Gazette of the United States and daily evening advertiser. (Philadelphia [Pa.]), 1795-05-21 00:00:00

Gazette of the United States
DAILY EVENING ADVERTISER.
[No. 120 of Vol. VII.]
THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1795.
[Whole No. 843.]
Wanted to Purchase A SHIP or BRIG Of about 1200 or 1500 Barrels Burthen. also
To Charter
A SHIP or BRIG of the Burthen of 1500 to 2000 Barrels to load at Norfolk for the West Indies. Apply to GEORGE SIBBALD, No 18 Penn Street.
April 27.
Just Published,
And to be sold by Mr. Ormerod, No. 41, Chestnut Street, Mr. Dobson, 41, Second Street, Mr. Davies, 68, High Street, and by the Editor, 119, Chestnut Street,
An ALPHABETICAL LIST
OF THE
DUTIES
Payable by Law, on all Goods, Wares & Merchandise, imported into the United States after the last day of March, 1795.—Price 1-8th of a Dollar.
March 19
FOR SALE,
At the STORES of
Jesse & Robert Waln,
PORT WINE in pipes, Hhds. and quarter casks
LISBON do. in pipes and quarter casks
Souchong and CONGO TEAS, in quarter casks
A quantity of Lisbon and Cadiz SALT
Soft shelled ALMONDS in bales
Velvet CORK, in do.
Russia MATTS.
May 2
JUST RECEIVED,
By the Abigail. Capt. Blunt, from Portsmouth a few barrels
Excellent SALMON.
For Sale by T. MOUNTFORD,
At his Store on Cox's wharf, just above the Drawbridge.
May 11
For PORTLAND,
Massachusetts.
From thence to CAPE NICHOLO MOLL.
The Ship B E T S E Y,
Pearson Freeman, Master.
THIS ship is now getting a thorough repair at Mr. George Eyre's ship-yard, and will sail for Portland in about ten days; in about four or five days after her arrival there, she will sail for the Mole, she has uncommon accommodations for passengers; a number of them may be received either here by applying to the Subscriber, or at Portland, by applying to Wm. Cobb Esquire, or to the Captain.
LOUIS OSMONT.
April 28.
For Hamburg,
THE SHIP
S T A R,
JOHN VANNEMAN,
Master.
NOW lying at Walnut Street wharf, and will sail early in next month, having part of her cargo already engaged. For freight or passage, apply to the Captain on board, or to
Thomas & John Ketland,
Who have for Sale, received per the above vessel,
Duck, Russia, Ravens and Hollands,
Lead, English and German in bars,
Anchors, from 8 to 14 cwt.
Tin, in boxes,
Bagging, No's. 5, 6, 8, 11, &c.
Sheeting, white and brown, Hollands,
Platilles Royales, Diaper,
Steel, Frying Pans, Mill Saws,
Cables, Junk, Window Glass 10 by 12, & 9 by 11
ALSO ON HAND,
A few pipes best Holland Gin,
Do. London particular Madeira Wine,
Claret in cases, of superior quality,
Sheathing Paper, and an assortment of
Glass Ware, consisting of Tumblers, Decanters, Glasses, &c. &c. plain, flowered and cut.
Cheese, double Gloucester, in whole and half hampers.
March 19
For HAMBURG,
The New Ship
A S I A,
Captain LANGFORD.
The Asia will be launched in a few days— is a very fine ship—coppered, the greater part of her cargo is on hand, ready to go on board, and it is hoped she will sail in all the present month.
For Freight or Passage apply to Captain Langford, or to PETER BLIGHT,
Who is now landing at South Street Wharf,
The cargo of Snow Hebe from Havanna.
270 Hhds. Molasses,
150 Hds. choice Jamaica Green Coffee
40 Hhds. ditto Sugar,
With a Quantity of Pimento and Ox Hides.
May 9
For LIVERPOOL,
THE SHIP
MANCHESTER,
John Cox, Master.
A constant trader, built of cedar and live-oak, falls fast, has excellent accommodations for passengers, and will sail in about three weeks. For passage apply to Capt. Cox, or
Randle & Murgatroyd,
No. 11, Walnut-Street Wharf.
Who have for Sale,
OZNABRIGS & TICKLENBURGS,
In Convenient Casks, for exportation,
and entitled to Drawback.
Also
25 Hhds. Mufcovado Sugar.
May 6.
For LIVERPOOL,
the American Ship
DIANA,
GEORGE CLAY Commander.
She is nearly a new vessel, well fitted, and a constant trader. She is intended to sail in the course of the present month, and to return an early Fall ship. For Freight or passage, apply to
PHILIP NICKLIN & Co.
Who have for Sale, Landing from on board said Vessel,
3 cases Cutlery,
Copper in Sheets and Bottoms,
Drop Shot assorted,
Red Lead in casks of 7 & 8 Cwt each,
White Lead in do. of 3 Cwt each.
They are also Landing from the Sloop George. Luke Hammond master, from Jamaica, laying at Chestnut Street Wharf
10 Puncheons JAMAICA RUM.
And from the Boston Packet, Captain W. Ashburn from Liverpool.
22 TONS of PIG LEAD.
They have also on hand,
Rich Mountain Wine in Quarter Casks,
Fine Old Port Wine in Pipes and Hogheads,
Spanish Liquorice Ball, in boxes of 2 Cwt each
Brimstone, crude and refined,
Men's English faddles,
English sail Canvas assorted,
150 Crates Queen's Ware,
Crown Window Glass 8 by 10, and
A Quantity of Mahogany.
May 8
For RICHMOND, Virginia,
The Schooner
POLLY & SALLY,
George Carr, Master.
Now lying at Chestnut Street Wharf, will sail on Saturday, the 23rd inst.
For Freight or Passage, apply to Captain Carr on board, or to R. HENDERSON.
Who has for Sale,
10 casks Carolina Indigo,
1 chest Imperial Tea,
Scotch thread by the box.
18 bds. Middlings,
A few Bushels Shorts.
May 18
Wanted Immediately,
A Man Servant, who is capable of doing
the drudgery business of a Public House.
ALSO,
A Gentel young man, in the capacity of a
Waiter. And a Woman, who understands
the business of the Kitchen, and occasionally
to assist in Cooking.
Such persons having good characters, will
receive generous Wages, and constant employ.
Enquire of the Printer.
3y 15
THIS DAY IS PUBLISHED.
[Price 25 Cents]
THIRTEEN LETTERS,
On Democratic Societies;
By GERMANICUS.
Sold by Thomas Dobson, No. 41
Second Street, John Ormerod 41 Chestnut
Street, Benjamin Davies 68 High
Street and by the Editor, 119 Chestnut
Street.
April 13
A FEW COPIES
Of the celebrated Performance under the
Signature of
M A N L I U S,
May be had of
John Ormerod, No. 41, Chestnut Street.
PRICE—25 CENTS.
KNOX & HENDERSON,
No. 46 North Front Street,
ARE just opening a Handsome Assortment of SPRING GOODS, per the William Penn, from London, which they will dispose of on low terms for Cash, or short Credit.
May 12.
GAZETTE of the UNITED STATES.
THE Terms on which this Paper was to
be sent to Subscribers not resident in Philadelphia, were—that one half of each of the Annual Subscriptions should be constantly paid in advance, or that some person at the place of publication should be responsible for the same.
Those Subscribers who shall not have complied with the terms above specified on the first of July next, will, from that period be considered as declining to take the Gazette any longer.
The Editor has heretofore omitted any charge for directing and enclosing his paper—in future, ONE DOLLAR per annum will be added to the Subscription of those whose papers are sent by the Post.
NEW JERSEY.
PRINCETON ACADEMY,
May 1795.
AN experienced Teacher of the Latin
and Greek Languages, is wanted in
this Academy, where adequate Encourage-
ment will be given. Application in Person,
or by Letter, addressed to the Trustees, shall
receive immediate attention.
Gentlemen at a distance, who may send
their Children to this School, either for Instruction
in the English and French Lan-
guages, Arithmetic and Mathematics, or in
Latin and Greek, preparatory to their Col-
lege Studies, may be assured, that due at-
tention shall be paid to their wishes, and that
good accommodations in private Families,
according to their respective Limitations,
shall be provided.
