Gazette of the United States and daily evening advertiser. (Philadelphia [Pa.]), 1794-07-05 00:00:00

Gazette of the United States  AND  DAILY EVENING ADVERTISER.
[No. 20 of Vol. VI.]
SATURDAY, July 5, 1794.
[Whole No. 570.]
FOR SALE By the SUBSCRIBER, No. 117, north Second Street, Imported in the Brig BETSEY, from DUBLIN—a few Crates of GLASS, And a few GROCE BOTTLES, Also on Hand, Spermaceiti Candles. Louis Osmont. June 27 d
All persons who have any demands upon the New Theatre, are requested to send in their accounts to No. 204, in Arch Street, near Eighth Street, as soon as convenient. WIGNELL & REINAGLE. Mar 30. dtr.
It is Requested, THAT no person will supply any articles for the use of the New Theatre, without an order in writing, signed by ourselves, or Samuel Anderson, for us. WIGNELL & REINAGLE. May 30. dtr.
LANDING Out of the Brig NANCY, CAPTAIN SHAW, at Race-Street Wharf, SUGARS in Hogsheads and Barrels, COFFEE in Hogsheads, Barrels and Bags, Entitled to drawback. For Sale, By JAMES CRAWFORD, or WHARTON & LEWIS. June 24th. d.
TUITION. WILLIAM FINCH of the New Theatre, begs leave to inform his Friends and the Public, that he has removed from the corner of Eighth and Arch Streets to No. 68, north Eighth between Arch and Race Streets, and that he continues to give Instructions in the French and English Languages as usual, also the Classics. He takes this opportunity of expressing his acknowledgements for the very liberal encouragement he has experienced, a continuation of which he begs leave to solicit. N. B. Translations from either language correctly executed. d.
Christiana Mills For Sale.
ON Monday the first day of September next at 8 o'clock in the evening, at the Coffee House in the city of Philadelphia, will be sold by public vendue, two tracts or pieces of land situated in White Clay Creek hundred, New Castle county and state of Delaware; one of which contains about sixty acres of highly improved land, on it are a large two story brick dwelling house, a convenient brick barn, with stabling and a carriage house underneath, an excellent kiln for drying corn; and the well known mills called Christiana Mills (late Patterson's) which being at the head of the tide on Christiana river, and but about half a mile from the landing, is conveniently situated for carrying the articles manufactured at the mills by water to Philadelphia. This property being close to the road leading from Elkton to Christiana bridge, and at the head of the tide, with many other attendant advantages, renders its situation for the milling business to very valuable, as to be equalled by few and excelled by none. The latter tract containing 175 acres, is about one mile from the mills and is chiefly woodland, which being contiguous to water carriage to the city of Philadelphia, must be of increasing value, especially as there is a quantity of large timber in said tract suitable for the purposes of the mills.
The terms upon which the above mentioned estates will be sold are—one thousand pounds to be paid on executing the deed, and seven hundred and fifty pounds per annum, with interest for the remainder or proportionally for each part. Indispensible titles will be made for the property, by
JOHN NIXON, ALEX. FOSTER, GEO. LATIMER. At same time and place will be sold a large BOAT, July 2 mw&scs
FOR SALE, By Rundle & Muratroyd At No. 11, Walnut Street, A CARGO OF LIVERPOOL SALT, On board the snow Mercury, which they will sell either together, or in smaller quantities. July 2 drw
All Persons indebted to the Estate of John Cottringer deceased, are again requested to make payment, & those who have any demands on said Estate, to present them duly authenticated to GARRETT COTTRINGER. Acting Executor. June 26 drw
Two or three Young Ladies may be Boarded in an airy pleasant situation in a genteel family—For particulars apply to the Printer hereof. June 25. d.
JUST RECEIVED, And for Sale at Mathew Carey's Store, No. 118, Market Street, LETTERS from France; CONTAINING a great variety of original information concerning the most important events that have occurred in that country in the years 1790, 1791, 1792, and 1793. By Helen Maria Williams. Price Bound, 13/6—fewed in blue paper, 10/6. Said Carey has in the press, and will speedily publish, I. An impartial history of the French Revolution, from its commencement, to the death of the Queen, and the execution of the Gironde party. II. Plowden's history of the British Empire, from May 1792 to December 1793. III. Moore's Journal, translated into French. IV. Beattie's Elements of Moral Science, volume II. V. Gibson's Pocket Atlas. VI. Adventures of Roderic Random. VII. Edward's treatise on the Religious affections. June 20. truth&2w
Scheme of a Lottery, To raise 30,000 Dollars, on 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 establishing Useful Manufactures, having resolved to erect LOTTERIES for raising ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS, agreeably to an Act of the Legislature of the State of New-Jersey, have appointed the following persons to superintend and direct the drawing of the same, viz. Nicholas Low, Rufus King, Herman Le Roy, James Watson, Richard Harrison, Abijah Hammond, and Cornelius Ray, of the city of New-York—Thomas Willing, Joseph Ball, Matthew McCune and Andrew Bayard, of the city of Philadelphia—His Excellency Richard Howell, Esq. Elias Boudinot, General Elias Dayton, James Parker, John Bayard, Doctor Lewis Donham, Samuel W. Stockton, Joshua M. Wallace, Joseph Bloomfield, and Eliza Boudinot, of New-Jersey, who offer the following Scheme of a Lottery, and pledge themselves to the public, that they will take every assurance and precaution in their power, to have the Monies paid by the Managers, from time to time, as received, into the Banks at New-York and Philadelphia, to remain for the purpose of paying Prizes, which shall be immediately discharged by a check upon one of the Banks.
S C H E M E:    1 Prize of 20,000 Dollars is 20,000   1 Prize of 10,000 Dollars is 10,000   2 Prizes of 5,000 Dollars is 10,000   5 Prizes of 2,000 Dollars is 10,000   10 Prizes of 1,000 Dollars is 10,000   20 Prizes of 500 Dollars is 10,000   100 Prizes of 100 Dollars is 10,000   300 Prizes of 50 Dollars is 15,000   1000 Prizes of 20 Dollars is 20,000   2000 Prizes of 15 Dollars is 30,000   3000 Prizes of 12 Dollars is 36,000   8100 Prizes of 10 Dollars is 81,000   14,539 Prizes. 262,000   23,461 Blanks. First drawn number, 2,000 234,610   Last drawn number, 2,000 2,000 
38,000 Tickets at 7 Dollars each is 266,000. The drawing will commence, under the inspection of a Committee of the Superintendents, as soon as the Tickets are sold, or which timely notice will be given. The Superintendents have appointed John N. Cumming, of Newark; Jacob R. Hardenberg, 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 40,000 dollars, with four sufficient securities, to perform their instructions, the substance of which is   That whenever either of the Managers shall receive the sum of Three Hundred Dollars, he shall immediately place the same in one of the Banks of New-York or Philadelphia, to the credit of the Governor of the Society, and such of the Superintendents as live in the city where the monies are placed, to remain there until the Lottery is drawn, for the payment of the Prizes.  The Managers to take sufficient security for any Tickets they may sell, otherwise to be responsible for them.  To keep regular books of Tickets sold, Monies received and paid into the Bank, abstracts of which shall be sent, monthly, to the Governor of the Society.   Paterson, January 1, 1794. On application to either of the above gentlemen, information will be given where tickets may be had. February 24. mw&scs
For Sale, The Brig NANCY, (As she came from Sea.) IS a good double decked vessel, and will carry 600 barrels. Inventory to be seen on board at Race Street wharf, and the terms made known by Wharton & Lewis, Who have for sale, WEST INDIA AND New-England Rum, OLD BILL Madeira Wine, Coffee, &c. June 27 d
For MADEIRA, The Ship CATHARINE, Capt. McCOLLUM TO sail directly. A few barrels will be taken on freight, if speedy application is made. Apply to PETER BLIGHT, Or JOHN CRAIG. The Owner of the Catharine begs to inform the gentlemen, importers from Madeira, the Catharine returns directly to this port, and will take freight on moderate terms. June 19 d2w
THE BRIG Noah's Ark, FOR New-Orleans, HAS begun to take in her cargo at Clifford's wharf. Gentlemen who will favor the Subscriber with some freight for what room her cargo may leave, are requested to send down their goods as shortly as possible. LOUIS OSMONT, No. 117, north Second Street. June 27 d
Wanted to Charter, A VESSEL, THAT will carry 600 or 1000 barrels for Madeira, load here immediately. Also a vessel of 8 to 10,000 bushels, to load in the Chesapeake. Apply to PETER BLIGHT. June 17 dtrt
