Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser. (Philadelphia [Pa.]), 1797-01-24 00:00:00

Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser.
NUMBER 1366.]
TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 24, 1797.
[VOLUME XI.]
A Pocket-Book.
LEFT, yesterday morning, at or LOST coming from the lower ferry inn to Philadelphia, a Red Morocco Pocket-Book, containing one ten dollar bank note, sundry papers, letters, instruments, and two promissory notes, drawn by C. Jackson & Co. dated 1st November, 1796, at 120 days, for 505 dollars each...
The Stockholders of the Pennsylvania Population Company
Are requested to meet at the Company's Office, No. 53, North Fourth-street, on Wednesday, the 24th of February next, at 12 o'clock, for the purpose of taking into consideration the proceedings of the Company, and of making further assessments on the shares, in order to defray the expenses of the Company agreeable to the 20th, Article of the Constitution.
NOTICE.
Persons having Goods on board the Ship Perseverance, James Williamson, master, bound from Hamburg to this Port, and lately put into New-York, where the Vessel is discharging, will please apply to THOMAS and JOHN KEILAND. Philadelphia, Jan. 21, 1797.
Women's Cloaks.
GEORGE DOBSON, No. 25, South Third-street, Has just received, per Eagle, Capt. Fofdick, via London, an assortment of Scarlet, Drab, Purple and Pearl Cloaks trimmed with fur and ermine. December 15.
Cheap French China.
THE subscribers finding it impossible to supply their store with any more China from France, the prices being too immediate in the manufactures, give notice that they will sell at prime cost the remaining stock on hand, consisting of Dessert Sets, Tea-Table Sets, Separate Cups and Saucers, Groups and Figures, Alabaster Vases, Looking Glasses, in gilt frames, Besides India Japan'd Toilet Sets, Chairs, Tables and Quadrille Boxes. PASQUER & Co. No. 91, South Second-street. December 4th.
NOTICE.
THE Sates of LANDS of the United States, in the North-Western Territory, heretofore advertised in the several public papers, will commence this evening, at the City Tavern—be continued from day to day, 'till the tenth of February next, if not sooner sold. January 4.
Public Notice,
IS HEREBY GIVEN, that I have applied to the judges of the Supreme Court of this state, to supply the defect in my Title to a lot of ground, situate on the West side of Fourth-street, containing in breadth 20 feet, and in length 56 feet, bounded Northward and Westward, by ground of the subscriber, Southward by ground of Edward Shippen, and Eastward by Fourth-street, occasioned by the loss of a deed from Timothy Harrington, John Lewis and James Walton, by their attorney Robert Moloney. All persons concerned, are required to appear before two of the judges of the said court, at the house of Thomas McKean, esq. the Chief Justice of the state, on the 30th inst. at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, to make their answer to the bill of the subscriber, filed in the office of Edward Burd, esq. Prothonotary of the said court. WILLIAM SHIPPEN, jun. Philadelphia, January 6th, 1797.
Washington Lottery.
TICKETS, warranted undrawn, may be purchased or exchanged for prizes, at the Office, No. 147, Chestnut-street, where a correct Numerical Book is kept for public inspection. Also Canal Lottery Tickets for sale or exchanged for prizes drawn in the Washington Lottery, of which the 54th and 55th days returns are received. The Business of a Broker carried on as usual. January 19.
SALT PETRE.
A large quantity of Double-Refined Salt Petre for sale at No. 25, South Third-street. November 5.
Loft or Misaid,
At the Bank of the United States, Joseph Higgs's Note, dated 29th December last, for twelve hundred dollars, payable at 60 days to Nathaniel Lewis & Son. Whoever may find the same will please return it to said Bank, or to the subscribers, who will allow a reward. Payment being barred, it cannot be of use to any other person. NATHANIEL LEWIS & SON. January 5.
For Sale,
Two Convenient BRICK HOUSES, Three stories high, 16 feet front, and 40 feet deep each, and adjoining; situated on the east side of Front, between Race and Vine-streets; Nos. 161 and 163. They will be sold on very reasonable terms, either separately or together. Apply to JOHN MILLER, jun. & CO. January 13.
A CARD.
If Monsieur G. H. SEHLER, Who left Bordeaux the 20th June last, and arrived at Boston about the middle of August, in the Schooner Jane, is in Philadelphia, he is requested to call on Joseph Anthony & Co. No. 5, Chestnut-street, who will give him some information of importance. December 24, 1796.
WM. HOLDERNESSE, No. 76,
HIGH-STREET, Has received by the late arrivals, A Well Selected Assortment of Silk Mercery, Linen Drapery, and Haberdashery Goods, Which he will sell, wholesale and retail, on the very lowest terms; Amongst which are Some elegant 4-4 and 7-8 Chintzes and Cottons, new patterns Ditto Furniture ditto Ditto Dimity Tamboured, Book, and Jacquet Mullins Ditto in Gold and Silver Ditto Neckcloths, very fine Mantuas of the first quality Silk and Cotton Hosiery Umbrellas of the first quality, assorted Irish Linens, very fine, and Table Linens Marceilles and Cotton Counterpans Rose Blankets assorted—&c. &c. October 26.
For Sale, By the Subscribers—In PENN-STREET, 65 Pipes Excellent Madeira Wine, Imported by the Eagle. WILLINGS & FRANCIS. Nov. 30.
FOR SALE, THE SHIP MARY, SAMUEL PARKER, MASTER, Two hundred tons burthen. Apply to JOSEPH ANTHONY, & Co. If the MARY is not sold in a few days, she will take freight for Hamburg. Apply as above. October 31.
For Sligo and Killibegs, The American Ship NANCR, Cuthbert Riggs, master. Will sail with all convenient speed. For freight or passage apply to William Bell; Who has for sale, 4 Trunks Printed Cottons, well assorted 3 Bales Irish Flannels, and 2 boxes Linens 25 Pipes Brandy Madeira Wine; Indigo, Russia Mats, Also, A few barrels PRIME IRISH BEEF, PORK, OATMEAL, &c. November 11, 1796.
For Sale, or Charter, The Ship DIANA, SAMUEL PILE, Master, Burthen 205 47-95 tons register, built in Philadelphia in the year 1792, of live oak and red cedar, and was sheathed 13 months ago, she has just had a complete out-fit, and may be sent to sea at a very trifling expense. For terms apply to Philip Nicklin & Co. Who have for sale on board said vessel, 27 casks of fine yellow paint. 9 boxes and 12 bundles of writing flutes. 1 box ink stands and note-prefes. 14 bales of sail canvas. And on hand, Imperial Hyson, and Souchong 40,000 pieces Nankens of the best quality. 19 tubs Quickilver. 2 chests Bandanna handkerchiefs. A few chests Manchester goods well assorted in Cor-duroys, thicksets, Ginghams, Muslins, Dimities, &c. 3 boxes black sewing silk. 180 crates Queens ware well assorted. 10 tons sheet lead. Nails assorted, flat and sharp points. London Particular, London Market, New-York Market, 40 pipes and 10 hogheads Teneriffe wine. 8 tiers Snake Root. 230 logs Mahogany. Nov. 7.
TEAS. PROPOSALS, For carrying the Mails of the UNITED STATES, On the following Post Roads, will be received until the first day of March next inclusive: 1. From Charleston, S. C. by Jacksonboro' and Coosahatchy, to Savannah, twice a week. Receive the Mail at Charleston every Tuesday and Friday by 6, P. M. and deliver it at Savannah the next Friday and Monday, by 8 A. M. Returning, receive the Mail at Savannah every Saturday, by 6, P. M. and Wednesday by 6, A. M. and deliver it at Charleston the next Tuesday and Friday by noon. Proposals for this route will be received by the post-master at Savannah. 2. From Coosahatchy to Beaufort once a week—Receive the Mail at Coosahatchy every Thursday by 6, P. M. and deliver it at Beaufort by noon on Friday. Returning, leave Beaufort every Friday by 3, P. M. and arrive at Coosahatchy on Saturday by 8, A. M. Proposals for carrying the mail on this route will be received by the post-master at Beaufort. Note 1. The Post-master General may alter the times for the arrival and departure of the mails at any time during the continuance of the contracts, he previously stipulating an adequate compensation for any extra expence that may be occasioned thereby. Note 2. For every hour's delay (unavoidable accidents excepted) in arriving after the times prescribed by contract, the contractor shall forfeit one dollar, and if the delay continue until the departure of any depending mail an additional forfeiture of five dollars shall be incurred. Note 3. Should any person making proposals desire an alteration of the times of arrival and departure above specified, he must state the alteration desired and the price he will carry the mail for with and without such alteration. Note 4. The contracts are to be in operation on the first day of April next and to continue until the 30th of September in the year 1800. JOSEPH HABERSHAM, Post Master General. General Post Office, Philadelphia, Jan. 13, 1796. Feb. 16.