Children addressed to the Trustees, with
necessary Remittances, or Directions how to
draw for Payment, shall be provided Clothing,
Books, &c. agreeably to orders.
In this Academy, no vacations will be ad-
mitted, nor unless Holidays given, but on
the written Request of the respective Pa-
rents.
Teachers of Drawing, Dancing, Music,
and Fencing, shall be engaged for three
Months, or more, in each year, as shall be
found requisite.
A separate School will be kept for Young
Ladies, under the Direction of the Trustees.
A French Teacher of known abilities and
respectable Character, is engaged for the
purpose.
The prices for tuition, &c. are as follow—
For English, Writing and Arithmetic only,
two dollars per quarter.
Mathematics & Geography, Latin, French
& Greek, four dollars per quarter.
For Music, Dancing, Drawing, and Fencing,
the best teachers shall be employed, on
as moderate terms as possible.
Entrance money, three dollars.
Firewood, for the whole winter season,
two dollars.
George Morgan, } Trustees.
Thomas Wiggins, }
John Harrison, }
James Hamilton, }
Stephen Morford, }
May 20, 1795.
Sales of Malaga Wine.
On FRIDAY, the 22nd Inst.
At 9 o'clock, at Stampler's Wharf, next be-
low the Drawbridge.
Will be Sold by Auction,
180 Qr Casks Old Mountain Wine
For approved Notes, at 60 and 90 Days.
Wm. SHANNON, Auctr.
DELAWARE BRIDGE,
AT EASTON.
NOTICE is hereby given, that agreeably
to the directions of an act of the general
Assembly of the commonwealth of Pennsylv-
ania, entitled "an act to authorize the go-
vernour of said commonwealth to incorpo-
rate a Company for erecting a Bridge over
the river Delaware, at the Borough of
Easton, in the county of Northampton"
and also of an act of the Legislature of the
State of New Jersey, entitled "an act to em-
power the governor of that state to incor-
porate a Company for erecting a Bridge
over the river Delaware, at the Township
of Greenwich, in the county of Sussex,"
opposite the Borough of Easton," a Book
will be opened on Monday, the sixth day of
July next, at the Compting House of Levi
Hollingsworth & Son, for receiving subscrip-
tions for the stock of the said company, and
American Landscapes.
PROPOSALS
FOR PUBLISHING IN AQUATINTA
TWENT

We have already published several notices of a Mr. Brothers, who is called in the London Papers a Prophet—the following is a more particular account of him.
From the TIMES, a London Paper.
THE GREAT PROPHET of Paddington Street: NEPHEW OF GOD. GREAT political convulsions have always been either preceded or accompanied by moral revolutions, of which the factious of all countries avail themselves, to ingratiate their revolutionary systems with those classes of society, that lay most open to seduction and imposture. Thus the French Revolution was preceded by a number of sects more or less absurd, but all equally extravagant, which prepared the public mind for all sorts of changes—Such were the Constitutionalists , who played off their tricks with great adroitness;—the Martinists , who pretended to penetrate into the most hidden mysteries of the Divinity; the Mesmerists , who invited all France to their banquets; the Somnambulists , &c. &c. When the French Revolution was begun, the Prophet of Don Gerle, a Carthusian Monk, and a Member of the Constituent Assembly, made her appearance; and under Robespierre, there sprang up at Paris a number of other visionary dreamers. It seems that there are men in this country, who propose to employ the same means to attain their end. As a man of the name of BROTHERS, appears to be selected to act a prominent part in these scenes, we have been induced to communicate to our readers the following account of his printed prophecies, and the public conferences held at his house No. 27 Paddington-Street.
Mr. Brothers introduces himself as a prophet, the friend of God, his own nephew, the chosen Chief of the Jews, and the Sovereign of the Universe. His daily and nightly apparitions amount to about 600, and in all and in every one of them, God reveals to him, that within a fixed time, which is to begin the 1st of June 1795, and to end in 1798, all Sovereigns shall be struck down and destroyed for ever.
Mr. Brothers, born at Newfoundland, is sent from the new, to overthrow the ancient world. At first he was an officer in the navy. "Considering that voluntary swearing which he was obliged to comply with, as a qualification to receive his pay, was unjust, he requested permission to receive it without it. The Earl of Chatham was so good, as to erase, in his favor, the word Voluntary, from the form of swearing. But soon after Mr. Brothers requested from the Admiralty, a dispensing order, that he might receive his pay without taking an oath: but they would not grant it. As it was evident that Brothers was out of his senses, he was some time after taken to a work house." "The very next night, God informed him in an apparition, "That he will slay the English Admiralty, as a man would do bread in a basket."
Brothers having heard that a friend of his had his ship seized in the West Indies, for an undefined infringement of the navigation act, wrote to the Earl of Chatham to procure an indemnification for the poor man but was refused. "Therefore the Lord God told him at night, that he would most truly enable him to indemnify his friend, for he should be President of the Council, and Chancellor of the Exchequer."
Brothers having for some time been confined in Newgate, complains "that a small penny loaf of bread was allowed him for the whole day to live upon," and states, that therefore God revealed to him that, since the prisoners were so very uncomfortably situated in Newgate, London must be a Sodom and Babylon, and would be destroyed by fire and sword."
All these extravagant visions were anterior to the present. Brother's mind being revolutionarily excited, he found himself, of course, in 1792, at the height of the French Revolution. For this reason, he wrote several letters to the King, the Queen and Mr. Pitt, with a view of diffusing them from a war against France, because this war would be carried on against righteous people, chosen to execute the plan which God had revealed to him. Since the beginning of hostilities, Brothers has written several other letters to the King and the Ministers, to induce them to make peace, but his advice has been slighted, and therefore, the King, the Queen, the Royal Family, the Ministers, the Parliament, the town of London, and every kingdom of Europe, are to be devoted to unavoidable ruin. This destruction would have been delayed from a regard to his prayers; but as he has been treated like a madman, and moreover Government persists in its perverse intention of continuing the war, that universal destruction is to begin on the 1st of next June. At that period Mr. Brothers will be recognized as the Sovereign of the Universe, the nephew of God, and the Chief and King of the Jews. All the worldly powers are to bow before him, &c. &c. "Yet Isabella Wake, who brought him a threepenny loaf every Monday, when he was in Newgate, shall always have an apartment in his palace, and a seat at his table."
Mr. Brothers enjoys the greatest variety of visions and apparitions. In 1792, he was transferred to Stockholm, where he held several conferences with the ghost of the famous Swedenborg, the chief of the Somnambulists. He there saw through a window, a man walking round an empty elbow chair: and God told him, that this man should murder the king. He would have informed that Monarch of his impending assassination; but knowing that the king of Sweden was to take upon himself the command of the armies destined to act against France, and that it was his intention to penetrate thro' Normandy,
and to burn the French fleet at Brest, he abandoned him to his fate.
At the same time the Empress of Russia would have been assassinated, but for the Prophet having been allowed by God to acquaint her with it. Her death is however only delayed; and Mr. Brothers relates all the circumstances under which it is to happen, which no doubt will afford much pleasure to the Conductor of one of our Jacobin prints, who lately assured the Public, that the death of that Princess would be a most fortunate event for humanity.
We forbear to enlarge any further on the visions of the Prophet BROTHERS, and beg only leave to add, that he is daily visited by ladies and gentlemen, who want to have their fortunes told; by indigent French Emigrants, to whom he promises his protection through his interest with God; and by different descriptions of people, who delight in hearing, even from the mouth of a madman, invectives against the present administration.
From the OTSEGO HERALD. TO EUROPEAN FARMERS.
NO circumstance can be more interesting to a stranger, in a country where he has few or no acquaintance to assist him, than that of meeting with a candid statement of facts, relative to the several advantages or disadvantages attending the different situations of the great scope of country which offers itself to his choice, and on which choice, his future happiness or misery is closely connected.
You generally land in Philadelphia or New-York:—Your first business is to take lodgings, and make such enquiries as are suited to your pursuits and finances, in order that you may save and not spend the monies you have on hand. You soon find lodging and house-rent very high; the markets more so; and, in short, every article you may want seems to cost two prices. These circumstances are to you rather alarming:—some incline to return; others hastily sit down on farms near the cities, at high rents or dear purchases. Now, if I have pointed out nearly your present situation, it is but reasonable that you should believe what I am about to state for your future advancement.
