Gazette of the United States. (Philadelphia [Pa.]), 1796-04-02 00:00:00

Ricketts's Amphitheatre.
For the Benefit of Mr. Francis Ricketts.
On SATURDAY EVENING , the 2d of April , Will be exhibited,
A Grand Procession with Horses;
By Mr. Ricketts , Mr. F. Ricketts , Mr. Sully , Mr. Spinacuta , Mr. Langley , Mr. Macdonald , Master Sully , and Mrs. Spinacuta .
Mr. F. Ricketts will, for the first time in America) ride a single Horse, and in full speed blindfolded, and pick up a WATCH, from the ground.
Mr. Ricketts will throw a Sommerfet over TWENTY MENS HEADS , With others on their Shoulders.
Also, over Seven Horses with riders on them.
Mr. F. Ricketts will ride standing on his head on a Pint Pot placed loose on the saddle—this Feat was never performed here before.
Mr. Ricketts will leap his favorite Horse through an imitation of a BLAZING SUN .
Mrs. Spinacuta will exhibit her pleasing Feats on Two Horses.
TIGHT ROPE DANCING , By Mr. Spinacuta, who will dance on the Rope with Wooden Shoes, &c.
Mr. Ricketts will ride two Horses, in full speed, And Leap over a Garter Ten Feet High, and over a Barr at the same time.
He will also throw a sommerfet from the two Horses in full speed, and alight on his feet on the ground.
HORSEMANSHIP BURLESQUE , By Mr. Sully, who will perform his Comic Feats and Leap on foot and Horseback.
The Horseman will conclude with Master Shneider riding on the shoulders of Mr. Ricketts in the attitude of a flying Mercury, being his first appearance.
The Evening's Amusement to conclude (for the last time this season) with a grand Pantomime Under the direction of Mr. Spinacuta, called VULCAN'S GIFT;
THE BOWER OF HYMEN.
The Doors in future to be opened at SIX and the Entertainment to begin at SEVEN o'clock. Boxes, one dollar—Pit, half a dollar.
NEW THEATRE.
THIS EVENING, SATURDAY, April 2, Will be presented,
For the last time this Season, a COMEDY , written by the author of the Well-Indian, &c. called
The J E W.
Sir Stephen Bertram, Mr. Whitlock, Frederick, Mr. Moreton, Charles Ratcliffe, Mr. Green, Saunders, Mr. Warrell, Sheba, Mr. Wrenn, Jabal, Mr. Harwood, Waiter, Mr. Darley, jun. Mrs. Ratcliffe, Mrs. Shaw, Eliza Ratcliffe, Mrs. Whitlock, Mrs. Goodison, Mrs. Bates, Dorcas, Mrs. Rowson.
To which will be added, (for the last time this season) A Grotisque PANTOMIME , (partly new, and partly compiled) called
The Witches of the Rock;
HARLEQUIN EVERY WHERE.
With Alterations.
With a new Overture, Incantation, Airs and Chorusses, composed by Mr. Reinagle. The Pantomime compiled by Mr. Milbourne, and under the direction of Messrs. Francis & Milbourne.
Harlequin, Mr. Francis, 1st Witch, Mr. Darley, 2nd Witch, Mrs. Warrell, Attendant Witches { Messrs. J. Darley, Robbins, Mitchell, Miss Willems, Mrs. Harvey, &c.
Pantaloons, Mr. Warrell, Lawyer, Mr. Darley, jun. Drunken Valet, Mr. Milbourne, Surveyor, Mr. Beebe, Miser, Mr. Morgan, Pompey, Mr. Warrell, jun. Tinker, Mr. Mitchell, Bricklayer, Master T. Warrell, Pero, Sig. Joseph DeFor.
Milliners, { Miss Willems, Miss Rowson, Old Lady, Miss Solomon, Old Lady, Miss Milbourne, Columbine, Miss Milbourne.
With new Scenery, Machinery, & Decorations. Interpersed with a variety of Mechanical Changes, Magical Transitions, & whimsical Metamorphoses.
The Great Falls of Niagara.
The Scenery designed and executed by Mr. Milbourne. On Monday, a comedy, (never performed here) called ALL IN THE WRONG —with NO SONG NO SUPPER.
The Public are respectfully informed, that the Doors of the Theatre will open at a quarter after FIVE o'clock, and the Curtain rise precisely at a quarter after SIX —until further notice.
BOX, One Dollar—PIT, Three-Quarters of a Dollar—and GALLERY, Half a Dollar.
Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Wells, at the Front of the Theatre.
TICKETS to be had at H. and P. RICE's Book-Store. No. 50, Market-Street; and at the Office adjoining the Theatre.
No money or tickets to be returned; nor any person, on any account whatsoever, admitted behind the scenes.
Ladies and Gentlemen are requested to send their servants to keep places a quarter before five o'clock, and order them as soon as the company is seated, to withdraw; as they cannot, on any account, be permitted to remain.
VIVAT REPUBBLICA.
To the Public.
AT MR. O'ELLER'S HOTEL.
A French Miniature Painter respectfully offers his services to the Public, and hopes that the moderation of his terms, the very short time of his sittings, and the rate of his abilities, will induce his visitors to become his patrons. Feb. 20.
Foreign Intelligence.
By the Concord from London, we have been favored with files of the several London papers, which tho' not so late as those received by the Hamburg Packet , furnish a variety of interesting matter.
LONDON, February 9.
An Imperial Loan of three millions is undoubtedly determined upon by the Minister, and he has had the address to conquer the pecuniary opposition set up by the Governors of the Bank to the measure of the further export of money. By what arguments he prevailed on them to withdraw their hostilities it is not for us to enquire; he has, no doubt, persuaded them that the measure is for the interest of the Empire. The House of Messrs. Boyds Benfield, and Co. as agents for the Emperor, will of course contract for the Loan.
This measure settled decides in a great degree the great question of Peace and War. It almost to a certainty secures to us another campaign; since the money is literally to be given to the Emperor to prevent him from making a separate Peace. Whether even this bribe will induce him seriously to continue the War depends upon circumstances which we cannot controul.
The appointment of Admiral Vandeput to cruise off the Spanish coast has renewed the idea of a Spanish War; but why we are to have a Spanish War no reason has as yet been assigned to us. The Spaniards have given shelter to the fleet of Richery—so would any neutral nation; but they have surrendered their part of St. Domingo to the French contrary to the Treaty of Utrecht. It was time for them to surrender something at a distance, when the French had penetrated into the very heart of Old Spain. Nothing can be more contemptible than to make the Treaty of Utrecht the cause of a quarrel, unless we can prove that we were able to protect Spain if she had continued the War.
It is a most serious thing for a nation exhauster as we are to involve ourselves in new wars. We may flatter ourselves that Spain is in a condition so impotent as to present to us a vast scene of plunder. This has always been the temptation for a Spanish War, and the experience of its falsehood has never been sufficient to destroy the delusion. If it were true that her unwieldy riches made her an easy prey, it would be but a coward's trick to seek pretences for a quarrel; but the pretext is as false as it is disreputable. Her possessions have been the source of her own ruin, and they have never yet paid to England, in cases of war, the expences of the original outfit of our vessels.
