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Gazette of the United States
DAILY EVENING ADVERTISER.
[No. 43 of Vol. VI.]
FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 1794.
[Whole No. 593.]
Department of State, July 31, 1694.
NOTICE
As hereby given, That the Documents, which have been forwarded to this Department...
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Bank of the United States, July 7th, 1794.
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Lachawannock.
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George Eddy.
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The Ground Plan OF THE City and Suburbs OF PHILADELPHIA.
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Medical Inquiries
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An Impartial Review Of that part of Dr. RUSH's Late PUBLICATION On the YELLOW FEVER.
French Revolution, JUST PUBLISHED.
By MATHEW CAREY, No. 118, Market Street, AN IMPARTIAL HISTORY OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION.
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AUTHENTIC.
THE SECRETARY OF STATE'S LETTER OF JULY 23d to the BRITISH MINISTER, [CONCLUDED.]
IN the form of government, yet prevailing in Rhode Island, the same functions between legislative, and judicial functions which have been established by most other of the states, do not exist. Hence, as I am informed, the instances are many in which the assembly have exercised judiciary powers, and submitted recommendations to the courts. It was no violation therefore of rule, that they requested the judges to confer with the officers.
The judges, when assembled were at liberty to consider themselves, and did consider themselves, as engaged in judicial duties. If instead of commanding strict process to be executed they employed persuasion; if in the endeavor to reconcile the captain, their sensations gave nerve to their expressions, are these offensive transgressions of form?
There were some complaints, made to the judges, which, I venture to presume, were deemed by you too frivolous to be specified, as such. Yet a general view of the circumstances of that day will wipe away even these. It was the day, on which the people of the state generally attend the assembly. This gathered into the town of Newport a great number; and, added to the report, that the liberty of several fellow-citizens was at stake, brought to the spot an anxious concourse. The governor says that it was "too great to be accommodated on the stairway or in the lobby, and that it is very natural to suppose that there was some crowding." But the British officers being in the front of the crowd, he is inclined to believe that they experienced much less inconvenience than many of the citizens who were nearer the center. He cannot admit that this inconvenience, whatsoever it might be, proceeded in any degree from the resentment of the inhabitants, but attributes it entirely to the hurry of the occasion.
It is however insisted, that the officers were "forcibly detained prisoners by virtue of the act of assembly, until the vessel was searched." They had returned into the room, before what had passed had been communicated to the assembly: they continued in the room, when it was voted that they should remain on shore. Whether this vote was intended to be mandatory to the officers, or to intimate a line of conduct to the judges; or whether the officers after it had passed, expressed a wish to quit the house, is immaterial. A detention of the officers, according to the practice recognized in the state, might have been ordered by the legislature or judges. But the vote consigned the subject to the judiciary; the captain and lieutenant were to remain on shore, not indefinitely, nor yet till the vessel was searched; but until an investigation of the complaint should be had before the judicial authority.
Nor was the ship searched. The committee were to go on board, on condition that the captain assented thereto: it was not proposed, that they should go on board alone, but in company with the British Vice-Consul; and they were to request of the commanding officer on board, an examination of the crew. When the captain heard of the resolution, he agreed, that the gentleman, the captain gave a letter; the books and lists of the men were shown, the people were called up and no decorum was infringed. The whole was the effect of the captain's approbation, which was not rendered less valid by his being under the operation of legal authority: the governor informs me, that after these things were done, he "conversed freely with the officers on the subject; that they seemed perfectly reconciled; the captain observing, that he wished the Americans would in future take certificates with them: that it was difficult to distinguish an American from a British seaman: that he had had the command of the ship but a very short time: that the Americans were on board, when he took the command; and he pleaded that, in excuse for denying, that he had any on board." Under whatsoever aspect therefore this case is contemplated; but especially when it is now notorious, that several American citizens were on board impressed; who were within the protection of their country, and might soon have been carried out of it, and com-
mitted to light against their sacred obligation: the unparalleled insult is, so far from being proved, that the legislature and judges who have been selected for condemnation, have acted upon sound principle, the law of Rhode Island, and the law of nations.
II. The complaint against the French privateers at New-York, which had been illegally fitted out in the river Delaware is, that they have not been dismantled, but have remained during the whole winter in the port of New-York armed and were in a condition to proceed immediately to sea. It is acknowledged, that our assurances, in answer to your remonstrances, were ample; but our fulfilment of those assurances is called into question. The first step on our part was to issue adequate orders; the second to cause them to be executed.
From the date of the President's Proclamation to the breaking out of the unhappy malady in Philadelphia, the Executive was almost daily occupied in arrangements correspondent with an impartial conduct. A system of rules was prepared; and the Governors of the several states were urged most strenuously in their capacity of commanders in chief of the militia to suppress all practices, which should violate them. Steady in the pursuit of the same object, in a few days after the formation of those rules the Secretary at war wrote to the Governors against the fitting out of privateers in our ports, in the following words; "The Executive, after trying other measures in vain to prevent a continuance of the practice, finds itself at length constrained to resort to means more decisive than have been hitherto employed. To avoid therefore a further infringement of our rights, and a further commitment of our peace, the President of the United States, after mature deliberation has decided that no armed vessel which has been or shall be originally fitted in any port of the United States as a cruiser or privateer, by either of the parties at war is to have asylum in any of the ports of the United States."
