Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser. (Philadelphia [Pa.]), 1800-02-11 00:00:00

The price of this Gazette is Eight Dollars per annum to Subscribers residing in the city of Philadelphia. All others pay one Dollar additional, for enclosing and directing; and unless some person in this city will become answerable for the subscription, it must be paid Six Months in Advance.
No Subscription will be received for a shorter term than six months.
MATTHEW MCCONNELL, Having opened an Office in Coesnut street, (A few doors above Fourth)
At No. 121, AND again commenced the Business of Negotiations, in the various kinds of Public Stock, Bills of Exchange, &c. &c. Engages to do every thing in his power to give satisfaction to those who may think proper to employ him. He means to confine his transactions to the Agency and Commission line, in all such business as is common to the profession.
The purchase and sale of Houses and Lots in and near the City will be attended to, and also of Lands, when such business again revives.
November 19. d2w(D5 def)
JOHN MILLER, Junr. No. 30 Dock, near Third street, HAS FOR SALE,
Coffees, Mammodies, Taffaties, Striped Doreas, Tangibs, Patna and Santipoor Hankerchiefs. The foregoing will be sold very low in order to close sales.
ALSO,
A FEW PACKAGES OF German Goods, Suitable to the West India Market; Received by the Fair American from Hamburg.
October 25.
TO BE SOLD BY
JESSE & ROBERT WALN.
Old Port Wine, in pipes, bds, and qt. casks, Also Landing at their Wharf.
From on board the ship Edward from Lisbon.
Lisbon Wine, in pipes and qt. casks. June 25.
ROSS AND SIMSON,
HAVE FOR SALE,
3000 pieces 1st and 2d quality Russia Duck,
100 pieces Ravens Duck (superior)
Boston Beef in Barrels
A few bales Bengal
1100 bundles St. Martins Salt. April 11.
Southern Mails.
THE Mails for all the Offices on the main line, between this Office and Petersburg, Virginia, will be closed here every day, (Sundays excepted) at half past 7 o'clock, A. M. And the Mails for the Post Towns on the main line, through North-Carolina, South-Carolina and Georgia as far as Savannah, will be closed with the Southern Mails every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. The water Mails between this and Charleston are discontinued.
Post Office, Philadelphia, December 30, 1799, dff.
Taxes of Lycoming County.
JOHN KIDD, Treasurer,
BY Direction of the Commissioners of Lycoming county, attends at Philadelphia to receive the Taxes assessed upon unsated Lands in that County, from the holders thereof, in this City. Those who have filed with the Commissioners, statements of their Lands, are requested to call upon him, to know the amount of Taxes thereon, and pay them; otherwise, before his leaving the City, they will be put into the hands of the Sheriff for collection, agreeably to the act for raising county rates and levies. Those who have not filed statements of their lands with the Commissioners, and are desirous of having it done, to prevent sales without previous personal Notice, may file with the above Treasurer, their lists, stating the quantities returned, number and dates of the warrants and names of the warrantees, under which they held their lands. He will attend at Mr. Joseph Hardy's No. 93, Market Street for this purpose until the 18th instant. November 9.
Thirty Dollars Reward.
DESERTED
FROM the Marine Barracks on the night of the 14th inst.—JOHN OSBORN, born in the town of Bedford, West Chester county and State of New York, aged 22 years, 9 months, 5 feet 8 and a quarter inches high, grey eyes (long headed) light hair, ruddy complexion, pock marked, by trade a Shoemaker. Enlisted by Lieutenant Reynolds in Stephen's Town, near Albany the 25th of June last. Had on and took with him a short round blue cloth coat with a red cape, a blue cloth coatee, a few white waistcoats, a long grey mixed cloth coat and breeches, a pair of boots, a chocolate coloured great coat trimmed with black hair plush, a fur hat half worn, and two silver watches, one a middle size, the other small. He may impose himself on some family or gentleman as a waiter, as he has acted in that capacity. Whoever apprehends said Deserter, and secures him in jail, sends him to Headquarters, or delivers him to any of the Marine officers, or any officer of the army of the United States shall receive the above reward and all reasonable charges.
J. S. LEWIS, Adjutant Marine Corps. January 16.
DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA, TO WIT:
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the 31st day of January, in the 24th year of the Independence of the United States of America, John Rowlett of the said district hath deposited in this Office the Title of a Book, the right whereof he claims as Proprietor, in the words following, to wit:
ROWLETT'S
Tables of Discount or Interest,
ON EVERY DOLLAR,
FROM one to two thousand, on every ten dollars, from two thousand to five thousand five hundred, on every fifty, from two thousand five hundred to three thousand, and on every five hundred, from three thousand to five thousand, from one day to sixty-four days inclusive, AT SIX PER CENT. Comprising, in the whole, upwards of one hundred and thirty two thousand one hundred and fifty calculations of Discount; all performed according to the equitable principles of the Banks, and as practised between Individuals throughout the United States.
WITH NOTES
Preceding the work, showing how, by means of the Tables, to ascertain the Discount, at SEVEN and at EIGHT PER CENT, reckoning either 360 or 365 days to the year—explained by examples.
ALSO,
Another Note, under the last page of the Work, showing the mode of calculation on CENTS.
LIKEWISE,
The ready way to use the Tables for any number of Days exceeding sixty-four.
To all which is added, the principles of computation of the various exchanges between each state respectively, and between all these and London and Paris, at different rates of Exchange.
By JOHN ROWLETT,
Accomptant, Bank of North America.
In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, intituled "An Act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts and Books to the Authors and Proprietors of such copies, during the time therein mentioned."
(Signed) D. CALDWELL,
Clerk of the District of Pennsylvania. January 31. taw4w.
NOTICE.
ALL persons indebted to the estate of THOMAS WILSON, late of Southwark, deceased, are requested to make immediate payment to the subscribers, and those who have any demands against the said estate are requested to furnish their accounts for settlement.
SARAH WILSON, Administratrix.
JOEL W. WILSON, Administrator. No. 295, South Front Street, Southwark.
WHO HAS TO LET,
A BRICK STABLE,
Sufficiently large to contain nine Horses. For Sale or to Let. A New FRAME CARRIAGE HOUSE. Nov. 1, 1799. dff.
FOR SALE,
SEVERAL VALUABLE BUILDING LOTS,
Near the corner of Arch and Ninth Streets. Also,
To be Sold or Let,
A number of excellent Pasture Lots,
On the Wistahick road, about half a mile from the city. Enquire at No. 28 North Fifth Street. November 15. dff.
TO LET,
Several Valuable FARMS,
Situated in Bensalem township, Bucks county, nineteen miles from Philadelphia. For terms apply to
ELIZABETH ROBERTS,
Attilborough, Bucks county—or
JOSEPH R. JENKS,
No. 38, north Second Street, Philadelphia. N. B. None need apply who cannot produce suitable recommendation. Also for sale,
The Time of a Negro Boy,
Who is fifteen years of age, and has thirteen years to serve—He has been used to the business of a Farmer, and can drive a Carriage. Apply to
ELIZABETH ROBERTS, as above. January 23. t&f. st.
One Thousand Five Hundred DOLLARS
WAS delivered to the POSTMASTER here, in the POST-OFFICE, on the evening of Tuesday the 27th ult. in a LETTER directed to Mr. John Mills, Merchant, BALTIMORE, containing two ALEXANDRIA BANK NOTES, No. 4320, in favour of William Taylor, and dated 30th April, 1798, for ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS, and No. 4522, in favour of John P. Pleasants, and dated the 10th of December, 1798, for FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS, which letter has been SUPPRESSED in a POST-OFFICE, and the BANK NOTES taken out—as the PUBLIC MAIL was not STOPPED, MOLESTED, or ROBBERD.
Bankers and merchants are particularly requested to watch the circulation of said notes, and stop them; and any person giving such information as will lead us to our money, shall have FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS reward.
WILSON & SWANN, Frederickburg, (Virg.) Sept. 10.
All Printers in the United States, are requested to publish the above, and we will pay them.
DANCING.
M. FRANCIS,
OF THE NEW THEATRE,
RESPECTFULLY informs his scholars and the public in general, that he will re-commence Teaching on TUESDAY the 24th instant, at the Assembly Room, South Fourth Street. Days of tuition, Tuesdays and Thursdays.
TERMS,
Five Dollars per Month,
Two do. per Quarter,
No Entrance.
For further Particulars apply to Mr. F. 70. North Eighth Street. December 21.
LANCASTER STAGES.
THE Proprietors of the Philadelphia and Lancaster line of Stages DISPATCH, return their grateful thanks to their friends and the public in general, for the past favors they have received, and inform them that in addition to the regular Line, they are provided with Carriages, Sleighs and carriages, to go through between the City and Borough in two days. Those who prefer this mode of travelling can be accommodated at the Stage Office, sign of United States Eagle, Market Street, Philadelphia. Slough, Downing, Dunwoody & Co. Nov. 30. 21-5
BOONETON IRON WORKS.
TO BE SOLD,
OR LEASED FOR ONE YEAR—THAT
Valuable Estate,
KNOWN by the name of the Booneton Iron Works, situate in the county of Morris in the State of New Jersey, consisting of a Forge with four fires, a Rolling and Slitting Mill, a Crust mill with two Run of Stones, and Saw mill, all in good order and new in use, together with an excellent, large, and convenient house, with out-houses of every kind; among which are an Ice house, and stone milk house, with a remarkable fine spring in it, a large Garden, and an excellent collection of Fruit, a large Orchard, and 2500 acres of wood, pasture and arable land, and a great number of stores and workmen's houses. Immediate possession will be given of houses and stores sufficient for providing stock the present winter, and possession of the whole in the spring. For terms enquire of David B. Ogden at New-York, Mr. Peter Mackie in New-York, Mr. David Ford in Morris Town, or messrs. Jacob and Richard Ratch on the premises. January 11.
United States, Pennsylvania District. } II.
