Gazette of the United States and daily evening advertiser. (Philadelphia [Pa.]), 1795-01-08 00:00:00

Gazette of the United States AND DAILY EVENING ADVERTISER.
[No. 7 of Vol. VII.]
THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 1795.
[Whole No. 729.]
113,000 weight of Green Coffee, 25 pipes of London particular Teneriffe, and London particular Madeira Wines...
Andrew Clow & Co. NOTICE is hereby given to all such persons as are Creditors of the late House of Andrew Clow & Co.
Bank of North America, January 1, 1795. AT a Meeting of the Directors this day, a dividend of six per cent was declared for the last half year...
East India Cotton, Entitled to the Drawback, FOR SALE BY Mordecai Lewis.
FOR SALE, At the STORES of Jesse & Robert Waln, PORT WINE in pipes, hds, and quarter casks...
LANDING, from the Ship Adriana Kieran Fitzpatrick Master, from Amsterdam. HOLLAND SAIL DUCK, Ditto—Sheeting...
FOR SALE, Two Houses, capital stands for business. ONE No. 52 Market Street, at present occupied by Messrs Rice & Co. Bookellers...
Distant Subscribers For the Gazette, are hereby respectfully requested to pay their Subscriptions to the first of January next.
As there is a considerable sum due from remote Subscribers for the late half Weekly Paper published by the Editor, he most earnestly requests those who may be indebted, to take the earliest opportunity of remitting him the balance they may respectively be indebted—the sums are individually marked—the want of the Aggregate is severely felt.
For Hamburg, The fast-sailing Ship INDUSTRY, LYING at Walnut-street wharf, will sail in about 15 days...
Thomas Newman, No. 118, South Second-street. FOR SALE or Charter, The SHIP MARGARET, Robert Robertson Master.
She is in complete repair, and of about 3200 barrels burthen. Jesse & Robert Waln. FOR Charter, The BRIG FAIR HEBE, John McKean Master.
BURTHEN 1700 barrels of flour, she is in complete order, and fails fast. For terms apply to the Captain on board at the Subscriber's wharf, or to Joseph Sims, Who has for Sale, just imported in laid Brigs from Malaga.
Old Mountain Wine, RAISINS of the Sun, in kegs, FIGS in ditto, PRUNES in ditto, Muiscatel and Bloom RAISINS in boxes and jars, GRAPES in ditto, ORANGES and LEMONS in boxes, Shell'd ALMONDS in casks, Caltile SOAP, &c. &c.
Burlington Pork. A QUANTITY OF Best Burlington Pork, FOR SALE BY Levi Hollingsworth & Son.
A House wanted. A Genteele Small House, of which possession can be given at any time from this to the 1st April next. Enquire of the Printer hereof.
Office of the Insurance Company of North America, December 8th 1794. NOTICE is hereby given to the Stockholders, that the Fifth Instalment, being two DOLLARS on each share of the Stock of this Company is to be paid on the second Monday (the 12th Day) of January next...
On Tuesday the 13th day of January next (being the second Tuesday in the month) at 11 o'clock A.M. an Election will be held at the Company's Office, for the choice of Twenty-five directors.
To serve for one year, and until others shall be chosen. The Electors may vote either in person or by proxy; but no Stockholder can vote at any Election for Directors unless the Stock shall have stood in his or her name in the books of the Company at least three months preceding the time of such Election.
In case of a Stockholder's voting by Proxy, the charter requires that "the proxy be directly from such Stockholder, & the vote be given by a citizen of this commonwealth." Ebenezer Hazard, SECRETARY.
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Joseph Hews, Goaler.
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Nicholas Diehl jun. Informs his friends and the Public, that in consequence of the Resignation of John Hallows Esquire he has been commissioned as a NOTARY PUBLIC, Within the City of Philadelphia, and at present keeps his Office at No. 19, South Fourth Street, Until a more convenient situation can be procured.
N. B. He still means to act as an Attorney at Law and Conveyancer. Lottery No. 2, for the Improvement of the FEDERAL CITY. GENTLEMEN, desirous of receiving regularly correct slips of the drawing of the Lottery, are hereby informed that upon their sending forward to the Printers hereof, five dollars each, together with their address, they shall be punctually furnished with such slips, while drawing per post in Supplements to the Columbian Chronicle. T. is arrangement will save them the expense of extra postage.
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Fine Fresh Lemons, At Four Dollars the Box, FOR SALE BY THOMAS RANDALL, No. 88, Spruce Street, midway between Second and Third streets.
LANDING From on board the Birmingham Packet, Lockyer, and the Henry and Charles, from Hamburg, HEMP, Peterborough's first quality.
BAR IRON, Swedes, assorted TIN, in plates, do. do. GENEVA in hds. BAGGING, German assorted GLASS TUMBLERS, and Black Quart Bottles, DEMIJOHNS, Window Glass, Feathers of superior quality, MATTS, &c. &c. FOR SALE BY Thomas & John Ketland.
George Hunter, Chemist, At his Laboratory, No. 114, South Second Street.
INFORMS his former customers and the public, that he has begun the DRUG business again on an extensive plan. He has for sale a general assortment of FRESH DRUGS, CHEMICAL PREPARATIONS, and PATENT MEDICINES.
Likewise, painters' colours, dry and ground in oil, paint brushes, window and coach glass, dye stuffs, linseed oil, oil of turpentine, copal oil, varnish and japan, warranted good. Alum, copperas, madder, ground redwood by the hoghead or smaller quantity. As he imports the supplies from the best markets, and makes the compositions and preparations himself, he is enabled to vouch for and warrant every article sold out of his Laboratory, and likewise to dispose of them at the most reasonable rates.
He wishes to sell a large LOT of GROUND, the north-east corner of High and Eleventh-streets, containing 78 feet front on High-street, and 200 feet on Eleventh-street, opposite Mr. Leiper's new buildings. And another LOT on the north side of High street, near the above, 28 feet front, and 200 feet deep. Both lots have the privilege of a 30 feet alley in their rear.
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An Adjourned Meeting of the Democratic Society, will be held at the University in Fourth Street, on THIS Evening the 8th instant, at 6 o'clock. George Booke, Sec'y.
NEW THEATRE.
TO-MORROW EVENING
JANUARY 9.
Will be Presented
THE TRAGEDY OF
HAMLET, PRINCE of DENMARK.
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For the Gazette of the United States. Resolutions proposed for the consideration of the Jacobin Societies throughout the United States.
1st. After what has happened it is probable that the end for which our Societies were established viz. That of fraternizing in the war, and making these states departments of the French Republic can be accomplished? If not,
2. It is worth the trouble of supporting and defining societies, only to manage the business of elections which cannot profit the members in general?
3. If they are to be kept up, how can they be recruited with real republicans, and purge themselves of the office seekers and rascals which they now have, so as to appear respectable should they be required to publish lists of their members? And
4. How are our treasuries to be supplied in future, as our founder is not likely to come into place again, and that the Society in Paris can no longer correspond with us, and if the world, has not been able since the downfall of Robespierre to supply herself?
