Gazette of the United States. (Philadelphia [Pa.]), 1796-04-06 00:00:00

Gazette of the United States
NUMBER 1116.]
WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 6, 1796.
[VOLUME IX.]
John Miller, jun. & Co.
NO. 8, CHESNUT-STREET, Have just imported in the Hamburg Packet, A general assortment of Spring Goods...
For SALE, by the SUBSCRIBERS,
IN PENN-STREET, 130 quarter Casks fresh Hylon Tea; 100 ditto do. fresh Souchong Tea; 300 Boxes China, containing small tea sets of 42 pieces; 400 pieces Bandanoes.
500 bags Martinico coffee,
Of excellent quality, entitled to the drawback, just arrived, and to be sold by Thomas & John Clifford.
30 Pipes Cogniac Brandy,
Corks, in bales, and Holland Gin, in pipes, For Sale by Benjamin W. Morris.
MADEIRA, SHERRY and PORT WINES.
For Sale by EDWARD STOW, jun. No. 4, South Water-Street.
Excellent Claret in Casks,
FOR SALE, BY Joseph Anthony & Son.
Jamaica Pimento,
A quantity for SALE—for Exportation. PETER BLIGHT.
Fresh Teas.
30 Quarter casks Hylon 13 Ditto Gunpowder 23 Ditto Souchong Of choice quality, just arrived in the Pigou, from Canton, and to be sold on very reasonable terms at the stores of Mordecai Lewis.
Furs and Skins.
RICHARD & JAMES POTTER,
HAVE FOR SALE A prime selection of the annexed articles: Shaved Deer Skins, Unshaved ditto, Elk Skins, Shaved do., Beaver, Otter, Bear, Raccoon, Wolf, Ox hides, Tiger, Leopard.
FOR SALE,
A quantity of Spanish Brown, in casks, Ditto dry White Lead, ditto Milled Lead, in sheets, Bar Lead, in casks, Shot, of all sizes, A large quantity of Pipes, and A few hampers of English Porter, Likewise, 50 Barrels Excellent Boston Beef, A few cases of Perfumery, A quantity of best Bandanna Handkerchiefs, and A small invoice of Clove of Cloves, Mullins, Shawls, and Black Lace. Apply to Samuel Breck, jun.
JUST PUBLISHED, BY JACOB JOHNSON, & CO.
NO. 147, MARKET-STREET, [Price 11s. 3d.] THE
Flowers of Ancient & Modern History,
IN TWO VOLUMES. Comprehending, on a new plan, the most remarkable and interesting Events, as well as the most eminent and illustrious Characters; with a View of the Progress of Society and Manners, Arts and Sciences, from the Creation to the Conclusion of the American War. By JOHN ADAMS, A. M.
Treasury Department;
Revenue-Office, March 10th, 1796. PROPOSALS will be received at the office of the Commissioner of the Revenue, (No. 43, at the corner of Third and Chesnut-streets, Philadelphia) for building in North-Carolina, I. A Light-House upon Cape-Hatteras. II. A Beacon House upon Shell Castle Island. Descriptions of each, and all other particulars, may be seen on application at the offices of any of the Superintendents of Light-Houses, or of the Supervisors of the Revenue, or of the Collectors of the Customs in any of the States; as also at this office.
For Sale, at Public Auction,
On Thursday, the seventh of April next, THE SHIP PORTSMOUTH, BURTHEN 183 tons, or 2630 Barrels. This ship sails remarkably fast, and completely repaired last voyage. She may be seen at Mr. Huddell's wharf in Southwark. Approved notes at 60 and 90 days will be received in payment. Her inventory may be seen at the office of the subscribers. MARCH 24, 1796. Sids. FOOTMAN & CO. Auctioneers.
For LIVERPOOL,
THE SHIP SUSSEX, Philip Atkins, master, BURTHEN 246 tons, to sail with all convenient speed. For freight or passage apply to Samuel & Miers Fisher, No. 27, Dock-street.
Who have Imported per said Ship,
A general assortment of Queens Ware in Crates; Short Pipes in boxes, three gross each, An assortment of Stone Jugs, Together with an assortment of DRY GOODS, suited to the Season—as usual. 4th Mo. 5th, 1796.
FOR SALE,
Or will take FREIGHT for Newport, or Providence, THE SLOOP YOANNNA, NOW lying at Chesnut-street wharf. For terms apply to JOHN PROUD, the master on board, or to Samuel Coates, No. 32, south Front-street.
Who hath for SALE, imported in said Vessel,
A quantity of CIDER; SOAP, and CANDLES; TIMOTHY SEED. 4th Mo. 5th, 1796.
For LONDON,
THE BRIGANTINE PEGGY, John Hyer, Commander, BURTHEN 150 tons, is now ready to take in, and will sail in about ten days, part of her cargo being already engaged.
FOR HAMBURGH,
THE SHIP DIANA, SAML. PILE, master, BURTHEN 240 tons, an excellent vessel, and well fitted. Part of her cargo being engaged, she will sail early.
For LIVERPOOL,
THE SHIP HAMBURGH PACKET, GEORGE CLAY, Commander, BURTHEN 320 tons, is nearly a new vessel, and a remarkably fast sailer. A great part of her cargo being ready to go on board, it is expected she will sail about the 20th instant. For terms apply to Philip Nicklin & Co.
WHO ARE LANDING,
From the Hamburg Packet, from Liverpool; 38 Sheets Lead, 140 Casks Nails assorted, 9 Bales of Sail Canvas, No. 1 & 7, 3 ditto of Solne and Sewing Twine, Small Invoice of Cutlery, and Watch Chains, well assorted. And from the Diana, from Jamaica, 160 Punchbowl Rum.
They have also on Hand,
Madeira Wine, in pipes, hogheads, and qr. casks, Old Red Port Wine, in pipes and hogheads, Teneriffe Wine, in pipes and hogheads, Mountain Wine, in quarter casks, Sugar Candy, in boxes of 30 and 50lb. each, 2 hogheads of Campher, 1 ditto of Jalap in powder, And a quantity of Mahogany. March 30.
FOR SALE,
THE BRIG DELIGHT, ONE hundred and nine Tons burthen; a good, staunch well built vessel, now lying at Huddell's wharf. For terms apply to Nalbro & John Frazier. No. 95 South Front street. March 10.
For Sale, or Charter,
THE SLOOP BETSEY, John Dankins, master, BURTHEN about 800 barrels flour, in complete order to receive a cargo immediately. For terms apply to the Captain on board, at the subscriber's wharf—or to JOSEPH SIMS. Who has for Sale, just imported in said Sloop, Coffee, of an excellent quality, in hds. and tiers. Sugar, ditto in hds. and barrels. February 12.
FOR CHARTER,
THE SHIP John Bulkeley, BURTHEN about 3000 barrels. Enquire of Jesse & Robert Waln. March 29.
Plaster of Paris & Burr Stones.
JUST ARRIVED, By the ship Asia, Captain Langford, from Havre-de-Grace. Apply to Peter Blight. March 31.
This Day is Published,
At No. 201 Arch Street, and may also be had at Polwell's Printing Office, No. 33, in the same street, A MAP OF THE RIVER RHINE From NIMESGUEN to BASLE, Shewing The actual Seat of War between the French and Austrians. March 26.
SPIRITS.
ANY person may be supplied with Rum, Gin, Cordials, and other spirits, upon application to the Subscriber, at his Distillery, No. 115, Story, or New Street, between Third and Fourth Streets. March 7. THOMAS CAVE. N. B. Whiskey and Molasses will be purchased, or in exchange for any sort of Spirits at a fair and marketable price. Also, wanted any number of Gin and Brandy Pipes & Well-India Rum Punchbowl; enquire as above.
