Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser. (Philadelphia [Pa.]), 1798-12-28 00:00:00

Gazette of the United States, and Philadelphia Daily Advertiser.
By JOHN WARD FENNO, No 119 Chestnut Street.
NUMBER 1959.]
PHILADELPHIA: FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 28, 1798.
[VOLUME XIV.]
The price of this Gazette is Eight dollars per annum to Subscribers residing in the city of Philadelphia.
SHIP BROKER'S OFFICE, And Commission Store, No. 19, SOUTH FRONT STREET.
FOR SALE By the Subscribers, ON VERY LOW TERMS, WAX CANDLES.
Just Arrived, In the Brig Eliza, from the Mediterranean, and now landing at Walnut Street wharf.
The owners of the ship New-Jersey from Canton expect in a few days part of the Cargo of that vessel in town.
For Sale, THE SHIP BOSTON PACKET, Hulls Cowpartment, Master, BURHEN about 2,500 barrels.
For sale by the subscriber, AT PORTSMOUTH (N.H.), THE HULL OF A NEW SHIP.
REMOVAL. GEORGE DOBSON, INFORMS his friends and the Public in general that he has removed from No. 25, South Third Street.
BOND & BROOKS, CORNER OF MARKET AND SIXTH STREETS, HAVE RECEIVED, by the late arrivals from London, Liverpool and Hull.
FOR SALE, At the late dwelling-house of HENRY HILL, esquire, On Wednesday morning, (2d January).
JAMAICA RUM. THE CARGO, Of the ship CHARLES, Captain Salter, From the North side of JAMAICA.
FOR BREMEN, THE BRIG SPECULATION, AREND WISTING, MASTER, NOW laying at Henry Pratt's wharf.
DRY GOODS, SUITABLE FOR THE PRESENT SEASON, WHICH HE HAS JUST RECEIVED.
NOTICE, PURSUANT to a Relative of the Board of Trustees of Washington Academy.
Household Furniture, Consisting of Large and small looking-glasses, Carpets and carpeting.
For Sale, THE SUBSCRIBER, intending to decline the DRUG BUSINESS, offers for Sale, the whole Stock of Drugs and Medicines, Instruments, &c.
PRATT & KINTZING, no. 95, north Water-street, Who have for sale, a variety of GERMAN GOODS.
R. TAYLOR, MUSIC PROFESSOR, NO. 96, NORTH SIXTH-STREET, RESPECTFULLY informs the Public that he continues to teach Ladies the Piano.
WANTED, Convenient Lodgings, for an elderly Lady, in a respectable private family.
Two tracts or pieces of Land SITUATE in the State of Tennessee, one of them lying and being in the county of Sumner.
Who has For Sale, TWO Sloops, Well calculated for the River trade, The PEGGY, about 30 tons burthen.
FOR LIVERPOOL, THE ARMED SHIP MOLLY, Burthen 340 Tons, A stout well found vessel.
THIRTY DOLLARS, WILL be paid for apprehending and lodging in any goal in the United States, the following deserters from the Delaware Sloop of War.
JOHN DOBBIN, BOOT & SHOEMAKER, RESPECTFULLY informs his Friends and the Public in general that he carries on his business at No. 99 South Second Street.
Malaga Wine, In quarter casks—for sale by Philips, Cramond & Co.
Who wants to Charter, A GOOD STOUT VESSEL, Of about 300 Tons burthen, HAS ALSO FOR SALE, 40 Pipes of Madeira Wine.
Nicklin & Griffith, HAVE FOR SALE, Sail Cloth by the bale or piece, (No. 1 & 8) One bale of seam-twine.
NOTICE, ALL Persons indebted to the Estate of doctor Hugh Hodge, deceased, are requested to make immediate payment.
NOTICE, ALL Persons who have any demands against the Estate of the late WILLIAM CLIFTON, deceased, and who have not already produced their accounts, are requested to send them to the subscriber at no. 175, north second street.
English wrought Nails, Imported in the ships Molly and Diana, from LIVERPOOL, 400 Casks of Nails.
FOR WILMINGTON, NORTH-CAROLINA, THE SHIP COMMERCE, Captain Wood, WILL take freight on very moderate terms.
BOOK-KEEPING, WANTS A PLACE, IN AN ELIGIBLE ACCOUNTING-HOUSE or OFFICE, A PERSON that Writes well, is a Ready Reckoner.
TO BE SOLD, PURSUANT to the last will and testament of MICHAEL CATTS, deceased, a valuable Plantation & Tract of Land.
FOR SALE, A Tan-Yard, with about thirty two acres of Land, at Rock-Ran, on the Head of the Tide-water of Susquehannah.
FOR SALE, at the Stores of the Subscribers, on Walnut Street Wharf, 195 Casks of Nails assorted.
AUGUSTUS FRICKE, Woollen Draper & Men's Mercer, No. 7, South Third Street, HAS RECEIVED, per the last arrival from Europe, a large assortment of the fashionable Goods in his line.
THE BRIG AMAZON, FOR SALE OR CHARTER, December 19, m.w.&fa.f.
THE STOCKHOLDERS are hereby notified that an election for thirteen Directors to serve for one year, will be held at the Company's Office on Monday the fourteenth day of January next.
ISAAC WILSON, 12th mo. 14th, 2293w.
Insurance Company of the state of Pennsylvania, THE STOCKHOLDERS are hereby notified that an election for thirteen Directors to serve for one year, will be held at the Company's Office on Monday the fourteenth day of January next.

Delaware & Schuylkill Canal. THE Stockholders are hereby notified, that the Election for President and Managers, for the ensuing year, will be held at the Company's Office, on the first second-day in January next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon.
Susquehanna & Schuylkill Canal. THE Stockholders are hereby notified, that the Election for President and Managers, for the ensuing year, will be held at the Company's Office, on the first second-day in January next at ten o'clock.
Bank of Pennsylvania, DECEMBER 27th, 1798. NOTICE is hereby given to the Stockholders of the Bank of Pennsylvania, that an Election of Nineteen DIRECTORS, to serve for one year, will be held at the Bank, on Monday the fourth of February next, at 10 o'clock.
Philadelphia Population Company. THE share-holders are hereby notified, that an election for President, Managers and other officers for the ensuing year, will be held at the Company's Office, no. 53, north Fourth Street, on Wednesday the 5th of January next, at 12 o'clock.
The Subscribers, Have received by the Clothier from Liverpool A CONSIGNMENT OF TEN CASES OF Well Assorted Buttons, About 500. Sterling each Case, which they will dispose of per package, on liberal terms.
WANTED, ABOUT fifty Casks of Flag Annatto or Rocou, Apply as above.
To be Sold, The time of a stout healthy Negro Lad, aged about 17 years, and bound to serve until 21; he is honest, understands the usual business of a family, and has been accustomed to wait on table—Apply to BENJAMIN R. MORGAN, No. 41, Arch Street.
FLOUR, FOR SALE, DELIVERABLE at New-Castle or Port Penn, by LEVI HOLLINGSWORTH & SON.
NOTICE. THE Public are cautioned not to trust any of the people belonging to the Swedish Snow Maria, on my account.
Hans Olof Kock, master. 14 Pipes Madeira Wine, FOR SALE BY Crooke Stevenson, No 4, South Water-Street.
