Gazette of the United States and daily evening advertiser. (Philadelphia [Pa.]), 1795-02-21 00:00:00

Gazette of the United States AND DAILY EVENING ADVERTISER.
[No. 44 of Vol. VII.] SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1795. [Whole No. 766.]
Columbianum.
February 14, 1795. At a Meeting of the Fellow Artists of the Columbianum...
That the Rules and Regulations for conducting the Exhibition, shall be laid before the Public...
Thirty dollars reward.
Ran away from the subscriber, a white French servant named Pierre Le Fite...
TO BE SOLD.
By Thomas Dobson, No. 41, South Second Street...
REPORT
OF THE Secretary of the Treasury Read in the House of Representatives...
Public Credit.
George Green,
Informs his Friends and Customers in particular, and the Public in general...
James M'Alpin,
Taylor, No. 3, South Fourth Street. Returns his grateful acknowledgements...
For Hamburg,
The fast-sailing ship INDUSTRY, William Bell, master...
Green Coffee,
110,000 weight of Green Coffee, In 87 bales...
PROPOSALS
For printing by subscription, a new publication...
The American Remembrancer
and Universal Tablet of Memory.
To the PUBLIC.
THE principal design of this publication is to rescue from oblivion...
James Hardie.
N. B. It is requested that such persons as are entrusted with subscription papers...
This day is Published,
Slaves in Algiers:
Struggle for Freedom:
A PLAY. Interpersed with Songs, in three acts...
By Mrs. Rowson. As performed at the New Theatres in Philadelphia...
Extract from the Preface.
My chief aim has been, to offer to the public a Dramatic Entertainment...
A FEW COPIES
Of the celebrated Performance under the Signature of MANLIUS...
FOR SALE,
At the STORES of Jesse & Robert Waln, PORT WINE in pipes...
FRESH
Bohea Tea,
GIN in Pipes,
Now Landing from on board the ship Peggy, John Elliott master...
Pragers & Co.
To be Sold,
A VALUABLE
Tract of Land,
BEING that part of the city of New Brunswick that lies in the county of Somerset...
James Parker,
Of Perth Amboy. In premises will be shown by John Parker or James Cole...
Fresh Teas,
OF SUPERIOR QUALITY, viz. Imperial, or Gunpowder...
A few Boxes of each, for sale a
No. 19, Third street south.
Dec. 10
Ticklenburgs, Oznaburgs,
and Glass Ware,
Landing from on board the ship Peggy, from Amsterdam.
ALSO,
Coffee of prime Quality
In hogheads and tierces,
Muscovado Sugars
In hogheads,
German Steel,
ASSORTED WOOLLENS,
In small Bales, &c. for sale by
Rundle & Murgatroyd,
No. 11, Walnut street wharf.
Who want to purchase 300 or 400
Casks Good Flaxseed.
Nov. 11
CITY DANCING ASSEMBLY.
THURSDAY next being Thanksgiving
Day, there will be an Assembly that evening
SUNDAY, the 22d, being the Birth Day
of the President of the United States, there
will be a BALL on the evening of the
23d. No tickets will be sold for that night;
and the Subscribers are requested to apply to
the Managers for Tickets for Strangers, previous
to the night of the Ball.
In the press and speedily will
be published,
BY
THOMAS DOBSON,
No. 41, South Second street,
WOLSTONCRAFT,
Historical & Moral View
OF THE
French Revolution,
And the effect it has produced in Europe.
FOR SALE BY
Pragers & Co.
To be Sold,
A VALUABLE
Tract of Land,
Library Company of
Philadelphia.
A General Meeting of the Members of the Library Company of Philadelphia is requested...
Benjamin R. Morgan, Sec'y.
Feb. 14.
Treasury Department
Revenue Office, Feb.
10, 1795.
Notice is hereby given that
Proposals will be received at the Office of the Commissioner of the Revenue...
until the expiration of the 30th day of April next...
for Ten Thousand Gallons of the best winter pressed Spermaceti Oil...
It is required that the Oil be of a quality fit for use in the coldest weather...
Persons disposed to furnish the above mentioned quantity...
or any part thereof not less than 5000 gallons...
will be pleased to transmit their proposals...
to the office of either of the following Superintendents...
Joseph Whipple, at Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Benjamin Lincoln, at Boston.
William Eddy, at Newport, in Rhode Island.
Jedediah Huntington, at New London, Connecticut.
Thomas Randall, at New York.
William Allison, at Philadelphia.
Immediately after the last day of April, the proposals which may have been received...
will be opened upon, and notice will be given of the accepted offer.
Security will be required for the punctual delivery of the Oil in quantity and quality...
The money will be paid on a delivery after inspection.
Tench Coxe,
Commissioner of the Revenue.
Inland Navigation.
In the Press and speedily will be published
BY
Zachariah Poulson jun.
No. 80, Chestnut street,
AN
HISTORICAL ACCOUNT
OF THE
Rise, progress, and present
state
OF THE
Canal Navigation in Penn-
sylvania.
With an Appendix, containing Abstracts of the Acts of the Legislature since the year 1792...
and their Grants of Money for improving Roads and Navigable Waters...
An Explanatory Map.
Published by Direction of the President and Managers of the Schuylkill and Susquehanna...
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A. POEM
FOR FEBRUARY 22d, 1795.
ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIRTH DAY OF GEORGE WASHINGTON.
WHILE festive songs and grateful prayers ascend... For the O WASHINGTON, thy country's friend...
Walks on Kings' necks—yet, in the des'p'rate strife... With poison'd daggers seeks fair freedom's life...
them. And in order effectually to do so, it is likewise the duty of every freeman, to regard with attention...
suspicions, jealousies and accusations of the whole government. And this too, without the intervention of any direct depravity...
these, who inveigle the people, not to dash their gloomy pictures sometimes with a little light, or to refute their voice...
