Gazette of the United States and daily evening advertiser. (Philadelphia [Pa.]), 1794-08-12 00:00:00

Gazette of the United States AND DAILY EVENING ADVERTISER.
[No. 52 of Vol. VI.]
TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1794.
[Whole No. 602.]
Department of State, July 31, 1794.
NOTICE
As hereby given, That the Documents...
A French Family,
WOULD wish to be entrusted with the care of a FARM...
Money to be Lent, On Mortgage of REAL ESTATES,
Within the City and Liberties of Philadelphia...
Bank of the United States,
NOTICE is hereby given, that here will be paid at the Bank...
Lachawannock.
A LARGE body of LAND on this river...
The main river flows through one tract of about thirty thousand acres...
Spring Brook Creek, which with its branches...
It affords numerous Mill seats, & in its course creates large bodies of well watered meadow ground.
The other tracts are intersected by creeks of considerable importance.
Several Mills are already erected for the accommodation of the settlers.
Roads are cut in different directions, towards the most convenient markets.
The county town is not more than 12 miles distant from many parts of the settlement.
The Susquehannah affords an easy and safe navigation to Middletown...
Another means of connection with Philadelphia, is by the Delaware...
The proprietors combining their own interest with that of the inhabitants...
For further particulars apply to George Eddy.
Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, July 9.
Letters directed to George Eddy, at Philadelphia...
TO BE SOLD BY THOMAS DOBSON, Principles and Observations...
For Sale, The American Snow VENUS,
Captain McConnell. Now lying at Mr. ROSS's Wharf...
Peter Blight, WHO HAS FOR SALE, PORT WINE,
For Hamburg, The Ship HARMONY,
Captain LOWELL. Having great part of her cargo on board...
For Sale, A Stout Ship,
ABOUT 16 years old, built of the best seasoned white Oak...
For LIVERPOOL, The Ship AMIABLE,
John Thompson, master. BURTHEN about 250 tons...
For Charter, The Brig SEAYNMPH,
JOHN PADEN, Master. SAILS fast, and will be ready to take in cargo...
For Sale or Charter, The Ship GEN. WASHINGTON,
Isaac Sylvester, master. NOW lying at Say's wharf...
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TO BE SOLD BY THOMAS DOBSON, Alphabetical List OF THE DUTIES
Payable by law on all Goods, Wares, and Merchandise imported into the United States...
Custom House, Philadelphia August 9, 1794. FOR SALE, At the Custom House STORES
On Friday next, the 15th instant, at 10 o'clock, The following Goods;
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Treasury Department, Revenue Office, August 11th, 1794. PROPOSALS
Will be received at the Office of the Commissioner of the Revenue, No. 43, South Third street, Philadelphia...
Pair of Wheels of cast iron, Smaller wheels of cast iron,
each wheel to weigh about 216 pounds, and to be of the diameter of twenty inches...
Christiana Mills For Sale.
ON Monday the first day of September next at 8 o'clock in the evening...
The terms upon which the above mentioned estates will be sold are...
Choice St. Croix Sugar, JUST IMPORTED, And for Sale, By JAMES YARD.
NANKEENS. Nankeens of Superior Quality,
Long and short pieces. Long and short black sattins. Black Taffeties, and Senfhas...
War Department, Information is hereby given
to all the military Invalids of the United States, that the sums to which they are entitled...
H. KNOX, Secretary at War.
The Printers in the several States are requested to publish the above in their newspapers...
Just Published, AND FOR SALE BY Jacob Johnson & Co.
American Revolution
Written in the style of ancient history, in two vols. price 15s.
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By MATHEW CAREY, NO. 118, Market Street, AN IMPARTIAL HISTORY OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION.
From its Commencement to the execution of the QUEEN and the DEPUTIES of the Gironde Party.
Extract from the Preface. The authors have presumed to affix to their title, the epithet impartial...
It was necessary to make a declaration of their own principles...
In the present ferment of the public mind, they cannot flatter themselves with the hope of seeing this claim universally acknowledged.
The latter tract containing 175 acres, is about one mile from the mills...
The terms upon which the above mentioned estates will be sold are...
Indispensible titles will be made for the property, by JOHN NIXON, ALEX. FOSTER, GEO. LATIMER.
At same time and place will be sold large BOAT, July 2
Just Received, By the Sloop Endeavor, Jon. Paine Master from Boston, New-England RUM,
In Hlds. for Sale by Nalbro' & John Frazier, No. 81, Walnut street.
SHERRY WINE,
In pipes and quarter casks, fit for immediate use.
St. Lucar Wine in pipes,
and quarter casks. ROTA WINE in quarter casks. PORT WINE in do.
Carolina Rice and Indigo, BAY MAHOGANY and FRENCH BURR STONES,
FOR SALE BY Gurney and Smith. May 14.
TUITION.
WILLIAM FINCH of the New Theatre, begs leave to inform his Friends and the Public...
THIS DAY IS PUBLISHED, By Thomas Dobson,
At the Stone House, No. 41, South Second street, 1. LETTERS addressed to the Philosophers and Politicians of France...
By JOSEPH PRIESTLEY, L.L.D. F.R.S. Price one quarter of a Dollar.
11. TWO SERMONS, viz.
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2. The use of Christianity, especially in difficult times...
11. An APPEAL to the Serious & Candid Professors of Christianity...
1. The use of reason in matters of Religion. 2. The power of man to do the Will of God.
3. Original Sin. 4. Election and Reprobation.
5. The Divinity of Christ, and 6. Atonement by the Death of Christ...
A Concise History of the rise of those Doctrines, and an account of the Trial of M'Elwall...
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NO. 68. District of Pennsylvania, TO WIT:
BE it remembered that on the twenty-third day of July in the nineteenth year of the independence of the United States...
The Philadelphia Directory for the year 1795—by Joseph Bogg.
In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States entitled "An act for the encouragement of learning..."
Sam. Caldwell, Clerk of District of Pennsylvania. Jul 30.

(CIRCULAR.)
General Orders.
Philadelphia- 8th of August, 1794.
SIR,
THE Governor having issued orders for calling into actual service, and holding in readiness to march at a moment's warning a body of 5,200 militia (in pursuance of the requisition of the President of the United States, contained in a letter from the Secretary at War, dated the 7th instant) I have subjoined a copy of these orders to guide your conduct in organizing the quota consisting of 559 officers and privates included, to be drafted from your brigade; and I entreat, in the most earnest manner, that you will, with all possible despatch, execute the business committed to you upon this important occasion. If it should be impracticable to arm and equip completely the above quota, either with the public arms and equipments in your custody, or with such as belong to the individuals who compose it, you will be pleased to take the earliest opportunity of letting me know your situation in that respect, in order that a proper application may be made to supply the deficiency.
It is unnecessary I am persuaded to add to the instructions of the Governor, either to explain the nature of the service, or the necessity of exercising all your diligence to promote it: It may be proper to request, however, that you will be pleased to employ the most expeditions conveyance, to report when your quota shall be in readiness to march.
