Gazette of the United States. (Philadelphia [Pa.]), 1796-05-16 00:00:00

Gazette of the United States
NUMBER 1150.
PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY EVENING MAY 16, 1796.
[VOLUME IX.]
FOR HAMBURG, The Danish Brigantine Den Nye Prøve, PETER HANSEN, Master; A fine stout vessel, will be ready to take in her cargo on the first of May. For freight or passage apply to Rofs & Simon.
For SALE, or CHARTER, THE BRIG PEACE, Captain SALTER, 2500 barrels—a staunch good vessel, about five years old—ready to receive a cargo. Apply to Peter Blight.
For SALE, or CHARTER, THE SNOW BOSTON, BURTHEN about 2000 Bds. of flour—she may be sent to sea at a small expence, her fails and rigging being in very good order—apply to James Campbell, or George Latimer.
For LONDON, The fine new copper-bottomed Ship Mount Vernon, BURTHEN about 412 tons, will be ready to receive her cargo on Monday next, and will sail on or before the 10th of May next, great part of her cargo engaged. For freight or passage apply to the subscribers, No. 21, Penn-street, Willings and Francis.
Kearney Wharton HAS REMOVED his Counting-House from Morton's wharf, to No. 18 Dock-street.
John Miller, jun & Co. No. 8 Chestnut Street, Have received by the Ship BIRMINGHAM PACKET, From Calcutta, 160 Bales of Bengal Goods, 10,000 Pieces Nankeens, Of a Superior Quality, 350 Bags of SUGAR, Which they will sell on advantageous terms.
For Kingston, in Jamaica, The ship Dominick Terry, Will sail in twelve days, For Freight or Passage, apply to the Captain on board, at Cuthbert's wharf, or to Jesse & Robert Waln.
For LONDON, THE SHIP ATLANTIC, SILAS SWAIN, Commander, WILL sail on or about the 1st of May. For freight or passage apply to the Captain on board at Walnut-street wharf, or to PHILIP NICKLIN & CO.
FOR SALE, The Copper Bottomed Ship LADY LOUISA, WITH all her materials, as she came from sea. Like-wise to be disposed of A number of CANNON and SMALL ARMS, on board said vessel. For terms apply to Parker & Wharton.
For BRISTOL, THE NEW SHIP PHILADELPHIA, TREDORE BRASS, Master, WILL take Goods on Freight, and be ready to receive them in a few days. For freight or passage apply to Thomas & John Clifford.
Who have for Sale, besides their usual assortment of Ironmongery, Cutlery, Sadlery, &c. Crates of Glass and Earthen Ware; Crates of Vials; boxes of long and short Pipes; Bristol crown Glass afforded, from 18 by 12 inches to 9 inches by 7; Copper Sheets and Bottoms; Boxes of Tin Plates; London and Bristol Pewter in Casks afforded; Bristol Grindstones; Garnet & Co's patent Sheaves for Blocks. Also, a bale of BROADCLOTHS and CASSIMERE; And a few Pipes of OLD MADEIRA WINE.
IRISH LINENS, Imported in the Glasgow, from Dublin, and to be sold by Mordecai Lewis.
Just Arrived, Mordecai, master, a quantity of Tar, Pitch, and Indigo; Also for Sale, The said Sloop, Burthen about 400 Barrels.
SHE is a good strong vessel, and has been chiefly employed as a Coaster. If not sold in a few days, will take in freight, and proceed direct for Newbury Port. Apply to ISAAC HARVEY, jun. No. 5, S. Water Street
Edward Stow, Jun. HAS for sale, at his Store, No. 41, South Water street, New England Rum, in Hogheads, tierces & barrels, MADEIRA, SHERRY, and } WINES, PORT Mels, Prime and Cargo Beef, Spermaceti and Wax Mould Candles, Tallow Mould and Dips ditto, 100 Boxes hard, White Soap, in excellent order for shipping. May 12.