From the American Daily Advertiser.
GERMANICUS, LETTER X.
AFTER the discussions, contained in the preceding numbers, we may perhaps venture to affirm in the abstract...
GERMANICUS, LETTER XI.
According to the Constitutions which have been published, the same principle in substance, is professed by them all...
GERMANICUS, LETTER XII.
With a view to cultivate a just knowledge of rational liberty; to facilitate the enjoyment and exercise of our civil rights...
GERMANICUS, LETTER XIII.
The Republican Constitutions of the United States, and the state of Pennsylvania, being framed and established by the people...
(1) The first Settlers of New England arrived at Plymouth in the winter.
(2) Boston was settled in 1630, and the University of Cambridge founded in 1636—A remarkable fact!
(3) Townships are alluded to.
(4) The debates of the Convention teach us to believe that this is no exaggerated picture of the Department of La Vendee.
GERMANICUS.
From the American Daily Advertiser. Messrs Dunlap & Claypoole. HAVING been, a few days ago, in your paper a statement of the polis in the late election of a Senator for the state of Delaware...
IMPARTIAL.
From the American Daily Advertiser. The conflagration of Ropewalk at Boston, brought to my remembrance what I read in a periodical paper, called the Liberator, about some productions of the earth...
CONGRESS.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
FRIDAY, 13th February. The House went into a committee of the whole, Mr. Cobb in the chair, on the bill for continuing and regulating the military establishment of the United States...

the little standing army of America in an hour. He had at first been the only man for regular troops, and now gentlemen who had been against this army were for it. There is a good militia in Massachusetts, but some time ago there has past a milia and water law in Congress, with hardly a New-England vote to it, and since that time there have been no hopes of a good militia. As to the present amendment, it had been inserted in former laws, and never had hindered the regulars from marching any where that was thought proper. The amendment had done no good before, and he had no hopes of its doing any now. He was sorry for this little standing army, for it never comes before the House without meeting a rub. It has more to fear from its friends than from its enemies. Some people pretended to be jealous of the New-England members, as attached to a standing army. The reason why they are so is, that they despair of ever seeing a militia, that will be worth one farthing. It had been said by Mr. Giles, that a party in the house wanted to employ the army as an instrument for executing the laws. If by this was meant preventing the whites from encroaching upon the Indians, and for suppressing insurrections he hoped that it would always be so, but if this meant that the standing army should assist in the ordinary execution of the law, he hoped that it would not be needful, and that they would not do it. He would not say again what he had said yesterday, as to the militia, but only this, that a militia raised by individual influence was more formidable to the United States than a standing army ever could be. He thanked God that the government of the country was not left entirely to the house of representatives, or he believed that they would make a wretched work of it. There were other branches likewise. As to weakening the army for fear that it should enslave us, he thought it like a man blunting the edge of his axe, for fear that he should cut his foot with it.
On dividing on this amendment, there were only twenty-five ayes.
Mr. Giles then moved, as an amendment to the third section, that no enlistment shall be made after three years from the time of passing this bill.
Mr. Hillhouse could see no harm, in this motion of Mr. Giles. It was agreed to.
The committee rose. The bill with the amendments were reported.
The House then went upon the amendments.
Mr. Nicholas moved, as an amendment to the bill, that the legion should be reduced to two thousand five hundred men, upon a peace with the Indians. The yeas and nays were called for, and the amendment lost by a very great majority.
Mr. Madison renewed his amendment proposed in the committee in other words. The substance was, that regular troops ought not be used against citizens, for enforcing the laws of the United States, but only for protection against foreign invasion, and the Indian tribes.
The yeas and nays were called for on this question also, and it was negatived by a great majority.
The bill was then ordered to be engrossed for a third reading.
Adjourned at four o'clock.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 21.
THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE PRESIDENT'S BIRTH DAY will be celebrated with those additional sentiments of respect which encircling years, and accumulating benefits conferred on his Country in justly merit, and inspire.
Not with the indiscriminating adulation of slaves, who could not, with impunity, withhold the expression of their applause—But as the spontaneous effusion of free men, determined to give their approbation to no man, however exalted, who does not deserve well of his country. Not, with the sentiment of courtiers and sycophants, to offer incense at the shrine of power, Not because he is the chief magistrate of a great nation—But for the display of those virtues and talents, which adorn his high station and do honour to Human Nature—With this tribute of unfeigned respect, esteem, and affection be paid, by his Fellow-Citizens and Constituents, to GEORGE WASHINGTON.
The following passages with regard to Philosophical Indulgence, were delivered by the Rev. Doctor SMITH, in the Sermon alluded to by our correspondent, A. B. in yesterday's Gazette, and transmitted, at the same time, for publication to the Editor.
