Gazette of the United States and daily evening advertiser. (Philadelphia [Pa.]), 1795-03-13 00:00:00

Gazette of the United States
AND DAILY EVENING ADVERTISER.
[No. 61 of Vol. VII.]
FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 1795.
[Whole No. 783]
On Tuesday, the 24th inst. At Seven o'clock in the Evening, At the Coffee House, Will be sold by Public Auction, Forfeited Shares (compleat) Philadelphia & Lancaster Turn- pike Road Company. Footman & Co. Auctioners. March 3. codr
LANDING, From brig TOOLY from LIVERPOOL , Stowed & Basket SALT, CHEESE, Double Gloucester, in whole and half hampers; PORTER BOTTLES, in crates. FOR SALE BY Thomas & John Ketland. March 6. d
Just Published, And to be sold by Thomas Dobson, No. 41, Second street, Benjamin Davis, 68, High street, John Ormerod, 41, Chestnut street, and by the Editor of this Gazette, Proceedings of the Executive of the United States, RESPECTING THE INSURGENTS, 1794. MARCELLUS—as published in the Vir- ginia Gazette, in November and December 1794. HISTORY of the REVOLUTION in GENEVA. REPORT of the late Secretary of the Treasury, on the PUBLIC DEBT, March 6.
PUBLIC NOTICE. The Commissioners of Allegheny County having transmitted to the Subscribers, for the purpose of collecting a list of Taxes due on unseated Lands in said county, for the year 1794, in consequence of which we now inform all persons concerned in said Lands, that one of us will attend, from the 6th to the 20th inst. from 9 till 12 o'clock in the morning, at No. 158, South Front street to receive said Taxes. Presley Nevill. Dunning M c Nair. March 3. dt20M.
110,000 weight of Green Coffee, In 87 hds. 40 barrels, and 200 bags, entitled to the drawback, stored on Mells. Willing & Francis's wharf. 1st 2d & 4th Proof Bordeaux Brandy, 30 pipes of London particular Teneriff, and London particular Madeira WINES, in hds. pipes, and quarter casks, Malaga Do. in quarter casks, Arrigga and other RUM in hds. St. Croix SUGAR of the first quality, St. Marks MOLASSES, Hylon TEA, Jamaica SPIRITS, Holland GIN, in pipes, LOAF SUGAR, in hds. PEPPER, &c. &c. FOR SALE BY Levinus Clarkson, No. 216, South Water Street. Dec 4 d
FRESH Bohea Tea, AND GIN in Pipes, Now Landing from on board the ship Peggy , John Elliott master, from Amsterdam. Also Imported by the late Arrivals, Russia Hemp, first quality Ditto Salt Duck Ditto Raw Duck Brown Russia Shoveling Ticklenburgs Ozauburgs New Flanders Sheeting Hollands and Brown Rolls Cotton Stripes and Checks Flanders Bedticks Holland Sail Duck Seine Twine Dutch Great Coats Gun in cases Madder Window Glass, 8 by 10 Jeuits Bark Quorum Atractida German Steel Mill and Cross-cut Saws Hoes and Cutting Knives Sythes and Skates Coffee Mills Black Lead Crucibles Anchors from 3 cwt. to 15 cwt. And a General Assortment of 5-4 & 6-4 Boultng Cloth, FOR SALE BY Pragers & Co. Nov. 11 d
For Sale or Charter, The BRIG Friendship, Captain Lovell, NOW laying at Walnut Street wharf, a flaunch good vessel, not 2 years old, burthen about 1600 barrels. For terms apply to Joseph Anthony & Son. March 9. dtw
For LONDON, The Brig DIANA, THOMAS MASON, Jun. Master; Burthen about 2000 barrels, the greatest part of her cargo being engaged, will sail on or before the 24th of March. She is a stout vessel, well found, Philadelphia built, fails well, and has good accommodations for pas- sengers. For freight or passage enquire of MATTHIAS KEELY, South Water-street, GAZZAM & TAYLOR, Front-street or RALPH MATHER, Race-street, No. 71. February 23. d
For Freight or Charter, The BRIG ABIGAIL, A. W. Trefeth, master. BURTHEN about 2000 barrels, now ly- ing at Jesse and Robert Waln's wharf, will be ready to take in a cargo in a few days. For terms apply to the master on board, or THOMAS NEWMAN, No. 113, South Second Street. Who has for sale, on board said Brig, 3000 bushels Lisbon Salt, A few boxes fresh Lemons and Oranges, And a quarter casks Lisbon Wine. Feb. 27 d
Genteel Boarding & Lodging, AT No. 112, South Second Street. March 3 d
Thirty dollars reward. Ran away from the subscriber, a white French servant man named Pierre La Fite , a- bout 30 years of age, of small stature, blue eyes, large nostrils; had on blue clothes, like a sailor's, and has a small wound in one of his fingers. He left my plantation last Sat- urday morning, after stealing several silver spoons and forks, part of which he sold to a silversmith in Fredericktown. He cutted away with him a French Negro Girl named Cicilia , about 22 years of age belonging to me. She had on a green petticoat, and they both speak bad English. He says he is a gar- dener, and had been a seaman on board a French privateer which he left at Baltimore, pre- vious to his coming into my service at Frede- ricktown. Any person who will secure them in either of the jails of the following places, shall thereupon receive 15 dollars for each of the said run-aways, of the following per- sons. John Vaughan, of Philadelphia; David Stewart and Sons, Baltimore; Moses Myers, Norfolk; or the Subscriber, E. P. M. DE LA VINCENTIERRE. Fredericktown, Maryland, Feb. 16. All Captains of vessels are warned not to carry them out of the country. dtw3ay2w
AT THE Card & Nail Factory, No. 59, north Front street, Webster, Adgate & White, Have constantly for sale, Cotton, Wool, Tow, and Machine Cards, Of all Kinds, Cut Nails of all sizes, Floor Brads, Sprigs and Tacks, Fullers Shears, Gun Flints and Wool Hats. A quantity of kiln dried Indian Meal in barrels. A new Edition of Adgate's Philadelphia Harmony, containing both the first and se- cond parts, being the most approved sys- tem of Rules and the best collection of Tunes now in use. Also for Sale, A COMPLETE SET OF Machinery for making Cards On an Improved Construction. Oct. 2 tawtf
The New Philanthropic Society, Constituted for the purpose of relieving sick or distressed members is open for the admission of a few Subscribers on the origi- nal terms, after which the entrance will be advanced. The benefits arising from the above insti- tution are too obvious to require much com- ment; independent of advantages produced by social intercourse, the consciousness of contributing to our neighbours relief, affords the highest gratification to a feeling mind, while it secures to ourselves a certain provi- sion against future contingencies. N. B. Printed particulars may be had (gratis) at the bar of the Sun Tavern, Straw- berry street, where the Society is held. The next meeting will be on Monday the 16th inst. March 5. m&th3w
COFFEE, 54 hogheads } 120,000 lbs. 350 barrels Just arrived in the Rebecca, Captain Hughes, from Jamaica. FOR SALE BY Peter Blight. Who has also now landing out of the Mer- cury, from Oporto, Choice Red Port Wine, IN PIPES. Dec. 22 d
BEEF. 400 BARRELS FOR SALE; APPLY AT No. 82, South Front Street, TO SAMUEL COATES, March 7 *6t
All persons indebted to the Estate of Joseph Paschall, late of this City, merchant, deceased, are desired to pay the Subscriber, and those who have any demands are requested to bring in their accounts to be settled and paid. Samuel Coates, Acting Executor March 10 *6t
LIBRARY. NOTICE is hereby given, that a general Meeting of the Members of the Library Company of Philadelphia, will be held by adjournment, at the Library in Fifth street, on Monday next the sixteenth instant, at six o'clock in the evening, in order to take into consideration the propriety of increasing their Annual Payments, and repealing so much of their by-laws, as authorizes the Directors to dispose of the Real Estate of the Company. By order of the Members assembled at the Library this day. Z. Poulson, jun. Secretary pro tem. Monday, March 9 d
SALT. Best Cadiz Salt, Just landing from on board the Brig Trial , for sale at Mells Willing and Francis's wharf by Levinus Clarkson. March 11. d
Fresh Teas, OF SUPERIOR QUALITY, viz. Imperial, or Gunpowder Hylon Gomez, 1st quality Hylon, 2d. do. do. Young Hylon, Hylon Skin, and Souchong. A few Boxes of each, for sale a No. 19, Third street south. Dec. 10 codtf
Wanted Immediately. 2 Smiths, a good fireman and White Smith, good encouragement will be given. Apply No 162 or 74 Market Street. Philad. Feb. 28, 1795. N. B. Boarding and Lodging free. d.
