Gazette of the United States and daily evening advertiser. (Philadelphia [Pa.]), 1795-03-11 00:00:00

Gazette of the United States  AND  DAILY EVENING ADVERTISER.
[No. 59 of Vol. VII.]
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 1795.
[Whole No. 781]
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LANDING, from brig TOOKEY from LIVERPOOL , Stowed & Basket SALT, CHEESE, Double Gloucester, in whole and half hampers; PORTER BOTTLES, in cases. FOR SALE BY Thomas & John Ketland. March 6. d
Just Published, and to be sold by Thomas Dobson, No. 41, Second street, Benjamin Davis, 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 Vir- ginia Gazette , in November and December 1794. HISTORY of the REVOLUTION in GENEVA. REPORT of the late Secretary of the Treasury, on the PUBLIC DEBT, March 6.
Wants Employment, A person who has a tolerable knowledge of CONVEYANCING, a general know- ledge of Accounts and Figures, and writes a good hand. He would engage by the year, either in an Office or Merchant's 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. endif
Scheme of a Lottery, To raise 39,900 Dollars, or 266,000 Dollars Deducting 15 per Cent. from the Prizes— This Lottery consists of 38,000 Tickets, in which there are 14,539 Prizes, and 23,461 Blanks, being about one and an half blanks to a prize. THE Directors of the Society for establish- ing 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 draw- ing of the same, viz. Nicholas Low, Rufus King, Richard Harrison, Abigail Watson, Cornelius Ray, of the city of New-York— Thomas Willing, Joseph Ball, Matthew Mc- Connel and Andrew Bayard, of the city of Philadelphia—His Excellency Richard How- ell, Esq. Elias Boudinot, General Elias Day- ton, James Parker, John Bayard, Doctor Lewis Doanham, Samuel W. Stockton, Joshua M. Wallace, Joseph Bloomfield, and Elisha 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 the Banks.
SCHEME.    1 Prize of 20,000 Dollars is 20,000 1 20,000   2 10,000 10,000   3 5,000 10,000   4 2,000 10,000   5 1,000 10,000   10 500 10,000   20 100 10,000   100 50 15,000   200 20 20,000   1,000 15 30,000   2,000 12 36,000   8,000 10 81,000   14,539 Prizes. 262,000   23,461 Blanks. First drawn number, 2,000. 2,000   half drawn number, 2,000. 2,000 
38,000 Tickets at a Dollar each is 266,000 The drawing will commence, under the direction of a Committee of the Superin- tendents, as soon as the Tickets are sold, or which sooner notice will be given. The Superintendents have appointed John N. Cumming, of Newark, Jacob R. Har- denberg, of New-Brunswick, and Jonathan Rice, of Trenton, as immediate Managers thereof, who have given ample security for discharging the trust reposed in them. In order to secure the punctual pay- ment of the Prizes, the Superintendents of the Lottery have directed that the Managers shall each enter into bonds in 50,000 dollars, with four sufficient security, to perform their obligations, the substance of which is I. That whenever either of the Managers shall receive the sum of Three Hundred Dol- lars, he shall immediately place the same in one of the Banks of New-York or Philadel- phia, to the credit of the Governor of the State, and such of the Superintendents as live in the city where the monies are placed, to remain there until the Lottery is drawn, for the payment of the Prizes. II. That the Managers to take sufficient se- curity for any Tickets they may trust, other- wise to be responsible for them. III. To keep regular books of Tickets sold, Monies received and paid into the Banks, and of all other matters which shall be sent monthly to the Governor of the Society. Prizes: January 1, 1795. On application to either of the above gen- tlemen, information will be given where tickets may be had. endif
For Sale or Charter, The BRIG Friendship, Captain Lovell, NOW lying at Walnut street wharf, a staunch good vessel, not 2 years old, burthen about 1600 barrels. For terms apply to Joseph Anthony & Son. March 9. drw
For LONDON, The Brig DIANA, THOMAS MASON, Jun. Master; Burthen about 2000 barrels, the greatest part of her cargo being engaged, will sail on or before the 24th of March. She is a stout vessel, well found, Philadelphia built, fills well, and has good accommodations for pas- sengers. For freight or passage enquire of MATTHIAS KEELY, South Water-street, GAZZAM & TAYLOR, Front-street or RALPH MATHER, Race-street, No. 71. February 23. d
For Freight or Charter, The BRIG ABIGAIL, A. W. Truitt, master. BURTHEN about 2000 barrels, now ly- ing at Jesse and Robert Waln's wharf, will be ready to take in a cargo in a few days. For terms apply to the master on board, or THOMAS NEWMAN, No. 118, South Second street. Who has for sale, on board said Brig, 3000 bushels Lisbon Salt, A few boxes fresh Lemons and Oranges, And a few quarter casks Lisbon Wine. Feb. 27. d
Genteel Boarding & Lodging, AT No. 112, South Second street. March 3. d2w
Thirty dollars reward. Ran away from the subscriber, a white French servant man named Pierre Le Fille , about 30 years of age, of small stature, blue eyes, large nostrils; had on blue clothes, like a sailor's, and has a small wound in one of his fingers. He left my plantation last Sat- urday morning, after stealing several silver spoons and forks, part of which he held to a silversmith in Fredericktown. He enticed ed Caille , about 24 years of age, a Girl nam- ed Caille , she had on a green petticoat, and they both speak bad English. He says he is a gar- dener, and had been a seaman on board a French privateer which he left at Baltimore, pre- vious to his coming into my service at Fre- dericktown. Any person who will secure them in either of the jails of the following places, shall thereupon receive 15 dollars for each of the said run-aways, of the following per- sons. John Vaughan, of Philadelphia; David Stewart and Sons, Baltimore; Moses Myers, Norfolk; or the Subscriber. E. P. M. DE LA VINCENDIERE. Fredericktown, Maryland, Feb. 16. All Captains of vessels are warned not to carry them out of the country. drw3atw2w
AT THE Card & Mail Factory, No. 59, north Front street, Webley, Adgate & White, Have constantly for sale, Cotton, Wool, Tow, and Machine Cards, Of all Kinds, Cut Nails of all sizes, Floor Brads, Sprigs and Tacks, Fullers Shears, Gun Flints and Wool Hats. A quantity of kiln dried Indian Meal in barrels. A new Edition of Adgate's Philadelphia Harmony, containing both the first and se- cond parts, being the most approved sys- tem of Rules and the best collection of Tunes now in use. Also for Sale, A COMPLETE SET OF Machinery for making Cards On an Improved Construction. Oct. 2. iawtf
The New Philanthropic Society, Constituted for the purpose of relieving sick or distressed members is open for the admission of a few Subscribers on the orig- inal terms, after which the entrance will be advanced. The benefits arising from the above insti- tution are too obvious to require much com- ment; independent of advantages produced by social intercourse, the conscientiousness of contributing to our neighbours relief, affords the highest gratification to a feeling mind, while it secures to ourselves a certain provi- sion against future contingencies. N. B. Printed particulars may be had (gratis) at the bar of the Sun Tavern, Straw- berry street, where the Society is held. The next meeting will be on Monday the 16th inst. March 5. m&th3w
LIBRARY. Notice is hereby given, That a general Meeting of the Library Company of Philadelphia, will be held by adjournment, at the Library in Fifth street, on Monday next the sixteenth instant, at six o'clock in the evening, in order to take into consideration the propriety of encroaching their Annual Payments, and repealing so much of their by-laws, as authorize the Directors to dispose of the Real Estate of the Company. By order of the Members assembled at the Library this day. Z. Poulson, jun. Secretary pro tem. Monday, March 9. d2W
BEEF. 400 BARRELS FOR SALE; APPLY AT No. 82, South Front street, TO SAMUEL COATES. March 7. *6t
New-castle Pier Lot- tery. Tickets in the above Lottery may be ex- amined at the Office No. 149 Chestnut- street between Fourth and Fifth streets. Arrangements having been made to obtain regularly each day's drawing. Information also will be given where a few remaining Tickets may be purcha- sed. N. B. The Lottery commenced draw- ing the 25th inst. 28 Feb. d.
