Gazette of the United States. (Philadelphia [Pa.]), 1795-08-14 00:00:00

Gazette United States
NUMBER 915.]
FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 14, 1795.
VOLUME VIII.
For FREIGHT, CHARTER or SALE,
The Ship
AMERICAN,
At Mr. Nisbet's Wharf, THE ship will take a Freight to any of the Windward Islands or Europe, if one offers soon, as she is now ready to take in. She is in complete order, and has good accommodations for passengers. For particulars apply to Jehu Hollingsworth & Co.
WHO HAVE FOR SALE,
A Few Puncheons of Excellent Rum,
By the above ship, one of which is old.
July 27
FOR SALE,
The Schooner
FRIENDSHIP,
BURTHEN twenty five tons; built in North Carolina, of Live Oak and Cedar, seven years old and pretty well found. For terms apply to Joseph Anthony & Son.
August 6
FOR SALE or CHARTER,
The Ship
PENNSYLVANIA,
BURTHEN 3400 Bbls. Flour—completely found, and may be sent to sea at a small expence. For terms apply to GURNEY & SMITH.
WHO HAVE FOR SALE,
A Quantity of Excellent Bourdeaux Claret in casks and Brandy in Pipes and Butts.
July 16
FOR HAMBURGH,
The Ship
ADRIANA,
Captain SAMUEL CLAPP,
Will receive Freight, (part of which is engaged) for Hamburgh, and is to sail as soon as she is discharged, and can be loaded.
Passengers that purpose to go to England, are to be landed at Deal or Dover, the Ship having good accommodations, being lately enlarged for this purpose in London. For freight or passage enquire of
RALPH MATHER,
No. 71, Race-Street.
July 14.
300 Hbds. Maryland and Virginia
TOBACCO,
Of a superior quality, part of which is Kitefoot, and particularly adapted for the manufacturers, or for the Holland or Hamburgh market.
ALSO,
500 Hogheads ready to be delivered on board a vessel in Chesapeake Bay, for sale by George Sibbald, No. 170 South Front Street.
July 24
50000 lb. of First Quality Green Coffee
Will be landed on Monday, the 20th inst. on Messrs. Willings and Francis's Wharf, from on board the Schooner Delight, Ayres Stokely, Master, from St. Domingo, for sale by LEVINUS CLARKSON
July 13
Now Landing,
THE cargoes of the brigs West-Indian and Betsy & Polly from Jamaica:
 Coffee in hds and barrels  Sugar in hds  Rum, high proof, and 36 bags Pimento.  ALSO ON HAND,  A Quantity of Coffee in Hds. Barrels and Bags  Sugar in Hds  Pimento in Bags  Brandy, 1st and 4th proof  Sherry Wine, &c. 
For sale by
Peter Blight.
July 31
FOR SALE,
The Schooner
CHORLEY,
AN American built vessel, burthen about 800 Bbls. of Flour, and well found—For terms apply to the captain on board at the subscriber's wharf, or to
JOSEPH SIMS.
Who has for Sale, imported in said Schooner, St. Croix Rum and Sugar, in Hds. and barrels, Coffee, &c.
August 10
Came to the Stable of the Subscriber,
LAST evening, a Black Mare, with a little white on her off hind foot, and the head of a bridle on her head. Whoever owns the mare shall have her by paying for this advertisement. GEORGE GREEN, No. 123 Pine Street.
August 10
LANDING,
FROM on board the brig Eagle, Capt. Dewar, and Sloop George, Capt. Chapman, from Port au Prince, at Hamilton's wharf,
 Muscovado SUGAR, in } hogheads,  } tierces, &  } barrels.  COFFEE, in } hogheads,  } tierces,  } barrels, &  } bags.  COTTON, in } bales, &  } packets. 
For sale by
George Sibbald,
No. 170 South Front Street.
August 5
TO BE SOLD,
A Lot, containing about seventeen acres, on the Wissahickon road, 4 miles, from the city, and directly opposite to the house of Mr. Isaac Wharton.
A Lot, containing 10 acres, in Kingston Lane, on said road, near the estate of Jasper Moylan, Esq.
A Lot, containing 10 acres in Turner's Lane, on said road, and directly opposite to the estate of Mr. Tennant. Enquire of Joseph Redman, Woodstock corner of Turner's Lane.
April 6
FOR SALE by the Subscribers, at their Store on Walnut Street Wharf,
26 Hhds. 33 Barrels and 540 Bags
Hispaniola COFFEE, lately arrived
Who have also on hand,
Red Port Wine, in Pipes and Hogheads
Mountain Wine Wine, in Qt. casks
20 Tons Brimstone
Nails assorted
Sail Canvas, No. 1 & 7 and
A few gentlemen's handsome Saddles
Philip Nicklin & Co.
July 24
JAMES TIFFIN,
No. 70. South Second-Street, near the City Tavern,
HAS just opened for Sale, an Assortment of Ladies' and Gentlemen's
Fashionable HATS,
from London. Also a variety of Children's Hats of different Colours.
N. B. A Man or two as finishers in the above business, well recommended, will meet with constant employ and good encouragement.
June 6.
LANDING, from on board the Ship CHARLOTTE.
Capt. Tona. Bowers, from Bourdeaux,
30 Pipes Brandy
20 Tons Claret
For sale by
F. COPPINGER,
No. 221 South Front, near Pine Street.
Who has also,
2300 cases of 30 & 50 bottles, Choice Old Claret
600 hogheads ditto
A Quantity of Anniseed
Noyau Liqueurs and
Cantbricks.
July 16
FOR SALE,
In Bath County, Virginia,
450 Acres of Good Land.
WHEREON are the Hot Springs, which are from 70 to 110 degrees of heat. There is on the said Land a handsome and commodious house two stories high, 60 by 30 feet, with a portion the full length of the house, and extending to the upper floor, and other necessary houses fit for a Public House, for which they were intended; good houses are over several of the baths, with sweating rooms. There are adjacent thereto, two remarkable cold springs of well tasted lime-stone water. These baths are a specific for the most obstinate rheumatic and all other disorders originating from colds or obstructed perspirations, and gives great relief in they have effected wonderful cures in various disorders incident to the ladies; they have this spring made a perfect cure of a disease on a West-Indian resembling the leprosy, and are remarkable for the cure of white swellings, contracted nerves, and many other disorders are too obstinate to be effected by medicine.
There is near the said Baths,
A new Saw-Mill erected, and a Race
cut from thence, to build a Manufacturing Mill, which will reclaim about 30 acres of rich Meadow Land as any upon the Continent, and may be watered every night, and the bay made thereon falls as well as any that is made near any city or town within the United States.
The proprietors of the above property will treat for the same on the premises, at any time between the 20th of August and the 20th of September; they will also sell Valuable Land for two or three Farms near the said Springs, and if the said Land and Houses at the Springs are not sold, they will be rented.
N. B. Good accommodations are provided at the above Springs for ladies and gentlemen this season, which from experience is found best to commence in June, and end the first of October.
July 14
American Landscapes.
PROPOSALS
FOR PUBLISHING IN AQUATINTA
TWENTY-FOUR 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 23.
FRAUNCES'S TAVERN.
No. 59 South Water Street.
THE Subscriber respectfully begs leave to inform his friends and the public in general, that he has removed from No. 166 South 2d Street, to that large, commodious, House in Water Street, between Chestnut and Walnut Streets, lately occupied by Mr. Isaac Hazelehurst, and on which he has spared no pains or expence, to make it convenient and agreeable for the reception of gentlemen. The House being situated on the same spot where the noted Beef Steak and Punch house formerly stood, has the advantage of the best water in this city, known long since by the name of the Green Tree Water. As there are several elegant Rooms, sufficiently large to accommodate any Society or company of gentlemen, and from his well known abilities to please in the line of his business, he flatters himself with a continuance of that patronage which he has experienced since he first opened a Public House in this City, and for which he begs leave to make a public acknowledgment.
For the accommodation of Small Parties, the Large Coffee Room on the ground floor is conveniently fitted up with a number of Boxes, contrived in such a manner as to admit Gentlemen to be as private as they please—Where they may be had, at any hour, Soups, Beef-Steaks, Relishes, &c. &c.
