Gazette of the United States & evening advertiser. (Philadelphia [Pa.]), 1794-04-26 00:00:00

Gazette of the United States  AND  EVENING ADVERTISER.
[No. 115 of Vol. V.]
SATURDAY, April 26, 1794.
[Whole No. 511.]
PIRACY!
THE Schooner DELIGHT, the property of Manuel Antonio Martin, of the Island of Bona Vista, was on the 18th of October last, while lying at anchor in the road of that Island, forcibly entered and carried off by JOHN DUNHAM, JOHN MURRAY, a man by the name of DODGE, and one other person, name unknown. This vessel was sold to M. A. Martin, by William McNeill, who came to Bona Vista in her, from Madeira. She was built in the county of Matthews, state of Virginia, and was registered at New-York, the 16th April, 1793. Her name was printed on her stern—Her dimensions as follows: 56 feet 6 inches keel, 16 feet 6 inches beam, hold 6 feet 2 inches, her burthen 54 tons.
At the time of their entering the vessel, there was a black man on board by the name of Balthazar, whom they carried off with them. John Dunham was mate of the vessel under Capt. McNeill, prior to the sale of her, and the other persons were mariners. Dunham is a married man, and has a family at Nantucket.
The cargo of the vessel consisted of the following articles:—2 casks containing 74 pieces Linen; case Wine-Glasses; 1 bale containing 9 pieces Broadcloth; 1 do. 9 do. 79 pieces Cotton, (needle worked)—33 do. do. inferior, 2 m. yds of Salt; she had seven small arms and some pistols.
If any person can give any information of this vessel, or any part of the property, so that it can be recovered, or the offenders brought to justice, they are requested to inform Messrs. JOSEPH ANTHONY and SON, Philadelphia; MURRAY and MUMFORD, New-York; CLARK and NIGHTINGALE, Providence; or HEAD and AMORY, Boston.
March 17. dtw.
FOR SALE,
BY THE SUBSCRIBER, Old Lisbon Wine of a superior quality in pipes, imported in the ship Wilmington.
OLD SHERRY WINE of the first quality in quarter casks, imported in the brig Nancy capt. Gwin, from Cadiz.
SHELLED ALMONDS and a few kegs of RAISINS, imported in ditto.
Particular TENERIFFE WINES, in pipes hds. and quarter casks, imported in the ship Thomas, capt. Skinner.
A few quarter casks of old particular bill of exchange MADEIRA WINE.
George Meade, Who has also, just arrived and for sale A SMALL CARGO OF
Lisbon Salt.
A quantity of empty BAGS for sale. April 5. w&sim.
The following Certificate
of the funded three per Cent Stock of the Domestic Debt of the United States standing on the books of the Treasury of the said United States, in the names of Donald and Burton of London, merchants, and signed by Joseph Nourse, Register of said Treasury, to wit:—No. 5476, dated 24th August 1792 for 2939 dollars and 53 cents was transmitted from London in the ship Peter, Paul Hufey, master, bound for New York, and has been lost. The Subscriber intending to apply to the Treasury of the United States to have the same renewed, desires all persons who are interested in the said certificate, to make their objections thereto, if any they have.
Francis Macy. Philad. March 27. d6w
FOR SALE, BY MATHEW CAREY, No. 118, Market-Street,
An Essay on Slavery,
Designed to exhibit in a new point of view its effects on morals, industry, and the peace of society. Some facts and calculations are offered to prove the labor of free men to be much more productive than that of slaves; that countries are rich, powerful and happy, in proportion as the laboring people enjoy the fruits of their own labor; and hence the necessary conclusion, that slavery is impolitic as well as unjust.
Price 25 Cents. dtf February 15.
Excellent CLARET, In hogheads and in cases of 50 bottles each.
A few cases Champagne Wine;
MADEIRA,
In pipes, hogheads and quarter casks,
FOR SALE BY
JOHN VAUGHAN, No. 111, South Front Street. Jan. 2, 1794. dtf
For Norfolk & Fredericksburg, The Brig LITTLE SALLY, JOHN EARL, Master.
A staunch good vessel, will sail in a few days. For freight or passage, apply to the master on board at Chestnut street wharf, or to
JOSEPH ANTHONY & SON. March 31. dtf
For Sale or Charter,
The Ship ANDROMACHE, (An American bottom) John Moore, Master.
IS a stout good vessel, about two years old, burthen 232 tons, has only made three voyages, and may be sent to sea at a small expence. She may be seen at Vine-street wharf, and the terms made known by application to
WHARTON & LEWIS. March 21. dtf
For Amsterdam,
The new fast-sailing, copper-bottomed SHIP ADRIANA, K. Fitzpatrick, Master.
BUILT of live oak and cedar and was intended for a Liverpool Trader, will sail with all convenient speed. For freight or passage, having excellent accommodations, apply on board at Walnut street wharf, or to
THOS. & JOHN KETLAND. N. B. Passengers will be landed in England if required. March 6, 1794 dtf
Just Imported,
In the Ship Apollo, Capt. Fitzpatrick, from Amsterdam, and now landing on Walnut-street wharf, viz.
GIN in pipes, A few bales Holland Duck, Ditto Osnaburgs, Holland Sheeting, Juniper Berries, Glass Ware, viz. Tumblers and Mugs, various sizes. Sheathing Paper, Swedes Iron, square and flat bars, Hair Ribband, No. 4. Dutch Great Coats, A quantity of Junk and Oakum, &c. &c.
FOR SALE BY THOMAS KETLAND, Jun. The above-mentioned Ship is for Sale—should application be made within a few days; otherwise she will take freight for Amsterdam. March 1, 1794. d—tf
The Profits arising from the following publication are for the benefit of the Poor. Just published, printed by R. Aitken and Son, and sold by J. Crukshank, W. Young T. Dobson, and the other Booksellers,
MINUTES
OF THE Proceedings of the Committee, Appointed on the 14th September 1793, by the Citizens of Philadelphia, the Northern Liberties, and the District of Southwark, to attend to and alleviate the sufferings of the afflicted with the Malignant Fever, prevalent, in the City and its vicinity.
WITH AN APPENDIX,
CONTAINING A list of persons admitted into the Hospital at Bush-hill, showing the times of their admission, death and discharge. Number of Houses, Deaths, &c. in the respective streets, alleys, and courts in the city of Philadelphia, Northern Liberties, and District of Southwark.
A list of the Interments in the Burial grounds in the city of Philadelphia, Northern Liberties, and District of Southwark, with a meteorological account of the weather.