The India Ships taken into his Majesty's service have fully shown their efficacy in the late tempestuous storms. They are equal to our ships of war in every respect. The good accommodation they have for our troops have been very much the means of their returning so healthy.
Accounts were received yesterday that the British Queen, transport, foundered in Hotskey Bay. Some of the people were happily saved.
Grove and Hayward, the young men who hoisted the tri-coloured flag at the Tower, on her Majesty's Birth day, have been excluded from the Merchant Taylors School, for their conduct on that occasion.
The following inscription is copied from over the door of a house in a small village in Dorsetshire. John Sibbins, tailor, schoolmaster and astronomer. I also keeps a journeyman to do all sorts of blacksmiths and carpenters work, and to hang church bells, &c. Any gentleman as bespeaks a coat may have it on Friday or Saturday without fail.—N. B. Being rumored that I intends to leave of business on account of my being elected Church Wording, I hope my friends will not give ear to such blood thirsty reports, by their humble servant, JOHN SIBBINS.
January 18.
Tuesday a meeting of the Whig Club was held at the Crown and Anchor tavern. It was the most numerous ever witnessed at this season of the year. Mr. Erskine addressed the meeting, exhorting them to persevere in those efforts for the repeal of the late acts which they had so auspiciously began.
No publication has been read with more admiration, than the late speech of General Washington; temperate, bold, moderate and humane.—"Look exclaimed Mr. Erskine, in the conclusion of his eloquent speech, on Tuesday, at the Whig-Club, "Look, while the blood and treasure of this country are lavishly wasting and exhausting, how that great and immortal patriot, preserves the peace the harmony, and the dignity of America. Like a great Colossus, surrounded by liberty, plenty and peace, he betrays Europe—observes all the miseries with which it is afflicted, and, by his wisdom and philanthropy, prevents America from experiencing the ill effects resulting from similar calamities. Good God!—Gentlemen, when I read the speech of that illustrious character to the house of Representatives, I should not be surprised that the people of America adore the great and beneficent Father of the creation; who gave them such a Guardian, and that they should only be prevented by a sense of religious duty, from paying an equal adoration to Washington himself."
FRANCE.
PARIS, January 31.
Yesterday the Executive directory gave a public audience, for the purpose of receiving the Ambassador from the Grand Duke of Tuscany, M. d'Orsini. Carnot, Letourneur, and Larevelliere-Lepeaux, were the only Directors present, on account of the indisposition of Rewbell and Barras. They were attended by seven of the ministers. The minister for foreign affairs introduced M. d'Orsini, who was accompanied by his Secretaries of Legation.
M. d'Orsini addressed the directory, and observed that the government of Tuscany had felt a pride in having, during the present war, notwithstanding every insinuation to the contrary, firmly supported that neutrality which its political principles led it to adopt, and invariably manifested its friendship for the French republic. He disavowed, in the name of his court, the conduct of M. Carletti, declaring, that it was directly contrary to his instructions, and added, that the Grand Duke hoped it would not interrupt the good understanding which had subsisted between the two Courts. He concluded by expressing his ardent wishes, that he might soon see peace, happiness, and abundance, reign throughout the republic.
Letourneur replied to the Ambassador by declaring, that the French republic wished for nothing more ardently than to see the olive of peace extend its branches over every part of the world: That the republic would always maintain its alliances with the same respect, and the same energy, with which it had combated those powers which attacked its liberties and independence.
Some deputies sent by the French Commissaries in the windward islands, presented six standards taken from the English and the Royalists by the republican army of the Antilles, united with the patriotic inhabitants of all colors. The Commissaries observed, that they should have presented more had they not been torn by the soldiers in the heat of victory. They announced the reconquest of the French possessions in America, and said that the tri-coloured flag was displayed in many of those which had belonged to the enemy.
The President testified to these deputies the satisfaction of the Directory, and its firm resolution to succour and defend the colonies, and then gave them the fraternal embrace. Camus refused decidedly to accept the post of minister of Finances, thinking that the keeper of Archives more solid.
COUNCIL OF FIVE HUNDRED.
January 21.
The sitting opened with patriotic music.
President Treillard pronounced a speech, analogous to the celebration of the Anniversary. "It was on the 21st January, that the late King of France expired, on the scaffold, the crimes which he had committed against the Sovereignty of the People. This just punishment, which justice and the consolidation of the Republic required, was for our enemies the signal and the pretence for the most frightful plots.
"Proud Albion covered the seas with her fleets, and undertook to starve us; ambitious Austria marched its innumerable legions to our frontiers. Against such numerous enemies, against soldiers who grew old in the profession of arms, what resistance had the young Republic to oppose? How could men levied in haste, without arms and without clothes, repulse such formidable phalanxes? But why do I wonder? Those men are Frenchmen; they are free, and will be so forever; they are heroes, and engender nothing but prodigies."
Here Treillard gave a detailed, but short account of the brilliant victories which have established forever the Republic, and insured the French people the first place amongst the nations of the universe. "But, continued he, the efforts of our exterior enemies were nothing in comparison of those of the interior. The French people would be free, but Royalty armed by fanaticism, kindled in all France the fire of hatred, vengeance and dissensions—It armed the son against the father, it converted citizens into enemies—It threw the apple of discord amongst the members of the Convention—supported its efforts by the most violent, and, apparently, the most contrary means.
"Sometimes royalty, covered with the rags of anarchy, decimated the Legislative Body, covered France with mourning and blood, with ashes and ruins; at other times in gilt cloaths: It shewed itself naked on the 13th Vendemaire, and no longer concealed the horrid plan it had plotted, to substitute monarchy in the place of the republic.
"French People, ye wish for Peace! Well, I swear hatred to Royalty. It is Royalty which has constantly maintained, in every country, the lightnings of war. You are suffering the most cruel privations. It is Royalty which has caused them to you, in order to disgust you from a Republic."
The President here repeated the oath. "I swear hatred to royalty," in a loud voice; "and you, Representatives, come, to satisfy your just impatience, and pronounce this oath, which you reproach me, perhaps, with not having strongly enough sworn."
The Council ordered the speech of the President to be printed, pasted up, and sent into the departments and to the armies.
Every member was called over from the list, and each of them successively mounted the rostrum, and swore the oath of hatred against royalty.
Sitting of Jan. 27.
The Commission propose to the Council to adopt the following resolution:
"I. That all horses of luxury shall be put at the disposal of the Directory. By horses of luxury are meant all those neither employed in commerce, nor agriculture, nor by the agents of the republic, who have a right to have them.
"II. That every thirtieth horse used for labor in each Canton, shall be levied.
"III. That the price of the said horses shall be paid to the owners immediately upon their being levied."
The report of the Commission was ordered to be printed, and the discussion adjourned till after the printing of the report.
Sitting of January 28.
Ramel proposed the erection of a gallery parallel to that of the Louvre, on that side of the river—This gallery, he proposed should join the National Palace on the side of the Rue Honore, and should serve as a depot for the Chef d'Oeuvres of Engraving, &c.
The proposal was referred to a Committee, and a report was ordered to be presented in two months.
NOTICE.
The President and Managers of the Delaware and Schuylkill Canal, having determined to supply the city of Philadelphia with water, early in the year 1797. Proposals will be received in writing until the first day of June next, from any person or persons disposed to contract for the casting and delivery of Iron Pipes necessary for the above purpose. By the Board.
