Gazette of the United States. (Philadelphia [Pa.]), 1795-08-04 00:00:00

Thomas Gazette United States
NUMBER 906.]
TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 4, 1795.
VOLUME VIII.]
FOR SALE or CHARTER, The Ship PENNSYLVANIA, BURTHEN 3400 Bbls. Flour—completely found, and may be sent to sea at a small expence. For terms apply to GURNET & SMITH. WHO HAVE FOR SALE, A Quantity of Excellent Bourdeaux Claret in casks and Brandy in Pipes and Butts. July 16
FOR HAMBURGH, The Ship ADRIANA, Captain SAMUEL CLAPP, Will receive Freight, (part of which is engaged) for Hamburg, and is to sail as soon as she is discharged, and can be loaded. Passengers that purpose to go to England, are to be landed at Deal or Dover, the Ship having good ac- commodations, being lately enlarged for this purpose in London. For freight or passage enquire of RALPH MATHER, No. 71, Race-Street. July 14.
FOR FREIGHT, CHARTER or SALE, The Ship AMERICAN, At Mr. Nixon's Wharf, THE ship will take a Freight to any of the Windward Islands or Europe, if one offers soon, as she is now ready to take in. She is in complete order, and has good accommodations for passengers. For particulars apply to Jehu Hollingsworth & Co. WHO HAVE FOR SALE, A Few Puncheons of Excellent Rum, By the above ship, one of which is old. July 24
300 Hbds. Maryland and Virginia TOBACCO, Of a superior quality, part of which is Kitefoot, and particularly adapted for the manufacturers, or for the Holland or Hamburg market. ALSO, 500 Hogheads ready to be delivered on board a vessel in Chesapeake Bay, for sale by George Sibbald, No. 170 South Front-Street. July 24
The Subscriber Has REMOVED his Counting-House to No. 18, Penn-Street, next door to his New Stores. LEVINUS CLARKSON. July, 29, 1795. diw
50000 Lb. of First Quality Green Coffee WILL be landed on Monday, the 20th inst. on Mr. Willings and Francis's Wharf, from on board the Schooner Delight , Ayres Stokely, Master, from St. Do- mingo, for sale by LEVINUS CLARKSON July 18
A BAY HORSE for Sale, WARRANTED found, suitable for Chair or Saddle, can be well recommended for strength and bottom. Apply at No. 18 Pine Street. July 27
NOW LANDING, From on board the Snow Mercury , Hulings Couper- thwait, master, from Havannah, 215 Hogheads of MOLASSES; FOR SALE BY PRAGERS & CO.
NOTICE. FINDING myself unable from tedious indisposition, to effect a settlement of my affairs, I have appointed Robert Henderson my true and lawful attorney, to adjust and finally settle all matters where I am interested, to pay all debts due by me, and to receive all monies due to me, ei- ther by bond, note or otherwise. June 15 $6w JAMES MUIR.
Now Landing, THE cargoes of the brigs West-Indian and Betsey & Pol- ly from Jamaica: Coffee in hds and barrels Sugar in hds Rum, high proof, and 36 bags Pimento. ALSO ON HAND, A Quantity of Coffee in Hds. Barrels and Bags Sugar in Hds Pimento in Bags } For Exportation Brandy, 1st and 4th proof Sherry Wine, &c. For sale by Peter Blight. July 21
INSURANCE COMPANY of the State of PENNSYLVANIA. A Dividend of Ten Dollars on each half share will be paid to the Stockholders, or their legal representa- tives, on or after the 10th instant. By Order of the Directors, SAMUEL W. FISHER, Secretary. August 1 $10
THOMAS NOBLE, MONEY, LAND, & COMMISSION BROKER, No. 149 Chestnut Street, RETURNS grateful acknowledgements to his friends and the public for the encouragement he has received since he commenced business. Continues sales and purchases of real estates and public fe- curities—transfers every species of money negotiations— discounts approved notes to any amount, &c. &c. Tickets in the CANAL and other Lotteries, may be had at the above office. The WASHINGTON LOTTERY being now on the eve of drawing, a numerical book will be kept; from which the public will have the advantage of examining the state of tickets, three days earlier than by the usual communication of incorrect printed slips, irregularly sent by post, and which arrives twice a week only. June 24
JAMES TIFFIN, No. 70, South Second-Street, near the City Tavern, HAS just opened and for Sale, an Assortment of La- dies and Gentlemen's Fashionable HATS, from London. Also a variety of Children's Hats of differ- ent Colours. N. B. A Man or two as finishers in the above business, well recommended, will meet with constant employ and good encouragement. June 6.
American Landscapes. PROPOSALS FOR PUBLISHING IN AQUATINTA TWENTY-FOUR VIEWS, SELECTED from the most striking and interest- ing Prospects in the United States; each of which Views, will be accompanied with a descriptive account of its Local, Historical, and other Incidental Peculiarities By G. I. PARKYNS, Author of the "Manufg. Remains and Ancient Castles in Great Britain." CONDITIONS. I. That the work shall be published by Subscription; 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 commence im- mediately; and one engraving to be delivered to the Sub- scribers, 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 deliv- ered an engraved title-page; an elegant characteristic vignette; a map of the route, connected with the prop- erties exhibited in the course of the Work; and an Alphabetical list of the Subscribers. Subscriptions are received by Mr. Harrison, at his Print shop, Maiden-lane, New-York, by Mr. Carey, Book-sell- er, No. 118, Market-Street, Philadelphia, and by all the principal Book-sellers in the United States. February 23.
FRAUNCES'S TAVERN. No. 59 South Water Street. THE Subscriber respectfully begs leave to inform his friends and the public in general, that he has removed from No. 166 South-Street, to that large, commo- dious House in South-Street, lately occupied by Mr. Isaac Heads, and on which he has spared no pains or expence, to make it con- venient and agreeable for the reception of gentlemen. The House being situated on the same spot where the noted Beef Steak and Punch house formerly stood, has the advantage of the best water in this city, known long since by the name of the Green Tree Water . As there are several elegant Rooms, sufficiently large to accommodate any Society or company of gentlemen, and from his well known abilities to please in the line of his business, he flatters himself with a continuance of that patronage which he has experienced since he first opened a Public House in this City, and, for which he begs leave to make a public acknowledgment. For the accommodation of Small Parties, the Large Coffee Room on the ground floor is conveniently fitted up with a number of Boxes, constructed in such a man- ner as to admit Gentlemen to be as private as they please— Where may be had, at any hour, Soups, Beef-Steaks, Relishes, &c. &c. He has on hand, and will keep a constant supply of Spi- rituous and Malt Liquors, and of the best qualities. Breakfasts provided—Also Dinners and Suppers cook- ed in the most approved manner, at a short notice, and par- try of all sorts, made to order, in the House, or to fend out at any hour. He has several well furnished Bed Chambers, for Board- ers and Lodgers, by the Week, month, or year. SAMUEL FRAUNCES. June 2.
FOR SALE, In Bath County, Virginia, 450 Acres of Good Land. WHEREON are the Hot Springs , which are from 70 to 110 degrees of heat. There is on the said Land a hand- some and commodious house two stories high, 60 by 30 feet, with a partico the full length of the house, and extending to the upper story, and other necessary houses for a Public House, for which they were intended; good baths are over several of the baths, with sweating rooms. There are adjacent thereto, two remarkable cold springs of well tasted lime-stone water. These baths are a specific for the most obstinate rheumatic and all other diseases originating from cold or obstructed perspirations, and gives great relief in them; they have effected wonderful cures in various diseases incident to the ladies; they have this spring made a perfect cure of a disease on a West-Indian resembling the leprosy, and are remarkable for the cure of white swellings, contracted nerves, and many other diseases too obstinate to be effected by medicine. There is near the said Baths, A new Saw-Mill erected, and a Race dug from thence, to build a Manufacturing Mill, which reclaims about 30 acres of rich Meadow Land as any upon the Continent, and may be watered every night, and the bay made thereon falls as well as any that is made near any city or town within the United States. The proprietors of the above property will treat for the same on the premises, at any time between the 20th of August and the 20th of September; they will also sell Valuable Land for two or three Farms near the said Springs, and if the said Land and Houses at the Springs are not sold, they will be rented. N. B. Good accommodations are provided at the above Springs for ladies and gentlemen this season, which from experience is found best to commence in June, and end the first of October. July 14 $1m
LANDING, from on board the Ship CHARLOTTE. Capt. Jona. Bowers , from Bourdeaux, 30 Pipes Brandy 20 Tons Claret For sale by F. COPPINGER, No. 221 South Front, near Pine Street. Who has also, 2300 cases of 30 & 50 bottles, Choice Old Claret 600 hogheads ditto A Quantity of Anniseed Noyaux Liqueurs and Cambricks. July 16
BROKE out of the pasture of John De Grusse, the corner of Eleventh and Spruce Streets, about the 8th inst. two Mares; one an iron-grey, about 14 and 3-4 hands high, the legs of which have been much in- jured by the flies. The other a small Bay, low in flesh, about 14 hands high; legs also injured by the flies.— Whoever has taken up the said Mares, and will return them as above, shall be rewarded and all reasonable charges paid. July 21. tf.
