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JOHN MILLER, Junr. FOR SALE, near Third street, has for sale, Coffee, Pepper, etc.
ALSO, A FEW PACKAGES OF German Goods, suitable to the West India Market; Received by the Fair American from Hamburg.
PACIFIC, PERKINS SALTER, Master, is a splendid good Ship, all fitted, and ready to receive a cargo.
A QUANTITY of Dry Goods WANTED, in the Northern Liberties, (a good Stand for Business) will be given in payment, the title clear and sound.
Bank of North America, THE STOCKHOLDERS are hereby notified that an Election for the ensuing year, will be held on Sunday the 15th January next, at 10 o'clock.
CANAL OFFICE, Notice is hereby given, that the Stockholders of the Delaware and Schuylkill Canal Company, will hold their annual Election on Monday the 6th of January next, at 10 o'clock.
MILITARY LAND WARRANTS, The Subscriber having lately returned from viewing the land, surveyed and appropriated to satisfy the land warrants, issued by the Secretary of War to the officers and soldiers of the late continental army; and having made arrangements with Mr. James Johnson, of Chester county, Pennsylvania, who he left on the land, and who with the assistance of an intelligent inhabitant of that county, will spend five months in exploring the different sections.
DANCING, MR. FRANCIS OF THE NEW THEATRE, RESPECTFULLY informs his Scholars and the public in general, that he will re-commence Teaching on TUESDAY the 8th instant, at the Assembly Room, South Fourth Street.
LANDING, At Wilcock's wharf from the schr. Lively, capt. Godfrey, from Halifax, 325 Barrels fine pickled Salmon, 80 half Barrels do. Shad, 20 Barrels do. Mackerel.
FOR SALE BY NICKLIN & GRIFFITH, N.B. There are some Goods on Freight on board the above Schooner, the names of the consignees of which are not mentioned, they are requested to make immediate entry of the same, otherwise they will be sent to the custom house as the vessel must be discharged without loss of time.
CARD, THE Subscriber returns his thanks to his fellow citizens for their exertions to save his property on the fire on Tuesday last. If any property of his is in their care, information of it will be thankfully received at No. 65 Dock-street.
UNSEATED LANDS, THE owners of Unseated Lands in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, are hereby notified, that unless the Taxes due on said Lands for the Years 1795, 1796, 1797, and 1798 are paid into the hands of JOHN WILKINS, Esquire, County Treasurer, on or before the 20th day of February next, they will be advertised for sale as the law directs.
NOTICE, To the owners of unseated lands in the county of Huntingdon, to come forward and pay the taxes assessed and due thereon, within three months from this date, there being one or more years taxes due on the unseated lands in the said county of Huntingdon.
WILLIAM STEEL, HUGH MORRISON, JOHN STEEL, Commissioners, Huntingdon, Commissioners Office, Sept. 25, 1799.
TAKE NOTICE, THAT application is made to the Bank of the United States, for the renewal of the following certificates of Bank Stock, which were lost in the brig Peggy Captain Fluyer, on her passage from America to London.
WILLINGS & FRANCIS, October 25, 1799.
NOTICE, ALL persons indebted to the Estate of JACOB THOMAS, of Washington in the State of Kentucky, deceased, are requested to make immediate payment. All persons having demands against said estate are desired to furnish their accounts legally attested to JACOB REESE, Administrator.
NOTICE, ALL persons indebted to the estate of THOMAS WILSON, late of Southwark, deceased, are requested to make immediate payment to the subscribers, and those who have any demands against the said estate are requested to furnish their accounts for settlement.
SARAH WILSON, Administratrix, JOEL W. WILSON, Administrator, No. 293, South Front-street, Southwark, WHO HAS TO LET, A BRICK STABLE, Sufficiently large to contain nine Horses.
A New FRAME CARRIAGE HOUSE, For Sale or to Let, Nov. 1, 1799.
TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD, RAN AWAY on Saturday evening the 13th of July instant, from Colebrook Furnace, Lancaster county, a Negro Man named Cato, he is about 40 years of age, five feet six or seven inches high, tolerable black, with a down ill look, squints, he is a cunning artful fellow, a great liar, and very fond of strong liquor, has been brought up to the farming business, is very handy at any kind of labor - or work; he took with him a number of clothing, amongst which were, one suit plain Nankin; (some money). It is expected he has shaped his course for Philadelphia or New York.
THE CO-PARTNERSHIP OF THOMAS AND JOHN KETLAND, Being Dissolved, By the death of Mr. JOHN KETLAND, ALL persons who have demands against said Firm are requested to bring in their accounts for payment, and those indebted to the Firm are solicited to make payment to THOMAS KETLAND, October 21.
Just Imported, 135 Hogsheads, Prime SUGAR, 191 Barrels, 50 do. Green Coffee, 25 Boxes brown, Havannah SUGAR, 25 do. white, 12 Hds. James' River Tobacco, 30 Packages well assorted German Linens, Ruffia Cordage, assorted, 400 Pines Barcelona Brandy, 4th proof, 400 Hogsheads in Casks, Brown Stout Porter, draught and bottled, 40 Casks Shot, No. 1 to 6, Lead in Pigs, 8 Hds. ground Lead, assorted, 4 Casks Glauber Salts, Cream Tartar, &c. Black quart wine bottles in crates, 1 gross each, Queens ware in Crates, Cannon, 4, 6, and 9 pounds calibre, with shot, round, grape and canister, Swivels, Corks in bales, all quality, Claret in cases, superior quality, Port Wine, ditto, Horsemen's Swords, Hangers, &c. Fowling pieces and pistols in cases, Ship Bouteilles and Bouteilles, in do. Bath Stone Grates, for chambers, &c. &c. FOR SALE BY THOMAS KETLAND, Walnut Street wharf, Nov. 1.
MADEIRA WINE, Of an excellent Quality and good Age, TO BE SOLD, By the pipe, quarter cask, or less quantity, No. 107 South Second Street, December 21.
JOSEPH D. BRINKER BEGS leave to inform his friends and the public that he has taken into partnership DANIEL BARTOW, Their Mercantile Concerns will, in consequence, be conducted under the firm of BRINKER AND BARTOW, Who have just imported, per the West Point, arrived at New York, the Amiable Creole, and other late arrivals at this port from Hamburg.
GERMAN GOODS, Confisting of the following Articles, viz. Ticklenburghs, Creas, a la Mozelix, Dowalls, 8-4, 7-8, 4-3, 4-9, 8ths wide Flanders Sheetings, Silesia ditto, Rouan ditto, Brown and white Platillas, Britanias, Weisgarner Linens, 7-8 & 4-3 Silesia Sheetings, assorted, Diaper and Damask Table Cloths, Clouting Diapers, Diaper Zwillich, Oil Cloths, Glass Tumblers, Quarts, Pints and Half Pints, ALSO, Per the Eliza from London, Russia Sheetings, Ravens Duck, Men, Women and Children's Welsh yarn Hosiery. All which they offer for sale at their Store, No. 61 North Front Street, either by the package or smaller quantity, at the most reasonable rates, for cash or notes at short date. November 20.
TO BE SOLD FOR CASH, OR EXCHANGED, For property in the City, or within thirty miles of it, A PLANTATION or tract of Land in Milford County and State of Pennsylvania, within six miles of the river Juniata, containing about 300 acres. There are about fifty acres cleared, part of which is a rich bottom, watered by a constant stream that is strong enough to work an oil or a grist mill. Any person inclining to deal for it, may obtain further information by applying at the office of this gazette. N.B. If sold, credit will be given for part of the money. October 17, 1799.
Twenty Dollars Reward, RAN AWAY from Spring Forge, in York County, a negro man, named ISAAC, otherwise WOODGO, about 21 years old, the property of Robert Coleman, Esq. He is about 5 feet 8 inches high, has a blemish in his eyes, more white in them than common, by trade a Fuge man; had on and took with him a drab coloured broad cloth coat, almost new, a fustian jacket and pantalettes printed fancy cord, a fustian striped under jacket, a brown hat; one fine and one coarse shirt, one mullin handkerchief, sprigged, two ditto striped border, a blue Persian under jacket and two pair cotton stockings. Whoever takes up said negro and lodges him in any jail in this or any of the neighbouring states shall have the above reward or reasonable expenses if brought home. JOHN BRIEN, Spring Forge, October 23, 1799.
NOTICE, N.B. As said negro formerly lived in Chester county, it is probable he may return there. November 5.
Now Ready for Sale, At GEORGE DAVIS'S Law Book Store, No. 319, High Street, A very valuable and extensive Assortment of Law Books, IMPORTED this fall and immediately before the late sickness, comprehending almost every Book in use, of the latest London and Irish editions. They will be disposed of from a single volume, to an entire Library at the same prices as have heretofore given such general satisfaction. By sundry vessels daily expected from London and Dublin, his stock will as usual be kept up, so that gentlemen will seldom be disappointed when applying at his store. N.B. This day is published, Davis's Law Catalogue for 1799, of books for sale, which may be had gratis, on application as above. November 8.
FOR SALE, By JOSEPH & JAMES CRUKSHANK, No. 87 High Street Philadelphia, A FEW COPIES OF THE HARLEIAN MISCELLANY, BEING a Selection of Tracts which principally regard the English History, and of which many are referred to by Hume. The scarcity and high price of the Harleian Miscellany, induced the editor to offer the present abridgement to the public, which is composed of a narration of those highly interesting events which have occurred in the History of England, and which are chiefly arranged in chronological order. The volume contains in quantity one fourth of the original work, and the price of it is one guinea, being only one twelfth of what the original book now sells for. November 21.
Philadelphia & Lancaster Turnpike Company, December 12, 1799.