SHAKESPEARE'S WORKS. Mountford, Bioren, & Co. RESPECTFULLY inform the Patrons to their Works, and the Public, that from the very Liberal Encouragement they have al- ready received in the Undertaking, they will be enabled to put the FIRST VOLUME to Press in the course of the ensuing Month. This being the first attempt made in the United States for the publication of the Writings of the celebrated Shakespeare—and the magnitude and elegance of the Work rendering it materially expensive, the Pub- lishers anticipate a generous Patronage from an enlightened Public. It will be printed on a new and handsome type, and in a superior style of execution. The first volume will contain the Tragedies and Comedies of Shakespeare. Subscriptions are received by the principal Bookellers in this City, and throughout the United States, and by the Publishers, No. 75, Dock street. Feb. 28. eod3t—raw4w
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.
George Hunter, Chemist, At his Laboratory, No. 114, south Second street. INFORMS his former customers and the public, that he has begun the DRUG bus- iness again on an extensive plan. He has for sale a general assortment of FRESH DRUGS, CHEMICAL PREPARATIONS, and PA- TENT MEDICINES. Likewise, painters' colours, dry and ground in oil, paint brushes, window and coach glass, dye stuffs, linseed oil, oil of turpentine, copal oil varnish and japan, warranted good. Alum, capers, madder, ground redwood by the hoghead or smaller quantity. As he imports the simple's from the best market, and makes the compositions and preparations himself, he is enabled to vouch for and warrant every article sold out of his Laboratory, and likewise to dispose of them at the most reasonable rates. He wishes to sell a large LOT of GROUND, the north-east corner of High and Eleventh streets, containing 78 feet front on High-street, and 200 feet on Eleventh- street, opposite Mr. Leiper's new buildings. And another LOT on the north side of High street, near the above, 28 feet front, and 200 feet deep. Both lots have the privilege of a 30 feet alley in their rear. Dec. 13. stf
WANTED, An Apprentice To the Watch making and Repairing Business APPLY TO C. Campbell, No. 3, south Fourth street, two doors from Market street. Jan. 19. zawtf
American Landscapes. PROPOSALS FOR PUBLISHING IN AQUATINTA TWENTY-FOUR VIEWS. Selected from the most striking and inte- resting Prospects in the United States; each of which VIEWS will be accom- panied with a descriptive account of its Local, Historical, and other Incidental Peculiarities. By G. I. PARKYNS, Author of the "Monastic Remains and Ancient Coffins in Great Britain."
CONDITIONS. I. That the work shall be published by Sub- scription; and that each Subscriber shall engage to take the whole set of Views, and shall pay for each engraving, if black or brown, 2 Dollars; and if coloured 5 Dollars. II. That the dimensions of each engrav- ing shall be 24 by 17 inches, executed in aquatinta, and published upon paper of a superior quality. The publication to com- mence immediately; and one engraving to be delivered to the Subscribers, on the first Monday of each succeeding month, until the proposed series shall be finally comple- ted. III. That with the last View of the series, shall be delivered an engraved title-page; an elegant characteristic vignette; a map of the route, connected with the prospects exhibited in the course of the Work; and an Alphabetical list of the Subscribers.
TO THE PUBLIC. THIS Work is offered to the public at a crisis peculiarly interesting to the Arts: Amidst the ravages of war, and the convul- sions of a revolutionary age, they must inevi- tably languish and expire, unless the same happy country, which affords an asylum to the persons of the persecuted and distressed, shall foster and patronize the labour and abi- lity of men of genius and talents. Advancing, indeed, rapidly to the zenith of power, reputation and opulence, America, even in a state of universal tranquility, must soon have become the rival of Europe in learning and taste, as well as her superior in morality and government. Under the present circum- stances of the world, however, the oppor- tunity occurs to anticipate the defined period of pre-eminence; and to render America at this eventful hour, the guardian and pro- tector of every science that can enlighten, and of every art that can amuse the human mind. On this principle, more than the claim of merit, the Author presumes he shall not fail to attract the public attention; but still, he hopes, that he will not be found altogether undeserving or defective, either in the choice or execution of his subject. No country pos- sesses scenes better calculated to inspire ideas of the beautiful and sublime; to exalt the soul of the philosopher, to enliven the song of the poet, or animate the pencil of the painter, than those which lie profusely scat- tered over the American continent; But un- fortunately there is no country, whose native charms have been so superficially explored, or so imperfectly delineated. Hitherto, indeed the toll of converting a wilderness into a state of luxuriant vegetation; of providing the necessaries and comforts of life; and of adapt- ing civil institutions to the genius of a new nation, seems to have been sufficient to engage all the strength, and all the talents of the inhabitants of America. The people of Europe, on the other hand, corrupted by wealth, and deluded by pride, have rarely, comparatively speaking, overstepped the boundaries of their continent in pure search of information or pleasure. The ruins of art, which encumber their domestic scenery, have been preferred to the novelties of nature which arise in other regions; and the time has been, that a View from the St. Lawrence to the Mississippi would have been less valued, than the fashion of a palace, or a mutilated fragment of antiquity. But in respect to both, a revolution in situation and sentiment has been accomplished. The American finds leisure, with a retrospective and joyful sens- ibility of heart, to admire the graces, as well as to reap the abundance which providence has bestowed on this country; and the Euro- pean is compelled, with an anxious and ex- pectant eye, to look abroad for that peace & prosperity, which he can no longer enjoy at home. The attention of mankind being thus di- rected towards this country, every thing that relates to its physical, as well as to its politi- cal interest, will, it is presumed, receive a liberal encouragement. The Author of the present work, therefore, confidently makes the experiment on a new subject, and in a new style of execution. The art of engraving in Aquatinta, has indeed, for some time been held in high estimation throughout Eu- rope; its close imitation of finished draw- ings, and the free but forcible manner in which it depicts the light and graceful touch- es of nature, are properties, that seem pecu- liarly adapted to the American scenery, some of the tints and colors of which are certain- ly nowhere else to be found. Exclusive of these advantages, it is likewise in contemplation to render the work a re- pository of descriptive topographical and histo- rical facts respecting the circumjacent coun- try from which the views were taken: but
give full effect to this part of his undertak- ing, the Author must solicit the assistance of every citizen, who is possessed of authentic information, whether relating to the Natural history or to the memorable events, connected with the respective engraving. The map of the tour will exhibit the relative situation of the views, as well with respect to each other as to the principal Cities and Towns of the several States, commencing at the city of Washington. As an additional recommendation to the favor of a patriotic public, it may not be im- proper to observe that the paper and every other article employed in executing the work will be of American manufacture, and of the best quality. Twelve drawings are ready, and the ut- most dispatch will be used in preparing and delivering the engravings. Amongst the number alluded to, the following may be mentioned: 1. A view of Mount Vernon, the seat of the President of the United States. 2. Philadelphia. 3. City of Washington. 4. New-York. &c. &c. &c. It is the design of the Author to finish those objects first, which are most important and interesting; and if the Public patronage shall prove adequate to the expense, he proposes to extend his undertaking to 24 Views, more than the number contained in the present Pro- posals. In that case, however, the first set of Views will be so arranged, as to form either an independent work for those, who may not wish to renew their subscriptions, or a series connected with the second set for those, who may wish to continue their patronage till the whole is completed. Letters or other communications for the encouragement, elucidation, or improvement of the work, the Author's requests may be ad- dressed to him at New-York. Subscriptions are received by Mr. Harri- son, at his Print-shop, Maiden-lane, New-York by Mr. Carey, Bookseller, No. 118, Market street, Philadelphia, and by all the principal Book-sellers in the United States. February 28. d.
FOR SALE, At the STORES of Jesse & Robert Waln, PORT WINE in pipe, hides, and quar- ter casks. LISBON do. in pipes and quarter casks. Souchong and Congo TEAS, in quarter chests. A quantity of Lisbon and Cadiz SALT Soft shelled ALMONDS in bales. Velvet COATS, in do. Russia MATS. June 9. d.
