Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser. (Philadelphia [Pa.]), 1798-08-29 00:00:00

Gazette of the United States, AND Philadelphia Daily Advertiser.
By JOHN FENNO, N o 119 Chestnut Street.
NUMBER 1861.]
PHILADELPHIA: WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 29, 1798.
[VOLUME XIV.]
** The price of this Gazette is eight Dollars a year.—Subscribers who reside at a distance from the place of publication, and whose papers are sent per post, pay six months' subscription in advance, and one dollar annually for enclosing and directing their papers. The payments to be always six months in advance.
For Sale.
THE SUBSCRIBER, intending to decline the DRUG BUSINESS, offers For Sale, the whole Stock of Drugs and Medicines, Instruments, &c. The Shop is elegant, commodious, and sufficiently stocked for the extensive business... Terms may be known, by applying to JAMES MOORE, JUN.
Who has For Sale, TWO Sloops, Well calculated for the river trade.
The PEGGY, about 30 tons burthen, Mulberry and Red Cedar frame, and remarkably light, of an easy draught of water, rigging in good order.
The SALLY, about 30 tons, fails well, and in complete order for the lumber business. All persons inclined to the late firm of Colbourn & Baldwin, W. D. Goldsmith, Colbourn & Co. or the subscribers, are earnestly requested to make speedy payment to JAMES MOORE, JUN.
Ship & Insurance Broker, THE Subscriber, encouraged by the advice of his friends, offers his service to the public as a Ship and Insurance Broker. He proposes to buy and sell vessels and everything relating thereto—assist masters of vessels and others in entering and clearing at the Custom House, procuring and shipping freight, settling Insurance and all other mercantile accounts, and have on hand the necessary Blanks and Stamps. Papers in foreign languages translated, and information given in general mercantile matters. From a knowledge gained by long experience of every branch of business he hopes to be useful to those who please to favor him with their commands. PHILADELPHIA, AUGUST 24TH, 1798. SAMUEL EMERY.
FOR SALE, At the Stores of the Subscribers, on Walnut Street Wharf, 195 cases of nails assorted 20 bales of sail canvas, from No. 1 to 8 53 casks yellow ochre 15 tierces bottled porter, 6 to 14 doz. each London particular Madeira Wines India market Teneriffe do. in hogsheads and pip Old Port do. in bhs. Empty Claret bottles 6 cases of Ginghams, Dimities, Muslins &c. assorted for the West India market 4, 10, and 12 inch cables and 10 coils of cordage Writing dates, ink bands and presses 20 purchases Jamaica rum 1 bale seaming twine 160 bundles floating paper Nicklin & Griffith.
STAMPS. W. GRIFFITHS, BOOKSELLER & STATIONER, BEGS leave to inform such persons in the southern part of the city (who may find it inconvenient to go farther up for their stamps) that at his Store, No. 177, South Second, near Spruce Street, he has a generally supply for distribution. He has just received from London, by the way of New York, an elegant assortment of Morocco Articles, viz. travelling dressings, writing and dressing Cases, with Instruments very complete; Pocket Books; Envelopes; Thread Cases, Purse, &c. in the greatest variety and best manufacture. Likewise on hand—Charts of every part of the American Coast, Prints framed and glazed, Drawing Books and Portable Desks, which, with his usual stock, W. G. hopes will not be unworthy the attention of ladies or gentlemen who make use of such goods. A number of small Dutch RIFLES, cheap July 30.
Madeira Wine. A few pipes of prime quality fine MADEIRA WINE fit for immediate use, and at a reduced price—For sale by JAMES MOORE, JUN.
Should a gentleman, a native of Teneriffe, who has been known in America by the name of Lewis Martin Ceval at one time, and at another by that of Lewis Ceval Pelletier, be alive, and will apply to James Barry, of Baltimore, he will hear of something big by to his interest. Or should he be deceased, any person who will address a certificate of his death, properly authenticated, will be rewarded with twenty dollars, by applying as above. Mr. Pelletier is supposed to be some where in the State of Massachusetts. August 1.
Balkencridge—for sale IT consists of 920 acres, almost all of which is a fine rich Meadow, (the residence of the late Earl of Sterling). It may be conveniently divided into five farms, four of which are bounded on the East by the river Potomac. There are on its number of buildings, forming a farm of nearly three acres. The dwelling house is a very convenient one and a small expense would put it in complete repair. The orchard consists of 2500 fine-bearing engrafted Apple Trees—and there is on other parts of said tract near 300 other Apple Trees—as also a great variety of other fruits, particularly Cherries of the best and most delicious kinds. Also, a great number of beautiful Exotics and Forest Trees, that add to the beauty and convenience of the place. Its situation is about 13 miles from the towns of Newark and Elizabeth: 10 do. from Morris-Town, and 12 from Springfield—It is wooded and watered. To save trouble, the price is five hundred per acre in cash, on delivery of the deed. Please to enquire of J. MCLENN & Co. No. 78, Chestnut Street. January 2.
FOREIGNERS MAY, by virtue of an act passed at November session 1798, hold by deed, or by will, lands in that part of Maryland called the district of Columbia; and the same may be transmitted to, and inherited by their heirs, &c. as if they were citizens. Within the district of Columbia, upon the eastern branch of Potomac: are squares No. 1124, and 1131 in the city Washington, are 360 acres of reserved wood land For Sale. Its advantages are numerous, possessing three or four elegant heights, many fine springs, and an abundance of timber, principally white oak. For a dock or ship yard, no position can boast of equal benefits, having two coves, with narrow entrances, from which at an easy expence, tide water might be excluded, and docks sunk, large enough to receive vessels of any size. Wishing to retain an interest in the property, I would prefer selling an undivided half or three eighths. For terms apply to Mr. Charles Minifie, Union Street, Philadelphia, or Mr. Robert Walsh, Baltimore. July 23.
To be Let, An airy three Story Brick House, ON the south side of Elbert Street, between Eighth and Ninth street, formerly occupied as the Surveyor General's Office—Enquire at No. 111, Chestnut Street. August 10.
Boston Glafs, THE Company now engaged in carrying on the Glafs Manufactory, with pleasure announce to the public, they have at length brought the business into a situation that will allow them to promise a rigid punctuality in the execution of all orders, and a superiority in the glafs they manufacture to any imported. Their Agents, Messrs. JOSEPH ASH and Co. of Philadelphia, will receive and transmit to the Company, orders from any part of the Southern States, and will contract for the delivery of the Glafs, on terms as reasonable as could be procured from the Company themselves. Letters and orders directed to Charles F. Kipfer, at the works in Boston, shall meet the strictest attention. N. B. They cut of any size from 6 by 8 to 18 by 24 inches. July 27.
NOTICE. WHEREAS it is enacted by the 7th section of an act to augment the army of the United States and for other purposes, passed the 16th of July, 1798. That the President of the United States be, and he hereby is authorised to appoint a number not exceeding four, teachers of the arts and sciences necessary for the instruction of the artillerymen and engineers, who shall be entitled to the monthly pay of fifty dollars, and two rations per day. NOTICE IS THEREFORE GIVEN to those gentlemen who are qualified and desirous to engage as teachers upon the terms expressed in the said act of the sciences necessary to the artillerymen and engineers, to forward their applications and recommendations to the Secretary for the department of war. The sciences most necessary to the artillerymen and engineers, are the several branches of the mathematics, particularly gunnery, fortification, hydraulics, hydrostatics, and the calculations of masonry, timber, &c. also mineralogy, military architecture and designing. JAMES M'HENRY, Secretary of War. July 31.
TO BE LET, And immediate possession given; A Large convenient, well finished house, No 245 High-street, lately occupied by Doctor Willar, with Coach house and Stables—Enquire of WILLIAM SLEAFF, No 168, High-street. July 31.
FOR SALE, BY JOHN MILLER, JUN. NO. 8, CHESTNUT STREET, 100 hogsheads RUM, Of high proof and fine flavour July 19.
MADRAS and VENTAPALEM HANDKERCHIEFS, Searlaukers and Carradarries, of the newest and most approved patterns, entitled to the drawback, just received, AND FOR SALE BY Alex. F. MILLER & Co. No. 64, South Front Street. May 18.
OX BEEF. 100 Barrels } of Beef of best quality, put 50 half Barrels } up with care for long voyages. 100 Barrels of Connecticut Pork. 50 Barrels of Connecticut Tongues. W I N E S. 35 Pipes of Madeira Wine 30 Pipes of Port 30 half casks of Sherry 30 Casks of Lisbon 300 Casks of French Claret, of excellent quality. 800 Barrels of Scraped FLOUR, 100 Barrels of Condemned, and 20 Boxes of best Durham Mustard. For Sale by John Skyrin, Londonberget's Wharf. May 4.
