Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser. (Philadelphia [Pa.]), 1798-05-08 00:00:00

Gazette of the United States, AND Philadelphia Daily Advertiser.
By JOHN FENNO, No. 119 Chestnut Street.
NUMBER 1766.]
PHILADELPHIA: TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 8, 1798.
[VOLUME XIII.]
FOR SALE.
A House and 12 elegant Building Lots in Germantown.
ON Monday the 14th instant at 3 o'clock P. M. will be sold by public auction on the premises.
The first House in the village of Germantown situated on the right hand side of the Road leading from Philadelphia. Also 12 building lots adjoining the same, each containing 50 feet on front on the Germantown road, and extending 400 feet on depth.
N. B. A plan of the above lots may be seen previous to the day of sale by applying to
FOOTMAN & Co. Auctioneers
May 7.
Taken up on the 5th instant,
Two Strayed Horses, the one a black with a Speck in one of his eyes, the other a bright bay both of them long manes and tails. It is supposed they were caught trespassing on some other place, as they had both of them long bushes fastened to their tails, and were much spent with running when they were taken up. Whoever has lost them is desired to come and prove property, pay charges and take them away.
Enquire at No. 88 Spruce-Street. may 7. dtf
Forty Dollars Reward.
RAN AWAY, on the 7th of April, a Negro Man, named Gil Green, perhaps he may pass by the name of Glasgow Lee, or may change his name; he is about thirty one years of age, nearly six feet high, has a scar in the upper part of his under lip, a small part being bitten out between the middle and the corner of his mouth (I believe on the right side), his left hand has been very sore, and was so at the time he ran away, by being burnt some time past; he is a stout, strong fellow, and has been employed at a saw mill a few years: he went away in company with a negro woman of Mr. Joshua Lingoe, of this county. It is supposed they are gone into Delaware State. Any person that secures said Negro Man in any gaol, that the subscriber shall give him again, shall receive the above reward. ESSE BAYLIS.
State of Maryland, Somerset County, April 10, 1798. may 4-4w
NOTICE.
THREE Certificates of Six Per Cent. Deferred Debt of the United States of the following description, viz.—No. 10033, 10034, and 10035, for 5000 dollars each, dated 8th May, 1797, and standing on the books of the Treasury of the United States, in the name of Benjamin Waddington, of Lanover House, near Abercrombie in England, Esq., have been lost by the capture of the ship Bacchus, from hence to London, in June last. This, therefore notifies those whom it may concern, that application will be made at the Treasury of the United States for a renewal of the same. Waddington & Harwood. march 22. $6w
Waddington & Harwood.
March 22. $6w
STATED THIS DAY,
From on board the ship Alexander, capt. Brown, from Jacquemel, at Wilcoxes' wharf, about 80,000 wt. of fine Green Coffee in hogsheads, barrels and bags.
For Sale—apply to John Whiteside & Co. WHO HAS ON HAND,
Claret of the first quality, in cases. april 30. $6t
Manchester Goods.
Received by the late arrival from Liverpool, several trunks, suitable for the present and approaching season, which will be sold very low for cash or on a short credit, viz. 7-8 and 9-8 Printed Calicoes Fancy Waiteating in Mair files, &c. Cotton and silk and cotton Hosiery, Pantaloon, &c.
A variety of (English) Umbrellas Nankinees, cotton Hdkfs. Shoe-binding, &c. N. B. A case of printed Mullinees, and a trunk of Printed Bangalore Handkerchiefs, entitled to drawback, and very suitable for the West-Indies. Apply No. 35 South Water and corner of Chestnut Street. 4mo. 12—$1w
NEW TEA WAREHOUSE.
No. 39, South Front Street, opposite Post-Office.
THE Subscriber respectfully acquaints his friends and the public, that he has opened a Store for the sale of all kinds of TEAS, imported in the late arrivals at Bolton and Philadelphia, (as under) and which he is determined to sell on reasonable terms. It will be her constant endeavour to give satisfaction to those who please to favor her with their custom. Country stores will find it their advantage to deal with her, as the can at a moment's notice afford them any quantity wanted, and will allow a reasonable credit on approved notes. Imperial, Hyson, Young Hyson, Souchong, Hyson Skin, and Bohea—Also, Coffee and Loaf Sugar for sale. Sarah Eaton. april 12. $6w
Sarah Eaton.
april 12. $6w
NOTICE.
THE Partnership of the subscribers, trading under the firm of PAXSON & RICHARDSON, was dissolved on the sixth of the third month last, by mutual consent. All persons indebted thereto are earnestly requested to make payment; and those that have any demands against the same, are desired to present their accounts for settlement to either of the subscribers. Isaac Paxson, Nathanial Richardson. Philadelphia, 4th mo. 3d, 1798.
ISAAC PAXSON,
Continues to carry on the business at the usual place, No. 10, South Third Street, where he has on hand a large assortment of Ironmongery, Sadlery, Cutlery and Brass Wares, which he will sell wholesale or retail, on low terms, for cash or the usual credit. He expects to receive by the first vessels from London, Bristol, Liverpool and Hull, a large addition to his present assortment; and will execute with punctuality and care any orders from his former customers, and friends in general. 22w4w
A Country Seat.
TO BE LET for the summer season or by the year, the greater part of a large House, in a high, healthy situation, above the eight mile stone, on the Germantown road (occupied only by a newly married couple)—with stabling and convenience for keeping a carriage. For further particulars, enquire of CASPAR W. HAINES, in Germantown, or the subscriber, on the premises. HEZEKIAH HUNTSMAN. may 1. 22w4w
Military Colours.
At GULLAGER'S
Portrait and Ornamental Painting Rooms, No. 50, South Fourth, next to Chestnut Street, opposite the Friends' Meeting.
PAINTING on silks for Military and other ornamental purposes (in a manner peculiar to himself) durable, not to be injured by the weather, which for elegance of design, truth and beauty of colouring, neatness and masterly execution, has not been equalled by George Rutter and Co.
FLAGS AND DRUMS
Furnished with all possible dispatch, on the most reasonable terms.
Ornamental Painting, Signs, Fire Buckets, Cornices, &c. &c.
executed in style (not that superb style of modern elegance peculiar to G. R.) but in a workmanlike manner, peculiar to an artist master of his profession.
Mr. GULLAGER, from a number of year's experience in Europe and this country, flatters himself that professional talents, punctuality, and reasonable demands, will meet the entire approbation of those gentlemen who will please to call at his Painting Rooms. $6w may 5.
Military Colours,
PAINTED ON SILK—By
GEORGE RUTTER & Co.
Portrait and Ornamental Painters,
In a style which will endure the hardships of the weather without injury, and which for neatness and exactitude of colouring cannot be surpassed in this city.
FLAGS AND DRUMS
Furnished with dispatch, on the most moderate terms.
Portraits, Ornamental Paintings, Signs, Fire Buckets, &c. &c.
accomplished in that superb style of modern elegance, which Mr. Rutter pledges himself from 20 years experience in this city will meet the entire approbation of his friends and the public.
In the Military Line,
A variety of specimens may be seen at their Painting Room, Norris's Court, back of the New Library. may 3. d6w
ROBERT FIELD,
MINIATURE PAINTER,
Has removed to No. 106, Walnut Street, between Fourth and Fifth Streets. may 3. dtw
NOTICE.
AS Wednesday the ninth instant is appointed by the President of the United States, as a day of Solemn Humiliation, Fasting and Prayer, Notice is hereby given, that the Bank of Pennsylvania will be shut on that day, and that all payments which then become due at Bank, must be made on the day preceding; the Board of Directors will meet on Tuesday the eighth instant, for the purpose of Discounting and Notes offered for discount must therefore be sent in, the Monday preceding. By order of the Board JON. SMITH, Cashier. may 3. dt8
A Premium of 100 Dollars
WILL be paid by the Bank of Pennsylvania, for such Plan of a Banking House, accompanied with Sections and elevations, as may be approved by the Directors. The building is not intended to exceed 60 feet front, or 100 feet in depth, and to be so planned as to admit of its being made fire proof. It is requested that the plans may be sent to the Cashier of the Bank, previous to the first of June next. april 19. tuthst1je
IMPORTED,
In the Brig BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, from
Bourdeaux,
AND FOR SALE BY THE SUBSCRIBER,
Claret in cases
White wine in half cases
Sweet oil of a superior quality in boxes and baskets
Luncheon
Santene
Macary, and
Medoc
Wines in Cases.
Thomas Murgatroyd,
No. 11, Walnut Street.
WHO HAS ON HAND,
Bourdeaux Brandy in pipes
Irish market
Medoc, and Sauterne
Sherry wine in pipes and quarter cases
Rota
Pimento in bags
Two trunks of Umbrellas, and
About 4000 bushels Liverpool Salt. march 19. mw&tf
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.
WINES.
35 Pipes of Madeira Wine.
80 Pipes of Port.
30 half Casks of Sherry.
30 Casks of Lisbon.
300 Casks of French Claret, of excellent quality.
800 Barrels of Scraped FLOUR,
100 Barrels of Condensed, and
20 Boxes of best Durham Mustard.
FOR SALE BY
John Skyrin
FOR SALE,
Two three story Brick Houses
With convenient stores, wharf, &c. situate on
Water Street, between Mulberry and Sassafras
Streets, containing in front on Water Street fifty-four feet,
and containing that breadth eastward ninety-five feet,
then widening to the fourth thirteen feet six inches.
These houses have the convenience of a public alley adjoining on the north side,
and are a very desirable situation for a merchant, flour factor, or others who may have occasion for storage of goods. This property will be sold on very reasonable terms for cash. For further information apply to the printer. april 5. m&wtf
CONGRESS.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25.
(Concluded from yesterday's Gazette.)
Mr. HARPER called for the order of the day on the bill for establishing an executive department, to be denominated The Department of the Navy.
The house accordingly went into a committee of the whole on this bill,
and rose without making any amendment in the bill;
but upon the question in the house of its passing to a third reading,
Mr. GALLATIN said, he had not proposed any amendment to this bill in the committee of the whole,
because what he had to say upon it, would go against the principle of the bill.
He did not think it necessary to establish a Navy Department.
He did not suppose our army and navy were at present so large as to require two separate departments.
If the business was so much increased as the persons at present employed could not do it, they might be increased.
Nor did he believe with some gentlemen that such an institution would produce economy.
On the contrary, he always found that the increase of offices, was the increase of expense.
Some time ago, it was said that great economy would arise from appointing a Purveyor of Supplies;
but he had seen, from the time of this establishment,
a great and constant increase of expense in every thing which relates to supplies.
Not seeing the necessity of it, therefore, he should vote against it,
except good reason should be given for it;
for he believed, the moment a department of this kind was established,
the head of it would with to make it of as great importance as possible by endeavours to extend the object of his superintendence.
He called for the yeas and nays upon the question, which were agreed to be taken.
Mr. J. WILLIAMS did not feel disposed to vote for this bill.
