Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser. (Philadelphia [Pa.]), 1797-09-22 00:00:00

Gazette of the United States, AND Philadelphia Daily Advertiser.
By JOHN FENNO, N o 119 Chestnut Street.
NUMBER 1572.]
PHILADELPHIA: FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 22, 1797.
[VOLUME XII.]
SALES BY AUCTION.
Stated Sales
For DRY GOODS. Monday Forenoon—Edward Fox, No. 56, South Front-street...
For Savannah,
The fast sailing ship, SWIFT PACKET, PATRICK GRIBBIN, Master, Now lying opposite the mouth of Frankford Creek...
Nalbro & J. Frazier.
Frankford, Sept. 18. ditto.
For HAMBURGH,
THE Copper Bottomed Ship FAVORITE, JOHN THOMPSON, Master, now at Bright's wharf...
For SALE,
On board the said Ship, Sweet Iron, assorted Hollow and Window Glass, Demyjohns, Wrapping Paper...
White Havana Sugar.
140 boxes of very superior quality now discharging...
Philip Nicklin & Co.
THE SHIP Hamburg Packet, SILAS SWAIN, Master, For Sale, or Charter.
TO BE SOLD,
A LARGE two story brick House, handsomely situated in Princeton. There are four rooms in the garet...
ISAAC SNOWDEN.
Princeton, Aug. 25. 29-dtw
NOTICE.
IF THOMAS O'HARA, who for some years since kept School at the Nine Bridges, Queen's County...
THE SUBSCRIBERS,
ASSIGNEES OF JAMES GREENLEAF, HEREBY give notice, that they have disposed of the property assigned to them...
COMMISSIONERS' SALES,
THE Commissioners of the counties of Lycoming and Northumberland, have given notice...
The Inhabitants of the District of Southwark,
ARE informed that a Coachhouse is provided, to be kept at the Constables' office, the north east corner of Front and Almond streets...
COMMISSIONERS' SALES,
THE Commissioners of the counties of Lycoming and Northumberland, have given notice...
WANTED
Bills on Amsterdam, at a rate not exceeding five days, and with approved indorsers...
Young Hylon Tea.
40 chests of a superior quality—Also, 100 do. of Hylon, Imported in the Woodrop Sons...
C. Haight.
June 21. entf
Imported in the ship Pigou,
And for sale by John Morton, No. 116, South Front-street, Hylon, Hylon Skin, Young Hylon, Imperial.
This Day Published,
And to be sold by WILLIAM YOUNG, corner of Second and Chestnut streets.
Observations on certain Documents
Contained in No. V and VI of "The History of the United States for the year 1796,"
THE NORFOLK MAIL STAGE.
THIS Stage starts from the GEORGE TAVERN, at the corner of Second and Arch Streets...
TO BE SOLD VERY CHEAP!
A LIGHT WAGON almost new, with a frame—and a pair of harness (English collars) has never been used...
NOTICE is also given,
TO all retail dealers in Wines, and foreign distilled spirituous liquors, that licenses will be granted...
TO BE SOLD VERY CHEAP!
A LIGHT WAGON almost new, with a frame—and a pair of harness (English collars) has never been used...
TO BE SOLD VERY CHEAP!
A LIGHT WAGON almost new, with a frame—and a pair of harness (English collars) has never been used...
TO BE SOLD VERY CHEAP!
A LIGHT WAGON almost new, with a frame—and a pair of harness (English collars) has never been used...
TO BE SOLD VERY CHEAP!
A LIGHT WAGON almost new, with a frame—and a pair of harness (English collars) has never been used...
TO BE SOLD VERY CHEAP!
A LIGHT WAGON almost new, with a frame—and a pair of harness (English collars) has never been used...
TO BE SOLD VERY CHEAP!
A LIGHT WAGON almost new, with a frame—and a pair of harness (English collars) has never been used...
TO BE SOLD VERY CHEAP!
A LIGHT WAGON almost new, with a frame—and a pair of harness (English collars) has never been used...
TO BE SOLD VERY CHEAP!
A LIGHT WAGON almost new, with a frame—and a pair of harness (English collars) has never been used...
TO BE SOLD VERY CHEAP!
A LIGHT WAGON almost new, with a frame—and a pair of harness (English collars) has never been used...
Lately Published,
In one vol. 8vo. (price one dollar in boards) sold by WILLIAM YOUNG, corner of Second and Chestnut streets.
City Commissioners Office,
IN pursuance of an Ordinance of the Select and Common Councils, passed the 22nd day of May last.
LOST,
ON the Paffyunk Road, between the Blue Bell and the city, a Towing Boat, with a barrel and a silver light...
DUTY ON CARRIAGES.
Notice is hereby Given, THAT agreeably to an act of Congress of the United States of America, passed at Philadelphia...
Notice is also given,
TO all retail dealers in Wines, and foreign distilled spirituous liquors, that licenses will be granted...
TO BE SOLD VERY CHEAP!
A LIGHT WAGON almost new, with a frame—and a pair of harness (English collars) has never been used...
TO BE SOLD VERY CHEAP!
A LIGHT WAGON almost new, with a frame—and a pair of harness (English collars) has never been used...
TO BE SOLD VERY CHEAP!
A LIGHT WAGON almost new, with a frame—and a pair of harness (English collars) has never been used...
TO BE SOLD VERY CHEAP!
A LIGHT WAGON almost new, with a frame—and a pair of harness (English collars) has never been used...
TO BE SOLD VERY CHEAP!
A LIGHT WAGON almost new, with a frame—and a pair of harness (English collars) has never been used...
TO BE SOLD VERY CHEAP!
A LIGHT WAGON almost new, with a frame—and a pair of harness (English collars) has never been used...
TO BE SOLD VERY CHEAP!
A LIGHT WAGON almost new, with a frame—and a pair of harness (English collars) has never been used...
TO BE SOLD VERY CHEAP!
A LIGHT WAGON almost new, with a frame—and a pair of harness (English collars) has never been used...
TO BE SOLD VERY CHEAP!
A LIGHT WAGON almost new, with a frame—and a pair of harness (English collars) has never been used...
TO BE SOLD VERY CHEAP!
A LIGHT WAGON almost new, with a frame—and a pair of harness (English collars) has never been used...
TO BE SOLD VERY CHEAP!
A LIGHT WAGON almost new, with a frame—and a pair of harness (English collars) has never been used...
TO BE SOLD VERY CHEAP!
A LIGHT WAGON almost new, with a frame—and a pair of harness (English collars) has never been used...
Insurance Company of the State of Pennsylvania.
THE Office will be kept until further notice at the School House in Germantown.
Bank of North America,
ON Monday next the Notices for all Notes or Bills payable at this Bank, which fall due on that and the ensuing 6 days...
