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

Gazette of the United States, AND Philadelphia Daily Advertiser.
By JOHN WARD FENNO, N o 119, CHESNUT-STREET.
NUMBER 1990]
PHILADELPHIA: SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 2, 1799.
[VOLUME XV.]
The price of this Gazette is Eight dollars per annum to Subscribers residing in the city of Philadelphia. All others pay one dollar additional, for enclosing and directing; and unless some person in this city will become answerable for the subscription, it must be paid Six Months in advance.
FOR SALE, At 7 o'clock on Tuesday evening the 5th February, at the Merchants' Coffee House The Foreign Built SHIP GEORGE.
Copied to light water mark, burthen about 378 tons Custom House measurement, now lying at Wilson's Wharf, is well found, as per inventory to be seen at the Auction Room—Conditions of sale approved endorsed notes at 90 days.
FOR FREIGHT or CHARTER, to any part of EUROPE, The Swedish Snow MARI A, Hans Olof Kock, commander.
For sale by the subscriber, AT PORTSMOUTH (N.H.) THE HULL OF A NEW SHIP, 80 feet keel, 27 1-2 beams, 12 feet hold, 5 10 between decks; about 330 tons; with masts, spars and all the carpenter's and smith's work completed; built of good sound seasoned timber and plank; launched in November, 1796, and has been well taken care of since that time.
For Sale. THE SUBSCRIBER, intending to decline the DRUG BUSINESS, offers For Sale, the whole Stock of Drugs and Medicines, Instruments, &c.
Who has For Sale, TWO Sloops, The Peggy, about 30 tons burthen, Mulberry and Red Cedar frame, and remarkably stout, of an easy draught of water, rigging in good order.
SHIP BROKER'S OFFICE, And Commission Store, NO. 119, SOUTH FRONT STREET, Next door to the Custom House. THE Subscriber, encouraged by the advice of his friends, offers his service to the public as a Ship and Insurance Broker.
INSURANCE OFFICE. THE Subscribers respectfully inform their commercial friends in particular, and the public in general, that an office for the Insurance of shipping will be opened on Monday next, 28th inst.
For Savannah, To sail the first opening, The well accommodated and fast Sailing SHIP SWIFT PACKET, PATRICK GRIBBIN, Master.
DANCING. Mr. & Mrs. BYRNE, First Dancers of the NEW THEATRE, INFORM the Ladies and Gentlemen of Philadelphia, that they intend opening an Academy at Four Dollars per Month, or Ten Dollars per Quarter.
FOR SALE, AT NO. 9, SOUTH WATER STREET, Linen Linens, 7-8 and 4-4, well assorted, in whole and half boxes.
WANTED, ABOUT fifty Casks of Flag Annatto or Bocon, apply as above.
FOR SALE, By the Subscribers, ON VERY LOW TERMS, WAX CANDLES, OF A SUPERIOR QUALITY.
FOR SALE, Just Arrived, In the Brig Eliza, from the Mediterranean, and now landing at Walnut Street wharf, Fourth proof Brandy in Pipes.
JOHN DOBBIN, BOOT & SHOEMAKER. RESPECTFULLY informs his Friends and the Public in general that he carries on his business at No 99 South Second Street, nearly opposite the Merchants' Coffee house.
TO LET, THE large House in Southwark, lately occupied by Mr. Henry Mirell; apply to Isaac Wharton.
Notice is hereby Given, THAT application will be made at the Bank of the United States for the renewal of the following certificates of Bank Stock.
FOR SALE, By the Subscribers, 200 Bolts Ruffia Duck, 50 pipes London particular bill Madeira Wine.
Now Landing, From on board the ship John Bulkeley, and for sale at the stores of Jesse & Robert Walby, 350,000 weight of Java Coffee.
NOTICE, THE public are desired to take notice, that the partnership of SAMUEL BENNETT and SAMUEL CAREY Jun. trading under the firm of BENNETT & CAREY has dissolved.
NOTICE, Joseph Thomas's Creditors are hereby earnestly requested to furnish their Accounts duly attested, as soon as convenient.
Bank of Pennsylvania, DECEMBER 27th, 1798. NOTICE is hereby given to the Stockholders of the Bank of Pennsylvania, that an Election of Nineteen DIRECTORS, to serve for one year, will be held at the Bank, on Monday the fourth of February next, at 10 o'clock.
Sales of valuable Property. AGRREEABLE to the last will and testament of JOSEPH ANTHONY, senior, deceased, will be sold at public sale, on Thursday, 14th February, at 7 o'clock in the evening, at the Merchants' Coffee House, in Second Street, the following REAL ESTATES.
Bank of Pennsylvania, December 31, 1798. The Stockholders of the Bank of Pennsylvania are hereby notified that their Annual meeting will be held at the Bank on Friday the 1st day of February next at 10 o'clock.
Notice is hereby Given, THAT application will be made at the Bank of the United States for the renewal of the following certificates of Bank Stock.
Nicklin & Griffith, HAVE FOR SALE, Sail Cloth by the bale or piece, (No. 1 & 8) One bale of Seaming-twine.
THE Brig AMAZON, FOR SALE OR CHARTER. December 10. JOHN MILLER, Junr. HAS REMOVED FROM NO. 8, CHESNUT, To the Five Story Building, in Dock, near Third Street.
WHERE HE HAS FOR SALE, 300 Bales of Bengal Goods; CONSISTING OF COSSAS, Baltas, Mamoodies, Humhums, Taffetas, Striped Doreas, Calicoes, Handkerchiefs, &c. &c.
MADEIRA WINE FOR SALE, At the late dwelling-house of HENRY HILL, Esq. On Saturday morning next, precisely at 11 o'clock.
Henry Zantzinger, SURVIVING PARTNER OF THE HOUSE OF Kepple & Zantzinger, Will dispose of all their Stock in Trade, upon moderate terms, consisting of the following articles, in packages and open.
AUGUSTUS FRICKE, Woollen Draper & Men's Mercer, No. 7, South Third Street, HAS RECEIVED, per the last arrival from Europe, a large assortment of the fashionable Goods in his line.
CHINA GOODS, Just received per the ship New-Jersey from Canton AND FOR SALE, BY ARCHIBALD MCALL, At his Store No. 187, South Second Street.
12 pipes of excellent Madeira Wine, fit for immediate use, jan 24
AT PRIVATE SALE, Several very elegant Situations for SUMMER RETREATS, Three and an half miles from the court-house near Frankford road. THESE situations are considered in point of health, beauty and elegance, equal to any near the city.
THE SUBSCRIBER, Offers for sale the following described property, ON HIGH-STREET, A LOT of ground on the South side thereof, between 7th and 8th Streets, containing in front 23 feet 8 inches and extending in depth southward 305 feet.
ON CHESNUT STREET, A Lot of Ground on the north side, and between Seventh and Eighth Streets, containing in front 102 feet, and extending in depth northward 178 feet.
In the town of Dover, KENT COUNTY, DELAWARE STATE. Eight Lots of Ground adjoining each other, on the west side of King Street, containing in front on the same 505 feet, and extending in depth westward about 402 feet.
JACOB COX, HAS just received by the late arrivals from Europe, a large, general and elegant assortment of the most Fashionable Merchandise, (in the gentlemen's line)—The whole of which will be disposed of, wholesale and retail, at reduced prices for cash.
FOR SALE, BY THE SUBSCRIBERS, 14 four pound Cannon, different lengths, 5 Carronades. JOHN NIXON & CO. December 1.
THE Creditors of Pontcus Deleer Stelle, of Trenton, who have, or shall, by the first of March next, sign the discharge of the said Stelle, will please to present their accounts to either of the subscribers, made up to the first of August 1797, as there will be a dividend made on the first of April next.
Just Imported, Iron cannon, double fortified, Woolwich proof, with their carriages complete—3, 4, 6 and 9 pounders. Carronades, Woolwich proof, with carriages, &c. complete—12, 18 and 24 pounders.

Macpherson's Blues. Friday February 1, 1799. THE Horse, Artillery and Infantry of the BLUES will parade, in front of the Commanding officer's quarters, No. 9, North Eighth-street to-morrow at 3 o'clock P. M. in uniform with side arms—in order to join in the procession at the funeral of GEORGE HUGHES, Esq. deceased—late a member of the First City Troop of Light Dragoons, and an officer in the Navy of the United States. ROBERT HEYSHAM, Adjt. p. t.
The Members of the First City Troop are requested to attend the Funeral of GEORGE HUGHES, Esq. late of that Corps, to-morrow afternoon, at three o'clock, from the house of Mrs. White, No. 9, North Eighth-street, in uniform with side arms. February 1.
