Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser. (Philadelphia [Pa.]), 1797-09-11 00:00:00

John W. DOWELL
Gazette of the United States, AND Philadelphia Daily Advertiser.
By JOHN FENNO, N o 119 Chestnut Street.
SUMMER 1562 PHILADELPHIA: MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 11, 1797. [VOLUME XII.]
SALES BY AUCTION.
Stated Sales
For DRY GOODS.
Monday Forenoon—Edward Fox, No. 56, South Front-Street,
Afternoon—Footman & Co. No. 65 South Front-Street.
For SALE.
On board the fast Ship, Swift Iron, afforested Hollow and Window Glass, Demijohns, Wrapping Paper for Sugar Refiners, Rugs of 1 & 2 Quality. Please to apply as above.
White Havana Sugar.
140 boxes of very superior quality now discharging 70 hds. 1 ing from the ship Hamburg Packet, at Walnut Street wharf, and for sale by
Philip Nicklin & Co.
THE SHIP
Hamburg Packet,
SILAS SWAIN, Master,
For Sale, or Charter.
COMMISSIONERS' SALES.
THE Commissioners of the counties of Lycoming and Northumberland, have given notice that they intend to proceed to the sale of lands, for the arrearage of taxes, on the 7th of September next.
FOR SALE.
BRETAGNES in cases
German Checkasin do.
Cambric
Platillas
Oznabrigs
Gold and silver Watches
Window Glass 10 by 8
Glas Tumblers in cases
Linseed Oil in casks, &c. &c.
George Pennock.
NOTICE.
IF THOMAS O'HARA, who some years since kept School at the Nine Bridges, Queen's County, Eastern Shore, Maryland, be living, he is hereby reminded to call on, or write to, the Rev. Ambrose Marshall, near Warwick, Cecil County, Eastern Shore, Maryland, from whom he will receive interesting information.
THE SUBSCRIBERS.
ASSIGNEES OF JAMES GREENLEAF,
HEREBY give notice, that they have disposed of the property assigned to them for the securing the payment of the notes, acceptances, and endorsements given by Edward Fox, for the use of the said James Greenleaf, and the holders of such notes, acceptances, and endorsements, are hereby notified that the subscribers will settle with them for the amount of their respective claims, both PRINCIPAL and INTEREST, at any time before the 20th day of October next; after which day, the holders not applying, will be excluded, agreeably to the terms of assignment.
The Inhabitants of the District of Southwark.
ARE informed that a Coachbox is provided, to be kept at the Constable's office, the north east corner of Front and Almond streets, where the friends of those sick persons who desire to be removed to the City Hospital, are requested to make application—Also, a Hearse will be kept in readiness for the removal of the dead.
Imported in the latest arrivals from
B. & J. BOHLEN.
A large assortment of fine French Cambrics, Platillas, Brittanias, Rouanes, Brown Holland, Checks and Stripes, Ticklenburgs, Oznabrigs, White sheetings, Diaper, Brown rolls, Umbrellas, Hair ribbons, Black and white laces, Bell Holland Gin in pipes, London particular Madeira Wine.
This Day Published.
Observations on certain Documents.
Contained in No. V and VI of
The History of the United States for the year 1796.
In which the CHARGE of SPECULATION against ALEXANDER HAMILTON, Late SECRETARY of the TREASURY, is FULLY REFUTED.
The Norfolk Mail STAGE.
THE Stage starts from the GEORGE Tavern, at the corner of Second and Arch Streets, in Philadelphia, every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, at 3 o'clock, in the morning; arrives at Dover the first day, at Snowhill the second day, at Northampton Court House the third day, and on the morning of the fourth day the passengers find a safe and comfortable packet to convey them to Norfolk.
NOTICE.
Philadelphia, 15th July, 1797.
NOTICE is hereby given, that separate proposals with sealed covers will be received at my office until the eleventh day of September next, to furnish by contract the following articles for the use of the Army of the United States in the year 1798.
First Contract for
3 Sergeants coats
20 Musicians, do.
126 Sergeants vests
126 Privates coats
64 Sergeants coats
32 Musicians, do.
96 Sergeants vests
192 Woolen overalls
192 Linen overalls
936 Privates coats
936 do. vests
1372 Woolen overalls
1872 Linen do.
144 Sergeants coats
72 Musicians, do.
216 Sergeants vests
432 Linen overalls
432 Woolen do.
1893 Privates coats
1892 do. vests
3784 Woolen overalls
3784 Linen do.
Young Hyson Tea.
Imported in the ship Pigeon.
Chocolate and Mustard.
John Hazworth.
Higgins' Specific.
PREVENTION AND CURE OF THE YELLOW FEVER.
EVER since this disease made such ravages in this City and New-York, the author has turned his attention to its causes and cure. The result of his enquiries has convinced him that the reason why so few persons recover from its attacks, are from its not being well understood, and the consequent wrong method taken to cure it. He is persuaded that the excessive bleedings and morbid rest, out of the Faculty is highly injurious, and that the only rational mode of treatment is by the use of proper acids. A comment of this kind is offered as a certain remedy, if used according to the directions.
RAN-AWAY.
ON the 11th. inst. from the Subscriber, an apprentice lad, named Kendal Merrill, about twenty years of age, by trade a Tailor, and had about six months to serve. Any person who will apprehend said run away, so that he may be returned to the Subscriber, will receive a handsome reward and reasonable charges.
City Commissioners Office.
IN pursuance of an Ordinance of the Select and Common Councils, passed the 22nd day of May last. Proposals in writing will be received by the City Commissioners for one month from the 1st of September next, for letting to rent on lease for one year to commence the first day of January next, the following public property of the city—
TO BE SOLD.
A LARGE two story brick House, handsomely situated in Princeton. There are four rooms and a large entry on each floor, and five rooms in the garret, a range of back buildings 51 feet in length, and a piazza of 57 feet. There is a pump in the yard, an excellent kitchen garden, at the farther end of which are a carriage house and two stables, one of which is new, 44 feet long, with stalls in the two stables for 27 horses. The healthiness and pleasantness of its situation, and the number of genteel and agreeable families in and near the town, render it a desirable retreat for a gentleman from the city. The commodiousness of the house, its central position, and the largeness of the stables, make it every way suitable for a tavern, for which it has always been considered as a capital stand. Inquire on the premises, of
ISAAC SNOWDEN, JUN.
80 Dollars Reward.
LAST night the shop of the subscriber was opened, and several articles taken off, viz. a common black leather pocket book, containing two twenty dollar notes of the last emission of the Pennsylvania Bank, and a number of loose papers—one pocket watch with a curved case, and six other ones—one of these a French watch, originally made to tell the day of the month, but this part of the work had been taken out—the figures on the dial plate were left—Another was made by Loveland, London, the number 3113; a third was marked on the dial plate as well as the inside. Amber, New-York. No further particulars are recollected. Whoever discovers the thief, or thieves, so that they may be prosecuted to conviction and the property recovered, shall have the above reward. Forty dollars will be paid for the property alone, or in proportion for any part of it.
THOMAS LINDSAY.
IMPORTED.
In the ship America, James Bwing, master, from Hamburg.
PETER BORGER.
Notice is also given.
Notice is hereby Given.
DUTY ON CARRIAGES.
HEALTH-OFFICE.
Imported in the ship MANCHESTER.
Thomas Murgatroyd.
FOR SALE.
Sherry Wine in pipes and quarter casks
Rota do.
Pimento in bags
4000 bushels Liverpool salt.
A PERSON OF INGENUITY.
FOR SALE or to be let on ground-rent.
A valuable Lot of Ground
SITUATE on the north-east corner of Walnut and Fifth Streets, fronting the State-House square. This lot is fifty-one feet front on Walnut Street, and one hundred and thirteen feet and an half on Fifth Street; there are at present two small two story brick houses, and a number of small tenements thereon.
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 continuing that breadth eastward ninety-five feet, then widening to the south thirteen feet six inches. These houses are 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.
The Subscriber has for Sale.
A large assortment of India Mullins, coarse and fine
India Calicoes
Sooty Romalls
Blue Cloths and Checks
Bandanna Handkerchiefs
Blue red and Gilli Handkerchiefs
An invoice of Irish Linens and Sheetings, well assorted
A box of Diapers
Silk Umbrellas
Two boxes of fine Spices, containing Nutmegs, Mace and Cloves
Black Pepper of first quality
East India Ginger
Java Sugar
A quantity of Madeira Wine
Ditto of Gin
Roll Brimstone
Cedar Shingles.
William Hallowell.
Notice is hereby Given.
DUTY ON CARRIAGES.
HEALTH-OFFICE.
THOMAS HERMAN LEUFFER.
FOR SALE.
EXCELLENT red Bourdeaux Wine in cases and boxes, six years old.
White Graves Wine in cases
Ticklenburgs
Russia Sail Cloths
Ravens Duck
Bag Linen
Hollands
Diaper and Table Cloth
Empty hogs
Censuah Garman Cloth
An assortment of black coloured Ribbons
Fine German Laces
About twelve tons Ruffs clean Hemp
Clover Seed
Italian Soap, in small boxes, for family use
Window Glass
THIS DAY WAS PUBLISHED.
