Gazette of the United States and daily evening advertiser. (Philadelphia [Pa.]), 1795-01-16 00:00:00

Gazette of the United States AND DAILY EVENING ADVERTISER.
[No. 14 of Vol. VII.]
FRIDAY, JANUARY 16, 1795.
[Whole No. 756.]
Nankeens.
nankeens, entitled to the Drawback for sale AT No. 20, north Fifth street.
Green Coffee,
187 bbls. 40 barrels, and 200 bags, entitled to a drawback, stored on Messrs. Wilson & Francis's wharf.
Bordeaux Brandy,
20 pipes of London particular Teneriff, and London particular Madeira WINES, pipes, and quarter casks, MADERA DO. in quarter casks, and other RUM in bds.
MOLASSES,
100 bbls. of the first quality, at the wharf.
TEA,
100 bbls. SPIRITS, 100 bbls. GIN in pipes, 100 bbls. SUGAR, in bds.
FOR SALE BY
Levinus Clarkson, No. 246, south Water Street.
WANTED,
A Quantity of White Beans, for which CASH will be given by Edward Stow jun.
Cotton Bedticks,
(American Manufacture.) Said to contain Down and Feathers, much better than the best linen Bedticks.
Joseph Turner,
No. 4, north Third Street.
A QUANTITY OF
East India Cotton, Entitled to the Drawback, FOR SALE BY Mordecai Lewis.
FOR SALE,
At the STORES of Jesse & Robert Waln, PORT WINE in pipes, bds. and quarter casks.
LANDING,
from the Ship Adriana Kieran Fitzpatrick Master, from Amsterdam.
HOLLAND SAIL DUCK,
Ditto—Sheeting, Ticklenburgh, Osnaburgh, White and Brown Linen, Napier, fine Checks, Bedticks, Hair Ribbon, Great Coats, boxes Window-Glass, Ditto Tumblers.
FOR SALE BY
Thomas & John Ketland. October 21.
FOR SALE,
Two Houses, capital stands for business.
Distant Subscribers
For the Gazette, are hereby respectfully requested to pay up their Subscriptions to the first of January next.
For Sale or Charter,
THE SHIP MARGARET, Robert Robertson, MASTER.
She is in complete repair, and of about 3200 barrels burthen.
For Hamburg,
The fast-sailing Ship INDUSTRY, LYING at Walnut-street wharf, will sail in about 15 days.
Thomas Newman,
No. 118, South Second-street.
For Charter,
THE BRIG FAIR HEBE, John McKeever, master.
Joseph Sims,
Who has for Sale, just imported in said Brig from Malaga.
Old Mountain Wine,
RAISINS of the Sun, in kegs, FIGS in ditto, PRUNES in ditto.
Burlington Pork,
A QUANTITY OF Best Burlington Pork, FOR SALE BY Levi Hollingsworth & Son.
A House wanted.
A Genteel Small House, of which possession can be given at any time from this to the 1st April next.
Nicholas Diehl jun.
Informing his Friends and the Public, that in consequence of the Resignation of John Halowell Esquire he has been commissioned as a NOTARY PUBLIC.
HAZARD'S
Historical Collections. JUST PUBLISHED, AND FOR SALE BY THOMAS DOBSON.
Historical Collections,
CONSISTING OF STATE PAPERS, And other Authentic Documents, intended as an History of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
Warranted Watches
From 14 to 40 dollars—a very general assortment of Watch-Materials, Chains, Seals, &c. &c. and a few very handsome French Mantle Clocks.
John J. Parry,
Clock and Watch Maker, No. 38, South Second Street.
Whereas an attach-
ment at the suit of the administrators of all and singular the goods and chattels, rights and credits, which were of William Burnett deceased, at the time of his death, hath been issued out of the Inferior Court of common pleas, in and for the County of Middlesex, against the Goods and Chattels, Lands and Tenements of Lucius Martin, late of the county aforesaid, returnable to the third Tuesday in July last.
Valuable Real Estates by AUCTION,
On Thursday next, the 22d Instant, at 6 o'Clock in the Evening, at the Merchants Coffee-House, will be sold by Auction, the following Valuable Lots of Ground:
No. 1. A lot of ground situate on the North side of Market Street between 10th and 11th Streets, and immediately opposite the new buildings now erecting by Mr. Thomas Leiper, containing in Front on Market Street E. and W. 78 feet, and in depth N. and S. 200, this lot has three fronts, 78 feet in Market Street, 200 feet in 11th Street, and 78 feet at the North end on a 30 feet street, the privilege of which street this lot is entitled to.
No. 2. A lot of ground situate on the North side of Market Street between 10th and 11th Streets, at the distance of about 77 feet Eastward of the above lot No. 1, containing in Front on Market Street 28 feet in depth Southward 200 feet having two fronts, and entitled to the privilege of a 30 feet street at the South end.
The terms of payment are one third of the purchase money in cash, one third in three months, and the other third in six months from the day of the sale.
Edward Pole Auctioneer.
This Day was published,
[Price 25 cents] AND FOR SALE AT T. BRADFORD'S Book-Store, No. 8, South Front Street.
A BONE TO GNAW for the DEMOCRATS;
or Observations on a Pamphlet entitled, "The Political Progress of Britain."
At the same place may be had, The POLITICAL PROGRESS OF BRITAIN; or, An impartial History of abuses in the government of the British empire, in Europe, Asia, and America; from the revolution in 1688 to the present time, &c.
Also—The celebrated COMEDIES of THE YOUNG QUAKER; HAUNTED TOWER, and THE SICILIAN ROMANCE; an Opera, by Henry Siddons.
And, as usual, An Assortment of BOOKS In Law, Physic, Surgery, Chemistry, History, Agriculture, Architecture, and Mathematics.
With a general Assortment of Stationary of all kinds. January, 1795.
George Green,
Informing his Friends and Customers in particular, and the Public in general, that he has a New four horse Stage, For journeys, and a number of genteel and close Carriages with good horses and careful drivers to let on as moderate terms as any other person.
A Large Assortment of
French Mantle Clocks,
For sale on low terms, for Cash by John J. Parry,
Jan. 12. An Apprentice wanted.
Fine Fresh Lemons,
At Four Dollars the Box, FOR SALE BY THOMAS RANDALL, No. 88, Spruce Street, in way between Second and Third streets.
LANDING
From on board the Birmingham Packet, Lockyer, and the Henry and Charles, from Hamburg.
HEMP.
Peterborough's best quality BAR IRON, Swedes, assorted TIN, in plates, do. do. GENEVA in bds. BAGGING, German assorted GLASS TUMBLERS, and Black Quart Bottles, DEMIJOHNS, Window Glass, Feathers of superior quality, MATTS, &c. &c.
Thomas & John Ketland.
Aug. 26.
George Hunter,
Chemist, At his Laboratory, No. 114, South Second Street.
FRESH DRUGS,
CHEMICAL PREPARATIONS, and PATENT MEDICINES.
BOOKS,
PRINTED & PUBLISHED By Mathew Carey, No. 118, Market Street.
1. Charlotte, a tale of truth,
By Mrs. Rowson, of the New-Theatre Philadelphia.
Second American edition—Price 75 cents. [The rapid sale of the First Edition of this interesting novel, in a few months, is the best proof of its merit.]
Extracts from the Critical Reviews, April 1793, p. 468.
It may be a tale of truth, for it is not unnatural, and it is a tale of real distress—Charlotte by the artifice of a teacher, recommended to a school from humanity rather than a conviction of her integrity.
2. The Inquisitor—By Mrs. Rowson, Second Philadelphia edition. 87 1/2 cents.
3. Adventures of Roderick Random. 2 vols. 1 dollar and 50 cents, coarse paper; 1 dollar and 75 cents, fine.
4. Notes on the State of Virginia—By Thomas Jefferson. Price, neatly bound, one dollar and 25 cents.
5. History of the French Revolution, from its commencement to the death of the Queen and the execution of Brissot. Two dollars.
EXTRACT FROM THE PREFACE. "The authors have presumed to affix to their title the epithet Impartial; and the reason is, because they cannot charge themselves with feeling the smallest bias to any party, but that of truth and liberty; and they flatter themselves, that their readers will find not only every circumstance fairly represented, but every, censurable action, whoever were the authors or actors, marked in its proper colors."
