Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser. (Philadelphia [Pa.]), 1796-10-01 00:00:00

Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser.
NUMBER 1268.]
SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 1, 1796.
[VOLUME X.]
For Boston. The Schooner JOHN, A constant trader, Peter Coff, master.
Who has received by the above vessel, Some excellent Pickled Salmon, and a few quintals of the Very best kind of Dumb Fish.
For Cork. The Ship Mary Ann, Francis Stuart, master: is a strong, good ship, sails fast, and has good accommodation for passengers.
For Sale. The Brig DIANA, Lying at Chestnut-street wharf, a stout well built vessel, one hundred & fifty-eight tons burthen; well found, and but four years old.
For Charter. The Ship Dominick Terry, Jacob De Hart, master: an excellent vessel, of about 3000 barrels burthen.
For Charter. The Danish Barque BENEVENTURA, Samuel Stub, master, A good vessel, of about two hundred tons burthen.
FOR LONDON. The capital ship CERES, To sail soon:—For freight or passage apply to DAVY, ROBERTS & Co. or John Vaughan, Front-street.
FOR SALE. The ship STAR, JOHN VANNEGAN, Master, Lying at Walnut-street wharf, Philadelphia built, of live oak and cedar, will carry about 3200 barrels, is two years old, and in complete order to receive a cargo.
Dutch Goods, Received by the Pennsylvania, from Amsterdam. GIN, in pipes, Morlaix, Ticklenburgs, Olonburgs, German, Haerlem, Hollands, Ravens, Bedicks, in ditto, Brittasnes, Plastics, in ditto.
LANDING, From on board the Brig REBECCA, Dominic Davine, Master, at Philip Carr's Wharf, and for Sale by the Subscriber, London Particular Madeira WINE, In Pipes, Hogheads and Quarter Casks.
John Whitesides & Co. Have for Sale, Venetian Red, Spanish Brown, White Lead, ground in oil, Shot, No. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, London Powder, in casks and bottles, Green Copperas, Several crates of Queens Ware, in sets, with defect ditto complete, Blistered Steel, German ditto.
To be disposed of, THE time of a healthy NEGRO WOMAN, who has between four and five years to serve: She can be recommended for her sobriety and honesty.
At a special meeting of the Board of Directors for establishing useful Manufactures, held at Paterson, July 8, 1796, RESOLVED, That a special meeting of the Stockholders of the Society be called on the first Monday, being the third day of October next, at Paterson, by ten of the clock of the same day; then and there to take into consideration the propriety of dissolving the said corporation, agreeably to the law in such case made and provided.
For Sale, A Complete Font of BREVIER, Entirely new, and yet unopened. The weight of this font is about 312 lb. It is from the Foundry of Wilson & Sons, Glasgow, and will be sold at cost & charges.
Washington Lottery. The Twenty-second & Twenty-third Days' Drawing of the Washington Lottery, No. 2, are received at the office No. 234, Market-street, where tickets may be examined.
Thomas Ryerson HAS just received, by the ships Molly and Hamburg Packet from Liverpool, and the Light Horse from Bristol, and is now opening for sale, at his store No. 177, Market-street, an extensive assortment of Ironmongery, Cutlery, Hardware and Saddlery.
The ship Caroline, now on her passage from Liverpool to Philadelphia, brings the remainder of his fall importation. N. B. At the above store may be had, a few elegant Mahogany Cases for Table Furniture; also, a good assortment of the best kinds of Knives and Forks.
French Goods. Received by the Sally, Mitchell, from Havre-de-Grace, 20 Trunks Ladies' SHOES of all colors, sizes and fashions, 1 Ditto white and colored Silk STOCKINGS, 1 Ditto Fine LAWN, 1 Ditto best fine CAMBRIC, 1 Ditto Ladies' best Shammy and Grenoble Gloves.
Wm. HOLLBERNESSE, No. 76 High Street, HAS received, by the latest arrivals from Europe and the West Indies, a well selected assortment of silk, Mercery, Linen Drapery and Haberdashery Goods; which he will sell, Wholesale and Retail, on the lowest terms: AMONGST WHICH ARE, Some fine India muffs embroidered with gold and silver, Superfine Books, Jacquet, and Mulmul ditto, Do do do do Handkerchiefs, Some extra black-taffetas, Jute Stripes and colored Persians, Bandana Handkerchiefs, Long and short Nankens, English Mantillas of the first quality, Damask table linen and napkins, very fine Silk Hosiery, an elegant assortment Thread and cotton do, Umbrellas—green silk, oil'd do, and do cloth, French cambrics, very fine Irish Linens, do. &c. &c.
For Sale, (In an excellent situation for business,) A three-story brick House and Lot of Ground, Eighteen feet front and twenty-five feet in depth, on the South side of Market near Front-street, now in possession of Samuel Read.
Israel Pleasants, or Charles & Joseph Pleasants. The Cargo of the Bolacre Independent, CAPTAIN CATHCART, from Alicante and Lisbon, landing at the subscribers wharf:— 28 Pipes of Brandy, 18 Bales of Spanish wool, 3 do. of Amisfield, 1000 Buheh of best Lisbon Salt, 80 Boxes of Lemons.
FOR SALE, WINE, London particular Madeira, 4 years old, in pipes and hogheads, Claret, genuine old, in casks, Gin, in pipes, from Holland, Farthen Ware, in crates, Basket Salt, in hogheads, Shot, Nos. 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100.
Lottery and Broker's Office, No. 64, South Second Street. TICKETS in the Canal Lottery, No. 2, for sale—a Check Book for examination—and prizes paid in the late lottery.
For Sale, The Time of a Negro Man, Who is a good Cook; Enquire at No. 109, South Water-Street.
WANTED, A Middle-Aged WOMAN, who can be well recommended, to take charge of the entire management of children—Such a person will meet with suitable encouragement, and may hear of a place, by applying to the printer of this Gazette.
Dissolution of Partnership. THE Partnership between ROBERT ANDREWS and DAVID MEREDITH, under the firm of ANDREWS and MEREDITH, being dissolved. All persons who are indebted to or who have claims against the said house, are requested to apply for settlement to the subscriber, ROBERT ANDREWS, No. 85, So. Wharves.
For Sale, By J. WARDER, PARKER & Co. An Invoice of Cordage, Consisting of different sizes, from 12 inch cables down to rope of 2 inches, of different lengths: Imported in the ship Swift, from Hull, and entitled to drawback.
Twenty Casks excellent Claret, and A few pipes choice Bordeaux Brandy, For sale by Joseph Anthony & Co.
NANKENS, Of the first quality, FOR SALE BY, RD. and JAS. POTTER. For any quantity above Five Thousand Pieces, a liberal credit will be given.
70,000 Pieces Nankens, Of the best quality and on reasonable terms, FOR SALE BY, Philip Nicklin & Co.
THIS DAY PUBLISHED, By J. ORMROD, No. 41, Chestnut-street, (Price 12 1-2 Cents) The PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS To the People of the United States, Announcing his intention of retiring from public life at the expiration of the present constitutional term of presidency.
Public Notice is Hereby Given, To the Electors of the City and County of Philadelphia, and the County of Delaware, that a general election will be held on Tuesday the eleventh day of October next.
When the Freemen of the City of Philadelphia, are to meet at the State-house in the said city, to elect Six Representatives for said city in General Assembly, One Representative for said city in the House of Representatives of the United States, Twenty persons for members of the Common Council, Twelve persons for members of the Select Committee.
The Freemen of the City and County of Philadelphia to elect, One person for Governor, Two persons for Coroners, One person for County Commissioner, The Freemen of the County of Philadelphia, to elect Six Representatives for said County in General Assembly, One Representative for said County in the House of Representatives of the United States.
The Freemen of the City and County of Philadelphia, and County of Delaware, to elect One Senator for the State, The Freemen of the township of the Northern Liberties are to hold their election at the town-house in Second Street continued, above Coats's Street.