WILLIAM MOORE SMITH, S ec y .
March 31.
CONGRESS.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Monday, March 14.
Debate on Mr. Livingston's resolution continued.
Mr. Rutherford said he was neither in a temper for picking or breaking locks, nor for passive obedience. Therefore it was with great concern he saw many gentlemen, excellent patriots, exceedingly alarmed. He said there was not a man of common honesty who did not see that union was the the anchor of the United States, and that the great family must not be divided—as that would give great pleasure to their enemies. He would not wish to increase party spirit. No indignity, he said was intended to the President or Senate; all view the President with great and lively pleasure. No change he said was intended in the Federal Constitution, till the Majesty of the people required it, therefore arguments on that head were fallacious. When the treaty came under consideration, it would be considered, he hoped, with great moderation, on constitutional ground. The matter was very momentous—no less than including the rights of a generous and free people. Much stress had been laid on the patriotism of the President; he knew it well. He had known him 44 years; he had acted with him; and though he was his inferior in age, he had always looked upon him as a father. Yet he was independent of him. He should still avow his principles, and he should neither be afraid nor ashamed to avow them, nor did he think they would be displeasing to that great man. What was the treaty laid before them for, but for their aid and assistance to carry it into effect. Why then hesitate? Were they not the representatives of a magnanimous people, and that they had nothing to fear? He touched upon several other matters, and concluded with approving the motion.
Mr. Bourne said he would have given a silent vote on this question, had it not have been for some strange doctrines which had been altered, for he did not consider the question in itself, as necessarily involving any constitutional question. He regretted the debate had taken the turn it had. That before they had gone into the committee of the whole to whom the treaty was referred, they were debating what constitutional agency the house could take in relation to it, those who opposed the passing the resolution, were charged with having given the direction to the debate; but he would ask, who had advanced the position, that the treaty was not the law of the land till sanctioned by this House? Gentlemen in favor of the motion were certainly chargeable with this, and hence originated the Constitutional points now in discussion. The doctrine that the formal assent of the House of Representatives was essential to the legal existence of a treaty, struck him as a perfect novelty. That the President and Senate had power under the constitution to make treaties, and that these treaties were the laws of the land, he had never heard denied in this debate. It was true he had heard it said, that the House might controul the President and Senate in the exercise of this power, by refusing to carry treaties into effect, by withholding appropriation of money, but he did not see how near the association, that the ratification of the House was necessary to a treaty, before it became the law of the land. He called the attention of the committee to the powers of forming treaties and alliances, as vested in Congress under the former confederation, which was exactly similar to that vested in the President and Senate under the present constitution. Then the power of regulating commerce, laying taxes, &c. was vested in the several State Legislatures. Was it ever heard that the treaties then made under the authority of Congress were not the laws of the land? Was it ever suggested that the Treaty with France was not a law until it had the assent of the State Legislatures? Yet, according to the assertions of gentlemen, this treaty was not of legal efficacy without, for the states had the same power of regulating commerce, which is now vested in Congress, and say the gentlemen, treaties which embrace commercial regulations are not valid, until Congress who possess the power of regulating commerce, ratify them. The fact was, the treaty with France did embrace commercial objects, and is the law of the land without the consent of the State Legislatures.
It was under the idea, that Congress had no more controuling power over treaties under the present constitution, than was possessed by the State Legislatures under the old confederation, that the people of the State he had the honor to represent, had adopted the constitution. They conceived that the whole power as to making treaties, was vested in the President and Senate. They strongly objected against adopting it, even under this construction, but he was sure those objections would have been much strengthened, had they conceived the treaty-making power, as described in the Constitution; but if the sentiments he was combating prevailed, the small states would be deprived of one of their most essential rights; for the power of making treaties is one of the principal rights of sovereignty, was vested in all the states separately when they became independent, were afterwards, and in the old confederation, vested in Congress, each state having an equal vote, it was now, in his opinion, exclusively vested in the President and Senate, in which body the great and small states had the same equality of suffrage.
The opinion which he advanced was not merely the opinion of Rhode Island, when the Constitution was adopted. A gentleman from Massachusetts had already shown from the debates of the Virginia Convention, that that assembly entertained the same opinion. He was sure the opinion prevailed in the Convention of Massachusetts, he had attended their debates when this part of the constitution was the subject of discussion. Objections were raised against it, from the indefiniteness of the power vested in the President and Senate, of making treaties. No one suggested, that the House of Representatives had any controul over much less a participation in this power. It was urged from the nature of the power, it ought to be placed where it was, in the President and Senate. The Senate represented the sovereignty of the States.

besides, from their small numbers, they were better adapted to the exercise of this power, in respect to the secrecy and dispatch, necessary in negotiations. Objections were raised on the ground of the possible abuses to which the power of making treaties, unlimited and undefined as they were, might be carried. No one said, the President and Senate did not possess the power, nor was it pretended, that Congress had any power to controul it. He then called the attention of the committee to the debates of the Convention of North Carolina. He had been a little surprised to hear a member from that State yesterday say, he was a member of the Convention, and that it was understood that Congress could controul the President and Senate in making treaties, so far as respected commerce; the power of legislating on commercial regulations being given to Congress. What created his surprise was, that he had read the debates of the first Convention, and found no such sentiment. The gentleman had explained himself by saying, there was a second Convention called in that State, of which he was a member, and there the doctrine alluded to had been advanced. The debates of this Convention Mr. Bourne had not seen. In order to show what were the opinions which were held in the first mentioned Convention of North Carolina, he would read extracts from the debates of that assembly, which would be applicable to the present question, and clearly discover that all agreed that the treaty making power was exclusively vested in the President and Senate. (Mr. Bourne read a number of observations from members of the Convention to the purport he mentioned. One of the members had been a member of the Convention who formed the Constitution.) He said he would not tire the patience of the committee, by reading any further from the debates relative to that point; but would only turn to what was said by a member who now belongs to the supreme Court of the United States, in answer to a question asked by a member who now belongs to the Senate, whether it was not customary in England to submit treaties to the approbation of parliament. This was read, and tended to show that the opinion of the gentleman alluded to, was that in Great Britain, treaties are usually submitted to Parliament, that their approbation is seldom withheld. That the Constitutional power in that country, in respect to treaties, is vested in the crown, and that any foreign power with whom a treaty is made, considers it as binding without any act of parliament, unless an approbation by them is provided for in the treaty itself, which was sometimes the case.
(Debate to be continued.)
Friday, April 1.
Mr. Freeman had leave of absence for two months.
A Bill extending the provisions of a bill to provide for widows and orphans of officers and soldiers, who have died of wounds received in the public service since March 4th, 1789, was read a third time and passed.
A memorial from the Washington Company of Maryland, praying for a portion of the Western lands, on certain conditions, and against a clause in the bill before the house, respecting the receiving of certificates in part payment for the land, was read and referred to the committee of the whole on the bill for opening offices for the sale of lands in the North Western territory.
Several petitions were presented from the Western counties, praying the English and Spanish Treaties to be carried into effect.
