Gazette of the United States and daily evening advertiser. (Philadelphia [Pa.]), 1795-03-02 00:00:00

Gazette of the United States  AND  DAILY EVENING ADVERTISER.
[No. 51 of Vol. VII.]
MONDAY, MARCH 2, 1795.
[Whole No. 773]
In the press and speedily will be published,  BY  THOMAS DOBSON, No. 41, South Second Street, WOLSTONCRAFT'S Historical & Moral View OF THE French Revolution,
And the effect it has produced in Europe. N. Y. A few Copies of the London Edition, for sale at two dollars and a quarter. Feb. 3
Columbianum. February 14, 1795. AT a Meeting of the Fellow Artists of the Columbianum, at Mr. Groombridge's House, adjoining the Bank of Pennsylvania, in the City of Philadelphia. G. I. Parkyn in the chair. Resolved, That the Columbianum or National College, shall apprise the Artists of America, and such Ladies and Gentlemen, as are desirous of sending specimens of their performances, either in Painting, Sculpture, 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, addressed to the Chairman of the Columbianum through the hands of Mr. Groombridge. Resolved, That the Rooms intended for the Exhibition shall be announced to the Public, as soon as the preparatory arrangements are completed. Resolved, That every possible care shall be taken of such performances of Artists and Honorary Exhibitors as are intended for the Exhibition, and that they shall be returned to the different proprietors, at the close of the fame, with every suitable precaution.
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, Adm. Sec. Feb. 20
Thirty dollars reward. Ran away from the subscriber, a white French servant named Pierre Le Fille, about 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 Saturday morning, after stealing several silver spoons and forks, part of which he sold to a silver-smith in Fredericktown. He enticed away with him a French Negro Girl, named Cécile, 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 gardener, and had been taken on board a French privateer which he left at Baltimore, previous to his coming into my service at Fredericktown. Any person who will secure them in either of the following places, shall thereupon receive 15 dollars for each of the said run-aways, of the following persons: John Vaughan, of Philadelphia; David Stewart and Sons, Baltimore; Moses Myers, Norfolk; or the Subscriber. E. P. M. DE LA VINCENDIERRE. Fredericktown, Maryland, Feb. 16. All Captains of vessels are warned not to carry them out of the country. d17w4w2w
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, Flour Brads, Sprigs and Tacks, Follers Shears, Gun Flints and Wool Hats, A quantity of kiln dried Indian Meal in barrels. A new Edition of Adgate's Philadelphia Harmony, containing both the first and second parts, being the most approved system of Rules and the best collection of Tunes now in use. Also for Sale, A COMPLETE SET OF  Machinery for making Cards On an Improved Construction. Oct. 2
WANTED,  An Apprentice To the Watch making and Repairing Business APPLY TO C. Campbell, No. 3, South Fourth street, two doors from Market street. Jan. 19
For Freight or Charter, The Brig  ABIGAIL, A. W. Troffel, master. BURTHEN about 2000 barrels, now lying at Jeff 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. 118, South Second Street. Who has for sale, on board said Brig, 3000 bushels Lisbon Salt, A few boxes fresh Lemons and Oranges, And a few quarter casks Lisbon Wine. Feb. 27
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, sails well, and has good accommodations for passengers. For freight or passage enquire of MATTHIAS KEELY, South Water-street, GAZZAM & TAYLOR, Front-street or RALPH MATHER, Race-street, No. 71. February 23.
For Hamburg, The fast-sailing Ship  INDUSTRY, William Bell, master. LYING at Sim's wharf, will sail in a few days, having three fourths of her cargo on board. For freight or passage apply to JOHN BROWN, at Walnut street wharf, or  Thomas Newman, No. 118, South Second-street. Feb. 7.
Fresh Teas, Of SUPERIOR QUALITY, viz. Imperial, or Gunpowder Hyson Gonae, 1st quality Hyson, 2d. do. do. Young Hyson, Hyson Skin, and Souchon. A few Boxes of each, for sale at No. 19, Third street south. Dec. 10
PROPOSALS For printing by Subscription, a new publication, to be entitled  The American Remembrancer & Universal Tablet of Memory. 1st. This publication will be printed on good paper, and on a good type and will contain at least 320 pages duodecimo. 2d. The price to Subscribers will be 75 cents to non-subscribers, one dollar. 3d. The Work, it is expected, will be ready for delivery, by the middle of March. 4th. Those who shall obtain 12 Subscribers, will be entitled to one copy for their trouble; to Printers and Bookellers the usual allowance will be given.  To the PUBLIC. THE principal design of this publication is to relieve 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 and heroic, 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.
James Hardie. N. B. It is requested that such persons as are entrusted with subscription papers, will be so obliging as to return them by the first of March, in order that their names may be inserted as patrons of the work. 17w. 2w
Ticklenburgs, Oznaburgs, and Glass Ware, Landing from on board the ship Peggy, from Amsterdam. ALSO,  Coffee of prime Quality In hogheads and tierces, Mulcovado Sugars In hogheads,  German Steel, ASSORTED WOOLLENS, In small Bales, &c. for sale by  Rundle & Murgatroyd, No. 11, Walnut street wharf. Who want to purchase 300 or 400 Casks Good Flaxseed. Nov. 11
George Hunter,  Chemist, At his Laboratory, No. 114, South Second Street. INFORMS his former customers and the public, that he has begun the DRUG business again on an extensive plan. He has for sale a general assortment of  FRESH DRUGS, CHEMICAL PREPARATIONS, and PATENT MEDICINES. Likewise, painters' colours, dry and ground in oil, white brushes, window and coach glass, dry flax, linseed oil, oil of turpentine, copal oil &c. and Japan, warranted good. Allum, copperas, madder, ground redwood by the hoghead or smaller quantity. As he imports the samples 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 sell 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.
A FEW COPIES Of the celebrated Performance under the Signature of  MANLIUS, May be had of John Ormerod, No. 41, Chestnut street. PRICE—25 CENTS.
Martan's Law of  NATIONS.  PROPOSALS For publishing by Subscription, by  Thomas Bradford, No. 8, South Front Street, An English Translation Of a late publication, entitled, PRECIS du Droit des Gens Modernes de L'Europe, Fondé sur des Traites & L'Usage; par M. Martan. Or, A  Summary of the Law of  Nations, Founded on the TREATIES and CUSTOMS of the Modern Nations of Europe. To which is added a List of the Principal Treaties concluded since 1748, to the present time, with references to the books, where they are to be found.