The Freemen of the townships of Germantown, Roxborough and Bristol, are to hold their election at the Union School House in Germantown. The Freemen of the townships of Oxford, Byberry, Lower Merion and Moreland, are to hold their election at the house of the late John Barnsley in Burslemton, in the township of Lower Merion.
The Freemen of the District of Southwark, and the townships of Moyamensing, Paffunk, and Kingsessing, are to hold their election at the State-House in the City of Philadelphia. The Candidates of each Ward, District, &c. are to hold their election, in the different districts to choose their Inspectors for the ensuing year, and to give their attendance at the time and respective places.
JOHN BAKER, Sheriff. DUTY ON CARRIAGES. THAT agreeably to an act of Congress of the United States of America, passed at Philadelphia, the 28th day of May, 1796; laying duties on Carriages, for the conveyance of persons, and repealing the former acts for that purpose.
That there shall be levied, collected and paid, upon all carriages for the conveyance of persons, which shall be kept by hire, or for any person, for his or her own use, or to let out to hire, or for the conveying of passengers, the several duties and rates following: to wit, For and upon every Coach, 15 dols. upon every Chariot, 12 dols. upon every Post Chariot, 12 dols. upon every Post Chaise, 12 dols. upon every Phaeton, with or without top, 9 dols. upon every Coach, 9 dols. upon every other Carriage, having panel work above, with blinds, glasses or curtains, 9 dols. upon every four wheel Carriage, having framed poles and top with steel springs, 6 dols. upon every four wheel Carriage, with wooden or iron springs or jacks, 3 dols. upon every two wheel Carriage, with top, 3 dols. upon every two wheel Carriage, without top, 3 dols. upon every other two wheel Carriage, 3 dols. For and upon all other two wheel Carriages, 2 dols. upon every four wheel Carriage, having framed poles and top, and relying upon wooden gears, 2 dols.
The Collectors of the Revenue of the first Survey of the District of Pennsylvania, will attend daily, until the 30th day of September next, for the purpose of receiving the duties on Carriages, at No. 117, in Race or Sassafras Street, in the City of Philadelphia, at the house of Daniel S. Clair, Esq. in the County of Montgomery, and at the house of Abraham Du Bois, Esq. in the County of Bucks; of which all persons possessed of such Carriages are desired to take notice.
Notice is also given, TO all retail dealers in Wines, and foreign distilled spirituous Liquors, that licences will be granted to them; one licence for carrying on the business of retailing of Wines, in a less quantity, or in less quantities than 30 gallons—and one licence for carrying on the business of retailing spirituous Liquors in less quantities than 20 gallons, at the same time and at the same places, by the officers legally authorised to grant such licences.
WILLIAM NICHOLS, Inspector of the Revenue of the first survey of the district of Pennsylvania. Office of Inspection, at Philadelphia, 21st July, 1796.
FOR SALE, By M. and J. FRAZIER, No. 95, S. Front-street, Prime Boston Beef, in barrels, Georgia Cotton, Carolina Rice and Indigo, Sherry and Teneriffe Wines, of excellent quality, Raven's Duck, India Batlam's, Sewing Silks, various colours, Cordage and Cables.
For sale by the subscribers, IN KENNEDY-STREET, 120 quarter Casks fresh Hyson Tea; 100 ditto do. fresh Souchong Tea; 300 Boxes China, containing small tea sets of 42 pieces; 400 pieces Bandanas. Willings & Francis.
FOR SALE, PORT WINE, and HOLLAND GIN, of the first qualities in Pipes, FRANCES and VAN REED, Brokers and Commission Merchants, No. 63, So. 3d St. Who discount approved NOTES of hand. N. B. AN APPRENTICE Wanted. September 14.
THIS DAY IS PUBLISHED, By W. YOUNG, MILLS and Son, Corner of Second and Chestnut streets, Price 12 1-2 cents, The President's Address To the People of the United States, Announcing his intention of retiring from public life at the expiration of the present constitutional term of presidency.
Great is TRUTH and must prevail. JUST PUBLISHED, And for sale at No. 41 Chestnut-street by J. ORMROD, An Apology for the Bible, By R. WATSON, D. D. F. R. S. Bishop of Llandaff, &c. Being a complete refutation of Paine's Age of Reason, And the only answer to the Second Part. August 30.
THIS DAY IS PUBLISHED, By W. YOUNG, MILLS and Son, (Price 50 cts. in boards, 62 1-2 neatly bound) An Apology for the Bible, In a series of Letters, Addressed to Thomas Paine, author of a book entitled The Age of Reason, part the second, being an investigation of true and fabulou theology. By R. WATSON, D. D. F. R. S. Lord Bishop of Llandaff, and Regius Professor of Divinity in the University of Cambridge. Sept. 15.
India Tamboured Mullins, A small, handsome assortment of Mullins, viz. Fine, tamboured Maldas and Santipore Mullins, various patterns and prices, Plain 6-4 Jacquet, Corded and cross-barred Mullin Shawls, Ditto ditto 6-4 and 4-4 Doreas, Mullin Handkerchiefs, fine and coarse, Japan Mullins, and A few pieces extraordinary fine Long Cloths.
FOR SALE BY, Thomas Tingey, No. 121, South Third-street. TO BE SOLD, That Neat and Convenient House, WHEREIN the subscriber now lives. There are four rooms on a floor; the house is two stories high with a good garret above: under the whole is an excellent cellar, with a dry well, in which is a convenient framed chamber for preserving meat, butter, &c. in warm weather. Attached to the house is a Stable for three horses, hay-loft, granary, and carriage-house, a wood-yard paved with stone, and a garden with soil of a fine quality.
ANN WITHERSPOON. Peinceton, Aug. 24. Plans of the city of Philadelphia, Including the NORTHERN LIBERTIES and district of SOUTHWARK, Published, and sold by BENJAMIN DAVIES, No. 68, High street, (Price one dollar.)
THIS plan is 26 inches square, and has been engraved by one of the first artists in the city, from a late and accurate survey. Purchasers are entitled to a pamphlet with each plan, giving some account of the city, its population, trade, government, &c. July 19.
TAKE NOTICE. THE subscriber intends to make application for a renewal of the following certificate, supposed to be lost on the passage to England in April 1794: Certificate No. 10335, dated 15th November, 1793, for 2830 dollars and 92 cents—six per cent. domestic debt, on the books of The Treasury of the United States, in the name of the Hon. John Trevor.
ROBERT BIRD, at John Warder's. Philadelphia, August 30th, 1796. WANTED, THREE JOURNEYMEN BOOK-BINDERS, GOOD ready-workmen will meet with constant employment, and good wages; by applying to JOHN CURTIS, No. 43, North Fourth-Street.
N. B. BOOK-BINDING in all its different branches executed with neatness and dispatch. Public and private libraries repaired in the neatest and best manner. September 20.

From a late English paper.
BISHOP WATSON AND THOMAS PAINE.
Parallel between Deism and Christianity.
"Unbelievers in general wish to conceal their sentiments: they have a decent respect for public opinion; are cautious of affronting the religion of their country; fearful of undermining the foundation of civil society. Some few have been more daring, but less judicious; and have without disguise professed their unbelief. But you are the first that ever avowed that he was an infidel, concluding your deistical creed with—So help me God! I pray that God may help you; that he may, thro' the influence of his holy Spirit, bring you to a right mind, convert you to the religion of his Son, whom, out of abundant love to mankind, he sent into the world, that 'all who believe in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.'"
You swear that you think the Christian religion is not true. I give full credit to your oath; it is an oath of confirmation—of what? Of an opinion. It proves the sincerity of your declaration of your opinion; but the opinion notwithstanding the oath, may be either true or false. Permit me to produce to you an oath, not confirming an opinion, but a fact: it is the oath of St. Paul, when he swears to the Galatians, that in what he told them of his miraculous conversion, he did not tell a lie: "Now the things which I write unto you, behold, before God, I lie not." Do but give that credit to Paul which I give to you—do but consider the difference between an opinion and a fact, and I shall not despair of your becoming a Christian!