The county of Otsego will still accommodate ten thousand families; its situation is from fifty to ninety miles from Albany; thirty-two miles land-carriage; the soil deep and strong, excellent for wheat, corn, peas, barley, oats, turnips, carrots, potatoes, &c. and exceeding natural to grass; so that our primary objects are beef, cheese, butter, and horses; and alcho' wheat, on account of its heavy carriage, is least advantageous, yet it is more so to the farmer here, than in the old settled parts of Pennsylvania or this state, even within twenty miles of the capitals; as there the farmer is content with, nay he calls 12 bushels of wheat per acre a good crop; the average price of which, on the farm, is at most nine shillings, so that the whole produce is but £5 8 Here we receive per acre 25 bushels, the average price 7 shillings, the whole produce per acre is £8 15 Profit in favour of the farmer of this country, more than those of the old settlements of Pennsylvania and New-York, per acre, is £3 7
In fat beef, butter and cheese, the advantage is more obvious, as two horses will draw to Albany, of butter and cheese, for 30/; to the value of £5 0; in wheat not more than one fourth of that sum. If then we possess this manifest advantage over the old settlements, in the old settlements, in raising wheat, which to us is the least profitable produce, why should not the price of our lands be equal to, or even higher than those situated from ten to thirty miles from New-York or Philadelphia, where farms which will yield twelve bushels will cost £8 per acre. Here, for land which will yield 25 bushels, or produce a ton and an half of hay, 40/ per acre, another striking advantage to an European farmer. But it must be admitted, that on an old farm you will have fruit, grounds cleared to your hands, fences, &c. yet here the ashes only, which you may collect from the timber burnt in clearing, will nearly pay for the necessary labor; add to which the proceeds of the first crop, and you will find your land cleared with a handsome remaining profit. Houses are erected here with great facility and cheapness, from the great plenty of timber and other materials; and those who wish for improved farms, may purchase them for from three to five pounds per acre.
Another important consideration in favor of the soil of this country is its duration: First, the frequent rains in the summer, give such a force to vegetation, that the pasture fields are in continual verdure, through the dryest season, producing a strong sward, and fertilizing the surface of the earth;—while the frequent droughts nearer the
ocean, render the pastures little more than dusty plains. Again, the snows, which are the blessings of our country, as well on account of transportation, as of nourishing the soil, keeping out the frost, and preserving vegetation, which, as soon as the snow is dissolved, is in immediate action; and soon covers the ground with nourishing herbage; while the more southerly climates are exposed to the bleak winds of April, and part of May, which, together with the drought in summer, and the hard frost, which pierces the ground to the depth of 12 inches in the winter, impoverishes the earth more than the usual tillage; while here we know nothing of losing a crop by the frost's heaving the ground in winter, or by drought in summer. The water of our country is as pure as any in the world, and well stocked with fish, and our air and climate salubrious and healthy. We begin to fodder the middle of November, and turn out our cattle in the middle of April; our days are somewhat longer in summer, and shorter in winter, than in Philadelphia or New-York. The air is not so damp here in the winter as it is there; and of course not so disagreeably cold or chilly. Mills, roads, bridges, schools and other conveniences, are already established, in all the different quarters of the country; so that all the most obvious objections and difficulties attending a new settlement are surmounted. Provisions are plenty and cheap. We sent 1240 oxen to Philadelphia market last year.—We make our own sugar, and some seasons much more. We have been a county but four years, and a settlement but eight: Cooperstown, at the source of the Susquehannah, is the capital:—to which place all sober and industrious persons, either with or without money, are cordially invited, by the PROPRIETOR.
The following account of St. DOMINGO is extracted from the work published in this city, entitled, The Level of Europe and America—by Messrs. Egron and Tangay.
THE commodities of the growth of St. Domingo, and which were exported to France, in the year 1789, were in loaf sugar 473,316,531 quintals, in brown sugar 471,099,963 quintals, &c. &c. The amount of the exportations has been 396,627,078 livres, and has employed 515 vessels guaging together, 158,289 tons. In the same year foreigners have imported to St. Domingo, 602 negroes which have produced them 100,000, besides foreigners have introduced in merchandise provisions for 24,688,600. Foreign vessels have risen to 15063 guaging together 60,032 tons making 56 tons 1-4 each ship. St. Domingo has furnished them with objects of exportation allowed by the different decrees of the council of Versailles, for £27,316,660 tournois, and it is equally proved by the exact accounts made in the books of the custom-houses, for foreign business that in this same year 1790, foreigners have exported the following merchandise, (prohibited) viz.
  White, or loaf sugar, 80,000 qls at 60/ the quintal, 4,800,000   Brown sugar, 110,000 qls. at 40/ the ql. 4,400,000   Coffee, 83,750 qls. at 80/ the quintal, 6,700,000   Cottons, 8,000 qls. at 200/ the quintal, 1,600,000   Indigo, 1,000 qls. at 900/ the ql. 900,000   Which has furnished an exportation of 18,400,000 
It may be said that the colony of St. Domingo alone, in 1789, the last year of its prosperity
  Received of   National vessels, 515, guaging 158,289   Foreign vessels, 1,063, do. 60,032   218,341 
  The National importation has been 220,782,614   The Foreign importation 34,588,600 
  French currency total, 255,372,284   National exportation, 399,627,078   Foreign exportation, 45,716,600   Other provisions exported in fraud of the duty, 16,000,000 
French currency total, 461,343,678 Of what importance then to the power that possesses it, must a colony be which alone annually occupies 218,341 tons, and which was the occasion of a commerce of importation, exportation, benefit and of divers duties of £716,715,962 French currency, which make dollars 130,311,993.
KINGSTON, April 2. Tuesday afternoon, a general muster of the artillery & infantry of the Kingston regiment of foot militia, took place in pursuance of advertisement on the parade; for the express purpose, as we understand, of collating the arms actually in use, with those actually delivered out to the several companies, within a reasonable space. The result was materially discouraging: upwards of 500 stand remaining to be accounted for; and most probably in the safe custody of miscreants, ripe for mischief.
SLAVE TRADE.
The following, being the last debate in the British House of Commons on the Slave Trade, we believe has not been published in the United States—it is copied from the "Cambridge Intelligencer" of March 9th.
HOUSE OF COMMONS, February 26.
MR. WILBERFORCE rose to make his promised motion on this subject. He commenced with observing, that he had so often already troubled the House with a wide range of argument in support of his ideas, that he should deem it not only unnecessary, but himself inexcusable, if he were to detain it long to-night with what could hardly be any thing else but a recurrence to former topics. He was still less inclined to trouble them at any length, when he recollected that the resolution to which he now asked their concurrence was merely and precisely the same they had before sanctioned by their decision. For this purpose he desired the Clerk to read the vote of that House for the sitting 1792, by which it appeared that they had resolved "that no slaves should be imported into the British West-India Islands after the first of January, 1796." He said, it would perhaps be worth while to consider the grounds and situation under which this restriction was to come.
In the first place, they had not adopted it as a new idea recently thought of, and suddenly taken up; they would recollect the subject was first taken up so long ago as the year 1788. In 1789, resolutions were come to, in consequence of which a very long and laborious investigation of the subject was entered into, by the examination of evidence. In the spring of 1791, he attempted to gain his point, but failed; he had, however, the satisfaction of finding himself triumphant the following year. What were the grounds upon which this success was founded? It had been admitted upon all hands, as to the baneful effects produced by the Slave Trade upon the happiness of the unfortunate natives of Africa; and even its most zealous supporters could not withhold their wishes that it was possible an end could be put to it. It was agreed upon that it was the cause of all the wars carried on throughout the devoted country, which were commenced and carried on for the sole purpose of procuring slaves to supply our markets; nay, that it even set individuals at enmity with each other, setting at work fraud, violence, treachery, and every base passion, lifting the arm of the father against the son, the son against the father. It was proved, that even justice was perverted into an engine of oppression on the occasion, and new crimes invented, for the purpose of initiating slavery as the punishment. It was proved, on the other hand, that the natives of Africa were fully capable of all the blessings of civilization, if an end were but put to this abominable traffic. On these grounds it was that the House had wisely adopted the resolution which he now called upon them to renew. It had been urged by their opponents, that the system, such as it was, could not be abandoned by the proprietors of the West-Indies without risking their absolute and total ruin. The policy of the trade was also urged in favour of its continuance; but that was shewn to be decidedly in favour of the abolition; and it was also demonstrated, by a variety of inconceivable facts, that the increase of Negroes in the West-Indies was such as to render the continuance of importation absolutely necessary. In the last place, it was proved, by the evidence of the two great ports employed in this traffic (Hull and Liverpool,) that it was absolutely the grave and destruction, instead of a nursery for our seamen.