LATELY there has sprung up a sect of political empirics, who pretend to deny the necessity, or utility, of religion; and who would willingly discard it from the state, as they have eradicated it from their hearts. The system of infidelity, which was once thought to be cold and gloomy, has, at length, shown itself furious and inflamed. In one nation, where it could act out its
spirit, we have seen the apostles of atheism more fanatical than the disciples of Omar, who endeavored to destroy all the monuments of art and genius, and more bloody than the votaries of Moloch, who worshipped their infernal idol in the blood of men. Blaspheming the living and eternal God, have they not consecrated their impious temples, dedicated to a false and misguided reason, with hecatombs of human victims? I may now speak freely on this subject. Those of my humble and imitative countrymen, who adopt their opinions implicitly from this nation, and who so flexibly bend after every revolution of party in its capital, will not now deem it profane to refuse canonization to Danton, to Brissot, or Robespierre, or to drag Marat from his Godship in the Pantheon, where folly and madness had placed him. These men, disdaining the examples of other ages, and mad with rage against religion, endeavored to extinguish it from the republic. The more effectually to incite its worship, they instituted a farce in the temple of reason. Was it God, the eternal reason, the author of the universe, whom they meant to adore under a new title? No; the eternal did not form a part of their system—the people were not able to comprehend so multiform and abstract an idea. But, filled with admiration of their own wisdom, it was this which they canonized in their heated imaginations. Each man carried his ridiculous deity in his own brain. Its visions and whimsies were deified upon the spot. O Egypt! the scorn of ages for the contemptible worship of reptiles and monsters! did thy temples ever contain so many monsters, such fantastic and reproachful mockeries of divinity, as did these strange temples of reason?
Blessed Saviour! are these the substitutes which infidelity invents, instead of the purity and glory of thy holy religion! Are these the works of those strong and superior minds, who affect to despise thy humble birth! thy innocent and instructive life! the condescensions of thy mercy! the sacrifice of thy cross! the hopes of immortality which thou hast revealed, and which thou hast verified by thy resurrection! The errors of the human imagination, when it departs from thee, are among the strongest proofs of the truth and excellence of thy gospel!—Ever may we cherish it, as the dearest, the most sacred treasure, that Heaven has conferred on mortals!
The late Public Thanksgiving was observed in this city with uncommon respect and attention, by all classes and denominations of citizens.
Places of public worship were unusually thronged, and the most devout, patriotic, and federal, discourses, were delivered by the respectable Clergy of the several Churches.
During the late Revolution the Clergy of the United States, in general, made the greatest sacrifices and exertions in the cause of this country—They now merit equal applause for their decided support of that government which has rewarded our arduous labours, in effecting the Independence of this rising republic.
The exports from the city of New-York, for the quarter ending on the 30th of Sept. 1794, were 1,992,023 dollars.
Philadelphia, New-York, and Baltimore, have exported more in the fourth year of the general government, than was shipped from all the seventy ports of the United States (A. D. 1789—90) in the first year of the federal legislation.
Yesterday forenoon the following Gentlemen were elected by the House of Representatives, Directors of the Bank of Pennsylvania, on the part of the State, viz.
JACOB MORGAN, CHARLES BIDDLE, GEORGE BICKHAM.
THE NEW AMPHITHEATRE
In addition to the numerous and public buildings which ornament the city of Philadelphia, we are informed there will shortly be a very elegant Equestrian Amphitheatre erected by Mr. Ricketts for candle-light exhibition. This new species of amusement having succeeded so well at New-York, has encouraged Mr. R. to attempt it here. The site is to be at the corner of Sixth and Chestnut streets, directly opposite the New-Theatre, and it will add considerably to the beauty of this part of the city.—It is expected that it will be finished before August, so as to admit of being opened before or about the beginning of September. The entertainments will be greatly superior to any thing of the kind ever exhibited in America, as Mr. R. will have a better stud, and proba-
bly may make many additions to his company.—The brilliancy of an Amphitheatre well lighted, when the Boxes and Pit are crowded with spectators, and the performers in high spirits, exceeds any thing hitherto attempted in Philadelphia, and will probably become as much the favorite rendezvous of the citizens, as the Circus was when first opened in Market street, two years ago. The Amphitheatre will have the advantage, being more central, more attracting, and more agreeable to the amateur of the noble science of horsemanship.
Married, on Monday evening, the 10th inst. Mr. James Robertson, to Miss Peggy Buffer, both of this city.
From the Newark Gazette.
Mr. Woods.
IN the printed debates of Congress on the subject of the Popular Societies, Mr. Dayton was made to lay in opposition to those societies, that "The different branches of the government were the Constitutional Centinels, over the liberties of the people." It struck me as a fair and natural inference that he meant to inculcate an opinion that all other watchmen were criminal, or at least unnecessary, and this construction I gave it in a publication under my signature contained in your paper of the 10th inst. But upon a view of a more enlarged statement of the debates, I find that, that was not his meaning but, that as he thought those Societies, were dangerous to the liberties of the people, it was the duty of the different branches of the government "who were the constitutional centinels over the liberties of the people" to found the alarm; candor induces me to correct a construction (which I yet think myself justified in making from the printed debates) both in justice to that Gentleman and the public.
CATO.
Essex, December 22d 1794.
By this Day's Mail.
NORFOLK, Feb. 11.
On Saturday last departed this life, universally regretted, DONALD CAMPBELL, Esq. merchant, of this town. On Monday afternoon he was buried with Masonic honors, attended by a respectable body of the inhabitants.
Though not in Courts, with flatteſſion born to shine, Though not the Hero's bloody baſt quaſi thine; Though in thy breath no party-ſpirit ſtrives; The milder virtues, that enrich the heart, Bind man to man, and form his better part, Reign'd in thy breaſt with a gen'rous fancy, And turn thy DEATH to a TRIUMPHAL DAY.
NEW-YORK, February 20.
Last evening, between eight and nine, a double framed house, which stood in Robinson-street, near the College, was consumed by fire. The alacrity of the fire-men and other citizens, ever conspicuous on such occasions, together with the ferocity of the evening, prevented the farther progress of that destructive element.
ARRIVED.
Ship Minerva, Armour, Havre de Grace Sch. Regulator, Fellows, Norfolk Sloop Venus, Brown, Norfolk Charles Ewie, — in distress. Capt. Armour, on the 12th inst. spoke the brig Minerva, of Baltimore, Capt. Mitchell, bound to Bilboa, out 32 days, lat. 36, long. 40, and had on the 7th Jan. lost his main-mast, and was bearing away for the first West-India port.
