Gazette of the United States. (Philadelphia [Pa.]), 1796-04-14 00:00:00

Gazette of the United States
NUMBER 1123.]
PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 14, 1796.
[VOLUME IX.]
For LONDON,
THE SHIP
ATLANTIC,
SILAS SWAIN, Commander,
WILL sail on or about the 1st of May. For freight or passage apply to the Captain on board at Walnut-street wharf, or to
PHILIP NICKLIN & CO.
April 13.
N. B. The Letter Bag of the brig Peggy, captain Heyer, for London, will be taken from the Post-Office on Friday morning, the 15th inst. at 10 o'clock.
The Letter Bag of the ship Hamburg Packet, captain Clay, for Liverpool, will be taken from the Post-Office on Saturday evening, the 16th inst.
And the Letter Bag of the ship Diana, captain Pile, for Hamburg, will be taken from the Post-Office on Monday evening next, the 18th inst.
FOR SALE,
THE SCHOONER
M I N E R V A,
BURTHEN 95 tons, single deck'd, and New-England built; a staunch good vessel, 28 months old, lying at Chestnut street wharf. For terms apply to the Captain on board, or to
Joseph Anthony & Co.
April 13.
For BOSTON,
THE
Schooner JOHN,
Thomas Coffin, master,
LAYING at Messrs. Anthony & Son's wharf, to sail in eight days. For freight or passage apply at EDWARD STOW, jun's. Store, No. 4, South Water-street.
WHO HATH FOR SALE,
A quantity of N. E. Rum; Beef; Soap; Candles, &c. 11th April.
For SALE,
THE SHIP
C O N C O R D,
Capt. Thompson,
THE Concord is upwards of 300 tons, about three years old, live oak and cedar, coppered—fit to proceed on a voyage to India, or elsewhere—in the best order, could sail directly. For terms apply to
PETER BLIGHT.
April 6, 1796.
FOR CHARTER,
THE SHIP
John Bulkeley,
BURTHEN about 3000 barrels. Enquire of Jesse & Robert Waln.
March 29.
Plaster of Paris & Burr Stones.
JUST ARRIVED,
By the ship Asia, Captain Langford, from Havre-de-Grace. Apply to
Peter Blight.
March 31.
George Dobson,
BEGS leave to inform the Store-keepers in town and country, that he has removed from Market-street, to
No. 25, South Third-street,
where he is opening a large and elegant assortment of the most fashionable
SPRING GOODS,
arrived in the different Vessels from London & Liverpool.
N. B. 150 dozen Men's Silk Stockings.
April 8.
FOR SALE BY
ISAAC HARVEY, Jun.
No. 5, South Water-street,
A quantity of Mould & dipt CANDLES,
Cassie, White, and Brown
Mels, Prime, and Cargo
BEEF, in bbls. and half bbls.
Ox TONGUES, CIDER, SHOES, &c.
4th mo. 8th. 1796.
COFFEE.
102 Hogheads,
10 Tierces,
30 Barrels,
217 Bags,
PRIME COFFEE,
Imported in the brig Richard and James from Jeremie, and for sale by
Richard & James Potter.
April 11.
MADEIRA, SHERRY and PORT
WINES.
For Sale by
EDWARD STOW, Jun.
No. 4, South Water-Street.
Dec. 12.
JUST RECEIVED
From France, via New-York, a new and fashionable assortment of
FRENCH CHINA,
consisting of
DESERT Sets.
Tea Sets of 6, 12, 18 and 24 cups and saucers
Washing hand basins and jugs
Flower pots of different shapes
Bowls, porringers, and cyphered cups and saucers
A great number of Groups, among which are Louis the XVI. and Doctor Franklin; the Death of Adonis. and the Buff of General Cuffee
The whole of this assortment, which is suitable for this and the West-India market, is entirely new, and just opened for sale at the subscribers' store
Orders from any part of the continent will be duly attended to, and the packing done so as to be sent any where either by land or water carriage.
N. B. An invoice of Hardware and Jewellery to be disposed of at a low rate.
Pasquier & Co.
No. 91, South Second-street
February 7.
Furs and Skins.
RICHARD & JAMES POTTER,
HAVE FOR SALE
A prime selection of the annexed articles:
Shaved Deer Skins
Unshaved ditto
Elk Skins
Shaved do.
Beaver
Otter
Bear
Raccoon
Wolf
Ox hides
Tiger
Leopard
Likewise,
Three thousand wt. of superior New-Orleans Indigo
Twenty tierces of Rice, and
A quantity of excellent Logwood, which they will sell on good terms.
March 17.
John Miller, jun. & Co.
NO. 8, CHESTNUT-STREET,
Have just imported in the Hamburg Packet,
A general assortment of Spring Goods,
To which they expect large additions by the next arrivals from London and Liverpool.
They have also on Hand, received from France,
by the box, assorted,
1500 dozens of Silk Stockings, on which the drawback is recoverable.
A few Bales of India Book Muslin, & Handkerchiefs,
which will be sold low to close sales.
March 30.
Landing at South-street wharf
THE CARGOES
Of West-Indian, Little John, and Industry, from
Jamaica & Hispaniola,
High proof RUM,
SUGARS, of prime quality,
COFFEE,
COCOA, and PIMENTO,
FOR SALE BY
Peter Blight.
April 12.
East-India Goods.
FOR SALE BY
MORDECAI LEWIS,
The CARGO of the Ship India, Capt. Atmead, from
Calcutta;
CONSISTING OF
Gurrahs, Samahs,
Guzzanas, Chintzes,
Collas, Humhums,
Baftas, Doreas,
Carwah Cloth, Bandanas,
Mamoody, Choppah Romalls,
Emerties, Sugar,
Moraggunjacs, Pepper, &c.
Tukeries,
April 11.
Robert Smith & Co.
No. 58, South Front-street,
Have received by the late arrivals from London and Liverpool,
A general assortment of Goods,
Suitable for the Season;
And by the Vessels that are daily expected they will receive a farther supply, which they will dispose of on reasonable terms for Cash, or on a short credit.
They have also received a quantity of
NUTMEGS & MACE.
April 8.
JUST IMPORTED,
In the ship Liberty, from London, a handsome well-assorted Invoice of
DRY GOODS,
(OF ABOUT £1000 STERLING)
Consisting of British and India Book Muslins, Chintzes, &c. two Bales of 6-4 wide Book Muslins. Also, a small Parcel of Nutmegs; and for Sale by
JAMES C. & SAM. W. FISHER.
April 5.
FOR SALE,
SALISBURY,
A Large and well improved Farm containing 2749 acres
of level fertile land, remarkably well adapted to
the growth of grain, and every kind of grain; there are
now 100 acres of timothy meadow on it, from which
150 tons of hay were made the last year; 300 acres
may at a moderate expense be made into meadow equal
to that already made, and one half thereof watered.
There is on the premises a commodious two story dwelling
house, well finished, with eleven rooms and a passage,
six of the rooms have fire places, a piazza in
front, 50 feet in length, and 8 feet wide, a well of good
water in the yard; a large and convenient barn flanked
all round, that affords stabling sufficient for 70 or 80 head
of cattle; also well constructed stables sufficient for 30
horses, with every other necessary out buildings; be-
tween 4 and 500 young apple trees of well chosen grafted
fruit, just beginning to bear, about 3000 bearing peach
trees; and sundry other kinds of fruit trees; about one
third of this land is cleared and under good fence, the
remainder is in wood, the pasture lands are well taken
with red clover and other valuable grass; this farm is
well watered, having several good springs, and two
streams running through different parts, one of them
is a grist and saw mill; also a well fixed distillery; there
are also on the premises a tan yard in good order, the
neighbourhood in which it is, will afford that business to
be carried on to great extent, on the tan yard lot there is
a comfortable two story dwelling house, bark house, cur-
riers shop, &c. Should any one disposed to buy this
property, also wish to buy negroes, I can accommodate
them with twenty valuable field negroes, who are well
acquainted with all kinds of work, necessary on a farm,
the purchaser may also be supplied with horses, black
cattle, sheep, hogs, and with every necessary utensil for a
large farm. Salisbury is situated in a very healthy part
of the country, and in an excellent neighbourhood, it is by
measurement 26 miles from Alexandria, and about 25
from the city of Washington, and on the turnpike road
from Alexandria to Winchester. As I am desirous of
selling this property, a great bargain will be given to any
one that will pay down one half the purchase money,
for the other a considerable credit will be given.