"I am directed to inform your excellency of this decision and to request that in case any vessel, within the foregoing description, should arrive in any port or harbor in the state of that you would cause her to be ordered to depart immediately, and in case of her refusal that you would take effectual measures to oblige her to depart. It is at the same time the desire of the President, that force may not be resorted to until every proper effort has been previously made to procure the early departure without it." At the close of this letter Le Petit Democrat, and La Carmagnole are expressly named as two of the privateers comprehended in the foregoing injunction.
The Collector of the port of New-York having represented to the Governor, that these vessels were within the harbour, and the former Minister of the French Republic being then in the city of New-York, the Governor states to him in writing; that he thought proper to address him on the subject, previous to any other measure, from a confidence that the commanding officers would receive his directions to carry them out immediately. He answered, that the captains had surrendered the commissions, constituting those vessels privateers; and that thereafter they would be employed as packet boats only.
As soon as the officers of government had reassembled in November last, it appeared, that Governor Clinton had remonstrated with the then Minister of the French Republic upon a military equipment of La Carmagnole in the port. It should not leave the wharf until a satisfactory inquiry should be made. A series of letters followed from the Secretary at War, one circular to the Governor of New-York: requiring that the illicit privateers should not be permitted to repair in any manner, but on the condition of their divesting themselves of all warlike apparatus: that it was short of the object to withdraw the commissions only of Le Petit Democrat and La Carmagnole: and that it was the conclusive decision of the President, that the former should be reduced to her original force, which she bore when captured by the Ambuscade, and the latter be wholly deprived of her offensive qualities, or be denied an asylum. On the 8th ultimo, Governor Clinton assures the Secretary of War, that soon after the 24th of November, 1793, he set out for Albany, from whence he did not return until the beginning of April; that it was not in his power to give information concerning the vessels from his own actual knowledge during the period of his absence; but before he left home Le Petit Democrat had departed the port without any augmentation of her mili-
tary equipments within his knowledge: that on his return he found both her and Le Carmagnole in this harbor: that the Consul of the French Republic affirmed that they were divested of their commissions as privateers and of their men and military equipments, surrendered by the original owners to the French Republic; then fitted and manned from their vessels of war as packets or advice boats, and detained in port for that service only, without being suffered to cruise or engage in any military enterprise. Innocent, however, as they have been, while they remained idle, orders are again issued against the continuance of any undue equipment.
In the whole course of this proceeding, we cannot discover the necessity of one exculpatory remark. But why need I dwell on these minutiae? How many vessels, taken by illicit privateers, have been restored to the belligerent parties? How many of those privateers compelled to relinquish their military force? Can it be accounted for that the United States should have a partiality for these two privateers rather than others?
III. The charge, Sir, at which our correspondence in relation to the embargo has arrived, is, that you absolve our government from an express permission to the sailing of the French convoy; but argue an implied one, from the neglecting to employ any coercive means.
The embargo was the creature of our own policy; affecting our citizens, equally with foreigners; and being thus equal to all, we were not restrained by the rights of any foreign nation, from imposing it.
In its execution the means were the same to all the world. If they have happened to be inefficacious with respect to the vessels of one belligerent party, it was not so intended; they might have been also inefficacious with respect to the vessels of another. If the coercive means, to which you refer, be Ports or a Navy, the insinuation of neglect is fully answered; because at that time, we were not provided with them.
If the want of them be the ground of your observation, we are yet to learn, that it has been customary for one nation to complain, that the harbors of another are not as well defended, or its ships as numerous, as may accord with its own exigencies. Or can it be supposed (I confess I cannot suppose) that you meant to convey an idea of impropriety in laying an embargo, until the United States could have secured it against violation without exception of place from New-Hampshire to Georgia inclusive?
As on such an occasion, neglect of any sort would be disapproved by the government, the collector of Norfolk has been interrogated; and it is not hesitated to state his information without reserve. He received notice of the embargo by express on the 30th of March, and immediately acquainted Admiral Vanstables with it. The Admiral sent an officer to the collector to enquire, whether his fleet, then laying in Hampton road, was considered by him as embargoed. The collector answered, that ships of war were not; and that the Admiral "would decide for himself with respect to other ships, by referring to the resolve itself." Whether the Collector imagined, that Hampton road, which is a broad water of many miles in length, and many miles in breadth, and between which and the the Capes of Virginia, there is no custom-house, was not a port within the construction of the resolution of embargo; how far such an opinion, if entertained, be tenable; whether the Collector ought not to have spoken in more decisive terms; and whether the admiral ought not to have insisted upon which the government will act with sincerity and faith, in regard both to their own officers and others. But even if our own officers have erred, or have been negligent, or others should have been broken through the embargo by force, government cannot be involved in suspicion, when it disavows and inquires, and asserts its rights.
The snow Venus indeed is adduced, as a further example of neglect. These are the facts as transmitted from General Matthews. She was lying in Norfolk harbor, laden with flour for the French government. On the 7th of April admiral Vanstables directed Mr. John Cooper to order her and see her under way, and should she disobey to force her to proceed. Col. Wilton, the commandant of the county of Norfolk having informed the Captain of the Venus, that being under the convoy he had a right to come down and join the fleet; Messrs. White, Whittle, & Co. her owners, on the 9th of April made a representation of the case to General Matthews; saying that they were determined to seek redress from another quarter. Gen. Matthews immediately despatched Captain Calvert to Admiral
Vanstables, to request restitution of the Venus, the taking her off being deemed by him to be a contravention of the embargo. Captain Calvert reported, that the Admiral denied any design to violate the laws of the United States, and desired him to inform General Matthews that the snow should be delivered up at any time to his order. The owners were then called upon to adopt measures for the security of their property. It is notorious that the snow remained at Norfolk from the 17th or 18th of April, until the month of June was considerably advanced, and the embargo had expired. From these transactions "in the only port, to which you alluded," together with the cases of the Berry, and other vessels, which I have noticed elsewhere, "You conceive yourself fully justified in having adverted to the conduct which has been observed by this government, or the officers acting under its authority, towards the powers, combined against France in the enforcement of the embargo." For the government, Sir, I can add nothing, so strong in its import, as the language of all its acts. As to its officers, more cannot be exacted, than what is already undertaken. But what injury have the combined powers sustained from the Venus? None. She did not sail during the existence of the embargo. What from the detention of their vessels? If they had any confined in our ports whose cargoes were necessary for the purposes of war, their adversaries had probably as many in the same predicament.
