Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser. (Philadelphia [Pa.]), 1797-02-14 00:00:00

Joe Donnell  Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser.
NUMBER 1384.]
TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 14, 1797.
[VOLUME XI.]
MRS. GRATTAN Respectfully informs the Ladies and Gentlemen of the City, that the 4th LADIES' CONCERT will be on TUESDAY , the 14th day of February , at the Assembly-Room . Act I. Overture, Scotch Ballad, Harp, Mrs. GRATTAN, Clarion Concerto, Cleo, Webb, Act II. Lefson, Piano Forte, Mrs. GRATTAN, Clementi, Sontag, Quartetto, Cleo, Mrs. Grattan begs leave to inform the Ladies and Gentlemen, that the subscription-book is at her house No 39, North Sixth-street, for the reception of those names who wish to honor her with their commands.—A subscription for eight nights 16 dollars, including a Gentleman and Lady's ticket, each transferable—Half subscriptions 8 dollars, including one ticket.—Single ticket 2 dollars. * The Concert to begin at half past six; and at half past eight, the music will attend for the Ball. February 11
College-Hall. READINGS and RECITATIONS, Moral, Critical, and Entertaining. On TUESDAY EVENING , February 14th, at 7 o'clock, Will be recited Selections from the tragedy of H A M L E T , With a Critical Investigation of the Character of Hamlet, and Observations on Shakespeare. Tickets to be had of Mr. Poulton, jun. at the Library; at Mr. McElwee's looking-glass-store, No. 70, S. Fourth-street; and at Mr. Carey's, Bookseller, Market-street—Half a dollar each. On THURSDAY V. February 16, FIRST PART. Anthony's Funeral Oration, Shakespeare. Cato's Soliloquy on the Immortality of the Soul, Addison. Ode on St. Cecilia's Day, Pope. SECOND PART. The Story of Lavinia, Thomson. Edwina and Emma, Mallet. Maria, first and second part, Sienne. Ode to Mademoiselle, Penrose. THIRD PART. Ode on the Passion, Collins. Alexander's Feast, Dryden.
WASHINGTON LOTTERY, No. II. LIST OF PRIZES AND BLANKS. 62d Days Drawing, February 4.     No. Dols. No. Dols. No. Dols.    26 10228 22649 36448 10  218 432 921 456  350 11082 102342 10 591 10  357 111 305 37370 20  1218 100 962 473 38453 10  2293 10 12730 50 593 546  275 10 13264 24133 648 25  529 10 268 476 746  3253 10 736 847 351  321 934 25013 39059  704 10 14103 10 245 120  807 820 278 657 10  901 15233 411 40862  904 239 20 26495 387 10  4084 401 984 41020  113 712 10 27287 10 310  214 16010 303 20 42300 20  622 083 694 500 10  735 10 098 28143 819  904 327 29145 10 895 10  5193 10 338 10 499 898  207 885 670 992  724 17363 773 43247  772 12412 30003 44391  813 847 496 10 494 50  824 19132 10 31357 85007  943 10 916 390 020  6051 20324 10 540 904  399 386 949 46061 10  673 10 701 10 32316 48092  7150 10 791 33227 118  349 10 810 267 790 10  809 10 21045 268 10 49157  8563 143 34416 214  918 162 35119 626  992 501 384 10 635 10  9499 10 563 409  540 10 22472 10 36384 10   63d Days Drawing, February 6.     No. Dols. No. Dols. No. Dols.    28 9952 25312 34750 10  773 10 10306 10 26063 33335  1091 12714 647 10 38103  525 25 15224 793 221  782 956 27355 438  2603 10 10511 358 10 454  3000 10 918 762 610  319 10 17000 28136 39151  519 172 160 40202  4601 499 297 313  684 18229 29163 41667  5133 10 315 438 43749  465 362 976 43122 10  510 10 977 10 30098 4418  627 10 19440 10 135 10  631 10 20299 763 990  6129 479 976 46182  7066 886 10 979 491 20  584 21189 10 31903 508  8916 22795 32212 524  6209 10 958 894 47651 10  583 23714 32289 755  815 847 10 699 38922 00  834 24259 986 49450  838 321 34347 10 491 10 
A Wet Nurse. WANTS A PLACE, A YOUNG Woman, with a good breast of milk. She can be well recommended. Enquire at Mr. Morrows, Gun-Smith, opposite the State-House, Chestnut-street. February 13.  A CARD. If Monsieur G. H. SÖLZE, Who left Bordeaux the 20th June last, and arrived at Boston about the middle of August, in the Schooner Jane, is in Philadelphia, he is requested to call on Joseph Anthony & Co. No. 23, Chestnut-street, who will give him some information of importance. December 24, 1796.
Pantheon, AND RICKETTS'S AMPHITHEATRE. For EQUESTRIAN and STAGE PERFORMANCES. MR. & MRS. SPINACUTA RESPECTFULLY inform their Friends and the Public in general, their benefit is fixed for This Evening, the 14th inst. When no exertions will be spared to render the Entertainments of the evening novel and agreeable. Among the entertainments will be Tight Rope Dancing. On which Mr. Spinacuta will perform the following astonishing feats: viz. 1st The wooden shoe Dance—2d He will sit on a chair on the rope, balance a table before him, and take a glass of wine—3d He will perform a comic dance in which he will throw half a Somerset backwards and forwards, and dance upon his shin instead of his feet—4th He will throw himself into the air and perform the Double Serpenteaux—5th He will for the first time this season, perform a surprising leap over a garter ten feet high, backwards and forwards, without the balance pole; he will put half a crown on his foot, threw it into the air, and catch it in a glass, will play several favorite airs on the Violin, with variations; will go through the manual exercise with the American flag; will ascend and descend the steep part of the rope leading the Pit, and perform many surprising feats never attempted by any but himself.
Horsmanship By the Equestrian Group. Surprising Feats by Mr. Sully, as Clown. Ground and Lofty Tumbling, By Messrs. Ricketts, Franklin, Hutchins, Sully, and Clown Mr. Spinacuta. Equestrian Exercises, By Mr. Ricketts, who will perform a variety of astonishing feats, never done by any but himself. A comic Burletta, called THE DRESSING-ROOM; OR, THE INTRIGUING FRISURE. Sir Jeremy, Mr. Chambers. Puff, (the Barber) Mr. Sully. Lady Jeremy, Miss Robinson. Betty, Mrs. Chambers. Coriplanter, Will take off his Saddle and pick up a Handkerchief, at the word of command. A favorite comic IRISH SONG , by Mr. Sully. Between the intervals of Stage Performances, H O R S E M A N S H I P. A NEW PANTOMIME, Never performed here, got up by Mr. Spinacuta, called, The Magic Fight; OR, The Little Cripple Devil. With new music, changes and decorations. Harlequin, Mr. Sully. Pierrot (Servant) Mr. Spinacuta. Donna Elena, Mrs. Spinacuta. Little Cripple Devil, Miss Sully. Benevolent Witch, Mr. Chambers. Gunners, Messrs. F. Ricketts & Coffe. Supernumeraries, by the rest of the Company. In the course of the Pantomime, will be the following Changes: 1st. The Magic Bottle. 2d. The Enchanted Trunk. 3d. The Magic Pot; from which will rise the Sixteen States of America, and the Wonderful Bouquet. 4th. The comic scene of the Pastry Cook Shop. 5th. Harlequin taken by the Superior magic of the Clown, and fired from a Mortar into the air. In which will be introduced, by particular desire, the laughable DYING SCENE. 6th. The Clown seized by two DEVILS, and hurried through the air. Seventh and last change. An Exact View of the Delaware and Jersey Shore. To conclude with the admir'd SONG of THE WANDERING SAILOR. By Mr. Chambers. Doors to be open at five, and the Performances to begin precisely at a quarter past six. Tickets to be had at the usual places; at Mr. O'Ellery's Coffee-House; where places for the Boxes may be taken; also at the bar of the City Tavern? Mr. Simonet's Pastry Cook Shop, Newmarket; and at Mr. Spinacuta's, No. 22, fourth Fifth-street, corner of Walnut-street.
The Elephant, Now exhibited, was bought for Ten Thousand Dollars. He is 3 years old, 6 feet high, growing to 18 feet. He eats 150 weight a-day, and drinks a barrel of water; he has drunk some days forty bottles of porter, drawing the corks with his trunk. He is perfectly inoffensive; travels loose, at the rate of five miles an hour, and is the greatest curiosity ever brought to this Continent. He is to be seen 'till the 13th of January, in Market-street between Third and Fourth-streets; at a quarter of a dollar, that every one may see him—after which time the former price of half a dollar will be resumed. He will leave Philadelphia as soon as the weather will permit. December 31
Pennsylvania Population Company. NOTICE is hereby given, to such Share-holders as have not paid their assessments on their shares—to pay the same immediately to the Secretary of the Company, at the Company's Office, No. 33 north Fourth-street, Philadelphia. They are further informed, that in default of paying the same within thirty days from the 4th of February, instant, the several forfeitures will be strictly exacted, in conformity to the 21st article of association. By order of the Board, SOL. MARACHE, Secretary. Feb. 2.
For Sale, At the Office of the Editor of the Gazette of the United States, A FEW COPIES OF "An account of the Receipts and Expenditures of the United States, for the year 1795." Mr. Pickering's Letter. This Day Published, AND FOR SALE BY THE EDITOR, Price three shillings a Dollar. THE Letter of the Secretary of State, to Mr. Pickering, Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States, to the French Republic. February 9.
A Principal Book-keeper is wanted in one of the Public Offices. Enquire of the Printer. February 10  50 Dollars Reward. LOST, last evening, between eight and nine o'clock, as the subscriber was going to his house at the Falls of Schuylkill, from the house of his father-in-law, Mr. Francis Stewart, in Sugar Alley, between Sixth and Seventh-streets, above Market-street. A black POCKET-BOOK, Containing 1190 Dollars, in Bank-Notes From 5 to 100 Dollars each. One of which was of the Branch-Bank of New-York, and several papers, such as receipts and orders.—The road the subscriber took, was the Falls road, crossing at the Upper Ferry. Whoever finds the above Pocket-Book, and returns it to the subscriber at the Falls, or to his father-in-law, Mr. Stewart, living in Sugar Alley, shall be entitled to the above reward, paid by JAMES HAFFY Feb. 3.