The ship New-York, of New-York, was to fail the day after the Minerva.
HALIFAX, (N. C.) Feb. 9.
Timothy Bloodworth, Esq. is chosen to represent this state in the Senate of the United States, in the room of B. Hawkins, Esq. whose time expires with the present session.
PRICE OF STOCKS.
Table with 2 columns: Stock Name, Price. Includes 6 per Cents (20/), 3 per Cents (11/6), Deferred (13/), Bank of the United States (35), Pennsylvania (35), North America (45 to 50).
The members of St. Andrew's Society, are requested to attend their Quarterly Meeting at the Golden Swan, in Third-street, on Saturday, the 28th inst. at 7 o'clock, P. M.
RICHARD LAKE, Secretary.
WANTED.
A Foreman for a Paper Mill. To a man of capacity and skill in the business, whose honesty and fidelity can be well vouched a liberal encouragement will be offered. Inquire of the Printer.
For the Gazette of the United States.
PRESIDENT'S BIRTH-DAY.
February 22d, 1795.
TH' Almighty Hand, which guides the rolling spheres, Points out their paths, rules their unvarying years, Now brings this planetary Earth, once more, To hail the Day th' immortal Hero bore: The Day, Great Washington, which gave thee birth, To vindicate the Rights of Man on earth; To rear blest Liberty, her flag unfurl, And vengeance-merited, on tyrants hurl! Thy sons, Columbia, join in choral song, The echoing hills the grateful notes prolong; Shrill clarions found, and loud the cannons roar, To celebrate the Day thy Hero bore! But, while their festive joys affail the skies, Behold portentous prodigies arise. At once, the hurtling clouds condense in air, Lo, mutt'ning thunders roll, and lightnings glare; From groves and hills, there moves a hollow sound, Commencing earthquakes, rock the conscious ground! While every heart is chill'd with lit'ning fear, Columbia's voice is heard, distinct and clear: 'O why, my fav'rite sons,' she sighing said, 'Why on this Day, are your rejoicings made? With whirlwind speed the year is rolling on, When Death shall claim my Hero for his own; Each passing year ſubtracts the brief account, And time is hourly stealing from th' amount; Long time his virtues, and his patriot name, Have nurl'd, fair Liberty, thy sacred flame; Suppreſs'd curſt Faction, looſ'd from native hell, Her vot'ries cruſh'd, as, with a magic ſpell; E'en now Great Waſhington almoſt alone, ſupports my cauſe, by efforts all his own; But, when entomb'd in ſilence he ſhall ſleep, I fear, left Liberty, in vain you'll weep; Who then with equal firmneſs, and applauſe Shall Faction check, and aid my ſinking cauſe? Alas, my Sons, give e'er your ſeſſive mirth, And rather deprecate his death, than hail his birth! Columbia ceaſ'd; when lo, an angel form, Is ſeen, ſublimely riſing o'er the ſtorm; He wav'd his hand, the tempeſt ceaſ'd to roll, Again he wav'd his hand;—to either Pole, The clouds ſwift vaniſh'd,—and reſplendent day. Reviving nature cheer'd, with heav'nly ray.' He touch'd Columbia, with his potent hand, Inſtant, on Apalachian heights they ſtand. The Seraph ſpoke, 'now turn thy wond'ring eyes, Where Andes' ſummits prop the bending ſkies; Beyond them ſee luxuriant plains deſcend, To Southern Ocean wood-crowh'd hills extend. Where Niagara pours, from awful height, His thund'ring wave, fix thy aſtoniſh'd ſight; And further on, where icy oceans roll, Round the cold axle of the Arctic pole. From Eaſtern ſhores, waſh'd by th' Atlantic wave, To Weſtern bounds, which Seas Pacific lave. This wide domain, by God's ſupreme decree, Roſe from old Ocean's bed, a Gift for thee, The ſame decree, irrevocably giv'n, Pronounc'd this land, the fav'rite land of Heav'n. The Guardian Angel of thy bright abode, Commission'd from the Mercy Seat of God,
I come to calm thy grief, dry up thy tears, Excite thy joys, and diſſipate thy fears. What tho' mad Europe's ſons, in conflict dire, With Hell uniting, 'whelm the world in fire; What tho' fell Diſcord, in thy fair domain, Exert its creſt, and ſtalk the peaceful plain; What tho' curſt Slander ſtrive, with impious tongue, To wound thy Waſhington, his fame to wrong; And factious licenſe, deck'd in harlot-wiles, For Liberty's chaſte form, with Heav'nly ſmiles, Is oft miltok, by ignorance and vice And blackeſt falſhood ſtamp'd, with Truth's device?' Yet reſt aſſur'd, I guard thy Hero's life, Support his mind, 'midſt all th' ungrateful ſtrife; Nor ſhall he quit the helm (ſo Heav'n ordains) Till Government ſecure, with Order reigns. I guard the Freedom of thy fav'rite clime, Unceasing guard it, to the end of time; In vain ſhall Tyranny its ſhackles form; In vain ſhall Anarchy, in mad'ning ſtorm, Attempt to cruſh its conſecrated ſhrine, Or mar its Temple, rear'd by pow'r divine! At diſtant period ſhall thy Hero riſe, Convoy'd by Angels, to th'approving ſkies; As erſt Elijah's holy mantle fraught, With God-like virtues, by Eliha caught, So, double portions of his Spirit, giv'n To his ſucceſſors, (rich bequeſt of Heav'n) Shall guide to freedom, happineſs and peace, Thy countleſs ſons, 'till Time's own empire ceaſe.' Columbia bow'd with rev'rence and delight; The Cherub wanſh'd from her raptur'd ſight— Her chearful voice now fills the floating air, Rejoice my ſons, your choral ſongs prepare, In each revolving year, with feſtive mirth, To celebrate the day, which gave my Hero birth!