BY virtue of a writ of venditioni exponas, to me directed, issued out of the circuit court of the United States, in and for the Pennsylvania District, of the middle circuit, will be sold by public vendue at the city tavern, in Second Street, in the city of Philadelphia, on Monday the 17th day of March next, at 6 o'clock in the evening, all that certain tract or parcel of land, situate, lying and being on the river or creek called Lackawaxen, in the county of Wayne, containing 8000 acres and upwards; on which are erected a messuage, stables and barns, with the appurtenances. The names of the original warrantees of the said tract or parcel of land were as follows:
Mordcai Roberts, John Till, Stephen Medora, George Watson, Zachariah Ferris, Benjamin Hancock, George Till, Edward Welsted, Thomas Wiggins, James Thompson, George Morton, Joseph Whitehead, George Stretton, Patrick Connolly, Friend Stretton, Thomas G. } } John Oliphant, William Halbert. } }
Seized and taken in execution as the property of Robert Lettis Hooper, deceased.
JOHN HALL, Marshal. N. B. A reasonable credit will be given.
Marshal's Office, Philadelphia, Jan. 4. 2017M
* These two tracts do not contain the full quantity of the original warrants; part of them having been conveyed away.
Twenty Dollars Reward.
RAN AWAY from Spring Forge, in York County, a negro man, named ISAAC, otherwise ODDJO, about 33 years old, the property of Robert Coleman; he is about 5 feet 8 inches high, has a blemish in his eyes, wore white in them when common, by trade a Forge man; had on and took with him a drab coloured broad cloth coat, almost new, a fallers jacket and pantaloons printed fancy cord, a twandown striped under jacket, a rumus hat; one fine and one coarse shirt one muslin handkerchief, sprigged, two ditto striped border, a blue Persian under jacket and two pair cotton stockings. Whoever takes up said negro and lodges him in any jail in this or any of the neighbouring states shall have the above reward or reasonable expenses brought home. JOHN BRIEN. Spring Forge, October 23, 1799.
N. B. As said negro formerly lived in Chester county, it is probable he may return there. November 5.
TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD.
RAN AWAY on Saturday evening the 13th July instant, from Colebrook Furnace, Lancaster county, a Negro Man named Gato, he is about 40 years of age, five feet six or seven inches high, tolerable black, with a down look, squints, he is a cunning artful fellow, a great liar, and very fond of strong liquor, has been brought up to the farming business, is very handy at any kind of laboring work; he took with him a number of clothing, amongst which, one suit plain Nankeen; (some money). It is expected he has shaped his course for Philadelphia or New York. The above reward will be paid for securing him in any jail in the United States, with reasonable charges if brought home. SAMUEL JACOBS. Colebrook Furnace, July 16, 1799. (O14)
TO THE HOLDERS OF Military Land Warrants,
FOR THE PURPOSE OF LOCATING.
JAMES E. SMITH as early as the 2d of Sept. shortly after his return from viewing the Military Lands, offered his service to the holders of Military Land Warrants for the purpose of classing, registering and locating them, in consequence of an arrangement made with Mr. James Johnson in July preceding, on the land, for the purpose of exploring the sections in the whole survey. This business having been carried into complete effect by Mr. Johnson, with the assistance of an intelligent inhabitant of that country, they having taken notes descriptive of the situation, soil and natural advantages attached to each section in the whole survey. Mr. Johnson being now here with these notes, together with the said J. E. Smith having a complete copy of the Surveyor General's return, made to the Treasury Department of the Townships surveys.
Being thus informed the subscribers, jointly, offer their services to the holders of warrants of the above description, to receive, register and locate, for which one tenth part of the land located will be required as a compensation for locating where the registry is already made as may be hereafter agreed on by applying to either of the subscribers. Such of the honorable members of Congress as may now hold, or may receive warrants from their friends before the 11th of February next, by addressing a line to either of the subscribers, through the medium of the Post Office, will be waited on agreeable to their appointment.
JAMES E. SMITH, No. 100, South 8th Street, opposite the Horse Market.
JAMES JOHNSON, No. 309, Market Street, 31w12-14d.
February 1.
LOCATION OF Military Land Warrants.
IN order to render the information relative to the Military Lands completely satisfactory, the Subscribers have agreed to connect their knowledge—and from all their observations to digest a scale of preference in the Locations, which they venture to assert will be accurate. Those who wish to employ them to make the locations, may receive further information by applying to William C. Schenck at Dunwoody's Tavern, Market Street, or to John Matthews, No. 9, South Fifth Street.
John Matthews. Zachariah Biggs. Martin Baum. William C. Schenck. January 31. 9dct.
DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA, TO WIT:
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the eleventh day of January, in the twenty-fourth year of the Independence of the United States of America, COLLINSON READ and GEORGE DAVIS, of the said District, have deposited in this Office, the title of a Book, the right whereof they claim as Proprietors, in the words following to wit:
TEN BLANK DECLARATIONS,
Elegantly engraved on Copper plate, viz:
1. Debt on Bond 6. Quiston Meruit 2. — by Affixes 7. — Valcheant 3. — on simple bill 8. — On Promissory note 4. — on penal bill 9. — Same by Indorse 5. — Indehitatus AF 10. — Trespals and E. 6. — sumpti jectment.
For the use of the Professors of the Law, DRAWN BY COLLINSON READ.
In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, intituled "An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts and Books to the Authors and Proprietors of such copies, during the time therein mentioned."
(L. S.) D. CALDWELL, Clerk of the District of Pennsylvania. The above declarations combining the semblance of fine writing with utility, and tested and approved by some of the best and most distinguished Law Characters in the state, are now published, and for sale at
GEORGE DAVIS'S LAW-BOOK STORE, No. 319, HIGH-STREET. Where always may be had, every book wanted in that line. January 14. tuth2m.
NOTICE.
THIS is to give notice that the Subscriber hath obtained from the Orphan's Court of Cecil county in Maryland, letters of administration on the personal estate of Samuel Gil, in late of the county aforesaid, deceased; all persons having claims against the said deceased, are hereby desired to exhibit the same with the vouchers thereof, to the subscriber on or before the 14th day of August next—thcy may otherwise by law be excluded from all benefit of the said estate. Given under my hand this 27th of January, one thousand eight hundred.
JOHN GILPIN, Administrator. January 30. taw6w.
TO BE SOLD FOR CASH, OR EXCHANGED,
For property in the City, or within thirty miles of it,
A PLANTATION or tract of Land in Mifflin County and State of Pennsylvania, within six miles of the river Juniata, containing about 300 acres. There are about fifty acres cleared, part of which is a rich bottom, watered by a constant stream that is strong enough to work an oil or a grist mill. Any person inclining to deal for it, may obtain further information by applying at the office of this gazette. N. B. If sold, credit will be given for part of the money. October 17, 1799. dff.
NEW LINE OF STAGES
To New York,
By the shortest and most pleasant road—passing through Frankford, Bullington, Newtown, Pennington, Millstone, Boundbrook, Union Camp, Scotch Plains, Springfield and Newark.
THE SWIFTSURE.
Starts from the Green Tree, No. 50 North Fourth Street, at 8 o'clock every morning, and arrives at New York early the next evening.
From New York it starts at 9 o'clock every day (Sundays excepted) and arrives at Philadelphia, early the next evening.
Fare for passengers 5 dollars, way passengers 6 cents per mile. Each passenger allowed 14lb of baggage. One hundred and fifty weight of baggage to pay the same as a passenger.
All baggage to be at the risk of the owner, unless insured and receipted for by the clerks of the different offices. Rate of insurance one per cent.
* * * Apply to JOHN M'CALLA, No. 50 North Fourth Street, Philadelphia, and to WILLIAM VANDERVORT, No. 43 Courtland Street, N. E. corner of Greenwich Street, New York. January 3. codf.
THE FOLLOWING VALUABLE LANDS
Will be offered for sale, at the Merchants Coffee House in this city, between the hours of six and eight on the evening of Saturday the twenty-second of March next.
In the County of GLYNN and State of GEORGIA—all patented in tracts of 1000 acres.
7,000 Acres at the confluence of Frederica and Tuttle rivers, and head of St. Simon's Sound, near the town of Brunswick.
282,000 Acres on the waters of the great and little Satilla rivers, and of Buffalo creek.
41,000 Near the above described tracts.
25,000 Near the above described tracts.
280,000 Acres on the waters of the great Satilla and Altamaha.
247,000 Acres on the same waters.
50,000 Acres on the waters of the great Satilla.
50,000 Acres on the waters of little Satilla and Altamaha rivers and Buffalo creek.
60,000 Near the above described tracts.
In the State of VIRGINIA—all patented.
44,000 Acres in the county of Bath, on both sides of Green Briar river, subject to 3000 acres of prior surveys, included within the said 44,000 acres, but exclusive of that quantity.
41,000 Acres in the county of Bath, on the east side of the Cow Pasture river and on both sides of the Waggan Road leading from the Warm Springs to Staunton, subject as aforesaid to 5000 acres prior surveys.
4,300 Acres in the county of Randolph, on Buchanan river, subject as aforesaid to 4588 acres prior surveys.
30,000 Acres in the county of Bath, on the east side of Calf Pasture river, subject as aforesaid to 3000 acres prior surveys.
In PENNSYLVANIA.
60,000 Acres in Northumberland county, surveyed and returned.
46,800 Acres in Northumberland county, surveyed and returned.
49,400 Acres in Bedford county, surveyed and ready to be returned.
* * * For the greater part of the purchase money a liberal credit will be allowed the purchasers, giving unquestionable security.
Persons wishing particular information will please to apply at No. 41 Arch Street, where the patents and drafts, and also certificates of the quality of the Georgia and Virginia Lands are deposited.
