Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser. (Philadelphia [Pa.]), 1798-10-15 00:00:00

Gazette of the United States, AND Philadelphia Daily Advertiser.
By JOHN W. FENNO, No. 119 Chestnut Street.
NUMBER 1896.]
PHILADELPHIA: MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 15, 1798.
[VOLUME XIV.]
The Subscribers to this Ga-zette at Germantown, to whom, owing to recent disastrous events) their papers may not be particularly directed, will be furnished with them on application at the Post-Office, in Germantown, whither an extra number, for that purpose, will constantly be sent.
Remote Subscribers for this Ga-zette are requested to forward pr. post, the arrearages due from them respective-ly. Postmasters who may have receiv-ed subscriptions are earnestly desired to remit the same. At this interesting and distressing crisis, attention to this notice will peculiarly oblige the Editor.
POST-OFFICE.
Philadelphia, September 26. THE Mail for New-Castle, Canwell bridge, Duck creek, Dover, Frederica, Milford, Georgetown and Dagsborough, Delaware; Troop and Snowhill, Maryland, Horn Town, Accomack county-house, and Northampton court-house, Virginia; will be closed at this office ev-ery Monday, Wednesday and Friday at half past eight o'clock, A. M. until 11th of April, 1799.
ROBERT PATTON.
Bank of the United States. Philadelphia, September 21, 1798.
The public is hereby informed, that an Office of Deposit and Discount will be opened on Monday next, at the house lately occupied by Messrs. RICHARDSON, near the Market House in Germantown—where the business of this Institu-tion will be transacted during the continuance of the malignant fever now prevailing in Philadelphia. HENRY KUHL, Assistant Cashier. september 22 d
Wanted; a Person WHO will contract to supply the Marine Corps, with rations, &c. Apply to W. W. BURROWES, Major Commandant of the Marine Corps. Sept 29
Wanted to purchase. APPROVED bills on Amsterdam, for which cash will be given at the rate of thirty sev-ens cents per Guilders. Apply to the Cashier of the Bank of the United States. September 22d, 1798.
For Sale.
THE SUBSCRIBER, intending to decline the DRUG BUSINESS, offers For Sale, the whole Stock of Drugs and Medicines, Instruments, &c. The Shop is elegant, commodious, and suffi-ciently known for the extensive business done in the city, being at the corner of Walnut and Second Streets. The whole, or any part of the Stock, will be sold, as well best suit the purchaser. That 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 Ced. 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 & Moore, or the subscriber, are earnestly requested to make speedy payment to JAMES MOORE, JUN. august 3
Ship & Insurance Broker, THE Subscriber, encouraged by the advice of his friends, offers his service to the pub-lic as a Ship and Insurance Broker. He pro-poses to buy and sell vessels and every thing re-lating thereto—assist masters of vessels and others in entering and clearing at the Custom House, procuring and shipping freight, letting Insur-ance 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 in every branch of business he hopes to be use-ful to those who please to favor him with their commands. SAMUEL EMERT. Philadelphia, august 24th, 1798. 5
City Commissioners' Office, August 30, 1798. IN pursuance of an ordinance of the Select and Common Councils, passed the 22d day of May 1798.
Proposals in writing will be received by the City Commissioners for one month from the first of Sep-tember next, for letting to rent on leases for one year, to commence the first day of January next, the following public property of the city— The wharf and landing on Vine street, Also on Sassafras, Mulberry, And High Streets. Chestnut and Walnut Streets, Draw bridge, with the Scale and Fifth houses, Spruce, Pine and Cedar Streets. The Cellar under the City Hall. The Tavern at the middle ferry on Schuylkill with the lots contiguous thereto (except so much thereof as shall be occupied by any buildings erec-ted for the use of the Collector of the Tolls, or be necessary for the toll gates.) A stated meeting of the City Commissioners will be held at the City Hall every Tuesday morning at ten o'clock, during the present epidemic. com.
TO BE LET, And immediate possession given; A Large convenient, well finished house, No 215 High-street, lately occupied by Doc-tor Wistar, with Coach house and Stables— Enquire of WILLIAM SHEAFF, No 162, High-street. july 31
Public Notice is hereby Given,
THAT Proposals under sealed covers, will be received on the behalf of the United States until the twentieth day of October next, by Jo-nathan Jackson, Esq., at Boston, Massachusetts; Tench Francis, Esq., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and John Swann, Esq., at Baltimore, Ma-ryland, for supplying the following articles of clothing, for the army of the United States, viz.
FOR INFANTRY. 8,448 Hats, 504 Serjeant Coats, 504 ditto vests, 1,008 pairs do. woollen overalls, 1,008 ditto do. linen ditto, 2,016 ditto shirts, 264 Musicians coats, 7,680 Privates coats, 7,944 ditto vests, 15,888 ditto woollen overalls, 15,888 ditto linen ditto, 31,776 ditto shirts, 33,792 pairs of Socks, 33,792 pairs of Shoes, 8,448 stocks of black leather, 8,448 stock caps, 8,448 blankets.
FOR CAVALRY. 6 Musicians coats, 26 Serjeant coats, 26 ditto vests, 104 ditto shirts, 348 Privates coats, 354 ditto vests, 1,416 ditto shirts, 760 pair of Leather breeches, 760 pair of Stockings, 760 pair of boots, 380 Stocks of black leather, 380 Stock clasps, 380 Blankets.
14. Every article shall be made of materials, equally good, and in form, or fashion, conform-ably to patterns for the same, sealed with the seal of the War-Office, and which will be de-posited with the several gentlemen, empowered to receive the proposals, as above mentioned. 15. Sworn Inspectors shall be appointed on the part of the United States, to examine and determine upon the several articles aforesaid, when the same shall be ready for delivery, with full power to reject every article, which shall not equal, in goodness of materials, or to be made conformably to, the fashion of the standard pat-tern for the same; and no allowance shall be made, for any article which shall be rejected by them, for the causes aforesaid. 16. The proposals must specify the number of articles, and their kinds, which the party is willing to furnish, together with, the lowest prices for immediate payment in money, and also to the prices, on the longest term, or terms of credit. 17. One-third of each, and every of the several kinds of the above articles, to be delivered on the fifteenth day of December, one third, on the fifteenth day of January, and the remaining third on the first day of March next; and the public will not be considered as bound to receive any of the aforesaid articles of clothing, which shall not be ready for inspection, and delivery, at the periods aforesaid. 18. The clothing aforesaid will be received in the several states, at the places, and in the proportions following, viz. One third part of the whole at Springfield, Massachusetts, one other third at Philadelphia, state of Pennsylva-nia, or at Lambertville, state of New-Jersey, and one third at Baltimore, Maryland. 19. No contract will be made, for a less number of each of the aforesaid articles of clothing, than is requisite for a company, viz.
FOR THE CAVALRY. 4 Serjeant Coats, 4 ditto vests, 16 ditto shirts, 1 Musicians Coat, 58 Privates coats, 59 ditto vests, 236 ditto shirts, 63 Socks, 63 Stock clasps, 126 pair of leather breeches, 126 pair of Stockings, 126 pair of boots, 63 blankets.
FOR THE INFANTRY. 70 Hats, 4 Serjeant Coats, 4 ditto vests, 8 ditto woollen overalls, 8 ditto linen ditto, 16 ditto shirts, 2 Musicians coats, 64 Private coats, 66 ditto vests, 132 ditto woollen overalls, 132 ditto linen ditto, 264 ditto shirts, 280 pair of Socks, 280 pair of Shoes, 70 Stocks, 70 Stock Clasps, 70 Blankets.
JAMES M'HENRY, Secretary of War. War Department, 21st Sept. 1798. West-Indian from Madeira. Those Gentlemen who have Wines on board the West-Indian are informed she is now discharging at South-street Wharf, are in-olited to hasten down their permits, the Vessel being immediately wanted, Peter Blight. Who wants to Purchase, 100 Barrels of good Prime or Mch Beef, 100 ditto Pork, 7 or 800 ditto fine Flour, 4 or 500 bushels Indian Corn. LANDING From the West-Indian. A choice parcel of Pilsener, old particular Wine in Pipes fit for immediate use. august 15
Wanted—A Situation in a Pub-lic or Merchants Office, or to go as Supercargo, by a person regularly brought up to the Mer-cantile and Insurance business in London, he has lately been a voyage from hence to the West-In-dies as Supercargo, can be well recommended, —Pleas to enquire at the Printer's. august 11
HAPPY DISCOVERY.
The Yellow Fever, As well as any other dangerous, painful fever, fever and ague, and other intermitting and complicated disorders, by the use of the
POUDRE UNIQUE.
WELL known and patented in England, France, Poland, and all the capital cities in Europe, where the most astonishing cures have been effected on persons judged incurable by all physicians, in a Treatise printed in London, on the properties of this powder, by T. Seymour, M. D. late Chem-ist to his Majesty, there are stated two hundred cases, where this most valuable remedy has proved infallible, in all kind of fevers, pleurisy, bloody flux, intermitting fevers, jaundice, apoplexy, paralysis, yel-low jaundice, ringworm, scurvy to children and in grown persons, rheumatism, chronic head and stomach aches, hep-atic and nephretical or stone cholics, the king's evil, scurvy and the most inveterate and complicated universal disease. It is likewise the best preparation for the small-pox and measles; of the greatest utility for young as well as for older ladies at the critical epochs of their life. The efficacy of this powder in several of the above diseases has been discovered by chance, and so it has been in the yellow fever last year, by Mr. Mahy, who cured several by administering only two of the said powders, and lost not a single pa-tient which he undertook to cure, as proved and attested by the Mercantile certificates, whose ori-ginal may be seen at Andrew Hadley's umbrella shop, No. 131, corner of Chestnut and Fourth Streets, the only place where these powders are to be had, with proper directions for the use of them.—Price two dollars. The usefulness and certainty of this remedy be-ing so great for so many dangerous disorders, any person willing to be provided with this powder, will please to apply very soon, as the quantity at hand is not very large, and it is doubtful if for a long time, or if ever any other genuine will be im-ported, the secret remaining only in the hands of the inventor, in Europe, and never being commu-nicated to, or discovered by any other person. N. B. In the yellow and putrid fevers, this pow-der must be taken the second, or at least the third day. We the subscribers, during the late sickness in this city, having taken the yellow fever, applied to Mr. Mahy for his medical assistance, we do here-by certify, that by a certain powder, called the Poudre Unique, we were perfectly recovered in the said fatal sickness, and from an experience of the happy effects of the above most valuable medi-cine, consider it our duty to make the fame known, for the benefit of our fellow citizens. Margaret Jones, Mylius O'Connor, Jesse Turner, Christian Rebecca Dow, Catherine Apple, Ann Grover, William Bills, David Williams, carpenter, William T. Donaldson, nail-maker. Mr. Mahy's well known Plaster, for all kind of wounds and sores, to be had at the above direc-tion, No. 131, Chestnut Street. august 8
FOR SALE.