SAMUEL LOVE.
Virginia, Loudoun County, April 1st. 1796.
TO BE SOLD,
A Three-story brick House, No. 82, N. Second
street. The lot is about 21 feet front, and 233
feet deep, to Bread-street, or Moravian Alley. It has
long been one of the best stands for business.
2d. A frame Dwelling-House, No. 260, South Front-
street, with a Bake-House, the Lot is about 17 feet
front, by 130 feet in depth.
3d. A handsome Lot of 25 feet by 200 feet deep, ex-
tending from Third street to George-street; it is the 3d
Lot below South-street: on George-street there is a two
story brick tenement, a frame ditto adjoining, with a good
bake-oven.
Likewise a LARGE MEADOW FARM, situate on
the River Delaware, at a convenient distance from Phila-
delphia Market—the Meadow is of the best quality, and
in good bank. There are commodious buildings, with a
good proportion of arable and woodland, and Cedar
Swamp. For terms apply to
JOHN LITTLE,
No. 40 North Sixth-street.
March 24th. 1796.
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March 2.
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CONGRESS.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Wednesday, April 13.
The bill for regulating intercourse with the Indian tribes was read a third time, the blanks filled up, and passed.
Mr. New, of the committee of enrolments, reported as duly enrolled, a bill for establishing trading houses with the Indian tribes, and a resolve directing further returns in the cases of claimants for invalid pensions, which accordingly received the signature of the Speaker.
Mr. Tracy moved to take up the amendments of the Senate to the bill authorising the Secretary at War to place certain persons on the pension list.
Mr. Christie moved the order of the day to be postponed, that the House might resolve itself into a committee of the whole on the state of the Union.
Mr. Tracy said he was as much in favor of going into the question of the state of the Union as the gentleman who proposed it could be; but he said the business he proposed to the consideration of the House, he believed, would not occupy many minutes.
The business was therefore taken up, and the amendments agreed to.
Mr. Harper said they had this morning passed a bill containing strong, but necessary measures to prevent future infractions of the treaty lately concluded with the Cherokee Indians. In order effectually to prevent this, he believed it would be desirable to do away all cause of complaint from those persons who had claims upon the land ceded to the Indians by treaty. For this purpose, he laid the following resolutions on the table:
Resolved, That all persons now holding lands under grants from the state of North-Carolina, in the territory of the United States, south of the Ohio, and beyond the boundary line between the United States and the Indians, shall be entitled to receive in exchange for an equal quantity of their lands, 320 acres each in the territory of the United States north-west of the Ohio, on their respective settling there, and continuing to reside for the term of
Resolved, That all persons holding as aforesaid shall be permitted to subscribe their lands on the loan for the domestic debt of the United States at the rate of 25 dollars per hundred acres, and in the same terms with the present unsubscribed debt, provided that such subscription shall not entitle any subscriber to a certificate till the whole lands so granted as aforesaid, shall have been subscribed or exchanged.
Mr. Christie renewed his motion to go into a committee of the whole on the state of the Union.
Mr. W. Smith was against agreeing to the motion, tho' he was aware of the necessity of an early attention to the business, until the important financial business before the House was gone thro'. He was the more desirous of going into the business of finance from the very long representation which had been gone into by the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Gallatin) yesterday; a representation tending to mislead the public, and which he thought it his duty flatly to contradict, and to shew that his calculations and conclusions were totally unfounded. If it was, however, determined to go into the business of the state of the Union, he wished to be permitted to read a statement of their finances, by which he would prove that they were now in a better state than they were in 1791, by two millions.
Mr. Smith had not permission to read his statement, it being declared not in order; and after some observations from Messrs. Harper, Sedgwick, and Gilbert, against going immediately into a state of the Union, and from Messrs. Giles, Swanwick and Gallatin, in favor of it, (the latter gentleman noticing what had fallen from Mr. Smith, with respect to the financial question, saying that as he had no other object than truth in view, he challenged discussion on the subject, at the same time expressing his confidence in the truth of his statements) the question was put and carried for going into a state of the Union.
The House having formed itself into a committee of the whole, Mr. Muhlenberg in the chair, Mr. Sedgwick proposed a resolution to the following effect.
Resolved, That provisions ought to be made by law, for carrying into effect with good faith, the treaties lately concluded with the Dey and Regency of Algiers, the King of Great Britain, the King of Spain, and certain Indian Tribes, north west of the river Ohio.
This resolution occasioned considerable heat in the committee. It was objected to as being introduced before the Chairman had read the papers before the committee, and some debate took place upon the point of order; but at length the Chairman having declared the resolution in order, a debate took place upon the form of the resolution. It was objected to on account of its embracing all the four treaties.
It was said that gentlemen might wish to appropriate for carrying into effect one treaty, and not another. This, it was said, could not be an objection to gentlemen who thought themselves bound to carry all the treaties into effect without exercising their judgment upon them, but it was an objection to those who advocated a contrary doctrine. It was the wish also of many gentlemen that the Spanish treaty should be first discussed, as least objectionable. On the other hand it was insisted by other gentlemen that the house was equally bound to carry into effect all the treaties, and some gentlemen said that if any one of the treaties was refused to be carried into effect, they should feel themselves justified in refusing their assent to the others. Some proposed that the treaty with Algiers should be first taken up, as first in the resolution, others that with Great Britain as most pressing on account of time. And after a long, very irregular, and in some degree, intemperate debate, during which several means were proposed to get rid of the resolution, and a number of points of order settled, Mr. Gallatin moved an amendment to strike out
the word "treaties" and introduce the words "the treaty, which being carried, Mr. Blount moved to strike out the words, "Dey of Algiers and King of Great Britain." Mr. Crabb also moved an amendment to the amendment to leave the resolution to be filled up to morrow—upon which some observations were made, but the questions were not taken. After two motions being made for the committee to rise, which were negatived, (it being past the usual hour of adjournment) a third was made and carried.
Adjourned.
FOR THE GAZETTE OF THE UNITED STATES.
TO HARRINGTON.
YOUR attack upon the freedom of the press in the person of the Printer, affords an additional proof of your arbitrary principles and lack of wisdom.
That an author writing under the impenetrable shield of an assumed signature, should conceive himself aggrieved by strictures on his fatherless Essays, is truly novel, and it was reserved for Harrington to present the first example.—If, Sir, governed by vanity the invariable characteristic of a weak mind, you have betrayed your own secret, to ingratiate yourself with the most august majority in the universe, who is to blame? The lilly Author and not the Printer.
It is not pretended that the Printer has abused your confidence—how then do you reconcile it to your protestations of rectitude, to accuse him of ingratitude for publishing Leonidas in reply to Harrington—Did you subscribe to his paper or furnish him with advertisements under that name? If not why all this uproar because he has granted the same indulgence to one anonymous writer as another. I am also a customer of Mr. Fenno's, but I should soon take my leave of him, if I could once believe him capable of surrendering up the freedom of his press to you or any body else for any sum however great; much less for the paltry consideration of a few hundred dollars. For shame Sir, to wreak your ill judged vengeance on an honest man, whose labours amidst the threats of the despot are incessantly devoted to preserving his fellow citizens in the peaceable enjoyment of all that is dear upon earth; if you are not a full blooded Jacobin you will make an immediate atonement for your fault.
