Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser. (Philadelphia [Pa.]), 1799-02-14 00:00:00

Gazette of the United States, AND Philadelphia Daily Advertiser
By JOHN WARD FENNO, N 119, CHESNUT-STREET.
NUMBER 2000]
PHILADELPHIA: THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 14, 1799.
[VOLUME XV.]
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 Sale,
The Schooner,
THREE SISTERS
Is almost a new vessel, carries between six and seven barrels and falls remarkably fast, when loaded with 8 or 10 feet water, she is in complete order, having all the sails that can be used to advantage, the greater part of them are new. In short she may be fitted to sea at a small expense, and in three or four days notice. For terms apply to
Jehu Hollingsworth & Co.
No. 47, Penn-street.
INSURANCE OFFICE.
The Subscribers respectfully inform their commercial friends in particular, and the public in general, that an office for the Insurance of shipping will be opened on Monday next, 28th inst. at No. 95 South Front-street—where a share of the public patronage is solicited
N. & J. FRAZIER,
SHIP BROKER'S OFFICE,
And Commission Store,
No. 119, SOUTH FRONT STREET,
Next door to the Custom House. THE Subscribers, 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 matters 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 languages translated, and information given in general mercantile matters. From a knowledge gained by long experience of every branch of business he hopes to be useful to those who please to favor him with their commands. SAMUEL EMERY.
For Sale.
THE SUBSCRIBER, intending to decline the DRUG BUSINESS, offers For Sale, the whole Stock of
Drugs and Medicines, Instruments, &c. The Shop is elegant, commodious, and sufficiently known for the extensive business done in the wholesale and retail line; the situation equal to any in the city, being at the corner of Walnut and Second Streets. The whole, or any part of the Stock, will be sold, as will best suit the purchaser. The terms may be known, by applying to JAMES MOORE, JUN.
Who has For Sale,
TWO Sloops, Well calculated for the river trade—The PEGGY, about 30 tons burthen, Mulberry and Red Cedar frame, and remarkably stout, of an easy draught of water, rigging in good order. The SALLY, about 30 tons, sails well, and in complete order for the lumber business. All persons indebted to the late firm of Goldsmith & Balbach, W. B. Goldsmith, Goldsmith & Moore, or the subscriber, are earnestly requested to make speedy payment to JAMES MOORE, JUN.
For FREIGHT or CHARTER,
to any part of EUROPE, The Swedish Snow M A R I A, HANS OLOF KOCK, commander. A remarkably good vessel, about 220 tons burthen. A freight to Cadis, or any part of the Mediterranean would be preferred. Enquire of the Captain on board at Vine-Street Wharf.
For sale by the subscriber,
AT PORTSMOUTH (N.H.) THE HULL OF A NEW SHIP, 80 feet keel, 27 1-2 beam, 12 feet hold, 5 to between decks; about 330 tons; with masts, spars and all the carpenter's and smith's work completed; built of good sound seasoned timber and plank; launched in November, 1796, and has been well taken care of since that time. Further particulars may be known by applying to Messrs. Wharton & Lewis, Philadelphia, or to THOMAS THOMPSON,
december 21
32w. tf.
FOR SALE,
By the Subscribers 200 Bolts Russia Duck, 10 pipes London particular bill Madeira Wine 2 pair nine pound Cannon A few Bales Madras Blanketchiefs 400000 Pine Biers Indigo 23 Barrels Beef. Willings & Francis.
Penn-street, November 26
Dancing.
MR. FRANCIS
HAVING taken Mr. Warrel, jun. as a partner, respectfully informs his friends and the public in general, that they propose opening their School immediately on their arrival from Baltimore, of which due notice will be given in this paper. Private tuition in families as usual. Terms and time of beginning will be made known in a future advertisement. Feb. 7
Madras Handkerchiefs.
An elegant assortment, just received, And for Sale, by ISAAC LORD, Next to No. 44, South Wharves. feb 7
To be Let,
A House and three Acres of Land, Pleasantly situated at the Falls of Schuylkill—enquire at the office of the United States Gazette. feb. 7
Insurance Company of the State of Pennsylvania.
February 4, 1799. THE Directors have this day declared a dividend of seventy-four dollars on each share of the Stock of this company for the last six months which will be paid to the Stockholders or their legal representatives after the 10th instant. JAMES C. COX, President. feb 1
NOTICE.
THE Public are cautioned not to trust any of the people belonging to the Swedish Snow Maria, on my account. Hans Olof Kock, master. dec 29
FOR SALE,
To be EXCHANGED for property within thirty miles of the city, or to let on ground-rent forever Several valuable building Lots, In Philadelphia, Enquire of William M. Biddle, ne. 147, Chesnut-street. nov. 22
TO LET,
THE large House in Southwark, lately occupied by Mr. Henry Mitchell; apply to Isaac Wharton. jan. 11
New Landing,
From on board the ship John Bulkeley, and for sale at the stores of Jesse & Robert Waln, 350,000 weight of Java Coffee, of the first quality in bags. 150,000 weight of Java Sugar, in canisters. nov. 23
FOR SALE,
BY THE SUBSCRIBERS, 14 four pound Cannon, different lengths, 5 Carrouades. JOHN NIXON & CO. December 1.
All persons indebted to the Estate of JOSEPH ANTHONY, sen. deceased, are requested to make immediate payment:—And all those who have any demands against said estate, are desired to produce them legally attested to the subscribers for settlement. JOSIAH HEWES, JOHN MORTON, JOSEPH ANTHONY, } Executors. December 26.
NOTICE.
Joseph Thomas's Creditors are hereby earnestly requested to furnish their Accounts duly attested, as soon as convenient: thereby to enable the Assignees to form an idea of the state of his affairs:—and all those indebted to said THOMAS, are required to make immediate payment to either of the Subscribers. SAMUEL W. FISHER, } Assignees WILLIAM BUCKLEY, } of JOHN HALL. dec. 21.
JOHN DOBBIN, BOOT & SHOEMAKER.
RESPECTFULLY informs his Friends and the Public in general that he carries on his business at No 99 South Second-street, nearly opposite the Merchants Coffee-house where gentlemen may be supplied in the neatest and best manner—he assures those who may please to favor him with their commands that no attention or exertion on his side shall be wanting to render him worthy of their encouragement. N. B. Orders received will be punctually attended to. november 1
CHINA GOODS,
Just received per the ship New-Jersey from Canton AND FOR SALE BY ARCHIBALD MCALL, At his Store No. 187, fourth Second Street, —12— An assortment of Teas of the first quality,
White and yellow nankeens Cassia, silk umbrellas an assortment of china ware, and a variety of SILKS, consisting of Black and colored Lutestring do. do. fustians do. do. fenhawes do. do. silk handkerchiefs do. do. fewing silks Black Taffeties
ALSO, 12 pipes of excellent Madeira Wine, fit for immediate use, jan 24
FOR SALE
By the Subscribers, ON VERY LOW TERMS
WAX CANDLES,
OF A SUPERIOR QUALITY, Either by the single box of 24lbs. or by the quantity. Willings & Francis. nov. 24
ABNER BRIGGS,
Of the City of Philadelphia,
STOREKEEPER.
HAVING assigned over all his assets, real, personal and mixed, to the subscribers, for the benefit of all his creditors.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,
TO all persons who are indebted to the said Estate, that they are requested to make immediate payment of their respective accounts, to either of the assignees; in failure whereof, legal measures will be taken for the recovery of such debts, as are not discharged without further delay. GEORGE PENNOCK, WILLIAM FRENCH. wed. feb. 6w
January 2
For Sale,
Deliverable at Norfolk,
A CARGO OF
Honduras Mahogany, & Logwood.
For terms apply to PHILIPS, CRAMOND, & CO. February 9.
Richard Bayley & Co.
RESPECTFULLY inform the public that their
Retail Business carried on by them at their Store, No. 136, Market-street, will in future be carried on by Mr. Wm. Bonnar, whom they beg leave to recommend to the favor of their friends and the public.
ALL PERSONS indebted to the
above firm and those to whom they are indebted, will speak to apply to JOHN WHITAKER & Co. or the settlement officer respective accounts, who are duly empowered for that purpose. Richard Bayley & Co.
WILLIAM BONNAR,
RESPECTFULLY informs his friends and the
public, that the above Store will be opened by him on Monday the 4th of February next, with an assortment of
DRY GOODS,
Suitable to the season, which he flatters himself will meet the approbation of those who honor him with their favor. jan 29.
The Subscribers,
Have received by the Clothier from Liverpool
A CONSIGNMENT OF TEN CASES OF
Well Afforted Buttons,
About 50L sterling each Case, which they will dispose of per package, on liberal terms. Medford & Willis.
No. 78, North Front near Arch Street.
WANTED,
ABOUT fifty Casks of
Flag Annatto or Rocca,
Apply as above. dec 23
NOTICE.
Is given to all those indebted to the firms of
Jackson & Evens,
John B. Evens, & Co.
Evens & Bullock,
Whitton, Evens & Co. and
John B. Evens.
THAT the Subscriber is fully authorized to ad-
just and settle the affairs of those concerns; and
that suits will be indiscriminately commenced on
all accounts that remain unpaid on the 20th day of
March next. John B. Evens, No. 119, South Third-street. feb 2
FOR SALE,
A VALUABLE Plantation, containing 63 Acres
situate in Newton Township, Delaware county,
about 15 miles from Philadelphia, and one half
from Friends Meeting House; there are on the
premises a Dwelling-House, Barn and Stables and
several springs of water; also an apple orchard
and several hundred peach trees, a meadow well
watered and ten or twelve acres of good woodland
For terms apply at No. 8, White Horse Alley; or
to the subscriber on the premises. ABNER MOORE. 23 mo. 6.
PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS the honorable JOHN D. COXE, esq.,
President of the Court of Common Pleas, and
of the Courts of Oyer and Terminer and General
Goal Delivery, in the first Circuit, consisting of the
city and county of Philadelphia, and the counties of
Bucks, Montgomery and Delaware, Wm. Robinson,
the younger, Jonathan Byard Smith, and Reynold
Keen, esquires, Judges of the Court of Common
Pleas, and Justices of the Court of Oyer and
Terminer and General Goal Delivery, in the said
city and county of Philadelphia, have issued their
Precept bearing date the 18th day of January, 1799, and
to me directed, for holding a Court of Oyer and
Terminer and General Goal Delivery, at the State-
House in the said City of Philadelphia, on the 18th
day of February next.