A summary of donations in cash and provisions, received from sundry persons and places, for the use of the poor and afflicted. April 2. d3w
To be Let,
For Merchants Counting Houses or Public Offices,
Two brick 3 story Houses,
HAVING 6 rooms in each, with fire places beside garrets, situated on the south westerly side of Dock street, between Pear and Walnut streets. Enquire of
BENJAMIN W. MORRIS. April 17. tuth&scit
JUST PUBLISHED, AND TO BE SOLD BY THOMAS DOBSON, No. 41, South Second Street,
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in America to a friend in England, on the Subject of Emigration—price 18th of a dollar.
Ecclesiastical Establishments detrimental to a State. Price 1.8 of a Dollar. April 22. mw&f3w
Just Imported,
In the Ship Edward, Capt. Crandon, from St. Petersburg in Russia, And now landing at South-street Wharf, viz.
HEMP, BAR IRON, RUSSIA SHEETING, RAVEN'S DUCK, RUSSIA DUCK, HOG'S BRISTLES.
AND FOR SALE BY John Donaldson, No. 22, Walnut-street. March 4, 1794. dtw3tawtf
Lately Published. SOLD BY Thomas Dobson, No. 41, South Second-Street:
THE History of New-Hampshire, from the Discovery of the River Piscataqua—by Jeremiah Belknap, D. D. 3 Vols. Price in Boards, 4 1.2 Dollars.
The Forrester, an American Fable, being a Sequel to the History of John Bull the Clothier. Price, 75 Cents.
A Discourse, intended to commemorate the Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus; delivered at the request of the Historical Society in Massachusetts, October 23d, 1792, being the completion of the Third Century, since that memorable event. To which are added, Four Dissertations, connected with the subject—By the same author. Price, 50 Cents. March 17. mth&f3w
TO BE SOLD,
A large elegant House,
and Lot of Ground, IN an eligible situation,—also a Country Seat within 6 miles of the City, with 9 acres of land, or 42 acres of land and meadow, the House is not exceeded by many in the vicinity of the city, in size, or convenience.
For particulars apply to the printer. January 23 mth—tf
TO BE SOLD,
And entered upon the first of May, The noted Estate, called Johnson Hall:
LYING in the Mohawk country, state of New York, formerly the seat of Sir William Johnson, containing about seven hundred acres of land, which is of the very best quality; together with the stock, and farming utensils. The buildings are large and convenient, and sit for a gentleman's seat. The payments will be made easy, on good security. For further particulars enquire of George Metcalf, Esq. on the premises, of Silas Talbot, Esq. at Philadelphia, of Samuel Ward and Brothers, in New York, or of the subscriber in Providence.
Jabez Bowen. Philad. March 26 mw&f1m
ADVERTISEMENT.
OF the money robbed from the mail near Baltimore, by Doctor Gant, 110 dollars were afterwards sent by an unknown hand, to the Postmaster at Baltimore, who transmitted the same to the General Post Office. The sufferers by that robbery are desired to state the amount of their losses respectively, and transmit the same, with the original letters of their correspondents (where recovered) or other evidence thereof to the General Post Office, before the first day of June next, immediately after which a dividend will be made among the claimants.
TIMOTHY PICKERING, Post Master General. Gen. Post Office, April 4, 1794 iaw6w
Those persons who
undertake to cut timber or wood of any kind whatever, from any lands of the real estate of the late Richard Stockton Esq. deceased, in the western precinct of the county of Somerset in the state of New Jersey, under a pretence of a right to cut on lands adjacent, are requested to desist from so doing, or they will be proceeded against in such manner as may prove troublesome and expensive to themselves. April 16. *w&sc2w
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
GENOA, Jan. 10.
The following picture will give those who are desirous of obtaining a just idea of the affairs of Genoa, which continue to be greatly embarrassed some information on that subject. The members of government, that is, the whole nobility are of course all aristocrats, some young men excepted. It would have been easy, especially after the capture of Toulon, to have induced the Republic to declare in favor of the combined powers. Government would have found no opposition from the class which you call commoners, nor from the people, for say what we will, the general interest of Genoa is to preserve its trade; that of guarding its property vested in the funds of France, is but a secondary motive; but, in consequence of the extreme violence of the English, the propensity of the second class who are rich and of the people who are not without energy, is entirely changed. This injustice has at length produced a spirit of independence. The recovery of Toulon, which would render an invasion of Genoa on the part of France more practicable, added to the just conduct of the French with respect to the Republic, has confirmed this change of sentiment, and neutrality at all events is to be maintained. As the government has no power except when it has the general voice in its favor, a revolution might be expected, were it to adopt a different conduct. Hence, the refusal of treating with Sir Gilbert Elliot at La Spezzia.—The government dares not suffer the Genoese and the French to imagine it is inclined to abandon its neutrality. This, likewise, accounts for the effects which have been produced by the artful negotiations of Mr. Drake and Lord Hood.
MADRID Jan. 20.
It should seem that the court of Spain interested in the re-establishment of the House of Bourbon ought to have found no difficulty in acknowledging Monsieur Regent of France. Such, however, is the weakness of this court, and its want of confidence in its allies, that it dares not venture on this conduct. The title of Regent had been given to Monsieur in the court almanac; but the edition was suddenly withdrawn, and the sheet in which the title stood reprinted.
A part of the army of Roussillon is gone into cantonments; it is reduced to 18,000 men fit for service. Epidemical fevers still continue, and the number of sick and wounded is estimated at 16,000.
The Spaniards being in possession of the town of Collioure, and the forts of St. Elme, and the Bellgarde, hope to maintain themselves in Roussillon, by strengthening their army with 20,000 recruits, raised as it is said, by government. But tho' they feel the necessity of quickening the slow motion of the Spaniards, if they would resist the impetuosity of the French, and though councils have often been held at Madrid, to which the best informed military men have been called there is every reason to fear, the French will soon assault Perpignan in mass, and that the Spaniards will be reduced to endeavor to stop their progress in the defiles of Catalonia.
It is affirmed, that the Vice Admiral Borgia who commands the division of Cadiz, will go to Carthagena, and command the squadron which is to remain in the Mediterranean. (It is presumed that Langara will go to Cadiz, and perhaps act in concert with English on the ocean,
COWES, Eng. January 30.
The Hessian cavalry, 900 in number, are all landed, and the stores of Mr. Alderman Macaulay and other proprietors converted into stabling for their accommodation.
The horses begin visibly to recover their wonted strength and animation, and will, we have no doubt, in a short time make a respectable appearance.

The infantry, in number 2000, remain on board the transports which are moored to the quays, but embark daily to air and exercise.
General Hunter's brigade, consisting of the 54th, 57th, and 59th regiments of British troops, is to continue at this place—the 78th Highland regiment marched yesterday for Newport, to be quartered there for the winter.
