Gazette of the United States and daily evening advertiser. (Philadelphia [Pa.]), 1795-05-11 00:00:00

Gazette of the United States
AND DAILY EVENING ADVERTISER.
[No. 111 of Vol. VII.]
MONDAY, MAY 11, 1795.
[Whole No. 834.]
For SALE, FREIGHT, or CHARTER, The Brigantine POMONA,
Built in the best manner last Autumn at Kensington, of LIVE OAK & RED CEDAR, is in complete order, and may be sent to sea without any expense (provisions excepted)—She carries 1400 barrels, has handsome accommodations for passengers, and may be seen at Hamilton's wharf.
For terms apply to EDWARD DUNANT, No. 35 Union Street. d6t
Wanted to Purchase A SHIP or BRIG of about 1200 or 1500 Barrels Burthen.
To Charter A SHIP or BRIG of the Burthen of 1500 to 2000 Barrels to load at Norfolk for the West Indies. Apply to GEORGE SIBBALD, No 18 Penn Street. April 21.
Just Published, And to be sold by Mr. Ornrod, No. 41, Chestnut Street, Mr. Dobson, 41, Second Street, Mr. Davies, 68, High Street, and by the Editor, 119, Chestnut Street, An ALPHABETICAL LIST
DUTIES Payable by Law, on all Goods, Wares & Merchandise imported into the United States after the 1st day of March, 1795.—Price 18c of a Dollar. March 19.
THIS DAY IS PUBLISHED [Price 25 Cents] THIRTEEN LETTERS, On Democratic Societies; By GERMANICUS.
Sold by Thomas Dobson, No. 41 Second Street, John Ormrod 41 Chestnut Street, Benjamin Davies 68 High Street and by the Editor, 119 Chestnut Street. April 10.
FOR PORTLAND, Massachusetts. From and thence to CAPE NICHOLO MOLE. The Ship B E T S E Y, Pearson Freeman, Master.
THIS ship is now getting a thorough repair at Mr. George Eyre's ship-yard, and will sail for Portland in about ten days; in about four or five days after her arrival there, she will sail for the Mole, she has uncommon accommodations for passengers; a number of them may be received either here by applying to the Subscriber, or at Portland, by applying to Wm. Cobb Esquire, or to the Captain.
LOUIS OSMONT. April 28.
For Hamburg, The Ship S T A R, John Vannehan, Master.
NOW lying at Walnut Street wharf, and will sail early in next month, having part of her cargo already engaged. For freight or passage, apply to the Captain on board, or to
Thomas & John Ketland, Who have for Sale, received per the above vessel, Duck, Russia, Ravens and Hollands, Lead, English and German in bars, Anchors, from 8 to 14 cwt. Tin, in boxes, Bagging, No's. 5, 6, 8, 11, &c. Sheeting, white and brown, Hollands, Plaites Royales, Diaper. Steel, Frying Pans, Mill Saws, Cables, Junk, Window Glass 10 by 12, & 9 by 11.
ALSO ON HAND, A few pipes beet Holland Gin, Do. London particular Madeira Wine, Claret in cases, of superior quality, Sheathing Paper, and an assortment of Glass Ware, consisting of Tumblers, Decanters, Glasses, &c. &c. plain, flowered and cut. Chees, double Gloucester, in whole and half hampers. March 19.
For SALE or CHARTER, THE SLOOP ABBY Obediah Doane, Master.
Burthen about 900 barrels. For terms apply to JOSEPH ANTHONY & SON. Who have now landing from on board said sloop, MALAGA WINE, in Quarter Casks, PRIME BEEF, SPERMACETI CANDLES, and WHALE OIL. April 28.
For LIVERPOOL, THE SHIP MANCHESTER, John Cox, Master.
A constant trader, built of cedar and live-oak, sails fast, has excellent accommodations for passengers, and will sail in about three weeks. For passage apply to Capt. Cox, or
Randle & Murgatroyd, No. 11, Walnut-Street Wharf. Who have for Sale, OZNABRIGS & TICKLENBURGS, In Convenient Casks, for exportation, and entitled to Drawback.
Also 25 Hbds. Mucovado Sugar. May 6.
For LIVERPOOL, the American Ship DIANA, George Clay, Commander.
She is nearly a new vessel, well fitted, and a constant trader. She is intended to sail in the course of the present month, and to return an early Fall Ship. For Freight or passage, apply to
PHILIP NICKLIN & Co. Who have for Sale, landing from on board said vessel,
 3 cases Cutlery,  Copper in Sheets and Bottoms,  Drop Shot afforded,  Red Lead in cakes of 7 & 8 Cwt each,  White Lead in do. of 3 Cwt each.  They are also Landing from the Sloop George's Lake Hammond master, from Jamaica , lying at Chestnut Street Wharf.  10 Puncheons JAMAICA RUM.  And from the Boston Packet , Captain Wastburne from Liverpool .  22 TONS of PIG LEAD. 
They have also on hand, Rich Mountain Wine in Quarter Casks, Fine Old Port Wine in Pipes and Hogheads, Spanish Liquorice Ball, in boxes of 2 Cwt each Brimstone, crude and refined, Men's English Fuddles, English sail Canvass afforded, 150 Crates Queen's Ware, Crown Window Glass 8 by 10, and A Quantity of Mahogany. May 8.
In the Chancery of New Jersey. April 14th. 1795. Present his Excellency Richard Howell, Chancellor.
Between Lydia Underdonk, Complainant, and Henry Underdonk, Defendant.
The Complainant in this cause, having this day filed her bill of complaint, praying for certain causes therein set forth, to be divorced from her husband Henry Underdonk, the above defendant, and having made due proof, that the said Henry hath, after the cause of complaint had arisen removed himself without the jurisdiction of this court, so that the process thereof cannot be served upon him, or if served he cannot be compelled to appear and answer or plead, and having thereupon prayed a hearing upon the facts charged in the said bill.
It is therefore ordered that a hearing be had on the facts charged in the said bill, accordingly on the first day of July next at the dwelling house of William Hay, Innholder, in the city of Trenton, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, a copy of this order, having been first published in one of the public papers of this state, and in one of the public papers of the states of New York and Pennsylvania, or served on the said defendant for the space of two months at least, before the said day appointed for hearing.
Richard Howell. April 22.
ALL Persons indebted to the Estate of Mary Lewis, late of this City, deceased, are requested to make immediate payment; and those having any demands on said estate will please to apply for settlement to DAVID LEWIS, Executor. May 8.
GEORGE CLARKSON, CONVEYANCER,
HAS opened his Office at No. 120 Spruce Street; where he will be happy to attend to any business his friends may put into his hands. May 8.
WANTED.
A Child's maid, to attend a Lady on a visit to New York. May 7.
St. Croix Sugars
IN Barrels, St. MARTINS do. in do. HAVANNA MOLASSES for sale by SAML. R. FRANKLIN, No. 137 South Front and 136 South Water St. April 20.
A FEW COPIES Of the celebrated Pe formare under the Signature of MANLIUS, M-y-bad of John Ormrod, No. 41, Chestnut Street. PRICE—25 CENTS.
BOOKS PUBLISHED, and FOR SALE by THOMAS DOBSON, At the Stone House, No. 41 South Second Street.
 Alphonso and Dalinda, or the Magic of art and nature. 67 cents.  Adventures of Alphonso, by himself. 20  System of Anatomy, from the Encyclopaedia with 12 large copperplates. 2 Dollars.  Beattie's Evidences of Christianity. 50 cents  Beattie's poems. 50  Booth's apology for the Baptists. 1 Dollar.  Burke's reflections on the French Revolution. 1 Dollar.  Campbell on Miracles, in answer to Hume. 80 cents.  Clarke's Aesop's Fables, Latin and English. 33  Cornaro, on temperance, health and long life. 33  Crawford on animal heat 50  New Dispensary of Edinburgh. 2 Dollars.  Medical and Philosophical Commentaries. 18  Volumes in 9. 2 Dols. & 50 cents pr vol.  Fordyce's Sermons to Young Women. 80  Goldsmith's Desert Village. 14  Comprehensive English Grammar. 25  Grave, a poem by Dr. Blair. 14  Collins's poems, with Hammond's Love Elegie. 50  Hamilton's Outlines of Midwifery. 80  Hopkinson's Works, 3 volumes. 5 Dols.  Jenyns's Disquisitions on various subjects 25  Life of Joseph by McGowan 50  Moore's Fables for the Ladies, with Langhorne's Fables of Flora. 50  More's Sacred Dramas for young persons. common Paper. 62 1-2 cents. fine do. 70  Moore's Search after Happiness. 20  Lempriere's Tour in Morocco. 87 1-2  Medical Transactions of the Philadelphia College of Physicians. 1 Dollar.  Nicholson's Natural Philosophy, illustrated with 25 copper plates. 3 Dols.  Opinions of the Federal Judges on the suability of a State. 50 cents.  Paley's principles of Moral and Political philosophy. 2 Dollars.  Paley's view of the evidences of Christianity. 1 Dollar 75 cents.  Percival's Moral Tales, and Fables for youth. 50 cents.  Ditto fine 67 cents.  Crotherfield's advice to his son. 50  Pope's Essay on Man. 13 cents. fine 20  Present for an apprentice 20  Price's Sermons. 67  Rigley on Uterine Hemorrhages. 30  Memoirs of the Year 2500. 1 Dollar.  System of Mineralogy and Metallurgy, from the Encyclopaedia. 1 Dollar 33 cents.  Rowe's devout exercises of the heart. common 37 1-2 cents. fine 50  Dr. Rush's Medical Observations and Enquiries. 2 volumes 3 Dols.  Dr. Rush on the Yellow Fever. 1 D. 50  Selecta C Veteri, a new and improved Edition in the press.  Selecta C Profanis. 80 cents.  Shipwreck, a poem by Falconer. 44  Sherlock's Trial of the witnesses at the re-furrection of Jesus Christ. 20  Smith's Wealth of Nations. 3 vols. 3 dols.  Smiths (Charlotte) Elegiac Sonnets. 14 cents.  System of Chemistry from the Encyclopaedia Quarto 2 dollars and 50 cents.  Taplins Farrier complete 2 dollars 25 cts.  Tables of Logarithms, Sines, Tangents &c. Underwood on diseases of Children 1 dollar  Waters's system of Surgery abridged from Bell 2 dollars and 50 cts.  Winchester's dialogues on Universal Salvation 62 1-2 cts.  Memoirs of the year 2500 1 dollar.  Buchan's Family Physician greatly improved will be published in a few days.  Truxton's Remarks, Instructions and Examples relating to latitude, longitude, variation of the compass &c. &c. with a chart of the Globe &c. 3 dollars.  Also an extensive variety of books and stationery. I W 10 W 
No. 94. District of Pennsylvania, TO WIT.