Notice is hereby given to the Mayor, Recorder and
Aldermen of the City of Philadelphia, and to all the
Justices of the Peace, the Coroners, and Constables
within the said City and Counties of Philadelphia,
that they be then and there, in their own proper
persons, with their Rolls, Records, Inquisitions, Ex-
aminations and other Remembrances, to do those things
which to their offices in that behalf appertain to be
done. And also all those who will prosecute against
the Prisoners that are or shall be in the Goal of the
City and County of Philadelphia, are to be then and
there to prosecute against them as shall be just. JONATHAN PENROSE, sheriff. jan. 24.
A Farmer Wanted.
WANTED a married Man capable of man-
aging a Farm (of 60 acres within 10 miles
of the city) having some knowledge of gardening,
and whose wife would undertake the charge of a
Dairy, &c.—Such persons, on producing sufficient
PROPOSALS,
FOR CARRYING
Mails of the United States,
On the following roads, will be received at the
General Post-Office, until the 13th day
of February next, inclusive.
1. FROM Philadelphia by Bristol, Trenton,
Princeton, New-Brunswick, Wood-
bridge, Raray, Elizabethtown and Newark to
New-York six times a week.
From May 1 to November 1.
Leave Philadelphia every day (Sunday except-
ed) at 1 P. M. and arrive at New-York in
nineteen hours, the next day (Sunday except-
ed) by 8 o'clock, A. M.—Returning; leave New-
York every day (Sunday excepted) at 1 P. M.
and arrive at Philadelphia in eighteen hours the
next day (Sunday excepted) by 7 A. M.
From November 1 to May 1.
The mail is to be taken from Philadelphia at
the same hour and delivered at New-York by
9 A. M. in 20 hours; and is to be taken from
New-York at 1 P. M. and delivered at Philadel-
phia at 8 A. M. in nineteen hours.
2d. From Philadelphia by Chester, Wilming-
ton, Newport, Christiana, Elkton, Charlottes-
Havre-de-Grace and Harford to Baltimore, six
times a week. Leave Philadelphia every day
(Sunday excepted) at 9 A. M. and arrive at Bal-
timore in 27 hours, the next day (Sunday except-
ed) at noon. Returning; leave Bal-
timore every day (Sunday excepted) at 4 A. M.
and arrive at Philadelphia the next day by 9
A. M. in 27 hours.
3d. From Baltimore by Bladensburg,
Washington and Georgetown, to Alexandria
six times a week. From April 1 to November 1.
Leave Baltimore every day (Sunday except-
ed) at 4 A. M. and arrive at Alexandria the
same day by 6 P. M. Returning—Leave Alex-
andria every day (Sunday excepted) at 4
A. M. and arrive at Baltimore the same day by
4 o'clock P. M. From November 1 to April 1.
Leave Baltimore every day (Sunday except-
ed) at 4 A. M. and arrive at Alexandria the
next day (Sunday excepted) at 8 A. M. Re-
turning—Leave Alexandria every day (Sunday
excepted) at 5 P. M. and arrive at Baltimore
the next day (Sunday excepted) at 4 1/2 P. M.
4th. From Philadelphia by Downingtown,
Lancaster, Columbia, York, Carlisle, Ship-
penburg, Strasburg, Bedford, Somerset and
Greencastle to Pittsburgh once a week. Leave
Philadelphia every Saturday at 4 A. M. arrive
at Lancaster in the evening, arrive at York on
Sunday noon, at Shippenburg on Monday, at
6 P. M. Leave Shippenburg on Tuesday at
4 A. M. and arrive at Pittsburgh the next Fri-
day at 10 A. M. Returning—Leave Pitts-
burgh every Friday at 3 P. M. and arrive at

FROM THE Anchor Club.
They howl for freedom in their senseless mood, Yet still recoil when truth would set them free. Licence they mean, when they cry LIBERTY, For who loves that must first be wise and good.
Milton.
FROM the murmuring of individuals, or the casual turbulence of a multitude: little danger is to be apprehended, as in the natural, or in the political world, there are unex-pected flaws and gusts, against the momentary consequences of which, ordinary degrees of caution are sufficient, and slight exertions ef-fectual; but when the sky grows dark, when clouds rise from every point of the compass, and they roll along, accumulate new hor-rons in their course, till uniting in one firm mass of black confusion, they menace destruc-tion the whole horizon round; then, not to be alarmed, would surely be the height of stupidity; not to know what necessity re-quires, the height of ignorance; not to meet it with firmness, the worst of cowardice; and to neglect the means in our power, lit-tle short of madness. That a larger, regu-lar and determined combination of faction, steady in its purposes, uniform in its opera-tions, guided by all the coolness of habitual and accomplished villainy; and organized with the utmost prudence of perverted knowledge, now exists; if there be not documents amounting to absolute proof, the symptoms are too numerous, and too evident, to suffer the most incredulous longer to remain in doubt, except judgment is blinded by wilful ignorance and obstinate inattention.
By a faction, I mean a party in the state, possessing views and principles different from the government under which they live, whose strongest motive is self-interest, and whose highest ambition is to be the leaders of a gid-dy multitude, who pursue the worst purposes by the worst means, who intimate what they dare not openly declare, who misrepresent what they cannot controvert, and who neg-lect no artifice in their power to sow diss-en-tion and excite tumult.
Although there was some difference of opinion respecting the formation of the pre-sent federal constitution, yet, when it was decisively adopted by so very large a majority of the people, it was considered by all the world as the legitimate form of govern-ment of the United States, and it became the duty of every good American to support its authority and obey its laws; nor could its course be disturbed, or its operations coun-teracted, but by the machinations of an evil delinquent faction; yet, no sooner was it put in motion, than faction, this present faction began to shew its face, and has been pro-gressing by various modes, but with the most malevolent consistency of principle, till it has now acquired such confidence in its strength, as openly to strut among us in its native colors, and speak its purposes with unparalleled effrontery. What could give it the courage it appears to possess, but the computation of its numbers, means and re-sources; reliance on the ready and vigorous assistance of its allies; the success with which its plans have hitherto been attended, and the deep laid cunning of its future arrange-ments? This confidence which seems to elate them with an assurance of success, should be an alarm bell to every friend of government; this should induce them quickly to fix their rallying point, to think seriously of combat-ing the schemes of systematic disorganizers, and not to relax their vigilance and activity till faction is crumbled in the dust. Those conspicuous characters, "by merit raised to this bad eminence" among the factious, who exerted all their talents to hurry the nation into a war with Britain, even before the mild means of negotiation were attempted; and were not satisfied with the strictest retribution; who would sacrifice the interest, happiness and honor of their country to an unprinci-pled and remorseless enemy, that has con-stantly rejected and treated with contempt every friendly overture, still continues her lawless depredations, and boasts of her con-nection with the faction here; those men who could justify the bestiality of Lyon and the impertinent officiousness of Logan, who could vehemently oppose the Alien and Sed-
tion bills, and end as to spread far and wide the howl of manacled anarchy against those useful preservatives which the critical situation of the country imperiously demand-ed; who keep crying "peace, peace, when there is no peace" and with the most indefat-igable perseverance exert every effort to pre-vent our going into that state of prepara-tion on which alone our security and even our very existence absolutely depends; who to compleat their character, and make good what I before observed of faction (that it pursues the worst purposes by the worst means) are associated and strictly connected with the open discontents and advocates of sedition in Virginia, with the scum and outcast of for-eign nations; exiled jacobins and outlaw-ed traitors, United Irishmen and erecters of Liberty Poles; this motley groupe, individu-ally despicable and insignificant, are yet hor-ribly mischievous in a combination, through various channels rushing to one point, uni-form in their motions, animated by one foul, and incited by the same hopes of domina-tion, plunder and revenge.
N. CORIOLANUS. (to be continued)
LEGISLATURE OF PENNSYLVANIA.
Tuesday, February 5. Mr. Newlin, from the committee appoint-ed to join, a committee of the House of Representatives, and visit the Pennsylvania Hospital, made report, and the same was read as follows, to wit.
The committee appointed to join the com-tee of the House of Representatives, to visit the Pennsylvania Hospital, report, That they have performed that service, and have the satisfaction to observe, that the house was kept clean, and every depart-ment was in excellent order,—the patients therein being as comfortably provided for as circumstances would admit of, in their un-happy and afflicted condition.
The total number of patients admitted last year, was two hundred and forty-two, of whom one hundred and forty-eight were paid, and ninety four were poor patients; among them were one hundred and one lu-natics, or such as were deprived of their understanding. Of those two hundred and forty-two persons, ninety-three were cured, thirty-two relieved, seven taken out by their friends, or at their own request, thirty-four died, two eloped, five were sent to the House of Employ, and sixty-nine remained:—in all two hundred and forty-two.
The number in the Hospital, at the time the committee visited the house, were seven-ty-three, of whom twenty-eight were poor, and forty-five pay patients—of which seventy-three persons, about fifty were lunatics.
Besides those admitted into the house, the committee find, that, during the last year, two hundred and twenty out-patients were attended from the hospital, at their private dwellings, all of whom were poor, and con-sisted of strangers and others, to whom ad-vice and medicines were administered gratis. Of those two hundred and twenty, one hun-dred and sixty-seven were cured, twelve re-lieved, nineteen died, two were removed, and twenty remained under cure. Many of those patients having the small-pox, measles, yellow fever and other infectious diseases made it improper to admit them into the hospital, for which reason they were attend-ed at their own homes.
The productive capital stock, at interest this year, at six per cent, is twenty thou-sand three hundred and seventy eight pounds twelve shillings and two pence, which exceeds the capital of last year in the sum of seven-ty-eight pounds, three shillings and six pence.
In going through the buildings, the com-tee had to observe with great pleasure, that fifty-eight very convenient rooms are provided in the western apartments for the lunatics; all of which are arched with brick and made very secure against fire and other accidents; but they could not observe, with-out concern, the unfinished state of the center building, in which they apprehend there is a danger, that much of the valuable work that is already done, at a great ex-pense to the state, will be liable to suffer, if it is not completed in the course of the en-suing year.
BALTIMORE Feb. 11.