For Sale, A Three story BRICK HOUSE and Lot, in Chestnut street, between Front and Second streets, in which Messrs. James Calbraith & Co. have for many years (and now do) carried on business. Possession will be given in one month, or sooner. For terms apply to WILLIAM BELL, or HECTOR CALBRAITH.
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 Chestnut-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 office 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.
Landing, From on board the Brig Abigail, from Liverpool, EARTHEN WARE, in Crates; and A quantity of COAL; FOR SALE, BY Thomas & John Keiland.
Landing, At Russell's wharf, the CARGO of the Ship Lady Louisa, James Cooper, master, from China, and the Cape of Good Hope, CONSISTING OF SUGAR, in Casks and Bags; WINES, in Butts and half Butts of superior quality; A small quantity of BRANDY; And a few Red HANDKERCHIEFS. FOR SALE BY Parker & Wharton, No. 109, South Water-street.
FOR SALE By MORDECAI LEWIS, The remains of the Cargo by the Pigou, from Canton, viz. WIDE and narrow Nankeens, 50 Quarter Chests Souchong Tea, 20 Tubs Quicksilver, and A quantity of Tea-Table and Dining China.
TO BE SOLD, 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 100 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 hands. 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.
John Miller, jun. & Co. No. 8 Chestnut-street, Have imported in the late vessels, from Europe, A GENERAL ASSORTMENT OF SPRING GOODS, Among which are Striped and clouded NANKENEES, Dimities and Mullinees, HATS, Neatly assorted in packages, IRISH LINENS, ditto, All which they will sell on the most reasonable terms, for Cash or the usual credit. May 11.
This Day published, AND for sale by B. DAVIES, No. 68, High street, H. & P. RICE, No. 50, do. and J. ORMEROD, No. 41, Chestnut-street, [Price 25 Cents] A LETTER To a Noble Lord, On the attacks made on him and his pension, in the House of Lords by the Duke of Bedford and the Earl of Lauderdale, early in the present session of Parliament. WITH A SUITABLE PREFACE, By Peter Porcupine.
COLUMBIA HOUSE Boarding School for Young Ladies. MRS. GROOMBRIDGE 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. GROOMBRIDGE is assisted by Masters of the first ability; and the useful, as well as ornamental branches of education are particularly attended to. February 8.
Just Arrived, In the Snow Boat, James Kirkpatrick, master from Liverpool, 5000 Bushels SALT, 100 Crates QUEEN'S WARE; and An Assortment of SHIP CHANDLERY; FOR SALE On board, at Pine-street wharf. Apply to James Campbell, or George Latimer.
Samuel Richardet, RESPECTFULLY informs the Gentlemen Merchants, that he has this day opened the CITY TAVERN and MERCHANTS COFFEE HOUSE in the city of Philadelphia. The Subscription Room will be furnished with all the daily papers published in Philadelphia, New-York, Boston, Baltimore, together with those of the principal commercial cities of Europe. They will be regularly filed and none permitted to be taken away on any account. Tea, Coffee, Soups, Jellies, Ice Creams, and a variety of French Liquors, together with the usual refreshments, will at all times be procured at the bar. Gentlemen may depend on being accommodated with the choicest of Wines, Spirituous Liquors, and the most approved Male Liquors from London and other breweries. The Larder will be supplied with the prime and earliest productions of the Season. Large and small Parties, or single Gentlemen, may be accommodated with Breakfasts, Dinners, or Suppers, at hours most convenient to themselves. A cold Collation is regularly kept for convenience, the Bill of Fare to be had at the bar. The Lodging Rooms will be completely furnished, and the utmost attention paid to cleanliness, and every other requisite. SAMUEL RICHARDET will be happy to receive, and execute the commands of his Friends, and the Public at large; and with gratitude for their favours, he pledges himself that nothing on his part shall be wanting to preserve that patronage with which he has been so distinguishedly honored. Philadelphia, April 19.
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. Enquire of the Printer. Jan. 9.
