Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser. (Philadelphia [Pa.]), 1799-08-20 00:00:00

The price of this Gazette is Eight Dollars per annum to Subscribers residing in the city of Philadelphia. All others pay one Dollar additional for enclosing and directing; and unless some person in this city will become answerable for the subscription, it must be paid Six Months in Advance.
For SALE, The new Schooner VICTORY, William Holmes, master. NOW lying at Chestnut Street wharf, burthen 60 tons; if applied for on or before Tuesday next; if not sold then, she will take in Freight for New-York, and proceed immediately. For terms, apply to the Captain on board, or to GEORGE W. IMLAY, No. 58, Dock Street.
For Sale or Charter, THE BRIG SALLY & BETSEY, Burthen, 100 Tons. apply to SAGE & DUGAN. Who have for sale 60 white boxes and brown Havana Sugars, Ten Hogsheads Clayed do. 1200 Buires St. Martin's. Clare in cases, Bourdeaux Brandy, 1st and 4th proof, sweet all in bottles and Buires.
JUST ARRIVED, In the ship Belvedere, John Frankford, commander, from Alicante and Gibraltar. 308 PIPES BRANDY, 27 pipes } strong bodied RED WINE 34 hogsheads } 34 quarter casks } 15 butts } SHERRY 60 quarter casks } 100 quarter casks Malaga Wine 200 kegs Rulins 450 boxes do. 94 jars do. FOR SALE BY NICKLIN & GRIFFITH, Who also offer for sale, THE SAID SHIP BELVEDERE.
SHE is New-York built, coppered to the bends, mounts 14 six-pounders, with small arms in proportion and falls off. august 13 m w & f t f
FOR LONDON, THE SHIP FAME, Edward Jones, Master. WILL sail with all convenient speed. For freight or passage apply to JOSEPH SIMS, No. 174, South Third Street. August 5 dtf.
FOR CHARTER, The British Letter of Marque LONDON, Samuel Roper, commander. BURTHEN 310 Tons, coppered, sheathed, mounting Twenty guns, and will be ready to receive a cargo in about 14 days, for terms apply to NICKLIN & GRIFFITH. WHO HAVE FOR SALE ON BOARD SAID SHIP, 40 TONS PATENT SHEATHING COPPER assorted from 18 to 32 ounces to the square foot. Composition Nails, Spikes and Bolts of various descriptions. 20 lbs. guns of 4 cwt. each, 40 lbs. do. 6 cwt. do. 120 do. 120 do. 1/2 do. 40 do. carriages, 12 cwt. each. 240 crates Quetta Ware, assorted, 200 tuns Fine Stowed Salt, 45 do. Houle Coal, and a quantity of Paints. august 3 codf
FOR SALE, The fast sailing Ship SWIFT PACKET. She is well calculated as a Packet between this and the southern states, having handsome and extensive accommodations for passengers. She is well suited for the freights or West India trade, and can be sent to sea at a trifling expense. The inventory may be seen and the terms of sale made known by applying to N. & J. FRAZIER, No. 95 South Front St. may 30. dawgawf
SHIP BROKER'S OFFICE, And Commission Store, No. 129, SOUTH FRONT STREET, Next door to the Custom House. THE Subscriber, encouraged by the advice of his friends, offers his service to the public as a Ship and Insurance Broker. He proposes to buy and sell vessels and every thing relating thereto—assist matters of vessels and others in entering and clearing at the Custom House, procuring and shipping freight, settling Insurance and all other mercantile accounts, and have on hand the necessary Blanks and Stamps. Papers in foreign languages translated, and information given in general mercantile matters. From a knowledge gained by long experience of every branch of business he hopes to be useful to those who please to favor him with their commands. SAMUEL EMERY. november 10 gaw
For LIVERPOOL, The British letter-of-marque ship, THE LONDON, Samuel Roper, commander. Burthen 300 Tons, coppered to the bends and mounting 16 six-pounders. A great part of her cargo being ready to go on board, she is intended to sail as soon as possible. For freight or passage apply to the Captain on board, or to NICKLIN & GRIFFITH. august 13
OFFICE FOR THE SALE OF REAL ESTATES, AGENCY & COMMISSION BUSINESS, NO. 14 CHESTNUT-STREET, Between 2d & Front-Street, Philadelphia. THE SUBSCRIBER, Being solicited thereto by a number of his friends, takes this method to acquaint the Public, that he has this day opened the above Office, and has for sale the following property, viz.
Two excellent well built frame houses, two rooms on a floor, completely finished in Christian, between Third and Fourth Streets, Southwark; two frame houses at the corner of Fifth and Christian Streets; one three story brick, and one two story frame house in Queen Street; one good accustomed tavern in German Street, between Third and Fourth Streets, Southwark, known by the name of Woke's Tavern. One Plantation and tract of Land in Salem County, New Jersey, containing 70 acres, with a frame dwelling house, and other improvements thereon, together with a good proportion of wood land—the above lies near a public landing. Also, 25 acres of wood land in Cumberland County, New Jersey; a number of valuable lots to be let on ground rent, in the district of Southwark. Ground rents and debts collected with promptness and address, by the Public's Most obedient Humble servant, JOSEPH H. FLEMING. N. B. A smart LAD wanted, of good connections, who writes a tolerable hand. august 15 tu.th.fat. 3w
35 casks of 6d. and 8d. NAILS, and 4, 4 1/2 and 5 inch SPIKES, entitled to drawback, for sale by PETER BARKER, & Co. No. 149, High-Street. 3 mo. 2 codf.
IRISH LINENS. A good assortment of 4-4 & 7-8 wide Irish Linens, in half boxes, Some of which are very fine—also, a few bales 3-4 & 7-8 brown & half bleached Dowlas, Suitable for the St. Domingo trade, and entitled to drawback. Which will be disposed of on reasonable terms by the package. JAMES GLILBORN & ENGLISH, No. 13, South Front Street. to t fat f. july 19
JUST RECEIVED, From the BOSTON Manufacturer, A QUANTITY OF WINDOW GLASS, Of different sizes. FOR SALE BY ISAAC HARVEY, JUN. N. B. Any size or sizes that may be wanted cut larger than 18 by 18 can be had from said manufacturer, on being ordered; and attention given to forward on any orders that may be left for that purpose. Apply at No. 9, South Water-Street, as above. july 8 dtf
Lost or Mislaid, A CERTIFICATE of one share of the Bank of the United States bearing date 1st January 1793, in the name of Joseph Thornburgh, No. 3138, for the renewal of which application hath been made at said Bank, and all persons concerned are desired to take notice thereof. ROBERT DENISON, Junr. Philadelphia, June 11. d3m
UNSEATED LANDS. THE owners of Unseated Lands in FAYETTE COUNTY (Penn.) are hereby notified, that unless the taxes due on said lands for the years 1796, 1797 and 1798, are paid into the hands of General Ephraim Douglas, County Treasurer, on or before Thursday the 19th day of September next, they will be advertised for sale as the law directs. Caleb Mounts, James Allen, John Fulton, } County Commis'rs Union Town, June 5. 99. (14) d3m
FOR SALE, A variety of Lots, many of them very advantageously situated north of the city of Philadelphia, in different parts of the Land known as the Estate of the late William Martin, Esq.—many of the lots afford valuable fires for Country Seats, not excelled by any within the same distance of the City, other lots are well adapted for Garden Grounds, Pasture &c. a third description is well calculated for buildings fronting upon Frankford Road, Second, Third, and Fourth Streets continued to the German Town Road and also on Croff Roads designed to be laid out from Fourth Street to Furness Lane, to which the property extends—For further particulars, application to be made to NICHOLAS HOLYDAY, on the Premises westward of Fourth Street. 8 july dtf.
NOTICE. THE heirs of the Reverend JOHN WADE, formerly from Yorkshire in Great Britain, late of the State of New Jersey, in the United States of America, are hereby requested to make application to the Subscriber, in Philadelphia, No. 131, Market Street, in order to receive the proceeds of the said estate. EDWARD THOMPSON, Administrator to the Estate of the said John Wade. August 7 d3m
Eighty Dollars Reward, BROKE out of the PRISON for the City and County of Philadelphia, on the night of the 31st July, 1799, the following described felon. DANIEL HENDERSON, An Irishman, about 35 years of age, 5 feet 7 or 8 inches high, full round face, dark hair, stout made, has a downy nose and fair complexion; was convicted in the county of Berks. CHRISTIAN SHARPE, Alias JOHN THOMAS. A native, of Dutch parents, about 24 years of age, 5 feet 10 or 11 inches high, straight well made, long visage, heavy eye brows, downy look, a large head of hair, dark brown, which he wears quavered down to his waist; was convicted in Cumberland County.
JOHN STRATTS, Alias JOHN SOTO, A Spaniard, about 30 years of age, five feet 10 inches high, well made, fair complexion, black frizzled hair, which he wears quered; was convicted at Pittsburgh. Went off also, at the same time a certain MARTIN KENNEDY, well known in this city, who was apprehended on the day of his escape for committing a burglary at the House of J. G. Koch—The above reward will be paid for the delivery of the above named persons at the Prison of the City and County of Philadelphia, or on being secured in any jail in the United States, or twenty dollars for either of them. PHILIP EDWARDS, keeper, Philadelphia Prison, august 3. codjw
TO BE SOLD, An Invoice of Woollens, Consisting of Cambric and Fine Cloths.—principally Duck Blue, and printed Callicoes—apply to Owen & Jonathan Jones, No. 131 Market-Street. april 29
ROSS & SIMSON, HAYS FOR SALE, 300 pieces 1st and 2d quality Russia Duck 100 pieces Ravens Duck (superior) Boston Beef in Barrels. A few bales Bengal } COSSAS HUMSAMS. 1100 bushels St. Martins Salt. april 11
New Landing from the ship Delaware, from Canton and for sale by the Subscribers. Hylton, Hylton Skin, Young Hylton, } TEAS. Souchoong, Canton and Garden Fans, Nankeens, China Ware, assorted, Umbrellas 13 to 30 inches, Silk Handkerchiefs, Hair Ribbons and Sewing Silks. They have also, remaining on Hand Black Perfumes, Choppas and Pullicat Romalls, And a general assortment of Dry Goods as usual. Thomas & Joshua Fisher. 4th mo 26
TO BE SOLD BY JESSE & ROBERT WALN. Old Port Wine, in Pipes, Hhds. and quarter casks, Also Landing at their Wharf From on board the ship Edward from Lisbon. Lisbon Wine, in pipes and qr. casks. june 25
THE PARTNERSHIP TRADING under the Firms of HARTSHORNE, LARGE & Co. and JESSE & ROBERT WALN, was dissolved 1 mo. 11, 1798, and the partnership trading under the firm of HARTSHORNE & LARGE, was dissolved 1st of the 4th month last, all persons indebted to either of the above firms are requested to make immediate payment, and those that have demands to present their accounts. 7 9th 13th d3m Old Port Wine Brandy in large and small casks. 100 boxes 7 by 9 & 10 Window Glass 20 chest pint & half pint Tumblers, assorted 226 whole & 6 half-tierce Rice. FOR SALE BY Gurney & Smith. may 1, 1799
An excellent Stand for Business FOR SALE, And possession immediately given.