Le Breton, SURGEON-DENTIST, Pupil of the celebrated Mr. Dubois, late Dentist to the King and Royal Family of France, member of the College and Academy of Surgeons at Paris, Keeps a complete assortment of every thing necessary to be used for the Preservation of the Mouth and Teeth. Patent Mineral Teeth, and Human & Ivory Teeth; Dentifrice in powder; Opiate; excellent Elixir for sweetening the mouth and preserving the teeth—he also furnishes Brushes and soft Sponges. * * He lives in Chestnut-street, No. 135, above Fourth-street. November 26.
BALL. New Cotillions, Scotch Reels, and Contre Dances. Messrs. Francis and Byrne beg leave to inform their scholars, friends, and the public in general, that their first Ball for this season will be on Tuesday, the 24th at O'Ellers's assembly-room; at which a variety of new Cotillions, Contre Dances, and the most celebrated Scotch Reels, will be introduced. Messrs. Francis and Byrne propose to give gratuitous attendance at their school room, for the instruction of those Ladies and Gentlemen in their new dances, who mean to honor the ball room with their presence,—attendance for this purpose after their school hours, on Tuesdays, and Thursdays. Tickets to be had of Messrs. Francis and Byrne No. 70, North Eighth-street, or at O'Ellers's Hotel. Ladies are requested to apply to their female friends, scholars of Messrs. F. & B. or as above, at their residence. N. B. The new dances will not infringe upon the usual routine of the evening. The days of teaching for their young pupils are Thursdays and Saturdays, from three o'clock in the afternoon till six—and on Tuesdays & Thursdays, from six till nine, for those of a more advanced age. * * Private tuition as usual. January 11, 1797.
Fresh Garden, Grass and Flower-Seeds, Roots, &c. &c. This day landing from the ship Eagle, captain Fofdick, from London, And FOR SALE by GOLDTHWAITE & MOORE, Corner of Walnut and Second-streets, A most capital and extensive Assortment of GARDEN, GRASS and FLOWER-SEEDS, ROOTS, &c. &c. Among which are, Five kinds Asparagus Thyme kinds Cresses Four Borage Twelve Onion Twenty-five Beans Thirteen Radish Six Beets Fifteen Turnip Eleven Broccoli Fifteen Peas Twenty-six Cabbage Six Savoy Six Carrot Four Parsnip Three Cauliflower Twenty-three Melon Five Celery Twenty-one Lettuce Cucumber Common and lemon Thyme Curled leaf and sprigged Parsley Pot Marigold Pot Marjoram Balm Thyme Mangel Wurtzel Leek Kail Shallots Rape Seed Rye Grass Sainfoin Lucerne Red and white Clover Timothy, &c. &c. With a curious collection of the most esteemed FLOWER-SEEDS and ROOTS, Being the most extensive ever imported into this city. The above are from a capital Seedman in London, and are warranted fresh and good. Printed catalogues may be had by applying as above. Dec. 17.
In order to comply with contracts, I will sell, for approved bonds, on 3 equal annual payments, A Square of LOTS, At the upper end of Frederickburg, beginning opposite to the lower corner of Doctor Wellford's, on Caroline-street, and running up to the cross street leading to Fitzhugh's ferry, and from thence back to Sophia-street. This square I have laid off into 24 lots, 27 and an half feet front, and 122 back, 12 on Caroline-street, and 12 on Sophia-street. Nine of those on Caroline-street I have leased on an annual ground rent of 8 and 10 pounds, to the amount of 74 pounds, and the vacant lots a purchaser could enhance the value of by building small houses, which will as readily procure tenants as pots or gardens will Martins in the spring, and yield a greater profit in proportion to their cost than large buildings. Those who incline to purchase may know the terms by applying to HENRY FITZHUGH. Bell-Air, Dec. 8, 1796.
THE SUBSCRIBER WISHES to ascertain, whether a certain EDWARD NEVILL, by trade a Stone-Cutter, or Brick-Layer, who quitted Ireland in 1783, or 1784, and came into this Country, ('tis supposed to Philadelphia) about four years since, be living or dead. As this intelligence is of the highest importance, it will be thankfully received, by GEO. DAVIS, No. 313, High-street December 31.
Bank of Pennsylvania, January 4, 1797. At a meeting of the Directors this day, a dividend of sixteen dollars on each share was declared for the last 6 months, which will be paid to the Stockholders after the 14th inst. JONATHAN SMITH, Cashier. Jan. 3.
The Elephant, Now exhibited, was bought for Ten Thousand Dollars. He is 3 years old, 6 feet high, growing to 18 feet. He eats 150 weight a-day, and drinks a barrel of water; he has drunk some days forty bottles of porter, drawing the corks with his trunk. He is perfectly inoffensive; travels loose, at the rate of five miles an hour, and is the greatest curiosity ever brought to this Continent. He is to be seen 'till the 15th of January, in Market-street between Third and Fourth-streets, at a quarter of a dollar, that every one may see him—after which time the former price of half a dollar will be resumed. He will leave Philadelphia as soon as the weather will permit. December 31.
Elegant Brussels & Turkey Carpeting, For sale by George Dobson, No. 25, South Third-street. December 15.
DOCUMENTS Which accompanied the message of the President of the United States to both Houses of Congress, January 19, 1797. Letter to Mr. Pinckney, Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to the French Republic. [Continued from yesterday's Gazette.]
But Mr. Adet says, "That Mr. Jay's negotiation was enveloped from its origin in the shadow of mystery." And to whom was our government bound to unveil it? to France or to her minister—Mr. Adet should answer or not have complained. And was it for this to make us a dependence on the French empire that our alliance was formed? Did we stipulate to submit the exercise of our sovereignty (if it is not a contradiction in terms) to the direction of the government of France? Let the treaty itself furnish the answer. "The essential and direct end of the present defensive alliance is to maintain effectually the liberty, sovereignty, and independence absolute and unlimited, of the said United States, as well in matters of government as of commerce." So likewise the treaty of Amity and commerce in its preamble, declares that his most Christian Majesty and the United States willing to fix the rules which ought to be followed relative to the correspondence and commerce which they desire to establish between their respective countries, have taken "for the basis of their government, the most perfect equality and reciprocity"—and reserving withal to "each party the liberty of admitting at its pleasure other nations to a participation of the same advantages." Corresponding with this declaration in our treaty of Amity and Commerce with France, is the declaration of the Marquis de Noailles, her ambassador at the court of London, on the 13th of March 1778, five weeks after the treaty was signed. Some passages in this declaration are so pertinent to the subject in discussion I shall quote them at length.
"The under-signed Ambassador of his most Christian Majesty, has received express orders to make the following declaration to the court of London." "The United States of North America, who are in full possession of Independence, as pronounced by them on the 4th of July 1776, having proposed to the king to consolidate by a formal convention, the connection begun to be established between the two nations, the respective plenipotentiaries have signed a treaty of friendship and commerce, designed to serve as a foundation for their mutual good correspondence." His majesty being determined to cultivate the good understanding subsisting between France and Great-Britain, by every means compatible with his dignity, and the good of his subjects, thinks it necessary to make this proceeding known to the court of London, and to declare, at the same time, that the contracting parties have paid great attention not to stipulate any exclusive advantages in favour of the French nation, and that the United States have reserved the liberty of treating with every nation whatever upon the same footing of equality and reciprocity." Why after all this, do we hear from Mr. Adet the complaint, that the negotiations of the British treaty were secretly conducted? In other words, that in exercising their absolute and unlimited rights of "government and commerce" the United States did not lay open to the French minister or his government the instructions to our envoy for letting our own disputes and regulating our own commerce with Great-Britain? So far as candor and friendship required, a communication was made to the French minister. He was officially informed, "That Mr. Jay was instructed not to weaken our engagements to France." This instruction was obeyed, Mr. Jay having taken care to insert in the 25th article of the treaty this explicit stipulation, that "nothing in this treaty contained shall be construed or operate contrary to former and existing public treaties with other sovereigns or states."
