Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser. (Philadelphia [Pa.]), 1796-11-17 00:00:00

Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser.
NUMBER 1308.]
THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 17, 1796.
[VOLUME X.]
For Sale, At Public Auction, on Saturday, November 19th inst. at the Merchants Coffee House, 6 o'clock in the evening—
The brig FLY, Virginia built, of the best materials, was sheathed on the keel to light water mark...
For Freight or Charter To Europe or the W. Indies, The new Brig FAIR AMERICAN, Richard Calley, Master...
Who has now for sale, at his store, No. 5, South Water-street, A quantity of Cayenne and Trinidad Cotton...
For Madeira, The ship Concord, Capt. John Thomson. For freight or passage apply on board, or to
Peter Blight; Who has for sale, a quantity of Brandy, in pipes; Whitting and Copperas, in hogheads...
Wanted to Charter, A fast-sailing Vessel, That will carry 5 or 600 barrels; to load immediately for the West-Indies.
For sale, freight or charter, THE BRIG Lilly, Stephen Smith, Master. An entire new vessel, ninety-three tons burthen, completely found...
For Sale. The Ship CHARLOTTE, A stout vessel, about 150 tons burthen, well found and may be sent to sea at a small expence.
FOR SALE, THE SHIP MARY, SAMUEL PARKER, MASTER, Two hundred tons burthen. Apply to JOSEPH ANTHONY & Co.
Just arrived, and will this day be landed from on board the brig FAVORITE at Cheapside wharf, 25 Tons best Russia Clean HEMP...
FOR SALE BY Joseph Anthony and Co. The above mentioned BRIG will sail in a few days, and take freight on moderate terms for Boston or Salem...
For London, The ship William Penn, James Josiah, master. Will sail with all convenient speed. For freight or passage apply to the Captain on board, or to
Jesse & Robert Waln. For Liverpool, The Ship DOMINICK TERRI, JACOB DEHART, Master. Has a part of her cargo engaged.
For Lisbon, The Danish barque BENVENTURA, SAMUEL STUB, Master. A good vessel of about two hundred tons burthen. For freight or passage apply to
BARTER. For Sale, a good strong built ship, burthen 1550 barrels, nearly new, well found and can be put to sea at a small expence.
To sail the 17th instant, For Bristol, The new ship Philadelphia, Theodore Bliss, master, now on her second voyage; has elegant accommodations for passengers.
FOR LONDON, The capital ship CERES, To sail soon:—For freight or passage apply to DAVY, ROBERTS & Co. or
John Vaughan, Front-street. For Charter, The Ship JOHN BULKELY, AYRES STOCKLEY, Master. An excellent live-oak and cedar built ship, of about 3000 barrels burthen—Apply to
Jesse & Robert Waln. For Siigo and Killibegs, The American Ship NANCY, 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...
FOR BRISTOL, THE SHIP PHILADELPHIA, Theodore Bliss, master. A new ship, on her second voyage, with the best accommodations for passengers, and is intended to sail with all expedition.
Thomas & John Clifford; Who have just imported in mid vessel, and have for sale, besides their general assortment of IRONMONGERY, A quantity of fine drawn and common sharp and flat point NAILS...
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...
Philip Nicklin & Co. Who have for sale on board said vessel, 27 casks of fine yellow paint; 9 boxes and 12 bundles of writing slates...
And on hand, Imperial Hylons, and Souchong TEAS. 40,000 pieces Nankeens of the first quality; 19 tubs Quick-silver; 2 chests Bandanno handkerchiefs.
Sales of India Goods. The Cargo of the ship Ganges, capt. Tingey, from Calcutta and Bengal, CONSISTING OF A Large and general assortment of Bengal and Madras COTTON and SILK GOODS.
A variety fine worked and plain Muslins, Doreas, &c. Also, A Quantity of Excellent Sugar, In boxes and bags—and BLACK PEPPER, For Sale by
Willings & Francis, No. 21 Penn Street. City Dancing Assembly. The first Assembly will be held on Thursday next, the 17th November, at Oellers's Hotel.
By order of the Managers. FOR SALE, A few hogheads of choice New-England RUM, A number of barrels of BEEF, and PORK, And a few kegs of LARD, of a superior quality.
Enquire at No. 71, north Water-street. November 8, 1796. For Sale. 7 cases coarse hats; Copper bottoms and sheets; Shot, all sizes, patent and common; Sheet and bar lead; English shoes and boots in cases; Tin plates; Gold watches; Taunton ale in cases.
Apply to Simon Walker, 184, So. Fourth Street. OLD London Particular Madeira Wine, In pipes, hogheads and quarter-casks, Landing this day at Cheapside Wharf, and for sale by
Joseph Anthony & Co. Best Boston & Nova-Scotia Mackerel, Excellent Halifax Salmon in bbls. 47 bbls. prime Coffee, Best Boston Beef, Codfish in bds. Spermaceti Candles, Spermaceti, and Northern
MOULD and dipt, tallow candles, of a superior quality. A few boxes excellent brown soap, 6 Bales of Corks, 40 Pipes excellent Lisbon Wine. A few sacks of Feathers. A few bales India Muslins.
FOR SALE BY JOSEPH ANTHONY, & Co. The Cargo of the Polacre Independent, CAPTAIN CATHCART, from Alicante and Lisbon, landing at the subscribers wharf— 28 Pipes of Brandy; 18 Bales of Spanish wool; 3 do. of Anniseed; 7000 Bushels of best Lisbon Salt; 80 Boxes of Lemons.
WILLINGS & FRANCIS. A L S O, Seventy Hogheads of prime JAMAICA SUGARS, received by the ship Dominick Terry, Capt. De Hart, from Kingston. Sept. 13. Irish Linens, &c. Imported per the ships Glasgow, from Dublin, Liberty, from Cork, and brig Mentor, from Belfast, 4-4 and 7-8 Wide IRISH LINENS, In whole and half boxes, Afforded from 11d. to 4s. sterling—Also 5-4 wide Sheetings, and low priced yarn and worsted Hose.
On Hand, 7-8 Wide Lawns, Diapers and Table-Cloths; A few boxes Tickens and Checks; A few bales Flannels; Cork and Belfast Sail Cloth, Nos. 1 and 6; 25 Boxes Window Glass, 10 Ditto 7 by 9, 5 Ditto 8 by 10. The above mentioned Goods are all entitled to the drawback, and will be disposed of by the package on reasonable terms.
James, Clibborn & English, No. 6, N. Front-Street. 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 13. t t t t t
Imported in the late arrivals from Europe and the West-Indies, Holland Gin, in pipes; Choice St. Croix Sugar and Rum; Martiniqque Molasses, in hogheads; Choice old Lisbon Wine, in pipes and quarter-casks; London Particular & London Market Madeira Wine, in pipes, half-pipes and quarter-casks; Malmsey Madeira Wine, in pipes and quarter-casks; Teneriffe Wine, in pipes; Russia & Flemish Sheeting and Ravens Duck, in cases; Window Glass, 3 by 10, in boxes; Coffee Mills and Straw Knives, in cases; Mill Saws and Cross-cut Saws, in boxes.
Also, on hand, A few chests of Bohea Tea; Jesuits Bark; Assafetida and Tapioca; and a few bales of Coffees, Baftas, Currans, Bandanna and Muslin Handkerchiefs, and a complete assortment of 5-4 and 6-4 Bouting Cloths. For Sale by Pragers & Co. October 20. dawm&tham
The Elephant IS RETURNED FROM BALTIMORE. THE public are respectfully informed, that this animal is to be seen every day, from 8 o'clock in the morning till sun down, in Market-street, No. 106, south side, between Third and Fourth-streets. Admittance a quarter of a dollar, that every citizen may see him. At the request of many persons it will be exhibited on evenings from five to eight o'clock, at half a dollar each.—The room will be well lighted. November 7.