For Frederickburg and Falmouth, Rappahannock River, Virginia, The Schooner COLUMBIA, Francis Tupman, Master. Now lying at Sweetman & Rudolph's wharf, and will sail on Saturday next. For freight or passage, apply to Captain Tupman on board, or to Emanuel Walker. July 2 d
For Sale or Charter, That remarkable fast sailing ship the PORTSMOUTH, NOW lying at Cuthbert's wharf, burthen about 3000 barrels, and in complete order to receive a cargo. For terms apply to John Craig, No. 12, Dock Street, WHO HAS FOR SALE, HIGH PROOF Antigua & Grenada Rum, Hylon and Souchong Teas, Roll Brimstone, Bristol crown Window Glass of different sizes, Almonds in bags, Lampblack in hogsheads, Cotton in bales, Rich Port Wine in pipes, hds. and quarter casks, and A few BOXES of Sugars, snuff, chocolate, & Confectionary, Lately received from the Havannah July 3 d
Louis Osmont, No. 117, north Second Street. Has now on hand for sale A few Packages remaining of his importations this Spring, consisting of Irish Dowlas, Baftas, Sattins, Feathers and Flowers, Black Lace Looking Glasses, framed. ALSO A few Chests of Hylon Tea, Burgundy Wine and Claret in cases, Madeira Wine, Spermaceiti Candles June 16 d
FOR SALE, At the STORES of Jesse & Robert Waln, PORT WINE in pipes, hds. and quarter casks LISBON do. in pipes and quarter casks Souchong and CONGO TEAS, in quarter casks A quantity of Lisbon and Cadiz SALT Soft shelled ALMONDS in bales Velvet CORKS, in do. Russia MATTS. June 9 d
Choice St. Croix Sugar, JUST IMPORTED, And for Sale, By JAMES YARD. Also a quantity of RUSSIA Mats. June 24th. dtr
Bank of North America, July 1, 1794. AT a meeting of the Directors this day a dividend of six per cent was declared for the last half year, which will be paid to the Stockholders, or their representatives, at any time after the 10th inst. By order of the board, JOHN NIXON, President. July 1 dtr
140 BARRELS Best Boston BEEF, 13 HOGSHEADS New-England Rum, Received by the Schooner Belinda from Boston, and for sale by Nalbro' & John Frazier. No. 81, Walnut Street. June 20 mw&scs
ADVERTISEMENT. LETTERS on the subject of the Washington Lottery, being by mistake repeatedly addressed to the Commissioners for the City of Washington. Persons concerned are hereby informed, that all such should be addressed either to W. Deakins jun. of Washington, or to the Subscriber. The commissioners never having contemplated any further concern in this business, than in their assent to receive the bonds and approve the names of the managers. The prizes have been paid and are paying on demand by W. Deakins, Washington, Peter Gilman, Boston, and by the Subscriber. For the Lottery No. 2, the securities already given will be retained by the commissioners, or transferred by them at their option to the bank of Columbia; and the commissioners will be consulted respecting a judicious and equitable disposition of the houses to be built thereby; their treasury or the bank of Columbia will receive the money intended for the National University, and they will be consulted in the nomination of the 24 managers; but all the responsibility respecting the general disposition of the tickets, and payment of prizes, will rest as in the Hotel Lottery, on the persons whose names are and may be hereafter published as assistants to forward this business with S. BLODGET. N. B. Mr. Blodget will be particularly obliged if those persons who possess prizes yet unpaid, will apply for their money as early as possible. June 7th. d.
JUST PUBLISHED, By THOMAS DOBSON, Bookseller, at the Stone House in Second Street, Philadelphia, VOLUME XI OF ENCYCLOPEDIA, OR A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature,
ON a plan entirely new; by which the different sciences and arts are digested into the form of distinct treatises or systems. This volume contains the articles, medals, medicine, metallurgy, metaphysics, metho-dists, Mexico, microscope, midwifery, and a great variety of biographical and miscellaneous articles, illustrated with nineteen copperplates. The tables of logarithms, &c. which were deficient in the tenth volume, are subjoined to this. Eleven volumes of this work are now published, and the XIIth is in some forwardness.
On the first of September, 1792, the price of subscription was increased TEN dollars on all sets not taken before that time. The subscription is still open on these terms; and if any copies remain by the first of July next, the price will be raised TEN dollars more, on any copies which may be subscribed for after that period. As many of the subscribers have taken only two, three or four, &c. volumes, they are earnestly requested to take up and pay for the remaining volumes, as it becomes difficult to complete the sets, and the publisher does not hold himself bound to make up any sets after the first day of July next. April 22. m&scs.
Excellent CLARET, In hogsheads and in cases of 50 bottles each ALSO, A few cases Champaigne wine; MADEIRA, In pipes, hogsheads and quarter casks, FOR SALE BY JOHN VAUGHAN, No. 111, South Front Street. Jan. 2. 1794. dtr
JAMAICA RUM, LANDING at Hamilton's wharf, above the Drawbridge, out of the ship BACCHUS Capt. VANNEMAN, from JAMAICA, FOR SALE BY PETER BLIGHT. May 16. d
Carolina Rice and Indigo, BAY MAHOGANY and FRENCH BURR STONES, FOR SALE BY Gurney and Smith. May 14. d
Medical Books. JUST PUBLISHED, By Thomas Dobson, at the Stone House, No. 11, South Second Street, VOL. II.
Medical Inquiries AND OBSERVATIONS. By BENJAMIN RUSH, M. D. Professor of the Institutes of Medicine, and of Clinical Practice in the University of Pennsylvania. CONTAINING
 1. An inquiry into the influence of physical causes upon the moral faculty.  2. An inquiry into the effects of spirituous liquors upon the human body, and their influence upon the happiness of society.  3. An inquiry into the causes and cure of the pulmonary consumption.  4. Observations on the symptoms and cure of dropsies.  5. An inquiry into the causes and the cure of internal dropsy of the brain.  6. An account of the measles, as they appeared in Philadelphia, in the year 1789.  7. An account of the influenza, as it appeared in Philadelphia in the years 1789, 1790, and 1791.  8. An inquiry into the causes of the increase of bilious and remitting fevers, in Pennsylvania.  9. An inquiry into the causes and cure of forelegs.  10. An account of the state of the body and mind in old age, with observations upon its diseases and their remedies.  Price one dollar and a quarter unbound, or one dollar and a half neatly bound.
Medical Transactions OF THE College of Physicians of Philadelphia. VOL. I.—PART I. Price one dollar in boards.
A Treatise on the Diseases of Children. With general directions for the management of Infants from the birth, adapted for the use of physicians and private families. By Michael Underwood, M. D. Licentiate of Midwifery in the Royal College of Physicians in London, and Physician of the British Lying-in-Hospital. Price one Dollar. This is acknowledged to be the best book which has been published on the subject, and is calculated for the use of parents, nurses, and private families, as well as for physicians. The two volumes handsomely printed in one, and the price only about one third of what the imported copies fell for.
The Edinburgh New Dispensatory, two dollars. System of Surgery, extracted from the works of Benjamin Bell, by Dr. Waters, 2 vols. 50 cents. System of Anatomy, extracted from the Encyclopaedia, with 12 copperplates, 2 vols. 50 cents. System of Chemistry, extracted from the Encyclopaedia, exhibiting a view of the progress of the science, and the different systems which have been published, 2 vols. 50 cents. Brown's Elements of Medicine, 2 vols. 67 cents.
T. Dobson has in the Press, An edition of the Medical and Philosophical Commentaries of Edinburgh. Two volumes are printed in one at 2 dollars and 50 cents per volume; he has nearly finished the five first volumes, which contain the first ten volumes of the European edition, which sell for two dollars each. Nine volumes will include eighteen European volumes, which will bring the publication up to the present time. Likewise for sale a considerable number of Medical Books, viz.
Cullen's Practice, Materia Medica, Physiology, and Synopsis. Bell's Surgery, 6 vols. or 4 vols. do. on Ulcers, Buchan's Domestic Medicine, Ledran's Surgery, Chefelden's Anatomy, Hunter on the Viscera, Swediaur on do. Rollo on West India Diseases; Rigby on Uterine Hemorrhage, Hamilton's outlines of the theory and practice of Midwifery, with or without plates; do. on the management of Female complaints. Meads on Hydrophobia, &c. &c.

From a late London Paper.
M. DUMOURIER'S LIFE.
The following is brief, but comprehensive sketch of DUMOURIER'S Life, made yet more interesting, as being written by himself—for few men have filled a larger space in human attention, and fewer still can have agitated more the various and opposite emotions of hope and fear, of admiration and contempt!—Gallant he undoubtedly was, and with an enviable disdain of personal danger, he never failed to exemplify, till his fall, resources no less rare of first-rate intellectual parts.