The government gave a further proof of its candor and friendship by communicating to the French minister the treaty itself, prior to its ratification, "in order to enable him to make such observations thereon as he might judge proper." These observations you will see in Mr. Adet's letter to the secretary of state, of June 30th, 1795; and the refutation of his objections in the secretary's answer, dated the 6th of July following. With these facts in view, facts of which the chief are drawn from our treaties with France, and from her own acts and laws, what opinion is to be formed of Mr. Adet's declaration, "That the executive directory regards the treaty of commerce concluded with Great-Britain as a violation of the treaty made with France in 1778, and equivalent to a treaty of alliance with Great-Britain?"
I will now advert to the charge, "That far from offering the French the succours which friendship might have given without compromising it, the American government in this respect violated the letter of treaties"
As far as I can discover, the latter part of this charge is rested wholly on the 17th article of the commercial treaty; which, therefore, it will be necessary to examine. The stipulations are mutual; but the examination will be simplified by considering their application to France alone. The 17th article then declares—
1st. That the ships of war and privateers of France may freely carry the ships and goods taken from their enemies into the ports of the United States, without being obliged to pay any fees to the officers of the admiralty or any other judges. 2d. That such prizes are not to be arrested or seized when they enter the ports of the U. States. 3d. That the officers of the United States shall not make any examination concerning the lawfulness of such prizes: but 4th. That they may halt at any time, and depart and carry their prizes to the places expressed in their commissions. 5th. That, on the contrary, no shelter or refuge shall be given in the ports of the United States, to such as shall have made prize of the subjects, people or property of France; but if such shall come in, being forced by stress of weather or the danger of the sea, all proper means shall be vigorously used that they go out and retire from thence as soon as possible.
* Treaty of Alliance, Art. 2.

It will also be convenient here to notice the stipulations contained in the 22d article. These are,
1st. That foreign privateers not belonging to French subjects or citizens, having commissions from any other prince or state in enmity with France, shall not fit their ships in the ports of the United States.
2d. Nor sell their prizes, nor in any other manner exchange their ships, merchandise, or any other lading;
3d. Nor purchase victuals, except such as shall be necessary for their going to the nearest port of the prince or state from which they have commissions.
The cases that have occurred in the course of the present war in relation to our treaty with France, particularly the 17th and 22d articles just mentioned, have led to numerous discussions, in which several points have been deliberately settled either by legislative or executive acts, or by judicial decisions.
The first important executive act was the proclamation of neutrality by the President of the United States. This was issued on the 22d of April 1793.
At the next meeting of Congress, on the 3d of December 1793, the President laid this proclamation before both Houses. The Senate, in their address, in answer to the President's speech, thus expresses their opinion of the proclamation.
"We deemed it a measure well-timed, and wise: manifesting a watchful solicitude for the welfare of the nation, and calculated to promote it."
The address of the House of Representatives was unanimously agreed to. We read in it this paragraph, "The United States having taken no part in the war which had embraced, in Europe, the powers with whom they have the most extensive relations, the maintenance of peace was justly to be regarded as one of the most important duties of the magistrate charged with the faithful execution of the laws. We accordingly witness, with approbation and pleasure, the vigilance with which you have guarded against an interruption of that blessing, by your proclamation, admonishing our citizens of the consequences of illicit or hostile acts towards the belligerent parties; and promoting, by a declaration of the existing legal state of things, an easier admission of our right to the immunities belonging to our situation."
Yet this is the instrument, thus approved by Congress, and whose only object was to caution our citizens to avoid certain acts which would violate the laws of nations, which Mr. Adet has ventured to call "an invidious proclamation of neutrality!"
The next executive act noticed by Mr. Adet, is the letter of the 4th of August 1793, written by the President's command, by the Secretary of the Treasury, to the collectors of the customs, and accompanied by the rules which the President had adopted, for preventing all armaments in favor of any of the belligerent powers. These rules were considered as just and necessary deductions from the laws of neutrality established and received among nations. The letter from the Secretary of the Treasury is explanatory of these rules, and among other instructions, particularly points the collectors to the 17th and 22d articles of our treaty with France; lest by inattention or misconception of them, they might be injured and her enemies benefited. The letter concludes with enjoining the collectors to execute those instructions "with vigilance, care, activity and impartiality;" "because omissions would tend to expose the government to injurious imputations and suspicions, and proportionably to commit the good faith and peace of the country." How could such rules, with such reasons to enforce them, not escape censure? They were framed and required to be executed with strict impartiality; and consequently were to prevent Frenchmen continuing these aggressions on our sovereignty and neutrality, which had been commenced under Mr. Genet's orders, and which were calculated to involve us in a war with Britain, Spain and Holland, for at that time there were all combined against France. Frenchmen were to have no other preferences than those secured to them by treaty; (except that they were not forbidden to sell their lawful prizes in our ports) and our citizens were to be restrained from committing hostilities under the banners of France, as well as those of other powers.
The third offensive act was the President's submitting to Congress these measures, and suggesting the expediency of extending our legal code, giving competent jurisdiction to the courts, and providing adequate penalties to prevent or punish violations of the laws of nations.
The next complaint respects the act of Congress passed on the 5th of June 1794, "for the punishment of certain crimes against the United States;" being those to which their attention had been called by the President's speech. Mr. Adet asks, "What was its result?" and gives himself the following answer. "In consequence of this law, the greater part of the French privateers have been arrested, as well as their prizes; not upon formal depositions, not upon established testimony, not upon a necessary body of proofs, but upon the simple information of the consul of one of the powers at war with the French republic, frequently upon that of sailors of the enemy's powers, sometimes according to the orders of the governors, but often upon the demand of the district attorneys, who assert upon principles avowed by the government, that their conviction was sufficient to authorize them, without complaint or regular information, to cause the privateers to be prosecuted in virtue of the law above mentioned." And "when the ministers of the republic have asked for justice of the government, for the vexations experienced by the privateers, in contempt of the 17th article of the treaty, they have never been able to obtain satisfaction."
Judging only by these declarations of Mr. Adet, a stranger would imagine there had been a combination of the general and state governments and of our courts, to harass and do injustice to Frenchmen engaged in privateering. But our own citizens place a different estimate on this impeachment of their President, their senators and
representatives in congress, their judges and other public officers: and an examination of the cases cited by Mr. Adet to support his assertions will manifest their incorretness.
First case. The French privateer Sans Pareil and her prize the Perseverance.
On the 26th August 1794 Mr. Fauchet complained that the prize had been seized on the pretext that the Sans Pareil had been illegally armed in the United States. The answer of September 3d from the secretary of state, which Mr. Adet censures "as indicative of delay," assured him that the secretary had urged the governor of Rhode Island, where the prize was carried, to report the circumstances of the case without delay. On the 27th of September, the secretary informed Mr. Fauchet that the governor had decided that the prize should be restored. On the 17th of October Mr. Fauchet renewed his complaint, for on the suit of the claimant the prize had again been arrested by process from the district court. The secretary of state answered on the 22d, with information that ought to have satisfied Mr. Fauchet. For admitting that agreeably to the law of the 5th of June 1794, the courts had authority and were bound in duty to take cognizance of captures made within the jurisdiction of the United States, or by privateers illegally fitted in their ports (the right of doing which Mr. Fauchet did not contest) they could not refuse it in the case of the prize of the Sans Pareil: the guard against vexatious prosecutions being the judgment for costs and damages to which an unjust prosecutor is exposed. The circular letter written on this occasion to the governors of the states manifests the solicitude of our government to prevent vexatious suits.