Jan. 6, 1795. A Doubling Jacobin.
Foreign Intelligence.
BASLE, (in Switzerland, Oct. 4.
The general voice in Germany is loud for peace. The events that have led to this change have taken place nearer elsewhere. We feel only the result; the Germans are better apprised of the circumstances.
But the object which interests most here, is a letter recently written by the Emperor to the Grisons, stating, "That as Revolutionary principles had gained ground so far as to induce them in their late popular assembly, in despite of the admonitions of their allies, the Helvetic Cantons, to commit acts in violation of the Treaty of Capitulation, by which the inhabitants of the cantons of Bormio, Chiavenna, and the county called the Valteline, agreed to be the subjects of the Trois Ligens Grises, of which the House of Austria is the guarantee; and as the dignity of his crown requires a reparation for having violated such a guarantee, he demands a categorical answer within fifteen days, and a complete satisfaction by restoring things to the footing on which they were before the popular assembly."
"In case of contrary conduct he shall take such measures as his Royal and Imperial dignity shall deem necessary, &c"
The time is expired for the answer, but we know not as yet the result. It is said the Swifts will not interfere, as they had advised their Allies, the Grisons, against these measures.
CONGRESS.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
January 2d, 1795.
Debate on Mr. Giles motion respecting Titles.
(Continued.)
Mr. J. Wadsworth. If the yeas and nays being withdrawn, on principles of conciliation, was likely to have the effect to conciliate, I should have remained silent. When the amendment before you was introduced, I considered it as unimportant; as in our Constitution, the excellence in the United States of nobility, was rendered impossible—it appeared to me totally useless: It brought to my mind the practice of this country under an old law, against suicide; when a man destroyed himself, it was agreed he had cut himself off from all hopes of future happiness; and as if that was not enough, his body must be buried at a cross road and a stake driven thro' it. I consider this amendment as driving the stake through departed nobility . I do not believe there is any part of this Continent where it is at all to be dreaded; but certainly it is not in that part of it, where all the laws, old and new; all their habits, manners, and education, are opposed to it. The gentleman who introduced the amendment, has declared he had no wish to make any unfavourable impression against any of the members of this House; but has, just now, if I have not mistaken him, declared he believed the opposition to the amendment, proceeds from opinions favourable to nobility. Are our constituents yet to learn our real characters; born and brought up among them, mixing constantly with them, they are certainly no strangers to our principles; nor will a vote on a subject so unimportant, give them any cause to reproach us—They have as much expectation that a new race of men, with heads below their shoulders, or feet above their heads, will rise up, as a nobility; and they know both to be impossible. The rage of party seemed to be subsiding—at least the numerous newspapers, seem to want new matter for abuse and scurrility—here will be a new theme; abuse will flow copiously; so let it; the good sense of the country
has not been destroyed by what is past; they will examine this subject, and decide for themselves. I have no fear in appearing against this amendment, which by several of its advocates is acknowledged to be altogether unimportant. Indeed, sir, I rely on no part of the bill, to which this amendment is proposed, to secure this country against bad and vicious foreigners, but the time of probation; if this is long, they may, even if they are bad men when they come here, acquire good habits, and be fit for American Citizens. No abjurations, no oaths or vows can bind bad men.
In the late war, we had many instances where men, bound by the most sacred ties among men, abandoned us and joined our enemies; even some, whose intrepidity had acquired them fame and high rank: But recently, under the present Constitution, has there not been instances of men who had sworn to support the Constitution, appearing ready to destroy it? We have sometimes been reproached in this House for want of gratitude to the French nation—I, at this moment, feel some gratitude to certain noblemen of that nation—I have seen them in this country fighting for us, helping us work out our independence; warmed with republican principles, which they carried back to their country; and, at the expence of their lives, have boldly disseminated them: One of them, yet alive, and in this country, was the first to move, in the National Assembly of France, the annihilation of titles; others are in dungeons; some have had their heads lopped off—and more are wandering, forlorn and friendless, among strangers: This, indeed, is enough; we need not add the amendment before you.
There are instances, in some of the states, of laws passed to naturalize some nobles and their children, whose services to this country will never be forgotten: Corporations have made others free of their cities; and this, where if any where in the United States, by their laws, habits, manners and customs, they are purely republican.
I shall vote against the amendment.
Mr. Ames observed that too much attention had been given to the amendment as an abstract question. Nothing tended more to bewilder and confuse a debate than such a departure from the subject into abstractions and refinements; for although by this means we found that plain principles were rendered obscure, and reasonable doctrines carried to excess, yet we did not seem to reflect that nothing is more opposite to just principles than the extremes of those principles. For instance, it would not be false or proper indiscriminately to admit aliens to become citizens, yet a scrutiny into their political orthodoxy might be carried to a very absurd extreme. The merit of the amendment depends on its adaptedness to the end proposed by the bill and what is that? To make a rule of naturalisation for the admission of aliens to become citizens, on such terms as may consist with our tranquillity and safety. Now, said he, do we think of refusing that privilege to all heretics in respect to political doctrines? Even that strictness would not have been the millennium. For our own citizens freely propagate a great variety of opinions, hostile to each other, and therefore many of them deviating widely from the intended standard of right thinking; good and bad fools and wise men, the men of philosophy and the dupes of prejudice, we find could live very peaceably together, because there was a sufficient coincidence of common interest. If we depend on this strong tie, if we oblige foreigners to wait seven years, till they have formed it, till their habits as well as interests become knit and assimilated with our own, we may leave them to cherish or to renounce their imported prejudices and follies as they may choose. The danger of their diffusing them among our own citizens is to be prevented by public opinion, if we may leave error and prejudice to stand or fall before truth and freedom of enquiry.
Can the advocates of the amendment even effect apprehensions that there is any intention to introduce a foreign nobility as a privileged order? If they can, such diseases of the brain were not bred by reasoning and cannot be cured by it. Still less should we give effect by law to chimerical whimsies. For what is the tendency of this counterfeited? Is it to rouse again the sleeping apparitions, which have disturbed the back country? Is it to show that the mock dangers which they have pretended to dread are real? Or is it to mark a line of separation between those who have the merit of maintaining the extremes of political opinions, and those whom this vote would denounce as stopping at what they deem a wise moderation? If that is the case, it seems that the amendment is intended rather to publish a creed than to settle a rule of naturalisation. Yet it should be noticed that those who would go to extremes are less entitled to the praise of republican than those who would not.
But the consequences of giving an artificial and unmerited importance to the amendment, is in the first place to spread unfounded and even pernicious alarms, as well as to revive animosities, and in the next place by shewing our dependence on a futile and ridiculous renunciation of nobility to evince the want of any good remedy for the evil. If it is an important affair, the
amendment is far short of what the case requires. If it is, as we all believe, trifling and worthless, then let us spare ourselves the shame of legislating on these frivolities these phantoms which the friends of the amendment have very slowly, and at last very faintly, pretended to have any substance.