"Deism, you say, consists in a belief of but one God, and an imitation of his moral character, or the practice of what is called virtue; and in this (as far as religion is concerned) you rest all your hopes. There is nothing in deism but what there is in christianity—but there is much in christianity which there is not in deism. The Christian has no doubt concerning a future state; every Deist, from Plato to Thomas Paine, is on this subject overwhelmed with doubts, insuperable by human reason. The Christian has no mitigations as to the pardon of penitent sinners, through the intercession of a mediator; the Deist is harassed with apprehensions, lest the moral justice of God should demand, with inexorable rigor, punishment for transgression. The Christian has no doubt concerning the lawfulness and the efficacy of prayer: the Deist is disturbed on this point by abstract considerations concerning the goodness of God, which wants not to be entreated; concerning his foreknowledge, which has no need of our information; concerning his immutability, which cannot be changed thro' our supplication. The Christian admits the providence of God and the liberty of human actions; the Deist is involved in great difficulties, when he undertakes the proof of either. The Christian has assurance that the Spirit of God will help his infirmities: the Deist does not deny the possibility that God may have access to the human mind, but he has no ground to believe the fact of his either enlightening the understanding— influencing the will—or purifying the heart!"
DAVID and SOLOMON.
Mr. Thomas Paine has called the Psalms of David, and the Proverbs of Solomon, "song books, and jest books."
"It is an error, 'to call the Psalms—the Psalms of David.' This error was observed by St. Jerome, many hundred years before you were born. His words are "We know that they are in an error who attribute all the Psalms to David." You, I suppose, will not deny that David wrote some of them. Songs are of various sorts; we have hunting songs, drinking songs, fighting songs, love songs, foolish, wanton, wicked songs; if you will have the "Psalms of David to be nothing but a collection from different song-writers," you must allow that the writers of them were inspired by no ordinary spirit; that it is a collection incapable of being degraded by the name you gave it; that it greatly excels every other collection in matter and in manner!—Compare the Book of Psalms with the Odes of Horace or Anacreon—with the hymns of Callimachus—the golden verses of Pythagoras—the Choruses of the Greek Tragedians, (no contemptible compositions any of these) and you will quickly see how greatly it surpasses them all in piety of sentiment, in sublimity of expression, in purity of morality, and in rational theology!
As you esteem the Psalms of David a Song-Book it is consistent enough in you to esteem the Proverbs of Solomon a Jest Book: there come down to us above eight hundred of his jests; if we had the whole three thousand which he wrote, our mirth would be extreme! Let us open the book, and see what kind of jests it contains: take the very first as a specimen. "The fear of the lord is the beginning of knowledge; but fools despise wisdom and instruction." Do you perceive any jest in this? The fear of the Lord! What Lord does Solomon mean? He means that Lord who took the posterity of Abraham to be his peculiar people who redeemed that people from Egyptian bondage, by a miraculous interposition of his power! who gave the law of Moses—who commanded the Israelites to exterminate the nations of Canaan! Now this Lord you will not fear; the jests say, you despise wisdom & instruction. Let us try a gain—"My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother. If your heart has been ever touched with parental feelings, you will see no jest in this! Once more—"My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not!" These are the three first proverbs in Solomon's "Jest Book." If you read it through, it may not make you merry: I hope it will make you wise—that it will teach you, at least, the beginning of wisdom—the fear of that Lord whom Solomon feared.
From the Columbian Herald.
Messrs. PRINTERS,
By publishing what follows below here, in your paper, you'll oblige
A SON OF SAINT PATRICK.
Or in plain English, An Irishman.
I am a plain-talking fellow, who will lie and pan-hand you round-a-bout story, with
a little blarney in it; I mean to attack the fort without firing a gun, so here goes:—You must first of all know, that I walked all the way here from Georgetown, dear city, a-foot, with my shoes in my hand; and by my shoul, as you may believe, I was heartily sick of the jaunt, and had I not walked on the swate land of liberty, I verily think I should have died by the way—no matter for that—Hear my story—I was taken hould of by this same thing called "fate," which makes so many stout hearty-fellows "slip their wind"—And as you may well suppose, I was soon obliged to cry "oh! be asey!" but devil a bit would he quit his hould, in spite of St. Patrick and the rest of the clever ones, my dear boys.
My swate little crater, or in plain terms, my wife, called in a man slayer, by some of the learned ones termed doctor, a countryman by my troth, and another dear son of St. Patrick, blessings on his old grey head, for he was an honor to the country of paraters.
All that I remember of the business (for I was a little out of my head or so) I will here lay down for the benefit of all the dear race, as was afterwards told me, by lookers on, that I was vomited enough, by my shoul, both upwards and downwards, and to my hearts content, by the dear doctor my countryman—no matter for that; he forsook me on my legs again in eight or ten days time, unless the rudder of my understanding has been shattered by the villanous fever! and I had the satisfaction of again acting a plentiful male of paraters and safe. I request you will favor me with publishing the above, as soon as possible, as I have no money to pay him, and would wish to show how, that I am not ungrateful, and the more so, as I was cured without losing a drop of my dear Irish blood, which I prize as much as I do the dear land of Hibernia, and country of paraters; for I am no grate friend to that said thing, which people are running crazy about called Fleebovary. Indeed it appears strange to me, that people are so fond of losing their blood now a days, as if it was given them to throw away so redicuously.
You ladies and gentlemen of this dear city, in the goodness of your hearts, deign a forgive a blunt honest Irishman, for pushing his handy work into your faces, without asking your leave, for your amusement, as it must afford sport to see a poor Irishman betray his ignorance in the public papers; but his being a philanthropist excites him to do it, hoping you will have the goodness not to laugh at him, in his face, being remarked for modesty and bashfulness. But belave him, when he tells you (as his countrymen are not accustomed to the marvel-louse) that you shall never see him in print again, until the next time, which may be at the day of his death, when you do you have leave to call him a disgrace to his native country, swate Ireland.
The public's obedient Servant, To command after death, MURROUGHO O'DOUGHA RYE.
NEWPORT, (R. I.) September 20. We felicitate the public on the completion of the bridge which connects this island with the Main at Howland's Ferry. The plan upon which it is now constructed seems to secure it against the dangers of both wind and tide. The foundation is secured by a large quantity of Stone, the piles having been first driven several feet below.
For this Public object being carried into execution, we are indebted to the indefatigable zeal of Col. John Cooke, of Tiverton, who, from his situation and connections was able to collect the materials necessary to complete the arduous work.—Col. Cooke entrusted the Architecture to Major Alexander Thomas, of this island, and the working machinery for driving the piles, to Mr. Luther Lincoln, of Connecticut, who have executed the business, it is said with a faithfulness superior to what it was before, and that the beauty and strength of the bridge do credit to their abilities. We sincerely hope the proprietors may be repaid from the tolls, and the public may long enjoy the advantages resulting from this laudable undertaking.
WINCHESTER, (Virg.) September 23. Last Friday, Will, a black boy of about 13 years of age, was executed on a gallows erected for the purpose near this town, pursuant to his sentence for wilfully setting fire to the house of his master, Rawleigh Colston, Esq. by which diabolical act, the building, which was new and elegantly finished, was reduced to ashes.
CONTINUATION OF FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE,
By the ship FANNY, Captain BRAINE, arrived at New-York, in 49 days from Greenock, and the ELIZA, Captain Wilson, from London.
HAGUE, July 19. Many of the officers and patriots of 1782, have demanded pensions of the convention; but their requests have been decisively opposed, because the pensions which the officers not upon service now enjoy, already exceed 300,000 florins. It was even urged, that by adopting such a measure, experience had shown, that it would be maintaining more secret enemies of the state, and even such men as had joined the Orange troops at Dillenburg.
Our provinces still continue to object to pay their contingents in money. Dutch Brabant declared the day before yesterday, to the convention, that the sum of 100,000 florins, which it is to contribute as its share to the 100 millions of florins, which are to be paid to France, was ready at Bois-le-Duc: but that it was doubtful whether it should be able to discharge in the same manner its future installments.
The exportation of corn and potatoes from Friesland has again been permitted.
