Gazette of the United States, & daily advertiser. (Philadelphia [Pa.]), 1800-09-30 00:00:00

Gazette of the United States, & Daily Advertiser.
By C. P. WAYNE, No. 65, South Front-street.
NUMBER 1499.
PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 30, 1800.
[VOLUME XVIII.]
The price of this Gazette is EIGHT DOLLARS per annum to Subscribers residing in the city of Philadelphia...
ALMANAC. From September 30 to October 7. Table with columns for day, high water, and moon sets.
Marshal's Sale.
UNITED STATES, Pennsylvania District. BY virtue of a writ of venditioni exponas to me directed...
Also, a Lot of one acre and three fourths, in Connorsburgh, on which is erected a three story stone dwelling house...
For Sale.
THE NEW PILOT BUILT SCHOONER ST. TAMMANY, LYING at Say's Wharf, above Market Street...
CROOKE STEVENSON,
ALSO, FOR SALE, 33 Hhds. Muscovad Sugar. White and brown Havana-nah-dit in boxes...
Saddling Business.
WILLIAM JONES & EDMUND KINSEY, HAVING entered into partnership, and taken that long established stand at the corner of Chestnut and Third Streets...
They also manufacture all kinds of Silver mounted and Plain Whips, having several excellent Workmen in that branch.
PROPOSALS.
Will be received by the City Commissioners, until the thirtieth day of September next, for renting on Lease, for one year, to commence on the first day of January next...
To Printers.
WANTED—in Exchange, a FOUNT of Long Primer, weighing 6 or 700 lb. or upwards...
Eliha Fisher & Co.
NO. 23, north Front street. HAVE FOR SALE, Sheet Iron, tin plates in boxes, few iron twine, hoes, window glass, and a large assortment of Ironmongery...
Taunton Ale.
of an excellent quality, JUST RECEIVED, Per brig Amity, from Bristol, AND FOR SALE, By John Allen, No. 122, Spruce street.
Charles Marshall
AND SON, No. 46, Chestnut Street, HAVE RECEIVED, Per brig Liberty, capt Henderson, from Antwerp...
A quantity of the following articles, which they sell for cash, or the usual credit— Antimon crud, Arsenic alb, Sac saturni, Vitriol alb, Borax, Opium, Annatto, Merc Dule...
ALSO ON HAND.
Sal Guber, Rad gentian, Flo Sulphur, Sweet oil, Sem acit, Rheubarb, Manna fisk, Com, Liquorice ball, Cort Peru flav, Rub...
Just Received,
AND FOR SALE BY ROBINETT & KISSELMAN, 200 lbs. Mace, 400 lbs. Nutmegs, Jamaica Spirits, 4th proof, Do. Sugar of the first quality, Holland Gin in pipes, Port-au-Prince Molasses—and 30 Tierces Rice.
R. & K. have also on hand, for sale, Hylon, Young Hylon, } TEAS, Suchong...
Cogniac Brandy, 1st & 4th proof, Sherry Wine in quarter casks, very nice, 50,000 Spanish Segars, And a Variety of other GROCERIES.
DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA—
TO WIT: BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the 23rd day of August, in the 5th year of the Independence of the United States of America, WILLIAM VOUNE, (Bookkeeper,) of the said District, hath deposited in this Office, the title of a Book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor...
Essays on Political Society."
IN CONFORMITY to the act of the Congress of the United States, intitled "An Act for the encouragement of learning [SEAL.] by securing the copies of Maps, Charts and Books to the Authors and Proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned"
D. CALDWELL.
Clerk of the District of Pennsylvania.
JUST PUBLISHED,
And to be Sold by JAMES HUMPHREYS, No. 166, fourth side Market Street, Reports of Cases
Reports of Cases
Argued and determined in the HIGH COURT OF ADMIRALTY; (GREAT-BRITAIN) commenced with
THE JUDGMENTS
OF The Right Honorable WILLIAM SCOTT, Michaelmas Term 1798.
By Charles Robinson, LL. D. Advocate. VOLUME I.—PART I.
This Paper will be continued regularly. The Second Part which concludes this Volume is now in the press, and will be published with all the expedition possible.
August 23.
Notice to Creditors.
TAKE Notice that I have applied to the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, for the City and County of Philadelphia, for the benefits of the several acts of this Commonwealth, and they have appointed Monday, the 6th of October, at 10 o'clock A. M. at the Court House, to hear me and my Creditors, at which time and place they may attend if they think proper.
THOMAS DENTON. September 18.
For Sale,
BY PUBLIC AUCTION—IN THE CITY OF WASHINGTON.
THE following property, belonging to the Trustees of the Aggregate Fund, provided for the payment of certain creditors of Edward Fox and James Greenleaf.
On Monday the 6th October inst. PART of the property of said fund, in the City of Washington, that now is rendered clear of every encumbrance will be exposed at Public Auction at Tansill's Tavern...
The term of this fourth cash sale is fixed in two years, payment to be secured by bond and mortgage. But the creditors in the above fund, may in lieu of mortgage secure payment of their bonds by deposit of certificates of the stock at the rate of five shillings in the pound, to the amount secured and should a dividend take place before the expiration of the two years, it will be set off against the bond, and the certificates returned in the same proportion.
Henry Pratt, Thomas W. Francis, John Miller, jun., John Ashley, Jacob Baker. } Trustees. THOMAS TINGEY, Agent. August 4.
To be Sold
THAT Handsome and healthy COUNTRY SEAT, called LAUREL LODGE, the late residence of Thomas Rutter, Esq. Situate in Potts Grove, Montgomery County, thirty-six miles from Philadelphia, containing about 106 acres, twenty of which are prime wood-land, fifteen excellent watered meadow, the residue divided in arable lots. On the premises are a large handsome Brick House and adjoining buildings, containing two parlours, a large dining room, and a Hall, twelve feet wide, by forty long, a large kitchen, wash house with a pump of excellent water in it, six handsome chambers, two store-rooms, four garret chambers plastered and a grain room over the adjoining building, a double spring house, with a smoke house over the same, within fifty yards of the kitchen—The spring, in the driest season never known to lower in the least, and from which the meadow is watered; a garden containing about one acre, stocked with the most delicious fruits, such as peaches, plums, cherries, pears, raspberries, &c. several asparagus beds in great perfection. Also, a young bearing apple orchard, containing several hundred trees, the fruit selected from different parts of the United States, a large convenient barn with a threshing floor, with commodious stabling for horses and cows, carriage and houses, grain room, &c. Also, a fundry out buildings, consisting of a large frame poultry house, and corncrib, &c. Also, a tenant's house, garden and stable, and a pump of excellent water belonging to the same.
The situation of Potts Grove is remarkably healthy, regularly supplied with Butcher's meat and poultry in abundance, to be purchased at a low rate, and the Schuylkill affords a plentiful supply of excellent fish. Two grist mills in the rear of the town. Perhaps few country towns in Pennsylvania are more rapidly improving, or have more local advantages than Potts Grove. The several places of public worship, the salubrity of the air, genteel society, and cheapness of living, are among the few advantages it possesses.
Any person wishing to view the premises, will please to apply to Mr. Wm. POTTS, in Pottsgrove, or for terms to the subscriber, in Philadelphia.
JOHN CLEMENT STOCKER. Sept. 19.
GLASS MANUFACTORY.
THE PROPRIETORS Of the Pittsburgh Glass Works,
HAVING procured a sufficient number of the most approved European Glass Manufacturers, and having on hand a large stock of the best Materials, on which their workmen are now employed, have the pleasure of assuring the public, that window glass of a superior quality and of any size, from 7 by 9 to 18 by 24 inches, carefully packed in boxes containing 100 feet each, may be had at the shortest notice.
Glass of larger sizes for other purposes, may also be had, such as for pictures, coach glasses, clock faces, &c. Bottles of all kinds and of any quantity may also be had, together with pocket flasks, pickling jars, apothecary's shop furniture, or other hollow ware—the whole at least 25 per cent. lower than articles of the same quality brought from any of the sea ports of the United States.
A liberal allowance will be made on sale of large quantities. Orders from merchants and others will be punctually attended to on application to JAMES O'HARA or ISAAC CRAIG, or at the Store of Messrs. PRATHER and SMILE, in Market-Street, Pittsburgh. March 4.
tuthtf.
An Invoice of
Playing Cards.
SUPERFINE Columbian, Harry the Villth and Merry-Andrew Playing Cards, for sale cheap for cash—Apply at this Office. September 13.
French Tuition,
UPON AN ANALYTICAL PLAN.
NICHOLAS GOULIN DUFIEF,
Professor of the French Language, HAS the honor of informing his Fellow-Citizens of Philadelphia, that he will open his School on Monday the 14th of September, at No. 5, fourth Fifth street, and divide his hours of instruction in the following manner:
Attendance on Ladies and Gentlemen, at their own houses, will be given, from 9 o'clock in the morning till 2 in the afternoon.
His afternoon and evening school will begin (every other day) from 4 to 6, and from 6 till 9.
Translating from either language into the other, performed with accuracy, elegance, secrecy and dispatch. N.B.—Nicholas G. Dufief, respectfully invites the Ladies and Gentlemen, ambitious to learn the French, to agree with some of their friends or acquaintances, desirous of receiving lessons in that universal and improved language, to meet at the same hour and place for mutual instruction—they may be assured it will be to their advantage to do so, if they persevere with attention the following:
To the Lovers of the French Language.
ADDRESS.
IN an age when successful efforts have been made towards the improvement of the art of Thinking, and when Analysis has been discovered the universal, and sole good method to improve all sciences, and receive instruction in them, it may be a matter of astonishment that it has not been yet generally embraced, and rendered the familiar method of learning. The extraordinary rise and progress of Chemistry, within a very few years are entirely due to analysis; but there is an art on which it should have first darted its beneficial rays, I allude to the Teaching of Languages.
In fact, Nature, this excellent analyst, was before our eyes guiding children in learning the language of their mother, and no child ever failed in acquiring it, proving surprisingly by reason and experience, that the same method the purposes should be followed as nearly as possible, I adopted, in the course of my instructions, such books established on principles that least deviated from her simple dictates. I soon perceived that the method acquired from these aids was but a very irregular and imperfect Analysis—1, therefore, resolved though with a very small confidence in my slender abilities, but animated with zeal for the improvement of those who may wish to learn French from me, to undertake the laborious and arduous task of writing a work, grounded on Analytical principles, which might comprehend what is wished for by those applying themselves to the study of the living languages, and am happy to say, I have now nearly concluded it.
It consists of three parts. The first, is a chosen Vocabulary of words most frequently used in speech, containing 2,500—the most natural accented of each is determined by a phrase prefixed to it.