CONDITIONS. 1. THIS Work will be comprised in one elegant OCTAVO VOLUME, printed on a fine paper, and entire new type. 2. The price to subscribers, will be One Dollar and an Half; to be raised to non-subscribers. 3. It shall be delivered to subscribers in law-binding. The whole to be executed in a style of elegance, that will render it as ornamental as useful to the Library of the Statesman, Politician, or Lawyer. 4. It shall be put to press as soon as a sufficient number of names appear to encourage the undertaking. 5. The names of the subscribers will be printed to record the patrons of this INESTIMABLE WORK. Gentlemen residing at a distance are requested to add to their subscription, the name of some person in Philadelphia, with whom they would wish their books deposited. No payment expected until the delivery of the book. Subscriptions are received by Thomas Bradford, No. 8, South Front Street, and the other Bookellers in Philadelphia; by James Rivington, Hugh Gaine and Thomas Allen, New York; John W. Folsom and Isaiah Thomas, Boston; William Pritchard, Richmond, Virginia; and Rice & Co. Baltimore. Feb. 18.
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.
Scheme of a Lottery. Total sum 39,900 Dollars, or 366,000 Dollars. Deducting 15 per Cent. from the Prizes—This Lottery consists of 38,000 Tickets, in which there are 14,539 Prizes, and 23,461 Blanks, being about one and an half blanks to a prize. THE Directors of the Society for establishing Useful Manufactures, having received an Act of the Legislature of the State of New Jersey, have appointed the following persons to superintend and direct the drawing of the same, viz. Nicholas Low, Rufus King, Herman Le Roy, James Watson, Richard Harrison, Abijah Hammond, and Cornelius Ray, of the city of New York—Thomas Willing, Joseph Ball, Matthew M'Connell and Andrew Bayard, of the city of Philadelphia—His Excellency Richard Howell, Esq. Elias Boudinot, General Elias Dayton, James Parker, John Bayard, Doctor Lewis Donham, Samuel W. Stockton, Joshua M'Wallace, Joseph Bloomfield, and Eliza Boudinot, of New Jersey, who offer the following Scheme of a Lottery, and pledge themselves to the public, that they will take every assurance and precaution in their power to have the Monies paid by the Managers, from time to time, as received, into the Banks at New-York and Philadelphia, to remain for the purpose of paying Prizes, which shall be immediately discharged by a check upon one of the Banks.  S C H E M E. 1 Prize of 20,000 Dollars is 20,000 2 " 10,000 " 10,000 3 " 5,000 " 15,000 4 " 2,000 " 10,000 5 " 1,000 " 10,000 10 " 500 " 10,000 20 " 100 " 10,000 50 " 50 " 15,000 100 " 20 " 20,000 200 " 15 " 30,000 300 " 12 " 36,000 400 " 10 " 40,000 14,539 Prizes. 262,000 23,461 Blanks. First drawn number, 2,000 Last drawn number, 2,000 38,000 Tickets at 7 Dollars each is 266,000 The drawing will commence, under the inspection of a Committee of the Superintendents, as soon as the Tickets are sold, of which timely notice will be given. The Superintendents have appointed John N. Cumming, of Newark, Jacob R. Hardenberg, of New-Brunswick, and Jonathan Rhea, of Trenton, as immediate Managers thereof, who have given ample security for discharging the trust reposed in them. In order to secure the punctual payment of the Prizes, the Superintendents of the Lottery have directed that the Managers, shall each enter into bonds in 40,000 dollars, with four sufficient securities, to perform their instructions, the substance of which is 1. That whenever the Managers shall receive the sum of Three Hundred Dollars, he shall immediately place the same in one of the Banks of New-York or Philadelphia, to the credit of the Governor of the Society, and such of the Superintendents as live in the city where the monies are placed, to remain there until the Lottery is drawn, for the payment of the Prizes. 2. The Managers to take sufficient security for any Tickets they may sell, otherwise to be responsible for them. 3. To keep regular books of Tickets sold, Monies received and paid into the Bank, abstracts of which shall be sent monthly, to the Governor of the Society. Paterson, January 31, 1794. On application to either of the above gentlemen, information will be given where tickets may be had. m&f
A Morjel for the Gnavers of the Bone! This Day was published, AND FOR SALE AT  T. BRADFORD'S Book-Store, No. 8. South Front Street, [Price 37 cents]  Observations on the Emigration of Dr. Priestley, And on the several Addresses delivered to him, on his arrival at New York, with additions, containing many curious and interesting facts on the subject, not known here when the first edition was published:—Together with a comprehensive story of a  FARMER'S BULL. Third Edition. At the same place may be had the following Late Publications, viz. 1. A Bone to gnaw for the Democrats; or Observations on a late pamphlet, entitled "The Political Progress of Great Britain." 2. The Young Quaker, a comedy, by O'Keefe. 3. Haunted Tower, by Mr. Cobb. 4. Sicilian Romance, an opera, by Henry Siddons. 5. The Hapless Orphan; or Innocent victim of Revenge; a novel founded on incidents in real life. In a series of letters from Caroline Francis, to Maria B—— by an American Lady, 2 vols. A general Assortment of Books in the different departments of literature. T. Bradford has also for sale, the Best Superfine English CARDS, and best coloured Wafers, wholesale or retail; and as usual, an assortment of STATIONARY and Blank Books, which he will sell on the lowest terms. Feb. 7.
Columbianum. Notice is hereby given, That the Committee of Examination of Talents and Pretensions, belonging to the Columbianum or National College of Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, and Engraving continue to receive recommendations from those Artists, who mean to become Members of that Institution, enclosed to Mr. Groombridge at his house adjoining the Bank of Pennsylvania, and addressed to the chairman. Signed by order of the Committee of Examination, &c. J. J. BARRALET, THOS. ROBSON, Adm. Sec. Feb. 27
Library Company of Philadelphia. A General Meeting of the Members of the Library Company of Philadelphia is requested, at the Hall, on the ninth day of March next, at four o'clock in the afternoon, to take into consideration the propriety of increasing the Annual Payments, and repealing so much of their Bye Laws, as authorizes the Directors to dispose of the real Estate of the Company. By order of the Directors. Benjamin R. Morgan, Sec'y. Feb. 14.
Treasury Department. Revenue Office, Feb. 10, 1795. Notice is hereby given that Proposals will be received at the Office of the Commissioner of the Revenue, until the expiration of the 30th day of April next, for Ten Thousand Gallons of the best winter pressed Spermaceti Oil, in strong and well bound casks, not exceeding in capacity forty two gallons, to be ready for delivery, on or before the first day of June next. It is required that the Oil be of a quality fit for use in the coldest weather, and in the Northern Light-Houses. Persons disposed to furnish the above mentioned quantity, or any part thereof not less than 5000 gallons, will be pleased to transmit written proposals to this office (at Philadelphia) by post, or to deposit them at the office of either of the following superintendents of Light-Houses, who will transmit them hither, viz. Joseph Whipple, at Portsmouth, New-Hampshire. Benjamin Lincoln, at Boston. William Ellery, at Newport in Rhode Island. Jedediah Huntington, at New London, Connecticut. Thomas Randall, at New York. William Allibone, at Philadelphia. Immediately after the last day of April, the proposals which may have been received, will be decided upon, and notice will be given of the accepted offer. Security will be required for the punctual delivery of the Oil in quantity and quality as above described. The money will be paid on a delivery after inspection. Tench Coxe, Commissioner of the Revenue. Feb. 12
New-castle Pier Lottery. Tickets in the above Lottery may be examined at the Office No 149 Chestnut-street between Fourth and Fifth streets. Arrangements having been made to obtain regularly each day's drawing. Information also will be given where a few remaining Tickets may be purchased. N. B. The Lottery commenced drawing the 25th inst. 28 Feb.
