Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser. (Philadelphia [Pa.]), 1797-12-26 00:00:00

Gazette of the United States, AND Philadelphia Daily Advertiser.
By JOHN FENNO, No. 119 Chestnut Street.
NUMBER 1652.]
PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 26, 1797.
[VOLUME XII.]
Marshall's Sales.
United States, Pennsylvania District. BY virtue of a writ of fieri facias issued out of the District Court of the United States for the Pennsylvania District, to me directed, will be exposed to Public Sale, on Tuesday the 2d day of January next, at the Merchant's Coffee House in Second Street, the following tracts and parcels of vacant and unimproved lands situated in the County of Bedford in the State of Pennsylvania...
Mary Galbreath, containing four hundred and one acres and allowance, &c. situated on Jones's mill run, a branch of Laurel Hill creek, in Milford township, in the county aforesaid, and bounded by lands surveyed for Gabriel Heithner, James Clift, James Campbell and others.
Fresh Raisins.
A Small cargo just arrived, and now landing at Chestnut street wharf, from the River. Raisins, of the best quality, in Boxes and Jars. A few Jars of excellent Grapes, and Jars of Stuffed Almonds. Apply to the Master on board, or to
PHILIP NICKLEIN & Co.
HAVE FOR SALE, At their Store on Walnut Street Wharf, Havannah Sugars, white and brown 25 lbs. Jamaica do. 3000 pieces of broad Nankins Imperial Tea, in quarters and eighths of chests Quick Silver in tubs Madeira Wine in pipes and hogheads Teneriffe Wine in pipes Old Port Wine in hogheads
Bank of North America.
THE Stockholders are hereby notified, that an election for twelve Directors, for the ensuing year, will be held at the Bank on Monday, the 8th of January next, at ten o'clock.
Delaware and Schuylkill Canal.
THE Stockholders are hereby notified, that the election for President and Managers, for the ensuing year, will be held at the company's office, on the first Monday in January next, at ten o'clock.
Schuylkill and Sulquehanna Canal.
THE Stockholders are hereby notified, that the election for President and Managers, for the ensuing year, will be held at the company's office, on the first Monday in January next, at ten o'clock.
A House in Burlington for Sale.
THE subscriber has a large, convenient two-story brick House, with Stables, Carriage-house, and a well-improved Garden, in the City of Burlington, New Jersey, which he wishes to sell. For terms apply at No. 3, South Fourth Street, to GEORGE WALKER.
Lots in Washington City.
Contiguous to the Capitol and to the principal harbour. Who has also for Sale,
CLERKSHIP.
A YOUNG MAN, who could bring in disputable recommendations, is desirous to be employed in the capacity of copying Clerk, at a public office. He would engage on moderate terms. For further particulars enquire at the office of the Gazette.
FOR SALE, By JOHN MILLER, JUN. & Co.
No. 8, Chestnut-street, One hundred and eighty bales BENGAL GOODS, Among which are, Gurrahs, Mamoocies, Nalkas, Sunnas, Guzz, nabs, Tunda Coffees, Guzzies, Entierics, Blue Cloths, Calicoes, Palampoor, Romall Handkerchiefs. Amongst them are a great proportion of the manufacturers of Patna.
William Nichols, Marshal. December 29.
Marshall's Sales.
UNITED STATES, Pennsylvania District. BY virtue of a writ of fieri facias issued out of the District Court of the United States for the Pennsylvania District, to me directed, will be exposed to sale, on Tuesday the 2d day of January next, at the Merchant's Coffee-house in Second Street, in the City of Philadelphia, the following tracts or parcels of vacant and unimproved LAND, situated in the county of Somerset, late county of Bedford, in the State of Pennsylvania, viz. A certain tract, surveyed in the name of Mary Esdeman, containing three hundred & eighty acres and the usual allowance &c. situated on the waters of Stony creek, in Stony creek township, and bounded by lands surveyed for Joseph Kirkbride, John Roads, Charles Reinhart, and others.
William Nichols, Marshal. December 29.
Marshall's Sales.
UNITED STATES, Pennsylvania District. BY virtue of a writ of venditioni exponas, issued out of the District Court of the United States, and to me directed, will be sold at Public Sale, on Wednesday the 27th day of December next, at 6 o'clock in the evening, all that piece or parcel of meadow ground situated, lying and being in the township of Pottstown, and county of Philadelphia, on the road leading to State Island Ferry, containing about fifty-four acres and three perches, whereon are erected a two story brick Mansion, out houses and a barn; also one other tract or piece of meadow ground, situated in the said township and county, and nearly on the opposite side of the said road to the said ferry, containing sixteen acres & three perches; also a meadow or tenement lot or piece of ground situated on the north side of High Street, between 5th and 6th streets, in the City of Philadelphia, containing in front on High Street, thirty three feet, and in length or depth two hundred feet, bounded east by property of Hannah Pemberton, north by South alley, west by property of William Bell, and south by High Street aforesaid.
FOR SALE, AT WM. YOUNG'S Book Store,
No. 52, Second Street, the corner of Chestnut Street, REPORT of the Committee of the House of Representatives of the United States, appointed to prepare and report Articles of Impeachment against WILLIAM BLOUNT, a Senator of the United States, impeached of high crimes and misdemeanors, made in pursuance of a resolution of the House of Representatives, authorizing the said Committee to sit during the recess of Congress, and instructing them "to enquire, and, by all lawful means, to discover the whole nature and extent of the offence whereof the said William Blount stands impeached, and who are the parties and abettors therein."
James C. & Samuel W. Fisher,
AT THEIR STORE, No. 813, corner of Arch and Front Streets, HAVE FOR SALE, Cotton and worsted Hosiery in trunks, assorted A few bales red, white, and yellow Flannels Dittos fancy small Handkerchiefs Dittos Pulicat ditto ditto Dittos Pondicherry and Madras ditto Dittos Gurrahs Bengal black Taffetics 4000 pieces Nankins, and Few chests half Hylon Tea Also—1500 boxes best London Window Glass, from 8 by 6, to 19 by 14—and 15 lbs. Glaz. Ware, assorted, which they will dispose of cheaper than any in the city.
Landing this day,
From on board the Schooner Two Friends, Daniel Crawley, Master, 80 hlds. and 12 pipes JAMAICA RUM, FOR SALE BY George Latimer & Son. November 9.
James & Richard Smith,
TAKE the liberty of informing their friends and the public, that they have removed their Store to No. 4, South Front Street, next door to Edward Fox's Auction Room, where they have at this time for sale, a large and general assortment of European & East India Goods, Many of which are just imported in the Clothier, William Penn, &c. &c. Oct. 27.
NOW LANDING,
At South-street Wharf, The Cargo of the Ship Concord, Captain Thompson, from Batavia. About 300 tons first quality Java Coffee (the whole having been selected) 30 tons Java Sugar, in casks and bags 100 tigers of old Arrack Nutmegs, Mace and Cloves FOR SALE BY PETER BLIGHT. Who also offers For Sale, Just landed from ship Amity, from Jamaica, 200 hlds. Jamaica Sugar, and 170 do. do. Rum. November 23.
Canal Lottery---No. II.
WILL commence drawing Monday, the 20th inst. Tickets for Sale in this Lottery, at Seven Dollars, at WM. BLACKBURN'S Lottery and Brokers Office, No. 64, South Second Street—Tickets in the Schuylkill Bridge Lottery, at Ten Dollars, where check books are kept for registering and examining in them, the City of Washington, No. II. and Paterson Lotteries, and information where tickets may be had in most of the Lotteries authorized by law in any of the States of the Union. N. B. The business of a BROKER, in buying and selling all kinds of Public Stock and Securities, discounting Bills and Notes of Hand, sale of Lands, Houses, &c. &c. will be duly attended to, by WM. BLACKBURN. November 15.
The History of Pennsylvania,
By ROBERT PROUD. Is now in the press, and will be published, with all convenient expedition, by ZACHARIAH POULSON, jun. No. 80, Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, where subscriptions will continue to be received, and at the Philadelphia Library, according to the printed proposals, until the work is ready for the subscribers. July 18.
ALPHABETICAL LIST OF DUTIES,
Payable by law on all Goods, Wares, and Merchandizes, imported into the United States—latest edition, to be held by JOHN ORROD, no. 41, Chestnut Street. Dec. 16.
STOLEN
Out of the subscriber's office a large blue cloth half-worn. The inside of the Collar is faced partly with scarlet velvet and partly with scarlet cloth, and it has a silver hook and chain as a fastening. A suitable reward will be paid for restoring it. WILLIAM MEREDITH No. 111 South 3d Street. Dec. 16.
Insurance Company of North America.
THE Stockholders are hereby informed, that a stated meeting of the Company will be held at their office on the ninth day of January next (being the second Tuesday in the month) for the Election of twenty-five Directors for the ensuing year. EBEN HAZARD, Sec'y. December 14.
Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike Company.
THE Stockholders are hereby notified, that the annual Election for Officers for the ensuing year, will be held at the Company's Office in Philadelphia, on the second Monday in January next, at ten o'clock, A. M. WM. GOVETT, Sec'y. December 7.
Insurance Company of North America.
A Meeting of the Stockholders is to be held, agreeably to adjournment, at the Company's office, on the first Monday in January next, at 11 o'clock, A. M. EBEN HAZARD, Sec'y. December 14.
Insurance Company OF THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA.
THE Stockholders are hereby notified, that an Election for thirteen Directors to serve for one year, will be held at the company's Office, on Monday, the eighth day of January next, at 11 o'clock. SAM. W. FISHER, Sec'y. December 14.