EVENINGS AT HOME.
OR THE JUVENILE BUDGET OPENED.
Consisting of a variety of Miscellaneous Pieces for the instruction and amusement of YOUNG PERSONS—Six Volumes handsomely printed and bound up in two volumes, price Two Dollars.
Letters and Conversations.
Between several Young Ladies, on improving and interesting subjects.
Translated from the Dutch of Madame de Cazen, with alterations and improvements.
Printed on fine paper, and neatly bound.
Price one dollar.
THE Subscriber has for Sale.
A large assortment of India Mullins, coarse and fine
India Calicoes
Sooty Romalls
Blue Cloths and Checks
Bandanna Handkerchiefs
Blue red and Gilli Handkerchiefs
An invoice of Irish Linens and Sheetings, well assorted
A box of Diapers
Silk Umbrellas
Two boxes of fine Spices, containing Nutmegs, Mace and Cloves
Black Pepper of first quality
East India Ginger
Java Sugar
A quantity of Madeira Wine
Ditto of Gin
Roll Brimstone
Cedar Shingles.
William Hallowell.
Notice is hereby Given.
DUTY ON CARRIAGES.
HEALTH-OFFICE.

PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 11.
DEATHS IN THIS CITY. On Saturday night, Capt. James Ewing, of the ship America. A few days since, Mr. Peter Scavendike, On Saturday evening, in Missin's Court, near Dock and Second street, Mr. Timothy Russell, Printer, and a Lady and her Daughter, lately arrived from England. Yesterday morning, Mr. Nathaniel Barnett, of North Third street, and Mrs. George Dorman, of the Custom House.
The Governor of Charleston has issued a proclamation offering a reward of One Thousand Dollars to any person who may give information which may lead to the discovery of the principles or accomplices in a plan, which he has reason to suppose is carried on, for making secret instruments for improper and illegal purposes.
COMMUNICATION.
Some vessel, lately employed, wasted over to Boston, a turbulent Paddy, who was permitted by good will of the captain, and after earnest solicitation to come to a land, (unhappy in being chosen for an asylum by too many roundheads) as a free-mason. This hog-bred Cub had no sooner set foot in America, than he gave out that he fled from governmental persecution, and was obliged to conceal himself for many weeks previous to his departure. Though it is a well known fact that he came down on board the vessel daily, for many days previous to her sailing. Having thus excited adulation by dubbing himself a persecuted patriot, he soon became emboldened to the greatest height of impudence, and as it is the prerogative of his nature, to feel no lack of assurance, he soon, by the help of a number of turbulent and factious demagogues, set up an Irish daily paper, which, during the short time it lasted, was fecundly improved in impudent calumny. That government, under the protection of whose lenient hand the puny Paddy had met a refuge from starvation; This, naturally, soon died; and our booby became an under-rap to a factious Theatre established by a vile rascal of Jacobins. Here he produced an Irish tragedy. ("This day at eve I'll meet thee here again") but the few silly credulous who gaped and stared at the wild phantoms of his lunatic brain, aroused at length their benumbed senses, kicked the tragedy, together with Mr. Paddy, into contempt. Thus he failed here—in spite of all his studies at Trinity College, from which, however, by his own stupid omission, it appears he had been expelled, with contumely and disgrace. A short time since, he informed the public, in the truth-loving Chronicle, that he was involved in debt, and designed to tax his purse with another Irish tragedy, whereby he means to pay his debts and transport his filthy carcass back again to that land, from which he was driven by governmental persecution! He is valourously going to dive into the Lion's mouth, and his new Irish tragedy, by the sublime literary feat it is to afford his gaping creditors, is to compensate all their damages.
This insolent intruder could not quit the land to which he has already too long been a pollution; without a new specimen of Jacobin Irish Impudence. He hands to the Lying Chronicle a mess of bothorism and nonsense, which even their stupid intellects perceived to be unworthy of publication. But new light being thrown upon the subject, probably by the addition of a little Cash to the communication, by some friend of the needy citizen, the illiterate and heterogeneous hodge-podge is finally thrust upon the public. Independent of the character upon whom these dirty off-scourings of the kennels of Jacobinism are heaped, being a distinguished public servant, the intrinsic insolence of tone, and boldness of public insult, must arouse the true American blood in the veins of every man who has not too great a contempt for the worthless bully to notice him. These rascals will by and by turn us out of our own house, and take possession of our goods and chattels, in the name of liberty and equality. Indeed it is high time to repel their unbridled insolence, and hurl back in their teeth their own vile calumnies. The Lying Chronichers who pronounced the Irish nonsense in the first instance to be unworthy even their own prostituted and dirty pages, have since informed their readers, that it ought to be read to the children, and deposited among the valuable papers of every citizen. The whole piece discloses a brutal ignorance, and a total unacquaintance with chronology—Cicero and Demosthenes, with other instances of the same kind, abound in the stupid medley of scurrility and impudence. Gato's bon-mot is spoken of in another place; but it is dropping too low to criticise on so paltry and contemptible a production. Regard for the laws is the sole consideration which could save the puppy from a kicked-hrecp or a wholesome flagellation of the horsewhip.
"Learn, many cur, who 'tis you snarl at, You spurring, function-lacking varlet; Though fools are licens'd diaducers This may not save your forfeit ears." "Dear spirit of our happy clime, With Star deck'd tiara and port sublime, Canst thou believe, oh! Goddess blest, Such Stygian fiends thy realm infest? Yes; such against thy ray serene Do darkling howl with wolfish spleen, And with to see thee crucified, Thy scameless garments to divide." "Can he who 'gainst his country rais'd His impious arm, by us be prais'd? No; rather, each Columbian breast The vagrant scoundrel will detest, Can he who made the law his foe At home, with us be faithful? No: The dog that bit his master here Walks in a longer tether here."
From the NEW-YORK GAZETTE, &c. EXTRACTS, translated for this Gazette, from the History of Crimes, committed during the French Revolution, just published at Paris, in six volumes octavo. Volume 1st, page 1st.
"Others (of the proconsuls sent into the different departments) put in requisition the best wines, and expressly forbid all citizens to buy any thing in the markets until they had supplied their tables with the greatest rarities, and those of the staff-officers of the revolutionary army which accompanied them."
"We have seen those rascals abuse their authority, I will not say to seduce, for it is necessary to please in order to corrupt, but to violate their young and innocent prisoners, to wrest from them those precious favors which love reserves only for love. Some of those prisoners, rich and interesting, but subdued by terror, have been seen to give their trembling hands to their executioners. Alas! some of those marriages formed under such fatal auspices, have been sometimes useful to humanity. They stopped the blood which flowed on certain occasions." "It would not have been prudent to refuse their alliance, as many of them guillotined the fathers for having refused their
daughters in marriage, whether to themselves, or their sons."
"One of them distinguished himself by a deed still more atrocious, if possible. He arrested a number of farmers. The pretext was, they had not paid their civic gift. Their unhappy wives, at the feet of the proconsul, solicited the liberty of their husbands. "Let them pay the sum they owe and they shall be free." "But what shall we do? We are poor and cannot." "Borrow—do as you please; but no liberty unless you bring what I demand of you." They went out: in fine, at the end of some days, after having exhausted every possible resource, they brought the sum. Go—says he to them, in three days you will see your husbands. Alas! what is the first object on going out which strikes their view? It was their husbands going to the scaffold, by order of the monster; to whose house they went in tears. I am very sorry for it, says he; very serious denunciations have been produced to me against them; you yourselves are very happy not to have shared the same fate. The stroke was too strong; the number was too great—he was denounced to the committee of public safety. The proconsul was summoned to give an account of his conduct. One of his friends expressed some apprehensions of the result—"This affair," answered he, "will be soon arranged; I will carry some money to the committee." He was right; one of the members declared that the denunciation was ill-founded, and the tyrannical monster was continued in mission.
"Others depopulated whole communes, loaded multitudes of carts with human victims, from the great grandfather to the child in the cradle, and sent them to the slaughter house, established by the revolutionary tribunal of Paris." "Brave republican," wrote one to Fouquier Tinville—Brave republican! (the villains!) "Brave republican, I send you game for the guillotine, which soon I hope will be taken out of the bags, and they sent back for more. Take courage, support your energy; we will not let you want employment."
"One wrote to the committee of public safety, to complain to it that the law relative to the military tribunals, was not adapted to empty the prisons promptly, and that the guillotine lost its prey."
"Another wrote to his colleague:—The guillotine continues to operate with full force. I yesterday caused 28 to be expedited in the commune of . . . . "In three days it will begin its exploits here." This colleague answered him: I dined with Robespierre yesterday, when we received your letter, we laughed heartily; go on as you have begun—be not alarmed; the guillotine ought to move more rapidly than ever."
"Another said, in a popular society:—The society reproaches me with being too tender, too moderate; they shall, damn me, they shall see, if I am not soon at the summit."—The same caused a mother and her daughter to be arrested in a promenade, caused them to be stripped, and run his hand down one of their throats, under a pretext of her reading counter-revolutionary works."