He has on hand, and will keep a constant supply of Spirits and Male Liquors, and of the best qualities.
Breakfasts provided—Also Dinners and Suppers cooked in the most approved manner, at a short notice, and Party of all sorts, made to order, in the House, or to send out at any hour.
He has several well furnished Bed Chambers, for Boarders and Lodgers, by the Week, month, or year.
SAMUEL FRAUNCES.
June 2.
For Sale by the Subscriber,
A few hundred barrels of Prime Herrings fit for Exportation
70,000 lb. Green Coffee in hds. barrels and bags
Port Wine in pipes
Madeira in do. hds. and quarter casks
Teneriffe in Ditto
Malaga in quarter casks
Jamaica Spirits in hds.
New England Rum in ditto
Holland Gin
Hyson
Hyson Gomes
Souchong and
Bohea
Turk's Island and
Liverpool
Sweet Oil in Quart Bottles, and Cases of 30 bottles
Clayed Sugars in hds. entitled to Drawback
2000 Bushels best Liverpool blond Salt
now afloat, will be Sold cheap from on board the vessel.
Levinus Clarkson,
No. 216 South Water Street.
July 1
The highest price in Cash, will be given for
EMPTY BOTTLES,
A preference will be given to Claret Bottles—Apply to
No. 187, South Third-Street.
April 10.
A Few Pipes Port Wine
Of a Superior Quality,
Now landing at Pine-Street Wharf,
FOR SALE BY
William & Samuel Keith,
No. 279, South Front-Street.
July 14.
BROKE out of the pasture of John De Grusse, the
corner of Eleventh and Spruce Streets, about the
8th instant, two Mares; one an iron-grey, about 14 and
3-4 hands high, the legs of which have been much in-
jured by the flies. The other a small Bay, low in flesh,
about 14 hands high; legs also injured by the flies.—
Whoever has taken up the said Mares, and will return
them as above, shall be rewarded and all reasonable
charges paid.
July 21.
FRESH TEAS,
OF SUPERIOR QUALITY, viz.
Imperial, or Gunpowder
Hyson Gomes,
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.
CAVERN OF DEATH—A Moral Tale.
Just Published—Price 50 Cents,
And for sale at WILLIAM W. WOODWARD'S
Printing Office, No. 16, Green sign of Franklin's
Head, Chestnut Street.
HAVING removed to the above-mentioned place from
No. 36. Booksellers can be supplied with a number
of New Publications on the most reasonable terms.
Just Received, price 80 cents,
THOUGHTS ON DIVINE GOODNESS,
Relative to the government of moral agents, particularly
displayed in future rewards and punishments; translated
from the French of Ferdinand Oliver Petitpierre, former-
ly minister of Chaux de Fond.
W. W. WOODWARD has on hand a neat assortment of
BOOKS & STATIONARY.
The Public are respectfully informed that the excellent
work of BURKITT on the NEW TESTAMENT, 1st
Number, will soon be published. Each number 1-4 dol-
lar—to be 25 numbers, one every 3 weeks.
A good font of second hand Small Pica, 1/6 per lb.
for Sale. Aug. 5
THIS DAY IS PUBLISHED,
By THOMAS DOBSON, at the STONE HOUSE,
No. 41 South Second Street,
ENCYCLOPEDIA.
VOLUME XIV.
CONTAINING, among a variety of other articles, Paf-
fions, Pastiche, Pasture, Patagonia, Patriarch, Paul,
Pearl, Pegu, Pelkin, Pelew-Islands, Pendulum, Penn-
sylvania, Pergamus, Persia, Perspective, Peter, Petrification,
System of Pharmacy, Philadelphia, Philip, Philology,
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By the 9th article of the confederation, "the United States in Congress assembled, have the sole and exclusive right of entering into treaties and alliances." These articles were acceded to by this state, by a solemn act of its legislature, passed the 6th of February, 1778. The people therefore of this state, were as much parties to the treaty of Paris, as if they had been present in their proper persons, and individually affixed their signatures to it. How then could its binding force upon them ever become a question?—Has Great-Britain ever entertained a doubt upon the subject? Can one party to a contract annul it without the other's consent? Hence it follows not only that treaties made under the confederation were supreme laws of the land, but that they were so in a sense much more extensive and emphatical than could be implied to an act of the legislature. While the latter could be repealed, or altered, the former could no ways be affected by a legislative act. Of little consequence, therefore, is the observation of Camillus, that "in the opinion of the legislature of Virginia, there were acts which had prevented and might prevent the recovery of debts, according to the treaty." The legislature of Virginia may make, but cannot expound even its own laws, much less laws or compacts to which that state was only one of the parties. Their exposition belongs solely and exclusively to the judicial department. These (but perhaps it was unknown to Camillus) are sentiments of the legislature of that very state. In an act of October, 1787, it is declared, "that it does not belong to the legislature to decide particular questions of which the judiciary have cognizance; and therefore it was unfit for them to determine on the validity of certain payments." The opinion, therefore, of any legislature on laws which already exist, is entitled to no attention; much less does such an opinion diminish the obligation or efficacy of them. Even in passing laws if they exceed their authority (which may be the case) courts of justice will disregard and refuse to carry them into effect. If a case had been cited of the supreme judicial tribunal of Virginia rendering a judgment conformable to what is stated as what is stated as the opinion of its legislature, it would have been in point, and not easy to reconcile to the injunctions of the treaty.
After producing this opinion, Camillus demands, with an air of triumph and satisfaction, as if he had detected Mr. Jefferson in a misrepresentation, "with what truth has it been asserted, that it was at all times perfectly understood, that treaties controlled the laws of the states?" I answer, because it could not be otherwise, and that not only Mr. Jefferson, but several professional and other characters of eminence whom he consulted (for extensive as his own experience was, he did not think it derogated from a minister of a free nation to collect information from his fellow-citizens) concurred in his opinion. It may well be doubted whether any lawyer has ever seriously advocated a contrary proposition. "It resulted," says Mr. Jefferson, "from the instrument of confederation among the states, that treaties made by Congress according to the confederation, were superior to the laws of the states." He adds "we may safely affirm this to have been the general sense of those at least who were of the profession of the law." Mr. Jefferson, we shall see, did not speak at random, nor without authority, nor is he chargeable with the final misrepresentation. It gives me pleasure, I confess, to refute the character of this gentleman, which has forced the admiration of America, from the aspersions of an anonymous writer, whose labours hitherto may be regarded rather as a formal censure of his official conduct, than a vindication of the English treaty. Does it excite surprise that Camillus wishes to render him odious? In his own writings the reason may be discovered. "Mr. Jefferson," says he, "is a candidate for the Presidential chair!"
Governor Collins, Mr. Channing, district attorney for Rhode-Island, Governor Huntington, Mr. Lewis, district attorney for Pennsylvania, Mr. Monroe, a Senator from Virginia, and now minister in France, and Mr. Harrison, our district attorney, and a gentleman of well earned legal reputation, have all functioned an opinion, which Camillus would fain persuade us is a matter of doubt. The name of Hamilton, whose legal acquirements, and other splendid talents, have so often astonished his fellow-citizens, and whose authority it is presumed, will not be disputed by Camillus, may also be added to a list already respectable. In the case of Waddington and Rutgers , which has been oftener mentioned than its importance deserved, he was counsel for the defendant, and advised his client to rely on the treaty of peace, which plea was allowed by the court. It will not be impertinent here to notice a remark of Camillus, not as a proof of candour, but of his solicitude to mislead: "though," says he, "there may have been no former decision of our courts, enforcing the exceptional principles of the treaty, yet there never was a decision of a supreme court against it." Did not Camillus know that the supreme court had decided against principles as exceptional in other acts, merely because they were at war with the treaty of peace? He knew it, and it would have been no reflection on his candour to have stated the instances. Not having done so, the following extract of a letter from Mr. Harrison to Mr. Jefferson, will remind him of some cases in which he was probably concerned as counsel for one of the parties:—"The operation of this act," says he, speaking of the act relative to debts due to persons within the enemy's lines, "became soon after the peace, a subject of much complaint, grounded upon that article of the treaty which forbids any impediment to the recovery of the full value in sterling money of all bona fide debts, and that which declares that no person shall suffer any future loss in his person, liberty, or property. With regard to British creditors who were supposed to be the proper objects of the 4th article of the treaty, the superior courts of the state soon restrained the operation of the act, and I do not know of a single instance where they have been held to be affected by it."