FOR SALE, Just Received and for sale by WILLIAM TOUNG, Corner of Second and Chestnut Street—and at the Office of the Ed. for price 3 rthrs. of a dollar, AN ORATION, Spoken at Hartford, on the Anniversary of Independence, July 8, 1798. BY THEODORE DWIGHT. FOR SALE, Two three story Brick Houses With convenient stores, wharfs, &c. Situate on Water street, between Mulberry and Sassafras Street, containing in front on Water street fifty-four feet, and containing that breadth eastward ninety-five feet, then widening to the south thirteen feet six inches. These houses have the convenience of a public alley adjoining on the north side, and area very desirable situation for a merchant, flour factor, or other who may have occasion for storage of goods. This property will be sold on very reasonable terms for cash. For further information apply printer. April 5.
West-Indian from Madeira. THOSE Gentlemen who have Wines on board the West-Indian are informed she is now discharging at South-Green Wharf, are solicited to hasten down their permits, the Vessel being immediately wanted. Peter Blight. Who wants to Purchase, 100 Barrels of good Prime or Mels Beef 100 ditto Pork 7 or 800 ditto fine Flour 4 or 5000 buthels Indian Corn. LANDING From the West Indian, A choice parcel of Pheasant's oil particular Wine in Pipes fit for immediate use. August 11.
CAUTION. WHEREAS a certain person swindled from me on the first inst. by giving me indited thereof a forged check on the Bank of North America, a note of that date, drawn in my favour by Mr. John Travis, and payable in six months, for three thousand four hundred and fifty seven dollars and forty-six cents. ALL persons are desired not to receive any transfer of it, as it will not be paid by either the drawer or endorser unless recovered by law. WILLIAM NICHOLS, Race Street. August 6.
The Public are hereby informed, THAT I did not mean to authorise Col. William Nichols to declare, that I would not pay, unless recovered by law, my note alluded to in my caution of the 6th of August, published in the Gazette of the United States of last evening. I sincerely lament his loss, and told him I would do all I could do consistently with my credit to serve him, but went no further. *JOHN TRAVIS. August 7.
INSURANCE OFFICE OF THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA, August 11, 1798. THE Directors have this day declared a dividend of fifty-five dollars on each share of the Stock of this Company, for the last half year, which will be paid to the Stockholders, or their legal representatives after the 10th instant. James S. Cox, President. August 2.
TO BE SOLD, THE time of an indentured Dutch Servant BOY, who has ten years to serve. He has had the small pox and measles, is active, heavy and strong, and fit for house work in town or country. For further information, enquire of the printer. August 4.
FOR SALE, The Cargo of the Schr. Sincerity Benjamin Monteuil Master, from Laguira, consisting of 945 Hogsheads of Cocoa 4000 lb. of Flora Indigo 210 Bales of Cotton 4 Packages of Goat Skins By Willings & Francis, No. 11, Eleventh Street. July 2.
To be Sold, An elegant and convenient House, In Chestnut Street, next door to the Bank of North America. THE Lot is thirty by one hundred and seventy eight. The House has been thoroughly repaired within a few months.—Apply to the Printer. August 8.
Public Notice is hereby given, That proposals will be received at the office of the Secretary of the Treasury for supplying the United States with a number not exceeding Forty thousand stands of arms, on the following conditions. 1st. The arms shall be manufactured in the United States, conformable to the Charleville pattern; the barrels shall be proved, and the muskets inspected agreeable to the rules now practiced and required by the United States:—the Locks shall be duly hardened; the Ramrods and Bayonets shall be bempered, and the mounting, stocks, and every other particular shall be finished in a workman-like manner. 2d. The proposals must specify the number which the party is willing to furnish and the time or times of delivery:—One fourth of the proposed number must be delivered in six months, one fourth in twelve months, and the remainder in eighteen months from the time of signing the contract; the public will not be considered as bound to receive any arms, which are not ready for delivery within the times proposed. 3d. For every stand of arms, with Bayonet and Ramrod complete as aforesaid, the United States will allow thirteen dollars and forty cents. 4th. When practicable and consistent with existing arrangements, seasoned stock will be delivered from the public stores in Philadelphia to contractors, at the rate of twenty-five cents each. 5th. The arms will be received in the respective States at places to be hereafter designated—The United States shall not be bound to prove less than five hundred barrels at one time, unless the barrels are transported to some public factory or deposit of arms, in which case any number not less than one hundred will be proved. 6th. The parties contracting will be required to give bonds with sureties for fulfilling their engagements; No money will be advanced unless indispensible testimonials of skill and ability to execute the proposed contracts are produced nor in cases where proposals are made for a less number than one thousand stands of arms; the right of judging of the expediency of making advances of money is absolutely reserved. 7th. Unit contracts are made for supplying forty thousand stands of arms, the sum of thirteen dollars and forty cents will be paid at the Treasury for every complete stand of arms manufactured in the United States and which may be delivered in parcels of not less than twenty into the public arsenals, already or hereafter to be established. Those who propose to deliver arms must however indicate their intentions seasonably to the office of the Secretary of the Treasury. For the Secretary of the Treasury, John Steele, comptroller. Treasury Department June 22d, 1798.
FOR SALE, A FARM on the road leading to State Island, within four and an half miles of Philadelphia, containing 45 acres in the highest state of cultivation—55 acres of which is meadow, the remainder upland. There are on the premises, a new frame House and Barn, with an excellent kitchen garden, containing a great number of fruit Trees.—Immediate possession will be given. For terms apply to Thomas W. Francis, No. 98 South Third Street. July 18.
John Haines & Wm. Jones, BEG leave to inform their friends and the public, that they have commenced a Co-partnership in the SADDLING BUSINESS, which will in future be carried on under the firm of HAINES & JONES, in Market Street, No. 132, one door above the corner of Fourth, where they presume (all but to hope) that their attention to, and knowledge in business, their determination to serve on the best terms, and their known attachment as Native Americans to the Government and Constitution of their Country, will entitle them to the encouragement of a generous public. Although they cannot boast of having acquired their experience in any part of Europe, yet they take the liberty of pledging themselves, that their manufacture shall be inferior to none in this city. JOHN WARDER. Philadelphia, 5 mo. 26, 1798. 22w3m
FOR SALE, A FARM on the road leading to State Island, within four and an half miles of Philadelphia, containing 45 acres in the highest state of cultivation—55 acres of which is meadow, the remainder upland. There are on the premises, a new frame House and Barn, with an excellent kitchen garden, containing a great number of fruit Trees.—Immediate possession will be given. For terms apply to Thomas W. Francis, No. 98 South Third Street. July 18.
To be Sold, at private Sale, A Plantation and Tract of Land CONTAINING 145 acres, situate in White-marsh township, in the county of Montgomery, about 15 miles from Philadelphia, and on the public road leading from Plymouth by the Broad-Ax tavern toward Horsham, and about one quarter of a mile from said tavern, also about the same distance from the Skippack road and about the same distance from the late residence of James Morris esq. deceased. It is bounded by lands of Anthony Morris esq. Jacob Reiff and Detweiler. About ten acres are good watered meadow, about 15 or 20 are under water, and about 35 acres are well timbered. The buildings on the above farm consist of a two-story stone dwelling-house, a large stone barn and stone spring-house. There is also on the premises a young orchard of about 150 apple-trees. This farm has great advantages of water, as there is an excellent never-failing stream passing by the house and barn, in such a manner as to supply the same as well as every field with a sufficient quantity. The situation of this place is healthy and in a good neighborhood, and is near to several different places of worship, and within the distance of half a mile from two gull and fam-mills, also near lime-kilns. This farm will be sold together or divided into two parts, as may suit the purchasers. Also a two-story house with a barn and carriage house and lot of land situate on Chestnut Hill. It is a very high and healthy situation, and commands a very extensive and beautiful prospect—Possession of part of the house may be had immediately. For further particulars apply to Henry Pratt, No 94 North Water Street Philadelphia, or to CHRISTOPHER HEYDRICK, on Chestnut Hill. Chestnut Hill, August 14th, 1798. 22w1f
Epidemic and Pestilential Diseases. A DISERTATION ON THE SOURCES THEREOF, IN which it is attempted to prove from a numerous induction of facts, that they never arise from contagion, but are always produced by certain stated and vicissitudes of the atmosphere. By CHARLES M'LEAN, Calcutta. This valuable work, together with a view of the Science of Life, and a Treatise on the action of Mercury upon living bodies, and its application for the cure of diseases of indirect debility—Neatly printed on fine wove paper, and bound in boards, are now to be had at W. YOUNG'S Book Store, The corner of Second and Chestnut Streets, (Price One Dollar.) August 14.