IMPORTED,
In the Ship Pigou, Captain Dale, from Canton, and for SALE by THE SUBSCRIBERS,
CHINA, assorted; SUGAR; BOHEA; SOUCHONG, HYSON SKIN, HYSON, IMPERIAL, NANKENS; QUICK SILVER; CASSIA; RANS; SEWING SILKS; HAIR RIBBONS. Jesse & Robert Waln, William Sansom, Mordecai Lewis. March 4.
No. 8, North Front-street.
Printed Calico and Muslin
WAREHOUSE.
RICHARD & JAMES POTTER,
Have just received a superb assortment of the following articles, which they offer for sale.
PRINTED calicoes 4-4 wd. book muslins 6-4 wd. ditto ditto Book muslin handkerchiefs Pocket ditto Colored, bordered, muslin handkerchiefs Very new fancy ditto Elegant tambour muslins Colored work ditto Laced figured ditto Brocaded ditto Ladies plaid And a variety of other articles, just opened. Many of the above goods are particularly calculated for the West-India market. December 23.
SHOES,
Of all sizes, from 3 1/2 to 8 Grape, Cambonies, Pots, and other castings executed at the shortest notice, Nail rods, from 10d to 12d, Hoop Iron, of all sizes, for cakes or cutting into nails, from a broad to 12d nails, Anchors, from 17 Cwt. to 100lb. Bar Iron, A Quantity of James River Tobacco, Carolina Pork, Herrings in barrels, Kiln-dried corn meal in Hds. and Bbls. Rye flour &c. to be sold by Levi Hollingsworth & Son. August 4.
George Bringhurst,
COACH & HARNESS MAKER,
RESPECTFULLY informs his friends and the public, that he has removed from Arch-street, to No. 23 in north Fifth-street, adjoining the Episcopal Burial Ground, where he continues the business of Coach making in all its Branches.
He makes all kinds of crane neck and perch Carriages, such as Coachmen, Chariots, Phaetons, and Coachmen; also, Chairs, Kittereens, Giggs, Sulkeys; and all kinds of Harness, with plated or brass mounting. He hath a good supply of the best materials, and a stock of the best seasoned wood. Orders from any part of the United States will be duly attended to with the greatest punctuality and dispatch. His long experience in business, his care in the execution of his work, and an unremitted attention to the desires of his employers, he flatters himself will prove sufficient recommendations. He has several second-hand Carriages for sale, viz. a complete Coach, with a coachman's seat and Venetian blinds all round; a Phaeton; a Chair; and a Sulkey with a falling top. All kinds of Carriages sold on Commission, and Carriages taken in to stand by the month or year. Apprentices wanted to the Business. Philadelphia, November 21.
Copper Ware-House,
No. 2. North Fourth Street. GEORGE & HENRY WESCOTT HAVE just received by the late vessels from London, Liverpool and Bristol, and which they are selling at the most reduced prices for cash, or a short credit, a very large and extensive assortment of sheet Copper and Bottoms, comprising sheets from 5 to 10lb. and bottoms from 16 inches to 5 feet—Also a handsome assortment of the most approved sheathing Copper with nails, and bolts, Tin in boxes, Block-tin, Spelter in casks, Spelter solder, pig lead, &c. &c. Jan. 2.
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 casing and delivery of Iron Pipes necessary for the above purpose. By the Board, WILLIAM MOORE SMITH, Secretary. March 31.
JUST IMPORTED,
In the ship Liberty, from London, a handsome well assorted Invoice of
DRY GOODS,
(of about £1000 sterling) Consisting of British and India Book Muslins, Chintzes, &c. two Bales of 6-4 wide Book Muslins. Also, a small Parcel of Nunssees; and for sale by JAMES C. & SAM. W. FISHER. April 3.
Just Landing,
From on board the ship SEA FLOWER, Captain Ben. Swift, from GUADALOUPE.
A quantity of SUGARS,
FOR SALE, BY F. Coppinger, No. 221, South Front-street. 5th April.
JUST RECEIVED,
A quantity of excellent Bolton BEEF, And Mould and Dipe CANDLES. FOR SALE BY Isaac Harvey, jun. No. 5, S. Water-street. 3d mo. 11th, 1796.
New Book Auction,
BOSTON.
JOHN W. FOLSOM respectfully informs the public, and booksellers in particular, he has opened an Auction-Office, in a central situation, for that purpose only. Any orders in that line shall be faithfully and punctually executed; and letters, post paid, immediately attended to. Boston, March 23.
NOTICE.
ALL persons having claims against JOHN LYONS, deceased, late of Charles County, Maryland, are requested to exhibit them for settlement; and those who are indebted are requested to make immediate payment. ALEXANDER GREER, Executor. Allen's Fresh, Charles county, Maryland, March 14, 1796.
JOSEPH COOKE,
GOLDSMITH & JEWELLER,
The corner of Market and Third-streets, Philadelphia; MOST respectfully informs his friends and the public, that he has received, per the last arrivals, a complete and general assortment of almost
Every Article in his Line;
Immediately from the manufactures of London, Birmingham, and Sheffield, all of which are of the newest fashion, and will be sold, wholesale and retail, on the lowest terms, and the Notes of Mr. Robert Morris, and Mr. John Nicholson received in payment at their current value. March 5.
COLUMBIA HOUSE
Boarding School for Young Ladies.
Mrs. GOOMBRIDGE having removed from Lodge Alley, to the corner of Eleventh and Spruce-streets, for the advantage of a large, convenient House, in a dry, healthy situation; hopes for the continuance of the encouragement she has hitherto so highly experienced; and for which she returns her sincere acknowledgment. Mrs. GOOMBRIDGE is assisted by Masters of the first ability; and the useful, as well as ornamental branches of education are particularly attended to. February 8.
General Post Office, Philadelphia,
March 16, 1796. WHEREAS sundry Letters, transmitted in the Mails of the United States, to and from Norfolk, in the state of Virginia, were opened, and Bank Notes of several denominations fraudulently taken from them at York, in the state aforesaid, in the months of October, November and December last; and whereas a part of said notes and some cash have been recovered and are now in possession of the Post Master General. In order therefore that such Bank Notes as shall be identified may be restored to the owners thereof, and that the remaining notes and cash be equitably distributed among those who are entitled to them. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to all persons who have suffered by such fraudulent practices, within the period, and on the route aforesaid, to exhibit their claims without delay, supported by such reasonable proofs as may be necessary to substantiate them. Such notes as shall be identified will be received by application to the General Post Office, on or before the first day of July next; and the residue of such cash and notes will then be divided among the claimants in proportion to their respective losses, to be ascertained by the necessary proofs, which on or before that day shall be produced to the General Post Office. (2awtJu)y JOS. HABERSHAM.
Canal Lottery Tickets,
For Sale, warranted undrawn, at the OFFICE, 149, Chesnut street, between Fourth and Fifth streets.
Washington Lottery—No. 2.
THE Public are respectfully informed, that the whole of the Tickets in the above Lottery are now rolled up, and from information received, will commence immediately. After the first day's drawing, which will be announced in one of the Philadelphia papers, tickets it is expected will be then Ten Dollars. A correct Numerical Book for public inspection will be opened at the above Office, where all transactions relating to the line of a Broker, are promptly and faithfully executed. THOMAS NOBLE. March 2.