Wheat, Ginsang, &c. 4000 bushels of white Wheat, of excellent quality 15 Casks of Ginsang 30 Pipes of Madeira Wine, three years old 100 Barrels of Prime Beef Pork in half bbls. and barrels For Sale by JOHN SKYRIN, No. 96, North Front-Street.
Hats & Hosiery. WILLIAM M'DOUGALL, AT HIS STORE, No. 134, MARKET STREET, HAS JUST OPENED, in addition to his former stock, a very extensive assortment of Men's, Women's, and Children's Hats, and all kinds of Stockings—particularly a quantity of Alberd Genit Hosi, suitable for the present season
EPHRAIM CLARK, CLOCK & WATCH MAKER, Corner of Front and Market Streets, Philadelphia, HAS JUST RECEIVED, By the different arrivals, a large supply of Clock and Watch makers and Silver Smiths Tools, files and materials.
Notice is hereby Given, THAT application will be made at the Treasury of the United States for the renewal of the following certificates of Six per Cents, funded debt—standing in the name of Robert Wilson of Calcutta in Bengal, Surgeon in the service of the honorable United Company of merchants of England trading to the East Indies, which were lost from on board the Swallow-Packet, capt Kidd, from Falmouth to New York.
AN EXTRACT OF A LAW FOR THE REGULATION OF CHIMNEY-SWEEPERS.
THAT no person shall follow the business of Chimney-Sweepers, either by themselves or their servants, negroes or others within the city of Philadelphia, the district of Southwark, or the township of the Northern Liberties, without having first made application to the officer herein after directed to be appointed, and having registered or caused to be registered his or their names, and the names of their servants, negroes, or others, as aforesaid, with a number affixed to each and every such name in a book by the aforesaid officer to be kept for the purpose, and without procuring and receiving from the said officer a certificate of every such registry, containing the number and name of every person so entered, under the penalty of ten shillings for every day he shall follow by himself or cause to be followed by his servants, negroes, or others, the said business which said certificate the said officer is hereby enjoined and required to make out under his hand, and to deliver to the person or persons who shall apply for the same, and for every such registry and certificate he shall receive the sum of seven shillings and six pence and no more.
That every person following the business aforesaid within the said city, district, and liberties, shall (if he employs his servants, negroes or others) cause to be worn on the front of their caps in full view, without concealment, the same numbers and figures respectively, as shall be so aforesaid entered in the said book, and contained in his or their respective certificates, and note other, in large figures, not less than two inches in length to be made of strong durable tin or copper; and the persons following the said business by themselves, or their servants, negroes, others, &c. not having the said number fixed on his or their caps according to the law aforesaid; or when fixed, shall neglect to keep them visible, shall for each and every such offence, forfeit and pay the sum of ten shillings for each and every day that he or they shall follow the said employment, not wearing, or on it being so worn, the said number as aforesaid.
That if any person or persons undertaking the occupation aforesaid, shall not, within 48 hours, after application to him or them made by any of the inhabitants of the said city, district, or Northern Liberties, sweep or cause to be swept, such chimney or chimneys as he or they shall be required to sweep, every such person or persons so offending shall forfeit and pay the sum of twenty shillings.
That if the chimney of any person or persons within the said city, district, or liberties, shall take fire and blaze out of the top, the same not having been swept within the space of one calendar month, next before the time of taking such fire, every such person or persons shall forfeit and pay the sum of 40 shillings—and if any chimney shall take fire and blaze out at the top; the same having been swept within one calendar month from the time of taking such fire, the person who swept the same either by himself, his servants, or negroes, shall forfeit and pay the sum of 40 shillings.
A book for the registering of Chimney-Sweepers is now kept by JOHN HAINES, as directed by law, at the corner of Cherry Alley and Fifth Street.
An adjourned meeting of the American Philosophical Society, will be held at their Hall, on Friday next, at 6 o'clock, P. M.
A meeting of the American Philosophical Society, will be held at their Hall on Friday the 4th day of January next; between the hours of two and four o'clock, P. M. for the annual election of officers.
THE BRIGANTINE SALLY, WITH her appurtenances as the same from Sea, an inventory of which may be seen at the auctioneers, she is 160 tons register measurement. Built of white oak in the State of New-Jersey, and now lies at Mr. Eyres wharf in Kensington.
FOOTMAN & Co. auctioneers. UNITED STATES, } Pennsylvania District. } NOTICE is hereby given that in pursuance of a writ to me directed, from the Honorable RICHARD PETERS, Esq. Judge of the District Court of the United States in and for the Pennsylvania District, will be exposed to public sale at the house of James Ash, Esq. in Third Street, on Saturday the 29th instant, at 12 o'clock at noon,
2 Hogheads and 2 Barrels of Spirits. The same having been libelled against, prosecuted and condemned as forfeited in the said Court. WILLIAM NICHOLS, Marshal. Marshals Office, Dec. 15th, 1798.
WILL BE SOLD, At 10 o'clock, on Saturday the 29th inst. by public auction, upon the lot adjoining the City Tavern, in Second Street, A Number of window cases, sashes, shutters, doors, &c. &c. being part of the materials of the buildings lately taken down. Persons desirous of viewing them are requested to apply to Samuel Robinson, upon the premises, any time previous to the sale.
CONNELLY & Co. Auctioneers. disat NOTICE. THE creditors of George Johnson, late of Queen Ann's county, in the State of Maryland, deceased, are hereby requested to appear said, on Thursday the 27th day of January next, with their claims against the said deceased, properly authenticated, at which time a proportional division of the assets in the hands of the executor will be made among the creditors according to law; and those who do not appear on the said day, will be forever precluded from their claims on the said estate. REBECCA JOHNSTON, Executrix. Church Hill, Dec. 22.
The Gazette. PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 28.
THE TRIMMER. A canting Trimmer came to me and said, "I fear my friend you are too rank a Fed; "Tity the Faco, think how hard their case is, "By disappointments stretch'd, how long their fares; "Emollients better suit with our condition." Jack Ketch said I's an excellent physician. "What thirst for blood?"—not I Sir, as I breathe— Why hanging is a fine dry kind of death. "We moderate are for holding all things even" You mean like him who hangs twixt earth and heaven. "Phaw no; the French spill blood enough already" Aye, aye; yet you're for holding all things steady. Now if the weight is all on one side brother, You tanners may to poize it hang on t'other. These neutrals in their middle way of fleeing Are neither black nor white, nor beef nor her-ring. Nor Fed nor Jacobin, nor this nor that, Nor birds nor beasts, but just a kind of bat. Or twilight reptile, true to neither cause, With FEDERAL WINGS, but Faco's teeth and claws. STEADY.
MR. FENNO. THE following extract of a message to the Legislature of South Carolina from Charles Pinckney, Esq. late governor of that state, and recently elected one of its senators, is worthy of attention on more accounts than one. It explains the reason why the legislature of a state which has given so many recent and decisive proofs of federalism, should have sent to the Senate of the United States, a petition formerly considered as a thorough-going antifederalist; and it affords a security for the conduct of that gentleman on all questions relative to defensive preparation and French affairs. It also proves the state of public opinion to the southward, where no man, if opposed by a character of any respectability, can be elected without an explicit avowal of correct sentiment on these important points. The Message was sent about the fifth of this month, at the commencement of the session.