NEW THEATRE.
THIS EVENING, FEBRUARY 21.
Will be Preſented
A COMEDY, (performed but once,) called
The F I E W.
Sir Stephen Bertram, Frederick, Charles Ratcliffe, Saunders, Sheva, Jabal, Waiter, Mr. Whitlock, Mr. Moreton, Mr. Chalmers, Mr. Green, Mr. Wignell, Mr. Harwood, Mr. Darley, jun.
Mrs. Ratcliffe, Eliza Ratcliffe, Mrs. Goodfellow, Doreas, Mrs. Shaw, Mrs. Whitlock, Mrs. Bates, Mrs. Francis
After the Comedy, Mr. Chalmers will recite a Whimsical Comical, Poetical, Proſaical, Rhapſodical PARAPHRASE on Shakespeare's SEVEN AGES.
To which will be added,
A FARCE, called the
Flitch of Bacon,
Or,
Dunnow Priory.
The Public are reſpectfully informed that the Ope a of the PRIZE is unavoidably poſtponed on account of the indiſpoſition of Mrs. Oldmixon.
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 by five o'clock, and order them, as ſoon as the company are ſeated, to withdraw, as they cannot on any account be permitted to remain.
COLUMBIANUM.
At a meeting held at Peale's Muſeum the 19th inſt. it was reſolved, That the Society will proceed to the election of Officers for the Academy, on Monday the 2d of March. By order.
C. W. PEALE, Chairman. R. CLAIBORNE, Secretary. February 21, 1795.

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1. Charlotte, a tale of truth, By Mrs Rowson, of the New- Theatre Philadelphia.
Second American edition—Price 75 cents. [The rapid sale of the First Edition of this interesting novel, in a few months, is the best proof of its merit.] Extract from the Critical Review, April 1793, p. 468.
It may be a tale of truth, for it is not unnatural, and it is a tale of real distress—Charlotte by the artifice of a teacher, recommended to a school from humanity rather than a conviction of her integrity of the regularity of her former conduct, is enslaved from her governess, and accompanied a young officer to America—The marriage ceremony, if not forgotten, is postponed, and Charlotte dies a martyr to the inconstancy of her lover, and treachery of his friend—The situations are artful and affecting—the descriptions natural and pathetic; we should feel for Charlotte if such a person ever existed; who for an error, scarcely, perhaps deserved, so severe a punishment. If it is a fiction, no more justly is not, we think, properly distributed.
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EXTRACT FROM THE PREFACE. The authors have presumed to affix to their title the epithet Impartial ; and the reason is, because they cannot elude themselves with feeling the smallest bias to any party, but that of truth and liberty; and they flatter themselves, that their readers will find not only every circumstance fairly represented, but every censurable action, whoever were the authors or actors, marked in its proper colors. If it was necessary to make a declaration of their own principles, they would say, they are neither Tory nor Republican—they love liberty as Englishmen, and execute every criminal act by which human liberty is endangered and disgraced.
In the present ferment of the public mind, they cannot flatter themselves with the hope of seeing this claim universally acknowledged. On the contrary, they are well assured that these pages will not be acceptable to the zealots of either party. But when time shall dissipate the clouds of political deception, they will, with some confidence, expect that verdict from public opinion, which candor and moderation seldom fail to receive.
EXTRACT FROM THE CRITICAL REVIEW, JANUARY, 1794—page 13. "We have certainly derived much pleasure, and acquired much information from the perusal of these volumes; and we think them, both for matter and style, worthy the attention of all who interest themselves in events which have so fully excited the curiosity and astonishment of mankind."  6. Plowden's history of the British empire from May 1792, to December 1793. A dollar and a quarter. [This is an interesting valuable publication as had appeared for many years.]
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13. Bunyan's Holy War, made by Shaddai against Diabolus.  14. Short account of Algiers. Second edition, enlarged—35 cents. Containing—A description of that country—and of the manners and customs of the inhabitants—and of their wars and conquests against Spain, France, England, Holland, Venice, and other powers of Europe—With a description of Barbary and the invasion of Charles V. to the present time.—With a concise view of the origin of the war between Algiers and the United States.
Embellished with a map of Barbary, comprehending Morocco, Fez, Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoly.
To the present edition is added a very copious index, containing letters from sundry American prisoners in Algiers to their friends in the United States—a list of the vessels taken—and a very interesting article on the present state of Algiers.
15. Blair's Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres. Three dollars 25 cents.  16. Smith's Letters to Married Women, on nursing and the management of children. 62 1/2 cents.  17. American Farmer's letters. 80 cents.  18. Young Men's Magazine. 5 vols. 1 dollar 33 cents. Containing—Dialogues between a Governor and several Young Ladies of Quality; her Scholars—In which each lady is made to speak according to her particular genius, temper and inclination—Their several talents are pointed out, and the easy way to amend them, as well as to think, and speak, and act properly; no less care being taken to
form their hearts to goodness, than to enlighten their understandings with useful knowledge. A light and clear abridgement of some of the most useful and proper History and some lessons in Geography. The useful is blended with the agreeable, the whole being interlaced with proper reflexions and moral Tales.