Here then we have not only decisions of our superior courts in point, but are told by a gentleman of great accuracy, that there is not one instance to the contrary. How powerful is truth—deception may continue for a day, but the will soon be rent, and fallacy and error, however sophistically arrayed, will be stripped of its ornaments, and exposed to public view. Let this be a caution to all who read Camillus, to suspend their opinion until his assertions are examined. I forbear, for the sake of brevity, to transcribe the opinions of the other gentlemen who have been named, although they are equally strong, and more direct in point than that of Mr. Harrison. They are all as positive as language could render them, and bear honourable testimony in favour of America. They should be consulted by those who, like Mr. Jefferson, "will be glad to find an exculpation of our conduct," which is glanced at by this writer, as a dingsomous trait in his ministerial career. Governor Livingston also in a letter, dated 15th June, 1787, to the same minister, declares, that "he does not know a single instance, in which the state of New-Jersey had contravened the treaty." It would be endless, to cite proofs on this subject.
Treaties then, from the very nature of our union, being the supreme laws of the land, it results necessarily that its provisions could not be controlled by the laws of any state, and that no one could reasonably complain of its existence of such acts, which by the treaty were rendered nugatory, until obedience to them was enforced by the courts to whom the exposition of such acts and treaties was delegated. Let Camillus produce a single instance of the supreme judiciary of any state
rendering judgment contrary to the plain sense of the treaty—until such exceptions are produced, it becomes us to defend our country from the unjust imputations of the British ministry and their agents, and not by subtle and fine-spun distinctions and doubts, give efficacy to their calumnies. Among the subterfuges, calculated to fix a reproach upon the United States, may be classed the remark of Camillus, that, "under the confederation they had no courts of their own to expound and enforce their treaties as laws." We are at a loss which to censure most in this observation; its want of candour, or the unqualified recollection it carries with it on the state judiciaries. If treaties were laws of the land, which perhaps was never seriously doubted, were not the state judges then, as much as the federal judges are now, sworn and bound to conform to, and make them the rule of their decisions? He subjoins with becoming delicacy, "it was believed that a majority of our supreme court bench would over-rule the plea of a military order." How was this discovery made? did the judges favour him with an extra-judicial opinion? or was he gifted with the spirit of divination? Thus, belief, surmises, and suspicions must be resorted to; to fix upon our state, the ignominious charge of breaking her solemn engagements with foreign powers. To the credit of our bench it ought to be mentioned, that it has, ever since the peace, been filled with characters of the most unblemished reputation and integrity, and that the confidence inspired by their decisions, has been so great, that perhaps in no state in the union is less business done in the federal court, than in New York. It would hardly receive credit was it to mention how very few civil actions have been commenced in these courts since their organization in this state.
It cannot be necessary to follow Camillus through his invidious enumeration of the other acts of this, and other States, which he considers as violations of the treaty; the same answer applies to all. The treaty could not be controlled by any State law; but it is alleged, that in some cases repealing acts were deemed necessary by the legislatures of the different States. This does not alter the case. It was done for the greater caution, and furnishes proofs of a sincere spirit of accommodation. In some States a repeal would probably not have taken place if their legislatures had not observed the laws in question which had already yielded to the superior or mandates of the treaty.
But admitting for a moment, that legal impediments once existed to the recovery of British debts, will it be contended that they continued to operate at the time of the negotiation between Mr. Jay and Lord Grenville? if not, why fear to meet the question, and discuss the respective claims of the two countries? If America had done wrong, what could Great Britain desire more than a redress of the injury which had already taken place? Mr. Jay could have informed Lord Grenville with confidence, that for six years past, our courts were open to British creditors, and that probably few, if any, remained unsatisfied. This would not have pleased his Lordship. Knowing that Great Britain had nothing at present to complain of, and that our demands were of the most serious and extensive nature, he sedulously avoided a discussion, which a mere novice in diplomatic controversy, could have managed on our part, so as to refute every possible objection of his Lordship. Every "enlightened American," therefore, cannot but regard the pretended apprehensions of our envoy to meet so plain a question, as a base dereliction of his country's honour—as a mean sacrifice of her rights—as an ill-timed delicacy—and as a most unwarrantable concession to Great Britain.
C I N N A.
P. S. It has been thought best to subjoin the opinions of the gentlemen above referred to; they harmonize, and are so much in point, that we shall find it impossible to withhold our assent from Mr. Jefferson's proposition in its greatest latitude, "that treaties made by Congress, according to the confederation, were superior to the laws of any state."
Governor Collins says, "the treaty in all its absolute parts, has been fully complied with, and to those parts that are merely recommendatory and depend upon the legislative discretion, the most candid attention has been paid," plainly implying, says Mr. Jefferson, that the absolute parts did not depend upon the legislative discretion.
Mr. Channing speaking of an act passed before the treaty, says, "this act was considered by our court, as annulled by the treaty of peace."
Governor Huntington says, "the courts of justice adopted the treaty as a principle of the law."
Mr. Lewis—"the judges have uniformly and without hesitation declared in favor of the treaty, on the ground of its being the supreme law of the land."
Mr. Monroe—"both court and counsel in Virginia, avowed the opinion, that the treaty would control any law of the state opposed to it."
The Senators and Representatives in Congress from Maryland, in a note to Mr. Jefferson inform him "that the legislature of Maryland enacted a law declaring the treaty the supreme law of the land, which was, they add, but a compliance in form with what had, in effect, taken place, immediately after the exchange of the ratifications of the definitive treaty."
William Tilghman, a lawyer of Maryland, writes as follows: "we have recognized the treaty as the law of the land, by a particular act of assembly, and our Judges have given one very striking proof of their impartiality in the construction of it. I allude to the decision of the general court in favor of British creditors, against a number of Maryland citizens, who, during the war deposited paper money in the treasury, under the sanction of a law, at that time existing, in satisfaction of their debts: whether the treaty should have such retropect as to avoid these payments was certainly a doubtful point." If these instances, an enumeration of which would have occasioned no "tedious research," (Mr. Jefferson having been at the pains of collecting them) do not dissipate the doubts of Camillus, if he really entertains any, neither will he believe, if one rise from the dead. It affords matter for serious reflection, that the talents of this gentleman, should be so strenuously exerted to traduce his country, when ample materials were at hand, not only for exculpation, but for eulogy and commendation. C.
From the Aenus.
THE DEFENCE.—No. VII.
THE SECOND ARTICLE of the treaty stipulates, that his Britannic majesty will withdraw all his troops and garrisons from all posts and places within the boundary lines assigned by the treaty of peace to the United States; and that this evacuation shall take
place on or before the first day of June, 1796; the United States in the mean time at their discretion, extending their settlements to any part within the said boundary line, except within the precincts or jurisdiction of any of the said posts—that all settlers and traders within the precincts or jurisdiction of the said posts, shall continue to enjoy, unmolested, all their property of every kind, and shall be protected therein; that they shall be at liberty to remain there, or to remove with all or any part of their effects; also to sell their lands, houses or effects, or to retain the property thereof at their discretion, that such of them as shall continue to reside within the said boundary lines, shall not be compelled to become citizens of the United States, but shall be at liberty to do so if they think proper, making and declaring their election within a year after the evacuation, and that those who should continue after the expiration of a year, without having declared their intention of their intention of remaining subjects of his Britannic majesty, shall be considered as having elected to become citizens of the United States.
This article, which accomplishes a primary object of our envoy's mission, and one of primary importance to the United States, has been as much clamoured against as if had made a formal cession of the posts to Great-Britain. On this point an uncommon degree of art has been exerted, and with no small success. The value of the principal thing obtained has been put out of light by misrepresentations of incidental circumstances.
But the fact is, nevertheless, that an object has been accomplished, of vast consequence to our country. The most important desiderata in our concerns with foreign powers are, the possession of the Western Posts, and a participation in the navigation of the river Mississippi. More or fewer of commercial privileges are of vastly inferior moment. The force of circumstances will do all we can reasonably wish in this respect, and in a short time, without any steps that may convulse our trade or endanger our tranquillity, will carry us to our goal.
