peace, the object of your prayers and of ours, that peace which must recall to the French territory abundance and prosperity...
Ah what! the French blood would again flow for a cause other than that of liberty; and there are men inflexible enough to hope for happiness in the consequences of a civil war!
The mangled carcasses, the devastated fields, the burnt houses, would they not then be any more objects of affright.
Far from us be the thought that such a moral degradation could obtain admission into general system.
In the meanwhile bands of Royal assassins seek themselves in divers departments, and attack the republicans.
These germs of a new civil war have not come to the knowledge of your representatives, without exciting them at the same time to seek the means of choking them...
Patriots, persevere or resume an energetic and wise attitude; the Legislative Body and the Directory are truly decided to cause the republic to triumph.
And you who were the blind instruments in assassinating the republicans, your artisans and cultivators whom they reckon among the assassin bands...
You, finally, ex-nobles, parents of emigrants, and progenitors of rebels, you who have so great an influence upon the miseries of your country...
Let the departments infected by Chouannerie return to order, if they will to return to their common rights...
[This address displays the situation of the republic in deep sombre: the prospect held out of the return of peace, which constitutes its most prominent topic...
After a careful perusal of the files of several Paris papers, (which come down four days later than had been received in London, at the date of our last accounts from thence) we have been able to extract little information of leading importance.
The Lay Preacher's Gazette says, "It is rumoured that Zephaniah Swift, Esq. Windham, Connecticut, is so secreted to the new embassy to France."
Since the wise measure adopted by government, of cutting off the intercourse between America and France, by which a vile crew of foreign speculators...
M'KEAN.
To the Editor of the York Herald.
Sir, Please to insert the following letter, and oblige your's, &c. J. C.
To the Honourable THOMAS M'KEAN, Esq. Ductor de Lawis, Chief Justice of the State of Pennsylvania, &c. &c. &c.
Sir, I scarcely thought it possible among the vicissitudes of human affairs, that I should have to address you through the channel of a newspaper...
Whether the above charge is true, and the assertion of your friend untrue, I leave you and the public to determine...
At another time, at Hartley's Tavern, near Bedford, in the presence of a Mr. Shultz, you said "the members of Al-femily from York county, were damn'd fools...
At another time, I read you say "York was a Tory town" and I then replied it was not, nor would I suffer such slander.
Those who wish for further information, respecting your allegations, and conduct, at the times and places above mentioned, have an opportunity of satisfying themselves...
With a hope that you may not be elected Governor, and a wish that you may remain in the station you now hold, am, Sir, your most obedient, JOHN CLARK.
York, Sept. 13, 1799. Philadelphia, 7th Sept. 1799.
The Court of Common Pleas have appointed the following persons AGENTS for the General Election, for the Election Districts in the City and County of Philadelphia, viz.
For the district of the city of Philadelphia, Michael Hillegas and William Jones, Esqs.
For the districts of Southwark, Moylan and Passyunk, Joseph Bird and Ebenezer Ferguson, Esquires.
For the district of Blockley and King's Mathew M'Connell, Esq. and Justice of the peace.
For the district of Germantown, Rowland and Bristol, John Hutton and John Miller, Esquires.
For the district of Byberry, Moreland and Lower Dublin, John Slater and Jonas Sholfeld, Esquires.
The Lay Preacher's Gazette says, "It is rumoured that Zephaniah Swift, Esq. Windham, Connecticut, is so secreted to the new embassy to France."
NINE Deaths were reported at the Health office for the 24 hours ending yesterday at 12 o'clock.
At a meeting of the committee appointed by the General Board of Guardians for granting relief to the Poor of the City and Liberties of Philadelphia, 9 mo. 27th, 1799.
The following arrangements were agreed to, viz.
Committee for the Northern Liberties—Peter Keifer, Matthew Vandezan, Bascell Wood, and Samuel M'Farlin.
Committee 1st division—from the south side of Vine to the north side of Arch street & from Delaware to Schuylkill—Thomas Allbone, John Teas, Lambert Wilmore, John Barker, and Joseph Justice.
Committee 2d division—from the south side of Arch to the north side of Chestnut st. from Delaware to Schuylkill—William Holderness, John James, Arthur Howell, Thomas Stokes, and Ray King.
