Gazette of the United States and daily evening advertiser. (Philadelphia [Pa.]), 1795-01-21 00:00:00

Gazette of the United States AND DAILY EVENING ADVERTISER.
[No. 18 of Vol. VII.]
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1795.
[Whole No. 740.]
Nankeens. For Sale or Charter, The SHIP MARGARET, Robert Robertson, Master. For Sale, At the STORES of Jesse & Robert Waln, PORT WINE in pipes, hds. and quarter casks.
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 Sale, At the STORES of Jesse & Robert Waln, PORT WINE in pipes, hds. and quarter casks.
Valuable Real Estates by AUCTION. On Thursday next, the 22d Instant, at 6 o'Clock in the Evening, at the Merchants Coffee-House, will be sold by Auction, the following Valuable Lots of Ground: No. 1. A lot of ground situate on the North side of Market Street between 10th and 11th streets, and immediately opposite the new buildings now erecting by Mr. Thomas Leiper...
Fine Fresh Lemons, At Four Dollars the Box, FOR SALE BY THOMAS RANDALL, No. 88, Spruce Street, midway between Second and Third Streets. 12th mo. 30. WANTED, A Quantity of White Beans, For which CASH will be given by Edward Stow jun. No. 4, South Water Street. Jan. 16. Cotton Bedticks, (American Manufacture.) Said to contain the Down and Feathers, much better than the best Luen Bedticks for sale by Joseph Turner, No. 4, north Third Street. Jan. 10. George Hunter, Chemist, At his Laboratory, No. 112, South Second Street. INFORMS his former customers and the public, that he has begun the DRUG business again on an extensive plan.
acknowledged. On the contrary, they are well assured that these pages will not be accepted to the seal of either party. But when a man shall illustrate the cloud of political deception, they will with some confidence expect it at once from public opinion, which candor and moderation seldom fail to receive. EXTRACT FROM THE CRITICAL REVIEW, JANUARY, 1795—PAGE 12. "We have certainly derived much pleasure, and acquired much information from the perusal of these volumes; and we think them, both for matter and style, worthy the attention of all who interest themselves in events which have so justly excited the curiosity and astonishment of mankind." 6. Plowden's history of the British empire from May 1792, to December 1793. A dollar and a quarter. [This is an interesting and valuable publication as had appeared for many years.] 7. Beattie's Elements of Moral Science, 2 vols. One dollar and three quarters. 8. Ladies Library. Second American edition. 87 1/2 cents. CONTAINING—Miss Moore's Essays; Dr. Gregory's Legacy to his Daughters; Lady Pennycuick's unfortunate mother's advice to her Daughters; Marchmont's de Lambart's Advice of a mother to her daughter, Mrs. Chapone's Letter on the government of the temper; Swift's Letter to a Young Lady newly married; Moore's Fables for the Female Sex.
FOR SALE, At the STORES of Jesse & Robert Waln, PORT WINE in pipes, hds. and quarter casks. LISON dwin pipes and quarter casks. SINGON and CONGO TEAS, in quarter casks. A quantity of Lisbon and Cadiz SALT. Soft-shelled ALMONDS in bales. VEGET CORKS, in do. HOPS MATS. June 9. Distant Subscribers. For the Gazette, are hereby respectfully requested to pay up their Subscriptions in the first of January next. The Editor will be under the necessity of considering those who do not then renew their Subscription as paying Six Months in Advance, as declining to take the Paper any longer. As there is a considerable sum due from remote Subscribers for the late half Weekly Paper published by the Editor, he most earnestly requests, to take the earliest opportunity of remitting him the balance they may respectively be indebted to him, as the funds are individually obliged to the want of the Aggregate amount.
NOTARY PUBLIC, Within the City of Philadelphia, and at present keeps his Office at No. 19, South Fourth Street, Until a more convenient situation can be procured. N. B. He still means to act as an Attorney at Law and Conveyancer. Jan. 5 1795. HAZARD Historical Collections. JUST PUBLISHED, AND FOR SALE BY THOMAS DOBSON, At the State 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 FRANCIS HAZARD, A.M. Member of the American Philosophical Society, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Correspondent Member of the Massachusetts Historical Society. Two large quarto volumes, price TEN DOLLARS in boards. A few copies of the second volume which have been substituted 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 acknowledged; 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 difficulty. Many of these papers are very curious, and will be highly interesting to the lovers of American Antiquities, and when considered as authentic memoirs of the early transactions of a people destined to occupy a distinguished and enviable station in the annals of human history, they become peculiarly interesting and important. Dec. 28. AT THE Card & Nail Factory, No. 59, north Front Street, Webster, Adgate & White, Have constantly for sale, Cotton, Wool, Tow, and Machine Cards, Of all Kinds, Cut Nails of all sizes, Floor Brads, Sprigs and Tacks, Fullers Shears, Gun Flints and Wool Hats, A quantity of kiln dried Indian Meal in barrels. A new Edition of Adgate's Philadelphia Harmony, containing both the first and second parts, being the most approved system of Rules and the best collection of Tunes now in use. Also for Sale, A COMPLETE SET OF Machinery for making Cards On an Improved Construction. Oct. 2.
This Day was published, [Price 25 cents] AND FOR SALE AT T. BRADFORD'S Book-Store, No. 8, South Front Street, A BONE TO GNAW for the DEMOCRATS; or Observations on a Pamphlet entitled, "The Political Progress of Britain." At the same place may be had, The POLITICAL PROGRESS of BRITAIN; or, An impartial History of abuses in the government of the British empire, in Europe, Asia, and America; from the revolution in 1688 to the present time, &c. Also— The celebrated COMEDIES of the NORFOLK JIG, HAUNTED TOWER, and THE SICILIAN ROMANCE; an Opera, by Henry Siddons. And, as usual, An Assortment of BOOKS In Law, Physic, Surgery, Chemistry, History, Agriculture, Architecture, and Mathematics— With a general Assortment of Stationary of all kinds. January, 1795. George Green, Informs his Friends and Customers in particular, and the Public in general, that he has a New four horse Stage, For journeys, and a number of genteel and close Carriages with good horses and careful drivers to let on as moderate terms as any other person in the city. Enquire at his Livery Stables in Pine Street, No. 123. Said Green solicits a continuance of that share of the Public Patronage, which he has hitherto so amply experienced, and which shall be his study to merit by his close attention to business. Jan. 15. A Large Assortment of Warranted Watches From 14 to 40 dollars—a very general assortment of Watch-Materials, Chains, Seals, &c. &c.—and a few very handsome French Mantle Clocks, For sale on low terms, for Cash by John J. Parry, Clock and Watch Maker, No. 38, South Second Street, An Apprentice wanted. Jan. 12. Whereas an attachment at the suit of the administrators of all and singular the goods and chattels, rights and credits, which were of William Burnet deceased, at the time of his death, hath been issued out of the Inferior Court of common pleas, in and for the County of Middlesex, against the Goods and Chattels, Lands and Tenements of Irenius Martin, late of the county aforesaid, returnable to the third Tuesday in July last. NOTICE is hereby given to the said Irenius Martin, that unless he appear and file special bail to the said action, on or before the third Tuesday in January next, judgment will be entered against him by default, and the goods and chattels, lands and tenements so attached, sold for the satisfaction of such of his creditors as shall appear to be justly entitled to any demand thereon, and shall apply for that purpose, according to the form of the statute in such case made & provided By order of the Court, DEARE, Clerk. Aug. 10.