The second, contains the French verbs, both regular and irregular, from a new system in which the principal difficulties attending conjugation are first explained, and observations given on the use of each tense, illustrated by proper examples, so as to enable the learner to express himself with precision.
The third, is a complete list of those words servant de lien, or de complement de sens entre les autres paroles du discours: that is to say—forming the link or completion of sense between the other parts of speech, whose principal use is to establish in speech that connection between words, which already exists in the mind between ideas. I have also fully determined the sense and acceptance of these important words (which are divided into appropriate classes to fix them the easier in the memory) by annexing to each examples in French and English.
As I do not intend to publish the above, for some time, and in order, nevertheless, that my pupils may reap the same advantage without it, I hasten to inform those who may be induced to put themselves under my care, that half the time of school (the other half being devoted to other exercises) will be employed in exercising them in the following manner:
We first begin with the Vocabulary; each word of which will be pronounced in English then in French, to be repeated by one or more of the scholars; and a similar repetition of the phrases before mentioned will follow.
It is worthy of observation, that in our infancy, and as we advance in years, we learn the pronunciation of our vernacular tongue, by pronouncing word by word; and Analogy accomplishes what remains to be done, in order to acquire the necessary knowledge of it. The rules given by Gramarians to attain this object are a most useless to us, and still more so to the foreigners, struggling in vain to learn the true pronunciation of a language with the help of dictionaries and Grammar alone. Though I conceive my scholars may attain in the above manner, the accurate pronunciation of the French language, yet strict attention is paid to their reading in approved authors before we begin the foregoing exercises.
I will pursue nearly the same method in imparting to them the contents of the two other divisions of my work. I cannot conclude this address without thanking my Fellow-Citizens for the liberal encouragement I have experienced from them, these six years past, in my professional career, presuming that it may be permitted to say, that I have not been altogether undeserving of it. September 1.
A PERSON,
WHO is about taking his departure from hence to the West Indies, where he intends to reside, will undertake to transact business on the most reasonable terms for Merchants who may be inclined to intrust him with their commands.
He would likewise wish to be concerned with a person of respectability here, who may be desirous of such a connection. Apply at No. 116, North Front St. Aug. 22.
Three Cents Reward.
RUN away from the Subscriber on the evening of the 26th inst. a bound Servant GIRL, named Elizabeth Howeckel, had on and took with her three different changes of garment and money, proud, bold and impudent, a noted liar & any person apprehending her shall be entitled to the above reward—no costs or charges will be paid.
N. B., She had a years and some months to serve DANIEL FITZPATRICK. Goshen Township, Chester County, July 29. august 6.
100 BARRELS OF
Boston Beef,
Landing at Breck's Wharf, and for sale by SAMUEL RHoads, No. 1, Penn Street. September 27.
To Printers.
The following MATERIALS will be sold reasonable if applied for immediately.
1 Press, 3 Founts Long-Primer (partly worn) 2 ditto Small-Pica on Pica body, 2 ditto Pica, 2 ditto English, 2 ditto Brevier, 1 ditto Burgeois.
Several pair of Chases, several composing sticks, frames and galleys, some brass rules, Quotations, &c. &c. &c. all of the above will be sold very reasonable for Cash. September 8.
Candidates for the Navy.
AND others, are desirous of becoming acquainted with the following very essential improvements in Navigation, viz.—The method of finding the Latitude by a single altitude of the sun at any hour of the day; and of ascertaining both Latitude and Longitude at once by a Celestial observation, the Lunars, and new forms of journals for ships of war, with additional columns, may hear of a person ready to instruct them at their apartments, who has compendiums of the above simplified by explanations of figures, marginal references, &c. that they may be understood in a few days; by applying at No. 93, fourth Second-street, opposite the City Tavern.
He engages to teach Navigation (the common method of keeping a journal at sea) in 6 days.
He has taught the Mathematics, French language, &c. for many years in different universities, and ships of war, to which he has been regularly appointed—He has also had considerable practical experience in surveying and book-keeping; in which he gives private lectures. His terms are low and accommodating.
He will open
A Marine and Commercial
ACADEMY,
On Monday the 8th of September, at an elegant and spacious Room in Harmany Court, (opposite No. 74, south Fourth-street.)
The business of an Agent and Interpreter faithfully transacted. August 25.
BENJAMIN CLARK,
CLOCK & WATCH MAKER, HAS REMOVED To No. 36, MARKET STREET, Where he has for Sale, Spring and other Clocks; gold and silver Watches; Tools, Files and Materials; steel and gilt Chains, Seals and Keys; Springs, &c. &c.
CLOCKS AND WATCHES
Repairs as usual. June 3.
Robbery.
300 DOLLARS REWARD.
LAST Saturday night my Shop in Water-street was opened by a false key, and sundry articles of JEWELLERY, to the amount of ten or twelve hundred dollars, were carried off. Among them were, Two marrow spoons marked "Warrock;" Likenesses of Mr. James Robertson and wife, of Peterburgh—one do. of a Mr. King—one do. of Mr. John Trimble, late of this town, the back set with a large blue glass and a smaller in the centre, under which was a plait of hair laid straight, with J. T. in a cypher worked in pearl. Together with a number of fancy pieces, painted by Sulley, which cannot now be recollected; 5 Southwark's Calls stamped "Warrock."
AND
The following Watches:
1 Gold watch, maker's name: Provan, Paris 1 silver do. Thomas Green, Liverpool, 7703 1 do. do. George Bisfield, London, 13,500 1 gold do. French, no name 1 do. do. John Ryland, London, 2331 1 silver do. French, no name 1 do. do. John Bull, London, 744 1 gold do. Rodart, Paris 1 silver do. Joseph Kemble Shaw 1 do. do. J. Darlington, London 1 do. do. No. 9861 1 gilt do. G. M. Metcalf, London, 4196 1 silver do. George Halfwood, London, 2906 1 do. do. J. Smith, London, 212 1 double case gilt watch, R. Osburn, Richmond, 8764
100 Dollars will be given for the restoration of the jewellery, or 200 dollars if the thief or thieves are also secured. Mr. Benjamin Morris, the owner of the Watches which were taken at the same time, will also give 100 dollars for them. July 29.
The Printers at Peterburgh, Richmond, Alexandria—Baltimore—Charleston—and others, are requested to insert the above for a few times.
TO PRINTERS.
FOR SALE,
A PRINTING PRESS complete, Old Long Primer, Small Pica on pica body (new and old Pica, English, (two small founts) 16 Line Pica, &c. Sundry Frames, and a great variety of Office Furniture, &c. Iron work of a printing-press, They will be sold cheap for cash—Apply at the office of the Gazette of the United States.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT, Washington September 1st, 1800.
Public Notice is hereby Given, In pursuance of an act of Congress, passed on the 23d day of April, one thousand eight hundred, entitled "An act to establish a General Stamp-Office."
THAT a General Stamp Office is now established at the seat of government, in the city of Washington, from whence there will issue, from and after the date hereof, (upon the application of the Supervisors of the Revenue, under whose management the collection of the stamp duties is placed) any quantities of paper, parchment and vellum, marked or stamped, and duly counter-stamped, with the following rates of duty which are demandable by law:
For every skin or piece of vellum or parchment, or sheet or piece of paper, upon which shall be written or printed any or either of the instruments or writings following, to wit:
ANY certificate of naturalization 5
Any licence to practice, or certificate of the admission, enrollment or registry of any counsellor, Solicitor Advocate attorney, or proctor, in any court of the United States 10
Provided, that a certificate in any one of the courts to be the United States, for any one of the said offices, shall so far as relates to the payment of the duty aforesaid, be a sufficient admission in all the courts of the United States, for each and every of the said offices.
Any grant or letters patent, under the seal or authority of the United States (except for lands granted for military services) 4
Any exemplification or certified copy of any such grant or letters patent (except for lands granted for military services) 2
Any charter-party, bottomry or respondentia bond 1
Any receipt or discharge for or on account of any legacy left by any will or other testamentary instrument, or for any share or part of a personal estate, divided by force of any statute of distributions other than to the wife, children or grandchildren of the person deceased, the amount whereof shall be above the value of fifty dollars, and shall not exceed the value of one hundred dollars 25
When the amount thereof shall exceed the value of one hundred dollars, and shall not exceed five hundred dollars 50
And for every further sum of five hundred dollars, the additional sum of 1
Any policy of insurance or instrument in nature thereof, when the sum for which insurance is made shall not exceed five hundred dollars 25
When the sum insured shall exceed five hundred dollars 1
Any exemplification of what nature soever, that shall pass the seal of any court, other than such as it may be the duty of the clerk of such court to furnish for the use of the United States, or some particular state 30
Any bond, bill single or penal, inland bill of exchange, promissory note or other note (other than any recognizance, bill, bond or other obligation or contract, made to or with the United States, or any state, or for their use respectively; and any bonds required in any case by the laws of the United States, or of any state, upon legal process, or in any judicial proceeding, or for the faithful performance of any trust or duty)
If above twenty dollars and not exceeding one hundred dollars 30
If above one hundred and not exceeding five hundred dollars 25
If above five hundred and not exceeding one thousand dollars 30
And if above one thousand dollars 75
Provided, that if any bonds or notes shall be payable at or within sixty days, such bonds or notes shall be subject to only two fifth parts of the duty aforesaid, viz.
If above twenty and not exceeding one hundred dollars 4
If above one hundred dollars and not exceeding five hundred dollars 10
If above five hundred dollars and not exceeding one thousand dollars 20
If above one thousand dollars 30
Any foreign bill of exchange, draft or order for the payment of money in any foreign country 30
The said duty being chargeable upon each and every bill of exchange, without respect to the number contained in each set.
Any note or bill of lading or writing or receipt in nature thereof, for goods or merchandise to be exported; if from one district to another district of the United States, not being in the same state 4
If from the United States to any foreign port or place 10
The said duty being chargeable upon each and every bill of lading without respect to the number contained to each set.
Any notes issued by the banks now established or that may be hereafter established within the United States, other than the notes of such of the said banks as shall agree to an annual composition of one per centum on the annual dividends made by such banks, to their stockholders respectively, according to the following scale:
On all notes not exceeding fifty dollars, for each dollar 6
On all notes above fifty dollars and not exceeding one hundred dollars 50
On all notes above one hundred dollars and not exceeding five hundred dollars 2
On all notes above five hundred dollars 1
Table with 2 columns: Description of document, and Dols. C. M. (Dollars and Cents). Includes entries for notarial acts, letters of attorney, military services, inventory, etc.
That the power of the supervisors of the Revenue to mark or stamp any vellum, parchment or paper chargeable with duty, will cease and determine from and after six months from the date hereof, to wit, on the last day of February 1801.