NOTICE, THE Stockholders are to meet at their Office, at 10 o'clock, on Monday the 13th January next, to choose their officers agreeable to law. WM. GOVETT, Secretary, December 12.
BANK OF THE UNITED STATES, November 15, 1799. NOTICE, THE STOCKHOLDERS of the Bank of the United States are informed, that according to the Statute of Incorporation, a General Election for twenty-five Directors will be held at the Bank of the United States in the City of Philadelphia, on Monday the 6th of January next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon. And pursuant to the eleventh section of the by-laws, the Stockholders of the said Bank are also notified to assemble in general meetings, at the same place, on Tuesday the 7th of January next, at six o'clock in the evening. G. SIMPSON, Cashier.
Second Fundamental Article, Not more than three fourths of the Directors in office, exclusive of the President shall be eligible for the next ensuing year, but the Director who shall be President at the time of an election, may always be re-elected. November 15.
One Thousand Five Hundred DOLLARS, WAS delivered to the POSTMASTER here, in the Post-Office, on the evening of Tuesday the 27th ult. in a LETTER directed to Mr. John Mils, Merchant, BALTIMORE, containing two ALEXANDRIA BANK NOTES, No. 4320, in favour of William Taylor, and dated 30th April, 1798, for ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS, and No. 4522, in favour of John P. Pleasants, and dated the 10th of December, 1798, for FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS, which letter has been SUPPRESSED in a POST-OFFICE, and the BANK NOTES taken out - as the PUBLIC MAIL was not STOPPED, MOLESTED, or ROBBED. Bankers and merchants are particularly requested to watch the circulation of said notes, and stop them; and any person giving such information as will lead us to our money, shall have FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS reward. WILSON & SWANN, Frederickburg, (Virg.) Sept. 20.
NOTICE, ALL Printers in the United States, are requested to publish the above, and we will pay them. TWO or three Gentlemen with their families, may be accommodated with Lodgings and Breakfast, and two furnished rooms, at No. 83 north Fifth Street. November 27.
Lodging and Breakfast, FOR one or two single Gentlemen, in a genteel private family, with the use of a neat front Parlour, and Board for Servants may be had at No. 28 north Fifth Street. November 26.
Three Cents Reward, RUN away from the Subscriber on the evening of the 28th ult. a bound Servant GIRL, named Elizabeth Howick, had on and took with her three different changes of garment and money, proud, bold and impudent, a noted liar; any person apprehending her shall be entitled to the above reward - no cost or charges will be paid. DANIEL FITZPATRICK, Goshen Township, Chester County, July 29.
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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 record; and that he hath obtained partial countenance from many individuals; but that he has delayed prosecuting the work, in expectation of encouragement from government, that may adequately indemnify him. We, therefore, respectfully solicit, as the publication is necessary to be disseminated among public bodies, that Congress will, in their wisdom grant 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.
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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 authorised and directed, to subscribe, on such terms as they may deem eligible, for the use of the Senate and House of Representatives, for four hundred Copies of the Journals of Congress, which are proposed to be published by Richard Folwell and such number of copies of deficient volumes of the sets now in print, as may be necessary to complete the same.
JONATHAN DAYTON, Speaker of the House of Representatives, JAMES ROSS, President of the Senate pro tempore. Approved, March 2d, 1799. JOHN ADAMS, President of the United States.
AT a Court of Common Pleas held at Union Town, for the county of Fayette, the fourth Monday of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety nine, before the Judges of the same court, on the petition of John Willson, praying that the act of Assembly, providing that the person of a debtor shall not be liable to imprisonment for debt after delivering up his estate for the use of his creditors, may be extended to him. The Court appoint the first day of next term, to hear the petitioner and his creditors, and order that he give his creditors public notice hereof, in Fenno's Philadelphia paper, and in Yundt and Brown's Baltimore paper, for one week, ending at least four weeks before the day of hearing; and that he also give to John Gillespie and Jacob Everhart personal notice in writing, to be served on them, at least fifteen days previous to the hearing. At September term, this order was continued to the first day of December term. By the Court, EPHRAIM DOUGLASS, Prothonotary.

Foreign Intelligence.
LONDON, October 19.
Yesterday arrived the Hamburg mail which became due on Sunday. It contains the particulars of the late unfortunate actions in Switzerland, which we have the satisfaction of being able to assure our readers have been grossly exaggerated by Gen. Massena and his Telegraphes . It is very remarkable that Chabron, with whole brigade and authority the account of their victories is transferred to the Directory , (by the telegraph at Strasburg) should write at the same time, in the bulletin of the army, (see the article from Biele, Sept. 27) that the killed and wounded of the allies amounted to 8000 men. One account was calculated for those who might in some degree be judges of what had taken place; the other for the meridian of Paris.
Letters also have been received from Col. Ramsay our commissioner with the Russian army in Switzerland, dated at Schaffhausen the 30th ultimo, of the most consolatory description. The defeat was far from being of the nature or extent which has been announced by Massena and Chabron. The loss of the Austrians was inconsiderable, except in the death of their general, Hotze, who was killed accidentally as he was reconnoitring too near to the lines of the enemy. That of the Russians did not exceed 3000 men, though the French made it amount to 20,000. Upon the death of general Hotze, the officer who succeeded to the command, thought it prudent to retire; the Russians, from no circumstance but the immense inferiority of numbers, were thrown into disorder. They rallied, however, at Schaffhausen, upon the 30th September, and along the border of the lake of Constance, the town of which name they retaken, with an immense slaughter of the enemy. The telegraphic dispatch respecting marshal Suwarow, is either an entire fabrication or a very gross exaggeration. This general, so far from being engaged, without knowledge of the defeat at Zurich, had written pressing letters to the archduke, whose arrival at Schaffhausen is not only mentioned in private letters, but cannot be doubted from the concurrence of the intelligence from Mannheim, and almost all the places on his route. The prince of Conde, with his army, consisting of 6000 men, has also effected a junction with the Russians at that city; so that the frontier to the Rhine, in Suabia, is not only perfectly secured, but the Russians and Germans are ready to advance again upon the enemy. A letter from Mannheim of the 18th inst. states the loss of the French in the actions of the 24th and 25th ult. to amount to from 8 to 10,000 men. Allowing for exaggerations, there can be little doubt that it has more than equalled the acknowledged loss of the confederates. Without discerning, therefore, the advantages obtained by general Massena, we are able to contemplate the situation of our allies, without the trepidation which, in spite of continued experience, the confident exaggerations of the enemy had inspired. The position of the French is by no means secure. The archduke, with the army of Conde, and the Russians, will push from Schaffhausen, and Suwarow will march from the Grisons at the same time; or if any previous attack should be made upon him, he will fall back upon the impregnable country of the Tyrol, through which his artillery is hastening to join him. With the exception of the city of Zurich, it is probable both armies will soon resume their ancient positions.
We have also been relieved by this mail from the anxiety we entertained respecting the state of affairs in Piedmont, which turns out to have been most prosperous. The Vienna Court Gazette relates some important advantages obtained there over general Championet on the 16th and 19th of the last month. The French lost between 2000 and 3000 men, and fell back to Pignerol; and Coni was to be besieged without delay by the conquerors. There appears to be some preparations at Venice for assembling a conclave. Some of the principal adventurers for the Tirol are arrived in that city.
Consolatory as it is, after the very disastrous events in Switzerland, to contemplate them under a less ominous and foreboding aspect, it is not without indignation that we can hear the causes of the evil attributed to cabinets, who have been the victims of the pernicious policy of a court which they can neither bring to an explanation, nor retain in the plain and open system of a single campaign. This court, it is confidently asserted, has instructed its public agents to throw the blame of the departure of the archduke upon the ministers of Russia and Great Britain. A stronger instance of bad faith can scarcely be imagined, but fortunately it is as strong a proof of the shame which the chancery of Vienna takes so justly to itself upon this calamitous occasion. The fact is precisely the converse of this statement; (which we know not how to believe can be authorized by the ministers of the emperor.) We exposed its fallacy whilst we believed it the error of a journalist; avowed by a court, it is so far from our duty to recede, that we feel it peculiarly incumbent upon us to give it the more plain and strenuous denial.
We advertised, in our paper of yesterday, to an express which had arrived on the preceding day to some merchants in the city, bringing advices of some further considerable failures in Hamburg. We are concerned to say, that they are to an amount which must tend to shake commercial credit in every part of Europe.
VERONA, September 21.
Since the day before yesterday, considerable quantities of Russian baggage have passed through our city, going to Tyrol. The troops are marching straight for Switzerland, by another road.
September 26. This day, about half past six in the morning, an ordinance arrived as courier, carrying a Ligurian band of colors to his excellency baron de Rieff, governor of this city, with the long wished for intelligence that the city of Genoa had capitulated on the 23d, and that, after his, the courier's departure, prince Rohan was to enter the city with his troops.
The same expresses add, that at the moment of his departure prince Rohan received information that Coni was capitulating, and that within three days, the Imperialis were to take possession of that place. Two hours after his arrival, the express departed from Verona for Vienna, with the Ligurian colors. His excellency has communicated to us the following particulars; that the capitulation consisted in one article only, viz. that the inhabitants requested of the victorious army to be exempted from plunder, which was granted them, from the justice of their deliverers. The French are retiring from all parts. The colors mentioned to have been carried by this express was the standard of the Ligurian legion, in the head guard at Genoa. To this news, which is communicated to us by his excellency baron de Rieff, we add more official intelligence, coming from the first channel of correspondence at the head quarters at Savignano, dated the 21st of September.
SAVIGNIANO, September 22.