THAT valuable stand for business at the head of Chester Street county, Maryland consisting of a brick three-house, 20 feet by 60, two stories high, three rooms on a floor, well appointed for business, two twenty feet rooms for the reception of grain, and a cooning room, and three rooms for goods, with an excellent cellar under the whole, completely garnered off for salt and pickling pork, with a log cabin adjoining, 10 feet by 30—This stand is situated in the handiest and most advantageous part of the town for business and the prospect of returning good crops of wheat in the country around the head of Chester will tend to make it more desirable to those inclining to purchase. For terms apply to messrs. Levi Hollingsworth & Son, Philadelphia, or the subscribers near the premises. GEORGE V. MCCANN W. THOMAS. P.S.—If the above property is not sold in three months from this date, it will be rented. july 9 d8w
Notice is hereby Given, THAT application will be made for the issue of certificates for twenty two shares of the Stock of the Bank of the United States, in lieu of the undermentioned certificates for a like number of shares of the stock of the said Institution, in favour of James Eckerly, Colley, of Liverpool, lost by the capture of the Diana, Richard Kirkbride, master, on a voyage from Philadelphia to Liverpool, Great-Britain, viz. Two certificates, No. 27500, and 27501 for five shares each. Three certificates, No. 27002 and 27004, for four shares each. G. SIMPSON, Cashier. Bank of the United States, May 23, 1799. taw3m
AT a special meeting of the Board of property in Lancaster, June 24, 1799. Present, Daniel Bradhead, Sec. Gen. John Hall, Secretary, Francis Johnston, Reg. Gen. of the Land office. The petition of Thomas Stewardson on behalf of himself and the other trustees for the estate of Samuel Caldwell, surviving partner of James Meese, bearing date Philadelphia, 5th Month 17th 1799, dated as follows, viz. That a certain John Collins had in consequence of fraudulent deeds poll, obtained patents for two certain tracts of land, one situate in the county of Northumberland, surveyed to Samuel Caldwell in pursuance of a warrant dated in 1774; and the other situate now in Luzerne county, surveyed to said Caldwell by a warrant also dated in 1774—and requested that patents might be granted, for the said tracts, to William Crammond, Edward Tighman, John Ashley, and Thomas Stewardson, trustees of the estate of Samuel Caldwell, surviving partner of James Meese, as the said two tracts were part of the estate of Meese and Caldwell. Whereupon the Board having considered the same, ordered that at least thirty days notice be given in one of the Philadelphia newspapers, and in the Lancaster Journal to the said Collins or his assigns, to appear before the Board on the first Monday in October next, to show cause if any he or they have, why patents should not issue for the said two tracts to the said trustees agreeably to the prayer of the said petition. A true copy For JOHN HALL, Esq. Secy of Land Office. N. LUFBOROUGH. july 8. dam
Lost or Mislaid, A CERTIFICATE of one share of the Bank of the United States, No. 4933, in the name of Julia Wadsworth Knox, and for which application is made at the Bank of the United States for the renewal of said certificate; and all persons concerned are desired to take notice. CLEMENT BIDDLE. july 23 d3m
TO BE LET, Possession to be given on the 26th August, A convenient Three Story Brick House, SITUATE in Spruce between Second and Third Street; apply at No. 110 South Second Street july 18 dt
THE SUBSCRIBER HAVING been appointed administrator to the estate of the rev. JOHN WADE (deceased) late of New Jersey—NOTICE is hereby given to all persons indebted to the said estate, to make immediate payment to the subscriber, and those who have any demands against the same, to render their accounts without delay, properly attested. Edward Thompson, no. 131, Market Street. d3m july 13
FOR SALE, The cargo of the brig Enterprize from Havana CONSISTING OF 300 boxes of white and brown Sugars, 90 hogsheads of Molasses, And a few Tons of LOGWOOD, Which will be landed in two or three days. Apply to WHARTON & LEWIS, 115 South Front Street. august 9
THE partnership of Joshua B. Bond, and John Brooks, trading under the firm of Bond & Brooks, is this day dissolved by mutual consent, all persons indebted to them, are requested to make immediate payment to Joshua B. Bond, and those having demands to present their accounts to him for settlement. Joshua B. Bond. John Brooks. april 1
MAIL COACHEES BETWEEN PHILADELPHIA AND BALTIMORE, LEAVE Philadelphia every day, (Sunday excepted) at 8 o'clock, A. M. arrive at Baltimore the next day, by 11 o'clock, A. M. Returning. Leave Baltimore every day, (Sunday excepted) at 4 o'clock, A. M. and arrive at Philadelphia the next day, by 9 o'clock, A. M. Between New-York and PHILADELPHIA. Leave Philadelphia every day, (Sunday excepted) at 12 o'clock at noon, arrive at New-York the next morning, by 8 o'clock. Returning. Leave New-York every day (Sunday excepted) at one o'clock, P. M. and arrive at Philadelphia the next morning, by 7 o'clock. Seats in the Mail Coaches to be taken in New-York, At Butman's Office, No. 5, Cortland-Street In Philadelphia. At Francis' Hotel, No. 13, South Fourth-Street, and at the Franklin Inn, No. 59, north Second Street. In Baltimore. At Evans' Tavern. Fare for Passengers, 8 Dollars from Philadelphia to New-York, and 8 Dollars from Philadelphia to Baltimore. All baggage over 14lb. weight, is carried at 5 cents per pound. The Proprietors are not responsible for Baggage. LEVI PEASE, Agent for the Public Line, from Philadelphia to Baltimore. WARD, BROADHURST, JONES & Co. Proprietors of the Mail Line, from Philadelphia to New-York. General Post Office, May 1.
NOTICE. WHEREAS Messrs FOOTMAN & CO. have assigned all their property both real and personal, to the subscribers, in trust, for the benefit of their creditors; Therefore all persons who are indebted to said firm, or to Richard Footman, or Richard S. Footman, prior to the 23d March, 1799, are requested forthwith to make payment or they will be immediately put in suit; and those who have claims against them are desired to exhibit them properly attested, to either of the subscribers. SAMUEL PRICE, } Assignee appointed. SAMUEL YORKE, } ed by the Court. Philadelphia, July 31, 1799. d3m
JUST RECEIVED, Per the MARIA, from HAMBURG, and NOW LANDING, At Wilcock's wharf, from on board the IRIS, from BREMEN. And for sale by the subscriber, 353 PACKAGES LINNEN, Consisting of Bielefeld Linnen Eberfeld Checks Warendorp do. Checks and Stripes Rouans Harlem Checks White Platiclas Liddoes Brown do. Tick enburgh Crae à la Morlaix Osnaburgs Dowlas Hallacka Bre agnes Weser Linnen Buccacillas Bag Linen Quadruples Silesias Myer Linnen Beilucks Bropillas Pocket Handkerchiefs. Also for Sale, 400 boxes Claret 40 hds. do. 70 Tons St. Petersburg Hemp 5 Casks Brills 200 pieces Silduck 7 Bales Guinea Cloth 300 Demijohns 30 Linen Cases ERICK & LEWIS BOLLMANN. No. 113 South 3d Street. august 14
Just arrived from Bremen, AND FOR SALE, BY THE SUBSCRIBERS, Platiclas Royales, Brittanias Rouans, Bielefeld Linens, in small packages for exportation, and entitled to Foreign drawback. Also, on Hand, Old Brandy, 4th proof, Barcelona do. Ruffa Horse hair, curled and uncurled, Do. Duck Nail-rod, American Steel, and a small quantity of Guatimala Indigo. Isaac Hazlehurst & Son. august 15 d3m
WILL BE LANDED, (IN TWO OR THREE DAYS) At Beck's wharf, near Market Street. THE CARGO Of the Schooner SALLY, from Montego-Bay, Jamaica, consisting of Sugar, Molasses, Limes, &c. FOR SALE BY ISAAC HARVEY, jun. august 14 d3m
Notice is hereby Given, THAT the Officers and Crew of the Foffella will receive their prize money for the Frigate L'Intrigant, by calling on CHARLES BIDDLE, No. 243 Market-Street, or HENRY BENBRIDGE. july 12 d3m
THIS is to give notice, That the Subscriber, of Tiltson, hath obtained from the Orphan's Court of Cecil County, in Maryland, letters of Administration, in the personal estate of SAMUEL HEWETT, late of said County deceased. All persons having claims against the said deceased, are hereby warned, to exhibit the same with the vouchers thereof, to the Subscriber, at or before the 31st day of March next—They may otherwise, by law, be excluded from all benefit of the said estate. Given under my hand this 13th day of August, 1799. JOHN MILLER, Admr. august 17 d3m
Wants a place as a Coachman, OR as an Attendant to a traveling gentleman, a steady capable man, who can produce satisfactory recommendations. Enquire at Mr. Richard Hunt's, No. 28, South Fourth Street. august 14
Ten Dollars Reward. STRAYED or conveyed on Tuesday night last from off the premises, about 24 miles from Philadelphia, on the Ridge road a handsome dark bay HORSE in good condition, about 14 hands high, with black legs, black mane and bushy black tail, cut straight at the end; has several long scratches on his back, occasioned by playing in the field. Whoever can give information of him so that the owner may have him again, shall receive the above reward by applying at No. 6, South Fifth Street. Philadelphia, August 19
Thirty Dollars Reward. DISCOVERED, from the examination was Bristol on Sunday night the 26th inst. an entitled soldier named ADAM FRAZER, born in Pennsylvania, aged 35 years, 5 feet 7 inches high, dark complexion, dark eyes, dark hair, wore a blue jacket in his quarters, his head sorely bandaged, and his hands and feet when interviewed in turbulent and troublesome. Had on him when he was at his military clothing. He has heretofore deserted from Fort Foul, has the marks of a villain written on his countenance. Also Detected on Thursday the 28th inst. from a recruiting party stationed at Newtown, two men enlisted at Newtown; the first of the one named JOHN WILSON, born in Ireland, aged 22 years, by trade a butcher, fair complexion, brown eyes, brown hair 5 feet 7 inches high; laid on when he went away, a nankin vest and overalls, a bottle green coat lined with red. The other JOHN STEAL, born in Northampton county, by trade a shoemaker, aged 24 years, 5 feet 10 inches high; fair complexion, blue eyes, long brown hair, much freckled in the face; had on a pair of thickish overalls and yellow vest. Whoever shall take up said Deserters and return them to Head Quarters at Bristol, Bucks county, State of Pennsylvania, or shall secure them in any Jail shall receive the above reward, and for either of them the reward of ten dollars. BENJAMIN GIBBS, Jun. Captain, 10th U.S. regiment. Bristol, august 10
THE Creditors of Ealy, Hill, & Evans, Insolvent Debtors, in the county of Sussex, are to meet the Assignee at the Court House in said county, on the 28th of December, at 10 o'clock A. M. in order to make a dividend of said Insolvent's estate, that may come to hand by that day. CH. CASE, assignee. june 25

The Gazette.