Columbianum. Notice is hereby given, That the Committee of Examination of Ta- lents and Pretensions, belonging to the Colum- bianum or National College of Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, and Engraving, con- tinue to receive recommendations from those Artists, who mean to become Members of that Institution, inclosed to Mr. Groombridge at his house adjoining the Bank of Penn- sylvania, and addressed to the chairman. Signed by order of the Committee of Ex- amination, &c. J. J. BARRALET, THOS. ROBSON, Ass't. Sec. Feb. 27. d.
Columbianum. February 14, 1795. AT a Meeting of the Fellow Artists of the Columbianum, at Mr. Groombridge's House, adjoining the Bank of Penn- sylvania, in the City of Philadelphia. G. I. Parkyns in the chair. Resolved, That the Columbianum or National College, shall apprise the Artists of Amer- ica, and such Ladies and Gentlemen, as are desirous of sending specimens of their performances, either in Painting, Sculp- ture, Architecture, or Engraving, that a PUBLIC EXHIBITION will be opened in the City of Philadelphia, on the first day of May next, when those who wish to be Exhibitors, are requested to notify their intentions as soon as possible, address- ed to the Chairman of the Columbianum through the hands of Mr. Groombridge. Resolved, That the Rooms intended for the Ex- hibition shall be announced to the Public, as soon as the preparatory arrangements are completed. Resolved, That every possible care shall be taken of such performances of Artists and Ho- norary Exhibitors as are intended for the Exhibition, and that they shall be return- ed to the different proprietors, at the close of the same, with every suitable precau- tion. Resolved, That the Rules and Regulations for conducting the Exhibition, shall be laid before the Public at an early period, with the names of the Gentlemen that compose the Committee of Exhibition and Models. Signed by Order, P. P. PRICE, Sec. pro tem. THOS. ROBSON, Ass't. Sec. Feb. 28. *

L A W S OF THE UNITED STATES. Third Congress of the United States. At the second session: An ACT making further provision in cases of drawbacks.
WHEREAS the allowance of drawbacks on goods, wares, and merchandise, imported into the United States, is now limited to such as are exported from districts into which the same are imported, and great loss and inconvenience are experienced from such limitation, and further provision, in respect to goods, wares, or merchandise, entitled to drawback, is deemed necessary.
Sect. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That after the last day of March next, any goods, wares and merchandise imported into the United States, may be exported from any of the ports at which ships and vessels from the Cape of Good Hope, or from any place beyond the same, are admitted to make entry, and entitled to the same drawback of the duties, as goods, wares and merchandise exported from the districts into which they are imported, are now entitled to: Provided nevertheless, That such goods, wares and merchandise shall not be entitled to such drawback, unless they shall be accompanied by a certificate from the collector of the district into which they were imported, specifying the marks, numbers and descriptions of the casks or packages, with the names of the master and vessel in which, the time when, and the place from whence, they were imported; and where the articles pay duties by weight or measure, the quantity in each; and in all cases, the amount of the duties paid or secured thereon.
Sect. 2. And be it further enacted, That in order to entitle any person to such certificate, he or they shall make out an entry of all such goods, wares and merchandise, specifying the marks, numbers and descriptions of the casks or packages and their contents, the names of the master and vessel in which, the time when, and the place from whence they were imported; the names of the master and vessel in which they are intended to be laden, and the district in the United States to which they are destined; and shall moreover make oath or affirmation to the truth of such entry: which requisites being complied with, and the collector satisfied with the truth thereof, he shall grant such certificate, and such goods, wares and merchandise shall be entered with the collector of the district, into which they shall be brought from the place of their importation, previous to the landing or unlading thereof.
Sect. 3. And be it further enacted, That after the last day of March next, it shall be lawful for the importer or exporter of any liquors in casks, coffee in casks or other packages, or any unrefined sugars, to fill up the casks or packages, out of other casks or packages included in the original importation, or into new casks or packages, in case the original cask or package shall be so injured, as to be rendered unfit for exportation, and under the inspection of the inspector of the port, from which such liquors, coffee or unrefined sugars are intended to be exported.
Sect. 4. And be it further enacted, That when any goods, wares or merchandise entitled to drawback, shall be entered for exportation, from any other district, than the one into which they were imported, the person intending to export the same, besides producing the certificate herein before directed, shall make an entry, in like manner, and the goods, wares and merchandise, therein expressed shall undergo the same examination as is by law required, relative to goods, wares and merchandise entitled to drawback, and intended to be exported from the place of original importation.
Sect. 5. And be it further enacted, That for all goods, wares and merchandise entitled to drawback, which after the last day of March next, shall be exported from the district into which they were originally imported, the exporter, or exporters, shall be entitled to receive from the collector of such district, a debenture or debentures for the amount of the drawback, to which such goods, wares or merchandise are entitled, payable at the same time or times respectively, on which the duties on the said goods, wares or merchandise shall become due, except the same, or any part thereof has been paid, or shall become payable in less than three months; in which case, such debenture shall be payable in three months: And it shall be the duty of the said collectors to
discharge such debentures at the time they become due, out of any public money in their hands. And where goods, wares, and merchandise are exported from any other district, than the one into which they were imported it shall be the duty of the collector of such district, to grant to the exporter a certificate, expressing that such goods, wares and merchandise were exported from his district, with the marks, numbers and description of the packages and their contents, the name of the vessel on which they were laden, the name of the commander, and the port for which they were cleared out, and the amount of the drawback, to which they are entitled. And such certificate shall entitle the possessor thereof, to receive from the collector of the district, with whom the duties on the said goods, wares and merchandise were paid or secured, a debenture or debentures for the drawback expressed in the said certificate, payable at the same time, and in like manner, as is herein directed for debentures on goods, wares and merchandise exported from the place of their first importation: Provided nevertheless, That the collector aforesaid may refuse to grant such debenture or debentures, in case it shall appear to him, that any error has arisen, or any fraud has been committed; and in case of such refusal, if the debenture or debentures claimed shall exceed one hundred dollars, it shall be his duty to represent the case to the Comptroller of the Treasury who shall determine whether such debenture or debentures shall be granted or not: And provided always, That in no case of an exportation by the original importer, shall drawback be paid, until the duties on the importation thereof shall have been first received.
Sect. 6. And be it further enacted, That before the receipt of any such debenture, in case of exportation from the district of original importation, and in case of exportation from any other district, before the receipt of any such certificate; the person applying for the same shall give bond with one or more sureties, to the satisfaction of the collector who is to grant the debenture, or the certificate, as the case may be, in a sum equal to double the amount of the sum for which such debenture or certificate is granted, conditioned to produce to such collector, like proof and certificates of the delivery of such goods, wares or merchandise, at some place without the United States, as are now required by law for obtaining the drawback on exportation, within one year, in case such goods have been shipped to any part of Europe or America, and within two years, if to any other place: Provided nevertheless, That when it shall be made appear to the satisfaction of the collector, to whom such certificates are directed to be returned, that such certificates could not be obtained, the exporter or exporters shall be permitted to offer such other testimony, as to the landing or loss of the goods, wares and merchandise, as he may have; which proof shall be referred to the Comptroller of the Treasury, who shall have power and authority to admit the same, if he shall deem it satisfactory, and to direct the collector to cancel the bond accordingly.
Sect. 7. And be it further enacted, That so much of the act, entitled "An act to provide more effectually for the collection of the duties imposed by law on goods, wares and merchandise, imported into the United States, and on the tonnage of ships or vessels," as extends the credits on bonds given for duties on account of the drawback on goods exported, shall, after the said last day of March next, be repealed: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to extend to any allowance made upon goods, wares and merchandise imported before the said last day of March next.
FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN ADAMS, Vice-President of the United States, and President of the Senate. Approved, January the twenty- ninth, 1795. G e WASHINGTON, President of the United States.
Second Letter on PARTIES. Addressed to the people of the State of New-York.