EXTRACT. "On the French Republic refusing to receive our envoys, and to enter into negotiations on the just, honorable and amicable principles of their instructions, you will certainly view with approbation the measures which have been taken for protecting our commerce, and placing us in the best possible state of preparation to resist the invasion, which at that time it was the general opinion threatened some part of the United States. On the other hand, we are sure there can be but one opinion, and that our citizens would never approve of any negotiation incompatible with the rights, the honor, or the real independence of their country; and that to support these, however great the burthens may be, they will bear them without a murmur."
"While however, a determination to maintain our national character unsoiled, ought always to govern the councils of the union, should the French Republic officially, and in a proper manner, communicate to them a determination to treat upon terms consistent with our rights and honor, there can, I should suppose, be no doubt that we shall seize with avidity and pleasure the opportunity of evincing to the world, that, while jealous of its character, and determined to protect its rights, the American government will always prefer honorable peace to war: that separated by an ocean of great extent from the territories of the old world, it is its earnest wish to keep apart from its politics: that devoted as they are to the peaceable pursuits of agriculture and commerce, they will be as unwilling to interfere with the rights and concerns of other nations, as determined that none shall guide or influence their own: that it will be their policy to have no too intimate connection, by treaty of alliance with any power: to remember that our nation, with respect to its commerce, must depend upon itself: that they should make such regulations as are best suited to our situation, the nature of our riches and the industry of our inhabitants: that having done so, our policy would consist in the resolution never to derogate from them in favor of strangers. With this conduct, there can be no doubt of our early preserving peace with every nation governed by the principles of justice. Our commerce is too lucrative, and our ports and supplies too convenient and important to the powers possessing valuable islands in the West Indies, to render our friendship or hostility indifferent to any of them. They well know the consequence of our weight being thrown into an opponent's scale, and in proportion as our maritime force increases, with the danger and with that mildness in our manner, firmness in our measures, which never fail to give true dignity to the councils of a nation, I have no doubt of the peace of our country being long maintained: that on its being preserved, even for a few years, the increase of its resources and power will be such, as to render it not only invulnerable to foreign attacks, but to make it the interest of every people to court its commerce and friendship, and to place it among the most envied seats of freedom and true happiness in the world: that it may be so is my most sincere prayer."
Genteel Boarding & Lodging. SEPARATE and ready furnished apartments with genteel Boarding and Lodging for the accommodation of four Gentlemen (with their Ladies, if required) may be had at No. 163, Arch Street.
From the VIRGINIA GAZETTE.
The following COUNTRIES MEMORIAL was read on Tuesday last, at Caroline Court-house, where it procured sundry signatures, and is now circulating through the county for more. It will be forwarded as soon as possible to Richmond, and presented to the General Assembly.
WHEN attempts are made, whether open or covert, foreign or domestic, which have a tendency to pull down the constitution and trample under foot the laws of a free country, good men deem it sacrilege not to stand forth and resist them. If a constitution, not forced upon them by compulsion, but adopted by themselves voluntarily and of their own accord, if laws, not imposed by the will of a tyrant, but enacted by their own representatives fairly and freely chosen, are to be held sacred by a people professing the principles and virtues of republicans, the republican system must soon vanish, like a pleasing dream, and after passing through all the horrors of anarchy and confusion, leave its deluded votaries doomed to the darkness of eternal despotism.
We, the freeholders and inhabitants of the county of Caroline, regretting the cause that brings us, some before this honorable body to enter our protest against a memorial which we understand has been presented to you, without the signatures, but under the sanction of a small part of our fellow-citizens, and which, in our opinions, has the fatal tendency above spoken of. This memorial was presented and voted for on the same day, without being previously submitted to the consideration of the people. Not one in ten had ever seen it, or even heard it read, except in the curiosity and confused manner of reading papers amidst the noise and bustle of a court-yard. Under such circumstances it was impossible to form a right judgment of it, and upon this ground it was specially objected to, on a closer inspection and better intelligence of its contents, we are firmly persuaded that some worthy men, who gave their votes in favor it, would have rejected it, and that very few could have been found who would have deliberately set their names to it. Yes! representatives of the people, we must do our country the justice to believe, that an instrument so preposterous and unfounded in point of matter, so fantastic in style, and so ungrammatical withal, would not have been suffered to escape from it, to the reproach of its reputation for patriotism, and to the discredit of its literary character.
In this event your wisdom and public virtue would not have been insulted, your correct taste and judgment would not have been disgusted. Filled with low insinuations and indecent calumnies against the government of the United States, the said memorial affects to reprobate all the defensive measures which have been adopted with respect to France, particularly the army establishment, the direct taxes, the alien and sedition laws. These measures, we know full well, have been selected, not because of their intrinsic value, but because they were best calculated to inflame the minds of the people and to excite discontent. The people, however, are now beginning to see through all the Parisian arts and artifices that are practiced to deceive them. The people know that an army (proportioned to exigencies) is at all times necessary to protect our frontiers from the savage Indians, and particularly, at this time, to defend us against the more savage tyrants of France. The people know that taxes are necessary to support that army, the people know that both to their present extent, are only temporary, the people know that their own representatives, in whom they confide, have voted for both, under a conviction of their necessity, the people know that when the necessity ceases they will cease, for they know that whatever falls heavily upon them must, in like manner, fall heavily on their representatives, when they return to a private station. The people knowing all these things are not to be seduced into sedition and insurrection; for to this length the memorial, against which we are now protesting, goes, if it has any meaning. What else we beg leave to ask can be intended by the following sentence with which it concludes. "What then is to be done? Will the representatives of the people sit quietly and await the blow, or will they act like men & maintain rights derived from God acknowledged by compact? Could any person be so idle as to imagine that your honorable body would be led by this bombast into such rash and intemperate acts as should compel the union to take steps for the suppression of an insurrection in Virginia countenanced by the Legislature itself? We blush for this part of the memorial, which has excited a mixture of indignation and contempt where ever it has been read, and pass on to a closer view of the direct taxes."
The taxes laid by the federal government, though wisely calculated to fall on the rich, and not on the poor, have been always objected to by a certain description of antifaederal characters amongst us. Some few years ago, a great noise was made about the carriage tax, upon the pretended ground of its being unconstitutional. The objectors recanted, and they were compelled to do justice to their country. In their opposition to this tax, they were not supported by the people, who, when they came to understand equity, and highly approved of it. So too will they approve of the new taxes, when they are told that these also, like the carriage tax, are laid upon expense and not on capital, that the burthen falls upon those who are best able to bear it, and in proportion to the ability of all, that in case of distress for non-payment, beasts of the plough, arms, household furniture, and the necessary appurtenances of the family, are all exempt from seizure, that they are laid only for one year, and are not intended to be permanent; that they would not have been necessary, had not the conduct of the French directory compelled us to arm, and that the money is not to be employed in paying tribute to a foreign nation, for the purpose, among other things
of bribing traitors in some countries to act against their respective governments, but in defending our lives, our liberties, our religion and morals, our constitution and laws, our liberty and independence. For the preservation of these same blessings, the alien and sedition laws were passed, which constitute a wise part of the general system of defense. These were calculated to operate against the hostile machinations and intrigues of the French directory, well known to be in the pay of the French directory, to defend against the open attacks of our enemy. To call these measures unconstitutional then, and nature, has forced us to adopt, is to lay sin is just about to be plunged into our hearts it would be unnatural to seize the caliph by the throat and fling him to the ground. The policy and constitutionality of these laws have been so clearly and so convincingly demonstrated by various publications, as to supercede the necessity of any argumentative detail on our part.
