Gazette of the United States. (Philadelphia [Pa.]), 1796-02-19 00:00:00

Gazette of the United States
NUMBER 1076.]
FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 19, 1796.
[VOLUME IX.]
For Freight, or Charter,
THE SHIP
General Washington,
William Perry, master.
BURTHEN 2600 barrels; now in the Carpenter's hands, and will be ready to receive a cargo in two or three days. Her accommodations for passengers are excellent. For terms of which, or freight, apply to the Captain, or KEARNY WHARTON.
Feb. 9.
$60.
FOR CHARTER,
THE SHIP
EAGLE,
ABOUT 257 tons burthen; is now in complete order to receive a cargo on board, and lays the fixed wharf below Pine-Street. Enquire of Jebu Hollingsworth & Co.
February 8.
$
For Sale, or Charter,
THE SLOOP
BETSEY,
John Dankins, master,
BURTHEN about 800 barrels flour, in complete order to receive a cargo immediately. 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 Sloop, Coffee, of an excellent quality, in hds. and tierces. Sugar, ditto in hds. and barrels.
February 12.
$
Excellent Claret in Casks,
FOR SALE, BY
Joseph Anthony & Son.
February 13.
$
No. 46, North Front-Street.
THE co-partnership of KNOX & HENDERSON expires this day by limitation. The business in future will be carried on by David Knox, James Henderson & William Deas , under the firm of Knox, Henderson & Company.
All those indebted to the former concern, will please close their accounts as soon as possible. Have just received from the ship Factor from London, the gleanings of their fall importation, consisting of a beautiful assortment of cambrics, cambric muffs, muslinets, corded dimities, printed handkerchiefs, calicoes, chintzes, &c. &c.
Also a few boxes once threads, with a small assortment of fancy waistcoats, &c. Jan. 5. d10t-wasm
MEDICINES.
JOSEPH HUGGEFORD,
DRUGGIST,
No. 319 Pearl-Street, late Queen-Street,
INTENDING to retire from business, will dispose of his whole stock of Medicines together with a complete shop furnished, which are of the latest imported and best quality.
Any persons inclining to purchase the whole will be only charged a small advance on the original cost and the terms of payment rendered easy. The purchaser will have the advantage (if he chooses) of taking immediate possession of the shop and cellar as the house is engaged for another year, and on the first of May next he may have possession of the whole which is an excellent stand for business and no medical store better established nor more extensively connected in trade on the continent.
Persons not inclining to purchase the whole may be accommodated with any quantity at very reduced prices. Those persons who are indebted to the co-partnership of Peter and Joseph Huggford, will be pleased to pay the same to Joseph Huggford , on or before the 15th day of April next, as after that time all outstanding debts will be put into the hands of an attorney. New-York Feb. 6. $3w.
WILLIAM YOUNG,
No. 52 South Second-Street,
HAS FOR SALE,
An extensive assortment of PAPERS, from the manufacturers in Europe, and from his Manufactory on Brandwyn, wholesale and retail.
WRITING & PRINTING PAPERS, viz.
 Imperial, Small folio Post, plain  Super-royal, Ditto gilt  Royal, Blossom Paper assorted  Medium, Transparent folio Post  Demy, Superfine & common foolscap  Thick Post, in folio, Marbled papers, large and small  Ditto, in quarto, COARSE PAPERS.  Extra large Folio Post, London brown, assorted  Ditto, quarto, Folio Post, wove, L-g-hook paper  Folio Post, lined, Hatter's paper  Quarto do. do. Stainer's paper  Ditto, gilt, do. Common brown  Common size Folio Post, Patent sheathing paper  Ditto, quarto, plain, Bonnet boards  Folio & quarto Post, gilt, Binder's boards. 
Also, a variety of other STATIONARY ARTICLES, viz.
Wedgewood and glass philosophical ink-stands, well assorted; pewter ink-stands of various sizes; round pewter ink-stands; paper, brass, and polished leather ink-stands for the pocket; red morocco portable ink-stands with plated spring locks, gold leaf and embossed papers; shining sand & sand boxes, pounce & pounce boxes, ink & ink powder, black leather & red morocco pocket-books, with and without instruments, of various sizes. Counting-house and pocket pen-knives of the best quality, as-skin tablet and memorandum books. Red and coloured wafers, common size, office ditto. Quills from half a dollar to three dollars per hundred, ready made pens. Black lead pencils. Gem elastic or Indian rubber. Gilt and plain mezzage and conversation cards.
All sorts and sizes of BLANK BOOKS ready made or made to order. Bank checks, blank bills of exchange, and notes of hand executed in copper plates, bills of lading, manifests, seamen's articles and journals, &c. &c.
A well selected collection of miscellaneous books. Bibles and prayer books various sizes and different bindings. Toy books for children. Also, of greek, latin, and english classics, as are now in use in the colleges and schools of the United States.
N.B. Feet's Spanish flora indigo, moulds, & other articles used in manufacturing of paper, to be had on easy terms. The market price in Cogs paid for any quantity of Rags. February 15. raw6w
FOR SALE,
Or to be LET for a term of years,
A n elegant House with about forty-two acres of Land and Meadow. The situation is very convenient for a Country seat, or for a person inclined to attend the markets. The re is an excellent Kitchen Garden, Ice-house, and a variety of Fruit - the distance about five miles from the city. For further information apply to the Printer. November 14. 2awtf.
FOR SALE,
 At No. 129, MULBERRY-STREET,  200 Boxes Window Glass. 7 by 9;  180 ditto ditto 10 by 12;  10 ditto ditto 9 by 11;  50 ditto Castile Soap;  50 ditto Sweet Oil containing 12 bottles each;  20 baskets do. containing 12 bottles each;  200 pieces Platillas. 
The above are all entitled to drawback.
 AND ALSO ON HAND,  50 pieces Flanders Linen, well assorted;  20 pieces Table Cloth 2 yards wide;  100 pieces Rolls;  12 boxes Russia Candles;  20 pieces Oil Cloth;  12 quarter Casks Sherry Wine;  Dutch Great Coats, of various sizes;  Three very elegant FortePianos, imported from London. 
The above Goods are offered by the Subscriber, upon reasonable terms. Credit from three to six months for approved Notes. PETER BORGER. February 12. raw6w.
COLUMBIA HOUSE
Boarding School for Young Ladies.
MRS. GROOMBRIDGE having removed from Lodge Alley, to the corner of Eleventh and Spruce-Street, for the advantage of a large, convenient House, in a dry, healthy situation; hopes for the continuance of the encouragement she has hitherto so highly experienced; and for which she returns her sincere acknowledgment.
Mrs. GROOMBRIDGE is assisted by Masters of the first ability; and the useful, as well as ornamental branches of education are particularly attended to. February 8. $2w-83m
SHOT,
Of all sizes, from 32 lb to Grape, Camboes, Pots, and other castings executed at the shortest notice.
Nail rods, from rod to spike.
Hoop Iron, of all sizes, for cases or cutting into nails, from a broad to 1/4 inch.
Anchors, from 17 Cwt. to 100 lb.
Bar Iron.
A Quantity of James River Tobacco, Carolina Pork, Herrings in barrels, Kiln-dried corn meal in Hds. and Bbls. Rye flour &c. to be sold by Levi Hollingsworth & Son. August 4. raw6w
Copper Ware-House,
No. 2. North Fourth Street.
GEORGE & HENRY WESCOTT
Have just received by the late vessels from London, Liverpool and Bristol, and which they are selling at the most reduced prices for cash, or a short credit, a very large and extensive assortment of Sheet Copper and Bottoms, comprising sheets from 5 to 20 cwt. and bottoms from 16 inches to 5 feet - Also a handsome assortment of the most approved Sheathing Copper with nails, and bolts, Tin in boxes, Block-tin, Spelter in casks, Spelter solder, pig lead, &c. &c. Jan. 2. w & f.