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, copel oil, varnish and japan, warranted good. Allum, copperas, madder, ground red wood by the hoghead or smaller quantity. As he imports the simples from the best market, and makes the compositions and preparations himself, he is enabled to vouch for and warrant every article sold out of his Laboratory, and likewise to dispose of them at the most reasonable rates. He wishes to fill a large LOT of GROUND, the north-east corner of High and Eleventh Streets, containing 78 feet front on High-street, and 200 feet on Eleventh- street, opposite Mr. Leiper's new buildings. And another LOT on the north side of High street, near the above, 28 feet front, and 200 feet deep. Both lots have the privilege of a 30 feet alley in their rear. Dec. 13. stf
American Landscapes. PROPOSALS FOR PUBLISHING IN AQUATINTA TWENTY-FOUR VIEWS. Selected from the most striking and inter- esting Prospects in the United States, each of which VIEWS will be accom- panied with a descriptive account of its Local, Historical, and other Incidental Peculiarities. By G. I. PARKYNS, Author of the "Monarchic Remains and Ancient Castles in Great Britain." CONDITIONS. I. That the work shall be published by Sub- scription; and that each Subscriber shall engage to take the whole set of Views, and shall pay for each engraving, if black or brown, 2 Dollars; and if coloured 5 Dollars. II. That the dimensions of each engraving shall be 24 by 17 inches, executed in aquatinta, and published upon paper of a superior quality. The publication to com- mence immediately; and one engraving to be delivered to the Subscribers, on the first Monday of each succeeding month, until the proposed series shall be finally completed. III. That with the last View of the series, shall be delivered an engraved title-page; an elegant characteristic vignette; a map of the route, connected with the prospects exhibited in the course of the Work; and an Alphabetical list of the Subscribers.
TO THE PUBLIC. THIS Work is offered to the public at a crisis peculiarly interesting to the Arts: A- midst the ravages of war, and the convul- sions of a revolutionary age, they must inevi- tably languish and expire, unless the same happy country, which affords an asylum to the persons of the persecuted and distressed, shall foster and patronize the labour and as- sistancy of men of genius and talents. Advan- cing, indeed, rapidly to the zenith of power, reputation and opulence, America, even in a state of universal tranquility, must soon have become the rival of Europe in learning and taste, as well as her superior in morality and government. Under the present circum- stances of the world, however, the oppor- tunity occurs to anticipate the destined peri- od of pre-eminence; and to render America at this eventful hour, the guardian and pro- tress of every science that can enlighten, and of every art that can adorn the human mind. On this principle, more than the claim of merit, the Author presumes he shall not fail to attract the public attention; but still, he hopes, that he will not be found altogether underestimating or defective, either in the choice or execution of his subject. No country pos- sesses scenes better calculated to inspire ideas of the beautiful and sublime; to exalt the soul of the philosopher, to enliven the song of the poet, or animate the pencil of the painter, than those which lie profusely scat- tered over the American continent: But un- fortunately there is no country, whose native charms have been so superficially explored, or so imperfectly delineated. Hitherto, indeed the toil of converting a wilderness into a state of luxuriant vegetation; of providing the necessaries and comforts of life; and of adap- ting civil institutions to the genius of a new nation, seems to have been sufficient to en- gage all the strength, and all the talents of the inhabitants of America. The people of Europe, on the other hand, corrupted by wealth, and deluded by pride, have rarely, comparatively speaking, overstepped the boundaries of their continent in pure search of information or pleasure. The ruins of art, which encumber their domestic scenery, have been preferred to the novelties of nature which arise in other regions; and the time has been, that a View from the St. Lawrence to the Mississippi would have been less valued, than the section of a palace, or a mutilated fragment of antiquity. But in respect to both, a revolution in situation and sentiment has been accomplished. The American finds leisure, with a retrospective and joyful sen- sibility of heart, to admire the graces, as well as to reap the abundance which providence has bestowed on this country; and the Euro- pean is compelled, with an anxious and ex- pectant eye, to look abroad for that peace & prosperity, which he can no longer enjoy at home. The attention of mankind being thus di- rected towards this country, every thing that relates to its physical, as well as to its politi- cal interest, will, it is presumed, receive a liberal encouragement. The Author of the present work, therefore, confidently makes the experiment on a new subject, and in a new style of execution. The art of engraving in Aquatinta, has indeed, for some time been held in high estimation throughout Eu- rope; its close imitation of finished draw- ings, and the free but forcible manner in which it depicts the light and graceful touch- es of nature, are properties, that seem pecu- liarly adapted to the American scenery, some of the tints and colors of which are certain- ly no where else to be found. Exclusive of these advantages, it is likewise in contemplation to render the work a repo- sitory of descriptive topographical and histo- rical facts respecting the circumjacent coun- try from which the views were taken: but
to give full effect to this part of his under- taking, the author must solicit the assistance of every citizen, who is possessed of a scientific information, whether relating to the Natural History or the memorable events, connected with the respective engraving. The map of the tour will exhibit the relative situation of the views, as well with respect to each other as to the principal Cities and Towns of the several States, commencing at the city of Washington. As an additional recommendation to the favor of a patriotic public, it may not be im- proper to observe that the paper and every other article employed in executing the work will be of American manufacture, and of the best quality. Twelve drawings are ready, and the ut- most dispatch will be used in preparing and delivering the engravings. Amongst the number alluded to, the following may be mentioned: 1. A view of Mount Vernon, the seat of the President of the United States. 2. Philadelphia. 3. City of Washington. 4. New-York. &c. &c. &c. It is the design of the Author to finish those objects first, which are most important and interesting; and if the Public patronage shall prove adequate to the expense, he proposes to extend his undertaking to 24 Views, more than the number contained in the present Pro- posals. In that case, however, the first set of Views will be so arranged, as to form either an independent work for those, who may not wish to renew their subscriptions, or a series connected with the second set for those, who may wish to continue their patronage till the whole is completed. Letters or other communications for the encouragement, elucidation, or improvement of the work, the Author requests may be ad- dressed to him at New-York. Subscriptions are received by Mr. Harri- son, at his Print-shop, Mead lane, New-York by Mr. Carey, Book-seller, No. 118, Market street, Philadelphia, and by all the principal Booksellers in the United States. February 28. d
FOR SALE, At the STORES of Jesse & Robert Waln, PORT WINE in pipe, hds. and quar- ter casks. LISBON do. in pipes and quarter casks, Souchong and CONGO TEAS, in quarter chests. A quantity of Lisbon and Cadiz SALT Soft shelled ALMONDS in bales Velvet CORKS, in do. Russia MATTS. June 9 d
Columbianum. Notice is hereby given, That the Committee of Examination of Ta- lents and Proficiency, belonging to the Colum- bianum or National College of Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, and Engraving continue to receive recommendations from those Artists, who in an to become Members of that Institution, inclosed to Mr. Groombridge at his house adjoining the Bank of Penn- sylvania, and addressed to the chairman. Signed by order of the Committee of Ex- amination, &c. J. J. BARRALET, THOS. ROBSON, Ass't. Sec. Feb. 27 d
Columbianum. February 14, 1795. AT a Meeting of the Fellow Artists of the Columbianum, at Mr. Groombridge's House, adjoining the Bank of Penn- sylvania, in the City of Philadelphia. G. I. Parkyns in the chair. Resolved, That the Columbianum or National College, shall apprise the Artists of Ame- rica, and such Ladies and Gentlemen, as are desirous of sending specimens of their performances, either in Painting, Sculp- ture, Architecture, or Engraving, that a PUBLIC EXHIBITION will be opened in the City of Philadelphia, on the first day of May next, when those who wish to be Exhibitors, are requested to notify their intentions as soon as possible, address- ed to the Chairman of the Columbianum through the hands of Mr. Groombridge. Resolved, That the Rooms intended for the Ex- hibition shall be announced to the Public, as soon as the preparatory arrangement are completed. Resolved, That every possible care shall be taken of such performances of Artists and Ho- norary Exhibitors as are intended for the Exhibition, and that they shall be return- ed to the different proprietors, at the close of the fame, with every suitable precau- tion. Resolved, That the Rules and Regulations for conducting the Exhibition, shall be laid before the Public at an early period, with the names of the Gentlemen that compose the Committee of Exhibition and Models. Signed by Order. P. P. PRICE, Sec. pro tem. THOS. ROBSON, Ass't. Sec. Feb. 20 d

MR. FENNO.