NEW-CASLE PIER LOTTERY. PRIZE Tickets in the above Lottery are paid at a fair discount, or exchanged for tickets in the Canal, Wash- ington and Paterson Lotteries , at the Office No. 149 Chest- nut Street. Where approved Notes to any amount are also discounted. June 24
For Sale by the Subscriber, A few hundred barrels of Prime Herrings fit for Exporta- tion 70,000 Lb. Green Coffee in hds. barrels and bags Port Wine in pipes Madeira in do. hds. and quarter casks Teneriffe in Ditto Malaga in quarter casks Jamaica Spirits in hds. New England Rum in ditto Holland Gin Hylon } Hylon Gomes } Souichong and } Bheea } Tirk's Island and } Liverpool } TEAS, in whole and half chests SALT Sweet Oil in Quart Bottles, and Cases of 30 bottles Clayed Sugars in hds. entitled to Drawback 2000 Bushels best Liverpool blond Salt now afloat, will be Sold cheap from on board the vessel. Levinus Clarkson, No. 216 South Water Street. July 1
The highest price in Cash, will be given for EMPTY BOTTLES, A preference will be given to Claret Bottles.—Apply to No. 187, South Third-Street. April 10.
A Few Pipes Port Wine Of a Superior Quality, Now landing at Pine-Street Wharf, FOR SALE BY William & Samuel Keith, No. 279, South Front-Street. July 14.
RIDING-SCHOOL, AND Horse Academy; ALSO, HOSPITAL FOR SICK AND LAME HORSES, &c.
THE LADIES and Gentlemen of Philadelphia and its vi- cinity are respectfully informed, that a Building of under the sole direction of the Subscriber, and Gentlemen will be instructed in Riding and managing the Horse according to the established rules of art, and Horses will be properly broke for every purpose. But as the sitting up such buildings will be attended with a heavy expence, he has published proposals, soliciting a subscrip- tion to forward this useful Seminary, particulars of which may be seen at Mr. Ormrod's Printing Office Chestnut street; he will be happy to wait upon any lady or gentle- man inclined to honour him with their support and fully explain himself on this subject, a line addressed to him at No. 63, South Third street will be duly attended to. Those gentlemen &c. who may have horses labour- ing with diseases either sick or lame he will attend on them if desired and immediately explain the nature of the com- plaint and what can be done to help and relieve them—he also engages to cure and make sound horses which have the following complaints, viz. canker'd feet, contracted hoofs, sand cracks, quittors, splents, wind galls, curbs and spavins, either bog or bone, if in their first stages. He performs a curious manual operation which takes away the cause of blindness from Horses that have bad and weak eyes. The above he has experienced on more than six hundred Horses, with singular success. Letters addressed to him or addresses left at Major Pan- cacke's, the sign of General Mifflin, North Fourth Street, will be duly attended to. N. B. Any Lady or Gentleman who have Horses that have been ill broke, and very awkward and un- handy to ride, he will engage to give them six suppling lessons in his temporary manage, at the small expence of only five Dollars, by which their Mouths and actions shall be more altered for the better than is possible to be conceived by those who are unacquainted with the art. The Lectures on Horsemanship published by T. Swann are to be had at Mr. Ormrod's, Chestnut-Street; where- in is contained more concise and genuine instructions on which the art is founded, than are to be had in any publication, comprized in so small a compass, now ex- tant. July 6. diw&stawtf
ALL Persons indebted to the Estate of Alexander Ritchie, deceased, are requested to make im- mediate payment to the subscribers; and those who have demands against said estate, are requested to bring in their accounts and receive payment. FRANCIS GURNEY, ROBERT SMITH, } Executors DANIEL SMITH, } Philadelphia, July 27, 1795. 3tawtm
FOR SALE, A very valuable ESTATE, Called TWITTENHAM. SITUATE in the township of Upper Derby, and county of Delaware, 7 1-2 miles from Philadelphia, and half a mile from the new Western road: containing 230 acres of excellent Land, 45 of which are good watered Meadows, 90 of prime Wood Land, and the rest Arable of the first quality. There are on the premises a good two-story Brick House, with 4 rooms on a floor, and Cellars under the whole, with a Pump Well of ex- cellent Water in front; a large frame Barn, Stables, and other convenient buildings; a Smoke-House and Stone Spring House; two good Apple-Orchards, and one of Peaches. The Fields are all in Close, except those immediately under tillage, and are so laid out as to have the advantage of Water in each of them, which renders it peculiarly convenient for Grazing. The situation is pleasant and healthy, and from the high culti- vation of the Land, the good neighbourhood, and the vicinity to the ci- ty, it is very suitable for a Gentleman's Country Seat. The forgoing is part of the Estate of Jacob Harman, deceased, and offered for sale by MORDECAI LEWIS Surviving Executor. June 4, 1795. wlf
From the MINERVA. At a general Meeting of Disorganizers, in the United States, at Club-Hall. Citizen FACTION in the Chair.
This meeting taking into consideration the woeful state of affairs in France, where disorganizers have become odious and detestable; where the friends of law and order raise their heads, and Jacobinism frequently falls under the axe of the law; and anxious for the fate of the glorious cause of Club Government, have come to the following resolutions.
Resolved, that as the fate of popular meetings and mighty club government is very doubtful in France, it is the sense of this meeting, that in case disorder and tumult should be ultimately crushed in France, they ought to find a refuge in the United States, and be received with a fraternal embrace, by all good disorganizers.
Resolved, That the rallying watch words shall be, Liberty, Equality, and Republicanism; and that none of our friends who are incapable of reading and understanding, may be ignorant of the true spirit of these words, it is hereby declared, that the word LIBERTY signifies, the right of throwing stones and hissing at those who try to argue with us; EQUALITY means the right of people to do themselves; what the laws say shall be done by their Representatives; and REPUBLICANISM is the privilege of being of our party.
Resolved, That in our opinion, the Constitution of the United States is very wrong in vesting the power of making treaties in the President and Senate; and therefore we do not agree to it; but we determine hereafter that all Treaties shall be ratified in town meetings, in any irregular way that any one disorganizer shall see fit to propose.
Resolved, the more effectually to carry our purposes into effect, until better can be devised.
1st. When any Treaty is ratified by the Senate, we will contrive to get hold of it, and if we do not like it, we will take all possible pains to prejudice the public mind against it. We will publish part of it first, selecting the most odious parts, as best adapted to our purpose. We will let this go into the world, and spread it over the United States, to pre-occupy the ground, and then publish a true copy.
2d. To make sure of our work: we will send express letters to every quarter, to excite a ferment—we will condemn the Treaty in the whole, have town meetings called before the Treaty is published, and the whole Treaty damned before it is read. If any body is old-fashioned enough to doubt the propriety of such haste, in such a serious affair, and demand time to read the Treaty and think of it, we will always have some noisy fellows ready to urge the danger of delay, and that the seal may be set to the Treaty, when it will be too late for the people to object. In this way we will hurry it on, and if we enlist the passions of people, what matter is it for their reason?
3d. To secure a majority of the people at these meetings, we will spread a number of misrepresentations to alarm them; always taking care to adapt our lies to the class of men who are to be deceived. Thus to frighten the ship carpenters, we will send a runner to tell them, if the treaty should become law, there can never be built in America any vessels larger than 70 tons burthen. If we want to murder journeymen carpenters, masons and apprentice boys, we will tell them the Treaty will lower wages to three shillings a day. And these lies are to be spread but a little time before the meeting, otherwise these deluded, but honest people, will suspect the trick, and wont come to bawl and vote.
4th. The better to make the plan work, we will set up the cry of Whiggism for ourselves and Toryism for our opponents. And if here and there a Nova Scotia Refugee, should intermix with the crowd, and men who have not been in America 6 months, should join, we will call them all 76 racen, and swear to it.
5th. To enable the meetings to be fully attended, and that laboring men may not lose their wages by being called off in hurrying seasons to ratify or disapprove of Treaties, the hour of meeting shall be 12 o'clock. And if any body offers to discuss the Treaty, we will stone him or hiss him down. We can do this much better than we can argue and reason, and besides it will not take half the time to decide questions by stones, that it will by arguments.
Resolved, That whenever any of our society think a Treaty a bad one, it shall be burnt by the hands of the common hangman; and in case a hangman cannot be procured, that office may be performed by any Gentleman of our party.
Resolved, That the Canada article of Lord Grenville's Treaty, is a bad one; because it permits British subjects to carry on trade to the United States, which they could do before—and admits our Citizens to a free trade to Canada, which they had not before.
Resolved, That the detention of the Western Posts is a breach of Treaty; and therefore the British nation are a faithless nation. But to make old horses and depreciated paper a tender for British debts, is no violation of contract, and therefore we are not so far a faithless people.
Resolved, That it is wicked and unequal to ascertain our losses of property in the same way that British losses are ascertained. It is still more unjust to be compelled to pay British debts that are from fifteen to thirty years old, as soon as Great Britain is obliged to pay for illegal seizures made the last year. Our losses ought to be paid instantly, just as to British debts, we ought to take our own time to pay them.
Resolved, That we have an Executive Committee, consisting of men without property; a few of whom have been seventy six men, whether distinguished for fighting, running away, or surrendering, is not material.
Resolved, as the sense of all true disorganizers, That men who have neither business nor property, make the best patriots; because, having nothing

Life, they must be the more disinterested; and having no property to defend, they have more leisure to run about streets to protect other people's property.
Resolved, that our good brethren, the Citizens of the Suburb St. Antoine in Paris, when they assembled, surrounded the Convention, and shot a member by the side of the President, went rather too far, even for disorderly conduct; and that they stand a chance to injure our cause and blow up all their schemes as well as ours.
By order of the Meeting, FACTION, Chairman.
CATO—No. III.