The following month (April 1794) my age will be 55.—Is it imaginable that I can wish, by concealment perhaps scandalous, to get a few days more of obscurity, or bitterness and shame?
I was born at Cambray, in the year 1739; my family were noble, but not rich. My father was a very knowing, a very virtuous man. My education was right, both as to strictness and extent; and when 18 years old, in 1757, I went into the army as my trade. There I was distinguished without delay! when I was 22 years old, I had the military order, (La Croix de St. Louis) and my wounds like my years were 22.
In 1763 was the peace. Then I began to travel, with a view to languages and manners; for moral philosophy ever was my favorite theme. Thence the vagabond French fugitives have imagined that I was occupied as a spy for the then administration of France; as if had there been in Greece such vermin as them, ( les Marquis ) they would not have laid the fame of Pythagoras and Plato.
In 1768, I was recalled from Spain, and sent to Corsica, where I was raised to the rank of Colonel after the two campaigns of 1768 and 1769.
In 1770, the due De Choiseul sent me to Poland, minister to the confederates; and there in two campaigns, and in negotiations, of no small magnitude, I was the leader, with various success. As the affairs of Poland were ill-considered, that revolution ended ill!—A partition of that country ensued.
In 1772 the marquis De Montiguard, the war minister, employed me in his department; and at the end of that year sent me, by the order of Louis XV. to Sweden, on the revolution which had happened.
This employment, on which I had my orders directly from the king himself, was known to the due D'Acquillon, the minister for foreign affairs; he had me arrested at Hamburg, and conducted to the Bastille in 1773.
Louis XV. naturally weak, and incidentally weakened more by his mistress La Dubarry, and his minister, disgraced the virtuous Montiguard!—concealed the part he himself had taken in sending me to Sweden, and left me exposed to a criminal process, which the due D'Acquillon had begun; but doubting of its being tenable, had not dared to try. At six months end I was exiled to Caen for three months!
In 1774, Louis XV. died. D'Acquillon was disgraced. I wrote to Louis XVI. desiring to be removed from Caen to the Bastille, and to be tried. The three ministers, de Muy, de Vergennes and de Sartines, were my judges, and they attested the hardship of my case, that I had been persecuted unjustly.
As Colonel, I was sent to Lille, with the new military manoeuvres the baron de Perch had brought from Prussia, with a project of reform for the river Rhine—and another plan, then in contemplation, for a port at Ambleteuse. On these occupations I passed 1774 and 1775.
In 1776 I was king's commissary with the chevalier D'Oilly, a captain of a ship, and field marechal De Roziere, a celebrated military engineer, on a survey of the Channel, for the construction of a new port.
The year 1777 I lived in the country, eighty miles from Paris. It is the only year of repose I have had. At the end of it there happened the American war, as I had foretold; and I was accordingly sent for by the war minister, M. De Montbaker.
In 1778 I had the command at Cherbourg, which appeared to me most favorable for a port on the Channel; and aided by the zeal, the activity, and the known character of the due d'Harcourt, who had the government of the province, we decided the point, above a hundred years disputed, viz. that for a military port, Cherbourg was preferable to La Hogue. From that time to 1789, I was wholly occupied there, and never more than three times at Paris.
Cherbourg, when I found it, had but 7,300 inhabitants! when I left it, the population was 20,000.
The vagabond French fugitives have dared to add, to the former calumny of my being a spy, another imputed infamy, viz. of intrigues in the war-office! though in the whole period of a dozen years, and all my journeys taken together, my stay at Paris did not amount to six months; and during that time I had but very little resort to Versailles.
Thus to recapitulate, the account is so—
 Twenty-two wounds in battle;  Six campaigns in Germany;  Two ditto in Corsica;  Two ditto in Poland;  Some important negotiations;  The creation of a town and port;  And twenty years spent in travel, and in the study of languages and politics. 
And he then adds a wish, which may extend rather wholesomely to some other countries on the continent, where there have been certain ingenious gentlemen, at the top of life, with such a state of talents and accomplishments to earn a mental livelihood, that they would not have been certain ingenious men at the bottom of life. The wish is, that every man, who by the luck of birth, of wealth, of place, may be called to support the fame and welfare of a country, may render himself qualified, by similar studies and by similar labours: and then—Revolutions would be no more!
Dumourier thus continues, Personally I have gained nothing—I was among the Field Marshals. I was sure of being Lieutenant General, of having a red ribband and a command.—I had 20,000 livres (800. sterling) a year. That was enough for me.—But I saw the state of France! dishonoured without, ruined within. A dynasty, of which ministers, by my memorials, had been long forewarned!
The year 1789 was glorious by the Revolution! Where I was, it altogether was rational and mild; for without trenching upon liberty, every excess of liberty into licentiousness was punished by law, even unto death.
On the suppression of the Military Commandants I went to Paris. There I made the Revolution my study. The Princes, by running away had hurt the King's cause. The Veto I saw would be useless, and might be fatal. Though not a Legislator, I endeavoured to undo it, as far as I could!
In 1791, I had the command, from Nantz to Bourdeaux. The war, a war of religion, then raged in the Vendee. The Religionists were burning all before them. I saved every thing! I quieted all!—till February 1792, when I was called to Paris, and named Lieutenant-General, and Minister for foreign affairs!
With the War, they reproach me. It was inevitable. It had existed long before.
For the rest, my opinion was for declaring war! The King was for it, too! The King not only read my report to the Assembly, but he corrected it! The corrections are in his own hand-writing! and his own speech was written by himself!
At three months end, confounded by the factions which raged, and failing of the King in Council to sanction two Decrees, I wished to retire. Retirement was refused. I changed the administration by the King's order, and I took the Department of War.
But finding that the Court had deceived me, I would not be the Minister of intrigue! I foretold to Louis and his Wife every evil which awaited them, and in three days I resigned. The vagabond fugitives ( Les Emigres ) have said that I was turned out: It is a lie. I resigned my place, though Louis was urgent that it might be otherwise! though for two days together he opposed my resignation! and though, when I departed, he mingled his tears with mine!
The War has been splendidly successful to the French. If the French had shown equal wisdom and virtue, peace would have returned long ago! Louis would have lived! There had been no anarchy! But France had been glorious and happy in her Constitution.
Such is the rapid sketch of my existence; a sketch which may suffice, if I cannot finish the work and give it to the Public. Adieu! my worthy friend. This is an important letter; and as such, it sooths me; here it is, I wait without inquietude, the wishes of the Emperor, and decisions of my fate! My character shall assert itself! and instead of weakening, shall strengthen by my shape. I shall be, at all times, myself!
CONGRESS.
IN SENATE,
Saturday June 7th, 1794.
(Continued.)
A message from the President of the
United States, by Mr. Dandridge, his Secretary:
"Mr. President—The President of the United States hath this day, approved and signed, "An act in addition to the "Act for making further and more effectual provision for the protection of the frontiers of the United States;" "An act for the remission of the duties on certain distilled spirits destroyed by fire," and "An act allowing an additional compensation to the principal clerks in the department of State, and the Treasury and War departments for the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety four."
Ordered, that the Secretary acquaint the House of Representatives therewith.
A message from the House of Representatives, by Mr. Beckley, their Clerk:
"Mr. President—The House of Representatives agree to the amendments of the Senate to the bill, entitled, "An act declaring the consent of Congress to an act of the State of Maryland, passed the twenty eighth day of December, one thousand seven hundred and ninety three, for the appointment of a health officer."
"The President of the United States hath notified the House of Representatives that he this day approved and signed, "An act laying additional duties on goods, wares and merchandise imported into the United States," and "An act to make provision for the widow and orphan children of Robert Forsyth."
"They have passed a resolution directing the respective clerks of the District Courts of the United States, to return copies of the tables of fees payable in the Supreme or Superior Courts in which he resides, to the Attorney General;" in which they desire the concurrence of the Senate." And he withdrew.
The resolution last brought from the House of Representatives for concurrence was read.
Resolved, that the Senate concur therein.
Ordered, that the Secretary acquaint the House of Representatives with the concurrence of the Senate in this resolution.
Mr. Vining reported from the committee for enrolled bills, that they had examined the bill, entitled, "An act declaring the consent of Congress to an act of the State of Maryland, passed the twenty eighth of December, one thousand seven hundred and ninety three, for the appointment of a health officer;" the bill, entitled, "An act to amend the act, intituled, "An act to enable the officers and soldiers of the Virginia line on continental establishment, to obtain titles to certain lands lying north west of the river Ohio, between the little Miami and Sciota;" the "Resolution directing the respective clerks of the District Courts of the States to return copies of the tables of fees payable in the supreme or superior Court of the State in which he resides, to the Attorney General;" and a resolution directing the Secretary of War to make out and return to the District Judges, certain lists, in the cases of invalid pensioners," and that they were duly enrolled.