If you think the following piece a competent answer to the one signed Reason, in your paper, give it a place.
REASON perhaps, is one of the greatest gifts from God to man, and therefore demands that we bestow it upon the best purposes. But what must be the result, if instead of reason we adopt sophistry? "No government" it is said "can either give or ensure the life of a subject; then how dare they deprive them of it?" Now this is a way of thinking and reasoning altogether superficial, and a bare inspection of the case, answers the question. What! because I cannot make a viper, must I not kill one for biting me? And if man in his natural state of existence, deprived, without cause, his fellow creature of life; certainly in a political state, with cause, he can better do it. But what would have been the consequence, if delusion had so inveloped human reason, that from the first existence of social compact, mankind had not insisted the severest punishment on murder? What deserves the base renegade?—An Arnold? In the present system of politics, the apprehension of punishment by death, forms a barrier against the commission of innumerable acts of the blackest die. And perhaps the very remission of such a punishment, would be the cause instead of the remedy of the disease.
PUNISHMENT.
L A W S
OF THE
UNITED STATES.
Third Congress of the United States.
AT THE SECOND SESSION:
AN ACT supplementary to the several acts imposing duties on goods, wares and merchandise imported into the United States.
WHEREAS difficulties have arisen in ascertaining the duties on certain articles imported into the United States, and further provisions for securing the collection of the impost duties, are found necessary:
Sec. 1. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in lieu of the present duties, there shall be levied, collected and paid upon all printing-types which, after the last day of March next, shall be imported into the United States, in ships or vessels of the United States, at the rate of ten per cent, and upon all girandoles, at the rate of twenty per cent, ad valorem; that, after the said last day of March next, the present duties payable upon clayed sugars, shall cease, and there shall be paid upon all white clayed or white powdered sugars, three cents per pound, and upon all other clayed or powdered sugars, one and a half cent per pound; upon Malaga wine, twenty cents; upon burgundy and champagne, forty cents per gallon.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That after the said last day of March, teas, commonly called imperial, gunpowder or gomee, shall pay the same duties as hyson teas; and where when any entire article is, by any law of the United States, made subject to the payment of duties, the parts thereof, when imported separately, shall be subject to the payment of the same rate of duties.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That after the said last day of March, the valuation of all goods, wares and merchandise subject to the payment of duties ad valorem, shall be made upon the actual cost at the place of exportation including all charges (commissions, outside packages, and insurance only excepted) that the duty on any wines imported into the United States shall not be less than ten cents per gallon, and that bottles, in which any liquor is imported, shall be subject to the payment of the like duty as empty bottles.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the duties upon all goods, wares and merchandise imported into the United States, after the last day of March, (where the sum payable by one person or copartnership, shall amount to more than fifty dollars) shall be payable upon all articles, the produce of the West Indies (salt excepted) the one half, in three, and the other half, in six calendar months; and on all goods, wares and merchandise imported from Europe, (wines, salt and teas excepted) one third, in eight months and the remaining third, in twelve months from the time of each respective importation.
Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That in respect to the aforesaid duties, and the duties heretofore imposed on goods, wares and merchandise imported into the United States, there shall be an addition of ten per cent, to the several rates of duties, when imported in ships or vessels not of the United States, except in cases, where such additional duty has been before specially laid on any goods, wares or merchandise imported in such ships or vessels.
Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That the duties aforesaid shall be collected in like manner, and under the same regulations, restrictions and pro-
visions, and subject to the like appropriations, as goods, wares and merchandise imported into the United States are now subject to.
FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG Speaker of the House of Representatives JOHN ADAMS, Vice-President of the United States, and President of the Senate.
Approved, January the twenty-ninth, 1795.
GEO: WASHINGTON, President of the United States.
An ACT in addition to the act entitled, "An act to regulate the pay of the non-commissioned officers, musicians and privates of the militia of the United States, when called into actual service, and for other purposes"
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the augmentation of bounty authorized by the fifth section of the act entitled, "An act to regulate the pay of the non-commissioned officers, musicians and privates of the militia of the United States, when called into actual service, and for other purposes," shall be allowed and paid to such recruits as shall have enlisted after the passing of the said act, or as shall hereafter enlist, in like manner as is by the said act provided in cases of enlistment after the first day of January next.
Approved, January the twenty-ninth, 1795.
From the Columbian Centinel.
[The translations from the late Paris papers, given in the last Centinel, demonstrated in a great degree, the murders and vandalism which have been committed in France, during the "reign of Terror"—which has impeded the progress of the Car of the Revolution with dead bodies, and almost annihilated the French name for humanity.—We shall present the following this day, in the hope that their measure is full.]
Translated for the Centinel.
From late Paris Papers.
REVOLUTIONARY TRIBUNAL, December 6.
Extracts from the Trial of Carrier. ONE of the Revolutionary Committee of Nantz, who were the chief agents of Carrier's crimes, owned that every thing had been burnt and destroyed in La Vendee, and that the poor peasants trembling for their lives, often put fire to their own houses on the approach of the Commissioners army, to appear patriots.
Petit, substitute of the Public Accuser, read a list of forty two persons drowned in the bay of Bourg Neuf, of whom one was an old man of 79 years, twelve women, twelve girls, and fifteen children, five of whom were at the breast, and others from five to six years old; by Carrier's orders.
Mercault, declared that two volunteers who lodged at his house at Nantz, used to go out with their arms, and every day shoot a hundred of the insurgent prisoners, who were confined in a large enclosure. The volunteers told him that it was by Carrier's orders.
The chief Judge asked Carrier, if he recollected the child of 13 years old whom he condemned, and who said to the Executioner, "you will hurt me very much."—The guillotine cut his head in the middle:—Or if he recollected the death of the Public Executioner at Nantz, who died with horror, after having executed (without trial) the five sisters by the name of Metairie, the eldest 28, and the youngest 17 years old, together with their maid servant of 22.