FOR SALE,
A NEAT two story frame building, situate in Fifth-street, continued in Southwark, which Lets at 30l. per annum, subject to a ground rent of 110s. An elegant Brown Gelding, 14 1-2 hands high, goes well in a chair or under the saddle—An handsome riding Chair and Coach, with harness complete. Three tracts of Land, situate contiguous to each other, containing about 773 acres, in Northumberland county, near the town of Northumberland. Sundry tracts of Land in Bedford county, being about 2,200 acres, part near the waters of Conyngham, and adjoining Lands of Daniel Tyson. Also, one other tract in Westmoreland county, adjoining lands of William Sitgreaves, on Clearfield creek. For terms apply to SAMUEL R. FRANKLIN, Philadelphia, Feb. 25, 1796.

NEW THEATRE.
BT DESIRE.
WEDNESDAY EVENING, April 6,
Will be presented, (For the last time this Season) a celebrated COMEDY, (written by the author of the Dramatist) called
The RAGE!
[As performing at Covent Garden Theatre with the greatest applause]
Gingham, Mr. Wignell, Darnley, Mr. Moreton, Sir George Gauntlet, Mr. Green, Hon. Mr. Savage, Mr. Harwood, Sir Paul Perpetual, Mr. Bates, Flush, Mr. Francis, Ready, Mr. Warrell, Waiter, Mr. Darley, jun. Richard, Mr. Blissett, Thomas, Mr. Mitchell, William, Mr. Warrell, jun. Groom, Master Warrell.
Lady Sarah Savage, Mrs. Shaw, Clara Sedley, Miss Willems, Mrs. Darnley, Mrs. Whitlock.
End of the Play, A Serious Pantomimical Ballet, (under the direction of Mr. Francis) called
Shipwreck'd Mariners Preserved;
OR, LA BONNE PETITE FILLE.
Capt. Hatchway, Mons. Lege, Jack Railing, Mr. Blissett, Gerald, Mr. Warrell, Ramirez, Sig. Doctor, Banditti, {Messrs. Warrell, jun. Morgan, Mitchell, Beete, &c. Sailors, {Messrs. Darley, jun. Solomon, &c. Rosalie, Miss Milbourne, Jaqualina, (La bonne petite Fille) Miss Solomon, Leonarda, Mr. Francis. The Overture and Music composed by R. Taylor.
To which will be added,
An Exhibition of Scenery and Feats of Activity,
CALLED
Other Side of the Gutter.
With a variety of new performances, by Signior
JOSEPH DOCFOR.
In the course of which he will repeat some of the most approved Feats in the last Exhibition, which were received with unbounded applause.
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-Fourths of a Dollar—and GALLERY, Half a Dollar.
TICKETS to be had at H. and P. RICE'S Book-Store, No. 50, Market-Street; and at the Office adjoining the Theatre.
Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. WELLS, at the Front of 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 RESPUBLICA.
For S A L E,
THE SHIP
CONCORD,
Capt. Thompson,
THE Concord is upwards of 300 tons, about three years old, fine oak and iron, coppered, and in the best order, could sail directly to India, or elsewhere—in the best order, could sail directly. For terms apply to
PETER BLIGHT.
April 6, 1796. $2w.
Canal Lottery Office,
Near the Bank of the United States,
Philadelphia, 5th April, 1796.
THE Public are informed, that Tickets are Thirty-one Dollars each, and will continue to rise a dollar at least every other day. As the Lottery is near five-sixths finished every day's drawing must greatly enhance the value of Tickets on account of the five stationary ones of One Hundred Thousand Dollars, besides the 30,000 dollar, and other considerable prizes still in the Wheel.
Wm. Blackburn, Agent.
STATE OF THE WHEEL:
Table with 2 columns: Prize amount, Number of prizes. 1 prize of 30,000, 5 do. 20,000, 2 do. 2,500, 4 do. 1,000, 8 do. 500, 16 do. 100.
With a proportionate number of 12 dollar prizes. A Check-book kept at the Office for examination and registering.
CONCERT
OF VOCAL & INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC.
R. TAYLOR,
RESPECTFULLY informs his Friends, and the Public, his benefit Concert will be on Thursday, the 21st of the present month, April, at Mr. O'ELLER'S Hotel.
A Band of the most eminent Instrumental Performers will be engaged.
The Vocal Part by Miss HUNTLEY, and R. TAYLOR. Particulars will be made known in due time.
April 4 t.th &c*.
Pennsylvania Hospital.
THE Election will be held at the Hospital pursuant to law, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon on the second day of the fifth month next, being the second day of the week, at which time the Contributors are desired to attend to choose out of their number Twelve Managers and a Treasurer to the said Institution for the ensuing year.
By order of a Board of Managers.
SAMUEL COATES, Clerk.
4th mo. 5th, 1796. $
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. $
This Day is Published and Sold
AT BENJAMIN DAVIES' BOOK STORE,
No. 68, High-Street,
The Political Censor;
Or, MONTHLY REVIEW
of the most interesting political occurrences relative to
The United States,
For March 1796.
By PETER PORCUPINE.
** This work will be continued monthly, and the future numbers will be published on the last day of every month. April 5. 3w2w.
CONGRESS.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Monday, March 15.
Debate on Mr. Livingston's resolution continued.
Mr. Page spoke as follows:
I confess, Sir, that I had wished that this House, instead of asking the President for information respecting the negotiation and ratification of the treaty, at this late day of its session, had given him as soon as possible after its meeting, fully their opinions and that of their constituents respecting the treaty itself. But, as time has been afforded for deliberation, and the House has waited most patiently and respectfully till the President could "place the subject before them," according to his promise in his address to Congress, I think they have shown a spirit of moderation which deserves credit. The friends of the treaty cannot complain that it has been hastily and rudely attacked; and should not object to the request which is proposed to be made to the President, to furnish a statement of facts, which, from what has been said elsewhere, may be supposed sufficient to silence the most clamorous opponents of the treaty. I have been astonished, therefore, to find that several members have most strenuously opposed the application to the President as an insult to him; as useless and unconstitutional, unless intended as the foundation of an impeachment of him, of his envoy, or of the 20 Senators, and lastly as founded on a mistaken supposition, that the treaty is unconstitutional. In reply, Sir, to these objections, I remark, that the idea of its being an insult to the President must be founded on a mistaken opinion of the constitutional powers of the President, and of the House of Representatives; and of the relation the President and Representatives have to each other, under the constitution of the United States, for unhappily the ideas which some members have adopted respecting the authority of our executive are derived from a recollection of what was the executive authority in the government under which we once lived, and of what they have read in books written to support that government. But there cannot be a greater error than to adopt these ideas; for the executive authority of the United States, flowing from the people; the President, or person invested with that authority, elected by them, at short stated periods; allowed only a limited negative on the laws of Congress, for which negative too he is to give reasons, which if not satisfactory to one third of both Houses, are to be valid without his assent; restrained from creating offices, giving salaries, or making war, and bound to give account of the state of the Union to Congress, and moreover impeachable by the House of Representatives, and triable by the Senate, cannot be compared to one of those monarchs who hold their kingdoms and subjects by hereditary right, to whom all property and power originally are supposed to belong, from whom all honor and authority flow; who can declare war and make peace, and to sanction whose acts of sovereignty, it has been thought prudent to affirm that they can do no wrong. I say, Sir, that there can be no resemblance between such an awe-commanding being, and our fellow-citizen the President of the United States; and that it could be no insult to him, to ask him for information respecting an important transaction in which his constituents and this House are deeply interested; for such requests are made every day to the British King. If the constitution requires that the President shall give an account of the state of the Union to Congress unasked, it should not be said, that it is unconstitutional for this House to ask for information, especially as it is acknowledged by the very objection itself, that such information may be demanded, if it be intended as the foundation of an impeachment; and if it is confessed that it may be useful in case of an impeachment, it must be a contradiction to say that it is useless to call for it; and especially as independent of an intention to make this use of it, we have been told that it may silence clamours against the treaty. The application therefore to the President, as proposed in the resolution, is neither an insult to him, nor useless nor unconstitutional; but on the contrary is sufficiently decent, may be useful, and is perfectly within the spirit, and I may say, the letter of the constitution; should it be found necessary to apply it to an impeachment. But we have been told that the treaty being constitutional, and the treaty making power out of the reach of this House, we have nothing to do with any information respecting the treaty, and that the President having issued his proclamation declaring the treaty ratified, it is now the supreme law of the land, and it is rebellion to oppose it. As to the constitutionality of the treaty, I did think that when that subject shall be brought before the committee of the whole on the state of the Union, it would be the only proper time to examine it, but as it has been forced upon the present committee, I will take the liberty which has been used by others, and shew what I think at present respecting it.