The moderation of which you make so much parade, reminds me of Nero, who it is said fiddled whilst Rome was in flames! Were you acting less a character than Nero, when you so exultingly hurled a dart at the bosom of your country: Wonderful moderation indeed! And what is your excuse for this particular act? Why forsooth, that the magnitude of the object for which the majority of the House of Representatives are contending, is so great, it were to be more or less than man not to feel a deep interest in it. Sir, there is no difference of opinion as to the object of the dispute. All parties are convinced that the Treaty-making power, is exclusively vested in the President and Senate, but as all parties are not agreed as to the expediency of supporting the present form of government, the measure which you are fingering hallelujahs in praise of, has been devised to effect its prostration.
You assert, "that for the last ten years, you had not written three columns on nor taken any concern in politics." It is rather unfortunate that you should have resumed your pen after so long an interval, to weaken the confidence of the people in the President, at a crisis, which so loudly calls upon every friend to his country to rally round the constitution.—Do you flatter yourself Sir, that in the event of a dissolution of the government—you will be permitted to wander un molested amidst the mighty ruins? If so, you indulge a desperate hope. Perhaps you are so blinded by prejudice, as not to perceive, that the contest between the President and the majority of the House of Representatives, is the result of a preconceived plan on the part of the latter? Yes, I say preconceived plan,—because if there had been any the least prospect of success, the motion for papers would never have been made. Is it pretended that there are any secret articles in the Treaty? No. Is it believed that the papers would throw light on an instrument which speaks so plainly for itself? No. What then was the object of the call? Why to afford a pretence for not taking up the Treaty, by alleging, for reason, that the thing which was not wished for, was withheld! The cry of no Treaty, at the various meetings convened the last summer by the partisans of the majority—the petitions presented to the House by the same persons—the amendments proposed by the state of Virginia, and the language held by that majority, and in the newspapers devoted to their interest, must be considered as conclusive evidence of the truth of my assertion.
If you have pinned your faith on the sleeves of the majority—it is an act of complaisance which I am not disposed to shew to them or their opponents.—But Sir, since we have cutered upon the relative merits of the two parties as to the question in dispute—I will ask you, whether there is not some reason to distrust the decisions of any set of men, in a cause to which they themselves are parties—and if so, whether the minority do not stand upon better ground than the majority? Because, whatever may be the result of the contest, the self denial exercised by the minority must insure to them, the applause of their fellow citizens.
I shall conclude for the present, with performing an act of justice to Mr. Fenno, with whom you are displeased for maintaining the independence of his press.—It is Sir, that I have never received from him the slightest intimation of the real author of Harrington. LEONIDAS.
FOR THE GAZETTE OF THE UNITED STATES.
MR. FENNO, IT is the peculiar happiness of America, that no act interesting to the whole body of its citizens can be done without the consent, nay, without the particular agency of the representatives of the people—this peculiar happiness is afforded to us by a constitution which marks the limits of the powers confided in the several departments of government,
or agents of the people; and the President and Senate are as much the representatives of the people when they act constitutionally as the house of representatives, when they do the same.
It is declared by the house of representatives, that among the powers confided in the President and Senate, "that the constitution has vested the power of making treaties exclusively in them, and that the house of representatives cannot claim any agency in making them, or ratifying them, when after this declaration, the same persons should declare "that when a treaty is made which requires a law to be passed to carry it into effect, that in such case the house of representatives have a constitutional right to deliberate and determine the propriety or impropriety of passing such laws." Can any thing be more contradictory and absurd than the resolutions of Mr. Kitchell? treaties, &c, are not contracts or engagements of nations, and one nation before treating with another, always enquires, verumont, with which they are about to make the contract in order to be certain that the contract is made by the authority of the nation with whom they treat, and consequently binding on it, for after a treaty is made, it undoubtedly is obligatory on the nations who make it. Now, if the people of the United States have authorised the President and Senate to make and ratify treaties, as the house of representatives say they have, those treaties which the President and Senate do make and ratify, they being so authorised by the people are undoubtedly binding on them. And if the people of America have authorised one department of government, as their agents, to bind them in contracts, can it be possible they have given another department of government authority to prevent them from executing those contracts, so entered into by their authority. This idea is absurd, contradictory and ridiculous, and beneath the dignity of a great and enlightened people." Justice, Sir, is the basis of society, but it is undoubtedly injustice, not to regard our contracts; the agreements of nations should be sacred and inviolate, and if all the nations of the world regard their own interest, infamy would be the share of that nation who violates its faith. Altho' Virginia hath been desirous of altering the constitution, and hath wished to place the treaty making power in other hands, and the people of the United States have related to gratify those anarchical desires, and have said that this power shall not be placed in other hands, yet have not the house of representatives contrary to the express will of the people assumed all the power, Virginia wished they should constitutionally have? Our zealous defenders of the liberties of the people, against the despotic encroachments of a WASHINGTON, what have you not done! Although their assumption of power has been to an alarming extent, yet I hope, if they have as yet any regard left for our excellent constitution, they will not refuse the people of America, the power of fulfilling their contracts, nor will they, if they have any regard for the character of America, which has by the exertions of our virtuous chief magistrate been preserved pure and unfulfilled—and let us remember that it is language of a subject of a monarchy that "to violate the public faith and to neglect the observation of treaties, is to sink ourselves below barbarity, to destroy that confidence which unites mankind to society. To deny or evade our stipulations, is to commit a crime which every honest man must consider with abhorrence, and to establish a precedent which may be used hereafter to our own destruction."
AN AMERICAN.
Ricketts's Amphitheatre.
For the Benefit of Mr. COLLET.
THIS EVENING, Thursday, April 14, Between the different new Feats, Mr. COLLET will play A Concerto de Jarnowick, on the Violin.
MR. GAUTIER will also play A Concerto on the Clarinet, Composed by himself.
ASTONISHING FEATS OF Horsemanship, AND STAGE PERFORMANCES, By Messrs. Ricketts,
F. Ricketts, Spinacona, Reano, Master Sully, and Langley, Mr. Sully, Clown.
Mr. Ricketts will, this evening, particularly exert himself in the Equestrian Department.
Mr. F. Ricketts will ride in full speed, being blindfolded, and PICK up a WATCH from the GROUND.
Tight-Rope dancing,
By Mr. Reano and Mr. Spinacona.
Mr. Spinacona will, for this night, DANCE on the ROPE with SKATS— Also, with
TWO BOYS TIED TO HIS FEET.
He will go thro' the surprising Manœuvres of the AMERICAN FLAG, Displaying it round his neck, arms and body, in several pleasing attitudes—never attempted by any one but himself.
Comic FEATS, in the character of the Clown, By Mr. Sully. With a number of other FEATS not enumerated.
To which will be added, For the 2d time, a NEW PANTOMIME, under the direction of Mr. Spinacona, called—The
Power of Magic; or, HARLEQUIN IN THE SUN.
With the original Overture, and interspersed with the celebrated Music of Don Juan.
The new Scenery executed by Mr. Sebynder.
Tickets may be had at Mr. COLLET's, No. 171, north Front-Street; T. BRADY's, No. 8, south Front-Street; and O'LELLER's Hotel.
The Doors in future to be opened at half past FIVE, and the Entertainment to begin at SEVEN o'clock.
Boxes, one dollar—Pic, half a dollar.