Just Landing, And for Sale, a quantity of BOURDEAUX BRANDY, FROM on board the Schooner Lydia & Polly, Oliver Jenkins master, lying at Wilcock's wharf. For terms, enquire on board said Schooner. November 10th. Just Landing, At South-Street wharf, from on board the ship Sedgley, Captain Hodge, from St. Petersburg, The following Goods:
Russia Sail Duck, first quality. Do. Sheeting do. Do. Diaper. Do. Huckaback. Do. Crafs. Do. Mould Candles, 4, 5 and 6, to the lb. of the English size. Do. White Candle Tallow. Do. White Soap in small boxes. Do. Cordage of fine yarn. Ravens Duck. Hinglass, 1st and 2nd fort. Horse Hair uncurled. Russia Bar Iron. Do. Hoop Iron. Do. Nail Rods. 10 Tons Oakum and Junk. St. Petersburg Clean Hemp: For Sale by
Philips, Cramond, & Co. FASHIONABLE WAISTCOATING. GEORGE DOBSON, No. 25, SOUTH THIRD-STREET, Has received per the Diana, from London, Clouded and striped Spanish Swansdown; Clouded Erminets and Molekins; Striped do. and do. Figured Manillas; Scarlet figured Erminets; Printed Florinets; Do. Cassimets and Cassimere; Superfine printed Quiltings, newest patterns. Also, per different arrivals, A large and general assortment of Dry Goods, Suitable to the present and approaching season. November 5.
LANDING, Out of different vessels from England, and for sale by the subscribers on reasonable terms, Superfine and common cloths, and cassimere; Ribbed and striped do. Blankets, mottled green and silk rugs; Superfine blue, Claret, and common coatings; Kerseys, Bearskins, plains and Halfshicks, Swanskins, Serges and Flannels, British Ingrain Carpeting; Hats assorted in cases of 12 doz. each; Chocolate chintzes, printed Calicoes and Handkerchiefs; Scarlet Cardinals, and Scarlet Snail; Yarn, Worsted, and Cotton hosiery; Beavers, Thicksets, Velvets, Corduroys, &c. &c. Buff and drab Genoa Cords of a superior quality. 6d. 8d. 10d. 12d. 20d. nails, and frying pans. An assortment of Ironmongery, Cutlery and a variety of India cotton, and silk goods. Thomas & Joshua Fisher. No. 5, Dock-street. Also by the Glasgow from Dublin, 1-3 and 4-4 Irish Linens assorted in boxes of 30 pieces, do. Brown, Glazed Linnen. Oct. 17.
PROPOSALS, By WILLIAM COBBETT, opposite Christ Church, Philadelphia, for publishing by subscription, ADAMS'S Defence of the American Constitutions. CONDITIONS: I. The work shall be printed on English wove-paper, page for page, from the best London Edition; of course it will be comprised in three large octavo volumes. II. For the three volumes, bound in boards, the price to subscribers is to be only four dollars, and to non-subscribers, five dollars and a half. III. The subscription shall remain open for ten days, and if an encouraging number of subscribers are obtained in that time, the publisher engages to have the work ready for delivery in six weeks from the present date. 15th November, 1796. N. B. Subscriptions are taken by the principal booksellers of Philadelphia and New York. The subscribers to the History of Jacobinism are respectfully informed, that it will be ready for delivery early next week. Nov. 16.
To Let, From this day, to the twenty-eighth of April, 1797, A commodious house in South Second-street, No. 133, near George Hunters, apothecary, well calculated either for a lodging house, a store or a shop. Nov. 16.
For Sale, A Three-story BRICK HOUSE and Lot, in Chestnut Street, between Front and Second streets, in which Messrs. James Calbraith & Co. have for many years (and now do) carried on business. Possession will be given in one month, or sooner. For terms apply to WILLIAM BELL, or HECTOR CALBRAITH. April 21.
For Sale, By Jehu Hollingsworth, & Co. 25 hhds. West-India Rum, 3d and 4th proof, 5 Barrels best Indigo, and, A few thousand bushels of Turk's Island salt. Oct. 17.
For Sale, By J. WARDER, PARKER & Co. An Invoice of Cordage, Consisting of different sizes, from 12 inch cables down to rope of 2 inches, of different lengths; Imported in the ship Swift, from Hull, and entitled to drawback. Sept. 27.
Gaspard Cenas Will open his Dancing School On the 1st of November, at 10 o'clock in the morning, at Oellers's Hotel. Oct. 27.

JOHN MARKLAND, Printer, Bookseller, and Stationer, No. 9, South Front Street, received by the last arrivals from London, an assortment of Stationery, which he will sell on the most reasonable terms, consisting of—
A great variety of copper-plate printing paper, from 33 by 27 inches to the smallest size; superfine, imperial, super-royal, royal, medium, demy, folio, and quarto post, foolscap and post writing paper; marble and blotting paper, large and small message cards, sand and pounce boxes, shining sand, ink and ink-powder, pencils, quills, crown, half crown, and common size Irish wafers, coloured and red; India rubber, pen-knives lead and pewter ink-stands, do. chests, cork soles, copy books, slates and pencils, Entick's dictionary, Watts' psalms, &c.
Also, some elegant prints, an assortment of blank books, American manufactured writing paper, do. playing cards of a superior quality; and a collection of BOOKS, London and American editions.
Nov. 12. 56t.
THIS DAY IS PUBLISHED, Price 37 1/2 Cents. The Pretensions of Thomas Jefferson to the Presidency, EXAMINED, And the Charges against John Adams REFUTED. Addressed to the Citizens of America in general, and particularly, To the Electors of the President. Sold by W. YOUNG, MILLS & SON, Corner of Second and Chestnut-Street. November 5. tts
THE Partnership of JONATHAN HARVEY & Co. being this day dissolved by mutual consent, those indebted to said firm are requested to make speedy payment to Jonathan Harvey, who is authorized to receive the same, and those who have any demands will please to bring in their accounts to him for settlement.
The Business will be Continued By Jonathan Harvey, AT HIS STORE NO. 106, N. FRONT-STREET; Where he has for Sale,
A general assortment of DRY GOODS. November 14. 1796. 51m
EMANUEL WALKER,
Nov. 23, South Front Street,
Has for Sale,
30 Hogsheads tobacco of Richmond inspection. 15 do. do. of Petersburg do. 25 do. do. of Fredericksburg do. 50 do. do. of Alexandria do. Nov. 12. mw&fjt.
To be Let,
A large cellar, in Walnut-street just above Fourth-Street, that is floored with two inch plank, and will hold upwards of 100 pipes of wine.
Also, a Stable and Coach-house, that will hold four horse and two carriages; and several floors in Fourth-Street—Apply to
George Meade.
Who has for Sale,
25 boxes of Caille soap Red Lisbon Wine A few pipes of Bill of exchange wine A few barrels of Irish mels beef And a few barrels of ship bread. Nov. 4. 43t.
FOR SALE,
A very Valuable Estate,
CALLED TWITTENHAM, situate in the township of Upper Darby, and county of Delaware, 7 1/2 miles from Philadelphia, and half a mile from the new Western road: containing 230 acres of excellent land, 45 of which are good watered meadow, 90 of prime woodland, and the rest arable of the first quality. There are on the premises a good two story brick house, with 2 rooms on a floor, and cellars under the whole, with a pump-well of excellent water in front; a large frame barn, stables, and other convenient buildings; a smoke-house and stone spring-house; two good apple orchards, and one of peaches. The fields are all in clover, except those immediately under tillage, and are so laid out as to have the advantage of water in each of them, which renders it peculiarly convenient for grazing.
The situation is pleasant and healthy, and from the high cultivation of the land, the good neighbourhood, and the vicinity to the city, it is very suitable for a gentleman's country seat.
The foregoing is part of the estate of Jacob Harman, deceased, and offered for sale by
Mordecai Lewis,
Oct. 31. 1800 Surviving Executor.
FOR SALE,
A PLANTATION,
ABOUT 12 miles from this City, situate in Abing-ton Township, Montgomery-County; containing 70 acres, a new stone house, two stories high, 8 rooms on a floor, five places in each, a stone kitchen and stone spring-house, over an excellent spring of water, a barn, stables, sheds, barracks, &c. A large apple orchard, and a variety of other fruit, about 12 acres of good meadow well watered, and wood sufficient for fire, and fencing the place. Possession may be had the 1st of April next. Property in this city will be taken in exchange, or MORRIS and NICHOLSON Notes in payment. Enquire at No. 37, Arch-Street. Philadelphia, September 13. 1796. 41t
TAKE NOTICE.