"Some sans-culottes complaining to a priest who was pro-consul, that they had no work and that they were in the greatest misery. This scoundrel of a senator said to them: "You are damnation fools; don't you know some rich persons? denounce them to me; I will have them guillotined, and give you their property." One of them answered: "Representative, I have a wife and five children, and am without bread; well, I would rather that myself and my family should die of hunger, than to give them bread at that price. The rich of my neighborhood have always supported my ancestors and myself, by paying us well for our labor; I will not repay their goodness with the foulest, blackest act that can be committed."
"A carrier of the mail saying to one of those proconsuls, that the roads were very bad, that he had much trouble in getting horses, was answered: "Address yourself to the representatives near the armies, it is their business; mine is to cause heads to be cut off."
"The same wrote to an administrator of the district; "Take courage, take energy, do not leave at liberty a single man of wealth or talents." And he answered to a keeper of the prison, who asked permission of him to get the prisoners shaved: "I will have them shaved, says he, with the national razor." He put on his door the following inscription: "Those who enter here to solicit the enlargement of the prisoners, will only go out to be put in a state of arrestation." His agents observed to him the difficulty he experienced in feeding the prisoners, from the amazing quantity of them: Oh! damn them, let them eat that or nothing." "No, No, cries another, we must make them soup in a large copper kettle; we will throw therein a quantity of verdgris, it will be thought to have come from the kettle."
"Another agent wrote: "I am at present grand seigneur, I can offer to my friends every day, on leaving the table, a large dish of mens heads."
"A commander of a detachment of the revolutionary army, who was under the orders of those proconsuls, transmitted the words following as the order of the day:— PILLAGE, RALLYING, HORROR. "
REMARKS. Truth begins to appear already in the above work has the broken her chains and begun to tear off the veil from the crimes of the Jacobins, and to expose them to the view of the world in all their horrid deformity. France is expressing the shame it feels in having given birth to such monsters and in suffering so long a time the scourge inflicted on her by him. Americans sympathized with France in her struggles against the combination against her; the freedom of the press being totally destroyed, and, under the direction and control
of the party dominant, we, on this side the Atlantic, were ignorant to what extent the honors of the Jacobins extended. Little did we think, that REGULATED LIBERTY, that first idol of our hearts, that object dearer to us than life, and without which life itself is a burden, was daily bathed and almost drowned in the blood of her most virtuous and zealous worshippers by hypocrites abusing and acting in her name.—Now that we know the truth, ought not such among us who have advocated every measure adopted by the different factions, who have governed France for eight years past, candidly to confess that they had not till now the most distant idea of the excesses to which things were carried, and of the danger to which CIVIL LIBERTY was exposed in creating an abhorrence to it among the French themselves? Ought not our "exclusive patriots" to join the French people in execrating the monsters, who have tyrannized over France and drenched her in the blood of her best citizens? Ought they not particularly to join the Legislative Body in condemning the conduct of the Jacobinic Directory, with respect to their treatment of this country? No, my fellow citizens, we have fiends among us, who, with patricidal look and satanic grin, have expressed satisfaction at all the losses we have sustained from an arbitrary, villainous order of the Executive of a foreign nation, which the people of that country have themselves pointedly called "a piratical decree."
Let no such men be trusted either in public or private life—they are not radically sound. It is remarkable that not an American privateer in France, not a traitor who has been in public office and betrayed and attempted to betray the interests of his country, but what has been a disorganizer, an enemy to our national government—to the virtuous Federalists who have administered it, and active promoters and insolent approvers of French depredations on our property. On the contrary, I defy our Jacobins to produce a single friend to our federal constitution and its hitherto virtuous administration, who has been concerned directly or indirectly in privateering under French colours against their countrymen, or who has abused the sacred trust reposed in them as public officers. No, my fellow countrymen, you will find privateer-men and traitors only among the "EXCLUSIVE PATRIOTS," the revilers of Washington, Adams, and some other real friends to their country and civil liberty: It is high time to detach yourselves from them, and rally round the friends of Virtue, Order, and Federalism.
FRENCH CRUELTY. FROM THE HISTORY OF THE FIVE INDIAN NATIONS OF CANADA.
"The Count de Frontenac was pierced to the heart, when he found that he could not revenge those terrible incursions of the Five Nations; and his anguish made him guilty of such a piece of monstrous cruelty, in burning a prisoner alive after the Indian manner, as though I have frequently mentioned to have been done by the Indians, yet I forebore giving the particulars of such barbarous acts, suspecting it might be too offensive to Christian ears, even in the history of savages. Here however I think it useful to give a circumstantial account of this horrid act, to show on one hand, what courage and resolution, virtue, the love of glory, and the love of one's country can instil into men's minds, even where the knowledge of true religion is wanting; and on the other hand, how far a false policy, under a corrupt religion, can debate even great minds."
The Count de Frontenac, condemned two prisoners of the Five Nations to be burnt publicly alive. The Intendant's lady interceded with him to moderate the sentence, and the Jesuits, it is said, used their endeavours for the same purpose. But the Count de Frontenac said, there is a necessity of making such an example to frighten the Five Nations from approaching the plantations, since the indulgence, that had hitherto been shown, had encouraged them to advance with the greatest boldness to the very gates of their towns; while they thought they run no other risk, but of being made prisoners, where they live better than at home. He added, that the Five Nations having burnt so many French, justified this method of making reprisals. But with submission to the politeness of the French nation, may I not ask, whether every (or any) horridation of a barbarous enemy, can justify a civilized nation in doing the like?
When the governor could not be moved, the Jesuits went to the prison, to instruct the prisoners in the mysteries of our holy religion, viz. of the Trinity, the Incarnation of our Saviour, the joys of paradise, and the punishments of Hell, to fit their souls for Heaven by baptism, while their bodies were condemned to torment. But the Indians, after they had heard their sentence, refused to hear the Jesuits speak, and began to prepare for death in their own country manner, by singing their death song.
Some charitable person threw a knife into the prison, with which one of them dispatched himself: The other was carried out to the place of execution by the christian Indians of Loretto, to which he walked, seemingly, with as much indifference as ever. Martyr did to the stake. While they were torturing him, he continued singing, that he was a warrior brave and without fear; that the most cruel death could not shake his courage; that the most cruel torment should not draw an indecent expression from him; that his comrade was a coward, a scoundrel to the five nations, who had killed himself for fear of pain; that he had made the comfort to reflect, that he had made many Frenchmen suffer as he did now. He fully verified his words, for the most violent torment could not force the least complaint from him, though his executioners tried their utmost skill to do it. They first broiled his feet between two red hot stones;
then they put his fingers into red hot pipes, and though he had his arms at liberty, he would not pull his fingers out; they cut his joints, and taking hold of the sinews, twisted them round small bars of iron. All this while he kept singing and recounting his own brave actions against the French. At last they seared his scalp from his skull, and poured scalding hot sand upon it; at which time the intendant's lady obtained leave of the governor to have the coup-de-grace given, and I believe she thereby likewise obtained a favour to every reader, in delivering him from a further continuance of this account of French cruelty."
MORAL. Thoughts on MAN, considered as a Microcosmos, or Little World.
Man has been considered, and with good reason, as an abstract or model in miniature of the universe. God made him the last and most excellent of his creatures. He internally endowed him after his own image, with a divine understanding, whereby he might contemplate and serve his Creator; and he furnished him with the powers and faculties of reason that he might govern the world and all the creatures subject to his command. God also having created three sorts of living natures, viz. angelical, rational and brutal, gave to angels an intellectual and to beasts a sensitive nature; but to man he vouchsafed both, together with the rational abilities, peculiarly belonging to him; and hence he became the bond or chain of union of all the three, and by his participation of them may be truly said to be a little world, as presenting so exactly its component parts.
God therefore placed on the earth, the man he had made, as it were another world; the great in the small: For out of the earth and dust was formed the flesh of man, and therefore strong and durable. His blood, which is dispersed by branches of veins and arteries throughout the body, may be resembled to those waters which are called brooks and rivers over all the earth; his breath to the air; his natural heat to the warmth which the earth contains in itself, and which, stirred up by the heat of the sun, affits nature in the speedier procreation of those rarities which the earth brings forth; his radical moisture, oil or balsam, on which the natural heat feeds and is maintained, to the fat and fertility of the earth; the hairs of his body which adorn or overshadow it, to grass which covers the upper face and skin of the earth; his generative power, to nature which produces all things; his determinations, to light, wandering and unstable clouds, wasted away by uncertain winds; his eyes, to the light of the sun and moon; the beauty of his youthful days, to the flowers of the spring, which either the fierce puffs of wind blow from their stalks, or in a short time the sun's piercing rays dry up and wither; the thoughts of his mind, to the rapid and instantaneous motion of celestial spirits; his pure understanding to those intellectual natures which are always present with God; and his immortal soul, while righteous and exalted by the beauty of holiness, to the image and similitude of God himself, for, though in respect to God, no man is just, or good or righteous, yet, with such a kind of difference as subsists between the substance and shadow, goodness may be found in man, and God being pleased to accept it, has therefore called him the image and similitude of his own righteousness.
