Gazette of the United States and daily evening advertiser. (Philadelphia [Pa.]), 1795-01-20 00:00:00

Gazette of the United States AND DAILY EVENING ADVERTISER.
[No. 17 of Vol. VII.]
TUESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1795.
[Whole No. 759]
Nankens. Short Nankens, entitled to the Drawback FOR SALE AT No. 40, north Fifth street.
Green Coffee, In 87 bds. 45 barrels, and 200 bags, entitled to the drawback, stored on Wharfs. Willing & Francis's wharf.
Bourdeaux Brandy, 30 pipes of London particular Tenor, and London particular Madeira WINES, in hds. pipes, and quarter casks.
FOR SALE, At the STORES of Jesse & Robert Wain, PORT WINE in pipes, hds. and quarter casks.
A pleasant Country Seat, MAY be hired for one or more years and possession given immediately, consisting of A neat three story brick house.
Just Published, By Samuel H. Smith, and sold by Mr. Stephens, No. 57, south Second street, MEMOIRS OF General Dumourier.
TO BE SOLD BY T. DOBSON, Principles and Observations APPLIED TO THE MANUFACTURE AND INSPECTION OF Pot and Pearl Ashes.
For Sale or Charter, The SHIP MARGARET, Robert Robertson, MASTER. She is in complete repair, and of about 3200 barrels burthen.
For Hamburg, The fast-sailing ship INDUSTRY, LYING at Walnut-street wharf.
Thomas Newman, No. 118, South Second-street.
Burlington Pork. A QUANTITY OF Best Burlington Pork, FOR SALE BY Levi Hollingsworth & Son.
Nicholas Diehl jun. Informing his friends and the Public, that in consequence of the Resignation of John Halowell Esquire he has been commissioned as a.
NOTARY PUBLIC, Within the City of Philadelphia, and at present keeps his Office at No. 19, south Fourth Street.
HAZARD'S Historical Collections. JUST PUBLISHED, AND FOR SALE BY THOMAS DOBSON, At the Stone House, No. 41, South Second-street.
Historical Collections, CONSISTING OF STATE PAPERS, And other Authentic Documents, intended as an History of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
AT THE Card & Nail Factory, No. 59, north Front street, Webster, Adgate & White, Have constantly for sale, Cotton, Wool, Tow, and Machine Cards.
Valuable Real Estates by AUCTION, On Thursday next, the 22d instant, at 6 o'Clock in the Evening, at the Merchants Coffee-House, will be sold by Auction, the following Valuable Lots of Ground:
No. 1. A lot of ground situated on the North side of Market street between 10th and 11th streets, and immediately opposite the new buildings now erecting by Mr. Thomas Leiper.
No. 2. A lot of ground situated on the North side of Market street between 10th and 11th streets, at the distance of about 77 feet Eastward of the above lot No. 1.
The terms of payment are one third of the purchase money in cash, one third in three months, and the other third in six months from the day of the sale.
Edward Pole Auctioneer. This Day was published, [Price 25 cents] AND FOR SALE AT T. BRADFORD'S Book-Store, No. 8, South Front Street.
A BONE TO GNAW for the DEMOCRATS; or Observations on a Pamphlet entitled, "The Political Progress of Britain."
The celebrated COMEDIES of THE YOUNG QUAKER; HAUNTED TOWER, and THE SICILIAN ROMANCE; an Opera, by Henry Siddons.
An Assortment of BOOKS In Law, Physic, Surgery, Chemistry, History, Agriculture, Architecture, and Mathematics.
George Green, Informs his Friends and Customers in particular, and the Public in general, that he has a New four horse Stage, For journeys, and a number of genteel and close Carriages with good horses and careful drivers to let on as moderate terms as any other person in the city.
Fine Fresh Lemons, At Four Dollars the Box, FOR SALE BY THOMAS RANDALL, No. 88, Spruce street, in way between Second and Third streets.
WANTED, A Quantity of White Beans, For which CASH will be given by Edward Stow jun. No. 4, south Water Street.
Cotton Bedticks, (American Manufacture.) Said to contain the Down and Feathers, much better than the best Luen Bedticks for sale by Joseph Turner, No. 4, north Third street.
George Hunter, Chemist, At his Laboratory, No. 114, south Second street. INFORMS his former customers and the public, that he has begun the DRUG business again on an extensive plan.
FRESH DRUGS, CHEMICAL PREPARATIONS, and PATENT 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.
BOOKS, PRINTED & PUBLISHED By Mathew Carey, No. 118, Market Street.
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.] 2. The Inquisitor—By Mrs. Rowson, Second Philadelphia edition. 87 1/2 cents 3. Adventures of Roderick Random. 2 vols 1 dollar and 50 cents, coarse paper—1 dollar and 75 cents, fine. 4. Notes on the state of Virginia—By Thomas Jefferson. Price, neatly bound, one dollar and 75 cents. 5. History of the French Revolution, from its commencement to the death of the Queen and the execution of Brillon. Two dollars. 6. Extracts from the Preface. The authors have presumed to affix to their title the epithet Impartial; and the reason is, because they cannot charge 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, whether it were the authors or actors, marked in its proper colors. 7. In the present ferment of the public mind, they cannot flatter themselves with the hope of seeing this claim universally acknowledged.
acknowledged. On the contrary, the author well assured that these pages will not be acceptable to the zealots of either party. But when true impartiality the clouds of political opinion, 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 12. "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 justly 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 and valuable publication as had appeared for many years.] 7. Beattie's Elements of Moral Science. 2 vols. One dollar and three quarters. Ladies' Library. Second American edition. 87 1/2 cents. 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Containing—A description of that country—of the manners and customs of the inhabitants—and of their several wars against Spain, France, England, Holland, Venice, and other powers of Europe—from the usurpation 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 many very interesting articles not in the first edition. 15. Blair's Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres. Three dollars 33 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 Misses Magazine. 2 vols. 1 dollar 33 cents. 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Translated for the Minerva .
FRANCE.
PUBLIC INSTRUCTION.
(Continued from Friday.)
Original characters will be multiplied. We shall have more wild projects, but also more discoveries. We shall approach the beautiful simplicity of the Greeks, but without treading servility in their steps; for the way it is laid, not to be imitated, is to be an imitator. We rarely surpass those we admire.
Lyric and pastoral poetry will doubtless revive among a people, who will have rivals and who honor the plow. The theatrical art never had a more charming career to run. History offers no subject equal to the last conspiracy which has been suppressed; in that is found even a unity of time. Even pleasures will become a resource in the hands of government, and the agreeable arts will become useful ones.
Legislators, what does national interest prescribe? It is to convert to the most useful purposes, your immense and precious collections, by making them serve for the instruction of all the citizens. The committee will present to you a mode of distribution; and since, according to the new arrangement, the museums are confided to their vigilance, it becomes necessary to establish them. Hasten to create men of talents who may be successors of the few who distinguish the existing generation.
Sometimes we hear of the aristocracy of science—this enters perhaps into the views of certain individuals who declaim against all plans of education and who would condemn to ignorance the artisans and cultivators, while they would lavish the means of instruction on their own children. An infallible means to prevent the necessity of perpetuating the management of affairs in the same hands, and to avoid the monopoly of talents, is to render them general, to propagate the useful sciences, by specially systematizing the national education, by forming regular schools; for if we have good teachers, the success is certain. And remember that when education is in contemplation, niggardly views are most detestable. It is now fifteen months since the committee of public safety told you, this was a measure of general security; and yet this step is not yet taken. National education offers nothing but ruins.
There remain for you twenty colleges in a languishing condition. In nearly 600 districts, 67 only have a few primary schools; and of this number sixteen only appear to be in a tolerable condition. This space of six years has proved almost fatal to manners and to science. The consequences will be felt in a most unhappy degree, in the constituted authorities, and perhaps in the bosom of the legislature.