THE Creditors of Grubb and Paine, late of Lancaster, or Dauphin Counties, Merchants; are hereby informed that the subscribers are appointed by the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County, as Commissioners, to audit, settle, and finally adjust the accounts of Mordecai Lewis, trustee, appointed by Peter Grubb, for the benefit of the creditors of the said Peter Grubb and William Paine, as well as the debts and demands of the creditors of the said Grubb and Paine. Therefore, this is to give notice, that we have agreed to meet at the City-Tavern, at Philadelphia, on Saturday the 19th inst. at six o'clock in the evening, when and where, all those that have any demands, are hereby requested to present and establish their claims against the said Grubb and Paine, otherwise they will be excluded from their dividend.
JOHN VAUGHAN,
DAVID H. CONYNGHAM,
FRANCIS WEST.
Philadelphia, 8th November, 1796. eod 31
MR. FRANCIS,
(Of the New Theatre)
TAKES this opportunity of returning thanks to his scholars and to the public. Mr. Francis intends, on his return from Maryland, to open a public academy for dancing, upon a plan entirely new. He flatters himself that his attention to his pupils hitherto renders any promises of conducting his future schemes on the most liberal and strictest terms, of propriety, totally unnecessary.
N. B. Private tuition as usual.
June 3. saw
FOR THE GAZETTE OF THE UNITED STATES.
MR. FENNO,
In a publication in your gazette, a writer denies that Mr. Jefferson countenanced the emancipation of the slaves now existing in the United States, alleging that his scheme only extended to the children which were to be born after the passing of the act; but as the act was proposed in the year 1780 or thereabouts, it is certain that had it passed, all the young negroes in Virginia would be now free . To show however that Mr. Jefferson's ideas have always been favorable to emancipation generally, I request you to publish the following fraternising correspondence between Benjamin Banneker, a negro almanac maker, and Thomas Jefferson, secretary of state of the United States of America . They were published in the American Daily Advertiser of this city in 1791.
From the Virginia Gazette.
MR. DIXON,
You are requested to insert the following letter from Benjamin Banneker, a black man, to the secretary of state, with his answer thereto, and you will oblige a number of your readers.
Maryland, Baltimore county, near Ellicott's Lower Mills, Aug. 19, 1791.
TO THOMAS JEFFERSON, Esq.
SIR,
I am fully convinced of the greatness of that freedom which I take with you on the present occasion; a liberty which seemed to me scarcely allowable, when I reflected on that distinguished and dignified station in which you stand; and the almost general prejudice and prepossession which is so prevalent in the world against those of my complexion.
I suppose it a truth too well attested to you, to need a proof here, that we are a race of beings who have long labored under the abuse and censure of the world, that we have long been looked upon with an eye of contempt, considered rather as brutish than human, and scarcely capable of mental endowments.
I hope I may safely admit, in consequence of that report which has reached me, that you are a man far less inflexible in sentiments of this nature than many others, that you are measurably friendly and well disposed towards us, and that you are willing and ready to lend your aid and assistance to our relief from those many distresses and numerous calamities to which we are reduced.
Now, Sir, if this be founded in truth, I apprehend you will readily embrace every opportunity, to eradicate that train of absurd and false ideas and opinions which so generally prevail in respect to us, and that your sentiments are concurrent with mine, which are, that one universal Father hath given being to us all, and that he hath not only made us of one flesh, but that he hath also, without partiality, afforded us all the same sensations, and that however variable we may be in society or religion; however diversified in situation or colour, we are all of the same family, and stand in the same relation to him.
If these are sentiments of which you are fully persuaded, I hope you cannot but acknowledge, that it is the indispensable duty of those who maintain for themselves the rights of human nature, and who profess the obligations of christianity, to extend their power and influence to the relief of every part of the human race, from whatever burthen or oppression they may unjustly labor under, and this I apprehend a full conviction of the truth and obligation of these principles should lead us all to.
Sir, I have long been convinced, that if your love for yourselves, and for those inestimable laws which prefer to you the rights of human nature, was founded on sincerity, you could not but be solicitous, that every individual of whatever rank or distinction, might with you equally enjoy the blessings thereof; neither could you rest satisfied, short of the most active diffusion of your exertions, in order to their promotion from any state of degradation, to which the unjustifiable cruelty and barbarism of men may have reduced them.
I freely and cheerfully acknowledge, that I am of the African race, and in that colour which is natural to them of the deepest dye, and it is under a sense of the most profound gratitude to the supreme ruler of the universe, that I now confess to you, that I am not under that state of tyrannical thralldom, and inhuman captivity, to which too many of my brethren are doomed, but that I have abundantly tasted of the fruition of those blessings, which proceed from that free and unequalled liberty with which you are favored, and which I hope you will willingly allow you have received from the immediate hand of that being, from whom proceedeth every good and perfect gift.
Suffer me to recall to your mind that time, in which the arms and tyranny of the British crown were exerted with every powerful effort in order to reduce you to a state of servitude; look back I entreat you on the variety of dangers to which you were exposed; reflect on the time in which every human aid appeared unavailable, and in which even hope and fortitude wore the aspect of inability to the conflict, and you cannot but be led to a serious and grateful sense of your miraculous and providential preservation; you cannot but acknowledge that the present freedom and tranquillity which you enjoy, you have mercifully received, and that it is the peculiar blessing of heaven.
This Sir was a time in which you clearly saw into the injustice of a state of slavery, and in which you had just apprehensions of the horror of its condition,—it was now that your abhorrence thereof was so excited, that you publicly held forth this true and invaluable doctrine, which is worthy to be recorded and remembered in all succeeding ages. "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, and that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
Here was a time in which your tender feelings for yourselves had engaged you thus to declare; you were then impressed with proper ideas of the great valuation of liberty, and the free possession of those blessings to which you were entitled by
nature; but, Sir, how pitiable is it to reflect, that although you were so fully convinced of the benevolence of the father of mankind, and of his equal and impartial distribution of these rights and privileges which he had conferred upon them, that you should at the same time counteract his mercies, in detaining by fraud and violence so numerous a part of my brethren under groaning captivity and cruel oppression, that you should at the same time be found guilty of that most criminal act, which you professedly detested in others, with respect to yourselves.
I suppose that your knowledge of the situation of my brethren is too extensive to need a recital here; neither shall I presume to prescribe methods by which they may be relieved, otherwise than by recommending to you and all others, to wean yourselves from those narrow prejudices which you have imbibed with respect to them, and as I have proposed to my friends, "put your soul in their souls" —thus shall your hearts be enlarged with kindness and benevolence towards them, and thus shall you need neither the direction of myself or others in what manner to proceed herein.
And now, Sir, although my sympathy and affection for my brethren hath caused my enlargement thus far, I ardently hope that your candour and generosity will plead with you in my behalf, when I make known to you, that it was not originally my design; but that having taken up my pen in order to direct to you as a present, a copy of an almanack which I have calculated for the succeeding year, I was unexpectedly and unavoidably led thereto.
This calculation is the production of my arduous study in this my advanced stage of life, (59) for having long had unbounded desires to become acquainted with the secrets of nature, I have had to gratify my curiosity herein through my own assiduous application to astronomical study, in which I need not recount to you the many difficulties and disadvantages which I have had to encounter.
And although I had almost declined to make my calculation for the ensuing year, in consequence of that time which I had allotted therefor being taken up at the federal territory, by the request of Mr. Andrew Ellicott, yet finding myself under several engagements to Printers of this state to whom I had communicated my design, on my return to my place of residence, I industriously applied myself thereto, which I hope I have accomplished with correctness and accuracy; a copy of which I have taken the liberty to direct to you, and which I humbly request you will favorably receive, and although you may have the opportunity of perusing it after its publication, yet I chose to send it to you in manuscript previous thereto, that thereby you might not only have an earlier inspection, but that you might also view it in my own hand writing.
And now Sir, I shall conclude, and subscribe myself with the most profound respect, your most obedient humble servant.
BENJAMIN BANNEKER.
N. B. Any communication to me may be had by a direction to Mr. Elias Ellicott, merchant in Baltimore town.
B. B.
TO MR. BENJAMIN BANNEKER.
Philadelphia, August 30, 1791.