The Officers of the sloop of war Balti-more, we learn, have all resigned, except the first lieutenant, the lieutenant of mar-ines, and the surgeon's mate, and have gen-erally left the ship; and that the crew dis-satisfied with their situation have mutinied, and refuse to obey the orders of the officers who remain. The vessel was lying, when left by the failing-master, captain Hodgkiss, who arrived yesterday, at Craney Island, from which they are determined not to stir until their grievances are redressed. In the mean time, they permit no boat to come along side with more than two persons in her. Both the officers and crew, it is said, are ir-ritated at the dismissal of their first comman-der.
As the boat at Long Calm was yesterday crossing the ferry with several passengers, the rope by which they crossed, gave way, when it was carried down by the impetuosity of the stream and overset among the rocks. None of the passengers however were drown-ed. A horse which was in before the over-set, took fright and jumped out, and the own-er springing on his back, swam safely a-shore.
Bricks Wanted.
PROPOSALS WILL BE RECEIVED, On or before the 21st day of the present month, FOR DELIVERING, To the Corporation of the City of Philadelphia or their agent—on any part of Chestnut-street, George-street, Broad-street, or Center-Square, between the Schuylkill and Center-Square, as shall be di-rected, the WHOLE, or PART OF One Million of found, hard burned BRICKS.
No Samuel or place Bricks will be received— One half of this quantity will be required to be delivered before the 21st of March next—the other before the 15th of May. It is desired that the proposals may mention the Yard from which the bricks are intended to be delivered, and that they be sent in writing to
B. Henry Latrobe, engineer. South Twelfth street the first house from Market-street. feb 8
A quantity of Russia Hemp
Cordage and raw iron 25 hogheads Tallow Platters, Royal Brittanias Checks &c. in cases Now landing from the ship Four Friends, Capt. Hubber, from Hamburg, at Jesse and Robert Wall's wharf, and for Sale by THOMAS & JOHN KETLAND, Who have on hand, Crates of Earthen Ware Cannon and Cartridges of various sizes Dry white Lead Guns and Pistols assorted in cases Gun Flints in kegs Ships' Muskets Claret of a superior quality in cases of 1 to 3 dozen each. feb. 13. 1799.
To be Sold at Public Sale,
On the 25th of this month, at the house of Wil-liam Anderson, in the borough of Chester, Del-ware county. A Lot of Ground situated on Chester Creek, 185 feet on said creek, and 100 feet deep, there is on said lot a good stone dwelling house and kitchen, two good stone store houses, two good wharves, and an excellent place for a lumber yard. It is at present occupied by Margaret Moulder. Also, about 36 acres of good Land in the township of Ridley, and county aforesaid. There is on said premises two small tenements, a good young apple and peach orchard, and an ex-cellent good stone quarry on Crum Creek, at present occupied by Charles Ramsay. The terms will be made known on the day of sale. JOHN WALL. 31, Water street. February 9.
The Subscriber offers for Sale, THE FOLLOWING PROPERTY.
A N Excellent three story Brick House, situ-ate at the corner of 7th and Race-streets;—the house is about 35 feet front and well finish-ed in every respect; the Lot is 76 feet front on Race-street and 88 feet deep, the situation remark-ably airy, having a public square open in front of it. Two three story Brick Houses, Brick Stores, and good Wharf, situate in Water-street, be-tween Arch and Race-streets, the lot on which these buildings are, is fifty four feet front on Water-street, and continues that width about 95 feet, then widens to the south 13 feet 6 inches; for the front on the water is sixty seven feet six inches, this lot adjoins John Steinmetz esq; on the north and has the advantage of a public alley on the north, and is a very desira-ble situation for the business of a Flour Factor, or Merchant.
A large elegant two story Stone House, situ-ate on the Point no Point road, being the first house to the Northward of the five mile stone; this house is about 60 feet front and 40 feet deep finished in a neat manner; there is a good gar-den and choice collection of the best fruit trees, Ice-House and other conveniences with about nine acres of ground;—or if more agreeable to the purchaser, thirty two acres of upland and meadow may be added to it.
A plantation in Bibbry Township, Philadel-phia county near the Red Lyon, about 33 miles from this city; bounded by the Northampton Road and Poquessing Creek, this farm contains about 140 acres of land, a proportion of which is woodland and meadow, a brick dwelling-house, frame barn, and other out-houses, and there is said to be a good stone quarry on part of it, although it has not yet been opened, a fur-ther description is deemed unnecessary as no person will purchase without viewing the pre-mises.
A small plantation in Horsham Township, Montgomery county, nineteen miles from Phil-adelphia, adjoining to Grasmere Park, on which is an excellent new Stone House and Kitchen, with a large Stone Shed for the accommodation of travellers; horses; the house is now occupi-ed as a tavern, and is suitable for any kind of public business, the land is good in quality, a good neighborhood, and a remarkably healthy situation: there is fifty acres of land and meadow in this farm—Also for sale, several tracts of land in different counties of this state.
The House in Race-street first mentioned and one of the Houses in Water-street, are now TO BE LET, And immediate possession given. For terms apply at the South-east corner of Arch and Sixth-streets, to JOSEPH BALL. that is feb 7
ANY Persons wanting
passage to France, can obtain it in the Swedish Barque Neptune, Daniel Jaderborn, master, lying at New-York, by applying to Mr. Letombe, or to Richard Soderstrom, Consul General of Sweden, in this city. jan. 24
THE Bank for Subscriptions to the Company for erecting a permanent Bridge over the ri-ver Schuylkill, at, or near the City of Philadel-phia, continues open at the house of the Treasurer of said Company, No. 13, Church Alley. January 8, 1799. eodgw
NOTICE.
THE creditors of George Johnston, late of Queen Ann's county, in the state of Mary-land, deceased, are hereby requested to appear at Church Hill, in the county and state afore-said, on Thursday the 21st day of January next, with their claims against the said deceased, properly authenticated, at which time a propor-tionable division of the assets in the hands of the subscriber will be made among the creditors ac-cording to law; and those who do not appear on the said day, will be forever precluded from their claims on the said estate. REBECCA JOHNSTON, Executrix. Church Hill, Dec. 22.
CONGRESS.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
USURPATION of EXECUTIVE AUTHORITY
Thursday, January 17.
Mr. Bayard said, it was with reluctance he rose to detain the house at so late an hour; but to be silent would be to give success to a practice, rudely observed by the gentle-man from Pennsylvania, of speaking till the hour of adjournment, in order to pre-clude a reply, or, in case of a reply, that it should meet the impatience and inattention of the house. This practice, like many of that gentleman, in his opinion, might be artful enough but was without candor.
He could have no intention at that late hour, of going into the merits of the gen-eral argument, but had made some observations to make on a subject on which some gentlemen affected much triumph. The subject he al-luded to was a certain flat paper which had been introduced into the house, as the work of our late spurious envoy to the French re-pub-lic. We are told, said Mr. B. that this paper was not drawn by the envoy, nor pre-sented by him; but, that it is the work of a certain Mr. Codman. And some gentlemen seem to think that the principles of the pa-per are such as their party need not be a-shamed of. The story fabricated about Mr. Codman, he said, was a very pretty one for the amusement of those who were disposed to believe it. He had no doubt it would meet the faith of many, for there were cer-tainly many whose credulity relished a strange fabrication better than the plain truth. They tell us the paper was written by Mr. Codman, and handed to the envoy; but he, alleging that he had no public character, and that he went to Europe for nothing, de-clined presenting it. Proof had been requi-red, he said, that the paper was the work of the envoy, and in his turn, he would ask what evidence there was of the truth of this story about Mr. Codman. One thing, said Mr. B. is certain, the paper has an excellence. The only question is as to its parentage.
He would undertake to show that it was the natural offspring of the spurious envoy. His proof was derived from circumstances connected with evidence of the same nature with that on which rested the belief of our holy religion; he meant the internal evi-dence of the work itself. He would beg gentlemen first to consider the time when the envoy left the United States, and the sus-picions under which he departed; they would also remember that he had been repre-sented as a man of wealth, living in ease amidst every domestic comfort. He was en-gaged in no mercantile pursuit; he was not travelling for health, and yet we find him suddenly embarking for Europe, proceeding with great haste to Paris, exposed to many perils; and could all these things be consid-ered, and yet could it be affirmed that the whole was without an object? Indeed, it was scarcely denied that the object was of a political nature. The paper in question, then, corresponded with the project of the envoy in going to Paris. He did not mean to con-tend that the paper was actually composed by the envoy, not that he supposed a want of will, but of ability, for the task. For any thing he knew, the paper might—he would not say have been the light, but have been nursed in the darkness of this country. All that he should insist on was, that the paper was presented to the French government by the envoy, and thereby made his act.
Gentlemen say it was presented by Mr. Codman. [Mr. Gallatin denied, that he, or any other gentleman to his knowledge, had said the memorial was presented by Mr. Codman. He believed that it had not been presented at all. As to evidence he had none except the word of Dr. Logan himself.] Mr. B. said, he should take it for granted, that the memorial was presented by somebo-dy, for it was certainly not made for no-thing. The only question was, who presen-ted it? It is attributed to two persons, and our belief as to the person, must be directed by the weight of evidence on the subject. He believed the proof that it was presented by the envoy was irresistible. It correspond-ed with, and accounted for every circum-stance of this mysterious voyage. He beg-ged that it would be remembered, that gen-tlemen on the other side had not only ad-mitted, but repeatedly declared, that Mr. Codman was a federalist, that it was pretty generally known, that the envoy was a ja-cobin, and he should take the liberty by ex-amining the paper itself, to enquire by which of these characters it was most likely to have been made use of. It will be found, said Mr. B. that this memorial contains the most abominable falsehoods, and the most atrocious calumnies on the government of the United States. And this fact should be enough to satisfy us at once, that it could not be the work of a federalist, so it was likely to be the fruit of jacobin principles.
The writer sets out by avowing himself a firm friend to the principles of the French re-volution. Let us examine those principles to see whether they are those of a federalist. A leading principle, said Mr. B. of the re-volution was the annihilation of all religion. We had seen the altars of our Saviour thrown down, and heathenish temples erect-ed on their ruins; the clergy of France had been universally obliged to renounce their creed, or to suffer proscription or death. The very calender had been changed, in or-der to obliterate the era, and to confound the times of Christian worship. It was evi-dent, he said, that this principle of the re-volution embraced the project of erasing ev-ery trace of christianity; and such a princi-ple he said, he could believe to be the prin-ciples of a jacobin, but never of a federalist.