IN my first letter I considered the position often advanced in favor of parties, as far as it was founded on historical examples: In this examination, I have only stated certain general principles, with such slight allusions to circumstances and facts as were thought necessary to illustrate those principles. The compass allowed by the present mode of publication would hardly admit of minute details. I can at
present only indulge in free and general sketches.
Pursuing the plan proposed in my former address, I shall proceed to consider the position, as it rests upon the idea of a tendency in men to corruption and abuse of power, and the supposed efficacy of party-spirit to impede the progress, or to correct the evil.
In reasoning on the nature of man, we easily fall into the error of regarding that which often occurs as necessarily existing. We are governed by the number and apparent uniformity of examples, without examining the situation, circumstances and external motives, which may have contributed to produce them. Man, on coming into the world, comes into a pre-established system: he finds himself the subject of innumerable relations, which thicken and multiply as he matures: they involve him in their mechanism, mould and modify his principles, and form his character. When he advances from the merely social into the political state, he feels stronger necessities, and relations still more complex: in this process his habits (a great branch of his character) are forming, varying, adjusting, confirming if he is elevated to superior rank or power, a new system instantly arises to guide, impel, embarrass or restrain him. In tracing the nature of man through his practical course therefore, we have to penetrate a medium obscure and confused, always changing its colors and exhibiting deceptive forms. Reflections like these should caution us against concluding absolutely respecting the natural principles and necessary tendencies of men, from the innumerable examples of crimes and corruption which blacken the page of history.
The true enquiry is, what are the nature, the principles, the defects of the system in which he acts? Is nature to be reproached with the vices of a despotic prince, nurtured in the lap of unhounded power, his early passions corrupted, and inflamed to wanton indulgence by artificial incentives? Is nature responsible for acts of cruelty and tyranny in a government, which nothing but severity and terror can maintain in existence? Surely not—it is the miserable effect of the system. I am aware that examples of eminent virtue on the throne of despotism will be objected; but I reason from the general course of things—rare exceptions illustrate general principles—I am not to account for a few occasional, transient, light spots on the dark picture—besides I distrust in some degree the virtues of Antoninus and Titus and Trajan. The vices of princes are early exaggerated; their virtues often are—in painting a virtuous character in the midst of a degenerate age, every historian becomes a flatterer. The effect of contrast is deceitful; among the group of monsters that stalk along the theatre, amid and gentle figure appears an angel of light.
The tendency of corrupt and vicious systems is not only to invite, it is also to compel men to practise evil. Government in many cases is nothing more than a just and artful accommodation of bad measures with bad principles. In the British government, when a minister comes into office, he finds a mass of established motions, resolutions which are already established: were he to check these general motions and tendencies, were he to attempt to infuse into the machine new principles of organization; in the shock both he and the machine would sink together: his natural policy must be to guide it along the current, encounter the enemies that oppose, and avoid the rocks that lie hid; and, to prevent internal jar and the consequent decay of the structure, apply with a prudent hand the oil of expedients.
It is a common remark, that the most decided & enthusiastic advocate of liberty when in this strange fluctuation of the British government, he succeeds to the head of the administration, suffers a dereliction of his principles and becomes an apostate; many wonder at the change—more stigmatize the man, and are ready to conclude, that his former professions and zeal were those of an artful hypocrite;—the conclusion is perhaps too hasty and uncandid: there is a species of moral necessity attending his actual situation which should be brought into the account. To stem the torrent of corruption, to reform and infuse new principles of vigor into an old establishment, is reserved for geniuses of an uncommon stamp. The late Earl of Chatham stands almost alone in ministerial history; he had the magnanimity to attempt, and abilities to accomplish the great work; but what was the first measure he employed? Disolving parties.
I am far from contending that man does not naturally love power and pre-eminence; but does he love it because it affords him an opportunity of gratifying bad principles and passions, or because it brings him positive and personal enjoyments? I hope the latter—then let us candidly conclude, that tho' man loves power, he loves his interest better; bad principles, and passions themselves are superinduced by his situation. Shew me great power without constitutional restraint, and I will shew you habitual tyranny; place the same subjects within the sphere of a well adjusted democratic constitution, and you will see an even and steady tendency to the public good. But an objection arises—does not the necessity of restraint imply a vicious propensity? No—The propensity itself is a part of the system—the principles of the political enters into the composition of the human constitution: and our education under the influence of government and laws, is but a curious process of assimilation. What! Is man in a perpetual state of violence? Is ambition continually engaged in a painful struggle with the bars and fetters that encompass
it? At this rate the enjoyment of a limited and well defined power would be a constant source of disquiet and misery.
In treating of the influence of the government upon the habits of the rulers, a distinction is noticeable which ought in justice to be allowed. In certain pure and absolute monarchies, the habits of the prince borrow somewhat less from the nature of the government; every thing depending on his sovereign will, he often naturally follows his original impulses, without any direct reference to external motives; in such governments therefore, it happens that the regal catalogue appears somewhat diversified; & there is a chance that what is called a good king, that is a king of comparative lenity and virtue may arise under the worst of circumstances; this is perhaps an advantage denied to certain Gothic despotisms, where the power of the prince is limited, but, in an undefined manner; and where the oblique restraints only serve to enrage his ambition.
It will be seen, that I place great, nay almost entire reliance on the nature and form of the constitution. However few, at this day, are inclined to dispute the principles that politics is a science.
The celebrated poet whose artful logic and enchanting numbers have bewildered many a reader, had he foreseen how easily he would have been misunderstood, when speaking of systems of government, he declared that—
"That which is best administered is best" would probably have explained himself, or expunged the passage; but he had before his eyes innumerable forms of both ancient and modern, none of which contained that great principle which alone could ensure a virtuous administration; the principle of responsibility.
An author of high authority in political science has said, "that the force of laws and of particular forms of government is so great, and so little dependence have they on the humours and tempers of men, that consequences almost as general and certain may sometimes be deduced from them; as any which the mathematical sciences afford us."
A constitution organized upon original and tried principles, and containing the property of regular certain and constant responsibility, not only to check the occasional errors of the ruling power, but to form its habits, direct its views, and multiply the motives of patriotism. The constitution of our own country is certainly such an one, and the only one that has ever existed in the world: the conclusion therefore that a form tho' above reflections and allusions is, that in this country, whatever irregular propensities may exist in the man, the frame and spirit of the constitutional laws have a direct and steady tendency to secure us against the positive depravity of the citizen.
But is there still some radical defect, some corrupt principle in human nature to which no yet discovered constitution or remedy can reach? Let us still trust to the more and knowledge may bring
—let us reflect with pride and pleasure, that having already laid a broad and solid basis, we have now only to proceed in finishing and refining the noble superstructure. Doubt not that the improvements in political science will be carried so far that the restraints and checks of the constitution will operate like irresistible but silent attractions.
The idea, that parties are necessary to the balance of government, is founded on the supposition of a pre-established power not responsible to the people; it may be plausible in relation to mixed government, in which the revolutions and fluctuations, occasioned by the efficacy of faction, sometimes throw new principles of virtue or vigor into the enormous and corrupted mass of the monarchy; but the idea itself of a balance is hardly admissible in governments purely free; it is an illegitimate doctrine, founded not on scientific principles, but on a species of historical computation, in which all sorts of example are let into accumulate the sum. So numerous are the instances in history of the sufferings struggles and attainments of liberty, that we easily imbibe a habitual persuasion, that it is all an acquisition won from ancient tyranny; and that therefore liberty must always be a rival and a combatant and must maintain her conquests, by establishing a constitutional balance against the weight and strength of her enemy. In England, liberty is called a birth-right, an inheritance, a patrimony; they flew you their title deeds—but they talk not of the right of man; they dream not of a charter from God.
But if the establishment of party spirit can be considered as a remedy or check to the depravity of human nature, it is a dangerous remedy only to be resorted to when the efficacy of the constitution fails: Like self-created political societies; it may be salutary in difficult and desperate emergencies; but it is baneful in the bosom of a well regulated commonwealth; necessity may justify the policy as necessity justified the ancient Britons, in calling over an armed and ambitious neighbour to protect them from the invasions of their old and natural enemy: but in all cases
it indicates and perpetuates the liability of the system.
