Gazette of the United States and daily evening advertiser. (Philadelphia [Pa.]), 1795-03-16 00:00:00

Gazette of the United States
AND DAILY EVENING ADVERTISER.
[No. 63 of Vol. VII.]
MONDAY, MARCH 16, 1795.
[Whole No. 785.]
On Tuesday, the 24th inst. At Seven o'clock in the Evening, At the Coffee House, will be sold by Public Auction, Forfeited Shares (compleat) Philadelphia & Lancaster Turn- pike Road Company. Footman & Co. Auctioners. March 3. codrww
F R E S H Bohea Tea, A N D GIN in Pipes, Now Landing from on board the ship Peggy, John Elliott master, from Amsterdam. Also Imported by the late Arrivals, Kulla Hemp, best quality Ditto Sail Duck Ditto to Ravens Duck Brown Russia Sheetings Ticklenburgs Ozobubus Brown Flanders Sheetings Holland and B-rown Rolls Cotton Stripes and Checks Flanders Bedricks Holland Sail Duck Seine Twine Dutch Great Coats Gin in cases Madder Window Glass, 8 by 10 Jeuts Bark Opium, Alfacrida German Steel Mill and Cross-cut Saws Hoes and Cutting Knives Sythes and Skates Coffee Mills Black Lead Crucibles Anchors from 3 cwt. to 15 cwt. And a General Assortment of 5-4 & 6-4 Boultng Cloth, FOR SALE BY Pragers & Co. Nov. 11 d
LANDING, From brig TOOLY from LIVERPOOL, Stowed & Basket SALT, CHEESE, Double Gloucester, in whole and half hampers; PORTER BOTTLES, in crates, FOR SALE BY Thomas & John Ketland. March 6. d
Just Published, And to be sold by Thomas Dobson, No. 41, Second street, Benjamin Davis, 68, High street, John Ormerod, 41, Chestnut street, and by the Editor of this Gazette, Proceedings of the Executive of the United States, RESPECTING THE INSURGENTS, 1794. MARCELLUS—as published in the Vir- ginia Gazette, in November and December 1794. HISTORY of the REVOLUTION in GENEVA. REPORT of the late Secretary of the Treasury, on the PUBLIC DEBT, March 6
PUBLIC NOTICE. The Commissioners of Alleg- any County having transmitted to the Sub- scribers, for the purpose of collecting a list of Taxes due on unseated Lands in said county, for the year 1794, in consequence of which we now inform all persons concerned in said Lands, that one of us will attend, from the 6th to the 20th inst. from 9 till 10 o'clock in the morning, at No. 158, South Front street to receive said Taxes. Presley Nevill. Dunning M c Nair. March 3. dtzom.
113,000 weight of Green Coffee, In 87 bds. 40 barrels, and 200 bags, entit- led to the drawback, stored on Messrs. Willing & Francis's wharf. 1st 2d & 4th Proof Bourdeaux Brandy, 30 pipes of London particular Teneriff, and London particular Madeira WINES, in bds. pipes, and quarter casks, Malaga Do. in quarter casks, Arrigva and other RUM in bds. St. Croix SUGAR of the first quality, St. Marks MOLASSES, Hylon TEA, Jamaica SPIRITS, Holland GIN in pipes, LOAF SUGAR, in bds. PEPPER, &c. &c. FOR SALE BY Levinus Clarkson, No. 216, South Water Street. D. C. 4 d
For Freight or Charter, The Brig ABIGAIL, A. W. Trufel, master. BURTHEN about 2000 barrels, now ly- ing at Jesse and Robert Waln's wharf, will be ready to take in a cargo in a few days. For terms apply to the master on board, or to THOMAS NEWMAN, No. 118, South Second street. Who has for sale, on board said Brig, 3000 bushels Lisbon Salt, A few boxes fresh Lemons and Oranges, And a few quarter casks Lisbon Wine. Feb. 27 d
For Sale or Charter, The Brig Friendship, Captain Lovell, NOW laying at Walnut street wharf, a staunch good vessel, not 2 years old, burthen about 1000 barrels. For terms apply to Joseph Anthony & Son. March 9. dtw
For LONDON, The Brig DIANA, THOMAS MASON, Jun. Master; Burthen about 2000 barrels, the greatest part of her cargo being engaged, will sail on or before the 24th of March. She is a stout vessel, well found, Philadelphia built, fails well, and has good accommodations for pas- sengers. For freight or passage enquire of MATHIAS KEELY, South Water-street, GAZZAM & TAYLOR, Front-street or RALPH MATHER, Race-street, No. 71. February 23. d
Genteel Boarding & Lodging, A T No. 112, South Second street. March 3. dzw
The New Philanthropic Society, Constituted for the purpose of relieving fick or distressed members is open for the admission of a few Subscribers on the origi- nal terms, after which the entrance will be advanced. The benefits arising from the above insti- tution are too obvious to require much com- ment; independent of advantages produced by social intercourse, the conscientiousness of contributing to our neighbours' relief, affords the highest gratification to a feeling mind, while it secures a certain provision against future contingencies. N. B. Printed particulars may be had (gratis) at the bar of the Sun Tavern, Straw- berry street, where the Society is held. The next meeting will be on Monday the 16th inst. March 5. m&ch3w
THE LEVEL Of Europe & North America, OR THE OBSERVER'S GUIDE. Monday, February 9, 1795. By PETER EGRON, L. L. D. The Editor, and Company. THIS Periodical work on a plan as novel as instructive is composed by Messrs. Egron, Tanguy, and a society of literati and Amer- ican and European commercial gentlemen. It is written in English and French, and is divided into fifty-two numbers a year, the first of which appeared in the month of Oc- tober last, in folio, which size, in compliance with the desire of our Subscribers, has been changed into that of quarto. It contains 1st. A statement of the mete- orological observations made in the course of each month, whether in the continent of North America, or in Europe. 2dly. A list of all goods exported from, or imported into the different markets of North America and Europe, with their com- parative prices reduced to the weight measure and coin of the United States. Lastly. Observations on the different manu- factures established, or likely to be estab- lished with advantage in America, on the nature of the soil in the different States, their present productions and those that may be substituted in their stead, together with the progressive value of lands. Subscriptions are received by Peter Egron, L. L. D. the Editor at Philadelphia, No. 45, South Fifth street. Price to Subscribers 8 dollars, payable half yearly. Philadelphia, printed by WILLIAM W. WOODWARD, Franklin's Head, No. 36, Ches- nut street.
SALT. Best Cadiz Salt, Just landing from on board the Brig Trial, for sale at Messrs Willing and Francis's wharf by Levinus Clarkson. March 11. d
COFFEE, 54 hogheads } 120,000 lbs. 350 barrels } Just arrived in the Rebecca, Captain Hughes, from Jamaica. FOR SALE BY Peter Blight. Who has also now landing out of the Mer- cury, from Oporto, Choice Red Port Wine, IN PIPES. Dec. 22 d
BEEF. 400 BARRELS FOR SALE. APPLY AT No. 82, South Front street, TO SAMUEL COATES. March 7 *6t
All persons indebted to the Estate of Joseph Paschall, late of this City, merchant, deceased, are desired to pay the Subscriber, and those who have any demands are requested to bring in their accounts to be settled and paid. Samuel Coates, Adm g Executor March 10 *6t
LIBRARY. NOTICE is hereby given, that a general Meeting of the Members of the Library Company of Philadelphia, will be held by adjournment, at the Library in Fifth street, on Monday next the sixteenth instant, at six o'clock in the evening, in order to take into consideration the propriety of encensing their Annual Payments, and repealing so much of their bye-laws, as authorize the Directors to dispose of the Real Estate of the Company. By order of the Members assembled at the Library this day. Z. Poulson, jun. Secretary pro tem. Monday, March 9 dtm.