It appeared to him that the Secretary of War, with officers under him,
would be sufficient for the management of our naval concerns also.
It was some time after the constitution was framed,
before the War Department was established.
Whenever an office was established,
something was always found for it to do.
Soon after the War Department was established,
we had an Indian war,
and after that Indian war ceased,
another establishment was made under the name of the Accountant's Office.
If the business was increased,
new clerks might be employed,
but he should be against any new department.
If we were engaged in hostilities,
and our naval power, of course increased,
such an establishment might be necessary;
but at present he did not think it necessary,
nor did he think our revenue equal to the support of a navy which should require such an establishment to take care of it.
If this office was to superintend the construction of vessels,
persons acquainted with this business,
might be employed under the Secretary of War.
The present expense of the War Department was 18,250 dollars a year,
and though there would not be much to do in this new office,
he supposed the expense would not be much less,
and besides Congress would be imported from session to session to increase our naval force.
Mr. W. said he was desirous of making every defence for our country,
yet he wished to keep down our expenses as much as possible;
circumstances called for going farther into the business of the navy,
he should not object to it.
Mr. SEWALL said, when the house was considering any subject relative to the increase of the navy,
complaints were made of the enormous expenses,
and of the little responsibility which attends the business,
and when it has been said that the greatness of the expense might have arisen from a want of knowledge in the persons who had the care of the business,
it was said that defect ought to be remedied.
This department is intended to do that,
and by the expense of a few hundreds of dollars,
he had no doubt thousands would be saved.
When talking about vessels,
it was complained that too great an expense was incurred on this object;
now it is said there is no object for the proposed officer to attend to;
but the gentleman from New-York (Mr. Williams) was afraid if this office was established,
it would be the means of increasing the navy.
This certainly could not be done contrary to the will of Congress.
He thought there were obvious reasons for the establishment of this department.
It was well known that an officer might be well acquainted with the business of the army,
without knowing any thing about a navy,
and a man employed at the head of such a department,
ought to have some knowledge of the business committed to his care.
Mr. S. said, however well the present Secretary of War might be acquainted with army concerns,
he believed he was not conversant with naval matters.
In consequence of this,
he had a number of agents employed under him.
Indeed the War Department had so much business on its hands,
as not to be able to pay a sufficient attention to our naval establishment.
He therefore believed it was necessary to make this new establishment,
especially as the Naval Department was likely to be considerably augmented.
Mr. S. SMITH believed, after all the struggles which had been made on this subject,
it would at length be found necessary for the United States seriously to turn their attention to the establishment of an efficient naval force,
and the sooner gentlemen could bring their minds to this,
the better it would be for the general good.
If this proposition had been brought forward at the commencement of the session,
he should have thought it unnecessary;
but from the increase which it had been made during this session,
he thought the establishment proper.
950,000 dollars had been appropriated for providing 12 vessels,
a number of galleys were also contemplated,
a ship of war or schooner,
it appears has been built on the lakes,
and some galleys on the rivers.
These, with the frigates and cutters,
form an establishment which will require a naval man to superintend it.
An expenditure of two millions of dollars,
he supposed, would be authorized this session;
and a man knowing something of naval architecture,
will be able to save more in the course of this year to the United States,
than will pay ten years of the expenses of this office.
A merchant going into the building of vessels,
without a knowledge of the business,
will find the truth of this fact.
The great expenditure attending the building of the frigates,

agrand department to our government, not contemplated by the constitution, he owned he was alarmed. Whenever he saw the business of the navy so extensive, as to require a separate department, he should vote for it; but he thought it would not be wise to go on to the establishment of new departments, before there was business for them to do; because, whenever such a department was constituted, he had no doubt business would be found for it to do, as the officer at the head of it would be continually drawing out, and laying before Congress plans for its increase. As to what had been laid about the line of conduct adopted by gentlemen in this House, he should say nothing of it. He thought too much had already been said on that subject, and he believed it would be best to suffer such reflections to pass without notice.
Mr. J. WILLIAMS said, the only point in dispute was, whether a separate office should be established for the business of the navy, or whether it should be put under the care of a Superintendent in the War Department. He wished the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Otis) had spared his observations, until he had heard those of the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. S. Smith). It had appeared to him that a Superintendent in the War Department would have been sufficient, and he yet thought so. He did not think the business of the navy was so great as to require a separate establishment. There was more business in the War Department in 1794 than at present, and nothing was then heard of a new department. He should not have opposed this measure if he had not been convinced that every measure taken to increase the navy beyond its present establishment, would have a bad effect on this country. It had been proposed last Winter to purchase all the live-oak timber in the Southern States; afterwards a proposition was brought forward for the establishment of Naval Yards. Those measures had been defeated, and they were now called upon to establish a new department for this favourite object. He was not willing to do it. The gentleman from Massachusetts said there would only be a difference between making a new office and continuing to do the business in the War Department, of the salary of the chief officer; but if he looked at the second clause of the bill, he would find himself mistaken, as there was in that provision for a principal clerk, and such other clerks as he shall judge necessary. So that he may have a clerk for every port in the Union, if he pleases. If he represented, as the gentleman from Massachusetts does, a commercial interest, he might be as favorable to a navy as him; but as that was not the case, he was opposed to it. He gave his approbation to such appropriations as he thought necessary; and if, in this instance, he differed in opinion from the gentleman from Massachusetts, he should stand excused. He believed with that gentleman, that the commercial and agricultural interests were closely connected; they differed only as to the extent to which it was proper to carry our naval defence. He did not wish, however, at present, to reject the bill. He believed it might be amended, and he had no objection to the question being postponed for that purpose.
Mr. LIVINGSTON said, he was almost tempted to impute to the arrogant pretensions of some gentlemen in this House, in their treatment of others, at least their equals on this floor, whatever they might be out of doors, being equally with them Representatives of the People. They were told by the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Otis) that opposition was expected, was looked for from certain gentlemen; that no argument was necessary on the occasion, because those members who were opposed to all measures of defence, would oppose this measure also; but that those who had originated the measure would carry it into effect. This simple declaration of a strength of party was also attended with a very handsome rebuke of one of his colleagues (Mr. J. Williams) for having dared to doubt the propriety of the measure before the committee. He was happy to find this rebuke had produced its effect, and that though his colleague was at first very decidedly against the bill, he was now decidedly for it; and the effect of another rebuke, he supposed, would obtain his vote in favour of the new establishment. For his own part, neither the rebuke, nor the preliminary observations with which it was accompanied, had produced any effect upon him. He did very much doubt the propriety of the measure; for although there was a great deal of business in the war office, and the same person could not be supposed to be acquainted with military and naval affairs, if a ship builder was to have the appointment, he could not think such a person fit to be one of the great council of the nation; and it must be recollected that the person who holds this office will become one of the counsellors of the President on all great concerns.
But if the idea was adopted, that no person in the government was to have business under his direction which he does not perfectly understand, this division must not stop here. Could it be said that the Secretary of War had a perfect knowledge of every thing under his direction, except what related to the navy? Certainly not. To be so, he must not only be a perfect engineer, but be acquainted with the construction of arms. To carry this idea to its full extent, it would not only be necessary to have separate departments, but also a great variety of subdivisions; they must have, he supposed, commissioners of gun barrels and of ramrods.
But it was said, that the establishment of this new office would be the means of saving money, and the excess of expenditure on the frigates was pointed at as a proof of the want of an officer of this kind; but he believed if other business was looked at which had been immediately under the direction of the Secretary of War—the frigate for the Dey of Algiers for instance—it would be found to have been well and speedily done, which was a proof that the Secretary of War could attend to that business.
It was said that this establishment was necessary, in order to give an appearance of defence to Europe, as if the establishment of a Department of the Navy was to have the effect to do away all our past and to prevent future injuries. But our appearance to Europe was not all; the example of European countries was mentioned. All were said to have a Marine Department. The practice of Europe, Mr. L. said, had proved itself to be a bad one, as the Navies of those countries, had proved the ruin of them.
Mr. L. would make no reply to the insinuations, thrown out against gentlemen, which represented them as being opposed to every measure of defence, as not a question came before the house in which the same unfounded charge had not been repeated; and he supposed by and by, that a new Post Office could not be proposed, or the most trifling business done, without a repetition of those charges.
The Yeas and Nays were taken upon this bill going to its third reading, as follows:
YEAS. Messrs. Allen, Messrs. Machir, Bartlett, Matthews, Bayard, Morgan,
Champlin, Morris, Chapman, Otis, Cochran, J. Packer, Coit, Pinckney, Craik, Reed, Dana, Rutledge, Dennis, Schureman, Dent, Sewall, Evans, Shepard, A. Foster, Sinnickson, J. Freeman, N. Smith, Glen, S. Smith, Goodrich, Sprague, Griswold, Thatcher, Grove, Thomas, Harper, Houstoun, Hindman, Tillinghast, Holmer, Van Alen, Lymann, Wadsworth.
NAYS. Messrs. Baldwin, Messrs. Jones, Bard, Livingston, Benton, Locke, Blount, Lyon, Brent, Macon, Bryan, M'Clenachan, Bullock, M'Dowell, T. Claiborne, Milledge, W. Claiborne, New, Clay, W. Smith, Davis, Sprigg, Dawson, Sumner, Elmondorf, Stanford, Findley, A. Trigg, Fowler, J. Trigg, Gallatin, Van Cortlandt, Gillespie, Varnum, Harrison, Venable, Holmer, J. Williams, Heister, R. Williams, Holmes, 41.
On motion of Mr. HARPER, the house then took up the amendments of the Senate to the bill respecting the compensation of Clerks.
Mr. HARPER stated the effect of these amendments to be, to give to the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of that house, an addition of 250 dollars each to their present salaries. He recommended an agreement to these amendments as reasonable, as the salaries of these officers were fixed at the same time at which the salaries of the Clerks and inferior officers were fixed, which had been advanced.
Mr. GALLATIN enquired what the present salaries of these officers were. It was answered 1500 dollars a year, and two dollars a day during the session of Congress. Mr. G. thought this sufficient, and that since their salaries had not been increased at a time when living was much dearer than it is at present, or likely to be, he could not consent to the proposed advance.
The question was taken by Yeas and Nays, and negatived 36 to 28.
The following, being part of the proceedings of Monday, April 23, were accidentally omitted in their proper course.
On motion of Mr. J. WILLIAMS, the house went into a committee of the whole on the bill for organizing, arming, and disciplining the militia of the United States. Very soon after the committee was formed, Mr. Otis wished the committee to rise, in order to move in the house, a postponement of the consideration of this bill till the next session of Congress. He was convinced that the principle in the bill which went to divide the militia into a select and reserved corps, was a good one; but he did not think this was a proper moment to make the new arrangement. The bill contained, he said, a great variety of detail, which would consume considerable time to discuss, and after all, he did not believe it would be got through this session. It was probable, he said, that a provisional army, or some other arrangement, would be necessary for the present, in order to prepare for any attack that may be made upon us; and he thought it would be very wrong to dilogize the present system of militia at this time, since he saw no good effect that could be immediately produced by the change.
