Gazette of the United States and daily evening advertiser. (Philadelphia [Pa.]), 1795-05-07 00:00:00

Gazette of the United States AND DAILY EVENING ADVERTISER.
[No. 108 of Vol. VII.]
THURSDAY, MAY 7, 1795.
[Whole No. 831.]
FOR SALE, FREIGHT, or CHARTER, The Brigantine POMONA,
Built in the best manner last Autumn at Kennington, of LIVE OAK & RED CEDAR, is in complete order, and may be sent to sea without any expense (provisions excepted).
For terms apply to EDWARD DUNANT, No. 35 Union Street.
TO BE SOLD, The Schooner ELIZABETH,
Philip Ritter Master, (Just arrived from St. Martins) NOW lying at John Wilcocks' wharf; but then about 73 tons, built in Virginia; her timbers of post oak and mulberry; has only made two voyages to the West-Indies; she is well found, and fails fast.
Apply to Emanuel Walker, WHO HAS FOR SALE, Now landing from on board laid vessel, 25 Hhds. Mucovado SUGAR, 25 Barrels do. w. s. t.
FOR SALE or CHARTER, THE SLOOP ABBY,
Obadiah Doane, Master, Burthen about 900 barrels. For terms apply to JOSEPH ANTHONY & SON. Who have now landing from on board laid vessel, MALAGA WINE, in Quarter Casks; PRIME BEEF, SPERMACETI CANDLES, and WHALE OIL.
FOR PORTLAND, Massachusetts, and from thence to CAPE NICOLA MOLE, The Ship BETSEY, Pearson Freeman, Master.
THIS ship is now getting a thorough repair at Mr. George Eyre's ship-yard, and will sail for Portland in about ten days; in about four or five days after her arrival there, she will sail for the Mole, she has uncommon accommodations for passengers; a number of them may be received either here or applying to the Subscriber, for at Portland, by applying to Wm. Cobb Esquire, or to the Captain.
LOUIS OSMONT.
For Hamburg, THE SHIP STAR,
John Vanneman, Master, NOW lying at Walnut Street wharf, and will sail early in next month, having part of her cargo already engaged. For freight or passage, apply to the Captain on board, or to Thomas & John Ketland,
Who have for Sale, received for the above vessel, Duck, Russia, Ravens and Hollands, Lead, English and German in bars, Anchors, from 8 to 14 cwt. Tin, in boxes, Begging, No's. 5, 6, 8, 11, &c. Sheeting, white and brown, Hollands, Platilles Royales, Diaper, Steel, Frying Pans, Mill Saws, Cables, Junk, Window Glass to 12 & 9 by 11.
ALSO ON HAND, A few pipes bell Holland Gin, Do. London particular Madeira Wine, Claret in cases, of superior quality, Sheathing Papers, and an assortment of Glass Ware, consisting of Tumblers, Decanters, Glasses, &c. &c. plain, flowered and cut. Cheque, double Gloucester, in whole and half hampers.
Wanted to Purchase A SHIP or BRIG Of about 1200 or 1500 Barrels Burthen.
To Charter A SHIP or BRIG of the Burthen of 1500 to 2000 Barrels to load at Norfolk for the West Indies. Apply to GEORGE SIBBALD, No 18 Penn Street.
For Petersburg, Virginia, (To sail in a few days,) THE BRIG COLUMBIA,
Josiah O'Bear, Master. Freight will be taken on moderate terms, by applying to the Captain on board at Chestnut Street wharf, or to Joseph Anthony & Son.
NOW LANDING, For sale by the Subscribers, from the ship Theresa, from St. Marks, 15 hhds. & 3 tierces SUGAR
And 1200 lbs. St. Domingo Indigo, From the Brigantine Sally, from Jamaica, 200 Bags PIMENTO, They have also on hand, 150 gr. casks of rich Mountain Wine, Port Wine in pipes and hogsheads, Brimstone in roll and cake, An invoice of Saddles and Harness, New Cattle Crown Glass 8 by 10 Liquorice Ball in boxes of 2 cwt. each, One 12 inch new Cable, 150 crates of Que. r. Ware assorted And 251 pieces of Mahogany.
Philip Nicklin & Co.
Wanted Immediately, 2 Smiths, a good fireman and White Smith, good encouragement will be given Apply No 162 or 74 Market Street. Philad. Feb. 28, 1795. N. B. Boarding and Lodging free.
SALT, Best Cadiz Salt, Just landing from on board the Brig Trial, or sale at Messrs Willing and Francis's wharf by Levinus Clarkson.
Levinus Clarkson.
March 11.
JUST IMPORTED,
And for sale by the Subscriber, at his Store, No. 18, Penn Street, 50,000 lb.
St. Domingo Coffee, 5 hhds. Mucovado Sugar, 20 boxes Havana Do. 2 Hhds. Do Do 1965 Spanish Hides, entitled to the Drawback.
Geo. Sibbald.
April 7.
FOR SALE, At the STORES of Jesse & Robert Waln,
PORT WINE in pipe, hhds. and quarter casks LISBON do. in pipes and quarter casks Southland and Congo LEAS, in quarter casks A quantity of Lisbon and Cadiz SALT Soft shelled ALMONDS in bales Velvet CORKS, in do. Russia MATTS.
May 2.
THIS DAY IS PUBLISHED
[Price 25 Cents] THIRTEEN LETTERS, On Democratic Societies; By GERMANICUS.
Sold by Thomas Dobson, No. 41 Second Street, John Ormerod 41 Chestnut Street, Benjamin Davies 68 High Street and by the Editor, 119 Chestnut Street.
April 19.
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, Bookseller, No. 118, Market Street, Philadelphia, and by the principal Booksellers in the United States. February 28.
110,000 weight of Green Coffee,
In 87 hhds. 40 barrels, and 200 bags, entitled to the drawback, stored on Messrs. Willing & Francis's wharf. 1st & 2d & 3d Proof Bourdeaux Brandy, 30 pipes of London particular Teneriffe, and London particular Madeira WINES, 6 hhds. pipes, and quarter casks, Malaga Do. in quarter casks, Antigua and other RUM in hhds. St. Croix SUGAR of the first quality, St. Marks MOLASSES, Hyson TEA, Jamaica SPIRITS, Holland CIN, in pipes, LOAF SUGAR, in hhds. PEPPER, &c. &c.
FOR SALE BY
Levinus Clarkson,
No. 216, South Water Street.
D. c. 4
The highest price In Cash, will be given for EMPTY BOTTLES,
A preference will be given to Claret Bottles.
Apply at
No. 187, South Third Street.
April 10
EXHIBITION.
THE Society of the Columbian or American Academy of Painting, &c. inform the public in general, and Artists in particular, that an Exhibition of Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Modelling, Drawing and Engraving, will commence on Monday the eighteenth day of May next, and continue open every day, Sunday's excepted, during the space of six weeks. Those Ladies and Gentlemen who may favor the Exhibition with their performances, are requested to send them, framed, from the 15th to the 18th of May inclusive, to the Senate Chamber in the State House, (which has been kindly granted for the purpose) in order for arrangement. Original Paintings, Drawings, &c. only, can be admitted, which have never appeared in any Exhibition in the United States, and which may be judged fit for the public eye.
Exhibitors are requested to send Descriptions of their Works, together with their Names and places of abode, for insertion in the Catalogue. Those who may wish to conceal their Names, shall be termed "Honoratory Exhibitors." All possible care shall be taken of every piece of Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Modelling, Drawing and Engraving; and at the conclusion of the Exhibition, be delivered to persons duly authorized to receive them.
The Society being much occupied in preparing for the Exhibition, and the Evening's shortened, the Academy of Drawing from living Figures is closed. Due notice shall be given of its opening the next Season.
By Order,
SAMUEL LEWIS, Secretary pro tem.
Philosophical Hall, April 20th, 1795.
N. B. A stated meeting of the Society will be on Monday next the 4th of May, at 7 o'clock in the Evening.
April 30.
Jamaica Rum.
A CHOICE PARCEL,
Will be landed to-morrow morning, at Jesse and Robert Waln's wharf.
Also at South Street Wharf,
The CARGO of Schooner Industry, Captain Flinn, from JAMAICA
COFFEE,
In Hogsheads & Barrels,
Pimento in Bags,
FOR SALE BY
Peter Blight.
March 26
ON MONDAY
Will be landed on Walnut-Street Wharf,
the Cargo of the Brig Iphigenia, Captain Thompson, from Bourdeaux,
Consisting of
Sixty Pipes choice Cogniac Brandy
Thirty Nine Tons
Twenty Hhds. Bottled CLARET.
Ninety Three Casks
For Sale By
George Meade.
WHO HAS ALSO FOR SALE,
35 Pipes of
Bill of Exchange Madeira Wine.
May 2, 1795.
Just Published,
And to be sold by Mr. Ormerod, No. 41,
Chestnut Street, Mr. Dobson, 41, Second Street, Mr. Davies, 68, High Street, and by the Editor, 119, Chestnut Street,
An ALPHABETICAL LIST OF THE DUTIES
Payable by Law, on all Goods, Wares & Merchandise, imported into the United States after the last day of March, 1795.—Price 1-8th of a Dollar.