A Fifty Dollar Bank Note,
Of the Bank of the United States, was lost on Saturday last, between the Bank of the United States and the Horse market—If an honest person has found it, and will leave it with the Printer hereof, they shall be handsomely rewarded. December 11.
NOTICE.
To holders of JAMES GREENLEAF's, and EDWARD FOX's, Engagements IN consequence of many having been prevented, from late unavoidable circumstances from obtaining their Certificates, agreeable to former notice. The Trustees now inform them, they are ready to issue the same to those who may apply within thirty days, at No. 8 Chestnut Street, and those who do not, will be considered as relinquishing their claim on the Aggregate Fund provided for their payment. HENRY PRATT, THOMAS W. FRANCIS, JOHN MILLER, JUN. JOHN ASHLEY, JACOB BAKER. December 15.
FOR SALE BY THE SUBSCRIBERS,
Prime Rice in whole and half tierces Boudeaux Brandy Teneriffe Wine Molasses Georgia and Carolina Indigo Ravens Duck and one hoghead of paint brushes. N. & J. Frazier. No. 95, South Front Street. Nov. 7.
MUSIC.
J. L. LENZ, Teacher of Vocal and instrumental Music, RETURNS his sincere thanks to the Ladies and Gentlemen, from whom he received a very liberal encouragement since his residence in this city, and respectfully informs his friends and the public generally, that, in consequence of the request of some of his friends, he has opened a Musical School at his house in Spruce Street No 174, where he will teach on the Piano forte, Violin &c. &c. He deems it unnecessary to enlarge upon the advantages the learner will derive from an institution of this kind; he will only say, that attention and zeal are much excited in an assembly, where numbers are in pursuit of the same object. His arrangement is such, that an interference of the different fees will be avoided. Those Ladies and Gentlemen who cannot make it convenient to attend at his school, he will wait upon at their houses. Applications will be thankfully received at his house, where his terms and further particulars may be known. Dec. 7.
All Persons
Having any demands against the Estate of the late Captain George Irwin, are requested to bring in their accounts properly attested, on or before the first day of January next ensuing and those who are indebted to said estate are so licited to make immediate payment to SARAH IRWIN, Administratrix. Nov. 29 1797.
JUST RECEIVED,
(via New-York) AND NOW OPENING, BY GEORGE DOBSON, No. 25, south Third Street, An extensive and general assortment of HABERDASHERY, viz. Bell London mist Pins Common do. do. Mackenzie's super patent white chapel Needles Nuns Thread no. 6 to 40, regularly assorted Little do. no. 130 to 500, regularly assorted Coloured do. Black sewing Silks Coloured do. and Twift Silk and cotton Wires Do. do. Ribbands Shirt Moulds and Wires Black brush Feathers
THE PARTNERSHIP OF
Richard & James Potter, Is this day dissolved, by mutual consent. All persons indebted to the said firm, are requested to pay the same to either of the subscribers; and all persons having any demands against them, are requested to send their accounts for settlement. Richard Potter, James Potter. December 9.
The Subscriber intends to make
application for the renewal of a Certificate of a Share in the Bank of the United States, standing in the name of A. B. No. 504, dated July 11, 1797, the same having been lost. JOHN GRAHAM. Richmond, Dec. 1.
ROSS & SIMSON,
HAVE FOR SALE, A few bales Baftas, Coffas, and a quantity of Bengal COTTON Bengal SUGAR, in bags and boxes Jamaica, St. Vincents, } RUM. and Bengal 300 casks RICE, and A parcel of ship building RED CEDAR. Oct. 27.
Chocolate and Mustard,
of a superior quality manufactured, GINGER and Pepper, ground; shelled or pearl Barley; Philadelphia Porter, Beer, Ale and Cyder; Taunton and Burton Ale; London Porter; red Port and Lisbon Wine, suitable for exportation or home consumption. The highest price given for Mustard-Seed. Also for sale, A quantity of Becking and common Baizes, a variety of colors; a bale of Puliens, Shawls, &c. for sale by JOHN HAWORTH, No. 98, fourth Front-street. m. & th. r. j. Nov. 27.
Imported (via New York) on the
ship Hero, from Madras and Calcutta, and for sale by the subscriber, at No. 61, Chestnut Street, between Second and Third Streets, the following articles. Maharagonies Chincinna Dorens Chints and Calicoes Dacca worked mullins Gillis Romals Bandannos Nillas & Pennafaces Chafia Romals Blue cloth Hair ribbon Mill Mullankerschiefs Palampores Patna do. Banares Opium Leffer Cardimum Seeds. Samuel Wilson. November 27.
To Gentlemen who intend spending
the Winter in the City. ROOMS TO LET, WITH or without Board—at No. 114, corner of Sixth and Race Streets. The situation agreeable—and vicinity has been free from the late contagion. Oct. 27.
WITH or without Board—at
No. 114, corner of Sixth and Race Streets. The situation agreeable—and vicinity has been free from the late contagion. Oct. 27.
BY virtue of an order of the
Orphan's Court, will be exposed to Sale, on the 26th current, at 9 o'clock, A. M. at the premises, a small frame House and Lot, situated on the corner of Spruce and Eighth Streets, subject to an annual ground rent of fifteen pounds, late the property of Anthony Lebeck, deceased. MARGARET LEBECK, Administratrix. December 16.
William Nichols, Marshal. December 15, 1797.
William Nichols, Marshal. December 18, 1797.
THE SUBSCRIBER,
ONE of the late firm of FREEMAN & Co. thinks it is duty he owes to himself, to declare, that he is no wise concerned in the property above advertised by the Marshall, nor ought he to be subject to the said action, which will be disputed by the party whose interest it is. Tristram Bamsyde Freeman. December 22.
To be Sold at Public Vendue,
(If not before disposed of at private sale) ON Monday the first day of January next, at six o'clock in the evening, at the Merchant's Coffee House, in Philadelphia, Forty Thousand Nine Hundred and Thirty-Nine acres of LAND in Green county, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, on the Waters of Fifth and Wheeling Creek, and the Mile Run. These lands are fertile, well timbered and abound in coal; they were sold ten years ago for 55. per acre, patented early in 1789, except 3,700, which were patented in 1793; the greatest part of them were surveyed in 1783. This tract is between the Ohio and Monongahela, very convenient to water carriage—about 19 miles from the town of Washington; and from 14 to 16 from the villages of Greenburgh and Wheeling. One fourth of the purchase money is to be paid at the time of sale; for the residue a credit of one, two, and three months will be given, on interest and good security. Dec. 1.
To be Sold at Public Vendue,
(If not before disposed of at private sale) ON Monday the first day of January next, at six o'clock in the evening, at the Merchant's Coffee House, in Philadelphia, Forty Thousand Nine Hundred and Thirty-Nine acres of LAND in Green county, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, on the Waters of Fifth and Wheeling Creek, and the Mile Run. These lands are fertile, well timbered and abound in coal; they were sold ten years ago for 55. per acre, patented early in 1789, except 3,700, which were patented in 1793; the greatest part of them were surveyed in 1783. This tract is between the Ohio and Monongahela, very convenient to water carriage—about 19 miles from the town of Washington; and from 14 to 16 from the villages of Greenburgh and Wheeling. One fourth of the purchase money is to be paid at the time of sale; for the residue a credit of one, two, and three months will be given, on interest and good security. Dec. 1.
The time of a Negro Boy,
About fifteen years of age, has seven years yet to serve; he is an excellent house servant, active and healthy. Enquire of the Printer. December 2.

REFLECTIONS ON PEACE.
In a series of letters to a Senator of the United States.
DEAR SIR,
IN contemplating the advantages which mankind derive from the introduction and extension of civilization, the mind is equally disposed to admire and to praise that goodness which, with the blessings of christianity, bestowed the disposition to mild and gentle means of justice.
The spirit of "Charity," which like the dew of Heaven, it inspires, has had a general tendency to the adoption of those systems of government and codes of laws by which men obtain security and find relief from injustice, more safely, than by appealing to the uncertain issue of personal power or individual strength. The race being not to the swift, or the battle to the strong.
In the first stages of every rude and savage society, it appears that the disputes between its members were generally determined on principles neither relevant to the case nor likely to establish justice. In England as well as in France (1) an appeal to arms, a personal combat was for a considerable time the only criterion by which right and wrong was determined, or even truth or falsehood established or believed!
On similar grounds, for none other could ever have originated the barbarous custom, we are to suppose that fist and greatest evil to mankind, a WARRING DISPOSITION began.
The pleas of justification which the modern manifestations of civilized nations generally offer, for continuing the bloody proofs of error or of injustice, are as futile as the flame which the pursuit is meant to establish.
To obtain redress for wrongs, or reparation for injuries, real or pretended, by a national quarrel, has been found "the feeble resource of weak-minded mischiefs and wicked men."
To justify the refusal of a demanded right, to repair or defend the mistaken jealousy of national honor, to gratify revenge, maintain usurped authority, or satisfy ambition and the love of fame, "the dogs of war" are let loose upon mankind! How unlikely to produce the designs of justice! The giddy libertine or drunken ravisher, the liar and the thief, if but of rank to obtain a like decision, will justify and defend their deeds by the same policy, in the same way, and with equal propriety too!! Look at those nations of whom the hilt-pike page relates the victories and recounts the conquests! Examine the interesting volumes of their expeditions, armies, equipage, prisoners and plunder, and then reflect like a politician, as well as a man, upon the consequences! Where now is the fame of conquering Rome? of proud Carthage? of Athens? Where is the fading fame of the conquering nations of Europe flying to at this moment? To every spot where Industry or Freedom can find a refuge—where the Olive-branch of Peace wears a smile, or the Tree of Liberty bears a blossom!
