Gazette of the United States and daily evening advertiser. (Philadelphia [Pa.]), 1795-06-26 00:00:00

Gazette of the United States  DAILY EVENING ADVERTISER.
[No. 151 of Vol. VII.]
FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 1795.
[Whole No. 84]
For Sale. The Brig ABIGAIL , John Davis, Master, Burthen 160 tons—well built, about six months old; now ly- ing at South street wharf.
For terms apply to the captain on board, or to JOS. ANTHONY & SON. June 20
FOR SALE, The Schooner  SALLY,
Lying at Latimer's wharf, this vessel is ready to take in a cargo, and is well found in rigging and sails. Her burthen about 650 Barrels. Apply to SAM. BRECK, Jun. Ross's wharf.
June 20
IMPORTED, in the Ship THREE BROTHERS, from CALCUTTA, And for sale in the Package, by  John Miller, jun.
A Capital Assortment of  BENGAL GOODS,
Of Qualities peculiarly well adapted to this market, and for Exportation. Amongst them are a Great Variety of Printing Cloths Coffees, Calicoes, Patna Handfs, Checks, Mulmuls, Gurrahs, Taffaties. Baftas,
The above will be sold on very moderate terms, for Notes at 3 and 4 months.
300 Bags BENARES SUGAR 30,000 lb. PEPPER.
The SHIP  Three BROTHERS,
will likewise be Sold. She is 8 years old—newly coppered—a strong vessel, burthen about 250 tons. June 23
For FREIGHT or CHAR-  TER, The New Cedar and Live Oak Ship  FAVORITE,
Burthen about three hundred Tons, Philadelphia built, She is a substantial well built Vessel and will be fitted in the best manner, will be ready to receive a Cargo about the 20th inst. and sail about the 5th of July, for terms apply at No. 12 North 3d Street. June 4
2awtf.
For NEW-YORK, THE SCHOONER  ARETHUSA, Capt. WORTH,
TO sail in all this week—will take freight on moderate terms.—For freight or passage apply to the Captain on board, at Walnut-street wharf, or to  Joseph Anthony & Son. June 23.
TO-MORROW,
WILL be Landed, at Willings's wharf, from the Ship Three Brothers , Captain Brown , from Calcutta .
Nyanook Chanderconna Mullins, } By the very fine, and Hummums } BALE. Bandanoe Handkerchiefs, and Taffetas
also,  BENARES SUGAR, For Sale by  Philips, Cramond & Co. June 19
For ST. CROIX, THE BRIGANTINE  SCHUTLKILL, Francis Knox, Master,
HAVING the greatest part of her cargo ready, is expected to sail on or before the first of July—For Freight, or Passage, apply to the Captain, or to  Wharton & Greeves,
Who have now Landing from the Sloop Indefatigable , Capt. Wharton , from St. Croix ,
30 Hhds. prime Sugar, and 40 do. of Rum. June 25.
FOR SALE, At the STORES of  Jesse & Robert Waln,
PORT WINE in pipes, bds. and quarter casks
LISBON do. in pipes and quarter casks
Souchong and Congo TEAS, in quarter chests
A quantity of Lisbon and Cadiz SALT
Soft Shelled ALMONDS in bales.
Velvet CORKS, in do.
Russia MATTS. May 2
Rumford & Abijah Dawes, Have imported in the Sloop Two Brothers , Samuel Marchant, Master, from New- bury Port, and for Sale, at their Store, No. 7, South Water-Street,
PRIME Beef Pork Shoes and hats White Pine boards Tow cloth and cordage—ALSO Russia and Cork duck Cayenne cotton French indigo Pimento A few hogheads tobacco Nail and spike rods—AND A quantity of coarse salt June 23.
ALL Persons indebted to the Estate of Robert Reside, late of Southwark, Mariner, deceased, are desired to make immediate payment, and all those having just demands against said Estate, are desired to furnish their accounts properly attested, to either of the subscribers.
SARAH RESIDE, Executrix.  JOHN CRAIG,  JAMES SAWYER, } Executors. May 21
NOW LANDING, At Willings's Wharf, from on board of the Ship Washington , Captain Webb , from Calcutta, the following Goods, viz.
Guzecahs Oude Sahans, Ditto Emeries Taunda Khallas Baftas Jugdea Ditto Luckipore Ditto Joitapore Ditto Chittabully } BY THE BALE. Also,  Benares Sugar, in Bags. For Sale by  Philips, Cramond & Co. June 18
ALL those who are indebted to the late House of Andrew Clow & Co. and particularly such of them as reside at a distance, but happen to be here, are desired to call and make payment at No. 20 South Front Street, before they shall leave the City, otherwise they will certainly be sued at law.
WM. CRAMOND,  JOHN LEAMY, } Executors.  HUGH HOLMES, Philadelphia, May 23
To-morrow will be Landed, At Russell's wharf, from on board of the Ship Camilla , Capt. Boys , from Bourdeaux,
Brandy in Pipes, Claret in Hogheads, Ditto, very good, in cases of 3 doz. each For sale by  Philips, Cramond & Co. June 19
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PHILIP NICKLIN & Co. Are now Landing from the Ship Liberty , capt. Van Luvenigh, from Liverpool 100 casks of Nails assorted in 4d 6d 8d 10d and 20d. And from the Schooner Favorite from Virginia, 21 Hogheads prime Tobacco and 1500 wt. Virginia Hams. They have also on hand, 22 Tons Pig Lead Rich Mountain Wine in Quarter Casks, Fine Old Port Wine in Pipes and Hogheads, Spanish Liquorice Ball, in boxes of 6 Cwt each Brimstone, crude and refined, English sail Canvas assorted Crown Window Glass 8 by 10, and Men's English saddles, A Quantity of Mahogany, and June 3
JAMES TIFFIN, No 70 South Second Street, Near the City Tavern,
HAS just opened and for Sale, an Assortment of Ladies' and Gentlemen's  Fashionable HATS,
from London. Also a Variety of Children's Hats of different Colours.
N. B. A Man or two as finishers in the above business, well recommended, will meet with constant employ and good encouragement. June 6.
Genteel Boarding, At the Corner of Eleventh and Spruce Streets. daw
DELAWARE BRIDGE.
IN Pursuance of an act of the General Assembly of this Commonwealth, entitled "An act to authorize the Governor of this Commonwealth to incorporate a Company for erecting a Bridge over the river Delaware at the borough of Easton, in the County of Northampton;" and also of the Legislature of the state of New Jersey, entitled "An act to empower the Governor of this state to incorporate a Company for erecting a Bridge over the river Delaware, at the township of Greenwich, in the County of Sussex, opposite the borough of Easton"
NOTICE is hereby given,
That Books will be opened to receive Subscriptions for the Stock of the said Company, at the times and places following, to wit: In the City of Philadelphia, at the Counting House of Levi Hollingsworth, on Monday, the sixth day of July next, and on the two succeeding days— In the Borough of Easton, at the House of Conrad Ihrie, Esq., on the same three days; And, in the State of New Jersey, at the House of Thomas Bullman, in the township of Greenwich, and County of Sussex, on the sixth and eighth days of July next; and at the store of Thomas Paul, at Belvidere, in Oxford township, and Sussex County aforesaid, on the seventh day of July aforesaid.
At which Places the Books will be kept open from nine o'clock until twelve in the forenoon, and from two o'clock until five in the afternoon, of each day, or until the Subscription shall be filled—The Capital Stock of the said Company will consist of two hundred and fifty shares, at one hundred dollars each, whereof ten dollars must be paid on each share at the time of subscribing.
Levi Hollingsworth,  Jesse Waln,  John Nicholson,  John Arndt,  William Henry,  John Heister,  James Hyndshaw,  Thomas Paul,  Thomas Bullman. Philadelphia, May 18
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Terms of advertising are fifty cents per square for the first insertion, and twenty cents per square for each subsequent publication. Philadelphia, June 2
The highest price
In Cash, will be given for  EMPTY BOTTLES, A preference will be given to Claret Bottles. Apply at No. 187, South Third street. April 10
IMPORTED, In the Richmond from Bristol,
Quart Bottles in Hamps Taunton Ale, in casks of 10 doz. each Best Double Gloucester Cheese and A Quantity of Grindstones For Sale by  Simon Walker, Walnut Street wharf. June xx
FRAUNCES'S TAVERN No. 59 South Water Street,
THE Subscriber respectfully begs leave to inform his friends and the public in general, that he has removed from No. 166 South 2d Street, to that large, commodious, House in Water Street, between Chestnut and Walnut Streets, lately occupied by Mr. Isaac Hazleburgh, and on which he has spared no pains or expense, to make it convenient and agreeable for the reception of gentlemen. The House being situated on the same spot where the noted Beef Steak and Punch house formerly stood, has the advantage of the best water in this city, known long since by the name of the Green Tree Water . As there are several elegant Rooms, sufficiently large to accommodate any Society or company of gentlemen, and from his well known abilities to please in the line of his business, he flatters himself with a continuance of that patronage which he has experienced since he first opened a Public House in this City, and, for which he begs leave to make a public acknowledgment.