March 19
THE CARGO Of the brig Dolphin, Capt. Station, from Jamaica, will be landed on Monday morning, at South-Street wharf,
Consisting of
High proof Rum, & Sugar.
FOR SALE BY
Peter Blight.
May 2, 1795.
IMPORTED,
In the Ship MANCHESTER, Capt. Cox, just arrived from Liverpool, and for Sale (by the package) by the Subscriber, upon very reasonable terms, the following
GOODS, judiciously assorted,
and of the most fashionable patterns, viz.
PRINTER, Calicoes, purple, dark and light chinz, &c.
Muffins and Dimities, a variety of elegant patterns, white and coloured.
Quiltings, white and printed
Nankies, striped, clouded, twilled, and silk striped
Thickets and Corduroys, twilled and plain
Fancy do. and do. do. do.
Velveteens and Velveteens
1-2 yard and 1-2 ell pillows and jeanets
Calimeres, mixt, plain and printed, common fine and superfine
Broad and narrow cloths, first and second quality
Figured cloths
Beaverets, silk beaverets
Elastics Orleans and Brunswick stripes
Calimances, ribbed and plain
Prunel and Calimanco lastings
Muslins, plain, checked, striped, tamboured and book
Muslin handkerchiefs, plain and coloured borders
A few boxes of youth's, girl's, men's and women's hats, well assorted.
A small assortment of silk and cotton hose
Do. do. sewing silks
JOSIAH ROBERTS,
No. 62 South Second Street.
May 2
JOHN MILLER, jun.
No. 8, Chestnut-Street,
Has just received from New-York part of the
Cargo of the Diana, from Calcutta,
Consisting of
Bandanno Handkerchiefs, } 2 packages
Taffaties, } 2 packages
Muslin Handkerchiefs, } 2 packages
Calicoes, } 2 packages
HE HAS ALSO FOR SALE,
Russia Sheeting,
Fine Ticklenburgs,
German Linens,
India Muslins,
Nankies,
And a general assortment of
British Goods, Irish Linens, &c.
May 6.
Just Published,
And to be sold by Thomas Dobson, No. 41,
Second Street, Benjamin Davies, 68, High
Street, John Ormerod, 41, Chestnut Street,
and by the Editor of this Gazette,
Proceedings of the Executive
of the United States,
Respecting
THE INSURGENTS,
1794.
MARCELLUS—as published in the Virginia Gazette, in November and December 1794.
HISTORY of the REVOLUTION in GENEVA.
All persons are hereby cautioned against taking any assignment of a Bond obtained from the Subscriber by Henry Moilliere, Rope-maker, for the sum of twenty five pounds, dated October 1790—as the said bond was not given for any valuable consideration—and I am determined not to pay the same unless compelled by law.
William Jordan.
April 7
This Day is published,
And for sale by William Young, No. 52,
South Second Street, J. Ormerod, at the old
Franklin's Head, No. 41, Chestnut Street,
and the Editor of this Gazette,
[Price 18 Cents.]
A SERMON,
Delivered in the Second Presbyterian Church, in the City of Philadelphia, on the 19th of February, 1795, being the day of General Thanksgiving throughout the United States.
By ASHBEL GREEN, D. D.
One of the Pastors of the aforesaid Church.
March 18
NOTICE is hereby given,
agreeably to Charter, to the Members of
"The Corporation for the Relief of Poor
and Distressed Presbyterian Ministers, and
of the Poor and Distressed Widows and
Children of Presbyterian Ministers," to meet on the 28th day of May next, at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, in the Second Presbyterian Church, in the City of Philadelphia, for the dispatch of all such business as may then be brought before the Board.
ASHBEL GREEN, Sec'y of the Corporation. April 25th, 1795.
FOR SALE,
5,000 Bushels of SALT,
on board the ship Eagle, Capt. Williams,
at Mr. Latimer's Wharf.
Old Red and White Port Wine, in pipes,
hhds. and quarter casks
Figura Red Wine, in ditto
Malaga Wine, in quarter casks
Teneriffe Wine, in pipes, just arrived by the
ship Thomas, Capt. Gordon.
ALSO,
SALAD OIL,
in Casks.
Apply to
Philips, Cramond & Co.
4th May.
d.
St. Croix Sugars
IN Barrels, St. MARTINS do. in do.
HAVANNA MOLASSES for sale by
SAML. R. FRANKLIN,
No. 137 South Front and
136 South Water St.
April 20.
3awt
Philadelphia, March 19, 1795.
PROPOSALS
By MATHEW CAREY,
For Publishing by Subscription,
THE
HISTORY
OF THE
Earth and Animated Nature.
By OLIVER GOLDSMITH.
—TERMS—
I. This work will be published in twenty four weekly numbers. The first number shall appear about the beginning of next June.</

PHILADELPHIA May 7.
By the ship William Penn we received a series of papers from the second to the 14th of March inclusive, from which the following interesting articles to that period are selected—Those of a subsequent date are from Liverpool and Cork papers, by the ship Diana and brig Harmony. Further extracts from these papers will be given to-morrow.
HOLLAND.
AMSTERDAM, Feb. 17.
In most of the towns of Holland, the Dutch soldiers are doing service jointly with the French soldiers, but they are obliged previously to take an oath that they will do every thing required for the good of the republic of France.
The Military Committee at the Hague, has requested our Municipality to take measures for the purpose of quartering 7200 men in the neighborhood and at Amsterdam.
On a proposition from the Revolutionary Committee, our Municipality is come to a resolution to abolish all insignia of inequality, and even to abolish the livery worn by the servants.
Citizen Hanzen, has offered himself to assist in effecting a revolution in the island of Curacoa, and was for this purpose sent to our Committee at the Hague.
A division of ships is ordered to be sent to the Cape of Good Hope for corn.
It is certain, that the French troops which are at present in Holland, amount to 87,000 men: 50,000 more are expected from Belgium.
Deputies from our municipality have on the 10th, passed in review the Dutch troops in garrison, amounting to 2,300 men. All the other municipalities have received orders to review the troops in their towns, and to give in a list of their numbers.
February 18.
Admiral Kingbergen is now in prison.
Van der Hoop, the Fiscal of the Admiralty in this town, has also been arrested.
The English garrison of Bergen-op-Zoom, were disarmed on the 10th, and conveyed prisoners to France.
The requisitions ordered for the support of the French army, amount to fifteen millions.
The first division of the French Northern Army commanded by General Macdonald, which advanced to Oer-Yssel, consists of 25,000 men.
All the servants, cooks, valets, &c. who had been in the service of the Stadtholder, are at present at the disposal of the French commissioners.
Every thing is quiet here. It is expected that the Post Correspondence to Germany will have its proper course again.
Several of our mercantile and Banking Houses have sent circular letters to their correspondents in foreign mercantile towns, wherein they give account of our revolution, and state among other things:
“The representatives of the French people at present at this place, have solemnly declared us a free and independent nation, with promise of perfect security of persons and property, together with perfect liberty of the exercise of religion. The French troops who entered this place; and those of all other places, are observing the strictest discipline, without giving the least disturbance or trouble. The extraordinary severe season, and the other circumstances under which we labor, have given a total interruption to all transactions of commerce; but we flatter ourselves that every thing will again be set in motion in the beginning of next spring, as our representatives will take every possible measure for that purpose. Please to communicate this to the other mercantile houses of your town, for it might perhaps be necessary for their tranquillity.”
HAGUE, Feb. 20.
The following is an account of the most prominent transactions of the provisional representatives of the people of Holland:
1. The Directors of the East-India Company are to assign reasons why the six homeward bound East-Indiamen have so long remained in England.
2. The council of state, as far as it concerns the province of Holland, is to pay no further pensions, or any kind of money, to the Stadtholder, William V. his princess, his sons, the consort of the Hereditary Prince, her child, the Hereditary Prince of Brunswick, &c. &c.
3. The States General are to accept the resignation of admiral Kingbergen,
but not to allow him to quit the United Netherlands, and he is to remain responsible for his conduct.
4. All the provinces are to give in exact returns of all the troops which are, at this time, on their respective establishments.
5. The French commissioners have acquainted the assembly, that three civil officers had returned from England; they are the two Pagels and Reinsteijn.
6. The committee of Public Welfare gave in a report, stating, that the treasurer of the Stadtholder had informed the committee, that all the ready cash had been packed up in chests and sent to England, and that for this reason it was impossible to provide for the entertainment of the French commissioners out of that fund. Decreed, “That the sums necessary for that purpose, should be provisionally advanced, and repaid by those who had caused those extraordinary expenses to be made.” Farther, all the estates and property of the Stadtholder should be put in requisition; and his papers, as well as those of the council of state, shall be sealed up and deposited in a safe place.
7. The citizen, John Havart, accompanied by another commissioner, is appointed by the East-India Company, to proceed to England with a flag of truce, and reclaim the detained Dutch ships.
Extracts of another letter.