Second City Troop of Cavalry. THE Members of the Troop are requested to attend the Funeral of Geo. Hughes, Esq. late a member of the First Troop—in uniform, from the house of Mrs. White, No. 9, North Eighth-street, to-morrow afternoon at three o'clock. feb 1
Volunteer Greens. THE Gentlemen composing the Troop of Volunteer Greens, are requested to attend the funeral of Geo. Hughes, Esq. late a member of the First Troop from the house of Mrs. White No. 9, North Eighth-street at 3 o'clock to-morrow afternoon, in uniform with side arms. JOHN MORRELL, captain, feb 1
Alexander J. Miller, No. 44, SOUTH FRONT-STREET. HAS JUST RECEIVED, By the ATLANTIC, capt. READ, arrived at NEW-YORK, from MADRAS. THE FOLLOWING  WHITE GOODS, Which will be ready for Sale on Monday next, viz.— Gaunjees Aliallah Baftas Tandah Coffees Fine Long Cloths Moories and Short Cloths. feb 1
Insurance Company of the State of Pennsylvania. February 1, 1799. THE Directors have this day declared a dividend of seventy-four dollars on each share of the Stock of this company for the last six months which will be paid to the Stockholders or their legal representatives after the 10th instant. JAMES S. COX, President. feb 1
NOTICE. ALL persons are hereby requested not to trust any way Sarah Fife, from this date, as I am determined not to pay any debts of her contracting. WILLIAM FISS. jan 31.
Lots on Ground Rent. SEVERAL advantageous Lots for Building, on Germantown street, between the 5 and 6 mile stone, to let on ground rent—Enquire at No. 120 North Second-street. jan. 30.
POST-OFFICE. Philadelphia, Jan. 28, 1799. LETTERS for the British Packet, for Falmouth, (England) will be received at this office, until Tuesday the 6th February, at 12 o'clock, noon. N. B. The inland postage to New-York, must be paid at this office.
WANTED IMMEDIATELY, Two unfurnished rooms, and the use of a kitchen for a small family; a front parlour on the first floor will be preferred. Apply to No. 18, Branch Street. jan. 29.
ANY Persons wanting passage to France, can obtain it in the Swedish Barque Neptune, Daniel Jaderborn, master, lying at New-York, by applying to Mr. Letombe, or to Richard Soderstrom, Consul General of Sweden, in this city. jan. 24.
50 Hbds. Santa Cruz Sugar, IN Stores of John Nixon, Esq. & Co. a quantity of Irish Sall Canvases and a Box of Mace, For sale by STEPHEN KINGSTON; 46 Walnut street. jan. 29.
All Persons Indebted to the Estate of HENRY HILL, deceased are requested to make payment to the subscriber; and those having any demands on the same to produce their accounts for settlement. GIDEON H. WELLS, no. 139, Market street Philadelphia, dec. 4, 1798
TO BE LET, A COMMODIOUS THREE STORY BRICK DWELLING HOUSE, in Walnut near Fifth Street, and adjoining the subscriber BENJAMIN W. MORRIS. January 26.
To be Sold, or Let ON GROUND RENT, FOREVER, A NUMBER of very handsome Building Lots, on the South side of Arch-street, near Ninth street, and on Ninth-street, between Arch and Race-streets. A L S O, A few Lots of four acres each; on a high, dry, and elegant situation, within three miles from the city—Enquire at No. 218 Arch-street. jan. 30.
THE PARTNERSHIP OF John & James Poulton, BEING dissolved by mutual consent, all persons indebted to them are requested to make immediate payment to either of the subscribers; and those having demands to present their accounts for settlement. JOHN POULTON, JAMES POULTON, 1st mo 30
THE Book for Subscriptions to the Company for erecting a permanent Bridge over the river Schuylkill, or near the City of Philadelphia, continues open at the house of the Treasurer of said Company, No. 13, Church Alley. January 8, 1799.
Two Dollars Reward. ELOPED on the 12th instant, an indentured Black Lad, named James Matthews, between 16 and 17 years old, and has 4 1/2 years to serve, his time was lately purchased of Micajah Churchman, of Cecil County, Maryland:—He is about 5 feet 3 inches high, of grum countenance, has a remarkably flat large nose, wide mouth and thick lips; had on a blue coating jacket with a scarlet collar, a drab color waistcoat, blue coating trowsers, yarn stockings, a good pair of shoes tied with leather strings, and a round black hat. It is suspected that he is either harbored by his mother, Katharine Sands, a black woman who lives in an alley between 6th and 7th, Cherry and Race-streets, or is loitering about WILMINGTON, DELAWARE. The above reward will be given for bringing him before the Mayor of this City, or for securing him in any jail. Housekeepers, Masters of Vessels and others are forbid harboring or employing him. EDWARD DUNANT. No. 35, Union-street. jan 31
PROPOSALS FOR PRINTING BY SUBSCRIPTION,  MEMOIRS, ILLUSTRATING THE  History of Jacobinism. In three Parts. Part I. The Antichristian Conspiracy. II. The Antimonarchical Conspiracy. III. The Antisocial Conspiracy. A translation from the French of the Abbe BARRUEL. CONDITIONS. I. This work to be printed on a good type and fine paper—in 3 volumes, 8vo. 400 pages each. II. The price to subscribers, bound and lettered, will be 4 dollars 50 cents; in boards 3 dollars 75 cents. Subscriptions will be received by Cornelius Davis, No. 94, Water street; and by others who hold subscription papers—Bookellers the usual allowances. jan. 28
City Commissioners Office. January 8th, 1799. THE following arrangement was made by the Board, for the more effectual cleaning of the City; each Commissioner to superintend a district,—viz.— No. 1. Nicholas Hicks, from the North side of Vine street, to the South side of Mulberry-street. 2. Hugh Roberts, from the South side of Mulberry-street to the South side of Chestnut-street. 3. Joseph Claypoole, from the South side of Chestnut-street to the North side of Spruce street. 4. Isaac Jones, from the North side of Spruce street to the South side of Cedar-street. Note.—When any of the public Pumps are out of order to the Southward of High-street—application may be made to Thomas Dixey in 5th near Cedar-street, or Godfrey Gebler in 4th between Walnut and Chestnut streets. And for the Northern part of the city to Dixey and Dehaven, in 8th street, between Sassafras and Vine-streets. Meetings of the Commissioners are as usual, every Tuesday evening, at 5 o'clock, at the Old Court-House. jan. 19.
City Commissioner's Office, January 15, 1799. For the information of the Citizens, the following extract of an act of Assembly, passed the 18th day of February, 1769, is now republished. Sect. 43. AND be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if any person or persons, shall, after the publication hereof, refuse to call, carry, draw out, or lay any dead horse, or other dead carcase of cattle, sheep, hog or dog, or any excrement or filth from vaults, privies or necessary houses, and shall leave such carcase, carrion or filth, without burying the same, a sufficient depth in the ground, on any part of the commons of the said city, or on or near any streets, lanes, alleys or highways, within the said city, district or township adjoining the same, every person or persons so offending and being convicted thereof, before any justice of the peace of the city or county of Philadelphia, respectively, shall forfeit and pay for every such offence, the sum of thirty shillings. Agreeably to a resolution of the Select and Common Councils, dated the 10th of January 1799. Notice is hereby given, That a PIT or HOLE, is now prepared on the west side of Fifth street, from Schuylkill, between Vine and Sassafras streets. And one other PIT or HOLE, is opened on the west side of Fifth street, from Schuylkill, between Walnut and Spruce streets, where all filth or excrement from vaults or privies, of the city of Philadelphia, shall be deposited. Wherefore, if any person or persons shall be found transgressing, they must expect to be punished as the law directs, and that the same will be strictly enforced. jan. 19.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT. JUNE 27, 1798. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That by virtue of an act, passed during the present session of Congress, so much of the act entitled "An act making further provision for the support of public credit, and for the redemption of the public debt," passed the third day of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five, as bars from settlement or allowance, Certificates, commonly called Loan Office and final settlement Certificates, and Indents of Interest, is suspended until the twelfth day of June, which will be in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety nine. That on the liquidation and settlement of the said Certificates, and Indents of Interest, at the Treasury, the Creditors will be entitled to receive Certificates of funded Three Per Cent. Stock equal to the amount of the said Indents, and the arrears of interest due on their said Certificates, prior to the first day of January one thousand seven hundred and ninety one. That the principal sum of the said Loan Office and final settlement Certificates, with the interest thereon, since the first day of January, one thousand seven hundred and ninety one, will be discharged after liquidation at the Treasury, by the payment of interest and reimbursement of principal, equal to the sums which would have been payable thereon, if the said Certificates had been subscribed, pursuant to the act making provision for the debts of the United States, contracted during the late war, and by the payment of other sums, equal to the market value of the remaining Stock, which would have been created by such subscriptions as aforesaid, which market value will be determined by the Comptroller of the Treasury. OLIVER WOLCOTT, Secretary of the Treasury. june 28
PROPOSALS BY BENJAMIN DAVIES. AFTER the many fruitless attempts, which have been made to establish a publication of this kind in Philadelphia, the proposals now submitted, will, perhaps, at first sight, appear to be nothing more than a soliciting disappointment. When, however, we observe an eager search after knowledge spreading through all parts in our country, and when we consider, that, in these pursuits, Magazines and Reviews are of universally-admitted utility, we are led to believe, that former undertakings in this way have failed from some other cause than the want of discernment or liberality in those, to whom the Editors looked up for support. From causes, which are too evident to need enumerating here, America is, and long must be beholden to a very considerable degree, to the press of Great Britain. The literature of the two countries is, indeed, a sort of common stock; but, for one publication of ours, we receive, at least five hundred in return. While this is the case, it is extreme folly in the publisher of a periodical work, to reject, from a lot of spurious patriotism, all information, however useful, and all amusement, however delightful, merely because it is not of native production. Obvious, however, as the justice of these remarks must appear, we have very little doubt in our minds, that an obstinate adherence to a contrary notion has been the principal cause of the want of success, experienced by those who have gone before us. Reason and interest unite in dictating to us a different plan. The Miscellaneous part, and principal part, therefore, of the Philadelphia Magazine, will consist of choice selections from the newest publications of merit, that shall appear in Europe; but, particularly