Wants Employment, A Person who has a tolerable knowledge of CONVEYANCING, a general knowledge of Accounts and Figures, and writes a good hand. He would engage by the year, either in an Office or Merchant's compting house. A line addressed to J.B. and left at the Office of the Gazette of the United States, will be duly attended to. Jan. 10
James M'Alpin,  Taylor, No. 3, SOUTH FOURTH STREET, Returns his grateful acknowledgments to his friends and the Public for their liberal Encouragement, and begs leave respectfully to solicit a Continuance of their Favourites. At his Shop Gentlemen can be furnished with the best materials, and have them made up and finished in the neatest and most fashionable manner. He will thankfully receive any orders & pay prompt and punctual attention to them. Oct. 25

SHAKESPEARE'S WORKS.
Mountford, Bioron, & 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 Shakespeare—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 Shakespeare.
SUBSCRIPTIONS are received by the principal Booksellers in this City, and throughout the United States, and by the Publishers, No. 75, Dock Street. Feb. 28. eod3t—raw4w
Inland Navigation.
This Day is published, and to be sold by Zachariah Poulton jun.
No. 80, Chestnut Street, And at the Philadelphia Library, A 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 1792, and their Grants of Money for improving Roads and Navigable Waters throughout the state—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 the extended plain
Stretch their long arms to join the distant main.
The sons of toil, with weary toils broke
Seep the hard bottom of the solid rock;
Resistless through the flit opposing clay,
With steady patience, work their gradual way;
Compel the Genii of the unwilling flood
Through the brown horrors of the aged wood;
Cross the lone waste the silver urn they pour;
And cheer the barren heath, or fallen moor
"The traveller, with pleasing wonder sees
The white sail gleaming through the dusky trees;
And views the altered 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 art no more divide
While each, unmoving, 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!
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American Landscapes.
PROPOSALS
FOR PUBLISHING IN AQUATINTA
TWENTY-FOUR
VIEWS.
Selected from the most striking and interesting 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 "Monastic 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 coloured, 5 Dollars; and if browned, 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 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.
Subscriptions are received by Mr. Harrison, at his Print-shop, Maiden-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.
L A W S
OF THE UNITED STATES.
Third Congress of the United States.
AT THE SECOND SESSION:
Begun and held at the city of Philadelphia, in the state of Pennsylvania, on Monday, the third of November, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four.
AN ACT to authorize the allowance of drawback on part of the cargo of the ship Enterprise.
Sec. 1. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the collector of the district of Pennsylvania be, and he is hereby authorized and directed to grant permits for the exportation of that part of the cargo of the ship Enterprise, Herbert Jones, commander, which has been imported in the said ship, and in the schooner Delight, John Cannon, commander, from Newbern in North-Carolina, under the same regulations and restrictions, as if the same had been imported into the district of Pennsylvania, from any foreign port or place.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the collector of the district of Newbern be authorized to grant a debenture or debentures for the drawback of the said duties, in like manner, and under the same regulations and restrictions as are provided by the act, intitled "An act making further provision in cases of drawbacks," for goods wares and merchandise exported from the United States, after the last day of March next.
FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MÜHLENBERG,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
JOHN ADAMS, Vice-President of the United States, and President of the Senate.
Approved, February the thirteenth, 1795.
G. WASHINGTON, President of the United States.
Deposited among the Rolls in the Office of the Secretary of State.
EDM. RANDOLPH, Secretary of State.
AN ACT to amend the act, intitled "An act making alterations in the Treasury and War departments."
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That in case of vacancy in the office of the Secretary of State, Secretary of the Treasury, or of the Secretary of the department of War or of any officer of the said departments, whose appointment is not in the head thereof, where they cannot perform the duties of their said respective offices; it shall be lawful for the President of the United States, in case he shall think it necessary to authorize any person or persons, at his discretion, to perform the duties of said respective offices, until a successor be appointed, or such vacancy be filled: Provided, That no one vacancy shall be supplied, in manner aforesaid, for a longer term than six months.
Approved, February the thirteenth, 1795.
AN ACT relative to the compensation of certain officers employed in the collection of the duties of import and tonnage.
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 commissions heretofore established by law, there shall be allowed to the collectors of the duties of import & tonnage, on all monies by them respectively received on account of the duties aforesaid arising on tonnage, and on goods, wares and merchandise imported after the last day of March, next as follows to wit:
To the collectors of the districts of Pennsylvania and New-York, three tenths of one per cent;
To the collector of the district of Boston and Charlestown, and to the collector of the district of Baltimore, five eighths of one per cent;
To the collectors of the districts of Salem and Norfolk, seven eighths of one per cent;
To the collectors of the districts of Alexandria, Charleston and Savannah, one per cent;
To the collector of the district of Newbern, one and a quarter per cent.