Committee 3d division—from the south side of Chestnut to north side of Spruce from Delaware to Schuylkill—John Evans, Thomas Harison, Samuel Coates, Joseph Featon, Philip Edwards.
Committee 4th division—from south side of Spruce to north side of South street, from Delaware to Schuylkill—William Prestor, Samuel P. Griffith, William Stephenson, Ferguson M'Elwan, and Thomas Attmore.
Committee for Southwark—James Eagles, Robert Jones, John Duches, Neal M'Ginnes, Abraham Gurdin, and Samuel Church.
Who engage to visit the poor in their respective habitations; taking the names of the heads of the family, number of children, &c. place of abode, or some other means that they may devise, in order that the real situation of each family may be known.
The committee are unanimously of opinion that it will be most beneficial to the poor, as also more saving to the public fund, to supply the necessitous with bread and the various sorts of groceries, rather than money.
Resolved, That this committee will relieve the poor every second day of the week (called Monday) at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, at the following places, requesting that the poor residing within each boundary will apply only to the committees of that boundary, and that they produce certificates of their general circumstances and place of abode from some respectable citizen.
1st boundary from Vine to Arch street, and from Delaware to Schuylkill, at John Barker's, corner of 9th and Race streets.
2d boundary from Arch to Chestnut streets, and from Delaware to Schuylkill, at the City Hall.
3d boundary from Chestnut to Spruce street, and from Delaware to Schuylkill, at the State House.
4th boundary from Spruce to South street, and from Delaware to Schuylkill, at the New Market Hall.
The Committee of the Northern and Southern Districts give relief at their accustomed times and places.
Luke W. Morris, being by the General Board of Guardians appointed Treasurer, all drafts on him shall be signed by the Chairman, attested by the Secretary.
JOHN JAMES, Chairman, and THOMAS HARRISON, Secretary.
BOSTON, Sept. 25.
A gentleman from Connecticut informs, that he learnt there, from high authority, that our Envoys to France, were to sail immediately for Europe.
FROM GUADALOUPE.
On Saturday evening last arrived in town Mr. Joseph Clark, in 27 days from Guadalupe, where his vessel had been condemned.
Americans, who are captured and carried into Guadalupe, on their arrival on shore, are received by a guard of eight black soldiers who conduct them to what they call the Government house—and there orders are given for their commitment to prison.
With a hope that you may not be elected Governor, and a wish that you may remain in the station you now hold, am, Sir, your most obedient, JOHN CLARK.
Captain Davis, of Norfolk, was imprisoned four months at Baffaite, for informing Commodore Barry's flag officer, that there were 24 Americans there more than the French accounted for—which was the fact.
SALEM, September 24.
Captain Ropes, of the brig Betsy, left Gonaives the 1st of September, and arrived here on Tuesday last. The day after sailing, he fell in with the George Washington frigate, conveying nine sail of Americans from Port-au-Prince for the United States.
and on the harbour belonged to him; and that it was hourly expected the town would fall into his hands. Shortly after a grand salute was fired from the forts, and the armed vessels bore up into the harbour; from which Capt. Ropes concluded that Toussaint's troops had got possession of the town.
REPORT Of the Sections of the different grounds, of the number of Funerals at their grounds.
Table with 3 columns: Names of the Burial Grounds, Number of Persons, Children. Rows include Christ Church, St. Peters, St. Pauls, etc.
The above list comprehends all the burials from the City and Liberties of every disease By order of the Board of Health.
WILLIAM ALLEN, Health Officer.
CITY HOSPITAL.
For the last 48 hours, ending 12 o'clock A. M. ADMITTED.
John White, from Sixth between Lombard and South-streets. Susan Moore, No. 6, Vernon-street. William White, Fifth between Spruce and Pine-street.
DIED.
George Wills, ill 6 days previous to admission. Charles Goyl, ill 3 ditto. Susan Moore, 12 hours after admission. Ann Davis, ill 4 days previous to admission.
DISCHARGED.
Andrew Henderick on, John Johnson, Judah Lawrence, James Sneathan, Charles Baker, Owen Sullivan, Samuel Thompson, Susan Minnis, Nancy Senderfon, Mary Golder, Catharine Nugent, Sally Poth, Susan Boyle, Jane Brice, Jun. Nancy O'Neal's child.
Interred the last 48 hours, in the PUBLIC GROUND.