Lord Moira occupies the house built by the late Mr. Mark Gregory, and receives daily, at a splendid table, the English and foreign officers of distinction—they principally compose his staff.
In the harbor are, upwards of 100 sail of transports and vessels of different nations.
LONDON, Jan. 18.
THE twelve royalists, arrived at Jersey, are said to come from Anciene, whence they have reached the coast of Brittany, and effected their escape on board a vessel they found near the coast. These gentlemen, no doubt, belong to the corps of general Biron which according to the reports read in the Convention, was on the 22d of December, defeated and dispersed near Avernay. This corps consisted of no more than 3 or 4000 men. The accounts of those fugitives cannot, therefore, inform us of the situation of the corps of royalists on the right bank of the Loire, and still less of those on the left banks of this river, under the orders of the Chevalier Charette.
But however this may be, certain it is, that Lord Moira is continuing his preparations for the intended descent. Some people are apt to find fault with the slowness of its execution, because it enables the Republicans to encrease their means of defence. But the wisdom of our government, and the prudence of the general to whom this important expedition is entrusted, entitled to suppose, that all the obstacles able to oppose its success have been foreseen, and the most effectual measures taken to counteract them so as to ensure success.
A rumour has been spread, that the Emperor now refuses the troops promised for the above expedition. But we are convinced that this report is groundless, and that his imperial majesty, instead of withdrawing his assistance in the execution of this enterprise, would readily encrease it if required.
The revenue of the customs for the last quarter, ending the 5th January, 1794, exceeds the same quarter of the former year, in the sum of 486,579l. 16s. 1d. This branch of the public revenue has certainly not felt any material deficiency by the war.
Accounts from Alexandria state, that the caravan, which goes every year from Mecca to Grand Cairo with all sorts of the most precious merchandise has been attacked and totally pillaged by a numerous horde of Arabian banditti.
February 12.
The Editor of the Leyden Gazette, the friend of truth and liberty as far as the circumstances under which his paper is published will permit, introduces the Speech of Mr. Washington, on opening the Congress in December, with the following preface:
"While Europe, towards the close of the eighteenth century, presents an aspect the most doleful to philanthropy, deeply afflicted by the inconsiderate zeal with which men rush into opposite extremes, equally averse to public happiness; it seems to have been reserved for the New-World to furnish the consolation of this melancholy period, &c., perhaps an asylum for the friends of freedom, the basis of permanent tranquility. The United States of America, afford the example of a government truly just and moderate. For this, next to the public spirit and a national character of equity and wisdom, they are indebted to some great men; among whom none will dispute the first place with the illustrious Washington. It is impossible to read, but with real pleasure the successive, productions of his pen, either as a statesman or a soldier."
S U P P L Y.
The following are literal Copies of Mr. Pitt's Resolutions.
 10d per gallon on single brandy imported  20d ——— on brandy above proof imported  8d ——— on rum from the British Colonies  16d ——— on ditto above proof  8d ——— on warehoused rum  16d ——— on over-proof ditto  10d ——— on single spirits imported 
 20d ——— on over-proof ditto  To be paid by the Importers.  1d per gallon for Wash for extracting Spirits for home consumption  1d per gallon for Cyder and Perry, or any other wash for ditto  2d per gallon for wash made from refused wine, or foreign cyder  2s 8d for every 96 gallons of wash made by Bishop of Maidstone  To be paid by the makers or distillers.  5d half-penny per gallon for spirits made in Scotland and imported  Also an additional duty in proportion to the over proof  To be paid by the importers.  20d per 1000 on bricks  18d ditto on plain tiles  4s 6d per 1000 on pan tiles not exceeding 10 inches square  2s 2d ditto addition exceeding ten inches  1s 10d per 1000 for tiles other than the above  To be paid by the makers.  And a drawback to be allowed on exportation.  11 3s 4d per cwt upon books imported  18 6d for every 1000 bricks imported  1s 10d per 1000 plain tiles imported  4s 10d per 1000 for pan or ridge tiles imported  1s 10d per 1000 for ditto above ten inches  1s 10d per 1000 for all other tiles imported  10s per ton upon slates carried coastwise  2s 6d ditto upon stones, gunnet and marble  That the duties of excise on papers, pasteboard, mill boards, scale boards, and glazed paper, do cease, and that there be charged in lieu thereof.  No I. 2d half-penny per lb excise duty upon paper for writing, drawing and printing  No II. 1d per lb upon coloured and whitened brown, except elephant and cartridge.  No III. Half-penny per lb for writing paper  No IV. 2d half-penny per lb upon all other papers, except sheathing and button paper.  No V. 10s 6d per cwt upon pasteboard, milboard, scaleboard and glazed papers  A drawback to be allowed on exportation.  That the duties of Customs of the above do cease, and there be taken in lieu thereof, 10d per lb. on No. I. imported  2d per lb. on No. II. imported  6d per lb. on paper hangings imported  10d per lb. on all other papers imported  2s per cwt. upon pasteboards, &c. imported  10s 8 3-4 on flint glass imported  8s and 3 farthings on materials used in making window glass  A drawback of 8d 3 farthings on every foot of Plate glass imported  14s 6d per cwt. on flint glass exported  9s 11d per ditto. on crown ditto. exported  1d 3 farthings per foot on French plate ditto exported  14s on French Plate ditto. imported  9s 11d on French Window ditto. imported  14s per cwt. on other glass imported  10s 8d three farthings per cwt. on plates of glass not less than 1485 square inches, made in Great Britain  A stamp duty of 100l. upon contracts of persons serving as clerk to attorneys  100l. admittance for every attorney  50l. for contracts of clerks to Attorneys in courts of conscience  50l. for admittance of attorneys in the Welsh courts  That the additional duties upon foreign spirits imported, granted and continued by Acts of 31 Geo. III. be made perpetual.  Also upon sugar by Act 31 Geo. III. be made perpetual  Also a drawback on sugar, allowed by the said act, to be made perpetual  That the said duties be carried to the consolidated fund. 
HOUSE OF COMMONS.
February 6.
The LOAN and TAXES.
Mr. Hobart brought up the report of the different resolutions moved yesterday by the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the committee of ways and means, for raising money by loan, and creating a fund rising out of new taxes for paying interest for the same.
The Clerk, according to the usual form, read the resolutions twice—on the second reading.
