Gazette of the United States and daily evening advertiser. (Philadelphia [Pa.]), 1794-08-07 00:00:00

J. Packer
Gazette of the United States AND DAILY EVENING ADVERTISER.
[No. 48 of Vol. VI.]
THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 1794.
[Whole No. 598.]
Department of State, July 31, 1794. NOTICE
IS hereby given, That the Documents, which have been forwarded to this Department...
A French Family, WOULD wish to be entrusted with the care of a FARM...
WOULD wish to be entrusted with the care of a FARM, about the city of Philadelphia...
Money to be Lent, On Mortgage of REAL ESTATES...
ON Mortgage of REAL ESTATES, Within the City or Liberty of Philadelphia...
Bank of the United States, NOTICE is hereby given, that here will be paid at the Bank...
NOTICE is hereby given, that here will be paid at the Bank after the sixteenth instant...
Lachawannock. A LARGE body of LAND on this river...
A LARGE body of LAND on this river and its waters, is now for sale to Settlers...
The main river flows through one tract of about thirty thousand acres...
Spring Brook Creek, which with its branches, waters another tract of about forty thousand acres...
It affords numerous Mill seats, & in its course creates large bodies of well watered meadow ground.
The other tracts are intersected by creeks of considerable importance.
Several Mills are already erected for the accommodation of the Settlers.
Roads are cut in different directions, towards the most convenient markets.
The county town is not more than 12 miles distant from many parts of the settlement.
The Susquehannah affords an easy and safe navigation to Middletown...
Another means of connection with Philadelphia, is by the Delaware...
For Hamburg, The Ship HARMONY, CAPTAIN LOWELL...
CAPTAIN LOWELL, Having great part of her cargo on board, will sail in a few days.
Wanted to Charter, Three Vessels, Of about 100 to 110 tons each.
LOUIS OSMONT, No. 117, north Second street, Who has for sale, Glass Ware and Bottles...
For Sale, A Stout Ship, ABOUT six years old, built of the best Boston white Oak...
ABOUT six years old, built of the best Boston white Oak, butt bolted throughout...
For LIVERPOOL, The Ship AMIABLE, JOHN THOMPSON, master.
BURTHEN about 250 tons, a very substantial ship, built of live oak and cedar...
For Sale or Charter, The Ship GEN. WASHINGTON, ISAAC SYLVESTER, master.
NOW lying at Say's wharf, the 31 above Market street, barthen about 2500 barrels...
For Charter, The Brig SEA NYMPH, JOHN PADEN, Master.
SAILS fast, and will be ready to take in a cargo in a few days.
For Sale, The Sloop INDUSTRY, BURTHEN about 700 barrels, in complete order...
BURTHEN about 700 barrels, in complete order to receive a cargo, and may be sent to sea at a small expence.
Medical Books. JUST PUBLISHED, By Thomas Dobson, at the Stone House...
Medical Inquiries AND OBSERVATIONS. By BENJAMIN RUSH, M. D.
CONTAINING 1. An inquiry into the influence of physical causes upon the moral faculty. 2. An inquiry into the effects of spirituous liquors upon the human body...
Medical Transactions OF THE College of Physicians of Philadelphia. VOL. I. PART I.
With general directions for the management of Infants from the birth, adapted for the use of physicians and private families.
This is acknowledged to be the best book which has been published on the subject...
The Edinburgh New Dispensatory, two vols. System of Surgery, extracted from the works of Benjamin Bell...
T. Dobson has in the Press, An edition of the Medical and Philosophical Commentaries of Edinburgh.
The Ground Plan OF THE City and Suburbs OF PHILADELPHIA. TAKEN FROM ACTUAL SURVEY.
IT is with pleasure that the publisher has to inform his subscribers and the public in general, that the plate is now under the hands of the engraver...
Choice St. Croix Sugar, JUST IMPORTED, And for Sale, By JAMES YARD.
NANKEENS. Nankeens of Superior Quality, Long and short pieces...
Long and short pieces, Long and short black fattins, Black Taffetas, and Senhawes...
War Department, August 1, 1794. Information is hereby given to all the military Invalids of the United States...
Information is hereby given to all the military Invalids of the United States, that the sums to which they are entitled for their annual pension...
Just Published, AND FOR SALE BY Jacob Johnson & Co. No. 147, Market street.
American Revolution. Written in the style of ancient history, in two vols. price 15/.
The Italian Nun, translated from the French of J. J. Rousseau, price 4/6. Moore's Journal in France, in two vols. price 15/.
French Revolution. JUST PUBLISHED. (Price two Dollars.) By MATHEW CAREY.
By MATHEW CAREY, No. 118, Market street, AN IMPARTIAL HISTORY OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, From its Commencement to the execution of the QUEEN and the DEPUTIES of the Gironde Party.
Extrait from the Preface. The authors have presumed to affix to their title, the epithet impartial; and the reason is, because they cannot charge themselves with feeling the smallest bias to any party...
Extract from the Critical Review, June 1794. 18 Page. We have certainly derived much pleasure, and acquired much information from the perusal of those volumes...
Just Received, By the Sloop Endeavor, Jon. Paine Master from Boston, New-England Rum, In Hds. for Sale by Nalbro & John Frazier.
SHERRY WINE, In pipes and quarter casks, fit for immediate use. St. Lucar Wine in pipes, and quarter casks.
ROTA WINE in quarter casks, PORT WINE in do. Boston BEEF, HYSOP and SOUTHERN TEAS, Spanish INDIGO, Ravens DUCK, TICKLENBURG, OZNABRIGS, DOWLAS, and 8 by 10 Window Glass.
Was left on the 10th July, along side of the Sloop Sally, one barrel of Linseed OIL, containing 27 gallons...
TUITION. WILLIAM FINCH of the New Theatre, begs leave to inform his Friends and the Public, that he has removed from the corner of Eighth and Arch streets to No. 68, north Eighth between Arch and Race streets...
WILLIAM FINCH of the New Theatre, begs leave to inform his Friends and the Public, that he has removed from the corner of Eighth and Arch streets to No. 68, north Eighth between Arch and Race streets...
THIS DAY IS PUBLISHED, By Thomas Dobson, At the Stone House, No. 41, South Second street, 1. LETTERS addressed to the Philosophers and Politicians of France, on the subject of Religion...
1. LETTERS addressed to the Philosophers and Politicians of France, on the subject of Religion; to which are prefixed observations relating to the causes of the general prevalence of Infidelity.
By JOSEPH PRIESTLEY, L.L.D. F.R.S. &c. Price one quarter of a Dollar. II. TWO SERMONS, viz. 1. The present state of Europe compared with ancient prophecies.
1. The present state of Europe compared with ancient prophecies. Preached on the Fast day, in 1794; with a preface containing the reasons of the author for leaving England. 2. The use of Christianity, especially in difficult times...
A Concise History of the Rise of those Doctrines, and an account of the Trial of M'Elwall, for Heresy and Blasphemy, at Stafford Assizes. Price one eighth of a Dollar.
The above three are re-published with the author's improvements and additions; and a considerable part of his works, in an improved state, will make their appearance as soon as convenience will admit.