Mr. FENNO,
IT has lately been asserted in positive and unqualified terms, by a leading member of Congress, "that in case the House of Representatives do not think it expedient to provide for executing the British Treaty, there will be no war." I would ask whether the government of Great-Britain has assured the President of the United States that they will relinquish the Posts on our frontiers, withdraw all their garrisons, open the fur trade to the citizens of the United States, detach itself from all connection with the Indian Tribes, make satisfaction to our Merchants for their losses by British depredations, and refrain from future depredations, if the Treaty which has been so solemnly ratified, shall not be complied with on our part? If a negative answer is given—I would then ask, whether the United States will not be obliged to go to war to obtain what we now so justly expect and claim by Treaty? It appears to me that there is no other alternative; for it is impossible for the government of the United States to say to their Constituents, you shall neither defend yourselves, nor seek satisfaction for the losses and injuries you have sustained, or may suffer. The result will most assuredly be this, that tho' Great-Britain may not declare war against the United States, the United States must declare war against Great-Britain. G.
LONDON GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY.
Thursday, Jan 7.
Horse Guards, Jan. 7, 1796.
Dispatches from Colonel Stuart, of which the following are extracts, have been this day received by the right hon. Henry Dundas, one of his Majesty's principal Secretaries of State.
[The first letters from Colonel Stuart, contains an account of his arrival with the armament intrusted to him, and his summoning the Commandant of Fort Oknaburgh to surrender.]
CAMP near TRINCOMALE.
[In the Island of Ceylon in the East-Indies.]
August 30, 1795.
SIR,
Soon after I had the honor to address you on the 17th inst. informing you of my intention to begin our approaches against the fort Trincomale, on the following day, circumstances occurred which induced Commodore Bainier and myself to detain the ships then under dispatch, in the hope of the success which I have now the honor to announce. We broke ground on the evening of the 18th, opened our batteries on the 23d, and before 12 o'clock on Wednesday completed a practicable breach. Commodore Bainier and I then thought proper to summon the garrison to surrender, while preparations were making for the assault. Terms were demanded which could not be allowed, and such as we thought consistent were transmitted in return. These not being accepted within a limited time, our fire re-commenced, and in a few minutes the white flag was displayed on the ramparts, the conditions which we had offered were accepted, signed, and transmitted to the camp, with two Captains of the garrison as hostages for their performance.
I am beyond measure indebted to Commodore Bainier for his cordial co-operations, and the active assistance of the Navy in every department of the public service; and I have particular pleasure in assuring you, that from the perfect harmony subsisting between all descriptions of the Naval and Land Forces employed here, every thing may be expected from this division of his Majesty's troops, which is capable of being attained by their mutual exertions.
I have the honor to be, &c.
J. STUART.
Camp near Trincomale, August 31.
SIR,
After closing my dispatch of yesterday, an officer was sent to me by the commandant of Fort Oknaburgh, requesting that I would permit an officer to meet him this morning for the purpose of opening a negotiation for the surrender of the fort. I accordingly sent Major Agnew, the Adjutant General of the forces under my command, and have the satisfaction to inform you, that the garrison this day surrendered themselves prisoners of war, and that a detachment of his Majesty's troops took possession of the Fort, and the British colours were hoisted in it before sunset.
I have the honor to be, &c.
J. STUART.
Here follow the articles of Capitulation.
[The garrison to march out with the honors of war, to the glacis, there to ground their arms, and become prisoners of war. Private property to be secured, but all public property, guns, stores, &c. to be given up. The garrison consisted of 579 men officers included. The loss on our part was, one bombardier, 3 gunners, 3 marines, 1 seaman, 1 sepoys, and 6 lascar killed; Major Smart, Capt. Gerry, Lieut. Prescott, Ensign Benson, 4 serjeants, 1 corporal, 2 gunners, 10 marines, 13 privates, and 2 seamen, 1 syrang, 9 sepoys, and 8 lascars, wounded.]
COURT OF KING'S BENCH, FEB. 5.
BURNET, v. KENSINGTON.
This was an action on a policy of insurance, and a verdict for defendant. The single question in this case was, What was meant by the word stranding?
Lord Kenyon stated, that the jury who tried this cause, understood by stranding, when a vessel took ground and bulged, so as to be rendered incapable of performing her voyage.
Mr. Bibbs and Mr. Park, who were for the plaintiff, contended that stranding meant the ship's striking and fixing on the strand.
Lord Kenyon observed, that it was a question of very great concern; and that he and the rest of the court were anxious that this case should undergo another discussion, in order to ascertain and settle what was meant by stranding, among commercial men. Rule granted.
I, O S T,
IN the city, on the Point Road, the 13th inst. a small GOLD FRENCH WATCH, made at Paris, with a gold chain and two gold seals, one having the initials H. S. G. and a Lion crest, the other a Lion crest only. Whoever finding the same will bring them to No. 111 South Front-street, shall receive a generous reward. It offered for sale to any of the Watch-makers in town, they are requested to stop the same. April 13.
Philadelphia,
THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 14, 1796.
Extract of a letter from St. Bartholemew.
"About 50 of the Anguillians landed the 22d ult. in St. Martin's, and beat the French out of one of their batteries, spiked the guns, and brought away a great number of Col. Gumbé's negroes."
A letter dated L'Anseveau, March 20th, to a merchant in this city, mentions the safe arrival there of the Schooner Charming Betsey, Lark, from this port, and that three Americans, bound to Jeremie, were sent in there, and part of their cargoes condemned.
Arrived here the Schooner Delight, Captain Tumpys, in 15 days from Port au-Prince, which he left on the 28th ult. By him we are informed, that three 74's and three frigates, together with 58 sail of armed transports, &c. which sailed from thence to lay siege to Leogane, having on board 4000 troops, were repulsed by the French with a considerable loss having, contrary to their expectations, met with a force superior, which caused their expedition to prove unsuccessful—one of their 74's was so much crippled before a fort, that they were obliged to tow her out. The whole of the fleet had returned to Port au-Prince previous to his sailing.
Previous to his departure, accounts had been received there, and generally credited, that a French privateer had taken a British packet, from England, five leagues to windward of Barbadoes, by surprise, in the night time; and further, that she had 3 mails on board.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Baltimore-Town, who was an able member of the general Convention that formed the Constitution, to his friend, now in this city.
Baltimore-Town, April 3d, 1796.
Dear Sir,
YOUR favor of the 28th past was only received by me last night. A few copies of my publication respecting the proceedings of the general convention, and my sentiments of the constitution by that convention proposed, are in my possession. With some of them the rats and mice have used nearly the same freedom as the democratic faction appears disposed to use with certain departments of the government established under that constitution. I send you a copy as little injured as any I possess.
Since it has become the order of the day for a certain set, some of whom, by the by, were violent advocates for the constitution, to rail at our government, and to condemn all its measures, I have been repeatedly solicited, personally and by letter, to furnish similar copies; but knowing for what purpose they were wanted, I have uniformly refused: For, tho' I had strong objections to the government as formed, many of which still subsist, I have approved, in general, its measures, and the mode in which it has been executed: And, however extraordinary it may appear, the much greater part of those measures, which have been the subject of the loudest clamor, have met my warmest approbation.
To you, my dear Sir, I readily consign my publication, with all its sins on its head, enough, God knows, to damn the author with any government. But to you I readily consign it, because I know by you it is not wanted for any use I should deem improper—and because I know, let our sentiments as to the form of the government be what they will, as to those measures of government, against which a faction is so clamorous, our sentiments correspond.
As to the information you requested on a particular proposition made in the convention, and its fate, I should not have been willing at this distance of time to have hazarded my memory; and it is probable the memorandums and notes, which I brought with me from the convention, do not now exist; at least, in the multiplicity of my waste papers, I know not where to find them: but it affords me real pleasure to learn from the President's message of the 13th past, that the fact you wished to ascertain, is now established by testimony the most unequivocal.