The islands of Italy were peopled by fugitives from scenes of war and desolation! They crested the standard and spread the sails of Commerce amongst barren hills, thistles, bogs and briers! They demonstrated that where Peace is found Commerce will desire to dwell, and where there is Commerce there is Plenty. Let it then be established as a CREED in the mind of every good Man, of every Christian, and of every Politician and Patriot too, that the ARTS OF PEACE are the safest, the best, the ultimate and the only terrestrial national blessings, under which a PEOPLE deserve or can obtain, Celebrity for Wisdom or Fame for Happiness.
In tracing and considering the progress of every nation of which history records the conduct, we shall find Improvement to have been more impeded by WAR, than by every other evil or obstacle which the infant knowledge of good Government must, in early times, have had to encounter. The acquisition of Wealth has been discouraged from the natural flow of its increase, by the usurping and greedy hand of Power, thereby become necessitous and diverted from the channels of its general current thro' the bed of Industry, into courses of more confined individual speculation, deception and disguise. WAR has, in every age and country, from the savage to the civilized state, not only produced many evils, but those of the greatest magnitude and importance to the society.
It has an immediate and inevitable tendency to diminish the national Revenue, when, at the same time, it is placed most in need of augmentation. Its effects on Industry are not less injurious or less certain, by curtailing the demand and consequently the reward of Labor: under those discouragements Cultivation languishes, Trade and Commerce become enfeebled, and Improvements cease!
But its effects on Domestic Tranquility, what pen can ever feebly paint? Memory of America revive!
Once in the history of a nation it may happen that a cause occurs to justify, in every view, the sad resource of "flight to arms"—such was yours! But let oblivion sponge up the floods of sorrow which it caused to flow from private suffering, and stop those rivers of tears which even yet are not dried up! Genius of Humanity! pour balm into those wounds which the strength of the purest patriotism scarce can mitigate! which no victory or success can heal! The trumpet, which announced "a routed enemy," made tremble the tender feelings of every tie for which the Patriot bled! The amiable Matron breathed the pious thanks "that her dearest connexion was in the field of Victory! When, lo! another found "A truce to bury the Dead!" Behold her then bereft of him for whom she just had prais'd 'e'en Heaven itself! In vain her supplicating eyes recall him from the grave. Her unprotected prattlers join their innocent lipings, their tears, their invocations! his foot is heard no more! Her neighbours afford only the soothing sympathy of fellow-suffering, for each has lost a husband, father, brother, or friend!—where then to them is the glory or the gratification of the victory? Who will feed or educate their little ones? Who guard their infant growth and lead them up to men? Who caution them against the snares of vice, and point out the paths to industrious preference? Who form their characters, that "they may blush while fathers were the ROTS?"
Behold the catalogue of the slain! Filled with the names of the best citizens, the best patriots, and the best men! those "whose eminence rendered their names universally known, their influence extensive, and their attachments numerous." (3) Contemplate the unprovided widow and the exposed virgin orphan! your child! that thought gave death a sting, and made it smart, which else had scarce been felt—in vain they call "for yester-day to come," and think of all the dear domestic joys departed never to return—Oh! how painful the remembrance!
(1) Spirit of Laws, vol. 2, p. 238 & seq. (2) Army's address to General Washington, November, 1783. (3) Adventurer, vol. 4, p. 24.
The truly christian Bishop of London, a pious
father, observes in his poem on death, that
One sister makes a Victim, when a Trial
The first lessons of our schools should expose this to
intancy, and "impress upon each growing mind"
the melancholy mistake which history has made in
holding up a conqueror to admiration, instead of a
tyrant defying of the human race, to general ab-
horrence! In celebrating the victories and triumphs
of men under the charade of heroes, whose
conduct should be transmitted with admiration to
the latest posterity! and the names of Cain and
Abel, Alexander, Cæsar, Cortes, Charles and Clive, be
blended in one common view of horror! while
the Friends and promoters of human felicity the
patron defenders of freedom should be held up
as objects of admiration and praise, as fit ex-
amples of imitation.
To the morals (4) of a people it is need less to
observe that war has ever been destructive; the
discipline of peace, if preserved, the wholesome
restraints imposed in times of peace, accord both
with the relaxed state of morality current amongst
a licentious soldiery; an army in time of war, com-
posed of the idle and indolent, who mistaking the
camp for a place of indulgence, seek shelter from
observation, or perhaps from justice, and exert
their worthlessness or offence with an uniform
coat, nor can the utmost vigilance of the best of-
ficers, joined to the good disposition of those men
who are well inclined amongst the privates, pre-
vent the adoption of those habits which at the end
of the service they retire with, the subjects of ap-
prehension and dread, of which every country that
has disbanded an army is too well convinced. (5)
All or most of these evils are inseparable from,
and proved by the dear bought experience of every
nation existing as well as extinct, to be consequent
to WAR.
In tracing the decline and fall of empires, states
and kingdoms, we should be much more connect-
ed with the principal cause than historians and
speculative writers generally are, fairly and candidly
to impute it to that scourge and curse of nations,
a disposition to WAR. It is not however meant to
recommend a cold, inactive and inattentive disposi-
tion and preparation for even that calamity, that
always to be deprecated state of national situation,
but to consider, and recommend it to be univer-
sally considered, as the base of political health to an im-
proving and prosperous people.
I am, &c. yours, and always
A FRIEND TO LAWS & FREEDOM.
(4) See the records of the Old Bailey at the
close of the war. 1783—in September 1783
178 were convicted of felonies, in December
178 more, of which 82 received sentence of death,
3 to be transported.
(5) The United States are an unique excep-
tion, having more to boast on the conduct of the
late continental army than any country upon earth,
and more, it is to be feared, than will ever be
the case again. The patriot army of 1783 de-
serves to be celebrated as a theme for praise
wherever freedom flourishes, or can but raise her
head.
Philadelphia, Dec. 23d, 1797.
MR. TENNO,
The following address is now circulating for
Subscription; and, it is hoped, will receive
the serious attention of the citizens of Phila-
delphia.
TO THE SELECT AND COMMON COUNCILS
of the CITY OF PHILADELPHIA.
THE ADDRESS AND PETITION of the sub-
scribers, Freeholders and Inhabitants of the
said City.
Fellow Citizens of the Corporation,
While the sufferings and distress of your
city, occasioned by the late contagious sick-
ness, continue fresh in our memory; while,
in the short period of four years, we can-
not have wholly forgotten a former afflic-
tion of the like kind, nor the number of
our dear friends, relatives, and neighbours
whom we have to lament as the mournful
victims of both visitations;—and, finally,
while we are devoutly to acknowledge that
kind Providence which has spared our own
lives from the shafts of mortality which fell
thick around us, and hath restored our city
to its usual state of health and prosperity,
we ought not to be unmindful of the means
which, under the favor of heaven, may ap-
pear the most effectual, to prevent or miti-
gate the return of the like calamities.
The chief magistrate of the common-
wealth, in his address to the legislature, af-
ter a pathetic detail of some of the par-
ticulars, relating to the progress and extent
of the mortality, hath with a solicitude sui-
ed to the occasion, recommended certain
measures, as peculiar objects of legislative at-
attention and provision, "in order to guard
more effectually against the introduction of
pestilential and contagious diseases from
foreign countries; founded on plans detailed
to him by the College of Physicians, by o-
ther learned members of the faculty, and by
the Inspectors of the Health-office."
He has also proposed and recommended
other remedies, absolutely necessary in co-
operation with the legislative provision, whe-
ther the contagion be imported from foreign
countries, or may be generated here; and
chiefly, "An attention to the cleanliness of
the city, its avenues, and vacant lots, together with
the insuring such a supply of water, through
the medium of canals, as appears now to have
become essential to the general convenience,
as well as to the health of the community," both
in the city and its suburbs. For this end,
the exertion of the corporate bodies, which
are constituted for the local purposes of the
CITY, the Northern Liberties and district of
Southwark, with the extension of their pow-
ers, as well as other legislative aid, are
pointed out as necessary.
In this great work, we trust the city cor-
poration will consider it as their duty to take
the lead, not only as particularly interest-
ed, but as having the chief means in their pow-
er. For it seems demonstrable that the los-
to the city, in a single visitation of this con-
tagious disease, (if it could be prevented or
greatly allayed by cleanliness, and a copious
supply of water, not to mention the use of
water for preventing or subduing the devas-
tation of fire, is more, perhaps, than the
capital necessary to insure such a supply of
water in perpetuity, even if no interest were
to accrue (on the capital to be expended)
for the use of water in families.
It appears from the statement in the gov-
ernor's address, that even in the late sickness
the incidental extra expenses of the health-
office, the legislative grant, and other contributions
for the poor amounted to 42,000
dollars; and the loss arising from two or three
months suspension of our commerce, of manu-
facturing and mechanical business, the
expense of the multitude of families by which
near half the city was evacuated, not to speak
of the inestimable loss of at least 1000 valu-
able citizens, who fell victims to the disease
may more easily be imagined, than accurately
calculated. Add to this the immense loss
often experienced from fire, when but only
a few houses are consumed, and what might
be the loss from a more extended conflagra-
tion, for want of a ready supply of water
need hardly be mentioned. Your petition-
ers, therefore, earnestly request,
That the corporation, as fathers of the
city, as guardians of the poor, and of the
health and prosperity of their fellow citizens
in general, will take the premises into their
immediate and effectual consideration;
In doing which, your petitioners with to
strengthen your resolutions by declaring—
That, as far as they can, collect the senti-
ments of their fellow citizens in general,
there is no object of life or ornaments, to
which a liberal proportion of the city funds
can be more acceptably applied, than to the
present; even if no return of interest on the
Capital were to be expected. We therefore
have a full confidence in the patriotism of
those whom we address; that speedy and ef-
fectual measures to accomplish our wishes
will be devised and pursued.
