Gazette of the United States. (Philadelphia [Pa.]), 1795-11-13 00:00:00

TO THE PUBLIC. MINIATURE PAINTING.
A Limner from Paris respectfully informs the public, that he paints Likenesses in Miniature, in the striking and pleasing manner, as will, he hopes, satisfy those who may employ him.
His Room is at No. 2, north Fifth-Street. November 11. 59t.
No. 60 South Second Street. THE Wholesale and Retail Store for BOOKS, STATIONARY, MUSIC, PRINTS, OIL PAINTINGS, DRAWING BOOKS, and Fancy articles.
THOMAS STEPHENS, has removed from No. 57, to No. 60 South Second Street, on the west side—where he has received by the last arrivals, an extensive collection of useful Books, and the best Stationery.
T. S. embraces this opportunity to acknowledge the liberal encouragement he has always experienced from the citizens of Philadelphia—returns his most sincere thanks, and pledges himself to the most constant exertions to merit continued favor, and to have his store the best for elegant and useful literature. June 27. 59t.
A COMPLETE PRINTING OFFICE FOR SALE, Consisting of 1300lb. of Type, well assorted; one elegant Press, and every other article suitable for an extensive business—the whole nearly new. The terms of payment will be, a fourth, cash; a fourth, at three months; and the remainder, to accommodate the purchaser, will be given in printing work. The amount is about 1200 dollars. For particulars apply to the Editor. October 22. 59t.
Isaac Johnson and Co. 147 Market Street, Philadelphia. BOOKS & STATIONARY, Which they offer on the lowest terms. They have also for Sale, A large quantity of Demy and Crown PRINTING PAPER. A liberal deduction will be made to Country Store keepers, whose orders will be thankfully received. 7th mo. 23th, 1795. 59t.
City Dancing Assembly. THE Assemblies will commence for the Season, on Thursday Evening, the 19th inst. JOE REDMAN, SAM. STEWART, } Managers. TRO. W. FRANCIS, } November 4. 59t.
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Notice. ALL persons indebted to the late partnership of Messrs. Adele, & White, are desired to make payment to Peter W. GALLAND, No. 63, Chestnut-Street, who was bound by ties of friendship and affection. For me the world has lost its illusive colouring; its fairy spells, its light enchantments have vanished; and death the idea the most familiar to my imagination, appears to my wearied spirit the only point of rest!
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Andover Iron Works TO BE SOLD, OR LET ON LEASE. THEY are situated in the counties of Berks and Morris, in the State of New-Jersey: The ore lies within a mile of the Furnace, is esteemed of the first quality of any in America, and particularly adapted for making Steel. The Furnace and Forge, to which belong between 11 and 12,000 acres of Land, will be sold together, or leased either separately or together: they are distant about seven miles from each other, and are an object well worth the attention of Iron Masters. The buildings, &c. are in every respect commodious. For further particulars apply to Benjamin Chew, or John Larnier, Philadelphia. Oct. 2. 59t.
To be disposed of at private sale, Pursuant to the last Will and Testament of Casper Graft, deceased, TWO two story brick Messuages and Lots of Ground, viz. No. 100, north Second, near Race; and No. 174, north Fifth, near Vine-Street—both good stands for business, particularly the former. For terms apply to LAWRENCE BECKEL, or } Executors. CASPER GRAFT, November 1, 1795. 59t.
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From Miss Williams's LETTERS, WRITTEN IN FRANCE, Where she was a prisoner, during the tyranny of Robespierre the last. [Miss W. has long been a decided Votary of Liberty. She has been celebrated for the elegance of her style, and the veracity of her narrative. We therefore feel ourselves under obligations to the gentleman, by whose pains, we are favored with extracts from the first volume that has found its way to the United States.] Col. Cent.
IN the prisons during the reign of Robespierre, continues Miss Williams, the prisoners were indeed embittered by one hour of mournful melancholy, and one of trembling terror: The first when the evening paper arrived, and the lists of the victims of the revolutionary tribunal was read over, among whom the prisoners seldom failed to find some friend or acquaintance to lament. But this was a sensation of gentle sadness, compared to that turbulent dismay excited by the hoarse voice of the turnkey, sounding at midnight, through the long galleries—the knell of some devoted victim who was called upon to rise in order to be led to the Conciergerie by Gendarmes sent for that purpose from the revolutionary tribunal. Still however, amidst the tears which the prisoners shed over their lost companions many of them cherished the fond hope that they themselves should escape.
The names of the victims marked for execution the following day were called over, and they were instantly hurried into these gloomy haunts. The husband was scarcely allowed time to bid his wife farewell, or the mother to recommend her orphan children to the compassion of such of the prisoners as might survive the general calamity. At the prison of Luxembourg, an hundred and fifty nine victims were torn from their beds and led to the gated dangeons of Conciergerie, that prison over the gates of which might with equal propriety have been written the famous over that infernal region at Dante. "Let him lose all hope who enters here"; for here it might literally be said "hope never comes, that comes to all."
I have seen the Conciergerie, that abode of horror, that antechamber of the tomb. I have seen those infectious cells where the prisoners breathed contagion, where the walls are in some places stained with the blood of the massacres of September, and where a part of the spacious court yard, around which the grated dangeons are built, remains unpaved since that period, when the bones were taken up for the purpose of burying the dead. I have seen the chamber where the persons condemned by the revolutionary tribunal submitted to the preparatory offices of the executioner, where the scissors cut off the lavish tresses of youthful beauty, and where he tied her tender hands behind her waist with cords.
Merciful Heaven! and among those who have thus suffered, were prisoners to whom my heart was bound by ties of friendship and affection. For me the world has lost its illusive colouring; its fairy spells, its light enchantments have vanished; and death the idea the most familiar to my imagination, appears to my wearied spirit the only point of rest!
The usual pretext for the murders inmass which were practised at this period, was that of a conspiracy in the prison; a vague and wilful which the tyrants might interpret at their pleasure, and which gave them power, of including whatever persons and whatever numbers they thought proper. Spies were placed in every prison, who after making out their lists of proscription as they were directed by the tyrant, declared that a conspiracy existed, of which those marked on the lists, were the authors or accomplices. Persons who had never seen or heard of each other until that moment, were often brought together from different prisons to take their trial for the same conspiracy; and when the demented wretches were got rid of any particular individual, he was without any hesitation added to what they called the fourney, the batch; for such was the appellation given to the crowds dragged to the guillotine, and with such terms of jocular familiarity was mourning humanity insulted. Sometimes the persons accused only received their act of accusation as they walked up to the tribunal. Sometimes in the hurry, confusion and carelessness with which these indictments were made out, one person was mistaken for another.