It was sufficient for him thus briefly to recapitulate the grounds of their former division, in order to call upon them to renew their vote, unless those who were still adverse to the measure could shew that some new and essential grounds had occurred, to induce them to alter their determination. But he was not under the necessity of relying upon this argument: for there was fresh evidence to corroborate all that had yet been urged in favour of the Bill, sufficient to remove all doubts even with the most pertinacious. He would ask Gentlemen, had they read the report published by order of the Sierra Leone Company. If they had, they would find the miserable effects of the Slave Trade proved to have been more black and more enormous than ever he had ventured to paint them. By this report it would appear that, even in those parts where the Slave Trade was supposed to have been on the decline, the miseries entailed on the inhabitants, in consequence of it, were most shocking. But this was not the only view in which this publication was to be taken; from it, the effects of the trade, with respect to civilization, would be found. The natives of Africa would not be considered as those degenerate brutes they have been falsely described; on the contrary, they would be understood as a mild, benevolent race, full of justice and humanity, eager after knowledge, and progressive in improvement. By the testimony of two gentlemen, who had travelled three hundred miles in the interior of that continent, it appeared that the inhabitants there were infinitely more civilized than those upon the coast; that they could read and write, were intent upon traffic, in the habit of using beasts of burthen, for their ignorance of which the inhabitants of the coast were upbraided as savages; and, in short, in a city containing about 7000 inhabitants, many of the necessaries, and some of the comforts of life were to be found. By comparing this with the state of the inhabitants of the coast, the contrast was striking, and must
bring conviction to every mind how deadly a venom the Slave Trade had infused through every vein and artery. Thus the baneful effects of this most iniquitous traffic.
Nor was their view to be confined to that Continent alone. Look to the West-Indies, and see what was to be found there to alter their sentiments or resolutions. Upon the first discussion it was urged, that the slaves could not be kept up without importation, because the females were not in any degree of proportion to the males. But in 1792, it was proved, that they were at least nearly so; and at the present period, they would be found fully adequate to all the preservation of the species. Another argument was then successfully urged against the trade, namely, the continued introduction of those who had every temptation to rise upon their masters; he would ask, whether the present eventual period did not evince the truth of this observation? If we consider the conduct of the French in those parts, who seemed not so much to endeavour at the emancipation, as to spread terror and devastation throughout the Islands, if there was one who merely wished well to those Islands, he was called on, without any other consideration, to put a stop to further importation.
There was one more argument, which, as it had great weight with him, he could not but hope it would have some with others. If ever there was a period in which Parliament was called upon to shew their sense of justice, it was the present, when they were, as it were, just returned from imploring the blessing of God upon their endeavours. Could he then doubt the fruits of to-night would be conformable to those sentiments of piety which a different conduct would shew to be a mockery? He would not believe it; he would not doubt the result of the event of this night's deliberation, when the continuance of this trade was but to oblige civilization, to continue crimes, and to spread desolation and misery over an extensive Continent. He concluded with moving a resolution,
"That the Slave Trade should be discontinued from and after the 1st day of January, 1796."
The Speaker informed him, that the regular way was to move that the above resolution be referred to a committee of the whole house, which he accordingly moved.
Mr. W. Smith seconded the motion.
Mr. Barham said, that as to the object of Mr. Wilberforce's motion, on the grounds of morality and justice, he perfectly coincided in opinion with that hon. Gentleman; and certainly should wish to abolish the Slave Trade; if it could be done consistently with sound policy and the real interests of the country. Liking as he did the object in abstract, but considering the means as hazardous, he was obliged to put his negative on the question, and should move "that the consideration of it should be deferred to this day six months."
Mr. Efte said, that among the various good qualities which were possessed by the hon. Member, his best friends, he believed, were not inclined to give him credit for much discretion. It appeared to him that no motion could be more indiscreet in the present circumstances, than the one bro't forward at present.
Mr. Dent spoke against the motion, and took occasion to observe, that a right hon. gentleman opposite him (Mr. Pitt) had declared himself an enemy to every kind of reform at this time; and hoped he would do the same on the present occasion. If a bill for the abolition of the Slave Trade was to pass into a law, no property could be safe in the West-Indies.
Mr. Whitbread said, he should have been ashamed to trouble the house on this question, which had been so often agitated, and had been supported on the present occasion, as on all others, by such irresistible arguments on the part of his hon. friend (Mr. Wilberforce); yet since, contrary to his expectations, the motion had met with opponents on the present occasion, he could not do otherwise than lend his feeble efforts to support so momentous and important a measure. The gentlemen who had opposed the motion had deprecated in the strongest terms the discussion of the question; he was very glad it was not in their power to prevent its being discussed. He was determined, for one, they should never have it in their power to prevent it, excepting by the only way, by putting it to rest in the only manner it ought to be put to rest, by the total abolition of that most abominable and iniquitous traffic. He pledged himself most solemnly, that if no other person would stand forth, he himself would every session of Parliament, as long as he had a seat in the house, bring forward the question till the great and glorious end they had in view was accomplished. It was true that the condition of the slaves had been ameliorated; and it was equally true that the cause of that amelioration had been the discussion of the question in that house. Very far indeed was its agitation likely to produce bad consequences; on the contrary, by bringing before the public enormities which have been exercised on the poor wretched slaves, by their merciless taskmasters, the planters had been obliged to feel a remorse for their past actions, which they did not experience, while they supposed the knowledge of their crimes had been confined to a narrow compass; so that, by some regulations consistent with humanity and justice, they had attempted to compensate for the violation of those duties, previous to the discussion of the question. It had been asserted, that the measure would be nugatory at present, because the war had nearly annihilated the

if this were true, as he hoped it was, one natural consideration offered itself instantaneously to the mind. Every person, without distinction of party, during a war, looked forward to peace; but how much the joy, which every one would experience in the re-establishment of peace, be damped by the reflection, that by so happy an event all the horrors in Africa would be renewed; that all the devastation and iniquity, exercised on the unfortunate inhabitants of that devoted country, would be re-enacted in full vigor. It should be considered, the power of the Almighty Disposer of all things was not merely confined to Europe, but that his Omnipotence and Goodness spread itself equally over Asia and Africa; and that if this country did not wipe out the foul stain of iniquity which had polluted it in this traffic, they were liable to a responsibility unequalled by any which the human mind could picture to itself. It had been recommended to the House to wait till the Lords had made their communications to the House on the subject; he was not surprised that this should be recommended by the friends to the Slave Trade; for if they were to wait till that distant period, he would not say when, for no period could be assigned at which any reasonable expectations, from the conduct of the Lords, could be formed that they would finish their examination of the business, he was afraid no good end could be answered. He had a statement in his hand, extracted from the Journals of the Lords, by which it appeared that in three years they had devoted only fourteen days to the examination of this most important subject. The House of Commons, he hoped, were not so lost to all sense of shame as the Lords appeared to be—
[Mr. Whitbread was here called to order. He repeated his words, and was again called to order.]
He then proceeded: that he wished it were possible to refute, by facts, the statement he held in his hand, and consistently with the forms, he must say, that if he should find in the Journals of the Lords, that in the first year of their consideration on the subject, they had employed only six days, and examined only seven witnesses; that in the next Session they had employed five days, and examined other seven witnesses; and in the third Session, had employed three days, and examined two witnesses; he should say that it would in the highest degree be disgraceful to them. There was no way, he said, of forcing the Lords to do justice to the question, unless they were called on by the House of Commons by repeated resolutions. The House of Lords were afraid of entering into it, because they knew—[Mr. Whitbread was again called to order.]
