Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser. (Philadelphia [Pa.]), 1797-10-28 00:00:00

Gazette of the United States, AND Philadelphia Daily Advertiser.
By JOHN FENNO, N o 119 Chestnut Street.
NUMBER 1603]
PHILADELPHIA: SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 28, 1797.
[VOLUME XII.]
SALES BY AUCTION.
Stated Sales
For DRY GOODS.
Monday Forenoon—Edward Fox, No. 56, South Front-street. Afternoon—Footman & Co. No. 63 South Front-street. Tuesday Forenoon—John Connolly, Old City Auction, No. 73 South Front-street. Afternoon—William Shannon, No. 183 High-street. Wednesday Forenoon—Peter Benson, No. 74 South Third-street. Thursday Forenoon—Edward Fox. Afternoon—John Connolly. Friday Forenoon—William Shannon. Afternoon—John Connolly. Saturday Afternoon—Peter Benson.
Footman & Co's Auction Room.
THE public are respectfully informed, that the Store of the subscribers is now open for the reception of Goods, and the Sales will commence on Monday next, the 30th inst. when will be sold, A large assortment of Dry Goods.
AMONG WHICH ARE, Superfine and common Cloths Callimeres, Flannels, Blankets Coatings and Baizes Cotton and worsted Hosiery Chintzes and Calicoes Chintz and purple Shawls Book and jaconet Muffs White and brown Linens, Tickings, Checks and Stripes. ALSO— A quantity of Ladies' Morocco Shoes. FOOTMAN & Co. Auctioneers.
Now Landing.
At Sims' Wharf, from on board the ship Commerce, captain CHAMBERLAIN, from Port au Prince, 35 hogheads of SUGAR 34 do. MOLASSES 4 tierces do. FOR SALE, BY Philips, Cramond, & Co. Oct. 27.
ROSS & SIMSON,
HAVE FOR SALE, A few bales Baftas, Coffas, and a quantity of Bengal COTTON Bengal SUGAR, in bags and boxes Jamaica, St. Vincents, and Bengal RUM. Oct. 27.
Samuel Pleasants & Sons,
No. 74, South Second-street, HAVE received a supply of Seasonable GOODS, which they are now opening for sale, on reasonable terms. Oct. 27.—4w
James & Richard Smith,
TAKE the liberty of informing their friends and the public, that they have removed their Store to No. 54, South Front-street, next door to Edward Fox's Auction Room, where they have at this time for sale, a large and general assortment of European & East India Goods, Many of which are just imported in the Clothier, William Penn, &c. &c. Oct. 27.
St. Croix Sugar & Rum,
For Sale by JOHN NIXON & Co. Oct. 26.
To Gentlemen who intend spending the Winter in the City.
ROOMS to LET,
WITH or without Board—at No. 114, corner of Sixth and Race Streets. The situation agreeable—and vicinity has been free from the late contagion. Oct. 27.—dtf
Philadelphia, Oct. 24th, 1797.
ALL persons desirous to contract to furnish Rations and Quarter Master's Stores, during the year 1798, for the troops in Philadelphia, Fort Mifflin, on Mud Island, Carlisle and Reading, or any of them, are desired to deliver their proposals, under a sealed cover, on or before the 20th November next to—next to— TENCH FRANCIS, Purveyor. The Rations to consist of
1 pound Flour or Bread 1 pound Beef, or 3/4 of a pound of Pork 1 gill Rum, Brandy or Whiskey 1 lb. Candles 2 lb. Soap 2 quarts Vinegar 1 quart Salt
Chocolate and Mustard
Manufactured as usual, Ginger and Pepper ground Shelled or Pearl Barley Philadelphia Porter, Beer, Ale and Cyder London Porter Taunton and Burton Ale Red Port and other Wines, either bottled, or by the pipe, quarter-cask or gallon—suitable for exportation or home consumption— For Sale by John Haworth. No. 93 South Front-street.
THE SUBSCRIBERS,
ASSIGNEES of JAMES GREENLEAF, HEREBY give notice, that they have disposed of the property assigned to them for the securing the payment of the note, acceptances, and endorsements given by Edward Fox, for the use of the said James Greenleaf; and the holders of such notes, acceptances, and endorsements, will settle with them for the amount of their respective claims, both PRINCIPAL and INTEREST, at any time before the 20th day of October next; after which day, the holders not applying, will be excluded, agreeably to the terms of assignment.
Applications to be made at South-east corner of Dock and Second streets (the Dock-street side), between the hours of eleven and one o'clock every day, Sundays excepted.
Henry Pratt, Thos. W. Francis, John Miller, Jun. John Abley, Jacob Baker.
Philadelphia, August 18, 1797.
For London, THE SHIP
J E A N,
Daniel M'Pheron, Master. TO sail with all convenient speed—a considerable part of her cargo being already engaged. For terms of Freight or Passage, apply to Rofs & Simson. Oct. 27.
For LONDON, THE SWEDISH SNOW
Gustaf Adolphz,
Capt. Chs. Wm. Ramse; Expected to sail in all the present month—A few tons of Goods are wanted on Freight, and will be taken on moderate terms, if speedy application is made. Apply to Peter Blight. Oct. 19.
For Freight or Charter, The Danish Brig
Abel Catherine,
Burthen about 160 tons. THIS vessel is now ready to receive on board a cargo, and may be dispatched to any port in Europe or the Mediterranean in eight days. Apply to the Captain on board, or to the subscriber. JAMES YARD. Oct. 19.
For Freight or Charter, THE GOOD BRIG
S U K E Y,
Isaac Vredenburg, Master; NOW lying at Clifford's wharf, and in complete order to receive a cargo. For terms please to apply the Captain on board, or John Skyrin, No. 81, Arch-street. WHO HAS FOR SALE, 2000 wt. of double refined Saltpetre 600 wt. of F F Gun Powder 300 barrels of Herring 50 bushels of Timothy Seed 150 casks of Claret, first quality And a quantity of Sherry Wine. Sept. 29.
Antigua Rum,
JUST arrived at Wilmington, Delaware State, and now landing from on board the Brig Active, William Williams, Master, One hundred hhds. 3d & 4th proof, And for Sale by Jehu Hollingsworth & Co. Wilmington, Sept. 21.
Imported in the ship Pigeon,
And for sale by John Morton, No. 116, South Front-street, Hyson Hyson Skin Young Hyson Imperial TEAS April 20.
NOTICE.
ALL persons indebted to the estate of JOHN STRAKER, late of Tinicum Township, Bucks County, are requested to pay off their respective debts; and those having any demands against said estate, are desired to bring in their accounts, to JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, & Execut. MALLET PREVALT, Sept. 28.
TENERIFFE WINE.
LANDING at Walnut-street wharf, TENERIFFE WINE, of excellent quality, in pipes and half pipes, for sale by JAMES YARD. Oct. 10.
Just published,
And to be sold at the Bookstores of H. & P. Rice, No. 50, Market-street; J. Ormerod, No. 41, Chestnut-street, and W. Young, corner of Chestnut and Second-streets, An accurate System of Surveying; IN WHICH IS CONTAINED, 1. Decimal fractions, in a plain, concise, and easy manner. 2. The extraction of the square root. 3. Plain trigonometry, rectangular and oblique. 4. An exact method to cast up the contents of lands. 5. Field surveying. The whole being performed without the use of scale and compasses, on a table of logarithms. In which is given some account of the variation of the needle, and the causes of its attraction. By SAMUEL MOORE. August 1.
Lately Published,
In one vol. 8vo. (price one dollar in boards) sold by WILLIAM YOUNG, corner of Second and Chestnut streets, A Collection of Papers on the subject of Billious Fevers, prevalent in the United States for a few years past. Compiled by NOAH WEBSTER, jun. Containing letters from Doctors Seaman, Smith, Buel, Taylor, Ramsay, Monro, Reynolds, Mitchell, on contagion, &c. &c. Sept. 15.
COUGHS, COLDS, ASTHMAS, and CONSUMPTIONS.
Just received, by Wm. GRIFFITHS, No. 179, South Second-street, a fresh supply of Genuine Balsam of Honey, Medicine invented by the late Sir John Hill (who knewledge as a Botanist procured him the appellation of the Linnaeus of Britain) and is considered in England as a certain cure for the above complaints; it is also of singular efficacy in the Hooping Cough. It may also be had retail of W. A. STOKES, No. 61, South Second-street, and T. STIFF, 55, New-street, in bottles at 75 cents each. Wm. GRIFFITHS having observed the happy effect of the medicine, (several cases of cures having come within his own knowledge) and the great demand for it has induced him to order a large supply, a part of which he has just received. August 3.
Samuel & Miers Fisher,
ARE NOW OPENING, At their Warehouse, No. 27, Dock Street, a fresh assortment of Woolen and other goods, suitable to the season, received by the late arrival from England. They have also for Sale, Lisbon Sherry, and Port Wines, Assorted queen's ware in crates, &c. 10th mo. 23d. TO BE LET—At a moderate Rent, The principal part of a HOUSE, WITHIN a short distance of the Coffee-house, which has been occupied for the last four months, consisting of a good dining room, parlour, two bed rooms and a dressing room, two garrets, kitchen, wood vault and cellar, all in excellent order, fit for the immediate reception of a small family. None need apply but those who are respectable and regular. Inquire at the office of this Gazette. Oct. 24.
Red Port Wine.
Just arrived, by the brig Iris, capt. Rhodes, from Oporto, Red Port Wine in pipes, hhds. and quarter casks 60 cwt. Cork, for sale by Philips, Cramond, & Co. July 21.
CUSTOM-HOUSE,
Philadelphia, Sept. 22d, 1797. THE Merchants who at this time prefer having their vessels and Merchandise entered and cleared at Chester or Marcus Hook, are hereby notified, That in compliance with their desire, and upon a full conviction that the measure will be mutually beneficial to them and to the United States. The collector of the customs has made arrangements to establish for some time branches of the custom-house at those places, where every accommodation in his power will be given to the merchants. dtf
TO BE SOLD,
And immediate possession given, A convenient well finished Brick Tenement, with a cook house and other out houses, situated in a pleasant part of the borough of Wilmington, in the State of Delaware—The lot of ground has forty feet front on Well-street, and extends through the square to Paterson-street, on which is erected a stable and carriage house. ALLEN M'LANE. Wilmington, Aug. 30.
City Commissioners Office,
August 29, 1797. IN pursuance of an Ordinance of the Select and Common Councils, passed the 22d day of May last. Proposals in writing will be received by the City Commissioners for one month from the 1st of September next, for letting to rent on leases for one year to commence the first day of January next, the following public property of the city— The wharf and landing on Vine Street, Also on Sassafras, Mulberry, and High Streets, Chestnut and Walnut Streets, Draw Bridge, with the Scale and Fifth Streets, Spruce, Pine and Cedar Streets. The cellar under the City-Hall. The Tavern at the middle ferry on Schuylkill, with the lots contiguous thereto, (except so much thereof as shall be occupied by any buildings erected for the use of the Collector of the Tolls, or be necessary for the toll-gates.) Aug. 3.
LOST,
ON the Paffayunk Road, between the Blue Ball and the city, a Fowling Piece, with a brass barrel and silver fight; on the plate of the butt are the letters "Jamaica, Q. 99"—and on the barrel near the lock "London" and the Tower stamp. Whoever will return the said piece to John Bernard, at the sign of the Blue Ball on the Paffayunk Road, or the office of this Gazette, shall receive a reward of Four French Crowns, Sept. 12.
DUTY ON CARRIAGES.
