Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser. (Philadelphia [Pa.]), 1796-08-16 00:00:00

Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser.
NUMBER 1228.]
TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 16, 1796.
[VOLUME X.]
FOR HAMBURGH,
THE SHIP JOHN, Robert Jackson, Master, To sail in fifteen days...
The brig MARY FOR SALE, AND may be seen at Abiah and William Brown's wharf...
For Rotterdam, The ship CATHARINE, JOHN FARRADAY, Master, TWO thirds of her cargo will be on board this week...
For Sale or Charter, THE SNOW BOSTON, BURTHEN about 2000 Bbls. of flour...
For Madeira, The Brig PATTY, JAMES WICKHAM, Master, Expected to sail in all next week...
Just Arrived, In the ship Mary, John Foss, Master, from Liverpool, 5000 Bushels Best fine stowed SALT...
This Day commenced Landing, At Williams wharf, the cargo of the Brig Lucy and Sloop St. Jago...
For Sale, Or for Charter to the West-Indies, THE SHIP CERES, Philadelphia Built...
Just Arrived, In the Snow Boston, James Kirkpatrick, master from Liverpool, 5000 Bushels SALT...
A middle-aged Woman, WHO has been used to the care of children, and can give reference for her reputation...
Apprentice wanted TO CARVING AND GILDING. Youth about 14, of respectable parents and can be well recommended.
Landing From on board the Nancy, William Belcher, master, from Bourdeaux, a cargo, consisting of— 360 Hds. CHOICE CLARET...
Wm. HOLDERNESS, No. 76 High Street, HAS received, by the latest arrivals from Europe and the East Indies, a well selected assortment of Silk Mercery, Linen Drapery and Haberdashery Goods...
Wanted, A Partner with a small capital to unite in the business of a Mill and Distillery in Virginia.
For Sale, A Three story BRICK HOUSE and Lot, in Chestnut Street, between Front and Second Streets...
FOR SALE, WINE, London particular Madeira, 4 years old, in pipes and hogheads. Claret, genuine old, in cases...
CABLES, From 16 to 9 1/2 inches, for sale by Jeremiah Warder, No. 12 north Third-street.
ELEPHANT, This Animal is to be seen in High-Street, between the Tenth and the Eleventh-Street. HE will positively leave Philadelphia the tenth of September...
Sales of India Goods, The Cargo of the ship Ganges, capt. Tingey, from Calcutta and Bengal, CONSISTING OF Large and general assortment of Bengal and Madras COTTON and SILK GOODS.
A Book-Keeper, OR Clerk's place is wanted by a person properly qualified, and whose character will be found unexceptionable.
For sale by the subscribers, IN PENN-STREET, 130 quarter Casks fresh Hyson Tea; 100 ditto do. fresh Souchong Tea...
Lottery and Broker's Office, No. 64 South Second Street, TICKETS in the Canal Lottery No. II. are now ready for sale...
WILLIAM BLACKBURN, Late Agent for the Canal Lottery Company. Shares and Tickets in the late Newport Long Wharf, Hotel and Public School Lottery examined...
Samuel Richardet, RESPECTFULLY informs the Gentlemen Merchants, that he has this day opened the CITY TAVERN and MERCHANTS COFFEE HOUSE in the city of Philadelphia.
Philip Nicklin & Co. HAVE FOR SALE, Souchong, Hyson Skin, Young Hyson, Hyson and Imperial, Yellow Nankeens, China Ware, assorted in Boxes and Casks.
On Monday next, 25th inst. (July), Will be landed at South Street wharf, the cargo of Superb Well Indian and Beheta, from Jamaica and Havana, consisting of Molasses in Hogheads, Coffee in hogheads, barrels & bags.
To be sold, A PLANTATION, in the town of Woodbury, county of Gloucester, and state of New-Jersey, containing about one hundred and fifty acres...
Ashton and James Humphreys, CONVEYANCERS, HAVE removed their office to No. 61, Walnut-street, next door but two to the corner of Dock-street...
For Sale, A Valuable Grist and Saw Mill, IN New Jersey, near the Forks of Little Egg-Harbour. The Grist Mill is sixty by forty feet, two water wheels...
Several Valuable Tracts of Land, IN Pennsylvania, for all of which payment will be received in the notes of Messrs. Morris and Nicholson, or in Cash.
Plans of the city of Philadelphia, Including the NORTHERN LIBERTIES and district of SOUTHWARK; Published, and sold by BENJAMIN DAVIES, No. 68, High Street.
GEORGE DOBSON, BEGS leave to inform the Store-keepers in Town and Country, that he has removed from Market-Street to No. 25, South Third-street...
Twenty Dollars Reward. RAN away this morning from the Subscriber, living in the county of Monmouth, New-Jersey, a remarkable black Negro Man, named BEN...
For Sale, A LARGE ELEGANT and WELL FINISHED Three-story Brick House, (The late residence of General Walter Stewart), WITH A LOT OF GROUND thereunto belonging...
Just Published, BY THOMAS DOBSON, At the Stone House, No. 51 South Second Street, neatly printed in one volume quarto, price six dollars the fine paper, or five dollars the common.
The Four Gospels, TRANSLATED FROM THE GREEK; With preliminary Dissertations, and Notes critical and explanatory. By GEORGE CAMPBELL, D. D. F. R. S.
Landing, From on board the Schooner Expedition, St. Croix Rum & Sugar, For Sale by F. COPPINGER, 221 South Front-street.
Spanish Treaty Ratified. THIS DAY, Published by J. ORMROD, No. 41, CHESTNUT-STREET, in a handsome pamphlet. (Price 12 1/2 and 1-2 CENTS.)
To be disposed of, THE time of a healthy NEGRO WOMAN, who has between four and five years to serve: She can be recommended for her sobriety and honesty.

To be sold by public sale, ON Wednesday, the 7th day of September next, on the premises in Mount-Holly, Burlington county, by the Subscriber,
The Dwelling-House and Lot Whereon it stands, having been in part occupied as a store for several years past, and in a good stand for business, together with the store-house, stable and buildings thereon erected, having two large cellars under them. Also, the shop goods and household furniture. A clear title will be given to the purchaser on payment of the money or sufficient bond therefor, and possession of the premises will be given in the said month of September.
The sale is to continue 'till the whole is disposed of. Mount-Holly having become the County Town, makes this property more valuable than heretofore. The conditions will be made known at the time and place of sale, by
PETER SHIRAS.
N. B. All persons indebted to the subscriber, are requested to discharge the same immediately, as he intends soon to remove out of this state. Any person having a just demand against the subscriber, is requested to produce the same for settlement. Mount-Holly, August 16, 1796.
WANTED,
A STORE and Cellar or Counting house and Cellar, for the Wholesale and Dry Good business. Enquire at No. 139 Arch-Street.
For Sale at the above place, 500 Boxes Window Glass, 8 by 10, 7 by 9, &c. 500 Cream Cheeses in the best order, imported from Holland, and entitled to drawback. Enquire of
Peter Borger,
Aug. 16 2aw3w
For Boston, The brig Neptune, James Tower, Master, WILL sail on Sunday next. For freight or passage apply to EDWARD STOW, Jun. No. 76 South Front-Street. Aug. 16 $
Letters Patent,
Granted to the Subscriber, for the Cure of Incurvations and Distortions of the Spine. EVERY thing has been studied to render this application safe, easy, effectual, and generally useful, and that if necessary, it may be accompanied with any other mode.
The success of the Patente in the cure of distortions, from Incurvations of the Spine, the Wry Neck, &c. in this city and in different parts of the United States, under the inspection of eminent physicians, when every other mode had failed, will, it is hoped, afford the public sufficient testimony of the utility of this application.
N. B. He makes an apparatus for restoring distorted feet in children—Bandages in general—Trusses of various descriptions, and one in particular on a plan entirely new, which in some cases is found to answer better than any other.
