Gazette of the United States and daily evening advertiser. (Philadelphia [Pa.]), 1795-02-16 00:00:00

Gazette of the United States AND DAILY EVENING ADVERTISER.
[No. 40 of Vol. VII.]
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1795.
[Whole No. 762.]
TO BE SOLD, By Thomas Dobson, No. 41, South Second Street, John Ormerod, No. 41, Chestnut Street, and the Editor hereof, REPORT OF THE Secretary of the Treasury
Department of War.
INFORMATION is hereby given, to all the Military Invalids of the United States, that the funds to which they are entitled for six months of their annual pension, from the fourth of September, 1794, and which will become due on the fifth day of March, 1795, will be paid on that day, by the Commissioners of Loans, within the States respectively, under the usual regulations.
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.
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 Favors.
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, Springs and Tacks, Fullers Shears, Gun Flints and Wool Hats.
A pleasant Country Seat, MAY be hired for one or more years and possession given immediately, consisting of A neat three story brick house with a barn, a well of water, and an excellent Orchard, containing 150 trees.
For Hamburg, The fast-sailing Ship INDUSTRY, William Bell, master, LYING at Sims's wharf, will sail in a few days, having the fourth of her cargo on board.
For Sale or Charter, The SHIP MARGARET, Robert Robertson, MASTER. She is in complete repair, and of about 3200 barrels burthen.
PROPOSALS For printing by Subscription, a new publication, to be entitled The American Remembrancer & Universal Tablet of Memory. 1st. This publication will be printed on good paper, and on a good type and will contain at least 300 pages duodecimo.
James Hardie. N. B. It is requested that such persons as are entrusted with subscription papers, will be so obliging as to return them by the first of March, in order that their names may be inserted as patrons of the work.
Green Coffee, 110,000 weight of 187 bds. 40 barrels, and 200 bags, entitled to the drawback, stored on Messrs. Willing & Francis's wharf.
FOR SALE, At the STORES of Jesse & Robert Waln, PORT WINE in pipes, hds. and quarter casks, LISBON do. in pipes and quarter casks.
FRESH Bohea Tea, AND GIN in Pipes, Now Landing from on board the ship Peggy, John Elliott master, from Amsterdam.
To be Sold, A VALUABLE Tract of Land, BEING that part of the city of New Brunswick that lies in the county of Somerset and state of New Jersey.
James Parker, Of Perth Amboy. A FEW COPIES Of the celebrated Performance under the Signature of MANLIUS, May be had of John Ormerod, No. 41, Chestnut Street.
Fresh Teas, OF SUPERIOR QUALITY, viz. Imperial, or Gunpowder, Hylon Gomee, 1st quality Hylon, 2d. do. do. Young Hylon, Hylon Skin, and Souchoong.
WANTED, An Apprentice To the Watch making and Repairing Business, APPLY TO C. Campbell, No. 3, South Fourth Street, two doors from Market Street.
In the press and speedily will be published, BY THOMAS DOBSON, No. 41, South Second Street, WOLSTONCRAFT'S Historical & Moral View of the French Revolution.
This Day was published, AND FOR SALE AT T. BRADFORD'S Book-Store, No. 8, South Front Street, [Price 37 cents] Observations on the Emigration of Dr. Priestley, And on the several Addresses delivered to him, on his arrival at New York, with additions, containing many curious and interesting facts on the subject, not known here when the first edition was published.
TUITION of the French Tongue, Mathematicks and Drawing. J. C. Roussan informs the public, that he has opened his EVENING SCHOOL, at his house, No. 15, Brant Street, between North Third and Fourth Streets, and between Race and New Streets.
To the Public, THE Founders of the COLUMBIANUM (with whom the name originated,) after experiencing considerable interruption, retired from Peale's Museum; and having since discovered in the present Leader of that party a latent intention of perverting and cramping the original idea of a National College into a contrived plan of an Academic Drawing-School.
Watch making and Repairing Business, APPLY TO C. Campbell, No. 3, South Fourth Street, two doors from Market Street. That the word decay (mentioned in the advertisement from Peale's Museum, in the Philadelphia Gazette, and in the Gazette of the United States of the 13th ult. and in the American Daily Advertiser of this morning) is the highest possible compliment that could have been paid, if the talents of an artist are to be appreciated by the comparative standard of the members of the National Institution with those of the members of the Associate Body, that is ambitious of acquiring the name of their opponents.
CITY DANCING ASSEMBLY. THURSDAY next being Thanksgiving Day, there will be no Assembly that evening. SUNDAY, the 22d, being the Birth Day of the President of the United States, there will be a BALL on the evening of the 23d.
Inland Navigation. In the Press and speedily will be published by Zachariah Poulson jun. No. 80, Chestnut Street, AN HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE Rise, progress, and present state OF THE Canal Navigation in Pennsylvania.
An Explanatory Map, Published by Direction of the President and Managers of the Schuylkill and Susquehanna, and the Delaware and Schuylkill Navigation Companies. Here smooth CANALS, across the extended plain Stretch their long arms to join the distant main.

For the Gazette of the United States.
THANKSGIVING of the UNITED STATES.
28 happy millions! bend the grateful knee To Him who reigns above, and raise the free
PRAYER, and praise, lift the soul to God, assimilate the mind, and make it great and happy. The idea of the whole nation being assembled at the same time, to adore our Divine Benefactor, for his innumerable blessings to our country, mingled the most pleasing thoughts with devotion! Every state, every person, every interest, is included in our prayers and praises: We feel like one people, while offering up our united praises to the Parent of the Universe. This union in devotion, increases affection for each other, and expands our bosoms to embrace all as brethren. As men, and as Christians, it is good for us thus to do. We hope it may be annually repeated, until time is no more—thus begin the work in time which may employ us to eternity!
When we to Heaven's celestial temple come, Petition there shall cease, and prayer be dumb; But Praise, in accents more sublime and strong, Shall then commence her everlasting song.
AN AMERICAN.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 13.
Thursday morning last Died Mr. SAMUEL DALBY, of this City, aged about forty. Mr. Dalby was an active friend to this Country during the late Revolution—his sufferings in the Cause of Freedom occasioned those infirmities which closed his career; and though we lament that he can no longer participate in that prosperity, which as an individual, he encountered every hardship to acquire, when despotic power threatened to turn the balance against this Country, still departed worth, demands a paragraph of commemoration. He was in the naval department; and unfortunately, a victim to British cruelty, being captured, and imprisoned for years; and it was only the end of the Revolution that emancipated him from a state of slavery.