2d case. Glass and Gibbs. By the copy of the proceedings in the supreme court of the United States, in this case, you will see that the court did not, as stated by Mr. Adet, determine, "That the tribunals could decide whether a prize belonged to enemies or to neutrals." The question before the court was of the cognizance of a captured vessel and cargo, the former the property of a Swede and the latter belonging partly to some Swedes and partly to a citizen of the United States. The opinion therefore pronounced by the supreme court applied to the case in which one of the claimants was a citizen of the United States. And after solemn argument, the court decided "That the district court of Maryland had jurisdiction and should accordingly proceed to determine upon this case agreeably to law and right."
I will add only one more remark—That the 17th article, the letter of which we are charged with violating, in suffering our courts to take cognizance of French prizes, expressly refers to "The ships and goods taken from their enemies;" and it is the "examination concerning the lawfulness of such prizes," which the article forbids. But no examination of such prizes has been attempted by our government or tribunals, unless on clear evidence, or reasonable presumption, that the captures were made in circumstances, which amounted to a violation of our sovereignty, and territorial rights.
3d. Case. The French privateer L'Ami de la Pointe à Petre, Captain William Talbot, and her Dutch prize, the Vrouw Christiana Magdalena.
To the information contained in the papers collected in this case. I have to add, that this cause was finally decided in the Supreme court in August term 1795. The court were unanimously of opinion that in the particular circumstances of Talbot's case, notwithstanding his French commission, and his taking an oath of allegiance to the French republic, he continued to be a citizen of the United States. But the cause, as I am informed, did not appear to have turned on this point. Talbot had associated with one Ballard, commanding an armed vessel called the Ami de la Liberté, which had been fitted out in the United States, and had no commission. Talbot and Ballard cruized together as consorts; and in fact it was Ballard's vessel that took the prize; Talbot not coming up till an hour after the capture. Ballard was afterwards tried before the Circuit court for piracy.
The court were of opinion from the tenor of the evidence, that Talbot's vessel was owned by citizens of the United States, to whom the prize money would eventually find its way in case of restitution to the captors.
Ballard and Talbot were both citizens of Virginia. The attempt of the latter to become a French citizen was considered to be fraudulent, being made for the sole purpose of obtaining a commission, under colour of which he might plunder the subjects of nations with whom the United States were at peace.
An observation ought not to be omitted here—That although the captors, Talbot and others, had been defeated both in the district and circuit courts—yet they carried the cause up to the supreme court: thus using the legal right of appealing to the court in the last resort; a right which alike exercised by the subjects of powers who were enemies to France, has formed a principal subject of Mr. Fauchet's and Mr. Adet's continued complaints.
4th. Under the head of complaints for vexatious prosecutions, Mr. Adet mentions only two cases in which damages and interest were allowed to the French captors, viz. One of la Nuestra Señora del Carmen at Rhode Island—and the other of la Princesse des Asturias at New-York. "Yet (says he) the tribunals have always allowed damages to the captured, when they have declared the prizes illegal." How far the facts will warrant this last assertion, I am not possessed of documents to determine. I presume it is to be understood in a general sense only, and to admit of exceptions. And in this sense there will be no difficulty in admitting the truth of the assertion and accounting for it. The captures here referred to were made either within our jurisdictional line, or by illegal privateers, being such as were equipped in whole or in part in the ports of the United States. Of these material facts, the captors could not be ignorant: consequently they could have no apology for defending their unjust claims in our courts; and of course, were justly condemned in costs and damages.
In the case of the prizes of the privateer the Citizen of Marseilles, damages were claimed by the captors, but denied. For those prizes had been considered in the district court to be illegal. And although the se-
tence of that court was reversed in the circuit court, yet it was upon the introduction of new testimony, on the part of the captors. This last decision was affirmed in the supreme court, yet without damages; inasmuch as the testimony was considered to be so ambiguous as to justify the appeal.
The same remarks apply to the prizes of the privateer General Laurens; with this addition, that one of the Judges dissented from the opinion of the court, being firmly of opinion that this privateer was covered American property.
The privateer the Parisienne has been registered as an American coasting vessel, under the name of the Hawk. During the embargo, in the spring of 1793, she slipped out or Charleston and went to Port de Paix, where she was sold to one Blochos, a Frenchman, who armed her and provided her with a commission. Having afterwards arrived at Charleston, she was recognized and prosecuted for a breach of the revenue laws, in having gone to a foreign port whilst she was in the legal possession of a couler. The district court condemned her: but on the application of Blochos to have her restored on paying the appraised value, the judge permitted him to take her, in a state of warlike equipment. Shortly afterwards she put to sea & captured two valuable British prizes, the brigantines Cæsar and Favorite. On their arrival, the one at Charleston, the other at Savannah, suits were commenced to obtain their restitution as having been captured by an illegal privateer. The decrees of the courts were in favor of the captors, but without damages. The supreme court disapproved of the restitution of the privateer without dismantling her; and considered the mistake committed in this respect a sufficient reason to cover the party prosecuting from the payment of damages.
All the other cases of captures by French privateers which have been brought up to the supreme court were decided at last August term. In some of them, the circumstances would not have warranted an award of damages, in others, the counsel for the captors omitted to ask for them. When demanded, you know that it is in the discretion of the court to grant or refuse them: this discretion being regulated by all the circumstances of each case. Hence when a party is drawn before the Court without good cause and vexatiously, damages are always given; but are denied when there appears a reasonable cause of controversy.
5th. Mr. Adet having briefly noticed several cases by name, seems to reserve those of the Vengeance and Cassius for a full display of unwarrantable conduct in the Government and Courts of the United States, and therefore descants on them at some length; but with so many aberrations from the facts, with so many erroneous ideas concerning our jurisprudence, and so many injudicious insinuations respecting our Courts and their officers, it will be necessary that you should learn the true history of these cases from authentic documents.
Cause of the French privateer La Vengeance.
For the full history of this privateer and her prize I must refer you to the documents in the case. The principal facts are these. About the latter end of June, or beginning of July 1795, the privateer La Vengeance arrived at New-York with a valuable Spanish prize called the Princessa de las Asturias, Don Diego Pintado the owner commenced a suit for his vessel, on the ground that she had been taken by an illegal privateer. The suit was instituted by Mr. Troup, not wantonly, but upon information which was afterwards verified by the oaths of several witnesses. In the progress of the cause these witnesses were contradicted by the witnesses produced on behalf of the captors, for whom a decree was finally given; the conflicting evidence preponderating, in the judge's opinion, in favor of the captors: but he expressly declared that there was probable cause for the seizure.
After this suit for the prize had been commenced, the Spanish Consul complained to Mr. Hamilton, the District Attorney, in his official capacity, of a violation of law, on the part of the privateer La Vengeance, in consequence of which a Spanish subject had been injured. Mr. Harrison upon inquiry found at least a probability that the complaint respecting the privateer was true. This probability arose from what he considered as affording the certainty of material proof: and, therefore, in conformity with his official duty, commenced a prosecution on the act of Congress forbidding the arming of privateers in our ports. The decision of this and of the prize cause depended on the same evidence. The decision being in favor of the captors, Mr. Harrison acquiesced in it as it respected the privateer: and he united with his associate counsel in the prize cause in advising the like submission in that case. But the Spanish Consul deemed it his duty to pursue the claim to the court in the last resort: This can warrant no complaint: for Mr. Harrison remarks that perhaps there never were causes in which more contradictory and irreconcilable evidence was offered, and in which the minds of the auditors were more divided as to the real state of facts.
The second public suit against the privateer was for exporting arms and ammunition from the United States, when such exportation was prohibited by law. The evidence, which appeared in the other causes, gave rise to this prosecution: and upon the trial the judge condemned the privateer. An appeal from this sentence was interposed by the French Consul. The appeal was heard in the circuit court: and upon new evidence the sentence of the District Court was reversed.
Mr. Adet complains, that while one suit was pending for the prize, and another against the privateer, the District Attorney should exhibit a second information against the privateer, on which she was arrested anew, for having exported arms in violation of a law of the United States, which was in force when the Vengeance failed from New-York: and that this information was filed on the simple declaration of Mr. Giles, the Marshal of the Court, who as informer was to share part of the confiscation. As Mr. Harrison remarks, it was in favor of the privateer, that this second information was filed while the first was pending; because it saved time. Had he postponed the latter until the first had been decided there might have been some foundation for a charge of unnecessary delay. Mr. Harrison's state of the case shews that this second information was not made on the declaration of the Marshal; but on the evidence that appeared on the examination of the first.