He returns thanks to those medical gentlemen in different parts of the United States who have honored him with their patronage and confidence.
The Ladies are respectfully informed, that he has an elegant assortment of Stays and Corsets for Sale, which will be altered if necessary, free of extra charge.
LUNDIN M'KECHNIE,
Aug. 16 2aw3w No. 17 Dock-Street.
BY AN ARTIST, Resident at Mr. Oellers's Hotel,
MINIATURE LIKENESSES
ARE taken and executed in that elegant and delicate style, which is so necessary to render a Miniature Picture an interesting jewel.
He will warrant a strong and indispitable resemblance; and he takes the liberty to lay before the public of this place his most earnest intention to deserve their patronage by his best endeavors to please.
N. B. Specimens are to be seen. May 12. $
Auction Sales.
India Goods at Auction.
ON Friday next, at 10 o'clock in the morning, will be sold at auction, at No. 56 South Front-Street, about 60 bales of India white Goods, entitled to the drawback, consisting of—
Long Cloths Baftas Gurras Emeries Coffees Hombrums Tanjibs Mull Mulls.
Edward Fox, Auc't'r.
Aug. 12.
Sherry Wine,
NOW LANDING, FROM the ship General Washington, at Race-Street wharf, and WILL BE SOLD BY AUCTION, On Wednesday next,
At 10 o'clock in the morning, for approved notes at SIX MONTHS,
Four hundred Quarter-Casks of
S H E R R Y W I N E.
Edward Fox, Auctioneer.
Aug. 15
Lottery
FOR raising six thousand six hundred and sixty-seven dollars and fifty cents, by a deduction of fifteen per cent from the prizes, and not two blanks to a prize. viz.
1 Prize of 5000 dollars is dollars 5000 1 1000 1000 1 500 500 5 200 1000 20 100 2000 99 50 4950 200 25 5000 2000 10 20,000 5 Last drawn numbers of 1000 dollars each, 5000
2332 Prizes. 44,450 4018 Blanks.
6350 Tickets at Seven Dollars each, 44,450
By order of the Directors of the Society for establishing Useful Manufactures, the Superintendents of the Paterson Lottery have requested the Managers to offer the foregoing Scheme to the public, and have directed them to refund the money to those persons who have purchased in the former Lottery, or exchange the tickets for tickets in this Lottery.
The Lottery has actually commenced drawing, and will continue until finished. A list of the Blanks and Prizes may be seen at the office of William Blackburn, No. 64 South Second Street, who will give information where tickets may be procured.
Dated this 17th day of June, 1796.
Y. N. CUMMING, JACOB R. HARDENBERG, } Managers. JONATHAN RHEA, }
Translated for the Gazette of the United States, From a Paris paper entitled Le Republican Francaise , dated April 10, 1796.
To the Editor of the Republican Francaise . THE Treaty of Commerce lately concluded between the American and the English government, is the specious pretext on which the enemies of France found their insinuations that the executive of the United States is not well disposed towards the French Republic, and that he is entirely in the interests of England. A true exposture of facts will demonstrate the falsehood of these insinuations, and justify the conduct of the government of my country.
When the French Republic declared war against England, orders were given by the committee of public safety, to seize, without discrimination, all American vessels which French ships of war should find on the sea, and send them into the different ports of the Republic. These orders have been strictly executed, and even with a good deal of rigour: numbers of American captains have been taken from on board their vessels, and carried by the captors to ports remote from those to which they sent their pretended prizes; the crews dispersed, some of them imprisoned, and otherwise ill treated; the agents of the government seized many of the cargoes, put them in a state of requisition, even of those vessels destined for the ports of France, and many of these cargoes are not yet paid for, notwithstanding the numerous representations to our ministers against all these violations of our treaties of Alliance and Commerce, violations which would be regarded by all other powers, less moderate, and less sincerely attached to the French Republic than the United States, as so many acts of hostility.
The Convention passed a decree, purporting that France would cease arresting our vessels at sea, when the powers at war with the Republic should respect our flag.
We had no treaties of Alliance and of Commerce with England, and we never should have formed any if France had not forced us to it by this solemn declaration. In short, what else could the government of the United States do, to protect the maritime commerce of its citizens, in circumstances so difficult? The English pillaged our vessels on one side, and the French ruined our commerce on the other.
Our commerce thus a prey to two of the belligerent powers, France reduced us, by the declaration above recited, to the alternative of breaking with England, or of making a treaty with her. This last measure, since the peace of 1783, had always been avoided by our government; but it was preferable to a rupture which would have been prejudicial to our commercial interests: we should have been deprived of the means of provisioning the French islands, and of furnishing the French Republic with those innumerable cargoes of grain and flour which have entered their ports. The committee of public safety were very sensible that our neutrality was more advantageous to France than a state of war, without a marine equally respectable to oppose to the fleets of Great-Britain, and it was this consideration that led them to approve of our neutrality; but the depredation committed upon our commerce rendered a treaty with England indispensable, in order to put an end to it.
Nothing was more difficult to accomplish; the English minister saw with jealousy the marked preference of the United States in favor of France—the part which they took in America, in the successes of the Republic—the public rejoicings in which they celebrated the news of every victory of the French—and the public wishes of all my fellow-citizens for the prosperity and triumph of the Republic, published in all the journals and gazettes of the United States; in fact, the British minister was so much irritated against us, that in the end of the year 1793 it was decided in the council of St. James to declare war against us:—but the retaking of Toulon by the victorious arms of the Republic, and the subsequent conquests of France, diverted the storm which was ready to break upon us.
In this hostile disposition towards us on the part of G. Britain, it was impossible for our government to conclude a treaty with her, for the protection of our commerce, without giving her some great advantages—but the clause of the treaty which formally declares that no article shall be construed derogatory to our treaties with France, ought fully to satisfy the government of the Republic in this respect.
I do not pretend to defend the treaty of Mr. Jay against the attacks of several of my compatriots, but only to demonstrate that France has no cause of complaint, and that the government of my country has done nothing to justify the accusations of those who endeavor to persuade the people that the President of the United States entertains sentiments unfavorable to the Republic. They ought to be considered as the enemies of France, as well as of America, who seek to disunite the two nations. It should be recollected, that the United States are the first power who, at an immense distance, recognized the French Republic; and that it was the first who appointed a minister plenipotentiary to reside in France in that capacity. I know that it will afford a triumph to the enemies of France should they succeed in their endeavors to embroil us. The disaffected will leave no methods unassayed to stir up jealousy and discord between the two Republics, and for this purpose they will repeat at Paris the same intrigues, which they would have played at Philadelphia; but the government of France is too wise to give into such palpable attempts to ensnare them, and they will not be more successful here than they have been with the executive of America.
AN AMERICAN.
LANDS,
In Harrison county, Virginia, for Sale. FOUR Tracts containing 5000 acres each, and a moiety of one other tract of 3000 acres, all situated on the waters of Elk and Hughes's river.
For further particulars enquire at No. 70 Chestnut-Street, where the Patents may be seen.
Aug. 6 kw&m3t
CONTINUATION OF Foreign Intelligence.
From London and other English papers received by the ship Furner , M c Collum, from London, and other late arrivals.
LONDON, May 12.
SIERRA LEONE COMPANY.
The Directors have lately published their Report, delivered at the last Meeting by the Chairman, Mr. H. Fluornton, which contains a brief account of the present state of the Colony, grounded upon the declaration they had proposed on a former occasion, of reducing within narrow limits the whole amount of the risk which they were about to incur in Africa. The settlement has, since the attack there reported, continued uninterruptedly to improve, and has not become subject to any new danger or calamity. The healthiness of the climate has also improved. The deaths of eighty of the one hundred and twenty British sailors then said to have been landed there by the French from captured ships, and of several others since, are found to have been caused by the hardships they had suffered, and the want of medicines and accommodation, which had been destroyed in the unprincipled ravages committed; and those other cases which have happened, have not exclusively arisen from climate; for it is remarkable that, during the rainy season, the Company lost none of their servants. The Nova-Scotia blacks have been remarkably healthy, and their births have far exceeded their deaths. This account is up to the 31st of October, 1795.