Foreign Intelligence,
WHITEHALL, Oct. 17.
The king has been pleased to grant the
dignity of a viscount of the king of Great-
Britain; to Adam Duncan, Esq. admiral of
the Blue squadron of his majesty's fleet, and
the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten,
by the name, title, and style of Viscount
Duncan, of Camperdown, and of Lundie in
our shire of Perth.
The king has also been pleased to grant
the dignity of a baronet of the kingdom of
Great-Britain to Richard Onslow, Esq.
Vice-Admiral of the Red Squadron of his
majesty's fleet, and the heirs male of his
body lawfully begotten.
LONDON, Oct. 10.
With this morning resume our extracts from
the French papers. The report of Ramel
conveys some idea of the state of the French
finances, when the grant of two hundred
millions in paper was reduced, by the de-
preciation of the credit of government, to
the value of less than nine millions in specie.
The French plenipotentiaries at Lisle, in
sending away Lord Malmesbury for the
purpose of obtaining new powers to treat
definitively on the basis of the total restitut-
ion of our conquests, made from France
and her allies, were desirous to appear as if

from Lisbon had arrived there and informed the commissary of the Directory that they were the bearers of the ratification to Paris. Lambrechts is the new minister of justice. He is a native of Belgium, and his appointment is considered as a very politic act. He is said to be a zealous defender of the republic and oppressed patriots. He has addressed to the judges and commissaries a letter, expressing in warm terms, his approbation of the late measures of the directory.
The courier from Bayonne to Bourdeaux was stopped the 14th Oct. and robbed by six or eight men. Such crimes are said in French prints, to multiply in a frightful degree. At Mantaban a body of 4000 troops is necessary to preserve peace and the number is to be increased. It is said that a bag had been found in the highway, with 9000 small cards, inscribed with the name of Jesus, which were to be distributed as protections against the fury of the royalists, in case they had succeeded.
A company of merchants is formed in the place of victory in Paris, which excites some speculations. Two regulations are by them rigidly enforced—that to become members, it is necessary to be a merchant, and to have never failed in fulfilling engagements. Their particular objects are not announced.
The directory not having fixed on a place of exile for the emigrants seized in virtue of the law of 19th Fructidor, the minister of justice has written to the executive officers in all parts of the republic to suspend their departure, and by all means to prevent their escape.
Boulay, of the Council of Five Hundred has presented a project of a resolution, by which all nobles and ennobled persons are to be declared not French citizens , and are not to acquire citizenship but on the conditions of strangers—adjourned.
The 22nd September the anniversary of the foundation of the republic, happened to be a clear and pleasant day at Paris, on which circumstance it was observed that "God is a republican."
The canton of Zurich have voted to invite the whole Helvetic confederacy to send a minister to the Cisalpine republic, for the purpose of congratulation.
Dumas, member of the Council of Elders has arrived at Hamburg. Buonaparte has written to government—"A single order of the Directory will shake all thrones, if the combined powers do not hasten to sign a peace."
The following is the state of the French force in Italy.
Thirty six thousand foreign troops distributed in different places.
Eighty thousand French troops in the Grand Army.
Ten thousand Cisalpine troops, eight thousand Poles, six thousand Genoese. In addition ten thousand men from Piedmont are expected. From 40 to 50,000 Italian patriots are organized into national guards, well equipped and full of fire and patriotism.
Advices from Hague Oct. 2, state that a part of the army of the North is immediately to march to the borders of the Rhine.
The Directory have issued an order establishing a national lottery, under the inspection of three administrators and a cashier, who are to have under them 120 agents, 20 inspectors, 800 receivers, a comptroller and a librarian. The administrators have entered on their duties in the House of Dues.
The Senate of Hamburg have prohibited the entry of all strangers and emigrants into that city, on account of the great number of foreigners already residing there, to the injury of their own citizens. The same measure is adopted by Holstein and the City of Altona.
The family of Lajolais is set at liberty.
An arrest of the Directory has prohibited in the Belgic departments, the use of bells and all other means of calling people together for public worship.
An article from Strasbourg of Oct. 3, says: Two days ago the Austrians put a stop to all communication with the French, who occupy many posts on the right bank of the Rhine. Even the post-riders are not permitted to pass, so that no news could be received from the interior of Germany; yet strong hopes of peace were entertained.
The laws and proclamations of the Directory, relative to the events of 18 Fructidor, Sept. 4, which had been posted up at Marseilles were torn down and trampled on. The brigands, says the paper, ran about the streets and cried Down with the Directory! General Lafitte, with a column of 6000 men from Buonaparte's army, made the city quiet. Pille commands the troops at Lyons, and in the environs, to keep the peace. The camp at Toulon has been revived. Some thousands of Royalists are collected in the canton of Montpelier, in Ardeche.
Advices from Schaffhausen of October 9th, speak in very positive terms of the signing of Peace at Udina, after the return of count Meerfeldt from Vienna.
The subsidiary treaty between Great-Britain and Hesse Darmstadt is at an end, says an article from Heidelberg; and of course the troops of the latter in pay of the former, are returning to their free sides.
An article from Berne of October 1, says, the French envoy, Maingot, sent by the Directory to examine the papers of the ambassador, [we suppose Barthélemy] has orders also to demand of the Helvetic confederacy, the expulsion of the English envoy, Wickham, because the Directory are convinced this envoy is in Switzerland for the purpose of cultivating the relations of Great Britain with our republic, than to form plans of counter-revolution against the French republic.
Strangers arrive at Basle in crowds from France. The former Duke d'Angouleme had arrived ill.
Cancaux is recalled and Treilhard has succeeded him, as minister at Naples—Perignon is recalled from Spain; and Servan, formerly minister of war, is to succeed him.
The minister of general police, Sotin, has written to all the agents in the republic, recommending them to prohibit theatrical representations, calculated to disturb the public tranquillity. None but republican pieces and airs are permitted.
The same minister has written to the editor of Journal Diurnal, informing him that the law of 19th Fructidor, Sept. 5, has put the press under the inspection of government for one year; and that all the journals are to exhibit regularly to the minister of police two copies of their gazettes, and two to the directory. This order extends
to the departments as well as to Paris, and Sotin has suspended the departure of the posts to those who neglect to comply.
From Kehlberg, Oct. 4. "Letters from the left bank of the Rhine inform that the county of Falkenstein is no longer protected by the French, but treated as other conquered countries. The officer commanding at Derrheim has announced that since the orders received from Paris, all communication with the right bank of the Rhine would be interdicted—The imperial posts therefore took no letters for Deux Ponts."
From Hague, Oct. 5. Twenty-one commissioners are appointed to digest the plan of a new constitution and will soon enter on their labours. Six of them are of the province of Holland. The reports of information of the Dutch are positively contradicted.
Not a word in French prints respecting the American commissioners.
From Venice, October 4, it is stated that for some days past, government had been recruiting and arming forces. Baron de Mack had arrived at Gorice, with his staff, and was occupied in raising redoubts and batteries in various places. The whole column and the artillery of General de Tercy were momentarily expected from Leybach at Gorice. The bakers had orders to prepare 80,000 loaves of bread for this column. They write from Lausanne, that Pastoret, Duplantier, Dumolard, Imbert Colomes, Camille Jordan and some others of the proscribed deputies, had assembled at Constance. It was added that they would form there the germ of a new political confederacy, to publish manifestoes and correspond with their friends in France.
At Paris, the priests of all opinions make no scruple to take the oath of hatred to royalty, to anarchy and fidelity to the republic.
The directory have issued an order, requiring the French armies to be completed ready for marching by the 6th October.
Office of General Police, Paris.
It is not true, as many journals have reported that the plague ravages Corsica. Fears were at one time entertained on this subject, and measures taken to arrest its progress in the island, and prevent its propagation to France. But dispatches from the administration at Bastia and Ajaccio and reports from health-officers prove the disease only to have been an epidemic, and that it is extinguished.
It is believed we may also contradict the report of a contagious malady in Philadelphia. The central bureau at Bourdeaux prohibited the entry of the Echo and the Benjamin Franklin, which arrived Vendemaire 11th. The health officers examined the crews and passengers and found no sign of a contagious malady; in consequence the vessels were ordered to be admitted.
(Signed) SOTIN.
An article under the head of the Vienna, Sept. 20, the latest date received says, "The emperor has just fixed on the city of Rastadt in the margraviate of Baden, as the place to hold the conferences relative to the peace of the empire. The count Metternich Winnebourg, formerly minister plenipotentiary in the Low Countries, is named to represent the emperor at this Congress."
Letters from Udina mention that the municipality of that place is to be formed of decided patriots, for which purpose a list of them is making. The French have laid a tax on the possessors of fiefs and the clergy, to aid in carrying on a war encouraged by the grandees and priests.
From Rome, it is said that the French malady gains ground daily. An assembly of Notables is to be convoked, which, it is expected, will only make things worse, and accelerate a revolution. The Holy Father notwithstanding amuses himself with canonizing saints.