IV. In your letter of the 22d of May, the aggressions of the state of Vermont are said to be unrepresented and continued. To my inference from your silence for upwards of nineteen months, that the original dissatisfaction had probably ceased, you repeat upon "authentic intimation" from Lord Dorchester, that the encroachments had not ceased; and you subjoin that "in the course of fifty days" (the interval between your first letter to me upon this subject and my answer) "such evidence might have been obtained from the highest public authority of Vermont (the governor) as would have either confirmed or contradicted the facts you had specified." This evidence is now at hand. After acknowledging my letter to him inclosing yours of the 10th of March, he proceeds thus. "The letters you refer me to, written by your predecessor, in consequence of complaints exhibited to him by the British minister, urging the prevention of all movements, which might tend to disturb the harmony, subsisting between the United States and Great Britain, I can with truth say, have been strictly adhered to by the government and the citizens of this state; in every requisition." His next is an observation of pointed regret at these complaints; and he then goes on thus: "Before the reception of the abovementioned letters, written by your predecessor, I had forwarded a particular statement with affidavits, relative to the complaints in said letters exhibited, directed to the President of the United States, to which I beg leave to refer you; by which statement and affidavits is most manifestly made to appear, that British subjects were the first innovators, and that British subjects had less cause of complaint than those of the United States. No just cause of complaint hath ever come to my knowledge, of any abuses done or committed by any citizens of this or the United States, to British subjects, or in any other respects, which British subjects have ever made any serious pretensions to in this quarter," after a remark, relating to those, who pretend "personal grievances" and a suspicion, that the situation of the British garrisons within the United States is not generally understood at a distance.
The remaining passages of his letter are the following. "Therefore in order to understand the force of the complaints it is necessary to premise that the only British garrison now established within the limits of Vermont is at a place called Dutchman's Point, composed of only about twelve men situate on the north end of the north Hero twelve miles south of the latitude line. This garrison does not pretend to hold or keep jurisdiction over any land within this state other than a few acres on which their garrison is situated. And indeed citizens of this State are settled quite in the neighborhood of the said garrison on every direction, and they are intimate with each other without any difficulty to my knowledge."
"That part of the tract of land called Caldwell's manor, which lies within the bounds of this State hath long since been chartered as a town by the
name of Alburgh. And the inhabitants thereof are incorporated as citizens with all the privileges of other towns within this State and have long since been in the peaceable possession of the fame. With regard to the recent instance of misdemeanor committed on the officers of the crown by the capture of a small party (said to be made) on British subjects in pursuit of a deserter before Dutchman's Point as complained of by Mr. Hammond. The circumstances which probably gave rise to the assertion are as follows, to wit: four men armed and in the common dress of citizens of this State appeared sometime last winter in the town of Sheldon alias Hungerford, within this State (a place about 20 miles distant from any place ever known or pretended to be claimed by the British subjects) in disturbance of the peace—there made a violent assault on the body of one John McAll, an inhabitant of that town, and then being in peace of God and the State in consequence whereof and in defence of the public peace the said four men were taken into custody by a constable, and agreeable to the civil laws of this State convicted of breaking the peace and accordingly fined. It is said they were British subjects, which I am willing to admit—But that they had any authority as such from the British nation to break the peace of this State within the known and acknowledged bound of the same did not appear from any credentials which they produced nor does it yet appear—But the contrary I believe to be true, therefore as persons under the common protection of this government they have been held to respond for their breach of that protection according to the civil law."
"From the above statement it is conceived that Mr. Hammond's complaint of the said capture before Dutchman's Point is ill founded and unjust. Of this you may be assured that every attention hath been paid by me to prevent all movements which tend to thwart the friendly negotiations now taking place between the two powers; and I have the pleasure to say, that nothing hath hitherto transpired wherein I can think myself or any of the citizens of this state culpable."
"And of this you may be further assured, that every precaution and means within my power will still be used to insure the continuation of all good harmony between citizens of the two governments."
This communication from the Governor of Vermont leaves no room for a comment on my part; although to contract it sentence by sentence, with the representation, which have occasioned it, would afford grounds more and more striking to apprehend, that the Governor-General of Quebec has been mistaken. It is a solution of the nineteen months silence. I consign, without dilating on it, to your own judgment. But, Sir, on closing this letter, the origin and progress of our controversy force themselves upon the mind. It has not been our fashion to trouble his Britannic Majesty's ministry, nor yet his minister here, with every trivial circumstance of discontent; but when an officer, distinguished as Lord Dorchester is, and fresh from the Councils of his King, attempted to rouse the Savages against us; when in a short time afterwards, the Governor of Upper Canada was reported and believed to have invaded our territory—we felt, we required explanations in the style of an injured people. Our right thus to inquire was questioned; but the speech of Lord Dorchester was not denied, nor the invasion of Governor Simcoe, farther than that it was not known to have "actually occurred." We rely on the expectation of learning, Sir, through you, the truth of this matter; but the discovery of it is not indispensable, it is truly painful, since we have just received intelligence, that "the pest taken by Governor Simcoe at the rapids of the Miami is yet possessed by two companies which it is said, are immediately to be reinforced by some troops from Niagara."