HAVING touched upon the demand which under the treaty, we are entitled to make for the loss of property carried off. I have since examined official documents, to wit, the letter of the commander in chief, and the report of our commissioners, from which it may be fairly estimated, at about one million of dollars. As this was the first instance of the treaty, and made without the slightest pretence, there can be no doubt of the justice of our demand, as well for interest as principal, which would raise the aggregate amount to about one million seven hundred thousand pounds. Is it not very extraordinary that Mr. Jay should neglect an object of so much moment, while he was so sedulous in loading the United States with the private debts of British merchants. If (which there is the best founded reason to deny) there is really any thing due on that score, surely no better fund can be conceived for its discharge than this well authenticated claim upon the British government. What makes this omission the more extraordinary is, that the President while commander in chief, Congress in the year 1783, and at various periods since, and Mr. Jefferson very lately, have uniformly treated this article as very important, insisted upon its fulfilment, and procured such authentic documents of its amount, as to leave Britain without the smallest apology for its non-execution.
The next object of Mr. Jay's negotiation was to obtain satisfaction for the injuries our national flag had sustained, and redress for the injuries done our trade in violation of the laws of nations. These may be divided into two classes, 1. Acts authorized and ordered by the court of St. James. 2. Acts done by individuals under colour of, but in abuse of those orders. The first class must necessarily govern the decisions of their maritime courts, which, though professing to be ruled by the laws of nations, always take the direction of the sovereign. Thus the British court of admiralty, in order to secure the peace of all French vessels, and thereby outraged every principle of natural law, the British Courts of Admiralty found no difficulty in condemning them. When, in the same way, to prevent the Dutch from availing themselves of their neutrality, to acquire the carrying trade, he made prize of every ship loaded with French produce. The Courts of Admiralty condemned them without hesitation, and justified their conduct by the orders they had received. Indeed it would be a solecism to say, that the king can frame instructions, and give orders for making prizes, and that his courts have power to overrule those orders, and punish the subject that obeys them. Since it must often happen, that the interest of the state may justify a breach of the code of nations, without its being proper to communicate to the ordinary courts the principles upon which this justification is formed. Accordingly, we find it the constant practice when a new edict is issued, to send it to the maritime courts as the rule for their conduct in determining of prize or no prize. And the courts of appeal in prize cases consist of commissioners of appeal, of whom a majority must be privy counsellors (22 Geo. II. chap. 3.) the reason for which is, that their decisions as judges may conform to the instructions they give as privy counsellors. The second class of injuries, arising from abuses committed by individuals, are always corrected (not however without a great expense and delay) by the inferior courts of Vice-Admiralty in the first instance, or by appeal if their decisions are erroneous. This distinction will be important in discussing the 7th article of the treaty. Let us now examine the causes of complaint on the subject of the detention or capture of vessels and cargoes as arising under both these.
1. Orders were issued for detaining our vessels going to France loaded with provisions even before the war broke out, and we were compelled to part with our property at such prices as the British market afforded, though a better one was open to us in France.
2. They issued orders to take all our vessels going to France with provisions, and shortly after, in the most perfidious manner without any notice, without even publishing their intention in England, least we should learn it from thence, instructed their armed ships in the West-Indies to make prizes of all neutral vessels sailing, either to or from the French islands. These several cruel and unprovoked attacks upon our commerce, cannot be palliated by any law of nations however obsolete, and were attended with the following serious evils to this country, for which we are entitled to a national compensation.
1. It dishonored our flag which is a serious evil to us as a commercial nation, since it is the firmness we manifest in maintaining the respect due to that, which must make the basis of our carrying trade, for who will trust their merchandise to ships which may be violated with impunity?—Who employ vessels from which his property may be ravaged, without the most distant hope, that the sovereign under whose protection he has placed it, will vindicate his rights?
2. The loss of that property which the country would have acquired, had not many been deterred by these measures from entering into this branch of commerce. As this cannot be stated as the loss of an individual, it must be considered as a general loss by which the whole community is affected, and for which therefore the whole community were entitled to a recompence in damages.
3. The actual loss of property, first by the detention and limitation of the price of the articles taken, and the still greater loss by condemnation of ships and cargoes, for which nothing was paid.
4. The individual loss of seamen who were discharged from their ships, compelled by force, reduced by absolute want to enter into the British service in the West-Indies, where great numbers of them died of the diseases of the climate, and the ill-usage of their oppressors. I have already observed that the treaty makes no kind of provision for these worthy and unhappy citizens, or for the families of those that have perished; disgraceful and unfeeling omission! Besides this loss for which the individual was entitled to a compensation, the nation might demand exemplary damages for the indignities and actual loss of strength in the death or removal of many valuable citizens, the loss of many vessels, at a time, when by their employment so great a profit would have resulted to the community.
The above enumerated evils were the effect of the express acts, and emanated from the special authority of the British government. In addition to this, we suffered losses under the unauthorized acts of individuals, who, in some instances, plundered and procured the condemnation of vessels that were not liable to capture by the special instructions to which I have alluded. But the number of these were comparatively small, and for these courts of adjudication were always open; and yet, by a most extraordinary fatality, Mr. Jay overlooks all
these flagrant injuries committed by the British king against the United States as a nation, and for which they are without remedy, but by a national compensation, and neither asks nor procures any redress.
The nature of Mr. Jay's application is explained in his courtly note to Lord Grenville. This contains no complaint of any of the instructions I have alluded to, or any other, expressive of the injury that one nation had done to the other, but merely in the case of individuals. His words are, that great and excessive injuries have, under colour of his majesty's commission and authority, been done to a numerous class of American merchants, (not to the American nation) the United States can, for reparation, have recourse "only to the justice, authority, and interposition of his majesty." Though the whole of this note, he speaks of nothing less than individual compensation for individual injury, leaving the two nations entirely out of sight as nations; and indeed if he had intended any thing more, if he had had the instructions I have mentioned, in view, it would have been impossible for him to have made use of so many panegyrics on the justice and humanity of his Britannic majesty. In speaking of our seamen (which he doth with such pathos as to lead us to hope for some spirited demand in their favour) he contents himself with only requesting, that they may be liberated, and unmolested in future, without a word of compensation for the past.—The reply of Lord Grenville is in the same style.—Not a word of the instructions, not a word of apology to the American nation, not a word of compensation, except for the irregularities committed by individuals, &c. The British nation is supposed, in all these proceedings, to be immaculate. Now let us examine the article, and see how completely Mr. Jay forgot that he was envoy for a great nation, and sunk into the supplicant solicitor of some merchants, whose cause he has managed so ill, as to leave them in a much worse state than he found them, since he took from them the protection of their own government, to leave them the chicanery of courts in which the very instructions that occasioned their losses must be admitted as laws sufficiently valid to justify them.
The VIIth article exactly pursues the principles established in the note, to wit, that the United States are entitled to no recompence; that the government of Great-Britain has done us no injury, and that "divers merchants and others" only have to complain of the irregularity of some captures and condemnations, which it supposes the courts of admiralty are, for the most part, competent to decide upon. But that if it should happen, that there are any losses for which adequate compensation cannot be obtained, provided that the party claiming has been guilty of no neglect or delay, such compensation shall be ascertained by commissioners, and his Britannic majesty engages to pay them. As this article says nothing about opening the courts, it must have been understood by both parties, that they were necessarily open independent of the treaty, so that all the advantage, if any, that may result from appeals, were rights that individuals in every civilized nation may claim, and which many had exercised before Mr. Jay's mission. In this respect, then, nothing was effected by his negotiation, unless it was, that the time for bringing appeals is said to have been enlarged; but of this, the treaty says nothing; this too, must therefore, depend upon the will of the king of Great-Britain, or on the rules his court chuse to establish. All that Mr. Jay has then done in this important business that involved the honour of his country, the great interest of its commerce, the rights and liberties of its citizens, and the property of individuals, many of whom have been ruined by the loss of their capital, is to obtain a promise of compensation in such cases as are so singularly circumstanced as not to be within the reach of legal redress. When we come to view this article stripped of its unnecessary verbiage, it will appear to mock with delusive hopes, the men that it affects to relieve. Let us see what is to be the business of the commissioners, and of what nature and kind the causes that are to come before them.
They are not to relieve against captures under the order of April, November or January. 1. Because neither of these are complained of and the preamble of the article, expressly relates to the injuries "divers merchants and others" complain of having sustained by irregular captures or condemnations of their vessels and other property under colour of authority and commission, &c. Now it would be absurd to suppose, that this can have any reference to what is done by the express order of the sovereign, or to any act but such as is an abuse of that order and authority; but these abuses make but a small part of our cause of complaint (which goes to the order itself) and are besides necessarily relievable in a court of appeals without the intervention of a minister extraordinary; and were so before the treaty. The great cause of complaint, the instructions which are the laws of the court of admiralty not being complained of, all condemnations fairly made under them, must be confirmed by the treaty. What then are the commissioners to do? They are not to revise the decisions of the courts; they are not to interfere where the injured party has neglected to appeal. The decrees of the courts are to be absolute with respect to them, nor can they as far as their powers may be collected from the treaty, bind the crown of Great-Britain in any case whatever, in which the party claiming the benefit of their decision does not first file that he has commenced and carried through his suit in the British court of appeals, that their decree was in his favour (for without doubt their judgment is meant to be conclusive, or else the commissioners would only be a second court of appeals, which would be a solecism not even hinted at in the Treaty or preceding negotiations) that the captor is insolvent; that his securities have been prosecuted to judgment, and that they are also insolvent, in this case; and this appears to me the only possible case the commissioners may bind the crown to pay what has been recovered in his courts.