Yet the youth are perplexed by the want of learning. The national library serves us as a thermometer in this particular. Altho' most of those who are under the necessity of resorting to that library soon enter the army, yet it is more frequented than formerly, and few books are called for but those which are useful.
In vain should we say that human sciences like virtue are the order of the day. They cannot be subjected to command. The sciences are acquired by instruction; virtue, is a kind of inspiration. Both are the fruits of education; and you will not reap even unique fruit, unless a system is organized for a national education, which shall nourish liberty by principles and by sentiments. When the revolution shall be fixed in the mind and heart, it will be universal.
To accomplish fully the end of this report, we will propose to you the means of repressing dilapidations. If they proceeded from ignorance, the people must be enlightened—if from negligence, they must be stimulated—if from malevolence and aristocracy, these must be restrained. How! Scarcely in an age does parsimonious nature furnish a few great characters; it requires thirty years of previous study and continual application; to produce a profound work, a picture, a statue of prime excellence; yet the torch of a blockhead or the hatchet of a savage may ruin either of them in a moment. Such however are the crimes, which by daily repetition,
* This effect was unavoidable. War has always the same effect, yet our French Americans would make us believe, in defiance of themselves, that manners in France are growing pure. Indeed they wished to plunge this country in war also; a generous scheme of patriotism to help our morals, as well as our purples.
compel us to seek and grow over the ruins of a multitude of works of the first excellence.
In general, a precious monument is known for such. At Moulins, no one is ignorant that there is at that place a mausoleum of great value; at Stuttgart, all the world knew the tomb of Maurice of Saxony, by Pigalle; and on supposition that for want of knowledge and taste, people could not estimate the value of these objects, what do we risk by deliberation? Nothing more wise than that maxim of the philosopher; "in a doubtful case, forbear." There are however some monuments, which, without having the seal of genius, are valuable for the light they throw on the history of the art.
Villains have certificates of naturalization for all monarchies; but they ought to be strangers in a Republic; not to denounce them, is to be their accomplices; it is to hate the Country. Let us not confound with them those whose integrity is equal to their simplicity; let us distinguish the really criminal, whose heart directs their hands, from those who, guilty in appearance, have only been led astray; but let us smite without mercy all the robbers, all the counter-revolutionists, and let us, at the same time, render more salutary the activity of the revolutionary government, which aristocracy attempts in vain to decry. Its clamors will tend only to unmask the pervert who have been long disguised, but who will not escape national justice.
We are far from proposing to you, as among the Greeks, the penalty of death for the crimes under consideration. You have passed a decree on this subject: It is sufficient to recall your attention to them, and to extend the dispositions of them, which are applicable solely to sculpture; for pictures, libraries and cabinets of natural history, are not less worthy of preservation.
The new organization of committees will give more energy to their vigilance.
To the measures calculated to repress these violences, let us add moral means; let us make an appeal to all the popular societies; to all good citizens; especially let the representatives of the nation, by their correspondence in the departments rouse them to awaken and enlighten the patriotism of the people on this subject.
In Italy, the people are accustomed to respect all the monuments, and those who design them. Let us habituate the citizens to imbibe and cherish the same sentiments. Let public respect, in a particular manner, encircle national objects, which belonging to no individual, are the property of all.
These monuments contribute to the splendor of a nation, and add to its political importance. It is these which strangers visit a nation to admire. The arches of Nîmes and the bridge of Gard have perhaps brought more to France than they cost the Romans.
Sicily almost subsists on its celebrated ruins; from all parts, people flock thither to examine them. Modern Rome no longer boasts of great men; but its obelisks, its statues command the notice of the enlightened world. An Englishman would expend two thousand guineas to go and view the monuments which embellish the banks of the Nile.
† And is this the state of France? Do the ravages of the Vandals still continue? Where is the virtue of the Samnites; the public spirit of the revolutionists, of which our Democrats have so much boasted? Do the Convention tell us truth? Undoubtedly. This report is official. Then it follows that the violent patriots have been the Vandals, the barbarians who have done all the mischief; for these ravages were almost all committed by the Jacobins and their tools, under the reign of Robespierre and Marat, the most violent Jacobins and patriots in France. The destruction has been done by weak or ferocious men, out of hatred to the old system of despotism—by men who are mortally wounded at the sight of the picture of a king, noble, or priest; but will without remorse assassinate the peaceable citizen who differs from them in opinion about government. The hot headed fellows who dance the most round liberty poles and red caps have become monstrous tyrants and have obtained the names of Vandals and aristocrats! They are patriots run mad!
† It is not a little singular, that after the French have taken incredible pains to inspire their citizens with a hatred of all the subjects of arbitrary government, and of all their habits, customs and opinions, these very Frenchmen should quote the example of the people in Italy, the slaves of despotism, as a model to be imitated by the free citizens of France. The French are recovering their political senses.
Indeed if our victorious armies penetrate into Italy, to bring off the Apollo of Belvedere and Hercules of Farnese, as prizes, would be the most brilliant acquisition. It was Greece which decorated Rome; but ought the master-pieces of the Greek Republics to adorn the Country of slaves? The French Republic ought to be their last residence.
Philip of Macedon said, "I shall succeed sooner in subduing the warlike Spartans, than the scientific Athenians." Let us then unite the courage of Spartans with the genius of Athenians; that from France may proceed an incessant current of light to illuminate all nations, & set all thrones on fire. Since tyrants dread the light, it furnishes incontrovertible proof that information is requisite for Republicans. Liberty is the daughter of cultivated reason; and nothing is more counter-revolutionary than ignorance. It ought to be detested as much as royalty.
Let us then, if possible, inscribe on all monuments, and engrave on all hearts, this sentence: "Barbarians and slaves hate the sciences, and destroy the monuments of arts; free men love and preserve them."
DECREE.
The National Convention, having heard the report of its committee of public instruction, decrees as follows:
The libraries and all the monuments of the sciences and the arts, belonging to the nation, shall be recommended to the watchful care of all good citizens; they are invited to denounce to the constituted authorities, the instigators and authors of the degradations and dilapidation, of those libraries and monuments.
2. Those who shall be convicted of having, through malevolence, destroyed or injured monuments of the sciences and arts, shall suffer the penalty of two years imprisonment, conformable to the decree of April 13, 1793.
3. The present decree shall be printed in the bulletin of the laws.
4. It shall be posted up in the place of sessions of the administrative bodies, in those of the popular societies, and in all places which contain monuments of the arts and sciences.
5. Every person, having in his possession manuscripts, titles, charters, medals, antiquities taken from the heretofore national houses, shall be bound to transmit them, within one month, to the directory of the district of his residence, reckoning from the promulgation of the present decree, under penalty of being treated and punished as a suspected person.
6. The Convention orders this report to be printed and sent to the administrations and popular societies.
§ That is in direct language, "we ought to rob and plunder Italians because they are slaves." Such a noble report as this ought not to be stained with such an infamous idea. But it has been the fate of the French legislators thro' the whole revolution, to indulge themselves in the wildest contradictions. The above sentiment is in effect precisely that of the bigotted Popes, in the dark ages, who burnt men at the stake because "they were heretics"—precisely the reason of Mahomet and his followers, and the Algerines, who conquered, plundered, and enslaved men, "because they were infidels"—and precisely the principle of modern political intolerance and bigotry, first propagated in France and almost introduced into America, that a patriot may persecute, plunder, burn in effigy, abuse and torment any man, who is not as great a mad-man in politics as himself.
CONGRESS.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Thursday, January 15.