Although the outlines only of charges against us were drawn, to be filled up in due season, yet we, demonstrating our love of peace and strengthened by the consciousness of an honor, which in the observance of impartiality, has never been surpassed by any nation upon earth; have not scrupled to enter into an immediate answer. Instead of wishing to outweigh your remonstrances by a comparison with the magnitude of ours; with the excitement of the Indians, the seizure of our lands, and the catalogue of distres, which spoliation and vexation have brought upon our merchants and husbandmen; we have laid them aside, to confront accusations, which you yourself in your letter of the 7th of June denominate "merely collateral." In what they have terminated, it is not for me to judge. But had they remained, not diminished in the degree in which they were first stated, the ardor for war must have been violent indeed if these circumstances could have caused it to burst forth.
Sir, It is a duty confirmed by the instructions under which I act, to cultivate peace with all nations; It is a duty which I never have forgotten. I trust therefore, that notwithstanding those conclusions, which may be made, from some remarks perhaps unintentionally escaping in your cor-

reciprocate, your functions are destined to mutual harmony and a mutual good understanding...
With great respect, EDM: RANDOLPH. Mr. HAMMOND, Minister Plenipotentiary of his Britannic Majesty. For the Gazette of the United States.
THESE are certain Political writers, who continually labour to substitute abuse for argument...
UNITED STATES.
PITTSBURGH, July 26. Extract of a letter from a Gentleman, in Cincinnati, North western Territory...
PUBLIC NOTICE.
In my house at Bower-Hill, on Cartier's creek, which was attacked, plundered, and burnt by the rioters on Thursday evening last...
JOHN NEVILL. July 20, 1794.
Pittsburgh, July 20, 1794. Finding the opposition to the revenue law more violent than I expected...
ROBERT JOHNSON.
Mr. SOUL, I am under the necessity of requesting you to put the following into your next paper...
JOHN REED. July 23, 1794.
ADVERTISEMENT.
IN taking a survey of the troops under my direction in the late expedition against that insolent exciseman John Nevill...
And I do declare on my solemn word, that if such delinquents do not come forth on the next alarm...
And whereas a certain John Reed, now resident in Washington, and being at his place near Pittsburgh...
Given under my hand this 19th day of July, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four.
P. S. To prevent a great deal of trouble it will be necessary to repeal the excise law...
WYTHE COURT-HOUSE.
(Virginia,) July 4, 1794. The Democratic Society met according to adjournment.
Citizen William Neely, chosen Chairman for the sitting.
Citizen John Montgomery, chosen Secretary.
On motion of citizen Alexander Smyth;
Ordered, that a committee be appointed to prepare an address to the people of the United States.
Citizen Alexander Smyth, from the committee, appointed, reported an address...
Ordered, That the said address be signed by the Chairman, and published. (The Address follows.)
Address of the Democratic Society in Wythe County, Virginia, to the people of the United States.
Fellow-Citizens, It is a right of the people peaceably to assemble and deliberate.
A war raging in Europe; a war of tyrants against liberty, cannot be unfeelt by the people of the United States.
Among the different powers combined against the Rights of Man, we have marked the British nation the champion of despotism.
While with anxious expectation we contemplate the affairs of Europe, it would be criminal to forget our own country.
just passed; the first in which the people were equally represented, it is a fit time to take a retrospective view of the proceedings of Government.
Citizens, Shall we Americans, who have kindled the spark of liberty, stand aloof and see it extinguished...
We lament that a man who hath so long possessed the public confidence, as the head of the Executive Department...
Fellow Citizens, We hope the misconduct of the Executive may have proceeded from bad advice...
Believe me fellow citizens, the public welfare is our only motive.
WILLIAM NEELY, Chairman. Attest, JOHN MONTGOMERY, Sec'y.
PHILADELPHIA.
AUGUST 1.
The General Advertiser of this morning informs, that the Post-Rider to and from Pittsburgh, has been stopped by the rioters at the westward...
Not a whisper is heard the country around against the opposers of the excise and it is even said, that many of the influential men are open in their declaration in favor of the unwarrantable measure pursued by those people.
The mail which last went from this place will probably be stopped and searched for the government's orders...
From a Correspondent. A little pamphlet has been printed in Philadelphia, containing a violent attack upon the character of Dr. Priestley.
on of the establishment hierarchy of South Britain, the disrespect for the dissenters (or the religious societies other than the church of England) and the bitter invectives against the French revolution...
By this Day's Mail.
NEW-YORK, July 31.
On examining the current report of this day, that an insurrection, or something like it has appeared in Canada...
A vessel is arrived in 14 days from St. Thomas's; but she brings no material news...
Extract of a letter from Halifax, dated June 27.
This morning returned from a cruise the Hussar and Blanche frigates, bringing with them the American India ship Pigou...
It is generally supposed here, that she will be condemned as her having French property on board...
She is a very valuable ship, and is said to have 40 ton of Indigo on board, besides a great quantity of cash.
From a Halifax paper of June 21.
The predicament in which the Americans stand at present is extremely critical—their flag insulted and their commerce annoyed...
[What a scandal to our country that its bitter enemies have the least ground for such representations!]
BOSTON, July 26.