Some changes in diplomacy are expected at Paris. It is said Aubert du Bayet from Constantinople, and Perignon from Spain, will be recalled.
General Santeo who commands the new mounted cavalry is gone to the army with Angereau.
General Miranda, it is said, had escaped and passed Vevay, in the Pays de Vaud. Portalis has arrived in Switzerland.
One Journalist announces the plague to be in Corsica; another, that Drouet is in Paris.
The following are the particulars of the journey of the arrested deputies to Rochefort.
The prisoners, 16 in number, were conveyed in a chariot, constrained for the prisoners of Vendome—They passed in 13 days, 168 post leagues from Paris to Rochefort. They never left the chariot, but on necessary occasions; but eat and slept in it. Their guard consisted of 200 cavalry, and some armed soldiers who rode in the carriage, which contained 38 seats.
It merits notice that when the public papers were read to the prisoners, Barthélemy, on hearing the denunciation of Moreau, against Pichegru, said to the general, "I have always told you, that you were a traitor." "If I am a traitor, replied Pichegru, you are a coward."
At Tours, a brother of Aubry offered to give him money, but he refused it. The prisoners were generally low spirited, and sometimes shed tears. Bourdon alone gave himself up to liquor. The family of Lafon Ladebat hastened to Rochefort. The prisoners expected to remain at that place; but they found the Surveillance, a corvette of 26 guns, completely fitted for sea. At the news of their departure, they were thunderstruck—their countenance changed, and all, even Bourdon himself, shed tears. They were ordered from the carriage, without time to dine and immediately embarked.
Before they went on board, the faithful Leclerc the servant of Barthélemy, was asked if he persisted in attending his master, "I have feared the prosperity of my master, said he, and I will share his misfortunes." The embarkation was effected in the twinkling of an eye; a signal was given and a discharge by the troops
One hundred marines embarked on board, the corvette besides the crew.
The ship had already cast off, when a courier arrived with dispatches. A signal was given to bring back the ship—she returned. A momentary gleam of hope arose in the hearts of the prisoners—but it was only an order to change the commander of the ship and she instantly departed.
The Directory received two couriers from Italy the beginning of October—supposed to bring the final decision of the parties at Udina, but nothing had transpired. Adjutant general Deveaux wrote from that place that the army of Italy bore the most imposing attitude. One hundred thousand men ready at the first sound of the drum to fly to victory—He adds, "within a month I shall write from Vienna."
The French Legislature have laid a stamp duty on Gazettes and hand-bills, of one sol for a paper containing 341 square inches. [We have some papers with the stamp of a semicircular form.]
The factions in many parts of France are extremely violent. In the South, 300 persons are said to have been assassinated by royalists since the fall of Barthélemy and company. Gen. Lefebvre with a body of troops is gone to quell the troubles—has addressed a proclamation to all parties, and tranquillity is restored, as usual, at the point of the bayonet.
The "Commercial, Political and Literary Journal" of Bourdeaux, contains an "Extract from the conditions by which the Executive Directory cedes the vessels belonging to the Republic, to private adventurers."
The Gazette.
PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 26.
Three Americans who were confined on board the British ship of War, the Hutter, Tudor Tucker commander, now in New-York harbor, were lately liberated, thro' the spirited conduct of the mayor and sundry citizens of that place.
The time for receiving proposals to carry the mails of the United States is prolonged from the 30th January to the 14th February next—See advertisement in fourth page of this gazette.
MR. FENNO, It is said that the President has dismissed Teach Coxe Esq. from the office of Commissioner of the Revenue: This, to me Sir, is most alarming news; not that I pretend to judge of the propriety of the removal, for well I know the constitution and laws of our country have vested the President with this unconditional authority; but I apprehend a book must be written on the subject justifying the dismissal, and criminating the government.
Mr. Randolph wrote a book vindicating his resignation, price half a dollar.
Mr. Monroe, because he was informed the government of the United States had no further need of his diplomatic exertions in France, wrote a book, price one dollar and a half.
Mr. Coxe must, undoubtedly write a book and as the value, to keep up the proportion, must be found by multiplying the price of the last book by 3—his, will be price four and a half dollars.
But there is another still more terrifying consideration; Mr. Coxe's well known circumlocutive talents threaten us with a book, not much less than Cotton Mather's Magnalia, which contains 2000 folio pages—Now, I beseech you Mr. Fenno, to beseech the President to restore Mr. Coxe. I know it may be said, and probably with truth, that neither Mr. Monroe's book, nor Mr. Coxe's (should he write one) will be read, but, Sir, if we can prevent the latter from being written, it will certainly have much paper, and ink, and Mr. Bache's types are so worn down by the tooth of time, and by impressing so much scandal, that his printing is scarcely legible now, and should he be driven to print a book so tremendously bulky, his types will be ruined.—Do pray Mr. Fenno hint to the President that the Democratic Society, of which Mr. Blair M'Clenaghan is chief, mean to remove him from his office of President of the United States, if he wilfully persists in not resigning; for he was advised in Mr. Bache's paper, last summer, to resign, left he should if he continued in office, blunder on, and dismiss one good Democrat after another, till the government should have a chance to be administered by its friends.—And should the President be removed—what a book will he have to write?
A DEMOCRAT.
DIED at Falmouth, (Maine) Nov. 28th, Mr. Hate Evil Hall, Æ. 91 years. He has now living 341 children, viz.
13 Children—113 Grand Children—214 Children's Grand Children—1 Grand Child's Grand Child.
65 of the above have been married, which makes an addition of 65 children by marriage.
On Sunday last Mrs. Macpherson wife of Gen. Macpherson of this city, and this day her remains were respectfully interred.
AERIAL NAVIGATION.
[This curious article is taken from the REPUBLICAN FRANKLIN.]
Citizen Campenas, Hydraulic Engineer, wrote, some months ago, the following letter to General Buonaparte. The author desires us to publish it; and we are of opinion that it will certainly excite much curiosity.
"To Citizen Buonaparte, General in Chief of the Army of Italy. Citizen General, Your glorious campaigns, directed by the new government of the French republic, have at length spread the dawn of a general peace over our continent."
"The only enemy which remains for you to combat, is separated from us by the sea. Finish, in the wide manner in which you have begun, the work of continental peace; and then come and repose yourself a while among us under your laurels. You will behold with pleasure the flourishing state of the arts, which you have cherished from your infancy, and of which you are a well beloved pupil. Your multiplied conquests have recovered them from that abyss into which destructive war had plunged them. The artist who addresses you, filled with the most lively gratitude, will erect, if the means of execution be afforded him, a vast edifice, whence, at the conclusion of his labours, there will issue an aerial vessel, capable of carrying up with you more than two hundred persons, and which may be directed to any point of the compass. I myself will be your pilot. You can thus, without any danger, hover above the fleets of enemies jealous of our happiness, and thunder against them like a new Jupiter, merely by throwing perpendicularly downwards fire brands made of a substance which will kindle only by the contact and percussion at the end of its fall, but which it will be impossible to extinguish; or perhaps you may think it more prudent to begin at once by forcing the British cabinet to capitulate, which you may easily do, as you will have it in your power to let fire to the city of London, or to any of the maritime towns of England. From the calculations I have made, I am convinced, that, with this machine, you may go from Paris to London, and return back again to Paris in twenty-four hours, without descending."
"The period of this enterprize, if my humble voice can be heard, is not far distant. A single campaign would be sufficient to realise the whole of my plan. Deign, then, to promote its execution by your correspondence with the Executive Directory of the French Republic. I have not yet made any proposal to the Government, because it would require one million to carry through this project effectually, and the expenses of the war have hitherto absorbed the whole of the revenues of France."
"The object I propose is, to establish, in the great ocean of the atmosphere, a general navigation, infinitely more certain and more advantageous than maritime navigation which has ever disturbed the tranquillity of mankind—to restore the perfect liberty of commerce, and to give peace and happiness to all the nations of the universe, and unite them as one family. By great labor I have surmounted the multiplied obstacles which presented themselves before me; and my progressive discoveries are developed in a work which I have prepared, consisting of about 400 pages, and divided into five parts."
"I have shewn my work to several learned men of this capital. The commissioners appointed to take my plan into consideration (two of whom are members of the national institute, and formerly were members of the academy) have long meditated upon my data, which they have frequently examined with the greatest attention: at last, after a long series of conversations with me, they have testified their approbation in the most unanimous and most earnest manner."
"Every moment of your time, brave general, is occupied by your attention to objects that are conducive to our happiness. I cannot then, and ought not, considering the distance between us, and fearing lest my letter should fall into unskilful hands, transcribe the whole of the long report that has been made upon this subject. I shall simply present you with an extract from the last part of it."
Extracts from the conclusion of the report. "In the fifth and last part of the work we find details which the author had preferred of his first experiments on Aeronautics; and we learn that this artist had hitherto experienced only disappointment; but it is obvious that his combinations and his data carry with them all the characteristics of reason and truth. "We laudably proceeded to consider the experiments which the engineer Campenas has lately made, with a view to the construction of Aeronautic machines, and directing them to useful purposes. We are convinced with him, as we have already observed, that the larger the Aeronautic machines are made, the more easy will it be to direct them—because they will present in the air less relative resistance in proportion to the number of men they may carry, and consequently insure the progress of the direction. Indeed, if we consider the united strength of 200 against the wind, and submit the power of both to calculation, it will be seen that the force of the men will be seldom inferior to that of the wind. We are therefore convinced, that it would be highly advantageous to give citizen Campenas zealous and faithful co-operators to assist him in the construction of this machine—If we consider attentively the immense treasures which maritime navigation absorbs, there is nothing extravagant in suggesting that three or four millions might be laid out, if necessary, to realise an attempt, the success of which must add to the happiness of all the nations of the globe."