Mr. Madison said that the argument in favor of permanency, advanced by the gentleman from Connecticut, had force as well as plausibility. But his reasoning would operate against all experimental taxation whatever. It had been said that voting for or against the snuff and sugar excises, would be a criterion of the disposition to pay off the public debt. That criterion will not be assumed by those who are to judge the point. The whole dispute is about a branch of the revenue, said to be worth eighty or ninety thousand dollars per annum, an object not of very much importance. The select committee, however, had doubted extremely whether the revenue would be efficient at all. He begged that it might be understood that the question is not, shall the tax be now repealed, but only is it proper that it should be continued beyond the time originally intended, before it has been tried? In answer to what the gentleman from Connecticut had said of the permanency, it would argue greater stability for the government not to prolong the tax any farther, all the end of the period first stipulated.
Experience would, by that time, have assisted in forming a final opinion on the subject.
Mr. Goodhue said that a gentleman in New England, a sugar baker, and a particular friend of his own, assured him that he looked upon the tax rather as a benefit than otherwise, for it secured a monopoly to the manufacturers, which was a greater advantage than the excise was a burden. The sugar bakers at Boston were of this opinion. He did firmly believe that the consumption would not be lessened by more than one hundredth part, by this tax. Rich people only made use of this kind of sugar, and would any member say that they would wait it, for such a trifle? He challenged any member to show that the consumption had been lessened by the tax. He was amazed that gentlemen should make such a bugbear of two cents per pound. If Mr. Goodhue believed that the matter would end in the ruin of the sugar baking business, he would be the last man to vote for continuing it. But he could not imagine that this could be the case. Mr. S. Smith said that the distilleries in Maryland were stop, but he had not told the reason. Molasses could not be got as formerly, by the manufacturers of Maryland from the French West Indies, and so the distilleries could not go on for that reason. He did not however mean to affirm but what the excise might also have tended to hurt them.
Mr. Findley said that by attending to the arguments only, the question before the committee would certainly be misunderstood. The gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Ames) bases the force of his argument against a repeal of the excise on loaf sugar and snuff. The gentleman from Connecticut (Mr. Tracy) argues as if he were about originating a revenue law, though neither the one or the other is the case. The law was enacted late in last session, and did not come into operation till last fall. A committee of seven members have been appointed to examine its operation. The result of that enquiry is, that the manufacturers have stated great inconveniences and loss, and that no information could be obtained of its being productive, or even practicable. The committee, convinced that much of the hardship and loss to the manufacturers, might have arisen from incidental causes, which were perhaps temporary, and that this law had not been long enough in operation to enable the treasury department to report on the productiveness of these duties, reported that the limitation should not now be prolonged, but did not think it ought to be repealed, till competent knowledge was derived from experience. Agreeably to the report of that committee, the members opposed to the report before the present committee have argued, that they did not argue for a repeal because their information was imperfect, or chiefly on one side. The present limitation continues the revenue more than two years from this time, for it is to continue for two years and to the end of the next session of Congress. Before it expires, we will have complete information of its productiveness and utility. Even against next session, the treasury department will be able to give information from experience. He said that the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Ames) has with great confidence stated the decision of this question, as a test of the disposition of members to discharge the public debt. He did not know that that gentleman had any greater authority to decide on tests than himself; and if he had, he thought his test ill chosen. To what did it amount? the revenue in question was estimated at ninety thousand dollars, but there was no proof that this estimate would be realized, but rather the reverse. Yet admitting the revenue to be equal to the estimate, he thought it gave but a very questionable test of the gentleman himself, being zealous for a speedy discharge of the debt. Extending the limitation five years longer on a revenue of ninety thousand dollars, would make but a very small reduction of the debt. If the gentleman would be content at present to appropriate the sum proposed to begin the discharge of the debt with, the time would soon arrive when, having greater experience of the revenue in question, a more substantial test he hoped would be offered, he thought it was too late in the session to propose new revenues now.
If when a sufficient experiment was made, it appeared that the excises in question were productive, and convenient, much more of the same kind may be had. Many other manufacturers of this country enjoy the monopoly created by the protecting duties; and if it was judged proper to raise all our internal revenues, by excises on manufactures, justice requires that these excises should be more general, and policy requires that the debt should be speedily discharged. Our commerce, agriculture and manufactures, are now prosperous, but as this prosperous state cannot be endured, we ought in the day of prosperity to prepare for adversity. But supposing the system of excising manufactures to be relinquished, or not to be extended, abundant and more productive sources remain to be opened.
Here Mr. Ames enquired what taxes Mr. Findley had in view?
Mr. Findley answered, that he had alluded to taxes of several kinds; that at a proper time he would determine. He supposed that no member doubted of the resources of the United States being equal to the discharge of the debt more rapidly than is now proposed. However he said that, for the satisfaction of the gentleman, he hoped that at a proper time they would both be put to the test, upon a question for a general and efficient direct tax. This he expected they would feel sensibly. It would not be rolling the burthen off their own shoulders, and it would more rapidly
discharge the debt. In the mean time, he did not contend to make anything from nor did the gentleman attempt to add to it. He contended to make the limitation a means of deception, by which their constituents had been tantalized. Mr. Findley was exceedingly surprised to observe gentlemen who had always found fault with members for discovering a constitutional jealousy against transfers of power from the legislature, discover themselves on the present occasion, so extremely jealous of the next Congress with respect to the discharge of the public debt. He asked if the gentlemen of this house possessed a monopoly of all the virtue of the United States, and that the next house would have no share of it? He hoped that this house would not unnecessarily put the constitutional power of originating revenue laws, or of changing appropriations, out of the power of their successors.
Mr. M'Dowell found himself called upon to deliver his sentiments on the resolution before the committee, to appropriate certain duties to the reduction of the interest of the public debt. He had already taken the liberty of remarking on that floor, that he regarded the public debt as a public evil. He did not think the resolution before the House any proper test of character, but rather as tending to perpetuate the parties amongst us. At first, the tax in question had only been imposed by way of experiment, and for temporary purposes. Before the operation or productiveness can be known, there is a proposal to make it perpetual. This appeared to Mr. M'Dowell to be impolitic and absurd. He observed, that the arguments of the gentleman from Massachusetts, (Mr. Ames) went entirely against a repeal of the law. They did not, therefore, apply to the motion of amendment, which went only to prevent prolonging the law, for a repeal of it was not before the House. He wished gentlemen to come forward with some resolutions not only for making payment of the interest of the debt, but also for the payment of the principal, as speedily as the ability of the United States would permit. He was willing, for his own part, to effect so desirable an object, by adopting a direct tax, that would operate equally on the citizens of the United States, and which will reach all property that is protected by government. This is certainly just, since every person in the United States, except those concerned in the funds, is interested in the discharge of it.
As far as Mr. M'Dowell could learn, the citizens of the United States were willing to make the utmost exertions for effecting so desirable a purpose. Mr. M'Dowell dissented, entirely, from the gentleman from South-Carolina (Mr. W. Smith) who calculated on reducing the debt in thirty years, which appears to him a reasonable time.
Mr. M'Dowell should be very sorry to think that it would not be paid in half the time. It had been said, that those who were for the present motion should bring forward something else in stead of the duty on refined sugar. He would gratify the gentleman who made this demand; for, if the amendment went through, he should move a resolution. This he repeated, but it was not so distinctly heard, that its inflexion can be hazarded in this place. He proceeded to notice, that in the present infant state of the government, it would be extremely improper to make the taxes permanent, before fair experiments had been made of their efficacy. Mr. M'Dowell had hoped that the United States would be instructed by the experience of other nations. He flattered himself that they would have avoided such laws and principles, as had in their nature proved injurious to the rights and liberties of mankind. But to his surprise, when he turned to the history of the British nation, and compared it with that of the United States, he saw that the public debt and excises of the former seemed to bear much resemblance to those of the latter, and we are pursuing the like wrong measures as they have done.