"In the present ferment of the public mind, they cannot flatter themselves with the hopes of seeing this claim universal."
acknowledged. On the contrary, they are well assured that these pages will not be accessible to the zealous of either party. But when time shall eliminate the clouds of political deception, they will with some confidence expect that verdict from public opinion, which candor and moderation seldom fail to receive.
EXTRACT FROM THE CRITICAL REVIEW, JANUARY, 1794—page 35.
"We have certainly obtained much pleasure, and acquired much information from the perusal of these volumes; and we think them, both for matter and style, worthy the attention of all who interest themselves in events which have so excited the curiosity and astonishment of mankind."
6. Pownall's history of the British empire from May 1792, to December 1793. A dollar and a quarter. [This is as interesting a valuable a publication as had appeared for many years.]
7. Beattie's Elements of Moral Science. 2 vols. One dollar and three quarters.
8. Ladies' Library. Second American edition. 87 1/2 cents. CONTAINING—Miss Moore's Essays; Dr. Gregory's Legacy to his Daughters; Lady Pennycuick's unfortu-
unate mother; Mrs. Radcliffe's Mysteries of Udolpho; Marchmont's Letters; Mrs. Chapone's Letter on the government of the temper; Swift's Letter to a Young Lady newly married; Moore's Fables for the Female Sex.
9. Journal d'un voyage en France depuis le commencement d'août jusqu'au midi Décembre, auquel est ajouté un récit des événements les plus remarquables qui ont eu lieu à Paris, depuis cette époque, jusqu'à la mort du roi de France.
Bound, 2 1/2 dollars—sewed, 2 dollars.
10. Edward's treatise on the religious affections. Coarse paper, a dollar—fine, a dollar and a half.
11. Rights of Woman—By Mrs. Wollstonecraft. A dollar.
12. Wilhoit's Sacramental Meditations. 60 cents.
13. Bunyan's Holy War, made by Shaddad against Diabolus.
14. Short account of Algiers. Second edition, enlarged—25 cents.
Containing—A description of that country—the manners and customs of the inhabitants—and of their views against Spain, France, England, Holland, and Venice, and other powers of Europe—from the usurpation of Barbary and the invasion of Charles V. to the present time.
With a concise view of the origin of the war between Algiers and the United States. Embellished with a map of Barbary, comprehending Morocco, Fez, Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli.
To the present edition is added a very copious index, containing letters from sundry American prisoners in Algiers to their friends in the United States—a list of the vessels taken—and many very interesting articles not in the first edition.
15. Blair's Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres. Three dollars 33 cents.
16. Smith's Letters to Married Women, on nursing and the management of children. 62 1/2 cents.
17. American Farmer's letters. 80 cents.
18. Young Misses Magazine. 2 vols. 1 dollar 33 cents.
Containing—Dialogues between a Governor and several Young Ladies of Quality on their scholars. In which each Lady is made to speak according to her particular genius, temper and inclination.
19. Duncan's Elements of Logic. 80 cents.
20. McFogel, an epic poem. 37 1/2 cents.
21. Trench's Examination of Lord Sheffield's observations. 62 1/2 cents.
22. Ladies' Friend. 37 1/2 cents.
23. Smith's history of New York, from its discovery to 1788. 1 dollar 25 cents.
24. Complete Atlas for the present war, containing maps of France, Holland, Netherlands, Germany, Spain, Italy, and the West-Indies. 2 dollars.
25. Constitutions of the United States, with the Federal Constitution. 62 1/2 cents.
26. Peyton's Grammar for Frenchmen to learn English. 50 cents.
27. Epictetus Enchiridion. 25 cents.
28. Gay's Fables. 31 cents.
29. Christian Economy. 25 cents.
30. Charms of Melody, a choice collection of Songs. 25 cents.
31. American Museum, 12 vols. 8vo. Nine dollars and 50 cents.
"The American Museum is not only eminently calculated to disseminate political and other valuable information, but it has been uniformly conducted with taste, attention, & propriety. It to these important objects he superadded the more immediate design of rescuing public documents from oblivion, I will venture to pronounce, as my testimony, that a more useful literary plan has never been undertaken in America, nor one more deserving of public encouragement."
General Washington.
32. Poems of Col. Humphreys. 37 1/2 cents.
33. Catechism of Man. 18 3/4 cents.
34. Tom Paine's Jests. 18 3/4 cents.
35. Carey's account of the Yellow Fever, 4th edition. 50 cents.
37. Devout Christian's Vade Mecum. 25 cents.
38. Garden of the Soul. 50 cents.
39. Think well on't. 50 cents.
40. Douay Bible. 6 dollars. Nov. 29.

Mr. DAY,
If you think the following remarks will have any tendency to prevent a misapplication of the public money, in paying for the mischief done by the Western Rebels, when they are well able to pay themselves, you will give them a place in your paper.
A JERSEY LAWYER.
IN a debate which took place a few days ago in the House of Representatives of the United States, upon the subject of the indemnification of those who suffered by the Western Rebels, an objection was made to the proposal, on the ground that the sufferers ought first to be put to their action at law against the rioters, before a resort was had to the public money. In answer to this it was observed, that civil actions could not be sustained in the most of the cases. And though there appears to be a difference of opinion among the law-members of the house, yet the law was not stated by any of those gentlemen with the precision necessary to form a just opinion. Under these circumstances, the following statement may tend to the public good.
The proposition laid down in the debate by a law-member from Pennsylvania, was, that where an act amounts to felony, a action for private reparation will not lie, though a private damage is sustained—because by law, the private injury is merged in the felony.
That such a doctrine is to be found in the law-books, and that it has had an influence on the determination of particular cases no man of law reading can deny; but that it is a maxim or general principle of the common law, that the felony merges the civil injury, may be well denied. By a maxim or general principle, is meant a proposition universally true; and by a right being merged or extinguished, means that it is drowned or extinguished. Now it will appear upon examining this question, that this objection is not founded on a maxim, or general principle of the common law; nor upon the doctrine of merger; but that it is an idea which has been adopted and practiced upon by the judges of England, as a kind of judicial policy, designed to prevent the smothering of state prosecutions, an old case upon this subject is reported in Style's Reports, 346—"A man was indicted for felony, in breaking a house and stealing 250l. out of it—He was found guilty and burnt in the hand—and afterwards an action of trespass was brought against him by the injured man, to recover back his money: on a special verdict stating these facts this same objection was taken; and after argument at the bar, the opinion of the Court was delivered by Roll, chief justice in these words:
"It is a matter of conviction, and so no fear that the felon shall not be tried." But if it were before conviction the action would not lie, for the danger that the felon shall not be tried." Judgment was given for the plaintiff.  In Latche's Reports, 144—5, there is an older case, in which judgment was in like manner given for the plaintiff, under the same circumstances, and notwithstanding the same objection.  In 1 Bacon 64, it is laid down, that the action will lie after the attainder or pardon.  These cases are sufficient to support my assertion that the doctrine is not founded on a maxim of law—or on the doctrine of merger; for it was a maxim of law, that a felony should not be a ground of civil suit, neither the attainder or pardon would create a ground of action. If it depended on the principle of merger, when the right of private suit was once merged, it would be entirely gone, and could never be revived by an attainder or pardon. It is true, that the term "merged" is to be found in the books when this subject is treated of, but it appears not to be the foundation of the opinion of the court—but an expression generally used by the counsel in arguing the cause. It is not then in the maxims of the common law, or in the doctrine of merger that this motion is to be found, but in the principle stated by Roll in his adjudication, "lest the felon should not be tried." It is grounded on an idea of judicial policy, to prevent impunity to the guilty.—There is one remark which occurs in reading the cases in the books in which this subject is mentioned, which is material.—Almost all the cases are cases of robbery and larceny—Now it appears that cases of robbery and larceny stand on their own foot, and that no general rule fairly applicable to other cases can be extracted from them. By the Statute of 21 H. 8, ch. 12, restitution is given to the party injured in cases of larceny and robbery, if the criminal be convicted by the party injured—and the cases in the books are generally after the passing of this act. Now as the legislature had provided a remedy for the injured man, though connected with advantage of the state, as by statute the duty of the injured man was joined to his interest—the judges might feel themselves at liberty to say, you shall not prosecute civility, until the offender be either attained or pardoned. But this could not apply to other cases of felony, where no restitution could be obtained by criminal prosecution.