George Bringhurst,
COACH & HARNESS MAKER,
Respectfully informs his friends and the public, that he has removed from Arch-Street, to No. 23 in north Fifth-Street, adjoining the Episcopal Burial Ground, where he continues the business of Coach making in all its Branches.
He makes all kinds of carriage neck and perch Carriages such as Coaches, Chariots, Phaetons, and Carouches; also Chairs, Kittereens, Gigs, Sulkeys; and all kinds of Harness, with plated or brass mounting. He has a good supply of the best materials, and a stock of the best fashioned wood.
Orders from any part of the United States will be duly attended to with the greatest punctuality and dispatch. His long experience in business, his care in the execution of his work, and an unremitted attention to the desires of his employers, he flatters himself will prove sufficient recommendations.
He has several second-hand Carriages for sale, viz. a complete Coach, with a coachman's seat and Venetian blinds all round; a Phaeton; a Chair; and a Sulkey with a falling top.
All kinds of Carriages sold on Commission, and Carriages taken in to stand by the month or year. Apprentices wanted to the Business. Philadelphia, November 21. t, t, & 3w, 2awdo
Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike Company,
January 13th, 1796.
Notice is hereby given,
THAT agreeable to a bye Law of the Stock Holders, Subscriptions will be opened at the Company's Office in Philadelphia, on Wednesday the 10th day of February next, for one hundred additional shares of Capital Stock in said Company - The sum to be demanded for each share will be three hundred Dollars with Interest at 6 per cent. on the different instalments, from the time they were severally called for to be paid by the original Stock Holders, one hundred Dollars thereof to be paid at the time of subscribing, and the remainder in three equal payments at 30, 60 and 90 days.
No person to be permitted to subscribe more than one share on the same day.
By order of the board,
WM. GOVETT, Secretary.
Jan. 13. w&f.
FOR SALE,
A FOUNT of BREVIER, half worn; about four hundred weight. Enquire at the Office of the Gazette of the United States, No. 119, Chestnut-Street. December $
WANTED,
ON Loan, for two or three years - 2000 Dollars, for which a mortgage on Land will be given as security. The land is clear of every incumbrance. Jan. 9. d.
THE STOCKHOLDERS
In the Insurance Company of North America, are desired to meet at their Office, on Wednesday, the 17th February next, at 11 o'clock, A.M. By order of the Directors, EBEN. HAZARD, Secretary. January 28. m&tf17
WANTED,
Several Apprentices to the Printing-Business. Apply at the Office of the Gazette of the United States, No. 119, Chestnut-Street. January 28. m&tf17
PUBLISHED,
Price Three-Fourths of a Dollar,
No. 60,
SOUTH SECOND-STREET,
STEPHENS'S
Philadelphia Directory,
FOR 1796.
WITH A PLAN OF THE
City of Philadelphia.
January 18. tf.
Published, this Day,
And may be had of BENJAMIN DAVIES , No. 62, High-Street,
[Price 5-8ths of a Dollar]
Revolutionary Justice Displayed;
Or an Inside View of the various Prisons of Paris, under the government of Robespierre and the Jacobins; Taken principally from the Journals of the Prisoners themselves.
Translated from the French.
WITH AN APPENDIX,
Containing an account of the promulgation of the new religion of France; the impious attack on the ancient; and violation and plunder of the sacred receptacles of the dead.
"All liberty how best thou been sported with."
Madame ROLAND.
At the same place may be had, an elegant duodecimo Pocket Atlas of the United States,
[PRICE ONE DOLLAR.]
Just published - containing nineteen Maps; that is, a general one of the United States, a particular one of each of the States, and of the North-Western Territory. February 13. 3aw2w
JUST PUBLISHED,
BY JACOB JOHNSON & CO.
No. 147, Market-Street, Philadelphia,
 DODD's reflections on Death, price 80 cents.  Hervey's Meditations, 80  Thompson's Seasons, with an elegant engraving 75  The Columbiad, a Poem, on the American war 18  The American Farmer's Guide, a new and excellent Treatise on Agriculture 20  Dilworth's Book-Keeping 83  History of the Pelew Islands 25 
J. Johnson & Co. will publish in a few days, The Flowers of Ancient and Modern History - 2 vols. February 1. 3aw2m
THIS DAY IS PUBLISHED,
By MATHEW CAREY, No. 118, Market-Street,
[Price 25 cents]
AN ADDRESS
To the House of Representatives of the United States, ON LORD GRENVILLE'S TREATY. February 2. $12
JOHN J. PARRY,
No. 33, South Second-Street,
Has just received a capital assortment of
Cap'd and Jewel'd Watches,
A variety of elegant CHAISSES; And many other articles in the line of Watch-Making, which he will sell low for cash. Work of every kind done as usual. January 23.
WAGNER,
Woolen Draper and Mens' Mercer,
At No. 25, South Second-Street,
HAS, in addition, to his assortment of superfine Cloths and Calimanes, Received by the Factor from London, a very elegant assortment of Gentlemen's Waistcoat Patterns; such as Satin, Silk Mouselin, Calimane, and Mercielles, which will be sold at their just prices. January 9. d.
MADEIRA, SHERRY and PORT } WINES.
For Sale by
EDWARD STOW, jun.
No. 4, South Water-Street. Dec. 12. d.
30 Pipes Cogniac Brandy,
 Corks, in bales, and  Holland Gin, in pipes, 
For Sale by
Benjamin W. Morris.
December 31. codtf
Paterfon Manufactory.
At a special Meeting of the Board of Directors for establishing useful Manufactures, held at Paulus-Hook, January 27th, 1796. "The Board taking into consideration the general affairs of the Society, think it necessary that a meeting of the Stockholders should be called as soon as the Law will permit; it is therefore resolved, that the Stockholders be called to meet on the first Tuesday in March next, at Egerly's Hotel, at Paterfon, by ten of the clock of the forenoon of the same day, then and there to take into serious consideration, affairs of the utmost importance to the said Society; and that every Stockholder be earnestly requested to attend either in person or by proxy."
A true extract of Minutes, P. COLT, Superintendent. New-York, January 26, 1796. $11M
An elegant House for Sale.
A WELL built three story brick HOUSE and LOT of GROUND, on the highest land in the city, situate in Arch-Street within 27 feet of Ninth-Street. The house is about two-thirds finished, is built in the very best manner and of the best materials; it is 32 feet front and 53 feet deep; the drawing room below is 21 feet 6 inches, by 26 feet; the back or dining room is 20 feet 6 inches by 24 feet, with a large entry thro' the whole. The drawing room upstairs is 30 feet by 26, the back room is 20 feet by 24 - the third story may be divided into three rooms. The Lot is 32 feet front by 132 feet deep, subject to a ground rent of 6 dollars per foot, which may be bought off at a reasonable rate. For further particulars enquire of WILLIAM POWELL, Carpenter, Seventh-Street, between Arch and Race-Street; or at No. 29, north Seventh-Street. January 27. tu&tf3w
A number of building Lots to be let on ground rent, lying on the fourth side of Arch-Street - enquire as above.
For SALE, by the SUBSCRIBERS,
IN PENN-STREET,
 130 quarter Casks fresh Hylon Tea;  100 ditto do. fresh Souchoong Tea;  300 Boxes China, containing small tea sets of 42 pieces;  400 pieces Bandanoes;  4 Bales English Sail Canvas, No. 4, 5, and 6; 
Willings & Francis. January 30. 3raw.
PHILIP NICKLIN & CO.
HAVE FOR SALE,
 Earthen Ware, in crates, well assorted;  Madira Wine, in pipes, hogheads, and quarter casks;  Red Port Wine, of excellent quality, in Pipes and hogheads;  Old Mountain Wine, in quarter casks;  Sugar Candy, in boxes of 80 to 90lb each;  Jalap in powder;  Refined Camphor;  English Sail Canvas, No. 1 & 7;  A quantity of Mahogany;  A parcel of good green Coffee, in bags. 