from the various periodical works published in Great Britain, of which we have taken care to insure the very earliest supply. At the same time, we trust it is unnecessary to say, that we shall always receive with pleasure any original productions of genius, in verse or prose, of our own country; and we flatter ourselves with the hope of being often favoured with the agreeable task of giving to such productions merited praise and extensive publicity. In selecting and arranging these materials, to suit the various tastes of our readers, we are sensible how difficult a task we have undertaken. To please all, we do not expect: it would be a vain presumption. But we are resolved to give offence to none, so far as conflicts with the superior respect we owe to the sacred cause of religion, morality, and social order. In these are involved the glory and welfare of our country, and they will always be the Polar-star, that shall guide our labors. The Miscellaneous will be followed by a monthly Summary of News and politics, foreign as well as domestic; under which head will be comprised a lucid account of the Proceedings of the General and State Legislatures, and the titles, at least, of all the laws they shall enact. The next part of our undertaking, is a Review, of the principal works of note published in Great Britain. For this we must necessarily have recourse to the Reviews of that country. Though it will be impossible for us to furnish as complete an analysis as that from which we shall take our materials, we shall not fail to give such an account of every publication reviewed in that country, as will convey to our readers information sufficient to enable them to avail themselves at a very early stage, of every valuable performance that shall appear. The advantages arising from such information are evident. For want of it our professional men and men of taste are always kept a year or two in the rear of those of Great Britain. We do not hear of a work till a long time after it is published, and many very valuable ones we never hear of at all. All the various injuries and privations we suffer from this source will, we flatter ourselves, be entirely done away by a steady adherence to our plan. To that of foreign, will be added a Review of Domestic Publications; and here, we must confess, that we feel some difference, because the execution of the task must depend, in a great measure, upon the abilities of ourselves. However, with a firm resolution to be guided by decency, candour and truth, and to take genius and virtue by the hand, whenever, and in whatever garb, we may find them; with no wish to wound the feelings of any but the wicked, and with the most sincere desire of seeing our countrymen first in every department of literature, we doubt not, that we shall be able to acquit ourselves to the satisfaction of all those who have the good-nature fairly to appreciate our motives, and the justice to make allowance for human imperfections. The work will close with a monthly record of Marriages, Births, Deaths, Promotions, and other casual incidents. As to what concerns the politics of this country or of Europe, at this momentous period, we shall always view with jealousy every measure of the French Government, and it's ever active emissaries; and it in this respect some men consider us as partial or prejudiced, we shall submit to their censure. For so full is our conviction that the war, which now desolates Europe, and menaces this country, is a war of ambition and plunder, on the part of France, that nothing can induce us to conceal our sentiments, or to withhold the small assistance that we can contribute to oppose them. For this reason we intend to devote a page or two of every number to historical facts, anecdotes, and remarks on the Politics of France, from the age of Louis the Fourteenth to the present more alarming epoch. For more than a century past has that restless and ambitious people been like a volcano in the centre of Europe, disturbing the surrounding States by its intrigues, and once in every eight or ten years overwhelming its most fertile countries with devastation and carnage. Indeed it is more than eighteen hundred years since the great Roman Orator thought it his duty to warn his countrymen against that conduct and those principles, for which the present race of Gauls are as justly to be dreaded as their savage ancestors; "Gallis fidem non habendam, bonitatis laudibus, perfidis, et in ipsa Deos immortales impis." By the proper management of this topic our countrymen will be able to see the real character of the nation, which they formerly considered as their friends, but now more justly execrate as their most dangerous enemies; and they will be better prepared to appreciate any overtures, that may be made hereafter, for the restoration of peace and amity. In the execution of this part of our design, particularly "we look with confidence for the support and assistance of all persons who shall consider our motives as laudable, and therefore with to contribute to the success of our design;—of all who think, with us, that the press has been too long an engine of destruction, and that it ought, at length to be rendered a mean of preservation, and an instrument of protection." * LITERARY, well or ill conducted, is the great engine by which, I am fully persuaded, all civilized States must ultimately be supported or overthrown. Pursuit of Literature.
THE CONDITIONS. This work will be published in Monthly Numbers; and if a moderate encouragement is given, the
first number will appear on the first day of February next. Each number will contain at least Fifty pages of letter press, in octavo, under a blue cover. It will be printed on a fair and good paper; and, as soon as our list of Subscribers will warrant the expense, every number will be embellished with an elegant engraving. The price to the Subscribers will be twenty-five cents for each number, to be paid on delivery at some one of the places specified below, where the subscription has been received; and as soon as there are sufficient to make a handsome volume, they will be bound together, for such subscribers as choose it, they paying the additional expense. Subscriptions will be received by Benjamin Davis at No. 68, High street, where the favours of all Correspondents of which the postage has been paid, will be received, and duly attended to, as well as by all the principal Book-sellers in the city; by George Hill, Book-seller in Baltimore; and by Archibald Drummond, Book-seller in New-York. dec. 14.
TO THE Promoters of Literature. THE managers of the Beula Seminary, impelled by motives of pure morality, having resolved to dispose of the following property by way of LOTTERY, in order to assist them in erecting a convenient building for the accommodation of one hundred students, and the necessary professors in the different departments of science—do offer for sale three hundred and fifty lots in BEULA, each fifty-eight feet by one hundred and twenty-five, at twenty dollars per ticket, each ticket entitled to a lot to be determined by ballot; ten dollars to be paid on receipt of the ticket, and the remaining ten on the delivery of the deed. The ballot to take place before impartial men, as soon as the whole number of tickets are sold. The managers, anticipating the difficulty of obtaining cash for the whole, have resolved to receive an equivalent, for some of the lots, in select books; philosophical apparatus, or in produce and materials for building, delivered on the spot. It may be observed, that the value of prizes in this lottery will be more than double the amount of all the tickets; for 350 lots, would at their average estimation, produce at least 15,750 dollars; whilst, according to the present proposals, the sum obtained for them will be only 7,000 dollars. Tickets may be had during this winter, of Morgan J. Rhea, president of the board of managers; no. 177, fourth Second-street, Philadelphia; who will receive proposals and plans for the erection of the building. It is intended to be of brick or stone; its situation on the summit of a gradual rising eminence, commanding an extensive prospect of the surrounding country; an observatory to be on its top. Land and out lots in the vicinity of the Town may be had on moderate terms by applying as above. Mechanics and laborers, of good morals will meet with encouragement. jan. 19.
Is there an American, young or old, not interested in the History of the first Rise and Progress of his native Country, and from so celebrated a pen as that of Doctor Robertson? Just Published, AND TO BE SOLD BY JAMES HUMPHREYS, No. 59, fourth Third street, opposite the Bank of the United States. (Price one dollar neatly bound and lettered, in boards, six shillings)
Dr. Robertson's History of AMERICA, Containing The history of Virginia to the year 1685, and the history of New-England to the year 1652, being what the Doctor had completed previous to his death. It has lately been given to the public with a preface by his son at Edinburgh, has already passed through three or four editions, and has been translated and published in French at Paris. Mr. Robertson in his preface observes, "During the course of tedious illness, which he early foresaw would have a fatal termination, Dr. Robertson at different times destroyed many of his papers: But after his death, I found that part of the History of (British) America which he had written many years before, and which is now offered to the public. It is written with his own hand as any part of his manuscripts which I have ever seen; and it has thought it worthy of being preserved, as it escaped the flames to which so many other papers had been committed. I read it with the utmost attention; but, before I came to any resolution about the publication, I put the MSS. into the hands of some of those friends whom my father used to consult on such occasions, as it would have been rashness and presumption in me, to have trusted to my own partial decision. It was perused by some other persons also, in whose taste and judgment I have the greatest confidence: by all of them it was encouraged to offer it to the public, as curious and interesting in itself, and not inferior to any of my father's other works." The Editor of the Paris Edition apostrophizes the above work in the following manner. "Every thing ensures success to this volume the talents and reputation of the author, and the impression still recent in the minds of all who have read the excellent work of which this is the completion—all conspire to give it an extensive spread. The history of America was the master-piece of one of the two ablest, or rather one of the two only modern historians. He has created this part of history, distinguished this chaos of the New World, distinguished with the hand of a master the part of genius, fortune, courage and crime, and conquered as it were, America, for literary, commercial, and political Europe." "To ensure this last volume circulation, it is necessary only to name its author, and to remark, it possesses all that acuteness of observation, that perspicuity of exposition, the art of relating facts to causes, and of mingling with the account of events, the wholesome and most approved principles of morals and politics, for which this writer was so eminently conspicuous. In short, that it exhibits the talents of ROBERTSON." jan. 19.