The first ship, carrying any material quantity of trade goods, which failed since the Colony was plundered by the French, had not arrived at the date of the last dispatches. A factory has been raised at a small expence on the river Rio Pongas, twelve leagues from the river's mouth, which affords an easy introduction to the capital of the Foolahs and is under protection of that King. Some delay and difficulty occurred in forming the factory, by the opposition and misrepresentations of the neighbouring European traders, and by the united efforts of the slave traders of all the nearer and some of the more distant parts, to induce the natives to remove it; but a palaver was held, in which the Chiefs gave credit to the good designs of the Company. From the call for various articles of commerce, those already shipped are expected to come to a good market; and a second ship has been freighted accordingly.
The Company's present property is stated to consist of a capital in securities of 60,000. in trade 26,000. and of Stock on the Colony of 9,000. making a total of 95,000.
Many of the Nova-Scotians, since the French attack, have been driven from the coast through fear, and have established more distant farm lots, which had been before neglected. These lots on the mountains are the best, the others generally good; and the cultivation of fifty new farms has been begun. Premiums of forty dollars have been given as encouragements to settle within a mile from Freetown. The Company's cultivations on the Bulam shore have not advanced for want of goods, &c. Coffee and cinnamon plants, ginger, and several other articles, have been obtained by a vessel freighted from the Colony to the island of St. Thomas in April 1795. Tropical feeds and plants from the West-Indies have been lost by the capture of West-India vessels; and the vessel Prant Hatch, containing many valuable articles from the King's garden at Kew, was entirely destroyed by the French.
The conduct of the Nova-Scotians has been very respectful; they have voluntarily offered to erect some works for the future defence of the colony; they have elected tithing men and hundredors; their young persons have been put apprentices to English artificers; they have built boats, and began to carry on a trade by barter with the neighbouring head men or chiefs: their children are at school in the colony.
A delegate from some free blacks in Rhode Island and arrived at Sierra Leone last year, and terms for receiving twelve families, certified to be of good morals, have been settled to encourage their emigration; each family is to have ten acres of land on the Bulam side of the river for a farm lot, and an eighth of an acre for a town lot also, for which they are to pay a quit rent, and conform to the laws of the Colony.
Two baptist missionaries have failed from England in one of the Company's ships, wishing to settle under some African Chief; and other persons properly qualified have also failed for religious instructors; a few English families have also failed for the purpose of going directly to the capital of the Foolah kingdom, 300 miles inland, and to settle there; their expenses are borne by a voluntary subscription in England, and they allowed a free passage to Sierra Leone.
The disadvantages under which the Colony has laboured have been great, and the expenses considerable; nevertheless, every year's experience seems to have added to the probability of its establishment and future prosperity, and to have afforded fresh proof of the practicability of cultivating and civilizing the Continent of Africa!
May 11, 1796. A PROPRIETOR.
SALFORD, May 10.
A person, lately a resident of Salford, a few evenings ago, having sacrificed a little too freely to the jolly God, in a visit to a few of his old neighbours, took his departure for home at a very late (or rather early) hour in the morning; having about three miles to walk, and very often losing the balance of power ere he had attained half the way, at last he fell near the mouth of a coal-pit, about half a mile from his house; here the leaden hand of Morpheus lay so heavily upon him, that he soon forgot his danger and himself in a sound sleep. Not long had he lain there before the black gentlemen of the pit arrived, to resume their daily talk; these wicked wags (four or five in number) soon agreed to toss the sleeping visitor into their basket, and introduce him into their internal regions; this was
done with all possible safety; and he was landed in the subterraneous regions. A figure of a black ugly boy was placed by his side to watch him closely when he should awake, which, when he did, and opened his eyes upon the object, produced an effect upon his mind, body and face, that emphatically declared (for he was speechless with horror) he thought himself really among the damn'd, and that this lad was no more nor less than one of the D——'s Imps. As soon as he was fairly awake, the sweat running from his brow with horror, the lad exclaimed, "Oh! what you're come at last are you! Aye, aye, I'll fetch my Measter, the cawd one, to you." Accordingly the lad ran, and soon brought, not one, but four or five old ones, who burst forth with horrid dissonant voices—"Oh! what he's here, is he? aye, we've been expecting him this long time past! Come, come, confess your sins directly, or else you go in a bed of brimstone in a moment!" Here they produced a black book, in which they pretended to register what he should confess. As soon as he could speak, he begged for God's sake that they would have mercy on him, and he would tell all his offences, though he solemnly declared, they were very few. He then said, that he had got drunk with some friends in Salford, and fell asleep on his way home, when he supposed that a cart had gone over him and killed him. "Aye, aye, that we know very well," roared the demons, "But your fins! your fins!" "Why, cries the trembling culprit, " 'Tis true, me and one Thomas—— did once steal a pig," "a pig did you? well come, as it was only one of the swinish multitude, we'll forgive him for that." "But what else?" "Why, once I did rob old Mary——'s garden of some of her coddings." "Well but," says Belzebub the chief, "What female connections have you had? Have you never ruined any wenches?" "No; God knows I never have; 'tis true, I once had connection with a young woman, but who turned out nought, or I would have married her. "Who was she?" cried the leading fiend: "Her name was Peggy——;" Here three of the black gentlemen burst into a roar of laughter; but the leading one, who put the question, was chop-fallen, as honest Peggy turned out to be no other than his own dearly beloved wife! It is unnecessary to add, that the culprit was again basked, and restored to the light of Heaven, to the mutual satisfaction of both the Devil and the Damned.
LONDON, May 28.
Philip Parry Price Middleton was tried on Thursday in the Court of King's Bench, for endeavoring to entice artificers to emigrate to America. It appeared he was a man of property, and had engaged 1500 persons for that purpose. He was found guilty. The penalty is 500. and one year's imprisonment.
A most shocking scene was witnessed yesterday in Dean-Street, East-Smithfield. The inhabitants of an house of ill fame in that street, having made an early decampment early in the morning, some of the neighbors, whose suspicions were excited by this sudden movement, went into the house; and, on going up stairs, found, in one of the rooms, the body of a well dressed young man, suspended by the neck from the bed post, with his hands pinned close to his side, by a stout cord. The perpetrators of this horrid act were instantly traced and apprehended. The unfortunate young man was a ship master; and is reported to have had about him a considerable sum of money.
Last Wednesday as some men were attempting to recover a bucket which had fallen into a draw-well upwards of an hundred feet deep, belonging to the New Inn stables, in North-Street, Brighton, they drew up, by means of their grapple-hooks, which had fixed in one of the thighs, the body of a young woman, well known at Brighton, where she had for some time past subsisted on the precarious and sorry wages of prostitution. It is not however even suspected that she put a period to her own existence, but believed that she was stabbed with a bayonet and thrown into the well; for in her side there appeared a wound evidently given with such an instrument, and on her head there was a large contusion. The Coroner's jury sat on her body and delivered in their verdict Wilful Murder against persons unknown.
In one of the causes tried lately before Lord Kenyon, at Guildhall, wherein Couleel contended that two witnesses were not entitled to credit, on account of keeping infamous gambling houses, his Lordship said, "I am sorry I did not know sooner that such witnesses were to be brought forward, for I have in my possession a list, containing a great number of persons of that description, sent to me by the unfortunate Mr. Welton; and, I am sorry to say, that among the number is the name of a person of very high rank."