Yesterday the Imperialis took the city of Pignerol by storm, after a short, but obstinate resistance by the French, who are retreating from thence. Turin will now be relieved from its fear of an invasion, which was so often dreaded, from the short distance of the enemy, by the occupation of that place.
VIENNA, September 27.
FROM THE COURT GAZETTE.
Since the fall of Tortona the enemy seems to have given up all further attempts to force his entry from the Genoese mountains into Piedmont; the Imperial army has begun its march on the 13th, from the camp near Alessandria to Bressana; on the 14th it proceeded to Asti, and on the 15th to Alba.
The states of Italy having thrown off the French yoke, and destroyed republican democracy, have now resumed their former denominations. The kingdom of Naples, which with other Italian countries, in ancient and modern times, has suffered so much from French invasions, now recommences to enjoy its former state of tranquility. The latest accounts from that kingdom, dated the 21st of last month, say, that the partisans of Jacobinism have terminated; but that 220 of them had been conveyed to the islands for examination and punishment. Such persons on the other hand, as remained faithful to their king and constitution, have been rewarded. Cardinal Ruffo was presented with the abbey of St. Sophia, and a yearly revenue of between 8 and 9000 dollars, to be enjoyed by his family to the third generation. He has also received an estate of near 15,000 dollars revenue, with the liberty to bequeath it to some relation. He has also been appointed Stadtholder general of the whole kingdom, with a salary of 2000 dollars. The Cardinal's brother, a captain on half pay, who commanded the Calabrians under him, has been promoted to the rank of colonel, with a salary of 3000 dollars. The chevalier Micheraux, who reconquered the province of Puglia, with 500 Russians, has also received the rank of Colonel, with 3000 dollars revenue. The bishop of Capaccio, who conducted the Cardinal's advanced guard to Naples, has been made archbishop of Naples, in the room of cardinal Zurlo, banished into a convent. The bishop of Policastro, who, in March, collected 14,000 men against the French, prevented their entering Calabria, and defeated them in different places, has been made vicar general, with a commission to restore the former order of things in the provinces of Trani, Iauria, and Montefusco.
SCHAFFHAUSEN, Sept. 27.
On the 25th, at two in the morning we heard the most tremendous cannonade, which continued the whole of yesterday and part of the night. Massena attacked near Zurich, and met for a considerable time with the most obstinate resistance. At first, the Russians are said to have taken Mount Uetli by storm. To day, we hear, the French were at Kloten. Last night, and this morning a great number of wounded Russians arrived here, and were afterwards conveyed to their hospital in the nunnery of St. Catharine's valley, about six miles distance. The French had also a great number of killed and wounded. Yesterday a regiment of Cossacks arrived here from Engliau; four squadrons of Russian cuirassiers and dragoons also marched thro' here, proceeding towards Zurich. The Titow chasurs were greatly exposed to the enemy's fire. The fate of Zurich is dreadful; great fears are likewise entertained for Winterthur. We are quiet here, the more so as numerous reinforcements are expected from Germany; the corps of Prince Conde will also arrive in a few days.
MEMMINGEN, Sept. 28.
All vessels, horses, &c. have been put in requisition at Constance, to be employed in transporting baggage, &c. The corps of Conde has received orders to join the army of Switzerland without delay. We hear, that the brave field marshal Suwarow is advancing, fighting, across mount St. Gothard.
MANHEIM, October 1. On receiving the fatal news from Switzerland, the Imperial army under the Archduke Charles quitted our neighbourhood precipitately, after a stay of eleven days, to hasten to the assistance of Switzerland, leaving only a small body of troops behind. A few hours previous to his departure, the archduke received dispatches from field marshal Suwarow, in the Grison country, and from the neighbourhood of Zurich. Yesterday the head quarters were already at Durlach.
Lieutenant Pizzenberg, who is arrived here as courier from the general of cavalry, Melas, b. inbs intelligence, that that general having received several accounts that the enemy were assembling in considerable force in the valley of the Stura, previously detached general Gatterheim with seven battalions of infantry, and a regiment of dragoons against the avenues of that valley, to take a proper position between Fossano and Savignano, to observe, from thence every movement hostile.
On the 14th, the enemy actually attacked that general's chain of advanced posts, particularly his right wing, who however made use of his knowledge of the ground, and of his experience as an able commander of advanced posts, so that the enemy found it impossible to obtain possession of the two important posts of Fossano and Savignano. Meanwhile, however, the enemy received reinforcements, and had already increased to 15,000 men in this quarter; in consideration of this, and of the ground being disadvantageous to him, for interdicted by hedges, where gen. Gatterheim, (the enemy being superior in numbers) might easily have been surrounded, he determined to draw closer to the army, and quitted Savignano the same evening, and Fossano about midnight. Under these circumstances, the army had arrived in the camp near Bra on the 16th; and though there was no reason to expect that the enemy would be daring enough to attack the army in this position, with the corps above mentioned, yet his assembling in the valley of Stura, and the probability of being joined by the troops at Pignerol, and by those which were advancing from the Genoese against Piedmont, attracted the attention of Gen. Melas, who resolved, before the enemy could gain time to execute their plans, to attack this isolated part of their forces, which had advanced too far.
Accordingly, a sufficient detachment from the army was marched in 2 columns, one of which was ordered against Savignano on the high road; the other against Fossano. The latter was commanded by gen. Kray; the former by gen. Melas. The columns left the camp at 11 o'clock, and did not arrive at their place of destination before five in the evening, when they immediately attacked the enemy. The regiments Fortenberga and Stuart led the attack, and did every thing that could be expected of brave and undaunted troops.
The enemy's defence was ably conducted; and not before major Bruch, by order of the gen. of cavalry, with a battalion of Stuart, and a detachment of Lobkowitz dragoons, attacked the enemy's flank, they were thrown into confusion, and fled towards the Maira, leaving behind them two pieces of cannon. The enemy's left wing, however, still making some resistance, the battalion of Schakina's grenadiers was ordered to advance against them, drums beating, without firing a shot. This battalion perfectly fulfilling its orders, the enemy were beaten in every point, forced to retreat, and the post at Savignano was re-taken. Night prevented their pursuit. The general of cavalry received information, that general Kray had likewise been successful in his attack upon the enemy, who quitted the post of Fossano during the night, which was taken possession of in the morning by our troops.
The enemy's loss in killed and wounded amounted to more than 1000, and about 900 prisoners; the number of the latter would have been more considerable, had not night favoured their retreat. Our loss amounts to about 92 killed, 528 wounded, and 63 missing—in all 683 men. [Here the general praises several of the officers who distinguished themselves.]
Almost at the same time (on the 13th) the enemy advanced with a considerable column from Pignerol, against a small corps of our troops at Ainsfo, consisting of the 7th regiment of hussars and four infantry, whose advanced posts were driven back. The enemy proceeded as far as Scalenga, and formed their front near the high road: Colonel Setzeroth, the commander of the above mentioned regiment of hussars, as well as of the whole post, suffered them to advance within cannon shot, when he directed a vigorous fire from six pieces of artillery upon them, attacking at the same time their left wing, and rear so successfully with his luffars, that they were entirely driven back. The action lasted till night, when the colonel was enabled to re-occupy his former position.
This expedition, in which the enemy lost nearly 400 men in killed and wounded, is said to have been directed by gen. Chanpionet in person. We have taken prisoners a captain, a lieutenant, and about forty privates. Our own loss is inconsiderable, but that of the enemy must have been very great, on account of our well directed grape shot fire, and the brave conduct of our cavalry. [Here also the names of those officers who distinguished themselves are mentioned.]
A JOURNEYMAN PAPER MAKER. Who can work well at the Vat, Will meet with good encouragement by applying at No 104 North Front Street. December 27. dif.
Just Published, and for Sale By JOHN MORGAN, No. 3 Front St. AND BENJAMIN DAVIES, No. 68 High St. THE UNITED STATES COURT CALENDAR, AND GENTLEMEN'S Complete Pocket Companion, For the Year of our Lord 1800. CONTAINING Every thing useful in other works of the kind. Besides a great variety of articles (Combining utility with entertainment), Not to be found in any publication whatever. Amongst these are: Complete and authentic lists of the ARMY and NAVY. (Carefully revised at the respective Offices;) ALSO, correct statements of the NATIONAL DEBT, and of the ANNUAL RECEIPTS & EXPENDITURES of the United States. N. B. The CALENDAR, notwithstanding the vast variety of its contents, is very small in bulk. It is bound in red morocco, in the neatest manner, and may be carried very conveniently in the waistcoat pocket. Dec. 31. dif.
WILLIAM COBBETT, OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK; Has in the press and will soon publish, THE LIFE AND CAMPAIGNS OF PRINCE SUWARROW, WITH A most elegant PORTRAIT OF THAT REOWNED WARRIOR. The first edition of this work was published in London about four months ago, and it has passed through several editions in the space of one month. It is comprised in one thick octavo volume, which the re-publisher will endeavour to make equal in elegance and correctness to the best of the London editions. ** The Portrait is in the hands of one of the first Artists (if not the very first) in America. December 31. dif.
SHERIFF'S SALE. HOPEWELL FURNACE. By virtue of a writ of Levavi Facias, issuing out of the Court of Common Pleas of Berks county, to me directed, will be exposed to sale, on Monday the 6th day of January next, at the Court House in the borough of Reading, that well known estate called "HOPEWELL FURNACE," with the Mine and Lands appurtenant, situate partly in Berks and partly in Chester county, and containing upwards of three thousand acres of Land. The celebrity of Hopewell Furnace, renders a particular description unnecessary. Any person however, who is unacquainted with the works may receive the necessary information by applying to Marks Jno. Biddle in Reading, or John Bishop, Esq., on the premises. To be sold as the property of James Old, by NICHOLAS DICK, Sheriff. Reading, December 12. Dec. 27. dif.