Another principle of the French revolution has been the exercise of a military des-potism by the government—a despotism more violent and atrocious in its excesses than even the despotism of the most mad and brutal of the Roman emperors—a despotism which has shed oceans of blood, and which
packed invention in order to multiply its victims in a given time, which, not satisfied with the devouring guillotine, introduced noyades and fullades, which plunged hun-dreds and thousands into eternity at once; a despotism which has desolated one of the finest countries in Europe, and now binds its inhabitants in the iron shackles of the most arbitrary tyranny. The establishment of such a jacobin power was not among the principles of a federalist. Another principle of the French revolution was the proscrip-tion of every man of wealth, for the purpose of seizing his property. It was not that the ancient nobility were formidable to the mass of the nation, and therefore were exiled or murdered; but their possessions were inviting, and their death or banishment was the short-est title to their property. To the same cause may be attributed the dreadful immo-lations of the Clergy. The end justified the means. Money was necessary, and it was not less useful, because it was moistened by the tears of widows, or by the blood of priests.
Another principle of this revolution was the abolition of the liberty of the press. There is not a press in France exempt from the immediate control of the Directory; there is not a printer who dares to publish what may give umbrage to the government. If offence by accident was given, it was not punished under the mild provisions of a fed-eration bill, where a jury was to try, and truth or innocence of intention was a justifica-tion, but the summary process was began and ended by a file of soldiers, who seized the body of the delinquent, and put seals upon the press. He should not say that the ja-cobins of France and the United States resem-bled in this point. The jacobins here are attached, not only to the liberty but to the licentiousness of the press; and they indulge themselves in the attachment. He did not mean to say they varied in principle from the jacobins of France, but circumstances were different. In France they are in power, here they are not. But "let the true American character blaze forth at the elec-tions"—the event so devoutly prayed for in the memorial, and he would undertake to say the conflagration would soon leave one free press in the United States. The True American character, he would recur to the expression to mark the abuse of it. He conceived the true American character now blazing forth; and hoped it never would be eclipsed by the French character blazing forth in the United States.
Another principle of the French revolution is foreign conquest. At no era had any government betrayed a plainer intention of establishing an universal empire. The am-bition of the Directory exceeds that of the monarchy, and the means of extending their power were more profligate and unprincipled. The sovereignty of no state in Europe had been respected. The form of their govern-ment was indifferent. Republics were equally with monarchies, the prey of their devour-ing ambition. Whatever is contemptible in intrigue; whatever was detestable in hypo-crisy; whatever was detestable in vile de-ceit, were the means by which the French government accomplished their ends. Where their designs were the blackest, their care-lessest were most profuse; with a government at home the most arbitrary, they pretended to carry liberty into foreign countries. Lib-erty and equality were their magic sounds by which they had been enabled to conquer, plunder and oppress more nations than with the bayonet. The lower classes of society were cajoled by the most splendid promises, and were seldom suffered to waken from their dream of greatness, till the manacles of themselves and fellow countrymen were completely riveted.
Such, said Mr. B. are the principles of the French revolution; the principles to which the writer of the paper in question avows himself the firm friend. Sure he was, they were not the principles of a federalist, and therefore he should conclude Mr. Cod-man did not write the memorial, but that it was the work of a jacobin.
Mr. B. then quoted the passage of the memorial which asserts of the blood of the present people of France had flowed in the same channel with that of the Americans. This, said he is an absolute falsehood, and therefore could never have come from a fed-eralist. There is not a Frenchman now in France who ever split a drop of blood in this country. The generous Frenchmen who split their blood in our defence, and lived to return to their country, have all been murdered or exiled in the course of the revolution. It was in the grave and not in the directory palace, that America was to look for her French friends.
He would appeal to the candor of gentle-men, and the enlightened sense of the coun-try, for the truth of his remark. He would ask the question plainly, to whom was this country indebted for the services which France rendered us in the late war? And he would undertake to answer it as plainly—It was to the king, and next to him to the queen of France. The king had then the entire power of the nation in his hands. The people might have been kind in their wishes, but wishes were all they could bestow. Had the king willed it, not a French soldier could ever have put his foot on our shore. The troops sent here were the king's soldiers—the money lent was the king's treasure. It was to the king we owed every thing, and while he was in power, it was to him we were disposed to attribute and pay every thing.
He would ask by what magic it was that the gratitude due to the monarch was trans-ferred to his murderers? It was impossible to look over the face of France, and discover one public character which the principles of gratitude did not bind this country to detest. Gratitude was due to the person, and not to the office; and though the directory had succeeded to the power of Louis, yet sitting in the seat stained with the blood of the great friend of our country, they must be objects of our abhorrence, or else we must abandon all pretensions to gratitude. He was obliged to confess, with a sentiment of humiliat-

on, that when the scaffold was reared, which the blood of our benefactor, the event excited in America more joy than horror. He could wish to find an excuse in the delirium of the moment, and now the nation has returned to its sober senses, he presumed its gratitude would be bestowed on its proper objects.
He was not afraid of advocating the truth on this subject, though he might again be called a monarchist. Names were insignificant, and let a man be called what he might, he could not suffer in public opinion for supporting the truth.
Mr. B. next read the passage in which the writer says he could neither impute the blame of the existing dispute to the one government nor to the other. Would a federalist say this? asked Mr. B. Since the commencement of the revolution, have not the people of this country constantly evidenced a strong partiality in favor of the French cause? Has not the government scrupulously rendered them every service which their duty imposed, or which neutrality permitted? Since the origin of the present dispute, has any step been neglected on our part which could lead to a reconciliation? Has not the government suffered, in silence, till the bitter cup of wrongs and contumely was filled to the brim? Till the wounded spirit of the country was at length roused to resistance, by the danger of annihilation?
Smarts with the sting of the many insults we had received, was not the government willing still to postpone the just claims of our citizens for indemnity for injuries done them, and were not advances made under every form of respect, towards a settlement of differences, upon principles honorable and beneficial to France? and how were these advances treated? With a contempt proportioned to our former submission, and in a manner which could be borne only by a base and abject people. And after all this, could any but a jacobin say, that he imputed blame to neither of the governments? It was language which suited the mouth of the envoy, but could never proceed from the lips of a federalist.
Mr. B. next took notice of the expression "enemies of France and America." It was manifest, he said, that this was applied to the government of the United States; because in another part of the memorial, where England alone was meant, the expression was, the enemies of France. Now, he would ask, whether it was credible that a federalist would assert, that the government was not only the enemy of France, but of the people of the United States? This was a false and detestable calumny, and could never have proceeded from any one but a jacobin. It corresponded with the grimace of the French government, and the cant of American jacobins, which equally effected an exclusive attachment to the rights of the people.
Mr. B. next alluded to that part of the memorial which speaks of the opinion of Mr. Jefferson. He asks how Mr. Codman could know anything about the sentiments of that gentleman? He had not been for years in this country, and as he was a federalist, it might safely be relied on, that he was not a correspondent of Mr. Jefferson's. Now it was extremely likely, that the envoy was in possession of Mr. Jefferson's sentiments. They were intimate previously to the departure of the envoy. It was generally understood that there was much intercourse between them, and it was said by many, and actually believed by some, that the envoy not only carried with him the opinions, but also the credentials of Mr. Jefferson.
He conceived that this reference to a personal knowledge of the sentiments of Mr. Jefferson disproved the fabrication with respect to Codman, and fastened the production upon some connection of the envoy. Mr. B. said, that one passage in this late paper had been relied on with a degree of triumph. He referred to that in which it was stated by the envoy, that in case of invasion, their party would oppose the invaders. There is, to be sure, said he, great merit in this declaration. They say to France, "Capture our vessels, destroy our commerce, ruin our merchants, extinguish the sources of public revenue, lay our embargoes, imprison our seamen, insult and trample upon the rights of the nation abroad, but don't bring an army among us; because then we can no longer hoodwink the people; they will then see and feel for themselves; they can't be deceived as to the cause of what they suffer, and in consequence, our party will be ruined. The people will then perceive that the interest of the government, and their own is the same thing, and all our clamour can never convince them, that it is better to be governed by French bayonets, than American law. We shall be deserted and annihilated; we shall fall never to rise again." Such Mr. B. understood to be the true construction of this boasted declaration; and he had the charity to allow the gentleman the whole merit which belonged to it.
Mr. B. said, that there was a sentiment in the paper equally base and false. He referred to the assertion that the French were the deliverers of this country. Our delivery, he said, was owing to the energy and patriotism of our own citizens. He considered the assertion as an impious slander upon the blood of those heroes who fell in the revolutionary war. It was not until America had demonstrated that they were capable of effectual resistance, by the capture of a large British army, that French aid was offered to the country. The war, probably, might have been prolonged without that aid; but the nation had spirit enough, and that was all that was necessary, to accomplish their independence, without French assistance.
Mr. B. said, there was one other passage in the memorial, of so much meaning and design, that he should notice the house with some observations upon it. It at once marked the source from which the paper came, and furnished a key to the novel and mysterious embassy. He referred to that part in which the envoy so feelingly appeals to the interest of the French government, "to allow the true American character to blaze forth at the ensuing elections." The envoy knew,
what the party are capable of, that their actions had so associated them in the public opinion with the French cause, that their popularity must sink, as that declined. French popularity was their popularity; and it was well known, that every man who was cured of the Gallic mania, was lost to their party. The enormous aggressions and humiliating insults committed on the country by the French began to recall the senses of the most infatuated. Goaded into resistance, the nation had at last roused, taken up the gauntlet, and bid defiance to her adversary. In the attitude we then stood, and he hoped still stood, one blow from France would have placed the nations in a state of general hostility. This was the event deprecated by the party, because a war with France would necessarily obliterate every trace of French influence, and to extinguish the attachment to France was to annihilate the party. To resist the war, was to contend for their existence. We are not, therefore, to be surprised if they should prefer the pillage of our commerce, the prostration of national character, or even the imposition of a tribute, to a state of war. On the other hand, a great object presented itself to those who sent the Envoy. They knew that our citizens were peaceable in their tempers, industrious in their habits, and however willing, in case of extremity, to abandon every thing for the defence of the country, yet that peace was desirable to them and that if it could be obtained by their party, while it cast an odium, or at least a suspicion on the conduct of the administration, would at once reinstate French influence, and restore French favorites to public esteem. The Envoy might well flatter himself with a cordial reception. He went to represent a party against the government. It opened a noble field for diplomatic skill. A more auspicious event never presented itself to French intrigue. It promised to accomplish the great object of their policy in every country: To separate the government from the people; or, in other words, to divide the people among themselves; which might ultimately render them a cheap prey to French ambition. It enabled them to say, "We do not go to war with the good people of America, but only with the government, the pensioners of Pitt."