NO. 68. District of Pennsylvania, TO WIT.
BE it remembered that on the twenty-third day of July in the nineteenth year of the independence of the United States of America, JOSEPH BOGGS, of the said district hath deposited in this office, the title of a book the right whereof he claims as author in the words following, to wit:
The Philadelphia Directory, for the year 1795—by Joseph Boggs. In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States entitled "An act for the encouragement of learning by securing the copies of maps charts and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned." Sam. Caldwell, Clerk of the District of Pennsylvania. July 30

For the Gazette of the United States.
Mr. FENNO,
By inserting the enclosed in your very useful paper, you will much oblige a community that is much disposed to good order, and tranquility.
At a meeting of Republican Citizens in Frederic County, Virginia, the address to Alexander Smyth, having been read,
Ordered, unanimously that the following answer be returned to Citizen ALEXANDER SMYTH.
The leading principle in the Constitution of these states, and of every other free government is this—that, "The will of a majority of the Citizens expressed by their legal representatives shall govern." If this be true, we take leave to say your address is a daring attack on the independence of the citizens of the United States. For, notwithstanding the very florid language of this piece of declamation, which by the bye would do no great credit to a school-boy, in plain English it runs thus—
"To the people of the United States. Altho' a majority of you have determined on a Constitution for yourselves, wherein you have delegated certain powers to a chief magistrate—a Senate and House of Representatives—to the latter particularly—the right of declaring peace and war:—And although your Representatives, at their last session (the first in which you have been equally represented) have, after mature investigation of the subject determined that it is essential to the interests of the United States, and for the general welfare of the citizens, to avert, if possible, the calamities of war: and to that end have enjoined on all, as of the utmost consequence to their happiness, to observe a strict neutrality towards all the belligerent powers—nevertheless, I Alexander Smyth, having taken a retrospective view of the proceedings of government—having watched each motion of those in power—I Alexander Smyth, by virtue of the authority to me given, as a member of the Democratic Society in Wythe County, Do pronounce the Representatives and executive officers of the United States unfaithful and corrupt —in as much as they have countenanced the only true patriots and zealous defenders of liberty among us, who were about to commence hostilities against England and Spain. And I Alexander Smyth do further pronounce that a majority of the said Representatives and Executive officers ought and shall be displaced—more especially the chief Magistrate, however justly meriting your gratitude and confidence.—What though in the infancy of the Republic, before your resources can be drawn forth but with extreme inconvenience and injury to the Citizens:—what though ye can render no real service to our allies by engaging at this time in war—What though a war will drag the citizens far from their families, and expose them and their property to all the distresses and losses which they have so lately experienced—Ye all had better perish—than that the spark of liberty which I Alexander Smyth have kindled should be extinguished. Citizens what is despotism? Ye will not dare to insinuate that I Alexander Smyth spins that way , while dictating to the United States?—I trust ye will not;—remember the guillotine; may it have an attractive—
No citizens! Despotism consists not in the assumption of power in one or a few to dictate to or govern the majority of a community—it consists in the majority's daring to discountenance a foreigner, or individual patriotic citizen from plunging the community into a war, whether they will or not, and at the hazard of all that is dear to them. It consists in the majority of the states approving of the nomination of a citizen for the purpose of demanding reparation for injuries. These are the instances of Despotism which mark the corruption of government, and which call for immediate vengeance.
Besides purging the different departments, and thereby effecting a radical cure here; I Alexander Smyth have another Spark to kindle—it is yet a latent one indeed; but by engaging you in the war, I meditate to excite such an excessive friction, as to produce flame sufficient to consume the rotten edifices of the European Governments, on the ruins of which I Alexander Smyth mean to erect others."
Believe us, Citizen Alexander Smyth, we have done no more, as you will observe above, than convey your meaning to the people of the United States in intelligible language. Believe us too by so doing, we aim not at popularity; we have no appointment, no sinister end
n view; the public welfare is our only object.
Postscript by Parton— If we two may be permitted to embellish a quotation from Holy Writ, we may add that "Alexander (not the Copper) Smyth hath done us much evil."
From the American Minerva.
The present period of revolutions has given birth to a book, called "The Age of Reason," by Thomas Paine. However remarkable the age may be for the reason of nations or individuals, Mr. Paine's head is certainly turned, and with him, the present age is the "Age of Infidelity."
He begins his book as usual with egotism. He addresses to his fellow-citizens of America, this short invective against revelation, as his last offering—he has reserved it for an advanced period of his life—as Lord Kaims laid of his sketches, "it is the child of his grey hairs." Indeed the decay and debility of the father is stamped on every limb of the child.
However unfortunate it is, the fact is undeniable, that men, during the decay of old age and the failure of intellectual faculties, constantly think themselves growing wiser. The mistake lasts, till old men are enfeebled down to the state of children. Mr. Paine is not an old man, but his faculties are evidently impaired, or he could never have called his book the "Age of Reason."
Mr. Paine defines revelation to be something communicated immediately from God to man; and he says, that when the same thing is communicated from one man to another, it ceases to be revelation; depending for its credibility on human testimony. Thus he gets rid of all revelation at a single phrase.
He ranks the old Testament with the heathen mythology. He says it was decided by vote which books of the old and new Testament should be called the word of God; and the book of Luke was carried by a majority of one vote only.
After ridiculing the creation, by saying, every nation has been world-makers and the Israelites had as much right as others to set up the trade of world-makers, he goes on to declare.
"When we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortuous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half the bible is filled, it would be more consistent to call it the word of a demon, than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness, that has served to brutalize and corrupt mankind, and for my own part I sincerely detest it, as I detest every thing that is cruel." Would the author then suppress all history of cruelties whether sacred or profane? However as he is a great enemy to ancient cruelty, we could wish to know how his own imprisonment and the proceedings of the revolutionary tribunal, sit upon his mind.
The proverbs of Solomon he allows to be a good table of ethics, tho' inferior to those of the Spaniards, or the maxims of Dr. Franklin. The prophets, he alleges were Jewish poets and itinerant preachers. Mr. Paine ranks Jesus Christ with Moses and Mahomet: tho' he admits Jesus to have called men to the practice of moral virtues and the belief of one God. In short he thinks him to have been a philanthropist and a very good man. But Mr. Paine admits a revelation a word of God; and this is the creation we behold. He then goes on to describe this word of God; gives a short account of the solar system, and by the familiar and even vulgar manner of explaining it, it is evident he wrote his "Age of Reason" for common readers in France and America.
Such is the last production of a writer who began his literary career with common sense. Whether this book is destined to overthrow the system of christianity in America, as his common sense contributed to overthrow the English government in this country, we shall not predict. Certain it is, that the tendency of such books, which are industriously circulated by certain democrats, is to level Jesus Christ, as well as the monarchies of the earth. We trust however that the body of the people in America have too much good sense to be deceived, and that they will not exchange good laws, freedom and a pure religion, for the principles of anarchy and infidelity.
From the American Minerva.
Mr. Necker's remarks on the present state of France—on Executive power, Vol. 2. 390.