Be it remembered that on the twenty sixth day of March, in the nineteenth year of the Independence of the United States of America, Joseph Priestley of the said district hath deposited in this office, the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author, in the words following, to wit:
"A continuation of the Letters to the Philosophers and Politicians of France, on the subject of Religion, and of the Letters to a Philosophical Unbeliever, in answer to Mr. Paine's Age of Reason—By Joseph Priestley, L. L. D. F. R. S. &c. &c."
In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, intitled "an act for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned."
Samuel Caldwell, Clerk of the District of Pennsylvania. April 11.
FOR SALE, Between nine and 10,000 Acres of Land,
Situate in the county of Frederick, and state of Virginia, being the greater part of Greenway Court Manor. Part of this tract lies on the river Shenandoah, between thirty and forty miles above its junction with the Potomack. The Shenandoah is capable of being rendered navigable, and the navigation of the Potomack is in a fair way of being completed to tide water which circumstances offer in a few years a water carriage to the flourishing towns of Georgetown and Alexandria, and to the City of Washington; from all which places the said tract is distant between seventy and eighty miles by land. The flourishing Borough of Winchester is only twelve or fourteen miles from it.
Between three and four thousands acres of the land are leased generally for terms not exceeding twenty one years and many of the terms have only short periods to run. The remaining quantity being near six thousand acres, consists of the most valuable part of the tract being extremely rich limestone land, similar in quality to the very fertile country in Lancaster and York counties of this state, and in Frederick county of Maryland. An indisputable title will be made to the purchaser.
This tract being situated in a most healthy and fertile country, offers a most advantageous investment of money; as no part of America can exhibit a more rapid settlement and improvement, and consequently a more rapid increase in the value of real estate.
It would be particularly advantageous to a company of settlers as the part not leased, admits of being divided into farms of any size to suit the convenience of the parties concerned.
One half of the purchase money must be paid at the time of sale, and the remaining half at easy instalments with interest. Further particulars are deemed unnecessary as it is probable the land will be viewed, by any person disposed to buy before he purchases.
The price for the whole tract may be known on application to the hon. Thomas Hartley, Esq. at Yorktown, to the hon. John Wilkes Kittera, Esq. at the town of Lancaster, in this state, to Charles Lee, Esq. at Alexandria in the state of Virginia, or to the subscriber, at No. 29, north Second Street in this city, who will treat with any person or persons disposed to purchase till the fifteenth day of June next.
Richard Bland Lee. Philad. April 14. tu & fam
No. 96. District of Pennsylvania to wit.
BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the first day of May, in the nineteenth year of the Independence of the United States of America, James Ph. Puglia of the said District hath deposited in this Office the Title of a Book the Right whereof he claims as Author in the following words, to wit:
 "THE FEDERAL POLITICIAN, by James Ph. Puglia, Teacher of the Spanish and Italian Languages, and author of the Spanish work entitled el Defensor del Hombre , or the Man Undecided, &c.  " Est modus in rebus, sunt certi denique fines,  " Quos ultra citrove nequit consistere rectum.  In conformity to the Act of Congress of the United States intitled "An Act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts and Books to the Authors and proprietors of such Copies during the times therein mentioned."
SAMUEL CALDWELL, Clerk of the District of Pennsylvania. May 2.
Notice is hereby given that an attachment was issued out of the inferior court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Cumberland, in the state of New Jersey, returnable on the twenty-fifth day of February last, against the goods and chattels, rights and credits, lands and tenements of George Hutz (not being a resident at that time within the state of New Jersey) at the suit of Jonathan Ballinger, indorsee of Job Butcher, which was levied by the sheriff of the county of Cumberland "on a certain hogshead of shallop called the Fly of Philadelphia" with its appurtenances, as by the return to the said sheriff will more particularly appear—and notice is hereby further given, agreeably to the direction of an act of the Legislature of the state of New Jersey in such case made and provided, that unless the said George Hutz shall appear and give special bail to answer the suit to as aforesaid instituted against him by the said Jonathan Ballinger, within such time as is prescribed by law, "that then and in that case judgment shall be entered" against the said George Hutz "by default, and that the said hogshead or shallop so as aforesaid seized on the said attachment" will be sold for the satisfaction of all "creditors who shall appear to be justly entitled to any demand thereon, and shall apply for that purpose."
Dated at Salem, in the county of Salem, in the said state, the thirty first day of March. A. D. 1795.
GILES, Clerk. Lucius Horatio Stockton, Attorney for the Plff. April 1.
Advertisement.
Take notice that on the third day of March, the Copartnership of the subscribers was dissolved by mutual consent. All persons indebted to the said Company are requested to make speedy Payment, and all persons having demands against said Company are requested to exhibit them for settlement.
Lewis Debbois, Samuel Breck, jun. Philad. March 3d. 1795. 2aw3m
No. 93. District of Pennsylvania, TO WIT.
Be it remembered that on the twenty sixth day of March, in the nineteenth year of the Independence of the United States of America, Thomas Dobson of the said district hath deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit:
"Remarks, Instructions and Examples relating to the Latitude and Longitude; also the variation of the compass, &c. &c. to which is annexed, a general chart of the Globe, where the route made by the author in different ships under his command, to the Cape of Good Hope, Batavia, Canton in China, the different parts of India, Europe and the Cape de Verde Islands, are marked for the purpose of showing the best tract of sea, to meet the most favourable winds, and avoid those perplexing calms, which too often attend Atlantic voyages; together with a short but general account of variable winds, trade winds, monsoons, hurricanes, tornadoes, tuffoons calms, currents, and particular weather met with in those voyages, &c. &c.—By Thomas Dobson."
In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, intitled "an act for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned."
Samuel Caldwell, Clerk of the District of Pennsylvania. April 11.
THE PARTNERSHIP OF MOUNTFORD, BIREN & CO. PRINTERS.
IS this day dissolved by mutual consent. All persons having demands against said firm are desired to furnish their account—and those indebted, to make payment to the subscribers, who are duly authorised to settle all concerns.
JOHN BIREN, PATRICK MADAN. April 24.
BIREN & MADAN, Printers, CONTINUE the Printing Business as usual, at their Printing-Office, No. 75, Dock Street. Having a general assortment of printing materials, they hope to give every satisfaction to those who may please to employ them.
Printing in general, Ship Advertisements, Cards, Handbills, &c. executed at the shortest notice. The first volume of the Works of SHAKESPEARE is now in the press. Subscriptions are received by the booksellers in this city, and the United States at the office of the Aurora , Philadelphia, and by the publishers, No. 75, Dock Street. Gentlemen holding Subscription papers in the different states, are requested to transmit the names of the subscribers which they have obtained, to the publishers, in order that the first volume may be forwarded to them. April 28.
No. 92. District of Pennsylvania, TO WIT.
Be it remembered that on the twenty sixth day of March, in the nineteenth year of the Independence of the United States of America, Thomas Dobson of the said district, hath deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as Proprietor, in the words following, to wit:
"Elements of Physiology, by Jo. Fred. Blumenbach, M. D. Professor of Medicine in ordinary at Goettingen, member of the Royal Society of Sciences at Goettingen, and of several other Societies in different parts of Europe. Translated from the original Latin, and interspersed with occasional notes—By Charles Caldwell. To which is affixed by the Translator, an Appendix, exhibiting a brief and comprehensive view of the existing Discoveries, relative to the subject of Animal Electricity. Volume I."
In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, intitled "an act for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned."
Samuel Caldwell, Clerk of the District of Pennsylvania. April 11.
SALT. Best Cadiz Salt,
Just landing from on board the Brig Trial , or sale at Meirs Witting and Francis's wharf by
Levinus Clarkson. March 11.

American Landscapes PROPOSALS FOR PUBLISHING IN AQUATINTA VIEWS.
Selected from the most striking and interesting Prospects in the United States; each of which VIEWS will be accompanied with a descriptive account of its Local, Historical, and other Incidental Peculiarities.
By G. I. PARKYNS, Author of the "Monastic Remains and Ancient Castles in Great Britain."
CONDITIONS.