SIR,
I THANK you sincerely for your letter of the 19th inst. and for the almanack it contained. Nobody wishes more than I do, to see such proofs as you exhibit, that nature has given to our black brethren , talents equal to those of the other colours of men, and that the appearance of a want of them is owing merely to the degraded condition of their existence both in Africa and America. I can add with truth that no body wishes more ardently to see a good system commenced for raising the condition of both their body and mind to what it ought to be, as fast as the imbecility of their present existence, and other circumstances which cannot be neglected, will admit.
I have taken the liberty of sending your almanack to Monsieur de Condorcet, secretary of the academy of sciences at Paris, and member of the philanthropic society , because I considered it as a document to which your whole colour had a right for their justification against the sentiments which have been entertained of them.
I am with great esteem, Sir,
Your most obedient
Humble servant,
THOMAS JEFFERSON.
From the Daily Advertiser.
TO THE PEOPLE of the UNITED STATES.
IT cannot have escaped your observation, that Providence seems, in a remarkable manner, to have promoted your prosperity, by the very means which unprincipled men have, at various times, intended to effect your ruin.
The unbounded usurpations of the British government, compelled us to the contest, which terminated in independence. Their insatiation became our salvation; and, for a series of years, the blessings of good government, with foreign and domestic peace, have raised us to a pitch of national importance and prosperity, for the time, perhaps, never equalled in the annals of mankind.
The first appearance of the French revolution, must have excited the most lively feelings in the breasts of those solitary individuals throughout the world, who, though oppressed by the hard hand of tyranny, had formed a just estimate of the rights of man.
But, in this western hemisphere, a whole nation of freemen, exulted as if animated by one common spirit, at the prospect that twenty-six millions of people, who had no other idea of liberty than that of idolising the grand monarch, were about to shake off the shackles of slavery, and become a free and independent people. That we should have a sister republic, which, contrary to the insidious and interested policy of other governments, would rejoice in our prosperity, and maintain a friendly and fraternising intercourse, untainted by wild ambition, and motives of self-interest alone.
These pleasant imaginations, however, were dispelled, by the arrival of a minister, charged with powers and instructions to involve the United States
in an European war. The happiness of a whole community—a total derangement of all fiscal concerns—and an accumulation of immense debts and taxations upon, probably, our children's children, were to be the sacrifice on the part of the United States, without one single object of advantage . Very different, indeed, were the inducements which prompted the ci-devant government of France to take part with us in our contest with Great Britain—being nothing less than the liberation of all the colonies of the dominion of their ancient rival. The grand monarch and his ministers would never have lent us one livre, nor have spilt one drop of blood on that occasion, merely from their love of liberty—And the then miserable people of France, had no idea of the true principles of civil and political liberty; much less did they, as a nation, offer or risk their lives for our independence,—Hence it is, that I have ever been at a loss to conceive how we are bound in gratitude to the people of France. If there is any gratitude in the case, it must be certainly due to the manes of that monarch, and a few individuals, upon whose destruction the nation have since erected the guillotine of liberty.
I cannot conclude this digression without observing, that in the adjustment of a treaty of peace between Great-Britain and America, the French ministry had by the subtlety of intrigue, at which they are proverbially dexterous, so managed certain members of congress, as to get instructions from our government to their commissioners, to do nothing, but in concert with Mr. Vergennes.—These dupes to French politics, have been the pests of this country to the present hour.
Mr. Vergennes used all his cunning and influence to induce our commissioners to enter into negotiations without the acknowledgement of our independence—to rob us of the fisheries—and to limit our boundaries westward by the Ohio.
By what means, fellow-citizens, were we rescued from the base designs of these perfidious Frenchmen —these boasted friends and allies—these apostles of liberty , to whom we are bound by eternal ties of gratitude? By the penetration and firmness of that man, principally, who negotiated the British treaty, and saved us from being again involved in all the calamities of war.
By Mr. Jay, and Mr. Adams, who, superior to the artifices, corruption, and intrigues both of the French and British ministry, at the hazard of an impeachment for a breach of orders, nobly and firmly opposed the ignominious and treacherous devices of our good French allies, until they were compelled to grant us, as a preliminary, that independence we now possess. But for them, we should, at this day, probably, have enjoyed Batavian liberty—the liberty of obeying the commands of a Marat, a Robespierre, a Jacobin club, or that five-headed monster, the Directory . These commissioners were the second favours of their country—and, like the first , have received a poor and ominous specimen of republican gratitude.
But to return—Providence, for this time, passed the designs of our allies, by the intemperance and indiscretion of their minister, who, being deceived by Mr. Jefferson, and the party who threw themselves into his bosom, left him exposed —and excited that spirit of national pride and indignation which should forever fire the soul of every honest and independent American, at any impudent attempt of any European nation or minister to influence our government, or practise deceptions arts upon free and enlightened republicans.
It would have been supposed, that the checks and mortifications given to Mr. Genet, would have afforded some direction for the conduct of his successors; that our internal enemies, being repeatedly defeated in all their machinations with the French to disorganise the government, or break the union, or involve us in war; after a full discovery, upon repeated proofs, that the great mass of Americans were determined, and were able, to support the laws and administration of their country, against both foreign and domestic violence and intrigue; would have been covered with shame and remorse, and have desisted from their wicked pursuits.
It would have been supposed, that the government of France, however safely they might presume to insult and controul the deliberations of people within the immediate vortex of their power, would have sense and discretion enough not to make similar attempts upon a government, separated by an ocean of three thousand miles; and upon a nation, such as, since the flood, never existed upon the face of the earth—a nation, I mean, of independent freeholders—the nation, which first showed them the road to freedom—a nation, which respects the original principles of their revolution, and which, at this moment, wishes them, most cordially, a return of peace, with all the blessings attendant upon a free, equal and independent republican form of government.
But all these considerations notwithstanding, the government of France seems infatuated, or determined to convince the world, that names are empty things; that republicans who have power, will exercise it, with as much abuse as despotic princes; that they are as much influenced by pride, ambition, injustice and self interest, as the people of any other governments; and that where the right prevails, they make no discrimination between friends or foes, allies or neutrals, republicans or anti-republicans.
Of these things, we have a specimen in the late conduct of the Directory , respecting the American commerce, and the consequent extraordinary behaviour of their minister, Mr. Ader; both of which will be the subject of another address, from
WM. WILLCOCKS.
Nov. 10, 1796.
FOR THE GAZETTE OF THE UNITED STATES.
To the Electors of the President of the United States. Altho' the merits of the candidates for the Presidency have been very amply discussed, the papers have been nearly silent on the subject of Vice-President. This officer is by the constitution directed to perform the duties of President of the Senate, a very important station, and, is, moreover, to fill the Executive chair, in the event of the death or resignation of the President, which may be for a term of nearly four years.

The Electors will no doubt turn their attention to a citizen of the first-rate merit for a station, which on several contingencies, may become that of chief magistrate of the United States for so long a period. The two persons who have been principally named in conversations are Thomas Pinckney of South Carolina, and Aaron Burr of New-York. The former is supported by the friends of Mr. Adams, the latter by those of Mr. Jefferson.
In order to direct your choice as far as my information goes, I will make you acquainted with the respective merits of those candidates.
Mr. Burr, at present a member of the Senate of the United States from New-York, has been always considered as opposed to the constitution, and has always opposed in the Senate the measures of administration under President Washington: his time in the Senate being nearly elapsed, and having little prospect of a re-election from that federal state, Mr. Burr was put up as a slate senator at the last state election in June, and run on the anti-federal ticket, which being defeated by a majority of two to one by the federal party, he could not even get into the state legislature.
By a law of the United States the Vice President is to act as a commissioner for managing the monies of the sinking fund, which duty necessarily involves some communication with the Bank of the United States in which the public monies are deposited, and to which resort is sometimes necessary for anticipations, when the public revenue cannot meet the public demands.
But the ill-tempered proceeding of the Directors in a late unfriendly measure towards that gentleman will probably excite on his part an hostility towards that institution, which might eventually be in a Vice President very detrimental to the public interests.
Mr. Pinckney, the associate of Mr. Adams, on the federal ticket, is a virtuous, enlightened, and patriotic citizen, independent in his fortune as well as in his principles. His approbation of the measures of Washington's administration, his attachment to the federal constitution, and his love for the independence of his country are all well known. His diplomatic talents and his persevering zeal for our national prosperity have been fully evinced in his conduct in England and his treaty with Spain. In his disposition, he is mild, but firm, conciliatory, without sacrificing essential principles, prudent without timidity.