Mr. Hillhouse readily admitted that all taxes were, at first, in some degree, experimental. He had, yesterday, heard something from Mr. S. Smith, which hurt him exceedingly. That gentleman had asserted, that in drawing up the report from the select committee there had been a take in . Now he denied there had been a take in . The report was fairly drawn, agreeable to the sense of the majority of that committee. It had been said, that the report was a kind of compromise between the gentlemen in the committee, who were of opposite opinions. There could be no such thing as a compromise with members who opposed these taxes. The opposition had been from the beginning, too violent to admit of any compromise. In the last session, when the bill for these new taxes was first brought in there had been a very peculiar vote upon it. It was at first proposed to re-

NEW THEATRE.
On Wednesday Evening,
JANUARY 21.
Will be Presented
A TRAGEDY, called
THE GAMES TER
Beverly, Mr. Chalmers. Stukely, Mr. Wignell. Lewiston, Mr. Cleveland. Jarvis, Mr. Whitlock. Bates, Mr. Green. Duxton, Mr. Moreton. Waiters, Mr. Darley jun. Mrs. Beverly, Mrs. Whitlock. Charlotte, Mrs. Francis. Lucy, Mrs. Cleveland.
To which will be added,
For the first time, a Comic Opera, in two acts, called
The Volunteers.
The Overture and Music entirely new, composed by Mr. Reinagle.
Trueman, Mr. Marshall. Manly, Mr. Darley. Millikin, Mr. Francis. Jerry, Mr. Bates. Grumble, Mr. Bliss. Adams, Mr. Green. Thomas, Mr. Darley jun. Jacob, Mr. De Moulin. Soldiers, Messrs. Warrell, J. Warrell, Mitchell, &c.
Miss Aura, Mrs. Marshall. Mrs. Grumble, Mrs. Shaw. Jemima, Miss Broadhurst. Rosalind, Miss Rowson. Ruth, Mrs. Cleveland. Omeah, Mrs. Olmixon.
The public are respectfully informed, that till further notice, doors will be opened at five and the performance begin at six o'clock, precisely.
Tickets and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Wells, at the Theatre, from TEN till ONE, and on days of performance from TEN till THREE o'clock.
Also at Rice's Bookstore, No. 50, and at Carey's No. 118. Market Street.
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.
No money or tickets to be returned, nor any person on any account whatsoever, admitted behind the scenes.
Vivat Respublica!
On Friday Evening,
The TRAGEDY of
Richard the IIId.
Inland Navigation.
In the Press and speedily will be published
by
Zachariah Poulson jun.
No. 80, Chestnut Street,
A N
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 for the year
1793, and their Grants of Money for im-
proving Roads and Navigable Waters
throughout the State - to which is an-
nexed,
"An Explanatory Map."
Published by Direction of the President and
Managers of the Schuylkill and Susque-
hanna, and the Delaware and Schuylkill
Navigation Companies.
"Here smooth CANALS, across the extend-
ed plain
Stretch their long arms to join the distant
main.
The sons of toil, with many a weary stroke
Scoop the hard bottom of the foetid reek;
Resistless through the stiff opposing clay,
With steady patience, work their gradual
way;
Compel the Genius of the unwilling flood
Through the brown horrors of the aged
wood;
Crofs the lone waste the silver urn they
pour,
And cheer the barren heath, or fallen moor,
"The traveller, with pleasing wonder
sees
The white tail gleaming through the dusky
trees;
And views the alter'd landscape with sur-
prise
And doubts the magic scenes that round
him rise.
Now like a flock of swans, above his head,
Their woven wings the flying vessels spread
Now meeting streams, in artful maze, slide
While each, unmixed, pours its own tide;
Now, through the hidden veins of earth
the flow
And visit labouring mines and caves be-
low.
The ductile stream obey the guiding hand,
And social Plenty crowns the HAPPY LAND.
Jan. 19
Zawtff
pear, from their late publications, to be sorry for the restoration of quiet, and submission to the laws, in that part of the State. Why not leave it to the Western people to complain of their being disfranchised and unrepresented? Why endeavour to irritate those wounds which are almost healed? Why make an attempt at a second insurrection there, before they try their strength and spirit here? The inhabitants of the Western Country expected all that has happened, and looked forward to the vacation of their elections as a part of the punishment of their rebellion. There are some here who think they can manage the Western representatives to their own purposes, and therefore now attempt to create a new animosity, in order to retain their old pernicious influence over that country. Why else are they so carefully blowing the dying coals of sedition every day, thro' the Aurora? Why censure the Legislature of the State for an act of duty and patriotism? Can any reasonable man believe, that the Insurgents ought to send delegates, who should sit and vote whether their constituents should be subdued or not? and, Whether arms and money should be collected, and sent forward to correct them, and bring their leaders to punishment? or, That men who had frustrated the laws, expelled their officers, and set the United States at defiance, could freely elect a pure, legitimate representation to legislate for the body politic, against which they were prepared to make war?
As well might it be said that the Insurgents after having defeated our army and returned home from a victorious expedition, could assemble quietly and send representatives to deliberate in Philadelphia, whether another army should be sent or not: Or that a State who may rebel and defeat the armies of United States, year after year shall still elect representatives to Congress, and that in such a case Congress could not go on to make laws without them. Strange political logic indeed, that legislation shall cease because a part of the State had refused to obey the laws!
The silence and terror of the friends of government and order at the late election was produced by the violence and outrages of the Insurgents. These causes had not ceased to operate; for the army was not within protecting or terrifying distance. It was not believed that the troops would or could cross the mountains. Not one of the hundreds who afterwards fled from punishment, had then left their homes. A leader among them who had near five hundred votes as a candidate for Congress, openly declared, that he neither wished nor expected support from any but Tom Tinker's men. Such was the fear of the peace officers, that they did not dare to arrest and send forward a single traitor or felon. How then was the public mind free? What evidence have we of returning to order and obedience? The western people know and feel these things.
It is hoped they will no longer listen to the city demagogues who have misled and betrayed their unsuspecting confidence, deserted them in the hour of their distress, and would now, if possible, replunge them into that abyss of misery from which they are emerging. Let the cowards who are attempting, from behind the curtain, to play off others, come forward, in person, and try their prowess in open opposition to the laws, and we shall find them as destitute of spirit, as they are known to be of real attachment to this country.
A MILITIA MAN.
From the Aurora. A correspondent would be glad to know how the sentiments of Smith and Ames in their notable opposition to Madison's propositions, would harmonize with the opinions given to Dundas by the West-India planters and merchants in their memorial? It would seem as if the imagination of the American representatives exerted itself more warmly in conjuring up benefits for Great-Britain than her own dear subjects; and that they laid less stress upon American consequence than even those who confess themselves devoted to the British interest.
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what we now lay before our readers, since the did not fall from Helvoet-Sluis till about the 20th of November. No letters nor papers, however, which we have yet seen, contain any later advices than the 8th, which as they are only a repetition, or rather a confirmation of what we have before extracted from Hamburgh Papers, we have translated as concisely as possible.
LEYDEN, Nov. 5.
It is well known that the court of Berlin is treating with France for a separate peace.
This day, the public prints of Basle and other places, say "that peace between Prussia and the French Republic, was concluded and signed at Neufchâtel; that the plenipotentiary on the part of Prussia, is a member of this government—that the treaty consists of six articles; and that the Prussian troops are to retire from the Rhine."
A letter we received from Hamburg does not permit us to have the least doubt of this important event, the news of which was brought here by an extraordinary Courrier. We learn the Treaty was signed on the 13th of last month.
A body of Austrian troops in the pay of Great Britain, for the defence of Holland had marched to Guelders, the first of this month.
Extracts of a letter of the 31st October, from Hamburg.
"A letter we have received this day from Basle, says, that Citizen Francois Balire, secretary to the French embassy in Switzerland, has officially communicated to the Senate, that peace was concluded with Prussia on the 12th of October. There are also letters which say, that peace is also made with Spain, and that a suspension of hostilities is to take place immediately."