THOMAS FITZSIMONS, BENJAMIN R. MORGAN, JEREMIAH PARKER. Philadelphia, Jan. 7. 22w1S
TO BE SOLD,
Or Rented for a term of Years,
A LARGE TWO STORY BRICK HOUSE,
With a Lot thereunto belonging,
SITUATE in Duck Creek, Cross Roads to Kent County, State of Delaware, fronting on the Main Street; there are on the lower Floor, five Rooms and an Entry, with a number of well finished Rooms up Stairs, a Cellar under the whole Building, a Brick kitchen, a Pump of good Water, with a Stable, Carriage House and Sheds, the whole improvements are in good repair. The Seat is well calculated for either a Store or Tavern, the latter of which it has been occupied for a number of years with considerable success. The situation is dry and the Country around being very healthy and a place of considerable Trade, it will

CONGRESS.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 24.
Mr. Randolph's Motion for discharging the Supernumerary Officers, in the additional Army.
House in Committee.
Mr. Randolph said, his object in proposing this amendment to the bill was to consolidate the men already enlisted into as many regiments as they would make, and as there could be no use, but great expense in maintaining the officers who remained, they might be discharged. He believed it would be generally conceded that the number of men now enlisted were not more than sufficient to fill six regiments, but the whole of the officers were appointed and in pay for the twelve regiments—as the recruiting would now be stopped, he was not disposed to see the public money squandered away unnecessarily.
If an invasion should happen there would be need of a much greater quantity than the whole, and then a number adequate to the exigency could be raised—without it, these officers would be useless. To keep up an army of officers without men to command, would be an expensive folly. He could have wished the whole force disbanded, but not being able to obtain that, it became his duty to endeavor to reduce it to the narrowest possible grounds.
Mr. Rutledge said, the bill upon the table was, to him, extremely disagreeable.—Coming from that respectable quarter, the committee of defence, and being supported by a number of his friends, he should have been content with giving a bare vote in opposition to it, had not this proposition come forward. He conceived it would be fatal to this country to recede in any one measure of defence: he wished this army to be filled up agreeable to the law as it stood originally, because he sincerely believed it highly probable that it would be wanted. But in addition to a bill which in itself was receiving from our original defence, an amendment more fatal still was proposed. Mr. Rutledge believed it much more easy to get men than to get officers. Many gentlemen had made considerable sacrifices to serve the country, they abandoned profitable employments to go into the army, it would therefore be extremely wrong to discharge them before the object was completed for which their patriotism induced them to enter.
He said however, his feelings should never overcome what he conceived the interests of his country required. But it could never require this paltry, pitiful economy. Indeed he did not believe it true economy, because if the men were wanted again, the officers would be indispensably necessary; and the recruiting would necessarily be much impeded if they were now discharged, because they would not be induced to engage again in the service.
He believed the resources of this country were far beyond what gentlemen had represented in a late debate; he believed them fully adequate to the maintenance of any army whatever. It talking of our means, it had been insinuated that this was a permanent establishment. It was no such thing. It was an extraordinary army raised for an extraordinary occasion, which occasion was not yet accomplished. Our children, who had been referred to, would never complain of the debt which was left them to pay, when they considered the occasion there was to incur that debt: they would rather regard the attention paid to the permanent interests of the country, with gratitude.
The military art, Mr. Rutledge observed, was a science; gentlemen of the army, if they were continued in their stations, could be acquiring a more competent knowledge in their science in this interim, and fit themselves for usefulness, when they were to be called to action. As for the prejudice of the people to the army—though it was true they were against the standing army, and it was possible they might be, in one state, or in a little corner of that state, generally against all these kinds of preparation, but it was not so universally. He rather believed, in respect to the insults from France, that the sentiments of the public were far in advance of the government, he knew it to be so in South Carolina: they thought the government tardy, and therefore proceeded to measures of defence themselves, tired of waiting for the government.
He lamented that gentlemen, who had always expressed their desire for strong measures, should be prevailed on to take steps which were receding from their former ones. If this were encouraged, the evil would not stop here—every measure of defence would be successively attacked by others, who readily caught at every opportunity. He believed this from the progress which was making towards it. These soldiers were to be disbanded: now the officers were to be discharged: besides this there was a motion laying on the table to recede from another measure of defence (the Sedition Bill) next it would be moved to stop the building of the 74's and when or where would it end, until the total subversion of the whole? If this kind of proceeding was encouraged, it would be impossible say to what a state of prostration our nation would be brought. He therefore thought his duty called upon him to vote against every innovation upon the system, until the occasion was removed.
Mr. Platt said he had voted against the late resolution to disband the army: the reasons which were urged against that motion, made a strong impression on his mind; and although nearly a week had elapsed, he still retained that impression. It was unne-
cessary to recapitulate those arguments, he would only observe that the whole course of reasoning against the former resolution appear to him to apply with at least equal force against the present measure. A very considerable expense would have been saved by disbanding the army, and in that point of view alone, the inducement to that measure was strong; but it was contended on very good grounds he believed, that it would indicate a want of union and stability in our councils, which at this particular crisis it was so important to maintain. It appeared to him that the suspension of enlistments by a law of congress was in effect the same thing in that point of view, as a law to disband the army; it discovered the same relaxation of spirit, and indicated the same fluctuating policy.—And what was the inducement to this measure? The small additional expense of the few soldiers who may be insisted for three months to come. This, he said, appeared to him to be a pitiful saving indeed; and such as would not justify the government in abandoning that system of measures which had hitherto been so successful, and which had made so strong and so favorable an impression on our enemy. We shall probably know the result of the pending negotiation within three months—if peace and security shall be restored, the army in question would cease with the law which created it; and if a third attempt to negotiate shall fail of success, who is prepared to say that the whole twelve regiments will not be necessary.
There was one point of view he said, in which this subject was not before considered. The President of the United States had informed them that in his judgment, found policy dictated the renewal of negotiation with France, but that in order to give effect to that negotiation, our whole system of our defensive measures ought to be firmly maintained—in our answer to his speech we explicitly approve of the conduct and views of the President with regard to the mission, and we concur with him in opinion that no relaxation ought to be made in defensive measures—he therefore thought they owed it to the executive, they stood pledged to maintain the ground on which the negotiation was commenced: they were bound he said to afford every advantage in their power to enable the President to bring the negotiation to a favorable conclusion—but by adopting this measure, they certainly did relinquish a part of the ground on which the President had founded his measures: instead of seconding the effort of the President, the present measure would counteract the co-operations of the executive arm; and by pursuing this course, said he, we shall assume the responsibility of a measure which must certainly be attended with very important consequences to this country. I think Sir, we ought to allow a fair trial to the negotiation under all possible advantages; and to leave the high responsibility of that measure where it now rests.
Mr. Hartley said he did entertain a hope that this bill would have passed pretty unamended, and he was therefore sorry to see any attempts made towards its destruction. The gentleman who had proposed the section had evinced his perfect aversion to any military establishment whatever; he did not wish to have a single officer or soldier, but Mr. H. hoped his attempts towards it would fail, for though he liked the bill he disliked the amendment.
These officers were now at their posts: they have been selected with the best aid an executive could have—such as could not be had again—the aid of the wise Washington: if they were dismissed, they would, many of them refuse to return if called for, and a new but less complete selection must be made. This would make the measure an essential injury to the country.
Mr. H. said he wished our citizens no more to be disturbed with the unnecessary noise of the drum, and therefore he hoped that recruiting would be suspended, but at present he thought it would be very improper to discharge the officers. On this account he should vote against the proposed section, but in favor of the bill without it.
Mr. Cooper professed himself against the amendment as well as against the whole bill. He was convinced that the prosperity of the United States was intimately connected with this army, and it must be a weakness in the government to relax any part till the object was obtained—if the object was not obtained, how unwise, how undignified would this measure then appear, and thus uncertain, how ill-timed was this relaxing system proposed. It was not wisdom to do to day what must be undone tomorrow. The gentlemen who had proposed this defensive system, and procured its establishment, in his opinion was pulling down what they once with so much wisdom reared, by introducing the bill at all.
Mr. C. went into the former debate of the house on the motion for disbanding the army: he considered it an inconsistency in the conduct of gentlemen who opposed that motion to propose this bill.
Mr. Otis vindicated himself from the inconsistency charged. As for himself, he said, he was only the humble organ of the committee of defence for whom he reported the bill. But however, it was his own opinion that the bill was proper.
As to the amendment he opposed it. The question the other day was to disband the army. That was negatived. Now the motion is to disband a part of it—the officers. If the officers were to be sent home and the staff pulled down and annihilated, he conceived it would be equivalent to disbanding two thirds of the whole army, because the recruiting could not go on as soon as it probably might be wanted. There was no argument, in his opinion, which was used against disbanding the whole army, that could not with equal propriety be applicable to the present motion. He therefore hoped
the dignity of the house would not be so impaired, as it must be by enlarging the discussion of the present motion, but that the question would be taken immediately.
Mr. Harper opposed the proposition, because of the considerable delay such a motion must make if the necessary should return for raising this army. A new selection of officers must be made, for he presumed very few of those discharged would serve again. It was true there were plenty of applications for commissions, but a long time would be necessary to procure the information necessary to make a wise selection. He did not think it an economical measure, for the delay and expense which would accrue in making the arrangements would equal the pay of the officers for the short time they would probably be now in the service.
Mr. Macon could not agree with the gentleman (Mr. Rutledge) that officers were hard to be got: during the war there were plenty of able officers to be obtained. Indeed the report of the Secretary of War confirmed the truth of this opinion; there was not a single regiment complete in men, but the whole of the officers were appointed. It was an unnecessary use of money. It had been said to be a small expense.—That argument could not warrant the ill use of it. Take care of the pence; the pounds would take care of themselves: was an old but true adage. Therefore, no saving whatever was 'pitiful' or 'paltry.'
The gentleman from S. Carolina [Mr. Rutledge] had said it was not a standing army. Mr. Macon did not know what then to call it. It must be a militia army or a regular army: the word regular, applied to the army, had always been considered synonymous with a standing army. They certainly could not be called militia: then they must be regulars, and if regulars, a standing army.