Mr. Ames farther observed, that the securities which we have already against the introduction of nobility are sufficient to secure us and our sons, and the sons of our sons down to the twentieth generation against a nobility. Is the meaning of this amendment to give a new text for sedition? It was below the dignity of the house to spend its time upon such trifles. The Convention of another nation had indelibly disgraced themselves by legislating upon titles, while matters of importance stood by. What would be the sense of America upon our spending day after day in debating about such a frivolous thing? He was against the amendment of Mr. Giles.
Debate to be continued.
Monday, January 5, 1795.
Mr. W. Smith moved that a committee be appointed to enquire and report, whether any and what alteration ought to be made in the act imposing duties on snuff manufactured within the United States.
The motion was agreed to, and a committee of five members appointed.
The House then went into a committee, Mr. Cobb in the chair, on a bill for ascertaining the losses sustained by officers of the revenue and other citizens, by the insurgents in the western counties, and for affording some present relief to the sufferers.
The committee went through the bill, which was reported without amendment. It was then ordered to be engrossed for a third reading.
On motion of Mr. Goodhue, the House went into a committee, on a bill for making farther provision in cases of drawbacks.
After some discussion the committee rose. The chairman reported the bill with amendments. The House took up the bill and went through it; and it was then ordered to be engrossed for a third reading to-morrow.
On the motion of Mr. Coit, the House then went into a committee, on the report of the select committee, relative to the cession of land for lighthouses, by particular states, to the United States. The resolution was amended. It was then moved that the committee of the whole should rise and report the resolution. Twenty nine gentlemen rose on each side. The voice of the chairman carried in favour of reporting the resolution, which was done accordingly. It was then moved to take it up in the House—but this was deferred.
The committee of the whole were discharged from considering the memorial of the snuff manufacturers. This memorial is referred to the committee appointed in particular to that business on the motion of Mr. W. Smith.
The house next went into a committee of the whole, on the report, respecting the fortifications in the United States.
After a short discussion, the committee rose, reported progress, and asked leave to sit again.
Mr. Madison, from the select committee, reported a new bill of naturalization, containing the amendments recommended and also whatever was necessary from the old law, so that the latter should be superceded. The report was read by the clerk, and made the order of the day tomorrow.
The house then adjourned.
Translated for the Gazette of the United States. From the "Courier Francois" of Tuesday January 6th.
NATIONAL CONVENTION, October 12.
Merlin of Thionville recalled the attention of the Convention to the atrocities committed in the department of the Lower Loire, and read the papers he had received from Bouquet, the war Commissary, which excited horror.—They prove in a manner, unhappily too authentic, that the (noyades) drownings were directed by the members of the detestable revolutionary committee of Nantes. He (Merlin) produced an order signed Le Fevre adjutant General commanding at Paimbeuf requiring to be thrown into the sea, from the heights of Paimbeuf, no less than forty one victims, among whom was one man seventy years old, and who had been six years blind, twelve women, twelve girls of different ages, fifteen children from six to ten years, and five infants from the breast. The commander at Paimbeuf
had ordered these miserable victims, to Nantes, but the vessel on board which they were was scarcely in the Bay of Bourneuf, when Mace, the Captain of the vessel, received the order to bring
"Liberty, Equality, Indivisibility. Captain Mace is required to let Madame M. ashore, and to throw overboard the other prisoners, rebels against the law—and this do on your peril."
(Signed) LEFEVRE.
"3d Ventose, the above order has been executed."
It is impossible to describe the emotions of horror that shook the Convention.
If cries Merlin, there are punishments proportioned to such crimes, let them fall on the execrable offenders.
Goupilleau de Fontenoy, transported with indignation, exclaims, declare them outlaws.
No, resumes Merlin, the confessions of the Canibals will illustrate the history of these wretched times, and besides may bring out greater offenders. I demand the arrest and delivery of the culprits to the Revolutionary Tribunal. At length we shall see to what infamous tyrants the country has been betrayed.
Andre Dumont rose to inveigh against the authors of the horrid plan of robbery and massacre which is still in agitation. Since, cried he, you invite justice to return again to this country, do defoliated and swimming in the blood of brethren, smite the guilty and let them fall under the sword of the law.
Be warned, for these monsters are nearer than you are aware—Forget not the night of the 9th and 10th Thermidor. I ask you, have you punished all the accomplices of Robespierre, who within these walls sought to dissolve the Convention? Respect is due to the institution of popular societies; but it is possible to restrain our indignation when we behold one of them where guilt is audaciously domineering. Let complete justice be done, let us rid ourselves of the wretches who prey on our vital. Require the Revolutionary Tribunal to prosecute the persons accused of the horrible drownings (Noyades) at Nantes, and to sift out the accessories of the crime, without favor or exception. To that end, order the public accuser to consult with the committee of General Surety on the measures proper to be adopted by you.
Applauded and unanimously adopted.
The next day, the public accuser transmitted to the 14 members of the Revolutionary Committee of Nantes the act of accusation he had drawn up against them.
Here follows the introduction of this important paper which it is impossible to read without horror.
"Whatever there is in cruelty most savage, in villainy most perfidious, in usurpation most arbitrary, in violence most frightful, in depravity most shocking, combines in the charge against the members and commissioners of the Revolutionary committee of Nantes.
In the most remote periods of the world, in the pages of history, in barbarous ages, no where is there a parallel for the atrocities committed by the accused."
PARIS, October 16.
We are assured that the Carpenter of Nantes who worked on the ( bateau a soupape ) Suction Boat, for the drownings ordered by the revolutionary Committee having been required to appear in the affair of the members whose trial has been ordered, was assassinated on the way.
October 17. The too famous Revolutionary Committee of Nantes, is this day before the Tribunal.
October 18.
The proceedings in the trial continue. Almost all the depositions which have been examined rather exonerate the Representative Carrier, than the Committee accused.
Dubois Crance, alone has not been explicit in his information. He insists that he was solely engaged at the time in regimenting the Soldiers of the requisition. He says moreover that such were the terror and dismay of Nantes, that the sight of a Representative of the people made them shudder, that no person came near him, still less ventured to speak to him.
He confesses that in defending the river Loire, he saw the water purpled with blood, and the banks striped with dead bodies which had been cast ashore by the stream.
October 20.
At every step the abominable affair of Nantes discloses new horror. The monsters and their satellites, stripped the young persons of both sexes naked, and after tying them together in the most indecent posture, threw them into the sea, calling these Republican Mar-

Such are the abominations which stand proved by a cloud of witnesses... One of the witnesses, not denying these horrid facts, supposes they were directed and perpetrated by Lamartine and Fouquier, the agents of Carrier, who, they had publicly said had required them to do so.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 8.
COMMUNICATIONS.