The Speaker said, he was sure the hon. gentleman would be convinced of the impropriety of such language.
Mr. Whitbread said, he was very sorry to mention with disapprobation, any branch of the Legislature; and though he should not repeat his words, no favourable inference could be drawn from their conduct.
Alderman Newham said he would oppose the motion then, as he probably might not be in the House in the course of another Session, when the subject should come to be discussed again. The delay which had been given to it by the Lords was highly to their honor; and he wished they had not regrettably the question all at once. The promoters of the business did not at first say that they wanted an abolition, but meant as if they said, "We will coax you on to it." He could not tell what advantages the hon. mover proposed to himself in the other world, by persisting in this plan of abolition; but for his part, he was certain that it was inhumanity both to the slaves themselves in the West Indies, and to the Africans who should happen to be seized and carried thither; for they were all at present better off than the poor of this country.
Mr. W. Smith, said, that one very strange and novel assertion had been made by the last speaker, who was perhaps the only gentleman who could not give it a direct negative. His memory must have failed him, as much as the memory of another person had of late failed him, or he must have recollected, that from the beginning it was explicitly avowed, that the total abolition was the object of the hon. mover and his supporters. He could account for the confusion, however; because he had observed, that every person on the opposite side had argued on the supposition of immediate emancipation, and applied those arguments to the abolition. As to the amelioration in the condition of slaves, it was a remarkable proof of the good effects of this discussion, because if gentlemen would look to the code of the West India laws previous to the discussion, they would find that there was but one spirit in them all; that instead of being for the slaves, they were all against them; but that the humane and wise provisions in that code bore date nearly with the first discussion of the question in the House.
Mr. Fox said, that the importance of the question before them, which he felt more strongly than almost any question to which he had applied his faculties, would not permit him to give a mere silent vote on the present occasion. He must always oppose, with every argument in his power, every notion of attempting to restrain the exercise of vicious powers by regulation without abolition; and still must he be of opinion, that regulating injustice, and legalizing murder, would, be doing the most disgraceful act of which the Legislature could be guilty, was abandoning the principles of morality and justice, the only proper foundations of every good Government. The assertion that murder itself might be regulated, and not prohibited, if any good could be supposed to result from it, he absolutely denied to be just:—
for no speculative moral advantage resulting from any relation to society, in any code whatever, could justify a legislature in countenancing so horrid a crime as murder, so subversive of every principle of morality and humanity. It was well known that there were nations of Cannibals who fed on human flesh: would the hon. gentleman think himself justified, because he thought if he purchased men and sold them to those Cannibals for the horrid purpose, that fewer were likely to be destroyed? or would any man, with the proper feelings of humanity, think himself justified in making such a purchase, or venture to recommend it to a legislature to give their sanction to such a measure? The speculative advantage would be infinitely overbalanced by the destruction of every moral principle. If the slave trade were abolished by the House, one of the greatest evils would be destroyed, by removing the moral guilt of a Legislature sanctioning a traffic which violated every principle of humanity and justice. He was very happy to see, that no person defended the trade itself on the present occasion; but even the opposers of the motion allowed it to be proper on principles of morality and justice. The mover of the amendment had stated his object to be the fame, but had differed as to the time and means of attaining the object. It had been asked, why interfere with the Lords? Notwithstanding he wished to speak with respect of that branch of the legislature, yet he could not help adverting to the statement of their conduct.
They might have their reasons, which he should not attempt to investigate; but it was matter of surprise, that at the latter end of the first session, in which this business had been before them, they had employed more time, than in any subsequent session, on the consideration of it. In that they had employed six days, in the next five, and in the third session three; if they meant to go on in the same proportion, he should wish to know what fraction of a day they would employ in the next session. It had been said, that it was expected the House would come to their senses by the year 1796; this idea of the House thinking themselves mad, and expecting to recover their senses at a given time, was the most singular species of insanity that he ever recollected. There might be a sense, however, put upon it, which he should wish to have considered, whether it were fair and honourable. A great number of petitions lay on the table of the House, from every part of England, in favour of the Abolition. Was it meant then merely to get rid of these petitions without ever meaning to perform the engagements entered into? He hoped and trusted no such thing. If, however, the House rejected the motion, such an interpretation was by no means improbable; and he knew no argument more serious, and particularly when applied to a public body, which like a Legislature, depended on public opinion; it was particularly incumbent on such a body to preserve a fair character and estimation in the public mind. One argument of the Hon. Mover had not been answered, respecting the state of the islands, and the probability of the French arming the blacks; if we meant to oppose them with success, similar means must be adopted, and that could not be effected but by inspiring confidence, through humanity and benevolence. Every new importation was an importation of so much weakness, so much rebellion, so much revolt; so many enemies who were roused to revenge insults and injuries, fresh in their memory, before they could have any conception of the good treatment they might experience. It had been said, that the Negroes were happier than our own poor; it would then be better, if it were true, to send some of our own subjects there; particularly as the Negroes did not seem to have a taste for the happiness so much boasted!—He concluded with observing, that even if we failed of the good effects to be expected from the measure, one great point would be gained—we should wipe away the disgrace of encouraging so horrible a traffic; and pressing, in several strong points of view, the consideration of the honor of the Legislature and the country, as involved in the decision of the question; as mankind were usually led by the authority of example, and assumed a character from the character of their Legislators.
Mr. Secretary Dundas rose to oppose the motion. He said, that in the outset of the business he had the good or ill fortune, he did not know which to call it, to disagree in opinion with both parties. Those who supported the proposition, and those who opposed it, had each of them gone into the extreme.—The one party had advanced, that if you did not immediately abolish the Slave Trade, you struck at the root of justice, you revolted humanity, and you gave countenance to the most detestable tyranny and oppression. On the other hand, it was said, that if you do abolish the Slave Trade, you will be guilty of
the greatest injustice to the West-India Planters—you would ruin their property, and bring destruction on the whole Colonies and those who are materially interested in them. For his own part, the Right Hon. Gentleman said, he had steered a middle course. Viewing the question in a calm, cool and deliberate manner, he had from the first been of opinion, that an abolition of the Slave Trade would turn out ultimately for the benefit and advantage of the West India Islands, provided it could be done in a gradual and progressive manner, by such degrees, and at such time, as should give the proprietors of lands and Negroes in them, the necessary opportunities of making due preparation, and accommodating themselves to their situation, in the best possible manner that to each should seem best.
Mr. Pitt, differing, as he said he did with his Right Honourable Friend in many points in the present subject of debate, it gave him the most sincere satisfaction to hear him declare in the open and unequivocal manner he had done, that he was thoroughly convinced the abolition of the Slave Trade would ultimately be of the Colonies whenever it could be brought forward in a gradual way. He could with he was as well satisfied of the conviction of the minds of those persons for whom, and for whose interests, his Right Honourable Friend had so eminently exerted himself. His Right Hon. Friend grounded his argument on three heads, which he recapitulated as stated above. The first, he said, he was enabled to controvert in the most positive manner. His Right Hon. Friend stated, "that the war had so far suspended the slave Trade, as to prevent the Planters from obtaining the importation of the necessary number of fresh Negroes, as should enable them to keep up their flock after the importation ceased." Whereas he knew the reverse was the case, and though the time had been short before the war broke out, he had accounts of the numbers they had imported, which indubitably proved that they had imported greater numbers in that time than they had ever done upon an average in the same space of time fixed by the resolution, and had therefore had all the benefit which it was intended by the resolution to give them. He combated the other arguments of the Right Hon. Secretary, particularly that of the danger which might result from the French Emitters insinuating into the minds of the negroes in the British islands that the Legislature were more attentive to the interests of the negroes in Africa than to theirs. He said, that even allowing this might be the case, yet the actual importation of new negroes into the Colonies, was pregnant with infinitely greater danger; as he would much rather have to contend against the weight of opinions than he would against that of actual force, it being allowed on all hands, that new imported negroes were the enemies most to be dreaded of any that could be introduced into the Colonies, should there be any danger or likelihood of a revolt against their masters. The British colonies, he allowed, were in a very critical situation—so much so, as to cause in his mind the greatest anxiety; and yet this very anxiety only confirmed him, after every consideration and reflection on the subject, in that opinion which he had held from the beginning of the business, viz. that an immediate Abolition would be the best and safest step which could now be taken.