Mr. Kitchell said, as it appeared from the message of the President lately communicated to the house, that he had concurred the majority of that house, who passed the resolution to which that message was an answer, had entertained opinions which he himself as one of that majority wished to disavow. He proposed to submit two resolutions to the consideration of the house, which contained his sentiments upon the occasion, and which he should wish to be referred to the committee of the whole to whom was referred the said message. They were to the following effect:
"Resolved, That it is the opinion of this house, that the constitution has vested the power of making treaties exclusively in the President and Senate, and that the house of representatives do not claim any agency in making treaties, or in ratifying them when made."
"Resolved, That it is the opinion of this house, that when a treaty is made which requires a law or laws for carrying it into effect, that in such case this house have a constitutional right to deliberate upon and to determine the propriety or impropriety of enacting such law or laws, and to act thereon as the public good shall require."
The house then went into a committee of the whole, Mr. Muhlenberg in the chair, on the report of the committee of ways and means on the state of the revenue and expenditures of the United States; when, after considerable debate the first resolution was agreed to, with some amendments, and, by general consent, the consideration of the fifth resolution was proceeded upon, as of the most pressing nature; but no conclusion being come to, the committee rose, and had leave to sit again.
The Speaker informed the house he had in his hand a confidential communication from the President, and the house and galleries were accordingly cleared. Adjourned to Monday.
FOR THE GAZETTE OF THE UNITED STATES.
Mr. FENNO. IN consequence of the notification given by the Sheriff, for holding an Election, on Tuesday next, for the choice of fifteen Aldermen, a number of persons have agreed to recommend the following Ticket to the consideration of their fellow-citizens.
ALDERMEN. John Baker, Joseph Ball, Philip Wiger, John Barclay, Michael Hillegas, George Roberts, Matthew Clarkson, John C. Stocker, Hilary Baker, James Ash, Isaac Howell, Gunning Bedford, Jonathan Byard Smith, Joseph Swift, Reynold Keen.
This Ticket contains the names of all the present Aldermen except that of ROBERT RALSTON, Esq. whom, it is said, has declined serving—The name of JAMES ASH is substituted.
For the GAZETTE OF THE UNITED STATES.
No. III.
SOME further investigation of the last paragraph quoted in No. II. is necessary before its dismissal.
The Representatives are pictured as a more dangerous body than the Senate, in one instance, because they are "more dependent on the people; yet we are taught, in the next line, to dread them, because "their number lessens their responsibility." How can these two ideas be reconciled? Can their "dependence" be greater, and their "responsibility" less than that of the Senate? Do not, in this view, "dependence" and "responsibility" convey meanings very nearly, if not altogether synonymous? They certainly do; for in proportion as the "dependence" of a delegate, whether Senator or Representative, is increased, in just the same exact proportion is his "responsibility" enlarged.
As it has become very fashionable with some writers to extol and exalt the Senate, and to decry the House of Representatives, it is worthy of the public consideration, to weigh well the absurdities and inconsistencies to which those persons are obliged to recur, in support of this doctrine. The arguments here quoted are absolutely in direct contradiction to each other; and yet they are advanced in the compass of three or four lines, by a writer, who, not paying any great compliment to the information or understanding of his readers, confidently "appeals to all history" for their truth.
Let us proceed with our enquiry.
"In truth, the public safety depends as much "perhaps on one branch of the legislature as another; but the independence of each is essential to the very existence of a free government."
Notwithstanding the boldness of assertion in the observations already quoted, the author here introduces a qualifying "perhaps" as a door to retreat at, in case of attack. But as he has advanced the position with a view to make profelytes to it, we are entitled to canvass it, notwithstanding the qualification. Is this opinion in favour of the Senate to be drawn from the federal constitution? Does not that instrument expressly preclude the Senate, who, according to doctrines lately broached, are a purer representation of the people, than the more numerous branch, who, we are told, are collected from the obscure corners of the Union, and owe their seats to fashion and intrigue—does it not, I say, preclude the Senate from the origination of a money bill for a single dollar? Does not this constitution, which is unequivocally the sense of the citizens of the United States, speak, in a language too plain to be misunderstood, a decided preference to the House of Representatives? Does not the article on the subject of money bills carry irresistible demonstration on this subject.
While, therefore, gentlemen assume exclusively the title of "federalists" from their affected support of, and attachment to, the federal constitution, they ought, for sake of consistency, to refrain from advancing a doctrine to which that very constitution is diametrically opposed, viz. that the Senate are in any manner or point of view whatever, superior to the House of Representatives. Whereas, in the grand concern of property, the security of which is one of the strongest inducements to the formation of civil society, they are placed in a most decided inferiority to the House of Representatives.
I might here institute an enquiry, how far the wise caution of the Constitution on the subject of money bills, can be made to harmonize with the construction of the treaty making article, by which the President and Senate are supposed competent to the final ratification of Treaties, which may, in their consequences, draw millions from the Treasury, without any concurrent voice in that House who can alone "originate money bills," and who are said to be indispensably obliged to make all the appropriations necessary without any exercise of discretion. But as this would lead me too far from my present design, I shall resign the investigation to other hands, and hope it will not be neglected.
HARRINGTON. To be continued.
COOPERSTOWN, (N. Y.) March 17.
MR. PRINNEY,
Mr. Shadrach Abbe's wife of Burlington, was delivered of two children, on Friday night last: in six days less than ten months since, she had two before—all male children—I think it deserves a place in the Herald.
Equal, at least, to the above.
A family, consisting of a man, his wife, and 19 children, lately moved to the Westward: his eldest child not 15 years old; the children consisted of 4 pair of female twins, 5 pair of male twins, and one single boy, whom they called captain—such fruitful vines are a great accession of strength to this country, and ought to be received with a hearty welcome.
CITY OF WASHINGTON, March 26.
It is with infinite regret we announce to the public the death of Mrs. Frances Lear, wife of Tobias Lear, Esq. of this city.
The unfortunate young man (whose death we mentioned in our last paper) was drowned opposite to Mr. Lear's house. Shocked by the accident, and delicate from her situation, this amiable lady has thus early fallen a victim to exquisite sensibility.
DUMFRIES, March 24.
On Thursday morning last was consumed by fire in the town of Falmouth, between the hours of 3 and 4, the tobacco warehouse in that town, and such was the rapidity of the fire, against the united exertions of the inhabitants of Frederickburg and that place, that they could not stop its ravages until the square was laid in ashes. It is supposed about 1000 hogsheads of tobacco was consumed, and the whole is estimated at 12,000 pounds. It appears to be the prevalent opinion, that it was set on fire by some malicious person.
Philadelphia, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 3, 1796.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman of Savannah, dated 8th of March.
"It must be highly gratifying to every friend to order and good government, to remark the change a few months have made in the public opinion, respecting the measures of the general government, as they regard the treaty with England.—Now that the paroxysm of intemperance, which fumed so admirably last summer, is spent, and reason has resumed her power, people begin to perceive that the good effects of the treaty have, as yet, exceeded its bad. That it has been instrumental in preserving to us the enjoyment of peace and neutrality, and thereby placing us in a condition to reap the accumulative blessings with which we are, at this moment, so peculiarly favored.—The highly irritated state of the public mind, after the spoiliations and other outrages committed by British cruizers, rendered it more than problematical that reprisals would be the remedy of individuals (urged as they were by French partizans, and in some degree sanctioned by the public sentiment) unless some accommodation of differences between the two nations had taken place. The President foresaw this, and tried by negotiation to avert the impending evil. He succeeded, and the happy result is generally known and felt, co-extensive with the United States."