19. Duncan's Elements of Logic. 80 cents.  20. M'Fingal, an epic poem. 37 1/2 cents.  21. Touchstone's Examination of Lord Shelburne's Observations. 62 1/2 cents.  22. Ladies' Friend. 37 1/2 cents.  23. Stuart's history of New York, from its discovery to 1739. 1 dollar 25 cents.  24. Complete Atlas for the present war, containing maps of France, Holland, Netherlands, Germany, Spain, Italy, and the West-Indies. 6 dollars.  25. Constitutions of the United States, and the Federal Constitution. 62 1/2 cents.  26. Payson's Grammar for Freshmen to learn English. 50 cents.  27. Epietien Lucubrations. 31 cents.  28. Gay's Fables. 31 cents.  29. Christian Economy. 25 cents.  30. Chants of Melody, a choice collection of Songs. 25 cents.  31. American Museum, 12 vols. 8vo. Nine teen dollars and 25 cents. The American Museum is not only eminently calculated to diffuse political and other valuable information, but it has been uniformly conducted with taste, attention, & propriety. It is the most important work of its kind, and will be found highly interesting and useful to the public.
General Washington.  33. Poems of Col. Humphreys. 37 1/2 cents.  34. Catechism of Man. 18 3/4 cents.  35. Tom Paine's Jests. 18 3/4 cents.  36. Carey's account of the Yellow Fever, 4th edition. 50 cents.  37. Devout Christian's Vade Mecum. 25 cents.  38. Garden of the Soul. 50 cents.  39. Thank well on't. 5 cents.  40. D. W. Bible. 6 dollars. Nov. 29.
FOR SALE,  SEVERAL VALUABLE  Tracts of LAND,
LYING in King George County, Virginia, lying on the fourth side of Potomack Creek, near its mouth, being one mile from the river Potomack, containing by old survey eleven hundred and ten acres. There is on the above tract of Land a dwelling house thirty by twenty, with three rooms on the first floor, and two above, with fire places, a kitchen with a brick chimney, stables, corn house, meat house, dairy and other out houses? also a good framed store house by twenty four, and a granary, both perfectly new, and agreeably situated on the Creek, commanding a fine view of the river Potomack, and one of the best fisheries either on the river or creek. This creek is navigable for vessels of several tons, and abounds with wild fowl of every kind, particularly ducks. The land is fertile and well adapted to the culture of corn, rye, and tobacco. There is also on a quantity of timber of superior quality, either for ship or house building, & contiguous to the water, from whence it could be rafted to Alexandria, or to the City of Washington, and is not more than fifty miles distant from either place. The growth is chiefly red and white oak, locust, walnut, hickory, cedar and poplars of an extraordinary size. There are also a couple of small meadows now in timothy, and several other rich swamps, which may be put in at a small expense. The banks consist chiefly of shell-marl of the best quality, which affords a valuable and inexhaustible fund of manure.
Likewise another valuable tract, lying in Potomack river, in King George county, nearly opposite to Port Tobacco in Maryland, containing about four hundred acres; one hundred of it is heavily timbered with white oak proper for house or ship building; about fifty acres of marsh, and the whole of the land perfectly level, and well adapted to farming, being of a stiff quality, and excellent for holding manure. It bounds on the river about three quarters of a mile, has a most admirable herring and rock fishery, and for wild fowl is perhaps equal to any on the Continent.
It is well situated for a Ferry, being at a narrow part of the river, and is not more than thirty five miles from the City of Washington by land. We will likewise sell a valuable Tract of Land, lying partly in King George and partly in Stafford county, consisting five hundred acres. This tract is about one mile from Potomack Creek, it is well timbered and watered, the soil is of an excellent quality. For a further account apply to Mr. Charles Stuart Waugh, at Dr. Benjamin Duffield's fourth Front Street, No. 303, or to the subscribers, living on the premises, King George county, Virginia.
LEWIS WAUGH,  OR  JOHN WAUGH.
Forty Dollars Reward. RAN away from the subscriber in Woodbury, Gloucester County, New Jersey, on Sunday morning the 12th inst.
Two young Negro Fellows, named Jack and Tom, each about 20 years of age; Jack is of a dark black colour and a fair look; Tom is of an open countenance, of a yellowish colour, and much disposed to laugh.
They are sprightly active fellows, and but little more of six feet high; they were both well dressed; Jack had on a blue broadcloth coat and different kinds of clothes. Whoever takes up said servants, and brings them in any goal in the United States, for whom their masters may pay them again shall receive the above reward and reasonable expenses.
John Sparks, Andrew Hunter.
A VENDRE,  Une Terre Superbe située dans  l'Etat de la Nouvelle  York.
LA BELLE Habitation connue par le nom de SCOTIA, située sur le bord du nord de la Rivière de Mohawk et vis a vis la florissante ville de Schenectady qui est à l'extrémité de la navigation par eau entre la Canale et autres parties occidentales avec la ville d'Albany dont elle est éloignée de seize miles Anglois ou cinq lieues un tiers de France.
Cette terre est bornée par la dite Rivière environ deux tiers de lieue—les grands Chemins des parties de l'Ouest et du nord se joignent en cet endroit avec plusieurs autres et conduisent à l'endroit par où l'on traverse la Rivière vis a vis la dite ville—cette habitation contient plus de mille acres, une grande partie de la quelle est en plaine et la première, qualité et propres pour des prairies ou du grain dont elle produit une grand abondance.
On pourroit la diviser en plusieurs habitations donnant à chacune des situations très commodes à placer des maisons—elle contient à présent deux maisons grandes et bien commodes avec des Granges, Beuries, Magazins, des Remises pour les Voitures et plusieurs autres bâtiments qui sont très convenables le tout situé sur une elevation au bord de la dite Rivière d'on l'on a une vue bien agreable sur la dite ville, des prairies dans ses environs et de la Rivière, aussi bien que d'un Reservoir d'environ trente acres, qui est bien fourni de poisson et de gibier.