A message from the House of Representatives, by Mr. Beckley, their Clerk:
"Mr. President—The Speaker of the House of Representatives having signed two enrolled bills, and two enrolled resolutions, I am directed to bring them to the Senate for the signature of the President." And he withdrew.
The President of the Senate signed the two bills and the two resolutions last reported to have been examined, and they were delivered to the committee, to be laid before the President of the United States.
(To be Continued.)
Foreign Intelligence.
BOURDEAUX, May 8
Copy of the particulars given by Dugommier, Commander in chief of the army of the Eastern Pyrenees. Dated Head Quarters, Bagnoul, May 1st. Published by order of the Representative of the people ISABEAU.
This is a sketch of our morning's work; as accurately as it can be given in haste. We have completely beaten the Spaniards, and they have already flown back from the extremity of their conquests in the ci devant Roussillon. They have left us at least 200 pieces of different kinds of artillery; all their ammunition, magazines well filled with provisions, near 2000 prisoners, among whom are a general officer, three colonels and 65 officers of different grades. The number of the killed and wounded is in
proportion to the prisoners. All their tents, camp equipage, an immense quantity of baggage, in fine all that characterizes a complete rout, have fallen into our hands. The reduction of Alberts had so terrified the enemy, that the order was already given to evacuate all their posts: but we have been fortunate enough to be before hand and to make good use of their panic. Their Count de l'Union gave into the snare most completely. Nothing can equal the ardor with which our brethren in arms fell upon the enemy; and we are going, this very evening, to pursue them in their last entrenchments.
LONDON, April 7.
On Saturday night, Mr. Lauzun, jun. a king's messenger was dispatched with four other persons, to apprehend Mr. Stone, the cole-merchant, of Rutland-place, Thames Street, at his country house, at Old Ford, near Bow, on a charge of High Treason, for keeping up an improper correspondence with the enemy.
The charge made against Mr. Jackson we understand to be, that he has held a correspondence of a criminal nature with several persons who belong to the existing government of France, in which treasonable information was given to the enemy respecting the force in Great Britain and Ireland, with the opinions of the people as to the prosecution of the war.
In consequence of the investigation of Jackson's papers before the privy council, some persons of respectability in different parts of Ireland are implicated in the charge of high treason; and Mr. Poyle and another of the King's messengers have been sent off from Dublin to apprehend those against whom warrants have been issued by the council.
Mr. Jackson is a close prisoner in Newgate. Two sentinels are placed at the outside of the room door in which he is imprisoned, to prevent all intercourse between visitors or prisoners, and who attentively examine every article before it is suffered to enter for his use.
Trait of bravery in British seamen.
On Monday came on, at Doctors Commons, the case of the Isabella, an American taken by the Resolution privateer. In the course of the evidence it appeared, that there were 14 French officers on board the Isabella as passengers, who, the day after the capture, rose upon the eight seamen left in possession. The contest was carried on with pistols and hangers; and although the Prize-master was knocked down, and three of the seamen thrown over and drowned, yet victory at last determined in favor of the English. Several of the French are since dead of their wounds. During the contest the Americans remained neuter.
Captain W. of the artillery is the person now in custody in the Duke of York's army, for communicating to Pichegru the disposition of the allied forces, and suggesting a plan by which the Carmagnols might surround and cut off the invading armies.
Upon a suspicion of this nature, we must be silent; but we blush for the honor of the British arms, when we hear that for a cause so detestable, a breach of confidence, of conscience, and honor, like this has occurred.
It is very little to the honor of our ship builders, that on almost every occasion the French ships of war are found to out sail ours. We do not find the same difference in point of sailing between their Merchantmen or privateers and ours; and the reason is obvious. In private dockyards, there is encouragement and scope for ingenuity; in the public dock-yards there is neither. An attempt to reform this would probably be called by the parties concerned a Jacobinical innovation.
His Prussian Majesty last year entered into treaties with this country, and with his other allies, by which he solemnly engaged not to lay down his arms but by mutual consent. Last month he declared the contest with France was fruitless, that he was determined to resign it, and absolutely ordered the main body of his troops back to his own dominions. This month he, for the sum of two millions two hundred thousand pounds, four fifths of which are to be paid by this country, sells sixty thousand of his subjects to be engaged in that contest which he had three weeks ago declared to be fruitless! All this is, (to use his Majesty's own language) the result of his known patriotism and virtues!
SWEDISH CONSPIRACY.
In a Protocol, held in the Palace at Stockholm, April 9, in presence of the King's majesty &c. &c. the Duke of Sudermania gave an account of the manner in which the letters and papers of Baron Armfeldt had fallen into his hands
on which the minute of the Protocol contains the following very remarkable observations:
"Those papers contained, that Baron Gustavus Maurice Armfeldt, formerly upper governor, &c. &c. had been so forgetful of his honor, and of his fidelity and duty towards his King and country, as to have intended to call a foreign power into the kingdom, to overturn the legitimate government of the kingdom, to sacrifice his fellow citizens, in order that he might obtain himself a share in the government, and gratify his own immoderate desires and destructive intentions, by depriving his country of its most ancient liberty and independence.
"The plan, in Baron Armfeldt's own hand writing, demonstrates, that his nefarious designs went so far as to suffer a foreign fleet to cast anchor in the heart of the kingdom, to accomplish, even by the means of force, his traitorous plans in this capital. Among these papers is also the correspondence which he kept up, for the purpose of settling his plan with a foreign power, &c.
What foreign power is here implicated in a conspiracy with the subjects of an independent state to subvert an established government and dethrone a lawful King, it is unnecessary to point out to any reader. Our Alarmists, if they are true to their own principles, have here a new disturber of public order against whom to declare a war of extermination: They will say that they wage war only with Jacobin clubs; but in what other light can such a character as this be considered, than as the President and Director of an Armed club, maintained by rapine, and employed only to bring calamity on mankind.
DUBLIN, May 3.
Particulars of the Escape of ARCHIBALD HAMILTON ROWAN.
Mr. Rowan had been on all occasions allowed the full and free intercourse of his family and friends, and especially his wife and children, who generally dined and spent the evening at his apartments, and always went away at ten o'clock.
At half past nine on Thursday night, Mr. Gregg, the head gaoler, paid his usual visit to the prison, in order to see all his prisoners locked up, and that every thing was quiet.
Mr. Rowan, with his wife and children, were then in their apartment. It has been usual with him to escort his wife to the prison door on her departure—an indulgence never refused him, because a firm, but (it seems) a very ill-founded confidence was placed on his honor, that nothing like an attempt to escape would have ever entered his mind.
Mr. Rowan, however, (very honorably) took care to profit by this apparent security of his keepers.
Some time before Mrs. Rowan was prepared to depart on Thursday night, a bonfire was lighted in Green-street, nearly opposite the prison door, (it being May night) and surounded by a numerous crowd of the populace. As Mrs. Rowan reached her carriage, which waited before the prison, several squibs were thrown, and the horses became rather restless.
Mr. Rowan, who still stood at the door with one of the turnkeys, without his hat reached forward with apparent eagerness to see if his wife was in any danger, and, as if alarmed for her situation, rushed hastily towards the steps, which he descended with rapidity, and instantly mixing with the crowd, ran off.
The coach, in the mean time, sat out at full gallop, and the turnkey, missing his prisoner, pursued the coach to Mr. Rowan's house in Dominick Street, where he searched in vain for Mr. Rowan.
What seems a little extraordinary in the matter is, that no report of Mr. Rowan's escape was made either to Mr. Gregg, or to any magistrate, until yesterday morning.
Some circumstances of a most alarming tendency and treasonable nature, which have transpired relative to Mr. Rowan, since the apprehension of Jackson, are supposed to have been the motives that urged the former to attempt a precipitate escape, in which he effectually succeeded.
Matters, it is said, were so well concerted in this business, that Mr. Rowan had a horse in waiting, upon which he set off immediately for Rath, from whence he was directly conveyed on board an American vessel, which waited for him off that place, and failed the instant he came on board.
A scene of treason long since developed in the views of that party with whom Rowan was concerned, is at length brought into proof, and will in a few days be brought to light, and which will shew the principles of that

party in such horrible colours as must excite in the public mind tenacious towards Rowan's character and conduct extremely different from that commu- ication heretofore expressed for his rash and very extraordinary zeal for reformation.