Extracts from the address of the Public Accuser, (Tronçon-Ducoudray) to the Jury on the trial of Carrier.
"After the fall of Robespierre, a new scene opened at the Revolutionary Tribunal.—A great Commune denounced the oppression under which it groaned; several of its inhabitants doomed to death, revealed some atrocious crimes, the curtain was partly raised; those whom they indicated as guilty, took their places, witnesses and accused, then vied with each other to tear it aside, and at last appeared in all its horror, the spectacle, and the immense perspective of those barbarities, which have been hitherto spoken of, only in the history of the most savage nations.
Instantly a general cry of indignation was heard, the national character re-appeared; Vengeance! cried the commune of Nantz; Vengeance! cried the citizens of Paris; and the cry was re-echoed by the whole French people.—To these formidable accents, the audacious faction answered by screams of rage; they roared in their den; they wished by new crimes to secure
impunity for the past; they called their satellites, and designated their victims; they dared to menace even the national representation, and furious at their impotency in this stupid combat, they withdrew from the arena, but in retiring said, "fear our poignards, we have hitherto shed your blood, and know how to shed it again."—But their time was past; their senseless transports only added ridicule to horror; the mask was fallen."
Further Extracts.
We have not forgot, and how can we ever forget, those days of desolation and terror, when a gloomy and cruel genius, hovering over all France, inundated it with suspicions, tears and blood! These the only title to public employments, was, having never exercised any. We saw men who knew not how to read, presiding at tribunals; porters filling places in the administrations; comedians pass from the theatre to the head of armies. It was a fundamental maxim, that knowledge was dangerous, and that liberty could be founded only on the equality of ignorance. A man could procure pardon for his talents, only by his vices; for his virtues, by his insignificance.
Miserable! was the man of genius, if he had courage enough, to refuse basely to prostitute it, to the despot and his agents. Wretched! was the honest and virtuous man, who declined to bear the shame and weight of their domination, under the office they chose to give him.
Shunning public business was taxed as contempt for the republic; horror of servitude, as hatred to the government; riches, wit, a fund of acquired knowledge and republican pride, as conspiracy against the people. No one was permitted to be wise, free and just with impunity. All who were not agents of the triumvirs were suspected; and all who were suspected, were plunged into dungeons and devoted to death! France was become one immense Battlefield, and all Frenchmen the instruments or the victims of tyranny. The people were armed against themselves, and were chaining themselves with their own hands.
What could a father of a family do, without any other means of existence but his small trade? The least hesitation on his part, loaded him with chains, and his imprisonment left his family without resource. He was therefore obliged to appear outrageous. What must have been the thoughts of an honest citizen who followed no other professors of political morality, than the orators of a popular society, whom he heard every day making eulogiums on ignorance, denouncing knowledge and talents as federalism, affirming that no men were so capable of governing an empire, as when, to a shipwrecked fortune, they could join the precious advantage of having been preferred from the aristocratical poison of a good education, and were gross in their language, and rude and disgusting in their manners; in short, that we knew enough, when we could say with a stupid and insolent air, I am a Sans-Culottes.
Speaking of Carrier, in particular, the Accuser said:
Carrier not being able to shoot all his victims determined to drown the rest. The national guards were carefully kept out of the way; regular troops were not required. On board the galliot and lighters, designed to be the scenes of these murderous executions, known under the name of drownings, (noyades) Carrier placed a small band of his ferocious agents, eager for crimes, and sold to his purposes. His depopulating system was first attempted under the darkness of the night. He afterwards practised it at noon day, but not before he had compressed the patriots; and terrified them into submission by dungeons, the guillotine, bayonets, destroying lead, suction-boats, and his ministers of death.
"If there are in a great city a few men loaded with debts, drunk with pride and ambition, enterprising, bold haranguers, consummate intriguers, & inaccessible to remorse, the aspirers to domination quickly attach them to their interest, and make them their principal agents; but for fear of shocking, by the hideous aspect of so many vices, if there is to be found a number of citizens, whose irreproachable probity secures them public esteem, but who are destitute of that knowledge which is acquired by education, and who have not received from nature that degree of discernment and genius which often supplies the place of acquired knowledge, the ambitious intriguers hasten to associate them, not to the power but to the name of their faction, certain of being able to abuse their credulous simplicity, and to popularise their crimes,
by the reputation of the virtue of these passive instruments of their tyranny. This was one of the principal political manoeuvres of our last oppressors.—What city of France of any importance by its population and riches, has not been seen with terror the deposit of liberty, the safety of persons and property, placed under the care of men so infamous for their profound immorality, or so well known for their incapacity, that no person of the least prudence would have confided his house or affairs to their discretion or integrity. Where is the man, worthy of the name, who has not shuddered at the sight of that monstrous association of crafty wickedness, (sceleratessse) and blind, though confident patriotism. Never was such a conspiracy formed against mankind. It was not only directed against public and private property; against political liberty, against national independence, but against the eternal principles of justice and reason, which they attempted to pervert; it was against the human mind, which they tried to plunge into barbarism; it was against the arts, which they degraded; it was against the sciences, the flambeaux of which, they almost extinguished; it was against virtue herself, which they profaned and would have debased, had it been possible. Perish! ah! perish forever, their execrable memory! or rather may it eternally last, and from age to age, from generation to generation, present a salutary lesson to every people, and a dreadful example to all tyrants!"
"Think of a representative of the people, invested with unlimited powers, surrounded by his ferocious agents, vociferating every day at the tribune of a popular society, imprecations, cries of proscription and death, against all merchants, all rich men, all muladins, (young men who dressed too gay) and moderate patriots. Like the impostor of Arabia, he argued sabre in hand, and preached the gospel of tyrants in the midst of carnage, terror, and desolation. In his fury he threatened to exterminate whoever should even speak of the shootings, drownings, or massacres!"
Paris, Nov. 17.—Since the closing of the Jacobin Den tranquility and order reign in Paris; all good citizens, in transports of enthusiasm, bless the happy day which has destroyed tyranny, and consigned to public indignation those heirs and accomplices of Robespierre, who in their illegal and midnight assemblies, prepared the torches of civil war. Yet there are blood-thirsty men, who have attempted again to open the Cavern of the Jacobins, but the watchful care of our police has unravelled all their plots; the citizens repair in crowds to behold this famous haunt of wild beasts, the asylum of banditti and assassins; they with the ploughshare may be passed over it, every vestige of it destroyed; and that this spot so long defiled by crimes, may become a fertile scene of national industry.
Paris, Dec. 10. The proceedings in the trial of Carrier, and the Revolutionary Committee of Nantz, have fully brought to light a part of those crimes which have covered France with opprobrium—and mourning. Europe, astonished at the recital of so many atrocities, and their long impunity, may have mistaken the character of the French people. If we have had the firmness to retrace such unheard of cruelties (for often has the pen fallen from our hands) it was only to inspire a horror of them, as well as of the monsters who wished to destroy all idea of justice, morality, and honor, and to proclaim atheism. But it is our duty to declare to foreigners, that these unparalleled crimes do not belong to the French nation. The people have constantly demanded laws and not blood; the people, far from provoking the divinity, have never ceased to implore him. These dreadful crimes are the work of about forty villains, tigers, and blood suckers, who had got possession of all the power, and tyrannised over our country. Sooner or later they must undergo the punishment which awaits them, and France, purged of these wretches, will recover her ancient manners.
And America also.
Three hundred and seven witnesses gave evidence at the tribunal in the trial of Carrier, &c.