A letter dated Jan. 1795 signed M. appears in Mr. Beecher's paper. It is conjectured that Bradford is the writer, as the sentiments contained in it are extremely well calculated to raise up support to that unfortunate man in his flight. Some persons will have it that no man except David Bedford could write such inflammatory stuff about a separation of the western country from the union.
The Providence Correspondent of the General Advertiser, is advised "not to follow before he is out of the woods." The Democracy and Aristocracy of the Award compared. The Democrats of the South say that a foreign nobleman who wishes to become a citizen of the United States, shall preparatory thereto, renounce his title. The Aristocrats of the east, say that a foreigner owning slaves who may wish to become a citizen of the United States shall renounce his right to hold his fellow beings in bondage in a land of freedom.
Example of Jacobin representation from the Boston Chronicle. The butchers of George the Third have embezzled and torn in quarters, by wild horses, Watt and Downie for speaking against the abuses of government.
Deaths in New-Haven, in 1794. Scarlet Fever, 50; Yellow Fever, 63; Consumption and lingering diseases, 51; Other diseases, 15; At sea, 12. Total, 191.
Census of inhabitants in 1791-3471. Mortality in 1794, more than one-twentieth.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Richmond, to another in Martinsburg, Virginia, dated Nov. 23.
The lower house have passed a resolution, declaring that Governor Lee from the time he accepted the command of the militia of the U. States, vacated his office of Chief Magistrate of this commonwealth; and I expect that a similar resolution will pass in the case of Mr. Innes, who is gone to Kentucky on the business of the U. States.
Mr. Fenno, I send you an extract from the Jacobin No. 5—a publication in the Federal Orrery—Its applicability to a subject recently under discussion will not escape the notice of our readers.
The speech of the Gallic chieftain, which was received with much applause, had scarcely ended, when an incident, of a very unexpected nature, happened, which greatly interrupted the harmony, that had hitherto prevailed. This was nothing less, than the appearance of a negro, who, on the just and noble principle of equality, demanded admission, as a member of the society. A warm debate ensued; and many objections were urged, both on account of his color, and name, which, unfortunately, was Prince.
It was agreed, however, by both parties, that the affair should be fairly discussed before the goddess, and that they would abide by her decision—Aye, in the meantime, like Minerva in the Odyssey, sat perched on a vacant chair, in a corner of the room, in the form of a Guinea-hen—a bird, remarkable for dissonance of voice, and petulance of disposition!
The debate, accordingly, began; and the members of the opposition urged their objections. They insisted, that their dislike to names was not merely capricious, but well-founded; for that a stranger, distinguished by that name, not long since, had turned the heads of half the town. O'er the thronged room there reigned a deep repose, Till patriot Tommy, from his seat, arose: "Tommy, who, skilled in law's and war's alarms, Is great, alike in eloquence and arms—No member boasts more jacobinical merit; No member boasts a larger share of spirit!!"
Marryed December 31st 1794, by the Rev. Mr. Rochee, at the seat of Mr. William Warner, near Dover, Mr. Benjamin Collins of Philadelphia, to Miss Hannah Warren of Delaware.
CONGRESS.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Tuesday, January 6.
The bill for ascertaining the losses of the officers of the revenue, and other citizens, by the western insurgents, was read the third time. The blank in the bill was filled up with eight thousand five hundred dollars. The bill was then passed.
A bill, making farther provision in cases of drawbacks, was read a third time, and passed.
A memorial from the sugar refiners in the city of Philadelphia was then read. It was of considerable length, and stated, that the excise on refined sugar would terminate in the destruction of the manufacturers. People refused to buy the refined sugar with the additional excise duty. The commodity, therefore, lay on their hands. The business had, in fact, been put an end to.
This memorial was referred to the same committee as that of the snuff-makers. Mr. Goodhue moved that the house should go into a committee of the whole, on the bill supplementary to the acts for imposing duties on goods, wares, and merchandise imported into the United States.
The house then went into a committee on the bill to establish an uniform system of naturalization, and to repeal the law formerly made on that head. One of the clauses in the new bill proposed to make aliens becoming citizens of the United States abjure their allegiance to all other states forever.
By this Day's Mail.
BALTIMORE, Jan. 6.
On Sunday evening arrived the ship Juliana, Capt. Willink, 7 weeks from Hamburg. The verbal information of the Captain is, that no recent engagement of magnitude had taken place since the battle of Juliers, and that Amsterdam was not taken, but its situation appeared so critical to the Duke of York, that he proposed marching into it with 15,000 of his troops to defend it.
The Juliana brings much the latest news of any arrival from the continent of Europe—papers having been received by her as late as the 1st of November. We were favoured by a kind Gentleman with Hamburg Gazettes, from the 11th of October, down to the latest date; from which we have, in haste, transcribed the following summary and
EXTRACT.
That the Duke of York's head quarters were on the 25th of October between Nimèguen and Arnheim: at the latter of which places the Duke himself had arrived—and that it was expected his Head Quarters would shortly be removed thither—that an attempt had been made to drive the French from between the rivers Maese and Waal, in which the British had been defeated—that every thing was in confusion at Nimèguen, the French having unexpectedly crossed the Maese, and advanced to within a league and an half of that place, surprised a British regiment, and entirely cut it to pieces, not leaving a single man alive—that Venloo was invested by 15,000 French, who were also in great force at Ruremonde—that the garrison of Maestricht made a vigorous sortie, and killed a great number of the besiegers—that the patriotic society of Amsterdam had been broken up, and their papers seized—that 600 French cavalry had entered the city of Cleves, but departed in the evening without doing any mischief—and that the imperial Diet are busy in concerting plans for negotiating a peace with the French Republic.
Different accounts relate that the Russians have had several severe engagements with the Poles, in which the latter seem to have been generally much worsted; & as great numbers of the vanquished would not ask pardon of their conquerors, they were butchered on the spot. On the 10th October, Kosciousko, with his whole army was totally defeated by the Russian general Van Fersen; himself, and three other generals, were taken prisoners; in consequence of which several Russian divisions were marching against Warsaw, where great disaffection prevailed, and many insisted on imploring forgiveness of their enemies.
Accounts from the Lower Elbe state, that intelligence has been received from Ratisbon, that the Diet have agreed to debate the question on the cessation of hostilities—that the coadjutor of Mayence will proceed to Paris for the purpose of accelerating it—and that the Grefier of Holland is said to have gone to London, to remove the obstacles to a negotiation of peace with France.
Extract of a letter from Frankfort, October 21.
The coadjutor of Mayence is arrived here. We have intelligence that PEACE is ACTUALLY PROPOSED, and that a cessation of arms will also take place.
A letter from Amsterdam dated October 25, contains the following resolves of the states of Friedland:
1. To acknowledge the French Republic. 2. To conclude a peace with the same. 3. To alter the constitution to the wishes of the Republic. 4. To enter into an alliance with the government of France.
5. To dissolve that between England and Prussia. 6. To relinquish the individual interest of the hereditary stadtholder and his family for the public good. 7. The exiled patriots to be recalled and indemnified.