INSURANCE COMPANY OF THE State of Pennsylvania. THE STOCKHOLDERS are hereby notified, that an Election will be held at the Company's Office, on Monday the 13th January next, at eleven o'clock, for thirteen Directors for the ensuing year. JAMES S. COX, President. December 16. dif.
CAUTION. ALL persons are hereby cautioned against purchasing or receiving in payment, two Drafts of Thomas Truitt on William Patterson, in my favor, dated 19th September last, endorsed by the Commissioners of the Federal building in the city of Washington and myself, one payable at nine months after date, for 617 dollars 71 cents, the other payable at six months after date, for 1751 dollars 85 cents, the same having been forwarded from the Post Office in this city on the 6th inst. and enclosed in a letter from the Commissioners aforesaid, (the proprietors of said drafts) to David Harris, Baltimore, who has not yet received them. Mr. Patterson being apprised of the miscarriage of these drafts, will not pay them to any person or persons without hearing further from the Commissioners. THOMAS MUNROE. Washington, 2d December. 1799.
THE UNDERSIGNED, His Ser. Maj. the King's Consul General, and authorized to transact the Consular Business, for his Majesty the King of Denmark in the United States of America, residing at Philadelphia, Hereby gives public Notice, That in obedience to recent instructions received from his government, it is the duty of all Masters of Swedish and Danish vessels, before their sailing from any port in the said States, to call upon him or the Vice Consul, in order to be granted such Certificates for their Cargoes, which the exigency of the state of the Neutral Commerce and the several Decrees of the Belligerent Powers, render indispensably necessary, and that any Master of vessels belonging to the respective nations, or navigating under the protection of their flags, in omitting to take such certificates, will personally stand responsible for the consequences. RICHARD SODERSTROM. Philadelphia, 18th December, 1799.
THE STOCKHOLDERS Of the Lehigh Coal Mine Company, are hereby notified, that an Election for one President, eight Managers and one Treasurer, for the ensuing year, will be held at the house of Mr. Canneron, sign of the Golden Swan, in Third street, on Monday, the 20th of January next, at 6 o'clock in the evening. ISAAC WAMPOLLE, Sec'y. Dec. 31. rawtl.
MADEIRA WINE. THE Subscriber, has just received a quantity of HILL'S First Quality London Particular In Pipes, Hhds. and Quarters GIDEON HILL, Philadelphia, Nov. 12. MATTHEW M C NEILL, Having opened an Office (A few doors above Market St.) At No. 14 AND again commenced business in the various kinds of Stock, Bills of Exchange, &c. &c. to do every thing in his power to give satisfaction to those who may think proper to give him his business. He means to confine his business to the Agency and Commission business, as is common to the profession. The purchase and sale of Stocks and Bonds, and the City will be attended to and also of Lands when that business again resumes. November 19.
Insurance of Company North America. THE STOCKHOLDERS ARE hereby informed that a Stated Meeting of the Company will be held at their Office on the 14th day of January next (being the second Tuesday in the month) for the election of twenty-five Directors for the ensuing year. EBEN HAZARD, Secretary. December 12.
CITY OF WASHINGTON. THE POSSESSORS OF OBLIGATIONS or CERTIFICATES issued by the subscriber, to individual holders or Lots on his purchase within the city of Washington, who have not yet applied for and received their Deeds, are hereby notified, that their several Titles will be duly completed to the order of those who in conformity with the terms of the said Certificates, do make the Payment in full thereto, either to William M c Ewen Esq. or to the Subscriber at Philadelphia, on or at any time before the 31st day of May next. Samuel Adams. December 17.
Seburykill Permanent Bridge. THE STOCKHOLDERS ARE hereby notified, that an Election for a President, twelve Directors and a Treasurer, will be held at their office, No. 23 North Fifth Street, on Monday the 6th day of January next, at 10 o'clock. JOHN DORSEY, Secretary. December 4, 1799.
A YOUNG MAN ACQUAINTED with the Wheel-turn trade, wishes to be employed as a Supervisor. He will engage on moderate terms. Satisfactory recommendation will be produced. A line directed to A. B. near the Prison Office will be immediately attended to. December 12.
For Sale or to Let, A large convenient Stone House, WITH a large Entry and four Rooms on a floor, about half an acre of Land adjoining, situate in Bullockton on the new road to New York, about eleven miles from Philadelphia. For terms apply to the subscriber in Bullockton. THOMAS PAUL. NB. Who offers for sale, several Building Lots, pleasantly situated in the village of Bullockton. December 21.
Several Lots of Land To be sold, at the Coffee House, on Saturday, the 4th of January next, at six o'clock, in the evening. PART of that tract known by the name of M c Lean's Estate . They are laid out upon roads to communicate with Fourth Street continued, and Turner's lane, and contain from 4 to 6 acres. The situation are equal to any around the city for beauty of prospect, convenience of distance, or advantages of future improvement, and rise in value. A plan may be seen at the Coffee House, and the conditions will be made known at the time of sale. JOHN CONNELLY, Auctioneer. Dec. 27.
MARSHAL'S SALES OF INDIA GOODS. By virtue of an order of the Honourable the District Court of the United States for the New-York District, to me directed and delivered, I will, on Wednesday the 10th day of January next, at ten o'clock in the morning, at the Store of Isaac M c Ewen Esq. No. 126 Greenwich Street, commence the sale of the following GOODS. Imported in the ship Amelia , from Calcutta, viz. 239 bales of Piece Goods 600 bales of Bombay Cotton 1488 bags of Sugar, &c. &c. The sales to continue daily until the whole are sold. And, on Monday the 13th of January, at 7 1/2 o'clock, at the Tontine Coffee House, the following valuable and useful stuff.
THE AMELIA. As she came from India, about 5 years old, near 400 tons burthen, coppered up to the gunwale—mounting 14 carriage guns—well found in every respect, and may at a small expense be fitted for another voyage to India. She was built in this city—her inventory may be seen at this office. A. GILES, Marshal. Marshal's Office, Dec. 2. [L.1]
WANTED A WORKMAN. A WHITE WOMAN to take in the sewing of cook in a small family. None need apply who does not perfectly understand her business, and cannot produce good references. Apply to the printer. October 18.

The Gazette.
PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 1.
Nullum et tenacem propositi virum, Non civium ardor prava jubentium, Non vultus instantis tyranni, Mente quatis solida.
The name of Mr. Craik should have been inserted in the list of noes in our paper of yesterday. See proceedings of Congress.
The Delaware sloop of war, capt. Baker, has recently captured a French privateer of 10 guns and 75 men, and sent her into a port in the West-Indies.
Commerce, which has so long batten- ed on the miseries of the political world, seems at length about to come in for its share of the general disaster. Letters by the last packet bring accounts of several failures in London, and it is said, she has brought back protected bills to a very large amount.
A Frenchman of modern times, is the general lunatic of the age. In whatever he undertakes, his volatility soon kindles into insanity. If he talks of government he raves, of liberty he raves—let him talk of what he will he raves. Even in money-making, he is a complete enragé; witness one of the tribe, who in writing a letter on business, instead of his name, signs, 13—24 and 3 per cent a month."
Tench Coxe, Tench Coxe, Tench Coxe is said to have been appointed to the lucra- tive situation of Secretary to the Land Of- fice. Tench Coxe—Tench Coxe—Tench Coxe.
It is said, that his Excellency, the Ho- norable Thomas McKean, Doctor of Penn- sylvania and Governor of Laws, was fixed with an apoplectic fit at Downing's Town, county of Chester. The cursed patriotic- ism of that found country, is supposed to have disagreed with the perturbed state of his soul.
Sancho on his departure for and at his re- turn from his late expedition, rode on Horse- back. Strange to tell, the animal displayed manifest symptoms of inquietude; whether from a consciousness of the iniquitous bur- then which he bore on his back, or from a desire to reclaim the equal rights of nature and of beasts, or from some latent spice of Paderialism, the acutest physiologists have been hitherto at a loss to decide.
The proffered affection of our sweet sister France may remind the love-sick Irishmen of our country, of lines from "Gran- machre":
"You said you love me Molly dear, Ah, why do I believe, Yet, who'd have thought such tender words Were meant but to deceive?"
At a meeting of a number of the citizens of the city of Philadelphia, pursuant to pub- lic notice, on Tuesday the 24th December, at the house of John Dunwoody, for the pur- pose of considering the propriety of ad- dressing the Legislature in favor of an elec- tion of Electors for a President and Vice President of the United States by Districts; it was resolved that the following address be circulated for the signatures of the inhab- itants of the city of Philadelphia.
HENRY PRATT, Chairman. CHARLES W. HARE, Secretary.
To the Senate and House of Representatives of the state of Pennsylvania.
The Memorial of the Subscribers, Citizens of Philadelphia.
Respectfully represents,
THAT your memorialists are informed that a bill is now pending in your honorable Houses, making provision for dividing the state into Districts, in the choice of Electors of a President and Vice President of the United States;
That as your memorialists are persuaded, that the measure is dictated by sound policy and a just regard to the fair and equitable rights of every portion of the state, and founded on the true principle of equal repre- sentation, by giving each man a better op- portunity of selecting, from his own neigh- borhood, characters, with whose talents and integrity he is personally acquainted, than by the diffused mode hitherto practiced, which subjects so many citizens either to the necess- ity of voting for men wholly unknown to them,—or of giving an unavailing vote,—or of waiving their right of suffrage,—embarrass- ments, incompatible with the genius of a free republic, and which it cannot be the wish of an enlightened Legislature to impose on the people.