UNITED STATES.
BALTIMORE, July 2.
Yesterday arrived here, the ship Ceres of Baltimore, Captain Young, from Cadiz, which place he left the 15th of April, in company with the Brig Patty, White of Bolton; Schooner Findship, Barry, ditto; Friendship, Marchant, ditto, and Emmy, Girdler, Salem; four Spanish ships of the line, two frigates, one brig, and some transports with troops on board, bound to Vera Cruz, and Havannah, under the command of admiral don Pedro Cardioris. Left at Cadiz, the ship Rookbury, Jones, Portsmouth, and the Greenaway Oakman Bolton, carried in, as prizes, the Captains of which are gone to Madrid to procure a release of their vessels. Captain Young was informed, that on the 27th of March 15 Algerine rovers had failed on a cruise against the Portuguese, and that a British agent had arrived in Portugal to negotiate a peace between that kingdom and Algiers.
BOSTON, June 28.
A Correspondent, thinks it rather hard, that the Federal Government should be slandered, on the one hand, for preserving a strict neutrality; and censured, on the other, for having violated it, in permitting the French Chesapeake fleet to put to sea, during the continuance of the embargo. As to the latter charge, the United States has an excuse, as Admiral Vanbale was determined to put to sea at all events; and had an attempt been made to oppose him, he was determined to appeal to the ultima ratio —and he could have urged it home with force.
"Westward the Star of Empire takes its way," as said the Archbishop of Cloyne, and the Star of Science has rolled in company with the Imperial Orb. In the County of Herkimer, state of New-York, a place, where 20 years ago the foot of civilization had not trodden, there are a great many settled townships. We mention the names of the following, for their classical singularity.—The sheriff of that county, in the Western Centinel, of the 4th inst. advertises lots of land for sale in the towns of Aurelius, Solon, Camillus, Marcellus, Homer, Pompey, Fabius, Manlius, Milton, Hannibal, Locke, Tully, Virgil, Lyndon, Cato, Brutus, Cicero, Romulus, Junius, Scipio and Ovid!
RUMOUR.
Dame Rumour will a story get, From ev'ry one a little bit; And if perchance there's not sufficient, She patches where it is deficient— By Retail Rumour gets a story, By Wholesale lays it all before ye.—
And by wholesale indeed have the southern Manufacturers and Venders poured it forth of late. In the Philadelphia papers we see headed by "Important Intelligence," alarming accounts, Under Oath, from a person at Pittsburg, that the Six Nations, at the instigation of the British, had joined the other hostile Indians—that they were to attack and take Fort Franklin—destroy the settlements at Cufawago, &c &c Three days after this, a letter from the Same Person, written at the Same Place, contradicts in toto the former intelligence—and asserts that the Six Nations continued friendly, and that no fears are entertained at Fort Franklin.
At Norfolk—the centre of alarming authenticity—they have intelligence direct from London, by a Mr. Davis, who left "the Royal Exchange in London," about the middle of April—at which time "there was a Revolutionary army of 60,000 men in London"—headed by the Duke of Clarence, (the King's third son) and the Duke of Bedford—that at the head of this force, the latter addressed the King, coming from the House of Lords, informing him, that the people no longer wished his services in England, nor did they wish to hurt him, but advised his retiring immediately to Hanover, whether it is said, he had previously sent an immense sum of money!!! Thus far Norfolk.
At New-York—they have, in addition to an account of a skirmish between the Vermonters and British, in which 7 of the former and 11 of the latter were killed—another alarming report, "That two British frigates, having perished in passing Castle-William, (at Bolton,) were bailed, then powder fired, then a ball, which last caused them to put their helm a lee; at which moment the ball was returned, and several men killed at
the Castle, the frigates being bailed —Thus far New-York. In very truth, old neighbor Sly, quite well may cry—"Lord how this world is given to lying!"
Pennsylvania. In the name, and by the Authority of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, by
THOMAS MIFFLIN, Governor of the said Commonwealth.
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS I have received satisfactory information, that a pestilential or contagious disease prevails in the West-Indies; and also, that there is, at this time great danger to be apprehended that the said disease may be introduced into this Commonwealth, by vessels arriving from the port of New-Orleans, on the Mississippi, or from the ports situated on the Spanish Main; THEREFORE, and in pursuance of the authority to me by law given, I have deemed it proper to issue this Proclamation; hereby giving public notice of the information which I have received as aforesaid; and directing, that any and every ship or vessel coming from, or having touched at, any port or place in the West-Indies, the port of New-Orleans on the Mississippi, or any port or ports situated on the Spanish Main, shall be stopped and detained in the stream of the river Delaware, opposite to the health-office on State-Island; to the intent, that the master or captain, and all persons on board, of such ship or vessel, shall there do, execute and perform such reasonable quarantine, and other precautionary measures for preventing the introduction of any pestilential or contagious disease into this Commonwealth, as the resident physician with the advice of the consulting physician, shall devise and prescribe. And the resident physician, consulting physician, health-officer and inspectors of the health-office of the port of Philadelphia, and all other persons who so ever in anywise entrusted with the execution of the law for preventing the introduction of pestilential or contagious diseases into this Commonwealth, are required and enjoined to be attentive and vigilant in discharging the duties of their respective stations, and more especially in carrying this Proclamation into effect.
Given under my hand and the great seal of the State, at Philadelphia, the second day of July, in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and ninety four, and of the Commonwealth the eighteenth. By the Governor.
A. J. DALLAS, Sec'y. of the Commonwealth.
PHILADELPHIA, JULY 5.
Yesterday being the anniversary of the declaration of Independence, the same was celebrated in this City, with every civil and military demonstration of joy and festivity suited to the happy occasion.—The dawn was ushered in with the ringing of bells, which at intervals continued through the day.—The uniform Companies of Horse and foot paraded under their respective officers, and made a brilliant appearance:—The customary manoeuvres were performed in the view of a multitude of citizens, & numerous salutes were fired by the artillery. Select parties dined at several public places, where patriotism and civic enjoyment presided, and every heart glowed with the joy of the day—according to annual custom, the officers of the militia and the society of Cincinnati waited on the Governor with their congratulations.—Long, long may the people of the United States have reason as at present, to recognize the wisdom, patriotism, and policy of that important event—and may the efficient instruments of that glorious work, be held in everlasting and grateful remembrance by a free and happy people.
On the 29th April thirty-five persons were condemned to death by the Revolutionary Tribunal in Paris, eight of whom were upwards of 60 years old—eight of 50 and upwards—three upwards of 70; the rest of different ages: among these are the names of Neuville Villeroy, ci-devant Duke, &c. &c—D'Estaing; Admiral and Lieut. Gen. ex-compte. Latour du Pin, ancient Lieut. General; Grangier Laferriere, Gen. of Brigade; Brageloune, widow Desfournelles, aged 78; Bethune Charot, ex-compte, &c.
St. Kitts' papers are in Town, which state that a fleet of five or six sail of French frigates, and several other vessels with a considerable body of troops, had
arrived at Guadaloupe, and after several assaults, took the Fort of St. Pierre the Garrison of which, consisted of 150 men.—Admiral Jervis, we learn from the same channel, immediately on receiving the intelligence, sailed from Basseterre for Guadaloupe, with four sail of the line, and all the troops he could collect, to attempt the re-capture of the place, and it is added, has blocked the French squadron in.
At the meeting of the Cincinnati Society of Pennsylvania, held at Philadelphia on the Anniversary of Independence, July 4th, 1794, the following Gentlemen were elected officers for the ensuing year. His Excellency Thomas Mifflin Esq. President. The Honorable Thomas McKean, Esq. Vice-President. Robert Porter, Esq. Secretary. Captain B. W. Ball, assistant Secretary. Major Matthew M'Connel, Treasurer. Capt. Robert Patton, assistant Treasurer.
Standing Committee. Colonel Johnston, Colonel North, Charles Biddle, Esq. General Procter, General Walter Stewart, the Reverend Doctor Wm. Rogers. A true Extract from the Minutes. ROBERT PORTER, Secretary.
Translations from Paris and Bourdeaux papers, brought by the ship America Captain Ewing, from Bourdeaux.
PARIS, May 4. Revolutionary Tribunal.
Tassin de l'Etang, Tassin his brother, Van Maring, Picquet, Angibault, Lantent, Parisot, Deschamps, Trivoustant, Molguet, Berard, Peret, Dangeest, Rougemont, convicted of divers treasons were condemned to death—Sallenave, tried with the above, was acquitted.