COMMUNICATION.
Robertpierre, the present "organ of the French Republic," has in the most pointed manner, denounced his predecessor and contemporary organs...
Robertpierre is honored with the epithet of "Jacobin"—Danton too had the honor...
The new common expression of "biting the dust" is not new—Addison makes his Portius say...
Wednesday next is assigned for the execution of the sentence of death on the pirates now confined in the goal in this town.
CAPT. BARNEY, who was appointed to the command of one of the frigates, ordered to be built, has declined...
commendations from THE PRESIDENT of the United States and the French Minister, to a command in the Navy of that Republic.
Companies for the defense of the sea coast are forming in England, one third to be armed with muskets...
This States quota of the 80,000 minute men, are in general drafted.
PYTHAGORAS and the COUN-TRYMAN.
A FABLE. PYTHAGORAS rose at early dawn, By loaring meditation drawn, To breathe the fragrance of the day...
The clown, with surly voice replies, "Justice aloud for vengeance cries. This Kite by daily rapine fed My hens annoy, my turkeys tread...
"Hold" said the clown with passion heated, "Shall men and birds alike be treated, When heav'n the earth with creatures stor'd...
PORT OF PHILADELPHIA.
ARRIVED.
Brig John, Hicks, N. Orleans. Sch. Tartar, Hamill, St. Marks. Sloop Antonia, Morell, St. Thomas. Capt. Hamill in 22 days from St. Marks informs...
Yesterday arrived in this port, the Schooner May-Flower, Robert Caulfield, master, from Port-au-Prince...
8 Dollars de Recompense.
UN Negre nomme ADONIS, s'est echape de Wilmington, Etat de Delaware le 22 Juillet. Le dit negre a 5 pieds 7 pouces...
Eight dollars reward.
A Negro, named ADONIS, ran away from Wilmington, state of Delaware, the 22d July. The said Negro is about five feet 7 inches high...

Excellent CLARET, In hogheads and in cases of 50 bottles each FOR SALE BY A few cases Champaignewine; MADEIRA, In pipes, hogheads and quarter casks, FOR SALE BY JOHN VAUGHAN, No. 111, South Front Street. Jan. 2, 1794.
GUTHRIE'S GEOGRAPHY Improved.
THE subscription for this work on the original terms, of twelve dollars and the binding, will be closed this day—and on Monday the subscription will open at fourteen dollars, exclusive of the price of binding.
The new maps added to this edition are twenty-one; among which are those of New-Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode-Island, Vermont, New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, North-Carolina, the Genesee Government, South-Carolina, and Georgia. These maps have never been given in any former system of Geography, and, it is hoped, would alone be sufficient to entitle this work to a preference to any other edition of Guthrie.
N. B. The map of the United States, which is compiling by Mr. Samuel Lewis from the respective state maps, will be far more complete than any one yet published, and be printed on two large sheets of paper, nearly the size of the late Mr. Murray's map.
May 31.
The following section
of the law for establishing a Health-Office, &c. passed the last session of the Legislature, is re-published for the information of all concerned.
WM. ALLEN, Health-Officers, for the port of Philadelphia, No. 21, Key's alley.
June 2, 1794.
Sec. 7. AND be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That every master or captain of any ship or vessel coming from beyond the sea (vessels usually employed in the coasting trade of the United States excepted) and bound to any port or place within the jurisdiction of Pennsylvania, shall cause his ship or vessel to be brought to anchor, or otherwise stayed in the stream of the river Delaware, opposite to the health-office on State-Island aforesaid, and there to remain until he shall have duly obtained a certificate or bill of health from the resident physician, in the manner and upon the terms herein before directed: and if, previously to obtaining such certificate or bill of health, any master or captain shall suffer his ship or vessel to approach nearer than the said health-office to the city of Philadelphia, or shall land, or cause or suffer to be landed, or brought on shore, at any port or place within this commonwealth, or at any other port or place, with the intent to be conveyed into this commonwealth, any person or persons, or any goods, wares or merchandise; or if after receiving such certificate or bill of health, he shall neglect, or refuse to deliver the same to the health-officer agreeably to the directions of this act, such master or captain shall forfeit and pay, for each and every such offence, the sum of five hundred dollars to be recovered and appropriated as hereinafter provided and directed; and the captain or master of each and every ship or vessel, as soon as the same is brought to anchor, or otherwise stayed as aforesaid, shall send a safe and commodious boat to bring the resident physician on board of his ship or vessel, and shall in like manner convey him back to the health-office after he has concluded his official examination; or in case of any subsequent examination by the health-officer and consulting physician, as the case may be, each and every part of the ship or vessel, and shall present to him a view each and every person on board thereof, and shall also true and satisfactory answers make to all such questions as the resident physician at the time of examination, or the health-officer at the time of delivering the certificate, or bill of health in the city of Philadelphia, or at the time of examination to be had by the health-officer together, with the consulting physician shall ask relative to the health of any person or place from which the ship or vessel sailed, or has since touched at, the number of persons on board when the ship or vessel entered on her voyage, the number of persons that have since been landed or taken on board, and when or where respectively, what persons on board, if any have been during the voyage, or shall at any time of examination, be infected with any pestilential or contagious disease, what person belonging to the ship or vessel, if any died during the voyage, and of what disease, and what is the present state and condition of the persons on board with respect to their health and diseases; and if any captain or master of any ship or vessel shall refuse to expose the same aforesaid to the search and examination of the resident physician, or of the health-officer and consulting physician, as the case may be; or if, having on board his ship or vessel any such person or persons, he shall conceal the same, or in any manner whatsoever he shall knowingly deceive or attempt to deceive the proper officers aforesaid in his answers to their official enquiries, such captain or master, for each and every such offence, shall forfeit and pay the sum of five hundred dollars, to be recovered and appropriated as hereinafter provided and directed; and wherever the resident physician, or consulting physician, as the case may be, shall direct any person or persons, or any goods, wares or merchandise to be landed at the health-office, or any ship or vessel to be detained opposite thereto, and there to be inspected, cleaned and purified, the captain of the ship or vessel shall in all respects conform to such directions, shall at the proper cost and charge of his employers carry the same into effect within such reasonable time as the resident physician, or consulting physician, as the case may be, shall allow and prescribe; and if any master or captain shall refuse or neglect to conform to these said directions, and to carry the same into effect as aforesaid, according to the respective objects thereof, he shall forfeit and pay the sum of five hundred dollars for each and every offence, to be recovered and appropriated as hereinafter provided and directed.