I find the subject grows, as I advance; I must refer to future communications the prosecution of the interesting discussion.
CONSTANTIUS.
For the Gazette of the United States.
Mr. Fenno,
Tho' "the eagle suffers the little birds to sing"—he does not tolerate the hootings of the screech owls of mankind—those pestilent disturbers of the harmony of nature, whose discordant notes grate upon the ear of every friend to society. The wretched trifles of a scribler in your yesterday's paper indicate such poverty of intellect, such a total want of every requisite to constitute a reviewer of theatrical exhibitions, that his performance as a critique is entirely beneath notice. I shall only remark that he is absurd, inconsistent and pitiably pleonastic in his references to the several actors who are honored with his censures—and those he most bunglingly applauds, cannot consider themselves complimented by the awkward attempts of such a slouch even at literary grimace.
At a time when the labors of genius and humanity are united to eradicate those prejudices which have held mankind in bondage for ages, it is little short of attempting to revive gothic ignorance and barbarity for any man to repel either by insinuations or open attacks, the advances of the divine principle of universal benevolence.
The Comedy of Cumberland was received with unbounded applause in England—a plain indication of the progress of better principles there, than in former times stigmatized the people of that country—the motive that actuated the author has been recognized by the enlightened and liberal citizens of this metropolis—and the far-fetched comparison of this disciple of monkish intolerance shews that he was born out of season.—He had better go to sleep till humanity and benevolence shall again become strangers to the heart of man.
I have only two articles of advice to offer for his consideration, and then shall leave him to cogitate for a future flagellation, if his evil genius should ever again condemn him to attempt a theatrical critique.—The first is to tip a little more from a certain faunt, that he appears to be a stranger to—the other is to endeavor at least to understand himself before he offers his advice to the public or individual.
CRITO.
From the Aurora.
Mr. BACHE,
Some remarks appeared in your paper of yesterday, reflecting on a principal female dancer. If the writer of those unandid remarks, had possessed but half the patience that he affects wisdom, he would have learnt that the circumstance he complains of, proceeded not from design but mere accident.
Illiberality towards a Lady, who has ever studied to please, and whose bread depends on those endeavours, can only proceed from a breast "rankling with the gall's, own bitterness," and on whose furrowed forehead may be read,
"Bethou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, Thou shalt not 'scape calumny."
Mr. FENNO,
AS the Protector of Mrs. Demarque's Character, and my own Honor, I feel myself impelled to make this Appeal to the Feelings of a generous Public.
The Printer of the Aurora, having thought fit in his Paper of yesterday to accuse the principal female Dancer with want of Decency, I must thus publicly tell him, it is a most unmanly and illiberal Attack, and basely tending to destroy private Peace. The accident that happened to Mrs. Demarque on Saturday Evening, from her Cloaths getting fast to Mr. Nugent's Knee-Buckle, surely did not merit such wanton Abuse. Every part of the Audience (except himself,) conscious of the Accident, and her good Character, kindly supported her with that liberal Applause they have always honored her.
The Dress of a female Dancer, with the decent Precautions always taken, has not been found to offend the most rigidly Virtuous.—Though the Liberty of criticizing on public Exhibitions cannot be denied, yet when that Critic licentiously descends to base Scurrility and the Destruction of domestic Happiness, he merits, not only universal Contempt but a just Punishment.—The Printer of the Aurora if possessed of Honor, certainly owes a public Apology to Mrs. Demarque; but

should he wantonly persist in his illibe- rality, he may depend that it shall not be passed over, but that Justice shall be obtained. By CHARLES DEMARQUE. Wednesday, March 11th, 1795.
UNITED STATES.
BALTIMORE, March 6.
A brig is arrived in our port from some part of Holland. Report says, that accounts are received of a truce between the republic of France and the States General of the U- nited Provinces, having absolutely been de- clared. If this be the case, we may soon ex- pect a confirmation of this agreeable news, and anticipate the union of Holland with France, against the enemies of liberty and equal right.
MARTINSBURG, March 2.
The Hymeneal torch was lately illuminat- ed by the Right Worthy Mr. William Pitt- man, aged 60, and the agreeable Widow Mary, between 60 and 70, both of this county. How long it will burn God only knows.
NORFOLK, Feb. 23.
SUNDAY last being the anniversary of that truly great and venerable character GEORGE WASHINGTON, the revered Presi- dent of the United States, the morning was ushered in by the beating of drums, and a feu de joie by the No. 1. Artillery Com- pany; at noon there were reiterated dis- charges of cannon at the Forts, which were answered by those of the British frigate The- tis, now repairing at Gosport, and the Nor- folk Artillery. During the day the Ameri- can Stripes were triumphantly displayed by the shipping in our river; and at 12 o'clock on Monday the firing was repeated by the Forts, the different armed vessels, and by the Artillery. At night there was a very splen- did Ball and Supper at the Borough Tavern, which notwithstanding the unfavorable circum- stances of the evening, was attended by all the beau- ty and fashion of this and the town of Port- mouth—after Supper the following patriotic Toasts were drank:
 1. The President of the United States—may he long live, and when nature can no further prolong his life, may he continue to exist in the grateful remembrance of his country.  2. The People of the United States.  3. The Congress of the United States.—May it ever truly represent the People.  4. The Commonwealth of Virginia.  5. Our Sister States—may no jealousies arise to disturb our tranquillity.  6. The American Fair.  7. The Heroes who have died for their Country.  8. The Agriculture and Commerce of the United States.  9. The Arts and Manufactures of the United States.  10. A speedy release to our unfortunate fellow citizens in Algiers.  11. May the future sons of America have wisdom to value and fortitude to maintain the blessings acquired by their forefathers.  12. May virtue and science hold perpetual dominion in the United States.  13. May all nations acquire and ever retain a true knowledge of the rights of mankind.  14. Good and honest men of all places.  15. Peace and Freedom throughout the world.  The same day, his Excellency the Gover- nor of this State, and a number of the gen- tlemen of Norfolk and Portsmouth, with the French Consul, Commodore and other Of- ficers of the Navy, dined together at Port- mouth; after dinner there were many repub- lican and patriotic Toasts drank.
From Knoxville.
On the 28th instant, George Man, of Flat Creek was found killed and scalped by Indians.
The particulars of the manner of his death are, that on the night of the 27th instant, he heard a noise at his stable, and stepping out his retreat to his door was in- stantly cut off by Indians; he fought safe- ly in flight; was fired upon and wound- ed; nevertheless he reached a cave a quarter of a mile from his house, out of which the Indians dragged him and killed him. The Indians then returned to his house in which were his wife and children and attempted to force the door, when Mrs. Man fired a gun at them and they withdrew without further attempts upon the house. The Indians then took three horses out of the stable and fired it. A next day search was made for their trail which proved large; the number of Indians must have been at least 25. An old dressed cap, supposed to be a Creek cap, was left on the ground, and some o- ther articles, from which no farther opin- ion could be formed as to their nation. The whole head of Man was skinned and his body much mangled.—Man's house is twelve miles from this place.
Since the receipt of the above intelli- gence, we have been informed that Mrs. Man wounded one of the Indians. Much blood has been found near the stable, and on the trail of the Indians.
PRICE OF STOCKS.
  6 per Cents 19 3/4 to 10   3 per Cents 11 1/4 to 5   Deferred 13 1/4 to 7   Bank of the United States 30   Penal Alms 30 
PHILADELPHIA, March 11.
Extract of a letter of 6th March 1795, from a Gentleman at New York, to his friend in this city.
"Our Assembly have before them a bill which has passed the Senate, granting to our Hospital the monies arising on a duty of two per cent on sales at vendue. This will pro- duce five or six thousand pounds per annum, and fully enable us to put the institution on a very respectable footing."
If the above is enacted into a law, it will reflect great honor on the state of New York.