RATISBON, Oct. 16.
The elector palatine has made a proposition to the diet, for concluding an honorable PEACE with the French Republic.
Extract of a letter from Vienna, Oct. 18.
The talk of peace grows louder and louder; and it is said, that two additional deputies from England furnished with new instructions, are to arrive here—The result of the last conference which was held at court, is said to have been, that the monarch will join his wishes with those of his subjects, and procure a peace at all events.
THORN, Oct. 18.
The Poles have come as far as this place but have been driven back by the Prussians.
NATIONAL CONVENTION.
Saturday, Oct. 18. The representatives of the people, Bellegarde and Lacombe, with the army at Bois-le-Duc, report,
That they made five attacks upon the place before they succeeded in carrying it. And that they had taken with the point of the bayonet, (their artillery not coming up till they had capitulated) two forts, which had cost the tyrant Louis XIV, 16,000 men, without being able to get possession. They took at Bois-le-Duc, 147 pieces of cannon, 107 of which are brass; 130,000 weight of powder; a quantity of iron; 9,000 muskets, and 2,500 prisoners of war.
DUBLIN, October 24.
The Commission of Terminer and General Gaol Delivery opens to-morrow, before the Hon. Baron Boyd. Several persons are to be tried upon charges of a sedious nature.
The only prisoner for high treason in this kingdom is the Rev. Mr. Jackson—It is said the charge is his having lent information to the French, and given them some encouragement to land, by a letter which he endeavoured to have conveyed to the continent thro' the Dublin Post Office. His trial comes on at the bar of the King's Bench on the 7th of November.
October 25.
In no former wars, says a mercantile correspondent, even when the whole naval force of Europe was combined against us, did the commerce of these kingdoms suffer so much as by the present. With a fleet of line of battle ships and frigates more than double the number of the enemy, manned by the best seamen in the world, and appointed as well in every respect as ships can be, how comes it that we are not better protected?
A squadron of five frigates and two corvettes failed from Brest the 15th July; on the 21st they were in the Atlantic appointed them to cruise, from lat. 49, 30. to 50. and long. 11, 30. to 12, 30. that is a little to the southward of Cape Clear, where they remained un molested until they captured more prizes than they were able to man; that circumstance, and that only, obliged them to quit their station on the 26th August.
Another squadron of 4 frigates, 2 corvettes, and a brig, cruised so near by, the same time, off Cape Finisterre, and with equal success.
Two frigates and two sloops, dispatched from L'Orient, went to the North Sea, where, and on their passage to that station, they captured upwards of 60 sail of ships, part of which they sank and burned for want of hands to man them.
While this havoc was making among the ships and seamen of Great-Britain and Ireland, Admiral McBride, an officer of distinguished activity in a line-of-battle ship, the Minotaur, and five of the finest frigates in the British navy, were uselessly employed in manoeuvring at Weymouth. Another squadron of five frigates was lying at Falmouth, besides a powerful fleet at Portsmouth and Plymouth.
Will it not appear astonishing that a period of about 11 months above 960 sail of ships belonging to the different nations, have been captured by exertions of only 16 frigates and 8 corvettes and sloops! The evil, however, is not confined to the loss of property; for, should the war continue, as things go, there would shortly be a very great want of seamen, for the number now in prison in France is perhaps beyond what is generally imagined. The blame rests some where, for the naval force of the nation, if properly directed, is amply sufficient to protect us. It is therefore in the ignorance or neglect of the Lords of Admiralty, or in the total want of system in their orders, that the commerce of this great empire is thus injured! If either or both of these causes
operate, may it not be asked, "Why those things are so?" and wherefore should the strength of the nation remain inactive, at the expence of millions of property, and the confinement of thousands of the most valuable class of men belonging to the nation in loathsome prisons?
We will not say that the war could be avoided, but there are some who think it has been conducted in the most infamous manner. Our losses by sea might have been prevented. A strong squadron of frigates, stationed at the westward and southward of Cape Clear, would have yielded more protection, than all the navy of England, conducted as it is at present—This is a fact which every seafaring man will acknowledge.
UNITED STATES.
BOSTON.
Depredations on our Commerce,
Are again the subject of public advertisement. Within these two months past, several American vessels have been carried into Bermudas, and condemned: in consequence of the British Order of June, 1793. Among them is the schooner Patty, Taylor—and Indultry, Grozier, of this port. Intelligence of the latter has been bro't by the schooner Little John, Capt. Homer, from thence, who was carried in there, detained 5 days, and dismissed without being libelled.
We with the above were all the embarrassments our commerce suffers: we have seen letters from Paris, of recent dates, which inform that our minister has made complaints to the Convention of the depredations which our commerce suffers from the French cruisers, who capture every American they meet, take out all the crew, except the Captains and mates, send them into France, where they may have been detained from 6 to 18 months, and some have been condemned: And all this against the express articles of the treaty of alliance and commerce.
The above is from a gentleman of the strictest veracity, and warmest friends to the French: Besides, this Beecher's last paper informs, that Capt. Buffington, from Salem bound to Bourdeaux, was taken off the banks of New-foundland, sent to P'Orient, where she had remained 38 days, when the last accounts left there, with her hatchets sealed up.
Translated from the Courier Francois of this morning.
PARIS, October 28.
The details of the affair of the 14th and 15th, have reached us, notwithstanding the precautions which the house of Orange take to keep them secret. The first day the loss of the English was immense—The Regiment of York was cut in pieces—Three others were made prisoners—One Hanoverian and one Hessian Regiment being closely pressed, perished in the water in attempting to save themselves by swimming.
It appears that the Hollanders had no part in this affair—being principally distributed in the strong garrisons—we are assured that four thousand Prussians have marched to Nimèguen to reinforce the English.
There were great cries and vociferations yesterday in the Jacobin Club—The Representative of the people, Lejeune reproached vehemently Billaud Varennes and Collot d'Herbois lately mock famous Jacobins, for their silence in a crisis so cruel. They excused themselves from the oppressed state in which the Patriots groaned, and particularly themselves.
Billaud Varennes—observed, besides that in present circumstances, silence was more energetic, perhaps, than ineffectual speeches.
They both made their vows for the safety of the patriots, which they would defend in every great crisis; and from the people, nothing should ever separate them.
A question was afterwards agitated on the means of continuing a correspondence with the affiliated Societies, notwithstanding the decree.
Bassal—ex-curate of Versailles, said he would render the decree nugatory—notwithstanding after a tedious and long discussion, they separated at eleven o'clock at night, and adjourned the question to the next day.
In this manner all institutions degenerate by abuses—All their ornaments, all that renders them respectable and great, is insensibly lost—and the fall of the tattered Colossus hardly attracts the attention of the passengers, who see it roll in the dust.
PORT OF PHILADELPHIA
ARRIVED.
Ship Amiable, Thompson, Liverpool 56; Washington, Knox, Hav. 64.