The dutchess of Biron among other instances, who went to the tribunal with an act of accusation which was designed for her steward. The indifference of the tribunal with respect to such errors enabled Monsr. Loircolles at 60 years of age to deceive his barbarous judges, by dying for his son, a youth in his twenty first year. It was observed that this generous parent who thus a second time gave life to his child answered with uncommon alacrity when his name was called upon, and went with a look of exultation to the scaffold. Perhaps history does not offer a more affecting instance of parental tenderness, making a voluntary sacrifice of life to save the object of its affection.
While the tyrants, far from finding any satiety of blood in their daily murders, were erecting new ranges of seats in the hall of the revolutionary tribunal, sufficient to contain an hundred instead of fifty accused persons, death now hovered in a new form over the prison; the administrators of the police went to each prison, attended by a strong guard, and ordered the prisoners to be shut up in their respective chambers, and not suffered to have any communication, until the purpose of the visit was effected. They went successively to every apartment and demanded of the prisoners their knives, scissors, razors, buckles, watches, and all the money they had in their possession. These unhappy persons being altogether ignorant of the object of the visit, had no time to conceal any thing, and were stripped of all they had except fifty livres, in paper, which each prisoner was allowed to retain in order to pay for his subsistence. But from this day famine scented along these gloomy passages, adding to the pangs of mental sufferings those of debility and disease. The prisoners were no longer permitted to receive their daily meals from their own houses or from a tavern; but were ordered from henceforth in conformity to the laws of equality, to eat a la gamelle, but of one dish at a common table. Their food is provided for them at the rate of fifty sous per day, by a cook placed in the prison. Their nourishment consisted of one meal in 24 hours, often too scanty to satisfy the calls of hunger, and sometimes composed of such unwholesome diet as the greater part of the prisoners were unable to eat.
A little bread saved from this wretched meal and water, was all that could be obtained during the day. Even prisoners of war were obliged to submit to this rigorous treatment. Gen. O'Hara has since told me, that after having avoided the gamelle for some weeks on the plea of illness, he was at length forced to share the common evil. To this meal the prisoners at the Luxembourg, where nine hundred persons were confined, were summoned in a succession of three hundred at a time by a great bell which called them into the hall, at the door of which stood a gaster, who had been an executioner under Collot d'Herbois, at Lyons. This man was remarkable tall, big and muscular; his arms were bare to the elbow; he wore a fierce red cap, which had now become the symbol of blood, and looked as if he were prepared for a massacre.
It is unnecessary to all of the unfortunate inhabitants, as I have sometimes done, the history of their woes; their tyrants blazon themselves, their crimes to the open day, and invite you to read the black catalogue of their enormities—"In destroying a rebellion," (says Collot d'Herbois) "we shall consolidate the rest. We must have nothing but ashes. We demolish with cannon balls, and with explosions like those of mines." When such were his principles, his projects and exploits, it would be trifling to stop and talk of individual distresses;—to relate, how he ordered three ladies, who had prostrated themselves at his feet to implore his mercy to be tied for six hours at the scaffold, where their husbands were to be executed.—That the guillotine is not expeditious, and in a few days three or four hundred will be despatched at a time.
This was no empty menace, the tragedian executed what he had promised: "The guillotine and fusillade do not go amiss," says he, "sixty, eighty, two hundred, at once, are shot." But still these were ordinary means. This new Salmonatus was not contented with the insignia of the god; he wanted to imitate his destroying power, and accordingly some of the miserable inhabitants were placed before batteries of cannon; by which they were shattered and torn in pieces; the greater part were left to be despatched the following day by the heads of those who came to bury them. Collot amused himself, in beholding this operation:—"What exaltation thou wouldst have felt," adds the monster to his correspondent, "if thou hadst seen this national justice executed on two hundred and nine rascals! What cement for the republic. We have knocked off five hundred, and when we have despatched twice as many more, we shall do. Things will go forward. The revolutionary army arrives the day after to-morrow, and then, (continues he) I shall be able to perform great things." This was the private correspondence of the monster to Robespierre.
The church of Notre Dame was changed into the temple of reason; and the commune, with the divinity herself, attended by a splendid train, came to request the Convention to sanction by their presence, the consecration. The goddess of reason, was a fine blooming damsel of the Opera House, and acted her part in this comedy also, to the entire satisfaction of her new votaries. From her imperial throne, in which she was borne by four porters, she descended to the right hand of the president of the Convention, and by a decree, received the fraternal kiss, as soon as the procureur of the commune, who attended as high priest or master of ceremonies, had announced her negative and positive character: "first, that she was not like the objects of the ancient worship, a cold and inanimate image; and next, that she was a master-piece of nature, and that her sacred form had so inflamed every heart, that only one universal cry was heard, no more priests and other gods!" When the de-introduced them to the goddess of liberty, who came out of the house of philosophy, to receive their homage and bestow her benediction.
The enemies of the revolution encouraged these follies, which the patriot disavowed and lamented: and the philosopher would only have smiled at these transient puerilities had they not been mixed with atrocity and crimes. Alas! the respect for reason was as fleeting as the respect for other strange gods: for her altars were soon deserted, and her high priest, and her divinity itself, were soon after conducted, amidst the applauses of the people, to the guillotine.
line of their Charles's, Henry's, and Louis; of their Condé, Montmorencies, and Turennes before whose lowest valets they would have trembled in submissive silence, become the prey of simpered dogs, and the sport of winds. One of the prisoners for this violation of the dead, which was general around Paris, and in some of the neighbouring departments, was the want of the lead that enclosed them to make bullets, for the use of the army.
If the ramblings of imagination might be indulged, amidst the horror which this loss of plunder instruments of death, to their destination, and see many an emigrant laid prostrate with the former covering of his parents dust. On many a countenance, doomed to long night, the sun once again shone, and many met their beams, whose features preserved all their original force and character.—Among others, Madame Sevigne was found, entire with the unfading bloom of healthy and virtuous old age: But as the edict against Aristocracy, and privileges comprehended talents, as well as birth, the wife, as well as the mighty, suffered in the general proscriptions against leaden coffins; except Descartes, whose bones were put into a bag, and carried to the Pantheon, where he is fated to repose with the "immortal and divine Marat."
For the GAZETTE of the UNITED STATES.