Now I would ask any man who reflects a moment on the delays of the British courts, and on the maze of law, which must be had before a single cause can be brought before the commissioners, whether the whole article is not a mockery of justice, whether any cause can be ready for this tribunal in two years, though by the limitation expressed, the claims must be entered within eighteen months, and whether it would not be much cheaper for the United States to pay the few persons that may possibly be relieved by this mode, the amount of their losses, than load themselves with the expence of so useless a commission? CATO
From the COLUMBIAN MIRROR, Printed at ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA.
IN all free governments the people have certainly a right to be informed of the proceedings which interest their welfare—but that they should receive this information from the proper fountain, is a truth not to be denied. In all governments founded on the principle of civil liberty, there are erected certain departments, with particular powers, and all these powers combined together, constitute that body which has the power of framing the laws that govern the community. Whether it was ever intended by the people of any country where such a form of government as above alluded to exists, that the people at large should have a voice in the formation of those laws which their constitution gives to particular departments, is a question that
does not admit of much doubt. The government of America gives to particular bodies certain powers, and among them it allows of the different departments concealing from the public at large such transactions as they shall conceive necessary—if this is doubted, turn to the constitution. In conformity to this power the Senate, when lately convened, thought proper to conceal from the public eye the late treaty with England until it should be ratified, when, as it would become the law of the land, it should be made public. From this view of the subject can the conduct of Senator Mason be justified in publishing the treaty, contrary to the injunction of the majority of the Senate, which act is authorized by the government the people have chosen for themselves. Does this not seem assuming in Mr. Mason? Has he not here violated the leading feature of a republican government, that the majority shall govern? But this great, this all-wise Senator, this meteor of patriotism, says, "the majority shall not govern, for altho' the majority of the Senate have enjoined secrecy concerning the treaty, I know that it will be better for it to be published, therefore I will have it published before it is ratified or rejected."—Let us here pause and ask what will become of that country where the feeble voice of one man, whose ambition after power excels that of an Alexander, shall be permitted to over balance the opinion of a majority—a majority acting according to powers given them by the people. Beware then, my countrymen, lest you repent when too late. Let not this daring, this dishonourable act, be received as a mark of this man's patriotism—but attribute it, and as a Virginian I lament that I am compelled to attribute it, to motives unworthy of a republican. Already has the trumpet of fame proclaimed him the honest Senator—Oh! America, but one man whom thou canst call an honest man—I lament thy delicate state, but if such conduct as this Senator has been guilty of is to designate the man of honor, happy for my country that she possesses but this one honest Senator. I exult that only one character of this stamp holds a seat in one of the principal branches of our government. Here indeed was presented to this great man—great let me call him, for he has done an act worthy to be written in letters of gold—an opportunity of making a display of his patriotism, and which is already sounded from east to west and from north to south by his heralds, who go on in front to proclaim his noble deeds, by which he is in hopes of turning the tide of popularity in his favor. Yes, popularity is dearer to him than the inviolability of his honor, and of the laws and government of his country he pretends to live so ardently. However bad the treaty might have been, this man has acted that part which ought to stigmatize him as a man who will sacrifice his honor to the hopes of obtaining popularity, and who will disregard the laws of his country, in order to impose himself on the world as a patriot.
I am sure his late conduct respecting the insurgents ought to preclude him from assuming the appellation of a patriot; for when the militia were called upon to hold themselves in readiness to march against the insurgents, and when many, anxious to support the laws of their country, unmindful of the toils of a camp, and regardless of the inclemency of the approaching season, were ready to take up arms against the first requisition, which was the 8000, and were not to go out against the insurgents; after he told them this, does he go on to endeavor to make up the quota that was due from his brigade? no, he does not. Does he exhort them to oppose the inflectors of the laws? No, but tells them that the excise law is an odious one; and in what character does he all this? Does he do it as a private man? No, he does it when he is at the head of a brigade in the character of a soldier—in that character which is emblematic of patriotism—yet this man is called a patriot. If he has been the author of one beneficial act, even of the least degree for the honor of the State that calls him her citizen, let those who know it make it public; for as far as I have been capable of searching into the political history of Virginia, I do not discover him to have been instrumental in promoting any act which would add to the prosperity of his country, but on the contrary have found him in the opposition.
The publication of the treaty is a gross violation of the constitution as can be; inasmuch it gives to both houses the power of keeping such proceedings secret that they shall think proper. Having violated the Constitution, he has violated his oath; for before he took his seat in the Senate, I presume he took an oath to support the constitution. How then can he be said to have complied with that oath, when he in the broad face of day he published a proceeding which the Senate desired should be kept secret? By what magic then can that man be turned into a patriot, who will violate a government that has been productive of so much good to the country it has hitherto ruled? But if such men as Mr. Mason are held up as patriots, it will soon cease to rule.
Well knowing this would be an act pleasing to the set of men who despise order and peace, and call themselves democrats—but whom I call tyrants, and whose actions are of the most tyrannical kind, and which, unhappily for this country are too numerous, he has dared to disregard those laws and that government, he was fent to protect and cherish—Let me ask the gentleman, if the people can ratify a treaty by any other method than that pointed out by their government; the people have been proceeding in this method, which is by their representatives in Senate, and their executive in conjunction. What use then could have resulted from the publication—they cannot say to the Senate; you shall not ratify this treaty, for until they alter their government the Senate and the Executive have a right to ratify any treaty they shall think proper—Why then I ask, has this publication been made? To ensure the private ends of the person who had it published. This man has uniformly opposed the government and its measures, and this late act seems to be one more mark of that violence that has ever accompanied him, and since he has been raised into office, has become more outrageous than ever.—View him well Americans, and probably you may find in him a second Cromwell—Cromwell acted the part of a patriot until he had gotten the people under his controul, when he immediately
became the usurper. I hope when the opportunity offers, the people of this state will express in a proper manner, their disapprobation of such conduct & thereby make this his last struggle after popularity. The Editor of the Aurora, has sent perions to different parts of the Union to make sale of copies of this treaty, before the news-papers in the States could be filled with it, whereby he will accumulate a considerable sum of money. This Editor and Senator Mason, it seems are very intimate, but one conclusion can be drawn from such intimacy.
The publication certainly carries with it great presumption, that this man should undertake to do a thing which no other Senator would, because they conceived it improper; for there are even others who disliked and who voted against the treaty, but who, notwithstanding, respected the constitution too much, and who, regarded their honor equally as much, and therefore conceived themselves not at liberty to act contrary thereto.
A FEDERALIST.
Alexandria, July 24, 1795.
LATEST FOREIGN ADVICES.
By an Arrival at Boston.
LONDON, June 8.
It was rumoured on Friday, that the garrison of Luxembourg had made a successful sally, in which the French had suffered a considerable loss, both in men and cannon. This report is now confirmed by a messenger arrived at Frankfort with letters and dispatches of the 25th ult. which mention the circumstance in very positive terms. The fort is said, by these dispatches, to have taken place on the 10th ult. and it was of so important a kind as to lead to a probability of the French raising the siege.
Tranquility is perfectly re-established at Paris, all the leaders of the insurgents have been tried, condemned and executed, without any attempt having been made to rescue them from punishment.
With respect to the Mediterranean Fleet, the Deputy Now, who is on board of the fleet, has sent a dispatch to Marfeilles, stating, that the fleet is in the outer harbour, and out of reach of the insurgents.
On Saturday arrived four mails from Hamburgh; which contain a variety of intelligence. The most material news is the second Declaration of his Imperial Majesty's Ministers at the Diet of Ratisbon, declaring that the Emperor in consequence of the solicitation of the States of Germany, was ready to enter into a Negotiation of Peace between the Empire and the French Republic. He exhorts the States to remain united, according to the Constitution of the Germanic Empire, and to continue their preparations for war, as the only means of obtaining honorable and advantageous terms. The Electors of Cologne, Mentz, Treves, and Saxe; the Duke of Wirtemberg, and the Bishop of Wirtzberg have accordingly declared, that they will enter into no separate treaty with France, but through the medium of the Emperor.
NATIONAL CONVENTION.
A detachment from the grenadiers of the army of the Sambre and Meuse, destined to form the guard of the National Convention, were admitted to the bar. They declared their entire devotion to the national representation, and expressed their sense of the honour done them by being called to such a post. The president gave the fraternal embrace to the orator of the detachment, as representative of the army of the Sambre and Meuse.
One bad effect of the late convulsion, has been that three hundred thousand citizens of Paris, have been four whole days without working. Those who consider the loss suffered by a state when general labor ceases for any length of time, may calculate that of the French empire from the inaction in which we have been for near half a decade.
The feast of Pentecost, has also taken another day from work, all Paris have celebrated this holy day; for the shops were every where shut. Philosophers will call it superstition; but we answer them that such superstition at least is not so dangerous as those savage howlings with which, for almost six years, the Jacobins have made the vaults of their dens re-echo. It is better to be a little credulous, and respect the life, honour and property of our fellow-men.
LONDON, June 8.
Accounts from Vienna state, that the Austrian troops in Galicia have been considerably reinforced for the purpose of checking some Poles, who are exerting themselves to form a new confederation. The Ottoman Porte secretly conniving at their proceedings.
In the House of Peers on Friday, Lord Lauderdale moved an address to his majesty, of considerable length, stating the opinion of that house to be, that the present situation of France should be no obstacle to negotiation, &c. &c. The motion was supported by Lord Guilford, & opposed by Lords Grenville and Mulgrave. On the question being called for there appeared for the motion 8, against it 53—majority 45.