MAYOR'S OFFICE REMOVED to 157 South Second-street. 52w
CONTINUATION OF  Late Foreign Articles Received by His Britannic Majesty's Packet, which arrived at New-York on Monday afternoon. PARIS, November 21. Letter of General Kosciusko to the Emperor Paul of Russia. SIRE, I profit of the first moment of the liberty I enjoy, under the protecting laws of the greatest and most generous nation, to return you the presents that your apparent bounty and the atrocity of your ministers forced me to accept. If I do wrong, fire, attribute it only to the irresistible force of the attachment which I bear for my compatriots (companions in misfortunes) and the hope of yet serving my country. Yes, I repeat it, fire, and I am desirous of making to you the declaration; your heart appeared to me to be touched at my disastrous situation; but your ministers and their satellites have not conducted themselves to me according to your wishes. Should they attempt to impute to my free will a measure they compelled me to take, I develop to you, and to all men who know the value of honor, their violence and perfidy; and that it will be to them only you owe the publication of their crimes. Receive, Sire, the testimonies of my respect. (Signed) Paris, 17 Thermidor.
KOSCIUSKO. Five ambassadors from Morocco have lately arrived at Paris. It is reported that the Porte, by virtue of the treaty of Belgrade, had demanded from the king of Prussia an army of 30,000 men, to act against France on the banks of the Rhine; but this strange demand will probably be rejected by the cabinet of Berlin.
The following important communication was received in a letter by the last Hamburg mail: Extract of a letter from the frontiers of Switzerland and Milan. Lugano, Sept. 2, 1798. "We live here in a state of great uneasiness, but have every reason to hope that it will be soon at an end. To all appearance, hostilities will be recommenced ere long. The Austrians, in conjunction with the Grisons, have entered Valteline country, which was immediately by the small number of French and Cisalpine troops, who had taken post there. Several gentlemen have been commissioned by his imperial majesty to collect provisions in the neighborhood." The Valteline country is subject to the confederacy of the Grisons. About 18 months since General Buonaparte took possession of it, by the most scandalous abuse of the right of an umpire which had been conferred upon him to accommodate some matters in dispute between that country and the Grisons; and it was afterwards incorporated with the Cisalpine Republic. It borders upon the territory of this new Republic through its whole northern extent, from Tyrol to the Lake of Como, and is of the utmost importance in the present war, as it takes in flank all the French troops, from Mantua to Milan.
The French, invited by some malcontent took possession of it without any sort of ceremony; and the Grisons, it would seem, have re-occupied it in the same manner. It will be easy for them to keep possession of it with the aid of the inhabitants of the country, who from the excesses committed by their new associates, rose upon them in the course of the last summer. This bold stroke may be considered as a formal declaration of war on the part of the Grisons against the Cisalpine Republic. These two states can only be considered in this quarrel as the heralds who carry and receive the challenge of two great powers who direct their movements.
From the Propagateur, dated 3 Feimaire, November 23. The following details are taken from an authentic source: Buonaparte did not make himself master of Egypt before the end of the summer. He found at Suez but a few vessels, and those in bad condition. The monsoon being against him at the autumnal equinox; he found that he had no time to caulk those vessels, or to put to sea. He immediately abandoned his plan of going to India, and his army began to consider itself as fixed in Egypt. The loss of our fleet ensued, and this was followed by a declaration of war on the part of Turkey, their threats of invasion, &c. The French finding themselves thus shut up, immediately turned their thoughts to defending themselves and their conquests. The month of Fructidor was rather severe, on account of the extreme heat, the calms, and the exhalations which followed the retreat of the Nile; but in the month of Vendemaire, the land was covered with trefol, Milk, beer, flesh, fish, and vegetables were all abundant. The army recovered from its fatigues. It is about to pass the winter, and insure itself to the climate. In the mean time Buonaparte is ever vigilant. Devoting himself to the administration of this important conquest, he descends to Damietta and Rosetta, and puts the coast in a state of defence at every point. He orders the necessary forts on the confines of the desert near Suez, and in the Higher Egypt. He keeps his troops in exercise, raises recruits in the country, and makes use rather of art than force to form a party amongst the natives. He avails himself of the distinctions, civil and religious, to attach to him the Coptics, the Bedouins, and the pesantry. He flatters their self-love by adopting several of their customs, in order that they may more easily accommodate themselves to ours. He found them melancholy, choleric, and fretful, through the influence of tyranny. He has rendered them gay, good, and amiable, by

the means of games, feasts, and music He turns the most useful labours into amusement, and repairs the highways, the bridges and the canals. He found the peasants slaves, and has endowed them with property.
The Grand Seigneur inherited every succession. Buonaparte has consecrated the right of inheritance in every family; he bestows on every child an equal share, and suddenly, but without a shock, he has ameliorated the condition of the women, by giving them an equal portion of the descending property, with a right to dispose of it at will. He marries his soldiers to the women of the country, prohibits all premature marriages, lays restraints on polygamy, and, in a word is founding in Africa a new civil code. By his economy and foresight, he is reviving the manufactory of the country. He has prohibited the ruinous and absurd luxury of the Russian troops, and of Cachemirian shawls. He has called upon the neutral provinces, and procured from them by way of exchange, the iron, the copper, and the wood of which he had occasion. He is not likely to be in any want of powder. He has appointed schools of instruction for the people and military colleges where the young French the Coptis, and the Arabs instruct each other in the Arabic, the French, in Geometry, the Mathematics, and other sciences. He has in one word, created a Nation, and by managing the powerful resources of enthufiasm he has recalled to the Arabs the glory of their ancestors. He has shown them, in the French army, the miraculous instrument of the decrees of Providence, as wished to revive the empire of the ancient Arabs; to deliver them from a barbarous yoke; to purify the law of their Prophet, which had been altered by ignorant or impious men; and to open in Africa a new age of grandeur, of science, and of glory.
HAGUE, November 6.
Within these few days past the guards have been every where doubled, and familiar precautions have been taken in the other cities, in consequence of intelligence that the insurrection in Flanders threatened to spread still further, the Directory issued an order for the rigid execution of the laws against Emigrants and French banished criminals, and for arresting all the Brabanters who shall have taken part in the insurrection, and that they shall be immediately given up to the French Government.
BRUSSELS, Nov. 17.
The General Beguinot has just published the following official report:—
"The columns which were charged with the blockade of Diest, collected themselves on the night between the 15th and 16th, in order to attack that place; but the Brigands, though considerable in number, did not dare to make any resistance. They fled across the marches, in which more than 500 of them perished. They abandoned all their arms and ammunition, with a great number of horses. We took from them, and killed during the blockade, and in the different researches which were made in the town and its environs, more than 250 men. The remainder are now wandering in the woods. The troops are now in pursuit of them. Our enemies are now scattered at all points, to discover and preserve the scattered remains. Unhappy are those who shall give them shelter or succour."
(Signed) "BEGUINOT."
NEW-YORK, January 31.
A BELL of immense size, together with a large CLOCK of a superior structure, has come out per the Cheeseman, from London, for St. Paul's Church. The weight of the Bell we understand to be 33 C. The Church steeple is in readiness to receive them, and the citizens may shortly expect to be gratified with a display of their elegance and usefulness.
Richard Bayley & Co.
RESPECTFULLY inform the public that the Retail Business carried on by them at their Store No. 136, Market-street, will in future be carried on by Mr. WM. BONNAR, whom they beg leave to recommend to the favor of their friends and the public.
ALL PERSONS indebted to the above firm and those to whom they are indebted, will please to apply to JOHN WITTENBERG & Co. for the settlement of their respective accounts, who are duly empowered for that purpose.
Richard Bayley & Co.
WILLIAM BONNAR,
RESPECTFULLY informs his friends and the public, that the above Store will be opened by him on Monday the 4th of February next, with an assortment of
DRY GOODS,
Suitable to the season, with he flatters himself will meet the approbation of those who honor him with their favor.
jan 29. ALL PERSONS, INDEBTED to the Estate of ABRAHAM DICKS, Esq. late Sheriff of the County of Delaware, are requested to make immediate payment, and all those who have demands against said Estate to authenticate and present them for settlement. Also, all those who have deposited writings with said deceased to apply for them to WILLIAM PENNOCK, Adm'r. Springfield, Delaware county, ? jan 8 1799.
ABNER BRIGGS,
Of the City of Philadelphia, STOREKEEPER,
HAVING assigned over all his effects, real, personal and mixed, to the subscribers, for the benefit of all his creditors—
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, To all persons who are indebted to the said Estate, that they are requested to make immediate payment of their respective accounts, to either of the assignees, in failure whereof, legal measures will be taken for the recovery of such debts, as are not discharged without further delay.
GEORGE PENNOCK, WILLIAM FRENCH, wed.&fr.6w
The Gazette.
PHILADELPHIA,
SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 2.
PRICES OF STOCKS.
Table with 2 columns: Stock Type, Price. Includes Six Per Cent (15 3/4 to 8), Three Per Cent (9/9), Deferred 6 Per Cent (14 1/2), BANK United States (23 per cent), Pennsylvania (24 to 21), North America (46 ditto), Insurance comp. N.A. shares (13 to 13 1-8 dolls.), Pennsylvania shares (50 ditto, Divid. on COURSE OF EXCHANGE, On Hamburg 33 1-3 cents per Mark Banco, London at 30 days (56 1-2), at 60 days (54), at 90 days (52 1-2), Amsterdam, 60 days, pr. guild. 36 to 37 1-2 cents.
COMMUNICATIONS.