Mr. PENNO, I read with no less surprise than indignation a paragraph in your paper of the 4th inst. stating that the Pandemonium Air Furnace belonging to the Hollow Ware company, whose servant I am, had ceased blowing for want of fuel or funds to carry it on. Now Sir, as I do not hold it to be any violation of my official oath to tell the truth when it redounds to my own or employers advantage, I beg you to believe me in earnest when I say, that the paragraph in question is not altogether correct—I admit however, that the Furnace has progressed but slowly of late, nay, that on some days it has ceased to vomit forth any hollow ware, but Sir, it does not necessarily follow, that because the flames have been somewhat smothered, they may not break out one of these days with greater violence than ever. I also grant that the patriotic exertions of the company have been rather cramped by the discontinuance of the foreign subsidy, upon which they have heretofore so successfully traded.—Yet Sir, when I come to reflect upon the inexhaustible resources which the company derive from a proper use of their wits, I see no reason to despond.
It being my peculiar province to examine into the causes which have operated to produce this temporary derangement in the affairs of the concerned, I accordingly made an official report to the company on the subject, but as it is too lengthy for a newspaper, I shall content myself with recapitulating the principal heads which are as follows:—Firstly. The failure of the foreign subsidy by the violent and sudden dissolution of the former partnership of Robespierre, Barrere and Co.—Secondly. The mode of distributing their hollow ware gratis, during the continuance of the said subsidy. Thirdly. The great sums unsuccessfully expended by the company at the late election.—And lastly, The want of proper agents throughout the United States to give a free circulation to the hollow ware. I then proceeded to offer my opinion as to the course to be pursued by the company to restore their credit.—I advised them in the first instance not only to discontinue the practice of giving away their merchandise, but to bring actions against all those persons at whose doors the hollow ware had been dropped.—I was somewhat doubtful at first as to the success of this project from an idea it might be necessary to prove the delivery, but when I came to reflect that my oath as Bank-keeper and Solicitor to the company would substantiate the debt, my objections were over-ruled at once. I have also recommended it to my employers to appoint agents at Portsmouth, Boston, New York, Norfolk and Petersburg, to vend their hollow ware upon a commission to be paid in kind. These, Mr. Printer, are the most prominent features of the report which I had the honour to submit to the proprietors of the Pandemonium Air Furnace at their last meeting—but, as the coffers of the company are almost empty, and require to be immediately replenished, I suggested to them at the same time the propriety of forthwith disposing of all the goods on hand at public sale—consisting of a great variety of new and curious articles, the right of making and vending of which has been duly purchased from the respective inventors. The following from their novelty and utility deserve particular notice.
Telegraphes upon a new construction—by means of which, circular lies can be instantaneously conveyed to all parts of the Union; invented by the Harmony-street Society.
Instruments to be used in the manufacturing of Canterbury Bells, vindications of religious opinions, &c. &c. for the amusement of the citizens of the United States: by a certain ex-minister.
Machines for converting public contingent funds to private uses: invented by the Calm Observer, Clerk to, &c. &c.
Whist Counters—by the constant use of which, it will be easy to determine when and for what causes a public officer ought to be impeached: invented by Gracchus, a little pettifogging Attorney.
Branding Irons—to impress the rights of man on the backs of that class of human beings, who have the honor and happiness to drudge and toil for the sole emolument of the only true Republicans in the United States: invented by a Democratic, Aristocratic Southern Jacobin.
I shall only add, that the whole of the goods intended to be sold, have been carefully inspected by myself, and found to be as perfectly hollow as the heart of
Sir, Your obedient servant, THE CALM OBSERVER.

From the Columbian Centinel.
IMPROMPTU.
Upon a Rye* man's saying his Townsmen were sold, that Jax had sold them to Great-Britain.
HAD the Rye folks by Jax, to Great-Britain been sold, As they by a Great man were told, Great-Britain, not Rye, was ill treated— For if aught has been paid, By the maxima of trade, Great-Britain is curiously cheated.
SHORT BOB.
* Rye is a small town of New-Hampshire, of about as much importance in that State, as Dracut is in Massachusetts. The map is reckoned very accurate that has a dot for either.
FROM THE ARGUS.
THE DEFENCE—No. XXIII.
THE preceding articles having adjusted those controversies which threatened an open rupture between the two countries, it remained to form such dispositions relative to the intercourse, commerce, and navigation, of the parties, as should appear most likely to preserve peace, and promote their mutual advantage.
Those who have considered with attention the interests of commerce, will agree in the opinion that its utility, as well as general prosperity, would be most effectually advanced by a total abolition of the restraints and regulations with which the jealousies and rival policy of nations have embarrassed it. But though we are not chargeable with having contributed to the establishment of these errors, so discouraging to the industry and perplexing in the intercourse of nations, we found them so deeply rooted and so extensively prevalent, that our voice and opinions would have been little regarded, had we expressed a desire of a system more liberal and advantageous to all.
The rights of commerce among nations between whom exist no treaties are imperfect.
"The law of nature, says Vattel, (b. 1, f. 89) gives to no person whatever, the least kind of right to sell what belongs to him, to another who does not want to buy it; nor has any nation that of selling its commodities or merchandise to a people who are unwilling to have them. Every man and every nation being perfectly at liberty to buy a thing that is to be sold, or not to buy it, and to buy it of one rather than of another." "Every state has constantly (continues the same author) a right to prohibit the entrance of foreign merchandise, and the people who are interested in this prohibition have no right to complain of it." States by convention may turn these imperfect into perfect rights, and thus a nation not having naturally a perfect right to carry on commerce with another, may acquire it by treaty. A simple permission to trade with a nation, gives no perfect right to that trade; it may be carried on so long as permitted, but the nation granting such permission, is under no obligation to continue it. A perfect right in one nation to carry on commerce and trade with another nation, can alone be procured by treaty.
From the precarious nature of trade between nations, as well as from the desire of obtaining special advantages and preferences in carrying it on, originated the earliest conventions on the subject of commerce. The first commercial treaty that placed the parties on a more secure and better footing in their dealings with each other than existed in their respective intercourse with other nations, inspired others with a desire to establish by similar treaties an equally advantageous arrangement. Thus one treaty was followed by another, until, as was the case when the United States became an independent power, all nations had entered into extensive and complicated stipulations concerning their navigation, manufactures and commerce.
This being the actual condition of the commercial world, when we arrived at our station in it, the like inducements to render certain that which by the law of nations was precarious, and to participate in the advantages secured by national agreements, prompted our government to propose to all and to conclude with several of the European nations, treaties of commerce.