The allusion may be drawn out to a still greater length, and man as the measure of all things, may again resemble by his seven ages, the seven planets. Our infancy may be compared to the moon, in which we seem only to live and grow as plants; the second to Mercury, wherein we are taught and instructed; our third age to Venus, the days of love, desire, and vanity; the fourth to the sun, the strong, flourishing and beautiful age of man's life; the fifth to Mars, in which we begin to take an account of our time, judge ourselves and grow to the perfection of our understanding; last, and seventh, to Saturn, when our days are sad and overcast. In these we find by dear and lamentable experience, and by losses never to be repaired, that of all our vain passions and affections, sorrow only abideth. Our attendants are fickleness, and sundry infirmities, and by how much the more we are accompanied with plenty, by so much the more greedily is our end desired. When time has made us unsociable to others, we become a burden to ourselves, and are of no other use than to withhold the riches we possess from our successors. In this time it is, that we, for the most part, and seldom before, prepare for our eternal habitation which we pass on to with many sighs, groans, and doleful thoughts, and in the end, by the workmanship of death, finish the sorrowful business of a wretched life, towards which we are always making advances both in sleeping and waking; never have those beloved companions of honor and riches any power to hold one day, by flattering the promise of entertainments; but by what crooked path soever we walk, the same leads on directly to the house of death, whose doors lie open at all hours, and to all persons. For this tide of man's life, after once turning and declining, ever runs with a perpetual ebb and falling stream, but never flows again—our leaf once fallen springs no more. Neither does the sun or the summer adorn us again with the garments of new leaves or flowers. For if there is any baiting place, or rest, in the course or race of man's life, the same might then be perpetually maintainal living, and as the sap and juice, wherein the life of plants is preserved, does evermore ascend or descend; so it is with the life of man, which is always either increasing towards ripeness and perfection, or declining towards rottenness and dissolution.
NOTICE.
THE Offices of the Department of War are for the present removed near to the Falls of the Schuylkill, on the Ridg Road. September 4.
By this day's Mail.
NEW-YORK, September 9. It appears by a New Providence paper, handed us last evening by capt. Johnson, that the privateer Revenge, which captured the ship Asia, is owned by citizen Jean Baron, residing in Philadelphia, as appears by a copy of the privateer's commission found on board of the prize ship. The above paper is dated at Nassau, Aug. 11.
BOSTON, September 6.
PICKAROONERY.
Captain Adams arrived at Gloucester, from Martinique; in lat. 40, long. 67, was boarded from the piratical French privateer which lately sailed from Marblehead, and robbed of his light sails, a barrel of beef, and some small articles. The officer told captain Adams he should make a prize of him, were it not that, expecting to fall in with some Indiamen, he did not wish to be detained.
CADIZ BOMBARDMENT.
By arrivals from Lisbon, we learn, that admiral St. Vincents, after having obliged the Spanish fleet to take shelter in Cadiz harbour, had invested that city. In the prosecution of his plan, he captured port St. Mary's, a place about six miles from Cadiz, and from whence the city is supplied with water, vegetables, &c. The Spanish fleet having retired beyond the part of the island on which Cadiz is situated, St. Vincents proceeded to bombard both the city and the fleet beyond it. By the last accounts from Lisbon, the bombardment must have commenced about the 4th or 5th of July, and had not ceased on the 9th or 10th, as will be seen by Messrs Buxley's letters. Lord St. Vincents' fleet has been strongly reinforced since his engagement with the Spanish: And the troops which lately evacuated the island of Elba, in the Mediterranean (4000) are said to have joined him. It is said, a great part of the inhabitants have fled, as the Spanish fleet discovered no disposition to meet the English; which from its length of time at sea, and experience of commanders, was in a high state of discipline. The damages done to the town, and fleet, are variously related; but the fact of the bombardment may be relied on. The possession of port St. Mary's was necessary to the supply of the English fleet with water.
Letters from Lisbon suggest it as the opinion of many, that admiral Jervis means to destroy as much of the Spanish fleet as possible; and then lay Cadiz under a heavy contribution a la mode Francaise .
In such contempt does admiral Jervis hold the Spanish fleet, that while lying off Cadiz harbour, he by turns unrigged and rigged all the vessels of his fleet, in open view; and at one time, we are informed by an American captain who saw it, five ships had actually their topmasts on deck at the same time, and several ships of the squadron failed into the harbour, gave the forts a broadside, and returned.
Captain Allen, arrived at Gloucester from Lisbon, 50 days, confirms the account of the bombardment.
LATE FROM FRANCE.
[Through the friendly attention of Mr. John G. Rogers, of Gloucester, we were last evening favored with Paris papers to July 16th, received there by captain Ingersoll, from Bordeaux.]
After a cursory perusal of them, we can only say, that the Courier du Corps Legislatif , of July 16, informs:—The negotiations for peace are seriously entered upon at Lisle. Every day the two legations meet at 11 in the morning:—Their conferences are never long. The English conduct with prudence; and are much esteemed in Lisle. The ministers of the French legation are also held in high respect. Fifty cannon were fired on the arrival of Lord Malmesbury, at Lisle.
Letters from Italy state, that general Mcerfeldt has again arrived at Montebello; where he had a long conference with general Buonaparte; which terminated to the satisfaction of the two parties. Buonaparte immediately dispatched a courier extraordinary to Paris. The same letters state, that the 1st July was fixed on for the purpose of proclaiming at Milan, the definitive treaty of peace; and the independence of the Italian republics."
In the same paper of the 15th, in a debate upon the celebration of the 14th July, Vaublanc congratulated the Council, that the mediation of Buonaparte, supported by the pacific disposition of the Directory, had succeeded in the liberation of La Fayette, Latour Maubourg, and Bureau de Puzy, who are restored to liberty and independence.
The negotiations at Lisle are to be carried on solely with the English Commissioner. The "Position des Armees" of the 14th July, says, that Perignon is recalled from the embassy to Spain; to which place Percherel has been sent.
It appears positive that the emperor has dispatched orders for the liberation of the prisoners at Olmutz. This paper of the 6th July contains President Adams' speech at full length.
FEDERAL REPRESENTATIVES.
In the 4th middle district we have reason to think, that Bailey Bartlett, Esq. is chosen to supply the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Judge Bradbury.
In Rhode-Island, James Burrill, jun. Esq. was generally voted for.
In New-Hampshire, the accounts stand in favour of Mr. Livermore, to succeed Mr. Jeremiah Smith.
On Saturday the Chevalier d'Vurojo, visited the President of the United States at Quincy.
The Chevalier attended the theatre on Monday evening, and yesterday gave an en-

entertainment to several gentlemen at his residence at Mr. Connel Stoughton's.
It is a strong proof of the salubrity of the air of this town, and the attractions of its inhabitants, that the southern gentlemen in the northern visits, give it the preference. The town is now thronged with strangers of respectability; and a remarkable degree of health prevails.
On Saturday, a well-dressed swindler, was seen eyeing very curiously the pockets of the gentlemen on the Exchange—and not giving satisfactory answers to proper inquiries, he was obliged to make a speedy retreat to avoid hustling.
Last evening, Stephen Smith, a black man, was convicted before the Supreme Court, now sitting of Burglary in Mr. Goldsbury's house the last spring—Death.
Monday last sailed from this port the sloop For the Bay of Fundy , carrying Mr. Wright, astronomer on the part of the British government, and professor Webber, astronomer on the part of the United States, and a young gentleman, as an assistant. The object of their voyage is to ascertain the longitude and latitude of the two rivers St. Croix's, and to complete their surveys, that the result of the whole may be laid before the Commissioners at their meeting in June next in Providence.
The annual "Dudleian Lectures" will be delivered at Harvard University, on this day. The subject of this year's discourse, is " the errors of Popery ." Rev. Mr. Bridge, will deliver it in the College Chapel, at 3 o'clock P. M.
SALEM, September 5.
Capt. George Hodges arrived here on Saturday from St. Domingo, where he was obliged to witness the sacrifice of his vessel and cargo to the French pirates who captured her on her homeward passage from India. Not content with so rich a prize, we understand that capt. Hodges and his people were stripped of almost every necessary personal article.
COUGHS, COLDS, ASTHMAS, and CONSUMPTIONS.
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A medicine invented by the late Sir John Hill (who knowledge as a Botanist procured him the appellation of the Linnaeus of Britain) and is considered in England as a certain cure for the above complaints; it is also of singular efficacy in the Hooping Cough.
It may also be had retail of W. A. STOKES, No. 61, South Second-street, and T. STIFF, 55, New-street, in bottles at 75 cents each.
WM. GRIFFITHS having observed the happy effect of the medicine, (several cases of cures having come within his own knowledge) and the great demand for it has induced him to order a large supply, a part of which he has just received.
At a Meeting of the Board of Property, June 6, 1797,
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PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY EVENING, September 11.
Totals of burials for 24 hours, ending Saturday at noon.