As many persons have doubted the practi- cability of the decree of the French Conven- tion, ordering each department to furnish a veil of the line, we are happy in being a- ble to lay before our readers an authentic ac- count of the manner in which this extraordi- nary decree is carrying into execution. Tho' out the whole republic are immense forests, which are felled with great ease, for the purpose of supplying fuel and timber for the nation. In these forests, the interior depart- ments, which are not furnished with sea ports are at present engaged in building the vessels they are required to provide. When finish- ed, they are to be propelled to the sea ports on rollers, and there they are to be finally equipped for sea. The stupendous efforts making in this respect, have never been e- qualled by any nation in the world, and leave little doubt as to the final issue of the war. [The information here given rests on the au- thority of a gentleman of the first respectabi- lity, who left France in the month of No- vember.] [A. D. Adv.]
Saturday last sailed from this port the ship Amiable, Capt. Thompson, for Liverpool. The following persons were passengers, Dr. Tate, Mr. Macall Macduff, Mr. Jacob Rees, Mr. Alexander Henry, Mr. Fairbairn, Mr. Salkeld, and Mr. and Mrs. Groves.
The following gentlemen went passengers in the ship John, Capt. Whitwell, for Char- leston—General Jackson, Mr. Prichard, Mr. Wright, Mr. George Smith, Mr. Jones, Mr. Edward James, Mr. B. Bohlen, and several others.
Marryed on Saturday last, by the Rev. Dr. Blackwell, Mr. Robert Graham, to Miss El- izabeth Jane Corry, daughter of Captain Thomas Corry, of this city.
By this Day's Mail.
NEW YORK, March 9.
A bill has passed the Senate of this state, appropriating 20,000l. for the purpose of completing the fortifications of the harbor of this city.
On Saturday arrived the brig Lydia, Capt. Shackerly, in 56 days from Am- sterdam. Letters have been received from thence as late as the 7th January. We have seen those addressed to a res- pectable house in this city. They at different dates, state the progress of the French:—That, at one time, they cross- ed the Rhine and the Waal, and drove in the Posts established there. It had been afterwards reported at Amsterdam that they had re-crossed those rivers; but the Postscript to the last letter of the 7th January, declares all hopes of stopping the progress of the French to be entirely at an end, and that they would undoubtedly be in the city in the course of 2 or 3 days—No distur- bances had taken place among the in- habitants, who, on the contrary, were calmly waiting their fate.
Capt. Shackerly informs than on the 20th January in lat. 46, 36, long. 17, he fell in with a fleet of French ships of war, consisting of 21 sail of the line, and 15 frigates, several of which were 74's cut down, carrying very heavy metal;—that he was boarded by the frigate Thames, who took one French passenger from him; and that the Capt. of the Thames informed him that they had taken, in their cruise, among others, a fleet of 22 sail of vessels from Cork, bound to the West Indies with provi- sions. Same day Capt. Shackerly spoke the ship Peggy, Capt. Elliott, from Philadelphia bound to Bordeaux; also, the schooner Rambler, from Bolton bound to France.
Arrived, Saturday evening, the brig Maria, Capt. Barnard, from Port Li- berty, formerly called Point Perte Gau- daloupe, which place he left the 10th February, and brings the account of the fleet arriving there from France, one 74 gun ship, 2 frigates, 1 sloop of war, 2 corvetts and 8 transports, with 4000 troops; one of the transports was taken off Desade, by the Bellona, 74 gun ship. Before Capt. Barnard failed, the Capt. of the French ship, that fought the Blanch, had returned on parole to the Blanch had struck be- fore the Bellona came in sight.
Capt. Barnard, left in Port Petre, 22 sail of American vessels, waiting for their turn for payment.
Captain Barnard was boarded by the Bellona an English 74 gun ship, and was politely treated. The captain of the Bellona shewed captain Barnard a
proclamation from the Governor of Martinico to bring into port all neutral vessels bound to a French port.
Captain Barnard spoke on his passage the ship Cumberland of Portland, from Norfolk, in lat. 21, 40, long. 65, 30, 15 days out, bound to Jamaica. Al- so, the schooner Sally, from Water Mellon quay, for North-Carolina, John Eveuton, 100 miles East from Cape- Hatteras, short of water: capt. Bar- nard supplied him.
ARRIVED,
Brig Lydia, Shackerly, Amsterdam. Amelia, Scaly, St. John's. Maria, Barnard, Guadalupe. Sloop Sally, Bunce, Wilmington.
March 10.
Extract of a letter from Amsterdam, dated Jan. 12, handed to the Editor by a respectable House in this City.
"We are here groaning under the burden of the war; the French are ex- pected daily, being already in Guelder- land. May God give us soon a desira- ble peace to obtain which, two commit- sioners have been sent from the states to Paris."
The passengers in the Lydia say, that it was reported when they left the Texel, the French had two engage- ments at Utrecht. In the first they were repulsed, but in the second they carried it. Nothing now stands in the way of their march to Amsterdam, it being but — miles from Utrecht.
Amsterdam has been long expecting its fate, and before this is doubtless in the power of the French. A total re- volution in the government must be the consequence. The Stadholder's power will be annihilated, and Mr. Van Staphorst and his party will probably be permitted by the French to model the government at their pleasure, under the auspices of the French Convention. It is not probable the French will treat Holland as a conquered country, and sonex it to the Republic, as they have the Austrian Netherlands; but in real- ity the fate of Holland will be so total- ly in the power of the French, that a revolution will have all the effects of a conquest. What will become of the Dutch marine, is uncertain. This is however a serious point, as it respects Great-Britain.
ARRIVED.
Schooner Rambler, Clark, St. Johns N.B. Sloop Hannah, Holland, Norfolk. The following American vessels were at Amsterdam, when Captain Shackerly left it:
 Brig Pallas, Wythe, bound for Sur-  Sloop Sally, Captain Cunningham, of  Baltimore, to sail the 12th January.  Ship George, Captain Low, of do. the  first fair wind.  Ship George and Patty Washington,  of do. was to sail for Surinam.  Ship Robespierre, of Bolton, got on the  Pampus, in going out, but had been got  off.  The ship Adive, Captain Blair, of  Philadelphia, bound to Hamburg; arrived  in the Texel 10th November—and  was to sail as soon as the navigation  was clear of ice at Hamburg.  Captain Barnard has favored us with  the following list of American vessels ly-  ing in Guadalupe at the time of his sail-  ing:  Ship Euphrasia, of Baltimore, Myrick.  Brig Hope, New-York, Savage.  Prudence, ditto Shylen.  Endeavour, ditto Rice.  George, George Burn.  Philadelphia, Connal.  ditto Kuffel.  Schr. Harriet, Johnson.  Portland, ditto.  Boston, Smith.  Sloop Hudson Packet, Charleston, Sher-  man.  Brig, Boston, Wood.  Sloop, Humphries. 
The origin of SNUB in the Aurora.
Wilcocks a careless heedless wight, When dashing round his sail, Scatter'd a little attic salt, On Benny Bache's tail. For this (a more provoking crime, Than murder, or than treason) Ben by the aid of "Snub" his cook, Swears he will cut his weapon.— Wilcocks forbear, 'tis safer far, To set the world in flames, Than tell the truth of party knaves And call them by their names.
Information to the Merchants.
A Vessel will be dispatched from this port on Saturday next, to call at Bermuda, and from thence proceed to Barbadoes and the other British windward Islands. Any letters or papers respecting the capture of Ameri- can vessels or property by the British will be taken charge of by a person going out in said vessel free of expence, and may be sent before Saturday to Thomas Fitzsimons.
An ACT to establish an uniform rule of naturalization; and to repeal the act heretofore passed on that subject. FOR carrying into complete effect, the power given by the constitu- tion, to establish an uniform rule of naturalization throughout the United States:
Sec. 1. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That any alien, being a free white person, may be admitted to become a citizen of the United States, or any of them, on the following con- ditions, and not otherwise:—
First. He shall have declared on oath or affirmation, before the supreme superior, district or circuit court of some one of the states, or of the terri- tories north west or south of the river Ohio, or a circuit or district court of the United States, three years, at least, before his admission, that it was, bona fide, his intention to become a citizen of the United States, and to renounce forever all allegiance and fi- delity to any foreign prince, potentate, state or sovereignty whatever, and par- ticularly, by name, the prince, poten- tate, state or sovereignty whereof such alien may, at the time, be a citizen or subject.