In the career of conquest, the French have not attempted to revolutionize Italy; and we find that our ministers persevere in their scheme of exciting civil war in the interior of France. What shall we say of this conduct? Is Jacobinism transferred from the Rue St. Honore to Downing-Street? Certainly the proclamation which the gentleman who calls himself the Prince de Bouillon has put forth, inviting French officers to fly to the standard of royalism in Brittany, is calculated to provoke the fury of fraternization. Civil war is the Jacobinism of Royalty, as Revolution is of Republicanism; and by an attempt so impolitic as well as scandalous, it cannot be denied that we justify the French in turning all the force of their indignation against England.
From a Paris paper.—Translated for the Aurora .
Descartes defended by Lalande.
To the Editor of the Journal of Paris .
College of France, 6th Prairial.
Men of letters indignant at the speech of citizen Mercier (one of the Council of Five Hundred, who opposed the motion for depositing the ashes of Descartes in the Pantheon) against Descartes have written against Mercier, but they have not yet written for Descartes. Give me room for two sentences in the name of the universe and of posterity.
Descartes is one of those creative geniuses that do honor to his age and country; he first took into

contemplation the ensemble of the universe, in order to discover its mechanism, and explain its formation and motions; he is the first who comprehended the principles and effects of matter and motion; he applied them to the heavens and to the earth, to man and to animals; he first had those philosophical ideas to which Bacon could not aspire for want of a knowledge of geometry.
Descartes is also inventor in mathematics, by the application of algebra to geometry; he opened a new career, which Newton entered; but Newton had rivals in the discovery of the calculation of infinities and the law of attraction; and Descartes had none in his.
These two data would be susceptible of a lengthy development; but those who are acquainted with the history of sciences need them not, and those ignorant of it could not understand me. It is enough that I have hinted at the motives of the universal indignation which the injury done publicly to the greatest man France ever produced, has excited throughout the whole Republic.
LALANDE.
Philadelphia,
TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 16.
It appears by the Baltimore papers that there are several arrivals at that port from England; but those we have received this day do not contain any intelligence confirmative of the report respecting a cessation of hostilities on the Rhine.
From the A U R O R A.
Extract of a letter, dated Bourdeaux, June 23.
Extraordinary couriers inform us this moment, that the preliminaries of peace with the Emperor are signed. He has given up the fortress of Mayence as a pledge of his sincerity and readiness to accede to the conditions that France shall please to dictate to him. Indeed this is in no manner surprising, because his troops refused to fight and chose rather to surrender prisoners of war, as has been the case in several late engagements on the Rhine where we have gained the most signal victories and made a number of prisoners.
GAZETTE OF THE UNITED STATES MARINE LIST.
PHILADELPHIA, August 16.
The Cleopatra , American Indiaman, had sailed from Bengal for Lisbon, previously to the departure of the Major Pinkney. See marine-list in our last.
The Triumph merchantman from New-York, arrived at London the 4th of June.
The Adriana , Packet, for New-Hampshire, left Gravesend June 7.
The John , Captain , and Jenny , Clancey , from New-York, and Mina , Hall , from Virginia, passed Gravesend June 5.
The Nancy , Mackey , for Boston, sailed from Gravesend June 3.
Ship Andrew , Makin , of this port, arrived at St. Ubes on the 10th of June, and was condemned there, having suffered so much during a hard gale off Cape Ortegals, as to be unfit for further service.
The Andrew was one of the oldest ships belonging to the port of Philadelphia.
The Charter-packet arrived at Falmouth in 17 days from New York.
ARRIVED,
Brig Hannah , Odlin , Aux-Cayes 30 Schooner Duly Ann , M c Namara , Virginia 4 Nancy , Jamies , dos. do. Cleared. Schooner Friendship , Matthews , Thomaston Brooklyn , Baker , New-York Patient , Webb , do. Sloop Nancy , Levinus , do. Ship Prosperity , Craig , London. Sloop Active , Blair , from St. Ubes and Teneriffe, 3 brigs and 2 schooners were in sight of Newcastle yesterday at 11 o'clock. Brig — Capt Middleton from Jacquemal , left from Havannah passed Newcastle yesterday. Schooner Minerva from Havannah is arrived at the Port.
Arrivals at New-York.—August 15.
Ship Atlanta , Holbrook , Liverpool Brig James , Troveridge , St. Croix James , Watson , Guadalupe Schooner Two Brothers , Kimberly , St. Croix Jay , Smith , Port-au-Prince Sloop Mary , Akwater , New-Providence. Cleared. Sloop Diana , White , Bourdeaux Snow Peggy , Stoddard , St. Thomas. The Ship Commerce , Capt. Grimes , in 86 days from Bristol, spoke the following vessels on his passage. May 27, Spoke a brig from North Carolina, bound to Falmouth, 32 days out, in long. 45, 46, and lat. 48, 11, all well on board. June 30, Spoke the brig Friendship of and from Boston, 9 days out, John Goodridge , master, bound to Bourdeaux. July 6, Spoke a Schooner from Havre-de-Grace, bound to New-York, 18 days out, all well, in long. 69, 30, W. lat. 48, 30. July 28, Spoke the ship Thomas of Portland, David Alden , master, 63 days out from Liverpool, with a number of passengers, supplied them with beef and pork. &c. Spoke the brig Eliza , of and from Philadelphia, six days out, all well. Arrived the brig Julia , Capt. Austin , 33 days from Jamaica. Spoke the brig Tell , Smith , from Kingston, Jam. bound to Washington, who lost her main top-gallant-masts by lightning. Was boarded by a French privateer, who called herself a Frenchman fitted out at Charleston—she was a sloop of 4 guns and 45 men. He came on board and examined his papers, robbed us of about 50 gallons of rum. She was called the Lynx , commanded by a man called Mitchell , an American, manned with all nations, and after taking the rum, looted her cabin, and shot to the southward. Spoke the brig Greenwich , from Newport, bound to Havannah, all well. Spoke the snow Hannah , of Newport, from Africa, full of slaves, bound to Havannah, in company with the brig Greenwich . Spoke a ship from Liverpool bound to Philadelphia, blowing fresh could not learn her name.
CHARLESTON, August 2.
Yesterday arrived the ship Federalist , Pratt , London; 49 days; Schooner Betsey , Huntington , Trinidad, 23 days; Schooner Cato , Mardin , St. Augustine, 4 days.
The ship Harmony , Kolloch , from this port, was lost on the Nore—one of the cargo saved.
The ship Major Pinkney performed her voyage from London to Bengal, and back to Hamburg, in a little more than ten months.
The ship Pacific , Kennedy , from Surinam, bound to Amsterdam, was taken and carried into Portsmouth; it was supposed she would be condemned.
The Lucy , Dalton , failed for this port, from Gravesend, on the 2d of June.
BALTIMORE, August 11.
ENTERED—
Ship Thomas , Anthony Mangin , Sandford, Ardene, Smith, Brig Batavia , Hufeman , Lily , Brown , Harriet , Story , Captain Cochran had not the good fortune to fall in with the Concord , Liverpool Bremen Jeremie Bremen St. Bartholomews Limerick
BY THIS DAY'S MAILS.
NEW-YORK, August 15.
By Captain Hubbell , of the sloop Eudeavour , 18 days from St. Thomas's, it appears, that the French frigate that was engaged with the two British sloops of war, was La Pensee , of 44 guns, which had arrived at St. Thomas's in a shattered condition, previous to Captain H's leaving that port.
The French sloop of war Scipio , from New-York and a cruise, has arrived at St. Thomas's.
By the Brig Hannah & Mary, from Bristol.
LONDON, May 26.
Lord Frederick Townshend is now at the house of the Marquis his father. The derangement of his intellects has been proved beyond all doubt.
A great personage experiences the most lively affection, in consequence of the unhappy state of things in a certain great house in Pall Mall; an affection in which every good heart must feelingly sympathize.