By this Day's Mail.
BOSTON, February 9.
On Saturday left the brig Mary, captain Chipman, arrived in this port after the very short passage of twenty-nine days from Lymington, (England.) By this arrival we are favored with London papers to the THURSDAY of JANUARY.
NATIONAL CONVENTION.
14 Frimaire, December 4.
On PEACE and its Principles and Objects in France.
MERLIN of Douai, in the name of the Committee of Public Safety—“I come to lay before you another intrigue of our enemies; but whatever success they may have promised themselves from it, to point it out is sufficient to render it abortive. You have observed with what rapidity rumors of Peace are circulated; you have marked the source and detected the contradictions with which news writers, transformed into plenipotentiaries, make us conclude peace sometimes with one of the Allied Powers, and sometimes with them all. Call to mind what affectionate they publish, notwithstanding that we will not accept peace with any neighboring nation, till that nation shall form itself into a republic; call to mind all the writers who are paid here to circulate, and the orators to give countenance to this miserable opinion, and to represent you as violating every principle. Their principal object is to alienate other nations from you, and to alarm them with respect to your intentions. But nations have been speedily informed respecting contrivances and insinuations which never existed but in some heads that have fallen under the sword of the law. Our enemies have changed their system. They no longer represent us as the conquerors of the world, or the destroyers of all governments. To hear the cabinets of London and Vienna, we are become the most ardent idolators of peace. Never was a people so easy at negotiation as we; never was the olive-branch offered and accepted with more eagerness. All these rumors are invented to annihilate the ardor of our armies, arrest their pro-
gress, disorganize them, and lise our energy. We must assure ourselves of the solidity of the ground on which we have consolidated the foundations of the glory and happiness of the republic. We must, therefore, examine it to a great depth, and not trust to deceitful appearances of a calm, which, perhaps, may be soon followed by the most fatal tempest. Our triumphs and our principles permit us at once to wield and lay aloud whatever we please; our justice shall be ever inseparable from our glory. Yes, we desire peace; but we desire it guaranteed by our proper force, and by the incapability of our enemies ever to hurt us.
With respect to the greater part of our enemies, if we may judge of them by the effect which the feeling of present evils ought to produce, and by the fears of the future, with which they ought to be impressed, there is reason to believe that they desire a speedy peace. Assuredly, the time cannot be far distant, when enlightened by the republican thunder which has burst upon all of them at once, several of those governments, excited against us by England, may look upon, without fear, the abyss into which that odious power hoped to precipitate them. When Spain, for example, will open her eyes on its projects, when she will remark the persevering assiduity with which that government examines the South Sea; all the pains it takes to consolidate its power in India, thence to contrive, by stealth, a route towards America, fall in the rear upon Mexico and Peru, so long the objects of its insatiable cupidity, and make themselves masters of them by open force, as soon as it can do so without danger; when, at length, perceiving her true interests, she will perceive that England is her true and only enemy, and of all the dangers which threaten her there is none more formidable than those which may spring from her confidence in so perfidious an ally.
This very moment ought to be that when, ungrateful towards the nation to which she owes her liberty the state, perhaps, which ought the most to applaud the rearing of a great Republic on the ruins of a Monarchy, whose treaty of 1756, gave such additional strength to the House of Austria; when, unfaithful even to Liberty itself, Holland lamenting, but perhaps too late, her fatal delusion, will dread seeing her treasures, her ships, her establishments in both hemispheres, fall into the hands of those tyrants of the seas, whose audacity the formerly restrained, Prussia, doubtless, will soon conclude, by perceiving that it is in a solid peace with France, and an intimate union with the neighbouring powers of the North, that she can find the only principle of her duration, the only force which, notwithstanding the politics of his cabinet, and the tactics of his armies, he can reasonably oppose to the devouring ambition of Russia.
With respect to our other enemies, whether voluntarily in the coalition by their vanity, or dragged into it against their will, in consequence of their weakness, they have all equally and long since shown that they are weary of it, by their regrets and their murmurs, and all pant for the moment when they may break its bonds. Several of them, justly terrified at the despair of the principal belligerent powers, seem at length to feel the necessity of uniting with one another to prevent the partition of their territories; a partition which they well know to be projected by their allies, as a means of paying themselves in part for the expenses of the campaign.
If we are asked in the mean time, what are the dispositions of the French people? Organs of their will, we will answer, that always just, always magnanimous, always as jealous of their honors as of their liberty, they will distinguish their enemies, and the motives of their aggression; that even in the laws which their victories give them a right to dictate, they will not confound the ridiculous pretensions of weakness and of vanity, with the intractable pride and perfidious power of tyranny; that above all they will regard the situation of those whom fear and violence have compelled to march in the train of the chiefs of the league; and finally, that in tracing with their triumphant but generous hand, the limits within which it will be proper to confine themselves, they will reject no offers compatible with their interests and their dignity, with their repose and security.—Such is their policy. Their proceedings are open, like the glory of their arms. With their enemies they will treat, as they have fought, in the face of the universe, whom they call to be the witness of their justice, as it has been the witness of their victories.
This is what may be published and
believed of our intentions, for it is what we always avow and never change. Let us therefore speak here that the whole Republic may resound, and our brave armies of the North, repeat it in emulation.
No, Frenchmen, no; you will not forget the cause that induced you to take up arms, and the only conditions upon which you can lay them down.
No: you have not advanced so rapidly in this glorious career, to stop at the moment when you are just at the goal: and when you are so near receiving the prize of your victories, you will not suffer it to escape you.—Let not our enemies expect it. We will prove to them by new efforts and by new triumphs, that we wish for peace; but peace worthy of our defenders, and worthy of the French people; and in a word, when the people shall consider war as no longer necessary to repair outrages offered to its dignity, or to preserve themselves from new insults, then only will they put a curb on victory, then only will they dictate peace.”
[This report was often interrupted by loud applauses.]
AMSTERDAM, Dec. 26.
Our rejoicings on the supposed approach of peace, have been as short as the motives were slight, on which they were founded. To-day the opinions of the people here, are turned entirely to the continuance of the war. The movements which are taking place in the several kingdoms around us, the secret agitation of their cabinets—and the appearance of new armaments, totally destroy every pacific hope, notwithstanding the shew of negotiations, by which we are to be no longer amused. Our attention is now turned towards England. Our misery, and our distress, sufficiently bespeak our wishes, and Europe, whose councils Great Britain at present appears to direct at her will, looks with anxiety at the fate of our Provinces. Every bosom here is distressed and discouraged, and the pacific assurances, which we have lately received, serve but to add to the bitterness of our disappointment.