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 ornate neck and perch Carriages, such as Coaches, Chariots, Phaetons, and Coachesses; also, Chairs, Kitteresses, Gigs, Sulkeys; and all kinds of Harness, with plated or brass mounting. He has 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 details of his business, 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. 3rd Apprentices wanted to the Business. Philadelphia, November 21. 11, & 23, N. 5th street.
CHINA GOODS. THE Ship ATLANTIC, Silas Swaine, Commander, from Canton, will commence the discharge of her cargo to-morrow morning at Walnut-street wharf, Consisting of Yellow and white Nankeens of excellent quality Persian Taffeties, black and coloured Lutrings, do. do. Sattins black of various qualities Sewing silks in assorted colours VISCY Vermillion in boxes Cassia in chests Quicksilver in jars BOHEA, SOUCHONG, HYSON SKIN, YOUNG HYSON, BEST HYSON, IMPERIAL, CHINA WARE, ornamental, with Table and Tea Sets generally assorted. WHITE SUGARS, and a quantity of First quality Bengal SALT PETRE. For Sale by Philip Nicklin & Co. April 8.
TEN DOLLARS REWARD. ABSCONDED, on the night of Thursday last, the 7th inst. BOSTON MURRAY, a black indentured servant lad, 18 or 19 years of age, and about 5 feet 8 or 9 inches high; one of his eyes is defective in the corner towards his nose. His apparel consisted of a buff-colored round jacket, with a Manchester velveteen waistcoat, and returns him, or confines him in any jail in Pennsylvania or Jersey, so that I recover him shall receive the above reward, together with reasonable charges. MOORE WHARTON, No. 109, Spruce-street. April 11.
30 Pipes Cogniac Brandy, Corks, in bales, and Holland Gin, in pipes, For Sale by Benjamin W. Morris. December 31.
Advertisement. WE the subscribers, Commissioners appointed by law to take subscriptions for the Gap, Newport, and Wilmington Turnpike Road, do hereby give notice, that we will attend for that purpose at the house of Samuel Cochran, on the 6th day of June next: JOSHUA PUSEY, JACOB LINDLEY, JOHN M'DOWELL, JAMES BOYD. Chester County, 25th April, 1796. [May 7. cont.]
Washington Canal Lottery, No. 3.
Table with 3 columns: Prize, Number, Amount. Includes prizes from 20,000 dollars down to 12 dollars, and 3850 Prizes, 11650 Blanks.
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 DEBELOIS, GEORGE WALKER, WM. M. DUNCANSON, THOMAS LAW, JAMES BARRY. City of Washington, Feb. 11.
Knox, Henderson & Co. No. 46, North Front street.
HAVE imported in the ships Liberty, Concord and Adria, from London, a fresh supply of Goods suited to the season—consisting of A beautiful assortment of Cottons, Calicoes, and Chintzes, Mullins, Mullinees, Corded and India Dimities, Ginghams, Cotton Counterpanes, Plain, striped, clouded, twilled, and silk Nankeens, Thread, cotton, silk & cotton and silk Hosiery, Diaper and Damask Table Cloths, Lawns, Cambricks and Cambric Mullins, Linen, cotton and silk hfs, Sewing Silks, &c. &c. A few bales well assorted colors, London best super fine Cloths, best superfine and second Calimerees—Also, sundry packages of Calicoes and Chintzes, and other goods goods fit for exportation. Per the Glasgow, Capt. Williams, from Dublin, a few boxes 7-8 and yard wide Irish Linens. May 4.
For sale by RICHARD LEE, No. 145 North Second street, between Sassafras and Vine street.
Flowers from Sharon; Or, Original Poems on Divine Subjects.
In Imitation of Dr. Watts, Recommended by the following eminent London ministers; rev. Mr. DeCookey, rev. Mr. T. Yole, rev. Mr. G. Williams, and the rev. Mr. J. Swain. The Volume before us needs only a perusal to obtain the approbation of every friend to truth. The essential peculiarities of the Gospel are the darling subjects of the author; it is a work particularly calculated to impress on the youth-fu mind the genuine principles of evangelical piety, and to convey, through a pleasing medium, a due sense of those things which belong to their everlasting peace. The Evangelical Reviewers write thus: The author of these Poems discovers considerable marks of genius, as well as of a clear understanding of the gospel and of a devotional spirit. Price 3-4ths of a dollar—printed on superfine wove paper. Likewise may be had as above—Songs from the Rock, to hail the approaching day, sacred to truth, liberty and peace. Price 4 dollars. "Let the inhabitants of the Rock sing, For the glory of the lord is risen." Isaac. May 5.