That if any persons shall, after the last day of February 1801, have in their custody or possession, any vellum, parchment or paper, marked or stamped by the supervisors of the Revenue, upon which any matter or thing, charged with duty, shall not have been written or printed, they may at any time within the space of sixty days after the said last day of February 1801, bring or send such vellum, parchment and paper, unto some office of inspection, and in lieu thereof, receive a like quantity or value of vellum, parchment and paper, duly stamped in pursuance of the act herein before recited. And in case any person shall neglect or refuse, within the time aforesaid, to bring or cause to be brought unto some officer of inspection, any such vellum, parchment or paper, it is hereby declared, that the same will thereafter be of no other effect or use, than if it had never been marked or stamped, and that all matters and things, which may after that time be written or printed upon any vellum, parchment or paper, authorized to be exchanged in manner aforesaid, will be of no other effect, than if they had been written or printed on paper, parchment or vellum, not marked or stamped.
And for the convenience of those persons who may be inclined to have their own vellum, parchment and paper stamped or marked, it is hereby declared, that when any person shall deposit any vellum, parchment or paper at the office of a supervisor, accompanied with a list, specifying the number and denomination of the stamps or marks, which are desired to be thereto affixed, the same will be transmitted to the General Stamp-Office, and there properly marked or stamped, and forthwith sent back to the same supervisor, who will thereupon collect the duties and deliver the paper, parchment or vellum, to the order of the person from whom the same was received.
Given under my Hand, and the Seal (L.S.) of the Treasury, at Washington, the day and year above mentioned.
OLIVER WOLCOTT, Secretary of the Treasury. September 29. d3m.
German Redemptioners.
NINETEEN remains of those, who came in the ship Anna from Hamburgh, and are willing to serve for their passage Apply to
Jacob Sperry & Co.
Who have on Hand, Remaining of late importations, and which are offered at reasonable terms, and the usual credit,
33 cases Estopillas.
Forming a complete assortment of Uni, Rayé, Mouches, plain and coloured stripes. 33 cases cafetillos, 5 cases bocadillos, 2 cases quadruple fileñas, 1 case superflue dowlas, 2 cases coulis and 1 case listas, 2 cases superfine Elberfeld checks, 3 cases bed parches, 2 cases Flanders bed ticks, 8-4, 10 cases coffee mills, Nos. 00, to No. 6, assorted, 2 cases Seythes, 5 cases of double flint cut Decanters quart and pint, 1 case gill tumblers, and 1 case of Travelling cafes, 1 case of quills, 1 case of common sealing-wax and 400 Demijohns. September 27. d6t. 2awtm.
On Monday morning
The 29th instant will be landed on Hamilton's Wharf 75 Pipes, and 95 Quarter casks of excellent Lisbon Wine Apply to
WILLIAM PARKER, or MOORE WHARTON. September 27. d1w.
George Davis,
No. 319, High-Street, HAS JUST RECEIVED, Per Adriana from London, A few Trunks and Cakes of 4-4, 7-8 & 3-4
Irish Linens,
AND Gentlemen's, Youths, and Boys, Fine
BLACK HATS,
Which he will sell on moderate terms, at a reasonable credit. September 24. mw13w.
Late FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. CONTINUED.
State of the Negotiation between France and America.
PARIS, 18 Thermidor, August 6. The conferences opened at Paris with the envoys of the United States are at present suspended; and there is little hope of their being successfully resumed for some time. It appears that the powers vested in the envoys are too limited to enable them to conclude a treaty which shall give the same advantages to the Republic as those granted the English by the treaty made with Mr. Jay. France chooses rather to decline treating with the United States, than to sanction the privileges which they have accorded to her enemy.
The question in dispute will appear from the following particulars.
The United States and England, by the 25th article of their treaty, mutually stipulate a free entrance into their respective ports, with complete protection to the privateers and ships of war of the two countries, and the prizes taken from their enemies. And they engage never to conclude a treaty extending the same favour to any nation at war with either of the contracting parties. The treaty of 1778, between France and the United States having been annulled by the latter, and now regarded as if it never existed, they conceive that they cannot give the same privileges to France, without violating their treaty with England. The French Republic does not seem disposed to ratify, to her own prejudice, and in favour of the English, her enemies and rivals, a proceeding so unexpected on the part of the Americans, with whom she recently made a common cause against those very enemies, directed to the same object for which France herself is now at war—the attainment of liberty and independence.
It is unfortunate that the United States so precipitately annulled the treaty of 1778. They themselves, now repeat that they were induced to take that step, as it deprives them of the power of giving to France, or any other country the same advantages which they have conferred on the English. Their diplomatic agents must have been very short sighted, or very partial to the interest of England—or their envoys must give a wrong interpretation to their instructions and the treaty alluded to; since it appears that France, renouncing the claims she may have from the priority of the treaty of 1778, now offers to treat without demanding any other advantage than those enjoyed by the English, and which they have exercised during the present war—and the Ambassadors to negotiate a peace, if they are not vested with power to accede to those conditions.
The negotiation was opened, on the part of the French Commissioners, on the supposition that the treaty of 1778 was still in force. It was, indeed, natural to suppose that, the two nations never having been in a state of war with each other, this treaty could not have been annulled without the consent of both countries; and in this point of view it was that the French Commissioners offered an indemnification to the Americans, by admitting the principle of compensation for illegal captures.
They even proceeded further; instead of demanding from the Americans, the indefinite guarantee of the French colonies, the article of the treaty which was most disadvantageous to the former, they agreed to the substitution of a special guarantee, such as appears to be contained in the instructions of the preceding ambassadors, according to the copy of them published by Congress. But the American envoys were not authorised to renew this treaty, even after retrenching the article respecting the guarantee of the French islands. France, therefore, conceived herself exempted from the obligation of compensating for the captures—the Americans themselves having, by abrogating the treaty, destroyed the basis on which only their claim could have been founded.
It thus appears that the negotiation turned chiefly on three points.
1. The continuance in force, or the modified renewal of the treaty of '78. France waived this point, in consequence of the assurance of the American envoys that they could not renew it.
2. The principle of compensation for illegal captures. This point France offered to admit; but on condition only that the treaty of 1778 should be renewed, with the modifications stated in the instructions given by Washington.
3. The 25th article of the treaty between the United States and Great Britain, relative to the protection granted to the armed vessels of that nation. France will most probably insist, upon enjoying the same advantage as long as it is possessed to her injury by her enemies.
There is another principle which France is anxious to establish; and on the adoption of which she has strongly insisted; a principle which it is still more the interest and policy of the Americans to carry into execution. But the treaty of 1778 with the English prevents them from acceding to this system, namely, that neutral bottoms shall constitute neutral property. France, however, hopes to reduce the powers of the North to establish this system, to be excluded from the benefit of which would be highly injurious to the Americans.
It appears, however, that these diplomatic conferences have been conducted in the most amicable manner, and so as to leave only an impression of regret that it was impossible to remove the difficulties which had occurred.
The American Ambassadors, during their residence at Paris, have been treated with every possible mark of respect, and enjoyed all the distinctions conferred on the Ministers of our Allies. As it is at present, the principle and system of France to respect and protect the law of nations, and the rights of neutrality, it is to be hoped that the frank and equitable conduct which she holds, with regard to neutral states, will soon remove the difference which have occurred between her and the United States; and that even should the present negotiation not terminate in a treaty, the American flag shall, notwithstanding, continue to be respected, and their vessels treated as those of a friendly nation in our courts of law.
Orders are issued to the privateers to respect all neutral flags, among which the American is undoubtedly the most numerous, and American vessels are daily released by the courts, with damages against the owners of privateers. There are now about fifty causes before the Council of Prizes respecting vessels taken in the European seas, and those of the vessels which really belong to Americans will assuredly be restored. The fate of such, however, as were furnished with letters of marque, does not appear to be yet determined. It is thought that they cannot be given up without sanctioning the conduct of the Americans in arming them, unless the restitution should result from a new treaty of amity.
The Preceding particulars, though not official, have been communicated by the most respectable authority.
August 16. A letter from Augsburg of the 11th August says, that in less than a fortnight there will be a Congress at Augsburg.
Preliminaries of peace have been signed between the French Republic and the Dey of Algiers.
Letters from Berlin, state, that the negotiations are carried on with equal vigour at Paris, Vienna and Berlin. The King of Prussia, in concert with Denmark, Sweden, Spain, and perhaps with Russia, labours to effectuate the peace of Europe, or at least of the continent, and to organize an armed neutrality if the war between France and England is to continue. Couriers arrive every day from Paris, Vienna, and Petersburg. They say that negotiations are to be entered on at Carlsbad, and that General Bourguenville will go there soon.
From the second half year of the year 8, the rents and pensions of the State, are to be paid in specie, through the medium of the Bank of France.
DIJON, August 7.
The army of Reserve is, until further orders, composed of four divisions; the one forming the advanced guard is encamped on the right bank of the Lemany, under the command of the General of Division Rey. The second commanded by General Baraguay d'Hilliers, is encamped on the left bank of the lake of Geneva. The third under the command of Gen. Morlot, is in barracks at Remilly-sur-Tille. And the fourth division commanded by Gen. Grouchy, is to be stationed in the environs of Dijon, and its head quarters will be transferred to that city.
Discipline is rigidly pursued, and no soldiers are allowed to absent themselves from their quarters.
BERNE, August 8.
The events of yesterday are some of the most important which we have witnessed since the Revolution, and those of this day will not be less interesting. They constitute the era of a revolution, from which we are enabled to augur the happiest consequences, and which will give us a government more capable of guiding us in a difficult crisis, from the consideration that it will be less exposed to become the victim of faction and of the spirit of party, than our distracted and expiring Legislature.
Yesterday a message was addressed to the councils by the Executive Commission, stating the mischiefs produced by the spirit of faction, by the tyranny of the Legislative and Executive Bodies and by the want of energy, patriotism and salutary laws! The Message concluded with proposing a project of a decree for changing the Legislative and Executive Authorities, and was signed by the President of the Executive Commission.
In consequence of this message, dated the 7th of August, the Grand Council having declared the urgency of the business, agreed to twelve resolutions, of which the following are the principal:
The Legislative Councils are adjourned from the present day,
A Legislative Council, composed of 43 members is established in their room.
The Executive Commission in order to form this Council, shall, in the space of 24 hours from the receipt of the present decree, make choice of 35 from the former Legislature.
After having convoked them, the Executive Commission shall resign its powers into their hands, and the members of it shall take their places in the Legislative Council.
The Council thus constituted shall make choice of 8 more members taken from the general class of citizens.
The Legislative Council shall immediately, after choice from its own body 7 members, who shall form a new Executive Council.
The rights and powers exercised by the two sections of the Legislature shall be assumed by the Legislative Council.
