Gazette of the United States and daily evening advertiser. (Philadelphia [Pa.]), 1794-07-30 00:00:00

Gazette of the United States AND DAILY EVENING ADVERTISER.
[No. 41 of Vol. VI.]
WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 1794.
[Whole No. 591.]
This Day is published, AND SOLD BY THOMAS BRADFORD, Printer and Bookseller, No. 3, South Front Street, Price one fifth of a Dollar, OBSERVATIONS ON THE EMIGRATION OF Dr. Joseph Priestly,
Choice St. Croix Sugar, JUST IMPORTED, And for Sale, BY JAMES VARD. Also a quantity of RUSSIA Mats. June 24th.
To the Public. PROPOSALS For Engraving in Aquatinta, Four select Views; On Plates 16 inches by 12. Three upon the river Shannandoah, in the state of Virginia; And one upon the Schuylkill, in the state of Pennsylvania. From the paintings of W. Winstanley; By G. J. PARKYNS.
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Bank of the United States, July 7th, 1794. NOTICE is hereby given, that here will be paid at the Bank after the sixteenth instant, to the Stockholders or their representatives duly authorised, sixteen Dollars for each share, being the dividend declared for the last six months.
Lachawannock. A LARGE body of LAND on this river and its waters, is now for sale to Settlers on a moderate terms, and at a long credit. The soil is remarkably fertile, and numerous streams of water are interspersed through the whole country.
Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, July 9. Letters directed to George Eddy, at Philadelphia, or this place or to Thomas Eddy, at New York, relative to this business, will be duly answered.
For Charter, To Europe or the West Indies, THE SHIP WILLIAM, AT Chestnut street wharf, a staunch good vessel, almost new, burthen about 1800 barrels.
For LIVERPOOL, The Ship AMIALE, John Thompson, master. BURTHEN about 250 tons, a very substantial ship, built of live oak and cedar, of an easy draught of water, falls remarkably fast, and has very excellent accommodations for passengers; to sail the first week in August, and is intended to return immediately to Philadelphia.
For Sale or Charter, The Ship GEN. WASHINGTON, Isaac Sylvester, master. NOW lying at Say's wharf, the 31 above Market street, burthen about 2500 barrels, is a good strong vessel, and will be ready to receive a cargo in a few days.
RUMFORD & ABIJAH DAWES, Water street, No. 7, south. 7th mo 25
For Charter, The Brig SEA NYMPH, JOHN PADEN, Master. SAILS fast, and will be ready to take in a cargo in a few days. For terms apply to Joseph Sims, WHO HAS NOR SALE, Madeira and Sherry WINE; Fit for immediate use, BRANDY, Red and Pale Jesuits BARK; White LEAD ground in oil, BRIMSTONE, &c. July 25
Carolina Rice and Indigo, BAY MAHOGANY and FRENCH BURR STONES, FOR SALE BY Gurney and Smith. May 14.
Just Published, And to be sold by THOMAS DOBSON, At the Stone House No. 41, South Second street, price 1-8th of a dollar, An Impartial Review Of that part of Dr. RUSH's Late PUBLICATION On the YELLOW FEVER, Which treats of its origin.
TO BE SOLD, BY THOMAS DOBSON, An Alphabetical List OF THE DUTIES Payable by law on all Goods, Wares, and Merchandise imported into the United States of America, after the last day of June 1784, distinguishing the rates payable on those imported in ships or vessels of the United States—and the rates payable in foreign ships or vessels, including the additional duties, to which the respective articles are liable. July 29
The Ground Plan OF THE City and Suburbs OF PHILADELPHIA. TAKEN FROM ACTUAL SURVEY. It is with pleasure that the publisher has to inform his subscribers and the public in general, that the plate is now under the hands of the engraver, and in greater forwardness than was at first contemplated.
Medical Books. JUST PUBLISHED, By Thomas Dobson, at the Stone House No. 41, South Second street, V O L. II. Medical Inquiries AND OBSERVATIONS, By BENJAMIN RUSH, M. D. Professor of the Institutes of Medicine, and of Clinical Practice in the University of Pennsylvania. CONTAINING 1. An inquiry into the influence of physical causes upon the moral faculty. 2. An inquiry into the effects of spirituous liquors upon the human body, and their influence upon the happiness of society. 3. An inquiry into the causes and cure of the pulmonary consumption. 4. Observations on the symptoms and cure of dropsies. 5. An inquiry into the causes and the cure of internal dropsy of the brain. 6. An account of the measles, as they appeared in Philadelphia, in the year 1789. 7. An account of the influenza, as it appeared in Philadelphia in the years 1789, 1790, and 1791. 8. An inquiry into the causes of the increase of bilious and remitting fevers, in Pennsylvania. 9. An inquiry into the causes and cure of fore legs. 10. An account of the state of the body and mind in old age, with observations upon its diseases and their remedies. Price one dollar and a quarter unbound, or one dollar and a half neatly bound.
Medical Transactions OF THE College of Physicians of Philadelphia. VOL. I.—PART I. Price one dollar in boards. A Treatise on the Diseases of Children. With general directions for the management of Infants from the birth, adapted for the use of physicians and private families. By Michael Underwood, M. D. Licentiate of Midwifery in the Royal College of Physicians in London, and Physician of the British Lying-in-Hospital. Price one Dollar. This is acknowledged to be the best book which has been published on the subject, and is calculated for the use of parents, nurses, and private families, as well as for physicians. The two volumes handsomely printed in one, and the price only about one third of what the imported copies fell for. The Edinburgh New Dispensatory, two dollars. System of Surgery, extracted from the works of Benjamin Bell, by Dr. Waters, 2 vols. 50 cents. System of Anatomy, extracted from the Encyclopaedia, with 12 copperplates, 2 vols. System of Chemistry, extracted from the Encyclopaedia, exhibiting a view of the progress of the science, and the different systems which have been published, 2 vols. 50 cents. Brown's Elements of Medicine, 2 vols. 67 cents. T. Dobson has in the Press An edition of the Medical and Philosophical Commentaries of Edinburgh. Two volumes are printed in one at 2 dollars and 50 cents per volume; he has nearly finished the five first volumes, which contain the first ten volumes of the European edition, which sell for two dollars each. Nine volumes will include eighteen European volumes, which will bring the publication up to the present time. Likewise for sale a considerable number of Medical Books, viz. Cullen's Practice, Materia Medica, Physiology, and Synopsis. Bell's Surgery, 6 vols. or 4 vols. do. on Ulcers, Buchan's Domestic Medicine, Ledran's Surgery, Cheselden's Anatomy, Hunter on the Venereal, Swediaur on do. Rollo on the West India Diseases, Rigby on Uterine Hemorrhage, Hamilton's outlines of the theory and practice of Midwifery, with or without plates; do. on the management of Female complaints. Meale on Hydrophobia, &c. &c.