This motion was supported by Messrs. Skinner, Varnum, and T. Claiborne; and opposed by Messrs. Shepard, S. Smith, R. Williams, Nicholas, M'Dowell, and Macon. It was negatived 38 to 37.
The consideration of the bill was then resumed and some progress made on it; when the committee rose, and the house adjourned.
Thursday, April 26.
Mr. D. FOSTER, from the committee of claims, made an unfavourable report on the petition of Alexander Power, attorney in fact for Edward Bryan, and others, soldiers in the Pennsylvania line, which was concurred in.
The bill for establishing an executive department, to be denominated the department of the navy, was read the third time, and passed, 42 to 27.
On motion, the house again resolved itself into a committee of the whole on the bill appropriating for the military establishment for the year 1798; when the question for filling the blank in the quarter master department with 200,000 dollars again recurring.
Mr. HARPER said, it was recollected that when the house last rose, it was for the purpose of affording time to make some discrimination in the appropriations. The gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Gallatin) had done this, and it appeared to him correctly. Mr. H. enumerated the different items, and the sums calculated for each. The vessels on the Lakes he had no doubt would be an useful object, and ought to be provided for, but not under the quarter master department. He would introduce it as a distinct item; but he did not know under what authority the vessels on the Ohio and Mississippi were constructed, or for what purpose they were wanted. Perhaps it might have been for the lower part of the Mississippi, from the idea of a rupture in that quarter; but though this might have been the case, he was far from admitting the principle that the war department had a right to determine the propriety of such a measure. He believed, if such an expense was necessary an appropriation ought to have been made by Congress. He was therefore willing to drop this item altogether. It was stated that the construction of these vessels was commenced; he was notwithstanding willing that it should be suspended, until some enquiry was made into the business, and Congress shall pass a law to authorize the expenditure. He could not say these vessels were not necessary; but he was willing to say they should not be provided for at present. Mr. H. again objected to the expense of 34,000 dollars for the transportation of ordnance and stores from this city to Pittsburgh. As Congress had no assurances of these being wanted, he should be willing to omit this item also. He wished likewise to enquire whether other ordnance could not be procured in that country, without being at so great an expense in transporting them from this city.
Mr. H. still wished the blank to be filled with 200,000 dollars. The former estimate was 188,000 dollars, but he believed it would
be well to appropriate the even sum he had named, as the average of the expense of the five last years in this department (as he had already stated) had been 200,000 dollars.
Mr. SEWALL wished to know whether the gentleman from S. Carolina had had any conversation with the Secretary of War respecting the vessels constructing on the Lakes and the Ohio? He supposed it was not expected that an act should be passed to enable the President to replace vessels used as transports, when worn out. Perhaps it might be necessary to arm these transports occasionally, as they were subject to the attacks of the Indians.
Mr. HARPER said, he did not object to the vessels on the Lakes; he meant to propose a separate appropriation for them. It was to the vessels on the Ohio and Mississippi that he objected, which were not wanted for transportation.
Mr. CRAIK did not think the committee were prepared to say these vessels were not wanted. He had full confidence in the Secretary of War, that he was ready to vote for all the items which he had recommended. He wished, therefore, that the decision upon this question might be postponed, until further information was received on the subject.
The rising of the committee was advocated by Messrs. Craik, Dayton and Rutledge, and opposed by Messrs. Harper, S. Smith and Gallatin. The question for rising was negatived.
Mr. MACON said, he was at a loss how to vote on this subject. Whatever sum was appropriated for this department, there was always a deficiency; it was not, therefore, worth while to be very particular.
Mr. GALLATIN moved to fill the blank with 150,000 dollars, which was the sum he had proposed on a former day, since which, he said, the house had received a number of statements from the Secretary of War, in order to induce a larger appropriation. As there seemed to be a general concurrence of opinion to restrict the expenses of the war department, he wished some gentleman better able to do it than himself, would compare the number of troops in service with the sums there required. Mr. G. noticed a number of items which appeared to him unaccountably extravagant, and contrasted the very great expense incurred on the north western frontier with that of the troops employed on the seaboard. Mr. G. also took a view of the expenses undertaken from the year 1789 to the present time, in order to show that 150,000 dollars would be a sufficient appropriation.
After commenting pretty freely and at large on the estimates from the War Office, Mr. G. said, he believed there was some radical defect with respect to the connection subsisting betwixt the Accountant's Department, the Treasury and War Departments, which prevented a proper investigation of accounts. So far as relates to the Treasury Department, the accounts were always very clear, and there was no ground of complaint; but from the connection which subsists betwixt the War Department and the Accountant's Department, there seemed to be a want of responsibility.
In the details which had been laid before the house, Mr. G. said, he found items under the head of contingencies, which he should never have expected to have found there; one was for the pay of an Inspector of the troops and garrisons of the United States at a salary of 60 dollars a month. He could not say such an officer was not necessary; but if he was, he would say he ought to have been provided for by law. The other item was for a much larger sum, viz. for the pay of an Engineer of the fortifications of the United States at a salary of 3,000 dollars a year, which was a salary greater than that of the Secretary of War. It appears this Engineer was engaged for three years; but after he had been some time in the service, 2,000 dollars were given him over and above his pay to relinquish his contract.
After a few observations from Mr. DANA in favour of the Secretary of War, Mr. SHEPARD rose and went over the different items contained in the statement read yesterday, particularly the boatmen, 13,000 dollars, the packhorsemen 5,000, the waggoners 7,000, the labourers 3,000, the armourers 6,000, the artificers 14,000, hire of expresses 6,000, and fuel 3,000 dollars.
He could not tell how so many boatmen, packhorsemen and waggoners could be employed (for it was not for boats, packhorsemen and waggoners, but for the men alone); and what so many labourers could be employed in he could not imagine. He did not see why the soldiers could not do all the labour the army had to do themselves. When he was in the army, he was at no expense like this. And how the repairing of the arms for 3,000 men could cost 6,000 dollars, he could not tell. Nor could he see how 14,000 dollars could be expended on artificers. If we were to be involved in war, it would not do to expend money in this manner. It was very easy to write down 30, 50 or 100,000 dollars for this or that, but when the taxes came to be laid, the money would not be so easily raised. Mr. S. passed over a number of articles, till he came to the fuel. He thought 8,000 dollars a year for fuel, in a country where the trees were ready to fall upon them, was a very exorbitant charge. Whilst he was in the army, it never cost him sixpence for fuel. The United States had better purchase the land upon which the timber grows at once; they would be able to get it for a much less sum. If these expenses were to be incurred for 5,000 men, what, he asked, would be the expense of an army of 30,000 men? This estimate, he was sure, must be much too large; and it became Congress to be careful how they gave encouragement to such charges as these; for the country would scarcely be able to support the expense of any considerable establishment, if more economy was not used.
The question on filling the blank with 200,000 dollars was put and negatived, without a division.
Mr. CRAIK moved to fill the blank with 224,000 dollars, in order to take in an item recommended by the Secretary of War. Mr. C. thought the character of this officer had been very illiberal and very unfairly attacked by the gentleman from Pennsylvania. If this gentleman had acted improperly he might be called to account, when he would have an opportunity of speaking for himself. [The Chairman said these remarks were not in order: no such charges had been made.] Mr. C. thought the observations of the gentleman to whom he alluded, must have been understood.
The motion of Mr. Craik not being seconded, it fell to the ground.
Mr. GALLATIN moved to fill the blank with 150,000 dollars. He said, that with respect to the integrity of the Secretary of War, he did not doubt it in the least; as to his talents he had had no opportunity of forming a correct judgment of them; he was however, some judge of accounts, and he saw enough of them, to authorize the declaration which he had made, as to the improper connection of the different departments. He had spoken of facts only.
The question for filling the blank with 150,000 dollars, was put and carried, without a division.
150,000 dollars, was put and carried, without a division.
Among agreeing to several other items, amongst which was one for the vessels on the Lakes, the committee rose, the house agreed to the amendment, and the bill was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading.
Mr. CRAIK presented a set of resolutions which had been agreed to at a public meeting at Georgetown, approving the measures of the Executive with respect to France, and expressing the firmest reliance on the councils of the nation.
Mr. THOMAS presented an address from upwards of 4000 citizens of Philadelphia and the liberties, approbatory of the measures of the Executive (mentioned in a former paper). These resolutions and address had the usual reference.
The SPEAKER then laid before the house Mr. Pinckney's letter on the subject of the presents offered to him by the courts of Spain and Great Britain (which has already been mentioned) asking the decision of Congress whether he should be allowed to receive them or not, which, after some few observations, was referred to a select committee of three members. Adjourned.
FOREIGN ARTICLES.
RASTADT, March 4. The following is the answer of the French minister Treillard and Bonnier, to the note landed them by Count Metternich, by order of the Congress, relative to the cession of the left Bank of the Rhine to the French Republic:—
"The undernamed have received the note transmitted to them by Count Metternich, and beg leave to return the following answer:—The French republic, in the beginning of the session of this Congress, has immediately and frankly declared the basis upon which peace can be concluded; It is therefore determined not to vary from it. The justice and necessity of ceding the left bank of the Rhine to the French republic has been candidly set forth in the notes heretofore transmitted by the undersigned, in which, they trust, they have also fully shown that it will be for the mutual advantage of all parties concerned. The French republic did not expect that so much artifice would be made use of in order to delay the determination of this article. It is now insisted on to make an immediate declaration on this head.—The Ministers of the French republic, therefore demand of the congress, to declare, whether they agree to this article of not, without loss or time."
"Rastadt, 14th Ventose. 6th year of the French republic (4th March, 1798.)"
March 8.
Yesterday, in the sitting of this Congress, the answer of the French minister of the 4th inst. was read, and debated. This is the 32d day's sitting of this body. It is tho' certain, that the French will have ceded to them, the whole of the left bank of the Rhine. The advantages obtained over the Swiss have much contributed to facilitate the proceedings of the congress in this business.
STOCKHOLM, March 2.
The couriers between the place and Paris are very frequent. There are also several arrived from St. Petersburg, which give rise to many conjectures.
The elegant and precious monument in honor of the immortal LINNAEUS, is completed and publicly erected.
PARIS, March 5.
On opening the papers arrived from Rome, a small iron chest was found, which contained a number of important correspondences.
The famous Gregoire has addressed the Grand Inquisitor of Spain on the subject of the Spanish Inquisition. He recommends its annihilation.
The Commissioner of government at Calais has thus written to the minister of the Interior. "I hold it sufficiently important to give to you the information that the Citoyenne Fournier, on the 12th ult. was delivered of six living children, three boys and three girls, but which died soon after they were born."
HAGUE, March 6.