The President, in his opening address to the House, had given advice that the House ought to examine and see where any savings could be made: no doubt he meant to examine into every item of the expenditure. If only the pay of one officer could be saved it would be prudent to do it. He liked the amendment for the principle of it, because it went to lessen the public expenditure: and having failed in the attempt to get the men disbanded, he considered it his duty to come the next best possible to it, and vote for discharging the supernumerary officers. As the enlistments were to be stopped, the officers could be of no use; then why not discharge them?
It had been supposed that these patriotic officers would not return to the service. If this dismissal took place; but that new ones must be sought. Mr. Macon had no doubt but the same patriotism which brought them out on a certain occasion, would induce them to return to their homes if the government had no more need of their services, and that they would as cheerfully return to the service if there ever should be occasion for them, or their patriotism would be very mutable indeed, and unworthy their profession.
Mr. Bayard conceived that a right view of this subject must convince the House that it would be a real saving to keep the officers. From the report of the secretary of war it would appear that the army referred to were at present stationed at great distances; one part from the other. Agreeable to the report of the Secretary of war it appeared that these twelve regiments (or what were enlisted of them) were stationed in the following manner.
Three regiments in the vicinity of Providence river, near Uxbridge, Massachusetts.
Three regiments in the vicinity of Brunswick, N. Jersey.
Three regiments in the vicinity of Potomac, near Harper's Ferry, Virginia.
Three regiments in the vicinity of Augusta, above the falls of Savannah.
Were this amendment to pass, Mr. B. said, it would become the executive to take immediate steps to order their removal from their present positions, in order to form them into complete regiments. The expense of removing from their present cantonments, marching forage, &c. must be very considerable. Again—If the officers were to be reduced, could it be done in a minute? How were the executive to determine who of the officers to discharge, and who to retain. If they were to draw lots, it must take considerable time—three or four months would not be sufficient. But on the other hand it was possible that the negotiation might be successful in one month, and if so, they would then be discharged by the law upon the bare wages due to them for the time they served. But the amendment was calculated to give them a month's pay. Surely from these considerations it would be an eventual saving to keep them until the success of the negotiation is known. But suppose peace was not made with France, would it be prudent in that event to discharge them? Mr. Bayard conceived not; for he had no doubt but they would then think of invading this country, and having that apprehension, he should be sorry to see the country left unprotected; for surely retaining these officers would much facilitate enlistments, if they should be required to go on.
Mr. Claiborne did not know what the expense of removing the army could be more than transporting the baggage. He was not of opinion that it would have any delay about which gentlemen talked so much. If there should be a treaty, they would be discharged by the law—if there should not, and there was no use for them, this measure would certainly facilitate their discharge, because it did not follow of course that they would be wanted, although no treaty might be formed.
Mr. C. did not conceive it necessary to keep these men merely that they should acquire a knowledge of the military art. The
science of war could only be obtained in war.
The theory of that art could be as well known out of the army as in it. Nor could he conceive it to be so difficult to procure officers, if they should hereafter be wanted, as had been represented. The Secretary of war had plenty of applicants; and their characters were always portrayed by their friends when they applied for the appointment. It could not therefore be difficult or tedious to make a proper selection, when all the materials were continually in possession of the department.
Mr. Marshall said this was precisely the same question, as had taken up so much time in the House, and had been maturely discussed, and on which a majority of the House had expressed an opinion by rejecting the motion to disband the army.
He would call the attention of the House to the particular principle upon which that decision was grounded. It was this. The state of the country at the present moment was such as to leave it absolutely uncertain whether the twelve regiments would or would not be necessary for our defence, but that the period would soon arrive when that uncertainty would be removed. On these grounds it was the determination of the House not to recede from any measure they had ordered, nor to progress, and agreeable to that principle, a bill was reported to suspend the enlistments.
Mr. M. called to the recollection of the House some of the arguments which were used against the motion to disband the army, and applied them to the present amendment. A large majority he said then decided in favor of maintaining exactly the same ground at present, and he presumed no circumstance had appeared to change the opinions of the House on that point. The adoption of the motion would certainly very materially derange the system. Gentlemen supposed the President could re-create the officers. He could not do it without a law to enable him. The original law would have been fully executed, and nothing would remain to do in it, the executive could not therefore create an officer. Besides there would be a great inconsistency; the bill pointed to an event when recruiting must recommence, but the amendment removed that power by taking away the officers who were to execute that service; besides leaving the men recruited (if it were possible) without officers! Thus though the time was appointed, the means were taken away until at a future meeting of Congress an act should be passed to enable him to appoint officers.
If the number of men were never to be increased, then indeed the arguments in favor of discharging the officers would be unanswerable, but in the prospect of such an event as an increase, these arguments would fall.—It was with propriety, thought prudent to retain the skeleton of an army to enable the President in case of invasion, or actual war, to recommence the recruiting service.
It was observed that the same patriotism which called forth the spirit of our citizens to accept of commissions would excite them again to enter into service. Mr. Marshall believed it to be a fact; he believed they would again enter the public service if required: no doubt but they did estimate love of country sufficient to obey the orders of their country, at a time or in any way, but would it be right and proper to call gentlemen from their occupations and families, and dismiss them before the service was performed to which their patriotism called them out, merely because their zeal could be depended on? He hoped the national spirit would never yield to that false policy. He hoped the now existing station would be maintained, and no measure at present be receded from, on which the country had placed their confidence for defence.
Mr. Nicholas did not think, with gentlemen who had spoken against the present amendment, that the same reasons which were used in opposition to the other motion, were also applicable on the present one.—But what would be the operation of the present motion if adopted.
The House had determined that no more men should be raised, even if the negotiation with France should fail, unless the failure was followed by actual war or threatened invasion: if therefore the present motion was rejected, there would be three times the number of officers in the pay of the country, and they must in case the negotiation fail, remain until the next session of Congress, at least necessary for the men. How would this contribute to the strength of the country, or how to another object gentlemen had mentioned, military discipline. These men would always be at their homes, and acquire habits not useful either to themselves or to the country.
It was said that if discharged before the accomplishment of the services for which their patriotism brought them away from their homes, they would be unwilling to return when wanted, and that, when the necessity was most urgent, there would be great delay in procuring others. The gentleman who used this argument has answered it by telling you that the war department has made provision for officer an eventual army of 50,000 men. If so, it could be no difficulty to procure officers at any time. If these officers might not all find it convenient to return, others could be appointed without any trouble or delay, whenever it might be necessary to augment the army.
It is well known that a much more numerous class of citizens were willing to go into the eventual army, (as it is called) provided for time of real danger than into the one now under consideration—therefore, the probability would be in favour of a better selection, for there could be a larger field to choose from.
Again—Most of the officers had most likely tried their efforts at enlistment. Was it not probable that new officers would be likely to draw into the service men who might be attached to them, but who else would not have entered.
If these were found arguments, the article of expense was not the only consideration, but the actual power of the country would be encreased in the event of danger.
The gentleman from Delaware, Mr. Nicholas said, used an argument which appeared to him extremely weak. He had said the arrangement now proposed would probably be more expensive than the law as it now stands, for in all likelihood the army will be disbanded by the terms of its enlistment before this law could be executed. How this was to be, he could not conceive. If the occasion for this army should cease before the dismissal of the officers, they would be dismissed under the original law: If it should not, this measure could not increase the expense.
Another objection, and one which was relied upon was, that it would be out of the power of the President to re-appoint the officers, even if he should find occasion to order the enlistments to go on. To this objection it might be answered, that the old law would still remain in force and the same power which could direct the enlistments to be made could appoint the officers. Regiments of men were always accompanied with a suitable number of officers, and therefore if the President was empowered from the existence of certain circumstances to raise so many regiments, he was equally empowered to appoint a certain number of officers to command them. Suppose a vacancy happened in the army, the President always had the power to fill it; by the same rule could these appointments take place. But if any gentleman should think the construction of the law would be mistaken in that particular, he might amend it so as to make its operation certain.
Gentlemen appeared to suppose a kind of necessity existed to keep these officers, because their patriotism had called them out. The original contract by which they were brought into the service did not bind the country to keep them longer than the exigencies of the times required; they had therefore no claim upon the country, and it was not consistent with that professed patriotism, to wish to stay in the service a moment longer than they could be serviceable. Mr. N. admitted that they would be under no obligation to return.
Upon the whole, as officers could be of no use to the country without men, and as it would always be easy to procure officers when it might be necessary to raise men, Mr. Nicholas hoped the amendment would be adopted.
(To be continued.)
A JOURNEYMAN PAPER MAKER, Who can work well at the Vat, Will meet with good encouragement by applying at No. 104 North Front Street. December 27
To William Wills & John Armstrong.
GENTLEMEN, I HAVE seen your advertisement "To the Public" whereby you offer your services to locate United States Military Land Warrants, and in which you assert that you "possess superior information to any others" and that you can locate warrants "the most advantageously." As I believe you have not explored more of the Military District than some other persons who also offer their services to locate warrants—permit me to suggest the propriety of altering your advertisement, so as to do justice to those whose knowledge of the Military Land, is, at least equal to that which you possess. I do not mean that all who advertise as locaters are superior, or even equal to you, in the knowledge of it. I see advertisements by persons who have never explored a single range, and by others who have been over but a small part of the Military Land;—to these your advertisement would apply; but as you class all other locaters as inferior to yourselves. I have taken the liberty of giving you the above advice, which if attended to with candour will, for the present satisfy. A LOCATER. February 5.
CAUTION.
THE Public are cautioned against receiving the Subscribers Note in favor of, and indorsed by Thomas W. Francis, dated yesterday, at 60 days after date for eight hundred dollars. The note is in the hand writing of the Subscriber, and at the bottom a memorandum by the indorser, to the credit of the drawer, Thomas W. Francis. This note together with a contract between Charles Williamson, and Charles Hale for lands in township, No. 4, in the 14th range of Strubler county, state of New Jersey, and leading other papers contained in a Pocket Book, were taken from the Subscriber's desk last evening. As the above can be of no use to the person who has carried them if, should they be returned, no questions shall be asked. SAMUEL MIFFLIN. February 6.