I am, Sir, Your most obedient servant. (Signed) JOSIAH HARMAR, Adjutant-General.
To LEWIS NICHOLAS, Esq. Brigade-Inspector of the Philadelphia City, Brigade of the Militia of Pennsylvania.
Copy of the orders from the Governor, referred to in the preceeding letter. SIR,
THE President of the United States having deemed it incumbent upon him, after the most solemn deliberation, to should ever arise for arming one part of
ROLL designating the quota of the several Brigades towards forming a detachment of 5200 Militia, Officers included, agreeably to the requisition of the President of the United States, contained in a letter from the Secretary of War, dated the 7th day of August 1794.
MAJOR-GENERAL—WILLIAM IRVINE, 6th Division. BRIG. GENERALS—THOMAS PROCTOR, 1st Division. FRANCIS MURRAY, 2d Division. JAMES CHAMBERS, 6th Division.
D I V I S I O N S.
   D I V I S I O N S. Proportion of Casualty Proportion of Artillery Total Commissioned Officers, Non-commissioned Officers, Musicians, and Privates in due proportions.     I. DIVISION:   1st Brigade—City of Philadelphia. 60 83 559   2d Brigade—County of Philadel. 50 544   II. DIVISION:   1st Brigade—County of Bucks. 50 46 504   2d. Brigade—Co. of Montgomery. 46 332   III. DIVISION:   1st. Brigade—County of Chester. 58 378   2d. Brigade—County of Delaware. 20 16 36   IV. DIVISION:   1st. Brigade—County of Lancaster. 60 30 569   2d. Brigade—County of York. 22 550   V. DIVISION:   1st. Brigade—County of Berks. 26   2d. Brigade—County of Dauphin. 38 25 273   VI. DIVISION:   1st. Brigade—Co. of Cumberland. 50 363   2d. Brigade—County of Franklin. 282   VII. DIVISION:   1st. Brigade—Co. of Northampton. 20 374   500 200 5196   Major-General, 1   Brig. Generals, 3   5200  
The foregoing detachment to constitute one division, to be formed into the three following Brigades, and to be in readiness to march at a moment's warning. Major-General, WILLIAM IRVINE.
   1. Brigade: Brigadier-General, THOMAS PROCTOR,   Philadelphia City, 559   Philadelphia County, 544   Montgomery, 332   Chester, 378   Delaware 36   2. Brigade: Brigadier, FRANCIS MURRAY, 1849   Bucks, 504   Berks, 434   Northampton, 374   Dauphin, 273   3. Brigade: Brigadier-General, JAMES CHAMBERS 1585   Lancaster, 568   York, 550   Cumberland, 363   Franklin, 281   1762   5196   Major-General, 1   Brigadier-Generals, 3   5200  
N. B. In the present state of the Indian War, it has been thought advisable to avoid taking any part of the above Corps from the Brigades of those Counties, which are exposed to the hostility and depredations of the Savages.
issue his Proclamation, dated the 7th instant, and to take other legal measures for causing the laws of the United States to be duly observed in the western parts of the state of Pennsylvania, according to the purport of the Proclamation, has issued his requisition, forthwith organizing and holding in readiness, to march at a moment's warning, a corps of the Militia of Pennsylvania, amounting to 5,200 non-commissioned officers and privates, in due proportion of commissioned officers, according to the letter of the Secretary at War, dated the 19th of May last, and communicated to you in my letter of the 21st of the same month; the corps to be armed and equipped as completely as possible with the articles of possession of the state of Pennsylvania, or of the individuals who compose it.
You will, therefore, Sir, forthwith issue General Orders for calling into actual service, and to be held in readiness to march at a moment's warning, the part of the militia specified in the enclosed Roll, by the classes most convenient to the citizens, and best adapted to a prompt compliance with the President's requisition; the part so called every good citizen not exceeding four classes of the militia of the respective Brigades.
Should it be impracticable to arm and equip completely the said corps you will give me the earliest possible notice thereof that I may inform the President, who will direct the deficiency to be furnished by the department, of war as well as tents, camp-kettles and other articles of camp-equipage, and musket cartridges, artillery and the apparatus thereunto belonging.
The time and place of rendezvous will be hereafter designated; and the arrangements for furnishing rations, and other necessary supplies, will be seasonably notified.
On this occasion, Sir, I must entreat the most pointed attention, as well on your part, as on the part of the corps that is to be drafted, for the purpose of manifesting a just sense of the obedience which is due to the laws of our country, and the patriotic zeal with which the Freemen of Pennsylvania will on every emergency, maintain the government that they have established. It is to be seriously lamented, that an occasion should ever arise for arming one part of
the community against another; but if an abandonment of their trust, if they omitted to employ any other legitimate means, for enforcing obedience and submission to the laws. In that unhappy event, the issue must be, whether, upon the pure principles of a Republican Government, the minority shall be allowed by violence to supersede the will of the majority; to substitute the law of arms, for the law of reason; and fatally to convert the peace, happiness, and order, which we now enjoy, into a scene of war, wretchedness, and anarchy.
If I am at all acquainted with the general character and feelings of my fellow-citizens, they will not hesitate to decide this great and interesting question, upon the principles of patriotism, which in this case are likewise the genuine principles of self-love: and should the awful necessity of an appeal to arms be matured, beyond the power of amicable accommodation, I expect from that firm and active government, and the virtuous reflections of those, who at present oppose its legitimate measures, will avert the storm that threatens, and enable us to embrace as brethren, those whom we must otherwise, for the sake of every social blessing, but with grief and commiseration, encounter as enemies.
You will be pleased, Sir, to omit no proper step for placing the corps in a state of readiness to march; and as soon as it is so, you will communicate the same to me.
I am Sir, Your most obedient servant, (Signed) THOMAS MIFFLIN.
Philadelphia, 8th Aug. 1794.
JOSIAH HARMAR, Esq. Adjutant-General of the Militia of Pennsylvania.
PORTSMOUTH, (Eng.) May 26.
By the retaken brig, Mary of Bristol from Malaga bound to Bristol, we learn that the Castor frigate, and the whole of the fleet under her convoy, fell into the hands of four French sail of the line, and three frigates on the 10th inst. in 44. 40. long. 15. 30. West; that the said French ships had chased the Swiftsure, of 74 guns, a considerable time, but gave up the chase, preferring the trade, the whole of which were taken in sight of that ship. But fortunately the Venus frigate, one of a squadron detached by Lord Howe, with the East India fleet, fell in with the said fleet, and captured nine merchant ships, and a French sloop of war, besides the above brig, Mary, which arrived here—the re-capture took place on the 17th inst.
UNITED STATES.
BOSTON, August 6.
The Foreign Intelligence, in this days Centinel, is about four days later than before received from England—and about three days earlier than that received at Philadelphia, from France. The motions made by the Marquis of Lansdowne, in the British house of Peers, and by Mr. Sheridan, in the Commons, are interesting—so are the affairs of Flanders, for there the fickle Goddess sports her favors and frowns in almost a continued rotation. In Europe, Carnage is the "order of the day;" and the humble petitioners in the cause of humanity, can scarcely any where be admitted to the "honors of a sitting." Under the vine and fig-tree of America—alone can they enjoy repose, and have no one to make them afraid.