LONDON, July 22. No pen, however rapid—no mind, however ardent, can keep pace with the achievements of the French republic! by every country, and from every quarter where their armies are engaged, we have accounts of victories so splendid, as to make the records of all history insignificant on the comparison. No man, however, in his heart he may be adverse to their cause, can refuse to this intrepidity the tribute of his admiration. Every thing that the most sanguine prophecy foretold of the energies of enthusiasm, rendered desperate by attack, is not merely surpassed, but the speculation of those statesmen and writers, who were scorned as indulging in reveries inconsistent with the "credulity of the age," are now proved only to have been defective by their moderation. Wonder ceases to exist, for the exploits which used to give it rise in the bosom are now common events. To enumerate the number of sovereign states that the French have subdued in the short space of eleven weeks—the mountains they have traversed—and the rivers they have crossed in the face of the most veteran armies of the universe—the number of pitched battles they have fought, and the victories they have obtained, demands no ordinary talents of arithmetic; to ear them with patience certainly requires no common powers of philosophy!
We are drawn into this train of thought from the dispatches of yesterday. The Paris papers came to hand up to the 17th, and like every day's accounts that preceded them, they announce to us new victories on the part of the Republicans. The promptitude with which the French follow up and improve their conquests, is equal to the magnitude of the conception which gave them life. The Archduke saw all the importance of the brilliant career of Moreau, and he resolved to direct almost the whole force of his army against this General. There is no doubt that if Moreau had remained inactive until the Austrians had concentrated their force, his advantages might have been lost as rapidly as they were gained; but having reduced the Austrians on the Upper Rhine by repeated actions, and broken their spirit by his uniform success, he gave them no time for repose and reinforcement. The Archduke had hardly joined the army before another battle was fought, and another victory obtained. The details are not given, but it is announced as being most signal. Eighteen hundred prisoners were taken by the French, and the Archduke, after great personal exertions, was forced to retreat, and the first consequences of the action were the capture of Ettingen, Dourlac and Karl-vark.
Gen. Jourdan was equally alert. He seized on the momentum of the Austrian panic, and of the detachments that were made for the defence of the Brilgau, to recommence his operations; and readers will find in his letter to the Directory, a concise report of his very successful movements, by which he has recrossed the Rhine, and made good progress on the Lahn: his whole army is now posted between that river and the Mein. If he succeeds in driving the Austrians from that river, they must retire to the Danube; Mayence must fall, and the object of the campaign in this quarter, the boundary of the Rhine, be accomplished.
In Italy, as the French express it, Victors, tho' bred to be a jilt, continues faithful to Republican gallantry. Not all the successes of Buonaparte have made him indolent—not all the detachments he has made for garrisons, and for secondary objects such as the possession of Leghorn and Rome—(Good God! the capture of Rome is with him but a secondary object)—not the draught of the body of troops employed in the blockade of Mantua—not all the losses which he must have suffered in so hot a service, are enough to prevent him from pursuing and giving battle to the enemy, even in the mountains of the Tyrol. Accordingly we find in his letter to the Directory, that General Joubert gained a most brilliant victory over Wurmler, who has replaced General Beaulieu, at the Bochetta di Campion, and in one instant demolished fortifications which had cost the Austrians a month's labor to erect, and which he owns would have cost the French six months. From this he was to proceed to attack the enemy on the Lake of Garda.
Such are the extraordinary outlines of the events which these papers announce to us. Our readers will find all the details as they are given in the French Journals. It is no longer pretended that we have cause to doubt the fidelity of French reports. The German Gazettes now bear testimony to the truth of the official accounts that the Directory presents to the two houses, and the public. It is only in England that L'Ecclaireur are fabricated for mercenary purposes.
What must be the result of this astonishing and unvaried career of conquest? The princes of Germany are all supplicants for peace. The emperor accuses the English minister of having drawn him into his present disastrous condition, and it is obvious, that he must buy the possession of his diadem, by the surrender of every thing at which French ambition chooses to grasp. The republic will dictate their own terms to every power upon earth, except the English, who still feel an ample indemnity for the past, and security for the future, in having Mr. Pitt as their prime minister, and Mr. Dundas, lord Grenville, and the duke of Portland, as their principal secretaries of state!
July 23. Government received by the last Corunna mail a packet with dispatches from the British minister, the Marquis of Butts, who is said to continue to receive assurances of the pacific intentions of the Spanish Court. It is, however, acknowledged, that Spain was never busier in making preparations by sea and land to put her navy and armies on the most respectable footing.
The French squadron so long equipping at Havre de Grace, is said to have failed to the Eastward, probably to Dunkirk, to collect more force, and then to join the Dutch in Zealand.
The whole of the British naval force in the West-Indies, is said to amount to upwards of 70 sail of men of war, of which there are 23 from 98 (one three-decker) to 56 guns, 18 large frigates, 16 small, and 20 sloops, brigs, and cutters. This is said to be vastly superior to the enemy. There is every reason to hope it is so. But how long it may so continue, is a question not so easily solved. That Spain is the friend of the French can hardly be doubted. Should they at length enter the list against this country, the odds must be, certainly against us.
Ministerial Journal (the Times) in a late number admitted, that the fate of Germany depends upon the result of the defence which the Austrians are preparing to make at Rastatt. We have not seen the success with which this last effort was announced, and the situation of the Austrians seem to confirm the above observation. The cause of the emperor now appears desperate, and the victories of the republicans must now reduce the house of Austria to the necessity of a speedy peace, to secure itself from that destruction with which it is threatened, and to complete the disaster of a war which, a rash and unprincipled ambition intailed, and to correspond to the disgrace with which the conduct of it has most uniformly been attended.
August 2.
Letters from Genoa of the 6th ult. state, that the republic is but little disposed to consent to the demand made by the French minister, to shut her ports against England. Advice had been received at Genoa, from St. Florenzo, in Corsica, that admiral Sir John Jervis was only waiting for instructions from England to bombard every Italian port that shall exclude British ships, or admit a French garrison.
MONSIEUR.
Yesterday the Count de Montmort arrived in town, being charged with dispatches from Monsieur, or, as he is styled by some, Louis XVIII. to the Count d'Artois at Edinburg.
Count de Montmort brings advice, that on Wednesday the 19th of July, at ten o'clock at night, as Monsieur was looking out of a window at an inn, at a town belonging to the Elector of Treves, called Dillengen, near Ulm, on the Danube, he was wounded on the upper part of his forehead by a ball, supposed to have been fired from a horse pistol, on the opposite side of the street, which was about 25 yards wide. The ball took an oblique direction, and made a wound of three inches long. There was no Surgeon immediately at hand, but one of the gentlemen of his suite cut off his hair, and applied a bandage to stop the bleeding. The confusion was very great in consequence, by which the assassin had time to escape.
At last a Surgeon of the town arrived, who dressed the wound. Monsieur's own Surgeon arrived next day at four o'clock in the afternoon, and the following was issued as the
BULLETIN OF HEALTH.
"The ball which hit his Majesty in the forehead, described a sort of semi-circle, of about the breadth of four fingers, within five or six lines (not over a quarter of an inch) from the Suture Frontale. The Parietium has been slightly grazed. Hitherto there has been no fever; and there are great hopes that the issue will be favourable."
(Signed)
"COLON."
Surgeon to the King.
On the 21st was published the following
BULLETIN OF HEALTH.
"The suppuration is begun, and the King is not fatigued by it."
"COLON."
The ball was found afterwards flattened by having struck the wall. Monsieur three days after pursued his journey towards Saxony, though the precise place of his destination was not known.
August 4.
Yesterday at noon, a council was held at the secretary of state's office, Downing-street, at which most of the cabinet ministers were present. At the breaking up of the council, Mr. Hammond, one of the under secretaries of state, received his dispatches; and in the afternoon he left town, on his departure for the continent, accompanied by Mr. Taylor, one of the gentlemen of the foreign office. Two of his majesty's messengers attended him.