A new man of war, of 68 guns, called the Dogger Bank, was yesterday launched at Rotterdam, in the presence of a number of the representatives of the people, the French minister Delacroix, Admiral De Winter, general Soubert, &c. A grand salute was fired on the occasion, and the master builder was honored with the fraternal kiss by the French minister.
Since the month of November last there have been built at Rotterdam, two ships of 68, and a frigate of 32 guns. In eight days a keel will be laid for another 68.
The vessels damaged in the late engagement are repairing with the greatest expedition.
FRANKFORT, March 10.
We have news of importance from Basle (Switzerland) The French and the troops of Berne and Solothurn have had three bloody battles near Niddau, Lengnau and Dornbach. Most of the families of consequence have left Berne for Luzerne. The Swiss fought courageously, but were overcome by the French. At Lengnau, they lost 8 cannon, and had 200 prisoners made, many of whom were officers. In another battle, they lost upwards of 1000 men, and some hundreds sprang into the sea.
It has been said here that Solothurn was given into the hands of the French through treachery of the commandant.
BRUSSELS, Feb. 20.
At a dinner lately given by citizens Viconti, one of the Cisalpine ambassadors gave the following toast: "The six directories of the six sister-Republics, one and indivisible, viz. the Batavian, Cisalpine, French, Helvetic, Ligurian and Roman."
ARAU, February 14.
A message from the government of Berne
was the day before yesterday received at Luzern, wherein the former claimed the assistance stipulated in former treaties from the latter canton. But the democrats of Luzerne sent the following answer: As soon as you shall allow equal rights to your subjects we shall be ready to unite with you and sacrifice our property and lives in support of the Helvetic independence. If you hesitate to do this, you need not expect any assistance.
CONSTANTINOPLE, January 30.
Besides the numerous land forces preparing against the rebel Pauan Ogin, the Porte has ordered the whole fleet to be fitted out, and manned 12,000 sailors are to be enlisted in the harbours of the Black sea, and the Islands of the Archipelago. The fleet will be ready to sail the middle of March, designed, it is supposed, for the Archipelago.
PERSIA, October 26.
The disturbances which arose on account of the succession to the throne were of but short duration, and Persia again appears to enjoy the blessings of peace. Baba-Chan, nephew of the late Eunuch, whose memory is devoted to everlasting execration, met but few obstacles in ascending the throne. Supported by an army of 60,000 men, and master of immense riches, which he inherited from his uncle, he has hitherto triumphed over all his rivals: Sadi-Chan, the most formidable among them, laid down his arms, having been twice defeated, and submitted. Baba-Chan made him governor of an important province. All unite in commending Baba-Chan our new sovereign.
ROME, February 13.
General Berthier previous to his entrance into this City, published; that, as divers Proclamations were forged here under his signature, whoever should undertake to publish such again, and be convicted thereof, should instantly be shot. The two Cardinals Albani and Buschi from York got off in good time to Terracina. His Holiness the Pope is in the meantime guarded in his Palace by 500 soldiers—divers other palaces and likewise those belonging to absent Cardinals, are seal'd up with the French seal.
The French immediately after their arrival here laid the City under contribution in the sum of four millions in cash, two millions in provisions and 3,000 horses. The several Cardinals, Somaglia, Roverella, Caraffa, Trajetti, and Carandina, as likewise the Princes Gensuimani, Gabrieli, Calano, the arch-due Brachi, besides two Prelates were all taken as hostages, and the Fiscal Barbari was arrested, and all suspicious civil officers were sent away. The murderers of General Duhot are escaped. Our Republic will include those provinces, which were left to the Pope in the treaty of Peace at Tolentino. The civil military is dismissed, and the Papal troops were all disarmed. The French have requested of the Neapolitan Court, 40,000 measures of grain and other provisions. The number of French troops which by degrees entered the City is 12,000 men Gen. Massena who will command them is hourly expected—he passed the 16th inst. thro' Bologna. Gen. Berthier is destined to the expedition against England, others say he is to go on some other important expedition.
From the Western Telegraph.
HISTORY is a narrative of divine Providence or God's government of the world—and the Jewish history as contained in the bible is the more instructive as the finger of God is there constantly pointed out. We read other histories as men see a puppet show at a distance. But in the bible we are brought near and as it were let behind the scene and see the wires and springs by which all the motions are directed. If we read the history or attend to the transactions of any nation, we shall find that all nations, like the Jews, are under the immediate government of God; that their fate is generally according to their conduct; that righteousness exalteth a nation; but sin is the reproach of any people; that when corrupted by prosperity, they forget God, he forsakes them to misfortune; and that when awakened by distress they return to him, he comforts and raises them up. It is true he sometimes to accomplish the purposes of his providence gives prosperity to one guilty nation, merely to use it as a scourge on the sins of others. The wicked in great power spread for a while like a green bay-tree. But it is soon cut off and forgotten. It may always be distinguished, whether prosperity is given by God to any nation as a blessing or a curse, by their spirit, temper, and conduct under it. If they are humble, just, and reverential of God, we may expect their greatness will be stable. If they are insolent, oppressive and irreligious, depend upon it, they are raised not for their own benefit, but for the calamity of others; and their destruction will be sudden.
France seems now to be in this state. She is Babylon, a golden cup in the Lord's hand, that hath made all the earth drunken of her wine, therefore the nations are mad. A fire is kindled in his anger and shall burn unto the lowest Hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundation of the mountains. For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them. Their wine is the vine of Sodom and of the field of Gomorrah: their grapes are of gall, their clusters are bitter. Their wine is the poison of dragons, & the cruel venom of asps. Is not this laid up in my store with me and sealed up among my treasures? To me belongeth vengeance and recompence their foot shall slide in due time. For the day of their calamity is at hand and the things that shall come upon them make haste. For the Lord shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants; when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut up or left.
After spreading calamity over the half of Europe, France comes now to disturb the peace of America. As Alexander was never satisfied while there was any power to subdue France, is never satisfied while there

to any happiness to destroy. We have done her no injustice, we can do her no injury, we are free ourselves, and we rejoiced in her freedom and should yet cordially exult in the permanent establishment of a constitutional Government, liberty, and happiness in that nation. What but a domineering spirit of destruction could lead France to attack America! We have tried every means of conciliation. She will not listen unless we sacrifice our happiness, our liberty, our honour, our independence to her base haughty passions.
In this state what should America do?—What did she do when required in like manner by Britain to crouch under tyranny? After all pacific measures are exhausted, let America set her confidence in God, and under his protection exert her means of self-defence. A just cause and a fear of God gives a confidence and courage which nothing else can inspire.—There is a boldness in virtue which secures success, when its strength is animated by a trust in divine Providence and favour. A bad cause and a want of hope and faith make the endeavours languid and the arm nerveless. Conscience makes cowards of us all.
The President of the United States conscious of the justice of our cause, of the rectitude of his motives, and of the sincerity of his endeavours for reconciliation and peace, has piously determined to awaken the minds of the American people to an appeal to heaven, their true resource, their certain help in time of trouble. He has proclaimed the 9th of May a day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer. If we mean to trust in the favour of God we must cultivate virtue. And piety is necessary to enforce virtue. Let all friends to their country now in the hour of its distress turn their hearts to God: we have a good cause and in him we shall find a true friend. Let the day be observed according to the proclamation. Even where there is no minister or regular congregation, let the people assemble at their ordinary places of worship. The quakers worship even in silence. Let some of the most intelligent deliver their sermons on our condition and our duties and let the others regard with an attentive ear and a sincere heart.
[Here follows the President's proclamation.] These are the sentiments of true piety and expressions of the fear of GOD. Let us now turn our eyes to France: and we shall see that their Rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.
Hebert, a professed atheist, at the instigation of the execrable Condorcet, set up the "Journal de Veritable Pere au Chene." This paper was filled with blasphemy, and obscenity of the grossest kind, and was distributed with a most pernicious activity.
The blessed effects of this patriotic print were not long in manifesting themselves.—The people, accustomed to see the religion of their ancestors daily reviled, learned to think of it with indifference, and soon became ripe for the "Farce" which Condorcet and his atheistical associates were preparing for them.
Gobet, the revolutionary bishop of Paris, appeared at the bar of the Constituent Assembly with his inferior clergy, and made a formal abjuration of christianity. He threw himself, he said, on the mercy of the nation, for having so long deceived them with the absurdities of the impostor Christ, and his pretended Father, whose doctrines he now abjured with detestation and horror; and he assured them, that in future he would acknowledge no other deity than reason.
Here began the ceremony so much admired by the Jacobin prints. Hebert kept a trumpeter of the name of Mormore, the wife of a rene-gado Corsican. This miserable prostitute was fixed upon to represent the Goddess of Reason; she was fantastically tricked out, and led at the head of a grand procession, to the church of Notre Dame, the cathedral of Paris:—here she was solemnly placed on a throne of turf and flowers, while Gobet, and the rest of the revolutionary clergy, burnt incense on an altar, erected just before her.
While this was performing, the cannon announced the installation of the new Goddess; the enlightened people of Paris fell prostrate at the signal, and paid their brutified adorations at the feet of a street-walker and an adulteress! ! !
They wrote over the entrance of their church yards, "This is the place of everlasting sleep." And so completely was it supposed that religion was destroyed in France that Robespierre thought proper to propose a decree that the French nation believed in a God.
If we compare the conduct of our President with that of the French government we may not well say that their Rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges? And if we believe in a God and his Providence can we think that prosperity is given to the French but as a scourge to other nations; that it will last longer than that end is accomplished; or that if we put our trust in God we need fear what they can do unto us?
Let the well disposed people of this country, reflect seriously on these paragraphs.
Are they content to exchange rational liberty for anarchy, and the religion of their forefathers for atheism in its most horrid form? If so, they will do well to attend these zealous of infidelity; these faithful copyists of the Pere du Chene; they are the mouth pieces of the party; and they speak to us in thunder.
But we have better hopes: we trust our countrymen regard their blasphemies with abhorrence, and are well aware of the folly of confiding in the hypocritical pretensions of those men, who begin their patriotic career by requiring us to renounce our peace here, and our hopes of happiness hereafter.
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The Gazette. PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY EVENING, May 8.
To-morrow being the NATIONAL FAST, the next number of this Gazette will not be published till Thursday.
Yesterday, the House of Representatives of the United States was engaged in discussing the propositions reported by the committee of ways and means on the subject of a Direct Tax of Two Millions proposed to be raised from lands, houses and slaves. Mr. D. FOSTER opened the debate by withdrawing the motion which he made on Saturday to strike out the word annually , and proposing in its stead, to add to the end of the resolution, the following words, viz. "to be collected for a term not exceeding years , provided that the legislature of the United States, shall be at all times at liberty to substitute such other duty or tax of equal value in lieu thereof, for the discharge of any debt or loan contracted on the credit of the said tax, as they may think proper." This motion produced a very long debate. It was finally negatived 46 to 35. Mr. D. FOSTER then renewed his motion, for striking out the word annually , which was carried, there being 60 votes for it. Mr. REED afterwards moved, to amend the second resolution, which directs the manner of laying tax, by striking out the word uniform (viz. that the tax be uniformly laid throughout the United States on lands, houses and slaves) and adding to the end of it "and such other estate within each particular state as is taxable according to the established rule of direct taxation in such state." This motion was negatived, there being only 21 votes for it. The resolutions were then referred to the Committee of Ways and Means to report a bill or bills accordingly.