Your memorialists, therefore, request, that you will give the subject your deliberate consideration, and pass the law for dividing the state into districts in the choice of Elec- tors for a President and Vice President of the United States.
PRICES OF STOCKS.
Table with 2 columns: Stock Name, Price. Includes entries like 'Six per Cent. 16 3/4', 'Three per Cent. 9 3/4', 'Pennsylvania 20', 'North America 50'.
BALTIMORE, Dec. 30. Arrived on Saturday, Feb. Fox, Seven- ton, from Cape Francois. Captain Stevenfon informs, that twenty- four hours previous to his sailing (with the) an insurrection at Jean Rabel took place. The insurgents were headed by one of Ri- gaud's generals, who having been defeated, and driven into the mountains had unex- pectedly collected a large force with which he made a sortie and gained possession of the fort of Jean Rabel. On the arrival of this news at the Cape, a general requisition took place, and about 800 men were immedi- ately sent off for the relief of the fort. Capt. S. also confirms the melancholy accounts which have heretofore been published of the pit- torious situation of that island.
STATE OF DELAWARE.
Secretary's Office, 24th Dec. 1799.
AFFECTED with the liveliest sensibility at the loss which the people of the United States have sustained by the death of our illustrious and beloved fellow citizen, Lieu- tenant General George Washington, the late President, the Governor of this State wishes that all possible respect should be paid to his memory, for the many eminent ser- vices which he has rendered to his country. And, although a grateful remembrance will be ever had of those virtues and exalted ta- lents which so conspicuously distinguished him in a long series of public duties, yet the general sentiment on this distressing occa- sion, pointing to some particular expression of the high sense which all feel of our loss, and the Governor uniting in the public sympathy;—It is therefore recommended to all civil officers of the State to wear crape, on the left arm, below the elbow, as mourn- ing, for three months.
ABRAHAM RIDGELY, Secretary of the State of Delaware.
CINCINNATI.
At a meeting of the Pennsylvania State So- ciety of the Cincinnati, held at the State House, in Philadelphia, on the 21st of December, 1799,
BRIGADIER GEN. MACPHERSON IN THE CHAIR,
The following Resolutions were moved by Major JACKSON, and unanimously adopted:
Resolved, That, in veneration of the ex-alted virtues, patriotism, and public services of our late most excellent, beloved, and even- to be lamented President General, George Washington,—and as a tribute of the deepest sorrow, and most affectionate attachment to his endeared and illustrious memory, the Members of this Society will wear mourn- ing, connected with the Badge of the Society, during six months.
Resolved, That, a strip of black Ribband- ing along the centre of the Ribband of the Order, be added on this occasion.
The following resolutions were moved by gen. Macpherson and unanimously adopted.
Resolved, That Major Jackson be request- ed to prepare and pronounce an Eulogium on the character of General Washington, em- bracing a summary review of his Civil and Military Services; and that the same be de- livered before this Society on Saturday the 22nd day of February next, at one o'clock, P. M. at such place as the Standing Com- mittee to whom the arrangements of the day are referred, shall determine.
Resolved, That the President of the United States and his family—the Vice President of the United States, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Members of both Houses of Congress, the Heads of Depart- ments, the Judiciary, and such other officers of the General and State Governments as may then be in Philadelphia, be resp. ctually invited to honor the Society with their pre- sence on the occasion.
December 21. 2w3w&cltf
THE Committee of the Stockholders of the Delaware and Schuylkill, and Schuyl- kill and Susquehanna Canal Companies, who were appointed to make out a general state of the Companies Accounts, &c. have ap- pointed the 6th January next, in the morn- ing, previous to the election, to make Re- port, on the important business committed to their care. At which time the Stockhold- ers are particularly desired to attend.
Dec. 23. 2w&6jfm.
Pennsylvania Population Company.
THE Shareholders are hereby noti- fied, that an election for officers for the en- suing year, will be held at the Company's Office, No. 53, north Fourth street, on Wednesday the 8th January next, at 12 o'clock.
SOL. MARACHE, Sec'y. Dec. 24, 1799. tu-11&f-2w
TO BE EXCHANGED For a PLANTATION in New Jersey, A VERY VALUABLE
Grist Mill and Plantation,
SITUATE in Salem county, Upper Alloway's creek township, about six miles from the town of Salem, and about one mile and a half from a landing on Alloway's creek, where shallows con- stantly ply to Philadelphia. The Mill has two water wheels, (over-shot) two pair of stones, one of which are burr. The bolting and boiling gear go by water, and attached to the Mill is a large Kiln for drying corn, built upon the most ap- proved plan; the whole mill work and bolting cloths, &c. have lately been either made new or completely repaired. The plantation consists of one hundred and fifty acres of land. The build- ings exclusive of the mill house and kiln, are a large dwelling house, a barn, stables, cornerib, &c. &c.
For particular information apply to RICHARD WISTAR, No. 119 Market Street. tub&foaw
December 21
NEW THEATRE.
This Evening, January 1. Will be presented, a favorite comedy in three acts, CALLED The Midnight Hour. Before the Romance, An occasional PROLOGUE will be spoken By Mr. Wign. To which will be added, (for the first time this season) a Grand Dramatic Romance, called BLUE BEARD; Or, FEMALE CURIOSITY. Written by G. Colman, Esq.—Performed upwards of one hundred and fifty nights, at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London. [With additional Scenery, Machinery and Decorations, entirely new.] Abomelique, (Blue Beard) Mr. Warren—Se- lim, (Lover of Fatima) Mr. Cain—Ibrahim, Mr. Francis—Shacabac, Mr. Bernard—Hassan, Mr. Billett. Fatima, (betrothed to Blue Beard) Miss Broad- hurst—Irene, (Sister to Fatima) Mrs. Wartell—Beda, Mrs. Oldmixon. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre.
BANK OF PENNSYLVANIA,
January 1, 1800. THE Directors have this day declared a Divi- dend of eighteen dollars on each share of Bank stock, for the last six months, which will be paid to the Stockholders or their legal Represen- tatives, after the 11th inst. By order of the Board, JONA. SMITH, Cashier. ditth.
BANK OF NORTH AMERICA,
January 1, 1800. At a meeting of the Directors this day, a Dividend of 5 per cent. was declared for the last half year, which will be paid to the Stockholders or their legal Representatives, at any time after the 10th inst. By order of the Board, RICHARD WELLS, Cashier. ditth.
KEARNY WHARTON,
Has Removed his Counting-House to Morton's Wharf, AND HAS FOR SALE CORN MEAL, In hogheads & barrels. ALSO, French Brandy, Madeira Wine, and an Invoice of India Silk. Phila. Jan. 1, 1800. d6t
LOTS
In the City of Washington. A NUMBER of Lots in the city of Washing- ton, the titles of which are unquestion- able, their situations various, some pretty contiguous to the Capitol, are offered FOR SALE. For viewing the Plots and for terms, apply to ROYAL & SHORMAKER, No. 124, south Fourth Street. Phila. Jan. 1, 1800. GeoSt
BUILDING LOTS.
To be Sold or Let, on Ground Rent, FOUR LOTS of 25 feet 3 inches each front on Chestnut Street, and 130 feet deep to a 16 feet Alley, being the same ground on which O'Ellers hotel stood. Also, FIVE LOTS on George Street, of 1 feet front, and 92 feet deep to a 16 feet Alley. * For terms enquire of Thomas Billingsley, op- posite the City Tavern, or Robert Kid, Market Street. January 1, 1800. co13w
FOR SALE,
By SIMON WALKER, No. 78 Walnut Street. ENGLISH PORTER and Brown Stout, in casks of 6 dozen each, Tin Plates, Sheet, bar and pig Lead, Cannon with carriages complete, 4, 6, 9 and 12 pounders, Shot, round, double headed and canister, Iron Crow Bars, Cutlass, &c. boarding Pikes, Muskets and Pistols, Rough Brimstone, Cream of Tartar, Porter, Wine and Claret Bottles, Six Invoices of Earthen Ware, each about thirty crates, assorted. White and red Lead, yellow and black Paint, and Spanish Brown, Russian Bristles, Hardware and Cutlery, assorted in cases, An Invoice of German Pistols and Britannias. December 3. ecobv
Fashionable Millinery.
ELIZA M'DOUGALL, NO. 134, MARKET-STREET, HAS just received per ship Titania, Charles and Adriana, from London, an elegant assortment of the most fashionable MILLINERY, &c. Chemille rosette FEATHERS, Fancy flowers, Black tiffany flowers, Wreaths, Pink, yellow and blue craps, full dress cases. Do. do. and do. Nelson's bonnets, Infant's pips straw bonnets, Maid's fancy do. do. Women's do. do. do. do. shades Do. do. hats Fancy single rose hats Do. do. trimmings Black, white, blue, yellow, pink and orange craps, Black, white and green gauze veils. Do. gauze cloaks N. B. And per Harmony, just arrived, a further assortment of Millinery. June 26. conf.
NOTICE 44.
THE Co-partnership of GEORGE, WIL- LIAM and THOMAS BOWEN or his wife is dissolved. All persons indebted to the Estate of their deceased Father, are desired to make speedy payment. Those who have any demands against the aforesaid Estate, are re- quested to produce Accounts, otherwise they will be placed in the hands of an Attorney. December 26. co13w
POST OFFICE,
Philadelphia, December 24. LETTERS for the British Packet Grantham, will be received at this Office, until Friday the 3rd January, at 12 o'clock Noon. N.B. The inland postage to New York must be paid.
Southern Mails.
THE Mails for all the Offices on the main line, between this Office and Petersburg, Virginia, will be closed here every day, (Sundays excepted) at half past 7 o'clock, A. M. And the Mails for the Port Towns on the main line, through North-Carolina, South- Carolina and Georgia as far as Savannah, will be closed with the Southern Mails ev- ery Monday, Wednesday and Friday. The water Mails between this and Charleston are discontinued.