I. That the work shall be published by Subscription; and that each Subscriber shall engage to take the whole set of Views, and shall pay for each engraving, if black or brown, 2 Dollars; and if coloured 5 Dollars. II. That the dimensions of each engraving shall be 24 by 17 inches, executed in aquatinta, and published upon paper of a superior quality. The publication to commence immediately; and one engraving to be delivered to the Subscribers, on the first Monday of each succeeding month, until the proposed series shall be finally completed. III. That with the last View of the series, shall be delivered an engraved title-page; an elegant characteristic vignette; a map of the route, connected with the prospects exhibited in the course of the Work; and an Alphabetical list of the Subscribers.
Subscriptions are received by Mr. Harrison, at his Print-Shop, Maiden-lane, New-York by Mr. Carey, Book-seller, No. 118, Market Street, Philadelphia, and by all the principal Book-sellers in the United States. February 28.
Jamaica Rum.
A CHOICE PARCEL, Will be landed to-morrow morning, at Jeffe and Robert Waln's wharf. Also at South Street Wharf, The CARGO of Schooner INDUSTRY, Captain Flyn, from JAMAICA
COFFEE,
In Hogsheads & Barrels, Pimento in Bags, FOR SALE BY
Peter Blight.
March 26
ON MONDAY
Will be landed on Walnut-Street Wharf, the Cargo of the Brig Iphigenia, Captain Thompson, from Bourdeaux,
Consisting of
Sixty Pipes choice Cogniac Brandy Thirty Nine Tons Twenty Hhds. Bottled Ninety Three Casks
CLARET. For Sale By
George Meade.
WHO HAS ALSO FOR SALE, 35 Pipes of Bill of Exchange Madeira Wine. May 2, 1795.
EXHIBITION.
THE Society of the Columbian or American Academy of Painting, &c inform the public in general, and Artists in particular, that an Exhibition of Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Modelling, Drawing and Engraving, will commence on Monday the eighteenth day of May next, and continue open every day, Sunday's excepted, during the space of six weeks. Those Ladies and Gentlemen who may favor the Exhibition with their performances, are requested to send them, framed, from the 11th to the 15th of May inclusive, to the Senate Chamber in the State House, (which has been kindly granted for the purpose) in order for arrangement. Original Paintings, Drawings, &c. only, can be admitted, which have never appeared in any Exhibition in the United States, and which may be judged fit for the public eye.
Exhibitors are requested to send Descriptions of their Works, together with their Names and places of abode, for insertion in the Catalogue. Those who may wish to conceal their Names, shall be termed "Honorary Exhibitors."
All possible care shall be taken of every piece of Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Modelling, Drawing and Engraving; and at the conclusion of the Exhibition, be delivered to persons duly authorized to receive them.
The Society being much occupied in preparing for the Exhibition, and the Evening's shortened, the Academy of Drawing from living Figures is closed. Due notice shall be given of its opening the next Season.
By Order,
SAMUEL LEWIS, Secretary pro tem.
Philosophical Hall, April 29th, 1795.
N. B. A stated meeting of the Society will be on Monday next the 4th of May, at 7 o'clock in the Evening.
April 30. det3M.
Patent NAIL Manufactory,
No. 120, South Front-Street, Philadelphia.
THOMAS PERKINS & Co.
HAVING by the use of Machines, for which they have a Patent from the United States, been enabled to make 3d. 4d. 6d. 8d. and 10d. NAILS, equal to the best drawn ones, (and superior to them for many purposes) and from 15 to 30 per cent cheaper to all orders in that line, which shall be executed with fidelity by Thomas Perkins and Co.
N. B. A large assortment of the above kinds of Nails on hand at reduced prices—also Nails for Sugar Hogsheads.
March 31. etf
110,000 weight of Green Coffee,
187 Hhds. 4 barrel, and 200 bags, entitled to be landed at once, on the arrival of the ship Willing & Francis's wharf.
Bourdeaux Brandy,
30 pipes of London particular Tenetiff, and London particular Madeira Wines, in hds. pipes, and quarter casks, Malaga Do. in quarter casks, Antigua and other RUM in hds. St. Croix SUGAR of the best quality, St. Marks MOLASSES, Hyson TEA, Jamaica SPIRITS, Holland GIN, in pipes, LOAF SUGAR, in hds. PEPPER, &c. &c.
FOR SALE BY
Levinus Clarkson, No. 216, South Water Street. Dec. 4.
The highest price
In Cash, will be given for EMPTY BOTTLES, A preference will be given to Claret Bottles.
Apply at
No. 187, South Third Street.
April 10.
JOHN MILLER, jun.
No. 8, Chestnut-Street, Has just received from New-York part of the Cargo of the Diana, from Calcutta,
consisting of Bandanno Handkerchiefs, } 100 packages Tafaties, } Muffin Handkerchiefs, } Calicoes, } HE HAS ALSO FOR SALE, Russia Sheetings, } 100 packages Fine Ticklenburgs, } German Linens, } India Muffins, } Nankeens, } And a general assortment of
British Goods, Irish Linens, &c.
May 6.
d.rod.
NEW-Castle PIER LOTTERY.
The returns of the drawing arrive daily at the office No. 149 Chestnut Street, between Fourth and Fifth Streets—where a correct numerical Book is kept; also, the slips of each day's drawing regularly filed. Information given where a few remaining tickets may be had, warranted undrawn. Low prices exchanged, and high prices cashed. The 34th day's drawing is arrived. No higher prize than one of 20 Dollars—the wheel is rich.
WASHINGTON LOTTERY.
The Public are informed by authority, that this Lottery will positively commence at the close of New-Castle Lottery. Information given where tickets may be purchased, value 8 dollars each. Also, a few quarter tickets. In the above Lottery, signed by Samuel Blodget which will entitle the holder to one fourth of the prize drawn to its number. April 16.
d.
IMPORTED,
In the Ship MANCHESTER, Capt. Cox, just arrived from Liverpool, and for Sale (by the package) by the Subscriber, upon every reasonable terms, the following GOODS, judiciously assorted, and of the most fashionable patterns, viz. PRINTER Talicoes, purple, dark and light chinz, &c.
Muffins and L-mities, a variety of elegant patterns, white and coloured.
Quiltings, white and printed.
Nankeens, striped, clouded, twilled, and silk striped.
Thicksets and Corduroys, twilled and plain.
Fancy do. and do. do. do.
Velveteens and Velveteens.
1-2 yard and 1-2 ell pillows and jeanets.
Callimeres, mixt, plain and printed, common fine and superfine.
Broad and narrow cloths, first and second quality.
Figured cloths.
Beaverets, silk beaverets.
Elastics Orleans and Brunswick stripes.
Calimancoes, ribbed and plain.
Prunel and Calimancoe fallings.
Muffins, plain, checked, striped, tambooured and book.
Muffin handkerchiefs, plain and coloured borders.
A few boxes of youth's, girl's, men's and women's hats, well assorted.
A final assortment of silk and cotton hose.
Do. do. sewing silks.
JOSIAH ROBERTS, No. 62 South Second Street. May 2.
d.
THE CARGO
Of the brig Dolphin, Capt. Stutson, from Jamaica, will be landed on Monday morning, at South-Street wharf,
consisting of
High proof Rum, & Sugar.
FOR SALE BY
Peter Blight.
May 2, 1795. dzw.
James M'Alpin,
Taylor,
No. 3, South Fourth Street, Returns his grateful acknowledgements to his friends and the Public for their liberal encouragement, and begs leave respectfully to solicit a Continuance of their Favourites.
At his Shop Gentlemen can be furnished with the best materials, and have them made up and finished in the neatest and most fashionable manner.
He will thankfully receive any orders & pay prompt and punctual attention to them.
Oct. 25. 2aw tf
NEW-YORK, May 5.
It is said the provinces of Holland are delivered from the "shackles of slavery" by the French. This is true—they have rid themselves of the Prince of Orange and his party—but it is believed that they will wear other shackles, which by and by will be very troublesome. We are very much mistaken if they have got rid of ALL their masters.
That the Dutch should be a free and independent nation, is a very desirable event: and we rejoice sincerely that they have cast off the yoke which lay heavy on their necks. As the power and claims of the Stadtholder were considered by the Dutch themselves as oppressive and unfounded, it was certainly right to expel him and choose their own mode of governing themselves. All this is well; but whatever superficial observers may suppose, this is not the whole of the change. Instead of ridding themselves of all tyranny, the Dutch have only changed Masters. The French, while they permit the people of Holland to model their government by their own representatives, at least in appearance, will in reality direct all their political transactions. Their new allies, with their usual address, will sweeten the subjection of the Dutch, with flattery, civility, festivals and songs; but the Dutch, after dancing round liberty poles a short time, and singing Ca ira with their allies, will find they are NOT an independent nation.
Many people seem not to understand the real nature of the revolution in Holland. The Dutch have expelled an officer of their government, whose usurpations they could not bear patiently: and their new Legislative authority will doubtless amend the laws of the country and remove many oppressions. But human nature does not authorize us to suppose that their deliverers will leave them entirely independent. Deplorable is the state of that nation, which is compelled or which submits to the alternative of calling in the aid of a foreign power to alter or reform their government or to resist oppression. Many nations have resorted to this alternative; and generally have had cause to lament it.
The Greek states had recourse to the Romans—those brave and generous republicans—for protection. The Romans did protect them—but once engaged in the affairs of Greece—having once gained a footing in that country, they never left it, till by force and intrigue, they had subjected the whole to their power.