The Executive Council shall exercise the same rights and powers attributed by the Constitution to the Directory.
The two authorities thus established shall remain in full force until a new Constitution shall be proposed and accepted by the Helvetic nation.
The resolutions were agreed to by the Grand Council, with the single opposition of a Miller of Zurich; but they were warmly
opposed in the Senate, and referred for investigation to a committee, who were charged with making their report this morning. This delay did not, however, satisfy the Executive Commission, who required the immediate acceptance or rejection of the resolutions. Twenty-one members of the Senate then withdrew, and the number prescribed by the Constitution not being present, those who remained no longer possessed the right of discussion. In the mean time the Executive Commission, supported by the whole of the Grand Council, by a considerable part of the Senate, and by the voice of the nation, was not intimidated by this partial opposition, and proceeded to make choice of the 35 Legislators who were to remain, among whom were some of those who had even opposed the resolutions.
In the course of the afternoon, the nomination of the eight Members, who were to be chosen from all Helvetia took place, and the following were returned. Citizen Schmidd, National Prefect of the Canton of Balle; Rutimann, National Prefect of the Canton of Lucerne; Eufli, Ancient Magistrate of the Canton of Schwitz; Wittenbach, a person of literary reputation at Berne, and an ancient Magistrate; Lang, belonging to the Administrative Chamber; Sacci formerly Chancellor; and Berrenschwand, President of the Administrative Chamber of Fribourg.
To-morrow the nomination of the new Executive Council will take place.
The greatest tranquillity prevailed during the whole transaction, and even the customary course of business was uninterrupted.
August 9.
All the troops of the garrison in the commune are now drawn out, and last night numerous detachments paraded the streets.
The seven Members of the new Executive Council who are just elected are Citizens Frising, Savary, and Dolder, Ex-members of the Executive Commission; Zimmermann, of the Grand Council; Gayre, of the Executive Commission; Schmidd National Prefect of the Canton of Balle; and Rutimann, Prefect of Lucerne.
PARIS.
ACTS OF THE GOVERNMENT.
(Decree of the 13th August.)
The consuls of the republic, in pursuance of the report of the minister of general police, and after hearing the reasons assigned by the consul of state, decree:
"Art. 1. The passports or letters of safe conduct granted by the ministers and other diplomatic agents of the allied and neutral powers, whether granted to individuals not belonging to their nation, or to Frenchmen naturalised in the dominions of those powers since the 14th July 1789, shall not be admitted into France.
"4. The persons described in the preceding article are prohibited from entering the territory of the republic, under the penalty of being treated as contumacious, or as emigrants.
"3. All foreigners actually in France, by virtue of passports delivered to them by a minister or agent of an allied or neutral power, and who are placed in the case described in the first article of the present decree, are bound to prove from this time to the 1st of September, by the certificates of the minister or agent of their nation resident in France, that they are of the nation in the name of which such passports have been granted.
"4. Every foreigner who is placed in the case described in the first article, and who may not conform to the above-mentioned regulations, shall be arrested and conducted out of the territory of the republic.
"5. Every individual, a native of France, and actually in France, by virtue of a foreign passport, shall be bound, for the purpose of enabling him to continue his residence, to provide himself within the space of 3 days for Paris, and of two decades for the departments, with the express decree of the minister of general police, under the penalty of being arraigned as an emigrant.
Another decree of the same day.
The consuls of the republic, in consequence of the report of the minister of general police, and the reasons assigned by the consul of state decree:
"Art. 1. The decree of the 14th of last Ventose, which applies to the four departments of the Deux Seures, La Vendée, Maine and Loire, and the Lower Loire, the benefit of the annuity granted by that of the 7th Nivose preceding; is rendered common to the departments placed out of the protection of the constitution, by the law of the 23rd of last Nivose.
"No inhabitant of those departments shall be prosecuted for transactions relative to the troubles which occurred, either by public prosecution in the name of the nation, or by civil proceedings in the name of individuals who may pretend to have been injured.
"3. All process of arrest, from whatever authority it may be derived, and all process of accusation or judgment with respect to actions relative to troubles antecedent to the present publication, shall be considered as void."
[Here follow three articles stating the inutility of passports for the protection of persons who are entitled to the benefit of the amnesty, and authorising, notwithstanding such persons, should they think it necessary for their personal protection, to demand passports and certificates from the minister of general police]
(Signed) "BUONAPARTE."
MINISTRY OF THE MARINE
Extract of a circular letter from the minister of the marine and the colonies, to the Maritime Prefects.
"Preliminaries of Peace, Citizen Prefect, are concluded between the French republic and the King of Algiers. They were signed at Algiers on the 21st of July, by citizen Thionville, entrusted by government with the proper powers. The Dey has issued orders to the vessels navigating under his flag, to respect that of the French republic.
"The First Consul directs me, in pursuance of this act, to cause the Algerine flag to be respected by the French navy. You will notify in all the ports under your superintendence, the formal intentions of government, and take every method for their prompt execution."
LONDON, August 22:
The Paris journals an abstract of which we gave in yesterday's paper contain nothing positive relative to the signing of the preliminaries of peace; yet from the whole of the different articles which from their contents; it is evident that this great question is on the eve of being decided. It is no

longer doubtful that the Count de St. Julien and the Aide de Camp Burne have carried to Vienna, the ultimatum of the First Consul. Those negotiators must have arrived at that capital on the 7th or 8th inst. The Imperial Cabinet would certainly take some days to deliberate, and therefore it is not surprising that its answer should not reach Paris on the 16th, the date of the Paper arrived. It is asserted, however, that our government received on Tuesday or Wednesday night intelligence from Vienna, that the preliminaries had been ratified by the emperor, and that this gave occasion to the extraordinary cabinet council held by ministers. Yet it is very possible that the real subject was the terms of the ultimatum; though it cannot admit of a doubt that the ratification will be soon confirmed, if not already signed.
But the question is now concerning a particular measure to be settled between France and Austria; the whole continent, must, and, in fact, does take part in the negotiation.
The general interest of Europe appears to have induced Paul the I. to lay aside his resentment against the Court of Vienna; and we have not a doubt but that the journey of the Archduchess Palatine to Petersburg, in the present state of affairs, has for its object to promote the reconciliation between the two courts. The great influence, which the princes possessed over the mind of her father is well known, and this influence, joined to the powerful motive of preserving the political system of Europe from total dislocation, it may be presumed, will be sufficient to restore harmony between two Imperial courts. That of Vienna we find, manifests no kind of alarm at the great body of Russian troops collecting in Poland; which seems to show that it entertains no fears of any attack being intended on its hereditary states.
All the powers of the north, and especially the King of Prussia, are in motion for the same object. A Congress is still talked of as soon to take place at Augsburg. The subjects are to be discussed in it will be both a general peace for the continent, and a new system which may fix the fate of Germany. The interests of Italy, so closely connected with those of the German Body, will likewise not be forgotten. Thus all the powers of Europe, after having committed the capital fault of permitting the monstrous colossus of revolutionary power to attain its present gigantic size, feel at length the necessity of uniting against it, to prevent its crushing them. A hostile coalition, founded on the principle of re-establishing the French monarchy, would have bled Europe from being deluged with blood, its countries from being pillaged, and many of its states from being dislocated, and indeed, annihilated. It was time, in fact, that they should unite to arrest the progress of this torrent. But the peace that may be concluded with the present Government of France will not prevent the political edifice of Europe from suffering from time to time shocks more or less dangerous, while France shall be without a monarchial and hereditary government, by which the power may be transmitted, without contest or dispute from father to son, the family of legitimate royalty. Till this measure shall be resorted to, the elective system will continually engender factions, which will require to be nourished with blood; and this blood, put into fermentation by revolutionary passions, will be perpetually disgorged on the neighboring nations.
While every thing announces an approaching peace on the continent, there is no indication that Great Britain will be included in it. The first Consul appears even to propose to avail himself of a continental peace to prosecute the war against us with new vigor; and he flatters himself that he shall be able to sow divisions between England and the maritime powers, by means of that armed neutrality, of which his agents are the Apollos and the millionaires. The minister of war, Carat, announces, as we stated yesterday, that vast projects are meditated by Buonaparte. A camp has been formed in Brittany, which is daily receiving reinforcements.
The position of this campaign in the midst of a province at only a little distance from the sea which separates the two countries, recalls the idea of the Army of England, which was assembled in Brittany two or three years ago. It must be intended to be for maritime expeditions what the camp at Dijon was for those into Germany and Italy. But it will not be found so easy to cross the ocean as to pass the Alps; nor must our enemies expect to find Lord St. Vincent as negligent as General Malas; nor our government paralysed with the stupor which seized that of Vienna. We doubt much, whether the camp at Amiens, notwithstanding the acknowledged fortune of the First Consul, inspires his subjects with any great confidence of success; and we will engage that it will inspire our Countrymen with as little alarm. We believe, on the contrary, that before this camp shall be organized, our expeditions will have carried terror to the coast of the enemy.
That which sailed from Portsmouth on the 9th, joined on the 10th the Grand Fleet off Ushant. It was still there on the 11th, waiting the arrival of the troops that have sailed from Cork. From these immense preparations, from the profound secrecy that reigns relative to their destination, from the genius of the commander in chief who conducts this great enterprise, we may soon expect the development of a vast plan, which has nothing in common with the partial expeditions of preceding campaigns.
The return of the Emigrants to France has produced two acts of the government more alarming to them in appearance than in reality. By a decree of the 12th of Au-
gust, the Consuls declare, that the passports delivered by foreign Ministers are not sufficient; but they leave those who have obtained them at liberty to exchange them for the licences of the Minister of General Police.
Gazette of the United States PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 30
PRICES OF STOCKS. PHILADELPHIA, SEPTEMBER 30. Old 8 per Cent Stock for cash 108 3/8 Six per Cent. (net amount) do. 86 1/8 Navy do. 80 3/8 Three per Cent. do. 52 3/8 Deferred, do. 84 3/8 BANK United States, do. 322 3/8 — Pennsylvania, do. 28 — North America, do. 50 Insurance comp. N. A. shares 10 per cent. below par — Pennsylvania, shares, 21 per cent. adv. Turnpike shares, 10 per cent. under par. Bridge (Schuylkill) Stock, par. Ball-India Company of N. A. none for sale. Land Warrants, 25 dollars per 100 acres. Water Loan, 8 3/4 per cent.