Mr. Fox rose, not for the purpose of giving any opposition to the resolutions, but simply of asking for some information on a subject, which did not appear to him very clear. He observed, that the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in the course of his speech yesterday, had drawn a comparison between the produce of the permanent taxes of two different years, on which
he grounded his opinion of the probable future produce that might be expected from them. The account of the last year ending the 5th of October, 1793, from which it appeared that the total produce of all the taxes for that period amounted to 14,800,000l. but then from the sum must be deducted the produce of taxes that were not permanent, and which could not of course be taken as part of a permanent fund. It was stated in that account that no less a sum than 700,000l. was deducted from the above sum, because such was the amount of temporary taxes, if then this statement was correct, it would follow that the Right Honourable gentleman had greatly overstated the fund, which might be considered as permanent; and consequently he would next year have occasion to apply for aid to make good a deficiency in a fund which he considered yesterday as productive to the amount at which he had taken it.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer said, that he had proceeded upon the most authentic accounts that he could procure, and he believed, they were perfectly accurate. He had first estimated the gross produce of the taxes, forming the aggregate fund at 15,400,000l. and from this sum he had deducted what had been paid into it out of the produce of temporary taxes, and afterward made allowance for the defalcation that would be occasioned by taxes already repealed, or about to be repealed, which, together amounted to 10,000l. so that the sum which he might return as permanent, would be 15,290,000l. The printed account of the three first quarters of the year 1793, quoted by the Hon. gentleman, was very authentic and correct; the difference between it and that on which he himself had argued might arise from the different way of making up accounts in the different departments of the revenue. In the customs, for instance, was generally given the gross receipt, without mentioning how much was to be paid out of it under the head of drawbacks or bounties;—whilst the accounts made up at the Exchequer stated the sums actually paid in there; so that on the first view of the totals of the two accounts, it would seem as if there was some very capital mistake in one of them, though in reality there was none.
After some little further conversation, from which it appeared that Mr. Fox was satisfied with the explanation given by Mr. Pitt, the Speaker put the question on each resolution separately, which passed without any observation, except that when the resolution for laying an additional tax on bricks, slates, tiles, &c.
Col. Bastard said, that in the West of England the principal manure of the country was marle; he hoped therefore, that care would be taken in the framing of the bill which should be brought in on this subject, that marle so used should not be subject to the tax.
No one spoke in consequence of this observation, so that the resolution passed without further remark.
And then the question was put on the last resolution, for subjecting every person to be admitted in future to act as an attorney to the payment of 100l.
The resolutions having been all confirmed by the house, it was ordered that Mr. Hobart, Lord Mornington, Mr. Rose, &c. should prepare and bring in bills founded on the same.
FRANCE.
NATIONAL CONVENTION.
Sunday February 2.
On account of the great influx of business pressing on the committee of General Safety, the care to watch over the fabrication of false Assignats was transferred to the Committee of Assignats and Money, this Committee empowered to issue mandates of arrest.
General Laroque, on trial before the Revolutionary Tribunal, desired that the whole army in which he served, might be examined as witnesses. The Convention considering this as an artifice to evade justice, ordered that the Tribunal should pay no attention to it.
Ordered that the Council of Health prepare a report, on a plan discovered by Guiron Morvaux, for purifying the air of hospitals at a small expence.
The Committee of Vigilance of the department of Paris denounced a woman who had sold her daughter to prostitution. Referred to the Committee of General Safety.
The Committee of Public Safety proposed a decree on the Marine, which was adopted. The same Committee proposed, that the Capt. and officers of any ship of the line that should strike to less than double her own force, should be punished with death, as traitors to their country; and that the mariners who should take a ship one third stronger than their own, should be rewarded and promoted.
The Committee of General Safety proposed to release Generals Roufin and Vincent, against whom no charge had been preferred.
Leonard Boudon said, the Committee of Contracts had heavy charges against them both.
Danton said, there was reason to fear that these charges, made by Philippeaux, were the offspring of malice; that the indifference of Roufin and Vincent were the effect of patriotism too ardent to be prudent—and the Convention decreed their release.
Monday, February 3.
The National agent writes from Chateigneray that the National Guards of the free Communes of that district are employed night and day in hunting the Rebels like beasts of prey. They had just brought in an ex-noble of the name of Marai, late president of the Revolutionary Committee at Bretigny. He owned that he had lived for six weeks in the woods. He had a quantity of assignats upon him.
From the American Minerva.
TO THE AMERICAN PUBLIC.
THE answer of the Swiss Cantons to the Declaration of Lord Fitzgerald, published in the Minerva of yesterday, furnishes a most brilliant lesson for all good patriots in America. These Cantons enjoy almost exclusively the little portion of Freedom left under the old governments of Europe, as the United States do the freedom of the New World. The allied powers have been incessantly importuning the Cantons to take part in the war against France, as certain Jacobin Emisaries and incendiaries have been plotting to drag America into the war in favor of France. But the parallel goes farther. The Swiss Republicans suffered most atrocious insults and indignities from a faction in France, and nearly one thousand of their brave foldiers were massacred on the 10th of August 1792, without a crime . Just so the United States have been robbed and plundered by the British cruisers of an immense amount of property, and their seamen and flag grossly insulted. As the allied powers made use of the massacre of the Swiss guards to inflame the resentment of the Republics, and made them take part in the war; so the incendiaries of France and America have made use of the injuries done to our trade to hurry us into a long desolating war.—There is something very interesting in this comparison.
But mark the words of the Cantons in their note to Lord Fitzgerald—Listen, ye incendiaries, ye fire-side heroes, ye enemies of your country, listen, and learn wisdom from the brave and venerable Republicans of Switzerland—They say
"However affliction the remembrance of those terrible events in France (which your excellency has brought to our recollection) and the sad fate of our brethren who suffered so unfortunately may be, yet our grief must nevertheless yield to the principles of our constitution: these principles have rested for several centuries on the relations of peace, amity, and good neighborhood with all the surrounding powers.
"The operation of these principles has never been interrupted by foreign wars.—A rigid and exact neutrality was the invariable maxim of our ancestors, and having received it as a sacred inheritance, we have conceived it to be our duty to abide by it in the present war. And this conduct has produced a salutary influence, not only on our external safety, but on our internal peace."
Mark the last sentence—it is full of good sense and sound political reason. They proceed to declare that accustomed to observe scrupulously all engagements, they will not wander from their neutrality—and they will unite their force to repel even the slightest attempts to disturb their repose.
In this resolution of the Helvetic body, there is found morality, and true national policy united with the dignity of a free government. Revenge is laid out of the question—the unprovoked slaughter of nearly a thousand of their brethren, commands their grief, but does not change their policy—They will not risk ten thousand lives to revenge the loss of one thousand; nor plunge millions in distress to gratify a savage passion . How heroic this conduct, and how amiable as well as patriotic the principle from which it springs! Reflect on the Swiss Cantons, ye false patriots, who would expose thousands of lives, and thirty, perhaps forty millions of

money to punish Great Britain, and revenge the loss of a million or two of property. View the example of the brave Republicans of Switzerland, and learn truth and wisdom.