The Romans, in their decline, too corrupt to defend themselves, put their country under the protection of foreign mercenaries, who assisted in conquering their employers. The Saxons played the same game with the Britons, when invaded by the Picts and Scots.
But not to mention examples of barbarous ages, as we are pleased to stile them, [though in martial and political affairs, ancient ages were never more barbarous than the modern] let us come nearer home. What is the whole system of American policy with respect to the Indian tribes? Is it not to assist one tribe to vanquish another, that we may become masters of both?
The French assisted us in the late war, to throw off the English yoke; and lately sent a minister to make demands upon our gratitude, and establish an influence in this country, which would have placed it wholly under the direction of the French government. And however we may boast of our executive, in countering the insidious attempt, it has been our distance, more than our firmness, which has averted the snare prepared for us. And even now there is a powerful party in this country, more under the influence of the French, than the American government. Were the powers of government in the hands of this party, we should be little more than a province of France.
But say our enthusiastic patriots, no conclusions drawn from former examples can be applicable to the present enlightened period of the world. Men are growing wiser and better! improving in wisdom and policy, and liberality!
What proofs have we of this? Let the assertions be supported by one substantial fact, and the question will be acknowledged to be decided. Nations are composed of individuals, who have the same predominant passions, as men have had for 6000 years past. Government, fashion, local circumstances give these passions various directions, and appearances somewhat different; but the passions are radically the same. The love of money, the love of fame, and the love of power, the great predominating passions of the human heart, are as strong and as active in a Frenchman or an Englishman, as they were in a Greek or a Roman! And there is no reason to believe, that these passions are more chastized and disciplined by principle in the moderns, than in the ancients. Under similar circumstances, these passions every where break forth in violations of law, of justice and good order, now as formerly.
Nay more, we see the passions as strong, as turbulent and licentious in republicans, as in nobles or monarchs. Under the Roman commonwealth, the tribuneship was the stage for popular demagogues to act on—Ambitious men who wanted to govern, courted the people to make them tribunes—in this office they exercised POWER, which was the object of their ambition—They kept in favor with the people by attacking the Senate, and in this way made themselves masters and tyrants; this was all the most of them wanted—This is the way in which popular demagogues now mount into eminence, by declaiming against men in the higher offices.
The Roman Senate, a body of men as respectable for talents and dignity of mind,
as ever existed, stood like a Macedonian Phalanx, for centuries, resisting the attacks of the tribunes, and thus preserved the government of Rome from Revolutions. Had it been otherwise, and no such body to restrain the ambition of the popular demagogues, Cæsar and Robespierres would have sprung up in thick succession—faction would have divided the commonwealth, and the age of Scylla and Marius, and the reign of Cæsar, would probably have taken place as early as the fourth century, instead of the seventh or eighth.
The French have no Senate, and the nation have suffered severely by republican intrigue. Cromwell found it very convenient to get rid of a branch of the Legislature which he could not control; and the great object of certain mock-patriots in America, is to abolish the Senate of the United States, that they may have full scope for their ambition.
But say our enthusiasts, the plan of a representative government is a novelty, and an improvement which will preclude the evils of the ancient democracies. Heaven grant the idea may be just—it is perhaps the last resort of republicanism. It is unquestionably a most fortunate discovery, and a most excellent expedient.
But what confirms all that hath been said of the state of the human heart and the little prospect of ever seeing it amended, is, that the very men who admit this principle of representation, as the first excellence of government, are the very men to destroy all its advantages. The Democrats, or most zealous partizans of republican principles, while they admit representation to be a natural and excellent remedy for the turbulence and inabiability of democracy, are striving to prevent this effect by creating an external popular influence in private associations. If wisdom then has improved on the democracy of the ancients; faction has also refined on the means of defeating the end of those improvements. And this is a strong proof that men are neither better now than formerly, nor more qualified to institute and preserve free governments. Even admit that men are improved in point of talents and understandings, which is very questionable, the experience of every day proves, that in point of virtue men are not improved. Their hearts are the same—their selfish passions as strong, and their views as wicked, as they were two thousand years ago.
For the GAZETTE of the UNITED STATES.
MR. FENNO,
I reads in your paper of Tuesday, last that my brother mess-mate JACK OAKHAM has been palaverating about what happened at Oeller's:—Now Jack is not the tighthand I thought him to be, or he would not have leaked so much flinking bilge water on a poor SNIP, who, between you I, was the most cleverest fellow of 'em all, in any boddering kind of argufucation; for whoever his cheek-jaw ran foul of, he foundered him, and never spared a ropes end to keep him from Davy's locker. So Jack should not be a overhauling an honest gemman, whose calling (may be as a body may say,) smells a little too much of the Guffo of Goose and Cabbage:—Speaking of Cabbage, now I remembers when at school in learning latin hieroglyphics, we always said to a Taylor 'Satia te caule quem semper cupisti' but we never gave him any hard knocks.
Now Mr. Printer why, as Jack was under way, didnt he hoist out a thingum bob or two about the journeyman Snub the Devil's printer, (but not from your office) and the other lanthernjaw'd looking gemman whose nose was for all the work shaped like a Sawgelder's horn; and then, that there little squatty, who, every now and anon, fired off his Bomb-shells, in all directions that we could hardly hear what the spokesman said at the top of the mess—that Jack knows the little corporal as we used to call him, who sat between us, tipp'd me the wink and said as how, that it put him in mind of his being a Skunk hunting, which made Jack and I laugh to loud that we was called to order, in order to hear something about an Aristoocrat, which mess-mate thought, was skewing at him,—So he got up, and hail'd the Gemman who spoke last, and told him as how he was no Natty-cat, nor any that there sort of a thing, that his christian name was Oakham, and cautioned him to take care how heemptied his stink-pots,—bekase—avast says he,—I be no mortal man's enemy:—a Frenchman who w.s ranged in the same tier, not understanding what Jack said, got up and told the Company 'dat he vas a very good fans-culotte and had fwore dat he vas to all tyrants a mortal enemy'—this explanation put all to rights, and the great gun was fired off, which little squatty echoed with his Artillery.
Now Mr. Printer I must belay my subject and heave to,—may be, these anecdotes may look better in black and white. Tell Jack who is gone a coasting voyage how I have touched them off.
JACK SWIPES.
From the BELLIST NEWSPAPER.
"Revelation is necessarily limited to the first communication. It is revelation to the first person only, and necessarily to every other: and consequently they are not obliged to believe it." PAINE.
AN obligation on a man to believe any thing, for which there is not what appears to his own mind to be sufficient evidence, is an absurdity; where he thinks a sufficient degree of evidence is given, belief necessarily follows, and it is then not in his power to withhold it. Call it revelation, or hearsay, or what we will, if the proof be sufficient, assent is the natural consequence.
Were we to admit only those things that happen in the world, to which our own eyes and ears have been witnesses, human knowledge would be limited within a narrow span and history unfold its instructive page in vain. We would then discard nine hundred and ninety nine parts out of a thousand, of the things in which all mankind from the creation have been agreed. The son might question whether he ever had a father, provided the child had not come into the world before the parent went out of it, and consequently never had the evidence of his own senses to the fact.
Limited by such unmeaning trammels in our search of truth, an oran outang would be nearly on a level with a human being. The thousand convictions respecting things neither seen nor heard by ourselves, which happen every hour, in all the affairs of business, and in the most common occurrences of life, are repetitions drawn from the natural operations of the human mind. They are arguments impressed by the hand of God himself on the spirit of man.
If we will not credit one revelation, merely because the miracle declaratory of it has not been performed in our presence, we deny the power of the Deity to give any supernatural testimony of his will that should deserve credit among men; unless he were pleased to perform a distinct miracle for every child that is born, or for mankind at large, assembled in one spot from all the quarters of the Globe. The latter case is impossible; in the former one a miracle would be necessary for every moment of time from the ascension of our Saviour, to the present hour; and in every other moment from this, through the countless ages to come. Calculating that a soul is born every moment in the circle of a day, and that a miracle is required for its conviction of the truth of any religion, the laws of nature must be suspended near nine thousand times in the twenty four hours, and thirty millions of times in a single year!
So inadequate is human knowledge to the government of an universe; so differently would human reason act from divine power; and to such extravagancies will we run ourselves, as often as we presume to direct the Almighty hand.
The absurdity may be rendered still more evident. Suppose it had pleased God, on the appearance of the Messiah to confirm his mission by a perpetual miracle, visible to every region of the earth; and that it was to commence at, and continue from, the birth of Christ till the general dissolution of nature. Had this miracle been the addition of a second son or moon to our system, it could not at this day, according to the modern doctrine of infallibility carry the slightest evidence to the mind. It would only be a miracle to the existing generation among whom it was performed; while thus it could merely be, what has been termed hearsay; and as such, must by a party of reasoning be scouted with contempt.
After the original revelation exhibited in the creation itself, the new doctrine is—that Almighty Power, cannot by any means, attest his will to a benighted world, and that no revelation could be proved by the most stupendous miracle that imagination in its boldest flight ever conceived; while the attempt requires the Deity to break through that beautiful simplicity which runs through all his works, and is as visible in the formation of a flower, as of a world. And all this for what purpose? To accommodate the ways of infinite perfection to the folly of man; though the wittest philosopher, so far from comprehending the general plan of Providence, knows not by the boasted light of Nature, why he was born, whether he is to live after the present spark seems extinct, or is to perish for ever. When we see erring mortals drawing lines for the conduct of their Creator, and pretending to limit his powers, we have to lament that reason, though so prime a gift, begins to verge upon a curse.