Immediately after the conclusion of the war, Congress appointed Mr. Adams, Doctor Franklin, and Mr. Jefferson, joint commissioners, to propose and conclude commercial treaties with the different nations of Europe. This commission was opened at Paris, and overtures were made to the different powers (including Great Britain) through their ministers residing at Paris. The basis of these numerous treaties, which Congress were desirous to form, was that the parties should respectively enjoy the rights of the most favored nations. Various answers were given by the foreign ministers in behalf of their several nations. But the treaty with Prussia was the only one concluded, of the very great number proposed by the American commissioners. Mr. Adams in 1785, was removed to London, Doc. Franklin soon after returned to America, and Mr. Jefferson succeeded him as minister at Paris. Thus failed the project of forming commercial treaties with almost every power in Europe. Treaties with Russia, Denmark, Great Britain, Spain and Portugal, would have been of importance, but the scheme of extending treaties of commerce to all the minor powers of Europe, not omitting his holiness the Pope, was, it must be acknowledged, somewhat chimerical, and could not fail to have cast an air of ridicule on the commissioners that with great solemnity were opened at Paris.
The imbecility of our national government, under the articles of confederation, was understood abroad as well as at home, and the opinions of characters in England most inclined to favor an extensive commercial connexion between the two countries, were understood to have been opposed to the formation of a commercial treaty with us; since from the defects of our articles of Union, we were supposed to be destitute of the power requisite to enforce the execution of the stipulations that such a treaty might contain.
We must all remember the various and ill digested laws for the regulation of commerce, which
were adopted by the several states as substitutes for those commercial treaties, in the conclusion of which our commissioners had been disappointed—the embarrassments which proceeded from this source, joined to those felt from the derangement of the national treasury, were the immediate cause which assembled the convention at Philadelphia in 1787. The result of this Convention was the adoption of the present Federal Constitution, the legislative and executive departments of which each possess a power to regulate foreign commerce; the former by enacting laws for that purpose, the latter by forming commercial treaties with foreign nations.
The opinion heretofore entertained by our government, respecting the utility of commercial treaties, is not equivocal; and it is probable that they will in future deem it expedient to adjust their foreign trade by treaty, in preference to legislative provisions, as far it shall be found practicable, on terms of reasonable advantage. In the formation of the regulations that are legislative, being ex parte , the interest of those who established them is seen in its strongest light, while that of the other side is rarely allowed its just weight. Pride and passion too frequently add their influence to carry these regulations beyond the limits of moderation: Restraints and exclusions on one side, beget restraints and exclusions on the other, and these retaliatory laws lead to, and often terminate in open war: While on the other hand, by adjusting the commercial intercourse of nations by treaty, the pretensions of the parties are candidly examined, and the result of the discussion, it is fair to presume, as well from the experience of individuals in private affairs, as from that of nations in their more important and complicated relations, establishes those regulations which are best suited to the interests of the parties, and which alone afford that stability and confidence so essential to the success of commercial enterprise.
That our present government, have thought a commercial treaty with Great Britain, would be advantageous is evident, not alone from the special and distinct Commission given to Mr. Jay to form one; but likewise from the letter of Mr. Jefferson to Mr. Hammond of the 29th Nov. 1791, which was the first letter to that minister after his arrival, in which the executive says, "with respect to the commerce of the two Countries we have supposed that we saw in several instances, regulations on the part of your Government, which if reciprocally adopted would materially injure the interests of both Nations: on this subject too, I must beg the favour of you, to say, whether you are authorised to conclude or to negotiate arrangements with us; which may fix the commerce between the two Countries on principles of reciprocal advantage."
Further, from the first session of Congress, to that during which Mr. Jay's appointment took place, efforts were made to discriminate in our revenue and commercial Laws, between those nations with whom we had, and those with whom we had not, commercial Treaties. The avowed object of which discrimination was to place the latter nations on a less advantageous commercial footing than the former, in order to induce them likewise to form commercial treaties with us, and it cannot be forgotten by them, who affect to suppose that it was not expected that a treaty of commerce would be formed by Mr. Jay, that Mr. Madison's commercial resolutions, which were under consideration at the time of Mr. Jay's appointment, grew out of and were built upon a clause of Mr. Jefferson's report of the 26th December 1793, which asserts that Great Britain discovered no disposition to enter into a commercial Treaty with us. The report alluded to is explicit in declaring a preference of friendly arrangements, by Treaties of commerce, to regulations by the acts of our Legislature, and authorizes the inference, under which the commercial resolutions were brought forward, that the latter should be resorted to, only when the former cannot be effected.
The power of the executive to form commercial treaties, and the objection against the commercial articles before us as an unconstitutional interference with the legislative powers of Congress will in the sequel be definitely examined, together with other objections on the point of constitutionality.
Against the policy of regulating commerce by treaty rather than by acts of the Legislature, it is said that the Legislative acts can, but that a treaty, cannot, be repealed. This remark is true, and of weight against the formation of commercial treaties which are to be of long duration, or like our commercial treaty with France, which is permanent. For, as we are yearly advancing in agriculture, manufactures, commerce, navigation, and strength, our treaties of commerce, especially such as by particular stipulations, shall give to the parties other rights than those of the most favoured nation, ought to be of short duration, that like temporary laws, they may at an early day expire by their own limitation, leaving the interests of the parties to a new adjustment, founded on equity and mutual convenience.
Of this description are the commercial articles of the treaty with Great Britain; for none of them can continue in force more than twelve years, and they may all expire if either party shall chuse it, at the end of two years after the peace between France and Great Britain.
Did the limits assigned to this defence, admit a review of the commercial and maritime codes of the principal European nations, we should discover one prevailing feature to characterize them all; we should see the general or common interest of nations, every where, placed in a subordinate rank, and their separate advantage adopted as the end to be attained by their respective laws—Hence one nation has enacted laws to protect their manufactures, another to encourage and extend their navigation, a third to monopolize some important branch of trade, and all have contributed to the creation of that complicated system of regulations and restraints, which we see established throughout the commercial world.
One branch and a principal one of this system, that which establishes the connexion between the several European nations and their colonies, merits our particular attention. An exact knowledge of this connexion would assist us in forming a just estimate of the difficulties that stand in opposition to
our claim of free and full participation in the colony trade of Great-Britain.
CAMILLUS.
[To be concluded to-morrow.]
GENEVESE REPUBLIC, Aug. 1.
Disseminated Jacobinism.
Our unfortunate town has always been agitated by the effects of the different shocks which France has experienced. Pillage and murder has been the order of the day here, whenever blood was running through the streets of Paris; and we owe our ruin to the obstinacy and audacity with which our terrorists have followed the disorganizing system, which has reduced France to the brink of ruin.