"Our legislature, amidst other acts of wisdom, have passed a string of resolutions to censure this measure. They have, unfortunately, however, chosen a wrong period to give their fiat. The people are too busy in making their fortunes, or paying off old scores, to spare time for grumbling. On the contrary, they never were more in the humour than at present to adopt the axiom of Pope, that "whatever is, is right." In short, never has the spring-tide of prosperity been so brim-full in this country as at the present time, as the rates of all our articles of produce prove. Yet, that venerable, that veteran patriot, to whose judgment and prudent policy we may attribute those advantages, must be dragged before the bar of the publick; and for what? to feed the vanity and consequence of a pampered demagogue."
Philadelphia, 1st April, 1796.
Sir, The paper herewith enclosed, shews the quantity of flour, shipped at this port for exportation, in the last three months.
With great respect, I have the honor to be, Sir,
Your obedient and Humble servant, JAMES READ.
His Excellency Thomas Mifflin, Governor of Pennsylvania.
Account of the quantity of flour shipped at the port of Philadelphia for exportation, in the months of January, February and March 1796.
Table with 2 columns: Month, Quantity (bbls. of flour, bbls. of mid.). Rows: January (17876, 78), February (6995, 50), March (19239, 12), Total in barrels (44110, 140). Signed: JAMES READ, Inspector.
The following message from the President accompanied a copy of the treaty with Spain, communicated to the House of Representatives of the United States on Tuesday last.
"Gentlemen of the House of Representatives. I send herewith a copy of the treaty of Friendship, Limits, and Navigation, concluded on the 27th of October last, between the United States and his Catholic majesty. This treaty has been ratified by me, agreeably to the constitution; and the ratification has been dispatched for Spain, where it will doubtless be immediately ratified by his Catholic Majesty."
This early communication of the treaty with Spain has become necessary, because it is stipulated, in the third article, that commissioners for running the boundary line between the territory of the United States and the Spanish colonies of east and west Florida, shall meet at the Natchez, before the expiration of six months from the ratification. And as that period will undoubtedly arrive before the next meeting of Congress, the House will see the necessity of making provision, in their present session, for the object here mentioned. It will also be necessary to provide for the expense to be incurred in executing the twenty first article of the treaty, to enable our fellow citizens to obtain, with as little delay as possible, compensation for the losses they have sustained by the capture of their vessels and cargoes by the subjects of his Catholic majesty during the late war between France and Spain.
Estimates of the monies necessary to be provided for the purposes of this and several other treaties with foreign nations, and the Indian tribes, will be laid before you by the proper departments.
GEO. WASHINGTON. United States, March 29, 1796.
PORT OF PHILADELPHIA.
ARRIVED.
Table with 3 columns: Ship Name, Port of Origin, Days. Rows: Asia, Langford (Havre-de-Grace 36), Pennsylvania, Yorke (Hamburg 36), Brig Franklin, Pike (Jeremie 21), Planter, Stockly (Havre-de-Grace 35), Abigail, Dickson (Nantz 36), Dispatch, Woodman (St. Thomas 20), Schooner Paul, Prince (Cayenne 29), Sisters, Jackson (Virginia 4), Swan (Richmond 3), Good Intent, Johnson (North-Carolina 4), Robert, Cottrett (do. 4), Phoebe, Johnson (do. 4), Sloop Sally, Potter (Norfolk 3), Nancy, Hall (Richmond 14), Robert, Labbree (Savannah 15), Phoenix, Sheppard (Norfolk 4), Chance, Woglon (Suffolk 3).
SPECULATION.
The novelty of the following fact, has, we think rendered it worthy of record. Some few months since, a negro man, an inhabitant of this town, who had obtained his freedom, purchased his father at a public sale; since when, this species of property having appreciated, he has disposed of him, and made money by the speculation.
[Fredericksburg paper]
A stated meeting of the Pennsylvania Society for promoting the Abolition of Slavery, &c. &c. will be held at the usual place, on second day next, the 4th inst. at half past 6 o'clock in the evening.
BENJ. KITE, Secretary. 4th Mo. 1st, 1796.
BY THIS DAY'S MAIL.
NEW-YORK, April 1.
Captain Seaman, of the ship Maria, in 36 days from London, on the 17th of February, in sight of the Isle of Wight, spoke the ship Van Staphorst from Baltimore, for London, 33 days out. March 20, spoke the ship Carolina, Capt. Hilton, of Philadelphia, 16 days from Charleston, for London, long. 56, lat. 40.
MR. McLEAN,
PLEASE to insert the following paragraph, copied from the European Magazine, for January 1787.
"A large Ox weighing 280 stone, or 3920 lbs. was on Monday last shewn to his Majesty in the little Park at Windsor, who ordered Mr. West to take a portrait of the animal."
By the above account it appears that this extraordinary animal weighed 1036lbs. more than the one killed by Mr. Peacock about three weeks ago, whose weight was 2884lbs.
JOHN BULL.
The treaty of Partition of Poland is ratified by the dividing powers; in consequence Prussian troops have taken possession of Warsaw, Muscovia and Podlachia.
The Cybelle and Prudente French frigates and Courrier brig, cruising in the Chinese seas, took Capt. Young, an American, with a cargo worth 125,000 rupees.
In the month of January, an infectious and epidemic fever was raging among the poor in Manchester. Some communications on this occasion, published in the English papers, confirm the principles of the faculty in America, relative to the yellow fever. The putrid fever in Manchester is ascribed to the same causes, as similar fevers here, for it is found to prevail in the same situations, the low, dirty, unventilated cells, and filthy places—The same preventatives are prescribed there with effect which are recommended by the faculty here. At Edinburgh, Goldsmith's hall, with all the papers and records, the Ass'y office and some shops of Mr. Bowman and Downie, were consumed by fire in January.
The National Debt of Great Britain may be estimated at present at 345 millions, the interest of which is about 13 millions a year; or one million each lunar month;—being 250,000. a week;—41661. for every working day of ten hours, or 791. a minute, for the interest of the debt!
Arrived at this Port.
Table with 2 columns: Ship Name, Days. Rows: Ship Maria, Seaman (London 36), Carolina, Cutter (Pernambuco N. H. 6), Brig Neptune, O'Conner (Jamaica 21), The ship Minerva, Clarkson, and ship Patriot, have arrived at Amsterdam. The Schooner Friendship, Ballentine, is safe arrived at Jamaica from Wilmington N. Carolina. The ship Fair American, Tredwell, is safe arrived at Hamburg. The ship Composition, Captain Upperman, is arrived at Leghorn, from this port.
AUGUSTA, February 27.
The 15th inst. being the day appointed for the total annihilation and destruction of all Yazoo records and papers, those in the power of the legislature were on that day consumed, at Louisville, by fire from heaven!!! The natural conclusion from this is, that God Almighty is at last brought into the scrape, and is now opposing his omnipotence to the devoted Yazoo people; and upon the same principle, there can be no doubt, but in due course of post we shall hear, that at the very same moment of time, the companies grants and every document relative to them, were by streams of electrical fluid specially detached to their respective places of deposit, utterly consumed and destroyed: for, it cannot be premised that the same made adopted by the legislature; viz. per speculum, that is, by a lens, in the common terms by a burning glass, would be adopted by the persons in possession of those papers, for, however easy they might have produced a pair of spectacles from an old woman, yet being unappreciated of the time, and, perhaps, not perfectly according in the measure, they would be tempted to risk the fire of heaven and leave such Prometheus an exploits to be performed by the general assembly of the state of Georgia.