FRESH DRUGS, CHEMICAL PREPARATIONS, and PATENT MEDICINES. Likewise, painters' colours, dry and ground in oil, paint brushes, window and coach glass, dye stuffs, linseed oil, oil of turpentine, copal oil, varnish and japan, warranted good. Also, coppers, madder, ground redwood by the hoghead or smaller quantity. As he imports the simples 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 100 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. 28. BOOKS, PRINTED & PUBLISHED By Mathew Carey, No. 118, Market Street, 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.] Extracts from the Critical Review, April 1794, p. 468. It may be a tale of truth, for it is not unnatural, and it is a tale of real distress—Charlotte by the artifice of a teacher, recommended to a school from humanity rather than a conviction of her integrity or the regularity of her former conduct, is entitled from her governess, and accompanies a young officer to America—The marriage ceremony, if not forgotten, is postponed, and Charlotte dies a martyr to the innocence of her lover, and treachery of his friend—The situations are artful 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. 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, whenever 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 excise 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."
Journal durant un Séjour en France depuis le commencement d'Octobre jusqu'au milieu Decembre, auquel est joint un récit des evenemens les plus remarquables qui ont eu lieu à Paris, depuis cette époque, jusqu'à la mort du roi de France. Bound, 2 1/2 dollars—sewed, 2 dollars. 10. Edward's treatise on the religious affections. Coarse paper, a dollar—fine, a dollar and a half. 11. Rights of Woman—By Mrs. Wollston craft. A dollar. 12. Will's Son's Sacramental Meditations.—60 cents. 13. Bunyan's Holy War, made by Shaddai against Diabolus. 14. Short account of Algiers. Second edition, enlarged—25 cents. Containing—A description of that country—and of the manners and customs of the inhabitants—and of their several wars against Spain, France, England, Holland, Venice, and other powers of Europe—from the usurpation of Barbarossa and the invasion of Charles V. to the present time.—With a concise view of the origin of the war between Algiers and the United States. 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. 15. Blair's Lectures on Rhetoric and Belleas Letters. Three dollars 33 cents. 16. Smith's Letters to Married Women, on nursing and the management of children. 62 1/2 cents. 17. American Farmer's letters. 80 cents. 18. Young Misses Magazine. 2 vols. 1 dollar 33 cents. Containing—Dialogues between a Governess and several Young Ladies of Quality her Scholars—In which each Lady is made to speak according to her particular genius, temper and inclination—Their several faults, are pointed out, and the easy way to amend them, as well as to think, and speak, and act properly; no less care being taken to form their hearts to goodness, than to enlighten their understandings with useful knowledge. A short and clear abridgement is also given of sacred and profane History, and some lessons in Geography. The useful is blended throughout with the agreeable, the whole being interspersed with proper reflections and moral Tales. 19. Duncan's Elements of Logic. 80 cents 20. M'Fingal, an epic poem. 37 1/2 cents. 21. Tranch Cox's examination of Lord Shelburne's observations. 62 1/2 cents. 22. Ladies' Friend. 37 1/2 cents. 23. Smith's history of New York, from its discovery to 1732. 1 dollar 25 cents. 24. Complete Atlas for the present war, containing maps of France, Holland, Netherlands, Germany, Spain, Italy, and the West-Indies. 2 dollars. 25. Constitutions of the United States, with the Federal Constitution. 62 1/2 cents. 26. Peyton's Grammar for Freshmen to learn English. 50 cents. 27. Epicteti Enchiridion. 31 cents. 28. Gay's Fables. 31 cents. 29. Christian Economy. 25 cents. 30. Chame of Melody, a choice collection of Songs. 25 cents. 31. American Museum, 12 vols. 8vo. Nineteen dollars and 20 cents. "The American Museum is not only eminently calculated to disseminate political and other valuable information, but it has been uniformly conducted with tale, attention, & propriety. To these important objects he superadded the more immediate design, of rescuing public documents from oblivion, I will venture to pronounce, as my sentiment, that a more useful literary plan has never been undertaken in America, nor one more deserving of public encouragement." General Washington. 32. Poems of Col. Humphreys. 37 1/2 cents. 33. Catechism of Man. 18 3/4 cents. 34. Tom Paine's Jests. 18 3/4 cents. 35. Carey's account of the Yellow Fever, 4th edition. 50 cents. 36. Devout Christian's Vade Mecum. 25 cents. 37. Garden of the Soul. 50 cents. 38. Think well on't. 50 cents. 39. Doomsday Bible. 6 dollars. Nov. 29.
A pleasant Country Seat, MAY be hired for one or more years and petition given immediately, consisting of A neat three story brick house with a well of water, and an excellent bearing Orchard, containing 150 trees—it is situated 4 miles from the city between the Wiltshire road and the Schuylkill, at the distance of an agreeable walk from that river, where a pleasure boat may be conveniently kept. The quantity of land may be confined to 8 or extended to any number of acres not exceeding 40. Apply to Jonathan Williams Jun. at Mount Pleasant, adjoining the Premises. Jan. 13. Just Published, By Thomas Dobson, and sold by Mr. Steele, No. 57, South Second Street, MEMOIRS OF General Dumourier, WRITTEN BY HIMSELF. A L S O, Walker's TRIAL, Alem's Letters on Literature and the Conduct of Life, How to Grow Rich, a comedy, The Woodman, a comic opera. In the course of this month, S. H. Smith will publish No. 3 of the Monthly Review. Such Gentlemen as wish to be supplied with this work, are requested to leave their names with Mr. Stephens, or with the Publisher, in Cherry, above Fourth Street. Jan. 6. TO BE SOLD BY T. DOBSON, Principles and Observations APPLIED TO THE MANUFACTURE AND INSPECTION OF Pot and Pearl Ashes. By DAVID TOWNSEND, Inspector of Pot and Pearl Ashes for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Published according to Act of Congress. These observations relate to an extensive business; and are designed, in the plainest manner, to convey very profitable information to those interested in it, who have no leisure or opportunity to search for the principles therein contained, in the writings of professional Chemists.
General Dumourier, WRITTEN BY HIMSELF. A L S O, Walker's TRIAL, Alem's Letters on Literature and the Conduct of Life, How to Grow Rich, a comedy, The Woodman, a comic opera. In the course of this month, S. H. Smith will publish No. 3 of the Monthly Review. Such Gentlemen as wish to be supplied with this work, are requested to leave their names with Mr. Stephens, or with the Publisher, in Cherry, above Fourth Street. Jan. 6. TO BE SOLD BY T. DOBSON, Principles and Observations APPLIED TO THE MANUFACTURE AND INSPECTION OF Pot and Pearl Ashes. By DAVID TOWNSEND, Inspector of Pot and Pearl Ashes for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Published according to Act of Congress. These observations relate to an extensive business; and are designed, in the plainest manner, to convey very profitable information to those interested in it, who have no leisure or opportunity to search for the principles therein contained, in the writings of professional Chemists.
Whereas an attachment at the suit of the administrators of all and singular the goods and chattels, rights and credits, which were of William Burnet deceased, at the time of his death, hath been issued out of the Inferior Court of common pleas, in and for the County of Middlesex, against the Goods and Chattels, Lands and Tenements of Irenius Martin, late of the county aforesaid, returnable to the third Tuesday in July last. NOTICE is hereby given to the said Irenius Martin, that unless he appear and file special bail to the said action, on or before the third Tuesday in January next, judgment will be entered against him by default, and the goods and chattels, lands and tenements so attached, sold for the satisfaction of such of his creditors as shall appear to be justly entitled to any demand thereon, and shall apply for that purpose, according to the form of the statute in such case made & provided By order of the Court, DEARE, Clerk. Aug. 10.
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, whenever 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 excise 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."
General Washington. 32. Poems of Col. Humphreys. 37 1/2 cents. 33. Catechism of Man. 18 3/4 cents. 34. Tom Paine's Jests. 18 3/4 cents. 35. Carey's account of the Yellow Fever, 4th edition. 50 cents. 36. Devout Christian's Vade Mecum. 25 cents. 37. Garden of the Soul. 50 cents. 38. Think well on't. 50 cents. 39. Doomsday Bible. 6 dollars. Nov. 29.