Such are the new authorities which have started up in the state, such the different superiors which the constitution has produced, such the actual inequalities which have supplied the place of the vain distinctions, the suppression of which has been celebrated with so much ostentation. By what names shall we call them? What titles shall we invent to express the supremacy of those who can, with impunity, stir up the people against the opinions
and persons of public men; who can, with impunity, draw insults upon the monarch and all who are connected with him; who can, with impunity, set down my woods, ravage my estate, set fire to my habitation, who can, with impunity recommend a traveller to popular outrages, or can themselves constrain a peaceable citizen, by menaces, to fly his paternal abode, and become an exile from his family? What titles also shall we invent to express the supremacy of those, who have engrossed exclusively to themselves the public ear, who by their daily publications occupy the whole of the few precious moments that husbandmen and artisans can devote to the improvement of their minds; who thus govern the people by lies, inspire them with whatever passions and sentiments their bale purposes may require, and insensibly weaken in them every tie necessary to the maintenance of social subordination. Ah! let us call them dukes, arch-dukes, princes and viceroys; let us treat them with the utmost deference provided they will engage in return to leave our property and our lives secure, and to respect morality and religion, and we shall make a happy exchange, we shall sign at the present moment, the best of all possible contracts. For I repeat it, these are the masters which have been given us by a constitution that has placed the scepter in the hands of the demagogues of the multitude; this is the terrible aristocracy which that constitution has generated; and yet we talk of liberty, we boast of a system of equality, a system that shall place all men upon a level!
It is true the superiorities which heretofore existed are no longer to be seen; but those who have succeeded them are a thousand times more terrible. We have destroyed the parchments which conferred on the ancient chevaliers of France their honorary prerogatives; but we have given commissions of audacity and impunity to men strangers to every generous sentiment. We have taken out of the prospect the weathercocks upon the chateaux of the noblesse; but we have introduced on all sides the torches of incendiaries. We have destroyed the pigeon houses of lords of manors, but we have new peopled the plains with tyrants athirst for blood. We have broken to pieces the proud sepulchres that remained as a memorial over the ashes of the dead; but we have surrendered with tremendous silence, and secured with tyrannous precautions the abysses destined to immanacle the living.
Menace has been every where substituted for the mild law of respect; and sanguinary vengeance for the efficacious interposition of a venerable authority. Government has been sacrificed to the fear of despotism, and there has immediately sprung up a multitude of tyrants, who, celebrating hypocritically the charms and blessings of equality, have extended their yoke over the property, over the persons, over the opinions and over the consciences of men. Meanwhile they are not descended, as one might be led to imagine, from the land which Cadmus sowed with the teeth of serpents; but they owe their origin to those fertile germs of anarchy which have corrupted the vegetation of the moral soil of France, and rendered it prolific in malevolent demons and savage spirits.
LONDON, April 15.
The lenity and equality of the Law of Scotland.
On the 4th day of this month, William Pettigrew, an accomptant in Glasgow, was tried at the circuit court for the murder of his wife, in a most cruel and barbarous manner. He first knocked her down with a bottle, which broke with the violence of the stroke, and then took that part attached to the neck, and cut, lacerated, and tore the muscles of her neck in such a dreadful manner that she died in great agonies shortly after. The charge was clearly proved—the Pannel (i. e. Prisoner,) set up a plea of insanity; but upon minute enquiry it was rejected. The jury found him guilty of culpable homicide, being a Scots term for wilful murder. The court passed sentence of transportation out of Scotland for fourteen years, with a certification of death in case he returned to Scotland previous to that time.
UNITED STATES.
PORTLAND, July 26.
Melancholly Accident.
Wednesday last, being the time appointed for mounting a cannon on the new carriage lately constructed by the Engineer in this town, a large number of spectators was gathered by curiosity, to see the operation—the gun, which was an 18 pounder, being mounted,
mounted, was charged with powder and ball by direction of the Engineer, the crowd of spectators retired at a distance, to see the explosion; the cannon was then discharged, and burst to pieces.—The Captain of a Swedish vessel now lying in this harbor, was so badly wounded, as to expire in agony in a few hours. A Mr. Colby was likewise badly wounded in the leg.
We have heard of no other person's receiving any damage, although many were nearer than those who were hurt. This is the third melancholly instance which has happened in this town in the course of a few years—and whilst it reads us a serious lesson on the uncertainty of human life, it is earnestly hoped that it will tend to check that curiosity which often leads to danger and to death.
PHILADELPHIA, AUGUST 7.
Says a Correspondent,
Diseases of Nature, War and Murder are avenues fully sufficient to rid us prematurely of existence. Carelessness seems however lately to be not the least dreadful verge on which we daily totter. Last week a Gentleman walking up Chestnut street, at night, precipitated himself in a large round hole; sometime open and digging in the street opposite the State-House, then nine feet deep. He was exceedingly bruised. A few nights since, a respectable man, a clerk to a Painter in this City, fell in one of a number of new-contrived and dangerous holes, at the corner of Market, and Third-street; he prevented himself from falling thirty or forty feet, by spreading out his arms, and caught when he sunk to the shoulders. He is exceedingly maimed. A Child which was missing last Tuesday evening, and cried by the Bell-Man, was found yesterday morning in the Cellar to which one of the above holes, in the above place, was an avenue and died of its wounds. Humanity and Police, where are you?!!
DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY.
At a special meeting of the Democratic Society of Pennsylvania, held at Philadelphia, on Thursday the 31st day of July, in the year of our Lord 1794, and of American Independence the nineteenth: The following resolutions were proposed, considered and adopted:
Resolved, as the opinion of this society, that in a democracy a majority ought in all cases to govern: and that where a constitution exists which emanated from the people, the remedies pointed out by it against unjust and oppressive laws, and bad measures, ought to be resorted to: and that every other appeal but to the constitution itself, except in cases of extremity, is improper and dangerous.
Resolved, as the opinion of this society that altho' we conceive excise systems to be oppressive, hostile to the liberties of this country, and a nursery of vice and sycophancy, we, notwithstanding, highly disapprove of every opposition to them, not warranted by that frame of government, which has received the sanction of the people of the United States.
Resolved, that we will use our utmost efforts to effect a repeal of the excise-laws by constitutional means; that we will at all times make legal opposition to every measure, which shall endanger the freedom of our country; but that we will bear testimony against every unconstitutional attempt to prevent the execution of any law sanctioned by the majority of the people. Published by order of the Society. GEO. BOOTH, Sec'ry.
From the Columbian Mirror.
Mr. PRICE, Sir,—Hearing of the loss of a very valuable member of the community by the bite of a mad dog, and willing to prevent any accidents of the like kind, I with pleasure communicate to you a receipt which by accident has fallen into my hands, and with you to publish it in your useful paper, from
Your obedient humble servant I. H.
Infallible cure for the Bite of a Mad Dog.
TAKE the leaves of rue picked from the stalks and bruised, six ounces; garlic picked from the stalks and bruised. Venice treacle, or mithridate, and scrapings of pewter, each four ounces: boil all these together over a slow fire in two quarts of ale till one pint is consumed; keep it in a bottle close stopped, & give of it 9 spoonfuls a little warm, to the person bit seven mornings successively, and six to a dog, to be given nine days after the bite—apply some of the ingredients to the part bitten.