AT a time, when not only the Government of our country is threatened with baneful change, if not total destruction; when the pillars of orthodoxy are shaken, and even the finest ligaments of morality broken by the unprincipled Philosophers of a sect, more profligate than that of EPICURUS, & more sceptical than that of PYRRHO, it is pleasant to find, at every station, some, who are constant to adhere to those Principles moral, virtuous, loyal, and energetic, of which the experience of eighteen centuries has proved the utility. These remarks will apply, in general, to many of our Countrymen, each in his order, who are prompt to keep watch, and ward against the evils of the Jeffersonian party, and who would draw the sword, and open the purse, to defeat the nefarious plots of the Jacobins. But what is more, immediately in view in the present state is the salutary zeal, and well principled attempts of a young individual, who in common with every one, engaged in the traffic of Literature, has in some degree in his power to widen or narrow the circulation of false, and immoral publications. When we perceive such a man, studious to print, not the travels of Volney, the reason of Paine, the ravings of Macleod, or the trash of Callender, but, on the contrary, checking their dissemination, and employing his time, property and zeal in the circulation of a work, like "the Pursuits of Literature" it is surely, an honorable trait in the character of a youth of business, and entitles him to the favorable regard of the virtuous among his Countrymen. We are happy to find that Mr. DICKENS, Bookseller, in this city, is of this description of persons, and that, not only his private resolutions, but his professional exertions have an uniform tendency to promote the fairest interests of the government, the morals, the arts and sciences of his country. He is now engaged in printing several valuable publications of Mr. Murray, and we understand there will shortly appear from his Press, a very interesting examination of the Pretensions of Thomas Jefferson, to a Christian Presidency. He has lately procured the assistance of a Gentleman, skilled in the art of humorous delineations, to exhibit the figure of a certain self stiled Philosopher , in those attitudes which his Irreligion and system of Politics would naturally prescribe. He kneels at the feet of Gallic despotism, he tramples upon the Volume of our belief, and his cold and contemptuous language talks with equal indifference of Twenty deities, or none . We find, from the advertisement of the Print in question that it is dedicated to the Philosophers of the New School . "They will recognize the features of their favorite, but his principles they will not be induced to renounce, though the consequences are represented in all their deformity. But the Philosophers of the old School , and even "way faring men, though fools" will discern the Infidel and visionary projector, and will acknowledge that the likeness is not only just but the lesson is wholesome.
For the Gazette of the United States.
IN MEMORY
OF THE LATE AMIABLE H. C.
HAST thou not seen the lucid ray of Even! Far, in the west, diffuse its modest ray? And mark'd the bright, Cerulean beam of Hea- ven— Cheer and irradiate, the Orient day? Hast thou not seen Religion's powerful aid Fresh lustre to the brow of youth, impart? And charity, in Cooper's form pourtray'd, Warm and ameliorate the human heart! Yes—thou hast seen, meek gratitude express'd, Where beauty (lowly bends) to Virtue's shrine, And Pity's pure oraison, address'd, To Him, who bade Ethereal glories shine. Wrapt, in the fable garments of Woe, Where pendent Cypresses shroud funeral gloom— The mule, her plaintive requiem, taught to flow, And Friendship wept, at Cooper's silent tomb. 'Twas thine, to animate life's swift career, Mild, modest, artless, innocently gay— 'Twas thine, to fill an higher, nobler sphere, With sainted spirits in the realms of day. For thee, sweet maid! resplendent beams of thought, Wisdom's rich lore, (by seraphs' hands, were given, They speedless foul, the pure effulgence caught, It "packed, was exhaled, and went to heaven." Philadelphia, September 26th, 1800.
For the Gazette of the United States.
NOTES ON GALLATIN.
When our present Government was completely organized, and our immense War debt funded, in the year 1791, both the People and their rulers rejoiced at the substance and new spectacles which were daily unfolding in every direction; Commerce crowded our harbours, houses sprang up in every city and in every village, an Indulgent Providence smiled on the labours of the Husbandman, the dream of the Poet was realized in our happy Elysium, while the wilderness did literally blossom like the rose.
But as permanent bliss, and perfect tranquility, are not now the lot of humanity, that demon who disturbed our first parents, was found at equal enmity with their offspring, and for envious spite has lent his active rops in various foreign shapes to infest our terrestrial paradise.
Among the many needy strangers who, since our Independence have visited these shores, few have made themselves so conspicuous, or so remarkable, as Albert Gallatin , of Geneva, now a member of Congress for the State of Pennsylvania. Of the means by which he rose to his present elevated station, all those who are able and willing to be informed, are already acquainted; he flattered the ignorant, and pretended to have a violent love for the voters, while his eyes were sharply set on their votes alone; he could fawn and cringe, and in short do any thing that would ultimately lead him to his desired object—an elevated seat in the grand council of the nation.
Of the part he took in the Insurrection of 1794, of his defection of the party at the moment of danger, of the scandalous trimming by which he has endeavoured to dupe every one who may at any time have trusted to his political promises, of his audacity at any moment deemed favourable to Insurrection, and of his coadjutor when disappointment issued, of his jesuitical speeches, and of his sophistry in writing, one would imagine we have had enough, and yet such is the ignorance, or such the malice of the times, it has become necessary once more to notice his recent insults offered both to the Secretary of the Treasury, and to a committee of Congress, of which he has thus proved an unworthy member, for such is the art with which he has involved every plain question relative to our National Debt, that under pretence of throwing light on the subject, he has obscured it in the most impenetrable darkness.
When he, with much difficulty, prevailed on the committee to report two different views of the same debt, instead of quietly acquiescing, as he promised to do, in this two-fold report, he brought the very fact of two statements forward to prove the fallacy of both; and although the items in each were identically and substantially the same, with no inaccuracy in fact, in either, yet the two views of the subject were laid hold of with avidity by him, to cover the base assertion, that instead of matter of fact, mere opinions only had governed the report to Congress and the World, see 3d and 4th page of Gallatin's view. It is usual for honest writers on the subject of false statements in arithmetic, to correct and to amend the errors they discover; has Gallatin done this? he dare not say he has even attempted any such thing; in his confused mass of items, promiscuously thrown out, or purposely deranged to distract or mislead the mind of the unwary. Thence it is, that although no one doubted the clear annual statements, which were always received from the treasury, 'till he spoke and wrote on the subject; we now see every day a new statement in the Aurora; all which the Editor says he has proved from Gallatin, and when a repetition of facts were republished by two persons to clear up these palpable absurdities, what was the consequence—Read from the Aurora of this morning the following extract,
"Messrs. Griswold and Sewall were the fabricators of that base production. (the report) that imposition on a robbed, insulted Public."
Where are you Gallatin, to answer this monitor as he deserves? when was the time 'till now in this, or any other country, that an honest member of a select committee of the supreme legislature of a great and respectable nation, would suffer his individual levity to cover, or even countenance, such vile calumny, such abominable aprobrum, as would have disgraced Pandemonium; and is such language, and such conduct, the result of our modern philosophy? but thank God, it cannot last; it would destroy itself by the virulence of such horrid friction on its own disjointed, delubricated abominable wheels.
And now, proceeding to a statement of the national debt, two simple views of the subject only would have been enough, as they are perfectly plain and easy, wherever they are untouched by Gallatin, or by the transfiguration of his school, they are thus proved by the Committee
Extract of a letter from a respectable commercial house in London, to another in New-York, dated August 20th. It is now said that your Commissioners, though experiencing all possible friendly attentions at Paris have not power to agree to
such a treaty as they themselves, think just and proper. They may wait for more enlarged authority. In the mean-while, your unarmed vessels are to pass unmolested. Peace on the Continent is considered as settled, but not yet confirmed. We do not expect any share in the treaty."
From the Aurora of yesterday.
To the Editor of the Aurora.
In your paper of the 16th of September, we have seen a statement of the accounts of the late contractors, Scott and French, in which it is mentioned that we, together with General Wilkins, became sureties for the balance due to the United States from these contractors; And from that circumstance it is inferred and plainly intimated, that we are either the real defaulters ourselves; or that in some way we have been accommodated with the public money for our private purposes. As you have been the first to circulate this calumny, we request that you will publish the following account of the facts and motives which led us to join in the bonds mentioned in your statement.
On settlement at the treasury of the account of the late contractors, Scott and French, a balance was found against them of more than thirty thousand dollars. From their own misfortunes, and the failures of others, the contractors themselves were unable to discharge the balance. The gentlemen who had become their securities when the contract was entered into, were uneasy and apprehensive that they would be obliged to pay this money, and probably they had no counter-security for their indemnification. General John Wilkins of Pittsburgh, although, not one of their securities, yet being the brother-in-law of one, and the intimate friend of the other contractor, and having an interest in the favourable adjustment, not only of their private affairs but of the accounts of the contract itself; came forward in a manner highly honorable to himself, and proposed to Mr. Steel the comptroller of the treasury of the United States, that he would assume and pay this balance, provided: It should be divided into four equal annual installments with interest.
The original securities for the contractors to be exonerated:—And a mortgage upon real property of General Wilkins, in Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, to be given, together with his bond, for the payment of the installments.
The comptroller agreed to the two first conditions, but declined the last; and proposed that General Wilkins, instead of a mortgage, should give satisfactory personal security.
General Wilkins shewed the correspondence with the comptroller, and presented the schedule of the property he had offered to mortgage to the United States. He requested us to become his securities for the payments to be made to the U. States, and that we should take the mortgage upon this property as our indemnity; at the same time he informed us, that since his proposal had been made to the comptroller, he had collected monies which would reduce the demand to 21,000 dollars.
We had no difficulty in complying with his request; we signed the bonds for 21,000 dollars; he at the same time gave us a mortgage on great part of the lands offered to the United States, the whole being unnecessary, as part of the money was ready and the property in his schedule was of much greater value than the balance originally found due from the contractors. These bonds and all the money were forwarded to the treasury of the United States, and accepted by the comptroller, who, thereupon gave notice to the original securities of Scott and French, that they were exonerated.
Neither of us were original security for these contractors, nor has either of us ever had any concern of interest, directly or indirectly in this or any other contract with the Federal Government; and we defy the malignity of our enemies to shew that either of us has at any time been indebted to any contractor or public officer, so as to raise a presumption of obligation either to favour or to bail him. We leaped forward at the request of our very respectable and wealthy friend Gen. Wilkins, to bail him in an undertaking which we thought, and still think, highly praiseworthy on his part. He gave us an ample indemnity for doing so; and we have no difficulty in saying, that had the sum been much greater, had it been payable on terms more rigorous than those demanded by the United States, Gen. Wilkins would easily have found, wherever he is known, the most satisfactory security for any amount he would undertake to discharge.
General Wilkins is now, and for some time past has been absent from this place on public business; he will no doubt make a satisfactory statement in due time, of his inducements for entering into these engagements for the late contractors.
GEORGE WALLACE, JAMES ROSS, ALEXANDER ADDISON, JOHN WOODS. Pittsburg, September 19.
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Several articles of Marine Intelligence are omitted this day for want of room.
Gazette Marine List. PORT OF PHILADELPHIA.
