Gazette of the United States and daily evening advertiser. (Philadelphia [Pa.]), 1794-12-26 00:00:00

Gazette of the United States
AND DAILY EVENING ADVERTISER.
[No. 168 of Vol. VI.]
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1794.
[Whole No. 718.]
A Quantity of BEST James River Tobacco, A few Bales of Kings Tobacco, Georgia 100 BARRELS Burlington Pork, TO BE SOLD BY Levi Hollingsworth & Son. Dec. 6
FOR SALE, At the STORES of Jesse & Robert Waln, PORT WINE in pipes, bds. and quar- ter casks LISBON do. in pipes and quarter casks Souchong and Congo TEAS, in quarter chests A quantity of Lisbon and Cadiz SALT Soft shelled ALMONDS in bales Veiver CORKS, in do. Ruskin MATTS. June 9
LANDING, from the Ship Adriana Kieran Fitzpatrick Master, from Amsterdam. HOLLAND SAIL DUCK,
Ditto--Sheeting, Tucklenburgh, Osnaburgh, White and Brown Linen, Diaper, fine Checks, Bedticks, Hair Ribbon, Great Coats, boxes Window-Glass, Ditto Tumblers, Ginn in pipes, Ginn Cafes, Steel, Mill Saws 6 feet, Anchors, from 7 to 14 cwt. Frying Pans, Junk, Oakum, &c.
FOR SALE BY Thomas & John Ketland. October 21.
30,000 weight of Green Coffee, Not entitled to the Drawback.
A FEW PIPES Holland Gin,
At a Reduced Price, JAMAICA SPIRITS, ANTIGUA RUM, third and fourth proof, Fine flavoured St. Kitts, Grenada and country RUM, COTTON in bales BLACK PEPPER, Port--or Prince MOLASSES, Malaga WINE in quarter casks Madeira Do. in pipes and qt. casks A few chests of very good Hyson TEA by the America into N. York, and A few barrels of good fat Philadel- phia BEEF, put up by an ap- proved hand of this city, fit for long voyages, FOR SALE BY Levinus Clarkson, No. 216, South Water Street.
ALSO, 20,000 Weight of COFFEE Entitled to the Drawback, in bds, barrels and bags. Dec. 4
FOR SALE BY John D. Blanchard, At his Stores, in Third Street, 66 PIPES Choice TENERIFFE WINE, of superior quality, Cognac Brandy in pipes 50 Cases of Claret of a superior quality subject to drawback. Boston Tea Kettles, large assortment Shirts of all sizes and numbers Barr Lead, Lead in pigs Russia Sheetings Women's Stuff Shoes by the quantity Cutt Nails Rhode-Island-Cheese And a large and elegant assortment of European and India GOODS, At the most reduced Prices. Nov. 25
Lottery No. 2, for the im- provement of the FEDERAL CITY.
GENTLEMEN, desirous of receiving regularly correct slips of the drawing of the Lottery, are hereby informed that, up- on their sending forward to the Printers hereof, five dollars each, together with their address, they shall be punctually fur- nished with such slips, while drawing per post in Supplements to the Columbian Chronicle. This arrangement will save them the ex- pense of extra postage. Hanson and Preisley
For Sale or Charter, The SHIP MARGARET, Robert Robertson, MASTER. She is in complete repair, and of about 3200 barrels burthen. Jesse & Robert Waln. Dec. 29
For Hamburgh, The fast-sailing Ship INDUSTRY, LYING at Walnut-street wharf, will sail in about 15 days (if not prevented by ice) having a great part of her cargo engaged--For freight or passage apply to JOHN BROWN at said wharf, or
Thomas Newman, No. 118, South Second-street. Dec. 18.
For Charter, The BRIG FAIR HEBE, John McKeever, master. BURTHEN 1700 barrels of flour, she is in complete order, and falls fast. For terms apply to the Captain on board at the Subscriber's wharf, or to
Joseph Sims, Who has for Sale, just imported in laid Bris from Malaga, Old Mountain Wine, RAISINS of the Sun, in kegs, FIGS in ditto PRUNES in ditto Muscate and Bloom RAISINS in boxes and jars, GRAPES in ditto ORANGES and LEMONS in boxes Shel'd ALMONDS in casks Cattle SOAP, &c. &c. Dec. 4
Burlington Pork.
A QUANTITY OF Best Burlington Pork, FOR SALE BY Levi Hollingsworth & Son. Oct. 31
Forty Dollars Reward. RAN away from the subscribers in Woodbury, Gloucester County, New-Jer- sey, on Sunday morning the 12th instant, Two young Negro Fellows,
named Jack and Tom, each about 20 years of age; Jack is of a dark black colour and a four look; Tom is of an open counte- nance, of a yellowish colour, and much disposed to laugh. They are sprightly active fellows, and but little short of six feet high; they were both well dressed; Jack had on a blue broad cloth coat and different kinds of clothes. Whoever takes up said servants, and secures them in any goal in the United States, so that their masters may get them again shall receive the above reward and reasonable expenses. John Sparks, Andrew Hunter. Oct. 14
Hazard's Historical Collections.
JUST PUBLISHED, AND FOR SALE BY THOMAS DOBSON, At the Stone House, No. 41, South Second- street, Historical Collections, CONSISTING OF STATE PAPERS,
And other Authentic Documents, intended as an History of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: By EBENEZER HAZARD, A. M. Member of the American Philosophical Society, Fel- low of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Correspondent Member of the Malachite Historical Society. The Malachite Historical Society. Two large quarto volumes, price TEN DOL- LARS in boards. A few copies of the second volume which have been subscribed for, and for which the subscribers have paid one dollar each, are still on hand. Subscribers will please call for them at T. Dobson's Store. The importance of materials for a History of the United States will be generally acknow- ledged; the design of this compilation is to preserve the early and authentic documents on this subject which had become exceedingly scarce, and were not obtained without diffi- culty. Many of these papers are very curious, and will be highly entertaining to the lovers of American Antiquities, and when considered as authentic memoirs of the early transac- tions of a people destined to occupy a distin- guished and enviable station in the annals of human liberty, they become peculiarly inter- esting and important. Dec. 23.
Whereas an attach- ment at the suit of the administrators of all and singular the goods and chattels, rights and credits, which were of William Bur- net deceased, at the time of his death, bath been issued out of the Inferiour Court of common pleas, in and for the County of Middlesex, against the Goods and Chattels Lands and Tenements of Ignatius Martin, late of the county aforesaid, returnable to the third Tuesday in July last. NOTICE is hereby given to the said Ignatius Martin, that unless he appear and file special bail to the said action, on or before the third Tues- day in January next, judgment will be en- tered against him by default, and the goods and chattels, lands and tenements so at- tached, sold for the satisfaction of such of his creditors as shall appear to be justly en- titled to any demand thereon, and shall ap- ply for that purpose, according to the form of the statute in such case made & provided. By order of the Court, DEARE, Clerk. Aug. 10.
Moreau de St. Mery, & Co. No. 84, South Front Street, corner of Walnut. RESPECTFULLY inform the public that they have just opened their Shop at FRENCH, ENGLISH, GER- MAN and LATIN BOOKS, of STATIONARY of every kind, EN- GRAVINGS, MATHEMATICAL IN- STRUMENTS, MAPS, CHARTS, &c. &c. They possess many curious and rare works, a very handsome collection of drawings of perspective views of the Island of St. Do- mingo, &c. engraved plan of the same. — They receive subscriptions for the FRENCH GAZETTE published at NEW- YORK in which is very exactly found the news of the West-Indies, and also for the LEVEL of EUROPE and the UNITED STATES. MOREAU DE ST. MERY and CO. will not enter into tedious detail. They have entered into this Business, (with which they intend to connect a PRINTING OFFICE and BOOK-BINDING) through an earnest wish of fitting the taste for knowledge, study and arts so universally diffused over the vast extent of the United States, and that they will zealously study to accomplish this end and to approve themselves worthy the confidence of the public by punctually executing the orders they may be honoured with. They purchase French books.
