Gazette of the United States and daily evening advertiser. (Philadelphia [Pa.]), 1795-01-19 00:00:00

Gazette of the United States AND DAILY EVENING ADVERTISER.
[No. 16 of Vol. VII.]
MONDAY, JANUARY 19, 1795.
[Whole No. 738]
Nankens.
Short Nankens, entitled to Drawback FOR SALE AT No. 40, north Fifth street.
Green Coffee,
87 lbs. 4 barrels, and 200 bags, entitled to Drawback, stored on Messrs. Wall & Co. Wharf. 2d 3d 4th Proof Bourdeaux Brandy, 3 pipes of London particular Teneriff, and London particular Madeira WINE, in hds. pipes and quarter casks, Malaga DO. in quarter casks, A pipe and other RUM in hds. S. CROIX SUGAR of the best quality, S. Marks MOLASSES, HYSON TEA, Jamaica SPIRITS, H BRANDY in pipes, LOAF SUGAR, in hds. PEPPER, &c. &c.
FOR SALE BY
Levinus Clarkson,
No. 216, south Water Street.
FOR SALE,
At the STORES of
Josse & Robert Waln,
PORT WINE in pipes, hds., and quarter casks, LISBON DO. in pipes and quarter casks, Sack and Congo TEAS, in quarter casks, A quantity of Lisbon and Cadiz SALT, Shell'd ALMONDS in bales, Velvet CORKS, in do., Russia MATS.
Distant Subscribers
For as the Gazette are hereby respectfully requested to pay up their Subscriptions to the 1st of January next. The Editor will be under the necessity of considering those who do not then renew their Subscriptions by paying Six Months in Advance, as declining to take the Paper any longer. As there is a considerable sum due from remote Subscribers for the late half Weekly Paper published by the Editor, he most respectfully requests those who may be indebted to him, to take the opportunity of remitting him the balance they may respectively be indebted to him, as the Agent is severely pressed with the want of the Aggregate are severely felt.
A pleasant Country Seat,
MAY be hired for one or more years a possession given immediately, consisting of A neat three story brick house with a barn, a well of water, and an excellent bearing Orchard, containing 150 trees. It is situated 4 miles from the city below the W. Schuylkill road and the Schuylkill, at the distance of an agreeable walk from that river, where a pleasant boat may be conveniently kept. The quantity of Land may be confined to 80, or extended to a number of acres not exceeding 42. Apply to Jonathan Williams Jun. at Mount Pleasant, adjoining the Premises. Jan. 13
Just Published,
By Samuel H. Smith, and sold by Mr. Steele, No. 57, South Second Street, MEMOIRS
OF
General Dumourier,
WRITTEN BY HIMSELF. ALSO, Walker's TRIAL, A kind of Letters on Literature and the Conduct of Life, How to Grow Rich, a comedy, The Woodman, a comic opera. In the course of this month, S. H. Smith will publish No. 1 of the Monthly Review. Such Gentlemen as wish to be supplied with this work, are requested to leave their names with Mr. Steele, or with the Publisher, in Cherry, above Fourth Street. Jan. 6
TO BE SOLD BY
T. DOBSON,
Principles and Observations
APPLIED TO THE
MANUFACTURE AND INSPECTION
OF
Pat and Pearl Asbestos,
By DAVID TOWNSEND, Inspector of Pat and Pearl Asbestos for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Published according to Act of Congress. These observations relate to an extensive business; and are designed, in the plainest manner, to convey profitable information to those interested in it, who have no leisure or opportunity to search for the principal information contained, in the writing on the subject. 6 cents.
For Sale or Charter,
THE SHIP MARGARET, Robert Robertson, MASTER. She is in complete repair, and of about 3200 barrels burthen. Jesse & Robert Waln. Dec. 29
For Hamburg,
The fast-sailing ship INDUSTRY, LYING at Walnut Street wharf, will sail in about 15 days (if not prevented by ice) having a great part of her cargo engaged. For freight or passage apply to JOHN BROWN at said wharf, or Thomas Newman, No. 118, South Second Street. Dec. 18
For Charter,
THE BRIG FAIR HEBE, John McKeever, master. BURTHEN 1750 barrels of flour, she is in complete order, and sails fast. For terms apply to the Captain on board at the subscriber's wharf, or to Joseph Sims, Who has for Sale, just imported in said Brig from Malaga, Old Mountain Wine, RAISINS of the Sun, in kegs, FIGS in ditto, PLUMES in ditto, Mulcated and Bloom RAISINS in boxes and jars, GRAPES in ditto, ORANGES and LEMONS in boxes, Shell'd ALMONDS in casks, Castile SOAP, &c. &c. Dec. 4
Burlington Pork.
A QUANTITY OF Best Burlington Pork, FOR SALE BY Levi Hallowell & Son. Oct. 31
A House wanted.
A Genteel Small House, of which possession can be given anytime from this to the 1st April next. Enquire of the Printer hereof. Dec. 29
Nicholas Diehl jun.
Inform his friends and the Public, that in consequence of the Resignation of John Hallowell Esquire he has been commissioned as a NOTARY PUBLIC, Within the City of Philadelphia, and at present keeps his Office at No. 19, south Fourth Street, City (a more convenient situation can be procured. N. B. He still means to act as an Attorney at Law and Conveyancer. Jan. 5. 1795
HAZARD'S
Historical Collections.
JUST PUBLISHED,
AND FOR SALE BY
THOMAS DOBSON,
At the Stone House, No. 41, South Second Street.
Historical Collections,
CONSISTING OF
STATE PAPERS,
And other Authentic Documents, intended as an History of the
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:
By EBENEZER HAZARD, A. M. Member of the American Philosophical Society, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Correspondent Member of the Massachusetts Historical Society.
Two large quarto volumes, price TEN DOLLARS in boards.
A few copies of the second volume which have been subscribed for, and for which the subscribers have paid one dollar each, are still in hand. Subscribers will please call for them at T. Dobson's Store.
The importance of materials for a History of the United States will be generally acknowledged; the design of this compilation is to relieve the early and authentic documents in this subject which had become exceedingly scarce, and were not obtained without difficulty.
Many of these papers are very curious, and will be highly entertaining to the lovers of American Antiquities, and when considered as authentic members of the early transactions of a people destined to occupy a distinguished and enviable station in the annals of human history, they become peculiarly interesting and important. Dec. 23.
Valuable Real Estates by AUCTION,
On Thursday next, the 22d Instant, at 6 o'Clock in the Evening, at the Merchants Coffee-House, will be sold by Auction, the following Valuable Lots of Ground:
No. 1. A lot of ground situate on the North side of Market Street between 10th and 11th streets, and immediately opposite the new buildings now erecting by Mr. Thomas Leiper, containing in Front on Market Street E. and W. 78 feet, and in depth N. and S. 220, this lot has three fronts, 78 feet in Market Street, 200 feet in 11th Street, and 78 feet at the North end on a 30 feet street, the privilege of which street this lot is entitled to.
No. 2. A lot of ground situate on the North side of Market Street between 10th and 11th streets, at the distance of about 77 feet Eastward of the above lot No. 1, containing in Front on Market Street 28 feet in depth Southward 200 feet leaving two fronts, and entitled to the privilege of a 30 feet street at the south end.
The terms of payment are one third of the purchase money in cash, one third in three months, and the other third in six months from the day of the sale. Notes to be given for the two last payments, with interest included, the payment of which to the well secured to the satisfaction of the Proprietor—when an unexceptionable Title free of all encumbrances and immediate possession will be given. Jan. 16, 1795 Edward Pole Auctioneer.
This Day was published,
[Price 25 cents] AND FOR SALE AT T. BRADFORD'S Book-Store, No. 8, South Front Street,
A BONE TO GNAW for the DEMOCRATS; or Observations on a Pamphlet entitled, "The Political Progress of Britain."
At the same place may be had, THE POLITICAL PROGRESS of BRITAIN; or, An impartial History of abuses in the government of the British empire, in Europe, Asia, and America; from the revolution in 1688 to the present time, &c. Also, The celebrated COMEDIES of THE YOUNG QUAKER; HAUNTED TOWER, and ST. HELENA, by Henry Siddons.
And, as usual,
An Assortment of BOOKS In Law, Physic, Surgery, Chymistry, History, Agriculture, Architecture, and Mathematics.
With a general Assortment of Stationary of all kinds. January, 1795.