Bengal Goods, CONSISTING OF BANDANKERCHIEFS, Chintz Coffas, Chintz Quinzinas, Elizabad Batias, Long Drawers Coarse Sugars in bags, fit for the European markets Also, Carolina Indigo Coffee in hogsheads A few pipes of very old and very choice Madeira WINE. For Sale, on reasonable terms, by John Craig, No. 22, Dock-Street. July 14.
Mails for South-Carolina & Georgia, PACKETS are now provided for carrying the Public mails by water between Philadelphia and Charleston. They will leave Philadelphia on Fridays. The mail by land will be continued twice a week until an experiment is made in regard to the expedition and regularity of the packets. If any person chuses to have their letters sent by land only, they will please to write the word Land upon the letters: otherwise they will be sent by that conveyance which will first start after the letters are left in the post-office. Joseph Habersham, Post-Master General. Philadelphia, August 13, 1798. 5ct
The following Certificates OF Funded Debt are Bank of United States Stock, were forwarded from England per the Countess of Leicester's Packet, in the 11th month, 1797, which vessel has been captured, and the Certificates supposed to be lost. 4000 dollars 4 3/4 per cent. Stock, standing on the books of the Treasury, in the name of Bird Savage and Bird Certificate no 189, dated July 19th, '96. Ten Shares Stock of the Bank of United States in the name of Miller, Hart & Co. of London, in one Certificate, No. 26067, dated the 11th day of January, 1797. For the renewal of which certificates, application is intended to be made at the Office of the Treasury of the United States, and at the Bank of United States; of which all persons interested therein, are desired to take notice. JOHN WARDER. Philadelphia, 5 mo. 26, 1798. 22w3m
John Haines & Wm. Jones, BEG leave to inform their friends and the public, that they have commenced a Co-partnership in the SADDLING BUSINESS, which will in future be carried on under the firm of HAINES & JONES, in Market Street, No. 132, one door above the corner of Fourth, where they presume (all but to hope) that their attention to, and knowledge in business, their determination to serve on the best terms, and their known attachment as Native Americans to the Government and Constitution of their Country, will entitle them to the encouragement of a generous public. Although they cannot boast of having acquired their experience in any part of Europe, yet they take the liberty of pledging themselves, that their manufacture shall be inferior to none in this city. JOHN WARDER. Philadelphia, 5 mo. 26, 1798. 22w3m
FOR SALE, A FARM on the road leading to State Island, within four and an half miles of Philadelphia, containing 45 acres in the highest state of cultivation—55 acres of which is meadow, the remainder upland. There are on the premises, a new frame House and Barn, with an excellent kitchen garden, containing a great number of fruit Trees.—Immediate possession will be given. For terms apply to Thomas W. Francis, No. 98 South Third Street. July 18.
FOR SALE, A FARM on the road leading to State Island, within four and an half miles of Philadelphia, containing 45 acres in the highest state of cultivation—55 acres of which is meadow, the remainder upland. There are on the premises, a new frame House and Barn, with an excellent kitchen garden, containing a great number of fruit Trees.—Immediate possession will be given. For terms apply to Thomas W. Francis, No. 98 South Third Street. July 18.
Territory of the United States north-west of the River Ohio. Washington County, II. WHEREAS a Writ of Attachment hath issued out of the court of Common Pleas in said county, directed to the Sheriff of said county, returnable to June term 1797, at the suit of Giffen Greene, esq. against the Goods and Chattels, Lands, Tenements, Effects, Rights and Credits of Ala Barrett, for Seventy Dollars. And whereas, the said Sheriff hath by virtue of said Writ attached a Lot of Land lying in said county, containing one hundred acres, the property of the defendant. NOTICE is therefore given to the said Ala Barrett that unless he doth appear and give Special Bail to the Action, Judgment will be entered by Default, and the land above-mentioned will be sold as the law directs. Benjamin Lox Gilman, Prothonotary. Marietta, July 30th, 1798. 22w1w
ADVERTISEMENT. WHEREAS JAMES CUMMING & Co. late of the city of Philadelphia, merchants, have assigned over all their effects, real, personal and mixed, to the subscribers, for the benefit of all their creditors, who shall subscribe the said assignment within the time from the date hereof. 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 the Assignees, at their office, No. 62, Dock Street, in failure whereof actions will be instituted for the recovery of such debts as are no discharged accordingly. John Travis, John Waddington, James Taylor, Cornelius Coomsey. August 18. mwf1D
FOR SALE, BY THE SUBSCRIBER, NO. ELEVENTH-STREET, 18 Bags Fresh Cloves. Willings & Francis. June 29.
DUTY ON CARRIAGES. Notice is hereby given, That agreeably to an act of Congress of the United States of America, passed at Philadelphia the 28th day of May, 1796, laying duties on carriages for the conveyance of persons, and repealing the former acts for that purpose—That there shall be levied, collected and paid, upon all carriages for the conveyance of persons, which shall be kept by or for any person, for his or her own use, or to let out to hire, or for the conveying of passengers, the several duties and rates following, viz:    For and upon every coach dolls.   upon every chariot 15   upon every post chariot 12   upon every chaise 12   upon every phaeton, with or without top 9   upon every coach 9   upon other carriages, having pannels, work above, with blinds, glasses, or curtains 9   upon four-wheel carriages, having frame, poles and tops, with steel springs 6   upon four-wheel top carriages, with wooden or iron springs on jacks 3   upon carriages with tops 3   upon chairs with tops 3   upon sulky with tops 3   upon other two-wheel top carriages 3   upon two-wheel carriages with steel or iron springs 3   For and upon all other two-wheel carriages 2   upon every four wheeled carriage, having framed poles and tops, and relying upon wooden springs 2   The Collector of the revenue of the first division of the first survey of the district of Pennsylvania, will attend daily until the 30th day of September next, for the purpose of receiving the duties on carriages, at Germantown, on the Main Street, a little above the sign of the King of Prussia, of which all persons possessed of such carriages are desired to take notice.
Notice is also given, For all retail dealers in wines and foreign distilled spirituous liquors, that licenses will be granted to them; one license for carrying on the business of retailing of wine in a less quantity, or in less quantities, than 30 gallon—and one license for carrying on the business of retailing spirituous liquors in less quantities than twenty gallons, at the same time and at the same place, by JAMES ASH, Collector of the first division of the first survey of the district of Pennsylvania. Office of Inspection at Germantown, 22d August, 1798. 22w1w
Every denomination of Stamps to be had at said office. The Stamp Press is removed to the Office of Inspection at Germantown, on the Main Street, a little above the sign of the King of Prussia, where attendance will be given for the accommodation of those who with any instruments stamped, on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. August 22.
PETER BLIGHT HAS removed his Counting House to his House in the Northern Liberties near Nice Town, Germantown road. August 21.
Whereas Catharine, the Wife of the Subscriber, has left my bed and board without any just cause—The said Catharine having contracted several debts on my account this is therefore to forewarn all persons from trusting or honoring her on my account as I am determined not to answer any after the date of this advertisement. JOHN KUHN. Philadelphia, 22d August, 1798. 22w1w
MR. LENZ, Teacher of the Piano Forte, RESPECTFULLY offers his services to attend his scholars and others at Germantown—should as many as Twelve request his attendance he will wait on them immediately—Please to direct to the Printer of the Gazette of the United States. August 20.
Any person in the neighbourhood of Germantown desirous of effecting Insurance at the Office of the Insurance Company of the State of Pennsylvania, now opened at the North West Corner of Ninth and Market Streets, may leave the terms by leaving an enquiry at the house of Samuel W. Fisher, Esq. in Germantown. August 23.

The Gazette.
PHILADELPHIA,
WEDNESDAY EVENING, August 29.
For the Gazette of the United States.
MR. FENNO.
An Oration appeared in your paper a few weeks since on the subject of foreign immigration. The enclosed oration containing sentiments delivered on the same subject you are requested to publish.
AN ORATION.
On the following question: "Would it be consistent with policy and justice to prohibit the immigration of foreigners into the United States?" delivered in a literary society at Princeton.
MR. PRESIDENT.
THE people of the United States are thinly scattered over an immense territory, they have vast tracts of land covered with almost impenetrable forests, and even the country at present under cultivation, especially to the South, presents a gloomy and discouraging prospect. The arts and manufactures which are the nerves of government, and the chief sources of national independence have but just arisen, and their farther progress and improvement are impeded for want of capitals to establish and skill to practise them. America is in short in a state of infancy, a state the most dangerous in which a nation can exist, one most liable to sudden change and calculated to invite aggression from every power that residing in its own strength, is ready to prey upon the weakness of others. America should take warning from the horrors of a seven years war, from the late hostile aggressions of foreign powers, how the purports this state of debility. She should make every possible exertion to render herself independent in the political world, and to prepare for encountering upon equal terms, those nations who may hereafter be equal to her in riches. Every encouragement should therefore be given to the extraordinary means of population, to improvements in agriculture, in the arts and manufactures, and to the extension of commerce. Whether the migration of foreigners into America has any and what its effects upon this encouragement, are important political considerations in the discussion of the question before us. Would it be consistent with policy and justice to prohibit the immigration of foreigners into the United States of America? I apprehend that such a measure would be inconsistent with both found policy, and the immediate principles of justice and humanity.