MODERN CHARACTERS, By Shakespeare and others.
CAPTAIN DUANE.
The Captain of the Rabbie issued out With a black, firtless train; each was an host; A million strong of venin , every villain— No part of Government, but lords of anarchy; Chaos of power, and privilege'd destruction: Out laws of Nature, yet they may be used As tools of tumult, in the hands of knaves.
CALENDER.
"Drunkenness is his best virtue."
NEWGATE LORD.
If I become not a CART as well as another man, A plague on my bringing up.
THE COMMITTEE OF SIX.
I know them; yea And what they weigh, even to the utmost scruple; SCRAWLING, outfacing, fashion mongering boys That lie, and cog, and flit, deprave and slander.
Master, it is proved already that you are lie- the better than false knaves, and it will go near to be thought so shortly—How answer you for yourselves.
SECRETARY CHANCE.
A snobby cur of foreign breed That used to feed On scraps picked up from door to door, &c. [See G. U. S. of the 9th inst.]
"Knave will thrive,
When honest plainness knows not how to live."
"Look fresh and merrily,
Let not your looks up on your purposes"
You'll mock the time with fairest show; Fair face will hide what the false heart does know.
Look like the innocent flower, And be the serpent under it.
The quaint smooth rogue, Calls fancy loved sedition, public zeal,— And mutiny, the dictates of his spirit.
DOCTOR MORRHEUS.
One, who has rais'd his fortune by [I have no certificate of the remainder of this sentence, but look to the next.]
That talking knave Consumes his time in speeches to the rabble, And fows sedition up and down the city; Picking up discontented fools, belying The Senators and Government; destroying Faith among honest men, and praising knaves.
THE LAUREL CROWN'D TRAITOR.
By Heaven there's treason in his aspect! That cheerless gloom, those eyes that pore on earth; That bent body and slender ghostly form Are indications of a tortured mind.
Colonel Marmont.
Not being the worst stands in some rank of praise.
I am a garment worn, a vessel cracked.
THE SELF-CREATED ENVOY.
When treason manifest are so contriv'd That they defy the force of written laws, Attainders are the refuge of the state.
Howe'er in private, mischiefs are conceiv'd, Torture and SHAME attend their open birth. M c Malfaisant.
Observe his courtship to the common people With humble and familiar courtesy— Oft goss his bonnet to an oyster-wench.
You are old,
You should be ruled by forms discretion That discerns your state, better than yourself.
I am a very foolish vain old man Three score and upwards; and to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind.
MR. ROSS.
His years but young, but his experience old; His head unmelloy'd, but his judgment ripe; And in a word, (for far behind his worth Come all the prizes that I now bestow) He is complete in feature and in mind, With all good grace to grace a Gentleman.
The general voice
Sounds him for courtesy, behavior, language, And ev'ry fair demeanor, an example; Titles of honor add not to His worth Who is himself an honor to his country.
THE JACOBIN FACTION.
When shall the deadly hate of faction cease: When shall our long divided land have rest, If every peevish foreign malcontent Shall set the rabble in a mad uproar; Fright them with dangers, and perplex their brains Each day with some fantastie giddy change?
FEMALE BENEVOLENCE.
THAT intelligent and unfortunate trav- eller, Ledyard, pays a very sincere and an- imated tribute of gratitude to the female sex, even in the most barbarous and uncivilized countries, for their benevolent and hospita- ble attention to the forlorn stranger. Mr. Park, who has been in a similar situation with Ledyard, mentions the following anec- dote in the front account of his travels, lately made public by Mr. Edwards:
Mr. Park one evening, in travelling along the banks of the Niger, was overtaken with a storm of thunder and rain, which drove him to a tree for shelter. As night ap- proached, a poor negro woman returning from the labors of the field, observed that he was wet, weary, and dejected, and taking up his saddle and bridle, told him to follow her. She led him to her cottage, where she regaled him with an excellent supper of fish, and corn for his horse, after which she spread a mat on the floor, for his night's repose. Having done these kind offices, she called in the female part of the family, who spun cotton for the greater part of the night, and relieved their labour by songs. One of them which was sung in a sweet plaintive air, must have been composed ex- tempore, as the literal translation of the words was as follows:
"The winds roared and the rain fell.— The poor white man, faint and weary came and sat under our tree. He has no mother to bring him milk, and no wife to grind his corn." Chorus. "Let us pity the white man, he has no mother to bring him milk, no wife to grind his corn."
RUSSIAN FIRMNESS.
The Muscovites, after ravaging the king- dom of Prussia, had entered Brandenburg, and were advancing towards Berlin, con- ducted by General Fermor. Frederick gave them battle at the village of Zorndorff, and it may be termed a carnage rather than an action. Neither the fury of his artillery, the valour and discipline of his infantry, nor the re- peated charges of his cavalry, could compel the Russians to recede a foot, much less to turn their backs. During thirteen hours, from six in the morning till seven in the evening of the 25th of August, they with- stood, unmoved, every effort of the Prus- sian tactics. After the slaughter of 21,000 men, they still distained to retreat, and night alone terminated the combat.
THE LATE LORD CHATHAM.
An instance of Mr. Pitt's personal atten- tion to the King, was upon his accepting the Seals. He received them with great marks of deference and respect. The late Chase Price used to say jocosely upon this occasion, "that he bowed so low, you could see the tip of his hooked nose between his legs."
From the Salem (Mass.) Gazette.
LITERARY NOTICE.
A new work is proposed to be published by Subscription, which from its author, its object and its execution, must prove pecu- liar interesting. It is a history of all the attempts which have been made, since the beginning of the Revolution, to eradicate Christianity from Europe and from the earth. It treats largely of the word fanaticism , as applied by revolutionary men, in the re- volutionary language. Its author is a man of great celebrity in French literature.— Mr. De la Harpe, whose early genius was announced to the learned world by the very numerous prizes which he obtained, in the capital of France, in the departments of E- LOQUENCE, POETRY, and CRITICISM, was also very successful in the production of several dramatic pieces which fill in high repute. The spirit of the time, the praises of Voltaire, and the vanity of appearing cre- dulous in religious matters, soon rendered Mr. De la Harpe the fashionable philosopher of France.
As early as 1767, Voltaire in his will had pointed him out to Mr. Marmontel, as a man "worthy of being one of the pillars of his new Church;" and enjoined upon the former to have him received a member of the French Royal Academy of Sciences; he was received soon after.
Mr. De la Harpe having afterwards un- dertaken the literary part of the Mercury , a review which could boast upwards, of one hundred thousand readers in France, besides a very extensive circulation through the rest of Europe, it is well known that he availed himself too successfully of that vehicle, skill- fully and imperceptibly to sap the founda- tion of Religion and Monarchy, sometimes by inserting pieces in the form of extracts which diffused all the venom of the new fangled philosophy; and at others, by those equally ingenious and perfidious tales, which, from their correct and seducing style, were read all over France with so much avid- ity.
All this did not, however, prevent Robes- pierre, who seems to have been resolved on the extermination of all the priests and the learned men of France, from throwing the French Sam. Johnson into the same dungeon with a French Bishop of distinguished merit (the Bishop of St. Brieux.) Here his own reflections, or the force of truth, or a re- trospective view of his past life, or the com- parative peace of mind of that venerable old man, (he was upwards of eighty years of age) or all these causes combined together, opened his eyes on his errors, and made him a sincere and zealous Christian, at the time when this profession presented no other pros- pect than death or banishment.
See abot Abbe Barulays of him , page 168, vol. I.
Released from his captivity by the death of Robespierre, one of the homage which Mr. De la Harpe was anxious publicly to render to that very religion, which he had so cruelly persecuted, was the work hereby offered to public patronage. The author, with a truly noble courage, undertakes the defence of the clergy; and, so far from blus- hing at his own conversion, he exultingly displays his motives with great force and vi- vid eloquence. He proves that a part of the people could never be brought to lose their respect for the religion of their forefathers, but by imposture, by substituting to the ever respectable word religion , the odious term fanaticism ; but he shows at the same time, that the real fanatics are that dreadful tribe of revolutionary men, assassins, oppressors, calumniators, &c. whose common manœuvre has ever been, first to commit crimes, and af- terwards to charge them upon their innocent victims.
The above work will ever be a valuable monument in the hands of those who have united their efforts to repel the attacks made in all countries, and particularly in this, for dissolving those bonds which hold socie- ty together.
The price of the book to subscribers, in 12mo. bound in boards and lettered will be 62 1/2 cents; to non subscribers it will be 75 cents. It will be printed on good paper and a fair new type. Should a decent subscription appear, it would be put to press immediately.
From the Independent Chronicle.
Mr. RHODES, "THE Name" of the person who re- quested an authentic attestation of the letter from the President in approbation of the celebration of the 17th July, being no way necessary to ascertain the fact, the request in yesterday's Centinel will not be complied with. But if such a letter can be furnished, the public would be better able to judge of the sentiments of the President, by publish- ing the whole rather than a detached para- graph. The writer still doubts whether the EXECUTIVE would give such favorable sentiments on a subject, which may have a tendency to counteract his own measures. If the appointment of Commissioners, for the purpose of restoring the connection and har- mony between France and the United States, is justifiable, any attempts to defeat its salu- tary effects, cannot (in the opinion of the writer) receive the approbation of the Presi- dent. Confidentiality of conduct , it is presumed will ever be the characteristic of the President, and agreeable to my signature the strongest evidence must be given in every circumstance, to prove to me, that he has forfeited confi- dence and reliance.
The President is too old to be led by the young; he is too much of a Christian, to forsake the counsel of the aged to follow the advice of the young men; this conduct is too expressly reprobated in Scripture for him to pursue. The President's character is so far implicated by the suggestions in the Centi- nel, that we again renew the CHAL- LENGE, to publish the WHOLE LET- TER.
A FRIEND TO THE PRESIDENT.
From the Baltimore Federal Gazette.
When government is firm, then honest men have influence in society. The roguish and unprincipled part of mankind can only thrive where the law of the land is no terror to evil doers. Could the domineering demo- cratic place himself above the sanctions of the law, where would be the safety to a peace- ful unoffending citizen, known to have mo- ney in his chest? The spirit of Jacobinism, under various names, has existed from the beginning of the world to the present day; the jacobin is a bankrupt who spends all his own, and would willingly spend that of oth- ers could he obtain it. Nay, to obtain it he would throw his country into confusion, and shed the best blood it possesses. Look round you, fellow-citizens, and see how many there are hungering for what you possess: they rail at government and all its measures, why? because it opposes an insuperable barrier to their wicked designs. Men who have fami- lies and property to protect, ought to vene- rate the government, for without it, all is plunder, terror and confusion.
London, June 10.