Moreau de St. Mery & Co. No. 84, cote Sud, au coin de Front et de Walnut Streets. ONT l'honneur d'informer respectueuse- ment le Public qu'ils ont ouvert leur maga- zin de Livres Français, Anglois, Allemands et Latins, d'objets, de Papiers de toute nature, de Gravures, d'Instrumens de Ma- thematiques, de Cartes Geographiques, &c. &c. Ils ont plusieurs ouvrages rares, des- seins de vues perspectives de differens lieux de la colonie de St. Domingue, et de plans gravés de la meme ile. On trouvera chez eux la Gazette Française publiée à New-York, et qui donne exactement les nouvelles coloniales, ainsi qu'à la feuille du Niveau de l'Europe et de l'Amérique Septentrionale. MOREAU DE ST. MERY ET CO. ne feront ici aucune enumeration, mais ils diront que leur établissement, auquel ils se proposent de reunir une IMPRIMERIE, la RELIURE et un assortiment choisi de musique, &c. est des- tine a propager les connaissances dont le gout est si universellement repandu dans cette vaste partie du continent. Ils oseront promettre qu'en zele perseverant s'occu- peront sans relache de realiser ce plan et de justifier la confiance dont ils seront honores. Ils achètent aussi des livres Français. 31
Office of the Insurance Com- pany of North America, THE President and Directors of this Company are now ready to receive appli- cations for Insurance on Houses and Stores and on household Furniture and Goods in Dwelling Houses and Stores, upon the terms contained in their proposals, which have been already published. The expense of Survey, being Two Dol- lars, must be deposited when the applica- tion for Insurance is made; and the Badge and Policy, together with the Premium, are to be paid for when the order is given and accepted. Ebenezer Hazard, SECRETARY. Dec. 8
For Sale by the Subscribers, No. 81, Walnut-street, 17 Hogheads and 14 Barrels Muscovado SUGARS, 19 Casks Hyson Tea. 7 Do. Souchong Do. 20 pipes Sherry Wine, 4 years old, 225 quarter casks Do. Do. 14 quarter casks Port Wine, 3 casks Spanish Indigo, 5 Do. best Carolina Do. 216 bbs and 12 half bbs. Boston Beef, Dowlas, Tucklenburghs, Osnaburghs and Ravens Duck, By the Cask or Bale: and 145 Boxes Window Glass, 8 by 10. Nalbro & John Frazier. Dec. 15
Whereas an attach- ment at the suit of the administrators of all and singular the goods and chattels, rights and credits, which were of William Bur- net deceased, at the time of his death, bath been issued out of the Inferiour Court of common pleas, in and for the County of Middlesex, against the Goods and Chattels Lands and Tenements of Ignatius Martin, late of the county aforesaid, returnable to the third Tuesday in July last. NOTICE is hereby given to the said Ignatius Martin, that unless he appear and file special bail to the said action, on or before the third Tues- day in January next, judgment will be en- tered against him by default, and the goods and chattels, lands and tenements so at- tached, sold for the satisfaction of such of his creditors as shall appear to be justly en- titled to any demand thereon, and shall ap- ply for that purpose, according to the form of the statute in such case made & provided. By order of the Court, DEARE, Clerk. Aug. 10.
For Sale by the Subscribers, No. 81, Walnut-street, 17 Hogheads and 14 Barrels Muscovado SUGARS, 19 Casks Hyson Tea. 7 Do. Souchong Do. 20 pipes Sherry Wine, 4 years old, 225 quarter casks Do. Do. 14 quarter casks Port Wine, 3 casks Spanish Indigo, 5 Do. best Carolina Do. 216 bbs and 12 half bbs. Boston Beef, Dowlas, Tucklenburghs, Osnaburghs and Ravens Duck, By the Cask or Bale: and 145 Boxes Window Glass, 8 by 10. Nalbro & John Frazier. Dec. 15
For Sale by the Subscribers, No. 81, Walnut-street, 17 Hogheads and 14 Barrels Muscovado SUGARS, 19 Casks Hyson Tea. 7 Do. Souchong Do. 20 pipes Sherry Wine, 4 years old, 225 quarter casks Do. Do. 14 quarter casks Port Wine, 3 casks Spanish Indigo, 5 Do. best Carolina Do. 216 bbs and 12 half bbs. Boston Beef, Dowlas, Tucklenburghs, Osnaburghs and Ravens Duck, By the Cask or Bale: and 145 Boxes Window Glass, 8 by 10. Nalbro & John Frazier. Dec. 15
For Sale by the Subscribers, No. 81, Walnut-street, 17 Hogheads and 14 Barrels Muscovado SUGARS, 19 Casks Hyson Tea. 7 Do. Souchong Do. 20 pipes Sherry Wine, 4 years old, 225 quarter casks Do. Do. 14 quarter casks Port Wine, 3 casks Spanish Indigo, 5 Do. best Carolina Do. 216 bbs and 12 half bbs. Boston Beef, Dowlas, Tucklenburghs, Osnaburghs and Ravens Duck, By the Cask or Bale: and 145 Boxes Window Glass, 8 by 10. Nalbro & John Frazier. Dec. 15
For Sale by the Subscribers, No. 81, Walnut-street, 17 Hogheads and 14 Barrels Muscovado SUGARS, 19 Casks Hyson Tea. 7 Do. Souchong Do. 20 pipes Sherry Wine, 4 years old, 225 quarter casks Do. Do. 14 quarter casks Port Wine, 3 casks Spanish Indigo, 5 Do. best Carolina Do. 216 bbs and 12 half bbs. Boston Beef, Dowlas, Tucklenburghs, Osnaburghs and Ravens Duck, By the Cask or Bale: and 145 Boxes Window Glass, 8 by 10. Nalbro & John Frazier. Dec. 15
For Sale by the Subscribers, No. 81, Walnut-street, 17 Hogheads and 14 Barrels Muscovado SUGARS, 19 Casks Hyson Tea. 7 Do. Souchong Do. 20 pipes Sherry Wine, 4 years old, 225 quarter casks Do. Do. 14 quarter casks Port Wine, 3 casks Spanish Indigo, 5 Do. best Carolina Do. 216 bbs and 12 half bbs. Boston Beef, Dowlas, Tucklenburghs, Osnaburghs and Ravens Duck, By the Cask or Bale: and 145 Boxes Window Glass, 8 by 10. Nalbro & John Frazier. Dec. 15
For Sale by the Subscribers, No. 81, Walnut-street, 17 Hogheads and 14 Barrels Muscovado SUGARS, 19 Casks Hyson Tea. 7 Do. Souchong Do. 20 pipes Sherry Wine, 4 years old, 225 quarter casks Do. Do. 14 quarter casks Port Wine, 3 casks Spanish Indigo, 5 Do. best Carolina Do. 216 bbs and 12 half bbs. Boston Beef, Dowlas, Tucklenburghs, Osnaburghs and Ravens Duck, By the Cask or Bale: and 145 Boxes Window Glass, 8 by 10. Nalbro & John Frazier. Dec. 15
For Sale by the Subscribers, No. 81, Walnut-street, 17 Hogheads and 14 Barrels Muscovado SUGARS, 19 Casks Hyson Tea. 7 Do. Souchong Do. 20 pipes Sherry Wine, 4 years old, 225 quarter casks Do. Do. 14 quarter casks Port Wine, 3 casks Spanish Indigo, 5 Do. best Carolina Do. 216 bbs and 12 half bbs. Boston Beef, Dowlas, Tucklenburghs, Osnaburghs and Ravens Duck, By the Cask or Bale: and 145 Boxes Window Glass, 8 by 10. Nalbro & John Frazier. Dec. 15
For Sale by the Subscribers, No. 81, Walnut-street, 17 Hogheads and 14 Barrels Muscovado SUGARS, 19 Casks Hyson Tea. 7 Do. Souchong Do. 20 pipes Sherry Wine, 4 years old, 225 quarter casks Do. Do. 14 quarter casks Port Wine, 3 casks Spanish Indigo, 5 Do. best Carolina Do. 216 bbs and 12 half bbs. Boston Beef, Dowlas, Tucklenburghs, Osnaburghs and Ravens Duck, By the Cask or Bale: and 145 Boxes Window Glass, 8 by 10. Nalbro & John Frazier. Dec. 15
For Sale by the Subscribers, No. 81, Walnut-street, 17 Hogheads and 14 Barrels Muscovado SUGARS, 19 Casks Hyson Tea. 7 Do. Souchong Do. 20 pipes Sherry Wine, 4 years old, 225 quarter casks Do. Do. 14 quarter casks Port Wine, 3 casks Spanish Indigo, 5 Do. best Carolina Do. 216 bbs and 12 half bbs. Boston Beef, Dowlas, Tucklenburghs, Osnaburghs and Ravens Duck, By the Cask or Bale: and 145 Boxes Window Glass, 8 by 10. Nalbro & John Frazier. Dec. 15
For Sale by the Subscribers, No. 81, Walnut-street, 17 Hogheads and 14 Barrels Muscovado SUGARS, 19 Casks Hyson Tea. 7 Do. Souchong Do. 20 pipes Sherry Wine, 4 years old, 225 quarter casks Do. Do. 14 quarter casks Port Wine, 3 casks Spanish Indigo, 5 Do. best Carolina Do. 216 bbs and 12 half bbs. Boston Beef, Dowlas, Tucklenburghs, Osnaburghs and Ravens Duck, By the Cask or Bale: and 145 Boxes Window Glass, 8 by 10. Nalbro & John Frazier. Dec. 15
LANDING From on board the Birmingham Packet, Lockey, and the Henry and Charles, from Hamburgh, HEMP. Peterburgh's first quality BAR IRON, Sweden, assorted TIN, in plates, do. do. GENEVA in bds. BAGGING, German assorted GLASS TUMBLERS, and Black Quart Bottles, DEMIJOHNS, Window Glass, Feathers of superior quality, MATS, &c. &c. FOR SALE BY Thomas & John Ketland. Aug. 26
FRESH Bohea Tea, AND GIN in Pipes, Now Landing from on board the ship Peggy, John Elliott master, from Amsterdam. Also Imported by the late Arrivals, Ruskin Hemp, first quality Ditto Sails Duck Ditto Ravens Duck Brown Russia Sheetings Tucklenburghs Osnaburghs Brown Flanders Sheetings Hessians and Brown Rolls Cotton Stripes and Checks Flanders Bedticks Holland Sail Duck Seine Twine Dutch Great Coats Ginn in casks Madder Window Glass, 8 by 10 Jesuits Bark Opium, Alistatida German Steel Mill and Cross-cut Saws Hoes and Cutting Knives Sythes and Skates Coffee Mills Black Lead Crucibles Anchors from 3 cwt. to 15 cwt. And a General Assortment of 5-4 & 6-4 Boultng Cloth, FOR SALE BY Pragers & Co. Nov. 11
Pragers & Co. Nov. 11
George Hunter, Chemist, At his Laboratory, No. 114, South Second street.