A Quantity of Brandy, FIRST & 2d proof, Gin, of 4th proof, in pipes Jamaica Spirits, 4th proof, in Hhds Old Hock, in cases of 40 dozen each Clas Tumblers, in pints and half-pints Window Glass, in boxes, of different sizes Hazelnuts, in sacks Whiting Coppers White Lead Spanish Brown For Sale by PETER BLIGHT. January 4
Clocks and Watches. LESLIE AND PRICE, No. 79, MARKET-STREET, PHILADELPHIA, HAVE IMPORTED, by the late arrivals from London, a large assortment of WARRANTED WATCHES , consisting of horizontal, capp'd and jewell'd Gold Watches, with seconds, of superior workmanship and elegance; also capp'd and jewell'd and plain Gold Watches; capp'd & jewell'd, capp'd, seconds, day of the month, and plain Silver Watches; eight day & chamber Clocks; elegant French Clocks with marble frames; eight day and thirty hour, brass works, &c. December 22, 1796.
Five Dollars Reward. LOST, about ten days since, a small SPANISH DOG, white, dappled with yellow—sharp ears, small head, long hair, including to curl; occasionally limps on one hind leg; answers to the name of DAMON. Whoever will bring him to No. 104, corner of Spruce and 3d streets, shall receive the above reward. February 9
JUST ARRIVED, By the Danish ship Friendship, captain Matzen, from Oporto, Red Port Wine, In Pipes, Hogsheads and Quarter-Casks, 150 Boxes of Lemons, For Sale by Philips, Cramond & Co. February 9
Fresh Garden, Grass and Flower-Seeds, Roots, &c. &c. This day landing from the ship Eagle, captain Foddick, from London, And FOR SALE by GOLDTHWAIT & MOORE, Corner of Walnut and Second-streets, A most capital and extensive Assortment of GARDEN, GRASS AND FLOWER-SEEDS, ROOTS, &c. &c. Among which are, Five kinds Asparagus Three kinds Cresses Four Beccole Twelve Onion Twenty-five Beans Thirteen Radish Six Beets Fifteen Turnip Eleven Brocoli Fifteen Peas Twenty-five Cabbage Six Savoy Six Carrot Four Parsnip Three Cauliflower Twenty-three Melon Five Celery Twenty-one Lettuce Ten Cucumber Common and lemon Thyme Curled leaf and sprigged Parsley Pot Marjoram Pot Marjoram Balm Thyme Mangel Wurtzel Leek Kail Shallots Rape Seed Rye Grass Saint Foin Lucerne Red and white Clover Timothy, &c. &c. With a curious collection of the most esteemed FLOWER-SEEDS AND ROOTS, Being the most extensive ever imported into this city. The above are from a capital Seedman in London, and are warranted fresh and good. Printed catalogues may be had by applying as above. Dec. 17
A PARCEL OF VERY FINE St. Croix Sugars and Rum, JAMAICA SPIRITS, and ACURA HIDES. For Sale by JAMES YARD. Feb. 7.—$2w
Twenty Guineas Reward. RANAWAY from the subscriber on the 23d October, a Dark MULATTO BOY, named MOSES; 21 years old; about 5 feet 8 inches high; had on a mixed green coat, with a green velvet cape and oval yellow buttons; a striped vest; a pair of dark spotted pantalettes, and whole boots much worn. It is probable he may change his name and dress. He has been accustomed to driving a carriage, and waiting. The above reward will be paid for securing him to the subscriber may get him again, and if brought home all reasonable charges paid by Robins Chamberlaine. Easton, Maryland, Nov. 10. 14 $12awtf
MRS. GRATTAN Respectfully informs her friends, and the public in general, that on Tuesday the 10th day of January, she proposes openings, at No. 39, North Sixth-street, A Linen and Muslin Warehouse, Book Mullins, from 6/3 to 12/11 per yard Jacquet ditto, from 8/8 to 9/8 per yard Striped ditto, from 7/10 to 10/10 per yard Fine Coffees. Tambour'd Book Mullins, from 13/9 to 21/ per yard India Mullin, from 11/3 to 15/ per yard Sheeting Mullin Jacquet muslin Handkerchiefs, from 4/3 to 6/ per hdkf. Book muslin Handkerchiefs, from 5/3 to 10/6 per hdkf. Muslin color'd and border'd Handkerchiefs Dacca Handkerchiefs Tambour'd Cravats from 10/8 to 11/11 Pocket Handkerchiefs Cambric, from 11/3 to 16/3 per yard Table Cloths Huckaback Towelling Women's Cotton Hdkf, from 6/6 to 13/ per pair Dimity from 5/10 to 6/11 Men's Silk Hdkf Tambour'd muslin Handkerchiefs from 11/11 to 12/11 With a variety of other articles. N. B. Orders received for all kinds of ready made Linen, Gentlemen's Shirts, ruffled or plain, Cravats, Pocket Handkerchiefs, &c. &c. Household Linen, &c. &c. A plain shirt, made and mark'd, 3 1-2 dollars. A full ruffled ditto, 4 dollars. A plain shirt, made and mark'd, 5 dollars. A full ruffled ditto 6 dollars. A plain shirt, made and mark'd, 5 1-2 dollars. A full ruffled ditto 7 dollars. A plain shirt, made and mark'd, 6 dollars. A full ruffled ditto 7 1-2. A plain shirt, made and mark'd, 6 1-2 dollars. A very fine ruffled ditto 8 dollars. Linen included. January 13.
FOR SALE, THE SHIP MARY, SAMUEL PARKER, MASTER, Two hundred tons burthen. Apply to JOSEPH ANTHONY, & Co. If the MARY is not sold in a few days, she will take freight for Hamburg. Apply as above. October 31.
Mahogany and Logwood, A Cargo for Sale on board of the ship Sally, captain Gelfon, just arrived from Honduras. Apply to PHILIPS, CRAMOND & Co. February 9
Bank of Pennsylvania, January 4, 1797. At a meeting of the Directors this day, a dividend of sixteen dollars on each share was declared for the last 6 months, which will be paid to the Stockholders after the 14th inst. JONATHAN SMITH, Cashier, df. Jan. 3.
DANCING TAUGHT BY MRS. B Y R N, Of the New Theatre, To Ladies only. THINKING it a great advantage for them to have a Female Tutor in that art, pledges herself to their parents and friends to take all possible care in their instruction. In addition to the Dances taught in Philadelphia, means to teach the Minuet, Minuet de la Cour, Allemand, Gavot, Quadrilles, Strathspeys, and all Scotch Dances; and above all to pay particular attention to that very necessary part Polite Address . For particulars enquire of Mrs. BYRN, No. 70 north Eighth-street. February 6
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the office of Principal Teacher in the said school is vacant. A GENTLEMAN qualified to teach the higher Greek and Latin Classics, Geography, and the Mathematics, with such other branches of literature as are usually taught in such schools, would meet with liberal encouragement, and, it is believed, would obtain a very eligible settlement. For the present, the Trustees would be willing to contract with a person capable of taking charge of a Grammar School. As this Institution is provided with buildings sufficient to accommodate the principal and his family, and from seventy to eighty boys; a library, an excellent philosophical and mathematical apparatus, globes, maps, &c; has respectable funds, and is situated in a pleasant and agreeable part of the country; nothing seems wanting to make it rank among the most useful seminaries in this part of the Union, but a suitable character to preside in it. Proposals may be addressed to the subscriber, in Princess Anne, in the neighborhood of the Academy, or to Doctor MARTIN L. HAYNE, No. 23, north Third-street, Philadelphia, or to the Printer hereof. EZEKIEL HAYNE. Feb. 7. tud&fw January 20.
This Day is Published, By Messrs. Dobson, Carey, Campbell, Rice, and the other Booksellers, price One Dollar and twenty-five cents, elegantly printed on wove paper, and hot-pressed, by John Thompson, A COMPARATIVE VIEW OF THE CONSTITUTIONS of the several States, With each other, and with that of the United States; exhibiting in Tables, the prominent features of each Constitution, and classing together their most important provisions, under the several heads of administration; with Notes and Observations. By WILLIAM SMITH, of South-Carolina, L.L.D. and member of the Congress of the United States. Dedicated to the People of the United States. N. B. A few Copies printed on an inferior paper, at 3-4ths of a dollar. February 6 mwf
For Sale, By George Deschamps, No. 91, NORTH SIXTH-STREET, Nova-Scotia Prime Salmon, in barrels and half barrels Ditto Herring and Mackerel. Smoked Herring in barrels and kegs Ditto Salmon, by the dozen or single one Dry Codfish, from one to fifty kentials Fine and coarse Salt Nova-Scotia and French Plaster of Paris, in the stone and ground, for manure and fuoco-work December 1, tth&f

Will be Sold, by Public Vendue,
On the 9th of March next, PLAN TATION. IN Ridley township, Delaware county, state of Pennsylvania, eleven miles from Philadelphia, and one from the great road leading thence to Chester; containing one hundred and twenty-three acres, twenty-three of which are woodland, and eighteen meadow. On the premises there are, a dwelling-house, barn, and other out-houses, in good repair; a good spring of water close to the house, and a fine stream of water runs through the premises; by which part of the meadow is watered, &c.
On the same day, the stock on the said farm; consisting of horses, cows, sheep, hogs, &c. A cart, plough, harrow, and other farming utensils; also a large copper still, with the household and kitchen furniture, among which are beds and bedding, an eight day clock, and many other articles too tedious to mention.
The sale to begin at ten o'clock in the forenoon, where the conditions will be made known, and attendance given on the premises, by CURTIS LEWIS. Ridley, February 13 14-tim 129
Will be sold,
On Wednesday, the 22nd day of February, instant, At the Merchants' Coffee-House, At 12 o'clock, noon.
A Lot, or Piece of Ground,
CONTAINING 12 acres and 100 perches, situate near the Blue Ball Tavern, on the Passyunk road, four miles from the city of Philadelphia. This Lot commands a view of the rivers Delaware and Schuylkill, is nearly inclosed with a good cedar post and rail fence, and has a never-failing spring of fresh water rising in it. One acre of which is good bottom meadow—adjoining lands of William Bingham, Esq. Jacob Sink, and others. The terms of sale, one fifth part in ten days after the day of sale, when immediate possession will be given, the residue in payments agreeable to the purchaser, on paying legal interest therefor, and giving security for the same, if required. An inalienable title will be given, upon making the first payment as aforesaid.