The want of skill in the Conscrip- t soldiers is acknowledged to have caused a great deal of flight and desertion. Ranel, Minister of Finance, has addressed Gen- eriffoux, in a very long letter upon the sub- ject of the defects , and upon the charges of speculation against the Directory and their agents. Scherer has given in his accounts. Much speculation is afloat whether Sneyes will accept his seat in the Directory or not. The Redacteur contains a very long offi- cial speculation upon the sublimity of the Directorial politics in duplicating the English so egregiously, by sending the Breft fleet into the Mediterranean . The liberty of the Press is demanded in petitions from several districts.
THE STOCKHOLDERS
Of the Delaware & Schuylkill Canal, WILL please to take notice, the whole of the Subscription money on their respective shares has been called for by the President and Man- agers; the three last calls are payable as follows: One for 15 dollars, on the 15th August, instant One for 20 do. on the 15th September next One for 20 do. on the 15th October next And if not paid on those days, are subject to a penalty of five per cent per month. WM. GOFFET, treasurer. at 18 3/4 wth.
For Sale at Public Auction,
On WEDNESDAY next, At 1 o'clock, P. M. at the Coffee-House, THE SHIP CAMILLA, Burthen 262 4/8 tons, As she now lays at Walnut Street wharf. With her guns, small arms, ammunition, stores, &c. An inventory of which may be seen at the auction room. The Camilla is a firm, good Philadelphia built ship, about 8 years old, and may be sent to sea with little expense.
CONNELLY & CO, AU'rs
FOR SALE
BY THE SUBSCRIBER, No. 149 South Front Street, The remainder of the CARGO of the ship CAMILLA , direct from CANTON—viz. Imperial } TEAS, of first quality. Hyson } Souchong } Bohea, in whole, half and qr. chests, ditto. 10,000 pieces Nankeens, Black Luxatrings, in boxes of 50 pieces each Black & Colored Tafates, in ditto Sattins, do. Black & colored Semshaws, do. do do Sewing Silks, Umbrellas, in boxes of 50 & 25 each. Boxes of Paints, Sheet Copper & Copper Rods, Brass Rods, A few boxes of Rheubarb. EDWARD DUNANT.
WANTS A PLACE,
AS WET NURSE, A YOUNG WOMAN with a good breast of Milk, who can be well recommended, en- quires at No. 104, Chestnut-Street. aug. 10
By this Day's Mail.
NEW-YORK, August 19.
Fellow Citizens,
You are earnestly called upon to promote the cleanliness of the town, by every means in your power. With the present favoura- ble weather, and your active exertions one or two weeks longer, we shall pass through without any uncommon sickness. As yet the city may be confidently pronounced healthy. Many people indeed are sick, but according to the account of the most re- spectable physicians, there cannot exceed fev- en who have any symptoms of a putrid fe- ver, of these, not more than four can be pronounced with any degree of certainty, to be malignant. The truth of this may be relied on; I speak from authority that cannot be questioned. I wish not to lull you to fatal security. I have no reason to de- ceive you. But I wish to stop the mouths of some idle or designing alarmists, who listening to the suggestions of fear or some less excusable motive, endeavour to fill up your minds with the most terrifying app- hensions. When there is any real danger, I pledge to you my veracity, that nothing shall prevent my giving you immediate and accurate information of the whole truth.
CIVIS.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in St. Thomas's to a respectable Mercantile house in this city, dated 20th July, 1799.
"Within 5 or 6 days we have had arri- vals from Jacmel and the Cape—at the lat- ter place all is perfectly quiet, and they are waiting with anxiety the arrival of Ameri- can vessels on the first of August. This is not the case at Jacmel, its situation being near the seat of the war between Generals Toussaint and Rigaud; the camp of the former is at Leogane, having an army of 12,000 men, which is to be followed by a- nother body of men as numerous. From Port au Prince, which give him means to send strong parties to form a legion and surround Jacmel, which place I think, is at this time in the power of Toussaint, according to the reports which were in circulation yester- day. Gen Bouvier is very much grieved at this, and is in fear of losing his life every moment—he persists in keeping neutrality, and all his officers of colour around him are in favour of Rigaud against their Chief, Gen. Toussaint. Therefore, it seems that a cruel war is going to be carried on against the people of colour—and the army of the north and west are numerous enough to pur- sue them to the very end of the Island.— Thus you see, my dear friend, that this com- motion will cost many more lives—blood has already begun to flow, and all the environs of Jacmel have again been destroyed by fire, from which place I have received letters, that all agree with the verbal accounts from that quarter. It is further said, that the inhabitants of Aux Cayes, fearful of the return of their despised general Rigaud, are leaving the place, although at present in a tranquil state."
Yesterday arrived ship Warren, Delano of Newbedford, in 67 days from Belfast, with 60 passengers, all well; vessel consigned to Isaac Hicks, merchant.
Same day, ship Hunter, Whitlock, from Gibraltar, 51 days; belonging to Messrs. Franklins, merchants; cargo, Wine, Bran- dy, and Silks.
Sailed in company with the ship Venus, of Baltimore, for Batavia, Capt. Dashiell, and ship John, of Salem, Putnam, for Ma- nila.
Spoke the Schr. Friendship, of Charleston Capt. James Ray, 36 days out, all well, lat. 26, 40, long. 54, 23, on the 22d July bound to Martinique.
30th spoke Schr. Industry, Samuel Tiffen- ren, from Portsmouth, N. H. bound to St. Croix, out 16 days, all well—Same day, ship Sea Horse, of Gloucester, John Solmes, 12 days out, bound to Trinidad, lat. 31, 29, long. 60, 10.
Spoke the 13th of August, an American ship, from St. Thomas, bound to Newbury, port, out 12 days, on soundings.
Vessels spoke by the Warren, from Belfast, July 25, in lat. 49, spoke the ship Nan- cy, Allen, from New-York to Hamburg all well.
The ship Prosper, Williams, from Spit- head, failed 15th June.
July 22, in lat. 42, long. 68, spoke the ship Commerce, M'Farlane, from Boston to Liverpool, out 7 days.
August 13, in lat. 40, off Nantucket Shoals, spoke the frigate Hynde, in co. with the Assistance, of 50 guns.
A gentleman, who came passenger in the Hunter, arrived yesterday evening from Gi- braltar, which place he left on the 28th June, informs us, that the only posses- sions the French hold in Italy, with the scatter- ed remains of their army, are the fortresses of Mantua, Genoa, and Leghorn, where they have a small number of troops.
The same gentleman has favoured us with a complete list, recapitulating Admirals, and commanders, of the British fleet in the Me- diterranean, on the first of July; also, the number of the French, Spanish, Russian and Turkish fleets in the Mediterranean, at the same time which, for the want of time, we are obliged to omit till to-morrow.
When the Hunter left Gibraltar, the plague raged dreadfully at Morocco, Fez, Larrah, and had reached Tangier; the Con- suls residing there, had left it, and were per- forming a quarantine of 40 days at Tariffe, (in Spain). All communication between Barbary Spain and Gibraltar, was suspend- ed. This dreadful disease has not been in the Emperor's dominions for 40 years past,
and now received it by the P. ship arriv- ing from Mecca with the infection.
The Constellation frigate was lying at Sandy Hook yesterday evening.
Capt. Wilcocks, from St. Thomas, sailed with the fleet. The next day after the fleet was dispersed, he spoke the brig John, Jewel for Charleston, who informed him, that he had spoken an English frigate, being suf- ficiently near to hear the language of her people, supposed to be the same ship which caused the consternation in the American fleet.
BALTIMORE, August 17. Arrived yesterday, sloop Pomona, capt. Salisbury, 17 days from St. Thomas— ballast. Several vessels came out with the Pomona, belonging to Baltimore and join- ed the fleet under convoy of the N. York and Retaliation; can give no account of the frigate said to be off the coast; parted with the convoy about five days since.
English brig Eliza, captain Atkins, 23 days from Martinique—Ballast. The pi- lot says he spoke a schooner who informed him a French privateer was off the coast and had two frigates; probably he is the same vessel that was spoke by the pilot of the Juno.
RICHMOND, August 13. Yesterday being court day for the city, the trial of those three gentlemen was to have come on, who were bound over for further appearance, by a called court, at the capitol on Friday the 2d inst. to answer the accusations to be brought forward by Callender, as being the principal instigators of a design to convey him out of the city; they accordingly appeared, and were dismissed by the court—there being no evi- dence adduced against them, as the prose- cutor failed to attend.
For Sale,
BY THE SUBSCRIBER, The following GOODS lately imported in the Adriana, from London, and in packages suitable for exportation. PRINTED CALICOES, Assorted from 13 up to 18 and 20. Printed 3 3/4, 4 3/4, and 5 3/4 chintz. Printed Mouselines Quiltings of the newest and neatest patterns. 9-8 Brown Sheetings from 11 to 13.
A few tiers of RICE, OF THE FIRST QUALITY. THOMAS GILPIN, No. 149, South Front Street, 8 mo. 9th
NOTICE.
ALL persons indebted to the Estate of Aaron Thompson, Hatter, formerly of Woodbury, New Jersey, and late of Danby, deceased, are requested to make immediate payment. And all persons having demands against said estate, are desired to ren- der their accounts duly attested for settlement. JAMES B. BONSALL, of King'sessing, Executor. august 17
COUNTRY HOUSE,
NEAR GERMANTOWN, TO be disposed of by Private Contract an Ele- gant COUNTRY RETREAT, consisting of a Stone House, Stone Barn, a Spring House, Coach House, Stables, &c. with every other convenience necessary; excellent Gardens, with the choicest kinds of fruit trees, with from ten to fifteen acres of Land, seven acres of which is thriving young Woodland. Further particulars may be known by enquiring of the Printer. If required, more Land may be had to suit the purchaser. august 3
FOR SALE,
Pine Forge and Farm,
SITUATE in Douglas Township, Berks county, about one mile and a half from the River Schuyl- kill, and five from Pott's Town. The farm con- tains three hundred and sixty acres of land, about one hundred and twenty of which is wood land; twenty-five acres of meadow, fifteen of which is watered, besides clover fields; a very capital orch- ard containing upwards of two hundred apple trees. The forge has four fires, two hammers, and four pair of bellows, is in complete order, having been lately repaired, and is capable of manufacturing two hundred and forty tons of bar iron annually. Likewise, a saw Mill, smith shop, two coal houses, and a sufficient number of houses to accommodate workmen, all in good order. On the premises are two story stone dwelling house and counting house stone barn and stables sufficient for thirty horses, a large grain barn, cow house and every other build- ing necessary for the use of the farm and works. Also about five hundred acres of excellent chest- nut timber land from 3 to 5 miles from the works, which will be sold either with the works or sepa- rately as may suit the purchaser. The purchaser can be accommodated with wag- gons, horses, and every other kind of stock neces- sary for carrying on the business. The terms may be known by applying to JOHN CLEMENT STOCKER, Esq. merchant, Philadel- phia, or to the subscriber on the premises. DAVID RUTTER,

The Gazette.
PHILADELPHIA.
TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 20.
PRICES OF STOCKS.