Il y a aussi sur la dite terre une Moulin à eau sur un cours d'eau qui ne manque Jamais, avec une maison pour le meunier; on y pourroit ajouter d'autres moulins, &c—pour cette terre est aussi bon. Vergers des meilleures fruits de ce pays d'environ mille arbres, et les Jardins abondent de toutes sortes de fruit propre pour ce climat—Dépendent aussi de cette terre plusieurs tenements avec des lots de terre dont les baux font d'une courte durée. Il n'y a point de terre dans ces parties que soit plus féconde pour toutes sortes de grain d'hiver dont il en a été semé l'automne passé presque deux cents boisseaux ce que sera compris dans la Vente aussi bien que deux petites îles dans la Rivière vis a vis la maison.
On pense que la vue de ces terres en donnera une plus haute idée qu'aucun descripteur ne pourroit en donner.
Pour les conditions de Ventes il faut se rendre chez le soussigné demeurant sur les lieux ou à meilleurs Oliver Wendell et Harrison G. Otis, à Boston—meilleurs Cornelius Ray et De Witt Clinton, à New-York—meilleurs James Gordon et Henry Glen, membres du Congrès, à présent à Philadelphie, ou à monsieur Stephen Bayard dans la ville de Schenectady, qui feront connoître le prix et conditions de la Vente.
JOHN SANDERS.
Valuable Property  For Sale,  IN THE  STATE OF NEW-YORK.
THAT valuable and well known Estate, called SCOTIA, situate on the north bank of the Mohawk river, directly opposite the populous and flourishing town of Schenectady, at the foot of the water-communication from the Western Country, and Upper Canada; sixteen miles from the city of Albany, extending about two miles on the bank of the river above and below the said town; this river is the only water communication in the United States with the great western Lakes. The roads from the western and northern parts of the state of New York, together with a number of other public roads here meet, and lead to the noted ferry kept opposite the said town.
It contains upwards of one thousand acres, a great proportion of which is interval or low land, calculated both for grass or grain, producing great burthens annually; it may be laid into a number of valuable farms, affording convenient and handsome building grounds; there is now on the premises two very large and commodious dwelling houses, with large Dutch barns, barracks, hovels, stables, cart and waggon house, carriage house, store house, summer house, and other out-houses, upon a commanding eminence near the bank of the river, affording a beautiful and extensive prospect of the river for several miles, the lowland, the town, and a fine lake of water, covering about thirty acres, well stored with all kinds of river fish, fowl, &c. There is a good grist mill on a never failing stream of water, a good frame house, &c. for the miller, also convenience above the mill for erecting more water works; there is a bearing orchard with nearly one thousand apple trees, for out; grafted of fine shell fruit the gardens are stocked with all the various fruits the climate will admit; also several tenements with portions of land on short leases.
The land in point of fertility of soil, is exceeded by none in the state; there is now in the ground near two hundred bushels winter grain, which will be included in the above sale. Also two small islands in the river, opposite the mansion house.
A view of the premises, it is presumed, will fully equal any description that can be given thereof. For terms of sale apply to the Subscriber, residing on the premises, Messrs. Oliver Wendell or Harrison G. Otis, Esquires, in the town of Boston, Cornelius Ray, or De Witt Clinton, Esquires, at the city of New York; James Gordon or Henry Glen, Esquires, two of the members of Congress, at the city of Philadelphia; Stephen N. Bayard, in the town of Schenectady, by whom the price & terms of sale will be communicated.
JOHN SANDERS.
Scotia, Jan. 28, 1795. N. B. The remaining stock unfold, and all the farming utensils, the purchaser or purchasers may be accommodated with. Philad. Feb. 7.
FOR SALE,  A Lot of Ground,
ON the west side of Third, at the corner of New or Story Street, in the City of Philadelphia; it being 34 feet 8 inches in front on Third Street, and 86 feet deep on Story Street. On said lot are two framed dwelling houses, two stables high; the corner house almost new, with a good cellar. For terms and other particulars, apply at the Office of Edward Bonfils & Co. or at No. 60, north Second Street.
Jun. 26.
City of Washington.  SCHEME
OF THE  LOTTERY, No. II.  FOR THE  IMPROVEMENT  OF THE  FEDERAL CITY.
  1 magnificent 20,000 Dollars, and dwelling house, 5 cash 35,000 are 50,000   1 ditto 15,000 & cash 25,000 40,000   1 ditto 15,000 & cash 15,000 30,000   1 ditto 10,000 & cash 10,000 20,000   1 ditto 5,000 & cash 5,000 10,000   1 ditto 5,000 & cash 5,000 10,000   1 Cash prize of 10,000,000   5 ditto 5,000 each, are 25,000   10 ditto 1,000 10,000   20 ditto 500 10,000   100 ditto 100 10,000   200 ditto 50 10,000   400 ditto 25 10,000   1,000 ditto 10 10,000   15,000 ditto 10 150,000   16,720 Prizes 33,261 Blanks 50,000 Tickets at 8 dollars 400,000
This Lottery will afford an elegant specimen of the private business to be carried on in the City of Washington—Two beautiful designs are already selected for the two principal buildings, from which the drawings, it is proposed to erect two centre and four corner buildings, as soon as possible when this Lottery is sold, and to convey them in the manner described in the scheme for the Royal 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 finish 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 Prizes, are held by the President and are valued at more than double the amount of the Lottery. The drawing will be under the management of 24 gentlemen appointed by the commissioners for the City of Washington, for the time being, and acting on oath.
SAMUEL BLODGET.
Tickets may be had at the Bank of Columbia; of James Wells & Co. Baltimore; of Gideon Denton, Savannah; of Peter Gilman, Bolton; of John Hopkins, Richmond; and of Richard Wells, Cooper's Ferry.