Wanted Immediately. 2 Smiths, a good fireman and White Smith, good encouragement will be given. Apply No 162 or 74 Market street. Philad. Feb. 28, 1795. N. B. Boarding and Lodging free. d.
George Hunter, Chemist, At his Laboratory, No. 114, South Second street. INFORMS his former customers and the public, that he has begun the DRUG bus- iness again on an extensive plan. He has for sale a general assortment of FRESH DRUGS, CHEMICAL PREPARATIONS, and PA- TENT MEDICINES. Likewise, painters' colours, dry and ground in oil, paint brushes, window and coach glass, dye stuffs, linseed oil, oil of turpentine, copal oil varnish and japan, warranted good. Alum, copperas, madder, ground red wood by the hoghead or smaller quantity. As he imports the simplest from the best market, and makes the compositions and preparations himself, he is enabled to vouch for and warrant every article sold out of his Laboratory, and likewise to dispose of them at the most reasonable rates. He wishes to sell a large LOT of GROUND, the north-east corner of High, and Eleventh-streets, containing 78 feet front on High-street, and 200 feet on Eleventh- street, opposite Mr. Leiper's new buildings. And another LOT on the north side of High street, near the above, 28 feet front, and 200 feet deep. Both lots have the privilege of a 30 feet alley in their rear. Dec. 13. stf
United States. PENNSYLVANIA DISTRICT. NOTICE is hereby given, that the trials of Criminal Causes in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Penn- sylvania District, will commence on Mon- day, the 4th day of May next, at the City Hall in Philadelphia: when and where all persons bound by recognizance or other- wise to appear, are required to attend. By order of the Honorable William Paterson, Esq. one of the associate judges of the Supreme Court of the United States, and the Honorable Richard Peters, Esq. district judge of the United States for the Penn- sylvania district. D. LENOX, Marshal. Marshal's Office, } March 11, 1795. }
The printers of news-papers to the westward and northward of Philadelphia, are requested to insert the above. March 12 mw&ft4M
THIS DAY WAS PUBLISHED BY Richard Folwell, And at his Printing Office, No. 33, Arch street, and also by the principal Booksellers in Philadelphia. (Price Half a Dollar) THE THIRD EDITION OF THE Political Progress of Britain; Or, an Impartial History of Abuses in the Government of the British Empire in Eu- rope, Asia, and America; from the Revolu- tion in 1688, to the present time; the whole tending to prove the ruinous conse- quences of the popular system of Taxa- tion, War, and Conquest. "The World's mad Business."
CONTENTS. INTRODUCTION. Of British wars since the revolution; im- mense slaughter; expense of wars; Nootka Sound; Oczakow; Tippoo Saib; amount of national debt; enormous extent of its interest in the next century; scandalous terms on which it was first contracted; sketch of the civil list of William III; profligate expendi- ture of the court; hints for royal economy; Queen Anne; a single default of thirty-five millions sterling; lotteries; earl of Chatham; specimen of British taxes; lord North; his extravagant premiums for money; scheme of paying off public debt; its futility; uni- form absurdity of modern British wars; im- pares of seamen; character and design of this work. Chapter 1. Purity and importance of Scots repre- sentatives in parliament; parchment barons; anecdotes of the Scots excise; window tax; extracts from an authentic report to the lords of the treasury: herring fishery; salt and coal duties; dreadful oppression; fate of Sir John Fenwick; history of the creditors of Charles II; summary of the public services of the prince of Wales. Chapter 2. Fertility of the Hebrides; May; its pro- digious improvement; immense abundance of fish; miserable effects of excise; salt and coal duties; specimen of Scots fineries. Chapter 3. Reports of the commissioners of public ac- counts; crown lands; astonishing corn law; British famine in the reign of William III; striking picture of Scotch wretchedness at that period; what Scotland might have been; war in general; Culloden; the bloody duke. Chapter 4. Blackstone; his idea of the English con- stitution; default of an hundred and seventy one millions sterling; Powell; Bembridge; Mary Talbot; Westminster election; anec- dotes of the war with America; English dis- fenters; their lawsuit with the corporation of London; society of friends; unparallel- led oppression of that sect in England; boxing. Chapter 5. Civil list; accumulation of fifteen millions; dog kennels; George I; his liberal ideas of government; George II; his hospitality at the burial of his eldest son; excise. Chapter 6. Edward I; Edward III; Henry V; Ire- land; Conduct of Britain in various quarters of the world; Otaheite; Guinea; North- America; The Jersey prison-ship; Bengal; General estimate of destruction in the East Indies. This Edition of that popular Work is now printed on larger type, larger pages, and con- tains one third more matter than the former editions, and still the price is not enhanced. Also just published, and for sale at the same place, Price One Fourth of a Dollar, The Second Edition of A Bone to Gnaw for the De- mocrats; Or Observations on a Pamphlet, entitled The Political Progress of Britain. March 3. d
Stables to be Let. To be let from the 28th inst. or sooner if re- quired. A Neat Eight Horse Stable with the convenience of a good Hay Loft & Shed for Carriages, in Elbow Lane, between Market and Chestnut street. Enquire at the Rising Sun, Strawberry street. March 11 w&st
WANTED, An Apprentice To the Watch making and Repairing Business APPLY TO E. Campbell, No. 3, South Fourth street, two doors from Market street. Jan. 19 zawtf
Fresh Teas, Of Superior Quality, viz. Imperial, or Gunpowder Hyson Gomee, 1st quality Hyson, 2d. do. do. Young Hyson, Hyson Skin; and Soucong. A few Boxes of each, for sale at No. 19, Third street south. Dec. 10 codtf
Columbianum. Notice is hereby given, That the Committee of Examination of Ta- lents and Pretensions, belonging to the Colum- bianum or National College of Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, and Engraving, con- tinue to receive recommendations from those Artists, who in an to become Members of that Institution, inclosed to Mr. Groombridge at his house adjoining the Bank of Penn- sylvania, and addressed to the chairman. Signed by order of the Committee of Ex- amination, &c. J. J. BARRALET, THOS. ROBSON, Ass't. Sec. Feb. 27 d
Columbianum. February 14, 1795. AT a Meeting of the Fellow Artists of the Columbianum, at Mr. Groombridge's House, adjoining the Bank of Penn- sylvania, in the City of Philadelphia. G. I. Parkyns in the chair. Resolved, That the Columbianum or National College, shall apprise the Artists of Amer- ica, and such Ladies and Gentlemen, as are desirous of sending specimens of their performances, either in Painting, Sculp- ture, Architecture, or Engraving, that a PUBLIC EXHIBITION will be opened in the City of Philadelphia, on the first day of May next, when those who wish to be Exhibitors, are requested to notify their intentions as soon as possible, address- ed to the Chairman of the Columbianum through the hands of Mr. Groombridge. Resolved, That the Rooms intended for the Ex- hibition shall be announced to the Public, as soon as the preparatory arrangement are completed. Resolved, That every possible care shall be taken of such performances of Artists and Ho- norary Exhibitors as are intended for the Exhibition, and that they shall be return- ed to the different proprietors, at the close of the fame, with every suitable precau- tion. Resolved, That the Rules and Regulations for conducting the Exhibition, shall be laid before the Public at an early period, with the names of the Gentlemen that compose the Committee of Exhibition and Models. Signed by Order, P. P. PRICE, Sec. pro tem. THOS. ROBSON, Ass't. Sec. Feb. 20 d
FOR SALE, At the STORES of Jesse & Robert Waln, PORT WINE in pipe, bds, and quar- ter casks LISBON do. in pipes and quarter casks Soucong 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
American Landscapes. PROPOSALS FOR PUBLISHING IN AQUATINTA TWENTY-FOUR VIEWS. Selected from the most striking and inte- resting Prospects in the United States; each of which VIEWS will be accom- panied with a descriptive account of its Local, Historical, and other Lucidental Peculiarities. By G. I. PARKYNS, Author of the "Monastic Remains and Ancient Castles in Great Britain."