February 8. m.w&f
SPIRITS.
ANY Person may be supplied with Rum, Gin, Cordials, and other Spirits, upon application to the Subscriber, at his Distillery, No. 115 Story, or New-Street, between Third and Fourth Streets.
THOMAS CAVE.
January 25. m.w
N. B. Whiskey and Molasses will be purchased upon application as above.
No. 8, North Front-Street.
Printed Calico and Muslin
WAREHOUSE.
RICHARD & JAMES POTTER,
Have just received a superb assortment of the following articles, which they offer for sale.
 PRINTED calicoes 4-4 wd. book muslins 6-4 wd. ditto ditto Book muslin handkerchiefs Pocket ditto Colored, bordered, muslin handkerchiefs Very new fancy ditto Elegant tambour muslins Colored work ditto Laced figured ditto Brocaded ditto Ladies plaid  Gentlemen's neck handkis. New fashionable shawls Madras handkerchiefs Tambour'd muslins Gurrhs Humhums Coffees &c &c An elegant and fresh assortment of ribbands and fathes Cotton Stockings Woollen ditto 
And a variety of other articles, just opened. Many of the above goods are particularly calculated for the West-India market. December 23. tav
James Tiffin,
WHOLESALE & RETAIL HATTER,
No. 70, South Second-Street, near the City Tavern,
HAS just received by the late arrivals from London and Bristol, a large and elegant assortment of Ladies and Gentlemen's fashionable HATS - Also, a variety of Children's HATS of different colours, which will be sold on the lowest terms for cash. N. B. Ladies Hats trimmed in the newest fashion from London. O.S. 12.
FOR SALE,
A Commodious Frame House,
Situated in North Second-Street, No. 145, lately occupied by Leonard Jacoby, consisting of a good three story frame, twenty-five feet in front; a two story Brick building behind, with a Kitchen and offices

Rickett's New Amphitheatre, CHESNU STREET.
TO-MORROW EVENING,
Saturday, the 20th February,
Will be exhibited,
Astonishing Feats of Horsemanship,
By Mr. Ricketts, Mr. F. Ricketts,
Mrs. SPINACUTA,
Mr. Langley, and Mr. Sully, Clown to the Horsemanship.
Mr. Ricketts will ride standing, and take several
SURPRISING LEAPS
OVER A FIVE BAR GATE,
With a number of other different manœuvres, &c.
Mr. Sully will go through his Comic Feats on
Foot and Horseback.
[With a great variety of other performances, particu-
lars to-morrow.]
The Evening's Amusement to conclude with
RICKETT'S NEW PANTOMIME,
called,
The Triumph of Virtue;
OR, HARLEQUIN IN PHILADELPHIA.
The Doors in future to be opened at FIVE
and the Entertainment to begin at SIX o'clock.
Boxes, one dollar—Pit, half a dollar.
Those Gentlemen who intend to take places for the
Boxes, are desired to send in time.
There are a number of Stoves placed in the Amphi-
theatre which render it perfectly comfortable.
The PRESIDENT'S BIRTH DAY.
MONDAY, the 22d instant, being the President's Birth
Day, the Officers of the First Division of the Militia of
Pennsylvania are requested to meet at the State House, precisely at
TWELVE o'clock, from whence they will proceed to the President's,
to congratulate him on the return of the Day; and demonstrate
their satisfaction in his commencing another year of exertion for the
Happiness of their Country. Such Members of the Cincinnati,
or Officers of the Army as may be in town on that day, are re-
quested to join in the procession.
W. STEWART, Major-General.
Philadelphia, February 18, 1796.
Notes, Wanted.
Messrs. MORRIS & NICHOLSON'S NOTES,
for which valuable and well situated Lots in
the City of Washington, will be given.
THOMAS NOBLE.
February 18.
Ephraim Clark,
CLOCK & WATCH MAKER, PHILADELPHIA,
Has received by the different arrivals,
A VERY LARGE AND EXTENSIVE ASSORTMENT OF
Gold, Silver, and Metal Watches;
ALSO, A GENERAL SUPPLY OF
TOOLS, FILES, AND MATERIALS;
Consisting of—
Japan'd Clock Faces; Eight day, and thirty hour brass;
Fit pins and forged work; large and small bells; time-
piece and watch glasses; springs; large and small files
and beak irons; ditto hammers; large and small bench
vices, and hand vices; sliding tongs and pliers; screw
plates; round, oval, and square draw plates; shears;
blow pipes; emery; rotten stone; panice stone; cruci-
bles; cat gut, and 30 hour lines; an elegant assortment
of ladies and gentlemen's steel and gilt chains, silk strings,
gilt and steel seals and keys.
All orders from the Country carefully attended to.
February 11. tu&f
Stop, and take Notice,
As the undermentioned paragraph will be found well
worth your attention—such indeed has never been
offered to the Public.
The Subscriber, just from London,
Has brought by the ship Favourite, four thou and pounds
worth of
Plated Goods, Silver Plate, Jewellery, &c.
and a few WATCHES,
WHICH he will sell for little more than half the price
that such articles are sold for in this country. A pair of
the best plated candlesticks, that are generally sold for 16
dollars, will be sold for 9; dollars; and every other arti-
cle in the like proportion; such as waiters, bread baskets,
tea and coffee urns, tea and coffee pots, and biggins, tea
caddies and shells, milk pots, sugar and cream basins,
dish covers with lamps, dish rings with ditto, toast trays,
candlesticks of various patterns and sizes, branches to
match, fruit frames, liquor ditto, wine and water ditto,
egg stands, butter boats, sauce tureens, fish knives, ink
stands, wine strainers, wax jacks, salts, goblets, and every
other plated article that is made at Sheffield, and of the
latest fashion; and will be open for SALE, this week
(only) wholesale and retail, at Ma lame ANDRAS's, south
Third-street, third house from Market-street.
The Jewellery will be open for sale on Monday next,
and will continue one week (only) such as ear rings and
drops of plain gold, cornelians, and set with pearls, neck-
laces to match, neck chains, lockets of plain gold with fine
paintings, some set with diamonds and pearls, ladies' and
gentlemen's rings of every kind, ladies' and gentlemen's
watches, chains, keys, seals and trinkets, and various other
articles, all of gold, and the latest fashion from London.
The Public will not think the above mentioned strange
when I inform them, that the destructive war that En-
gland is engaged in, has reduced the Manufacturers to
this necessity of raising money. Feb 10, 1796.
THE PLATED GOODS will be open again on Tues-
day—which, together with the JEWELLERY, and a
small box of CUTLERY, will continue open this week
(only.) ROBERT HENDERSON.
February 18.
To the Public.
THE Miniature Painter from Paris begs leave to
inform the public, that his hours of attendance
for the future will be from 8 o'clock in the morning
unremittingly until three in the afternoon.
No. 2, North fifth Street.
2d of February 1796. d
JUST PUBLISHED,
By MATHEW CAREY, No. 118, Market-street,
[Price Three Dollars, in Boards]
THE
American Remembrancer.
IN THREE VOLUMES.
This WORK contains the whole of the Essays un-
der the signatures of Cato, Porlicola, Camillus, Clonus, Decius,
The Federalist, Atticus, Tully, Cato, Cincinnatus, with an extensive variety of other Essays—Likewise the
most part of the Reports and Proceedings throughout the
United States, on the subject of the VACANCY.
February 2. each 25
Mr. Walter Robertson
BEGS leave to acquaint Gentlemen, subscribers to
the print Portrait of George Washington, President
of the United States of America, engraved by Mr. Field,
from an original picture painted by W. Robertson, that
the Proofs are ready for delivery to the several subscrib-
ers at John James Barrall's, No. 19 north Ninth-street;
or at J. Ormerod's, bookseller, No. 41, Chesnut-street,
where the subscribers are requested to send their address.
October 27. cod.
STATE OF NEW-YORK.
Arguments in the Supreme Court in the late Janu-
ary term.