In the aforesaid memorial we read the following coarse, crude and jargonous sentence. "Sympathies of an alliance with a monarchy, our old foe—and, a war with a republic, our old friend, and a co-habitation of tories, refugees and emigrants, monarchists with the administration, as monstrous as toteris; us, as additional solutions of intention; they pretend that the American revolution is to be from monarchy to monarchy."
If there be any citizen mad and daring enough to entertain views of assimilating our federal constitution to monarchy, (as the foregoing quotation announces) he should be pointed out, that the folly of his impracticable schemes may be exposed and punished. If bad men are indeed plotting against the state, those whose business it is to inform the people of such plots, should speak out. But if any official character, whether he be a member of the federal government, or of your honorable body, or of any other state government in the union, shall venture to make such insinuations, without openly mentioning names, and boldly explaining the ground of his accusations, he ought to be held in detestation and abhorrence, as a back-biter and a slanderer, as a wicked and envious wretch, who wishing to be consequential without merit, is endeavoring to pull down all those who are so with it, as a man having the seeds of slavery sown within himself—for none but such one could insult the sense and spirit of the people, by supposing them capable of submitting to slavery.
Anxious to avoid odious distinctions, we did not wish to take a comparative view of the characters generally throughout America, who advocate the federal administration, and of those who oppose it. We appeal, however, to your honorable body, and to the world, whether we are not goaded to it by the tone of the memorial against us, as we are now protesting, and whether it does not justify the keenest and most caustic animadversions. We are willing to allow that there may be found amongst the friends of government, some suspicious and even bad men; but it must be conceded that, in general, they are composed of the good and wise, the honest and industrious, the patriotic and brave, with our virtuous WASHINGTON at their head.
Amongst those who are opposed to government, we admit that some well meaning men may be found; yet, it cannot be denied, that we may also find others of a contrary cast. But, our respect for your honorable body, and our regard for decorum, forbid us to retort as we could, or to make any further observations on the very extraordinary memorial, which has been presented to you:—We only pray, therefore, that after giving it a patient and respectful hearing, you will postpone the farther consideration of it, till the third Monday in March next.
Permit us to conclude with a hope, that you will adopt the amendments to the federal constitution, which have been lately proposed, for the purpose of excluding foreigners from the councils of the United States.
JOHN J. PARRY, CLOCK & WATCHMAKER. HAS again opened at his usual Stand, No. 38, South Second Street—where he has for Sale Excellent Gold & Silver Watches, AND A FEW Eight Day Clocks, Which will be warranted to give satisfaction. An assortment of Gold, Steel and Gilt chains, Seals and Keys. All kinds of Clock and Watch work done with particular attention as heretofore. An Apprentice wanted. november 12. m.c.v.f.349
IRISH LINENS, 4-4 and 7-8th White Linens well also 8th 3-4 Brown ditto ditto 3-4 Irish Chequers suitable for the West-India Market. FOR SALE, On reasonable terms—by the Box or Bale, By GAMBLE & HELMUTH, No. 148, South Second-Street. 31awt
70 hds. Santa Cruz Sugar OF excellent quality, (in Stores of John Nixon, Esq. and Co.) A quantity of SAIL CANNASS, and a Box of Mace, for sale, by STEPHEN KINGSTON. godgt
This Day is Published, AND FOR SALE BY J. FENNO, 116 CHESTNUT-STREET AN ADDRESS To the People of Maryland, ON the origin, progress and present state of French aggression, with a sketch of the infamous attempts to degrade the Government of the United States, and some reflections on the late proceedings in Congress; written the last of April in the present year, by a Member of the House of Representatives. june 12

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COMMUNICATION.
To MEDICUS.
Sir, If you had waited with patience till I had finished my sketch relative to the origin of the Yellow Fever...
If you had intended I should have profited by your advice, you would have written in the language of a gentleman...
If truth and the welfare of your fellow-creatures had been your aim, would you not have been more correct in your statements...
If the society of young gentlemen who file themselves the Academy of Medicine, and who, having very little or no practice...
If, as is known to every inhabitant of this city, has paid any attention to the subject, cases of the Yellow Fever became manically fewer...
But, the Yellow Fever does not in any country, like the Yellow Fever, after continuing without interruption for three or four days...
If you had paid attention to what I had published when you undertook to prove by anticipation, that I knew nothing about the subject...
The College has also uniformly recommended the strictest attention to this subject, and have repeatedly advised the Legislature to establish regulations...
If you had been acquainted with the proceedings of that respectable body, which consists of all the Senior, most experienced and best informed Physicians in this city...
As it is of the first importance to ascertain the origin of the disease in question, be it without that knowledge, effectual regulations for guarding against its return...
gentlemen, and I am of sense, I am ready to join issue with you. And am your humble servant,
(And in reality) A REGIMENTAL SURGEON.
CONGRESS.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
THURSDAY, December 27.
Mr. Otis said, the committee to whom was referred the bill for amending the Stamp Act, with respect to the duty payable on foreign bills of exchange...
The motion was carried, and the bill was re-committed. Mr. Otis afterwards made a report of the proposed amendments...
The bill providing for the enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States, was read the third time and passed...
Mr. Thatcher, from the committee of revised and unfinished business, made a report of the existing laws, which was ordered to be printed.
The Speaker was proceeding to take the sense of the House on proceeding with the unfinished business of yesterday, viz. the Bankrupt bill; when,
Mr. Sewall moved to postpone this subject till to-morrow, in order to consider the amendment yesterday proposed by his colleague and this morning laid upon the desk.
The motion being agreed to, Mr. Griswold called up for consideration the resolution which he yesterday laid upon the table for the appointment of a committee to consider the propriety of amending the act for the punishment of certain crimes against the United States...
The resolution having been read,
Mr. Nicholas said, he believed this to be a new subject of general legislation; and as he did not apprehend there was any necessity for making the proposed inquiry; and if it had any particular object in view, the motion appeared to him premature.
Mr. Griswold said, the gentleman from Virginia had mistaken the object of this resolution, in supposing it had reference to any particular person. Its object, said Mr. G. is general, and I think of the first importance.
point of view, he thought it the duty of the legislature to enquire into it. He was not certain that adequate provision could be made for the punishment of offences of this kind...
Mr. Nicholas had no idea that the gentleman from Connecticut could not mean to make his law retrospective; but he thought the house ought to possess more information on the subject, before they undertook to legislate upon it.
[The remainder of this debate shall be given to-morrow. The other speakers for and against the motion were, Messrs Rutledge, Dana, Pinckney, Harper, and N. Smith. Mr. Nicholas and Mr. Otis.]
Our spirited and active Mayor has, within a few days, fined a great number of persons, under statute of corporation, for driving sleighs through the City without Bells.
The Vice President has at length taken his seat in the present session.
APPROPRIATIONS. Observations made in the first Session of 1st Congress on the compensation to be allowed the Vice President.
Under the clause in the report, to allow the Vice President 5000 dollars per ann. a debate ensued. Mr. White (Virg.) said, he did not find any thing in the constitution authorizing a salary to that officer.
Mr. Sedgwick observed that the principle on which the motion of Mr. White was founded, did not appear to him to be just. The Vice President is an officer by the constitution, who in case of accident, is to take the chair and is to reside at the seat of government...