CONDITIONS. I. That the work shall be published by Sub- scription; and that each Subscriber shall engage to take the whole set of Views, and shall pay for each engraving, if black or brown, 2 Dollars; and if coloured 5 Dollars. II. That the dimensions of each engraving shall be 24 by 17 inches, executed in aquatinta, and published upon paper of a superior quality. The publication to com- mence immediately; and one engraving to be delivered to the Subscribers, on the first Monday of each succeeding month, until the proposed series shall be finally completed. III. That with the last View of the series, shall be delivered an engraved title-page; an elegant characteristic vignette; a map of the route, connected with the prospects exhibited in the course of the Work; and an Alphabetical list of the Subscribers. Subscriptions are received by Mr. Harri- son, at his Print-shop, Maid Lane, New-York by Mr. Carey, Book-seller, No. 118, Market street, Philadelphia, and by all the principal Book-sellers in the United States. February 28. d

PRICE OF STOCKS.
Table with 2 columns: Stock Name, Price. Includes 5 per Cents (19 3/4 to 10), 3 per Cents (11 1/4 to 5), Bank of the United States (30), Penna. (30), North America (45 to 50).
John Miller jun.
No. 8, Chestnut Street. Has for sale by the package, or piece, RUSSIA SHEETINGS, TICKLENBURGS, OSNABURGS, IRISH SHEETINGS, Do. SILESIA, MUSLINS, PERSIANS, and NANKUNS. March 16
FOR SALE
Governeur and Kemble, At New York, who will give the purchasers good accommodations for payment, 600 bales COTTON, and 30,000 weight of Floating INDIGO, Of the First Quality. For further information apply to Messrs. Boucher and Co, merchants in this City, No. 106, North Front Street. March 16
To be sold at Public Vendue, On Saturday the 18th day of April next, at the sign of the Blue Bell, at Cobb's Creek, at 2 o'clock in the after noon.
A high and beautiful situation for a Country Seat, Between 6 and 7 miles from the City, being 15 acres of land, on the southwest side of the said creek. Bounded by the same, on the road leading to Darby, land of Hugh Lloyd, Doct. Paschall, and others. The purchaser to pay one half of the money down, and the remainder in twelve months, with interest and security if required. For any further particulars apply to JOHN NIXON, CHARLES JERVIS, or GEO. DAVIS. March 16
NEW THEATRE.
THIS EVENING, MARCH 16. Will be Presented, A TRAGEDY, (performed but once) called Fontainville Forest. (Founded on the Romance of the Forest.)
Marquis of Montault, Mr. Green Lamotte, Mr. Chalmers Louis, Mr. Moreton Peter, Mr. Whistlock Jacques, Mr. Warrell Nemours, Mr. Cleveland Hortensia, Mrs. Shaw Adeline, Mrs. Whistlock With new Scenery, designed and executed by Mr. Milbourne. To which will be added, A FARCE, written by the author of the Poor Soldier, called The Prisoner at Large. Or, The Humours of Killarney.
Lord Edmond, Mr. Cleveland Old Dowdle, Mr. Bates Count Frigon, Mr. Blissett Jack Connor, M. Harwood Father Frank, Mr. De Moulin Landlord, Mr. Warrell Phelim, Master Warrell Tough, Mr. Morris Trap, Mr. Darley jun. Muses, Mr. Wignell
Adelaide, Miss Oldfield Rachel, Mrs. Marshall Mary, Mrs. Rowson Landlady, Mrs. Bates Box one Dollar—Put 3 of a Dollar—and Gallery 1/2 a dollar. The Public are respectfully informed that the Doors of the Theatre will open at a quarter after five, and the curtain rise precisely at a quarter after 6 o'clock. Tickets and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Wells, at the Theatre, from ten till one, and on days of performance from ten till three o'clock. Also at Rice's Bookstore, No. 50, and at Carey's No. 118. Market Street. No money or tickets to be returned, nor any person on any account whatsoever, admitted behind the scenes. Ladies and Gentlemen are requested to send their servants to keep places by five o'clock, and order them, as soon as the company are seated, to withdraw, as they cannot on any account be permitted to remain.
Vivat Republica!
James Ronaldson, Baker, At Landenberger's wharf, No. 27, between Chestnut and Walnut streets, has begun business as a baker of all kinds of Biscuits, Crackers, Pilot's Bread, &c. &c. for shipping, and for the West India market. Gentlemen who choose to honour him with their commissions for bread, may depend upon being supplied with articles of the best kinds, and at the most reasonable rates. March 14
To the Editor of the Gazette of the United States.
Sir, ON perusing Mr. Ruff's exculpatory comments on himself relating to the queries and answers published in your paper of the 9th and 10th instants; I am fully persuaded, that what he has said is no more than a supplementary appendix to the first edition of his conduct, which is too self explanatory to stand in need either of alchemy to analyze it, or of the auxiliary magic of a proverb to varnish or embellish it. He asserts, towards the conclusion of his epistle, with all the seriousness and didactic gravity of a Solomon, that "Honesty is the best policy;" but, whoever will be at the trouble of reading his letter, will find, that he has equally emigrated from himself in this as in the former case, by proving, in the most demonstrative manner, that Irony is the best policy. But, since Mr. Ruff has such an uncommon relish for reputation and truth , and is gifted with such a happy faculty at explanation, may I be allowed to enquire, whether his reputation and truth are to be understood as ironical , when he positively and unreservedly asserted, (under the signature of "A Friend to Decency,") "I know not Mr. Peale more than to distinguish his appearance from other men; I am not a party in the controversy," and that too within two or three days of the time, when he himself, conjointly with Mr. Peale, were formed into a committee of two for the express purpose of carrying the manuscript copy of their weighty resolutions to the Printing Office? Again, I should be glad to be informed what part of his declaration is to be regarded as ironical and vice versa —perhaps the whole of what he and his coadjutors have said, is only to be understood in an ironical sense: perhaps their assuming the name of Columbianum is to be regarded as ironical —perhaps their quitting the plan of a drawing-academy, and precipitately adopting a national ground, merely for the sake of opposition, is to be understood as ironical —In short, Mr. Editor, it is high time to ask, by what criterion the irony of this amphibious, or rather anomalous Biped of the Museo Columbianum or Originality Hall is to be discriminated; for, it appears to me to be something so much out of the general order of nature, that it requires no less than a professor of ironical legerdemain to decide upon its genus and species.—As to Americanus he is a real American , who will readily avow himself, whenever Mr. Ruff shall make personal applications to me for his address. I am authorised to assure Mr. Ruff and his colleagues, that all the queries and answers, published in your Gazette are indisputable facts , which will be autenticat , when necessary, upon oath. P. P. PRICE. March 16th, 1795.
* See the Letter, signed "A Friend to Decency," published in the Gazette of the U. S. on the 28th February.
Foreign Intelligence.
EDINBURGH Oct. 11.