"Besides, such an enterprize, if completely successful, would afford a double advantage to the country. The building which citizen Campenas purposes to establish, and which may be constructed in the Champs-Elysees, would always present a monument worthy of the republic. In it all the civic festivals might be celebrated, and all ceremonies performed which require great space and of course cannot be exhibited in bad weather. This building is the Aeronautic dock; and ports and wharfs may be multiplied in proportion as new vessels are constructed. The advantages which a navigation of this kind would infallibly produce, are so amply demonstrated in the work of citizen Campenas, that we do not hesitate to recommend the prompt execution of his plans."
"P. S. In my treatise on aeronautics, I
propose that the capital city of each country shall have a dock for building aerial vessels and an arboreal port, having a number of wharfs, on which foreign vessels may at all times descend, and remain without danger a sufficient time to unload, make commerce, exchanges, take in fresh cargoes, &c. &c. But, while these vessels are under the smallest of which will carry more than two hundred persons, they will have no occasion to defend for the purpose of exchanging or purchasing commodities. Their powers of direction, by which they are enabled to make way against the strongest wind, will serve to make them ascend or descend, or remain stationary at any height required. Two atmospheric buoys, each surmounted with a parachute to be used in case of any accident, must be placed in the two pavilions with which the two extremities of the gallery of the vessel ought to terminate, and may be let down and taken up at the pleasure of the crew, with men, provisions or articles of any kind necessary for manoeuvring the vessel."
"Finally, another small cylindrical buoy may be let down from the centre pavilion (for the gallery ought to have three pavilions), which would serve to receive, until a general peace, the capitulations of Fortresses, &c. belonging to our remaining enemies. During peace this buoy might serve to give and receive intelligence, either by day or night (for it can be illuminated), upon a plan previously concerted."
"My work, besides, contains all the details necessary to this kind of sailing, and an atmospheric code, the regulations of which have for their sole object the peace and the happiness of all the people of the earth."
(Signed) CAMPENAS, Hydraulic Engineer.
The Underwriters in the City of Philadelphia, are requested to meet at their room at 6 o'clock this evening, on business of importance.
Tuesday, Dec. 26.
There are letters in town which state that the Ship John, capt. Fulger from Hamburg, is on shore in Delaware Bay, and it is feared will be lost; about 70 of the passengers are saved, the rest were on the wreck.
NEW-YORK, December 25. The Mary Magdalen, from America, has been sent into Bourdeaux by the Bois Amis corfair—taken under Danish colours, loaded with furs.
The Letter of Marque Jenny, which went ashore on Saturday morning, has since beached and filled with water. Chief of her cargo will be saved.
TAKE NOTICE. The adjourned meeting of the Stockholders of the Delaware and Schuylkill Canal is to be held this evening at their Office, precisely at 6 o'clock, by mistake advertised in Saturday's Gazette for Tuesday, January 2.
NEW THEATRE.
THIS EVENING, DECEMBER 26, Will be performed the Tragedy of GEORGE BARNWELL. With a new Pantomime, called The CHRISTMAS FROLICK; Or, HARLEQUIN'S GAMBOLS.
Office of the Insurance Company of the STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA. In consequence of an application from a number of proprietors of Stock, made agreeably to the act of incorporation, a general meeting of the Stockholders is particularly requested on Wednesday, the 31st January next, at 11 o'clock, at the Office of the Company.
SAM. W. FISHER, Sec'y.
December 26.
Hyson and Young Hyson Tea.
A few chests of excellent quality, For sale, corner of Second and Pine Streets.
December 26. cost
Prison Manufactory.
FOR SALE, At the Prison of the City and County of Philadelphia.
Cut Nails of all sizes, from 3d to 20d Flooring Brads, Spriggs, Saddle and card Tacks Oakum and chipped Log-yod Shoemakers and Sadler's Thread Also—Sewed Marble, suitable for carrier's tables, roans and hear stones, in arches, chimney pieces, plat orné, slabs, facia, window heads, lills, &c. All which may be had on reasonable terms. Shoes made and Waving done at said Prison at a moderate price.
Orders from a distance, directed to Daniel Thomas, agent for the prison, will be attended to. December 26. mthom
Select Subscription Balls.
NEW ASSEMBLY ROOM, South Fourth Street, between Chestnut and Walnut Streets.
MR. FRANCIS respectfully informs the subscribers to the above Balls, that the first will be on Tuesday, the 2d of January, 1793. A few names to the Select Subscription Balls will be admitted, by application to Mr. Francis, no. 70, north Eighth Street.
Terms of subscription—each subscriber to pay Five Dollars, which entitles him to a Gentleman's Ticket, and cards of admission for two Ladies, to each of the four Balls—The Balls to be held every other Tuesday.
The number of subscribers to be limited to forty. Subscribers' Tickets will be ready for delivery on Saturday the 30th inst.
Mr. Francis's days of teaching for his young pupils are Thursdays and Saturdays, from 3 o'clock in the afternoon till 6, and from 6 to 8 for those of a more advanced age. Private tuition either at the Assembly Room or at his House No. 70 North Eighth Street.
N. B. Due notice will be given of Mr. Francis's second Practising Ball. Dec. 26. dta J
LEFT
At Alderman Bedford's office, Lombard Street, No. 88, about three weeks ago, a whole piece of cotton, supposed to be stolen—any person having lost the same, proving property and paying charges may have it again. December 26. cost

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8. From Yorktown by Abbotstown, Gettysburg, Fairfield, Elizabethtown, Williamsport, Martinsburg, Winchester, Stevensburg and Strasburg to Woodstock once a week. Leave Yorktown every Sunday by noon, arrive at Martinsburg on Tuesday by 11 A.M. Leave Martinsburg on Tuesday noon and arrive at Woodstock on Wednesday by 6 P.M. Returning. Leave Woodstock on Thursday by 6 A.M., arrive at Martinsburg on Friday by 11 A.M., and arrive at Yorktown on Sunday by 11 A.M.
9. From Pittsburg by Cannonsburg, Washington, West Liberty and Wheeling to the mouth of Fishing creek once a week (contract for one year only). Leave Pittsburg every Friday at 9 A.M., and arrive at Fishing creek on Sunday at 9 A.M. Returning. Leave Fishing creek on Wednesday at 8 A.M., and arrive at Pittsburg on Friday at 8 A.M.
10. From Washington by Brownsville and Union to Morgantown once a week. Leave Union every Friday at 6 A.M., and arrive at Washington by 6 P.M. Leave Washington on Saturday at 6 A.M., arrive at Morgantown on Sunday at 6 P.M. Leave Morgantown on Monday at 8 A.M., and arrive at Union by 3 P.M.
11. From Baltimore by Fredericktown, Elizabethtown, Greencastle and Chambersburg to Shippenburg once a week. Leave Baltimore every Friday by 11 A.M., arrive at Fredericktown on Saturday by 10 A.M., at Elizabethtown in the evening, and at Shippenburg on Monday by 7 P.M. Returning. Leave Shippenburg every Tuesday at 9 A.M., arrive at Elizabethtown at 8 P.M., at Fredericktown on Wednesday noon, and at Baltimore on Thursday by 5 P.M.
MARYLAND.
12. From Elizabethtown by Hancock and Oldtown to Cumberland once a week. Leave Cumberland every Saturday by 6 A.M., and arrive at Elizabethtown on Monday by 3 A.M. Returning. Leave Elizabethtown every Monday by 10 A.M., and arrive at Cumberland on Tuesday by 6 P.M.
13. From Baltimore to Annapolis once a week. Leave Baltimore every Monday at 8 A.M., and arrive at Annapolis by 5 P.M. Returning. Leave Annapolis every Tuesday at 8 A.M., and arrive at Baltimore by 5 P.M.
14. From Baltimore by Annapolis, Queen Anns, Upper Marlborough, Piscataway, Port Tobacco, Surrattsville, Newport and Chapotico to Leonardtown once a week. Leave Baltimore every Friday at 10 A.M., arrive at Annapolis at 5 P.M. Leave Annapolis on Saturday at 6 A.M., arrive at Upper Marlborough by noon, arrive at Piscataway by 6 P.M., and arrive at Leonardtown every Monday forenoon by 9 o'clock. Returning. Leave Leonardtown every Monday at 3 P.M., arrive at Piscataway on Tuesday by 6 P.M., arrive at Upper Marlborough on Wednesday by 11 A.M., and arrive at Annapolis by 6 P.M. Leave Annapolis on Thursday by 7 A.M., and arrive at Baltimore by 3 P.M.
15. From Annapolis by Lower Marlborough, Huntingdon and Calvert court house to St. Leonard once a week. Leave Annapolis every Saturday at 9 A.M., and arrive at St. Leonard on Monday by 3 P.M. Returning. Leave St. Leonard every Monday at 4 P.M., and arrive at Annapolis the next Saturday by 6 A.M.
16. From Bladensburg by Upper Marlborough, Nottingham, Lower Marlborough, Acquasco, Benedict and Charlottehall to Chapotico once a week. Leave Bladensburg every Saturday at 9 A.M., arrive at Upper Marlborough by noon and at Lower Marlborough on Monday by 5 P.M., & at Chapotico by 6 P.M. Returning. Leave Chapotico every Tuesday at 6 A.M., and arrive at Bladensburg on Saturday at 6 A.M.