“A French commissioner at Gorcum had demanded, that within the next four days 4000 pounds of meat should be delivered for the French troops, and an equal quantity every fourth day. The regency had delivered the first quantity, but requested to be relieved from the like requisitions for the future, on which subject remonstrances are to be made to General Pichegru.”
“The Board of Admiralty on the 3d ult. sent in their report, concerning the present state of the Dutch navy; wherein they give it as their opinion, that, owing to the ruined state of the finances, it would be utterly impossible to equip a fleet for sea in the next spring, and that the debts of the Navy-Board amounted to 850,000 guilders.”
“On the same day, it was resolved to request the States General to recall Mr. Hartshorne, Dutch minister at Hamburg; Mr. Van Fagel, Dutch ambassador at Copenhagen; and Mr. Van des Berch, Dutch envoy in Sweden; as, from several letters lately written by those gentlemen, it would appear that they were much attached to the ancient government.”
“A report has been made, that a letter written at Paris on the 30th of January, by the Dutch commissioners Brantzen, Repelaer, and Sicks, and addressed to the ex-pensioner Van Spiegel, had been decyphered; the principal contents of which are as follows—“That they made little or no progress; that the committee of public welfare declined to enter into any kind of negotiation; that much would depend on the question, Whether the government here would be able to maintain itself? that it would be necessary to form an alliance; that they (the commissioners) expected, that the abolition of the Stadtholderate would be insisted upon; that the departure of the Stadtholder threw a great impediment in the way of negotiations; that a certain Durieux was on his way from Paris to Holland, to superintend the transport of all the different articles, which would be put in requisition in Holland; and that they recommended the reading of the answer of the president of the convention to the deputies of the Batavians, &c.”
“The States General have received two letters from Admiral Kingbergen, wherein he advised them, not to allow any English ships to enter the Dutch ports; to cover Friesland and Groningen by a small squadron; to send some ships on a cruise, for the protection of the Baltic trade; and, lastly, he gave information, that the Dutch frigate Zephyr, was in an Irish port, and probably detained there.”
“On the 9th ult. General Pichegru proposed, that the troops of the State might be provided with a cockade, in consequence of which it was resolved, to prevail on the Generality, that the common three coloured Dutch flag, called the Gens , which the Dutch received from Henry III. king of France, might be declared the Batavian National flag; and the troops of the state be distinguished by a cockade and sash of the same colours, in horizontal stripes, placed under each other.”
“A plan has been given in to re-establish the utterly ruined national credit, which was referred to the committee of finances, and Citizen Paulus resigned his place as President of the Assembly, but was, by universal acclamation, re-elected for the next fortnight.”
“On the 10th ult. a letter was read
from the representatives of the French people, concerning a proclamation relative to the circulation of assignats. It was decreed, to modify it in some articles, and to enact, that every one should be allowed to receive them in payment, if he thought proper to do it. It was also decreed, to create two passages of the said proclamation, the latter of which concluded with these words: ‘and shall even be punished with death.’
“The representatives of the French people desired that some French citizens might be allowed to assist at the unsealing of the papers of the ex-pensioner Van Spiegel, whom they considered as one of the greatest enemies of the French republic.”
Quartermaster General Bentinck informed the President, that his brother, who had accompanied the eldest son of William V. to England, wished to return. The President was authorised to answer, “That an ordinance had been published against emigrations, but none against returns.”
“It was resolved to send an American ship to the East-Indies, with the news of the revolution which had taken place, and to convey the same information to Aleppo, Constantinople, and Geneva.”
HAERLEM, February 14.
The Provisionary Representatives of Holland have issued a public paper, which the French Deputies understood as intended to prevent the voluntary acceptance of assignats. This however, was by no means their intention, and they have published a new memorial, in which they declare that the acceptance or refusal of the French assignats shall be perfectly optional.
The following is the new Form of Prayer used in the Assembly of Holland. “Benevolent FATHER of all creatures! Since the confidence which our fellow citizens have reposed in us, has assembled us here, for the re-establishment of the eternal rights of man, which cannot be infringed without a presumptuous offence against thy will, we humbly entreat that thou wouldst enlighten our understandings, that, faithful to our duty, and contemning every selfish and private interest, we may take such measures as shall in the most effectual manner promote and secure the general happiness of the people. Amen.”
General Pichegru has published a declaration, the purport of which is, that whereas many of the people of Holland, since the arrival of the French Army in that country, have, in various ways, injured and insulted the Dutch Soldiers, pretending thereby to shew their friendship to the French: hitherto fore gives notice that he shall consider all who are guilty of such improper conduct, as evil disposed persons, and that they will be proceeded against, by due course of law, as mischievous disturbers of the public tranquillity.
A declaration has been published, by which all sentences, awarded against the Patriotic Party, since the 15th of September, 1787, are reversed.
On the 1st of February the Representatives of the People of Amsterdam published a resolution, that all public contracts and negotiations of a pecuniary kind, relative to that city, as well before as after the year 1787, should remain in full force; and that the holders of all obligations arising from such contracts, should be deemed legal creditors, and receive the full value of their obligations.
GERMANY.
VIENNA, February 14.
From Milan we have received intelligence, that the French have considerably augmented their army in Italy, which has made several movements. Orders have therefore been given for thirteen battalions of the army in Poland to join the Imperial forces in Italy, and they are said to be already on their march.
Count Clairfayt will soon proceed with his army to Frankfort, the Emperor having requested him, in a letter under his own hand, to resume the command.
The utmost exertions will be made here, that it is the intention of his HOLINESS, should the troubles in that country continue to increase, to leave Rome, and that he will probably make a visit to Vienna.
DUBLIN, March 11.
It does not appear that the Roman Catholic bill has been the real subject of disagreement between the Earl Fitzwilliam and the British cabinet. The dismissal of his majesty's most confidential and faithful servants, without any charge of incapacity or misconduct, (but for the mere purpose of giving their employments to his excellency's family and friends) is the principal cause of his removal; particularly as it is conceived to be a violation of
the specific terms on which the government of Ireland was entrusted to his care.
Dublin Journal.
FRANCE.
NATIONAL CONVENTION.
12 Ventose, March 2.
Report of the Commissioners of the 11th, upon Billaud Varennes, Collot d'Herbois, Barrere, and Vadier.
SOON after the opening of this sitting, while a member of the committee of finances was beginning to read a report, he was interrupted by a general bustle and agitation, occasioned by the appearance of Saladin, the reporter of the commission of twenty-one, who entered the hall amidst unanimous and prolonged applause from all the tribunes. The denounced members entered at the same time, and took their ordinary seats.
The President—“The reporter of the commission of twenty-one has the word. (Universal acclamation continued for some time.) At the moment that all good citizens join in claiming impartial justice, I expected from the part of the people here, silence and respect. I invite them to refrain from giving any mark of approbation or disapprobation.”—Applause.