Philadelphia, March, 1794. JUST PUBLISHED, By MATHEW CAREY, No. 118, Market Street, THE FIRST VOLUME OF A NEW SYSTEM OF Modern Geography: OR, Geographical, Historical, and Commercial Grammar; And present state of the several NATIONS OF THE WORLD.
CONTAINING, 1. The figures, motions, and distances of the planets, according to the Newtonian system and the latest observations. 2. A general view of the earth, considered as a planet; with several useful geographical definitions and problems. 3. The grand divisions of the globe into land and water, continents and islands. 4. The situation and extent of empires, kingdoms, states, provinces and colonies. 5. Their climates, air, soil, vegetables, productions, metals, minerals, natural curiosities, rivers, bays, capes, promontories, and lakes. 6. The birds and beasts peculiar to each country. 7. Observations on the changes that have been any where observed upon the face of nature since the most early periods of history. 8. The history and origin of nations; their forms of government, religion, laws, revenues, taxes, naval and military strength. 9. The genius, manners, customs, and arts of the people. 10. Their language, learning, arts, sciences, manufactures, and commerce. 11. The chief cities, structures, ruins, and artificial curiosities. 12. The longitude, latitude, bearings, and distances of principal places from Philadelphia.
To which are added,
1. A GEOGRAPHICAL INDEX, with the names and places alphabetically arranged. 2. A TABLE of the Coins of all nations, and their value in dollars and cents. 3. A CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE of remarkable events, from the creation to the present time. By WILLIAM GUTHRIE, Esq.
The Astronomical Part corrected by
DR. RITTENHOUSE.
[To which have been added,
The late DISCOVERIES of Dr. HERSCHELL,
and other eminent ASTRONOMERS.
THE FIRST AMERICAN EDITION,
Corrected, Improved, and greatly Enlarged.
The first volume contains twenty-one
Maps and Charts, besides two Astronomical
Plates, viz.
1. Map of the world. 2. Chart of the world. 3. Europe. 4. Asia. 5. Africa. 6. South America. 7. Cook's discoveries. 8. Countries round the north Pole. 9. Sweden, Denmark, and Norway. 10. Seven United Provinces. 11. Austrian, French and Dutch Netherlands. 12. Germany. 13. Seat of war in France. 14. France divided into departments. 15. Switzerland. 16. Italy, Sicily, and Sardinia. 17. Spain and Portugal. 18. Turkey in Europe and Hungary. 19. Ireland. 20. West-Indies. 21. Vermont. 22. At military sphere. 23. Copernican system.
With the second volume, which is now
in the press, will be given the following
Maps:
1. Russia in Europe and Asia. 2. Scotland. 3. England and Wales. 4. Poland. 5. China. 6. Hindostan. 7. United States. 8. British America. 9. State of New-Hampshire. 10. State of Massachusetts. 11. State of Connecticut. 12. State of Rhode-Island. 13. State of New-York. 14. State of New-Jersey. 15. State of Pennsylvania. 16. State of Delaware. 17. State of Maryland. 18. State of Virginia. 19. State of Kentucky. 20. State of North-Carolina. 21. Tennessee Government. 22. State of South-Carolina. 23. State of Georgia.
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The emendations and additions which are made in this work, are innumerable, and occur in every page. The public are referred to the preface for a slight sketch of a few of them.
The publisher takes the present opportunity of returning his most sincere thanks to those respectable characters who have favored him with documents for improving the maps of several of the states. He
requests a continuance of their kindness; and hopes that such public spirited citizens, as are possessed of authentic documents, will favor him with their assistance in perfecting his undertaking.
The extraordinary encouragement with which he has been favored, has excited in his breast the warmest sentiments of gratitude—sentiments which time will not efface. He pledges himself to the citizens of the United States, to spare neither pains nor expense to render the present edition of Guthrie's Geography improved, deserving of their patronage.
May 16.
JAMAICA RUM,
LANDING at Hamilton's wharf, a lot
the Brandywine, out of the ship BACCHUS,
Capt. VANESMAN, from JAMAICA,
FOR SALE BY
PETER BLIGHT.
May 16.
Morris Academy.
THIS institution is now open for the reception of students under the immediate care of Mr. Caleb Ruffell, whose abilities as an instructor, and attachment to the business, have long been known and approved. He has under him the best assistants in the different branches. The scholars are taught the English, French, Latin, and Greek languages, Public-speaking, Writing, Arithmetic, Geography, Astronomy, and the various branches of the Mathematics. The healthy situation of this place is such as to recommend it to those who wish to have their children in the country. Boarding, washing, mending, &c. will be provided in good families, and the morals of the scholars carefully attended to.
