Phi ladelphia, d SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 14, 179;. * * The length, inaccuracy, and uninttnjl\r,£ nature, •[ tll r piece signed " W. L." prevent its appearance. Major Thomas, Pinckney is arrived at Charleston ' : from London. " t Pennfylvtnia Population Com/any. At an annual meeting of the Stockholders, the sal- ( lowing gentlemen were elected, viz. f President, John Nichelfon, c Managers, Theophile Cazenove,, e John Field, n Samuel Sterett, v Robert Bo wire, - t James Gibfoit, [- Judah a Treasurer and Sacretary, Salomon Maraehe- January 11, 1797- ( At a meeting of the Merchants and Traders of this I iSty, held at the Coffee-Uoufe, yejlerday, the following memorial was adopted : To the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Pennfyvania. THE Ml MO RIAL f-f the Subfcnhers, Merchants and Traders of the Ci ty of Philadelphia. Refbeßfully Jheiuetb — THAT th# ait of Defalcation, pafled in the year 1705, is in iti operation, vpry prejudicial to the ctorn- ' mercial and agricultural interest of the State. The extenlicn of commerce, ahd the eftablilhnaent of banks to facilitate the operations of mercantile men, neeeffarily introduce the circulation of a paper cur rency, which, coming iu aid of the monied capital, is 3 p®werf«l auxiliary in support of the various depart ments of agriculture, manufactures, and commerce : hence, in almost ever Commercial country we find a paper currency of a negotiable nature ; but in Penn sylvania, although custom has given such a paper a general circulation, yet tha aA alluded to, leaves it \in fame infiances) in the power of individuals to vio late the implied principle oil which it is iflued, to the treat injury of honest and unfulpefting men. Your meinorialifts therefore lubmit to your serious confutation, the propriety of repealing so much of the aft for Defalcation ns relates to promiffery notes and inland bills of exchange: or, the palling of a law, de elaring, that allpromilTory notes, baaringdate within the Cti'y of Philadelphia, and all inland bills accepted within the fame, ihall be negotiable, without plea of defalcation or set nff. . Philadelphia, January ij, 1797- Says a Correspondent: The Jacobins areextiemely aflive in accounting tr the present hostile afpeft of France from thr ritifli treaty—Say they, this is what yonr treaty has produced—The French arc very angry—they tike yeui vessels and they insult your government —This is true—they do take our veffeTs—they in sulted the people and their government —but it it alked modestly—How long has Fiance denethn to their dear friends ?—Ever finee the spring '93— long before the Britilh treaty. It is farcical to mea sure the grand fcheir.e of French ambu.on by so minute a rule—They mean ta force all neutral na tions to be the infti timeats of their vast ambition — Those whom they cannot seduce to their own de flation, they will brow-beat and insult—Our crime is that we are really an independent nation— not tobefeduced, and we are therefore'to be crip pled as a people useless to their fchcnae. legislature of south Carolina. $ December 15. A motion wfs made and ieconded» that 5000 dollars be inserted in the eftimSte, as a contribution for the relief of the fufferers by fire in the ctir of Charleston, m the months of May asd June lad— on the queUion being put to agiee to the fame, the ayes and «oe9 required by seven members, and ate as follow Ayes 47—Noes 46. In the House tf Representatives of the State oj South Carolina, Dec. 19, 1 The following resolution was moved in the House •®f Representatives of South Carolina by Mr. H. "W Defauffore, and after an opposition from Ma jor Butler and Mr, Ephraim tamf.y, was earned without a divihoti. . . »i 'X'he President of the Unitsd States having an nounced to his fellow citizens, his determination to decline a rc-eleftion ta the important ofhee of chic magistrate, this house cannot behold the event of his leaving the public service, which has t eeii Ung deprecated by his country, without giving cxpreffion to its feelings. •• Be it therefore resolved, that the great merit. and difintorefted services ef GEORQK WASH INGTON, President of the United States, have infp.red this House with the mott lively feelings of atfe&ionate attachment and gratitude to him. "That this house emei tains the moll exalted fen£e of his great and excellent eharader, eltablilli ed on the udpeiifhable foundations of virme, honor and talents, long employed in the ferv.ee of bis country ; and that it will cher.lh the memo.y of his worth with proud affection. « That be carries with him into the retirement he leeks, the ardent wilhes of thifr-boufe, for a long ai)d uninterrupted coinfe of happtnefs. " Resolved, that the Speaker be requeued to traefmit tothe President, this tetl.mony of the pub lic opinion and ftfpeft of bis fellow-cU,»en. Ordered, that