Such are the candidates fellow citizens; can you hesitate in your choice?
A REAL FEDERALIST.
For the Gazette of the United States.
No. V.
To the Electors of the President of the United States.
Respectable Fellow Citizens,
THE sequel of the 34th letter of Mr. Adams, remains to be considered. We have seen, that in commenting upon certain republican sentiments of Marchamont Nedham , Mr. Adams did not seize the occasion to panegyric representative or elective government. He says it may answer very well, but that it is a hazardous experiment, that such experiments have been made before, and are known always to have ended in one way, for that mankind have universally preferred "chance" or hereditary rulers to such, as they have procured by their past elective experiments. Thus in truth does he throw clouds over our prospects under elective governments, when discouraging upon the opinions of republican theorists. Thus does he abandon the defence of the cardinal principle of our constitutions, and thus, under the cover of a defence of three divisions of power, does he run into the paths, that lead to the opposite principle of hereditary power. This is no tortured misrepresentation of the passages referred to. We despise such treatment of respectable men, or of important subjects. But how differently does Mr. Adams conduct his discourse, when he is observing upon writers, who are not, in our sense, republican authors. He states the ideas of Polybius and Plato, who both contemplated hereditary power as parts of their systems. He gives the precise conceptions of Polybius in the following words. "It is customary to establish three sorts of governments; kingly government, aristocracy, and democracy: upon which one may very properly ask them, whether they lay these down as the only forms of government, or as the best; for in both cases they seem to be in an error, since it is manifest, that the best form of government is that which is compounded of all three. This is founded not only in reason but in experience; Lycurgus having set the example of this form of government in the institution of the Lacedæmonian commonwealth." This Lacedæmonian commonwealth was the very same mixed monarchy noticed in the close of our first paper. After having thus briefly and precisely stated the political creed of Polybius, and after giving that of the diffusive Plato in a more diffuse manner, Mr. Adams says, in his 34th letter, "let us proceed then to make a few observations upon the discourses of Plato and Polybius." "Plato," says Mr. Adams, (p. 209, Philadelphia & London edition) "has sufficiently asserted the honour of the laws, and the necessity of proper guardians of them; but has no where delineated the various orders of guardians, and the necessity of a balance between them: he has, nevertheless, given us premises, from whence the absolute necessity of such orders and equiposes may be inferred; he has shown how naturally every simple species of government degenerates. The aristocracy, or ambitious republic becomes immediately an oligarchy—what shall be done to prevent it? Place two guardians of the laws to watch the aristocracy; one, in the shape of a king, [not a chief magistrate like our President] on one side of it; another, in the shape of a democratical assembly, on the other side. The aristocracy, become an oligarchy, changes into a democracy—how shall it be prevented? By giving the natural aristocracy in society its rational and just weight, and by giving it a regal power to appeal to, against the madness of the people. Democracy becomes a tyranny—how shall this be prevented? By giving it an able independent ally in an aristocratical assembly, with whom it may unite against the unjust and illegal designs of any one man."
Here we see, that Mr. Adams having got a royal theme to discourse upon, does not run into doubt about hereditary governments, as he had before done in regard to elective governments. The royal governments must then appear to him free from all cause of doubt. He does not throw out the smallest caution against them. But he takes pains to show that the regal and aristocratical powers are proper and necessary checks upon the madness of the people. Let us ask ourselves however where and when such a government has been exhibited. Where and when were a king and nobles each having a negative combined, with a real representation of the people? No where but in books. How then can it be thus decidedly affirmed from unexecuted theories, that the three would work so well together as our excellent government has done. For a new government, organized in a storm, in a country half wilderness, placed over a various people, in a time of unexampled and extreme difficulties, amidst a belligerent and infuriated world, having to struggle with the arrearages of many years, embarrassed by disputes with two neighbouring powers, and by Indian wars, to carry us through with safety and prosperity is more than any mixed monarchy ever accomplished. Let it be here remembered, that it is the first genuine representative government the world had seen in 1789. Human affairs do not appear to admit of more success and advantages under any form of government. This ought to operate as the most encouraging inducement to persevere on our present ground. We ought not to discourage or alarm the people by committing the most dangerous and tempting situation to any, who doubt or disbelieve the practicability of our system, and who may incline to realize the favorite theory of their maturest years in themselves and their descendants.
A FEDERALIST.
PHILADELPHIA,
THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 17, 1795.
Yesterday were respectfully interred the remains of Major ROWLAND PARKY, whose decease was mentioned in this Gazette on Monday.
In the death of this worthy citizen his numerous friends, and the community at large, sustain a loss. Mr. Parry was a friend to the civil and religious rights of man; a public spirited citizen; and, as a son, husband, brother, and friend, has left indelible impressions of his worth in the memory of an extensive circle of connexions and acquaintance.
"Of blazed hopes, and of short, withering joys, "Full of the plaintive mule her pen employs. "Calm sleeps the flesh—far distant, unconfin'd, "In joys unbounded wakes th' immortal mind."
ELECTION RETURNS.
   Mifflin-County Return.     Anti-Federal, 419   Federal, 60   Majority for the Anti-Federal Ticket, 359   Statement of Majorities.   Anti-Federal Federal   Philad. city and county, majority 2076.   Delaware 184   Chester 413   Bucks 643   Montgomery 200   Lancaster 1442   York 3083   Berks 140   Northampton 90   Northumberland 770   Cumberland 619   Dauphin 230   Luzerne 899   Huntingdon 291   3695 6885   3695 3190   Majority for Federal Tickets,   Bedford }   Somerset   Allegheny   Fayette   Greene   Westmoreland   Washington   Mifflin   Franklin     359  
TRANSLATION.
Citizen P. A. Adet informs his fellow citizens, that by order of the Executive Directory, he has to day notified the Secretary of State, the suspension of the functions of the Minister Plenipotentiary of the French Republic, near the United States of America, and that in consequence of the said suspension, they must from this day address their demands or claims to the Consul General or the particular Consuls of the Republic.
At Philadelphia, the 25th Brumaire, the 5th year of the French Republic, one and indivisible (the 15th November, 1796, O. S.)
Errors in Phocion No. 23—fourth line, for ON read IN; fifth line, for PARTIZANS read PASSIONS.
BY THIS DAY'S MAILS.
RUTLAND, (Vermont) November 7. On Friday last, the following gentlemen were chosen Electors for the choice of a President for the United States. Elijah Dewey, Elisha Sheldon, John Bridgman, and Oliver Gallup, Esqrs.
BALTIMORE, November 14. Last day's election of Electors of President and Vice-President of the United States. The following is a statement of the polls when closed on Saturday evening last.
   Baltimore-Town.     Whole number for Mr. Duvall 530   Ditto Mr. Carroll 236   Majority in favour of Mr. Duvall 295   Baltimore-County.   Whole number for Mr. Howard 504   Ditto Mr. Archer 227   Majority in favour of Mr. Howard 277  
Dr. Archer, we are informed by a gentleman who left Harre de Grace yesterday morning, has a majority of about 200 votes, as elector for the district of Baltimore and Hartford.
We are informed, that Virginia will give Mr. Adams four or five Electors.
In the district including Richmond, Mr. N. Wilkinson is chosen one of the Electors of President and Vice-President. He is in favour of Mr. Jefferson.
NEW-YORK, November 15.
MASSACHUSETTS.
We have returns from a number of towns in Hampshire county, by which it appears, that gen. Shepard or Samuel Henshaw, (both federal) will be elected representative in congress; and that W. Lyman, the present member, will have but few votes. In many towns, his name is not among the candidates. In the same district, Ebenezer Hunt (federal) appears to have most of the votes for elector.
We have asserted, that for a government to order its citizens to wear a cockade, without law, is as tyrannical, as to require its citizens to subscribe a test act, or take an oath, without law. Mr. Bache with his democratic logic, abuse, ridicules the position.