This Day is published, At the author's Book-Store, corner of Front and Walnut streets, Volume I. of a Description of Spanish St. Domingo.
Translated from the French of M. L. B. MOREAU DE ST. MERY, member of the Philosophical Society of Philadelphia, By WILLIAM COBBET. With a new, correct, and elegant MAP of the whole Island. Price Two Dollars. The Subscribers to this Work, are requested to take up the first volume, as soon as convenient. The second volume (which completes the Work) will be ready for delivery in the course of the present month. The complete work in the French language may likewise be had at the same place. May 9.
Imported, In the ship Birmingham Packet, from Calcutta, and for sale by the Package, by Samuel & Miers Fisher.
Tanah Coffees, Batas, and other Batas, Bahar Henkerclefs, Persian Taffeties, Humhums, Flower'd and spotted Emerties, Bandanoes. With a variety of other goods from that place, and a general assortment of European SPRING GOODS, as usual. Also, Long and short Pipes, in boxes of 5 gross each, An assortment of Stone Jugs and Pitchers, Queen's Ware, in Crates, assorted, Glass Ware, in Crates and Casks, Sheathing Paper, by the Bale, Teneriffe, Malaga, & } WINES, Sherry, Spermaceti Candles, and A general assortment of Irish Linens, Received per ship Glasgow, from Dublin, by the package. May 12.
Wanted, For the accommodation of a private Family, A SMALL HOUSE, situated in some airy street, within the limits of the city.
Any person having such a one to let, and can give possession before the middle of June next ensuing, will hear of a careful tenant by applying to the Printer, on this page. May 14. cont.

Mr. Bates's Night.
New Theatre.
On MONDAY EVENING, May 16, Will be presented, (never performed here) an Historical Drama, interspersed with Songs, called
THE PATRIOT;
OR, LIBERTY OBTAIN'D.
[As altered from the Play of Helvetic Liberty, and compressed into Three Acts, by Mr. Bates.]
Albert, Mr. Green. Oscar, Mr. Moreton. Provost of the city, Mr. Francis. Edward, Mr. Warrell, jun. Corporal Poppin, Mr. Blisset. 1st Citizen, Mr. Mitchell. William Tell, (the Patriot) Mr. Whitlock. Tell's Son, Miss Solomon. Werner, Mr. Beebe. Walter of Uri, Mr. Warrell. Old man of the mountains, Mr. Morgan. A Court Fool (withongs) Mr. Bates. Archers: Messrs. Darley, Darley, jun: Solomon, Robbins. Marina, Mrs. Whitlock. Serene, Miss Willems.
A DANCE OF FEMALE ARCHERS, By Mrs. De Marque, Miss Milbourne, Mad. Loge, Mrs. Harvey, Miss Gilaspie, &c. N. B. A New Medley Overture, with the Music and Songs, compiled and selected from the most Popular Tunes.
End of the Play, (by Desire) the Comic Song of THE LITTLE FARTHING RUSH-LIGHT, By Mr. Bates.
After which, (never performed here) the Farce of BARNABY BRITTLE; Or, a Wife at Her Wit's End. [As often performed at Covent Garden, with general Applause.]
Barnaby Brittle, Mr. Bates. Gledpole, Mr. Blisset. Jeremy, Mr. Francis. Sir Peter Pride, Mr. Morgan. Lovemore, Mr. Green. Jeffrey, Mr. Warrell, jun. Mrs. Brittle, Mrs. Marshall. Lady Pride, Mrs. Shaw. Damaris, Mrs. Rowson.