Peter Curtis, from No. 98, fourth Water-street. Thomas Brelat, Callowhill-street. James Milligan, Penn and South-street. Bethia Palmer, corner of Love Lane. A child of Esther Brown, Pine alley. A mulattoe child from between Locust and Pine-street.
Total 15.
Remaining in the Hospital 59, of whom 30 are convalescents, and eleven children who were admitted in good health.
PETER HELM, Steward.
AN INVOICE OF DRY GOODS, FOR SALE.
Consisting of broad and narrow Cloths, Cassimeres, Linens, &c. &c.
Apply to WILLIAM PARKER, Peel Hall, on the Ridge road, two miles from the city. Sept. 30, 1799.
THE Committee for the city of Philadelphia, in favour of JAMES ROSS, Esq. of Pittsburgh, as Governor, are requested to meet on Wednesday next, at 2 o'clock, at Oellers' Hotel, Germantown, on business relative to the ensuing election.
LEVI HOLLINGSWORTH, Chairman. Philadelphia, September 23, 1799.
THE Annual Election of Trustees and Treasurer of the Mutual Assurance Company, for Insuring Houses from loss by fire, will be held at the City Hall, on Monday the 7th day of October next, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, where the Members of the said Company are requested to attend.
By order of the Trustees. JOHN JENNINGS, Clerk. September 28th, 1799.

JUST RECEIVED,
Per the MARIA, from HAMBURG, and NOW LANDING, At Wilcock's wharf, from board the IRIS, from BREMEN, And for sale by the subscriber, 353 PACKAGES LINEN,
 Bielefeld Linen  Warendorf do  Rouen  White Platters  Brown do  Craes à la Morlaix  Dowlas  Brezagnes  Buccadillas  Quadruples Silesias  Bed-ticks  Pocket Handkerchiefs  Elberfeld Checks  Checks and Stripes  Hattem Checks  Lisadoes  Ticklenburghs  Osn> Osnaburgs  Halblaken  Weler Linnen  Bag Linen  Myer Linnen  Etepillas 
Also for Sale, 400 boxes Claret, 40 hds. do, 70 Tons St. Petersburg Hemp, 5 Cales Brilles, 200 pieces Sailduck, 7 Bales German Cloth, 800 Demijohns, 80 Liquor Cales, ERICK & LEWIS BOLL MANN. No 113 South 3d Street, aug 14
WHEREAS
Matheo McConnell, Esq.
By deed dated the 16th of May, 1799, granted and assigned to the subscribers, 55,018 acres of land on the waters of Sugar creek, in the county of Luzerne and state of Pennsylvania, upon trust, to sell and dispose of the same, and apply the proceeds (after satisfying all such just and legal claims as may be due on said lands) to the payment of such notes as the said Matthew McConnell has drawn in favor of a certain Joseph Thomas, or that the said Joseph Thomas has drawn in favor of, and are endorsed by the said M. McConnell, and which are mentioned in the schedule annexed to the deed of trust, aforesaid:—
Provided, That the holders of said notes shall, on or before the 16th day of November next, execute to him a full discharge and acquittance, or render up the said notes, and the balance, if any, to the holders of any of the said notes who shall not have made such discharge or rendered up said notes, as aforesaid, pro rata, according to their respective claims and demands.
This public notice is given of the said assignment, that those who are interested may avail themselves of the terms therein contained.
William Buckley, Thomas M. Witting, William Davidson, Affixers. Philadelphia, 14th Sept. 1799. raw16N.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
March 11th, 1799.
PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,
Pursuant to the act of Congress passed on the 11th of June, one thousand, seven hundred and ninety-six, entitled "an act regulating the grants of land appropriated for military services, and for the society of United Brethren for propagating the gospel among the Heathen;" and the act supplementary to the said recited act passed on the second day of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine—to wit:
THAT the tract of Land herein after described, namely, "beginning at the North West corner of the seven ranges of townships, and running thence fifty miles due south, along the western boundary of the said ranges;—thence due West to the Main Branch of the Scioto river; thence up the Main Branch of the said river to the place where the Indian boundary line crosses the same;—thence along the said boundary line to the Tularcoras branch of the Mufkingum river at the crossing place above Fort Lawrence; thence down the said river, to the point where a line run due west from the place of beginning, will intersect the said river; thence along the line so run to the place of beginning;" has been divided into townships of five miles square, and fractional parts of townships; and that plats and surveys of the said townships and fractional parts of townships are deposited in the offices of the Register of the Treasury and Surveyor General, for the inspection of all persons concerned.