ARRIVED. Ship Days Brig Tryphena, Arnold, Amsterdam — — Gin. &c. L. Croussat — Schr. Ann, Wilkinson, Norfolk — — Rem. &c. G. Plumstead — Schr. Judith, Freeman, Liverpool, N.S. 15 — Fish; to Captain — Succes, Koch, Halifax 14 — Fish; to Captain — Governor Clinton, Broeks, Port — [Republican — Sugar, coffee, &c.—A. Goldea — Hope, Lincoln, Boston 18 Fish; to Captain — Schooner Peggy, Coffin, from hence, to New Orleans, is captured and sent into N. Providence. — Ship Swift Packet, Richards, from Surinam, has arrived at the fort. — A brig inward bound, having lost her foretopmast, is below, name unknown. — La Vengeance has arrived at Jamaica. — Brig Rambler, is recaptured and sent into Washington. —
Arrived at the Port. Brig Perseverance, Swain, from St. Kitt's, left there 30th August, Rum and Coffee, J. Hollingsworth. Brig Mercury, Campbell, Kingston, left it 29th August, Rum and Coffee, Savage and Dugan. Schr. Joliva, Greenman, Havanna, left it 6th August, Sugars. Ship Diana, Hefs, from hence, has arrived at Bremen. Ship Belvidere, Ross, of this port has arrived at Dublin. Brig Susannah, Shallcross, from London to this port, was in the Downs the 17th of August.
Arrived brig Tryphena, Arnold, from Amsterdam, failed from thence 7th August, in company with the following vessels: Ship Richmond, Glenn, for Philadelphia. Columbia, Rodman, R. Island. Howard, of and for New-York. Parted from them shortly after coming out.
Left there the following vessels, viz. Ship George, McCollom, of Philadelphia, to sail in 14 days; Harmony, Wickham, do. 5 do. Eliza, —, Providence, R. I. Criterion, Charge, Boston. Cheeseman, Guthrie, New-York. —, Lawson, Providence, R. I. —, Army, Boston. Brig Ann, Gidea, Philad. to sail in 10 days. Lovely Lads, Shields, do. 10 Captain Arnold spoke on the 20th September, in lat 41, 20, long 63, 30, brig Abby, of and from New-York, 8 days out, bound to Hamburg—Next day spoke a Schooner from Demerara bound to Boston, and on the 25th Sept. in latitude 39, 00, N. longitude 73, 00, W. spoke the brig John, Henderson, 58 days from Amsterdam, bound to New York.
BALTIMORE, September 28. Capture of the French Frigate Vengeance. Yesterday arrived the Schr. Nancy and Katy, captain Webb, 24 days from Kingston. The Schr. Mary Ann, captain Dalton, arrived there the 27th August. Captain Peck, in the Schooner Hannah, failed for this port four days before capt. Webb.
On the 26th of August arrived at Port Royal, La Vengeance, French frigate, prize to La Seine, captain Milne. La Vengeance mounts 50 guns, besides swivels, viz. 28 twenty-four pounders, 8 fifty-six brass howitzers, and 14 long nine pounders, full of men, and many of the same families passengers on board, that were in her when she engaged and beat off the Constellation. The number of men killed and wounded is yet uncertain. La Seine fell in with her in the Mona Passage, and came up after a chase of 48 hours, during which they had stacked nearly all the water on board La Seine to lighten her—she were 8 hours within gun shot, 4 of which within that of a pistol, when La Vengeance having every mast shot away, and the carnage on board dreadful, her colours were struck. La Seine suffered also much—her 2d or 3d lieutenant and 15 men killed, and 28 wounded. La Seine is rated 42 guns, but mounts 46, 18 and 9 pounders; the best match La Vengeance could have met with on the Jamaica station. Capt. Milne was 2d lieutenant of the Blanch when she took La Pique, when (in company with another frigate) she took La Seine, and now in La Seine has taken La Vengeance—where will the Rop?
For Liverpool or Bristol, THE SHIP
AMITY, HAS good accommodations for passengers, is now discharging her cargo from Bristol, and will be dispatched with all convenient speed. For freight or passage apply to the captain on board, at the next wharf above Market Street, or to THOMAS PASSMORE, No. 215, Market Street. September 20. d.f. Journeyman Pressmen. WANTED Immediately three or four Journeyman PRESSMEN; those who can bring indispensable recommendations of their being good workmen, steady and honest, may find constant employment at the Printing office of Isaiah Thomas, jr. Worcester, September 17, 1800 (22) 127

CHINA GOODS. Landing from the ship America, Walter Sims, Commander, from Canton, and for sale by  NICKLIN, GRIFFITH & Co. BOHEA, Congo, Souchong, 1st & 2nd quality, Caper Souchong, Hyson-skin, Tun-kays, Singlo, Young hyson, Hyson, 1st & 2nd quality, Imperial, Yellow & white nankeens Lute-strings, black & color'd Sin-haws do. Sattins do. Lute-strings, maz. blue & dark green In Boxes, Sin-haws do. Persian cassas, dark green In Boxes. They have also on hand for sale, received by the late arrivals from Europe, &c. Striped and checked gingham, White figured & color'd Mouseline, White corded dimities, Color'd silk, striped Nankeens, 14 Trunks printed Calicoes, 5 do. do. 3 Bales seine twine, 10 Cales English China ware, in tea sets, 6 Casks mineral black, 1 do. white, 10 do. color'd, 3 Casks purple brown, 35 do. nails assorted, 9 do. London porter in bottles, English sail canvas, No. 1, 2 & 3, Russia duck, 27 Boxes white Havana sugar, 13 Pipes old Madeira wine, Gunpowder, Empty wine bottles, 20 Guns, 6 pounders, 12 do. 9 do. 280,000 lbs. Cerebon coffee, 1st quality, 30,000 lbs. black pepper, 20 Logs ebony, May 23. m&w tf
Just Received, By the late arrivals here, and at New-York, AND FOR SALE BY  Lorain & Son, No. 5, North Third Street. An elegant assortment of Chinese and Calicoes, English Satins, Pretensions, Modes, Sarfines, and Lute-strings; Dimities, Bobbins, Coatings, Flannels, Booking Bazzars, Broad-Cloths, Swandowns, Double-mill'd Drabs; Worsted Yarn and Cotton Hosiery; Plain Fossil Cloths  CARPETS & CARPETING. Also on Hand, Low-priced and fine India muslins, Irish and quadruple linens, German Dowlas, ribbons India fabrics, Lute-strings, and sonshaw, mill'd yarn gloves, ivory and horn combs, fadery, and a variety of ironmongery, and sonshaw.  DRY GOODS. ALSO,  To be Sold, or Bartered, For DRY GOODS, a Handsome Three Story  BRICK HOUSE. With Piazza and Kitchen adjoining, situate in Vine near Fourth Street, built in modern style with excellent materials, and well calculated to accommodate a large family. Sept 22. dtf.
ELISHA FISHER AND Co. No. 39, North Front Street,  HAVE FOR SALE, Ironmongery, Sadlery, Cutlery, Brals and Japan'd Wares, 6d Bd rod rad and 2od flat point nails, German Steel, Hats assorted in cases, Pistols, guns and flints, &c. &c. September 11. dnm
Saulnier & Wilson, WOOLLEN DRAPERS, MERCERS, &c. No. 63, North side Market-Street. HAVE a general assortment of best London superfine Broad Cloths and Cassimeres, (of the newest fashion) silk stripe and second quality Cloths, fashionable waistcoating, silk stripe and twill'd Nankeens, Jean, Fustian, Gingham, Dimity, Thickset, fancy Cord, Velvets, Scarlet, yellow and white Flannels, Flanders, Irish and brown Linens, Dowlas, mens' and womens' silk and cotton Hosiery, coat and vest pearl, steel, gilt and plated Buttons, different colours silk Velvets, tambooured and Cambric Muslins, Calicoes, Calimancoes, Shwals, Pocket Handkerchiefs, Gloves Checks, &c. &c. N. B. Taylors' best quality Trimmings—all which they will sell very low. July 28. dtf.
LOTTERY For completing St. Augustine's Church. The second or last Class. THE few remaining Tickets in the above Lottery, which may draw the handsome prizes of Ten thousand dollars! Four thousand dollars! Three thousand dollars! &c. &c. may be had if called for soon, for the small sum of Nine Dollars each. Should any remain on hand on the first of October, they will be raised to Nine and an half Dollars. Apply to GEORGE TAYLOR, Jr. No. 39 } Chesnut M. MCCONNELL, No. 143 } street. September 16. dtf.
WEST COUNTRY PATENT  Canvas, No 1 to 8,  FOR SALE BY Ebenezer Large, ALSO  200 boxes short pipes suitable for the Spanish Market. 9 mo. 13th, 1800. m&w&fa 7w
PROPOSALS FOR PUBLISHING BY SUBSCRIPTION,  The Works OF THE  Hon. James Wilson, Esq. L. L. D Late one of the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States and Professor at Law in the College and Academy of Philadelphia. From the original manuscript, in the possession of Bird Wilson, Esq.
CONDITIONS. These works shall be elegantly printed in two volumes octavo, and delivered to subscribers at five dollars. They shall be put to press as soon as the subscriptions will justify the expence of publication. Subscriptions will be received by  ASBURY DICKINS, The publisher, opposite Christ-Church, Philadelphia; and by the principal booksellers throughout the United States. * * A Prospectus of the work may be seen at the place of subscription. September 13. $
Loft, THE undermentioned Certificates of Stock of the Bank of the United States, viz. No. 3804, dated 1st July 1796, for ten shares in the name of Charles Lovegrove of New-York. No. 25321—No. 25322, dated 1st July 1796, for five shares each in the name of Sarah Wedgewood of Etruria. No. 29808—No. 29809, dated 1st January 1800, for ten shares each, in the name of Henry Waddington, Merchant, London. Notice is hereby given, That application is intended to be made at the said Bank by the subscribers, for a renewal of the same, of which all persons concerned are requested to take notice.  WADDINGTON & HARWOOD Philadelphia, July 30, 1800. m&w tf
Of the Bank of the United States, NO. 25952 to 25953 inclusive, in the name of Thomas Muller of London, were forwarded to the 1st of May 1797, from New York, by the ship Oseida for London, which was captured by the French, and said Certificates lost or destroyed; therefore application is made at the said Bank for the renewal of the same, of which all persons concerned are desired to take notice. Clement Biddle. Philad: September 3, 1800. d3m
A good second hand  Riding Chair, and an excellent family  CHAIR HORSE FOR SALE, Cheap—Enquire of the Printer. September 1. m&w&w
A PARTNERSHIP. A PERSON possessing some capital, a considerable share of industry, and desirous of engaging as a partner in a lucrative business, may hear of a situation. All proposals on this subject to be in writing, sealed and directed to W. R. J. New York, and left with the printer of the Gazette of the United States, will be attended to. A Printer would find it to his advantage June 5. dtf.