17. From Georgetown by Montgomery court house to Fredericktown once a week. Leave Georgetown every Friday by 6 A.M., and arrive at Fredericktown by 5 P.M. Returning. Leave Fredericktown every Thursday by 5 A.M., and arrive at Georgetown by 6 P.M.
VIRGINIA.
18. From Woodstock by Newmarket, Rockingham court house, Staunton, Lexington and Fincastle to Big Lick once a week. Leave Woodstock every Thursday by 6 A.M., arrive at Staunton on Friday at 1 P.M., leave Staunton every Friday at 2 P.M., arrive at Big Lick on Sunday by 11 A.M. Returning. Leave Big Lick on Sunday by 1 P.M., arrive at Staunton every Tuesday by 11 A.M. Leave Staunton by 12 o'clock (noon) and arrive at Woodstock on Wednesday by 5 P.M.
TENNESSEE.
19. From Big Lick by Montgomery court house and Wythe court house to Abingdon once a week. Leave Big Lick every Sunday at 1 P.M., arrive at Wythe court house on Tuesday by 2 P.M., and at Abingdon on Wednesday by 6 P.M. Returning. Leave Abingdon every Thursday by 6 A.M., arrive at Wythe court house on Friday by 2 P.M., and arrive at Big Lick on Sunday by 11 A.M.
20. From Abingdon, Va. by Jonesborough, Greeneville, Moffatt's store and Jefferson court house to Knoxville once a week. Leave Abingdon every Thursday by 6 A.M., arrive at Moffatt's store on Saturday by 8 A.M. Leave Moffatt's by 9 A.M., and arrive at Knoxville on Sunday by 10 A.M. Returning. Leave Knoxville every Sunday by 2 P.M., arrive at Moffatt's on Monday at 4 P.M., and arrive at Abingdon on Wednesday by 7 P.M.
VIRGINIA.
21. From Winchester by Romney to Moorfields once a week. Leave Winchester every Thursday at 6 A.M., and arrive at Moorfields on Friday by 6 P.M. Returning. Leave Moorfields every Saturday at 8 A.M., and arrive at Winchester on Sunday by 6 P.M.
22. From Alexandria by Centerville, Leesburg and Shepherdstown to Martinsburg once a week. Leave Alexandria every Wednesday by 9 A.M., and arrive at Martinsburg on Friday by 10 A.M. Returning. Leave Martinsburg every Friday by noon & arrive at Alexandria on Monday by 7 A.M.
23. From Frederickburg by Port Royal, Laytons, Tappahannock, Urbanna and Gloucester court house to Yorktown once a week. Leave Frederickburg every Wednesday at 6 A.M., arrive at Tappahannock on Thursday by 11 A.M. Leave Tappahannock at noon and arrive at Yorktown on Saturday by 11 A.M. Returning. Leave Yorktown every Saturday at 1 P.M., arrive at Tappahannock the next Monday noon and arrive at Frederickburg on Tuesday by 5 P.M.
24. From Tappahannock by Richmond court house, Westmoreland court house, Kinross, Farnham church and Northumberland court house to Lancaster court house once a week. Leave Tappahannock every Thursday noon and arrive at Lancaster court house on Saturday by 11 A.M. Returning. Leave Lancaster court house every Saturday by 1 P.M., and arrive at Tappahannock on Monday by 11 A.M.
25. From Frederickburg by Culpeper court house & Orange, h. to Charlottesville once a week. Leave Frederickburg every Tuesday at 10 A.M., and arrive at Charlottesville on Thursday by 11 A.M. Returning. Leave Charlottesville on Saturday at 8 P.M., and arrive at Frederickburg on Tuesday by 6 A.M.
26. From Richmond by Goochland court house, Columbia and Charlottesville to Staunton once a week. Leave Richmond every Tuesday at 1 P.M., arrive at Charlottesville on Thursday by 11 A.M. Leave Charlottesville by noon and arrive at Staunton on Friday by 11 A.M. Returning. Leave Staunton on Saturday by 6 A.M., arrive at Charlottesville by 7 P.M., and arrive at Richmond the next Tuesday by 9 A.M.
27. From Staunton by Bath court house and Sweet Springs to Greenbrier court house once a week. Leave Staunton every Saturday at 6 A.M., and arrive at Greenbrier court house on Tuesday by 6 P.M. Returning. Leave Greenbrier court house every Monday by 9 A.M., and arrive at Staunton on Thursday by 8 P.M.
28. From Charlottesville by Warren, Warminster, New Market, Amherst court house, Cabell'sburg, and Madison to Lynchburg once a week. Leave Charlottesville every Thursday at 1 P.M., and arrive at Lynchburg on Saturday at 6 P.M. Returning. Leave Lynchburg every Tuesday by 6 A.M., and arrive at Charlottesville on Thursday by 10 A.M.
29. From Richmond by Hanovertown, Ayletts and Todds to Tappahannock once a week or if carried in flags as often as they shall run. Leave Richmond every Wednesday at 5 A.M., arrive at Todds at 3 P.M., and at Tappahannock on Thursday at 11 A.M. Returning. Leave Tappahannock on Monday at 1 P.M., and arrive at Richmond on Tuesday by 5 P.M.
30. From Richmond by Hopkins's, Powhatan court house, Cumberland court house, Prince Edward court house and Lynchburg to New-London, once a week. Leave Richmond every Tuesday at 8 A.M., arrive at Prince Edward on Wednesday at 6 P.M., and arrive at Lynchburg on Friday at 3 A.M., and at New-London by 10 A.M. Returning. Leave New-London every Friday at 2 P.M., arrive at Lynchburg by 5 P.M., arrive at Prince Edward on Saturday by 7 P.M., and arrive at Richmond on Monday by 4 P.M.
31. From New-London by Liberty to Fincastle once a week. Leave New-London every Friday at 1 P.M., and arrive at Fincastle on Saturday by 6 P.M. Returning. Leave Fincastle on Monday at 5 A.M., and arrive at New-London on Tuesday noon.
32. From Liberty by Rocky Mount to Martinsville once in two weeks. Leave Liberty every other Saturday at 6 A.M., and arrive at Martinsville on Sunday by 6 P.M. Leave Martinsville on Monday by 6 A.M., and arrive at Liberty on Tuesday by 6 P.M.
33. From Prince Edward court house by Charlotte court house to Halifax court house once a week. Leave Prince Edward court house every Thursday at 6 A.M., and arrive at Halifax court house on Friday at 10 A.M. Returning. Leave Halifax court house on Friday by 2 P.M., and arrive at Prince Edward court house on Saturday by 6 P.M.
VIRGINIA and NORTH-CAROLINA.
34. From Halifax court house by Halifax old town, Carters, Martinsville, Patrick court house, Upper Sauria, Germantown and Bethania to Salem once in two weeks. Leave Halifax court house every other Friday at 2 P.M., and arrive at Salem the next Monday by 6 P.M. Returning. Leave Salem every other Tuesday at 6 A.M., and arrive at Halifax court house on Friday by 10 A.M.
35. From Harris's by Hickes's ford to Halifax twice a week. Leave Harris's every Wednesday and Saturday by 5 A.M., and arrive at Halifax by 6 P.M. Returning. Leave Halifax every Thursday and Sunday by 6 A.M., and arrive at Harris's by 7 P.M.
VIRGINIA.
36. From Smithfield by Southampton court house to Hickes's ford once a week. Leave Hickes's ford every other Friday by 3 P.M., and arrive at Smithfield on Saturday by 5 P.M. Returning. Leave Smithfield every other Sunday by 6 A.M., and arrive at Hickes's ford on Monday by 3 P.M.
37. From Goldsboro by Beaufort, St. Thomas's, Mecklenburg and Lumberton court houses and Edmunds store to Goldsboro once a week. Leave Goldsboro every Wednesday at 10 A.M., and return the next Saturday by 8 P.M., waiting at each Post-Office 2 hours after delivery of the mail.
VIRGINIA & NORTH-CAROLINA.
38. From Suffolk by Edenton, Plymouth and Washington to Newbern, once a week. Leave Suffolk every Monday at noon, arrive at Edenton on Tuesday at 1 P.M., at Plymouth on Wednesday by 6 A.M., and at Washington by 6 P.M. Returning. Leave Newbern every Friday by 5 P.M., arrive at Washington on Saturday by 4 P.M., at Edenton on Sunday by 9 A.M., and at Suffolk on Monday by 9 A.M.
NORTH-CAROLINA.
39. From Edenton by Hertford, Nixon, Elizabeth city, and Jonesburg to Indian-town, once a week. Leave Edenton every Wednesday by 1 P.M., and arrive at Indian-town on Thursday by 6 P.M. Returning. Leave Indian-town every Tuesday by 5 A.M., and arrive at Edenton on Wednesday at 11 A.M.
40. From Halifax by Northampton court-house, Princeton, Murfreesborough, Winton and Windsor to Edenton, once a week. Leave Halifax every Monday at 9 A.M., and arrive at Edenton on Wednesday by 3 P.M. Leave Edenton on Wednesday by 6 P.M., and arrive at Halifax on Saturday by 11 A.M.
41. From Halifax by Scotland, Hogton, Williamfland and Daily's to Plymouth, once a week. Leave Halifax every Monday at 10 A.M., and arrive at Plymouth on Wednesday by 10 A.M. Returning. Leave Plymouth on Wednesday at 2 P.M., and arrive at Halifax on Friday at 10 A.M.