For Sale, at the Stores of the Sub-scribers, on Walnut Street Wharf, 195 Casks of nails assorted, 20 bales of sail canvas, from No. 1 to 8, 53 Casks yellow ochre, 15 tierces bottled porter, 6 to 14 doz. each London particular, Madeira Wines, India market, Teneriffe do. in hogsheads and pip, Old Port do. in lids, Empty Claret bottles, 6 Casks of Gingham, Dimities, Mullinets &c. assorted, for the West-India market, 4, 10, and 12 inch cables and to coils of cordage, Writing papers, ink bands and presses, 20 puncheons Jamaica rum, 1 bale seam twine, 160 bundles sheathing paper. Nicklin & Griffith, north-east
Bengal Goods,
consisting of BANDANNA HANDKERCHIEFS, Chintz Coffes, Maharanzungy, Chintz Guzzamas, Tookeerys, Eliazah Baftas, Wrought Muslins, Long Drawers. Coarse Sugars in bags, fit for the European market. Also, Carolina Indigo, Coffee in hogsheads. A few pipes of, very old and very choice Madeira WINE. For Sale, on reasonable terms, by John Craig, No. 12, Dock-street. mwhsf
FOR SALE, at private Sale,
A Plantation and Tract of Land CONTAINING 145 acres, situate in White-marsh township, in the county of Montgom-ery, about 15 miles from Philadelphia, and on the public road leading from Plymouth by the Broad-Ax tavern toward Horsham, and about one quarter of a mile from said tavern, all about the same distance from the Skippack road and about the same distance from the late resi-dence of James Morris esq. deceased. It is bounded by lands of Anthony Morris esq. Ja-cob Reiff and Derweiller. About ten acres are good watered meadow, about 15 or 20 are un-der clover, and about 35 acres are well timbered. The buildings on the above farm consist of a two-story house dwelling-house, a large stone barn and stone spring-house. There is also on the premises a young orchard of about 150 ap-ple-trees. This farm has great advantages of water, as there is an excellent never-failing stream passing by the house and barn, in such a manner as to supply the same as well as every field with a suf-ficient quantity. The spring over which the spring-house is built, is excellent water, and is also very near and convenient to the dwelling-house. The situation of this place is healthy and in a good neighborhood, and is near to several dif-ferent places of worship, and within the dis-tance of half a mile from two grist and saw mills, also near lime-kilns. This farm will be sold together or divided in-to two parts, as may suit the purchasers. All a two-story house with a barn and carriage house and lot of land situate on Chestnut-hill. It is a very high and healthy situation, and com-mands a very extensive and beautiful prospect. Possession of part of the house may be had im-mediately. For further particulars apply to Henry Pratt, No 94 North Water-street Philadelphia, or to CHRISTOPHER HETDRICK, on Chestnut-Hill. Chestnut-hill, august 14th, 1798. 2awtf
OX BEEF.
100 Barrels of Beef of best quality, put 50 half Barrels up with care for long voyages, 100 Barrels of Connecticut Pork, 100 Barrels of Connecticut Tongues. W I N E S. 35 Pipes of Madeira Wine, 38 Pipes of Port, 30 half casks of Sherry, 30 Casks of Lisbon, 300 Casks of French Claret, of excellent quality. 800 Barrels of Scraped FLOUR, 100 Barrels of Condensed, and 20 Boxes of best Durham Mustard. For Sale by John Skyrin, Landenberger's Wharf, codtf
CASTOR OIL.
Is much wanted; Those who have it to dispose of will find a ready sale by applying to any of the Apotheca-ries. A Quarterly Meeting of the Carpenter's Company will be held at their Hall on Monday evening next at 6 o'clock. JOSEPH WORRELL, War-len. october 11.
ADVERTISEMENT.
WHEREAS JAMES CUMMING & Co. late of the city of Philadelphia, merchants, have assigned over all their effects, real, personal and mixed, to the subscribers, for the benefit of all their creditors, who shall subscribe the said assign-ment within six months from the date hereof.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that they are required to make immediate payment of all ex-ecutive accounts to the Assignees, at their office, No. 62, Dock Street, in failure whereof action will be instituted for the recovery of such debts as are not discharged accordingly. John Trant, John Waddington, James Taylor, Cornelius Comegys Affigneess mwhsf
TO BE SOLD.
THE time of an intended Dutch Servant BOY who has ten years to serve. He has had the small-pox and measles, is active, hearty and strong, and fit for house work in town or country. For further information, enquire of the printer. august 4
FOR SALE.
For Sale, at the Stores of the Sub-scribers, on Walnut Street Wharf, 195 Casks of nails assorted, 20 bales of sail canvas, from No. 1 to 8, 53 Casks yellow ochre, 15 tierces bottled porter, 6 to 14 doz. each London particular, Madeira Wines, India market, Teneriffe do. in hogsheads and pip, Old Port do. in lids, Empty Claret bottles, 6 Casks of Gingham, Dimities, Mullinets &c. assorted, for the West-India market, 4, 10, and 12 inch cables and to coils of cordage, Writing papers, ink bands and presses, 20 puncheons Jamaica rum, 1 bale seam twine, 160 bundles sheathing paper. Nicklin & Griffith, north-east
Bengal Goods,
consisting of BANDANNA HANDKERCHIEFS, Chintz Coffes, Maharanzungy, Chintz Guzzamas, Tookeerys, Eliazah Baftas, Wrought Muslins, Long Drawers. Coarse Sugars in bags, fit for the European market. Also, Carolina Indigo, Coffee in hogsheads. A few pipes of, very old and very choice Madeira WINE. For Sale, on reasonable terms, by John Craig, No. 12, Dock-street. mwhsf
FOR SALE, at private Sale,
A Plantation and Tract of Land CONTAINING 145 acres, situate in White-marsh township, in the county of Montgom-ery, about 15 miles from Philadelphia, and on the public road leading from Plymouth by the Broad-Ax tavern toward Horsham, and about one quarter of a mile from said tavern, all about the same distance from the Skippack road and about the same distance from the late resi-dence of James Morris esq. deceased. It is bounded by lands of Anthony Morris esq. Ja-cob Reiff and Derweiller. About ten acres are good watered meadow, about 15 or 20 are un-der clover, and about 35 acres are well timbered. The buildings on the above farm consist of a two-story house dwelling-house, a large stone barn and stone spring-house. There is also on the premises a young orchard of about 150 ap-ple-trees. This farm has great advantages of water, as there is an excellent never-failing stream passing by the house and barn, in such a manner as to supply the same as well as every field with a suf-ficient quantity. The spring over which the spring-house is built, is excellent water, and is also very near and convenient to the dwelling-house. The situation of this place is healthy and in a good neighborhood, and is near to several dif-ferent places of worship, and within the dis-tance of half a mile from two grist and saw mills, also near lime-kilns. This farm will be sold together or divided in-to two parts, as may suit the purchasers. All a two-story house with a barn and carriage house and lot of land situate on Chestnut-hill. It is a very high and healthy situation, and com-mands a very extensive and beautiful prospect. Possession of part of the house may be had im-mediately. For further particulars apply to Henry Pratt, No 94 North Water-street Philadelphia, or to CHRISTOPHER HETDRICK, on Chestnut-Hill. Chestnut-hill, august 14th, 1798. 2awtf
OX BEEF.
100 Barrels of Beef of best quality, put 50 half Barrels up with care for long voyages, 100 Barrels of Connecticut Pork, 100 Barrels of Connecticut Tongues. W I N E S. 35 Pipes of Madeira Wine, 38 Pipes of Port, 30 half casks of Sherry, 30 Casks of Lisbon, 300 Casks of French Claret, of excellent quality. 800 Barrels of Scraped FLOUR, 100 Barrels of Condensed, and 20 Boxes of best Durham Mustard. For Sale by John Skyrin, Landenberger's Wharf, codtf
CASTOR OIL.
Is much wanted; Those who have it to dispose of will find a ready sale by applying to any of the Apotheca-ries. A Quarterly Meeting of the Carpenter's Company will be held at their Hall on Monday evening next at 6 o'clock. JOSEPH WORRELL, War-len. october 11.
This Day is Published,
AND FOR SALE BY J. FENNO, LIGUENUT-STREET AN ADDRESS
To the People of Maryland,
ON the origin, progress and present state of French aggression, with a sketch of the infamous attempts to degrade the Government of the United States, and some reflections on the late proceedings in Congress; written the last of April in the pre-sent year, by a Member of the House of Representa-tives. june 11
To be Sold, at Public Sale,
On the Premises, On Tuesday the 23d day of Octbr, 1798, at half past two o'clock, in the afternoon. Several very elegant Situations for SUMMER RETREATS, Three and an half miles from the Court house near Frankford road, being part of the subscriber's estate. W. MACPHERSON. dec30
Pennsylvania Hospital,
No. 101, 1798. NO person with an infectious disease, can be admitted into this house; it is therefore ear-nestly recommended to the citizens, not to send or bring any such patient to the gate, who is ill with the prevailing fever. Several persons having been sent here improperly, is the reason of giving this caution. By Order of the Siting Managers, FRANCIS HIGGINS, Stew'd.
Ten Dollars Reward.
DESERTE from the Guard House in New-Castl, this morning, STEPHEN BOWDEN, a private Marine, belonging to the Frigate United States. He is about 36 years of age, five feet ten inches high, fair complexion, light hair, blue eyes, horn in England, and by trade a Brick-layer. Prior to the 5th of June, the date of his enlistment, he resided in Philadelphia, where it is probable he will endeavour to go. Any person who will ap-prehend the said deserter, and secure him in any jail within the United States, shall be entitled to the above reward. F. WHARTON, Capt. Marines. New-Castle, Oct. 8.