INFORMS, his former customers and the public, that he has begun the DRUG bus- ness again on an extensive plan. He has for sale a general assortment of FRESH DRUGS, CHEMICAL PREPARATIONS, and PA- TENT MEDICINES. Likewise, painters' colours, dry and ground in oil, paint brushes, window and coach glass, dye stuffs, limed oil, oil of turpentine, copal oil, varnish and japan, warranted good. Alum, copperas, madder, ground redwood by the hoghead or smaller quantity. As he imports the supplies from the best markets, and makes the compositions and preparations himself, he is enabled to vouch for and warrant every article sold out of his Laboratory, and likewise to dispose of them at the most reasonable rates. He wishes to sell a large LOT of GROUND, the north-east corner of High and Eleventh-streets, containing 78 feet front on High-street, and 200 feet on Eleventh- street, opposite Mr. Leiper's new buildings. And another LOT on the north side of High street, near the above, 28 feet front, and 200 feet deep. Both lots have the privilege of a 30 feet alley in their rear. Dec. 13.
India Nankeens, On which the Drawback may be obtained. FOR SALE BY Samuel Corp, New-York, or Henry Philips, No. 113, Spruce Street. Dec. 11
Samuel Corp, New-York, or Henry Philips, No. 113, Spruce Street. Dec. 11
Henry Philips, No. 113, Spruce Street. Dec. 11
Henry Philips, No. 113, Spruce Street. Dec. 11
Henry Philips, No. 113, Spruce Street. Dec. 11
Henry Philips, No. 113, Spruce Street. Dec. 11
Henry Philips, No. 113, Spruce Street. Dec. 11
Henry Philips, No. 113, Spruce Street. Dec. 11
Henry Philips, No. 113, Spruce Street. Dec. 11
Henry Philips, No. 113, Spruce Street. Dec. 11
Henry Philips, No. 113, Spruce Street. Dec. 11
Henry Philips, No. 113, Spruce Street. Dec. 11
Boston Prime Beef, A Quantity landing from on board the Brig West Point, at Anthony's Wharf, in ex- cellent order for Shipping--Also Thirty Hogheads New-England Rum, A Few Hogheads Tobacco & Rhode-Island C H E E S E, FOR SALE BY Edward Stowe jun. No. 4, South Water Street. Dec. 23
Edward Stowe jun. No. 4, South Water Street. Dec. 23
Parry & Musgrave, Goldsmiths, Jewellers and Hair-Workers, No. 43, South Second Street, Have received by the Pigeon from London an ASSORTMENT of
Plated japanned ware Jewellery & Cutlery, viz. Plated and japanned Tea Trays Plated and japanned Patent Lamps Casters and Liquor Frames Bread and Fruit Baskets Japan'd Tea Trays Plated coffee and Tea Pots and candles Ditto Candlesticks A variety of elegant and most fashionable Ear rings Enamell'd and other Bracelets, Brace- pins, and Finger Rings Thimbles, enamell'd and other kinds Ladies and gentlemen's gold, gilt, and steel Watch chains Gold and gilt Seals and Keys Stone and fine steel Knee Buckles, Pen- Knives and Scissors, with Variety of other Articles, In the above Branches. Dec. 6
Stock Brokers Office, No. 16, Wall-street, New-York. THE Subscriber intending to confirm him- self entirely to the PURCHASE and SALE of STOCKS on COMMISSION, by leave to offer his services to his friends and others, in the line of a Stock Broker. Those who may please to favor him with their busi- ness, may depend upon having it transacted with the utmost fidelity and dispatch. Orders from Philadelphia, Boston, or any other part of the United States, will be strictly attended to. LEONARD BLEECKER. mestif
LEONARD BLEECKER. mestif
Bank of North America, December 8, 1794. The Stockholders of the Bank of North America are hereby notified that an ELECTION for Twelve Directors For the ensuing Year, will be held at the Bank on Monday the 12th of January next, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon. Dec. 9
Twelve Directors For the ensuing Year, will be held at the Bank on Monday the 12th of January next, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon. Dec. 9
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Philad. Dec. 15, 1794. Any person desirous to contract for the supply of Rations for the Recruits in Philadelphia, Lancaster, Reading and Carlisle, or either of those places, during the year 1795, are request- ed to send in their proposals sealed, to my Office, on or before the 26th instant. The component parts of the Ration are One lb. of Bread or Flour, One lb. of Beef or 3/4 lb. of Pork 1/2 gill Rum, Brandy or Whiskey One quart Salt Two quarts Vinegar Two lb. Soap One lb. Candles For 100 Rations Tench Francis, Agent. Dec. 12
Tench Francis, Agent. Dec. 12
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Philadelphia, Nov. 22, 1794. The Stockholders of the Bank of the United States are hereby in- formed that according to the Statute of In- corporation, a General Election for TWENTY-FIVE DIRECTORS Will be held at the Bank of the United States, in the City of Philadelphia, on Monday, the fifth day of January next, at TEN o'clock in the forenoon. And pursuant to the Eleventh Section of the By Laws, the Stockholders of the said Bank are hereby notified to assemble in general meeting at the said place, on Tuesday the sixth day of January next at FIVE o'clock in the Evening. By Order, John Kean, Cashier. Nov. 22
TWENTY-FIVE DIRECTORS Will be held at the Bank of the United States, in the City of Philadelphia, on Monday, the fifth day of January next, at TEN o'clock in the forenoon. And pursuant to the Eleventh Section of the By Laws, the Stockholders of the said Bank are hereby notified to assemble in general meeting at the said place, on Tuesday the sixth day of January next at FIVE o'clock in the Evening. By Order, John Kean, Cashier. Nov. 22
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CONGRESS.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Monday, December 22, 1794.
In Committee of the whole on the naturalization-bill, Mr. Cobb in the chair. Mr. Dexter after some observations on the importance of the subject before the Committee; and expressing his disapprobation of the facility by which, under the existing law, aliens may acquire citizenship moved that the term of two years in the bill referring to the previous residence should be struck out and a blank left, to be filled up after more mature consideration—this motion was agreed to—another amendment was proposed by that gentleman referring particularly to mercantile foreigners who may wish to acquire citizenship—but this after some debate was withdrawn.
Mr. Giles then proposed an amendment the object of which was to impede a return to citizenship of those who should expatriate themselves—he proposed that a special law of the state from which such persons should detach themselves, should be requisite in order to their being re-instated.
Mr. Tracy—after observing, that altho' he was not in favor of a perpetual allegiance as understood by the British Government, yet he was of opinion that the return of persons who should expatriate themselves ought to be clogged with greater impediments than simply a law of a particular state—if the amendment is a proper one of which he confessed he had his doubts, he would suggest to the gentleman an addition, by making a law of the general government also necessary in the case.
Mr. Giles observed that the object of his motion was not by any means to lessen the impediments in the way of a return to citizenship, but the reverse; he should therefore agree to the amendment of the gentleman from Connecticut—The motion was afterwards considered in several points of view, as blending state and continental legislation, as interfering with the legislative rights of the states by some, and as operating in the same manner in respect to the right reserved by the constitution to the general government, which is authorized to pass uniform laws of naturalization by others.
Mr. Sedgwick having stated that his colleague had prepared a motion with regard to the kind of evidence, that an applicant should exhibit, of the goodness of his moral character and of his attachment to the Government: He requested Mr. Giles to withdraw his motion, for the consideration of the other, which he did, and thereupon, Mr. Dexter moved that no alien should be admitted to the rights of citizenship, but on the oath of two credible witnesses, that in their opinion he was of good moral character and attached to the welfare of this country, which motion was seconded by Mr. Sedgwick who added the following observations.
He said, that the subject under consideration was certainly of great importance, and opened an extensive field of discussion. The present motion, taken in conjunction with that already adopted, had for its object embarrassing the facility, with which aliens may be admitted to the rights of citizenship. He would submit to the consideration of the committee, some of the leading ideas, which had occurred to his mind on this subject.