At a late Meeting of the Trustees for the College of Edinburgh, they resolved to return their thanks to Sir Robert Abercromby, K. B. Commander in chief in India, for his very liberal donation of 15,819 rupees, (18451. sterling) remitted by him, to be applied towards building the New College. This sum, (which is in addition to a former subscription of 2501. Sterling) they understand to have been the whole amount of Sir Robert's Prize money, arising from the reduction of the Province of Malabar, by the Army under his command.—The above application of it will appear the more disinterestedly munificent, when it is known that Sir Robert Abercromby, on being appointed Commander in Chief of the Forces serving in India, declined accepting (as Lord Cornwallis and General Meadows had before done) any share of the gratuity of prize money allowed to the Army on the termination of the late glorious War with Tippoo Saib.
PARIS, Dec. 17.
Carrier, Pinarat, and Grandmaison, the two latter members of the revolutionary committee at Nantz, were condemned yesterday afternoon. They were this day executed, amid the execrations of the populace. Some disturbances have taken place among the workmen, particularly the armourers, but they were soon quelled, and were not attended by any serious consequences.
Luxemburg is, from day to day, still more closely blockaded by general Moreau. The besieged have made a sally, but without any effect.
We learn from Port de la Montagne, (Toulon) that La Veste, Junon, and Serieuse frigates have been ordered on a cruise. Vessels are daily arriving there from the coast of Barbary laden with corn. Among the presents to the Days of Algiers and Tunis, is a coach valued at 50,000 livres. This superb carriage is of English manufacture, and was taken in a British ship named the Lark, and was designed to be a present to the Doge of Venice.
The ships building at Toulon are the Guillaume Tell, of 80 guns; the Franklin, of do. Formidable, of do. the Spartiate of 74; the Jean Jacques Rouffea, of do. and a frigate of 18 guns, that is not yet named.
The actual Toulon fleet consists of 15 sail of the line and 10 frigates; that at Brest of 45 sail of the line, including a squadron of ten sail of the line, at sea. They are victualled for a month and are full of troops.
Affairs of Poland.
DANTZIC, Dec. 1.
A person who left Warsaw the 23rd of last month informs us, that three regiments have been allowed to the king of Poland for his protection. That count Mozynski had been reinstated in the office of Marshal of the Crown, Rasalowicz in that of President of Warsaw. It is evident that the court of Petersburg has not yet come to a decision on the fate of Poland.
The Castellan Mosrowski, and some other nobles, have been sent under Russian escorts to their estates. Gen. Madalinski and the President Zakhbowski made their escape. General Dombrowski has engaged not to serve either against Russia or Prussia. His sword has in consequence been restored to him.
The general belief at Warsaw is, that Russia will use the late glorious insurrection as a pretence for seizing all the remaining provinces of Poland.
THORN Dec. 6.
The troubles in South Prussia, on both sides of the Vistula, are nearly terminated. Notwithstanding that the regular post between this place and Posenia is not as yet re-established; we know positively, that on the other side of the river there are only a few wandering parties of insurgents who plunder the unfortunate villagers, and have proceeded even to the confines of Silesia.
We have just heard that the Grand Polish army, which, after the capture of Warsaw, had become united under the command of Wawrzecki, has dispersed itself. It consisted of 20,000 men, but was so closely pursued by the Russian and Prussian generals, Denison and Kleist, that it had no alternative left.
The Poles have buried the principal part of their artillery, which was very numerous; a considerable quantity, however, has fallen into the hands of their pursuers.
MANHEIM, Dec. 10.
We hear from Mayence, that the French, far from making any fresh attempt on that place, now keep at a greater distance, and that a courier has been dispatched to Paris, since the last ineffective attack, to announce to the committee of public safety, that it would be impossible to get possession of Mayence, while the place could be supplied with ammunition and provisions from the other side of the Rhine. A French trumpeter came to the Governor, to require that the French prisoners should be well used, promising that the Germans should meet with similar treatment.
LONDON, December 27.
The Duke of Richmond has resigned we understand, the office of Master General of the Ordnance; and Marquis of Abercorn withdraws his support from government.
Orders are sent down to the different ports in England, (says the Courier of Dec. 27th) for ALL ships that arrive from the Streights, America, Portugal &c. to perform Quarantine.
Unless the Dutch commissioners succeed in the negotiation on which they have been sent, we may soon expect to hear of the French being in possession of Rotterdam—Leerdam, where the advanced posts of the French are said to be stationed, being only ten miles from that place, and eight from Utrecht. Our Paris advices come down to the 13th ult. We have room for a small
sketch only of their contents. On the 8th, the affair of the 71 deputies was finally concluded. Merlin of Douai, in the name of the government committee, proposed that they should be instantly recalled into the bosom of the Convention, without any reservation of their rights. This proposition met with most unbounded applause and repeated acclamations; all the members rising in adopting the plan of the decree. The list of the members thus restored to their functions was then read; and the names of the two or three who had been omitted, inserted: that of Thomas Paine was expressly comprehended. In the same sitting the Convention revoked the decree of 27 Germinal (April 16,) on the general police of the Republic, framed under the regimen of Robespierre, to seize on, and successively destroy all those who had belonged to the orders of the Noblesse and the Clergy, and even the intermediate class between these and the people. Cambacérès proposed to grant an amnesty on account of all revolutionary crimes, those excepted which the penal code deemed capital. The members rose amidst a general joy, and the repeated acclamations of Live the Convention, the Country and Liberty. The proposition was, notwithstanding, referred to the committees.
On the 9th, a member demanded the revival of all the cruel laws framed during the reign of Terror. This demand was supported by Tallien, who was desirous that the three committees should make a report on the question, Whether it would not be expedient to annihilate the Revolutionary committees?
At the close of the sitting of the 12th, Legendre, in the name of the military committee, and the committees of Public Safety and general security, informed the Convention that the workmen belonging to the manufactories of arms at Paris, were in motion, and desirous to proceed in a mass to the Convention: the committees had sent three of their members to the workmen, inviting them to chuse a deputation of twenty of their own body, to proceed with their petition to the bar of the Assembly. In the same sitting the Convention declared that it would receive no demand for the revival of the sentences of the criminal tribunals, decreeing the confiscation of property for the use of the Republic, and executed during the Revolution. Clanzel stated, that the leaders of the Jacobins had brought into Paris an immense number of cut-throats and assassins.
Letters from a British Officer.
Hartwich, December 28.
I am this moment arrived in a small boat from Scheveling; the passage at Helvoet is blocked up by the ice, the frost there is the most intense I ever saw, or that has been known for many years.
The Dutch are determined, if possible, to get peace; two Commissioners left the Hague three days ago for Paris, but are detained at Rotterdam by indisposition; they have in the mean time solicited a cessation of hostilities for two months. The Bommel-Waart by this time is in the possession of the French, the Dutch having withdrawn their troops. The French attacked Capelle upon Schmitts; but were repulsed. The Rhine below Arnheim is completely frozen over: if the frost continues the Waal will share the same fate, and then Holland is at the mercy of the French."
From the Morning Chronicle.
House of Lords Dec. 30.
On the Address in answer to the King's Speech.
SPEECH of the MARQUIS of LANSDOWNE.