Post Office, Philadelphia,
December 30, 1799. December 30. dit.
BANK OF PENNSYLVANIA,
December 31, 1799.
THE STOCKHOLDERS of the Bank
of Pennsylvania, are hereby notified that their Annual Meeting will be held at the Bank on Friday the 31st day of January next, at ten o'clock. And the Stockholders of the said Bank, are also notified, that an election of nineteen Directors to serve for one year, will be held at the Bank on Monday the 3rd day of February next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon. JONATHAN SMITH, Cashier.
Extract from the seventh section of the Act of Incorporation.
Article and. Not more than fourteen of the Directors elected by the Stockholders, and actually in office, exclusive of the President, shall be eligi- ble for the next succeeding year; but the Director who shall be President at the time of an election may always be re-elected.
MARSHAL'S SALES.
United States Pennsylvania District. } ff PURSUANT to a writ to me directed from the Hon. Richard Peters, Esq. Judge of the District Court of the United States, in and for the Pennsylvania District, will be exposed to sale at the Merchant's Coffee House, in the city of Philadelphia, on Wednesday the first day of January next, at 6 o'clock in the evening, by public vendue,
The sloop or vessel, called THE MARY.
Of Norwich, with her tackle, apparel and furniture as the same now are—the same having been libelled and condemned in the said District Court for the payment of mariners wages. By order of the Court, JOHN HALL, Marshal. Marshal's Office, Philadelphia, December 27, 1799.
The sloop or vessel, called THE NANCY.
With her tackle, apparel and furniture as the same now are—the same having been libelled against and condemned in the said District Court, for a bill of bottomry, &c. By order of the Court, JOHN HALL, Marshal. Marshal's Office, Philadelphia, December 27, 1799.
IN THE PRESS,
And in a few days will be published At DICKIN'S Book-Store, A SUPERB EDITION OF WASHINGTON'S ADDRESS To the People of the United States, on retiring from Public Life, Super Royal, 8vo. Ornamented with a capital Portrait by one of the first Artists. NO exertion or expense have been spared to render this publication complete, and also all the materials and workmanship are entirely American, the paper, printing and engraving have been al- lowed by good judges to excel any thing ever at- tempted in the United States. DICKIN'S.
STATIONARY & BOOK-STORE,
Will next week be removed to the house lately occupied by Mr. W. Cobbett. December 28.
FOR SALE,
Or to be exchanged for a good Vessel, AN ELEGANT
New Two Story Frame House,
Twenty-seven feet front by thirty-four in depth, with a commodious piazza and kitchen, together with a coach house and stable, situate in the flour- ishing village of Frankford. The house, which may be entered the 1st of June next, will be finished in the neatest stile with many conveniences, and will be well adapted to a large genteel family who may wish to reside in the country during the sum- mer season. In exchange, it will be valued low, at a vail offer that may be suitable. Further particulars will be made known by ap- plication to MOORE WHARTON. Dec. 11. conf.
A POINTER
WAS carried away on Sunday the 10th inst. from No. 153 Vine Street—He is about 9 months old, spotted dog, lion coloured ears with a spot of the same color in his forehead, long tail having never been cut—He is called Gull. A re- ward of two dollars, with reasonable expenses, will be paid to any person who will return him to No. 153, Vine Street and ten dollars more, if stolen, for such information respecting the thief as may produce legal punishment. Nov. 30. conf.
MEDFORD AND WILLIS,
Have received since their late Advertisement— 282 Crates Queens Ware, 200 Cakes Nails, 6 Trunks Madras Pullicatts, 2 Cales Gl've, 1 Trunk Silk Hosiery, 1 Bale Superfine Broad Cloths, 16 Bales White, Blue and Green, Kendal Cottons, 10 Bales Bocking Baize, ON HAND, 2 Bales Spotted and Green Rugs, 1 Trunk Scarlet Cardinals, 2 Bales Sail Canvas, 5 Trunks Gringham, 11 Tons Peterburg Hemp, * * * * * Orders, remittances or communications on the following Bales, for whom Med- ford and Willis are agents, may still pass through their medium, viz. John and Robert Holt and Co.—Rockdale, William D. bbs—Leicester, Claud Johnson—Birmingham. Enquire of JOHN DORSEY. December 10. 3w&8w.
For Sale, or to Let,
A two story Brick House,
Situate on Duke Street, or Artillery Lane, in the Northern Liberties, HAVING two rooms on a floor, five places in each, a kitchen and wash-house; all in excel- lent order and built of the best materials. For fur- ther information enquire at No. 39, Arch Street. Also, a HOUSE, No. 106, fourth Second Street, to let—enquire as above. Dec. 30. 3w&6w.
Genoa Silk Velvets.
Two Bales of Genoa Silk Velvets of a very su- perior quality for sale by JOHN ALLEN. ALSO, Sheathing Copper and Nails, 100 pair of Men's ready made Shoes, Glass Ware in crates, Lamp Black. December 19. conf.
PROPOSALS
FOR PUBLISHING AN
HISTORY OF THE LIFE
OF THE
ILLUSTRIOUS
GEORGE WASHINGTON,
Commander in Chief of the American Armies during our revolutionary war with Great Britain, first Pres- ident of the United States, and first, Lieutenant Gene- ral of the Army. By JOSEPH SCOTT, Author of the Modern Geographical Dictionary, in four volumes octavo.
OF the various methods which different writers pursue in order to convey useful knowledge to mankind, Biography stands con- fessedly among the first. There is none more interesting—none more instructive and entertain- ing. The histories of distinguished heroes, who have, by their exalted virtues, and noble and splendid actions, been the principal means of re- deeming their respective countries from the cor- roding hand of tyranny, have in all ages been considered the most entertaining, instructive, and important to mankind. They afford ex- ample; and example is more powerful than precept. It strengthens, by a plain and easy mode of analogical reasoning, the principles of the timid, determines and fixes those that are wavering, and ultimately lays the basis for that harmony and coincidence of sentiment among the citizens; from which only, a nation can hope to derive rank, consequence and stability.
Impressed with lively sentiments of the em- inent virtues of that distinguished HERO and PATRIOT, the history of whose life I have undertaken to write; it was not till after much reflection I resolved on issuing these proposals. —The following considerations induced me to this; First, having obtained in the course of an extensive correspondence, with many gentle- men of talents and information, a large stock of original materials concerning the life of this illustrious Citizen; to give form and body to these, in the manner of history, will preserve many important things that otherwise would most probably be lost. Secondly, as many of the most interesting transactions of his life, since he resigned his commission as Commander in chief of our revolutionary armies, are very im- perfectly recorded, and little understood; yet the greater part of them being fresh in the me- mories of many, this must be the fittest time to embody them; before a succession of objects, which every day brings forth, wears off the minutest circumstances. There are many of these circumstances important and interesting; as it is universally acknowledged, that great ac- tions, like immense rivers, flow from small be- ginnings.
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I. The Life of General Washington will contain nearly 400 pages octavo, printed on fine paper, and in a style of elegance equal to any work that has appeared from an American press. II. It will be embellished with a striking likeness of the General, executed by one of the first artists. III. Subscribers' names will be annexed, as patrons. IV. Each subscriber is to pay two dollars, one half on subscribing, the remainder on the remainder on the delivery of the work.
Subscriptions in this city are re- ceived at No. 297 Arch street, next door to the north west corner of Eighth street.
Philadelphia, December 30. en2w
Public Notice,
IS Hereby Given, that I have applied by pe- tition to the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of Cumberland county, for the benefit of the act of Assembly made for the relief of In- solvent Debtors, passed the fourth day of April, 1798, and the said Court have appointed the first Monday of January next at the Court House in the borough of Carlisle for a hearing of me and my creditors, at which time and place they may attend if they think proper. ANDREW CULBERTSON. December 6. 2w&11j.

Just Published. A COMPENDIOUS SYSTEM Of Practical Surveying and dividing of land; briefly comprised under the following heads, viz.
TWENTY-THREE Geometrical Definitions, eleven Geometrical Propositions, exhibiting to view the properties and dependencies of triangles; followed by problems and examples preparatory to Trigonometry, heights and distances. Then fifteen problems and examples necessarily previous to calculating a Survey succeeded by seven surveys, the area of the four first is found geometrically, and of the whole number by difference of latitude and departure, shewing how to take an inaccessible boundary, find the bearing and distance of the closing line without running it, also the distances to an inaccessible corner from the two adjacent corners, followed by examples of offsets to winding streams of water, shewing how to ascertain the area without the trouble of measuring the windings with chains and instruments—a crooked water course straightened, and a quantity of land on each side found by these offsets.
Ten examples of dividing land, with many subdivisions, leading into the most critical circumstances that can occur in practice; an example of Intersections, and an example shewing how the bearings of a field may be truly taken where the needle is attracted, also the attraction may vary in quantity and denomination at every station; examples shewing the method of measuring by the chain only. All the rules are clear and explicit. This work contains the tables of difference of latitude and departure and of logarithms.
Orders sent to Joseph and James Cruckshank, Bookellers, No. 87, High-street, Philadelphia, Bonfair and Niles, 173, Market Street, Baltimore, or the Subscriber in Wilmington (Del.) will be duly attended to.
Those who have the care of subscription papers for this work, are requested to send their respective numbers as soon as possible, to whom the quota will be sent agreeably to the proposals.