Pray, citizen, is it not as completely ibest to steal a shilling , as to steal a dollar ? The effects on the loser are different; but the principle in the thief, the same. So it is as perfect despotism to wear a cockade, without law, as it is to guillotine him, without law. But, in regard to the tell law of Great Britain, and the order of the Directory of France to say citizen and wear a cockade , there is an essential difference—The tell, in Great Britain, is a law, enacted by Parliament: the order of the Directory is an act of the Executive, without law, and therefore, most tyrannical of the two. Indeed, such a stretch of power in Great Britain, could not be exercised, without risking the head of the king. The English would not bear such an act of despotism in the Executive.
We are informed that the motion of Mr. Watson, in the senate of this state, for entering the President's speech on the journals of that house, passed unanimously .
GAZETTE OF THE UNITED STATES MARINE LIST.
PHILADELPHIA, November 17.
ARRIVED.
   Ship John, Whitwell, Guadalupe 38   Brig Dispatch, Brum, Malaga 59   Sally, Keith, Norfolk 10  
BALTIMORE, November 14.
Arrived on Saturday, ship Halcyon, Capt. Taylor, from Providence, (R. I.) 11 days.—Spoke nothing.
Yesterday arrived brig Harriet, captain Atkinson, 18 days from Cape-Francis. Left there, captains Hudson, Wilson, Isaacs, Jones, Biays, and Sloop Hannah, captain Easton, all of Baltimore, and captain Peck, from New-York. Captain Hyer in a pilot boat schooner from New-York was run ashore by the pilot, on the reef, when entering the harbor. The Pilot, of Baltimore, failed in company with captain Atkinson. Captain Barney had got his frigates repaired, but had not failed for France, as mentioned some time since, as he was under the necessity of remaining at the cape to keep the place tranquil. Captain Atkinson mentions that the conduct of the brigadiers had become very alarming—they had burnt all the plantations and murdered all the inhabitants without respect to age or sex, in the vicinity of Port-de-Paix—and at the Cape they were under apprehensions of similar ravages.
Flour from 12 to 14 dollars per barrel; sugar 8 dollars per cwt. coffee 28 to 30 fous.
NEW-YORK, November 16.
ARRIVED.
   Brig Eliza, Cook, Jamaica 48   Enterprise, Fitzpatrick, Charleston 10   Amazon, Savannah 8   Schr. Jenny, Bull, St. Thomas   Sloop Randolph, Hughes, Jeremie  
On Sunday last, arrived in this city, Capt. Luke Codwise, of the brig Glasgow, belonging to this port; Capt. Codwise, with the six following masters of vessels:
   B. Huggins, } of Philadelphia:   G. Byrne,   J. Snell,   J. Boyd,   Z. Hunt, of Providence, R. I.   J. Mayhew, of Boston,  
Abandoned their vessels in consequence of the cruel treatment they received from the French, and made their escape from Leogane on the night of the 28th September last, on board the ship Union, Samuel Davis, master, in which they arrived at Rhode-Island.
Capt. Boyd died soon after they left Leogane. Capt. Davis had his cargo taken from him, and regained his vessel by giving security to return her, if she should be condemned. They gave him eighty dollars to lay in provisions, &c. but took it from him afterwards for port charges; and also obliged him to make good a bad debt they had contracted in the sale of his cargo.
Captain Davis is entitled to great applause, for carrying off from a tedious and irksome confinement so many of his countrymen, at the utmost danger of his life, as the French suspecting he would attempt it, threatened to hang him. Capt. Davis effected his laudable purpose in the night.
Capt. Codwise has handed us his protest, which we will publish to-morrow. It is a narrative of insult, injustice and wanton barbarity.
Capt. King of this port, who was carried into Leogane, made a protest before a French Notary, who, as soon as he received payment for it, took it away again.
Patent Shot.
THE general consumption of Patent Shot having been prevented by the high price it has hitherto been sold at, the Proprietors take this method of informing the Public that they may in future be supplied with that article at the same prices as common Shot, by ordering their Correspondents to apply to WALKERS, MALTER & Co. London. Nov 9 wim4w
This Day will be Landed,
From on board the brig Dispatch, Captain P. Brum, from Malaga, at Morris's wharf, just above the Drawbridge.
FRESH FRUITS, viz.
  Raisins, in kegs, boxes and baskets  Figs in kegs  Prunes in boxes  Grapes in jars  Olives in ditto  Lemons in chests  Anchovies in kegs  Almonds, soft shelled, in sacks  Allo,  Brandy in butts  Sweet Mountain Wine in quarter-casks—&c.  
For Sale by Peter Kuhn.
November 17. 96
Sales of Malaga Wine and Brandy.
On SATURDAY MORNING, the 19th inst. at 10 o'clock, will be sold at Morris's wharf, just above the Drawbridge, by Public Auction, 100 Qr. casks old Mountain Wine, and 15 butts of Brandy, For approved indorsed notes at 60 days.
WM. SHANNON, Auctioneer.
Nov. 17. 2
WANTED.
As Cook, in a private family, A YOUNG WOMAN who can produce good recommendations of an unexceptionable character. Enquire of the Printer.
November 17. 6f
Washington Lottery.
The 38th and 39th days' drawing of the Washington Lottery, No. 2, are received at the office No. 234, Market-street, where tickets may be examined.
N. B. Information given where tickets in all the other lotteries may be procured.
November 17, 1796. d
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 38th and 39th days' returns are received.
The Business of a Broker carried on as usual.
A SHARE in the NEW THEATRE to be sold on reasonable terms.
November 17. 11st
For Sale by Public Auction,
On Saturday Evening next, the 19th inst. at 7 o'clock, if not previously disposed of at private sale.
The Brigantine Fame,
Laying at Mr. Samuel Bower's wharf, and now ready for sea; a strong and well built vessel, and calculated either for the European or West-India trade—as she will carry nearly 2000 barrels—She has been just hove down, and may be sent to sea at a small expence. For further particulars, apply to Capt. Knox on board, to Samuel Smith, Ship Broker, or
JOHN CONNELLY, Auctioneer.
November 17. 3rd
No. 114.
District of Pennsylvania, to wit:
BE it remembered, that on the 26th day of September, in the twenty-first year of the Independence of the United States of America, Abraham Bradley, Junior of the said District, hath deposited in this office, the title of a Map, the right whereof, he claims as author in the words following to wit:
"Map of the United States exhibiting the situations, connections & distances of the Post-Offices, Stage-roads, Counties, Ports of Entry and Delivery for Foreign vessels, and the principal rivers."
By ABRAHAM BRADLEY, jun.
In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States intitled "An act for the encouragement of learning by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned."
Samuel Caldwell, Clerk,
District of Pennsylvania.
The above map may be had at the author at the General Post-Office, next door to the War-Office in Fifth-Street, and at his house, No. 78, corner of Crown Street and Brewers Alley between 4th and 5th, and Vine and Callowhill Streets. Prices from 3 3/4 to 5 dollars each according to the manner in which they are finished. The progress (or arrivals and departures) of the Mail on the Main Line may be had separate for 37 1/2 cents. Oct. 3. 12w6w.
No. 153.
District of Pennsylvania, to wit:
BE it remembered, that on the twenty-fourth day of September, in the twenty-first year of the Independence of the United States of America, William Cobbett of the said district hath deposited in this office the Title of a Book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit:
"The Political Censor, or Review of the most interesting political occurrences relative to the United States of America—By Peter Porcupine"—In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, intitled "An Act for the encouragement of learning by securing the Copies of Maps, Charts and Books to the authors and proprietors of such Copies, during the times therein mentioned."
SAMUEL CALDWELL, Clerk
District P. 12w6w.
To be sold,
A 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 cell; under the whole; together with a barn, corn-cribs 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
Just Imported,
In the Schooner Lucy, Capt. Prows, from Madeira, and to be sold by
ELLISTON & JOHN PEROT,
Best London particular Madeira Wine, Three years old,
In pipes, hogheads, and quarter casks, fit for immediate use.—They have also for sale,
A few bags of Juniper Berries.
October 28. W

10 hogheads St. Croix Rum, 5 Pipes Vinegar, For Sale, by Ezekiel Hall, No. 20, Penn Street. Nov. 7.