The Marquis of Lansdowne recollected with pleasure the protest he had entered on the Journals against the present war, in the year 1793, as well as the motion that he had made in the year 1794. Though his opinion had differed from their Lordships', it was a satisfaction to him that he had thus declared his sentiments on the war, and he hoped that Ministers would either have done away the grounds of his arguments by facts, or that their Lordships would have done justice to the force of the observations. He was confident, however, that ample justice would be done to the noble Lords who had acted with him, and, however, merited might be mortified at the retraction of error, they must soon be convinced of the necessity of forsaking a system fraught with ruin to the country. He would not trust to declamation, they had suffered too much by fine words; they had been the victims of self-flattery, and of course the abomination of others; they must now come to some thing like common sense, and must submit to a rigorous examination of the purposes which they had in view, and the
means which they had for their accomplishment. Was there a prospect of military success? The answer to this great first question was, that we had raised the greatest army that ever this country produced in any war. If this was true, what a libel upon ministers. What became of their armies? They were to be seen no where; they were gone to God, and were no longer to be found among men. They had been squandered, sent here and there without plan, without co-operation or principle, and were at this moment almost extinguished. Look at every corner of the earth where our arms were to be found, and see the situation in which we are left. In the West Indies the situation was too melancholy for the heart to reflect on it. Guadalupe was known to be lost: the two great Officers by whose unparallelled efforts we had been so successful, were in themselves hosts; but abandoned as they had been, it was impossible for them to do every thing.—The mortality natural to the climate ought to have been foreseen; and tho' it undoubtedly had been greater than in common seasons, yet there was no apology for the utter neglect in which those islands and those brave men had been left. If they were saved at all, they must be saved by the same neglect in France—But we were told by the Noble Earl, that probably we were by this time superior at sea. He was glad to hear this stated by their Lordships. But surely this was not of itself sufficient to the maintenance of the islands. But it was not here only that there had been neglect; even Corsica, the favorite child of Ministers, had been equally abandoned, and was at this moment in a perilous situation. Tho' 100,000 men had been raised and sent about here and there, we had been effect no where. Our officers were children, our grenadiers invalids. We had an enormous army without force, and which melted away and became crippled, through the military principle upon which it was raised—On every side we saw boys in uniform, who had just quitted their Ovid's Metamorphoses, and were themselves assumed at being metamorphosed into Captains and Colonels. Comparisons it was said were odious, but common sense required that they should compare the figure we had made in the last campaign with the French, he would read it, because it was very short and could not fail of producing its lessons on their Lordships. It was as follows.
Abstract of the Operations of the French Armies, in the Campaign of 1794.
Twenty three sieges successfully conducted. Six pitched battles decisively won. Two thousand eight hundred pieces of cannon taken. Six thousand of the best troops of Europe compelled to surrender prisoners of war, either by capitulation or in the field. One hundred and forty-four towns and cities captured, among them many of the strongest fortresses in Europe.
The authenticity of this statement would be vindicated by the most scrupulous examination of facts and the names of the places taken, might be ascertained by a reference to the maps, which exhibit the different theatres of the War.
And this was independent of their late victories in Spain;—In Spain, which at this moment lay almost completely at their mercy. It was well known, that there were but four foundries of cannon in Spain, two of which were in the hands of the French. One near Pampeluna had probably also fallen; and at this moment there was but one fortified town remaining in the hands of the Spanish Monarch! If the French had been so strong and terrible when they had to combat with all the world, would they be less so, when they had all have had a treaty with Holland, by which they would, under the aspect of neutrality, receive all manner of supplies through her active commercial spirit. Would they be less formidable, when Spain would be obliged to yield to them upon any conditions they should be pleased to dictate? He was afraid to look at the conditions they might impose, it was better suited for meditation than for discussion in that House. Would they be less formidable when they could over-run Italy, a Country enfeebled by the debasing consequences of false government, and rendered totally incapable of defending itself? would they be less likely to make head against us by the wonders they had performed on the banks of the Rhine, wonders which were enough to make one man two? Surely when Noble Lords seriously entered into the consideration of the comparative situation of the two Countries, it was monstrous to hear it asserted that we could hope to subdue them by military force.—The news brought that day was an additional argument against any such idea: the frost was set in all likelihood to make the Waal passable; the Bridge at Arnheim had been carried away by the floating ice, so as to expose our cavalry to the utmost hazard. Under such circumstances it was not very likely that the negotiation with Holland would go off, and this calamity, which his Majesty so feelingly deplored in his speech, was to be added to all the other disasters of the campaign. Look a little farther, and in the List of the Empire for negotiating with France. The Elector of Hanover, left in a feeble minority distinguished for nothing but his violence in war. Was it likely that the sense of Germany had been so expressed that they should be likely to exert themselves; that they should rise in a mass to resist the torrent; or that they should cordially co-operate against the enemy. Had we been more successful in negotiating with our Allies? Had we succeeded in uniting Prussia and Austria? Those two Powers, it was well known, could not trust each other.

Prussia had in truth never been the enemy of France, and he could not be so. Those two Powers, mutually and necessarily rivals, looked only to their private interests; and who could blame them? They regarded their own country with becoming feelings, they were not their own enemies, they had not a parliament to stand between them and the people, and therefore their ministers were more careful of the advice which they gave to their masters, as the consequences must fall on their own heads.
With these sentiments, it was not to be wondered however, that they had been brought to commence the unnatural league they never had been serious friends in the contest and indeed it would not be difficult to prove, that Prussia, as he had no hope but from France against the power of his rival, had never seriously been the enemy of France, the dismemberment of which would have been fatal to himself. The third light in which this political question was to be considered, was the resources. To be sure it was pleasant to hear of 24 millions being raised in the morning. He did not mean to cry down credit, it was in its nature to do wonders while it lasted. A merchant of 30,000 pounds capital, could have more credit than a nobleman of an hereditary fortune to the same annual account.
He might circulate his paper for 5 or 600,000 pounds, but it was not unusual that on some fine morning he should break. He would not enter into the discussion of the wild theories about the nature of the credit by which they strove to delude themselves; they had originated in France under its old system, and yet France had not been saved. The truth was, we might go on in the same blind path without perceiving, until we fell into the abyss to which it led. And what were the objections to treating with the French for peace? The first was too contemptible for a serious answer, with whom could we treat in France? It was a question unworthy even of a German Diet. We certainly could find persons to treat with if we had a disposition to seek them. France, with all its changes of parties, and in the midst of its most violent commotions, has not falsified its engagements since the revolution, with any one foreign state. The next reason against treating was—What! should we give up our invaluable conquests? As to those invaluable conquests, one part of them, those in the West-Indies, were likely not to stand in our way—Martinique was but too probably already in the hands of the French. As to Corsica, if it had not been for this idle enterprise we might have protected our commerce, guarded our coasts, given confidence to industry, and instead of the abominable attempt to starve the French by intercepting their corn, we might have done what was consistent with legitimate war, intercepted their naval stores, we might have saved the effusion of much human blood; but then undoubtedly, we should not have been able to have added half a dozen lines to the influence of the crown to be parceled out among the men who were alarmed for the existence of the constitution. He ridiculed the idea of our debating ourselves by the offer of peace; nothing could be more extravagant. If they were disposed to treat, they might come together without submissions on either part. He had no doubt but France would treat with the present ministers, though perhaps other men might negotiate on better terms. He approved of their American treaty, and wished to God they would retract their error with France, as coyly as they had done with our American brethren . The noble Lord concluded by giving his hearty approbation of the amendment.
UNITED STATES. NEW YORK, March 13. Yesterday the House of Assembly nominated and appointed the following gentlemen, viz. James Watson, Jotham Post, Lawrence Embree and John Murray, jun. Commissioners for Superintending the building of a New Gaol, in the vicinity of this city, contemplated in the bill now before the Legislature—entitled, “An act for the more effectual prevention of crimes.”