At a Meeting of the Board of
Property, June 6, 1797. Present John Hall, Secretary. Francis Johnston, R. G. of land office. Dan. Broadhead, S. G.
TO BE SOLD,
A Convenient well finished Brick Tenement, with a cook house and other out houses, situated in a pleasant part of the borough of Wilmington...
Red Port Wine.
Just arrived, by the brig Iris, capt. Rhodes, from Oporto.
The Partnership,
UNDER the firm of FREEMAN & Company, is dissolved by mutual consent. All persons having any demands against the said House are desired to make payment to him...
NOTICE.
ALL those who have any claims against the estate of JOHN COLE, Umbrella Maker, late deceased, will apply within a month from the date hereof...
FOR SALE or to be let on ground-rent,
A valuable Lot of Ground; SITUATE on the north-east corner of Walnut and Fifth streets, fronting the State-House square.
Two three story Brick Houses
With convenient stores, wharfs, &c. situate on Water-street, between Mulberry and Sassafras streets...
Just published,
And to be sold at the Bookstores of H. & P. Rice, No. 50, Market-street; J. Ormerod, No. 41, Chestnut-street, and W. Young, corner of Chestnut and Second-streets.
An accurate System of Surveying;
IN WHICH IS CONTAINED, 1. Decimal fractions, in a plain, concise, and easy manner. 2. The extraction of the square root. 3. Plain trigonometry, rectangular and oblique.
ACT laying Duties on Stamped Vellum, Parchment and Paper.
A FEW copies of the above may be had at the Office of the Gazette of the United States, No. 119, Chestnut-street.
THOMAS HERMAN LEUFFER,
North Fifth street, corner of North alley, No. 34, HAS FOR SALE, EXCELLENT red Bourdeaux Wine in cases and bottles...
EVENINGS AT HOME;
OR, THE JUVENILE BUDGET OPENED. Consisting of a variety of Miscellaneous Pieces for the instruction and amusement of YOUNG PERSONS...
LETTERS and Conversations,
Between several Young Ladies, on improving and interesting subjects. Translated from the Dutch of Madame de Cambon...
HEALTH-OFFICE.
June 6th, 1794. Extract of an act for securing the city and port of Philadelphia from the introduction of pestilential and contagious diseases.

The Gazette.
PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 22.
Dr. Mease has written a letter to the Mayor of Burlington, on the subject of certain recent supposed infractions of the laws of Pennsylvania, respecting quarantine.
The doctor concludes thus: "In case permission shall be hereafter demanded by any master of a vessel in quarantine, to proceed to your city, all that I can legally do, with my present powers, will be to inform him of the events that have already taken place; of the existing regulations of your corporation respecting quarantine, and to refuse my permission to depart; he may thereby be induced to remain; but should he still wish to depart, it is not in my power to prevent him; for although a law passed last year by congress, directs the commanders of the forts, in the sea port towns, to assist the health officers of the different states in the execution of quarantine on vessels, when called on for the purpose; yet as no law has been passed by the legislature of Pennsylvania, authorizing the employment of force by me, when the health laws of our state are contravened, and a compliance therewith shall be refused: I have never made a demand of this assistance (except interrum) even in cases where no doubt existed, and shall not therefore pretend to use it in others, when I am clear that the regulations wished to be enforced, will be declared illegal, when the proper authority shall be consulted thereon."
"While I have thus, sir, endeavoured to justify my conduct, by a candid statement to you of the grounds upon which I acted, on the occasion which is the subject of your letter, I beg you will do me the justice to assure the citizens of Burlington, that I am seriously distressed at the reflection that I should have been the unintentional cause of exciting a moment's alarm, or uneasiness among them; and which I am happy to think they have since discovered, was without any real foundation; that I will with pleasure use all my influence in future, as well as the power I may hereafter be found legally to possess, to prevent a similar occurrence—and I request that you will accept of the assurance of the high respect I entertain for your character."
[The Editors of the Baltimore Federal Gazette, in commenting on the frequency of thefts, robberies and murders in the United States, within the last year, very justly and naturally traced them to the corruptions and profligate principles introduced amongst society by the French revolution. Any man of sense must at once see that this is their true and only source. It did not fail however to excite the vengeance of the Frenchman Bache; the Baltimore Editors thus repel his calumnies.]
The fil-leader of the new-born patriots, the immaculate editor of the chaste Aurora , not content with advocating the traitors of our country, from Arnold to Blount, has at length become the champion of the robbers and murderers who infest our highways. Although he frequently sees the journals of France, which inform him their councils are often busied on the means of putting a period to the innumerable murders, assassinations, and robberies daily committed there, he pretends to deride the idea of tracing the enormities here to the distuption of order in Europe, and because France is not a monarchy, he lays, ergo, it is impossible they should proceed from thence? Let Banny, with all his profundity, point his finger to a single page of the history of France during the monarchy, so blackened with crimes of every description, as thousands of the columns of their own gazettes are even now. We might, however, have probably saved ourselves the trouble of looking to Europe for its origin, had the primary vehicle of Jacobinical despotism, succeeded in scattering fire-brands, daggers and discord among us—to this unnatural Aurora , ( surge at perdam ) which instead of illuminating, over-clouds and darkens the face of nature, we might have traced all our miseries.
To pass his remarks to the public more than his own deceiving link of misrepresentation is able, we give his own words.
"One of the secondary gazettes of the fashion, to the southward, of those whose puny efforts are chiefly confined to copying the abominations of the leading papers, has, for once, struck out a new thought:—it has discovered, that the robberies and murders committed in the United States are a consequence of the overthrow of all the laws of good order, morality, &c. effected by the French revolution. Oh the dignified virtue of monarchies!—where courtiers, courtesans and scoundrels fatten upon the public spoil. Oh, for the energies of such a government here!—The rascal then need not be driven to the highway for bread, which he could earn at court."
"Since writing the above we find, that Mr. Webster, the learned editor of the N. York Misnerve , has taken up and improved on the idea of his fellow labourer to the southward, and attributes the robberies and murders in the United States to those emigrants who have been driven here from the refuls spirit of jacobinism and subordination. He wishes a stop put to the immigration."