Table with 2 columns: Stock Name, Price. Includes entries for Six per Cent, Deferred 6 per Cent, Three per Cent, BANK United States, North America, Pennsylvania, Insurance comp. N.A. shares, Pennsylvania shares, 8 per Cent Stock, Do. Scrip with the six Installments, Do. the 5th and 6th Installments, East-India Company of N. A. par, Land Warrants, 30 dollars per 100 acres.
COURSE OF EXCHANGE
Table with 2 columns: Location, Rate. Includes entries for Amsterdam, Hamburg.
Mr. FENNO.
In the Aurora of the 18th inst. appears a production of an under hand, lying, illiterate, lowbrow correspondent of the Editor: this fellow is so well known for declamation, and abuse of all the measures and men of Government, that it needs only to suggest him as the author of any Representation, and the story goes for nothing. His unprovoked narrative respecting me, is a pretext for his bitterest shafts of small wit at the measures of Government. This, together with an irresistible itch for scribbling, induces and tickles his vanity to have his scurrility published, so that he may spell it over to his colleagues, the factious herd of Northampton. This black detesting Patron, being unworthy in office, has turned his brain, so that he conceives he may vilify characters with impunity. From the famelies and meanness of all his grovelling attempts, no one will be mistaken in the paltry author. This vain coxcomb is daily in the habit of abusing the Executive, and all the strong measures of the nation: he is a notorious, seditious Jacobin; whoever will take the trouble to read his calumny against me, will perceive what credit ought to be attached to it when he impudently blends it with the best digested and wilful laws of the legislature. He leaves no means unassayed which his cowardly nature dares attempt, to discourage the recruiting service, the duty assigned me in this hot bed of disaffection I would not deign to notice this shameless scoundrel but to disabuse the public who may have seen his infamous publication. I shall present your readers with a specimen of this fellow's infamy, should I discover any more of his filth in the public prints; I will give a short history of his ignominious life, even if it should disgrace a page or two, and shock humanity.
PETER FAULKNER.
Eatton (P) August 11th 1799.
APPROACHING ELECTION.
No. III.
To the Electors of Pennsylvania.
AMONG the other evils which the committee attribute to the British treaty, is the injury which it is alleged to have done to our East India trade. When I first read this paragraph, its absurdity was so apparent, as to leave no doubt on my mind that a typographical error had been made, and I fully expected to have speedily seen its correction; but as none such has appeared, it is evident that this, like many other parts of the address, was a base and intentional misrepresentation. Before that treaty, we traded to the British East Indies merely upon sufferance; our commerce thither depended entirely on the pleasure of the British court, and our merchants were liable to all the inconveniences arising from the sudden stoppage of one of the great channels through which their capital was employed. By that treaty the privilege of trading there was secured, and established on a permanent foundation. We were even placed on a far more advantageous ground, than the great body of English subjects themselves, for while their enterprise is shackled by the exclusive immunities granted to monopolizing corporate companies, who never can carry on commerce with so much cheapness to others or profit to themselves as individuals; ours is open to the emulative effort of every class of our citizens. Accordingly our trade with this part of the Empire of Great Britain has increased by the formation of that odious instrument, with a rapidity truly astonishing, and the injury received, is in consequence of our shipping having been augmented between seven and ten thousand tons. Mr. Coxe's pretensions to a knowledge of mercantile facts, are too well established to suffer us for a moment to believe, that circumstances familiar to the lowest grade of merchants, should have been unknown to him. How dextrously uncautioned then does his conduct appear.
But, after the committee, has not an argument been to confirm and acted upon as to entail on this country the payment of two enormous classes of debts; for one of which, under the Treaty of 1783, Britain herself, did not pretend that we were responsible? I answer, that it has not been so acted upon. It has not yet entailed upon us the payment of these enormous classes of debts. The American government has not submitted to, but has expressly repelled such a construction, nor is it yet known that Great Britain herself will insist upon it. I answer moreover, that if the doctrine held by the Chief Justice of Pennsylvania, and Mr. Dallas, on a former occasion be just, the United States are not only bound by treaty, but he under the solemn obligations of morality and justice, to make payment of all
the classes of debts, now claimed by the British commissioners.
In the Aurora of February 22, 1798, is the following answer to a query proposed to Thomas M'Kean, bearing his own signature: "Before the revolution the British colonies in America were a constituent part of the same Empire with Great Britain, Ireland, and the other British dominions. When the revolution commenced, the war was properly a civil one, and all the subjects of the empire, wherever settled, were entitled to espouse which party they pleased, and having made their election were bound by it, so as to suffer in case of the failure, or to enjoy the fruits in case of the success of the party they espoused."
"The civil war continued until the definitive treaty with Great Britain in 1783, and all persons born within the British allegiance, who at that time had actually espoused the American cause and were settled within the territory of the United States, were entitled to partake in the result of the contest."
"This opinion is recognized by the Executive of the government of the United States, in the instructions to the collectors of the customs respecting American seamen, in the bill before Congress, by both branches of the legislature of Pennsylvania in the late election law that the governor returned with his negative, and by authoritative British writers; who declare that all the inhabitants of the United States of America were put on the footing of the inhabitants of a ceded Island by the definitive treaty."
"After the treaty the national independence was consummated, and the subjects of the British crown in future were placed on the same footing with other aliens, and subjected to the same measures and rules in acquiring the rights of citizenship."
This opinion then adopts the following principles:
1st. That the revolutionary war was a civil one, and therefore did not subist between two independent nations, but between different branches of the same empire.
2d. That the people of America, being entitled to "espouse which party they pleased" were not bound by the acts of their own country, unless they gave to them their individual consent.
3d. That as the civil war continued until the definitive treaty of '83, it did not end with our declaration of Independence in '76.
4th. That as America was ceded to herself by the definitive treaty, until then she had obtained no legitimate sovereign authority, since then it was granted by Great Britain.
And 5th. That as the definitive treaty consummated our national independence, it existed before, only in an inchoate state; and therefore in order to complete it, a concession was necessary on the part of Great Britain.
Now what says the Aurora, whose authority certainly will not be disputed, either by its jackal Mr. Dallas, or its protre & Mr. M'Kean? It states that the British commissioners had contended, that the independence of America "was a concession made by Great Britain." If the definitive treaty, and not the declaration of '76 "consummated our national independence" they were perfectly in the right; for in that case the concession of our independence, by Great Britain was necessary to its existence. All the measures that a nation could take to form its independence, had already been taken by America, and if these measures alone did not effect a completion, or consummation of the object, the act of the British monarch in signing the treaty, was literally and strictly a concession. The Aurora further asserts "that the confiscated debts due to the tories during the revolution, were claimed by a majority of the board of commissioners as being within the provision of the treaty, which stipulates for the payment of debts due to British subjects." And if all the subjects of the empire were entitled to elect which party they pleased, the tories who espoused the cause of Great Britain, having never chosen to become American citizens, remained British subjects: were placed in the same situation with every Englishman who had debts owing to him in America; and therefore, those whose property was taken from them for the crime of an active personal opposition to their native country, had as just a claim to remuneration, as those whose debts were withheld from them by general principles of national policy, in order to weaken the efforts of the common enemy.
But if this reasoning of Chief Justice M'Kean who sanctioned it, and of Mr. Dallas who has the honor of having discovered it, be just, there is an obligation upon the United States, much stronger than any the treaty can impose, to agree to the restoration of all the confiscated estates of those, who like Mr. Coxe, were branded with the infamy of treason. If they had a right to elect their party, upon what principles were they punished for the exercise of that right? What crime had they committed? What forfeiture had they incurred? Wherefore was it that they were held up to general execration, their fortunes torn from them, and their lives destroyed?
Who will undertake to say that this opinion has not been relied on by the British commissioners, in the discussion with Messrs. Sitgreaves and Fitzsimons? Perhaps even in some late a tete between Dallas and Mr. Guillemond, the idea may have been originally suggested with no other view than to bring on a dispute with Great Britain.
Candour and charity, however, induce me to believe that the Chief Justice himself was convinced of the falsity of his opinion, at the time when he gave it; for if he really did think that "all the subjects of the British empire were entitled to espouse which party they pleased," that America was on "the footing of a ceded territory," of course possessing no sovereign authority until the cession was made, and that her independence was consummated by the definitive treaty, I
affirm him to have been guilty of murder. If the traitors at whose trial he presided, in whose condemnation he participated, and whom he sentenced to die on a gallows, had a right "to espouse which party they pleased" and if the war was properly a civil one, they could have owed no allegiance to the United States; for in that case they would have been bound by it, to have espoused our cause. Now treason is in its very nature a breach, or renunciation of the allegiance due to the sovereignty of the nation; of course, where it does not exist, no such breach or renunciation can be made, and consequently no treason committed. Again, if the United States were not perfectly independent until the definitive treaty, then, and not before, did they become sovereign, for sovereignty is absolute, uncontrollable, and independent of all other powers. But treason "being equivalent," says Blackstone, "to the crimen laesae majestatis of the Romans as Glanvil denominates it also in our English law" is nothing but an attack upon the sovereignty of a government; of course where this does not exist, no such attack can be made, and therefore Roberts and Carlisle could not have been guilty of the crime, for which they were sentenced to death by Chief Justice M'Kean, and afterwards executed.
But the truth is, that the independence of America was not rendered consummate by the definitive treaty. The declaration of independence was the date of its complete existence, and had Great Britain refused to acknowledge it, all the destruction of the world, unless we had been compelled by force of arms to make a cession of ourselves to that nation, we should have remained freed from her fetters. The theory held during the revolution was, that the British monarch having broken the original compact subsisting between him and his American subjects, had abolished them from their allegiance, and therefore they were at liberty to erect a new government for themselves. Accordingly the acknowledgment of our independence was not suffered to be introduced as a condition of but was insisted on, as a preliminary to both the definitive and provisional treaties.
The manner in which this opinion was given by Mr. M'Kean was not less culpable than its substance was absurd. The election of Israel Israel, in the year '97, to the Senate of this state was objected to as invalid on various grounds. Among others, because a number of persons had voted who had indeed settled in Pennsylvania previous to the year 1783, but had not been naturalised, and therefore were not citizens. A committee of the Senate legally organised, was appointed to decide on the justice of the objections. During the trial, Dallas, who was of council for the sitting member first broached the doctrine which M'Kean afterwards endeavored to fashion. After an elaborate argument, the Committee decided against it. Some of the jacobin party, calling themselves judges of the election, then solicited the Chief Justice to give his opinion, which he did in direct opposition to that of the Committee. In doing this he lent the weight of his office in aid of a faction, who loudly accused one of the constituted legislative authorities of our country, not only with a judgment manifestly illegal, but viciously corrupt. But in addition to this flagrant impropriety he committed an offence infinitely less pardonable. By giving a legal opinion in other than a judicial manner he opened a door to the worst species of judicial error. If he is at liberty to give public opinions to the unauthorised agents of a faction, surely he may with equal propriety give them, when solicited by individuals on their private affairs, and thus his mind biased by the ideas which he had already promulgated without having heard the allegations but of a single party, would be in a state very unfit to form a judgment either legal or impartial. The great constitutional question which he has in this instance undertaken so peremptorily to determine may and very possibly will be involved in others which it will be the business of the supreme court to decide. Splendid indeed must be the eloquence and luminous the reasoning which can convince his vanity and arrogance of the ridiculous absurdity of his doctrine.