A Draft of said Lot may be seen at the Merchants' Coffee-House, and at the office of Alexander Power, No. 345 Chestnut-street, where further information may be had. Philadelphia, February 14 $22
CUSTOM-HOUSE, February 13, 1797.
Sales at Auction.
At the Custom House, on Monday next, the 20th instant, at 12 o'clock, for payment of duties, having remained in the stores beyond the time limited by law, the following goods: viz.
 I H A sub of Brass Kettles  T H Seven boxes different specimens of Minerals  S P One box Playing Cards  K One ditto Paper  T C 1 & 2 Two boxes Pamphlets  A One box Mill Saws  W B Three casks Wine  I M Six pockets Cotton  I C M One box Pamphlets  I S T 1 & 3 Three boxes Books  W M 1 & 2 Two boxes ditto  T D 202 One bale Girth Webb  One box Pamphlets  T W One case Women's Silk Shoes  One chest containing Cloth  One bundle Bags  M S R No. 4 One trunk Worsted Taffels  One bundle Supplejack Canes  One box Candles  One ditto Soap  Two small boxes Linens 
The Goods may be viewed at any time in the morning of the day of sale. (Signed) SHARP DELANT, February 14 $14 Collector.
To the Benevolent.
THE Subscriber having rented that well known tavern house, on Silver Springs, Cumberland county, on the great road leading from Philadelphia to Fort Pitt, which he had completely furnished for the accommodation of travellers, but which unfortunately, by accident caught fire about 12 o'clock in the morning, the 3d of November last, and in the space of one hour was totally consumed with all the furniture, wearing apparel, stores of liquors, &c. to a very large amount, attended with the melancholy loss of a daughter about twelve years of age, who only survived a few hours after the fire; his wife also disabled; and others of his family much hurt; he is now reduced to an unhappy and delitute situation—he therefore begs leave to solicit some relief from a generous public. The following gentlemen are pleased to undertake the trouble to receive subscriptions for his benefit: viz: Samuel Richard, Merchants' Coffee-House; James Thompson, Indian Queen; George Irwin, Cross Keys, in Fourth-street, and John Dunwoody, Spread Eagle, High-street. DAVID BRIGGS. Philadelphia, February 14 tth&tm 1
For Freight or Charter,
THE SLOOP Nancy, SHE is a good vessel, sails fast, carries about 500 barrels, and will take in Freight to proceed Coatwile, or for the West-Indies. For terms apply to EMANUEL SEWARD, master, on board, at Arch-street-wharf, or to ISAAC HARVEY, Jun, No. 5 South Water-street. February 14 $1W
A few coils Cordage, CANDLES, and SHOES.
New Theatre.
On WEDNESDAY EVENING, February 15, Will be presented (for the sixth time) an Historical Play, called Columbus; Or, A World Discovered. To which will be added, a Farce, called The Ghost.
 Sir Jeffery Constant, Mr. Warren  Captain Constant, Mr. Darley, jun.  Clinch, Mr. Morris  Trufty, Mrs. Francis  Roger, Mr. Bates  Belinda, Mrs. Harvey  Dorothy, Mrs. Francis  Box, One Dollar twenty-five cents. Pit Seven Eighths of a Dollar, and Gallery, half a dollar. Tickets to be had at H. & P. Rice's Book-store, No. 50 High-street, and at the Office adjoining the Theatre.
Ladies and Gentlemen are requested to send their servants to keep places a quarter before 5 o'clock, and to order them, as soon as the company are seated, to withdraw, as they cannot on any account be permitted to remain. The Doors of the Theatre will open at 5, and the Curtain rise precisely at 6 o'clock. Places for the Boxes to be taken at the Office in the front of the theatre, from 10 till 2 o'clock, and from 10 till 4 on the days of performance. VIVAT RESPUBLICA!
BOSTON, February 2. St. Croix Boundary.
In a matter wherein the interest of this state is much concerned, our readers may wish to know its true situation: In the month of August, 1796, the two original Commissioners, Mr. Howells, and Mr. Barclay, met at Halifax, in pursuance to the 5th article of the Treaty of Amity, Commerce and Navigation, with Great Britain. The two Commissioners, on the 29th of that month, appointed by choice, (not by lot,) the Hon. Egbert Benson, Esq. one of the Judges of the Supreme Judicial Court of the state of New-York, the third Commissioner. On the 26th September, Mr. Benson arrived from New-York and met the other commissioners at St. Andrews, near the mouth of the two rivers for which the parties contend as the boundary. Those rivers are four leagues apart at their mouths, where they empty their waters into the Bay of Passamaquoddy, near the Bay of Fundy: but they diverge, one to the west, and the other to the north, so that their heads, or sources, are at a great distance from each other.
On the 3th of October, the Commissioners took the oath as required by the Treaty; and appointed Edward Winslow, Esq. of Fredericktown, in the Province of New-Brunswick, (formerly of Plymouth, in Massachusetts) Secretary to the Board, and the oath of fidelity was administered to him. The Board being thus formed, the agent for the United States filed his memorial, requesting that the easternmost of the two rivers, called by the native Indians the Magaguadavic, should be declared to be the river St. Croix, truly meant and intended, under that name, as the boundary mentioned in the Treaty of Peace made in 1783. And proposing to offer evidence, and arguments to support his memorial, that to be the river intended in the Treaty of Peace as the river Saint-Croix.
The agent for his said Majesty being served with a copy of that memorial, filed another on the behalf of his government; therein stating that the western of the two rivers, by the native Indians called Scoudiac, was the Saint-Croix, truly meant and intended under that name, in the Treaty of Peace; and requested that the Board would declare that to be the river so intended and assigned divers reasons, and arguments in favor of his memorial.
The source of the river is very important in the business, because a line is by the Treaty to be drawn due north from the source of the river to the highlands, as the line between the two nations. Two lines drawn, due north from the source of the two rivers above mentioned, will be nearly about sixty miles from each other, and extend from the sea nearly one hundred and forty miles.
This distance of the two lines, from each other, is as they are severally stated by the agents, in their several claims. The British agent, claims the most western of the Scoudiac Lakes, which is near the river Penobscot, as the source of the river Scoudiac, and the agent for the States, claims a place on the Magaguadavic at the source of that river. Which is right, or whether either is so, is to be determined by the Board.
The Commissioners are obliged to declare which is the river truly intended as the St. Croix, in the Treaty, and to determine the latitude, and longitude, of its mouth and source. To this end, surveys of both rivers became necessary. And one surveyor from the United States, and one from the British Government, were appointed to survey each river: Those artists returned from the business, on the last of November, having not then completed their work.
The Commissioners after taking the testimony of some Indians, produced by the agent of the United States, as witnesses, and after determining on the mode of admitting evidence, establishing the rate of wages of the artists and labourers employed, adjourned to meet in Boston on the second Tuesday of August, 1797. It is agreed, and determined, that the arguments shall be in writing, filed by way of memorial before the Board, stating the evidence; and that the Secretary shall prepare, and deliver one copy of the whole to the agent of each nation, to be by him delivered to his government. The argument on the part of the United States is directed to be forwarded to the agent of his Britannic Majesty, by the first day of February, 1797; that he may have time to prepare his reply.
By this mode of procedure the public will have on paper, the proceedings of a Judicial Tribunal, appointed to decide between two sovereign independent nations, upon a cause of magnitude and importance.—Why should not all the nations on the earth, determine their disputes in this mode, rather than to choke the rivers with the carcasses, and stain the soil of continents with their blood! The whole business has been proceeded upon with great ease, candor, and good humor.
CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Monday, January 16—Continued.
Mr. Gallatin's speech continued. Again, that tax, he said, would not only fall equally upon the people, but also upon different districts of country. He would say that if he were to choose between a tax on salt or one on land, he should certainly prefer the latter, since the inhabitants of his district would be four times more affected by one than the other, because, being very remote from market, their land is of course of comparatively small value, but they use more salt than persons living nearer the shore, and would consequently pay twice as much according to their numbers as persons nearer to market, while in a land tax, they would pay one half, in proportion to their number; because their land was of less value in proportion to that of an equal number, of persons living nearer to sea ports.
Nor was this all; he looked upon a tax upon salt of so unequal a nature, that there was scarcely any tax he, lay burdens upon people to a certain amount, and they will be borne; but the moment you add to them you overload the whole. In parts very remote from the sea, salt was at an enormous price. It might be said the encumbrance of a few cents could not be much; but it would, and if it were increased ever so little, it would be impossible to pay it.
Having made these observations on salt, he would readily agree with gentlemen that a direct tax was not a very agreeable thing. He felt himself, and he knew his constituents would feel, that it was worse than no tax at all; but, he believed, except the impost on some articles could be advanced, they had no resource but in direct taxes.
If they find a tax on salt, or upon Ramps (a most odious thing) cannot be laid, they must have recourse to a direct tax; and if it could be done with propriety it should be done. He would notice only one remark which fell from the gentleman from New-Jersey (Mr. Henderson.) He mentioned three articles upon which additional impost might be laid, viz. clocks, watches and tea. He said he ought to have credit for his ingenuity; since those were three articles which were more smuggled into the United States than any other, and the duty upon which, on that account, it had been contemplated to lower. He had also mentioned the sale of public land. He believed no great expectations could be had from that quarter, as no townships were expected at present to be sold. Besides, if money should arise from the sale of land, it could not go to pay the 6 per cents. They must be paid out of the revenue. On reference to the act, this would be seen.
Mr. G. concluded by saying, he did not mean at present to enter more into the subject of direct taxation, as what he had heard against the system was of so trifling a nature as not to deserve particular notice.
Mr. Muhlenberg, from the committee to whom it was referred to report whether any and what additional standing rules were necessary to be added to those already adopted, reported the following: "That every member presenting a petition or memorial, shall state its contents, and if it appear in substance the same as has been already decided upon in the House, it shall not be received, except new matter of facts appear therein."
A bill was received from the Senate, for giving force and effect to the laws of the United States in the state of Tennessee, which was twice read and ordered to be committed to a committee of the whole. Adjourned.
TUESDAY, January 17. Mr. R. Sprigg presented a petition from Samuel Green, deputy postmaster of Annapolis, praying for an increase of salary.—Referred to the committee on the subject of post-offices and post-roads.
Mr. Hancock presented the petition of Griffith Griffiths, a soldier in the last war, praying for compensation. Referred to the committee of claims.