"P. S. We learn at this moment, from Ratisbon, that Baron Diede de Furstenstein, minister from Denmark, to the German diet, has set off for Paris, as a mediator on the side of his Court, between Germany and France."
PARIS, October 18.
Another convoy of five waggons, loaded with silver, part of the contributions from the Low Countries, is arrived at the national treasury. Warm Debates took place in the Convention on the 17th, on the fate of all the conquered Countries.
BERLIN, October 28.
From appearances, the events of the 10th of this month will be followed by the most fatal consequences to the cause of Polish Liberty; their last hope to put a stop to the further progress of the Russians to Warsaw, seems to have vanished away.
The body of troops commanded by Dombrowski and Madalinski was surrounded and entirely cut off.
Prince Joseph Poniatowski, who had fallen back with the main body of the Polish army, saw the necessity to secure their retreat, and on that account he attacked, on the 19th of this month, the Prussian General de Kirecknowskoy on the river Brura; but, although the attack was made in every quarter, with the greatest bravery, the enemy opposed them with equal valor, and the Poles were repulsed. We have taken many prisoners; of this number is the adjutant of Prince Poniatowski.
For the Gazette of the United States.
MR. FENNO,
As some of the hereafter specified errors might have escaped my notice at the time of writing the piece which I transmitted to you yesterday for publication, I request you to insert in your this day's paper, the following list of
ERRATA.
In the piece signed "A German Republican" published in our last evening's Gazette: Second paragraph, line 13, for "established" read established—also line 19, "monarchists" read monarchists, & line 20, "invite" read incite—first line third paragraph "like a bale" read, like bafe.
That the above errata can be imputed to my carelessness alone, I cannot easily accede to, tho'
A GERMAN REPUBLICAN.
For the Gazette of the United States.
MR. FENNO,
THE inuendos of this city, who thro' Mr. Bache's paper, contributed to excite the Western Insurrection, ap-
The French republican army is in a state of the severest discipline: Pichegru punishes every offence, and represses every degree of disorder. Lefevre general of the army of the Moselle, protects not only property but persons—even the Priests and Nobles are put under the safeguard of the Republic.
On the other hand the Emigrants are every where persecuted; I have just received a letter from a family of this description which has been exiled from Dufeldorf, Cologne, and Bonn, and has only been permitted to remain provisionally at Munster, on account of a commission from the Emperor.
It is with pleasure that we behold the white cockade worn by the officers of the new corps raising here for Britain; but however critical the situation of Holland may be, 20,000 men landed in La Vendee would make a most powerful diversion in favor of the combined Powers.
The Government has arrested several persons at Amsterdam, distinguished by their riches and employments, on account of their having acted the part of Propagandists; several hundreds of individuals who passed on Jacobinical bills, have been driven out of the city, among these were many French hair-dressers, who entered private houses by means of their combs, and left their printed poison on the toilette—Some of the Magistrates of Leyden are even said to have sent large sums of money to the French and the Dutch Emigrants who accompany them.
LONDON, November 7.
A morning paper of this day states, that a barge boat had arrived on Wednesday night at Harwich, by which a merchant in the city had received intelligence of the French being in possession of Maestricht and Rotterdam, and of General Abercrombie having been defeated with slaughter.
GLASGOW, November 11.
RETROSPECT.
Great anxiety has hung over the public mind for several days past, on account of the non-arrival of intelligence from the Continent. The mails, however, were received on Saturday, and the accounts which they bring are certainly less affecting than we had reason to expect, from the alarming rumours circulated with such confidence for some time past.
The Duke of York still remains at Arnheim. On the 27th ult. the French drove in the British outposts at Nimèguen, and of Fort Saint Andre, and have commenced the siege of Nimèguen. Venlo has surrendered. Coblenz and several other places on the Rhine, have also fallen into their hands. These successes seem to have made a considerable impression on the conduct of the German empire; and the Diet of Ratisbon has passed a resolution of the intention to negotiate an immediate peace. The King of Prussia has also informed his army that he entertains hopes of making a speedy peace; and some of the provinces of Holland have expressed a similar hope.  The intelligence from France is extremely interesting. The power of the Jacobin Club is at length destroyed by a solemn decree of the Convention. Peace is at present openly talked of at Paris; and the French papers assert, that it is the wish of the government to make peace with Prussia, Sardinia, Spain, and Holland.  NATIONAL CONVENTION.  October 13. Merlin of Thionville, read a long account of atrocities committed in the West. The account was received by the Convention with the most marked indignation; the authors of these atrocities were ordered to be arrested and sent in chains to Paris.  The section of Champs Elises appeared in a mass at the bar of the Convention, and entreated the assembly to suffer no society to rival the power of the Convention (the address which was directed against the Jacobin Club was received with the loudest plaudits.)  BALTIMORE, Jan. 19.  The ship Equality, Capt. Sprigg, arrived yesterday from Rotterdam, which place she left on the 8th of November, but did not put out to sea till about the 20th, being detained till that time at Helvoet-Sluis.  We are of opinion, that much later news is brought from the continent of Europe by the Equality, than  for a gentleman had uniformly voted against it altogether, even after it had received amendments suggested by themselves. What was to be expected from such a committee as that? He wondered only that they did not advise a total repeal of the bill. The same gentleman who had objected to it in the select committee, were in the number of those who had voted against the bill in all its stages. This was not a random assertion, for Mr. Hillhouse had examined the journals, and now produced them to prove what he said. With gentleman so determined, it was impossible to expect any compromise. As to the sugar duty before the committee, he thought that the merchants had much greater reason to complain of the two and a half per cent. of additional impost, than the sugar bakers of the two cents per pound on their manufacture. "That any body should imagine" said Mr. Hillhouse, "that two cents per pound of advance would reduce the consumption of refined sugar, is nothing to me! Have we not seen refined sugar at sixteen, eighteen, and twenty-two pence per pound, and did ever any body use the less of it when it rose in price? The fact is, that they never thought about the price of it at all, but purchased exactly what they wanted." Mr. Hillhouse considered all that had been said against the tax, as the most groundless clamour that could be conceived. He hoped that the house would take these taxes and appropriate them as proposed in the report, and thus put it out of the power of any future Congress to repeal them, unless they had put others in their place; unless such future Congress should make a breach of public faith, which Mr. Hillhouse did not see any reason to look for. It seems, that when once a tax has been appropriated by the legislature, to the discharge of any particular debt, this tax cannot be taken off, even by the legislature itself, without placing another to supply its room.  Mr. Hillhouse was, therefore, totally against the amendment.  To be continued.  PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 20.  It is asked, by a querist in the Aurora, how the sentiments of Smith and Ames, in their opposition to Madison's propositions, would harmonize with the opinions given by the West-India planters in their memorial? The answer is plain—Smith and Ames exerted themselves to prevent war, which would have been an inseparable bar to the attainment of the West-India intercourse; the maintenance of peace, which is in a great measure due to them; and the negotiation in England, now depending, were the most certain means of procuring to the United States the advantages of that intercourse. The memorial of the West-India planters and merchants, to Mr. Dundas, is supposed, with good foundation, to be the result of that negotiation, and the basis of a commercial treaty. It was necessary that the application should come from the inhabitants of the Islands, least a concession of colonial advantages exclusively to this country, should give umbrage to other nations.  On Saturday the 10th inst. departed this life, in the 43rd year of his age, Mr. Daniel Tyson, of this City, Merchant.  By this Day's Mail.  NORFOLK, Jan. 7.  Yesterday arrived the ship Bowman, Henry Dickson, master, from Port Glasgow: By this vessel we have received London and Glasgow papers to the 11th of November, from which we have extracted the following very  Interesting Intelligence.  HAGUE, Oct. 21.  A gentleman just arrived from Mannheim, states, that the Elector Palatine is dissatisfied with the war, that his troops are dispirited, and that many of the German princes are determined to make peace at any rate, during the course of the ensuing winter.  The moderation of the National Convention is truly alarming; when mildness becomes the order of the day, it is infinitely more formidable than terror.