To the collectors of the districts of Portsmouth, Portland, Newport, Providence, New-Hampshire and Tappahannock one and a half per cent;
And to the collectors of the districts of Vermont, Champlain, Gloucester, Marblehead, Plymouth, Barnstable, Nantucket, Edgar-Town, New-Bedford, Dighton, York, Biddeford, Bath, Wiscasset, Penobscot, Frenchman's Bay, Machias, Passamaquoddy, New-London, Fairfield, Sagg-Harbour, Perth-Amboy, Burlington Bridge-Town, Great-Egg-Harbour, Wilmington, in Delaware, Chester, Oxford, Vienna, Snowhill, Annapolis, Nottingham Cedar Point, George-Town in Maryland, Bermuda Hundred, Hampton, York-Town Yecomoco, Dumfries, Folly-landing, Cherrystone, South-Quay, Kentucky, Wilmington in North Carolina, Newbern Washington, Edenton, Camden, George Town in South Carolina, Beaufort, Sunbury, Brunswick, St. Mary's and Hardwick, two per cent.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That from and after the last day of March next, in lieu of the annual allowances heretofore
established by law, there shall be yearly allowed to the following officers, the sums following to wit:
To the collectors of the districts of Annapolis, Chester, South-Quay, Yecomoco, Wilmington in North-Carolina, Cedar Point and Washington, the sum of two hundred dollars each:
To the collectors of the districts of York, Passamaquoddy, Oxford, Vienna, Nottingham, Hampton, York-Town, Dumfries, Folly-landing, Cherrystone, Beaufort, Saint Mary's, Brunswick and Hardwick, the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars each:
To the collector of the district of Perth-Amboy, one hundred and twenty dollars:
To the collectors of the districts of Portsmouth, Vermont, Champlain, Gloucester, Plymouth, Barnstable, Nantucket, Edgar-Town, New-Bedford, Biddeford, Penobscot, Frenchman's Bay, Machias, Newport, Finsick, Burlington, Bridgetown, Great Egg-Harbour, Wilmington in Delaware, Snowhill, Kentucky, Bermuda Hundred, Camden, George-Town in South Carolina, and Sunbury, the sum of one hundred dollars each:
To the collectors of the districts of Marblehead, Bath, Wiscasset, New-Haven, and George-Town in Maryland, the sum of fifty dollars each:
To the naval-officer of the district of Portsmouth, the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars:
To the naval-officers of the districts of Newbern, Salem, Newport, Providence, Wilmington in North-Carolina, and Savannah, the sum of one hundred dollars each:
To the surveyor of the port of Salem, two hundred dollars:
To the surveyors of Portsmouth, Newbern, Bristol, Warren, East Greenwich, Saint Mary's, Suffolk, Smithfield, Richmond, Petersburg, Fredericksburg, Wilmington, Beaufort, and Swanborough, the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars each:
To the surveyors of Newport and Providence, one hundred and thirty dollars each:
To the surveyors of Gloucester, Beverly, New-Haven, Middletown, Albany, Hudson, Little Egg-Harbour, and Lewellenburg, one hundred and twenty dollars each:
And to the surveyors of Ipswich, Portland, North-Lincoln, Pawtucket, Patuxet, New-London, Stonington, Town Creek, Bermuda Hundred, West Point, Urbanna, Portroyal, Alexandria, Windsor, Hertford, Plymouth, Skewark, Murfresborough, Bennet's creek, Winton, Nixonton, Newbiggen-creek, Pasquotank river, Indian town, Currituck Inlet, Savannah, and New-Brunswick in New Jersey, the sum of one hundred dollars each.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That from and after the last day of March next, in lieu of the sum heretofore established by law, there shall be paid to each inspector, for every day he shall be actually employed in aid of the customs, a sum not exceeding one dollar and sixty-six cents; and that instead of the sum heretofore established by law, to be paid for the weighing of every one hundred and twelve pounds, in the districts of Pennsylvania, New-York, Boston, Baltimore and Norfolk, there shall be paid one cent and a half.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That from and after the last day of March next, it shall be the duty of the several collectors, naval-officers and surveyors, to keep accurate accounts of their official emoluments and expenditures, and the same to transmit, annually, on the last day of December, to the Comptroller of the Treasury, who shall, annually, lay an abstract of the same before Congress.
Approved, Feb. 14th, 1795.
For the Gazette of the United States.
MR. FENNO.
PHILOSOPHERS have generally been considered by plain people of common sense, as a very useless, extravagant, and pernicious tribe. Their numerous sects, their jarring opinions, their abominable principles, and their dissolute morals, render them the bane of society. Impiety, and, not infrequently, atheism itself, wrought up into incoherent systems and licentious jargon, have branded their profession with disgrace and rendered them odious to men of reflecting and virtuous minds. By a decree of the Roman Senate, before its degeneracy, they were exiled from Rome; and whilst the principal states of Greece, corrupted by their sophistry and false principles, had become immoral and licentious, and of course soon effeminate and enslaved, Sparta, only, who had no philosophers, remained virtuous, happy and free. The purest days of the various nations upon
earth, have been usually the early periods of their existence, when simplicity in principles and manners most abounded, and consequently when they were strangers to philosophy. Happy would it be for America should her virtuous and republican inhabitants forever repulse the insidious attempts of those, who under a pretence of superior light, and the name of pre-eminent science, conceal the most destructive and poisonous tenets.
I have been led to this train of reflection by reading in the Gazette last night, the effusions of one of those pestilent beings who has found his way to this happy region, and who wishes to impose upon us a nonsensical jargon about necessity and nature, as the instructions which the volume of the universe furnishes to those who read it with reflection. Without entering into any serious refutation of the principles to which his questions evidently lead, I would just take leave to remark, that if I should cut off his nose or procure his assassination, or if I should be as intolerant as the inquisitors of Spain, with regard to those who differ from me in opinion, I cannot perceive how I should incur any blame, upon the principles of that sublime "philosophy," which he has thought fit to publish for the admonition of his countrymen. If no man is master of his opinions, or rather of those circumstances which led to the forming of opinions, if all the principles and practices of men be the necessary effect of constitution and certain occult qualities of that mass whereof men are composed, then every vice and every crime may be indulged: indeed vice and crime are words without meaning, and the man is a fool who considers any thing as a duty.
For the amusement and instruction of your readers, Mr. Fenno, this evening, I beg leave to subjoin the following extracts from a work of the Maçonnes de Sillery, written originally in French.
"I entered the world," says he, "very young: I was very curious, and had a great desire to gain instruction. The words Philosophy and Philosopher , constantly struck my ears; but I asked in vain for a definition of them. The answers I received and the examples I saw, only served to increase my uncertainty and ignorance. I heard a number of persons who had no conformity of principles, conduct, or opinions, among them, called Philosophers . I observed, that this title was indiscriminately given to the atheist, the deist, the militant, the man of the world and to him even who laughed at every kind of decency, and showed the most contempt for morality. Thus I saw evidently that avidism and the qualities of the mind had nothing in common with philosophy. The diversity of opinions in philosophers still proved, that if they sought for truth, they were no farther advanced in it than the generality of men. I concluded from this, that ignorance and prejudices only could give a philosophical reputation, since it had neither truth nor virtue for its basis. I thought for a moment, that this title resulted from a study of the sciences in general; for those called philosophers were often chymists, naturalists, antiquarians &c, but I soon discovered my error, on reflecting, that certain poets, and certain superficial and very ignorant wits were universally called Philosophers . What then, said I, is philosophy ? It is neither wisdom, nor virtue, nor a particular profession, nor science. What therefore can it be. I was told, a Philosopher is a man without prejudices. Without prejudices! and yet as is agreed, one, who is impelled by passion; who abandons himself to extravagance in error! Well, said they, a philosopher is a moralist, a man who may conduct himself badly, but gives good principles of conduct. But, the philosophers Hobbes, Spinoza, Bayle and all who were their partisans, have left us abominable precepts, which tend to destroy all the principles of morality. Besides if philosophy consists in giving rules of morality all the great preachers would be ranked amongst Philosophers, yet I hear it repeated that Fenelon, Bourdaloue and Massillon were not such.