Sir William Young spoke against the original motion.
Mr. Grey hoped, that as he had taken up their time by speaking to the subject in debate, they would indulge him with their attention to a few observations which he had to make to some expressions which had fallen from an Honourable Member in the course of the debate and which were in some degree of a personal nature to himself. The Hon. Member had said, that Confiscation and Rapine had taken place in the conquered Islands, and might produce the worst consequences to our own. He could undertake to say, that no general confiscation had taken place, except in places which were taken by assault, which he believed, by the laws of nations, was considered the property of the captors. Persons entrusted might have exceeded their powers but the Commanders had never countenanced them. If there were any one in that House who had any charge to bring forward, he wished they would do it, and he could answer that it would be fairly met.
Mr. Barham explained—that in what he stated, he did not mean any disrespect to the commanders on the expedition, but that he thought only as such general reports had gone abroad, it would be for their interest that some investigation should take place.
Mr. Wilberforce, in very few words,
concluded the debate, and proved, by accounts, the assertion of Mr. Pitt, that the Planters had actually imported a greater number of Negroes since 1792, when the Resolution passed fixed the time of the abolition to 1796, than they had ever before done on an average in the same space of time as by that resolution allowed them.
On a division the motion of Mr. Wilberforce was negatived, the number being For the amendment postponing it for six months - - - - - 78 Against it - - - - - 61 Majority for the support of the Slave Trade - - - - - 17.
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NEW-YORK, May 20. By a Paris paper received at Boston of March 13th, it appears, that Count Hardembourg, has been nominated by the court of Berlin, Minister Plenipotentiary at Basle, to terminate the negotiation with France, which had been interrupted by the death of Baron de Golz:—that the Porte continues to organize its armies—and that there now appears to be the greatest probability of a war between them and Austria.
BOSTON, May 15. Extract of a letter from a respectable American gentleman at Halifax, to a merchant in this town, dated May 5. "I left Bermuda 15 or 16 days ago, where I and Mr. Gardiner of Philadelphia, did every thing in our power for the dispatch of fundry vessels, of Americans, taken in coming from Hispaniola, upon security being given to produce proper proofs that the property is neutral. This I hope will be done. I believe there was only one vessel there, a Captain Harris, I think in a sloop from the windward, belonging to Boston. Before I left Bermuda, Mr. Goodrich had two ships out cruising on the coast of America, and one small Schooner off your bay, in quest of Bourdeaux vessels; but with orders not to trouble them unless their papers appeared dark or difficult. I have no doubt, however, numbers will be taken by them and Murray's Squadron. If you or your friends expect any of your own property, lodge proper vouchers here and at Bermuda. Silver Pigs, Wine, Brandy, and French Crowns are in great plenty at the two places; and no pains spared to add to the supply!"
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT Revenue Office, April 24th 1793.
PROPOSALS will be received at the Office of the Commissioner of the Revenue for building a BEACON HOUSE on Shell Castle Island, in Penobscot Sound, near Orono, in North Carolina, of the following materials, dimensions and description.
The form is to be an octagon. The foundation is to be of stone, to be sunk nine feet and one half below the surface of the earth, and to be commenced of the diameter of 23 feet. It is to be laid solidly to the height of two feet. From thence to the height of six inches above the earth or to the bottom of the wooden work, the foundation wall is to be eight feet high, and four feet and one half thick.
The Octagonal Pyramid is to be well framed, and of stout heart Pine timber. It is to be twenty two feet in diameter at the base thereof, where it will rest on the top of the stone foundation, to which it is to be well secured by sixteen iron straps built therein, and otherwise.
The height of the wooden building from the top of the stone work (six inches above the surface of the earth) is to be fifty four feet and one half to the top of the wooden work, under the floor of the lantern, where the diameter is to be twelve feet. The foundation is to be cased with sawed stone at least eight inches wide, and sloped at top to turn off the water.
The frame of the Pyramid is to be covered with boards of one inch and one half in thickness, over which is to be laid a good and complete covering of shingles, and it is to be well painted with three coats.
The Beacon House is to have two windows in the East and three windows in the West. The sashes are to be hung with hinges, and each sash is to have eight panes of glass of eight by ten inches.
On the top of the wooden work of the Pyramid is to be a strong framed tier of joists, beded therein, planked over with Oak plank, extending one foot beyond the sides of the Pyramid, thereby forming an eave which is to be finished by a cornice, the whole having a deflector from the centre sufficient to throw off the water, and to be covered with copper. A complete and sufficient iron lantern in the Octagonal form is to rest thereon. The eight corner pieces or lanterns of which are to be well secured to the upright timbers of the Pyramid, or to the tier of joists, or both.
These lanterns are to be stout in the low eight feet, and sufficiently strong above.
The Lantern is to be six feet high, from the floor to the bottom of the dome or roof, and to have a dome or roof of three feet in height. The whole space between the posts to be occupied by the sashes, which are to be moulded on the inside and truck solid. The sashes are to be furnished with large panes of glass; a part of the sash on the South West side is to be hung with hinges for a door to go out on the platform. The iron rafters of the Lantern are to be framed into an iron hoop over which is to be a copper funnel; through which the smoke may pass into a large copper ventilator in the form of a man's head, capable of containing thirty gallons, this head to be turned by a large vane, so that the hole for venting the smoke may be always to leeward.
Eight dormant ventilators are to be fixed in the roof; a large curved air-pipe is to be passed through the floor.
There are to be five pairs of stairs to ascend to the Lantern; the entrance to which is to be by a trap door covered with copper.
The building is to be furnished, with two complete electrical conductors or rods with points. The floors are to be laid with plank. The entrance into the light house is to be well secured by a strong door hung upon hinges with a strong lock and latch complete.
Also a FRAME DWELLING HOUSE of one story, to be twenty eight feet in front and fifteen feet deep with a cellar under it, if it should be found practicable to make one. The cellar walls are to be fourteen inches thick, and seven feet high. The story of the House to be seven feet and one half in the clear, the roof to have a rectangular pitch. The floors to be laid in whole lengths nailed through.
The House is to be composed of two rooms of about thirteen feet and one half by fourteen feet and one half on the lower floor. The stack of chimneys is to be between the two sitting rooms and it is to have two plain fire places, one of them large for a Kitchen, to which is to be joined an oven. There is to be an outer door in front between the two rooms and in the rear, in the Kitchen. There are to be two windows in each of the rooms.
Each sash is to have twelve panes of glass eight by ten inches. Each window is to have a strong plain shutter with fastenings and hinges. The doors are to be hung and furnished completely. The ceiling and inner sides of the House are to be plastered with two coats. All the wood work outside is to be well painted, and the whole is to be finished in a plain and decent manner.
An OIL VAULT is to be built ten by twelve feet in the clear, arched over and covered with earth or sand, over which a shed is to be built. It is to be furnished with three strong cedar cisterns with covers, each capable of containing two hundred gallons.
The entrance to the vault is to be secured by a strong door.
The builder is to procure and pay for all materials, labor, workmanship, provisions, and other objects of cost, charge, or expense for a sum, to be proposed and agreed upon, and to execute the before described work, and every part thereof, in a good and workman-like manner.
Convenient payments or advances, on security, will be made. April 27. m&th tf
To be Sold, And Possession given immediately, A Two story brick Dwelling House in Arch Street near Front Street, No. 23 sixteen and an half feet front, and the lot is 102 feet deep. Enquire of Isaac Snowden, South Second Street. March 30 d6t-codtf
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, Revenue Office, April 27, 1793
PROPOSALS will be received at the Office of the COMMISSIONER OF THE REVENUE for building
A LIGHT HOUSE on the land of Cape Hatteras on the coast of North Carolina, of the following materials, dimensions, and description.
The form is to be octagonal. The foundation is to be of stone, to be sunk thirteen feet below the bottom of the water table or the surface of the earth, and to be commenced of the diameter of twenty nine feet. From its commencement to the height of four feet the foundation is to be laid solidly, and from thence to the bottom of the water table, the foundation wall is to be nine feet high and nine feet thick.