The recovery of the Western Posts will have many important fides. It will extinguish a source of controversy with Great-Britain, which at a period, not distant, must have inevitably involved the two countries in war, and the thing was becoming every day, more and more urgent. It will enable us effectually to control the hostilities of the northern and western Indians, and in so doing will have a material influence on the southern tribes. It will therefore tend to rescue the country from what is at present its greatest scourge, INDIAN WARS. When we consider that these wars have, four years past, taken an extra million annually from our revenue; we cannot be insensible of the importance of terminating that source of expence. This million turned to the redemption of our debt, would contribute to complete its extinguishment in about twenty years. The benefits of tranquillity to our frontier, exempting its inhabitants from the complicated horrors of savage warfare, speak too loudly to our humanity, as well as to our policy, to need a commentary.
The advantages of the recovery of the Posts do not stop here; an extension of trade is to be added to the catalogue. This however need only be mentioned at this time, as it will come again into view in considering the third article.
But two consequences, not commonly adverted to, require particular notice in this place.
There is just ground of suspicion, corroborated by various concurring circumstances, that Great-Britain has entertained the project of contracting our boundaries to the Ohio. This has appeared in Canada—at the British garrisons—at the Indian towns—at Philadelphia, and at London. The surrender of the posts forever cuts up by the roots, this pernicious project. The whole of our western interests are immediately and deeply concerned in the question.
The harmonious and permanent connection of our western with our Atlantic country, materially depends on our possession of the Western Posts. Already had great discontent been engendered in that country by their detention. That discontent was increasing and rankling daily. It was actually one of the ailments of the insurrection in the western parts of Pennsylvania. While the posts remained in the hands of Great Britain, dangerous tamperings with the inhabitants of that country were to be apprehended—a community of views between Great-Britain and Spain might have taken place, and by force and sedition, events formidable to our general union might have been hazarded. The disposition or prevention of that community of views, is a point of the greatest moment in our system of national policy. It presses us to terminate differences, and extinguish misunderstandings with Great-Britain; it urges us to improve the favorable moment, and stamp with the charge of madness, the efforts, to let go the hold which the treaty, if mutually ratified, would give us.
Whoever will cast his eye upon the map of the United States, will survey the position of the Western posts, their relations to our western waters, and their general bearings upon our western country; and is at the same time capable of making the reflections, which an accurate view of the subject suggests, will discover multiplied confirmations of the position, that the possession of those posts by us, has an intimate connection with the preservation of union between our western and Atlantic territories; and whoever can appreciate the immense mischiefs of a disunion, will feel the prodigious value of the acquisition. To such a man, the question may be confidently put: Is there any thing in the treaty conceded by us to Great-Britain, to be placed in competition with this single acquisition? The answer could not fail to be in the negative.
But it is said by way of objection, that admitting the posts will be surrendered at the time stipulated, it is no acquisition by this treaty; it is only the enjoyment of a right which was secured by the treaty of peace.
With as much good sense might it be said, that the stipulation of reparation for the spoliations of our property, or even immediate actual reparation, if it had been obtained, was nothing gained; because the laws of nations gave us a right to such reparation? and it might in this way be proved to have been impossible for our envoy to have effected any thing useful or meritorious.
Let us see what is the real state of the case. Great-Britain had engaged by the treaty of peace, to surrender the Western Posts with all convenient speed; but without fixing a precise time. For the cause, or on the pretext of our not having complied with the treaty on our part, especially in not removing the impediments which the antecedent laws of particular states, opposed to the recovery of British debts, she delayed, and afterwards refused to make the surrender; and when our envoy left this country, there was too much appearance of an intention on her part, to detain them indefinitely, and this after having actually kept them ten years. The treaty of peace was consequently in this particular suspended, if not superseded. It was either to be re-enacted by a new agreement, or enforced by arms. The first our envoy has effected; he has brought Great-Britain to abandon the dispute, and to fix a precise determinate time when at furthest the posts are to be delivered up. It is therefore to this new agreement, that we shall owe the enjoyment of them, and it is of course, entitled to the merit of having obtained them; it is a positive ingredient in its value, which cannot be taken from it; and it may be added, that this is the first time that the merit of producing it is a rough calculation, but it cannot materially err.
caring, by negotiation, restitution of a right withheld was ever denied to the instrument which procured it.
But the picture given of the situation of Great-Britain to warrant the inferences which are drawn, is exaggerated and false. It cannot be denied that she is triumphant on the ocean; that the acquisitions which she has made upon France, are hitherto greater than those which France has made upon her. If, on the one hand, she owes an immense debt, on the other she possesses an immense credit, which there is no symptom of being impaired.—British credit has become in a British mind, an article of faith, and is no longer an object of reason. How long it may last, how far it may go, is incalculable. But it is evident, that it still affords prodigious resources, and that it is likely for some time to come, to continue to afford them. In addition to this, it is a well ascertained fact, that her government possesses, internally, as much vigor, and has as much national support, as it perhaps ever had at any former period of her history. Alarmed by the unfortunate excesses in France, most men of property cling to the government, and carry with them the great bulk of the nation, almost the whole of the farming interest, and much the greatest proportion of other industrious classes. Her manufactures, though probably wounded by the war, are still in a comparative flourishing condition. They subsist not only for her own supply, but for the full extent of foreign demand, and the markets for them have not been materially contracted by the war.—Her foreign commerce continues to be immense; as a specimen of it, it may be mentioned, that the ships from India this year, announced to have been seen upon or near the British coast, amounted to 35 in number, computed to be worth between four and five millions sterling. It is no light circumstance in the estimate of her resources, that a vast preponderancy in that quarter of the globe continues to nourish her wealth and power.
If from a view of Great-Britain singly we pass to a view of her in her foreign connections, we shall find no cause to consider her as a prostrate nation. Among her allies, are the two greatest powers of Europe, (France excepted) namely, Russia and Austria, or the Emperor: Spain and Sardinia continue to make a common cause with her. There is no power of Europe which has displayed a more uniform character of perseverance than Austria; for which she has very strong motives on the present occasion. Russia, too, is remarkable for her steadiness to her purpose, whatever it may be. It is true, that heretofore she has not discovered much zeal in the coalition, but there are symptoms of her becoming more closely and cordially engaged. If she does, she is a great weight in the scale.
Against this will be set the astonishing victories, heroic exploits, and vast armies of France, her rapid conquests to the Rhine, the total reduction of Holland, the progress of her arms in Spain and Italy, the detaching of the king of Prussia from the coalition, and the prospect of detaching some others of the German princes; and it will be added that the continental enemies of France appear exhausted, despairing and unable to continue the war.
This, if offered only to show that there is no probability that the enemies of France can succeed in the original object of the war against her, or can divert her of her acquisitions on the continent, has all the force that may be desired to be given to it; but when it is used to prove that the situation of Great-Britain is so desperate and humbled as to oblige her to receive from France, or the United States, any conditions which either of them may think fit to impose, the argument is carried infinitely too far. It is one thing for a country to be in a posture not to receive the law from others, and a very different thing for her to be in a situation which obliges others to receive the law from her, and what is still stronger, from all her friends. France evidently cannot annoy Russia—the can, with great difficulty, from their geographical position, make any further acquisitions upon the territories of Austria. Britain and her possessions are essentially safe, while she maintains a decided maritime superiority. As long as this is the case, even supposing her abandoned by all her allies, she never can be in the situation which is pretended by the opposers of the treaty.
But in describing the situation of France, only one side of the medal is presented. There is another side far less flattering, and which, in order to a just conclusion, must be impartially viewed.
If the allies of Great-Britain are fatigued and exhausted, France cannot be in a better condition. The efforts of the latter, in proportion to intrinsic resources, have no doubt been much greater than those of the former. It is a consequence from this, physically certain, that France must be still more fatigued and exhausted even than her adversaries. Her acquisitions cannot materially vary this conclusion: the low countries, long the theatre of the war, must have been pretty well emptied before they fell into her hands. Holland is an artificial power; her life and strength were in her credit; this perished with her reduction. Accordingly the losses extracted from her, compared with the scale of the war, have been insignificant.