PHILADELPHIA, March 16. The debates in the British Parliament on the subject of the war contain but very few ideas—and none of them appear to be new—Those in the opposition to a continuance of the war, urge the great successes of the French and the danger of being compelled eventually to accept of worse terms than may perhaps be now obtained—who they do not speak very confidently of the prospect of getting any terms whatever—they add that the people are averse to the continuance of the war. The incompetency, ambition, and avarice of the Ministry, are the burthen of the
song, and to these the opposition impute all the misfortunes of the campaign. The principle is not so prominent a feature in their speeches, as the mismanagement of it. Those in favor of continuing the war, urge that the object of it is not changed—and that tho’ the events of the last campaign have been disastrous yet, one fortunate battle may recover all they have lost—that the enormous expenses of the French have so exhausted their resources, that it is impossible they should be able to continue the war much longer—that the moment of victory on the part of their enemies is not the time for them to expect to make a peace, but on degrading & dishonorable conditions—that the resources of the nation are yet sufficient, and the people disposed to prosecute the war till success shall open a way to an advantageous peace.
Election for a Senator. At a Meeting of a number of Citizens, it was agreed to run JOSEPH BALL, Esq. in the place of WILLIAM BINGHAM, resigned. March 14, 1795.
At a Meeting of a number of Citizens in Mulberry Ward, it was unanimously agreed to propose and support ISRAEL WHELEN as a Candidate for Senator in the place of WILLIAM BINGHAM Esq. March 14, 1795.
From the Augusta Chronicle. To the PUBLIC.
Robert Watkins having again inadvertently introduced my name into Mr. M c Millans paper of Thursday last, I flatter myself you will not deem it improper to have my reply; to you I apologize for the language, and for this reason, that to make Mr. Watkins feel he must be used like a magooffer by putting fire on his back.
TO ROBERT WATKINS HAVING proven you a liar, it would be unnecessary to say that you are an arrant coward, did not your conduct fully justify the expression. I will, if you dare, put an end to this inkshed business, and say that you Robert Watkins, as a member of the Legislature, did, on the (commonly called) the Yazoos bill, perjure yourself, and this expression I admit to be actionable, and challenge, even your rascality, to bring a suit, and let it be tried by your constituents. You have with that hollowness and cowardice of heart, which you alone possess, introduced the name assassin affixed to mine; poor ignorant illiterate and despicable Bobby, could any man (for you I do not admit to be one) think me capable of such dastardly conduct? Your arrogance, ignorance, pomposity and cowardice, is unworthy the further paper attention of all good men, and more especially that of
H. OSBORNE. To the PUBLIC.
I THANK my God that the tongue of a perjured villain cannot slander. The following authentic documents without further trouble, prove Henry Osborne to be a perjured villain, a dishonour to the human race, and worthy only of the contempt of mankind. These documents will be an endless fire upon his back.—And the printers are requested to continue publishing them for the information of the people in general, and of the members of the convention in particular, as the final and standing answer until the desperate monster shall grow sick of inkshed, or bring his betters forward, who I pledge myself, shall meet no difficulty in being noticed. I boast of having, at two sessions of the legislature, voted against the wretch's reinstatement.
ROBERT WATKINS. Wilkes court, Feb. 18, 1795.
* The documents alluded to above are the impeachment of Osborne, by the Legislature of Georgia which has been published here some time since. To the Citizens of Philadelphia, and of the Counties of Philadelphia and Delaware.
THE vacancy in the Senate of Pennsylvania, occasioned by the resignation of William Bingham, Esquire, has induced a number of citizens to turn their attention to the selection of a suitable person to fill that important station: they have been solicitous to bring forward a man of integrity, talents and experience—one who is strongly attached to the Federal Government, and has the confidence of his fellow citizens. From the knowledge they have of the character of Israel Whelen , it is their opinion, that he possesses those qualifications: They have therefore, agreed to recommend and support him at the election to be held on Tuesday next.
A meeting of the Proprietors of WHARVES , is requested on Thursday Evening next, at 7 o'clock at the City Tavern in Second Street, when Business of importance to their Interest will be submitted to their consideration. March 16 m&th
By this Day's Mail. NEW-YORK, March 14.
From a Correspondent. Some further particulars of the late Action between the LA PIQUE and the BLANCHE , off Guadalupe.
An hour after this dreadful encounter commenced the La Pique being disabled attempted to board the Blanche but was three times beat off with great carnage, when the Blanche secured the bowspit of the La Pique to her main mast: the battle thus continued with tremendous ferocity above four hours; and half an hour before the Frenchmen struck their colours the La Pique's guns were totally silenced and the ship was surrendered solely to the Blanche, without the smallest assistance, as had been reported from the Bellona of 74, which did not come up until four hours after La Pique was taken possession of, for she had not her hull out of the water when La Pique yielded. The force of the Blanche of 32 guns at commencing this unequal contest was 208 men and boys, of whom were killed 114.—The La Pique, a new built frigate 6 feet longer keel, than any British 74 in the West-Indies, mounted on this occasion, 44 guns, 30 of them French 18's on the main deck, and on the quarter deck, 14 French 9's, and howitzers of large caliber. Capt. Robert Faulkner, commander of the Blanche, was killed at the first broadside from the La Pique—his Lieutenant fought the ship up to victory unparalleled.
Yesterday an account was brought to this City, said to be received by a recent arrival at the Delaware Capes, from the Mediterranean, relative to some naval operations of great importance.
From a correspondent. We learn that application has been made by the manager of the New Theatre, Philadelphia, to Mr. Ricketts, for permission to use his Circus as a temporary Theatre, during part of the ensuing summer season; but are sorry to add, that Mr. R. thro' fear of displeasing a small part of the public, or rather some gentlemen of this profession among us, has deprived the citizens of New-York of an opportunity of witnessing the performance of some of the best Actors upon the continent.
Federal Register. For the western district of Vermont, Israel Smith is re-elected. Mr. Smith had 1821 votes, Col. Lyon 1800. Daniel Buck is elected in the eastern district. He had about 300 votes more than Mr. Niles the former representative.
NATIONAL CONVENTION. December 17. On the 3d inst. a deputation from the Communes of Ponches appeared at the bar to felicitate the Convention upon the decree which shut up the Hall of the Jacobins.
Legendre. —"I move that this address be referred to the Committee of General Security. Proofs multiply against the chiefs of this Society, who are still unpunished. They have dared to send Emmissaries into the departments; judge if it was to preach obedience to the National Convention."
"I repeat it—the Chiefs, ought to be punished, not those deluded men who were led astray by them. If my shepherd allows my flock to break into your field, you have a right to punish my shepherd but not to destroy my flock.—(Applause) Yes, citizens, those infernal chiefs must be punished. I will never cease to denounce them to you. My courage cannot be shaken.—(Loud and reiterated applause.)" "I move that this address be referred to the Committee of General Security, who will consider it, and make their report upon it." This proposal was agreed to.
LONDON, January 2. The Hanover Packet, Captain Todd has brought over specie to the amount of upwards of forty thousand pounds, from Lisbon as remittances to our merchants. The King of Denmark has published an Edict, by which the Danish peasantry in Norway and Jutland, are to be
entirely emancipated in the first year of the 18th century. The King of Prussia is a proselyte to the principles of Emanuel Swedenborg and a very warm advocate for his system, Quere, Did he find any thing in the writings of this Founder of many folies that would justify his robbery in Poland?
MENTZ. This place now fills no small space in the public eye, from the circumstances of a siege, by the most redoubted besiegers, that ever invested a town. It has other prominent claims, and such as may win for it very enviable preeminence of rank. Let the hand of war pass lightly upon Mentz, for here printing takes its date, and the demons of impollution began to tremble.—The Bible was finished here in the year 1450. This Bible was printed with metal types that were moveable, and on both sides the paper. A copy of this, the only one, is in the Mazarine College at Paris. Guttenburg and Faut were the Printers. The cost of this great work was 4000 florins.