Mr. Adet having been pleased to censure the conduct of the attorney, clerk and marshal of the district court of New-York, in justice to them, I have added to the other documents in this case, the letters of Mr. Harrison and Mr. Troup. They will answer the double purpose of justifying them, and of vindicating our government and tribunals.
Mr. Adet particularly notices the papers he had received from St. Domingo, "Proving (as he says) in the most convincing manner, that the Vengeance [a French privateer] had arrived at Port de Paix without any armament or equipment whatever, and that she had been sold, armed and equipped wholly, and commissioned as a privateer on the territory of the republic. These documents were certificates of the general, the Ordinateur, and of the greater part of the principal officers of St. Domingo." &c.—"He hastened to communicate to the secretary of state, and to request him to order the attorney of New-York district to stay the proceedings instituted in the name of the government: there was nothing done with them, and Mr. Harrison continued his prosecution." It will appear by my letter of October 18, 1795, to Mr. Harrison, that these papers were sent to him, and by his answer of October 3d, that he received them. That the bill of sale (one of the papers) was produced to the court, in behalf of the claimant of the privateer, but that the certificate of general Laurens could not be considered as evidence in the case, and if it had been admissible, "the claimant would be very cautious of producing it, on account of its differing from the witnesses."
6th. Case of the privateer Le Cassius. For the full history of this case, I must also refer you to the documents: and here only present you with a concise statement.
The Cassius, under the name of les Jumeaux, was fitted and armed for a vessel of war in the port of Philadelphia, in violation of a law of the United States. In December 1794, having escaped from the port to defend the river, orders were given to the militia of the state of Delaware to intercept her. The attempt was made and failed—the crew of les Jumeaux, which was unexpectedly found to be very numerous, resisted the officers, who went on board, manned their cannon, and brought them to bear on the outer in which the militia (about 40 in number) were embarked. Their force being inadequate to the enterprise, they retired, with an intention to return the next day with a reinforcement. They did so: but les Jumeaux had failed and gone to sea. The agent, Mr. Guenet, by whom les Jumeaux had been fitted out, was tried in the circuit court at Philadelphia, convicted of the offence, and received sentence of fine and imprisonment.
Les Jumeaux proceeded to St. Domingo. Samuel B. Davis, a citizen of the United States, there took the command of her, with a commission from the French government. Davis probably failed from Philadelphia in les Jumeaux for the purpose of finally taking the command of her. Her name was now changed to Le Cassius; and on a cruise she took a schooner called the William Lindsay, belonging to Messrs. Yard and Ketland of Philadelphia; Mr. Ketland having purchased an interest in her after her sailing. The schooner and her cargo were condemned as prize at St. Domingo. In August 1795, captain Davis, commanding Le Cassius, came with her to Philadelphia. She was immediately known. Mr. Yard, with a view of obtaining an indemnification for the loss of the schooner and her cargo, libelled Le Cassius in the district court, and caused the captain to be arrested. Soon after, the supreme court, being in session, captain Davis's counsel applied for and obtained a prohibition to the district court, to stop its proceedings; by which the suits both against him and Le Cassius were defeated. The prohibition was granted on this principle; that the trial of prizes taken without the jurisdiction of the United States, and carried to places within the jurisdiction of France, for adjudication, by French vessels, and all questions incidental to it, belong exclusively to the French tribunals: And consequently that its vessels of war and their officers are not liable to the process of our courts, predicated upon such capture and subsequent proceeding within the jurisdiction of the French government.
Messrs. Yard and Ketland having failed to obtain an indemnification in this mode, procured new proofs, on the information of Mr. Ketland, to be issued from the circuit court by which Le Cassius was attached as a vessel armed and equipped as a ship of war in the port of Philadelphia, with intent to cruise and commit hostilities against nations with whom the United States were at peace; in violation of the act of congress prohibiting such armaments. Mr. Adet complained that the process was taken out of the circuit court, because, as he alleged, it had no jurisdiction, and that it would be attended with delay, that court sitting but twice a year; whereas the district court, in which it was said the prosecution (if at all permitted) should have been commenced, was always open. I consulted gentlemen of legal knowledge on the point of jurisdiction in this case, and they were decided in their opinion that the circuit court had jurisdiction, and exclusively of the district court. You will see also, in Mr. Rawle's statement of this case, that this opinion was adopted and supported by two gentlemen of eminence at the bar. You will further see in that statement, that the government of the United States had no part in originating this prosecution; and that the district attorney, in behalf of the United States, took measures at each term of the circuit court to prepare the cause for trial, and on a plea calculated to defeat the prosecution. At length in October term, 1796, the cause was brought to a hearing. In the course of the argument the question of jurisdiction presented itself. The court adjourned till the next day to consider of it, and on the following morning dismissed the suit. As soon as I had received notice of this event (on the 19th of October last) I wrote to Mr. Adet, informing that Le Cassius remained in the custody of the marshal, but ready to be delivered to his order. To this no answer was returned: but he mentions the matter in the notes subjoined to his note of the 15th November, intimating that the United States were answerable in this case for a violation of treaties and for the damages the Cassius has sustained. Here the affair rests.
[To be continued.] * In Saturday's Gazette the following was omitted in the quotation from Mr. Jefferson's letter of 24th July, 1793—After the word enemy, read are free, and the goods of an enemy, found in the vessel of a friend, are lawful prize.

PHILADELPHIA,
TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 24, 1797.
A morning paper informs that authentic advices have been received from Capt. O'Brien of the United States brig Sophia...
Extract of a letter from Mr. John M. Irwin, dated Savannah, 28th December, 1796.
"I am happy to find that the Governor will not permit the ship Golden Age, nor her cargo, to be condemned here.
The following petition is now circulating for signatures:
To the Senate and House of Representatives of the Freemen of the State of Pennsylvania. The Petition of the Subscribers, Inhabitants of the City and Liberties of Philadelphia, respectfully represents;
THAT the practice of discounting negotiable notes of hand and inland bills of exchange, at greater interest than allowed by law...
That this practice is destructive to the morals of the people of capital, as it induces them to decline the fair pursuit of honourable trade...
That the present existing law against usury hath been found ineffectual, in as much as through a third person in the negotiation it has been eluded...
Your petitioners therefore pray that a general law may be passed to remedy the evils complained of.
From the Aurora it appears that the party are spelling very hard to get Mr. Madison appointed envoy extraordinary to Paris.
FOR THE GAZETTE OF THE UNITED STATES. MR. FENNO.
The old law of Pacificus , on party-spirit, which appeared in the Gazette of Friday, would not merit a comment...
But to the point: Parties we have, and as it happens in all countries, the division of classes and characters is made exactly according to the nature of the government.
The truth of this division is undeniably obvious. The men of virtue, property, learning, and character are on one side...
This is not all: Foreign influence has leagued itself with the disorganizing party. How happens this? The reason is plain...
disappointed foreign "friends and allies" would wish to see its offices in the custody of their creatures and dependents.
To promote these mutual views, much has been done at home and abroad. Bate Americans, at Paris, have intrigued against their country!
If Pacificus is no Democrat, he will see that their fanatical and stupid party-care about the French cause, and our love for it, &c. &c. (more than five hundred folios would contain) has produced all this embarrassment.
Neither of these chastisements is approved or recommended. The liberty of the press, thus outrageously abused, affords antidotes as well as poisons.
From the Baltimore Telegraph. Messrs. Clayland, Dobbins & Co.
I have just been presented with the enclosed letters, and send you a copy, (the originals are in the hands of Mr. James Calhoun.) in order to make it known...
Your's &c. JOSHUA BARNEY. Brigadier-General in the service of France.
Baltimore, Jan. 20. Charleston, Jan. 3, 1797.
James Calhoun, Esq. Sir, A French armed vessel, called the Vengeance, took from on board a vessel of our's, coming from Jamaica...
(Signed) W. & E. CRAFFTS. At Sea, 12th December 1796.