I rejoice that the journals of the general convention are in existence, and that they are lodged in a place of safety.
From those journals, should you have the curiosity to make the comparison, you will find the authenticity of the facts, which I have stated in my publication, as far as relates to the actual proceedings in that convention.
With regard to the matter in contest, I never have doubted but the power of making all treaties, commercial as well as others, was vested by the constitution in the President, with the assent of two thirds of the Senators who should be present—That all treaties so made, are treaties made under the constitution, and thereby immediately become the law of the land—That the interposition of the House of Representatives is in no respect essential or requisite for their ratification—But that all treaties when so made by the President with the assent of the requisite proportion of the Senate, being published, had full and complete efficacy and obligation, without any assent, approbation or interference of the House of Representatives.
I never doubted but the framers of the constitution so intended it should be understood; and whenever it has been a subject of discussion, I have ever given it that construction.
Many members of that convention, of which number I was one, were anxiously solicitous to have preferred to the state sovereignties, a full and perfect equality of suffrage, (which they enjoyed under the former confederation, and which I still think they ought to enjoy) and to have prevented Le Peuple Souverain from being in any degree a constituent part of the general government, or that the representation should in any degree be drawn directly from that source, (and in this respect also my sentiments remain unaltered, however heretical they may be). These facts you will see at large in the pamphlet I send you.
This controversy had nearly terminated the excellence of the Convention.—A compromise however took place, we preferred an equality of representation for the state governments in the Senate,
(the only federal feature in the constitution,) and consequently there we meant to deposit as many as possible of the great portions of sovereignty the states were obliged to delegate, and among others, the Treaty-making power.—My only objection to its being deposited where it is, arose from the consideration that the President, instead of being chosen through the medium of the state governments, derived his existence from the people, which was then, and is now more strongly opposed to my sentiments of propriety and safety to our government But as it was necessary this power should be trusted to some departments, there, where it was trusted, were infinitely, in our opinion, the least exceptionable.—And altho' some few individuals might have been mad enough to have wished introducing the popular branch into the treaty making part of the system, a thousand reasons must have then occurred, and must yet occur to every candid and thinking mind, to shew the impropriety and danger of admitting the people at large, or their immediate representatives, to any share in making or ratifying our engagements with foreign nations.—Nor can I believe any members of that convention, who attended the session, have a doubt the constitution was designed to have the construction I contend for.
These sentiments I have mentioned without reserve, whenever I have spoken upon the subject. You are at liberty to make of them what use you think proper.
It gives me great pain that the House of Representatives have taken the part, they have done, and placed the President in so painful a situation, but, as they have so done, I rejoice he has had the firmness, in so trying a situation, to do his duty, and refuse a compliance with their unconstitutional demand; and since this contest, in which I consider the happiness of the United States, and the prosperity of the separate states deeply involved, might, and perhaps would, have at some period come forward, I particularly rejoice the event has taken place while we have an Executive so fully and so justly possessing the confidence of the public.
Mr. Gallatin says a correspondent made a speech of two hours and upwards in the House of Representatives, a day or two ago, one object of which was to prove that the public debt has increased since the establishment of the system of finance. His method of doing this was, 1st, To charge the government with nearly two millions for accumulations of interest which took place before the system began to operate. By the terms of the funding act the payment of interest was not to be commenced till certain periods, and the interest which should accrue from the 30th of December 1790, till those periods, was to be added to the principal, and be funded at 3 per cent. Yet this accurate financier states the interest which so accrued, as an increase of debt under the operation of the revenue system. 2ndly, By charging to the government as an increase of debt, certain accumulations of interest on the assumed debt to a large amount which have been charged to the respective states in the settlement of their accounts with the United States, and are consequently discharged. 3rdly, By omitting several hundred thousand dollars which have been paid off by the interest of the debt purchased by the sinking fund. Whenever purchases were made, the stock purchased was transferred to the commissioners, who continued to receive the interest, and invest it in new purchases. Yet this interest and the purchases made with it, Mr. Gallatin thought proper to omit. 4thly, By omitting to credit the government for all the monies now due to the treasury, to the amount of nearly five millions, while he charges it with every cent that it owes. And 5thly, By crediting the government only with the sums paid for the purchase of stock, instead of the sums actually purchased. Six per cent. stock was often purchased much below par, so that 600,000 dollars, applied by the sinking fund has extinguished, for instance, 800,000 dollars of the public debt, and yet he gives the government credit for only 600,000 dollars of extinguished debt.
A certain logician used to say, that if you would allow him two falsehoods and one absurdity, he could prove any thing; a principle of which Mr. Gallatin seems to understand the full value.
With equal readiness he proves that the debt ought not to be paid to the Bank; which was the other object of his speech. He affirms, contrary to the known state of the fact, that when the bank lent this money, they did not expect to receive payment, it being, according to him, the understanding when the loans were made that they should not be paid when they fell due, but reloaned. The bank deny this, call for payment, and produce their contracts. Yet he repeats his assertion, and from it concludes that we are under no obligation to pay till it suits us, which he does not pretend will be for some time, perhaps some years to come. This however is consistent enough with his motion to substitute expediency for good faith, in the creation of public contracts.
This speech after all its miscalculations and omissions, concludes with bringing the government something less than one year's revenue in debt.—Every body knows that its expenses commenced at least one year before its receipts. In each year consequently it has been obliged to extend by anticipation the revenues of the succeeding years. In this state it now remains according to Mr. Gallatin's own account, notwithstanding the heavy expenses which it has had to defray for several extraordinary occasions; such as the Indian war, the Algerine treaty, the western insurrection, &c. If credit be given for his omissions, and improper charges, it will appear to have considerably diminished the public debt, instead of having increased it.
MARRIED Last evening, by the Rev. Jacob Cohen, Isaac Pesoa, Esquire, of the island of Jamaica, to the amiable Miss PHILA PHILLIPS, daughter of Mr. Jonas Phillips of this city.
PORT OF PHILADELPHIA.
   ARRIVED. DATES.     Brig Polly, Campbell Hamburg, 69   Schr Industry, Green Virginia, 6   Henry, Boyman North-Carolina, 6   Hawk, Parrick Lucie, (Jam.) 28   Sloop Millner, May Richmond 12  
CLEARED.
   Brig Amiable Matilda, Paul, Havana   Schooner Greyhound, Collins, York Mown   Schr. Sally, King, St. Bartholomew   Betsey, Morfe, St. Thomas   Sloop Industry, Blake, Norfolk   Diana, Pearson, Alexandria   Capt. Parrick, of the Schooner Hawk, 23 days from Lucie, Jamaica, informs, that he left there the Sloop Betsey, Johnston, of Philadelphia—six days ago he spoke the ship Rebecca, Howland, from Cadiz to New-York, out 71 days, and supplied him with some provisions, which he stood in need of.  
Capt. Robinson, about 6 days ago, spoke the brig William Pennock, Holliday, from Norfolk, to St. Croix, out four days, all well.
Four ships and a brig, bound into the Delaware, were seen off Indian river on Saturday evening.
BY THIS DAY'S MAIL.
BOSTON, April 7.
Returns of the election from fifty seven towns for Governor on the fourth inst. give for Mr. Adams 5257 votes, and for Mr. Sumner 2673.
Mr. Gill has an almost unanimous vote for Lieut. Governor in the towns from which returns have been received.
The votes for Senators in this town, at the close of the poll, stood as follows:
   Thomas Dawes, 2404   Oliver Wendell, 2330   Benjamin Austin, jun. 1544   Dr. William Eulis, 1513   John Coffin Jones, 949   Theophilus Cushing, 937   The four former are chosen.   His Honour MOSES GILL, had 2431 for Lieut. Governor.  