Notice is hereby Given, 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, which shall be kept by or for any person, for his or her own use, or to let out to hire, or for the conveyance of passengers, the several duties and rates following, to wit: For and upon every Coach, 15 dols. upon every Chariot, 12 dols. upon every Post Chariot, 12 dols. upon every Post Chaise, 12 dols. upon every Phaeton, with or without top, 9 dols. upon every Coach, 9 dols. upon other Carriages, having pannal work above, with blinds, glasses or curtains, 9 dols. upon four wheeled Carriages, having framed posts and tops with steel springs, 6 dols. upon four wheeled Carriages, with wooden iron springs or jacks, 3 dols. upon Carriages with tops, 3 dols. upon Chaises with tops, 3 dols. upon Chaises with tops, 3 dols. upon other two wheel topcarriages, 3 dols. upon two wheel carriages, with steel or iron springs, 3 dols. For and upon all other two wheel carriages, 2 dols. upon every four wheeled carriage, having framed posts and tops, and rolling upon wooden spars, 2 dols. The Collectors of the Revenue for 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 Germantown; at the house of Daniel St. Clair, Esq., in the County of Montgomery; and at the house of James Chapman, 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 thirty 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 place, 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 Germantown, 12th Sept. 1797.
From Marceilles.
THE CARGO
Of the Swedish barque Gustavus Adolphus, from Marceilles, consisting of the following articles, is discharging at Mr. Latimer's wharf, and for sale by the subscribers BRANDY, well flavored, of 2, 3 & 4th proof Claret, in hogheads Ditto, in cases Frontignac Wine, in cases of 30 bottles Olive Oil, of a superior quality, in baskets of 6 and 12 bottles Capers Olives Almonds Dry Verdigris Writing Paper Umbrellas (Silk) of 28, 30 and 32 inches Taffeties Long and short white Kid Gloves for Women Silk Stockings Handkerchiefs, in imitation of Madras Artificial Flowers and Garlands Ostrich Feathers Ribbons Perfumery Scented Hair-Powder and Pomatum Manna in foris Cream Tartar. BENJAMIN MORGAN & ROBERT ANDREWS. September 27.
Choice St. Croix Sugar and Rum
Coffee Madeira and Teneriffe Wine For Sale by James Yard, No. —, South Fourth-street. Oct. 6.
Imported in the ship MANCHESTER,
BENJAMIN SHEWELL, Master, From Bourdeaux, and for sale by the subscriber, No. 11 Walnut Street. Bourdeaux Brandy Irish market claret in cases Medoc wine, in do. Sauterne, do. Entitled to Drawback. Thomas Murgatroyd. WHO HAS FOR SALE. Sherry Wine in pipes and quarter casks Rota do. Pimento in bags 4000 bushels Liverpool salt. Aug. 24.
Boston Glafs Manufactory.
THE citizens of the United States are hereby informed, that the manufacture of Window Glafs is now commenced at the Glafs House in Boston. It is needless to say any thing of the excellent quality of the Boston Glafs, as it is so well known throughout the United States to be in every respect greatly superior to any ever imported from Europe. It will be cut to any size commonly used; and may be constantly had by applying to CHARLES F. KUFFEK, at the Glafs House. Orders from the distant States to be addressed to Mr. SAMUEL GORE, Court-street, Boston. Boston, Sept. 30, 1797. Messrs. Timothy and Mason, Charleston; Messrs. Hodge and Boylan, Halifax, N. C. Messrs. Willist and O'Connor, Norfolk; Mr. Ellis Price, Alexandria; Messrs. Tuck and Brown, Baltimore; Mr. Hopkins, New-York; and Messrs. Hudson & Goodwin, Hartford; Mr. Seymour, Savannah; are requested to insert the above once a week 6 weeks. The accounts to be forwarded to the Editor.
At a Meeting of the Board of
Property, June 6, 1797, Present John Hall, Sec'y. Francis Johnson, R. G. of land office Dan. Broadhead, S. G. Nicholas Bettinger, Perse Samuel Cunningham. In this case the proof of service of notice being insufficient, it is ordered that notice be given in one of the Philadelphia and York newspapers weekly, for at least eight weeks to the heirs or assignees of Samuel Cunningham deceased, to attend the board on the first Monday in November next, to show cause why a patent should not issue to Nicholas Bettinger for the land in question. (A true Copy.) JOHN HALL, Secretary of the Land Office. Aug. 14.
At the Federal Blaft Furnace,
In Carbon—for Slitting, Plating, and Rolling MILLS. SEYMOUR'S Patent Rollers. THEIR superiority consists in being free from holes and honey-combed places, which are commonly found in rollers cast in sand, or clay moulds. These patent rollers are cast in iron moulds, previously heated, and will be found to be more durable, solid and durable than any rollers heretofore used. Another important advantage they have over others, is, is, that the necks require no turning, but are immediately fit for use, and require less water to make them perform their work. They may be had by application to the Patentee in Plymouth of Gen. Nathaniel Goodwin, or of Messrs. Thatcher and Haysward. Boston, Aug. 21. Sept. 19.—$64.
This Day is Published,
By M ssrs . Dobson, Carey, Campbell, Rice, and the other Booksellers, Price One Dollar and twenty-five cents, Elegant'y printed on Wove paper, and Hot-pressed, By John Thompson, A COMPARATIVE VIEW OF The Constitutions Of the several States with each other, and with that of the United States: exhibiting in Tables, the prominent features of each Constitution, and classing together their most important provisions, under the several heads of administration; with Notes and Observations. By WILLIAM SMITH, Of South-Carolina, L. L. D. and member of the Congress of the United States. Dedicated to the People of the United States. N. B. A few Copies printed on an inferior paper, at 34 cents a dollar. February 6.
Public Notice is hereby given,
THAT the Commissioners for the District of Southwark have removed their hall to the house formerly occupied by Samuel Goff, Christian at in the corner of Fifth street, Oct. 2.
School Books and Stationary.
W. YOUNG,
No. 42, Second-street, corner of Chestnut-street, HAS now ready for sale, a very large assortment of English, French, Latin and Greek SCHOOL BOOKS. Also, such elementary books on Science, as are generally read in the academies and colleges throughout the United States. LATELY PUBLISHED, Sheridan's Dictionary, the sixth edition, in one large vol. 8vo price 3 dols. Ditto, large 12mo price 1 dol. 75 cts. Ditto, common, price 1 dol. 50 cts. All sorts of drawing, packing, printing, and writing Paper; Bookbinders Boards, Pasteboards, Scatting and blotting Papers; printed Blanks, blank Books, Wax, Waters, and other articles, of the best quality, used in the counting house, or public office. Catalogues of a miscellaneous collection of BOOKS, with the price of each affixed, to be had by inquiring as above. Oct. 24.—rawbw
Just Published, and now Selling,
By BENJAMIN DAVIES,
At his Book-Store, No. 68, High-Street, The AMERICAN REPOSITORY AND ANNUAL REGISTER for the UNITED STATES FOR THE YEAR 1796: Containing complete and correct lists of the Executive, Legislative and Judiciary DEPARTMENTS of GOVERNMENT, and a variety of useful tables, necessary to be known in every State of the Union. Embellished with two handsome Engravings, One of which is a depiction of a melancholy scene that occurred during the American war. Oct. 18.
WALKER & KENNEDY,
No. 73, South Front Street, HAVE FOR SALE, 100 Hogheads of prime Georgia Tobacco, ALSO, 50 Pipes of Bourdeaux Brandy, 10 Pipes of old Port Wine. Oct. 17.
THOMAS HERMAN LEUFFER,
North Fifth street, corner of North alley, No. 34, HAS FOR SALE, EXCELLENT Red Bourdeaux Wine in cases and boxes, six years old White Graves Wine in cases Ticklenburgs Russia Sail Cloths Ravens Duck Bag Linen Helleans Diaper and Table Cloth Empty bags Common German Cloth An assortment of black coloured Ribbons Fine German Laces About twelve tons Russia clean Hemp Clover Seed Italian Soap, in small boxes, for family use Window Glafs Aug. 29.—23w
Cedar Shingles.
THE subscriber has a quantity of 3 feet Cedar Shingles of a superior quality, for sale at 13 dollars per thousand. William Hallowell, No. 193 North Third-street. July 27.
Excellent Bourdeaux Brandy
Ditto ditto Claret in cases Just received, and for Sale by Kenneth & Zurch. Aug. 21.
THIS DAY WAS PUBLISHED,
And for sale by THOMAS DOBSON, at the Stone House, No. 41, fourth Second street, EVENINGS at HOME; OR, THE JUVENILE BUDGET OPENED. Consisting of a variety of Miscellaneous Pieces for the instruction and amusement of YOUNG PERSONS—Six Volumes handsomely printed and bound up in two volumes, price Two Dollars. The variety and excellence of these pieces are such, that the book needs only to be known to be universally esteemed one of the most valuable publications that can be put into the hands of young persons. "Delightful task to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe th' enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast." THOMPSON. August 24.
THIS DAY IS PUBLISHED,
By THOMAS DOBSON, at the Stone House, No. 41, fourth Second street, Letters and Conversations, Between several Young Ladies, on improving and interesting subjects. Translated from the Dutch of Madame de Camban with alterations and improvements. Printed on fine paper, and neatly bound, Price one dollar. AMIDST the tide of modern Romances, painting tales of extraordinary distress, or of desperate or artful villainy, which "harrow up the soul," and which it would be for the honor of young ladies to be ignorant of, this little book comes forward to facilitate notice, where, in a variety of incidents, not exceeding the bounds of real life, the proper, because elegant and natural dignity and importance of the Female character is exhibited in an interesting point of view, and presents examples of real and attainable excellence. The publisher was so much pleased with the perusal, that he was persuaded he should do a pleasing service to the community by sending it into circulation. August 24.—mw4w
Imported in the latest arrivals from
Amsterdam and Hamburg, and for sale by B. & J. BOHLEN, A large assortment of fine French Cambrics, Russia and Dutch fustic cloth Platters Writing, post, and printing paper Rouanes Dutch calf skins Checks and stripes Prime madder Ticklenburgs Shell'd Barley Ozanburgs Looking glasses White meetings Hollow glass ware Diaper States Brown rolls Coffee mills Umbrellas Brats kettles Hair ribbons Scythes and straw knives Black and white laces Toys assorted in boxes Bell Holland Gin in pipes London particular Madeira Wine July 24.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
FRANCE.
COUNCIL OF FIVE HUNDRED.
25 Thermidor—August 12.
Guilleminet complained of the delay in the printing of the report of the committee of inspectors.
Aubry said, that the committee thought it their duty to confine themselves to an extract of the documents, without publishing the signatures; because, doubtless, it was not the intention of the councils who compromise, to expose the parties to any disgrace.
Jobbrayme moved, that the council should confine itself to printing the report; and if any member wished to consult the documents, the committee will communicate them.
Gervar said that the report without the documents was useless; he wished to print the whole or none.
Treilhard declared, that the documents might belong to those by whom they were communicated, and that they were independent of the report.—He therefore opposed the printing of the documents.
Montaigne contended that the documents ought to be made public.
Fadier called for the repeal of the decree which orders the documents to be printed.
This proposition was adopted, after two appeals to the council, and in spite of the most violent opposition. But the council passed to the order of the day upon the proposal to repeal the order for printing the report.
Aubry read the definitive provisions of the resolution concerning the organization of the national guard. The article relative to the formation of the corps of cavalry and the company of artillery, by which the guard was to have been augmented, experienced new difficulties. As it would require many months, perhaps, to call from the different corps of the army the horse and the artillery, the reporter proposed to take them out of the 47th division.
Talot and general Jourdan insisted upon the literal execution of the article, and proposed to have the service continued by the first company of artillery and the first regiment of dragons; by whom it had hitherto been performed.
This proposition produced debates. At last, however, it was adopted, with an amendment of Le Normand, to the effect that the artillery and horse should be subject to the rule enacted in the last resolution.
Willot, in the name of the military, proposed to enact, in addition to the resolution of the 10th Thermidor, that the disbanding of the Gendarmerie, ordered by the law of the 25th Pluviose, should extend to all the officers of the corps appointed since that period, and that the directory should give an indemnity to such officers as had been at any expense in changing their situation.