I think that the treaty is constitutional as far as it relates to the powers of the contracting parties to make treaties; and is constitutional and valid also, as far as it relates to that part of it, which gives it the name of a treaty of Amity, and which might be in a separate and distinct treaty by itself. For the President, by and with the advice and consent of two thirds of the Senate present has an undoubted authority under the express words in the first article of the constitution, to make treaties; and I have no doubt that the treaties which were in the view of the framers of that article must have been principally treaties of peace, of amity, of neutrality, or of alliance. This is the more probable, as the first and principal treaties in which nations were concerned, were treaties of peace, or treaties to secure the blessings of peace; and it is certain that the treaty of peace with Great Britain was the very treaty which gave rise to the declaration of the constitution, that all treaties made and to be made by the authority of United States shall be the supreme law of the land; for the treaty of peace with Great Britain was said to be in a state of inexecution on account of an obstruction thrown in the way by the laws of certain States. The article, therefore, was intended to remove all ob-
stacles which had arisen or might arise from state Legislatures, and might, I will here remark, as easily have been extended to remove all obstructions from the general Legislature by adding to the words "any constitution or law of the States," these words, or the constitution or laws of the U. States notwithstanding. The power to make treaties of commerce and navigation, I humbly conceive, could scarcely be within the view and design of the convention, at least not as a primary object; when they formed the articles respecting treaties; because they knew, that the extent, situation, populations, and productions of the United States were such as would command them a sufficient share of the commerce of the world without the aid of commercial treaties. They knew that almost all Europe stood in need of their productions, and that Great Britain and her islands could scarcely exist without them; they knew more, they knew this Sir, that the almost universal belief of their constituents, that giving a power to Congress to regulate commerce, would answer every purpose of commercial treaties, gave existence to the very powers under which they were acting at the moment they framed that article.* This mode of regulating commerce was favoured by the opinion of the people, who celebrated the adoption of the constitution with so much exultation and expensive parade in the great commercial cities of the United States. They had no doubt that the new Congress would use the power with which it was invested, so as to oblige G. Britain to open her ports to them in the W. Indies, and to put their trade with them upon a more equitable and stable footing. Indeed, Sir, the people thought, as associations not to import certain articles from Great Britain, entered into by them when they were poor colonists with halters about their necks, repealed the stamp act, that acts of Congress regulating commerce, so as to retaliate on Great Britain, would at least prevent the enacting of the law by which the British king was authorized to regulate the commerce of the United States with Britain and her Islands.
I acknowledge, Sir, that whenever a treaty is to be made, the President and Senate are the proper agents to make it. I think it an excellence in our constitution that the President and Senate, though not allowed to declare war, have authority to put a stop to its horrors. This is a wise provision against the injury which the pride and ambition of the larger states might do to the smaller, by continuing a war. But I cannot conceive that when Congress is authorized to make all laws necessary and proper to carry into effect all the powers granted by the constitution, the treaty making power as well as others, and are to provide for the general welfare, which is not confined to the President and Senate, nor can be controuled to them alone by the people upon any principle which has ever had weight in the formation of a republican government, I cannot conceive, I say, that as this is the case, and the House of Representatives is composed of members proportioned to a certain ratio of the number of persons to be represented, and
* Friday, April 30, 1784.
Congress assembled, present eleven States.—Congress took into consideration the report of a committee consisting of Messrs. Gerry, Read, Williamson, Chase, and Jefferson, to whom were referred sundry letters and papers relative to commercial matters, and the following paragraph being under debate: That it be recommended to the Legislatures of the several States, to vest the United States in Congress assembled, for the term of fifteen years, with a power to prohibit any goods, wares, or merchandise from being imported into any of the States, except in vessels belonging to, and navigated by citizens of the United States, or the subjects of foreign powers with whom the United States may have Treaties of Commerce.
A motion was made by Mr. Howell, seconded by Mr. Ellery, to postpone the consideration thereof, in order to take up the following: That it be recommended to the Legislatures of the several States, to refrain by impost, or prohibition, any goods, wares, or merchandise from being imported into them respectively, except in vessels belonging to, and navigated by citizens of the United States, or the subjects of foreign powers with whom the United States may have Treaties of commerce, or the subjects of such foreign powers as may admit of a reciprocity in their trade with the citizens of these States. That it be recommended to the Legislatures of the several States, to prohibit the subjects of any foreign state, kingdom or empire, from importing into them respectively, any goods, wares, or merchandise, unless such are the produce or manufacture of that state, kingdom, or empire, whose subjects they are. And on the question to postpone for the purpose abovementioned, the yeas and nays being required by Mr. Ellery, it passed in the negative.
The trust reposed in Congress, renders it their duty to be attentive to the conduct of foreign nations, and to prevent or restrain as far as may be, all such proceedings as might prove injurious to the United States. The situation of commerce at this time claims the attention of the several States, and few objects of greater importance can present themselves to their notice. The fortune of every citizen is interested in the success thereof; for it is the constant source of wealth, and incentive to industry; and the value of our produce and our land must ever rise or fall in proportion to the prosperous or adverse state of trade.
Already has Great Britain adopted regulations destructive of our commerce with her West-India Islands. There was reason to expect that measures so unequal and so little calculated to promote mercantile intercourse, would not be persevered in by an enlightened nation. But these measures are growing into system. It would be the duty of Congress, as it is their wish, to meet the attempts of Great Britain with similar restrictions on her commerce; but their powers on this head are not explicit, and the propositions made by the several States, render it necessary to take the general sense of the Union on this subject. Unless the United States in Congress assembled shall be vested with powers competent to the protection of commerce, they can never command reciprocal advantages in trade; and without these our foreign commerce must decline, and eventually be annihilated. Hence it is necessary that the States should be explicit, and fix on some effectual mode by which foreign commerce, not founded on principles of equality, may be restrained. That the United States may be enabled to secure such terms, they have reserved, That it be, and it hereby is recommended to the Legislatures of the several States to vest the United States in Congress assembled, for the term of fifteen years, with power to prohibit any goods, wares, or merchandise from being imported into, or exported from any of the States, in vessels belonging to, or navigated by the subjects of any power with whom these States shall not have formed Treaties of commerce. Resolved, That it be, and it is hereby recommended to the Legislatures of the several States, to vest the United States in Congress assembled for the term of fifteen years, with the power of prohibiting the subjects of any foreign state, kingdom, or empire, unless authorised by Treaty, from importing into the United States any goods, wares, or merchandise, which are not the produce or manufacture of the dominions of the sovereign whose subjects they are.
has the sole right to originate money bills, how it can possibly be supposed that the President and Senate, without their concurrence, can make regulations of commerce, which may be injurious to the general welfare, ruinous to the commerce of certain and even the largest states; and by a treaty too, which may, moreover, deprive that house, which by the supposition of those who have defended the treaty is at least a committee of ways and means (and indeed nothing more) of the resources of revenue to which, by the constitution, they might have recourse.