Argument of Mr. JUSTICE BENSON.
The People, versus Joseph Webb, ?
otherwise called Josiah Stiles.
BY a statute, of this State, passed the 7th Feb.
1788, it is among other things, enacted, "that if
any person shall utter or publish as true a forged
promissory note for the payment of money, know-
ing the same to be forged every such person being
thereof convicted according to the due course of
law shall be deemed guilty of Felony and shall suf-
fer death as a Felon"—The defendant was in April
term 1794 convicted on an indictment for a felony
on the clause of the statute here cited: but the
forgery being a forgery of a note made by the Pre-
sident, directors and company of the bank of the
United States, a corporation created by a statute of
the United States, and thereby enabled to make
promissory notes for the payment of money, the fol-
lowing questions have thereupon occurred, 1st, Is
not the fact charged against the defendant "An
offence against the United States," as it is expres-
sed in the Constitution of the United States, Art.
2, Sect. 3. or doth it not constitute "a case to
which the judicial power of the United States
doth extend as arising under their laws," as it is
expressed Art. 3. Sect. 2. If so then secondly, hath
a State Court jurisdiction in the case?—On these
questions judgment against the defendant hath been
stayed hitherto.
Those questions when examined will discover
themselves to be very important, and as there will
therefore be a proportionable responsibility for the
judicial opinions respecting them I have from that
consideration been induced to commit the reasons
or principles, of that opinion which I shall give,
to writing in the form of an argument.
Although the questions as stated are supposed to
be distinct and independent; they however appear
to me to be inseparable, and that the affirmative of
either of them, necessarily involves the negative of
the other; and so I shall consider them, and I shall
endeavor to be as concise as perspicuity and con-
clusiveness will permit.
By the constitution of the United States, in re-
ference to the present questions, it is implied 1st,
that every act punishable as a public offence, how-
ever complex it may be, is to constitute a case not
partible, in respect to jurisdiction, between the
United States, and the State within which such act
may have taken place. Supposing A. kills B. sup-
posing that further he burns the house of B. If A.
when he killed B. was in open rebellion against the
United States, and if he killed him by resisting him
when lawfully attempting to suppress the rebellion,
and if he burnt the house with intent thereby to
deter others from attempting to suppress the rebel-
lion, the killing and burning would then be ad-
judged malicious, and consequently be respectively
murder and arson; but being combined with the
act of rebellion, they do, together with it, become
a complex act constituting a case of the offence of
treason "in levying war against the United States."
It is not easy, perhaps not possible, to conceive an
instance, as it were in the converse, exemplifying a
simple act, a less offence and existing as such an of-
fence against the United States, but being combined
with another act, a greater offence, becoming
thereby an inseparable part of a complex act con-
stituting an offence against the State—the reason, as
I perceive the subject is, that every simple act, in
itself criminal as to be punishable by law, will be
considered an offence against the State of course,
and will become an offence against the United States
in consequence only of a circumstance which may
happen to be attached to it; and although a simple
act, may, by reason of a circumstance be an offence
against the United States yet it may, by being fur-
ther combined with another act, then become an
inseparable part of a complex act constituting a case
of an offence of a greater degree and as such an of-
fence against the State—The circumstance by which
an act, otherwise existing as an offence against the
State, may become an offence against the United
States, may, or may not, so affect the act as to ren-
der it more offensive—To explain what I here mean
—If A assaults B, it is an offence against the State;
but if B, when assaulted was an officer of the Uni-
ted States and in the execution of his office, this is
a mere circumstance, and in this instance a circum-
Text"> stance of aggravation and the assault, To circum-
Text"> stances, is an offence against the United States—
Text"> If A not only assaults B so being in the execution
Text"> of his office, but if further he murders him, then
Text"> the assault by such further combination becomes an
Text"> inseparable part of a greater offence and an offence
Text"> against the State. The act charged against the de-
Text"> fendant, in the case now before the court, is as will
Text"> be more particularly stated a cheat; the artful de-
Text"> vice, or the mean used, was a forgery of a note of a
Text"> corporation created by the United States; this is
Text"> a mere circumstance and not of aggravation, the
Text"> act would have been equally aggravated if the mean
Text"> used had been a forgery of a note of a corporation
Text"> created by the State, or even of a note of an indi-
Text"> vidual natural person; but by this circumstance, the
Text"> simple act of the cheat becomes an offence against
Text"> the United States.
Text"> 2dly. That the same simple act cannot be an of-
Text"> fence against the United States, and also an of-
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CONGRESS.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Thursday, February 18.
Mr. Freeman asked leave of absence for two months, which was granted.
A report was read from the Committee of claims on sundry communications from the Secretary of War, containing applications of officers and soldiers of the late army to be placed on the Invalid pension list. This report contains the names of a number of persons proposed by the committee to be placed on the list at various rates. Read twice and agreed to.
A report was read from the same Committee, on the petition of Catharine Lowrey, in which the petitioner had leave to withdraw her petition. This report was agreed to.
Mr. Livingston said he would call the attention of the house to the situation of a very important and meritorious class of men whose value seemed to have been overlooked and whose dearest rights were either shamefully neglected or ignominiously surrendered—He adverted to the seamen of the United States. This valuable class of men would fall under one of these descriptions.
 1. Native American Citizens.  2. Such as were citizens at the Declaration of Independence and at the period of the peace with Great Britain.  3. Foreigners naturalized since the Declaration of Independence. 
It would be no difficult matter to prove that all the individuals of either of those descriptions were equally entitled to the protection of government; to the same or greater exertions in their favor than were made for those citizens whose situation rendered it easier to apply for relief.
Yet this meritorious body of our constituents, he said, thus entitled to our protection and favor, falling under the sanction of our national flag, had been illegally seized, violently forced into a service they abhorred, cruelly torn from their relations, their families and their country, and ignominiously scourged for asserting the privileges of their citizenship. The country to whom they looked for protection and relief had regarded their sufferings with apathy and indifference—three years we had beheld their miseries and heard their cries for relief, yet for three years we had been silent spectators of this disgraceful scene. We had begun a compact with their oppressors in which these unfortunate men looked in vain for one word of comfort in their misery—for one little article in the voluminous pages of the instrument that might offer a hope of recompence for their past sufferings, or security against future oppressions. "I blush (said Mr. Livingston) as an American, to think it was an American Minister who could be guilty of this disgraceful omission. I should be covered with shame and confusion for my Country if I could suppose them capable of giving it their sanction, and I hold it a sacred duty, in whatever station I might be placed to contribute every exertion, and the little influence I possess for their relief." He concluded with moving the following resolution:
Resolved, That a committee be appointed to enquire and report whether any and what legislative provision is necessary for the relief of such American Seamen as may have been impressed into the service of any foreign power—and also to report a mode of furnishing American Seamen with such evidence of their citizenship as may protect them from foreign impressments in future.
Ordered to lie on the table. In committee of the whole on the bill granting relief to certain officers and soldiers who have been wounded or disabled in the actual service of the United States.
The Committee reported the bill without amendment.
The house took the same into consideration. The question then was, on engrossing the bill for a third reading, which was agreed to.
In committee of the whole on the report of the Committee of ways and means, relative to taking further measures for re-inforcing the provision for sinking the public debt:
Mr. Muhlenberg in the Chair. The first resolution was read.
Mr. Gallatin observed that when this subject was laid under consideration, the resolution was objected to; as it did not provide for re-imbursing to the United States the interest which would accrue on the principal paid quarterly. The resolution proposing to pay a certain sum of the Capital, over and above the sum of 2 per cent. per annum, agreeable to law. Mr. Gallatin thought that this interest ought to be calculated, and deducted from the last payment in the year. He moved therefore, that there should be a blank left for this last payment. This amendment was agreed to. The year 1817 was also struck out, and left blank: several other blanks were made.