NEW-YORK, August 8.
Nothing can be so ridiculous as the resolutions of the southern Democrats which fill some of the newspapers. Sometimes they rail against one measure and sometimes another, and almost all have some different complaint to make. In Wythe county they seem to think the President, though a very good man in general, has almost tired the patience of the people with his unconstitutional proceedings: and they declare our commerce to be ruined. This latter declaration shows how little the Democrats of Wythe county understand our public situation; for whatever losses individuals have incurred by a herd of pirates that infest our seas, or by illegal embargoes, yet it is an acknowledged fact among merchants, that our trade in general was never more advantageous to our country, than during the present European war.
The Philadelphia Democrats, after having repeatedly reprobated the measures of government, and especially the excise, and said enough to inflame the public mind, now come forward with resolutions, that however oppressive and hostile excise systems are to liberty, still they disapprove of an opposition to them not warranted by the Constitution. This is very meritorious indeed, and we are greatly indebted to them for upholding the law with one hand, while they attack it with the other!
PHILADELPHIA,
AUGUST 12.
From the articles extracted from "The Times" (a London paper) to 11th June. It appears that the Revolutionaire , French ship was not taken, as stated in Lord Howe's dispatches. It does not appear, that any of the Chesapeake fleet had been taken or that they had arrived in any French port.
Arrived here the Brig Vulture, capt. March in 64 days from Bourdeaux, in forms that the ship Louisa of Virginia, capt. Morgan was to fail in a few days after him for this port—On the 6th of June he was boarded by a French frigate from the Admiral's ship of 120 guns entirely dismasted, which was in tow of a 74, then at a small distance off him, they were about 50 leagues westward of Rochfort and bound for that port when capt. March fell in with them—He further informs, that the 74 and the other frigate did not appear to be much injured in their rigging.
Absract from the General Advertiser.
Bastia surrendered to the British on the 23d of May. The garrison having capitulated, to march out with all the honors of war and be transported to Toulon.
An English Camp is forming near Southampton. It is to consist of between 25 and 30,000 men.
Letters from Nimes, of May 23d, mention, that Bains and Bellegarde have fallen in the power of the French.
At the close of the report on the attempted assassination of Robespierre and Collot d'Herbois,—it appearing to the committee, that Pitt was at the bottom of those attempts, the convention decreed, lay the London papers, "that no quarter should be given to the English and Hanoverians."
On the 31st of May admiral Montague's fleet returned, after an unsuccessful cruise of a month into Plymouth sound. The story of his capturing 111 sail of the Chesapeake fleet is therefore false. He put to sea again on the 5th June. The Polish patriots, by the latest accounts, it appears, were carrying on their revolution with great success.
The French Moselle army was on the 24th of May driven beyond the Sambre, after a severe and bloody combat, but recrossed that river 60,000 strong.
The arrival of Hamilton Rowan in France is confirmed by the London papers. The French at the taking of Collioure made 5000 Spaniards prisoners. This we learn from a paper received yesterday in the Vulture from Bourdeaux.
LATE AND IMPORTANT European Intelligence.
From London papers to the 11th June, via St. Croix.
LONDON, June 4.
Admiral Montague's division of the grand fleet was that which was sent to protect the outward bound East and West-India fleet. The Admiral's instructions were to return and meet the grand fleet in a certain latitude; in which he cruized for three days; but neither saw nor heard any thing of it. On returning to Plymouth, this division of the fleet had a very narrow escape from falling into the very centre of the French grand fleet; having met with an American ship which had passed through it only a few hours before, in the very track of our ships.
June 5.
The plan of the French army, which has again crossed the Sambre, appears to be as follows: To force the post of Nivelles, and the passage of Waterloo, to penetrate into the forest of Soignies, which covers Brussels, and to make, by a coup-de-main, an attempt on that city. By the reinforcements General Kaunitz has received, the high road however is so well defended, as to leave nothing to fear on that score.
The Carmagnols, to repair the losses they sustained in the action of the 24th, have withdrawn all the garrisons from their fortified towns, and replaced them by the soldiers of the second requisition. General Kaunitz, it is said, made every preparation to attack the French a second time on the first instant.
June 6.
The grand armies in Flanders still remain on the defensive. The Prince de Cobourg is marching to the relief of Charleroy, in the Luxembourg country, which has been again invaded by the French, to the great uneasiness of the people of Brussels. On the side of the Rhine, the Austrian General Prince Hohenloe has gained some important advantages over the French.—On the 19th ult. he defeated them near Germersheim, with the loss of 400 men killed and 600 prisoners.
June 7.
We have received a greater variety of intelligence from all parts of the continent than we almost ever remember to have done in one day. The following is the general purport of the whole:
No general action has taken place in any quarter. All is quiet about Tourney; but in West Flanders, the French have besieged Ypres, though not with much probability of success; and have also appeared before Knoque and Dixmude; but no serious apprehensions are entertained in consequence of those predatory incursions. On the side of the Rhine, the success of the allies has been rapid in the extreme; as the following letter from an officer and correspondent in Gen. Moendorf's army will shew. This correspondence will be continued to us. These rapid successes must be in a great measure attributed to the French having withdrawn so many of their troops from the Moselle and the Rhine, towards the Netherlands.
"Camp near Nurdorf, a league from Landau, May 30.
"Barrere commenced one of his reports by saying, "that the Republic lived on victories." This debut, which with him was a republican hyperbole, is a simple truth with us. After having defeated the Carmagnole army near Lautern, we have pressed on with an energy which would have graced the best days of our great monarch. We are in possession of Pirmasens, Lautern, Mohrlautern, Spire, Deux Ponts, New-

Wart, Weissenbourg, and of the place near which we are now encamped. We are going to invest Landau; in the reduction of which place we shall not, as in the last campaign employ cabals and intrigues; but gun-powder, bombs and balls. Within a month's time it must be either ours or in a heap of ruins. My next letter will be dated from the trenches before Landau."
General Favrat has advanced against Cracow, and the head quarters of William Frederick have been removed to Pilica. His Majesty will speedily join the corps of General Favrat.
The following are some further particulars respecting the late naval action; and they may be depended on as authentic.
Early on the morning of the 28th ult. the French fleet was discovered by Lord Howe's fleet in lat. 47 1-2 about 130 leagues to the westward of Ushant. They counted 32 sail altogether, but the number of line of battle ships could not be exactly ascertained. The French bore down at first, but formed a line of battle, and about half past one, when their line was formed, made sail.
No signal for the line was made by Lord Howe but that for a general chase. Six ships were up before the Audacious, but none of them fetched to bear as that ship. At eight they engaged a French ship, and the action continued till ten. During the action the French ship twice fell on board the Audacious, but without any intention of boarding her.