The diameter of the base from the bottom of the water table to the top thereof (where the octagonal pyramid is to commence) is to be twenty eight feet four inches and the wall is there to be seven feet thick. The wall of the octagonal pyramid is to be six feet thick at the base thereof, on the top of the water table.
The height of the building from the bottom of the water table, and from the surface of the earth, is to be ninety feet to the top of the stone work, under the floor of the lantern; where the diameter is to be sixteen feet and one half feet and the wall three feet. The whole of the walls is to be built of stone.
The water table is to be cased with sawed stone, at least eight inches wide and sloped at the top to turn off the water. The outside of the walls is to be faced with hewn or hammer dressed stone, having four windows in the north east and five windows in the south west. The sashes are to be hung with hinges, and each sash is to have twelve panes of glass, eight by ten inches.
On the top of the stone work is to be a framed tier of joists, beded therein, planked over with oak plank, extending two feet beyond the wall thereby forming an eave which is to be finished with a cornice, the whole having a deflector from the centre sufficient to throw off the water, and to be covered with copper. A complete and sufficient iron lantern in the octagonal form is to rest thereon.
The eight corner pieces or lanterns of which, are to be built in the wall to the depth of ten feet. These lanterns are to be nearly three inches square in the lower ten feet, and 3 1-2 inches by 2 1-2 inches above. The lantern is to be ten feet and nine inches in diameter, it is also to be ten feet high from the floor to the bottom of the dome or roof and to have a dome or roof of five feet and nine inches in height. The whole space between the posts or upright pieces at the angles is to be occupied by the sashes, which are to be moulded on the inside and truck solid. Each sash is to have twenty eight panes of glass, fourteen by twelve inches. A part of the sash on the South West side is to be hung with hinges for a convenient door to go out on the platform. The rafters of the lantern are to be framed into an iron hoop, over which is to be a copper funnel, thro' which the smoke may pass into a large copper ventilator in the form of a man's head, capable of containing one hundred gallons.
This head is to be turned by a large vane; so that the hole for venting the smoke, may be always to leeward. Eight dormant ventilators are to be fixed in the roof; a large curved air pipe is to be passed through the floor and a close stove is to be provided and fixed in the lantern. There are to be eight pairs of stairs to ascend to the lantern, the entrance to which is to be by a trap door covered with copper. The building is to be furnished with two complete electrical conductors, or rods with points. The floors are to be laid with plank, of at least one inch and one half in thickness. The entrance to the light house is to be well secured by a strong door hung upon hinges with a strong lock and latch complete.
Also a frame House to be thirty four feet in front and sixteen feet deep with a cellar under it. The cellar walls to be eighteen inches thick and seven feet high.
The first story of the house is to be eight feet, and the second, seven feet and six inches high. The floors are to be laid in whole lengths, nailed through. The stack of chimneys is to be finished with two plain fire places on each floor, one of them large for a kitchen. Two windows below, and three above in front and rear, each sash to have eighteen panes of glass ten by twelve inches. The doors are to be hung and furnished completely.
The ceilings and sides of the House are to be plastered with two coats; all the wood work inside and out is to be well painted and the whole to be finished in a plain decent manner.
An Oil vault is to be built twenty feet by twelve feet in the clear, arched over and covered with earth or sand over which a shed is to be built. It is to be furnished with nine strong Cedar Cisterns with covers, each capable of containing two hundred gallons.
The entrance to the vault is to be secured by a strong door. A well is to be sunk at a convenient distance, and furnished with a curb, bucket and rope completely.
The builder to find and pay for all the materials, labor, workmanship, provisions and other objects of cost, charge or expense, for a sum to be agreed upon, and to execute the before described work and every part thereof in a good and workman-like manner. Convenient payments or advances, on security will be made. April 27. m & th tf
Advertisement. Take notice that on the third Day of March, the Co-partnership of the Subscribers was dissolved by mutual consent. All persons indebted to the said Company are requested to make speedy Payment, and all persons having demands against said Company are requested to exhibit them for settlement. Lewis Deblois, Samuel Breck, jun. Philad. March 3d. 1795. 2aw3m
For the GENTLEMAN FARMER Full Published, Printed and sold by H. & P. RICE, Philadelphia, Price 6/6 1-2 A Treatise on CATTLE: Showing the most approved methods of breeding, rearing, and fitting for use, After Mares, Horned Cattle, Sheep, Goats & Swine With directions for the proper treatment of them in their several disorders. To which is added a dissertation on their contagious diseases. By JOHN MILLS, Esq. Fellow of the Royal Society, London, honorary member of the Dublin Society, of the Societies of Agriculture at Rouen, of the Oeconomical Society of Bern, and of the Palatine Academy of Sciences and Belles Lettres. Contents of the above Work. Asses, of greater estimation than commonly held in—how to treat their diseases—at what age capable of generating—how to know their age—how taught to amble—high value set upon fine asses in Spain and Auvergne. &c. Mules, how bred—their qualities and uses—which sorts reputed best—how fed and managed. HORNED CATTLE. Of the general properties and uses of horned cattle—of the choice of cattle and fitting them for tillage—of feeding, fattening and tending them—of their propagation, care of the cow whilst pregnant, and management of the calf 'till fit for slaughter or for work—of the diseases of horned cattle. SHEEP. Of the qualities and different kinds of Sheep—of their management propagation, diseases of the head and throat, coughs and shortness of breath, of the belly, liver, droppy and cutaneous diseases. &c. &c. SWINE. Of the character, properties, and uses of swine—of feeding, and fattening—propagation and diseases.
Contagious Diseases of Cattle. Of the causes of contagious diseases—of the cure of their contagious diseases—additional observations on the diseases of cattle and on their cures, by the Society of Agriculture at Paris—on the symptoms and cure of the late contagious distemper among the horned cattle in Great Britain, by Peter Layard, of Huntingdon, M. D. and F. R. S.
H. & P. RICE, Have just received by the ship William Penn from London, and the Glasgow from Dublin; a most capital assortment of BOOKS & STATIONARY, For Sale on the lowest terms—Catalogues delivered gratis at their store No. 50 Market Street. In a short time will be published at the above store, THE SICILIAN ROMANCE: by the authors of the Romance of the Forest. &c. May 18 3taw2w
N o 96. District of Pennsylvania to wit. BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the first Day of May, in the nineteenth year of the Independence of the United States of America, James Ph. Pugh of the said District hath deposited in this Office the Title of a Book the Right whereof he claims as Author in the following words, to wit: "The FEDERAL POLITICIAN, by James Ph. Pugh, Teacher of the Spanish and Italian Languages, and author of the Spanish work entitled El Defensor del Hombre, or the Man Undeviled. &c. "Est modus in rebus, sunt certi denique fines, Quos ultra citraque nequit consistere rectum." In conformity to the Act of Congress of the United States intitled "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." SAMUEL CALDWELL, Clerk of the District of Pennsylvania. May 2 tuth tf
MAPS of PHILADELPHIA And its ENVIRONS, 26 Inches square, taken from a late and accurate survey, and executed in a neat and masterly style, may be had at Benjamin Davies's BOOK & STATIONARY STORE, No. 68, High-Street. In sheets, at 11/3; canvassed on rollers, or square frames. 10/3; varnished on rollers or frames at 20/. If coloured, 5/ will be added to the foregoing prices. N. B. With each Plan, will be given a Pamphlet, giving an account of the City, its trade, manufactures, population and government; its literary and charitable institutions, diseases, weather, &c. At the same place may be had, MAPS of the United States, Asia, Africa, and France divided into departments. April 29. 2awtf
Just Published, And to be sold by Thomas Dobson, No. 41 Second Street, Benjamin Davies, 68, High Street, John Ormerod, 41, Chestnut Street, and by the Editor of this Gazette, Proceedings of the Executive of the United States, RESPECTING THE INSURGENTS, 1794. MARCELLUS—as published in the Virginia Gazette, in November and December 1794. HISTORY of the REVOLUTION in GENEVA.