26 Thermidor—August 13.
The long debates on the transactions of the commissaries of the treasury with the company of Dijon, in which the former are charged with making bargains scandalously improvident, were this day terminated.—The council closed the discussion, and declared there was no room for deliberating on the motion made for hearing the commissaries at the bar. The council declared the urgency, and adopted the project of resolution. The four former commissaries are dismissed, and are to be immediately replaced; the directory shall cause them to be prosecuted before the tribunals.
Bourdou de l'Oise complained that some soldiers passing along the Boulevards, had stepped out of their ranks and insulted some citizens, on account of the colour of the collars of their coats. He said that as the experience of the revolution had proved that similar conduct had always been the prelude to civil dissensions, he moved that a message should be sent to the directory to desire them to take measures of police to prevent the repetition of insults by the soldiers against the citizens on account of their dress. Adopted.
27 Thermidor, Aug. 14.
Metz rose to speak on a motion which stood for the order of the day. He announced, that the enemies of public tranquillity do not cease to put in practice every thing which may tend to spread alarm among the citizens, and to inspire them with a mistrust of the paternal intentions of the legislative body. In the department of the Upper and Lower Rhine, factious persons overrunning the country, spread the report that the legislative body seek to establish a reigning religion, to make another Bartholomew's Day for the Protestants. They then prevail on them to sign petitions which they do not understand, filled with declarations against priests and emigrants. The orator then related a fact not less important. Although the legislative body has declared that the pay of the troops should have the preference, the troops do not however receive any thing, and they are told to resort to the legislative body. He moved, that a message be sent to the directory, requiring information respecting the delay experienced by the troops in the discharge of their pay. Adopted.
The municipal administration of the commune of Saintes transmitted to the councils some new details, relative to the troubles attempted to be excited by the anarchists in this commune on the 27th and 28th ult. at the same time a copy of several orders and proclamations which serve to maintain public tranquillity. They conclude by assuring the council, that they may rely on their attachment, as well as on that of all good citizens, who will remain faithful to the constitution of the 3d year.
Duranty denounced an insult which he had received from an officer of the guard of the legislative body, who, notwithstanding his being a representative of the people, ordered his troops to arrest him, and, on
their refusal to obey this illegal order, had caused them to be punished.
This denunciation was referred to the committee of inspectors.
PARIS, July 19.
From the Clef du Cabinet .
The public mind is not become entirely tranquil; for the divisions between the different powers still exist. We hope, however, that the commission named to make the report relative to the message of the directory, and which has chosen Thibaudeau for its chairman, will be able to remove the alarms of the public. In the mean time, another peace has been signed, public spirit is improved, and the last Fête has given courage to the true republicans. The hopes of the royalists and anarchists vanish, and the people begin to be more attached to their government.
From the Republicain Francaise .
The report of the removal of the ministers, and the names of the persons by whom they are to be succeeded, is confirmed. The minister of general police is dismissed, and is succeeded by citizen Astier, formerly member of the central bureau. The minister of marine, it is said, is succeeded by citizen Gourland, formerly director of the East-India company.
General Brune, who has a high reputation with the patriots of the south, has been appointed temporary commandant of Paris, in the room of general Chanez.
The report of the inspectors of the hall, read the day before yesterday in the secret committee of the council of elders, has for its object to inform the legislative body of the actual situation of Paris, and to authorize the commission to take measures of security. The subject was discussed, but nothing resulted from it.
It is said that the report of the commission of inspectors tended to offer the project of an organic law on the 102d Article of the constitution, conceived in these terms—"The Council of Elders can change the residence of the legislative body. In this case it shall point out a new place, and the time on which the two councils are there to assemble. The decree of the Council of Elders, on this subject is irrevocable." After the day on which the decree is passed, neither of the councils can assemble or deliberate in the commune where they previously sat. The members who shall continue their functions, shall be guilty of an attack on the safety of the Republic.
Such are the formal provisions of the constitution. We do not positively know whether the Council of Elders, as reported, is employed in the discussion of this subject; we cannot see in the present circumstances the advantage or the necessity of such a discussion which seems to us calculated only to alarm and disgust the city of Paris, and to increase the chances of danger to the legislative body. If it is threatened by any perils, they do not arise from sitting in this commune, the immense population of which is, on the contrary, a security calculated to impose upon its enemies, and where the force of opinion by which it is surrounded is a bulwark still more powerful.
LONDON, AUG. 19.
Although it is pretty generally understood that ministers are acquainted with the articles of the treaty of peace between France and Portugal, we do not find that can throw additional light on the nature, extent, or value of the sacrifices mutually made by the contracting powers, and the situation in which the event immediately places Great Britain. A few days must make us acquainted with those momentous arrangements, and enable us to judge with some accuracy of the degree of influence they have on the general politics of Europe.
The object of the king of Sweden's journey is not known, nor even guessed at, by the politicians of the North. He left Stockholm suddenly, after having entrusted the administration of his kingdom to the Count of Wachmeister, Baron Sparre, and Baron Douglas. The preparations for this departure have been so secret, that on the very eve of it, the circumstance was doubted. From Stockholm he went to Carlstrom, where he embarked for Stralsund. Having reached that city, he made no stay, but went forward into the heart of Germany. On the 2d of August he was expected at Hamburg, having crossed the Elbe.
A person on board the vessel which brought the last Paris papers from Calais to Dover, was seized immediately on landing, and detained in custody; but it was not known on what account.
University of Pennsylvania.
October 27, 1797.
THE different Schools of the University will be opened on Monday, the 6th of November; of which all who are concerned, are requested to take notice.
By order of the Faculty. WM. ROGERS, Secretary.
POST OFFICE.
Philadelphia, October 26, 1797.
THE Post-Office will be removed to No. 34, South Front Street, on Saturday the 28th inst. at half past 12 o'clock, P. M. and on Monday, the 30th, the letter carriers will begin to deliver as usual.
NOTICE.
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The Gazette. PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 28.
Continuation of Late European News, received by the William Penn.
ROME, July 24.
A courier arrived here a few days ago, with a letter from the directory to the pope, in which are many strong expressions of esteem and respect for his Holiness. The directory has also expressed its concern at learning that some French agents had, since the conclusion of peace, levied arbitrary contributions in Umbria and the Marche, and therefore directs that a diminution of 700,000 crowns shall take place in the payment of the contribution agreed upon by way of indemnification.
We hourly expect the new minister of France, Joseph Buonaparte, brother to the general.
LONDON, August 25—28.
Storace and Braham have been very unfortunate in the first dut they were engaged in out of this country. They were immediately sent to prison on their arrival at Calais, in their way to Italy. The joint melody of their fascinating strains could not supply the want of a passport.
In the late quarrels on black collars, which have now entirely subsided, the inhabitants of Paris did not take any part.
A curious development has taken place in the American legislature, on a very extraordinary subject. It appears that Mr. Blount, a member of the senate, and others, entertained the design of inducing the British and the Indians to attack the Spanish settlements in the Floridas and Louisiana. Some say the object of this enterprise was to furnish a pretext to the Spaniards for refusing to give up to the British certain posts agreed to be evacuated. But the political parties, which run very high in America, pretend that the project had a very different purpose in view. The English party in America say, it was entered into in hopes of embroiling either France or England in a war with the United States; and the French party affirm, that it was promoted by the English faction to aggrandize this country, at the expence of Spain. Each charge the odium of the measure upon their opponents, whom they accuse of being bribed, the one say with French, the other say with English gold. It is very manifest, that if the Spanish settlements had actually been attacked, the tranquillity of the United States would have been endangered; and, whatever might have been the objects of the plan, it certainly was a base, treacherous undertaking. The disclosure of it has astonished the Americans, by whom it is universally reprobated; and the mercantile interest in London will, no doubt, rejoice at the failure of a plot, which, at this time, would have given a terrible blow to our commerce. Mr. Blount has been expelled from the senate, and impeached. We shall give the proceeding at length in our next.
The late lord Mountmorres was one of the most rigid and systematical economists living. His manner of passing a day in the winter time was nearly thus: Equipped with a sturdy pair of water proof boots, and an umbrella of huge diameter, he bade defiance to the inclemency of the season, and whiled away the mornings in visiting the new shops in Piccadilly. He took his dinner five days out of seven at the Piazza coffee-house, and regularly appeared at about half past eight at one of the theatres, but if the evening loured, he found his way under the cheap and convenient shelter of the colonnade, to one of the stage boxes at Covent Garden. With these peculiarities, there is reason to believe that he did "more good by stealth," than many who had five times his fortune.
The posthumous works of Mr. Burke, which are to be laid before the public in the ensuing winter, consist of another pamphlet on French affairs, and a Journal kept by Mr. B. for many years, entitled, "His own times;" which contains many details respecting the political scenes in which he was an actor, as well as an observer. To these the Editors, Drs. King and Lawrence, prefix a life of Mr. Burke; which, if worthy of the subject, cannot fail of adding to their reputation. The whole will make a large quarto volume.
It appears by the last letters from Rome, that the Pope has of late passed some time at Monte-Cavillo, to recover from the consequences of an apoplectic fit he was lately seized with, and which, added to the dropsy in his chest, announces the impending dissolution of Pius VI. Peaceable citizens feel the more uneasiness on the approach of this event, as symptoms of revolutionary commotions begin already to appear, and the moment of the Pope's death is anxiously waited for by Buonaparte to unfold and execute the grand projects he has laid to have. All persons able to leave Rome, depart from thence to avoid being present at the catastrophe they dread.
PARIS, August 21.
"LIVE FREE! OR DIE!" The officers and soldiers of the army of the Rhine and the Moselle, to the executive directory of the French republic.
24 Thermidor—August 11.
"CITIZENS DIRECTORS, Profoundly afflicted by the evil heaped upon the republic, and by the progress of royalism, the army of Italy has presented addresses, supplicating you to adopt the proper measures for consolidating the constitution, which is now shaken to its basis. Witnesses, and in a manner, the victims of the assassinations committed by the murderers of the south, the conquerors of Lodi and Arcole beseeched you to protect their relations, daily immolated by the daggers of
those atrocious ruffians, who are armed by the priests and the supporters of the antient tyranny.
"More patient, the army of the Rhine and Moselle has not hitherto communicated to you the grief which it has felt. But, citizens directors, there is a time for every thing, and the measure is now full. We have heard the appeal which the divisions of Angereau, Joubert, &c. have made to you—we suffer like them. If, deeply interested by the dangers of their country, they be ready to march into the heart of the republic, to stop the effusion of the blood that inundates it, you may be assured that we shall not remain indolent spectators of their labors.
"With the respect that is due to the first magistrates of a free people, we supplicate you to do justice to our claims, to make them known to the patriotic members of both councils, that, in concert with you, they may consider of some remedy which may be instantly applied.
"Having conquered two-thirds of military Europe, how could it be conceived that enemies should dare to imagine they had gained their cause? They have, however, obtained a great part of what they demanded. In a short time, the monarchy would have been established. What a dreadful prospect is presented to us by the first proceedings of the present legislature!
"Citizens directors, notwithstanding your solicitudes, the children of the republic, its supporters, are vilified in the interior, and are destitute of every thing upon the frontiers which their courage alone has given to their country. The objects which ought chiefly to have fixed the attention of our legislators have been put aside; and far from following the line of conduct which the happiness of the people prescribed to them, they have dwelt upon the most frivolous topics. Many of them have been exclusively employed in gratifying the most odious passions. The public good, which ought to be the order of the day, has been replaced by a thirst of vengeance. All that love of liberty that characterised the former assemblies of the republic, is extinguished. The constitution and the sacred rights of the people are no longer respected.—Who knows but, one of these days, they will order us to go to mass?—they have already made us fast!
"Our finances, so much mismanaged, were almost exhausted. A civil war was scarcely terminated in the west, when another recommenced in the south. Foreign agents endeavored every where to mislead the public mind. What has been done to remedy these evils?—More than twenty sittings of the council of five hundred have been employed on hearing reports on priests, on bells, and on emigrants!—EMIGRANTS and PRIESTS! Those who delivered Toulon to the English, and Alsace to the Imperialists!—those who have involved us in the war, and all its miseries, have been recalled by a decree, welcomed and honored.—The bells must be re-established, while no plan of finance is adopted, and though the defenders of the country should want every necessary. The pay of all the armies is several months in arrear, and no clothes are delivered to them. The hospitals are not attended to, and our sick and wounded brethren die for want of proper support and assistance. Are the civil hospitals better supplied? What are the bells to us?