A PERSON Of abilities, integrity and experience in mercantile business, would willingly engage as CLERK to a merchant or public officer, or be concerned with any person as partner, as he has an interest of about one thousand pounds in real estate in the city. Please to apply to the Printer; or a line left at the office for B. Y. will be attended to immediately. May 10. dat m&w tf
NOTICE. A CERTIFICATE, No. 25529, dated 1st January 1797, in favour of Robert Lindsay, of Charleston South-Carolina, for one share of stock of the Bank of the United States is lost—a duplicate of which will be applied for at the said Institution. ROBERT LENOX. August 7. m&w&tm
A Young Man, PERFECTLY versed in Mercantile accounts, and brought up in one of the first counting-houses in this city, wishes employment as Clerk. He is at present absent from Philadelphia, but a line left at the Office of the Gazette of the United States will receive, and it shall be immediately attended to. Salary a secondary object—Employment his motive. august 21. dtf.
For Sale, or to Let,  THE HOUSE, In Chesnut Street, Near the corner of Eleventh street, at present in the tenure of Mr. A. McCall—Possession may be had the first of November next, or sooner if required—Apply to Edward Shoemaker. september 3. $
LANCASTER STAGES. THE Proprietors of the Philadelphia and Lancaster line of Stages DISPATCH, return their grateful thanks to their friends and the public in general, for the past favors they have received, and inform them that in addition to the regular Line, they are provided with Carriages, sober and careful drivers, to go through between the City and Borough in two days. Those who prefer this mode of travelling can be accommodated at the Stage Office, sign of United States Eagle, Market Street, Philadelphia. Slough, Downing, Dunwoody & Co. Nov. 30. 21—6
To Gentlemen Farmers. THE SUBSCRIBER DECLINING farming, will offer at public sale on his Plantation, opposite Newbold's Island on the Delaware, within two miles of Bordentown, state of New-Jersey, on Saturday, 13th September next at 2 o'clock, his flock of Horses, Cattle (mostly fat) and about eighty Sheep, fourteen of which are Rams. The principal part of both Ewes and Rams are an excellent breed. His plantation he will hold for sale till next spring, when if not sold it will be rented. Terms of sale made known at the time. THOMAS ST. JOHN. August 20.
FOR SALE, A Valuable and singularly eligible ESTATE, CONSISTING of two handsome dwelling houses, with excellent fishing for seven horses, double coach-house most completely fitted up; a beautiful large and valuable garden richly filled with choice fruit, surrounded with high board fence, almost new. The premises are beautifully situated near the middle of Germantown, surrounded with rich prospects of the adjacent country; an orchard of about two acres, with a handsome lawn at the back of the house. One house has been recently built on an approved plan; the other has been completely repaired, painted and papered, and contain ten rooms with an elegant drawing-room, fifteen feet by thirty-six. The new house is well calculated for a store in either the dry or wet good line. The air and water are unrivalled, and there are some most excellent schools in the neighborhood. For particulars enquire of the Printer, or of MR. POTTER, on the premises. May 9. dtf.
WAYNE COUNTY TAXES. THE owners of unimproved lands in Wayne county, are hereby notified, that Taxes are become payable thereon for the years 1799 and 1800. Those who have not already paid their taxes, are hereby required to discharge the same to JOHN BRINK, Esquire, Treasurer of said County at Millford, within three months from this date, otherwise proceedings to sale, according to the act of Assembly in such case provided, will be had by the Commissioners for the said county. Asa Stenton, John Carson, } Commissioners Johannes Van Etten, } Attest, E. KELLOGG, CLK. July 9, 1800. d 90t
Houses to Let: ONE large convenient three-story Brick Dwelling-House, with four rooms on a floor, and two Kitchens; there is a pump of water, and a rain water cistern in the yard; situate on the east side of Fourth Street, one door above Race Street, lately occupied by Solomon Morosche. ALSO, A convenient Three Story BRICK HOUSE, Next door, but one, north of the above, No. 57.—It has a Pump and Cistern in the yard, &c. For terms apply at No. 116 Arch-Street. August 4. Sep. 16 m&w&tf
Prevention better than Cure. For the prevention and cure of Bilious and Malignant Fevers, is recommended, DR. HAHN'S  Anti-bilious Pills, WHICH have been attended with a degree of success highly grateful to the inventor's feelings, in several parts of the West-Indies, and the southern parts of the United States, particularly in Baltimore, Petersburg, Richmond, Norfolk, Edenton, Wilmington, Charleston, Savannah, &c. The testimony of a number of persons in each of the above places can be adduced, who have reason to believe that a timely use of this salutary remedy, has, under Providence, preserved their lives when in the most alarming circumstances. Facts of this conclusive nature speak more in favour of a medicine, than columns of pompous eulogy, founded on mere assertion, could do. It is not indeed presumptuously proposed as an infallible cure, but the inventor has every possible reason, which can result from extensive experience for believing that a dose of these pills, taken once every two weeks during the prevalence of our annual bilious fevers, will prove an infallible preventative; and further, that in the earlier stages of those diseases, their use will very generally succeed in restoring health and frequently in cases esteemed desperate and beyond the power of common remedies. The operation of these pills is perfectly mild and may be used with safety by persons in every situation and of every age. They are excellently adapted to carry off superfluous bile and prevent its morbid secretions; to restore and amend the appetite; to produce a free perspiration and thereby prevent colds which are often of fatal consequence. A dose never fails to remove a cold if taken on its first appearance. They are celebrated for removing habitual costiveness, sickness of the stomach and severe head-ache, and ought to be taken by all persons on a change of climate. They have been found remarkably efficacious in preventing and curing most disorders attendant on long voyages, and should be procured and carefully preserved for use by every seaman. DR. HAHN'S  Genuine Eye-water. A certain and safe remedy for all diseases of the eyes, whether the effect of natural weakness, or of accident, speedily removing inflammations, defluxions of rheum, dulness, itching, and films in the eyes, never failing to cure those maladies which frequently succeed the small pox, measles and fevers, and wonderfully strengthening a weak sight. Hundreds have experienced its excellent virtues when nearly deprived of light.
Tooth-ache Drops. The only remedy yet discovered which gives immediate and lasting relief in the most severe instances.  The Anodyne Elixir. For the cure of every kind of head-ache, and of pains in the face and neck.  Infallible Ague and Fever Drops. This medicine has never failed, in many thousand cases not one in a hundred has had occasion to take more than one bottle, and numbers not halt a bottle. The money will be returned if the cure is not performed. SOLD BY Wm. Y. BIRCH, STATIONER, No. 17, South Second Street, And no where else, in Philadelphia. Where also may be had, Dr. Hamilton's Worm Destroying Lozenges, his Sovereign Elixir for coughs, &c. Reflective Drops, Essence and Extract of Mustard, Sovereign Ointment for the Itch, Dr. Hahn's infallible German Corn Plaster, Indian Vegetable Specific for the Venereal complaint, Gowland's and Persian Lotion, Restorative Tooth Powder, Danmark Lip Salve, Church's Cough Drops, Anderson's Pills, &c. &c. april 19. m tf
LANCASTER STAGES. THE Proprietors of the Philadelphia and Lancaster line of Stages DISPATCH, return their grateful thanks to their friends and the public in general, for the past favors they have received, and inform them that in addition to the regular Line, they are provided with Carriages, sober and careful drivers, to go through between the City and Borough in two days. Those who prefer this mode of travelling can be accommodated at the Stage Office, sign of United States Eagle, Market Street, Philadelphia. Slough, Downing, Dunwoody & Co. Nov. 30. 21—6
To Gentlemen Farmers. THE SUBSCRIBER DECLINING farming, will offer at public sale on his Plantation, opposite Newbold's Island on the Delaware, within two miles of Bordentown, state of New-Jersey, on Saturday, 13th September next at 2 o'clock, his flock of Horses, Cattle (mostly fat) and about eighty Sheep, fourteen of which are Rams. The principal part of both Ewes and Rams are an excellent breed. His plantation he will hold for sale till next spring, when if not sold it will be rented. Terms of sale made known at the time. THOMAS ST. JOHN. August 20.
FOR SALE. A Valuable and singularly eligible ESTATE, CONSISTING of two handsome dwelling houses, with excellent fishing for seven horses, double coach-house most completely fitted up; a beautiful large and valuable garden richly filled with choice fruit, surrounded with high board fence, almost new. The premises are beautifully situated near the middle of Germantown, surrounded with rich prospects of the adjacent country; an orchard of about two acres, with a handsome lawn at the back of the house. One house has been recently built on an approved plan; the other has been completely repaired, painted and papered, and contain ten rooms with an elegant drawing-room, fifteen feet by thirty-six. The new house is well calculated for a store in either the dry or wet good line. The air and water are unrivalled, and there are some most excellent schools in the neighborhood. For particulars enquire of the Printer, or of MR. POTTER, on the premises. May 9. dtf.
WAYNE COUNTY TAXES. THE owners of unimproved lands in Wayne county, are hereby notified, that Taxes are become payable thereon for the years 1799 and 1800. Those who have not already paid their taxes, are hereby required to discharge the same to JOHN BRINK, Esquire, Treasurer of said County at Millford, within three months from this date, otherwise proceedings to sale, according to the act of Assembly in such case provided, will be had by the Commissioners for the said county. Asa Stenton, John Carson, } Commissioners Johannes Van Etten, } Attest, E. KELLOGG, CLK. July 9, 1800. d 90t
Houses to Let: ONE large convenient three-story Brick Dwelling-House, with four rooms on a floor, and two Kitchens; there is a pump of water, and a rain water cistern in the yard; situate on the east side of Fourth Street, one door above Race Street, lately occupied by Solomon Morosche. ALSO, A convenient Three Story BRICK HOUSE, Next door, but one, north of the above, No. 57.—It has a Pump and Cistern in the yard, &c. For terms apply at No. 116 Arch-Street. August 4. Sep. 16 m&w&tf
Trade interdicted with Baltimore, as well as Norfolk.  Health-Office, 8th mo. 21st, 1800. WHEREAS the Board of Health have received information that a contagious disease, dangerous to the community, now exists in NORFOLK, (Virginia,) and also the CITY OF BALTIMORE, being, as is represented to us, equally sickly. Whereupon Resolved, with the assent and approbation of the Mayor, that all vessels from thence, bound to the Port of Philadelphia, bring too at the Lazaretto, to receive a visit from the Resident Physician, and there wait the determination of the Board. And further, that no person (or goods capable of retaining infection) from NORFOLK, or BALTIMORE shall be permitted to come to the City or County of Philadelphia, until they produce a satisfactory certificate of their being at least 15 days in a healthy state, from thence, under the PENALTY OF FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS, agreeable to the 7th section of the Health Law, half of which will be paid to the informer on conviction. All proprietors of Stages, both by land and water, are desired to govern themselves accordingly. By order of the Board, EDWARD GARRIGUES, President. PETER KEYSER, Secretary. The Printers generally are requested to give this a place in their papers as often as convenient.