 St. Mary's Church Adults. Child.  German Lutheran 2 1  German Calvinists 3 0  St. Peter's Field 0 4  City Hospital* 17 0  Kensington† 1 3  Total 24 8 
* Fourteen of these were from the city. † All from Camptown.
At a meeting of the inhabitants of the Northern Liberties, held at their town-house on the 28th ult. A Committee of Enquiry, consisting of 40 persons, were appointed to act in conjunction with the Board of Health, in order to prevent the spreading of the prevailing disease.
September 9th, 1797.
MR. BENJAMIN WYNKOOP.
Sir, Agreeably to promise, I shall now reply as concisely as possible to such parts of your letter as occur to my recollection.
The reason why I did not mention the circumstances which gave rise to the yellow fever in 1793, was not, as you insinuate, because those circumstances did not suit my system; or because the dates were so recent that I was afraid of having the subject investigated; but, because the college of physicians had published their opinion that the disease took its origin from contagion, and that they believed the contagion had been imported by a vessel from the West Indies. Let those desirous of seeing the reasons assigned by the college for their opinion, call on Dr. James, the secretary of the college, and satisfy themselves; or read my review of Dr. Rulh's book on the subject, published in 1794.
You ask how certain persons to the north, came to be affected with fever, before those to the south of the Arizuba, (which I have charged with giving rise to the disease) when the wind must have carried the effluvia, if any arose from that vessel, in an opposite direction to them. This circumstance is easily explained.—Contagious diseases do not require wind to waft them from one person to another—all they require is the near approach of the sound to the bodies of the sick, or to any porous substance that has lately been near the body of the sick in a confined situation. While the brig Iris from Oporto was unloading, the crew of the Aretusa had to pass across that vessel to get on shore with their chests, bedding, &c. and it is natural to suppose, as some of the bungs flew out of the wine casks and the mariners were making merry, that some of the crew of the Aretusa also partook of their cheer with them. Mr. Latimer, Mr. Lewis, and others, might have received the contagion from passing near those people with their infected materials; those who worked in sail-lofts from her sails and those of the Hind ; and this is the way that contagious fevers are generally propagated, and this, I am sure, is one of the ways that the disease now continues to be propagated. Contagion is an invisible substance, known only from its effects. The effluvia of marshes, of putrid vegetables, or of bilge water, which contains nothing different from stagnant marsh water, namely, vegetable and animal substances in a state of putrefaction, when they have any effect at all, only produce an intermitting or remitting fever, according as the subject to whom they are applied is more or less vigorous; and diseases thus produced are never propagated by contagion. Please to permit me to transfer the opinion delivered on this subject, by one of the best informed and most judicious physicians of the present or any former age, the celebrated Cullen of Edinburgh, in his first lines, vol. 1.
"As fevers are so generally epidemic, it is probable that some matter floating in the atmosphere, and applied to the bodies of men, ought to be considered as the remote cause of Fevers; and these matters present in the atmosphere, and thus acting upon men may be considered, either as contagions —that is effluvia , arising directly or originally from the body of a man under a particular disease and exciting the same kind of disease in the body of the person to whom they are applied; or Miasmata that is effluvia , arising from the stagnant water of marshes (which contain more or less dead and putrefying vegetable matters) producing a disease in the person to whom they are applied."
"It appears likely that the contagions which produce fevers are not of great variety; perhaps there is but one common source of such contagions."
"For it is well known that the effluvia constantly issuing from the living human body, if long retained in the same place, without being diffused in the atmosphere, acquire a singular virulence; and in that state being applied to the bodies of men, become the cause of a fever which is highly contagious."
"The existence of such a cause is fully proved by the late observations on jail, hospital, (and ship fevers)."
"That these contagious effluvia are rendered more or less virulent as the circumstance of climate and season happen to concur with the other circumstances which give origin to the contagion has been lately confirmed by the observations of Doctor Chisholm of Grenada on a ship fever which was introduced into that island in the vernal season of 1793, and destroyed one fifth of all the inhabitants and nearly one half of all the mariners at that time in port."
"I have something more to add on this subject, but am obliged to defer it to a future opportunity. In the mean time ac-
cept of the sincerest wishes for your welfare. From your humble servant, WILLIAM CURRIE.
MR. PENNO. An artful, insidious paper, signed A Friend to Mankind, was left at my house the other day. It affects, with wonderful philanthropy, to give advice for the cure of the prevailing disorder. Any one who reads that trash must be more than a fool not to see at once the object of the writer. You will oblige me by telling the pale-faced hypocrite who wrote it, that if he had any friendship to mankind, he ought to have damned his performance by his name. I will answer for it, that he who is the friend of so many, has not one real friend on earth, T.
Surgo-at-prosim , the Jacobin Theorists , who has so long furnished dull wit for the gudgeons, flimsy scandal for the milk-tops, and gross lies for the more malicious and hardened of the Jacobin sect; has declaimed (the very natural consequence of a continued sameness) to a mere caput mortuum , an effigy of what once attracted some notice. Every body lays now—"I wonder that you will still be talking, Signior Bache, nobody marks you."
His paltry calumnies have lost even their power of exciting indignation, and a transient emotion of contempt is almost the only attention they attract; they are now regarded as things of course, arising rather from a native propensity to baseness, than founded on this or that particular exciting cause.
A French writer on finances, says, "the various miseries, created by the Revolution, have received as yet no alleviation. The towns are yet unable to maintain their police, hospitals, or work-houses for their poor, who can find no employment."
"A tax which has been laid upon Salt is little better than a renewal of the Gabelle, one of the principal topics of all the abuse poured forth against the old system: still the roads are neither mended nor guarded, nor are the streets either watched or lighted."
"The tenant, deprived of the means of obtaining bread by the fatal unbenigning of society, the natural offspring of the accursed Revolution, beholds his despair increased by the expressions of a sterile piety, and by mock laws, which decree that men shall pay their debts, while the law-makers well know that there is no money on the soil of the Republic; because they have sworn it, by the iron hand of power, from the stretched people, to employ it to the destruction of mankind, and the depopulation of the earth."
"All parts of the public service are about to fail; still the government jogs on its plundering, depredating courses—hunting over the wide-spread surface of the earth, for new seeds of enmity, hatred, and discord:—as if our disastrous and fatal career had not already proved a sufficient curse to mankind, and not sufficiently drawn down on our heads the execrations of the whole earth."
From the Arare
POLITICAL CONUNDRUMS.
Why is the term Federalism like Charity ? Because it covers a "multitude of sins." Why is the term Jacobin like Chymistry ? Because it discloses the base properties of a counterfeit currency.
Why are "Tommy Argus" and "Fool" synonymous terms? Because the latter is a quality of mind of which the former is the representative. In vulgar acceptance these are synonymous. Why is Tommy a Jacobin? Because he is paid for it. Why is the term so hateful to his ears? Because it reminds him of the base properties of his own venal foul. Why is the term Federalism so hateful to the Jacobins in general? Because it renews in their minds the recollection of a firm barrier to their schemes of plunder and murder.
ANECDOSE.
A certain notary being lately applied to by a French functionary, for papers relative to the estate of a deceased Citoyen , declined the surrender, as not knowing the character of the applicant, who instantly pulled out his pocket-book, unfolded his credentials, and observed, "You are Monsieur! I am de Shanceller of de French Consulate de Sharleton, and must have de papers!" The notary very deliberately surveyed the functionary's documents, and gravely replied—"Sir, I am satisfied now of your public character; but as the French government have refused to receive Mr. Pinckney as our ambassador, so it is out of my power to receive you."
Inspectors Office, 6th Sept. 1797.
Sir, In compliance with orders received by me this day, you are hereby required to hold in readiness to march at a moment's warning, the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth classes of the companies composing your regiment, in order to form the body of 817 men from the brigade of this city; and as soon as possible inform me of your proceeding, that I may make my report to his excellency the commander in chief. I am &c. LEWIS NICOLAS, Inspector.
Inform me of the number of notices, your regiment will require, and they, shall be furnished without delay. Col. GURNEY, or Officers Commanding the 5th regiment. } Mrs. GRATTAN
INFORMS her friends and the public in general, that her house, No. 102, Market-street, will continue open during the sickness. Board and Lodging in a separate room, TEN DOLLARS, in a double room, EIGHT DOLLARS. For the convenience of those gentlemen who have not their families in town, Mrs. GRATTAN will receive gentlemen to dine at HALF A DOLLAR a day. August 29—6t
GAZETTE MARINE LIST.
A Bermuda paper of the 12th August, contains the following paragraph: Thursday a brig drifted up to the land from the eastward of these islands bottom up. From her being scuttled in the bottom, we imagine she must have been in with at sea by some vessel. She is brought into harbour by the boats, and has on her stern, "Atlantic of Boston;" she is laden with lumber and spars, and appears to be a new vessel, built of birch and maple. Whether the crew were saved or not it is impossible for us to tell.
New York, September 9th.
ARRIVED. Ship Mary, Battey, Havannah. Brig James, Fitch, St. Vallery. Hetty, Robertson, South Seas.