When the monster faction has risen its snake-clad head so high as even to threaten the vital principle of the Union, when wretches wholly devoted to the enemies of our country, have so far deluded the ignorant in two of our states as to hurry through their legislatures, resolutions fraught with every evil, the most malignant hatred could suggest; it is not time for every friend to his country to rouse himself, and contribute as much as in his power to the support of the government of his choice; too long has it been the custom with many honest and well meaning men, to content themselves with wishing well to the federal cause; in other times this was not of so much consequence, the designs of its enemies were not so well known, and though we lamented their folly we pitied their ignorance; but now the scene is changed: their motives are completely developed, but if there exists a doubt in the mind of any one, that their intentions are not most thoroughly wicked, let him read the address to the people of Virginia, lately brought forward in that legislature, by a noted demagogue (a fellow notorious while in the army for his cowardice, and since for his turbulent and seditious efforts "to stop the wheels of Government.") This complication of villainy though couched in terms the most artful that jacobin caution could invent is easily seen through; in spite of their "diplomatic skill" their real wishes are plain. The reader must shudder at the thought, but it is a fact, that John Taylor really tells the people to prepare to rise at once and resist—what, think you? THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES! He has indeed clothed this infernal exhortation in the artful garb of resisting usurpation; but his meaning is so obvious that it would be insulting the reader to suppose him capable of doubting it for a moment.
After this I need say no more. If half the world were to combine in writing against this John Taylor, they could not so effectually blast him in the opinion of every good man, as by reading this address: but I must once more entreat each friend to his country to strain every nerve for its salvation, to strangle the viper of sedition in its infancy, for if it is allowed time to ripen into maturity, our religion, our government, and our lives, must fall a sacrifice to it. PUBLIUS.
Philadelphia, January 31, 1799. To Mr. TAYLOR, of Caroline, Virginia. SIR,
I HAVE read your motion in the assembly on the Sedition and Alien bills, your appeal to the people, and your two other favorite schemes of arming the militia of the commonwealth, and arraying the state judges against the federal courts in the case of imprisonment under the above mentioned bills.
The only effects which the reading of these resolutions have on the mind of an honest American, are, detestation for such unprovoked and unprincipled attempts, and contempt for the presumption of an insignificant individual even to dream of erecting the standard of rebellion against a powerful and virtuous government. The long train of direful events, of wretchedness and cruelty, which would attend the success of your abominable designs, immediately excite our indignation and abhorrence for the man who for a moment could harbor the base intention, however ridiculous the attempt. The folly of the measure compleats our mean opinion of the author.
The federal government, grown strong by the dignity and virtue of its administration, by the purity of its views, the candour and uprightness of its conduct at home and abroad, can apprehend no serious convulsion from the faint and unimportant murmurings of a few discontented, factious Jacobins. The constitution has defined treason, and given the federal executive ample power to defend itself and the union from its attacks.
It exercised this power against the insurrection in the westward on the excise law, and sufficiently manifested its strength. This was called a serious rebellion, and made more so from the general sentiment which then pervaded the whole continent, and indeed strongly affected the opinions and manners of a great part of Europe. I mean a sentiment of licentious liberty and imaginary democracy, which conceived all laws, however wholesome and necessary, as oppressions on the people; and also that a town meeting, or any self-created assembly of the people, could protest against the acts of lawful authority, constituting themselves a court of appeal for the final decision of the measures of government, approving or rejecting as they may see meet.
In the moment when this infatuation raged the highest, the President summoned the militia of the states to suppress the insurrection; and so impressive was this act, characteristic of a determined spirit to preserve the peace, constitution and happiness
of the nation, that thousands returned to obedience; some, who had been deluded by the bale suggestions of influential characters, began to reflect, and were convinced of their error; others, who from worse motives rebelled, were terrified with the prompt and energetic measures of the President—whilst, he was supported by the consciousness of performing his duty, the approbation of the constitution, and the determined adherence of every good man.
As a fellow-citizen, Sir, I advise you to pause for a moment, before you provoke the strength of the federal government—consider whether the opposition to the sedition and alien bills is more popular than the opposition to the excise law—whether your strength is much superior to the strength of the western insurgents—whether the federal executive has less power and firmness now than formerly; and on what generally you ground your hopes of success: these are prudent considerations for an insurgent to make, before he openly declares himself—before he unfulfils the standard of rebellion, and dares to defy the authority of a powerful and virtuous government. There should, fir, be a system in lawless as well as in lawful undertakings, and you will certainly commit yourself by rejecting this prudent advice.
That you are opposed to the sedition and alien bills, because you think them unconstitutional, I can never believe. If you have been taught to read, and have got the constitution of the United States before you, ten minutes reading would destroy any such belief. But this I verily think, that these bills greatly incommode both yourself and your partisans, by sealing your lips when you are inclined to rail against the federal government, and impose on some of your ignorant countrymen, whom, by your artifice and seeming sincerity, you would inveigle into your monstrous schemes. These bills are inconvenient to you, as they restrain your freedom of declamation out of doors (not protected by the privilege of the house) when you would rouse the commonwealth to arms to assault the constitution the existence of a President; and under the disguise of maintaining the freedom of the people and the constitution in its original purity, aim at dominion for yourself and a few of your partisans, vassalage to your fellow citizens, destruction to the laws and an unrestrained exercise of ambition, power and the passions. Minds grown familiar with vice can contemplate the horrid, bloody scenes which continually succeed each other in a civil war without an emotion of either pity or fear; pity for the ruin of domestic happiness or of a flourishing country, where tranquility is followed by uproar and confusion, plenty by famine, riches by poverty, peace by war, and a whole train of innumerable miseries. Fear, from the just vengeance of Heaven, for the infamous abuse of such blessings as America enjoys under the wisest of Presidents and best of governments—fear, from the indignation of a whole people made wretched by your artifice and treason—fear, from a justly incensed government, abused by men whom it endeavours to make happy, and who are sheltered by its wing.
Such men as you, fir, can meditate with a smiling countenance on the torrent of blood which would deluge this happy land—at the slaughter of your countrymen—the downfall of government—ruin of trade, sooner than not succeed in your favorite scheme of elevating yourselves above the laws of your country, the restraints of justice, morality and religion.
This is a species of depravity exclusively attached to Jacobins—the delicious contemplation of a happy country made wretched by their means, is a dainty precisely adapted to their palates—it is a dish served up to decorate the table of the highest Jacobin in the nation.
If these observations disturb your mind, I shall be much gratified. I wish to disturb—to agitate it—that I may divert it from its infamous purpose; for although your designs may give some trouble to government, they will only draw punishment on yourself. A FEDERALIST.
MR. PENNO, PLEASE to give the following Copy of the late Doctor SAMUEL COOPER's Will, a place in your paper. It will show that the Doctor not only lived but died a benefactor to his fellow creatures.
I, SAMUEL COOPER, late of Maryland, but now of Philadelphia, Physician, do make my last will and testament, in manner and form following:
I will, that my debts be discharged, and my funeral expenses paid by my executors. Having always abhorred slavery in every shape, I have freed all my Negroes by executing, as I apprehend, proper manumissions; but, if any thing is informally done, or any thing is wanting to complete their emancipation, I request my executors to do it, and to liberate the girls at eighteen, and the boys at twenty one years of age, if any of them survive me, and to charge the expense to my estate; and I allow my executors, if they see occasion, to pay any charge that may be found necessary by them, to procure suitable places for the young children, and to secure to them the opportunity of obtaining a little school learning.
Item—I will, that my executors collect my outstanding debts, in particular, a legacy of one hundred and fifty pounds with its interest, which was left me by my Grandfather, Thomas Winchester, deceased.
Item—I will, that my executors hereafter named, shall sell at any time they may think best, at public or private sale, for cash or on credit, at their own discretion, my two plantations or tracts of land in Talbot county, in the state of Maryland, with all their improvements, and make good and sufficient titles for the said lands and improvements, to the purchaser or purchasers in fee simple; and all the monies arising therefrom (after payment of my debts and providing, if need be, for my young Negroes, as above mentioned) I give with all the securities they
may take for the said lands, to the CONTRIBUTORS of the PENNSYLVANIA HOSPITAL. But as it may happen, that I may sell those lands myself, which I have some thoughts of doing, it is my will in that case, that the said contributors shall have and possess all the monies and securities I take for both or either of those places, in the same manner as if my executors were to sell them, under the preceding directions.
Having served my apprenticeship in the Pennsylvania Hospital, I know it to be a most valuable and useful institution, not only as the best asylum in America for Lunatics and the sick poor, but also the best school of instruction for a Medical Pupil. With these sentiments, I esteem it a duty I owe to the community, to devote my earthly substance to encourage and promote it in preference to any temporal consideration; I do, therefore give to the contributors to the said Hospital, and to their successors forever, as well my said two plantations, as all the monies that may arise from the sale thereof, by me, or by my executors, and all my other estate both real and personal whatsoever, to and for the following uses.
Item—I request them to buy a neat substantial Coach, or light waggon that will conveniently hold a driver and six persons with its furniture complete, to procure which I allow them to pay a sum not to exceed six hundred dollars.
Item—I request them to buy two good found and able bodied horses, neither of which to be more than eight years old, in the opinion of good judges to purchase which I allow them to expend a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars.