For the Gazette of the United States.
In the Woods, Feb. Jan. 1795.
To ROBERT MICKLE, pro. tem. Secretary to the Republican Society, at Baltimore.
SIR,
AT the close of my last, I had in contemplation not to address you again till I had made some observations on the heterogeneous composition of vanity, ambition, mortification, and ill-nature that has lately made its appearance in the papers, under the signature of Blair M'Clengan, President of the Democratic Society of Pennsylvania. But there are some things in your exculpatory appeal to the people that demand further notice: For rogery, deceit, and treachery, whether under the garb of religion, honesty, or patriotism, ought to be detected. And in times like these, false patriots in politics are capable of doing more mischief to the public tranquility, than even hypocrites were in religion, or false weights and measures in trade. The true character of those who force themselves upon the public with broadside tears of weeping for liberty, when she is in no danger but from themselves, must be made to appear in their unmasked traits; for such are the men we have to guard against—not our Legislators, who take their stand by the choice and appointment of the people, and, like military centinels, are relieved at short periods. These we have ever before us. They take no sleep without our knowledge; all their laws are made public, and every one is a judge of their motives, and of the tendency of their doings—while spies and decoyers are ever to be suspected, and the alarm against them cannot be made too soon, nor too constantly kept up. Every one who is found out of his place, naturally becomes an object of suspicion—like wandering vagabonds and house-breakers, they must be taken, and secured for trial. Hence the modern screech owls of democracy, however they may change their names, and assume the notes of a milder tone, the more effectually to deceive the innocent, are still but creatures of prey and destruction. They must be watched—and it becomes all public officers and Adversaries of the people, to keep a constant eye upon them—and, like our faithful vigilant President, point their fingers directly to the nests and lair of such ravenous birds and beasts.
It is fitting and proper that all men should keep their natural places in society, as well those who qualify and try to jump over the fence, as those who are content to stay in their place. It seems to be the case with the members of your wicked combinations, as all others who have too great a regard to their own, to usurp their neighbour's rights, until the people judge them worthy of being called into their service, and to take their turn in the administration of public affairs. Such as are uneasy and restless in the station where nature, and the regular adjustment of a free government, has placed them, make use of means unknown to the rules and regulations of the community to remove themselves to other situations, will never cease from disturbing the orderly motions of government, so long as they see any body in a higher grade than themselves. And should their cunning and ambition ever succeed in waiting them into the places they aspire after, we cannot be at a loss what will be their conduct, so long as we have the examples of Pisistratus, Sylla, Marius, Cæsar, Anthony, Cromwell, and Robespierre, with the whole combination of Jacobin Clubs in France before our eyes. Among men of the same class, but who met their just doom, and righteous vengeance of the people, before they arrived to the place their ambition led them to look, may be enumerated a Catiline, a Cethegus, the Guises in the Catholic League, Genet the founder of your order, Bradford, Brackenridge, and the whole host of democrats who rallied round Genet, and endeavoured to support and forward his disorganizing schemes, even when he had opposed himself to the President, and been denounced by the Convention in France! Perhaps, too, if we call our eyes into the State House yard of Pennsylvania, some of the same class may be discovered elevating themselves as the directors of a mob, in expectation of some time or other gaining the object of their ambitious views, and treading on the necks of the people. But let your wicked clubs remember, that since the downfall of Danton & Robespierre, among modern tyrants, and the flight of Democrat Bradford, with the imprisonment of his coadjutors in the late rebellion, the people take courage, and believe, that no degree of cruelty,
cunning, hypocrisy, or false professions of patriotism, can prevail in subverting their government, or depriving them of their rights. The President yet lives! He will point out all your plots—and by the aid and support of the friends of order and the Constitution, will ever develop the schemes of anarchy and confusion, constantly meditated by your self-created clubs and combinations. Curb your ambition then, and do not let it inflame you to such a degree, as to drive you out of your natural place in society, and hurry you on towards your great object with such fury, as to make you forgetful of the common rules of decency. Why are you continually thrusting yourselves upon the public, where you are unknown, and without letters of credit, or recommendation, demanding our confidence?—Ambition sets you on, and false patriotism is the veil that you make use of to cover your base views. But our constitutional guardians will not only discover the imposition—they have already seized some of your tools—and others they have forced into banishment. Can you reconcile your conduct with prudence in private life? Do people, usually, trust entire strangers with large sums of money, unless they have some other security besides the borrower's declaration of his own honesty? Surely no. But you have the impudence to tell us you are an officer of the people! The people have conferred on you no authority, nor given you any credit. What you call the Republican Society, to which you say you are Secretary, can justly be considered, by the people of the United States, in no other light than bats and owls, doleful birds of night! Creatures that detest the light, because light and knowledge will expose your true characters.
We will next examine what you advance about your readiness to suppress the Insurrection in the Western Counties of Pennsylvania, which is so justly attributed to your nocturnal clubs.
ONE of the PEOPLE.
CONGRESS.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Thursday, January 15.
Debate on the reported plan for reducing the public debt.
Continued. Mr. Smith did not know whether he would be in order, of which he would be glad to be informed from the Chair, if it was regular he should like to move the striking out of the whole resolution at once. Mr. Nicholas immediately rose and withdrew his motion, to make room for this new one. Mr. Smith then proceeded to make his amendment. He took the face of the law as it stood, and every body sees from the face of it, that it is but an experimental law. Why then wish to continue it before the experiment has been made, or when the little experience which has been had is directly against its continuation? A gentleman from Connecticut (Mr. Tracy) had said, that when a tax was known to be permanent, manufacturers would make a more permanent arrangement for supporting the payment of it. The argument was strong, but unfortunately it proved too much, for it went alike against the repeal of every tax, since it was only to say, the manufacturers would make a permanent arrangement.—This seemed to be the scope of Mr. Smith's argument, though not his exact words, which, from the particular rapidity of this speaker, it is often very difficult to follow. The same gentleman (Mr. Tracy), alledges that no body complains against the duty on refined sugar, except the sugar bakers of Philadelphia. The gentleman is wrong. The manufacturers at Baltimore wanted to complain to Congress, last session, but Mr. Smith had hindered them from doing so, by representing to them that the law was only temporary; but the present proposal, which in fact amounted to making the law perpetual, quite altered the case. As to the sugar baker from New-York, whose information had been advanced by Mr. Tracy, "I breakfasted with that gentleman this morning" said Mr. Smith. He had been enabled to support the excise, by an accidentally cheap purchase of raw sugar, and by a new market, for the commodity, that had been found at Hamburg. But these advantages were temporary, and in due time, the sugar bakers of New-York would be reduced to a level with those of Philadelphia and Baltimore. In the last of these places, the manufacturers had this year sold their refined sugar at exactly the same price as they sold it last year, so that the two cents of excise were entirely cut out of their profits. It had been hinted that manufacturers should keep their stock upon hand, till the market rose, but the sugar bakers at Baltimore had not strength of capital to go on without selling off. He again adverted to the injustice of the proceedings of the legislature. In the first place, large protecting duties had been imposed on the importation of refined sugar. In the confidence of this protection, men of capital embarked in the manufacture, which they never would have done but under the faith of this protection. As soon however, as you have them fairly engaged in the trade, you impose an
excise duty, which in reality differs nothing from a repeal of the protecting duty. Thus is the protection withdrawn, and thus is the public faith broken. As an apology for this kind of treatment, you stigmatize them with the name of monopolists, a name odious through the whole world. But the cause which Mr. Smith was now pleading, did not concern the sugar bakers only; because by the same reasoning faddlers and shoe-makers, and every other sort of manufacturers, may expect in their turn to be excited. Mr. Smith had no doubt but we should soon have an excise upon nails. The tax upon the importation of this article, had called forth the genius of the people of America; and, by the means of a machine, we can in this country, make nails cheaper, faster and better, than any other nation can make them. The natural progress of things will be to tell the American nailors that they also are monopolists, a name universally detested, and then you go on to excite the genius you have excited—The gentleman from Connecticut had supposed the case of a farmer coming from a foreign country to America, and that after he had laid out his money on land, there would be imposed a land tax. But Mr. Smith affirmed, that the comparison was not fair. Government had never pledged itself to such a man that no land tax would ever be imposed. The subject was open, entire and untouched; and the farmer like other people, must take his chance of futurity. But the circumstance of which Mr. Smith complained, was this. It had been understood in America, that a sugar bakery could not be supported, but by protecting duties against the importation of foreign refined sugar. Accordingly such protecting duties had been imposed, and now, though they were not nominally repealed, the house was in substance doing exactly the same thing, they were laying on an excise that shut up the business altogether.