NOTICE.
All persons indebted to JAMES EMLEN, late of Middle-town, in the county of Delaware, deceased, are requested to make payment to either of the subscribers, whom they shall find it most convenient to call on...
This morning, the Senate of this State, in a body, waited on the President of the United States, and presented the following ADDRESS.
ADDRESS.
To the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. The Senate of Pennsylvania, sensible of your many arduous and important duties, would neither claim a portion of your time, nor attention, did they not consider it incumbent on them, at a crisis of our public affairs...
The people of the United States, attached to the French nation, and ardent in the cause of rational freedom, once found it difficult to refrain their sympathy and affection within the boundary, which as a neutral nation it was their duty to respect...
The continued aggression of the French republic has rendered it impossible to remain under this delusion. Our government has been traduced and insulted in the seditious publications of the French agents in this country...
That any change of men or measures, on our part, compatible with the dignity of an independent and self-governed nation, would have secured a continuance of harmony with the French republic, we regard as a fallacy, invented and propagated by designing men, too palpable to receive the assent of any whose minds have not been previously corrupted by prejudice, or obscured by ignorance.
Should an appeal to arms be found necessary, to preserve our liberty, or vindicate our rights, be assured, that the citizens of Pennsylvania, as they have eminently partaken the benefits resulting from the operation of the General Government, and are impressed with an unabated confidence in the virtue and intelligence of its administration...
(Signed) ROBERT HARE, Speaker.
To which the PRESIDENT made the following REPLY.
GENTLEMEN, I FEEL myself under the strongest obligations to the Senators of Pennsylvania for this excellent address, in which, with no less wisdom and precision, than gravity and dignity, they have expressed the sentiments they entertain, respecting the conduct of the French government, and the consequent measures adopted during my administration.
commencement of the late revolution in France, and whatever may be the judgment of history, it is scarce possible at this day for any man whose impartiality is not wholly absorbed by passion and prejudice, to mistake in their judgments of the late conduct of the French republic, towards many other nations as well as our own.
Whether any change of men or measures on our part would have secured a continuance of harmony with the French republic, even at the expense and hazard of a certain war with her enemies, may be conjectured from the effects of changes of men and measures, made under her dictates, in all the republics of Europe, which have fallen victim to her complaisance.
I rejoice with you to find, that your constituents are fully aware of the pernicious tendency of foreign influences, and impressed with the deepest detestation of the conduct of those, who, by an officious interference in our foreign relations, have as meanly as presumptuously, attempted to wrest the administration of our public affairs from the hands in which the constitution of our country, and the suffrages of a free people, have placed it.
Your acknowledgements that the citizens of Pennsylvania have eminently partaken the benefits resulting from the operation of the general government, and are impressed with an unabated confidence in its administration, are as honorable to that government, as your decided assurance, that should an appeal to arms be found necessary, to preserve our liberty and vindicate our rights, they will not be found backward in hazarding their fortunes and lives, are honorable to themselves.
The testimony of the Senate of Pennsylvania, of their personal esteem for my private character, as it is highly honorable to me, has excited a tender sensibility, and requires my most respectful thanks. May you long continue, gentlemen, in the enjoyment of health, and during many years to fill your high stations with honor to yourselves, and increasing happiness to the people of Pennsylvania in particular and the union in general.
JOHN ADAMS. December 28, 1798.
Extract of a letter from an American in Spain, dated October 9, 1798, to his friend in Philadelphia.
"That the crews of French privateers love plundering better than fighting, has been demonstrated on several late occasions. One privateer has lately returned to St. Sebastian, with the captain, first lieutenant, and seven men killed, and in a very shattered condition; while the American armed merchant vessel which had been attacked by the privateer pursued her voyage. On the 30th of September, ten American vessels failed together from Malaga, while the French privateers in that port did not dare to molest them."
Extract of a letter from Lexington, dated December 7th, 1798.
"A meeting of the Demo's was called, a few nights ago, at Tilton's, to receive Logan's report of his mission to France; the meeting being composed chiefly of young friends, it is believed to have been a contrivance of Dickinson's, that they may cry "blessed are the peacemakers."
Logan told them, that the difference between this country and France was not accommodation, it would be the fault of this government, and not of the Directory; he acknowledged he had letters from the Vice to persons of distinction there, and said if you Republicans would address a petition to the French Directory, you would get what you please to ask.
MARRIED.—Last evening, by the Rev. Doctor Ewing, Mr. ANDREW CALDWELL, of this city, to Miss KELLY, of the state of New-Jersey.
General Orders.
THE Officers of the Militia of the City and County of Philadelphia, are requested to assemble at the State House, on Tuesday the 12th day of January, at 11 o'clock A. M.—there to proceed to pay the compliments of the season to the President of the United States.
By order of the Commander in Chief, JOSIAH HARMER, Adj. Gen. dec. 28.
NOTICE.
THE COPARTNERSHIP OF HUDSON & YORKE, is this day dissolved by mutual consent. All persons indebted to said firm, are requested to make immediate payment...
REMOVAL.
WILLIAM HUDSON, Has removed from No. 54, North Front Street, to No 8, Chestnut, near the corner of Front, (10 LER JNR.) Where he has for sale on his usual low terms, an extensive assortment of DRY GOODS.
Black India Lustring.
A quantity just received and of the first quality, TO BE SOLD LOW FOR CASH At No. 55, North Third, Street by SAMUEL C. COX. dec. 28
A Ring of Small Keys.
Was lost yesterday afternoon—any person delivering them at this office will be rewarded. dec. 22

IMPORTED IN THE LAST ARRIVALS, Superfine, fine and common cloths Swanweave Baizes Velvets Velveteens Printed calicoes Furniture & fancy dimities Hairbands Sewing silk Brussels and Persia carpets Buttons For sale, for cash or credit, by SAMUEL MERRICK, No. 243 Arch Street. Nov. 16
FOR SALE, AT NO. 9, SOUTH WATER-STREET, Irish Linens, 7-8 and 4-4, well assorted, in whole and half boxes Checks, in ditto Drogheda, 2-4 and 7-8 beated Linens Irish Hacked Flax Scots Thread Men and Womens Combs Ruffs Duck, of an excellent quality, and 100 hds. Aux Caves Molasses. By ISAAC HARVEY, junr. Dec. 17
Bank of North America. The Stockholders are hereby notified, that an Election for twelve Directors, for the ensuing year, will be held at the Bank on Monday, the 14th of January next, at ten o'clock. RICHARD WELLS, Cashr. Dec. 8, 1798.
ANY French Ladies and Gentlemen wanting passage for France, can obtain it in a Vessel at New-York, by applying to Muffs Gah & Mumford in that City. Dec. 17.
Ces Dames ou Messieurs Francais, qui veulent passer en France, peuvent s'y accommoder, par un vaisseau partant de N. York, en s'adressant chez M. Gah et Mumford, dans cette ville. Dec. 18.