The checks which we daily receive, and the advances made by the enemy on our territory, increase and strengthen our feelings. We just now learn, that our troops have evacuated Fort St. Andre, and at the same time the Bommel Waert.
By this retreat, we are reduced to the mere defence of the right Bank of the Waal, where our troops may be continually harassed by the enemy, who are encamped on the other side, without any apprehension from the fire of those ramparts, to which we before owed our protection.
This manoeuvre, if such it can be called, by no means accords with the reports of an armistice, of which our Gazettes have so long spoken. They have assured us of the departure of the Commissioners M. M. BRANTZEN and PEEBELAER, from the Hague, for Paris; adding, that these gentlemen have received their passports from the French Generals. On the contrary, it is this instant reported, that the enemy has refused to let them pass, and that they are on their return to Dort! To this last rumour it is impossible, at this moment, to say what degree of credit should be attached.
On the evening of the 22d, the French made an attack on the side of Fort Capel. Their force consisted only of 300 men on skait. They seemed to be a party to reconnoitre the place, previously to an attempt in the night. We know that they have ordered 3000 pair of cramp irons, at Waalwyck, for the purpose of walking, in safety, over the ice.
LONDON, January 2.
The result of the deliberation of the Germanic Diet, of the 5th instant, concerning the propositions for Peace, made by the Elector of Mentz, is, that the majority have acceded to those propositions. Fifty-seven votes are expressly for a peace; ten proposed the mediation of Sweden and Denmark; thirty-six proposed that of the King of Prussia—and thirty Deputies, for want of instruction, did not vote on that day. The Hanoverian Minister, Baron Ompteda, declared, that as such propositions ought to proceed from his Imperial Majesty, and not from the Elector of Mentz, and the present circumstances, instead of pacificatory measures, imperiously demanded the most vigorous prosecution of the war, his Court could neither consent, nor accede, to the above propositions for peace.
The French Journals state the number of the French fleet, at Brest, to amount to 35 ships of the line, exclusive of a division of 10 more ships which
failed from that harbour in November, which would make the whole of the Brest fleet, amount to 45 ships of the line.
Some of the letters brought by the Dutch mails which arrived yesterday, state, that the French have actually got possession of Fort St. Andre and the Bommel Waert. At Amsterdam the consternation is extreme. The Deputies, nominated by the States, have left the Hague; but little success is expected from their mission. On the Upper Rhine, the severity of the season has arrested all military operations. The Dutch papers say, that on the 15th inst. a determination to pursue a winter campaign was announced in the Convention, and that Carrier, with two others of the Revolutionary Committee of Nantz, were convicted on the 16th, and executed on the following day.
The Leyden Gazette confirms the report that Carrier; Penard, and Grand-maison, were sentenced on the 16th and executed on the 17th ult.
January 3.
Every hope of peace, if we may credit accounts from the Continent, which were said to have been received late on Thursday night, is now vanished. Private advices are said to have been sent from Utrecht, dated the 27th ultimo which state, with much confidence that the French, availing themselves of the uncommon rigour of the season, have recommenced hostilities, and on Christmas-day crossed the Maese, which was froze over, at Bommel, and entirely possessed themselves of that Country. The next day, it is also said, 18,000 or 20,000 of them passed the Waal near Bommel.—In what numbers they have crossed that river in other places, is not known; but it is said to be certain that they have passed it in other places. The regiment of Holtenhoe, and the regiment of Grenadiers of Bentinck, both in Dutch pay, are made prisoners. Some other regiments of the allies laid down their arms. The consternation which this has occasioned in Holland is not to be described as, should the frost continue, there is no impediment to their marching to Amsterdam.
This report we conceive it our duty to give, and we think it equally our duty to confess that we utterly disbelieve it. We have the authority of his Majesty's speech, that Holland is negotiating a separate peace with France, in consequence of which an armistice was agreed to by both parties, and Commissioners sent to Paris. Can it, then be supposed, that France would, were it from motives of policy only, commit so flagrant a violation of every law by which man, even in a state of nature, is bound? Impossible. Such conduct would rouse every fellow being to aid in their destruction. A war of extermination would be the inevitable consequence.
The arrival of the mail, due yesterday, which had not come in when this paper was put to press, is anxiously waited for.
From the LONDON Gazette.
Westminster Dec. 30.
THIS day his Majesty came to the House of Peers, and being in his Robes seated on the Throne with the usual solemnity, Sir Francis Molyneux, Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod, was sent with a message from his Majesty to the House of Commons, commanding their attendance in the House of Peers. The Commons being come thither accordingly, his Majesty was pleased to make the following
Most Gracious SPEECH.
My Lords and Gentlemen.
After the uniform experience which I have had of your zealous regard for the interests of my people, it is a great satisfaction to me to recur to your advice and assistance at a period which calls for the full exertion of your energy and wisdom.
Notwithstanding the disappointments and reverses which we have experienced in the course of the last campaign, I retain a firm conviction of the necessity of persisting in a vigorous prosecution of the just and necessary war in which we are engaged.
You will, I am confident, agree with me that it is only from firmness and perseverance that we can hope for the restoration of peace on safe & honorable grounds, and for the preservation and permanent security of our dearest interests.
In considering the situation of our enemies, you will not fail to observe, that the efforts which have led to their successes, and the unexampled means by which alone those efforts could have been supported, have produced among themselves the pernicious effects which were to be expected; and that every thing which has passed in the interior of the Country has shown the progressive and rapid decay of their resources, and of the instability of every part of that violent and unnatural system, which is equally ruinous to France, and in-
compatible with the tranquility of all nations.
The States General of the United Provinces have nevertheless been led, by a sense of present difficulties, to enter into negotiations for peace with the party now prevailing in that unhappy Country. No established Government or independent State can, under the present circumstances, derive any real security from such negotiations: On our part they could not be attempted, without sacrificing both our honor and safety to an Enemy, whose chief animosity is avowedly directed against these Kingdoms.
I have therefore continued to use the most effectual means for the further augmentation of my forces; and I shall omit no opportunity of concerted operations of the next campaign with such of the Powers of Europe as are impressed with the same sense of the necessity of vigor and exertion. I place the fullest reliance on the valor of my forces, and on the affection and public spirit of my people, in whole and in part I am contending, and whose safety and happiness are the objects of my constant solicitude.