TOM BIGBY.
THE UNDERSIGNED, INTENDING to leave Philadelphia in a few days, informs the Public that his business will be carried on as usual at his Office, at Mr. Kid's, High-street, from nine o'clock till two every day, where those having demands against him, are requested to apply.
JAMES SWANN. Philadelphia, April 2.
A GENTLEMEN who has been educated in Trinity College, Dublin, and is at present engaged in an Academy in this city, would wish to appropriate a few hours in the day to the instruction of one or two young Gentlemen. A line addressed to N. L. at the printer's, will be respectfully attended to. March 19.
Those Gentlemen who intend to take places for the Boxes, are desired to send in time.
THE Delaware & Schuylkill Canal Loan
WILL open at the Company's Office near the Bank of the United States, on Monday, the 4th inst. at 6 o'clock. The Gentlemen appointed to receive subscriptions are requested to attend at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, April 2.

JUST PUBLISHED, BY JACOB JOHNSON & CO. No. 147, Market-Street, Philadelphia.  DODD's reflections on Death, price 80 cents. Hervey's Meditations, 80 Thompson's Seasons, with an elegant engraving 75 The Columbiad, a Poem, on the American war 18 The American Farmer's Guide, a new and excellent Treatise on Agriculture 20 Dilworth's Book-Keeping 83 History of the Peloponnesian Wars 25 February 1. 37aw2m
City of Washington. SCHEME of the LOTTERY, No. II, FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE FEDERAL CITY.  A magnificent } 20,000 dollars, & } dwelling-house, } each 30,000, are } 50,000 1 ditto 15,000 & cash 25,000 40,000 1 ditto 15,000 & cash 15,000 30,000 1 ditto 10,000 & cash 10,000 20,000 1 ditto 5,000 & cash 5,000 10,000 1 ditto 5,000 & cash 5,000 10,000 1 cash prize of 10,000 3 do. 5,000 each, are, 15,000 10 do. 1,000 " " 10,000 20 do. 500 " " 10,000 100 do. 100 " " 10,000 200 do. 50 " " 10,000 400 do. 25 " " 10,000 1,000 do. 10 " " 10,000 5,000 do. 2 " " 10,000 16,739 Prizes. 150,000 33261 Blanks.  50,000 Tickets, at Eight Dollars, 400,000
N. B. To favour those who may take a quantity of Tickets, he prize of 40,000 dollars will be the LAST drawn ticket, and the 30,000 the LAST but ONE!  And approved notes, securing payment in either money or prizes, in ten days after drawing, will be received for any number not less than 30 tickets.  This Lottery will afford an elegant specimen of the private buildings to be erected in the City of Washington. Two beautiful designs are already selected for the entire. Long on two of the public squares; from these drawings, it is proposed to erect two centre and four corner buildings, as soon as possible after this Lottery is sold, and to convey them when completed, to the fortunate adventurers, in the manner described in the scheme for the Hotel Lottery. A net deduction of five per cent. will be made to defray the necessary expenses of printing, &c. and the surplus will be made a part of the fund intended for the National University, to be erected within the City of Washington.  The drawing will commence as soon as the Tickets are sold off. The money prizes will be payable in thirty days after it is finished, and any prizes for which fortunate numbers are not produced within twelve months after the drawing is closed are to be considered as given towards the fund for the University, it being determined to settle the whole business in a year from the ending of the drawing and to take up the bonds given as security.
The real securities given for the payment of the Prize are held by the President and two Directors of the Bank of Columbia, and are valued at more than half the amount of the Lottery.  The twenty-four gentlemen who by appointment of the late Commissioners assisted in the management of the Hotel Lottery are requested to undertake this arduous task a second time on behalf of the public; a sufficient number of these having kindly accepted, it is hoped that the friends to a National University and the other federal objects may continue to favor the design.  By accounts received from the different parts of the Continent as well as from Europe, where the tickets have been sent for sale, the public are assured that the drawing will speedily commence, and that the care and caution unavoidably necessary to insure a safe disposal of the tickets, has rendered the share suspension indispensable.  SAMUEL BLODGETT. of James West & Co. Baltimore or Gideon Denison, Savannah, of Peter Gilman, Boston; of John Hopkins, Richmond; and of Richard Wells, Cooper's Ferry.
Washington Canal Lottery, No. I.  WHEREAS the State of Maryland has authorised the underwritten, to raise twenty-six thousand, two hundred, and fifty dollars, for the purpose of cutting a Canal through the City of Washington, from the Potomac to the Eastern Branch Harbour.  The following is the SCHEME of No. I.    Viz 1 Prize of 20,000 dollars,  20,000    1 ditto 10,000  10,000    1 (last drawn) 5,000  5,000    Tickets, each 1,000  35,000    6 ditto 1,000  6,000    10 ditto 400  4,000    20 ditto 100  2,000    55 ditto 50  2,750    1750 ditto 10  17,500    To be raised for the Canal,  26,250    5830 Prizes,  175,000    11650 Blanks, not two to a prize.     17500 Tickets, at Ten Dollars. 175,000  The Commissioners have taken the Securities required by the aforesaid act for the punctual payment of the prizes.  The drawing of this Lottery will commence, without delay, as soon as the Tickets are sold, of which timely notice will be given.  Such prizes as are not demanded in six months after the drawing is finished, shall be considered as relinquished for the benefit of the Canal, and appropriated accordingly.  (Signed) NOTLEY YOUNG, DANIEL CARROLL, of D. LEWIS DEBLOIS, GEORGE WALKER, WM. M. DUNCANSON, THOMAS LAW, JAMES BARRY.  City of Washington, Feb. 11. $
TO BE SOLD,  1st. A Three-story brick House, No. 80, N. Second Street. The lot is about 27 feet front, and 288 feet deep, to Bread-Street, or Moravian Alley. It has long been one of the best stands for business.  2d. A frame Dwelling-House, No. 260, South Front-Street, with a Bake-House, the lot is about 17 feet front, by 170 feet in depth.  3d. A handsome Lot of 27 feet by 200 feet deep, extending from Third-Street to George-Street; it is the 3d. lot below South-Street; on George-Street there is a two-story brick tenement, a frame ditto adjoining, with a good bake oven.  Likewise a LARGE MEADOW FARM, situated on the River Delaware, at a convenient distance from Philadelphia Market—the Meadow is of the best quality, and in good bank. There are commodious buildings, with a good proportion of arable and woodland, and Cedar Swamp. For terms apply to JOHN LITTLE, No. 40 North Sixth-Street, March 21st. 1796.
PUBLISHED, Price Three-Fourths of a Dollar, No. 60, SOUTH SECOND-STREET, STEPHENS'S Philadelphia Directory, FOR 1796. WITH A PLAN OF THE City of Philadelphia. January 18.