It was proved against Carrier, that he caused to be formed at Nantz, for his horrid purposes a band of infernals, whom he called the Marat Company. After one of his agents had procured them, he paraded them before Carrier, who demanded, "if they were all of the most abandoned characters that could be found—If there were none more infamous." He was answered "no," for his agent had by his particular order picked up every villain, every scoundrel who had been ever con-
victed, or suspected of any crime that disgraces human nature. These were the principal tools he made use of, in the shootings, drownings, &c. It was also proved by respectable witnesses from Nantz, that this company were one morning heard to declare, they were tired and exhausted, having been during the whole night, employed in boats on the river drowning men, women and children, and that they were absolutely fatigued with the blows they had been obliged to strike, with the flat of their sabres, (coups de plat de sabres) on the heads of the victims, after they had thrown them out of the boats, to fling them and make them sink!
Julien, who had been in the western departments, on the business for the Committee of General Welfare, deplored, that he had seen one of Carrier's principal agents, in the department of La Morbihan, take above an hundred of the inhabitants, many of whom had certificates of civism, carry them into a burial place, have their graves dug before their faces, and then, without any sort of trial, order the soldiers to shoot them!
When the late tyrannical faction imprisoned and assassinated with a mockery of justice, all the brave men, who had the courage to speak the truth, and to indicate to that portion of the people which is but little enlightened, the path of justice and reason, there were no lies however audacious, that were not spread with impudence and impunity, no absurdities however wicked and atrocious, which were not used to poison the public mind.—The most monstrous and extravagant tyranny was liberty. Assassination, devastation, pillaging of property, were proclaimed as acts of humanity, of justice and as an effect of the will of the people.
We shall never forget the order that took one hundred and sixty unhappy men, from the prison of Luxembourg, who were divided into three divisions by the frightful tribunal of Robespierre, and whom he successively sent to the scaffold. It can be proved by the register of the tribunal, that the sentence which condemned them, or rather the order which murdered them, was signed the 19th of the month, and the most of them never appeared before the tribunal until the 20th and 21st.
NATIONAL CONVENTION.
Dec. 10.
A Member demanded that all those temporary laws which breathe the oppressive tyranny of Robespierre, should be immediately expunged from the criminal code—particularly that of the 22d Ventose, in consequence of which we often saw conducted to the scaffold in the same cart the cook-maid, and the ex-marionettes, the financier, the rich capitalist, (Le Millionaire) the barber's apprentice, the general officer, and the sans culottes, all condemned under the general accusation: as authors and accomplices of a conspiracy, &c.
UNITED STATES.
MASSACHUSETTS.
Hingham, Feb. 23, 1795.
MR. RUSSELL. The anniversary of the birth day of the great Washington, our beloved President, happened on Sunday, the celebration, of that glad some era, was omitted until this day, which was ushered in by the ringing of bells and a salute of 15 guns.
At 12 o'clock another salute of 15 guns was fired, after which, a large number of citizens assembled at the Roe Buck tavern, and after having partook of an elegant entertainment, provided for them, on the occasion, the following toasts were drank.
1st. The President of the United States—long may he remain the supporter of the rights of his country; the ornament of human nature, and the admiration of the world. Three cheers.
2d. The vice President of the United States—may his patriotism, his political and literary accomplishments continue him superior to the shafts of envy; and may his country long experience the blessings of his wisdom and firmness.
3d. The Congress of the United States—may they ever retain the confidence of their constituents, by adopting a system of laws and politics, strongly marked with clemency, justice and firmness.
4th. The several states in the Union—may they individually evince a firm attachment to their own rights, and give a just and permanent support to the government of the United States, the great bulwark of American freedom.
5th. The Governors of the several states in the Union—may the late spirited exertions of the Governors of Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Jersey be contemplated with satisfaction, as a pleasing preface of what may be expected from the timely exertions of all.
6th. Our great ally, the French Republic—may their revolution be as glorious in its consequences as it was magnificent in its origin. As a free and happy people, under the mild rays of a peaceful government, may they soon sit down, undisturbed, under their own vines and fig trees.
7th. The powers in commercial connection with America—may they mutu-

ally conduct with public justice and good faith.
8th. Heads of departments and Judges of the United States—may their arduous attention to the interest of their country; their upright and impartial administration of Justice, ever entitle them to the approbation of their country.
9th. All good citizens who have stepped forth in arms for the defence of their country—may they be no less distinguished as federalists, and good citizens, than for their prowess in war.
10th. Memory of the martyrs to American freedom—while we lament their loss, may we imitate their public virtues.
11th. Arts and manufactures—may the knowledge of our resources, and the hand of industry, discover to the world our real Independence.
12th. Navigation of the United States—may her flag wave, and her trade flourish in every port of the commercial world.
13th. University at Cambridge, & all literary institutions—may such streams of knowledge ever issue from those fountains, as shall be the basis of a free government, of refined improvement, and liberality of sentiment.
14th. May the violence of prejudice and the virulence of party spirit, yield to the milder influence of candor and benevolence.
15th. PEACE TO THE WORLD—may the streams of justice, overspread the earth, and quench the flames of war.
Three cheers.
VOLUNTEERS.
1st. May the breath of candor, warm every breast, and kindle, into a flame, the most latent spark of friendship.
By General Lincoln.
2d. ALEXANDER HAMILTON, The Financier.
3d. HENRY KNOX, Esq. by a friend to merit and a lover of his country.
4th. The firm and spirited opposers of the Commercial regulations in Congress.—By Mr. Abner Lincoln.
5th. The Patriotic Divines, whose judicious discourses have served to enlighten the minds of their hearers, and confirm them in sentiments, favourable to order and good government.
By Dr. J. Barker.
Thus ended the day, spent in festivity and mirth, in honor of that Great and good Man.
LONG MAY HE LIVE!
PHILADELPHIA, March 13.
Letters have been received by the late arrival at New York from Bristol, informing that the ship Severn, belonging to New York, which was carried into France last autumn for adjudication, has been condemned—4 months are allowed to the parties concerned to exhibit their claims.
The ship Delaware, Capt. Hawks, from Rochfort, arrived at the Port yesterday afternoon.
The Delaware failed from Rochfort the 12th of November, and being short of provisions, put into Cadiz, from whence she failed the 28th December, and arrived within the Capes the 10th instant.
Extract of a letter from Capt. W. Blair, of the ship Active, to his owner, dated New Dieppe, Jan. 12th 1795.
"On the 21st Nov. we failed from Rheady Island, and in 24 days made the Isle of Wight, we were 20 days more in the English Channel and North Sea, endeavouring to get to Hamburg, but have been obliged to put in here, where I shall be obliged to stay until the river Elbe is open. There have been a great many ships lost, and among them is the Morning Star, who went ashore close to Heigland."
The Governor of Massachusetts has appointed Thursday, the 2d of April next, to be observed as a day of public Fasting, Humiliation, and Prayer, throughout that Commonwealth.
Married last evening, by the Rev. Mr. Abercrombie, Mr. RICHARD PALMER, to Miss ELIZA PARKER, both of this city.
Wm. Rush will appear to-morrow in reply to the Queries and answers in our papers of the 9th and 10th. inst.
To be Let,
A PAPER MILL,
In complete order, being entirely new, containing three presses and two iron screws, a large drying Loft, together with every other requisite.
Also a good convenient Stone Dwelling HOUSE, sheds, stables, &c. all new, with or without land. The mill is situate on a never failing stream of water in Lower Merion township, about 8 miles from Philadelphia. For terms apply to
Paul Jones,
On the Premises.
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By this Day's Mail.
NEW-YORK, March 12.
Foreign Intelligence.
By the Ship DIANA, EMERY, in 58 days from BRISTOL, we have received London Papers to the 8th January from which we have extracted the following Information:
LONDON, Jan. 6.
The Dutch mail due on Monday has not arrived, that due on Friday arrived at a late hour last night. Two messengers also arrived, viz. Mr. Basilico, from Corsica, & Mr. Hunter from the army in Holland.