America, he said, if her political institutions, should on experience be found to be wisely adjusted, and she shall improve her natural advantages, had opened to her view, a more rich and glorious prospect, than ever was presented to man: She had chosen for herself a government, which left to the citizen, as great a portion of freedom, as was consistent with a social compact. All believed the preservation of this government, in its purity, indispensable to the continuance of our happiness. The foundation on which it rested was general intelligence and public virtue; in other words, wisdom to discern, and patriotism to pursue the general good. He had pride, and he gloried in it, in believing his countrymen more wise and virtuous than any other people on earth; hence he believed them better qualified to administer and support a republican government. This character of Americans was the result of early education, aided indeed by the discipline of the revolution. In that part of the country with which he was best acquainted, the education, manners, habits and institutions, religious and civil, were republican. The community was divided into corporations, in many respects resembling independent republics, of which almost every man, the qualifications were so small, was a member. They had many important and interesting concerns to transact. They appointed their executive officers, enacted bye-laws, raised money for many purposes of use and ornament. Here, then, the citizens early acquired the habits of temperate discussion, patient reasoning, and a capacity of enduring contradiction: Here the means of education and
instruction are instituted and maintained; public libraries purchased and read: "these are," said he, "the proper schools for the education of republican citizens; thus are to be planted the seeds of republicanism—If you will cultivate the plants which are to be reared from these seeds, you will gather an abundant harvest of long continued national prosperity."
Much information, he said, might be obtained by the experience of others, if in despite of it, we were not determined to be guided only by a visionary theory. "The ancient republics of Greece and Rome," said he "see with what jealousy they guarded the rights of citizenship against adulteration by foreign mixture"—The Swiss nation, he said, in modern times, had not been less jealous on the same subject. Indeed no example could be found, in the history of man, to authorise the experiment which had been made by the United States. It seemed to have been adopted by universal practice as a maxim, that the republican character, was no way to be formed but by early education. In some instances, to form this character, those propensities which are generally considered as almost irresistible, were opposed and subdued. And shall we, he asked, alone adopt the rash theory, that the subjects of all governments despotic, monarchical, and aristocratical, are, as soon as they set foot on American ground, qualified to participate, in administering the sovereignty of our country? Shall we hold the benefits of American citizenship to cheap, as to invite, nay, almost bribe, the discontented, the ambitious and the avaricious of every country to accept them?
We had he said on this subject not only example but warning—"Will gentlemen," said he "recollect the rage of ages, which existed in the country from which we came, between the Saxon, Danish and Norman emigrants, and the natives of the country? The cruelties, the oppressions, the assassinations, in a word the miseries to which this gave birth? Perhaps it might be said that in this instance the emigrants were hostile invaders—but the same events took place, in the decline of the Roman empire, between the emigrants who were invited to occupy the vacant frontiers and the ancient inhabitants; altho' the former ought to have been united to the latter by every principle of affection, and gratitude. By these and almost an infinity of other instances, it would not be rash to conclude, that by the undeviating principles of human nature, whenever the inhabitants of one country, should be permitted to settle in another, by national affections, an union would be formed, unfriendly not only to the ancient inhabitants, but also to social order. Our own experience was not, he believed, in opposition to the general observation. Altho' this reasoning was to his mind conclusive against a general and indiscriminate admission of aliens to the rights of citizenship; yet he did not with it should go to a compleat exclusion.
It was said in support of what was termed our liberal policy, that our country wanted commercial capital—that we had an immense tract of vacant territory; and that we ought not, with the avarice of a miser, to engross to ourselves, the exclusive enjoyment, of our political treasures.
Mr. Sedgwick said he had never been convinced, that we ought to make so great a sacrifice of principle, for the rapid accumulation of commercial capital—He had never been convinced, that by an improvement of our own resources, it would not accumulate as fast as might be for the public benefit. We heard much of equality. Property was in some sense power; and the possession of immense property, generated daring passions which scorned equality, and with impatience endured the restraints of equal laws. Property was undoubtedly to be protected, as the only sure encouragement of industry, without which we should degenerate into savages. But he had never been convinced that the anxiety with which we wished an accumulation of capital, in the hands of individuals, was founded on correct republican reflection. The ardent ambition inspired by the possession of great wealth, and the power of gratifying it which it conferred, had in many instances disturbed the public peace, and in not a few destroyed liberty.
The vacant lands which some with so much avidity wished to see in the occupation of foreigners, he considered as the best capital stock of the future enjoyment of Americans; as an antidote against the poison of luxury; as the nursery of robust and manly virtue, and as a preventative of a numerous class of citizens becoming indigent, and therefore dependent. Whenever the time should arrive, and might that period be very distant, when there should no longer be
presented to the poor a decent competence and independence, as the effect of industry and economy, which would generally be the case, when lands were no longer to be obtained, on their present easy and reasonable terms, then, that description of men, now perhaps the most happy and virtuous, would become miserable to themselves and a burden to the community. Now the man who entered on the stage of life, without property, had a reasonable assurance, that a few years of industry and economy, would give him independence, competence and respectability. The prospect gave relish and effect to his labors. He planted himself on the frontiers, and cultivated in his posterity every useful and manly virtue—This was his treasure and it was a glorious one.
Mr. Sedgwick said he considered America as in possession of a greater flock of enjoyment than any other people on earth. That it was our duty to husband it with care; yet he could not altogether exclude such virtuous individuals, as might fly here, as to an asylum against oppression. On the one hand, he would not dissipate our treasures with the thoughtless profusion of a prodigal; nor would he, on the other, hoard them, as in the unfeeling grasp of a miser. "Our glorious fabric," said he, "has been cemented by the richest blood of our country, and may it long continue to shelter us against the blasts of poverty, of anarchy, and of tyranny."
The present, Mr. Sedgwick said, he believed the most inauspicious time for the indiscriminate admission of aliens to the rights of citizenship. A war, the most cruel and dreadful which had been known for centuries, was now raging in all those countries from which emigrants were to be expected. The most fierce and unrelenting passions were engaged in a conflict, which shook to their foundations all the ancient political structures in Europe. This contest was supported on the one hand by men who believed personal political distinctions were necessary to the great purpose of security; and on the other by those who thought that society could be protected and individuals secured by a government with departments, and without checks; neither embracing the principles established here, where without privileged orders distinct portions of power were to be deposited in different hands, in such manner that it was almost impossible for the mind even to conceive that the different departments should form an union for any mischievous purpose; and altogether impossible to believe that without such concurrence either alone should be capable of executing any wicked design.
Could, he asked, any reasonable man believe, that men who actuated by such passions, had fought on grounds so opposite, almost equally distant, from the happy mean we had chosen, would here mingle in social affections with each other, or with us? That their passions and prejudices would subside as soon as they should set foot in America? or that possessing those passions and prejudices they were qualified to make or to be made the governors of Americans?
He believed that the amendment now proposed by his colleague, in conjunction with that which had already succeeded, would on the one hand check the admission of foreigners in such numbers as might be dangerous to our political institutions; and on the other, that it would not exclude such meritorious individuals as might be willing to serve the apprenticeship which might qualify them to assume the character and discharge the duties of American citizens.
He concluded by saying, that he had always been opposed to the policy of the government on this subject—that his opposition had not been abated by reflection, but encreased by the existing state of things in Europe.
Tuesday, Dec. 23.
(Concluded.)
The bill to regulate the pay of the militia when called into the actual service of the United States having been returned with an amendment from the Senate, the same was taken into consideration, and the house agreed with an amendment to the amendment of the Senate.
The house in committee of the whole took into consideration the reported plan for the reduction of the public debt.
Mr. William Smith one of the committee who brought in the report, entered into a detail of the present and probable state of the finances, and the principles on which the report was founded.
Mr. Nicholas offered some remarks, the object of which was to show that a much larger surplus than that contemplated by the report, may be applied to the reduction of the debt.
The committee, without taking any vote rose and reported progress, and the house adjourned.
Foreign Intelligence.
PARIS, Sept. 10.
LITERATURE.
Yesterday died at Seaux (near Paris) the ci-devant count St. Florian, celebrated for his many literary productions in prose and verse which breathe sensibility, display a sweet temper, and announce a refined judgment.
Though this distinguished author long before the revolution professed the true principles of republicanism, particularly in his Numa Pompilius, he fell nevertheless a prey to the jealousy, illiterate fear and cruelty of Robespierre, and was arrested by order of that tyrant; but after the dictator's death he was set free again. His health however was considerably impaired by the hardships he suffered during his long detention at Port Libre, (Port Louis) and the most cruel of the three sisters, cut the fatal thread and deprived the Republic of an estimable citizen, when he had hardly attained the age of 39 years.
He left among his papers some new and complete works, which will perhaps soon be published.
UNITED STATES.
PORTLAND, Dec. 15.
A brig arrived at this port last Saturday belonging to Scarborough, having had 22 days passage from Barbadoes; the Capt. of which informs, that a British Admiral (whose name he does not recollect) had arrived at that island about the 17th Nov. with four 74 gun ships, in 24 days from England; and that two days after the squadron failed for Martinique or Guadalupe. It was reported at Barbadoes, that 10,000 British troops were daily expected in the West Indies.
BALTIMORE, December 22.
An unfortunate accident happened early on Friday morning last, at Herring Run, near Mr. Webster's on the Philadelphia road. As AUSTIN, a Mulatto waiting man belonging to General Washington was riding towards the said Run on a Mare, accompanied by a mule Colt, the Mare stooped to drink when suddenly turning to her colt, she threw off Austin into the water, hanging by his foot in the stirrup. A Negro fellow present attempted to save, him but in vain. He was afterwards carried to the House where he lodged and had the assistance of a Physician, who found him past recovery. It is said that Austin has been a long and faithful servant of our beloved President attended him through all the various scenes of the Revolution, and no doubt his unexpected death will be deplored by him.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman at Hamburg, to his friend in this town.