Cases are not wanting which either support this distinction, or contradict the rule entirely. Skinner's Reports 100, contains an express adjudication on the very point—"Action on the case wherein the plaintiff declared, that whereas she was a virgin, and sought for in marriage by J. S. that the defendant pretending to be a single person, made love to her, and married her, when in truth he was then married to another woman, &c. After verdict for
the plaintiff, it was moved in arrest of judgment that an action did not lie in this case, but the court was of a contrary opinion, and judgment was given for the plaintiff." Now here is an instance of an action grounded on a felony.—For marrying a second wife living a first, was made felony long before this adjudication by express statute.—This case, then, either supports the distinction before made, or is hostile to the pure principle.
Trip. pais 408—9, old edition.—It is denied to be law, that trespass will not lie for felony. I am then, I think, supported in saying that there is no general maxim or principle of the common law which lays, that a felony merges a trespass.—That the principle, as far as it has obtained is a political one, adopted by the judges in England in certain cases, with a view to promote the criminal prosecution of public defaulters.
A very important question then presents itself.—Is this principle to be adopted and incorporated into the code of the United States?—There is no obligation upon our judges to adopt it.—Our constitutions do in general adopt the principles of the common law, applicable to our situation; but this, as it is conceived, is not one of those great principles of the common law, which the people of the United States have made their own. We ought not to adopt with blind submission every reason of policy which may have been practiced upon in England, whether good or bad—found or rotten. The policy of the position, to say the best of it, is at least doubtful.—It is doing certain injustice to avoid a very remote inconvenience. Public prosecutions are not prevented by a liberty to sue, though they might be by a liberty to compound offences. It is suffering the guilty man to derive advantage from his guilt. It is telling him, he has sinned too deeply to be punished. It is insulting the injured man by telling him his injury is too great for redress.
The fair result of the whole is, 1st. That a felony merges a trespass is not a maxim of the common Law, and therefore is not obligatory in the United States.
2d. It is not universally true as applied to all felonies even in England—at least the cases are both ways.
3d. It is a political sentiment, taken up by judges in England and applied to certain felonies, and particularly to those where provision is made for private satisfaction by statute.
4th. There is no obligation on judges in the United States to adopt the principle.
5th. It ought not to be adopted.—The public treasury ought not to pay for the crimes of individuals, if the offender is able to pay.—It is punishing the innocent for the guilty.
A JERSEY LAWYER.
Dec. 26, 1794.
[Translated for the Minerva.]
FRANCE.
PUBLIC INSTRUCTION.
Report on the destruction wrought by Vandalism, and on the means of repressing it. By Gregoire, at the sittings August 31, [14th Fructidor] second year of the Republic, followed by the decree of the National Convention. Printed and sent by order of the Convention to the Administrations and the Popular Societies.
The movable property belonging to the nation has suffered immense dilapidations, because the knaves, who have a logic peculiar to themselves, have said, we are the nation ; and although, in general, we ought to have an ill opinion of every one who has grown rich in the revolution; many have not had the address to conceal their colossal fortunes suddenly amassed. Formerly these people hardly lived on the produce of their labour; and for some time past, without labour, they swim in luxury.
It is in the department of the arts that the greatest dilapidations have been committed. Do not think it exaggeration when you are told that the names only of the articles purloined, destroyed, or wasted, would form many volumes. The temporary commissioners of arts, whose zeal is indefatigable, consider as acquisitions, the monuments which they have snatched from ignorance, ambition and a counter-revolutionary spirit, which seem to be leagued for the purpose of disgracing and begging the nation.
When one of the most elegant libraries of the Republic has been consumed by the flames: when stores of combustible materials seem to threaten other libraries, vandalism redoubles its efforts. Not a day passes, but the intelligence of some new destruction afflicts our
* This is the language of certain clubs —WE ARE THE PEOPLE.
ears; and the laws, designed to be protectors of monuments, being unexecuted or inefficacious, we have thought it our duty to present to you watchful solicitude, a report in detail on this subject. The National Convention will, doubtless, hasten to make the cry of their indignation resound through the whole Republic, to excite the vigilance of all good citizens in preserving the monuments of the arts, and in bringing to justice the counter-revolutionary authors and instigators of these crimes.
It is now five years since was begun the pillage of the libraries, where the monks have made a selection for their own benefit. It is these, doubtless, who have stolen the only manuscript of the history of Richerius, at Senones, as formerly they tore in pieces, in the history of Geoffrey of Vendome, the famous letter to Robert d'Abrissel.
The booksellers, whose interest is not easily lulled to sleep, profited by the circumstance; and in 1791, many books stolen from the ci-devant monastery of St. John of Laon, and of St. Faron of Meaulx, were sold at the hotel of Bullion, by a catalogue of the Abbe *** a fictitious title to avoid suspicion.
Many laws passed by the three national assemblies, had for their end, the preservation of the treasures of literature. Neither the letter, nor the spirit of the decrees ever authorised the sale. That of the 23d of Oct. 1790, ordains them to be inventoried, sealed up, and the inventories sent to the committee of public instruction; and yet the books or the pictures have been sold wholly, or in part, in the districts of Charleville, Langres, Joigny Auxerre, Montivilliers, Gournay, Corentin, Neufchâtel, Gisors, Pacy, Lincoln, St. Agnan, Romorentin, Chatillon sur Indre, Chateau, Renaud, Thonon, la Marche, Vihiers, Riou, Tarascon and Montanquin.
The legislature expected to repress these disorders by the law of Oct. 10, 1792; but in the face of the law the sales were continued in the districts of Lute, Cusset, and St. Maient. The greatest part of the administrators which did not sell, gave up the valuable libraries a prey to vermin, dust and rain. We have just learnt that at Arnay the books have been deposited in caisses. Books in Casks!
On the 22d Germinal [April 11th] the committee of Public Instruction rendered you an account of the business of transferring, on which no report had ever been made. The Convention enjoined the administrations to hasten the transmission of the catalogues, and to give an account of the work in one decade. By a correspondence most active and friendly, we have been incessantly engaged in forwarding that business, and removing difficulties. We owe much praise to many of the administrative bodies; their recent transmissions form about twelve hundred thousand Cards [cartes] which answer to nearly three millions of volumes; but some of the administrations have not condescended to write to us. We have again sent them a circular letter, informing, that if they do not return an answer, their conduct will be denounced to the National Convention.
But even among those who have sent us answers, some, notwithstanding the precise wording of the decrees, and the most formal instructions, have yet, I do not say the madness, but the fury to destroy and commit to the flames. You perceive this measure to be more expeditions than that of making inventories! And this has been done at Narbonne, where many books have been sent to the arsenal, and at Fontain les Dijon, where the library of the fuillans has been rejected as waste paper and rubbish.
Others purpose to make a selection, free from books which are licentious, absurd and unfriendly to the revolution. An examination of these unlawful and impure productions will some time be made, to know whether they ought to be preferred to complete the picture of human errors. The Convention will mark out the line for determining the preservation of those which will form our library. But if it is permitted for every one to give isolated orders on this subject, each will assign limits to please himself. Some persons whose taste may be false, whose information very contracted, would form a revolutionary tribunal which would proscribe writers arbitrarily and pronounce sentence of condemnation against their productions.—Horace and Virgil would with them be considered not only as the flatterers of one Tyrant, but be condemned for having often received privileges from tyrants.
How can we restrain our just indignation, when, to justify burning the books, we are told they are ill bound? Must we then call to mind again how
often all the perfections of the typographic art were lavished on writings in which vice and tyranny are flattered; while works, most precious for the purity of their principles, and which contain a little revolutionary dust, were condemned to the obscurity of garrets.
Many libraries of the mendicant friars, to which some people attach great importance, contain the editions of the first age of printing. Such is that of the friars of Saverne.