About the middle of the action, the mizen top-sail of the French ship caught fire from her arm chest in the top blowing up, and almost immediately after, her mizen mast went overboard, close below the deck. After the action had continued about an hour and a half, her main yard, fore yard, and main top-sail yard likewise went overboard. The Audacious had all her running and standing rigging cut: only two fore shrouds left; one shot in her fore mast, two in her fore top mast and two in the heart of her bowsprit.
During the night she repaired her damage, and in the morning discovered nine sail to windward standing towards her. At this time the Audacious had her sails unbent. She soon made sail, however, standing before the wind, and presently discovered three more coming down upon her starboard bow. These were a large frigate and 3 corvettes. The masts of the Audacious were in such a state, that they could not alter their course. These three French vessels seeing the others in chase, hove to along side the Audacious about 7 in the morning, and began to fire upon her, and they kept up a harassing fire till twelve o'clock, without however doing much damage.
It was while the Audacious was making away from the nine sail, that she saw the ship she had engaged the night before, lying a mere wreck upon the water, only ten feet of her foremast standing, about six feet of her mainmast, and her mizenmast gone by the board.
The officers of the Audacious learnt from a Frenchman on board, the matter of a corvette which they had taken, that she was called the Revolutionnaire, formerly the Bretagne, of 112 guns.
June 9. We have advices from Tourney as late as last Friday; and from Ostend, of last Saturday; besides a number of letters from different parts of the continent.
By letters from Brussels of the 6th instant, we understand that the French have abandoned the siege of Charleroi and have been forced to repass the Sambre with very great loss; and have taken post at Montigny le Tilleul. Charleroi was besieged during four days by the French; who battered down almost all the houses in the town—but the brave resistance of the Garrison, and the approach of the Confederate armies saved it from being taken as it was reported to be.
The Emperor has established a council of war, with full powers to undertake whatever may be expedient for the advantage of the campaign. It consists of Prince Cobourg, the Duke of York, the Prince of Orange, Count Clairfayt, Baron Beaulieu, Prince Waldeck, and M. M. d'Alvinzy and de la Tour.
June 10. Each section of the city of Warsaw is obliged to furnish a regiment of militia of 1000 men. Gen. Kosciuszko has joined another considerable corps at Lublin, to watch a Russian army near that place.
The warlike force of the Polish confederacy is said to consist of 67,870 men, who are stationed in five divisions.
The corps of Gen. Kosciuszko consists of 22,970 men; that of General Kochowicki 18,900; that of Jassinski 6,000 stationed at Grodno; a corps of 12,000 at Wilna, and another at Warlaw consists of 8,000. The peasantry are not included in this calculation. The confederates are well provided with every necessary.
The report is perfectly true of the King's having a body-guard of fourteen citizens set over him, of whom two are to be in constant attendance, and are to accompany him every where. On the 18th inst. Count Unruh, the Post Director, Sartorius, and some others were arrested.
The provisional council of Poland has ordered that all persons who receive any gratification or pension in consequence of taking part with the Russian Grodno confederacy, shall be punished the same immediately. Prince Sapieka, the son of the chancellor of Lithuania, has made a present to the Republic of 6,000 ducats, and forty or more down at first, but formed a line of battle, and about half past one, when their line was formed, made sail. We learn that 40,000 Russians are marching towards Poland from the Ukraine, and 16,000 from Livonia. The Poles have prohibited the exportation of grain and provisions of all sorts.
June 11. Yesterday evening about eight o'clock Sir Roger Curtis, first Captain of Lord Howe's fleet, arrived at the admiralty with dispatches of the greatest importance. They state, that on the first of June, Lord Howe fell in with the French fleet, when an engagement commenced; and after a severe conflict of many hours, with as severe fighting as ever was known, victory was declared in favor of the English, by the capture of six sail of the line, and two funk.
Both fleets have suffered considerably. Sir Robert Curtis reports, that the French fought with great bravery. Most of the enemy's ships were mauled in their hulls, and tried to escape without waiting for each other.
We are sorry to state the death of Captain James Montague, who was killed early in the action. Admiral Pauley has lost a leg, and so has Admiral Bowyer.
The slaughter was immense on board the French fleet; and we are sorry also to add, we have lost a great many seamen, to the number, in some ships, of sixty or seventy men killed and wounded. Sir Roger Curtis landed at Falmouth on the 7th, and on his way to town was unfortunately overturned in a chaise, and bruised his arm a good deal; so much that he has it in a sling.
We hope that admiral Montague's squadron, which sailed on the arrival of the Audacious, Captain Parker, the other day from Plymouth, will fall in with and pick up some of the enemy's straggling ships.
By a lieutenant of the Andromache frigate, who arrived at the admiralty yesterday, we learn, that in the afternoon of the 31st ult. the Andromache, on her way to Newfoundland with a convoy, fell in with two ships, one of which (a ship of the line) was in tow of the other. She had lost her topmasts, tops, &c. This was in lat. 48, 7, N. long. 11, 51, W. Several parts of large ships were seen soon after.
On the next day (the 1st of June) eight sail of enemy's ships (some of the line) were detected.
On the 3rd of June, about 5 in the afternoon, in lat. 46. 58. N. and long. 15. 49. W. a large fleet was seen, consisting of upwards of 100 sail of ships, escorted by men of war of the enemy, and judged from every circumstance, to be the long expected valuable French convoy from America.
VALENCIENNES, May 31.
"The late insurrection at Liege, which by the well timed severity of the Duke of Wurtemberg, was fortunately crushed in its birth, had more ramifications, I fear, than as yet have been discovered. At Hui a small town between Liege and Namur, the flag of rebellion was likewise hoisted, a few days since by a gang of villains, whose number soon rapidly encreased, that a detachment of 150 men sent thither from Liege, were not able to reduce them. On their return, Count Blangy, formerly a Lieutenant General in the French service, at the request of the Duke of Wurtemberg, put himself at the head of a corps of 400 French emigrants, and marched against the Hui Sans Culottes; but the result of Blangy's expedition I do not yet know."
WARSAW, May 14. The Poles have made themselves masters of Lublin, in Mazovia; and put
the whole Russian garrison to the sword.
BRUSSELS, June 6.
"Charleroi was invested on the 27th ult. The enemy had assembled numerous forces to besiege it, besides a strong army of observation. The fire of the enemy continued without interruption till the 3d. On the 3d inst. our army was heard by their firing to approach to the relief of Charleroi, when the garrison made a vigorous sortie; and the enemy began to retire in great confusion."
"On the 4th, the Prince of Orange attacked the French camp at day break in all points. Our army was divided into five columns. The dispositions were made with so much skill and bravery, that the enemy's army, consisting of 70,000 men, besides a numerous artillery, was completely routed, with considerable loss, and Charleroi relieved."
PETHEIM, (West Flanders) June 6.