But it is conjectured, that as much has not been done as might have been done; that restitution of the posts has not been procured, but only a promise to restore them at a remote period, in exchange for a former promise, which had been violated. That there is no good ground of reliance upon the fulfilment of this new promise, for the performance of which there ought to have been some surety or guarantee. That the restitution of the posts ought to have been accompanied with indemnification for the detention, and for the expenses of the Indian wars which have been occasioned by that detention, and by the intrigues of British intrigue. That it was better to go to war than to relinquish our claim to such indemnification; or if our present circumstances did not recommend this, it was better to wait till it was more convenient to us to enforce our claims, than to give them up. These are the declarations by which this part of the treaty is arraigned. Let us see if they are the random effusions of enthusiasm, or the rational dictates of sound policy.
As to the suggestion, that more might have been done without a war, it must of necessity be mere conjecture and imagination. If the picture given of the situation of Great-Britain, was better justified,

ed by facts that it is, it would not follow that the
ing... tion is true, or the thing would depend not
on the real situation of that country, but on the o-
pinion entertained of it by its own administration,
on the personal character of the prince and of his
council; on the degree in which they were influ-
enced by pride and passion, or by reason. The
hypothesis, that the dispositions of a government
are conformable with its situation, is as fallacious
as one can be entertained. It is to suppose, coun-
trary to every days experience, that cabinets are
always wise. It is, on the part of those who draw
the inference, to suppose, that a cabinet, the
most violent, rash, and foolish of Europe, is at the
same time moderate and prudent enough to act ac-
cording to the true situation of the country. Who
of our enthusiasts, reasoning from his view of the a-
bused condition of Great Britain, has not long since
imagined that the ought to be on her knees to France
suing for mercy and forgiveness? Yet how different
hitherto is the fact. If we carefully peruse the
speeches of the leading members of the Convention,
we shall observe the menaces against Britain frequent-
ly interpersed with invitations to peace. While
the British Government maintains a proud and dis-
tant reserve, repels every idea of peace, and inflex-
ibly pursues the path of war. If the situation of
Europe in general, and of Great Britain in particu-
lar, as is pretended, authorized us to expect what-
ever we chose, how happens it, that France with
all her victories has not yet been able to extort
peace?
As to the true position of France, we are not
left to mere inference. All the official reports,
all the private accounts from thence acknowl-
dge a state of extreme embarrassment and distress; an
alarming derangement of the finances, and a scarcity
not distant from famine. To this are to be added,
a continuance of violent and destructive conflicts of
parties, and the unextinguished embers of insurrec-
tion.
This fair comparison of the relative situation of
the contending parties will, I know, be stigmatized
as blazoning the strength and resources of Great
Britain, and depreciating the advantages of France.
But the exact phrases of party cannot alter the na-
ture of truth—nor will they prevent the people of
the United States from listening impartially to it,
or from discerning that it is a mark of fidelity to
their interests to counteract misrepresentation, by
placing facts fairly before them, and a duty which
they owe to the nation, and which they cannot om-
mit to perform without betraying their own inter-
ests, to receive them candidly, and weigh them ma-
turely.
The conclusion is, that all those highly charged
declarations which describe Great Britain to us as
vanquished and humbled; as ready to pass under
the yoke as command, and to submit to any condi-
tions which we may think fit to prescribe, are either
the chimeras of overheated imaginations, or the
fabrication of impostures; and if listened to, can
have no other effect than to inspire a delusive pre-
sumption, and a dangerous temerity.
But to judge the better of the extravagance of
these declarations, it will be useful to go back to
the periods when the negotiation began and ended.
Our envoy arrived in England and entered upon the
business of his mission, at the moment when there
was a general elation on account of the naval victo-
ry gained by Lord Howe, and previous to those
important successes, which have terminated in the
conquest of Holland; and the treaty was concluded
by the 9th of November last, prior to the last-
mentioned event, and to the defection of the king
of Prussia. The posture of things at the time it
was in negotiation, and not at this time, is the
standard by which to try its merits; and it may be
observed, that it is probable the negotiation receiv-
ed its first impression, and even its general outline
anterior to the principal part of the disasters sus-
tained by the coalesced powers in the course of the
last campaign.
It may not be improper to add, that if we credit
the representations of our envoy, Great Britain
manifested similar dispositions with regard to the
treaty at the commencement as at the close of the
negotiation: whence it will follow, that too much
has been attributed in this country to the victories
of France.
The subject of the second article will be resum-
ed and concluded in the next number.
CAMILLUS.
Philadelphia, August 14.
A Citizen who attended the late Town-Meeting
(altho he was prevented from either speaking or vot-
ing agreeable to his judgment,) thinks he has a
right to know the answer which the President has
given to those doings. He therefore presents his
compliments to the Chairman Dr. Shippen and desires
to be informed why he suppresses that answer, which
report says was delivered to him several days ago.
Philadelphia, August 13th 1795.
AT a meeting at Peterburgh, Virginia, August
1, the Treaty was reprobated and condemned in
a series of resolutions, which concludes with the
following:
Resolved, That the minority of the Senate, who
opposed their ratification of the Treaty with Great
Britain, are entitled to the thanks of their coun-
try; and that the Senators from this state have jus-
tified the confidence reposed in them by their con-
stituents.
Resolved, That the patriotic boldness and mag-
nanimous independence of STEPHENS THOMPSON
MASON, in having caused the publication of the
Treaty aforesaid, deserves the most grateful incense
that can be offered to a generous mind the praise
of Republicans.
of steps to a Portico supported by six Columns of
the Corinthian Order, of 3 1-2 feet diameter,
to stand in pairs at the corners, with an interco-
lumniation for the other Columns of about two di-
ameters; the Capitals will be proper but the deco-
rations are to be as plain as the rules of this elegant
order will admit.
The principal elevation will be ornamented by
ten Pilasters, forming seven recesses for the door and
windows; over which will be placed as ornaments
for the frieze, between ornamented trusses, or con-
soles, the fasces, or five rods bound by cross fillets,
the ancient emblem of union and strength, and in
direct allusion to the five Branches of the Bank.
The whole front will be of White Marble, but the
principal part of the Work being plain and square,
and the materials collected near at hand, it will not
be very expensive.
Extract of a letter from the western part of Massa-
chusetts, dated August 6.
What a flock of enlightened wisdom and repub-
lican moderation our brethren, in fame of the cities
and seaports, have exhibited on the subject of the
Treaty!! but have they not been rather over-reach-
ed, by suffering party rage and passion to operate
so precipitately? What honest, candid man, but
must be convinced that it was predetermined by the
Jacobins of this country to condemn the Treaty,
without regard to its merits or demerits? Their
proceedings evince this so clearly, that to attempt
further demonstration of the fact would be superflu-
ous. Judge Dawes, in the Boston town-meeting,
made an observation, that it might have been sup-
posed would have caused the wise mass to have hung
their heads, and had reddened the cheeks of their
declamatory leaders with the blush of shame. The
Judge observed that "he wanted time, and sup-
posed that other people who had no better means of
information than himself, wanted time also for con-
sideration." No one, possessed of the least particle
of consideration, can entertain the idea that 14 out
of the 15 hundred Senate of Boston, had better
means of information, or were more capable of
judging of the merits of the Treaty, than Judge
Dawes; to suppose the contrary of this, would
sacrifice decency and common sense. It is some
consolation to the friends of order, republicanism,
and good government, to know that the meeting
in Boston (full as it was) did not include the major-
ity of the inhabitants of the town: thirty-three
hundred have heretofore assembled together on some
important occasions, where they could do it with
propriety, and consistent with their respect for that
government which they had chosen for the protec-
tion of their rights, and not in contra distinction to
the power which they had vested in their chosen
rulers.
We have received an account of the Charlestown,
S.C. meeting; and while we lament that the in-
fluence of Boston fanaticism has extended so far, all
who have any knowledge of certain orators, are will-
ing to give full credit to their patriotism—even sup-
posing the "bon patriots" to be thousands in debt
to British creditors; even supposing this to be the
fact (I am far from asserting it) why could they
not as conscientiously wish for a rejection of the trea-
ty, and a war with Britain, as any other persons?
Some harangue about their "respect and love for
the President," who, if they decorated their coats
with crops on the event of his exit, it is shrewdly
suspected they would wear the garb of hypocrisy.