Landing at Willing's Wharf , CLARET of the First Quality in High Price and Cuffs, HIGH PRICE Cogniac Brandy, White Wine Vinegar, Port Wine, Alicant Wines, red & white FOR SALE BY John Vaughan. Dec. 25 d
This day is Published, (Price a quarter of a Dollar) Slaves in Algiers: OR Struggle for Freedom: A PLAY, Interpersed with Songs, in three acts. Subscribed to the Citizens of the United States of North America. By Mrs. Rowson. As performed at the New Theatres in Phi- ladelphia and Baltimore.
Extracts from the Preface. "My chief aim has been, to offer to the public a Dramatic Entertainment, which, while it might excite a smile, or call for the tear of sensibility, might contain no one sentiment, in the least prejudicial, to the moral or political principles of the go- vernment under which I live. On the con- trary, it has been my end, to place the social virtues in the fairest point of view, and hold up to merited contempt and ridicule, their opposite vices. If, in this attempt, I have been the least success- ful, I shall reap the reward to which I as- pire, in the smiles and approbation of a li- beral public. Sold by M. Carey, No. 128, and Rice & Co. No. 52, Rush Street; S. Campbell, No. 51, South Second Street, and Wrigley & Beaman, No. 139, Chestnut Street, Jan. 5 2awtf
The Stockholders IN THE Insurance Company of North America, Are hereby informed that upon the set- tlement of the Interest arising from the ca- pital stock of the Company, and the pro- fits of their business, the Directors have agreed to declare a Dividend of Fifty Cents on each share for the last half year. Ebenezer Hazard, Secretary. Jan. 12 d. w
James M'Alpin, Taylor, No. 3, SOUTH FOURTH STREET, Returns his grateful acknowledgements to his friends and the Public for their lib- eral encouragement, and begs leave re- spectfully to solicit a Continuance of their Favours. At his Shop Gentlemen can be furnished with the best materials, and have them made up and finished in the neatest and most fashionable manner. He will thankfully receive any orders & pay prompt and punctual attention to them. Oct. 25 2awtf
Parry & Mulgrave, Goldsmiths, Jewellers and Hair-Workers, No. 42, South Second Street, Have received by the Pigeon from London an ASSORTMENT of Plated japanned ware Jewellery & Cutlery, viz. Plated and japanned Tea Urns Plated and japanned Patent Lamps Casters and Liquor Frames Bread and Fruit Baskets Japanned Tea Trays Plated coffee and Tea Pots and canies Ditto Candlesticks A variety of elegant and most fashionable Jewelry Enamelled and other Bracelets, Breast- pins, and Finger Rings Trimble, enamelled and other kinds Ladies and gentlemen's gold, gilt, and steel Watch chains Gold and gilt Seals and Keys Stone and fine steel Knee Buckles, Pen- Knives and Cifars, with Variety of other Articles, In the above Branches. Dec. 6 eodtf
Dancing School. Wm. M'DOUGALL presents his com- pliments to the Public—Thanks them for the great encouragement he has experi- enced these twenty odd years. He will open his School for this Season on Monday the 13th October, at 10 o'clock in the morning, in that large and elegant Saloon in Harmony Street, leading from Third to Fourth Street, turning the corner of No. 70, South Third Street. His Employers may be assured, the strict order and decorum that has always been observed in his School, shall still be pur- sued—and that their children will be taught in the most approved and modern style. Note—An Evening School for young Gentlemen. Oct. 10 2awtf
FOR SALE BY John D. Blanchard, At his Store, in Third Street, 66 PIPES Choice TENERIFFE WINE, of superior quality, Cogniac Brandy in pipes 50 Cales of Claret of a superior quality subject to drawback. B.Ron Tea Kettles, a large assortment Shirts of all sizes and numbers Barr Lead, Lead in pigs Ruslia Sheetings Women's Stuff Shoes by the quantity Cutt Nails Rhode Island Cheese And a large and elegant assortment of European and India GOODS, At the most reduced Prices. N. v. 25 2awtf
Forty Dollars Reward. RAN away from the subscribers in Woodbury, Gloucester County, New Jer- sey, on Sunday morning the 12th instant, Two young Negro Fellows, named Jack and Tom, each about 20 years of age; Jack is of a dark black colour and a four look; Tom is of an open counte- nance, of a yellowish colour, and much disposed to laugh. They are sprightly active fellows, and but little short 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 secures them in any goal in the United States, so that their masters may get them again shall receive the above reward and reasonable expenses. John Sparks, Andrew Hunter. Oct. 14 2awtf
FRESH Bohea Tea, AND GIN in Pipes, Now Landing from on board the ship Peggy, John Elliott master, from Amsterdam. Also Imported by the late Arrivals, Ruslia Hemp, first quality Ditto Sail Duck Ditto Ravens Duck Brown Ruslia Sheetings Tickenburgs Oznaburgs Brown Flanders Sheetings Hollands and Brown Rolls Cotton Stripes and Checks Flanders Bedticks Holland Sail Duck Seine Twine Dutch Great Coats Gin in cases Madder Window Glass, 8 by 10 Jewits Bark Opium Assafetida German Steel Mill and Cross-cut Saws Hoes and Cutting Knives Sythes and Skates Coffee Mills Black Lead Crucibles Anchors from 3 cwt. to 15 cwt. And a General Assortment of 5-4 & 6-4 Boultng Cloth, FOR SALE BY Pragers & Co. Nov. 11 d
Pragers & Co. Nov. 11 d Fresh Teas, OF SUPERIOR QUALITY, viz. Imperial, or Gunpowder Hyson Gomee, 1st quality Hyson, 2d. do. do. Young Hyson, Hyson Skin, and Souchoong. A few Boxes of each, for sale at No. 19, Third Street south. Dec. 10 eodtf Tickenburgs, 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 3awtf
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SHAKSPEARE'S WORKS. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. BY Mountford, Bioren & Co. Proposals for Printing by Subscription, THE WHOLE Dramatic Works OF WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE, IN EIGHT DUODECIMO VOLUMES, From Jones's Dublin Edition. CONDITIONS. I. This Work will be comprised in Eight Duodecimo Volumes, printed on a fine American paper, in a style of Typogra- phical Elegance that shall reflect the highest credit on the American press. II. That it shall be embellished with a beautiful Frontispiece of Shakespeare— engraved by the best American Artist. III. That the price to Subscribers will be EIGHT DOLLARS, one dollar to be paid on Subscription, and one dollar on the re- ceipt of every succeeding volume but the last—to enable the Publishers to pursue with convenience this arduous undertaking. IV. Each volume shall be delivered in blue boards to the Subscribers immediately on the publication of every volume with best impressions of the Frontispiece—the price to be raised to Non-Subscribers. V. That the names of the Subscribers will be printed to record the patrons of this endeavour to encourage the useful and elegant Arts in America. Subscriptions are received by Messrs Dobson, Carey, Young, Stevens, Camp- bell, Rice, M'Kenney, Ormerod, Johnston, and by the booksellers throughout the United States. Also by the Editor of the Gen- Advertiser, the Editor of the Gaz. of the United States, and by the publishers, Mountford, Bioren & Co. No. 75 Dock- street. Dec. 10. end 2w 2awtf