We hear a celebrated Law Lord has been forbidden a great house, for having at the request of a stranger, offered his advice and mediation, which was rejected with every mark of indignation. On this occasion, the Noble Lord has written a very respectful, though spirited letter to the gentleman alluded to, lamenting what had happened. The noble lord has since had a long interview with another high Personage, who is most deeply affected at what is passing.
In respect to the private history of family disputes, we pass it by with silent regret. But what will the world say of an intriguing woman in high life, who has been guilty of a treacherous breach of trust, in breaking the seal of a letter committed to her care? She has violated the sacred confidential communications between a daughter and her beloved parent. She has sown the seeds of dissention between an husband and wife. She has infringed the laws of hospitality, by committing an injury under the roof of a lady, who, severing herself from the ties of early life, placed a noble confidence in the generous protection of a British people.
May 31.
Yesterday her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales took an airing in Hyde Park, where her reception was highly flattering from all ranks of people.
At half past three her Royal Highness returned to Carlton House to dinner. The Princess was at the Opera on the preceding evening, where her entrance and exit were marked with the warmest gratulations by a very large and polite audience.
The Princess of Wales is doubtless by this time convinced, that she, who is one day destined to grace the throne of Britain, can never, while she perseveres in a line of conduct so truly exemplary, want friends and protectors, who will shelter her from insult, and resent the injuries she may receive from whatever quarter they may proceed.
The interest which the public takes in the disputes unfortunately existing in a certain Great Family, exceeds all credibility. It is the topic of conversation in every company, and every one pities and execrates the different parties.
An elderly Lady, whose influence over the Gentleman both before and since his marriage has been matter of astonishment, is said to have broken open a letter written by the young bride to her father, and committed to the care of a gentleman, who afterwards finding himself unable to go abroad, returned it to the house, where it fell into the hands of the elderly Lady, and was opened. This letter contained complaints against the husband's ill treatment, produced by the intrigues of the elderly Lady; and a knowledge of its contents, it seems, occasioned an aggravated degree of ill usage towards the Bride, till at last she consulted a certain great Law Lord, respecting her departure from this kingdom, one of whom, now in no official situation, offered his mediation, which was rejected by the Husband, and his Lordship forbidden the house. The husband, it is said, has not spoken to his wife these three months.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of York are unremitting in their attention to the Princess of Wales.
The polite and affectionate assiduity of Prince William of Gloucester to the same lovely Princess, bespeaks a rectitude of judgment, as well as a tenderness of nature.
On Monday evening as a Lady in her carriage was going to Drury lane Theatre , (from the similarity of her livery with that of a certain countess,) she was hissed, and her servants covered with dirt, before they could convince the mob of their mistake.
It would certainly be a very ineffectual method of performing a journey, to put one horse before, and another behind a carriage; but it would be much more than ineffectual, to give the rein to a relive intractable horned beast, who, if you wanted to go to St. James's, would probably go to St. Giles's.
However the King may be wrongly accused of promoting foreign War, yet he exerts every endeavour for the establishment of domestic Peace.
The Princess of Wales, who is a good classic, on seeing the Duchess of York, exclaimed with a tender sigh,
"Felix Andromache oxoro bene nupta marito."
Whilst the infamous Duke of Orleans was rioting in the lowest sensual pleasures, he was always observed to show the greatest respect for his truly respectable Consort; as if he endeavoured by this external homage, to indemnify her in some measure for the disgrace of being united with a man so universally despised. Such an attendant does virtue possess even over the most depraved minds!
Lord Frederick Townshend is a clergyman, and has been two or three times confined under symptoms of lunacy, one under Doctor Willis . The Marquis , his father, and other friends, were sent for; but as in such case no bail could be taken by the magistrates, he is committed to safe custody to abide the decision of the laws of his country.
June 2.
We are happy to hear that his Majesty disapproves, in the most pointed terms, of the recent transactions at Carlton house , and that he speaks in terms of the strongest reprobation of every per-
son who has had any concern in those cruel proceedings. The commendable perseverance of Lord Thurlow in his friendly admonitions, are likely to produce the desired effect, and we hear that a happy reconciliation is about to take place between all parties.
The Princess of Wales appeared yesterday at the front windows of Carlton house with her infant in her arms, accompanied by Prince William of Gloucester , which the populace perceiving crowded the streets for a considerable time, repeatedly manifesting by rapturous bursts of applause, their honest sympathy and loyal admiration of her neglected amiable princess.
Wednesday arrived at Bristol the Ann , Copperthwaite , from Philadelphia , and George , Rush , from Salem . These two vessels have brought about 212 barrels of flour and Indian meal, and 780 barrels of rye meal, which will at this time prove a seasonable supply, as the markets are on the rise, in consequence of the dry weather, which has prevented many mills from working.
From the London Gazette of May 28.
ADMIRALTY OFFICE, May 28.
Copy of a letter from Capt. Thomas Freemantle , of his Majesty's ship Inconstant , to Evan Nepean, Esq. dated off Bastia , April 27.
Sir,
I have the honor of inclosing, for the information of their Lordships, the copy of a letter from me to Sir John Jervis , Knight of the Bath.
I am, &c.
T. F. FREEMANTLE.
Inconstant, at Sea, April 23.
Sir,
I have the honour to inform you, that on the 19th, cruising near Tunis , I received an account that a French frigate had been seen off Cape Madera , near Bon ; I therefore made sail for that place, and on the evening of the 20th perceived a ship under French colours at anchor on the coast, which I went up to, & directed to strike; this was prudently complied with. She is called L'Unite , a corvette of 34 guns, and 218 men. The crew had made an attempt to set her on fire, but by the exertions of Lieutenant Hutchinson it was soon extinguished. Had the ship been of equal force with the Inconstant , I have every reason to believe it would have afforded me another proof of the spirit and steadiness of every officer and person on board the ship I command.
I am, &c.
T. F. FREEMANTLE.
Sir J. Jervis, K. B. Admiral of the Blue, and Commander-in-Chief, &c.
ADMIRALTY OFFICE, May 31.
Copy of a letter from Captain N. Tomlinson , commander of his Majesty's ship La Suffisante , to Evan Nepean, Esq. dated Falmouth , May 28.
Sir,
I have the honor to acquaint you, for the information of my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, that being on a cruise, in his Majesty's ship La Suffisante , under my command, the Lizard bearing N. N. E. distance 15 leagues, early yesterday morning we discovered a sail, about 6 miles to windward, and immediately stood for her, and, after a chase of 11 hours, came up with her among the rocks between Ushant and the Main , she having endeavoured to make her escape to Brest , through the passage Le Four ; but I was enabled to cut her off by the superior sailing of the Suffisante . We engaged her close on board for half an hour, when she struck, and proves to be the Revanche brig, Bermudas built, a remarkable fast sailer, pierced for 14 guns, mounting 12 long 4 pounders, and eighty-five chosen men, commanded by M. George Henri Draveman , Lieutenant de Vaisseau , an old and experienced seaman. She was five days from Havre , bound on a cruise, but had taken nothing.
I am particularly obliged to the officers and crew of the Suffisante , for their cool and determined conduct, both in working and in fighting the sloop, when the utmost exertions were necessary to prevent the enemy from escaping, and to avoid the rocks by which we were surrounded on a lee shore.
I am happy to add that there was but one seaman wounded on board the Suffisante . The Revanche had two men killed and seven wounded. I am now proceeding to Plymouth in company with the prize and hope we shall arrive there to night. I am, &c.
Admiralty Office, May 31.
Extract of a letter from Commodore Sir John Warren to Evan Nepean, Esq. dated La Pomone , at Sea, May 25.
I beg you will inform their lordships, that I this day captured the La Fantaisie , a republican privateer, copper-bottomed, mounting 14 guns and 75 men, from Morlaix , on a cruise. She had been only one day from the above port, and had not taken any thing.