"The conquerors are naked, and defeat has been profitable only to the vanquished. In several quarters provisions have constantly and totally failed. If the troops have subsisted, it was only by depriving the inhabitants of the countries in which they were, of some of the articles necessary to their existence. What would be thought, then, if we should speak of the MILLIARD, which was promised us with so much earnestness when our services were wanted?—None of us can any longer rely on the payment of it: and it even appears, that the only reward they reserve for us is shame and contempt.
"But private interest would still be silent, were not the honor of the country concerned. How have the defenders of the country been treated in the interior? Worse even than the soldiers of Conde, whom they have beaten. They have been vilified in one place, proscribed or assassinated in another, and every where insulted, when they appeared in the most respectable uniforms. No, citizens directors! we have not renounced the honor of being French citizens: we know what is due to us—degradation belongs not to our character. But even the legislative body, in debating for five days upon the march of the troops which passed within 12 leagues of them, have proved that they viewed us only with terror, we may say even with horror? Are we then, foreign troops, or enemies of public liberty, that they treat us with so much severity? We founded and we maintained that liberty, and no power in the universe shall tear it from us. Ought we not to be astonished when we are declared again in the national tribunal by emigrants, the pretended representatives of the people whom they detest.
"Royal terror has been substituted to an anarchical terror, of which we are equally the enemies. Such are its effects, that the tribunals every where acquit assassins and conspirators, while they strike without pity all who are suspected of patriotism, or being purchasers of national property, or merely of being moderate friends of the constitution. In support of what we advance, we refer to the judgment pronounced in favor of the conspirators Brottier, Dunan, and Lavilleharnois, the known agents of Louis XVIII. and that in favor of the priest Poule, who attempted the life of the representative of the people Sneyes. The purchasers of national estates are every where plundered, and excluded from offices of trust; while the emigrants, recalled by new laws, exercise almost every public function. So great indeed is the effect of this royal terror, that when the law upon political and literary assemblies was presented to
the council of five hundred, it was passed without the necessary forms being observed. One member only offered to speak against that violation of the liberty of the people, but he was not heard! It belongs to the present period alone to have produced such examples.
"Ten thousand officers, who have no reward for their services but the wounds which they are covered, languish in the interior, without support and without succour.
"What fate, then, awaits those whose zeal has so long and still detains them under the standard of liberty? We know already, that several officers have been replaced by men who are not known in the republican armies, others will soon be replaced by those emigrants whom they have combated. Our enemies no longer disguise this plan, which they have begun to carry into effect. In the debate upon the Gendarmerie, did not several members of the council of five hundred declare, that it was necessary to place at the head of that corps all the officers who had served in it before the revolution, whatever might be their opinions! We are then about to see the aristocrats and royalists restored to their command—all those who fled to the different courts of Europe, allying alms of the enemies of their country; those, in fine, whom we have for six years combated. It has been said in the tribune of the council of the ancients, that all those who possessed virtue and talents awaited only for the propitious moment in which they might return to the service of their country. What then do we possess? Wounds! If, then, we boast no titled ancestry; if we have neither gold nor affection for kings; it is not for us to enjoy the blessings of peace! Noble scoundrels who concealed themselves during the war, are about to replace us!
"We had reason to expect, from the French blood, that had been every where shed, and the innumerable sacrifices that we have made to our country, a solid and glorious peace: but what enemy will treat with us while they see us agitated by a powerful faction, which they are convinced will deprive us of all means of continuing the war, which disgraces us, and would even deliver our frontiers to their cohorts: when henceforth no plan can be formed until the utility of it is discussed at the tribune? No! under these circumstances we cannot have peace.
"These gentlemen, we doubt not, wish that the last of us should remain upon the frontiers, and expiate, by his death, the crime of having vanquished the kings, their protectors. O country! O defenders of the country! you are then about to be delivered by those detestable beings to the fellies of tyranny. The despots whom you have so often humbled, are about to put their yoke of iron over those brave heads which have been covered with so many laurels. Perfidious wretches! they speak of their attachment to the constitution, which they undermine—which they tear leaf by leaf, while they continue to invoke it. No, citizens directors! we will not endure this. We require other pledges than hypocritical protestations. We are fatigued with vain promises!"
Message of the executive directory to the council of five hundred.
28th Thermidor, (Aug. 15.)
"Citizens Representatives,
"You have desired the executive directory to acquaint you with the measures adopted against the author of an article inserted in No. 581, of a journal entitled the "Redacteur," to cause him to be prosecuted and brought to condign punishment.
"The executive directory reply to your message, by transmitting to you a copy of the report made on this subject by the minister of justice, in pursuance of their orders.
"This report terminates with general observations on the necessity of stemming the torrent of disorder and corruption, proceeding from the licentiousness of the press. The directory have thought proper not to separate these remarks from the report, as they fully coincide in opinion with the minister of justice on this head.
"The directory have further thought fit, citizens representatives, to inform you, that the journal of the Redacteur is one of those public prints which are most in the habit of publishing the acts issued by government, yet the executive government take neither the least part in the conducting of that paper, nor do they either directly or indirectly pay its authors.
(Signed) "CARNOT, President. LEGARDE, Sec. Gen."
Report of the minister of justice to the executive directory.
"28th Thermidor, (August 15.)
"Citizens Directors,
"You have directed me to examine in a legal point of view an article inserted in the Redacteur, No. 581, respecting which the council of five hundred sent you a message on the 1st instant (July 18) and to make a report on this subject. I am going to fulfil this duty.
"The council of five hundred had judged this article to be contrary to public order, and to violate the respect due to the national representation; but it is not this imputation, however serious it may be, and whatever weight it may derive from the authority which prefers it, I am here to enquire into: I must confine myself to discuss, pursuant to your orders, whether there exist laws against the abuses of the press; and in ease they do exist, whether the article under consideration is to fall within those laws.
"You are not ignorant citizens directors, that there is nothing more excites the indignation of all good citizens, than the daily abuses of the sacred right, conquered from despotism, and one of the most precious fruits of the revolution, to express and multiply our thoughts, rescued from the inquisitorial fetters of censure, and to exercise, with respect to the depositaries of public

depositories of public authority, the power... superintendence of the public opinion; but in proportion as an institution is great and useful, its corruption and degradation becomes more criminal. It is from this principle, that the poisoning of springs and rivers has at all times been classed among the blackest crimes, as by this heinous deed the sources of fertility and life are converted into elements of death and destruction.
Struck by this disorder, the Representatives of the Nation have more than once been engaged in discussions tending to remove it. They have considered this important question in its double relation to the public interest of the country, and to the private interest of the public functionaries and citizens; they have viewed the mischief which may be done with the press, either by sedition provocations or by calumnies and scandal; but in this last point of view they have found their attempts obviated by obstacles hitherto thought insurmountable, and the only result of their legislative exertions on this head, is the law of the 28th Germinal, fourth year, the fifth article of which is as follows:
Authors, who shall allow themselves to compose, and in general all persons, who shall print, distribute, sell, hawk about, or distribute writings containing provocations, deemed criminal by the law of the 27th Germinal, shall be prosecuted in manner and as the said law directs.
The provocations, judged criminal by the article of the law of the 27th Germinal, are those which have for their object—
The dissolution of the National Representation, and of the Executive directory; The murder of all or any of the members which compose them; The restoration of royalty; The re-establishment of the Constitution of 1793; The restoration of the constitution of 1791, and of any form of government different from that which is established by the constitution of the third year; The invasion of public property; The pillage and spoliation of private property, under the name of Agrarian Laws, or in any manner whatever.
Of all these criminal provocations, the first is the only one with which I shall compare the article inserted in the "Redacteur," as being the only one any way connected with the information, which the Council of Five Hundred desires to obtain.
Now after having perused with the utmost attention the article under consideration, I cannot find, that it contains any thing tending to provoke the dissolution of the National Representation. I have found in this article a severe and bitter censure of some operations of the Legislative Body, several of which remain as yet mere projects or resolutions; but I have not been able to discover any expressions, which, on representing these acts as dangerous for the public weal, propooses as a remedy the dissolution of the authority from which they proceed.
That this article is written in a bitter and reproachful tone, which but little belongs to a writer who speaks of the Representatives of the nation, I shall not undertake to deny or justify. I had merely to enquire, whether there existed a crime, and consequently matter for a criminal prosecution, and this question I find myself obliged to decide in the negative.
This instance, however, chosen from a thousand others, offers one advantage, namely this, that it proves the insufficiency of the laws on this head. You are not ignorant, Citizens Directors, that there exists great numbers of writers, far more criminal, because their crimes and their pernicious results recur daily, who make it their business to defame the first authorities of the Republic, to calumniate the Representatives of the people of their Magistrates, to recognize murder and assassination, to discredit the purchase of National Domains, to attack the Republican manners institutions and denominations, to ridicule your arrestes, to excite a civil war, and to protract that with Foreign Powers. And yet all these crimes remain unpunished, owing to the insufficiency of the laws, though under the present circumstances they are far more culpable than they might be at any other period.
You have compelled the most formidable enemies of the republic to lay down their arms. Negotiations, on which depend the fate of Europe, are opened under the auspices of victory. You approach the moment when, after having dictated a glorious peace, you will see humanity recovering from the calamities of a dreadful but necessary war; and it is at such a time that infamous writers lead astray the public opinion, deceive the foreign powers on the moral strength of government, inspire them with extravagant hopes, by calling to recollection an order of things which is abolished forever; inflame passions which peace would allay, and consummate their execrable work by promoting distrust and discord between the two main springs of the political machine.
The indignation of the Council of Five Hundred has been roused by an article, which censures their operations; but what will be their feelings on reading the following passage, literally extracted from a public print, which I received this moment from one of your commissioners?
"We had in France a monarchy, founded a hundred years ago, and which under the reign of the Bourbons, had attained the most resplendent glory; the French constitution, it is true, was no more drawn up in writing, than that of Lycurgus; but it was attached by the records of history, and by thousands of public monuments. Among the three constitutions substituted in its place since 1789, there is none, in the fabrication of which the people have not been grossly defrauded in their rights. That of 1791 was manufactured in open contradiction to the instructions and powers received, and the other two without any instructions or powers at all. Whatever attempts against the monarchy were made by the first or constituent assembly, it preserved at least the essence of that form of government. The second assembly, the more audacious, swore even to preserve it, and prohibited only the person of the monarch. But the third, called the national convention, an impure compound of debauched ruffians and atheists, invited by a tyger (Orleans) and influenced by the attractions of immense booty, after having terrified the nation by numberless massacres, abolished monarchy, not only without instructions and powers, but also without any million whatever, and completed its outrages against the monarch by the most cowardly and most cruel assassination."
"Ye new gentlemen of the council of elders, lay your hands on your hearts and dare, on your own principles of an absolute nullity, to maintain the validity of that abolition. Can you, agreeably to the moral principles you have always professed, excuse that interdiction and that murder? Your silence on these two points shall serve as an answer. The nation will itself in due time and place examine, 1st, Whether these men are able and worthy to make constitutions and laws? 2dly, Whether their constitution of 1795, which they have cemented with the blood of our best citizens, is more admissible than that of 1793, which they have abandoned? Until such times as the nation shall have recovered sufficient liberty to choose between a monarchy and a republic, we feel no difficulty in acknowledging the national representation in the two thirds of the actual legislative body, because they have been chosen by the people. But till the arrival of the 3d third, you are only a provisional government, first to obviate the most urgent evils, and above all, to correct that depravation of manners, which the convention encouraged by its infamous decrees and infamous conduct."
Secondly, to endeavor to recompense the body of the nation, torn by the dispersion of its most worthy and most distinguished members; and 2dly, to prepare a better regimen, whatever may be its form."