The following was the Answer of the President of the United States to the Address of the citizens of Boston, which appeared in this paper a few days ago.
To the inhabitants and citizens of Boston. GENTLEMEN, I THANK you for the declaration of your approbation of the measures adopted by me relative to our foreign relations, to conciliate the French Republic, and to accommodate all existing differences upon terms compatible with the safety, the interest and the dignity of the United States.
Your high and elevated opinion of, and confidence in the virtue, wisdom and patriotism of the national government, and fixed resolution to support, at the risk of your lives and fortunes, such measures as may be determined to be necessary to promote and secure the honor and happiness of the United States, do you honor, and are perfectly in character.
It must however be a very unnatural and peculiar state of things, to make it necessary or proper in you, or in any other American in your behalf, to declare to the world what the world ought to have known and acknowledged without hesitation, that you are not humiliated under a colonial spirit of fear, that you are not a divided people, in any point which involves the honor, safety and essential rights of your country, that you know your rights, and are determined to support them.
(Signed) JOHN ADAMS. Philadelphia, May 7, 1798.
Upwards of nine hundred of the Young Men of the City of New-York assembled on the evening of the 5th instant to address the President of the United States, declaring their unequivocal approbation of the wise and dignified conduct of our executive with respect to France, and pledging themselves to be in readiness at a moment's warning, to obey the summons of their country; in repelling at all hazards, the threatened dissolution of her constituted authorities.
DESERTIONS from CONGRESS.
MR. FENNO, As you were in obligation to publish, some days since, some irregularities on those members of Congress who have fled from their duty at a time of unexampled difficulty and danger, I must request the publication of some further observations on this interesting subject. Although I could not flatter myself that any remarks I have made or shall make, would either recall the fugitives to a sense of shame & duty or prevent the defection of others, yet I had hoped that the perplexing and alarming situation of our country, ripening fast to some great event—the embarrassed state of public affairs, in a great measure unprepared for the serious state of things that seems to be rapidly pressing upon us—the indispensable necessity for wisdom, celerity and energy in our measures and provisions, and the painful anxiety and uncertainty that agitates the public mind would have had some influence in holding men who have voluntarily assumed public responsibility, to the faithful discharge of those duties and a faithful guardianship over that country whose fate rests in their fidelity. Great God! what shall we say and think of men who will desert such high and interesting duties and leave their country to take its chance; to stand or fall as it shall happen; to be a prey to its foes who are never caught napping, who never desert their attack on its prosperity and safety, to gratify some trifling whim, to answer some paltry purpose. Such men are more unworthy of public confidence, are more deserving public indignation than Callatin or Giles , or the most inveterate foes of the government. If we are required, let these men answer for it to their consciences and their country. But can they not be compelled to do their duty? Is it at their option to leave us to destruction or not? Why do not their constituents send them back to the seat of government with reproach and indignation? This must be done—I would have them sent back like the criminals they are. Do they not betray their country—do they not give her up to ruin? And is this no crime—no treason? Ten Senators are now absent with very little prospect of their returning, at least as to the greater part of them.
Absentees, May 7th, from the Senate. One from Massachusetts Two from Vermont One from New-York Two from New-Jersey One from Pennsylvania One from Delaware One from Tennessee One from Georgia
The Printers of the United States are requested to republish the above.
VOLUNTEER CORPS.
The Youth of North and South Mulberry Wards, who are desirous of forming themselves into a Uniform Volunteer Corps are requested to meet on Friday evening, 11th inst. at the House of J. Hardy, Swan Tavern, North Third Street.
May 8.
COLUMBIA'S CALL. Thou God of hosts inspire my song, Give to my soul ethereal fire; Teach me to sing of peace and war: Of peace, sweet peace, The Virgin's theme, The matrons with, And all good men's desire. Columbia, blest by peace, Held in union's vast embrace, With equal liberty and laws: Securely are, The rich, the poor, The child, and spouse, In their respective place. Behold her numbers, great increase, Her commerce spread on all the seas; Her cities trade, her fruitful fields; Science rising, Arts improving; Thy blessings these, Fair liberty, and peace.
But hark! the distant dangers, fire, Her ships assail, and threat, that peace, On the Atlantic, as they roll, From common foes, Plunder, and spoil, On sea, on land, Expect; defend; make haste. Sons of Columbia, arise! Your country calls, for war prepare; Equip your fleet, to arms! to arms! Protection Give, liberty, Your property, Lives, and all, all that's dear.
Remember how your fathers fought, With WASHINGTON the wise, and brave; Real independence, was the prize: Given to you, Preferve it pure, In life, 'till death; Nor yield it at the grave.
That WASHINGTON, at Vernon's mount, Columbia's sons, his brothers all, His country still surveys, and loves: His life, with their's, In war he holds, As held in peace, Devoted to their call.
Then freemen brave, mature in age; And you, her rising, gallant youth, With ADAMS in the civil state; And WASHINGTON In arms with you, Ad well your parts: Success is yours—'tis truth.
Smiling peace once more return'd, Shall gladden every heart with ease: The country wife, and village maid, Happy to find The men at home, Will each, her part Well play, to cheer, and please. Commerce shall spread her canals wide; And tillage, with her sweaty face, Will give us plenty for our toil. While public good, And household joy, Will be the boon, Of valor, love, and peace.
By a Senator of the United States. May 6th, 1798.
At an Election held yesterday, at the Library, for the choice of ten Directors and a Treasurer of the Library Company of Philadelphia, for the ensuing year, the following Gentlemen were duly elected, to-wit.
DIRECTORS. Josiah Hewes, Mordecai Lewis Richard Wells, Thomas Parke John Kaighn, Samuel M. Fox Richard Wistar, Joseph P. Norris James Read, John Bleakley. TREASURER. John Dorsey.
GAZETTE MARINE LIST.
New-York, May 7. Barque Eliza, Geoffrey Guadalupe Brig Polly, Simpson Jamaica 26 Sloop Cornelia, Hubbell, do. 26 Schr True Blue, Hobby N. Providence 9 Schr Sloop Harry, Johnson do. Schr Tredwell, Bartram Barbadoes 21 Balladore, Gardner Gibraltar 33 Hazard, Kelly Port-au-Prince 19
Boston, May 3.
This day arrived, the excellent and fast sailing ship Herald , armed with 14 guns Edward Davis, commander, in 45 days from London; failed in co. the 18th March from Portsmouth, with the following vessels— Ships Minerva, Turner, Bolton; Galen, Mackay, do; Nancy, Joy, do. Factor, Kemp, New-York; Two Friends, Gardner, do. Industry, Rudd, do. Belvidere, Chase and Carlisle, Bryden, of Baltimore; Maria, Inglis; Pacific, Kennedy; and Carolina, of Charleston; Rebecca, Carran, Norfolk; Juno, Beard, Wilmington, barque Adriana, Philadelphia; brigs Helen, Patterson, Yorktown, Pallas, Cooke, Charleston; Orion, Rice, Portsmouth, N. H. Eliza, Benson, Baltimore; Vine, Norfolk, convoyed by his Britannic Majesty's ship the St. Alban's and a sloop of war. On the 26th were joined by the convoy from Cork, consisting of the ships Packet, Delight, Victory, Hibernia of Boston; Severn, Chesapeake, Swan, America, Alliance; Warren, Dispatch of New York; Manchester, Philadelphia; Sydney, Baltimore; Little William, Norfolk; Accepted Mason, Wilfcast; Mary, Portsmouth; Eleven Sons, New-London; Revolution, Hudson; Foxwell, Pepperelboro; Venus, Person; Kennebec; barques Neptune, Portsmouth; Albany, Hudson; brigs Sally, Norfolk, Ranger, Baltimore; America, Wilfcast; besides 6 or 8 vessels whose names could not be ascertained. On the 28th, in long. 15, in a fog, lost the convoy; March 30, was chased by a frigate, which brought us too, after running 15 hours to the eastward; it proved to be his Britannic Majesty's frigate the Cleopatra, treated politely, and informed us that he had retaken the William Penn, of and from Philadelphia; also, a French privateer of 16 guns and 130 men. On the 31st, was chased by a privateer brig, who
came near, but on seeing the guns, sheered off. Ship Minerva, S. D. Turner, commander from London, left the Downs the 11th and Portsmouth the 18th with the fleet.—On the 1st April, the ship V. Story, Spaf-ford, of Boston, bound to New-York, saw her heavy bargo overboard, which consisted of slates; she was immediately relieved by the Commodore, who sent ten men to her assistance; on the 3d, in a heavy gale lat. 42, 26, long. 17, 53, wind south saw the same ship in distress, bore down to lend her assistance, laid by him 6 hours; after a consultation on board, they determined not to quit her; she is supposed to have returned to Cork. March 13, the St. Albans boarded and sent into Falmouth the American ship Party, Campbell from Tenerife, bound to Hamburg, having Spanish papers on board; which ship was boarded the day before by a French privateer and suffered to proceed. The fleet may be expected in all this month; and should any be unfortunate enough to be captured, it cannot be attributed to want of attention on the part of capt. Pender, Commodore of the convoy.
Passengers in the Minerva —Messrs. Dickson, Fraser, Cunningham, Morgan, Creley, Wright, Apthorp and Skinner.
Passengers in the Herald —Messrs. Apthorp, Lilliard, Lang, Tibbs and Wayne, Captain Davis on coming into the harbour fired a salute of 14 guns.
A second convoy for America was appointed to sail the first week in May.
Arrived Schooner Phoenix, Gale, Rotterdam, 50 days. Left there brig Ann, Lord, of Boston, to sail in 5 weeks for Surinam; brig Columbia, Coffin, of and for New-York, in 5 days; brig Hannah, Swan, of and to sail for Marblehead in a fortnight; capt. Stever, in a brig of Newburyport, to sail next day for Dublin; failed in co. with a ship of Newburyport, bound to Dublin, and captain Stowell, in a brig bound to Philadelphia. Spoke March 10, 6 leagues N. the Isle of White, ship Lucia, Chapman, of Baltimore, bound to London, 27 days out, all well. April 20, lat. 42, long. 54, spoke ship John, Ingraham, of Boston, from Charleston, bound to Copenhagen, 18 days from LLOYD'S LIST, March 3—12.
Plymouth, March 8. arrived the Jason Pender, of New-York, bound to Hamburg, detained by the Havelock sloop of war.
Pool, March 8, arrived Two Friends, Sheppard, Cowes.