NANKEENS. Nankeens of Superior Quality, Long and short pieces Long and short black satins, Black Tafties, and Senfhas, Black and coloured India sewing Silk, Ornamental jars and beakers, And a few long sets of Tea China. Coloured Satins, Linstrings, and TOBINES, FOR SALE AT No. 40, north Fifth Street. July 7 mw&stf Nicholas Diehl, jun. Attorney at Law, INFORMS his friends and the public, that he has opened an OFFICE for the sale and purchase of Real Estates at No. 19 South Fourth street, where he will thankfully receive their commands. He also draws Deeds, Mortgages, and other Writings. June 10 iatb&stf
STATE OF SOUTH-CAROLINA In the House of Representatives, DECEMBER 21st, 1793. WHEREAS the Commissioners of public Accounts, have reported, that they cannot proceed to the investigation of the Treasury Accounts, respecting special Indents, without knowing the outstanding amount thereof in circulation:—Therefore, Resolved, That all holders of special Indents be directed, and required, on or before the first day of November next, to deliver the special Indents in their possession to one or other of the Commissioners of the Treasury, who are to give receipts for the same, and to report to the Commissioners on public accounts, on or before the tenth day of November next, the amount by them respectively received, and also to the Legislature, at their meeting in November next, and that all special Indents not rendered into the Treasury as above, on or before the first day of November next, shall be, and the same are hereby barred. Resolved, That public notice of this resolution be given in the several Gazettes in this State, once every three weeks, until the first day of November next. And that the Delegates of this State in the Congress of the United States, be requested to cause this resolution to be published in one or more papers in the cities of Philadelphia and New-York, and that provision will be made for the expenses attending such publication. Ordered, That the resolution be sent to the Senate for their concurrence. By order of the House, JOHN SANFORD DART, C. H. R. In the SENATE, DECEMBER 21st, 1793. Resolved, That this House do concur with the House of Representatives in the foregoing resolutions. Ordered, That the resolutions be sent to the House of Representatives. By order of the Senate, FELIX WARLEY Clerk. cwtNov.
French Revolution. JUST PUBLISHED. (Price two Dollars.) By MATHEW CAREY, No. 118, Market Street, AN IMPARTIAL HISTORY OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION; From its Commencement to the execution of the QUEEN and the DEPUTIES of the Gironde Party. Extract from the Preface. "The author, have presumed to affix to their title, the epithet impartial; and the reason is, because they cannot charge themselves with feeling the smallest bias to any party but to that of truth and liberty; and they flatter themselves, that their readers will find not only every circumstance fairly presented, but every censurable action, whoever were the authors or actors, marked in its proper colours. If it was necessary to make a declaration of their own principles, they would say, they are neither tory nor republican—they love liberty as English whigs, and execrate every criminal act by which so noble a cause is endangered and disgraced. "In the present ferment of the public mind, they cannot flatter themselves with the hope of seeing this claim universally acknowledged. On the contrary, they are well assured that these pages will not be acceptable to the zealots of either party. But when time shall have dissipated the clouds of political deception, and appeared the rumour of the passions, they will with some confidence expect that verdict from public opinion, which andour and moderation seldom fail to receive." Extract from the Critical Review, June 1794. 12 Page. "We have certainly derived much pleasure, and acquired much information from the perusals of those volumes; and we think them, both for matter and style, worthy the attention of all who interest themselves in Events which have so justly excited the curiosity and astonishment of mankind." M. CAREY will in about three weeks Publish, Plowden's history of the British Empire, from May 1792, to December 1793. 22 ecod.
TUITION. WILLIAM FINCH of the New Theatre, begs leave to inform his Friends and the Public, that he has removed from the corner of Eighth and Arch streets to No. 68, north Eighth between Arch and Race streets, and that he continues to give Instructions in the French and English Languages as usual, as also the Classics. He takes this opportunity of expressing his acknowledgements for the very liberal encouragement he has experienced, a continuation of which he begs leave to solicit. N. B. Translations from either languages correctly executed. THIS DAY IS PUBLISHED, By Thomas Dobson, At the Stone House, No. 41, South Second street, 1. LETTERS addressed to the Philosophers and Politicians of France, on the subject of Religion; to which are prefixed observations relating to the causes of the general prevalence of infidelity, By JOSEPH PRIESTLEY, L. L. D. F. R. S. &c. Price one quarter of a Dollar. II. TWO SERMONS, viz. 1. The present state of Europe compared with ancient prophecies. Preached on the Fast day, in 1794, with a preface containing the reasons of the author for leaving England. 2. The life of Christianity, especially in difficult times; being the Author's Farewell Discourse to his Congregations in Hackney; with Appendices to the two Sermons. Price one third of a dollar. III. AN APPEAL to the Serious & Candid Professors of Christianity, on the following subjects, viz. 1. The use of reason in matters of Religion. 2. The power of man to do the Will of God. 3. Original Sin. 4. Election and Reprobation. 5. The Divinity of Christ, and 6. Atonement by the Death of Christ, by the same author. To which are added, A Concise History of the rise of those Doctrines, and an account of the Trial of M'Ellwail, for Heresy and Blasphemy, at Stafford Assizes. Price one eighth of a Dollar. The above three are re-published with the author's improvements and additions; and a considerable part of his works, in an improved state, will make their appearance as soon as convenience will admit. July 28 eod3w
Periodical Publications. JUST RECEIVED BY John Ormrod, At Franklin's Head, No. 41, Chestnut Street, The three first numbers of the United States Magazine, Printed at Newark, New Jersey, and published in Monthly numbers, by subscription at 2 dollars and 50 cents per annum. LIKEWISE, Five Numbers of the Massachusetts Magazine, Or Monthly Museum of Knowledge and Rational Entertainment, published by subscription at two Dollars and 50 cents a year.
ALSO, SACRED MUSIC: Law's Musical Magazine Do. Christian Harmony Do. Musical Primer Do. Select Harmony Do. 5 Slect Psalms and Hymns. The succeeding numbers of the above periodical works will be published the first week of every month, and forwarded to Subscribers without delay. July 28
Philadelphia, July 7, 1794 Whereas James M'Gargle of Cheltenham Township in Montgomery County in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, by his Bill exhibited to the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County, set forth that sundry Title deeds by which he holds a certain Messuage & sixty-four acres of Land in the said Township, were greatly injured and defaced by accident; and prayed that examination of witnesses might be taken in order, that their testimony of his title to the said Farm should be perpetuated, Whereupon, on motion of William M. Smith, Esquire, of Counsel for the said James M'Gargle, it was considered by the said Judges in the said Court, that the prayer of the said Bill of right ought to be granted, and George Campbell and John Donaldson, Esquires, were appointed Commissioners to take the said examination, to whom a Commission under form of Law hath been issued. Public Notice is hereby given, that the said Commissioners have appointed Wednesday, the 30th day of July, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon of the same day, to meet at the house of the said William M. Smith, the south-east corner of Chestnut and Fifth Streets in the City of Philadelphia, to take the said examinations. JAMES M'GARGLE July 11, law190

Mr. FENNO,
IN your paper of Monday week you introduce a letter from Dr. Franklin, apparently in answer, as you suppose, to a Funding System—I must confess it strikes me very differently, and that the conclusion to be drawn from the letter is directly the reverse—what is the argument? the people of the United States were desirous of establishing their independency—they commission Dr. Franklin to create a Funded Debt abroad by borrowing—he complains of ill success—and reproaches the people of America with depending too much on Loans and too little on taxes—very justly observing that “it is absurd our people should pretend to be lovers of liberty and yet grudge to pay for the defence of it”—Surely this is rational and proper, and happy had it been for America if they had made greater efforts in that day—the payment of their debts had been easy; whereas they have now additional interest and a large assumption of state debts to provide for—all which appears to have considerably augmented the difficulty of final emancipation.
The System of Funded debt has been largely indulged in within the last century in Europe; the consequent embarrassment begins now to be felt—one throne it has already over-set—and another it appears strongly to menace—mean while a great cry is kept up about democracy & aristocracy and monarchy—whereas the only thing to the purpose would be to talk of economy—and paying off their debts: how just is the remark of Mr. Hume a very acute philosopher as well as Dr. Franklin; “I must confess, says he, when I see princes and states fighting and quarreling amidst their debts, funds and public mortgages, it always brings to my mind a match of cudgel playing fought in a china shop!”