Blendi, aged 17, laborer of Ville Neuve; Epery, aged 28, laborer of the same commune, accused of having provoked, in this commune, troubles tending to impede a civic feast made by the young citizens in honor of the capture of Toulon, &c. were tried and acquitted.
Repos Chevagney, aged 74 years, convicted of proposing to favor the enemy, &c. was condemned to death. Doctor Sepher, Saxou—ci-devant physician to the infamous Orleans, was transferred from the Luxembourg to the prison of the Conciergerie.
In La Vendee, Gen. Azo has followed the example of Gen. Moulin, and that he might not fall into the hands of the Brigands, he blew his brains out. The names of these two Republicans, says Barrere, shall be inscribed on a column to be raised in the pantheon.
May 4. THE CREED of the SANS CULOTTES.
I believe in God, Father of all Men—and Almighty Creator of all Beings. I believe in the New French Republic, one and indivisible—in its laws, and in the Sacred RIGHTS OF MAN, which the French People have received from the Holy Mountain of the Convention, which they have created—Those Sacred Rights of Man, and those laws, have suffered from the hands of Traitors—but those Traitors are fallen beneath the axe of the Guillotine, and are all buried.
I believe by this means, that Tyrants armed against us, shall be compelled, with their hordes, to adore and respect the Rights of Men, given by the Convention.
I believe that the Sans Culottes, who have died for their Country, and for the Sacred Rights of Man, are seated at the right hand of the Father of all Beings, and are blessing their Brothers who revenge their death on the hordes of the Tyrants.
I believe that the Holy Mountain has purged itself of Traitors. I believe that the Legislators of the French People will not cease to launch their thunder against Europe, till they shall have destroyed the Tyrants who make war against us—
That the people of Europe, roused from their culpable lethargy, shall recognize the Rights of Man, in which all the true children of France, have sworn to live or die.
SCHWAHN,* Sans Culotte. * Quere, whether this name is not in English—SWAN?
Some riotous proceedings having repeatedly taken place during the past
week in Boston—the Governor of Massachusetts has issued a Proclamation forbidding the repetition of such riots, and calling on the Magistrates to be vigilant in exertions to bring the perpetrators to punishment.
PORT OF PHILADELPHIA.
ARRIVED,
Sloop William, Cambey, Havannah 16 days Nancy, Meredith, Peterburgh 4 Wicks, Barton, 10 Maryann, Fisher, Virginia 5
CLEARED.
Ship Manchester, Cox, Cork Kammor Yanker, Paterfon, Cadiz Snow Conceica, Sowza, Lisbon Brig Betley, Davidson, ditto Two Sifters, Forte, Barbadoes Union, Folger, Hamburg Schr. Trial, Davis, Martinique Lewis, Gibbons, York-Town Dolphin, Franklin, Snow-Hill Sally, Hall, Alexandria Sloop Eliza, Lewis, Baltimore
The Letter Bag of the Ship Star, Captain Vaneman, for Hamburg, will be taken from the Post-Office this evening.
NEW THEATRE.
Mrs. Oldmixon's NIGHT. ON MONDAY EVENING, JULY 7.
Will be Presented, An OPERA, in three Acts, translated from the French of Baumarchais, by George Colman, Esq. called the
Spanish Barber, Or, The FRUITLESS PRECAUTION.
The Music by Mr. Arnold, and the accompaniments by Carr; with additional airs by Messrs. Reinagle and Carr.
Count Almavia, Mr. Moreton Doctor Barthelo, Mr. Green Bazil, Mr. Darley Lazarillo, Mr. Bates Alcalde, Mr. Darley, jun. Notary, Mr. Warrell Tallboy, Mr. Francis Argus, Mr. Blisset Rosina, Mrs. Oldmixon
End of the Play, a new Dance, composed by Mrs. Francis, called the Scheming Milliners, Or, The BEAU NEW TRIMPD;
By Mr. Francis, Mr. Bellona, Mr. Blisset, Mrs. De Marque and Mrs. Cleveland. After which the Cantata of MAD BESS.
Composed by Purcell, with accompaniments by Dr. Arnold, will be sung by Mrs. OLDMIXON. To which will be added, a Farce, called
THE Prisoner at Large, Or, The HUMOURS of KILARNEY.
Lord Osmond, Mr. Fennell Old Dowdle, Mr. Bates Count Frigon, Mr. Finch Jack Connor, Mr. Harwood Father Frank, Mr. Blisset Frill, Mr. Francis Phelim, Master Warrell Tough, Mr. Morris Trap, Mr. Darley, jun. Muns, Mr. Wignell Adelaide, Mrs. Cleveland Rachel, Mrs. Marshall Mary, Mrs. Rowson Landlady, Mrs. Bates.
Tickets to be had at Mrs. Oldmixon's; at Mr. Fennell's, the corner of Fourth and Arch-streets; at Messrs. Carr & Co's. at the usual places, and of Mr. Franklin, at the Theatre.
Mr. Blisset and Mrs. De Marque's Night will be on Wednesday. Mr. Franklin's Night will be on Friday.
ADVERTISEMENT To the Public.
WHATEVER unworthy motive may have misled Messrs. Johnson & Co. to the wanton attack on my plan for improving the Federal City, if I could discover a decent regard for truth in their publication in your paper of the 3d inst. I should remain silent from a conviction, that all parties are liable to suffer in the folly of a new paper controversy.
The schemes for the first and second Lotteries were first published by desire of the commissioners, after they had sent an express to Annapolis, to ascertain the legality of the measure, which a law of the state had rendered questionable. The following extracts from their letters will show the result of their inquiry.
Dated Jan. 6, 1792.
"This afternoon the return of our messenger furnished us with a copy of the last act of this state; we have the pleasure to find that the proposed Lottery will not fall within it; so that you have our permission, with the previous approbation of the President, to project, plan, and propose it as soon as you please."
Signed by the three Commissioners.
Extrait from Mr. Carroll's letter, Jan. 6.
"It gave us all very great pleasure to find that the law did not prevent us from carrying into execution the intended Lottery, as it does not commence till the first of June, and any time which may be the proper, can be taken for the completion of it. The important effects from this, as well as from future Lotteries must be evident."
As it became legally necessary, I received the advice of the commissioners to publish the second Lottery, in May, 1793, and informed them of my having made a sale of tickets prior to the first of June. The publication of the two Lotteries has continued most of the time since, in either the Annapolis or Baltimore papers, under the eye of the Commissioners, and the advertisement annexed to the scheme, as published in Mr. Fannin's and Messrs. Angell and Sullivan's papers, I have by me in the hand writing of Mr. Johnson. I am as sorry to find he has so soon forgot a child of his own, as I am that the commissioners should wait till more than twelve months have expired before they offered their objections to either Lottery. This is unfortunate for them since it has left ground for suspicion, at least respecting the true cause of their present advertisement—which I believe to originate in a pique, or party spirit only; and have the following reasons in support of my belief:
Col. William Deakins and myself gave our bonds for a due performance of our trust—but no idea of a collateral security was ever even hinted, till an unfortunate misunderstanding arose respecting an important sale of the public Lands.
As commissioner of sales, and as a donor of the public lands, it became my duty in a double capacity to state my objections, with those of most of the other city proprietors, which not having the weight we expected, I resigned from disgust, my office of supervisor, and commissioner of sales.
But at the request of some respectable proprietors, I agreed with the commissioners to act as an occasional agent for the city provided that no pay should be annexed to this employment, in which I still continue. About this time my pride in consequence of our mutual understandings, induced me to tender collateral security to the Commissioners, this being accepted, they wrote me the following letter, viz.
Washington, January 27, 1794.
SIR, "We have written to the Secretary of State, through him informing the President that you have made us an offer of more ample security than what we thought sufficient, and have accepted for the payment of prizes. Through him we have also informed the President of our sentiments in favor of the second Lottery."
From the then advanced state of the two lotteries, I desired Mr. Johnson, one of the commissioners, to draw the bond and mortgage for both in one, and as his legal knowledge has never been questioned, I can scarcely believe that there was any deficiency from ignorance.
But if there should be any intentional neglect, or any other error in the case, the publication to alarm by way of complaint prior to any request made either directly or indirectly to me, in order that the deficiency may be supplied, is indeed cruel—because there are three to one, who acting in their official capacity, might possess unequal power, over any individual in my situation, while dependent in the instance, on the public opinion, having pledged my character on the success of this favourite plan, viz. the building of six elegant houses by an easy mode, and in part by foreign funds.
Yet, if I may judge by letters from the Proprietors of the City of Washington, by publications in the Columbia papers, or by the continued success of the Lottery—the Commissioners have missed their aim entirely. The President of the Bank of Columbia, having kindly offered to receive my bonds and security in behalf of the public, I return him my grateful acknowledgements for this act of justice and charity.