William Gardner, No. 62, SOUTH FRONT-STREET, Has received by the late arrivals from Liverpool and Glasgow, An assortment of DRY GOODS, Which he will dispose of upon low terms, for cash or the usual credit, by the piece or package— Consisting of CAMBRICKS, Printed Calicoes and Chintzes Printed Handkerchiefs and Shawls Jacquet and Book Muslins, well assorted Do. do. tamboured do. Do. do. Handk' and Shawls do. White and coloured threads Diaper and diaper table cloths Cotton check and check handkerchiefs Striped and coloured nankenees Dimities and quiltings Tapes and garters. Cotton counterpanes Mens and womens gloves Plats and stockings Onaburgs, bed-ticks and brown Holland Stationery, &c. &c. &c. November 3. mts
STOP THE THIEVES!!!
LAST Wednesday Evening, October 19, between the hours of 7 and 10 o'clock, the bed room of Mr. Ricketts in O'Eller's hotel was entered, either by means of false keys, or the window, by some villain or villains, who must have been acquainted with the situation of the house (as the door was found locked after they had committed the theft) who took away from amongst several trunks, ONE which con- tained a valuable part of Mr. Rickett's property, but of which he is not yet able to ascertain the contents particularly. Af- ter bringing the said trunk away, and emptying it of up- wards of a thousand dollars in cash and bank notes, the vil- lains left it behind the circus, during the time that the per- formances of the evening were going forward. It is earnestly requested, that all tavern-keepers on the stage roads, and the ferry houses, as well as all civil officers, may be watchful in securing suspicious persons, who may have a redundance of cash, which their appearance would by no means bely them to be possessed of. One Hundred Dollars Reward Will be given for securing the thief or thieves, and a fur- ther reward for securing them with the property. Oct. 12. d
Twenty Guineas Reward.
RANAWAY from the subscriber on the 23d October, a Dark MULATTO BOY, named MOSES; 21 years old; about 5 feet 8 inches high; had on a mixed green coat, with a green velvet cape and oval yellow buttons; a striped vest; a pair of dark spotted pantaloon, and white boots much worn. It is probable he may change his name and dress. He has been accustomed to driving a carriage, and waiting. The above reward will be paid for securing him so that the subscriber may get him again, and if brought home all reasonable charges paid by Robins Chamberlaine. Easton, Maryland, Nov. 10. 14 $1m2awtf
James Musgrave, GOLDSMITH & JEWELLER,
No. 42, South Second-Street, HAS just received an assortment of Plated Ware and Jewellery, Plated Tea and Coffee Urns, Coffee Pots, Tea ditto, Castors from 5 to 8 bottles, Sugar and Cream Bafons, Bottle Stands, Baskets, high Candlesticks, Brackets and Chamber ditto, Branches Scones, a variety of Silver and Plated Shoe Latches, Spurs, &c. &c. war- ranted of the best plate; Ladies, and Gentlemen's Gold Watch Chains, Seals and Keys; Necklaces, Neck Chains, Ear Rings, Finger Rings, Lockets, Breast Pins, Stone Knee-Buckles, with many other articles in the above branches. He has likewise received an extensive assortment of japan'd tea and coffee Urns, persian, blue, brown, black and gold. All kinds of work in the gold and silver line; minia- tures, &c. and hair work executed as usual. November 9. tu th & f
A few Pipes of WINE,
Imported in the brig FAME, from Madeira, to be sold by MORDECAI LEWIS, Who has also to dispose of on reasonable terms, IRISH LINENS, well assorted BANDANNA HANDKERCHIEFS WIDE NANKENEES COSSAS AND BAFTAS RAVENS DUCK DIAPERS QUICK SILVER CHINA ROLL BRIMSTONE, &c. Oct. 27. tawtm
Lottery and Broker's Office, No. 64, South Second Street.
TICKETS in the Canal Lottery, No. 2, for sale—a Check Book for examination—and prizes paid in the late lottery. Check Books kept for examination and registering, for the City of Washington, No. 2, and Paterson Lotteries, both of which are now drawing—information where tickets are to be had, and prizes exchanged for undrawn tickets. A complete list of all the prizes in the late New- Port Long-Wharf, Hotel and Public School Lottery, for examination. The subscriber solicits the application of the public and his friends, who wish to purchase or sell Bank Stock, Certificates, Bills of Exchange or Notes, Houses, Lands, &c. or to obtain money on deposit of property. Also Tickets in the Schuylkill Bridge Lottery for sale at Ten Dollars each, which will be drawn early in the Spring. Wm. Blackburn. Philadelphia, August 18, 1796. mth
TENCH FRANCIS, Purveyor.
The component parts of the Rations, are 1 pound of Flour or Bread 1 pound of Beef or 3-4 of a pound of Pork 1-2 a gill of Rum, Brandy or Whiskey 1 quart of Salt 2 quarts of Vinegar 2 pounds of Soap 1 pound of Candles For 100 Rations Nov. 9
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 se- cure their future favors and recommendation. He now begs leave to inform them and the public at large that his spacious and commodious premises, erected 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 bounti- fully 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 question- ed, 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 respect- able 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 protection. N. B. Horses are properly prepared for those Ladies and Gentlemen who wish to be instructed. Nov. 5. tth&f.
TO BE SOLD,
A LEASE for seven years, from the 25th March next, in that capital and beautiful FARM, called PROSPECT-HILL, Situated within one quarter of a mile from the Brandywine Mills, and half a mile from the borough of Wilmington. THE dwelling house is built of stone, two stories high, gently finished, and contains four handsome rooms on a floor, besides an entry, with capital garrets, and convenient cellars. It is generally thought to command the most a- greeable prospect of the Delaware, from the source of that river to the Cape. This prospect is greatly embellished by a full view of a vast body of meadow, through which the Christiana and Brandywine creeks are seen winding in beau- tiful meanders. Near the house are a Kitchen, a spacious stone stable and hay loft, a barn, a carriage house, milk- house, &c. and a well of as pure water as any on the conti- nent. The garden contains an acre and quarter of land, a- bounding with fruit, and particularly with peach trees, of the very best kind, brought from Maryland, and in full bear- ing. There is, moreover, on the place, a young, apple orchard beginning to bear, and several other trees that produce abundantly, besides cherry and other ornamental trees, in great numbers. The farm consists of near sixty acres of land, of good quality, and clear of encumbrances, except taxes, twenty of which are now in excellent clover and timothy, and ten more will be ready for sowing next spring. A re- sidence of nearly 8 years has convinced the subscriber that the situation is remarkably healthy. The great post road from Philadelphia to the Southward runs within seventy yards of the house. In a word, the beauties and conveni- ence of this situation cannot be enumerated in an advertise- ment, and when examined, will probably command the at- tention of any person who is desirous of living at one of the most elegant country seats on the continent. The purchaser may enter on the premises next spring, or perhaps, this fall, if application be immediately made to Doctor NICHOLAS WAY, in Philadelphia, to Doctor WHARTON, on the premises, or, in his absence, to Mr. GEORGE TRUITT, in Wilmington. A quantity of excellent Hay, Grain in the ground, some Stock, &c. may be had by the purchaser at the time of sale. Nov. 7. codif
New Hat and Hosiery Store, WHOLESALE, and RETAIL,
By WILLIAM M'DOUGALL, No. 134, Market Street, 3d door from the corner of Fourth, South Side. Mens' Black American and English Hats, of various qual- ties and prices. Ditto Drabs and Green-unders. Ladies' ditto black And a large assortment of fancy ditto Coloured Beavers With a great variety of elegant and fashionable trim- mings &c. Youth's black and drab coloured ditto. Children's fancy ditto All kinds of silk, silk and cotton, cotton and thread hose Knit coloured Pantaloon Ditto Drawers Ditto Breeches Patterns Silk Gloves Knotted, coloured ditto, cotton. A quantity of mending cotton, sorted colours. N. B. The hats finished in the newest fashion. Oct. 17. cadtm.