"It was in this manner, that I vainly sought certain information upon modern philosophy. At length, a person honest and enlightened instructed me, thus: "one thing characterizes a Philosopher at present, this is impiety . A man distinguished like the famous Bacon, may preserve the title of Philosopher ; folly, ignorance, wickedness and depravity of morals may accord daily with philosophy; but it seems to be thought necessary to publish irreligious sentiments and openly deny revelation: nothing more is required of incredulity, for otherwise, philosophers are permitted to believe every extravagance."
After discovering the distinguishing characteristic of Philosophy , Madame Sillery quotes the evidence of J. J. Rousseau, who was himself no inconsiderable Philosopher in favour of her opinion. The extract is taken from a discourse of his which gained the premium at the Academy of Dijon, and is as follows: "What is philosophy ? What do the writings of the most known philosophers contain? What are the lessons of these friends of wisdom? To hear them, would not they be taken
for a troop of quacks, each crying out from his own quarter, in a public place, 'Come to me, I am the only person who does not cheat.' One pretends there are no bodies and that all is idea; another that there is no substance but matter, nor any other God than the world. This advance there are neither virtues nor vices, and that moral good and evil are chimeras; the other, that men are wolves, and may devour each other in all confidential society. Oh great Philosophers ! why do you not reserve for your friends and children these instructive lessons? you would soon receive the reward of them, and we should not be afraid of finding among our own any of you scoundrels ."
If the Philosopher Mr. Fenno, who sent you the precious Morceau last night and stamped it with the name of his professional pursuit, be such as Madame Sillery and even J. J. Rousseau describe, I hope his opinions will be most intolerantly proscribed by the virtuous citizen and abhorrence of every man possessed of
COMMON SENSE. February 28.
For the Gazette of the United States.
MR. EDITOR,
Before I begin to scribble, I am determined to have
An Apologeting Motto:
"The smaller the objects we take up, and make them great, the act is the greater; for, it requires an equal art in the formation of the glass to magnify, as to diminish: and, if the object be not of itself small, there is no magnifying."
I AM one of those crabbed and restless sort of two-legged animals, that have an eternal itch for gambling, drinking, and scribbling; but the mischief of the joke is, that I cannot for the very life and soul of me, find out the secret of minding my own business. My temper, you must know, is not call in the best mould in the world; for I had fully intended to have put myself in a passion on Saturday last, and with that view, I had been poring the whole day over Johnson's Dictionary, and gathering together a multitudinous mob, or rather banditti, of all the most vulgar words and scurrilous expressions, that the shortness of the time would allow me to assemble, in order to serve as irascible materials for the fabrication of all my necessary emotions of indignation; when some yelping cur or other got the start of me, and completely defeated my project of cramming a little innocent blackguardism into the corner of your paper, by his infection of a long cock-and-a-tail story about the Columbian, under the hollyhock signature of "A Friend to Decency," which, by the bye, eclipsed and far out-shone the humble level of my own abilities in the sublime and the ridiculous , that I have never been able to contemplate my wisdom before this moment, having been intoxicated almost ever since, merely through vexation, and in order to deter myself from being capable of minding my own business. The liquor which I am so much in the habit of popping down my precious throat, has brought on me such a continual association of ideas about tipping, swallowing, guzzling, and the like , that unless I feel the sensation of some spirituous fluid in my mouth or throat, I firmly believe I should swallow either myself or my character, if I were not before hand with myself by talking or writing it away.
I have, to be sure, a most happy knack of tagging a few coarse spun paragraphs together, in the true style of epical patch-work; and, as I have received so many lessons and rubs thro' my past folly, in the school of disappointment, and have exercised my mind so much (since I made my involuntary escape from a public institution) on the subject of the human title , and its physical effects, in the production of the more violent passions, I can make a verbal storm, or temporary hurricane in a newspaper, in the true impassioned train of rhapsodical incoherency; and I can throw the world into an occasional paroxysm of laughter, with all the elegant assurance and rhetorical assurance of an eloquent merry Andrew; whenever I chuse to gratify my spleen, (no matter whether with or without provocation) I can abuse a native, or a foreigner, with as much savage grace, and decorous barbarity, as if I had received the rudiments of my education at a boarding-school among the Hottentots, or amidst the huts and lufur natura , in Peale's museum.
I totally forget what I mean to say next—
Yours, for the present,
A— A— A.
P. S. I had first intended, Mr. Editor, to have transmitted my compliments to Mr. Upstart Decency, but I recollected, that they would be too bulky and enormous, for his sore throat to

Follow—you may, therefore, deliver them to some other of the Lion's providers, if you think proper.
N. B. I mean to out-puff the puff of Peale's Museum, inserted in the last edition of the Directory, in my next.
For the Gazette of the United States.
Mr. EDITOR,
I AM informed that Mr. Peale is the Treasurer of the Society for the promotion of emigration, in Philadelphia; and, since one of his petty-fogging squad of syllable-mongers thought proper to vomit forth his scandal against some of the members of the Columbia , in your paper of Saturday, who now hold their meetings at the City Hall , I should be glad (as he seems to civil an adept at explanation) if he would have the kindness to inform me, how his friend, Mr. Peale, can be truly said to be a stickler for emigration, when he and his co-adjutors endeavour to undermine the character of men of talents and integrity, instead of benefiting their country, by affording patronage and hospitality to foreigners of genius? Shall it be said in Europe, that the American nation is insensible to merit; and that it frowns upon those, who are ambitious to render it service by their abilities? Shall they return home with disgust and indignation, owing to the invidious and puny malevolence of a few individuals, who have recently attempted to swell themselves into consequence in a newspaper or two? Shall the whole nation be stigmatized, and branded abroad, with the odious titles of brutality, inhospitality, and ingratitude; and represented as composed of men little above the rank of Savages, or wild beasts, merely to serve the interested and petty views of a P—, a T—, a —, or a R—? What person of genius, what mechanic of the lowest denomination, will emigrate to America, when men of character, and known abilities, are held forth to public contempt, as little better than European culprits, or vagabonds? What description will a traveller give of America, who is openly vilified and insulted with the most opprobrious epithets? Is not a man, who can descend to such despicable artifices, a most infamous ***** enemy to his country? For my own part, sir, I know little or nothing of Mr. Peale's political character, and I wish to know less; but provided his conduct in public life, be congenial with the tone of the letter of "A Friend to Decency," I have no hesitation in saying, that if he was rewarded with any thing less than universal contempt, he certainly fell short of what he deserved.
A Friend of the Arts.
UNITED STATES.
BOSTON, Feb. 18. THE WESTERN POSTS,
Which have so long been a bone of contention between the United States and Great-Britain, and which are to be delivered up to the American arms in June, 1796, are four in number, viz. Oswego, at the entrance of Lake Ontario, where the British have a company of foot, and a Custom-House, to prevent illicit trade in furs, &c.
Niagara, on the same lake, about 100 miles.—This fort stands in a commanding situation, on a point formed by the junction of the river, and is a regular fortification, in good repair, and well garrisoned.