It is readily allowed that the population of America will be more rapidly increased if the immigration of foreigners be permitted, than by the ordinary means alone; but, it is said, that without the aid of foreigners she will in less than a century attain a competent population. Admitting this calculation to be just, it is advisable to wait for so long a period? Is no danger to be apprehended in the mean time from the avarice and ambition of powerful nations? Happily for America, the first period of her infancy has been spent, while Europe convulsed with wars, and wasted by internal commotions, has been constrained to employ her fleets and armies within the sphere of her own politics.
Peace will, however, soon restore her wonted vigor, and restless ambition may transfer the field of war to the banks of our western waters. France has long lamented the dependency of her rich West India colonies upon the commerce of the United States. She has with an avaricious eye beheld us reaping the golden harvest reaped for herself, and anxious to wrest it from us, has repeatedly sought to procure from Spain a province on our Western boundary. Disappointed there, and emboldened by a confidence of success, she will cross the Mississippi, and attempt to effect by military prowess, what the vainly hoped to accomplish by intrigue. Let us, Mr President, anticipate an event which might meet us unprepared; and by an early settlement of this extensive country, endeavor to secure it from the predatory inuendos of a savage foe, or the more regular and alarming encroachments of a civilized enemy.
The Southern States are particularly interested in encouraging the immigration of foreigners. Not only in the extent of their territory wholly disproportionate to their narrow population, but unfortunately, a large part of that population consists of slaves. Warned of the impolicy of a general manumission, by the fatal experience of a neighboring country, they view with infinite concern the continual increase of an evil already grown to an alarming height; and they consider a rapid accession of white inhabitants by migrations from abroad, its only remedy. By augmenting the ratio of freemen to slaves, they can effectively preserve their internal tranquility. But the ordinary course of population, the negroes, whose condition has been within late years considerably ameliorated, multiply even more rapidly than the whites; and were the access of foreigners cut off, the people of the South might, at some future period, be compelled like the Lacedemonians, either to submit to be massacred themselves, or to murder in cold blood their miserable slaves.
Every wise state would direct its operations with a view to increase the number of its inhabitants. To effect this important object, agriculture is encouraged, the arts are promoted, and commerce is extended. In short, the multiplication of its members together with their perfection, is the sole object of civil society; and surely, so important a mean of attaining this end, one which has ever been, and still continues to be, so highly advantageous to the United States, should not be neglected.
It is not, however, in the effect of foreign immigration upon the population of the country, that I view its only benefit. The improvement it introduces in our agriculture, are of equal, if not greater, importance to the wealth and power of the United States. Our emigrants, Mr President, are from old countries. In every country which has been long settled, the population of which has become as extensive as its means of subsistence will permit, we find habits of industry and economy pervading the different classes of the community. The pain of want and the disgrace of poverty, here operate as powerful motives to exertion; and amidst the scantiness of subsistence, the disposition to parsimony is early formed. Inured to labor, the inhabitants of such a state possess the power of acquiring property; and having often felt the want of it, they can justly appreciate its value. When, impelled by a desire to improve their condition, or flying from famine or oppression, they leave their native country, they carry with them their habits and manners contracted in early life; but they often meet with men whose character is wholly different from their own. In new countries, such, particularly, as have been favored by nature in their climate and soil, men are accustomed to procure subsistence with but little exertion. The motives to industry are here too weak, and habits of idleness are quickly spread among the people. Having never endured the pain of want, and surrounded by
centy, they soon lose the manners of their ancestors who had delighted in activity. We need only turn to these countries to see the effect of their manners upon agriculture. In the one country we behold a garden. The hand of necessity here directs the genius of the farmer to numerous inventions calculated to improve or abridge the operations of labor. Every method of fertilizing the soil is discovered. The implements of husbandry are all made perfect. Numerous machines are contrived, to prepare the produce of the earth for market. Every unnecessary expenditure is cut off; every article that can be applied to an useful purpose is carefully preserved. Industry and economy continually augment the private capital of the farmer; his stock destined for the employment of productive labor; for improving the lands, and augmenting the revenue of the state.
In the other country, what a contrast is presented to our view! Agriculture seems here intended to desolate, not to improve or adorn the territory. The eye dwells with more pleasure on the forests, than on the fields. In the facility with which the ordinary wants of human nature can be supplied, the planter is negligent both in acquiring and accumulating wealth. The first leads him to idleness in cultivating the earth; the latter to prodigality. Possessed of large tracts of land, he falsely imagines that the greater the space over which he spreads a certain quantity of labour, the greater will be its product. In pursuance of this favourite idea, the forest is made every year to groan beneath the axe of the labourer. A ruinous cultivation soon impoverishes the cleared lands, and it will yield no more to the little labour bestowed upon it. More land is opened; this is as quickly deserted as the former. The planter now removes to another district; he traverses the desolate fields that surround him, and recommences his system of havoc. The whole country is at length depopulated; and compelled to emigrate to remote forests, he robs the savages of their right, and converts his hunting grounds into barren plains. Should the planter remain stationary after having exhausted his land, it is because, residing in the neighbourhood of some small village, he has involved himself in debt, and is too poor to remove. At his death, he leaves his offspring to share a patrimony, which, with its encumbrances, reduces them to begging.
In the interim, the industrious poor, who have emigrated from abroad, having amassed a small sum, the wages of a few years labour, purchase the worn out land. Educated under hardships and fatigue, they are not discouraged by the wretched prospect before them. They reduce to practice the system of agriculture to which they had been accustomed at home. They extend their labour over no more land, than their experience tells them they can thoroughly till, and preserve perpetually fertile. They acquire riches, and render them permanent by their application. Satisfied with a small but commodious dwelling, the greatest part of their annual income is employed in crediting shelters for their labouring cattle, and store houses for the preservation of their grain. They generate habits of industry in those around them, by teaching them a new and more profitable system of agriculture. Their example spreads; their implements of husbandry, their valuable machines are copied. The country assumes another aspect. It is clothed with constant verdure, and crowned with rich orchards bending to the earth. Its means of subsistence infinitely multiplied, extend its population augment its wealth and power.
These observations, applying more particularly to the southern part of the United States, are confirmed by appearances every where. Let me ask Mr. P. in what state does agriculture flourish more? in Pennsylvania? and yet, Pennsylvania is among the latest settled states. She, however, by a toleration of all religious tenets, and by other wise regulations, has encouraged the emigration of foreigners, and we have accordingly, seen her in little more than a single century, outstrip her sister states in population, in agriculture, and, in fine, in every art, that ministers to the wants, or furnishes the conveniences of life. And where do we find the best cultivated country in the southern states? Where do we find either foreigners or emigrants from the north who have been themselves taught by foreigners?
The immigration of foreigners into America has a no less beneficial influence over the arts in general. The importance of manufacturing arts to every state, whether separated from other states, or connected with them in a political society, cannot be questioned. In an agricultural country, without manufactures, the surplus produce of the soil, having no homedemand to supply, must be exported to a foreign market; and the people are dependent upon foreign nations for the ornaments and conveniences of life. Hence, in a time of war, unless the state be possessed of a navy adequate to the protection of its commerce, it will not only be destitute of the comforts of life, but it will be also unable to dispose of those commodities from which its revenue is derived. The more bulky articles are, besides, unfit for exportation during a state of war, and the demand for them both in peace and war, particularly for that part of them which consists of the necessaries of life, is uncertain, varying with the changes of the seasons, and the progress of devaluations in other countries. In the ordinary course of seasons, the produce of the earth in every country, if not destroyed by insects, is adequate to the support of its inhabitants. To procure the greatest certain revenue, a nation should, therefore, promote the progress of the arts. Its own artists will, then, afford a constant market to the farmer for his surplus produce; and add the value of that produce, and of their own labor to that of the raw materials manufactured for home or foreign consumption. But, although, it is admitted, that the arts are of the greatest importance to a country, I shall be told, that in America, the wages of labor are so high as to prevent their establishment. I would ask how is the price of labor to be lowered? or, supposing it to continue at its present rate, how is the evil complained of to be remedied? The value of labor cannot certainly be lowered by diminishing the quantity of it brought to market. Where the high price of a commodity is occasioned by the demand existing for it, the only way of reducing it, is to increase the quantity offered for sale; this method of lowering the price of any article, will always prove effectual. As far, therefore, as the emigration of foreigners into America augments the quantity of labor in the American market, so far does it promote the practice of the arts by reducing the wages of the laborers employed in them.