NEW-YORK, April 13.
At twelve o'clock yesterday, Mr. Kettletas was released from gaol by a writ of habeas corpus.—The people awaited him at the door of his prison with a chariot, decorated with the flags of the American and French republics and a caricature of a man tied up to a poll, and the whipper of brid well brandishing a cat o' nine tails, and exclaiming, "What! insult your superiors, you rascal!"
In this carriage Mr. K. was seated, supporting the Cap of Liberty suspended on a pole; and, after being drawn through several of the principal streets was conducted home amidst the plaudits of a large concourse of people. [Diary.]
Arrived at this Port.
   Ship From DAYS.     America, Crownfield Bengal 120   Sally, Hailbrook, Liverpool 43   Schr. Apollo, Toleton, Coast of Africa 63   Matchets, Smith Edenton 8   Sloop Sally, Gnat Norfolk 8   Dolphin, Burton, do. 4   Betsey, Roads, Washington, N. C. 5   Patience, Webb Philadelphia 4  
[By the brig Susan and Polly.]
KINGSTON (Jamaica) March 7.
His majesty's ship Intrepid, Capt. Carpenter, arrived yesterday at Port Royal, from a cruise.—She brought with her a prize, called the Jamaica, a ship lately from France, mounting 20 guns, 9 pounders, and can carry four more—she was directly from France, and only five months old; the crew ran her ashore, and escaped in her boats; also, the Danish Schooner Polly, a prize to her, taken on her passage from St. Thomas to Cape Francois.
The above ship was taken by the Intrepid and Tofquito, near Porta Plata; she came from France with orders to give chase to no vessel, but to make the best of her way for Cayenne, Guadalupe, and St. Domingo. At Guadalupe she left 16,000 stand of arms, her name was originally La Perante, but Admiral Parker, who judges she is fitted completely for cruising round this island, named her the Jamaica. The plan on which she is constructed, is excellent, as she has as much room to fight her guns as the Intrepid, and is in fact as complete a battery as ever floated. It would have been impossible for the Intrepid to have taken her, if she had not got her between a neck of land and herself, and had a smart breeze, while she had none.
All her papers were carried off by the crew, except a single one that contained the above intelligence of her route; and the log book, which shews she must have had an exceeding quick passage.—She was built at Rochelle.
By a proclamation published at Cayenne and found on board the Jamaica, it appears that a spirit of inactivity has spread itself over the whole colony, and a famine is likely to take place, from no attention being paid to the cultivation of the country. In order to remedy this evil, the governor or general has laid down rules for the wages of laborers and for their hours of labor, and at the same time it is enacted that the proprietors of land, will if found guilty of remissness with regard to the cultivation of their estates, subject themselves to the severest penalties.
The Underwriters
OF the City of Philadelphia are particularly requested to meet at the Office of Messrs. Wharton & Lewis, at 10 o'clock, To-Morrow Morning, to consider whether it will be proper to continue the Business on its present footing, at this Critical Juncture.
ATTENTION!
The Merchants and Traders of this City are earnestly requested to meet at the Coffee-House To-Morrow at 12 o'clock, for the purpose of taking into consideration the propriety of addressing Congress in relation to the pending Treaty. Thursday, April 14.
NEW THEATRE.
FRIDAY EVENING, April 13.
Will be presented, a COMIC OPERA, called
The Maid of the Mill.
To which will be added, La Foret Noire; or, THE NATURAL SON.

JAMES M C ALPIN, TAYLOR, No 3 South Fourth Street, RETURNS his grateful acknowledgements to his Friends; and the Public for their liberal encouragement, and begs leave to solicit a continuance of their favour. At his Shop gentlemen may be furnished with the best materials, and have them made up and finished in the most fashionable manner. He will thankfully receive any orders and pay a prompt and punctual attention to them.
WANTED. ONE Journeyman Copper-smith, and one Journeyman Tin Plate Worker—to whom the highest wages will be given—Enquire at No. 235 Arch-Street. April 5.
For sale at this Office. The Constitution of the United States, price 20 cents. Last report of the late Secretary of the Treasury, containing a Plan for the further support of Public Credit, 75 cents. Germantown 20.
Proceedings of the Executive respecting the Insurgents; forming an interesting History of the late Insurrection in the four Western Counties of Pennsylvania.
Interesting summary of the events which have taken place in the Republic of Geneva—written by M c de Nivernois, 12 1-2 cents.
Twenty-six letters; on the most interesting subjects, respecting the American Revolution, containing much information not generally known to the Citizens of the United States, written in the year 1780, 25 cents.
December 20th, 1795.
FOR SALE. THE time of a NEGRO GIRL, about 24 years of age, an excellent disposition remarkably industrious, and can be well recommended for sobriety and honesty. For further particulars enquire at No. 14, north Eighth-Street. April 13.
JUST PUBLISHED, By THOMAS CONDIE, No. 20, Carters Alley, And Sold by all the Booksellers, [Price Three-Sixteenths of a Dollar]
CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE. April 11
Canal Lottery Office, Near the Bank of the United States, Philadelphia, 5th April, 1796.
THE Public are informed, that Tickets are Thirty-one Dollars each, and will continue to rise a dollar at least every other day. As the Lottery is near five-sixths finished every day's drawing must greatly enhance the value of Tickets on account of the five stationary ones of One Hundred Thousand Dollars, besides the 30,000 dollar, and other considerable prizes still in the Wheel.
Wm. Blackburn, Agent. STATE of the WHEEL: 1 prize of 30,000 - - - 30,000 3 do. 20,000 - - - 200,000 3 do. 2,500 - - - 5,000 4 do. 1,000 - - - 4,000 8 do. 500 - - - 4,000 16 do. 100 - - - 1,600 With a proportionate number of 12 dollar prizes. A Check-book kept at the Office for examination and registering.
The annual Election FOR DIRECTORS and a TREASURER of the Library Company of Philadelphia, will be held at the Library, in Fifth-street, on Monday, the second of May next, at three o'clock in the afternoon, when the Treasurer will attend to receive the annual payments.
As there are several shares on which fines are due, the owners of them, or their representatives, are hereby notified, that they will be forfeited, agreeably to the laws of the Company, unless the said fines are paid off on the said second day of May, or within ten days after.
By order of the Directors, BENJAMIN R. MORGAN, Secretary. April 9.
UNITED STATES, } ss. Pennsylvania District, } ss. NOTICE is hereby given. That in pursuance of a Writ to me directed, from the Hon. RICHARD PETERS, Esq d , Judge of the District Court of the United States, in and for the Pennsylvania District,
WILL BE EXPOSED TO PUBLIC SALE, at the Stores of David Callaghan, on Pine-street wharf, on Saturday, the 16th day of April, instant, at twelve o'clock at noon,
28 Pipes of LISBON WINE; 8 Hogsheads of Do. 43 Quarter Casks of Do. The same having been saved from a wreck in the bay of Delaware, libelled against, prosecuted, and condemned, and to be sold for the benefit of the salvors.
William Nichols, Marshal. Marshal's Office, April 12, 1796.
Pennsylvania Hospital. THE Election will be held at the Hospital pursuant to law, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon on the second day of the fifth month next, being the second day of the week, at which time the Contributors are desired to attend to choose out of their number Twelve Managers and a Treasurer to the said Institution for the ensuing year.
By order of a Board of Managers, SAMUEL COATES, Clerk. 4th mo. 5th, 1796.
FOR SALE. A FOUNT of BREVIER, half worn; about four hundred weight. Enquire at the Office of the Gazette of the United States, No. 119 Chestnut-street, December 1.