For my own part I consider Funding System as the most dangerous ingredient connected with a government; because it is that axe at the root of government, that moth in the garment which is sure sooner or later to destroy any government in which it is admitted—it is the nurse of faction—the parent of all the weakness and debility of the nation—the source of taxes—and the sure forerunner of disorder and disgrace—as far as we have seen yet this funding system has created more party and disturbance in our home politics than any other circumstance—it has operated so in Europe also—it must operate so in every country: while I give this as my opinion, however, Mr. Fenno, I do not mean to cast reproaches at the Secretary of the Treasury or the Executive of the United States; there was a debt in being, it became their duty by the Constitution of the Union to provide for it, I presume they did this in the best way they were able—my objections, therefore, do not go so much to the establishment itself, viewed as indispensable—they go to the continuance of the system, and that greater efforts are not made to pay off this debt now we are and have been at peace so many years—it is not the interest only that ought to be paid off—the capital of the debt should be paid off also—and all expenses on the part of the government avoided that can be possibly dispensed with—in order to apply the savings of every shilling to the extinction of this great enemy of the body politic.
The alarm occasioned by the funded debt, arose from hearing of IRREDEEMABLE qualities ascribed to it—what would a man in private life think of a disorder on him said to be incurable? such ought, however, to be the idea entertained of debts on a nation considered as irredeemable—another alarm arises from the efforts to oppose transfers of debt from paying for the expense of those transfers—why should the United States be burdened with an immense expense of clerk hire to keep the accounts of stock of A. B. and C? let A. B. and C. pay themselves all expense of keeping these accounts as is right, and a great public saving will ensue—another alarm has arisen from the mode adopted of taxation, all property ought to contribute equally to taxes, lands, stocks, occupations, plate, bonds, mortgages, carriages, &c. &c. but there is no good reason why a tobacco or sugar refiner, or any other trade should be made the riding horse of taxes.
It is certainly not right to oppose us when made, in their execution; but any number of citizens whether doctors or others think the laws wrong after they are made—they certainly may
* This writer will please to re-peruse the Gazette alluded to, and he will find the article is copied from the American Minerva.
consult peaceably on a repeal of them by the legitimate methods of petition or by the more strenuous efforts of changing such members as favoured them or others who may be more agreeable to them and of a different way of thinking—and whether they do this individually or collectively—in clubs or in single persons the Constitution fully warrants the propriety of the undertaking, which is open alike to them and to all citizens wherever dwelling or situate with clubs or without them. H.
From the SALEM GAZETTE.
[The following correspondence took place at the Isle of France during the late Embargo at that place.]
To the Members of the Colonial Assembly.
GENTLEMEN AND CITIZENS.
THE grievances complained of in this address, are of too serious a nature, not to have been noticed, if not by all, at least by the major part of your honorable Assembly: and we the sufferers, you will no doubt acknowledge, have been patient under these grievances for a long time. As there is no end to them likely to take place, We, in duty to our country in general, and to our employers in particular, beg leave to request, that you will be so kind as to inform us the real reason of our being detained so long in this port. Some of us came here for the purpose of trade, and are well known to have been here several times before on the same business; others of us were forced here by distress, and happy to gain a port where we had no reason to expect but we should be received and treated with kindness, and, when ready, by paying the customary fees, suffered to depart. We do not mean to complain of any personal insult offered us, but one of much greater magnitude, the detention of our ships with large properties on board, that are daily perishing; as well as our ships suffering by the worms, which, it must be well known to all of you, gentlemen, are so prevalent in this port. There have been addresses before this sent to your honorable Assembly; also to the Governor and Admiral; and we understand that our being detained was on account of a fleet of ships belonging to your nation being bound to Europe: application was then made for our ships to be taken under the convoy; and to keep company with the fleet; this was refused us; but it was said we should sail twenty days after the departure of the fleet: although we thought it was not friendly in refusing us permission to sail under the protection of the convoy, we were happy in having the time fixed for our departure. The time for the departure of the fleet was near up, when it was determined they should not go; we then applied for permission to sail, and were given to understand by the Governor that there was no reason for keeping us any longer, and that he would apply to your honorable Assembly to know where the power rested to grant us permission to depart; this happened during the absence of the frigates. Not suspecting that any further impediment would intervene, we were many of us making preparations for sea, when the return of the frigates put at once a stop to this our expectation; and we remain this day as ignorant when we shall be suffered to depart, as we were the day we arrived.
We beg leave to say to you, gentlemen, who are professedly the friends of liberty, that we, who have now the honor to address you, are the sons of a country that is senior to yours, in declaring herself the mother of citizens which shall be free; which freedom we hope the will ever maintain; and we, a small detached party of those citizens, are bound to support her: we feel sorry to have it thought that our brethren in liberty, whom we are bound to love by the strongest ties on earth, and to aid and assist each other against any powers that dare attempt to deprive us of our dearest blessing, should entertain an idea that we should be so base as to betray them.
If, gentlemen, that is the case, we only wish for an opportunity to shew you that principles of honor prompted us to gain our own liberties; and those principles we hope will never leave us, nor any of the sons of freedom; when they do, we pray God, that we, he, or they, may become victims of their own snares.
As you are well acquainted with the losses we daily sustain from this detention, and also the risk that will attend us should our country have joined yours in the war (which you have great reason to expect they have) this we think should be an inducement, added to justice, for you to let us go—Or do you mean by detaining us here, to bring distress and ruin on our employers, ourselves, and families?
We are now paying three hundred livres per barrel for provisions that we sold since our arrival here for less than 1-3 of that sum. Feel for us, gentlemen. We cannot call this act of injustice, by the name of liberty or freedom; and as we have no representative from our nation, here, to intercede for us, it is our duty to make this application to you for liberty to depart, while our ships are in a situation to carry us home; and we trust you will take our disagreeable state into your consideration, and honor us with such a reply, as the nature of our case requires; it will enable us, on our arrival in our own country, to acquaint those whom it may concern, of the treatment we met with, and the reasons given us for such treatment. If, gentlemen, we have taken a wrong step in addressing your Honorable Assembly, impute it to our not knowing the department we ought to have applied to, nor with whom the power rests to detain, or suffer us to depart. We have been so far from shewing a wish to be ungrateful, that most of our ships have been offered to you for services we understood you wanted; It requires very little discernment to see that it is our wish to strengthen the confidence our countries ought to place in each other. We decline offering stronger arguments in vindication of our country and ourselves, and humbly submit this to your perusal and consideration. (We have not the answer to the above.)
Memorial of the commanders and supercargoes of the American vessels, now in the North West port of the Isle of France, to the Colonial Assembly.
YOUR memorialists, subjects of the free states of America, and allies of the French nation, having been detained in this port with their ships since the 4th of June last without any just or reasonable pretence whatever, and contrary to the express terms of the treaty existing between the French nation and the United States of America, beg leave to demand from your assembly permission to depart with the convoy about to sail for France.
This petition your memorialists have repeatedly solicited both from your body and from the executive authority. You have by some former decree vested the power of answering our request in the Vice-Admiral; he has granted it; but we since find, from our further applications to him, that this decree has not been in force, or has been repealed, and that it is to you only we are to look for relief.
We therefore demand of your Assembly, that it would regulate its conduct towards us, if not by the particular treaty existing between the two nations, at least by the general laws of nations, and take off the embargo under which we have so long suffered. Your memorialists caution you (freemen may be permitted that liberty to freemen) against attending too much to the representations of the commanders or owners of those ships which compose the convoy; who, we are informed, influenced by no other motive than private interest, have demanded, or are about to demand, of you, a prolongation of the embargo till some time after their departure; and beg you would consider, that, although the friendship and attachment of the Americans to the French nation is great, yet they will not suffer too great an infringement of their rights.