(To be Continued)
RICHMOND, August 21.
On Wednesday the 15th of August, '98, Capt. Roger Gregory, with his Subaltern officers, belonging to the Light Infantry company annexed to the first battalion of the 33d regiment of Virginia militia, waited on Gen. Marshall with the following address, signed by ninety of the said company.
To Gen. John Marshall.
SIR, AMIDST the general congratulations which have welcomed you to your native land, be pleased, Sir, to accept those of the Light Infantry company, belonging to the 1st battalion of the 33d regiment. Called into the service of your country, we behold your departure with mingled emotions of regret and exultation; whilst
we anticipated the temporary absence of a friend whose society we lived and admired, we were, proud of furnishing a citizen, capable by his distinguished talents and virtue of vindicating our violated rights, and maintaining the honour, dignity and independence of our government. We were not ignorant of the sacrifices you were about to make, by accepting an appointment which was to separate you from your family, your friends and professional pursuits; nor can we ever cease to feel the most grateful sense of the services which your patriotism and uninterested exertions have upon this occasion rendered to your country. In fulfilling the important duties of the mission to France we have had to admire the patience, the firmness and the talents so eminently displayed by our envoys. We have seen personal indignities offered to themselves, which could not provoke them to forget the language of peace and reconciliation; neither the artifices, nor the menace of the corrupt despots of France, could induce them to commit the safety, the honor and independence of America by purchasing for her a temporary and delusive peace. A peace which purchased by the abatement of our national character and live eighty, would only have served to expose the weakness of our government, and to invite a repetition of injuries. The refusal of our enemies to negotiate, may even to listen to our complaint, could not prevent our envoys from proclaiming at the feet of despotism itself, and in a file at once decent and manly, by arguments the most able and convincing to vindicate her cause, and to expose the injustice, the perfidy and the ambition of the French Republic.
You have been most unsuccessful, Sir, in the object of your mission, but you have obtained for your country a glorious triumph.
Our government, convinced that peace was unattainable but upon terms incompatible with its honor, safety and independence, had nothing to do but to prepare for war, and relying upon the united efforts of its citizens, to repel the unjust pretensions of a nation, regardless of every law which could set bounds to its rapacity and ambition. We behold those preparations with firmness, and confiding in the justice of our cause, feel no apprehensions as to the event. Accept, Sir, our best wishes for your personal happiness, and may the thanks of a grateful country reward you for the eminent services which you have rendered her.
To which General MARSHALL returned the following answer.
To the Light Infantry Company belonging to the First Battalion of the 33d Regiment.
Receive, Gentlemen, my unfeigned and grateful acknowledgments for the congratulations with which you have been pleased to welcome my return to my native land—congratulations which are the dearer to me because they proceed from you.
Your kind regards felt at my departure, your anticipations of the fidelity with which I should endeavor to discharge the duties assigned to me, your flattering approbation of the conduct of the late envoys from the United States to France, an approbation founded on a complete knowledge of that conduct—these 'sentiments' and the warm and cordial manner in which you express them, make on my mind an impression as deep as it will be lasting, and whenever I future my memory shall retrace the varied scenes of my life, the truly friendly reception given me by the Light Infantry Company belonging to the first battalion of the 33d Regiment, will be classed among the most pleasing of them.
While I rejoice gentlemen, that you approve both the firmness and the patience manifested by the envoys of the United States, while I declare that firmness to have been supported by a devotion to the independence of this country which no circumstances can ever shake, and that patience to have been maintained by a deep-rooted fortitude for peace, and a determination to effect all justifiable means for its attainment, I ought also to observe that the instructions of our government and its well known wishes as well as those of our fellow citizens at large, marked out and prescribed in plain and legible characters the line of conduct which has been pursued. The objects of the mission were to do justice, to obtain justice, and to preserve peace. The efforts to effect these objects were, however, the means were chosen with the best judgment the envoys possessed, that the means were unhappily unsuccessful is imputable to causes they were unable to control. I recognize with pride and with pleasure the spirit of my fellow citizens and of freemen in the sentiment that the safety, the honor and the independence of America would have been committed by the purchase of a temporary and delusive peace—a peace which purchased by the abatement of its national character and sovereignty, could only have served to expose the weakness of its government and to invite a repetition of injuries. Nation after nation has evinced the jalnness of this sentiment. Nation after nation has fallen the victim of its credulity and misplaced confidence in the efficacy of submission. Happy indeed will be the lot of America, if, taught by the experience of others, she opens her eyes on the approaching danger, uses all her means to repel it, and thus preserved that liberty which is banished from so great a portion of the earth. Since peace was unattainable, I think with you gentlemen, that wisdom and duty enjoin a preparation for that war which our government has fought in vain to avert by all those means which an independent nation can permit itself to use, and I rejoice to believe that my fellow citizens behold those preparations with firmness, and that confiding in the justness of their cause they feel no apprehension as to the event.
Accept, gentlemen, my warmest thanks for your wishes for my personal happiness, and credit the sincerity with which I reciprocate them. J. MARSHALL.
GEORGE-TOWN, August 24.
To the Voters of the City of Annapolis, of Anne Arundel and Prince George's Counties.
GENTLEMEN, I THINK it expedient thus publicly to declare my determination to serve you as the representative of this district in congress, if honored by an election to a seat in that important station.
It is not practicable or necessary at this time to give you a detail of the motives which have brought me forward on the present occasion—neither will I trespass on your patience by a lengthy avowal of my political sentiments.
I hope, however, that a majority of this district will be pleased to know, that I am and ever have been a decided friend to the government of the United States—that I am and ever have been a decided friend to the wise, firm and virtuous administration of that government—that I consider our independence as an invaluable blessing, and will ever exert myself to protect it against the aggressions of France or any power on earth.
The little malicious reports that are now in circulation to injure my character, I hope to have an opportunity of proving to be as false as the hearts of their fabricators.
I am, with every sentiment of respect, Your friend and servant, JOHN CHEW THOMAS. August 20.
For the CENTINEL.
Were any one to say our constitution was designed to destroy itself, the absurdity would be manifest, yet calling our sedition law unconstitutional, appears tantamount.
No inconvenience will result from that law, to prudent men who value national welfare; and it is no part of the constitution to accommodate its internal enemies; although it must protect them if their conduct be inoffensive.
True liberty, secured by government, consists in a total restraint from evil, and an entire freedom to do good.
The people of America agreed in what mode their sovereignty should be exercised, their will expressed and their force applied. Vesting in congress such powers as had ineffectually been entrusted to the several members of the confederacy; and also power "to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution, the foregoing powers and all other powers vested by this constitution in the government of the United States, or in any department or officers thereof."
These other powers cannot but relate to the intent of that social compact, to "form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and to our posterity."
Nothing therefore appears more constitutional, than an act of the supreme power, expressing the will of the people, against sedition, faction, national imbecility, and licentiousness; for, against these evils, the constitution was created; and were they prevalent, they would surely destroy it.
A REPUBLICAN. August 1798.
NEW-YORK, Aug. 25. COMMUNICATION.
A false statement of the fracas at the old Coffee-House, on Wednesday evening, having been made by the Irish renegado in the Time Piece of this morning, it may be satisfactory to receive a correct one, which we have present the public.
The Time Piece of Tuesday last, having as usual abused one of our citizens, a Mr. McDougal, he called at the office on Thursday morning for the purpose of discovering and punishing the author. The foreman of the press, whose name we have not obtained, denied Burke, and indeed said he had not been there for some time, but had sent such pieces as he wished should be published. After some altercation on the subject of Mr. McDougal's errand, this fellow told him he was willing to be considered as Mr. Burke himself, and to a few for whatever had appeared at the press, and that he would meet him at any place he would name, accompanied by one friend each, and give him satisfaction. The Old Coffee-House was agreed upon as the place, and that they should meet at 8 o'clock the same evening. Mr. McDougal with his pretended friend Mr. Lef, went at the time appointed, and there met his antagonist with his friend. After a few words McDougal struck him, but before a second blow could pass, the door was burst in by a gang consisting of sixty people, who had assembled for the purpose and lay under the houses in a neighboring street, and at the giving of the watch word "UP" had all rushed forward—Every thing was instantly in confusion, the candles blown out, and as many as could get at him, fell upon Mr. McDougal, with intent it is imagined to destroy him, but the noise having awakened the attention of the citizens, a Mr. Knox, with Mr. Levy and a few others rushed in, and discovered such feats of prowess, as very soon to disperse the cowardly rascals, who jumped out of the windows and doors with greater precipitation than they had entered, and it being soon rumoured that the watch were at hand, the word "UP" was again given, and in two minutes not a man of them was to be seen.