Scheme of a Lottery, Total Prize 39,900 Dollars, on 366,000 Dollars Deduction 15 per Cent. from the Prizes. This Lottery consists of 38,000 Tickets, in which there are 14,531 Prizes, and 23,469 Blanks, being about one and an half blanks to a prize. THE Directors of the Society for establis- hing Useful Manufactures, having resolved to erect LOTTERIES for raising ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS, agreeably to an Act of the Legislature of the State of New Jersey, have appointed the following persons to superintend and direct the draw- ing of the same, viz. Nicholas Low, Rufus King, Herman Le Roy, James Watson, Richard Harrison, Abijah Hammond, and Cassius Jackson, of the city of New York— Thomas Willing, Joseph Ball, Matthew Mc- Connel and Andrew Bayard, of the city of Philadelphia—His Excellency Richard How- ell, Esq. Elias Boudinot, General Elias Day- ton, James Parker, John Bayard, Doctor Lewis Donham, Samuel W. Stockton, Joshua M. Wallace, Joseph Bloomfield, and Elisha Boudinot, of New Jersey, who offer the following Scheme of a Lottery, and pledge themselves to the public, that they will take every assurance and precaution in their power to have the Monies paid by the Managers, from time to time, as received, into the Banks at New-York and Philadelphia, to remain for the purpose of paying Prizes, which shall be immediately discharged by a check upon one of the Banks. SCHEME: 1 Prize of 20,000 Dollars is 20,000 1 10,000 10,000 2 5,000 10,000 5 2,000 10,000 10 1,000 10,000 20 500 10,000 100 100 10,000 200 50 10,000 1000 20 20,000 2000 10 20,000 3000 6.66 20,000 8000 2.5 20,000 14,531 Prizes. First drawn number, 2,000 23,469 Blanks. Last drawn number, 2,000 38,000 Tickets at 1 Dollar each is 38,000 The drawing will commence, under the inspection of a Committee of the Superin- tendents, as soon as the Tickets are sold, of which timely notice will be given. The Superintendents have appointed John N. Cumming, of Newark, Jacob R. Harden- berg, of New-Brunswick, and Jonathan Rhea, of Trenton, as immediate Managers thereof, who have given ample security for discharging the trust reposed in them. In order to secure the punctual pay- ment of the Prizes, the Superintendents of the Lottery have directed that the Managers shall each enter into bonds in 45,000 dollars, with four sufficient securities, to perform their instructions, the substance of which is I. That whenever either of the Managers shall receive the sum of Three Hundred Dol- lars, he shall immediately place the same in one of the Banks of New-York or Philadel- phia, to the credit of the Governor of the Society, and such of the Superintendents as live in the city where the monies are placed, to remain there until the Lottery is drawn, for the payment of the Prizes. II. The Managers to take sufficient se- curity for any Tickets they may trust, other- wise to be responsible for them. III. To keep regular books of Tickets sold, Monies received and paid into the Bank, abstracts of which shall be sent monthly, to the Governor of the Society. Paterson, January 1, 1794. On application to either of the above Gen- tlemen, information will be given where tickets may be had. February 24. m&f
Scheme of a Lottery, Total Prize 39,900 Dollars, on 366,000 Dollars Deduction 15 per Cent. from the Prizes. This Lottery consists of 38,000 Tickets, in which there are 14,531 Prizes, and 23,469 Blanks, being about one and an half blanks to a prize. THE Directors of the Society for establis- hing Useful Manufactures, having resolved to erect LOTTERIES for raising ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS, agreeably to an Act of the Legislature of the State of New Jersey, have appointed the following persons to superintend and direct the draw- ing of the same, viz. Nicholas Low, Rufus King, Herman Le Roy, James Watson, Richard Harrison, Abijah Hammond, and Cassius Jackson, of the city of New York— Thomas Willing, Joseph Ball, Matthew Mc- Connel and Andrew Bayard, of the city of Philadelphia—His Excellency Richard How- ell, Esq. Elias Boudinot, General Elias Day- ton, James Parker, John Bayard, Doctor Lewis Donham, Samuel W. Stockton, Joshua M. Wallace, Joseph Bloomfield, and Elisha Boudinot, of New Jersey, who offer the following Scheme of a Lottery, and pledge themselves to the public, that they will take every assurance and precaution in their power to have the Monies paid by the Managers, from time to time, as received, into the Banks at New-York and Philadelphia, to remain for the purpose of paying Prizes, which shall be immediately discharged by a check upon one of the Banks. SCHEME: 1 Prize of 20,000 Dollars is 20,000 1 10,000 10,000 2 5,000 10,000 5 2,000 10,000 10 1,000 10,000 20 500 10,000 100 100 10,000 200 50 10,000 1000 20 20,000 2000 10 20,000 3000 6.66 20,000 8000 2.5 20,000 14,531 Prizes. First drawn number, 2,000 23,469 Blanks. Last drawn number, 2,000 38,000 Tickets at 1 Dollar each is 38,000 The drawing will commence, under the inspection of a Committee of the Superin- tendents, as soon as the Tickets are sold, of which timely notice will be given. The Superintendents have appointed John N. Cumming, of Newark, Jacob R. Harden- berg, of New-Brunswick, and Jonathan Rhea, of Trenton, as immediate Managers thereof, who have given ample security for discharging the trust reposed in them. In order to secure the punctual pay- ment of the Prizes, the Superintendents of the Lottery have directed that the Managers shall each enter into bonds in 45,000 dollars, with four sufficient securities, to perform their instructions, the substance of which is I. That whenever either of the Managers shall receive the sum of Three Hundred Dol- lars, he shall immediately place the same in one of the Banks of New-York or Philadel- phia, to the credit of the Governor of the Society, and such of the Superintendents as live in the city where the monies are placed, to remain there until the Lottery is drawn, for the payment of the Prizes. II. The Managers to take sufficient se- curity for any Tickets they may trust, other- wise to be responsible for them. III. To keep regular books of Tickets sold, Monies received and paid into the Bank, abstracts of which shall be sent monthly, to the Governor of the Society. Paterson, January 1, 1794. On application to either of the above Gen- tlemen, information will be given where tickets may be had. February 24. m&f
Scheme of a Lottery, Total Prize 39,900 Dollars, on 366,000 Dollars Deduction 15 per Cent. from the Prizes. This Lottery consists of 38,000 Tickets, in which there are 14,531 Prizes, and 23,469 Blanks, being about one and an half blanks to a prize. THE Directors of the Society for establis- hing Useful Manufactures, having resolved to erect LOTTERIES for raising ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS, agreeably to an Act of the Legislature of the State of New Jersey, have appointed the following persons to superintend and direct the draw- ing of the same, viz. Nicholas Low, Rufus King, Herman Le Roy, James Watson, Richard Harrison, Abijah Hammond, and Cassius Jackson, of the city of New York— Thomas Willing, Joseph Ball, Matthew Mc- Connel and Andrew Bayard, of the city of Philadelphia—His Excellency Richard How- ell, Esq. Elias Boudinot, General Elias Day- ton, James Parker, John Bayard, Doctor Lewis Donham, Samuel W. Stockton, Joshua M. Wallace, Joseph Bloomfield, and Elisha Boudinot, of New Jersey, who offer the following Scheme of a Lottery, and pledge themselves to the public, that they will take every assurance and precaution in their power to have the Monies paid by the Managers, from time to time, as received, into the Banks at New-York and Philadelphia, to remain for the purpose of paying Prizes, which shall be immediately discharged by a check upon one of the Banks. SCHEME: 1 Prize of 20,000 Dollars is 20,000 1 10,000 10,000 2 5,000 10,000 5 2,000 10,000 10 1,000 10,000 20 500 10,000 100 100 10,000 200 50 10,000 1000 20 20,000 2000 10 20,000 3000 6.66 20,000 8000 2.5 20,000 14,531 Prizes. First drawn number, 2,000 23,469 Blanks. Last drawn number, 2,000 38,000 Tickets at 1 Dollar each is 38,000 The drawing will commence, under the inspection of a Committee of the Superin- tendents, as soon as the Tickets are sold, of which timely notice will be given. The Superintendents have appointed John N. Cumming, of Newark, Jacob R. Harden- berg, of New-Brunswick, and Jonathan Rhea, of Trenton, as immediate Managers thereof, who have given ample security for discharging the trust reposed in them. In order to secure the punctual pay- ment of the Prizes, the Superintendents of the Lottery have directed that the Managers shall each enter into bonds in 45,000 dollars, with four sufficient securities, to perform their instructions, the substance of which is I. That whenever either of the Managers shall receive the sum of Three Hundred Dol- lars, he shall immediately place the same in one of the Banks of New-York or Philadel- phia, to the credit of the Governor of the Society, and such of the Superintendents as live in the city where the monies are placed, to remain there until the Lottery is drawn, for the payment of the Prizes. II. The Managers to take sufficient se- curity for any Tickets they may trust, other- wise to be responsible for them. III. To keep regular books of Tickets sold, Monies received and paid into the Bank, abstracts of which shall be sent monthly, to the Governor of the Society. Paterson, January 1, 1794. On application to either of the above Gen- tlemen, information will be given where tickets may be had. February 24. m&f