Detroit, about 300 miles west of Niagara, is situated on the east side of the straits between Lake Erie and Huron, where there is a handsome town, regular fortifications, and a strong garrison.
Michilimackinac is to the northward of Detroit, about 350 miles, on an island between Lake Huron and Michigan, an entire bed of gravel, incapable of cultivation, but most remarkable for being the general depot and grand rendezvous of all the Indian traders, who meet in the month of June, from every quarter, to deliver their furs, and receive their out-fits for the ensuing year.
Besides these, Fort Miami, built by Col. Campbell, is also within our lines, and will be given up.
LEGISLATURE.
Yesterday a bill respecting Apprentices passed the house to be engrossed. Yesterday the house made choice of captain Park Holland, and John Davis, Esq. commissioners, on their part, to treat with the Penobscot tribe of Indians.
A Bill came down from the Senate, for regulating and governing the Militia of this Commonwealth, and for re-
pealing all laws heretofore made for that purpose, which was read a first time, and this day, at ten o'clock, assigned for a second reading.
A Bill for introducing the Dollar and its parts, as the money of account in this commonwealth, came down from the Senate, which was concurred in and passed.
It is laughable to read the abuse which is daily poured in full measure on the late treaty, from the Jacobin papers of Philadelphia: It would seem, that these gentlemen of the syringe had acquired the Scotch gift of second sight to perfection; for we believe none but the President of the United States and Senate, have yet seen the whole treaty, in America! or been able to judge of all its parts. It may however be said, in reply, that knowledge is not always necessary for a right to abuse; and that as the treaty must, at all hazards, be abused, it is as well to do it on trust as otherwise.
NEW-YORK, February 26.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Martinique.
"A fleet of 12 sail arrived off Guadalupe the 3d Jan. with 5000 troops on board: Ten of them got into Basseterre, one having on board 30,000 stand of arms 400 engineers, and all the artillery, was taken by the Bellona frigate, and carried into Martinique. The above 12 sail consist of 6 frigates and 6 armed ships. Capt. Faulkner, of the Bellona, was killed."
The workmen at Hope-Furnace, in the vicinity of Providence, R. I. have already cast 76 cannon, 32 and 24 pounders, for the frigates and fortifications of the United States. They are ornamented with the American Eagle, and allowed by good judges to be equal to any iron guns from the foundries of Europe. They are cast solid, and bored by water; this it is supposed adds to their strength, as they stand the several proof, a number of them having been tried under the inspection of an Engineer appointed by the Governor for this purpose, who has expressed his entire approbation of them, and pronounced the metal to be of an excellent quality.
PHILADELPHIA, March 2.
By the returns made into the Secretary's Office at Boston, it appears that George Thatcher and Peleg Wadsworth Esquires, are re-elected members of the House of Representatives of the United States—by the Citizens of their respective districts in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Says a Correspondent,
IF printers are to be considered as accountable for all the sentiments conveyed thro' the medium of their publications, the liberty of the press is ideal.
Should the affirmative of the supposition be established, certain printers in the United States are justly chargeable, with the expense of the late Insurrection—for not a doubt can exist, in the mind of one dispassionate person, that it owed its rise and progress to the lies and misrepresentations of the egregious, self-styled patriots, which have disgraced the anti-federal press of our country.
THE consistency of the anti-federal scribblers, is strikingly exemplified in their railings against the government of the United States, on account of its being constituted by three Branches, while at the same moment they would create a FOURTH BRANCH, by instituting Societies who assume powers paramount to the other three—with this difference in their favour, that they are independent of the people, and of perpetual duration.
A political writer in the Boston Gazette of the 23d ult. speaking of the Friends to the Funding System—says "Truth will prevail, and liars will have their portion in hell. Now Mr. Printer I go further."—Quere, how far will he go?
By this Day's Mail.
NEW-YORK, February 28. [From a Correspondent.]
HAMILTON "HAS DESERVED WELL OF HIS COUNTRY." It is with the greatest pleasure and satisfaction that I have it in my power this day to set down at an Entertainment preparing for, and in company with, a MAN, to whom the above quotation is so abundantly applicable—And, I'm not alone—Eagerness fills the breach of every true friend to America, and prompts him, in some shape or other, to evince his attachment to the man who has employed the best abilities, and made the greatest sacrifices to promote the welfare of the United States—not in vain—Ame-
ricans have received the unparalleled benefit—Americans are grateful!—and, the Name of HAMILTON will ever be renowned by those strains which ever have, and ever will, ejaculate the Name of WASHINGTON.
February 27. Yesterday one of the most Superb Dinners, perhaps, that ever was prepared in this city, was given by the merchants of New-York, at the Tontine Coffee House, to ALEXANDER HAMILTON, Esq. late Secretary of the Treasury—being a testimonial of the high estimation in which they hold the many virtues and distinguished services rendered to his country, in all the important offices in which he has been placed.
After dinner the following Toasts were given:
 1. The President of the United States.—3 cheers.  2. The Vice President and Congress.  3. The Governor and the State.  4. Agriculture.  5. Commerce.  6. Industry and Improvement.  7. Liberty and Law.  8. Social Order, social Happiness.  9. Peace and Union.  10. The People of the United States, brothers of one family. 3 cheers.  11. General Wayne and the Army.—3 cheers.  12. National Credit. 3 cheers.  13. Integrity and Knowledge.  14. Patriotism and honest Fame.  15. The Esteem of their Fellow-Citizens an inestimable Reward to those who have deserved well of their Country. 9 cheers. 
Volunteer Toasts.
 1. By the Chair.—The immortal memory of Baron Steuben.  2. By Mr. Hamilton.—The merchants of New-York may they never cease to have honour for their commander, skill for their pilot, and success for their port. 9 cheers.  3. By the Chancellor.—May love and honour be the reward of Virtue.  4. By Judge Lansing.—The Commerce of the City of New-York.  5. By Judge Benton.—The Honest Merchant.  After Mr. Hamilton had withdrawn. By the Chair.—ALEXANDER HAMILTON. 3 cheers. That pleasure and conviviality which ever prevails on similar occasions, was more than usually conspicuous on the present—Thus between two and three hundred respectable citizens, spent a part of the day in a manner that does them the greatest honor, as well as to convince the world that this is the country where genuine merit meets the approbation of its enlightened inhabitants.
PORTLAND, Feb. 16.
Mr. Titcomb, You will please to let the People of the District of Maine be informed by your Gazette, that our noble benefactor, the hon. J. Bowdoin, Esq. besides his generous donations the last year, towards the endowment of Bowdoin College, has lately given £833 for the founding of a professorship of Mathematics, and natural and experimental Philosophy; being a Bond on interest at six per cent. on which almost one year's interest is now due. His donations amount in the whole, to more than 2000l.