For the accommodation of Small Parties, the Large Coffee Room on the ground floor is conveniently fitted up with a number of Boxes, constructed in such a manner as to admit Gentlemen to be as private as they please—Where may be had, at any hour, Soups, Beef-Steaks, Relishes, &c. &c.
He has on hand, and will keep a constant supply of Spirituous and Malt Liquors, and of the best qualities.
Breakfasts provided—Also Dinners and Suppers cooked in the most approved manner; to be at short notice, and Pastry of all sorts, made to order, in the House, or to send out at any hour.
He has several well furnished Bed Chambers, for Boarders and Lodgers, by the Week, month, or year.
SAMUEL FRAUNCES.
P. S. The large, convenient, Stores and Vaults, underneath the House, with the Office above, to be rented, either separate or together—For terms apply to the Subscriber. June 2.
Mordecai Lewis,
Has for Sale at his Store, No. 25 Great Dock Street,
A few bales of East India Goods, consisting of Baftas, Coffees, Emeries, Humhums, and Bookmullins.
A Bale of Millais and Peniafoes
Russia Sheetings and Sail Duck
Ravens Duck
China Silks
A case of Diapers
Barcelona Handkfs. in Boxes
Roll Brimstone
Souchong Tea in small boxes
a quantity of Grind Stones. June 9, 1795.
For Sale, THE time of a Stout NEGRO LAD, who has upwards of six years to serve. Enquire of the Printer. Jun.
BARTHOLOMEW CONOLLY, No. 48 Chestnut Street,
HAS just received by the MOLLY , from London, a very Large Assortment of PRINTED CALICOES , 4-4 and 5-4 superfine Chintzes—and a great variety of Mullins and Hosiery, which will be sold wholesale, upon the most reasonable terms. June 25
To be Let, An Excellently well toned  PIANO FORTE.
ENQUIRE at Number 89 South Fourth Street, June 25
EXHIBITION.
THE Public are respectfully informed, that the Exhibition of Paintings, Architecture, &c. of the Columbianum, now open in the Senate Chamber in the State-House
WILL FINALLY CLOSE on Monday, the sixth day of July next. Admittance—Twenty-five Cents. By Order, Samuel Lewis, Sec'y. pro tem. Philosophical Hall, June 25, 1795.
THE subscriber offers for sale, a FARM, containing about 300 acres; distant from the City of Washington and George-Town between 8 or 9 miles. A Plot of this Land is in the hands of Mr. Peter Casanova of George-Town, likewise of Mr. Thomas Fitzsimons, in Philadelphia, and Mr. Robert Waln, in Baltimore.
The Land will be shown to any person, by applying to John Lydam, who lives adjoining. It lies in a most healthy country, and a good neighborhood. There are on it a common country dwelling-house, a large tobacco-house, and an orchard of good fruit, a constant stream with a great fall runs thro' it, and between 30 or 40 acres of good meadow may be easily made. The lines of the above include about 40 acres of woodland. Convenient credits will be afforded to the purchaser if desired. DANIEL CARROLL. Montgomery County, June 2, 1795. N. B. The land lies between two merchant mills, one distant about a mile, the other almost adjoining. June 25.
Wanted Immediately, By JOSEPH COOKE, Goldsmith & Jeweller,
Corner of South Third and Market Streets,
From 20 to 30 Journeyman Goldsmiths Silvermiths, Jewellers, Engravers, Buckle-Makers, Plate-Workers, Spoon-Makers, Small-Workers, Lapidaries, Chape-Makers, or any other Mechanics, useful in the different branches of a Goldsmith and Jewellery, Manufactory; any one capable of under taking any of the above branches will meet with constant employ, the highest wages, and every encouragement due to their merits.
Any person capable of being a Foreman to the above described Business, willing to instruct Apprentices, and do every duty incumbent on a Foreman, shall receive a handsome salary for his services, with Board and Lodging in the house.
Five or six Apprentices will be taken to the different branches as above, and one to the Store and Mercantile part of the business.
The highest price given for Old Gold and Silver, Lace, Diamonds, Old Watches, and Jewellery, in Exchange or otherwise, by applying at the above Store, where there is ready for Sale, a complete and elegant Assortment of fashionable Silver, Plated, Jewellery Cutlery, Japaned, and Fancy Goods, received by the last arrivals. In addition to which he hopes to receive a fresh supply by every European arrival, and still continues to manufacture every article in the various branches as usual.
N. B. As he is going to remove to the corner Store, the House he now occupies is TO BE LET, or SOLD; which, for Convenience, Beauty, and goodness of Stand, is by far the most eligible of any in the City. May 13.
American Landscapes.  PROPOSALS FOR PUBLISHING IN AQUATINTA TWENTY-FOUR  VIEWS.
Selected from the most striking and interesting Prospects in the United States; each of which VIEWS will be accompanied with a descriptive account of its Local, Historical, and other Incidental Peculiarities.
By G. I. PARKYNS, Author of the "Monastic Remains and Ancient Castles in Great Britain."
CONDITIONS.
I. That the work shall be published by Subscription; and that each Subscriber shall engage to take the whole set of Views, and shall pay for each engraving, if black or brown, 2 Dollars; and if coloured 5 Dollars.
II. That the dimensions of each engraving shall be 24 by 17 inches, executed in aquatinta, and published upon paper of a superior quality. The publication to commence immediately; and one engraving to be delivered to the Subscribers, on the first Monday of each succeeding month, until the proposed series shall be finally completed.
III. That with the last View of the series, shall be delivered an engraved title-page; an elegant characteristic vignette; a map of the route, connected with the prospects exhibited in the course of the Work; and an Alphabetical list of the Subscribers.
Subscriptions are received by Mr. Harrison, at his Print-shop, Maiden-lane, New-York by Mr. Carey, Book-seller, No. 118, Market Street, Philadelphia, and by all the principal Book-sellers in the United States. February 28.
WANTED, TO RENT for twelve months, certain,
A Convenient HOUSE, calculated for a small private family.—Any person having such a one to let, situated to the westward of Second Street, and within three or four squares of Market Street, will hear of a careful tenant by applying at the Office of the Gazette of the United States.
Also—Wanted to purchase the time of a BLACK WOMAN, who is acquainted with house-work, and who can be recommended for her honesty, industry, and other good qualities.—Inquire as above. June 16, 1795.
LATELY PUBLISHED, And to be had at B. DAVIES'S, Book-Store, No. 68 High-Street,
DEL PINO'S Spanish Grammar,
To which is added, an English Grammar, for the use of Spaniards. At the same place may be had, a few copies of Boyer's French & English Dictionary. London Edition. June 22
FRESH TEAS, Of Superior Quality, viz.
Imperial, or Gumpowder
Hyson Gomee,
1st quality Hyson,
2d. do. do.
Young Hyson,
Hyson Skin, and
Souchong.
A few Boxes of each, for sale at No. 19 Third street, south. Dec. 10

FRANCE. The French Nation returning more and more to sentiments of humanity and moderation, exhibit in this conduct the dawn of peace. It is not, now, from the restoration of monarchy that peace is to be expected with France, but from the establishment of the Republic; and this is to be established only by the universal prevalence of justice. A system of terror, a dictatorial power, was deemed necessary while the enemies of France pressed her hard on every side: they are forced to recede; the French are freed from their fears; order begins to return, and a natural desire to breathe from the calamities of war, and enjoy the supreme blessing of peace. Thus the allies gain their object, if the tranquility of Europe was indeed their object, not by success, but defeat.
That the people of France are in a temper tending to pacification, cannot well be doubted; but two important questions arise. With whom are the allies to treat? and on what terms? With regard to the first of these questions, it was laid at first, What! treat with murderers and usurpers of thrones! and diminish the reverence for crowned heads among all nations! It is now said, all things in France are in a state of anarchy and never-ceasing fluctuation—or one party of men, tyrannical to-day, and another to-morrow. Any peace, or negotiation for peace, that might be entered into with the rulers of the day, might, and probably would, be set aside by new ministers, ever prone to depart as widely as possible from the maxims of their predecessors. On the other hand, it is contended, that the Convention, the existing government of France, is a plenipotentiary appointed by the will of the people to terminate the war, after fixing the revolution. What signify the changes which take place in governments when a treaty is concluded with the people to whom those governments belong, and whose interest is peace? But the grand question, What shall be the terms of peace?