Sir, Having met the schooner Sally, bound to Charleston, captain John Leich, who had on board several hogheads of rum...
By this day's Mail.
NORFOLK, January 14.
Thursday arrived here the ship Martin, captain Nath. Colley, from London via Lymington, 75 days.
Dec. 10, in lat. 36, 18, long. 61, spoke the ship Fidelity, capt. Wheems, 11 weeks out from Hamburg bound to Baltimore.
Dec. 21, in lat. 33, 57, long. 66, spoke the ship Criterion, capt. Johnson, from Amsterdam to Philadelphia, out seven weeks, with 200 passengers on board.
Dec. 23, in lat. 34, 32, long. 68, spoke the ship Lydia, capt. Todd, out 27 days from Charleston bound to Baltimore...
Jan. 2, in lat. 34, 40, long. 70, spoke the brig Industry, capt. Russell, of Philadelphia, 94 days out from St. Ubes...
Capt. Makins, of the ship Andrew of Philadelphia, was passenger in the above brig, having left his ship at St. Ubes.
Jan. 4, in lat. 34, 20, long. 70, spoke the schooner Harriet, capt. Godwin, of and for Boston from St. Croix, out 28 days.
Jan. 7, in lat. 35, long. 70, spoke the schooner Atlantic, of and bound to New-York, out 42 days from the Bay of Honduras...
Same day spoke the schooner Minerva, captain Perkins, out 24 days from Antigua for Norfolk.
War with Spain was declared at Lymington the day the Martin failed.
Captain Colley, and passengers in the Martin, would deem it highly ungrateful were they not thus publicly to acknowledge the extreme politeness and assistance they received from Capt. Johnson of the ship Criterion of Philadelphia...
Thursday arrived the ship Fortitude, captain Dyer, 87 days from Cadiz, in distress. A list of Americans left there shall be given in our next.
Captain Fairchild, of the brig Diana, arrived here on Thursday, 18 days from Bermuda, spoke (going there) the Frederickburg packet, captain Richardson, of Philadelphia, from Malaga to Baltimore...
Captain William Lovell, of the ship Felicity, of Boston (now in the Roads) on December 24, in lat. 37, 51, long. 68, 30, spoke the ship Sally of Norwich, captain J. Smith, from Anguilla to New London...
Thursday arrived the schooner Phoebe, captain Webb, 37 days from the Mole. Captain Webb was taken on his passage from New-London to Jersey, and carried to Petit Guave...
Vessels arrived at Petit Guave to purchase cargoes. Sloop Delight, Warner, of New-York; schooner Sally, Courfel, of Baltimore; schooner Pool, of Philadelphia; schooner Angelica, Howard, do.
Vessels carried in there as prizes. Brig Nancy, Webb, of New-London; schooner Hope, Jacocks (dead) of Philadelphia; brig Polly, Watson (abandoned) of ditto; brig Nymph, Sullivan (dead) of ditto; brig Clio, Ball, of Baltimore; sloop Lead, Warner, of Cape Ann; schooner Cockrin, of Boston.
Thursday arrived the sloop Polly, captain Willis, 37 days from the Mole; captain Willis was taken by the brigands, but a breeze of wind favored his escape in the Mole, where he purchased two 4 pounders to protect himself.
Sailed in company with the sloop Thomas and Sally, Allen, for Norfolk; the schooner Zephyr, Hansford, for ditto; (afterwards taken, carried into Jean Rebel, and condemned.) Schooner Lark, Hand, for Charleston, (taken and condemned at same time and place.)
December 26, in lat. 29, long. 73, spoke the brig Clinton, Norris, of Providence, R. I. 16 days out from Surinam to Charleston.
NORWICH, Jan. 19.
VIOLENT THUNDER STORM.
From Nantucket.
We learn that one of the most severe thunder-storms attended with very sharp lightning, was experienced at that place, than was ever known there before, on the night of the 1st instant...
College-Hall.
READINGS AND RECITATIONS,
Moral, Critical, and Entertaining.
MR. FENNELL
Respectfully informs the Public, that
THIS EVENING, Tuesday, Jan. 24, at 7 o'clock,
Will be delivered,
(FIRST PART) Beauty and other pleasures of Taste. On the Means of Improvement in Taste, including Selections from Dr. Blair.
(SECOND PART)
The Choice of Hercules, or The Triumph of Virtue. (Lourth)
(THIRD PART)
Ode to Truth, Milton
Satan's Address to the Sun, Milton
Ode to Madness, Penrose
Tickets to be had of Mr. Poulton, jun. at the Library; at Mr. McElwee's looking-glass-store, No. 70, S. Fourth-street; and at Mr. Carey's, Bookseller, Market-street—Half a dollar each.
Admission tickets for Children (a quarter of a dollar each) to be had at either of the above places.
New-Theatre.
The Managers respectfully inform the public, that on account of the extensive preparations for the Historical Play of COLUMBUS, or A WORLD DISCOVERED, there will be no performance at the New Theatre until Monday the 30th inst.
All Persons having Demands
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This Day is Published,
PORCUPINE'S POLITICAL CENSOR, FOR DECEMBER, 1796.
CONTAINING Remarks on the Debates in Congress, particularly on the timidity discovered by the House of Representatives in their language towards the insolent French.
ALSO, A LETTER to the infamous Tom PAINE, In answer to his brutal attack on the character and conduct of General Washington. January 24.
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James M'Alpin, Taylor,
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SAMUEL RICHARD ET RESPECTFULLY informs the Gentlemen Merchants, that he has this day opened the CITY TAVERN and MERCHANTS COFFEE HOUSE in the city of Philadelphia.
The Subscription Room will be furnished with all the daily papers published in Philadelphia, New-York, Boston, Baltimore, together with those of the principal commercial cities of Europe. They will be regularly filed and none permitted to be taken away on any account.
Tea, Coffee, Soups, Jellies, Ice Creams, and a variety of French Liquors; together with the usual refreshments, will at all times be procured at the bar.
Gentlemen may depend on being accommodated with the choicest of Wines, Spirituous Liquors, and the most approved Malt Liquors from London and other breweries. The Larder will be supplied with the prime and earliest productions of the Season.
Large and small Parties, or single Gentlemen, may be accommodated with Breakfasts, Dinners, or Suppers, at hours most convenient to themselves—a cold Collation is regularly kept for convenience, the Billot Fare to be had at the bar.
The Lodging Rooms will be completely furnished, and the utmost attention paid to cleanliness, and every other requisite.
SAMUEL RICHARD ET will be happy to receive, and execute the commands of his Friends, and the Public at large; and with gratitude for their favours, he pledges himself that nothing on his part shall be wanting to preserve that patronage with which he has been so distinguishedly honored.
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Horses taken in,
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Davis's Law Book Store,
No. 313, HIGH-STREET.
GEORGE DAVIS announces to his professional friends, and the Gentlemen of the Law, generally, through the Union, that his late importation of BOOKS is now arranged, and ready for Sale, from a single volume to an entire library, without any advance upon his former exceedingly low prices, which for several years past have in so distinguished a manner recommended them to notice.
Printed Catalogues containing the most extensive collection of the latest English and Irish Editions ever imported into this country, are published, and will be delivered gratis on application.
Orders addressed to G. D. in writing from any distance shall be punctually attended to.
A number of TRUNKS for Sale.
ALSO, TO BE LET, A convenient LOFT, near Market Street Wharf.
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City of Washington.
SCHEME of the LOTTERY, No. II, FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE FEDERAL CITY.
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16,739 Prizes. 32261 Blanks.
50,000 Tickets, at Eight Dollars, 400,000
N. B. To favour those who may take a quantity of Tickets, the prize of 40,000 dollars will be the LAST drawn ticket, and the 30,000 the LAST but one.
And approved notes, securing payment in either money or prizes, in ten days after drawing, will be received for any number not less than 30 tickets.
This Lottery will afford an elegant specimen of the private buildings to be erected in the City of Washington. Two beautiful designs are already selected for the entire fronts on two of the public squares; from these drawings it is proposed to erect two centre and four corner buildings, as soon as possible after this lottery is sold, and to convey them, when complete, to the fortunate adventurers, in the manner described in the scheme for the Hotel Lottery. A net deduction of five per cent. will be made to defray the necessary expenses of printing, &c. and the surplus will be made a part of the fund intended for the National University, to be erected within the city of Washington.