George Green,
Inform his Friends and Customers in particular, and the Public in general, that he has a New four horse Stage,
For journeys, and a number of genteel and close Carriages with good horses and careful drivers to let on as moderate terms as any other person in the city. Enquire at his Livery Stables in Pine Street, No. 123. Said Green solicits a continuance of that share of the Public Patronage, which he has hitherto so amply experienced, and which shall be his study to merit by his close attention to business. Jan. 15
A Large Assortment of
Warranted Watches
From 14 to 40 dollars—a very general assortment of Watch-Materials, Chains, Seals, &c. &c. and a few very handsome
French Mantle Clocks,
For sale on low terms, for Cash by
John J. Parry,
Clock and Watch Maker, No. 38, South Second Street.
C.T. An Apprentice wanted. Jan. 12
Whereas an attach-
ment at the suit of the administrators of all and singular the goods and chattels, rights and credits, which were of William Burter deceased, at the time of his death, have been issued out of the Inferior Court of common pleas, in and for the County of Middlesex, against the Goods and Chattels Lands and Tenements of Irenaeus Martin, late of the county aforesaid, returnable to the third Tuesday in July last. NOTICE is hereby given to the said Irenaeus Martin, that unless he appear and file special bail to the said action, or before the third Tuesday in January next, judgment will be entered against him by default, and the goods and chattels, lands and tenements so attached, sold for the satisfaction of such of his creditors as shall appear to be justly entitled to any demand thereon, and shall apply for that purpose, according to the form of the statute in such case made & provided. By order of the Court, DEARE, Clerk. Aug. 10.
Fine Fresh Lemons,
At Four Dollars the Box, FOR SALE BY THOMAS RANDALL, No. 88, Spruce Street, midway between Second and Third streets. 12th mo. 30
WANTED,
A Quantity of
White Beans,
For which CASH will be given by Edward Stow jun. No. 4, South Water Street Jan. 16
Cotton Bedticks,
(American Manufacture.)
Said to contain the Down and Feathers, much better than the best India Bedticks, for sale by
Joseph Turner,
No. 4, north Third Street. Jan. 10
George Hunter,
Chemist,
At his Laboratory, No. 114, South Second Street.
INFORMS his former customers and the public, that he has begun the DRUG business again on an extensive plan. He has for sale a general assortment of
FRESH DRUGS,
CHEMICAL PREPARATIONS, and PATENT MEDICINES.
Likewise, painter's colours, dry and ground in oil, paint brushes, window and coach glass, dye stuffs, linseed oil, oil of turpentine, copal oil varnish and japan, warranted good. Allum, copperas, madder, ground red wood, by the hoghead or smaller quantity. As he imports the supplies from the best market, and makes the compositions and preparations himself, he is enabled to vouch for and warrant every article sold out of his Laboratory, and likewise to dispose of them at the most reasonable rates.
He wishes to sell a large LOT of GROUND, the north-east corner of High and Eleventh streets, containing 78 feet front on High Street, and 200 feet on Eleventh Street, opposite Mr. Leiper's new buildings, and near the above, 28 feet front, and 200 feet deep. Both lots have the privilege of a 30 feet alley in their rear. Dec. 13.
BOOKS,
PRINTED & PUBLISHED
By Mathew Carey,
No. 118, Market Street,
1. Charlotte, a tale of truth,
By Mrs. Rowson, of the New-Theatre Philadelphia.
Second American edition—Price 75 cents. [The rapid sale of the First Edition of this interesting novel, in a few months, is the best proof of its merit.]
Extract from the Critical Reviews, April 1793, p. 468.
It may be a tale of truth, for it is not unnatural, and it is a tale of real distress—Charlotte by the artifice of a teacher, recommended to a school from humanity rather than a conviction of her integrity of the regularity of her former conduct, is enticed from her governess, and accompanies a young officer to America—The marriage ceremony, if not forgotten, is postponed, and Charlotte dies a martyr to the inconstancy of her lover, and treachery of his friend—The situations are artless 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 now, we think, properly distributed.
2. The Inquisitor—By Mrs. Rowson. Second Philadelphia edition. 87 1/2 cents
3. Adventures of Roderick Random. 2 vols. 1 dollar and 50 cents, coarse paper—1 dollar and 75 cents, fine.
4. Notes on the State of Virginia—By Thomas Jefferson. Price, neatly bound, one dollar and a half.
5. History of the French Revolution, from its commencement to the death of the Queen and the execution of Bristol. Two dollars.
EXTRACT FROM THE PREFACE
The authors have presumed to affix to their title the epithet Independent ; and the reason is, because they cannot charge themselves with feeling the smallest bias to any party, but that of truth and liberty; and they flatter themselves, that their readers will find in it only every circumstance fairly represented, but every censurable action, whenever it were the authors or actors, marked in its proper colors. It is not necessary to make a declaration of their own principles, they would say, they are neither tory nor republican—They love liberty as Englishmen, and execrate every criminal act by which no noble cause is endangered and disgraced. In the present ferment of the public mind, they cannot flatter themselves with the hopes of seeing this claim universally acknowledged. On the contrary, they are well assured that these pages will not be acceptable to the zealous of either party. But when time shall diffuse the elixir of political deception, they will with some confidence expect that verdict from public opinion, which candor and moderation seldom fail to receive. EXTRACT FROM THE CRITICAL REVIEW, JANUARY, 1794—page 32.
6. Pownall's history of the British empire from May 1762, to December 1763. A dollar and a quarter. [This is an interesting and valuable publication as had appeared for many years.]
7. Bedticks. Elements of Moral Science. 2 vols. One dollar and three quarters.
8. Ladies Library. Second American edition. 87 1/2 cents. CONTAINS
Miss Moore's Essays; Dr. Gregory's Legacy to his Daughters; Lady Pennycuick's unfortunate mother's advice to her Daughters; Marchmont's Letter to his Daughter; Mrs. Lambton's Advice of a mother to her daughter; Mrs. Chapone's Letter on the government of the temper; Swift's Letter to a Young Lady newly married; Moore's Fables for the Female Sex.
9. Journal d'un Séjour en France depuis le commencement d'Août jusqu'à la mi-Décembre, avec des notes sur les événemens les plus remarquables qui ont eu lieu à Paris, depuis cette époque, jusqu'à la mort du roi de France. Bound, 2 1/2 dollars—sewed, 2 dollars.
10. Edward's treatise on the religious affections. Coarse paper, a dollar—fine, a dollar and a half.
11. Rights of Woman—By Mrs. Wollstoncraft. A dollar.
12. Willson's Sacramental Meditations. 60 cents.
13. Bunyan's Holy War, made by Shaddai against Diabolus.
14. Short account of Algiers. Second edition, enlarged—25 cents.
Containing—A description of that country—of the manners and customs of the inhabitants—and of their several wars against Spain, France, England, Holland, Venice, and other powers of Europe—from the usurpation of Barbary and the invasion of Charles V. to the present time—With a concise view of the origin of the war between Algiers and the United States.
Embellished with a map of Barbary, comprehending Morocco, Fez, Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli.
To the present edition is added a very copious index, containing letters from sundry American prisoners in Algiers to their friends in the United States—a list of the vessels taken—and many very interesting articles not in the first edition.
15. Blair's Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres. Three dollars 33 cents.
16. Smith's Letters to Married Women, on nursing and the management of children. 62 1/2 cents.
17. American Farmer's letters. 80 cents.
18. Young Mill's Magazine. 2 vols. 1 dollar 33 cents.
Containing—Dialogue between a Governor and several Young Ladies of Quality her scholars. In which each Lady is made to speak according to her particular genius, temper and inclination. Their several faults, are pointed out, and the easy way to amend them, as well as to think, and speak, and act properly; no less care being taken to form their minds to goodness, than to enlighten their understandings with useful knowledge. A short and clear abridgment is also given of sacred and profane History, and some lessons in Geography. The whole is blended throughout with the agreeable, the whole being interspersed with proper reflections and moral Tales.
19. Duncan's Elements of Logic. 80 cents.
20. M'Fingal, an epic poem. 37 1/2 cents.
21. Trench's Examination of Lord Shelburne's observations. 62 1/2 cents.
22. Ladies Friend. 37 1/2 cents.
23. Smith's history of New York, from its discovery to 1720. 1 dollar 50 cents.
24. Complete Atlas for the present war, containing maps of France, Holland, Netherland, Germany, Spain, Italy, and the West-Indies. 2 dollars.
25. Constitutions of the United States, and the Federal Constitution. 62 1/2 cents.
26. Peyton's Grammar for Fickschm to learn English. 50 cents.
27. Ebert's Enchiridion. 31 cents.
28. Gay's Fables. 31 cents.
29. Christian Economy. 25 cents.
30. Chams of Melody, a choice collection of Songs. 25 cents.
31. American Museum, 12 vols. 87 1/2 cents. Nine dollars and 25 cents.
The American Museum is not only eminently calculated to disseminate political and other valuable information, but it has been uniformly conducted with able attention, & propriety. It is the most important object, he superadded the more immediate design of retaining public documents from oblivion; I will venture to pronounce, as my testimony, that a more useful library for our nation has been undertaken in America, nor one more deserving of public encouragement.