WILMINGTON, (Del.) Sept. 16. Extract of a letter from Dr. BENJAMIN RUSH, Philadelphia, to Dr. JAMES TILTON, of this Place, dated Sept. 6, 1797. My Dear Sir,
Your long and intimate connection with our late mutual friend, Dr. WAY, may cause you to wish to know some particulars of his death. He was seized on Monday, August 28th, with all the usual symptoms of our prevailing yellow fever. He bled himself sparingly twice before 2 o'clock, at which time he felt for me. His pulse being full and tense I urged more plentiful bleeding. To this he objected, pleading his time of life. He however consented to his being twice bled in the afternoon, losing each time but 6 or 7 ounces of blood, finding his objection great to the only remedy which I thought would be effectual in his case, I called Dr. Griffiths to my assistance, who joined me in urging more copious bleeding. He consented to two more small bleedings, one on the 2d, and the other on the 3d day of his disease. In all, he lost but little more than 40 ounces of blood, a quantity most
of our physicians now find by far too small to subdue an acute case of our fever. On the 4th, 5th and 6th days his pulse became languid, and slow, purges were given, and cordials prescribed to no purpose to raise it. He died on the 6th day. I saw him at two o'clock. He was then sensible, but so weak as to speak with difficulty, he looked at me with great tenderness, and his eyes filled with tears. Soon afterwards he was attacked with convulsions, and died at 6 o'clock in the afternoon. I need not tell you who knew his worth, and my sincere regard for him, how much I have been afflicted by his death. His was as dear to me as a brother.
From my dear Sir,
Your sincere friend,
BENJAMIN RUSH.
SPANISH RASCALITY.
COMMUNICATION.
To the Editors of the COLUMBIAN MIRROR. Gentlemen,
In your paper of the 7th inst. is inserted a paragraph, (taken from another paper) which states that the differences in the western country, betwixt Spain and the United States, were settled; that the commissioners had proceeded to run the line; and that the Spaniards had a force of 10,000 men in the province.—You very justly observe, that this information does not agree with the spirit of the proclamation which you annexed; and the probability of its truth is further to be questioned, by its being stated that the same person who gave the information, brought dispatches to Philadelphia from the representatives of two different powers—a thing in itself absurd. However, leaving the wide field of conjecture, I will come to the facts. I am but this moment arrived from the Spanish dominions by the way of Natchez, which place I left about the middle of July, and I assure you that then there was no more probability of the differences being settled than there was before, things remained in the same state they had done for some time; in fact, some short time since, there was not so much as an appearance of a pacific disposition: for the inhabitants of the district of the Natchez, enraged at the delay of the Spaniards, in not delivering up the forts, rose en masse , and kept the Governor close confined in the fort for the space of 12 days, and he was afraid then to venture out until he had signed articles of capitulation drawn up by the inhabitants, in which they secured to themselves many valuable privileges, until the differences between the two powers should be settled. These articles were sent down to the Baron de Carondelet, for confirmation, and the dispatch bringing the ratifications, arrived at Natchez the day I left it.
With respect to the Forces of the Spaniards in that quarter, they are precisely this: At New Madrid, (the first settlement on entering the Mississippi from the Ohio) there are between 30 and 40 men without any fort ; at Chickasaw Bluffs, there is a Sergeant and 12 men ; at the Walnut Hills, I cannot precisely tell the number, as I did not stop there; at Natchez, there are between 30 and 40; and at New Orleans, there are so few as not to be able to do the duty of the garrison, so that the inhabitants are called upon to perform that service—a task, of which they complain bitterly. These are the mighty forces which the Spaniards have on that river; however, I can easily conceive how the information came. If I am not mistaken, it was brought by one Thomas Power, who has brought dispatches lately into the United States, but for whom , no one knew when he left the Natchez. He is the same person who was stopped on the Ohio about 12 months ago by lieutenant Steele, by command of the late General Wayne, and his papers seized. He was suspected of coming with a design to alienate the affections of the inhabitants of the western countries from the Union, and to attach them to Spain; it is supposed that this second trip to our country has in it something of a similar design—he might have political views in representing the strength of the Spaniards much greater than it really is.
As to the present amicable disposition of the Spaniards, and their wish to carry the treaty into effect, I will give you two recent instances. Mr. McClure, of Washington, in Washington county, (Pennsylvania) lately went down the Mississippi with a cargo of flour: at Walnut Hills, when he went ashore to shew his passport, the commandant of the place told him that he wanted the flour that was in his boat. Mr. McClure told him, that if he would give him 14 dollars per barrel, or the rise of the Orleans market for three months, he might have it. The commandant returned for answer, that the flour was there, and he must and would have it; and with respect to the price, he (Mr. McClure) must settle that with the proper officers at New Orleans, and immediately sent down some soldiers to seize the boat, in direct violation of the 7th article of the treaty, which declares that "the subjects or citizens of each of the contracting parties, their vessels or effects, shall not be liable to any embargo or detention on the part of the other, for any military expedition, or other public or private purpose whatever." When he came to New Orleans, he procured certificates from the different merchants, of the price of flour, being 14 dollars per barrel, and he presented these to the proper officers, expecting to receive that sum; but what was his surprise, when, contrary to every principle of honor and honesty, and in open violation of a solemn treaty, he found they would only give him 12 dollars!! In vain did he remonstrate on the occasion; in vain did he plead the treaty, or his being an American citizen! He discovered too late, that the common principles of rectitude were not to be found in the bosom of a Spaniard; and all the satisfaction he had (if a satisfaction it may be called) was, that he was not the only one, by many , who had been duped in the same manner. The other case respected myself; one
Joseph Vidal, the secretary of the government was indebted to me a sum of money, of which when I went to demand the payment, he tendered me as a discharge some Spanish certificates which bore an enormous discount, there being no money at that time in the treasury; these certificates are a species of paper money drawn by the commandants of the different forts on the treasury at New Orleans, and paid away to workmen, &c. for wages; and are received by the merchants at a rate proportionable to the degree of confidence they can put in them. Vidal wanted me to receive them at their nominal value —I refused, and as he would not pay me in the current coin of the country, I brought the case before Gayoso the governor. He (who has so often assured Mr. Elliott that it is the sincere wish of Spain to carry the treaty into effect)—this same man decreed (contrary to the knowledge of every inhabitant of the place) that it was the custom of that country to receive the certificates as cash, and that (even depreciated as they were) they were a legal tender. I rested myself on the treaty, and begged that agreeable to the provision made in the 7th article the case might be decided according to the authority of LAW ONLY, and not according to the custom of the country, with which, as a stranger, I was not supposed to be acquainted, and further, that the law (if there were any which would affect the case in point) might be pointed out to me; on which OUR FRIEND GAYOSO, pointing to his own breast, had the effrontery to tell me, that HE was the law; and that as HE said, the law was to be decided: As the governor had none but his own sycophants about him when he made use of this assertion, I thought it necessary to call in some one to be witness to so extraordinary a declaration; and as an authority for so doing, I pleaded the 7th art. of the treaty, which declares, that "The citizens and subjects of both parties shall be allowed to employ such advocates, solicitors, notaries, agents, and factors, as they may judge proper in all their affairs, and in all their trials at law, in which they may be concerned before the tribunals of the other party; and such agents shall have free access to be present at the proceedings in such causes, and at the taking of all examination and evidence which may be exhibited in the said trials." But even this—this very evident privilege was refused by the same evasive answers, and every avenue to obtain justice completely shut up. From these circumstances it is evident, there is no greater security in navigating the Mississippi, since the treaty than before it; nor will there ever be, till that nest of harpies, who prey upon the American citizens, is completely rooted out:—what dependance can be placed in a treaty, which the whim or caprice, favor or folly, of a petty commandant of a Spanish garrison is able to set aside: and to substitute his own will as the law which is to govern a free citizen, risking his property under the faith of solemn treaties.