NEWBURYPORT, September 5.
Arrived, brig Friendship, Ellis, Lisbon. Saturday arrived brig Friendship, Ellis, 61 days from Lisbon, left there brig Vulture , Walton, of this port, to sail in seven days.
July 29, lat. 42, 51, long. 41, 30, spoke brig Integrity , of Charleston, bound to London, 21 days out.
Brig Ranger , Huse, after being taken by an English privateer, and cleared on paying one eighth salvage—failed with a fleet homeward bound, and was again taken by a French privateer, capt. Garriscan , and his crew put on board another vessel and sent home. The above privateer had taken four American vessels within 24 hours, when she captured the Ranger . The captain of the privateer, Garriscan , altho' a Frenchman born, is a naturalized citizen of the United States and has a family and property in the United States.
Capt. Matthews, arrived at Boston on Saturday last from Baltimore, spoke a few days since, the brig Aurora , Gould, from Nevis for Kennebec 20 days out having on board the crew of the brig Ranger , Hewes, of Newburyport, which had been captured by the French and the crew put on board a vessel belonging to Virginia, captured and made a cartel of. Besides this crew, there were on board the cartel, the crews of the brig Success , Rogers, of New York, from St. Kitt's, sloop Dependence , of Richmond Montague, from Antigua; brig Peace , Allen of New York, from Martinico, all captured and carried into Porto Rico, for condemnation.
BALTIMORE, September 7.
This morning, precisely at 9 o'clock, at the navy yard of Major Stodder, the builder, was launched, the United States frigate Constellation . The novelty of the scene, she being the first frigate ever built at this port, drew forth an immense concourse of citizens, of both sexes, and of all ages, and notwithstanding the earliness of the hour appointed for the launch, the number, we are warranted in saying, was never equalled on any occasion in this city. The surface of the Patapsco was covered with innumerable boats, and the adjacent hills, east of Harris's creek, swarmed with inspectors; and so admirable, too, were the situations around, that every one had the pleasure of gratifying his curiosity, without risking the least accident.
A number of volunteers, in uniform, were admitted on board, while others were set to guard the yard and permit no one to enter, unless engaged in the business of the day. The workmen, amounting to 200, being thus kept unobstructed, carried on their work with such regularity and dispatch, as reflected the greatest credit both on themselves and their able conductor. Every order was communicated by a tattle from the drum, and the operations of the men in wedging up the vessel, &c. were apparently performed with as much exactness and precision, as the manual exercise by a regiment of veterans. The anxious moment now arrived—and now description is beggared. Every thing being in the most complete preparations, all the blocks taken away, every man from under the vessel, and the hull standing upon almost nothing, but the slippery tallow, orders were given for knocking away the last staunchion: this being done, she moved gracefully and majestically down her ways, amidst the silent amazement of thousands of spectators, to her destined element, into which she plunged with such ease and safety, as to make the hills resound with reiterated bursts of joyful acclamations.
Her plunge into the water was attended with so little velocity, that she came to anchor within 100 yards of the shore; and we can pronounce, from the authority of able and experienced judges, that no vessel was ever taken from the stocks in a more safe and judicious manner than the Constellation , and that no man, on a similar occasion, ever acquitted himself with more honour and ability than did Major Benjamin Stodder.
The Partnership,
UNDER the firm of FREEMAN & Company, is dissolved by mutual consent. All persons having any demands against the said House are desired to render the same to T. B. Freeman; and those indebted to the House are desired to make payment to him—By whom business will in future be carried on at his Store, No. 39, South Front-street. August 7. endlaw
Bank of North America,
September 8th, 1797. On Monday next the Notices for all Notes or Bills payable at this Bank, which fall due on that and the ensuing 6 days, will be served on the Payees; and the like Notices on every Monday, till the further orders of the Directors—Persons wishing to deposit Notes or Bills for Collection, which are to fall due within the week, must tender their undertaking to give notice to the Payees. August 4.
The Gazette.
PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY EVENING, September 11.
CITY HOSPITAL REPORT,
From 9th to 10th Septem. in the Morning. Admitted, since last report,
Stufll Ryenfull, North Livery Stables, New Market.
Jacob Beacom, Dr. Currie, 39, Pine-street.
Thomas Marshall, corner Front and Queen.
Patrick Gallagher, Tent on common. Samuel Bell, Mr. Steel's, German streets. Died since last report.
Elizabeth Ellis, admitted 5th inst. Nelly Corral, 5th.
Samuel People, 8th. Stufll Ryenfull, 9th (8 hours after admission.)
Remaining last Report Admitted,
Discharged None Died 4
Remain in Hospital, { Convalescents 5 } Sick 37 } 42
Interred in City Hospital burying ground since last report:—
From the city and suburbs 10 From the city hospital 4
Total 14 Five of the sick are dangerous.
(Signed) STEPHEN GIRARD, CALEB LOWNES, JOHN CONNELLY.
CITY HOSPITAL REPORT,
From the 10th to 11th Sept. in the morning. Admitted since last Report.
Nancy Berry, Cresson's court, Cherry alley, between 5th and 6th street.
Leonard Brown, Corner 5th and Cherry alley.
Wm. Hartson, Mr. Bennet's Union St. etc. Sarah Deyoung, corner South and Front St.
Mary Haywood, Robert McFee's second by Shippen street.
Mary Woodward, 16 Pigeon street. David Givens, Harris's, South street.
Wm. McDonald, Tents on Common. Wm. Silby, Brig Clarissa near Sweden Church.
Paul Long, do. James Clarke, No. 1, Market street.
Daniel Rourke, Joseph Ploughman's corner Frost and South. Francis Leiby, Hill's, 247, South Second.
Elizabeth Boyd, Durney's, biscuit baker, corner Shippen and Second. Jane McFarland, 50, Race street.
Died since last Report. Wm. M'Donald, 12 hours after admission. Paul Long, 8 hours do.
Catharine Turner, admitted 8th Hugh Parry, 5th. Joseph Azani, 9th.
Remaining last report Admitted since
Discharged none Died 5
Remains in Hospital, { Convalescent 9 } Sick 43 } 52
In'tered since last report, From city and suburbs 10 Hospital 5
Total 15 (Signed) STEPHEN GIRARD, CALEB LOWNES, JOHN CONNELLY.
THE Commissioners appointed by the Governor, to carry into effect the law for alleviating the distress of the Citizens of Philadelphia, and the suburbs thereof; inform their fellow-citizens, that they have attended to their appointment, and now invite them to recommend in writing, signed by one or more reputable inhabitant, such of the indigent as may come to their knowledge, who will be assisted as they may stand in need, by applying at the State-House, from 3 to 5 o'clock, on the 6th inst. and every Second, fourth and sixth days of the week, called Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, at the same hours, while necessary; and those who want employ, may likewise apply as above, or to either of the commissioners at their dwellings.
Commissioners for the city.
Robert Wharton, S. Third-street, No. 135. George Krebs, N. Fifth-street, No. 17.
John James, ditto No. 18. Israel Israel, corner of Chestnut & Third St.
Thomas Savery, N. Fifth-street, No. 20. Edward Garrigues, Cherry-street, No. 39.
Commissioners for the Northern Liberties.
Samuel Wheeler, Vine-street, No. 99. John Wagner, Noble-street.
George Ingles, New Market-street.
Commissioners for Southwark.
Samuel Church, corner South & Water St. William Lennard, South Second-street.
Robert M'Mullen, Swanson-street. Philadelphia, September 5, 1797.
The Health-Office
Is removed to the City-Hall, and is kept open night and day, where persons having bills is may apply. Wm. ALLEN, Health-Officer. Sept. 4. dit
Post Office, September 5th, 1797.
The Post Office will be removed tomorrow at 3 o'clock, P. M. to Mr. Dunn's Coach house, 12th street, between Market and Chestnut street, where merchants and others will please to send for their letters, as the letter carriers during the continuance of the present prevailing sickness will not be sent out.
TO BE SOLD VERY CHEAP!
A LIGHT W GGGN almost new, with a frame and a pair of harness (English collars) has never been used—price 90 Dollars. A Horse 16 hands high, seven years old and a new chair, with a falling top and harness—$320. (Enquire No. 221, Market-street. August 4.

THE DOLLARS REWARD.
RAN away from the subscriber, an indented Servant Girl, named MARY ANDERSON , about twenty years of age, short, thick set person, with short black hair; had on when she went away, a dark calico gown, an old black silk cloak, and a black hat. Whoever will secure said girl, and give information thereof to the subscriber, No. 2, Greenfield alley, or to the office of this Gazette, shall receive the above reward.
All persons are forbid harboring said girl, as they will be dealt with as the law directs.
MARY ANDERSON,
N. B. Said Girl is from Ireland, and has been in this country but a short time; she was sent to the work-house for misconduct, where she was taken sick and removed to the city-hospital, from which place she made her escape.