Our position remains still the same, as well as that of the confederate troops in the environs of Tournay, continues inactive as it has been ever since the 22d ult. One, perhaps the chief, cause of our inaction, is now removed by the retirement of Major General Mack, whose sudden exaltation above so many high born Generals of the Imperial army had spread through all the higher regions of our military system a gloom and discontent, that has but too much influenced our late operations. His retreat however, is by no means a disgrace; and, I hope, his distinguished talents will be allowed to assist those military councils, which they can no longer direct.
OSTEND, June 7.
"Ypres is now completely invested and surrounded by the Carmagnols, and they continue to bombard that town."
GENOA, May 17.
A column of 7,000 French has penetrated to and taken possession of Piguerolles; another column, of the same number, is at Mendoni; a third, consisting of 15,000 men has attacked and carried Ce. The city of Turin has been declared in a state of siege; nearly the whole garrison is composed of Austrian troops. The king of Sardinia has set out for Alexandria, and it is believed he will from thence repair to Milan.
DUBLIN, June 4.
In consequence of an embargo being laid for a time on British as well as other vessels, by the Americans, the Maria, an American vessel, belonging to Hudson, a place in that country, which came in here from Bourdeaux, laden with wine and vinegar, has had her cargo detained and secured in stores, until something further is known relative to the American embargo.
By this Day's Mail.
ALBANY, August 4.
From a Correspondent at Catskill.
A son of Mr. Daniel Hayton, of this place, a lad of about 7 years of age, a few weeks since, was attacked by six Owls, a small distance from his father's house, in the woods; and although the lad was smart and active for his age, these voracious birds soon got the better of him, and had already torn his face very badly, when a negro girl came to his relief, and with no inconsiderable trouble beat off the Owls and preserved his life.
The above circumstance appears so very extraordinary, that I have taken the liberty of sending it to your press.
LYNCHBURG, (Virg.) July 26.
WITH peculiar satisfaction we announce, the nomination of his Excellency Patrick Henry Esq. for the Senate of the United States of America. The Executive of Virginia, calls him to the service of his country, in place of the patriotic Monroe; now Ambassador to France. No measure of Government could have been more popular, than the appointment of this Veteran Defender, of the rights and liberties of the people. Notwithstanding the Office is one to which he must add Dignity, yet we flatter ourselves, he will be induced to accept it at this critical period, and especially as the Federal Constitution has assumed a more conciliatory air since the several amendments that have been administered to it.
NEW-YORK, August 11.
By an arrival on Saturday evening in 13 days from Hispaniola, we learn that the people of colour, having been permitted to enter Fort Dauphin, had ravaged the place, and put 700 French Royalists to the sword.
The spirit and firmness of the Executive, displayed in his proclamation
for suppressing the riots near Pittsburgh, the room, I sat down, and, with ch- must give sensible pleasure to every civilized feelings, wrote the following E- peaceable republican. We trust the lay on great body of the people in this coun-
try will cheerfully second the measures WHEN we meditate the history of of the President to quell disturbances man and nations, we find individuals and a rebellious spirit, which, if permit- opulent, and communities respectable, ted to spread, will render life and pro- when the cold maxims of rigid pru- perty insecure, and destroy our fairest dence are punctiliously observed. On hopes of peace and liberty. If the laws the other hand, when one or many, im- cannot protect us from hot headed patient of the boundaries, which his anarchists, our government is not worth virtue marked out, presume to defending. wander, at the beckon of passion, or
A letter from an American gentle- fancy, poverty, distress, and contempt, man at Hamburgh, dated April 26th, from the world, form only a small part states, that greater exertions will be of the catalogue of inevitable conse- made in Europe this summer to second quences.—Dryden, Otway, Savage, the progress of freedom than were ever Shenstone, Goldsmith, the younger Lyt- before known. He informs that Koli- tleton, and Rousseau, were men of sub- ulko's party in Poland is rapidly in- limated feelings, children of impulse, creasing; he gives it as his opinion that contemners of authority. They def- Kosiuszko is countenanced by Sweden- pised the perfect law of prudence, and, and Denmark; and that the Turks Gentiles of Genius, were a law unto will favor his cause by making war on themselves. Rejecting the steady light, Russia. which the planets of prudence shed on
Should these opinions be well found- ed, we may be certain of what indeed ed, we may be certain of what indeed fancy's meteor, of most dangerous di- we never entertained any great doubts, rection, though of aspect brilliant. What that the combination against France have been the consequences of this ill- will soon be broken and crumble to pie- fated election? Strike out of the census ces. Such a prospect strengthens our of railers, a few, of genius and feeling, hopes of peace, and justifies the policy like themselves, and a balance of mil- of the President and his supporters, in- lions is against them? Did not the restraining all hostile acts on the part want of prudence compel Dryden to of the United States, as the issue of the wretchedly tragedize in rhyme, to be- war in Europe most probably will be come a scrivener in a book-seller's shop, favourable to peace in America, with- and to leave classical translation incom- out any offensive operations on this side plete, that obscenity, exchanged for an the Atlantic. obolus, might be ready at the period of Extrait of a letter from a gentleman in dissolution? Was not Otway choked Guadaloupe, to his friend in this city, by a biscuit greedily swallowed, because dated Basseterre, July 15. he chose poetically to paint an orphan's distress, rather than, by Cheapside in- "I have been in this island about two dustry, to relieve his own? Did not months, and would have taken the li- titled Tyrconnel turn Savage out of berty of addressing you sooner, but the doors, for not retiring to bed at mid- embargo on your navigation prevented night, and, amid the fervors of poetry unhappily all communication. Before and wine, for "madly chanting his this reaches you, you will have heard, joy" at unseasonable hours. Was not that part of it has again changed mat- Lord Lyttleton, the gallant and the gay, ters, and in possession of the French, in consequence of which I suffered con- siderably, though in the end I shall come off better than the greater part of those, who were settled at Point-Petre, as an additional fleet with troops on board is now arrived, and the French are cooped up without provision or water, dying in great numbers of epidemical diseases; the town must be ours in a few days, when we shall be able to sit down, and renew our old occupations."
PHILADELPHIA.
"Indulge, and to thy genius freely give, For not to live at ease, is not to live."