A citizen, who had killed one of those who thirsted after his blood, had the good fortune to escape, and was hanged in effigy. Whilst the people were running to Plainpalais to see this mock execution, seven young men were conveyed through the gate of Rive, having been convicted of the crime of having worn green neckcloths (which one of them had received as a present from Lyons) without any evil design, and which they had left off as soon as they were informed that they were considered as a badge of party. Our government had passed a sentence of banishment against them, and they would certainly have been massacred had not they escaped in time. It is true that the general opinion begins to declare itself decidedly against the terrorists; but the Government, composed of either weak, inefficient, or corrupt men, do not secure the peaceable citizens against their attempts. The emigration of almost all the opulent families, the expenses of the government which annually exceed the public revenue by 500 florins (of our money) complete the picture of our present misery. The aspect of the town is afflicting; the public walks are deserted; whole streets are uninhabited. The number of emigrants amount to near 6000 that is to say the fourth part of the population. The Nation is the Bourgeois, where so many assassinations were committed last year, is frequented by none of the reputable citizens, not even by the Revolutionists.
BOSTON, November 4.
A TOAST, worthy Americans, given a few days since, at an entertainment, after a military parade, at Ipswich.
"Daffodils to the ear that would patiently hear, dumbbells to the tongue that would utter a calumny against the immortal WASHINGTON."
From Philadelphia.
Mr. Randolph's exculpation will commence in a pamphlet, which is now in the press, and will speedily be published. You will see in the papers a most gross and infamous publication respecting the denouement of the affair. It is a sheer Jacobin fabrication—the President has observed towards Mr. R. a filial piety. But as the Father of his country, he must be faithful as well as kind.
NEW-YORK, November 10.
Under the tyranny of Robespierre and the clubs in France, wealth was anachrony, and to be rich was to be guilty of counter-revolutionary intentions. Of course, almost every rich man was arrested and guillotined and his property confiscated. This became so common under the glorious democracy of France, that the guillotine obtained the denomination of the "Minister of Finance."
At the time, and while the foreign power was literally exercised by the people, poisoning became very common. Persons arrested on suspicion often kept pills of poison to dispatch themselves, if necessary, to escape the guillotine. The poison was called "pillule de la liberte," liberty pills.
Helen Maria Williams has lately published, in a series of letters, a sketch of the politics of France, from May 31st 1793, to July 28th, 1794; that is, of the complete dominion of the Jacobins. These letters are written with that glowing fancy and elegant style which characterize her former writings. As she is a woman of undoubted veracity, her relation of facts may be depended on as authentic; and as she is a warm admirer of the French Revolution in principle, she cannot be supposed to have exaggerated any account she gives of French transactions.
Philadelphia,
FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 13, 1795.
The ship Fame, Capt. Eldridge, from St. Ubes, was last Saturday boarded off the Capes of Delaware by the Bermudian privateer Hezekiah, Capt. Frith, who treated him politely, and furnished him with a barrel of bread, which he stood in need of.
The sloop Polly, Capt. Hall, from Port-au-Prince, on the 9th and 10th October, was successively boarded by L'Unique and Republican French privateers of 20 guns each; by the former, Capt. Hall was treated politely; by the latter, piratically plundered of 2 barrels Coffee, and 3 barrels Sugar, his small stores, &c. The Republican is the same privateer that ill treated Capt. Williams.
MARRIED] Yesterday, by the Right Rev. Dr. WHITE, KEARNY WHARTON, Esq. of this city, to Miss MARIA SALTAR, daughter of JOHN SALTAR, Esq. of Magnolia Grove, on the Banks of the Delaware.
On Wednesday last, by the Rev. Dr. BLACKWELL, Miss WILLIAM JACKSON, to Miss ELIZA WILLING, daughter of Thomas Willing, Esq. President of the Bank of the United States.
Tuesday evening died Captain WILLIAM GREENWAY, aged eighty years. He was the oldest nautical Captain in the Port of Philadelphia. He was attached to the interest of his Country, and in the late War was in the public service, Captain Greenway was a free agreeable companion to persons of every age. He was an early Member of the Marin Society, established for the Relief of the Widows of distressed Captains:—The Members of that society, with Relatives and Friends, yesterday afternoon, attended his remains to the Grave Yard at St. Paul's Church. The Shipping had their Colours half-mast high on the occasion.
COMMUNICATIONS.
There is great confusion in Pandemonium, among the Hollow-gare company—universal bankruptcy is inevitable—no returns adequate to the expense incurred. Vermont and Connecticut Legislatures would not take any of it; it is all returned, cracked, damaged, and ruined—a total loss. Massachusetts, New-Hampshire, Rhode-Island, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Maryland Legislatures, the Company are in fearful apprehensions will do the same—the majority in all these, being found federal men; men that love their country. Nor have the Company any great hopes of their wares in the Southern States.
It has always been an opinion of some of the best Patriots of our country that there was something more than poverty, disappointment and personal malignity of disposition, to originate the slanders on the American name and character which appear in the Aurora. This opinion has received the fullest confirmation, by their recent re-publication of that infamous fabrication which our enemies made in the height of the war, to destroy the confidence of the people in GENERAL WASHINGTON.
The revilers of the PRESIDENT are undoubtedly actuated by the same motives which actuated our open enemies in the war. These revilers hate our country—they sicken at its rising greatness and unparalleled prosperity—And they most cordially hate the man who saved the United States in war; and preferred to us the inestimable blessings of peace.
FOR THE GAZETTE OF THE UNITED STATES.
Mr. FENNO, IN your paper of last evening there are some scurrilous remarks under the signature of Crito, on the extract of a letter printed in Meshe's. Timothy & Mason's Gazette of the 27th of October. The author of the extract is not, never was, nor ever will be a British Debtor; the insinuation then, of Crito, is as false as it is scandalous. Perhaps Crito thinks it would be prudent in the people of the United States to "commit the management of their dearest concerns" to speculation. If he wishes for further conviction of the falsity of his assertion, by leaving his address at your Printing-Office, directed to A. B. the writer of the paragraph will call on him.
PHILADELPHUS.
Philad. Nov. 13, 2795.
EXTRACT
From GOVERNOR GILMAN'S PROCLAMATION
FOR THE ANNUAL THANKSGIVING
IN NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
And I do earnestly recommend to Ministers and People, of every denomination, that they religiously dedicate said day, and spend a reasonable part thereof in their respective places of public worship, that we may, with grateful hearts and united voices, adore and praise Almighty God for the unmerited favours he has been graciously pleased to confer upon us—To thank him for the continuance of civil and religious liberty—For preventing contagious and mortal disorders from spreading amongst us—For the general health enjoyed throughout this state, and the remarkable plenty of the fruits of the earth—For the preservation of our country from the inroads of our enemies, and the remarkable plenty of the fruits of the earth—For the preservation of the inestimable life of the President of the United States—and above all for the continuance of the blessings of the Gospel of peace, the means of grace, and hope of future happiness through the merits of the Redeemer.