April 30. cost
To be sold at Public Vendue,
To the highest bidder, at the house of Mr. William Evans, the sign of the Indian Queen, in the city of Baltimore, on the 24th day of October next, at 11 o'clock, A. M. About seven thousand acres of land, the property of William Bell, of Philadelphia, lying between Reister's-town and Westminster, commonly called Little Winchester, (the turnpike road runs through a considerable part of these lands) the tract begins about 17 miles from Baltimore, within a few hundred yards of said Reister's-town, and extends to the distance of about twenty-three miles from Baltimore, and lies on the main falls of Patapsco river, from thence to four miles thereon. Will be sold in tracts of one hundred and fifty to three hundred acres. There is a large proportion of meadow and wood land on each tract, some of them highly improved, with excellent buildings and fine grist.
ALSO,
A tract of seven hundred acres of land, called Clover Farms, within five miles of Bladensburg, esteemed very good for Grass. Richard Pensonby, of Bladensburg, will show this land to any person inclined to purchase.
ALSO,
A tract of land of about three hundred and thirty acres, within about two miles and a half of the President's house in the Federal City. It is nearly all wood land, and a fine high prospect, from which may be seen the city of Washington, Bladensburg, Alexandria and a part of George-town, and many miles down the Potomac river. Mr. Richard Pensonby, of Bladensburg, will also show this land.
A liberal credit will be given for the greatest part of the purchase money. The terms will be made known on the day of sale.
May 8. w.m.
Just Received,
From Batavia (via Providence) A few Boxes of Spices, consisting of Nutmegs, Cloves and mace.
For sale by WILLINGS & FRANCIS, Penn street.
May 30. def
Davis's Law Book Store,
No. 319, High-Street, GEORGE DAVIS,
BEING busied for some time past in preparation for removing into his present house, has been under the necessity of postponing until this day informing the gentlemen of the Bar generally thro' the United States, that his spring importation of law books is now arranged and ready for sale, on terms that he trusts will entitle him to the like preference he has experienced for several years past. Catalogues, containing the most varied collection ever imported into this country, are printed and will be delivered on application.
June 27. saw gw.
City Commissioners' Office,
June 22, 1797. In pursuance of an ordinance from the select and common councils, passed the 22nd day of May last, appointing the city commissioners, and prescribing their duties, section 9th.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,
That the city is divided into five districts, each to be under the superintendence of one of the city commissioners, who is to be individually responsible for the cleanliness of the same, and are as follows:
 1. From the south side of Cedar-street, to the north side of Spruce-street, under the superintendence of Nathan Boys.  2. From the north side of Spruce-street, to the north side of Walnut-street, under the superintendence of Hugh Roberts.  3. From the north side of Walnut to the south side of High-street, under the superintendence of Joseph Claypoole.  4. From the north side of High-street, to the north side of Mulberry-street, under the superintendence of William Moulder.  5. From the north side of Mulberry-street to the north side of Vine-street, under the superintendence of Nicholas Hicks.  The cleaning of High-street to be in common. A stated meeting of the city commissioners is held at the Old Court House, in High-street, every Tuesday evening at 5 o'clock.
July 14. coom
Stands for Draymen, &c.
In pursuance of an Ordinance from the Select and Common Councils, bearing date the 22nd day of April, 1797, providing for the appointment of City Commissioners, &c. Sec. 13th.
The following places are fixed upon by the said City Commissioners for Stands for Draymen and their Horses.
 In Vine-street, eastward of Front-street, on both sides.  Sassafras, High, Chestnut and Walnut-streets, eastward of Front-street, on the north side only.  Mulberry-street, south side from Front to Third-street.  Front-street, east side from Vine-street to Elith's alley.  Front-street, from opposite to Black Horse-alley to Hamilton's stores, east side.  Water-street, west side from the north end of Stomper's or Moore's stores to Pine-street.  Penn-street from Pine to Cedar-street, west side.  Drawbridge, north side, east of Front-street.  Spruce, Pine and South streets, east of Front street, south side.  Dock-street, between Walnut-street and the flag stone crossings, east side, opposite George Ockley's.  Second-street, between Sassafras and Vine streets, west side.  Fifth-street, east side from Chestnut to Mulberry streets.  Sassafras-street, from Third to Fourth-street, east side.  No dray or horse to stand within ten feet of any pump.  STANDS FOR HAGGENEY COACHES. Pine-street, north side from Fourth to Fifth streets. Fifth-street, between Chestnut and Walnut streets, west side. Branch-street, north side, between Third and Fourth streets.
July 14. mws&fm
A Literary Treat.
Just published, handsomely printed on writing paper, price 1 dollar, A new edition of that popular and entertaining work, entitled
THE FORESTERS, an American Tale; being a sequel to the history of John Bull, the Clod-puddle. In a series of letters to a friend, with the addition of two letters, alluding to recent political transactions in America.
The following extract from the Clavis Allegorica, shows the principal characters that are introduced:
 John Bull, the Kingdom of England  His Mother, the Church of England  His Wife, the Parliament  His Sister Peg, the Church of Scotland  His Brother Patrick, Ireland  Lewis, the Kingdom of France  His Mistress, the Old Constitution  His new Wife, the National Representation  Lord Street, the Kingdom of Spain  Nicholas Frog, the Dutch Republic  The Franks, the French Republic  The Heretics, the United States of America  Robert Lumber, New-Hampshire  John Codline, Massachusetts  Humphrey Plowshare, Connecticut  Roger Carrier, Rhode Island  Peter Bull Frog, New-York  Julius Cæsar, New-Jersey  William Broadbrim, Pennsylvania  Cassimar, Delaware  Walter Pipewood, Virginia  His Grandson, George Washington  Peter Pith, North Carolina  Charles Indigo, South Carolina  George Tru'ly, Georgia  Ethan Greenwood, Vermont  Hunter Longknife, Kentucky  Black Castle, Negro Slaves  Rats, Speculators  Mother Carey's Chickens, Jacobins 
This popular and entertaining satirical history of America is attributed to the Rev. Dr. BENNET. It has great share of originality and abounds with genuine humour. It is continued down to the present time, and characterizes those late political transactions which have caused so much uneasiness in America.
Sold by H. and P. RICE, Bookseller, No. 16, South Second Street, and No. 50, Market Street. June 26.
LAW BOOKS,
Latest London and Dublin Editions.
H. & P. RICE, Booksellers,
No. 16, South Second, and No. 50, Market Street,
Have just received by the late arrivals from
London and Dublin, their spring importation, consisting of a variety of the latest and most approved Law Books, which added to those already on hand, forms the most extensive collection ever offered for sale in this country. They therefore beg leave to notice, that from the nature of their connection in Dublin, they are enabled to sell their editions (as they have hitherto done) at the very lowest prices. The following are among the latest publications.
 Vesey, Junr's Reports in Chancery, 2 vols.  Peake's Cases at Nisi Prius; Ridgway's Reports in the time of Lord Hardwicke; Noyes's Reports Practice in the Ecclesiastical Courts; Barton's Treatise on a Suit in Equity; Tidd's Practice of the Court of King's Bench in Personal Actions, 3 parts complete; Ward's Law of Nations; Crimbe on Utes; modern Reports, 2 vols. London edition.  H. and P. Rice expect to receive by the first arrival from New-York the 6th vol. complete of Durnford and East's Reports, the 2d part of Gilbert's Law of Evidence by Loft, and a number of new publications. 
The History of Pennsylvania,
By ROBERT PROUD,
Is now in the press, and will be published, with all convenient expedition, by Z. CHARLES POULSON, jun. No. 89, Chestnut-street, Philadelphia, where subscriptions will continue to be received, and at the Philadelphia Library, according to the printed prospectus, until the work is ready for the subscribers.
July 18. sawgf
Printed Calicoes.
JOHN MILLER, Jun. & Co.
No. 8 Chestnut Street,
Have for Sale
FIFTY TRUNKS neatly assorted, very low on short credit.
March 6. $
Richard and James Potter
HAVE removed their Counting House to No. 45, South Fifth-street.
August 2. w&f
Lancaster, Harrisburg, Carlisle, Soppenburg and Sunbury
STAGES.
THE public are requested to take notice, that the partnership which has for some time subsisted between Mathias Slough of Lancaster, and William Geer, is now dissolved; but, not as M. Slough intimates to the public without just cause; as will more fully appear by a letter on the subject from M. Slough, to W. Geer, dated the 29th December last, a recital of which is now deemed necessary. Any gentleman who wishes to be more circumstantially informed of the merits of this business, by applying to W. Geer may have the perusal of M. Slough's letter, and then can be at full liberty, to determine whether or not W. Geer is not perfectly justifiable in attaching himself to any other person in the prosecution of the Stage conveyance from Philadelphia to Shippensburg; or any other place.
Now from the liberal and generous support the public were pleased to confer on the first effort in this business, William Geer, in conjunction with Messrs. Reily, Weed and Wimer, is determined to prosecute and carry it on, with every care, attention and dispatch that a zeal to oblige the public can possibly exert.
The above company, who are amply provided with carriages, horses, and every appurtenance to render the passage safe and commodious, inform those who wish to patronize and encourage the undertaking, that they can take their seats at George Weed's, the sign of the White Horse, Market Street, Philadelphia, on every Monday and Friday, to proceed to Lancaster, Harrisburg, Carlisle and Shippensburg. The fare as hitherto established.