The holders of such warrants as have been or shall be granted for military services performed during the late war, are required to present the same to the Register of the Treasury, at some time prior to the twelfth day of February in the year, one thousand eight hundred, for the purpose of being registered; No registry will however be made of any less quantity than a quarter township, or four thousand acres.
The priority of location of the warrants which may be presented and registered in manner aforesaid, prior to the 12th day of February in the year, one thousand eight hundred, will immediately after the said day, be determined by lot, in the mode described by the act first recited.
The holders of registered warrants, shall on Monday the 17th day of February, in the year 1800, in the order of which the priority of location shall be determined by lot as aforesaid, personally or by their agents, designate in writing at the office of the Register of the Treasury, the particular quarter townships elected by them respectively, and such of the said holders as shall not designate their locations on the said day, shall be postponed in locating such warrants to all other holders of registered warrants.
The holders of warrants for military services sufficient to cover one or more quarter townships or tracts of four thousand acres each; shall, at any time after Monday the 17th day of February, 1800 and prior to the first day of January, 1802, be allowed to register the said warrants in manner aforesaid, and forthwith to make locations therefor on any tract or tracts of land not before located.
All warrants or claims for lands on account of military services, which shall not be registered and located before the first day of January, 1802, are by the supplementary act of Congress herein before recited, passed on the second day of March, 1799, declared to be forever barred.
Given under my hand at Philadelphia, the day and year above mentioned.
OLIVER WOLCOTT, Sec. of the Treasury.
To the Freemen, Electors for the city and county of Philadelphia.
GENTLEMEN, ACKNOWLEDGING with thanks, all former favors, I request a continuance of your friendship, by your Votes and Interest, at the ensuing Election for the Coroner's office, which will add an additional obligation and shall be held in grateful remembrance by your friend and humble servant,
JOHN LEACOCK, Coroner. 22w5t.
This day is published, By W. YOUNG, BOOKSELLER, Institutes of Natural Law. THE THIRD EDITION.
Being the substance of a course of lectures, read in St. John's college, Cambridge. By T. RUTHERFORTH, D.D. F.R.S.
THE 1st vol. explains the rights of mankind, considered as individuals: I. Law in general. II. Rights and obligations. III. Of property. IV. Limitations of property. V. Of our common right to things. VI. Of derivative acquisitions by the act of man. VII. Of derivative acquisitions by the act of the law. VIII. Of prescription. IX. Of the obligations arising from property. X. Of the right which a man has in his own person. XI. Of parental authority. XII. Of promises. XIII. Of contract. XIV. Of oaths. XV. Marriage. XVI. Of the right of defence.—XVII. Of reparation of damages done. XVIII. Of punishment. XIX. Of war. XX. Of slavery.
The 2d vol. explains the rights and obligations of mankind, considered as members of civil societies. I. of societies in general. II. of civil society its nature and origin. III. of civil power. IV. of different forms of civil government. V. of the changes produced. VI. of civil laws. VII. of interpretation. VIII. of civil subjection, and civil liberty. IX. of the law of nations. X. of the changes that are made in States and in their civil constitutions.
The merits of this work, so justly extolled by experienced judges, and appreciated by the lovers of science, renders it unnecessary for the editor to publish the numerous and honorable testimony, that might be produced in its favour. It is with much pleasure he informs his customers and the public, that the American edition (not inferior to the British in paper and print) is now offered for sale, in two 8vo. vols. at 4 dollars and 50 cents in boards, and five dollars when neatly bound. The imported copies of the same size, are sold at 7 and 8 dollars.
W. YOUNG, has for sale, as usual, Stamps, Stationery, custom house Blanks of every denomination, Writing and Printing Papers, Blank & Printed Books, wholesale and retail.
N. B.—Orders transmitted through the Post-office or otherwise, are immediately executed. Philadelphia. 12th Sept. 32w2w.
DONATION LANDS.