The local importance of Corsica, and the spirited efforts of its inhabitants, to deliver themselves from the yoke of France, determined me not to withhold the protection which they fought for; and I have since accepted the Crown and Sovereignty of that Country, according to an instrument, a copy of which I have directed to be laid before you.
I have great pleasure in informing you, that I have concluded a Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation with the United States of America, in which it has been no my object to remove, as far as possible, all grounds of jealousy and misunderstanding, and to improve an intercourse beneficial to both countries. As soon as the ratifications shall have been exchanged, I will direct a copy of this Treaty to be laid before you, in order that you may consider of the propriety of making such provisions as may appear necessary for carrying it into effect.
I have the greatest satisfaction in announcing to you the happy event of the conclusion of a treaty for the marriage of my son, the Prince of Wales, with the Princess Caroline, daughter of the Duke of Brunswick. The constant proofs of your affection for my person and family, persuade me that you will enable me to make provision for such an establishment as you may think suitable to the rank and dignity of the heir apparent to the crown of these kingdoms.
Gentlemen of the House of Commons.
The considerations which prove the necessity of a vigorous prosecution of the war will, I doubt not, induce you to make a timely and ample provision for the several branches of the public service, the estimates for which I have directed to be laid before you. While I regret the necessity of large and additional burdens on my subjects, it is a just consolation and satisfaction to me to observe the state of our credit, commerce and resources, which is the natural result of the continued exertions of industry, under the protection of a free and well regulated government.
My Lords and Gentlemen.
A just sense of the blessings now enjoyed by this country, will, I am persuaded, encourage you to make every effort, which can enable you to transmit those blessings unimpaired to your posterity.
I entertain a confident hope, that under the protection of Providence, and with constancy and perseverance on our part, the principles of social order, morality & religion, will be ultimately successful; & that my faithful People will find their present exertions and sacrifices rewarded by the secure and permanent enjoyment of tranquility at home, and by the deliverance of Europe from the greatest danger with which it has been threatened since the establishment of civilized society.
Motions have been lately made in both Houses of Parliament, to address his Majesty in favour of negotiating a PEACE WITH FRANCE—12 only of the House of Lords were in favour of the Address, and 75 in the House of Commons. Lord Guilford made the motion in the Upper, and Mr. Wilberforce in the Lower House.
December 20.
Yesterday morning the King signed a patent, appointing Earl Spencer first lord of the Admiralty, in the room of the Earl of Chatham.
NEWBURYPORT, Feb. 6.
Tuesday morning arrived here the ship Charles, Joseph Perkins Commander, in 45 days from Rotterdam. The Captain being a gentleman of veracity, we may depend on the following, related by him.
That the French army were at Nimeguen and the English at Arnheim. The Rhine, which is only three quarters of a mile wide, is all that prevents the French from pursuing the English.
The last of November 1200 of the French crossed the river on a raft, destroyed a battery belonging to the English, and threw the guns into the river. The English officers say, that the French soldiers are much better clothed than their own, who are in want of every thing. Nothing prevented the capture of Rotterdam and Amsterdam, but the want of boats to transport their cannon across the Rhine. If the weather continued cold as it was when Captain P. failed, the river would be froze sufficient to bear the whole of the French army. Macsrick, Nimueguen, and Mentz, were taken. The Prince of

was at the Hague, and the Duke of York at London. The five Dutch patriots, viz. the late pensioner, Visscher, Mr. Vander Heide, Mr. Vander Kolk, Mr. William Janse, Mr. Heuskes, and another person who delivered the famous petition of the 14th of November, were sentenced to cut log-wood 5 years in the Rasp-House, and then to be banished the United Provinces. Mr. Van Staphorst made his escape. This petition was signed by six thousand persons.
The Marquis DE LA FAYETTE, with two others, escaped from confinement the last of November. They were pursued, and one of them, an Austrian, retaken. The Marquis, with the other, arrived at Hamburg, and will take passage to America.
Capt. Perkins brought from Rotterdam General Eustis, an American, belonging to New-York, but who has been in the French service some time. He had been at Holland to obtain information of the disposition of the people there, but being suspected, was taken up as a spy, and confined three days. He was then liberated, and took passage with captain Perkins, who landed him in France.
Left at Rotterdam, the ship Harmony, Frigate, Charleston; snow Hibernia, Raynels, New-York, from Maryland. Captain Raynels had shipped a sea, which greatly damaged his vessel: he lost two of his men.
P.S. Why should the editors of the Boston Chronicle wish to reflect on captain Perkins, and charge him with bringing no news, when we have more authentic information by him, than we remember ever to have seen in all the anti-federal papers published in Boston or New-York.
NEW-YORK, February 13. Further Translations from Paris papers received per Capt. Gardner from Cherbourg.
NATIONAL CONVENTION. 19th Frimaire, December 9.
Decree proposed by Cambacérès.—How propitious is the day when you have done justice to 72 of your Colleagues! Similar to a rapid torrent the revolution has advanced with an uneven course.—it has produced different effects, tho' the intention was universally the same.—Thence in some departments, men believing the Convention threatened, took for its defence, measures which in any other circumstance they would have disowned. Notwithstanding zealous Patriots have fallen into great exaggerations, undoubtedly they now acknowledge their error; the Convention will be faithful to its principles, its indulgence will forgive error, and its severity will punish the crime only.—It is time all Frenchmen should rally and all distention should cease.—I demand that you read common to all the individuals of the Republic the Decree that you have just passed, and finally, that the Convention should proclaim one general amnesty, excepting however the individuals guilty of crimes allowed capital by the Penal Code.
Bourbon de Poisse demanded that that idea should be maturely examined in the committee, and they should be char. ed to present a report on this subject within three days.—Adopted.
The Popular Society of Versailles, deposited on the altar of the Country a sum of 1200 livres, to assist in the armament of a Republican vessel destined to combat the modern Carthage.
LUXEMBURGH, Nov. 29.
The garrison of this city has made a general sortie—it appeared to be their intention to re-establish several communications of which they had been deprived: it was however repulsed with considerable loss, and without being able to complete its object.
VIENNA, November 13.
Immense preparations are now making for the next campaign—the court in those days of ruinous expence, every day, diminish those which were only for luxury or pleasure. The wild boars who were kept at Prater did cost annually about 40,000 Florins.—Orders have just been given to destroy them.