Saladin presented the report of the commission of twenty-one on the conduct of Billaud Varennes, Collot d'Herbois, Barrere and Vadier. The reporter began by describing the state of France before the revolution, which brought Robespierre, Couthon, and Saint Just, to the scaffold; and then stated the question, “Is tyranny destroyed with these tyrants? Or have they left behind any accomplices?” This is what the people would be satisfied of; this is what justice and the public interest call upon the Convention to pronounce. The reporter gave an account of the manner in which the commission of twenty-one pursued their inquiries throughout the whole affair. It communicated every piece to the accused persons, and heard them in their defence. The minutes of which operation necessarily retarded this long expected report. We had been exercised on the people—if opinion?—To these questions we found in the affirmative. In vain should we dissemble it: all France would tell us, that a state of fear and restraint, destructive of all Government, subversive of all order, exclusive of all virtue, and annihilating the authority of the Convention, has existed but in too great a degree. It is to the courage of the Convention that we owe our revival to liberty: we must maintain that liberty by striking those who have been the most ferocious agents of the tyranny. It is in this spirit that the commission has examined whether Barrere, Collot d'Herbois, Billaud Varennes, and Vadier, have really been the authors, the accomplices, and favourers of the tyranny which has existed.—Have they covered France with prisons? Interpreted the law of the 17th September in an atrocious manner? Have they influenced the Revolutionary Tribunal, and the other Tribunals? Have they established popular commissions by their private authority? Have they exercised a despotic influence over the National Representation? If these facts are proved, tyranny is proved, and can the authors be mistaken? Under the despotism of Kings, Paris reckoned three or four prisons; under the late tyranny, thirty. Bastilles were erected in this single city, in which thousands of citizens were chained!; and, as if this number were insufficient, an arrest of the committee of Public Safety, signed Collot, Barrere, Couthon, and Robespierre, defined the college of the four nations to the same purpose: though this was temporary only, it was calculated to be a decree for the air and light to be permitted the prisoners, that they might not be exposed to die: by this you may judge of the interior government of the other prisons. The list of the acts of oppression would be endless to read. The most atrocious mandates were issued from the Bureau of General Police. Barrere has told us, that this office was directed by Robespierre only, or, in his absence, by St. Just. But why did not the committee remonstrate against this establishment? Could they be strangers to the transactions of this Bureau? they who signed the mandates of arrest? He who made a pompous eulogium from the Tribune of the virtues of Robespierre—who in that discourse asserted, that this Tribunal would deliver France of all the intriguers. Lejeune, the principal agent in this Bureau, came continually to the committee of public safety, to get the measures of the grand police ap- proved there. Was not Robespierre absent from the committee for four decades? And St. Just, was not he almost always with the Armies of the North? The form of the mandates of arrest give an idea of a number: of them the reporter produced a detail of the means employed by this government to establish their atrocious tyranny. Barrere, in the month of September, 1793, proposed to extirpate the enemies of liberty. Collot d'Herbois said, that it would be necessary to imprison all the men who were suspected, and to place barrels of gunpowder under the prisons, keeping lighted matches over them, to be re-comprehended, in the law of the 17th September, all the classes of French citizens and country, merchants, bankers—&c. Billaud Varennes said, in speaking of Lebrun and de Clavieres, the Ex-Ministers. “They must be tried and judged in eight days.” Of Custine, “He must not exist longer than next Sunday.” Barrere fr-
quently spoke of wrenching the prisons. In his report against the fraternal repartee he said—“These civic banquets may be established when the population is purified.” Saladin cited an arrest relative to the pretended conspiracy in the prisons, in which the Revolutionary Tribunal is enjoined to pass sentence in four and twenty hours upon a crowd of persons confined in the Bicetre. On the morrow, a great number were sent to death on a temple arret of the commission of police: no less than 321 of these victims were reckoned up. Herminan, head of the commission of administration of police, proposed to sweep the prisons in a prompt and revolutionary manner, by charging that commission to have an eye to the house of Arrest. This project was approved by Robespierre, by the reporter of having caused a man of the name of Parniers to be condemned to death, for no other crime than having refused his daughter to young Vadier. An arrest, signed Barrere, for the erection of popular commissions, announces a design of a most diabolical nature, to exterminate a great part of France. It was there proposed to erect four sections into a Revolutionary Tribunal, which should go through all the departments, accompanied by a guillotine. Saladin next speaks of Collot d'Herbois in his mission at Lyons, and paints him as the apostle of the most bloody tyranny. In a letter to Robespierre, he says—“Yesterday 64 conspirators were shot, to-day 280. Each day, you may depend on it, we shall dispatch as many more at least.” In his report to the Convention, after this, he makes an apology for these executions: in his discourse at the Jacobins, he says, he was obliged to soften the energy of his measures, in speaking of them to the Convention. In a letter to Robespierre, he says that Lyons must be demolished totally, and not a stone remain.
The Reporter next against the various oppressions exercised against the Convention itself; when, after having traced the unhappy divisions created by the Tyrants, their perpetual denunciations against the most strenuous of the Members, to oppress them by terror; after having announced, that Vadier, Billaud, Collot d'Herbois, and Barrere, were, with the three conspirators already punished, the principal authors of the conspiracy against the people, the Reporter concludes by declaring, that the Commission of Twenty-one judge “That there is room for accusation against Billaud, Collot, and Barrere, formerly Members of the Committee of Public Safety, and Vadier, formerly Member of the Committee of General Safety.”
Legendre, of Paris—“you all know how the accused, whose conduct has been examined by the commission of twenty-one, have sought to throw upon the Convention the crimes of which they are accused. I move, in consequence of this, that the Convention should do a signal act of justice and precaution. I require, that to avoid the dangers we ran at the arrest of Robespierre, St. Just, and Couthon, preserving at the same time all the respect due to the Representatives of the People, and to the accused all the latitude necessary to their defence, that they be arrested this present sitting.”—The ball rejoined with applause.
The President—“The accused not desiring to be heard, and no opposition being made to the proposal, I put it to the vote.—(An immense majority rose for its adoption.)—The proposal of Legendre is decreed.”—Applause renewed.
Barrere—“After the report just made in the name of the commission of twenty-one, nothing remains for the accused but to wait the execution of the law. This allows, that after a decree of accusation is concluded, a provisional arrest may be decreed. We submit in silence: nevertheless, since we are allowed to speak, this sitting shall not pass without suggesting two of the principal motives of the public prejudice, which has so long borne heavy against us. The first relates to the signatures we have given in the committee: the second concerns the liberty of thinking in the Representatives of the People. In reflecting upon the first motive, I shall state a regular fact, well known in the committee of government: In speaking on the second, I shall defend the national representation. The labour of the committee of public safety was divided among the different members who composed it; but all without distinction signed the business done by the others. Thus 1, for instance, who know nothing of military affairs, may perhaps have given 2000 signatures in that line. I was not charged with the correspondence; but when a member happened to be absent, I signed in his place the acts of the correspondence. I shall here observe, that Couthon, Robespierre, and St. Just, always put the first signature to the acts of the general police; a police which was not established by a decree of the committee of public safety, but by a decree of the convention. In the second place I shall say, that it is important, at the moment when the commission of twenty-one is about to appear; at the moment when the opinions that each of us have uttered within these walls are going to be exposed to the public; it is of importance I say, to develop one principle—that there does exist a national representation; and that each of us was obliged to vote, even at the hazard of his life, for the hundred and fifty thousand men he represents. Liberty of opinion enters again into the vast domain of the thought of a legislator; were it otherwise, the aristocracy might draw out as many acts of accusation against each of us as we had uttered opinions. You will say, when we come to speak of the justice of our colleagues, that we have always been governed by the public opinion, and always consulted it. Without annihilating the

national representation, it is impossible to say that we ought not to influence it by our opinion: each of us is sent hither for that purpose only, to enlighten his colleagues by his knowledge, and to impart his knowledge. I make another observation, which ought always to be present to the minds of the governors in all countries; that it is neither myself nor my colleagues that I am defending; that which is important to me, is important to the public, is important to you: it is, in short, a common interest. If we once establish that terrible principle, that the members of the convention, who go into the committees of government, no longer retain the liberty of opinion; and if they must regularly assemble by a compass, as it were, if we once establish this system, the aristocracy need no longer wait for the end of a government to proscribe its members. After having made a 9th Thermidor for each of them, it would revive all their opinions, and condemn them. When the public calamities, which weighed heavy upon France a year since, forced you to suppress the executive council, in which you found so much pusillanimity, impotence, or unskillfulness, you yourselves took upon you the whole weight of government, its whole responsibility. You declared this in three successive decrees; you repeated in all your acts and proclamations, in all the opinions of your members, that the convention was the center of government; but still more, when Danton, under pretence of giving to government a more solid basis, in reality attacked it, by proposing to call the committee of public safety a committee of government.—Who opposed this proposition? It was Billaud Varennes and myself; you may refer to the Moniteur . We said, the national convention is indeed the government, and the committees are no more than commissions established by the convention, to consider those measures which cannot be considered publicly. I thought it necessary to make these observations, to recall principles, in order to prove, that all we laid in the convention ought not to be imputed as a crime to us, because we only made use of a right, founded upon the freedom of opinion, to combat that dangerous distinction, by which it is attempted to establish a difference between the representatives of the people in the committees of government, and those representatives who make no part of them. These are the observations I thought it necessary to make. I am now to surrender myself to the decree of arrest pronounced by the assembly."
This decree was read. A member, Mr. N. said, "I move that the accused be put under arrest, each in his own house, under the care of a gens d'armes." This amendment was adopted. A letter was read from the representative of the people with the army of the north to the national convention, dated Brussels, the 8th Ventose, 26th February. "Citizen Colleagues, "I send you the wish of the city of Antwerp for its union with the Republic. This desire is uttered throughout Belgium, in proportion as we draw near to the opening of the campaign, and this ought to assure you of its sincerity. Men will not brave tyrants at the moment they present themselves to impose new chains upon them: they will not defy them, as it were, to their face, without an ardent love for liberty, and without a firm resolution to perish in its defence. Therefore the national convention has also to declare itself, and 40,000 Belgians are ready to unite themselves with the triumphant armies of the Republic, to give the last blow to the impious coalition that dares to misrepresent it. Health and fraternity, PERES."
Then was read the address of the magistrates of Antwerp to the convention. 13 Ventose, March 3. Cambacérès, in the name of the committee of public safety, made a long and interesting report, the main object of which was to define the powers to be given to that committee, in treating and negotiating peace with the nation with whom the French are at war; the principles of which are to be seen in the articles with which the report concluded, which are as follows:
The National Convention Decrees, Article 1. That the Committee of Public Safety, charged by the law of the 7th Fructidor, with the direction of foreign relations, shall negotiate, in the name of the Republic, Treaties of Peace, Alliance, Neutrality and Commerce, and resolve upon the conditions of such. II. It shall take all necessary measures for accelerating and facilitating the conclusion of such Treaties. III. Treaties shall be signed either by the Members of the Committee, where they have treated immediately with the Envoys of foreign powers, or by Plenipotentiaries, to whom the Committee shall delegate authority for this purpose. IV. The Treaties are not valid till after they have been examined, ratified, and confirmed by the National Convention, on the report of the Committee of Public Safety. V. Preliminary and particular Conventions, such as Armistices, are not subject to this ratification. VI. In cases where Treaties, being submitted to the sanction of the Convention, include secret articles, and when engagements are to be contracted with foreign Powers, which require the approbation of the National Convention, yet cannot be made public, the Convention nominates a Commission, composed of 12 Members. VII. This Commission shall examine the political operations in question; it shall
declare to the National Convention whether it considers the projected operations as conformable to the principles and interests of the Republic, and whether it ought to be kept secret. VIII. Upon this declaration the National Convention shall authorize the Committee of Public Safety to pursue the operations. IX. By virtue of this authority the conditions decreed by the Committee of Public Safety shall be executed. X. Upon the report of the Commission, the National Convention shall fix the time when the Committee of Public Safety shall give an account of the object of negotiation, and the measures taken. The Convention ordered this Report to be printed, and the discussion of it to be adjourned.