Notice is hereby given, THAT Claims for Donation Lands granted by the State of Pennsylvania to the Officers and Soldiers of the Line belonging to the said State in the late war, will be received at the Office of Comptroller General of said State until the 1st September next inclusive, and that the subscribers authorized by law will sit as a Board, at the said Office on every Monday from ten o'clock in the forenoon until one in the afternoon, to hear and determine all unsatisfied Claims already filed, as well as those which may be filed on or before the said first day of September next.
JOHN DONALDSON, Compt' Samuel Bryan, Reg't Peter Baynton, Treas't. Department of Accounts of Pennsylvania, May 15, '99. (16) dtw (m.w.s.f.t)
United States, District of Pennsylvania. To the Marshal of the Pennsylvania District of the United States.
WHEREAS in my opinion a contagious sickness in the city of Philadelphia, renders it hazardous to hold the next stated Session of the Circuit Court of the United States, in and for the Pennsylvania District of the middle Circuit of the said city, the place appointed by law at which to hold the stated Session of the said Court—Therefore by virtue of the powers and authorities vested in me, RICHARD PETERS, Judge of the Pennsylvania District of the United States, in the name and by authority of the United States, to order and direct you to adjourn the session of the said circuit court, directed to be held at Philadelphia, on the eleventh day of October next, to Norris Town, in the county of Montgomery in the same district, being a convenient place within the same for holding the said court; and you are to make publication hereof in one or more public papers printed at the said city, that the said court is adjourned as it is hereby directed to be; and you are accordingly to adjourn the said time you shall place hereby appointed from the time you shall receive this order to the said eleventh day of October next, the time by law prescribed for commencing the said session.
(L.S.) Given under my hand and seal at Belmont in the said district this sixth day of September in the year of our Lord 1799, and in the twenty-fourth year of the Independence of the United States.
RICHARD PETERS. WHEREFORE I, the said Marshal, by virtue of the powers vested in me by the above order and directions from the honorable Richard Peters, Esquire, Judge of the Pennsylvania district of the United States, and in the name and by the authority of the United States, do adjourn the session of the Circuit court of the said United States, which was to have been held at Philadelphia, on the eleventh day of October next, to the courthouse in NORRIS TOWN in the county of Montgomery in the same district, there to meet on the said eleventh day of October next at ten o'clock in the forenoon of the same day at which all persons bound by Recognizance or have otherwise to do thereat are desired and required to take notice and give their attendance accordingly. WILLIAM NICHOLS, Marshal. Marshall's office at Philadelphia, September 7, 1799. dt11thO. September 2
FOR SALE,
The brig MARY, Capt. JOHN TARRIS, Now lying at Marcus Hook—a live oak and cedar vessel—will carry 2000 barrels, and has been newly sheathed. She is armed with 10 four-pounders, muskets, pistols, cutlasses, boarding-pikes, &c. For terms, apply to GURNEY & SMITH. Sep. 3. cotf
FOR SALE By SIMON WALKER,
Pine, near Fifth-street, WOOLWICH proof Cannon—9 pounders, 61-2 feet long, 20 cwt. each, and 7 feet long, 25 cwt. each, with carriages, &c. completed ditto—6 pounders, 51-2 feet long, 15 cwt. each, and 6 feet long, 18 cwt. each, with carriages, &c. complete; Caronades on sliding carriages, 12, 18 & 24 pounders, weighing 61-2, 8 and 13 cwt. each; Boarding Pikes and Cutlasses; English Cannon Powder; Copper Sheathing Nails, Spikes and Bolts; 6, 9, 12, 18 and 24 lb. round Shot; 6, 9, 18 and 24 lb. double-headed Shot; 9, 18 and 24 lb. Canister Shot. Also—a quantity of best English, Porter, Claret and Port Wine Bottles; Taunton Ale in casks of 7 dozen each. March 8. 22wtf
THE Creditors of Baly, Hill, & Evans, Insolvent Debtors, in the county of Sussex, are to meet the Assignees at the Court-House in said county, on the 23th of Dec. next, at 10 o'clock A.M. in order to make a dividend of said Insolvent's estate, that may come to hand by that day. C.H. CASE, assignee. June 25
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 John Dunwoody's, Market-street, Spread Eagle, 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 Proprietor are not responsible for Baggage. LEVI PEASE, Agent for the public Line, from Philadelphia to Baltimore. WARD, BRADHURST, JONES & Co. Proprietors of the Mail Line, from Philadelphia to New-York. General Postoffice, } May 1. 9