Mr. Smith next proceeded to apologize for the warmth of some of his expressions yesterday. He certainly intended no disrespect to the select committee. He had not wished to insinuate that they practised an intentional deception on the House, in framing the report. He was sorry that any thing which he had said could admit of being construed into a reflection. When he spoke of the printed estimates given in to that House, he had as little design to cast a censure upon the accounting officers. He was of opinion that few countries were ever blessed with such officers. He felt the deepest regret that the head of that department (viz. Mr. Hamilton present Secretary to the treasury) was about to quit his situation.
It would be long, he feared, before America could find another officer in his place. He then proceeded to speak on the subject of public accounts. He said that when a person spoke upon figures, those who heard him were sometimes apt to think that he was in the wrong when he was in the right. He was often apt to be misunderstood and sometimes no doubt was himself mistaken. Mr. Smith said that yesterday, by an accident of which he did not wish to mention the particulars, and for which he was not in fault, five hundred thousand dollars had been inserted among his figures more than he knew of. He then went into a detail on the same subject as yesterday. He said that he still hoped to convince the House, that there would be plenty of money to pay the whole sums proposed, besides a large surplus, after striking out the second resolution. He then proceeded to an arithmetical discussion, through which it is impossible to follow him with that accuracy essentially requisite on such a topic. He was interrupted once or twice as being erroneous, by Mr. Hillhouse. He remarked that the subject was entirely new to him. He had never thought upon the estimate till yesterday, and he knew himself to be as liable to mistake as any other man. He was perfectly open to correction and conviction; and as ready to be convinced as any gentleman on the other side of the question.
The following was offered by Mr. S. Smith, in the course of his speech. Taking for data the estimates of 1794 and 1795, accompanying the report, he had prepared an estimate for 1796, which he would lay on the clerk's table, as well for information, as that gentlemen might easily detect the errors, if any. He hoped gentlemen would consider this statement, and not that which he made yesterday. If wrong, he would readily acknowledge the error; if right, there would be funds sufficient to answer the purposes proposed, and to leave a balance of 479,209 dollars, for contingencies; this balance being after he had corrected an error of twenty thousand dollars in the post-office revenue, remarked by Mr. Hillhouse.
The following is a copy of the statement above referred to: Estimate charges upon the revenue for 1796. Appropriations, as described in estimate for
  1795. dols. 40,000   Civil list same 435,249   Miscellaneous purposes same 32,004   Commissioners of loans same 15,000   Interest on domestic and assumed debt, 2,395,741   Ditto on foreign debt 702,861   Ditto on temporary domestic loan 100,000   Military establishment for 1796, being the same as estimated for 1794. 1,629,936   Appropriations to pay 2 per cent. per annum of the principal of the domestic and assumed debt, 600,000   Balance for contingencies, 479,209   Dols. 6,430,000   Estimated revenue for 1796.   Surpluses, which agreeably to the note under estimate of 1795, may safely be considered as an additional fund, 200,000   Estimated product on imports and tonnage, 5,750,000   Same on distilled spirits and stills 400,000   Same on bank dividend 50,000   Actual profit on post-office 30,000   Dols. 6,430,000 
[Debate to be continued.]
The following is a more full statement of the remarks of Mr. W. Smith, in the debate on Wednesday last, in the House of Representatives of Congress:
Mr. W. Smith. The house having unanimously resolved to make provision for the reduction of the debt, and the committee being now engaged on that subject, gentlemen who oppose the resolution under consideration, must either show that the existing revenues are adequate to the object, or propose other revenues more suitable than those recommended by the report.
Mr. Smith has attempted to do either; their arguments have been only a repetition of the report, or the report itself. He had not been in the habit of looking out for the report, but did not overlook its contents. With respect to the duties on snuff and sugar, Mr. Smith, who had been on the committee and heard all the complaints of the manufacturers, had not been convinced that they were so oppressive as was represented; indeed, the committee had not advised the repeal of them, which they would have done, had they deemed them oppressive. The snuff manufacturers had stated as a grievance, the mode of laying the duty because it subjected them to unnecessary trouble, and was liable to fraud, at the expense of the fair dealer. This the committee had proposed to alter, and to lay the duty on the mortar; he believed that this commutation, with some other regulations which had been suggested by the manufacturers, would remove all their reasonable complaints. As to a duty on snuff being oppressive, he could not believe it: The manufacturers had acknowledged that there were only about 13000 lbs. imported, and there were near 500,000 lbs. consumed in the United States; they might therefore be said, to have nearly the monopoly of the article; the duty would consequently be paid by the consumer. Snuff was an article altogether of luxury; each individual consumed but a small quantity, and would not for trifling a tax be induced to diminish his consumption. Were it not excised in the hands of the manufacturer, it would escape taxation altogether, if not manufactured here, it would be imported and pay the import; did gentlemen seriously mean that an article altogether of luxury, and paid by the consumer, who could well afford it, should not contribute something to the revenue, when salt, so essential a necessary of life, and many other articles of necessity contributed largely? For his part, he had not been able to discover what entitled it to so special an exemption. With respect to the duty on manufactured sugar, many of the foregoing observations would apply; it was an article of which the manufacturers had the monopoly, the duty would consequently be paid by the consumers, who were of the wealthier class of Citizens, and could well afford it; the smallness of it, two cents per pound, would not materially affect the consumption. The manufac-
ture had indeed complained to the committee that the consumption in this Country had diminished since the imposition of the duty, but Mr. S. believed it was attributable to other causes, some of which were of a local and temporary nature; one, the committee had been told, was the qualms of some of the Quakers, who had discontinued the use of sugar; this was a local, and fancied, would be only a temporary objection; other causes of the diminution of the sales had been stated by gentlemen and were by no means scribble to the duty. Of this tax Mr. Smith would remark as he had of snuff, that while salt and brown sugar, which we consumed in large quantities by the pot, contributed to the revenue, it would be as unjust as it would be unequal to exempt this altogether from its share of contribution; indeed, he did not know two articles more proper for taxation than snuff and loaf sugar. Great fire however, had been laid on the idea of their being domestic manufactures, as it had been contended, that all sugar ought to be exempt from taxation. To this doctrine Mr. S. could not subscribe, for altho' he concurred in favouring the infant manufactures required encouragement and protection, (and they should ever receive it, as far as his voice went) yet he concurred, that the policy and welfare of this country required the full grown manufactures, like those of snuff and sugar, which had the monopoly of the supply, should be resorted to for their share of contribution. This he thought indispensably necessary to supply the deficiency occasioned by the stoppage of importation, and to reach the article in the hands of the consumer. Otherwise in the event of Domestic manufactures supplying us with many of the commodities which are now imported, the duties on which are appropriated to the interest of the public debt, there would be a considerable defalcation of the revenue and consequent breach of the public faith. He acknowledged that care should be taken not to oppress the manufacturer by severe regulations or by so high a duty as to lessen the consumption. But the mere objection of its being a domestic manufacture was not of itself a sufficient objection; it had not been so considered in the case of the excise on hills, and he trusted it would not on this occasion. So far from its being the prevailing sentiment at the last session, the two laws had passed both branches of the legislature by a large majority, after hearing all that the manufacturers and the opponents of the tax could alledge against it.