The price including tuition, firewood, &c. exclusive of the French language (which not exceed thirty pounds proclamation money per annum) an addition of three dollars per quarter will be made to such scholars who are taught the French language. The Directors are determined to pay such attention to this institution, as will render it respectable and useful.
GABRIEL H. FORD, TIMOTHY JOHNS, jun. } Directors. NATHAN FORD, Morristown, May 16, 1794
Christiana Mills
For Sale.
ON Monday the first day of September next at 8 o'clock in the evening, at the Coffee House in the city of Philadelphia, will be sold by public vendue, two tracts or pieces of land situated in White Clay Creek hundred, New Castle county and state of Delaware; one of which contains about sixty acres of highly improved land, on it are a large two story brick dwelling house, a convenient brick barn, with stabling and a carriage house underneath, an excellent kiln for drying corn; and the well known mills called Christiana Mills (late Patterson's) which being at the head of the tide on Christiana river, and but about half a mile from the landing, is conveniently situated for carrying the articles manufactured at the mills by water to Philadelphia. This property being close to the road leading from Elkton to Christiana bridge, and at the head of the tide, with many other attendant advantages, renders its situation for the milling business to very valuable, as to be equalled by few and excelled by none.
The latter tract containing 175 acres, is about one mile from the mills and is chiefly woodland, which being contiguous to water carriage to the city of Philadelphia, must be of increasing value, especially as there is a quantity of large timber in said tract suitable for the purposes of the mills.
The terms upon which the above mentioned estates will be sold are—one thousand pounds to be paid on executing the deeds, and seven hundred and fifty pounds per annum, with interest for the remainder or proportionably for each part.
Indispensible titles will be made for the property, by
JOHN NIXON, ALEX. FOSTER, GEO. LATIMER.
At same time and place will be sold a large BOAT,
July 2
ADVERTISEMENT.
LETTERS on the subject of the Washington Lottery, being by mistake repeatedly addressed to the Commissioners for the City of Washington.
Persons concerned are hereby informed, that all such should be addressed either to W. Deakins jun. of Washington, or to the Subscriber. The commissioners never having contemplated any further concern in this business, than in their assent to receive the bonds and approve the names of the managers. The prizes have been paid and are paying on demand by W. Deakins, Washington, Peter Gilman, Boston, and by the Subscriber.
For the Lottery No. 2, the securities already given will be retained by the commissioners, or transferred by them at their option to the bank of Columbia; and the commissioners will be consulted respecting a judicious and equitable disposition of the houses to be built thereby; their treasury or the bank of Columbia will receive the money intended for the National University, and they will be consulted in the nomination of the 24 managers; but all the responsibility respecting the general disposition of the tickets, and payment of prizes, will rest as in the Hotel Lottery, on the persons whose names are and may be hereafter published as assistants to forward this business with
S. BLODGET.
N. B. Mr. Blodget will be particularly obliged if those persons who possess prizes yet unpaid, will apply for their money as early as possible. June 7th.
FOR SALE,
At the STORES of
Jesse & Robert Waln,
PORT WINE in pipes, lbs. and quarter casks
LISBON do. in pipes and quarter casks
Souchong and Congo TEAS, in quarter casks
Velvet CORKS, in do.
A quantity of Lisbon and Cadiz SALT
Soft shelled ALMONDS in bales
Russia MATTS. in do.
June 9
Richard Johns
In the Chancery Court
of the
State of Maryland,
May 26th 1794
The Complainant hath filed
his bill, for the purpose of obtaining a decree, to vest in him a complete legal title to two tracts of land, lying in Baltimore county, one called Painters-Lively, containing 100 acres, the other called Prospect containing 50 acres. He states, that the said John Wells on the 16th day of March 1774 contracted to sell the said land to the said Mordecai Cole, & executed to him a bond for conveyance, that the said Cole, on the same day, executed to the said Wells a bond for the payment of the purchase money amounting to £675 Pennsylvania currency, that the said Cole hath since discharged the whole of the purchase money, and hath assigned to the complainant the said bond for conveyance; that the said Wells hath never executed a deed, agreeably to his contract but hath removed out of the state of Maryland, and now resides in the state of Kentucky.
It is thereupon, and at the request of the complainant, adjudged, and ordered, that he procure a copy of this order to be inserted at least six weeks successively, before he first day of August next, in the United States Gazette at Philadelphia, to the intent, that the said John Wells may have notice of the complainant's application to this court, and may be warned to appear here, or before the first Tuesday in October next, to show cause wherefore this court should not proceed to decree, agreeably to the prayer of the complainant, and to the act of assembly, for such cases made and provided.
Test,
Samuel Harvey Howard.
Reg. Cur. Can.
June 13. mw&fsw
Just Published,
In one handsome volume, 12mo. Price 5s
AND FOR SALE BY
JOHN ORMROD,
At Franklin's Head, No. 41, Chestnut
Streets,
AN ESSAY ON THE
Natural Equality of Men,
On the Rights that result from it, and on
the Duties which it imposes.
To which a MEDAL was adjudged, by
the Teylerian Society at Haarlem.
Corrected and Enlarged, by
WILLIAM LAWRENCE BROWN,
D. D.
Professor of Moral Philosophy, and the
Law of Nature, and of Ecclesiastical
History; and Minister of the English
Church at Utrecht.
Aliquid semper ad communem utilitatem
afferendum. CICERO.
The First American Edition.