General Welling on.
32. Poem of Col. Humphreys. 37 1/2 cents.
33. Catalogue of No. 18. 12 1/2 cents.
34. Tom Paine's Left. 18 3/4 cents.
35. Carey's account of the Yellow Fever, 4th edition. 50 cents.
36. Devout Christian's Vade Mecum. 25 cents.
37. Garden of the South. 50 cents.
38. Think well on't. 50 cents.
39. D'Israeli Bibles. 6 dollars. Nov. 29

An Adjourned Meeting of the Pennsylvania Society for promoting the Abolition of Slavery, &c. &c. will be held at the usual place on Second Day next, the 19th inst. at 7 o'clock in the Evening.
James Todd, Sec'y. 1st mo. 16
Inland Navigation.
In the Press and speedily will be published by
Zachariah Poulson jun. No. 80, Chestnut Street,
HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE Rise, progress, and present state OF THE Canal Navigation in Pennsylvania.
With an Appendix, containing Abstracts of the Acts of the Legislature since the year 1790, and their Grants of Money for improving Roads and NAVIGABLE WATERS throughout the state — to which is annexed,
"An Explanatory Map." Published by Direction of the President and Managers of the Schuylkill and Susquehanna, and the Delaware and Schuylkill Navigation Companies.
"Here smooth CANALS, across the extended plain
Stretch their long arms to join the distant main. The sons of toil, with many a weary stroke
Scour the hard bosom of the solid rock; Resistless through the stiff opposing clay, With steady patience, work their gradual way;
Compel the Genius of the unwilling flood Through the brown borders of the aged wood; Cross the lone waste the silver urn they pour,
And cheer the barren heath, or sullen moor. "The traveller, with pleasing wonder sees The white fall gleaming through the dusky trees;
And views the alter'd landscape with surprise And doubts the magic scenes that round him rise. Now like a flock of swans, above his head, Their woven wings the flying vessels spread
Now meeting streams, in artful mazes, glide While each, unmingled, pours a separate tide; Now, through the hidden veins of earth they flow And visit sulphurous mines and caves below.
The dusky streams obey the guiding hand, And social Plenty crowns the HAPPY LAND! Jan. 19
To be Sold, A VALUABLE Tract of Land,
BEING that part of the city of New Brunswick that lies in the county of Somerset and state of New Jersey. It contains upwards of 600 acres of very valuable land and is bounded on the south by the public road that leads from New York to Philadelphia for near two miles, on the east by the river Raritan for near a mile, and lays in a triangular form. Building Lots on several streets in this part of the town sell from five to ten dollars and two thirds a foot front, and the extension of Albany Street, which the situation admits of for at least half a mile, will open a new source for very pleasant & commodious situations for dwelling houses. A considerable space along the river is well calculated for building store-houses and wharves, and affords a seat for a Grist Mill on the bank of the river, which may be supplied with water from the Mill-Race by a subterraneous passage already dug, where vessels of 300 tons burthen may conveniently load and unload. There are now on the premises a good FarmHouse and two large barns, a commodious new Dwelling House two stories high, 42 by 38 feet square, intended and well calculated for a store, with very good cellars under the whole, and a kitchen 33 by 30 feet square, a new wharf of 80 feet front, and a well built store house at 40 by 26 feet square and three stories high, and a quarry of building stone on the premises.
New Brunswick, one of the most flourishing places in New Jersey, lying at the head of the navigation of the river Raritan, is the magazine for the reception of the produce of a very extensive and fertile country, and is well situated for vending every kind of imported merchandise for supplying the country. The easy transportation of every kind of produce and manufacture from thence to New York by water, its situation on the post road through the states, and its vicinity to Perth Amboy, one of the best seaports in the states, render it an object worthy the attention of persons who have the means and know how to improve a situation so well calculated for commerce or manufacture.
The premises will be shown by John Parker or James Cole, at New Brunswick, and the terms and conditions of sale, made known by
James Parker, Of Perth Amboy.
Jan. 19
This is to forwarn all
persons from trusting my wife, Catharina Kinnard, for I am determined to pay no Debts of her contracting after this date. William Kinnard.
Jan. 14
For the Gazette of the United States.
To THOMAS CLAIBORNE, Representative in Congress.
SIR,
IF it is a truth, that the citizens of the United States are dissatisfied with the salaries of Congress, and the Executive Officers of government, the proposition made by you, on the first inst. for a reduction of them, whether eventually successful or not, will be productive of much good. It is of the highest importance to the tranquility of the Union, that all complaints, of whatever nature, should meet with an immediate and candid discussion, in order that the grievance, if real, may be removed — or, if unfounded, properly explained. With these impressions, and a firm reliance, that you will not permit your motion to sleep upon the table. I shall submit to your consideration a few hasty and desultory ideas, which have occurred to me on the subject.
That many of the good people in America should object to the present salaries, as fixed by law, is perhaps the natural result of their assuming it as a fact, that what will maintain a man comfortably in some inland town, where living is very cheap, is equally adequate to his support in this city, where every thing is extravagantly dear. If I were to recommend a mode of exposing the fallacy of this conclusion, it would be, that every district in the union should send a confidential agent, to reside six months, or longer, at the seat of government: These agents to be directed to rent houses, hire servants, employ doctors, tailors, shoemakers, &c. and at the end of the term, call in and pay all their bills; and, upon their return home, submit them to their constituents for perusal.
Although I am no advocate for exorbitant salaries — yet, Sir, I hold it as a sacred truth, that whenever the compensations allowed to members of Congress and the executive officers of government, shall become inadequate to their support, it will give rise to evils of far greater magnitude, than can possibly result from a continuance of their salaries as they now stand. In fact, it would be to establish by law, that monster of aristocracy, which we are all endeavouring to guard against; for, as it cannot be reasonably expected that any man (unless for sinister purposes) will serve the public at his own private expence, so it will necessarily follow that low salaries will operate to exclude from office all persons whose presence is required at the seat of government, and that the people of the United States must go unrepresented, or give their suffrages to those, whose only merit may consist in the length of their purses: That there are men in this city, and elsewhere, who would be willing, from motives of pure patriotism, to hold all the high offices under government, as well as serve in Congress, without fee or reward, is a position to which I most solemnly subscribe. In England, where to obtain a seat in Parliament, the rival candidates frequently expend 20,000. a-piece at an election, the members receive no compensation. The tide-waiters and under clerks of the public officers in the same country, are allowed 50l. per annum, and live, notwithstanding, at the rate of 500l. per annum. A knowledge of these things, and the abuses which flow from them, would seem sufficient to guard against the introduction of systems among us so hostile to the morals and liberties of the people.
As it is more than probable, therefore, that the sober part of the citizens of the United States may prefer the present order of things, to the adoption of foreign precedents, however strongly recommended, I shall suggest a plan, which will answer all the purposes of your proposition, in case it should not obtain in the House: It is, Sir, that all those members, who are for reducing the salaries, shall, at the end of the Session, leave in the hands of the speaker, such sums, as in their estimation exceed the value of the services rendered by them, for the purpose of forming a fund for the reduction of the public debt: And, as example is of some importance in matters of this kind, I would recommend it to you, to patronise this laudable enterprise, by relinquishing the whole of your wages. If you should determine to take my advice, and will signify it by a line to the Printer hereof, I will direct my friend in Richmond, to have a paragraph inserted in the newspapers there, expressive of your determination.
CRITO.
Translated for the Minerva.
FRANCE.
PUBLIC INSTRUCTION.
(Continued from Friday.)
Without question there are men of letters, who after having, under the old government, made sacrifices to false taste, to versatility of character, to flattery, have continued this degrading course. There are some who, after having proceeded a step towards eminence in science, have gone back, and prostituted themselves to royalty: that is to all manner of crimes. And in what class are there not be found villains and men of worth? A Republic should know none but citizens, and whatever may be their characters the law should punish and restrain the criminal and protect the innocent.
Why then confound with the enemies of the country, men, who, not being endowed with a revolutionary energy of mind, cherish liberty only in the retreats from its storms to which they are led by taste or habit. Do not place them at the helm of affairs; but give to one his books, to another his machines and laboratory, to a third a telescope and the stars, and the country will receive the invaluable fruits of their genius.
The system of persecuting men of talents was formed, and arranged. The faction had arrested Desault, one of the first surgeons of Europe, who is at the head of the grand hospital at Paris, and almost the only man who educates pupils for our armies; your committee of General Surety hastens to set him at liberty.