"I have given the necessary orders to prosecute the author, and eventually the printer of this article, since it obviously contains such provocations as are pointed out by the law of the 28th Germinal, but you will be able to judge by this article, citizens directors, of the audacity of certain journalists, who now lay down the hypocritical mask under which they hitherto thought proper to conceal themselves."
"The legislative body will, no doubt, feel the necessity of checking this unbounded licentiousness, which is no more liberty of the press, than anarchy is government, and the right of carrying arms is the right to assassinate."
(Signed) "MERLIN."
By this day's Mail.
LONDON, August 22. LETTER of his BRITANNIC MAJESTY, to the KING of PRUSSIA.
"The entire confidence which I entertain in the patriotic sentiments of your majesty, as well as the friendship which I entertain for your majesty reciprocally entertains for me, induce me to inform you without hesitation that his imperial majesty had addressed to me as elector, a circumstantial and detailed letter relative to your taking possession of the imperial city of Nuremberg, the dependencies of Eichstadt, and the Equestrian Order Immediate, which took place last year, on account of the principalities of Brandenburg & Franconia. His majesty expressed a desire to know my opinion upon these events, and at the same time desired my interposition with your majesty."
"As his imperial majesty, in the different proceedings which have taken place on this subject, is desirous to discharge the duty prescribed by the capitulation of election in a manner that must redound to his highest glory, and at the same time manifest the high consideration which he entertains for your majesty, accordingly I conceive that, in my quality of elector, and agreeably to my duties, I cannot and ought not deny the request of his imperial majesty."
"I am very far however from wishing to decide upon the legality of your majesty's pretensions, or even to enter into a discussion of their principles. I shall content myself with relying upon the wisdom and upon the knowledge of your majesty, which cannot overlook any thing connected with the system of the constitution of the German empire, over the preservation of which you are principally called upon to watch, and I shall only refer to the noble and generous sentiments which your majesty thought proper to prescribe to yourself in the public instruction, published the 27th of March, 1792, for the regencies of Anspach and Bareuth, and on the specific subject of the pretensions and differences which might arise in the said principalities."
"These sentiments and manifestations of your majesty leave me no doubt of your disposition uniformly to support, by constitutional means, your pretensions on your neighbours in Franconia, and of course that you will leave your less powerful co-estates, and other proprietors of the empire in the enjoyment of what the law secures to them, and what you allow to your own subjects against yourself, to wit, their maintenance and re-establishment in a legal and incontestable possession."
"In thus testifying with pleasure my entire confidence in your majesty, I take this opportunity to renew the assurances of the perfect esteem with which I am, &c. (Signed) "GEORGE REX."
NEW-YORK, Oct. 27. The son of the marquis La Fayette failed from this port yesterday in the brig Clio, bound to Havre de Grace, in expectation of meeting his father and family in France. We sincerely wish his hopes may be realized, and that happiness may once more beam on that unfortunate family. He was attended by his governor, Mr. Frekel.
The restitution of the important fortress of Mantua, and the acquisitions which Austria has made in Italy at the expence of Venice, indemnify her amply for the loss of her former dominions in the Low Countries, and the Milanese. The frontiers of the Imperial possessions in Italy will, henceforth extend westward as far as the Oglio, southward as far as the Po, and eastward probably as far as the point where that river discharges itself into the Mediterranean, so that the city of Venice will be contained within the Imperial frontiers. The line of demarcation being thus drawn, the country of Brescia, the Veronese, and in general the whole extent of domination which formerly constituted the Venetian Terra Firma fall to the share of Austria; while on the other side the Venetia part of Istria and Dalmatia, together with all the small islands situated off the eastern coast of the Gulf of Venice, as far as Ragusa, form a prodigious encrease of power, and will enable the Emperor to extend hereafter his conquests on the one side into Turkish Dalmatia, Bosnia, &c. and on the other into Italy.
By this new demarcation, the political strength of Austria is greatly increased, by being rendered more compact and more fit both for attack and defence.
Whatever may be the consequence, it is obvious that the House of Austria has attained one great advantage to which it has long aspired, by having an extent of sea coast sufficiently considerable to raise a navy—Master of the whole Adriatic Guiph, and of the coasts on each side of it, the Emperor is now at full liberty to execute that favorite project, and to multiply the commercial relations of his subjects in the different parts of his territories. [Lond. Pap.]
PROVIDENCE, October 21. On Wednesday next the hon. General
Assembly of this state will meet at South-Kingstown.
During the progress of the late epidemic, thirty-six persons died here, and sixteen at Bristol. Both towns are now happily freed from the disorder, and business going on as formerly.
In a packet which arrived here on Sunday last from New York, three sons of the late duke of Orleans came passengers.
At Bristol, on Tuesday last, a French gentleman by the name of Montpelier, in a fit of insanity, shot himself through the head with a pair of pistols. Another pair, loaded, were found in his pockets.
The Gazette. PHILADELPHIA. SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 28.
SUBSCRIPTIONS. Amount of the subscriptions received for the use of the sick poor, &c. of the city and liberties of Philadelphia, continued from the last publication, dols. 1718 96 Received since—
From Michael Prager, of Philad. 100 Benville, of Burlington, 100 Samuel Chew, of Chester town, Maryland, 50 A citizen of New York, by the post, unknown, 10 Benedict Dorsey, of Philadelphia, 35 From the citizens of Newburyport in New England, remitted to Samuel Coates, by Moses Brown, 600 Total received from the 25th Aug. 1797, to this day, 2613 96 Published by order of the committee, SAMUEL COATES, Treasurer.
The several printers of the newspapers are requested to republish this for the information of the subscribers.
Two persons more of the WHITEALL family have deceased of the prevailing fever than have been mentioned in the papers, viz. Doctor Benjamin Whiteall, a respectable physician of Woodbury, and Job Whiteall, eldest son of Job Whiteall, deceased, of Red Bank, making ten in all, in three families of the Whitealls—in the same neighbourhood, 8 of whom died of the fever.
HEALTH-OFFICE. October 27, 1797. A communication was read from the committee of Southwark, who had formed themselves into a Board, to render service to the sick and distressed during the prevailing fever, informing, that the fever having subsided, they had come to a resolution to discontinue their meetings.
Resolved, That the thanks of this board be conveyed to the committee of Southwark, for the constant and effectual service they have rendered to their fellow-citizens, during the prevailing fever. Published by order of the board. JOHN MILLER, Jun. Chairman.
DIED—Mr. JOHN CLARK, Silk Dyer, of this city.—His death was occasioned by a fall from his uncle in putting on a very small boot. Yesterday morning, in the vicinity of the city, Miss ANN HARKER.
At Cheltenham township, Montgomery county, Mrs. CATHERINE MILES, wife of Colonel Samuel Miles, formerly Mayor of this city. Mr. JOHN WITT, Printer, aged 23.
DIED, At Perth Amboy, on Wednesday, the 4th of October, aged 72, JAMES PARKER, Esq. Mayor of that city. His attachment and zeal for the prosperity of the city in which he presided near 30 years, and his incessant endeavours to promote its interests, will be long held in grateful remembrance by his surviving fellow-citizens. Possessed of a strong mind and uncommon assiduity, he attended to the business of a large and extensive estate, till a few weeks before his death. His talents and perspicuity in business for a long series of years, have been universally acknowledged, and will be long remembered, and his example of industry as worthy the imitation of the rising generation. Altho' deprived of the leisure necessary for a punctilious observance of the external duties of religion, he was not unmindful of its high obligations; and whenever opportunities offered to advance its interests or defend its doctrines from the attack of infidelity, he eagerly displayed the attachment of a christian. He possessed in eminent degree the virtues of hospitality, was beneficent and charitable without ostentation, in his principles, firm and unshaken, in his friendship, warm and sincere; in the more endearing relations of brother, husband and parent, tender and affectionate. Resigned to the will of an unerring Providence, he expired without a groan amidst his dearest connections, his afflicted comfort and children, in whose fond attentions he experienced not so much the merited returns of duty, as the effusions of love, gratitude and veneration. How much he was respected and esteemed whilst living, and how much his death is lamented, his family and friends, the town in which he so long presided, and the country at large, are sensibly impressed and can abundantly testify.
The possession of spice islands conquered from the Dutch, has become less an object to the British, since the discovery of several islands abounding in spices of various kinds, and particularly the nutmeg.
Within the few last years, several important discoveries of this kind have been made, and settlers left on the islands, where they are employed in making large plantations of the nutmeg tree. This is stated on the authority of Asiatic prints.
The brig Grace, in which Mr. MARSHALL, the other commissioner, took his passage, was spoke the 31st of August.
POST OFFICE. Philadelphia, Oct. 27, 1797.
LETTERS for the British Packet, for Falmouth, will be received at this Office until Tuesday, the 31st inst. at 12 o'clock, noon.—N. B. The inland postage to New-York must be paid.
THE Letter Bag of the Gullal Adolphus, for London, will be taken from the Post-Office Monday noon. Oct. 28.
GAZETTE MARINE LIST PORT OF PHILADELPHIA.
Table with 3 columns: Ship, Arrived, Days. Includes entries for Liberty, Romeo, Two Friends, Davidoff, Cleopatra, Newell, etc.
Just arrived.
From Port-au-Prince, and for Sale by the subscribers, No. 21, Penn-Street, 62 hogsheads, 83 barrels, 123 bags of Prime Coffee.
Insurance Company of the State of Pennsylvania.
The Office is again opened at the corner of Walnut and Second Streets, where applications are received as usual. Oct. 28.
To be Sold at Public Auction.
On Saturday evening, Nov. 4, '97, at 8 o'clock, at the Merchants' Coffee-house, dols. cts. 1 Note drawn by James Greenleaf in favour of and endorsed by Edward Fox, dated 5th August, 1796, due 11th October last, 1300 3 do. drawn by said James Greenleaf in favour of and endorsed by Edward Fox dated 5th August, 1796, at 4 months date, 1 payment dols. 2631 13, 1681 14, and 2681 14, amount together 8043 41 3 do. do. of same date, drawn and endorsed as aforesaid, payable in eight months, payments, dols. 2693 75 each, amount together 8081 25 1 draft drawn by Robert Morris on John Nicholson, dated 28th May, 1796, at 12 months 5000 1 do. drawn as aforesaid, at two years 5000 1 do. drawn by John Nicholson on Robert Morris, dated 28th May, 1796, at 3 years 5000 1 do. drawn as aforesaid, at 4 years 5000 20,000
The said drafts are secured by shares in the North America Land Company and endorsed by James Greenleaf.
1 Note dated Boston, 12th May, 1795, drawn by Thomas Dawes, jun. in favor of Thomas Greenleaf, payable 1st January, 1798, endorsed by Daniel Greenleaf, Henry Newman and James Greenleaf 22350 1 do. dated Boston, 18th Nov. 1795, drawn by Daniel Greenleaf, in favour of Thomas Dawes, jun. payable 1st Jan. 1798, endorsed by Thomas Greenleaf, Henry Newman, and James Greenleaf 6500 3 Notes, dated Boston, 17th Nov. 1795, drawn by Benjamin Haskell, in favour of James Greenleaf, payable 1st January, 1799, endorsed by said James Greenleaf and Nahum Pay, dols. 5500 1500—1000 8080 3 do. dated Boston, 17th Nov. 1795, drawn and endorsed as aforesaid, payable 1st Jan. 1800, one payment, dols. 6200, 5000, 4000 15300 One bond, Zachariah Cox to James Greenleaf, and assigned by him, dated the 11th March, 1795, in the sum of ten thousand dollars, conditioned for the conveyance of 25000 acres of Land, near the town of Fredericks in Glynn county and state of Georgia, the said bond full due.
John Connelly, auctioneer. Oct. 28.
CHARLESTON, Oct. 12. Nautical Improvement.
The substitution of Hadley's Octant in the room of that very defective and dangerous instrument Davis's Quadrant, has been a principal cause to which the improved condition of navigation is to be attributed.