BURR MILL STONES Made by OLIVER EVANS, at his Factory, in the old wind-mill in Elmley's alley.  South Second-Street, a little below Dick-Street.  WHERE those who apply may be supplied with stones of such quality as will suit their purposes. Also, stones for gristmills to run on, and Plaster of Paris ground fine for manure, and  Calcined for Stoco-Work. He keeps for SALE, At his dwelling No. 213 north Second-Street, a little above Wine-Street.  Boiling Cloths, A complete assortment of both imported and American manufactured for merchant and country work, which he warrants good.  ALSO, The Young Millwright's and Miller's GUIDE. Containing a system of mechanics and hydraulics as they apply to water mills with the whole process of, and all the late improvements on the art of manufacturing flour &c. intended to be useful to all concerned in building or using water-mills, which book is sold by Matthew Carey and Robert Campbell, booksellers.  Sept. 25. 3tdzaw4f.
PUBLISHED THIS DAY, And will be sold by BENJAMIN DAVIES, No. 68, High-Street, (price one dollar) The BLOODT BUOY, THROWN OUT AS A Warning to the Political Pilots of America; Or a FAITHFUL RELATION Of a multitude of acts of Horrid Barbarity, Such as the eye never witnessed, the tongue never expressed, or the imagination conceived. Until the commencement of the French Revolution. TO WHICH IS ADDED, AN INSTRUCTIVE ESSAY, Tracing these dreadful effects to their real causes. Illustrated with four striking copper-plates. By PETER PORCUPINE.  "You will plunge your country into an abyss of eternal desolation and infamy, and the annals of your boasted revolution will serve as a bloody index, warning the nations of the Earth to keep aloof from the mighty ruin."  Abbe Maury's speech to the National Assembly March 28. 1aw4w
JAMES McALPIN, TAILOR, No. 3 South Fourth Street, REFURNS his grateful acknowledgements to his Friends and the Public for their liberal encouragement, and begs leave to solicit a continuance of their favours.  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 punctilious attention to them.  Oct. 15. 3aw  Mr. Walter Robertson BEGS leave to acquaint the Gentlemen, subscribers to the print Portrait of George Washington, President of the United States of America, engraved by Mr. Field, from an original picture painted by W. Robertson, that the Proofs are ready for delivery to the several subscribers at John James Barrat's, No. 19 north Ninth-Street; or at J. Ormsdell's, bookseller, No. 41, Chestnut-Street, where the subscribers are requested to send their address.  October 27. cod.
Public Notice is hereby given, To the Stockholders in the Lancaster & Suckquannah Turnpike Company, that an Election for one President, eight Managers, and one Treasurer of the said Company, will be held at the House of MATTHIAS SLOUGH, Esq. in the Borough of Lancaster, on Tuesday, the 5th day of April next, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon.  EDWARD HAND, MATTHIAS SLOUGH, ALEXANDER SCOTT, ISRAEL WHEELER, GEORGE BICKHAM, FRANCIS JOHNSTON, GEORGE LAUMAN.  February 29. codztha  FOR SALE AT THIS OFFICE. The Constitution of the United States, price 20 cents.  Last report of the late Secretary of the Treasury, containing a Plan for the further support of PUBLIC CREDIT, 75 cents.  Germanicus 20.  Proceedings of the Executive respecting the Insurgents; forming an interesting History of the late Insurrection in the four Western Counties of Pennsylvania.  Interesting summary of the events which have taken place in the Republic of Geneva—written by M. de Nivernois, 12 1-2 cents.  Twenty-six letters; on the most interesting subjects, respecting the American Revolution, containing much information not generally known to the Citizens of the United States, written in the year 1780, 25 cents.  Also a few copies of the Accounts of the Receipts and Expenditures of the United States, during the year 1794—price one Dollar and 50 cents.  December 20th, 1795. d.
FOR SALE. A FOUNT of BREWER, half worn; about four hundred weight. Enquire at the Office of the Gazette of the United States, No. 119 Chestnut-Street, December 1. $  WANTED, ON Loan, for two or three years—2000 Dollars for which a mortgage on Land will be given as security. The land is clear of every incumbrance.  Jan. 9. d.  TO BE LET, And entered on the 20th April next, A Convenient HOUSE, Near the High-Street market. Enquire at No. 174, Mulberry-Street.  March 10. 1aw3  WANTED, Several Apprentices to the Printing-Business. Apply at the Office of the Gazette of the United States, No. 119, Chestnut-Street. 6
Ephraim Clark, CLOCK & WATCH MAKER, PHILADELPHIA, Has received by the different arrivals, A VERY LARGE AND EXTENSIVE ASSORTMENT OF Gold, Silver, and Metal Watches; ALSO, A GENERAL SUPPLY OF TOOLS, FILES, AND MATERIALS; CONSISTING OF— Japan'd Clock Faces; Eight day, and thirty hour brass; for pocket and forged work; large and small bells; time-piece and watch glasses; springs; large and small cases; and beak irons; ditto hammers; large and small bench vices, and hand vices; driving tongs and piers; screw plates; round, oval, and square draw plates; shears; blow pipes; emery; retort flasks; pumice stone; crucibles; cat-gut, and 30 hour lines; an elegant assortment of ladies and gentlemen's steel and gilt chains, silk fringes, gilt and steel seals and keys.  All orders from the Country carefully attended to, February 11. 1u8f
At a meeting of the Stockholders of the Society for establishing useful manufactures, held at Pateron, on Tuesday, the first of March, 1796, by special appointment of the Board of Directors of said Society.  THE meeting having taken into their consideration the extreme badness of the roads and weather, which has prevented the attendance of many of the Stockholders; and as it is judged necessary that there should be as full a meeting as could be had—therefore ordered and directed that the present meeting be adjourned to the 3d Tuesday in April next, to meet at the House of ARCHER GREGORY, in Newark, at ten of the clock of the forenoon of said day; at which time and place a full meeting of the Stockholders is earnestly requested.  By order of the Meeting, J. N. CUMMING. Sirena  Bateron, March 4, 1796.
FOR PUBLISHING BY SUBSCRIPTION, S K E T C H E S OF THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, From the peace of 1783, to the termination of the present Session of Congress. BY MATTHEW CAREY.  CONTAINS— I. This work will be comprised in two or three octavo volumes, each about 400 pages. II. The price to subscribers will be two dollars per volume, handsomely bound. III. No money will be required till the volumes are delivered. IV. Should any of the subscribers disapprove of the work when complete, they may decline receiving it. V. It is expected to be ready for press in the spring of 1797. VI. As soon after the above time, as one thousand copies are subscribed for, the printing shall commence, and shall be finished as speedily as possible. VII. Subscriptions received by the Author, No. 118, Market-Street, and by the chief Booksellers throughout the United States.  TO THE PUBLIC. THE object of the proposed work, is, to present to public view a connected series of the chief events of a period of American history, that does not yield, in importance, to any period of equal length, in the peaceful annals of any country in the world.  Desiring to excite no expectations but such as he shall endeavour to satisfy, the writer is thus early in announcing, that the body and confidence of a regular history, is not to be looked for in this work; neither his talents nor his avocations allow him to hope for this. His humbler task shall be to sketch out the most prominent features. It shall be his study to call out and arrange the most interesting materials—to smooth the rugged path, and for abler hands, who, by further research, will find their labours abridged, and their progress accelerated.  His chief view will be, to give the history of the United States as a confederated Republic. Nevertheless, notice will be taken of the most remarkable circumstances in the history of the individual States, so far as they can be collected. This information shall be stated under appropriate appendices.  The Author solicits the assistance of such Gentlemen as may be possessed of documents calculated to promote the execution of his plan. They shall be received with due gratitude, carefully preferred, and fairly returned.  February 9. 1aw2st
JUST PUBLISHED, And to be sold by the Editor, AN ACCOUNT Of the Receipts and Expenditures Of the UNITED STATES, For the Year 1794.  Printed by order of the House of Representatives. CONTAINING— Statements of the duties on merchandise & tonnage Duties on stills and spirits distilled. Revenue arising on postage of letters. Monies received into the Treasury in the year 1794.  Payments to the Executive Legislature, Judiciary, Treasury, Department of War, State, and the Mint, Government of the Western Territories, Commissioners of Loans, Pensions, Annuities, and Grants, Army of the United States, Naval Department, For fortifications of ports and harbours, For maintaining intercourse with foreign nations, light-houses, beacons, &c. for interest on domestic debt, for domestic loans, for reduction of domestic debt, French and Dutch debts, relief of inhabitants of St. Domingo. Bills of Exchange, &c. &c. &c.