THE UNDERSIGNED,
His Majesty's Consul General, and authorized to transact the Consular Business, for his Majesty the King of Denmark in the United States of America, residing at Philadelphia,
Hereby gives public Notice,
That in obedience to recent instructions received from his government, it is the duty of all Masters of Swedish and Danish vessels, before their sailing from any port in the said States, to call upon him or the Vice Consul in order to be granted such Certificates for their Cargoes, which the exigency of the state of the Neutral Commerce and the several Decrees of the Belligerent Powers, render indispensably necessary, and that any Master of vessels belonging to the respective nations, or navigating under the protection of their flags, in omitting to take such certificates, will personally stand responsible for the consequences.
RICHARD SODERSTROM,
Philadelphia, 18th December, 1799.

The Gazette.
PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 11.
Justum et tenacem propositi virum, Nob civium ardor prava jubentium, Non vultus instanti tyranni, Mente quait solida.
The Southern Mail of this day brings us news.
Mr. Matthew Huston of Germantown, is elected a Member of the House of Representatives of this State, in the room of Gen. T. Mifflin, deceased.
We do not meet (says the Mass. Federalist) any notice of American affairs, in the French papers.
The Hague Gazette of the 9th November mentions, the American Minister (Mr. Vans Murray) as being there.
Switzerland continues to groan under the heavy hand of French despotism. All the accounts from thence are filled with the bitterest complaints respecting the enormous contributions and requisitions ordered by Massena...
Twenty-four cardinals were assembled at Venice, the 23rd October, for the election of a Pope. The Paris papers mention that the Catholic Religion will speedily be re-introduced in France.
The creditors of the great failures at Hamburg, are published in the papers there. We have the pleasure of observing, that very few of them belong to the United States.
A Bologna article, of Nov. 1, states, that Admiral Nelson had left Naples, for Minorca; and had in contemplation an attack upon some French depot.
Dennis, commonly called the Critic, wrote a treatise attributing the decay of Public Spirit to the Italian Operas. The man was ridiculous; but had probably more of reason on his side than the inveterate wits of the age would allow.
If unlicensed Theatristas are to be allowed to continue inundating society as they have for some time done, with German illumination and immorality, it will become highly necessary...
MR. FENNO. YESTERDAY being the day appointed for choosing a Member of the House of Representatives in place of the late governor, I went to the ground to give in my solitary vote...
However curious this circumstance may appear that the noble Candidate should be under the necessity of visiting the different election districts...
Thus, Sir, it is that our elections are conducted in Southwark, and who after this statement of facts, can wonder that the county of Philadelphia should eternally have a democratic representation.
FAIR PLAY. Southwark, Feb. 8, 1800.
Died, on Friday Morning last, Mr. Robert P. Bail, merchant of this city.
A letter received in town, from captain Howland, of the brig Betsey of this port, dated Curracoa, the 15th ult. mentions that on his outward bound passage...
New-York, February 10. ARRIVED DAYS Ship Portland, Folsick, Guernsey, Julian, Nantucket, Schooner Corlew, Schoeld, St. Tho's. 34...
CONGRESS.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
MONDAY, FEB. 11.
Mr. Speaker laid before the house two letters from the Secretary of the Treasury, inclosing statements relative to the Commercial Revenue of the United States...
Mr. A. Foster laid the following resolution on the table.
Resolved, That a committee be appointed to enquire whether any, and if any, what alterations ought to be made in the compensation allowed to the officers of the two houses of Congress.
Mr. Smith, from the committee of commerce and manufactures, reported the following resolution, viz.
Resolved, That the term of payment allowed by law on bonds which have been given, and which shall be coming due, prior to the first day of August next, for duties of import...
Mr. S. said, this was matter of great importance to the merchants of the United States, who had been materially shocked by failures in Europe...
Upon the question, there were ayes 33, noes 33, Mr. Speaker declared himself in the affirmative; the house went into committee of the whole on the resolution; Mr. Rutledge in the chair...
Mr. Davis laid the following resolution on the table.
Resolved, That a committee be appointed to enquire into the expediency of passing a law to regulate the manner of entering Caveats to prevent the issuing of patents for land granted for military services...
Mr. Claiborne withdrew the resolution he laid some days ago upon the table, requesting the President to direct the proper officer to lay before the house statements of the expenditure of money under certain acts authorizing trade with the Indians...
Resolved, That a committee be appointed to enquire into the operation of the acts making provision for the establishment of trading houses with the Indian tribes...
This resolution was agreed to, and a select committee of five members appointed for the purpose. Mr. Dana, from the committee of elections, made a farther report on the validity of the credentials of certain members of the house...
Mr. Otis called up for consideration the following resolution:
Resolved, That the President of the Senate, and Speaker of the House of Representatives, be authorized to close the present session, by adjourning their respective houses on the first Monday in April next.
And the house having agreed to take it into consideration.
Mr. Macon moved to strike out "first Monday in April," and insert "third Monday in March" which was negatived.
Mr. Kittera moved to strike "Monday," and insert "day," so as to read "the first day in April next" which was negatived, only seven members voting in favor of it.
The resolution was then agreed to—ayes 55. Adjourned.
NEW THEATRE.
[BY DESIRE.]
To-morrow Evening, February 11, Will be preferred, a Comedy, in four acts, (not acted this season) called THE CHILD OF NATURE.
To which will be added, (not acted these 5 years) a Comic Opera, in two acts, called THE SPANISH BARBER; Or, Fruitless Precaution.
A new Comedy, from the German of Kotzebue, is in rehearsal, and will be speedily produced.
The doors of the Theatre will open at a quarter past 5, and the curtain rise at a quarter past 6 o'clock precisely.
Box, one Dollar, Pit, three quarters of a dollar, and Gallery half a dollar. VIVAT RESPUBLICA.
AN ELEGANT COUNTRY SEAT.
ON Saturday the 1st of March next at seven o'clock in the evening, at the Merchant's Coffee-House in the city of Philadelphia, agreeable to the directions of the last will and testament of General THOMAS MIFFLIN, deceased...
THE HOUSE
Is seated on an elevated hill, surrounded with willow and other ornamental Trees of the first growth, and commands an extensive view of the Falls and Meadows of the Schuylkill.
William Irwin, } Executors. Joseph Read, } SHANNON & POALK, Auctioneers, February 11. df.
For Nervous Disorders, Female Complaints, Gout in the Stomach, Melancholy, Seminal Weakness, loss of Appetite, Bilious Disorders, Inward Weaknesses, Indigestion, Obsolete Gouts, Juvenile Indiscretions and Premature Old Age, and every other symptom of extreme debility...
The Cordial Restorative Balsam
Is recommended as a Medicine of specific and unparalleled virtues for the immediate relief and speedy and permanent cure of the above disorders...
This Balsam is particularly adapted to weak female constitutions, as well as to plethegoric habits in general; it acts powerfully as a nervine...
It is earnestly recommended to those ladies, who from repeated and difficult labours are afflicted with weakness and infirmities...
Those, who in advanced life, feel the consequences of youthful excess, or unfortunate youth, who have brought on themselves a numerous train of evils...
For whether the system has received a shock, and is debilitated from imprudence or inattention in the earliest part of life, or is sinking under the advance of years...
To the young it will afford lasting health, strength and spirits, in place of lassitude and debility; and to the aged and infirm, it will affordingly furnish great relief and comfort...
Constitutions relaxed, weak or decayed, in men or women, are under the immediate influence of this Restorative.
Old coughs soon relieved and speedily cured.
Poverty of blood and emaciated limbs, will ere long meet the happiest change; the chill watery fluid become rich and balsamic, and the limbs be covered with flesh, firm and healthy.
It will no doubt be acceptable to the reader, to see accounts of some of the remarkable cures and cures which have been performed by this truly invaluable medicine...
Prepared (only) by the Inventor, and sole Proprietor, Dr. James Church, at his Dispensary, 137, Front Street, near the Fly market, New-York...
FOR THE CURE OF CORNS.
Infallible German Corn Plaister.
This Plaister (the invention of a German Physician, who administered it in Germany upwards of 30 years with the greatest success) is infallible for the cure of corns.
[Price 50 cents.]
Prepared by Doctor James Church, at his Dispensary, No. 137, Front Street, near the Fly market, New-York.
Sold by Messrs H. and P. Rice, 16 South Second Street, Philadelphia. For the TEETH, BREATH, and SCURVY in the GUMS, and the TOOTH ACHE.
The Anti-Scorbutic Tincture
Is unequalled for cleaning, whitening, and preserving the teeth, and effectually curing the scurvy in the gums. It will prevent the teeth from further decay, loosen them if loose, and render the breath perfectly sweet.
[Price one dollar each bottle.]
Volatile Tincture for the Tooth Ache.
The most efficacious remedy ever discovered for that tormenting pain. It gives immediate and permanent relief in the most violent cases; contains nothing but what is perfectly innocent, and may with safety be applied to pregnant women or to children.
[Price 37 1/2 cents.]
Prepared only by Dr. Church, New-York, and sold by Messrs H. and P. Rice, 16 South Second Street, Philadelphia. HEAD ACHE.
Persons afflicted with the head ache, proceeding from whatever cause, will find instant relief in the application of Church's Anodyne Essence.
In rheumatic, nervous, and bilious head aches it has not its equal. It not only alleviates that tormenting pain, but removes it almost instantaneously.
[Price 50 cents.]
Prepared only by the inventor and sole proprietor, Dr. James Church, at his Dispensary, 137 Front Street, near the Fly market, New-York; and sold by Messrs H. and P. Rice, 16 South Second Street, Philadelphia.
The only Medicine in the world that cures the most inveterate Itch in four hours.
The genuine patent Scotch Ointment.
For pleasantness, safety, expedition, ease and certainty, is infinitely superior to any other medicine, for the cure of THE ITCH.
It is so certain in its operation, that it has never failed in any instance whatever, of effectually curing that disagreeable disorder in four hours, by one application only...
The proprietor is so certain of its infallibility, that he engages to return the money to any person on whom it did not perform a cure in four hours.