LONDON, March 13. The accounts in the German papers mention the march of 20,000 Prussians, under the command of Marshal Mollen-dorff, from the Upper Rhine towards Westphalia, to join the Hanoverian army under General Walmoden. This however, ought not to be considered as a contradiction of the fact we have already stated, of Peace having been concluded between France and Prussia; for these were ordered as cautionary movements, in case of a failure in the negotiation, that, be the result what it might, his Prussian majesty might be ready to act according to circumstances. Be not surprised, therefore, ye sticklers for Prussian honour, if you should soon hear of the troops who were lately fed and paid by a British subsidy, having joined the French to attack Hanover. The Emperor persists in refusing the Loan offered to him by this country, since the extraordinary movements in his own neighbourhood make it incompatible with his own safety to proceed in the war. The terms offered him by the French are too advantageous to be resisted; and there is little doubt, but that he, like Prussia, will accept of the boon that is held out to him, namely, the guarantee of Bavaria.
Yesterday Governor Milnes took leave of her Majesty, on his going to Martinique. Yesterday his Majesty signed the patent, creating Earl CAMDEN Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. We have stated that the King of Prussia had actually concluded a Peace with the French republic. Private letters received by the mail yesterday from Germany say, that it was expected to be publicly announced on the 5th instant. March 14: Some time ago a Commission was appointed to enquire into and prepare an exact statement of the Prince of Wales's debts. The Gentlemen to whom this trust was confided, were Sir Richard Heron, William Henry Lambton, Esq., John Crewe, Esq., and William Macdonald, Esq. These Gentlemen had a meeting, and they agreed that they would undertake the trust, provided that a faithful account should be rendered of the affairs of his Royal Highness, and that the necessary funds for discharging his debts should be provided: to these conditions Mr. Dundas signified the acquiescence of the cabinet. Before the day fixed for the second meeting, when they were to enter on the business, they received a circular letter, intimating to them that his Majesty's Ministers had determined to take the whole matter into their own hands, and that the proposed Commission was no longer thought necessary. What occasioned this sudden change, we pretend not to enquire; but in consequence of the demur, all intercourse between the Prince of Wales and his Royal Parents has ceased for this fortnight!
An edict has been issued, that all payments of interest to Holland, from any part of the hereditary dominions of his Imperial Majesty, shall cease, so long, at least, as the French troops shall remain in possession of the Province of Holland. The two Physicians who were appointed by the Privy Council to examine Brothers, have, it is said, pronounced him to be a lunatic. According to a report made lately by Du Bois Crancé, relative to the present state of the military force of the French Republic, it consists of 1200 battalions of foot, 500 squadrons of horse, and 60,000 artillery men. Dubois Crancé, who, after the downfall of Robespierre, joined the faction of moderates, was, under the reign of that sanguinary tyrant, one of his most abject and atrocious tools. After the murder of the late King of Sweden, he openly told a Swedish nobleman at Paris, that if that monarch had not been assassinated by another, he, with three of his confidential friends, would have gone to Stockholm for the purpose of destroying him: as the success of the French Revolution partly depended on his death. When before Lyons, he was informed that the Lyonnese had offered 20,000 livres for his head, he said, turning pale as death, "I never knew that my head was worth so much."
March 16. Lord Fitzwilliam intended to leave Ireland on Wednesday last. He had meant before he had returned to have visited his estates in the county of Wicklow, but in consequence of letters he received the beginning of last week, he had altered his intention, and was preparing to set out for this kingdom immediately. The Queen has furnished the Princess of Wales's Wardrobe at Carleton House.—The marriage dress is of the most superb Turkey Sattin, the petticoat is trimmed with fescos of gold and acorns. The head dress is at Messrs. Hamersley's Bankers, in Pall Mall, the ornaments of which are computed to be worth 15,000. By a French Emigrant who came through Holland, a letter has been received from Lord Dungarvon, Lieutenant Colonel of the 87th regiment, taken prisoners by the French on the surrender of Bergen-op-Zoom. The regiment is now at Amiens. The Jews in Holland are emancipated from all restrictions, and are to enjoy perfect freedom. The French Republican army on the Rhine is at present commanded by General Galbaud. Yesterday arrived two bags, containing about four hundred letters, from Embden which place they were dispatched from on the 10th inst. and were landed at Margate, but from what vessel the post master of the latter place does not mention: they are chiefly British army letters. By these letters we learn, that the 12th regiment had reached Embden, for the purpose of embarkation. The sick in the hospital at that place were recovering very fast. Gen. Harcourt was expected there. Lord Cathcart arrived safe at Lier on the 8th inst. with the brigade under his command. Sir Sydney Smith is now in the Downs, waiting the arrival of the gun boats from the river. As soon as they join him, he will proceed on the secret expedition for which they are destined. These gun boats carry some of them, two sixty eight pound carronades, some long twenty four pounders, and other ordnance of a smaller calibre. It is generally supposed that the expedition is intended against the Dutch ships in the Texel.
The GAZETTE. PHILADELPHIA, May 7. Extract of a letter from a Merchant of the first respectability in Liverpool to a House in this City, dated March 17 received by the DIANA. I had the pleasure to receive by the Manchester your very acceptable letter of the 1st December, with a packet of News Papers and Coxe's View of the United States, for which I am much obliged to you; the latter is a very valuable work; and I trust gives a true picture of the flourishing state of your country; inasmuch, that was it within a fortnight's sail, you would have many visitors; at the least to take a look at it. I sincerely hope the pleasing prospect may continue after the death of your very worthy President, who is not only an ornament to America, but to Human Nature, and his sensible, prudent conduct, with respect to the late insurrection in the Western Counties, must endear him still more to every good Man: To prevent evil insurrection, is much better than to conquer it.—Europe has of late been a scene of Blood; but I trust the War is near concluding; Holland and Flanders, are conquered by the French; and it is now positively assured, that the King of Prussia has made a separate Peace; and that the Emperor of Germany, (who is the only one of our Allies, that has behaved like an honest Man,) has refused the Loan offered him by this infatuated Country to carry on the War; saying it is not in his power to furnish the troops next campaign expected from him; and that he means to make peace with the French Republic; should this be the case, it will oblige our Ministers to treat for peace also.—I observe Grain is very high with you; and it is very much so in this country; but the high freights and Insurance, will not by any means afford it to be imported to England; we have had a most severe winter; and the Wheat is, by great floods, very greatly damaged; in many parts it must be plowed in and the lands sown with wheat again, or Spring Corn. I have endeavoured to freight an American Vessel with Salt to Philadelphia, but the freight asked, has been so high as to prevent me—English Ships are now quite driven out of the American carrying trade.
HOUSE OF COMMONS. March 10. American Trade. The bill for regulating the trade of this country with the United States of America, went through a committee with amendments. Reduction of the National Debt. The bill for granting to his majesty the sum of 200,000. to be issued to the governors and company of the Bank of England, for reducing the national debt went through a committee. LOAN. The bill for raising eighteen millions, by way of annuity, was read a first time. Lord Chamberlain's Office March 11. Notice is hereby given, that the Nuptials of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales with the Princess Caroline of Brunswick will be celebrated in the Chapel Royal at St. James's. At the Court at St. James's, the 11th of March, 1795: His Majesty in Council was this day pleased to declare the Right Hon. John Jefferies, Earl Camden, Lieutenant General and General Governor of his Majesty's kingdom of Ireland.
March 14. Tuesday morning his Majesty, attended by the Barrack Master General and Surveyors, went and marked out the barracks at the back of the Cloisters, Windsor, where the old Guard Room stood. It is to contain eight hundred men complete. Earl Fitzwilliam arrived from England hourly expected. Earl Camden will embark for that kingdom on Sunday next at farthest. Sir Philips Stephens, lately advanced to a seat at the Admiralty Board and a Baronetage, had been Secretary in that department more than 35 years. As Secretary to the Board of Admiralty, he succeeded the late Mr. Cleveland in December 1759. Earl Howe is confined to his bed at Portsmouth, with the gout in his stomach.