Mr. Madison moved that the House should resolve itself into a committee of the whole, on the Algerine business; for which purpose he supposed it would be necessary to clear the house and galleries. They were accordingly cleared, and the business occupied the house for the remainder of the day.
Wednesday, January 18. The house being in a committee of the whole on the subject of further revenue, Mr. Dent, in the chair.
Mr. Williams said he could have wished that the motion for postponing this business had succeeded, in order that the house might have gone into a committee of the whole on the report respecting the military establishment, in order that it might have been ascertained whether certain deductions which were contemplated would not take place. He trusted they would, which together with certain deductions from the naval establishment, would considerably reduce the sum proposed to be raised by a direct tax. He thought, therefore, it had been better to have gone into the subject of appropriations before they came to a conclusion on the present business. For his own part, he said, whatever sum might be wanted, it was his opinion that it would be best to raise it by indirect taxes; since he could not consent to go into a system of direct taxation, until indirect taxes should be exhausted. But he believed if the present revenue was not diminished by unforeseen difficulties, it would prove equal to all the demands which might come against it. This being the case, it was only necessary for them to organize a direct tax, in order to have it ready to be resorted to in case of necessity; and, in that case our citizens would meet it with cheerfulness; He was confident that our government could be supported by direct taxes, and he wished to convince other powers that this was the case. He despised the cringing to any nation. Let them, said he, interrupt our commerce, yet, on our ground, we can defend ourselves. It appeared to him that a deduction might be made from the naval department of 218,120 dollars, which was the estimate for seamen, since, as the vessels were not built, nor would they be for this year. In the report of the committee to whom it was referred to enquire whether any and what amendments were necessary in the act for the military establishment, it was to be recommended to strike out the dragoons, and eight privates to the infantry; but he thought these would not be wanted in the peace establishment; there would therefore be a deduction of the dragoons. There might also be great deductions in the commissary's department, so that in the military and naval departments there might be a deduction of from 6 to 800,000 dollars, probably more; and if so, a final sum would only be wanting. But if it should be supposed otherwise, then it would be necessary to ask about for the best means of raising the money. He believed the mode proposed by the gentleman from S. Carolina (Mr. Harper) for an increase to certain of the imposts duties would be the best. A considerable augmentation might be made to the present revenue from foreign spirits imported. It would not, he supposed, be proper to augment the impost duty, because it might lead to smuggling; but an additional duty might be raised from it by way of excise.
The present system of excise on wine and spirits, he said, was unequal, and only one fourth part so productive as it might be. And indeed if by an increase of duty only one third of the quantity should be used, the health and morals of the people would be less injured. At present, he said, it was notorious, that many of the Europeans coming into this country, and finding spirits at so low a price, fell into the immoderate use of them, and thereby rendered themselves incapable of being useful as artisans or farmers. Any tax, therefore, which would have a tendency to prevent this excess, would not only benefit the revenue but preserve the morals of the people. Mr. W. had it from the best authority, he said, that in the last war, one of the best British regiments, lying at Albany, though when they came there they were a sober and discreet set of men, by reason of their being able to get spirits at a very low price, they could not refrain from the use of them, and became mere lots.
The present mode of collecting the duty on foreign spirits was unequal, because five dollars were paid for a licence to authorize a person to sell spirits and the like sum for wine, and one who sold only 30 gallons a year, paid as much as he who sold 50 times as much. This licence, he said, lay hard upon the lower class of people in the country; because, in the interior of the country, a retailer may not sell more than 30 gallons a year, which would be mostly used by sick persons, and consequently the tax fell very unequally; but if persons were to pay in proportion to the quantity sold, the produce, which at present was 58,000, might be increased to three or four times as much.
It had been supposed that an additional duty might be raised from salt; but, as it had been justly stated by the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Gallatin) it was necessary to act with caution in taxing that article, because it would fall very unequally. As far as it was used by man it would operate as a poll-tax; but with respect to cattle, the farther they were removed from the sea coast, the more salt was necessary to be given them. The farmer, near the sea coast, used no salt for his cattle; but those in the remote parts of the union were obliged to use considerable quantities at a very high price; an additional duty on salt would, therefore, be more burdensome to farmers in general, than would a duty on this article would have, it would be certain; but, as it operated so unequally, this tax ought not to be gone into, or at least no great augmentation should be made. If a land-tax was not agreed to, however, a small addition might be made to the present duty.
Admitting that the plan proposed by the gentleman from South-Carolina, of additional imposts, be the best, the committee of Ways and Means might be left to judge upon what articles an increase of duty would be most proper. He should wish it to be made chiefly upon articles of luxury and expense, but would leave any calculation upon the subject to the committee of Ways and Means. He understood 60,000 dollars had been received for lands sold agreeably to the act of last session, if that act had allowed the apportionment of the land in small lots as was then suggested, much more of it would have been sold; as the opinion of the majority had however been found to be wrong, he trusted it would be remedied this session, that the sales might go on again, and that some very considerable support might be had from that quarter. In levying taxes, he said, we ought to have two objects in view, viz. the strength and wealth of our nation; as to the strength of our nation, it was derived from the number of its inhabitants; its wealth from the surplus produced by agriculture. They should, therefore, be especially careful how they made infringements on agriculture.
History, Mr. W. said, informed them of the annihilation of Nations by means of direct taxation. He referred gentleman to the situation of the Roman Empire in its innocence, and asked them whether they had any direct taxes? No; indirect taxes, and taxes upon luxuries and spices from the Indies were their sources of revenue; but, as soon as they changed their system to direct taxation, it operated to their ruin; their children were sold for slaves, and the Empire fell from its splendor. Shall we then follow this system? He trusted not.
Mr. W. said notwithstanding his objections to direct taxes being adopted at the present time, he had no objection to the organization of a plan which might be resorted to, in case of any unforeseen embarrassment befalling our commerce. They ought to consider, he said, that the constitution of the United States guaranteed to each individual state, a Republican form of government. Some of those governments he said, were supported by direct taxes, and the reason was obvious, they had no other means of raising the money. This being the case, and the constitution of the United States having guaranteed that right, how, he asked, were those states who supported their governments by direct taxes at present, to answer the demands of both claims on their lands?
A tax on land, Mr. W. said, must be very unequal; because there was no way of reaching the monied men, who lived in great cities, and the large holders of land, their land was in the hands of their tenants who must pay the tax. There would not be less than 50 millions of property which would escape a tax of this kind. The tax would, therefore be unequal; and he knew no way of coming at monied men, unless, as in some of the states men should be obliged to come forward and swear to the sums of money they had on interest; but this, he said was multiplying oaths to no effect.
Besides, Mr. W. said, our country was so situated, that there was great difficulty in getting a land tax with any certainty. In the state of Delaware, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and a great part of New-Jersey, it might be got at by valuation; but in other parts it operated very unequally. Nor did he agree with the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Swanwick) that the land tax in England did not operate equally. The land tax there was laid by valuation; it was true that it was estimated in the Domesday Book; but, though it was unequal at first, it had been remedied by time, because when land was transferred from one hand to another, it was bought according to the high or low price at which it was taxed. If it was valued high, it sold proportionably low, and if low, high in proportion, but, in a new country, like ours, he said, it was impossible to lay a land tax with any degree of accuracy. In European countries, he said, the Commodity did not hold land. It was in few hands; but was this the case here? Or was it wished to be so? Here, he said, the community at large held land, every man, comparatively speaking held his farm; or if they found a difficulty in getting it, they went back into the country and settled in clearing fresh land. Nor ought this desire of possessing land to be checked.
Another thing, he said, they ought not to lay a tax that one citizen should give upon another. Although the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Gallatin) supposed it would not cost more than 7 1-2 per cent, he believed it would cost more than 30 per cent, and if so, the public officers live upon those people who pay the tax.
Mr. W. said it was notorious that we had already too many officers. Let any gentleman take up Neckar on the finances of France, and it would be found that there were more officers in this government than in France, in proportion to the number of its inhabitants, before the revolution. He hoped, therefore, they would not be increased. Besides, in thus creating officers, the frugality and economy of a republican government was in a degree destroyed.
But it was said by mercantile gentlemen, that the farmer did not pay his proportion of taxes. Very few observations, he thought, would prove this. The common farmer, he said, paid a tax according to his crop; if he had but an indifferent crop, he bought but little merchandise; but if he had a good

crop, he parted with his money freely. Some- times, indeed they get credit from merchants, upon the prospect of a good crop, and if they were dis- appointed, distress and ruin were sometimes the consequence.
It was well observed by the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Gallatin) that the only difficulty there was in collecting taxes from farmers was owing to the want of circulating medium. The common farmer, he observed, had little to do with money, he lived mostly by bartering one thing for another. A common mechanic in a town had more money pass through his hands than a farmer in the country.
But, said the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Swanwick) the farmers are becoming rich. Sup- pose they are, were not persons in cities also grow- ing rich? Did lands in the country, he asked, rise equally with lots in the city? Did the rents of farm- ers increase with the houses in the city? He be- lieved not, but the advantage was in favor of cities. He would ask how many farms in the country let for a sum equal to that gentleman's hotel and cir- cus over the way, viz. 500 a year? That gentle- man had charged gentlemen with voting away money for the Federal City and other purposes, with unconcern, because the money was raised from com- merce; but, he would ask whether the farmers vo- ted for building frigates, and what his observations were when voting for a naval armament, a treaty with Algiers, &c. These were not for the interest of the farmer, and still there was no difficulty in raising money for these purposes. The next view that gentleman took was on the banks of the Hud- son, to see the farmers there sit at their ease, whilst the poor merchant could not sleep for fear of his property at sea. If that gentleman was fond of a rural life, he said, he should be glad if he would come and live beside him. It might add value to his country. He had no objection to his enjoy- ing his pleasure in the way he liked best, and he hoped he would permit them to enjoy theirs, which he believed equal to any thing which could be found in all the luxuries of a city.
It had been said that it could not be supposed that a farmer paid any part of the duty of goods sold by auction. If merchants, he said, made bad calculations, and ordered more goods than he could dispose of, was the farmer to be injured, because of his folly? The farmer sometimes miscalculated, as well as the merchant, and was sometimes obliged to sell the whole of his produce, and his farm too, to pay his debt. But would gentlemen say that mer- chants had not gone on wrong principles, and in- stead of making their remittances in proper time, had gone into land speculations, and some of them having gone into the carrying of contraband articles, had from step to step augmented our difficulties.