These editions are excessively dear, and the copies we speak of, having never been sold from hand to hand, are perfectly preserved. There are some books of this kind which composed the library of a Mr. Pan, a catalogue of which has been printed by the English, and which, thro' neglect, have been suffered to escape from France. A book of this sort, which was valued there at only a few Crowns, has been sold at London for 125 Guineas. Let us remark to the book burners and image breakers more furious than the ancients, that certain works derive a peculiar value from their accessory ornaments. The missal of the Chapel of Capet at Versailles, was about to be delivered up for the purpose of cartridge paper, when the national library rescued the book whose materials, workmanship bordering, and embellished letters are of prime excellence.
Further, the miniatures of which little care has been taken, the ill-designed tail-pieces, the binding filled with irregular figures, have often served to throw light upon historical facts, in ascertaining the dates, in assisting to draft instruments of state, the machines of war, and learning customs, of which very imperfect descriptions only can be found in writings.
I pass to dilapidations of another sort. Monuments of antiquity, medals, statues, the enamels of Peauot, jewels, pieces of natural history of small size, have been frequently the prey of rogues. When they thought it necessary to disguise their robberies, they have substituted cut flint and fictitious stones for the true ones. And with what facility they have sported with seals, when it is known that even at Paris, one month ago, the agents of the municipality affixed seals without a character, but not large sons-pieces, so that whoever was furnished with a tol, might, at his pleasure, break and re-seal the seals.
In every quarter, the most bitter and well-founded complaints have been raised against the Commissaries. As they had money to raise on the sums produced by the sales, they held in reserve not any of the precious objects of public instruction. It must be remarked however that most of the persons appointed Commissaries, are traders, brokers, who by their situation being most capable of estimating the value of rare objects exposed at auction, take good care to make exorbitant advantages of these sales. The better to succeed, they unmatch the sets of books, they dismount the machines, the tube of a telescope is found separated from its object-glass, and the rascals in concert understand reuniting these separate pieces, when purchased at a good bargain. When they fear the integrity, or presence of well-informed men, they offer money to prevent their attending the sales. One instance is related where they knocked down a man who out-bid them.
Thus by these stock jobbing speculations, the objects of the arts and sciences, which ought not to be exposed at public sales, have been conveyed away for much less than their value.
At Baetuil, a pendulum of Malachite [a precious stone] the only one known was sold for a trifle.
The four famous tables of petrified wood from Aufria, in which the purity of form, the precious finishing in figures of bronze, and the rareness of the material are admirable, have been sold for about 8000 livres, re-sold for 12,000, afterwards granted back to the nation for 15,000, which is perhaps an eighth of their value.
In all quarters, pillage and destruction were the order of the day.
In the palace-clock, the statues of prudence and justice by German Pilon, have been broken, and the coats of arms suffered to remain.
At St. Paul's the monument erected by Coysevox at Mansard, has been destroyed.
At St. Nicholas of Chardonnet, a magnificent Cavalry by Poussin, on the plan of le Brun, has been broken.
At St. Louis of Culture, a monument has been mutilated, which cost more than 200,000 livres, and which Cavalier Bernin considered one of the most beautiful pieces of sculpture.
At the Church St. Sulpice, which was closed on the motion of Vincent, the works of Bouchardon have been mutilated: the meridian as escaped destruction.
At the Sorbonne, some person cut a beautiful copy of Champagne, representing Cardinal Richelieu, but in such a manner as to preserve a strip containing the
head and hands, the parts most essential to the art.
At Maisons, at Cumarin, at Brimont, there has been similar destruction. At Marly, the Hypomenes, the Atlas, the figures of the ocean, and the exact copies of Diana, and of the Venus of Medway, have been broken or carried away.
At the ci-devant Abbey of Jouarre, eight columns of black Marble have been broken in pieces.
At Franciade, where the sword of the nation has justly imbrued the tyrants in their tombs, it was necessary to spare that of Turenne, yet on this occasion the strokes of a talre.
If in Paris and its environs notwithstanding the decrees and the instructions of the Representatives of the people, the requisitions of the Committee of public instruction, and the care of the commission of arts, such havoc has been made, what must it be in the Departments!
At Dijon, Tomos have been defaced, whose principal figures were seven feet in height.
At St. Michel, at Charleville, at Montauville, at Rochelle, have been destroyed, manuscripts, paintings, and the master-pieces of Lugeat and Bourdonnais.
At Nancy, in the space of a few hours, were broken and burnt statues and paintings to the value of a hundred thousand crowns.
But upon the frontons, and especially on the department of the North sea of Calais, the desolation has been such as to exceed the powers of description.
At Sedan, however they have been able to preserve a runner machine, and some pieces of ivory and ebony, which a former master intended to secure to himself under the pretext of national service.
Some columns of porphyry, each of which is worth perhaps fifty thousand livres; four magnificent columns of antique green, of a tomb which was in the church of Emilia, have been snatched from destruction.
A most beautiful vase of Benvenuto Cellini, which the committee of vigilance wished to deliver over to the foundery for casting, is preserved.
At Autun have been preferred the bas-reliefs upon an antique, which it was intended should be demolished.
At Anet, in the midst of a tract of water, was a flag in Bronze forming a beautiful jet d'eau. The People wished to destroy it, under pretence that the chace was a feudal right. Some persons however arrived in time to save it, by proving, that a deer in bronze was not comprized in the law!
At Pont-a-Mousson, a large picture which the Conilleurs had proposed to cover with gold, for which purpose it had been given up to them, had been sold for forty eight livres. This is again restored to the nation.
At Mouffieux, the seal had been put upon the green-moules, and but for timely interference, the plants had all been lost.
At Balabre, district of Blanc, in the department of Indre, one hundred and twenty-four orange trees, many of them 18 feet high, were on the point of being sold from six to eighteen livres each, the box included, under pretence that republicans want apples, and not oranges. Happily a timely interpolation suspended the sale.
It requires a more than common effort of candor, to see nothing but ignorance in these transactions. But if ignorance is not always a crime, its apologists must perceive that at least it is always an evil. It almost always conceals a malevolence and disposition unfriendly to the revolution. Those who in the Botanic Garden of Montpellier, caused the Arbre-de-fer, whose buds it is said was 100 feet high to be felled into a liberty pole, are perhaps the same persons who wished to cut down the olive-trees in Provence.
Is a wise regulation made? In a moment anarchy attempts to turn it to some advantage.
Was it proposed to convert the bells into cannon?
Some persons, perhaps strangers, or paid by a foreigner, wished to lead to the foundery the statues of bronze which are deposited at the Petits-Augustins, the meridianal circles constructed by Butterfield for the globes of Coronelli, and the medals, which are in the cabinet of the National Library; all these collected, it was calculated, would make half a cannon.
Was the family of money ever mentioned? The same men proposed to send to the mint the two celebrated rostrum shields in silver belonging to the Cabinet; while at Lyons, Chalmeot cast into the crucible 60 ancient medals, in gold.
Was the extraction of salt-petre a subject of contemplation? The antiquities at Arles, it is said, were demolished. The beautiful monuments near St. Remy have not escaped the same fate.
You have fully professed the objects which call to mind the slavery of
* A species of hard-wood, a native of the East-Indies.

people; therefore it was intended to destroy it. It was said that the paintings of Carache, because they represent objects of religious worship, to destroy those of Le Sueur, because they might be seen as master-productions which envy had already mutilated in the last age.
At Poissin, district of Melun, the statues of the Pagan deities have been destroyed as monuments of feudalism. At Ecouen, two bas reliefs representing winged females, sustaining the arms of Montmorency, the executioner might be spared without injuring the figures. It was proposed to engrave on them religious emblems, in the manner of the Egyptian hieroglyphics. The reverse has been done in every particular. The heads of the female figures have been broken and the arms of Montmorency preserved. Some person has just broken an elegant statue of white marble, the ruins are in the court.
This is not all—men armed with clubs and preceded by terror, have entered the dwellings of citizens, and the print-shops. A binding, a vignette have been used as a pretext to rob, or destroy books, geographic charts, engravings and pictures. They even tore to pieces the print which described the punishment of the first Charles, because his executioner was on it. Would to God that according to the reality, the engraving might have described to us all the heads of kings, tho' at the risk of losing together such a ridiculous blaze.