This view of the subject, Mr. B. said, was justified by the passage of the memorial which he had last cited. It was thought that peace was popular, and if denied to the government and granted to a party, it would strip the government of public favor and support, and confer it on the party. It was thus, that the true American character was to blaze forth at the approaching elections, when a grateful people were to reward the party which obtained peace, and the power which granted it. He believed that this was a great object of the embassy. To procure for the party the popularity of peace makers, which should operate on the elections which were approaching. He would not say that the nation had escaped the precipice to which this affair exposed them, because the danger might not yet have passed away. It was impossible to foresee what consequences might have followed, if France had offered to the Envoy certain terms of accommodation, which in themselves were acceptable to the people. Could the government have accepted of them—knowing they had been, denied to them in order to be granted to a party, would it not be allowing a foreign government to erect a minority in this country into a ruling power, and thereby to establish an influence among us destructive of our independence? He had no hesitation in saying, that for the government to accept terms of peace refused to themselves, and designedly granted to a party, would be an act the most disgraceful and dangerous in their power to commit. And yet, perhaps, to discard them, might inflame the spirit of party to a height, which might be attended with the most deplorable consequences to the country. Such, said Mr. B. is the danger to which the presumption, the folly, or criminality, of an individual, might expose us. It proved the expediency of the present law. Mr. B. said he should make no further observations on this state paper, as it had been called. He believed he had said enough to point out the source from which it came, and the object it was designed to accomplish.
Before he sat down, he hoped he should be indulged notwithstanding the lateness of the hour, in a few observations on what had fallen from the gentleman from New-York (Mr. Livingston). That gentleman had been absent during the greater part of the time that the present bill had been under debate. And recollecting what had happened on a former occasion, he had presumed the gentleman had again hastened to save the nation, stowed with knowledge, not simply the fruits of his own industry, but of the researches of many other heads equally wise, governed by principles equally patriotic.
He confessed therefore, he looked for much edification. He expected a great speech. He was preparing to yield to an involuntary conviction. But what was his disappointment, when, after patiently attending to the gentleman for more than half an hour, he found he had nothing to tell the house, but a story about a boiled Cook and a roasted heretic. Believing, in the end, that the gentleman designed only to amuse the house, he expected he would have gone on with the stories of Tom Thumb and of Jack the Giant killer. His speech would then have been divided into co-ordinate parts, all having equal application to the subject under discussion. But, said Mr. B., perhaps he was mistaken. The speech which was delivered might be designed simply as an apology for one which was to be published. As this once had happened, it might again occur; and possibly they would be indemnified for present disappointment, by the merits of a second edition.
Mr. B. said, he should trouble the house no longer. He had not risen for the purpose of entering upon a regular discussion of the subject before the house, but for the purpose of making the remarks he had submitted upon some matters introduced into the debate, tho' not properly belonging to it.
He confessed therefore, he looked for much edification. He expected a great speech. He was preparing to yield to an involuntary conviction. But what was his disappointment, when, after patiently attending to the gentleman for more than half an hour, he found he had nothing to tell the house, but a story about a boiled Cook and a roasted heretic. Believing, in the end, that the gentleman designed only to amuse the house, he expected he would have gone on with the stories of Tom Thumb and of Jack the Giant killer. His speech would then have been divided into co-ordinate parts, all having equal application to the subject under discussion. But, said Mr. B., perhaps he was mistaken. The speech which was delivered might be designed simply as an apology for one which was to be published. As this once had happened, it might again occur; and possibly they would be indemnified for present disappointment, by the merits of a second edition.
Mr. B. said, he should trouble the house no longer. He had not risen for the purpose of entering upon a regular discussion of the subject before the house, but for the purpose of making the remarks he had submitted upon some matters introduced into the debate, tho' not properly belonging to it.
Mr. B. said, there was one other passage in the memorial, of so much meaning and design, that he should notice the house with some observations upon it. It at once marked the source from which the paper came, and furnished a key to the novel and mysterious embassy. He referred to that part in which the envoy so feelingly appeals to the interest of the French government, "to allow the true American character to blaze forth at the ensuing elections." The envoy knew,
mitted upon some matters introduced into the debate, tho' not properly belonging to it.
Tuesday, February 12. The speaker laid before the house the Treasurer's account of receipts and expenditures for the last quarter to which they are closed, which were ordered to be printed.
Mr. Josiah Parker, from the Navy Committee, reported the pay of Captains and Commanders of ships and vessels of the United States, which was committed.
The amendments of the Senate to the bill respecting balances due from individual States to the United States, was taken up and concurred in. They went to give the right of jurisdiction to the U. States of all places whereon fortifications should be built; but referred to the States the right of soil and the right of serving criminal and civil process therein.
The bill from the Senate for organizing the troops of the U. States, and for other purposes, was read and committed.
A bill was received from the Senate, vesting the power of retaliation, in certain cases, in the President of the U. States.
Wednesday February 13.
Mr. Gregg presented a remonstrance against the alien and sedition laws, signed by 270 of the inhabitants of that part of Mifflin county which lies north of Tussey's mountain. Also two petitions and remonstrances on the same subject, signed by 320 of the inhabitants of Cumberland county in this state. They were referred to the select committee yesterday appointed.
Mr. Havens also presented a memorial from Queen's County, in the state of New York, praying for a repeal of the alien and sedition laws, which was referred to the same committee.
Mr. Tillinghast presented a petition from Samuel Sternes, a citizen of the state of Vermont, praying for support to a medical work which he has compiled in two volumes folio, and which he calls a "Complete Medical Library." Mr. T. moved to have it referred to a select committee; but the reference was negatived 37 to 32.
Mr. Gregg from the committee to whom was referred the petition of Robert Sturgeon, reported a bill authorizing the discharge of the said Robert Sturgeon from his present confinement, which was committed.
Mr. J. Williams observed, that it was said the other day, that some additional revenue might be drawn from commerce. As a bill had passed this house for the purpose of effectually protecting commerce, he hoped some additional would be raised from it; and proposed a resolution to the following effect:
"Resolved, that the committee of ways and means be instructed to enquire whether any, and if any, what additional duty ought to be laid upon drawbacks allowed on goods exported from the U. States, and that they report by bill or otherwise. Ordered to lie on the table."
Mr. Rutledge called up for consideration the bill for the relief of Joseph Wheaton, which, after a few observations, was agreed to, 360 dollars being allowed him on account of his sickness. It was ordered for a third reading to-morrow.
The bill from the Senate vesting the power of retaliation in certain cases in the President of the United States, was read, and on a motion being made to commit the bill for to-morrow.
Mr. Nicholas hoped it would be committed for Monday. His reason for wishing this was, that when this bill was before the Senate, he understood that it was declared, that the President had received information of the suspension of the arrest of the French Directory, declaring citizens of neutral countries found on board British vessels pirates which this bill was meant to repeal. He wished the bill to be made the order for Monday, therefore, to give an opportunity to learn whether or not, this information was founded.
This motion occasioned a warm and considerable debate. The motion for Monday was at length negatived 51 to 39. The bill was then made the order for to-morrow.
Mr. Livingston afterwards laid a resolution on the table to the following effect: "Resolved, that the President of the United States be requested to lay before this house any information which he may have received touching the suspension of the arrest of the French Directory relative to the citizens of neutral nations found on board British ships of war." Ordered to lie till to-morrow.
The two following bills from the Senate, were then read and committed:
A bill to amend the act giving effect to the laws of the U. States, within the state of Tennessee; and
A bill to amend the act providing for the sale of land of the U. States north west of the river Ohio, and above the mouth of Kentucky river.
On motion of Mr. Pinckney, the house went into a committee of the whole on the bill appropriating a certain sum of money to defray the expense of holding a treaty or treaties with the Indians; and after filling the blank for containing the sum appropriated with 25,000 dollars, the committee rose, and the house having concurred in the amendment, and on motion of Mr. Allen, adopted a proviso limiting the allowance to commissioners to eight dollars a day, the bill was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading.
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PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 14.
APPOINTMENTS BY AUTHORITY.
Rufus King, Esq. Minister Plenipotentiary for the special purpose of negotiating a treaty of Amity and Commerce with the Emperor of all the Russias. William Smith, Esq. Minister Plenipotentiary for negotiating a treaty of Amity and Commerce with the Sublime Ottoman Porte.
NAVY OFFICE.
Extract of a letter from Captain Stephen Decatur, to Benjamin Stoddart, esquire, Secretary of the Navy, dated
On board the Sloop of War Delaware, January 7.
"SIR, "I HASTEN to inform you that we arrived safe with the convoy under our care, which was increased on the passage by the junction of eight, making in the whole fifteen, all of which we saw safe in the Havana on the 30th of December; after which we hauled our wind in pursuit of a French privateer which we had seen the day before; and on the 1st day of January, off Matanzas, we spied three sail running down before the wind, two of which were French privateers in pursuit of an American Schooner from New-York, and would have overtaken her, had we not spoke the Schooner, when the privateers hauled their wind: it being so light however, we could make no head of them. One laid to windward at long gun shot, having a brass 24 pounder, and fired fifteen times at us; but could not reach us. On the 5th of January, off the Havana, Mr. Izarni, American Consul there, came on board, and informed me that there was an embargo at the Havana, and it was likely it would continue for some time. There are near one hundred Americans there. He likewise informed me of a French ship that mounted from 26 to 28 guns—two brass eighteen pounders are among the number."
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Port of Philadelphia.
CLEARED.