N. B. This receipt was taken out of Cathrop Church, in Lincolnshire, the whole town almost being bitten, and not one person that took this medicine but what was cured.
Messrs. STUART & CARROLL, GENTLEMEN,
DEFEATED by your own letters in all your former efforts, I am astonish-
ed that you again plume yourselves on such slight grounds, as the letter you have obtained from my friend Colonel Deakins. This Gentleman is gone to the Springs for the recovery of his health, and has declined all business of course;—how well must you stand with your own treasurer when you could exact no more from him for your present purpose?
Indeed I admire his candour, and cannot conceive how you can hope to draw an unworthy conclusion, from a single sentence of his reply: the presenting of a few tickets from the checks which you, as well as the public know are payable at Philadelphia, merely to obtain a denial, was pitiful, the trick cannot escape the notice of a child of yesterday—and do you now pretend to believe that your wanton attack, on a public institution, which you knew at the time, was the legal property of thousands of your fellow-citizens was discharging your duty to the public?
On the contrary, I believe you will find on due enquiry that you have committed a crime which might have laid you under a severe penalty if you had been successful in what you call the "arresting of a Lottery in its progress."
The turn you have endeavoured to give to the typographical error in the date of the letter is rendered abortive by the reference which follows, when I ask, Why in the sale of October 1793, you depart from a rule established by yourselves in the letter dated 6th of January, he gentlemen!
And now to notice for a moment your extreme vanity, viz. your idea of "a high standing in your favour"—"your disdain, &c." I would ask of what particular importance the former could be to me? Pray who are you and what are you, that you should thus elevate yourselves? Is it for your knowledge in architecture, surveying, or the art of conducting a private sale that has given you the self sufficient consequence of which you vaunt? for my part, I have heretofore considered you as plain country gentlemen, of little experience in the world of business, but of good moral character. You were appointed to take charge of the lands which I had given in common with the other proprietors for public purposes; and at the particular request of the late Secretary of State, I cheerfully endeavoured to assist you in some matters in which you then confessed your inexperience, and you seemed for a short time to attend to advice, but in the only important instance that occurred, viz. the extensive private sale you lost sight of your helm, and were launched into a sea of error, from which I fear it will be difficult indeed to re-land with credit: Yet I hope you will be enabled to convince the proprietors and the public in general that you meant well, more than that you cannot do.
As I answered all your questions with candour, do you hope that either the proprietors or the public will believe that your evasion viz. your "disdaining" to answer mine, in turn, will be deemed proper and satisfactory? no gentleman as a proprietor, I call on you in the name of your Landlords, to render an account of your Stewardship; you are well assured that your conduct has been publicly questioned for more than 6 months before I mentioned the subject, and I act but the part of a friend when I request your explanations in answer to the questions proposed in my last.
It may be well again to repeat, that the two lotteries were brought forward under the same official authority, but the former under personal security only, while the latter has received the addition of ample real security, the public confidence in the latter has become greater of course. I was pleased on his account to find that Mr. Johnson had withdrawn himself from this useless controversy. Dr. Stuart will undoubtedly be the next to perceive he has been duped, but Mr. Carroll for certain reasons with which he is well acquainted, will probably keep up the Ball as long as he may be countenanced by misguided colleagues. I will just give you a hint that shall end this address.—It is now whispered that the ostensible matter in our controversy is meant by you as a tub to the whale, merely to check the enquiry into the errors of the private sale, and that it will be necessary for you to write again in order to let the public right. A word to the wise is sufficient.
Your's, &c.
S. BLODGET.
N. B. I leave town to-morrow, in order to supply the vacancy at the Hotel, during the absence of my friend Col. Deakins.
From an EXETER Paper of March 30.
The society for encouraging the capture

of French privateers, have presented a grant of fifty guineas to Thomas Prance, late master of the brig Joseph, of Barnstable, for his gallant conduct during two engagements with the Sans-Culotte privateer on the coast of America. After a sharp engagement, he obliged her to sheer off, but the privateer returned to the charge, and by superior force obliged him to surrender, after losing both his hands, and being otherwise severely wounded.
From the Baltimore Daily Intelligencer.
Messrs. Printers, If the following copy of an edict, published at Cadiz on the 16th of May, 1794, by order of his Excellency Joachim Fouldevilla, governor of that place, deserves a place in your Daily Intelligencer, you will, by inserting the same, oblige
A CONSTANT READER.
IT having come to the knowledge of his excellency, that sundry young men, strangers, correspond very badly with the attentions and respect due to the territory and domains of his most Catholic majesty, wherein they reside, and enjoy the protection, privileges, commerce and distinctions, reciprocally adopted between nations living in friendship; that most of them, and some Spaniards, are ostentatious in their conduct, by wearing certain clothing, modes and decorations, which, not being adopted by their respective nations, cover them with ridicule and scandal; forming a suspected distinction, susceptible of criticisms and epithets, analogous of sentiments that are kept in horror; such as ought to restrain them from transforming themselves into objects of ridicule and contempt, whereby they are exposed to be insulted by those who believe that this very extravagant distinction, with which they decorate themselves, authorises them to do so. By the same means they turn into ridicule the inhabitants professing good principles, which they never cease to recommend to them, accompanied with such reflections, as good education and manners are capable to inspire.
His excellency, ever so confident that they will correct, moderate and restrain themselves, hath thought it his duty to order, and doth order by these presents that no person, of whatever state or condition he may be, shall not be allowed in future to wear long fur-trimmed coats (levites) pantaloon, trousers, high-crowned hats, ribbons in their shoes or small cloths, colored neck cloths double faced jackets, sticks canes or cudgels exceeding the common bigness, or being shorter than three feet; and that they shall not be permitted to dress themselves in any fashion, or distinctive, so as to particularize themselves, or differ from the rest of the subjects; and enjoins all inhabitants, strangers and travellers, of whatever rank, fortune, art or profession they may be to conform themselves thereto; in default of which, they shall be dealt with as the circumstances of the case may require; and will give information thereof, and of the name of the offender to his majesty. His excellency is persuaded, that the fathers of families, chiefs of houses, and others whom it may concern, in compliance with the duties imposed upon them by their own rights, will be watchful about the execution of this edict, as their honor and good order of government require it: And in order that nobody should pretend ignorance, the present edict shall be printed, read, and published.
NEW-YORK, August 6.
EXTRACT.
[In other countries, bad governments reduce men to poverty and wretchedness. In America few are poor, but from laziness or intemperance. In Europe, if men are swinish, it is from the vices of government; in America none are swinish, but such as render themselves so, by their beastly vices. In Europe people sometimes collect in crowds and fight for bread; in America, we hear of no riots for bread—but sometimes for whiskey.]
From a Correspondent Differences between a Republican and a Democrat of the present day.
A Republican wishes both parties and all parties and all men to be subject to the laws or public will, expressed by the constitutional legislature; and those laws to be general and equal in their operation at all times.
A Democrat wishes and endeavors to govern the country by small parties and private clubs. He strives to make a part direct the whole; and in short to put it in the power of private clubs and occasional popular meetings, to govern the constitutional government.