Wanted Immediately, 2 Smiths, a good fireman and White Smith, good encouragement will be given. Apply No 162 or 74 Market Street. Philad. Feb. 28, 1795, N. B. Boarding and Lodging free. d 2
NOTICE is hereby given, agreeably to Charter, to the Members of "The Corporation for the Relief of Poor and Distressed Presbyterian Ministers, and of the Poor and Distressed Widows and Children of Presbyterian Ministers," to meet on the 28th day of May next, at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, in the Second Presbyterian Church, in the City of Philadelphia, for the dispatch of all such business as may then be brought before the Board. ASHBEL GREEN, Sec'y of the Corporation. April 25th, 1795. oaw8t
IMPORTED, And to be sold by Jacob Parke, No. 49, north side of Market, between Front and Second Streets Philadelphia, A General Assortment of Ironmongery, Cutlery, Sadlery, &c. &c. AMONGST WHICH ARE, Smiths' anvils, vices and files Sawmill, croscut, hand and other saws Carving chisels and gouges Carpenters' ditto Plane irons Drawing knives, and other edge tools Locks, Hinges, Bolts and latches, Nails, spikes, tacks and screws Frying pans Smoothing irons Shovels and tongs Coffee-mills Candlesticks Snuffers Warming-pans Table knives & forks Riding whips 4 mo. 14th. Barlow, pen and other pocket knives Razors Scissors Needles Ivory and bone combs Belt kirby fish hooks Brass cabinet furniture Waggon boxes Sheet brass Scale beams Spelter Plated and tinn'd bridle bits and stirrups Do. faddle nails Staples and plates Worsted furcingile webb Diaper, girth and strain webs With most other kinds of Ironmongery, Cutlery, Saddlery, Brass wares, & coddtf
BOOKS PUBLISHED, and FOR SALE by THOMAS DOBSON, At the Stone House, No. 41 South Second Street. Alphonso and Dalinda, or the Magic of art and nature. 67 cents. Adventures of Alphonso, by himself. 20 cents. System of Anatomy, from the Encyclopaedia with 12 large copperplates. 2 Dollars. Beattie's Evidences of Christianity. 50 cents. Beattie's poems. 50 cents. Booth's apology for the Baptists 25 cents. Burke's reflections on the French Revolution. 1 Dollar. Campbell on Miracles, in answer to Hume, 80 cents. Clarke's Aesop's Fables, Latin and English. 33 cents. Cornaro, on temperance, health and long life. 33 cents. Crawford on animal heat 50 cents. New Dispensatory of Edinburgh, 2 Dollars. Medical and Philosophical Commentaries. 18 Volumes in 9. 4 Dols. & 50 cents pr vol. Fordyce's Sermons to Young Women. 80 cents. Goldsmith's Deserted Village. 14 cents. Comprehensive English Grammar. 25 cents. Grave, a poem by Dr. Blair. 14 cents. Collins's poems, with Hammond's Love Elegies. 50 cents. Hamilton's Outlines of Midwifery. 80 cents. Hopkinson's Works, 3 volumes. 5 Dols. Jenyns's Disquisitions on various subjects 25 cents. Life of Joseph by McGowan 50 cents. Moore's Fables for the Ladies, with Langhorne's Fables of Flora. 50 cents. More's Sacred Dramas for young persons. common Paper. 62 1-2 cents. fine do. 70 cents. Moore's Search after Happiness. 20 cents. Lempriere's Tour in Morocco. 87 1-2 cents. Medical Transactions of the Philadelphia College of Physicians. 1 Dollar. Nicholson's Natural Philosophy, illustrated with 25 copper plates. 3 Dols. Opinions of the Federal Judges on the feasibility of a State. 50 cents. Paley's principles of Moral and Political philosophy. 2 Dollars. Paley's view of the evidences of Christianity. 1 Dollar 75 cents. Percival's Moral Tales, and Fables for youth. 50 cents. Ditto fine. 67 cents. Chesterfield's advice to his son. 50 cents. Pope's Essay on Man. 13 cents. fine 20 cents. Present for an apprentice 20 cents. Price's Sermons. 67 cents. Riley on Uterine Hemorrhages. 30 cents. Memoirs of the Year 2500. 1 Dollar. System of Mineralogy and Metallurgy, from the Encyclopaedia. 1 Dollar 33 cents. Rowe's devout exercises of the heart. common 37 1-2 cents. fine 50 cents. Dr. Ruff's Medical Observations and Enquiries. 2 volumes 3 Dols. Dr. Ruff on the Yellow Fever. 1 D. 50 cents. Seleda e Veteri, a new and improved Edition in the press. Seleda e Profanis. 30 cents. Shipwreck, a poem by Falconer. 44 cents. Sherlock's Trial of the witnesses at the reurrection of Jesus Christ. 20 cents. Smith's Wealth of Nations, 3 vols. 3 dols. Smiths (Charlotte) Elegiac Sonnets 14 cts. System of Chemistry from the Encyclopaedia Quarto 2 dollars and 50 cents. Tapins Parriary complete 2 dollars 25 cts. Tables of Logarithms, Sines, Tangents &c. Underwood on diseases of Children 1 dollar Waters's system of Surgery abridged from Bell 2 dollars and 50 cts. Winchester's dialogues on Universal Salvation 62 1-2 cts. Memoirs of the year 2500 1 dollar. Buchan's Family Physician greatly improved will be published in a few days. Truxton's Remarks, Instructions and Examples relating to latitude, longitude, variation on of the compass &c. &c. with a chart of the Globe &c. 3 dollars. Also an extensive variety of books and stationery. 1 W 10 W
City of Washington SCHEME OF THE LOTTERY, No. II. FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE FEDERAL CITY. 1 A magnificent 20,000 Dols. and dwelling house, 5 cash 30,000 are 1 ditto 15,000 & cash 25,000 50,000 1 ditto 15,000 & cash 15,000 40,000 1 ditto 10,000 & cash 10,000 30,000 1 ditto 5,000 & cash 5,000 20,000 1 ditto 5,000 & cash 5,000 10,000 1 Cash prize of 10,000 2 ditto 5,000 each, are 10,000 10 ditto 1,000 10,000 20 ditto 500 10,000 100 ditto 100 10,000 200 ditto 50 10,000 400 ditto 25 10,000 1,000 ditto 10 10,000 15,000 ditto 1 15,000 16,739 Prizes 33,861 Blanks 50,000 Tickets at 8 dollars 400,000
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 delay the necessary expenses of printing, &c. and the surplus will be made a part of the fund intended for the National University, to be credited 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 twenty four gentlemen who by appointment of the late Commissioners assisted in the management of the Hotel Lottery are requested to undertake this arduous task a second time on behalf of the public; a sufficient number of these having kindly accepted, it is hoped that the friends to a National University and the other federal objects may continue to favor the design. The synopsis of one of the Colleges, to form a branch of the National Institution, is already in the press, and will be speedily published, together with its constitution.
A complete PLAN of the whole of this important Institution, compiled from a selection of the best materials, ancient and modern, will be submitted to the public when ever the same may have gone through such revisions as may be necessary to establish the perfect confidence and general approbation, so essential to its present rise and future existence for the general good of America.
By accounts received from the different parts of the Continent as well as from Europe, where the tickets have been sent for sale, the public are assured that the drawing will speedily commence, and that the care and caution unavoidably necessary to insure a safe disposal of the tickets, has rendered the short suspension indispensable. February 24, 1795. SAMUEL BLODGET
*** Tickets may be had at the Bank of Columbia; of James W. & Co. Baltimore or Gideon Denison, Savannah; of Peter Gilman, Boston; of John Hopkins Richmond; and of Richard Wells, Cooper's Ferry Age 30 coddtf
Fresh Teas, Of Superior Quality, viz. Imperial, or Gunpowder Hyson Gomee, 1st quality Hyson, 2d. do. do. Young Hyson, Hyson Skin, and Souchoong. A few Boxes of each, for sale at No. 19, Third street south. Dec. 10 coddtf
BOTTLED PORTER, For EXPORTATION. ORDERS immediately executed—and warranted of the best quality, by GILL & HENSHAW, No. 128 South Water Street. Where private families and tavern-keepers may be supplied with the same for immediate use. May 11. 3awtf