MILO.
ERRATA
IN "MILO" NO. II.
1st paragraph, 3d sentence, for "nevertheless it is asserted" read "it is not asserted."
4th paragraph, (near the middle of the column) read "Touissant, the negro chief, in fact declared."
The Dey of Algiers has certainly declared War, against the French Republic, and imprisoned their Consul.
The AMERICAN character stands high in the Dey's estimation. [N.Y. Ad.
A PROCLAMATION.
NEW-JERSEY, ss. By his Excellency RICHARD HOWELL, Esquire, Governor Captain-general and Commander in Chief in and over the State of New-Jersey, and Territories thereunto belonging, Chancellor and Ordinary in the same.
WHEREAS it has been represented to me by the Board of Health of the city of Philadelphia, under the signature of Edward Garrigues, their president, that certain citizens of New-Jersey have lately gone on board the ship John, from the River la Plata, then riding quarantine, in contravention of the health law of Pennsylvania, to the manifest danger of the city of Philadelphia, with which the citizens of this state have continual intercourse, and not without a possibility of injury, and even calamity to this state.
NOW BE IT KNOWN, that by virtue of the act of the legislature of the state of New-Jersey, passed at Trenton, the eleventh day of June, in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and ninety nine, entitled, "An act to provide for the security of the citizens of this state against the introduction of contagious diseases;" (which said act is recited at large in my former proclamation on this subject, dated the first of July last, and is now published in due form of law,) and by and with the consent of the honorable the privy council, all persons who soever, within the jurisdiction of this state, are hereby strictly forbidden and prohibited, during the time the said act shall continue in force, from going on board any vessel whatsoever performing quarantine under the health laws and port regulations of either of the states of New-York or Pennsylvania, without permission in writing first obtained from the proper officer or officers authorized under those laws and regulations to grant the same: And all justices, judges and other officers to whose duty it appertains, are hereby charged and commanded to take immediate cognizance of all such offences, and bind over offenders in that behalf, in sufficient sureties to appear and answer as offenders against the force and effect of the aforesaid act of assembly of this state, and in the mean time to be of good behaviour.
DONE under my hand and seal at arms, at Trenton, the nineteenth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, and of our Independence the twenty-fourth.
RICHARD HOWELL.
By the Governor's Command. JOHN BRATTY, Secretary.
ELECTION.
DELAWARE COUNTY.
At a very numerous and respectable meeting of the Inhabitants of the County of Delaware, held at the Black-Horse Tavern, in the township of Middletown, the 17th day of August, 1799,
It was unanimously resolved,
That we will support JAMES ROSS, of Pittsburgh, with our votes and interest at the ensuing election, as Governor of this Commonwealth.
Resolved, That in order to obtain this desirable object, a Committee, consisting of four or more persons, be appointed in each Township to assist in promoting his election.
Resolved, That the Committee of Correspondence of this County be requested to prepare and forward a Circular Letter to each Member of the Township Committees, earnestly desiring them to use their utmost exertions by all fair and honorable means to promote the election of James Ross of Pittsburgh to the office of Governor of this Commonwealth.
Mr. John Wall, Mr. Jesse Sharpley, and Michael Kepple, Esq. the Committee appointed by a meeting held at Dunwoody's in Philadelphia on the 13th inst. for the purpose of representing to this meeting their determination to support Joseph Ball as Senator, and to desire our co-operation therein were introduced to the Chairman, and having declared the purpose of their mission, it was unanimously resolved,
That we will support, at the ensuing election, by our interest and votes, JOSEPH BALL as a Senator of this state, to supply the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Benjamin R. Morgan, Esq.
Resolved, That the proceedings of this meeting be signed by the Chairman and Secretary, and published in the Philadelphia Newspapers.
HUGH LLOYD, Chairman. BENJAMIN H. SMITH, Secretary.
At a numerous and respectable meeting of the freemen of the townships of Oxford, Lower Dublin, Byberry and Manor of Moreland, held the 10th inst. at the house of John Sagar, in Byberry, for the purpose of fixing on a suitable character to be run for governor at the ensuing election;
The meeting having taken into consideration the genuine republican principles of James Ross, Esq. of Pittsburgh; his warm attachment to our Constitution, and known impartiality respecting all foreign Governments;
Resolved unanimously, That they will, by all fair and candid means in their power, support him with their votes and interests for the office of chief magistrate.
Resolved, that in order to assist in promoting this desirable object, a committee, consisting of two persons from each township, be appointed in this district to correspond with other committees already appointed for that purpose.
Resolved, That Messrs. Frederick Caster, John McClellan, Thomas Paul, William Lardner, Joshua Comely, Edward Duffield, jun. Benjamin Walmsley, and Evan Townsend, be a committee agreeable to the foregoing resolve.
THOMAS HOLME, Chairman. Lower Dublin, Aug. 12, '99.
Those Citizens of Delaware County, who are desirous that JAMES ROSS, of Pittsburgh, should succeed the present Governor, are requested to meet at the Black Horse, in the township of Middletown, on the 17th day of Aug. next at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, in order to consult on measures to promote his election.
HUGH LLOYD, Chairman, of the Corresponding Committee of Delaware county. July 30, 1799.
It is with great satisfaction, we are obliged to state, that the reports of to-day respecting the sickness in the city are highly favorable.
A meeting of the Board of Health was held this morning, and after a mature consideration of the subject, it was concluded that sufficient ground did not exist to demand any public notice of it from them.
By private accounts we learn, that a considerable mortality prevails, in New-York, where, as well as with us, much alarm has arisen. In Baltimore also the season has of late been sickly—but no idea prevails of any contagious disorder existing there. On the whole, it may be hoped, that the present alarms have no other foundation than the extra number of deaths, by no means uncommon at this season.
Died on the 12th inst. at the house of Dr. De Butts, Sharpsburg, Washington county, HENRY OXMSBY, Esquire, late of the kingdom of Ireland; after an innocent and respectable life of seventy two years.
Gazette Marine List.
Port of Philadelphia.
A ship and a brig, names unknown, came into the Capes on Sunday last.
A ship, under English colours, has arrived at Wilmington.
New-York, August 19.
Table with 2 columns: ARRIVED, DAYS. Includes entries for Ship Favourite, Swan, Dublin; Hunter, Whitlock, Gibraltar; Warren, Dellen, Belfast; Schu, Suckey, Jones, Virginia; Sloop Polly, Williams, N. Carolina.
Wanted to Employ,
A PERSON of Judgment and Integrity to occasionally attend Vendues to purchase Wet and Dry Goods for an extensive Country Store. Proposals sealed directed to A. B. with the name of some other person mentioned to whom reference may be had, if necessary, for information relating to the qualifications of the agent, and left with the printer, will be duly attended to. The applicant will mention the No. of the house where he, or she, resides, that a letter directed by post may be regularly received. aug. 20
Wants a Situation, as Cook,
IN a gentleman's family a middle aged white person, who understands her business, and can have an undeniable character from her last situation. Enquire at No. 12, north second street near Market Street. aug. 20
TO LET,
A two story Brick House, SITUATE on Duke, between Front and Second Street, in the Northern Liberties; having a large garden and yard, extending to Green Street—on which there is a stable and small frame building suitable for a shop or counting-house. The house is built in the best manner and in excellent order; two rooms on a floor, well house, &c. Enquire at No. 37 Arch Street. P. S. This house was lately occupied by Joseph Engle. august 20
District of Pennsylvania—To wit;
THAT on the ninth day of August, in the twenty fourth year of the Independence of the United States of America, JONATHAN WILLIAMS, of the said district, hath deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as AUTHOR, in the words following, to wit:
"THERMOMETRICAL NAVIGATION, Being a series of experiments and observations, tending to prove, that by ascertaining the relative heat of the sea water from time to time, the passage of a ship through the Gulph Stream, and from deep water into shoal, may be discovered in time to avoid danger, although owing to tempestuous weather it may be impossible to observe the lead or observe the heavens by lodges. Extracted from the American Philosophical Transactions, vol. 2 & 3. With additions and improvements. God helps them that help themselves."
(L.S.) In conformity to the act of 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." D. CALDWELL, Clerk of the district of Pennsylvania, august 20
WANTED TO PURCHASE.
FOR CASH OR ON CREDIT. Coffee, Cotton, Logwood & Hides. APRTY TO PRATT & KINTZING.
WHO HAVE ON HAND
A very extensive assortment of GERMAN LINENS, &c.
Suitable for the West-India market, which they offer for sale, at moderate prices, or will barter them for West India produce. august 10.
Received by the ship Adriana, captain Carlton, from London,
A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF
HAIR SEATINGS, Suitable for chair and sofa covers, consisting of striped and plain, and of the following widths, viz. 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 26, 28, 30 and 32 inches. FOR SALE BY GEORGE PENNOCK, july 8

Notice is hereby given,
THAT separate proposals will be received at the office of the Secretary of the Department of War, until the expiration of the 25th of July next ensuing, for the supply of all rations, which may be required for the use of the United States, from the first day of October, 1799, to the thirty-first day of December, 1800, both days inclusive, at the places and within the two districts herein, after first mentioned; and also that separate proposals will be received at the said office until the expiration of the 25th day of July next ensuing, for the supply of all rations which may be required as aforesaid, from the first day of January in the year 1800, to the thirty-first day of December in the same year, both days inclusive, at the place and within the several districts herein after mentioned, viz.
First —Proposals to supply all rations, that may be required, at Oswego; at Niagara; at Presqu'isle; at Michilimackinac; at Fort Franklin; at Le Boeuf; at Cincinnati; at Picque town, and Loramies stores; at Fort Wayne; at Fort Defiance; at any place below Fort Defiance, on the Miami river to Lake Erie, at Fort Knox, and Quatanon on the river Wabash; at Massac; at any place or places on the east side of the river Mississippi, above the mouth of the river Ohio, and upon the Illinois river.
Second —Proposals to supply all rations that may be required, at any place or places, on the east side of the Mississippi river, below the mouth of the river Ohio to the southern boundary of the state of Kentucky and within the said state; at Knoxville; at all other posts and places within the state of Tennessee; at South West Point; at Tellico Block-house, at St. Stephens on the river Tombigby and any place or places within the Cherokee boundaries; be low the southern boundary of the state of Tennessee and within the boundary of the United States.
Third —Proposals to supply all rations that may be required, at Point-Petre; at Coleraine; at Savannah, and at any other place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the state of Georgia; at all forts or stations on the Oconee and Altamaha, and at all other places in the Creek Nation, within the limits of the United States, where troops are or may be stationed.
Fourth —Proposals to supply all rations that may be required at Fort Johnson, at Fort Pinckney, at Charleston, or at any other place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited in the state of South Carolina.