The mail brings little fresh intelligence from the Rhine. Our letters from Mannheim of the 22d of December, inform us, that on the night of the 15th the Imperial Garrison stationed in the fleches on the left bank of the Rhine, made a sortie with several guns and 800 pioneers, to destroy a new redoubt the French had begun to construct on the highway leading to Mundenheim. This attempt succeeded, with the loss of only nine men wounded, on the part of the Austrians—We are ignorant of the loss of the French who, however, resumed their employment in the morning. On the morning of the 18th a new fort was made from the fleches, against the besiegers stationed on the road leading to Mundenheim.
For an account of the operations of the French on the Waal, we refer our readers to the following letters from our correspondents in Holland and with
THE BRITISH ARMY.
December 25.
The bridge at Pannenden, as well as that at Arnheim, has been carried away by great bodies of ice from the upper part of the river. This circumstance straitens us much for forage, an article of which before we had not a full supply; for now we have only left to us a difficult communication with the other side of the Rhine, by means of boats; but Providence is likely soon to remove this difficulty, for there is every appearance, that not only the Rhine, but also the Waal will soon be frozen over.
The bombardment at Grave has ceased for some days. The general opinion is that the hardness of the ground, occasioned by the frost, prevents the besiegers from proceeding with their works against that place.
December 26.
We are so circumstanced at present that the most fertile imagination cannot form any opinion respecting our future operations. Our army which occupies the grounds along the banks of the Waal, is so posted, and had taken such precautions, that with every hope of success, we might have disputed with the enemy the passage, if the river had continued open; but already it is frozen over in different places, especially at Tiel. This circumstance, to which our tactics do not apply, should the frost continue only for two days longer, is likely to make our situation most critical;—for by all accounts, the enemy are so numerous, that it will be hardly possible, with such a disparity of force, to prevent any effectual opposition to their progress.
The British troops are very sickly: such however, as are in health are in good spirits and actually wish for a Field Day, to relieve them from the mortifying situation in which, circumstanced as we are, we have for some time found ourselves. Let the issue be what it would, Winter Quarters, they think would be one consequence of an action.
December 27.
We have just received information that, early this morning, a strong column of the French crossed the Meuse, on the ice, near the village of Driel. The Dutch, either unable or not inclined to oppose them, gave way in every direction. The enemy soon made themselves masters of the Bommelwaart; for even the town of Bommel itself made little or no opposition, such of the troops as could get off retreating with precipitation across the Waal. The French have taken a number of prisoners, besides possessing themselves of the gun boats and hospital vessels.
December 28.
The French after making themselves masters of Bommel, lost some little time in attempting to cross the Waal, from which they were then only a little distance. From the superiority of their numbers they soon brought all opposition indeed they hardly met with any. We have not yet learnt the particulars of the attack: we only know in general that they have fairly established themselves on this side of the Waal.
December 29.
Orders were issued last night for the army to hold themselves in readiness to march, at a moment's warning. Orders were, at the same time, issued to Gen. de Bargh, to remove the hospital with all possible expedition. Our army, which lately consisted of 17,000, is now reduced to less than 10,000 effective men.
The Rhine as well as the Waal is now frozen over. The French, we learn, are moving towards Gorcum; but we are ignorant of their numbers. We expect soon to come to an action with the enemy, unless we prevent it by our usual expedient; a retreat. It is hardly possible that any circumstance, a treaty excepted, can intervene to prevent
the French from soon making themselves masters of Holland. It is impossible to describe the concern and anxiety exhibited on the countenance of almost every man among us who has any direction of our operations.
DUTCH CORRESPONDENCE.
UTRECHT, December 28.
The severe frost which set in eight days ago, having formed surfaces of ice in several parts of the Meuse, Waal, and Leck, rivers which cover a part of Guelderland, as well as this province and South Holland, different expedients have been resorted to, which have not at the same time prevented the French from profiting by this circumstance, to penetrate into the interior of the country. The orders the Dutch troops received, to confine themselves entirely to the defensive, appear not to have influenced the conduct of the French: we accordingly received the very unpleasant information last night, that at half past five in the morning of yesterday, the enemy crossed the Meuse with a strong column near the village of Driel. The troops which occupied this post, much inferior in numbers, endeavoured ineffectually to repulse them: constantly relieved and reinforced by new bodies of troops, they pushed on, made themselves masters of the Bommel Waart, and cut off the Dutch divisions posted near Roffum and Fort St. Andre. The latter retreated towards the city of Bommel, and having been joined by the garrison, still made a resistance there: it was impossible, however, to support the attack of such numerous forces, and save the place; those who could contrive to gain the opposite bank of the Waal retreated thither, while the rest were made prisoners. The latter consist of a division of the regiment of Frize-Orange, another of that of Hohenlohe, and a Swiss division. The gun-boats stationed in that part were not only useless, but having been frozen in, fell into the hands of the French, as did also two large boats, which were employed as hospitals. We also learn, that the crossing of the Meuse by the French, in a part where that river is very near the Waal, has been followed by the crossing of the latter river: we have as yet, however, no authentic relation of the particulars. Several Imperial regiments belonging to the army commanded by Generals Alvinzy and Werneck, which line the banks of the Rhine from Wesel to Arnheim, have marched to this city, where, as well as in the neighbourhood districts of Guelderland, they have fixed their quarters.
HAGUE, December 28.
At a very early hour this morning, a Courier arrived here with the following intelligence:
On the 27th (yesterday) the French made a general attack on all the points of the frontier of the State: they were the more successful because the ice in the rivers and inundations had been rendered so strong by the severe and continual frost as to enable them to cross without difficulty, and to attack our posts in the front and rear. They thus forced the troops of the state to retreat, to prevent their being entirely cut off.
In this way the enemy became masters of the Canton of Bommel; and as they had crossed the Waal, a part of the troops stationed in the aforesaid Canton near Bradaal, retreated during the night to the vicinity of the Dyke of Dalem, to prevent their being cut off on either side of Gorinchem, which would otherwise have been the case. The other troops in the Canton of Bommel, who had repaired to the second position, retreated towards Gorinchem, leaving behind them several hundreds of men.
In the Longstraat all the posts were attacked at the same time; and from thence the enemy proceeded to the posts of Capellen and Walspick, which, after an obstinate resistance, were obliged to retreat towards Geertruidenberg.
At ten in the morning the enemy also attacked the right wing of the line of defence, stationed in the wood between Geertruidenberg and Breda: they turned the lunette constructed there; and at the departure of the courier, were employed in attacking the forts of Steelhoven.
The posts of the pas of Swattenberg and Lomgat, having been both forced by a great superiority, the troops at Zevenbergen, to prevent their being cut off, retreated to Willemstadt.
The only account we have received respecting the post of Jer Heyde, states, that the dragoon guards belonging to that post had reached Willemstadt. By this it would appear that the line of Breda has been also forced, and the
communication with that fortress thus cut off. We are in the mean time impatiently waiting for further details.
January 8.
The fate of Holland has probably been decided by this time, as it was determined by General Waimoden, who is commander in chief of the British and Hanoverian troops, in the absence of the Duke of York, in concert with General Harcourt, that a general engagement with the French should be hazarded on the last day of the old year.
The allied forces amounted to fifty thousand effective men: those of the enemy were computed at one hundred thousand, but so circumstanced from situation and disposition, as to warrant a hope, that the decision would be highly advantageous to the general cause of the allies and prove the salvation of Holland.
In this belief, we are warranted in saying, that the best informed men from Holland now in England are exceedingly sanguine; and they do not hesitate to declare, that they entertain no doubts for the safety of their country.