Item—I allow them to retain of my estate any sum they may think sufficient to pay a coachman two year's wages.
Item—I recommend that the carriage or horses may never be lent from the house, nor suffered to be out all night, unless the carriage is sent to be mended, or the horses to pasture; that it be used only for the patients and their needful attendants, or to bring to, or take from the hospital, the managers, treasurer or physicians, when employed in the service of the house; and it is further my desire, that the horses may never be drove on any pretence more than sixteen miles in one day. And as to the residue (my debts, funeral expenses, and provision for my young Negroes, which are to be paid and made before the Hospital Contributors receive any part of my estate) my will is, that it may be added to, and become a part of the capital stock, for the general use of the house, and I trust it will be enough to purchase and support at all times, a carriage for the use of the patients, if the managers shall approve thereof.
Lastly, I nominate and appoint my friends Samuel Coates, Thomas Morris, Mordecai Lewis, and Ellison Perot, the executors of this my last will and testament, hereby revoking and making null and void, every other will by me heretofore made.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto affixed my hand and subscribed my name this fifteenth day of August one thousand seven hundred and ninety seven.
(L.S.) SAMUEL COOPER. Signed, sealed, &c. &c.
DONATIONS.
Received by the Committee appointed by the Board of Health, to distribute the Donations for alleviating the distresses of those who are suffering in consequence of the late calamity: viz.
12th Month 24th, 1798. 1510 dollars 55 cents from the Board of Health, being donations received by them. 3000 dollars from Robert Wharton, Mayor of this city, being the donation received by him from Savannah, in Georgia.
4 barrels of Pork and Beef, 50 barrels of loose pack'd Rye, Buckwheat and Indian Meal, 5 small pieces of Bacon, 200 bushels of Potatoes, 4 bushels of Turnips, a few Cheeses, 2 bundles of Clothes, 13 spotted rugs, 3 diaper coverlids, 2 pair of rofe blankets, 2 pieces of white bays, 59 yards striped lindsey, 534 mixed coating, 13 yards 6-4 mixed coating, 23 yards 6-4 striped do. 20 pair boys' yarn hose, 10 pair mens' do. 3 yards broad cloth, and 4 pair of mens' shoes, from the Committee appointed at the time of the late general sickness, for the relief of the sick and infirm poor, being the residue of donations received by them.
29th.—Near 40 barrels of flour, Bread, pork, and fish, 3 tiers of rice, 2 tiers of bacon, 1 barrel of cheese, 1 keg of butter, 1 keg of tamarinds, a small quantity of tea and ginger, 100 bushels of potatoes, and a large chest of old clothes from the Committee who superintended the encampment on the banks of Schuylkill, being the residue of their donations.
90 cords of wood from the commissioners appointed by the Governor in the year 1797, for carrying into effect a law for alleviating the distresses of the citizens of Philadelphia and suburbs.
1st Month 12th, 1799. 97 barrels of wheat, rye, Indian and buckwheat meal, 100 bushels of potatoes, and 99 pair of shoes afforded, from the Committee appointed to superintend the encampment at Master's place, being the remainder of donations received by them.
1800 dollars from the Board of Health, being donations received by them.
23 dollars 10 cents from Francis Guernay, being a donation received by him.
19th.—16 dollars 50 cents from the inhabitants of Salem and Mannington, by the hands of John Wistar.
26th.—10 dollars 80 cents from the traverse jury of the late Mayor's Court, being part of their fees, received from Robert Wharton, Mayor.
250 lbs. rye meal from — of this city, About 20 bushels of potatoes from A. H. of this city.
28th.—479 dollars 30 cents from the inhabitants of Charleston, state of Massachu-
setts, forwarded by Dr. Moore, to Ebenezer Hazard, and from him received.
Note. The above donations, together with a large quantity of wood and provisions purchased by the Committee, are nearly all distributed, and but a small balance of cash left in the hands of the treasurer.
By order of the committee.
EDWARD GARRIGUES, Chairman.
Attest, P. BARKER, Clerk.
1st mo. 30, 1799.
Amount of FLOUR, shipped for exportation, at the port of Philadelphia, in the year 1798:
Table with 2 columns: Month, Amount. Includes Shipped in January (4894 barrels), February (7402), March (20887), April (11019), May (9116), June (12667), July (7648), August (7157), September (1775), October (1544), November (3110), December (4256), In all (100475 barrels).
JAMES READ, Inspector. Philadelphia, 12th Jan. 1799.
MARRIED—on Wednesday, Jan. 2d, by the Rev. Dr. Rodgers, Mr. PETER P. WALTER, of this city, to the amiable Miss MARY REILEY, daughter of Martin Reiley, Esq. of Bedford, Pennsylvania.
On Thursday evening by the Rev. Mr. Abercrombie, Mr. ALEXANDER J. MILLER, merchant, to Miss STOCKER, of this city.
On Thursday the 24th of January, by the Rev. Dr. Samuel Jones, Mr. WILLIAM MAGHEE, of this city, to the amiable Miss FRANCES HOLME, daughter of Mr. John Holme, of Pennypack, Philadelphia county.
NOTICE.
Is given to all those indebted to the firms of Jackson & Evens, John B. Evens, & Co. Evens & Bullock, Whitton, Evens & Co. and John B. Evens.
THAT the Subscriber is fully authorized to adjust and settle the affairs of those concerns; and that suits will be indiscriminately commenced on all accounts that remain unpaid on the 20th day of March next.
John B. Evens, No. 119, South Third-Street. feb 2 coddw
BOARDING.
TWO orderly Gentlemen may be accommodated with genteel boarding and lodging in a private family (pleasantly situated) near to Market and Third-Streets, by applying for Q. C. at the office of this paper. feb. 2. 3t
Weekly Magazine.
THE Patrons of the WEEKLY MAGAZINE, and the public, are respectfully informed, that it is intended to re-commence the publication of it in a short time. The present proprietor having obtained the assent of Mrs. Watters, (the late Editor's mother) and purchased from her all the numbers on hand, informs the former subscribers to that work, that those numbers published by Mr. Watters which remain to be delivered, shall shortly be sent to them with the Index and Appendix to the second volume, which is also nearly ready for delivery to those who take the work in volumes.
The present proprietor assures the public that the work shall be conducted on the same principles, and upon the same terms that it was by the former editor; and that as no exertion shall be spared to render it worthy of the public regard, he confidently hopes the same liberality which heretofore countenanced, will still continue to support it.
Subscriptions, upon the original terms will be received by the principal Book-sellers. February 2.
ADVERTISEMENT.
TODD & MOTT,
Of the City of Philadelphia, Merchants, having assigned over their effects, real, personal, and mixed, to the subscribers for the benefit of all their Creditors—
Notice is hereby Given, To all persons who are indebted to the said estate, that they are required to make immediate payment of their respective accounts to either of the assignees, or to WILLIAM MOTT, No. 62, Dock-street, their agent duly authorized; in failure whereof, legal measures will be taken for the recovery of such debts as are not discharged without delay.
John Waddington } Affignees, John Rhodes } tu.&fatFrs John Allen }
SAMUEL PARKER, BRASS AND BELL FOUNDERY, No. 137, MULBERRY-STREET.
CONTINUES to carry on the Brass-foundery Business as usual, where his former customers and the public may be supplied with castings for machines to any pattern, rudder braces, bolts, &c. for ships.
It may be proper to add, that as it has been reported he had declined the business, S. P. takes this means of informing the public that he is making arrangements to carry it on still more extensively, hoping thereby to comply promptly with such orders as he may have to execute.
BELLS, of any size, cast for churches and other institutions; printers rules, &c. jan. 23 co3t
PRINTING WORK,
Of Every Kind, EXECUTED AT THE SHORTEST NOTICE.
At the OFFICE of the GAZETTE of the UNITED STATES, OG. dci.

PROPOSALS, BY THE Insurance Company of North America. FOR INSURANCE AGAINST FIRE, on Dwelling-Houses, Warehouse-Houses, and other Buildings (and on Goods contained in such Buildings) distant from Philadelphia, in the United States.
1. Common Insurance, on hazards of the first class, will be undertaken at a premium of about half per cent. per annum. For extra-hazardous risks, a larger premium will be required, which will vary according to circumstances, seldom exceeding one per cent. per annum; but in some instances, where the property insured is not only in itself extra-hazardous, but rendered still more so by the vicinity of extra-hazardous buildings and occupations, the premium demanded will be raised according to circumstances.
Houses and Warehouse-Houses, the walls and partitions of which are wholly of stone or brick, well constructed, so as to be guarded as well as may be against fires from within, and free from extra-hazardous buildings and occupations in their neighborhood, will be deemed hazardous of the first class, and may be insured to their full value.
Also Goods and Merchandise, not of an extra-hazardous kind, in casks, bales, or packages, deposited in such buildings, to an amount not exceeding 4000 dollars; but if more than this sum is required to be insured in one tenement, an additional premium will be required, in proportion to circumstances.
II. Insurances will also be made on buildings and goods extra-hazardous, at premiums proportioned to the risk. But it is not easy to arrange these under particular heads or classes, so as to describe each with the necessary accuracy. Each case must therefore be decided upon according to the circumstances attending it; and these circumstances will, in general, be described in the description accompanying the application.