And together with our Thanksgiving, let us with humble and devout hearts intreat the Father of Mercies, to continue the blessings with which we are favored, and bestow upon us such as we may stand in need of. That he would keep the Government of the United States, and of the several states under his holy protection. Cause all opposition to rightful authority to cease, and unanimity to be restored and prevail throughout our common country.
BY THIS DAY'S MAILS.
PITTSBURGH, November 7.
The Cincinnati paper of the 10th of October last informs us, that a number of persons were to leave that place for Pittsburgh, by the way of Chillicothe. On Little Miami, cross Sciots at Darby's Town, Muckingum at the mouth of White Woman's Creek or Fort Lawrence—The distance by this route is computed at about 300 miles, and it is said, by those acquainted with the country, a good road may be had. Should the present peace with the Indians prove to be permanent, a road by this route will, no doubt, be opened as the distance is not half so great as the present one to that country.
A HAT,
ENTIRELY new, was exchanged last Evening at Mr. Sear's. Any person who has it in his possession, is requested to call on the Printer.
The Hat had a narrow band with a small buckle, and a white lining; manufactured by James Tiffin, Philad. Nov. 13. d3t.
Ship Arethusa.
Will be Sold, at Public Auction,
On Wednesday, the 18th inst.
At 7 o'clock in the Evening, at the Merchants Coffee-House, (For approved notes, at 3 and 6 months)
The American Ship Arethusa,
NOW laying at Messrs. Willing and Francis's wharf; burthen about 3000 barrels; New-Hampshire built, sheathed and coppered about 18 months since. The inventory will be seen at the Auction Room. Nov. 13. J. CONNELLY, Auctioneer.
For Jeremie,
(To sail in all this month)
The beautiful new brig
Richard & James,
Thomas Adams, master,
BUILT of live oak and cedar, and is her first voyage. She is intended for a constant trader, and is particularly well calculated for carrying passengers, having most excellent accommodations, and constructed for a remarkable fast sailer. For terms apply to the Captain on board at Race-street wharf, or to
RICHARD & JAMES POTTER.
Who have on Hand,
A large and elegant assortment of Calicoes, Muslins, Ribbons, Shawls, Linens, &c. &c. Nov. 13. d

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, & cash 30,000 are
Table with 3 columns: Prize Amount, Number of Prizes, Total Value. Includes prizes like 15,000 & cash 25,000, 10,000 & cash 15,000, etc.
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...
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...
The real securities given for the payment of the Prize are held by the President and two Directors of the Bank of Columbia, and are valued at more than half the amount of the Lottery.
The twenty four gentlemen who by appointment of the late Commissioners assisted in the management of the Hotel Lottery are requested to undertake this arduous task a second time on behalf of the public; a sufficient number of 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 invariably necessary to insure a fair disposal of the tickets has been used.
February 24, 1795. SAMUEL BLODET, codf. Tickets may be had at the Bank of Columbia; of James West & Co. Baltimore or Gideon Denison, Savannah, of Peter Gilman, Bolton; of John Hopkins Richmond; and of Richard Wells, Cooper's Ferry.
Scheme of a Lottery,
Ten thousand Dollars, or 366,000 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 a half blanks to a prize.
The Directors of the Society for establishing Useful Manufactures, having resolved to erect LOTTERIES for raising One Hundred Thousand Dollars, agreeably to an Act of the Legislature of the State of New-Jersey, have appointed the following persons to superintend and direct the drawing of the same, viz. Nicholas Low, Rufus King, Herman Le Roy, James Watson, Richard Harrison, Abijah Hammond, and Cornelius Ray, of the city of New-York - Thomas Witting, Joseph Ball, Matthew McConnel and Andrew Bayard, of the city of Philadelphia - His Excellency Richard Howell, Esq. Elias Boudinot, General Elias Dayton, James Parker, John Bayard, Doctor Lewis Douglass, Samuel W. Stockton, Joshua M. Wallace, Joseph Bloomfield, and Eliza Boudinot, of New-Jersey, who offer the following Scheme of a Lottery, and pledge themselves to the public, that they will take every precaution and precaution in their power to have the Monies paid by the Managers from time to time, as received, into the hands at New-York and Philadelphia, to remain for the purpose of paying Prizes which shall be immediately discharged by a check upon one of the Banks.
SCHEME:
Table with 3 columns: Prize Amount, Number of Prizes, Total Value. Includes prizes like 20,000 Dollars, 10,000, 5,000, etc.
38,000 Tickets at 7 Dollars each. The drawing will commence, under the inspection of a Committee of the Superintendents, as soon as the Tickets are sold, of which timely notice will be given. The Superintendents have appointed John N. Cumming of Newark, Jacob R. Hardenbergh, of New-Brunswick, and Jonathan Rhea, of Trenton, as immediate Managers thereof, who have given ample security for discharging the trust reposed in them.
In order to secure the punctual payment of the Prizes, the Superintendents of the Lottery have directed that the Managers shall each enter into bonds in 25,000 dollars, with four sufficient securities, to perform their instructions, the substance of which is
I. That whenever either of the Managers shall receive the sum of Three Hundred Dollars, immediately he shall place the same in one of the Banks of New-York or Philadelphia, to the credit of the Governor of the Society, and soon of the said Superintendents as live in the city where the monies are paid, to remain there until the Lottery is drawn, for the payment of the Prizes. II. The Managers to take sufficient security for any Tickets they may sell, otherwise to be responsible for them. III. To keep regular books of Tickets sold, Monies received and paid into the Bank, abstracts of which shall be sent, monthly, to the Governor of the Society. Paterson, January 1, 1795. On application to either of the above gentlemen, information will be given where Tickets may be had, &c.
ALL persons having any demands on the Estate of MARY HEWSON, late of Bucks county, deceased, are desired to apply to WILLIAM HEWSON, near Bristol, in the county aforesaid, for immediate settlement. And all persons indebted to said Estate are requested to make payment to the said William Hewson, who is hereby authorized to receive the same.
ELIZABETH HEWSON, Executrix. JONATHAN WILLIAMS, } Executors. WILLIAM HEWSON, }
American Landscapes.
PROPOSALS FOR PUBLISHING IN AQUATINTA TWENTY-FOUR VIEWS, SELECTED from the most striking and interesting Prospects in the United States; each of which Views, will be accompanied with a descriptive account of its Local, Historical, and other Incidental Peculiarities By G. I. PARKYNS, Author of the "Mausoleum Remains and Ancient Cities in Great Britain."