A few days, perhaps a few hours, after this appears, it will be known how far they are justified in their presumptions.
GORCUM.
This place may now be considered as the key of Holland: and the following account of the true position of the French near that fortress, is inserted, lest the well informed part of the public should be amused with false hopes, and led into a fool's paradise by cunning or designing men.
The French are in possession of Bommelwaart, on the island side formed by the confluence of the Meuse and the Waal, save only the castle of Lovenstein, a fortified house, where count Bylandt is confined for life, for the surrender of Breda.
This place is surrounded only by a ditch. Gorcum may be bombarded from thence across the river, and that town is neither castrated nor strong in itself, independent of the inundations.
Having crossed the Waal at Bommel, after the Dutch had lost all their gun-boats, &c. and part of three regiments at this place, they occupied the digne, or road upon the back of a ditch about eight feet high, along the Waal towards Gorcum, about three hours as they call it there, about nine miles to that town. Gorcum was the place where the principal column of the Prussians marched towards Amsterdam in 1787, and it was taken after a very slender resistance. From thence to Rotterdam is four hours, and to the Hague about seven hours journey.
Hence the absurdity of the idle report that gained ground on Tuesday, of their being repulsed and driven across the Waal by General Dundas; because our troops, in that case, must have marched across a plain covered with water, or perhaps frozen over.
Arrived at New-York.
Ship Diana, Emery, Bristol Barque Leonora, Wild Charleston Brig Triton, Burchan, Curacoa Dolphin, Pennell, St. Marks Eliza, Nou, Kingston
The ship Jay, capt. Thompson, of New York, failed from Waterford on the 5th November, and after a passage of ten weeks, put into Curacoa, in the greatest distress, having sprung a leak and all hands on board fatigued at the pumps. Several passengers are arrived here in the Brig Triton, capt. Burchan from Curacoa.
The Jay was repairing in Curacoa.
Capt. Emery of the ship Diana, on the 15th Jan. fell in with a french fleet of 32 sail, lat. 48. 15, long. 15 Feb. 24. spoke the ship Ann, of Wilmington, lat. 39. 41 lon. 70. March 7, spoke brig Diana, of Marblehead, for Charleston, lat. 40. 3, lon. 69. 30. The ship Wilmington, for Philadelphia, was to sail 1st of Feb. from Bristol. The Merchant to sail March 1st from Bristol, for New-York. When capt. Emery failed, the Severn, capt. Goodrich belonging to New-York, was hourly expected from France.
Brig Dolphin, capt. Pennell from St. Marks, left the following American vessels there Sehr. Lady Washington—do. and an American ship belonging to Philadelphia.
The Lady Washington and Harriet, after sailing, were boarded by a British custom house boat, and carried back into St. Marks on some suspicion.
PRICE OF STOCKS.
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UNITED STATES.
PENNSYLVANIA DISTRICT.
NOTICE is hereby given, that the trials of Criminal Causes in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Pennsylvania District, will commence on Monday, the 4th day of May next, at the City Hall in Philadelphia: when and where all persons bound by recognizance or otherwise to appear, are required to attend.
By order of the Honorable William Paterson, Esq. one of the associate justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, and the Honorable Richard Peters, Esq. district judge of the United States for the Pennsylvania district.
D. LENOX, Marshal.
Marshal's Office,
March 11, 1795.
The printers of the news-papers to the westward and northward of Philadelphia, are requested to insert the above.
March 12. mw&ft4M
Information to the Merchants.
A Vessel will be dispatched from this port on Saturday next, to call at Bermuda, and from thence proceed to Barbadoes and the other British windward Islands. Any letters or papers, respecting the capture of American vessels or property by the British will be taken charge of by a person going out in said vessel free of expence, and may be sent before Saturday to
Thomas Fitzsimons.
NEW THEATRE.
THIS EVENING,
MARCH 13.
Will be Presented,
A TRAGEDY, (never performed in this City) called
Fontainville Forest.
(Founded on the Romance of the Forest.) Marquis de Montault, Mr. Green Lamothe, Mr. Chalme Louis, Mr. Moreton Peter, Mr. Whitlock Jacques, Mr. Warrell Nemours, Mr. Cleveland Hortensia, Mr. Shaw Adeline, Mrs. Whitlock With new Scenery designed and executed by Mr. Milourne.
To which will be added,
A COMIC OPERA, in two acts, written by the author of the Poor Soldier, called
The Agreeable Surprise.
Sir Felix Friendly, Mr. Francis Compton, Mr. Darley Eugene, Mr. Darley jun. Chicane, Mr. Warrell John, Mr. Cleveland Thomas, Mr. Green Farmer Stump, Mr. De Moulin Cudden, Mr. Blisset Lingo, Mr. Bates Laura, Miss Broadhurst Mrs. Cheshire, Mrs. Shaw Cowslip, Mrs. Solomon (being her first appearance on this stage.) Fringe, Miss Willems
Box one Dollar—Pitt 3/4 of a Dollar—and Gallery 1/2 a dollar.
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.
Tickets and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Wells, at the Theatre; from ten till one, and on days of performance from ten till three o'clock.
Also at Rice's Bookstore, No. 40, 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.
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.
Vivat Respublica!
SHAKSPEARE'S WORKS.
Mountford, Bioren, & Co.
RESPECTFULLY inform the Patrons to these Works, and the Public, that from the very Liberal Encouragement they have already received in the Undertaking, they will be enabled to put the FIRST VOLUME to Press in the course of the ensuing Month.
This being the first attempt made in the United States for the publication of the Writings of the celebrated Shakspere—and the magnitude and elegance of the Work rendering it materially expensive, the Publishers anticipate a generous Patronage from an enlightened Public.
It will be printed on a new and handsome type—and on paper of a superior quality.—The first volume will contain an elegant Frontispiece of Shakspere.
SUBSCRIPTIONS are received by the principal Booksellers in this City, and throughout the United States, and by the Publishers, No. 5, Dock street.
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THE Subscribers to the work, entitled, THE FEDERAL POLITICIAN, are informed by the undersigned, that, on account of several necessary additions, it will probably exceed the number of pages advertised, and hopes, that in regard to the greater expenses attending an improved publication, they will not decline granting a small addition to its price, under the assurance, that the sale of it will be unavoidably enhanced to non-subscribers by a fourth.
He requests, at the same time, all printers and correspondents throughout the United States, who may have procured any subscriptions, to send him, by post, a list of them, together with the names of those editors, who, to their knowledge, have inserted their proposals, in order to make the necessary arrangement. Meanwhile, as the subscriptions obtained in this city are insufficient, tho' numerous, to defray the expenses of the publication (being uncertain of adequate encouragement from other parts) to desire the continuance of their exertions for two months longer, at which period, if not before, will be finally decided whether it will be printed or not. At any rate, should he be compelled to lay up the original of said work, he will pay, or remit, each of his friendly printers the costs of advertising.
James Ph. Puglia.
Those Editors who did not publish in their newspapers the former proposals, are excepted from this address; and it is expected from their peculiar generosity, that no advantage will be taken from it.
March 6.
City of Washington.
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  1 A magnificent 20,000 Dollars, and dwelling house, 5 cash 30,000 are 50,000   1 ditto 15,000 & cash 25,000 40,000   1 ditto 15,000 & cash 15,000 30,000   1 ditto 10,000 & cash 10,000 20,000   1 ditto 5,000 & cash 5,000 10,000   1 ditto 5,000 & cash 5,000 10,000   1 Cash prize of 10,000   2 ditto 5,000 each, are 10,000   10 ditto 1,000 10,000   20 ditto 500 10,000   100 ditto 100 10,000   200 ditto 50 10,000   400 ditto 25 10,000   1,000 ditto 10 10,000   15,000 ditto 10 150,000   16,739 Prizes   33,261 Blanks   50,000 Tickets at 8 dollars 400,000 
This Lottery will afford an elegant specimen of the private buildings to be erected in the City of Washington—Two beautiful designs are already selected for the entire fronts on two of the public squares; from these drawings, it is proposed to erect two 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 necessary expenses of printing, &c. and the surplus will be made a part of the fund intended for the National University, to be erected within the City of Washington.