Foreign Intelligence.
NATIONAL CONVENTION.
POPULAR SOCIETIES.
October 16. Delmas, in the name of the three committees of Public and General Safety and Legislation, presented a report on the Popular Societies. As this report was expected, the galleries and the hall of the Convention were remarkably crowded; all the posts were dou-

the streets, and strong patrols para-
Delmas began by applauding the principles on which Popular Societies were established, and the services which these societies had rendered to the cause of liberty. He then proceeded to point out the dangers which might arise if vigorous measures were not adopted to prevent them from becoming the instruments of anarchy and ambitious men; he instanced as examples of this danger the events of the 9th Thermidor; he dwelt with great energy on the influence which in the French Republic had lately arisen to such a height, that no important measure could be adopted without their aid and countenance. The revolutionary government, he said, ought to be without a rival, and if the Popular Societies were suffered to take such an active part in the government, the revolutionary principle would be constantly either opposed or checked in its operation.
The means by which these Societies had arrived at this plenitude of power, were, by correspondence and communication. By means of this double tie they formed an immense corporation, powerfully influencing the opinion, and the action of government. It had therefore become necessary to apply a strong remedy to this evil; the committee therefore propose the following Decree:
[This Decree we have already published.]
Thibaudeau, Duham, Lecune, Craffons and Dubarreau, opposed the decree on the principle that the Convention had no right to prevent men from assembling and corresponding with each other.
Rabaut, Bentabole, Bourdon de Oise, Thuriot, and many other members spoke in favor of the decree.
Those who opposed the decree went on the supposition that the Societies were to be destroyed but this was not the case. The Convention only meant to prevent the Societies being injurious to the French republic.
The proposal of the three committees was decreed amid the loudest plaudits.
UNITED STATES.
ALEXANDRIA, January 5.
To the citizens of Fairfax County and the Town of Alexandria.
THE election of a member of Congress to serve this district is advancing, and will be held at our court-house in March next, when it is hoped every man entitled to vote will attend. I am a plain unlettered Farmer, but as I always considered the growth and prosperity of Alexandria to be the interest of the Farmers in general, I hope the Alexandrians will consider me their friend.
Friend R. Lee, your predecessor in Congress, has given me ample and unequivocal reasons for voting in the manner he did in the last session: I think he has done himself honor as an independent man and as a friend to the peace and welfare of his country. When you consider that this young man (for he is young in comparison to myself) is possessed of a large landed estate in Loudoun county, and so situated that his mart must always be your town, his interest as well as his friendship must be in favor of Alexandria. This young man's cleverness established the Federal City where it is: he likewise had judgment and independence enough to vote diametrically opposite to the other members from Virginia, who would have indubitably driven you into a ruinous and expensive war. Lee was for keeping to that strict neutrality which our great and heaven-born man recommended in his proclamation, which certainly was the true policy of our country—how has his politics turned out? Have they not answered our most sanguine expectations? Have not the Farmers by the quiet situation of our public affairs gained immense wealth by the sale of their products? Have not every class of citizens benefited? Lee's politics are and have been for the true interest of his country, and I think it would be base ingratitude to leave him out and elect a young man whose interest is not allied to Alexandria, and who lives near the town of Dumfries, and of course is his market-town. But my fellow-citizens consider for a moment the young man's politics who opposes Mr. Lee. He, I am told, is feudal, but was, or is, antifederal: what I mean by antifederal, is a man who was, or is, an enemy to the union of the United States, and of course not a full friend to our government. Let us trust those that have been uniform—Lee has been uniform, and I know no small favourite of our best Man—Suppose you suffer me to give the following old Song that I used to sing after I found myself neglected by a man who pretended once to be my friend, and whom I never injured:
Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind, As man's ingratitude: Thy tooth is not so keen, Because thou art not seen Although thy breath be rude;
Freeze, freeze thou bitter sky, Thou dost not bite so nigh, As friends forgot: Tho' thou the waters warp, Thy fang is not so sharp, As friend remember'd not.
Fairfax County, Evergreen-Hill, Jan. 14, 1795.
NEW-YORK, Jan. 19.
Extracted from a Belfast paper of November 13, received by the Brig Cincinnati, arrived on Saturday evening from Belfast.
LONDON, November 8.
Some apprehensions are entertained on account of the non-arrival of the valuable convoy of merchant ships coming from the Straits; but we trust there are no solid grounds for them at this season of the year, as the northerly winds are very prevalent in the Bay of Biscay; and it is also known that the convoy went to wait off Lisbon for the trade from Portugal, which would probably detain the fleet some days. The whole fleet assembled will be, perhaps, the richest that ever came to this country. There is one million of dollars on board of one ship only.
By a Leicestershire gentleman, just arrived from Falmouth, we learn the certain intelligence of the capture of the Thynne Packet from Lisbon by the French. She had on board 160,000 dollars, and is the fourth packet taken since the commencement of the war.
If we may judge from their measures the government of Holland has as much to dread from their own subjects as from the French.
The mails arrived from Holland on Friday—By these mails we have received such a mass of intelligence, that we are obliged to confine ourselves to an abridged account of the most important facts.
The French have not penetrated beyond Nimeguen, nor is that city yet in their possession. On the Rhine they continue to be successful, and have taken Coblenz.
All the Allied Powers, England excepted, appear to wish for the termination of hostilities. The Diet of Ratisbon has passed a formal resolution, by which they declare their determination to negotiate an immediate peace.
The King of Prussia has also assured his troops on the Rhine, that his treaty with Great Britain is at an end, and that they may expect a speedy peace.
Some of the foregoing papers even mention, that there is at present at Paris a Plenipotentiary from the Court of Spain, with Proposals for Peace.
The Paris Papers, which we have received to the 18th ult. are replete with very important matter. The destruction of the power of the Jacobin Society, an event which we predicted at the period of the fall of Robespierre, has at length been effected by a formal decree of the Convention.
Some of the Paris Papers begin to talk of peace. The following article is translated from a Paris paper of the 17th ult.
They begin at length to talk of peace; and it is said, that government is at present busily employed on that subject. We may hope that a peace will take place this winter; but not a general peace, because that would suddenly return into the bosom of the Republic fourteen armies, & 1,200,000 men, for whom proper employment could not be speedily found; but a partial peace, a peace with several of the powers who have no interest in annihilating, and whom we have sufficiently beaten and humbled, may be expected. Peace with Spain, Prussia, Sardinia and even Holland, if she will throw off the yoke of England.
That the brave Kosciuszko has been defeated and taken prisoner, is now confirmed. The pain which we feel in announcing this intelligence is in a great degree alleviated by the consideration, that, though the Poles have lost for the present the assistance of their gallant leader, their affairs are yet far from being desperate. Kosciuszko commanded only a detachment of 600 men, and the main body of the Polish army is yet entire.
The number of the Russians who defeated this detachment is not stated, but it is known to have been considerably greater than that of the Poles. A particular account of the action will be found in our letter from Berlin; coming from that quarter, however, we may with reason suppose that the account is somewhat exaggerated.
BERLIN, Oct. 23.
The account of the defeat of Kosciuszko is now confirmed. We have learnt the following particulars of it. Having received the news of a defeat which a corps of the Polish army had met with at Brzesc in Lithuania and that General Suwarrows was on his march to attack Warsaw, General Kosciuszko re-
solved to march with 20,000 men, and give battle to the Prussian General before he should approach that city.