Skip Cesar, Howland, Lisbon. Dispatch, Bemers, London. Rebecca, M'Ever, Batavia. Sloop Industry, Stevens, St. Thomas. The brig reported to be cast away on Great Egg-Harbour bar, on Saturday morning last, we are informed is called the Eliza of Providence, and was from Guadaloupe, with several masters of vessels and seamen, who by the active exertions of the people on shore, were all taken from the wreck on Sunday. We suppose the Eliza, to be one of the Carrels that sailed with the Retaliation. Schooner Triton, Dile, from hence arrived at Surinam 3d ult. in 32 days. The brig Sally, Hampton from hence, arrived at Surinam the 6th ult. Upwards of 60 sail of American vessels were at Surinam the 7th of Jan. with provisions and dry goods, the market was of course glutted. A letter from Surinam of the 8th ultimo, says the ship Spy and a schooner from Philadelphia were in the river; the brig Jean Hughes, has arrived. The brig Nymph, Hardy seamer Minerwa, Andante, and sebr. Dick, Richards, of this port, have arrived at La Guira from St. Thomas.
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APPOINTMENTS.
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Timothy Taylor, Connecticut.
MAJORS.
John Ripley, Connecticut. Jabez Huntington, do.
CAPTAINS.
John Benjamin, Connecticut. John Meigs, do. Elihu Sanford, do. Stephen Ranney, do. Samuel Blakeslee, do. Jonathan Root, do. John Bulford, do. Asa Copeland, do. William Young, jun. do. Coleby Chew, do.
LIEUTENANTS.
Samuel Waugh, Connecticut. Lemuel Harrington, do. Bennett Bronson, do. Reuben Hurd, do. Truman Mosely, do. John Knox, do. William W. Cheney, do. Ludwick Gallup, do. John Ellis, do. Waters Clarke, do.
ENSIGNS.
Salman Clark, Connecticut. Peter N. Brensmade, do. Truman Hinman, do. Walter Smith, do. Joseph A. Wells, do. James Gordon, do. Ebenezer Learned, do. Peter Richards, do. Robert Hosmer, do. Solomon Allen, do.
Notice.
THOSE who have demands against the Estate of Mr. GEORGE KERRIE, deceased, in his private or individual capacity, are requested to present their accounts to the subscriber for settlement and liquidation; and those who are indebted to the said estate are requested to make payment to the Rev. JOSEPH TURNER, no. 4, fourth Second street, or to
JOHN RYERSON, no. 117, Market-street, Attorney in fact for Mrs. Ann Koppel.
N.B.—To be let, a good House, with convenient Stores, &c. in a most eligible situation for business in the Dry Good line, or otherwise. In this house there were no inhabitants during the prevalence of the late malignant fever; and the whole has been well repaired very lately. For terms apply as above. Also to be diff. and of on very moderate terms, part of the library of the late Mr. Koppel, consisting of from three to four to four hundred volumes of valuable Books written by the most respectable authors on their respective subjects. These are to be seen at the house of the said Mr. Turner, and to whom application for them must be made. feb. 14 32w4w
Samuel Miles, jun'r.
Of the city of Philadelphia, merchant, having assigned over all his effects, real, person 1 and mixed, to the subscribers, for the benefit of such of his creditors as may subscribe to the said assignment on or before the first of August next.
Notice is hereby given,
To all persons indebted to the said estate, that they are requested to make immediate payment to either of the assignees, or to the said Samuel Miles, who is authorized to receive the same; in failure whereof legal steps will be taken for the recovery of such debts, as are not discharged accordingly.
GEORGE ASTON, CORNELIS COMEGYS, JOHN ALLEN, } Assignees feb. 14. 32wtf
FOR SALE,
A SMALL Farm of Fifty-four acres, within five miles and a half of Philadelphia and one mile from Frankford on the river road, fourteen acres of wood-land, five acres of good meadow, the residue thirty-five acres, excellent arable land and which will make the best of meadow. On the premises are a decent two story Brick House and Brick Kitchen a good garden & orchard with a variety of fruit trees and a well of very good water. For terms apply to Thomas Benger, near Bristol Bucks County, or William Waln, No. 144, South Second street, Philadelphia.
A Lot of eight or nine acres,
Of very good land in good order for clover seed with or without a large frame Barn as good as new, enquire as above. feb 14 32w1w
White Oak Logs—or White Oak Pipe—WANTED.
PROPOSALS,
WILL BE RECEIVED, On or before the 10th day of March, For the Delivery,
To the Corporation of the City of Philadelphia, or their agent, at any part within the said City of the whole or part of
104,000 feet, running measure, of WHITE OAK LOGS,
In lengths of ten or twelve feet, Or of the same quantity, of LOGS,
Bored into pipe, counterbored and tapped, at under: 24,000 feet to measure 13 inches at the thickset end, if bored, 4 1-2 inch pipe. 16,000 feet to measure 12 inches at the thickset end, if bored, 4 inch pipe. 64,000 feet to measure 11 inches at the thickset end, if bored, 3 inch pipe. 104,000
The Logs must be straight and free from shakes and knots: no faulty logs will on any account be received. Those who deliver proposals for bored logs, are requested to mention the price at which they will deliver the logs unbored, in case it should be found proper to bore them in Philadelphia. Proposals in writing will be received by
B. Henry Latrobe, engineer. South 11th street, the first House from Market-street. feb 8 5
PRINTING WORK,
Of Every Kind, EXECUTED ON THE SHORTEST NOTICE.
At the Office of the GAZETTE of the UNITED STATES,

Attention, Cavalry. Gentlemen of the city and liberties of Philadelphia, desirous to become members of the Volunteer Troop of Cavalry, commanded by Capt. Robert Wharton, are informed that there are several vacancies in the Troop; and that a committee consisting of Henry Miercken, Jrno. R. Taylor, James Hamilton, Owen Foulk and James Simmons, will attend at Wm. Ogden's tavern, Chestnut-street, every Monday evening, 6 o'clock for the purpose of receiving applications. JAMES SIMMONS, Sec'y.
IMPORTED In the last arrivals from Bremen, Hamburg and Amsterdam, AND FOR SALE, AT REASONABLE PRICES AND ON A LIBERAL CREDIT, BY PRATT & KINTZING, No. 95, North Water Street. 215 bales & boxes Ticklenburghs, hempen linens and osnabrigs from 1/5 to 3/ per ell 70 do. bleached and brown heffians 49 do. brown rolls suitable for coffee bags 20 do. strong do. do. for cotton do. 30 chebs pilillas 2 do. sealing-wax 3 do. dowlas 3 packages oil-cloth 30 do. creps a la Morlaix 4 do. sail-twine 72 do. olepailles 1 do. watches 15 do. Bielefeld linen 14 pipes Port wine 90 do. pattenbroes 92 calfs claret 45 do. Brittanias 130 do. fine long corked claret 1 do. Russia do. 1600 bushels fine salt 3 do. Russia sheerings 40 calks of nail brims 1 do. raven's duck 200 calks of naval stores 2 do. Russia drillers 50 logs prime mahogany 1 do. brown Holland 4 hds. coffee mills 2 do. Silesia reams 6 bundles German steel 1 do. Wahrenberg linen 10 boxes of flats and pencils 1 do. Flemish linens 1 package of flats 1 do. cambricks and lawns 4 do. woolen caps, &c. 1 do. diaper 4 chebs of Nuremberg toys 12 do. stripes 40 kegs of yellow ochre 18 do. checks 3 hds. Glue 2 do. damas 8 barrels of Lentils 1 do. Arabis stripe 5 chebs of prime red 1 do. bunting for colors 300 Holland chebs 1 pack. Madras handkerchiefs 30 kegs of pearl barley 1 do. Turkey yarn 200 boxes of capers 6 bales empty bags 400 boxes of upper and sole leather 1 chest hair ribband 300 boxes window glass 3 boxes tapes, assorted 800 Demijohns 2 do. bobbin, assorted 10 boxes glass tumblers assorted 1 do. fine blue hildos 2 hds. pumice stone 5 chebs man's slippers 1 box of mill saws 3 do. bed ticks 1 cask of cutlery 2 rolls hog's bristles 1 quantity of Rons bags and pickling pots 6 chebs writing paper 4 few flasks anchors, &c. 4 do. quills tu&f
Removal. THOMAS CLAYTON, Hatter, HAS removed to No. 126, South Front Street, where he intends carrying on his business as formerly, and has on hand a complete assortment of his own manufactured ladies, gentlemen and children's HATS. Canada Beaver & Musk-rat Skins, With a complete assortment of FURS, always for sale. He has received per the late arrivals from London, a complete assortment of Fashionable English Hats, Which he now offers for sale at very reduced prices. jan. 29 12w6m
FOR PRIVATE SALE, Four Tracts of Land, IN GERMANTOWN Township. No. 1. Within three quarters of a mile of the Germantown Market-House, and on the road leading from said Market-House to the Old York road, containing 3 or 10 acres. No. 2. Containing 10 or 12 acres, the one half of this tract is in clover, within one quarter of a mile of said Market-House. No. 3. Containing 7 or 8 acres, within a quarter of a mile of the Market-House, on this lot is a part of a cellar dug, and a quantity of stone, and more may be had by finishing the cellar to complete a building. No. 4. Containing 3 acres with a stone dwelling, there is stone sufficient on either of the lots for building, and are well situated for country seats and but a small part of the purchase money will be required, the remaining part may remain for a number of years, provided the lots are improved by building. For further particulars enquire of DANIEL PUSTORIOUS, In Germantown. A part of a large House and Store adjoining, to let. Enquire as above. February 7. 7t
CHARLES CAMPBELL, WATCH-MAKER. HAS removed to the Shop formerly occupied by Mr. John Wood, No. 55, corner of Front and Chestnut-streets; where he will thankfully receive and execute orders with neatness and dispatch. HE HAS CONSTANTLY ON HAND, A Neat and Large Assortment of Clocks & Watches. WANTED, A JOURNEYMAN. ALSO, one or two Apprentices of respectable parents. FOR SALE, A large quantity of Watch Glasses Wholesale and Retail. nov. 24 3awtf
Country Seats for Sale. TWO Seats at convenient distances from Philadelphia, each comprising perfect accommodation and conveniences of every kind for a genteel family. For particulars enquire of EDWARD BONSALL & Co. No. 64, Dock-street, 18 mo. 31. 42w6w
ALL Persons having any Debts against the estate of the late Robert Hardie, mariner, deceased, are hereby requested to present them for settlement, and all those indebted to said estate, to make payment to either of the subscribers PETER BAYNTON, John Craig, No. 12, Dock-street. Executors. jan. 24 3awtf
FOR SALE by the Subscriber, No. 145, Market-street, Very low for Cash, or a short Credit, The remaining stock of the late House of TODD & MOTT, Cloths, Kerseymeres, a few printed Cottons, Printed handkerchiefs and flannels Printed dimities Hosiery, threads, twist and sewing silks A small amount of hardware. WILLIAM MOTT, Agent for the assignees of Todd & Mott, to whom all persons indebted to that concern, are requested to make immediate payment. W. MOTT, Having commenced business in the Commission line, his store is now open for the reception of Dry Goods of all descriptions. Philadelphia, February 4, 1799. 5
Alexander J. Miller, No. 64, SOUTH FRONT-STREET. HAS JUST RECEIVED, By the ATLANTIC, capt. READ, arrived at New-York, from MADRAS, THE FOLLOWING WHITE GOODS, Which will be ready for Sale on Monday next, Ganjies Allisabad Batras Tandah Coffees Fine Long Cloths Moories and Short Cloths. feb 1 6
PUBLIC NOTICE IS hereby given, that application will be made to the Directors of the Bank of Pennsylvania for the renewal of a Certificate for a share in the said Bank, No. 1284, dated July 24th 1797, standing in the name of JOSEPH REED, the same having been accidentally lost or destroyed, Philad. Jan. 25. d6w
ALL PERSONS Indebted to the Estate of Mr. JOHN FENNO, late of Philadelphia, deceased, are desired to make payment, and those having any demands, to present them for settlement, to SAMUEL BLODGET, Adm'r. or JOHN WARD FENNO, Agent to the administration. nov. 30 6im
JAMAICA RUM, A Cargo now landing at South Street wharf, FOR SALE BY PETER BLIGHT, Apply at Stores on the Wharf, WHO ALSO OFFERS FOR SALE, BRANDY, RIT and 4th proof Madeira and Port WINES, &c. &c. Nov. 1. dtf