Fifth —Proposals to supply all rations that may be required at the Port at Wilmington, Cape Fear; at Beaufort Island, Ocracoke; at Charlotte; at Fayetteville; at Salisbury, or at any other place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited in the state of North Carolina.
Sixth —Proposals to supply all rations that may be required at Norfolk, at Portsmouth, at Kempville, at Charotteville, at Winchester, at Staunton, at Richmond, at Alexandria, at Leesburg, at Fredericksburg, at Carter'sville, or at any other place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited, in the state of Virginia.
Seventh —Proposals to supply all rations that may be required at Fort M'Henry, at Baltimore, at Annapolis, at Frederick town, at Leonard town, at Hagerstown, at Bladensburg, at George town, at Harper's ferry, at Elitown, at the Head of Elk, and at any other place or places, where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the limits of the state of Maryland.
Eighth —Proposals to supply all rations that may be required at Fort M'Henry, at Philadelphia, at Darby, at Lancaster, at Wilkes-Barre, at Reading, at Bristol, at Yorktown, at Carlisle, at Lewistown (Mifflin county) at Bedford, at Greensburg, at Washington, at Easton, at Wilmington, at Christiana, at Dover, or at any other place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the limits of the state of Pennsylvania and Delaware, except the posts within the state of Pennsylvania, enumerated in the first proposals aforesaid.
Ninth —Proposals to supply all rations that may be required at Hackensack, at Elizabeth town, at New-Brunswick, at Burlington, at Woodbury, at Trenton, and at any other place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the limits of the state of Jersey.
Tenth —Proposals to supply all rations that may be required at New-York, at West-Point, at Poughkeepsie, at Macleam, at West-Chester, at Poughkeepsie, at Kinderhook, at Still-water, at Newburg, at Albany, at Cohoes, at Cherry Valley, and at any other place or places, where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the limits of the state of New York, except the posts within the said state enumerated in the first proposals aforesaid.
Eleventh —Proposals to supply all rations that may be required at Hartford, at Hebron, at New London, at Brooklyn, at Windham, at Litchfield, at Guilford, at New-Haven, at Fairfield, at Danbury, at Middletown, and at any other place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the limits of the state of Connecticut.
Twelfth —Proposals to supply all rations that may be required at Fort Wolcott, at Brimton's Point, at Newport, at Providence, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the limits of the state of Rhode Island.
Thirteenth —Proposals to supply all rations that may be required at Portland in the District of Maine, at Gloucester, at Cape Ann, Salem, Marblehead, Boston, at Springfield, at Uxbridge, and at any other place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the limits of the state of Massachusetts.
Fourteenth —Proposals to supply all rations that may be required at Portsmouth, at Exeter, at Windsor, at Bennington, at Rutland, or at any Fort, place or places, where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the States of New-Hampshire and Vermont.
The Ration to be supplied, is to consist of the following articles, viz. Eighteen ounces of bread or flour, or when neither can be obtained, of one quart of rice, or one and a half pound of sifted or pounded Indian meal, one pound and a quarter of fresh beef, or one pound of salted beef, or three quarters of a pound of salted Pork, and when fresh meat is issued, salt, at the rate of two quarts for every hundred rations, soap at the rate of four pounds, and candles at the rate of a pound and a half for every hundred rations.
It is expected the proposals will also extend to the supply of rum, whiskey, or other ardent spirits at the rate of half a pint per ration, and Vinegar at the rate of two quarts for every hundred rations. The proposals will specify the price of the several component parts of the ration, as well as those of substitutes or alternatives for parts thereof.
The rations are to be furnished in such quantities or that there shall at all times, during the term of the proposed contracts, be sufficient for the consumption of the troops at Michilimackinac, Detroit, Niagara and Oswego, for six months in advance, and at each of the other posts on the western waters, for at least three months in advance, of good and wholesome provisions, if the same shall be required. It is also to be permitted to all and every of the commandants of fortified places, or posts to call for at seasons when the same can be transported, or at any time in case of urgency, such supplies of like provisions in advance, as in the discretion of the commandant shall be deemed proper. It is to be understood that the contractor is to be at the expense and risk of issuing the supplies to the troops, and that all losses, sustained, by the depredations of an enemy, or by means of the depredations of the United States, shall be paid for at the price of the article captured or destroyed, on the depredations of two or more persons of creditable character, and the certificate of a commissioned officer, ascertaining the circumstances of the loss, and the amount of the articles, for which compensation shall be claimed.
The privilege is to be understood to be referred to the United States of requiring, that some of the supplies which may be furnished under any of the proposed contracts shall be issued, until the supplies which have or may be furnished under contracts now in force have been consumed, and that a supply in advance may be always required at any of the fixed posts on the Sea-board or Indian frontiers not exceeding three months.
JAMES M'HENRY, Secretary of War. march 29
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Each volume will contain about one third less of letter-press than the original edition; but, as the publisher is not yet enabled to determine the extent of the Private Journals, which he may be allowed to make public, he cannot ascertain the number of volumes which will comprise the work.
Payments to be made on delivery of each volume.
Subscribers will have it at their option, either to subscribe for the whole of the Journals, up to the present time, or to those only of the Old Congress prior to the organization of the Federal Government.
In all countries, the proceedings in the commencement of their governments, are lost in darkness and obscurity, owing to a carelessness, in the succeeding generation, to preserve the public records, and the attention of the nation, in those rude ages, being called off from their domestic concerns, to engage in wars and conquest. Of what infinite value would the laws of Alfred be, had they been transmitted to our days? Time, that destroys every thing, enhances the value of well authenticated public records, and renders them almost invaluable. It is hoped, that Americans will, therefore, cheerfully contribute their assistance in transmitting to posterity the labours of their ancestors—founders of the Columbian nation.
The work will certainly be advanced with expedition and promptitude. The following will show the support it has already acquired:
"Philadelphia, June 15, 1798.
"To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States.
"The MEMORIAL of the Subscribers, Citizens, &c. of Philadelphia,
"Respectfully represents,
"That having, in our respective avocations, frequent occasions to recur to the Journals of Congress, we experience inconvenience by the scarcity of them: That we understand that Richard Folwell, printer, of Philadelphia, has had it in contemplation to print that public records; and that he hath obtained partial countenance from many individuals; but that he has delayed prosecuting the work, in expectation of encouragement from government, that may adequately indemnify him. We, therefore, respectfully solicit, as the publication is necessary to be disseminated among public bodies, that Congress will, in their wisdom, render him such additional encouragement, to that which he has obtained from private individuals, as to enable him to proceed with the work, so that your Memorialists may be enabled to purchase copies of that record for themselves.
Thomas M'Kean, John D. Cox, Charles Heasley, Samson Levy, T. Rofs, Wm. Moore Smith, John Read jun. William Tilghman, John F. Millin, Joseph B. M'Kean, John Beckley, W. Sergeant, John Thompson, Jared Ingersoll, Jasper M'Levan, William Rawle, J. Thomas, William Lewis, James Gibton, M. Kepple, Moses Levy, Robert Porter, George Davis, John Hallowell, James Oldden, Walter Franklin, James Milnor, John C. Wells, John L. Leib, Alexander I. Dallas, Joseph Reed, Thomas Willing, Samuel M. Fox, John Nixon, Robert Waln, Robert H. Dunkin, John Ewing, Jun. Edward Pennington, Hilary Baker, William Nichols, William Young, Robert Campbell Septimus, Claypoole James Cruickshank, Mathew Carey, Henry K. Helmsuth, Peter De Haven, John Duane, Edward Shoemaker, John R. Smith, William Hall, David C. Claypoole, Thomas Armstrong, Samuel H. Smith, John Fenno.
"True copy from the original Memorial, presented to the House of Representatives of the United States, on Monday, the 18th of June 1798:
"WILLIAM LAMBERT, for "JONATHAN W. CONDY, CLERK."
"RESOLVED by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives, be authorized and directed, to subscribe, on such terms as they may deem eligible, for the use of the Senate and House of Representatives, for four hundred Copies of the Journals of Congress, which are proposed to be published by Richard Folwell and such number of copies of deficient volumes of the sets now in print, as may be necessary to complete the same.
JONATHAN DAYTON, Speaker of the House of Representatives.
JAMES ROSS, President of the Senate pro tempore.
Approved, March 29, 1799.
JOHN ADAMS, President of the United States.
may 20. iawtf
Twenty Dollars Reward.
DESERTED from the Rendezvous at Easton, JOHN FRANTOM, a soldier in the 9th U. S. Regiment, 5 feet 8 inches high, blue eyes, swarthy complexion and brown hair, which he wears long and queued; he limps much in walking, and has a considerable impediment in his speech.
At the same time SOLOMON KINNI MONT, a soldier in the same regiment; he is a handsome young man, 19 years old, 5 feet 10 and a quarter inches high, black eyes, short brown hair, fair complexion.
They were enticed to desert by two men who said they had served as marines on board the Baltimore Hoop-of-war, and went off with an intention to enlist in that service; both were in full uniform, though they will probably change their dress.
The above reward will be given for delivering the two, or ten dollars for either of them, to any officer of the North regiment; by M. TILGHMAN, 1st Lieutenant 9th U. S. Regiment.
Easton (Pa.) Aug. 1. (5) d3w
WILLIAM COBBETT
HAS JUST PUBLISHED (PRICE 1 DOL. 50 CENTS)
THE
BAVIAD
AND
MEVIAD.
By WILLIAM GIFFORD, ESQUIRE.
To which is prefixed, A POETICAL EPISTLE TO THE AUTHOR By an American Gentleman.
[In introducing this celebrated work to the Gentlemen and Ladies of America, I have endeavored to give it a dress proportioned to its distinguished merit, and to the taste of those for whose amusement and delight it is intended. No expense has been spared in the publication; and I flatter myself that the work does not yield, either in paper or print, to any one ever published in America—This edition has an advantage over some former ones, as it contains by way of notes, the minor productions of the author; and, it has an advantage over every other edition, in the Poetical Epistle, which is prefixed to it, and which must be extremely gratifying to every lover of literature in this country, as it is a proof that there are Americans who have the taste to admire, the justice to applaud, and the talents to rival the Geniuses of other nations.
Some Copies have been sent on to Mr. Saml. Neville, Maiden Lane, New York, also to Mr. Hill, Baltimore, and to Mr. Young, Charleston.
Copies will be sent to Boston and other places, as soon as occasions offer.] may 28
Twenty Dollars Reward.
DESERTED from the barracks at Reading, in the night of the 5th July, 1799, the following soldiers in the 11th regiment in the service of the United States.
Thomas Britton Booth, a private, born in Chester county, 25 years of age, 5 feet 8 inches and 3-4 high, dark complexion, brown eyes and long black hair which he commonly wears tied close to his head, by occupation a farmer; he is a stout, good looking fellow, and considerably marked with the small pox, is much addicted to liquor, and very abusive when intoxicated; he was dressed in full infantry uniform except his hat—it is expected that he will change his dress as he floats a plain round hat and a number of citizens' clothes.