New Book Auction, BOSTON. JOHN W. ROLSON respectfully informs the public, and booksellers in particular, he has opened an Auction Office, in a central situation, for that purpose only. Any orders in that line shall be faithfully and punctually executed: and letters, post paid, immediately attended to. Boston, March 23.
Treasury Department; Revenue Office, March 10th, 1796. PROPOSALS will be received at the office of the Commissioner of the Revenue, (No. 43, at the corner of Third and Chestnut-streets, Philadelphia) for building in North-Carolina,
I. A Light-House upon Cape Hatteras. II. A Beacon House upon Shell Castle island. Descriptions of each, and all other particulars, may be seen on application at the offices of any of the Superintendents of Light-Houses, or of the Supervisors of the Revenue, or of the Collectors of the Customs in any of the States; as also at this office.
PROPOSALS FOR PUBLISHING BY SUBSCRIPTION, S K E T C H E S OF THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, From the peace of 1783, to the termination of the present Session of Congress. By MATHEW CAREY.
CONDITIONS. I. This work will be comprised in two or three octavo volumes, each about 400 pages. II. The price to subscribers will be two dollars per volume, handsomely bound. III. No money will be required till the volumes are delivered. IV. Should any of the subscribers disapprove of the work when complete, they may decline receiving it. V. It is expected to be ready for press in the spring of 1797. VI. As soon after the above time, as one thousand copies are subscribed for, the printing shall commence, and shall be finished as speedily as possible. VII. Subscriptions received by the Author, No. 118, Market-street, and by the chief Booksellers throughout the United States.
TO THE PUBLIC. THE object of the proposed work, is, to present to public view a connected series of the chief events of a period of American history, that does not yield, in importance, to any period of equal length, in the peaceful annals of any country in the world. Desiring to excite no expectations but such as he shall endeavour to satisfy, the writer is thus early in announcing, that the body and consistence of a regular history, is not to be looked for in this work: neither his talents nor his avocations allow him to hope for this. His humble task shall be to sketch out the most prominent features. It shall be his study to collect and arrange the most interesting materials—to smooth the rugged path—for abler hands, who, by such means, will find their labours abridged, and their progress accelerated.
His chief view will be, to give the History of the United States as a confederated Republic. Nevertheless, notice will be taken of the most remarkable circumstances in the history of the individual States, as far as they can be collected. This information shall be classed under separate appendixes.
The Author solicits the assistance of such Gentlemen as may be possessed of documents calculated to promote the execution of his plan. They shall be received with due gratitude—carefully preferred—and fully returned. February 9. JAW14
BURR MILL STONES Made by OLIVER EVANS , at his Factory, in the old wind-mill in Elmley's alley, South Second-street, a little below Dock-street, WHERE those who apply may be supplied with stones of such quality as will suit their purposes. Also, stones for gudgeons to run on, and Plaister of Paris ground fine for manure, and
Calcined for Stucco-Work. He keeps for SALE, At his dwelling No. 215 north Second-street, a little above Vine-street.
Bouling Cloths, A complete assortment of both imported and American manufactured for merchant and country work, which he warrants good.
ALSO, The Young Millwright's and Miller's GUIDE. Containing a system of mechanics and hydraulics as they apply to water mills with the whole process of, and all the late improvements on the art of manufacturing flour &c. intended to be useful to all concerned in building or using water-mills, which book is sold by Matthew Carey and Robert Campbell, booksellers. Sept. 25. JAW14
For SALE, by the SUBSCRIBERS, IN PENN-STREET, 130 quarter Casks fresh Hylon Tea; 100 ditto do. fresh Souchong Tea; 300 Boxes China, containing small tea sets of 42 pieces; 400 pieces Bandanacs. January 30. Willings & Francis. JAW.
NOTICE. ALL persons having claims against JOHN LYONS , deceased, late of Charles County, Maryland, are requested to exhibit them for settlement; and those who are indebted are requested to make immediate payment. ALEXANDER GREER, Executor. Allen's Creek, Charles county, Maryland, March 14, 1796. JAW6
JOSEPH COOKE, GOLDSMITH & JEWELLER, The corner of Market and Third-streets, Philadelphia; MOST respectfully informs his friends and the public, that he has received, per the last arrivals, a complete and general assortment of almost
Every Article in his Line; Immediately from the manufactures of London, Birmingham, and Sheffield, all of which are of the newest fashion, and will be sold, wholesale and retail, on the lowest terms, and the Notes of Mr. Robert Morris, and Mr. John Nicholson received in payment at their current value. March 5. JAW14
This Day is Published and Sold At BENJAMIN DAVIES' BOOK STORE, No. 68, High-street,
The Political Censor; Or, MONTHLY REVIEW of the most interesting political occurrences relative to The United States, For March 1796. By PETER PORCUPINE.
** This work will be continued monthly, and the future numbers will be published on the last day of every month. April 5. JAW2W.
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30 Pipes Cogniac Brandy, Corks, in bales, and Holland Gin, in pipes, For Sale by Benjamin W. Morris. December 31. eod14
Bar-Iron Manufactory. TO BE SOLD, On reasonable terms and convenient payments, a new
FOUR FIRE FORGE, Advantageously situated on the river Walkill, in the county of Sussex, and state of New-Jersey, and distant one mile and a half from Sharp's Furnace; the Forge lot contains twenty-eight acres of land, on which are four good houses for the workmen, with lots adjoining for gardens, two large coal-houses, a black-smith's and carpenter's shop, and also a commodious dwelling-house, with a good cellar and garden, for a Manager, and a Store adjoining of twenty feet square. The buildings are new, and the works in good repair, and now in full business, and fully supplied with stock and the necessary workmen; wood-land for coaling, sufficient to afford a never failing supply and tying convenient, will be sold with the Forge, or wood supplied on contract by the cord, as may best suit the purchaser. If desired, a FARM adjoining the Forge, of 150 or 200 arable and meadow land, with a good orchard, and convenient buildings, will be sold to accommodate the Forge: And also, a four horse team, coal and other waggons, and implements of every kind to carry on the works. If not before disposed of by private contract (which may be known by the continuance of this advertisement) the Forge, Forge-let and buildings thereon, together with 1500 cords of wood, will be exposed to sale at PUBLIC VENDUE , on the premises, on Tuesday, the 3d day of May next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, at which time and place the conditions will be made known, and attendance given, by the proprietors.
ROBERT OGDEN, ELIAS OGDEN. SPARTA, April 9, 1796. eod13dm.
N. B. The partnership of Robert and Elias Ogden, will then be dissolved.
City of Washington. SCHEME of the LOTTERY, No. II, FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE FEDERAL CITY.
  A magnificent } 20,000 dollars, & } 50,000   dwelling-house, } cash 30,000, are }   1 ditto 15,000 & cash 25,000 40,000   1 ditto 15,000 & cash 15,000 30,000   1 ditto 10,000 & cash 10,000 20,000   1 ditto 5,000 & cash 5,000 10,000   1 ditto 5,000 & cash 5,000 10,000   1 cash prize of 10,000   2 do. 5,000 each, 2re 10,000   10 do. 1,000 10,000   20 do. 500 10,000   100 do. 100 10,000   200 do. 50 10,000   400 do. 25 10,000   1,000 do. 20 20,000   15,000 do. 10 150,000   16,739 Prizes.   33,261 Blanks.   50,000 Tickets, at Eight Dollars, 400,000 
N. B. To favour those who may take a quantity of Tickets, the prize of 40,000 dollars will be the LAST drawn ticket, and the 30,000 the LAST but ONE: And approved notes, securing payment in either money or prizes, in ten days after drawing, will be received for any number not less than 30 tickets.