In the course of 36 hours, about 100 sail of vessels, loaded chiefly with West-India produce, have arrived at this place from Amsterdam, which has given us reason to expect, that a few days will put the French in possession of that city.
Arrived yesterday, in 17 days from Barbadoes, the ship Nancy, Captain Anderson, who informs that a transport had arrived there, full of troops; and reported that the rest of the fleet (which it appears had failed for that place) might be daily expected.
Captain Anderson left there the brig Eliza, of Philadelphia, and two brigs from Alexandria, the names of which he does not recollect.
He spoke the brig Nancy of N. York, bound from Jeremie to that port, all well. He confirms the account under the Barbadoes head, of the arrival on the 26th of two 74's with the prize ship of war La Jacobin, of 22 guns.
We were yesterday favored, by a friend, with the Barbadoes Mercury of the 22th of November, from which the following intelligence is extr. ved.
BRIDGE-TOWN, Nov. 29.
Wednesday last arrived in Carlisle bay his Majesty's ships of war Montague, captain Pookes, and Ganges, captain Trecott, of 74 guns each, in thirty-two days from Cork; and brought with them the French national sloop of war La Jacobin, of 22 twelve pounders, and 220 men, commanded by citizen Dandy Colle. This vessel fell in with the above men of war off Cape Clear, four days after their departure from Cork, and taking them for two Spanish register ships, run along side the Ganges and fired into her, but immediately perceiving their mistake struck her colours; notwithstanding which, however, the Montague coming up at the time, they also fired into her and killed three men; in consequence of which, when her commander discovered up his sword to captain Pookes, he threw it overboard as a mark of his displeasure at their infamous conduct.
LA JACOBIN
is, perhaps, for her size, one of the finest ships in the French navy, built on a new construction, entirely flush fore and aft, working all her guns on one
deck, and carrying three forges for heating shot; her rudder is cated to an injury of the weather or shot; she is a greater quantity of stores, &c. &c. than any first rate ship of the line. She was built at Brest, and was launched in February last, and equipped for sea with great expedition; on her first cruise she captured seventeen sail of vessels, and was out on this her second, but a short time previous to her capture, but a lowly computed value is at least 7000l. and she cannot prove a great acquisition to our navy, in these fears, as being a vessel well adapted to protect the trade of the islands.
By the arrival of the Montague and Ganges, we learn, that a vessel had arrived at Cork, two days previous to their departure from thence from Gibraltar, the captain of which informed, on an examination before admiral Kingmill, that he saw eight ships with the British flag over the National colours, beating into the gut of Gibraltar, four of which he took for line of battle ships, and the others frigates; supposed to be captured by Lord Hood, who, in the Victory of 110 guns, with the Britannia of 100, admiral Pothon; Agamenon of 64, captain Nelson, and a squadron of frigates, failed from Leghorn on the 19th of September, in quest of some French men of war which they had an account of having got out of Toulon.
From Martinique we learn, that the Zebra sloop of war has captured a brig called the Sans Culotte, mounting 10 six pounders, and carrying forty men principally Americans, fitted out at Boston, and failed from thence in company with a ship of 18 guns and 100 men, on a cruise among the islands. It appears that this ship was formerly the Lovely Lass, brig belonging to this port, which was some time past illegally seized in America, and has since been altered for the purpose of privateering. In consequence of this intelligence admiral Caldwell has dispatched a brig to windward of this island in quest of her, and for the protection of our trade.
Admiral Sir John Jervis and the General for Charles Grey, failed in the Bay, from Port-Royal, the 21st instant, for England.
Yesterday evening failed for Martinique, the Montague, Ganges, and La Jacobin.
HALLOWELL, Maine Dec. 9.
IMPORTANT NEWS.
A gentleman from Wilscasset informs us, that a vessel had arrived there after a short passage, from Liverpool (England) which brings the agreeable intelligence, that the French had recently GOT POSSESSION of AMSTERDAM (the Capital of Holland) That nine tenths of the inhabitants were glad to receive them—and that at their approach the gates were opened, and the place given up without resistance.
NEW-YORK, Dec. 23.
The following determinations of the Committee of Public Safety are extremely difficult to be obtained in print, there being only a few copies printed for the use of the Generals. They respect the general security of the conquered countries, and enjoin the discharge of all the native military officers, and that the armed force shall be constituted from the armies of the Republic exclusively. Civil officers are to retain their situations, provided their civism is not suspected. To prevent vexatious imprisonments, &c. criminal affairs are to be subject to the decisions of the Generals, and the representatives of the French nation. All the inhabitants must bring their arms to the magazines.
The second part of these resolutions treats of the disposal of ammunition, artillery, forage, and other effects, not excepting accoutrements, camp equipage, &c. which must also be delivered up, and, if there is more than necessary for the army, be sent to France. These requisitions extend to horses, ammunition-wagons, and the like.
The third part treats of the public revenue, taxes, and merchandise; the fourth of materials that may be manufactured; the fifth of horses and other cattle in general; the sixth of corn, meal, and forage; and the seventh contains instructions for agents of every class. It is also understood that the best commodities are to be purchased by assignats, partly for the use of the army, and partly for conveyance to France.
BOSTON, Dec. 15.
From France, Oct. 24.
On Sunday arrived the Schooner General Heath, Captain Bacon, in 52 days from

Rochefort, in France. No papers were brought by this vessel, but from the oral information of the Captain a gentleman of veracity and intelligence, we have collected the following articles.
That the post, which arrived from Bilboc, the day before he failed, gave information of the capture of Bilboa by the French. This information he was told, being unacquainted with the language, was officially published in the papers of Rochefort.
The reports of the capture of Rotterdam were in general circulation, and obtained universal credence, but he knew not how they were founded.
That an English frigate of 36 guns, arrived immediately before he failed, a prize to 474 gun ships; that prizes were continually pouring into Rochefort, thirteen arrived in one day.
That nine ships of the line were building at Rochefort, three of 130 guns and the others 74's.
OFFICIAL.
For the information of the public, we have procured the following return of the late Federal Election in this Commonwealth; and vouch for its authenticity:
 First Western District. Hon. Theodore Sedgwick, Esq. chosen  Second Western District. Hon. William Lyman, Esq. chosen.  Third Western District. Hon. Samuel Lyman, Esq. chosen.  Fourth Western District. Hon. Dwight Foster, Esq. chosen.  Fifth Southern District. Nathaniel Freeman, Jun. Esq. chosen.  Second Southern District. Rev. John Read, chosen.  Third Southern District. —No choice  First Middle District. Hon. Fisher Ames, Esq. chosen.  Second Middle District. —No choice.  Third Middle District. Hon. Benjamin Goodhue, Esq. chosen  Fourth Middle District. —No choice  First Eastern District. Hon. Henry Dearborn, Esq. chosen  Second Eastern District. —No choice  Third Eastern District. —No choice. 
ALBANY, December 15.
On the 28th of November, departed this life, the honorable FREDERICK WILLIAM AUGUSTUS BARON STEUBEN.
This excellent man, whose name will be ever dear to the citizens of the United States, as long as virtue and patriotism shall be respected, was a native of Germany, where his merit had raised him to places of the highest trust and distinction: He was aid-de-camp to the late king of Prussia, and lieutenant governor of one of the circles of the German empire. These posts, and others, he left to embark with us in the cause of freedom. In 1777 he arrived in America, and immediately joined our army as a volunteer. In 1778, Congress gave him the rank of major-general, which was the highest grade in their power, and appointed him inspector-general to the army of the United States. Under the disadvantage of being a total stranger to our customs and language, of encountering the prejudices which existed against foreigners, of reducing an army, scarcely then formed, and continually changing, whose habits in civil life had not been those of subordination, and who, at that moment, were combating that they might be free—to reduce such an army to the strict rules of discipline, was a task which none but a brave and virtuous man would have undertaken; to bring this army to a point of knowledge, exactitude and order, which infinitely exceeded that of their veteran enemy; & at the same time to acquire the love and veneration of the officers and soldiers, could have been effected by no other than Baron Steuben; and no other heart than his could have repaid so fully the reward, which Heaven gave to the virtuous exertions of our army—the independence of their country.
The Baron was a volunteer in the action of Monmouth; commanded in Virginia with a handful of militia, against Arnold and Philips; and commanded in the trenches at York-town, on the day which concluded the struggles of America, on the day that Lord Cornwallis surrendered the last hope of the king of Great Britain. To his military character, the Baron added all the virtues of the citizen, and the accomplishments of the gentleman. His knowledge was extensive, his understanding clear, and his judgment sound. His heart was formed by nature to be open to all her children; and he never closed it. This is a short, a faint sketch of the character of the excellent Baron Steuben, given by a man who had the honor to be intimately acquainted with him fifteen years, and who never knew him guilty of an unworthy action—nor never knew him omit a good one. Steuben, Dec. 5.