Sir, the supposition that the President and Senate can make such a treaty as the one before us, under the authority of the constitution, is to my mind the most inconsistent and extravagant that I ever heard or read of; if true, the most positive proof of the absurdity of the constitution, and of the propriety and necessity of its immediate alteration. But, Sir, I think the constitution is capable of a construction which will reconcile it not only to reason, but to true republican principles. The President and Senate can guard the smaller states against the encroachments of the larger—they can moderate the mistaken zeal of the popular branch of the legislature—they can prevent, as they have done, or as they supposed they had done, a rash vote of this house from taking effect. They may negotiate treaties of amity and neutrality and of commerce and navigation, with the previous or subsequent consent of Congress—but surely, Sir, it does not follow, that they can take away from this house, and from a future Congress, a right to express their will and the will of the United States in a law—nor that they can instead of securing the rights of neutrality with all the belligerent powers sacrifice those rights in favor of those powers, and provoke another to make war on the United States. These are powers which they cannot possess, and indeed which the constitution neither gives nor can give, because it would be destructive of itself and of its original intention. But it is said the words are general—it is true they are so—but, it has been well replied, that although they are general, there are other expressions which give specific powers to the house of representatives, to Congress, to the President and to the judiciary, must upon the well known principles of construction be looked upon as a reservation and exception out of the general grant of power to make treaties given to the President and Senate.
No rule of construction is more universally known and established in explaining any Constitution, law contract or treaty, than this, that the whole must be taken together, and whatever seeming contradiction may appear in different parts, those parts must be construed so, if possible, as to be consistent with each other, and with the whole; and by no means so as to contradict the general tenor and design of the whole instrument; for it is absurd to suppose that contradictions or even unmeaning provisions could be designedly inserted in such instruments of writing. The constitution has defined the powers of the different branches of government—to the executive it has given a power to make treaties, to pardon in certain cases and to execute the laws—to Congress a right to lay and collect taxes, duties, impost, and excise, to provide for the common defence and general welfare of the United States, to regulate commerce with foreign nations, to establish one uniform rule of naturalization, throughout the states; to constitute tribunals inferior to the supreme court; to define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas and offences against the law of nations; to declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal; to establish offices and salaries of officers and to appropriate money, &c. and to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers and all other powers vested by this constitution in the government of the United States or in any department thereof. To the judiciary it gives a right to judge of all cases in law or equity arising under the constitution, the laws of the United States and treaties made or which shall be made under their authority, &c. These powers are perfectly distinct from each other and may be all exercised without any clashing or interference. For the President and Senate may make treaties of peace, when Congress is not in session, or if in session, should Congress be inattentive to the distresses of war, they may make treaties of neutrality and alliance, but not such treaties as shall abridge the power or interfere with the constitutional jurisdiction of Congress or the judiciary.
[Debate to be continued.]
Foreign Intelligence.
LONDON, January 26.
Extract of a letter from Dublin, January 21.
"It appears that a female cook, in the family of the late Mr. Harman, who was murdered in the county of Longford, had projected the robbery of the house, the attempt of which brought about the dreadful catastrophe: it also appears that the identical villain who fired the shot which gave Mr. Harman his mortal wound was a carpenter in the neighbourhood, who afterwards, with the greatest composure, on being called in by the family, measured the dead body and made the coffin. We might suppose that the most hardened of human kind could not command his features on so trying an occasion; yet this wretch was so good an actor as to escape suspicion for the time."
It is expected that Whitebread's brew house will be the first to start drays with six wheels. They are to be three feet high, and the dray is to have double shafts. With these improvements, four horses are expected to draw double the quantity of any other carriage of the kind in England.
The late Professor Anderson, of Glasgow, has bequeathed his valuable apparatus and extensive library, with the greater part of his effects, for the purpose of founding a Lectureship of Natural Philosophy at Glasgow.
It will give pleasure to every loyal man, when he learns, that out of more than an hundred and fifty boys just rising into life, the only companion of Grose, who hoisted the tri-coloured flag on the Tower, was Hayward, the son of a man who had

been confined for sedition. His school-fellows, stung by the dishonour such a circumstance was likely to heap on them, first voted him to Coventry, and then indignantly threw him off the premises. It was with much difficulty they could be restrained from treating the object of their rage and scorn with such severity as might have embittered their cooler moments, and stained the goodness of their cause.
In consequence of this, Hayward, the father, with his friend Kyd, the Counsel, yesterday waited upon the Master of Merchant Taylors School, to get him reinstated; when the boys rose in a mass, declared they never would sit under the same roof with him; nay, demanded him and his friends to be given up to their fury as Democrats and Republicans. The tumult was so violent, that all protection was at an end, and scarce by striking through a back way, could the Triumvirate escape; for the moment it was discovered, they were instantly followed, and by taking partial shelter in a variety of places, scarcely got off without injury.
* This boy is an elevé of Thelwall's, and has actually held the place at his Lectures, to collect "the gentlefolks' charity farthings."
CLASSICAL ANECDOTE.—A Student at one of the Universities being called upon for a definition of the Christian Virtues, FAITH, HOPE, and CHARITY, made his replies in the following order:—
Quid est Fides?— Quod non vides.
Quid Spes?— Vana res.
Quid Charitas?— Magna raritas.
January 14.
The Duke and Duchess of York have been to visit the Bristol Hot-wells. It gratified the curiosity of the Duchefs extremely. To the Duke it was no novelty.—It is nothing to a great General to be in hot water!
It has at length been proved in a Court of Justice, that Assignats have been forged in this Country, and forged by authority. The meanness of refusing to pay the man who made the plates is a matter of course.—Treachery is nothing if it is not uniform!
The King of Poland, in the spring, goes to Carlsbad, a Spa, to drink the waters, and from thence to Rome, where he proposes to pass the remainder of his days. He is about to publish a Declaration, addressed to all the Powers of Europe.
February 12.
PEERAGE.
No less than eight Dukedoms have become extinct since his present Majesty's accession to the Throne, independent of those held by the Princes of the Blood Royal, viz. Cleveland, Bolton, Dover, Kingston, Newcastle, Chandos, Montagu, and the Scotch Dukedom of Douglas.
The four following, it is very probable, will become extinct at the death of their present possessors, from the failure of Heirs Male, viz. Ancaster, Bridgewater, and the Scotch Dukedoms of Queenberry and Roxburgh.
There have been but two Creations to this Honour made by His present Majesty in the persons of subjects, viz. the Dukes of Northumberland and Montagu, which last has become extinct.
The Titles of Lancaster, Kent, Cumberland, and Cambridge are intended for His Majesty's four Younger Sons.
An ingenious new Process for making Potatoe Flour has been discovered at Paisley. This Flour, by experience, has been found to answer the purpose of dressing linen and cotton webs, superior to either wheaten or Buck-wheat Flour, and with a less quantity. It gives a finer skin to the cloth, is kindly and cool in the yarn, so that the weaving may go on in the times of the greatest drought or frost. When the uses of this flour are generally known and practised, it will extend the culture of potatoes, and lessen the consumption of wheaten flour through Britain and Ireland, as it has the advantage over other potatoe flour commonly made, viz. of not returning to moisture, but will keep years in a perfect sound state, and can be afforded at about half the price of wheaten flour.