On the 26th April the Empress of Russia, seated on the throne, received the act of submission of the duchy of Courland, and the circle of Pilten.
June 10.
The French seem completely to have given up all idea of contending the mastery of the ocean with us. The system of having several detached squadrons therefore constantly at sea, seems to be the best that this country can adopt, and which we have already repeatedly recommended.
By the last messenger from Italy, we learn that Admiral Hotham had been joined by four Neapolitan ships of the line, which made his fleet equal to the French even before any reinforcement could arrive from England.
There was a very hot press on the river on Friday night last, when several hundred able seamen were procured.
June 11.
Tuesday advices were received from Brest, which reach down to Thursday last. By these we learn, that a squadron of 13 sail of French line of battle ships is at sea. These are the only ships in the French navy at Brest fit for service. We understand that two commissioners are on board this fleet,

a division of which is said to have failed for the East Indies. Salted provisions are very plentiful at Brest, and even sell below prime cost; but rice and flour are very scarce.
The Russian squadron intended to act under the orders of our admiralty, is commanded by admiral Hannikett, and is destined to protect the north seas from the naval forces of the States General, should they be brought into action; which, according to present appearance is, however, very doubtful, from the general discontent which prevail in Holland in consequence of their late connection with the French republic.
On the 24 inst. rear-admiral Pringle sailed with our fleet from the Downs, and carried with him pilots for the Russian ships. Admiral Duncan shifted his flag to the Defence of 64 guns.
LIVERPOOL, June 15.
A letter direct from Paris, was received on yesterday evening, by a respectable house in Manchester, from M. Perregaux & Co. the French national bankers, giving the following important information:—“That the decree of the National Convention, on the 10th October, 1793, ordering that all property belonging to British subjects should be confiscated, is reversed, by a second decree of the 31st of January last. All specie and effects of every kind, are ordered therefore, to be restored, and are now ready to be disposed of as the respective proprietors in this kingdom may direct.”
Great preparations are making for encamping the troops along the north coast; and on Wednesday last Lord Grey de Wilton arrived at Plymouth barracks, and joined his regiment of Royal Lancashire Fencibles.
Independent of the advantages already given to the inhabitants of the United Provinces, by an act this session, chap. 80, which passed the 22d of last month, any ship or vessel of theirs brought by them to this country, may under certain conditions be registered at the Custom-House of this kingdom, for the European trade. Their goods and effects deposited at this time at Hamburg or any port in Germany, the Baltic, or East Country, may be brought into any port of this country, in any bottom of theirs, or any neutral or British bottom, without any embarking restriction, and may remain until the proprietors determine as to the disposal of them by sales either for exportation or for consumption of them in this kingdom. All household furniture, pictures, &c. proved to be the sole private property of such inhabitants, may be landed and made use of, duty free.
On the 5th inst. arrived at Hull, the American ship Peggy. Capt. Van Ranfeller, which vessel left Havre de Grace the Sunday morning before. Major Campbell of the 69th regiment, who was taken prisoner with General O'Hara at Toulon, came in her as a passenger. Capt. Ranfeller was at Paris during the whole of the late commotions, and says, that at one time the Jacobin party, in opposition to the Convention, had not less than 60,000 men in arms, to which the Convention opposed an army of 100,000, but no action took place between them. At present, however, tranquillity is restored to the capital, and the Convention has resumed its functions and powers. In every part of France where the Captain has been, the crops of corn upon the ground appear to be in great forwardness, and the approaching harvest is likely to be very abundant.
ST. JOHN'S, (Antigua) July 13. Ships on the Leeward Island Station.
   Ships. Guns. Commanders.     Majestic, 74 { Admiral Caldwell, Capt. Welcote.   Bellona, 74 Wilson.   Ramillies, 74 Sir R. Bickerton.   Ganges, 74 Truscott.   Montague, 74 Rootes.   Vanguard, 74 { Admiral Thompson, Capt. Miller.   Veteran, 64 Kelly.   Adamant, 60 Darby.   Beaulieu, 48 Baynton.   Experiment, 44 Barrett.   Woolwich, 44 Fahie.   Roebuck, 44   Pique, 36 Skinner.   Blanche, 32 Sawyer.   Alarm, 32 Cooke.   Solebay, 32 Davies.   Arable, 32 Laskey.   Mermaid, 32 Warre.   Resource, 28 Watkins.   Matilda, 24 Vaughan.   Zebra, 16 Thompson.   Bull Dog, 16 Fownes.   Thorn, 16 Otway.   Inspector, 16 Milne.    Berbie and Garland, Tenders—3 gun-boats, &c.
BOSTON, July 29.
From Lisbon, June 5.
We have received several letters from Lisbon by the latest arrival. The following are extracts:—“Lisbon, June 5. The Portuguese are strong in the Mediterranean against the Algerines; therefore nothing is to be dreaded from them: neither have we heard of any depredations made by the Moors. Col. Humphreys arrived last month at Gibraltar from America, and it is supposed every thing will be amicably settled with the Barbary powers.”
A letter from Mr. Simpson, the American consul at Gibraltar, confirms the above; and contradicts the insidious reports some time since circulated, of a truce being brought about by Great-Britain and Spain, between the Portuguese and Algerines.
TONNAGE—FACTS.
By the Treaty of Amity and Commerce with France, the citizens of the United States are permitted to enter certain ports in the West-Indies, in vessels of 60 tons burthen; to carry thither only certain articles, and to bring nothing from thence but tafia, rum, and molasses. By the Treaty of Amity and Commerce with Britain, we are permitted to enter all the British West India Islands, in vessels of 70 tons, to carry there all kinds of produce, and to bring from thence the valuable articles of sugar, cotton, cocoa, &c. Judge, then, citizens of the United States, of the uproar of those who condemn the latter, and cordially acquiesce in the former.
In the truly republican and federal state of Connecticut, not a sentence is interred against the Treaty. In the state of New-York, except the city,
it has been tasted in large companies with applause; and in the city of New-York, on the word of a gentleman just arrived therefrom, the owners of nineteen twentieths of the shipping are warmly in favour of it.
Capture of British Transports.
By several arrivals at various ports, we have received information of the capture of several ships of the British West-India convoy. Captain Smith, arrived at New-London from Barbadoes, informs, of the arrival there four days before he sailed, of between 60 and 70 sail of ships, with troops and ordnance, part of a fleet of 100 sail, which parted in a squall to the windward of Barbadoes, where three or four French Frigates were cruising, and whom, it was reported at Barbadoes, had captured four of the transports, one of which had 500 troops and a large quantity of ordnance. Captain Aubin, arrived at Newburyport, confirms this, and adds, that eight prizes arrived at Petit Bourg, on the 2d of July, with 750 troops on board. The prisoners were sent to Point-Petre. When the fleet above mentioned sailed from England, it had 7000 troops on board, and contained one hundred transports.
TRUTH, CANDOR, AND PATRIOTISM.
Ought to be the animating principles of the times. The Treaty is the subject of discussion. It was framed by one of the wisest statesmen in the United States, and has been ratified by the Senate of the United States. It has been condemned before it has been read; and is now the rallying point of ant federalism. The objections to it are specious—but ask your hearts, do they not conceal a dagger aimed at the vitals of the government of the United States? Its opposers are rash and inflammatory—its defenders candid and just. Americans, be not deluded! Act yourselves! Hear the voice of reason, and then decide. FREEDOM.
Arrived brig—Jenkins, 40 days from Jamaica. The cap. and some of the crew died on the passage. Spoke no vessels.
July 27. Arrived Schooner Dolphin, Boynton, 38 days from Liverpool. June 30, lat. 46 long. 32. Spoke a British sloop of war, convoying two brigs to the wellward. July 2, lat. 45. long. 34. Spoke a ship from New-York bound to London.
Same day arrived ship Lexington, Capt. Roberts in 168 days from Canton, in China. This vessel returns from a voyage to the North West Coast.—Three days since spoke a sloop from hence for Demarara, which is the only vessel spoke since her leaving Canton.
Some day arrived ship Jefferson, Stetson, 47 days from St. Ubes. July 10, lat. 34. 44. long. 50. Spoke the Schooner Harris, Homans, 14 days from Salem, for Rochefort.
Arrived at Salem, Capt. Lambert, in brig Hope 97 days from the Cape. 12th March failed the Belisarius, Geo. Crowninshield, jun. master, bound round the Cape—15th do. the ship Atlantic, Capt. Swaine, of Philadelphia, failed, bound round the Cape. 29th of June, lat. 24. 41, long. 51, spoke with Capt. F. Goodridge, from Newbury-port, bound for Tobago, lat. 41. 30. long. 61. spoke with Samuel Whitwell, in the brig William, from New-York, bound to the Isle of Wight.
Capt. G. Crowninshield, jr. arrived at this port on Sunday in the beautiful ship Belisarius, in the remarkable passage of 70 days from the Isle of France—having completed his voyage in seven months and an half.—He left there the ship Benjamin, Captain Sillsby, of this Port; Captain S. Croel, from Boston, bound for Muskat; Capt. Gardner, just arrived from Boston, after a tedious passage of 220 days; but like to make a better voyage for it, however. Capt. Depeyffer, in the ship Bangalore, of New-York, bound for Senegal, touched at the Isle of France a few days before Capt. C. failed, but tarried only two days. At the celebration of Independence in Newburyport, the following, among other toasts, were given:
Our late Envoy to Great-Britain—May the satisfactory amendment of the 11th Article in the Treaty, bring it into speedy operation, and secure to us the fruits of talents and exertions.