TEN DOLLARS REWARD.
DESERTE from my Detachment at Bordent-town this day, a Marine, by name George Redman, a Native of Ireland, about 25 years of age, five feet eight or nine inches high, dark complex-ion, black hair tied; black eyes well made and quarrelsome, when in liquor is fond of fighting—and on a blue teaman's jacket light pantoons, cotton Stockings, round Hat, and had under his Pan-toons a pair of Nankeen Breeches. Whoever apprehends and sends the said Defer-ter to the Marine Camp, shall receive the above Reward. October 11, 1798 HENRY A. WILLIAMS, Lt. Marines
PROCLAMATION.
BY virtue of a precept from JOHN D. COXE, Esquire, president of the court of Oyer and Terminer and general goal delivery for the trial of all capital and other offences in the county of Bucks; and HENRY WYNKOOP and FRANCIS MORRAY, judges of the same court—A court of Oyer and Terminer, and general goal delivery, will be held at Newtown, in the said county of Bucks, on Monday the 17th day of November next. All those who will prosecute against the prisoners in the goal of said county, are required to be then, and there to prosecute against them as shall be just—and all the justices of the peace, coroners and con-stables, within the said county, are required to be then and there, in their proper persons, with their rolls, records, inquisitions and examinations and all or their remembrances, to do all those things which to their offices belong, in that behalf to be done, &c. DANIEL THOMAS, Sheriff. Oct. 4, 1798. 3taw
FLOUR FOR SALE
By the Subscribers, Deliverable at any of the ports on the Dela-ware—who have also on hand at their stores, a quantity of Bar Iron, Pork and Corn—Letters by the post will be attended to. Levi Hollingsworth & Son. august 28. dtf
WILLIAM M'LAWS,
SADLER & HARNESS MAKER, HAS Removed to the Corner of Chestnut and Twelfth-Streets, on the Commons, where he will receive and execute the orders of his friends and wholesale customers, with usual attention & expedition during the prevalence of the present Epidemic, where it has not made its appearance this season, nor during any of the years past. august 25
FOR SALE,
The Cargo of the Schr. Sincerity Benjamin Monticello Master, from Leguira, consisting of 945 Fenegas of Cocoa, 4000 lb. of Flora Indigo, 210 Bales of Cotton, 4 Packages of Goat Skins. By Willings & Francis, No. Eleven street. july 2
Madras and Ventapalem
HANDKERCHIEFS, Searfaukers and Carradarnes, of the newest and most approved patterns, entitled to the drawback, just received, AND FOR SALE BY Alex. J. Miller & Co. No. 64, South Front street. may 18.
FOR SALE, BY
JOHN MILLER, JUN. NO. 8, CHESTNUT STREET, 100 hogheads RUM, Of high proof and fine flavor. july 19
NOTICE.
Bank of North America, August 28th, 1798. THOSE Persons who have Notes or Bills to pay at this Bank are informed, That regular Notices will be put under a sealed cover directed to the respective payer and lodged in the Post-Office every Monday until the return of the citizens. RICHARD WELLS, Cashr. aug. 29.
SOUTHWARK.
October 8, 1798. PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the Commissioners of the District of Southwark have removed their Hall to the usual place, commonly known by the name of James Lillie's School House, in consequence of the rapid decline of the Epidemic Fever, especially in the vicinity thereof. By order of the Board of Commissioners Wm. LINNARD, President. Attest, WILLIAM PENROSE, Clerk, pro tem. October 9
NOTICE.
Bank of Pennsylvania. THE Bank of Pennsylvania is removed to Ger-mantown—where the business will be transacted to-morrow, in the Union School House. JONATHAN SMITH, Cashier. september 4
NOTICE.
Bank of North America, August 28th, 1798. THOSE Persons who have Notes or Bills to pay at this Bank are informed, That regular Notices will be put under a sealed cover directed to the respective payer and lodged in the Post-Office every Monday until the return of the citizens. RICHARD WELLS, Cashr. aug. 29.

Relief of the Poor.
The undermentioned persons are appointed by concurrent resolutions of the boards of managers of the Marine and City Hospitals and guardians of the poor for the purpose of relieving such of their fellow citizens whose situations render it improper for them to remove to the encampments.
  John Keas  Peter Barker    Peter Mucken  Wm Hutchinson    Alexander Teal  William Stevenson    Thomas Altham  John James    Edward Garfagn  Thomas Sawery    Sarah Maxwell  Rhea King    Nathan A. Smith  Pscheal Hollingsworth    Daniel Dougherty  John Teal  
By order of the board of Managers of the Marine and City Hospitals.
Wm. JONES, President.
Clerk.
By order of the board of Guardians of the poor.
PETER MIERCKEN, President.
THE committee appointed by the above resolution for the relief of such persons, whose situations render it impracticable to remove them to the tents, being ready to enter upon the important duties of their appointment; inform the public that they will meet on the 2d, 4th, and 6th days of each week from 3 to 6 o'clock, at the Senate Chamber in the State House, where the indigent of the above class will be relieved, upon producing certificates from one or more respectable inhabitants who continue to reside in the city or suburbs, that their families are in such a situation as to render it improper to remove them to the Tents.
The committee being sensible that no endeavours will be lacking in the committee who superintend the encampments, to make the temporary residence of the poor as inhabitants who removed to them as comfortable as possible; and believing that the removal of them from the city, may, under Providence, be the means of stopping the prevailing disorders; are desirous as much as possible to encourage it; and therefore most earnestly request their fellow citizens to recommend move to them, but such families, who from sickness or other important considerations, are improper objects to receive the public benevolence at the encampments.
ED. GARRIGUES, President.
Peter Barker, Secretary.
Philadelphia, 9th mo. 19th, 1798.
New Encampment.
The Committee who superintend the encampment at Malters's place near the Mill Pond on the Germantown Road, about two miles from the city, respectfully inform their country friends that they stand in need of an immediate supply of vegetables and straw for the use of those distressed citizens who are flying from the present calamity. The committee flatter themselves that the same liberality will be found in the farmer, and others, to supply this Encampment, as has been to that on the Commons near Schuylkill, both having the same laudable object in view.
  John Ingle  } COMMITTEE.    Gen. Robson    Isaac W. Morris  
Camp. Malters' Place, September 10, '98.
THE Committee are happy in having it in their power to inform those citizens who are not in a situation to provide for themselves and are desirous to remove from the city or liberties, that they are now prepared to receive from 6 to 700 persons at the Encampment on Malters's Place, in the Northern Liberties where such persons will be furnished with comfortable apartments and necessary provisions during the present calamity.
TENTS.
The committee of the guardians of the poor, appointed for the superintendence of the tents on Schuylkill, acknowledge with gratitude and sincere satisfaction, the generous liberality of donations they have experienced. It is with deference to public opinion, and public compassion, that they inform their feeling fellow citizens, that they have near seventy pregnant women, who will, ere they leave the encampment, find in not only need, but necessity of clothing for their infants. To mothers, whose hearts can beat with fondness to their offspring—To those amiable young ladies, whose best and benevolent affections are extended to the smiling babe—to fathers who have it in their power, this respectful request is addressed.
By order of the committee,
PETER MIERCKEN, Chairman.
October 3, 1798.
To be Sold,
An elegant and convenient House, In Clifton Street, next door to the Bank of North America. THE Lot is thirty by one hundred and twenty eight. The House has been thoroughly repaired within a few months.—Apply to the Printer. august 3
The Office of the Committee,
Appointed to superintend the building of the Frigate to be loaned to the United States, is removed to No. 112 Spruce Street—of which those gentlemen who have not already come forward with their subscriptions will please to take notice. ROBERT RITCHIE, Sec'y. august 7
A House to let,
In Fourth Street, next door to the Indian Queen. Enquire of ROBERT SMITH, No. 58, South Front Street. august 25
Should a gentleman, a native of Territorie, who has been known in America by the name of Lewis Martin Ceval at one time, and at another by that of Lewis Cecil P. Miller, be alive, and will apply to James Barry, of Baltimore, he will hear of something highly to his interest. Or should he be deceased, any person who will advise a certificate of his death, properly authenticated, will be rewarded with twenty dollars, by applying as above. Mr. Peller is supposed to be some where in the State of Massachusetts. august 14
The Gazette.
PHILADELPHIA,
MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 15.
THE ADDRESS
Of two hundred and eighty-two subscribers, inhabitants of the county of Allebmarie, to General JOHN MARSHALL, one of our late ministers extraordinary to the French republic.
DEAR SIR,
PERMIT us in the familiar, but sincere and respectful stile of personal affection, and public esteem, to congratulate you on your safe and happy return to your native country. At a time when all the best and ablest exertions of all our best and ablest citizens of all descriptions, are necessary to unite and aid us in our defence at home, it is no small consolation to us to know that you, who have rendered such eminent services abroad, should be now, among us, ready to lead your aid in our country's cause; nor are we, fir, so forgetful of the able assistance of your worthy colleagues to whom we make no doubt you are personally attached, not to pray that they may soon be restored to the same situation in which to share with you the approbation and applause of your countrymen, will only be to bring to you the better reward—the happy consolation of having acted well.
In approving of the able and patriotic exertions of our commissioners in their mission to France, we cannot do otherwise in justice to the source from whence their judicious appointments flowed; than to declare our full and unequivocal approbation of that person (our President) for the moderate, just, and pacific purposes of reconciliation; and when that was no longer attainable, for the disingenuous but necessary ones of defence; and among the rest of those measures, it cannot fail to be a source of additional consolation to you to find that man, of whose patriotism, wisdom and integrity, America has already had the greatest proofs, not only approving in the most decided terms of what had already been done, but ready even almost at the close of life, to encounter again the difficulties and hardships of war in support thereof. The appointment of General Washington to the command of the armies of the United States, his acceptance thereof, and above all, his decided approbation of the measures of the government, are a volume of testimony on the score of executive wisdom, and a host in uniting us in our common defence.
Accept, fir, for the eminent services you have rendered us, our sincere prayers for your personal happiness and prosperity.