In Charlestown, as in other places where precipi-
tate and tumultuous assemblies have been held, it
seems that the majority of the mercantile interest
were in favor of the treaty.
For the GAZETTE of the UNITED STATES.
MR. FENNO,
I PROMISED in my preceding publication, to
send you some observations on the 2d article of Mr.
Jay's treaty. By this article, the settlers and tra-
ders within the precincts or jurisdiction of the posts,
now held by the British within the boundary lines
of the United States, may remove with all their
effects; they may sell their lands, houses or effects,
or retain the property thereof, at their discretion.
Such of them as shall continue to reside within
those boundary lines, may remain British subjects
if they choose, or become citizens of the United
States—in the latter case they are bound to take
the oath of allegiance.
To form a just idea of the possible extent of the
landed property of these people, it will be necessa-
ry to recur to the treaty of peace between us and
Great Britain. By that treaty, Detroit became a
part of the United States; and had we then gained
possession of it, its inhabitants would doubtless have
been considered as citizens. Or if any preferred
remaining British subjects, they must have been
debarred all the privileges of citizenship. But whet-
her citizens or British subjects, the treaty of peace
secured to them all their landed and other property;
and Mr. Jay's treaty does no more. Will it be
said that since the treaty of peace they may have
purchased immense tracts of land of the Indians,
and that these also will be held under Mr. Jay's
treaty? The idea is perfectly groundless.
By the first article of the treaty of peace, Great-
Britain cedes and relinquishes to the United States,
all claim to the government proprietary and ter-
ritorial rights of the same, and every part thereof;
consequently, the lands of the British subjects with-
in the precincts or jurisdiction of Detroit, and any
other British posts within the territory of the Unit-
ed States, can be of no greater extent now, than
they were at the treaty of peace. If the king of
Great Britain, or any of his governors or officers,
have since made grants of lands within the bound-
aries of the United States, (a thing not proba-
ble) such grants are mere nullities. The lands so
attempted to be granted, being by that treaty the
absolute property of the United States, the British
subjects could not afterwards acquire any property
in them; and consequently they cannot hold them
by Mr. Jay's treaty.
One word concerning the inhabitants of Detroit.
They are chiefly French, with whom it is to be
presumed we shall find no difficulty in fraternizing;
and of the others, whether originally Americans or
English, Scotch or Irish, many, and probably the
majority, are already well disposed towards the
United States, and eager to enjoy all the advan-
tages of our free government and citizenship. The
residue can be but a small remnant: some of them
may perhaps cross over to the British side of the
line; and others remain for the purposes of trade
at Detroit. These cannot possibly excite uneas-
iness, any more than the British subjects, whom,
for the like purpose, we freely admit into all our
seaports.
A FREEHOLDER.
Philadelphia, August 13, 1795.
STOCKS.
Six per Cent. - - - - - 12 1/2
Three per Cent. - - - - - 11 1/2
Deferred Six per Cent. - - - - - 14 1/2
BANK United States, - - - - - 35 pr. Cent.
North America, - - - - - 50
Pennsylvania, - - - - - 30
INSURANCE COMPANY North America, 30
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NEWARK, August 12.
The late freshet has been unparalleled within the
memory of the oldest man living in these parts of
the state. So great a fall of rain within so short a
space of time as happened on Monday the 3d inst.
has perhaps seldom been known at any season of the
year, but never been recollected at the present.—
The rise of the river Passaic was sudden, owing no
doubt to the bursting of the dams of the large mill
ponds in Morris county.
At Patterson the overflowing of the river below
the falls was not as progressive as in former freshets,
but almost instantaneous—the greatest height of the
river has exceeded any former freshets within the
memory of the oldest inhabitant by seven inches.—
The rapidity of the current prevented the flood from
making at the mouth of the river for six days, and
the navigation was for some time impeded. It is
impossible to ascertain or estimate the damage that
has been sustained. Some thousand tons of hay have
been either totally swept away by the current or de-
stroyed by the mud deposited in the meadow grounds.
Timber and slaves, and fencing stuff along the mar-
gin of the Passaic, have been floated off in immense
quantities. Many Farmers along the low lands,
have not only lost all their hay, but likewise their
wheat, rye and oats, and buckwheat in the field.
What with the loss of the farmers and injury done
to mill seats, forges, &c. the total damage in these
parts may not be computed at less than One Hundred
Thousand Pounds.
During this breaking up of the fountains of heaven
the falls at Paterson presented an object truly grand
and terrific—the column of water above the falls
rose at least twelve feet perpendicular higher than
the common level of the river—the pressure of this
vast body of water, afforded to the spectator a
picture of the force and power of water not often
presented—the river not only overflowed its usual
boundaries, but at this place overflowed a large pro-
portion of the vast chasm between the stupendous
walls of rock, which form the Falls, and the waters
returning on the opposite side, united again midway
in one vast cataract of boiling foam.
above the bridge—it nearly overflowed the latter,
which is raised at least 14 feet above the bed of the
river. The low lands on each side of the Passaic,
from its source to its mouth were overflowed in such
manner as rendered all travelling along the post
road from this town impracticable for some days.
The water began to rise with the greatest force on
Tuesday, and were nearly stationary all Wednesday
—on Thursday they began to abate, and fell about
14 inches—on Friday more considerably, but the
river did not return to its usual confines until Mon-
day last.
Amidst all the distress occasioned by the flood
we are happy to learn that the works of the manu-
facturing Society at Paterson have sustained little or
no damage, except the printing mill and materials,
which have been considerably injured. As the wa-
ters have subsided, we have great reason to fear a
very sickly autumn in consequence of the exhalation
arising from the putrefactive deposits of the freshets.
Every timely precaution ought to be exerted to
drain off, where possible, the stagnant waters, and
remove dead carcasses of animals and left or other
putrescent matter.
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THE following Certificates of the Funded Debt of
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Register of the Treasury of the said United States,
in the name of Patrick Henry of London, to wit.
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August 14.
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The Curious Prophecies of
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11. Resolutions of the citizens of Boston.
12. Address of the citizens of Portsmouth.
13. Resolutions of the citizens of New York.
14. Memorial of the citizens of Philadelphia.
15. Report of the Charleston committee.
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18. New Jersey petition.
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21. Address of the merchants of New York.
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23. Observations on the extent of the President's power
with respect to treaties.
24. Curtius's Vindication of Mr. Jay's treaty, in twelve
numbers.
25. British proclamation, November 6th 1793.
26. Ditto ditto January, 1794.
27. Lord Dorchester's reply to the Indians.
28. Commercial resolutions moved for by Mr. Madison.
29. Mr. Dayton's resolution for the sequestration of Bri-
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30. Resolutions moved for by Mr. Abraham Clarke, for
suspending the intercourse with Britain.
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A Revealed Knowledge of the Prophecies
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the prophecy now fulfilling. Containing, with other great
and remarkable things not revealed to any other person on
Earth, the sudden and perpetual fall of the TURKISH, GER-
MAN and RUSSIAN empires. Wrote under the direction
of the Lord God, and published by his sacred command;
it being a second sign of warning for the benefit of all na-
tions; by the man that will be revealed to the Hebrews as
their Prince and Prophet. The year of the World 582.
By RICHARD BROTHERS.
FROM the following Extracts the Public will be enabled to form a
judgment of this work.
"A man that has been an officer in the Navy, whose im-
mediate ancestors have been separated from the Jews for
such a considerable length of time as to make them forget
they ever belonged to the name, in a man declaring him-
self openly to the world a prophet of God, the revealed
prince allotted to order the sudden return of the Hebrews
from all nations, and govern them in the land of Israel, will,
with some reason I allow, excite both astonishment and a
doubt; but from the multiplied recorded testimonies I
produce, which no one on earth can, it ought not to be
wondered with any person as a just objection against believing
what I write."
"The prophet Daniel, chapter 8, verse 8. And four
gr at beaks came up of the sex, different from one an-
other. 4. The West was like a Lion, and it had Eagle's
wings. I beheld till the wings were plucked, when it
was lifted up on the Earth, and made to stand on the feet
as a man: and a man's heart was given to it."