Enquiry was instantly set on foot to identify the names and persons of some of the villains, but in vain; the most that could then be collected was, that they appeared to be a band of Irish, and that they called themselves occasionally "The United Irishmen," and that this scandalous affair had been set on foot and directed principally by a certain idle mechanic, who keeps a shop in Maiden lane—I hardly know how to describe him—he is tall, slim, snock-faced, cunning looking gentleman; goes rather jimmily dressed, but with his nostrils much
plugged with snuff—it will be useless, however, for any person of curiosity to go to his shop to look at him, for it is ten chances to one if they would find him there, if they could discover the hole where the venomous Irish spider has retreated from the light and spins his daily web of slander for the Time Piece, there they might possibly find him—But to resume the thread of my story; this young man is the same one alluded to in the Time Piece of this morning, as having assured Mr. McDougal, "that he should be met at any place with one friend for the purpose of receiving satisfaction"—he had gone into Wilkie's porter house over against the scene of action, under pretence of playing a game of draughts, but he kept such a nelling about, and running to the door, (putting himself always into the attitude of listening) as to excite the suspicions of every one in the room, and at the first sound of the word "UP," he left his game and flew across the way to countenance the mob—but much has been already discovered, for we hope measures will be taken to drag these people to detection and to punishment.
Having said this, we assert in general terms that such part of the story in the Time Piece as differs materially from this statement is a felicitous false; it might however be a want of justice to Mr. McDougal not to say that the account of his striking the Irishman at the office is a downright lie and worthy the author.
After the story is concluded by Burke he says, "Twenty-five Irish gentlemen have left their names at this office to accommodate Citizen Putty or his friends. The number can be made up to 900 if necessary." Now let me appeal to the citizens of New-York, let me ask our "Young Men" if they will tamely bear to be insulted and challenged in a public paper by 900 United Irishmen? Whoever has read the late accounts of their conspiracies to burn and destroy the city of Dublin, must shudder to find by accident that there are such numbers lurking in this city—for what purpose, God only knows.
AN AMERICAN. The name of the author is left with the printer.
STOCKBRIDGE August 21.
It will appear how well the government of France calculated on their "diplomatic skill," and the zeal of their partisans to paralyze the measures of our government, by the following extract of a letter from a gentleman in the north part of this country.
"August 17th, 1798." "Yesterday, several of us who had received a previous invitation, went to Pownal in order to show our respect to his Excellency, the Governor of Vermont, who we heard, had presented a certain company with a standard, and was to be entertained on the occasion."
Whilst at dinner, information was received that a reserve of Jacobins who had been left behind, were busy in erecting a LIBERTY POLE to grace his Excellency's march back to Bennington. I should have added that the Bennington and Shaftsbury Jacobins affected to come on two hours before the Governor, unwilling to honor his procession with their presence; but they accompanied him back, to witness the degrading and unprecedented insult which was intended him. I had a few select friends, about 45 in all, and offered personally to his Excellency to march before him, cut down the pole and clear the way; but his prudence would not suffer him to authorize us. However prompted by curiosity, I went up as far as Clarke's tavern, where the Pole was erected. We saw from a distance that it was guarded by a party who seemed to be armed. I proceeded with a friend in my carriage, saw the Governor again, who was then within ten rods of the shameful ensign of sedition, and I warmly asked him if he would submit to ride by it. He checked me, and I thought it my duty to submit. The Jacobinical crew went on triumphantly, and I turned about with a heavy heart and a full charge of indignation, which had not been lessened by the repeated insults offered to my coachman. After I had rode two miles back, I met captain Gardener, captain Ellsworth and seven or eight more; they asked me if the Governor had rode by the Pole? I answered in the affirmative. One of them observed he hoped it would not take root, although planted in such favourable soil. I gave a hint how to prevent it, and six and myself in a moment pledged their honor and life to each other. I gave my carriage in charge to a friend, jumped behind a dragon and borrowed one of their swords. We went to the spot, placed five centinels; I had a post within 15 yards of the pole and covered Ellsworth, who handled the axe. About twenty fellows rallied from the tavern and came to oppose us, but we kept them off with our swords, and the pole gratified our eyes in a few minutes with the grateful sound of its expiring groan."
WILLIAM M'LAWS,
SADLER & HARNESS MAKER,
Has Removed to the Corner of Chestnut and Twelfth-Street, on the Court-house, where he will receive and execute the orders of his friends and wholesale customers, with usual attention & expedition during the prevalence of the present Epidemic, where it has not made its appearance this season, nor during any of the years past.
August 25
Doctor GOURDES,
No. 28, Pine-Street;
Offers his services to the inhabitants of Philadelphia in the line of his profession. He has in the W. India Isles, will procure him the confidence of the citizens of this city, particularly those attacked by the present Epidemic.
August 25
The Subscribers have removed for the present from Penn Street to Eleventh Street, between Filbert and High Streets. Wilkins & Francis. August 9

BY THIS DAY'S MAIL.
NEW-YORK, August 28.
POSTSCRIPT.
Late last night arrived ship Jane, Gardner, 67 days from Greenock. By her we have received papers to June 16, which contain London dates to the 13th, 4 days later than any heretofore received; from which we select the following:
LONDON, June 11.
The Dutch papers received on Saturday contain the following article received from Paris—“The seamen at Toulon evinced so much reluctance to go on shipboard, that, to obtain a sufficient number of them, domiciliary visits were found indispensable. The soldiers, on the other hand, seemed, as the phrase runs, as if they were going to a wedding.”
Twelve Spanish ships of the line, and 6 frigates, it is said, are intended to join the Toulon fleet from Carthagena and Barcelona, which, with the transports, amount to 300 sail; there are also three advice boats, four bombs and 6 gun-boats.
The party of the mountain, or the terrorists have acquired so powerful an ascendancy in France, that the directory have been compelled to admit those recently elected to the councils. To counteract, however, their influence and desperate machinations, the directory have liberated all those numerous royalists who had been confined immediately preceding, and subsequent to the elections. All accounts agree in the increased prospect of a political convulsion being on the eve of taking place.
The following battalions are ordered for Ireland:
The first battalion of the second regiment from the tower; the first battalion of the 3d regiment from Portland barracks; and the third battalion of the first regiment doing duty at Winchester.
The whole consisting of 24 companies, 80 men in each company, amounting to 1920 rank and file.
Gen. Stanwix has the command of the troops on this expedition.
All the men of war at Spithead, ready for sea, have received orders to sail on the shortest notice, after the embarkation of these troops.
The letters received by the Lisbon mail state the very unexpected return there of rear admiral Nelson, who was supposed to have gone up the Mediterranean. He rejoined the fleet with all the ships that had been placed under his command, after having victualled and well stored them at Gibraltar. On the same day the Alcmena frigate brought in a valuable Spanish frigate from Buenos Ayres.
Intelligence was received in town on Saturday that Sir Roger Curtis had joined Earl St. Vincent with five sail of the line.
It is generally understood here, that Lord St. Vincent will sail with his whole force to meet the Toulon fleet; leaving the Spaniards to their own option of putting to sea or not.
June 13.
If credit can be given to a letter from Malta, a revolution has been effected in that Island. It is believed in Italy, that this is one of the objects of the expedition from Toulon. The property at Rome belonging to the island of Malta, has been already confiscated for the benefit of the French republic.
A vessel has arrived at Yarmouth, which was taken by the North Sea fleet, and supposed to be bound for Ireland, as it had on board a great number of pikes, with arms, cloathing, &c. Another vessel with 20,000 stand of arms, intended for the rebels, has been captured by one of admiral Kingmill's squadron; and one, with 12,000 stand of arms, is also reported to have been captured by Lord Hugh Seymour. (Star.)
Pilots have left this country, for the purpose of conducting the Russian fleet into our seas. It is not certain what station it is to take; but there is every disposition in that court heartily to co-operate in the plans of our cabinet. This fleet, which is said to consist of ten sail of the line and five or six frigates, is expected very soon.
GLASGOW, June 16.
Paris Papers till the 9th inst. were received on Wednesday. They contain no news of any consequence. The destination of the Toulon fleet is still unknown.
DUBLIN, June 7.
Sir Edward Crosbie, Bart. was tried at Carlow yesterday, found guilty, hanged, his head taken off, and put on the top of the gaol with a few of his friends.
Sir Edward Crosbie, Bart. was the head of a very ancient family, but of an impaired fortune, and we are informed, enjoyed for a long time past a pension from the crown. He had been called to the Irish bar, at which he practised for a short time, and had distinguished himself by the zeal which he displayed in promoting the formation of the volunteer corps who co-located in Ireland before the conclusion of the last war. He was the confidential friend of Hamilton Rowan, Coun. Tone, and Napper Tandy.