Representations of these two cases have been forwarded to the secretary of state. I am, Sirs,
Your's respectfully, FRANCIS BAILY.
Wednesday, Sept. 13th, 1797.
Late Foreign Intelligence.
MILAN, July 21.
The spirit of party which is every where prevalent is much exaggerated in the account sent from this city, because it is that in which there are most adventurers, and men who have nothing to lose in the event of a subversion of social order. Do not then be astonished at seeing such a number of falsehoods designedly published. Among these you may reckon the pretended account of a threatening letter written by general Buonaparte to the minister of Tuscany, on account of some supposed insults which it is pretended the French have received at Leghorn and at Pisa. All these fabrications are made with a view of exciting the French against quiet and temperate governments.
Government has appointed a committee to report on the general state of finances. It has brought its labors to an end, and has found a deficiency in every particular. The chests of the bank of St. George, of the hospital, of the college, and of the receptacle for the poor, have all been found empty, and we know not where to look for resources.
CADIZ, July 17.
Yesterday admiral Jervis sent a flag of truce, reclaiming from general Masseredo nine officers, among whom was his nephew, whom he thought prisoners; but it was discovered from the wrecks driven ashore, that the chaloupe on board of which was his nephew, had gone down during the last action, which was very brisk.
July 20.
The English had blockaded Cadiz by sea, and had even thrown some bombs into the town: we have, however, just learnt by a courier extraordinary, which arrived yesterday, that the English have been compelled to abandon the attack, and to cut their cables in order to escape; our squadron, composed of 28 ships of the line, well manned, have failed in pursuit of them; and we have reason to expect success.
PARIS, July 30.
The Journal des Hommes Libres, which is commonly pretty well acquainted with the secrets of the Louvre, because it is under the direction of some of the subaltern gentry there, discovers great regret at the symptoms of reconciliation between the council and the directory. Carnot and conciliation are the objects of its most violent indignation; it regrets that the chance of a civil war is gone. The following are its reflections: "The general efforts of the political levers, which for these some days have been in motion at the Luxembourg, have thrown the oscillation of the directory into its former position. The Five Hundred have retreated (adds
he) in order to advance with more effect.—The general chorus is, "I am afraid, and I inspire fear."
It then proceeds to state, that the plan of impeachment against the directory is abandoned; and that the directory has on its side abandoned the idea of an impeachment against a part of the legislative body. It bitterly regrets that the clubs have been allowed to be shut up, and from this concludes, that those it calls patriots will be massacred worse than ever; that they will thus be punished for their incorrigible confidence and their foolish simplicity; that without a rupture, the peace at Lille will be concluded on terms less favorable to us; that the impeachment of the Directory and a civil war will come a little later; that the legislative body will continue its usurpation, the directory be a little more impotent and despised; and that it was not worth making so much noise to gain such a result as this.
We have quoted nearly its own terms, and not yet knowing to what a degree a reconciliation, so desirable and so necessary, is probable, or is likely soon to happen, we have given this piece for the conjectures of our readers.— Perlet.
July 31.
The new minister of foreign affairs has written to the commissary of the directory in the department of the Ourthe, the following letter, dated the 20th July:
"I have received, citizen, your letter of the 23d of last month, by which you announce to me that a pretended agent of the ci-devant state of Liege still exercises his functions at the Hague. I have just directed citizen Noel to obtain accurate information on this subject. The moment that I shall receive his answer, it shall be communicated to you. (Signed) "TALLEYRAND."
A few days ago, Buonaparte's harrangue to the army of Italy was posted against all the walls of Paris. At the present moment the walls are covered with an eloquent address of Pichegrue to the armies. It is extracted from the report made by him in the sitting of the council of five hundred on the 25th ult. I am happy to find, that if Czar is on the one side, Pompey is on the other. I am inclined to think too, that the public tranquility is not so much in danger as some people imagine from the effects produced by the present fermentation in the public mind, and the struggle that has taken place too indulgent. The good understanding of governors frequently proceeds from nothing more than a cordial adoption of a system of usurpation. A little animosity makes them keep a watchful eye on their conduct, and their mutual faults. Dispositions, therefore, of this kind, so far from being injurious to the governed, are generally beneficial to them. It is only desirable, in order that no bad effects may arise, that the parties be sufficiently strong to check themselves, without any shock, merely by the equilibrium to be produced by collision. This appears to me to be the secret of our present situation. The constitution is a centre which draws all around it. The debates tend to its establishment. This ought to be their object, and resistance serves only to add force to their endeavours.
It is said that the disposal of the city of Venice is now the subject of dispute between France and the emperor.
ADMINISTRATION OF FINANCES.
The minister of finance to the commissioners of the executive directory residing at the central administration of the departments.
I send you, citizen commissioners, a copy of a letter I received on the 1st inst. from the executive directory, calling on me for an account of the manoeuvres practised to alarm the purchasers of national domains. It enjoins me to cause an exact observance to be made of the laws and principles which are to secure them from the new attempts of the enemies of the country. I entreat you, citizen commissioner, to demand of the central administration of the department, to transcribe on its registers the copy of this letter, to the end that your fellow-citizens may be made acquainted with it, and that it may manifest, by its publicity, the intentions of the government, on whose efforts and perseverance every stress may be laid. I should be afraid of weakening the impression which an exposition of the principles by which the directory is actuated, ought to make on every citizen, if I were to enter into any elucidations of my own. It rather becomes me to confine myself to the pressing exhortation and formal recommendation I now make to you, to employ all the means in your power to re-animate public confidence, to prove that it is established on the most solid basis, to point out all those who aim at weakening it, to apply to them the laws enacted against the enemies of the country, and to communicate to me all the facts which may come to your knowledge. If any purchaser of a national domain should be molested in the enjoyment of his property, denounce the author of the outrage to the tribunals, and apprise me without delay of what has happened. If an emigrant should find an asylum in your department, cause him to be apprehended, and give information to the minister of police. If any one should revive pretensions or prejudices condemned by the laws or by reason, endeavor in the first instance to root out the error by an exposition of useful truths. If these pretensions or prejudices should be persisted in, the intention must then be criminal: and you are to exert every severity, to the end that the good citizens may find in the agents of government the guarantees of public security; if you should find that an endeavor is made, no matter on what pretext, to conceal any property belonging to the national domains, you are to consider the author of this fraud as a dilapidator of the public property, and to proceed against him accordingly. You are to transmit to me a statement of the sales of national domains up to the 1st Thermidor, in separate columns, as follows:
1. An account of the immovable property
fold, and the name of the commune in which it is situated.