Our trade with Portugal is one of the most valuable which we carry on with any of the European powers. By the celebrated treaty of 1703, or as some call it the Methuen treaty, on account of its having been framed by Mr. Methuen, Portugal engages to take our woollens, and we engage to admit her wines at stipulated duties. Perhaps the woollens which she takes from us are not to a greater amount than the wines which we receive from her; but Portugal, having little internal commerce of her own, purchases a very considerable quantity of other articles of British manufacture, which she pays us for in gold. The greater part of our gold is imported from Portugal. Mr. Barretti says, he was informed, that the weekly packet from Lisbon brings an average fifty thousand pounds to our merchants. But this information, Mr. Adam Smith, with reason, considers as exaggerated. It is certain, however, that our importation of gold from Portugal is very great.
ITALY.
ROME, July 1.
A tri duo is ordered to be sung to the Most High for the armistice concluded with Buonaparte. His holiness, in a secret consistory, displayed the necessity of resorting to extraordinary means to fulfil its conditions, and proposed the silver contributions in St. Angelo. The sacred college unanimously consented.
ROVEREDO, July 4.
The siege of Mantua is raised; the presidential exhalations of the moraines having obliged the French to desist from further attempts against that fortress. The besieging army has for the greatest part marched into the Ecclesiastical state, and the rest to Brescia. There remains but few French publicans intend to push to Piacenza, and from thence to Trieste.
INSPRUCK, (Tyrol) July 2.
The manifesto addressed by the French general Buonaparte, to the Tyroleans, has so much altered their spirit, that they were immediately made to take the following oath, to which their magistrates were also invited.
"In the sight of the Almighty, we vow and swear inviolable fidelity to God and religion, to the sovereign, and our dear country. We swear to defend, in common with our bodies, lives, property, and blood, the honour of the Almighty and our holy faith, the rights of the princely court of Tyrol, our sovereign, and the frontier of the country."

We also vow due obedience to all our superiors, and our commander; and on this account we farther vow, to denounce immediately to the magistrates, or chiefs of the place, the seditious discourses, writings or designs of any seducer of the people (whether he be a foreign traitor, or a domestic malcontent) without fear or regard of quality or person: and all this truly, to help us God and the holy Gospel. Amen."
VIENNA, July 6.
The following are the preliminary conditions of peace, signed at Bologna, between the plenipotentiaries of the pope, on the one part, and Buonaparte on the other, the 25th of last month. They were yesterday presented to all the foreign ministers, 30 millions of livres to be paid to the French.
150 pictures.
150 figures, including those of the Bruti and Apollo.
150 base lies.
2500 manuscripts.
The pope renounces the authority of the three legations of Bologna, Ferrara, and Ravenna, and receives a French garrison in the town, castle, and port of Ancona. We think them too harsh and enormous to be authentic. The nuncio of the pope here, however, has no authority to deny them.
AUGSBURG, July 7.
The attacks made by the French on the 28th of June, against the Austrian advanced posts on the Adige, were very furious. They surprised the first picquet, attacked with impetuosity the important post of Cerhiolo, defended by a battalion of Laternian; they put some companies to rout, who fled down the mountain, and took the road to Avio. The militia of Tanserer retired also to Brentanice, and from thence to Roveredo.
The remainder of the troops sustained the attack, but were obliged to abandon the post on account of the superiority of the enemy. But a short time after, the Austrians having received reinforcements from the neighbouring camps, attacked the enemy, and drove them from the posts they had just taken: at which time the French attacked the advanced posts of the Adige, and near the lake of Garda. On the first attack, generals Liptay and Mitrowicz brought two battalions from the camp, charged the enemy, and drove them to give up the enterprise. The Austrians were also attacked with superior force from the side of Roveredo and Coptera. The fire of the musketry was supported by that of five barks, which, commanded by lieutenant Cabinchoe, made the French retreat a league.
FRIBOURG, (Brisgau) July 7.
On the 28th of last month the French arrived at Fribourg, and it was generally supposed that their van guard would reach this place in the evening. The military chest, watlike stores, and reserve artillery were instantly removed, and all emigrants unable to bear arms, fled with the utmost precipitation. The prelate of Schuttern, and the cardinal of Rohan, passed through our town, on their way to the Black Forest, whither the baggage of Louis XVIII and the prince of Conde, were also removed. This moment, however, we receive intelligence, that the French, who had advanced as far as Heibolheim, have been repulsed by the imperial infantry, and the cavalry of Conde, and pursued to Offenburg.
RHENFELDT, July 17.
It is reported that in an affair in the environs of Limburgh, the French were twice repulsed, but that they charged furiously a third time, with the bayonet, and every thing gave way. They entered the enemy's ranks, overthrew and dispersed all that stood their attack. The field of battle was left heaped with the slain.
After this battle they marched against Runkel, which they took by assault, after the most obstinate resistance. The bombardment of Frankfort, which lasted but a short time, has nevertheless done damage to the amount of 25,000 florins. The conditions of the capitulation of Frankfort are not yet arrived. The number of battles previous to its capture have excited desolation and misery every where. In the fields we meet with fathers seeking their children, widows their husbands—all offer the most affliction picture to the observer's eye.
COBLENTZ, July 21.
We expect that the ensuing night will be terrible. All the dispositions are made to attack the fortress according to rule. There are arrived heavy artillery, ammunition, and even troops in great number; seven batteries, mounted with 50 pieces of cannon and mortars, are erected to fire upon the rock, which the besieged persist in thinking to be impregnable. It is presumed that the bombardment will be particularly directed against the valley. We expect the night with anxiety. At this moment I write to you, all the batteries are playing. It has been decided between the besiegers and the garrison of Ehrenbreitstein, that no cannon shall be fired upon the town.
HANAU, July 16.
The town and fortress of Konigstein, not being victualled and provided with ammunition, has proposed to capitulate to the French.
Philippsburgh, Cassel and Mentz, are besieged.
FRANKFORT, July 19.
[Extract of a letter.]
The fate of this city is at length decided, and the French are masters of it. I will give the details of what passed during and since the bombardment. After the archduke Charles had quitted the Lower Rhine, to proceed to the army of the Upper Rhine, after the abandonment of the position of Freidberg, general Wartenleben received orders to occupy the post of Bergen, and to maintain himself in it until the main body of the army had entirely passed the Main; but fearing that he should be turned by the French, who might proceed from Freidberg to Hanau, Wartenleben thought proper not to obey the order, and retired also beyond the Main towards Neuissenburg, after having thrown 4000 men into Frankfort, whose defence might protect his retreat.
On the 12th, at five in the evening, the troops showed themselves near the city. The batteries of the ramparts fired a few shots, to which the besiegers replied from their howitzers. A short time afterwards the city was summoned; the commandant refused. A second summons followed the first—a similar refusal on the part of the commandant.
The bombardment commenced at two o'clock in the afternoon; several parts of the city were set fire to, and many of the inhabitants were killed in their beds.
The alarm depicted on the countenances of the citizens wandering through the streets, and the disposition of defence which the Austrians continued to make, formed a striking and terrible scene. At three o'clock the firing ceased, and one deputation of the magistrates went to general Wartenleben, while another deputation proceeded to general Junod; the former was solicited to capitulate, and the latter to spare the city.
Gen. Wartenleben was inflexible; but gen. Jourdan, the contrary, received the deputies with great politeness, and testified his regret at being forced to have recourse to such disastrous measures. The capitulation did not take place, and the alarms of the inhabitants became only deeper and better founded, the commandant resolved to defend the city to the last extremity, and prepared five engines in all parts.
The next day, at eleven at night, the French recommenced the bombardment from three batteries which they had between the gate of Eschenheim and All Saints. A shower of balls destroyed the buildings that were in the direction of the batteries, and the flames burst forth in several parts. We should have been buried under the ruins of the buildings, if humanity had not induced the French themselves to suspend the bombardment. The French general Kleber carried even his generosity so far as to send three fire-engines which he had taken in the environs, with 120 men without arms, in order to assist in extinguishing the fire; but they were not suffered to enter the city.
At length general Wartenleben suffered himself to be prevailed upon, and asked leave to surrender; and the next day, the 14th, the capitulation was signed at Bornheim by general Brady, and general Kleber.