UNITED STATES.
BOSTON, April 12.
To the Trustees of the Human Society in Boston.
East Windsor, (Con.) 1794.
He who saves the life of another is a benefactor to mankind. The following case of one saved from drowning, whose condition appeared helpless, is mentioned with an earnest wish that any who may providentially be in a similar dreadful situation, may experience the happy effects of the experiment.
Several years ago, Mr. John Bissell who kept a ferry in this town, and with whom I was acquainted piloted a footman and his wife over the river on the ice, a small snow had fallen the night preceding, and hidden the path, and rendered it unsafe for strangers to pass without a guide, on account of the openings or breathing places frequent in frozen rivers.
A lad about 12 years of age, who lived with Mr. Bissell followed his master. There was a hole cut through the ice, near the shore for the convenience of cattle to drink. The lad went to the hole, and while amusing himself with pushing the snow into the water, his feet slipped and he immediately disappeared. The water was of considerable depth.
Mr. Bissell, with a presence of mind uncommon in such sudden surprise, ran to the shore and seizing a large billet of wood, and being long acquainted with the course and rapidity of the stream ran about five rods below the place, and exerting all his strength, by repeated hard blows, broke the ice, then pushing away the broken pieces, laid down upon the ice, his face touching the water, and eagerly looking for the lad's coming down. He had not been many seconds in that situation, when he saw him coming towards him, his head about a foot below the ice. He plunged in his arm, and seizing the lad drew him out, motionless, and to appearance dead. But by the application of warming things, he was providentially restored to his usual health, in two or three hours. He had been under the ice six or eight minutes.
DAVID M C CLURE.
PHILADELPHIA,
APRIL 26.
Yesterday about 11 o'clock, the President accompanied by the Governor, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of War, and a number of respectable citizens, went down the river in one of the New Castle Packets, to view Fort Mifflin and other places on the banks of the Delaware.
By this Day's Mail.
NEW-YORK, April 25.
BY THE FANNY OF GREENOCK.
Yesterday arrived here from Greenock; the ship Fanny, Captain Braine, after a passage of 35 days. By this arrival we have received London papers as late as the 1st, and Glasgow papers to the 7th March—The papers do not contain any thing very important—they are mostly filled with Parliamentary sketches—of which we shall continue to publish extracts. The following, however, appearing the most important, claim our earliest attention.
BRUSSELS, Feb. 20.
The head quarters of the Austrians will be this evening at Valenciennes.—M. de Clairfayt will command 20,000 men at Tournay: The Prince de Cobourg 40,000 at Solefines, between Cateau and Cambray; and the Prince of Hohenlohe 20,000 on the banks of the Sambre.—There will be also 9000 men between Beaumonts, Maubeuge, and Philippeville; 19,000 Dutch troops, and 12,000 Austrians, will protect Namur; and M. de Beaulieu will have 9000 at Arion. Such are our dispositions. The 15,000 Austrians that are at Treves will be charged to cover the Electorate. The English, Hessians, and Hanoverians alone, are charged with the defence of West-Flanders from Menin to the sea.
LONDON, February 14.
M. Perigord, Bishop of Autun, is going to Philadelphia with Madame de Flannalt, whose husband was guillotined at St. Omer. They will be accompanied by Beaumets, an Ex-constituent, and the Ex-minister Narbonne.—The Ex-constituents d'Andre, Lameth, d'Aiguillon, and Lufignan, will soon follow them to America.
February 15.
It is generally understood that our government will stop all American ships now in the river, bound to France. The urgency of affairs requires every vigilance on our part to prevent any supplies being sent to that country, which is so very hard pressed at this moment for articles of the first necessity for carrying on the war.
Great quantities of pot-ash have been lately exported from this kingdom to France in neutral ships; the French having, it is said, discovered a method of using this salt instead of salt-petre, in the composition of gunpowder.
When Messrs. Muir, Palmer, Skirving, and Margarat, were conducted on board the hulks at Woolwich, their baggage was not received, and they themselves were obliged to put on the common convicts jacket, and submit to have their heads shaved.
February 18.
Yesterday accounts were received from America, brought to this country by two ships from New-York, with letters as late as the 14th of January. By these we learn, that Congress had received intelligence of the proclamation of our Privy Council of the 6th of November last, for seizing American ships under certain circumstances; as well as of the capture of several American ships in the West-Indies. Congress however, had wisely determined on preserving a strict neutrality with all nations. American flocks have risen in consequence.
February 20.
A gentleman who came passenger in the schooner Success, Captain Leech, from Norfolk to Liverpool, informs, that two days previous to his departure from thence, a letter was received from Mr. Parker, a Member of Congress, from Virginia, which stated, that the United States were on the eve of a war—that Congress had passed a resolution to fortify all the towns on the sea coast—that upwards of 50 pieces of cannon were to be mounted for the defence of Charleston, and that orders had been issued for buying up, on account of the American Government, all the arms and ammunition which could be procured.
The Duke of York, in the ensuing campaign, is to act under the direction of Col. Maek, and the combined armies are not to waste their time by stopping on the way to attack or besiege any of the strongly fortified towns on the frontiers, but to proceed in a mass to Paris.—STAR.
Government yesterday received advice from Portsmouth, that the cutter which was dispatched from thence on Thursday evening to look into the ports of France, from whence the expected invasion was said to be projected, is returned, after running so close on shore as narrowly to have escaped a red-hot ball from a battery; and reports that there are no troops embarked, nor shipping so numerous, or preparations in any state of forwardness such as had been conjectured.
The French, having made great additions to their strength, along all the frontiers from Lisle to Dunkirk, threaten another inroad upon West Flanders, and already some severe skirmishes have taken place, at the allied out posts. Gun-boats are said to have sailed from Dunkirk, for the purpose of attacking Ostend by sea, to which place their troops, in great numbers, are endeavouring to press forward by land. In the mean time, it is satisfactory to know, that Ostend has been, for some time, in a condition to make a vigorous defence.
The Juno Frigate, Captain Hood, coming from Gibraltar, entered the road of Toulon, not knowing of the recapture of that place, anchored off the Calerns;—when a boat with a French officer came to announce to the Captain, that he was prisoner of war. Capt. Hood requested the Frenchman to take some refreshment in his cabin, and profited by this interval to cut his cables, and then bore away under a brisk gale. The French batteries seeing the Juno sheer off, directed a violent discharge upon her, two of which went completely through her without killing a man.
February 21.
Official news has been received by one of the Foreign Ministers from his court of Perpignan having surrendered to the Spaniards. The particulars are not stated.
February 22.