THE grand principle of Equality, if rightly understood, is the only basis on which universal justice, sacred order, and perfect freedom, can be firmly built, and permanently secured. The view of it exhibited in this essay, at the same time that it represses the insolence of office, the tyranny of pride, and the outrages of oppression, confirms, in the most forcible manner, the necessity of subordination, and the just demands of lawful authority. So far indeed, from loosening the bands of society, that it maintains inviolate, every natural and every civil distinction, draws more closely every social tie, unites in one harmonious and justly proportioned system, and brings men together on the even ground of the inherent rights of human nature, of reciprocal obligation, and of a common relation to the community.
March 18. tutf
One thousand Dollars
REWARD.
Some low Counterfeit Post-Notes of the Bank of Maryland, having been lately discovered in circulation, and on tracing the same were found to come from the back parts of Virginia, where they probably first issued; to avoid imposition it is thought necessary to give the following description of them, by which they may readily be detected.
They have the letter D. for their alphabetical mark, at the left hand side of the Note.
The paper on which they are printed is more soft and tender, the strokes of the letters, in the engraving are in general stronger, and have a darker appearance than in the bills.
The signature William Patterson, as badly done, the strokes of the letters, are stiff and labored, and appear to be painted over with the pen, as well as the flourishing of the name.
The value is left blank in the engraving, to be filled up in writing, so the sum may be more or less at pleasure.
No true Post-Notes of the alphabetical mark, above described, have been lately issued, and very few are now in circulation.
The above reward of One Thousand dollars will be paid to any person, or persons, who shall discover, or prosecute in conviction, the several offenders, or any of them, of the following description, viz.
The person or persons, who engraved the plate.
The printer, or printers, of the said bills.
Every person who has acted as principal in any way in the counterfeiting and uttering the said bills.
WILLIAM PATTERSON: President, of the Bank of Maryland.
Bme, April 8, 1794.
FOR SALE,
BY MATHEW CAREY, No. 118,
Market-Street,
An Essay on Slavery,
Deligned to exhibit in a new point of view its effects on morals, industry, and the peace of society. Some facts and calculations are offered to prove the labor of freemen to be much more productive than that of slaves; that countries are rich, powerful and happy, in proportion as the laboring people enjoy the fruits of their own labor; and hence the necessary conclusion, that slavery is impolitic as well as unjust.
Price 25 Cents.
February 15.
THE office of the President and Directors of the INSURANCE COMPANY OF NORTH AMERICA, is removed to No. 107, South Front Street, being the south east corner of From and Walnut Streets.
The Public are cautioned to
beware of counterfeited Five Dollar Bills of the Bank of the United States, and Twenty Dollar Bills of the Bank of North America, several of which have appeared in circulation within a few days past; they are good general imitations of the genuine Bills, but may be distinguished by the following
M A R K S.
Five Dollar Bills of the Bank of the United States.
ALL that have appeared have the letter F. for their Alphabetical Mark.
The Texture of the Paper is thicker and whiter and it takes the ink more freely than the genuine paper.
The O. in the word Company is smaller than the M. and other letters of that word, so that a line extended from the top of the O. to touch the top of the M. would extend considerably above the range of the whole word.
In the word United the letters are narrower and closer together than the rest of the bill.
The i and j in the word promise are not parallel, the i inclining much more forward than the j.
The engraving is badly executed, the strokes of all the Letters are stronger and the device in the margin particularly so much coarser and appears darker than in the true bills. Some of the counterfeits bear date in 1791—Whereas the Bank was not in operation till December, and no five dollar bills were issued in that year.
Twenty Dollar Bills of the Bank of North America.
ALL that have appeared have the letter B. for their alphabetical mark.
They are printed on a paper nearly similar to that of the counterfeited Five Dollar Notes above described; the engraving is better executed, and they approach nearer to the appearance of the genuine bills.
The fine ruled lines through the word Twenty, in the body of the bill, are in number thirteen in the genuine bills, and but twelve in the counterfeits.
The word Company is much like the same word in the Five Dollar Bills as described above, the O being less than the M, and others following.
There is no stroke to the t in the word North whereas in the genuine bills the stroke is well defined.
The letters ch in the word Twenty, to the left hand at the bottom, do not come down to the line, but are so cut as to give an irregular appearance to the word, the Tu and the y going below them.
The signature J. Nixon, has the appearance of being written with lamb-black and oil, and differs from other inks used in printing the bills and the cashier's signature.
It is supposed these forgeries were committed in some of the Southern States, as all the counterfeits that have appeared, have come from thence, and two persons have been apprehended in Virginia; on suspicion of being the author of them.
The reward of ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS will be paid to any Person or Persons who shall discover and prosecute to conviction the several offenders of the following descriptions or any of them, viz.
The person or persons, who manufactured the paper on which the Bills are printed.
The person or persons, who engraved the plates.
The printer or printers, of the bills.
Every person who has acted as a principal in any other way, in the counterfeiting, and uttering the said bills.
Philadelphia, March 28, 1794
April 22, 1794.
Other counterfeit bills
of the Bank of the United States have appeared in circulation.
The denomination is of TWENTY DOLLARS, and the alphabetical mark is the letter B.
They may be distinguished from the genuine by the following MARKS:
The paper of the counterfeits is of a more tender texture and glossy surface than the genuine, and there is no water mark in them.
The letter C. in the word Cashier, in the true bills is strongly marked, whereas in the counterfeits, the whole letter is a fine hair stroke, evidently in an unfinished state. The letter a in the word demand, is badly formed and the whole word ill done and there is no comma at the end of it, as there is in the genuine bills.
The