Dublin Castle, June 9.
Extract of a letter from lieutenant general Johnson, to lieutenant general Lake, dated at Roli 7th June, 1798.
“I find you a return of the killed, wounded and missing of the troops engaged on the 5th inst. Their numbers you will, I trust, find not great, when you take into consideration the numbers they were opposed to. This must be imputed to their gallantry.”
“From the bell accounts which have been received, the number of rebels killed, is stated to be upwards of 2000. Their wounded must have been very considerable, but the number cannot be ascertained as they were carried off by the rebels.”
“The general severely regrets the loss of that brave officer Lord Mountjoy, who fell early in the conflict.”
A letter has also been received from major general Nugent, at Belfast, dated the 6th inst. which states, that the rebels were dispersed in all directions, except at Tonne, whither general Knox and colonel Clavering were proceeding,
and that many of them had laid down their arms.
“We have heard with concern that Lord Kingborough has fallen into the hands of the rebels.”
FROM THE DIARY.
By the ship June, Captain Gardiner, arrived last night from Greenock in 67 days, we have received files of Glasgow and Edinburgh papers to the 18 of June, inclusive, 9 days later than any European intelligence that has been published in this country. From their late dates we expected to see their contents of greater importance than we find them upon examination. They were received last evening at a late hour. We cannot, therefore, give more than a brief Summary of this morning's Diary. Our paper tomorrow will contain ample details of every thing in them that may be judged interesting or important.
The most prominent articles are those which respect the affairs of Ireland. The insurgents and the king's troops have had several engagements, two of them especially desperate, in which the latter have been uniformly victorious. At New Ross, on the 5th June, the rebels were defeated with the loss of upwards of 2000 (some accounts say 5000) killed, and a considerable number of wounded, who were carried off by their party. On the 7th they were driven from Antrim (of which place they had just taken possession) with great slaughter, by Major General Nugent.
In the action of New Ross the insurgents were said to be 10,000 strong, the troops only 1400. The battle commenced at 4 o'clock in the morning, and did not terminate until 5 in the evening.
On the 12th an express was received from Gen. Nugent, stating that Donaghadee was in possession of the Rebels, where they were in great force; and that in the north of Ireland, from Coleraine to Larne, they were assembled in the best manner they were capable of.
In the French Council of Five Hundred a proposal to open a new credit for 20 millions of livres (nearly 900,000 sterling) for defraying the expenses of the expedition against England has been adopted.
The Bien Informe, contains a detailed account of the steps which the French Minister of Foreign Affairs has taken to justify himself from the imputations which the publication of the documents relative to American Negotiations at Paris had thrown upon him. This interesting account consists of a correspondence between Talleyrand Perigord and Mr. Gerry, on the subject of the publication, and the mythical characters alluded to in it, under the titles of W. A. X. and Z. This correspondence is preceded by a laboured defence of the conduct of the French Government with respect to America, and an endeavour to refute the charges which the American documents contain.
The Emperor of Germany is arming; he has declared he cannot agree to the last proposals of the French Ministers at Rastadt; and the king of Prussia has also declared that they are inadmissible.
The Marquis Cronwallis is appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, with full powers to coerce or conciliate as circumstances may require.
General Buonaparte is off Corsica. Accounts received in London state that France is apparently on the eve of political convulsion.
HIGHLY INTERESTING.
From Norfolk, Aug. 23.
“A St. Mary's (Potomack) pilot-boat arrived here on Tuesday evening, spoke that morning, a Danish barque 45 days from Hamburg, the captain of which requested them to inform the printer, that Russia, Sweden and Denmark had DECLARED WAR AGAINST FRANCE.”
BOSTON August 24.
Yesterday arrived in town from Bayonne, via Marblehead, Mr. Hinkley, late mate of the Galen. He brought no papers, but informed that he heard Lord St. Vincent's had gone into the Mediterranean in pursuit of the Toulon fleet, leaving a squadron to confine the Spaniards to Cadiz; That a war was expected with America, and privateers were equipping for the indiscriminate capture of our vessels.
On the Banks of Newfoundland, spoke a fishing schooner, that had fallen in with the brig Maria, of Boston, capt. Hatch, from Bourdeaux for Charleston, that had met with brig Sophia, from Havre for Philadelphia, on board of which Mr. Gerry was a passenger.
The vessel in which Mr. Hinkley came, was the Hannah, capt. Belom. She had 56 days passage. Lat. 41, 31, long. 32, was boarded by the French privateer Fancy of Nantz, of 18 guns, who closely examined the papers, and finding her to be only in ballast, suffered her to proceed. Lat. 44, 36, long. 44, spoke brig Angelica, Robertson, of Philadelphia, 24 days from Lisbon. Captain came on board and delivered Dispatches for Government—thinking they would be safer and arrive sooner in the Hannah.
Left at Bayonne.
Table with 4 columns: Vessels, Owned, State, Value. Lists various ships like Nelly & Kitty, Adelaide, Federalist, etc., with their respective states and values.
Dollars, 1,474,000. This computation is much too low. Besides these, six ships have been condemned at Burredeaux; and no one cleared since Jan. 1798.
Letters have been received in town dated Liff.
bon, July 7, but containing no news. They came by the way of Marblehead.
Extra of a letter from a respectable gentleman in Malaga, dated June 26.
“There is at this time a report circulating that admiral Nelson, has fallen in with the Toulon fleet, taken some, sunk others and put the remainder to flight. This news is so good, I am fearful it will not prove true.”
“The art which recently prevailed here, for detaining all French privateers, and sending their crews to Toulon, has ceased to operate, and they are actively equipping again.”
FROM SURINAM.
We are informed, that the Governor of Surinam, justly irritated by the irregular conduct and horrid oppressions of the people of Cayenne, has ordered five frigates of 40 guns each, to liberate any neutral vessel, stopped by the privateers of that place, and to enable them to reach the river of Surinam.
It is strongly conjectured that a negotiation exists between the British and the government of Surinam, from several reciprocal proceedings, in favor of each other. Markets are extremely high, provisions very scarce, lumber and dry goods much wanted.
Mr. Lilly, a respectable merchant of Philadelphia, being at Cayenne with a vessel and cargo, at the time Pichegru, &c. escaped, was charged with being concerned in that business, arrested, put in irons, and sent on board a frigate to be carried to France for trial.
Captain Hill saw a letter at Cayenne from the Governor of Surinam, in which he observed, there had but two vessels arrived with provisions for two months; that there was neither bread nor salt meat there, and that the troops were of necessity fed on catadars and fresh meat.
Wiscasset, Aug. 17.
On Tuesday evening last, Messrs. Henry Hoskins and John W. Scott, editors and printers of the Wiscasset Telegraph, were arrested by Mr. Timothy Parsons, for printing and publishing, on the 25th day of May last, a piece of Miscellany under the signature of “Philo Jacobin.”
The Gazette.
PHILADELPHIA,
WEDNESDAY EVENING, August 29.
CITY-HOSPITAL REPORT,
From 28th to 29th August.
ADMITTED.
Table listing hospital admissions with names like Mary Canady, Hugh Dougherty, John Brown, etc., and their respective ailments or locations.
DIED.
Table listing hospital deaths with names like George Brendan, Elizabeth Jemmian, Paul Houghby, etc., and the number of days ill previous to admission.
PHILIP S. PHYSICK.
SAMUEL COOPER.
JAMES THOMPSON, Steward.
By order of the Board of Managers,
Wm. JONES, President.
Attest,
Wm. PENROSE, Clerk pro tem.
Buried in the several Church burying grounds, exclusive of those at the Hospital for the 24 hours ending at 8 o'clock last evening—13 adults—8 children.
SIXTY-NINE new cases of the prevailing fever, reported by 25 Physicians, for the last 24 hours.
DIED—On the 27th inst at Trenton, after an illness of 24 hours, Mr. NORTH, late Clerk in the office of the Accountant of the War Department.
Mr. Frederick Kiffelman, merchant of this city.
Mr. Gifford Dally.
The Committee who have charge of the Tens will be much obliged to such of their fellow citizens, who may have any straw to dispose of, if they will be kind enough to send it to the Tens, on the Commons near the Powder House as the same is much wanted to make the situation of the Poor comfortable.
By order of the Committee, PETER MIERCKEN, chairman.
DONATIONS,
Received at the Tens near Schuylkill, for the use of the Poor.
August 28—One waggon load of Straw, from Mr. Peter Robeson.
By order of the Committee.
PETER MIERCKEN, Chairman.
August 29.
APPOINTMENTS—By the President.
Samuel S. Greaves of Pennsylvania, Commissioner under the Sixth Article of the British Treaty—vice James Innes, Esq. deceased.