The French desire for making the Rhine the eastern boundary of the empire; yet, at the same time, they pretend to a restitution of all the places that have been taken from them in the course of the war from Great Britain. These are certainly very humiliating terms. And to these, whatever the continental powers may do, Great Britain must assuredly never will submit: not but what she has foreign establishments of sufficient variety and extent, without the French West-India islands, and without Pondicherry: but she could not possibly make so great a sacrifice as a restitution of captured islands, and a total dereliction of the Stadholder, without losing national honour—without sinking in the esteem of foreign nations; and, what is worse, without sinking in her own.
It has been asserted, that the Convention, in order to secure undisturbed possession of all the seventeen provinces, have made an offer of Hanover to the King of Prussia, and of Bavaria to the Emperor. All this seems, at first light, not unfeasible: but what would the States and Princes of Germany say to this? What the Kings of Sweden and Denmark? And, above all, what the Empress of Russia? But, even without these arrangements, will it be possible for the allies to drive the French out of the Low Countries, if they should obstinately determine to retain them? The situation of the confederates is truly arduous; but likely to become more arduous still, if the French Republic, to victory abroad can add justice at home.
The profoundest as well as the noblest and most liberal policy that France could observe would be, to restore the Netherlands, Belgian liberty being restored, to the Emperor; to withdraw their army from Holland, and to allow the States General to govern themselves as they pleased; and to insist, in a general pacification, on the re-integration and political independence of Poland. So great an example of justice and moderation would secure the nascent Republic by barriers still stronger than rivers and mountains; by the admiration, the attachment, and boundless confidence, of the human race. But this is a flight to which even the refinement of the present age is not yet equal.
The French, at the same time that they show symptoms of a pacific disposition, carry on war with unremitting vigor by sea and land. A squadron of six or eight ships has been detached from their Grand fleet, probably to the East Indies. Their arms have reduced Navarre in Spain, and almost all Catalonia. On the side of Germany their movements point still to an attack on Mayence, the reduction of which place would open a passage to Vienna. Hainau and Frankfort, farther inland, are indeed fortified towns; but there the ground rises into heights and hills and gives every advantage to a besieging army.
If the French nation intoxicated with success, should pursue further conquest, and like the Romans, attempt to subjugate all nations under the veil of admitting as friends and allies of the Republic, the powers of Europe should enter into a general confederacy upon a plan purely defensive. They should not attempt to penetrate into the interior of France, but confine their operations to the external hostilities of impeding commerce and supplies, and cutting off such parties of the general enemy as might invade the territories of their neighbors.
[To be continued.]
FRANCE.
[From Paris Papers, received by the Observer.] Translated for the ARGUS.
NATIONAL CONVENTION, Sitting of the 22d Germinal (April 11.)
SALADIN, in the name of the committee of legislation.—Citizen colleagues, the judicial assassination of our colleague, Gaudet, has been followed by that of 13 others, who have successively perished upon the scaffold of Bourdeaux, the 27th of Messidor, and the 3d Thermidor, (the 15th of July) of the second year. His father aged 70 years; his aunt 65; one of his brothers aged 20, ci-devant agent-general of the army of the Moselle; his friends, all of them have been condemned to death by the military commissions, and all have undergone it; his father and his relations, because instead of binding him, and delivering him up themselves to the executioner, they suffered him to find an asylum in his father's house; and his friends, because that instead of going to announce the place of his retreat, or rather of his tomb, they appeared to complain of his misfortunes, and shed their tears with him.
There remains now but one individual of this unfortunate family; it is him who presented to you, the 5th of last Nivose, (25th of December) the petition which you sent to your committee of legislation. He owes his safety entirely to the distance at which he was from the French territories in Europe. He was at 2000 leagues, he defended at Saint Domingo, the possessions of the Republic, under the orders of general Lavaux; he shed his blood for his country, while his fellow-patriots drank plentifully of that of his family. He arrives in France; he flies to the house of his father; he learns that his brother, our colleague, that another of his brothers, that his father, that his relations, have all been massacred with what was called the axe of the law. His spouse whom he had quitted to go amongst a thousand hazards, to defend the cause of liberty, his wife was buried in a deep retirement, and deprived of all kind of resources. His personal property is confiscated in the confiscation, pronounced against that of all his relations. He has now neither patrimony nor family; it is in the affliction of his horrible deprivation, that he has come to demand justice of the Convention.
It is in your power to render him, neither his unfortunate father, nor his relations; he has lost them forever.
He demands of you, that the confiscation pronounced against them be annulled, to authorize him to take possession freely of the goods which they have left, and to pay him besides for his military services, the appointments which are due to him personally, and which he has not been able to obtain before this time.
You will hasten, citizens, to comply with so just a demand. It is the natural consequence of your decrees of the 18th, 19th and 28th of last Ventose, (8th, 9th, and 18th of last March.) In recalling to the bosom of the convention those of your colleagues, whom the odious decree of the 28th July, and the 3d of October, had torn from it; in repealing the scandalous decree which consecrated by an annual seal the attempts committed upon the sovereignty of the people, on the unfortunate day of the 31st of May; by revoking the decree aimed against the administrators of Jura, who were outlawed, you presented to many wise measures, as an agreement that you delight to make between the republic and humanity, to repair, as much as in you lies, all the public and private misfortunes, of which federalism was but the frightful pretext.
But, it is by acts which succeed slowly to one another; it is with a strict economy, that the national convention ought to signalize their eagerness, to heal the wounds which still bleed from all sides! Must every victim of tyranny come to your bar, and you will grant nothing to any, but those who can run to solicit? No citizens, you might multiply the proofs of justice, as your oppressors have multiplied disasters and crimes.
Hasten to generalize the true means of public safety; all Europe follows, with secret inquietude, the glorious details of your new labours. Deprive the calumniators of liberty, of even the possibility of persuading the world, that wholesome maxims triumph here but by intervals, by sallies and in the enthusiasm of the moment. It is important to the success of your armies, as well as of your negotiations, that in all your decrees there be remarked, that agreement and precious harmony, which can arise only from unity of principles. Fear, if you do not destroy all those monuments of horror which still subsist in our last laws; fear that this adulterous mixture weakens the effect of your wisest deliberations. It would be in vain, that you would appear equitable and just in some partial decrees, as long as your code remains composed of what rascals desired and what of you desire to-day; this medley will always be seen as a horrid absurdity. And to justify without debate the motives which have decided your committee of legislation, to adopt the general measure which it is going to propose to you, permit me to set before your eyes the two decrees, by virtue of which, the military commissions of Bourdeaux, slaughtered all the friends and relations of our colleague Gaudet.
The national convention, upon the proposition of a member, carries the decree of the 27th March 1793, declares its firm resolution to give neither peace nor truce to the aristocrats, and all the enemies of the revolution.
Whoever shall conceal them at their house, or in any other place, shall be regarded and punished as their accomplices."
These same pretended laws by means of which the French territories have been covered with dead bodies & ashes, are notwithstanding those which, in the execrable theory of Robespierre, were imagined to strengthen and save the republic. We should search in vain, the most intelligent annals of stupidity and wickedness for any thing that could be compared to such atrocities. In what countries or in what time was it ever imagined to outlaw, that is to send immediately to the scaffold without examination, without instruction, without any form or process, the innumerable list of individuals of all ages and sexes, to whom prejudice, vengeance and cruelty applied the vague terms of aristocrats and enemies to the revolution?—Who were the aristocrats, who were the accomplices in the sense of that cannibal, who passed such laws? were they not the soundest part of the national convention?—were they not the sincerest friends of justice and of liberty? were they not all those who were involved in the accusation of federalism? those enemies of the revolution, were they not proved enemies of the revolution of the 31st of May?
"It decrees that they are outlawed." "Those accused of the conspiracy against the republic," says the law of the 23d Ventose, of the second year (March 13th 1794) "who have not appeared to be examined by the law, are outlawed."
"All citizens are obliged to discover the conspirators, and the individuals outlawed, when they know their place of concealment."
We durst not count all those who have been assassinated, as being culpable of federalism. But to mention here, only those who have escaped from the pursuit of their executioners, there are perhaps two hundred thousand citizens of France, who have been reduced as to be obliged to quit their habitations, and to seek a precarious hospitality.—Ten thousand families have had the heroism to violate the fatal laws of the 27th March 1793, and the 23d Ventose of the second year (13th March 1794) and of receiving to their hospitality, the unfortunate people, whom death was upon the point of seizing. It is to this same heroism, that many of you owe the breath which you breathe.