the refolut.ons be engrossed, and J tkat Mr. Speaker do transmit them to George Wa (liington, Prefi»«t of the United States. A fmiilar resolution was moved in the Senate, and carried ananimonfly. By this day's Mail. NEW.YORK, January 13. The European Intelligence, received by the route of Halifax, and given in this day s Adver tiser, though it is not later than that re «£ e , the late arnval at N. London, has furmfced us with important articles which have not yet been de, tailed from thatquarter. ■ The oaiem, ■». terdam on the 14th November, o: the > n j 7 oi Eord Malmefbury's m.ffion mufti be -" e "" tort U could have been more ealily known a London on the 17th (the last date trom thcuce) from Lord Maltaefbury himfelf, than by the vague report of ths other circuitous route. The Laa- j don accounts state that he was still at Paris, and that he had not anly dispatched couriers to his own court, but also to Vienna and elsewhere'—the re- ( turnsof whom would mod probablv be waited for, ( before the negotiation would be entirely reje&ed. i The capture of the Spanish island of Minorca, i by Admiral Jervis, if true, must prove a valuable acquisition in the Mediterranean, after the evacua tion of Corsica. t The port of Mahon affords a fine harbor, and f the island produces a considerable quantity of ne ceffary articles of supply. This capture is render j ed more probable by a circumstance which baa been a mentioned to us from good authoriiy, that the x works of cadleof St. Philip, the ft tanged for- ( tress in the island, have heen mostly demolished, I since the conquest of it by the Spanish in 1782 — v and that a greater body of troops was requisite for t its defcnce, than was grabably llatianed there at c the time.' i Result tf the Uanvafs for Representatives in Con- r grefs, for the IVeJlem DtflriS. t Cooper. Cochran, f Ontarjo, 41 320 t r-j j Herkemer, 1069 1086 f « ! Onondago, ' 51 ' 197 f I Montgomery, 289 1046 r "* I Tioga, r 9 169 i ( Otfego, 1481 . 252 Town of Durlock, in the") f County of Sehoharie, J i ( " ' 2975 2993 < 2 975 f ( Majority for James Cochran, 18 - Result of the Canvajs in /Many Diftriß. f s Glenn. Swart. ] fitssr - } '"»■ 5 (.Albany, 313 342 138 ■ Majority for Glenn 160 It is said Lord Malmeflniry has sent two couri ers, with important difpatcht* to the Emperar. A in the Prince Edward, saw a Lon- , don paper at Deal, of the 28th ult. A paragraph tn which stated, that Be>,ooo troops an<* 18 ships • of the line were lying at Brest, preparatory to an | ' intended invasion of Great-Bricain, fnould the ne gociaiion fail. « ' r The French have long contented themfcvei with ' talking about this favourite expedition. Same difrefpeAful paragraphs having appeared 1 in a Paris paper, relative to the million of Lord 5 Malrnefbury, his Lordlhip complained of this to " the directory, as an insult—and was aafvVered— as it is said, that, that body held no authority to 3 contrail! the French papeis. From every thing we have been able to collect, • it is not thought, that the French dire&ury will lif. " ten to such terms as Great-Detain may coi-defcend r to grant ; in short, that there is, on the whole, lit - " tie profpeft of an early peace. The following is a lift of the Dutch fleet, under rear admiral Lucas, which surrendered 011 the 17th of Atyruft, to a fqtiadron of his maje&y's (hips, • commanded by the hon. Sir G. K. Elphinftone, K. B. in Salona Bay. » 3 Dordrecht, Rear Admiral Lucas, 66 guns ; Re n volution, Capt. Rhcneheade, 66 guns ; Admiral 'f Tromp, Capt. Valker.bwrgf 54 guns ; Callhor, " _Capt. ClarifTe, 44 stuns ; Bellona, Capt. Valk, 28 c "guns j Sirence, Capt. De Cere, 26 guns ; Havik, Capt. Bexemer, 18 guns; and Maria, floreffiip.— Total 342 guns—l 972 troops and fi'amen. 4 The Ihips under admiral Elphinllone, were Monarch, Tremendous, America, Stately, Ru k by, Sceptre, Tridcgt, Jupiter, Crescent, Sphynx, '• Molelle, llattlefnake, Echo, Hope. l * Yesterday arrived heiehis majeily's frigate An d drome na, captain Taylor, in 52 days paffaje fr< m England. ' E Haiifsx pipe'".] 1- fomet'me since stated that Morfcau had retreated a, toStocknach and Fieybourgh, instead of retiring by tf Huningue, as it \ra» supposed he would. In retreating j to Freybourg his design was to rt-,erofs the' Uhine at J K«hl and Strafbiirgh to prmeil those places, and pcr haps to retain pofleflion of the right bank of the Rhine 10 in'the Brifgaw. With this view he had marched as far as Freybourg. Here the Archduke attacked him on tht ts 19th, and after an obstinate conflict in whieh the Arc h duke behaved with great persona! gallantry, theFremh , e ppfts were defeated, and their army compelled to rt f tire, with the loss of 1000 prifoncrs and probably about 8 half that number in killed and wounded. Moreau still entertained.hopes of maintaining himfelf on the right ;4 ' bank of