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1. A Geographical Index, with the names and places a phonetically arranged. 2. A Table of the Coins of all nations, and their value in dollars and cents. 3. A Chronological Table of remarkable events, from the Creation to the present time. By WILLIAM GUTHRIE, Esq. The Astronomical part by James Ferguson, F. R. S. Corrected by Dr. David Rittenhouse. To which are added, the late Discoveries of Dr. Herschel, and other eminent Astronomers. The FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, corrected, improved, and greatly enlarged. Containing the following
MAPS and PLATES. 1 Map of the World 23 Hindostan 2 Chart of the World 24 Africa 3 Europe 25 United States 4 Countries round the North Pole 26 British Dominions in America 5 Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland 27 West Indies 6 Russia 28 Province of Maine 7 Scotland 29 New Hampshire 8 England and Wales 30 Massachusetts 9 Ireland 31 Connecticut 10 France 32 Rhode Island 11 Seat of War 33 Vermont 12 Seven United Provinces 34 New York 13 Austrian, French and Dutch Netherlands 35 New Jersey 14 Germany 36 Pennsylvania 15 Switzerland 37 Delaware 16 Poland 38 Maryland 17 Spain and Portugal 39 Virginia 18 Italy 40 Kentucky 19 Turkey in Europe 41 North Carolina 20 Asia 42 Tennessee government 21 Discoveries made by captains Cooke and Clerke. 43 South Carolina 44 Georgia 45 Copernican system 46 Armillary sphere 22 China The Maps marked with stars are added to this edition, exclusive of those in the last London edition.
The United States Register for 1795, Price 50 Cents. CONTENUTS. Calendar, with the necessary Boundaries of the United States, &c. &c.
GOVERNMENT. Supreme Executive List of the Officers Legislature Statement of Exports Judiciary Public Debt Department of State Pay, &c. of the army Department of the Treasury Mint Establishment Commissioners of Loans Rules for reducing the currencies of the different Officers of the Customs States to a par with each other Revenue Cutters Tables of the number of cents and decimal parts in any number of shillings and pence less than a dollar in the currencies of the different states Light Houses Tables showing the value of dollars in the currencies of the different states Officers of the Excise Tables of the number of cents and decimal parts in any number of shillings and pence less than a dollar in the currencies of the different states Duties on domestic objects Duties on tonnage Drawbacks, &c. and regulations to be observed in obtaining them General Abstract from the revenue laws, relating to the duty of masters of vessels, of the owners, &c. of goods, and the officers of the customs; to the payment of duties, and the importation of goods Expences of Government for 1794 Department of War STATE GOVERNMENTS.
New Hampshire South-Carolina Vermont Georgia Massachusetts Order of time in which the several States adopted the Federal Constitution Connecticut Table of the Sun's rising and setting New-York Abstract of goods, wares, and merchandise exported from the United States New-Jersey from the 1st of October '90, to 30th Sept. 1791. Pennsylvania 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 criterion of its merit.] Delaware Maryland Virginia Kentucky North-Carolina
EXTRACT FROM THE CRITICAL REVIEW, APRIL 1791. 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, or the regularity of her former conduct, is enticed from her governess, and accompanied a young officer to America--the marriage ceremony, if not forgotten, is postponed, and Charlotte dies a martyr to the inconstancy of her lover and treachery of her friend." The situation are artless and affecting--the description 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. If it is a fiction, poetic justice is not, we think, properly distributed." 1. The Inquisitor--by Mrs. Rowson. Second Philadelphia edition. 87 1 2 cents. 2. Adventures of Roderick Random. 2 vols. 1 dollar and 50 cents, coarse paper--1 dollar and 75 cents fine. 3. Notes on the State of Virginia--by Thomas Jefferson. Price neatly bound, one dollar and a half. 4. History of the French Revolution, from its commencement to the death of the Queen and the execution of Brissot. 2 vols. 1 dollar. 5. Plowden's History of the British Empire, from May 1792, to December 1793. 1 dollar and a quarter--[This is an interesting and valuable publication as has appeared for many years.] 6. Beattie's Elements of Moral Science. 2 vols. One dollar and three quarters. July 8 84 3/4 25 N
CANAL LOTTERY.
SCHEME of a Lottery authorized by an act entitled "An act to enable the President and Managers of the Schuylkill and Susquehanna Navigation; and the President and Managers of the Delaware and Schuylkill Canal Navigation; to raise by way of Lottery, the sum of four hundred thousand dollars, for the purpose of completing the works in their acts of incorporation mentioned."
1 Prize of 50,000 dollars is 50,000 1 30,000 5 20,000 to be paid to the possessors of the tickets of the five last drawn numbers, 1 15,000 2 10,000 6 2,500 1 2,000 to be paid to the possessor of the ticket of the first drawn number, 10 2,000 20 1,000 40 500 100 100 10,500 12 198,000 16,687 Prizes, 500,000 33,313 Blanks, 50,000 tickets at 10 dollars each, 500,000
All Prizes shall be paid ten days after the drawing is finished, upon the demand of the possessor of a fortunate Ticket, subject to the deduction of fifteen per cent.
Such prizes as are not demanded in 12 months after the drawing is finished, of which public notice will be given, shall be considered as relinquished for the use of the Canal, and applied accordingly.
At a meeting of the President and Managers of the Schuylkill and Susquehanna Canal navigation--and the President and Managers of the Delaware and Schuylkill Canal, Wednesday, May 13, 1795.
Resolved, That David Rittenhouse, Joseph Ball, John Steinmetz, Standish Forde, and Francis West, be a Committee to arrange and direct the mode of disposing of the Tickets; which Committee shall deposit the Money in Bank, to be carried to the credit of an account to be opened for the Lottery.
Extract from the Minutes, F. MATLACK, Sec'y.
The drawing of this Lottery will positively commence on the first day of September next:-- Tickets may be had at the Company's Office near the Bank of the United States, and of either of the subscribers.
DAVID RITTENHOUSE, JOSEPH BALL, JOHN STEINMETZ, STANDISH FORDE, FRANCIS WEST. Managers.
Scheme of a Lottery,
Term 39,900 Dollars, on 266,000 Dollars (Deducting 15 per Cent. from the Prizes) This Lottery consists of 39,900 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, agreeable 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 Harrifon, Abijah Hammond, and Cornelius Ray, of the city of New-York--Thomas Witting, Joseph Ball, Matthew M c Connel and Andrew Bayard, of the city of Philadelphia--His Excellency Richard Howell, Esq. Elias Boudinot, General Elias Dayton, James Parker, John Bayard, Doctor Lewis Donham, Samuel W. Stockton, Joshua M c Waal, 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 due care 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 5,000 10,000 5 2,000 10,000 10 1,000 10,000 20 500 10,000 100 100 10,000 300 50 15,000 1000 20 20,000 2000 15 30,000 3000 12 36,000 8500 10 18,000 14,539 Prizes, 262,000 23,461 Blanks. First drawn number, 2,000 Last drawn number, 2,000
38,000 Tickets at 7 Dollars each 266,000
The drawing will commence, under the inspection of a Committee of the Superintendents, as soon as the Tickets are sold, of which timely notice will be given.
The Superintendents have appointed John N. Cumming of New-York, Jacob R. Hardenbergh, 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 5,000 dollars, with four sufficient sureties, to perform their instructions, the instance of which is
1. That whenever either of the Managers shall receive the sum of Three Hundred Dollars, he shall immediately place the same in one of the Banks of New-York or Philadelphia, to the credit of the Governor of the Society, and such of the Superintendents as are in the city where the monies are placed, to remain there until the Lottery is drawn, for the payment of the Prizes. II. The Managers to take sufficient security for any Tickets they may sell, otherwise to be responsible for them. III. To keep regular books of Tickets sold, Monies received and paid into the Bank, abstracts of which shall be sent, monthly, to the Governor of the Society. Paterson, January 1, 1794. On application to either of the above gentlemen, information will be given where tickets may be had.
A T a Meeting of the Stockholders in the Insurance Company of the State of Pennsylvania, on the 25th May last, convened for the purpose of fixing the time of payment of the remaining part of the Capital Stock of said Company
Resolved, that the remaining sum of two hundred dollars per share, be paid on the 6th day of November next, under the penalties annexed to default by the act of Incorporation.