Doubtless it is necessary that every thing should be done to the eye the language of republicanism. But it is a blunder to suppose its triumphs depend on the preservation or destruction of a figure, on which despotism has left some impression; and when monuments offer an excellent specimen of workmanship, their preservation, which is decreed by the law of 30 Frimaire [Nov. 23.] may equally nourish genius, and augment the hatred of tyrants, by condemning them, even by this preference, to a kind of perpetual pillory—of this kind is the mausoleum of Richelieu, one of the master-pieces of Girardon.
Such has been the madness of the barbarians that they proposed to tear all the covers of books on which emblems of arms are impressed; all the dedications and the privileges of printing—in short, to destroy the whole.
Be assured this new sort of fanaticism is very agreeable to the taste of the English. They pay very dear for all your beautiful editions ad usum delphini ; and not being able to obtain them, they readily pay for burning them.
These are the people perhaps who possess the memoirs and the manuscript plans stolen from the depositories of the army and navy.
It is said that the magnificent galleries of the Louvre and the Tuileries have been carried to England. That of Choiseul Gouffier was on the point of escaping from it when patriotism laid an embargo on it at Marseilles; and we have just recovered at a banker's three pictures, two of which are by Claude Lorraine, and one of Vandyck, which were sold and going to England.
Permit me then to present you a series of facts which throw light on these subjects.
Manuel proposed to destroy the gate St. Denis; and all who cherish the arts.
Chaumette, who caused trees to be pulled up, under pretext of planting potatoes, had procured an order for killing all rare animals, that the Citizens might not spend their time at the Museum in viewing Natural History.
Hebert insulted the Majesty of the Nation in vilifying the language of Liberty.
Chabot said he did not like men of science; he and his accomplices had rendered these words synonymous with aristocrats.
Laclos wished that a soldier might aspire to any military rank without learning to read.
While the robbers of La Vendee were destroying the monuments at Poitiers, Angers, Saumur, and Chinon, Hebert wished to renew in those places the ravages of Omar in Alexandria. He proposed burning the national library, and the same proposition was made at Marseilles.
Dumas said, it was necessary to guillotine all men of genius and wit.
According as Robespierre had said, there should be but one. It was known that he wished to wrest from fathers, the right they receive from nature of educating their own children. What according to Lepelletier was only an error, according to Robespierre, a crime. Under pretext of rendering us Spaniards, he intended to make us Helots, and prepare a military government which is that of tyranny.
To complete the project of drying up
all the sources of knowledge, it was required to paralyze or destroy all men of genius whose existence is otherwise so often tormented by those who would rather abuse than admire them; it was necessary to refuse them certificates of civism; to raise a cry in the sections, "guard against that man, for he has made a book;" to drive them from the places they occupied, to flatter the presumptuous pride of ignorance, by per-fuading men that patriotism which is indispensable every where, answers all purposes; and under pretence of making these principles triumphant, to commit the fortune, the honor and the life of citizens, by entrusting them to incapable hands. This has been the plan in which disguised aristocracy has succeeded.
[One may see in the foregoing description, a French minister snaring at a few harmless medallions at the Presidents and Corporations, with the windmill zeal of Quixots, waging war on names. And are these the blessings of French democracy? Men of genius persecuted; arts proscribed, pictures and statues demolished; books and manuscripts torn and destroyed! The truth begins to appear. Hitherto popular despotism levelled every thing and no man dared complain. The people literally exercised all the power; and came near to rob, plunder, burn and destroy, till France should be one vast desert. Now, the frenzy begins to subside; the Convention exert themselves, by laws, prayers and intreaties, to quell the popular madness; to draw the exercise of power all to the National Representatives and to draw it from the people. If they succeed, France will again flourish. But they have a herculean task on their hands. The people love power just as well as monarchs, and use it much worse. No country was ever yet free, where the powers of government were exercised by one or the other. Representation is the last resort of political liberty.]
[To be Continued.]
CONGRESS.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Wednesday, January 14, 1795.
Mr. Fitzsimons' resolution laid on the table some days ago, for a road being perfected between the southern and eastern states, the expence whereof to be defrayed out of the revenues of the post-office—was referred to a select committee.
Mr. Sedgwick next moved that the House should go into a committee, on the bill from the Senate, for establishing a surveyor of public supplies. If the thing was proper at all, it ought to be entered into immediately.
The House accordingly went into a committee on this subject. Mr. Cobb in the chair. Mr. Carnes wished to have some evidence that there was occasion for a surveyor of public supplies, with so large a salary as two thousand dollars;—otherwise, he should think himself obliged to vote against the proposal.
Mr. Sedgwick when the bill was first brought in, had approved of it in his own mind—and on conversing with the Secretary of the Treasury, he learned, as the opinion of that gentleman, that it was an extremely economical and very necessary thing.
Mr. B. Bourn said, that there had been a message on this subject from the President, on the 11th of December last. This was accordingly read. It had inclosed, a memorial from the Secretary of the Treasury, on this establishment, which was also read.
Mr. Venable moved to alter one part of the bill. Instead of saying "under the direction and supervision of the Secretary of the Treasury;" he thought it better to say "under the direction of the Secretary at War." The supplies were for that department. Mr. Heister seconded this motion.
Mr. Fitzsimons thought the superintendence better as it stood.
Mr. Parker moved to strike out the first clause of the bill. He had objections both to the bill itself, and to the amendment suggested by the gentleman at his left hand. He thought that a naval agent should be appointed, and be responsible to the President only. The member was unwell, and so not able to speak very distinctly, or to state his reasons at full length.
Mr. Carnes thought the House had as yet too little information to decide whether the establishment was necessary or not. He believed that he should be disposed to vote with Mr. Parker, and then for a committee to enquire into the matter.
Mr. Sedgwick wished that the gentleman would not then begin by destroying the bill.
Mr. Carnes had no such design. He moved, therefore, that the committee
should rise, report progress, and ask leave to sit again. This was accordingly done. But leave was not granted. The subject was referred to a select committee.
The House, on motion of Mr. W. Smith, went into a committee of the whole, in order to take into consideration the report of the select committee on a plan for discharging the national debt.
The report having been read by the Clerk, Mr. W. Smith moved that certain duties therein named should be continued, not to 1801, as proposed in the report of the committee; but that this term should be struck out, and the duties continued till other taxes could be substituted for discharging the public debt.
A debate ensued on this, of which some account will be given to-morrow.
UNITED STATES.
NEW-YORK, January 12.
Earl Spencer has actually returned from Vienna, without accomplishing the object of his mission. This event alone is a strong evidence of the debilitated state of the coalition; and when united with the King of Prussia for a separate peace, and the arrival of the grand Pensionary of Holland in England with power to urge a peace, indicates a complete dissolution of the confederacy against France. Pressed as Holland must be with a French army, and internal dissention, the embassy of Mr. Jay may be considered, as a justificatory step towards making a separate peace with France. If a separate peace is intended, this measure is the test, that the state of Holland could take with her allies.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 16.
From a Correspondent.
It is a shrewd remark of Mr. Henry Kammerer in his admired exhortation to respect the laws and the magistrates published by order of the German Republicans, that the self-created societies are attacked at the same time in America, France and England. The fact is strange, and proves more completely than the Clubs are able to make out, most of their articles of faith, that the governments of the three nations have combined to oppress the patriots. All governments, say the German Society, hate the people and therefore these three have a common interest to join and make the assault upon the poor Clubs. Pitt is at the bottom of it.—This combination is remarkable, but what is still more wonderful, one of the most admired sermons that has been heard a long time, was preached against them by the Rev. Mr. Osgood, before the speech of the President was published. The Judges of the different courts also charged the Juries in the same style, and to crown the wonder, the people have joined in the combination, and cry, "the wolf is in the trap, let us knock him on the head."
You are in the right, Mr. Kammerer, this is all a contrivance to oppress the patriots—but alas it has succeeded, and your Clubs have fallen. Ah! how fallen since the days of Genet. One comfort is, they can fall no lower.
It is very singular that the Republican Papers are so often stopped in their circulation. The Chronicle, we have great reason to suppose, is intercepted in its passage, and Baché's and other Republican Papers miss their way by some unaccountable means—whereas Johnny Fenno's and other papers of the same firm are regularly forwarded by the mail.