The number of houses burnt is 150; among them is a bake house, the house of a Prussian captain, where there was merchandise worth several thousand crowns. The Post Office and the prince of Tour and Taxie's palace suffered much.
The conduct of the French, since their entrance into Frankfort, has completely contradicted the idea of implacable hatred which they seem to have vowed against us. The garrison is 1800 strong. The soldiers of the city and burghers have been disarmed.
FRANCE.
COUNCIL OF FIVE HUNDRED,
4th Thermidor, July 22.
Thibaut, in the name of the commission of finances, proposed, that from the 1st of the month of Vendemaire ensuing, there should be established a right of patent throughout the Republic (which all bankers, merchants, ship-masters, &c. should be obliged to take out) to which right all those should be subject who engaged themselves in commerce. The duration of the patents he proposed should be one year. The shops and magazines to be shut up till the payment of them.
Each merchant should be required to print over his shop the nature of his commerce; bankers to pay 3,000 livres for a patent; fitters out of ships, merchants, wholesale traders and manufacturers, 1,000; merchants, brokers, goldsmiths, bookellers, distillers, watch-makers, cabinet-makers, sellers of pictures and engravings, paper-makers, saddlers, coach makers and sellers of periodical publications, 500 livres. Milners, sellers of pens, candles, oranges, upholsterers, fan-makers, keepers of taverns, traiteurs, pastry cooks, and lemonade makers, 200 livres, at most, and 50 livres at least.
Ordered to be printed, and taken into consideration the 10th Thermidor.
PARIS, July 26.
Letters from Genoa inform us that the senate has intimated to the English not to send any more ships of war into the ports of the republic, that the good understanding, now prevailing between Genoa and France, might not be interrupted. Faypoult, the French minister, has informed the senate, that the French ships are ordered to capture all neutral vessels, sailing from or arriving in Genoese ports laden on English account.
A private letter from Chamberry, of the 2d Thermidor, states, that two days before a carriage passed through that town, under a strong escort, containing four millions in gold (about 160,000 guineas) which general Buonaparte has sent to Paris. The same letter adds, that four millions more are on the road.
July 27.
General Buonaparte is now at Bologna, employed in settling, in conjunction with the French commissaries, the great and small affairs of Italy. If the German gazettes may be credited, the French and Austrian armies now posted between the Maine, the Rhine and the Mecker, amount to about 200,000 men.
July 29.
It is said that the Jacobins are raising an enormous army, and that they principally recruit among the old revolutionary troops. The pay is to be 20 livres each per day. Several captains have set off to make up their companies in the departments.
Letters from Brussels state, that general Kleber is before the city of Wurtzbourg, the capital of Franconia.
NOTES LOST.
WHEREAS two notes drawn by Benjamin Haskell and George W. Kirkland, dated Boston, the 24th February, 1796, payable to Joseph May, or order, in 18 months after date, one for One Thousand Dollars, the other Fifteen Dollars were stolen with some other papers out of a trunk on the Lancaster road. It is requested that any person to whom they may be offered for negotiation, will give notice thereof to the subscriber.
GARRETT COTTRINGER.
Sept. 30.
PHILADELPHIA,
SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 1, 1796.
MARRIED, on Tuesday evening last, by the Right Rev. Dr. White, Mr. ROBERT BEWIN, to Miss SUSAN COX, daughter of Mr. Moses Cox of this city.
On Thursday Evening last, by the Rev. Mr. Turner, Mr. LEWIS SAWYER, to Miss MARGARET STEEL, both of this city.
DIED, very suddenly, last night, EDWARD PENNINGTON the elder—an honest and upright man, and useful member of civil and religious society.
A correspondent earnestly recommends to the compilers of Almanacks, who have not yet completed their publications in that line for the next year, to add to them the President's last Address. It will be a mean of giving it a much more extensive circulation.
MR. FENNO, The following curiosities accidentally fell into my hands—I request you to publish them as articles original in their kind—being credibly informed that they afford the first instances of personal solicitation in this way. Should such a mode be successful, it would, without doubt, very soon become universal with candidates of a certain stamp, and the people very soon relieved from the trouble of thinking for themselves.
September 10th, 1796.
Dear Sir, I take the liberty of informing you, as an old acquaintance, that I mean to stand a candidate at our next election for a seat in Congress. Should you be inclined to think favorably of the measure, you can and I am sure will promote my interest in your neighborhood and elsewhere, very considerably. I remain with respect yours to serve, &c. MR. GEORGE PIPER.
MR. Kreider's tavern, Sept. 8th, 1796. Keru, Esq.
Sir, I wished to have done myself the pleasure to call on you in person but could not make it convenient for this time. Although take the liberty to inform you that a great number of my friends and acquaintance have determined to make use of my name at the ensuing election, for one of the Representatives in Congress. Should you approve of it, and please to give me your vote and interest, will be remembered by Your most obedt. & very humble servt. JN. RICHARDS.
At a Meeting of a number of citizens, at Mr. Dunwoody's Inn, on the 30th instant, it was unanimously agreed to recommend to their fellow-citizens, the following tickets, for their support at the ensuing Election.
Congress, Edward Tilghman. Governor, Thomas Mifflin. Senator, Nathaniel Newlin, (of Delaware County.) Assembly, George Latimer, Laurence Seckel, Jacob Hiltzheimer, Robert Waln, Francis Gurney, Joseph Ball.
Select Council, John Connolly, James Read, David Jackson, James Irwin, Godfrey Haga, Sam. M. Fox, Sam. Coates, Henry Pratt, John Hallowell, Francis Gurney, Thomas Cumpston, Ebenezer Large.
Common Council, John Gardiner, painter. Kearny Wharton, Samuel M'Lean, Conrad Gehard, Isaac Pennington, Anthony Cuthbert, Wm. Garrigues, Benjamin W. Morris, Michael Keppele, Bowyer Brooks, Ben. Chew, jun. Caleb North, John Rugan, Thomas Allibone, Jacob Eckfeldt, Thomas M. Willing, Joseph Hopkinson, Samuel Hildredon, Walter Frankland, Philip Odenheimer.
Published by order of the Meeting, JAMES BIDDLE, Chairman. DANIEL SMITH, Secretary.
From a London paper.
The following is an exact Copy of the Contributions levied on the following Merchants at Milan, by the French:—
Table with 2 columns: Merchant Name, Amount. Includes entries for Fraoco, Carlo & Co. Frapoli, Tracelli Rouggieri, Thomas Carl, Joseph Tanli, Bros. Belabio and Befana, Ambo. Uboldi and Brunati, Charles Castelli, Ant. Camuragi, Charles Crani, Bignami and Vassalli, Palq. Carozzi and Co., Charles Mariotti and Co., Gottardo Salice, Ginlio Cesare Boffi, Gattano Tavioli, Gio. Bia. Cataneo, Gio. Natmagalli, Ignazio Mainone, Andrea Saglio, Pro. and Bos. Mariotti, Joff. E. Rosetti and Borgnis.
1,200,000 - 42,185
NEW-YORK, September 29.
This morning arrived the ship Mercury, Capt. Jessup, from Port-au-Prince. This is the captain who was so shamefully abused by the British. He informs that he was offered £. 300 currency in satisfaction for their insult, and injuries, but he refused to accept of it.—American produce a mere drug at that place.
BURNS, the celebrated Scotch poet, is dead—and, like other poets, died poor. He held a subaltern office in the office of excise, and it is said shortened his life by intemperance.
GAZETTE OF THE UNITED STATES MARINE LIST.
PHILADELPHIA, October 1.
Table with 2 columns: Ship Name, Days. ARRIVED: Ship Nancy, Days Jamaica 26; Sch. Sufannah, Days Barbadoes 21; Sloop Robert, Days Tortola 21.
Table with 2 columns: Ship Name, Days. CLEARED: Ship Active, Days Hamburg; Brig Peggy, Days Port-au-Prince; Sch. Good Intent, Days St. Bartholomews; Hope, Days West Indies; President, Days Frederickburgh; Nancy, Days New-York; The brig Eagle, Days from the West Indies; The brig Alexandria, Days arrived at the port.