SAMUEL RICHARDET
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, Bos- ton, Baltimore, together with those of the principal com- mercial 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 Bill of 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 RICHARDET 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 pre- serve that patronage with which he has been so distinguis- hingly honored. Philadelphia, April 19. mwf
Any PERSON
Who is well acquainted with the River MISSISSIPPI, And will give Directions for sailing into the same, that can be depended on, shall be generously reward- ed for his information, provided he will leave the directions with Mr. John Fenno, printer, Philadelphia, or Edmund M. Blunt, Newburyport. November 3. 12w2m
DANCING SCHOOL. WILLIAM M'DOUGALL will open his school on Mon- day the 31st inst. at ten o'clock in the morning, at his Elegant New Ball Rooms, In Fourth, between Chestnut and Walnut Streets. Hours of tuition for young ladies, from 10 to 1 o'clock on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays mornings; and for young gentlemen from 6 to 9 o'clock on the evenings of the same days. In addition to a number of new cotillions, he means to introduce a variety of Scotch Reels. Note. The first practising ball to be on Tuesday e- vening, the first of November, and to be continued every Tuesday, during the season. For terms, &c, enquire at his house, No. 134, Market- Street. Oct. 17. tthf
To be Sold,
The Time of a smart, active Negro Lad, Who has Eleven years to serve. Enquire at No. 58, South Front Street. October 18. $
Brokers Office, and COMMISSION STORE.
No. 63 South Third Street, opposite the national new Bank. SAMUEL M. FRAUNCES and JOHN VAN REED, have entered into co-partnership, under the firm of FRAUNCES & VAN REED, in the business of Brokers, Conveyancers and Commission merchants. They buy and sell on commission every species of stock, notes of hand, bills of exchange, houses and lands, &c. Money procured on deposits, &c. &c. all kinds of writings in the conveyancing line, done with neatness and dispatch; accounts adjusted, and books settled, in the most correct manner. Constant attendance will be given. They solicit a share of the public favor; they are deter- mined to endeavour to deserve it. N. B. The utmost secrecy observed. SAMUEL M. FRAUNCES, JOHN VAN REED. Philad. August 27, 1796. m&wtf
SHERIDAN'S DICTIONARY,
THE SIXTH EDITION, Is this Day Published, BY W. YOUNG, MILLS & SON, Corner of Second and Chestnut Streets, In one large 8vo. volume, price 3 dollars. A COMPLETE DICTIONARY of the ENGLISH LANGUAGE, both with regard to sound and meaning, one main object of which is to establish a plain and per- manent Standard of Pronunciation. To which is prefixed, a Profdial Grammar. BY THOMAS SHERIDAN, A.M. October 22.
RANAWAY,
About the 1st of October last, from the plantation of Mr. Thomas F. Brooke, (in Prince George's county) to whom he was hired, a NEGRO MAN, named CESAR; 33 years of age; about 5 feet 8 or 9 inches high; well made; of a yellowish complexion; a little pockmarked; has, when spoken to, rather a down look, and submissive tone of voice; the clothes he had before he absconded were of plain, such as labouring Negroes usually wear, but these he may probably exchange for others; he will doubtless endeavour to pass for a freeman, having, as I have been informed, assumed the name of Butler : I have reason to believe that he went to Baltimore, from whence he is said to have gone to some part of the Susquehannah, probably with a view of getting to Pennsylvania. A reward of Thirty Dollars will be given to the person who may take him and so secure him in some jail that I may get him again, if taken in this state, and Fifty dollars if taken out of the state, and if brought home or secured in the jail of Prince George's county all reasonable charges will be paid by ALEXR. COVINGTON. Maryland, Prince George's County, } 11th Oct 96 2nd November, 1796. } 11th Oct 96
Davis's Law Book Store, No. 313, HIGH-STREET,
GEORGE DAVIS announces to his professional friends, and the Gentlemen of the Law generally thro' the Union, that his late importation of BOOKS is now arranged, and ready for Sale, from a single volume to an entire li- brary, without any advance upon his former exceeding low prices, which for several years past have in so distinguished a manner recommended them to notice. Printed Catalogues combining the most extensive collec- tion 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. Nov. 8. tu&fpm
Treasury Department, September 28, 1796.
NOTICE is hereby given, that proposals will be re- ceived at the office of the Secretary of the Treasury until the expiration of the first day of March next en- suing, 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 here- after mentioned, viz. At Olwego; at Niagara; at Piqua; at Sandusky Lake, and on Sandusky River; at Detroit; at Michilimackinac; at Fort-Frank- lin; at Pittsburgh; 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 Stauben; at Fort Maffac; at any place from Fort Maffac to the south boundary of the United States on the river Mississippi; at Fort Knox; at Quiatanoni. If supplies shall be required for any ports or places not mentioned in this notice, all such supplies shall be fur- nished 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 fol- lowing 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 whiskey. One quart and half a pint of salt. Two quarts of Vinegar. Two pounds of Soap. 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, De- troit, Niagara, and Olwego, 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 un- derstood, that the Contractor is to be at the expense and risk of issuing 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 deposition of two or more persons of creditable char- acters, and the certificate of a commissioned officer, af- certaining the circumstances of the loss, and the amount of the articles for which compensation shall be claimed. OLIVER WOLCOTT, Secretary of the Treasury.
WM. HOLDERNESS, 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 Muslins 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 Marcelles and Cotton Counterpanes Rose Blankets assorted—&c. &c. October 26. d
Loft Last Evening,
At Rickett's Amphitheatre, (supposed to be taken by some villain out of a gentleman's pocket) A red Morocco-Leather POCKET-BOOK, Containing about 185 dollars in bank notes; three notes of hand of Rofs and Simson, No. 304, 305 and 306, da- ted 12th last August, payable 60 days after due, to the order of Paul Siemen, together for $150 dollars; an order of Mrs. Ann Napier, from Paul Siemen, on Lach- lin Mac Neal, Esq. at Port-au-Prince, for 100 dollars; be- sides several letters and papers of no use but to the proprie- tor. The notes of hand and order are without endorse- ment. EIGHTY DOLLARS REWARD is offered to any person who will discover and secure the thief, and FORTY DOLLARS for only bringing the above men- tioned notes and papers at No. 129, corner of Front and Mulberry streets. d Oct. 11.
SALT PETRE.
A large quantity of Double-Refined Salt Petre for sale at No. 25, South Third-Street. November 5.
Pateron Lottery.
FOR raising six thousand six hundred and sixty-seven dollars and fifty cents, by a deduction of fifteen per cent from the prizes, and not two blanks to a prize, viz.  1 Prize of 5000 dollars 5000  1 1000 1000  1 500 500  5 200 1000  20 100 2000  99 50 4950  200 25 5000  2000 10 20,000  5 Last drawn numbers of 1000 dollars each, 5000  2332 Prizes. 44,450 4018 Blanks. 6350 Tickets at Seven Dollars each, 44,450 By order of the Directors of the Society for establish- ing Useful Manufactures, the superintendents of the Pa- teron Lottery have requested the Managers to offer the foregoing Scheme to the public, and have directed them to refund the money to those persons who have purchased in the former Lottery, or exchange the tickets for tickets in this Lottery. The Lottery has actually commenced drawing, and will continue until finished. A list of the Blanks and Prizes may be seen at the office of William Blackburn, No. 64 South Second Street, who will give information where tick- ets may be procured. Dated this 17th day of June, 1796. J. N. CUMMING, JACOB R. HARDENBERG, } Managers. JONATHAN RHEA, }
STATE OF THE WHEEL.
 1 Prize of 5000 5000  1 1000 1000  1 500 500  5 200 1000  20 100 2000  90 50 4500  165 25 4125  The five last drawn tickets, 1000 each, 5000  Being all the valuable prizes, besides a full proportion of the 10 dollars. As the Lottery is considerably more than one third drawn, the value of the undrawn tickets is great- ly increased, and it is worth the notice of those who hold tickets in the old scheme, that they can ex- change their tickets for those in the above, if they ap- ply soon, and at a moderate advance considering the new real value of an undrawn ticket. The tickets being nearly all sold, the drawings in future will be oftener, and the Lottery soon finished. November 12. mwf
Washington Canal Lottery, No. 1.
WHEREAS the State of Maryland has authorised the underwritten, to raise twenty-five thousand, two hundred, and fifty dollars, for the purpose of cutting a Canal through the City of Washington, from the Po- tomac 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 35,000  6 ditto 1,000 6,000  10 ditto 400 4,000  20 ditto 100 2,000  55 ditto 50 2,750  3750 ditto 12 69,000  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 re- quired 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 DEBOIS, GEORGE WALKER, WM. M. DUNCANSON, THOMAS LAW, JAMES BARRY. City of Washington, Feb. 11. $