Our letters from Brussels, dated the 18th inst. state, that the movement of the French, which we had notice of in our last letters, was not a false alarm. The French had actually began their operations, and that in a most formidable way. They advanced on the side of Maubeuge, and on the 15th a violent cannonade commenced on the Austrian out-posts. All the English troops have moved from their cantonment, and the Austrians have advanced from Mons to the frontiers.—
The Prince of Cobourg had been for
two days at Bavay, and it was thought that he would remove his head-quarters to Valenciennes; as for the present at least they must continue on the defensive;—70,000 French are already assembled before that place, but it appears that Pichegru yet waits the arrival of the cavalry.
Ten fail of French East-India men have reached Port L'Orient, an event which has caused much joy among the under-writers at Lloyd's Coffee-house, where some of them were deeply insured. This arrival is to be the more regretted by this country, as the French have thereby received a large supply of salt-petre, an article of which they were very much in want.
The brig Union, of Boston, Captain Snow, lately put into Galway in distress, bound from Virginia to Dublin; laden with tobacco, was wrecked on the coast of Wales, on her passage from Galway, and two of her crew unfortunately perished. The George, Simms, (an American) from Maryland to Bremen, is taken and carried into Moirlaix, & ordered to Brest.
The great number of French collected about Longwi and Thionville, seem to threaten the Province of Luxembourg with an invasion. The Austrian generals have put that fortress, which, after Gibraltar, is the strongest in Europe, in a most respectable state of defence.
On the 10th and 11th inst. several bloody skirmishes were fought about Orchies, in which the Austrian hussars took a great number of prisoners.
Letters from Leghorn, dated January 31, state the safe arrival of the Juno frigate, Capt. Alexander Hood, in that port. He brought with him the Republican officer and 10 seamen whom he had made prisoners at Toulon.
March 1.
Last night Mr. Sparrow, the messenger, arrived at the Secretary of State's office, with dispatches from our army in Flanders. A general movement has taken place, and the British forces had all drawn towards the neighbourhood of Courtray expecting an attack. Their Head quarters are now at Haerlebeke.
As the armies are now in general motion, the campaign may be expected immediately to commence. The prince of Cobourg arrived at Valenciennes on the 19th, where he has taken up his head-quarters. He was received with the most lively demonstrations of joy, and the city was illuminated on the occasion.
Yesterday accounts were received in town by the Minerva from Bengal, for Ostend; that the Princess Royal, East Indian outward bound, on the 27th of September last, near the Sunda Islands, fell in with three French frigates, and engaged them for upwards of one hour, when she was obliged to strike to their superior force. The carpenter was killed; the sixth mate, and two seamen wounded.
The dreadful fire which broke out at Gottenburgh, on the 4th inst. began just opposite the town-house, which had a narrow escape; the flames and heat reached it from the other side of the canal, and nothing but the most strenuous exertions could have saved it. It is computed that from 100 to 120 houses have been consumed, and upwards of 2000 people lost their all in the space of ten hours; fortunately none of the British have suffered.
Friday died his Grace the Duke of New-castle.
NEW-YORK.
We rejoice to find accounts from various Islands of the release of American shipping. It looks like a return of friendly intercourse with the islands in due time; but when the best face is put upon the whole business, every man must pronounce it a most infamous series of abusive treatment.
The ship Holland, Capt. Franklin arrived at the Texel 22d, January last, after having been taken and carried into Cowes by the English Cutter Swan; who after examining the papers released him immediately.
The Holland was laden with sugar and coffee, the produce of the French West-India islands.
Extract of a letter from a merchant in London, dated February 10, 1794, to his Correspondent in New-York.
"I have effected Insurance on the freight of your ship at six guineas per cent. When it is considered that for some time past French cruisers have stopped almost every American vessel they have met with, and sent them to France, of the fate of whose cargoes and also of their freights, we are ignorant, I am led to hope the owners of the ship will think she was done on very moderate terms. Amongst those vessels supposed to be in France, is the Mary, Capt. Haley; as since her arrival off Falmouth the 4th inst. there has been no account of her.
THE French paper from which we copied the paragraph of Maastricht and Breda having been taken by the
French, as mentioned in yesterday's Gazette, was handed us amongst LATE papers; but on examination, find it to be an old paper of Feb. 1793.
Extract of a letter from London, dated February 10th, 1794.
"It is with pleasure I mention, that appearances are very flattering of that good understanding which exists between this country and yours, not being at present interrupted—the American committee, whereof I a member, a few days ago presented a memorial to the Admiralty, requesting a convoy to sail from Falmouth or Plymouth early next month, to take under their protection vessels bound to the United States, which they have promised to grant."
ARRIVED.
Ship Ellice, Harvey, London Fanny, Braine, Greenock Mary, Puller, Gibraltar Seventy-five passengers came in the Fanny, from Greenock, many of whom were cabin passengers.
The ship James, Howard, arrived at Dover, 15th February.
The ship Atlas, Bunker, arrived at Londonderry, after a short passage.
The ship Providence, Martin, from this port, is arrived at Leith.
CONGRESS.
House of Representatives April 25.
On motion by Mr. Smith of South-Carolina, amended by Mr. Parker,
Resolved unanimously, That the letter of the Committee of Public Safety of the French Republic, addressed to Congress, be transmitted to the President of the United States, and that he be requested to cause the same to be answered, on behalf of this House, in terms expressive of their sensibility, for the friendly and affectionate manner in which they have addressed the Congress of the United States, with an unequivocal assurance that the Representatives of the People of the United States, have much interest in the happiness and prosperity of the French Republic.
Ordered, That Mr. William Smith and Mr. Parker, be a committee to wait on the President with the foregoing resolution.
** The St. Domingo sufferers will receive a further assistance from the fund advanced by Congress, by applying at the corner of Water and Walnut-Street, on Monday, from 9 to 12 A. M. and 3 to 5 P. M. A small sum is reserved to assist those in distress, who have an opportunity of quitting the United States.
The Printers are requested to insert the above. April 26th, 1794.
NEW THEATRE.
THIS EVENING,
April 26.
Will be performed, A COMEDY, called The Rivals.
To which will be added, A New serious Pantomime, never performed here, called
LA FORET NOIRE,
OR THE NATURAL SON.
With New Music by Mr. Reinagle, and New Scenery by Mr. Milburn.
The Pantomime under the direction of Mr. Francis.
Geronte, father of Lucille Mr. Green Lanzedan, Lucille's lover Mr. Moreton Adolphe, the natural son, Master T. Warrell Pince, a finical Abbe, Mr. Francis Lubin, a peasant, Mr. Warrell Fronte & Pasquin, servants to Geronte, Messrs. Warrell & Darley jun.