Will you leave any longer those ten thousand families in mournful inquietudes; the unworthy decree of the 23d Ventose, as long as it is not repealed, holds them constantly outlawed, for the crime of exercising the most heroic virtues?—The fatal instance of the father of Gaudet's being assassinated, because he received his son, is a standing torment to them.
Certainly, you would oppose with indignation, any one who should propose to you to decree those abominable laws.—
To defer the repealing of them, is to adopt them to consecrate them, to contradict all the salutary decrees that you offer every day to the acceptance of the friends of the country. The repeal of the two decrees of the 17th March 1793, and, the 13 of March 1794, is but an immediate consequence of the repeal that you have already pronounced of divers decrees against many citizens who have been outlawed, and of that, relative to the annual commemoration of the epoch of the 31st of May.
Here is the project of this decree, which your committee of legislation has charged me to present to you.
The National Convention, after having heard the report of its committee of legislation—
Considering that the decree of the 27th March 1793, which in a vague and un-specific manner outlaws ALL THE ENEMIES OF THE REVOLUTION, was one of the means that tyranny employed to establish its empire by terror,
That this decree, if it could subsist, it would leave the greatest latitude to the most dangerous arbitration, that as fixed as the design of the Convention may be to pursue the enemies of the revolution, it ought to be careful to encourage good citizens and not to let any disposition appear in the laws to alarm or expose them.
That the decree of the 23d Ventose (March 13) in the second year which is the sequel of that of the 27th March, presents the same inconveniences, and the same injustice.
That the petition of the late and only surviving member of the family of Gaudet sacrificed by the fatal above mentioned decrees merits on the part of the convention particular regard—
Decrees as follows:
Article I.—The decree of the 27th March 1793, which outlaws all the enemies of the revolution, and that of the 23d Ventose of the 2d year; which orders to regard and punish as their accomplices, all those who have concealed, or have not discovered the place of their retreat, are and remain repealed, without derogating any thing from the dispositions, either from the penal code or from the other existing laws relative to those who should be, after the prescribed forms, duly convicted of crimes against the revolution and against liberty.
Translated for the Centinel. FRENCH FUNDING SYSTEM. BY JOHANNOT.
Continued from last Monday's Paper. THIS inconvenience, [the depreciation of assignats] is the necessary consequence of the operation which has impeded capitals; while a medium equal, or but little superior, to the revenues, would suffice for general purposes, as well as for the sale of the landed property, and the productions of industry. You are in no view answerable for this political fault in which you have found the nation involved, and which has been entailed by the necessity of sup-
porting the most expensive and most general war of which the history of nations makes mention.
It is thus you have been obliged involuntarily to destroy the value of the old assignats, in the hands of those who possessed them, in proportion as you have been obliged to emit a new emission.
Thus disorder has introduced itself into our National Finances; thus the public creditors, public functionaries, proprietors of lands, who have rented them on lease, no longer receive the real income due to them.
All who have payments to make, accustomed themselves to a want of punctuality, with which they do not even reproach themselves, attributing it to the course of events and the accidents of the Revolution.
All persons who have demands to receive, see their fortunes annihilated, and openly murmur against those laws which are thus destructive of confidence.
It is now full time to put a period to this disastrous system. It must however be effected without shocks, for the great body of the State, already too much weakened, more than ever requires those mild and prudent remedies which do not hurry after them violent crises.
The means of destruction are numerous and rapid. Those of regeneration, are not so multiplied; they are in their operation slower. Reason and good conduct can scarce repair with time, what a blind force destroys in a day.
Our prospects however are pleasing; the more we examine into our political situation, the more our alarms are dissipated. Our just hopes are founded upon the most exact knowledge of the immensity of the deposit for assignats; upon the extent of the funds which are to defray our past and future expenses; upon the industry of twenty-five millions of laborious and warlike citizens; upon the triumphs of ten armies; upon the fertility of a soil whose productions, too long devasted by an oppressive robbery, is about to be increased by the protection of a wise and enlightened government—in a word, upon a system of liberty the best understood, which is about to restore to the activity of individuals and capitals, all its discoveries; to agriculture, all the energy of its creative power; to general commerce, its mighty resources.
Yes; our commerce may fill in a short time, excite the envy of Europe. Our means have been restrained and impeded, not annihilated; our political existence, has nothing to apprehend from a momentary depreciation, which stable laws and a better system of finance will easily repair: But we must instantly return to principles; to simple and clear ideas, supported by universal consent, and founded upon the experience of nations. A great nation, who for its subsistence and for the rapid sale of the productions of its industry, must support a communication with other nations, cannot long oppose all their commercial opinions. The Vandals once said, "We want nothing but bread and the sword;" they however forgot that in order to procure bread, something more than the sword was necessary.
Specie serves as the point of comparison with the value of every species of merchandise amongst the different nations with whom we trade. It ought then to be the basis of all our commercial stipulations, and the medium of all the supplies we draw from them.
A foreigner sees in our assignats, nothing more than engagement to sell certain funds, which are not necessary for him, and of which he can form no just idea.—He considers this medium, as nothing more than a promise, which not being exactly on sight—can be received in payment for what he brings us, only at the common rate of exchange; from hence proceeds that inevitable want of confidence which diffusing itself into the interior of the Republic, depreciates the value of assignats. Opinion influences this depreciation: Opinion is a power independent of all law: The more you wish to constrain it the more it revolts: the value of a paper currency depends on a liberal confidence; and as soon as you wish to command confidence, it disappears. All your power could not by any means of authority, remedy the decline of your medium, or promises, although these promises rest on a real and sufficient surety. By selling (as you have done) the national property at open sale, for assignats, (and this was all that could be exacted from your loyalty); it was impossible for the excessive prices to prevent your being offered in assignats, a nominal value which would exceed the real one, which the same property would have had in specie.
All the facts then demonstrate, that the difference between paper and specie is independent of the will of the legislator. Upon liberty in the commerce of metals or specie.
As soon as the difference in nature, exists, it is impossible to prevent the citizen from being influenced by it in their private contracts; we must not suffer them to fluctuate between truth and the law.
From the commerce of metals, the difference between stipulations payable in specie, or in assignats, have necessarily taken place. We must then suffer them to remain free, in order to prevent the injury of the legislative power. Prohibitions are ever favorable to stockjobbing; indefinite liberty is instantly fatal to it: We may apply to stockjobbing what MONTESQUIEU once said of usury prohibited in Mahometan countries: "It increases in proportion to the severity of the prohibition, while the lender indemnifies himself for the hazard of the offence."
Upon the mode of future stipulations and contracts.
We propose to you to permit individuals in future to stipulate and contract in specie, in assignats, or in any other man-
ner they may think proper. But for the maintenance of good faith in all transactions, to avoid surprize, to facilitate commercial operations, to continue with prudence the public service, you will charge the government, to state and publish every month, the "real course of exchange," combined with that of the great commercial cities, with the price of articles of the first necessity, and with the thermometer of the principal markets of the republic.
It would be absurd to deny that an effective difference exists between specie and paper, between the value of foreign coin and assignats; however solid may be the security, the exchange it is true exists—it however continually varies agreeable to the wishes of intrigue, and ever to our disadvantage.
We must then either fix it in a legal manner, or grope in an obscurity, continually favorable to villains. You will then establish a reverberatory. We do not propose that the government itself should effect the object. That would be impossible. But that an independent board should observe, calculate, and publish this act of notoriety; and who will thus secure contracting parties, and the government from surprize.
Engagements hitherto entered into shall be discharged agreeable to the conditions made, or in assignats; provided there are no stipulations therein to the contrary.
A retrograde effect given to the legal body, however just the measure may appear, may produce too great a shock, and perhaps cause more disorder than we may be able to repair.
Our laws must contain nothing retroactive; there must be nothing retrograde in our operation; those who lose, must view their losses as an irremediable accident, and, as the unfortunate effect of a calamitous period.
Upon the constituted debt and annuities. The National debts are sacred. The National Convention will never depart from the principles of justice and loyalty, which the French people have manifested by sanctioning the decrees of the constituent assembly, which guaranteed to the public creditors the punctual payment of their arrears, and which secured a certain security for assignats.
But the constituted debt is not exactable, and while on one hand, all our efforts ought to be directed to reduce the amount of assignats, and upon the other upon the means of arriving by a vigorous war, to a solid and honourable peace, it would be imprudent to mix in these expenses already so considerable, any reimbursements to which the nation is not obliged; your resources thus conducted will be sufficient to resist the rest of your enemies, to dictate peace by force and justice, and afterwards to reimburse this constituted debt. Should the war continue even two years longer, there would remain of the capital proposed for it, a sum of several milliards applicable after the peace to this useful destination.
Should it not prove sufficient that experience has more than once discovered the advantage of unappropriated deposits, this mode might be employed to complete progressively, the extinction of the whole public debt, and you would have sufficient funds without the necessity of contributions, in the revenue of the national forests.