BOSTON, March 7. A late Paris paper mentions, that the celebrated Condorcet is dead.
The Treaty is mentioned in the Paris papers, without a disapprobating sentence. The present constituted authorities of France, do not disgrace themselves, like some other constituted authorities, with intermeddling with the affairs of other Nations. They speak of the United States, as a Republic, nearly allied to them: but they do not lug our concerns head and shoulders into theirs. They appear to be Frenchmen and Patriots.
The account of the success of Gen. WAYNE, over the Indians, is faithfully detailed in the Paris papers; but without any attendant remarks.
New-Hampshire. —Hon. JOHN PICKERING, is appointed Judge of the District Court, New-Hampshire district; vice Hon. JOHN SULLIVAN, deceased.
America a Third Time Saved by the French!!!
The citizens of United America, ought to make the warmest returns of gratitude to the French nation, for the renewed demonstration of their regard to the United States, in the abolition of the Jacobin Clubs; an evil, more portentous of destruction, than even war and its concomitants.
JACOBINS.
The French people, in their publications and sentiments, use but one expression respecting the Jacobins, and that is, "Down with those men of blood, those Jacobins, who are eternally in opposition to the National Convention." And the cry in America would soon of necessity have been the same, had not our intrepid rulers founded the tocsin in season, and rallied the people round the altar of government and laws. "Down with the Jacobins—those would-be men of blood who are eternally in opposition to every measure of the President and Congress of the United States."
ANECDOTE.
AT a time when the doctrines of Calvinism and Arminianism were much talked of in a certain village, a couple of negroes, of the different parties, meeting on the road, directly entered into the fashionable debate. Their topic was, whether a man might not die before his appointed time: when, after some argument, our Arminian advocate adduced the following weighty proposition in vindication of his assertion. "Now Jack, suppose you eat a hearty supper dis' evening:—you go to bed, sleep well all night:—you wake up in the morning, and find yourself dead:—What you say den?—Dat man live all e days of his life?—Debil a bit." This is a pertinent caution to us not to dispute about matters we do not understand: and a lively emblem of the despicable figure we make in the eyes of superior beings, in our lengthy discussions upon the incomprehensible attributes of the Deity.
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Election of a Senator. At a meeting of a number of Gentlemen on Saturday evening, it was agreed to run JOSEPH B. M c Kean, Esq. in the place of the Hon. William Bingham, resigned.
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Scheme of a Lottery,
To raise 39,900 Dollars, on 266,500 Dollars Deducting 15 per Cent. from the Prize—This Lottery consists of 38,000 Tickets, in which there are 14,539 Prizes, and 23,461 Blanks, being about one and one half blanks to a prize. THE Directors of the Society for establishing the United States 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 M c Connel 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 c 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.
   S C H E M E.     1 Prize of 20,000 Dollars is 20,000   1 10,000 10,000   2 5,000 10,000   3 2,000 6,000   10 1,000 10,000   20 500 10,000   100 100 10,000   300 50 15,000   1000 20 20,000   2000 15 30,000   3000 12 36,000   8100 10 81,000   14,539 Prizes. 262,000   23,461 Blanks. First drawn number, 2,000 2,000   Last drawn number, 2,000 2,000   38,000 Tickets at a Dollar each 266,000  
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. Hartenberg, 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 continual 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 sureties, to perform their obligations, the substance of which is I. 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 are 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 sell, otherwise to be responsible for them. III. To keep regular books of Tickets sold, Monies received, and paid into the Bank, abstracts of which shall be sent monthly, to the Governor of the Society. Paterson, January 1, 1795. On application to either of the above gentlemen, information will be given who Tickets may be had. us & it

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He requests, at the same time, all printers and correspondents throughout the United States, who may have procured any subscriptions, to send him, by post, a list of them, together with the names of those editors, who, to their knowledge, have inserted their proposals, in order to make the necessary arrangement. Meanwhile, as the subscriptions obtained in this city are insufficient, tho' numerous, to defray the expenses of the publication, he finds himself under the necessity (being uncertain of adequate encouragement from other parts) to defer the continuance of their exertions for two months longer, at which period, if not before, will be finally decided whether it will be printed or not. At any rate, should he be compelled to lay by the original of said work, he will pay, or emit, each of his friendly printers the costs of advertising.
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Those Editors who did not publish in their newspapers the former proposals, are excepted from this address; and it is expected from their peculiar generosity, that no advantage will be taken from it.
March 6.
City of Washington.
SCHEME OF THE LOTTERY, No. II. FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE FEDERAL CITY.
Table with 2 columns: Prize Amount, Number of Winners. Includes prizes like 20,000 Dollars, 15,000 & each 25,000, etc.
This Lottery will afford an elegant specimen of the private buildings to be erected in the City of Washington—Two beautiful designs are already selected for the entire fronts on two of the public squares; 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 necessary expenses of printing, &c. and the surplus will be made a part of the fund intended for the National University, to be erected within the City of Washington.
The drawing will commence as soon as the Tickets are sold off. The money prizes will be payable in thirty days after it is finished, and any prizes for which fortunate numbers are not produced within twelve months after the drawing is closed are to be considered as given towards the fund for the University, it being determined to settle the whole business in a year from the ending of the drawing and to take up the bonds given as security.
The real securities given for the payment of the Prizes, are held by the President and two Directors of the Bank of Columbia, and are valued at more than half the amount of the Lottery.
The twenty-four gentlemen who by appointment of the late Commissioners assisted in the management of the Hotel Lottery are requested to undertake this arduous task a second time on behalf of the public; a sufficient number of these having kindly accepted, it is hoped that the friends to a National University and the other federal objects may continue to favor the design. The synopsis of one of the Colleges, to form a branch of the National Institution, is already in the press, and will be speedily published, together with its constitution.
A complete PLAN of the whole of this important Institution, compiled from a selection of the best materials, ancient and modern, will be submitted to the public whenever the same may have gone through such revisions as may be necessary to establish the perfect confidence and general approbation, so essential to its present rise and future existence for the general good of America.
By accounts received from the different parts of the Continent as well as from Europe, where the tickets have been sent for sale, the public are assured that the drawing will speedily commence, and that the care and caution unavoidably necessary to insure a safe disposal of the tickets, has rendered the short suspension indispensable.
February 24, 1795.
SAMUEL BLODGET.
*** Tickets may be had at the Bank of Columbia; of James West & Co. Baltimore; of Gideon Denton, Savannah; of Peter Gilman, Bolton; of John Hopkins, Richmond; and of Richard Wells, Cooper's Ferry.
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THE principal design of this publication is to rescue from oblivion the many important events and transactions, which, under divine providence, have been chiefly conducing to the settlement of this country, and to the establishment of our present happy form of government; as also to transmit to posterity the names and achievements of those illustrious men and heroes, to whom America is most indebted for her liberty and independence.
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Department of War.
JANUARY 26, 1795.
INFORMATION is hereby given, to all the Military Invalids of the United States, that the sums to which they are entitled for six months of their annual pension, from the fourth of September, 1794, and which will become due on the fifth day of March, 1795, will be paid on that day, by the Commissioners of Loans, within the States respectively, under the usual regulations.
Applications, of Executors and Administrators, must be accompanied with legal evidence of their respective appointments, and of the time of the decease of the Invalids, whose pensions they may claim.
By order of the President of the United States, Timothy Pickering, Secretary of War. Jan. 27. 1aw8w.
Monday March 2d, 1795.
Inland Navigation.
This Day is published, and to be sold by Zachariah Poulton jun. No. 80, Chestnut Street, And at the Philadelphia Library, A HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE Rife, progress, and present state OF THE Canal Navigation in Pennsylvania.