Signed and transmitted in behalf of the subscribers, the 17th September, 1798, by John Nicholas, William Mickie, David Wood, Thos. C. Fletcher, Chs. Wingfield, jun. Benjamin Brown, Robert Davis, John Harris, Robert Garland.
ANSWER.
To John Nicholas, David Wood, Charles Wingfield, jun. Robert Davis, Robert Garland, William Mickie, Thomas C. Fletcher, Benjamin Brown, and John Harris, Esquires, and those gentlemen, citizens of Allebmarie, on whose behalf, the address, signed by the above gentlemen, was transmitted.
Accept, gentlemen, my sincere and respectful thanks for your congratulations on my return to my native country, which were communicated to me by our common friend Mr. Washington. Congratulations I can never cease to value, because they are believed to have been dictated by the sentiments in which they are professed to have been written.
Impress'd deeply as yourseves with the awful necessity of uniting "all the best and ablest exertions" of our citizens "of all descriptions," for "defence at home." I can only regret, that the means I possess of contributing to an object, on which the liberty and independence of the only real republic on earth so much depends, bear no proportion to my wishes. It is, however, consoling to believe, that the interesting and solemn truth, acquires every day new advocates; and there is much reason to hope, that the great mass of our fellow citizens will permit no inferior considerations to close their eyes on the real danger, which threatens from abroad their national existence.
I wish, with unaffected ardour, the return of my late colleagues, and shall receive real gratification at every mark of esteem and affection which they may receive.
Firmly convinced, as I ever have been, and still am, of the sincere and unremitting perseverance, with which the Executive of the United States has invariably sought for peace, and friendly intercourse with France, so long as a hope remained of attaining those very desirable objects without the sacrifice of one hill more desirable—the independence of our common country—I cannot but add my voice to yours, in applauding measures, which I believe most sincerely to have been both wise and patriotic, and the failure of which, must be attributed to causes the government must lament, but could not control; to my grateful acknowledgment for your approbation of the appointment of the late Envoys to the French Republic, I beg leave to add my assurances, that no persons could have been selected for that mission, who would have carried with them dispositions more conformable to the truly pacific temper, in which the measures originated.
The most temperate and repeated supplications for peace, having been rejected with a haughtiness unexampled in the history of nations, the unopposed and open hostility which had been so long practiced on our
defenceless commerce and citizens, being not only continued, but accompanied with threats of still further hostility, no alternative remained but submission and defence, I rejoice with you, gentlemen, that America had chosen the latter. No other choice could have been made by men who deserve to be free: No other could have been expected from the distinguished characters, who have been chosen by the people to fill the different departments of our happy government: Having made it, preparations to maintain the ground thus necessarily taken, became inevitable.
Forced to arm in defence of all that is dear and valuable on earth. I join most sincerely, in facilitating our fellow-citizens, on seeing once more enlisted in the service of his country, the virtues and the talents of that great man, who has known how to fix by deserving the public confidence, who has known how to fill and retrieve from the highest offices with equal reputation, and who has put the last seal to the patriotism of his character, by obeying at that perilous crisis, the voice which calls him to lead again the armies of liberty and of American independence.
Receive, gentlemen, my thanks for your kind wishes for my personal happiness and prosperity; and believe, when I assure you that I do most sincerely reciprocate them, JOHN MARSHALL.
SPANISH WOOL.
The following account of the care and treatment of sheep by the Spanish flock-masters, with a view to the preservation of their wool, is extracted from a work of admitted authenticity, and may be interesting to many:
From computations made with the utmost accuracy, it has appeared, that there are 5 millions of fine-woolled sheep in Spain; 150,000 sheep compose a flock, which is divided into 10 tribes. One man has the conducting of all. He has authority over 50 shepherds, and 50 dogs, five to each tribe.
The first thing the shepherd does when the flock returns from the south to their summer downs, is to give them as much salt as they will eat; every owner allows his flock of 1000 sheep 100 azoves or 25 quintals of salt, which the flock eats in about 5 months; they eat none in their journey, not in the winter walk. This has ever been the custom and it is the true reason why the kings of Spain cannot raise the price of salt to the height it is in France, for it would tempt the shepherds to slant the sheep, which it is believed, would weaken their constitutions and degrade the wool. The shepherd places 50 or 60 flat stones at five steps from each other, he strews salt upon each stone, he leads the flock slowly through the stones, and every sheep eats to his liking.
In Spain there are two kinds of sheep; the coarse woolled sheep, who remain all their lives in their native country, and who are shorn every night in winter; and the fine woolled sheep, who are all their lives in the open air, and travel every summer from the cold mountains of the northern parts of Spain, to feed all the winter on the southern warm plains of Andalusia, Mancha, and Extremadura.
The execution of a Director by lot seems to be a matter perfectly well understood in France; for Mr. Stone, in his intercepted letter to Dr. Priestly, written in February predicts that Francois de Neufchateau was to be the Director excluded by lot in May.
All England was thrown into a ferment for three years, by the House of Commons invalidating one election, that of Mr. Wilks for Middlesex. In the short space of nine months they have annulled in France at least 400 elections, in September, because the persons elected were Royalists; in May, because they were Terrorists. Under that pretence the next Elections will be annulled it is neither easy nor important to decide; but under such a system, it were surely more decent to give up the mockery of elections altogether.
There are at present three hundred persons at Rochefort condemned to transportation, without form of trial, by the mere authority of the Executive Directory, and the number daily encreases.
It would be curious to calculate what share of the produce of the Diamond mines of Brazil has passed into the pockets of the Directory during their negotiation with Portugal: D' Aranjeo is known to have given two large bribes—one for liberty to remain at Paris, till he could have farther instructions from Lisbon—another for his deliverance from imprisonment in the Temple. Up on the magnificent scale of Parisian corruption, these two bribes must have amounted to a pretty sum.
Died, lately, at Goding Workhouse, Nottinghamshire, England, aged 96, John Blinders, pensioner, who had served his country 62 years as a soldier, 32 years of which he was a gunner in the Royal Artillery, 22 years in the 8th, or King's own Regiment of Foot, and six years in the 3rd regiment, General Lambton's. Whilst in the 8th regiment he was in six battles, and two sieges, viz. the battles of Dettingen, Fontenoy, Falkirk, Culloden, Ruckoon, and Val, Stirling Castle, and Bergen-op-Zoom, for which services he had a pension from Government, which enabled him in his old age to live comfortably in his native parish of Geding; but it was very remarkable, that, after many experiments for comfort in private families, he should prefer boarding himself in the parish workhouse for several years before his death, where he lived well at a cheap rate, which enabled him to enjoy his can of ale regularly every day, and to subscribe his half guinea to the Voluntary Contributions.
Guardians of the Poor.
The adjourned meeting of the General Board to Thursday next the 11th instant, is further postponed in consequence of the continuance of the prevailing fever. PETER MIERCKEN, President. Alms House, October 8.
GALAXIANA,
OR BIOGRAPHICAL ANECDOTES.
Take him on't cut him out in little stars.
Hamlet & Juliet.
L'ETOILE.
It is said, that this elegant writer composed always by candle light, and that when he set to work in the day, he had the windows shut up, and lighted candles. Like Moliere and Mallebranche, he was in the use of always reading his verses to an old maid-servant. M. Pelisson, who tells this anecdote, observes, that he perhaps thought that his verses were not complete till they became possessed of a certain kind of beauty which was perceivable by every person.
CAMUS, BISHOP OF BELLAY.
Was the great friend of the good St. Francois de Sales, whose life he wrote. Observing that many clergymen ceased to preach as soon as they became bishops, he said, "That a bishopric was a gag." Politics, he defined, artem non tam regendi quam fallendi homines : little thinking that mankind are so foolish and inconsiderate, that they cannot well be governed without being occasionally duped.
St. Francois de Sales, having one day complained to him of his want of memory, M. de Bellay said, you have no reason to complain of your portion, since you have an excellent judgement, in which part of human intellect I am sadly defective. The good Saint burst out a laughing, and embracing him very tenderly, said, "I know well that you always speak as you think: you are, however, the only person that I ever heard charge himself with want of judgement. Do not despair; time will bring you judgement with itself. It is one of the fruits of experience and age."
CHAPLAIN.
Was no great friend to the fair sex; he used to say, that the most intelligent of them had but half reason. Chaplain's poem of the Pucelle, or of the Maid of Orleans, took him up twenty years to write, and when it came out, it was generally despised. A Latin distich was made upon it.
The Maid expected now for ages past, An old and wrinkled hag turns out at last.
Chaplain, in spite of his excessive avarice, committed once an act of great generosity. He was appointed preceptor to the dauphin. He perished, however, in refusing that honorable and lucrative employment; giving as a reason, that he was become old and infirm; and could not flatter himself that he could ever please a young and a lively prince.
RACAN.
If we are to believe Ciffor, this elegant poet had so little taste for Latin, that he was never able to get by heart the confiteor in the mass books, and that even when he was confessing himself, he was obliged to read it out of his book.
J. J. ROUSSEAU.
This fine writer resided some time at the village of Montmorency, near Paris. On quitting it he presented a copy of his Emile to the library of the fathers of the oratory, in the village, with this inscription in a blank leaf of it:
"J. J. Rousseau requests the fathers of the oratory to allow a place in their library to his last work. As to adopt the book of a writer is not to adopt his principles, he thinks that he can, without impertinence, request this favour."
Montmorency, May 29, 1762.
Rousseau says, in his letters from the Mountain—"After having been during all my life time, the panegyrist of a republican government, towards the end of it, I am obliged to confess, that in a monarchy there is the greater regard paid to the true liberty of man."
M. CHAMPFORT.
Says finely, "Most men are slaves, because they cannot say no, and are not able to live alone."
"If a man," says he truly, "wishes to avoid being a quick, he should never mount a stage; but if once he has degraded himself so as to play tricks upon one, he must continue to play them, or his himself done by the populace."
Weak men are to rogues and designing persons, what light troops are to an army. They do more mischief than the army itself, by scouing and ravaging the country.
FREDERICK II. KING OF PRUSSIA.
The beginning of the reign of the last unfortunate king of France is thus described by this great prince to Voltaire:
"I know very well the state of the debts and revenues of France. Its debts are enormous, its resources exhausted, and its taxes multiplied beyond bounds. The only method to diminish in time the load of its debts, will be to put its expenses within certain limits, and to retrench every superfluity. But, alas! that I fear will never be done; for instead of saying I have such an income, and I can afford to spend only so much of it, we are but too apt to say, I must have so much money—find out expedients to get it for me."