Bost. In C.
N. B. The Chronicle "and other papers of the same stamp" are very properly received by Johnny Fenno.
This forenoon, between ten and eleven o'clock a fire broke out in a framed building, in Eighth, between Chestnut & Walnut streets, and consumed part of the fame—in which the Paper-Hanging business was carried on.
Married on Thursday Evening the 15th
inst. by the Rev. Thomas Ustick, the Rev. Dr. Wm. Rogers, to the amiable Miss Susan Marsh , daughter of Joseph Marsh, Esq. of the District of Southwark.
By this Day's Mail.
PROVIDENCE, January 3.
A few days since, at Smithfield, as a young Lad, Son of Mr. Samuel Thayer, was leading a Horse, with the Halter wound round his Arm, the Horse took fright, and dragged him a considerable distance, whereby he was deprived of Life.
Sunday last failed for India the large and elegant new Ship JOHN JAY , Capt. Olney, owned by Messrs. Brown, Benson and Ives, of this town.—Capt. Samuel Snow has gone in her, as Supercargo.
The ship Hamilton , Capt. Rodman, arrived here on Saturday last from St. Petersburg, which she left the 11th of September. Capt. Rodman spoke the following vessels: viz. December 6th, lat. 39, 27, N. long. 51, 0, W. ship Columbia , of Philadelphia, W. Maley, master, from Norfolk, eight days out, bound to Amsterdam. December 7th, Brig Ann , of Belfast, from Kingston, 38 days out, bound to Liverpool, lat. 38, 58, long. 58, 40. December 10th, lat. 38, 47, N. long. 59, 30, a Brig from Kennebec, out 4 days, J. Jones, master, bound for Demerara. December 12th, lat. 36, 51, N. long. 60, 30, W. Ship William , of Newport, P. Wood, jun. master, 12 days out, bound to Africa. December 23d, lat. 38, 54, N. long. 70, 40, Brig Sally , from N. London, out 24 hours, bound to the West-Indies; could not learn the master's name.
Samuel Coates. At his Store, No. 82, South Front Street, bath for Sale, 300 Bbls. of Good New-England Beef, 150 kegs Picked SALMON, 5000 yds of TOW LINEN, A Quantity of Men's coarse SHOES, ALLSPICE, &c. 1st. mo. 16
NEW THEATRE.
THIS EVENING, JANUARY 16. Will be Presented
A TRAGEDY, called The Gamester.
Beverly, Mr. Chambers Stukely, Mr. Wignell Lewton, Mr. Cleveland Jarvis, Mr. Morris Bates, Mr. Green Dawson, Mr. Moreton Waiter, Mr. Darley jun.
To which will be added, A Musical FARCE, called The ROMP.
Watney Cockney, Mr. Francis Barnacle, Mr. Harwood Old Cockney, Mr. Warrell Captain Sighly, Mr. Marshall
Piscilla Tomboy, Mrs. Marshall Penelope, Miss Rowson Madame Le Blond, Mrs. Cleveland Quasheba, Mallet T. Warrell
Box one Dollar—Pitt 3/4 of a Dollar—and Gallery a dollar. Tickets and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Wells, at the Theatre, from TEN till ONE, and on days of performance from TEN till THREE o'clock. Also at Rice's Bookstore, No. 503, and Carey's No. 118. Market Street. Ladies and Gentlemen are requested to send their servants to keep places by five o'clock, and order them, as soon as the company are seated, to withdraw, as they cannot on any account be permitted to remain during the performance. No money or tickets to be returned, nor exchange on any account whatsoever, admitted behind the scenes. The public are respectfully informed, that in case of further notice, doors will be opened at FIVE and the performance begin at six o'clock, precisely.
Vivat Republica!
TO-MORROW EVENING The OPERA of
Inkle & Yarico,
With the COMEDY of The
CRITIC,
OR A Tragedy rehearsed
BOSTON.
FROM BERMUDA, Dec. 7.
"I have frequently seen in the American papers, the most bitter epithets applied to the inhabitants of these islands, generally; but there are here as good friends to America, as in any part of the world. It is true there are here, as in other places, villains who would plunder father or mother for gain. Messrs. Guttridges, who have so often been the butt of obliquy, have treated me with every mark of respect, and never speak of the U. S. but with affection."
"They have done privateering. Some American vessels have been condemned through passion—The Captains having French National Cockades in their hats, & spoken the most disrespectfully of all in authority here."
"Capt. Jervis of Boston, has been brought in here by one of Mr. Wood's privateers. Finding him to be American, Mr. Wood would have nothing to do with the vessel; and hung the coifs on the Captain of the privateer, for having gone contrary to orders. Capt. Jervis will recover all his property to the amount of 800 or 900."
SURRENDER OF PAMPOLONA.
By Capt. Elkins, in the schooner Hawk , which arrived on Monday, from Cadiz, and who left it on the 7th of November, we are informed, it was currently reported before he failed, that the French, after a siege of considerable length, had compelled the Spaniards to surrender that important place ( Pampelona ) to their arms.
From the Pennsylvania Herald .
SONG.
ADDRESSED BY THE GROG-DRINKERS. (Tune—Derry Down.)
BECAUSE we love grog, you great folks of the day, Are determin'd that we, the our'sd Excise shall pay; What tho' we get drunk, 'till we shut both our eyes; It don't shew you more learn'd more sober or wise. Derry Down, &c.
Before the law pass'd like good jolly fellows; You each took care to replenish your cellars; And faith! you were right—for six dollars a day, Enliv'n'd your heads and you speech'd it away. Derry Down, &c.
Should a tax be propos'd, on Codfish and Codfounds, You bright Eastern Members ( tho' Saints ) would cry Zounds! And oppo'se it amain, in a rage; in a huff; "No! No!—lay it on Whiskey on Sugars and Snuff." Derry Down, &c. "In short, 'twould be wrong, and a mad piece of work, Next things they wou'd tax our Molass'es and Pork; The luxury of all our fam'd Eastern States; As well might they tax our CERTICATES." Derry Down, &c.
SNUFF AND SUGAR.
SOME folks there are pretend to think, If you tax wine, folks will not drink; L-p-r most candidly supposes, That people will not stuff their noses, If taxes are impos'd on snuff: And M——g in a great huff, Swears, since you tax'd the sugar bakers, The Combination 'mong the quakers*, Has now extended thro' the land, And left their stock a drug on hand, Lord, how the people, put on trial, Practise the tough'st self-denial! * Not to eat West-India Sugar.
An Adjourned Meeting of the Pennsylvania Society for promoting the Abolition of Slavery, &c. &c. will be held at the usual place on Second Day next, the 19th inst. at 7 o'clock in the Evening. James Todd, Sec'y.
1st mo. 16
PRICE OF STOCKS.
  6 per Cent 19 3/4   3 per Cent 11 3/4   Deferred 12 1/2   Bank of the United States 24 1-2   Pennsylvania 25   North America, 40 
This is to forwarn all
persons that my wife, Catharine Kinnard, for I am determined to pay no debts of her contracting after this date. William Kinnard. Jan. 14

Landing at Willing's Wharf , CLARET Of the First Quality in Hogsheads and Casks, HIGH ROOF Cogniac Brandy, White Wine Vinegar, Port Wine, Alicant Wines, red & white FOR SALE BY John Vaughan. Dec. 23
This day is Published, (Price a quarter of a Dollar) Slaves in Algiers: OR A Struggle for Freedom: A PLAY; Interpersed with Songs, in three acts. Inscribed to the Citizens of the United States of North America. By Mrs. Rowson. As performed at the New Theatre in Philadelphia and Baltimore.