AT a meeting of the visitors and governors of St. John's college, in the State of Maryland, on the 13th day July 1799. Resolved, That the first day of October next, this board will elect a Professor of English and Grammatical, who shall receive, for his services, at the rate of £200 per annum, from the said board; and public notice thereof be given, &c. &c. A. C. HANSON, Tell. N. B. The ce aforesaid hath just become vacant, by the resignation of a gentleman, whose affairs require immediate undertaking of a voyage by sea. It is the wish of the said Professor (to whom is allowed a room) to reach the English language grammatical and to prepare students for a Superior School, teaching them the Latin grammar the Vocabulary, and Cordery. Writing is to be taught to his scholars at stated hours; and to those students who are not destined for the Superior School, are taught, at the discretion of their parents, guardians, Arithmetic, and other branches generally taught in English schools. A complete knowledge of Latin, Arithmetic, & considered indispensable in the profession; and expected, that candidates who are not known the Board, will submit to an examination, all as produce satisfactory testimonials of their morals, and fair characters. The letters within the United States are requested to be in their papers the foregoing resolution, remarks, and to repeat the publication, as soon as convenience will admit, until the 20th of September next. July 12wtf20
TO THE HOLDERS OF MARY LAND WARRANTS.
Subscriber having lately returned from visiting the land, surveyed and appropriated the land warrants, issued by the Secret at war, to the officers and soldiers of the continental army; and having made arrangements with Mr. James Johnson, of Chincoteague, Pennsylvania, who he left on the 10th of September last, will spend the ensuing winter in exploring the different sections. He will take regular notes, descriptive of the location, and natural advantages attached to section in the whole survey—which notes will be placed in the hands of the subscriber previous to the period for locating, thereby enabling him to make the most advantageous offers his service to the holders of land warrants of the above description, throughout the United States, to receive their warrants, class (as no less quantity than 4000 acres will be required at the office of the treasury) have a registered agreeable to law, and attend to the location at the time appointed inuary next. or transacting the business, one tenth part of the land specified in the warrants will be retained, and no other charge, except the postage letters. All warrants forwarded and letters addressed to the subscriber, at No. 3, Penn-street, Philadelphia, will receive immediate attention. JAMES B. SMITH. m.wtf.
WILLIAM COBBETT HAS JUST PUBLISHED (PRICE 1 DOL. 50 CENTS) THE BAVIAD AND MAEVIAD. By William Gifford, Esquire. To which is prefixed, A POETICAL EPISTLE TO THE AUTHOR By an American Gentleman. [In introducing this celebrated work to the Gentlemen and Ladies of America, I have endeavored to give it a dress proportioned to its distinguished merit, and to the taste of those for whose amusement and delight it is intended. No expense has been spared in the publication; and I flatter myself that the work does not yield, either in paper or print, to any one ever published in America. This edition has an advantage over some former ones, as it contains by way of note, the minor productions of the author; and it has an advantage over every other edition, in the Poetical Epistle, which is prefixed to it, and which must be extremely gratifying to every lover of literature in this country, as it is a proof that there are Americans who have the taste to admire, the justice to applaud, and the talents to rival the Genius of other nations. Some Copies have been sent on to Mr. Somerville, Maiden Lane, New-York, also to Mr. Hill, Baltimore, and to Mr. Young, Charlesfield. Copies will be sent to Boflon and other places, as soon as occasions offer.] may 23
TERMS Of Richard Polwell, in Philadelphia, FOR SUBSCRIBING TO THE JOURNALS OF CONGRESS, FROM THE COMMENCEMENT Of the American War, in 1774, to the present times, INCLUDING The Reports of Heads of Departments, of Committees, and other Official and Private Papers of that Body, now first permitted to be made public. THE work will be printed on a fine paper, and a new neat type, in large octavo. Each volume will contain above 500 pages, neatly bound and lettered. Uniformity in size, paper, and binding, will be observed throughout the work; so that, while the subscribers become possessed of a valuable record, an ornament may be added to their libraries. The price to subscribers will be 2 dollars. 