2. The establishment on which it depended, or the old proprietor.
3. The sum for which it was put up to sale.
4. The sum for which it was sold.
5. The name of the purchaser.
And a sixth blank column is to be left for observations.
If any purchaser should have been molested in his possessions, you will state the same in a note, with his steps which have been taken to secure him the protection of the laws. During the first decade of every month you will send me a statement, in the same form, of all the sales made during the preceding month. You are to be punctual in this respect, as it is a general measure which promised great utility. You cannot fail, citizen commissary, to be aware of all the importance of this letter. You cannot have so favorable an opportunity to give the directory a proof of your zeal in an affair in which it takes so lively an interest.
D. V. RAMEL, minister of finance.
August 1.
The letters that we receive from the departments speak only of the contradictory orders given for the march of the troops. If a courier in the morning brings an order to advance, another in the evening brings an order to retreat. The general officers cross each other, and nothing seems to be thought of but bringing the two councils to their reason. This is a light sketch of the proceeding that take place in our frontier departments, and which resemble too much those that preceded the revolution of 1790. How is it that a government newly established, so much resembles that which we are destroying?
It is said, indeed, that general Ferino, at Sedan, has stopped the march of two columns of our army that were going to Paris. He observed to them that their marching orders were not legal, and they retreated. It is, however, added, that he was obliged to make preparations for opposing their passage, and that the canon of the citadel was turned against them.— Tableau de l'Europe.
The Turkish ambassador still continues to be the subject of general conversation. At the ball given at the Odeon in honor of his excellency, the most elegant women in Paris vied to engage his attention. But it seems that mademoiselle Lange, the actress, carried the prize. Guessing the ambassador's taste from his age, gravity, &c. she rejected the fashion of the day, and appeared in a dress equally decent and magnificent. Three salutations from his excellency, and leave to pay him her homage, were the proofs of the impression she made upon him. All Paris seems convinced that SHE is to have the handkerchief. Since that day every article of female dress begins to be "a la Turque;" Robes a la Turque, Chapeaux a la Turque. In short, the Parisian Fair are growing Sultanas in every thing except confinement; a new mode which I am persuaded all the Bashiaws in the Turkish dominions would never be able to introduce among them.
August 2.
Every thing is tranquil at Turin. Gen. Buonaparte has written to the king of Sardinia, congratulating him on his prudent conduct, and assuring him, that in case of necessity he may depend on his assistance. [No doubt.] The directory has entirely suppressed the official part of the Redacteur . This determination appears to have been taken immediately after certain articles which have given occasion to the loud remarks of the different parties.
Several journals have published a letter from Italy, bearing, that peace was signed at Udina, by Buonaparte, Clarke, and the plenipotentiaries of the emperor. This news appears to be premature. We think, however, that the emperor will not expose himself to the danger of seeing Buonaparte, Moreau and Hoche, pour at once on his territories, and again threaten his capital; that he would not compromise the fate of the countries we have allowed him to take; that on this idea peace will be signed with Austria within a month, if the emperor listens to other councils he would probably repent of the bad faith with which the prime minister, Thuguet, retards the conclusion of the negotiation, since the opening of those at Lille, which gives him the hopes of protracting it, and producing some other results.— Perlet.
Paris continues to be tranquil, and almost exclusively occupied with fests. Until we shall see the addresses from all the divisions we may be able to form some opinion of the spirit which will prevail in that of the division of Angereau, from the speech of that general on the celebration of the federation of the 14th July, in which is the following remarkable passage:
"May," says he to the soldiers of his division, "may a spark of the sacred fire which animates you, warm the souls of these young Sybarites who have neither virtue nor patriotism, and in whom effeminacy and egotism have extinguished the voice of honor. And you my comrades, persevere always in the sentiments which associate you to their glory. If rash fashions have dared to attempt our rights; if the constitution you have chosen has been violated; if your victorious bands have been threatened with chains; if their audacity has been carried so far as to attempt to raise again either the scaffold or the throne;—you soldiers know your duty—there will be nothing remaining for you but the alternative of Liberty or Death !"— L'Eclair.
Francis de Neufchateau arrived on the 30th ult. The day after, the minister of the interior, delivered to him the Porte Feuille . Relative to Benezech, the directory made an arrest, which deserves to be made known.
"The executive directory orders, that the resignation of Benezech, minister of the interior, be accepted. The present arrest is not to be notified to the citizen Benezech till after the arrival of Francois de Neufchateau."
COUNCIL OF FIVE HUNDRED.
August 1.
The order of the day called for the discussion relative to ground rents.
Fabre—You are aware that your enemies have circulated rumours thro' the departments, that you are about to dispose of their property the purchasers of national domains. These calumnies ought to be refuted, and all France should know that you will constantly protect the lawful purchasers of these domains. I demand a priority for the discussion relative to the parsonage houses. Opinions vary much on this subject, and the debates may be wound up this day.—This proposition was adopted. Pavis spoke against the plan of the commission He considered the parsonage houses to have

long ceased to be a disposable national property, which could no more be alienated than the rants of a free press place, the public monuments of a commune, or the lands reserved for the roads. With respect to the purchasers of national domains, he considered many of them as fraudulent frauds: in the department Eure, a chateau, valued at 60,000 livres in 1790, had been given for 25,000 livres in mandats. He demanded that the sale of the parsonage houses should be put a stop to; that they should be at the disposal of the communes; and that the sale of all those disposed of since 25 Brumaire, of the second year, should be declared null and invalid.—Adopted.
The striking proof of animosity displayed by the opposite parties in the sitting of the Council of Five Hundred of the 20th inst. appear to have spread some alarm among the friends of the present constitution of France. All the public prints devoted to the party of the moderates, are filled with the most affecting complaints, and the strongest apprehensions on the occasion of this unexpected division. L'Esprit des lois expresses himself in the following manner on this interesting subject:
"The crisis approaches: all the symptoms of a new revolution already begin to appear, the parties are already ranged up in battle array against each other. Yet a few days, and the sword will decide. Dufour has taken possession of the Council of Five Hundred, and it will not be cast out till it has gorged itself with the blood of the one party or the other; perhaps of both."
"Woe be to him," said a sage, "Woe be to him thro whom offence cometh!" Woe be to you, Representatives of the People, when, degrading the august character with which you are invested, you transform your Senate to an arena for Gladiators! Can you hope that men will respect you when you do not respect yourselves? And how do you hope to govern, if you do not inspire respect?"