CONDITIONS.
I. That the work shall be published by Subscription; 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, 3 Dollars. II. That the dimensions of each engraving shall be 24 by 17 inches, executed in aquatinta, and published upon paper of a superior quality. The publication to commence 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 completed. 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. Subscriptions are received by Mr. Harrison, at his Print Shop, Maidenlane, New-York, by Mr. Carey, Book-seller, No. 118, Market Street, Philadelphia, and by all the principal Book-sellers in the United States. February 28.
FOR SALE.
A very valuable ESTATE, Called TOTTENHAM.
SITUATE in the township of Upper Darby, and county of Delaware, 7 1-2 miles from Philadelphia, and half a mile from the new Western road: containing 220 acres of excellent Land, 45 of which are good woodlands Meadow, 90 of prime Wood Land, and the rest Arable of the first quality. There are on the premises a good two-story Brick House, with 8 rooms on a floor, and Cellars under the whole, with a Pump Well of excellent Water in front; a large Frame Barn, Stables, and other convenient buildings; a Smoke-House and Stone Spring House; two good Apple Orchards, and one of Peaches. The Fields are all in Clover, except those immediately under tillage, and so said out as to have the advantage of Water in each of them, which renders it peculiarly convenient for Grazing. The situation is pleasant and healthy, and from the high cultivation of the Land, the good neighbourhood, and the vicinity to the city, it is very suitable for a Gentleman's Country Seat. The foregoing is part of the Estate of Jacob Harman, deceased and offered for sale by M. ORDECAI LEWIS, Surviving Executor. Oct. 9, 1795.
Sale of valuable Property.
To be Sold, by Public Auction,
On Tuesday, the 10th day of December, 1795, at the Tontitine Coffee-House in New-York, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, all the rights, title, and interest of the AMERICAN IRON COMPANY, in the following valuable TRACTS of LAND, viz.
1. All that tract of land containing about 2300 acres, situate in the county of Orange, being part of the mountain lots No. 22 and 23, in the patent of Chichester, formerly laid out by Charles Clinton, Esq. deceased, and purchased by the Agent of the American Iron Company of William Smith, Esq. on the 8th day of November, 1766. This tract contains some plough land and swamp; also Potash-Pond and the outlets thereof. 2. All that tract of land situate on the west side of Hudson's river, near Buttermilk Falls; containing 1000 acres. In this tract there is said to be a valuable mine, some good swamp and timber land. 3. All that two tracts situate on the north side of the Mohawk river, being part of the Manor of Colby, purchased by the Agent of the American Iron Company in the years 1765 and 1767, of Oliver Delancey, Esq. the one containing 3940 acres, the other 3815 acres. 4. All that tract of land situate on the north side of the Mohawk river, near the German Flats; adjoining part of Colby's manor, and bounded on the east by Canada creek. This tract will be divided, and sold in the following Lots, viz,
Table with 4 columns: Lot, Acres, Lot, Acres. Includes lots 1 through 14 with their respective acreages.
The tract on No. 4 is chiefly beech, maple, bass and elm. The purchase money to be paid by the following instalments, viz. one-fourth on the day of sale, one-fourth on the first Tuesday in April next, one-fourth on the first Tuesday in October, 1796, and the remainder on the first Tuesday in April, 1797, when deeds will be given to the purchaser. Plans of the different tracts of land may be seen by applying to Mr. Peter Gosh, one of the trustees, in New-York; or to Mr. Edward Edwards, in Philadelphia. November 4.
Forty Dollars Reward.
RAN away from the subscriber, living at Mordington Mills, near Frederica, in Kent county, State of Delaware, on the night of the 27th of June last, a slave negro man named BENN, about 27 years old, 5 feet 10 or 11 inches high, of a yellow complexion, and might pass for a mulatto. The clothes he had on cannot, with exactness, be described, as he made several breaches of honesty, in that way, on his flitting out. He is a very great raver in his dress; has naturally a condemned and surly countenance, although he at times affects a fawning one; his village often red; it is not recollected whether he has any particular flesh-marks, except on his back, there may be some (tho' light) the for of the whip, placed by judicial authority, for house-breaking, lock-breaking, stealing, &c. as well before, as since I purchased him. He is possessed of but a small share of reason or sensibility; a great coward, tho' his looks are devilish; and from the same time breaking. As he took his flight upward from here, at the commencement of harvest, it is presumed he was persuaded by some of the free negroes in this quarter to make his escape with them - should he not be in Philadelphia, he is probably between here and there. Whoever takes up the said negro Ben, and secures him in any public goal, so that his master may get him again, shall have the above reward; and through home additional charges for reasonable expenses paid by James Lugglass.
BOOKS, Printed for and Published by MATHEW CAREY,
No. 118 MARKET STREET. (Price Sixteen Dollars.)
A New System of Modern Geography: Or, a Geographical, Historical and Commercial Grammar; and present state of the several Nations of the World,
CONTAINING, The figures, motions, and distances of the Planets, according to the Newtonian system, and the latest observations.
I. A general view of the Earth considered as a planet; with several useful definitions and problems. II. The Grand divisions of the Globe into land and water, continents and islands. III. Situation and extent of empires, kingdoms, states, provinces and colonies. IV. Their climates, air, soil, vegetables, productions, metals, minerals, natural curiosities, seas, rivers, bays, promontories and Lakes. V. Birds and Beasts peculiar to each country. VI. A Geographical Index, with the names and places a phibitically arranged. VII. Observations on the changes that have been any where observed upon the face of nature since the most early periods of history. VIII. History and origin of nations; their forms of government, religion, laws, revenue, taxes, naval and military strength. IX. Genius, manners, customs and habits of the people. X. Their language, learning, arts, sciences, manufactures and commerce. XI. Chief cities, structures ruins, and artificial curiosities. XII. Latitude, longitude, bearings and distances of principal places from Philadelphia TO WHICH ARE ADDED, To which are added, the late Discoveries of Dr. Herchel, and other eminent Astronomers.
The FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, corrected, improved, and greatly enlarged. Containing the following
Table with 2 columns: MAPS and PLATES. Includes plates 1 through 23, such as Map of the World, Europe, America, etc.
The Maps marked with stars are added to this edition, exclusive of those in the last London edition.
The United States Register for 1795,
Price 50 Cents. GOVERNMENT. Calendar, with the necessary Boundaries of the United States, &c. &c.