Published by order of the Meeting, SAMUEL W. FISHER, Sec'y
June 27 91 N 56
JUST PUBLISHED, In one volume octavo, price one dollar and an half, The Federal Politician. To be sold by the following principal Booksellers in this city--F. & R. Bailey, Matthew Carey, John Ormerod, Thomas Stephens, William Woodhouse, and at the office of the Aurora. Aug. 8 48 3/4
NEW HOSIERY. BARTHOLOMEW CONOLLY, At his HOSIERY STORE, No. 48 Chestnut Street, RESPECTFULLY informs his Friends and the Public in general, that he has just received by the ship Liberty from Liverpool, a further supply of Men's & Women's Silk and Cotton HOSIERY.
Among which are a very extensive assortment of Gentlemen's plain white, fancy, and patent Silk, superfine fancy plated silk and cotton, fine white, plain, and ribbed cotton--a very large assortment of fancy Patent and fine random fancy cotton, &c. which he will sell upon the most reasonable terms by the dozen or single pair.
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A General Assortment of every other article of DRY GOODS, newly imported. Those gentlemen who please to favor B. C. with their commands, will meet with, at his store, a most elegant, extensive, and well chosen assortment of every description of Hosiery! Also, a great Variety of
Gentlemen's Out-fits.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, Revenue Office, April 27, 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, dimension, 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 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 caped 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 sashes are to be hung with hinges, and each sash 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, plank 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 be 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 a 1-2 inches above. The lantern is to be ten feet high 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 sashes, which are to be moulded on the inside and struck solid. Each sash is to have twenty eight panes of glass, fourteen by twelve inches. A part of the sash on the south west side is to be hung with hinges for a convenient door to go out on the platform. The rafter 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 stove 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 story 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 sash 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 expence, for a sum to be agreed upon, and to execute the before described work and every part thereof in a good and workman-like manner. Convenient payments or advances, on security will be made. April 27. m & th tf
ALL Persons indebted to the Estate of Alexander Ritchie, deceased, are requested to make immediate payment to the subscribers; and those who have demands against said estate, are requested to bring in their accounts and receive payment.
FRANCIS GURNEY, ROBERT SMITH, DANIEL SMITH, Executors. Philadelphia, July 27, 1795. 3tawim
JAMES YARD Has for sale, at his store on Walnut-Street wharf, St. Croix Rum and Sugar of Superior quality. St. Domingo Indigo. Laguira and St. Domingo Hides. 100 Pockets of fine Cotton. JUST PUBLISHED, And to be had at B. DAVIES'S Book-Store, No. 68 High-Street. DEL PINO'S Spanish Grammar, To which is added, an English Grammar, for the use of Spaniards. At the same place may be had, a few copies of Boyer's French & English Dictionary.
SHOT, Of all sizes, from 32 lb to Grape, Cartridges, Pots, and other castings executed at the shortest notice. Nail rods, from 1 rod to spike, Hoop iron, of all sizes, for cakes or cutting into nails, from a braid to 12d nails, Anchors, from 17 Cwt. to 100lb, Bar iron, A Quantity of James River Tobacco, Carolina Pork, Herrings in barrels, Kiln-dried corn meal in Hds. and Bbls., Rye flour &c. to be sold by Levi Hollingsworth & Son.
THE subscriber offers for sale, a FARM, containing about 300 acres, distant from the City of Washington and George Town between 8 or 10 miles. A Plot of this Estate in the hands of Mr. Peter Casanova of George Town, likewise of Mr. Thomas Fitzsimmons, in Philadelphia, and Mr. Robert Walb, in Baltimore. The Land will be shown to any person, by applying to John Lydam, who lives thereon. It lies in a most healthy country, and a good neighborhood. There are on it a common country dwelling-house, a large tobacco-house, and an orchard of good fruit, a constant stream with a great fall runs thro' it, and between 30 or 40 acres of good meadow may be easily made. The lines of the above include about 40 acres of woodland. Convenient credits will be afforded to the purchaser if desired. DANIEL CARROLL. Montgomery County, June 3, 1795. N. B. The land lies between two merchant mills, one distant but a mile, the other almost adjoining. June 15. 48 3/4
COLLEGE OF NEW-JERSEY. MAY 26, 1795. ADVERTISEMENT. THE Grammar School formerly attached to this College, having gradually declined through the increasing infirmities of the late President for some time before his death, it is proposed by the subscriber immediately to revive it, and to put it under the most careful instruction and government. The Latin, Greek, and French Languages shall be taught in it, together with the principles of English Grammar, of Geography, and practical Geometry. Parents, likewise, who do not chuse that their children should go through the entire course of studies in the College, may now have them instructed in any particular branches in the same manner, on the same terms, and to the same extent as in the College--particularly in the antiquities and mythology of Rome, in Geography, in the Mathematics, in Natural Philosophy and Astronomy, in Moral Philosophy and the Principles of Civil Government, in Eloquence, and in the Elements of History. They may address their children to any of the Masters in the College, or to SAMUEL S. SMITH. N. B. The young gentlemen shall be under the same rules of moral discipline as the other students--shall be subjected to public examinations, and, at leaving the College, shall be entitled to public testimonials of the branches they have studied, and of their proficiency in them. P. S. The School is already opened, and under the direction of Mr. Scott.
William Young, Bookbinder and Stationer, corner of Chestnut and 2d Street, No. 52. Has just received a large and excellent assortment of Stationery articles, amongst which are WRITING, DRAWING, and PRINTING PAPERS, &c. Superfine Imperial, Superfine extra large folio, Ditto do. wove, Ditto do. flat, Superfine folio, Superfine super royal, Superfine extra large thick and thin to roll, plain, Superfine common, Superfine royal, Superfine do. wove, Superfine small post, folio & quarto, Common & reeve, gilt and plain, Superfine foolscap, Superfine do. wove and gilt, Superfine do. 23, & 3, Superfine do. wove, Transparent folio post, for tracing maps, &c. &c. Common and fine glazed wafers in boxes from 2 ounces to 10 pounds each, Superfine sealing wax, common do. 500 Reams Royal Printing Paper, for Newspapers. COARSE PAPERS. London Brown assorted, log-book paper, hatter's paper, flannel's paper, common brown, patent sheathing paper, bonnet boards, binder's boards. Also, a variety of Wedgewood, and cut and plain glass philosophical ink-stands, well assorted; pewter ink-stands of various sizes; round pewter ink-stands, paper, beads, and polished leather ink-stands, for the socket. Shining sand and sand-boxes, pounce and pounce boxes, ink, ink powder, black leather and red morocco pocket books, with and without instruments, of various sizes. Counting-houses and pocket knives of the best quality, also skin tablet memorandum books. Quills, from half a dollar, to three dollars per hundred, Black lead pencils, mathematical instruments, &c. &c. All sorts of blank books ready made or made to order. Bank checks, blank bills of exchange, and notes of hand executed in copper-plates, Tomkins copper-plate copies, bills of lading, manifests, seamen's articles and journals, &c. &c. A well selected collection of law books: Also, of Greek, Latin, and English classics, are now in use in the colleges and schools of the United States. June 30. W & S 6 W
ENGLISH CHEESE. JUST imported, and in excellent order, a Quantity of DOUBLE GLOUCESTER CHEESES for sale, whole or by the single cheese, by GILL & HENSHAW, No. 128 South Water Street. ALSO, Bottle Porter, for exportation, taverns, or family use, Port Wine, in cases of one doz. each, Brandy, Rum, Gin, &c. August 1 45 3/4
NO. 60 South Second Street. THE Wholesale and Retail Store for BOOKS, STATIONERY, MUSIC, PRINTS, OIL PAINTINGS, DRAWING BOOKS, and Fancy articles. THOMAS STEPHENS, For the greater convenience of conducting his business, has removed from No. 57, to No. 60 South Second Street, on the north side--where he has received by the last arrivals, an extensive collection of useful Books, and the best Stationery. Also, a variety of New Music, Banbury's curious Caricatures, Prints, Oil Paintings, Drawing Books, &c. &c. all which he will sell, as usual, for a small profit. T. S. embraces this opportunity to acknowledge the liberal encouragement he has always experienced from the citizens of Philadelphia--returns his most sincere thanks, and pledges himself to constant exertions to merit continued favor, and to have his store in a place for elegant and useful literature. June 27.