If the Commissioners instead of an unwarrantable affection of doubt, will name a day when they really wish to effect a transfer, they will be freed at once from every kind of concern in either Lottery. I am told two of these Gentlemen in consequence of the disagreement with the Proprietors, have lent in their resignations to the President—if so, it is perhaps incumbent on them to relieve themselves from their real or pretended burthen, as early as possible. I have now only to assure the Public and the Proprietors, that no change of mind or person in the Commissioners, will affect my ardent endeavours to promote the general interest in the City of Washington, as long as life and health may permit.
SAMUEL BLODGET.
N. B. The Commissioners mention a Scheme of Lottery, No. 3—This must be by mistake, as no such has been published.

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Joseph Clark, ARCHITECT AT ANNAPOLIS, Proposes to publish, by subscription, POLYMATHY; OR, The American Builder. A Work calculated equally to edify and entertain the Gentleman, Farmer, Surveyor, Builder & Mechanic.
THIS work will contain various notions of the best writers on Architecture, Arts, and Science; together with experiments, and accurate notes of observation, by the author; being the result of thirty years study and experience in his profession. It will also contain an alphabetical account of the quality and value of the various kinds of materials, and numerous species of labor, expended on building. Exemplifications, to ascertain the quantities of materials and labor necessary to complete, almost, every part in a building, of whatever dimensions. An account and explanation of all the terms and phrases, used in ancient and modern architecture and building. To persons inclined to build, it will afford an opportunity of regulating their plans within the compass of their finances, and prepare them to prevent imposition from tricking vendors of materials, and extortionate workmen—To Mechanics, who cannot, for want of experience, calculate the value of their respective labours, and materials expended in their particular branches of building, this work will afford an opportunity to eliminate with facility and accuracy, any done or intended to be done, either in the aggregate or the minutiae. It will contain many curious and valuable recipes to make fine and coarse varnishes, for preserving roofs of houses, barns, palings, troughs, pipes, &c. Recipes to make various glues and cements; recipes to make compositions for elegant, or minute ornaments, and enrichments for outside or inside compartments; recipes to make composition for figures and incrustations—to endure the weather in any aspect; recipes to make stucco compositions, for floors, malt-houses, distilleries, hearths, linings for cisterns, &c. Tables to ascertain the scantling of different species of timber necessary to perform their respective functions, in proportion to their various suspensions; Tables to ascertain the dimensions of the various apertures introduced in different edifices, and doors, windows, chimneys, sky-lights, fair-cases, &c. in proportion to their different uses and intentions—whether for beauty or utility: A concise mode to take, and square the dimensions of all kinds of artificer's work belonging to buildings, and to ascertain the cubical or superficial contents thereof: Observations on the doctrine of echo and sound: A dissertation on the philosophy, doctrine, and construction of chimneys, to void or emit the smoke. Propositions and recipes to cure smoky chimneys: Observations on the instability of the edifices heretofore, generally, erected in America: Suggestions of modes to persist in buildings here, that will, without additional expense, tend more to their durability than those heretofore, commonly, constructed: Descriptions and proportions of the general and particular members of various orders in Architecture, viz. the Tuscan, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, Composite, Chinese, Attic, Carcagie, Arabesque, Moresque, Grotesque, Saracenic, Rusfic, Antique, Antiquo-Modern, Gothic, and Britannic: Many curious historical accounts of various wonderful buildings in different parts of the world: Many curious and original accounts and eulogiums on Free Masonry.
This work will be printed in two octavo volumes, each to contain upwards of 400 pages, on fine paper of elegant letter press: The price to subscribers, in boards, FIVE DOLLARS; TWO and a HALF DOLLARS to be paid on the delivery of the first, and TWO and a HALF DOLLARS on the delivery of the second volume. Mr. Clark assures the public, that he will literally perform all that he has set forth in these proposals. Gentlemen inclined to promote this work, by subscribing thereto, are requested to write, post paid, to Mr. Joseph Clark, at Annapolis, authorising him to annex their names to the subscription list.
The Printers in the United States, are solicited to give these proposals occasionally, a place in their papers.
Morris Academy. THIS institution is now open for the reception of students under the immediate care of Mr. Caleb Russell, whose abilities as an instructor, and attachment to the business have long been known and approved. He has under him the best assistants in the different branches—The scholars are taught the English, French, Latin, and Greek languages, Public-Speaking, Writing, Arithmetic, Geography, Astronomy, and the various branches of the Mathematics. The healthy situation of this place is such as to recommend it to those, who wish to have their children in the country. Boarding, washing, mending, &c. will be provided in good families; and the morals of the scholars carefully attended to. The price including tuition, firewood, &c. exclusive of the French language will not exceed thirty pounds proclamation money per annum) an addition of three dollars per quarter will be made to such scholars who are taught the French language. The Directors are determined to pay such attention to this institution, as will render it respectable and useful. GABRIEL H. FORD, TIMOTHY JOHNS, jun. } Directors. NATHAN FORD, Morristown, May 15, 1794
Came to the subscriber's stable, on Friday the 27th inst. a bay HORSE, with a star in his forehead, his two hind feet white, about 15 hands high. The owner is desired to come and prove property, pay charges, and take him away. Apply to WILLIAM BUCK, Pine near Fifth Street. June 30 d
A New Novel. For the LADIES of Philadelphia. This Day is Published by MATHEW CAREY, 118, Market Street, Price, bound, five-eighths of a dollar, sewed in marble paper, half a dollar, Charlotte, a tale of Truth, IN TWO VOLUMES. By Mrs. ROWSON, of the New Theatre, Philadelphia, Author of Victoria, the Inquisitor, the Fille de Chambre, &c. Of Charlotte, the Reviewers have given the following character. IT may be a Tale of Truth, for it is not unnatural, and it is a tale of real distress. Charlotte, by the artifice of a teacher, recommended to a school, from humanity rather than a conviction of her integrity, or the regularity of her former conduct, is enticed from her governess, and accompanied a young officer to America. The marriage ceremony, if not forgotten, is poisoned, and Charlotte dies a martyr to the inconstancy of the over, and treachery of his friend. The situations are artfully and affecting—the descriptions natural and pathetic; we should feel for Charlotte if such a person ever existed, who for one error scarcely, perhaps, deserved so severe a punishment. If it is a fiction, poetic justice is not, we think, properly distributed.
Said Carey has just published, A 2 sheet map of Kentucky compiled by Elkanah Barker, price one dollar and two thirds. War Atlas, containing maps of France, Germany, Spain, Italy, the United Provinces, the Netherlands, and the West Indies. Price two dollars. Map of New Jersey—Half a dollar. Map of Vermont, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia—Price three-eighths of a dollar each. April 29. toth&3gw
GUTHRIE'S GEOGRAPHY Improved. THE subscription for this work on the original terms, of twelve dollars and the binding, will be closed this day—and on Monday the subscription will open at fourteen dollars, exclusive of the price of binding. The new maps added to this edition are twenty one; among which are those of New-Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode-Island, Vermont, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina, the Genesee Government, South Carolina, and Georgia. These maps have never been given in any former system of Geography, and, it is hoped, would alone be sufficient to entitle this work to a preference to any other edition of Guthrie. N. B. The map of the United States, which is compiling by Mr. Samuel Lewis, from the respective state maps, will be far more complete than any one yet published, and be printed on two large sheets of paper, nearly the size of the late Mr. Murray's map. May 31 d
Just Published, By BENJAMIN JOHNSON, and sold at his Bookstore, No. 147, Market Street, The Life of Dr. Franklin, with a striking likeness, executed in a masterly manner by Thackara and Vallance, price five shillings. The Ready Reckoner, or Traders' Sure Guide, 3 9 The Young Book keeper's Assistant, 6/3 The Christian, a poem, by Charles Crawford, 2/6 Elop's Fables, 4/8 Swan's British Architect, 37/6 Paine's ditto 30/ Town and Country Builder's Assistant. 22/6 In the press, and will be published in a few days, and sold as above, Reflections and Maxims, by William Penn, with his advice to his children, 4/8. 16 mo. 2, 1794. m&w;1m
Congress of the United States, In Senate, Tuesday May 13th, 1794. ORDERED, that Rufus Putnam, M a nal-fah Cutler, Robert Oliver and Griffin Green, do, upon the third Monday of December next, they cause to the Senate, why so much of the grants of land to them the said Rufus Putnam, M a nal-fah Cutler, Robert Oliver and Griffin Green, pursuant to an Act entitled "An act authorizing the grant and conveyance of certain lands to the Ohio Company of associates," shall not be declared void, as may interfere with and be sufficient to satisfy the claims of the French letters at Gallipolis. Ordered, that the delivery of a copy of the above order to Rufus Putnam, M a nal-fah Cutler, Robert Oliver, or Griffin Green, and the publication of the same, one month, in one of the Gazettes printed in this City, shall be deemed sufficient notice thereof. Extract from the Journals of Senate. Attest, SAM. A. OTIS, secretary. May 14. im.