Gravesend, March 6—12 passed by, the Gen. Elliot, Warren, from Jamaica, and Neptune, Stocks from St. Michael's. Arrived, Adventure, Purnell, Charleston; Saratoga, Christy, do. Minerva, French do. Apollo, Parker, Savannah.
Cook, arrived, Virginia, Davis, Virginia; Peggy, Watson, New-York; Atlantic, Brown, New-York. Yarmouth, arrived, John Scott, Newport.
Belfast, arrived, Port William, Packwood, New-York. The Phoenix, Becker, from Bremen, for Baltimore, is carried into L'Orient.
An American vessel laden with rice, cotton, hides, and timber, is taken by La Vigillante privateer; off Landend and carried into Pambol. An American brig laden with oranges and lemons, bound to Liverpool, taken by La Constance privateer of the same port and carried thither also.
The Three Sisters, Wood, from Liverpool to Boston, has been captured by the French, and retaken on the 18th inst. by the Eliza, Smith, who gave her up to the American captain.
The Lighthorse, Gibson, from Baltimore to Amsterdam, has been taken by the French, retaken by the Anson frigate, and brought into Plymouth.
The American ship Eliza, originally from Batavia has been taken and detained by an English armed vessel.
Captured, the snow Rebecca, (Amer.) from Charleston, bound to Goree, the naval stores taken out, and landed here, vessel liberated.
Ship President, (American bottom) with an English cargo, bound to Goree; taken by the enemy, and recaptured off the mouth of the Gambia; vessel and cargo returned to the owners here, on salvage being paid.
Baltimore, May 5.
Last evening arrived the snow Eliza, captain Perry Benson, from London, left from Falmouth which she left the twenty-third of March. The papers received from our corresp. agent at London are no later than the twenty-fourth of February. One of the seventh of March was brought; but we were not so fortunate as to obtain it. Verbal information by persons who came passengers, says, nothing of importance had lately transpired. The affairs of Ireland were settled; the people appeared satisfied with the government, and the threats of an invasion were treated with contempt. The Hamburgers had paid one hundred thousand pounds sterling to the directory for peace.
The following gentlemen came passengers in the Eliza: David Stewart, jun. James Purviance, Lloyd Buchanan. Every ship in the convoy was armed, except the Montezuma and Carlisle.
The Eliza saluted the city this morning with sixteen guns.
Captain Benson left Portsmouth on the 18th March, with the following American ships under convoy of the St. Albans, of 64 guns. On the 19th the Herald, of Boston, ran foul of the Eliza and carried away her bowsprit, which obliged her to put into Falmouth. The fleet proceeded to Cork to join another vessel of war, with the Liverpool, Bristol and Irish ships.
With the vessels from London and those at Cork, it is supposed, the fleet will consist of 40 sail. The commodore intended going the southern passage, and to drop the ships along the coast.
Mr. Bayard and family, of New-York, are on board the Factor. Saw in the Gulf, the ship Ardent, Smith, of this port.
By this day's Mail.
NEW-YORK, May 7.
On Saturday arrived here the Schooner Valedore, Capt. Gardner, 33 days from Gibraltar—the failed in company with the brig Commerce, of and for this port, under an English convoy, with one regiment of troops bound to Lisbon.
The Spanish fleet were still St. Vincent's. March 3, in lat. 38, 1° 70, spoke the Assistance and another 50, the latter having lost her rudder head—Had in company a French prize, and a few days before had sent in a Spanish prize, with considerable money.
The ship Hunter of this port, is taken and carried into Algeziras.
There were no American vessels left at Gibraltar.
The Valedore, or Flyer, was formerly a Spanish guarda-coasta, and was some time in Jan. taken by an English frigate. We are told she was purchased by a citizen of New-York, and sent out with a cargo or prize wine.
Capt. Bell, informs, that on the night of the 21st ult. there was a dreadful fire in Wilmington (N. C.) which consumed a
great part of the town. The particulars are not within our reach.
COMMUNICATION. THE EFFUSIONS OF PATRIOTISM, at the theatre on Friday evening last, on the singing of Mr. Williamson's SONG, exceeded all former example.
As the vile revolutionary fervor subsides, and men begin to recover from the frenzy of their Gallic delirium, it affords a perfect irresistibly enchanting to behold the love of our country rapidly spreading in every part of the Union, and a rational and honest patriotism receiving that homage so long and so disgracefully bestowed on a delusive and irrational compound of anarchy, philosophy and atheism.
The unbounded and reiterated shouts of applause which attended each allusion to the godlike Washington, and the illustrious chief who now presides, give the fairest earnest of that unanimity which all feel to be so necessary, and of which the consequences cannot fail to surpass the most enthusiastic patriotism!
Firm—united—let us be, And fearless we may defy the combined efforts of all the revolutionary cut-throats of the earth—aye, even the whole hell of Sans-culottism.
We have a letter from Honduras of the 22d Feb. which mentions that the Charibs are in possession of the island of Rattan. It was impolicy in the English government to send them that island. His majesty's ship Merlin, on entering the harbor, saw the Spanish colours flying, and was fired on by one of the forts. Wood at Honduras is eagerly bought at 15l. Log-wood is 7l. 10s, and expected to rise 50 per cent.
BOSTON, May 3.
By the Herald and Minerva, from London, we have received papers to the 15th March, which, though many days later than before received, contain no information of great moment; they are principally filled up with lists of the voluntary contributions of the people of England, for supporting such measures of defence, as shall secure them from the threatened invasion of their restless and ambitious neighbor. The contributions at the bank, Mar. 10, were 1,147,309l. To these may be added, the free gifts of almost all the towns, and societies in the kingdom.
Extract of a letter from London.
"We have effected our insurance at 15 guineas per cent, to return 5 per cent for failing with convoy, and 3 per cent more for arming with the same. A large amount was effected on American vessels before the appointment of a convoy was known, at 18 guineas per cent."
American Stocks, in London. February 15th, March 4th, Three Per Cents, 54; Three Per Cents, 55, Deferred, 73, Deferred, 73, Six Per Cents, 83, Six Per Cents, 86 Bank Shares, 118 Bank Shares, 120 1/2 121
FAYETTEVILLE April 28.
A FIRE broke out in Wilmington on Saturday night the 21st inst. about 12 o'clock nearly in the centre of the north-east square of the town. The whole of which with many adjacent buildings, were consumed in the course of three hours.
A strong wind blowing from the south-west, together with the great exertions of the inhabitants, prevented the entire destruction of the whole town. The court house standing in the centre of the town, upon the preservation of which depended the safety of all the buildings, being on fire several times.—About 50 or 60 dwelling houses and stores were destroyed, besides kitchens &c. &c. The loss in buildings, & together with merchandise, furniture &c., is estimated at not less than 140,000 dollar. The misfortune is attributed to accident.
NOTICE.
HAVING observed an advertisement of C. Gullager, in terms derogatory of our professional abilities, we have to request the public not to be imposed upon by foreign artizans; but to decide upon the merits of each by a comparison of the work executed by both, as it is a mode almost universally adopted by them to invalidate the talents of established artizans, with a view of deceiving the public, and engrossing that business which their professional knowledge in no wise entitles them to. Well knowing that public opinion must govern, we flatter ourselves that the work executed by us will convince them of our great superiority over Mr. Gullager in every branch of portrait and ornamental painting, and shew the necessity of judging for themselves.
N. B. In future no attention will be paid to the self-flattering advertisements of Mr. G.
Any person wishing a supply of FLAGS and DRUMS will please apply to Geo. RUTTER and Co. Norris' Court, of Henry Frailey, Germantown. $6w may 8.
A few Copies
Of the DISPATCHES from the American Envoys at Paris, communicated to Congress in the President's Message of the 3d inst. may be had at this Office.
WILL BE SOLD,
On Thursday next at 7 o'clock in the Evening at the Merchants Coffee-House.
THE SLOOP HARRIOT.
Now lying at Messrs. Willing & Francis's Wharf burthen 75 tons, three years old, well found and calculated for a Coaster. CONNELLY, & Co. Auctioneers. may 8. dis.
VIRGINIA TOBACCO.
WALKER & KENNEDY, No. 73, South Front-Street.
HAVE FOR SALE, 50 Hogsheads Virginia Tobacco, of Frederick-burg and Falmouth Inspections. 30 Hogsheads ditto of Richmond inspection. may 8. rodgt

JUST ARRIVED, In the brig Grady , capt. Bingham, from St. Martins A quantity of SALT, of an excellent quality A few gross Porter Bottles, new And twenty cases Vinegar And the said BRIG, Also, FOR SALE, Enquire of Jehu Hollingsworth & Co. No. 22, Little Water Street, South.
For Sale, at the Stores of the Sub- scribers, 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 pipes Old Port do. in hds. Empty Claret bottles 6 cases of Gingham, Dimities, Muslins &c. assorted for the West-India market 4, 10, and 12 inch cables and 10 coils of cordage Writing states, ink stands and presses 20 purchase Jamaica rum 1 bale leaning twine 160 bundles heating paper THE BRIG AMAZON, For Sale, or Charter. Nicklin & Griffith. tuth&cf
For Sale. 195 boxes white } Havannah Sugar 107 do. brown } 202 Hides Will be landed to-morrow, at Willings and Fran- cis's wharf, from on board the brig Active , Will- iam Williams, master. Also, The said Brig for sale, And may take in immedia- ately after discharged. Apply to Jehu Hollingsworth & Co. march 30.
For Hamburg, THE SHIP DOMINICK TERRY, John Fleming, Master, Having great part of her cargo en- gaged.—For freight apply to Jesse & Robert Waln. February 26
Horses on Sale. Several valuable Horses to be Sold, Which are perfectly well broke for either La- dies or Gentlemen; trials of them are allowed. Apply to T. SWANN at his Riding School Market-Street, which is open every day for the purpose of teaching the art of Horsemanship, and the breaking and train- ing of Horses. may 4.  Alex. J. Miller & James Davis, Having entered into partnership under the firm of Alexander J. Miller & Co. INFORM their friends in town and country, that they have opened a Wholesale Dry Good Store, at No. 64, South Front Street, Philadelphia; where they now have, and intend keeping a general as- sortment of India, German, Irish, French and Bri- tish Manufactures for sale, on advantageous terms for cash or a short credit. February 19
JUST RECEIVED, FROM PORT-AU-PRINCE, And FOR SALE, by the SUBSCRIBERS, 110 hlids. Coffee 46 tierces do. 100 barrels do. 100 bags do. 110 hogsheads of Muscovado Sugar 80 barrels of do. 40 hogsheads of Molasses 4 bales of Cotton 2 hogsheads of Cocoa WILLINGS & FRANCIS, Penn-street. march 12.