ON A LATE TRIAL.
Mad France has toil'd, with doleful Pain, With blood-stain'd hands, and giddy brain, To prove this age "the Age of Reason," She's nearly right, e'en we maintain, Since all must own, As well as Stone, It's justly call'd, "The Age of Treason."
PARIS, January 5.
The French and Imperial armies at present cover all the country between the Moselle and the Rhine. They are exactly opposed and balanced in their forces and their means. They are on equal terms with respect to their principal support—they have each the same security for their retreat, and each finds the same difficulty to act on the offensive.—On the one side the Imperialis have Mentz, and the course of the Rhine. On our's we have Landau, the chain of fortified places on the Saare, Luxemburg and the course of the Moselle. The armies being thus situated, it is not probable that any thing considerable will be attempted by either, until the opening of the next campaign—a circumstance which may possibly produce a new aspect of affairs.
PROVIDENCE, March 28.
On Friday last were sold at this market, two Hogs—one weighing 733, the other 644 pounds; fatted by Cap. Nathaniel Coggeshall, of Brooklyn, (Connecticut.)
NEW-YORK, April 2.
The last European papers announce the approach of a storm in the north of Europe. The idea that the king of Prussia will attempt to reinstate the stadtholder, seems to gain ground; and there is an expectation that Russia is meditating a blow against Sweden. Gen. Suwarrow, who had been appointed to head the Russian forces destined for an expedition against the Persians on the borders of the Caspian Sea, is said to have been since ordered to take command of a body of Russian troops against Finland. The true ground of dispute between Russia and Sweden does not appear—but
tyrants never wait for real reasons: with them, pretences are sufficient.
The king of Naples has opened his port for the export of grain, to the allies and to neutral powers. The French receive constant supplies from that country, from the Barbary coast and from the Islands of the Archipelago—and even from the borders of the Black Sea. The grain is transported in small vessels called Idwotte, sailing under letters from the Grand Signior.
The pope also has opened his ports for the export of grain, but his holiness takes special care to make the merchants pay well for licenses.
Preparations for war continue in Turkey. Two hundred French officers are employed in teaching the Turkish troops European tactics, and 40,000 men are already well exercised.
Madame de Souci, the lady who attended Maria Theresa, daughter of Louis XVI. to Vienna, was not permitted to pay her respects to the emperor. As she entered the Presence Chamber she was told to retire; that was not the place for her. She was not permitted to see any of the French emigrants—and the Princess was not willing to see them, declaring she considered them as the cause of all the misfortunes that have befallen her family.
The whole circulating specie of England was estimated, during peace at 29 millions sterling. It is alleged on good grounds, that since the beginning of the present war, the export of bullion amounts to 19 millions. This has occasioned a scarcity of specie—the bank of England have lately curtailed their discounts—a million of guineas have been recently coined, and few old ones are seen in circulation.
The disturbances in Corsica have subsided, in consequence of some punishments, but more on account of a promise of the Parliament to diminish the Episcopal tenths, to open the Universities, &c.
The exportation of Segars from the Havanna in foreign vessels is limited to 40s each.
FOR THE GAZETTE OF THE UNITED STATES.
No. V.
I SHALL, for a while, take leave of my friend in New-York, to offer a few remarks on a passage in the President's last message.
Let me previously remark, that if ever there was a crisis in any nation, that loudly called for moderation and temperate discussion, the present is one. The demand for the exercise of an independent, unbiased spirit, is equally imperious. The former are necessary, to avoid those discords and animosities to which difference of sentiment on politics too often gives birth; the latter, to enable us, uninfluenced by names or prejudices, to decide according to our best judgment.
The passage on which I wish to comment, is as follows:
"There is also reason to believe, that this construction agrees with the opinions entertained by the late conventions, when they were deliberating on the constitution; especially by those who objected to it, because there was not required in commercial Treaties, the consent of two-thirds of the whole Senate, instead of two-thirds of the Senators present; and because in treaties respecting territorial limits, the concurrence of three-fourths of the whole number of members of both houses respectively, was not made necessary."
Whatever may have been the arguments employed by the friends of the constitution to blazon forth its beauties, or by its enemies, to aggravate its deformity, their opinions must not be resorted to, as our rule of conduct. To the constitution we must refer. That is "the guide, which," to use the President's own words, "we can never abandon." To that we must cling, "as the rock of our salvation." We may say of those conventional opinions, as Mahomet said of the comments on the Alcoran, if they are opposite to it, they must be erroneous, and therefore be rejected—if they agree with it, they are superfluous, and may be laid aside.
Nevertheless, as the President recurs to this species of support for his construction of the constitution, we may, without absolutely admitting its validity, examine how far he can draw from it a corroboration of his idea.
Judge Wilson was a leading member of the federal convention—he was the only member of that body, that was likewise a member of the Pennsylvania state convention. His labours and services in both, are well known. To this business he devoted himself unremittedly for several months, to the almost entire abandonment of his private concerns. On any dubious point, therefore, he is as good authority probably as any man in America. Did he, then, Mr. Fenno, contend for a construction of the treaty-making power, which would annihilate or absorb the specific powers granted to the house of representatives, co-ordinately with the Senate? No, fir—no such thing. He asserted a "restraining power" on the part of the house of Representatives. He gave that construction, which the house have now adopted. But, fir, as I have given the President's words, ad longum , I shall be equally just to Mr. Wilson.
"It well deserves to be remarked, that though the house of representatives possess no active part in making Treaties; yet their legislative authority will be found to have strong restraining influence upon both President and Senate . In England, if the king and his ministers find themselves, during their negotiation, to be embarrassed, because an existing law is not repealed, or a new law is not enacted, they give notice to the legislature of their situation, and inform them, that it will be necessary, before the treaty can operate, that some law be repealed, or some be made. And will not the same thing take place here? Shall less prudence, less caution, less moderation take place among those who negotiate Treaties for the United States, than among those who negotiate them for the other nations of the earth?" Debates of the convention of Pennsylvania, p. p. 112, 113.
Not to exceed the limits I have prescribed myself, I shall defer any remarks on this extract, till my next number.
HARRINGTON.
Philadelphia, WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 6, 1796.
Captain Parker, of the Ship George and Patty Washington , from Liverpool, arrived at Baltimore—on the 25th Feb. and 7th March spoke, severally, two vessels from St. Ubes, the Captains of which informed him that Cadiz was partly sunk by an Earthquake, and that the King of Spain was in Portugal.
Extracts from letters of an American gentleman in London, to his friend in this city, dated January 15.
"That Europe is on the eve of a peace is the general belief—the Emperor is exhausted and is said to have demanded a subsidy to a very considerable amount—this Great Britain cannot comply with, for she is almost drained of her specie, by the late loan and other continental expences; she would fain keep the Emperor involved with the French Republic, but it is supposed that he could not support another campaign—and if he resolves on it, the success of it is very doubtful in the Netherlands, while in Italy he is almost sure of losing Lombardy, in consequence of the late brilliant victory of the French in that quarter—here the desire of peace appears to be great and general, this country, needs it much, but such are her immense resources, that on the return of peace she will not feel her burdens heavy, or by any means beyond her powers."