Table with 2 columns: Ship Name, Days. NEW-YORK, September 30: Ship Mercury, Days Port-au-Prince; Pigou, Sinclair, Days Liverpool 60 days; Brig Lucia, Days Surinam.
Extract from the Log Book of the ship Pigou. Captain Sinclair arrived yesterday 60 days from Liverpool.
Aug. 4, spoke ship Columbia, of Portland, bound to Liverpool from Boston, lat. 51, 24.
Aug. 6, was boarded by the corsair Rigate, of 36 guns, in company with the Santa Margareta, on a cruise.
Aug. 16, spoke a Danish brig from St. Croix bound to Copenhagen.
Aug. 17, spoke the Schooner Friendship, from Boston, bound to Amsterdam.
Aug. 22, spoke the barque Resolution from Norfolk bound to Hamburg, lat. 49, 17, long. 32, 30.
Sept. 14, spoke ship Hamilton, Capt. Farrell, of Alexandria, bound to Falmouth, out 10 days, lat. 39, 37.
Sept. 15, spoke brig Mary of Philadelphia, from Brest, out 49 days bound to Philadelphia, lat. 39, 58.
Sept. 22, spoke a Schooner from Pepperelborough bound to St. Croix, out 3 days, lat. 38, 49.
Sept. 26, spoke Schooner Betsy, of Bristol, from Rhode Island bound to the coast of Africa, out 3 days, lat. 39, 32.
A stated meeting of the Pennsylvania Society for promoting the Abolition of Slavery, &c. will be held at the usual place on the 3d of October, at 6 o'clock in the evening. BENJAMIN KITE, Sec'ty. 9th mo. 30th, 1796
Washington Lottery, No. 2.
The 24th and 25th days Drawing are received at the Office, No. 147, Chestnut Street. Oct. 1.
Treasury Department,
September 28, 1796.
NOTICE is hereby given, that proposals will be received at the office of the Secretary of the Treasury until the expiration of the first day of March next ensuing, for the supply of all rations which may be required for the use of the United States, from the first day of June, 1797, to the thirty-first day of May, 1798, both days inclusive, at the places and within the districts hereinafter mentioned, viz. At Oswego; at Niagara; at Pigeon Island; at Sandusky Lake, and on Sandusky River; at Detroit; at Michilimackinac; at Fort-Franklin; at Pittsburgh; at Cincinnati; at Fort-Hamilton; at Fort St. Clair; at Fort-Jefferson; at Grenville; at Picque Town and Loramie Store; at Fort Adams; at Fort Wayne; at Fort Defiance; at any place below Fort Defiance on the Miami River to Lake Erie; at Fort Steubenville; at Fort Massac; at any place below Fort Massac to the south boundary of the United States on the river Mississippi; at Fort Knox; at Ouatanon.
If supplies shall be required for any posts or places not mentioned in this notice, all such supplies shall be furnished at prices proportioned to those to be paid at the posts before recited, or as may be hereafter agreed on between the United States and the Contractor.
The rations to be supplied are to consist of the following articles, viz.
One pound two ounces of bread or flour.
One pound two ounces of beef, or fourteen ounces of pork or bacon.
Half a gill of rum, brandy or whiskey.
One quart and half a pint of salt.
Two quarts of Vinegar.
Two pounds of Soap.
One pound of Candles.
The rations are to be furnished in such quantities, as that there shall at all times during the said term, be sufficient for the consumption of the troops at Michilimackinac, Detroit, Niagara, and Oswego, for the term of six months in advance, and at each of the other posts, for the term of at least three months in advance, in good and wholesome provisions, if the same shall be required. It is to be understood, that the Contractor is to be at the expense and risk of issuing the supplies to the troops at each post, and that all losses sustained by the depredations of an enemy, or by means of the troops of the United States, shall be paid for at the price of the articles captured or destroyed, on the deposition of two or more persons of creditable character, and the certificate of a commissioned officer, ascertaining the circumstances of the loss, and the amount of the articles for which compensation shall be claimed.
OLIVER WOLCOTT, Secretary of the Treasury.
BRANDY,
OF 1st and 4th proof, and equal in quality to that imported from France, may be had of the subscriber at his Distillery, No. 145, Story or New Street, between Third and Fourth Streets, where the public, upon application, may judge for themselves, and will find it an object well worth their attention.
RUM and GIN in any quantity, for exportation or home consumption, and of superior quality.—By Thomas Cave.
P.S. RYE, MALT, BARLEY, and MELASSES, can be purchased, or taken in exchange for spirits, upon application as above. Also any quantity of Claret or other wine fit for distillation.
August 20th, 1796.
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This Day is Published, and Sold by J. ORMROD, No. 41, Chestnut-street, and WILLIAM GOBBETT, opposite Christ Church.
Price only 25 cents. Watson's Letters to Gibbon, or An Apology for Christianity, In a series of Letters, Addressed to Edward Gibbon, Esq. author of the History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
By R. WATSON, D. D. F. R. S. Lord Bishop of Landaff, and Regius Professor of Divinity in the University of Cambridge. Likewise, a Second Edition of An Apology for the Bible, By the same celebrated Divine.
Price 37 1-2 cents. These Pamphlets are printed to match, so that they may be bound together—and contain the most powerful and convincing arguments ever advanced in favor of Christianity; together with a complete refutation of Deism and Infidelity.
W. C. HAS JUST PUBLISHED, The Political Censor for September; CONTAINING The Life of Thomas Paine, And Remarks on the Pamphlets lately published against Peter Porcupine.
THIS DAY IS PUBLISHED, By MATHEW CAREY, 118, Market-street, A Dissertation on Slavery, WITH A PROPOSAL For the Gradual Abolition of it In the State of Virginia.
By ST. GEORGE TUCKER, Professor of Law in the University of William and Mary, and one of the Judges in the General Court in Virginia. Slavery not only violates the Laws of Nature and of Civil Society, it also wounds the best forms of government: in a Democracy, where all men are equal, Slavery is contrary to the spirit of the constitution.
New-England Rum, In hogsheads, Welsh's best Boston Chocolate, And HYSON-SKIN TEA, in quarter chests, FOR SALE, BY A. MARPLE & MR. W. MORRIS, No. 60. Dock-street.
North-Carolina—Hillsborough District. COURT OF EQUITY, April term, 1796. John Wilkes's heirs vs. Lewis. Archibald Maclean, James Morris, and others. IN this cause the death of James Morris being suggested, as also the deaths of Pierce Morris and Martha Wilkes, other defendants—leave is given to file a bill of revivor.
Mr. FRANCIS (Of the New Theatre) TAKES this opportunity of returning thanks to his friends and the public. Mr. Francis intends, on his return from Maryland, to open a public academy for dancing, upon a plan entirely new.
Sales of India Goods. The Cargo of the ship Ganges, capt. Tingey, from Calcutta and Bengal, consisting of Large and general assortment of Bengal and Madras COTTON and SILK GOODS. A variety fine worked and plain Muslins, Doreas, &c. Also, A Quantity of Excellent Sugar, In boxes and bags—and BLACK PEPPER, For Sale by Willings & Francis, No. 21 Penn Street.
JOHN MILLER, Jun. & Co. No. 8, CHESNUT STREET. Have Imported in the late vessels from Europe, &c. AND HAVE FOR SALE, A general assortment of GOODS, suitable to the season— Amongst which are, BROAD and narrow CLOTHS, Plain striped and point BLANKETS, FLANNELS and BAISES, HATS assorted in cases, IRISH LINENS, INDIA GOODS, generally, A Consignment of IRONMONGERY, Comprising a capital assortment to open a store—including Thirty Casks of NAILS.
Lottery FOR raising six thousand six hundred and fifty-seven dollars and fifty cents, by a deduction of fifteen per cent from the prizes, and not two blanks to a prize, viz 1 Prize of 5000 dollars, 5000 1 do 1000 1000 1 do 500 500 1 do 200 200 1 do 100 100 1 do 50 4950 1 do 25 5000 1 do 10 10,000 5 Last drawn numbers of 1000 dollars each, 5000 2332 Prizes. 444450 4018 Blanks.