Captain Pratt of the Federalist , in 49 days from London, has brought papers to the 4th of June, from which the following articles are extracted:—
PARIS, June 3.
Conditions of the armistice concluded between the commander in chief of the army of Italy, and M. Frederick , commander of the Eft, plenipotentiary of the duke of Modena.
The Commander in Chief of the army of Italy grants to the Duke of Modena an armistice (that he may have time to send to Paris for the purpose of obtaining from the Executive Directory a definitive peace) upon the following conditions, to which M. Frederick , commander of Eft, and plenipotentiary of the Duke of Modena, submits himself, and which he promises to fulfil, viz.
1. The Duke of Modena shall pay to the French Republic the sum of 7,500,000 livres, French currency, of which three millions shall immediately be paid in the hands of the treasurer of the army; two millions, within 15 days, to M. Balbi , the banker of the Republic at Genoa, and two millions five hundred livres into the hands of the same banker, at Genoa, within one month. 2. The Duke of Modena will besides furnish to the amount of 2,500,000 livres in provisions, powder and other warlike ammunition, such as the Commander in Chief shall designate, as well as the times and places when and where the payments shall be made. 3. The Duke of Modena shall be obliged to deliver twenty paintings to be chosen from his gallery or his dominions, by citizens named for that purpose.
Upon the foregoing conditions, the troops of the Republic who shall cross the dominions of the Duke of Modena, shall subject them to no requisitions; and will pay for whatever provisions they may want.
(Signed)
FREDERICK, Commander of Eft, BUONAPARTE.
MILAN, May 14.
This day the tree of liberty was planted with great ceremony on the square near the Cathedral.
The arrival of the French army was hourly expected; the municipality and other administrative bodies went in consequence to meet the Republicans at the gate of Rome. About 11 o'clock a corps of troops, led on by General Massena , arrived and took possession of the capitol.
COR SICA, May 20.
Twenty-two districts are in a state of insurrection. Mr. North , the secretary of state, published a manifesto, threatening the insurgents with coercive measures. The latter frequently exclaim, "Long live the king and general Paoli ! but down with the viceroy." When they appeared before Ajaccio , above eighty discharges of cannon were made upon them. As they destroyed the mills and the vineyards near the place, belonging to the enemies of Paoli , the towns of Ajaccio has since been under the necessity of being supplied from the royal magazines.
PARIS, May 31.
Pichegru continues in Paris. Sir Sidney Smith resides in Paris; a guard is stationed at his door; his Secretary, Mr. Wright , and a servant are with him.
Accounts were on Thursday morning received at Havre , that the Chouans about Alligny , and other places, who were supposed to have been entirely suppressed, have renewed their depredations.
June 4.
The official and circumstantial detail of the number of prisoners made since the 23d of Germinal , (12th April) the day when the campaign was opened in Italy, to the 23d Floreal following, (12th May) has been published, amounting to eleven thousand eight hundred and eighty six men. It is attested by the general of division, Berthier , head of the staff under the orders of general Buonaparte .
The Treasure of Milan is the greatest of any city in Italy, except that of our Lady of Loretto . It is certain that the detail of golden chalices, crosses, reliquaries, statues of gold, will not be objects of mere amusement—it is a dazzling mass.
Thirty-six offices are open in Paris for the exchange of mandates against assignats.
We have already received a list of the pictures and manuscripts sent to France by the army of Italy. The selection has been made with great care. Those taken at Milan are now on their way to Paris.
Among the manuscripts may be seen a Virgil , formerly belonging to Petrarch , with notes in his own hand writing.
BALTIMORE, August 12.
Yesterday arrived Ship Thomas , Capt. Alden (of Portland Massachusetts ) in 71 days from Liverpool ; spoke, June 20, lat. 42, 28, long. 29, ship Harriot , Capt. Daddy , from London to New-York , out 28 days, all well—July 25, in lat. 39, 46, long. 63, spoke the ship Commerce , Grimes , from Bristol , bound to New-York , out 68 days, all well—July 30, spoke brig — Captain Ruttersford , from Kennebec , bound to Alexandria .
Capt. A. was boarded on Friday evening last, at 7 o'clock, eight leagues S. E. by Capt. Henry from the British frigate Prevoyante , Capt. Wemyss , who, and his officers, behaved very politely to him, in breaking open his hatches, pressing his hands, &c. (See Captain Alden's protest in this day's paper.) The frigate Thetis , Capt. Cochran , was in company with the Prevoyante .
Captain Cochran told Captain Alden , that he had not seen the French frigate Concord (which was yesterday reported to have been taken by the Thetis ) but that she had escaped him and got out to sea. This being on Friday the 5th inst. it is hardly possible the much-talked of engagement should have taken place, and the news of the issue reached New-York , by Monday the 8th, which is the date of the letter that announces it, especially as the wind has been in an unfavorable quarter ever since.
The latest papers brought by the Thomas , are to the 28th May, which is not so late by 18 days as those received by the late arrivals at New-York and Boston ; any thing, however, that may appear worth insertion, shall be given to-morrow.
From the Log-book of the ship Thomas , Captain David Alden , from Liverpool .
I, David Alden , master of the ship Thomas , belonging to Portland , in the state of Massachusetts , failed from Liverpool on the 2d day of June last, bound for Baltimore , in the state of Maryland . Nothing material happened till the 10th of July, when, in lat. 42, 13, long. 61, 26, being under close-reefed top-sails, the wind began to blow in heavy squalls from the westward—about 1 P.M. took in top-sails and course—at 2 P.M. set the courses and close-reefed top-sails—at 3 P.M. a heavy squall took us suddenly, which laid the ship down very much and split the three top-sails. The wind continuing to blow very heavy 'till 2 P.M. obliged us to lie under mizen stay-sail, since which the ship has proved leaky. On the 10th, the wind blew heavy from S. W. to W. S. W. which at 2 P.M. obliged us to take in main sail and fore topsail—at 5 P.M. took in all but mizen and mizen staysail and lay by, it blowing very strong, attended with thunder, lightning and rain. On the 6th of August, Cape Henry bearing W. N. W. about 8 leagues distance, was brought to by the Prevoyante , Captain Wemyss , an English man of war; the captain sent his boat and took four of the ship's crew, 5 passengers and myself aboard the Prevoyante . Soon after he sent his boat again and brought my mate with his cloaths, ordering a number of men on board the Thomas , to search for more people, and after detaining us 'till 7 P.M. put my mate, two people, one passenger and myself on board the Thomas , and kept two of my people and four passengers.
When we came on board, we found the main hatch broken open, also the scuttles fore and aft, and one cask of bottled Porter, of which a part was taken and much other damage done.
From the bad weather and contrary winds which we have experienced, and having the hatchways and scuttles broke open and plundered, we have reason to judge there is damage and loss in the cargo.
David Alden , Master. Paul Dyer , David Lewis , Ezekiel Jumper , John Wallace .
INFORMATION
Is given daily of the drawing of the WASHINGTON LOTTERY , at the Office
No. 147 Chesnut Street,
between Fourth and Fifth Streets. Also, where Tickets may yet be had.
Aug. 15.
The Eleventh day's drawing is arrived.

PROPOSALS. (By William CASSATT, opposite Christ Church, Philadelphia, for publishing by subscription,)
The History of Jacobinism; Its CRIMES, CRUELTIES and PERFDIES, COMPRISING an Inquiry into the manner of disseminating, under the appearance of Pseudo-Virtue and Virtue, principles which are equally subversive of Order, Virtue, Religion, Liberty and Happiness.
By WILLIAM PLAYFAIR, Author of the Commercial and Political Atlas, &c. With an Appendix, BY PETER PORCUPINE, Shewing the close connection which has ever subsisted between the Jacobins at Paris and the Democrats in the United States of America.
Salt Petre. A few tons of excellent EAST-INDIA SALT-PETRE, FOR SALE BY Samuel Breck, jun. Roth's Wharf. Aug. 9. 1796
Treasury of the United States.