"The President's speech as you will find by the papers, has been received here—it has excited unbounded admiration and applause—it has raised the American stocks, given confidence to all who have property in the United States, and brightened the countenance of every friend to liberty—into whatever company I go, the President is spoken of in the highest terms, as the first character of the age, and the ornament of his species—in the Evening Courier you will find (as I mean to copy it out for you or Mr. B.) a beautiful eulogium of Mr. Paine's, on the speech and its author; all the papers indeed are pointed in their praise of it—thus you see what encomiums this excellent man meets with from foreigners, while some of his own countrymen are so lost to all sense of propriety and gratitude, as to traduce him in the public papers—really the pieces with which a certain news-paper of your city teems are insufferable, and provoke the execration of all such as are not callous to every generous and grateful sentiment. We are now on very agreeable terms with this government, they really show much more respect and attention to us than to any other power—let us keep up this favorable impression. I hope our House of Representatives will act a wise and dignified part, and altho' some angry speeches may be made, and some impolitic resolutions be proposed, yet I trust Congress will carry the Treaty into effect, and preserve the United States in the respectable and happy situation in which they are now placed."
From the same—dated February 2d.
"I am much pleased to understand from your last letter, and from others lately received from Philadelphia, that the present session of Congress promises to be more temperate than was apprehended some time since. The British ministry are at this time looking to the conduct of the House of Representatives, as that which is to govern their conduct towards the United States. I have reason to believe that the appeals are suspended until the measures of this branch of the legislature are known: Whether afterwards they will be favorable, it is impossible to say; but I rather think such an event is to be expected."
"I was informed by Mr. Pinckney, that a gentleman had just been with him, who has purchased a considerable tract of land on the Ohio in Pennsylvania, who this spring will take out with him 1500 settlers, chiefly farmers, who are all engaged and ready to embark. I cannot tell you the effect which the President's speech has produced through this country; I speak I think correctly when I say, it will be the means of pouring some millions sterling into the lap of the United States; it has excited admiration, inspired confidence, and reflected a degree of consequence on every one who bears the name of an American: indeed there is no national character so high in Europe at this time as the American—"every one who has ever been in the United States seems eager to claim the rights of citizenship and to be considered as an American."
At an Election held yesterday, the following Gentlemen were chosen Aldermen of this City—
 Philip Wager, Joseph Ball,  Robert Wharton, John Barclay,  Michael Hillegas, George Roberts,  Matthew Clarkson, John C. Stocker,  Hilary Baker, James Ash,  Isaac Howell, William Allibone,  Jonathan B. Smith, John Jennings,  Reynold Keen, 
From the AURORA, of this morning.
The extracts published in the AURORA on the 4th instant from a pamphlet entitled "Des interets des puissances continentales relativement a l'Angleterre" are treated in the Gazette of the UNITED STATES, of last evening, as a forgery. As the sentiments contained in those extracts are unanswerable, it was necessary, to promote the views of the fashion, to represent them as an American fabrication. The pamphlet, however, from which the extracts were made, for the information of the unbeliever, may be seen at the Office of the AURORA. Its publication in Paris was not so early in the year 1795, as announced at the head of the extracts which appeared in the AURORA. It was printed before the 21st of September of that year, and the preface is dated 24th Thermidor of the 3d year, July 30th, 1795. The date of it, is not however material in determining upon its merits: What is material is, that it contains opinions respecting the pusillanimous conduct of our administration, written by a subject of one of the most despotic courts of Europe, which ought to call up a blush in the cheek of every public servant in the administration not callous to impartial censure.
POST-OFFICE.
Philadelphia, 6th April, 1796.
LETTERS for the British Packet CARRIER , for Falmouth, (via Halifax) will be received at this Office until Friday, the 8th inst. at 12 o'clock noon.
From our Correspondent at Hamburg, January 26, 1796.
The northern part of Germany begins to recover from the distresses the war has occasioned there, tho' it never was the scene thereof. Hanover is quite disjoined from the alliance against France; all the troops returned already to their garrisons in the country; all commissaries of war and quartermasters also dismissed, all magazines fold. The Prussians left the line of neutrality, or demarcation, on the Rhine, and refused to protect those Princes who had not acceded to the peace with France. The army of the Prince of Hohenlohe went to the interior part of the Prussian country, and left the Rhine entirely. The rumour as if Prussia intended to return to war in order to restore the Stadtholder, is quite without foundation. Prussia has now quite turned its attention to the East. The entire dissolution of Poland is an unhappy truth—Poland is no more. As far as to the Vistula, (Weichsel river) all, even Warsaw, is ceded to Prussia. The country beyond that river belongs now to Russia—an immense extension of dominion, threatening Europe, unless the spoilers quarrel amongst themselves. Austria has only got a small part, including Cracovie. The inhabitants of ancient Prussia, especially the Silesians, are very much hurt in their trade by the new partition, as they profited very much from Poland, as a foreign country not subject to the letters of Prussian trade.
The new plan of French finances is not much liked by our merchants, which may be a proof that it threatens the value of assignats—The better for France.
The advantages gained by the Austrians may be a scourge to Germany, especially to those unhappy parts situated on the Rhine—They are almost a desert. Now Austria will listen to no conditions of peace, and will force the powers of Southern Germany to remain in her interest. The alliance of Russia will be a bugbear to them; for Russia wishes the prostration of a war which ruins her rivals and neighbours. The troops of Russia, which were laid should enter into Germany to help the Emperor, are fast removing into the interior part of Poland. An irruption of the Persians into the country of the Prince Heraclius of Georgia, is the pretext.—Something of this is true; for the Persians conquered Teflis, the capital of Georgia, killed the hereditary prince, and forced the old brave Heraclius to fly into Russia.
The regiment of Rohan hussars was, on Nov. 27, to be embarked for England at the mouth of the Weser, after the horses had been fold; but several hundreds deserted. Three companies refused to go on board, and were forced by the officers not without bloodshed.
The surrender of Mannheim, on the Rhine, on the 24th Nov. is an happy event for that town. It was certainly the most regular, neat and finest town in Germany, tho' not large. Its fortifications were strong, and the situation commanding the river and a great district. A great part of the town is ruined especially by the hot balls. The Austrians were provoked by the surrender to the French, and by the inclination of the Elector of Bavaria to the neutrality, and behaved with their common brutality towards the German countries that are not of their party. The French are at present the reverse of what they were three months ago on the Rhine. The surprise near Mayence was complete, and as they advanced so far without magazines in an exhausted country, they must leave it as suddenly as it was conquered. Many thought it was a ruse de guerre , and that they intended to bring the Austrians over on the borders of the Mosel, (Pichegru always retiring) in the mean time that Jourdan should fall on the enemy's rear, maintaining his positions on the East of the Rhine. Indeed Jourdan has lately advanced again as far as the river Sieg on this side of the Rhine; but now Clairfayt is marching against him, though with inferior force. The latest news say he had only 30,000 men under him, and Jourdan has 60,000. The truth is, that since the reduction of Mannheim the Austrians do not advance so much as before beyond the Rhine. The French army was very much weakened thro' want of discipline, and very many furloughs given or taken by the soldiers; Now all are forced back to the army, which is encamping daily. Jourdan's army had not suffered so much as Pichegru's.—The French are faithful to their character, always running and flying fast when they are once surprised and routed, but irresistible when an avantage . The interior government being now reëstablished, and, from all accounts, going on in the best way, the army may recover her former glory. The German newspapers written on the Rhine, have suddenly changed their tone: when the French approached to Franckfort there was no better, no braver people, their discipline and humanity was as praiseworthy as their successes were glorious; now all is the contrary. Formerly all wished for peace, now basely they breathe nothing but war. It cannot be denied that the French on their retreat did not behave so well as before towards the inhabitants. That they fought well one may see by the astonishing increase of Austrian hospitals, and the number of wounded in every town near the Rhine. The French maintain themselves at Germersheim in their lines.
BY THIS DAY'S MAIL.
NEW-YORK, April 4.