For nine months, Bitaube, the celebrated translator of Homer, sighed in prison. He is the son of a refugee, whom the love of liberty has long since brought back to the country of his fathers, and whom the tyrant of Prussia deprives of his income because he is a patriot. Thillay, Cousin, Laharpe, Vandermeule, Guinguena, La Chabeaussiere, le Methene, Francois Nneufchateau, Bonserf, Oberlin, Volney, Laroche, Sage, Bessroy, Vigeé, and many others have experienced the same fate.
Mauduit, La Tourette, and Champfort, have perished the victims of that inquisition.
Citizens, should any one contest the authenticity or importance of any of these facts I have mentioned, except that this enumeration is very incomplete, there would remain enough to prove inoubtably the scourges of ignorance and the crimes of aristocracy.
To annihilate all the monuments which honor the genius of the French, and all men capable of enlarging the circle of the sciences, to provoke those crimes, and then to persecute the revolution by ascribing them to us, in a word to make us barbarians, then to tell foreign nations, we were savages, worse than those musketeers who walk with contempt over the majestic ruins of antiquity — such was one of the branches of the counter-revolutionary system.
To unmask this plan of conspiracy is to defeat it. The citizens will detect the snares laid for their loyalty; they will distinguish those emissaries of the foreigner whom the ear of the revolution ought to crush in its course. A horde of brigands have emigrated, but the arts will not leave us. Like ourselves, the arts are the children of liberty; like us, they have a country, and we will transmit this double inheritance to posterity.
That which the Legislature have already done to revive the sciences, and that which they will yet do is a victorious answer to all impostors. The new process for extracting alkali and salt-petre; for the composition of gun-powder and steel, the manufactures of arms, boring of guns, the sudden establishment of cannon foundries in all parts, the work of a public registry of lands begun, the telegraphic and balloons applied to military operations, the formation of a conservatory of a Museum of Natural History, of a commission of arts; the measure the largest ever attempted, of an arc of the meridian which comprehends nine degrees and a half; the new system of weights and measures which is about to unite the two worlds; all this has been done in the midst of political tempests. Legislators it is your work.
The project of uniforming the idiom and of giving to the language of liberty the character which is proper for it begins to be executed. Already many popular societies in the south have resolved to hold debates in French only.
Even music has made acquisitions and the foreign or ancient instruments, the tamtam, the buccini, and the tuba carya, are introduced to grace our festivals and celebrate our victories.
They surely protect the arts who decree statues and the pantheon to Descartes and to Rousseau; we will not do any representative of the people the injustice to raise doubts respecting the interest which he takes in rewards of genius.
A great man is national property. A prejudice destroyed, a truth acquired are often of more importance than the conquest of a city; and when the discoveries present only facts and views, without im-
* How often has the Editor of this paper been called an aristocrat, before Robespierres fall, for comparing the revolutionary tribunal to the Inquisition of Spain; and the proscriptions of the Jacobins, to those of Sylla and Marius. Yet the Convention have not justified these charges. Robespierre, the head of the Jacobins, and his accomplices are now acknowledged to have been aristocrats. Aristocracy is the basis of private clubs.
mediate application to the wants of society, let us be assured that these isolated links will one day be attached, and form a part of the great chain of being and truth.
Let us bind genius to the cause of liberty by an indissoluble tie. It will create a general circulation of a republican spirit (original lap) and accelerate the epoch which must conduct France to the height of happiness and prosperity.
Citizens, it is distressing doubtless to view the picture drawn before your eyes, in relating the destruction of monuments of the arts.
But this list of new crimes must be added to all the other crimes of our enemies. To furnish such materials for history, is to aggravate the contempt and execration which will forever overwhelm them. To demonstrate that they designed to derange our political society by the extinction of morals and knowledge, is to render learning and morality more dear to us. The losses however, which have been recited, are greatly mitigated by the view of the immense riches which still remain for us in all kinds of arts and sciences. You will have a complete account of them — I can here only give a sketch of them.
It is now five months, since in this tribune, we calculated the number of national books at ten millions. A more accurate estimate increases the number to twelve millions.
We have just passed a decree which requires a presentment of the means of rendering the manuscripts useful. The instruction on the commission of arts, printed by order of the Committee of public instruction, must persuade you that this object enters into the plan of their labors. But it is first necessary to collect the manuscripts, whose number is immense, and which offer some works of high importance. Be assured that if the English or Hollanders had this rich mine to work, they would render the world tributary to them — these are the people who formerly sold us, at a high price, editions of ancient authors, taken from manuscripts in the Nation Library.
Bacon supposes that Homer has fed more men by his writings, than Augustus by his presents to the Roman people. It is not perhaps generally known that favors to men of letters for their labors, and the operations of printing and book-selling, some years ago, amounted to two hundred millions of livres for France, of which Paris paid fifty-four millions. All our good books, among others those of many of our colleagues on the art of war and chemistry, are classics with most enlightened nations.
You will doubtless give activity to the press of the Louvre, the finest in Europe. If the types of Garamond and Vitre rest long unemployed, we shall be unworthy to possess them.
Let us then with the good authors, Greek and Latin, with the various readings, and a French translation by the side of the original. This is a new means of enriching the Republic, and of diffusing the national language. Let us draw from the dust the thousands of manuscripts, piled up in our libraries. This selection, with that from our archives, will awaken the curiosity of enlightened Europe.
Then will be brought to light a multitude of anecdotes which will attest the crimes of despotism.
Already the letters of Charles IX. and Francis II. recently published, have revealed the royal infamies, which to the present time, had been buried in darkness.
Then will be produced in open day, as new weapons for liberty, the monuments which despotism forcibly concealed.
Thus at the National library, an unpublished manuscript presents the list of ancient tyrannicides.
The true medal, on which is seen an armed hand gathering lilies and breaking scepters, has, after two ages, come to light. No mention of this is made in history; we know only by the catalogue, that even, under Louvois, it was in the cabinet of medals, but modestly concealed in a tablet.
So at Ribauvilliers, department of Haut-Rhine, at the house of ci-devant prince a vafe of vermell, weighing more than twenty-three marcs, and a master-piece of its kind, has lately been discovered.
The candor and sense here displayed by Gregoire and the Convention do them great honor. The crimes here related were mostly completed, during the reign of Jacobinism under Marat and Robespierre, and by the same men who indicated and perpetrated the murders of Aug. 10th, and Sept. 2d and 3d, in which some thousands of innocent people were slain; the account of which bloody proceedings is mostly suppressed in the history of the Revolution lately published in New-York, that the cause of the French might not be disgraced. How shameless must be the partiality of Americans, who attempt to conceal the crimes of a faction in France, which the Convention publish with the utmost freedom.
vered: It represents Clelia, the death of Virginia, the suppression of the decemvirate, the devotedness of Scævola and the expulsion of the Tarquins.
Thus, after a period of 70 years, a picture of Champagne is about to come from obscurity, to be placed in the hall of your sessions. The subject is, Hercules trampling crowns under his feet.
In viewing the scale of human knowledge, we find, that in almost every kind, you have a profusion of useful materials. The war magazines alone contain more than 18,000 geographical charts. All the repositories were crowded with piles of manuscripts, of memoirs, of plans obtained at a great expense, and copied, for the most part, for each repository; for each minister isolated himself in his own exclusive department.
The medals, the stones engraved in hollow and in relief, form an elegant series. We may fill the vacant spaces with prints.
In the repositories of Versailles, of the conservatory, of Nesle, of the Petit Augustins, independent of those in the departments, gold, silver, brass, granite, porphyry, and marble have taken under the hand of genius, in all the forms of beauty and finishing, pictures, engravings, statues, busts, groups, bas-reliefs, vases, mausoleums, all these are without number. In the deposit of Petits-Augustins, which increases daily, there are already two hundred double statues and five hundred double columns.
The monuments of the middle ages make a series, interesting, if not for elegant workmanship, at least for history and chronology.
The Etruscan antiquities will doubtless demand the attention of artists. It is known what value the English have attached to objects of this nature, on which Wedgewood has founded a new Etruria, and has procured for his country so many millions by the porcelain trade.
We shall soon propose to you to establish a conservatory for machines. The school of a new species will revive all the arts and trades, and infallibly diminish the mass of our annual importations which exceed three hundred millions, for objects which we can procure among ourselves.
A circular letter respecting the botanic gardens, and rare plants, has been sent to all the districts in the name of the two united committees of domain and of public instruction. Answers arrive daily; and soon you will be able to spread over the republic a collection of exotic vegetal, to which the museum of natural history is a complement. It is composed of one million, three hundred, thirty-four thousand, five hundred and forty-four distinct plants, of which more than twenty thousand are for the green-houses. This mass of vegetable riches may form a collection of about two thousand and five hundred for each department.