Aug. 30.
Wants Employment,
AN Elderly person, who writes a good hand, and understands accounts, and who also can be well recommended for his honesty and industry.
Any tradesman or mechanic who may wish for such a person to keep his books, and in case his bills, may receive information by applying to James Hardy, corner of Lombard and Fifth Street.
Jan. 23.
George Hunter,  Chemist,
At his Laboratory, No. 114, South Second Street. INFORMS his former customers and the public, that he has brought the DRUG business again on an extensive plan.
He has for sale a great assortment of
FRESH DRUGS,  CHEMICAL PREPARATIONS, and PA-  TENT MEDICINES.
Likewise, painters' colours, dry and ground in oil, paint brushes, window and coach glass, dye stuffs, linseed oil, oil of turpentine, copal oil varnish and japan, warranted good.
Alum, copperas, magisterium, and red-lead by the hundred or smaller quantity.
As he imports the stuffs from the best market, and makes the compositions and preparations himself, he is enabled to vouch for and warrant every article sold out of his Laboratory, and likewise to dispose of them at the most reasonable rates.
He wishes to sell a large LOT OF GROUND, the north-east corner of H St and Eleventh Streets, containing 78 feet front on High-Street, and 200 feet on Eleventh Street, opposite Mr. Leiper's new buildings. And another LOT on the north side of H St, near the above, 28 feet front, and 200 feet deep. Both lots have the privilege of a 9 feet alley in their rear.
Dec. 18.
Wants Employment,
A person who has a tolerable knowledge of CONVEYANCING, a general knowledge of Accounts and Figures, and writes a good hand. He would engage by the year, either in an Office or Merchant's counting house. A line addressed to L.B. and left at the Office of the Gazette of the United States, will be duly attended to.
Jan. 10.
COFFEE,
54 hogsheads } 120,000 lbs. 350 barrels } Just arrived in the Rebecca, Captain Hughes, from Jamaica.
FOR SALE BY  Peter Blight.
Who has also now landed out of the Mercury, from Oporto, Choice
Red Port Wine,  IN PIPES.
Dec. 23.
CARRIAGE  OF THE  PUBLIC MAILS.
PROPOSALS will be received at the General Post-Office until the 31st day of March next, inclusively, for carrying the mails of the United States between Philadelphia and the city of New-York—Philadelphia and Baltimore—Baltimore and Alexandria—and Philadelphia and Pittsburgh—the times of arrival to be as follows—
1. Philadelphia and New-York. Receive the mail at PHILADELPHIA every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday at one o'clock in the afternoon—and deliver it at New-York (in twenty hours after, viz) every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Monday at nine o'clock in the morning—RETURNING, receive the mail at New-York every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Monday, at one in the afternoon, and deliver it at Philadelphia (in nineteen hours, viz) every Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Monday and Tuesday, at eight o'clock in the morning.
2. Philadelphia and Baltimore. Persons offering proposals to be desired to state on what terms they will carry this mail three times a week, and on what terms they will carry it six times a week.
3. Baltimore and Alexandria. Receive the mail at PHILADELPHIA every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday at eleven o'clock in the forenoon, and deliver it at Baltimore (in twenty eight hours) every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Monday at ten o'clock in the forenoon—and RETURNING, receive the mail at Baltimore every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Monday at ten o'clock in the forenoon, and deliver it at Philadelphia (in 32 hours, viz) every Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Monday and Tuesday at eight o'clock in the morning.
4. Baltimore and Alexandria. Receive the mail at PHILADELPHIA every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday at eleven o'clock in the forenoon, and deliver it at Baltimore (in twenty eight hours) every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Monday at ten o'clock in the forenoon—and RETURNING, receive the mail at Baltimore every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Monday at ten o'clock in the forenoon, and deliver it at Philadelphia (in 32 hours, viz) every Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Monday and Tuesday at eight o'clock in the morning.
5. Baltimore and Alexandria. Receive the mail at PHILADELPHIA every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday at eleven o'clock in the forenoon, and deliver it at Baltimore (in twenty eight hours) every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Monday at ten o'clock in the forenoon—and RETURNING, receive the mail at Baltimore every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Monday at ten o'clock in the forenoon, and deliver it at Philadelphia (in 32 hours, viz) every Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Monday and Tuesday at eight o'clock in the morning.
6. Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. Receive the Mail at PHILADELPHIA every Saturday at half past eleven o'clock in the forenoon, and deliver it at Pittsburgh every Monday at noon. RETURNING, receive the mail at Pittsburgh every Friday at five o'clock in the afternoon, and deliver it at Philadelphia every Friday at noon.
NOTE 1. The contracts for carrying the Mails will be made to commence on the 1st day of April next (except the mail No. 4, the carriage of which shall commence on Saturday the 18th day of April) and continue in force until the 1st day of April 1796.
NOTE 2. Should the hours of receiving and delivering these Mails be found inconvenient to the public, the Post-Master-General may at any time change them; provided that if such changes would prove injurious to the contractors, they shall not be made without an adequate compensation previously stipulated.
NOTE 3. For every quarter of an hour's delay, not exceeding twelve quarters, and for every hour's delay thereafter, forfeiting to the times prescribed for delivering the three first mails at the Post-Offices in New-York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Alexandria, the contractors shall forfeit one dollar; and for every hour's delay in delivering the fourth mail at Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, respectively, they shall forfeit one dollar. And no excuses to save a forfeiture for delay will be admitted, unless reasonable proof be produced to the Post-Master-General, that the delays were occasioned by impossibility of rivers.
NOTE 4. The contractors shall be responsible for the fidelity of the persons to whom they entrust the mails.
General Post Office, Philadelphia. Jan. 27th, 1795.