ZACHARIAH JESS. Wilmington, 9th 11 mo—16. 3awam. JUST RECEIVED, From the BOSTON Manufactory, A QUANTITY OF WINDOW GLASS, Of different sizes, FOR SALE By ISAAC HARVEY, JRN. N. B. Any size or sizes that may be wanted cut larger than 18 by 12 can be had from said manufactory, on being ordered; and attention given thereto on any orders that may be left for that purpose. Apply at No. 9, South Water-street, as above. July 8 dit
Valuable Property for Sale, in Chestnut, near Sixth Street, directly opposite CONGRESS HALL. A LOT of ground, about 24 feet front in Chestnut street and 73 feet in depth, whereon is a good frame house, now in the tenure of Samuel Boush, sold to a round rent of 200 per annum. The advantageous situation of this property requires no comment, for it must be known, there are few in this city to equal it, an unexceptionable title will be made to the purchaser. Apply to JAMES GIRVAN, no. 298 Chestnut Street, next door to the premises. March 5. each sat-f.
WHEREAS, A Notice 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 Cleves Symmes at the suit of William Wells, in a plea of trespass on the case to his damage three thousand dollars;—And whereas, the said Sheriff did, at the return of June last past, return to the said court that he had returned the defendant by a certain bond given by Matthias Denman and Samuel Meeker to the said defendant, to the amount of near two thousand dollars, and also by six joint warrants;—Now therefore, unless the said John Cleves Symmes shall appear, give special bail, and receive a declaration at the suit of the plaintiff, judgment will be entered 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 8, 1799 (11) 12aw12m
TO BE SOLD, THREE or four lots of about 30 or 40 acres each, more or less as may suit a purchaser. On each of which there is a good situation for a house—viz. one on the river Delaware, suitable either for a gentleman's seat, or for a person who might wish to engage in the lumber business—having a good landing. One commanding a good view of the river from the highest ground between the Pennypack and Popopen creeks; and another on the Bristol Road. Enquire of Mr. Gilpin near the 11 mile stone on the said road.
FOUR LOTS, Of about 10 acres each with good situations for building; one of which is suitable for a ten-yard, and has a small stone house and a young bearing orchard on it, on the Newtown road near Snider's mill about 10 miles from Philadelphia, and one other lot of about 30 acres on the Pennypack.—Enquire of Jonathan Clift who lives on the premises or of Mr. Gilpin. Possession will be given in the spring, but building materials may be collected sooner. November 8. 21wtf.
Taxes of Lycoming County. JOHN KIDD, Treasurer, By Direction of the Commissioners of Lycoming county, attends at Philadelphia to receive the Taxes affixed upon unseated Lands in that County, from the holders thereof, in this City. Those who have filed with the Commissioners, statements of their Lands, are requested to call upon him, to know the amount of Taxes thereon, and pay them; otherwise, before his leaving the City, they will be put into the hands of the Sheriff for collection, agreeably to the act for raising county rates and levies. Those who have not filed statements of their lands with the Commissioners, and are desirous of having it done, to prevent sales without previous personal Notice, may file with the above Treasurer, their lists, stating the quantities returned, number and dates of the warrants and names of the warrantees, under which they hold their Lands. He will attend at Mr. Joseph Hardy's No. 98, Market Street for this purpose until the 18th instant. November 9.
Drawing School. MR. BECK having been solicited by many of his friends to engage in a Drawing School, takes the liberty of informing them and the public that he intends opening one at his house in Fifth Street, opposite the State House yard, on Monday the 4th of November, on the following terms: Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Ladies from three till five, per quarter, 9 Gentlemen, from half past 5 till half past 7, 9 Private Lessons, at home for one hour, 1 From home, two hours, 3
PERSPECTIVE. The essential ground work of all kinds of drawing, taught by a much more simple and short method than hitherto practiced.
WANTED, A person to do house work; also a boy to attend the family and take care of a horse. November 27. 32wtf
LANCASTER STAGES. The Proprietors of the Philadelphia and Lancaster line of Stages DISPATCH, return their grateful thanks to their friends and the public in general, for the past favors they have received, and inform them that in addition to the regular Line, they are provided with Carriages, Saddle and careful drivers, to go through, between the City and Borough in two days. Those who prefer this mode of travelling can be accommodated at the Stage Office, sign of United States Eagle, Market Street, Philadelphia.
Slough, Downing, Dunwoody & Co. Nov. 30. 21—$
The following Certificates OF THE STOCK OF THE BANK OF THE UNITED STATES in the names of Nicolaus Van Staphorst and Nicholas Hubbard of Amsterdam, to wit, No 29,160 for 5 shares, 29,161 for 4 shares, 29,162 for 3 shares, 29,163 for 1 share, 29,164 for 4 shares, and 29,165 for 5 shares; and the following certificates of the debt of the United States, on the books of the Treasury, to wit, No 12,823, dated February 22, 1799, for 4000 dollars three per cents, in name of Nicolaus Van Staphorst of Amsterdam, No 12,824 same date, for 4000 dollars three per cents, in name of Jacob Van Staphorst of Amsterdam, No 16,348 dated 19th February 1799, for 783 dollars 23 cents of six per cents, and No 12,378 Time Date, for 613 dollars 23 cents of three per cents, in the name of Nicholas Hubbard of Amsterdam, and No 12,817 dated 19th February 1799, for 3000 dollars three per cents, in the name of Jan Hendrick Kingbergen, knight of the Russian military order of St. George, were sent by the British packet Chesterfield, Captain Jones, which vessel was captured, and the said certificates lost, therefore application is made for the renewal of the same, or which all persons concerned are desired to take notice.
CLEMENT BIDDLE. October 12, 1799. 23am
ALL PERSONS INDEBTED to the Estate of JOHN WHARTON, late of the City of Philadelphia, Merchant, deceased, are requested to pay the same, and those having demands against his Estate, to produce their accounts legally attested to KEARNY WHARTON, Acting Executor, No. 111, Spruce street. November 11. dit
Horses to Winter. HORSES will be taken to winter at Proprietor's Hill, at the 12 miles stone on the Bristol Road, where they will have good Timothy and Clover Hay, well littered and cleaned and a field to run in when the weather is good. Enquire of Mr. William Bell Merchant, or on the premises. N.B. Will not be answerable for accidents or escape, but will take every precaution to prevent either. November 12. 32wtf
TO THE PUBLIC. THE time being fixed on, when the MILITARY LAND (commonly called Knox's) WARRANTS, granted to the United States' army, are to be registered and located, the subscribers have explored that tract of land on which those warrants are to be laid; with a view, and for the purpose of offering their services as locators.
We take the liberty of suggesting, "that we are at least as well acquainted with the situation, quality of the soil, &c. of the different townships in the aforesaid tract, as any other person;" this will, perhaps, appear more clearly, by observing, that WILLIAM C. SCHENCK assisted in running the Indian boundary line; at which time he considerably traversed that tract: he also assisted in surveying and laying it off into townships, and at other times ranged over it, to gain information. But to obtain a more complete and accurate knowledge, we have lately spent between two and three months, with several assistants, in particularly examining the different townships and quarter townships; by which means we have acquired an accurate knowledge of the whole district.—We now offer our services to the public, as Locators, with assurances that we will locate every persons warrants intrusted to us to the best advantage, agreeably to their rights of location, which is to be determined according to law. For our services we demand the one equal tenth part, either in lands or warrants, when we locate a full tract, of four thousand acres or more, for one person or firm; the land to be taken in a square, at a corner of the tract; which corner is to be equitably determined before the time of location.—The one equal sixth part, in cash or warrants, when we connect and locate any amount less than four thousand acres. We will be in Philadelphia from December next, until after the time of location, to transact this business. Any person wishing to satisfy himself further, will please to call on us, by letter, (postage paid) or otherwise; when due attention will be paid, and such vouchers may be seen as we have to offer, which we hope will be satisfactory.
MARTIN BAUM, WILLIAM C. SCHENCK. Philadelphia, Oct. 9, 1799. cow.
TO BE SOLD, BY THE SUBSCRIBERS, NINE undivided tenth parts of a tract of LAND, in the State of Georgia; either together or in such parts as may suit the purchaser. The whole tract is bounded as follows, viz. beginning on the Mississippi river, where the latitude of thirty two degrees, forty nine minutes, forty seconds north of the Equator intersects the same river; thence running along the same parallel of latitude a due east course to the Tom Bigby river; thence up the middle of the said Tom Bigby river to the place where the latitude thirty two degrees, fifty nine minutes, twenty seconds north of the equator intersects the same; thence a due west course on the same parallel of latitude to the Mississippi river; thence down the middle of the said Mississippi river to the place of beginning; together with all the privileges, immunities and appurtenances thereof, including all islands within the said bounds, and containing at least One Million acres, probably more. The premises if not before disposed of by private sale, will be sold by Public Vendue, on Thursday the twenty-first day of November next, at eleven o'clock, A. M. at Concert-Hall, kept by Mrs. James Wells in Boston. For further particulars and terms, apply to either of the subscribers CHARLES CUSHING, Boston, Oct. 4, 1799. GEORGE LANE, M. M. HAWS,
TREASURY DEPARTMENT. March 11th, 1799.
PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, Pursuant to the act of Congress, passed on the 1st day of June, one thousand, seven hundred and sixty six, entitled "an act regulating the grants of land appropriated for military services, and for the society of United Brethren for propagating the gospel among the Heathen;" and the act supplementary to the said recited act passed on the second day of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety nine— to wit:
THAT the tract of Land herein after described, to wit, "beginning at the North West corner of the first 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 Tuscarora branch of the Muskingum river at the crossing place above Fort Lawrence; thence down the said river, to the point where a line run due west from the place of beginning, will intersect the said river; thence along the line so run to the place of beginning;" has been divided into townships of five miles square, and fractional parts of townships; and that plans and surveys of the said townships and fractional parts of townships are deposited in the offices of the Register of the Treasury and Surveyor General, for the inspection of all persons concerned.