"Which party is to blame? Both. I will say this, however, that if violence can at all be pardoned it is in the vanquished minority. But you, the favorite Representatives of the People; you, of whom a united majority is always sure to triumph, how can such excuses be justified in you? What evil genius could inspire you with the fatal tho't of terminating by the spirit of faction, a discussion in which you were sure to be victorious, by displaying with calmness and with dignity the whole power of your will?"
"Cynæas, on entering the Roman Senate, imagined himself transported into an assembly of Kings: What would he have said, had he been a spectator of such indecent contests? And, great God! at what a moment do you resign yourself to the impulse of your brutal passions? At the moment when the envoys of the King of England arrive to treat for peace! Do you believe that scenes of this nature are very well calculated to inspire them with a high confidence in the wisdom and in the stability of our government?"
"If you overthrow, or if you allow the Constitutional Republic to be overthrown, you will fall into the military Republic, and the latter will be more dreadful than the former. To day you are magistrates; to morrow you will be slaves. Amicus Plato, magis amica veritas. Never was there a saying more necessary to be repeated and observed."
"On what points then does the crisis in which France is placed, depend at this moment! On the retaining or dismissing of four ministers, whom the majority of both councils, and the whole nation accuse of ignorance and perfidy, and whom the Directory obstinately persists in preserving as the agents of the Executive Power." On this subject of diffusion we meet with the following remarks in the same Journal:
"In every country that wishes to preserve its tranquility and happiness, the ablest and wisest men should be called to the management of public affairs. Confidence is extinguished in every heart when folly and ignorance obstruct the avenues to the seat of government. Cease then, Directors, to shut your ears to our prayers! We entreat you, in the name of your country, to dismiss from their employments, and banish from your presence, Ramel, Charles La Croix, Truguet, and Merlin. The last is peculiarly unworthy your notice. As long as you remain surrounded by such ministers, how can you possibly expect, that we, who are both by good will and reason firmly bound to support the present order of things, should protect you against the murmurs and complaints of those, who, regretting what they have lost, eagerly desire to return to that point from which they first set out? Were we to be your advocates, should we not expose ourselves to the just reproaches of either flattering flippidity, or of being the accomplices of wicked men? We make this request on our own as well as our own account. When you shall have granted it, we will then endeavour to recal to reason those of our brethren who are now tormented with unavailing anxiety."
ARMY OF CONDE.
Order of the 20th July, 1797.
"His majesty, the emperor of Russia, has done me the honor to inform me, that the king of France has made a proposition to him respecting this army; and his imperial majesty flatters himself that his majesty and myself will be equally satisfied with the overtures which his minister is commissioned to make me in his name."
"The emperor of Russia is willing to grant every relief to this army. He is about to apply to the courts of Vienna and London, to continue their generous benefactions to it. Until the arrangements will be made, he desires me to rest assured, that from the moment he shall take charge of the army, every individual in it, from the highest lieutenant general to the lowest soldier who is willing to take advantage of his kindness, shall preserve the same rank and pay as he at this moment enjoys. We cannot know, until the return of the courier which is to be sent to Russia what is the nature of the hereditary grants which his imperial majesty intends to promise this army besides granting to the French nobility the same privileges which nobles of Russia enjoy."
LONDON, August 7. Lieutenant Forshaw, of the Royal Navy, died on his passage on the 22d July: his body after the usual ceremonies, was committed to the deep. Preparations for war are carried on with the greatest activity in Germany. A strong detachment from the Austrian army on the Lower Rhine has begun its march towards the territories usurped during the war by the king of Prussia, who has, on his part, increased the force under the Duke of Brunswick to 60,000 men, and given orders for the establishment of magazines near the scene of contest. It is said, he never, that that Monarch has withdrawn his troops from the city of Nuremberg; and if this be true it may be hoped he will be induced to listen to the voice of justice, without the interposition of arms. Prudence, indeed, may have suggested this line of conduct: for the election of of Saxony, on whose support Frederick William appears to have depended, has not only abandoned his cause, but has assembled an army of 30,000 men, to second the efforts of the lawful chief of the German empire.
By this day's Mail.
BOSTON, Sept. 18.
Navy Yard, September 18.
The contractor, having extended to his fellow-citizens, all reasonable gratification of their laudable curiosity, during the progress of the building, believes he may with propriety make the following request and suggestions, on the operation of launching the frigate Constitution.
That (excepting the President of the United States, the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and their respective suites, and others specially admitted, who will comparatively, be very few) no person will attempt in any way, to pass into the limits of the navy yard.
The reason of this request is obviously to prevent interruption or confusion which might be injurious or ruinous to the act of launching; which will be critical, under the most favorable circumstances, and indispensably requiring perfect silence and obedience to orders. Independent of this conclusive reason, the danger of encroaching spectators would be imminent from the occasional and abrupt falling of bodies used in the construction of the ship; a conformity therefore to this request, is earnestly solicited.
It is, suggested, as the tide will be full, that it would be necessary to the safety of the spectators, particularly women and children, that they do not approach in crowds too near the margin of the contiguous wharves, as the sudden entrance of so large a body as the frigate, will occasion an instantaneous swell of the water the height of which cannot be easily calculated, and against which, therefore, the discretion of the people ought amply to guard.
It is regretted, in this instance, that the yard and the places around it, are too contracted for an occasion which will probably excite so much desire, and in which all the citizens have so much interest; it is therefore submitted to those who can make the arrangement, to place themselves in vessels, or water crafts, at due distance, upon the profile or side of the Frigate, but by no means too near, either in a right line or otherwise, as the direction may be uncertain, nor to load open boats too deeply, as the agitation of the water even at a considerable distance, may be somewhat hazardous.
It is also recommended to those who erect flags to accommodate spectators, that they have them secured in every respect, as the loss of life of a single citizen, would mar the satisfaction and pleasure that the contractor otherwise would enjoy, of building and conducting into the ocean, a powerful agent of national justice, which hope dictates may become the just pride and ornament of the American name.
GEORGE CLAGHORN.
NEW-YORK, September 21. A British gentleman writes from Port-au-Prince, August 21.
"I was taken the 9th off the Mole on my way to America, and brought in here—I am on my parole, and hope soon to be exchanged, as a change of conduct for the better is expected; Santhonax having failed from hence for France on Saturday last, in an Indian."
THE LAND OF LIBERTY!!
A CURIOSITY
Just arrived from Cape Mount, on the windward coast of Africa, the ship Agenoria, Edward Bois, master, with a prime cargo of assorted SLAVES. The sale of which will commence on Monday, the 21st inst.—Conditions then made known.
ROBERT WATTS.
Savannah, 10th August, 1797.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
CONTINUED.
PARIS, August 5.
General Pichegru had his pocket picked of his watch in the Jardin d'Italie, while walking by the side of the Ottoman ambassador.