The possession of the means of obtaining a correct observation of the heavenly bodies at sea, has led to the discovery of other objects than that which formed the original point of enquiry. Still the science, under all its present advantageous circumstances, is susceptible of additional improvements; and every attempt, however trivial it may be, to give perspicuity, is entitled to praise. Among the desiderata which have laid open to enquiry, that of obtaining a correct observation of the sun in foggy or hazy weather, when the real horizon cannot be ascertained, has not been the least. The want of this has been always the most particularly felt when and where it was most particularly needed. A mode has now been found, simple indeed in its construction, clear in its principle, and certain in its effects, for obviating this difficulty. The inventor has obtained a patent for this improvement, which is nothing more than fixing an artificial horizon on the plane of a Hadley's Octant, and rendering the eye glass moveable.
Injustice to the inventor, I shall only mention what he offers to the public attention, without entering in an explanation of the principles of it, lest interested men should take the advantage of profiting by it, to the injury of his patent. The patentee is Mr. John Seyds, Southwark, who has just published a collection of tables for regulating time, and correcting the latitude, computed from dead reckoning, by simple altitude, at any time in the forenoon, when the sun is not less than three points from the east; or any time in the afternoon, when the sun is not less than three points from the west, &c. &c. London, April 19, 1796. J. W.
For Stacked"> For St. Thomas's, THE DANISH BRIG Prince Frederick, Francis Geoli, Master. WILL sail with all convenient speed, having the greater part of her cargo ready to go on board. For Freight or Passage, apply to the Captain, or to JOSEPH STAKES. Oct. 28.
For SAVANNAH, THE FAST SAILING SHIP Swift Packet, Patrick Gribbin, Master. NOW lying at Smith's wharf, above Race-Street. Is handsomely accommodated for passengers, and will sail with all convenient speed. For freight or passage, apply to the Master on board, or at No. 95, South Front-Street, or of the subscribers, N. & J. Frazier. Oct. 28.
Wanted, to Hire, A large and convenient HOUSE, in or near the centre of the city—for which a generous rent will be given; to be taken for a year, or on lease for a longer term. Inquire of the Printer. Oct. 17.
The Medical Lectures In the University of Pennsylvania, are postponed until the last Monday in November next, October 14.
THE MAYOR'S OFFICE. IS KEPT, FOR THE PRESENT, AT THE CITY HALL.
effects, for obviating this difficulty. The inventor has obtained a patent for this improvement, which is nothing more than fixing an artificial horizon on the plane of a Hadley's Octant, and rendering the eye glass moveable. Injustice to the inventor, I shall only mention what he offers to the public attention, without entering in an explanation of the principles of it, lest interested men should take the advantage of profiting by it, to the injury of his patent. The patentee is Mr. John Seyds, Southwark, who has just published a collection of tables for regulating time, and correcting the latitude, computed from dead reckoning, by simple altitude, at any time in the forenoon, when the sun is not less than three points from the east; or any time in the afternoon, when the sun is not less than three points from the west, &c. &c. London, April 19, 1796. J. W.
For St. Thomas's, THE DANISH BRIG Prince Frederick, Francis Geoli, Master. WILL sail with all convenient speed, having the greater part of her cargo ready to go on board. For Freight or Passage, apply to the Captain, or to JOSEPH STAKES. Oct. 28.
For SAVANNAH, THE FAST SAILING SHIP Swift Packet, Patrick Gribbin, Master. NOW lying at Smith's wharf, above Race-Street. Is handsomely accommodated for passengers, and will sail with all convenient speed. For freight or passage, apply to the Master on board, or at No. 95, South Front-Street, or of the subscribers, N. & J. Frazier. Oct. 28.
Just arrived.
From Port-au-Prince, and for Sale by the subscribers, No. 21, Penn-Street, 62 hogsheads, 83 barrels, 123 bags of Prime Coffee. Willings & Francis. Oct. 28.
Insurance Company of the State of Pennsylvania.
The Office is again opened at the corner of Walnut and Second Streets, where applications are received as usual. Oct. 28.
To be Sold at Public Auction.
On Saturday evening, Nov. 4, '97, at 8 o'clock, at the Merchants' Coffee-house, dols. cts. 1 Note drawn by James Greenleaf in favour of and endorsed by Edward Fox, dated 5th August, 1796, due 11th October last, 1300 3 do. drawn by said James Greenleaf in favour of and endorsed by Edward Fox dated 5th August, 1796, at 4 months date, 1 payment dols. 2631 13, 1681 14, and 2681 14, amount together 8043 41 3 do. do. of same date, drawn and endorsed as aforesaid, payable in eight months, payments, dols. 2693 75 each, amount together 8081 25 1 draft drawn by Robert Morris on John Nicholson, dated 28th May, 1796, at 12 months 5000 1 do. drawn as aforesaid, at two years 5000 1 do. drawn by John Nicholson on Robert Morris, dated 28th May, 1796, at 3 years 5000 1 do. drawn as aforesaid, at 4 years 5000 20,000
The said drafts are secured by shares in the North America Land Company and endorsed by James Greenleaf.
1 Note dated Boston, 12th May, 1795, drawn by Thomas Dawes, jun. in favor of Thomas Greenleaf, payable 1st January, 1798, endorsed by Daniel Greenleaf, Henry Newman and James Greenleaf 22350 1 do. dated Boston, 18th Nov. 1795, drawn by Daniel Greenleaf, in favour of Thomas Dawes, jun. payable 1st Jan. 1798, endorsed by Thomas Greenleaf, Henry Newman, and James Greenleaf 6500 3 Notes, dated Boston, 17th Nov. 1795, drawn by Benjamin Haskell, in favour of James Greenleaf, payable 1st January, 1799, endorsed by said James Greenleaf and Nahum Pay, dols. 5500 1500—1000 8080 3 do. dated Boston, 17th Nov. 1795, drawn and endorsed as aforesaid, payable 1st Jan. 1800, one payment, dols. 6200, 5000, 4000 15300 One bond, Zachariah Cox to James Greenleaf, and assigned by him, dated the 11th March, 1795, in the sum of ten thousand dollars, conditioned for the conveyance of 25000 acres of Land, near the town of Fredericks in Glynn county and state of Georgia, the said bond full due.
John Connelly, auctioneer. Oct. 28.
CHARLESTON, Oct. 12. Nautical Improvement.
The substitution of Hadley's Octant in the room of that very defective and dangerous instrument Davis's Quadrant, has been a principal cause to which the improved condition of navigation is to be attributed.
The possession of the means of obtaining a correct observation of the heavenly bodies at sea, has led to the discovery of other objects than that which formed the original point of enquiry. Still the science, under all its present advantageous circumstances, is susceptible of additional improvements; and every attempt, however trivial it may be, to give perspicuity, is entitled to praise. Among the desiderata which have laid open to enquiry, that of obtaining a correct observation of the sun in foggy or hazy weather, when the real horizon cannot be ascertained, has not been the least. The want of this has been always the most particularly felt when and where it was most particularly needed. A mode has now been found, simple indeed in its construction, clear in its principle, and certain in its effects, for obviating this difficulty. The inventor has obtained a patent for this improvement, which is nothing more than fixing an artificial horizon on the plane of a Hadley's Octant, and rendering the eye glass moveable. Injustice to the inventor, I shall only mention what he offers to the public attention, without entering in an explanation of the principles of it, lest interested men should take the advantage of profiting by it, to the injury of his patent. The patentee is Mr. John Seyds, Southwark, who has just published a collection of tables for regulating time, and correcting the latitude, computed from dead reckoning, by simple altitude, at any time in the forenoon, when the sun is not less than three points from the east; or any time in the afternoon, when the sun is not less than three points from the west, &c. &c. London, April 19, 1796. J. W.
For St. Thomas's, THE DANISH BRIG Prince Frederick, Francis Geoli, Master. WILL sail with all convenient speed, having the greater part of her cargo ready to go on board. For Freight or Passage, apply to the Captain, or to JOSEPH STAKES. Oct. 28.
For SAVANNAH, THE FAST SAILING SHIP Swift Packet, Patrick Gribbin, Master. NOW lying at Smith's wharf, above Race-Street. Is handsomely accommodated for passengers, and will sail with all convenient speed. For freight or passage, apply to the Master on board, or at No. 95, South Front-Street, or of the subscribers, N. & J. Frazier. Oct. 28.
Just arrived.
From Port-au-Prince, and for Sale by the subscribers, No. 21, Penn-Street, 62 hogsheads, 83 barrels, 123 bags of Prime Coffee. Willings & Francis. Oct. 28.
Insurance Company of the State of Pennsylvania.
The Office is again opened at the corner of Walnut and Second Streets, where applications are received as usual. Oct. 28.
To be Sold at Public Auction.
On Saturday evening, Nov. 4, '97, at 8 o'clock, at the Merchants' Coffee-house, dols. cts. 1 Note drawn by James Greenleaf in favour of and endorsed by Edward Fox, dated 5th August, 1796, due 11th October last, 1300 3 do. drawn by said James Greenleaf in favour of and endorsed by Edward Fox dated 5th August, 1796, at 4 months date, 1 payment dols. 2631 13, 1681 14, and 2681 14, amount together 8043 41 3 do. do. of same date, drawn and endorsed as aforesaid, payable in eight months, payments, dols. 2693 75 each, amount together 8081 25 1 draft drawn by Robert Morris on John Nicholson, dated 28th May, 1796, at 12 months 5000 1 do. drawn as aforesaid, at two years 5000 1 do. drawn by John Nicholson on Robert Morris, dated 28th May, 1796, at 3 years 5000 1 do. drawn as aforesaid, at 4 years 5000 20,000
The said drafts are secured by shares in the North America Land Company and endorsed by James Greenleaf.
1 Note dated Boston, 12th May, 1795, drawn by Thomas Dawes, jun. in favor of Thomas Greenleaf, payable 1st January, 1798, endorsed by Daniel Greenleaf, Henry Newman and James Greenleaf 22350 1 do. dated Boston, 18th Nov. 1795, drawn by Daniel Greenleaf, in favour of Thomas Dawes, jun. payable 1st Jan. 1798, endorsed by Thomas Greenleaf, Henry Newman, and James Greenleaf 6500 3 Notes, dated Boston, 17th Nov. 1795, drawn by Benjamin Haskell, in favour of James Greenleaf, payable 1st January, 1799, endorsed by said James Greenleaf and Nahum Pay, dols. 5500 1500—1000 8080 3 do. dated Boston, 17th Nov. 1795, drawn and endorsed as aforesaid, payable 1st Jan. 1800, one payment, dols. 6200, 5000, 4000 15300 One bond, Zachariah Cox to James Greenleaf, and assigned by him, dated the 11th March, 1795, in the sum of ten thousand dollars, conditioned for the conveyance of 25000 acres of Land, near the town of Fredericks in Glynn county and state of Georgia, the said bond full due.
John Connelly, auctioneer. Oct.

To be Sold at Public Vendue, (If not before disposed of at private sale) ON Friday, the first of December next, at six o'clock in the evening, at the Merchants' Coffee House, in Philadelphia, Forty Thousand Nine hundred and Thirty Nine acres of LAND, now or late in the County of Washington, and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and on the waters of Fresh and Wheeling Creeks and Ten Mile Run. These Lands are fertile and well timbered, and were patented early in 1737, except 3700 acres or thereabouts, which were patented in 1732. One fourth of the purchase money to be paid at the time of sale, for the residue a credit of one, two and three months, will be given, on interest and good security. October 6. 33w18
To be Sold at Public Vendue, (If not before disposed of at private sale) ON Friday, the first day of December, at six o'clock in the evening, at the Merchants' Coffee House, in Philadelphia, Twenty Six Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty acres of LAND, in the State of New-York, between the northern bounds of Pennsylvania and the Susquehanna, now, or late, in the townships of Hamden and Warren, and county of Montgomery. One fourth of the purchase money is to be paid at the time of sale; for the residue a credit of one, two, and three months will be given, on interest and good security. October 6. 33w18
PEALE'S MUSEUM.