Merchants, he said, should follow their true in- terests, and then they would not be embarrassed and obliged to send their goods to vendue to make good their payments again at the banks; but if they would not attend to their business, could the for- mer help it? For his own part, he viewed all these matters as tending to one point; things would by and by find their level. The merchant would find his true interest; the country was growing rich; luxury and dissipation, he believed, had outrun pop- ulation; but, he expected things would soon re- medy themselves.
He was willing that the system of direct taxation should be brought forward, and organized, that at a proper time it might be carried into effect.
He thought differently from the gentleman from Pennsylvania with respect to the effect of a land tax on emigration. The fertility and salubrity of the climate were such as to tempt people to come to this country, but a land tax would rather deter, than encourage emigration. Mr. W. wished to en- courage commerce as far as was consistent; but not so far as to injure agriculture. The wealth of this country, he said, arose from agriculture; it was from the surplusage of agriculture that all our im- portations, and consequently the imports were paid for. Should they then check it? It was from agriculture and rural life that population was en- creased: From agriculture the militia, the bulwark of our nation, was supported; and whilst it fur- nished freight for our vessels and those of foreign countries (the fisheries excepted) should they check it? He thought not. He hoped, therefore, they should do nothing more at present than organize the system. This being done, we can have re- course thereto, in case our commerce should be in- terrupted, or indirect taxation be found insufficient.
Mr. Craik said he should not follow gentlemen through all the arguments used on this occasion; because he thought a greater part of them inap- plicable. He believed the question before them was one of the most important which had been agitated in that house since the adoption of the present go- vernment. And however gentlemen had attempted by the course of their arguments to divert the at- tention of the committee from it, he hoped they would not succeed. He trusted the ingenious cal- culations of the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Varnum) intended to lead the committee to believe, that instead of improving the revenue, they might look out for objects of expense, as the revenue was more than sufficient to defray the current expenses, would have little effect. And when told by the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Hender- son) that it would be a subject of great irritation; that it was an unpopular question; that the public was not ready for it, it was enough to alarm the house; but he trusted such insinuations would have no influence upon the decision of the question.
He thought the good sense and understanding of the house, exercised upon the materials before them, would point out the necessity of entering fully into the present business. There could be little doubt, he said, that revenue was really want- ed. He believed that the incorrect statement of the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Varnum) had been sufficiently exposed by the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Gallatin). The only or- ganized system grounded upon an opinion that re- venue was wanting, was that which had been in- troduced by the gentleman from South-Carolina (Mr. Harper) and he thought from the principles contained in that plan, the question before them had a strong claim to attention. He believed that resolution went to establish the principle of
necessity to go into the plan proposed by the present report.
The observations which had been made on the present question went more to the quantum of re- venue, than to the principle itself. When they were told they were not to meet the present propo- sition, because it would be unpopular; because viewed as an engine of government—an unwieldy machine in the hands of government, not to be brought into operation. Such expressions might create alarm; but it was necessary to see how they were founded.
Mr. Craik said when he looked at the situation of the revenue, and saw the reliance which was placed on foreign resources, he was convinced of the necessity of adopting the present measure; and when he reflected on the motion for putting off the present question, by means of extending the indi- rect taxes, he was disposed to apologize for the present system of revenue laws. He believed they owed their origin to existing circumstances. When the present federal government was erected, it was considered in the nature of an experiment; it went into operation with fear and hope; many were op- posed to it; and it might be considered wise and politic at the time, that the people should have an opportunity afforded to examine the system, and that nothing should be proposed to them of an ir- ritating nature, but that every thing should be carried on in as easy manner as possible. It was probably on this account that a system of direct taxes was not proposed to the people at an early period.
He believed that it was a measure of policy, which could not be questioned, that every govern- ment ought to arrange its taxes, so that every man of property should pay his equal proportion of them. He believed that it was necessary for that purpose to have both a plan of direct and indirect taxation in operation at the same time, as when every man bore his proportion of the public expense, it drew tighter the bands of connection between the people and the government. Was there, he asked, a gen- tleman in that house, whose observations did not furnish him with instances under the present system, of wealthy independent farmers, selling, perhaps, from a thousand to fifteen hundred bushels of wheat in a year, who were so isolated by their situation, their economy and frugality, as to make their own cloaths, to eat their own produce, and to drink the juice of their own fruit, and who, therefore, pay nothing towards the expenses of government, ex- cept a few cents duty upon the salt used? Was it, he asked, right and proper, that such a description of persons should be exempted from bearing a por- tion of the public burthens? He thought it was not. This afforded one reason, amongst many, in favor of originating direct taxes. But there were others more weighty. Was there a man who looked at the situation of our country, and saw the precarious foundation on which its finances stood, who did not tremble for the consequences? It was not necessary, he said, to draw an imaginary pic- ture, nor to excite alarm; it was not necessary to go into calculations of what was probable; to be re- spected abroad, it was necessary revenue should be firmly established. He believed it was the law of government, the oil which was to keep the wheels of it in motion.
[To be continued.]
Gazette of the United States, AND Philadelphia Daily Advertiser.
PHILADELPHIA, FEBRUARY 14.
Extract of a letter from London, Dec. 4. "Since my respects to you of yesterday's date, no- thing new has occurred, nor should I again have to written you, if it was not to say, that the few last days as a paper of the first instant, accompanying this, justly express it, have been the proudest ones ever Old Eng- land saw, inasmuch that true born Britons, have with eagerness strove who should be first to subscribe his por- tion of Mr. Pitt's voluntary loan to carry on the war, if necessary, for another campaign with vigour. My Bankers began with one hundred thousand pounds— twice the money Mr. Pitt requires would have been subscribed if government had kept the lid open. With the most fervent hope that this measure may have its due weight with the French directory, and be the means of restoring that blessing, peace, I am &c."
Married on Thursday morning at the Friends Meet- ing House in Market-Street, JOHN BALDERSON, Esq. Bucks County, to the amiable Miss ELIZABETH LANGDON, of this city.
Mr. FENNO. IN all the transactions of our State Legislatures for some months, I have not observed that any attention has been given to that heretofore much labored point the institution of public schools: to pass over other things, the time spent in opposing an address to the Pres- ident, after what has been done by former legislatures, would have been amply sufficient to the adjusting and maturing this important plan. Every hour's delay in so momentous a business, is of weighty importance to the interest of Pennsylvania. Since, if the establish- ment is to prove beneficial, the sooner we are put in possession of the benefit, the better. If it is to be re- jected, it ought speedily to be determined on, that some substitute may be found; and of the one or the other, it is on all hands allowed we stand in the most urgent need: let us be relieved then, from the uncertainty we are in, that we may know on what ground we stand. In the important point of education, as well as most other improvements in civil life, it is seldom found that we remain stationary: we either progress or recede—it is a home question, but the seriousness of the considera- tion demands it to be put. Is not the latter at present the case with us? Is a competent education within the attainment of the generality? On the contrary, it is not lamentably confined to a number excessively small in comparison with the whole mass of citizens? As we hope to see perpetuated that free government we have instituted, for the preservation of peace, liberty and happiness amongst us; and as we expect to hand down to after ages, blessings so immense; so ought our an- xiety to propagate information, to inform, enlighten and educate the whole community, to be continual and un- ceasing; and may we not learn too late that these are the only means in any wise adequate to this great end.
CHARONDAS.
A writer under the signature of 'a citizen' in the A- merican Daily Advertiser, and transferred to be sure into the Aurora, threatens a series of numbers in which he promises to expose Mr. Secretary Pickering's rea- soning in the late important communication. The me- nace of jacobinism we have long learned to despise, whether it appear in the unwarrantable liberties of a
foreign minister's notes, or in the very equivocal dress of Frenchified citizenship—if this honest citizen go on as he has begun we shall be under new obligations to his employers: he attempts to ridicule the Secretary, (and of course the President) because he has relied up- on that exposition to the motives of the old French ca- binet, which that cabinet gave to the world, and which the late French committee repeated as a mark of the detection due that very cabinet. He vindicates the French cabinet from the charge of selfishness , by pro- ving that they were too profligate to be credited . To destroy their sincerity in evil and sinister motives, he pledges himself to their insincerity and total indiffer- ence to truth—this is a precious vindication. This species of morality in the very front of the attack on the President sets every mind at ease—ingenuity thus employed will never do mischief. The bosom of every man (who is not a Filefofer ) is against such an exam- iner.
A correspondent informs the Street Commissioners, that there is a large hole in the pavement in Mulberry street, north side, just below Fifth street; as this hole commenced (as the writer believes,) between one and two years ago, and has been progressing in size ever since, until at length the pavement is scarcely passable, the writer supposes the Street Commissioners have not been able to discern, therefore gives them this public information of the nuisance.
Extract of a letter from a respectable Merchant in London, to his friend in this City, dated Decem- ber 2, 1796.
My dear Friend, I think it will be some satisfaction to be inform- ed after all has been said upon the subject, that the Minister of this country does not meet with such difficulties as have been foretold in raising a suffi- cient sum of money for the supplies of government for the year.
At a general meeting of the proprietors of the Bank stock yesterday, it was announced by the governor, that Mr. Pitt proposed to the public an open loan to which every man might subscribe what he thought proper, above one hundred pounds. Suffice it generally to say, that the terms are not equal to an investment of money in the five per- cents. at the present price, viz. 87 per cent—yet not far short perhaps 3 per cent—the amount asked for, eighteen million pounds sterling: 1st payment 2d January, 2d March 3d, and 4th, between then and October 1797. The Governor said the sense of the Directors had been taken on the occasion, and it was proposed that the Bank in its collective capacity subscribe one million; and the directors in their individual capacity four hundred thousand pounds—that on the following day and subsequent days, books would be open at the Bank to receive public subscriptions. It was then (after some pro- posals relating to the sum to be laid down by the Bank) asked, by a gentleman present, if books could not be immediately opened to receive the names and sums of the gentlemen present? None had been prepared, but in about ten minutes books were got, and before night six millions five hundred thousand pounds were subscribed; and it is thought probable that in the course of this day the whole 18 millions will be filled up in the books at the Bank only, and that by the City of London. I may be under an error but I will hazard an opinion that if the Minister had asked a voluntary loan of the whole sum without interest, he would have procured it.
London, Dec. 2. INTERESTING INFORMATION. Extract of a letter from Sam. Bayard, Esq. to the Chairman of the Committee of Merchants of this City, dated London, 25th November. "There have been several cases heard by the lords of appeal, since their meeting this term, in all of which they have reversed the decrees of condemnation below —in one (the Betty, Betterton) with cost and damages, in others with interest from the time of condemnation, and the costs of appeal."