This Lottery will afford an elegant specimen of the private buildings to be erected in the City of Washington—Two beautiful designs are already selected for the entire fronts on two of the public squares; from these drawings, it is proposed to erect two centre and four corner buildings, as soon as possible after this Lottery is sold, and to convey them when complete, to the fortunate adventurers, in the manner described in the scheme for the Hotel Lottery. A net deduction of five per cent. will be made to defray the necessary expenses of printing, &c. and the surplus will be made a part of the fund intended for the National University, to be erected within the City of Washington.
The drawing will commence as soon as the Tickets are sold off. The money prizes will be payable in thirty days after it is finished, and any prizes for which fortunate numbers are not produced within twelve months after the drawing is closed, are to be considered as given towards the fund for the University, it being determined to settle the whole business in a year from the ending of the drawing and to take up the bonds given as security.
The real securities given for the payment of the Prize are held by the President and two Directors of the Bank of Columbia, and are valued at more than half the amount of the Lottery.
The twenty four gentlemen who by appointment of the late Commissioners assisted in the management of the Hotel Lottery are requested to undertake this arduous task a second time on behalf of the public; a sufficient number of these having kindly accepted, it is hoped that the friends to a National University and the other federal objects may continue to favor the design.
By accounts received from the different parts of the Continent as well as from Europe, where the tickets have been sent for sale; the public are assured that the drawing will speedily commence, and that the care and caution unavoidably necessary to insure a safe disposal of the tickets, has rendered the insur. suspension indispensable. SAMUEL BLODGET.
** Tickets may be had at the Bank of Columbia; of James West & Co. Baltimore or Gideon Denison, Savannah, of Peter Gilman, Boston; of John Hopkins Richmond: and of Richard Wells, Cooper's Ferry.
JUST PUBLISHED, [PRICE, TWENTY-FIVE CENTS] By Samuel H. Smith , No. 118 Chestnut-street, Letters of Pacificus, Written in justification of the President's Proclamation of Neutrality. ALSO,
Charge of Judge Paterson, In the WYOMING CAUSE —Price 25 cents. Also, a new political Pamphlet, called POLITICAL TRUTH. March 30. JAW24.
Columbian Gallery, Chefnut-street, third Door West of Tenth-street.
MR. SAVAGE, INFORMS the Ladies and Gentlemen of Philadelphia that the COLUMBIAN GALLERY , containing a large collection of ancient & modern PAINTINGS & PRINTS will be opened on Monday, the 2d inst.
This collection consists of the productions of the first artists, and will doubtless be pleasing to amateurs and the admirers of the fine arts. To this collection Mr. Savage has added several pieces of his own, one of which is the President and Family, the full size of Life.
** Price of admission to the Gallery, one quarter of a dollar.
The PANORAMA, in High-street, exhibiting a View of London, continues open for the amusement of those who may be disposed to see that interesting perspective. Feb. 20.
For BRISTOL, THE NEW SHIP PHILADELPHIA, Theodore Bliss, Master, WILL take Goods on Freight, and be ready to receive them in a few days. For freight or passage apply to Thomas & John Clifford.
Who have for Sale, besides their usual assortment of Ironmongery, Cutlery, Saddlery, &c. Crates of Glass and Earthen Ware; Crates of Vials, boxes of long and short Pipes; Bristol crown Glass assortment; from 18 by 12 inches, to 9 inches by 7; Copper Sheets and Bottoms; Boxes of Tin Plates; London and Bristol Pewter in Casks assorted; Bristol Grindstones; Garnet & Co's patent Sheaves for Blocks. Also, a Bale of BROADCLOTHS and CASSIMERES; And a few Pipes of OLD MADEIRA WINE. April 11.
No 729. District of Pennsylvania, to wit: BE it remembered, that on the 8th day of March, in the the twentieth year of the Independence of the United States of America, Benjamin Davies of the said district, hath deposited in this office, the Title of a Book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit:
The BLOODY BUOY, THROWN OUT AS A Warning to the Political Pilots of America; Or a FAITHFUL RELATION Of a multitude of acts of Horrid Barbarity, Such as the eye never witnessed, the tongue never expressed, or the imagination conceived, Until the commencement of the French Revolution. TO WHICH IS ADDED, AN INSTRUCTIVE ESSAY, Tracing these dreadful effects to their real causes. Illustrated with four striking copper-plates. By PETER PORCUPINE.
"You will plunge your country into an abyss of eternal detestation and infamy, and the annals of your boasted revolution will serve as a bloody avert, warning the nations of the Earth to keep aloof from the 'mighty ruin'." In conformity to the act of Congress of the United States. SAMUEL CALDWELL, Clerk Dist. Court. March 18. JAW
General Post Office, Philadelphia, March 16, 1796.
WHEREAS sundry Letters, transmitted in the Mail of the United States, to and from Norfolk, in the state of Virginia, were opened, and Bank Notes of several denominations fraudulently taken from them at York, in the state aforesaid, in the months of October, November and December last: and whereas a part of said notes and some cash have been recovered and are now in possession of the Post Master General. In order therefore that such Bank Notes as shall be identified may be restored to the owners thereof, and that the remaining notes may be equitably distributed among those who are entitled to them. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to all persons who have suffered by such fraudulent practices, within the period, and on the route aforesaid, to exhibit their claims without delay, supported by such reasonable proofs as may be necessary to substantiate them. Such notes as shall be identified will be received by application to the General Post Office, on or before the first day of July next; and the residue of such cash and notes will then be divided among the claimants in proportion to their respective losses, to be ascertained by the necessary proofs, which on or before that day shall be produced to the General Post Office. (sawtjuly) JOS. HABERSHAM.
COLUMBIA HOUSE Boarding School for Young Ladies. MRS. GROOMBRIDGE having removed from Lodge Alley, to the corner of Eleventh and Spruce-streets, for the advantage of a large, convenient House, in a dry, healthy situation; hopes for the continuance of the encouragement she has hitherto so highly experienced; and for which she returns her sincere acknowledgment. Mrs. GROOMBRIDGE is assisted by Masters of the first ability; and the useful, as well as ornamental branches of education are particularly attended to. February 8. $2W3M
Wanted to Rent, IN a central situation in Philadelphia, a set of Liberty Stables with other conveniences sufficient to contain forty horses and upwards.
Also, wanted to take a farm not exceeding 30 or 40 miles from the city, of about 150 or 200 acres, houses, &c. upon it, on either the Pennsylvania or Jersey side. Any person having either to rent, may hear of a tenant (lately from England) by applying to Wm. Henthorn, the corner of 3d and South streets. April 6. eod3
CHINA GOODS. THE Ship ATLANTIC, Silas Swain, Commander, from Canton, will commence the discharge of her cargo to-morrow morning at Walnut-street wharf,
Consisting of Yellow and white Nankens of excellent quality Persian Tafties, black and coloured Lutrings, do. do. Satins black of various qualities Sewing silks in assorted colours Vermillion in boxes Cassia in chests Quicksilver in jars BOHEA, SOUCHONG, HYSON SKIN, YOUNG HYSON, BEST HYSON, IMPERIAL, CHINA WARE, ornamental, with Table and Tea Sets generally assorted. WHITE SUGARS, and a quantity of First quality Bengal SALT PETRE. For Sale by Philip Nicklin & Co. April 8. JAW3
THE partnership of WRIGLEY & BERRIMAN , Princes, being dissolved, all persons who have any demands against the said partnership, are requested to furnish their accounts for settlement; and those indebted, to make payment to either of the subscribers. FRANCIS WRIGLEY, JACOB BERRIMAN. Philadelphia, April 13, 1796. eod3t The Business will be carried on by J. BERRIMAN.
PRINTED BY JOHN FENNO, —No. 119— CHESTNUT-STREET. [Price Eight Dollars per Annum.]