To use language suitable to the meanness of the idea, our ingenious infidel favours our maker the trouble of any extraordinary declaration of his will; for in the plainest terms he tells him, he would not believe him, if he made it. A miracle, he says, is "a show" and "implies a lameness or weakness in the doctrine that is preached;" "instead of being evidence of the truth of any religion, it ought to be considered as fabulous," and "it is with prophecy as with miracle—it could not answer the purpose even if it were real." Of course God would be losing time in performing them.
It is hard to determine whether the absurdity, or impiety, of this declaration, be greatest. Were it even not nonsense in its own nature, the history of that very religion that is attacked, exposes the error.
Christianity, handing besides its internal evidence, on the evidence of prophecy and miracle—from the preaching of a few illiterate men, spread over a great portion of the habitable globe. Those who could

believe it merely on its own intrinsic excellence, and vast superiority over all human inventions, have never alleged that it is weakened in its proofs by prophecy or miracle, but consider it fortified by both. Though it was at war with the vices, the worldly interests, and with all the habits of almost every man to whom it addressed itself, and was neither uttered in pomp nor splendor, it has been the religion of men whose knowledge of nature exceeded that of all antiquity a thousand fold; it has been for 1600 years the religion of those countries which boast the highest degree of refinement, and where philosophy and science have most flourished. Though it was not written in "an universal language," which it seems the Deity would have framed for it had it really come from his hand, and though its author spoke only in "one," every purpose is answered by translation; nay the very authenticity of the books themselves has been proved by their disagreement in trifling circumstances, where no inspiration was pretended, as well as by their coincidence in every essential point, respecting either the character of our Saviour or the principles he taught. Thus their early translation into different tongues, and their wide dissemination among different nations, carry a testimony in their favor that must have been a loss by any other expedient that human ingenuity could have invented; a testimony which an universal language would have wanted. In this as in other cases, the very charges exhibited against Christianity, will in proportion as they are considered, multiply the proofs of its being the work of a divine hand.  It has been asserted, and never contradicted, that the Jewish and Christian religions are the only ones that pretended to miracles. Mahomet expressly denies his power to work any, and does not pretend to rest his proof of a divine mission on them. Mahomet admitted the supernatural powers of Christ, in conferring him a prophet: Mr. Paine would make him an impostor, in as much as he brands his religion with the name of "imposition" and "fraud," which are tantamount to the other. Mahomet was an impostor, and borrowed the first passages in the Koran from the Scriptures; Mr. Paine's Age of Reason is a compound of the futilities of writers of the last generation, given as his own; but so meanly adapted that the originals just appear; and so ill connected, that had it come from another pen it would not have been read.
A LAY PROTESTANT DISSENTER.
From the Cork Gazette.
ASSIGNS.
Extract from the Report of Cambon, on the means of diminishing the mals of Assignats in circulation.  "Vainly do our enemies attempt to alarm us on the rate of our finances; we have in our hands the most ample resources, notwithstanding the efforts of every kind which we are obliged to make to destroy the league of the conspirators against us. The United States of America also created a territorial money, which enabled them to consolidate their Revolution. It would be easy on this head to point out a difference very much in favour of assignats. The real value of our assignats is founded on a fertile land and numerous population, while the American money rested only on lands uninhabited and uncultivated. Whatever our resources are for re-establishing the credit of assignats in circulation, you have decreed that the means of diminishing the mass of them should be proposed to you; we therefore propose a Lottery, by which four thousand millions of assignats may be paid off.  The Lottery is to consist of four millions of tickets, of a thousand livres each, divided into four classes: from No. 1 to one million. The tickets will be divided into small shares, &c. the convenience of circulation, and the Lottery will be constituted in such a manner as to prevent any person from experiencing any loss. The subscribers will have, besides, the chance of the prizes. The prizes will consist of 4 of 500,000 livres, 16 of 150,000, 360 of 100,000, and 3,600 of 20,000. The assignats called in by means of this Lottery, will be burnt in the same manner as the assignats called in by the sale of the national domains. The payment of the prizes will be with a bonus to the bearer of three per cent. from the day of drawing."  The advocates for the rising and falling system in this country say too much; for however much England may wish to have Ireland fall with her, she has no notion that Ireland must rise . The present measures prove this most evidently.  We shall soon hear what objections John Bull has to the Dutchman's being free; we do not see that he has a better right than a Frenchman to legislate for himself, without royal permission.
The freeing of Breweries from Excise Laws, leaves a number of Excisemen unemployed. They would do well along with the armies to guage the quantity of French blood to be spilled in the next campaign. It would be a satisfactory circumstance to know this with accuracy.  The Dutch 64, which had been guarded for some time in Beershaven, came round on Monday last to Cove, under convoy of two King's ships.  The state of the timber which is found in the bogs of Ireland, has yet escaped the notice of the naturalist. We could with some curious person to extend his researches to this subject, and endeavour to throw some light on the cause thereof. It can hardly be thought that this timber was eradicated and swept away by Noah's flood; and yet that it has been the effect of some convolution, or revolution in nature, is not to be doubted.
From Billings's Liverpool Advertiser of March 9.
The gallant Faulknor, who so gloriously fell in the late memorable action in the West Indies, has left a mother to lament so irreparable a loss; and we doubt not but his undaunted conduct and heroism, so particularly conspicuous not only in the late action, but also at the storming of Fort Bourbon, and a variety of instances during the present war, will be handed to future ages by some public monumental honor to so great and noble a character.
He has also left a sister, the beautiful and amiable Mrs. Stanhope, the wife of General Stanhope, and was the nephew of Vice Admiral Faulknor, who, together with many other relations and numerous friends, have with their country the greatest cause to mourn and regret his fate. In him the Navy of England has lost one of its best officers; and in his character, British valor, and true courage, guided with judgment, were never more eminently conspicuous, and never more forcibly displayed. History will not fail to record his valiant deeds.
LONDON.
DISMEMBERMENT OF POLAND.
[The dismemberment of Poland, is much opposed, from motives of policy, by some of the powers of Europe, and by none more than the Ottoman Porte; with whom, and Russia, a rupture may be expected, should the latter insist on the possession of the late dominions of Stanislaus. The following affords much light on this subject.]
LONDON, Feb. 25. From Constantinople, our letters of the 10th of December last, state, that the Russian Minister, Kutzubey, had obtained several conferences with the Reis Effendi; & that he there laboured to convince him it was the interest of the Sublime Porte, that a neighbour so quiet as Poland, should be subdued. He expressed the hopes of His Sovereign, that the Sultan would persevere in the neutrality he professed, and that he should not be found to have furnished the Poles any secret assistance.
The Reis Effendi, delivering the language of a Christian, from a Turk, expressed it as the sentiment of the Grand Signior, that he had wished, long ere this, to have been an end put to so many ravages and massacres of humanity; and that his desire would have been, that the Constitution of May 3d, 1791, should be guaranteed, the most certain mode of obtaining the pretended object of Russia. He desired these sentiments to be immediately conveyed to the Empress, and he hoped speedily for a categorical declaration.
To the Prussian Minister, a similar declaration was made. The Imperial Envoy kept back; but it was thought they acted in full intelligence with each other. The Austrians know, in case of a rupture, they must receive the first blow; and therefore they manage the Porte as long as possible. However, there is no dissimbling, that every acquisition of Russia in Poland, is a thunder-stroke to the Ottoman Empire, whose very capital, is exposed to an invasion, whenever the Empress shall risk the measure.
In this state of disquiet, the Porte is desirous of other reconciliations , which no very distant time may afford her.  Defrenches has laboured much to convince the Ottoman, that France will never grant peace to the Allied Powers, unless the Independence of Poland and its Constitution of May 3d, be guaranteed.
This seems to be the cause that the Porte continues incessantly those preparations for war, which have long been in forwardness.
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Geo. Sibbald.
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NEW THEATRE.
MR. BATES'S Night.
THIS EVENING, May 11, will be presented, a celebrated COMEDY, (never performed here) called, A NEW WAY TO PAY OLD DEBTS. Mr. Overreach, Mr. Chalmers. Lord Lovell, Mr. Moreton. Justice Greedy, Mr. Bates. Tapwell, Mr. Wignell. Amble, Mr. Blisset. Waitwell, Mr. Warrell. Welborn, Mr. Whitlock. Allworth, Mr. Cleveland. Marall, Mr. Warrell. Order, Mr. Harwood. Furnace, Mr. Francis.
Lady Allworth, Mrs. Shaw. Margareta, Mrs. Marshall. Froth, Mrs. Rowson.
Preceding the Comedy, (for that night only) by way of Prologue, PEEPING TOM'S TRIP TO PHILADELPHIA To be delivered in character by Mr. BATES End of the Play, a descriptive scene of the WILD BEASTS and CURIOSITIES of the TOWER of LONDON, with Comic Illustrations, by way of a Chant, in character of a War-der, by Mr. Bates. To which will be added, (never performed in America) a Dramatic Proverb, [or comedy] in two acts, called
Set a Beggar on Horseback, and he'll ride to the Devil.