Two waggons loaded with money have just been sent to the armies. The Prussian minister has just declared to the cabinet of Vienna, that 20,000 Prussians were ordered to quit the borders of the Rhine, to defend the Prussian frontiers on the side of Poland—He added that 12,000 men of the same
army was ordered to the country of Clèves to defend Westphalia. They write from Olmutz, that Boun. onville, the French ex-minister and General (sent by Dumourier to Cobourg) has just escaped from that place where he has been detained prisoner. He had leave to go out accompanied by two guards—one morning having walked some distance from his prison, instantly 2 men clothed in the English style appeared, holding a horse by the bridle, Bounonville mounted the horse, & immediately disappeared—They have sent persons in pursuit of him, but in vain—one of the two, who had helped in his escape has been taken.
BOSTON.
SHIP NEWS.
Saturday, Feb. 7, arrived the brig Ann John Bartlett, master, from St. Peterburg; in lat. 43, 10, N. and long. 46, W. spoke the ship Samson from New-York John Smith master. Out ten days; bound for London, and all well.
Yesterday arrived the brig Paragon, from Lisbon. In lat. 28, long. 64, spoke two French men of war, one of 44 guns, 18 and 9 pounders, and 400 men, the other 22 guns; 35 days from Brest, had no prizes, then bound to the West Indies to cruise.
Jan. 18. lat. 29, long. 60, spoke a sloop from New-London, bound to St. Croix, Samuel Arnold, master, 12 days out.
Jan. 6. lat. 32, long. 61, spoke a brig from New-York, 12 days out, Roland master.
Jan. 12. lat. 34, 40, long. 66, spoke a sloop from New-London, with live stock on deck, which had lost her rudder five days before; I could not understand the sloop, nor master's name, as the weather was very bad.
Jan. 29. lat. 37, long. 72, spoke James Blackington, in a brig belonging to Wilcasset, from Bourdeaux, bound to New-York, 80 days out, in want of every thing. I supplied him with bread, water, pork, fish, sweet oil, &c. His sails in very bad order.
Left at Lisbon, brig Hannah, John Christie, to sail in 4 or 5 days— Schooner Prudentia, David Bruce, to sail in a few days— Schooner Industry, Joseph Lindsey, bound for Cadiz, with fish— brig Industry John Myrick, for Bourdeaux, when the embargo is taken off— brig Jane, Wm. Cowell, bound for London— brig Diana, Eli Brown, to sail in about ten days.
CONGRESS.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Friday, 6th February.
Debate continued.
Mr. FINDLEY observed that the real ground of controversy was within such narrow limits, that if foreign matter had not been introduced, he had not designed to detain the committee with his observations. The question was only whether those revenue laws which were by their own operation to continue for two years longer, should now be extended to six years.
After the wide field of argument that had been taken, he wished to call the attention of the committee back to the single ground of controversy; he tho't the best way to do this was to state a concise narrative of the progress of excises under this government.
In the year 1790, a law was enacted for levying an excise on distilled spirits and stills. At that time we had very little practical knowledge of excises; in most states they were only known by the odium of the name; in some others they were only known by being defeated. In the spring of 1791, the secretary of the treasury was directed to report early to the next session the progress of the excise law. The next session passed without this information being given. The direction was renewed, and a day named on which the report should be made. This produced the report of the first day of January in the last session, which proved that the excise law was very partially executed, notwithstanding the amendments which had been made to that law, and the suggestions that it was in full operation. From this report it was evident, that the revenue fell much below the estimated amount, notwithstanding that the expence of collection was encreased almost every session, and that in some districts the revenue did not pay that expence.
While such a view of this excise was before the house, the present revenue laws were introduced, and supported by arguments drawn from theory or the experience of countries otherwise circumstanced than we were. Being opposed by a pretty large minority and the estimates of their produce not being supported by any sufficient data, a limitation of their duration was agreed to unanimously.
One gentleman indeed, (Mr. Tracy) says that at that time disapproved of the limitation, though he voted for it, and from this circumstance justifies his right of voting against it now. This manner of arguing affords a much stronger proof of that gentleman's ingenuity than of his candor. He complains, that voting for the limitation, procured no votes in favour of these laws. This at least proves that the limitation was the only thing in which the House were unanimous, and consequently, that this being the most respectable part of those laws, ought to be held most sacred.
The same gentleman in his last discourse, thought proper to select Pennsylvania as the peculiar object of his censure; and to make severe animadversions on the conduct of her merchants and manufacturers. Had he confined his censure to the party of this state, where a criminal opposition to the excise law actually happened; and had this been a Court of Censors, authorized to make a scrutiny into the character of particular states, and hold them up to public contempt, perhaps I might have acknowledged the justice of his strictures, with respect to some of my immediate constituents, but would still have gloried in being a citizen of Pennsylvania; nor do I think myself dishonoured by the unfortunate misconduct of some nearer where I reside. When a comparative scrutiny is made of the character of the merchants and manufacturers of other commercial and manufacturing states, I am confident, with the exceptions I mentioned, that Pennsylvania will not shrink from the trial, nor blush at the result; but as this House is no Council of Censors, nor Court of Judicature, every thing of this kind is disorderly and impolitic.
Mr. F. observed, that a gentleman yesterday, (Mr. Sedgwick,) had done him the honor to make some remarks on what he had formerly said on this subject, respecting the faith of government. He supposed he had not then expressed himself with sufficient accuracy, but would now explain his meaning. He did not mean that the faith of government was so pledged as that it must be suffered to expire at the time to which it stands limited, or that it could not be extended with propriety, as soon as experience of the revenue it would produce, and its effects on the manufacturers would justify the measure. He only contended, that a limitation thus unanimously agreed to, should not be extended until we were possessed of the practical information intended to be obtained. Hitherto this was reasonably expected by those who doubted of the propriety of the law, and by the manufacturers who were affected by it; and no man had pretended to say that this information was yet obtained.
He said, that the manufacturers were so confident in this expectation that though through the impropriety of the law, some of the manufacturers had their business totally stopped, they had made no complaint, until we obliged them to come forward by attempting to extend the limitation, and by confining their silence into approbation. He said, he had the honor to be one of a committee of seven, to examine and report on the memorials of the manufacturers. It appeared to that committee, on the most exact scrutiny, that the manufacturers could not hitherto add the tax to the price, and that the revenues fell much below the estimate, but the laws having been but a few months in operation, they thought it possible, that these circumstances might be owing to temporary and incidental causes, and therefore, though they voted against the repeal of these laws, yet they reported with only one dissenting voice against extending the limitation.