But in the first instance, in order to dispel doubts, an incontestible statement of our national property must be drawn and published, and a special hypothecation of that property given for the assignats in circulation. This statement of your power, this immense treasure for your engagements already entered into, this imposing arsenal for the ulterior disposal of your forces, will prove the most full guarantee of universal confidence. Your committees have examined in all its details, the vast extent of the security upon which the assignats now rest. A critical exactness in this research, has convinced them that their preceeding value, was greatly beneath their real one.
In this statement, they have not included the property of the families of those, who have unfortunately fallen under the Revolutionary axe. Let humanity reanimate them; a thousand eloquent and powerful voices are now pleading their rights; and your hearts are already affected: No, the public treasure can never be encroached by the inheritance of so many victims: The interest of our glory forbids it, the interest of our finances does not require it. I may say more, this odious encroach would rather injure than fix our public credit.
The world will expect this reform, and should we neglect it, they will suppose the evil greater than it really is.
Should a body of Legislators assemble for the purpose of reviving public morality, as well as the laws, and should found the Revenues of the State upon the spoliation of the unfortunate, immolated by tyranny, this species of oppression, which resembles that of Tiberius and Nero, would instantly bring back the reign of every excess.
From ruin to ruin, the republic would necessarily dissolve itself by this continual violation of the principles of morality.
But if it is worthy of Republican France, to display a magnanimity so political, it is not less necessary, but equally just to maintain the rigour of the laws pronounced against the emigrants. The emigrants are differently situated. By renouncing to become a part of the social body, they have renounced the guarantee. By declaring with respect to the property of these unfortunate persons, what you may, what you ought, and what you will do, you will then fix the immovable limits of the national property.
Your inflexible levity ought to undervene even the Emigrants themselves, if it were possible they could still cherish any chimerical hopes; it will destroy all those false alarms which are purposely spread

by parties divided amongst themselves, but equally united against the interests of the Republic.
Yes, the property of the Emigrants lawfully forfeited to the advantage of the French nation, cannot, under any pretext, be detached from the national property. It is impossible to stipulate any thing favourable to this class of men in any Treaty of peace; the least doubt on this subject is a crime—this measure to which we are induced by the highest considerations, is nothing more than a just indemnity and reprisal which they have incessantly provoked by the most foolish threats, and the most criminal designs.
The annals of the world afford more than one example, which every thing unites to authorize, and the amelioration of which is impossible.
Your names will annihilate all illusions on this subject, by ordering that all the national buildings and property, should be sold immediately, by means of the lottery you have established, and which will be executed without delay.
[To be continued.]
LONDON.
NEW AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS. ASTLEY'S WESTMINSTER BRIDGE. Under the patronage of his Royal Highness THE DUKE OF YORK.
THE GROUND PLAN is in form similar to a horse shoe; laid out in this manner on account of the point of light, which is so directed, that every person within the building has a view at once uninterrupted, and superior to that experienced at any other place of public exhibition in England.
Under this head may be classed the circle of exquisite contrivance, designed for EQUESTRIAN performances at night and to be employed by day as a school, (under the name of L' Ecole d'Equitation) or instruction in the art of mounting the horse with safety and grace, as well as for reducing and forming that animal to the several purposes for which nature has designed it, viz. War, Road, Field, Draught, Burthen, &c. &c.
THE PIT.
is divided into two parts: the one resembling the moon in its increase; the other an elliptic circle; that part within the columns, and next the circle, having seven rows of seats; the other without the columns, (called PIT-BOX) having five rows of seats; arranged according to the rules of gradation. Both these places terminate in points, somewhat similar to optical instruments, for the purpose of exposing to the light all those kinds of scenic exhibitions intended to be given on the stage, as well as the exact proportion of the body and elegance of the dancers.
THE BOX. The entrance to this place is from Bridge Road, on a flat space; the passage of which has two shops; that on the right hand for the sale of musical instruments, and such music as may, from time to time, be presented at the Amphitheatre; that on the left hand is fitted up for fruit and Confectionary.
At the end of these shops is a spacious room designed for the purpose of receiving orders, and for the accommodation of gentlemen attending the school for instruction in the art of riding; and adjoining to it is the Box Saloon, sixty two feet long, and sixteen high, containing four fair cafes, leading to different parts of the house, viz. to the lower box the side box, the middle box, and the upper box; in every corner of which a view of the whole amusements may be commanded.
THE GALLERY is, perhaps the best and most convenient place of the kind ever built; such is the order with which the seats are arranged; such the spaces allotted to each; the ease of access to the whole; and, above all a good view of the different entertainments.
THE STAGE. The mechanism of this part of the building is entirely new, and its effect astonishing, which a sight of the present scenic exhibitions will evince.
The Scenery taken "all in all," (particularly when the shortness of the time is considered) may be said to be the most compleat ever beheld.
THE STABLES, though in an unfinished state, carry with them a something out of the common line of building in this way.
THE DECORATIONS are perhaps as well selected and executed as imagination could possibly suggest; but that of the triumphal entry of Julius Cæsar into Rome mostly attracts the eye: it is taken from the well known and much admired paintings in the gallery of the Louvre, at Paris.
The MUSIC, partly new, and partly selected, is well adapted to the several performances.
THE DRESSES, as well as every thing within and without the building, are entirely new; the late dreadful conflagration having totally destroyed every iota in that department, as well as in every other, the horses only excepted.
General Remarks.
The manner of its construction is en-
tirely novel in England, corresponding in some degree (upon an improved plan) with the plan of the Theatre Francaise, for places of public entertainment, by that celebrated architect, Mons. Louis, of the city of Paris; and the whole, including ground plan, elevation, arrangement of boxes, pit, gallery, and circus, scenery, machinery, and other works of art, as well as the painting, decorations, &c. have been immediately fancied by Mr. Astley, sen. and executed under his direction.
In conformity to the general plan observed in building large Theatres, at Paris the Amphitheatre of arts is supported by 100 large columns, 37 feet high, and 12 inches diameter: these columns likewise serve to divide the boxes, as well as the pit and gallery, and stand entirely free from the external walls, both of which are totally independent of each other, the intention of the former being to support and strengthen the building, and the latter to secure it against fire.
The whole of this extensive place of entertainment, as far as concerns the part made use of for that purpose, is 139 feet in length, and 62 feet 9 inches in breadth; and is, perhaps, for its length and general accommodation, without its equal in Europe.
From the STAR.
Best Friend of Human Race—Best Friend affign'd By Heaven's high will! O, Justice, how divine Thy look, when, meekly awful, at thy shrine Thou sit'st, with upright, uncorrupted mind, Sustaining the dread scales of Life and Death! No gloomy Vengeance lowers on thy brow, No passion rankles at thy heart: but thou Art righteous as thine Author! like the breath Of mortal men, when hush'd in the still air, Gentle thy voice is heard: subtle, 'neath thy throne, Kneels Mercy, listening to the Captive's moan, And breathes for Penitence her plaintive pray'r— Then may my feet approach thine awful state; And, if some brother of my kind to die, Took doom'd'st in guilt, in shame, in infancy, Oh, may thy voice pronounce his dreadful fate! But, when Ambition—when dark Interest— When foul Corruption, cringing on her knee At Guilt's command—when love Hypocrisy Blights the fair Virtue: blooming at thy breath— When, basely prostitute to Tyrant Pow'r, Thine arm the rod of a detested Creep Thy Vengeance hurls at those illustrious few, Who, Freedom, in her last expiring hour, Cherish'd and love—still to their Country just, 'Mid dangers, tortures, and stern Death's alarm! When those delig'd Patriots, by thy righteous arm, Fall, murder'd, foully murder'd, to the dust, I weep that Man should be his nature stain, Infult his God, and his best gift profane!
PHILADELPHIA, June 20.
On the Authors of the new Ode, lately published by the Printer of the Aurora.
A PARODY.
Though once again we're doom'd by fate, To hear these deep mouth'd babblers prate, At length their hopes are cross'd; I see them mourn with rueful face, Their schemes o'erthrown, their dire disgrace, Their wide spread influence grown an empty boast! Ah yes! I see fresh food for noise, For as Columbia's fortunes rise, New spicen will gnaw their livers, And, as a drum, the more one beats, The more its empty found rep ats, Their hell-impell'd tongues will run for ever.
EXTRACT.
On the Cause of Men's being weary of Life.