A droll requisition was made in Holland for—2000 cats to be put into the corn stores, to prevent the havoc made by rats and mice. The last Corunna mail brought dispatches from Admiral Hotham, who commands the British Squadron in the Mediterranean, dated Feb. 3. The Squadron had returned to Florence Bay, in Corsica from their station off Toulon (where they had three different times expected, according to his menace, that the French Admiral would have come out to engage them), except three frigates, who were left to keep a look out. Admiral Hotham states he should return again in a week to his former station. The same packet brought over dispatches from the Viceroy, Sir G. Elliot, who continues indefatigably to conciliate the affections of the natives to the English Government. There is very much waste land in Corsica, which it is intended to improve; Paoli and five other gentlemen are on a general survey, the ports first. The States were to assemble again in March. The number of poor is very great, and provisions scarce at present.
CORK, March 16. We hear, on the authority of private letters by yesterday's packet, that overtures for a pacific negotiation have actually been made on the part of our Court to the French committee of safety committee of safety. The desire, it is said, was unpropitious to so formidable an object: the conditions on the part of Great Britain, being such as the committee declared they might not, even with the most palliative modifications, propound to the National Convention. Admiral Crosbie landed yesterday here from England, to take upon him the chief
direction of the marine department in this kingdom, in consequence of the late arrangement of the naval force to be stationed in the Irish ports. FRESH FRUITS &c. To-Morrow Morning will be Landed, At Stumper's wharf, from on board the Schooner Eliza , T. Arnold, master, direct from Mexico . 300 Qt. Casks old Mountain WINE, of superior quality. 500 Qt. Barrels Bloom Raisins. 100 Boxes Lemons. 208 Boxes muscatel Raisins. 192 Jars ditto ditto. 48 Sacks soft-shell'd Almonds. 25 Kegs Figs, &c. For Sale by PETER KUHN. May 7. d6t—mawf NEW-CASTLE PIER LOTTERY. The returns of the drawing arrive daily at the office No. 49 Chestnut Street, between Fourth and Fifth Streets—where a correct numerical Book is kept; also, the slips of each day's drawing regularly filed. Information given where a few remaining tickets may be had, warranted undrawn. Ten prices exchanged, and high prices cashed. The 33d day's drawing is arrived. No higher prize than one of 50 Dollars—the wheel is rich. WASHINGTON LOTTERY. The Public are informed by authority, that this Lottery will positively commence at the close of New-Castle Lottery. Information given where tickets may be purchased, value 8 dollars each. Also, a few quarter tickets. In the above lottery, signed by Samuel Blagden which will entitle the holder to one fourth of the prize drawn to its number. April 16
PORT OF PHILADELPHIA. ARRIVED. days Ship L'Unique, Allain from a cruise—mounts 20 guns. Diana Clay, Liverpool 45 Schooner Mary, Curaco 25 Nancy Warden, George Town 9 Kitty and Maria, Carlton, N. York 5 The Ship Molly Captain Farrell, from London, and a brig from Havannah, arrived at the Port last night. The old Adriana, Capt. Clapp, arrived at London before the William Penn failed. CLEARED. Ship Ganges, Tingey, Calcutta Sch. Thomas Howard, Port Dauphin Eagle Phillips, Hispaniola Arrived at New-York. Brig Orange, Carberry, Dublin Sch. Thomas, Clark, Norfolk Sloop Friendship, Faute, Jeremie Julian, Sheffield, Aux Cayes Sally Taylor, Trinidad Hope Tilton, St. Croix. The brig Hector, Capt. Connel, arrived at the Isle d'Aix, Feb. 4 and sent on her papers immediately. Captain Knox, of the brig Brandywine Miller, from Bordeaux, on the 21st of March spoke the sloop Mercury, of Boston in the river, bound up from Charleston. On the 13th of April, in lat. 40, 56, long. 45, 27, picked up the crew and passengers, 30 in number, of the ship Hamilton, Tier, of New-York, from Brest bound to New-York, which foundered. Nothing was saved out of the ship but a few articles of wearing apparel. Some of the passengers on board the ship Hamilton, were among those who were taken in the Severn, last fall, with Mr. Russel. They were confined for several months, we understand, on board different vessels in the harbour of Brest, and lately in the castle, and shared in the hardships which the scarcity of provisions occasioned in that port during the winter, and in those which prisoners are generally liable to.
About the beginning of March, in the English channel, the Lively British frigate of 32 guns, took Le Tourterelle French frigate of 26 guns after an obstinate fight of two hours and a half, during which the Le Tourterelle fired two broad sides of red hot shot.
NEW THEATRE. Mrs. OLDMIXON's Night. On FRIDAY EVENING, May 8, will be presented, a celebrated COMIC OPERA, (never performed in America,) called The Noble Peasant Or, VALOUR REWARDED. [Written by THOMAS HOLCROFT.] The Music by Shield. Leonard, Mr. Morison. Earl Walter, Mr. Whitlock. Earl Egbert, Mr. Francis. Anhalt, Mr. Rosen. Harold, Mr. Cleveland. Adam Bell, Mr. Darley. Clym o' the Clough, Mr. Marshall. Will Cloudlee, Mr. Darley jun. Dwarf, Miss Salomons. Fool, Mr. Bates. Edwitha, Mrs. Marshall. Adela, Mrs. Oldmixon. Alice, Miss Broadhurst. KNIGHTS and ARCHERS. Messrs. Warrell, I. Warrell, T. Warrell, Solomon, Price, Mitchell, &c. &c. VIRGINS. Miss Willems, Mrs. Gwendol, Miss Millburn Mrs. De Marque, Miss Rosen, Mrs. Bates, and Mrs. Solomon. In act I. A GRAND TRIUMPHAL PROCESSION, and an Ode dedicated to Liberty. The Vocal Parts by Messrs. Darley, Marshall, Darley jun. Mrs. Oldmixon, Mrs. Marshall &c. To which will be added, (never performed here) a Farce called The Apprentice. Wingate, Mr. Morris. Dick, (the Apprentice with the original Prologue, Mr. Chambers. Gargle, Mr. Harwood. Simon, Mr. Bates. Trueman, Mr. Bliss. Scotchman, Mr. Darley jun. President of the Club, (with a Song) Mr. Darley. Daffin, Mr. Wern. Watchman, Mr. Francis. Spencers, Messrs. Warrell, Mitchell, Solomon, Price, &c. Charlotte, Mrs. Francis. Between the 1st and 2nd acts of the Farce, Mr. Bates will, by desire, sing the comic Song of Four & Twenty Fiddlers all in a Row. Tickets 5 and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Wells, at the Theatre, from ten till one, and on days of performance from ten till three o'clock. Also of Mrs. Oldmixon, corner of 7th and Chestnut Street. On Monday, a Comedy, never performed here, called A new way to pay Old Debts; with a Dramatic Proverb, in two acts, never performed in America, called Set a Beggar on Horseback, and he'll ride to the Devil.—For the benefit of Mr. BATES. Mr. DARLEY's Night will be on Wednesday next.
WANTED. A Child's maid, to attend a Lady on a visit to New York. Enquire of the Printer, May 7. A STATED MEETING of the Democratic Society, will be held at the University in Fourth Street, this Evening, at 7 o'clock. GEORGE BOOTH Sec'y.