Board of Health Philadelphia, 9th mo. 4th, 1800. WHEREAS the Board of Health, have received information from several respectable sources, that a contagious disease, dangerous to the community, now exists in Providence, Rhode-Island. Whereupon resolved, with the consent and approbation of the Mayor, he now being present, freely expressed that all vessels from the State of Rhode-Island, bound to the Port of Philadelphia, bring too at the Lazaretto, to receive a visit from the Resident Physician, and there wait the determination of the Board. And further, that no person (or goods capable of retaining infection) from the State of Rhode-Island, shall be permitted to come to the city or county of Philadelphia, until they produce a satisfactory certificate of their being at least 15 days in a healthy state from thence, under the penalty of Five Hundred Dollars, agreeable to the 7th Section of the Health Law, half of which will be paid to the informer on conviction. All proprietors of Stages, both by land and water, are desired to govern themselves accordingly. By order of the Board, EDWARD GARRIGUES, President.
PRINTING, Neatly executed at the Office of the Gazette of the United States. Book-Work—Pamphlets—Hand-Bills, Cards—Blanks of all kinds, &c. &c. Will be printed at the  SHORTEST NOTICE. august 23. This Day Published, By J. ORR, No. 43, Chestnut Street, (Price 25 Cents) THE  Death of General Washington. A POEM. In imitation of the manner of Ossian. By Rev. JOHN B. LINN, A.M. Minister of the First Presbyterian Congregation Philadelphia. Mr. Chapman's Oration will be published on Monday morning. March 15. d.
DR. RUSSELL'S  HISTORY OF  Modern Europe. The public are respectfully informed that the First Volume of the above Work is printed and will be immediately delivered to the subscribers. Those Gentlemen who have expressed a wish to see the manner in which it is executed before they become subscribers, are requested to call at W. Y. BIRCH'S No. 17, fourth Second-Street. It is presumed that on comparison it will be found superior to the London copy. Aug. 21. eod.
A Runaway. ON Saturday the 23rd August, ran away from the subscriber, living in Harrisburgh, an apprentice to the printing business, named Benjamin Morrison, a lad of about 16 years of age, small of stature and very active, short hair and of a smiling countenance—Had on and took with him a calico coatee, a pair of trowsers of nearly the same, a pair of common nankeen ditto, and a homespun lye coloured striped ditto, and a short jacket of the same, with a new hat—All persons are forbid harbouring said apprentice at their peril. Reasonable charges will be paid for securing the boy, so that his master may get him again. JOHN WYETH. Harrisburgh, Sept. 1.
FOR SALE. A Valuable and singularly eligible ESTATE, CONSISTING of two handsome dwelling houses, with excellent fishing for seven horses, double coach-house most completely fitted up; a beautiful large and valuable garden richly filled with choice fruit, surrounded with high board fence, almost new. The premises are beautifully situated near the middle of Germantown, surrounded with rich prospects of the adjacent country; an orchard of about two acres, with a handsome lawn at the back of the house. One house has been recently built on an approved plan; the other has been completely repaired, painted and papered, and contain ten rooms with an elegant drawing-room, fifteen feet by thirty-six. The new house is well calculated for a store in either the dry or wet good line. The air and water are unrivalled, and there are some most excellent schools in the neighborhood. For particulars enquire of the Printer, or of MR. POTTER, on the premises. May 9. dtf.
WAYNE COUNTY TAXES. THE owners of unimproved lands in Wayne county, are hereby notified, that Taxes are become payable thereon for the years 1799 and 1800. Those who have not already paid their taxes, are hereby required to discharge the same to JOHN BRINK, Esquire, Treasurer of said County at Millford, within three months from this date, otherwise proceedings to sale, according to the act of Assembly in such case provided, will be had by the Commissioners for the said county. Asa Stenton, John Carson, } Commissioners Johannes Van Etten, } Attest, E. KELLOGG, CLK. July 9, 1800. d 90t
Houses to Let: ONE large convenient three-story Brick Dwelling-House, with four rooms on a floor, and two Kitchens; there is a pump of water, and a rain water cistern in the yard; situate on the east side of Fourth Street, one door above Race Street, lately occupied by Solomon Morosche. ALSO, A convenient Three Story BRICK HOUSE, Next door, but one, north of the above, No. 57.—It has a Pump and Cistern in the yard, &c. For terms apply at No. 116 Arch-Street. August 4. Sep. 16 m&w&tf
WAR DEPARTMENT, August 4th, 1800. THE commanding Officers of corps, detachments, posts, garrisons, and recruiting parties, belonging to the military establishment of the United States, are to report to, and receive orders from Brigadier-General Wilkinson, in the City of Washington, and all officers on furlough are to report themselves to the same officer with all possible dispatch. SAMUEL DEXTER, Secretary of War. All Printers within the United States who have published invitations for contracts of the 13th of March, last are requested to insert the above in their respective papers, once a week for two months.
District of Pennsylvania to wit: BE it remembered that on the Tenth day of July in the twenty fifth year of the Independence of the United States of America, Alexander Addison of the said District hath deposited in this office the title of a book the right whereof he claims as Author in the words following to wit, "Reports of cases in the County courts of the Fifth Circuit and in the High Court of Errors and appeals of the State of Pennsylvania, and charges to Grand Juries of those County Courts. By Alexander Addison, President of the Courts of Common Pleas of the Fifth Circuit of the State of Pennsylvania." In conformity to the act of Congress of the United States entitled "An act for the encouragement of learning by securing the copies of maps charts and books to the Authors and Proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned." D. CALDWELL, Clerk of the District of Pennsylvania. The above book is now published. It will be delivered to subscribers by Mr. Dobson Bookseller. July 23.
Fifty Dollars Reward. RAN-AWAY from Gen. Ridgely of Baltimore, on the 20th inst. a light coloured negro man, who calls himself WILLIAM MC DONALD; He is about 24 years of age, about 5 feet 8 inches high, neat in his dress, and has a good set of hair. Had on, when he went away, a good beaver hat, a short light green cloth coat, edged with yellow, and yellow gilt buttons—a light buff cassimer, double breasted waistcoat, a pair of dark olive coloured thickset pantalettes—a white linen shirt, white ribbed cotton stockings, and a good pair of shoes with frings. He took with him a dark blue coat, a pair of olive cassimer pantalettes, and a light corduroy pair of breeches; also a gold or pincheque watch, with a steel chain. He is fond of spirituous liquors, is informed, has a rupid look, and chews tobacco. He was bred in Charles county, Maryland, and purchased of col. John Thomas by gen. Ridgely. Whoever apprehends said negro, and secures him in any jail so that the owner may get him again, shall receive the above reward, with reasonable charges if brought home, or delivered to Joshua B. Bond, Philadelphia. may. dtf.
Reserved Tracts, FOR SALE. ON Wednesday the 18th day of October next, books will be open in the Office of the subscriber, residing in Franklin, for the sale of the Reserved Tracts laid out by virtue of an act of Assembly passed the 17th day of April, 1799.—One fifth part of the purchase money to be paid at the time of sale, one fifth part within twelve months from the day of sale, one fifth part within two years from said day, and the remaining two fifth parts at or before the expiration of three years after such sale. No contract to be confirmed for fifteen days after the said books shall be opened, and the highest price offered within that time will be accepted. All payments made will be forfeited unless the purchaser within three years from the day of sale makes an actual settlement on the tract purchased, by clearing, fencing, and cultivating at least two acres for every fifty contained in the survey, and erect thereon a messuage for the habitation of man, and reside thereon for the space of five years next following the first settlement of the farm. No patents to issue, unless satisfactory proof shall be made of such actual settlement, residence, and improvement. GEORGE FOWLER, Commissioner. Franklin, July 28, 1800. d6w.
THE SUBSCRIBER, HAVING opened a Store at No. 29, Dock street, for the transacting all manner of business in the Mercantile line, on commission, solicits the employment of his friends and others, in this way, as their Factor, assuring them that their orders shall be carefully attended to and executed in the best manner in his power. Bn. F. WEST. september 25. 12w
TO BE SOLD, AT PUBLIC SALE, On Fifth Day the 9th of October, on the premises, The  Mary-Ann Forge And Plantation: SITUATE part in Brandywine township, and part in Werrickland, about 30 miles from Philadelphia, and one and an half mile from the Turnpike road, and Downing's town; containing about 330 acres, with allowance of 6 acres per acre; two thirds of the land is good woodland, some excellent meadow made, and much more can be made of the first quality; the forge is turned by the main branch of Brandywine Creek, a forcible Stream, the forge has three fires and two hammers all in good repair. The dam being found and well backed, and apparently able to resist any fresh (not supernatural) Likelihood there is another lively stream and current of water, that empties into the said dam, that might be very convenient for a Grift Mill, or other kind of water works, might be with facility erected; there is a good two-story stone dwelling house for the accommodation of the proprietor of the works, with an excellent spring and good house over it; contiguous to the door also convenient stone stabling, with an entry through the middle sufficient to accommodate three teams, besides hackney horses; contiguous to the forge stands a good stone office, and a number of convenient houses for the workman is erected, ampley adequate for the said works. If not then sold it will be rented for a term of years. Terms and conditions made known by applying to WILLIAM EVANS, in Willistown, or JOHN MARSHALL, in Thorn-bury Township. N. B. The Sale to commence at 1 o'clock on said day. Aug. 4. 12w
FOR SALE. A Printing Press. Apply at the Office of the Gazette of the United States. July 19.
FOR SALE. A Valuable and singularly eligible ESTATE, CONSISTING of two handsome dwelling houses, with excellent fishing for seven horses, double coach-house most completely fitted up; a beautiful large and valuable garden richly filled with choice fruit, surrounded with high board fence, almost new. The premises are beautifully situated near the middle of Germantown, surrounded with rich prospects of the adjacent country; an orchard of about two acres, with a handsome lawn at the back of the house. One house has been recently built on an approved plan; the other has been completely repaired, painted and papered, and contain ten rooms with an elegant drawing-room, fifteen feet by thirty-six. The new house is well calculated for a store in either the dry or wet good line. The air and water are unrivalled, and there are some most excellent schools in the neighborhood. For particulars enquire of the Printer, or of MR. POTTER, on the premises. May 9. dtf.