Secondly. He shall, at the time of his application to be admitted, declare on oath or affirmation, before some one of the courts aforesaid, that he has resided within the United States, five years at least, and within the state or territory, where such court is at the time held, one year at least; that he will support the constitution of the United States; and that he doth ab- solutely and entirely renounce and ab- jure all allegiance and fidelity to every foreign prince, potentate, state or so- vereignty whatever, and particularly by name, the prince, potentate, state or sovereignty, whereof he was before a citizen or subject; which proceedings shall be recorded by the clerk of the court.
Thirdly. The court admitting such alien, shall be satisfied that he has resided within the limits and under the jurisdiction of the United States five years; and it shall farther appear to their satisfaction, that during that time, he has behaved as a man of a good moral character, attached to the principles of the constitution of the United States, and well disposed to the good order and happiness of the same.
Fourthly. In case the alien apply- ing to be admitted to citizenship shall have borne any hereditary title, or been of any of the orders of nobility, in the kingdom or state from which he came, he shall, in addition to the above requisites, make an express renuncia- tion of his title or order of nobility, in the court to which his application shall be made; which renunciation shall be recorded in the said court.
Sec. 2. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That any alien now residing within the limits and under the jurisdiction of the United States, may be admitted to become a citizen, on his declaring on oath or affirmation, in some one of the courts aforesaid, that he has resided two years, at least, within and under the jurisdiction of the same, and one year, at least, with- in the state or territory where such court is at the time held; that he will support the constitution of the United States; and that he doth absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state or sovereignty whatever, and particularly by name, the prince, potentate, state or sovereign- ty, whereof he was before a citizen or subject; and moreover on its appear- ing to the satisfaction of the court, that during the said term of two years, he has behaved as a man of good mor- al character, attached to the constitu- tion of the United States, and well disposed to the good order and happi- ness of the same; and, where the alien applying for admission to citizen- ship, shall have borne any hereditary title, or been of any of the orders of nobility in the kingdom or state from which he came, on his moreover mak- ing in the court an express renuncia- tion of his title or order of nobility, before he shall be entitled to such ad- mission; all of which proceedings, re- quired in this proviso to be performed in the court, shall be recorded by the clerk thereof.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, that the children of persons duly na- turalized, dwelling within the United States, and being under the age of twenty one years, at the time of such naturalization; and the children of citizens of the United States, born out of the limits and jurisdiction of the United States, shall be considered as citizens of the United States: Provid- ed, That the right of citizenship shall not descend to persons, whose fa- thers have never been resident in the United States: Provided also, That
no person heretofore proscribed by any state, or who has been legally convicted of having joined the army of Great Britain, during the late war, shall be admitted a citizen as aforesaid, without the consent of the legislature of the state, in which such person was proscribed.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the act intitled "an act to es- tablish an uniform rule of natural- ization," passed the twenty sixth day of March, one thousand seven hun- dred and ninety, be, and the same is hereby, repealed.
Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg, Speaker of the House of Repre- sentatives. John Adams, Vice-President of the United States, and President of the Senate. Approved January 29, 1795.
Geo: Washington, President of the United States.
Amid the frequent cries of fire! it is no small consolation to the inhabitants of this city to find that the Insurance Com- pany of North America have lately un- dertaken to insure Houses, Goods, &c. a- gainst this destructive element at the low premium of 6s. per annum for £100— whereas the usual premium for the same risk to the London Companies is 10s. 6d. on American policies.
SALT.
Best Cadiz Salt, Just landing from on board the Brig Trial, for sale at Messrs Witting and Francis's wharf by Levinus Clarkson. March 11, d.
Stables to be Let.
To be let from the 28th inst. or sooner if re- quired. A Neat Eight Horse Stable with the convenience of a good Hay Loft & Shed for Carriages, in Elbow Lane, between Market and Chestnut street. Enquire at the Rising Sun, Strawberry street. March 11 w&sjt
NEW THEATRE.
By Particular Desire.
THIS EVENING, MARCH 11. Will be Presented, (For the 1st time this Season) a Comedy called Every One has his Fault.
 Lord Norland, Mr. Whiteock.  Sir Robert Ramble, Mr. Chambers.  Mr. Solus, Mr. Morris.  Mr. Harmony, Mr. Bates.  Captain Irwin, Mr. Moreton.  Mr. Placid, Mr. Cleveland.  Hammond, Mr. Green.  Porcer, Mr. Warrell.  Edward, Mrs. Marshall.  Lady Eleanor Irwin, Mrs. Whiteock.  Mrs. Placid, Mrs. Shaw.  Mils Spinster, Mrs. Bates.  Mils Wooburn, Mrs. Morris. 
To which will be added, A COMIC OPERA, called The Poor Soldier.
 Captain Fitzroy, Mr. Moreton.  Father Luke, Mr. Blissett.  Dermot, Mr. Darley jun.  Patrick, Mr. Darley.  Darby, Mr. Wignell.  Bagatelle (with a song in character) Mr. Marshall.  Boy, Master T. Warrell.  Norah, Miss Broadhurst.  Kathleen, Miss Willems. 
On Friday (never performed here) a new Tragedy, called FONTAINVILLE FOREST, with entertainments.
Box one Dollar—Pitt 3/4 of a Dollar—and Gallery 1/4 of a dollar.
The Public are respectfully informed that the Doors of the Theatre will open at a quar- ter after five, and the curtain rise Precise- ly at a quarter after 6 o'clock.
Tickets and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Wells, at the Theatre, from TEN till ONE, and on days of perform- ance from TEN till THREE o'clock.
Also at Rice's Bookstore, No. 50, and Carey's No. 118, Market street.
No money or tickets to be returned, nor any person on any account whatsoever, ad- mitted behind the scenes.
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 re- main.
Vivat Respublica!
Fresh Teas,
OF SUPERIOR QUALITY, viz. Imperial, or Gunpowder Hyson Gomez, 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 egdf

All persons indebted to the Estate of Joseph Pritchett, late of this City, merchant, deceased, are desired to pay the Subscriber, and those who have any demands are requested to bring in their accounts to be settled and paid.
Samuel Coates, Acting Executor March 10
Wants Employment,
AN Elderly person, who writes a good hand, and understands accounts, and who also can be well recommended for his honesty and industry. Any tradesman or mechanic who may wish for such a person to keep his books, and make out his bills, may receive information by applying to James Haidle, corner of Lombard and Fifth streets. Jan. 23
PUBLIC NOTICE.
The Commissioners of Allegany County having transmitted to the Subscribers, for the purpose of collecting a list of Taxes due on unseated Lands in said county, for the year 1794, in consequence of which we now inform all persons concerned in said Lands, that one of us will attend, from the 6th to the 20th inst. from 9 till 10 o'clock in the morning, at No. 158, South Front Street to receive said Taxes.
Presley Nevill. Dunning M c Nair. March 3.
City of Washington.
SCHEME
OF THE
LOTTERY, No. II.
FOR THE
IMPROVEMENT
OF THE
FEDERAL CITY.
  1 A magnificent 20,000 Dollars, and dwelling house, 5 cash 30,000 are 50,000   1 ditto 15,000 & cash 25,000 40,000   1 ditto 15,000 & cash 15,000 30,000   1 ditto 10,000 & cash 10,000 20,000   1 ditto 5,000 & cash 5,000 10,000   1 ditto 5,000 & cash 5,000 10,000   1 Cash prize of 10,000   5 ditto 5,000 each, are 25,000   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 5 75,000   16,739 Prizes   33,461 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 fronts on two of the public squares; from these drawings, it is proposed to erect two centre and four corner buildings, as soon as possible after this Lottery is sold, and to convey them when completed, 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.