"After deciding the last case, that of the Jane, Lil- lbridge, they formally gave notice to the proctors and agents, that if in future they should bring any more such cases before them, when they could not reasona- bly expect the sentences of condemnation to be affirm- ed, they might depend on being adjudged to restore the American property with full costs and damages."
BALTIMORE, February 10. About eleven o'clock the evening before last, a gang of thieves were discovered to be in the store of Mr. Marsh, in Howard street. Notwithstanding the strictest search was made for them, it seems they were so old in iniquity, as to elude the vig- ilance of their pursuers; all except one (about 12 years old and not so great an adept at the business) who was apprehended and made to inform of the rest. They were four in number, all French West India negroes, and belonged to one man; none of them appeared to be older than 19. It is supposed they skulked in and concealed themselves in the evening; and had they been able to have cleared themselves with their booty, might have preferred that mode, during the existence of patrols, to firing and pillaging. They had nearly broken open a desk, before discovered. This should make pe- ople examine their houses well before they commit themselves to sleep.
GAZETTE MARINE LIST.
ARRIVED. From the Hook. Ship Ann & Mary, Billis, Charleston Brig Neutrality, King, Jeremie Molly, Reynolds, Hispaniola Susannah, Fitzpatrick, Bourdeaux Sally, Hawkins, Aux Cayes Little Maria, Duncan, Malaga Amazicle, (Swede) Matz, Oporto Johanna, (Dane) Tiesen, Hamburg Sch. Commerce, Harnell, P. Prince Tryal, Hand, Alexandria Sch. Juliana, Stevens, Boston Friendship, Monteath, Jacmel Lydia & Polly, Jenkins, Savannah Sloop William, White, North Carolina Lively, Hill, Snowhill Jack, Burrows, St. Thomas's Maria, Young, Petit Guave Sch. Juno, Marriot, Boston, (via New York) 4 Sloop Nancy, Seward, Newbury Port 19 Galliot Christiana (Dane) Clink, New York 4 Ship South Carolina, Garman, Charleston Columbia, Mason, Amsterdam Brig Vigilante, (Swede) Richter, Leghorn Sch. Industry, Salter, Portsmouth, (N. H.) Sloop Harriot, Navarro, New York
February 12. Barque Jupiter, (Swede) Schales, Marseilles Ship Two Sisters, Henry, Port-au-Prince Sch. Illinois, Pitman, Plat Form CLEARED. Ship North America, A. Coffin, Londonderry Brig Fly, Hubbel, Petit Guave Sch. Helena, Plumbead, Van Duyon, Port-au- Prince Sloop Mary, Saunders, Frederickburgh. From the Log Book of the Trial, Knox, from Hamburg.
Dec. 13, in lat. 33, 59, long. 37, spoke the schooner Speedwell, Story, 13 days from Boston to Cadiz, all well, had met with very hard gales. Jan. 13, spoke the ship Independence, 18 days out from New London to the West Indies, had experienced very hard weather on the coast, and lost the whole of his live stock off deck.
Jan. 23, was boarded by a British privateer of 6 guns, and politely treated.
Capt. Fitzpatrick of the Susannah, from Bor- deaux, spoke in lat. 22, 48, N. long. 32, 30, the brig George of Boston, from Cadiz to Bos- ton, out 40 days.
The brig Chance, Frost, was to sail from the 10th December last, from Bordeaux for Baltimore.
The Sloop Julian, Robeson, of this Port is ar- rived at Norfolk from Hispaniola, dismasted, and otherwise in great distress.
SALEM (Massachusetts) February 3.
SHIP NEWS.
In our last, mention was made of the seizure of captain Elkins's ship at Barbadoes. It appears, by information since received, that she was merely ordered to lie too under the fire of a sloop of war, and examined. Three of her hands were pressed on the morning of her arrival, but two of them were returned in the afternoon, and the other was expected to be delivered up soon. The information that the captain was confined on shore also appears to be premature. He did not find it perfect convenient to leave down and repair his ship at Barbadoes, and was in expectation of going to Mar- tinique for that purpose.
PORT OF BOSTON, February 4.
Arrived, schooner Ranger, captain Easterbrooks, 23 day from St. Bartholomews. Capt. Easterbrooks informs, that the Grand Turk, of New York, from India, was taken, in lat. 20, by an English ship, and sent into Dominica the 24th December, where she was immediately dismissed, and sailed the same day for home.— She was soon after taken by a French privateer; and after- wards retaken by a British 64 gun ship, and sent into St. Kitts. He also informs that a ship from India, name un- known, belonging to Providence, has been taken and carried to a French port; whence she was out by a British armed schooner, and carried into St. Kitts.
NEW-YORK, February 11.—ARRIVED, Schooner Regulator, Woodbridge, Jamaica Sloop Lydia, Bradley, Boston
CLEARED.
Ship General Washington, Steel, Londonderry The Pigou, Sinclair, from this port, is arrived at Cork. The Factor, Kemp, from New-York; and the Con- cord, Mufey, from Boston, passed Graveland on the 4th December.
NORFOLK, February 4.
Extract from the log book of the ship Bowman, Capt. Dickson, arrived here on Wednesday, 9 weeks from Amsterdam.
January 12, in lat. 22, long. 37, spoke the ship James and William, of Norfolk, captain Wonnacott, 34 days from St. Ubes; drove off the coast, and then standing for the West-Indies. Supplied him with beef, bread, and potatoes.
Capt. Wonnacott had spoke a sloop, the master of which informed him that he was 70 days out from An- guilla, in want of every kind of provisions; had also bore away for the West-Indies; that when on the coast he had seen two brigs and a schooner wrecked.
Yesterday arrived here the sloop Julian, of Philadel- phia, W. C. Robeson, master, 65 days from L'Ance- veau (Hispaniola) in distress, having carried away her mast in a heavy gale on the 29th December last. On the 19th of January, in lat. 33, 30, long. 77, 30, for- tunately fell in with the brig Sally of New-York, Wel- ster Brown, master, 5 days out, bound to Jamaica, who relieved them with a barrel of pork, two thirds of a barrel of beef, and a barrel of bread; the sloop was entirely out of provision at the time of falling in with the brig.
PORT OF BALTIMORE, February 10.
ENTERED.
Ship Columbia, Town, Liverpool Mount Vernon, Brooks, Rotterdam Becky, Conyngham, Cork Juliana, Hayward, Hamburg Brig Sally, Beaty, St. John's Sandwich, Fisher, Antigua Diamond, Jones, Liverpool and Norfolk Orion, Shaw, Liverpool Perga, Phillips, Nassau (N. P.) Two Brothers, Stodder, Pensylvania Sch. Hawk, Stran, Havanna Sisters, Byas, Cape-Francois Peggy, Gerfuch, Jacquemel Godfrey, Jones, Halifax Jay-Bird, Burgess, Cape-Francois Success, Baldry, Gonaives Dorchester, Booth, Porto-Rico Polly, Brown, Norfolk Two Brothers, De Glaud, Do. Sloop Robert and William, Watts, St. Martin's Delphin, Russell, Jacquemel Clarissa, Rottenlar, Annapolis Polly, Mann, Alexandria Polly, Gifford, Annapolis The ship Birmingham, captain Harrison, failed from Liverpool for this port on the 28th of No- vember.
The brig Commerce, captain Tutell, was to sail from Liverpool for Alexandria on the 2d of De- cember.
Notice
To the American Sailors returned from Algiers. YOU are requested to call at my house, on Thursday, the 16th instant, at ten o'clock, to receive the mo- ney I collected for you. ST. MARY, 331 Market-Street.
February 14
Wants a Place,
AS WAITER in a gentleman's House, a young man who has lived for a considerable time in some of the first houses in the city, and whose character is sure; or would engage with a single gentleman to attend on him. Directions left at the New York and Baltimore Age- office, No. 10, fourth 4th, near Market Street, for R. H. will be attended to. February 14
Partnership dissolved.
THIS is to notify the Public, and all persons concerned, that the Partnership of BLACK & WELLS, deal- ers in Dry Goods, was dissolved the first of January last. ROBERT BLACK. Philadelphia, February 14, 1797

City of Washington.
SCHEME of the Lottery, No. II, for the improvement of the Federal City.
  A magnificent 20,000 dollars, & 7 dwelling-houses, 5 cash 30,000, are 50,000   1 ditto 15,000 & cash 25,000 40,000   1 ditto 15,000 & cash 15,000 30,000   1 ditto 10,000 & cash 10,000 20,000   1 ditto 5,000 & cash 5,000 10,000   1 ditto 5,000 & cash 5,000 10,000   1 cash prize of 10,000   2 do. 5,000 each, are 10,000   10 do. 1,000 10,000   20 do. 500 10,000   40 do. 250 10,000   1,000 do. 20 20,000   15,000 do. 10 150,000 
16,739 Prizes. 33,261 Blanks. 50,000 Tickets, at Eight Dollars, 400,000
N. B. To favour those who may take a quantity of Tickets, the prize of 40,000 dollars will be the LAST drawn ticket, and the 30,000 the LAST but ONE.
This Lottery will afford an elegant specimen of the private buildings to be erected in the City of Washington. Two beautiful designs are already selected for the entire fronts on two of the public squares; from these drawings it is proposed to erect two grand and four corner buildings, as soon as possible after this Lottery is sold, and to convey them, when complete, to the fortunate adventurers, in the manner described in the Scheme for the Hotel Lottery. A net deduction of five per cent. will be made to defray the necessary expenses of printing, &c. and the surplus will be made a part of the fund intended for the National University, to be erected within the City of Washington.
The Drawing will commence as soon as the tickets are old off. The money prizes will be payable in thirty days after it is finished; and any prizes for which fortunate numbers are not produced within twelve months after the drawing is closed, are to be considered as given towards the fund for the University; it being determined to settle the whole business in a year from the ending of the drawing, and to take up the bonds given as security.
The real securities given for the payment of the Prizes, are held by the President and two Directors of the Bank of Columbia, and are valued at more than half the amount of the Lottery.
The twenty-four gentlemen who by appointment of the late Commissioners assisted in the management of the Hotel Lottery are requested to undertake this arduous task a second time on behalf of the public; a sufficient number of these having kindly accepted, it is hoped that the ends to a National University and the other federal objects may continue to favor the design.