75 cts. per volume, in boards, and 3 dollars. whole bound, but, as the publisher does not intend to print more than the number subscribed for, a considerable rise on the price may be expected to non-subscribers. Each volume will contain about one third less of letter-press than the original edition; but, as the publisher is not yet enabled to determine the extent of the Private Journals, which he may be allowed to make public, he cannot ascertain the number of volumes which will comprise the work. Payments to be made on delivery of each volume. Subscribers will have it at their option, either to subscribe for the whole of the Journals, up to the present time, or to those only of the Old Congress prior to the organization of the Federal Government. IN all countries, the proceedings in the commencement of their governments, are lost in darkness and obscurity, owing to a carelessness, in the succeeding generation, to preserve the public records, and the attention of the nation, in these rude ages, being called off from their domestic concerns, to engage in wars and conquest. Of what infinite value would the laws of Alfred be, had they been transmitted to our days? Time, that destroys everything, enhances the value of well authenticated public records, and renders them almost invaluable. It is hoped, that America will, therefore, cheerfully contribute their assistance in transmitting to posterity the labours of their ancestors—founders of the Columbian nation. The work will certainly be advanced with expedition and promptitude. The following will show the support it has already acquired: Philadelphia, June 15, 1798. To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States. The MEMORIAL of the Subscribers, Citizens, &c. of Philadelphia, Respectfully represents, That having, in our respective avocations, frequent occasions to recur to the Journals of Congress, we experience inconvenience by the scarcity of them: That we understand that Richard Polwell, printer, of Philadelphia, has had it in contemplation to print that public record; and that he hath obtained partial copies from many individuals; but that he has delayed prosecuting the work, in expectation of encouragement from government, that may adequately indemnify him. We, therefore, respectfully solicit, as the publication is necessary to be disseminated among public bodies, that Congress will, in their wisdom render him such additional encouragement, to that which he has obtained from private individuals, as to enable him to proceed with the work, so that your Memorialists may be enabled to purchase copies of that record for themselves. Thomas M'Kean, John D. Cox, Charles Heatly, Samuel Levy, T. Rofs, Wm. Moore Smith, John Read jun. William T. Tigham, John F. Milburn, Joseph B. McKean, John Beckley, W. Sergeant, John Thompson, Jared Ingersoll, Jasper Moylan, William Rawle, J. Thomas, William Lewis, James Gibson, M. Keppel, Moses Levy, Robert Porter, George Davis, John Hallowell, James Oldden, Walter Franklin, James Milnor, John C. Wells, John L. Leib, Alexander I. Dallas, Joseph Reed, Thomas Willing, Samuel M. Fox, John Nixon, Robert Waln, Robert H. Dunkin, John Ewing, Jun. Edward Pennington, Hilary B. Barker, William Nichols, William Young, Robert Campbell, Septimus, Claypoole, James Cruikshank, Mathew Carey, Henry K. Helmsley, Peter D. Haven, John Duulap, Edward Shoemaker, John R. Smith, William Hall, David C. Claypoole, Thomas Armitrout, Samuel H. Smith, John Fenno. True copy from the original Memorial, presented to the House of Representatives of the United States, on Monday, the 18th of June 1798. WILLIAM LAMBERT, for JONATHAN W. CONDY, Clerk. RESOLVED by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives, be authorized and directed, to subscribe, on such terms as they may deem eligible, for the use of the Senate and House of Representatives, for four hundred Copies of the Journals of Congress, which are proposed to be published by Richard Polwell and such number of copies of deficient volumes of the sets now in print, as may be necessary to complete the same. JONATHAN DAYTON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JAMES ROSS, President of the Senate pro tempore. Approved, March 22, 1799. JOHN ADAMS, President of the United States. may 20. 12wtf
Three Cents Reward.
RUN away from the Subscriber on the evening of the 28th inst. a bound Servant GIRL, named Elizabeth Howick, had on and took with her three different changes of garment and money, proud, bold and impudent, a noted liar; any person apprehending her shall be entitled to the above reward—no costs or charges will be paid. N. B. She had 2 years and some months to serve DANIEL FITZPATRICK. Colhen Township, Chester County, July 29. august 6 jantf
The Swift-Sure, A NEW LINE OF STAGES,
NOW RUNNING BETWEEN PHILADELPHIA & NEW-YORK, By the short and pleasant road of Buxton, Newtown, Scotch Plains, Springfield and Newark.