He was however informed that Gen. Ferfon meant to attempt forming a junction with General Suwarrows, to prevent which Kosciuszko, leaving the main body of his army under the command of Prince Poniatowski advanced with 6000 men to interrupt General Ferfon. This last General resolved to attack Kosciuszko on the 12th, when a most dreadful engagement ensued. Twice the Russians attacked with vigour, and twice they were repulsed.
The victory would have remained with the Poles, had they contented themselves with having beaten back the enemy, but resolving to pursue this advantage, they abandoned the favorable position which they had taken upon the heights, and advanced in their turn to attack the Russians. The Russian troops formed themselves anew, succeeded in throwing the Polish line into confusion, which was already a little in disorder from their movement in advancing to the attack. The route was soon complete. The Polish infantry defended themselves with a valour approaching to fury. The cavalry suffered less, and retreated in good order.
General Kosciuszko himself, who performed prodigies of valour, received a wound in the neck, with a sabre, fell from his horse, and was taken prisoner. Prince Poniatowski, hearing of this defeat, fell back with the main body of the Polish army to Warsaw. The taking of that city will not be an enterprise so easy as we expected.
Poniatowski's army is still 16,000 men strong, and he is supported by the whole inhabitants of Warsaw. General Madalinski, Dombrowski, &c. are at the head of strong detachments in different parts of Poland. The country is covered with armed citizens, who are enthusiasts in the cause. The reduction of Poland must therefore be a work of labour. So much is our court convinced of this, that orders have been given for the return of 20,000 men from the army of the Rhine. These troops will march immediately into Poland.
HARLEM, Nov. 3.
Venloo has surrendered to the French, and the capitulation was concluded on the 26th ult.
WESEL, Nov. 1.
We learn this moment that the Austrians have crossed the Rhine this night at Ponsheim under the command of Gen. Laudon.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 21.
Extract of a Letter from an Officer in the Western Army dated Greenville Nov. 20, 1794.
"I wrote you in September from Fort Defiance and Auglaize Rivers—this is the centre of all the western Indian settlements. After leaving a garrison of 200 with every necessary article for six months we proceeded up the Miami River 48 miles to its junction with the St. Joseph and St. Mary's, or the Miami villages (Gen. Harmer destroyed them in the year 1790).
This is the key to the communication between the southern and western Indians. The carrying place is not more than eight miles from this to the Wabash River, which empties into the Mississippi—you see then it is only eight miles land carriage from Detroit to the Gulf of Florida.
After building a strong garrison and leaving 300 men with every thing equivalent for six months we left it, and taking a circuitous march of 90 miles we returned to this place the first November, for our Winter quarters.
The campaign was just three months, and we accomplished every thing that was possible.
The question is now how are we to keep these posts? The present army times expire in April, May and June next—and six months is a very short time for Congress to raise troops and to send them to this quarter."
For the Gazette of the United States.
MR. FENNO,
A Correspondent in the Aurora of this day, has been trying his teeth on the Bone lately served out to the Democrats. For my part I have not the pleasure of knowing the good soul who has thus set them to work; but I think it rather extraordinary that the expression which the Aurora's correspondent has fixed on, as the most offensive, should be, " our beloved President ." What is there offensive in this, Mr. Printer? Do not all the good citizens of the United States join, in heart and voice, in the use of this expression? And what was to hinder the author of the Bone from joining among the rest? If I were to look for exceptional passages in the " Bone to Gnaw, for the
Democrats," I think I could find many more to that than the one cited above. For instance, that where the Aurora itself is mentioned, towards a good deal harder than the words " our beloved President !" Were I not sure that the article in the Aurora of this day, was written by a Correspondent, and not by the Editor himself, I should imagine, that the passage in the Bone concerning the Aurora , had been purposely overlooked. The charge that the Bone brings against the Aurora , is certainly of as weighty a nature as the calling the President , " our beloved President ;" and, therefore, I should have thought it merited equal attention. But, perhaps, the old proverb, which though homely, is not less true, " The more you stir it, the more it stinks ," may have some weight here.
I should not have troubled you with this, Mr. Printer, if I did not suppose that the Aurora was too much taken up, in the present moment, with the weighty correspondencies from New-York and Wilmington, to give place to an insignificant correspondent like me.
A CONSTANT READER.
January 20, 1795.
By this Day's Mail.
NEW-YORK, Jan. 20.
A correspondent, who has perused some of the latest Paris papers, says, "It seems at last, that justice and order begin to peep out of confusion and carnage. There are claims from every corner of France, made against the bloody agents of the revolutionary tribunal, who, without regard to justice, and in contempt of laws, have covered France with mangled inhabitants."
From the Bristol Mercury of October 20.
We have great satisfaction in stating, that there exists good reason to hope, that the Severn , Capt. Goodrich bound from this port to New-York, which was taken the 28th August by three French frigates, and carried into Brest, as well as the Mary , Capt. Preble, bound for Boston, have been permitted to proceed with their passengers, (amongst whom are Mr. Ruffel and his family, of Birmingham) and cargoes, on their respective voyages. Our hopes are founded on a letter from Captain Goodrich to a merchant of this city, dated at Paris the 3d. inst. in which he says that he expected an early order to the foregoing effect, and in another letter to the same merchant from a gentleman in London, dated the 16th inst. in which he says "I am happy to tell you Capt. Goodrich of the Severn , and Capt. Preble, of the Mary are ordered to proceed on their voyage by the Convention of France. This intelligence is given by a gentleman who left Paris on the 4th inst. and saw the Captains there. I think it may be depended on." The French told Capt. Goodrich they had orders to stop all American vessels which had English property or passengers on board, unless they had passports.
The intended spouse of the Prince of Wales is the second daughter of the Duke of Brunswick Wolfenbuttle, by his Duchess Augusta, sister to the King of England. Her name is Caroline Amelia Elizabeth, born May 17, 1768. Her eldest sister is married to the Hereditary Duke of Wirttemberg.
DEATHS, within the City of New-London, in the year 1794.
  3 between 80 and 90 Males 15   4 70 80 Females 23   3 60 70   1 50 60 Total, 38   2 40 50   4 30 40 BIRTHS.   4 18 30 Males 65   5 3 7 Females 54   12 birth 3   Total, 119 
TO THE PUBLIC.
There has lately been discovered in Suffield, in the State of Connecticut, a Mineral Spring, which is almost a certain cure for any person who has a gravelly disorder, by drinking the water—it has cured numbers that have drank of it. Any person wishing to try said Mineral Water, are desired to call on Dr. KING, in Suffield.
[Telt.] THOMAS NOBLE, Wellfield.
Wellfield, Dec. 25, 1794.
NATIONAL CONVENTION, October 16.
Bourdon de l'Oise. "Our enemies, defeated on all sides, strive to disgust the people even with our victories; and Robespierre had planned this system before his execution.—They will, after that, the emigrants and the money jobbers have carried off a part of your specie, after that the crimes of the former ministry lavished millions in Belgium, they will wish to make you return within your ancient limits [murmurs] to the end, that getting possession of the navigation of the Rhine, the Scheldt, and the Meuse, they may repair the losses of 2
years, and then endeavor to marchize a nation they are unable to vanquish. Such are my fears. It is very certain that many pamphlets, which have been indecently circulated, tend to this point.
In truth, if we do not extend the ancient boundaries of France, the fertile plains of the Palatinate will serve to nourish the south, by means of the projected canal [murmurs.] These murmurs announce the splendor of my country—they announce to me that Belgium will be convinced it never can recover its ancient glory, but by uniting itself with France, and in preserving to itself the free navigation of three great rivers which have its territory.—These are truths which are well worth denunciations. Perhaps I am misled, but it is only by the love I bear for my country.
I therefore demand that the three committees make a report which shall fix the precise situation where we are to place the columns of the French Hercules. When our army shall have arrived at this their destination, rely upon their courage to preserve the sacred barrier inviolate.