NOTICE. ALL Persons indebted to the Estate of Wm. Hiam Beau-harn, lately deceased, are de- sired to make immediate payment and those who have any claims against said Estate to produce their accounts properly attested to Sam'l. Price, executor. Nov. 20
FOR SALE, By the Subscriber, Belfast Canvass, No. 1, to 7, On moderate terms for Cash or a short credit James Lyle, South Seventh Street, near Chestnut. Nov. 16
FOR SALE, To be EXCHANGED for property within thirty miles of the city, or to let on ground-rent forever Several valuable building Lots, In Philadelphia. Enquire of William M. Bidwell, no. 147, Chestnut Street. Nov. 22
FOR SALE, By the Subscribers 200 Bolts Russia Duck, 50 pipes London particular bill Madeira Wine 1 pair nine pound Cannon 1 few Bales Madras Handkerchiefs 4000 lbs Fine Flota Indigo 33 Barrels Beef. Willings & Francis. Penn-street, November 28
ALL PERSONS having any legal demands a- gainst the Estate of William Pennock, dece- ased, of the city of Philadelphia, Town-keeper, are requested to furnish their accounts properly au- thenticated, and all persons indebted to said Estate are requested to make payment to the subscriber in Philadelphia. LEVI HOLLINGSWORTH Adminr. October 31st, 1798.
Wants a Place, A WOMAN with a good Breast of Milk, Enquire at No. 58 South Front Street, Dec. 10.
TEN DOLLARS REWARD. DESERTED last night, a second time, from the Marine Camp, David Loper, a fire- He had when he went away, a plain blue jacket and yellow light blue overalls, a round hat which had been bound with yellow, and which he had ripped off in his first desertion, and a pair of new shoes, he is a Carpenter by trade, has grey eyes, sandy hair, fellow complexion and a notch in his upper lip. His back is still sore from a flogging he got a few days ago. He may be discovered by his firing, as he plays extremely well. W. W. BURROWS Major Comr. of the Marine Corps. October 17.
FOR SALE, Fifty Acres of Good Land, LYING IN GLOUCESTER COUNTY, State of New Jersey. TWENTY-FOUR acres of which are Woodland, the rest Meadow. This land lies about half a mile from Timber-Creek, and two miles from the river Delaware, the country road passing through it, and the great road only two miles distant. For terms, apply to PATRICK DOGHERTY, Sign of the Rainbow, in Shippen, between Second and Third Streets. Dec. 2
ALL PERSONS Indebted to the Estate of Mr. JOHN PENNOCK, late of Philadelphia, deceased, are desired to make pay- ment, and those having any demands, to present them for settlement, to SAMUEL BLODGET, Adminr. or JOHN WARD PENNOCK, Agent to the administration. Nov. 30
NOTICE. ALL persons indebted to the Estate of SAM- UEL WALLIS, esq. of Murrey township, in the county of Lycoming, lately deceased, are hereby required to come forward immediately and pay their respective debts. And all persons having legal demands against the Estate, are requested to produce their accounts, properly authenticated, for settlement. JOHN WALLIS, WILLIAM ELLIS, DANIEL SMITH, JOHN ADLUM, } Administrators. December 13
THE CARGO, OF THE SHIP INDIA, Captain ASHMEAD, from BATAVIA, Consisting of JAVA COFFEE, Of the First Quality—to be Sold, by MORDECAI LEWIS. Dec. 17
FOR SALE, BY THE SUBSCRIBERS, 14 four pound Cannon, different lengths, 5 Cartridges. JOHN NIXON & CO. December 1.
Lancaster County Butter, IN KEGS,—FOR SALE, Enquire at No. 92, Market-Street, near Third-Street. Dec. 1
LAWRENCE SECKEL, No. 155, Market-Street. First quality London Particular { WINE. Madeira, Port, Sherry and Lisbon { Cognac Brandy, 1st to 4th proof. By the Pipe, Hhd, Quarter-cask or Gallon. Dec. 3
Now Landing, From on board the ship John Bulkeley, and for sale at the stores of Jesse & Robert Waln, 350,000 weight of Java Coffee, of the first quality in bags. 150,000 weight of Java Sugar, in cannifers. Nov. 27
BALLAST. A QUANTITY to be disposed of, if applied for immediately, on board the ship Louis, lying Mr. HUMPHREY'S, Snip Yard. November 10.
IMPORTED, In the Ships Active and Liberty, from HAMBURGH. Ticklenburghs, Oznabrigs, White Plaitillas Brown Silesias Bretagnes Hessian Rolls Brown Russia Sheetings German Lindseys, Bed Ticks, &c. For Sale by GEORGE PENNOCK. No. 103 Market-Street. Nov. 20
SHOEMAKER & BERRETT, HAVE REMOVED THEIR INSURANCE OFFICE to No. 9, South Front Street. Nov. 20
Their room at the Coffee-house will continue to be attended from 11 till 2 o'clock in the day, and from 6 to 8 o'clock in the evening.
JACOB BLODGET, Has also removed his Counting-house to the same place, where he has for sale a few pipes choice London Particular Madeira Wine; French and Spanish Brandy; Claret in casks and cases, of su- perior quality; and a few Packages Glass and Queen's-ware; also a quantity of Carolina Soak- leather, which will be sold very low to close the sale. Philadelphia, 13 mo. 13, 1798.
THE PARTNERSHIP OF ALEXR. J. MILLER, & Co. BEING dissolved on the first instant, by the death of James Davis, all persons indebted to the same are requested to settle with the sub- scribers, and those to whom they are indebted are requested to call on him for payment. ALEXR. J. MILLER, No. 64, South Front Street.
Who has on hand, TO BE DISPOSED OF ON LOW TERMS, By the Package or Piece. Fine plain and tambooured Mullins Guzenunas Baftas Coffee Rabbongies India Calicoes Book Mullins Coloured ditto Real & Mock Madras & pullicet hks. Brown Silesias Tickings, &c. &c. JUST ARRIVED, AN ASSORTMENT OF Irish Linens & Russia Sheetings. Nov. 28
A Young Man, WHO writes a good hand, understands accounts and can be well recommended, wants a Situation as Clerk or Assistant in a Wholesale Store, or Counting-house. Appli- cation to be made at this Office. Nov. 14
To the Creditors of the Subscribers. PLEASE TO TAKE NOTICE, that we have ap- plied to the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, for the benefit of an act of assembly, passed the fourth day of April last; and they have appointed THURSDAY the 27th inst. to hear us and our Cre- ditors, in the city of Philadelphia, at such place where the Court may be held, and where you may attend if you please. PATRICK C. VANAUGH, JAMES DOUGHERTY, PETER G. ROSE, JOHN GREENE, LEWIS D. GRAFF, JAMES MCALLEY, RICHARD STOKES Dec. 8.