A Republican, when any thing is wrong, always has recourse to the law for redress; a Democrat often has recourse to tar and feathers, a guillotine, or riots. Witness several late facts.
HARRISBURGH, August 2.
Not a word relative to the late disturbance in Washington county, owing to the excise law, has come to hand, since our last, except a confirmation of the account already given, and that the malcontents in that quarter are very numerous, and generally thought the majority of the inhabitants, who persevere, with the greatest obstinacy, to evade the duty imposed by Congress.
From the ORACLE.
MR. WYETH.
A number of the citizens of Harrisburgh, beg leave to make use of your paper, to express their disapprobation of the flag that was raised a few days since upon one of the scaffold-poles, at the court house lot:—they are neither Frenchmen nor Englishmen;—they profess themselves to be Americans, and conceive that an attachment to French or English flags, or cockades, in preference to those of their own country, is mean, servile, and degrading, in the highest degree;—but they view the erection of the flag, at this time, particularly indecent and improper; because their country is in a state of declared neutrality, and it therefore becomes the indispensable duty of every good citizen, to observe such neutrality, strictly himself, and to prevent, as far as in him lies, the violation of it in others. How great then is their astonishment to find, that this act has been done, or at least countenanced and permitted by men high in office, and especially appointed to watch over the laws and government of their country!
July 2, 1794.
From the Minerva.
The "Report upon the Principles of Political morality," by Maximilian Robespierre in the name of the committee of public safety, and read in the Convention of France Feb. 6, 1794, is a most curious composition and highly characteristic of the present rulers of France. Its design is to develope the principles which are to form the basis of the interior administration of the Republic and to designate clearly the purposes of the Revolution.
In the following passages, the report unfolds a general view of these purposes—purposes and wishes in which all good men will join with one voice:
"We wish that order of things where all the low and cruel passions are enchain'd, all the beneficent and generous passions awakened by the laws; where ambition subsists in a desire to deserve glory and serve the country: where distinctions grow out of the system of equality, where the citizen submits to the authority of the magistrate, the magistrate obeys that of the people, and the people are governed by a love of justice; where the country secures the comfort of each individual, and where each individual prides himself in the prosperity and glory of his country; where every soul expands by a free communication of republican sentiments, and by the necessity of deserving the esteem of a great people; where the arts serve to embellish that liberty which gives them value and support, and commerce is a source of public wealth and not merely of immense riches to a few individuals.
We wish in our country that morality may be substituted for egotism, probity for false honor, principles for usages, duties for good manners, the empire of reason for the tyranny of fashion, a contempt for vice instead of misfortune, pride for insolence, magnanimity for vanity, the love of glory for the love of money, good people for good company, merit for intrigue, genius for wit, truth for infidel shew, the attractions of happiness for the ennui of sensuality, the grandeur of men for the littleness of the great, a people magnanimous, powerful, happy, for a people amiable, frivolous and miserable; in a word, all the virtues and miracles of a Republic, instead of all the vices and absurdities of a Monarchy."
The report then proceeds to say, that a Democratic or Republican government, is the only kind that can realize these prodigies.—But the description of this form of government is a clear, explicit disavowal of the use and expediency of private clubs interfering with government. The words of the report are, "A democracy is not where the people always assembled, regulate themselves public affairs; much less is it where one hundred thousand portions of the people, by measures insinuated, precipitate and contradictory, should decide the fate of the whole nation. Such a government has never existed except to bring back the people under the yoke of despotism."
These are stubborn facts, supported by all history, and we cannot find a more pointed censure of popular clubs,
than this which the Convention has furnished us.
The report proceeds to define a democracy. "A democratic government is that in which the sovereign people, guided by laws of their own enacting, do themselves all that they can do well and by means of delegates all which they cannot do themselves." In this definition there is something vague and perhaps inaccurate, for it is admitted, in the preceding passage, that the people cannot themselves regulate public affairs, therefore they cannot personally enact laws to guide themselves.
Perhaps the American governments are the best comment on this passage. By our constitutions, our government is representative—every direct exercise of legislative, judicial or executive power is delegated away from the body of the people. The people do all they can do well—that is, they freely elect their representatives and freely censure or approve of their conduct—but never dictate or controul them.
In this report there are many things asserted that are contrary to fact and experience. Such as the true maxim of Montesquieu, that virtue or love of ones country, is the spring, the soul of democracy. A man loves his country only, because his interest leads him to it. The report says, this love of one's country can exist no where but in democracies, and that in a monarchy there can be but one individual who can love his country, and this is the monarch. This is directly contrary to the fact, and the French people, before the revolution, were a striking proof of the people's attachment to the monarch and their country, the governed by a monarch.
The report alleges that the "French are the first people in the world that have established democracy in its purity." To this extraordinary proposition, we Americans shall perhaps accede; but until the operation of it shall have produced better proofs of its internal excellence, we shall not regret that they are the first and only nation that is blessed with it. That government which cannot controul its internal factions, bending the wills of men to the laws; in short that government which cannot prevent the necessity of perpetual bloodshed by the hands of the executioner, must unquestionably be a very defective government. Impious necessity may apologize for present evils; but the government must be able to repress the violent factions of France, or it is a lame government.
A great part of the report, instead of corresponding with its title, is a strain of invective against the opposers of the Jacobins; the moderates, aristocrats &c.—One striking fact alleged in this report is, that aristocracy institutes popular societies. This probably alludes to the societies of Duillans and Cordeliers, which were instituted in opposition to the Jacobins.
The following passage in the report deserves particular notice. "Democracy suffers from two excesses, the aristocracy of the governors, or the contempt shown by the people to authorities by them constituted; which contempt makes each assembly of persons or each individual the centre of attraction to a portion of the public force, and brings back the people, thro' anarchy to annihilation or despotism." A fine description this, of the nature and dangerous tendency of popular societies.
The truth is, the convention is alarmed at the strength of their popular societies in France. In several instances, they have repented their deputations, for their violent proposals, and dismissed them from the hall with marks of disgrace.
A deputation from some of these societies lately addressed the convention, calling for vengeance on their internal enemies, and demanding that blood might be the order of the day. The President informed them that "Justice, not blood, was the order of the day, and dismissed them with marks of pointed disapprobation.
The Revolution of France is destined ultimately to produce glorious effects; but men who suppose the French have now a Free Constitution or one that will in peace secure life, liberty, and property, will find themselves egregiously mistaken. When her foreign enemies are totally vanquished, France will find a great part of her work remains to be done. The Convention may make or listen to elegant reports and brilliant theories of government, calculated to amuse people glowing with an enthusiastic ardor for liberty; but practice will hereafter sweep away many of their airy systems, and stubborn experience will correct much of that enthusiasm which is now necessary to elevate their minds above all obstacles that oppose themselves to the progress of the revolution.
MR. FENNO.
It is suggested by some persons, not under oath by the bye, that the fresh batch of resolutions owes its existence to the late riots over the mountains—the circumstance gave rise to the following distich;
To raise such devils, and to quell them, Are different matters I can tell them.