Five Dollars Reward. STOLEN yesterday morning, between 10 and 12 o'clock, from No. 68, South Fourth Street, A Single case Silver Watch, the maker's name Marksville—number not known. The letters W. H. are scratched on the rim of the case—a steel chain and key, gilt seal with a cypher W. H. engraved on it. Whoever will give me information so that the thief may be brought to justice shall receive the above reward. W. HAYDON. jan. 21
Stray Horse. WAS taken up, trespassing on the subscriber, in the township of Pafflynn, in the county of Philadelphia, a grey Horse, about fourteen hands high, thirteen or fourteen years old, blind of his right eye, and shod before. Whoever has lost him, by proving property and paying charges, may him again on applying to the subscriber. JOHN SINK, On the Banks of Schuylkill. jan. 19. 4
NOTICE, PURSUANT to a Resolve of the Board of Trustees of Washington Academy, in Somerset county, Maryland, authorising WILLIAM POLK, esq. majors SAMUEL WILSON, and WILLIAM JONES, Members of said Board, to procure a principal teacher for said Academy—NOTICE is hereby given, that a gentleman qualified to teach the Greek and Latin Languages, Geography and the Mathematics, and such other branches of Literature as it is customary to teach in such Schools, will meet with liberal encouragement and it is presumed will be well accommodated in taking charge of this Academy. The building is spacious and will accommodate at least fifty Students. Proposals may be addressed to John Dennis, No. 161 Arch-street, or William Winder, accountant in the Navy department, Walnut street, Philadelphia, or to either of the three gentlemen above-mentioned, near Princess Anne, Maryland. dec 17 5
WANTED, To Article for two or three years a young Man to a profitable business—For particulars enquire at no. 68, South Fourth Street. A person who has some knowledge of painting or drawing would be preferred. W. HAYDON, WHO HAS A Cellar to Let. jan 11 5
NOTICE. ALL persons having any demands against the Estate of the late JAMES WILSON, Esq., deceased, are requested to make payment to either of the subscribers, to either of the subscribers. The creditors whose debts are secured by mortgage, are particularly requested to present their accounts, as soon as convenient, in order to enable the subscribers to make a statement of the situation of the property. A meeting of the creditors is requested on Monday the 11th of March, at 7 o'clock in the evening, at the City Tavern. Bird Wilson William Nichols John Adlum } Administrators. feb 4 codts 1m4r
WHEREAS, By an Act of Congress passed the sixteenth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety eight, the President of the United States is authorised to borrow on behalf of the United States, from the Bank of the United States, or from any other body or bodies politic or corporate, or from any person or persons, and upon such terms and conditions as he shall judge most advantageous for the United States, a sum not exceeding five millions of dollars, so, however, that no contract or engagement be made which shall preclude the United States from reimbursing any sum or sums borrowed at any time after the expiration of fifteen years from the date of such loan. And whereas, it is declared by the said Act, that so much as may be necessary by the surplus of the duties on Imports and Tonnage beyond the permanent appropriation, as heretofore charged upon them by law, shall be pledged and appropriated for paying the interest, and also for paying and discharging the principal sum or sums of all the monies which may be borrowed, according to the term or terms which may be fixed, pursuant to the authority aforesaid—And whereas by the said Act, the faith of the United States is pledged to establish sufficient permanent Revenues for making up any deficiency that may hereafter appear in the provisions before-mentioned for paying the interest and principal sums, or either of them, of any monies which may be borrowed pursuant to the said Act. And whereas the President of the United States has by his Act or Commission under his hand dated the ninth day of January in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety nine, authorised and empowered, the Secretary of the Treasury, to borrow on behalf of the United States, any sum not exceeding in the whole, five millions of dollars and to make such contract or contracts as should be necessary, and for the interest of the United States, in pursuance of the Act of Congress above recited. Now therefore, the undersigned, Secretary of the Treasury, in pursuance of the Act of Congress, and the authority from the President of the United States, above mentioned, doth hereby on behalf of the United States of America, contract and engage in manner following, to wit: 1st. A book for receiving subscriptions to a Loan of five millions of dollars for the use of the United States shall be opened in the city of Philadelphia, at the Bank of the United States on Thursday the twenty eighth day of February ensuing, which book shall continue open for the purpose of receiving subscriptions, until the whole of the said five millions of dollars shall be subscribed. If more than five millions of dollars shall be subscribed on the first day of opening the said Loan, the surplus shall be deducted in proportion to the sums subscribed by individuals, exceeding four thousand dollars. 2d. For every hundred dollars which may be subscribed there shall be forthwith deposited and paid the sum of twelve dollars and fifty cents, and like payments of twelve dollars and fifty cents, shall be made within the first ten days of the months of April, May, June, July, August September and October ensuing. The Secretary of the Treasury however reserves the right of reducing the number of installments by special agreements, with the individuals who may become subscribers. 3d. On the failure of payment of any installment of the sums subscribed according to the tenor of the second article, the next succeeding installment of twelve dollars and fifty cents, which shall have been paid, for every hundred dollars subscribed shall be forfeited to the United States. 4th. The sums subscribed shall and may be paid to the credit of the United States, at the Bank of the United States, or at the offices of discount and deposit of the said Bank at Boston, New-York, Baltimore, or Charleston, or at either of the Banks of Salem, in Massachusetts, Newport and Providence in Rhode-Island, Hartford in Connecticut, Albany in New-York, or Alexandria in Virginia, for which payments, the receipts of the Cashiers of the Offices of Discount and Deposit and of the Banks aforesaid shall be received at the Bank of the United States as equivalent to money; but no payment of a subsequent installment shall be received at any other place than that where the first installment was paid, except at the Bank of the United States; in case any deposits shall be made at the offices of Discount or Deposit, or at either of the Banks aforesaid, which shall not be applied to the payment of the first installment of subscriptions to the Loan aforesaid, the said deposits shall be forthwith refunded by directions from the Treasury. 5th. For the sums or number of shares of one hundred dollars, which may be subscribed, certificates shall be given by the Cashier of the Bank of the United States, which shall be assignable by indorsement, and delivery of the parties in whose favour the said certificates may be issued, until the completion of the payments required by the tenor of the second article preceding. 6th. The sums subscribed and paid in pursuance of the tenor of the second article preceding, shall after the said payments have been completed, constitute a funded capital stock divisible into shares of one hundred dollars each, which capital stock shall bear interest at the rate of eight per centum per annum from the times fixed for the payment of the respective installments payable quarterly at the Treasury of the United States, or at the Loan Offices where the same may stand credited, until the last day of December, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eight. 7th. After the last day of December in the said year one thousand eight hundred and eight, and after reasonable notice to the creditors, which shall be given by an advertisement in some public newspaper, printed at the seat of the government of the United States, the said capital stock shall be redeemed at the pleasure of the United States by the reimbursement of the whole sum or sums borrowed, and which may constitute the said capital stock either at the treasury of the United States or at the loan offices where the same may stand credited. 8th. The credits for the said capital stock shall and may be separately certified in sums either for one hundred, four hundred, one thousand, four thousand or ten thousand dollars, and the credits so certified shall be transferable by the creditors, or their attorneys, at the Treasury and Loan Offices respectively, in pursuance of the rules which have been, or which may be established relative to the transfer of the funded stock of the United States. 9th. A sufficient sum of the surplus of the duties on Imports and Tonnage beyond the permanent appropriations heretofore charged upon them by law, together with the faith of the United States are hereby pledged for the fulfilment of this contract, in pursuance of, and according to the terms and conditions of the act of Congress herein before recited. Given under my hand and the seal of the Treasury of the United States at Philadelphia, this twelfth day of January one thousand seven hundred and ninety nine. OLIVER WOLCOTT, Secretary of the Treasury. jan. 12. 5
Valuable Real Estate, For Sale. By virtue of an order of the ORPHANS' COURT for the County of NEW-CAS-TLE, in the State of DELAWARE, WILL BE SOLD, The Real Estate of SOLOMON MAXWELL, Esq. Late of the said county, deceased. No. 1. ALL the one undivided third part of Seventeen hundred and fifty acres of Land and Marsh: About three hundred and fifty acres, more or less, being upland of a superior quality; the remaining fourteen hundred acres being marsh of the best quality in the State of Delaware, the greater part of which is in a high state of cultivation, and the remainder can be put in complete order at a very small expense. On the premises are erected, Three Dwelling-houses, with a number of out-houses, &c. Also the same proportion of about one hundred cattle, and about one hundred and fifty head of sheep, the unexpired time of servitude of a number of Hot, healthy Negro men, a large quantity of hay, a number of horses, and twine, farming utensils, household and kitchen furniture, with many other articles too tedious to enumerate. No. 2. A commodious Brick-Messuage and Lot of Land situate in the village of St. Georges now in the tenure of Mr. Samuel M'Glaughlin and occupied as a tavern, for many years, to advantage. No. 3. A Lot of Marsh, containing about thirty acres, more or less, situate near the said village of St. Georges. No. 4. Four Lots of Land, situate near Christiana Bridge, on the South side of Christiana Creek. No. 5. A Lot, Wharf, and Frame Store-House, on the South side of Christiana Creek at Christiana Bridge. No. 6. A Lot of Wood-Land, containing ten acres, more or less, situate about two miles from Christiana Bridge. No. 7. A Lot of Land, with a commodious Two story Brick Messuage thereon erected, 38 feet front and 28 feet deep, one large room of which has been occupied as a dry goods store for a number of years; with a cellar under the whole—Also a Brick Building of 25 feet by 23 which has been occupied as a granary and salt store, with a brick kitchen, smoke-house, and other out-houses, barn, stables, carriage-house, &c.—This stand is considered superior for a Merchant to any in the village of Christiana Bridge. No. 8. The unexpired lease of a Still House for about eight years, within half a mile of Christiana Bridge, with three stills and a boiler, and every other convenience for carrying on the distilling business.—The house and situation have been viewed by gentlemen from Lancaster county, who carry on the distilling business, and are allowed to be equal to any in the United States. The property contained in No. 1, will be sold at public auction, at the dwelling house of Jonathan Foreman on the premises, beginning on Tuesday the 19th day of February next, at ten o'clock, and continue from day to day until all is sold. No. 2 & 3, at the house of Samuel M'Glaughlin in the village of St. Georges, on Tuesday the 24th of said month, beginning at 10 o'clock on said day. As it is presumed that no person will purchase the above described property without viewing the same, it is thought unnecessary to give a further description thereof. That part, therefore, contained in No. 1 may be viewed by applying to Mr. Anthony Duffane on the said premises. That part contained in no. 2 & 3, by applying to Mr. Samuel M'Glaughlin at St. Georges. And the part mentioned in no. 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8, by applying to the subscribers at Christiana bridge.—The terms will be made as easy as the nature of the business will admit of, and be made known at the times and places of sale, by ELIZABETH MAXWELL, Adm'r JAMES COUPER, DAVID NIVIN, } Admin'r's. ROBERT EAKIN, } February 6 3tawt 19 F