Bank of North America, December 2, 1794. The Stockholders of the Bank of North America are hereby notified that an Election for  Twelve Directors for the ensuing Year, will be held at the Bank on Monday the 12th of January next, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon. Dec. 9 dtj:2
Parry & Muirgrave, Goldsmiths, Jewellers and Hair-Workers, No. 42, South Second Street, Have received by the Pigeon from London an ASSORTMENT of  Plated japanned ware Jewellery & Cutlery, viz. Plated and Japan'd Tea Urns Plated and Japan'd Parent Lamps Cailors and Liquor Frames Bread and Fruit Baskets Japan'd Tea Trays Plated coffee and Tea Pots and canies Ditto Candlesticks A variety of elegant and most fashionable Ear-rings Enam'd and other Bracelets, Breast-pins, and Finger Rings Thimbles, enamel'd and other kinds Ladies and gentlemen's gold, gilt, and steel Watch chains Gold and gilt Seals and Keys Stone and fine steel Knee Buckles, Pen-knives and Scissors, with  Variety of other Articles, In the above Branches. Dec. 6 codtf
Office of the Insurance Company of North America, THE President and Directors of this Company are now ready to receive applications for Insurance on Houses and Stores and on household Furniture and Goods in Dwelling Houses and Stores, upon the terms contained in their proposals which have been already published. The expense of Survey, being Two Dollars, must be deposited when the application for Insurance is made; and the Badge and Policy, together with the Premium, are to be paid for when the order is given and accepted.  Ebenezer Hazard, SECRETARY. Dec. 8 dtw2awim
CLARET Of the First Quality in Hogsheads and Casks, HIGH ROOF Cogniac Brandy, White Wine Vinegar, Port Wine, Alicante Wines, red & white FOR SALE BY  John Vaughan. Dec. 23 d
This day is Published, (Price a quarter of a Dollar)  Slaves in Algiers: or, A Struggle for Freedom. A PLAY, Interspersed with Songs, in three acts. Incribed to the Citizens of the United States of North America. By Mrs. Rowson. As performed at the New Theatres in Philadelphia and Baltimore. Extract from the Preface. My chief aim has been, to offer to the public a Dramatic Entertainment, which, while it might excite a smile, or call forth the tear of sensibility, might contain no one sentiment, in the least prejudicial to the moral or political principles of the government under which I live. On the contrary, it has been my endeavour, to place the social virtues in the fairest point of view, and hold up to merited contempt and ridicule, their opposite vices. If, in this attempt, I have been the least successful, I shall reap the reward to which I aspire, in the smiles and approbation of a liberal public. Sold by M. Carey, No. 128, and Rice & Co. No. 52, High street; S. Campbell, No. 54, South Second street; and Wrigley & Betman, No. 149, Chestnut street. Jan. 5 sawtf
AT THE  Card & Nail Factory, No. 59, north Front street,  Webster, Adgate & White, Have constantly for sale, Cotton, Wool, Tow, and  Machine Cards, Of all Kinds, Cut Nails of all sizes, Floor Brads, Springs and Tacks, Fullers Shears, Gun Flints and Wool Hats, A quantity of kiln dried Indian Meal in barrels. A new Edition of Adgate's Philadelphia Harmony, containing both the first and second parts, being the most approved system of Rules and the best collection of Tunes now in use. Also for Sale, A COMPLETE SET OF  Machinery for making Cards On an Improved Construction. Oct. 2 sawtf
FRESH  Bohea Tea,  GIN in Pipes, Now Landing from on board the ship Peggy, John Elliott master, from Amsterdam. Also Imported by the late Arrivals, Russia Hemp, first quality Ditto Sail Duck Ditto Ravens Duck Brown Russia Sheeting Ticklenburgs Oznaburgs Brown Flanders Sheeting HOLLANDS and Brown Rolls Cotton Stripes and Checks Flanders Bedticks Holland Sail Duck Seine Twine Dutch Great Coats Gin in cases Madder Window Glass, 8 by 10 Jeluits Bark Opium, Allisatida German Steel Mill and Cross-cut Saws Hoes and Cutting Knives Sythes and Skates Coffee Mills Black Lead Crucibles Anchors from 3 cwt. to 15 cwt. And a General Assortment of  5-4 & 6-4 Boultng Cloth, FOR SALE BY  Pragers & Co. Nov. 11
Fresh Teas, OF SUPERIOR QUALITY, viz. Imperial, or Gunpowder Hyson Gomee, 1st quality Hyson, 2d. do. do. Young Hyson, Hyson Skin, and Souchong. A few Boxes of each, for sale at  No. 19, Third street south. Dec. 10 codtf
Ticklenburgs, Oznaburgs, and Glass Ware, Landing from on board the ship Peggy, from Amsterdam. ALSO,  Coffee of prime Quality In hogsheads and tiersces, Muscovado Sugars In hogsheads, German Steel, ASSORTED WOOLLENS, In small Bales, &c. for sale by  Rundle & Murgatroyd, No. 11, Walnut street wharf. Who want to purchase 300 or 400  Casks Good Flaxseed. Nov. 11 sawtf
Bank of the United States. January 5th. 1795. Notice is hereby given, that there will be paid at the Bank after the 15th instant to the Stockholders or their representatives duly authorized, Sixteen Dollars for each share, being the dividend declared for the last six months. By order of the President and Directors,  John Kean, Cashier. Jan. 5. mw&fm
FOR SALE BY  John D. Blanchard, At his Stores, in Third street,  Choice TENERIFFE WINE, Of superior quality, Coniac Brandy in pipes. 50 Casks of Claret of a superior quality subject to drawback. Boston Tea Kettles, large assortment Shot of all sizes and numbers Barr Lead, Lead in pipes Russia Sheeting Women's Stuff Shoes by the quantity Cult Nails Rhode-Island Cheese And a large and elegant assortment of  European and India  GOODS, At the most reduced Prices. Nov. 25 sawtf
Forty Dollars Reward. RAN away from the subscribers in Woodbury, Gloucester County, New-Jersey, on Sunday morning the 12th instant,  Two young Negro Fellows, named Jack and Tom, each about 20 years of age; Jack is of a dark black colour and a four look; Tom is of an open countenance, of a yellowish colour, and much disposed to laugh. They are sprightly active fellows, and but little short of six feet high; they were both well dressed; Jack had on a blue broad cloth coat and different kinds of clothes. Whoever takes up said servants, and secures them in any goal in the United States, so that their masters may get them again shall receive the above reward and reasonable expenses.  John Sparks,  Andrew Hunter. Oct. 14 sawtf
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 14,531 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 Witting, Joseph Ball, Matthew McConnel and Andrew Bayard, of the city of Philadelphia—His Excellency Richard Howell, Esq. Elias D. Boudinot, General Elias D. Boudinot, James Parker, John Bayard, Doctor Lewis Donham, Samuel W. Stockton, Joshua M. Wallace, Joseph Bloomfield, and Eliza Boudinot, of New-Jersey, who offer the following Scheme of a Lottery, and pledge themselves to the public, that they will take every assurance and precaution in their power to have the Monies paid by the Managers, from time to time, as received, into the Banks at New-York and Philadelphia, to remain for the purpose of paying Prizes, which shall be immediately discharged by a check upon one of the Banks.