Also, James M'Nallen, born in the county of Antrim, in Ireland, 36 years of age, 5 feet 7 inches and 1-2 high, fair complexion, grey eyes, short brown hair, which is very thin upon the crown of his head, of thin village and a very pleasant countenance; by occupation a farmer, and was dressed in full infantry uniform.
The above reward and reasonable expenses will be paid to any person who shall apprehend and confine in any jail, or deliver to any officer in the service of the United States, the above described deserters, or ten dollars and expenses for either of them.
LEWIS HOWARD, Lieutenant 11th United States Regiment Reading, July 7 (10)
TREASURY DEPARTMENT
JUNE 27, 1798.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That by virtue of an act, passed during the present session of Congress, so much of the act entitled "An Act making further provision for the support of public credit, and for the redemption of the public debt"—passed the third day of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five, as bars from settlement or allowance, Certificates, commonly called Loan Office and final settlement Certificates, and Indents of Interest, is suspended until the twelfth day of June, which will be in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety nine.
That on the liquidation and settlement of the said Certificates, and Indents of Interest, at the Treasury, the Creditors will be entitled to receive Certificates of Funded Three Per Cent. Stock equal to the amount of the said Indents, and the arrears of interest due on their said Certificates, prior to the first day of January one thousand seven hundred and ninety one.
That the principal sum of the said Loan Office and final settlement Certificates, with the interest thereon, since the first day of January, one thousand seven hundred and ninety one, will be discharged after liquidation at the Treasury, by the payment of interest and reimbursement of principal, equal to the sums which would have been payable thereon, if the said Certificates had been subscribed, pursuant to the Acts making provision for the debts of the United States, contracted during the late war, and by the payment of other sums, equal to the market value of the remaining Stock, which would have been created by such subscriptions as aforesaid, which market value will be determined by the Comptroller of the Treasury.
OLIVER WOLCOTT, Secretary of the Treasury. june 28 iawtf
TREASURY DEPARTMENT
May 29th, 1799.
THE proprietors of certificates issued for subscriptions to the Loan bearing interest at eight per centum per annum, are notified, that at any time after payment shall have been made during the first ten days of the month of July ensuing, Certificates of Funded Stock may at their option be obtained at the Treasury or Loan Office, respectively, for the amount of the four first instalments, or one moiety of the sums expressed in the subscription certificates:—No certificates of Funded Stock will however be issued for less than one hundred dollars.
Such subscription certificates as may be presented at the Treasury or Loan Offices in consequence of the foregoing arrangement, will be numbered and distinctly marked as to denote that a moiety of the stock has been issued.
OLIVER WOLCOTT, Secretary of the Treasury
June 22. ead tf.
TO BE SOLD,
TWO new frame two Story Houses pleasantly situated near the Jolly Post-Tavern, upper end of the Village of Frankford. There are in each house, besides a kitchen, two rooms on the first floor; three on the second, with roomy garrets, all well finished; there are also to each, a good garden lot, stable and coach house. Part goods will be taken in payment. Any persons wishing to become purchasers are requested to view the premises, and for terms apply to
JOHN McCLELLAN. Frankford, July 13. ead
The Swift-Sure,
A NEW LINE OF STAGES,
NOW RUNNING BETWEEN
PHILADELPHIA & NEW-YORK,
By the short and pleasant road of
Busyleton, Newtown, Scotch-Plains, Spring-field and Newark.
THE excellence of this road, the populousness of the country through which it passes, with sundry other advantages, which render it so far preferable to the Old Road through Bristol, Brunswic, &c. long ago suggested the propriety of its becoming the Grand Through-Fare from Philadelphia to New-York. During the present year, a minute survey of it has been taken, and its superiority over the Old Road, both in winter and summer, has been clearly ascertained.—There are good bridges over all the other waters but the Delaware, and here the crossing is performed with great safety and in less than half the time required at the Trenton Ferry. The road is several miles shorter than the old road, but this is amongst the least of its advantages, because daily experience proves to us, that dispatch as well as comfort in travelling principally depend on the goodness of the road and the levelness of the country; and, in these respects, the New Road is, beyond all comparison, the best. It presents none of those rocky hills, which render the Old Road so fatiguing between the Delaware and Newark. The soil, too, for the greater part, is such as to produce but little mud in winter, and very little dust in summer, which circumstance, added to the beauty of the country, and a considerable proportion of shade, must always render travelling in the latter season peculiarly agreeable.
The Swift-Sure starts from PHILADELPHIA at 6 o'clock every morning (Sundays excepted) from the GREEN TREE, opposite the Lutheran Church, North Fourth street. It goes through Frankford to Busyleton, where it stops to Breakfast; from Busyleton it goes through Newtown to Pennytown to dinner; from Pennytown through Hopewell, Millstone, Bound-brook, Quibbletown and Plainfield to Scotch Plains to lodge. The next morning it stops at Springfield to Breakfast, from whence it goes through Newark and arrives at New-York at noon.
From NEW-YORK it starts at 3 o'clock in the afternoon (from Paulus Hook) and arrives at Philadelphia the next evening. For Fares at New-York, application may be made to Edward Hardin, Old Coffee house, to A. Mathieson, corner of Nassau and John streets, to B. Many, no. 48, Courtland, corner of Greenwich street, and to Michael Little, at his hotel, no. 42, Broad street.
Fare for passengers, Five Dollars. Way passengers 6 Cents per Mile.
Each passenger is allowed to take on rails, of baggage carriage free; but all other baggage, taken on by a passenger, will be charged at 4 cents per pound weight.
With respect to packages sent on without passengers, the proprietors presume they have adopted a regulation, which, though unknown to other lines of stages, they think must meet with general approbation. They pledge themselves to make good every package on the following conditions. The person who delivers the package at the office shall fee it entered in the stage-book, for which entry he shall pay 6 cents; he will then state the value of the package, and pay (exclusive of the carriage) one per cent. on the value, as insurance, and for which he will receive a receipt. Thus, for instance, if he estimates his package at one dollar, he will pay one cent. and if at one hundred dollars, he will pay one dollar insurance, and in like proportion for packages of any other value.
Very few persons it is presumed, will dislike this regulation; it will however, be optional with every one to avail himself of this security or not. But the proprietors think it right to state very explicitly, that they will be responsible for the safe delivery of no package, which is not regularly insured, and for which an insurance receipt cannot be produced.
In the distribution of the route, the greatest care has been taken to fix on such places and taverns as always afford a good accommodation and entertainment for the passengers at the most reasonable rates. The stages are well equipped furnished with fleet and steady horses, and committed to the care of intelligent labor and obliging drivers. The proprietors themselves live at the different towns and villages where the stages will stop, so that the conduct of the persons they employ is continually an object of their attention.—They take care also to see that the passengers are well provided for and politely treated at the taverns, and that no sort of chicanery or inuendo is practised upon them; in short, they have spared neither pains nor expense to render the SWIFT-SURE the very best line of stages in America.
The line has now run nearly a month, during which time a great number of gentlemen have gone through, both from Philadelphia and New-York. Every passenger has found the road to be all that it has been said to be; and the proprietors of the Swift-Sure are extremely happy to hear the behaviour of their drivers, and the treatment at Taverns spoken of with the highest satisfaction.
JOHN MCALLA, Philadelphia. THOS. PAUL, Busyleton. JOSEPH THORNTON, } Newtown. NICHOLAS WYNKOOP, } JACOB KESLER, } JOHN MORRELL AD, Pennytown. T. KILLMLIN, near Millstone. ELIAS COMBES, Bound Brook. R. SANBURY, Scotch Plains. ISAAC RAWLE, } Springfield. ROBERT PEARSON, } ead tf.
A meeting of the visitors and governors of St. John's college in the State of Maryland, on the 13th day of July 1799.
Resolved, That on the first day of October next, this board will proceed to elect a Professor of English, Latin and Grammar, who shall receive, for his services, at the rate of £200 per annum, to be paid quarterly; and that public notice thereof be given, &c. &c.
Test, A. C. HANSON. N. B. The office aforesaid has just become vacant, by the resignation of a gentleman, whose affairs require, the immediate undertaking of a voyage by sea.
It is the duty of the said Professor (to whom is allowed an assistant) to teach the English language grammatically, and to prepare students for a Superior School, by teaching them the Latin grammar, the Vocabulary, and Cordery. Writing is to be taught to all his scholars at stated hours; and to those students who are not destined for the Superior branch, or guardians, Arithmetic, and other branches of science usually taught in English schools. A complete knowledge of Latin, Arithmetic, &c. is considered indispensable in the professor; and it is expected, that candidates who are not known to the Board, will submit to an examination, as well as produce satisfactory testimonials of their good morals, and fair character.
The Printers within the United States are requested to insert in their papers the foregoing notice, and to repeat the foregoing notice, as often as convenience will admit, until the 20th day of September next.
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WHEREAS,
An attachment was lately issued out of the inferior court of common pleas of the county of Essex, in the state of New Jersey, directed to the sheriff of the said county, against the rights, credits, monies and effects, goods and chattels, lands and tenements of John Clive Symmes on the sum of five hundred and thirty three dollars.
And whereas, the said sheriff did, at the term of Jane last past, return to the said court that he had attached the defendant by a certain bond given by Matthias Demun and Samuel Meeker to the said defendant, to the amount of near two thousand dollars, and also by sixty land warrants.
Now therefore, unless the said John Clive Symmes shall appear, give special bail, and receive a declaration against him, and his property herein attached, will be sold agreeably to the statute in such case made and provided.
Aaron Ogden, Clerk, &c. Elizabeth-town, July 3, 1799 (11) iawtfm
Valuable Property for Sale,
In Chestnut, near Sixth street, directly opposite CONGRESS HALL,
A LOT of ground, about at depth in Chestnut street and 73 feet in depth, wherein is a good frame house, now in the tenure of Samuel Benge, subject to a ground rent of 203 per annum.
The advantageous situation of this property requires no comments, for it must be known, there are few in this city to equal it, an unexceptionable title will be made to the purchaser. Apply to
JAMES GERVAN, no. 198. Chestnut street, next door to the premises. march 5 iawtf
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
March 18th, 1799.
PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, Pursuant to the act of Congress passed on the 31st day of June, one thousand, seven hundred and ninety six, entitled "An act regulating the grants of land appropriated for military services, and for the lottery of United Brethren for propagating the gospel among the Heathen," and the act supplementary to the said act passed on the second day of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety nine—to wit:
THAT the tract of Land herein after described, namely, "beginning at the North West corner of the seven ranges of townships, and running thence fifty miles due South, along the western boundary of the said ranges;—thence due West to the Main Branch of the Scioto river; thence up the Main Branch of the said river to the place where the Indian boundary line crosses the same;—thence along the said boundary line to the Tulpacora branch of the Mingo river at the crossing place above Fort Lawrence; thence down the said river, to the point where a line run due west from the place of beginning, will intersect the said river; thence along the line to