With an Appendix, containing Abstracts of the Acts of the Legislature since the year 1792, and their Grants of Money for improving ROADS and NAVIGABLE WATERS throughout the state — which is annexed, "An Explanatory Map."
Published by Direction of the President and Managers of the Schuylkill and Susquehanna, and the Delaware and Schuylkill Navigation Companies. "Here smooth CANALS, acrofs the extend- ed plain Stretch their long arms to join the distant main."
The sons of toil, with many a weary stroke Scoop the hard bosom of the solid rock; Resistlefs through the stiff opposing clay, With steady patience, work their gradual way;
Compel the Genius of the unwilling flood Through the brown horrors of the aged wood; Crofs the lone waste the silver urn they pour, And cheer the barren heath, or fallen moor
"The traveller, with pleasing wonder sees The white sail gleaming through the dusky trees; And views the alter'd landscape with surprise And doubts the magic scenes that round him rise."
Now like a flock of swans, above his head, Their woven wings the flying vessels spread Now meeting streams, in artificial maze, glide White each, umbrage'd, pours a separate tide;
Now, through the hidden veins of earth they flow And visit sulphurous mines and caves below. The ductile streams obey the guiding hand, And social Plenty crowns the HAPPY LAND!
A VENDRE,
Une Terre Superbe situé dans l'Etat de la Nouvelle York.
LA BELLE Habitation connue par le nom de SCOTIA, situé sur le bord du nord de la Riviere de Mohawk et vis a vis la florissante ville de Schenectady qui est a l'extremite de la communication par eau entre la Caneda et autres parties occidentales avec la ville d'Albany dont elle est eloignee de seize miles Anglois ou cinq lieues un tiers de france.
Cette terre est bornee par la dite Riviere environ deux tiers de lieue—les grands Chemins des parties de l'ouest et du nord se joignent en cet endroit avec plusieurs autres et conduisent a l'endroit par ou l'on traverse la Riviere vis a vis la dite ville—cette habitation contient plus de mille acres, une grande partie de la quelle est en plaine de la premier, qualite et propres pour des prairies ou du grain dont elle produit un grand abondance.
On pourroit la diviser en plusieurs habitations donnant a chacune des situations tres commodes a placer des maisons—elle contient a present deux maisons grandes et bien commodes avec des Granges Ecuries, Magazins, des Remises pour les Voitures et plusieurs autres batimens qui sont tres convenables le tout situe sur une elevation au bord de la dite Riviere d'ou l'on a une vue bien agreable sur la dite ville, des prairies dans ses environs et de la Riviere aussi bien que d'un Reservoir d'environ trente acres, qui est bien fourni de poisson et de gibier.
Il y a aussi sur la dite terre une Moulin a eau sur un courant qui ne manque Jamais, avec une maison pour le meunier; on y pourroit ajouter d'autres moulins, &c.—sur cette terre est aussi un bon Verger des meilleurs fruits de ce pais d'environ mille arbres, entes, les Jardins abondent de toutes sortes de fruit propre pour ce climat—Dependent aussi de cette terre plusieurs tenemens avec des lots de terre dont les baux sont d'une courte duree.
Il n'y a point de terre dans ces parties que soit plus seconde pour toutes sortes de grain d'hiver dont il en a ete seme l'automne passee presques deux cents boisseaux ce que sera compris dans la Vente aussi bien que deux petites Iles dans la Riviere vis a vis a la maison.
On pense que la vue de ces terres en donnera une plus haute idee qu'aucun description qu'on pourroit en donner.
Pour les conditions de Ventes il faut se rendre chez le soussigne demeurant sur les lieux ou a messieurs Oliver Wendel et Harrison G. Otis, a Boston—messieurs Cornelius Ray et De Witt Clinton, a New-York—messieurs James Gordon et Henry Glen, membres du Congres, a present a Philadelphia, ou a monsieur Stephen Bayard dans la ville de Schenectady, qui feront connoitre le prix et conditions de la Vente.
JOHN SANDERS.
Valuable Property For Sale,
IN THE STATE OF NEW-YORK.
THAT valuable and well known Estate, called SCOTIA, situate on the north bank of the Mohawk river, directly opposite the populous and flourishing town of Schenectady, at the foot of the water-communication from the Western Country, and Upper Canada; sixteen miles from the city of Albany, extending about two miles on the bank of the river above and below the said town; this river is the only water communication in the United States with the great western Lakes. The roads from the western and northern parts of the state of New York, together with a number of other public roads here meet, and lead to the noted ferry kept opposite the said town.
It contains upwards of one thousand acres, a great proportion of which is interval or low land, calculated both for grass or grain, producing great burthens annually; it may be laid into a number of valuable farms, affording convenient and handsome building grounds; here is now on the premises two very large and commodious dwelling houses, with large Dutch barns, barracks, hovels, stables, cart and waggon house, carriage house horse house, summer house, and other out-houses, on a commanding eminence near the bank of the river, affording a beautiful and extensive prospect of the river for several miles, the lowland, the town, and a fine lake of water, covering about thirty acres, well stored with all kinds of river fish, fowl, &c. There is a good grist mill on a never failing stream of water, a good frame house, &c. for the miller, also convenience above the mill for erecting more water works; there is a bearing orchard with nearly one thousand apple trees, set out, grafted of the best fruit, the gardens are stocked with all the various fruits the climate will admit; also several tenements with portions of land on short leases.
The land in point of fertility of soil, is exceeded by none in the state; there is now in the ground near two hundred bushels winter grain, which will be included in the above sale.
Also two small islands in the river, opposite the mansion house. A view of the premises, it is presumed, will fully equal any description that can be given thereof.
For terms of sale apply to the Subscriber, residing on the premises, Messrs. Oliver Wendell or Harrison G. Otis, Esquires, in the town of Boston, Cornelius Ray, or De Witt Clinton, Esquires, at the city of New York; James Gordon or Henry Glen, Esquires, two of the members of Congress, at the city of Philadelphia; Stephen N. Bayard, in the town of Schenectady, by whom the price & terms of sale will be communicated.
JOHN SANDERS.
Scotia, Jan. 28, 1795. N. B. The remaining stock unfold, and all the farming utensils, the purchaser or purchasers may be accommodated with. Philad. Feb. 7. 2aw3m
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To be Let,
A PAPER MILL,
In complete order, being entirely new, containing three presses and two iron screws, a large drying Loft, together with every other requisite.
Also a good convenient Stone Dwelling HOUSE, sheds, stables, &c. all new, with or without land. The mill is situate on a never failing stream of water in Lower Merion township, about 8 miles from Philadelphia. For terms apply to Paul Jones, On the Premises. codtf
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In the House of Representatives of the United States, March 3d, 1795.
Resolved, That the Secretary of State be requested to receive proposals from any person or persons skilled in the art of Stenography, or capable of reporting debates with accuracy, and to report the same to this house, at the commencement of the next session, with his observations and opinion respecting the qualification of the said person or persons for the said duty, to the end that this house may be enabled to appoint one or more persons as officers of the house, for the valuable purpose above mentioned.
Extract from the Journal, JOHN BECKLEY, Clerk.
Department of State,
March 5, 1795. Proposals will be received by the Secretary of State, in pursuance of the foregoing Resolution.
Wants Employment,
AN Elderly person, who writes a good hand, and understands accounts, and who also can be well recommended for his honesty and industry.
Any tradesman or mechanic who may wish for such a person to keep his books, and make out his bills, may receive information by applying to James Hardie, corner of Lombard and Fifth street. Jan. 23