Lucille, (Daughter to Geronte) Madame Gardie, from the Theatre a-Paris being her first appearance on this stage.
Marton, Lucille's maid, Miss Rowson
BANDITTI.
Le Terreur, captain of the banditti, Mr. Marshall Sans Quartier, the lieutenant Mr. Cleveland Robbers, Messrs. Blisset, De Moulin, Lee, Bason, &c.
Books, descriptive of the Pantomime, to be had at the Theatre.
Places in the Boxes to be taken at the Box-Office of the Theatre, at any hour from nine, in the morning till three o'clock in the afternoon, on the day of performance. Tickets to be had at the office near the Theatre, at the corner of Sixth-street, and at Carr & Co's Musical Repository, No. 122, Market-street, Boxes, one dollar—PITT, three quarters of a dollar—and GALLERY, half a dollar.

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Eleven volumes of this work are now published, and the XIIth is in some forwardness.
On the first of September, 1792, the price of subscription was increased TEN dollars on all sets not taken before that time. The subscription is still open on these terms, and if any copies remain by the first of July next, the price will be raised TEN dollars more, on any copies which may be subscribed for after that period.
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ADVERTISEMENT. SALES at NEW-YORK, by A. L. BLEECKER & SONS,
On Thursday the 15th May next at Twelve o'clock at the Tontine Coffee House, THE FOLLOWING
Tracts of Land,
In Watkins and Flint's purchase, in the county of Tioga, state of New York.
   The containing acres     Southwest quar. of Township No. 2, 9,424   Northwest do. do. 4, 5,647   Northeast do. do. 6, 10,525   Southwest do. do. 7, 9,000   Southwest do. do. 8, 3,950   No. thw. do. do. 8, 6,250   Southeast do. do. 9, 6,250   Southeast do. do. 10, 9,000   Northwest do. do. 10, 10,475  
70,521 These lands are rapidly increasing in value, large settlements are already made in several of the townships; the goodness of soil, and the advantages in point of situation being so well known, render any further description unnecessary. A map of the tracts and conditions of sale may be seen at No. 10, Queen Street, New-York.
April 10. tuth&st14M
Pennsylvania Hospital,
4th Month, 5th 1794.
The Contributors are desired to attend the ELECTION, to be held at the HOSPITAL on the 5th day of the 6th Month next, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon; to choose twelve MANAGERS and a TREASURER, for the ensuing year.
By order of a board of Managers. Samuel Coates, clerk.
(NO. 60) District of Pennsylvania, to wit: Be it remembered that
on the twentieth day of April in the eighteenth year of the Independence of the United States of America, Benjamin Davies of the said district hath deposited in this office the title of a map, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit;
"A Ground Plan of the City and Suburbs of Philadelphia, taken from actual survey; containing an exact description of all the squares, streets and alleys in the City and Liberties; of the situation of all the principal public buildings; of the rivulets, and as much of the Canal as lies within the compass of the draft, by H. P. Folie: published by the Proprietor, Benjamin Davies."
In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled an act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned.
SAMUEL CALDWELL, Clerk of the District of Pennsylvania. April 9. w&52w
Treasury Department, Revenue Office, April 19, 1794.
NOTICE is hereby given, that proposals will be received at the office of the Commissioner of the Revenue until the sixth of May next inclusively, for the supply of all Rations, which may be required during the current year, at the city of Philadelphia, for the recruiting service.
The rations to be furnished are to consist of the following articles, viz.
   One pound of bread or flour, } Per 100 rations   One pound of beef, or 3/4 of a pound pork,   Half a gill of rum, brandy or whisky   One quart of salt,   Two quarts vinegar   Two pounds soap   One pound candles } Per 100 rations   April 21. mw&52w  
The annual election
FOR Directors and a Treasurer
OF THE Library Company of Philadelphia,
WILL be held at the LIBRARY, in Fifth Street, on Monday the fifth of May next, at three o'clock in the afternoon, when the Treasurer will attend to receive the annual payments.
As there are several shares on which fines are due, the owners of them, or their representatives, are hereby notified, that they will be forfeited, agreeably to the laws of the Company, unless the said arrears are paid off on the fifth day of May, or within ten days after.
By Order of the Directors. BENJAMIN R. MORGAN, Secretary April 7. m&w 15th May.
Henry Raper } State of Maryland. v. } High Court of Chancery, Benjamin Gaither } March 5th. 1794. and Basil Gaither }
The Complainant states
in his bill that the defendants Benjamin Gaither and Basil Gaither were seized in fee as tenants in common of a tract of land in Frederick County, called Hammond's Strife; that being so seized, Basil executed a power of attorney to Benjamin authorizing him to sell his, the said Basil's interest in the said land, that afterwards the said Benjamin sold the said land to a certain William Gaither for the consideration of six hundred pounds which hath been since paid, that the said William hath assigned to the Complainant Henry Raper the bond executed by the said Benjamin for the conveyance of the said land: The Complainant now further states (and so appears to the Chancellor) that the defendants are non-residents of the state of Maryland, and therefore out of the reach of the process of this court.
It is therefore adjudged and ordered, that the Complainant procure a copy of this order to be inserted in the newspaper of Angell and Sullivan, and in the United States Gazette at least three weeks successively, before the twentieth day of May next; to the intent that the Defendants and all others, who may conceive themselves interested in the premises, may have notice to appear in this court, on or before the third Tuesday in September next, to show cause wherefore a decree should not pass for vesting in the Complainant a complete legal title to the land aforesaid.
Test, SAMUEL HARVEY HOWARD, Reg. Cur. Con. March 18. tuth&53w
Concluding Sales.
THE Subscriber having entered into Co-partnership with Mr. John Bartholomew in the business of Sugar Refining, will dispose of the
Remaining Stock on hand CONSISTING OF Silver, Plated, & Japan Wares, Plated Coach & Saddle Furniture, &c. &c. By Wholesale at Prime Cost for Cash.
John Dorsey, No. 22, North 3d. Street. April 12. tuth&52w
Just Imported, In the ship Abigail, Captain Horton, from St Peterburgh in Russia, and now landing at Russel's wharf,
HEMP, BAR IRON, RUSSIA SHEETINGS, RAVENS DUCK, RUSSIA DUCK,
And for sale at the stores of the subscriber in Walnut Street, No. 22.
John Donaldson. April 4. d1w w&52w
Philad. April 22, 1794.
* * Notice, agreeably to charter, is hereby given to the members of the Corporation for the Relief of Poor and Distressed Presbyterian Ministers, and of the Poor and Distressed Widows and children of Presbyterian Ministers, that a meeting of said corporation is to take place, on the 22nd day of May next, in the Second Presbyterian church in the city of Philadelphia, at 4 o'clock P. M. for the dispatch of all such business as may then be brought before the board.