The Convention passed to the order of the day.
LONDON.
Kosciuszko was always disguised in a peasant's dress, in which he was taken prisoner on the 10th; a Cossack, who did not know him, wounded him from behind with a pike; his comrades, seeing him fall, made a loud cry, and called him by his name. Kosciuszko got up again, and made a few steps forward, when an officer striking him on the head with a sabre, brought him to the ground.
The new Experimental School and Observatory at Peterstburg, has been just finished; it is allowed to be one of the most magnificent structures of the kind in the universe. It is situated in the middle of the superb edifice of the Imperial Academy of that City; it is composed of three flights of Halls, adapted for making experiments and observations, and is 150 feet high.
SEDITION!
On Saturday an audacious scoundrel, who is a journeyman taylor, was taken into custody by one of the diplomatic spies, at a pot house where he had the presumption to enjoy his pint of beer, for daring to attempt a pun. He had the horrible wickedness to say, that Treason was only reason, with a T at the beginning of it!!!
A letter from Paris dated the 6th of November has been published in Baltimore stating that peace was concluded between France and Prussia the 28th October—the medium thro' which this letter was received is not mentioned—it appears however to coincide with a paragraph under the Leyden head of November 5.
PRICE OF STOCKS.
  6 per Cent 19 5/8   3 per Cent 11 1/2   Deferred 13 3/4   Bank of the United States 24 1/2   Pennsylvania 25   North America, 40 
** The request, to republish " Germanicus " shall be attended to.
NEW THEATRE.
THIS EVENING, JANUARY 21. Will be Presented A TRAGEDY, called THE GAMES TER
  Beverly, Mr. Chalmers   Stukely, Mr. Wignell   Lewson, Mr. Cleveland   Jervis, Mr. Whitlock   Bates, Mr. Green   Dawson, Mr. Moreton   Waiter, Mr. Darley jun.   Mrs. Beverly, Mrs. Whitlock   Charlotte, Mrs. Francis   Lucy, Mrs. Cleveland 
To which will be added,
For the first time, a Comic Opera, in two acts, called
The Volunteers.
The Overture and Music entirely new, composed by Mr. Reinagle.
  Trueman, Mr. Marshall   Manly, Mr. Darley   Millikin, Mr. Francis   Jerry, Mr. Bates   Gumble, Mr. Blissett   Adams, Mr. Green   Thomas, Mr. Darley jun.   Jacob, Mr. De Moulin   Soldiers, Messrs. Warrell, J. Warrell, Mitchell, &c. 
  Miss Aura, Mrs. Marshall   Mrs. Gumble, Mrs. Shaw   Jemima, Miss Broadhurst   Rosalind, Mrs. Rowson   Ruth, Mrs. Cleveland   Omercah, Mrs. Oldmixon 

Reading at Willing's Wharf  CLARET Of the First Quality in Hogsheads and Casks, HIGH ROOF Cogniac Brandy, White Wine Vinegar, Port Wine, Alicant Wines, red & white FOR SALE BY John Vaughan. Dec. 23
This day is Published, (Price a quarter of a Dollar)  Slaves in Algiers: OR A  Struggle for Freedom: A PLAY. Interspersed with Songs, in three acts. Incribed to the Citizens of the United States of North America. By Mrs. Rowson. As performed at the New Theatres in Philadelphia and Baltimore.
Extract from the Preface. "My chief aim has been, to offer to the public a Dramatic Entertainment, which, while it might excite a smile, or call forth the tear of sensibility, might contain no one sentiment, in the least prejudicial, to the moral or political principles of the government under which I live. On the contrary, it has been my endeavour, to place the social virtues in the fairest point of view, and hold up to merited contempt and ridicule, their opposite vices. If, in this attempt, I have been the least successful, I shall reap the reward to which I aspire, in the smiles and approbation of a liberal public. Sold by M. Carey, No. 128, and Rice & Co. No. 30, High Street; S. Campbell, No. 54, South Second Street, and Wrigley & Berman, No. 149, Chestnut Street. Jan. 5
The Stockholders IN THE Insurance Company of North America, Are hereby informed that upon the settlement of the Interest arising from the capital stock of the Company, and the profits of their business, the Directors have agreed to declare a Dividend of Fifty Cents on each share for the last half year. Ebenezer Hazard, Secretary. Jan. 12
James M'Alpin, Taylor, No. 3, South Fourth Street, Returns his grateful acknowledgements to his friends and the Public for their liberal encouragement, and begs leave respectfully to solicit a Continuance of their Favours. At his Shop Gentlemen can be furnished with the best materials, and have them made up and finished in the neatest and most fashionable manner. He will thankfully receive any orders & pay prompt and punctual attention to them. Oct. 23
Parry & Musgrave, Goldsmiths, Jewellers and Hair-Workers, No. 42, South Second Street, Have received by the Pigou from London an ASSORTMENT OF Plated japanned ware Jewellery & Cutlery, viz. Plated and Japan'd Tea Urns Plated and Japan'd Parent Lamps Casters and Liquor Frames Bread and Fruit Baskets Japan'd Tea Trays Plated coffee and Tea Pors and candles Ditto Candlesticks A variety of elegant and most fashionable Ear rings, Enamell'd and other Bracelets, Breast-pins, and Finger Rings Thimbles, enamel'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
Dancing School. Wm. M'DOUGALL 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 stile. Note—An Evening School for young Gentlemen. Oct. 10
FOR SALE BY John D. Blanchard, At his Stores, in Third Street, 66 P I P E S Choice TENERIFFE WINE, of superior quality, Cogniac Brandy in pipes 50 Casks of Cask of a superior quality Subject to drawback. Boiton Tea Kettles, a large assortment Shot of all sizes and numbers Barr Lead, Lead in pigs Ruffs Sheetings Women's Stuff Shoes by the quantity Cutt Nails Rhude-Itt and Cheefe And a large and elegant assortment of European and India G O O D S, At the most reduced Prices. Nov. 25
Forty Dollars Reward. RAN away from the subscribers in Woodbury, Gloucester County, New Jersey, 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 stout look; Tom is of an open countenance, 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.
F R E S H Bohea Tea, A N D G I N in Pipes, Now Landing from on board the ship Peggy, John Elliott master, from Amsterdam. Also Imported by the late Arrivals, Russia Hemp, first quality Ditto Sail Duck Ditto Ravens Duck Brown Russia Sheetings Ticklenburgs Oznaburgs Brown Flanders Sheetings Neffians and Brown Rolls Cotton Stripes and Checks Flanders Bedticks Holland Sail Duck Seine Twine Dutch Great Coats Gin in Casks Madder Window Glass, 8 by 10 Jesuits Bark Opium 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
Fresh Teas, OF SUPERIOR QUALITY, viz. Imperial, or Gunpowder Hyson Gomee, 1st quality Hyson, 2d. do. do. Young Hyson, Hyson Skin, and Souchong. A few Boxes of each, for sale at No. 19, Third street south. Dec. 10
Ticklenburgs, Oznaburgs, and Glass Ware, Landing from on board the ship Peggy, from Amsterdam. ALSO, Coffee of prime Quality In hogsheads and tierces, Muscovado Sugars In hogsheads, German Steel, ASSORTED WOOLLENS, In small Bales, &c. for sale by Rundle & Margatrody, No. 11, Walnut street wharf. Who want to purchase 300 or 400 Casks Good Flaxseed. Nov. 11
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.