You know further that the speiced trade is almost escaped from the avarice of the Dutch. In July, the last year, the national garden at Cayenne had distributed more than thirty thousand high plants, gilliflowers, pepper-plants, cinnamon plants, the bread-tree &c. — There remained to be distributed about 77,000 plants of the same kinds without reckoning a nursery of about 180,000 small gilliflowers.
Your gardens at New York, and Charlestown, at the Isles of France and Bourbon, are in a flourishing state. When the committee of public instruction shall have received the necessary instructions respecting the gardens which the republic possesses in Constantinople and other countries of the East, conformable to the decree of 11 Prairial [May 20] they will present to you the means of advancing their utility. It appears to me that it would be a very useful measure to digest general instructions for your agents, diplomatic and consular, directing them to procure for their country foreign vegetables, process instruments, discoveries and books which may augment our means.
The scientific objects of which we have spoken, almost all proceed from the ci-devant chateaus and gardens of the tyrant, of ecclesiastical and academic corporations, and of the emigrants. The library of the emigrant Culties contains alone more than 20,000 pieces in manuscript, and interesting. It was often stupid, opulence that collected them without knowing their value. So it is pretended that Law, the author of the Finance system, having learnt that fashion required him to have a library, contracted with a bookseller for books by the fathom. Those repositories, which were never seen except by special favor, and the exclusive enjoyment of which flattered the pride, and
* A curious and novel expression to denote the independence of each minister on the others.

the ambition of a few individuals, was immediately open for competition. The sweat of the people was converted into books, into flutes and pipes, the people again take possession of their property.
The Romans, when masters of Sparta, had the industry to law off at Pella, the cement on which was fixed a monument to fresco. This was transferred to Rome without being damaged by the violent operation.
We have a better right than the Romans, to combat tyrants, we shall protect the arts. We collect monuments of the arts, even in countries where our victorious armies penetrate. Behind the flames of the famous repository at Berlin, twenty-two chests of books, and five loads of scientific articles, were saved from Belgium. We find among them, the manuscripts taken from Brussels in the war of 1742, and which were restored by express stipulation in the treaty of peace in 1756.
The Republic acquires by courage, with immense sums, Louis XVI could never obtain. Crayon, Vandylke and Rubens are on their way to Paris, and the Flemish School rises in a state to come and adorn our Museums.
Genius is about making new presents to the Republic. During their captivity, Coupi, Thillage, and many others have competed very useful works.
As the experience of ages they unit their discoveries, new voyages open to view, and enrich us with foreign spoils. Such are those of Peyroue Vauclain, Desfontaine, Faujas, and Dombey. After a residence of ten years at Rome, the last has returned under the auspices of government, to the continent of America, to reap a new harvest. Your committee of public instruction has transmitted to him a rational series of questions proper to give a direction to the eye of observation and the answer will doubtless bring back valuable results.
France is truly a new world. Its new social organization presents a phenomenon, singular in the extent of ages, and perhaps, it has not yet been observed, that besides the materials of human knowledge, by the effect of the revolution, the possess exclusively a flock of elements, of new combinations, taken from nature, and inexhaustible means for making advantage of her political reformation.
[To be Continued.]
CONGRESS
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Thursday, January 15.
The House went into a committee of the whole, Mr. Cobb in the chair, on the subject of the select committee on the public debt.
The second resolution in the report under the consideration of the committee, was as follows:
Resolved, That the several clauses of an act, for laying duties on manufactured sugar and on licenses for retailing wines and spirits, of sales at auction, and on carriages, be repealed, that the said several acts be continued in force until the year 1801, and that the monies arising therefrom be appropriated to the discharge of that portion of the public debt which is redeemable by law, subject however, to a substitution of other excise taxes of equal value to all or any of the said duties and taxes.
Mr. Goodhue wished to know whether it was agreeable to the rules of the House, to take a vote on each of the articles in the resolution separately.
Mr. W. Smith said, that as the second resolution stood, it seemed indivisible. It would be better to take a vote against any particulars that are exceptional.
Mr. Tracy objected to the general tenor of the resolution. Mr. W. Smith informed him, that in a report, it was usual to pay less attention to the style, but when the bill itself came to be drawn out, this exception would be removed.
Mr. Nicholas moved to strike out the words for and , from the resolution.
Mr. Ames was for continuing them in the resolution. He considered public credit as interested in the continuance of these taxes, for assisting to clear off the public burdens. These two gentlemen last up entered into a kind of negative discussion respecting what debts were to be paid off by these taxes, and when not.
Mr. Venable. The question before the house is whether we should now interpose to continue a law after the two years for which it was originally enacted. One would suppose that the debate, that the motion was to repeal a law, when it was to be continued after the expiration of the term for which the law has been enacted, it shall be no longer continued. A gentleman has been pleased to call the voting for or against this law a test of character. "Sir said Mr. Venable "It is a sham test. It is not a test Sir. The gentlemen bring forward means of discharging the public debt, which we do not like, and then call the voting for or against them a test of character." Mr. Venable said, that the members of his opinion were ready to offer funds. The affair was as well understood without doors as within doors. Is it now necessary to continue these laws? Is it at present requisite to prolong the term of their duration?
Mr. Tracy said, he rose to ask if any sugar-bakers, but those in Philadelphia, had complained of the excise on loaf sugar? His acquaintance was not sufficiently extensive, to ascertain the fact respecting all those places. But as to New-York, he was authorized to say, from one very respectable house, in that business, that the excise did not injure the manufacturer—that loaf sugars never sold better; and that the raw material was 10 per cent. cheaper than before the excise law passed. Mr. Tracy said, he did not pretend the tax had produced these events, but he stated these facts to the committee for their consideration; as it had been said, loaf sugar did not sell, and the manufacturer sustained a loss of the whole excise. As to the consumption of refined sugar being lessened by the excise, it was not so in the part of the country where he was best acquainted.
Mr. Tracy further remarked, that in his opinion, one great and leading principle of taxation, was permanency—if government ever so judiciously selected the objects of taxation, and were frequently changing from one object to another, the mode would be vexatious; and, of course, unpopular. The short duration of a tax, in its first proposition, would have the same effect. The manufacturer would not know how to calculate and arrange his capital, being uncertain in respect to a continuation; but if a tax was known to be permanent—or, at least, be known to have the duration of a number of years. The particular description of persons taxed, could, and always would, make proper calculations to meet the tax, and, in a very little time, it would produce its own level, and the consumer would pay the manufacturer, not only the sum of the tax, but a profit for advancing it.
Mr. Tracy observed, that his opinion might be the result of habit; as it had been found, by a long course of experiment, in the State he came from, permanency was almost the only requisite in the mode of taxation: at any rate the circumstance of most value. He did not contend for unconditional permanency, as it respected the excise on sugar—but he was confident a continuation of it until 1801, would give a much fairer chance for experiment. He ventured to assert, nothing of importance could be gained from an experiment of two years; the manufacturers themselves could gain no competent knowledge of its operations in that time, much less could Congress, or the people at large; as it would be in the power of the manufacturers to keep up a fog around the whole business, for a short period of time; but give the tax a certain existence until 1801, and its real merits and operations can be discerned.
Mr. Tracy asked, how some gentlemen could reconcile their arguments on this subject—for it was said, in the same breath, the tax had not existed long enough to ascertain its merits, and yet, by the experience already acquired, it must all be paid by the manufacturer, and could not be collected from the consumer? This was, in effect, saying the tax had not, and had, given proof of its actual operation.
Mr. Tracy said, the hardships on a sugar-baker, who had been encouraged by protecting duties of government, to vest his capital in that business, and now forced to pay a tax, would equally apply to a landholder. If an European, for instance, was to vest his capital in lands, thinking lands would not be taxed by this government, could he not, with equal propriety with the manufacturer, say, my property shall not be taxed? This argument (of Mr. S. Smith) would, if competent to any thing, go to interdict the government from laying any new tax.
[To be continued.]
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 19.
A temporary embargo is laid on the navigation of this port, by the ice.
The ship Star, Capt. Vanneman, from Hamburg, announced to have arrived within the Capes of Delaware, a few days since, is arrived at New-York.
The letters by this vessel, were received by this Day's Mail.
Letters from Baltimore, received by Saturday's Mail, say, That by an arrival at that port from Amsterdam, accounts are received to the 9th of November, which state, that on the 27th of October a separate PEACE between France and Prussia had been signed—and that negotiations for peace were progressing on the part of the Emperor of Germany and the King of Spain.
The following Gentlemen were chosen on the 15th Inst. Directors of the Insurance Company of North America, for the year ensuing.