BOSTON, Feb. 21.
IMPORTANT ARRET. [We hasten to lay before the public a translation of the following arret:]
LIBERTY. EQUALITY. Extract from the register of the resolves of the committees of Public Safety, Finances, Commerce, and Subsistence, of the National Convention.
25 Brumaire, 3d year of the republic, one and indivisible. The committees of Public Safety, Finances, Commerce, and Subsistence, resolve as follows:
Art. 1. THE vessels of the United States of America, and of other neutral powers shall freely enter the ports of the republic, and leave them when they please—and no constituted authority shall be permitted to retard their departure, or oblige the captains to sell their cargoes against their inclinations.
Art. 2. Whenever the captains or owners of neutral vessels shall think proper to sell their cargoes to government, they shall be paid according to mutual agreement.
Art. 3. It is enjoined on all commanders of fleets, divisions, squadrons, or ships, on their responsibility, to respect and cause to be respected, towards all neutrals and allies of the republic, the rights of nations, and the regulations of treaties, strictly conforming themselves to the terms of the decree of the Convention of the 27th of July, 1793.
Art. 4. In consequence of which it is expressly forbidden them to hinder or interrupt the voyages of such vessels, or to take out of them the captains, sailors, or passengers, except military men, actually in the service of hostile powers, with their merchandise or effects.
Art. 5. Except also, from the prohibition, contained in the preceding article—1st. All merchandise belonging to powers at war with the French republic, till those powers shall have
declared free and not seizable, French merchandise on board of neutral vessels. 2d. Such merchandise, though neutral property, viz. arms, instruments and ammunition of war of every kind, horses and their harnesses, and all kinds of goods, wares or merchandise, destined for any enemy's ports actually besieged, blockaded or invested.
Art. 6. All goods seized on board a neutral vessel, as belonging to the enemies of the republic, shall be discharged without delay, and at farthest within the time fixed for the days of demurrage by the written agreement or charter party which the captain may produce.
Art. 7. The freight of all goods belonging to an enemy shall be paid according to the rate specified in the bill of lading or charter party, and the captain shall have liberty to invest such freight money in any goods or merchandise of the growth or manufacture of which are not prohibited.
Art. 8. The captain of the vessel, on board of which the before mentioned goods of an enemy shall be found, shall be free to depart as soon as they are discharged.
Art. 9. In the case of goods seized as being enemy's property, and which shall be found to belong to neutrals and declared in consequence not to be lawful prize, they shall be restored, in good order to the owner.
Art. 10. The commission of marine, shall present without delay to the Committee of Public Safety, a list of those persons, born subjects of nations now at war with the Republic, who have been seized as prisoners on board neutral vessels, that measures may be taken relative to their memorials.
Art. 11. The indemnities due to neutral Captains who were detained at Bourdeaux, in consequence of the Embargo at that place, shall be settled by the Commission of Marine conformably to the resolve of the committee of public Safety, of the 7th Germinal. The same commission shall render an account within ten days of the actual situation of those claims.
Art. 12. The Commission of Marine is specially charged to receive and settle the accounts which shall be presented to it by an agent of the United States of America, for provisions furnished to the administrators of St. Domingo. The above commission shall take every necessary measure to procure to the concerned the most prompt justice, and shall present to the Committees of Public Safety, Finances, Commerce, and Subsistence, the result of the doings in this business.
Art. 13. The Commission of Marine is charged to cause these resolves to be published in every part of the Republic.
The Commission of Foreign Affairs shall transmit it to the agents of the Republic near allied and neutral governments, with orders to communicate it to them.
A copy of it shall be delivered to the Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States of America, as an answer to his memorial presented the 17 Fructidor last.
The members of the United Committees, signed—
 RICHARD, JOHANNOT, DUFOUR, MERLIN, (of Douai) CARNOT, BLU-TEL, C. COCHON, THURIOT, THIBAULT, MORRISSON, RICHARD, CAMBACERES, J. F. B. DELMAS, BREARD, LE CLERC, DYER, D. RAMEL, POISSON, PELET, GARDNIER, (de la Meuse) JARNIER, L. E. EFRROY, GUMERY, R. LINDET, GIRARD, ALFORD. 
Copy, DALBARADE. Copy, BAUDOUIN, L'EVÊQUE, PERNETTY.
Newcastle Lottery.
The Public are respectfully informed that another day's drawing is arrived at the office No. 149, Cheapside. N. B. The wheel is rich. No high prizes being yet drawn, which causes a great demand of tickets. March 2. 2t
WILL BE PUBLISHED, AT SIX O'CLOCK THIS EVENING,
By J. ORMROD, At the Old Sign of Franklin's Head, No. 41, Cheapside.
A SERMON,
On the Reciprocal Influence of Civil Policy and Religious Duty. Delivered in Christ Church, in the City of Philadelphia, on Thursday, the 19th day of Feb. being a day of General Thanksgiving. By WILLIAM WHITE, D. D. Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. March 2. dör.
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.
For the Gazette of the United States.
On the unhappy author of a piece in Mr. Babe's paper of 28th Feb. signed THE WATCHMAN.
Poor drowsy watchman! Thou who all Day long, With lightless lantern and a threatening pole Haunt'st the throng'd streets—and in thy drowsy long Declar'st the lad hysteric of thy soul.
Ah child of sleep! That little lantern's beam— Which to thy fancy lights the city round Midst day's effulgence—well portrays Thy dream Of wild conceit—of intellects unbound.
Thy feeble canting cry of Es! Es! alarm— And draw forth engines when no fire burns; Shows, though the trick is known and void of harm, Thou play'st the madman and the imp by turns.
Thus have I seen a thief bawl mighty loud, "Fire—fire"—"mind pockets"!—then with honest looks, Slink all so kindly 'mong the gathering crowd, And in their pockets use his diving hooks.
Watchman, take rest! We all can know the hour, And tell by day his if 'tis fair or low'r; Thy lantern's search goes farther than its light: So keep your oil and wick for some dark night.
A CONSTABLE.
From a Correspondent.
Old Customs are often founded in Wisdom!
BEFORE we change any law, or custom, the reason for a change should be clear, otherwise the love of change may lead into great errors. At present I will mention one old religious custom which is too generally laid aside, which strongly marks our originality .—In all ages of this country it has been a custom to ask the blessing of God on the countries of his providence; after feasting on them, to return thanks to Divine Goodness. This was a rational devotion: to omit a grateful acknowledgment to our Benefactor, marks the meanness of the soul.
What cause has produced this degrading change in our conduct? the vile example of some Europeans, which we are so loth to dignify as to follow.
A MAN.
* In the Letter from Greenville published in Saturday's Gazette, for 500 warriors read 5000.
NEW THEATRE.
THIS EVENING, MARCH 2. Will be Presented, A COMIC OPERA called
LIONEL & CLARISSA.