The majority of the Senate in their late deliberations.
The constitutions and laws of the United States; may the intrigues of faction never shake the one, nor weaken the energy of the other.
May contempt be the guillotine of the Robespierres of America—3 cheers.
NEW-YORK, July 31.
The Editors of the Baltimore Telegraph under the date of July 23d, say, “The Minerva and some other papers, hitherto the warm panegyrists of Mr. Jay and his Treaty, appear to have surrendered it up as a thing indefensible.”
No, Messrs. Editors, you mistake facts wholly. We are not in the interest of any man, of any men, or of any party; merely as such—We espouse the cause of truth only; and if Mr. Jay or the treaty has made improper sacrifices, we will be the first to condemn both.
Be assured the treaty is not given up as indefensible. The friends of our government and of the real interests of the country, delay their defense of the treaty for the noblest purpose—that of examining its merits. It required time to investigate its various parts, to compare it with other treaties and the law of nations. This was the motive, the honorable motive of delay; and contrasted with the hurry and rashness and tumult of its opposers, where is the man that will not admire this conduct of its advocates? No; the treaty, tho' it does not procure us all we wish, and tho' some parts of it are less favorable than we expected, is on the whole more favorable to our trade than any treaty we have with other nations—and more favourable than any other nation has ever obtained from Great Britain—As an agreement that lays the foundation for settling old disputes, which while they exist, will threaten us with war, we cannot but approve of it. We are persuaded, it is the best that can be obtained; and that it is infinitely for the interest of the United States, to carry it into effect. Minerva.
From the Courier of New-Hampshire, printed at Concord.
THE Treaty is warmly opposed by some, who feel a great tenderness for the mild government of France, because it interferes with our Treaty of Alliance with that Republic. The following clause will remove all objections on this head: “Nothing
in this Treaty contained, shall however be construed or operate contrary to former and existing public treaties with other Sovereigns or States. But the two parties agree, that while they continue in amity, neither of them will in future make any treaty that shall be inconsistent with this or the preceding articles.”
It is said the Jacobins of Philadelphia, in the night of the 5th inst. burnt Mr. Jay in effigy, with a copy of the treaty: but this report wants confirmation. It is supposed to have been circulated in order to induce the people in the Northern seaports to manifest their disapprobation of the Treaty by committing shameful and unwarrantable excesses. But we hope the steady federalists of New-England will detect such measures, and dispassionately examine the Treaty before they judge of its merits or demerits.
The national “Boston folks” have had a meeting, and chose a committee of fifteen, to draft a set of resolutions expressive of their dissatisfaction with the Treaty. The meeting was warned before the treaty arrived, so to be ready to condemn it in toto the moment it should come to hand which they did and sent their proceedings immediately to the President of the United States. We may therefore conclude the principles of it were well digested by the inhabitants before the resolution passed!
WORCESTER, July 29.
From a Correspondent.
From the moment of Mr. Jay's appointment, as Envoy Extraordinary, to the Court of Great-Britain, to the publication of Treaty, it was uniformly affected, by those who, by way of eminence, style themselves Democrats, that negotiation could never succeed, in obtaining a redress of the injuries we had suffered from that nation. And on this ground have they raised their most formidable objections, against the pacific measures adopted by the federal government. Yet, as soon as the treaty was published, Mr. Jay must be severely reprimanded, by the forlorn of the Democratic party, from New-Hampshire to Georgia; guillotined in effigy at New-York; burnt at Philadelphia; and damned at Newcastle. And all this, for what? Why truly, for not effecting, by negotiation, what the very persons, who are guilty of these outrages, declare it impossible negotiation should effect. But without deciding upon the merits or demerits of the treaty, we may venture to assert, that such violent measures, as have, in some instances at least, been adopted by its opposers, are infinitely more dangerous to the existence of our government, and, consequently, to our liberty and happiness, than it is possible for any treaty whatever to be.
NEW-YORK, August 1.
Yesterday arrived here the sloop Betty, Captain King, in 19 days from Port-au-Prince, who informs us, that Gen. Williamson had newly erected a very strong fort on the back of the town, and had a number of flat bottomed boats with brass cannon mounted in them; that since the arrival of the troops from England, they had put the town in such a posture of defence as obliged the French to raise the siege and return to Leogon; that it had been very tickly there in the month of June last, but was not so much so when he came away; that he was informed by a person, some time before his arrival, that there were three American captains buried in one day, and almost every vessel had some died out of them; that in common they were not sick more than five days. Capt. King begs the liberty to advise every master of a vessel that may go to that port, not to make any use of the water before it has stood five days or more; the immediate use of water there is considered to be very hurtful, and has a great tendency to throw a person in a fever.
The whiggism of 1776, was to rally round the Venerable Statesmen and Patriots of our country—the Washingtons, the Adams, the Jays, and Elsworths of America—Now whiggism is to abuse them all as traitors, execrate them and burn them in effigy. To follow Washington is now to be a tory, and to deserve tar and feathers. Strange changes these! But men capable of deserting their old tried patriots, who are still acting what they deem for the interest of the United States, are incapable of terrifying old tried patriots. We assert the truth; we are bold in defending it; we have the constituted authorities of our free country on our side; nay more; we have the consciousness of serving the cause of liberty—we have testimonies of approbation from every quarter of the country—we fear not candid argument; much less, the menaces of those who for want of argument, would bully us into criminal silence. [Minerva.]
PORT OF PHILADELPHIA.
August 4.
ARRIVALS.
Barque Hope, Bambridge, Bordeaux, 49 Brig Fair American, Nalh, Jeremie, 16 Eagle, Dewar, Port-au-Prince, 16 Nancy, Newhall, Charleston, 8 Fox, Cheeseman, Boston, 5 Capt. Bambridge failed from Bourdeaux the 11th June, the brig Hector, Connel, failed a few days before for Philadelphia. The following vessels had arrived there: Ship Fame, Eldridge, from Philadelphia do. Brig Sulawana, Baird, do. Mary Ann, Kenny, do. Sea Nymph, Pedem, do. Ships, Ariel, Decator; Ocean, Verdenburgh; and Harmony, were to sail in a few days for Philadelphia.
The Brig Cincinnatus, Robertson, 39 days from Belfast with 300 passengers, was boarded on the 20th ult. in long. 64, by three frigates of Admiral Murray's squadron—46 of the unfortunate passengers taken out, and all the Brigs crew except one man. On the 12th of June Capt. Bambridge spoke the following vessels going up the river to Bourdeaux.
Brig Revolution from New York 32 days out. Brig belonging to Gloucester from Virginia 46 days. Ship Eliza, Smith, Boston 36 days Caroline, Henderson, Philadelphia 36 days. July 15, lat. 39. long. 62. Spoke Brig Eliza of Newbury-Port, Capt. Tills from Alexandria, bound to Havre de Grace, out 9 days.
ALL Persons having any demands on the Minister of Great-Britain, are desired to send their accounts for payment to his house No. 276 High Street, before Saturday next, the 8th of this month. August 4
From the Providence Gazette.
To the PUBLIC.
I AM compelled to call your attention to a late act of Congress relative to the duty on snuff—not only on account of its oppressive tendency to many industrious and valuable citizens who are thrown out of employ by its construction, but also to lay before you the very dangerous and aristocratical principle on which it is founded. It is necessary, in the first place, to acquaint you in what manner the act has been altered, in order to raise a revenue on this article, because it is not likely many of you either know or have even enquired into the cause of the great advance in the price of snuff, fully relying, as in duty bound, on the patriotic care of our representatives in Congress. I will therefore inform you, that the session before last, Congress judged snuff a proper object for taxation, and accordingly laid a duty of eight cents per pound thereon, which took place on the first of October last, and it was agreed to by the trade without a murmur; but, during the last sitting of that honourable body, several of the southern makers of snuff, who carry on the business on a very large scale, insinuated to the leading members of the house, that frauds might be committed by the snuff-makers in the collection of the duty, in case it continued on the pound, although no experiment had been made; and proposed, in lieu thereof, that a large sum should be paid on each mortar and pelle, and that all makers of snuff should be compelled to enter their mills with the collectors of the several States, and pay down, or give undoubted security for the sum of one thousand dollars annually, before they should be permitted to grind one pound of snuff. This reasoning appearing plausible, and very few of the members of Congress being acquainted with this business, they consented to alter the act according to the wishes of the southern engrossers, and it passed into a law. But mark, fellow-citizens, the iniquity that arises from this deception on Congress: in the first place, the duty falls very unequally; for example, to the maker who grinds three thousand pounds weight in a year, which is the common average of all the New-England makers, the duty consequently is two shillings per pound; whereas to a manufacturer who grinds one hundred thousand pounds, which is really the case with many at the southward, the duty is reduced to the insignificance of one copper per pound; and therefore at first sight it evidently appears the men of opulence are actually and bona fide defrauding the revenue under authority, and grossly imposing on their fellow-citizens, by advancing the price two hundred per cent. when in fact the duty does not affect it on their scale five per cent. We all know, moreover, that the capitals of most of the snuff-makers in New-England are not equal to the advance of so large a sum, nor are they able to stock their mills so as to work on a par with the southern manufacturers; the natural consequence of which is, that the trade will fall immediately into very few hands, and the industrious individual of small capital must quit the business; and indeed it has had that effect in New-England, where almost every mill is now unemployed. This proceeding is quite contrary to a republican government, which ought especially to guard against all monopolies, and to the utmost protect the middle class of men.