THIS valuable repository of the works of Nature, so well calculated to delight the mind and enlarge the understanding, is opened daily, as usual. It stands in an airy and healthy situation, and free from the epidemic that at present afflicts the city; it may, therefore, be frequented with the greatest safety. As an Amusement, the study of Nature is the most rational and pleasing; as a Science, the most sublime and instructive. It elevates the mind and expands the heart. They "Who Nature's works can charm, with God himself Hold converse."  Many interesting additions have lately been made to this Museum: and the feathered tribe, containing a variety of the most rare and beautiful subjects, is now very advantageously arranged. Waxen Figures, of Men large as life (some of them casts from nature) are here dressed in their proper habits, and placed in attitudes characteristic of their respective nations. Here may be seen the North-American Savage, and the Savage of South-America—a laboring Chinese, and the Chinese Gentleman—the footy African, and the Kamtschatdale—with some Natives of the South Sea Islands. The immense variety, and interesting diversity which this Museum offers to the view, may be seen but cannot be described with full effect. Price only 1-4th of a dollar. Sept. 28. 12w
Just Received, From Batavia (via Providence) A few Boxes of Spices, consisting of Nutmegs, Cloves and mace For sale by WILLINGS & FRANCIS, Penn-street. 12w
Davis's Law Book Store, No. 319, High-Street. GEORGE DAVIS, BEING busied for some time past in preparations for removing into his present house, has been under the necessity of postponing until this day informing the gentlemen of the Bar generally thro' the United States, that his spring importation of law books is now arranged and ready for sale, on terms that he trusts will entitle him to the like preference he has experienced for several years past. Catalogues, combining the most varied collection ever imported into this country, are printed and will be delivered on application. June 27. 22w-6w
City Commissioners' Office, June 22, 1797. IN pursuance of an ordinance from the Select and common councils, passed the 22nd day of May last, appointing the city commissioners, and prescribing their duties, section 9th. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the city is divided into five districts, each to be under the superintendence of one of the city commissioners, who is to be individually responsible for the cleanliness of the same, and are as follows. District No. 1. From the south side of Cedar-street, to the north side of Spruce-street, under the superintendence of Nathan Boys. 2. From the north side of Spruce-street, to the north side of Walnut-street, under the superintendence of Hugh Roberts. 3. From the north side of Walnut to the south side of High-street, under the superintendence of Joseph Claypoole. 4. From the north side of High-street, to the north side of Mulberry-street, under the superintendence of William Moulder. 5. From the north side of Mulberry-street to the north side of Vine-street, under the superintendence of Nicholas Hicks. The cleaning of High-street to be in common. A stated meeting of the city commissioners is held at the Old Court House, in High-street, every Tuesday evening at 5 o'clock. July 14. eoim
Stands for Draymen, &c. In pursuance of an Ordinance from the Select and Common Councils, bearing date the 22nd day of April, 1797, providing for the appointment of City Commissioners, &c. Sec. 13th. THE following places are fixed upon by the said City Commissioners for Stands for Draymen and their Horses. In Vine-street, eastward of Front-street, on both sides. Sassafras, High, Chestnut and Walnut-streets, eastward of Front-street, on the north side only. Mulberry-street, south side from Front to Third-street. Front-street, east side from Vine-street to Eliza's alley. Front-street, from opposite to Black Horse alley to Hamilton's stores, east side. Water-street, west side from the north end of Stomper's or Moore's stores to Pine-street. Penn-street from Pine to Cedar-street, west side. Drawbridge, north side, east of Front-street. Spruce, Pine and South streets, east of Front street, south side. Dock-street, between Walnut-street and the flag stone crossings, east side, opposite George Orkley's. Second-street, between Sassafras and Vine streets, west side. Fifth-street, east side from Chestnut to Mulberry streets. Sassafras-street, from Third to Fourth-street, east side. No dray or horse to stand within ten feet of any pump. STANDS FOR HACKNEY COACHES. Pine-street, north side from Fourth to Fifth streets. Fifth-street, between Chestnut and Walnut streets, west side. Branch-street, north side, between Third and Fourth streets. July 14. mw&fim
A Literary Treat. Just published, handsomely printed on writing paper, price 1 dollar. A new edition of that popular and entertaining work, entitled THE FORESTERS, an American Tale; being a sequel to the history of John Bull, the Cloister—In a series of letters to a friend, with the addition of two letters, alluding to recent political transactions in America. The following extract from the Clavis Allegorica, shews the principal characters that are introduced: John Bull, the Kingdom of England His Mother, the Church of England His Wife, the Parliament His Sister Peg, the Church of Scotland His Brother Patrick, Ireland Lewis, the Kingdom of France His Mistress, the Old Constitution His new Wife, the National Representation Lord Strutt, the Kingdom of Spain Nicholas Frog, the Dutch Republic The Franks, the French Republic The Foresters, the United States of America Robert Lumber, New-Hampshire John Codline, Massachusetts Humphrey Plowshare, Connecticut Roger Carrier, Rhode Island Peter Bull Frog, New-York Julius Cæsar, New-Jersey William Broadbrim, Pennsylvania Califmar, Delaware Walter Pipeword, Virginia His Grandson, George Washington Peter Pitch, North Carolina Charles Indigo, South Carolina George Truity, Georgia Ethan Greenwood, Vermont Hunter Longknife, Kentucky Black Cattle, Negro Slaves Rats, Speculators Mother Carey's Chickens, Jacobins This popular and entertaining historical history of America is attributed to the Rev. Dr. BENJAMIN. It has great share of originality and abounds with genuine humour. It is continued down to the present time, and characterizes those late political transactions which have caused so much uneasiness in America. Sold by H. and P. RICE, Bookseller, No. 16, South Second Street, and No. 50, Market-street. June 26. 3
Will be Landed, From on board the ship Adeline, Capt. BLAIR, from Hamburg, 20 bales white Ruhlina clean Hemp 2 casks Clover Seed For Sale by Thomas Herman Leuffer, North Fifth Street, No. 34. June 26. 3
Young Hylon Tea. 40 chests of a superior quality—Also, 100 do. of Hylon, Imported in the Woodrop Sims, and for sale by the Subscriber, corner of Second and Pine street. June 21. 5
Insurance Company of the State of Pennsylvania. THE Office will be kept until further notice at the School House in Germantown. The Company will retain the room in Chestnut, above Seventh street, where a person will attend to receive and give answers to applications, every day from 10 until 1 o'clock. Sept. 13. d3t2awtf
Thomas Armat and Son, OF PHILADELPHIA, INFORM their customers and the public, they have removed a part of their merchandise to Wilmington. Also, they have their store open in the city. At either place their friends can be supplied, and their orders carefully attended to. By the Cumberland, from Hull, they have received a handsome assortment of articles, suitable to the approaching season; and expect to add to it by other fall ships. Should the sickness prevail in the central part of the city, that branch of their business will be removed to Germantown. The communication by post is open and regular as usual. Sept. 18. thtf
TO BE SOLD VERY CHEAP! A Light WAGGON almost new, with a frame and a pair of harness (English collars) has never been used—price 90 Dollars. A Horse 16 hands high, seven years old—and a new chair, with a falling top and harness—30. Enquire No. 331, Market-street August 24. d2w
For sale or to be let on ground-rent, A valuable Lot of Ground; SITUATE on the north-east corner of Walnut and Fifth Streets, fronting the State-House square. This lot is fifty-one feet front on Walnut street, and one hundred and thirteen feet and an half on Fifth street; there are at present two small two story brick houses, and a number of small tenements thereon. Also, for Sale, Two three story Brick Houses With convenient stores, wharf, &c. situated on Water-street, between Mulberry and Sassafras streets, containing in front on Water street fifty-four feet, and continuing that breadth eastward ninety-five feet, then widening to the fourth thirteen feet six inches. These houses are the convenience of a public alley adjoining on the north side, and are a very desirable situation for a merchant, flour factor, or others who may have occasion for storage of goods. This property will be sold on very reasonable terms for cash. For further information apply to the printer. July 31. m&wtf
The History of Pennsylvania, By ROBERT PROUD, Is now in the press, and will be published, with all convenient expedition, by ZECHAH POULESON, jun. No. 80, Chestnut-street, Philadelphia, where subscriptions will continue to be received, and at the Philadelphia Library, according to the printed proposals, until the work is ready for the subscribers. July 18. 22wtf
The Partnership, UNDER the firm of FREEMAN & Company, is dissolved by mutual consent. All persons having any demands against the said House are desired to render the same to T. B. Freeman; and those indebted to the House are desired to make payment to him—By whom business will in future be carried on, at his Store, No. 39, South Front-street. August 7. cod4w
Richard and James Potter HAVE removed their Counting House to No. 45, South Fifth-street. August 2. w&fif
Lancaster, Harrisburg, Carlisle, Shippensburg and Sunbury STAGES. THE public are requested to take notice, that the partnership which was for some time subsisted between Mathias Slough of Lancaster, and William Geer, is now dissolved: but, not as M. Slough intimates to the public without just cause; as will more fully appear by a letter on the subject from M. Slough to W. Geer, dated the 29th December last. A recital of which is now deemed necessary. Any gentleman who wishes to be more circumstantially informed of the merits of this business, by applying to W. Geer may have the perusal of M. Slough's letter, and then can be at full liberty to determine whether or not W. Geer is not perfectly justifiable in attaching himself to any other person in the protection of the Stage conveyance from Philadelphia to Shippensburg, or any other place. Now from the liberal and generous support the public were pleased to confer on the first effort in this business, William Geer, in conjunction with Messrs. Reily, Weed and Witmer, is determined to prosecute and carry it on, with every care, attention and dispatch that a zeal to oblige the public can possibly exert. The above company, who are amply provided with carriages, horses, and every appurtenance to render the passage safe and commodious, inform those who wish to patronize and encourage the undertaking, that they can take their seats at George Weed's, the sign of the White Horse, Market Street, Philadelphia, on every Monday and Friday, to proceed to Lancaster, Harrisburg, Carlisle and Shippensburg. The fare as hitherto established. For the further accommodation of the public, a Stage will start every Wednesday from the house of Samuel Elder, in Harrisburg, arrive at Sunbury in Northumberland county, every Thursday, and return from thence and arrive at Harrisburg every Saturday, so that passengers destined for Lancaster or Philadelphia, may proceed on Mondays. Lancaster, Jan. 27, 1797. N. B. This Line of Stages starts from the house of William Ferree, in Lancaster, on every Tuesday and Saturday morning at 6 o'clock, proceeding to the westward; and from the house of Mr. Samuel Elder in Harrisburg every Wednesday morning, on the same evening arrives at Patrick Cochran's in Shippensburg, and returns from thence on every Thursday; performing the same routine daily as in its tour from Philadelphia. WILLIAM GEER. mwf
This Day Published, And to be sold by WILLIAM YOUNG, corner of Second and Chestnut Streets, Price 3-8ths of a Dollar. Observations on certain Documents Contained in No. V and VI of "The History of the United States for the year 1796," In which the charge of speculation against ALEXANDER HAMILTON, Late SECRETARY of the TREASURY, is FULLY REFUTED. WRITTEN BY HIMSELF. This publication presents a concise statement of the facts means practised by the Jacobins of the United States toasperse the characters of those persons who are considered as hostile to their disorganizing schemes. It also contains the correspondence between Mr. Hamilton and Messrs. Monroe, Muhlenburgh and Venable, on the subject of the documents aforesaid, and a series of letters from James Reynolds and his wife to Mr. Hamilton, proving beyond the possibility of a doubt, that the connection between him and Reynolds, was the result of a daring conspiracy on the part of the latter and his associates to extort money. A discount of one third from the retail price will be made in favor of wholesale purchasers, for cash. Orders to be addressed to Mr. Young. August 25. 6t