Or, the School for Fathers. Sir John Flowderdale, Mr. Whitlock Col. Oldboy, Mr. Bates Jefferys, Mr. Moreton Lionel, Mr. Marshall Harman, Mr. Cleveland Jenkins, Mr. Darley Servants Messrs. Daley jun. Bissett and J. Warrell. Lady Oldboy, Mrs. Shaw Clarissa, Mrs. Marshall Diana, Mrs. Oldmixon Jenny, Miss Broadhurst To which will be added, a Serious PAN-TOMINE (under the direction of Mr. Francis,) originally performed at the Theatre in Paris, called
La Foret Noire;
Or, the Natural Son. The overture and Music composed by Mr. Reinagle.
Geronte, Father of Lucille, Mr. Green Lanzedan, Lucille's Lover, Mr. Moreton Adolphe, the Natural Son, Master T. Warrell Pnce, a Finical Abbe, Mr. Francis Lubin, a Peasant, Master Warrell Fronte and Paquin (Servants to Geronte) Messrs. Warrell and Darley jun. Lucille Daughter to Geronte, Mr. Francis Morton, Lucille's Maid, Miss Rowson
BANDITTI.
Le Terreur, Captain of the Banditti Mr. Marshall Sans Quartier, the Lieut. Mr. Cleveland Le Fourbe, Mr. Bissett Robbers, Messrs. Nuget, De Moulin Mitchell, Price &c to conclude with
A Grand Battle, AND A Military Procession, To the Federal March.
Box one Dollar—Pitt 3/4 of a Dollar—and Gallery 1/2 a dollar.

City of Washington.
SCHEME OF THE LOTTERY, No. II. FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE FEDERAL CITY.
Table with 2 columns: Prize Amount, Number of Prizes. Includes prizes like $10,000, $5,000, $1,000, etc.
This Lottery will afford an elegant specimen of the private buildings to be erected in the City of Washington...
The drawing will commence as soon as the Tickets are sold off...
The twenty-four gentlemen who by appointment of the late Commissioners...
A complete PLAN of the whole of this Important Institution...
By accounts received from the different parts of the Continent...
February 24, 1795.
SAMUEL BLODGET.
* Tickets may be had at the Bank of Columbia; of James West & Co. Baltimore...
FOR SALE, A Lot of Ground, ON the west side of Third, at the corner of New or Story Street...
Wants Employment, AN Elderly person, who writes a good hand, and understands accounts...
TO BE SOLD, By Thomas Dobson, No. 41, South Second Street, John Osmud, No. 41, Chestnut Street...
REPORT OF THE Secretary of the Treasury
Read in the House of Representatives of the United States, January 19, 1795.
Containing a PLAN for the further support of Public Credit.
FOR SALE, At the STORES of Jesse & Robert Waln,
PORT WINE in pipes, hds. and quarter casks. LISBON do. in pipes and quarter casks...
FRESH Bohea Tea,
GIN in Pipes,
Now Landing from on board the ship Peggy, John Elliott master, from Amsterdam. Also Imported by the late Arrivals...
5-4 & 6-4 Boiling Cloth,
Pragers & Co.
Green Coffee,
110,000 weight of Green Coffee, In 87 hds. 40 barrels, and 200 bags, entitled to the drawback, stored on Messrs. Willing & Francis's wharf...
Dickinson College,
February 1795.
SUNDAY of the Trustees of Dickinson College having applied to me, representing that a meeting of the Board is highly necessary...
John Armstrong,
President pro Tem.
This day is Published, Slaves in Algiers:
OR A Struggle for Freedom: A PLAY, Interspersed with Songs, in three acts. Inferred to the Citizens of the United States of North America.
By Mrs. Rowson. As performed at the New Theatres in Philadelphia and Baltimore.
Extract from the Preface. My chief aim has been, to offer to the public a Dramatic Entertainment...
John Sanders. Sold by M. Carey, No. 128, and Rice & Co. No. 59, High Street; S. Campbell, No. 54, South Second Street, and Wrigley & Beriman, No. 149, Chestnut Street.
A VENDRE, Une Terre Superbe sitnee dans l'Etat de la Nouvelle York.
LA BELLE Habitation connue par le nom de SCOTIA, sitnee sur le bord du nord de la Riviere de Mohawk...
On pourroit la diviser en plusieurs habitations donnant a chacune des situations tres commodes...
On pense que la vue de ces terres on donnera une plus haute idee qu'aucun descripteur qu'on pourroit en donner.
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...
It contains upwards of one thousand acres, a great proportion of which is interval or low land...
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...
John Sanders. 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.
TUITION of the French Tongue, Mathematics and Drawing.
J. C. Rouffan informs the public, that he has opened his EVENING SCHOOL, at his house, No. 15, Brant Street...
Robert Campbell,
No. 54, South Second Street, second door below the corner of Chestnut Street, HAS FOR SALE, The most General and Extensive Assortment of
BOOKS
Ever offered for sale in this City, amongst which are a number of the latest European Publications.
English & American Writing
Paper, Dutch Quills, Playing Cards, and every Article in the Stationary Line.
R. C. has lately printed the following
BOOKS,
1. Religious cafes of Conscience, inwoven in an Evangelical manner, at the Catholic Lecture in Little St. Helen's, Bishopsgate Street... 2. Meditations and Contemplations, in 2 volumes... 3. Beauties of Hervey; or descriptive, picturesque, and instructive passages...
COFFEE,
54 hogheads } 120,000 lbs. 350 barrels } Just arrived in the Rebecca, Captain Hughes, from Jamaica.
Red Port Wine,
FOR SALE BY Peter Blight. Who has also now landing out of the Mercury, from Oporto, Choice
CARRIAGE OF THE PUBLIC MAILS.
PROPOSALS will be received
at the General Post-Office until the 31st day of March next, inclusively, for carrying the mails of the United States...
1. Philadelphia and New-York.
Receive the mail at PHILADELPHIA every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday at one o'clock in the afternoon...
2. Philadelphia and Baltimore.
Persons offering proposals are desired to state on what terms they will carry this mail three times a week, and on what terms they will carry it six times a week.
3. Baltimore and Alexandria.
Receive the mail at Baltimore, from the first of April to the first of November, every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, early in the morning...
4. Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.
Receive the Mail at Philadelphia every Saturday at half past eleven o'clock in the forenoon, and deliver it at Pittsburgh every Friday at noon.
NOTE 1. The contracts for carrying these Mails will be made to commence on the 15th day of April next...
NOTE 2. Should the hours of receiving and delivering these Mails be found inconvenient to the public...
NOTE 3. For every quarter of an hour's delay, not exceeding twelve quarters, and for every hour's delay thereafter...
NOTE 4. The contractors shall be responsible for the fidelity of the persons, to whom they entrust the mails.
General Post Office, Philadelphia. Jan. 29th, 1795.