This act puts me in mind of the late farmers general of France, who obtained the exclusive privilege of making snuff, by paying a sum in the goods to the king, and by that means infamous harrased and oppressed their fellow subjects, even to a proverb. I flatter myself our legislators will scrupulously avoid such pernicious examples, and tenaciously watch over the welfare of each class of citizens. Snuff, it is true, is a luxury; but, if I may be permitted to use the expression, it is a patriotic one; it is of our own growth; it employs a great number of farmers, seamen and mechanics, and its effects on the senses are in many instances highly beneficial, but never hurtful.
NO MONOPOLIST.
No mails arrived this day.
SHOT,
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MAILS of the United States.
PROPOSALS
For carrying the MAILS of the United States on the following Post Roads, will be received at the General Post Office until the first day of October next. See Note 7th.
IN MAINE.
1. From Pemaquid by Machias, Goldsborough, Sullivan, Trenton, and Bluehill to Penobscot.
Receive the Mail at Pemaquid every other Saturday by 8 o'clock in the morning, and deliver it at Penobscot the next Friday by 6 in the evening. Returning. Receive the Mail at Penobscot every other Saturday by 10 o'clock forenoon, and deliver it at Pemaquid the next Friday afternoon by 5 o'clock.
2. From Hallowell by Vassalboro, Winslow, (Port Halifax) Fairfield and Canaan, to Norridgeworth.
Leave Hallowell every other Wednesday by noon, and arrive at Norridgeworth the next Thursday by 6 P. M. Returning. Leave Norridgeworth on Friday by 10 A. M. and arrive at Hallowell the next Saturday by 4 P. M.
3. From Welles by Waterville, Courthouse, Sanford, Doyl's Falls and Berwick, to Dover in New Hampshire.
Leave Welles every Friday by 8 A. M. and arrive at Dover the next day by 3 P. M. Returning. Leave Dover every Wednesday by 2 P. M. and arrive at Welles the next Thursday by 4 P. M.
IN NEW HAMPSHIRE.
4. From Portsmouth by Dover, Rochester and Moultonborough to Plymouth, returning by New-Hampton, Meredith, Gilmanstown, Nottingham and Durham, to Portsmouth.
Leave Portsmouth every Wednesday morning by 8 o'clock, and arrive at Dover by noon, every other Wednesday, and at Plymouth the next Friday by 6 P. M. Returning. Leave Plymouth on Saturday by 8 A. M. and return to Portsmouth the next Tuesday by 4 P. M.
Note. "The post is to go and return on this route alternately," and the mail is to be carried but once in two weeks from November 1st to May 1st.
IN NEW YORK State.
5. From Conesjohary by Cherryvalley, Coopers-town, Butternuts and Oxford academy, to Union (at the mouth of the Chenango) once in two weeks.
Leave Conesjohary every other Wednesday by 8 A. M. arrive at Coopers-town by 2 P. M. and at Union the next Saturday by 10 A. M. Returning. Leave Union every other Saturday by 3 P. M. and arrive at Conesjohary the next Tuesday by 6 P. M.
6. From Fiskhill by Newburg and New Windsor to Goshen.
The mail to leave Fiskhill on Wednesday by 7 A. M. and arrive at Goshen by 5 P. M. Returning. Leave Goshen on Tuesday by 7 A. M. and arrive at Fiskhill by 5 P. M.
IN PENNSYLVANIA.
7. From Bethlehem to Wilkesbarre.
Leave Bethlehem every Thursday by 1 P. M. and arrive at Wilkesbarre on Saturday by 2 P. M. Returning. Leave Wilkesbarre every Tuesday by 8 A. M. and arrive at Bethlehem Thursday by 10 A. M.
8. From Piper'savern in Bedminster (on the post-road from Philadelphia to Bethlehem) by Alexandria, to Pittston in New Jersey.
Leave Piper's every Thursday by 6 A. M. and arrive at Pittston by noon. Stay at Pittston two hours, and return to Piper's by 8 P. M. or on Friday by 8 A. M.
9. From Reading by Sunbury and Northumberland, to Lewiburg.
Leave Reading every Friday by 6 A. M. arrive at Sunbury on Saturday by 6 P. M. and at Lewiburg by Sunday noon. Returning. Leave Lewiburg on Monday by 7 A. M. and arrive at Reading the next Wednesday by noon.
10. From Yorktown by Abbot'stown and Gettysburg to Hager'stown and Williamsport in Maryland, to Martinsburg in Virginia.
Leave Yorktown every Monday by 6 A. M. arrive at Hagerstown on Tuesday noon, and at Martinsburg by 7 P. M. Returning. Leave Martinsburg on Saturday by 6 A. M. arrive at Hagerstown by noon, and at Yorktown on Sunday evening by 7 o'clock.
11. From Beardstown in Kentucky to Nashville, South Western Territory.
Leave Beardstown every other Tuesday by 10 A. M. and arrive at Nashville the next Sunday by 5 P. M. Returning. Leave Nashville the next Monday noon, and arrive at Beardstown the next Saturday by 7 P. M.
IN MARYLAND.
12. From Annapolis by Lower Marlborough and Calvert court house to St. Leonard's creek.
Leave Annapolis every Tuesday by 7 A. M. arrive at Lower Marlborough by 3 P. M. at Calvert courthouse by 7 P. M. and at St. Leonard's creek on Wednesday by 10 A. M. Returning. Leave St. Leonard's Creek on Friday by 3 P. M. arrive at Calvert courthouse by 7 P. M. at Lower Marlborough on Saturday by 9 A. M. and at Annapolis by 7 P. M.
13. From Bladensburg by Upper Marlborough and Nottingham to Benedict.
Leave Bladensburg on Saturday by 6 A. M. arrive at Upper Marlborough by 11 A. M. leave Upper Marlborough in two hours, and arrive at Benedict on Sunday noon. Returning. Leave Benedict on Monday by 6 A. M. arrive at Upper Marlborough by 4 P. M. and at Bladensburg on Tuesday by 9 A. M.
IN VIRGINIA.
14. From Winchester by Romney to Moorfields.
Leave Winchester every Monday by 10 A. M. arrive at Romney on Tuesday noon, and at Moorfields on Wednesday by 9 A. M. Returning. Leave Moorfields on Tuesday by 2 P. M. arrive at Romney on Thursday by 8 A. M. and at Winchester on Friday by 4 P. M.
15. From Charlottesville by Warren, Warrenton, New Market, Amherst, Cabell'sburg and Madison, to Lynchburg.
Leave Charlottesville every Thursday by 8 A. M. and arrive at Lynchburg the next Saturday by 4 P. M. Returning. Leave Lynchburg on Monday by 9 A. M. and arrive at Charlottesville the next Wednesday by 5 P. M.
IN NORTH AND SOUTH CAROLINA.
16. From Powhatan courthouse to Cartersville.
Leave Powhatan courthouse every Tuesday by 7 A. M. and arrive at Cartersville on Wednesday by 12 M. Returning. Leave Cartersville every Thursday and arrive at Cartersville
No information of the length of this road is yet received: persons making proposals are desired to state such times of arrival and departure at and from Cartersville, as shall be convenient to them.
17. From Yorktown in Virginia to Gloucester court house.
Leave Yorktown every Monday by 7 A. M. and arrive at Gloucester court house by 11 A. M. Returning. Leave Gloucester court house by 2 P. M. and arrive at Yorktown by 5 P. M.
IN NORTH AND SOUTH CAROLINA.
18. From Camden S. Carolina, by Lancaster to Charlotte and Lincoln in North Carolina.
Leave Camden every other Monday by 7 A. M. arrive at Charlotte the next Wednesday by 9 A. M. and at Lincoln on Thursday by 9 A. M. Returning. Leave Lincoln every other Thursday by 12 M. arrive at Charlotte on Friday by noon, and at Camden on Sunday evening.
19. From Columbia by Winnsborough, Chester, Pinckney, and Spartan court houses to Greenville court house.
Leave Columbia every other Thursday by 6 A. M. arrive at Pinckney on Friday by 6 P. M. and at Greenville court house the next Sunday noon. Returning. Leave Greenville court house on Tuesday by 3 P. M. and at Columbia the next Thursday by 3 P. M.
20. From Columbia by Newbury to Laurens, Greenville, Washington and Pendleton court houses.
Leave Columbia every other Thursday by noon, and arrive at Greenville court house on Sunday by 10 A. M. and at Pendleton court house by 7 P. M. Returning. Leave Pendleton court house on Monday by 8 A. M. arrive at Greenville court house by 3 P. M. and at Columbia the next Thursday by noon.
IN GEORGIA.
21. From Savannah by Newport bridge and St. Savilla to St. Mary's.
Leave Savannah every other Monday by 7 A. M. arrive at Newport bridge by 3 P. M. and at St. Mary's the next Thursday by noon. Returning. Leave St. Mary's on Friday by 3 A. M. arrive at Newport bridge on Sunday by 2 P. M. and at Savannah by 7 P. M.
Note 1. The Post Master General may alter the times of arrival and departure at any time during the continuance of the contracts, he previously stipulating an adequate compensation for any extra expense that may be occasioned thereby.
Note 2. Half an hour shall be allowed for opening and closing the mail at all offices where no particular time is specified.
Note 3. For every hour's delay (unavoidable accidents excepted) in arriving after the times prescribed in any contract, the contractor shall forfeit one dollar; and if the delay continue until the departure of any depending mail whereby the mails defined for such depending mail lose a trip, an additional forfeiture of five dollars shall be incurred.