Arrived at this Port.
 Ship Nancy, Staples, Nantz 42  Jenny, Chauncy, Savannah 9  Brig Columbia, Barker, Liverpool 40  Harmony, Burt, St. Mark's 24  Two Sisters, Furnal, Martinique 29  Schr. Hannah, Deck, Wilmington 12  Sloop Maria, Brith, Edenton 17  Happy Couple, Osburn, do. 12 
The Argus states that the Ocean was taken not far from the Highlands, with a Pilot on board. Our information is, that she was taken three days before she made land.
WANTED.
ONE Journeyman Copper-smith, and one Journeyman Tin Plate Worker—to whom the highest wages will be given—Enquire at No. 235 Arch-Street. April 5. codiw.

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N. B. To favour those who may take a quantity of Tickets, the 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 adorn an elegant specimen of the private buildings to be erected in the City of Washington. Two beautiful designs are already selected for the entire fronts on two of the public squares; from these drawings, it is proposed to erect two centre and four corner buildings, as soon as possible after this Lottery is sold, and to convey them when complete, to the fortunate adventurers, in the manner described in the scheme for the Hotel Lottery. A net deduction of five per cent. will be made to defray the necessary expenses of printing, &c. and the surplus will be made a part of the fund intended for the National University, to be erected within the City of Washington.
The drawing will commence as soon as the Tickets are sold off. The money prizes will be payable in thirty days after it is finished, and any prizes for which fortunate numbers are not produced within twelve months after the drawing is closed are to be 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 short suspension indispensable.
SAMUEL BLODGET.  * Tickets may be had at the Bank of Columbia; of James West & Co. Baltimore or Gideon Devison, Savannah, of Peter Gilman, Bolton; 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    7 last drawn } 5,000  35,000    Tickets, each } 1,000  6,000    6 ditto } 400  4,000    10 ditto } 100  2,000    20 ditto } 50  2,750    55 ditto } 12  69,008    5750 ditto } To be raised for the Canal,  26,250    5850 Prizes,  175,000    11650 Blanks, not two to a prize.   
175,000 Tickets, at Ten Dollars, - 1,750,000  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 21 feet front, and 238 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 130 feet in depth.  3d. A handsome Lot of 25 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, situate 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. 30 North Sixth-street.  March 27th, 1796. dtf
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 Dock-street.
WHERE those who apply may be supplied with stones of such quality as will suit their purposes. Also, stones for gudgeons to run on, and Plaister of Paris ground fine for manure, and  Calcined for Stoco-Work. He keeps for SALE, At his dwelling No. 215 north Second-street, a little above Vine-street.  Boulting 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. 3tdzawtf.
PUBLISHED THIS DAY, And will be sold by BENJAMIN DAVIES, No. 68, High-street, (price one dollar) The BLOODY 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 proof, warning the nations of the Earth to keep aloof from the 'mighty ruin.'"  Abbe Maury's speech to the National Assembly March 18. 7aw4w
JAMES M'ALPIN, TAYLOR, N o 3 South Fourth Street,
RETURNS his grateful acknowledgements to his Friends and the Public for their liberal encouragement, and begs leave to solicit a continuance of their 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 punctual attention to them. Oct. 15 2aw
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 Barret's, No. 19 north Ninth-street; or at J. Ormerod'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 & Susquehannah 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 WHELEN, GEORGE BICKHAM, FRANCIS JOHNSTON, GEORGE LAUNAN. codtghA
February 29. 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 BREVIER, 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. $
Ephraim Clark, CLOCK & WATCH MAKER, PHILADELPHIA, Has received by the different arrivals, A VERY LARGE AND EXPENSIVE 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; fit pinions and forged work; large and small bells; time-piece and watch glasses; springs; large and small stakes and beek irons; ditto hammers; large and small bench vices, and hand vices; sliding tongs and pliers; screw plates; round, oval, and square draw plates; shears; blow pipes; emery; rotten stone; prismatic stone; crucibles; cat-gut, and 30 hour lines; an elegant assortment of ladies and gentlemen's steel and gilt chains, silk strings, gilt and steel seals and keys. All orders from the Country carefully attended to. February 11. tu&f
At a meeting of the Stockholders of the Society for establishing useful manufactures, held at Paterson, 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 GIFFORD, 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. SismA
PROPOSALS 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.
CONDITIONS. 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 collect and arrange the most interesting materials—to smooth the rugged path—for abler hands, who, by such means, 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, as far as they can be collected. This information shall be classed under separate 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 preserved—and safely returned. February 9. 1aw12t
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 Fills 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 Derby, and county of Delaware, 7 1-2 miles from Philadelphia, and half a mile from the new Western road: containing 230 acres of excellent Land, 45 of which are good watered Meadows, 90 of prime Wood Lands, and the rest Arable of the first quality. There are on the premises a good two-story Brick House, with a room on a floor, and Cellars 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 those immediately under tillage, and are so laid out as to have the advantage of Water in each of them, which renders it peculiarly convenient for Grazing. The situation is pleasant and healthy, and from the high cultivation of the Land, the good neighborhood, 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 Harman, deceased and offered for sale by MORDECAI LEWIS. Oct. 9, 1795 estf Surveying Executor.
Joseph & Jesse Sharpley, No. 32, South Third-street, Have received per the Hamburg Packet, AND HAVE FOR SALE, A variety of MERCHANDIZE; CONSISTING OF CALICOES, Furniture do. Dimities, Fustians, wide and narrow clouded and striped Nankeens, Checks, Ginghams, elegant Velt patterns of Camel's hair, mouselinet, and Marcellies, Hosiery, Calimers, Jeans, Superfine and second Cloths, Calimancoes, Spinnings, Moreens, Irish Linens, and dry Goods in general.—Also, 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 mo. 30th. 2awtf. N. B. A number of elegant Counte-panes, and Marcellies 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 Leavenworth, 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 foolsc. 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. Stainer's paper Ditto, gilt, do. Common brown Common size Folio Post Patent sheathing paper Ditto, quarto, plain Bonnetboards Folio & quarto Post, gilt Binder's boards.
COARSE PAPERS. 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; thimble and sand 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, as-skin knives and memorandum books. Red and coloured wafers, common size, office ditto. Quills from half a dollar to three dollars per hundred, ready made pens. Black lead pencils. Gum elastic or Indian rubber. Gilt and plain mezzanine and conversation 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, seamen'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. Feet's Spanish flora 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 Reg. February 15. 1aw6w
Just come to Hand, and to be sold By BENJAMIN DAVIES, No. 68, High-street, The GHOST-SEER, or Apparitionist, An interesting Fragment. Found among the papers of Count O— From the German of Schiller. AND The DEMOCRAT, Or the intrigues and adventures of Jean Le Noir, in the various offices of a Soldier, Missionary, &c.
JUST PUBLISHED, [PRICE, TWENTY-FIVE CENTS] By Samuel H. Smith, No. 118 Chestnut-street, Letters of Pacifcus, Written in justification of the President's Proclamation of Neutrality. ALSO, Charge of Judge Paterson, In the WYOMING CAUSE—Price 25 cents. Also, a new political Pamphlet, called POLITICAL TRUTH. March 30. 2aw4t.
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 latter 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, At Green Hill, about 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon, a forrel HORSE, with saddle and bridle, the stirrups, bit and bosses plated, and the letters A. T. engraved on the latter. The owner, by applying at No. 111 Chestnut-street, may hear of him. March 29. 3t  PHILADELPHIA: PRINTED BY JOHN FENNO, —No. 119— CHESTNUT-STREET. [Price Eight Dollars per Annum.]