Prepared only by the inventor and sole proprietor, Dr. James Church, at his Dispensary, 137 Front Street, near the Fly market, New-York; and sold by Messrs H. and P. Rice, 16 South Second Street, Philadelphia; and Mr. Rice, Baltimore.
* This affidavit may be seen at the places of sale.
Ten Dollars Reward.
RAN AWAY from the subscriber, on Tuesday the 4th inst. a Mulatto Boy, (a chimney sweeper) about twelve years of age, light complexion, and grey eyes; had on his working dress and cap; supposed to have been enticed away by his overseer, a black man, about five feet 7 or 8 inches high, who calls himself Peter Canfield...
Whoever will return the boy shall receive the above reward.
THOMAS ALLEN. Dock, near Spruce street. February 11.
JUST RECEIVED, AND FOR SALE
By THOMAS DOBSON, TEN LETTERS
To Dr. JOSEPH PRIESTLEY, In Answer to his Letters to the inhabitants of Northumberland.
By NOAH WEBSTER, Jun. [Price 25 cents.] February 7. d5t.
Ten Dollars Reward.
DESERTED from the quarters of the subscriber, on Saturday the 8th inst. an enlisted soldier, named JAMES BUTLER, a Carter by occupation, born in the State of New Jersey, aged thirty five years, five feet nine inches high, sandy complexion, hazel eyes, and short sandy hair...
Whoever shall take up said deserter and lodge him in jail, or shall deliver him to the subscriber, at his quarters in Filbert, between Ninth and Tenth streets, or to any officer of the army of the United States, shall receive the above reward, and reasonable charges.
BENJAMIN GIBBS, Jun. Captain 10th regt. U. S. February 10. d2w
A PAIR OF SADDLE-BAGS, WAS FOUND
ON the night of the 31st January, during the Snow Storm, the owner upon describing the contents and paying the cost of this advertisement, will have them restored to him, by applying at the Board Yard, adjoining the new Roman Church in North Fourth Street. February 1.
FOR CAPT. FRANCOIS, THE BRIGANTINE GEORGE.
WILLIAM BELL, MASTER.
To sail when the navigation will permit. She is a good strong vessel, and just out of the Carpenters hands.
For freight or passage apply to MOORE WHARTON, No. 109 South Water Street. February 6. d12t
Military Land Warrants.
THE UNDERSIGNED
OFFERS his services to the holders of Military Land Warrants, to make Locations on the 17th instant; he will receive a less quantity than 4000 acres, and arrange them with others, so as to make a Quarter Township.
Having surveyed a district of the military tract, and since the completion of the surveys, taken great pains to explore the interior parts of the townships and sections so as to be able, with precision, to designate the most valuable entries throughout the whole survey.
He flatters himself his information will be satisfactory to Gentlemen wishing to employ him—the result will be demanded for any less quantity than 4000 acres, furnished by one person—from one to four thousand acres, the twelfth—and for any greater quantity, the sixteenth.
For further information apply at No. 67 north Second Street.
JOHN G. JACKSON.
N. B. He will also act as agent for an person holding lands in the western part of Virginia, and give good security (if required) for his integrity and attention. February 6. df
A valuable Estate for sale, IN VIRGINIA.
THE NORWICH LANDS, MILLS, AND APPENDAGES.
THIS ESTATE
Is situated in the county of Henrico, on Four 1/2 Mile Creek, near its junction with James River, about 12 miles from the city of Richmond, and nearly the same distance from Petersburg.
There is about 150 acres of land, and the whole of it good soil for agriculture, and a full proportion of it very suitable for grass; about one half of it is cleared and in a state fit for immediate cultivation; the rest is in woods and well covered with useful timber of different kinds.
The mills consist of three pair of bur stones for the grinding of wheat, and one pair of stones for grinding of corn, all of proved good quality, worked by overshot water wheels and double gears, with all the late improvements for screening, cleaning, bolting and elevating the wheat and flour, all executed in the best manner and of the best materials and quite new.
The neighborhood is healthy—very respectable as to inhabitants, being mostly independent farmers, and the soil is in general very justly esteemed equal to any on James River, for the growing of wheat; upon a moderate calculation, the average annual crops of the neighborhood equally convenient if not more so, to the Norwich Mills, than to any other market, amount to between thirty and forty thousand bushels of wheat.
I would prefer a purchaser who could pay down the principal part of the purchase money, and would give a very advantageous bargain—or I will sell on a credit convenient to the purchaser, the interest being paid annually. I will wait for a purchaser till the 15th day of March next, and if not then sold, I will be glad to treat with a tenant for a lease, on terms which may be mutually agreeable.
DAVID ROSS. Richmond, February 5. ft
Notice is hereby given,
To all persons interested in a Tract of Land lying and being in Springfield, Burlington county, State of New Jersey, formerly belonging to Samuel Ballus, and by him conveyed to his six children, That
WE the Subscribers, appointed by James Kinsey, Esq. Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New Jersey, Commissioners to make partition of the same Lands, tr., and amongst the said children and their assigns, do intend to meet at the house of Joseph Hollingshead, inn-keeper in Burlington, on the twelfth day of March next, at eleven of the clock in the forenoon of that day, and either by ourselves or in conjunction with the said Chief Justice proceed to allot and by ballot fix on the shares or part of each of the said children and their assigns pursuant to the act entitled "an act for the more easy partition of Lands held by Copartners, joint Tenants and Tenants in common," made and passed the eleventh day of Nov. in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine.
Witness our hands this fifth day of February, One thousand eight hundred.
Abraham Stockton, Tob Lippincott, Charles Ellis. Feb. 5. gwtw12 Mr

JUST RECEIVED, AND FOR SALE By WILLIAM Y. BIRCH, STATIONER, No. 17 South Second Street, D. HAMILTON'S Genuine Essence and Extract of MUSTARD.
A SAFE AND EFFECTUAL REMEDY For acute and chronic rheumatism, gout, palsy, lumbago, numbness, white swellings, chilblains, sprains, bruises, pains in the face and neck, &c. &c.  The experience of many ages and the testimony of the ablest medical practitioners, from an early period to the present time, agree in ascribing to mustard, every powerful and singular virtue—in every case where the necessity of stimulating remedies are indicated; while the inflammatory state of the system forbids the use of medicines of a heating quality, mustard is eminently useful, and vastly superior to any other drug.
The essence and extract of mustard contain the whole virtues of the plant concentrated in a small compass, entirely dissolved; that acidity which renders its external application so inconvenient in a crude state, likewise rejecting those inert and useless parts which compose the chief of its bulk, and render the necessary dose so large as to be extremely nauseating to the stomach, by which means every inconvenience is obviated in these medicines.  This valuable remedy is prepared both in a fluid state and in pills, and thus excellently adapted for external and internal use.
The pills operate mildly by urine and by insensible perspiration, expelling the superfluous and morbid humours; they are highly cordial to the stomach, create appetite, assist digestion, removing flying pains, and cold or windy complaints in the stomach and bowels.  The essence is a wonderful assistant to the pills in rheumatism, gout, lumbago and palsy, and by its peculiar penetrating and dissolving quality, removes the most violent sprains, bruises, numbness, stiffness of the neck, joints, &c. swelled faces, head aches, indurated breasts, white swellings, frozen limbs, &c. and will in fallibility prevent the ill effects of getting wet or damp in the feet.
Many persons have been much disappointed by purchasing medicines under the name of Essence of Mustard, which have no analogy whatever to this remedy; some of these preparations are perfectly inert, others produce the most violent and dangerous effects, and are much to be guarded against.  CASES OF CURES. Selected from a numerous list. From Capt. Dowers, Arch-street, Philadelphia. DEAR SIR,  As you think it will be useful, you are at liberty to publish my testimony in favor of Hamilton's Essence and Extract of Mustard. I have been about four years much afflicted with the rheumatism in my shoulders, and sometimes so violently affected as to prevent me from moving my arms, and I was never free from severe pain in some part or other. I have been at much expense, and tried a good deal of medicine to no purpose; I purchased a bottle of drops, advertised under a title similar to your medicine, but experienced the most excruciating smart from its application, which obliged me to desist. At length I was advised by Dr. Biggs to try Hamilton's Essence and Extract of Mustard, from which I found immediate relief, and by the use of three boxes and two bottles, I have recovered a state of perfect health and strength—I shall take a good supply to sea, and never be without so valuable a medicine in my possession.
I am, &c. I. R. DAWES.  Mr. Henry Reese, Butcher, proprietor of No. 24. Centre Market-House, Baltimore. SIR,  About two months ago, your valuable medicine proved of singular service to me, I was not able to move from my room for upwards of a fortnight, with a rheumatism or rheumatic gout in my left foot and ankle; when Dr. Buchanan recommended the Essence of Mustard, as the only medicine to be depended on, and directed me where to procure it, and by using less than a quarter of a bottle and a few of the Pills, I was able to ride to market next day, and have been perfectly free from my complaint ever since.  HENRY REESE. January 4, 1800.
Mrs. Mary McCrea, wife of Mr. George McCrea, grocer, Bond-street, Fell's Point, was perfectly cured (by persevering in the use of Hamilton's Essence and Extract of Mustard) of a rheumatic complaint of eleven years standing. The greatest part of last winter she was unable to dress or undress without assistance, she had the best medical advice both in Europe and America without effect.  From Mr. Charles Willett, Plasterer, Platt street, Baltimore. SIR,
I send you the particulars of my cure by Hamilton's Essence and Extract of Mustard, that you may make it known for the benefit of others. About two months ago I strained my right knee so violently by a fall that I was unable to walk without a crutch. I tried British oil, Opodeldoc and other medicines, but grew considerably worse, and the part became inflamed and swelled to a considerable degree, when I was recommended to the Essence of Mustard, and by using two bottles I was able to walk in less than a week, and am now as hearty as ever.  CHARLES WILLETT. Dec. 20.