Note 4. Newspapers as well as letters are to be sent in the mails; and if any person making proposals desires to carry newspapers other than those conveyed in the mail for his own emolument, he must state in his proposals for what sum he will carry it with that emolument and for what sum without that emolument.
Note 5. The contracts for the Mails Number 1, 19, 20, and 21, are to be in operation on the first day of October next, and all the others on the first day of November next. The contracts for the fourteen first numbered roads are to continue in force until the 1st of October 1797; the contracts for the road No. 21, is to continue until the 1st of October 1796, and the contracts for the roads No. 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, and 20, are to continue until the 1st of April 1798.
Note 6. Should any person making proposals desire an alteration of the times of arrival and departure above specified, he must state in his proposals such alterations and the difference they will make in the terms of his contract.
Note 7. Proposals for the Road No. 1, will be received by the Post Master at Penobscot; for the Road No. 11, by Mr. Walter Beal, at Beardstown; for the Roads No. 19 and 20, by Dr. S. Green, Post Master at Columbia; and for the Road No. 21, by General James Jackson, at Savannah; proposals for the other Roads must be sent to this office. No proposals for the Roads No. 1, 19, 20 and 21, will be received after the 20th of September next.
Note 8. Contractors may receive their pay quarterly.
General Post Office, Philad. July 27, 1795.
JOSEPH HABERSHAM, Post Master General.
CANAL LOTTERY.
SCHEME of a Lottery authorized by an act entitled "An act to enable the President and Managers of the Schuylkill and Susquehanna Navigation, and the President and Managers of the Delaware and Schuylkill Canal Navigation, to raise by way of Lottery, the sum of four hundred thousand dollars, for the purpose of completing the works in their acts of incorporation mentioned."
Table with 2 columns: Prize Amount, Number of Prizes. Includes 1 Prize of 50,000 dollars, 1 of 30,000, 5 of 20,000, etc.
All Prizes shall be paid ten days after the drawing is finished, upon the demand of the possessor of a fortunate Ticket, subject to the deduction of fifteen per cent.
Such prizes as are not demanded in 12 months after the drawing is finished, of which public notice will be given, shall be considered as relinquished for the use of the Canal, and applied accordingly.
At a meeting of the President and Managers of the Schuylkill and Susquehanna Canal navigation—and the President and Managers of the Delaware and Schuylkill Canal, Wednesday, May 13, 1795.
Resolved, That David Rittenhouse, Joseph Ball, John Steinmetz, Standish Forde, and Francis West, be a Committee to arrange and direct the mode of disposing of the Tickets; which Committee shall deposit the Money in Bank, to be carried to the credit of an account to be opened for the Lottery.
Extract from the Minutes, T. MATLACK, Sec'y.
to the joint meeting of the two Boards The drawing of this Lottery will positively commence on the first day of September next: Tickets may be had at the Company's Office near the Bank of the United States, and of either of the subscribers.
DAVID RITTENHOUSE, JOSEPH BALL, JOHN STEINMETZ, STANDISH FORDE, FRANCIS WEST. Managers.
At a Meeting of the Stockholders in the Insurance Company of the state of Pennsylvania, on the 25th May last, convened for the purpose of fixing the time of payment of the remaining part of the Capital Stock of said Company.
Resolved, that the remaining sum of two hundred dollars per share, be paid on the 6th day of November next, under the penalties annexed to default by the act of Incorporation.
Published by order of the Meeting, SAMUEL W. FISHER, Sec'y.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, Revenue Office, April 27, 1795
PROPOSALS will be received at the Office of the COMMISSIONER of the REVENUE for building
A LIGHT HOUSE
on the head land of Cape Hatteras on the coast of North Carolina, of the following materials, dimensions, and description.
The form is to be octagonal.—The foundation is to be of stone, to be sunk thirteen feet below the bottom of the water table or the surface of the earth, and to be commenced of the diameter of twenty nine feet.—From such commencement to the height of four feet the foundation is to be laid solidly and from thence to the bottom of the water table, the foundation wall is to be nine feet high and nine feet thick.
The diameter of the base from the bottom of the water table to the top thereof (where the octagonal pyramid is to commence) is to be twenty eight feet four inches and the wall is there to be seven feet thick—the wall of the octagonal pyramid is to be six feet thick at the base thereof, on the top of the water table.
The height of the building from the bottom of the water table, and from the surface of the earth, is to be ninety feet to the top of the stone work, under the floor of the lantern; where the diameter is to be sixteen and one half feet and the wall three feet—the whole of the walls is to be built of stone: the water table is to be capping with fawed stone, at least eight inches wide and sloped at the top to turn off the water. The outside of the walls is to be faced with hewn or hammer dressed stone, having four windows in the north east and five windows in the south west: The fashes are to be hung with hinges, and each fash is to have twelve panes of glass, eight by ten inches.
On the top of the stone work is to be a framed tier of joists, bedded therein, planked over with oak plank, extending two feet beyond the wall thereby forming an eave which is to be finished with a cornice, the whole having a descent from the centre sufficient to throw off the water, and to be covered with copper. A complete and sufficient iron lantern in the octagonal form is to be thereon. The eight corner pieces or flanchions of which, are to be built in the wall to the depth of ten feet. These flanchions are to be nearly three inches square in the lower ten feet, and 3 1-2 inches by 2 1-2 inches above. The lantern is to be ten feet and nine inches in diameter, it is also to be ten feet high from the floor to the bottom of the dome or roof and to have a dome or roof of five feet and nine inches in height. The whole space between the posts or upright pieces at the angles is to be occupied by the fashes, which are to be moulded on the inside and struck solid. Each fash is to have twenty eight panes of glass, fourteen by twelve inches. A part of the fash on the south west side is to be hung with hinges for a convenient door to go out on the platform. The rafters of the lantern are to be framed into an iron hoop, over which is to be a copper funnel, thro' which the smoke may pass into a larger copper ventilator in the form of a man's head, capacious containing one hundred gallons. This head is to be turned by a large vane; so that the hole for venting the smoke, may be always to leeward. Eight dormant ventilators are to be fixed in the roof, a large curved air pipe is to be passed through the floor, and a close stove is to be provided and fixed in the lantern. There are to be eight pairs of stairs to ascend to the lantern, the entrance to which is to be by a trap door covered with copper. The building is to be furnished with two complete electrical conductors, or rods with points. The floors are to be laid with plank, of at least one inch and one half in thickness. The entrance to the light house is to be well secured by a strong door hung upon hinges with a strong lock and latch complete.
Also a frame House to be thirty four feet in front and sixteen feet deep with a cellar under it. The cellar walls to be eighteen inches thick and seven feet high. The first story of the house is to be eight feet, and the second, seven feet and six inches high. The floors are to be laid in whole lengths, nailed through. The stack of chimneys is to be finished with two plain fire places on each floor, one of them large for a kitchen. Two windows below and three above in front and rear, each fash to have eighteen panes of glass ten by twelve inches. The doors are to be hung and furnished completely.
The ceilings and sides of the House are to be plastered with two coats; all the wood work inside and out is to be well painted and the whole to be finished in a plain decent manner.
An Oil vault is to be built twenty feet by twelve feet in the clear, arched over and covered with earth or sand over which a shed is to be built.—It is to be furnished with nine strong Cedar Cisterns with covers, each capable of containing two hundred gallons.
The entrance to the vault is to be secured by a strong door. A well is to be sunk at a convenient distance, and furnished with a curb, bucket and rope completely.
The builder to find and pay for all the materials, labor, workmanship, provisions, and other objects of cost, charge or expense, for a sum to be agreed upon, and to execute the before described work and every part thereof in a good and workman-like manner.
Convenient payments or advances, on security will be made.
April 27. m. & th tf
TO BE SOLD,
THAT large Grazing FARM, now in the tenure of Mr. John Piffant; containing about 471 acres, more than 200 of which are meadow of the best quality; the remainder consists of cedar and maple swamp, upland, and outside marsh, mostly fit to be taken in. It is situate on the river Delaware, with a commodious and excellent landing, directly opposite to Chester, and between Repaupo and Raccoon creeks, in Gloucester county; from which creeks public market boats go every week to the city. This Farm may be conveniently divided into two, leaving two dwellings in good situations; has barns and stabling for feeding 60 head of cattle; and, from its many advantages, must be an object for any one extensively in the grazing or dairy way. For terms or more particular information, apply to Richard Whitehead, No. 62, Vine-street.
June 30. t&f&w
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 to solicit a continuance of their favors. At his Shop gentlemen may be furnished with the best materials, and have them made up and finished in the most fashionable manner. He will thankfully receive any orders and pay a prompt and punctual attention to them. Oct. 15 $145
NICHOLAS DIEHL, Jun. NOTARY PUBLIC, &c.
HAS removed his Office from No. 19 South Fourth to No. 30 Walnut Street. June $145
WILLIAM BAYLIS,
A l'onneur d'informer ses amis et le public en général, qu'il a ouvert un Nouveau magasin, dans State Street, Boston, dirigé à l'opposé de M. M. Jones & Balf; il se flatte que les connaissances qu'il a acquis dans ce genre de Commerce, le mettront à même, de satisfaire tout ceux, qui voudront bien l'honorer de leur confiance. Il les assure qu'il aura une attention particulière pour leurs intérêts et que la plus stricte intégrité, dans sa conduite le rendra digne de leur confiance & de leurs recommandations. N. B. Les affaires par Commission, de quelque nature, qu'elles soient, seront ponctuellement et diligemment exécutées. July 30. end v m
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