The drawing will commence as soon as the Tickets are sold 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 continued as given towards the fund for the University, it being determined to settle the whole business in a year from the ending of the drawing and to take up the bonds given as security.
The real securities given for the payment of the Prizes, are held by the President and two Directors of the Bank of Columbia, and are valued at more than half the amount of the Lottery.
The twenty-four gentlemen who by appointment of the late Commissioners assisted in the management of the Hotel Lottery are requested to undertake this arduous task a second time on behalf of the public; a sufficient number of these having kindly accepted, it is hoped that the friends to a National University and the other federal objects may continue to favor the design. The synopsis of one of the Colleges, to form a branch of the National Institution, is already in the press, and will be speedily published, together with its constitution.
A complete PLAN of the whole of this important Institution, compiled from a selection of the best materials, ancient and modern, will be submitted to the public whenever the same may have gone through such revisions as may be necessary to establish the perfect confidence and general approbation, so essential to its present rise and future existence for the general good of America.
By accounts received from the different parts of the Continent as well as from Europe, where the tickets have been sent for sale, the public are assured that the drawing will speedily commence, and that the care and caution unavoidably necessary to insure a fair disposal of the tickets, has rendered the short suspension indispensable.
February 24, 1795.
SAMUEL BLODGET.
* Tickets may be had at the Bank of Columbia; or James West & Co. Baltimore; of Gideon Denison, Savannah; of Peter Gilman, Boston; of John Hopkins, Richmond; and of Richard Wells, Cooper's Ferry.
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To the PUBLIC. THE principal design of this publication is to rescue from oblivion the many important events and transactions, which, under divine providence, have been chiefly conducive to the settlement of this country, and to the establishment of our present happy form of government; as also to transmit to posterity the names and achievements of those illustrious men and heroes, to whom America is most indebted for her liberty and independence. Should any patriotic Printer think proper to patronize this undertaking by occasionally inserting the above in his paper, and procuring Subscribers, the favour will be thankfully acknowledged by the Editor.
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Department of War.
JANUARY 26, 1795. INFORMATION is hereby given, to all the Military Invalids of the United States, that the sums 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.
Applications, of Executors and Administrators, must be accompanied with legal evidence of their respective appointments, and of the time of the decease of the Invalids, whose pensions they may claim. By order of the President of the United States, Timothy Pickering, Secretary of War. Jan. 27. 1aw8w.
Inland Navigation.
This Day is published, and to be sold by Zachariah Poulson jun. No. 80, Chestnut Street, And at the Philadelphia Library, A N
HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE Rise, progress, and present state OF THE Canal Navigation in Pennsylvania.
With an Appendix, containing Abstracts of the Acts of the Legislature since the year 1793, and their Grants of Money for improving ROADS and NAVIGABLE WATERS throughout the state—to which is annexed, "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 th' extended plain Stretch their long arms to join the distant main.
The sons of toil, with many a weary stroke Scour the hard bosom of the solid rock; Restless through the stiff opposing clay, With steady patience, work their gradual way;
Compel the Genius of th' unwilling flood Through the brown horrors of the aged wood;
Crofs the lone waste the silver urn they pour, And cheer the barren heath, or sullen moor
"The traveller, with pleasing wonder sees The white sail gleaming through the dusky trees;
And views the alter'd landscape with surprise And doubts the magic scenes that round him rise.
Now like a flock of swans, above his head, Their woven wings the flying vessels spread
Now meeting streams, in artful mazes, glide While each, unmixed, pours a separate tide;
Now, through the hidden veins of earth they flow And visit sulphurous mines and caves below.
The ductile streams obey the guiding hand, And social Plenty crowns the HAPPY LAND! 2awtf
A VENDRE, Une Terre Superbe situé dans l'Etat de la Nouvelle York.
LA BELLE Habitation connue par le nom de SCOTIA, situé 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 Caneda et autres parties occidentales avec la ville d'Albany dont elle est éloignée de seize miles Anglois ou cinq lieues un tiers de france.
Cette terre est bornée par la dite Rivière environ deux tiers de lieue—les grands Chemins des parties de l'ouest et du nord le joignent 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 habitation contient plus de mille acres, une grande partie de la quelle est en plaine de la première, qualité et propres pour des prairies ou du grain dont elle produit une grand abondance.
On pourroit la diviser en plusieurs habitations donnant à chacune des situations très commodes à placer des maisons—elle contient à présent deux maisons grandes et bien commodes avec des Granges Ecuries, Magazins, des Remises pour les Voitures et plusieurs autres batimens qui sont tres convenables le tout situé sur une elevation au bord de la dite Rivière d'ou l'on a une vue bien agreable sur la dite ville, des prairies dans ses environs 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 pourroit ajouter d'autres moulins, &c.—sur cette terre est aussi un bon Verger des meilleurs fruits de ce pais d'environ mille arbres, encens, les Jardins abondent de toutes sortes de fruit propre pour ce climat—Dependent aussi de cette terre plusieurs tenemens 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 féconde pour toutes sortes de grain d'hiver dont il en a été semé l'automne passé presque deux cents boisseaux ce que sera compris dans la Vente aussi bien que deux petites Iles dans la Rivière vis à vis la maison.
On pense que la vue de ces terres en donnera une plus haute idée qu'aucun description qu'on pourroit en donner.
Pour les conditions de Ventes il faut se rendre chez le soussigné demeurant pour les lieux on a messieurs Oliver Wendel et Harrison G. Otis, à Boston—messieurs Cornelius Ray et De Witt Clinton, à New-York—messieurs James Gordon et Henry Glen, membres du Congres, à présent à Philadelphie, ou a monsieur Stephen Bayard dans la ville de Schenectady, qui seront connoître 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 populous and flourishing town of Schenectady, at the foot of the water-communication from the Western Country, and Upper Canada; sixteen miles from the city of Albany, extending 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 opposite the said town.
It contains upwards of one thousand acres, a great proportion of which is intervall or low land, calculated both for grass or grain, producing great burthens annually; it may be laid into a number of valuable farms, affording convenient and handsome building grounds; there is now on the premises two 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 apple 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 exceeded 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 Wendell 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. Scotia, Jan. 28, 1795.
N. B. The remaining stock unfold, and all the farming utensils, the purchaser or purchasers may be accommodated with. Philad. Feb. 7. 2aw3m
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Extract from the Critical Reviews, April 1791, p. 468.
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A SERMON,
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ALSO,
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In the House of Representatives of the United States, March 3d, 1795.
Resolved, That the Secretary of State be requested to receive proposals from any person or persons skilled in the art of Stenography, or capable of reporting debates with accuracy, and to report the same to this house, at the commencement of the next session, with his observations and opinion respecting the qualification of the said person or persons for the said duty, to the end that this house may be enabled to appoint one or more persons as officers of the house, for the valuable purpose above mentioned.
Extract from the Journal, JOHN BECKLEY, Clerk.
Department of State, March 5, 1795.
Proposals will be received by the Secretary of State, in pursuance of the execution of the foregoing Resolution.
Wants Employment,
AN Elderly person, who writes a good hand, and understands accounts, and who also 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 applying to James Hardie, corner of Lombard and Fifth Street. Jan. 23 22wtf