"I have lately learned that the king of France has displaced some of his ministers. I am not astonished at it; I look upon Louis the xvi. as a young lamb in the midst of wolves—he must have great luck if he gets out of their hands."
DOM. NOEL D'ARGONNE.
Is it not surprising, that since experience has been so well known as it is, mankind should still continue to be duped by it? What our modern orators, adds he, want in arguments, they give you in length.
FATHER PAUL SARPPI.
The dying wish of this great patriot of Venice, has not been fulfilled: "Eslo perpetua"—May it last forever! The power of the French, which, like a baleful comet, does mischief to the general system of the universe, without affording to itself either superior heat or splendour, has demolished that republic, which had continued twelve hundred years, and which Harrington thought incapable of decay from any internal defect in its constitution. An inscription was some years ago put upon the
DOG'S PALACE AT VENICE,
which has been but too fatally realized in our times:
Prudentia parum perit, Imprudentia juvum imperat, Republica recedat.
The prudence of our Senators is extinguished. The imprudence of our young men governs. The Republic is going headlong to ruin.
DESMAHIERS.
The oppressive tension, and the cause of ennui were never better described than by this elegant French poet:
ENNUI.
Ce sommeil fatigant de l'ame, Né de contrainte et du loisir, De nos jours usé la trame, Que la douleur eût le plaisir.
Of the dull oppressive sleep,
Born of constraint and too much sorrow, More on the stretch life's thread you keep, Than either anguish or than pleasure;
It is the observation of a learned physician that many persons incur disorders that lead often to death by mere ennui.
[From a London paper of April 14.]
ASTRONOMY.
A French Journal states, that since the 6th ult. a comet, of that kind called bearded, has been seen in the horizon to the south-west of the town of Leybach. It was of a mean magnitude, and very luminous. Its tail, which was pale, could be seen by means of a telescope.
AEROSTATICS.
A person of the name of Garnerin has announced in the French papers, that he intended on the 11th of March, to make a new experiment in the park of Moupeaux, with a parachute, to which animals were to be attached. The aerostat which was to raise them, a ballon perdu, contains 906 cubic feet, and the artist proposed to make it burst in the atmosphere with a noise like thunder. The experiment was to be preceded by the ascent of a globe five feet in diameter, and 73 feet cube. On account of the unfavourableness of the weather, the experiment was put off.
Privately fleeling.
The coachman belonging to a gentleman's carriage, who was waiting in George-street, Hanover-square, on Monday night, having fallen asleep, some villains unharnessed, and made off with the horses, leaving him the reins in his hands.
During the late wet weather many of the new Volunteers caught cold while exercising in the morning damps, in consequence of which their wives ordered them to go on duty in patten.
The following is from an English provincial print—the most virulent of the opposition.
CAMBRIDGE, MAY 26.
We have presented to our readers a faithful abridgement of the official documents published by the American Commissioners of their negotiations with France. As no advice have been received from France for this week past, and we are yet unacquainted with the French account of these proceedings, we defer making any remarks on what at present appears to be such a complication of base villainy, as would have disgraced any of the old, regular governments of Europe.
JUNE 5.
A few days since was married, Mr. John Pritchard, vicar-choral of St David's, to Miss Summers, of St David's. The joint ages of the bride-groom, bride-maid, the person who gave the bride away, and the bride's servant, want seven years of the age of the blooming bride.
Lately died at Swansea, Glamorganshire, Mrs. Esther Davies, widow, aged 120 years.
On Saturday morning a sergeant, nine soldiers and three seamen arrived at Ipswich from Oxford, being a part of the body who had fallen into the hands of the enemy in the late expedition. They had seized on an open boat, and contrived to make their escape.
PENNSYLVANIA, ff.
In the Name and by the Authority of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, BY THOMAS MIFFLIN, Governor of the said Commonwealth,
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS, it has been stated to me by the President and Directors of the Bank of Pennsylvania, That on the night of Saturday the first instant, the House now occupied by the said Bank, commonly called Carpenter's Hall, was burglariously entered by some villain, or villains unknown, and therefrom a considerable number of Bank Notes of various descriptions and denominations were stolen and carried away: TO THE INTENT that the perpetrator, or perpetrators thereof, may be discovered and brought to condign punishment, I have deemed it expedient to issue this Proclamation, hereby offering and promising a REWARD of ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS to any person, or persons, who shall discover the perpetrator, or perpetrators thereof, before or after the fact, to be paid on the conviction of all or any of the offenders: AND I do hereby further offer and promise a FREE AND ENTIRE PARDON unto any one of the perpetrators, or accessories, who shall make a full and satisfactory disclosure of all the circumstances relative to the contriving and accomplishing the same, and of the names and places of abode of his or her associates, so that such associates may be apprehended and convicted: AND all the Judges, Justices, Sheriffs, Constables, and other Public Officers of his Commonwealth (according to the duties of their respective stations) are hereby required and enjoined to use all lawful means to detect and bring to justice each and every person concerned in contriving, or perpetrating the crime aforesaid.
GIVEN under my hand and the Great Seal of the State, at Germantown, the third day of September, in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight, and of the Commonwealth the twenty-third.
THOMAS MIFFLIN.
By the Governor:
A. J. DALLAS.
Secretary of the Commonwealth.

BY THIS DAY'S MAIL.
Foreign Advises,
By the ship Betsey, Capt. Carberry, arrived at New-York, in 32 days from Cork.
LONDON, August 21. Landing of Buonaparte at Alexandria. Star Office, Five o'clock, P. M. We stop the Press to announce that a report is current that the French General, Buonaparte, has made good his landing at Alexandria, with 13,000 men, not having been come up with by Admiral Nelson. This intelligence was received by private letters brought by the Hamburg Mail, which arrived last night. Since writing the above article, we have been favored with the following, dated
East-India House, August 21. By a letter from Mr Tooke, the East India company's agent at Constantinople, dated July 23, it appears by the report of the captain of the Port of Alexandria, who escaped from thence to Cyprus, from whence he has forwarded a dispatch to Constantinople that Buonaparte actually disembarked at Alexandria, on or about the 8th of July, from 13 to 20,000 men, and that he met with little or no resistance from the Turks. Buonaparte's fleet, ships of war, and transports, is stated to be near 300 sail.
Mansion House, August 24, '98. The following is a copy of a letter received this day by the Lord Mayor: My Lord,
"I have the honor to acquaint your lordship, by command of Lord Lieutenant, that intelligence is just received, that on the evening of the 22d instant, a small French squadron, consisting as is stated, of four ships, has appeared in the bay of Killala, and landed part of their men: the amount of this force is not yet ascertained.
I am at the same time to acquaint your lordship, that a squadron of his Majesty's ships, consisting of a line of battle ships and five frigates, are cruising off the North West Coast, and there is good reason to hope they will fall in with the enemy.
I have the honour to be, &c. CASTLEREAGH."
Upon this news being made public yesterday, general orders were issued to the yeomanry to parade, at six o'clock in the evening, at their several alarm posts, furnished with ball cartridges.
In consequence of this order, a very numerous attendance of the different corps—the lawyers and attorneys corps, cavalry and infantry (which had been formally dismissed from duty, in order that the members might attend to their private affairs in the several parts of the country) mustered in great force, and not the least abatement appeared to have taken place in that zeal which has so often been routed with effect for the preservation of the metropolis.
Notwithstanding the anxiety manifested by our gallant fellow soldiers for immediate duty, it was not thought necessary to employ them upon any service, and they were dismissed, with directions to hold themselves in readiness in case of any alarm.
No such alarm took place, and the night passed with perfect tranquility. Killala bay, where the French squadron is stated to have landed their men, is a small inlet of the Atlantic ocean, in which the little town of Killala is seated, in the county of Mayo, and about 127 miles NW. from Dublin. The town is an episcopal see—the present bishop is Dr. Stock.
It is supposed that the number of French landed at this place does not exceed 800 men. A small party of about 20 of the Northamptonshire fencibles quartered there, is said to have opposed their landing, but, as may be easily imagined, without any effect.
This squadron is said to be the same which failed sometime ago from Bourdeaux, in order to make a diversion on the NW. coast of this kingdom, while the main squadron should sail from Brest and land troops at Lough Swilly. Happily the vigilance of the British fleet has locked up the latter in the French harbour, and thus baffled this last desperate attempt of the Irish traitors; while the petty invasion at Killala, abandoned as a miserable and forlorn hope, must be cut off—the ships by the superior naval force which is now upon the north west coast, and the troops by the indignant valour of Irish loyalists.
A short time will, we trust, produce a fortunate and decisive issue to this new treason of those abandoned miscreants; who, to gratify diabolical ambition, would strew the country with carnage, might they only hope to rule amidst the desolation of Ireland.
It was yesterday reported that the bishop of Killala had fallen into the hands of the French troops; but we have good reason to believe this report utterly untrue.
The counties of Wicklow and Wexford are completely secured by a powerful military force.
We understand that it is the intention of government not to permit any of the chiefs of the rebellion to be included in the amnesty, who shall be the future cause of any effusion of blood; and that it has been declared to them, and that if they expect favour, they must take immediately advantage of the mercy of our chief governor.
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Postscript.
NEW-YORK, October 13.
With extreme pleasure do we announce the safe arrival of Gen. PINCKNEY and family, in the Prussian ship De Hoop, Capt. Hendrickson, which came up to this city, yesterday afternoon, after a passage of sixty days from Bourdeaux.
We are sorry that the afflicted state of our city prevents the General from landing, otherwise, we are confident, that even the few inhabitants now in town, would, with public acclamations, welcome the arrival of a man whose conduct in France has been marked by that firmness, probity, and intelligence, which must endear him to every honest and patriotic American.
The General will disembark to day at Paules-hook, and proceed to Trenton, where he will be received with open arms by those officers of our government, who have taken refuge from the fever.
The General observed to us, that if we are UNITED and ENERGETIC, we have nothing to fear from France; but, without these two ingredients in our councils and nation, the evils of a war may be considered as a probable event.