FOR SALE, BY THE SUBSCRIBERS, No. 23, Penn-street, The Cargo of the Ship Ganges, John Green, commander, from Bengal, Consisting of Bastas, of various qualities and prices, Coffees Punjum Cloths Sashes Guzzey do. Humhums Charconna Dorea Blue Cloth Tanjibs Chintz and Calicoes Mulmuls Mamoodys Checks Maharajones Panna Hkfs. Ginghams Mulmul do. Guzzenas Bandannoes Quurras Sifteroy Pinascoes Choppa Romals Salgatches Sooty do. Gillie Romals Persians of various col. Mock Pulicats 400 tons SUGAR 99,000 lb. PEPPER. Willings & Francis. The Piece Goods Of the Ganges are now open to sale at that commodious store the north well corner of Market and Fourth-streets. Also—A few Bales of Madras Hkfs. of ele- gant patterns and best colours. February 8.
FOR SALE. SEVERAL very elegant Situations for Sum- mer Retreats, three and a half miles from the Court House, and on the Frankford Road; the lots will be made to suit the purchasers. These situations are considered in point of health beauty and elegance, equal to any near the city, and the road known to be safe and good at all seasons of the year. The title indisputable—A plan of the grounds is in the hands of the sub- scriber, who will make known the terms on ap- plication to him at his office No. 124 South Fourth Street. ABRAHAM SHOEMAKER. may 2.
Grass Lots to let. THREE contiguous Lots of Ground, contain- ing something more than an acre, situated in Carpenter Street, between Third and Fourth Street, Southward; to rent separately or together, for the year or longer. They are in good order and generally produced fair for fifteen years past. Upon one lot is a frame dwelling house, a garden, well of water, and hay stables. For further in- formation, enquire at No. 12, North Third Street. april 25.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, March 1, 1798. PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, IN pursuance of the Act of Congress passed on the sixth day of July one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven, entitled "An Act laying duties on Stamped Vellum, Parchment and Paper," and the Act passed on the fifteenth day of December, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven, entitled "An Act to postpone for a limited time the commencement of the duties imposed by the Act enti- tled "An Act laying Duties on Stamped Vellum, Parchment and Paper," that from and after the first day of July ensuing, the several Stamped Duties hereinafter enumerated, will be levied and collect- ed throughout the United States.
For every skin or piece of Vellum or Parchment, or sheet or piece of Paper, upon which shall be written or printed any or either of the instruments or writings following—to wit:     INstruments Dls. Cts. Mls.     Any Certificate of Naturalization, 5   Any Licence to practice, or Certificate of the admission, enrolment or registry of any Counsellor, Solicitor, Attorney, Advocate or Proctor, in any Court of the United States 10   Provided, that a Certificate in any one of the Courts of the United States for one of the said Officers, shall so far as relates to the payment of the duty aforesaid, be a sufficient admission in all the Courts of the United States, for each and every of the said officers.   Any Grant or Letters Patent, under the seal or authority of the United States (except for lands granted for military services) 4   Any exemplification or certified copy of any such grant or letters patent, (ex- cept for lands granted for military services) 2   Any Charter-Party, Bottomry, or Respondentia Bond, 1   Any Receipt or discharge for or on account of any Legacy left by any Will or o- ther testamentary instrument, or for any share or part of a personal estate di- vided by force of any statute of distributions, other than to the Wife, Chil- dren or Grand Children of the person deceased, the amount whereof shall be above the value of Fifty Dollars, and shall not exceed the value of One Hun- dred Dollars, 25   When the amount thereof shall exceed the value of One Hundred Dollars and shall not exceed five hundred dollars, 50   And for every further sum of Five Hundred Dollars, the additional sum of Any Policy of Insurance or instrument in nature thereof, on any ship, vessel or goods insured from one district to another in the United States. 25   From the United States to any foreign port or place, when the sum for which Insurance is made shall not exceed five hundred dollars, 25   When the sum insured shall exceed five hundred dollars, 1   Any Exemplification, of what nature soever, that shall pass the seal of any Court, other than such as it may be the duty of the Clerk of such Court to furnish for the use of the United States or some particular state, 50   Any Bond, bill single or penal, foreign or inland bill of exchange, promissory note or other note, other than any recognizance, bill, bond, or other oblig- ation or contract, made to or with the United States or any state, or for their use respectively, 10   If above twenty dollars and not exceeding one hundred dollars, 25   If above one hundred dollars and not exceeding five hundred dollars, 50   If above five hundred dollars and not exceeding one thousand dollars, 75   And if above one thousand dollars,   Provided, that if any bonds or notes shall be payable at or within sixty days, such bonds or notes shall be subject to only two fifth parts of the duty aforesaid—viz.   If above twenty dollars and not exceeding one hundred dollars, 4   If above one hundred dollars and not exceeding five hundred dollars, 10   If above five hundred dollars and not exceeding one thousand dollars, 20   If above one thousand dollars, 30   Any Notes issued by the banks now established, or that may hereafter be estab- lished within the United States, other than the notes of such of the said Banks as shall agree to an annual composition, of one per centum on the annual di- vidends made by such Banks, to their Stockholders respectively, according to the following scale.   On all notes not exceeding fifty dollars, for each dollar, 6   On all notes above fifty dollars, and not exceeding one hundred dollars, 50   On all notes above one hundred dollars and not exceeding five hundred dollars, 1   On all notes above five hundred dollars, 2   Any Protest or other Notarial Act, 25   Any Letter of Attorney, except for an invalid pension, or to obtain or sell War- rants for Land granted by the United States as bounty for military services performed in the late war 25   Any Certificate or Debenture for drawback of Customs or duties, for less than five hundred dollars, 1   For five hundred dollars and not exceeding two thousand dollars, 2   For more than two thousand dollars, 3   Any note or bill of lading for goods or merchandise to be exported, If from one district to another district of the United States, not being in the same State, 10   If from the United States to any foreign port or place, 25   Any Inventory or Catalogue of any furniture, goods or effects, made in any case required by law, (except in cases of goods and chattels distrained for rent or taxes, and goods taken in virtue of any legal process by any officer,) 50   Any Certificate of a Share in any Insurance Company, of a share in the Bank of the United States, or of any State or other Bank, 10   If above one hundred dollars, 25   If under twenty dollars, at the rate of ten cents for one hundred dollars.  
The duties aforesaid will be collected and received by the Supervisors, Inspectors and other Officers of Inspection, in the several Districts, Surveys and Divisions of the United States, and by such other persons as shall from time to time be specially appointed and employed by the Supervisors of Districts for that purpose.  III. The Supervisors of the several Districts will, prior to the first day of July ensuing, and as soon as may be practicable, mark or stamp, without fee or reward, any quantities or parcels of Vellum, Parch- ment or Paper, with any of the rates of duties before enumerated, on payment of the said duties; Or if stamped Vellum, parchment and paper may at the option of the Citizens of the United States, be ob- tained at the rates prescribed by law, by application to any Supervisor, Inspector, Officer of Inspection, or other person appointed for the distribution of Stamps, by the Supervisors of Districts.  GIVEN under my Hand, at Philadelphia, the day and year above-mentioned. OLIVER WOLCOTT, Secretary of the Treasury.
JAMES HUMPHREYS, BEING encouraged by a number of gentlemen in the mercantile line, to undertake the pub- lishing of a Price Current in this city, and they having engaged to give him every assistance in their power to render it accurate and useful, PROPOSES TO PRINT BY SUBSCRIPTION, The Philadelphia Price Current, And Market Day Advertiser. To be published every Wednesday and Saturday morning, on the following conditions. It will contain the Prices Current (wholesale) at Phila- delphia, with the duties on each article—The Prices Current at Boston, New-York, Charleston, and other parts of the United States, with the Prices Current at London, the West Indies and else- where as often as they can be had accurate and to be relied on. The rates of insurance—the price of stocks—course of exchange, &c. &c. Likewise a regular account of entries, inward and outward —with such marine and other intelligence as shall be thought useful and important—and the remain- der of the paper will be appropriated to advertise- ments. The price to subscribers within the city and li- berties, to whom it will be delivered at their hou- ses, will be Four Dollars per annum—Two dollars at the expiration of a month from its publication, and the remainder at the end of the year. Sub- scribers at a greater distance will have it sent them agreeable to their directions—to pay two dollars at the time of subscribing, and the remainder at the end of the year. The publication shall commence as soon as a suf- ficient number have subscribed, to pay the expence of conducting it. It is from the advice and to gratify the wish of a number of mercantile gentlemen that the printer proposes publishing this Price Current in a quarto size in preference to any other. And it is proposed to embrace the Prices Current with such other matter as may be most material to send abroad to such matters as may be more immediately do- mestic, and to advertisements. Subscriptions are received by said Humphreys, at his Printing Office, No. 74, North Third Street, and at Mr. P. Potts, jun. at his office in Chestnut- Street, and at the Philadelphia library. Philadelphia, April 14.
For Sale, A CONVENIENT well built second hand Light Waggon, hung on Jacks with glass and blinds in the doors, with or without harness— Enquire of Peter Umericrouhou, Arch, below Sixth Street, or the subscriber in Germantown. CASPAR W. MAINES. april 2.
Freih Teas. Just Imported, in the ship Delaware , Captain Cooper, from Canton, And FOR SALE, by SAMUEL HOWELL, At his Counting House, No. 54, Chestnut-street, AND BY SAM. E. HOWELL, At his Counting House, Crooked billet wharf, Bohea, Souchong, Hylon, Young Hylon, Hylon Skin, and Imperial TEAS. ALSO, China Ware, assorted; black and coloured Lute- strings and Sattins, Nankeens, Caffa, large garden and common Fans, Fattin and Lutestring Umbrellas, whale-bone Ricks. They have also For Sale, Ell wide Perfans, Bandannas Handkerchiefs, French Cambricks and Umbrellas, Sugar in boxes. march 8.  Now Opening, At WILLIAM M'LAWS Saddle Manufactory, No. 72, Chestnut Street, A general assortment of Horseman's Pistols, direct from the Manufacturers in London. ALSO ON HAND, Saddles, Bridles, Holsters, Half Covers, Light Horseman's Caps, Swords, Cartridge Boxes, Va- lises, Saddle Bags, Portmanteau's, Hard Leather Trunks, Carriage and Chair Harness, &c. april 9.
City Commissioner's Office, January 12th, 1798. FOR THE INFORMATION OF THE CITIZENS. THE following arrangement is made by the said commissioners, for cleansing the streets, &c. District No. 1.—From the north side of Vine street, to the south side of Mulberry street; to be under the superintendence of Nicholas Hicks. 2. From the south side of Mulberry street, to the south side of Chestnut street, to be under the superintendence of William Moulder. 3. From the south side of Chestnut street to the north side of Spruce street, to be under the superintendence of Joseph Claypoole. 4. From the north side of Spruce street, to the south side of Cedar street, to be under the su- perintendence of Hugh Roberts. 5. When pumps are out of order south of High-street, please apply to Thomas Dixey, at the corner of South and Fifth-streets, or Godfrey Geh- ler, in Fourth, near Chestnut-street; and north of High street, to Dixey and Delahun, in Sassafras- street, between Sixth and Seventh-streets.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, March 30th, 1798. Public Notice is hereby given, THAT by an act of Congress passed on the 19th day of March, 1798, the following alterations and amendments have been made to the act passed on the 6th day of July 1797, enti- tled "An Act laying duties on stamped vel- lum, parchment and paper."