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 VINER'S Abridgement, 24 vols.  2 Vattel's Law of Nations, best 8vo. edition.  3 Runnington's Hale's Common Law, new edition, now first published in 2 vols. 8vo.  4 Sellon's K. B. Practice, now first published in 2 vols. 8vo. bound in one  5 Atkyn's Chancery Reports, by Mr. Saunders, author of Uules and Truits, with innumerable references and improvements, since the last edition in 3 very large vols. 8vo.  6 Coke upon Littleton, new edition in three portable octavos, with great improvements & references down to the present year  7 Kyd's Law of Corporations, now completed in 2 vols. 8vo.  8 Impney's Modern Pleader  9 Durnford and East's Term Reports, new edition with great additions and references, vol. 1 and 2, the precursors of eight of which this work is to consist, now first printed by those valuable editors, in 8vo.  10 Fonblanque on Equity, vol. 2. which completes his approved undertaking  11 Sellon's King Bench Practice, vol. 2  12 Fitzherbert's Natura Brevium, 2 vols. 8vo. with additional notes  13 Watson's Law of Partnership, a very much improved new work  14 Espinalle's Reports of Cases at Nisi Prius  15 Cruise on Fines, new and improved, in 2 vols. 8vo.  16 Tidd's Kings Bench Practice, 2 vols. 8vo. Ditto vol. 2, which completes his design  17 Parker's Chancery Practice  18 Edmunds on the Exchequer Practice  19 Powell on Mortgages, 2 vols. 8vo. latest edition with the addition of 3 new chapters  20 Menteliquier's Spirit of Laws, 8vo.  21 Travels of Anacharsis, 8 vols. 8vo. elegantly bound and gilt, ditto, 8 vols. neatly bound in calf  22 Delolme on the English Constitution, beautifully bound and gilt  23 Smith's Moral Sentiments, 2 vols. 8vo. bound and gilt  24 Dryden's Virgil, 4 vols. in splendid binding  25 Don Quixote, 4 vols. ditto, ditto.  26 Grolier's History of China, ditto, do.  27 Gil Blas, 4 vols. ditto, ditto.  28 Ditto 4 vols. 8vo. with cuts  29 Ainsworth's quarto Dictionary  30 Hederici's Lexicon  31 Porteus's and English Dictionary, new and improved edition  32 Boyer's Royal Quarto French and English Dictionary  33 Telemachus French and English, 2 vols.  34 Purney's Letters on Commerce, &c. French and English  35 Purney's French Grammar. Ditto Exercises  36 Scott's Recueil  37 Chambeau's French Grammar  38 Motherby's Medical Dictionary  39 Quincy's Lexicon of Medicine  40 Brooke's Practice of Physic, 2 vols. 8vo.  41 Bibles, Demy, Folio—Ditto small in Morocco  42 Bailey's English Dictionary, London edition  43 Davidson's Virgil, 2 vols.  44 Perry's Dictionary  45 Moore's Navigation, tenth edition  46 Love's Surveying  47 Emerson's Mechanics, 4to.  48 Ferguson's Lectures on Mechanics  49 Imison's School of Arts  50 Adam's Lectures on Natural Philosophy, 3 vols.  51 Annual Register, for 1792 and 1793  52 Maskelyne's celebrated Logarithms, by Taylor, published by order of the Longitude Commissioners  53 Hawkin's new edition of Pleas of the Crown, 4 vols. 8vo. with very great editions  54 Lavater on Physiognomy, in 2 vols. splendid binding, illustrated with 360 engravings  55 Doddridge's Family Expositor, 6 vols. 8vo. fine paper, elegantly bound and gilt  56 Court Calendar, 1795  57 Dyer's Reports, 3 vols.  58 Espinalle's Nisi Prius  59 Cooke's Voyages, 4 vols.  60 Blackstone's Commentaries, 4 vols.  61 Julia Ormiston, 2 vols.  62 Caleb Williams, 3 vols.  63 Nugent's Pocket Dictionary  64 Attorney's new Pocket Book, 2 vols.  65 Hale's Pleas of the Crown  66 Hardress's Reports  67 Swinburne on Wills  68 Woodeson's Law Lectures Supplement to Blackstone's Lectures, 3 vols. in two  69 Crown Circuit Companion  70 Crompton's Practice, 2 vols.  71 Gilbert's Reports in K. B. and Chancery  72 Shower's Reports, 2 vols.  73 Moheun's Ecclesiastical History, 6 vols. 8vo.  74 Raynal's History of the East and West Indies, 8 vols. 8vo. a superb Edition  75 Smollet's History of England 
 76 Campbell's and Kent's Admirals, 5 vols. 8vo.  77 Smith's Tour on the Continent, 2 vols. 8vo.  78 Hutton's Mathematical Tables  79 Lempriere's Classical Dictionary  80 Kaime's Sketches of the History of Man, 4 vols. 8vo.  81 History of France from its first Establishment down to the present Revolution, 2 vols.  82 History of the French Revolution, 2 vols.  83 Plowden's British Empire  84 Perke's New System of Geography  85 Don Quixote, 4 vols.  86 Young Man's best Companion  87 Stedman's American War, 2 vols. 8vo.  88 Annual Register for '90.  89 Mrs. Piozzi's British Synonymy, two vols.  90 Saunderson's Algebra  91 Simpson's ditto  92 Voyage to Madagascar and the East Indies by Kochan  93 Sketches of Music by Eastcott  94 Hamilton on Merchandise  95 Morell's Abridgement of Ainsworth's Dictionary  96 Davidson's Virgil Latin and English  97 Cicero's select orations Latin and English  98 Gay's Fables, a most splendid Edition, with 72 elegant plates, 2 vols.  99 Geographical Dictionary  100 Claude's Essay on Composition, 2 vols.  101 Blair's Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres  102 Gazetteer of the Netherlands  103 Robertson's Elements of Navigation, to which is added a treatise on Marine Fortification, 2 vols.  104 Martin's Philosophy, Astronomy, and Geography in 3 vols. 8vo. 
May 2 d3t
IMPORTED, And to be sold by Jacob Parke, No. 49, north side of Market, between Front and Second streets Philadelphia, A General Assortment of
Ironmongery, Cutlery, Sadlery, &c. &c.
AMONGST WHICH ARE,  Smiths' anvils, vices and files  Barlow, pen and other pocket knives  Sawmill, crosecut, hand and other saws  Razors  Scissors  Needles  Carving chisels and gouges  Ivory and bone combs  Best kirby fish hooks  Carpenters' ditto  Brass cabinet furniture  Plane irons  Wagon boxes  Drawing knives, and other edge tools  Sheet brass  Locks, Hinges  Plated and tinn'd bric-rups  Bolts and latches  Do. faddle nails  Nails prigs, tacks and screws  Staples and plates  Frying pans  Worsted furcingle webs  Smoothing irons  Diaper, girth and strain webs  Shovels and tongs  With most other kinds of Ironmongery, Cutlery, Saddlery, Brass wares, & c.  Coffee-mills  Candlesticks  Snuvers  Warming-pans  Table knives & forks  Riding whips  4 mo. 14th. codt1
Fresh Teas,
OF SUPERIOR QUALITY, viz.  Imperial, or Gunpowder  Hylton Gomee,  1st quality Hylton,  2d. do. do.  Young Hylton,  Hylton Skin, and  Souchong.  A few Boxes of each, for sale at No. 19, Third street south. Dec. 10 codt6
Just Published,
THOMAS DOBSON, BOOKSELLER, At the Stone House, Second street, Philadelphia.
Volume XIII of Encyclopaedia:
Or a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, on a plan entirely new, by which the different sciences and arts are digested into the form of distinct treatises or systems:  This volume contains the history of Nehemiah, Nero, Newfoundland, Newton, and Newtonian Philosophy, Niagara, Nile, Norway, Numidia, Observatory, Olympus, Optics, Oratory, Ornithology, Ossian, Otahete, Ovis, Owlyhee, Paintings, Palermo, Palestine, Paper-making, Parliament, Paris, Pascal, together with a great variety of Biographical and miscellaneous articles. Illustrated with 32 elegant Copperplates.  Subscribers to this work are earnestly solicited to take up the volumes which they have not received, as the lying out of so much money is a serious injury to the Publisher, those who do not take them up and pay for them by the first of July 1795, will be subject to an additional charge.
The subscription for this valuable work is closed sometime ago, the Publisher has still a few sets on hand for sale at 110 dollars the set. The money to be paid in full on delivering the volumes now ready, which are thirteen, and the remaining five volumes will be delivered when published to the purchaser or his order.  The fourteenth volume is in the press, in considerable forwardness.  April 10 cod4w
A VENDRE, Une Terre Superbe sitée dans l'Etat de la Nouvelle York.
LA BELLE Habitation connue par le nom de SCOTIA, sitée sur le bord du nord de la Riviere de Mohawk et vis a vis la florissante ville de Schenectady qui est a l'extremite de la communication par eau entre la Caneda et autres parties occidentales avec la ville d'Albany dont elle est eloignee de seize miles Anglois ou cinq lieues un tiers de france.
Cette terre est bornee par la dite Riviere environ deux tiers de lieue—les grands Chemins des parties de l'ouest et du nord le joignent en cet endroit avec plusieurs autres et conduisent a l'endroit ou l'on traverse la Riviere vis a vis la dite ville—cette habitation contient plus de mille acres, une grande partie de la quelle est en plaine de la premier, qualite et propre pour des prairies ou du grain dont elle produit une grand abondance.
On pourroit la diviser en plusieurs habitations donnant a chacune des situations tres commodes a placer des maisons—elle contient present deux maisons grandes et bien commodes avec des Granges Ecuries, Magazins, des Remises pour les Voitures et plusieurs autres batimens qui sont tres convenables le tout situe sur une elevation au bord de la dite Riviere d'ou l'on a une vue bien agreable sur la dite ville, des prairies dans ses environs et de la Riviere aussi bien que d'un Reservoir d'environ trente acres, qui est bien fourni de poisson et de gibier.
Il y a aussi sur la dite terre une Moulin a eau sur un courant qui ne manque Jamais, avec une maison pour le meunier; on y pourroit ajouter d'autres moulins, &c.—pour cette terre est aussi un bon Verger des meilleurs fruits de ce pais d'environ mille arbres, entres, les Jardins abondent de toutes sortes de fruit propre pour ce climat—Dependent aussi de cette terre plusieurs tenemens avec des lots de terre dont les baux sont d'une courte duree.
Il y a point de terre dans ces parties que soit plus seconde pour toutes sortes de grain d'hiver dont il en a ete seme l'automne passe presque deux cents boisseaux ce que sera compris dans la Vente aussi bien que deux petites Iles dans la Riviere vis a vis a la maison.
On pense que la vue de ces terres on donnera une plus haute idee qu'aucun description qu'on pourroit en donner.
Pour les conditions de Ventes il faut se rendre chez le soussigne demeurant sur les lieux ou a messieurs Oliver Wendel et Harrison G. Otis, a Boston—messieurs Cornelius Ray et De Witt Clinton, a New-York—messieurs James Gordon et Henry Glen, membres du Congres, a present a Philadelphia, ou a monsieur Stephen Bayard dans la ville de Schenectady, qui seront connoitre le prix et conditions de la Vente.