To the politeness of the General, we are indebted for a file of French papers as late as the 12th of August; from which we extract the following invidious decree, the dark tendency of which, our readers are too enlightened not to be sensible of, and too honest not to abhor. This tyrannical song, intended as a lullaby to Americans is signed by honest Merlin, of privateering memory, who last year when Minister of Justice, was the source whence issued all those piratical opinions, which organized and sanctioned the most unbounded depredations on our defenceless commerce by myriads of French tree-boots, in many of which he was known to be interested.
From the Journal de Bordeaux, dated 21 Thermidor. An. VI. (8th August 1798)
Arrêtés of the Executive Directory.
The Executive Directory, hearing the report of the Minister of Marine and of the Colonies; considering that the news recently arrived from the French Colonies and from the Continent of America, leaving no doubt but that the French or so-called French corsairs, have broken the laws of the republic on their cruise and on their captures; Considering that strangers and pirates have abused the latitude given at Cayenne and the Antilles, to the armaments in course or in war and merchandise; Considering the violations of the respect due to the rights of nations, as well as to the persons and property of allies and of neutrals.
ARRETES;
 1. For the future there shall not be delivered in the French Colonies of America any letters of marque, authorizations or permissions to arm whether in course or in war and merchandise, but by the particular agents of the executive Directory themselves, who shall not delegate this right to any one, and ought not to make use of it but in favor of those ship owners whose principles and property are well known to them and shall besides be obliged to conform in every respect to the laws on cruizers and their prizes, and especially to that of the 1st October 1793, O. S.  2. All the letters of marque authorizations, or permissions granted in the colonies of America, by the particular agents of the Executive Directory or all other agents civil and military under their orders, to arm in course or in war and merchandise, shall be considered as null and void after the thirtieth, which shall follow the publication of the present arrêt in the said colonies.  3. Every agent or every one delegated in neutral possessions to judge of the validity of prizes made by French cruizers, and who shall be suspected to have any interest, direct or indirect in the armaments in course or in war, and merchandise, shall be immediately recalled.  4. The particular agents of the executive directory at Cayenne, St. Domingo and Guadalupe, shall watch carefully that the interests and property of neutral and allied vessels be scrupulously respected, and in no case can they act with their cargoes but to the full and entire satisfaction of the two contending parties.  5. The said particular agents of the Executive Directory, the commanders of all vessels of the republic, the consuls, vice-consuls and all others, invested with powers to this effect shall cause to be arrested and punished, all those who shall infringe the dispositions of the present arrêt, which shall be printed in the Bulletin of the Laws, and with the execution of which the Minister of Exterior Relations and of the Marine and colonies are charged.  (Signed) MERLIN, President. LAGARDE, Sec. Gen.
Yesterday arrived here in 33 days from Cork, the ship Betsey, Carberry. By this arrival we are informed, that
"On the 27th of August, about 1800 French troops, principally officers, landed in Sligo bay, in the county of Galway, and had intrenched themselves with nearly 200 pieces of cannon. They attacked general Lake in p'sant's dress, (he thinking they were some of the rebels coming to lay down their arms) and took ten pieces of cannon. Cornwallis, the lord lieutenant of Ireland, was preparing to attack them on the 30th of August. No news of an engagement had arrived at Cork on the 8th of September, when the fleet failed.
"The French were beating up for men publicly in some of the small towns. "The Betsey failed with the Cork fleet in company with about 80 sail of Americans—a list of them will be given to-morrow."
The Gazette.
PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 15.
THE Subscriber prematurely borne forward to a situation of high responsibility, hopes the candour and consideration of his friends; not dwelling on the errors and wanderings of his career, will find for them an apology in the heat and inexperience of Youth. It hath pleased Heaven to put a period to the labours of him who had for ten years conducted to public admiration, the GAZETTE of the UNITED STATES. Awakened from mental distress, at the affliction bereavement, his successor feels himself overcome in the consideration of the weighty task which has devolved on him: He is but too conscious that he stands in "the breach the angry angel made," only to render it the more conspicuous;—a breach, alas! not soon to be filled. Notwithstanding the flattering opinions of friendship, which ever watchful for indications on which to ground the most favourable predictions, often creates them by the mere force of imagination, he is fearful that his friends will with more difficulty distinguish the mens abnormis sapiens, crassaque Minerva , than the untempered fire and indifference of youthful inexperience: To them and the Public, however he pledges the best exertions of that portion of judgment and of talents, which nature has allotted him: For the rectitude of his intentions, he can with confidence make an high appeal. Immersing to active life, at a period big with events of immense magnitude—a period at which the world seems trembling on a point,—on the mighty turn of which rests happiness or woe, it will be his highest aim to strengthen the existing barriers round the public weal, and to contribute in raising new pillars to the decaying edifice of public virtue.
It may be of some interest to those who look for a continuance of entertainment and information through the medium of this Gazette, to learn the leading features by which it is proposed to distinguish the publication: On this head the Subscriber thinks fit to be brief; and here happily he reflects with pleasure that his course is already so plainly marked out for him, as to leave little to be said, and few new fields to be explored.
It was his happy lot to be blessed with parents exemplary in their lives, and in their end. Hence is derived the sweetest consolation for their loss. It was their fortune while living to contract the esteem of that part of mankind whose good opinion is most valuable. Hence naturally resulted the sincerest sensibility at that dispensation which removed them to a brighter world. Of them most truly may it be said— Multis illi bonis flebilis occiderunt.
To point out the cause of this estimation, is to illustrate the precise object of his highest ambition. That line of conduct which has been found, after a long course of experience to have contracted general admiration and applause, could not be deviated from without incurring the just charge of rashness. And this brings him to state,—That his constant endeavor will be to conduct this paper in such manner, (particularly in regard to the leading principles of its politics) as to leave the reader as little sensible as possible, that it has passed into new hands.
He begs leave to offer the most heartfelt gratitude for the generous countenance and support he has received, and the most lively and ever-living recollection of the private friendship he has experienced; hoping to bring about the time when, more than at present, he may be able to derive that in some degree from personal merit, which now he attributes to a kind respect and esteem for the virtues of a departed parent. JOHN WARD FENNO.
"* A multitude of letters of business and of friendship, demand and will receive the immediate attention of the subscriber. He begs leave to offer an apology for those neglects which have been experienced, the scene of severe distress in which he has been enveloped. During the life of Mr. Cushing, the late superintendant of the paper, he finds a partial attention was paid. But since his death and the sickness of my eldest brother, and two others of the family, and during my long detention at a distance from home by indisposition, this department necessarily experienced a total neglect. The other departments of the
business, through the generous fidelity, zeal, and contempt of danger, displayed by the journeyman and apprentices in the office, have been conducted in a manner exceeding the most sanguine expectations. Their generous sacrifices to their love and veneration for my late father, justify in my opinion this public acknowledgment from me.
Letters addressed, through the medium of the post office, will reach me, at Mr. Young's, Whitehall, where I shall for the present remain.
JOHN WARD FENNO.
APPOINTMENTS.
 Woolsey Burton, of Delaware, Commissioner under the Act providing for the valuation of lands and dwelling houses, and the enumeration of slaves, within the United States. vice Isaac Cooper declined.  Elijah Brigham, of Massachusetts, ditto. vice Joseph Allen, declined.  Cornelius Howard, of Maryland, ditto. vice Robert Gorham, declined.  William Hunter Davenport, of Virginia, ditto, vice James Brackenridge, declined.  Moses Robinson, jun. of Vermont, ditto. vice Elijah Dewey, declined.  Isaac Alexander, of South Carolina, ditto. vice John Cheever, declined.  Bathrod Washington, of Virginia, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, vice James Wilson, deceased. 
We are sorry to inform the public that a number of prisoners confined in the East Wing of the gaol of this city, on Saturday evening last, effected their escape by undermining the walls of the prison, and have since committed numerous depredations.—Some of them have been apprehended. It is surprising that at this period, or any other, a sufficient number of men are not provided to guard so important a public edifice. Surely if individuals can afford to employ persons to watch their houses, the corporation might do the same, without incurring the displeasure of their constituents.
An affray took place last evening between a party of Portuguese and American sailors, in Southwark, in which two of the latter were killed on the spot. Two of the Portuguese, have been since safely lodged in Morris's building.
FENWICK & SKIRWITH:—par noble fratrum.
Citizen Wolf has communed with citizen Tyger on the prospect of a final privation of the fattening spoils of privateering on the American commerce; the result is a report of the relaxation of the Directory in their unparalled career of baseness towards this country, by the suspension of a recently imposed embargo. The characters of the two correspondents are such, that it is presumed a man would not be accused of indecency for doubting their veracity. But a more important circumstance arrests attention in this business. At the date of S's letter, there had been ample time for the arrival of the envoy Logan. The object of his mission, and his instructions from the Jacobin Divan, seem pretty generally understood to have been grounded on the expectation of restraining the Directory, as far as possible, from pressing matters to extremities by intemperate violence. Let your fraternal hugs be more gentle, says Logan, and they will again bend to your pressure. As the Directory have taken every important movement hitherto agreeably to the advice and direction of their servants the fashion here, it was not to be expected that this last admonition (which was deemed of sufficient importance to authorize the sending of a special envoy) could fail to meet equally prompt and implicit attention.
[The above was written for Saturday's Gazette, since when the following has come to hand.]
PARIS, August 23.
Mr. Pitt's intrigues to kindle a war between the two Republics of France and America are nearly frustrated. The new American Envoy, the Brave L— —after having (as it is reported) taken the advice of P. P. and K— took the direct way. He dined yesterday at the house of the President of the Directory, and has procured an arrest which takes off the embargo laid on a great number of American vessels, if not all of them. As it cannot be supposed that the three American frigates and loop of war armed against France could have terrified the Directory, we may depend on a solid Peace.
* Logan, who left this country about three months ago.
† Tom Paine and Kosciusko.
New-York, Oct. 13.
Yesterday arrived here his Britannic majesty's Packet —, in — days from Falmouth.