NOTICE is hereby given to all persons who are or may be Creditors of the United States, for any sums of the Funded Debt, or Stock, bearing a present interest of six per centum per annum.  1st. That pursuant to an Act of Congress passed on the 28th day of April, 1796, intituled an act in addition to an act, intituled "An act making further provision for the support of public credit, and for the redemption of the public debt," the said debt or stock will be reimbursed and paid in manner following, to wit: "First, by dividends to be made on the last days of March, June and September for the present year, and from the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven, to the year one thousand eight hundred and eighteen inclusive, at the rate of one and one half per centum upon the original capital. Secondly, by dividends to be made on the last day of December for the present year, and from the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven, to the year one thousand eight hundred and eighteen inclusive, at the rate of three and one half per centum upon the original capital; and by a dividend to be made on the last day of December, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, of such sum, as will be then adequate, according to the contract, for the final redemption of the said stock."  2d. All distinction between payments on account of Interest and Principal being thus abolished by the establishment of the permanent rule of reimbursement above described, it has become necessary to vary accordingly the powers of attorney for receiving dividends; the public creditors will therefore observe that the following form is established for all powers of attorney which may be granted after the due promulgation of this notice, viz.  KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that I _____ of _____ do make, constitute and appoint my true and lawful Attorney, for me, and in my name, to receive the dividends which are, or shall be payable according to law, on the (here describing the Stock) standing in my name in the books of (here describing the Stock) of the Treasury or the Commissioner of Loans, where the stock is credited) from (here insert the commencement and expiration of time for which the power of attorney is to continue) with power also to any attorney or attorneys under him, for that purpose to make and substitute, and to do all lawful acts requisite for effecting the premises, hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney or his substitute, shall lawfully do, by virtue hereof.  In Witness whereof, I have hereunto set my Hand and Seal the day of _____ in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-six.  Sealed and Delivered in presence of, BE IT KNOWN, that on the _____ day of _____ 1796, before me personally came _____ within named and acknowledged the above letter of attorney to be his act and deed.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my Hand and Affixed my Seal the day and year first above said.  Given under my Hand at Philadelphia, this twentieth day of July 1796, pursuant to directions from the Secretary of the Treasury.  SAMUEL MEREDITH, Treasurer of the United States. July 23.
Treasury Department, August 3, 1796. Public Notice is hereby Given,
IN pursuance of an act of Congress, passed on the 18th day of May, 1796, entitled "An act providing for the sale of the lands of the United States, in the Territory north west of the river Ohio, and above the mouth of Kentucky river," that the sections or lots of land described in the annexed schedule, lying in the seven ranges of townships, which were surveyed in pursuance of an ordinance of Congress, passed on the twentieth day of May, in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five, will be exposed for sale at Public Vendue, in the town of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania, on the twenty-fourth day of October next, and thenceforward, from day to day until the first day of December ensuing, unless the said lots shall be sooner sold, in the manner, and on the terms and conditions herein after mentioned, to wit:  1st. The said sections or lots shall be sold under the direction of the Governor or Secretary of the Western Territory, and such person as the President of the United States may specially appoint for that purpose.  2d. The said sections or lots shall be sold to the highest bidder, but no sale can be made for less than two dollars per acre of the quantity of land contained in such lot or section.  3. The highest bidder as before mentioned, must deposit at the time of sale, one twentieth part of the purchase money, in the hands of such person as the President of the United States shall appoint to attend the sales for that purpose, which will be forfeited, if a moiety of the sum bid, including the said twentieth part, shall not be paid within thirty days from the time of sale.  4th. Upon payment of a moiety of the purchase money in the manner before mentioned, the purchaser will be entitled to one year's credit for the remaining moiety; and shall receive from the Governor or Secretary of the Western Territory, and the person who shall be appointed by the President of the United States, to direct the sales, a certificate describing the lot or section purchased, and declaring the sum paid on account, the balance remaining due, the time when such balance becomes payable, and that the whole land therein mentioned, will be forfeited, if the said balance is not then paid; but if the said balance shall be duly discharged, by paying the same to the Treasurer of the United States, or his successor, or other legal representative, shall be entitled to a patent for the said lands, on his producing to the Secretary of State a receipt for such balance endorsed upon the certificate. But if any purchaser shall make payment of the whole or the purchase money, at the time when the payment of the first moiety is directed to be made, he will be entitled to a deduction of ten per cent. on the part for which credit is authorized to be given; and his patent shall be immediately issued.  Given under my hand at Philadelphia, the day and year above mentioned.  OLIVER WOLCOTT, Secretary of the Treasury
Philadelphia, West-Chester, Strasburgh, Lancaster, York and Frederick-Town STAGES.
THE proprietors of the above Stages, return their best thanks to their friends and the public in general, for the encouragement received in this line of business, and beg leave to inform the public, that they are determined to run their stages through from Philadelphia to Lancaster in one day, commencing on Tuesday, the 14th July instant, in the following manner, viz. A Stage will set out on that day at 4 o'clock in the morning, from the house of George Weed, Market-Street, Philadelphia, and run by the way of West-Chester and Strasburgh, arrive in Lancaster the same evening, on Friday morning run to Wright's Ferry and exchange passengers with the York and Frederick-Town Stage, return and arrive in Philadelphia on Saturday, and on Monday morning following, at 4 o'clock, said Stage will set out from the said George Weed's, Philadelphia, and arrive at Lancaster the same evening, on Tuesday morning at 4 o'clock will set out from the house of Mrs. Edwards, Lancaster, and arrive in Philadelphia the same evening, and will commence again on Thursday morning following, and continue every week. The price for each passenger from Philadelphia to Lancaster is three dollars and a half, to York, four dollars and three quarters, to Frederick-Town, eight dollars, the like sums for 150 weight baggage, with the usual allowance of 14 lb. gratis to each passenger, and 5 pence a mile for all way passengers.  30—$4w  John Reilly, George Weed.
TAKE NOTICE,
THAT application will be made for the renewal of the following certificates, issued by Joseph Nourie, Register of the Treasury, in the name of Roger Griswold, Esq. of Norwich, Connecticut:  1 certificate, six per cent. domestic stock, No. 13,907—dated the 17th December, 1795, bearing interest from the first day of January, 1794, for 1,597 65-100 dollars.  1 ditto, three per cent. domestic stock, No. 10,632—dated December 16, 1795, bearing interest from the first day of January, 1794, for 994 30-100 dollars.  1 ditto, deferred stock, No. 9,166—dated the 17th December, 1795, bearing interest from the first January, 1801, for 798 83-100 dollars.  Said certificates are supposed to have been lost or stolen in this city some time in December or January last.  JOSEPH THOMAS, No. 59, North Front-Street. Philadelphia, July 21, 1796.
Washington Canal Lottery, No. I.
WHEREAS the State of Maryland has authorised the underwritten, to raise twenty-six thousand, two hundred, and fifty dollars, for the purpose of cutting a Canal through the City of Washington, from the Potomac to the Eastern Branch Harbours.  The following is the SCHEME of No. I.    Viz. 1 Prize of 20,000 dollars,  20,000    1 ditto 10,000  10,000    7 left drawn } Tickets, each $ 5,000  35,000    6 ditto 1,000  6,000    10 ditto 400  4,000    20 ditto 100  2,000    55 ditto 50  2,750    5750 ditto 12  69,000    To be raised for the Canal,  26,250    5850 Prizes,  175,000    11650 Blanks, not two to a prize.     17500 Tickets, at Ten Dollars, = 175,000  The Commissioners have taken the Securities required by the aforesaid act for the punctual payment of the prizes.  The drawing of this Lottery will commence, without delay, as soon as the Tickets are sold, of which timely notice will be given.  Such prizes as are not demanded in six months after the drawing is finished, shall be considered as relinquished for the benefit of the Canal, and appropriated accordingly.  (Signed) NOTLEY YOUNG, DANIEL CARROLL, of D. LEWIS DEBLOIS, GEORGE WALKER, WM. M. DUNCANSON, THOMAS LAW, JAMES BARRY.  City of Washington, Feb. 11.