The Committee then rose and reported the resolutions as amended. Some further amendments, by striking out and leaving blanks, were made in the house. The resolutions were severally agreed to, and the committee of ways and means instructed to bring in a bill accordingly.
The bill for the relief of Benjamin Strother was taken up in the Committee of the whole: reported, agreed to by the House, and ordered to be engrossed for a third reading to-morrow.
In Committee of the whole on the land office bill. The motion by Mr. Havens to amend Mr. Gallatin's amendment by striking out the words "one half" was again discussed.
Mr. Williams supported the general principle of small tracts; he recited the progress of the state of New-York in disposing of their vacant land—they had tried large, middling, and small tracts of one mile square; and the sales of the last had been by far the most productive.—Mr. Williams was opposed to the idea of bringing the whole quantity of lands at once to market; he was for surveying to a certain extent for the present, and making this extent the object of the present bill. With respect to larger tracts, to be sold to capitalists he thought provision might be made in a future bill. Advertising to the circumstance of peopling the western
country with foreigners; he thought this was a business of great importance and required great deliberation.—He was sensible that foreigners could not be prevented from going to that country; he thought it of great consequence that such encouragement should be held out to our own citizens as that a due proportion of them should be mixed with the foreigners—This would be laying a solid foundation for lasting peace between the western and Atlantic citizens. The habits, views and connections of the settlers would bind them to the union and government—an object of the greatest importance.
Mr. Baldwin was in favor of the original amendment; he conceived that it might be made to operate to answer the purposes of all parties—He was averse from the idea of laying out the whole ten millions of acres in small lots, which operation would result from the amendment to the amendment. Mr. Baldwin did not contemplate a survey and division, for the purposes of sale of the whole ten millions, with any degree of satisfaction; the consequence would necessarily be, that the lands would lay on our hands. He did not apprehend the danger of speculation and monopoly, which had been so often mentioned, if the amendment should be agreed to, especially if the price contemplated, was fixed. This price would deter speculators from becoming extensive purchasers, and will confine the sales to small tracts only.
Mr. Maclay was of opinion that the committee who brought in the present bill had principally the Treasury in view, but if a mode could be adopted that would equally encourage settlers and benefit the public funds, it would be desirable. It must be evident, he said, to every one, that an actual settler would not be able to purchase the quantity of land mentioned in the bill. He believed there would be no difference of opinion on that head.—It would be well to enquire what plan would operate most to the advantage of the treasury.
He believed it was a fact generally allowed, that the greatest quantity of the money of this country lay in the hands of agriculturalists. These purchasers then, should be met; for if the quantities of land offered be too great, or the price too high, these men would be shut out from the market; but he thought a system might be devised which would equally suit monied men and men of small property. In the extent of country they were about to dispose of, there was land enough to satisfy the demand of purchasers of every class. The only question is, the best way of doing this. It must be on terms which they can embrace. Men of little money must have small parcels of land, whilst men of large property may have as much as they please. Shall these purchasers be mingled together or separate? Persons purchasing small lots, would wish to be near their friends or connections, who might also have been purchasers, that they might be of mutual service to each other. The way then, in his opinion, to meet both demands, would be to lay off one part of the land in large tracts, and the other part in small lots. Besides, he said, suppose a lot of six miles square settled, the adjoining lots would immediately increase in value, and as no one would have a claim to it, it ought to go to the Treasury of the United States, which it would do if the lands were undivided. The two plans, he observed, should by all means be kept distinct, as there was an impossibility of doing two things at the same time; one would interfere with the other. He said the land they were about to dispose of was a great common right to which every citizen in the country was entitled to a share, therefore to bring it to market in such lots as but few can purchase was injustice; besides, persons of small property would be lost as purchasers by such a conduct. If the Treasury, indeed, alone was considered, small lots would best answer the purpose. He said it would be also unjust to bring the whole of the land into the market at once; for, as it is a common right, all ought to have a chance of purchasing, and some persons who cannot just now raise money, might be able to buy in the course of a few years. Nor would it be prudent, he said, to glut the market. The quantity necessary for the present demand might easily be calculated.
With respect to boundaries, Mr. Maclay thought it easy to describe lots sufficiently correct, by means of rivers, creeks, &c. As one part of the country, he said, became settled, another would encroach in value, and by a proper disposal of these lands, the national debt would be extinguished: but if this plan failed, there would be no resource left but taxation, which it would be desirable to avoid. It has been said, that the survey should be regulated by the cardinal points: this method, he said, might prove to be the most inconvenient of any. He concluded by saying, that policy and justice equally required that purchasers of every description should be attended to, and hoped, therefore, that the amendments would be agreed to, and the bill recommitted.
Mr. Harper called the attention of the Committee to the specific object before them, which was simply this, whether the sales should be confined to tracts of one mile square only, agreeable to the amendment to the amendment. He remarked that the discussion was carried on in a desultory manner, that no man could see an end to it.
Mr. Havens, said if the opinion of the gentleman from Georgia should be the general sense of the Committee, he would withdraw his motion, for agreeable to that gentleman's reasoning, he is opposed to selling the lands in any other way than in small quantities. Mr. Havens again referred to the experience of New-York, and inferred from thence the superior policy of retailing the lands, over that of selling them by wholesale.—This principle said he, is confirmed by the universal experience of mankind; and he saw no good reason for not adopting it in the present case. He noticed the objection drawn from the best lots being taken up, and the inferior left. He said that this would be advantageous to the United States. The value of the unsold lots will appreciate, and the government will avail itself of all the profits, that would otherwise fall into the hands of the speculators.—That the lots left, will finally sell to advantage is abundantly proved, not only by the experience of New York, but also of other states. He had bro't
forward his amendment to try the principle, whether the United States will sell the lands by wholesale, or by retail.
Mr. Cooper stated sundry particulars of the operation of the laws of New-York in respect to the sale of their lands. He said the farmers were not benefited by the system adopted by that state; they never purchased one acre from the public.—Mr. Cooper acknowledged the price of the land was raised, but that the class of citizens, who are held up as the principal objects of attention, by many gentlemen were not benefited at all.
Mr. Havens said in reply, that the scope of his remarks went only to show that a better price was obtained by the retail system. That the gentleman had confirmed.
Mr. Crabb advocated a system that should embrace every class of purchasers. He reprobated the plan of equally dividing the whole of the territory, as impolitic. It would exclude the great mass of monied purchasers, those who would buy large tracts on what he considered a laudable speculation. It would accommodate the poor, and by that means enhance the value of the land remaining unsold in the neighbourhood of that which they settled. Mr. Crabb said it was in vain for the government to entertain the idea of accommodating the numerous classes of citizens in all parts of the union by an immediate sale to them, there are thousands who will never apply to you in person; they cannot do it, such persons must be accommodated nearer home. This can be done by their more opulent neighbours. The bill therefore ought to provide for those who may apply to your offices for small lots, and at the same time accommodate the monied interest, that those at a distance may also be benefited. This will answer the two great objects, settle the country, and swell the public treasury.
Mr. Gallatin said his amendment had been misunderstood, his idea was that one half the towns should be laid out in small tracts, not one half of a single town; but that either alternately, or in particular districts the whole of a town should be so laid out. He believed this explanation would show that he did not differ materially from the gentleman from New-York (Mr. Havens.) He was equally with him in favor of retailing the lands. Mr. Gallatin then entered into a consideration of the general policy which he conceived ought to be adopted in the sale of the territory; his wish was in the first place to accommodate the actual settlers, those who could pay and those who had not ready cash, but must buy on credit; and lastly those who buy to sell to actual settlers. As to what are called speculators, those who purchase, to sell to those who sell again, his wish was to have the bill so framed as to exclude all such from the market.
The question on Mr. Havens's motion being put was negatived. Mr. Gallatin's motion was then agreed to.
The Committee rose reported progress and the house immediately adjourned.
Latest European Intelligence, Received via Charleston.
LONDON, November 20.