By accounts received from the different parts of the Continent as well as from Europe, where the tickets have been sent for sale, the public are assured that the drawing will speedily commence, and that the care and caution unavoidably necessary to insure a safe disposal of the tickets, has rendered the short suspension indispensable.
SAMUEL BLODGET.
Tickets may be had at the Bank of Columbia; of James West & Co. Baltimore; of Peter Gilman, Boston; of John Hopkins, Richmond; and of Richard Wells Cooper's Ferry.
Lancaster, Harrisburg, Carlisle, Shippenburg and Sunbury STAGES.
The public are requested to take notice, that the partnership which has for some time subsisted between Mathias Slough of Lancaster, and William Geer, is now dissolved; but not as M. Slough intimates to the public without just cause; as will more fully appear by a letter on the subject from M. Slough to W. Geer, dated the 29th December last. A recital of which is not now deemed necessary. Any gentleman who wishes to be more circumstantially informed of the merits of this business, by applying to W. Geer may have the perusal of M. Slough's letter, and then can be at full liberty to determine whether or not W. Geer is not perfectly justifiable in attaching himself to any other person in the prosecution of the Stage conveyance from Philadelphia to Shippenburg, or any other place.
Now from the liberal and generous support the public were pleased to confer on the first effort in this business, William Geer, in conjunction with Messrs. Reily, Weed and Wimer, is determined to prosecute and carry it on, with every care, attention and dispatch that a zeal to oblige the public can possibly exert.
The above company, who are amply provided with carriages, horses, and every appurtenance to render the passage safe and commodious, inform those who wish to patronize and encourage the undertaking, that they can take their seats at George Weed's, the sign of the White Horse, Market Street, Philadelphia, on every Monday and Friday, to proceed to Lancaster, Harrisburg, Carlisle and Shippenburg. The fare as hitherto established.
For the further accommodation of the public, a Stage will start every Wednesday from the house of Samuel Elder, in Harrisburg, arrive at Sunbury in Northumberland county, every Thursday, and return from thence and arrive at Harrisburg every Saturday, so that passengers defined for Lancaster or Philadelphia, may proceed on Mondays.
WILLIAM GEER.
Lancaster, Jan. 27, 1797. N. B. This Line of Stages starts from the house of William Ferris, in Lancaster, on every Tuesday and Saturday morning at 6 o'clock, proceeding to the westward; and from the house of Mr. Samuel Elder in Harrisburg every Wednesday morning, on the same evening arrives at Patrick Cochran's in Shippenburg, and returns from thence on every Thursday; performing the same routine daily as in its tour from Philadelphia.
FOR SALE.
A very Valuable Estate,
CALLED TWITTENHAM , situate in the township of Upper Derby, and county of Delaware, 7 1-2 miles from Philadelphia, and half a mile from the new Western road containing 230 acres of excellent land, 45 of which are good watered meadow, 90 of prime wood-land, and the rest arable of the first quality. There are on the premises a good two story brick house, with 4 rooms on a floor, and cellars under the whole, with a pump-well of excellent water in front; a large frame barn, stables and other convenient buildings; a smoke-house and stone spring-house; two good apple orchards, and one of peaches. The fields are all in clover, except those immediately under irrigation, and are so laid out as to have the advantage of water in each of them, which renders it peculiarly convenient for grazing.
The situation is pleasant and healthy, and from the high cultivation of the land, the good neighbourhood, and the vicinity to the city, it is very suitable for a gentleman's country seat.
The foregoing is part of the estate of Jacob Harman, deceased, and offered for sale by
Mordecai Lewis,
Oct 31. 1797 Surviving Executor.
Brokers Office, and COMMISSION STORE.
No. 63 South Third Street, opposite the national new Bank. SAMUEL M. FRAUNCES and JOHN VAN REED, have entered into co-partnership, under the firm of FRAUNCES & VAN REED, in the business of Brokers, Conveyancers and Commission merchants. They buy and sell on commission every species of stock, notes of hand, bills of exchange, houses and lands, &c.
Money procured on deposits, &c. &c. all kinds of writings in the conveyancing line, done with neatness and dispatch; accounts adjusted, and books settled, in the most correct manner. Constant attendance will be given. They solicit a share of the public favor; they are determined to endeavour to deserve it.
N. B. The utmost secrecy observed. SAMUEL M. FRAUNCES, JOHN VAN REED. Philad. August 27, 1796.
This Day is Published,
By BIOREN and MADAN , in Dock-Street; to be Sold at their Printing-Office, in Dock-Street; by M. Carey, No. 118, Market-Street; Thomas Bradford, No. 8, South Front-Street, and George Douglass, No. 25, South Third-Street. (Price, neatly bound, two dollars)
AN ENQUIRY
Concerning POLITICAL JUSTICE, And its Influence on Morals and Happiness. By WILLIAM GODWIN.
THE reputation of this work is already well established in Europe. It is hardly necessary for an American editor to say more than barely to mention, that the Enquiry concerning Political Justice has ever since its publication been a favorite performance with the friends of republican government. The style is pure, nervous, and classical; the ideas are strongly marked by an original vein of thinking; and, amongst a multitude of other just and striking passages, the author's delineation of the peculiar infelicities inseparable from the condition of a King, may be pointed out as a most masterly specimen of philosophical disquisition. The latest London edition of this work sells in this city at four dollars and an half.
January 24
Particular Teneriffe WINE.
50 Quarter-Casks Particular Teneriffe WINE, Of a superior Quality, For sale by A. MARPLE & IS. W. STORRS, No. 60 Dock-Street. February 8
By Authority.
Schuylkill Bridge Lottery. Sold by WILLIAM BLACKBURN, No. 64, South Second-Street.
SCHEME of a LOTTERY,
For raising Sixty Thousand Dollars, agreeably to an Act of the Legislature of Pennsylvania, passed during the last session, for building a Stone Bridge over the River Schuylkill, at the Borough of Reading, in the County of Berks.
  1 Prize of 20,000 Dollars 20,000   1 do. of 10,000 do. 10,000   3 do. of 5,000 do. 15,000   4 do. of 2,000 do. 8,000   20 do. of 1,000 do. 20,000   30 do. of 500 do. 15,000   80 do. of 200 do. 16,000   200 do. of 100 do. 20,000   300 do. of 50 do. 15,000   1 do. of 500 to be paid the possessor for the first drawn no. 500   5 do. of 3,000 do. to be paid possessors of the five last drawn nos 15,000   9,400 do. of 15 do. 141,000   10,054 Prizes 300,000   19,946 Blanks   30,000 Tickets at Ten Dollars 300,000 
All Prizes shall be paid fifteen days after the drawing is finished, upon the demand of a possessor of a fortunate ticket, subject to a deduction of twenty per cent. The Drawing will commence as soon as the Tickets are disposed of, or perhaps sooner, of which public notice will be given.
Philip Miller, Peter Kershner, William Witman, Joseph Hisler, James Diemer, Thomas Dundas, James May, John Otto, John Keim, Daniel Graeff, Sebastian Miller, COMMISSIONERS. Reading, May the 9th, 1796.
Tickets in the Canal Lottery, No. 2, to be had at the above office, where the earliest information of the drawing of the Washington No. 2, and Paterson Lottery's, are received, and check books for examination and registering are kept.
Tickets in the above Lottery to be had at Mr. Sheridan's Race-Street, John Hay, North Third-Street and Henry Switzer's, German Town. January 26
Lottery and Broker's Office,
No. 64, South Second Street.
TICKETS in the Canal Lottery, No. 2, for sale - a Check Book for examination - and prizes paid in the late Lottery. Check Books kept for examination and registering, for the City of Washington, No. 2, and Paterson Lotteries, both of which are now drawing - information where tickets are to be had, and prizes exchanged for undrawn tickets. A complete list of all the prizes in the late New-Port Long-Wharf, Hotel and Public School Lottery, for examination. The subscriber solicits the application of the public and his friends, who wish to purchase or sell Bank Stock, Certificates, Bills of Exchange or Notes, Houses, Lands, &c. or to obtain money on deposit of property. Also Tickets in the Schuylkill Bridge Lottery for sale at Ten Dollars each, which will be drawn early in the Spring.
Wm. Blackburn. Philadelphia, January 26, 1797.
Houses and Lots for sale,
By the Subscriber, in the town of West-Chester, Chester county, 25 miles from Philadelphia, on the great State-road, leading Westward. Viz. No. 1. A two-story Stone House, the corner of High and Gay streets, 40 feet front by 34 feet deep, including a very convenient floor-house; the House contains ten well-finished rooms, a kitchen and entry; the Lot is 114 feet front on Gay-street, equal to any stand in West-Chester. No. 2. A two-story Stone house adjoining, 27 feet front, containing eleven well-finished rooms, both being ceiled in the gables, house and lot same depth as the other, a kitchen, &c. - cellars under both houses, with good stables on the lots. These Houses are almost new, done by good workmen, in a masterly manner. No. 3. A Lot 42 feet front. No. 4. 34 feet. No. 5, 44 feet. No. 6, 129 feet, all of them ten rods deep. On two of the above are erected three log and frame houses, two stories high, cellars under the whole, and a small stable to each. The above Lots are situated near the Court-House. The whole will be exposed to PUBLIC SALE, on the 21st and 22nd days of February next, at two o'clock, when the conditions will be made known. Possession may be had the first of April next. The Title is indisputable. JOHN KINNARD. January 28
Dr. Perkins
INFORMS the Citizens of Philadelphia, that he has taken lodgings for a few days, at the Indian Queen, in 4th Street. He will be happy to wait on any persons in this city, between the hours of 9 and 1, who wish to satisfy themselves of the efficacy of his
PATENT METALLIC POINTS,
And will operate gratis for the relief of the poor: the instruments, and the right of using them, are for sale at his lodgings. Subjoined, are Extracts from a Pamphlet, containing many remarkable cures, attested by characters of the highest respectability.
Extracts from Letters to the Author of the Metallic Discovery. PRESENT EDWARDS, Esq. District Attorney for the State of Connecticut. New-Haven, October 7, 1796.