NANKEENS. Nankeens of Superior Quality, FOR SALE AT No. 40, north Fifth Street. April 21. mw&ftf
The Partnership of JONES, HOFF, and DERRICK, of this city, Printers, having dissolved on the 29th day of May last, all persons having any demands on the said firm are hereby requested to present their claims for settlement, and all those who are indebted, to make payment to the Subscriber, at No. 3, north Fifth Street, who is duly authorized to adjust the concerns of the partnership. JOHN HOFF. June 16 *det
Richard Johns } In the Chancery Court vs } of the John Wells and } State of Maryland, Mordecai Cole. } May 26th 1794. The Complainant hath filed his bill, for the purpose of obtaining a decree, to vest in him a complete legal title to two tracts of land, lying in Baltimore county, one called Painters-Level, containing 100 acres, the other called Prospect central 1350 acres. He states, that the said John Wells on the 16th day of March 1774 contracted to sell the said land to the said Mordecai Cole, & executed to him a bond for conveyance, that the said Cole, on the same day, executed to the said Wells a bond for the payment of the purchase money amounting to £675 Pennsylvania currency, that the said Cole hath since discharged the whole of the purchase money, and hath assigned to the complainant the said bond for conveyance; that the said Wells hath never executed a deed, agreeably to his contract but has removed out of the state of Maryland, and now resides in the state of Kentucky.
It is thereupon, and at the request of the complainant, adjudged, and ordered, that he procure a copy of this order to be indorsed at least six weeks successively, before the first day of August next, in the United States Gazette at Philadelphia, to the intent, that the said John Wells may have notice of the complainant's application to this court, and may be warned to appear here, on or before the first Tuesday in October next, to show cause wherefore this court should not proceed to decree, agreeably to the prayer of the complainant, and to the act of assembly, for such cases made and provided. Test, Samuel Harvey Howard. Reg. Cur. Can. June 13 mw&f6w
MADEIRA, SHERRY, PORT, LISBON, & } WINES of the first quality TENERIFFE } Old Jamaica Spirit, Antigua and West India Rum. Coniac, French and Peach Brandies Claret and Port Wine of a superior quality in cases. Wine Cyder and Vinegar, in pipes and hds. Corks in Bales, Havannah Segars in Boxes. Philadelphia Porters, in Casks and Bottles London do. in do. do. Philadelphia Ale and Beer in do. do. London do. in do. do. Cyder in barrels and bottles, prepared for exportation or immediate use, FOR SALE BY Benjamin W. Morris, The corner of Dock and Pear Streets, Where he has provided suitable stores and vaults, for the reception of W I N E S, &c. Which he proposes to store or dispose of on commission. Captains of vessels and others supplied with any of the above LIQUORS bottled, and sea stores in general put up. May 9 tu&fam
Just Published, In one handsome volume, 12mo. Price 5s AND FOR SALE BY JOHN ORMROD, At Franklin's Head, No. 41, Chestnut Street, AN ESSAY ON THE Natural Equality of Men, On the Rights that result from it, and on the Duties which it imposes. To which a MEDAL was adjudged, by the Teylerian Society at Haarlem. Corrected and Enlarged, by WILLIAM LAWRENCE BROWN, D. D. Professor of Moral Philosophy, and the Law of Nature, and of Ecclesiastical History; and Minister of the English Church at Utrecht. Aliquid semper ad communem utilitatem afferendum. CICERO. The First American Edition. THE grand principle of Equality, if rightly understood, is the only basis on which universal justice, sacred order, and perfect freedom, can be firmly built, and permanently secured. The view of it exhibited in this essay, at the same time that it represses the insolence of office, the tyranny of pride, and the outrages of oppression; confirms, in the most forcible manner, the necessity of subordination, and the just demands of lawful authority. So far indeed, from loosening the bands of society, that it maintains inviolate, every natural and every civil distinction, draws more closely every social tie, unites in one harmonious and fully proportioned system, and brings men together on the even ground of the inherent rights of human nature, of reciprocal obligation, and of a common relation to the community. March 18. tutf
The Public are cautioned to beware of counterfeited Five Dollar Bills of the Bank of the United States, and Twenty Dollar Bills of the Bank of North America, several of which have appeared in circulation within a few days past; they are good general imitations of the genuine Bills, but may be distinguished by the following
M A R K S.
Five Dollar Bills of the Bank of the United States. ALL that have appeared have the letter F. for their Alphabetical Mark. The Texture of the Paper is thicker and whiter and it takes the ink more freely than the genuine paper. The O. in the word Company is smaller than the M. and other letters of the word, so that a line extended from the top of the O, to touch the top of the M. would extend considerably over the range of the whole word. In the word United the letters are narrower and closer together than the rest of the bill.
The i and f in the word promise are not parallel, the f inclining much more forward than the i.
The engraving is badly executed, the strokes of all the Letters are stronger and the device in the margin particularly is much coarser and appears darker than in the true bills. Some of the counterfeits bear date in 1791—Whereas the Bank was not in operation till December, and no five dollar bills were issued in that year. Twenty Dollar Bills of the Bank of North America.
ALL that have appeared have the letter B. for their alphabetical mark. They are printed on a paper nearly similar to that of the counterfeit Five Dollar Notes above described; the engraving is better executed, and they approach nearer to the appearance of the genuine bills. The fine ruled lines through the word Twenty, in the body of the bill, are in number thirteen in the genuine bills, and but twelve in the counterfeits.
The word Company is much like the same word in the Five Dollar Bills as described above, the o being less than the m, and o otherwise following.
There is no stroke to the t in the word North whereas in the genuine bills the stroke is well defined.
The letters ent in the word Twenty, to the left hand at the bottom, do not come down to the line, but are so cut as to give an irregular appearance to the word, the Tw and the y going below them.
The signature J. Nixon, has the appearance of being written with lamb-black and oil, and differs from other inks used in printing the bills and the cashier's signature.
It is supposed these forgeries were committed in some of the Southern States, as all the counterfeits that have appeared, have come from thence, and two persons have been apprehended in Virginia, on suspicion of being the author of them.
The reward of ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS will be paid to any Person or Persons who shall discover and prosecute to conviction the several offenders of the following descriptions or any of them, viz.
The person or persons, who manufactured the paper on which the Bills are printed. The person or persons, who engraved the plates.
The printer or printers, of the bills. Every person who has acted as a principal in any other way, in the counterfeiting and uttering the said bills. Philadelphia, March 28, 1794 April 22, 1794.
Other counterfeit bills
of the Bank of the United States have appeared in circulation. The denomination is of TWENTY DOLLARS, and the alphabetical mark is the letter B.
They may be distinguished from the genuine by the following MARKS:
The paper of the counterfeits is of a more tender texture and glossy surface than the genuine, and there is no water mark in them.
The letter C. in the word Cashier, in the true bills is strongly marked, whereas in the counterfeits, the whole letter is a fine hair stroke, evidently in an unfinished state. The letter a in the word demand, is badly formed and the whole word ill done and there is no comma at the end of it, as there is in the genuine bills.
The marginal device, is much darker in the false, than in the genuine bills owing to the shade strokes being coarser, much nearer together, and consequently much more numerous. This difference strikes the eye at first view.
The same reward of ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS, will be paid for apprehending, & prosecuting to conviction the several above described Offenders in respect to this, as to the last described bills.
THOMAS WILLING, President of the Bank of the United States. JOHN NIXON, President of the Bank of North America. By order of the Committee of the respective Boards.
FOR SALE, BY MATHEW CAREY, No. 118, Market-Street,
An Essay on Slavery;
Designed to exhibit in a new point of view its effects on morals, industry, and the peace of society. Some facts and calculations are offered to prove the labor of freemen to be much more productive than that of slaves; that countries are rich, powerful and happy in proportion as the laboring people enjoy the fruits of their own labor; and having the necessary conclusion, that slavery is unprofitable as well as unjust . Price 25 Cents. February 15.
THE office of the President and Directors of the INSURANCE COMPANY OF NORTH AMERICA, is removed to No. 107, South Front Street, being the fourth east corner of Front and Walnut Streets.