JOHN SANDERS.
Valuable Property For Sale, IN THE STATE OF NEW-YORK.
THAT valuable and well known Estate, called SCOTIA, situate on the north bank of the Mohawk river, directly opposite the populous and flourishing town of Schenectady, at the foot of the water-communication from the Western Country, and Upper Canada; sixteen miles from the city of Albany, extending about two miles on the bank of the river above, and below the said town; this river is the only water communication in the United States with the great western Lakes. The roads from the western and northern parts of the state of New York, together with a number of other public roads here meet, and lead to the noted ferry kept opposite the said town.
It contains upwards of one thousand acres, a great proportion of which is intervall or low land, calculated both for grass or grain, producing great burthens annually; it may be laid into a number of valuable farms, affording convenient and handsome building grounds; there is now on the premises two very large and commodious dwelling houses with large Dutch barns, barracks, hovels, stables, cart and waggon house, carriage house, horse house, summer house, and other out-houses, on a commanding eminence near the bank of the river, affording a beautiful and extensive prospect of the river for several miles, the lowland, the town, and a fine lake of water, covering about thirty acres, well stored with all kinds of river fish, fowl, &c. There is a good grist mill on a never failing stream of water, a good frame house, &c. for the miller, also convenience above the mill for erecting more water works; there is a bearing orchard with nearly one thousand apple trees, set out, grafted of the best fruit; the gardens are stocked with all the various fruits the climate will admit; also several tenements with portions of land on short leases.
The land in point of fertility of soil, is exceeded by none in the state; there is now in the ground near two hundred bushels winter grain, which will be included in the above sale.  Also two small islands in the river, opposite the mansion house.
A view of the premises, it is presumed, will fully equal any description that can be given thereof.  For terms of sale apply to the Subscriber, residing on the premises, Messrs. Oliver Wendell or Harrison G. Otis, Esquires, in the town of Boston, Cornelius Ray, or De Witt Clinton, Esquires, at the city of New York: James Gordon or Henry Glen, Esquires, two of the members of Congress, at the city of Philadelphia; Stephen N. Bayard, in the town of Schenectady, by whom the price & terms of sale will be communicated.
JOHN SANDERS.
Satia, Jan. 23, 1795.  N. B. The remaining stock unfold, and all the farming utensils, the purchaser or purchasers may be accommodated with.  Philad. Feb. 7. 2aw3m
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, Revenue Office, April 24, 1795.
PROPOSALS will be received at the Office of the COMMISSIONER of the REVENUE for building
A LIGHT HOUSE.
on the head land of Cape Hatteras on the coast of North Carolina, of the following materials, dimensions, and description.
The form is to be octagonal. The foundation is to be of stone, to be sunk thirteen feet below the bottom of the water table or the surface of the earth, and to be commenced of the diameter of twenty nine feet. From such commencement to the height of four feet the foundation is to be laid solidly and from thence to the bottom of the water table, the foundation wall is to be nine feet high and nine feet thick.
The diameter of the base from the bottom of the water table to the top thereof (where the octagonal pyramid is to commence) is to be twenty eight feet four inches and the wall is there to be seven feet thick. The wall of the octagonal pyramid is to be six feet thick at the base thereof, on the top of the water table.
The height of the building from the bottom of the water-table, and from the surface of the earth, is to be ninety feet to the top of the stone work, under the floor of the lantern; where the diameter is to be sixteen and one half feet and the wall three feet. The whole of the walls is to be built of stone.
The water table is to be capping with fawed 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, beded therein, plankted 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, to be covered with copper. A complete and sufficient iron lantern in the octagonal form is to rest thereon. The eight corner pieces or flanchions of which, are to be built in the wall to the depth of ten feet. These flanchions to be nearly three inches square in the lower ten feet, and 3-1-2 inches by 2-1-2 inches above.
The lantern is to be ten feet and nine inches in diameter, it is also to be ten feet high from the floor to the bottom of the dome or roof and to have a dome or roof of five feet and nine inches in height. The whole space between the posts or upright pieces at the angles is to be occupied by the 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 rafters of the lantern are to be framed into an iron hoop, over which is to be a copper funnel, thro' which the smoke may pass into a large copper ventilator in the form of a man's head, capable of containing one hundred gallons.
This head is to be turned by a large vane; so that the hole for venting the smoke, may be always to leeward. Eight dormant ventilators are to be fixed in the roof, a large curved air pipe is to be passed through the floor, and a close 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 Houseto 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 place on each floor, one of them large for a leiche. 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.
TO BE SOLD, A Lot, containing about
17 acres, on the Wissaahickon road, 4 miles from the city, and directly opposite to the house of Mr. Isaac Wharton.
A Lot, containing 10 acres, in Ilington Lane, on said road, near the estate of Jas. or Moylan, Esq.
A Lot, containing 10 acres in Turner's Lane, on said road, and directly opposite to the estate of Mr. Ternant.
Enquire of Joseph Redman, Woodstock, corner of Turner's Lane.  April 6 codt
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, Revenue Office, April 24th 1795.
PROPOSALS will be received at the Office of the COMMISSIONER of the REVENUE for building a
BEACON HOUSE.
on Shell Castle Island, in Rampa's Sound, near Ocracoke Inlet, in North Carolina, of the following materials, dimensions and description.
The form is to be an octagon. The foundation is to be of stone, to be sunk nine feet and one half below the surface of the earth, and to be commenced of the diameter of 23 feet. It is to be laid solidly to the height of two feet. From thence to the height of six inches above the earth or to the bottom of the wooden work, the foundation wall is to be eight feet high, and four feet and one half thick.
The Octagonal Pyramid is to be well framed, and of stout heart Pine timber. It is to be twenty two feet in diameter at the base thereof, where it will rest on the top of the stone foundation, to which it is to be well secured by sixteen stout iron straps built therein, and otherwise.
The height of the wooden building from the surface of the earth (six inches above the surface of the earth) is to be fifty four feet and one half to the top of the wooden work, under the floor of the lantern, where the diameter is to be twelve feet. The foundation is to be capping with fawed stone at least eight inches wide, and sloped at top to turn off the water.
The frame of the Pyramid is to be covered with boards of one inch and one half in thickness, over which is to be laid a good and complete covering of shingles, and it is to be well painted with three coats.
The Beacon House is to have two windows in the East and three windows in the west. The sashes are to be hung with hinges, and each sash is to have eight panes of glass of eight by ten inches.
On the top of the wooden work of the Pyramid is to be a strong framed tier of joists, beded therein, plankted over with Oak plank, extending one foot beyond the sides of the Pyramid, thereby forming an eave which is to be finished by a cornice, the whole having a descent from the centre sufficient to throw off the water, and to be covered with copper. A complete and sufficient iron lantern in the Octagonal form is to rest thereon. The eight corner pieces or flanchions of which are to be well secured to the upright timbers of the Pyramid, or to the tier of joists, or both. These flanchions are to be stout in the lower eight feet, and sufficiently strong above.
The Lantern is to be six feet high, from the floor to the bottom of the dome or roof, and to have a dome or roof of three feet in height. The whole space between the posts to be occupied by the sashes, which are to be moulded on the inside and struck solid. The sashes are to be furnished with large panes of glass; a part of the sash on the south west side is to be hung with hinges for a door to go out on the platform. The iron rafters of the lantern are to be framed into an iron hoop, over which is to be a copper funnel, thro' which the smoke may pass into a large copper ventilator in the form of a man's head, capable of containing thirty gallons, this head 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.
There are to be five 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. The entrance into 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 DWELLING HOUSE of one story, to be twenty eight feet in front and fifteen feet deep with a cellar under it, if it should be found practicable to make one. The cellar walls are to be fourteen inches thick, and seven feet high. The story of the House to be seven feet and one half in the clear, the roof to have a rectangular pitch. The floors to be laid in whole lengths nailed through.
The House is to be composed of two rooms of about thirteen feet and one half by fourteen feet and one half on the lower floor. The stack of chimneys is to be between the two fitting rooms and it is to have two plain fire places, one of them large for a Kitchen, to which is to be joined an oven. There is to be an outer door in front between the two rooms and in the rear, in the Kitchen. There are to be two windows in each of the rooms.
Each sash is to have twelve panes of glass eight by ten inches. Each window is to have a strong plain shutter with fastenings and hinges. The doors are to be hung and furnished completely. The ceiling and inner sides of the House are to be plastered with two coats. All the wood work outside is to be well painted, and the whole is to be finished in a plain and decent manner.
An Oil vault is to be built ten 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 three 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.
The builder is to procure and pay for all materials, labor, workmanship, provisions, and other objects of cost, charge, or expence for a sum to be proposed and 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
To be Sold, And Possession given immediately,
Two story brick Dwelling House In Arch street near Front street, No. 23, sixteen and an half feet front, and the last 102 feet deep. Enquire of
Isaac Snowden, South Second Street. d6t—codt  March 30