The Dutch papers, extracts from which will be found in the subsequent columns of this paper, mention some disturbance in Amsterdam, occasioned by a letter from the Hague. It states a coalition formed for the purpose of counter-revolution, between the members of the ancient regency, and the Dutch emigrants at Osnaburgh. It affirms with little likelihood, that the French had determined to withdraw their protection from the United Provinces, and we actually negotiating a separate treaty with Great-Britain.
Several persons, upon no better grounds, immediately seized the keys of the city gates, and the barriers of the port, and committed various excesses. Strong patrols were immediately ordered to parade the streets. The French deputies at Amsterdam denied these imputations in an address to the municipality. Upon an invitation from their representatives to maintain the public peace, and a proclamation from the commissioners, they appointed to examine into the affair, the city two days after was rendered perfectly quiet.
November 21.
We lament to find that a most dreadful hurricane has overtaken the ill-fated fleet destined for the West-Indies. Our readers will see under the head of letters from Weymouth and Plymouth, in this day's paper, that in a gale of wind, severe beyond description, enormous damage has been done to this fleet. As yet, it is impossible to ascertain the amount. At Lloyd's they have received accounts of ten transports being either stranded or utterly lost. What number of troops or stores they had on board they cannot tell. The expedition must now be retarded for a month at least.
Yesterday the welcome intelligence was received at the India House, of the arrival at Portsmouth of the following ships, we formerly announced, having sailed from St. Helena, under convoy of the Hector:
 From Bengal—the Rockingham, Melville Castle, Queen, and Thetis.  From Calcutta—the Dublin, Lord Macartney, Duke of Buccleugh, Walpole, Bodiam.  From Bencoolen—the Europa.  Extra Ships—the Indian Trader and Latona.  The Meccasser, Dutch Prize, was not arrived. 
November 23.
Liberty of the Press.—It is announced, but we do not vouch for its authenticity, that a bill is about to be introduced into Parliament, enacting—
"That all pamphlets and publications of a political nature, shall be marked with the signature of the respective writers, before they are committed to press, under the severest pains and penalties."
November 24.
The following is a comparative Estimate of the total produce of the Duties of Customs, Excise, Stamps, and incidents, for two years, viz. From October 10, 1793, to October 10, 1795; and from October 10, 1794, to October 10, 1795:
   Year ending October 10, 1794. Year ending October 10, 1795.     Total produce of customs, 4,044,923 15 6 3/4 3,412,255 6 8   Ditto of excise, 7,541,965 2 5 3/4 8,739,013 11 9   Do stamp duties 1,420,867 11 10 1,609,906 19 3   Do. of incidents 2,368,839 5 1 3/4 1,940,331 13 0   15,376,595 15 8 3/4   Total exceeding of revenue in 1795, 324,911 15 1 3/4   £15,701,507 10 2 3/4 15,701,507 10 10  
On Monday last, at a meeting which was held at Ross, in Herefordshire, of the farmers of that district a voluntary agreement was entered into, that each sub-
scriber would send to that market a quantity of wheat for the relief of the poor, proportioned to his stock, and he sold at a price not exceeding 10s. per bushel. The quantity agreed to be sent, already amounts to 2000 bushels—which, with what is yet expected, will afford a reasonable supply till the next harvest.
The Arethusa, and Concorde frigates, whose arrival at Plymouth we mentioned in last Saturday's Oracle, recently left Isle Dieu. These ships have brought into port 410 of the Hulan cavalry, who expect to be put in immediate actual service.
The British squadron when these vessels left the French coast, rode in Quiberon bay.
Charette has experienced another defeat by the republicans, who have cut off all communication between him and the British fleet, the shore being lined with troops and cannon.
DOVER, November 23.
The Prussian Ambassador, Baron Jacobi, and his suite, from Calais, landed yesterday afternoon at Deal; his Excellency's carriage and retinue were landed this morning.
NORFOLK, February 8.
On Saturday evening arrived here the brig Fly, capt. Curray from Teneriffe, which place he left the 26th December. By him we learn that the Kingston East-Indiaman had arrived there the day before, in 10 days from England, which brought an account of an exchange of prisoners between England and France, and that a peace was daily expected between those powers.
In a London paper which captain Curray read there was an account of an English privateer having been taken by the Algerines, with upwards of 100 men on board; also that the British Consul was ordered to quit Algiers immediately.
In our last we omitted to mention, that there had been eight Spanish ships taken and carried into Bermuda; four of which were captured by the Thetis and other king's ships and four by Bermudian privateers. The Governor has liberated those taken by the privateers.
Philadelphia, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 19, 1796.
Extract of a letter from Havana, dated January 10. "The celebrated negro general Jean Francois, and his second in command, arrived here yesterday from Fort Dauphin, with about 400 of their adherents; but so much, and so justly, do the owners of the estates now dread the introduction of such a bloody militia among them, that they have, with the city council, in a body, opposed his being allowed to put his foot ashore, nor any of his people. In consequence of this spirited conduct they all remain on board of the vessels that brought them, and no person, except the officers of the government, allowed to go on board, or hold any intercourse with these cruel plundering murderers. It is supposed they will be sent to Florida, from whence they will soon find their way into the United States."
Mr. FENNO,
Be pleased to publish for the government of the merchants concerned, the following information communicated to me by the Secretary of State.
At the instance of Mr. Bond, his Britannic Majesty's charge des affaires in the United States, the Judge of the Vice Admiralty Court at Bermuda, has prolonged the term of his interlocutory decrees, until the question relative to the blockade of the French ports of the Island of St. Domingo could be decided by intelligence from them—And by the like interposition the requisite intelligence has been obtained from General Williamson, and now transmitted to Governor Craufurd, to be communicated to Judge Green.
As General Williamson, the British commander in chief in St. Domingo, has declared that these French ports have not been considered in a state of blockade; but on the contrary that the commerce of the United States with them has been perfectly free, it may be justly expected, that all American property, the subject of these interlocutory decrees, will now be discharged.
THOMAS FITZSIMONS, Chairman of the Committee of Merchants, February 19, 1796.
Translated from the Courier de la France.
Extract of a letter dated Pouilhac, river of Bourdeaux, December 2.
"The new legislature is seriously engaged on the subject of the finances. A plan is talked of for continuing in circulation ten millions of assignats, specially bottomed on the unsold national domains, and to the purchase of which those assignats are to be assigned. As to the surplus of the paper money, it is to be progressively reimbursed, at the rate of three livres, five sous, eight deniers for the hundred livres."
Peace is now more talked of than ever; and if we may believe those who have opportunities of being well informed on this point, the preliminaries have been already agreed on; we count on the ensuing spring as the epoch of that happy event.
PORT OF PHILADELPHIA. ARRIVED.
Ship Amiable, Tillinghast, Liverpool, last from New-York.
Capt. Tillinghast informs that he saw an inward bound brig altern, on his coming into the Capes—Wednesday he was at a considerable distance below Bombay Hook, since that time he saw no more of her, and supposes she put off to sea again.
A Stated Meeting of the American Philosophical Society will be held at their Hall, this evening, at six o'clock. R. PATTERSON. February 19.
THE Copartnership of the Subscribers, trading by the Firm of GILL & HENSHAW, is this day dissolved—all persons indebted to said Firm are requested to make speedy payment to WILLIAM HENSHAW, No. 87, fourth Fourth-street, who is duly authorized to receive and settle all accounts.
MICHAEL GILL, WILLIAM HENSHAW. Philadelphia, Feb. 19.
The Business will be continued by William Henshaw, as soon as a proper situation can be obtained.

Washington Canal Lottery, NO. I.
WHEREAS the State of Maryland has authorised the underwritten, to raise twenty-six thousand, two hundred, and fifty dollars, for the purpose of cutting a Canal through the City of Washington, from the Potomac to the Eastern Branch Harbour.
The following is the SCHEME of No. I.
Table with 3 columns: Prize amount, Number of prizes, Total amount. Includes entries for 20,000 dollars, 10,000 dollars, 5,000 dollars, etc.