Buildings partly constructed of brick or stone, are preferable to those wholly wooden. And in both cases, the site of building, how they are occupied, how they are situated, the neighboring buildings, and how occupied, are considerations to be taken into view. And with respect to goods, their tendency, whether from their nature, or from the manner in which they are exposed, either to commence or to increase an accidental fire, and their liability in such state to receive damage by wet, or by sudden and halting removal, or to be fuddled in time of confusion and hurry, are all circumstances of weight; and the premiums must be proportioned accordingly.
III. The following condition are to be understood by the parties.
1st. The Insurance is not binding till the stipulated premium be paid; but it shall be deemed effected from the time of such payment and acceptance thereof, whether the policy be immediately signed or not.
2d. Insurances may be renewed at the expiration of the term of the policy, without further expenses than the payment of the premium of the renewed term, the circumstances continuing the same as they were understood by the Insurers at the time the former insurance was made; but the payment of the premium is essential to such renewal; and if the party insured suffers any time to elapse after the expiration of the former insurance, before he pays a premium for the renewal, he is not insured during such time; nor can the insurance be renewed on the former policy but by computing the commencement of the renewal from the expiration of the former insurance. The subject of insurance may nevertheless be open to treaty for a new insurance.
3d. If any other insurance be made on the same property; it must be made known at the time of application, otherwise the policy made on such application will be void.
4th. Goods held in trust, or on consignment, may be insured as such in a separate policy; but they are not to be considered as insured otherwise.
5th. This company will not be liable or accountable for any loss or damage occasioned by any foreign invasion, or by any military or usurped force, or by reason of any civil commotion; or occasioned by gunpowder, aquafortis or other thing of that kind kept in the building, or amongst the property insured.
6th. Bills of Exchange, Bonds and other Securities, Title Deeds, Money, Bank and other promissory Notes, are not included in any insurance; nor are paintings, medals, jewels, gems, antique curiosities, or mirrors exceeding the value of twenty-five dollars each, to be considered as insured unless particularly mentioned and by special agreement.
7th. No insurance will be made for a shorter term than one year, nor for a longer term than seven years. Persons choosing to insure for seven years shall be allowed one year's premium by way of discount. One third of a year's premium shall be abated in like manner on an insurance for three years.
8th. Losses sustained by fire on property insured, shall be paid in thirty days after due proof and liquidation thereof, without deduction.
A description of the property to be insured will be expected with each application, to be made by a master carpenter and signed by him, as well as by the owner of the building or applicant for insurance, and attested before a Notary or principal Magistrate, who will certify his knowledge of the parties and their creditability.
With respect to Houses and other Buildings.
1st. The site and position; describing the street or road on or near which the building stands; its contiguity to water, and other circumstances relative to the extinguishment of fire in case of accident; and particularly whether any and what fire companies are established, and engines provided, in the place or neighbourhood.
2d. The materials of which it is built, whether of brick, stone or wood, and what part of each, as well as to the outside walls as inside or partition walls, and their respective height and thickness; the style of the roof and of what materials; how secured by battlements or party walls; what kind of access to the top of the house and to the chimneys; whether any and what electric rods; the number and kind of fire places; and the kind of deposit for ashes.
3d. The dimensions of the building and how divided, and the style in which it is finished so as to enable indifferent persons to judge in what manner it is to be repaired or rebuilt in case of injury; the age and condition of the building, and how occupied, whether merely as a dwelling house, or for any other, and for what purpose; also an estimate of the value of the house or building independent of the ground.
4th. The situation with respect to other buildings or back buildings, whether adjoining or not, comprehending at least one hundred feet each way: what kind of buildings are within that distance, how built, of what materials, and how occupied or improved, whether as dwellings for private families or otherwise: whether any and what trade or manufacture is carried on, and particularly whether there be any extra-hazardous articles used, or usually deposited in the house, or within the distance aforesaid, and of what kind.
Respecting Goods in Houses, Warehouses, &c. 1. A general description of the building in which they are kept will be expected, similar in all respects, as to the danger from fire, with that required for Insurance on the buildings themselves.
2. A description of the kinds and nature of the goods, whether in casks or other packages, or opened; and whether displayed in whole pieces or in the usual form for retailing. And
if the goods vary materially in kind, a general estimate of the value of each kind proposed to be insured; but in the last particular minuteness of description is not expected.
3. Articles of the following kinds are deemed extra-hazardous, though in various degrees, in whatever building they may be placed, viz. pitch, tar, turpentine, rosin, wax, tallow, oil, inflammable spirits, sulphur, hemp, flax, cotton, dry goods of an inflammable kind, opened. Glass, china ware or porcelain, especially unpacked; looking glasses, jewelry; and all other articles more than commonly inflammable, or more than commonly liable to injury by sudden removal or by moisture, or particularly obnoxious to theft on an alarm of fire.
Letters post paid, directed to the Secretary of the Board of Directors, will be duly attended to. An order for Insurance accompanied by the means of paying the premium, will be immediately executed on the premium being paid. If the application contain an enquiry only, it will be answered.
By order of the Board, Ebenezer Hazard, sec'y. Office of the Insurance Company of North America; Philad. Feb. 1, 1798.
PROPOSALS, FOR CARRYING Mails of the United States, On the following roads, will be received at the General Post-Office, until the 13th day of February next, inclusive.
1st. FROM Philadelphia by Bristol, Trenton, Princeton, New-Brunswick, Woodbridge, Raraway, Elizabethtown and Newark to New-York six times a week.
From May 1 to November 1. Leave Philadelphia every day (Sunday excepted) at 1 P. M. and arrive at New-York in nineteen hours, the next day (Sunday excepted) by 8 o'clock, A. M. Returning; leave New-York every day (Sunday excepted) at 1 P. M. and arrive at Philadelphia in eighteen hours the next day (Sunday excepted) by 7 A. M.
From November 1 to May 1. The mail is to be taken from Philadelphia at the same hour and delivered at New-York by 9 A. M. in 20 hours; and is to be taken from New-York at 1 P. M. and delivered at Philadelphia at 8 A. M. in nineteen hours.
2d. From Philadelphia by Chester, Wilmington, Newport, Christiana, Elkton, Charlton, Havre-de-Grace and Hartford to Baltimore, six times a week. Leave Philadelphia every day (Sunday excepted) at 9 A. M. and arrive at Baltimore in 27 hours, the next day (Sunday excepted) at noon. Returning; leave Baltimore every day (Sunday excepted) at 4 A. M. and arrive at Philadelphia the next day by 9 A. M. in 27 hours.
3d. From Baltimore by Blade-furgh, Washington and Georgetown, to Alexandria six times a week.
From April 1 to November 1. Leave Baltimore every day (Sunday excepted) at 4 A. M. and arrive at Alexandria the same day by 6 P. M. Returning; leave Alexandria every day (Sunday excepted) at 4 A. M. and arrive at Baltimore the same day by 4 o'clock P. M.
From November 1 to April 1. Leave Baltimore every day (Sunday excepted) at 4 A. M. and arrive at Alexandria the next day (Sunday excepted) at 8 A. M. Returning; leave Alexandria every day (Sunday excepted) at 4 P. M. and arrive at Baltimore the next day (Sunday excepted) at 4 1/2 P. M.
4th. From Philadelphia by Downingtown, Lancaster, Columbia, York, Carlisle, Shippensburg, Strasburg, Bedford, Somerset and Greenough to Pittsburgh once a week. Leave Philadelphia every Saturday at 4 A. M. arrive at Lancaster in the evening, arrive at York on Sunday noon, at Shippensburg on Monday, at 6 P. M. Leave Shippensburg on Tuesday at 4 A. M. and arrive at Pittsburgh the next Friday at 10 A. M. Returning; leave Pittsburgh every Friday at 3 P. M. and arrive at Shippensburg the next Monday by 6 P. M. Leave Shippensburg on Tuesday at 4 A. M. and arrive at Philadelphia the next Thursday by 8 P. M.
Note 1. The contracts for the above routes are to be in operation on the first day of April next. The contracts for the routes No. 1, 2, 3, are to continue in operation until the first day of October in the year 1800; and the contract for the route No. 4 is to continue until the first day of October in the year 1801.
Note 2. Fifteen minutes shall be allowed for opening and closing the mail at all offices on the routes where no particular time is specified.
Note 3. For every fifteen minutes delay (the impassability of rivers excepted) in arriving after the times prescribed, in any contract, the contractor shall forfeit one dollar; and if the delay continue till the departure of any depending mail, whereby the mails destined for such depending mail lose a trip, an additional forfeiture of five dollars shall be incurred.
Note 4. If any persons making proposals desires an alteration of the times specified he must state in his proposals the alteration desired and the difference it will make in the terms of his contract.
Note 5. The usual penalties for misconduct in the carriers will be stipulated in the contract.
Note 6. The mail on the route No. 1, shall be carried in a Sulkey during three months of the winter season, having a box or chest to secure the mail from rain. The mails on that route during the rest of the year and the routes No. 2 and 3 shall be always carried in a light box sufficient to defend it from the rain, or a box within the body of the stage.