The weariness of life is often found among the idle; persons commonly in easy circumstances of fortune, who were not engaged in any of the laborious occupations of the world, and who are, at the same time, without energy of mind to call them forth into any other line of active exertion. In this languid, or rather torpid state, they have so many vacant hours, and are so much at a loss how to fill up their time, that their spirit utterly sinks; they become burdensome to themselves, and to every one around them; and drag with pain the load of existence. What a convincing proof is hereby afforded, that man was designed by his Creator to be an active being, whose happiness is to be found not merely in rest, but in occupation and pursuit. The idle are doomed to suffer the natural punishment of their inactivity and folly; and for their complaints of the tiresomeness of life there is no remedy but to wake from the dream of sloth, and to fill up with proper employment the miserable vacancies of their days. Let them study to become less burdensome to themselves. They shall begin to enjoy existence; they shall reap the rewards which Providence has annexed to virtuous activity; and have no more cause to say, My soul is weary of my life.
The two following articles are taken from a Boston paper, which has obtained the name of the Lying Chronicle. Our readers will perceive, that there is some disagreement in the two accounts—Tho' the Governor offers no reward for appre-
bending the Rioters, yet it is to be presumed that the anonymous account of the transaction is not true.
BOSTON, June 22.
IL "LEGAL" and HASTY "ADJUDICATION."
Saturday evening a large concourse of people assembled on the Long Wharf, in consequence of a hand-bill issued the preceding afternoon, purporting that a New Providence or Bermudian privateer was then lying at said wharf. The enraged multitude, having ascertained the fact, desired the captain and crew to leave the sloop, which was soon complied with; they then proceeded to examine, and found several carriage guns, shot, small arms, cutlasses, and other warlike implements, which they threw overboard. This discovery exasperated them to such a degree, that they dismantled and dismasted her—they then towed the hull from the wharf and set fire to it. The tide carried it as far as Charlesstown, where it "burned to the water's edge."
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. BY THE GOVERNOR.
A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas it has been represented to me, that a number of persons, unknown, did, the last night, riotously and tumultuously assemble in the town of Boston, and, with force and violence, did burn a vessel named the Betsy, of St. Croix, lying at the Long Wharf, in the said Boston, and destroyed the cargo then on board:
I have therefore thought fit, by and with the advice and consent of the council, to issue this proclamation; hereby requiring all magistrates, sheriffs and constables, and I do also recommend to every good citizen of this commonwealth, that they use their utmost endeavors for discovering, apprehending, and bringing to justice, any, or all persons concerned in this unlawful and dangerous proceeding—so that he or they may be dealt with according to law.
Given at the council-chamber in Boston, this twenty-first day of June, in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five, and in the nineteenth year of the independence of the United States of America.
SAMUEL ADAMS.
Augst, JOHN AVERY, jun. Sec'y.
By this Day's MAILS.
NEW-YORK, June 25.
Yesterday evening arrived here the American Hero, Captain Macey, of Hudson, 44 days from Newry, Ireland, with 479 passengers—got out only one day previous to the Proclamation for preventing artisans and manufacturers from emigrating. Every thing was quiet when they failed; and no account of a second engagement in the Mediterranean. The Irish papers are as late as the 9th May.
ADVERTISEMENT EXTRAORDINARY.
Was missaid or taken away by mistake, (about the last setting of Congress in this place) from the servant girls of the City, all inclination to do any kind of work; and was left in lieu thereof, a fair but, impudent appearance, a strong and continued thirst for high wages, a gossiping disposition for every sort of amusement, a leering and hankering after persons of the other sex, a desire for finery and fashion, a never ceasing trot after new places—with a number of contingent accomplishments that do not suit the wearers. If any person or persons, will restore to the former owners, that degree of honesty and industry, that has been some time missing, they will receive a reward of two hundred dollars, besides the warmest blessings of many abused and insulted HOUSEHOLDERS.
PITTSBURGH, June 20.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman at Greenville to his friend in Pittsburgh, dated May 15, 1795.
"The Indians visit this place and the posts advanced, with the greatest confidence. The Shawanese are settling to plant at Fort Wayne—the Delawares at Fort Defiance—and various parties live and hunt in the neighbourhood of Greenville in the utmost security; indeed, if we may judge from appearances, the general tenor of their conduct since they have made overtures of peace is of such a nature as to encourage the fullest expectation of a speedy and happy adjustment of all differences subsisting between them and the United States."
We are informed, by a person of veracity, who arrived here on Tuesday last from Fort Washington, that the mail boat between Limestone and Gallipolis was fired on by the Indians, and that one man was killed, and two dangerously wounded.
A number of the jurymen, who were summoned to attend the district court in Philadelphia, have returned home. We are informed by them that the court is adjourned until October next, then to meet at York-Town—that all those against
whom bills of indictment were found and who were not tried, are admitted to bail, except James Stewart and Wright, both of Allegheny county, who are still confined in the jail of Philadelphia—That—Vegol, of Westmoreland county, and John Mitchell, of Washington county, were tried, found guilty, and received sentence to be executed on the 17th inst.—That at the time they received sentence Judge Paterson addressed them in a very pathetic manner, informed them that there was not any hope of their obtaining pardon, and recommended them to make the most profitable use of the short time they had to live.—Ye, who were the instigators of the robbery of the mail, &c. &c. &c. what ought your feelings to be?
CAMP, McFarlane's Ferry, June 3, 1795.
GENERAL ORDERS.
THE term having expired, for which the troops late of this garrison were engaged, and of consequence disbanded by instructions from the honorable the Secretary at War, the General thinks it no longer necessary to continue the four battalions of militia, which from motives truly patriotic, embodied themselves in the four counties of Washington, Westmoreland, Fayette, and Allegheny, for the preservation of order and good government; he, therefore, with the deepest sense of their generous and well directed zeal for the public good, returns them his sincere thanks, and directs that they return to the respective regiments from which they were originally taken, hoping, that in all future occasions they will feel the same disposition to attend the calls of their country which has so strongly characterized them on the past.
The General has in request from the President to express his thanks to the officers and soldiers of the late militia army, who so cheerfully joined the standard of the United States from a principle so truly laudable and patriotic.
To the INHABITANTS of the FOUR WESTERN COUNTIES of Pennsylvania.
FELLOW-CITIZENS,
HAVING obeyed the call of my country in taking the command of the patriotic militia army, lately stationed in this country for the support of the laws; and happy to find my continuance amongst you no longer necessary for that purpose, I feel myself constrained, before I return to the enjoyments of domestic life, to address you in this public manner; and the more so, as your prosperity and welfare highly interest me. A desire of being instrumental in restoring peace and good order to this part of the community, impelled me to accept a command in the militia on the late expedition; and the same principle induced me to remain with the troops on the Monongahela. To effect the design for which we were stationed in this quarter, I flatter myself I have not intentionally neglected adopting every measure which prudence might direct: the object to be obtained was important; and I am happy to observe, that I experienced the co-operation of those who embodied themselves for the support of the laws.
That an army should be necessary to enforce submission to the laws in any part of this country, where laws are framed by the people, is a subject of melancholy reflection; it has a tendency to tarnish our character as republicans, and to lessen us in the estimation of surrounding nations. The government of America has hitherto been the admiration of the world; do not, my fellow-citizens, by an unconstitutional opposition to its measures, endanger its existence, or detract from its merit. You have a national as well as an individual character to support, and duty obliges you to preserve both. Preserve your reputation as a branch of the Federal Union by paying a due respect to its laws, and by cheerfully contributing to its support. As one great inducement to this end, consider, that law in this country is not an arbitrary act, but the will of the majority, and that this will, if we wish to preserve a regular government, must be the governing principle. Is it not infinitely better to acquiesce in the measures of government, though some of them may bear a little hard upon us, than by opposing them discovering a disposition destructive of all government?
Many who are enemies of government but who call themselves the friends of the people, will attempt to impose their opinions upon you, and thereby endeavor to excite discontent and insurrection—Patriotism is ever in their mouths, whilst the spirit of incendiary actuates their hearts. As you value domestic peace or public tranquility listen not to their specious declamation. From experience learn wisdom, place no confidence in them—they will lead you to destruction, and in the time of trouble they will forsake you.
You, my fellow citizens, must also be sensible how valuable the blessings of peace and good government are to individuals as well as to society. To procure them no endeavors should be wanting—The advantages resulting from them will amply compensate for the trou-
ble of acquiring them—how pleasing the reflection, that by a conduct worthy of us as men and christians our common country enjoys peace and prosperity; and that each man lives undisturbed under his own vine and fig tree. Should my residence amongst you have contributed in the smallest degree to this desirable end, it will be a source of self-congratulation, and shall be ever considered as amongst the happiest events of my life.
With a heart strongly interested for your welfare, I now, my fellow citizens bid you farewell, recommending you to the direction of an Allwise Providence who ruleth the nations according to his pleasure. DANIEL MORGAN
Philadelphia, June 26.