17,500 Tickets, at Ten Dollars, - 175,000. The Commissioners have taken the Securities required by the aforesaid act for the punctual payment of the prizes.
The drawing of this Lottery will commence, without delay, as soon as the Tickets are sold, of which timely notice will be given.
Such prizes as are not demanded in six months after the drawing is finished, shall be considered as relinquished for the benefit of the Canal, and appropriated accordingly.
(Signed) NOTLEY YOUNG, DANIEL CARROLL, EDW. LEWIS DEBELOIS, GEORGE WALKER, WM. M. DUNCANSON, THOMAS LAW, JAMES BARRY.
City of Washington, Feb. 11.
or Date at this Office.
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City of Washington.
SCHEME of the LOTTERY, No. II, FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE FEDERAL CITY.
Table with 3 columns: Prize amount, Number of prizes, Total amount. Includes entries for 20,000 dollars, 15,000 dollars, 10,000 dollars, etc.
16,739 Prizes.
33,251 Blanks.
50,000 Tickets, at Eight Dollars, 400,000
This Lottery will afford an elegant specimen of the private buildings to be erected in the City of Washington. Two beautiful designs are already selected for the entire rows 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 Prize are held by the President and two Directors of the Bank of Columbia, and are valued at more than half the amount of the Lottery.
The twenty-four gentlemen who by appointment of the late Commissioners assisted in the management of the Hotel Lottery are requested to undertake this arduous task a second time on behalf of the public; a sufficient number of 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 & 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.
Aug 30
Tickets may be had at the Bank of Columbia; of James West & Co. Baltimore; or Gideon Denison, Savannah; of Peter Gilman, Boston; of John Hopkins, Richmond; and of Richard Wells, Cooper's Ferry.
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Late belonging to Godfrey Malbone, Esq. deceased, SITUATED in Newport, Rhode-Island, consisting of about 700 acres of choice arable and pasture land, within a mile of the central part of Newport. This estate is advantageously situated, plentifully watered—commands an extensive prospect of the town, ocean, country, &c. &c. Has upon it orchards, of the best engrafted fruit trees; and three handsome farm houses, in good repair. In the elegant and extensive gardens, belonging to the same, are several fish-ponds, bathing streams, summer-houses, &c. &c. Together with a quantity of Connecticut free-stone—the ruins of a large mansion house, consumed by fire.
For terms of purchase, &c. apply to Francis Brinley and William Hunter, Esquires, at Newport, Rhode-Island; Dr. Lloyd, and Mr. Nathaniel Brinley, at Boston; Mr. Samuel Breck, jun. Philadelphia; or to Richard Harrison, Esq. at New-York. Feb. 13. *attend.
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Delaware Bridge.
THE President and Managers of the Company for erecting a Bridge over the river Delaware, at the Borough of Easton,
Give this Public Notice,
That they will, until the first day of February next, receive proposals of suitable plans or models for the said Bridge; as also for the erection thereof, and the delivery of materials. The length of the Bridge will be at the least 600 feet, and must not be composed of more than three arches.
Any person inclined to engage in the above undertaking, will please to direct their plans and proposals to the Secretary of the Company at Easton.
By order of the President and Managers,
JOHN ARNDT, Secretary.
Easton, Pennsylvania, Nov. 12. m w & s
TO BE SOLD,
That Han/ome SEAT near Princeton, the property of the late Rev. Doctor John Witherspoon, known by the name of TUSCULUM.
IT consists of a neat well finished stone house, two stories high, with four rooms on each floor, and a cellar under the whole. There are attached to it one hundred and fifty acres of land, more or less, and chiefly enclosed with good and durable stone fences. Of these about eight acres are natural meadow, six acres artificial, sown with red clover, and from twenty to thirty acres woodland. On the premises there is a valuable orchard of young and thrifty apple-trees, a framed barn and stables, two corn houses, a grain loft, and carriage house quite new, a new stone milk house, and near it a well and a constant spring of water. For terms apply to Thomas V. Johnston, Esq. or the Rev. Samuel S. Smith, in Princeton; or Mr. Marshall, No. 118 Spruce-Street, Philadelphia—or to the subscriber at Tuscolum.
Ann Witherspoon.
Tuscolum, December 20. tf.
FOR SALE,
A very valuable ESTATE,
Called TWITTENHAM.
SITUATE in the township of Upper Derby, and county of Delaware, 7 1-2 miles from Philadelphia, and half a mile from the new Western road; containing 230 acres of excellent Land, 45 of which are good watered Meadow, 90 of prime Wood Land, and the rest Arable of the first quality. There are on the premises a good thrifty Brick House, with 4 rooms on a floor, and Cellars under the whole, with a Pump Well of excellent Water in front; a large frame Barn, Stables, and other convenient buildings; a Snake-House and stone Spring House; two good Apple-Orchards, and one of Peaches. The Fields are all in Clover, except those immediately under tillage, and are so laid out as to have the advantage of Water in each of them, which renders it peculiarly convenient for Grazing.
The situation is pleasant and healthy, and from the high cultivation of the Land, the good neighbourhood, and the vicinity to the city, it is very suitable for a Gentleman's Country Seat.
The foregoing is part of the Estate of Jacob Hanman, deceased and offered for sale by MORDECAI LEWIS
Surviving Executor.
Oct. 9, 1795
Bank of Columbia,
FEBRUARY 12th, 1796.
A Late act of the General Assembly making some alteration in the Charter of the Bank of Columbia (but not to have effect until the consent of the Stockholders in the said Bank be given at a general meeting, and transmitted, under their corporate seal, to the governor and council) being too long for insertion in a newspaper, I am directed by the President and Directors to notify the Stockholders of the alteration, as follows:
By the original law, the Stock of the Bank of Columbia is to consist of 10,000 shares of 100 dollars each, to be paid by annual instalments of 10 dollars on each share, except the first three payments, which are directed to be made, and which have accordingly been made, at shorter periods. A failure in making any of the payments required by the law, operates a forfeiture of all preceding payments.
The late act provides that the Stockholders may pay, as soon as they think proper, the several instalments still to become due on their shares, or any part thereof—but the aggregate amount of the voluntary payments so to be made is not to exceed in any one year 100,000 dollars. No forfeiture is hereafter to be incurred by any Stockholder for non-payment of any of the remaining instalments due on his shares—and each Stockholder is to be entitled to receive of the future dividends in proportion to the sums actually paid by him to the Bank.
Thus, it is proposed that each Stockholder shall be at liberty to pay up the instalments still remaining unpaid on his shares, or not, as may best suit his convenience and interest, without any risk of forfeiting the payments already made, or his share of his future dividends in proportion to his payments.
There has already been paid to the Bank 40 dollars on each share, or 400,000 dollars of the Capital Stock.
A meeting of the Stockholders will be held at Georgetown on the 26th day of March next, to elect twelve Directors for the year ensuing—and it is presumed by the President and Directors that the question as to the acceptance or rejection of this late act of the General Assembly will at that time be decided. (2aw20m) S. HANSON, of Sam. Cabier.
Insurance from Lois By Fire.