[Written by O'KEEFE, author of the Poor Soldier &c.] Old Coder, Mr. Francis. Cosey, (the Butler) Mr. Warrell. Barney Vag, Mr. Blisset. Mulie Malt, Mr. Darley jun. Corney, Mr. Bates. Horace, Mr. Cleveland. Scout, Mr. Harwood. Master Billy, Mr. Darley. James, Mr. Warrell. Nancy Buttercup, Mrs. Marshall. Mrs. Mummery, Mrs. Shaw. Miss Barney Vag, Miss Rowson.
On Wednesday, a Comedy, never performed here, written by the author of the West-Indian, Jew, &c. called THE BROTHERS; or, The Shipwreck, with a Musical Farce, called THE QUAKER; Or, Benevolent Friend, for the benefit of Mr. DARLEY.
MRS. WHITLOCK'S Night will be on Friday next.
FOR SALE,
5,000 Bushels of SALT, on board the ship Eagle, Capt. Williams, at Mr. Latimer's Wharf. Old Red and White Port Wine, in pipes, hds. and quarter casks. Figuera Red Wine, in ditto. Malaga Wine, in quarter casks. Teneriffe Wine, in pipes, just arrived by the ship Thomas, Capt. Gordon.
ALSO,
SALAD OIL, in Casks.
Apply to Philips, Cramond & Co. 4th May. d.
FRESH FRUITS &c.
To-Morrow Morning will be Landed,
At Stamer's wharf, from on board the Schooner Eliza, T. Arnold, master, direct from MALAGA,
300 Qr. Casks old Mountain WINE, of superior quality. 500 Qr.00 Qr. Barrels Bloom Raisins. 100 Boxes Lemons. 208 Boxes muscatel Raisins. 192 Jars ditto ditto. 48 Sacks soft-shell'd Almonds. 25 Kegs Figs, &c.
For Sale by
PETER KUHN. May 7. d6t-mavt
FOR SALE,
At the STORES of
Jesse & Robert Waln,
PORT WINE in pipes, hds. and quarter casks. LISBON do. in pipes and quarter casks. Suchoungand Congo TEAS, in quarter chests. A quantity of Lisbon and Cadiz SALT. Soft shelled ALMONDS in bales. Velvet CORKS, in do. Russia MATTS. May 2. d.
WET NURSE.
Wanted immediately, a healthy woman with a good breast of milk, and who can produce a sufficient recommendation—Such a Person may hear of a place by applying to the Printer. May 8. d3t.
ANECDOE.
A Quaker travelling through the country of Cornwall, England, was met by a highwayman who demanded his money, and notwithstanding the Friend's remonstrances threatened to shoot him if he did not deliver it—"Well friend (said the Quaker,) if thou wilt have it, thou shalt have the trouble of gathering it; and strewed the money as far as far as he could throw it, and while the highwayman was picking it up, being a stout strong man, knocked him down, and seizing him by the collar, dragged him to a brook not far distant—"Now friend (says he) I will not kill thee, but I will hold thee under this water till the life depart thy Body"—And actually held him under water till he was drowned.
THE GAZETTE.
PHILADELPHIA, May 11.
By the ship Eliza arrived at New-York we received an English Paper entitled the "Cambridge Intelligencer," from which the following article is taken—The strictures on the House of Commons under the Cambridge Head will show that the Liberty of the Press is in full vigor in that Country notwithstanding all that has been said to the contrary.
CAMBRIDGE, March 7.
SLAVE TRADE.
The conduct of Administration, and the measures to which the House of Commons have given their sanction for many years past, have been such, that our readers perhaps may not be surprised at anything which takes place, however insulting it may be either to God, to the country, or to the human race. If however, any thing can excite surprise, it must be the conduct of the House of Commons on Thursday the twenty-sixth of February last, in voting for the continuance of the Slave-Trade.
This subject has been so fully discussed, and its leading arguments are so well recapitulated in our parliamentary report, that it is unnecessary to say anything to convince every honest man of the extreme, of the unparalleled wickedness of this traffic in the flesh and blood of our fellow-creatures. Any man who has the effrontery or the depravity to defend it, ought to be treated in society as a wretch, who would without scruple, turn pick-pocket, highwayman, or murderer, as it might best answer the purposes of his black and polluted heart.
Dr. Paley, in his chapter on Slavery, observes, "There may perhaps succeed a season for reflecting, whether a legislature which had so long lent its support to an institution so replete with human misery as the Slave Trade, was fit to be trusted with the British Empire." This observation, it ought to be remarked, was made long before the recent mass of evidence was exposed to public view. Is it not therefore the bounden duty of this celebrated writer, now to represent the conduct of the present legislature in its proper colors, that is, so far as human ability can do it. But what language is sufficient to express the abhorrence which every good man must feel at reading the Internal Vote!
We might mention the perfect contempt shown to public opinion. Five Hundred petitions have been presented to the House. Mr. Pitt, that sincere friend to the abolition, observed, soon after they were presented, "that the late petitions did not at all weigh with him, either one way or the other, he only considered them as a testimony of the humanity of the people." The Commons are entirely of the minister's opinion. Let the insulted British nation reflect, that their five hundred petitions have been treated as waste paper. Then let them ask seriously, whether a complete reform of parliament is not absolutely essential for the salvation of the British empire. The vote, however, is not so insulting to man as it is to God. This was the first vote of the House after the day of public fasting and humiliation! The members returned as they went, with their hands full of blood, and immediately set Heaven at defiance, and dared its vengeance!
This is the House of Commons which has squandered sixty or seventy millions of national treasure, in the prosecution of a war in defence of our Religion!
We have had the melancholy task of displaying to our readers the sanguinary horrors of a Kobelpierre, and the still more sanguinary horrors of a Russian Empress. We have read of a few thousands sacrificed by Revolutionary Tribunals in France. We have read of thirty thousand Turks massacred at Ismael, and of nearly an equal number of Poles at Praga and Warsaw. But we must now stand aghast at superior atrocity in Britain! After demonstrative evidence that from twenty to thirty thousand Africans are annually murdered in the Slave Trade—after contemplating for seven years a series of unparalleled cruelties inflicted on our innocent fellow-creatures—after promising that the traffic should be abolished at the commencement of the ensuing year, the House of Commons have blasted the hopes of every friend to justice, humanity and religion, by declaring, that the trade shall be continued!
Let us, as a nation, expect that severe punishment our deep criminality deserves. If there is a God—if his conduct, as the moral governor of the universe, is not different towards this
nation to what it has been towards the nations of antiquity—his vengeance will be signal; and we have nothing now to expect but a fearful looking jar of judgment, and fiery indignation!
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A Traveller who has visited many places of rural recreation in the United States speaking of those in the vicinity of Philadelphia—begins with Barratown —he admires the attention of the owner of the gardens, but adds, that Horticulture appears there only in its infancy— Grays Ferry has more attraction from its varied novelties— Middle and Upper Ferry , have nothing to induce a second visit, excepting an agreeable promenade. He however is not niggard of his praise of that agreeable resort the Golden Swan , on the Banks of the Schuylkill the proprietor being a man of great taste and address in his line—here is seen a delightful view of the serpentine course of the river—added to a most delightful prospect around. A sportsman is here at home—Gunning and angling paraphernalia, such as fowling pieces, dogs, rods, tackling and boats are offered to the stranger gratis. Such attractions combined with the politeness of the Host, demand this tribute from the traveller.
NEW-YORK, April 9.
From Charlesfon papers received by the Brig Betty, Capt. n Berton.
CHARLESTON, April 20.
A gentleman who came down on Saturday from the north-eastern parts of the state informed us, that on Thursday last a shower of hail fell between Waccamaw and Pedee rivers, which was remarkable for the size of the hail stones; several of them measured four inches in circumference, and generally they were an inch in diameter.
April 23.
Yesterday arrived the Schooner Nancy, Howard, from St. Augustine, who informs that on Monday last in lat. 31, long. 80, at one o'clock in the day, he was stopped by a French privateer, called as he was informed the Almanda , the Captain of which ordered him to hoist out his boat, and to come on board with his papers, or he would sink him—this Captain Howard complied with; when he got on board he was detained, with two of his hands; his keys were demanded, when Captain Howard refused to give them up; they then went on board and took all the papers and letters they could find, and a eleven bags containing about ten thousand dollars; there were three Spaniards, passengers on board, whom they made prisoners of, and took them with their effects on board the privateer.
The Capt. of the privateer told Captain Howard, that it was owing to the possession of his crew that he did not sink his vessel. He understood that the privateer had been but three days out of port. They also took six bundles, containing 20 dollars each, belonging to the Captain. The other money belonged to Mr. Thomas Tunno, Mr. Basil Poirie, and Mr. Sanchez, of this city.
For MADEIRA,
The Brig SALLY, Grace, Master, Will sail in a few days; her cargo being ready to take on board.
For passage only apply to
LEVINUS CLARKSON, or GEORGE ORD.
The brig will return immediately after discharging her cargo, and will be a good opportunity for those who have freight for this port, which will be taken in on reasonable terms. May 11. d6t.
For HAMBURG,
The New Ship ASIA, Captain LANGFORD. The Asia will be launched in a few days—is a very fine ship—coppered, the greater part of her cargo is on hand, ready to go on board, and it is hoped she will sail in all the present month.
For Freight or Passage apply to Captain Langford, or to PETER BLIGHT. Who is now landing at South Street Wharf, The cargo of Snowy Hebe from Havana.