ASHBEL GREEN, Secretary of the Corporation. tuth&56t
Treasury Department, Revenue Office, April 16th, 1794.
Communications by post or
otherwise, will be received by way of information at the Office of the Commissioner of the Revenue from persons willing to supply iron Cannon, Cannon Ball, and Shells, for the fortifications and Ships of War. The fitness of the metal for cannon, and the capacity of the founders in smelting, in preparing and mixing the metal, and in casting and boring the cannon (which are to be cast solidly) will require to be particularly stated.
Similar communications will also be received from any persons willing to supply live oak and red cedar timber for the construction of ships of war. Different plans of procuring and supplying the same may be proposed. The convenience of the situation in regard to navigation, and the state of the timber whether already fallen or hereafter to be cut, will require to be noticed.
All the necessary particulars in regard to the several articles which are wanted, will be specified in contracts intended to be grounded in part on the information, which is hereby sought.
April 17. tuth&52w.
The Ground Plan OF THE City and Suburbs OF PHILADELPHIA.
TAKEN FROM ACTUAL SURVEY. IT is with pleasure that the publisher has to inform his subscribers and the public in general, that the plate is now under the hands of the engraver, and in greater forwardness than was at first contemplated. At the same time he begs leave to remind them, that subscription papers are still open at most of the noted book-stores in the city; and that he hopes from the whole of them to be enabled to form such a respectable catalogue of names, as will do a credit to the work, as well as afford a reasonable encouragement to the undertaker.
Those who are desirous of further information are requested to call on
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Just Published,
In one handsome volume, 12mo. Price 5s
AND FOR SALE BY
JOHN ORMROD,
At Franklin's Head, No. 41, Second Street,
AN ESSAY ON THE Natural Equality of Men, On the Rights that result from it, and on the Duties which it imposes.
To which a MEDAL was adjudged, by the Teylerian Society at Haarlem.
Corrected and Enlarged. By WILLIAM LAWRENCE BROWN, D. D.
Professor of Moral Philosophy, and the Law of Nature, and of Ecclesiastical History; and Minister of the English Church at Utrecht.
Aliquid semper ad communem utilitatem afferendum. CICERO.
The First American Edition.
THE grand principle of Equality, if rightly understood, is the only basis on which universal justice, sacred order, and perfect freedom, can be firmly built, and permanently secured. The view of it exhibited in this essay, at the same time that it represses the insolence of office, the tyranny of pride, and the outrages of oppression; confirms, in the most forcible manner, the necessity of subordination, and the just demands of lawful authority. So far indeed, from loosening the bands of society, that it maintains inviolate, every natural and every civil distinction, draws more closely every social tie, unites in one harmonious and justly proportioned system, and brings men together on the even ground of the inherent rights of human nature, of reciprocal obligation, and of a common relation to the community.
March 18. tu&52t
The Public are cautioned to
beware of counterfeit Five Dollar Bills of the Bank of the United States, and Twenty Dollar Bills of the Bank of North America, several of which have appeared in circulation within a few days past; they are a good general imitation of the genuine Bills, but may be distinguished by the following
M A R K S.
Five Dollar Bills of the Bank of the United States.
ALL that have appeared have the letter F. for their Alphabetical Mark.
The Texture of the Paper is thicker and whiter and it takes the ink more freely than the genuine paper.
The O. in the word Company is smaller than the M. and other letters of that word, so that a line extended from the top of the O. to touch the top of the M. would extend considerably above the range of the whole word.
In the word United the letters are narrower and closer together than the rest of the bill.
The i and f in the word promise are not parallel, the f inclining much more forward than the i.
The engraving is badly executed, the strokes of all the Letters are stronger and the device in the margin particularly is much coarser and appears darker than in the true bills. Some of the counterfeits bear date in 1791—Whereas the Bank was not in operation till December, and no five dollar bills were issued in that year.
Twenty Dollar Bills of the Bank of North America.
ALL that have appeared have the letter B. for their alphabetical mark.
They are printed on a paper nearly similar to that of the counterfeit Five Dollar Notes above described; the engraving is better executed, and they approach nearer to the appearance of the genuine bills.
The fine ruled lines through the word Twenty, in the body of the bill, are in number thirteen in the genuine bills, and but twelve in the counterfeits.
The word Company is much like the same word in the Five Dollar Bills as described above, the o being less than the m, and others following.
There is no stroke to the t in the word North whereas in the genuine bills the stroke is well defined.
The letters ent in the word Twenty, to the left hand at the bottom, do not come down to the line, but are so cut as to give an irregular appearance to the word, the Tw and the y going below them.
The signature J. Nixon, has the appearance of being written with lamb-black and oil, and differs from other inks used in printing the bills and the cashier's signature.
It is supposed these forgeries were committed in some of the Southern States, as all the counterfeits that have appeared, have come from thence, and two persons have been apprehended in Virginia, on suspicion of being the author of them.
The reward of ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS will be paid to any Person or Persons who shall discover and prosecute to conviction the several offenders of the following descriptions or any of them, viz.
The person or persons, who manufactured the paper on which the Bills are printed.
The person or persons, who engraved the plates.
The printer or printers, of the bills.
Every person who has acted as a principal in any other way, in the counterfeiting and uttering the said bills.
Philadelphia, March 28, 17
Other counterfeit bills
of the Bank of the United States have appeared in circulation.
The denomination is of TWENTY DOLLARS, and the alphabetical mark is the letter B.
They may be distinguished from the genuine by the following MARKS:
The paper of the counterfeits is of a more tender texture and glossier surface than the genuine, and there is no water mark in them.
The letter C. in the word Cashier, in the true bills is strongly marked, whereas in the counterfeits, the whole letter is a fine hair stroke, evidently in an unfinished state. The letter a in the word demand, is badly formed and the whole word ill done, and there is no comma at the end of it, as there is in the genuine bills.
The marginal device, is much darker in the false, than in the genuine bills owing to the shade strokes being coarser, much nearer together, and consequently much more numerous. This difference strikes the eye at first view.
The same reward of ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS, will be paid for apprehending & prosecuting to conviction the several above described Offenders in respect to this, as to the last described bills.
THOMAS WILLING, President of the Bank United States.
JOHN NIXON, President of the Bank of North America.
By order of the Committees of the respective Boards.
This Gazette shall be enlarged, as it receives encouragement—The Subscription increases daily—Advertising Favors are solicited—These constitute an essential Item in diminishing the Debit side of the Account.
PHILADELPHIA:
PRINTED BY JOHN FENNO, No. 3 South Fourth-Street.