JOS. HABERSHAM, P. M. General. General Post-Office, } Philad. Jan. 1, 1799. } en6w
DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA, TO WIT BE IT REMEMBERED,
THAT on the tenth day of December, in the twenty third year of the Independence of the United States of America, JOHN LAMBERT of the said District, hath deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author in the words following, to wit:
"A Short and practical Essay on Farming; being the experience of a farmer of about sixty years of age, near forty years of which were spent in England, Essex county, on land where farming is done in the greatest perfection, and near seven years on three hundred and twenty acres of worn-out land in Potomac and Alloway creek, in Salem county, West-Jersey. Shewing the means whereby these worn-out lands may be improved, and that the means are in the power of almost every farmer."
In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, 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 terms therein mentioned."
D. CALDWELL. Clerk of the District of Pennsylvania. dec. 13. 224w
A Farm for Sale. WILL be sold, in pursuance of an order of Orphans Court of Delaware county, on Monday the 23th February next, at the house of W. Anderson, in the Borough of Chester, at one o'clock, P. M.
THE PLANTATION, Late the property of Raper Hoskins, deceased, situate in the said Borough, containing about 220 acres, of which between 43 and 50 acres are excellent upland and marsh meadow; about 40 acres of woodland; the remainder is arable land, of a good quality. The whole has been used for many years as a grazing farm and is under an almost new cedar fence; there are on the farm a good two story stone dwelling house and kitchen in good repair; the dwelling house has four rooms on a floor, with a convenient entry; there is a good kitchen garden, two good apple orchards, one containing about six acres young and healthy; a good tenant's house, barn, stables and chair house. The banks are in good repair, and walled in front with stone.
Also at the same time and place will be sold 15 acres of marsh meadow, in the neighbourhood of the farm, under good bank, and in high cultivation. Any person desirous of viewing the premises, will be shown them by applying in Chester to
ELEANOR HOSKINS, Admin'm. January 18, 1799. Who desires all those indebted to the late R. Hoskins, to make immediate payment, and those who have demands against his estate, to present them to her for settlement. b3awtdf
PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS the honorable JOHN D. COXE, esq., President of the Court of Common Pleas, and of the Courts of Oyer and Terminer and General Goal Delivery, in the first Circuit, consisting of the city and county of Philadelphia, and the counties of Bucks, Montgomery and Delaware, Wm. Robinson, the younger, Jonathan Bayard Smith, and Reynold Keen, esquires, Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, and Justices of the Courts of Oyer and Terminer and General Goal Delivery, in the said county of Philadelphia, have issued their Precept bearing date the 18th day of January, 1799, and to me directed, for holding a Court of Oyer and Terminer and General Goal Delivery, at the State-house in the said City of Philadelphia, on the 18th day of February next.
Notice is hereby given to the Mayor, Recorder and Aldermen of the City of Philadelphia, and to all the Justices of the Peace, the Coroners, and Constables within the same City and Counties of Philadelphia, that they be then and there, in their own proper persons, with their Rolls, Records, Inquisitions, Examinations and other Remembrances, to do those things which to their offices in that behalf appertain to be done. And also all those who will prosecute against the Prisoners that are or shall be in the Goal of the City and County of Philadelphia, are to be then and there to prosecute against them as shall be just.
JONATHAN PENROSE, Sheriff. God save the Common-Wealth. jan. 24. 22w
DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA, TO WIT: BE IT REMEMBERED,
THAT on the twelfth day of August, in the twenty third year of the Independence of the United States of America, Benjamin Smith Barton, of the said District, hath deposited in this office the title of a book the right whereof he claims as author in the words following to wit:
"New Views of the Origin of the Tribes and Nations of America—By Benjamin Smith Barton, M.D. Correspondent Member of the Society of the Antiquaries of Scotland, Member of the American Philosophical Society, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences of Boston, Corresponding Member of the Massachusetts Historical Society, and Professor of Materia Medica, Natural History and Botany in the University of Pennsylvania."
In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, 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, Dist. of Penn. November 2, 1798.
AN ACT,
Limiting the time within which claims against the United States, for credits on the books of the Treasury, may be presented for allowance BE IT enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That all credits on the books of the Treasury of the United States, for transactions during the late war, which, according to the course of the Treasury have hitherto been discharged by issuing certificates of registered debt, shall be forever barred and precluded from settlement or allowance, unless claimed by the proper creditors, or their legal representatives, on or before the first day of March, in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine. And the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby required to cause this Act to be published in one or more of the public papers of each state.
(Signed) JONATHAN DAYTON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THEODORE SEDGWICK, President of the Senate. Pro Tem. Approved July 9, 1798.
JOHN ADAMS, President of the United States. December 13. w 11t M2r.
January 23d, 1799. IN pursuance of a resolve of the President and Managers of the Delaware and Schuylkill Canal Company,
The Stockholders are hereby notified and required to pay ten dollars on each of their respective shares of stock, on or before the first day of March next, to the Treasurer of the Company at their office near the Bank of Pennsylvania.
Extract from the minutes, GEORGE WORRELL, Sec'y. WILLIAM GOVETT, Treasurer. jan. 25. frfa4w.
Country Seats for Sale.
TWO Seats at convenient distances from Philadelphia, each comprising perfect accommodation and conveniences of every kind for a genteel family—For particulars enquire of EDWARD BONSALL & Co. No. 64, Dock-street. 1st mo. 31. q 2246w
This day Published,
AND FOR SALE AT THIS OFFICE, The Essays under the Signature of VIRGINIENSIS,
ON THE ALIEN AND SEDITION LAWS. (Price 25 cents, 18mo.)
IT is perhaps futile to expect to work conviction in the minds of so inveterate and vicious a class of men, as the Democrats of America, by any arguments however forcible, or any display of truth, however irresistible. These writings are, however, calculated to produce a more important and useful effect, by placing the subject in its true light before honest men, who are uninformed, or have been misinformed as to the nature and objects of those bills.
jan. 15. 6t
AN ELEGANT ASSORTMENT OF
Madras Handkerchiefs,
FOR SALE BY
Mercadee Lewis. jan. 26. d2w
40 Boxes of Fresh Citron
Just arrived via New-York, and for Sale by
JOHN CRAIG,
Who has also for Sale,
Old Madeira Wine
of the first quality,
India Mullins,
coarse and fine, &c.
A quantity of the best English large leaf
Clover Seed. jan. 21. d7w
TO BE SOLD,
A two story Stone House,
LATELY built, with two acres of land, on
the Bristol road, about a mile above Frank-
fort. The situation is high and healthy, and
the water excellent.—For terms apply to Mr.
John McClelland, or Mr. Richard Whitehead,
No. 62, Vine-street. Jan. 21. 2w
PUBLIC NOTICE
IS hereby given, that application will be
made to the Directors of the Bank of Penn-
sylvania for the renewal of a Certificate for a share
in the said Bank, No. 1282, dated July 24th
1797, funding in the name of JOSEPH REED,
the same having been accidentally lost or de-
stroyed. Philad. Jan. 23. d6w
FILTERING STONES.
Of an excellent quality for Snips or Families
FOR SALE BY
Thomas & Joshua Fisher,
No. 5, Dock-street. 1st mo. 25. d2w
ALL PERSONS
Indebted to the Estate of Mr. JOHN FENNO, late
of Philadelphia, deceased, are desired to make pay-
ment, and those having any demands, to present
them for settlement, to
SAMUEL BLODGET, Adm'r.
or
JOHN WARD FENNO, Agent
to the administration. nov. 30. 63m
JAMAICA RUM,
A Cargo now landing at South Street wharf,
FOR SALE BY
PETER BLIGHT,
Apply at Stores on the Wharf,
Who also offers for sale,
BRANDY, RUM and all proof
Madeira and Port WINES, &c. &c. Nov. 1. d6f
Five Dollars Reward.
STOLEN yesterday morning, between 10 and
12 o'clock, from No. 68, South Fourth Street,
A Single case Silver Watch,
the maker's name Marknoble—number not known.
The letters W. H. are scratched on the rim of the
case—a steel chain and key, gilt seal with a cypher
W. H. engraved on it. Whoever will give me
information so that the thief may be brought to
justice shall receive the above reward. W. HAYDON. jan. 21.
Stray Horse.
WAS taken up, rearing off the subscriber,
in the township of Pottstown, in the county
of Philadelphia, a grey Horse, about fourteen hands
high, thirteen or fourteen years old, blind of his
right eye, and shod before. Whoever has lost
him, by proving property and paying charges, may
him again on applying to the subscriber. JOHN SINK, On the Banks of Schuylkill. jan. 19. 1
WHEREAS
ISAAC PAINTER having made an assignment
of all his property to me the subscriber for the
benefit of his creditors, this is to request all per-
sons indebted to the said Isaac Painter, to prevent
further trouble, to make immediate payment to
me the subscriber; and all those having any de-
mands against him to render in their accounts to JACOB CLARK, Assignee. jan. 26. d6f
NOTICE,
PURSUANT to a Resolve of the Board of
Trustees of Washington Academy, in Somer-
set county, Maryland, authorising WILLIAM
POLK, esq. majors SAMUEL WILSON, and
WILLIAM JONES, Members of said Board, to
procure a principal teacher for said Academy—
NOTICE is hereby given, that a gentleman qual-
ified to teach the Greek and Latin Languages, Ge-
ography and the Mathematics, and such other
branches of Literature as it is customary to teach