Your memorialists demand, that in case you should not think fit to grant this request, you would at least condescend to point out to us what branch of the government we may surrender our ships and effects; as we shall find ourselves obliged, in justice to ourselves, to our owners, and to our country, to take this step.
Your memorialists expect a definitive answer to their demands, although they may not be made in due form; which indeed cannot be expected amongst a people who speak a different language, and without a Consul or public agent; and declare, that they think themselves sufficiently authorised by their numbers, and by the interest under their charge, to no less an amount than thirty millions of livres, the property of citizens of the United States of America; and that in case their demands are not complied with, they shall immediately pursue measures to oblige the power by which they have been detained, whether it be that of the legislative or executive parts of the government, to be responsible for their property, their persons, and the breach of treaty.
Port North West Isle of France, 23d Sept. 1793. [We have not the answer.]
Citizen Governor, Gen Malartie. Sir, WE who subscribe this, citizens of
the United States of America, having presented a memorial to the Colonial Assembly, in which we demand permission to depart from this port, and having been referred by that body (who declare that there is no longer an embargo existing by their authority) we accordingly waited upon you yesterday with the same demand, and were much hurt to find that our rights as a nation, and our privilege as your allies, a privilege granted by a solemn treaty, were so much violated by your refusal.
It is true you proposed a distant period for taking off the embargo, but so distant, that by our acquaintance we should incur the reproach of having betrayed the trust placed in us, and of having tamely submitted to the greatest injuries: and we may be permitted to fear, that even this period would be still further prolonged, as it has already been since the 15th July; for the same pretence for detaining us will always exist, while interested merchants are permitted to direct the steps of government to their private ends.
You cannot be offended at our want of confidence, as you must be convinced it is well grounded; for you are well acquainted with the ineffectual decree of the Colonial Assembly, and are not ignorant of our applications to the Vice-Admiral, nor of the permission he has accorded one of our number to set sail; nor finally of your own repeated promises in our favor.
Considering therefore our ineffectual exertions for redress, and knowing that no embargo actually exists, as we daily see vessels sailing from this port, and that our detention is not only a direct breach of treaty, but unparalleled in the history of civilized nations—we have firmly determined, after satisfying all demands upon us, to let sail from this on the 5th of October—and we declare, that if we are arrested or hindered in our attempt to depart, we shall consider it in the light of a capture, and surrender ourselves and property into your hands as into the hands of an enemy.
We are, Sir, your most humble and obedient Servants. Port North West Isle of France, Sept. 25th, 1793.
Port N. W. Isle of France, the 26th Sept. 1793—the 2d year of the French Republic.
The General Governor of the Isles of France and Bourbon, to the American Captains.
I RETURN you, citizens, an answer to the letter you did me the honor to write yesterday: I have not ordered the embargo to be laid on; I cannot take it off. The Vice Admiral has ordered it, after the orders he has received from the executive power of the French Republic; he will take it off when he thinks proper or necessary. Then I do not deserve, by any means, the imputations, you lay upon me. I dare assure you, that the Vice Admiral wishes as much as myself to bend to all that can be agreeable to you. I feel the circumstances must be very disastrous to you; but it is not in our power to change them: to say more, your ships experience only what ours have experienced in your ports in the same circumstances. (Signed) MALARTIE. I swear this to be the literal translation.
(Signed) BOUVUE St. MARIE.
To the Vice Admiral St. Felix, commanding the Marine of France in India.
THE citizens of America in this port beg leave once more to address the Vice Admiral St. Felix on the subject of their detention; a detention which if prolonged must prove ruinous to the greater part of the owners of their ships, as well as to themselves. They earnestly pray the Vice Admiral, that he would take into consideration the great length of time they have been already detained, the accumulated expenses they have been subjected to, the interest of their capitals, the destruction of their ships, and the loss of the season, both in the American and Indian seas; with the dangers that they will thereby be exposed to. They are abundantly convinced that there are circumstances under every government that render it necessary to sacrifice individuals for the safety of the whole. The Vice Admiral will permit them to ask, is this, or has this ever been, applicable to their detention? Has their detention ever been necessary to the safety of the colony, or any expedition of the colony, or to the convoy? If it has been, have not the colony, the expedition, and the convoy, been already exposed by the departure of the vessels for Bourbon, Madagascar, the Mozambique, Diego Garcia, and by that of the cruizers? Are not the crews of these ships made up of many nations,
and of men without any attachment to any cause but that which is most lucrative? If any one of these vessels should be taken, will not the enemy obtain thereby all the information that the American ships could possibly afford? In short, is it not contrary to the treaty of alliance between France and America, and contrary to the laws of all civilized nations, that 15 ships of an allied nation should be thus detained (to a time unknown) for a convoy of a less number? The most of these ships have been detained since the 5th last June; they belong to the citizens of America, the alone nation perhaps in the world that is now interresting herself in the cause of France, and is attached to her by ties of friendship and gratitude.
The American Citizens earnestly request the Vice-Admiral to take their situation into serious consideration, and put a period to the accumulating injuries they suffer; that he would not expose them by a further detention to the additional dangers that they have reason to deprecate from a rupture with Great Britain; that he would give them an opportunity of effecting their different destinations, and prevent their total ruin.
As citizens of America, and friends and allies of the French nation, they wait for the decision which the wisdom of the Vice Admiral, St. Felix, may dictate.
Port N. W. Isle of France, Sept. 1793.
UNITED STATES.
DEERFIELD, Massachusetts July 5.
Yesterday, being the anniversary of the American Independence—a number of patriotic gentlemen of this, and the adjacent town, assembled at Samuel Barnard's, Esq. and formed in procession precisely at 12 o'clock; and at the discharge of the federal salute the procession moved by a circuitous march to the meeting house, in the following order:
Two Sergeants, with advanced arms. Mufick. Detachment of Artillery, with a field piece and standard. Master of Ceremonies. Clergy. Civil Officers. Select men. Citizens. Military Officers.
A well adapted energetic discourse was delivered by the Rev. John Taylor; after which the procession moved by a retrograde march to Samuel Barnard's, Esq. and mutually congratulated each other on the auspicious day. The company repaired to citizen Conifer Dickerson's, and partook of a decent repast. After dining the following toasts were given:
1. The day—The glorious anniversary of our Independence: May we annually celebrate the freedom of Empires. 2. Our illustrious President—May his wisdom convey us safely through the present, as well as former tempels. (A Gun.) 3. The commonwealth of Massachusetts—May the purity and frequency of our elections preclude the necessity of Popular Societies. 4. The American Republic—May she shun the rocks on which former republics have been dashed, and never want heroes to defend her rights. (A Gun.) 5. May the terms Tyranny and Slavery soon become sounds without ideas. 6. The Rights of Man—May they be universally known, and vindicated. 7. No European tincture in American politics. 8. May America know, and rightly estimate her privileges. 9. An adequate compensation to the Virtuous Militia of Massachusetts. (A Gun.) 10. The military art; May its professors continue the assertors and defenders of our rights. 11. May the soil of America ever prove unpropitious to the seeds of Aristocracy. 12. The Slave Trade—May its advocates be taught its use in an Algerine school. [Drums and fife—A cheer.] 13. Agriculture, arts and sciences. [A Song.] 14. The brave Fayette—may he ever long reap the rich crop of Liberty, sown by his patriotic exertions in America. 15. The fair daughters of Columbia—May their virtues heighten the enjoyments of freedom, and soften the misfortunes of life.
The remainder of the day was spent in decent hilarity: Each eye sparkled with joy, while strains of gratitude poured from every tongue!—not like the strains which Monarchs' ears salute;—they were the genuine effusions of hearts warm with the love of their

country, and rejoicing at the emancipation of this and our sister republic, France.