The Drawing will commence as soon as the tickets are sold off. The money prizes will be payable in thirty days after it is finished; and any prizes for which fortunate numbers are not produced within twelve months after the drawing is closed, are to be considered as given towards the fund for the University; it being determined to settle the whole business in a year from the ending of the drawing, and to take up the bonds given as security.
The real securities given for the payment of the Prizes, are held by the President and two Directors of the Bank of Columbia, and are valued at more than half the amount of the lottery.
The twenty four gentlemen who by appointment of the late Commissioners assisted in the management of the Hotel Lottery are requested to undertake this arduous task a second time on behalf of the public; a sufficient number of these having kindly accepted, it is hoped that she sends to a National University and the other federal objects may continue to favor the design.
By accounts received from the different parts of the Continent as well as from Europe, where the tickets have been sent for sale, the public are assured that the drawing will speedily commence, and that the care and caution unavoidably necessary to insure a safe disposal of the tickets, has rendered the short suspension indispensable.
SAMUEL LODGET. Tickets may be had at the Bank of Columbia; of James West & Co. Baltimore; of Peter Gilman, Boston; of John Hopkins, Richmond; and of Richard Wells Cooper's Ferry.
A Manufactory FOR SALE.
A valuable SOAP and CANDLE Manufactory, situate in a convenient part of the city; the works almost new, on an entirely original construction, and built of the best materials, and may be set to work immediately. Persons who wish to purchase, are requested to apply at No. 273. South Second Street. September 19. t t f ff
CAUTION.
WHEREAS very large and heavy debts are justly due and owing from me, Blair M'Clenachan and Patrick Moore, of the city of Philadelphia, merchants, trading under the firm of Blair M'Clenachan and P. Moore, and from Blair M'Clenachan in his separate capacity; to which, by the laws of the land, all the joint as well as separate property of the said Gentlemen, is, and ought to be, liable. And whereas it is clearly and satisfactorily ascertained, that Mr. Blair M'Clenachan, of the said firm, has conveyed away to Mr. John H. Huston, his son-in-law, to his daughter, Miss M'Clenachan, and to his son, George M'Clenachan, several large and valuable real estates, as well as considerable personal property, in the city and county of Philadelphia, in the county of Lancaster, in the county of New-Castle on Delaware, and elsewhere, with a view, as it is apprehended, to defeat the Creditors in the recovery of their just debts. This is, therefore, to forewarn all persons whomsoever, against the purchase from the said grantees, or either of them, of any portion of the said real or personal property, as the most vigorous measures will without delay be taken to render the same liable to the just demands of the Creditors.
By order of the Creditors.
Thomas Fitzsimons, Philip Nicklin, Isaac Wharton, William M'Murtrie, Samuel W. Fisher. Committee. Philadelphia, December 17th, 1796. 20th. y
TO THE PUBLIC.
THE caution introduced into the public prints, warning all persons against purchasing from the grantees of Blair M'Clenachan, any portion of the larger real and personal estates he conveyed away to his son-in-law and to his children was the result of a deliberation had upon the subject by a general and numerous meeting of the creditors as well of Blair M'Clenachan and P. Moore as of Blair M'Clenachan individually. It was no more than an execution of that trust confided in the subscribers by those creditors: a step which it would have been a breach of duty and honor in them to have omitted. The very statement of the fact therefore must dispel the imputation that it was either "precipitate or vindictive." It originated in a desire to secure the property of the debtor as a fund for the payment of his just debts. It was sanctioned by the advice of council as a measure necessary to the safety of the creditors. If the advertisement has been injurious to Mr. M'Clenachan he owes that injury to his own unjustifiable conduct, not to the subscribers who have merely published the truth in terms as mild as the fact would admit, and who mean to investigate in a high court of justice the validity of those purchases of which Mr. M'Clenachan so confidently speaks.
The subscribers therefore are bound by a sense of duty to the creditors in general to repeat their caution against purchasing of those grantees or either of them, and to extend the terms of it to a purchase from any other persons (if such there be) to whom Mr. M'Clenachan may have made similar conveyances.
(Signed) T. FITZSIMONS, P. NICKLIN, ISAAC WHARTON, WILLIAM M'MURTRIE, SAMUEL W. FISHER. Philad. Dec. 21, 1796.
Those printers who have been requested to publish the first Caution, are desired to publish this also
THIS DAY IS PUBLISHED,
A new method of keeping Bill Books, Adapted for the ease and convenience of merchants in general; but particularly for those who are extensively concerned in trade: exhibiting at one view, all the bills which a merchant may have to receive or pay, in the course of the whole year, for each month separately. And thereby preventing the trouble and inconvenience attendant on the mode now in use, of selecting the bills due in each month from the promiscuous entries of several months.
To which is prefixed,
At a table showing the number of days from any day any month, to the same day in any other month.
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Washington Canal Lottery,
No. 1.
WHEREAS the State of Maryland has authorised the undersigned, to raise twenty-six thousand, two hundred, and fifty dollars, for the purpose of cutting a Canal through the City of Washington, from the Potomac to the Eastern Branch Harbour.
The following is the SCHEME of No. 1.
  Viz - 1 Prize of 20,000 dollars, 20,000   1 ditto 10,000 10,000   7 last drawn } 5,000 35,000   Tickets, each } 5,000   6 ditto 1,000 6,000   10 ditto 400 4,000   20 ditto 200 4,000   55 ditto 50 2,750   5750 ditto 12 69,008   To be raised for the Canal, 26,250   5850 Prizes, 175,000   11650 Blanks, not two to a prize. 
17500 Tickets, at Ten Dollars, 175,000
The Commissioners have taken the Securities required by the aforesaid act for the punctual payment of the prizes.
The drawing of this Lottery will commence, without delay, as soon as the Tickets are sold, of which timely notice will be given.
Such prizes as are not demanded in six months after the drawing is finished, shall be considered as relinquished for the benefit of the Canal, and appropriated accordingly.
(Signed) NOTLEY YOUNG, DANIEL CARROLL, of D LEWIS DELOIS, GEORGE WALKER, WM. M. DUNCANSON, THOMAS LAW, JAMES BARRY. City of Washington, Feb. 11.
MRS. GRATTAN
Respectfully informs her friends, and the public in general, that on Tuesday the 10th day of January, the proposed opening, at No. 39, North Sixth-Street,
A Linen and Muffin Warehouse.
Book Muffins, from 6/3 to 12/11 per yard Jacquet ditto, from 8/3 to 9/8 per yard Striped ditto, from 7/10 to 10/10 per yard Fiac Coffees Tambour'd Book Muffins, from 13/9 to 21/ per yard India Muffin, from 11/3 to 13/ per yard Sheeting Muffin Jacquet mufin Handkerchiefs, from 4/3 to 6/ per hdkf. Book mufin Handkerchiefs from 5/3 to 10/6 per hdkf. Mufin color'd and border'd Handkerchiefs Dacca Handkerchiefs Tambour'd Cravats from 10/8 to 11/11 Pocket Handkerchiefs Cambric, from 11/3 to 16/3 per yard Table Cloths Huckaback Towelling Women's Cotton Hdkf, from 6/6 to 13/ per pair Dimity from 5/10 to 6/11 Men's Silk Hdkf Tambour'd mufin Handkerchiefs from 11/11 to 13/11 Irish Linens for Gentlemen's Shirts, from 5/5 to 9/7 And a variety of other articles. N. B. Orders received for all kinds of ready made Linen, Gentlemen's Shirts, ruffled or plain, Cravats, Pocket Handkerchiefs, &c. &c. Household Linen, &c. &c. A plain shirt, made and mark'd, 3 1-2 dollars. A full ruffled ditto, 4 dollars. A plain shirt, made and mark'd, 5 dollars. A full ruffled ditto 6 dollars. A plain shirt, made and marked, 5 1-2 dollars. A full ruffled ditto 7 dollars. A plain shirt, made and mark'd, 6 dollars. A full ruffled ditto 7 1-2. A plain shirt, made and mark'd, 6 1-2 dollars. A very fine ruffled ditto 8 dollars. Linen included. January 13. $
For Sale,
By George Dechamps, No. 91,
NORTH SIXTH-STREET,
Nova-Scotia Prime Salmon, in barrels
and half barrels Ditto Herring and Mackerel. Smoked Herring in barrels and kegs Ditto Salmon, by the dozen or single one Dry Codfish, from one to fifty kentsals Fine and coarse Salt Nova-Scotia and French Plaster of Paris, in the stone and ground, for manure and stucco-work December 1. $
A Quantity of Brandy,
FIRST & 2d proof, Gin, of 4th proof, in pipes Jamaica Spirits, 4th proof, in Hhds Old Hock, in cases of 40 dozen each Glass Tumblers, in pints and half-pints Window Glass, in boxes, of different sizes Hazelnuts, in sacks Whiting Copperas White Lead & Spanish Brown in hds For Sale by PETER BLIGHT. January 4. $
Clocks and Watches.