Yours, FORCE-MEAT-BALL.
A new-born infant was found one day last week in a duck, at the south part of the town with its throat cut.
A man was found drowned on the Jersey shore last week, with a brick tied to his neck.
Almighty love! who can thy pow'r withstand, Whene'er thou tak'st desponding swains in hand!
In vain we try to draw the fatal dart, Which the young unclasp fixes in the heart—
The maddening brain in a wild frenzy tost
Works to a crisis, and the man is lost—
Swords, pistols, poisons, or the river's brink,
Alone can cure—these make us cease to think.
The following merits a republication, being replete with Paeic Beauties
From the Independent Gazetteer.
MR. PRINTER,
The melancholy catastrophe described in the inclosed ELEGIAK, is a real fact, which occurred du n y the author's passage from Europe to this happy continent: and should you deem the verses worth publication, they are perfectly at your service.
Your's, &c. J. J. M.
THE SAILOR,
AN ELEGIAK.
TOO long the prostituted strain,
With some ignoble theme elate,
Has sung to sooth the idle train
Of venal, proud, and profligate;
Thou, modest muse of pueram!
Indignant spurn the hacknied plan;
And, spite of wealth, of pride, and fame,
Record the humble honest man.
On ocean's ever restless wave
I scann'd the wand'ring seamen's life;
The pupil of misfortune keen,
Of want and elemental strife.
Though conscious of impending ills,
His wayward course the Tar pursues;
And while with good the world he fills—
He ranks among the world's refuse!
Familiar with the gloomy storm
(Where winds tumultuous empire keep)
Innurd to danger's every form,
On ways of woe and death his sleep;
He cheerful quits his native soil,
Defying hunger, heat or cold;
For others' ease encounters toil;
His poverty for others' gold!
Matchless is his meek worth!
The bee of Nature's scatter'd stores,
Around the wide differ'd earth,
Her luscious sweets he plenteous pours.
Smiling nations share the gains,—
Cities arise and arts abound;
Shaggy forests, sandy plains,
Are chang'd to gardens all around:
Where erst the wily serpent stray'd,
And ochred chiefs to orgies sped;
Marble temples now display'd,
Commerce smiling rears her head.
This to sailors do we owe,
And withhold the hard earn'd praise!
Ought their worth unnoted go?
Rude oblivion blot their days?
If, just to Nature's trem'lous power,
Thine heart, with soft effusions warm,
Has e'er beguild the passing hour,
And felt of woe the pensive charm.
Of sensibility the sigh,
Of sympathy the tender tear,
The glow of soft philanthropy,
Oh! gentle stranger, feel them here!
While yet the awful tempest rag'd
On wide Atlantic's rudest wave;
And in the uproar wild prelag'd
Our instantaneous wat'ry grave.
Headlong, by the boisterous blast,
And ocean's agonizing swell,
Hurld from the oscillating mast,
The hapless Jenique giddy fell!
The anchor's barb, his bosom prone
Harsh macerating, spent his breath;
And a faint heart alarming groan
Announc'd him in the gripe of death:
Immersing at the mighty blow,
Deep down the while convulsive sea,
That lash'd the strong vibrating prow,
The mangled youth came up the lee.
In vain,—(impetuous pulse be still!—
'Tis not of heaven the high behest,
The call which mortal man can feel
By mortal words can be express'd—
Else might some master Bard rehearse
Themournful scene with art too high;
Too exquisitely paint his verse,
And wound the soul to agony!)
The soul with gen'rous warmth inspir'd
Can dare the danger of the wave.
With pity and affection fir'd,
Can die his brother's life to save:
And such, O Jenique, saw thy fate;
But saw, with sad despair and pain.
Contending winds and waves so great,
The bold attempt were mad and vain!
Enhrin'd in deep green waves, he drove A stiff'ning corse of ferrie bereft; Nor with the rushing torrent strove, Nor as he went the waters cleft; 'Till distant from the moisten'd eye, As wildly curving currents led, The seabirds sang his obsequy, Revolving o'er his pallid head; Then down the drear abyss he went, Perhaps within some coral cove; And sleeps where ocean's gems are rent, And troubled waters never move. Farewell, cheery, guileless heart, Thy Maker has thee now in tow, Afloat from every earthly smart; From storms and tempsts, pain and woe!
Ah! w th the widow'd mother's pain, If conscious of my plaintive song! The object of his little g ay — Dismal subject of his tongue; Alas! below: in foul or fair; In serious mood, or merry glee; In blooming health, or fallow care; The filial topic sure was she! And Ye!—companions of his toil,— Say, mils ye not the mesnate kind, Who daily made ye all to smile, And sent your sorrows to the wind? Who, ever ready at the word To execute his duty well, To many a heart ye knew prefer'd, In many a taught and weary spell? But Tars!—he's gone—the moral scan, And hold it to your latest breath; A good, a truly honest man, Is valued both in life and death. J. J. M.
On the New-York News.
Whether there is, or is not a Barbadoes paper, Or whether the whole is merely a printer's vapor, Of th' allies under Clairfait and the Duke of York, Defeating the French, and making such bloody work— Killing seventeen thousand men dead on the spot, Of M c Phegrue's escape, and the Lord knows what— Of the English fleet taking nine French ships of the line, And crippling six others to boot— Are questions, which to resolve we still are in doubt, And so must remain, till time lets the secret out, But, to humbug the public with jokes and with lies— Is conduct, that public must condemn and despise.
For the Gazette of the United States.
MR. FENNO, If you will give the following trifle a place in your paper, you will confer a favor upon the Author of it. To Mils E. P. C.—s.
IF speech or writing could express The flame that in my bosom rages, I'd fill huge folios with thy praise, And tell thy charms to distant ages. The lofty hill, the bubbling stream, Should hourly listen to my love; And each dear letter of thy name Should mark the trees of yonder grove. But ah! th' attempt how weak and faint That beauty's power to reveal! Thy pow'r which language cannot paint, But ev'ry one, like me must feel. AMATOR.
PORT OF PHILADELPHIA.
ARRIVED,
Days. Schr. Dairy Maid, St. Vincents 18 Industry, Peason, Newbury P. 14 Capt. Davis, in coming in the Cape, being short of provisions, was going ashore for a supply at Lewis-town; the Africa, 64, then lying in the Roads, Raddom Holmes, Esq. the commodore, desired him to come alongside, and treated him with the greatest politeness, and supplied him with what he wanted, and sent his barge to conduct him on board, the wind blowing too fresh for Capt. Davis's boat to return to his own vessel. Capt. Latimer, in 19 days from Curacoa, informs, that on the 30th ult. in lat. 36, 44, he spoke the Schooner Betsey, Beterton, of Philadelphia, from Port a Paix homeward bound. Capt. B. informed Capt. L. that he left at Port a Paix, Capt. Waffon and Capt. Webb, both of Philadelphia. On board the Betsey were the crew of an English ship, which Captain Betterton picked up at sea, in distress.
A FEW TONS
Chipped Logwood,
FOR SALE,
Landing at Hamilton's wharf. Apply to
John Vaughan,
WHO HAS FOR SALE.
CLARET,
In hogheads and cases of the first quality.