 John M. Nesbitt,  Robert Ralston,  Robert Smith,  John Fry, junr.  Magnus Miller,  John Learny,  Philip Nicklin,  Peter Blight,  John Vaughan,  William Sanson,  Samuel Breck,  Samuel Blodgett,  Francis West,  John Craig,  Charles Pettit,  Walter Stewart,  Joseph Ball,  William Cramond,  John Ross,  Samuel Sterrett,  Thomas L. Moore,  Standish Forde,  Samuel Emery,  William M'Murtrie,  Henry Pratt, and 
at a Meeting of the Directors on the 15th, John M. Nesbitt, Esq. was re-elected President, & Ebenezer Hazard, Secretary.
The Printer of the Gazette of the United States, will oblige many of his Subscribers, by publishing the following minute of the Directors of the Library Company of Philadelphia.
At a meeting of the Directors of "the Library Company of Philadelphia" Specially convened, Jan. 7th 1794.
PRESENT—  Mordecai Lewis,  James Read,  Joseph Paschall,  Thomas Parke,  Joshua Hewes,  Richard Wells,  Richard Wells. 
A letter was laid before the board, by Samuel Coates from Bailey Bartlett, of Haverhill in Massachusetts, dated 21st of December 1794, accompanied with model of a wooden bridge, upon a plan executed over the River Merrimack, in that Government, desiring him "in the name of Bailey Bartlett, Nathaniel Thurston, Moses Gale, Daniel Appleton, John Hazeltine, Nathaniel Ayer, Phineas Cole, Moody Spafford, and Timothy Osgood, to "present the said Model to such Society, as has been, or may be incorporated for the purpose of building a "bridge over the Schuylkill, or to such "other Society in Philadelphia, as he "may think proper." In compliance with this request, the Model with the letter, is now deposited, by Samuel Coates in this library—no Corporation existing, for the purpose of erecting a bridge over that river.
So elegant and valuable a Present, demands the thanks of the board, who cannot but consider this model as an important acquisition.
The object of a bridge a cross the Schuylkill, hath long been contemplated by the Citizens of Philadelphia, doubtful of the firmness and stability of Piers in so rapid a stream, they have hitherto been discouraged from the attempt; but the model now before us, formed upon a plan actually executed over a wider, and probably more rapid river, will, we hope, stimulate our Citizens to imitate so spirited an example.
To effect so desirable a purpose, it is now ordered, that the Model be exhibited, in the most conspicuous part of our public room.
The Directors desire, that their most respectful thanks, may be presented to the worthy gentlemen of Haverhill, for this liberal token of their public spirit.
A true Copy of the Minutes. ZACHARY POULSON, jun. Assistant Secretary.
The brig Eliza, capt. Culver, from Barbadoes, is arrived at Marcus Hook. The captain, who came to town yesterday, informs that he sailed from Barbadoes the 14th December, at which time nothing new had transpired, the
long expected reinforcements from England were not arrived, and it was apprehended, from their long delay, that some misfortune had happened to the fleet.
That he touched at St. Croix several days after leaving Barbadoes, where he saw capt. Hawkins, of the brig Planter, of this port, bound to Charleston—and that he observed a number of vessels off our Capes, endeavouring to come in but fears they must have been prevented by the Westerly winds. He met with no ice until he came up to the Hook.
Capt. Culver adds that French Privateers are very numerous among the Islands, and have taken several vessels bound to British ports.
By this Day's Mail.
BOSTON, January 10. THE PRESIDENT'S
PROCLAMATION,
For a day of United Thanksgiving and Praise, forms an admirable contrast to the rapid declamations of the self-created societies; and the still more rapid incongruities of the Jacobin scribblers. These eat-wags of Robespierre are continually howling about the impoverished state of our country—declining commerce—increase of arbitrary government—and the total incapability of our European Ministers to obtain the least satisfaction for the commercial injuries done us: While on the contrary this great and good Man returns thanks to God, for an increasing prospect of the continuance of the exemption from foreign war—for the happy course of public affairs in general—and for the Unexampled Prosperity of all Classes of our Citizens! This excellent publication of our beloved Chief Magistrate is an ample antidote to all the poison which the Jacobins of the United States can scatter.
To do good for evil is a mark of magnanimity. Notwithstanding the Governor of Massachusetts did not choose to recommend praise and thanksgiving for the preservation and continuation of the Federal Constitution—THE PRESIDENT of the United States has not forgot to recommend it to all the citizens of the United States, to pray for all the Constitutions, both Federal and State.—Let your selfish politicians hear this and be dumb.
A correspondent thinks, that a greater farce cannot be played on the public, than for the late blind adorners and worshippers of Robespierre and Danton, to plume themselves on being "propagators of Religion!"—What a pity they do not form themselves into a Society for the purpose.
The Dutch Jacobins of Pennsylvania, in a late edict say it is an extraordinary fact "that in the same year, the patriotic societies were the objects of denunciation in Great Britain, France, and the United States." Surely these Myneers are ignorant of the American language, or they would not call the fast extraordinary! Is it extraordinary for a nation to denounce the vipers who would poison and destroy its existence? None but ignoramus would suppose it.
The Jacobins of Philadelphia, or those of Bolton, are guilty of falsehood. The former say, that the French Jacobins have been denounced—the latter pledge "their reputation" that they have not! Who shall decide when such chaps disagree?
For the Gazette of the United States.
Mr. Fenno, THE vague remarks, "Eram a Correspondent," inserted in your paper of Friday last, would need no reply, the malevolence of the author being so very obvious: to repay, however, the scribbler in his own coin, it is only to observe, that as the address of "the German Republican Society," appeared some time since, his remarks are a satisfactory proof that said address was too bitter a pill for the yearning bowels of him and his aristocratic brethren to give an immediate solution.
It is probable when their stomachs have once more resumed their wonted state that they will find and acknowledge the remedy administered to be the most salutary for the future preservation of their emaciated constitutions.—Your afore-mentioned correspondent has (perhaps thro' inadvertency) been guilty of some fallacy, particularly with respect to Mr. Genet's being the founder of "the Republican Society;" do please to inform him that said society was already established before the arrival of Mr. Genet had been heard of in this part of
the country; and that this and similar societies are rising not "falling" the formation and establishment of a Republican society at Lancaster, since the clamor a few monarchists have endeavored to invite, is alone a sufficient demonstration.
"To lab, like a bare assassin, in the dark," was an imputation frequently cast upon these Societies; have not their principals prefixed their names to the addresses? But who are the anonymous scribblers that have appeared so solicitous to stigmatize them with paltry allusions? "Lo, they lurk in darklome cells fearful of the light!"
One word more to your correspondent. When a writer is in want of argument ridicule is but a sorry substitute, he must therefore not be disappointed nor regret if such remarks as his are read with the same contempt by the public as they are by the members of those societies to whom they are addressed.
A GERMAN REPUBLICAN.
A Communication from the Secretary of the Treasury was read in the House of Representatives of the United States this day—which contained observations on a mode of reducing the public debt—Ordered by the house, to be printed.
WANTED,
An Apprentice
To the Watch making and Repairing Business APPLY TO
C. Campbell, No. 3, south Fourth street, two doors from Market street. Jan. 19 2awtf
NEW THEATRE.
THIS EVENING,
JANUARY 19.
Will be Presented
An HISTORICAL PLAY, written by George Colman, jun. Esq. called The
Surrender of Calais;
OR,
Gallic Patriotism.
  King Edward,  Mr. Moreton    Sir Walter Mauny,  Mr. Warrell    Ribemont,  Mr. Chalmers    La Gloire,  Mr. Harwood    Eustace de Saint Pierre,  Mr. Whitlock    John De Viennet,  Mr. Green    Citizens,  Messrs. Francis, Morris, &c.    Old Man,  Mr. De Moulin    Sergeant,  Mr. Wignell    O'Carrol,  Mr. Marshall    John D'Aire,  Mr. Cleveland    2d Galloway Meker,  Mr. Blissett    2d ditto,  Mr. Darley jun.  
  Queen,  Mrs. Shaw    Madelon,  Mrs. Marshall    Julia,  Mrs. Whitlock  
In Act 2d. a PROCESSION and Solemn DIRGE. The vocal parts by Messrs. Darley, Warrell, Darley jun. Mitchell, Rowson, Shaw. Mrs. Oldmixon, Mrs. Warrell, Miss Broadhurst, Mrs. Rowson, Mrs. Bates, &c.
To which will be added, A FARCE, called
Lover's Quarrels;
OR
Like Master Like Man.
  Don Carlos,  Mr. Moreton    Don Lorenzo,  Mr. Green    Lopez,  Mr. Harwood    Sancho,  Mr. Wignell    Leonora,  Mrs. Francis    Jacinta,  Mrs. Rowson  
Tickets and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Wells, at the Theatre, from nine till one, and on days of performance from ten till three o'clock.