PHILADELPHIA, Decem. 26.
Yesterday arrived from the westward and were lodged in the gaol of this city, 20 of the insurgents. They are such of the prisoners confined in the garrison at Pittsburgh, as were refused bail; the residue (about 150) are admitted to bail. They were escorted hither by a troop of Jerrey horse under the command of Major Dunham.
From the Quebec Gazette of Dec. 4.
GENERAL ARNOLD.
In addition to the account already given of the extraordinary escape of this gentleman from the enemy at Guadalupe, in whose hands he was prisoner upwards of three weeks, expecting every hour to be put to death—we now lay before our readers the following particulars received from an officer of Sir Charles Grey's army. General Arnold was taken with some other gentlemen passengers in a Danish vessel. When under examination he pleaded indisposition, and by his great address and command of good humour, he not only obtained permission to remain on board the vessel in which he had been captured, but, by a presence of mind which never leaves him, was equally successful, first in saving all his papers from the officer sent to examine his trunks, and finally, by an uncommon combination of ingenuity and intrepidity, in effecting his escape to the British army. It appears that very early after their captivity, having obtained an intimation of their premeditated destiny, the General openly proposed the means of escape to the ship's crew; but they revolted at it as a measure which must prove fatal, if detected, and considered the means of attempting it as little less desperate. The impending fate, however, growing more imminent, the General at length overcame their scruples, so far as regarded himself. The stake was life, on which I understand, there are many very strong claims in England, perhaps of more value to him than to his own; and to lose a moment was perhaps the only one left for its preservation. No sooner was the consent of the crew obtained to favour his departure, than he set about constructing a small raft, which when night came on, he lowered and set afloat, placed upon it a trunk and portmanteau, to balance each other, and then boldly committed himself to the waves. He took a small paddle in his hand, and laying flat on his breast, so that he might use the paddle imperceptibly and without noise, he steered himself thro' the enemy's ships and guard boats, and successfully made one of the British batteries, after being three hours in that situation, as critical and perilous as imagination can well paint.
By this Day's Mail.
NEW-YORK, Dec. 24.
It is with painful feelings, that the Vice-President of the New-York State Society of the Cincinnati, announces the death of the Society's late most worthy President, Major-General FREDERICK WILLIAM BARON DE STEUBEN , who departed this life at Steuben Ville, on the morning of the 28th ult. Conscious that his superior worth will be recollected by his surviving brethren, that the bosoms of the truly great, the virtuous and the good, will nourish as they ought the memory of so inestimable a friend; and that while integrity, friendship, and charity, continue to be revered and respected, that the name of STEUBEN , will occupy an elevated station in the annals of America. The Vice-President requests the members of the Society, to wear the usual mourning for three months, as a mark of their particular veneration and respect for the memory of their departed friend, whose benevolence and philanthropy most of them have experienced, and whose important services to their country every soldier must pointedly recollect. W. S. SMITH, Vice-President. New-York, Dec. 24, 1794.
ARRIVED.
Ship Betsy, Moors, Norfolk Brig Jefferson, Morris, Philadelphia Sloop Ranger, Dunn, ditto John and Mary, Bird, ditto Schooner Eagle, Tolls, Norfolk On the 11th Nov. was captured by the privateer ship Citizen of Marseilles, Capt. Chabot, mounting 28 guns, the ship Betty Cathcart, Captain Gardner, 21 days out from Port-au-Prince, bound to London. On the 17th, the above ship, after an engagement of 20 minutes, captured a Dutch ship and a brig from Demerara—ship's name Dononzeckiren, Capt. Hartenveeld. 18 guns and 32 men, having on board 505 bds. sugar, 200,000 wt. coffee, and some cotton and indigo. The brig, called the Factor, Capt. B. Gores, 16 guns, 28 men, with 320 bds. sugar, and a great quantity of coffee and cotton; and is the same that came in here on Friday last—she had taken a Spanish brig bound to this place, richly laden, 2d day after leaving Delaware Capes.
Arrived at Boston.
Ship Gen. Lincoln, J. London; brig Abigail, Prior, Lisbon; Schooners Neptune, Hughes, Barbadoes; Ruby, Milberry, Gaudaloupe; Lucy, Jones, Jamaica; General Heath, Bacon, Rochefort; Jane, Cobb, Cadiz; Polly, Drummond, Demerara; William, Farnham, Madeira.
We have pleasure in informing the public, that Captain Norton of this port, who had been carried into Liverpool (England) for adjudication, has received full satisfaction of all he has demanded, and in ready cash. He may be hourly expected.
Latest European Intelligence.
From the American Minerva.
LONDON, October 14.
By letters from Warsaw of the 16th ult. there is intelligence of an engagement on the 13th of the same month, between the Polish troops under General Dombrowski, and the Prussian corps posted at Kamiona, to guard a considerable magazine of flour, oats, salt, and provisions of all kinds. General Dombrowski having divided his troops into three columns, attacked the Prussians with equal skill and bravery. The first column forced the enemy and got possession of Kamiona; the second carried a battery; and the third was equally successful in the object of its attack. The Prussians in this action had 100 men killed, and 75 taken prisoners, among the latter of whom were two officers. The whole of the magazines fell into the hands of the Poles.
October 17.
Mr. Dressing yesterday arrived from the Duke of York with dispatches to government. He left his Royal Highness at Nimeguen on Sunday morning, where the utmost pains were exerting to fortify their situation. No attack had been made on them; but Ministers have received the most important news, that the people of BOIS-LE-DUC had risen, and demanded of the Governor of the Fortress that it should be surrendered to the French, as they would not submit to the horrors of a siege. Accordingly the place was delivered up on Thursday, the 9th inst. without firing a shot.
The province of Fritzerland has certainly presented a memorial to the States General calling on them to take into their most serious consideration the alarming state of the Republic, and to occupy themselves forthwith in restoring PEACE to the country. It concludes with a declaration, that if the States General shall not think it advisable to make peace for the whole of the United States, they will certainly think it advisable to treat separately for themselves.
We can assure our readers that a negotiation has for some time been opened between the French and the King of Prussia at Basle. It is conducted on the part of the French by M. Peregaux, the banker, who is invested with powers to treat for a separate peace with Prussia.
The King, by his agent, offered not merely to conclude a peace, but to acknowledge the Republic, on the sole condition that they should abandon the attack upon Holland. This they refused, not from hostility to the Dutch, but because they looked on the reduction of the States General as the surest and most effectual means of waging war with their only remaining and most implacable enemy, the English.
We have this day given the proceedings of the French Convention up to the 8th inst. By the papers from which they are taken, it appears that the contest between the moderate and the violent party has been carried on with great vehemence in the Jacobin Club, and that every day adds strength to the former and weakens the latter.
FRANCE.
Tuesday Oct. 7. The new members of the committee of General Safety, are Laporte, Reverchon Bentabolle and Reubel, in the room of Dudarreau, Louis of the Bas Rhin, Amaï and Bernard des Saintes.
The popular Society of Marseilles, regenerated thanked the Convention for its Decree of the 25th Sept. which had destroyed the monstrous Colossus that threatened to crush under its weight all the South of France. They intreated them to pursue this plot thro' all its ramifications and not to suffer any rival power to rise up and threaten its dissolution.
The Committee of Public Safety were authorized to correct some errors that had crept into the fixing of the maximum.
[Six months ago we ventured to pronounce the French legislation upon
names trifling and unworthy of the dignity of a great nation. We now find the French Convention of the same opinion, and Lyons resumes its old name. Jacobinism is all crumbling to the dust.]
From the Lancingburgh American Spy.
MR. WANDS, THE following extemporaneous production of an irritated retainer of the Muses, occasioned by an attempt to force him into the electioneering service, claims a place in your paper, merely as it may serve to illustrate the observation of Horace, Iracundia facit Poetam. SIMON.
A VAUNT, vaunt ye venal crew, The devil take the best of you! Go cringe, electioneer, cajole, Go sell your votes and pawn your soul! What boots it me, an elf obscure, By fortune destin'd to be poor, To hear vile panners on my back, If JAY or CLINTON guide the hack? Go triflers emulate the vain, Go twist and turn if aught ye gain; Shall I, whom nature's deadliest hate, Doom'd on this spot to vegetate, Who when a few chill nights are past, Must sink beneath the chilling blast, And as my withered stalks consume, Shall give your mushroom tribes more room, I, whom no change of place can aid, Say shall I turn a renegade? Ye little fry, who love to sport On fortune's sea and favour's court, Go round that lordly Dolphin play, And eat the refuse of his prey. Go tag behind the Imperial Whale, And drink the spatterings of his tail, If such you like, enjoy your cheer, But from my shattered bark stand clear. For me, unlucky Poetaster, Who finds each creditor his master, Isn't not enough that I must lie Unnotic'd, while your lords strut by? Isn't not enough that I must see My juniors take the wall of me? See great men rise, like Jonah's gourd, And dolness set where genius soar'd? See all that erst inspir'd ambition, Fall, tumbling headlong to perdition! And must you still degrade poor Jack By forcing livery on his back? As slavish Algerines maintain, Their right to slaves by link of chain Fix'd round the leg, that men may see They're doom'd to labour for the Dey, Yet this same Dey is but the waiter Of great Morocco's Imperator, And wears, when whims his master's brain, Himself a link of gilded chain.