42. From Halifax by Tarboro' and Greenville to Washington once a week. Leave Halifax every Monday at 10 A.M., and arrive at Washington on Wednesday by 10 A.M. Returning. Leave Washington every Wednesday at 2 P.M., and arrive at Halifax on Friday at 10 A.M.
43. From Halifax by Warrenton, Williamfland, Oxford, Hillsborough, Martinsville, Salem, Lexington, Salisbury and Stateville to Charlotte, and from Charlotte by Cabarrus court-house to Salisbury, and from thence by the same route to Halifax, once a week. Leave Halifax every Monday at 9 A.M., arrive at Warrenton by 7 P.M., arrive at Hillsborough on Wednesday at 4 P.M., at Salem on Friday by 5 P.M., at Salisbury on Saturday at 4 P.M., and at Charlotte on Monday by 6 A.M. Returning. Leave Charlotte on Monday by 6 A.M., arrive at Salisbury on Tuesday by 10 A.M., arrive at Salem on Wednesday by 6 A.M., arrive at Hillsborough on Friday by 9 A.M., and arrive at Halifax on Monday by 6 A.M.
44. From Hillsborough by Mount Tizrah, Person court-house, Leesburg, Caldwell court-house and Rockingham court-house to Germantown once in two weeks. Leave Hillsborough every other Thursday at 6 A.M., and arrive at Germantown on Saturday at 4 P.M. Leave Germantown every other Sunday at 6 A.M., and arrive at Hillsborough on Tuesday at 4 P.M.
45. From Salem by Bethania, Huntville, Rockford, Wilkes, Morganton and Rutherford to Spartanburg in S. C. once in two weeks. Leave Salem every other Saturday at 5 A.M., and arrive at Spartanburg on Wednesday at 5 P.M. Leave Spartanburg every other Thursday at 7 A.M., and arrive at Salem the next Monday at 6 P.M.
46. From Lumberton by Nash court-house to Tarboro' once a week. Leave Tarboro' every Friday by 6 A.M., and arrive at Lumberton by 6 P.M. Returning. Leave Lumberton every Saturday by 6 A.M., and arrive at Tarboro' by 6 P.M.
47. From Raleigh by Smithfield, Waynesborough, and Kingstree to Newbern, once in two weeks. Leave Raleigh every other Tuesday by 8 A.M., and arrive at Newbern the next Friday by 10 A.M. Returning. Leave Newbern every other Friday by 9 A.M., and arrive at Raleigh on Monday by 6 P.M.
48. From Raleigh by Chapel hill to Hillsborough, and from Hillsborough by Chapel hill and Chatham court-house to Raleigh, once a week. To wait two hours at Chatham court-house. Leave Raleigh every Tuesday by 6 A.M., and arrive at Hillsborough by 6 P.M. Returning. Leave Hillsborough every Wednesday by 8 A.M., and arrive at Raleigh on Thursday by 10 A.M.
49. From Fayetteville by Elizabethtown, Belfort and Springfield to Wilmington, and from Wilmington by S. Washington, Sarecto and Sampson court-house to Fayetteville, once a week. Leave Fayetteville every Tuesday at 6 A.M., and arrive at Wilmington on Thursday at 10 A.M. Returning. Leave Wilmington every Thursday at 4 P.M., and arrive at Fayetteville on Saturday by 5 P.M.
50. From Fayetteville by Afford and Randolph court-house to Salisbury, and from Salisbury by Montgomery court-house, Anson court-house and Richmond court-house to Fayetteville, once a week. Leave Fayetteville every Saturday at 6 A.M., and arrive at Salisbury on Tuesday by 9 A.M. Leave Salisbury every Tuesday noon and arrive at Fayetteville on Friday by 6 P.M.
51. From Newbern by Trenton and Richland to Wilmington once a week. Leave Newbern every Friday at 10 A.M., and arrive at Wilmington on Sunday by 6 P.M. Leave Wilmington every Tuesday at 10 A.M., and arrive at Newbern on Thursday by 6 P.M.
SOUTH & NORTH-CAROLINA.
52. From Camden by Lancaster court-house, Charlotte and Lincoln to Stateville, once in two weeks. Leave Camden every other Monday at 6 A.M., arrive at Stateville on Thursday by 6 P.M. Leave Stateville every other Friday by 2 P.M., and arrive at Camden on Monday by 6 P.M.
SOUTH-CAROLINA.
53. From Columbia by Winnsborough, Chester court-house, Pinckneyville, Spartanburg and Greenville court-house to Pickenville, and from Pickenville by Laurens court-house and Newberry court house to Columbia, once a week; waiting one hour at each post-office on the route. Leave Columbia every Monday at 9 A.M., arrive at Pickenville on Tuesday by 3 P.M., arrive at Laurens court-house on Friday at 4 P.M., and at Columbia on Sunday by 6 P.M.
54. From Columbia by Orangeburg to Charleston, once a week. Leave Columbia every Monday at 10 A.M., and arrive at Charleston on Thursday at 10 A.M. Returning. Leave Charleston every Thursday at 2 P.M., and arrive at Columbia on Sunday at noon.
SOUTH-CAROLINA & GEORGIA.
55. From Edgefield court-house by Cambridge, Abbeville court-house, Poidetion court-house, Hattensford, Franklin court-house, Elberton and Peterburg to Washington, and from Washington by Peterburg and Cambridge to Edgefield court-house, once a week. Leave Edgefield court-house every Friday by 8 A.M., arrive at Poidetion court-house on Sunday by 9 A.M., arrive at Franklin court-house by 7 P.M., at Peterburg on Tuesday by 10 A.M., and at Washington by 5 P.M. Leave Washington every Wednesday at 6 A.M., at Cambridge on Thursday by 10 A.M., and at Edgefield court-house by 7 P.M.
56. From Augusta by Washington, Greenburg and Lexington to Georgetown, once a week. Leave Augusta every Monday at 3 P.M., arrive at Washington on Tuesday by 5 P.M., and arrive at Georgetown on Thursday by 7 P.M. Returning. Leave Georgetown every Friday at 6 A.M., and arrive at Augusta by noon on Monday.
57. From Gardens Corner to Beaufort once a week. Leave Beaufort every Thursday at 3 P.M., and arrive at Gardens Corner by 8 P.M. Returning. Leave Gardens Corner every Thursday at 5 A.M., and arrive at Beaufort by 10 A.M.
Note 1. The Post Master General may alter the times of arrival and departure at any time during the continuance of the contracts, be previously stipulating an adequate compensation for any extra expense that may be occasioned thereby.
Note 2. Half an hour shall be allowed for opening and closing the Mail at all offices where no particular time is specified.
Note 3. For every hour's delay (unavoidable accidents excepted) in arriving after the times prescribed in any contract, the Contractor shall forfeit one dollar, and if the delay continue until the departure of any succeeding Mail, whereby the Mails destined for such depending Mail lose a trip, an additional forfeiture of five dollars shall be incurred.
Note 4. Newspapers as well as Letters are to be sent in the Mails; and if any person making proposals desires to carry newspapers other than those conveyed in the mail, for his own emolument, he must state in his proposals for what sum he will carry with that emolument and for what sum without that emolument.
Note 5. Should any person making proposals desire an alteration of the times of arrival and departure above specified, he must state in his proposals the alterations desired, and the difference they will make in the terms of his contract.
Note 6. Persons making proposals are desired to state their prices in gross by the year, and not by the mile. Those who contract will receive their pay quarterly, in the months of January, April, July and October, in drafts on the post office on the route and in bank notes.
Note 7. The contracts are to be in operation on the first day of April next, and continue for four years, until the 31st day of March inclusive, in the year 1802.
JOSEPH HABERSHAM, Post-Master General. GENERAL POST OFFICE, Philadelphia, December 18, 1797.
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New Assembly Room,
South Fourth street, between Chestnut and Walnut streets.
Mr. FRANCIS,
OF THE NEW-THEATRE,
RESPECTFULLY informs his scholars and the public in general, that his Academy for Dancing will commence, for the season, on Thursday, December 13, at the above
ELEGANT ROOM;
When he hopes to receive the continuance of their accustomed patronage, which it will be his unremitted endeavor to deserve.
The days of teaching for his young pupils are Thursdays and Saturdays, from 3 o'clock in the afternoon till 6, and from 6 till 9, for those of a more advanced age.
As an accommodation to those living in this vicinity, Mr. FRANCIS intends to instruct a small party of children on Wednesday and Friday afternoons, at his house.
Distinct from the Practising Balls, Mr. FRANCIS will have four private select Subscription Balls.
Private teaching, either at the Academy, or his house.
Mr. FRANCIS's first Practising Ball will be on Tuesday, 19th Dec. at the New Assembly Room. Ladies and Gentlemen's tickets to be had, by applying to Mr. F. as usual.
For further particulars, enquire of Mr. F. No. 70, north Eighth street. Dec. 11—mwf
Imported in the brig Eliza,
Capt. Hastie, from Bourdeaux;
Claret in Cases of a very superior quality,
White Sauterne Wine in Cases,
Olive Oil in baskts of 12 bottles each,
White and coloured Silk Gloves,
do. do. Silk do.
A few pipes of Bourdeaux Brandy,
For Sale by
JAMES I. ATIMIER, jun.
71, South Wharves.
Who has also for Sale,
A few qr. Casks Old Sherry Wine.
Dec. 7. d2w
For Sale by the Subscriber,
10 bales Coffas
40 do. Balus
11 do. Mamoudy
17 do. Chintz
7 do. Tookery
2 do. Gorah
25 do. Moragungees