* * For the last time, NOTICE is hereby given, to all persons indebted to the Estate of Solomon Maxwell, deceased, who do not immediately settle their respective accounts, by coming forward and giving their obligations, or discharging the same by making payment, must expect to be dealt with as the law directs; and all persons having claims against said estate are requested to bring them in, legally attested, for settlement. ELIZABETH MAXWELL, adm'r. JAMES COUPER, DAVID NIVIN, } administrators. ROBERT EAKIN }
A Farm for Sale. WILL be sold, in pursuance of an order of Orphans Court of Delaware county, on Monday the 25th February next, at the house of W. Anderson, in the Borough of Chester, at one o'clock, P. M. THE PLANTATION, Late the property of Raper Hopkins, deceased, situate in the said Borough, containing about 240 acres, of which between 43 and 50 acres are excellent upland and marsh meadow; about 40 acres of woodland; the remainder is arable land of a good quality.—The whole has been under for many years as a grazing farm and is under an almost new cedar fence; there are on the farm a good two story stone dwelling house and kitchen in good repair; the dwelling house has four rooms on a floor, with a convenient entry; there is a good kitchen garden, two good apple orchards, one containing about six acres young trees and a good tenant's house, barn, stables and chair house. The banks are in good repair, and walled in front with stone. Also at the same time and place will be sold 15 acres of marsh meadow, in the neighbourhood of the farm, under good bank, and in high cultivation. Any person desirous of viewing the premises, will be shown them by applying in Chester to ELEANOR HOSKINS, Admin'r. January 18, 1799. Who desires all those indebted to the late R. Hopkins, to make immediate payment, and those who have demands against his estate, to present them to her for settlement. h3awtdf
is there an American, young or old, not interested in the History of the first Rise and Progress of his native Country, and from so celebrated a fan as that of Doctor Robertson? Just Published, AND TO BE SOLD BY JAMES HUMPHREYS, No. 59, South Third Street, opposite the Bank of the United States, (Price one dollar neatly bound and lettered, in boards, six shillings) Dr. Robertson's History of (BRITISH) AMERICA, Containing The history of Virginia to the year 1688, and the history of New-England to the year 1652, being what the Doctor had completed previous to his death. It has lately been given to the public with a preface by his son at Edinburgh, has already passed through three or four editions, and has been translated and published in French at Paris. Mr. Robertson in his preface observes, "During the course of tedious illness, which he early foresaw would have a fatal termination, Dr. Robertson at different times destroyed many of his papers: But after his death, I found that part of the History of (British) America which he had wrote many years before, and which is now offered to the public. It is written with his own hand as all his works were; it is as carefully corrected as any part of his manuscripts which I have ever seen; and he had thought it worthy of being preserved, as it escaped the flames to which many other papers had been committed. I read it with the utmost attention; but, before I came to any resolution about the publication, I put the MSS. into the hands of some of those friends whom my father used to consult on such occasions, as it would have been his wish to have consulted on me, to have had by some other persons also, in whose taste and judgment I have the greatest confidence; by all of them I was encouraged to offer it to the public, as curious and interesting in itself, and not inferior to any of my father's other works." The Editor of the Paris Edition apologizes for the above work in the following manner. "Every thing ensures success to this volume the talents and reputation of the author, and the impression still recent in the minds of all who have read the excellent work of which this is the completion—all conspire to give it an extensive spread. The history of America was the master-piece of one of the two ablest, or rather one of the two only history, distinguished this class of the New World, distinguished with the hand of a master the part of genius, fortune, courage and crime, and conquered as it were, America, for literary, commercial, and political Europe. "To ensure this last volume circulation, it is necessary only to name its author, and to remark, it possesses all that accuracy of observation, that perspicuity of exposition, the art of relating details to causes, and of mingling with the account of events, the wholesome and most approved principles of morals and politics, for which this writer was so eminently conspicuous—in short, that it exhibits the talents of ROBERTSON." jan. 19. ft
DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA, TO WIT: BE IT REMEMBERED, THAT on the tenth day of December, in the twenty third year of the Independence of the United States of America, JOHN LAMBERT of the said District, hath deposited in this office the title of a book, right whereof he claims as author in the words following, to wit: "A short and practical Essay on Farming; being the experience of a farmer of about forty years of age, near forty years of which were spent in England, Essex county, on land where farming is done in the greatest perfection, and near seven years on three hundred and twenty acres of worn-out land in Pennsylvania and Alloway creek, in Salem county, New-Jersey—Showing the means whereby these worn-out lands may be improved, and that the means are in the power of almost every farmer." In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled "An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the terms therein mentioned." D. CALDWELL. Clerk of the District of Pennsylvania. dec. 13 12aw4w
DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA, TO WIT: BE IT REMEMBERED, THAT on the twelfth day of August, in the twenty-third year of the Independence of the United States of America, Benjamin Smith Barton, of the said District, hath deposited in this office the title of a book the right whereof he claims as author in the words following to wit: "New Views of the Origin of the Tribes and Nations of America—By Benjamin Smith Barton, M.D. Correspondent Member of the Society of the Antiquaries of Scotland, Member of the American Philosophical Society, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences of Boston, Corresponding Member of the Massachusetts Historical Society, and Professor of Materia Medica, Natural History and Botany in the University of Pennsylvania." In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled "An act for the encouragement of learning by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors, of such copies during the times therein mentioned." SAMUEL CALDWELL, Clerk, Dist. of Penn. November 2, 1799.
Patent Ploughs, TO be sold for cash by Joseph Salter at Aston Richard Welsh, Cooper's Ferry—Jonathan Harker, Woodburn—and Jesse Evans, Lansdown. 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 plans much simplified and consists of but one piece of cast iron, with the handles and beam of wood; they may be used with wrought iron ploughs and coulters to be put on with screws and taken off at pleasure. Patent rights for vending with instructions for making them may be had by applying to John Newbold, or the subscriber No. 232 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, newly 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 2awtf
is there an American, young or old, not interested in the History of the first Rise and Progress of his native Country, and from so celebrated a fan as that of Doctor Robertson? Just Published, AND TO BE SOLD BY JAMES HUMPHREYS, No. 59, South Third Street, opposite the Bank of the United States, (Price one dollar neatly bound and lettered, in boards, six shillings) Dr. Robertson's History of (BRITISH) AMERICA, Containing The history of Virginia to the year 1688, and the history of New-England to the year 1652, being what the Doctor had completed previous to his death. It has lately been given to the public with a preface by his son at Edinburgh, has already passed through three or four editions, and has been translated and published in French at Paris. Mr. Robertson in his preface observes, "During the course of tedious illness, which he early foresaw would have a fatal termination, Dr. Robertson at different times destroyed many of his papers: But after his death, I found that part of the History of (British) America which he had wrote many years before, and which is now offered to the public. It is written with his own hand as all his works were; it is as carefully corrected as any part of his manuscripts which I have ever seen; and he had thought it worthy of being preserved, as it escaped the flames to which many other papers had been committed. I read it with the utmost attention; but, before I came to any resolution about the publication, I put the MSS. into the hands of some of those friends whom my father used to consult on such occasions, as it would have been his wish to have consulted on me, to have had by some other persons also, in whose taste and judgment I have the greatest confidence; by all of them I was encouraged to offer it to the public, as curious and interesting in itself, and not inferior to any of my father's other works." The Editor of the Paris Edition apologizes for the above work in the following manner. "Every thing ensures success to this volume the talents and reputation of the author, and the impression still recent in the minds of all who have read the excellent work of which this is the completion—all conspire to give it an extensive spread. The history of America was the master-piece of one of the two ablest, or rather one of the two only history, distinguished this class of the New World, distinguished with the hand of a master the part of genius, fortune, courage and crime, and conquered as it were, America, for literary, commercial, and political Europe. "To ensure this last volume circulation, it is necessary only to name its author, and to remark, it possesses all that accuracy of observation, that perspicuity of exposition, the art of relating details to causes, and of mingling with the account of events, the wholesome and most approved principles of morals and politics, for which this writer was so eminently conspicuous—in short, that it exhibits the talents of ROBERTSON." jan. 19. ft