The importance of rendering the revenue permanent on which the discharge of the public debt is to depend, affords the only good argument that has been offered for extending the limitation, and this circumstance has considerable weight, but as it is not proposed to lessen the revenue it will still be in the power of Congress to extend those revenues and add others of the same kind if experience justifies the measure, and if those taxes are judged improper there are other resources; however it is not necessary to appropriate this revenue to the discharge of the debt, much more revenue than these sources will produce are necessary for the support of the army and other temporary purposes.
The gentlemen in support of the measure with great confidence assert the decision of this measure to be a criterion of a disposition to discharge the public debt, but this assertion is neither candid nor well founded. The amount of revenue is too small and the principle too exceptionable to be made such a test.
If it is a test of any thing it is of the jealousy we entertain of the future legislature. Such a jealousy though pretty evident he thought was unfounded, he believed that those who came after us would possess as much virtue and discernment as we did, and would be as much interested in providing for an honest discharge of the debt.
We have been frequently called on to bring forward direct taxes or other substitutes, and were charged with voting against direct taxes last session. There is no need for other taxes until the limitation is nearer to be expired, nor ought this to be called for unless we were proposing a repeal of some of the existing taxes, as they are fully sufficient for the object proposed.
Mr. F. said that as direct taxes had been often mentioned in such a manner as to suggest suspicion that he did not seriously with them to be brought forward at any time, he begged leave to explain himself on that subject more fully. He said that last session he had the honor of making the motion for the committee of ways and means, and it was his wish that the committee would have proposed a direct tax of two millions of dollars to be apportioned among the different states agreeably to the constitution, and appropriated for a limited time to the redemption of the public debt. He expected that each state would levy in its own way.
He said that however much he was against an excise system of taxation, because of its partial operation and corrupting effects, yet on reflection that even a direct tax, could not be appropriated with perfect equality on all the states, and that it would generally happen, that where the indirect taxes pressed lightest, the direct taxes would press most heavily, he thought it would be best now when the country was able to bear it, to put both kinds into operation, and this might be aided with further duties on such manufactures as could bear it, and equally enjoyed the benefit of protecting duties with those already taxed. He hoped that when the next Congress met, such a plan of taxation would be adopted; doing this would be an unequivocal test of a disposition to promote a speedy and honest discharge of the public debt.
The tax negatived last session was not such a direct one as he contemplated, nor of sufficient amount to be worth the expence of levying; nor was it needed for the object proposed. It was but 500,000 dollars, and to be levied exclusively on land. The direct tax he contemplated was a tax on all visible property that could be conveniently rated, and he conceived that 2,000,000 dollars would be but a moderate tax on the United States.
He did not think it necessary to take much notice of the arguments offered respecting the quality of taxes, as we were neither about to originate nor repeal them, but thought many of the arguments more plausible than solid. He instanced a gentleman's (Mr. Smith of S. C.) comparison of the impoft on coffee, with the Excise on loaf sugar. If the gentleman had reflected, that coffee sugar paid an impoft before it was refined as well as coffee, he would have been convinced that the comparison was fallacious; to make them correspond, there ought to be an excise on coffee when it is boiled, or rather on the grinding of it as in England.
The same gentleman expressed himself surprised at the objections to the swearing required in the Excise laws, and said, an honest man, who was willing to do his duty, could have no objection to swearing. Mr. F. said, that this case was strongly misstated. The honest man was not afraid of his own swearing falsely, but he was afraid that his honesty would ruin his business, because the man that did not fear an oath, would undersell him. This was an evil which the most judicious advocates of excises acknowledged to be inseparable from them. The experience of every country, where an excise system prevails, has produced lamentable instances of the depravity of those that were immediately connected with the excises.
He regretted, that already instances of such depravity could be found in our own country. But the gentleman just set down (Mr. Smith of Maryland) had spoke so well on this subject, and on the sentiments of the people respecting excises, that it was not necessary for him to add much on that subject. One particular, however, he would mention. It was in proof before a committee of which he was member, that notwithstanding the protecting duties, all the rum distillers in this city and Baltimore had given up the business, but one in each of these towns, though before the excise law these distilleries had been worth from a thousand to twelve hundred pound, annually, to the owners; they now either lay idle, or were turned into breweries. He did not know how it was in other towns, nor whether the two distillers continued at the business in this city and Baltimore were honest men or not, but he thought the circumstance was alarming, and ought to be enquired into.
The same gentleman spoke much about the propriety of taxing luxuries, as they were only used by the wealthy; he said he never had heard an exact definition of luxuries. In general they
were such things as contributed to the happiness of individuals, at least in their own esteem, and which they could exist without the use of; but to take them by this rule they would be exceeding numerous, and as various as the different tastes, passions and circumstances of mankind. With respect to loaf sugar it was in pretty general use; and as to finis, he never knew the consumption of it to be confined to the wealthy; he thought a view of this house gave a proof that it was not; it was but few of the members that used it; it was more commonly used by the poor the disconsolate and unhappy, who had recourse to it as a stimulus to assist in supporting them under melancholy. He said there was another kind of property, which, if not a luxury, yet could well bear a tax, he meant great landed estates; many might be found with extensive manors of land, numerous flocks of cattle, and abundance of all the most permanent kinds of wealth, who did not pay as much of impofts or excises as the day labourer, or the man who had to rent a farm to raise his family on.
(To be Continued.)
PRICE OF STOCKS.
Table with 2 columns: Stock Name, Price. Includes 6 per Cents (2 3/4), 3 per Cents (1 1/8), Bank of the United States (13/4), Pennsylvania (35), North America (45 to 50).
NEW THEATRE.
THIS EVENING, FEBRUARY 14. Will be Presented A TRAGEDY, called
DOUGLAS.
Lord Randolph, Mr. Green. Glenalvon, Mr. Cleveland. Old Norval, Mr. Whitlock. Young Norval, Mr. Moreton. Officers, Messrs. Warrell, Darley, Jun. &c.
Lady Randolph, Mrs. Whitlock. Anna, Mrs. Francis. Between the acts of the Tragedy, the orchestra will perform a selection of favorite SCOTCH AIRS. After which a Comic Dance, composed by Mr. Francis called
THE IRISH LILT; OR, MERRY REAPERS.
By Messrs. Francis, Nugent, J. Warrell, Blissett, Darley, Jun. Mitchell, T. Warrell, Miss Milbourne, Miss Rowson, Mrs. Bates, Miss Willems, and Mrs. De Marque.