Wants Employment, A Person who has a tolerable knowledge of CONVEYANCING, a general know- ledge 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 J.B. and left at the Office of the Gazette of the United States, will be duly attended to. Jan. 10 eodtf
Lottery No. 2, for the Im- provement of the FEDERAL CITY. GENTLEMEN, desirous of receiving regularly correct slips of the drawing of the Lottery, are hereby informed that, up- on their sending forward to the Printers hereat, five dollars each, together with their address, they shall be punctually fur- nished with such slips while drawing per- fect in Supplements to the Columbian Chronicle. This arrangement will save them the ex- pense of extra postage. Hanson and Priestley
Samuel Coates. At his Store, No. 82, South Front Street, bath for Sale, 300 Bbls. of Good New-England Beef, 150 kegs Pickled SALMON, 500 yards of TOW LINEN. A Quantity of Men's coarse SHOES ALLSPICE, &c. 1st. mo. 16 *cat2w
Bohea Tea. 50 chests Bohea Tea, of supe- rior quality, just received by the Schooner Porga, from Boston. FOR SALE BY Nalbro' & John Frazier, No. 81, Walnut Street. Dec. 27 m&f&w
City of Washington. SCHEME OF THE LOTTERY, No. II. FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE FEDERAL CITY. 1 A magnificent 20,000 Dollars, and dwelling house, 5 cash 36,000 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 10,000 2 ditto 5,000 each, are 10,000 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 16,739 Prizes 150,000 33,261 Blanks 50,000 Tickets at 1 Dollar 50,000
SAMUEL BLODGET. * Tickets may be had at the Bank of Columbia; of James West & Co. Baltimore; of Gideon Dutton, Savannah; of Peter Gilman, Boston; of John Hopkins, Rich- mond; and of Richard Wells, Cooper's ferry. Aug. 30 eodtf Several causes have combined to re- tard the drawing of the above Lottery, the principal of which are, three other respect- able and similar institutions, viz. One to erect the Piers at New-Castle, one to for- ward the city of Paterson, and that to e- rect an addition to Harvard College. These having troubled the quantity of ti- ckets at market, have rendered extraor- dinary exertions necessary to complete the sales in as short a time as possible; and the public are assured, that from the present prospects, the business may soon be brought to a conclusion, and an early day will be named for drawing, and the names of the managers announced in the course of the present month. January 13 eodtf
Wants Employment, A Person who has a tolerable knowledge of CONVEYANCING, a general know- ledge 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 J.B. and left at the Office of the Gazette of the United States, will be duly attended to. Jan. 10 eodtf
Lottery No. Lottery No. 2, for the Im- provement of the FEDERAL CITY. GENTLEMEN, desirous of receiving regularly correct slips of the drawing of the Lottery, are hereby informed that, up- on their sending forward to the Printers hereat, five dollars each, together with their address, they shall be punctually fur- nished with such slips while drawing per- fect in Supplements to the Columbian Chronicle. This arrangement will save them the ex- pense of extra postage. Hanson and Priestley
A FEW COPIES of the celebrated Performance under the Signature of M A N L I U S, May be had of John Ormerod, No. 41, Ches- nut Street. PRICE—25 CENTS.
COFFEE. 54 hogheads } 120,000 lbs. 350 barrels } Just arrived in the Rebecca, Captain Hughes, from Jamaica. FOR SALE BY Peter Blight. Who has also now landing out of the Me- cury, from Oporto, Choice Red Port Wine, IN PIPES. Dec. 22 d
To be Sold, AT PRIVATE SALE, A very pleasant well situated & valuable Farm, CONTAINING 328 acres of good Land lying in Hanover, Morris county, N. Jer- sey, about 1 mile from Mr. White's Mer- ring House, on the road leading to Beth- Hill, about 16 miles from Elizabeth Town, 13 from Newark, and 8 from Morris-town. There are on the Premises a large and convenient dwelling house, large barn, ei- der house and mill, a good granary and other out houses. Likewise a good bearing apple or orchard, containing about 300 trees together with a collection of best grafted fruit, such as peaches, pears, cherries, &c. Seid Farm is well proportioned with plain land, meadow and water; there are now about 10 acres of plow land and 60 of mow- dow already cleared, the remainder being timber and pasture land. Any person inclining to purchase, may know the terms by applying to the sub- scriber on the premises, or to Col. Ellis Cook, near the same. Thomas T. Eckley. Hanover, Dec. 27 *1aw3w
Carpets & Carpeting. Best British Ingrain Carpets & Carpeting Do. Scotch, Ingrain and common Do. Green, Brown, Yellow & Black Ground. Furniture chintzes, white Rus- sia sheetings, Dimities, &c. For Sale by JOSEPH TURNER, No. 4, north Third Street. Jan. 7 2awtf
PROPOSALS For publishing a Work, entitled THE Federal Politician, Written by JAMES PH. PUGLIA, Author of the Spanish Work, entitled Man Undeceived, &c. Are respectfully submitted to the Citizens of the United States. Est modus in rebus sunt certi denique fines Quos ultra citraque nequit consistere rectum. Horat. Sat. 1, pag. 359 SOUND arguments, impartial reason- ing, and candid sentiments form the com- pendium of this Work. The Author pledges himself solemnly to the Public, that no pains have been, nor shall be spared to render it worthy of their patronage, and if Utility can with propriety claim ade- quate encouragement, he submits to their liberal understanding the following CONTENTS. Preface. Chap. 1. Government—its origin, pro- gress, &c. 2. Federal Government—its establish- ment, energy, excellence, &c. 3. Justice of the Federal Government in claiming the support of every American citizen. 4. Officers of the Federal Government —their qualification, election, duties, &c. 5. Federalism and Anti-Federalism com- pared. 6. Political Societies—their object, sys- tem, proceedings, &c. Conclusion. Conditions. 1st. It will contain not less than 200 pages octavo, to be printed on a handsome type and fine paper. 2d. Subscribers' names will be inserted as patrons with the respective number of copies in distinct order. 3d. Subscriptions at a dollar per copy nearly bound, to be paid on delivery of the book. 4th. When 300 subscriptions are obtain- ed, the Work will be put to press, and every subscriber for four copies will be entit- led to a fifth gratis. 5th. If the number required be not com- pleted within two months from the pro- posed date, no such allowance will be made, (in case of publication) the price to non- subscribers will be raised. 6th. Subscriptions are received by Francis Bailey, No. 116, High Street, cor- ner of St. Mary, at the corner of Walnut and Front Streets, Thomas Dobson and principal Booksellers in this city; also by Messrs Robert Hodge of New-York, Thomas and Andrews, Boston; York and Newbury, New-Brunswick; Augustine Davis, Phila- delphia; and Peter Freneau, Charleston, S. C. Philadelphia. Jan. 5th 1795.