   ARRIVED, Days,     Ship Edinburgh Packet, Laitils 48   Hope, Anderson, Bourdeaux 54   Solomon, Behonag, Hamburg 90   Barque Good Hope, Petres, do. 75   Brig Hannah, Grener, Bremen 153   Schr. Sally, Washington 14   Industry, Galley, St. Bartholomews 30  
COLLECTOR'S OFFICE,
PHILADELPHIA, August 30, 1798. THE business of the Custom House will from this day be transacted at Chester, during the continuance of the fever which now prevails in this city; and in consequence thereof, the merchants are hereby notified, that payment of all bonds for duties to the United States, payable at this office, may be made either at the Custom House in Chester, or at the Bank of the United States. Collector's Office, Philadelphia, Aug. 30.
PETER BLIGHT
HAS removed his Counting House to his House in the Northern Liberties near Nire Town, Germantown road, August 21.
On the death of HILARY BAKER, Esq. the late Mayor of Philadelphia.
The dire disease, which through our city's streets Its mortal poison o'er our guilty heads, At length has level'd in the silent dust, The Man, whom foes and friends alike could trust.
When public duty claim'd this good man's care, Peace to prefer, the general won its share, A thousand victims by the fever slain, Could raise no fears, his ardor to restrain. No gainful motive, nor ambitious view, Could line his soul such labors to pursue. Faith gave him courage, hope illum'd his eye, To seek his Saviour, and himself deny; With elevated trust he look'd above For surer recompence than earthly love. Yet even here the tributary tear Shall sadly flow, and grace his honor'd bier. His fellow-citizens shall long proclaim To listening children BAKER's modest fame; The mournful story of his death shall tell, And bid them live like him, like him excel. "Friend of our city, patron of her laws, In every danger faithful to her cause! "Embalmed, O BAKER, in our grateful hearts, Thy virtue lies, which all around imparts. "Its force and beauty, worthy to descend, From age to age, till time itself shall end! "But our weak praise, no lasting joy conveys; Soon must it vanish in a brighter blaze. "Go faithful servant of a gracious lord, From him receive thy adequate reward." I. H.
DONATIONS,
Received at the Tents near Schuylkill, for the use of the Poor.
 Oct. 13.  Six bundles of babe clothes separately wrapped up in blankets, each containing 20 pieces, from several young ladies whose signature is C.  Twelve parcels, each containing 13 pieces of clothes, with a bundle of old linen and pins, from Mrs. Wm. Page.  Twelve bundles, each containing 12 pieces, babe clothes, from the ladies of Mr. John Lardner's family.  Forty-two pieces babe clothes and five dollars, from a lady in Passyunk road, name unknown.  A bundle of women and children's clothing from a young lady in Turner's lane.  A bundle of children's clothing from Miss Miles, Chittenham.  One do. do. do. from Mrs. Wikoff.  One do. do. do. from Mrs. E. Bringhurst, Germantown.  One do. do. do. containing 76 pieces, from four young ladies residing at Germantown.  Forty-two pair of shoes from a citizen of Philadelphia, name unknown, forwarded by Mr. Benjamin Stokes.  A cart load of potatoes and pumpkins, with a bundle containing nine pieces of serviceable clothing, from Mr. Wikoff, of Blockley.  Forty bushels of potatoes from Mr. Wm. M Lane.  Two cords of wood from Mr. Thomas Pratt, of Blockley.  Six hundred two quarters fourteen pounds rye flour, 1cwt. 14lbs. wheat, 1cwt. 3qrs. 2lbs. buckwheat meal, 11 fat sheep, 6 cheeses, 2 bushels of potatoes, and a quantity of comfortable clothing, from several of the inhabitants of Kennett East and West Bradford, Thornbury, and Newben, in Chester county, forwarded by Mr. Phillip Price, junr.  By order of the Committee.  PETER MERCKEN, Southwark, Oct. 15. Chairman. 
CITY HOSPITAL REPORT.
For 48 hours, ending this morning at eight o'clock.
ADMITTED.
 Rose Martin, Michael Coyle,  Timothy Woods, Wm. Leary,  Henry Garling, John Allen,  Richard Williams, Margaret Gibbs,  George Taverner, Jacob Sykes,  Helen a Nee, Wm. Brown,  Elizabeth Growth, Samuel Edenton,  Robert Henry, Isaac —. 
DIED.
 Wm. Smith, Joseph Ashton,  Elizabeth Flicker, Rose Martin,  Julius York, Elizabeth Hall,  Nicholas Hynes, A black woman,  Jacob Sykes, Wm. Brown,  Martin Everheart, Wm. Moore,  Jane Howard. 
Interred from city and suburbs 18 City Hospital 13
Total 31
Remaining in the Hospital 85, 45 of whom are on the recovery.
FORTY-EIGHT new cases of the prevailing fever, reported by 15 Physicians, for the last 48 hours.
List of all the Burials in the several Grave Yards of the City and Liberties of Philadelphia, as taken from the books kept by Clergymen, Sextons, &c.
   Names of the Burial Grounds. Adults. Children.     Christ Church 0 0   St. Peter's 2 0   St. Paul's 1 0   First Presbyterian 0 0   Second Presbyterian 2 1   Third Presbyterian 2 0   Scots Presbyterian 0 0   Associate Church 0 0   St. Mary's Church 5 0   Trinity Church 1 0   Friends 4 0   Free Quakers 0 0   Sweeds 0 0   German Lutheran 12 2   German Reformed Presbyterian 5 2   Moravians 0 0   Baptists 0 0   Methodists 0 0   Universalists 1 0   Jews 0 0   City Hospital 31 0   Kensington 0 0   Costes 0 0   Total for the last 48 hours 62 3  

PROPOSALS,
BY THE Insurance Company of North America.
FOR INSURANCE against FIRE, on Dwelling-Houses, Ware-Houses, and other Buildings...
I. Common Insurance, on hazards of the fire kind, will be undertaken at a premium of about half per cent. per annum.
Houses and Ware-Houses, the walls and partitions of which are wholly of stone or brick...
Also Goods and Merchandise, not of an extra hazardous kind, in casks, bales, or packages...
II. Insurance will also be made on buildings and goods extra hazardous, at premiums proportioned to the risk.
Buildings partly constructed of brick or stone, are preferable to those wholly wooden.
III. The following conditions are to be understood by the parties.
1st. The Insurance is not binding till the stipulated premium be paid...
2d. Insurance may be renewed at the expiration of the term of the policy...
3d. If any other insurance be made on the same property...
4th. Goods held in trust, or on consignment, may be insured...
5th. Bills of Exchange, Bonds and other Securities...
6th. No insurance will be made for a shorter term than one year...
7th. Losses sustained by fire on property insured, shall be paid in thirty days...
8th. A description of the property to be insured will be expected...
9th. The situation with respect to other buildings or back buildings...
10th. A description of the kinds and nature of the goods...
11th. A general description of the building in which they are kept...
12th. A description of the kinds and nature of the goods...
13th. A general description of the building in which they are kept...
14th. A description of the kinds and nature of the goods...
15th. A general description of the building in which they are kept...
16th. A description of the kinds and nature of the goods...
17th. A general description of the building in which they are kept...
18th. A description of the kinds and nature of the goods...
19th. A general description of the building in which they are kept...
20th. A description of the kinds and nature of the goods...
21st. A general description of the building in which they are kept...
22nd. A description of the kinds and nature of the goods...
23rd. A general description of the building in which they are kept...
24th. A description of the kinds and nature of the goods...
25th. A general description of the building in which they are kept...
26th. A description of the kinds and nature of the goods...
27th. A general description of the building in which they are kept...
if he goods vary materially in kind, a general estimate of the value of each kind proposed to be insured...
3. Articles of the following kinds are deemed extra hazardous...
4. Letters paid, directed to the Secretary of the Board of Directors...
By order of the Board, BENJAMIN HAZARD, Secretary.
Office of the Insurance Company of North America; Philad. Feb. 1, 1798.
Mills, Portage, &c. TO BE LEASED FOR A TERM OF YEARS.
TO be leased, for a term not less than three, nor more than seven years, a VALUABLE PROPERTY...
This establishment consists of an excellent grist mill, saw mill, dwelling house, barn, and a portage or carrying place...
The grist mill is a handsome, new and well finished building...
The saw mill is also new, situated on the same stream, now furnished with an ample flock of logs...
The dwelling house is well calculated for the use of the miller...
The portage is 2-1/2 miles of a mile in length...
Among the many advantages of this situation, must be numbered the fertility of the surrounding country...
The stock on hand will be sold to the lessee, and the cattle, utensils, farm tools, &c. &c. may be sold or let as the premises.
If a purchase should offer for the whole or any undivided part of the premises it will be sold.
Terms of sale, or lease, apply to Mr. WILLIAM MUMMERS, at the Seneca Falls, or to the subscriber, at Schenectady.
STEPHEN N. BAYARD.
Federal Mills, ADJOINING Georgetown, and the City of Washington...
Those mills in point of situation for business and natural advantages are generally admitted to be equal to any in America.
The country new, which is erected four pair of Burr millstones...
A strong stone building, containing one pair of stones, and built in such a manner that the second pair may be put up with little expense.
This mill is conveniently situated, and calculated to carry on extensively, country work...
One third of the purchase money will be required in sixty days from the day of sale...
JOSEPH E. ROWLES, Surviving partner of JOSEPH E. ROWLES & Co.
LANDING, At South Street wharf, the cargo of the ship Connecticut, from Batavia.
About 300 tons of Java Coffee, of the growth of 1794 and 1795.
60 tons of Java Sugar, In canisters - for sale by PETER BLIGHT.
WHO ALSO OFFERS FOR SALE, 150 hds. choice Jamaica Sugars.
Jamaica rum in hds. Brandy 18/ and 4th proof in pipes, hds. and quarter casks.
Madeira in pipes Old Batavia Arrack.
FOR SALE, A FARM, on the road leading to State Island, within four and an half miles of Philadelphia.
There are on the premises, a new frame House and Barn, with an excellent kitchen garden...
For terms apply to Thomas W. Francis, No. 98 South Third Street.
To be Let, An airy three Story Brick House, On the south side of Filbert Street, between Eighth and Ninth Street...
FOR SALE, BY THE SUBSCRIBER, NO. ELEVENTH-STREET, 18 Bags Freich Cloves.
Who has for Sale, Or to Lease for a term of Years, A number of valuable Tracts of Land, well situated for Mills...
Patent Ploughs, To be sold for cash by Joseph Satter at Aston.