Lieut. Colonel Thomas Butler, commanding the troops of the United States in the State of Tennessee, Commissioner for treating with the Cherokee Nation of Indians—vice John Steel, Esq. resigned.
A letter from New York, says, that 120 persons were taken sick in that city on Saturday last with a violent disorder, and yet the New-York papers are silent on the subject.
Both branches of the Legislature of New York have unanimously agreed to an address to the President of the United States—The address will appear to-morrow.
Bache again repeats that the French fleet arrived on the coast of Ireland, about the 7th June—but insists upon it that they kept the matter so private, that it was not known at Cork, four days after the event, owing to the extent of the island.
The editor of the Aurora, of yesterday, charges some merchants, whose only God, he says is money, with introducing the fever into the city—Bache did not consult the Academy in this case—he then goes on to say, that these merchants fly from the contagion, and “comfort themselves in their retreat with this humane consolation—that few except the dogs of the city, the riff-raff, that is the honest and laborious poor, suffer from the disease.” The tendency, if not the object of such villainous publications must be obvious, they merit more than they can receive.
The Jacobins laugh in their sleeve that the federalists should start more than one candidate in several districts.
Bache, or one of his paragraphists insists that the Mediterranean Sea, is not like a water tub placed in sight of Lisbon.
MR. FENNO.
At a time, when many distressed inhabitants are flying from the city, to avoid the prevailing fever, it ill becomes their countrymen to treat them with unkindness, much less is it becoming to practice impositions upon them.
I am led to this reflection by receiving a letter from my correspondent to the southward, who writes me, that the tavern keeper at Baltimore was so surly, there was no allowing him to do any thing—Good reason, may exclaim, to refuse admittance into Baltimore to a person infected, or supposed to be infected with a malignant fever, but no good reason can be assigned, for an unfriendly behaviour to strangers, who conduct with decency and pay seven shillings and six pence for a dinner, four shillings and six pence for a breakfast, and six shillings and eight pence for a supper.
AN OBSERVER.
To Mr. —, Philadelphia, Aug. 26, '98.
This day I received your load of lime, by your lad, aged about fifteen years, and paid him for it—he called it twenty eight bushels;—as we sometimes measure wood, and weigh bread in Philadelphia, I thought I might, for once, without giving offence, measure your lime; accordingly I proposed to your boy to do it—he did not like my proposal very well, but was forced to submit, as the pile did not look like over-measure—rather than do it, he offered to a vote two bushels, but I could not agree to that, as it was not a fair way, to take any of your lime for nothing, so at it we went, and every time we lifted we asked the boy, if there was too much, and when he said there was, we struck off till he was satisfied, and the whole was measured.
The quantity, by strict measure, was nineteen bushels and a half, and I paid him for twenty one and a half, supposing that one bushel might fly off or waste in the road.
The boy stared, and I believe wondered to see us measure his lime, and we all stared and wondered too; not less than six or seven of us that were present. We parted however without many words, and the only objection he made was that we measured by a half bushel, I did not mind that much, nor did I, as I intended to write to you on the subject, regard him much when he said he would tell his
DADDY.
P. S. You will excuse my not mentioning your name in the next paper at length.
To Mr. —, Aug. 27.
A word to you if you please, I bought and measured your load of lime to day; you told me it contained forty five bushels; and you measured it fairly yourself and found it only thirty seven bushels and a half, which I called thirty eight bushels, supposing it wasted half a bushel, with which you were content, and promised to tell the Roneburner. From the cheerfulness you observed, in measuring your lime, and the satisfaction you expressed, I am inclined to believe the difference was owing to an error, which I hope you will avoid next time. Do bring me another load if you please and with it the lime burner's bill, mentioning the quantity, as the millers do with flour.
GAZETTE MARINE LIST.
Table with 3 columns: Vessel, Arrived, Days. Lists ships like ship Rising Sun, Thompson, Philadelphia, etc., with arrival details.
Boston, Aug. 27.
Extract of a letter from Shelburne, (No S.) dated August 13.
“This moment has come to anchor, the brig Nancy, capt. Taylor, of New-York, belonging to Messrs. Thomas Buchanan and Co. from that city bound to Madeira, which
was captured in sight of the Island by a French privateer mounting 20 guns; and was retaken by the master and two boys, from seven French sailors (the prize-master and two men)—four of whom it was found necessary to throw overboard in the effort to recapture the vessel.”
The ship Lydia, Burroughs, of Boston, was at Lisbon, July 1.
Ship Elizabeth of Baltimore; and capt. Tyler, of Providence, arrived at Lisbon safe.
A meeting of the Merchants, Traders, Mechanics, and other citizens of Philadelphia, that are friends to the constitution and government of the United States, is requested at the Union School house in Germantown, on Wednesday next 29th August, at 4 o'clock P. M.
POST-OFFICE.
Philadelphia, August 29, 1791. LETTERS for the British Packet, for Falmouth, will be received at this office until Friday the 31st inst. at 12 o'clock noon. N. B. The inland postage to New-York must be paid.
NOTICE.
Bank of North America, August 28th, 1798. THOSE Persons who have Notes or Bills to pay at this Bank are informed, That regular Notices will be put under a seal & cover directed to the respective payer and lodged in the Post Office every Monday until the return of the citizens.
RICHARD WELLS, Cashier.
Removal to Germantown, From 136, Market-Street.
RICHARD BAILEY & Co. for the accommodation of their friends during the prevailing sickness in the City, have opened a room opposite to Doctor Marriat's, where they will pay an extensive assortment of Chizees, Mullins, Table Linens, and every other article in the Linen and Haberdashery line.
W. Young,
BOOKSELLER & STATIONER, INFORMS his friends and wholesale customers in the country, who find it disagreeable to enter the city during the present fever, That orders will be received, and executed with all possible despatch, at the
WHITE HALL PRINTING OFFICE, in the white building, above the Mile Stone, on the Ridge-Road.
His customers in the city are also informed that the Store in the City will be open, every day, Sunday excepted, from Nine until One of the Clock, August 29.
NOTICE.
Bank of the United States, August 28, 1798. THOSE persons who have Notes or Bills to pay at this Bank, are informed, That regular Notices will be put under a seal & cover directed to the respective payer and lodged in the Post Office every Monday until the return of the Citizens.
G. SIMPSON, Cashier.
FLOUR FOR SALE
By the Subscribers, Deliverable at any of the ports on the Delaware—Who have just on hand at their Store, a quantity of Bartron, Pork and Corn—Letters by the post will be attended to.
Levi Hollingsworth & Sen.
Arrived in the ship Pennsylvania, Capt. Williamson, from Hamburg, now lying at Chester.
A Number of GERMAN SERVANTS, men, women, boys and girls, amongst whom are Gunsmiths, Carpenters, Turners, Tailors, Blacksmiths, Gardeners, Masons, Coachmen, Housemen, &c. &c. whose time of servitude is to be disposed of on board the ship.
GURNEY & SMITH.
The Office of the Board of Commissioners under the 6th Article of the Treaty of Amity, &c. between Great-Britain and the United States, is removed to the house of Matthew M'Connell, Esq. on the Market Road.
The Office of the Insurance Company of the State of Pennsylvania, is removed to the North west corner of Ninth and Market streets.
The COMPTING-HOUSE, of Messrs Nickless & Gairdner is removed to the residence of P. Nicklin, near the Falls of Schuylkill.
The Office of the Insurance Company of North America, is removed to the School House, near the Market, in Germantown. Orders for Insurance, left at the South east corner of Fifth and Sixth streets, will be duly forwarded.
The Post-Office will be moved on Monday the 19th inst. at one o'clock P. M. to the North side of Market-street, the first house West of Eleventh-street, where Merchants and others are requested to send their letters; as the Letter-carriers will be stopped carrying letters out, after that time.
Post Office, Philadelphia, August 17.
Removal—Walter Franklin has removed to the house of Mr. William Forbes, in Germantown, where the business of his office will be transacted during the continuance of the present epidemic.
The Office of the Collector of this Port is removed to Congress Hall, where the Custom-house business is now transacted.
Public Offices of the United States. The several Offices of the Department of Treasury, State, War, and the Navy, are removed to Trenton.
The Office of the Committee, Appointed to superintend the building of the Frigate to be loaned to the United States, is removed to No. 112 Spruce-street—of which those gentlemen who have not already come forward with their subscriptions will please to take notice.
ROBERT KITCHE, Sec'y.
Wanted—A situation in a Public or the Merchants Office, or to go as Super cargo, by a person regularly brought up to the Mercantile and Insurance business in London, he has lately been a voyage from hence to the West-Indies as Super cargo, can be well recommended—Pleas to enquire at the Printer's.