To which will be added, a Pantomime Entertainment, (never performed here) called GIL BLAS;
OR THE CAVE OF THE ROBBERS. As originally produced by Mr. Bates, at the Royalty Theatre, in London.
Gil Blas, Mr. Bates. His Father, Mr. Warrell. Gil Perez, his uncle, Mr. Blisset. Young Spaniard, Mr. Green. Captain of Banditti, Mr. Moreton. Pompey, Mr. Mitchell. Domingo, an old negro, Mr. Morgan. Pot Boy, Master Warrell. Dorothea, a fat Cook, Mr. Rowson. Spanish Lady, Miss Willems. Gil Blas's mother, Mrs. Solomon.
The Entertainment to conclude with a representation of A SPANISH FAIR.
In which will be introduced several Feats of Tumbling, Pesses, Balancing, &c. by Sig. Joseph Doctor.
And a Pantomime Dance of Grotesque Characters. Harlequin, Mr. Warrell, jun. Scaramouch, Mr. Darley, jun. Punch, Mr. Francis. Columbine, Miss Milbourne. Mademoiselle, Miss Willems. Joann, Mrs. De Marque.
Tickets to be had at the usual places, and of Mr. Bates, corner of Seventh and Chestnut Streets.
On Wednesday, a Tragedy, never performed here, called THE COUNT OF NARBONNE; with Entertainments—For the Benefit of Mr. MARSHALL. Mrs. OLDMIXON's Night will be on Friday next.
Estate for sale.
To be sold on Wednesday the 18th Instant, by Public Vendue, at the City Tavern, At 12 o'clock.
ALL that capital Estate, lately belonging to John Mayo, at Germantown, consisting of a good and commodious Mansion-House, out-houses, Stables, Garden, Orchards, &c. together with about 73 acres of good Land, the whole in the best order, and fit for the permanent residence of a large Family. Possession to be given immediately, free from every incumbrance.
Terms of payment, one half in three months, and the other half in six months, in approved notes.
John Connelly, Auctioneer.
May 9. By an Artificer resident at Mr. Oellers's Hotel,
MINIATURE LIKENESSES
ARE taken and executed in that elegant and delicate style, which is so necessary to render a Miniature Picture an interesting jewel.
He will warrant a strong and indistinguishable resemblance; and he takes the liberty to lay before the public of this place his most earnest intention to deserve their patronage by his best endeavors to please.
N. B. Specimens are to be seen. May 12.
To be sold at public sale,
On the 18th day of June next, at the City Tavern, in Philadelphia.
FOUR Lots of Ground in the town of Lambert, county of Burlington, and State of New-Jersey, adjoining the river Delaware, late the Estate of William Richards, deceased, with all the buildings and improvements, bounded by ground of John Mitchell, Lambert Cadwalader and others; a clear indispitable title will be given. The terms will be made known at the time and place of sale. April 28. mchth.
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. (sawtJuly) JOS. HAERSHAM.
From the Sun, a paper published in Dover, N. H.
You ought to be careful. "AND who does not know that," said a young pragmatical coxcomb, before he had heard the rest of the sentence, "True my friend," I answered if knowing was all that was necessary to induce people to do as they ought, preaching would be little wanted, and the world would go round without so many jolts and toffes, and many of the egregious errors as well as the smaller evils and cross accidents of life would be avoided. "But who ought to be careful? I don't understand you sir, do you mean me?" "Yes, you" I answered, "in company with all the rest of the world; for observe them, from the Philosopher down to the fool—from a Washington to the most contemptible jacobin inclusive, and you will not find one of any age, sex, class, or denomination, but what at some time or other may feel obliged by having a friend at their elbow to whisper them to be careful. And the traveller is in duty bound to stand centry in turn, during his watch, as he has too much gratitude soon to forget the gentle admonitions and affectionate cautions he has received from his good friends, while he has been passing through the world."
Ah! and travellers too ought to be careful not to take a cup too much when they are to travel in the night, lest they should get a sore eye against a post or a fence, that should be so uncivil as not to move out of their way, as they are advancing on each side the road with their graceful bows, their genteel falls their wonderful evolutions, and other pleasing attitudes, so highly entertaining to by standers.