CAUTION, WHEREAS a certain person swindled from me on the first inst. by giving me a counterfeit check...
WILLIAM NICHOLS, Rose Street.
DUTY ON CARRIAGES.
Notice is hereby given, THAT agreeably to an act of Congress...
For and upon every coach 15 dollars.
upon every post coach 12 dollars.
upon every gig, chaise, or light carriage, with or without harness 9 dollars.
upon every other carriage, having pannell work, with blinds, glasses, &c. 9 dollars.
upon four-wheeled carriages, having springs 6 dollars.
upon four-wheeled carriages, with wooden or iron springs, on jacks 3 dollars.
upon carriages with tops 3 dollars.
upon chaises with tops 3 dollars.
upon gigs with tops 3 dollars.
upon other two wheeled carriages 3 dollars.
upon two wheeled carriages with iron springs 3 dollars.
For and upon all other two wheeled carriages 2 dollars.
upon every four wheeled carriage, having framed posts and tops 2 dollars.
and rearing upon wooden spars 2 dollars.
The Collector of the revenue of the first division of the first survey of the district of Pennsylvania...
Notice is also given, To all retail dealers in wines and foreign distilled spirituous liquors...
JAMES ASH, Collector of the 1st division of the 1st survey of the district of Pennsylvania.
The Stamp Press is removed to the Office of Inspection in Germantown...
For Sale at Public Auction, ON THE PREMISES, FOUR LOTS on Harper and Keith's wharf...
JOHN HARPER, Auctioneer.
Wants Employment, A YOUNG MAN, who has served a regular apprenticeship to the mercantile business...
Bakenridge - for sale, IT consists of 920 acres, almost all of which is a fine rich Meadow...
Patent Ploughs, To be sold for cash by Joseph Satter at Aston.
CAUTION, WHEREAS a certain person swindled from me on the first inst. by giving me a counterfeit check...
WILLIAM NICHOLS, Rose Street.
AN ACT
For the relief of the Refugees from the British provinces of Canada and Nova-Scotia.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States...
That to satisfy the claims of certain persons claiming lands under the resolutions of Congress...
of the twenty-third of April, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-three...
the thirteenth of April, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five...
as refugees from the British provinces of Canada and Nova-Scotia...
the Department of War, be, and is hereby authorized...
to the public papers of each of the States of Vermont, Massachusetts, New-York, New-Hampshire and Pennsylvania...
to transmit the same under the said resolutions, to transmit the same to the War-Office...
within two years after the passing of this act, a just and true account of their claims to the bounty of Congress.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That no other persons shall be entitled to the benefit of the provisions of this act...
than those of the following descriptions, either widows and heirs, viz.
First, those heads of families, and single persons, not members of any such families, who were residents in one of the provinces aforesaid...
prior to the fourth day of July, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-six...
and who abandoned their settlements, in consequence of having given aid to the United Colonies or States...
in the revolutionary War against Great-Britain, or with intention to give such aid...
and continued in the United States, or in their service, during the said war...
and did not return to reside in the dominions of the King of Great-Britain, prior to the twenty-fifth of November, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-three.
Secondly, the widows and heirs of all such persons as were actual residents, as aforesaid, and abandoned their settlements...
as aforesaid, and died within the United States, or in their service during the said war...
and thirdly, all persons who were members of families at the time of their coming into the United States, and who during the war, entered into their service.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the proof of the several circumstances necessary to entitle the applicants to the benefits of this act...
may be taken before a judge of the supreme or district court of the United States...
or a judge of the supreme or superior court, or the first justice or first judge of the court of common pleas or county court of any state.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That at the expiration of fifteen months from and after the passing of this act...
and from time to time thereafter, it shall be the duty of the Secretary for the Department of War...
to lay such evidence of claims as he may have received, before the Secretary and Comptroller of the Treasury...
and with them, proceed to examine the testimony, and give their judgment...
what quantity of land ought to be allowed to the individual claimants...
in proportion to the degree of their respective services, sacrifices and sufferings...
in consequence of their attachment to the cause of the United States...
allowing to those of the first class a quantity not exceeding one thousand acres...
and to the last class, a quantity not exceeding one hundred acres...
making such intermediate classes as the resolutions aforesaid, and distributive justice, may, in their judgment require...
And in any case such claimant shall have sustained such losses and sufferings, or performed such services...
for the United States, that he cannot justly be classified in any one general class...
a separate report shall be made of his circumstances, together with the quantity of land that ought to be allowed him...
having reference to the foregoing ratio. Provided, that in considering what compensation ought to be made by virtue of this act...
all grants except military grants, which may have been made by the United States, or individual States...
shall be considered as the just value thereof...
at the time the same were made, respectively, either in whole or in part...
as the case may be, a satisfaction to those who may have received the same.
Provided also, that no claim under this law, shall be assignable until after report made to Congress...
as aforesaid, and until the said lands be granted to the persons entitled to the benefit of this act.
Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That all claims in virtue of said resolutions of Congress, which shall not be exhibited as aforesaid...
within the time by this act limited, shall forever thereafter be barred.
This Day Published.
And for Sale at the Office of the Editor, No. 119 Chestnut-Street.
(Price 1-87th of a Dollar.) AN ORATION.
Pronounced July 4, 1798. At the request of the Inhabitants of the Town of Boston...
in commemoration of the anniversary of American Independence. By JOSIAH QUINCY.
"The inroads upon our public liberty, call for reparation. The wrongs we have sustained, call for Justice."
That Reparation and that Justice, may yet be obtained, by Union, Spirit, and Firmness.
But to divide and conquer was the maxim of the Devil in the garden of Eden, and to divide and enslave hath been the principle of all his votaries from that period to the present."
Observations on the Boston Port-Bill, &c. p. 98. By the late J. Quincy, jun.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
JUNE 27, 1798. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That by virtue of an act, passed during the present session of Congress...
so much of the act entitled "An act making further provision for the support of public credit, and for the redemption of the public debt"...
passed the third day of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five...
as bars from settlement or allowance, Certificates, commonly called Loan Office and final settlement Certificates...
and Indents of Interest, is suspended until the twelfth day of June, which will be in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety nine.
That on the liquidation and settlement of the said Certificates, and Indents of Interest, at the Treasury, the Creditors will be entitled to receive Certificates of Funded Three Per Cent. Stock...
equal to the amount of the said Indents, and the arrears of interest due on their said Certificates, prior to the first day of January, one thousand seven hundred and ninety one.
That the principal sums of the said Loan Office and final settlement Certificates, with the interest thereon, since the first day of January, one thousand seven hundred and ninety one, will be discharged after liquidation at the Treasury...
by the payment of interest and redemption of principal, equal to the sums which would have been payable thereon, if the said Certificates had been subscribed, pursuant to the Act making provision for the debt of the United States, contracted during the late war...
and by the payment of other sums, equal to the market value of the remaining Stock, which would have been created by such subscriptions as aforesaid...
which market value will be determined by the Comptroller of the Treasury. OLIVER WOLCOTT, Secretary of the Treasury.
General Post-Office,
PROPOSALS for carrying the mails of the United States on the following routes will be received at this office until the 20th day of September next inclusive.
1. From Pittsburgh by Cannonburg, Washington, West-Liberty, Wheeling and Wills-town to Zanes at the mouth of Licking-creek, on the Muskingum, estimated 140 miles.
Leave Pittsburgh every Friday at 2 P. M. and arrive at Zanes the next Monday by 8 P. M. Returning - Leave Zanes every Tuesday at 8 A. M. and arrive at Pittsburgh the next Friday by 10 A. M.
2. From Zanes, at the mouth of Licking-Creek on the Muskingum, by Chillicothe and Maysville to Mayville in Kentucky; estimated 140 miles.
Leave Zanes every Tuesday at 5 A. M. and arrive at Mayville the next Friday by 7 A. M. Returning - Leave Mayville every Friday by 8 P. M. and arrive at Zanes the next Monday by 8 P. M.
The carriages for the mails to commence on the first day of November next and continue until the first day of October 1800. Payments will be made quarterly.
The usual penalties for delays and failures will be stipulated in the contract. Joseph Habersham, Post-Master General. Philadelphia, July 13, 1798.
HEALTH OFFICE.
Philadelphia, 18 May, 1798. Extract of an act to alter and amend the Health Laws of this Commonwealth, passed 4th April 1798.
Sec. 8. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That every housekeeper within the city of Philadelphia, the townships of the Northern Liberties and Moyamensing, and district of Southwark, within a mile of the river or by land, from any foreign port or place...
and having any boarder or lodger, who shall be taken sick of any disease whatsoever, between the first day of May and the first day of November in any year, within twenty days after such boarder shall come to lodge in his or her house, shall within 24 hours next after the knowledge of such name of such sick person, the time of his or her arrival at the house and of his or her being taken sick, and of the name and place of abode of such housekeeper...
whereupon the Physician of the Health Office shall forthwith visit the patient, and report to the office his opinion of the nature of such disease, that measures may be taken to prevent the spreading of the infection...
and if any housekeeper shall neglect to give information in the manner and within the time aforesaid, and shall be thereof convicted, in any court of criminal jurisdiction within this Commonwealth, upon indictment by verdict or confession, he or she shall forfeit and pay a fine to the use of the said hospital, not less than twenty dollars, nor more than one hundred dollars, to be imposed at the discretion of the court, according to the circumstances of greater or less aggravation attending each particular case.
By order of the Board of Health, WM. ALLEN, Health Officer, of the Port of Philadelphia.
The Public are hereby informed,
THAT I did not mean to authorize Col. William Nichols to declare, that I would not pay, unless recovered by law, my note alluded to in my notice of the 6th of August, published in the Gazette of the United States of last evening.
I fully lament his loss, and told him I would do all I could do consistently with my credit to serve him, but wear no further.
JOHN TRAVIS.
Mails for South-Carolina & Georgia.
Public mails are now provided for carrying the mail between Philadelphia and Charleston. They will leave Philadelphia on Fridays. The mail by land will be continued every week until an experiment is made in packets.
If any person desires to have their letters sent by land only, they will please to write the word Land upon the letters; otherwise they will be sent by that conveyance which will first start after the letters are left in the post-office.
Joseph Habersham, Post-Master General. Philadelphia, August 22, 1798.