RATISBON, July 20.
There appears reason to apprehend the most violent discussions in the Diet here, on the subject of the articles of peace concluded between the emperor and the French republic. From the moment of signing the preliminaries, the emperor has kept the most profound silence as to their contents; the French announced that their republic was acknowledged in all its integrity, which gave the greatest uneasiness to the princes and states, whose territory had been declared an integral part of the French republic. It was only on the 22d of June that the imperial cabinet notified to the diet that the preliminaries had been signed, an event which took place at Leoben, on the 18th April. The form of this imperial decree, the equivocal expressions which are contained in it, and a certain tone of embarrassment
which prevails throughout it, were not very well calculated to raise the spirits of men. The bishop of Liege, among others, having applied to his imperial majesty to know, whether after the conclusion of the peace he should enter into the possession of his bishoprick, received the following laconic and at the same time jocular reply: "That the integrity of the empire had been adopted as the basis of the treaty of peace to be concluded between France and the empire." This answer, which to short-sighted men may appear satisfactory, only served to increase the uneasiness of those who look forward at any distance.
Add to this, the good understanding which prevails between the court of Vienna and the French government, and the security of the latter as to the possession of its new department. The following incident is however deserving of attention:—Several states of the empire have officially announced to the diet, that the German body, fully confident of the wisdom and magnanimity of their chief head, entreats him to accept an absolute authority to conclude a peace. We are assured that the ecclesiastical prince who brought forward this at the diet, acted sincerely, but was betrayed into the measure by others more artful than himself, whose reasoning was this: "If the emperor has really obtained a stipulation for the integrity of the empire, he will accept the offer with great readiness, as it will add to the glory of the house of Austria, but if not he will reject it." This very circumstance has caused the emperor to express himself dissatisfied with one of his commissioners, who supported the proposition.
The solution of the enigma is now whispered notwithstanding the passage in the imperial decree, which secures the integrity of the empire, the imperious force of circumstances renders it necessary to construe this sentence as applying to the constitution, and not to the territory of the empire, and it is with reason apprehended, that some of the prelates will be fecularized. This will necessarily produce complaints in the diet, and protests on the part of the injured states; but it will not be difficult for the emperor's ministers to justify their master, by shewing what he has done, as his share in this dreadful war, and, by appealing to the princes and states individually, to know whether each of them has done all that he could, and that he ought to have done, on his part.
ROME, July 7.
The agitation here, as well as in the other parts of the states of the church, continues to be very great. The pope yesterday went from the Vatican to the Quirinal Palace, without acclamation and without crowd. He may yet survive his illness some years, and the people are not desirous of innovation.
A letter is in circulation here, written by general Buonaparte to cardinal Mattei, at Ferrara, in which the general says, that he is daily invited to Rome to give the people better laws, and a constitution more agreeable to the rights of man.
The Gazette.
PHILADELPHIA,
FRIDAY EVENING, September 22.
CITY HOSPITAL REPORT,
From the 21st to 22d Sept. in the morning.
Admitted, since last report,
Andrew McKew—Gordon M c Neal's Small street.
Alex. Henry—Walnut, corner 4th street.
John Chapman—87, South Water street.
Margaret Tibbs—Saint's, 6, Vernon street.
Ann Potter—South, near 4th street.
Margaret Guewon—2d, between Spruce & Dock-streets.
Sarah Fisher—No. 35, Almond-street.
Elkner Launson—Harris's, South, above 5th street.
Caty Culinel—2, near Rope-walks.
Discharged, since last report,
John Kilney, admitted 16th inst.
Elizabeth Ellis, 5th
Remaining last Report 51
Admitted since, 9
Discharged 2
Died NONE 2
Remain in Hospital, { Convalescents 19 } 58
Sick 39
Five of whom are dangerous.
Interred in City Hospital burying ground since last report:—
From the city and suburbs 9
From the city hospital None.
Total 9
STEPHEN GIRARD,
CALEB LOWNES,
JOHN CONNELLY,
(Signed) Chairman pro tem.
Published by order of the Board,
WM. MONTGOMERY,
Chairman pro tem.
Total of burials for 24 hours, ending yesterday at noon.
Crown Persons. Children.
Third Presbyterian 1 0
Second Presbyterian 1 0
St. Mary's 0 1
Methodists 1 0
City Hospital 2 0
Total 5 1
* From the city and suburbs.
DIED, this morning, Mr. JAMES CAREY, Clerk to Mr. Andrew Brown, Editor of the Philadelphia Gazette.
A Hint to the Citizens of Philadelphia.
THIS day, about two o'clock in the afternoon, a fire was discovered to be burning in a large quantity of shingles, in Mr. Stogden's board yard, a little above Callowhill street, in the Northern Liberties. It being seen by the smoke, as soon as it began to burn, by the alertness of the inhabitants it was soon extinguished. Matches were found which it had been kindled with, and brought to my office. There is no doubt with me, but it was done to set fire to the neighbourhood, as one half of the people are moved out of it.
JOSEPH COWPERTHWAIT
September, 21.
The following is the notice taken by Bache of a paragraph in Wednesday's Gazette.
"To be an object of the abuse of an hireling wretch, capable of such sentiments as the foregoing disclosure, is an honor to a republican; we shall therefore always be happy when Fenno shall please to favor us with a portion of his billinggate. But the above paragraph deserves to be considered in another view. John Fenno's press is patronized by this government; he is the printer for one of the highest branches of it—the Senate: Will it not be considered then, that he speaks their sentiments; and, if so, what are we to expect from France, should a counter-revolution and the re-establishment of Royalty take place. Publications such as the foregoing, are well calculated to reunite the antiquitude which exists between this country and France, and to lead to a rupture; they are no doubt, therefore, well paid for by Mr. Linton. We mention this consideration in exculpation of our government (whom we do not think capable of prompting such diabolical sentiments) that the true source of them may be understood abroad, to be British, and not to come from our executive administration, who by their countenance of Fenno's press might appear implicated."