Sundry Advertisements, unavoidably omitted this day, shall be inserted to-morrow.
Further of THE TREATY.
Since yesterday we learn, that the Treaty between Great Britain and the United States was ratified by the Senate, on condition, that an Article be added to said Treaty suspending the operation of so much of the 12th Article thereof as relates to Trade and Intercourse with the British Islands in the West-Indies. And the Senate recommend that in the mean time further negotiations be entered into with his Britannic Majesty respecting a future arrangement of said Trade.
The Senate of the United States adjourned this day.
The substance of the 12th article of the Treaty is, that the United States may export to the British Islands, the produce of the States in vessels not exceeding seventy tons burthen—and that they may import therefrom, in vessels of the same burthen, into the States, the produce of the islands—but the United States are prohibited from exporting to Europe, from the said States, Sugar, Coffee, Cotton, & Cocoa, the produce of any of the W. I. Islands.
PORT OF PHILADELPHIA.
ARRIVED.
Ship Peggy, Elliot, Bourdeaux 63 Sch'r. John, Law, Cape-Francois 21
Capt. Lacy of the brig John 21 days from Cape Francois, informs that the brig Betty Dryburgh, from this port, had arrived there—that the brig Fanny, Dobby, was to sail from thence the next day after Capt. L. for this port—and that the Schooner Peggy, Skelly, had failed for Port au Paix, where she was to clear out for this port.
NEW THEATRE.
MR. BLISSETT & MRS. DEMARQUE'S Night,
THIS EVENING, June 26,
A Comedy, called The FARM HOUSE.
Mandy, Mr. Chalmers, Frobish, Mr. Whitlock, Shacklegrave, Mr. Francis, Heartwell, Mr. Moreton, Sir John English, Mr. Warrell, 1st Constable, Mr. Blissett, 2d Constable, Mr. J. Darley, Flora, Mrs. Marshall, Mrs. Francis
Between the 2d and 3d acts of the Comedy, Mr. Demarque will play a Concerto on the Violoncello.
[Composed by himself.] End of the Comedy, a New Pantomimical Dance, composed by Mr. Francis, called The MIRACULOUS MILL.
Or, The OLD ground YOUNG. Gaffer Thumble, Mr. Francis, Mealy, the Miller, Mr. Nugent, Bob, his Son, Mr. J. Warrell, Gandy Benfon, Mrs. Demarque, Miss Milbourne, Lads and Lassies, Messrs. Darley, jun. Mitchell, Price, Maltor Warrell, Mrs. Bates, Miss Willems, Miss Rowson, Miss Oldfield. In the course of the Dance will be introduced an ALLEMANDE, by Mr. Francis and a Young Lady, being her third appearance. To which will be added, a Farce, never performed here, called
The IRISHMAN in LONDON.
Captain Seymour, Mr. Cleveland, Mr. Fry, Mr. Francis, Mr. Colborne, Mr. Moreton, Marrough Delany, Mr. Marshall, Edward, Mr. Harwood, Cymon, Mr. Blissett, Louisa, Mrs. Hervey, Caroline, Miss Willems, Cubbin, Mrs. Francis
After which, a New Pantomimical Ballet, performed but once, called
La Petite Piedmontese;
Or, The TRAVELLERS PRESERVED.
Alberto, Mr. Moreton, La Fleur, Mr. Marshall, Gerald, Mr. Warrell, Ramirex, Mr. Rowson, Old Woman, Mr. Francis, Rosalie, Miss Milbourne, Jacqueline, Miss Solomons, Banditti, Messrs. Blissett, Solomons, &c.
To conclude with a PAS DE QUATRE, By Messrs. Nugent, I. Warrell, Miss Willems and Mrs. De Marque. The Music entirely new, composed by R. Taylor.

Scheme of a Lottery, To raise 39,900 Dollars, on 266,000 Dollars Deducting 15 per Cent. from the Prizes— This Lottery consists of 38,000 Tickets, in which there are 14,539 Prizes, and 23,461 Blanks, being about one and an half blanks to a prize.
THE Directors of the Society for establishing 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 Cornelius Ray, of the city of New-York— Thomas Willing, Joseph Hall, Matthew M c - 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 Douglass, Samuel W. Stockton, Joshua M c Wallace, Joseph Bloomfield, and Eliza 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 10,000 Dollars is 20,000 1 10,000 20,000   2 2 5,000 10,000   3 3 2,000 6,000   10 10 1,000 10,000   20 20 500 10,000   100 100 100 10,000   300 300 50 15,000   1000 1000 20 20,000   5000 5000 15 30,000   3000 3000 12 36,000   8100 8100 10 81,000 
14,539 Prizes. 262,000 23,461 Blanks. First drawn number, 2,000 Last drawn number, 2,000
38,000 Tickets at 7 Dollars each is 266,000 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 or the Lottery have directed that the Managers shall each enter into bonds in 40,000 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.
Pateron, January 1, 1794. On application to either of the above gen- tlemen, information will be given where tickets may be had.
This Day is Published, AND FOR SALE BY
THOMAS DOBSON, At the STONE HOUSE, No. 41 South Second St. A View of the Evidences of CHRISTIANITY.
IN THREE PARTS.
1. Of the direct Historical Evidence of Christianity, and wherein it is distinguished from the Evidence of other miracles.
2. Of the Auxiliary Evidence of Christian- ity.
3. A brief consideration of some popular Objections. By WILLIAM PALEY, M. A. Archdeacon of Carlisle.
In One large Octavo volume. Price one dol- lar and three quarters, handsomely bound.
In the present enlightened age, when free discussion has opened the eyes of mankind, and the fabrics of Deism and Superstition are crumbling to the dust, it becomes an ob- ject of no small importance, to distinguish leading Truths from those Counterfeits which had assumed their names and usurped their place, and in the subversion of which, Truth itself is too apt to be discarded without in- quiry.
In the present work, the learned author (who had before distinguished himself by his principles of moral and political Philosophy) has treated the subject with that ability and can- dour which becomes it, and has exhibited in a short compass, perhaps the clearest and most distinct view of the proper evidences of christ- ianity ever published.
May 25 3aw4w
To be Sold, And Possession given immediately,
Two story brick Dwelling House,
In Arch street near Front street, No. 23 sixteen and an half feet front, and the lot is 102 feet deep.
Enquire of Isaac Snowden, South Second Street. March 30 36t—codt
BOTTLED PORTER, For EXPORTATION.
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The authors have presumed to affix to their title the epithet Impartial ; and the reason is, because they cannot charge them- selves 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, mark- ed in its proper colors. If it was necessary to make a declaration of their own princi- ples, they would say, they are neither tory nor republican—They love liberty as En- glish whigs, and execrate every criminal act by which so noble a cause is endangered and disgraced.
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EXTRACT FROM THE CRITICAL REVIEW, JANUARY, 1794—page 12.
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In the Chancery of New Jersey. April 14th. 1795.
Present his Excellency Richard Howell, Chancellor.
Between Lydia Onderdonk, Complainant, and Henry Onderdonk, Defendant.
The Complainant in
this cause, having this day filed her bill of complaint, praying for certain causes therein set forth, to be divorced from her husband Henry Onderdonk, the above defendant, and having made due proof, that the said Henry hath, after the cause of complaint had arisen removed himself without the jurisdiction of this court, so that the proceedings thereof cannot be served upon him, or if served he cannot be compelled to appear and answer or plead, and having thereupon prayed a hearing upon the facts charged in the said bill.
It is therefore ordered that a hearing be had on the facts charged in the said bill, accordingly on the first day of July next at the dwelling house of William Hay, Innholder, in the city of Trenton, at ten o'clock in the fore- noon, a copy of this order, having been first published in one of the public papers of this state, and in one of the public papers of the states of New York and Pennsylvania, or served on the said defendant for the space of two months at least, before the said day ap- pointed for hearing.
Richard Howell. codt April 22
FOR SALE, A very valuable ESTATE, Called TWITTENHAM.
SITUATE in the township of Upper Derby, and county of Delaware, 7 1/2 miles from Philadelphia, and half a mile from the new West- ern road: containing 230 acres of excellent Land, 45 of which are good watered Meadow, 90 of prime Wood Lands, and the rest Arable of the first quality. There are on the premises a good two- story Brick House, with 4 rooms on a floor, and Cellars under the whole, with a Pump Well of excellent Water in front; a large frame Barn, Stables, and other convenient buildings; a Smoke- House and Stone Spring House; two good Apple- Orchards, and one of Peaches. The Fields are all in Clover, except those immediately under tillage, and are so laid out as to have the advantage of Water in each of them, which renders it peculiarly convenient for Grazing.
The situation is pleasant and healthy, and from the high cultivation of the Land, the good neighbor- hood, and the vicinity to the city, it is very suitable for a Gentleman's Country Seat.