Some have gone so far as to suppose that even lawyers ought to be careful and not persuade people into uncertain law-suits, by being positive they will recover; when they have doubts in their own minds whether by being positive they can lead them safe out again. It was said of them in old time, that they took great fees—that was an evil under the sun, which the present generation seems freed from—but if that was a fault, what name shall we give to those who if they can't do better, take less than the fee table, and for the sake of purchasing business offer writs at half price? If any such can be, the law has given them two names already, Pettifoggers and Barrators, and annexed punishments as disgraceful as such contemptible practices deserve.
And why ought not Doctors to be careful? The old ones, lest their pockets being full and their feelings less acute they grow remiss and inattentive to the calls of distress. And the young medical Pettifoggers, who rush into the practice without a previous education or regular study, who know little more of medicine than some of the names, yet call themselves of the Faculty because they have the faculty of charging equal to the first rate practitioners—Surely such men ought to be careful when the lives of citizens are thus put in jeopardy by confiding in their skill. But the evil will never be fully remedied till the people themselves grow so careful as not to trust them.
These are not all—what remains must be reserved till another opportunity.
A TRAVELLER.
Foreign Intelligence.
LONDON, March 20. Admiralty-Office, March 18.
Extract of a Letter from the hon. Robert Stopford, captain of his majesty's ship Phaeton, to Mr. Nepean, dated at sea, March 11, 1796, Cape Finisterre, E. N. E. 40 leagues.
I have to request you will inform my lords commissioners of the admiralty, that the French Corvette, called La Bonne Citoyenne, mounting 20 nine-pounders, and carrying 145 men, was captured yesterday by the squadron under my orders. Cape Finisterre E. by N. 50 leagues. She left Rochefort the 4th instant, in company with La Porte, La Seine, La Regenerée frigates, and La Mutine brig, destined for the Isle de France, and have troops and a great quantity of soldiers' cloathing on board, for that place.
March 28. BREVIAE OF THE BILL For the cultivation of the waste Lands and Commons of the Kingdom.
The Bill sets forth, that a considerable portion of the Lands in those parts of Great Britain called England and Wales, lie waste and uncultivated; and the said lands, or certain portions thereof, are subject to various rights of common, or other rights in, upon, and over the same, and that it would be attended with great public advantage, if such commons, waste and uncultivated lands, were allotted and held in severality, and improved by cultivation. Therefore the bill enacts, that it shall be lawful for his majesty, his heirs and successors, and all other persons whomsoever, to enter into agreements for referring to commissioners the setting out, dividing and allotting all or any part of the said commons, waste and uncultivated lands, in the manner directed by the bill; and all agreements being so made and entered into, being deposited with the clerks of the peace for the county, or place where the lands shall be, shall be binding on all parties making the same.
There are clauses enabling the lords of the treasury to give his majesty's consent to any such agreement. But that the division, allotment and inclosure shall not extend to his majesty's forests or chases, without the consent of his majesty's officers, as in the bill directed.
LONDON, March 28.
On Saturday were deposited, in the Parish Church of Chalton, St. Giles, Buckinghamshire, the remains of Sir Hugh Palliser, Bart. late governor of Greenwich Hospital. The funeral, in obedience to the requisition of the deceased, was a very private one: the chief mourners were admiral Bazeley, Capt. Hartwell, George Hartwell, Esq. and another gentleman.
Sir Hugh Palliser was in unremitting pain for the last fifty years, in consequence of a ball having lodged in his hip, from the blowing up of an arm-chest, on which he was sitting. During the whole of the above period, he never enjoyed an uninter-
rupted night's rest, but bore the pain he suffered with the most manly fortitude.
The following circumstance relating to Sir Hugh Palliser is not very generally known: For more than the last fifteen or sixteen years of his life he seldom or ever lay down on a bed; from the constant pain occasioned by an issue in his withered leg, he was under the necessity of composing himself in an easy chair, sleeping at intervals, and when awake, he placed the wounded limb on the contrary knee, in which position he employed himself in rubbing the bone (for it was literally no more) to assuage the pain till sleep again insensibly overtook him.