67 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 forfeit 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 those 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 whenever 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 fair 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 West & Co. Baltimore; of Gideon Denison, Savannah; of Peter Gilman, Bolton; of John Hopkins, Richmond; and of Richard Wells, Cooper's Ferry. Aug 30
110,000 weight of
Green Coffee,
187 bds. 43 barrels, and 200 bags, entitled to the drawback, stored on Messrs. Willing & Francis' wharf.
Bordeaux Brandy,
30 pipes of London particular Teneriffe, and London particular Madeira WINES, in bds. pipes, and quarter casks, Malaga Do. in quarter casks, Antigua and other RUM in bds. St. Croix SUGAR of the first quality, St. Marks MOLASSES, Hylon TEA, Jamaica SPIRITS, Holland GIN, in pipes, LOAF SUGAR, in bds. PEPPER, &c. &c.
FOR SALE BY Levinus Clarkson, No. 216, South Water Street.
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.
F R E S H
Bohea Tea,
GIN in Pipes,
New Landing from on board the ship Peggy, John Elliott master, from Amsterdam. Also Imported by the late Arrivals, Russia Hemp, first quality Ditto Sail Duck Ditto Ravens Duck Brown Russia Sheeting Ticklenburgs Oznaburgs Brown Flanders Sheeting 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 14 Jefuits Bark Opium Allisotida 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 Boultng Cloth, FOR SALE BY Pragers & Co. Nov. 11
Pragers & Co.
Monday March 24, 1795.
Inland Navigation.
This Day is published, and to be sold by Zachariah Poulson jun.
No. 20, Chestnut Street, And at the Philadelphia Library,
HISTORICAL ACCOUNT
OF THE
Rise, progress, and present
state
OF THE
Canal Navigation in Penn-
sylvania.
With an Appendix, containing Abstracts of the Acts of the Legislature since the year 1792, and their Grants of Money for improving ROADS and NAVIGABLE WATERS throughout the State — which is annexed.
"An Explanatory Map."
Published by Direction of the President and Managers of the Schuylkill and Susquehanna, and the Delaware and Schuylkill Navigation Companies.
"Here smooth CANALS, across th' extended plain Stretch their long arms to join the distant main:
The sons of toil, with many a weary stroke Scoup the hard bottom of the solid rock;
Resistless through the stiff opposing clay, With steady patience, work their gradual way;
Compel the Genius of th' unwilling flood Through the brown horizons of the aged wood;
Cross the lone waste the silver urn they pour, And cheer the barren heath, or fallen moor
The traveller, with pleasing wonder sees The white sail gleaming through the dusky trees;
And views the alter'd landscape with surprise And doubts the magic scenes that round him rise.
Now like a flock of swans, above his head, Their woven wings the flying vessels spread
Now meeting streams, in artful maze aglance While each, unmingled, pours a separate tide;
Now, through the hidden veins of earth they flow And visit sulphurous mines and caves below.
The ductile streams obey the guiding hand, And social Plenty crowns the HAPPY LAND!
A VENDRE,
Une Terre Superbe située dans
l'Etat de la Nouvelle
York.
LA BELLE Habitation connue par le nom de SCOTIA, située sur le bord du nord de la Rivière de Mohawk et vis a vis la florissante ville de Schenectady qui est à l'extrémité de la communication par eau entre la Caneda et autres parties occidentales avec la ville d'Albany dont elle est éloignée de seize miles Anglois ou cinq lieues un tiers de france. Cette terre est bornée par la dite Rivière environ deux tiers de lieue—les grands Chemins des parties de l'ouest et du nord se joignent en cet endroit avec plusieurs autres et conduisent à l'endroit par où l'on traverse la Rivière vis a vis la dite ville—cette habitation contient plus de mille acres, une grande partie de la quelle est en plaine de la premier, qualité et propres pour des prairies ou du grain dont elle produit une grand abondance.
On pourroit la diviser en plusieurs habitations donnant à chacune des situations très commodes à placer des maisons—elle contient a présent deux maisons grandes et bien commodes avec des Granges, Ecuries, Magasins, des Remises pour les Voitures et plusieurs autres batimens qui sont très convenables le tout situé sur une elevation au bord de la dite Rivière d'ou l'on a une vue bien agreable de la dite ville, des prairies dans ses environs et de la Rivière aussi bien que d'un Reservoir d'environ trente acres, qui est bien fourni de poisson et de gibier. Il y a aussi sur la dite terre un Moulin à eau sur un courant qui ne manque Jamais, avec une maison pour le meunier; on y pourroit ajouter d'autres moulins, &c.—pour cette terre est aussi un bon Verger des meilleurs fruits de ce pays d'environ mille arbres, entres, les Jardins abondent de toutes sortes de fruit propre pour ce climat. Dependront aussi de cette terre plusieurs tenemens avec des lots de terre dont les baux font d'une courte durée. Il n'y a point de terre dans ces parties que soit plus seconde pour toutes sortes de grain d'hiver dont il en a été semé l'automne passé presque deux cents boisseaux ce que fera compris dans la Vente aussi bien que deux petites lies dans la Rivière vis a vis a la maison.
On pense que la vue de ces terres on donnera une plus haute idée qu'aucun description qu'on pourroit en donner.
Pour les conditions de Ventes il faut se rendre chez le soussigné demeurant sur les lieux ou a meilleurs Oliver Wendell et Harrison G. Otis, à Bolton—meilleurs Cornelius Ray et De Witt Clinton, à New-York—meilleurs James Gordon et Henry Glen, membres du Congres, a présent a Philadelphia, ou a monsieur Stephen Bayard dans la ville de Schenectady, qui feront connoitre le prix et conditions de la Vente.
JOHN SANDERS.
Valuable Property
For Sale,
IN THE
STATE of NEW YORK
THAT valuable and well known Estate, called SCOTIA, situated on the north bank of the Mohawk river, directly opposite the populous and flourishing town of Schenectady, at the foot of the water-communication from the Western Country, and Upper Canada; sixteen miles from the city of Albany, extending about two miles on the bank of the river above and below the said town; this river is the only water communication in the United States with the great western Lakes. The roads from the western and northern parts of the state of New York, together with a number of other public roads here meet, and lead to the noted ferry kept opposite the said town.
It contains upwards of one thousand acres, a great proportion of which is intervall, or low land, calculated both for grass or grain, producing great burthens annually; it may be laid into a number of valuable farms, affording convenient and handsome building grounds; here is now on the premises two very large and commodious dwelling houses, with large Dutch barns, barracks, hovels, stables, cart and waggon house, carriage house, horse house, summer house, and other out-houses, on a commanding eminence near the bank of the river, affording a beautiful and extensive prospect of the river for several miles, the lowland, the town, and a fine lake of water, covering about thirty acres, well stored with all kinds of river fish, fowl, &c. There is a good grist mill on a never failing stream of water, a good frame house, &c. for the miller, also convenient above the mill for erecting more water works; there is a bearing orchard with nearly one thousand apple trees, set out, grafted of the best fruit, the gardens are stocked with all the various fruits the climate will admit; also several tenements with portions of land on short leases.
The land in point of fertility of soil, is exceeded by none in the state; there is now in the ground near two hundred bushels winter grain, which will be included in the above sale.
Also two small islands in the river, opposite the mansion house.
A view of the premises, it is presumed, will fully equal any description that can be given thereof.
For terms of sale apply to the Subscriber, residing on the premises, Messrs. Oliver Wendell or Harrison G. Otis, Esquires, in the town of Bolton, Cornelius Ray, or De Witt Clinton, Esquires, at the city of New York; James Gordon or Henry Glen, Esquires, two of the members of Congress, at the city of Philadelphia; Stephen N. Bayard, in the town of Schenectady, by whom the price & terms of sale will be communicated.
JOHN SANDERS. Scotia, Jan. 28, 1795.
N. B. The remaining stock unfold, and all the farming utensils, the purchaser or purchasers may be accommodated with. Philad. Feb. 7.
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Extract from the Critical Review, April 1795, p. 468.
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EXTRACT FROM THE CRITICAL REVIEW, JANUARY, 1794—page 12.
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