LYNCHBURG, Vir. July 19. At a Meeting of the citizens of New-London and its Vicinity on the 4th July the following Toasts were drunk, viz.
 1st. The day we celebrate; May it never be forgotten by true Republicans.  2d. Destruction to Thrones and the downfall of Crowned Robbers throughout the Universe.  3rd. The Republic of France; success to her victorious armies; confusion and dismay to the councils of her enemies.  4th. May the whole world become one Republic; and forever cultivate the blessings of Liberty and Equality.  5th. The spirit of 1776; May it be ever cherished with vetal zeal.  6th. The memory of the martyrs in the cause of Liberty.  7th. Equal laws & a Republican executive to enforce their execution.  8th. The Democratic Societies of the United States.  9th. The Great and honest man—Thomas Jefferson.  10th. James Monroe our Patriotic Ambassador for France; May he abhor the vile Aristocratic conduct of his profligate predecessor.  11th. Thomas Muir, the exiled disciple of Liberty.  12th. The virtuous Republicans of London, who spoke liberty in their address to the people of England and Ireland.  13th. The Effigy men, Dick B. Lees Patriotic constituents; and the Republican citizens of Charleston.  14th. The President of the United States May he remember that he is but a man; the servant of the people and not their Master.  15th. Isaac Cole our Representative in Congress. 
VOLUNTEERS May the pride of Aristocrats, and luke warm Patriots, be soon humbled. The Armory at New-London. The Governor of Pennsylvania. General Wayne and the western army.
May the oppressed of every country find an asylum in America. The Toasts were succeeded by the firing of cannon, all which was done with propriety and activity truly descriptive of that love of Liberty and Republicanism which prevailed throughout the Assembly.
BRIDGE-TOWN, (Barbadoes,) July 1, 1794.
The arrival of several vessels from America, with a timely supply of flour corn, &c. &c. must afford infinite satisfaction to the community, at this time of general scarcity. The late high price of flour, renders the supply of that article the more acceptable, as from its scarcity our native provisions had consequently risen to so enormous a price, as almost reduced us to a state of starvation.
In the present want of almost every thing, we contemplate with regret the high price of meats, by which the provident house-keeper, and more particularly those whose circumstances are narrowly circumscribed, must feel most keenly.
Our present peaceful intercourse with America, must afford us, at this time of European warfare, great consolation, as from that rich and fertile continent our Western colonies are supplied with the most useful and necessary articles of life: but how long we may enjoy this valuable blessing is uncertain, as from some late Congressional proceedings and the clamours of the people, there is a strong indication of a propensity to break the league of friendship. We have too forcible an instance in the French, of the effects of wild and desperate fanaticism, not to suppose any thing from Republican folly; and at the same time that we are slow to make political conjectures; it is yet, however, a question whether, from the capture of the French West-India islands which consequently, in case of a war with Great Britain, would deprive the United States of their greatest trade, it would be politic in them to involve themselves in the present contest, which we think ourselves inadequate to decide.
CHARLESTON, July 14.
We hear from various parts, that the country is deluged with water from heavy rains. Bridges that have resisted all the freshes for ten years past, have yielded to the late uncommon floods. Amidst the extensive mischief that has been done, it is with no small satisfaction that we have been informed from unquestionable authority, that the works of the Santee Canal have received little or no injury; none of the banks have been washed away or broken down. The negroes have been interrupted in their labors during the actual fall of rain;
but at all other times have proceeded and are proceeding, with spirit. The canal is so fast advancing, that in the opinion of Col. Senf, and Capt. Palmer, one half of the whole will be finished in the course of this present year.
BALTIMORE, July 25. A letter of a late date from St. Domingo, to a gentleman in this town says, "the Negroes, amounting to 2000 are constantly harassing the English troops at Port-au-Prince. The English marched out against them, but were totally defeated, and lost eight field-pieces."
PHILADELPHIA, JULY 30.
The public mind appears to be greatly and justly solicitous to receive accounts from Europe. Intelligence to the middle of June would probably be very important—We might expect the result of the late naval engagement—the fate of the Chesapeake convoy—the situation of Lord Hood's fleet in the Mediterranean—the state of affairs on the frontiers of Spain—details of the numerous battles in Flanders—and the posture of affairs in that quarter—the progress of the new revolution in Poland—the consequences of the conspiracy in Sweden—The effect of the armed neutrality of Sweden and Denmark.
The state of politics between Russia and the Turks—in Paris—and London—particularly the consequences of the suspension of the Habeas Corpus in England—and the committal of sundry persons to prison—and, what is specially interesting to the people of the United States, the arrival of Mr. Jay, his reception, and prospects.
On all these subjects conjecture would fire but random shots—Time will soon satisfy curiosity.
By this Day's Mail.
NEW-YORK, July 29.
A French author, in a recent publication, entitled, "Universal Collection of private memoirs concerning the history of France," enters largely into the exploits and conduct of that Virago, commonly called the Maid of Orleans. Amongst other curious manuscripts, never brought to light before, is the following letter written by her, and with a Herald at Arms delivered to the Duke of Bedford, then regent of France.
"King of England, give satisfaction to the King of Heaven for the spilling of his royal blood! Deliver into the maid's hands the keys of all the towns you have usurped by force. She is come in God's name to claim the right of the blood-royal, and is ready to make peace, if you will do justice. King of England! unless you thus behave, know that I am chief in war, wherever I meet your men in France, if they refuse to obey, I shall have them put to the sword; if they submit, I shall shew them mercy, believe me: if they should prove refractory, the maid is sent to destroy them. She comes by God's ordinance to thrust you out of the kingdom, and pledges her word to make such an havoc as never was known in France for ten centuries past; and be you sure that the King of Heaven will give more strength to her and her valiant men at arms, than ever your's have shewn in storming an hundred places."
"As for ye, English archers, brave and courageous men at arms, who now are before Orleans, go ye back to your own country, otherwise beware of the Maid, and be the consequence on your own heads. Do not fondly imagine to hold the sceptre of France, by the permission of God the son of Mary. It shall be the property of King Charles, the lawful heir to whom God hath decreed it, and who will force his way to Paris in good company. If you disbelieve the information from God and the Maid, woe betide you wherever we shall meet, and then shall be seen whose right is best, God's or your's."
"Ye William de la Pole, Earl of Suffolk, John Lord Talbot, and Thomas Lord of Scales, Lieutenants to the Duke of Bedford, styling himself regent of this kingdom for the King of England, answer me; will you give peace to the city of Orleans?—If not, beware of the losses ye shall entail upon yourselves."
"Duke of Bedford! the Maid entreats and requests that you will put an end to hostilities; if you do not comply, she will so behave, that the French will perform such feats of valor as never were recorded in the annals of Christendom."—Written the Tuesday in Passion week. On the supercription were these words:—"Lend an ear to the tidings from God and the Maid."—To the
Duke of Bedford, the pretended regent of the kingdom of France, for the King of England.
PORTLAND, (Maine) July 19. On Monday last arrived here, Col. Rochefort, the engineer dispatched by the President of the United States for the purpose of laying our fortifications. The land necessary for the purpose has been appropriated—the out-lines marked out, and it is probable in a few days the ground will be broken for the building of fortifications.
A plot of clover, on which were 162 blossoms, was plucked from the field of Mr. Johnson in Freeport.
On the 11th was ordained at Canaan, 80 miles up Kennebec river, to the work of the ministry, the Rev. JONATHAN CALDER.
The Negro criminal, tried at Pownalborough last week for a rape and murder, has received sentence of death.
At the meeting of the militia in Standish, for the selecting their quota of eighty thousand men, the number required voluntarily offered themselves for the purpose.
SENTIMENTS.
[From the French.]