DUBLIN, March 22.
Six of the murderers of Mr. Harman have been convicted at the assizes of Longford.
Saturday Patrick Hart was executed at the front of the New prison, pursuant to his sentence, for High Treason.
Before he left his cell sheriff Stamer proposed the following questions to him, which he answered in the presence of several gentlemen, with much calmness:
Q. Are you guilty of the crime for which you are to suffer? A. I am—I was a Defender, and acted as such.
Q. Do you know any person of consequence who is a Defender? A. No; I do not know the principals; but I am acquainted with a great many Defenders, and I wish to God I could bring them to a proper sense of their crime.
Q. What was the object of the Defenders? A. They took arms to overthrow the government but not to destroy life or property, the greatest part of what Lawler swore was true, but not all: I never told him that I was at Finnagan's house: the blunderbuss found in my possession was given to me by one of the persons concerned in the robbery.
Q. Who is it supplies money for the fees of lawyers, and other expenses attending on the trial of Defenders? A. I do not know.
He was then conducted from the cell. On his way through the prison, he repeated (in answer to the sheriff) that the intention of the Defenders in taking arms, was to overthrow the government. When on the scaffold, "Good people (said he, in a loud and distinct voice) pray for me: I was a Defender, my sentence is just; I thank the sheriff for his indulgence to me—I forgive my prosecutors, and I hope to be forgiven."
After hanging twenty minutes the body was then taken up and the head severed from it; the executioner then exhibited it to the view of the surrounding populace, laying aloud, "behold the head of a traitor."
LONDON, April 1.
The British East India company are raising 3000 men for the navy, at a bounty of 35l. per man.
Among the many accounts of gen. Pichegru, since the report of his resignation, the following appears to be the most ably penned character of him that has been attempted:
"If we may trust to the report of this great man, made by the English and Germans, to whom he was opposed, he was as exemplary in his conduct, as a humane and generous enemy, as he was consummate in military genius, in gallantry and in skill. He was the author of a new scheme of tactics, the value of which he demonstrated by success. When called to the command of a multitude of undisciplined boys, he found no one principle of an army upon which to act, except enthusiasm in the cause in which they were engaged; he seized upon this great passion and made it equal to all the rest; discipline, science, maturity, fell before it. With enthusiasm only as his support he attacked the veteran armies of Germany in mass, and to the astonishment of a surrounding world, for thirty three successive days, he brought this unorganized multitude to the charge, disciplined them in the midst of actual fire, and moulded them into a regular army upon heaps of slain. He exhibited a new science in the history of arms. To be repulsed was not to him a defeat—to have his squadrons broken was not to be put into disorder—and he was the first general who could rally his men, that though driven back to day, he returned to the field with the same alacrity to-morrow, and as the incessant drop pierces the stone, converted his series of defeats into the most brilliant conquest. Such was the splendid opening of his military character towards the close of 1793, when he took the command of the motley host of requisition men, to resist the impetuous inroad of general Wurmser, who had cut through the lines of Wissemburg, and penetrated almost to the capital of Alsace. The whole of his military career since that time has been equal to the promise of his outset. He recovered all that the treachery of general Dumourier had lost, and accomplished even more than his bombast had promised, and while he drove the veteran armies of Europe from the plains of Cambray to the Wezer before him, his course of victory was stained by no acts of violence—his reports to his country by no vain exultation."
"Such is the general, who is said to have retired from the command of their army! it is not unbecoming in an enemy to do justice to such talents, and when the passions which now blind mankind shall subside, and the characters of the present day come to be fairly estimated, such, we prophesy, will be the tribute paid to his name! we may therefore be allowed to say, that his retirement, if true is a most important thing to the cause of the French and of course to the cause of the allies. It is very material indeed to the Germans, when they have no longer a Clairfayt to lead them on, that they have no longer a Pichegru to oppose."