Extract from the Preface. My chief aim has been, to offer to the public a Dramatic Entertainment, which, while it might excite a smile, or call forth the tear of sensibility, might contain no one sentiment, in the least prejudicial, to the moral or political principles of the government under which I live. On the contrary, it has been my end, to place the social virtues in the fairest point of view, and hold up to merited contempt and ridicule, their opposite vices. If, in this attempt, I have been the least successful, I shall reap the reward to which I aspire, in the smiles and approbation of a liberal public. Sold by M. Carey, No. 128, and Rice & Co. No. 50, High Street; S. Campbell, No. 54, South Second Street, and Wrigley & Beaman, No. 149, Chestnut Street. Jan. 5 sawf
The Stockholders IN THE Insurance Company of North America, Are hereby informed that upon the settlement of the Interest arising from the capital stock of the Company, and the profits of their business, the Directors have agreed to declare a Dividend of Fifty Cents on each share for the last half year. Ebenezer Hazard, Secretary. Jan. 12 d1w
Just Published, And to be had of Messrs. Thomas Dobson, and Robert Campbell, Second Street, of Steiner and Kammerer, No. 83, Race Street, and No. 24, north Third Street. Price lettered 75c, common 65c. THE History of the CLERGY, DURING THE French Revolution, In Three Parts. By the ABBE BARRUEL, Almoner To her serene Highness the Princess of Conti. THIRD EDITION. Dec. 30 eodtf
Parry & Mulgrave, Goldsmiths, Jewellers and Hair-Workers, No. 42, South Second Street, Have received by the Pigeon from London an assortment of Plated japanned ware Jewellery & Cutlery, viz. Plated and Japanned Tea Urns Plated and Japanned Patent Lamps Castors and Liquor Frames Head and Fruit Baskets Japanned Tea Trays Plated coffee and Tea Pots and canies Ditto Candlesticks A variety of elegant and most fashionable Ear rings Enamelled and other Bracelets, Breastpins, and Finger Rings Thimbles, enamelled and other kinds Ladies and gentlemen's gold, gilt, and steel Watch chains Gold and gilt Seals and Keys. Stone and fine steel Knee Buckles, Penknives and Scissors, with Variety of other Articles, In the above Branches. Dec. 6 eodtf
Office of the Insurance Company of North America, THE President and Directors of this Company are now ready to receive applications for Insurance on Houses and stores and on household Furniture and Goods in Dwelling Houses and Stores, upon the terms contained in their proposals which have been already published. The essence of Survey, being Two Dollars, must be deposited when the application for Insurance is made; and the Balance of Policy, together with the Premium, are to be paid for when the order is given and accepted. Ebenezer Hazard, SECRETARY. Dec. 3 d1w2wim
FOR SALE BY John D. Blanchard, At his Stores, in Third Street, 66 P I P E S Choice TENERIFFE WINE, of superior quality, Coniac Brandy in pipes 50 Cases of Claret of superior quality sub. & to drawback. Boston Tea Kettles, a large assortment Shorts of all sizes and numbers Barr Lead, Lead in pigs Raffia Sheetings Women's Stuff Shoes by the quantity Cutt Nails Rhode-Island Cheese And a large and elegant assortment of European and India GOODS, At the most reduced Prices. Nov. 25 sawf
Forty Dollars Reward. RAN away from the subscribers in Woodbury, Gloucester County, New-Jersey, on Sunday morning the 12th instant, Two young Negro Fellows, named Jack and Tom, each about 20 years of age; Jack is of a dark black colour and a sour look; Tom is of an open countenance, of a yellowish colour, and much disposed to laugh. They are sprightly active fellows, and but little short of six feet high; they were both well dressed; Jack had on a blue broad cloth coat and different kinds of clothes. Whoever takes up said servants, and secures them in any goal in the United States, so that their masters may get them again shall receive the above reward and reasonable expenses. John Sparks, Andrew Hunter. Oct. 12 sawf
FRESH Bohea Tea, AND GIN in Pipes, Now Landing on board the ship Peggy , John Elliott master, from Amsterdam. Also Imported by the late Arrivals, Ruffia Hemp, first quality Ditto Sail Duck Ditto Ravens Duck Brown Ruffia Sheetings Ticklenburgs Oznaburgs Brown Flanders Sheetings Hollands and Brown Rolls Cotton Stripes and Checks Flanders Bedticks Holland Sail Duck Seine Twine Dutch Great Coats Gin in cases Madder Window Glass, 8 by 16 Jesuits Bark Opium, Afaetids German Steel Mill and Cross-cut Saws Hoes and Cutting Knives Sythes and Skates Coffee Mills Black Lead Crucibles Anchors from 3 cwt. to 15 cwt. And a General Assortment of 5-4 & 6-4 Boulting Cloth, FOR SALE BY Pragers & Co. Nov. 11 d
Fresh Teas, OF SUPERIOR QUALITY, viz. Imperial, or Gunpowder Hyson Gimme, 1st quality Hyson, 2d. do. do. Young Hyson, Hyson Skin, and Sououchong. A few Boxes of each, for sale at No. 19, Third Street South, Dec. 10 eodtf
Ticklenburgs, Oznaburgs, and Glass Ware, Landing from on board the ship Peggy , from Amsterdam. ALSO, Coffee of prime Quality In hogsheads and tierces, Muscovado Sugars In hogsheads, German Steel, ASSORTED WOOLLENS In small Bales, &c. for sale Rundle & Murgat No. 21, Walnut Street Who want to purchase 300 or Casks Good Flaxseed. Nov. 11 sawf
Bank of the United States. January 5th. 1795. Notice is hereby given, that there will be paid at the Bank after the 15th instant to the Stockholders or their representatives duly authorised, Sixteen Dollars for each share, being the dividend declared for the last six months. By order of the President and Directors, John Kean, Cashier. Jan. 5. sawf
SHAKSPEARE'S WORKS. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. BY Mountford, Bioren & Co. Proposals for Printing by Subscription, THE WHOLE Dramatic Works OF WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE, IN EIGHT DUODECIMO VOLUMES, From Yates's Dublin Edition. CONDITIONS. I. This Work will be comprised in Eight Duodecimo Volumes, printed on a fine American paper, in a style of Typographical Elegance that shall reflect the highest credit on the American press. II. That it shall be embellished with a beautiful Frontispiece of Shakespeare—engraved by the best American Artist. III. That the price to Subscribers will be EIGHT DOLLARS, one dollar to be paid on subscribing, and one dollar on the receipt of every succeeding volume but the last:—to enable the Publishers to pursue with convenience this arduous undertaking. IV. Each volume shall be delivered in blue boards to the Subscribers immediately on the publication of every volume with bell impressions of the Frontispiece—the price to be raised to Non-Subscribers. V. That the names of the Subscribers will be printed to record the patrons of this endeavour to encourage the useful and elegant Arts in America. Subscriptions are received by Messrs. Dobson, Carey, Young, Stevens, Campbell, Rice, McKenley, Ormerod, Johnson, and by the booksellers throughout the United States. Also by the Editor of the Gen. Advertiser , the Editor of the Gaz. of the United States , and by the publishers, Mountford, Bioren & Co. No. 75 Dock Street. Dec. 10. end 2w sawf
Scheme of a Lottery, Totals 39,900 Dollars, on 666,000 Dollars. Deducting 15 per Cent from the Prizes. This Lottery consists of 38,000 Tickets, in which there are 14,531 Prizes, and 23,469 Blanks, being about one and an half blanks to a prize. THE DIRECTORS of the Society for establishing Useful Manufactures, having resolved to erect LOTTERIES for raising ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS, agreeably to an Act of the Legislature of the State of New-Jersey, have appointed the following persons to superintend and direct the drawing of the same, viz. Nicholas Low, Rufus King, Herman Le Roy, James Watson, Richard Harrison, Abijah Hammond, and Cornelius Ray, of the city of New-York; Thomas Willing, Joseph Ball, Matthew McConnel and Andrew Bayard, of the city of Philadelphia; His Excellency Richard Howell, Esq. Elias Boudinot, General Elias Doughty, Esq. Parker, John Bayard, Doctor Lewis Douglass, Samuel W. Stockton, Joshua M. Wallace, Joseph Bloomfield, and Eliza Boudinot, of New-Jersey, who offer the following Scheme of a Lottery, and pledge themselves to the public, that they will take every assurance and precaution in their power to have the Monies paid by the Managers, from time to time, as received, into the Banks at New-York and Philadelphia, to remain for the purpose of paying Prizes, which shall be immediately discharged by a check upon one of the Banks. S C H E M E: 1 Prize of 20,000 Dollars is 20,000 1 10,000 10,000 2 5,000 10,000 5 2,000 10,000 10 1,000 10,000 20 500 10,000 100 100 10,000 300 30 10,000 1000 20 20,000 2000 15 30,000 3000 12 36,000 8100 10 81,000 14539 Prizes. 