War creates a ferocity of manners. It holds out such objects of glory and ambition, as the most unpolished minds may seize with little difficulty, and thus perverts our useful passions by ennobling our vices, and every where substituting force in the place of justice.
The first step toward accomplishing the happiness of mankind, should be to lengthen the duration of peace, and lessen the frequency of war.
Monarchy, like nobility, which is the support of monarchy, to be respectable, should be ancient. From a fortunate experience of authority, and from a settled habit of obedience, may arise a kind of constitution, which, in the end, becomes almost unalterable: because there is a point, beyond which the materials of a republic exist no longer in a monarchy; while the materials of a monarchy exist always in a republic.
A love for their country, popularity, and generosity, were virtues common to the ancients; but true philanthropy, a regard for public welfare, and general order, are sentiments to which the past ages were absolutely strangers. Flowing, indeed, could such sentiments have existed among men, accustomed from their infancy to behold thousands of gladiators, mutually slaughtering one another, and perishing amid even the acclamations of the women? Such exalted feelings as these could never have animated a people, who so frequently saw prisoners of war, chiefs and kings, publicly conducted, in pursuance of a decree, to execution, and completing by their deaths the felicity of a triumph.
The rise and fall of empires may be ranked among those events which, although common, do not cease to be remarkable. Inspiration only could have discovered, that the primitive Romans, a vile and abject people, were destined to clear the path, which conducted their future race to the sovereignty of the world. If in the days of Julius Cæsar, a Roman augur had pretended, that his birds informed him, that the distant descendants of the dictator, and his invincible countrymen, should be emancipated, and sing upon a flag, before the posterity of the conquered Britons, instead of being revered as a prophet, he would have been stoned as a madman.
If we desire to know what, in general, is the condition of the inhabitants of the world, we need only inform ourselves, whether the number of cultivated lands be augmented or diminished.
However writers may have been seduced by the liveliness of the imagination, or the subtlety of the understanding, to question whether the sciences were advantageous to mankind, such frequently affected doubts can be referred only to the comparison between humanity in a state of nature, and humanity in a social state. In either case it must be acknowledged, as an established principle, that man cannot, in his social capacity, be too enlightened. Placed within a physical, political, and moral system, a small part of one great whole, his duties arise from his relations; and that being will be said to have reached the height of moral perfection, who shall have fully comprehended in what manner he ought to co-exist with the rest.
Caprice is to be condemned, when it is the vice of inferiors; but it is much more dangerous when it has infected those who govern. They must be careful to arm themselves against that impatient temper, which frets at trifling attacks. The fermentation of discourses and writings is inconvenient, but not alarming. Cromwell did not write North Britons, nor did Jacques Clement (who
assassinated Henry III. of France) write political pamphlets.
From the COLUMBIAN MERCHANT Printed at Canaan (State of New-York.)
The MODERATE.
O Formosa puer, nimium ne crede Colori!
FROM their name, the Democratic Society are naturally supposed to be the advocates for a democratical form of government. The Title ought always to correspond with the Essence. For instance, if a man hangs a shoemaker's sign over his door, you will naturally suppose there are shoes within, and none but a fool will go in to enquire whether the man has any buckles for sale: Just so with the Democratic Society; their title declares that they are for Democracy; no man of sense would go among them to look for arguments in favor of Representation, because they are democrats; and what is democracy? It is a government where the people in their individual capacity assemble and make laws; where there is not the least vestige of Representation, where the people, in short themselves, perform all those functions, which in America are delegated to their Representatives.—An attempt has been made, artfully to jumble the terms Democratic, and Representative, and so to confound them as to make them seem of one meaning; while they resemble each other as little, perhaps, as a chestnut-bur does an eye-stone. This assertion is founded on an unquestionable authority,—"The Rights of Man;" in the second part of which Mr. Paine says, "Mr. Burke is so little acquainted with the constituent principles of Government, that he confounds Democracy and Representation together! Representation was a thing unknown in ancient Democracies, in those the mass of the people met and enacted laws (grammatically speaking) in the first person. Simple Democracy was no other than the common Hall of the ancients. It signifies he Form as well as the public principles of Government, as these Democracies increased in population, and the territory extended, the simple democratic forms became unwieldy and impracticable. And as the System of Representation was not known the consequence was, they either degenerated convulsively into Monarchies, or became absorbed into such as then existed. Had the system of representation been then understood, as it now is, there is no reason to suppose, that those forms of government, now called monarchical, or aristocratical would ever have taken place."
The author of the Rights of Man understood the true distinction between different forms of government, and had by his reading found that all the ancient Democracies ended in Monarchy; on this account he seems to detest the former as much as the latter. Therefore founding my assertion upon the opinion of this famous philanthropist, that our government can by no manner of sound construction, be deemed democratical; and as it has been clearly and concisely stated in the preceding quotation, what has been the unerring fate of Democracies, I trust there is no one who has the welfare of his country at heart, will advocate a mode of government which must inevitably end in the misery and oppression of the people. Shall we my countrymen, who have so nobly shaken off the tyrannical monarchical yoke, introduce a system which we all abhor to suppers? No—let us rather shudder at, and execrate every attempt which has the least tendency to produce a kingly government in this country; and let us by all means, discourage an institution, whose very name avows, that its members have this object in view.
Our Federal Constitution is a system which approaches as near to perfection as any that ever existed. We have not among us the blood sucker of a nation, a king—our Federal compact expressly declares against nobility, and consequently aristocracy. We have no standing armies in time of peace, that machine of arbitrary power to awe the people into submission. We are not oppressed by heavy taxes; these however may in seasons more tempestuous than the present, become necessary; and I trust that whenever they do, the people will cheerfully give in their aid for defraying the expenses of government, as the price of their political happiness. We see no restraint upon the liberty of the Press: we have no trials for sedition or the circulation of Libels: but we have a Constitution which is the production of the greatest human wisdom: its branches are so aptly proportioned, that in it the people can see nothing but a protection to their liberties, and their property. Let us then continue to support this grand and
noble structure—this lofty edifice reared by the hands of Wisdom, Virtue, and Patriotism; and whenever any hostile arm, either within, or from without threatens its destruction, let us like brave Americans, rally round it, and if we cannot defend it with success, like Sampson let us bury ourselves in its ruins.
We have a representative government; the best mankind is capable of enjoying. We choose our representatives once in two years, and then is the time to discuss with freedom their respective merits or demerits. If by their conduct, they have shown themselves worthy of our confidence, let us re-elect them, unless that republican principle, a rotation in office, requires a change. If they have by their public proceedings evinced themselves unworthy of our suffrages let us reject them; but if in their political course, they do that which is not perfectly consonant to the interest of the people, if we find them to be actuated by corrupt motives—while we detest the man, let us respect our elected Representatives; for whoever at any such time abuses him abuses his constituents. We elect persons to make laws for us: we give to them all our legislative powers—what folly then that clubs should be formed for the express purpose of deliberating upon public business, when the people have already elected others to this duty! Is it not usurpation? is it not an unwarrantable assumption of power? is it not a direct assertion that the great body of the people are incapable of selecting proper rulers? will it not have the effect to destroy the representative system, if men self-constituted, take, or attempt to take the reins of government into their hands, not only without the consent, but against the people's will, expressed in their election of other persons?—For shame! ye false pretended patriots, hide your heads in the dust of self-abasement, and like the prodigal son confess and say "Father we have sinned!" Future ages will look with an eye of contempt upon the impotent efforts of the Democrats to absorb all power: the present generation behold you with indifference—they smile at the venom you cast forth—they regard not what your self-constituted tribunals say; because they agree with Paine, that "all delegated power is trust, and all assumed power is usurpation"—that "Government is not a trade which any man or body of men has a right to set up, and exercise for their own emolument: but is altogether a trust, in right of those by whom that trust is delegated, and by whom it is always resolvable." Thus speaks Paine—thus speaks Reason—and thus speaks every REPUBLICAN.