THE Insurance Company of North-America, to accommodate the Public, throughout the United States, with respect to insurances from Fire on BUILDINGS of every description, hereby publish, that resolutions to this effect have passed their Board; and that hereafter they shall be ready to make such insurances on terms to be fixed by their President and Committee, agreeably to circumstances. Those who are anxious to effect insurances, will find their advantage in finding the most particular statement of their buildings, and the relative circumstances. Persons not having a correspondent in this city, or who prefer doing this business with the Office directly, by means of Letters, post paid must not fail to enclose a builder's description of the dimensions, condition, materials and situation of the building proposed to be insured, especially with respect to its contiguity to other buildings, and whether those building be of wood, or brick, or stone. It must be particularly stated, whether the building itself, or those in its neighbourhood, be occupied as dwellings, or used as magazines or manufactories, and for what particular purpose; and to obviate all objection, it is expected that this builder's statement, and the representation annexed, shall be severally signed by the parties, and accompanied by a magistrate's certificate, that they are persons of good repute. For the government of the Public, they deem it expedient to notice, that although the premium must be fixed according to the degree of hazard in the estimation of the President and Committee of the week, yet it will probably not be more than from about half to one per cent. annually, except where a house or store is not only itself built of wood, but situated next other buildings of the same material. On such risks not more than four thousand dollars will be written on one policy. Houses and stores built of brick or stone, and situated in open streets in any of the principal towns or cities where fire engines and fire companies are established, and not containing articles particularly combustible, will be considered risks entitled to assurance at the lowest of these rates. On single hazards, even of the best kind, where from remoteness those advantages cannot be enjoyed, the Company will not assure more than six thousand dollars. No policy will be signed till the premium be paid.
Any person insuring for seven years, will be charged only the amount of six annual premiums; and for three years, a deduction of one-third of a year's premium will be made. By order of the Board, EBEN. HAZARD, Secretary.
Office of Insurance Company of N. A. } 2aw. Philadelphia, Jan. 26, 1796. }
PROPOSALS
FOR PUBLISHING BY SUBSCRIPTION,
S K E T C H E S
OF THE
HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES,
From the peace of 1783, to the termination of the present Session of Congress.
BY MATHEW CAREY.
CONDITIONS.
I. This work will be comprised in two or three octavo volumes, each about 400 pages. II. The price to subscribers will be two dollars per volume, handsomely bound. III. No money will be required till the volumes are delivered. IV. Should any of the subscribers disapprove of the work when complete, they may decline receiving it. V. It is expected to be ready for press in the spring of 1797. VI. As soon after the above time, as one thousand copies are subscribed for, the printing shall commence, and shall be finished as speedily as possible. VII. Subscriptions received by the Author, No. 118, Market-Street, and by the chief Bookellers throughout the United States.
TO THE PUBLIC.
THE object of the proposed work, is, to present to public view a connected series of the chief events of a period of American history, that does not yield, in importance, to any period of equal length, in the peaceful annals of any country in the world.
Desiring to excite no expectations but such as he shall endeavour to satisfy, the writer is thus early in announcing, that the body and confidence of a regular history, is not to be looked for in this work: neither his talents nor his avocations allow him to hope for this. His humbler task shall be to sketch out the most prominent features. It shall be his study to collect and arrange the most interesting materials—to smooth the rugged path—for abler hands, who, by such means, will find their labours abridged, and their progress accelerated.
His chief view will be, to give the History of the United States as a confederated Republic. Nevertheless, notice will be taken of the most remarkable circumstances in the history of the individual States, as far as they can be collected. This information shall be classed under separate appendixes.
The Author solicits the assistance of such Gentlemen as may be possessed of documents calculated to promote the execution of his plan. They shall be received with due gratitude—carefully preserved—and safely returned. February 9
Portraits.
ANY Ladies and Gentlemen, who are desirous of having their Likenesses taken, may have them done by applying to the Painter, at No. 112, corner of Union and Fourth Streets, where they can be referred to specimens. October 20.
JAMES M'ALPIN,
TAYLOR,
No 3 South Fourth Street,
RETURNS his sincere acknowledgements to his Friends and the Public for their liberal encouragement, and begs leave to solicit a continuance of their favors.
As his Shop gentlemen may be furnished with the best materials, and have them made up and finished in the most fashionable manner. He will thankfully receive any orders and pay a prompt and punctilious attention to them. Oct. 15
PROPOSALS,
FOR PRINTING BY SUBSCRIPTION,
A NEW EDITION OF
MILLAR'S ELEMENTS
OF THE
LAW OF INSURANCE.
THE present publication shall, by additions to the small Treatise published in Britain in 1787, be augmented to the size of two volumes royal octavo, consisting of at least 600 pages each, on a small pica type.
It had been suggested to the compiler, by many persons conversant in the law and practice of Insurance, that a complete compilation of the authorities on this single subject would be of great utility; to which persons particularly interested in this one branch of law might have recourse, instead of being under the necessity of purchasing, and turning over a variety of voluminous publications. To answer this end of convenience, it is proposed to define the first volume of the present work to the reception of a very full collection of authorities, not in a state of abridgement, as was the case in the former edition; and which could never supersede recourse to the originals; but to be inserted verbatim from the most approved original compilations, and arranged in the mode which appears easiest for consultation.
This First Volume, or Dictionary of Authorities, will comprehend,
1st. The ancient Marine Ordinances of the foreign states of Europe: which form the common law of Insurance. At present it is unfortunate that a collection of these is scarcely to be found any where else than in that scarce and dear book, Magen's Essay, in two volumes, 4to.
2d. The Statute Law of Great-Britain in regard to Insurances. The American legislatures have hitherto done nothing upon this subject.
3d. A very full collection of the reports of adjudged cases in the courts of England and Scotland, and of those of the States of America so far as they can be obtained. This will form by far the greatest as well as the most important part of the first volume. By means of his friends at the English bar, the compiler hopes to bring forward a number of reports of adjudged cases never before published, so as to make the series on this subject more complete than any now extant.
The second volume will consist of an Institute, or Elementary Treatise, on a plan something similar to that of the former edition; but with a great addition of new matter; so as to extend this part of the work to about double the former size. A more practical arrangement will also be studied.
The whole will be attended with very full Indexes of the different parts.
Price to Subscribers six dollars and one half for the two volumes in boards.
The work will be put to the press whenever a sufficient number of subscriptions have been obtained to indemnify the publisher for the actual expense of publication.
Subscriptions will be received by Thomas Dobsen, and all the Booksellers in Philadelphia. January 19.
BURR MILL STONES
Made by OLIVER EVANS, at his Factory, in the old wind-mill in Elmley's alley, South Second-Street, a little below Dock-Street,
WHERE those who apply may be supplied with stones of such quality as will suit their purposes. Also, stones for gudgeons to run on, and Plaister of Paris ground fine for manure, and
Calcined for Stoco-Work.
He keeps for SALE,
At his dwelling No. 215 north Second-Street, a little above Vine-Street.
Boulting Cloths,
A complete assortment of both imported and American manufactured for merchant and country work, which he warrants good.
ALSO,
The Young Millwright's and Miller's GUIDE. Containing a system of mechanics and hydraulics as they apply to water mills with the whole process of, and all the late improvements on the art of manufacturing flour &c. intended to be useful to all concerned in building, or using water-mills, which book is sold by Matthew Carey and Robert Campbell, booksellers. Sept. 25.
JUST PUBLISHED,
And to be sold by the Editor,
AN ACCOUNT
Of the Receipts and Expenditures
Of the UNITED STATES,
For the Year 1794.
Printed by order of the House of Representatives.
CONTAINING—
Statements of the duties on merchandise & tonnage _____ Duties on Fills and Spirits distilled. _____ Revenue arising on postage of letters. _____ Monies received into the Treasury in the year 1794.
Payments to the Executive, _____ Legislature, _____ Judiciary, Treasury, _____ Department of War, State, and the Mint, _____ Government of the Western Territories, _____ Commissioners of Loans, _____ Pensions, Annuities, and Grants, _____ Army of the United States, _____ Naval Department, _____ For fortifications of ports and harbours, _____ For maintaining intercourse with foreign nations, light-houses, beacons, &c. for interest on domestic debt, for domestic loans, for reduction of domestic debt, French and Dutch debts, relief of inhabitants of St. Domingo. _____ Bills of Exchange, &c. &c. &c.
STATEMENTS of balances of appropriations of monies arising from foreign loans transferred to the United States of appropriations and expenditures, of receipts and expenditures. Appendix, containing an account of the foreign and domestic debt to the close of the year 1794.
PHILADELPHIA:
PRINTED BY JOHN FENNO,
—No. 119—
CHESNUT-STREET.
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