Also at Rice's Bookstore, No. 50, and Carey's No. 118. Market street.
Ladies and Gentlemen are requested to send their servants to keep places by five o'clock, and order them, as soon as the company are seated, to withdraw, as they cannot on any account be permitted to remain.
No money or tickets to be returned, nor any person on any account whatsoever, admitted behind the scenes.
Vivat Republica!
On Wednesday Evening,
THE
GAMESTER
And for the first time, a Comic Opera, in two acts, called
The Volunteers.
On Friday Evening,
THE TRAGEDY of
Richard the IIId.

Landing at Willings Wharf. CLARET Of the First Quality in Bogs & Cases. HIGH ROOF Cogniac Brandy, White Wine Vinegar, Port Wine, Alicant Wines, red & white FOR SALE BY John Vaughan. Dec. 23
This day is Published, (Price a quarter of a Dollar) Slaves in Algiers: OR A Struggle for Freedom. A PLAY. Interspersed with Songs, in three acts. Inscribed to the Citizens of the United States of North America. By Mrs. Rowson. As performed at the New Theatres in Philadelphia and Baltimore. Extract from the Preface. "My chief aim has been, to offer to the public a Dramatic Entertainment, which, while it might excite a smile or call forth the tear of sensibility, might contain no one sentiment, in the least prejudicial, to the moral or political principles of the government under which I live. On the contrary, it has been my end and aim, to place the social virtues in the fairest point of view, and hold up to merited contempt and ridicule, their opposite vices. In this attempt, I have been the least successful, I shall reap the reward to which I aspire, in the smiles and approbation of a liberal public."
Sol. by M. Carey, No. 128, and Rice & Co. No. 52, High Street; S. Campbell, No. 54, South Second Street, and Wrigley & Berrian, No. 149, Chestnut Street. Jan. 5
The Stockholders IN THE Insurance Company of North America, Are hereby informed that upon the settlement of the Interest arising from the capital stock of the Company, and the profits of their business, the Directors have agreed to declare a Dividend of Fifty Cents on each share for the last half year. Ebenezer Hazard, Secretary. Jan. 12
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 respectfully to solicit a Continuance of their Favors. At his Shop Gentlemen can be furnished with the best materials, and have them made up and finished in the neatest and most fashionable manner. He will thankfully receive any orders & pay prompt and punctual attention to them. Oct. 25
Parry & Mulgrave, Goldsmiths, Jewellers and Hair-Workers, No. 42, South Second Street, Have received by the Pigeon from London an ASSORTMENT OF Plated japanned ware Jewellery & Cutlery, viz. Plated and japanned Tea Urns Plated and japanned Patent Lamps Cafors and Liquor Frames Bread and Fruit Baskets Japanned Tea Trays Plated coffee and Tea Pots and cafés Ditto Candlesticks A variety of elegant and most fashionable Ear Rings Enamelled and other Bracelets, Breastpins, and Finger Rings Trinkets, enamel'd and other kinds Ladies and gentlemen's gold, gilt, and steel Watch chains Gold and gilt Seals and Keys Stone and fine steel Knee Buckles, Penknives and Scissors, with Variety of other Articles, In the above Branches. Dec. 6
Dancing School. Wm. M'DOUGALL presents his compliments to the Public—Thanks them for the great encouragement he has experienced these twenty odd years. He will open his School for this Season on Monday the 13th October, at 10 o'clock in the morning, in that large and elegant Saloon in Harney's Alley, leading from Third to Fourth Street, turning the corner of No. 70, South Third Street. His Employers may be assured, the strict order and decorum that has always been observed in his School, shall still be pursued—and that their children will be taught in the most approved and modern style. Note—An Evening School for young Gentlemen. Oct. 10
FOR SALE BY John D. Blanchard, At his Stores, in Third Street, 66 PIPES Choice TENERIFFE WINE, of superior quality, Comiac Brandy in pipes 50 Cases of Claret of a superior quality subject to drawback. Bison Tea Kettles, large assortment of all sizes and numbers. Bast Tea, Lead in pigs Ruffs Sheetings Women's Stuff Shoes by the quantity Cutt Nails Rhode Island Cheese And a large and elegant assortment of European and India GOODS, At the most reduced Prices. Nov. 25
Forty Dollars Reward. RAN away from the subscribers in Woodbury, Gloucester County, New Jersey, on Sunday morning the 12th instant, named Jack and Tom, each about 20 years of age; Jack is of a dark black colour and a four look; Tom is of an open countenance, of a yellowish colour, and much disposed to laugh. They are sprightly active fellows, and but little short of six feet high; they were both well dressed; Jack had on a blue broad cloth coat and different kinds of clothes. Whoever takes up said servants, and secures them in any goal in the United States, so that their masters may get them again shall receive the above reward and reasonable expenses. John Sparks, Andrew Hunter. Oct. 14
FRESH Bohea Tea, AND GIN in Pipes, Now Landing from on board the ship Peggy , John Elliott master, from Amsterdam. Also Imported by the late Arrivals, Ruffs Hemp, first quality. Ditto Sail Duck Ditto Ravens Duck Brown Ruffs Sheetings Ticklenburgs Oznaburgs Brown Flanders Sheetings Hollands and Brown Rolls Cotton Stripes and Checks Flanders Bedticks Holland Sail Duck Seine Twine Dutch Great Coats Gin in cases Madder Window Glass, 8 by 10 Jewett's Bark Opium Aflatoïda German Steel Mill and Cross-cut Saws Hoes and Cutting Knives Sythes and Skates Coffee Mills Black Lead Crucibles Anchors from 3 cwt. to 15 cwt. And a General Assortment of 5-4 & 6-4 Boulting Cloth, FOR SALE BY Pragers & Co. Nov. 11
Fresh Teas, Of Superior Quality, viz. Imperial, or Gunpowder Hyson Gomee, 1st quality Hyson, 2d. do. do. Young Hyson, Hyson Skin, and Souchoong. A few Boxes of each, for sale at No. 19, Third Street South. Dec. 10
Ticklenburgs, Oznaburgs, and Glasf Ware, Landing from on board the ship Peggy , from Amsterdam. ALSO, Coffee of prime Quality In hogheads and tierces, Muscovado Sugars In hogheads, German Steel, ASSORTED WOOLLENS, In small Bales, &c. for sale by Rundle & Murgatroyd, No. 11, Walnut Street wharf. Who want to purchase 300 or 400 Casks Good Flaxseed, Nov. 11
SHAKSPEARE'S WORKS. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. BY Mountford, Bioren & Co. Proposals for Printing by Subscription, THE WHOLE Dramatic Works OF WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE, IN EIGHT DUODECIMO VOLUMES, From Jones's Dublin Edition. CONDITIONS. I. This Work will be comprised in Eight Duodecimo Volumes, printed on a fine American paper, in a style of Typographical Elegance that shall reflect the highest credit on the American press. II. That it shall be embellished with a beautiful Frontispiece of Shakespeare—engraved by the best American Artist. III. That the price to Subscribers will be EIGHT DOLLARS, one dollar to be paid on subscribing, and one dollar on the receipt of every succeeding volume, but the last—to enable the Publishers to pursue with convenience this arduous undertaking. IV. Each volume shall be delivered in blue boards to the Subscribers immediately on the publication of every volume with best impressions of the Frontispiece—the price to be raised to Non-Subscribers. V. That the names of the Subscribers will be printed to record the patrons of this endeavour to encourage the useful and elegant Arts in America. Subscriptions are received by Messrs Dobson, Carey, Young, Stevens, Campbell, Rice, M'Kean, Ormerod, Johnson, and by the booksellers throughout the United States. Also by the Editor of the Gen. Advertiser , the Editor of the Gaz. of the United States, and by the publishers, Mountford, Bioren & Co. No. 75 Dock Street. Dec. 10
Scheme of a Lottery, To raise 30,000 Dollars, on 160,000 Dollars. Deducting 15 per Cent. from the Prizes. This Lottery consists of 38,000 Tickets, in which there are 14,531 Prizes, and 23,469 Blanks, being about one and an half blanks to a prize. The Directors of the Society for establishing Useful Manufactures, having resolved to erect LOTTERIES for raising One Hundred Thousand Dollars, agreeably to an Act of the Legislature of the State of New Jersey, have appointed the following persons to superintend and direct the drawing of the same, viz. Nicholas Low, Rufus King, Herman Le Ray, James Wilson, Richard Harrison, Abijah Hammond, and Cornelius Ray, of the city of New York—Thomas Willough, Joseph Ball, Matthew M'Connell 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 Elias 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. SCHEME: 1 Prize of 20,000 Dollars is 20,000 1 do 10,000 do 10,000 1 do 5,000 do 5,000 5 do 2,000 do 10,000 10 do 1,000 do 10,000 20 do 500 do 10,000 100 do 100 do 10,000 300 do 50 do 15,000 1000 do 20 do 20,000 2000 do 15 do 30,000 3000 do 12 do 36,000 8000 do 10 do 80,000 14,531 Prizes, 264,000 23,469 Blanks. First drawn number, 2,000 Last drawn number, 2,000 8000 Tickets at 4 Dollars each is 32,000 The drawing will commence, under the inspection of a Committee of the Superintendents, as soon as the Tickets are sold, of which timely notice will be given. The Superintendents have appointed John N. Cumming, of Newark, Jacob R. Hardenberg, of New-Brswick, 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 obligations, the substance of which is, 1. 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. II. The Managers to take sufficient security for any Tickets they may trust, 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, 1794. On application to either of the above gentlemen, information will be given where tickets may be had. February 24.