SCHEME:    1 Prize of 20,000 Dollars is 20,000 1 20,000   2 do. 10,000 do. 20,000 2 20,000   5 do. 4,000 do. 20,000 5 20,000   10 do. 2,000 do. 20,000 10 20,000   20 do. 1,000 do. 20,000 20 20,000   100 do. 200 do. 20,000 100 20,000   300 do. 66 do. 20,000 300 20,000   1000 do. 20 do. 20,000 1000 20,000   2000 do. 10 do. 20,000 2000 20,000   3000 do. 6 do. 20,000 3000 20,000   4000 do. 5 do. 20,000 4000 20,000   5000 do. 4 do. 20,000 5000 20,000   6000 do. 3 do. 20,000 6000 20,000   8000 do. 2 do. 20,000 8000 20,000   10000 do. 2 do. 20,000 10000 20,000   12000 do. 1 do. 20,000 12000 20,000   14000 do. 1 do. 20,000 14000 20,000   16000 do. 1 do. 20,000 16000 20,000   18000 do. 1 do. 20,000 18000 20,000   20000 do. 1 do. 20,000 20000 20,000   22000 do. 1 do. 20,000 22000 20,000   24000 do. 1 do. 20,000 24000 20,000   26000 do. 1 do. 20,000 26000 20,000   28000 do. 1 do. 20,000 28000 20,000   30000 do. 1 do. 20,000 30000 20,000   32000 do. 1 do. 20,000 32000 20,000   34000 do. 1 do. 20,000 34000 20,000   36000 do. 1 do. 20,000 36000 20,000   38000 do. 1 do. 20,000 38000 20,000   40000 do. 1 do. 20,000 40000 20,000   42000 do. 1 do. 20,000 42000 20,000   44000 do. 1 do. 20,000 44000 20,000   46000 do. 1 do. 20,000 46000 20,000   48000 do. 1 do. 20,000 48000 20,000   50000 do. 1 do. 20,000 50000 20,000   52000 do. 1 do. 20,000 52000 20,000   54000 do. 1 do. 20,000 54000 20,000   56000 do. 1 do. 20,000 56000 20,000   58000 do. 1 do. 20,000 58000 20,000   60000 do. 1 do. 20,000 60000 20,000   62000 do. 1 do. 20,000 62000 20,000   64000 do. 1 do. 20,000 64000 20,000   66000 do. 1 do. 20,000 66000 20,000   68000 do. 1 do. 20,000 68000 20,000   70000 do. 1 do. 20,000 70000 20,000   72000 do. 1 do. 20,000 72000 20,000   74000 do. 1 do. 20,000 74000 20,000   76000 do. 1 do. 20,000 76000 20,000   78000 do. 1 do. 20,000 78000 20,000   80000 do. 1 do. 20,000 80000 20,000   82000 do. 1 do. 20,000 82000 20,000   84000 do. 1 do. 20,000 84000 20,000   86000 do. 1 do. 20,000 86000 20,000   88000 do. 1 do. 20,000 88000 20,000   90000 do. 1 do. 20,000 90000 20,000   92000 do. 1 do. 20,000 92000 20,000   94000 do. 1 do. 20,000 94000 20,000   96000 do. 1 do. 20,000 96000 20,000   98000 do. 1 do. 20,000 98000 20,000   100000 do. 1 do. 20,000 100000 20,000 
4,539 Prizes. 268,000 23,461 Blanks. First drawn number, 2,000 Last drawn number, 2,000 30,000 Tickets at 7 Dollars each is 266,000 The drawing will commence, under the inspection of a Committee of the Superintendents, as soon as the Tickets are sold, of which timely notice will be given. The Superintendents have appointed John N. Cumming, of Newark, Jacob R. 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 4,000 dollars, with four sufficient securities, to perform their obligations, the substance of which is I. That whenever either of the Managers shall receive the sum of Three Hundred Dollars, he shall immediately place the same in one of the Banks of New-York or Philadelphia, to the credit of the Governor of the Society, and such of the Superintendents as 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. Pateron, January 1, 1794. On application to either of the above gentlemen, information will be given where tickets may be had. February 24. in&ff
SHAKSPEARE'S WORKS.  FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. BY  Mountford, Bioren & Co. Proposals for Printing by Subscription,  THE WHOLE  Dramatic Works OF  WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE, IN EIGHT DUODECIMO VOLUMES, From Jones's Dublin Edition.  CONDITIONS. I. This Work will be comprised in Eight Duodecimo Volumes, printed on a fine American paper, in a style of Typographical Elegance that shall reflect the highest credit on the American press. II. That it shall be embellished with a beautiful Frontispiece of Shakspeare—engraved by the best American Artist. III. That the price to Subscribers will be EIGHT DOLLARS, one dollar to be paid on subscribing, and one dollar on the receipt of every succeeding volume but the last—to enable the Publishers to pursue with convenience this arduous undertaking. IV. Each volume shall be delivered in blue boards to the Subscribers immediately on the publication of every volume with best impressions of the Frontispiece—the price to be raised to Non-Subscribers. V. That the names of the Subscribers will be printed to record the patronage of this endeavour to encourage the useful and elegant Arts in America. Subscriptions are received by Messrs. Dobson, Carey, Young, Stevens, Campbell, Rice, M'Kinley, Ormrod, Johnston, and by the booksellers throughout the United States. Also by the Editor of the Gen. Advertiser, the Editor of the Gaz. of the United States, and by the publishers, Mountford, Bioren & Co. No. 75 Dock-street. Dec. 10. cod 2 saw tf
Bohea Tea: 50 chests Bohea Tea, of superior quality, just received by the Schooner Porgy, from Boston. FOR SALE BY  Nalbro' & John Frazier, No. 81, Walnut Street. Dec. 27 mw&fm
Insurance Company of the State of Pennsylvania. NOTICE is hereby given, that, agreeably to law, an election for thirteen directors to serve for one year, will be held at the office of the Company, on Monday the 12th day of January next, at three o'clock in the afternoon. Dec. 19. cod tf
PROPOSALS By Thomas Dobson, For Publishing by Subscription,  An English Translation OF  Poole's Synopsis of the Translations of the Bible, AND  The Critics, Interpreters, and Commentators Exhibiting at one view, the principal criticisms, and most valuable elucidations of the Scriptures; Illustrations of the ancient Eastern Manners and customs; & Descriptions of the Plants and Animals therein mentioned; with improvements from observations of Travellers, since the publication of that excellent work. It has been master of wonder and regret that this most learned and valuable work, so highly prized by the learned, both curious and serious, has never been translated, and thereby the bulk of readers have been deprived of a work of the greatest entertainment and utility; in which by the Labors of the learned of various ages and nations, the Sacred Scriptures are cleared of the contradictions and absurdities of modern translations, and the ancient manners, metaphors, allegories, and figures are illustrated in such a way, as to unite the most rational entertainment with the most sublime instruction; & to discover the source whence true philosophers, in all ages, have derived their knowledge from the Sacred Scriptures, which contain the seeds of all the sciences valuable to man. This work is proposed to the Public on the following  CONDITIONS. It is supposed the whole will be completed in four volumes, large quarto; and will be set to the press as soon as a sufficient number shall be subscribed for, to defray the expense. The price to subscribers will be four dollars for each volume, in boards. No money will be demanded till the first volume shall be completed, when the price of the first and second volumes will be required. When the second volume is finished, the price of the third will be payable. And when the third volume is finished, the price of the fourth must be paid. The price of such copies as may not be subscribed for will be raised 25 per cent. Dec. 13. saw tf