263,000 23469 Blanks. First drawn number, 2,000 Last drawn number, 2,000 83000 Tickets at 1 Dollar each is 83,000 The drawing will commence, under the inspection of a Committee of the Superintendents, as soon as the Tickets are sold, of which timely notice will be given. The Superintendents have appointed John N. Cumming, of Newark, Jacob R. Hardenbergh, of New-Brunswick, and Jonathan Rhea, of Trenton, as immediate Managers, who have given ample security for the faithful discharge of their trust. In order to secure the punctual payment of the Prizes, the Superintendents of the Lottery have directed that the Managers shall each enter into bonds in 40,000 dollars, with sufficient securities, to perform their respective obligations. That whenever either of the Managers shall receive the sum of Three Hundred Dollars, he shall immediately place the same in one of the Banks of New-York or Philadelphia, to the credit of the Governor of the Society, and such of the Superintendents as live in the city where the monies are placed, to remain there until the Lottery is drawn, for the payment of the Prizes. The Managers to take sufficient security for any Tickets they may trust, otherwise to be responsible for them. To keep regular books of Tickets sold, Monies received and paid into the Bank, abstracts of which shall be sent monthly, to the Governor of the Society. Petersen, January 4, 1794. On application to either of the above gentlemen, information will be given where Tickets may be had. February 22. sawf
Wants Employment, A Person who has a tolerable knowledge of CONVEYANCING, a general knowledge of Accounts and Figures, and writes a good hand. He would engage by the year, either in an Office or Merchants counting house. A line addressed to J.B. and left at the Office of the Gazette of the United States , will be duly attended to. Jan. 10 eodtf
Lottery No. 2, for the Improvement of the FEDERAL CITY. GENTLEMEN, desirous of receiving regularly correct slips of the drawing of the Lottery, are hereby informed that, upon their sending forward to the Printers thereof, five dollars each, together with their address, they shall be punctually furnished with such slips, while drawing per post in Supplements to the Columbian Chronicle . This arrangement will save them the expense of extra postage. Hanson and Pringle
Insurance Company of the State of Pennsylvania. NOTICE is hereby given, that, agreeably to law, an election for the new Directors to serve for one year, will be held at the office of the Company, on Monday the 12th day of January next, at three o'clock in the afternoon. Dec. 15. end tf
Bohea Tea. 50 chests Bohea Tea, of superior quality, just received by the Schooner Porgy , from Boston. FOR SALE BY Nalbro' & John Frazier, No. 82, Walnut Street. Dec. 27 sawf
City of Washington. SCHEME OF THE LOTTERY, No. II. FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE FEDERAL CITY. This Lottery will afford an elegant specimen of the private buildings to be erected in the City of Washington—Two beautiful designs are already selected for the entire front on two of the public squares; from these drawings, it is proposed to erect two centre and four corner buildings, as soon as possible after this Lottery is sold, and to convey them when complete, to the fortunate adventurers, in the manner described in the scheme for the Hotel Lottery. A net deduction of five per cent will be made to defray the necessary expenses of printing, &c. and the surplus will be made a part of the fund intended for the National University, to be erected within the City of Washington. The drawing will commence as soon as the Tickets are sold off. The money prizes will be payable in thirty days after it is finished, and any prizes for which fortunate numbers are not produced within twelve months after the drawing is closed are to be considered as given towards the fund for the University, it being determined to settle the whole business in a year from the ending of the drawing and to take up the bonds given as security. The real securities given for the payment of the Prizes, are held by the President and two Directors of the Bank of Columbia, and are valued at more than half the amount of the Lottery. The drawing will be under the management of 24 gentlemen appointed by the Commissioners for the City of Washington, for the time being, and acting on oath. SAMUEL BLODGET. Tickets may be had at the Bank of Columbia, or at James West & Co. Baltimore; or Gideon Denison, Savannah; or Peter Gilman, Boston; or John Hopkins, Richmond; and of Richard Wells, Cooper's Ferry. Aug. 30. end tf
Several causes have combined to retard the drawing of the above Lottery, the principal of which are, three other respectable and similar Institutions, viz. One to erect the Piers at New-Castle, one to forward the city of Paterson, and that to erect an addition to Harvard College. These have created the quantity of tickets at market, have rendered extraordinary exertions necessary to complete the sales in as short a time as possible; and the public are assured, that from the present prospects, the business may soon be brought to a conclusion, and an early day will be named for drawing, and the names of the managers announced in the course of the present month. January 13
A FEW COPIES Of the celebrated Performance under the Signature of MANELIUS, By John Ormerod, No. 41, Chestnut Street. Price—25 CENTS.
COFFEE, 54 hogsheads } 120,000 lbs. 350 Barrels } Just arrived in the Rebecca , Captain Hughes, from Jamaica. FOR SALE BY Peter Blight. Who has also now landing out of the Mercury , from Oporto, Choice Red Port Wine, IN PIPES. Dec. 22 d
To be Sold, At PRIVATE SALE, A very pleasant well situated & valuable Farm, CONTAINING 3-8 acres of good Land lying in Hanover, Morris county, N. Jersey, about a mile from Mt. Watkins Meeting House, on the road leading to Battle Hill, about 16 miles from Eliz. betw. Town 13 from Newark and 8 from Morristown. There are on the Farm a large and convenient dwelling house, a large barn, a cider house and mill, a good granary and other out houses. Likewise a good barn of apple orchard, containing about 300 trees, together with a collection of best grafted fruit, such as peaches, pears, cherries, &c. Said Farm is well proportioned with pleasant meadow and timber; there are now about 15 acres of plow land and 60 of mow already cleared, the remainder being timber and a little land. Any person inclining to purchase, may know the terms by applying to the Subscriber on the premises, or to Col. Elias Cook near the same. Thomas T. Eckley. Hanover, Dec. 27 sawf
Flax Dressers. TWO or three good Flax Dressers are wanted at the Sail Cloth Manufactory in Bolton; the above any person who has a particularly good idea of that business, by applying to J. F. A. who is in this city, in Conduit House , No. 5, Chestnut Street , or at the Flax Factory in Bolton, will meet with encouragement. Phila. Dec. 21. end tf
James M'Alpin, Taylor, No. 3, SOUTH FOURTH STREET, Retains his great full acknowledged services to his friends and the public for their liberal patronage, and here leave respectfully to submit a list of some of their favours. At his Shop Gentlemen can be furnished with the best materials, and have them made up and finished in the neatest and most fashionable manner. He will thankfully receive any orders, and pay prompt and punctual attention to them. Oct. 25 sawf
Just Published, By Samuel H. Smith, and sold by Mr. Stephens, No. 52, South Second Street, MEMOIRS OF General Dumourier, WRITTEN BY HIMSELF. ALSO, Walker's TRIAL, Akin's papers on Liberty and the Conduct of Life, How to Grow Rich, a comedy, The Woodman, a comic opera. In the course of this month, S. H. Smith will publish No. 1 of the Monthly Review enlarged. Such Gentlemen as wish to be supplied with this work, are requested to give their names with Mr. Stephens, or with the Publisher, in Cherry , above Fourth Street. Jan. 6 sawf
Dancing School. Wm. M'DOUGALL presents his compliments to the Public—Thanks them for the great encouragement he has experienced these twenty odd years. He will open his School for this Season on Monday the 13th October, at 7 o'clock in the morning, in that large and elegant Saloon in Harmony Street , leading from Third to Fourth Street , turning the corner of No. 70, South Third Street . His Employers may be assured, the first order and decorum that has always been observed in his School, shall still be preserved—and that their children will be taught in the most approved and modern style. Note—An Evening School for young Gentlemen. Oct. 10 sawf
Carpets & Carpeting Best British Ingrain Carpets & Carpeting Do. Scotch Ingrain and common Do. Green, Brown, Yellow & Black Gro. Furniture chintzes, white R. fia sheetings, Dimities, &c. For Sale by JOSEPH TURNER. No. 4, north Third Street