The holders of such warrants as have been or shall be presented for military services performed since the late war, are required to present the same to the Register of the Treasury, at some time prior to the twentieth day of February in the year, one thousand eight hundred, for the purpose of being registered; No registry will however be made of any less quantity than a quarter township, or four thousand acres.
The priority of location of the warrants which may be preferred and registered in manner aforesaid, prior to the 18th day of February in the year one thousand eight hundred, will immediately after the said day, be determined by lot, in the mode prescribed by the act first recited.
The holders of registered warrants, shall, on Monday the 19th day of February, in the year 1800, at the hour of which the priority of location shall be determined by lot as aforesaid, personally, or by their agents, be present in writing at the office of the Register of the Treasury, the particular quarter townships selected by them respectively, and such of the said holders as shall not be present at their location on the said day, shall be postponed in locating such warrants to all other holders of registered warrants.
The holders of warrants for military services sufficient to cover one or more quarter townships or tracts of four thousand acres each; shall, at any time after Monday the 19th day of February, 1800 and prior to the 1st day of January, 1802, be allowed to register the said warrants in manner aforesaid, and forthwith to make location therefor on any tract or tracts of land not before located.
All warrants or claims for lands on account of military services, which shall not be registered and located before the 1st day of January, 1802, are by the supplementary act of Congress herein before recited, passed on the second day of March, 1799, declared to be forever barred.
Given under my hand at Philadelphia, the day and year above mentioned. OLIVER WOLCOTT. Sec. of the Treasury.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT. May 29th, 1799. THE proprietors of certificate, 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 of the 5th installment, which will become due during the first ten days of the month of July ensuing, Certificates of Funded Stock may at their option be obtained at the Treasury or Loan Offices, respectively, for the amount of the four first installments, or one moiety of the sums expressed in the subscription certificates.—No certificates of Funded Stock will however be issued for less than one hundred dollars. Such subscription certificates as may be presented at the Treasury or Loan Offices in consequence of the foregoing arrangement, will be noted and distinctly marked so as to denote, that a moiety of the stock has been issued. OLIVER WOLCOTT, Secretary of the Treasury.
WAR DEPARTMENT. Trenton, September 2, 1799. ALL officers of the first regiment of Artillerists and Engineers, and of the first, second, third and fourth regiments of Infantry in the service of the United States, who are, from whatever cause, absent from their commands, are required with all possible expedition to report themselves by letter to Major General Alexander Hamilton. The officers thus called upon, will be held amenable for any avoidable delay in reporting themselves, and those who do not report in four months from the date of this notification, will be presumed to have resigned their commissions. JAMES M'HENRY. The Printers in the several states, who published the proposals for the supply of rations during the year 1800, are requested to insert the above once a week in their papers, till the 1st of January next. 2awtf.
SCHUYLKILL PERMANENT BRIDGE. For the information of the Stockholders in the company, incorporated for the erection of a Permanent Bridge over the river Schuylkill, and others of our fellow citizens who are desirous that this useful undertaking should succeed, it is thought expedient and proper, by the President and Directors of that company to state the present situation of its affairs.
THE company was incorporated on the 27th day of April, 1793; and by a clause in the law authorizing this incorporation, the legislature may resume the rights, &c. granted to the company, if they do not "proceed to carry on the work" in two years, and complete the bridge in five years, after they had been incorporated.
As soon as practicable, the company proceeded to the choice of the officers required by law; and the President and Directors have been constant in their endeavours to encrease the number of subscribers to the stock. The number of shares subscribed when the company was organized, was 5216. With all the exertions made since, it is now only 5638; though of the 15 000 contemplated by law, 12,000 (at ten dollars each) are allotted for the active capital of the company.
As the public opinion, coinciding with that of the President and Directors, appeared to be fixed on the site at the west end of Market Street, it was deemed a primary object to obtain from the corporation of the city, their right to the ferry at that place. Negotiations were accordingly commenced for the purpose.—These ended in a contract with the city corporation, to the following effect—
1. 5000 dollars to be paid to the city corporation when the subscriptions to the bridge stock amount to the value of 11,000 shares—a like sum in four months thereafter with interest—5000 dollars further in eight months—and the like sum in twelve months, with interest. 2. The city corporation takes, as payment for 20,000 dollars, (to make the whole consideration monies 40,000 dollars) two thousand shares in the bridge stock, on terms detailed in the contract. 3. The 11,000 shares being subscribed, and the first installment of the purchase money paid, the right to the ferry and its enumerated appurtenances, with certain parts of the site and the brick tavern, to be conveyed to the bridge company, on their mortgaging the premises, in the contract mentioned, for 15,000 dollars, the residue of the pecuniary payments, with interest. 4. If the erection is not completed in the period fixed, or which may be fixed by the legislature, the property and rights are to re-vest in the corporation of the city, on terms prescribed in the contract; which contains other subordinate arrangements, too lengthy to be herein particularly detailed.
The sum agreed to be given was unavoidable. We found the councils of the city sufficiently determined not to take less. We deemed it eligible to make some facilities (if any we have made) to avoid competitions injurious and embarrassing, both in the commencement and progress of our intended enterprise.
Warned by experience of the fatal consequences of beginning works, requiring extensive pecuniary support, without a certainty of its being within our power, we agreed to that part of the contract requiring 11,000 shares to be actually subscribed, before it takes effect.—We do not desire to conceal our indisposition to embark in this undertaking, until the number of shares subscribed shall, at least, equal that required by this contract. Nor shall we engage in the business until the installments directed by law shall be in the treasurer's hands, to an amount sufficient to encourage us to begin the work, with solid prospects of complying with our engagements to those with whom we may contract.
We have received a number of plans in consequence of our advertisement for the purpose, but have made no selection. We shall prefer that which unites economy with stability, and accommodation to all circumstances attached to the place of erection. The site must be fixed before the plan is adopted. It must be perceived that a deficiency of subscriptions to our stock prevents our obtaining the site provisionally contracted for, which, however expensive it may appear, is certainly the most eligible and productive.
We have not called for the second installment, from those who have already subscribed, because we do not think ourselves warranted, from present appearances, to commence the work. The monies already paid (one dollar on each share subscribed, deducting our necessary expenditures, which will appear in our accounts) lie useless to us in the bank. They must remain inactive, till by further subscriptions, we are enabled to proceed in the execution of our trust; as we have no authority to employ them for any other purposes, than those directed by the act of incorporation. Our minutes and accounts will be laid before the stockholders, at the next meeting for the annual election of officers. They are always open for the inspection of the members of the company.
All the books and forms required for the progress of the business are prepared; and we are otherwise completely ready to proceed, if the most essential requisite were in our possession. It will be seen that there is a deficiency of 5362 shares to give validity to our contract with the city corporation, and to justify us in commencing the work.
We have a strong persuasion, founded on accurate information of the product of bridges in other states, and calculations of profit here, that investments in our stock will be equal, in point of emolument, with those made in any other permanent funds in this city. The company may divide, in biennial dividends, 15 per cent. annually during twenty-five years; and if the bridge be made free, they are to receive its value on a fair estimate.—The Charles River Bridge near Boston (1500 feet long and 42 wide) cost 50,000 dollars, and yields from 20 to 24 per cent. clear of all expenses. The bridge at Cambridge (7000 feet long and 42 wide) cost 80,000 dollars; and yields from 12 to 14 per cent. Some deductions have been made, to remedy defects in the timber originally used, but these expenses will no longer be necessary. Immense bodies of ice affail these bridges without injury.—Neither of them are better situated to command roll, than that we contemplate over the Schuylkill, which is only 400 feet wide.
Whether we shall proceed or not, depends on the disposition of our fellow citizens to encourage the undertaking. We cannot help fostering the
flattering expectation, that, from motives of public spirit and private emolument, we shall be supported in our ardent wishes to complete an erection, eminently promotive of the interests, as well as the credit of our city.
The stock being in itself inviting, and the object of great public utility, as well to ourselves as to our posterity, we more confidently solicit subscriptions.
By order, RICHARD PETERS, President.
Philadelphia, Dec. 6. (11) 2aw3w.
The Swift-Sure, A NEW LINE OF STAGES, NOW RUNNING BETWEEN PHILADELPHIA & NEW-YORK, By the short and pleasant road of Burlington, Newtown, Scotch Plains, Springfield 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, Brunswick, &c. long ago suggested the propriety of its becoming the Grand Thoroughfare 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 toll, too, for the greater part, is such as to produce but little mud in winter, and very little at all in summer, which circumstance, added to the beauty of the country, and a considerable proportion of shade, will 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 Burlington, where it stops to Breakfast; from Burlington it goes through Newtown to Pennington to dinner; from Pennington through Hopewell, Millstone, Boundbrook, 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 seats at New-York, application may be made to Edward Bardin, Old Coffee house, to A. Mathieu, corner of Nassau and John Streets, to B. Many, no. 28, Courtlandt, corner of Greenwich Street, and to Michael Little, at his hotel, no. 42, Broad Street.
Fare for passengers, True Dollars. Way passengers 6 Cents per Mile.
Each passenger is allowed to take on talis, 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 late delivery of no package, which is not regularly entered, 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 sober 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 very far all that has been said of its excellence; 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, Burlington JOSEPH THORNTON, } Newtown NICHOLAS WYNKOOP, } JACOB KESLER, } JOHN MOREHEAD, Pennington T. KILLMAN, near Millstone ELIAS COMBES, Bound Brook R. SANBURY, Scotch Plains ISAAC RAWLE, } ROBERT PEARSON, } Springfield
June 22. 200df.
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