DUTY ON CARRIAGES.
THAT agreeably to an act of Congress of the United States of America, passed at Philadelphia, the 28th day of May, 1796; laying duties on Carriages, for the conveyance of persons, and repealing the former acts for that purpose: That there shall be levied, collected and paid, upon all carriages for the conveyance of persons, which shall be kept by or for any person, for his or her own use, or to let out to hire, or for the conveyance of passengers, the several duties and rates following, to wit:
For and upon every Coach, 15 dols.  upon every Chariot, 12 dols.  upon every Post Chariot, 12 dols.  upon every Post Chaise, 12 dols.  upon every Phaeton, with or without top, 9 dols.  upon every Coach, 9 dols.  upon other Carriages, having paned work above, with blinds, glasses or curtains, 9 dols.  upon four wheel carriages, having framed posts and tops with steel springs, 6 dols.  upon four wheel top Carriages, with wooden or iron springs or jacks, 3 dols.  upon carriages with tops, 3 dols.  upon chairs with tops, 3 dols.  upon chairs with tops, 3 dols.  upon sulky with tops, 3 dols.  upon other two wheel top carriages, 3 dols.  upon two wheel carriages, with steel or iron springs, 3 dols.  For and upon all other two wheel carriages, 2 dols.  upon every four wheel carriage, having framed posts and tops, and rearing upon wooden spars, 4 dols.
The Collectors of the Revenue of the first survey of the District of Pennsylvania, will attend daily, until the 30th day of September next, for the purpose of receiving the duties on Carriages, at No. 117, in Race or Sassafras Street, in the City of Philadelphia, at the house of Daniel S. Clair, Esq. in the County of Montgomery; and at the house of Abraham Dubs, Esq. in the County of Bucks; of which all persons possessed of such Carriages are desired to take notice.  Notice is also given, TO all retail dealers in Wines, and foreign distilled spirituous liquors, that licences will be granted to them; one licence for carrying on the business of retailing of Wines, in a less quantity, or in less quantities than 30 gallons; and one licence for carrying on the business of retailing Spirituous liquors in less quantities than 30 gallons, at the same time and at the same places, by the officers legally authorized to grant such licences.  WILLIAM NICHOLS, Inspector of the Revenue of the first survey of the district of Pennsylvania. Office of Inspection, at Philadelphia, 21st July, 1796.
City of Washington. SCHEME of the LOTTERY, No. I. FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE FEDERAL CITY.
  A magnificent dwelling-house, } 20,000 dollars, & } 50,000   dwelling-houses, } each 30,000, are } 40,000   1 ditto 15,000 & cash 25,000 40,000   1 ditto 15,000 & cash 15,000 30,000   1 ditto 10,000 & cash 10,000 20,000   1 ditto 5,000 & cash 5,000 10,000   1 ditto 5,000 & cash 5,000 10,000   1 cash prize of 10,000   2 do. 5,000 each, are, 10,000   10 do. 1,000 10,000   20 do. 500 10,000   00 do. 100 10,000   200 do. 50 10,000   400 do. 25 10,000   1,000 do. 20 20,000   15,000 do. 10 150,000   16,739 Prizes. 33,261 Blanks. 50,000 Tickets, at Eight Dollars, 400,000
N. B. To favour those who may take a quantity of Tickets, the prize of 40,000 dollars will be the LAST drawn ticket, and the 30,000 the LAST but one.  And approved notes, securing payment in either money or prizes, in ten days after drawing, will be received for any number not less than 30 tickets.  This Lottery will afford an elegant specimen of the private buildings to be erected in the City of Washington. Two beautiful designs are already selected for the entire fronts on two of the public squares; from these drawings it is proposed to erect two centre and four corner buildings, as soon as possible after this lottery is sold, and to convey them, when complete, to the fortunate adventurers, in the manner described in the scheme for the Hotel Lottery. A nett deduction of five per cent. will be made to defray the necessary expenses of printing, &c. and the surplus will be made a part of the fund intended for the National University, to be erected within the city of Washington.  The Drawing will commence as soon as the tickets are sold off. The money prizes will be payable in thirty days after it is finished; and any prizes for which no number is produced within twelve months after the drawing is closed, are to be considered as given towards the fund for the University; it being determined to settle the whole business in a year from the ending of the drawing, and to take up the bonds given as security.  The real securities given for the payment of the Prizes, are held by the President and two Directors of the Bank of Columbia, and are valued at more than half the amount of the lottery.  The twenty four gentlemen who by appointment of the late Commissioners assisted in the management of the Hotel Lottery are requested to undertake this arduous task a second time on behalf of the public; a sufficient number of these having kindly accepted, it is hoped that the friends to a National University and the other federal objects may continue to favor the design.  By accounts received from the different parts of the Continent as well as from Europe, where the tickets have been sent for sale, the public are assured that the drawing will speedily commence, and that the rare and cautious unavoidably necessary to insure a safe disposal of the tickets, has rendered the thor: suspension indispensable.  SAMUEL BLODGETT.
Tickets may be had at the Bank of Columbia; of James West & Co. Baltimore; of Peter Gilman, Boston; of John Hopkins, Richmond; and of Richard Wells, Cooper's Ferry.
FIFTY DOLLARS REWARD.
RAN away from the subscriber living near Church Hill, Queen Anne County in the State of Maryland about the first of January last, a black negro man named Sam, about thirty years of age, 5 feet 8 or 9 inches high, has a crooked finger on one hand, and one leg, and foot smaller than the other, somewhat round-shouldered, his clothing unknown. Any person who will secure or bring said fellow home, so that I may get him again shall have the above reward with reasonable charges.  WILLIAM JACOBS. June 4.
District of Pennsylvania: to wit:
BE it remembered, that on the 5th day of August, in the twentieth year of the independence of the United States of America, WILLIAM CASSATT, of the said district, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following: to wit:
"The life and adventures of Peter Porcupine; with a full and fair account of all his authoring transactions: being a sure and infallible guide for all enquiring young men who wish to make a fortune by writing pamphlets, by Peter Porcupine himself."  "Now, you lying varlets, you shall see how a plain tale will put you down."  SHAKESPEARE.  In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled "An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts and books to the authors and proprietors, during the times therein mentioned."  SAMUEL CALDWELL, Clerk of the District of Pennsylvania. Aug. 8.
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Berriman & Co's CHEAP AND ELEGANT EDITION OF THE HOLY BIBLE.
Containing the Old and New Testaments, with marginal notes and references. An Index; or an account of the most remarkable passages in the old and new Testament, pointing to the places wherein they happened, and to the places of scripture where they are recorded. A Table of Times. Tables of scripture measures, weights and coins. with an appendix, containing the method of calculating its measures of surface hitherto wanting in Treatises on this subject. A Table of Offices and Conditions of men.  CONDITIONS  1. The size of this Edition will be a LARGE FOLIO, printed on a beautiful new type, and good paper, made particularly for it. It will be published in Numbers, not to exceed 30, one of which will be delivered weekly to subscribers, at a quarter of a dollar. Those subscribers who prefer receiving the work complete, will be attended to by signifying the same on any of the subscription papers in the Bookstores in this city.  2. There will be an advance in the price, on subscribing after the first of August next.  3. In the course of the Work will be given an elegant Frontispiece—From an engraving of the celebrated J. R. Grignion.  BERRIMAN & Co. gratefully acknowledge the very liberal encouragement they have met with; and have reason to believe that the execution of their edition will answer every expectation, and speak its own praise.  May 26. goween
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