HAMILTON'S GRAND RESTORATIVE, WHICH the inventor confidently recommends as an invaluable medicine for the speedy relief, and permanent cure of various complaints which result from dissipated pleasures—juvenile indiscretions—residence in climates unfavorable to the constitution—the immoderate use of tea, frequent intoxication, or any other destructive intemperance—the unskillful or excessive use of Mercury—the disease peculiar to females at a certain period of life, bad lying in, &c.
And is proved by long experience to be unparalleled  In the cure of nervous disorders, consumptions, loss of spirits, loss of appetite, impurity of the blood, hysterical affections, inward weakness, violent cramps in the stomach and back, indigestion, melancholy, gout in the stomach, pains in the limbs, relaxations, involuntary emissions, feminal weakness, obstinate gleets, fluor albus, (or whites) impotency, barrenness, &c. &c.
This medicine is perfectly different in its qualities and operation from those hot and irritating drugs so frequently proposed for similar purposes, and which only recommend themselves by the dangerous rapidity of their effects, and which acting as a temporary but violent stimulus on the nervous system, infallibly produce greater evils than those they are intended to remove.  The principal operation of this remedy is in the stomach, restoring the digestive powers, and sending from that organ new health and vigour into every part of the system; it enriches and purifies the blood without exhausting it, braces without stimulating too violently the nervous system; strengthens the secretory vessels and general habit; brings back the miften air fibres to their natural and healthy tone, and restores that nutrition which in moderate evacuations have destroyed, and whose loss had thrown the whole frame into languor and debility.
The restorative is absolutely above all recommendation in removing those weaknesses and infirmities with which many females are afflicted, the consequences of difficult and painful labors, or of injudicious treatment therein.  The most obstinate feminal gleets, and the most distressing cases of fluor albus in females, fall particularly under the province of this restorative, speedily yield to its benign operation, and are radically cured, by correcting and purifying the acrimonious humours, restoring a proper degree of tension to the relaxed fibres, strengthening the weakened organs.
In cases of extremity where the long prevalence and obstinacy of disease has brought on a general impoverishment of the system, excessive debility of the whole frame, and a wasting of the flesh, which no nourishment or cordial could repair—a perseverance in the use of this medicine has performed the most astonishing cures.  The grand restorative is prepared in pills as well as in a fluid form, which affords considerably in producing a gradual and lasting effect. Their virtues remain unimpaired for years in any climate.  Persons wishing to procure any of the above medicines genuine, must apply only as above—and likewise observe that the signature of LEE & Co. (the general agents for the United States) is pasted on the outside of each, without which they cannot be genuine.
At the above place may likewise be had Hamilton's justly celebrated Worm Lozenges, the infallible Itch Ointment, Dr. Leroux's Indian Vegetable Specific for Venereal Complaints, Ague and Fever Drops, which have never failed effecting a cure, Hahn's Anti-bilious Pills, Dittto Cough Plaster, the Persian Lotion for the face and skin, Gowland's Lotion, Church's Cough Drops, Anderson's Pills.  January 25. 1awtf
A YOUNG MAN ACQUAINTED with the West-India trade wishes to be employed as a Supercargo. He will engage on moderate terms. Satisfactory recommendation will be produced. A line directed to A. B. left at the Printing Office will be immediately attended to. December 12
NOTICE. To all persons who own unseated Lands in Franklin County, State of Pennsylvania: THAT they come forward and pay their respective Taxes, (as there is a number of years now due) to PATRICK CAMPBELL, Esq. Treasurer for said County—If they do not, we will be obliged to proceed to make sale of them agreeably to law.  JAMES IRVIN, JOHN HALLIDAY, NATHAN M'DOWEL, Commissioners' office, Chambersburg, Jan. 1, 1800. 1aw3m.
THE SUBSCRIBER Having explored the Land laid off for settling the Warrants due to the Officers and Soldiers who served in the war between the United States and Great Britain, PROPOSES to locate Warrants to the best advantage, on being allowed a reasonable compensation. He will attend at Philadelphia at the time of locating; and as not less than 4000 acres can be registered or located, will receive any number of warrants less than that amount, and classify them with others so as to make up the quantity required.  The subscriber proposes also to attend on the land immediately after locating, and shew any section in which he may be employed.  Letters or warrants addressed to Alexander Addison, Esq. Pittsburgh, until the 1st day of February next, or to the subscriber at Matthew McConnel's, No. 121 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, until the 12th day of Feb. next, will be attended to.
TO BE SOLD, THREE or four lots of about 30 or 40 acres each, more or less as may suit a purchaser. On each of which there is a good situation for a house—viz. one on the river Delaware, suitable either for a gentleman's seat, or for a person who might wish to engage in the lumber business having a good landing. One commanding a good view of the river from the highest ground between the Pennypack and Pogouheen creeks; and another on the Briskel Road. Enquire of Mr. Gilpin near the 11 mile stone on the fair road.
FOUR LOTS, Of about 10 acres each with good situations for building; one of which is suitable for a tan-yard, and has a small stone house and a young bearing orchard on it, on the Newtown road near Snider's mill about 10 miles from Philadelphia, and one other lot of about 30 acres on the Pennypack—Enquire of Jonathan Clik who lives on the premises or of Mr. Gilpin.  Possession will be given in the spring, but building materials may be collected sooner. November 8 2swtf.
NOTICE. THE CREDITORS OF WILLIAM LAPSLEY, late of Hanover township, Dauphin county, Store-keeper, are desired to take notice that he has applied to the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of Dauphin County, for the benefit of the acts of Assembly of this state, and for the relief of Insolvent Debtors, and that the Court have appointed the second Monday of March next, to hear his creditors and him at the Court House in Harrisburg. January 23—31. 1aw3w.
ALL PERSONS INDEBTED to the Estate of JOHN WHARTON, late of the City of Philadelphia, Merchant, deceased, are requested to pay the same, and those having demands against his Estate, to produce their accounts legally attested to KEARNY WHARTON, Acting Executor, No. 111, Spruce Street. November 11. df.
NOTICE. ALL persons indebted to the Estate of CAPTAIN KEIRAN FITZPATRICK, mariner, deceased, are requested to make immediate payment to the subscribers; and those who have any demands against the said estate are requested to furnish their accounts for settlement to P. FERRALL, THOMAS M'BUEN, Executors. January 13, 1800. df
UNSEATED LANDS. THE OWNERS Of Unseated Lands in Wehmoresland county, Pennsylvania, are hereby notified, that unless the Taxes due on said lands for 1798, are paid into the hands of John Brandon, Esq. Treasurer of said county, on or before the 20th of April next, they will be advertised for sale, as the law directs.  JAMES MCGREW, HENRY ALLSHOUSE, JEREMIAH MURRY, Comm'rs. January 18. dgm
TREASURY DEPARTMENT. March 11th, 1799. PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, Pursuant to the act of Congress passed on the 11th day of June, one thousand, seven hundred and ninety six, entitled "an act regulating the grants of land appropriated for military services, and for the society of United Brethren for propagating the gospel among the Heathen;" and the act supplementary to the said recited act passed on the second day of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety nine—to wit:
THAT the tract of Land herein after described, namely, "beginning at the North West corner of the Seven Ranges of townships, and running thence fifty miles due south, along the western boundary of the said ranges; thence due West to the Main Branch of the Scioto river; thence up the Main Branch of the said river to the place where the Indian boundary line crosses the same; thence along the said boundary line to the Tuckaroas branch of the Mufkingum river at the crossing place above Fort Lawrence; thence down the said river, to the point where a line run due west from the place of beginning, will intersect the said river; thence along the line so run to the place of beginning;" has been divided into townships of five miles square, and fractional parts of townships; and that plans and surveys of the said townships and fractional parts of townships are deposited in the offices of the Register of the Treasury and Surveyor General, for the inspection of all persons concerned.
The holders of such warrants as have been or shall be granted for military services performed during the late war, are required to present the same to the Register of the Treasury, at some time prior to the twelfth day of February in the year, one thousand eight hundred, for the purpose of being registered; No registry will however be made of any less quantity than a quarter township, or four thousand acres.
The priority of location of the warrants which may be presented and registered in manner aforesaid, prior to the 12th day of February in the year one thousand eight hundred, will immediately after the said day, be determined by lot, in the mode described by the act first recited.
The holders of registered warrants, shall on Monday the 17th day of February, in the year 1800, in the order of which the priority of location shall be determined by lot as aforesaid, personally, or by their agents, designate in writing at the office of the Register of the Treasury, the particular township selected by them respectively; and such of the said holders as shall not designate their location on the said day, shall be postponed in locating such warrants to all other holders of registered warrants.
The holders of warrants for military services sufficient to cover one or more quarter townships or tracts of four thousand acres each, shall, at any time after Monday the 17th day of February, 1800 and prior to the 1st day of January, 1802, be allowed to register the said warrants in manner aforesaid, and forthwith to make location therefor on any tract or tracts of land not before located.
All warrants or claims for lands on account of military services, which shall not be registered and located before the 1st day of January, 1802, are by the supplementary act of Congress herein before recited, passed on the second day of March, 1799, declared to be forever barred.  Given under my hand at Philadelphia, the day and year above mentioned. OLIVER WOLCOTT, Sec. of the Treasury.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT. May 29th, 1799. THE proprietors of certificates issued for subscriptions to the Loan bearing interest at eight per centum per annum, are notified, that at any time after payment shall have been made due during the first ten days of the month of July ensuing, Certificates of Funded Stock may at their option be obtained at the Treasury or Loan Offices, respectively, for the amount of the four first installments, or one moiety of the sums expressed in the subscription certificates:—No certificates of Funded Stock will however be issued for less than one hundred dollars.  Such subscription certificates as may be presented at the Treasury or Loan Offices in consequence of the foregoing arrangement, will be adorned and distinctly marked so as to denote, that a moiety of the flock has been issued.  OLIVER WOLCOTT, Secretary of the Treasury.