For the further accommodation of the public, a Stage will start every Wednesday from the house of Samuel Elder, in Harrisburg, arrive at Sunbury in Northumberland county, every Thursday, and return from thence and arrive at Harrisburg every Saturday, for passengers destined for Lancaster or Philadelphia, may proceed on Monday.
WILLIAM GEER.
Lancaster, Jan. 27, 1797. N. B. This Line of Stages starts from the house of William Ferris, in Lancaster, on every Tuesday and Saturday morning at 6 o'clock, proceeding to the warreast; and from the house of Mr. Samuel Elder in Harrisburg every Wednesday morning, on the same evening arrives at Patrick Cochran's in Shippensburg, and returns from thence on every Thursday performing the same route daily as in its tour from Philadelphia.
City of Washington.
SCHEME.
Of the Lottery, No. II,
For the Improvement of the Federal City.
  A magnificent dwelling-house 20,000 dollars, $50,000   1 ditto 10,000, are 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 3,000 & cash 3,000 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   50 do. 100 5,000   100 do. 50 5,000   200 do. 25 5,000   1,000 do. 10 10,000   15,000 do. 5 75,000   16,739 Prizes.   232,601 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 first 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 net deduction of five per cent. will be made to defray the necessary expenses of printing, &c. and the surplus will be made a part of the fund intended for the National University, to be erected within the city of Washington.
The 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.
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.
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From the Otego Herald.
CAUTION.
WHEREAS a combination of men in this county have undertaken to enrich themselves, by fabricating titles to sundry valuable tracts of land, the property of gentlemen living in New York, Philadelphia, London and Paris, for which tracts of land large sums of money have been paid to those fraudulent men, by innocent purchasers. It is therefore just that public information should be given, to the end, that the injured may seek redress while the men have property, and are to be found. Those who have been discovered are Truman Harrison, Joseph Witcomb, said now to reside in the county of Saratoga; Thomas Kelly and several others who go under fictitious names. It is supposed that the lands offered for sale on those fabricated titles, are at least worth fifty thousand dollars. Such as we have actual knowledge of are as follows: Lots No. 11 and 12, Otego patent, thousand acres each, the adjoin property of William Dellwyn, now of London; lots No. 58 and 64, same patent, thousand acres each, the property of Mr. Chaumont, now of Paris, and James Averill and others, of this State. There is some grounds to suppose that the lands of Richard Wells and Charles Wharton, of Philadelphia, are under their management. The Printers will do well to give this place in their papers, as well to caution the public against purchasing those lands, as also to deprive those men so future from imposing on individuals, which their education and address have enabled them to do heretofore. Witcomb has been a shopkeeper of some note in this country.
The following affidavits will set in a clear point of view the wickedness of those men, which when the public have perused, will induce them to exclude the interference of Wm. COOPER.
Otego, July 28th, 1797.
I Thomas Kelly, of the County of Otego, having been led into an error, by John Witcomb and Truman Harrison, of the same County, to sign a deed to them, for lot No. 58, Otego patent, which was the property of William T. Franklin now Mr. Chamon's and others; and further the said Joseph and Truman did persuade me to do this against my inclination, which was made out on the 10th day of November, 1793; or let back two years so as to bring it to that time; and further the name of Pardon Starks to that deed was a fictitious name, there being no such person there. To this I make voluntary oath.
THOMAS KELLY.
19th July, 1797. On the 19th July, 1797, came personally before me, Thomas Kelly, the subscriber to the above affidavit, and made solemn oath that it contains nothing but the truth.
ELIHU PHINNEY, Justice of the Peace.
Aug. 3. sawgw.
Thirty Dollars Reward.
ELOPED from the service of the subscriber, on the 19th instant, a negro man by the name of DICK, about twenty-five years of age, and five feet nine or ten inches high; by trade a carpenter, and is a very lively brisk workman. His countenance is very good—When spoken to, he converses with ease and confidence, and is pretty ingenious. I purchased the said fellow of Mr. Dabney Minor, in whose name he has been advertised in the Richmond newspapers. During his last runaway trip (last summer) he was employed a considerable length of time, by some person near Dumfries, from which circumstance, I conjecture, he has taken another northern route. I forewarn all persons from giving him employment, of any kind whatever, and masters of vessels and others, from carrying him out of this State. The above reward will be given if he is taken within forty miles of this city; and an additional sum, in proportion to the distance he may be brought, or the trouble and expense the apprehender may be at, in bringing him to this place.
AUG. DAVIS.
N. B. His apparel was of the usual negro kind, but he had more cloaths than is customary for them to possess.
Richmond, June 11, 1797. A.D.
Will be Landed,
From on board the ship Active, Capt. BLAKE, from
20 bales white Ruffs clean Hemp
2 casks Cloves Seed
For Sale by
Thomas Herman Leuffer,
North Fifth Street, No. 34.
June 26.
William Blackburn,
LOTTERY AND BROKER'S OFFICE
No. 64 South Second Street.
commenced drawing the 29th May, FOR SALE. The price of tickets will rise in proportion as the drawing advances, particularly on account of the five first drawn tickets, prizes of four thousand dollars each, on the last day of drawing.
Check Books kept for examination and registering, in the Canal, No. 2, City of Washington, No. 2, and Pateron Lotteries. Also, tickets for sale in the Schuylkill bridge and Perkiomen Bridge lotteries, which will begin drawing in the course of the summer. The business of a Broker in all kinds of Stock, Bills, Notes, Lands, &c. &c. transacted with the utmost attention. June 2. tu&f
Erskine's View of the War.
JUST PUBLISHED,
By ROBERT CAMPBELL & Co.
No. 40 South Second Street,
[Price 31 Cents]
A View of the Causes and Consequences of the present War with France.
By the Honorable THOMAS ERSKINE. May 15.
STATE TRIALS.
Sold by W. Young, Bookseller, No. 52, South Second Street.
The Pennsylvania State Trials,
Containing the impeachment, trial and acquittal of Francis Hopkinson, Judge of the Court of Admiralty, and John Nicholson, Comptroller General—in one large 8vo. vol. Price, in boards, 3 dollars.
W. Young has for sale, a general assortment of Books. Also, Stationery, retail and by the package, well assorted, and entitled to the drawback if exported. July 7.
THE SUBSCRIBER having been appointed by the Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of his Britannic Majesty, General agent for all British creditors, and such particular agents as they may specially authorize, in prosecuting their claims before the commissioners for carrying into effect the sixth article of the Treaty of Amity, Commerce and Navigation between his Britannic Majesty and the United States of America, hereby gives notice that he has opened his office at his house the fourth east corner of Chestnut and Fifth Streets, Philadelphia, where he is ready to receive all claims or instructions for claims with the vouchers and documents thereof, for the purpose of bringing forward the same agreeably to the rules and orders which the board may think proper to prescribe. And as it will be for the interest of all concerned, that the several claims be to stated, and supported, as to prevent the delay which would arise from the necessity of obtaining further information, or additional materials, from persons residing at a distance, the general agent thinks it his duty to add, (for the direction chiefly of those, who not having employed particular agents, may leave the prosecution of their claims to his charge and management) that all such claims ought in particular to set forth—
 1. The proper description and situation of the creditor or claimant, and original debtor, respectively.  2. The date and nature of the original contract or debt.  3. When, in what manner, and to what extent, the creditor or claimant was prevented or impeded, by the provision, operation or defect of law, the decisions and practice of courts, or restraint of execution, from recovering payment of the debt in question.  4. The loss and damage incurred or sustained, in consequence of such impediments, whether the same may have arisen from the insufficiency, change of situation, or death of the debtor, the loss of legal remedy from lapse of time, or other causes impairing the value and security of the debt, which would not have operated if such impediments had not existed.  5. The particular grounds and reasons on which the claimant maintains, in the terms of the treaty, that "by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, the creditor cannot now obtain and actually have and receive full and adequate compensation" for the losses and damages to which he is entitled.  The general agent thinks it his duty further to suggest that the several claims ought to be accompanied and supported by the affidavits of the claimants duly sworn and regularly attested, both as to the existence of the debts claimed, and each other circumstances as may be within their own knowledge respectively. And wherever the claimants in stating the nature of their evidence (which must in every instance be the best of which the case is capable) have occasion to refer to the testimony of witnesses, it will be proper to apprise the general agent of the names and places of residence of such witnesses and the facts to be established by their testimony.
Wm. Moore Smith.
Philadelphia, June 8th, 1797. d
For Sale,
That well known place, called VANDERKIRK'S
COLUMBIA HOUSE
Boarding School for young Ladies.
MRS. GROOMBRIDGE with much pleasure
acknowledgement for the liberal encouragement
she has received during four years residence in
Philadelphia; and assures her friends and
the public, so far from intending to decline her
school, has made a superior arrangement for the
more convenient accommodation of her
scholars. Every branch of useful and polite
education is particularly attended to by Mrs.
Groombridge and masters excelling in their
respective professions.