Aug. 7 d
Strayed or Stolen,
FROM the Farm of JOHN LAURENCE, Esq. near the Falls of Schuylkill, a small young ORREL MARE, of the Narragansett breed, with a white slip in her face—whosoever will return said mare to said Farm, or to James Thomson at the Indian Queen, shall receive Ten Dollars reward. August 7. d

Excellent CLARET, In hogsheads and in cases of 50 bottles each ALSO, A few cases Champaignewine; MADEIRA, In pipes, hogsheads and quarter casks, FOR SALE BY JOHN VAUGHAN, No. 111, South Front Street. Jan. 2, 1794. df
GUTHRIE'S GEOGRAPHY Improved.
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The new maps added to this edition are twenty one; among which are those of New-Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode-Island, Vermont, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina, the Genesee Government, South Carolina, and Georgia. These maps have never been given in any former system of Geography, and it is hoped, would alone be sufficient to entitle this work to a preference to any other edition of Guthrie.
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The following section
of the law for establishing an Health-Office, &c. passed the last session of the Legislature, is re-published for the information of all concerned.
WM. ALLEN, Health-Officer, for the port of Philadelphia, No. 21, Key's alley. June 2, 1794.
Sec. 7. AND be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That every master or captain of any ship or vessel coming from beyond the sea (vessels actually employed in the coasting trade of the United States excepted) and bound to any port or place within the jurisdiction of Pennsylvania, shall cause his ship or vessel to be brought to anchor, or otherwise stayed in the stream of the river Delaware, opposite to the health-office on State-Island aforesaid, and there to remain until he shall have duly obtained a certificate or bill of health from the resident physician, in the manner and upon the terms herein before directed; and if, previously to obtaining such certificate or bill of health, any master or captain shall suffer his ship or vessel to approach nearer than the said health-office to the city of Philadelphia, or shall land, or cause or suffer to be landed, or brought on shore, at any port or place within this commonwealth, or at any other port or place, with the intent to be conveyed into this commonwealth, any person or persons, or any goods, wares or merchandise; or if after receiving such certificate or bill of health, he shall neglect or refuse to deliver the same to the health-officer agreeably to the directions of this act, such master or captain shall forfeit and pay, for each and every such offence, the sum of five hundred dollars to be recovered and appropriated as hereinafter provided and directed; and the captain or master of each and every ship or vessel, as soon as the same is brought to anchor, or otherwise stayed as aforesaid, shall find a safe and commodious boat to bring the resident physician on board of his ship or vessel, and shall in like manner convey him back to the health-office after he has concluded his official examination, or in case of any subsequent examination by the health-officer and consulting physician, as the case may be, each and every part of the ship or vessel, and shall present to his view each and every person on board thereof, and shall to the true and satisfactory answers make to all such questions as the resident physician at the time of examination, or the health-officer at the time of delivering the certificate, or bill of health, in the city of Philadelphia, or at the time of examination to be had by the health-officer together, with the consulting physician shall be relative to the health of any port or place from which the ship or vessel sailed, or has since touched at, the number of persons on board when the ship or vessel entered on her voyage, the number of persons that have since been landed or taken on board, and when or where respectively, what persons on board, if any have been during the voyage, or shall at any time of examination, be infected with any pestilential or contagious disease, what person belonging to the ship or vessel, if any died during the voyage, and of what disease, and what is the present state and condition of the persons on board, with respect to their health and diseases; and if any captain or master of any ship or vessel shall refuse to expose the same as aforesaid to the search and examination of the resident physician, or of the health-officer and consulting physician, as the case may be; or if, having on board his ship or vessel any such person or persons, he shall conceal the same, or in any manner whatsoever he shall knowingly deceive or attempt to deceive the proper officers aforesaid in his answers to their official enquiries, such captain or master, for each and every such offence, shall forfeit and pay the sum of five hundred dollars, to be recovered and appropriated as hereinafter provided and directed; and wherever the resident physician, or consulting physician, as the case may be, shall direct any person or persons, or any goods, wares or merchandise to be landed at the health-office, or any ship or vessel to be detained opposite thereto, and and there to be smoked, cleaned and purified, the captain of the ship or vessel shall in all respects conform to such directions, shall at the proper cost and charge of his employers carry the same into effect within such reasonable time as the resident physician, or consulting physician, as the case may be, shall allow and prescribe; and if any master or captain shall refuse or neglect to conform to these said directions, and to carry the same into effect as aforesaid, according to the respective subjects thereof, he shall forfeit and pay the sum of five hundred dollars for each and every offence, to be recovered and appropriated as is hereinafter provided and directed.
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Carolina Rice and Indigo, BAY MAHOGANY and FRENCH BURR STONES, FOR SALE BY Gurney and Smith. May 14. d
Morris Academy.
THIS institution is now open for the reception of students under the immediate care of Mr. Caleb Russell, whose abilities as an instructor, and attachment to the business have long been known and approved. He has under him the best assistants in the different branches—The scholars are taught the English, French, Latin, and Greek languages, Public-Speaking, Writing, Arithmetic, Geography, Astronomy, and the various branches of the Mathematics. The healthy situation of this place is such as to recommend it to those, who wish to have their children in the country. Boarding, washing, mending, &c. will be provided in good families, and the morals of the scholars carefully attended to. The price including tuition, firewood, &c. exclusive of the French language will not exceed thirty pounds proclamation money per annum; an addition of three dollars per quarter will be made to such scholars who are taught the French language. The Directors are determined to pay such attention to this institution, as will render it respectable and useful. GABRIEL H. FORD, TIMOTHY JOHNS, jun. } Directors. NATHAN FORD, Morristown, May 15, 1794. dtw. w2in.
Christiana Mills For Sale.
ON Monday the first day of September next at 8 o'clock in the evening, at the Coffee House in the city of Philadelphia will be sold by public vendue, two tracts or pieces of land situated in White Clay Creek hundred, New Castle county and state of Delaware; one of which contains about sixty acres of highly improved land, on it are a large two story brick dwelling house, a convenient brick barn, with stabling and a carriage house underneath, an excellent kiln for drying corn; and the well known mills called Christiana Mills (late Patterson's) which being at the head of the tide on Christiana river, and but about half a mile from the landing, is conveniently situated for carrying the articles manufactured at the mills by water to Philadelphia. This property being close to the road leading from Elkton to Christiana bridge, and at the head of the tide, with many other attendant advantages, renders its situation for the milling business to very valuable, as to be equal by far and excelled by none. The latter tract containing 175 acres, is about one mile from the mills and is chiefly woodland, which being contiguous to water carriage to the city of Philadelphia, must be of increasing value, especially as there is a quantity of large timber in said tract suitable for the purposes of the mills. The terms upon which the above mentioned estates will be sold are—A thousand pounds to be paid on executing the deed, and seven hundred and fifty pounds per annum, with interest for the remainder or proportionally for each part. Indispitable titles will be made for the property, by JOHN NIXON, ALEX. FOSTER, GEO. LATIMER. At same time and place will be sold a large BOAT; July 2 mw&ets
ADVERTISEMENT.