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GUTHRIE'S GEOGRAPHY Improved.
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The new maps added to this edition are twenty one; among which are those of New-Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode-Island, Vermont, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina, the Genesee Government, South Carolina, and Georgia. These maps have never been given in any former system of Geography, and it is hoped, would alone be sufficient to entitle this work to a preference to any other edition of Guthrie.
The following section
of the law for establishing a Health Office, &c. passed the last session of the Legislature, is re-published for the information of all concerned.
Wm. ALLEN, Health-Officer, for the port of Philadelphia, No. 21, Key's alley. June 2, 1794.
Sec. 7. AND be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That every master or captain of any ship or vessel coming from beyond the sea (vessels actually employed in the coasting trade of the United States excepted) and bound to any port or place within the jurisdiction of Pennsylvania, shall cause his ship or vessel to be brought to anchor, or otherwise stayed in the stream of the river Delaware, opposite to the health-office on State-Island aforesaid, and there to remain until he shall have duly obtained a certificate or bill of health from the resident physician in the manner and upon the terms herein before directed; and if previously to obtaining such certificate or bill of health, any master or captain shall suffer his ship or vessel to approach nearer than the said health-office to the city of Philadelphia, or shall land, or cause or suffer to be landed, or brought on shore, at any port or place within this commonwealth, any person or persons, or any goods, wares or merchandise; or if after receiving such certificate or bill of health, he shall neglect or refuse to deliver the same to the health-officer agreeably to the directions of this act, such master or captain shall forfeit and pay, for each and every such offence, the sum of five hundred dollars to be recovered and appropriated as hereinafter provided and directed; and the captain or master of each and every ship or vessel, as soon as the same is brought to anchor, or otherwise stayed as aforesaid, shall send a safe and commodious boat to bring the resident physician on board of his ship or vessel, and shall in like manner convey him back to the health-office after he has concluded his official examination; or in case of any subsequent examination by the health-officer and consulting physician, as the case may be, each and every part of the ship or vessel, and shall present to his view each and every person on board thereof, and shall also true and satisfactory answers make to all such questions as the resident physician at the time of examination, or the health officer at the time of delivering the certificate, or bill of health, in the city of Philadelphia, or at the time of examination to be had by the health-officer together, with the consulting physician shall ask relative to the health of any port or place from which the ship or vessel failed, or has since touched at, the number of persons on board when the ship or vessel entered on her voyage, the number of persons that have since been landed or taken on board, and when or where respectively, what persons on board, if any have been during the voyage, or shall at any time of examination, be infected with any pestilential or contagious disease, what person belonging to the ship or vessel, if any died during the voyage, and of what disease, and what is the present state and condition of the persons on board with respect to their health and diseases; and if any captain or master of any ship or vessel shall refuse to expose the same as aforesaid to the search and examination of the resident physician, or of the health-officer and consulting physician, as the case may be; or if, having on board his ship or vessel any such person or persons, he shall conceal the same, or if in any manner whatsoever he shall knowingly deceive or attempt to deceive the proper officers aforesaid in his answers to their official enquiries, such captain or master, for each and every such offence, shall forfeit and pay the sum of five hundred dollars, to be recovered and appropriated as hereinafter provided and directed; and wherever the resident physician, or consulting physician, as the case may be, shall direct any person or persons, or any goods, wares or merchandise to be landed at the health-office, or any ship or vessel to be detained opposite thereto, and there to be smoked, cleaned and purified, the captain of the ship or vessel shall in all respects conform to such directions, shall at the proper cost and charge of his employers carry the same into effect within such reasonable time as the resident physician, or consulting physician, as the case may be, shall allow and prescribe; and if any master or captain shall refuse or neglect to conform to these said directions, and to carry the same into effect as aforesaid, according to the respective objects thereof, he shall forfeit and pay the sum of five hundred dollars for each and every offence, to be recovered and appropriated as hereinafter provided and directed.
Philadelphia, March, 1794. JUST PUBLISHED, By MATHEW CAREY, No. 118, Market Street, THE FIRST VOLUME OF A NEW SYSTEM OF
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GABRIEL H. FORD, TIMOTHY JOHNS, Jun. } Directors. NATHAN FORD, Morristown, May 16, 1794. dff. w2m.
Christiana Mills For Sale.
ON Monday the first day of September next at 8 o'clock in the evening, at the Coffee-House in the city of Philadelphia will be sold by public vendue, two tracts of pieces of land situated in White Clay Creek hundred, New Castle county and state of Delaware; one of which contains about sixty acres of highly improved land, on it are a large two story brick dwelling house, a convenient brick barn, with stabling and a carriage house underneath, an excellent kiln for drying corn; and the well known mills called Christiana Mills (late Patterson's ) which being at the head of the tide on Christiana river , and but about half a mile from the landing, is conveniently situated for carrying the articles manufactured at the mills by water to Philadelphia—This property being close to the road leading from Elkton to Christiana bridge, and at the head of the tide, with many other attendant advantages, render its situation for the milling business to very valuable, as to be equalled by few and excelled by none.
The latter tract containing 175 acres, is about one mile from the mills and is chiefly woodland, which being contiguous to water carriage to the city of Philadelphia, must be of increasing value, especially as there is a quantity of large timber in said tract suitable for the purposes of the mills.
The terms upon which the above mentioned estates will be sold are—one thousand pounds to be paid on executing the deeds, and seven hundred and fifty pounds per annum, with interest for the remainder or proportionately for each part.
Indispensible titles will be made for the property, by
JOHN NIXON, ALEX. FOSTER, GEO. LATIMER. At same time and place will be sold a large BOAT, July 2. mw & sets
ADVERTISEMENT.
LETTERS on the subject of the Washington Lottery, being by mistake repeatedly addressed to the Commissioners for the City of Washington.
Persons concerned are hereby informed, that all such should be addressed either to W. Deakins Jun. of Washington, or to the Subscriber. The commissioners never having contemplated any further concern in this business, than in their assent to receive the bonds and approve the names of the managers. The prizes have been paid and are paying on demand by W. Deakins, Washington, Peter Gilman, Boston, and by the Subscriber.
For the Lottery No. 2, the securities already given will be retained by the commissioners, or transferred by them at their option to the bank of Columbia; and the commissioners will be considered respecting a judicious and equitable disposition of the houses to be built thereby; their treasury or the bank of Columbia will receive the money intended for the National University, and they will be consulted in the nomination of the 24 managers; but all the responsibility respecting the general disposition of the tickets, and payment of prizes, will rest as in the Hotel Lottery, on the persons whose names are and may be hereafter published as assistants to forward this business with
S. BLODGET. N. B. Mr. Blodget will be particularly obliged if those persons who possess prizes yet unpaid, will apply for their money as early as possible. June 7th. d.
FOR SALE, At the STORES of Jesse & Robert Waln,
PORT WINE in pipes, hds. and quarter casks LISBON do. in pipes and quarter casks Souchong and Congo TEAS, in quarter casks A quantity of Lisbon and Cadiz SALT Soft shelled ALMONDS in bales Velvet CORKS, in do. Ruffia MATS. June 9. d
Richard Johns } In the Chancery Court of the John Wells and } State of Maryland, Nordecai Cole. } May 26th 1794
The Complainant hath filed
his bill, for the purpose of obtaining a decree, to vest in him a complete legal title to two tracts of land, lying in Baltimore county, one called Painter's-Levy , containing 100 acres, the other called Krospert containing 50 acres He prays, that the said John Wells on the 16th day of March 1794 contracted to sell the said land to the said Nordecai Cole, & executed to him a bond for conveyance, that the said Cole, on the same day, executed to the said Wells a bond for the payment of the purchase money amounting to £675 Pennsylvania currency, that the said Cole hath since discharged the whole of the purchase money, and hath assigned to the complainant the said bond for conveyance, that the said Wells hath never executed a deed, agreeably to his contract but hath removed out of the state of Maryland, and now resides in the state of Kentucky.