270 Hds. Molasses, 130 Hds. choice Jamaica Green Coffee 40 Hds. ditto Sugar, With a Quantity of Pimento and Ox Hides. May 9. dtjun
THE Stockholders of the Insurance Company of the State of Pennsylvania; are requested to meet at the Company's Office on Tuesday the 26th Instant, at 4 o'clock in the Afternoon. By Order of the Board of Directors, SAMUEL W. FISHER, Sec'y. May 11. dt26
BOTTLED PORTER,
For EXPORTATION.
ORDERS immediately executed—and warranted of the best quality, by GILL & HENSHAW, No. 128 South Water Street.
Where private families and tavern-keepers may be supplied with the same for immediate use. May 11. gawth

MAPS of PHILADELPHIA
And its ENVIRONS, 26 Inches square, taken from a late and accurate survey, and executed in a neat and masterly style, may be had at Benjamin Davies's
BOOK & STATIONARY STORE, No. 68, High-Street.
In sheets, at 11/3; canvassed on rollers, or square frames, 16/3; varnished on rollers or frames at 20/.
If coloured, 5/ will be added to the foregoing prices.
N. B. With each Plan, will be given a Pamphlet, giving an account of the City, its trade, manufactures, population and government; its literary and charitable institutions, diseases, weather, &c.
At the same place may be had,
MAPS of the United States, Asia, Africa, and France divided into departments.
April 29.
Scheme of a Lottery,
To raise 39,900 Dollars, on 266,000 Dollars Deducting 15 per Cent. from the Prizes— This Lottery consists of 38,000 Tickets, in which there are 14,539 Prizes, and 23,461 Blanks, being about one and an half Blanks to a Prize.
The Directors of the Society for establishing Useful Manufactures, having resolved to erect LOTTERIES for raising One Hundred Thousand Dollars, agreeably to an Act of the Legislature of the State of New-Jersey, have appointed the following persons to superintend and direct the drawing of the same, viz. Nicholas Low, Rufus King, Herman Le Roy, James Watson, Richard Harrison, Abijah Hammond, and Cornelius Ray, of the city of New-York—Thomas Willing, Joseph Ball, Matthew M c Call and Andrew Bayard, of the city of Philadelphia—His Excellency Richard Howland, Esq. Elias Boudinot, General Elias Dayton, James Packer, John Bayard, Doctor Lewis Doan, Samuel W. Stockton, Joshua M c Callister, Joseph Bloomfield, and Elisha Boudinot, of New-Jersey, who offer the following Scheme of a Lottery, and pledge themselves to the public, that they will take every precaution and precaution in their power to have the Monies paid by the Managers, from time to time, as received, into the Banks at New-York and Philadelphia, to remain for the purpose of paying Prizes, which shall be immediately discharged by a check upon one of the Banks.
SCHEME.
 1 Prize of 20,000 Dollars is 20,000 1 10,000 10,000  2 10,000 5,000 10,000  3 5,000 2,000 10,000  4 2,000 1,000 10,000  5 1,000 500 10,000  6 500 250 10,000  7 250 100 10,000  8 100 50 15,000  9 50 20 20,000  10 20 10 30,000  11 10 5 36,000  12 5 2 81,000  13 2 1 
14,539 Prizes. 266,000 23,461 Blanks. First drawn number, 2,000 Last drawn number, 3,000
38,000 Tickets at 8 Dollars each is 306,000
The drawing will commence, under the inspection of a Committee of the Superintendents, as soon as the Tickets are sold, of which timely notice will be given.
The Superintendents have appointed John N. Cumming, of Newark, Jacob R. Hardenberg, of New-Brunswick, and Jonathan Rhea, of Trenton, as immediate Managers thereof, who have given ample security for discharging the trust reposed in them.
In order to secure the punctual payment of the Prizes, the Superintendents of the Lottery have directed that the Managers shall each enter into bonds in 40,000 dollars, with four sufficient securities, to perform their instructions, the substance of which is
I. That whenever either of the Managers shall receive the sum of Three Hundred Dollars, he shall immediately place the same in one of the Banks of New-York or Philadelphia, to the credit of the Governor of the Society, and such of the Superintendents as live in the city where the monies are placed, to remain there until the Lottery is drawn, for the payment of the Prizes.
II. The Managers to take sufficient security for any Tickets they may trust, otherwise to be responsible for them.
III. To keep regular books of Tickets sold, Monies received and paid into the Bank, abstracts of which shall be sent, monthly, to the Governor of the Society.
Paterson, January 1, 1794.
On application to either of the above gentlemen, information will be given where Tickets may be had.
Just Published,
And to be sold by Thomas Dobson, No. 41 Second Street, Benjamin Davies, 68, High Street, John Ormerod, 41, Chestnut Street, and by the Editor of this Gazette,
Proceedings of the Executive
of the United States,
RESPECTING
THE INSURGENTS,
1794. MARCELLUS—as published in the Virginia Gazette, in November and December 1794.
HISTORY of the REVOLUTION in
GENEVA.
This Day is published,
And for sale by William Young, No. 52, South Second Street, J. Ormerod, at the old Franklin's Head, No. 41, Chestnut Street, and the Editor of this Gazette,
[Price 18 Cents.]
A SERMON,
Delivered in the Second Presbyterian Church, in the City of Philadelphia, on the 19th of February, 1795, being the day of General Thanksgiving throughout the United States. By ASHBEL GREEN, D. D. One of the Pastors of the aforesaid Church March 18
BOOKS.
PRINTED & PUBLISHED
By Matthew Carey,
No. 118, Market Street,
1. Charlotte, a tale of truth,
By Mrs. Rowson, of the New-Theatre Philadelphia.
Second American edition—Price 75 cents.
[The rapid sale of the First Edition of this interesting novel, in a few months, is the best proof of its merit.]
Extracts from the Critical Review, April 1793, p. 468.
 It may be a tale of truth, for it is not unnatural, and it is a tale of real distress—Charlotte by the artifice of a teacher, recommended to a school from humanity rather than a conviction of her integrity of her regularity of her former conduct, is entitled from her governess, and accompanies a young officer to America—The marriage ceremony, if not forgotten, is postponed, and Charlotte dies a martyr to the innocence of her lover, and treachery of his friend—The situations are artful and affecting—the descriptions natural and pathetic; we should feel for Charlotte if such a person ever existed, who, for one error, scarcely, perhaps deserved so severe a punishment. It is a fiction, poetic justice is not, we think, properly distributed.  2. The Inquisitor—by Mrs. Rowson, Second Philadelphia edition. 87 1/2 cents  3. Adventures of Roderick Random. 2 vols 1 dollar and 50 cents, coarse paper—1 dollar and 75 cents, fine.  4. Notes on the State of Virginia—by Thomas Jefferson. Price, neatly bound, one dollar and a half.  5. History of the French Revolution, from its commencement to the death of the Queen and the execution of Brissot. Two dollars. 
EXTRACT FROM THE PREFACE.
The authors have presumed to assign to their title the epithet Impartial ; and the reason is, because they cannot charge themselves with feeling the smallest bias to any party, but that of truth and liberty; and they flatter themselves, that their readers will find not only every circumstance fairly represented, but every censurable action, whenever it was the authors or actors, marked in its proper colors. It was necessary to make a declaration of their own principles, they would say, they are neither tory nor republican—they love liberty as Englishmen, and execrate every criminal act by which to noble a cause is endangered and disgraced.
In the present instance 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 dissipate the cloud of political deception, they with some confidence expect that verdict from public opinion, which candor and moderation seldom fail to receive.
EXTRACT FROM THE CRITICAL REVIEW, JANUARY, 1794—page 12.
“We have certainly derived much pleasure, and acquired much information from the perusal of these 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.”
6. Plowden's history of the British empire from May 1792, to December 1793. A dollar and a quarter. [This is an interesting valuable publication as had appeared for many years.]
7. Beattie's Elements of Moral Science 2 vols. One dollar and three quarters
8. Ladies' Library. Second American edition. 87 1/2 cents. CONTAINING—
 Mrs. Moore's Essays; Dr. Gregory's Legacy to his Daughters; Lady Pennycuick's unfortunate mother's advice to her Daughters; Marchioness de Lamherst's Advice of a mother to her daughter; Mrs. Chapone's Letter on the government of the temper; Swift's Letter to a Young Lady newly married; Moore's Fables for the Female Sex. 
9. Journal d'un Séjour en France depuis le commencement d'août jusqu'à la fin d'Octobre; auquel est joint un récit des événements les plus remarquables qui ont eu lieu à Paris, depuis cette époque, jusqu'à la mort du roi de France. Bound, 2 1/2 dollars—sewed, 2 dollars.
10. Edward's treatise on the religious affections. Coarse paper, a dollar—fine, a dollar and a half.
11. Rights of Woman—by Mrs. Wollstoncraft. A dollar.
12. Wilton's Sacramental Meditations. 60 cents.
13. Bunyan's Holy War, made by Shaddai against Diabolus.
14. Short account of Algiers. Second edition, enlarged—25 cents.
Containing—A description of that country—of the manners and customs of the inhabitants—and of their several wars against Spain, France, England, Holland, Venice, and other powers of Europe—from the usurpation of Barbary and the invasion of Charles V. to the present time.—With a concise view of the origin of the war between Algiers and the United States.
Embellished with a map of Barbary, comprehending Morocco, Fez, Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoly.
To the present edition is added a very copious index, containing letters from sundry American prisoners in Algiers to their friends in the United States—a list of the vessels taken—and many very interesting articles not in the first edition.