LESLIE AND PRICE, No. 79, MARKET-STREET, PHILADELPHIA, HAVE IMPORTED, by the late arrivals from London, a large assortment of WARRANTED WATCHES, consisting of horizontal, capp'd and jewell'd Gold Watches, with seconds, of superior workmanship and elegance; also capp'd and jewell'd and plain Gold Watches; capp'd & jewell'd, capp'd, seconds, day of the month, and plain Silver Watches; eight day & chamber Clocks; elegant French Clocks with marble frames; eight day and thirty hour, brass works, &c. December 22, 1796. dam
TO BE SOLD,
PLANTATION, in the town of Woodbury, county of Gloucester, and state of New-Jersey, containing about one hundred and fifty acres; a suitable proportion of which is woodland and improved meadow. A great part of the arable land is in a high state of cultivation, and very natural to the production of Red Clover. On said plantation there is a genteel two-story brick house, with four rooms on a floor, and a good dry cellar under the whole; together with a barn, corn-crisb and carriage-house. The garden is large, and contains a good collection of the best kinds of grafted and inoculated fruit trees; the orchard consists of about three hundred grafted apple-trees. Any person inclined to purchase said premises, may be informed of the terms by applying to ANDREW HUNTER. July 29. F
SWANN'S
Riding School, Horse Academy & Infirmary,
Adjoining the Public Square, Market Street.
T. SWANN
RETURNS his sincere thanks to those gentlemen by whom he has been employed, during his residence in this City, and flatters himself that the success of his efforts, in the numerous, obstinate and dangerous diseases in Horses, in which he has been consulted, together with his moderate charges, will secure their future favors and recommendation. He now begs leave to inform them and the public at large that his spacious and commodious premises, created for the purposes above described are open for the reception of pupils of either sex, who wish to be instructed in the Art of Riding, and the right method of governing their horses, so as to ride them with ease, elegance, and safety—their horses will be carefully and expeditiously broke, for every purpose, and made obedient to the will of the riders; the natural powers which are shut up in them, will be unfolded by art, calling forth uniformity of motion, and giving to that noble animal all those beauties of action which providence has so bountifully bestowed on them. Also, at his hospital, every disorder to which the horse is liable will be treated according to the rules of art, confirmed by long and repeated experience. The utility of the above institution has never been questioned, that it has long been wanted in this city, every gentleman's stud will manifest, and T. SWANN as the first establisher of the veterinary art, solicits and relies upon the support of the public (which he is ever anxious in serving) to enable him to bring it to perfection. The idea of a subscription for that purpose has been hinted by several gentlemen, who wish to promote the institution—the amount of each subscription to be returned by services in any of the departments he professes, agreeable to the rate of charges stated in his hand bill. Such subscription is now open, and the signatures of many respectable gentlemen already obtained. He therefore informs his friends and such Ladies and gentlemen to whom he has not the honor of being known, that he shall in a few days take the liberty of waiting upon them and soliciting their support and patronage. N. B. Horses are properly prepared for those Ladies and Gentlemen who wish to be instructed. Nov. 8. tuf&g.
Treasury Department,
September 28, 1796.
NOTICE is hereby given, that proposals will be received at the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, until the expiration of the first day of March next ensuing, for the supply of all rations which may be required for the use of the United States, from the first day of June, 1797, to the thirty-first day of May, 1798, both days inclusive, at the places and within the districts hereafter mentioned, viz. At Oswego; at Niagara; at Presque Isle; at Sandusky Lake, and on Sandusky River; at Detroit; at Michilimackinac; at Fort Franklin; at Pittsburg; at Cincinnati; at Fort-Hamilton; at Fort St. Clair; at Fort-Jefferson; at Grenville; at Pique Town and Loramies Store; at Fort Adams; at Fort Wayne; at Fort Defiance; at any place below Fort Defiance on the Miami River to Lake Erie; at Fort Steuben; at Fort Massac; at any place from Fort Massac to the fourth boundary of the United States on the river Mississippi; at Fort Knox; at Ouatanon.
If supplies shall be required for any ports or places not mentioned in this notice, all such supplies shall be furnished at prices proportioned to those to be paid at the ports before recited, or as may be hereafter agreed on between the United States and the Contractor.
The rations to be supplied are to consist of the following articles, viz.
 One pound two ounces of bread or flour.  One pound two ounces of beef, or fourteen ounces of pork or bacon.  Half a gill of rum, brandy or whisky.  One quart and half a pint of salt.  Two quarts of Vinegar,  Two pounds of Soap, } per hundred rations  One pound of Candles, 
The rations are to be furnished in such quantities, as that there shall at all times during the said term, be sufficient for the consumption of the troops at Michilimackinac, Detroit, Niagara, and Oswego, for the term of six months in advance, and at each of the other posts, for the term of at least three months in advance, in good and wholesome provisions, if the same shall be required. It is to be understood, that the Contractor is to be at the expence and risk of lifting the supplies to the troops at each post, and that all losses sustained by the depredations of an enemy, or by means of the troops of the United States, shall be paid for at the price of the articles captured or destroyed, on the depositions of two or more persons of creditable character, and the certificate of a commissioned officer, ascertaining the circumstances of the loss, and the amount of the articles for which compensation shall be claimed.
OLIVER WOLCOTT, Secretary of the Treasury.
By Authority.
Schuylkill Bridge Lottery.
Sold by WILLIAM BLACKBURN, No. 64, South Second-Street.
SCHEME of a LOTTERY,
For raising Sixty Thousand Dollars, agreeably to an Act of the Legislature of Pennsylvania, passed during the last session, for building a Stone Bridge over the River Schuylkill, at the Borough of Reading, in the County of Berks.    Dollars.   1 Prize of 20,000 Dollars 20,000   1 do. of 10,000 do. 10,000   3 do. of 5,000 do. 15,000   4 do. of 2,000 do. 8,000   20 do. of 1,000 do. 20,000   39 do. of 500 do. 19,500   80 do. of 200 do. 16,000   200 do. of 100 do. 20,000   390 do. of 50 do. 19,500   1 do. of 500 do. to be paid the possessor for the first drawn no. 500   5 do. of 3,000 do. to be paid possessor of the five last drawn nos 15,000   9,400 do. of 15 do. 141,000   10,054 Prizes 300,000   10,940 Blanks   30,000 Tickets at Ten Dollars 300,000 
All Prizes shall be paid fifteen days after the drawing is finished, upon the demand of a possessor of a fortunate ticket, subject to a deduction of twenty per cent. The Drawing will commence as soon as the Tickets are disposed of, or perhaps sooner, of which public notice will be given. Philip Miller, Peter Kershner, William Witman, Joseph Hiegl, James Diemer, Thomas Dundas, James May, John Otto, John Krim, Daniel Graeff, Sebastian Miller, COMMISSIONERS. Reading, May the 9th, 1796.
Tickets in the Canal Lottery, No. 2, to be had at the above office, where the earliest information of the drawing of the Washington No. 2, and Patterson Lottery's, are received, and check books for examination and registering are kept. October 7. 2awtf
Brokers Office, and
COMMISSION STORE.
No. 63 South Third Street, opposite the national new Bank