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Scheme of a Lottery, To raise 30,000 Dollars, on 100,000 Dollars Drawing 15 per Cent. from the Prizes— This Lottery consists of 30,000 Tickets, in which there are 34,633 Prizes, and 23,463 Blanks, being about one out of every half blank to a prize. THE Directors of the Society for establishing Useful Manufactures, having resolved to erect LOTTERIES for raising ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS, agreeably to an Act of the Legislature of the State of New Jersey, have appointed the following persons to superintend and direct the drawing of the same, viz. Nicholas Low, Rufus King, Herman Le Roy, James Watson, Richard Harrison, Abijah Hammond, and Cornelius Ray, of the city of New-York—Thomas Willing, Joseph Ball, Matthew M'Connell and Andrew Bayard, of the city of Philadelphia—His Excellency Richard Howell, Esq. Elias Boudinot, General Elias Dayton, James Parker, John Bayard, Doctor Lewis Donham, Samuel W. Stockton, Joshua M. Wallace, Joseph Bloomfield, and Elias Boudinot, of New-Jersey, who offer the following Scheme of a Lottery, and pledge themselves to the public, that they will take every assurance and precaution in their power to have the Monies paid by the Managers, from time to time, as received, into the Banks at New-York and Philadelphia, to remain for the purpose of paying Prizes, which shall be immediately discharged by a check upon one of these Banks.
SCHEME:    1 Prize of 20,000 Dollars is 20,000   1 10,000   2 5,000   5 2,000   10 1,000   20 500   100 100   300 50   1000 20   2000 15   3000 12   4000 10   4,639 Prizes. 262,000   23,463 Blanks. First drawn number, 2,000   Last drawn number, 9,000   83000 Tickets at 1 Dollar each is 266,000 
The drawing will commence, under the inspection of a Committee of the Superintendents, as soon as the Tickets are sold, of which timely notice will be given. The Superintendents have appointed John N. Cumming, of Newark, Jacob R. Harsberger, of New-Branswick, and Jonathan Rice, of Trenton, as immediate Managers thereof, who have given ample security for discharging the trust reposed in them. In order to secure the punctual payment of the Prizes, the Superintendents of the Lottery have directed that the Managers shall each enter into bonds in 25,000 dollars, with four sufficient securities, to perform their obligations, the substance of which is I. That whenever either of the Managers shall receive the sum of Three Hundred Dollars, he shall immediately place the same in one of the Banks of New-York or Philadelphia, to the credit of the Governor of the Society, and such of the Superintendents as live in the city where the monies are placed, to remain there until the Lottery is drawn, for the payment of the Prizes. II. The Managers to take sufficient security for any Tickets they may trust, otherwise to be responsible for them. III. To keep regular books of Tickets sold, Monies received and paid into the Bank, abstracts of which shall be sent, monthly, to the Governor of the Society. Paterson, January 1, 1794. On application to either of the above gentlemen, information will be given where tickets may be had. February 24.
Samuel Coates, At his Store, No. 82, South Front Street, bath for Sale, 300 Bbls. of Good New-England Beef, 150 kegs Pickled SALMON, 500 yards of TOW-LINEN, A Quantity of Men's coarse SHOES ALLSPICE, &c. 18. mo. 16
Bohea Tea. 50 chests Bohea Tea, of superior quality, just received by the Schooner Porgy, from Boston. FOR SALE BY Nalbro' & John Frazier, No. 81, Walnut Street. Dec. 27
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 each 30,000 are 1 ditto 15,000 & cash 25,000 40,000 1 ditto 15,000 & cash 15,000 30,000 1 ditto 10,000 & cash 10,000 20,000 1 ditto 5,000 & cash 5,000 10,000 1 ditto 5,000 & cash 5,000 10,000 1 Cash prize of 10,000 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 400,000 33,261 Blanks 50,000 Tickets at 8 dollars 400,000
SAMUEL BLODGET. Tickets may be had at the Bank of Columbia; of James West & Co. Baltimore; of Gideon Denton, Savannah; of Peter Gilman, Boston; of John Hopkins, Richmond; and of Richard Wells, Cooper's Ferry. Aug. 30
Wants Employment, A Person who has a tolerable knowledge of CONVEYANCING, a general knowledge of Accounts and Figures, and writes a good hand. He would engage by the year, either in an Office or Merchants counting house. A line addressed to J.B. and left at the Office of the Gazette of the United States, will be duly attended to. Jan. 10
Lottery No. 2, for the Improvement of the FEDERAL CITY. GENTLEMEN, desirous of receiving regularly correct slips of the drawing of the Lottery, are hereby informed that, upon their sending forward to the Printers hereat, five dollars each, together with their address, they shall be punctually furnished with such slips, while drawing per post in Supplements to the Columbian Chronicle. This arrangement will save them the expense of extra postage. Hanlon and Priestley
A FEW COPIES Of the celebrated Performance with Signature of MANLIUS, May be had of John Ormerod, No. 41, Chestnut street. PRICE—25 CENTS.
COFFEE, 54 hogsheads } 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
To be Sold, AT PRIVATE SALE, A very pleasant well situated & valuable Farm, CONTAINING 238 acres of good Land, lying in Hanover, Morris county, N. Jersey, about 1 mile from Mr. White's Meeting House, on the road leading to Battle-Hill, about 16 miles from Elizabeth Town, 13 from Newark, and 8 from Morris-town. There are on the Premises a large and convenient dwelling house, large barn, cider-house and mill, a good granary and other out-houses. Likewise a good bearing apple orchard, containing about 300 trees, together with a collection of best fruit & fruit, such as peaches, pears, cherries, &c. Said Farm is well proportioned with plow land, meadow and timber; there are now about 15 acres of plow land and 60 of meadow already cleared, the remainder being timber and pasture land. Any person inclining to purchase, may know the terms by applying to the Subscriber on the premises, or to Col. Edis Cook near the same. Thomas T. Eckley. Hanover, Dec. 27
Carpets & Carpeting. Best British Ingrain Carpets & Carpeting Do. Scotch, in plain and common Do. Green, Brown, Yellow & Black Ground. Furniture chintzes, white Russia sheetings, Dimities, &c. For Sale by JOSEPH TURNER, No. 4, north Third street. Jan. 7
PROPOSALS For publishing a Work, entitled THE Federal Politician, Written by JAMES PH. PUGLIA, Author of the Spanish Work, entitled Man Undeceived, &c. Are respectfully submitted to the Citizens of the United States. Est modis in rebus sunt certi denique fines Quos ultra certique nequit consistere rectum. Horat. Sat. 1, pag. 359 SOUND arguments, impartial reasoning, and candid sentiments form the component of this Work. The Author pledges himself solemnly to the Public, that no pains have been, nor shall be spared to render it worthy of their patronage, and if Utility can, with propriety claim adequate encouragement, he submits to their liberal understanding the following CONTENTS. Preface. Chap. 1. Government—its origin, progress, &c. 2. Federal Government—its establishment, energy, excellence, &c. 3. Justice of the Federal Government in claiming the support of every American citizen. 4. Officers of the Federal Government—their qualification, election, duties, &c. 5. Federalism and Anti-Federalism compared. 6. Political Societies—their object, system, proceedings, &c. Conclusion. Conditions. 1st. It will contain not less than 200 pages octavo, to be printed on a handsome type and fine paper. 2d. Subscribers names will be inserted as patrons with the respective number of copies in distinct order. 3d. Subscriptions at a dollar per copy neatly bound, to be paid on delivery of the book. 4th. When 300 subscriptions are obtained, the Work will be put to press, and every subscriber for four copies will be entitled to a fifth gratis. 5th. If the number required be not completed within two months from the present date, no such allowance will be made, and (in case of publication) the price to non-subscribers will be raised. 6th. Subscriptions are received by Mr. Francis Bailey, No. 116, High Street, corner of St. Asaph, at the corner of Walnut and Front Streets, Thomas Dobson, the principal Bookseller in this city; likewise by Messrs Robert Hodges of New-York; Thomas and Andrews, Boston; Yandell & Brown, Baltimore; Augustus Davis, Richmond; and Peter Freneau, Charleston, S. C. Philadelphia, Jan. 5th 1795.