ALL Persons Indebted to the Estate of HENRY HILL, deceased are requested to make payment to the subscriber; and those having any demands on the same to pro- duce their accounts for settlement. GIDEON H. WELLS, no. 139, Market Street Philadelphia, Dec. 4, 1798
IMPORTED In the last arrivals from Bremen, Hamburg and Amsterdam, AND FOR SALE, AT REASONABLE PRICES AND ON A LIBERAL CREDIT, BY PRATT & KINTZING. No. 95, North Water Street. 215 bales & boxes Ticklenburghs, hemp linen and oznabrigs from 1/5 to 3/ per ell 70 do. bleached and brown hessians 40 do. brown rolls suitable for cof- fee bags 20 do. strong do. do. for cotton do. 30 chefts platillas 2 do. sealing-wax 3 do. dowlas 3 packages oil-cloth 30 do. crosses a la Morlaix 4 do. sail-twine 12 do. espolillos 1 do. watches 15 do. Bielefeld linen 14 pipes Port wine 90 do. natterbornes 92 cales clarer 45 do. Brittanias 130 do. fine long corked 1 do. Holland canvass claret 1 do. Russia do. 150 butts fine salt 3 do. Russia sheetings 40 casks of roll bearmint 1 do. raven's duck 100 casks of naval stores. 2 do. Russia drillers 50 logs prime mahogany 1 do. brown holland 3 hds. coffee mills 2 do. Silesia rouans 6 bundles German steel 2 do. Wheatcrop linen 10 casks of plates and 1 do. Caracoles pencils 1 do. Flemish linen 1 package of flats 1 do. cambricks and 1 do. woolen caps, &c. 1 do. diaper 4 chefts of Nuremberg 1 do. stripes 40 kegs of yellow ochre 12 do. checks 3 jds. Glue 1 do. sashia stripe 8 barrels of Lentils 1 do. Arabia stripe 5 chefts of prime red 1 do. hunting for colors craft Holland chefts 1 pack. Madras hand- 30 kegs of pearl barley kerchiefs 60 boxes of capers 1 do. Turkey yarn 430 fides of upper and 6 bales empty bags foal leather 1 cheft hair ribband 300 boxes window glass 3 boxes tapes, assorted 800 Demijohns 2 do. bobbin, assorted 20 boxes glass tumblers 1 do. box threads & tapes assorted 1 do. fine blue ditto 2 hds. pumice stone 5 chefts men's dippers 1 box of mill saws 3 do. bed ticks 1 cask of cutlery 2 calls hog's bristles 1 quantity of pine jugs 6 chefts writing paper and pickling pots. 4 do. quills A few ships anchors, &c. November 12
JOHN MILLER, junr. Has returned to the City, AND IS REMOVED FROM NO. 8, CHESTNUT, To the Free-Story Building, in Dock near Third-Street. Where he has for Sale 250 Bales of Bengal Goods; CONSISTING OF Coffees Baltas Mamoodies Humhums Calicoes Handkerchiefs, &c. &c. The remains of a Stock of DRY GOODS, Consisting of Woolens only, AMONGST THEM ARE, Cloths Coatings Blankets Hats, &c. ALSO, 100 Hds. of Old Rum, Of a fine flavor, 3d & 4d proof. Nov. 10
Forty Dollars Reward. DESERTED, From a Detachment of Men under my com- mand, at Camp West Schuylkill, viz. October 29.
GEORGE KELLER, 40 years of age, 5 feet 6 inches in height, dark hair and complexion, born in Holland, no Trade, speaks broken English and very talkative, has a dimple in his chin. November 6. John Murphy, 27 years of age, 5 feet 7 1/2 inches in height, grey eyes, dark hair and complexion, born in Ireland, city of Dublin, by trade a Brazier. Jacob Idem, 34 years of age, 5 feet 6 inches high, grey eyes, sandy hair, fresh complexion, born in New-England, state of Connecticut, a repeated deserter, by trade a Blacksmith. November 7. William Collins, 30 years of age, 5 feet 6 inches high, sandy hair, fresh com- plexion, grey eyes, born in Ireland, county of Wexford, by trade a Gardner, has worked for some time about Philadelphia, he is very fond to hear himself sing. All the above deserters are very much addict- ed to liquor, and will take other people's pro- perty on their backs, had on, when they went away, their regimental clothing. Whoever appre- hends said deserters, shall receive forty dollars reward, or ten dollars for each, with all reason- able expenses, by applying to me as above, EDWARD MILLER, captain 2d regiment of Infantry commanding. Nov. 10
CHARLES CAMPBELL, WATCH-MAKER. Has removed to the Shop formerly occupied by Mr. John Wood, No. 154, corner of Front and Chestnut-Streets, where he will thank- fully receive and execute orders with neatness and dispatch. HE HAS CONSTANTLY ON HAND, A Neat and Large Assortment of Clocks & Watches. WANTED, A JOURNEYMAN; ALSO, one or two Apprentices of respecta- ble parents. FOR SALE, A large quantity of Watch Glasses Wholesale and Retail. Nov. 23
Bank of the United States. November 14, 1798. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That application will be made at the Treas- ury of the United States for the renewal of a Certificate of Six per Cent Funded Debt, No. 15,548, for 13,783 dollars, 33 cents, dated Register's Office, January 30, 1798, issued in the names of William Willink, Jan Willink, Nicholas & Jacob Van Staphorst & Hubbard, Trustees forundry money-lenders in Amster- dam; which was forwarded the 11th of Janu- ary, 1798, under cover to Nicholas Oubes, esq. and lost by the capture of the ship Columbus, captain Skinner, from New-York for Amsterdam G. Simpson, cashier. Nov. 14
NOTICE. ALL persons indebted to the Es- tate of ISAAC TELLER, Esq. deceased, are request- ed to make immediate payment, and those having any demands against said Estate will please to furnish their accounts duly attested for settlement to GEORGE DAVIS, Attorney in fact to JOHN M'KIM, Jr. Adminr. Dec. 13.
MAYOR'S OFFICE REMOVED to 159 South Second-Street. Nov. 15
GEORGE DAVIS'S LAW-BOOK STORE, No. 319 High Street, Latest London & Irish Editions. GEORGE DAVIS'S Fall Importation is now arranged of which a more capital collec- tion he believes was never offered for sale either in this City, London or Dublin. It combines almost every book in, with several valuable books out of print. Davis's confining himself to the sale of Law-Books only, it will appear obvious to professional Gentlemen, the advantages they have both in selection and price by purchasing from him. His Catalogues being ready, gentlemen will particularly oblige him by calling for them— and to those residing at a distance, by favoring him with their address (post-paid) they shall be sent. Nov. 26
ADVERTISEMENTS. TODD & MOTT, Of the City of Philadelphia, Merchants, having aligned over their effects, real, personal, and mixed, to the subscribers for the benefit of all their Creditors— Notice is hereby Given, TO all persons who are indebted to the said estate, that they are required to make im- mediate payment of their respective accounts to either of the assignees, or to WILLIAM MOTT, their agent duly authorized; in failure whereof, legal measures will be taken for the recovery of such debts as are not disbursed without delay. John Waddington John Rhodes } Assignees. John Allen } Nov. 26
To be Sold, OR EXCHANGED, For property in the City, or within thirty miles of it, A VALUABLE PLANTATION, IN Tulpehocken Valley, Millin county, containing about three hundred acres, the whole capable of cultivation. At present there is about 50 acres cleared, 20 of which is a rich bottom of Meadow Ground, enriched by a never failing stream, that has fall and water enough for all the purposes of a Country Mill. For further information apply at No. 68, Market Street. November 20
NOTICE. THE Stock-holders of the Company incorporat- ed for erecting a Permanent Bridge over the River Schuylkill, are requested to attend their annual meeting on the first Monday in January next (being the 7th day of that month) at the City Hall, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, for the pur- pose of choosing a President, twelve Directors and a Treasurer of the said Company for the ensuing year, as by law is directed. JOHN DORSEY, Sec'y, pro tem. Dec. 17
A CAUTION TO THE PUBLIC. JOHN A. SHAEFFER, of Philadelphia, who has for a few years past been in the Southern States, has had the effrontery to draw several Bills of Ex- change on Timothy Pickering, Esq. Secretary of State, and myself and by that means has defrauded a number of persons of their money, deceiving them by an association of letters and papers with the name of John A. Shaeffer, Esq. and by the same means highly recommended, of this Shaeffer; to one of these papers I find my name subscribed, but I do not know the man; there are villainous forgeries! To prevent further imposition, I have to request the printers of Newspapers in the United States to publish this for the benefit of their fellow-citizens. SAMUEL MEREDITH, Treasurer of the United States. Trenton, New-Jersey, October 24, 1798.