Bank of the United States. January 5th. 1795. Notice is hereby given, that there will be paid at the Bank after the 15th instant to the Stockholders or their representatives duly authorized, Sixteen Dollars for each share, being the dividend declared for the last six months. By order of the President and Directors, John Kean, Cashier. Jan. 5.
Insurance Company of the State of Pennsylvania. NOTICE is hereby given, that, agreeably to law, an election for thirteen directors to serve for one year, will be held at the office of the Company, on Monday the 12th day of January next, at three o'clock in the afternoon. Dec. 1.
Bohea Tea. 50 chests Bohea Tea, of superior quality, just received by the Schooner Porgy , from Boston. FOR SALE BY Nalbro' & John Frazier, No. 21, Walnut Street. Dec. 27
City of Washington. SCHEME OF THE LOTTERY, No. II. FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE FEDERAL CITY. 1 A mansion 20,000 Dollars, and dwelling house, 5 cash 30,000 are 1 ditto 15,000 & cash 25,000 50,000 1 ditto 12,500 & cash 12,500 25,000 1 ditto 10,000 & cash 10,000 20,000 1 ditto 5,000 & cash 5,000 10,000 1 ditto 5,000 & cash 5,000 10,000 1 Cash prize of 10,000 10,000 2 ditto 5,000 each, are 10,000 10 ditto 1,000 10,000 20 ditto 500 10,000 100 ditto 100 10,000 200 ditto 50 10,000 400 ditto 25 10,000 1,000 ditto 10 10,000 15,000 ditto 10 150,000 16,739 Prizes 264,000 33,261 Blanks 50,000 Tickets at 4 dollars 200,000
This Lottery will afford an elegant specimen of the private buildings to be erected in the City of Washington. Two beautiful designs are already selected for the entire fronts on two of the public squares; from these drawings, it is proposed to erect two centre and four corner buildings, as soon as possible after this Lottery is sold, and to convey them when complete, to the fortunate adventurers, in the manner described in the scheme for the Hotel Lottery. A net deduction of five per cent. will be made to defray the incidental expenses of printing, &c. and the surplus will be made a part of the fund intended for the National University, to be erected within the City of Washington. The drawing will commence as soon as the Tickets are sold off. The fortunate numbers, and any prizes for which no claim is made, are not produced within twelve months after the drawing is closed, are to be considered as given towards the fund for the University, it being determined to settle the whole business in a year from the closing of the drawing and to take up the bonds given security. The real securities given for the payment of the Prizes, are held by the President and two Directors of the Bank of Columbia, and are valued at more than half the amount of the Lottery. The drawing will be under the management of 24 gentlemen approved by the commissioners for the City of Washington, for the time being, and acting on oath. SAMUEL BLODGET. Tickets may be had at the Bank of Columbia; of James West & Co. Baltimore; of Gideon Denison, Savannah; of Peter Gilman, Boston; of John Hopkins, Richmond; and of Richard Wells, Cooper's Ferry. Aug. 30
Several causes have combined to retard the drawing of the above Lottery, the principal of which are, three other respectable and similar institutions, viz. One to erect the Piers at New Castle, one to forward the city of Paterson, and that to erect an addition to Harvard College. These having trebled the quantity of tickets at market, have rendered extraordinary exertions necessary to complete the sales in as short a time as possible; and the public are assured, that from the present prospects, the business may soon be brought to a conclusion, and an early day will be named for drawing, and the names of the managers announced in the course of the present month. January 13
Wants Employment, A Person who has a tolerable knowledge of CONVEYANCING , a general knowledge of Accounts and Figures, and written a good hand, He would engage by the year, either in an Office or Merchants counting house. A line addressed to J B and left at the Office of the Gazette of the United States, will be duly attended to. Jan. 10
Lottery No. 2, for the Improvement of the FEDERAL CITY. GENTLEMEN, desirous of receiving regularly copies of the drawing of the Lottery, are hereby informed that, upon their sending forward to the Publishers, ten dollars each, together with their address, they shall be periodically furnished with such slips, while drawing, per post in Supplements to the Columbian Chronicle . This arrangement will save them the expense of extra postage. Hanson and Preisley
A FEW COPIES Of the celebrated Performance under the Signature of M A N L I U S, M. y. b. had of John Ormerod, No. 47, Chestnut Street. Price—25 CENTS.
COFFEE. 54 hogheads } 120,000 lbs. 350 barrels } Just arrived in the Rebecca , Captain Hughes, from Jamaica. FOR SALE BY Peter Blyth.
Who has also now landed out of the Mercury , from Oporto, Choice Red Port Wine, IN PIPES. Dec. 22
To be Sold At PRIVATE SALE. A very pleasant well situated & valuable Farm, CONTAINING 318 acres of good Land, lying in Hanover, Morris county, N. Jersey, about 1 mile from Mr. Wilson's Meeting House, on the road leading to Boonton Hill, about 16 miles from Elizabeth Town, 13 from Newark, and 8 from Morristown. There are on the Premises a large and convenient dwelling house, large barn, cider house and mill, a good granary and three out houses. Likewise a piece of good apple orchard, containing about 200 trees, together with a collection of fruit trees of various kinds, such as peaches, pears, cherries, &c. Said Farm is well proportioned with wood and meadow, and the remainder is about 10 acres of plow land and is now already cleared, the remainder being timber and pasture land. Any person inclining to purchase, may know the terms by applying to the subscriber near the farm. Thomas T. Eddy, Hanover, Dec. 27
Carpets & Carpeting. Best British Ingrain Carpets & Carpeting D. Scorch, Ingrain & common Ingrain Green, Brown, Yellow & Black Ground Furniture chintzes, white Russia sheetings, Dimities, &c. For Sale by JOSEPH TURNER, No. 4, north Third Street. Jan. 7
PROPOSALS For publishing a Work, entitled Federal Politician, Written by JAMES H. PUGLIA, Author of the Spanish Work, entitled Man Undeceived, &c. Are respectfully submitted to the citizens of the United States. Eff modus in rebus sunt certi dandis si fides Quos ultra citraque sequit confident recitum. Horat. Sat. 1, 1, 103
SOUND arguments, impartial reasoning, and candid sentiments form the composition of this Work. The Author pleads himself solemnly to the Public, that his pains have been, nor shall be spared to render it worthy of their patronage, and if Utility can with propriety claim adequate encouragement, he submits to the public understanding the following CONTENTS. Preface. Chap. 1. Government—its origin, progress, &c. 2. Federal Government—its establishment, energy, excellence, &c. 3. Justice of the Federal Government in claiming the support of every American citizen. 4. Officers of the Federal Government—qualification, election, duties, &c. 5. Federalism and Anti-Federalism compared. 6. Political Societies—their object, term, proceedings, &c. Conclusion. Conditions. 1st. It will contain not less than 200 pages net text, to be printed on a good type and fine paper. 2d. Subscribers' names will be inserted as patrons with the respective number of copies in distinct order. 3d. Single copies at a dollar per copy nearly bound, to be paid on delivery of the book. 4th. When 300 subscriptions are received, the Work will be put to press, and every subscriber for four copies will be entitled to a fifth gratis. 5th. If the number required be not completed within two months from the date of advertisement, no such allowance will be made (in case of publication) the price to subscribers will be raised. 6th. Subscriptions are received by Francis Bailey, No. 116, High Street, corner of St. Mary's, at the corner of Walnut and Front Streets, Thomas Dinsmore, principal Book-seller, in this city; by Messrs Robert Brooke of Philadelphia and Andrew, Buxton, of New-York; Baillie & August, of New-Jersey; and Peter, Prneau, of Philadelphia. Philadelphia, Jan. 31, 1795.