Dear Sir, I should have written you last week, had I then been able to ascertain certain facts, the rumour of which I had heard. A Mrs. Beers, a near neighbour to me, the wife of Eben Beers, and daughter of captain Samuel Huggins, of this town, had been, for fourteen weeks, exceedingly distressed with the Rheumatism, to such a degree that for fourteen weeks previous to the 29th of last month, she had not been able to walk across the room even with crutches, have only once, when she made out with the assistance of crutches to hobble part of the way across her room. On the 29th of September last, she procured a set of your metallic substances, and in less than an hour after she had begun to use them, in the manner directed by you, she rose from her chair, and walked about her house, and on the next day she went abroad to her neighbours, having thrown aside her crutches. I have this day paid her a visit in company with her father, and Timothy Jones, Esq. who lives in the street where the resides and directly opposite to her residence, and with Capt. Abel Burnett, who is her next neighbor, and lives within eight yards of her door. I requested her to relate her case over in their presence, which she did, and these gentlemen all with one voice, supported, from their own knowledge, her story. It is a duty which you owe yourself and the world to promulge this event. I am, very respectfully, Your obedient servant, PRESENT EDWARDS.
N. B. She says her fever has left her, her appetite has returned, and she is in a fair way to be restored to perfect health.
REV. MR. SPALDING, of Salem. This may certify, that the subscriber, in his visits among his people, has used Dr. Perkins's metallic points, to relieve pains and inflammations of various kinds, and has succeeded to his astonishment. They have seldom failed to relieve the head-ach, teeth-ach, ague in the face, inflammation in the eyes, cramp, cholick, rheumatism, pains of the breast and side, piles, feuds and burns - Sometimes there has been a perfect cure from one operation. A lady who had been confined three days with high symptoms of a fever, very hot and full of pain, by an operation of the points, designed to relieve her head, his face turned pale and cold, his fever and pain immediately left him, and in a few days he was out of doors; the year before, at the same season, he was taken with the same symptoms, and lay extremely sick forty days. The efficacy of the metallic points has gained great credit in this town. JOSHUA SPALDING. December 5, 1796.
REV. ELHANAN WINCHESTER. I certify, that on the 21st of March, 1796, I saw Dr. Perkins's method of cure by pointed metallic instruments, tried with success in the poor-house or bettering-house in Philadelphia; especially upon a man who was unable to lift his right hand to his head, as was tried beforehand, but who after a few minutes operation, was able to remove it at pleasure; and in my light, put it with ease on the top of his head and back of his neck, and in all directions.
Nearly the same effect took place upon a woman; and ALL that I saw treated, professed that their pains ceased after being treated a short time: and several came voluntarily, and in my hearing thanked the Dr. for cures he had performed on them about eight weeks before, in removing pains from them, which they declared had not since returned: - so that from what I saw with my own eyes, and what I have heard, I have great hopes that this method will greatly tend to alleviate the miseries of mankind. ELHANAN WINCHESTER. Philadelphia, April 4, 1796. Extract from a Providence Paper. Communication.
Dr. Perkins's invention for removing pains from the human body, begins to obtain reputation in proportion to its utility and efficacy. The simplicity of the operation was at first an obstacle to its credit; but the flood of evidence in its favor, from actual experiment, is at length too powerful to be resisted. February 7.
Washington Canal Lottery, NO. I.
WHEREAS the State of Maryland has authorised the underwritten, to raise twenty-six thousand, two hundred, and fifty dollars, for the purpose of cutting a Canal through the City of Washington, from the Potomac to the Eastern Branch Harbour.
  Viz 1 Prize of 20,000 dollars, 20,000   1 ditto 10,000 10,000   7 last drawn Tickets, each 5,000   6 ditto 1,000 6,000   10 ditto 400 4,000   20 ditto 100 2,000   55 ditto 50 2,750   5750 ditto 12 69,008   To be raised for the Canal, 26,250   5850 Prizes, 175,000   11650 Blanks, not two to a prize. 
17500 Tickets, at Ten Dollars, 175,000 The Commissioners have taken the Securities required by the aforesaid Act for the punctual payment of the prizes.
The drawing of this Lottery will commence, without delay, as soon as the Tickets are sold, of which timely notice will be given.
Such prizes as are not demanded in six months after the drawing is finished, shall be considered as relinquished for the benefit of the Canal, and appropriated accordingly. (Signed) NOTLEY YOUNG, DANIEL CARROLL, of D. LEWIS DEBLOIS, GEORGE WALKER, W. M. DUNCANSON, THOMAS LAW, JAMES BARRY. City of Washington, Feb. 11.
For Sale,
By the Subscribers - In PENN-STREET, 65 Pipes Excellent Madeira Wine, Imported by the Eagle. WILLINGS & FRANCIS. Nov. 30
FOR SALE,
About 1,600 acres of Land, WELL situated, laying on and between Marsh and Beech Creeks, Mifflin county, Pennsylvania, in four separate Patents. For terms of sale apply to Wm. Blackburn, No. 64, South Second-Street. January 26.
LANDING.
A Walnut-street Wharf, from on board the ship Peggy, captain Elliott, from Bordeaux, VINDE GRAVE, or White Claret, in Hads and Quarts. RED CLARET, in Hads. Ditto in cases of 24 and 30 bottles each. Green and Souchong TEAS, in quarter chests. For sale by Rundle & Leech, No. 9 Walnut-street, mwtf. February 6.
No. 170.
District of Pennsylvania, to wit. BE it remembered, that on the 24th day of January in the twenty-sixth year of the independence of the United States of America, John Thompson of the said district, hath deposited in this office the title of a Book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following to wit:-
"A Comparative View of the Constitutions of the several States with each other, and with that of the United States, exhibiting in tables the prominent features of each Constitution, and classing together their most important provisions under the several heads of administration: with notes and observations. By William Smith of South-Carolina, LL. D. and member of the Congress of the United States."
In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, intitled "An Act for the encouragement of learning by securing the copies of maps, charts and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned."
SAMUEL CALDWELL, Clerk of the District of Pennsylvania. Feb. 4.
FOR SALE.
By private contract, a very valuable Estate, known by the name of
CHATHAM,
MOST delightfully situated on the north bank of Rappahannock river, opposite the town of Fredericksburg, in the state of Virginia, consisting of eleven or fifteen hundred acres, as may best suit the purchaser. There is on this estate, a large and well-built brick house, containing nine commodious rooms, exclusive of a spacious hall or entry, 22 feet square, two pair of stairs, suitable and convenient passages, and excellent dry cellars. It is placed on a fine healthy eminence, commanding beautiful views in every direction over the towns of Fredericksburg and Falmouth, and an extensive cultivated country. The grounds adjoining the house are neatly laid out in pleasure and kitchen gardens interspersed with a variety of scarce trees, a choice collection of flowers and flowering shrubs, and enriched by various sorts of the following fruits, viz apples, pears, walnuts, chestnuts, cherries, peaches, plums, nectarines, apricots, grapes, figs, raspberries, gooseberries, strawberries, and currants; the whole admirably varied by turfed slopes which have been formed by great labour and expense. Bordering upon these improvements, are several lots, in a high state of cultivation, and well set with red clover and orchard grass, from which three heavy crops of hay are taken every year. Adjacent thereto are two large and flourishing orchards; one of well chosen peach trees, the other of apple and pear trees, selected from the best nurseries in the state. Properly detached from the mansion house are extensive roomy offices of every denomination, viz a Kitchen and Larder, house-keeper's room and Laundry, with a cellar underneath for a variety of purposes, a flour-douse and smoke-house all of brick, a dairy and brewing house of stone. Stables for thirty horses, and coach houses for four carriages. Also a large and well planned farm yard, with barn and granary, a cow house, with separate stalls for thirty-six grown cattle; apartments for fattening veals, mutton and lambs; extensive sheds for sheep, and other arrangements for stock of every description, with a large and convenient receptacle for provender, from which they can be furnished without being exposed to the inclemency of the weather. An overseer's house, blacksmith's shop, and quarters sufficient to accommodate in the best manner more than fifty labourers. The arable lands are advantageously divided as to afford an opportunity of making a large quantity of Indian corn annually, without bringing the field into similar culture other than once in four years; consequently the lands may be improved by keeping up the inclosures during the intermediate years, or may be beneficially fallowed for wheat and other grain at the option of the proprietor. On the premises there is also a merchant mill with one pair of belt French burr stones, and one pair of Cologne; furnished with modern machinery, and now leased for the unexpired term of four years, at 500 per annum, and all grain for the use of the farm, hopper free, which is nearly 1000 more. The mill and miller's house are built of free stone, within a very small distance of navigation, near to which are two or more valuable fisheries, and a well accustomed ferry over the Rappahannock to the town of Fredericksburg. The land contains inexhaustible quarries of free stone near to the river, is plentifully supplied with remarkable fine water and possesses a due proportion of meadow, which by having the command of water may be considerably increased. The roads are good, and the neighbourhood genteel and sociable. In fact, exclusive of an improveable and well-conditioned farm, the value and emolument inseparably connected with a mill, fisheries, fisheries and quarries eligibly situated; the profits arising from an ice-house inferior to none in the state, and a garden of four acres to abundantly stocked with vegetables of all sorts as to be fully equal to the demand in market, there might be detailed many other advantages, appertaining to the fertility of these lands, which the subscriber conceives it unnecessary to mention, being fully convinced that when examined, it will be found to be a complete, pleasant and healthy residence, possessing beauties and conveniences sufficient to attract the attention of any person desirous of becoming a purchaser. The motive which induces the subscriber to offer for sale an estate so singularly beautiful and advantageous, is a desire to become an inhabitant of Alexandria, where he can with more ease attend to his interests in the neighbourhood of that city. The purchaser may be accommodated with a few slaves in families, either for plantation or domestic use. A part of the purchase money will be required and the balance made easy, the debt being properly secured. WILLIAM FITZHUGH. Chatham, (Virg.) Dec. 19, 1796. 11th-2aw2m.
Le Breton,
SURGEON-DENTIST, Pupil of the celebrated Mr. Dubois, late Dentist to the King and Royal Family of France, member of the College and Academy of Surgeons at Paris, Keeps a complete assortment of every thing necessary to be used for the
Preservation of the Mouth and Teeth. Patent Misoral Teeth, and Human & Ivory Teeth; Dentifrice in powder; Opiate; excellent Elixir for sweetening the mouth and preserving the teeth - he also furnishes Brushes and soft Sponges. He lives in Chestnut-street, No. 135, above Fourth-street. November 26.
PRINTED BY JOHN FENNO,
-No. 119-
CHESTNUT-STREET.
[Price Eight Dollars per Annum.]