Did not imprudence exile Goldsmith to Flanders and to France, to propose rance, at Leyden, and to fiddle to the peasants of Provence? Lastly, to conclude this melancholy description of the "folies of the wife," Rousseau who of all the moderns, SHAKESPEARE excepted, has displayed most genius; having taught man, in Emilius, governed him in the social compact and enchanted him in Eloise, has been perfected, misrepresented and traduced, for eccentricity of conduct, and paradox of expression. His person has been banished from his natal canton, his book burned by the bigotry of a bishop, the sanity of intellects doubted by a puny and positive preceptor, and the genius of Geneva has been damned at Tunbridge, by the Rev. Vicellius Knox. Let us turn aside, ye careless ones, from such a "stone of stumbling" and "rock of offence," as inu- cution, and strive to attain the Dutch virtues; no longer expatriate in French, or Italian fields, but hasten to the dykes of Holland. Plunge into the Scheldt or the Maeze, and like the souls of the fab- ling ancients, recent from Lethe's lake, ye tion and memory, I falled out of my will rise, and leave not only memory, but genius, invention, and what to impru- dence pertains, behind. Like Hollanders be prudent, and like Hollanders you will be rich. Remember, that at Japan, where the paganisin of the natives demands the abjuration of Europe's religion as pre- Shandeian style, which rejects Aristotle's liminary to trade, that a Dutchman tram- moods, and Dr. Watts's figures, and ples on the cross, and renounces christiani- all figures, but figures rhetorical. When, ty for cinnamon and cloves. Remember whom should I meet, in my flowery that when the Netherlands, impatient of path, but one of their "Worships and the Spanish yoke, implored Elizabeth to Reverences," who, austerely bending rescue them from the tyranny of the Prince his brows, cried out, with a true critic's of Parma, the prudent Myneheers sold gun- yell, "Whither now, wanderer? You powder, at an advanced price, for the use are on the very verge of absurdity. None of your flights, in the name of of the Spanish Artillery! Remember, Locke and Leibnitz; but talk a little, like them, whether at Aboyna, or Amer- like a man of this world. Why, what ica, to cut the throat of a friend, if, by such a curveting palfry, more reltive than a gallant deed, you can keep the purse any in romance, is that same imagina- thing whole. This is prudence this the tion, on whose neck you have thrown vrow virtue, whom, as she trudges along, the reins! Do dismount, my frantic each wondering wording bids the poets friend, and stride some sober beast from admire. What though to your keen eyes our stable; or, if obstinately attached she appears like an ancient market women, to your hobby, you must ride on, at least procure a martingale, and then your vicious jade will pace all gently, like a blind horse at a funeral, as the curate of Coventry says."
FROM THE EAGLE.
The FARRAGO, No. 21.
"THERE is no talent so useful to- wards rising in the world, or which puts men more out of the reach of for- tune, than that quality, generally pos- sessed by the dullest sort of men, and, in common speech, called DISCRETION."
DEAN SWIFT.
A CLOUDY atmosphere and a fit of the spleen having confederated, and the most gaoler-like, locked up my inven- tion and memory, I falled out of my will rise, and leave not only memory, but genius, invention, and what to impru- dence pertains, behind. Like Hollanders be prudent, and like Hollanders you will be rich. Remember, that at Japan, where the paganisin of the natives demands the abjuration of Europe's religion as pre- Shandeian style, which rejects Aristotle's liminary to trade, that a Dutchman tram- moods, and Dr. Watts's figures, and ples on the cross, and renounces christiani- all figures, but figures rhetorical. When, ty for cinnamon and cloves. Remember whom should I meet, in my flowery that when the Netherlands, impatient of path, but one of their "Worships and the Spanish yoke, implored Elizabeth to Reverences," who, austerely bending rescue them from the tyranny of the Prince his brows, cried out, with a true critic's of Parma, the prudent Myneheers sold gun- yell, "Whither now, wanderer? You powder, at an advanced price, for the use are on the very verge of absurdity. None of your flights, in the name of of the Spanish Artillery! Remember, Locke and Leibnitz; but talk a little, like them, whether at Aboyna, or Amer- like a man of this world. Why, what ica, to cut the throat of a friend, if, by such a curveting palfry, more reltive than a gallant deed, you can keep the purse any in romance, is that same imagina- thing whole. This is prudence this the tion, on whose neck you have thrown vrow virtue, whom, as she trudges along, the reins! Do dismount, my frantic each wondering wording bids the poets friend, and stride some sober beast from admire. What though to your keen eyes our stable; or, if obstinately attached she appears like an ancient market women, to your hobby, you must ride on, at least procure a martingale, and then your vicious jade will pace all gently, like a blind horse at a funeral, as the curate of Coventry says."
SHIP NEWS.
Arrived at the Port the brig Betsey, Capt. Grissel from Jamaica, in 27 days and the brig Jefferson, Morrison, in 15 days from St. Croix.
On board of this vessel are the Governor of St. Croix, and his lady: also the Schooner Elizabeth, Capt. Philips.

Chipped Logwood, FOR SALE, Landing at Hamilton's wharf. Apply to John Vaughan, WHO HAS FOR SALE. CLARET, In hogheads and cases of the first quality. Aug. 7 d
Strayed or Stolen, FROM the Farm of JOHN LAURENCE Esq. near the Falls of Schuylkill, a small young SORRE MARE, of the Narragansett breed, with a white slip in her face. Whoever will return said mare to said Farm, or to James Thomson at the Indian Queen, shall receive Ten Dollars reward. August 7. d
GUTHRIE'S GEOGRAPHY Improved. THE subscription for this work on the original terms, of twelve dollars and the binding, will be closed this day—and on Monday the subscription will open at four teen dollars, exclusive of the price of binding. The new maps added to this edition are twenty one; among which are those of New-Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode-Island, Vermont, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina, the Genesee Government, South Carolina, and Georgia. These maps have never been given in any former system of Geography, and, it is hoped, would alone be sufficient to entitle this work to a preference to any other edition of Guthrie. N. B. The map of the United States, which is compiling by Mr. Samuel Lewis, from the respective state maps, will be far more complete than any one yet published, and be printed on two large sheets of paper, nearly the size of the late Mr. Murrays map. May 31 d
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 drawing 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 Ball, Matthew M. Connel and Andrew Bayard, of the city of Philadelphia—His Excellency Richard How ell, Esq. Elias Boudinot, General Elias Dayton, James Parker, John Bayard, Doct. Lewis Donham, Samuel W. Stockton, Joshua M. 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.