Table with 2 columns: GOVERNMENT, STATES, POPULATION. Includes sections for Supreme Executive, Judiciary, Department of State, Department of the Treasury, Commissioners of Loans, Officers of the Customs, Revenue Cutters, Light Houses, Officers of the Excise, Duties and Dutiable articles, Exemptions from duties, Duties on tonnage, Drawbacks, &c. and regulations to be observed in obtaining them, General Abstract from the revenue laws, relating to the duty of masters of vessels, of the owners, &c. of goods, and the officers of the customs; to the payment of duties, and the importation of goods, Excesses of Government for 1794, Department of War, STATE GOVERNMENTS, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, North-Carolina.
EXTRACT FROM THE CRITICAL REVIEW, APRIL 1791, p. 468.
1. The Inquisitor - by Mrs. Rowson. Second Philadelphia edition. 87 1/2 cents. 2. Adventures of Roderick Random. 2 vols. 1 dollar and 50 cents, coarse paper - 1 dollar and 75 cents fine. 3. Notes on the State of Virginia - by Thomas Jefferson. Price neatly bound, one dollar and a half. 4. History of the French Revolution, from its commencement to the death of the Queen and the execution of Brissot. 5 dollars. 5. Plowden's History of the British Empire, from May 1792, to December 1793. 1 dollar and a quarter. This is an interesting and valuable publication as has appeared for many years. 6. Beattie's Elements of Moral Science. 2 vols. One dollar and three quarters.
JAMES M'ALPIN, TAYLOR,
No. 3 South Fourth Street, RETURNS his grateful acknowledgements to his Friends and the Public for their liberal encouragement, and begs leave to inform a continuance of their favours.
At his Shop gentlemen may be furnished with the best materials, and have them made up and finished in the most fashionable manner. He will thankfully receive any orders and pay a prompt and punctilious attention to them. Oct. 15.
IN THE PRESS,
And speedily will be published, by BENJAMIN DAVIES, At 68, High-street, THE
American Repository, for 1796;
CONTAINING: A complete Calendar for the year. Lists of the executive, legislative and judicial officers of the federal government - of the ministers and consuls to and from the United States. A register of the land and sea forces of do. Rates of postage, and times of receiving & closing the mails at Philadelphia. A list of the post-towns, with the distances of each, on the main line, as well as cross roads. - of the federal courts. - of the supervisors of the revenue. The mint, and monies of the U.S. and the currency of each state. A list of the commissioners of loans. A table, showing the proportion of free persons to slaves, &c. in the U.S. Militia of the United States, with the proportion of each. An alphabetical list of duties agreeably to the last act of Congress. Amount of import and tonnage of one year. Custom-house fees, &c. Rules for reducing the currencies of the several states. Table of pounds, &c. reduced into dollars & cents. Summary of the exports in 4 successive years. Amount of the unredeemed debt, annual revenue and expenditures. A view of the sinking fund. An estimate of the imports of the United States, in two several years. Domestic duties or excises. Drawbacks and bounties. Banks, with rules of conducting business. Officers of the civil government of Pennsylvania. Estimate of expenses of do. in one year. Officers of civil government of New-York. Sovereign princes and republics of Europe. List of the navy of Great-Britain, corrected agreeable to the latest information. Do. of the navy of France, do. State of the air, and a diary of the winds and weather in Philadelphia, during 2 months, ending 31st Sept. 1795. Bills of mortality in Philad. of one year. This little volume will contain a much greater compass, as well as variety of matter, than that of the preceding year, and will be embellished with an engraved frontispiece, title page, and a vignette faced with a head ornament, to each month. The scenes depicted in the vignettes, allude chiefly to the rural labours of the year. The engravings are new, and executed with an excellence that does credit to the American fine arts. At the same place may be had, Plans of the city of Philadelphia, and its environs, accurately engraved from a late survey. Maps of the United States, and of each state separately. A valuable collection of modern Books, and a general assortment of Stationery Wares. Note - Those who desire it, may have the above-mentioned Maps, or any other, coloured, canvassed, and varnished, and put up in any manner that may be most convenient, by applying at directed above. Oct. 2, 1795.
Mr. Walter Robertson
BEGS leave to acquaint the Gentlemen, subscribers to the print Portrait of George Washington, President of the United States of America, engraved by Mr. Field, from an original picture painted by W. Robertson, that the Proofs are ready for delivery to the several subscribers at John James Barrat's, No. 19 north Ninth-street; or at J. Grumet's, bookseller, No. 41, Chestnut-street, where the subscribers are requested to send their address. October 27.
LOTTERY INTELLIGENCE.
We are informed that the gentleman who drew the 15,000 dollar prize, in the Canal Lottery, was the proprietor of only a single Ticket - This instance of good fortune, shews that it is well to be in Fortune's road; and is the more pleasing, as the owner of the prize is a very worthy, though not a very affluent citizen.
The Scheme of the Canal Lottery is certainly one of the best which has appeared - for, independent of the useful objects to which its proceeds are to be applied, the scheme is so calculated as to continually enhance the value of the Tickets remaining in the wheel; because, while the drawing progresses, the chance of a capital prize growing greater, must increase the value of the undrawn Ticket.
The Prizes drawn to the close of the drawing on last Wednesday Evening, were
Table with 3 columns: Prize Amount, Number of Prizes, Total Value. Includes prizes like 15,000, 2,000, 1,000, etc.
And 5 stationary prizes of 20,000 dollars each; by which, and the nature of those 5 stationary prizes, which are to belong to the five last drawn tickets, it will be found, that an undrawn ticket was yesterday morning, worth nearly 112 dollars, which, at the beginning, was worth no more than 10 dollars - and to the undrawn tickets must continue to increase in value, as fast as the drawing proceeds: And this circumstance will account for the number of Offices which are opened for the sale of Tickets, as the profits must be daily increasing; and in a few days a Ticket now selling at 11 dollars, will no doubt command 15 dollars, and must continue to get higher as the drawing approximates to the five stationary prizes of 20,000 dollars each.
ALL persons indebted to the Estate of SAMUEL M'FRAUNCES, late of this city, Innkeeper, deceased, are desired to make payment to the subscriber; and all those who have any demands against the said Estate, are requested to bring in their accounts properly attested. SAMUEL M. FRAUNCES, Aging Executor. South Water-street, No. 59. October 28, 1795.
ALL persons indebted to the Estate of Doctor JOHN H. GIBBONS, late of Philadelphia, deceased, are requested to make payment; and those who have any demands against said Estate, are desired to bring in their accounts duly attested, for settlement, to ROBERT HEYSHAM, Attorney in fact for Mary Gibbons, administratrix to the said deceased's Estate. Arch-street, No. 107, Nov. 4.