No. 188. District of Pennsylvania, to wit: (L. S.) BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the twenty sixth day of July, in the twenty second year of the independence of the United States of America, JOHN PENNO, of the said district, hath deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit: "Observations on certain documents contained in No. V. and VI. of "The History of the United States for the year 1796," in which the charge of speculation against Alexander Hamilton, late Secretary of the Treasury, is fully refuted—Written by himself." In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, "An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned." SAMUEL CALDWELL, Clerk of the District of Pennsylvania. July 27. w4w
The Inhabitants of the District of Southwark, ARE informed that a Coachman is provided, to be kept at the Constable's office, the north east corner of Front and Almond Streets, where the friends of those sick persons who desire to be removed to the City Hospital, are requested to make application—Also, a Hearse will be kept in readiness for the removal of the dead. JONATHAN PENROSE. N. B.—The Poor, who wish to remove to the Tents on Schuylkill, may be furnished with orders by applying as above. Aug. 29. 6t
William Blackburn, LOTTERY AND BROKER'S OFFICE No. 64 South Second-Street. TICKETS in the Canal Lottery, No. II, which commenced drawing the 29th May, FOR SALE. The price of tickets will rise in proportion as the drawing advances, particularly on account of the five first drawn tickets, prizes of four thousand dollars each, on the last day of drawing. Check Books kept for examination and registering, in the Canal, No. 2, City of Washington, No. 2, and Paterson Lotteries. Also, tickets for sale in the Schuylkill bridge and Porters Bridge lotteries, which will begin drawing in the course of the summer. The business of a Broker in all kinds of Stock, Bills, Notes, Lands, &c. &c. transacted with the utmost attention. June 2. tu&f
Erskine's View of the War. JUST PUBLISHED, By ROBERT CAMPBELL & Co. No. 40 South Second Street, [Price 3 Cents] A View of the Causes and Consequences of the present War with France. By the Honorable THOMAS ERSKINE. May 13. 5
STATE TRIALS. Sold by W. Young, Bookseller, No. 52, South Second-street. The Pennsylvania State Trials, Containing the impeachment, trial, and acquittal of Francis Hopkinson, Judge of the Court of Admiralty, and John Nicholson, Comptroller General—in one large 8 vo. vol. Price, in boards, 3 dollars. W. Young has for sale, a general assortment of Books. Also, Stationery, retail and by the package, well assorted, and entitled to the draw-back if exported. July 7. 6t
For Sale, That well known place, called VANDERGRIFT'S FERRY. ON Neshannoy creek, 18 miles from Philadelphia, on the New York post road, containing 74 acres and 94 perches. Upon the premises are a large two story stone house occupied as a tavern, and a good one story stone kitchen, and a large frame stable with a good threshing floor, and some out buildings—also a well of good water, and an excellent ice House. On this place is a most elegant situation for a gentleman's seat, commanding a view of the Neshannoy to its junction with the Delaware, and thence across to the Jersey shore. It has the privilege of one half the toll received from the bridge. For terms apply to the Subscriber, MORDECAI LEWIS. May 24. 32wtf
COLUMBIA HOUSE Boarding School for young Ladies. MRS. GROOMBRIDGE with much pleasure and respect, returns her sincere acknowledgement for the liberal encouragement she has received during four years residence in Philadelphia; and assures her friends and the public, so far from intending to decline her school, she has made a superior arrangement for the more convenient accommodation of her scholars.—Every branch of useful and polite education is particularly attended to by Mrs. Groombridge and masters excelling in their respective professions. Corner of Spruce and Eleventh Streets. June 5th, 1797. 31m&f
Just Published, And to be had of Messrs. Dobson, Campbell, Rice, Cary, and the other principal Booksellers in the city, price one dollar, twenty-five cents in boards, New Views of the Origin of the Tribes and Nations of America. By BENJAMIN SMITH BARTON, M. D. June 20. 6t
City of Washington. SCHEME Of the Lottery, No. II, For the Improvement of the Federal City. A magnificent dwelling-house 20,000 dollars, & cash 30,000, are 1 ditto 15,000 & cash 25,000 40,000 1 ditto 15,000 & cash 15,000 30,000 1 ditto 10,000 & cash 10,000 20,000 1 ditto 5,000 & cash 5,000 10,000 1 ditto 5,000 & cash 5,000 10,000 1 cash prize of 5 do. 5,000 each, are 10,000 10 do. 1,000 10,000 20 do. 500 10,000 20 do. 100 2,000 200 do. 50 10,000 400 do. 25 10,000 1,000 do. 10 10,000 15,000 do. 10 150,000 16,739 Prizes. 33,261 Blanks. 50,000 Tickets, at Eight Dollars, 400,000 N. B. To favour those who may take a quantity of Tickets, the prize of 40,000 dollars will be the LAST drawn ticket, and the 30,000 the LAST but ONE. And approved notes, securing payment in either money or prizes, in ten days after drawing, will be received for any number not less than 50 tickets. This Lottery will afford an elegant specimen of the private buildings to be erected in the City of Washington—Two beautiful designs are already selected for the entire fronts on two of the public squares, from these drawings it is proposed to erect two cantrears, or corner buildings, as soon as possible after this lottery is sold, and to convey them, when complete, to the fortunate adventurers, in the manner described in the scheme for the Hotel Lottery. A nett deduction of five per cent. will be made to defray the necessary expenses of printing, &c. and the surplus will be made a part of the fund intended for the National University, to be erected within the city of Washington. The real securities given for the payment of the Prizes, are held by the President and two Directors of the Bank of Columbia, and are valued at more than half the amount of the lottery. SAMUEL BLADGET. 5. Tickets may be had at the Bank of Columbia; of James West & Co. Baltimore; of Peter Gilman, Boston; of John Hopkins, Richmond; and of Richard Wells, Cooper's Ferry. mwf
The Philadelphia, Alston, and Tuckerton MAIL STAGE. THE proprietors beg leave to inform the public, that they have established a Stage between Philadelphia, Alston, Bath, Hampton, Speersville, and Martha Furnace, Wading River, sitting mill, and the town of Tuckerton, in New-Jersey, to go once a week, and are provided with good horses, a comfortable carriage, and a careful driver, for the conveyance of the mail, passengers, and goods. The Stage will start every Thursday, at 10 o'clock, A. M. from Mr. Daniel Cooper's Ferry, and lodge that night at "Job Bodine's," at Longacoming; and on on Friday, at 6 o'clock, P. M. arrive at Caleb Evans's, innkeeper, in Tuckerton, distant from the city 54 miles, (from the Atlantic 6, and from the East Grouning Plains 7 miles) where are good accommodations for travellers, and where are commodious and safe passage boats provided to convey passengers to Capt. William Warrenton's house, on Tucker's Island, adjoining the Atlantic, where are good accommodations, and a convenient place to bathe; the sportsman who wishes to regale himself with fowling and fishing, may at this place be highly gratified, there being at almost every season of the year fowl and fish in abundance. The Stage on its return starts from the aforesaid C. Evans's, in Tuckerton, every Tuesday, at 6 o'clock, A. M. breakfasts at "Job Bodine's," at Wading River Bridge, lodge that night at Longacoming, and at 6 o'clock, P. M. on Wednesday, arrive at the aforesaid Cooper's Ferry. It is presumed that no route of an equal distance will be less expensive, or furnish the traveller with a greater variety of amusement, as he will not only have a pleasant sail to the Atlantic, from Tuckerton, but have the curiosity of seeing on the road either a number of capital furnaces and forges, and one sitting mill, in complete order, and at work; gentlemen, too, who are owners, or factors; of any of the aforesaid iron works, are solicited to encourage and support this Stage (by which they can be so well accommodated) the continuance of which will much depend on their aid. The rates of passengers and baggage are as follows: For a passenger from the aforesaid Daniel Cooper's Ferry to Tuckerton, including 14 lb. of baggage, Two Dollars; for way passengers per mile, Four Cents—150 lb. of baggage equal to a passenger. Postage of letters, newspapers, &c. will be agreeably to law. N. B. The mail crosses from the Old Ferry. THOMAS WARDLE & Co. Tuckerton, Sept. 28. 08. 5.—22wtf
The Norfolk Mail STAGE. THIS Stage starts from the GEORGE Tavern, at the corner of Second and Arch Streets, in Philadelphia, every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, at 3 o'clock, in the morning; arrives at Dover the first day, at Snowhill the second day, at Northampton Court House the third day, and on the morning of the fourth day the passengers find a safe and comfortable packet to convey them to Norfolk. A packet leaves Norfolk for Northampton ferry, every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, and the Stage starts from this ferry for Philadelphia, every Monday, Wednesday and Friday; puts up at Snow Hill the first night, at Dover the 2d night, and arrives in Philadelphia in the evening of the third day. The distance on this route, between Philadelphia and Norfolk, is 80 miles less than on any stage route between those places. Too much cannot be said in favor of the road, which is most excellent indeed. The proprietors willingly engage to return the whole fare to any passenger, who, after having performed this route, will say that he ever travelled in a stage for the same distance, so good a road in America. August 11. d3m. cotf.
WINDOW GLASS, Of Superior Quality, and cheaper than any other is the City— OF VARIOUS SIZES, From 8 by 6 to 19 by 14. By the single Box or Quantity, may be had at the store of the Subscribers, corner of Arch and Front-street. James C. & Samuel W. Fisher, Philadelphia, June 2, 1797. 31m&wtf
30 Dollars Reward. RAN away on Saturday last, two indented Servants, Gifford Daily, a mulatto boy about 17 years of age, a slim light built active fellow, can read and write, five feet seven or eight inches high, has a heavy countenance; had on a fustian coat and trowsers, a high crowned hat, fine shoes &c. Allan Hellons, a black man, about 24 years of age, five feet seven or eight inches high, a thick set clumsy built fellow, particularly about the breech, had on a fustian blue jacket lined with fustian, dark striped vest, fustian trowsers, high crowned hat, coarse shoes, &c.; each of them had several shirts and several other cloaths with them. Thirty Dollars will be paid for the runaways, or 15 dollars for each, and reasonable charges, on delivering them at No. 54, North Third-street. The black fellow is about a year from Lewis Town, in the County of Sussex, state of Delaware, and has taken the boy with him. July 31. mtnu&3w
To be SOLD or RENTED, A LARGE 3 Story Brick House, on the south side of Filbert street, between Eighth and Ninth, lately occupied as the Surveyor General's Office. The Building is 36 feet front and 35 feet deep, the lot 110 feet deep, with the privilege of a nine feet wide Alley extending the whole length of the lot, to a thirty feet wide Court for Carriages to turn in. The House is not plastered, and may be turned either into one, or two dwelling Houses. It is suitable for a large Manufacturing, or would make a good Tavern. Immediate possession will be given. Apply to No. 117, Chestnut-Street. Aug. 21. cod4t.
Musical Instrument Manufactory, No. 167, Arch-Street. HARPER, harpsichord, grand, portable grand, fid-board, pier table and square piano forte maker from London, returns thanks to his friends and the public, for their liberal encouragement, and hopes that by his assiduity and attention to every branch of his business, to merit a continuance of their favors. Piano fortes made on the newest and most approved plans, with pedals, patent swell, and French harp stop, which he flatters himself to be equal to not superior to any imported, and twenty per cent cheaper. Any instrument purchased of him, if not approved of in twelve months, he will exchange. N. B. All kinds of Musical instruments made, used, and repaired with the greatest accuracy, dispatch, and on the most reasonable terms, for ready money only. Second hand Piano Fortes taken in exchange. May 26. 6m
Forty Dollars Reward. RAN away from the subscriber, on the first day of this inst. July, a mulatto Man, named Will Bowzer, about forty years of age, five feet seven or eight inches high, rather chunky made; had on when he went away, a drab colored cloth coat, striped purple trowsers and jacket. It is probable he will change his cloaths, as he took a number with him. The said fellow formerly belonged to Mr. Charles Blake of this place; and it is expected he has made towards Jones's Neck, in the Delaware State.—Any person apprehending the said fellow, and securing him so that I can get him again, shall receive the above reward if taken out of the county, and Twenty Dollars if in the county, and all reasonable charges if bro't home. JESSE REED, Queen Ann's County, Maryland.