The stamp duties on debentures or certifi- cates for the drawback of Customs or duties on Imports are repealed.  II. A discount at the rate of seven and one half per Centum, will be allowed by the Supervisors or Inspectors respectively, to any persons other than Officers of the Revenue, who may pur- chase at one time or procure to be stamped, any quantities of Vellum, Parchment or Paper, upon which the duties shall amount to Ten Dol- lars or upwards.  III. Stamped Paper, will be provided, and sold at the rates prescribed by law, without any addi- tional charge or expense on account of the price of Paper; but for stamped Parchment or Vellum, an additional price will be demanded at the rate of Fifty Cents for each skin of Parch- ment, or Two Hundred Cents for each skin of Vellum of medium size, which may be furnish- ed at the expense of the United States and pro- portionally for any lesser quantity.  GIVEN under my hand, at Philadelphia, the day and year above-mentioned. OLIVER WOLCOTT, Secretary of the Treasury.
WANTED. APPROVED BILLS on Amsterdam—for which cash will be given at the rate of thirty seven cents per guild. Enquire of the Cashier of the Bank of the United States. april 23.
LANDING, From on board the ship Elizabeth , captain Pacific, from Batavia. And FOR SALE by the SUBSCRIBER, 400,000 wt. Java COFFEE 300 canisters SUGAR, of a superior quality ALSO, A quantity of SAPAN WOOD JOHN MILLER, JUN. april 17.
THOMAS & JOSHUA FISHER, HAVE FOR SALE, At No. 5, Dock-street, near the Drawbridge, China ware nankeen dining sets, tea and coffee cups and saucers Nankeens, black fustians and tafsties Fungum cloths, choppan romals, and bandannoes China and English umbrellas. Together with a general assortment of European Goods—among which are Scotts thread in boxes 6d. 8d. 10d. 12d. and 20d. nails Shot—T. Crowley's steel, Spanish brown and white lead English scythes 42 to 50 inches ALSO, 113 barrels of kiln dried indian corn meal. Accommodious Store in Dock-street, No. 7, to be let, three stories high, suitable for any business. 4th mo. 5th
SALT PETRE. One hundred kegs of refined Salt Petre, For Sale by the Subscribers. James C. & Samuel W. Fisher, No. 13, Arch Street. march 31.
JOSEPH RICARDO, Of this City, Merchant, has assigned his pro- perty for the benefit of his Creditors, to James C. Fisher, Samuel W. Fisher, and Thomas Wilson. All persons who have demands are re- quested to furnish their accounts without delay, and those indebted to make immediate payment to the Subscribers, acting Assignees. James C. & Samuel W. Fisher, No. 13, Arch Street. march 31.
Canal Lottery—No. II. WILL commence drawing Monday, the 20th inst. Tickets for Sale in this Lottery, at Seven Dollars, at Wm. BLACKBURN's Lottery and Brokers Office, No. 64, South Second-street— Tickets in the Schuylkill Bridge Lottery, at Ten Dollars, where check books are kept for register- ing and examining in these, the City of Washing- ton, No. 11, and Paterson Lotteries, and informa- tion where tickets may be had in most of the Lotte- ries authorised by law in any of the States of the Union. N.B. The business of a Broker, in buying and selling all kinds of Public Stock and Securities, discounting Bills and Notes of Hand, sale of Lands, Houses, &c. &c. will be duly attended to, by WM. BLACKBURN. November 15.
JUST RECEIVED. And for sale by W. Young, corner of Second and Chestnut-street. M. Carey 118 High-street T. Dobson, 41 South Second-street and the Booksellers generally. (Price 5-8ths of a Dollar.) BEACON HILL, A Local Poem, historic and descriptive; By a Lady of Boston. ANALYSIS OF BOOK I. Allusion to the surrounding Prospect—Invocation to the River and Sylvan Deities—to the Historic Mule—Fiction discarded—Dedication to Wash- ington—The Action opens at the Retreat of the Columbians from Bunker's Hill—General Howe —The Memory of his Brother—Death of War- ren—Perfidiousness of Fortune and Fame— Washington at Mount Vernon—called to the chief Command—Formation of the Columbian Camp at Cambridge—Natural, moral, or po- litical History of the several States—Their com- manding Officers—Siege of Boston—Its Suffer- ings—Negotiation for the safe Retreat of the British Army—Its Departure—Appointment of Congress—Declaration of Independence—Char- acter of the Columbian Soldier—The Poet's prophetic Apotheosis to the Progress of Free- dom throughout the World. march 30.
To be Let, (And possession given on the 1st of May) A genteel three story brick House, 22 feet front, and 40 feet deep, with back buildings and stables, at present in the tenure of Major Jack- son. Enquire at 187 South Third Street. april 2.  JUST PUBLISHED, AND FOR SALE AT THIS OFFICE, (Price 25 Cents) Reflections on Monroe's View OF THE CONDUCT OF THE EXECUTIVE. As published in the GAZETTE of the UNITED STATES, Under the signature of SCIPIO, In which the Commercial Warfare of France is traced to the French Faction in this Country, as the Source, and the Motives of Opposition, &c.
The following Certificates of FUNDED DEBT OF THE UNITED STATES STANDING on the Books of the treasury, were awarded for London by the ship William Penn , Captain Josiah , which has been captured, and the Certificates supposed to be lost, viz: 3164. 32. Deferred debt, in the name of Rev. Edward Giddy, of Thredrea, in Cornwall, Great Britain, dated June 2, 1797. Certificate No. 10,072. 8024. 15. Six per Cent. Stock, in the name of Edward Home, of Bevis mount, Hants, Great Britain, dated May 30, 1797. No. 15,096. 3620. 50. Deferred Debt, in the name of Will- iam Manning, of Ormsby, in the county of Nor- folk, in England, dated July 10, 1797. No. 10,099. 2033. 72. Three per Cent. Stock, in the name of Jannet Mathew, of Upper Seymour street, London, Widow, dated October 31, 1797. No. 11,820.
For the renewal of the above Certificates, ap- plication is intended to be made at the field office of the Treasury of the United States,—and all per- sons concerned are desired to take notice. ALSO—IN THE SAME VESSEL, Fifteen shares Stock of the Bank of the United States, in the name of William Manning of Ormsby, county of Norfolk, England, viz. Three Certificates for five shares each, dated January 1, 1797. No. 25982, 25983, 25984. For the renewal of which application is meant to be made to the field Bank of the United States,— and all persons concerned therein are desired to take notice. Philadelphia, may 4. JN. VAUGHAN.
The following Certificates of Shares IN the North American Land Company, standing on the Books of said Company in the name of Daniel Lister, of Hackney, in the county of Mid- dlex, England—viz. No. 2131, representing 13096 to 13105, ten shares—No. 2150—13066 to 13075, ten shares—No. 2149—13056 to 13065, ten shares—No. 2148—11509 to 11518, ten shares —No. 2147—11471 to 11480—Amounting to Forty Shares, were forwarded for London by the ship William Penn , which having been captured, said certificates are supposed to be lost; for the re- newal of which, application will be made to the Board of the said company. Daniel Neal Lister. may 1.
ROSS & SIMSON, HAVE FOR SALE, 22 bales superior Madras blue Cloths Carolina Indigo, first quality A few bales Bastas, Coffees, and a quantity of Bengal COTTON Bengal SUGAR, in bags and boxes Jamaica and } RUM Bengal } april 20.
LANDING, From on board the ship SALLY , from Calcutta, AND FOR SALE BY THE SUBSCRIBER, 1600 bags prime Sugar, 800 do. Ginger 30 bales low priced piece Goods. John Miller, Jun. march 3.
TO BE SOLD, 40,939 acres of Land. IN Greene County, Commonwealth of Pennsyl- vania, on the waters of Fifth and Wheeling Creeks and Ten Mile Run. These Lands are fertile and well timbered, and abound in Coal; they were sold ten years ago for five shillings per acre; patented early in 1787, ex- cept 3700 acres, which were patented in 1792; part of them were surveyed in 1781. The tract is between the Ohio and Monongahela, very con- venient to water carriage, about 19 miles from the town of Washington, from 14 to 16 from the village of Greensburgh and Wheeling. On payment of one fourth of the purchase money, a reasonable credit will be given for the rest. Enquire of the Printer. april 21.
TO BE SOLD, 26,780 acres of Land, IN the State of New York, between the northern bounds of Pennsylvania and the Saquenahna now, or late in the townships of Halden and Warren and county of Warren. These Lands, from their quality and situation, are a very desirable object for any man who means to invest his money to advantage. On payment of one third of the purchase money, a reasonable credit will be given for the rest. Enquire of the Printer. april 21.
Salisbury Estate. THE Subscriber, proposing to contract his busi- ness, offers this Estate for sale, on moderate terms. On it are one Blast and three Air Furnaces, a complete Boring Machine, and a very good gift Mill, with two pair of stones; also a good Forge, all in perfect repair, as are all the Water Works connect- ed with these various branches. The Air Furnaces were lately built for the purpose of casting Cannon for this State.—There are about two thousand acres of Land, one half of which is under wood, the other very fine arable Land, producing the best Hay and Pasture. The Cannon lately manufactured there- fully proves the excellency of the metal, which is superior to any in this country, and probably, equal to any in the world; for not out of forty-nine guns lately made, although none on proofing. The furnace into 32 pounders, have failed for this branch of manufacture, and a place of arms lying in the fate of Connecticut, and only 30 miles from several Land- ings on the Hudson's river, and having every advan- tage that can result from a plenty of water issuing from a large natural pond, very near the Furnace, and which may be converted into a variety of other useful purposes. The purchaser can be accommo- dated with all the stock and utensils, and have possession on or before the first of June next, and preparation may be made in the meantime for going into Blast im- mediately thereafter, for every part will be delivered in good order, with some coal, Ore, &c. &c. For terms, apply to Mr. Joseph Anthony, in Philadel- phia; David Brooks, Esq. one of the Representatives in Congress for this State; Mr. David Waterston, on the premises, or to the proprietor in New-York. WILLIAM NEILSON. Dec. 1.
For Sale, BY THE SUBSCRIBER, NO. 10, CHESTNUT STREET, 11 Casks of Carolina Indigo, Which will be sold on reasonable terms on a short credit. Robert Henderson. april 2.
Notice—Agreeably to charter, Is hereby given to the members of "the corporation for the relief of poor and distressed presbyterian ministers and the poor and distressed widows and children of presbyterian ministers," that a meeting of said corporation is to be held on the 16th day of May next, at 4 o'clock P. M. in the second presbyterian church in the city of Philadelphia, for the dispatch of all such business as may then be brought before the board. ASHBEL GREEN, Secretary of the Corporation. tawt&lm