THE excellence of this road, the populousness of the country through which it passes, with sundry other advantages, which render it so far preferable to the Old Road through Bristol, Brimsfield, &c. long ago suggested the propriety of its becoming the Grand Through Fare from Philadelphia to New-York. During the present year, a minute survey of it has been taken and its superiority over the Old Road, both in winter and summer, has been clearly ascertained. There are good bridges over all the other waters but the Delaware, and here the crossing is performed with great safety and in less than half the time required at the Trenton Ferry. The road is several miles shorter than the old road, but this is among the least of its advantages, because daily experience proves to us, that dispatch as well as comfort in travelling principally depend on the goodness of the road and the levelness of the country, and in these respects, the New Road is, beyond all comparison, the best. It presents none of those rocky hills, which render the Old Road so fatiguing between the Delaware and Newark. The soil, too, for the greater part, is such as to produce but little mud in winter, and very little, if at all, in summer, which circumstance, added to the beauty of the country, and a considerable proportion of shade, must always render travelling in the latter season peculiarly agreeable. The Swift Sure starts from PHILADELPHIA, at 6 o'clock every morning (Sundays excepted) from the GREEN TREE, opposite the Lutheran Church, North Fourth Street. It goes through Frankford to Buxton, where it stops to breakfast; from Buxton it goes through Newtown to Penny town to dinner; from Penny town through Hopewell, Millstone, Boundbrook, Quilabrown and Plainfield to Scotch Plains to lodge. The next morning it stops at Springfield to breakfast, from whence it goes through Newark and arrives at New-York at noon.
From NEW-YORK it starts at 3 o'clock in the afternoon (from Paulus Hook) and arrives at Philadelphia the next evening. For seats at New-York, application may be made to Edward Bardin, Old Coffee house, to A. Mathien, corner of Nassau and John Streets, to B. Many, no. 48, Courtlandt, corner of Greenwich Street, and to Michael Little, at his hotel, no. 42, Broad Street.
Fare for passengers, Five Dollars. Way passengers 6 Cents per Mile. Each passenger is allowed to take on rails, of baggage carriage free; but all other baggage, taken on by a passenger, will be charged at 4 cents per pound weight. With respect to packages sent on without passengers, the proprietors presume they have adopted a regulation, though unknown to other lines of stages, they think must meet with general approbation. They pledge themselves to make good every package on the following conditions. The person who delivers the package at the office shall see it entered in the large book, for which entry he shall pay 6 cents; he will then state the value of the package, and pay (exclusive of the carriage) one per cent. on the value, as insurance, and for which he will receive a receipt. Thus, for instance, if he estimates his package at one dollar, he will pay one cent. and if at one hundred dollars, he will pay one dollar insurance, and in like proportion for packages of any other value. Very few persons it is presumed, will dislike this regulation; it will, however, be optional with every one to avail himself of this security or not. But the proprietors think it right to state very explicitly, that they will be responsible for the safe delivery of no package, which is not regularly entered, and for which an insurance receipt cannot be produced. In the distribution of the route, the greatest care has been taken to fix on such places and taverns as always afford a good accommodation and entertainment for the passengers at the most reasonable rates. The stages are well equipped furnished with fleet and healthy horses, and committed to the care of intelligent sober and obliging drivers. The proprietors themselves live at the different towns and villages where the stages will stop, so that the conduct of the persons they employ is continually an object of their attention. They take care also to see that the passengers are well provided for and politely treated at the taverns, and that no sort of chicanery or influence is practised upon them; in short, they have spared neither pains nor expense to render the SWIFT-SURE the very best line of stages in America. The line has now run nearly a month, during which time a great number of gentlemen have gone through, both from Philadelphia and New-York. Every passenger has found the road to surpass very far all that has been said of its excellence; and the Proprietors of the Swift Sure are extremely happy to hear the behaviour of their drivers, and the treatment at Taverns spoken of with the highest satisfaction.
 JOHN MCALLA, Philadelphia  THEOS PAUL, Buxton  JOSEPH THORNTON, } Newtown  NICHOLAS WYNKOOP, }  JACOB KESLER, }  JOHN MOREHEAD, } Newtown  T. KILLMAN, } Millstone  ELIAS COMBES, } Boundbrook  R. SANSBURY, } Scotch Plains  ISAAG RAWLE, } Springfield  ROBERT PEARSON, }  June 22. PRINTED BY J. W. PENNO.