To the Public.  A SUBSCRIPTION Is opened for Printing the  Theological Writings OF  Emanuel Swedenborg, At Francis Bailey's Book Store, No. 116, Market Street, Philadelphia. WHEN a sufficient subscription takes place, a meeting will be advertised to consider the most eligible mode for conducting the printing of such of the Works as shall be thought to be of the greatest utility in the first instance. The following Treatises may be now had at Mr. Bailey's: The Doctrine of Life, or the Spiritual sense of the Ten Commandments. The Universal Theology or the New Church, which was foretold by the Lord in Daniel, chap. 7, v. 5, 13, 14, and in the Apocalypse, chap. 21, v. 1, 2, &c. A Summary View of the Heavenly Doctrines of the New Jerusalem Church. As various opinions have been entertained respecting these invaluable writings, and yet no person by rational argument has been able to refute them, but instead thereof, invidious calumnies and groundless reports have been industriously propagated to discredit the honourable and enlightened Author, as well as his Works, we doubt not the candid and sincere inquirers after Truths of the highest importance, will seriously examine those Works for themselves, in which it is to be hoped, that being in the pursuit and love of the Truth for the sake of its native excellence and use, they will regard them as they justly deserve, and in the end receive both profit and delight. Oct. 14. eTutaw
TO BE SOLD BY  T. DOBSON,  Principles and Observations APPLIED TO THE MANUFACTURE AND INSPECTION OF  Pot and Pearl Ashes. By DAVID TOWNSEND, Inspector of Pot and Pearl Ashes for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Published according to Act of Congress. These observations relate to an extensive business; and are designed, in the plainest manner, to convey profitable information to those interested in it, who have no leisure or opportunity to search for the principles therein contained, in the writings of professional Chemists. Oct. 10. sawtf
Dancing School. Wm. M'DOUGALL presents his compliments to the Public—Thanks therefor for the great encouragement he has experienced these twenty odd years. He will open his School for this Season on Monday the 15th October, at 10 o'clock in the morning, in that large and elegant Saloon in Chestnut Street, leading from Third to Fourth Street, turning the corner of No. 70, South Third Street. His Employers may be assured, the strict order and decorum that has always been observed in his School, shall still be pursued—and that their children will be taught in the most approved and modern manner. Note—An Evening School for young Gentlemen. Oct. 10. sawtf
COFFEE. 54 hogsheads } 120,000 lbs. 350 barrels } Just arrived in the Rebecca, Captain Hughes, from Jamaica. FOR SALE BY  Peter Blight, Who has also now landing out of the Mercury, from Oporto, Choice  Red Port Wine, IN PIPES. Dec. 22 d
To be Sold, AT PRIVATE SALE, A very pleasant well situated  & valuable Farm, CONTAINING 328 acres of good Land, lying in Hanover, Morris county, N. Jersey, about 1 mile from Mr. White's Meeting House, on the road leading to Battle Hill, about 16 miles from Elizabeth Town, 13 from Newark, and 8 from Morris-town. There are on the Premises a large and convenient dwelling house, large barn, cider house and mill, a good granary and other out-houses. Likewise a good braving apple orchard, containing about 300 trees, together with a collection of best grafted fruit, such as peaches, pears, cherries, &c. Said Farm is well proportioned with plow-land, meadow and timber; there are now about 10 acres of plow land and 60 of meadow already cleared, the remainder being timber and pasture land. Any person inclining to purchase, may know the terms by applying to the Subscriber on the premises, or to Col. Ellis Cook near the farm.  Thomas T. Eckley. Hanover, Dec. 27 sawtf
Flax Dressers. TWO or three good Flax Dressers are wanted at the Sall Cloth Manufactory in Boston; therefore any person who has been regularly bred to that business, by applying to Joseph Anthony in this city, at his Compting House, No. 54 Chestnut street, or at the said Factory in Boston, will meet with great encouragement. Philad. Dec. 31 codtf
William W. Woodward,  PRINTER. HAS removed his Printing-Office from No. 41, Chestnut Street, to Pearl Street Head, No. 26, four doors from the corner of Second-street, south side, nearly opposite to where the Printing Business is carried on as usual; his whole attention being confined to that occupation. Orders from any part of this state, or the continent, will be executed, and authors may rely on having any work they may see fit to publish, correctly printed, either in French or English. The LEVEL OF EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA, with a COPIOUS PRICE-CURRENT, is printed for the gift of Peter Estlin, L. L. D. at the above mentioned office, in French and English; which publication has received the patronage of some of the most distinguished characters in America, and whose names, in a few days, will be published, and accompany the two first numbers to the subscribers. N. B. Blanks, Circular Letters, Checks, Cards, Handbills, &c. &c. continue to be executed with the usual dispatch. Nov. 18. codtf
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 Favours. 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 sawtf
To all who it may concern. TAKE notice, that agreeable to an act of the late Session of Congress, I mean to apply at the Treasury of the United States for the renewal of the following Continental Loan Office Certificate, destroyed and lost at my Lodgings in the city of Philadelphia, in the year 1791. No. 1607, dated April 13, 1779, for 500 Dollars. Issued in the Delaware State to the Subscriber then resident at New-Castle, countersigned Samuel Pateron, C. L. D. whereon were indorsements for interest paid up to the last of December 1782, made by the said Continental Loan Officer. George Read. New-Castle, Nov. 19, 1794. sawtf
Dancing School. Wm. M'DOUGALL presents his compliments to the Public—Thanks therefor for the great encouragement he has experienced these twenty odd years. He will open his School for this Season on Monday the 15th October, at 10 o'clock in the morning, in that large and elegant Saloon in Chestnut Street, leading from Third to Fourth Street, turning the corner of No. 70, South Third Street. His Employers may be assured, the strict order and decorum that has always been observed in his School, shall still be pursued—and that their children will be taught in the most approved and modern manner. Note—An Evening School for young Gentlemen. Oct. 10. sawtf