"But we speak only of his retirement from the loose, imperfect hints which we find in the journals of Paris; and, from the papers wanting, we are totally uninformed as to the cause. The rumour is, that he is hostile to the unwise ambition of that party in France who desire to extend their boundary to the Rhine. If so, his policy is equal to his other accomplishments. He who is the best able to extend their territory has also the wisdom to advise them to moderation, which, of every country is its surest and its cheapest defence."
London Morning Chronicle.
NORFOLK, May 8, Quantity, Quality and Value of EXPORTS to Foreign Ports, from the District of NORFOLK and PORTSMOUTH, from 1st January to 31st March, 1796.
Table with 3 columns: Quantity, Quality and Value of EXPORTS. Lists various goods like Tobacco, Sugar, Bees-wax, Candles, Coffee, Prunes, Raisins, Corn, Oats, Rice, Peas, Beans, Horses, Hemp, Pig Iron, Dry Goods, Tar, Turpentine, Rofin, Jugs Oil, Lampblack, Meal, Bread, Flour, Pork, Bacon, Butter, Lard, Beef, Cheese, Crackers, Potatoes, Soap, Tallow, Brandy, Vinegar, Wine, Malaga, Claret, Staves, Pipe Staves, Barrel Staves, Heading, Shingles, Boards, Plank, Hoops, Shook hds. with their respective quantities and values in Dollars and Cents.
Total, Dollars, 1,088,105 05
Yesterday arrived here the sloop Jenny, Captain Vaughn, in 33 days from Mariguane. Left there the following American vessels:
Brig Caroline, Cornel, from New York; Schooners, Hope, M. Tarlox, from Salem; William, Small, from Boston; Neptune, Hews, from Philadelphia.
The cargoes of the above vessels taken by the Administration, and the vessels detained in consequence of non payment.
The Schooner Federal, Coffin, of and from Baltimore, was to sail in five days.
The Schooner Betsey, Townsend, from Salem, was at Petit Guave, waiting for an order from the Administration to go round to Aux Cayes for payment.
A gentleman who came passenger in the above vessel, and was in sight of the action at Leogane, has furnished us with the undermentioned particulars.
That on the 19th March the English fleet, consisting of 73 sail, weighed anchor at Port-au-Prince. On the 21st they began landing the army, and by 2 P. M. the whole of them were ashore; they then formed into two columns, under command of Generals Forbes and Bowyer, one of which filed off to the eastward and the other to west of the town, the Swiftsure, Africa, and Leviathan anchored close to the fort with springs on their cables, and commenced the attack. By this time the western division had formed, and advanced towards Leogane. In their route they passed through a sugar plantation where a large number of French troops were in ambush, who attacked them with great impetuosity, and obliged them to fall back with the loss of 400 men killed and wounded. The French then set fire to the plantation, and the English troops advanced by another route close to the town, and a general action commenced between the main armies, which continued without intermission till dark, when the British troops fell back a mile from the town. During the night the English took possession of an eminence that commanded the town, on which they raised a battery of 4 guns. On the morning of the 22nd at day light they opened the battery, and continued playing on the town for three hours, during which time three attempts were made to storm the town, but proved unsuccessful. About 9 o'clock a body of French troops, formed into two columns, came out of Leogane, formed the British battery, and put all in to the rout.
On the evening of the 23rd, a cutter came down from Port-au-Prince to the commodore, who fired a gun and made the signal for raising the siege. The troops were re-embarked, and the fleet got under way, leaving behind them a few bags of cotton and some horses. Every American vessel in Leogane were taken possession of by the British fleet and carried to Port-au-Prince. The town of Leogane was greatly injured by the shot from the shipping and 4 gun battery. The Reasonable man of war was greatly damaged, and obliged after an hour's firing to slip her cables and retire.
WEST-INDIES.
ANTIGUA, April 10. The Atlanta, of 10 guns, has had a severe engagement near Guadaloupe, with a French Privateer of 16 guns, full of men, which she gave a