The foregoing is part of the Estate of Jacob Harman, deceased, and offered for sale by MORDECAI LEWIS Surviving Executor. June 4, 1795. codt
TO BE SOLD, A Lot, containing about
17 acres, on the Wilmington road, 4 miles from the city, and directly opposite to the house of Mr. Isaac Wharton.
A Lot, containing 10 acres, in Ilington Lane, on said road, near the estate of Jasper Moylan, Esq.
A Lot, containing 10 acres in Turner's Lane, on said road, and directly opposite to the estate of Mr. Ternant.
Enquire of Joseph Redman, Woodstock corner of Turner's Lane. April 6 codt
LAW BOOKS.
GEORGE DAVIS respectfully informs the gentlemen of the profession throughout the United States, that his late general im- portation is now arranged, and ready for sale at the same moderate prices as have hitherto so extensively recommended them. High Street, No: 313. June 19 19t&4w
NICHOLAS DIEHL, Jun. NOTARY PUBLIC, &c.
HAS removed his Office from No. 19 South Fourth Street, to No. 30 Wal- nut Street. June 4 22wt
Treasury Department Revenue Office, April 14, 1795
PROPOSALS
Will be received at the Office of the Commissioner of the Revenue, For Building a
LIGHT HOUSE,
On Seguin Island, near the mouth of Kenne- beck river, on the coast of the District of Maine; of the following Materials, Dim- ensions and Description.
THE form is to be an Octagon. The foun- dation is to be of stone, to be sunk, if prac- ticable, thirteen feet below the bottom of the wooden work, or twelve feet and an half be- low the surface of the earth, and to be com- menced of the diameter of twenty seven feet. It is to be laid solidly to the height of two feet. From thence to the bottom of the wood- en work, the foundation wall is to be eleven feet high, and six feet thick.
As it is intended that the above described stone foundation shall only be carried six in- ches higher than the crown level of the knob or rock on which the Light-house is to be er- ected, and it may be found impossible, on account of the rock, to sink the same to the depth of twelve feet and one half below the earth, or thirteen feet below the wooden work, it is necessary that the propositions for the said stone foundation be made by the perch to include all costs, charges and expenses of materials, workmanship and labor.
The octagonal pyramid is to be well fram- ed, and of stout heart fine timber. It is to be twenty six feet in diameter at the base thereof where it will rest on the top of the stone foundation, to which it is to be well secured by sixteen stout iron trusses built therein and otherwise. The height of the wooden build- ing from the bottom of the water table and from the surface of the earth, is to be forty feet to the top of the wooden work, under the floor of the lantern; where the diameter is to be fifteen feet. The foundation is to be capped with sawed stone at least eight inches wide, and sloped at top to turn off the wa- ter.
The frame of the pyramid is to be cover- ed with boards of one inch and one half in thickness, over which is to be laid a good & complete covering of shingles, and well painted with three coats. The light house is to have two windows in the East, and two win- dows in the West. The sashes are to be hung with hinges, and each sash is to have eight panes of glass, eight by ten inches.
On the top of the wooden work of the pyramid is to be a strong framed tier of joists, bedded therein, planked over with oak plank extending one foot beyond the sides of the pyramid, thereby forming an eave, which is to be finished by a cornice, the whole hav- ing a descent from the center, sufficient to throw off the water, and to be covered with copper.
A complete and sufficient iron Lantern in the octagonal form is to rest thereon; the eight corner pieces or stanchions of which are to be well secured to the upright timbers of the pyramid, or to the tier of joists, or both. These stanchions are to be very strong and stout in the lower ten feet, and three and one-half inches by two and one-half inches a- bove. The Lantern is to be ten feet high from the floor to the bottom of the dome or roof, and to have a dome or roof of five feet in height. The whole space between the poles to be occupied by the sashes, which are to be moulded on the inside and struck solid. Each sash is to have twenty-eight large panes of glass; a part of the sash on the fourth-west side is to be hung with hinges for a door to go out on the platform. The iron rafters of the lantern are to be framed into an iron hoop, over which is to be a copper funnel;— thro' which the smoke may pass into a large copper ventilator in the form of a man's head; capable of containing one hundred gallons. This head is to be turned by a large vane, so that the hole for venting the smoke may be always to leeward. Eight dormant ventilators are to be fixed in the roof, a large curved air pipe is to be passed thro' the floor and a close stove is to be provided and fixed in the lantern. There are to be a pair of stairs ascend- ing to the lantern, the entrance to which is to be by a trap door covered with copper. The building is to be furnished with two complete electrical conductors or rods with points. The floors are to be laid with plank. The entrance into the light house is to be well se- cured by a strong door hung upon hinges with a strong lock and latch complete.
Also a frame Dwelling House of one story and the roof, to be twenty six feet or there- about in front, and twenty five feet deep, with a cellar, under it, if it shall be found practi- cable to dig it. The cellar walls to be eight- teen inches thick, and seven feet high. The story of the House to be seven feet and one half in clear. The roof to have a rectangu- lar pitch. The floors to be laid in whole lengths nailed through. The House is to contain a Kitchen of thirteen by sixteen feet, a sitting room adjoining lengthwise of twelve by sixteen feet, two small chambers of eight by nine feet joining to the ends of the Kitchen and sitting room, with a passage to those two rooms between the bed rooms. The stack of chimneys to be between the Kitchen and sit- ting room and is to have two plain fire places, one of them large for a kitchen; to which is to be joined an Oven. There is to be an out er door to the passage and an outer door also to the Kitchen. There are to be two win- dows in each of the large rooms, and one in each bed room.
Each sash is to have twelve panes of glass eight by ten inches. Each window is to have a strong plain shutter, with fastenings and hinges. The doors are to be hung and furnish- ed completely. The ceiling and inner sides of the House are to be plastered with two coats. All the wood work inside and out is to be well painted, and the whole is to be fi- nished in a plain and decent manner.
An oil vault is to be built twenty by twelve feet in the clear, arched over, and covered with earth or sand, over which a shed is to be built. It is to be furnished with nine strong cedar Cisterns with covers, each capable of contain- ing two hundred Gallons. The entrance to the vault is to be secured by a strong door
A well is to be sunk at a convenient distance and furnished with a curb, bucket, rope and pump, for all materials, labor, workmanship provisions and other objects of cost charge or expense for a sum to be proposed and agreed upon, and to execute the before described work, and every part thereof in a good and workman like manner. Convenient payments or advances, on secur- ity, will be made. April 17. t&4t
Treasury Department Revenue Office, April 10, 1795
PROPOSALS
Will be received at the Office of the Commissioner of the Revenue, FOR BUILDING A
LIGHT HOUSE,
On Long Island, at Montauk Point in the County of Suffolk, and State of New York, of the following Ma- terials, Dimensions and Description.
THE form is to be Octagonal—the foun- dation is to be of stone, to be sunk thirteen feet below the bottom of the water table, or the surface of the earth, and to be com- menced of the Diameter of twenty nine feet. From such commencement to the bottom of the Water Table, the foundation wall is to be thirteen feet high, and nine feet thick.
The Diameter of the base from the bot- tom of the Water Table to the top thereof, (where the Octagonal pyramid is to com- mence) is to be twenty eight feet, and the wall is there to be seven feet thick. The wall of the Octagonal pyramid is to be six feet thick at the base thereof, on the top of the Water Table.
The Height of the building, from the bot- tom of the Water Table and from the sur- face of the Earth, is to be eighty feet to the top of the stone work, under the floor of the Lantern; where the Diameter is to be fifteen feet, six inches, and the wall three feet thick. The whole to be built of stone, the Water Table is to be copped with sawed stone, at least eight inches wide, and Sloped at top to turn off the water.
The outside of the walls is to be faced with hewn or hammer dressed stone, having four windows in the East, and three in the West. The Sashes to be hung with hinges, and each sash to have twelve panes of glass, eight by ten inches.
On the top of the Stone work is to be a framed tier of Joists, beded therein, planked over with Oak plank, extending three feet beyond the wall, thereby forming an eave, which is to be finished with a Cornice, the whole having a descent from the Centre, sufficient to throw off the water, and to be covered with Copper. A complete and suf- ficient iron lantern, in the Octagonal form is to rest thereon, the Eight corner pieces or Stanchions of which, are to be built in the wall to the depth of ten feet. These Stanch- ions are to be nearly 3 inches square in the lower ten feet, and 3 1/2 by 2 1/2 inches above. The lantern is to be ten feet and nine inches in diameter. It is also to be ten feet high, from the floor to the bottom of the dome or roof, and to have a dome or roof of five feet and nine inches in height.
The whole space between the posts or up-