To which will be added, A COMEDY, called Ways & Means, OR, A Trip to Dover.
Sir David Dunder, Mr. Harwood. Randbm, Mr. Moreton. Scruple, Mr. Cleveland. Tiptoe, Mr. Bates. Paul Peery, Mr. Francis. Lady Dunder, Mrs. Shaw. Harriet, Mrs. Francis. Kitty, Mrs. Marshall.
The Public are respectfully informed, that the Doors of the Theatre will open at a quarter after five, and the curtain rise precisely at a quarter after 6 o'clock.
Ladies and Gentlemen are requested to send their servants to keep places by five o'clock, and order them, as soon as the company are seated, to withdraw, as they cannot on any account be permitted to remain.
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Also at Rice's Bookstore, No. 50, and Carey's No. 118. Market Street.
No money or tickets to be returned, nor any person on any account whatsoever, admitted behind the scenes.
Vivat Republica!
Library Company of Philadelphia.
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By order of the Directors, Benjamin R. Morgan, Sec'y.
Feb. 14.

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Extract from the Critical Review , April 1795, p. 458.
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EXTRACT FROM THE CRITICAL REVIEW, JANUARY, 1794, page 12.
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Nov. 29 eodt
Forty Dollars Reward.
RAN away from the subscribers in Woodbury, Gloucester County, New Jer- sey, on Sunday morning the 12th instant, Two young Negro Fellows,
named Jack and Tom, each about 20 years of age; Jack is of a dark black colour and a stout look; Tom is of an open counte- nance, of a yellowish colour, and much disposed to laugh.
They are frightfully 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.
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Oct. 14 2w1f
FOR SALE, SEVERAL VALUABLE
Tracts of LAND,
LYING in King George County, Vir- ginia, lying on the south side of Potomack Creek, near its mouth, being one mile from the river Potomack, containing by old sur- vey eleven hundred and ten acres. There is on the above tract of Land a dwelling house thirty by twenty, with three rooms on the first floor, and two above, with fire places, a kitchen with a brick chimney, stables, corn house, meat house, dairy and other out house- es; also a good framed store house by twen- ty four, and a granary, both perfectly new, and agreeably situated on the Creek, com- manding a fine view of the river Potomack, and one of the best fisheries either on the ri- ver or creek. This creek is navigable for vessels of several tons, and abounds with wild fowl of every kind, particularly ducks. The land is fertile and well adapted to the culture of corn, rye, and tobacco. There is also on it a quantity of timber of superior quality, either for ship or house building, & coniguous to the water, from whence it could be rafted to Alexandria, or to the City of Washington, and is not more than fifty miles distant from either place. The growth is chiefly red and white oak, locust, walnut, hickory, cedar and poplar of an extraordi- nary size. There are also a couple of small meadows now in timothy, and several other rich swamps, which may be put in a small expence. The banks consist chiefly of flamm- ari of the best quality, which affords a val- uable and inexhaustible fund of manure.
Likewise another valuable Tract, lying in Potomack river in King George county, near- ly opposite to Port Tobacco in Maryland, containing about four hundred acres; one hundred of it is heavily timbered with white oak proper for house or ship building; about fifty acres of marsh, and the whole of the land perfectly level, and well adapted to farming, being of a stiff quality, and excel- lent for holding manure. It bounds on the ri- ver about three quarters of a mile, has a most admirable herring and rock fishery, and for wild fowl is perhaps equal to any on the Continent.
It is well situated for a Ferry, being at a narrow part of the river, and is not more than thirty five miles from the City of Wash- ington by land.
We will likewise sell a valuable Tract of Land, lying partly in King George and part- ly in Stafford county, containing five hun- dred acres. This tract is about one mile from Potomack Creek, it is well timbered, and watered, the soil is of an excellent quality. For a further account apply to Mr. Charles Stuart Waugh, at Dr. Benjamin Duffield's South Front Street, No. 303, or to the Sub- scribers, living on the premises, King George county, Virginia.
LEWIS WAUGH, OR JOHN WAUGH.
Jan. 29 2aw4w
A VENDRE, Une Terre Superbe située dans l'Etat de la Nouvelle York.
LA BELLE Habitation connue par le nom de SCOTIA, située sur le bord du nord de la rivière de Mohawk et vis à vis la florissante ville de Schenectady qui est à l'extrémité de la communication par eau entre la Canada et les autres parties occidentales avec la ville d'Alba- nie dont elle est éloignée de seize milles An- glais ou cinq lieues un tiers de France.
Cette terre est bornée par la dite Rivière environ deux tiers de lieue—les grands Che- mins des parties de l'ouest et du nord se joig- nent en cet endroit avec plusieurs autres et conduisent à l'endroit par où l'on traverse la Rivière vis à vis la dite ville—cette habita- tion contient plus de mille acres, une grande partie de la quelle est en plaine de la premier, qualité et propres pour des prairies ou du grain dont elle produit une grand abondance.
On pourra la diviser en plusieurs habita- tions donnant à chacune des situations très commodes à placer des maisons—elle contient à présent deux maisons grandes et bien com- modes avec des Granges, Ecuries, Magazins, des Remises pour les Voitures et plusieurs autres bâtiments qui sont très convenables le tout situé sur une élévation au bord de la dite Rivière d'où l'on a une vue bien agréa- ble par la dite ville, des prairies dans les en- virons et de la Rivière aussi bien que d'un Reservoir d'environ trente acres, qui est bien fourni de poisson et de gibier.
Il y a aussi sur la dite terre une Moulin à eau sur un courant qui ne manque Jamais, avec une maison pour le meunier; on y pour- roit ajouter d'autres moulins, &c. sur cette terre est aussi un bon Verger des meilleurs fruits de ce pays d'environ mille arbres, et des Jardins abondant de toutes sortes de fruit propre pour ce climat—Dépendent aussi de cette terre plusieurs agencemens avec des lots de terre dont les baux sont d'une courte durée. Il n'y a point de terre dans ces parties que soit plus seconde pour toutes sortes de grain d'hiver dont il a été semé l'automne passé presque deux cents boisseaux ce que sera compris dans la Vente aussi bien que deux graines fies dans la Rivière vis à vis la mai- son.
On pense que la vue de ces terres on don- nera une plus haute idée qu'aucun descrip- tion qu'on pourroit en donner.