15. Blair's Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Letters. Three dollars 33 cents.
16. Smith's Letters to Married Women, on nursing and the management of children. 62 cents.
17. American Farmer's letters. 80 cents.
18. Young Misses Magazine. 2 vols. 1 dollar 33 cents.
Containing—Dialogues between a Governess and several Young Ladies of Quality her scholars.—In which each Lady is made to speak according to her particular genius, temper and inclination.—Their several faults, are pointed out, and the easy way to amend them, as well as to think, and speak, and
act properly; no less care being taken to form their hearts to goodness, than to enlighten their understandings with useful knowledge. A short and clear, abridgment is also given of sacred and profane History, and some lessons in Geography. The useful is blended throughout with the agreeable, the whole being interspersed with proper reflexions and moral Tales.
19. Duncan's Elements of Logic. 80 cents
20. M'Intal, an epic poem. 37 1/2 cents.
21. Tench Cox's Examination of Lord Shelburne's observations. 62 1/2 cents.
22. Ladies' Friend. 37 1/2 cents.
23. Smith's history of New York, from its discovery to 1732. 1 dollar 25 cents.
24. Complete Atlas for the present war, containing maps of France, Holland, Netherlands, Germany, Spain, Italy, and the West-Indies. 2 dollars.
25. Constitutions of the United States, with the Federal Constitution. 62 1/2 cents.
26. Peayon's Grammar for Frenchmen to learn English. 50 cents.
27. Euphides Enchiridion. 31 cents.
28. Gay's Fables. 31 cents.
29. Christian Economy. 25 cents.
30. Charms of Melody, a choice collection of Songs. 25 cents.
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General Washington.
23. Poems of Col. Humphreys. 37 1/2 cents.
34. Cato's Cursus of Man. 18 1/2 cents.
35. Tom Paine's Jells. 18 1/2 cents.
36. Carey's account of the Yellow Fever, 4th edition. 50 cents.
City of Washington.
SCHEME
OF THE
LOTTERY, No. II.
FOR THE
IMPROVEMENT
OF THE
FEDERAL CITY.
1 A magnificent 20,000 Dollars, and dwelling house, 5 cash 36,000 are
1 ditto 15,000 & cash 25,000 40,000
1 ditto 15,000 & cash 15,000 30,000
1 ditto 10,000 & cash 10,000 20,000
1 ditto 5,000 & cash 5,000 10,000
1 ditto 5,000 & cash 5,000 10,000
1 Cash prize of 10,000 10,000
2 ditto 5,000 each, are 10,000
10 ditto 1,000 10,000
20 ditto 500 10,000
100 ditto 100 10,000
200 ditto 50 10,000
400 ditto 25 10,000
1,000 ditto 10 10,000
15,000 ditto 2 30,000
16,739 Prizes 400,000
33,261 Blanks
50,000 Tickets at 8 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 fronts on two of the public squares; from these drawings, it is proposed to erect two centre and four corner buildings, as soon as possible after this Lottery is sold, and to convey them when complete, to the fortunate adventurers, in the manner described in the scheme for the Hotel Lottery. A net deduction of five per cent. will be made to defray the necessary expenses of printing, &c. and the surplus will be made a part of the fund intended for the National University, to be erected within the City of Washington.
The drawing will commence as soon as the Tickets are sold off. The money prizes will be payable in thirty days after it is finished, and any prizes for which fortunate numbers are not produced within twelve months after the drawing is closed are to be considered as given towards the fund for the University, it being determined to settle the whole business in a year from the ending of the drawing and to take up the bonds given as security.
The real securities given for the payment of the Prizes, are held by the President and two Directors of the Bank of Columbia, and are valued at more than half the amount of the Lottery.
The twenty four gentlemen who by appointment of the late Commissioners assisted in the management of the Hotel Lottery are requested to undertake this arduous task a second time on behalf of the public; a sufficient number of these having kindly accepted, it is hoped that the friends to a National University and the other federal objects may continue to favor the design. The synopsis of one of the Colleges, to form a branch of the National Institution, is already in the press, and will be speedily published, together with its constitution.
A complete PLAN of the whole of this important Institution, compiled from a selection of the best materials, ancient and modern, will be submitted to the public whenever the same may have gone through such revisions as may be necessary to establish the perfect confidence and general approbation, so essential to its present rise and future existence for the general good of America.
By accounts received from the different parts of the Continent as well as from Europe, where the tickets have been sent for sale, the public are assured that the drawing will speedily commence, and that the care and caution unavoidably necessary to insure a safe disposal of the tickets, has rendered the short suspension indispensable.
February 24, 1795.
SAMUEL BLODGET.
“Tickets may be had at the Bank of Columbia; of James West & Co. Baltimore; or Gideon Denison, Savannah, of Peter Gilman, Boston; of John Hopkins, Richmond; and of Richard Wells, Cooper's Ferry
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Revenue Office, April 24, 1795.
PROPOSALS will be received at the Office of the COMMISSIONER of the REVENUE for building
A LIGHT HOUSE
on the head land of Cape Hatteras on the coast of North Carolina, of the following materials, dimensions, and description.
The form is to be octagonal. The foundation is to be of stone, to be sunk thirteen feet below the bottom of the water table or the surface of the earth, and to be commenced of the diameter of twenty nine feet. From such commencement to the height of four feet from the foundation is to be laid solidly and from thence to the bottom of the water table, the foundation wall is to be nine feet high and nine feet thick.
The diameter of the base from the bottom of the water table to the top thereof (where the octagonal pyramid is to commence) is to be twenty eight feet four inches and the wall is there to be seven feet thick. The wall of the octagonal pyramid is to be six feet thick at the base thereof, on the top of the water table.
The height of the building from the bottom of the water table, and from the surface of the earth, is to be ninety feet to the top of the stone work, under the floor of the lantern; where the diameter is to be sixteen and one half feet and the wall three feet. The whole of the walls is to be built of stone.
The water table is to be capping with sawed stone, at least eight inches wide and sloped at the top to turn off the water. The outside of the walls is to be faced with hewn or hammer dressed stone, having four windows in the north east and five windows in the south west. The faces are to be hung with hinges, and each face is to have twelve panes of glass, eight by ten inches.
On the top of the stone work is to be a framed tier of joists, bedded therein, planked over with oak plank, extending two feet beyond the wall thereby forming an eave which is to be finished with a cornice, the whole having a descent from the centre sufficient to throw off the water, and to be covered with copper. A complete and sufficient iron lantern in the octagonal form is to rest thereon. The eight corner pieces or flanchions of which, are to be built in the wall to the depth of ten feet. These flanchions to be nearly three inches square in the lower ten feet, and 3-1/2 inches by 2-1/2 inches above.
The lantern is to be ten feet and nine inches in diameter, it is also to be ten feet high from the floor to the bottom of the dome or roof and to have a dome or roof of five feet and nine inches in height. The whole space between the posts or upright pieces at the angles is to be occupied by the faces, which are to be moulded on the inside and struck solid. Each face is to have twenty eight panes of glass, fourteen by twelve inches. A part of the face on the south west side is to be hung with hinges for a convenient door to go out on the platform. The rafters of the lantern are to be framed into an iron hoop, over which is to be a copper funnel, thro' which the smoke may pass into a large copper ventilator in the form of a man's head, capable of containing one hundred gallons.
This head is to be turned by a large vane, so that the hole for venting the smoke, may be always to leeward. Eight dormant ventilators are to be fixed in the roof, a large curved air pipe is to be passed through the floor, and a close floor is to be provided and fixed in the lantern. There are to be eight pairs of stairs to ascend to the lantern, the entrance to which is to be by a trap door covered with copper. The building is to be furnished with two complete electrical conductors, or rods with points. The floors are to be laid with plank, of at least one inch and one half in thickness. The entrance to the light house is to be well secured by a strong door hung upon hinges with a strong lock and latch complete.
Also a frame House to be thirty four feet in front and sixteen feet deep with a cellar under it. The cellar walls to be eighteen inches thick and seven feet high.
The first floor of the house is to be eight feet, and the second, seven feet and six inches high. The floors are to be laid in whole lengths, nailed through. The stack of chimneys is to be finished with two plain fire places on each floor, one of them large for a kitchen. Two windows below, and three above in front and rear, each face to have eighteen panes of glass ten by twelve inches. The doors are to be hung and furnished completely.
The ceilings and sides of the House are to be plastered with two coats; all the wood work inside and out is to be well painted and the whole to be finished in a plain decent manner.
An Oil vault is to be built twenty feet by twelve feet in the clear, arched over and covered with earth or sand over which a shed is to be built. It is to be furnished with nine strong Cedar Cisterns with covers, each capable of containing two hundred gallons.
The entrance to the vault is to be secured by a strong door. A well is to be sunk at a convenient distance, and furnished with a curb, bucket and rope completely.
The builder to find and pay for all the materials, labor, workmanship, provisions and other objects of cost, charge or expense, for a sum to be agreed upon, and to execute the before described work and every part thereof in a good and workmanlike manner. Convenient payments or advances, on security will be made.
April 27. m & th ff
NOTICE is hereby given, agreeably to Charter, to the Members of “The Corporation for the Relief of Poor and Distressed Presbyterian Ministers, and of the Poor and Distressed Widows and Children of Presbyterian Ministers,” to meet on the 28th day of May next, at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, in the Second Presbyterian Church, in the City of Philadelphia, for the dispatch of all such business as may then be brought before the Board.
ASHBEL GREEN, Sec'y of the Corporation.
April 25th, 1795. eaw8t
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Revenue Office