Fashionable Millinery. ELIZA M'DOUGALL, NO. 134 MARKET-STREET, HAS just received per ship Thomas Chalkley and Adriana, from London, an elegant assortment of the most fashionable MILLINERY, viz. Chemille rosette FEATHERS Fancy flowers Black tiffany flowers Wreaths Pink, yellow, and blue craps, full dress caes Do. do. and do. Nelson's bonnets Infant's pipe straw bonnets Maid's fancy do. do. Women's do. do. do. Do. do. do. hats Fancy bugle face rosettes Do. do. trimmings Black, white, blue, yellow, pink and orange craps Black, white and green gauze veils N. B. And per Harmony, just arrived, a further assortment of Millinery. June 26. coff.
TO THE Holders of Military Land Warrants. ZACHARIAH BIGGS AND JOHN MATHEWS OFFER their services to the holders of military land warrants, to make the location on the 17th of February next, agreeably to the advertisement of the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, relative thereto. They will receive a less quantity of warrants than for four thousand acres, and arrange them with others, so as to complete that number (which makes a location or quarter township) and have them registered. They each surveyed a district of the military tract, and have since explored the interior parts of the townships and fractions, and will be able to designate with precision, the preference in the choice of the several locations or quarter townships throughout the whole body of the military lands. One tenth part of the land will be demanded for making the location, &c. to be taken by lot in such manner that their proportion of a section or quarter township will lie together. For further particulars enquire of the subscriber, at No. 9, fourth Fifth street, two doors above the Secretary of State's office, where satisfactory general information relative to the army laws may be obtained.
JOHN MATHEWS. January 17. 32aw3w  VALUABLE REAL ESTATE. FOR SALE About 25 acres of Land, LAVING on the east side of the Falls Road.—On the East it is bounded by property belonging to Mr. Tench Francis, Esq.—on the south, by a road of two perches, and on the north by a land, which separates it from Mr. McCall. It is proposed to divide this land into 3 equal parts in order to sell the purchasers.  Also, 31 acres, situated on the west side of Germantown road, adjoining Masters's estate, being part of the property of the late Samuel Mifflin.  For terms apply to Samuel Mifflin, corner of Market and 11th streets. January 24. df.
VALUABLE LOTS FOR SALE, NEAR THE CITY. On Wednesday the fifth day of March next, at six o'clock in the evening, at the Merchant's Coffee House, will be sold by public auction, the following described valuable Lots of Ground, eligibly situated for SUMMER RETREATS.  No. 1. A CERTAIN LOT or PIECE OF LAND, situated on the east side of Germantown road, about two miles and a half from the city of Philadelphia, bounded on the north by land of Mr. Thomas Greaves, whereon he is now erecting a house and making improvements for his summer residence, on the east by land of Joseph Norris, and west by the said road, containing by computation 14 acres and a half.
No. 2. A certain lot or piece of land, part of a tract commonly called the Vineyard, situate on the west side of the Wulshickon or Ridge road, nearly opposite to Turner's lane, in the neighbourhood of the Country Seats of Jeremiah Parker, John Nixon, James Crawford and Jasper Moylan, Esqrs. being marked and numbered in a plan or map of the said large tract called the Vineyard, No. 21, containing seven acres and ten perches.
No. 3. One other lot or piece of land adjoining the last described lot to the northward, containing 11 acres and one hundred and three perches.  The very valuable property now offered for sale must be too well known to require a further description. It is well worth the attention of those who wish to secure to themselves pleasant and healthy situations in the vicinity of the city.
The terms of sale are, one third part of the purchase money to be paid in ten days after the sale; one third in ninety days, and the remaining third in six months; for the two last payments (including interest) approved endorsed notes to be given.  The title is unexceptionable. Sold by order of Messrs. Isaac Wharton, Thomas Fitzsimons, Philip Nicklin, William M'Murtrie, Samuel W. Fisher, Trustees for the creditors of Blair M'Clellan.
JOHN CONNELLY, Auctioneer. January 28. 32awtf  Valuable Property for Sale, In Chestnut, near Sixth Street, directly opposite CONGRESS HALL. A LOT of ground, about 15 feet front in Chestnut street and 73 feet in depth, whereon is a good frame house, and in the tenure of Samuel Bangs subject to a ground rent of 21. per annum. The advantageous situation of this property requires no comments, for it must be known, there are few in this city to equal it, an unexceptionable title will be made to the purchaser. Apply to JAMES GIRVAN, no. 193 Chestnut Street, next door to the premises. March 5. tu. th. fa. ff
Horses to Winter. HORSES will be taken to winter at Pocopon Hill, at the 12 miles stone on the Bristol Road, where they will have good Timothy and Clover Hay, well littered and cleaned and a field to run in when the weather is good.  Enquire of Mr. William Bell Merchant, or on the premises.  N. B. Will not be answerable for accidents or escape, but will take every precaution to prevent either.  November 12 31awtf
JUST RECEIVED, From the BOSTON Manufactory, A QUANTITY OF WINDOW GLASS, Of different sizes, FOR SALE By ISAAC HARVEY, JUN.
N. B. Any five or sixes that may be wanted larger than 18 by 12 can be had from said manufactory, on being ordered; and attention given to forward on any orders that may be left for that purpose. Apply at No. 9, South Water-street, as above. July 8. df
TERMS Of Richard Folwell, in Philadelphia, FOR SUBSCRIBING TO THE JOURNALS OF CONGRESS, From the commencement Of the American War, in 1774, to the present time, INCLUDING The Reports of Heads of Departments, Committees, and other Official and Private Papers of that Body, now first permitted to be made public.  THE work will be printed on a fine paper, and a new neat type, in large octavo.  Each volume will contain above 500 pages, neatly bound and lettered.  Uniformity in size, paper, and binding, will be observed throughout the work; so that, while the subscribers become possessed of a valuable record, an ornament may be added to their libraries.  The price to subscribers will be 2 dolls. 75 cts. per volume, in boards, and 3 dolls. whole bound, but as the publisher does not intend to print more than the number subscribed for, a considerable rise on the price may be expected to non-subscribers.
Each volume will contain about one third less of letter-press than the original edition; but, as the publisher is not yet enabled to determine the extent of the Private Journals, which he may be allowed to make public, he cannot ascertain the number of volumes which will comprise the work.  Payments to be made on delivery of each volume.  Subscribers will have at their option, either to subscribe for the whole of the Journals, up to the present time, or to those only of the Old Congress prior to the organization of the Federal Government.
In all countries, the proceedings in the commencement of their governments, are lost in darkness and obscurity, owing to a carelessness, in the succeeding generation, to preserve the public records, and the attention of the nation, in those rude ages, being called off from their domestic concerns, to engage in wars and conquest. Of what infinite value would the laws of Alfred be, had they been transmitted to our days? Time, that destroys every thing, enhances the value of well authenticated public records, and renders them almost inestimable. It is hoped, that Americans will, therefore, cheerfully contribute their assistance in transmitting to posterity the labors of their ancestors—founders of the Columbian nation.  The work will certainly be advanced with expedition and promptitude. The following will show the support it has already acquired:
"Philadelphia, June 15, 1798." "To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States." "The MEMORIAL of the Subscribers, Citizens, &c. of Philadelphia,"  "Respectfully J. Sewell,"  That having, in our respective avocations frequent occasions to recur to the Journals of Congress, we experience inconveniences by the scarcity of them: That we understand that Richard Folwell, printer, of Philadelphia, has had it in contemplation to print that public record; and that he hath obtained partial countenance from many individuals; but that he has delayed prosecuting the work, in expectation of encouragement from government, that may adequately indemnify him. We, therefore, respectfully solicit, as the publication is necessary to be disseminated among public bodies, that Congress will, in their wisdom render him such additional encouragement, to that which he has obtained from private individuals, as to enable him to proceed with the work, so that your Memorialists may be enabled to purchase copies of that record for themselves.
Thomas M'Kean, John D. Cox, Charles Hensel, Samuel Levy, T. Ross, Wm. Moore Smith, John Read jun. William Tilghman, John F. Mifflin, Joseph B. McKean, John Beckly, W. Sergeant, John Thompson, Jared Ingersoll, Jasper Moylan, William Rawle, J. Thomas, William Lewis, James Gibson, M. Kepple, Moses Levy, Robert Porter, George Davis, John Hallowell, James Oldden, Walter Franklin, James Milnor, John C. Wells, John L. Leib, Alexander L. Dallas, Joseph Reed, Thomas Willing, Samuel M. Fox, John Nixon, Robert Waln, Robert H. Dunkin, John Ewing, Jun. Edward Pennington, Hilary Baker, William Nichols, William Young, Robert Campbell Septimus, Claypoole, James Crukshank, Matthew Carey, Henry K. Helmhuth, Peter De Haven, John Dunlap, Edward Shoemaker, John R. Smith, William Hall, David C. Claypoole, Thomas Armstrong, Samuel H. Smith, John Fenno.
"True copy from the original Memorial, presented to the House of Representatives of the United States, on Monday, the 18th of June 1798."  "WILLIAM LAMBERT, for JONATHAN W. CONDY, Clerk."  "RESOLVED by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives, be authorized and directed to subscribe, on such terms as they may deem eligible, for the use of the Senate and House of Representatives, for four hundred Copies of the Journals of Congress, which are proposed to be published by Richard Folwell and such number of copies of deficient volumes of the sets now in print, as may be necessary to complete the same."  JONATHAN DAYTON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JAMES ROSS, President of the Senate pro tempore. Approved, March 2d, 1799. JOHN ADAMS, President of the United States. May 20. 1awtf
Ten Dollars Reward. DESERTE from the quarters of the subscriber, an enlisted soldier, named JAMES MORISON, born in the State of Delaware, aged twenty eight, five feet seven inches high, brown complexion, blue eyes, black hair.  Whoever shall take him on the said deserter, and lodge him in gaol or deliver him to the subscriber, at his quarters in Filbert, between Ninth and Tenth streets, shall receive the above reward and reasonable charges.  BENJAMIN GIBBS, Jun. Captain 10th regt. of Infantry. January 28. d2w
PAINTED BY J. W. FENNO.