Pour les conditions de Ventes il faut se rendre chez le soussigné demeurant sur les lieux ou à messieurs Oliver Wendel et Harri- son G. Otis à Boston—messieurs Cornelius Ray et De Witt Clinton à New-York—mes- sieurs James Gordon et Henry Glen mem- bres du Congrès, à présent à Philadelphie, ou à messieurs Stephen Bayard dans la ville de Schenectady, qui feront connoître le prix tre le prix et conditions de la Vente.
JOHN SANDERS.
Valuable Property
For Sale, IN THE STATE of NEW-YORK.
THAT valuable and well known Estate, called SCOTIA, situate on the north bank of the Mohawk river, directly opposite the po- pulous and flourishing town of Schenectady, at the foot of the water-communication from the Western Country, and Upper Canada; ex- tending about two miles on the bank of the river above and below the said town; this river is the only water communication in the United States with the great western Lakes. The roads from the western and northern parts of the state of New York, together with a number of other public roads here meet, and lead to the noted ferry kept oppo- site the said town.
It contains upwards of one thousand acres, a great proportion of which is interval or low land, calculated both for grass or grain, producing great burthens annually; it may be laid into a number of valuable farms, af- fording convenient and handsome building grounds; here is now on the premises two very large and commodious dwelling houses, with large Dutch barns, barracks, hovels, stables, cart and waggon house, carriage house, store house, summer house, and other out- houses, on a commanding eminence near the bank of the river, affording a beautiful and extensive prospect of the river for several miles, the lowland, the town, and a fine lake of water, covering about thirty acres, well stored with all kinds of river fish, fowl, &c. There is a good grist mill on a never failing stream of water, a good frame house, &c. for the miller, also convenience above the mill for erecting more water works; there is a bearing orchard with nearly one thousand ap- ple trees, set out, grafted of the best fruit, the gardens are stocked with all the various fruits the climate will admit; also several tenements with portions of land on short leases.
The land in point of fertility of soil, is ex- ceeded by none in the state; there is now in the ground near two hundred bushels winter grain, which will be included in the above sale.
Also two small islands in the river, opposite the mansion house.
A view of the premises, it is presumed, will fully equal any description that can be given thereof.
For terms of sale apply to the Subscriber, residing on the premises, Messrs. Oliver Wen- dell or Harrison G. Otis, Esquires, in the town of Boston, Cornelius Ray, or De Witt Clinton, Esquires, at the city of New York; James Gordon or Henry Glen, Esquires, two of the members of Congress, at the city of Philadelphia; Stephen N. Bayard, in the town of Schenectady, by whom the price & terms of sale will be communicated.
JOHN SANDERS.
Schen. Jan. 28, 1795.
N. B. The remaining stock unfold, and all the farming utensils, the purchaser or pur- chasers may be accommodated with. Philad. Feb. 7. 2aw3m
City of Washington. SCHEME OF THE LOTTERY, No. II. FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE FEDERAL CITY.
1 Magnificent 20,000 Dollars, and dwelling house, 5 cash 30,000 are
  1 ditto 15,000 & cash 25,000 50,000   1 ditto 15,000 & cash 15,000 40,000   1 ditto 10,000 & cash 10,000 30,000   1 ditto 5,000 & cash 5,000 20,000   1 ditto 5,000 & cash 5,000 10,000   1 Cash prize of 10,000   2 ditto 5,000 each, are 10,000   10 ditto 1,000 10,000   20 ditto 500 10,000   100 ditto 100 10,000   200 ditto 50 10,000   400 ditto 25 10,000   1,600 ditto 10 16,000   13,000 ditto 10 130,000 
16,739 Prizes 33,461 Blanks
50,000 Tickets at 8 dollars 400,000
This Lottery will afford an elegant spec- imen of the private buildings to be erected in the City of Washington—Two beautiful de- signs are already selected for the entire front on two of the public squares; from these drawings, it is proposed to erect two centre and four corner buildings, as soon as possible after this Lottery is sold, and to convey them when complete, to the fortunate adventurers, in the manner described in the scheme for the Hotel Lottery. A net deduction of five per cent. will be made to defray the neces- sary expenses of printing, &c. and the sur- plus will be made a part of the fund intended for the National University, to be erected within the City of Washington.
The drawing will commence as soon as the Tickets are sold off—The money prizes will be payable in thirty days after it is finished, and any prizes for which fortunate numbers are not produced within twelve months after the drawing is closed are to be considered as given towards the fund for the University, it being determined to seal the whole business in a year from the ending of the drawing and to take up the bonds given as security.
The real securities given for the payment of the Prizes, are held by the President and two Directors of the Bank of Columbia, and are valued at more than half the amount of the Lottery. The drawing will be under the management of 24 gentlemen approved by the commissioners for the City of Wash- ington, for the time being, and acting on oath.
SAMUEL BLODGET.
Tickets may be had at the Bank of Columbia; of James West & Co. Baltimore; of Gideon Denison, Savannah; of Peter Gilman, Boston; of John Hopkins, Rich- mond; and of Richard Wells, Cooper's Ferry.
Aug. 30 endt
FOR SALE, A Lot of Ground,
ON the west side of Third, at the corner of New or Story street, in the City of Phi- ladelphia; it being 34 feet 8 inches in front on Third street, and 86 feet deep on Story street. On said lot are two framed dwelling houses, two stories high; the corner house almost new, with a good cellar.
For terms and other particulars, apply at the Office of Edward Bonfall, D. Co. or at No. 65, north Second street.
Jan. 26 endt
Wants Employment,
A Person who has a tolerable knowledge of CONVEYANCING, a general know- ledge of Accounts and Figures, and writes a good hand. He would engage by the year, either in an Office or Merchant's 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 endt
Wants Employment,
AN Elderly person, who writes a good hand; and understands accounts, and who al- so can be well recommended for his honesty and industry.
Any tradesman or mechanic who may wish for such a person to keep his books, and make out his bills, may receive information by ap- plying to James Hardie, corner of Lombard and Fifth street.
Jan. 23 endt
George Hunter, Chemist,
At his Laboratory, No. 114, south Second Street.
INFORMS his former customers and the public, that he has begun the DRUG bus- iness again on an extensive plan. He has for sale a general assortment of
FRESH DRUGS, CHEMICAL PREPARATIONS, and PA- TENT MEDICINES.
Likewise, painters' colours, dry and ground in oil, paint brushes, window and coach glass, dye stuffs, linseed oil, oil of turpentine, copal oil varnish and japan, warranted good. Alum, copreas, madder, ground redwood by the hoghead or smaller quantity.
As he imports the samples from the best market, and makes the compositions and preparations