LETTERS on the subject of the Washington Lottery, being by mistake repeatedly addressed to the Commissioners for the City of Washington. Persons concerned are hereby informed, that all such should be addressed either to W. Deakins jun. of Washington, or to the Subscriber. The commissioners never having contemplated any further concern in this business, than in their assent to receive the bonds and approve the names of the managers. The prizes have been paid and are paying on demand by W. Deakins, Washington, Peter Gilman, Boston, and by the Subscriber. For the Lottery No. 2, the securities already given will be retained by the commissioners, or transferred by them at their option to the bank of Columbia; and the commissioners will be consulted respecting a judicious and equitable disposition of the houses to be built thereby; their treasury or the bank of Columbia will receive the money intended for the National University, and they will be consulted in the nomination of the 24 managers; but all the responsibility respecting the general disposition of the tickets, and payment of prizes, will rest as in the Hotel Lottery, on the persons whose names are and may be hereafter published as assistants to forward this business with S. BLODGET. N. B. Mr. Blodget will be particularly obliged if those persons who possess prizes yet unpaid, will apply for their money as early as possible. June 7th. d.
One hundred dollars Reward.
WHEREAS there were delivered in the Month of October last, in the Stores of the Subscribers, Two Casks and nine Half Casks of Bohea Tea, marked, numbered and weighing, as under, to some person or persons with pretended orders from Mr. ISAAC CLASON of this City, but which he did not receive; whoever will give information to that a discovery may be made, who got the said Tea, shall receive the above reward; and it is requested that the Dealers in the Article will be careful in examining the Marks and Numbers of the Casks that have passed through their hands since the period above-mentioned, and give the desired information. New-York, July 31, 1794. William and James Constable.
Ship Washington.
   C. q. lb. Tare Whole Casks Half Casks     No. 327 3 2 16 60   473 3 2 24 64   177 1 3 12 39   177 1 2 23 39   198 1 3 7 41   213 1 3 18 37   227 1 3 7 40   287 1 3 9 38   301 1 3 15 40   379 1 3 18 41   404 1 3 14 39   Ages 6 d m  
Treasury Department
Revenue Office, August 5th, 1794. PROPOSALS will be received at the Office of the Commissioner of the Revenue, No. 43, South Third Street, for furnishing by contract, Seven hundred and sixty eight
COCKED HATS,
for the corps of Artillerists and Engineers, to be made agreeably to a PATTERN at which will be shown at the Office aforesaid, to any person disposed to contract. Aug 6 eod2w
The Complainant hath filed
his bill, for the purpose of obtaining a decree, to vest in him a complete legal title to two tracts of land, lying in Baltimore county, one called Painters-Level, containing 100 acres, the other called Prospect containing 50 acres. He states that the said John Wells on the 16th day of March 1774 contracted to sell the said land to the said Mordecai Cole, & executed to him a bond for conveyance, that the said Cole, on the same day, executed to the said Wells a bond for the payment of the purchase money amounting to £675 Pennsylvania currency, that the said Cole hath since discharged the whole of the purchase money, and hath assigned to the complainant the said bond for conveyance; that the said Wells hath never executed a deed, agreeably to his contract but hath removed out of the state of Maryland, and now resides in the state of Kentucky. It is thereupon, and at the request of the complainant, adjudged, and ordered, that he procure a copy of this order to be inserted at least six weeks successively, before the first day of August next, in the United States Gazette at Philadelphia, to the intent, that the said John Wells may have notice of the complainant's application to this court, and may be warned to appear here, on or before the first Tuesday in October next, to show cause, wherefore this court should not proceed to decree, agreeably to the prayer of the complainant, and to the act of assembly, for such cases made and provided. Test, Samuel Harvey Howard. Reg. Cur. Can. June 13 mw&fow
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The Public are cautioned to beware of counterfeit Five Dollar Bills of the Bank of the United States, and Twenty Dollar Bills of the Bank of North America, several of which have appeared in circulation within a few days past; they are a good general imitation of the genuine Bills, but may be distinguished by the following
M A R K S.
Five Dollar Bills of the Bank of the United States. ALL that have appeared have the letter F. for their Alphabetical Mark. The Texture of the Paper is thicker and whiter and it takes the ink more freely than the genuine paper. The O. in the word Company is smaller than the M. and other letters of that word, so that a line extended from the top of the O. to touch the top of the M. would extend considerably above the range of the whole word. In the word United the letters are narrower and closer together than the rest of the bill. The i and f in the word promise are not parallel, the f inclining much more forward than the i. The engraving is badly executed, the strokes of all the Letters are stronger and the device in the margin particularly so much coarser and appears darker than in the true bills. Some of the counterfeiters bear date in 1791—Whereas the Bank was not in operation till December, and no five dollar bills were issued in that year. Twenty Dollar Bills of the Bank of North America. ALL that have appeared have the letter B. for their alphabetical mark. They are printed on a paper nearly similar to that of the counterfeit Five Dollar Notes above described; the engraving is better executed, and they approach nearer to the appearance of the genuine bills. The fine ruled lines through the word Twenty, in the body of the bill, are in number thirteen in the genuine bills, and but twelve in the counterfeits. The word Company is much like the same word in the Five Dollar Bills as described above, the e being less than the a, and o the a following. There is no stroke to the t in the word North whereas in the genuine bills the stroke is well defined. The letters e n t in the word Twenty, to the left hand at the bottom, do not come down to the line, but are so cut as to give an irregular appearance to the word, the T a and the y going below them. The signature J. Nixon, has the appearance of being written with lamb-black and oil, and differs from other inks used in printing the bills and the cashier's signature. It is supposed these forgeries were committed in some of the Southern States, as all the counterfeits that have appeared, have come from thence, and two persons have been apprehended in Virginia, on suspicion of being the author of them. The reward of ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS will be paid to any Person or Persons who shall discover and prosecute to conviction the several offenders of the following descriptions or any of them, viz. The person or persons, who manufactured the paper on which the Bills are printed. The person or persons, who engraved the plates. The printer or printers, of the bills. Every person who has acted as a principal in any other way, in the counterfeiting and uttering the said bills. Philadelphia, March 28, 1794. April 22, 1794.
Other counterfeit bills
of the Bank of the United States have appeared in circulation. The denomination is of TWENTY DOLLARS, and the alphabetical mark is the letter B. They may be distinguished from the genuine by the following MARKS: The paper of the counterfeits is of a more tender texture and glister surface than the genuine, and there is no water mark in them. The letter C. in the word Cashier, in the true bills is strongly marked, whereas in the counterfeits, the whole letter is a fine hair stroke, evidently in an unfinished state. The letter a in the word demand, is badly formed and the whole word ill done and there is no comma at the end of it, as there is in the genuine bills. The marginal device, is much darker in the false, than in the genuine bills owing to the shade strokes being coarser, much nearer together, and consequently much more numerous. This difference strikes the eye at first view. The same reward of ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS, will be paid for apprehending & prosecuting to conviction the several above described Offenders in respect to this, as to the last described bills. THOMAS WILLING, President of the Bank United States. JOHN NIXON, President of the Bank of North America. By order of the Committee of the Relative Boards.