Samuel Richardet, RESPECTFULLY informs the Gentlemen Merchants, that he has this day opened the CITY TAVERN and MERCHANTS COFFEE HOUSE in the city of Philadelphia. The Subscription Room will be furnished with all the daily papers published in Philadelphia, New-York, Boston, Baltimore, together with those of the principal commercial cities of Europe.
Treasury of the United States. NOTICE is hereby given to all persons who are or may be Creditors of the United States, for any sums of the funded Debt, or Stock, bearing a present interest of six per centum per annum. That pursuant to an Act of Congress passed on the 28th day of April, 1796, entitled an act in addition to an act, intitled "An act making further provision for the support of public credit, and for the redemption of the public debt," the said debt or stock will be reimbursed and paid in manner following, to wit:
Brokers Office, and COMMISSION STORE. No. 62 South Third Street, opposite the National new Bank. SAMUEL M. FRANCES and JOHN VAN REED, have entered into co-partnership, under the firm of FRANCES & VAN REED, in the business of Brokers, Commission and Consignment merchants. They buy and sell on commission every species of stock, notes of hand, bills of exchange, bonds, and lands, &c. Money procured on deposits, &c. &c. all kinds of writings in the conveyancing line, done with neatness and dispatch; accounts adjusted, and books settled, in the most correct manner.
Turks-Island Salt, FOR SALE, By the ship American, Capt. Shalleross—Will be ready to discharge at Pine-street wharf on the 27th inst. Apply to Jebu Hollingsworth & Co. Sept. 23.
A Manufactory FOR SALE. A Valuable SOAP and CANDLE Manufactory, situate in a convenient part of the city; the works almost new, on an entirely original construction, and built of the best materials, and may be set to work immediately. Persons who wish to purchase, are requested to apply at No. 273 South Second Street. September 13.
City of Washington, SCHEME of the LOTTERY, No. II, FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE FEDERAL CITY. A magnificent 20,000 dollars, & dwelling-house, 1 cash 30,000, &c 50,000 1 do 15,000 & cash 25,000 40,000 1 do 15,000 & cash 15,000 30,000 1 do 10,000 & cash 10,000 20,000 1 do 10,000 & cash 5,000 10,000 1 do 5,000 & cash 5,000 10,000 1 cash prize of 10,000 2 do 5,000 each, &c 20,000 10 do 1,000 10,000 20 do 500 10,000 100 do 100 10,000 200 do 50 10,000 400 do 25 10,000 1,000 do 20 20,000 15,000 do 10 150,000 16,739 Prizes. 34,401 Blanks. 50,000 Tickets, at Eight Dollars, 400,000
Watson's Answer to Gibbon. JUST RECEIVED, And for sale by J. ORMROD, No. 41, Chestnut-street, Apology for Christianity, In a series of Letters, addressed to EDWARD GIBBON, Esq. Author of the History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. (Price 75 cents bound) Watson's Answer to Paine, To be had at the same place. The enemies of Religion are awake! Let not her friends sleep. Sept. 1.
NOTICE. THE Subscriber, having been reduced in his circumstances, by sundry misfortunes, and being thereby unable to satisfy his just debts, hereby gives notice to his Creditors and to all persons concerned, that he intends to apply to the General Assembly of Maryland at their next session to be held on the first Monday of November next, for the benefit of an act of insolvency. WILLIAM EDMONDSON Easton, 1st of the 9th month, 1796.
To be sold, A PLANTATION, in the town of Woodbury, county of Gloucester, and state of New-Jersey, containing about one hundred and fifty acres; a suitable proportion of which is woodland and improved meadow. A great part of the arable land is in a high state of cultivation, and very natural to the production of Red Clover.
To be Sold, At No. 228, North Second-Street, and by several of the Annotaries in this City. TRANSFERS of the rights to remove bonds and innumerable items from the human body, ascribed to Dr. ELISHA PERKINS, by patent, with instruments and directions necessary for the practice.
Given under my Hand at Philadelphia, this twenty-eighth day of July 1796, pursuant to directions from the Secretary of the Treasury. SAMUEL MEREDITH, Treasurer of the United States. July 23.
Washington Canal Lottery, No. I. WHEREAS the State of Maryland has authorised the underwritten, to raise twenty-six thousand, two hundred, and fifty dollars, for the purpose of cutting a Canal through the City of Washington, from the Potomac to the Eastern Branch, Marjory's Creek. The following is the SCHEME of No. I. 1 Prize of 20,000 dollars, 20,000 1 do 10,000 10,000 7 last drawn } 5,000 35,000 Tickets, each } 6 do 1,000 6,000 10 do 400 4,000 20 do 100 2,000 55 do 50 2,750 5730 do 12 68,760 To be raised for the Canal, 26,250 5850 Prizes, 11650 Blanks, not two to a prize, 125,000 17500 Tickets, at Ten Dollars, 175,000
Mordecai Lewis HAS FOR SALE, NANCHEENS; long and short, China, well assorted. Quicksilver. Diapers. Batias. Coffas. Bandana Handkerchiefs. Roll Brimstone. Sept. 6.
For Sale, A LARGE ELEGANT AND WELL FINISHED Three-Story Brick House, (The late residence of General Walter Stewart) WITH A LOT OF GROUND thereunto belonging, the west side of Third-street, near Union-street containing in front 32 feet, and in depth 100 feet, an alley leading into Union-street. The house is 32 feet front and 50 feet deep; the several rooms contained in three large, commodious, and completely finished; the two first floors are each 13 feet high; there are 24 mahogany rooms in the house; a geometrical staircase, with mahogany rails and a good sky-light. The kitchen is in the cellar, which is spacious and convenient, and finished with an oven, flour-holes and pantries, a servants' hall and large wine-cellar adjoining the kitchen, in front of which is an area in which there is a pump. The yard is vaulted. Communicating with the said house is a neat three-story brick house, on the north side of Union-street, containing 30 feet front by 20 feet deep; the lower part of which is at present occupied as a camping-house, and the upper part divided into well-finished large chambers. This house may at a small expense be converted into a convenient dwelling.
FOR SALE, A PLANTATION, ABOUT 12 miles from this City, situate in Abing-ton Township, Montgomery County; containing 70 acres, a new stone house, two stories high, a rooms one floor, fire places in each, a large kitchen and stone frying house, over an excellent spring of water, a barn, stables, sheds, barracks, &c. A large apple orchard, and a variety of other fruit, about 12 acres of good meadow well watered, and wood sufficient for fire, and fencing the place. Possession may be had the 1st of April next. Property in this city will be taken in exchange, or MORRIS and NICHOLSONS Notes in payment. Enquire at No. 37, Arch-Street. Philadelphia, September 13, 1796.
WANTED, For any term from one to four years, A HOUSE, pleasantly situated in any of the principal streets within the pavement, and not very distant from the State-House, capable of accommodating a small family; the house must have stables and coach-house, and would be required to be ready by the first week in November next—Enquire of the printer. Sept. 14.
FOR SALE, A very Valuable Estate, CALLED TWITTENHAM, situate in the township of Upper Derby, and county of Delaware, 7 1-2 miles from Philad. Iphm, and half a mile from the new Western road: containing 230 acres of excellent land, 45 of which are good watered meadow, 90 of prime woodland, and the rest arable of the first quality. There are on the premises a good two story brick house, with 4 rooms on a floor, and cellars under the whole, with a pump-well of excellent water in front; a large frame barn, stables, and other convenient buildings; a smoke-house and front, spring-house; two good apple orchards, and one of peaches. The fields are all in clover, except those immediately under tillage, and are so laid out as to have the advantage of water in each of them, which renders it peculiarly convenient for grazing.
The foregoing is part of the estate of Jacob Harman, deceased, and offered for sale by Mordecai Lewis, Surviving Executor. Oct. 9. tt&f PRINTED BY JOHN FENNO, —No. 110— CHESTNUT-STREET. Price eight shillings per annum.