* Alluding to the fable of the Afs in Æsop.
† It is said that the Algerine prisoners, when there are no French or English ships in the harbour, wear a link of chain around the leg, merely as a badge of servitude.
A Special Meeting of the
Pennsylvania Society for promoting the Abolition of Slavery, &c. &c. will be held at the usual place, on Second Day next, the 20th inst. at 6 o'clock in the Evening.
M-Pherons Blues.
THE Corps are desired to parade in Uniform on Saturday next at 9 o'Clock A. M. in front of the State-House; with their Arms, accoutrements, and any other public property in their possession, for the purpose of delivering up the same.
By order of the Colonel, Robert Heysham, Adjt.
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Messrs Adams & Smith.
I send you a translation of few anecdotes extracted from the Journals of the prisons at Paris, under the government of Robespierre. They exhibit striking marks of French gaiety and fortitude under the most awful circumstances of mortality.
A prisoner named Goinay, aged 27 years, who had formerly been a grenadier in the regiment of Artois, was confined at the Conciergerie for the crime of emigration. When the day of his accusation was brought him, he took it with great indifference, and rolling it up, applied one end of it to a candle, and lighted his pipe with it. When the articles of his accusation were read to him from the tribunal, he positively acknowledged the truth of them all. His attorney observing to him that he must have left his head, he answered that his head was never more fully in his possession than at this moment, though, indeed, he was on the eve of losing it in reality—He added, "cease to defend me, thou officious advocate, and let me be led to the guillotine."—Being condemned to die, he walked through the court with his usual gaiety, without discovering the least change in his countenance.
In the hall of the condemned, he eat and drank with a good appetite, and great cheerfulness. As he passed thro' the court of the palace, some who followed, began to hiss him; but he answered quite composed. What, ye cowardly miscreants! do ye insult me? Which of you would go to death with as much courage as I do? At the scaffold, he exclaimed, Well, here I am, where I have long wished to be!—and very tranquilly delivered his head to the executioner.
One of the prisoners, who excited the most pity was Roncher, the author of the poem entitled, "The Months." He passed his time in forming the youthful mind of one of his children called Emilius; and this occupation charmed the tediousness of his confinement. On the day he received the copy of his accusation, he clearly fore saw the fate that awaited him, and sent his son with a portrait of himself, drawn by Suve, to his wife. This present was accompanied with four verses, addressed to her and his children, to the following effect:
"Be not surpris'd ye sweet and charming objects, "If some dark clouds obscure my placid front. "While the skill'd artist this resemblance drew, "I saw the scaffold rise, and thought of you."
I could send you, Messrs. Printers, some other anecdotes of this nature, but they harrow up the soul, and excite too distressing sympathy for a great and gallant people, thus bleeding under the reign of a Despot, more sanguinary and rapacious, than any that was ever decorated with a crown. Yet this miscreant and tiger, for more than three years profaned the sacred name, while he was exterminating the friends of Liberty—While he was daily sending cart loads of innocent victims to the scaffold—the rights of man was the constant theme of his declamations, and the worship of the Eternal the subject of his hypocritical canting. Americans; beware. If any similar characters should ever arise among you, by their fruits ye shall know them, not by their professions.
A SUBSCRIBER.
NEW THEATRE.
THIS EVENING. DECEMBER 26.
Will be Presented, The TRAGEDY of
George Barnwell,
Thoroughgood, Mr. Whitlock Uncle, Mr. Morton George Barnwell, Mr. Cleveland Trueman, Mr. Green Blunt, Mr. Francis Gaoler, Mr. De Mouins
Maria, Mrs. Cleveland Millwood, Mrs. Francis Lucy, Mrs. Shaw In Act 2d a SONG, by Miss Broadhurst To which will be added,
For the last time this Season, a PANTO-MIME, called the
Birth of Harlequin,
Or the FRIENDLY WITCHES.
Harlequin, Mr. Francis Pantalon, Mr. Green Miser, Mr. Bisset Clown, Mr. Milbourne Lawyer, Mr. Darley Jun. 1st Witch, Mr. Darley 2d Witch, Mr. Marshall 3d Witch, Mr. Warrell Bricklayers, Messrs. Warrell, J. Warrell, &c.
Maid, Mrs. Cleveland Columbine, Mrs. De Marquis To conclude with
A Grand Garland Dance In the TEMPLE of LIBERTY.

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1. Charlotte, a tale of truth, By Mrs. Rowson, of the New-Theatre Philadelphia. Second American edition—Price 75 cents.
[The rapid sale of the First Edition of this interesting novel, in a few months, is the best proof of its merit.]
Extract from the Critical Review, April 1793, p. 468.
It may be a tale of truth, for it is not unnatural, and it is a tale of real history. Charlotte by the artifice of a teacher, recommended to a school from humanity rather than a conviction of her integrity of the regularity of her former conduct, is enticed from her governess, and accompanies a young officer to America. The marriage ceremony is not forgotten, is postponed, and Charlotte dies a martyr to the inconstancy of her lover, and treachery of his friend. The situations are artless and affecting—the descriptions natural and pathetic; we should feel for Charlotte if such a person ever existed, who, for one error, scarcely, perhaps deserved so severe a punishment. If it is a fiction, poetic justice is not, we think, properly distributed.
2. The Inquisitor —by Mrs. Rowson, Second Philadelphia edition. 87 1/2 cents.
3. Adventures of Roderick Random. 2 vols. 1 dollar and 50 cents, coarse paper; 1 dollar and 75 cents, fine.
4. Notes on the State of Virginia —by Thomas Jefferson. Price, neatly bound, one dollar and a half.
5. History of the French Revolution, from its commencement to the death of the Queen and the execution of Brissot. Two dollars.
EXTRACT FROM THE PREFACE. “The authors have presumed to affix to their title the epithet Impartial ; and the reason is, because they cannot charge themselves with feeling the smallest bias to any party, but that of truth and liberty; and they flatter themselves, that their readers will find not only every circumstance fairly represented, but every censurable action, whether were the authors or actors, marked in its proper colors. If it was necessary to make a declaration of their own principles, they would say, they are neither tory nor republican—they love liberty as English whigs, and execrate every criminal act by which no noble cause is endangered and disgraced.”
“In the present ferment of the public mind, they cannot flatter themselves with the hopes of seeing this claim universally acknowledged. On the contrary, they are well assured that these pages will not be acceptable to the zealots of either party. But when time shall dissipate the clouds of political deception, they with some confidence expect that verdict from public opinion, which candor and moderation seldom fail to receive.”
EXTRACT FROM THE CRITICAL REVIEW, JANUARY, 1794—page 12.
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Embellished with a map of Barbary, comprehending Morocco, Fez, Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli.
To the present edition is added a very copious index, containing letters from sundry American prisoners in Algiers to their friends in the United States—a list of the vessels taken—and many very interesting articles not in the first edition.
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Office of the Insurance Company of North America, December 8th 1794.
NOTICE is hereby given to the Stockholders, that the Fifth Instalment, being TWO DOLLARS on each share of the Stock of this Company is to be paid on the second Monday (the 13th Day) of January next; when it will be necessary for each person to produce the receipt for the FOURTH Instalment upon the shares he shall propose to pay for.
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In case of a Stockholder's voting by Proxy, the charter requires that the proxy be directly from such Stockholder, & the vote be given by a citizen of this commonwealth.”
Ebenezer Hazard, SECRETARY. Dec. 8 m&wtf13j
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SHAKSPEARE'S WORKS.
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. BY Mountford, Bioren & Co. Proposals for Printing by Subscription, THE WHOLE Dramatic Works OF WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE, IN EIGHT DUODECIMO VOLUMES, From Jones's Dublin Edition.
CONDITIONS.
 I. This Work will be comprised in Eight Duodecimo Volumes, printed on a fine American paper, in a style of Typographical Elegance that shall reflect the highest credit on the American press.  II. That it shall be embellished with a beautiful Frontispiece of Shakspeare—engraved by the best American Artist.  III. That the price to Subscribers will be EIGHT DOLLARS, one dollar to be paid on subscribing, and one dollar on the receipt of every succeeding volume but the last:—to enable the Publishers to pursue with convenience this arduous undertaking.  IV. Each volume shall be delivered in blue boards to the Subscribers immediately on the publication of every volume with best impressions of the Frontispiece—the price to be raised to Non-Subscribers.  V. That the names of the Subscribers will be printed to record the patrons of this endeavour to encourage the useful and elegant Arts in America. 
TO THE PUBLIC.
THAT Shakspeare has followed nature with such truth and correctness, as to render his Works the delight of all nations, however differing in customs and manners from his own, is a fact which more than centuries of universal approbation have sufficiently established. The debt unpaid by the careless and unenlightened contemporaries of this Illustrious Man has been left to posterity to discharge, and in proportion to the progress of taste and literature, the gratitude of mankind has endeavoured to acknowledge the obligation. England has exhibited her favourite Authors with splendor, and it is hoped that America that seat of true liberty, will not be backward in encouraging this first great attempt to do merited justice to the author of this Dramatic Work.