It is, to be sure, little better than wasting time and room to notice such paltry jargon: But one cannot refrain from contempt at seeing this blackguard, affect to set up for the "exculpator" of a government, which he makes it the whole business of his life to weaken, defame & destroy. A very great degree of weakness, inconsistency and puerility, are prime requisites in the character of a Jacobin. This poor, silly, emaciated dupe of French villainy, seems to think, that to repeal an accusation, it is only necessary to retort it. It appears never to have entered into his addled brain, that a difference of circumstances makes a wide distinction between cases. So long as the Editor of the Aurora, advocated the cause of one belligerent power, in opposition to the other, little was said, because men are liable to prejudices; it was simply indecorous—considering our neutral situation. But to examine that attachment under the immense change which has since taken place; and not only to continue simply the attachment, but, vigorously to espouse, and zealously to uphold, a cause degenerated to downright piracy, robbery, and murder; after we ourselves have become the objects of these atrocities, too; under these circumstances, I say, the man who can have the hardihood to encounter the indignation of all his fellow-citizens, and the contempt of all mankind, for a base, unnatural, patricidal villain, must be well paid for his infamous services. The suspicion is natural—and the object confirms it by every movement he makes. With regard to John Fenno, though he possess not the lady-like equanimities of citizen Bauche, what facts have ever been adduced by this miserable tool of the most abandoned faction that ever disgraced a free country, in support of his often-repeated accusations of a disposition to favor Royalty? John Fenno, at the earliest dawn of the Revolution, embraced the standard of revolt, and by his writings and his actual services, as I believe, essentially co-operated in aiding the progress to Independence. He served as a volunteer in the first American army that ever was raised, and more than once sacrificed his fortune by his attachment to the cause, at a time when this base traitor was an infant in his cradle, or perhaps even yet unborn. Nay more, every male of his family, was an exception to the arms in the cause of their country, and fought battles with distinguished reputation, and level
enal of them bled in her service—either in the army or navy, and endured the pains and sufferings of a three years captivity, in the sugar houses of New-York, in the Testey prison-ship, and amidst the loathsome filth of the tender's hold, while the Jacobin priest, Fenno, was idly chattering, in fulsome and lolling strains, the horrors of the prison-ship, or in jarring lazy-lagging rhymes for newbies and hardies. Two had, while alive, the peculiar boast of serving through the whole war, from the battle of Lexington to the siege of Yorktown. And as for him, a man at this day to be re-hired by Fenno to do his work, by an unpardonable word Resolimus , is Jacobinically applied to those attached to the peace and order of society, and to the existing form of government. The Jacobins hate all government, and their chief aim is to shake off its shackles. John Fenno, like many others, having seen the consequences of mobocracy, through a long course of years, and felt its effects, (in being forcibly seized and very roughly handled by an armed and lawless banditti, upon a false accusation of keeping in his possession a large quantity of paper at a time when that article bore a high price,) feels a natural and inherent attachment to a government which secures to each citizen a protection of person, and which he labored for thirty years to acquire. In defence of the Federal constitution, against the government-hating faction, in repelling the assaults of the foreign and domestic foes, in reprobating the violences of Britain, and in laboring to open the eyes of the people to the treacherous and piratical courses and ultimate liberties views, of the terrible republic, he has uniformly and constantly sacrificed the plainest dictates of interest, at the shrine of patriotism—Withstood the menaces, and in more instances than one, the open assaults of the bloody domestic assassin—and never suppressed the TRUTH, through a fear, worshipping the acknowledged coward, of "nourishing the disquietudes" of a murderous band of foreign desperadoes.
Such is the plain and simple state of facts with regard to this matchless royalist! this man whom the organizers would fain picture as a foe to public liberty. Rough and awkward indeed, they may appear as here stated—but I regard not. It is time to have done with tameless towards nefarious and detestable faction, who want nothing but the power to act over in America the scenes which have passed in France; to get the guillotine under way, and to crush virtue, honesty and patriotism by pretended conspiracies against the people.
It is an essential link in this chain to render suspected all those, who by superior purity of character, or known uprightness of views and motives, are supposed to have a weight or influence with the public and thus to oppose a barrier to their designs. I know not whether I shall be thanked for suggesting these things into public notice. But this I know, they are facts—and tired and vexed with the repetition of unfounded and defaming calumnies, I have at length ventured thus to refute them by a simple statement, under circumstances attended with the less impropriety, because I know that at any other time these facts would be suppressed.
J. W. F.
COMMUNICATION.
The very great number of persons who continually rush out of existence in consequence of violent treatment, one would think, ought to stagger the faith of the man of blood, and his young devotees. But it is a melancholy truth that they are for the most part full blooded philosophers, of the French school, who have once embraced a phantasy, adhere to it with a vigour increased in a direct proportion as fact and experience prove its baneful effects.
CUSTOM-HOUSE,
Philadelphia, Sept. 22d, 1797.
THE Merchants who at this time prefer having their vessels and Merchandise entered and cleared at Chester or Marcus Hook,—are hereby notified, That their compliance with their desire, and upon a full conviction that the measure will be mutually beneficial to them and to the United States. The collector of the customs has made arrangements to establish for some time branches of the custom-house at those places, where every accommodation in his power will be given to the merchants.
A special Meeting of the select and common Councils of the City of Philadelphia, is to be held at the Pennsylvania Hospital on Tuesday the 26th inst. at 9 o'clock in the morning on business of importance, at which place it is hoped the members will attend—the Hospital being clear of the prevailing fever.
FRANCIS GURNEY, President
of the select council.
SAMUEL RODGON, President
of the common council.
Sept. 22 det
To be Sold at Public Vendue, On Friday the 29th instant, precisely at three o'clock in the afternoon, at the sign of the king of Prussia, near the market house in Germantown, a two story stone dwelling house, barn and stable and lot of 2 acres 26 perches of ground, part of which is an orchard of excellent fruit trees, situate near the middle of Germantown, on the north east side of the main street or road, containing in front on the said street or road 149 feet nine inches; bounded by ground of Dr. Betton and others and opposite to the mellhouse and lot of Melchior Ming. The above lot is good clover meadow, and has a never failing stream of water running through it.
Also three other lots of ground, each containing about two acres, situate on the south east side of Rittenhouse's Mill road, commonly called Peter Smith's Lane, in Germantown township, at the distance of 270 yards from the south west side of the Germantown main street, bounded by lands of Conrad Carpenter, James Oglesby, Jacob Keout, and Melchior Ming. The above lots are high and pleasantly situated, commanding a pleasing prospect of Germantown and the Schuylkill and Wissahickon hills, and are well adapted for gentlemen's country seats. The said lots are now in clover, and there are on the same upwards of 200 grafted fruit trees.
A good and indispensible title, clear of all incumbrances, will be given to the purchaser twenty days after the sale, upon the payment of one half of the purchase money, and securing the other half by mortgage upon the purchased premises.
Possession of the first described lot and premises may be had on the 17th April next, and immediate possession may be had of the three last mentioned lots.
Any person, wishing to view the above premises, may see the same by applying to Benj. Lehman, in Germantown near the Market house.
EDWARD POX, Auctioneer.
Germantown, 12d Sept. 1797. 013
MR. LAILSON,
WITH an intention to render service, and induce those Performers, who during his absence Mr. Raymond has thought proper to engage, thinks it would be wrong in him not to inform those that are engaged, that it is wishious his approbation and that he will not be in any way unfavorable for Mr. Raymond's engagements.
PHILIPPE LAILSON.
Alexandria, Sept. 15, 1797. 64