FOR SALE, A very valuable ESTATE, Called TWITTENHAM.  SITUATE in the township of Upper Darby, and county of Delaware, 7 1-2 miles from Philadelphia, and half a mile from the new Western road; containing 230 acres of excellent Wood Land, 45 of which are good watered Meadow, 90 of prime Wood Land, and the rest Arable of the best quality. There are on the premises a good two-story Brick House, with a room on a floor, and Cellar under the whole, with a Pump Well of excellent 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 Clover, except that, 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 cultivation of the Land, the good neighbourhood, and the vicinity to the city, it is very suitable for a Gentleman's Country Seat.  The foregoing is part of the Estate of Jacob Haysman, deceased and offered for sale by MORDECAI LEWIS Oct. 9, 1795. cals Surviving Executor.
Joseph & Jesse Sharpless, No. 32, South Third-Street, Have received per the Hamburg Packet, AND HAVE FOR SALE, A variety of MERCHANDIZE; CONSISTING OF— CALICOES, Furniture to Dining-rooms, Bedchambers, &c. and narrow clotted and fluted Nankeens, Checks, Ginghams, elegant Vest patterns of Camels hair, muslins, and Marcellines, Honey, Oatmeal, Jams, up 12 and second Cloths, Calumenees, Spinnings, Marseilles, Irish Linens, and dry Goods in general.  GENERAL ASSORTMENT OF Saddlery and Saddlers Tools. They expect a large additional supply of dry Goods by the first vessels, which they will sell on reasonable terms for cash or usual credit. 3d no. 30th. 1aw1f  N. B. A number of elegant Countess pans, and Marcellines Bed Quilts.
WILLIAM YOUNG, No. 52 South Second-Street, HAS FOR SALE, An extensive assortment of PAPERS, from the manufacturers in Europe, and from his Manufactory on Brandwine, wholesale and retail.  WRITING & PRINTING PAPERS, viz. Imperial, Small folio Post, plain Super-royal, Ditto gilt Royal, Blossom Paper assorted Medium, Transparent folio Post Demy, Superfine & common fool's. Thick Post, in folio, Marbled papers, large and small Ditto, in quarto, Extra large Folio Post, Ditto, quarto, Folio Post, wove, London brown, assorted Quarto, ditto, L-g-book paper Folio wove Post, lined, Hatter's paper Quarto do. do. Steiner's paper Ditto, gilt, do. Common brown Common fize Folio Post Parent sheathing paper Ditto, quarto, plain Bonnet boards Folio & quarto Post, gilt Binder's boards.  ALSO, a variety of other STATIONARY ARTICLES, viz. Wedgewood and glass philosophical ink-stands, well assorted; pewter ink-stands of various sizes; round pewter ink-stands; paper, brass, and polished leather ink-stands for the pocket; red morocco portable ink-stands with plated spring locks, gold leaf and embossed papers; shining sand & land boxes; pounce & pounce boxes, ink & ink powder, black leather & red morocco pocket books, with and without instruments, of various sizes. Counting-house and pocket pen-knives of the best quality, al-skin tablet and memorandum books. Red and coloured waters, common fize, office ditto. Quills from half a dollar to three dollars per hundred, ready made pens. Black lead pencils. Gun elastic or Indian rubber. Gift and plain message and copy-letter cards.  All sorts and sizes of BLANK BOOKS ready made or made to order. Bank checks, blank bills of exchange, and notes of hand executed in copper plates, bills of lading, manifests, teamen's articles and journals, &c. &c.  A well selected collection of miscellaneous books. Bibles and prayer books various sizes and different bindings. Toy books for children. Also, of greek, latin, and english classics, as are now in use in the colleges and schools of the United States.  N. B. Feels Spanish indigo, moulds, & other articles used in manufacturing of paper, to be had on easy terms. The market price in Cash paid for any quantity of Bays. February 15. 1aw6w
Just come to Hand, and to be sold By BENJAMIN DAVIES, No. 68, High-Street, THE GHOST-SEER, or Association? An interesting Fragment. Found among the papers of Count O— From the German of Schiller.  THE DEMOCRAT, Or the intrigues and adventures of Jean Le Noir, in the various offices of a Soldier, Missionary, &c.  March 9. 3daw2w
JUST PUBLISHED, [Price, TWENTY-FIVE CENTS] By Samuel H. Smith, No. 118 Chestnut-Street, Letters of Pacificus, Written in justification of the President's Proclamation of Neutrality.  ALSO, Charge of Judge Paterson, In the WITKINS CAUSE—Price 25 cents. Also, a new political Pamphlet, called POLITICAL TRUTH.  March 20. 3aw4f
A valuable Lot of Ground FOR SALE, SITUATE at the north-east corner of Spruce and Fifth Streets, containing on Fifth, 102, and on Spruce 54 feet. Upon part of this lot is erected a substantial brick House. The left front is calculated for three good Houses; and the greater one is sufficient for five, exclusive of the one already built. For terms, which will be reasonable, apply at No. 109, Spruce-Street.  March 23. $1w.
Columbian Gallery, Chestnut-Street, third Door West of Tenth-Street. MR. SAVAGE, INFORMS the Ladies and Gentlemen of Philadelphia that the COLUMBIAN GALLERY, containing a large collection of ancient & modern PAINTINGS & PRINTS will be opened on Monday, the 22d inst.  This collection consists of the productions of the first artists, and will doubtless be pleasing to amateurs and the admirers of the fine arts. To this collection Mr. Savage has added several pieces of his own, one of which is the President and Family, the full size of Life.  Price of admission to the Gallery, one quarter of a dollar.
THE PANORAMA, in High-Street, exhibiting a View of London, continues open for the amusement of those who may be disposed to see that interesting perspective.  Feb. 20.  TAKEN UP, A fore HORSE, about 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon, a bit and harness, with saddle and bridle, the stirrups, and buffets placed, and the letters A. T. engraved on the latter. The owner, by applying at No. 171 Chestnut-Street, may hear of him.  March 29. 3t
PHILADELPHIA: PRINTED BY JOHN FENNO, —No. 119— CHESNUT-STREET. [Price Eight Dollars per Annum.]