It is thereupon, and at the request of the complainant, adjudged, and ordered, that he procure a copy of this order to be infortified least six weeks successively, before the first day of August next, in the United States Gazette at Philadelphia, to the intent, that the said John Wells may have notice of the complainant's application to this court, and may be warned to appear here, on or before the first Tuesday in October next, to show cause wherefore this court should not proceed to decree, agreeably to the prayer of the complainant, and to the act of assembly, for such cases made and provided.
Test, Samuel Harvey Howard. Reg. Cur. Can. June 13. mw & dffw
Just Published,
In one handsome volume, 12mo. Price 55 AND FOR SALE BY
JOHN ORMROD,
At Franklin's Head, No. 41, Chestnut Street,
AN ESSAY ON THE Natural Equality of Men,
On the Rights that result from it, and on the Duties which it imposes.
To which a MEDAL was adjudged, by the Teylerian Society at Haarlem.
Corrected and Enlarged, by
WILLIAM LAWRENCE BROWN, D. D.
Professor of Moral Philosophy, and the Law of Nature, and of Ecclesiastical History; and Minister of the English Church at Utrecht.
Aliquid semper ad communem utilitatem afferendum. CREMO.
The First American Edition.
THE grand principle of Equality, as rightly understood, is the only basis on which universal justice, sacred order, and perfect freedom, can be firmly built, and permanently secured. The view of it exhibited in this essay, at the same time that it represses the inuendo of office, the tyranny of pride, and the outrages of oppression; confirms, in the most forcible manner, the necessity of subordination, and the just demands of lawful authority. So far indeed, from loosening the bands of society, that it maintains inviolate, every natural and every civil distinction, draws more closely every social tie, unites in one harmonious and fully proportioned system, and brings men together on the even ground of the inherent rights of human nature, of reciprocal obligation, and of a common relation to the community.
One thousand Dollars REWARD.
Some few Counterfeit Post-Notes of the Bank of Maryland, having been lately discovered in circulation, and on tracing the same were found to come from the back parts of Virginia, where they probably first issued; to avoid imposition it is thought necessary to give the following description of them, by which they may readily be detected.
They have the letter D. for their alphabetical mark, at the left hand side of the Note.
The paper on which they are printed is more soft and tender, the strokes of the letters, in the engraving are in general stronger, and have a darker appearance than in the bills.
The signature William Patterson, is badly done, the strokes of the letters are stiff and labored, and appear to be painted over with the pen, as well as the flourishing of the name.
The value is left blank in the engraving, to be filled up in writing, so the sum may be more or less at pleasure.
No true Post-Notes of the alphabetical mark, above described, have been lately issued, and very few are now in circulation.
The above reward of One Thousand dollars will be paid to any person, or persons, who shall discover, or prosecute to conviction, the several offenders, or any of them, of the following description, viz.
The person or persons, who engraved the plate.
The printer, or printers of the said bills.
Every person who has acted as principal in any way in the counterfeiting, and uttering the said bills.
WILLIAM PATTERSON, President, of the Bank of Maryland. Bme, April 8, 1794.
FOR SALE, BY MATHEW CAREY, No. 118, Market-Street, An Essay on Slavery,
Designed to exhibit in a new point of view its effects on morals, industry, and the peace of society. Some facts and calculations are offered to prove the labor of freemen to be much more productive than that of slaves; that countries are rich, powerful and happy, in proportion as the laboring people enjoy the fruits of their own labor; and hence, the necessary conclusion, that slavery is impolitic as well as unjust . Price 25 Cents. February 15. dff
THE office of the President and Directors of the INSURANCE COMPANY OF NORTH AMERICA,
is removed to No. 107, South Front Street, being the south east corner of Front and Walnut Streets.
The Public are cautioned to
beware of counterfeited Five Dollar Bills , of the Bank of the United States , and Twenty Dollar Bills of the Bank of North America , several of which have appeared in circulation within a few days past; they are good general imitations of the genuine Bills, but may be distinguished by the following
M A R K S.
Five Dollar Bills of the Bank of the United States.
ALL that have appeared have the letter F. for their Alphabetical mark.
The Texture of the Paper is thicker and whiter and it takes the ink more freely than the genuine paper.
The O. in the word Company is smaller than the M. and other letters of that word, so that a line extended from the top of the O, to touch the top of the M. would extend considerably above the range of the whole word.
In the word United the letters are narrower and closer together than the rest of the bill.
The i and j in the word promise are not parallel, the j inclining much more forward than the i.
The engraving is badly executed, the strokes of all the Letters are stronger and the device in the margin particularly is much coarser and appears darker than in the true bills. Some of the counterfeits bear date in 1791—Whereas the Bank was not in operation till December, and no five dollar bills were issued in that year.
Twenty Dollar Bills of the Bank of North America.
ALL that have appeared have the letter B. for their alphabetical mark.
They are printed on a paper nearly similar to that of the counterfeited Five Dollar Notes above described; the engraving is better executed, and they approach nearer to the appearance of the genuine bills.
The fine ruled lines through the word Twenty , in the body of the bill, are in number thirteen in the genuine bills, and but twelve in the counterfeits.
The word Company is much like the same word in the Five Dollar Bills as described above, the e being less than the a, and o their following.
There is no stroke to the t in the word North whereas in the genuine bills the stroke is well defined.
The letters ent in the word Twenty , to the left hand at the bottom, do not come down to the line, but are to cut as to give an irregular appearance to the word, the Tw and the y going below them.
The signature J. Nixon, has the appearance of being written with lamb-black and oil, and differs from other inks used in printing the bills and the cashier's signature.
It is supposed these forgeries were committed in some of the Southern States, as all the counterfeits that have appeared, have come from thence, and two persons have been apprehended in Virginia, on suspicion of being the author of them.
The reward of ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS will be paid to any person or persons who shall discover and prosecute to conviction the several offenders of the following descriptions or any of them, viz.
The person or persons, who manufactured the paper on which the Bills are printed.
The person or persons, who engraved the plates.
The printer or printers, of the bills.
Every person who has acted as a principal in any other way, in the counterfeiting, and uttering the said bills.
Philadelphia, March 28, 1794 April 22, 1794
Other counterfeit bills
of the Bank of the United States have appeared in circulation.
The denomination is of TWENTY DOLLARS , and the alphabetical mark is the letter B.
They may be distinguished from the genuine by the following MARKS:
The paper of the counterfeits is of a more tender texture and glidier surface than the genuine, and there is no water mark in them.
The letter C. in the word Cashier , in the true bills is strongly marked, whereas in the counterfeits, the whole letter is a fine hair stroke, evidently in an unfinished state. The letter a in the word demand , is badly formed and the whole word ill done and there is no comma at the end of it, as there is in the genuine bills.
The marginal device, is much darker in the false, than in the genuine bills owing to the shade strokes being coarser, more nearer together, and consequently much more numerous. This difference strikes the eye at first view.
The same reward of ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS , will be paid for apprehending & prosecuting to conviction the several above described Offenders in respect to this, as to the last described bills.
THOMAS WILLING, President of the Bank United States.
JOHN NIXON, President of the Bank of North America.
By order of the Committee of the Representative Boards.