S C H E M E:    1 Prize of 20,000 Dollars is 20,000 14,539 Prizes. 262,000   1 10,000 10,000 23,461 Blanks. First drawn number, 2,000   2 5,000 10,000 Last drawn number, 2,000   5 2,000 10,000 38,000 Tickets at 7 Dollars each is 266,000   10 1,000 10,000   20 500 10,000   100 100 10,000   300 50 15,000   1000 20 20,000   2000 15 30,000   3000 12 36,000   8100 10 81,000 
The drawing will commence, under the inspection of a Committee of the Superintendents, 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. Hardenberg, 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 payment of the Prizes, the Superintendents of 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 Dollars, he shall immediately place the same in one of the Banks of New-York or Philadelphia, 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 security for any Tickets they may trust, otherwise 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 gentlemen, information will be given where tickets may be had. February 24. m&fif The Lottery published by the "Society for establishing useful manufactures," will commence drawing the first Tuesday in November next —
BY AUTHORITY. From the Philadelphia Gazette. By the President of the United States of America. A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS combinations to defeat the execution of the laws laying duties upon spirits distilled within the United States and upon stills, have from the time of the commencement of those laws existed in some of the western parts of Pennsylvania; And whereas the said combinations, proceeding in a manner subversive equally of the just authority of government and of the rights of individuals have hitherto effected their dangerous and criminal purpose; by the influence of certain irregular meetings, whose proceedings have tended to encourage and uphold the spirit of opposition, by misrepresentations of the laws calculated to render them odious, by endeavors to deter those who might be so disposed from accepting offices under them, through fear of public resentment and of injury to person and property, and to compel those who had accepted such offices by actual violence to surrender or forbear the execution of them;—by circulating vindictive menaces against all those who should otherwise directly or indirectly aid in the execution of the said laws or who, yielding to the dictates of conscience and to a sense of obligation should themselves comply therewith, by actually injuring and destroying the property of persons who were understood to have so complied:—by inflicting cruel and humiliating punishments upon private citizens for no other cause than that of appearing to be the friends of the laws;—by intercepting the public officers on the high ways, abusing, assaulting, and otherwise ill treating them; by going to their houses in the night, gaining admittance by force, taking away their papers and committing other outrages; employing for these unwarrantable purposes the agency of armed banditti disguised in such manner as for the most part to escape discovery;—And whereas the endeavors of the Legislature to obviate objections to the said laws, by lowering the duties and by other alterations conducive to the convenience of those whom they immediately affect (though they have given satisfaction in other quarters) and the endeavors of the executive officers to conciliate a compliance with the laws, by explanations, by forbearance and even by accommodations founded on the suggestion of local considerations have been disappointed of their effect by the machinations of persons whose industry to excite resistance has increased with the appearance of a disposition among the people to relax in their opposition and to acquiesce in the laws; inasmuch that many persons in the said western parts of Pennsylvania have at length been hardy enough to perpetrate acts which I am advised amount to treason, being overt acts of levying war against the United States; the said persons having on the sixteenth and seventeenth of July last past proceeded in arms (on the second day amounting to several hundreds) to the house of John Neville inspector of the revenue for the fourth survey of the district of Pennsylvania, having repeatedly attacked the said house with the persons therein, wounding some of them;—having seized David Lenox marshal of the district of Pennsylvania, who previous thereto had been fired upon, while in the execution of his duty, by a party of armed men detaining him for some time prisoner, till for the preservation of his life and the obtaining of his liberty he found it necessary to enter into stipulations to forbear the execution of certain official duties touching proceedings issuing out of a court of the United States—and having finally obliged the said inspector of the revenue and the Marshal from considerations of personal safety to fly from that part of the country, in order by a circuitous route to proceed to the seat of government; avowing as the motives of these outrageous proceedings an intention to prevent by force of arms the execution of the said laws, to oblige the said inspector of the revenue to renounce his said office, to withstand by open violence the lawful authority of the government of the United States, and to compel thereby an alteration in the measures of the legislature and a repeal of the laws aforesaid—And whereas by a law of the United States entitled, "An act to provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions," it is enacted "that whenever the laws of the United States shall be opposed or the execution thereof obstructed in any state by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings or by the powers vested in the marshals by that act, the same being notified by an associate justice or the District judge, it shall be lawful for the President of the United States to
call forth the militia of such state to suppress such combinations—and to cause the laws to be duly executed. And if the militia of a state where such combination may happen shall refuse or be insufficient to suppress the same, it shall be lawful for the President if the legislature of the United States shall not be in session to call forth and employ such numbers of the militia of any other state or states most convenient thereto, as may be necessary, and the use of the militia so to be called forth may be continued, if necessary, until the expiration of thirty days after the commencement of the ensuing session. Provided always, that whenever it may be necessary in the judgment of the President to use the military force hereby directed to be called forth, the President shall forthwith and previous thereto, by Proclamation, command such insurgents to disperse and retire peaceably to their respective abodes within a limited time. And whereas James Wilson an associate justice on the fourth instant by writing under his hand did, from evidence which had been laid before him notify to me that "in the counties of Washington and Allegheny in Pennsylvania, the laws of the United States are opposed, and the execution thereof obstructed by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings or by the powers vested in the Marshal of that district."
And whereas it is in my judgment necessary under the circumstances of the case to take measures for calling forth the militia in order to suppress the combinations aforesaid and to cause the laws to be duly executed, and I have accordingly determined to do so, feeling the deepest regret for the occasion, but withal the most solemn conviction, that the essential interests of the Union demand it, that the very existence of government and the fundamental principles of social order are materially involved in the issue, and that the patriotism and firmness of all good citizens are seriously called upon, as occasion may require to aid in the effectual suppression of so fatal a spirit.
Wherefore, and in pursuance of the provision above recited, I George Washington, President of the United States, do hereby command all persons, being insurgents as aforesaid, and all others whom it may concern, on or before the first day of September next to disperse and retire peaceably to their respective abodes. And I do moreover warn all persons whomsoever against aiding abetting or comforting the perpetrators of the aforesaid treasonable acts: And do require all officers and other citizens according to their respective duties and the law of the land to exert their utmost endeavors to prevent and suppress such dangerous proceedings.
In testimony whereof I have caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed to these presents, and signed the same with my hand. Done at the city of Philadelphia the seventh day of August one thousand seven hundred and ninety four, and of the independence of the United States of America, the nineteenth.  G o , WASHINGTON. By the President, EDM. RANDOLPH.
ADVERTISEMENT.
LETTERS on the subject of the Washington Lottery, being by mistake repeatedly addressed to the Commissioners for the City of Washington.
Persons concerned are hereby informed, that all such should be addressed either to W. Deakins jun. of Washington, or to the Subscriber. The commissioners never having contemplated any further concern in this business, than in their assent to receive the bonds and approve the names of the managers. The prizes have been paid and are paying on demand by W. Deakins, Washington, Peter Gilman, Boston, and by the Subscriber.
For the Lottery No. 2, the securities already given will be retained by the commissioners, or transferred by them at their option to the bank of Columbia; and the commissioners will be consulted respecting a judicious and equitable disposition of the houses to be built thereby; their treasury or the bank of Columbia will receive the money intended for the National University, and they will be consulted in the nomination of the 24 managers; but all the responsibility respecting the general disposition of the tickets, and payment of prizes, will rest as in the Hotel Lottery, on the persons whose names are and may be hereafter published as assistants to forward this business with
S. BLODGET. N. B. Mr. Blodget will be particularly obliged if those persons who possess prizes yet unpaid, will apply for their money as early as possible. June 7th.
One hundred dollars Reward. WHEREAS there were delivered in the Month of October last, from the Stores of the Subscribers, Two Chests and nine Half Chests of Bohea Tea, marked, numbered and weighing, as under, to some person or persons with pretended orders from Mr. ISAAC CLASON of this City, but which he did not receive; whoever will give information so that a discovery may be made, who got the said Tea, shall receive the above reward; and it is requested that the Dealers in the Article will be careful in examining the Marks and Numbers of the Chests that have passed through their hands since the period above-mentioned, and give the desired information. New-York, July 3. ft. 1794. William and James Constable.
Ship Washington.     C. q. lb. Tare     B. { No. 327 3 2 16 60 } Whole   473 3 2 24 64 } Chests   177 1 3 12 39 }   177 1 2 23 39 }   198 1 3 7 41 }   213 1 3 18 37 } Half   227 1 3 7 40 } Chests.   287 1 3 9 38 }   301 1 3 15 40 }   379 1 3 18 41 }   404 1 3 14 39 }   Aug. 6 d m  
Treasury Department Revenue Office. August 5th. 1794.