The selection therefore, of this incomparable Production for an ELEGANT AMERICAN EDITION, requiring no justification, it only remains for the Publishers to add a few observations on the claim which such undertakings have to patronage in America—a country, which for liberty none can equal and should necessarily be the nurse and patron of the Arts. And tho' to rival the Eastern country, may seem hopeless in us—yet it is surely a laudable endeavour to excite that encouragement here, which should be always offered to improvement and excellence. Indeed the zeal which has appeared in America, since the permanent establishment of the present happy constitution, for patronizing the arts, whilst it has produced and rewarded a multitude of works which immortalize the artists, has also exalted the character of the nation, and given dignity to the people whose patriotism and munificence have promoted their discovery of perfection.
America is not insensible to the value of character, and will assume her rank amongst nations as an encourager of the arts. It would therefore be an impeachment of her understanding and patriotism, if a doubt were entertained of her possessing a portion of that spirit which so elevates the eastern world, a spirit which considered in a national point of view, is one of the most praiseworthy in the catalogue of public virtues; as it contributes to the best interests of society, by promoting industry, cherishing genius, multiplying the rational enjoyments of life, and exciting a general taste for the beautiful and the excellent.
In the hope that the humble effort here proposed may interest this spirit, and have some claim to general encouragement, it has been undertaken.
The attention which shall be paid to the correctness and beauty of the PRINTING, will evince the desire of the publishers to present their country with an edition worthy of the inimitable Shakspeare.
The Publishers assure the Patrons of this undertaking, they will discharge their engagement with strict probity and honor, and therefore hope they may justly claim public confidence and support.
Subscriptions will be received at Stephens's Book-Store, No. 57, South Second Street, and at the principal Book-Stores in the United States—also, at the Publishers No. 75. Dock Street, and at the Philadelphia Coffee-House. Dec. 10. eod 2w 2aw tf
Insurance Company of the State of Pennsylvania. NOTICE is hereby given, that, agreeably to law, an election for thirteen directors to serve for one year, will be held at the office of the Company, on Monday the 12th day of January next. Dec. 19. eod tf
City of Washington.
SCHEME
OF THE LOTTERY, No. II. FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE FEDERAL CITY.
1 A magnificent 20,000 Dollars, and dwelling house, 5 cash 30,000 are    1 ditto 15,000 & cash 25,000 59,000   1 ditto 15,000 & cash 15,000 40,000   1 ditto 10,000 & cash 10,000 30,000   1 ditto 5,000 & cash 5,000 10,000   1 ditto 5,000 & cash 5,000 10,000   1 Cash prize of 10,000   2 ditto 5,000 each, are 10,000   10 ditto 1,000 10,000   20 ditto 500 10,000   100 ditto 100 10,000   200 ditto 50 10,000   400 ditto 25 10,000   1,000 ditto 10 10,000   15,000 ditto 10 150,000   16,739 Prizes 33,261 Blanks 50,000 Tickets at 8 dollars 400,000
This Lottery will afford an elegant specimen of the private buildings to be erected in the City of Washington—Two beautiful designs are already selected for the entire fronts on two of the public squares; from these drawings, it is proposed to erect two centrepiece and four corner buildings, as soon as possible after this Lottery is sold, and to convey them when completed, to the fortunate adventurers, in the manner described in the scheme for the Halle Lottery . A net deduction of five per cent will be made to defray the necessary expenses of printing, &c. and the surplus will be made a part of the fund intended for the National University, to be erected within the City of Washington.
The drawing will commence as soon as the Tickets are sold, or at all events on Monday, the 22nd of December next. The money prizes will be payable in thirty days after it is finished, and any prizes for which fortunate numbers are not produced within twelve months after the drawing is closed are to be considered as given towards the fund for the University, it being determined to settle the whole business in a year from the ending of the drawing and to take up the bonds given as security.
The real securities given for the payment of the Prizes, are held by the President and two Directors of the Bank of Columbia, and are valued at more than half the amount of the Lottery. The drawing will be under the management of 24 gentlemen approved by the commissioners for the City of Washington, for the time being, and acting on oath.
SAMUEL BLODGET.
** Tickets may be had at the Bank of Columbia; of James West & Co. Baltimore; of Gideon Denison, Savannah; of Peter Gilman, Boston; of John Hopkins, Richmond; and of Richard Wells, Cooper's Ferry. Aug. 30 eod tf
PROPOSALS
By Thomas Dobson, For Publishing by Subscription, An English Translation
OF Poole's Synopsis of the Translations of the Bible, And Of
The Critics, Interpreters, and Commentators Exhibiting at one view, the principal criticisms, and most valuable elucidations of the Scriptures; Illustrations of the ancient Eastern Manners and customs; & Definitions of the Plants and Animals therein mentioned; with improvements from observations of Travellers, since the publication of that excellent work.
It has been matter of wonder and regret that this most learned and valuable work, so highly prized by the learned, both curious and serious, has never been translated, and thereby the bulk of readers have been deprived of a work of the greatest entertainment and utility; in which by the Labors of the learned of various ages and nations, the Sacred Scriptures are cleared of the contradictions and absurdities of modern translations, and the ancient manners, metaphors, allegories, and figures are illustrated in such a way, as to unite the most rational entertainment with the most sublime instruction; & to discover the source whence true philosophers, in all ages, have derived their knowledge from the Sacred Scriptures, which contain the seeds of all the sciences valuable to man.
This work is proposed to the Public on the following
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It is supposed the whole will be completed in four volumes, large quarto; and will be set to the press as soon as a sufficient number shall be subscribed for, to defray the expense.
The price to subscribers will be four dollars for each volume, in boards. No money will be demanded till the first volume shall be completed, when the price of the first and second volumes will be required. When the second volume is finished, the price of the third will be payable. And when the third volume is finished, the price of the fourth must be paid.
The price of such copies as may not be subscribed for will be raised 25 per cent. Dec. 13. 2w 4w
COFFEE, 54 hogheads } 120,000 lbs. 350 barrels } Just arrived in the Rebecca, Captain Hughes, from Jamaica. FOR SALE BY Peter Blight. Who has also now landing out of the Mercury, from Oporto, Choice Red Port Wine, IN PIPES. Dec. 22 d
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William W. Woodward, PRINTER, HAS removed his Printing Office from No. 41, Chestnut Street, to Franklin's Head, No. 36, four doors from the corner of Second Street, South Side, nearly opposite to where the Printing Business is carried on as usual; his whole attention being confined to that occupation. Orders from any part of this State, or the continent, will be executed, and authors may rely on having any work they may be fit to publish, correctly printed, either in French or English. The LEVEL of Europe and North America, with a COPIOUS PRICE-CURRENT, is printed on the corner, PETER EGROU, L. L. D. at the above mentioned office, in French and English, which publication has received the approbation of one of the most distinguished characters in America, and whose support, in a few days, will be published, a new edition, by two first numbers to the subscribers. N. B. Blanks, Circular Letters, Checks, Cards, Travellers, &c. &c. continue to be executed with the usual dispatch. Nov. 31 eod 9w.
To the Public.
A SUBSCRIPTION
Is opened for Printing the Theological Writings
OF Emanuel Swedenborg,
At Francis Bailey's Book Store, No. 116, Market Street, Philadelphia. WHEN a sufficient public patronage takes place, a meeting will be advertised to consider the most eligible mode for conducting the printing of such of the Works as shall be thought to be of the greatest utility in the first instance. The following Treatises may be now had at Mr. Bailey's: The Doctrine of Life, or the Spiritual Sense of the Ten Commandments. The Universal Resurrection of the New Church; which was predicted by the Lord in Daniel, chap. 7, v. 5, 12, 13, and in the Apocalypse, chap. 21, v. 1, 2, &c. A Summary View of the Heavenly Doctrines of the New Jerusalem Church. As various opinions have been entertained respecting these invaluable writings, and yet no person by rational argument has been able to refute them, but in general objections, invidious calumnies and groundless reports have been industriously propagated to discredit the honourable and enlightened Author, as well as his Works, we doubt not the candid and sincere inquirers after Truths of the highest importance, will seriously examine those Works for themselves, in which it is to be hoped, that being in the pursuit and love of the Truth for the sake of its native excellence and use, they will regard them as they justly deserve, and in the end receive both profit and delight. Oct. 14 e Totav
Dancing School.
Wm. McDougal presents his compliments to the Public—Thanks them for the great encouragement he has experienced these twenty odd years. He will open his School for this Season on Monday the 13th October, at 10 o'clock in the morning, in that large and elegant Saloon in Harmony Street, leading from Third to Fourth Street, turning the corner of No. 70, South Third Street.
His Employers may be assured, the strict order and decorum that has always been observed in his School, shall still be pursued—and that their children will be taught in the most approved and modern style. Note—An Evening School for young Gentlemen. Oct. 10 12wtf
James M'Alpin,
Taylor, No. 3, SOUTH FOURTH STREET,
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A QUANTITY OF
East India Cotton,
Entitled to the Drawback, FOR SALE BY
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