NEW NOVELS, PLAYS, MAGAZINES, &c. Chalk's Circulating Library. No. 75, North Third Street. THE Proprietor, in compliance with his pro- mises to render this Institution a complete source of rational amusement and instruction, by repeated acquisitions of entertaining and inter- esting publications, has now added to his former collection Four Hundred Volumes of miscella- neous works, comprising nearly all the latest published Novels and Dramatic Productions;— catalogues of which are ready for delivery to subscribers. N. B. Subscribers, and others, who will re- tain Books taken from the Library previous to the sickness, are requested to return them imme- diately; the fines will be charged from the 14th of November.
Valuable Property for Sale. FOR SALE, THAT well known Estate, called SHREWSBURY FARM, formerly the residence of General John Cadwalader, situated on Schuylkill River, in Kent county, Maryland—containing about 1900 acres of prime LAND, upwards of 500 of which are in woods. The Buildings are all ex- cellent, and consist of a handsome Dwelling House, two large Barns with Cow houses, Stables for fifty horses, a spacious treading floor under cover, a gran- ary, two Dwelling houses, two ranges of two fle- ry buildings for Negroes (one of them new and of brick), Corn houses, a Smoke House, &c. &c. The whole Estate being nearly surrounded by water, it requires but little fencing, and has a good Shad and Herring fishery. It is conveniently situated for both the Philadelphia and Baltimore markets, with two landings on a navigable river but a short sail from Baltimore. There is a large Peach, and two large Apple Orchards on the premises; also, a varie- ty of excellent fruits of different kinds. The soil is mostly a rich loam. The whole will be sold tog- ether or divided into smaller farms (for which the bu- ildings are conveniently situated) as may suit the pur- chaser. The Stock on said Farm, consisting of Hor- ses, Cattle, Sheep, &c. will also be disposed of.— For further particulars apply to GEORGE HASTINGS on the premises, or to the subscriber, in Philadelphia. ARCHIBALD M'CALL, JUN. December 12.
FOR SALE, A well improved Plantation, Of one hundred and twenty acres, VERY beautifully situated in the county of Montgomery, about twenty miles from the city. The buildings are all new and finished so as to accommodate a genteel family only. For further information, enquire at the Pennsylvania Coat-of-Arms, nineteen miles from town, and three above Morris-town. December 15
THIS DAY PUBLISHED, By WILLIAM YOUNG, Corner of Chestnut and Second-Streets, JOAN OF ARC, An Epic Poem, By Robert Southey; with notes. "WE do not hesitate to declare our opinion that the poetical powers displayed in it are of a very superior kind—Conceptions more lofty and daring, sentiments more commanding, and lan- guage more energetic, will not easily be found;— nor does scarcely any part of it sink into languor, as the glow of feelings and genius animates the whole. The language is, for the most part, mod- elled out of Milton; and not unfrequently, it has a strong relish of Shakespeare." Monthly Review, vol. 19, p. 361.
A HISTORY, OR ANECDOTES OF THE REVOLUTION IN RUSSIA, IN THE YEAR 1762. Translated from the French of M. de Rubriere; With an elegant Head of the late Empress; [The second edition, price 75 cents.] "The grounds of M. de Rubriere's information seem inimitable, and his readers appear to have every reason to be satisfied with his discernment; in unfolding the motives and circumstances that concurrent in bringing about this striking event." "We hail only said, that we have seldom met with more interesting original anecdotes, than that are contained in the little work which we have now reviewed." Appendix to Monthly Review, vol. 21. Dec. 19
An excellent Horse & Chair, To be sold on reasonable terms at the Livery Stable, No. 28 North Third-Street, N. E. The Horse belonged to a gentleman in one of the Troops in this City. Dec. 17
ALL PERSONS, Having claims against the Estate of SUSANNAH LOCKYER, deceased, are requested to present their respective accounts to NATHANA. SMITH, or JOHN DORSET, } Executors. Nov. 9
DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA, TO WIT: BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the twelfth day of August, in the twenty-third year of the Independence of the United States of America, Benjamin Smith Barton, of the said dis- trict, hath deposited in this office the title of a book the right whereof he claims as author in the words following to wit: "New Views of the Origin of the Tribes and Nations of America"—By Benjamin Smith Bar- ton, M. D. Correspondent Member of the Socie- ty of the Antiquaries of Scotland, Member of the American Philosophical Society, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences of Boston, Corresponding Member of the Mafa- chusetts Historical Society, and Professor of "Materia Medica, Natural History and Botany in the University of Pennsylvania." In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, intitled "An act for the encourage- ment of learning by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors, of such copies during the time therein mentioned." SAMUEL CALDWELL, Clerk, Dist. of Penn. November 2, 1798.
JAVA COFFEE, 350 Bags of First Quality, Now landing from on board the ship INDIA, at Mr. Thos. Penrock's Wharf, and for sale by John Ashmead, No. 265, South Front-Street. WHO HAS ON HAND, For Sale, on reasonable terms, Coffees Baltas Black Tatties, &c. Dec. 10.
Just Imported, Iron cannon, double fortified, Woolwich proof, with their carriages complete—3, 4, 6 and 9 pounders. Carronades, Woolwich proof, with carriages, &c. complete—12, 18 and 24 pounders. Cannon powder in kegs of 25 lbs. each Round, double headed, and cannon shot Patent shearing copper, bright, assorted 18, 20, 22, 24, 26 and 28 or per square foot, sheets 48 by 14 inches, suitable for vessels from 100 to 1000 tons Copper nails, bolts and spikes Boarding-Pikes, Common cutlasses Gunsners stores of all kinds Tin-plates No 1—1-3 cross boxes Patent shot in cases of 500: each London porter and brown stout, in cases of 7 doz. bottled. Earthen ware in cases, assorted. For Sale by SIMON WALKER, Pine near 5th Street. October 29.
Insurance Company of North America. THE STOCK HOLDERS, are hereby informed, that a stated meeting of the Company will be held at their Office on the 30th of January next, (being the se- cond Tuesday in the Month) for the elec- tion of twenty-five Directors for the ensu- ing year. E. HAZARD, Sec'y. Dec. 12th.
An Apprentice Wanted. A YOUTH, Of Reputable Connections, & sufficient qualification is wanted as an Apprentice to the Business of a Pa- tary Public and Conveyancer,—Enquire of the Pa- ter. Dec.
FOR SALE, No. 7, SOUTH FOURTH-STREET 1000 pieces Nankens, A Box of Silks 20 Boxes powdered Sugar Candy of 13 3/4 A parcel very fine Calla. C. HAIGHT. Dec. 5
FOR SALE, A well improved Plantation, Of one hundred and twenty acres, VERY beautifully situated in the county of Montgomery, about twenty miles from the city. The buildings are all new and finished so as to accommodate a genteel family only. For further information, enquire at the Pennsylvania Coat-of-Arms, nineteen miles from town, and three above Morris-town. December 15