PROPOSALS will be received at the Office of the Commissioner of the Revenue, Nos 43, South Third Street, for furnishing by contract, Seven hundred and sixty eight
COCKED HATS, For the corps of Artillerists and Engineers, to be made agreeably to a PATTERN which will be shewn at the Office aforesaid, to any person disposed to contract eod2w
STATE OF SOUTH-CAROLINA
In the House of Representatives,
DECEMBER 21st, 1793. WHEREAS the Commissioners of public Accounts, h vc reported, that they cannot proceed to the investigation of the Treasury Accounts, respecting special Indents, without knowing the outstanding amount thereof in circulation: Therefore, Resolved, That all holders of special Indents be directed, and required, on or before the fifth day of November next, to deliver their special Indents in their possession to one or more of the Commissioners of the Treasury, who are to give receipts for the same, and to report to the Commissioners on public accounts, on or before the tenth day of November next, the amount by them respectively received, and also to the Legislature, at their meeting in November next, and that all special Indents not rendered into the Treasury as above, on or before the first day of November next, shall be, and the same hereby barred.
Resolved, That public notice of this resolution be given in the several Gazettes in this state, once every three weeks, until the first day of November next. And that the Delegates of this State in the Congress of the United States, be requested to cause this resolution to be published in one or more papers in the cities of Philadelphia and New-York, and that provision will be made for the expenses attending such publication.
Ordered, That the resolution be sent to the Senate for their concurrence. By order of the House, JOHN SANFORD DART, C. H. R. In the SENATE, DECEMBER 21st, 1793.
Resolved, That this House do concur with the House of Representatives in the foregoing resolutions. Ordered, That the resolutions be sent to the House of Representatives. By order of the Senate, FELIX WARLEY Clerk. cwt. N.
Just Published, In one handsome volume, 12mo. Price 5s AND FOR SALE BY
JOHN ORMROD, At Franklin's Head, No. 41, Chestnut Street,
AN ESSAY ON THE Natural Equality of Men, On the Rights that result from it, and on the Duties which it imposes.
To which a MEDAL was adjudged, by the Teylerian Society at Haarlem. Corrected and Enlarged, by
WILLIAM LAWRENCE BROWN, D. D. Professor of Moral Philosophy, and the Law of Nature, and of Ecclesiastical History; and Minister of the English Church at Utrecht. Aliquid semper ad communem utilitatem afferendum. CICERO. The First American Edition.
THE grand principle of Equality, if rightly understood, is the only basis on which universal justice, sacred order, and perfect freedom, can be firmly built, and permanently secured. The view of it exhibited in this essay, at the same time that it represses the insolence of office, the tyranny of pride, and the outrages of oppression; confirms, in the most forcible manner, the necessity of subordination, and the just demands of lawful authority. So far indeed, from loosening the bands of society, that it maintains inviolate, every natural and every civil distinction, draws more closely every social tie, unites in one harmonious and justly proportioned system, and brings men together on the even ground of the inherent rights of human nature, of reciprocal obligation, and of a common relation to the community. March 18. tuff
JAMAICA RUM, LANDING at Hamilton's wharf, above the Drawbridge, out of the ship Bacchus Capt. VANNEGAN, from JAMAICA, FOR SALE BY PETER BLIGHT. May 16. d
FOR SALE, At the STORES of Jesse & Robert Waln, PORT WINE in pipes, hds. 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. June 9. d
The Public are cautioned to beware of counterfeited Five Dollar Bills of the Bank of the United States, and twenty Dollar Bills of the Bank of North America, several of which have appeared in circulation within a few days past; they are good general imitations of the genuine bills, but may be distinguished by the following
M A R K S. Five Dollar Bills of the Bank of the United States. ALL that have appeared have the letter F. for their Alphabetical Mark. The Texture of the Paper is thicker and whiter and it takes the ink more freely than the genuine paper.
The O. in the word Company is smaller than the M. and other letters of that word, so that a line extended from the top of the O. to touch the top of the M. would extend considerably above the range of the whole word. In the word United the letters are narrower and closer together than the rest of the bill.
The I and J in the word promise are not parallel; the J inclining much more forward than the I. The engraving is badly executed, the strokes of all the Letters are stronger and the devi c in the margin particularly is much coarser and appears darker than in the true bills. Some of the counterfeits bear date in 1791—Whereas the Bank was not in operation till December, and no five dollar bills were issued in that year.
Twenty Dollar Bills of the Bank of North America. ALL that have appeared have the letter B. for their alphabetical mark. They are printed on a paper nearly similar to that of the counterfeited Five Dollar Notes above described; the engraving is better executed, and they approach nearer to the appearance of the genuine bills.
The fine ruled lines through the word twenty, in the body of the bill, are in number to fifteen in the genuine bills, and but twelve in the counterfeits. The word Company is much like the same word in the Five Dollar Bills as described above, the O being less than the M, and other letters following.
There is no stroke to the t in the word North whereas in the genuine bills the stroke is well defined.
The letters ent in the word Twenty, to the left hand at the bottom, do not come down to the line; but are so cut as to give an irregular appearance to the word, the Tw and the y going below them. The signature J. Nixon, has the appearance of being written with lamb-black and oil, and differs from other inks used in printing the bills and the cashier's signature.
It is supposed that these forgeries were committed in some of the Southern States, as all the counterfeits that have appeared, have come from thence, and two persons have been apprehended in Virginia, on suspicion of being the author of them. The reward of ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS will be paid to any Person or Persons who shall discover and prosecute to conviction the several offenders of the following descriptions or any of them, viz.
The person or persons, who manufactured the paper on which the Bills are printed. The person or persons, who engraved the plates.
The printer or printers, of the bills. Every person who has acted as a principal in any other way, in the counterfeiting and uttering the said bills. Philadelphia, March 28, 1794 April 22, 1794.
Other counterfeit bills of the Bank of the United States have appeared in circulation.
The denomination of TWENTY DOLLARS, and the alphabetical mark is the letter B.
They may be distinguished from the genuine by the following MARKS: The paper of the counterfeits is of a more tender texture and glossier surface than the genuine, and there is no water mark in them.
The letter C. in the word Cashier, in the true bills is strongly marked, whereas in the counterfeits, the whole letter is a fine hair stroke, evidently in an unfinished state. The letter a in the word demand, is badly formed and the whole word ill done and there is no comma at the end of it, as there is in the genuine bills.
The marginal device, is much darker in the false, than in the genuine bills owing to the shade strokes being coarser, much nearer together, and consequently much more numerous. This difference strikes the eye at first view.
The same reward of ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS, will be paid for apprehending & prosecuting to conviction the several above described Offenders in respect to this as to the last described bills.
THOMAS WILLING, President of the Bank United States. JOHN NIXON, President of the Bank of North America. By order of the Committees of the respective Boards.