the .Rhine, and polled himfelf adv,intageou(ly h for that purp«ie ; but the Auftrians having made difpo sr fitions to attack him on the 24th, he again retired, lis and retreated acrofi the Rhine into France on the a6th, c f still keeping polTeflion of the strong head of the bridge at Huningue, by which he secures a paffajje into Ger many. From the 18th to the 26th there seems ta have been '£ couritinual aflions of posts, in which the»Auftiians generally had the advantage ; but at 110 time, not even to on the 19th did the French fufl'er a complete defeat, b- The next object oT the Arahduke, it is said, will be the capture of lCehl, in which he will probably fuc ,j ceed. _ t ' An army of 18000 Sapniards will it is said co-operate a * with Buonaparte in Italy. The Spanilh Declaration of war against Great Bri e» tain, was received by the Dutch Convention on the 11ft of Odlaber. ARRIVED. days. Ship Alexander Hamilton, Cotfjjar, Liverpool, 53 New-York, Clark, Halifax, — Vi&ory, Henry, Gnadzloupe, 42 Mary, Smith,' Efiequeba, — he Barque'Letitia, Burke-, Bordeiux, 62 ■r- Brig Diligence, Ware Jeremie by Betsey, Tyler Aux Cayes us Apollo, Robinfoii, Savannah, 11 , Hope, Carlifte, Halifax, — _ Jane -and Eliza, Heatly, Wilmington, N. C. — Schooner Hope, Caok Martinique 5t Ariel, Mitchell Turks-lfland cy Sloop Minerva, , Jamaica, 3® re ~ Captain Heatley spoke tha brig Columbia of New at York, December 31, 12 leagues S.E. of Sandy-Hook, ;e) 20 days from tlir Havannah, far Philatelphia. ' The frhoooir Sally, Captain Cladvvriglit, spake the brig Dean, Captain Stanford, on the 7th instant, 11 leagues Eift of §andy Hook, all well, on a cruize after veflels in diflrefs. Captain Bunker has very poiitely handed us Bor deaux papers to November 2 inclusive .from which we (ball give some extracts to-morrow. Tho' they are not so late as papers before received, we find several important articles ncft yet putlilhei!. Captain Bunker did not hear of any Americafi veflil being taken by the French. Captain Bunker mtt in the river Gironne, going up to Bordeaux, a large Scotch built (hip, who in formed, th.it (be \fraj a prize to Admiral Richery. Arrived (hip Indoftan, Capt. Lewis, si New- 1 port, JR. I.) in 56 days from the Ifleof France, 1 and 55 days to the coa!4, experienced the most fe 1 vert winds 40 days without iiltermiflion. The ' (hip Northern Liberties failed 22 days before the lndoftan, for Philadelphia, as also 18 or 20 fail of 1 veflels for the continent. Spoke the (hip Fame, 1 the nth December, three days out, who supplied captain Lewis with provisions. On his lirft mak ing the coalt, was chaccd by'n (loop as war er Ber mudian priva eer, mounting 24 guns, for 36 hours, ' but (he could no t come up with him. Lad evening arrived the (hip Alexander Hatnil- ' ten, CapU Congar, from LivcrpaolAs this ' (hip failed on the 23d of November, we cannot ex- ( pefl much later intelligence, than what we have al- 1 ready received by the Hape, New-Lan- ' don. ( Schooner Attive, Wilcox, from NewiOrleans, ' failed 1 Bth December ; left there, ' Brig Hope, Dunn, to fail for New-York in 15 ' or 20 days. 1 December 30, Ipnke the fliip Prudence, Pen- . field, in the river, two leagues above Plackmencs } (hip James, Bennet, failed ftpm the on the 2lit December. Same day arrived (hip Theodore, Berryman, from Charlelto#—Capt. Btfrryman touched at the Havanna, and informs, that an embargo had taken , place. HALIFAX, December 24. Lnft evening the (hip Prince Edward, capiain Wil lis, arrived here from London. She has had 30 days paflage from the Dowfis. By this (hip we have'received London papers to the 15th ult. LONDON, November 14. The London Gaz«tte of November 13, contains a series of letters from captain Auftruther-and R. Crauford, Esq. !rom the 17th to the 27th of Oc tober, givi' g detail of a number of successive ac tions, uhftmate and bloody, !>ut fortunate to the Aiittrians. The following is the latt of the letters aliu ed to : Head-Quarters of his royal highness the archduke Charles ef Aultrih, Mappach, O&ober 27, 1796. My Lord, / 1 have the honor to inform your loidfhip, that in the course niirht, general Morean's army retreated accrofs the Rhine at Hunningen. The last of his rear yuard was this morning still on the heights of Wciliet, on which he .had eon- . ftru&ed a large and solid woik ; but, after a little fkirmiihing with the Hutfars, they evacuated the height and redoubt before any infantry could come up ; and nothing now remains on this tide of the river, but a few troops iu a small Tele de Ponte, behind which is a kind of horn work, latelv con drudted an the island, and called Shueter Intel. I have the honor to be, &c. (Signed) ROBERT CRAUFORD. D'ip itches have been received by government from .Gibraltar, which (late, that on the evening oftne 17th of O&ober, the Spamth batteries, con fiding of 350 pieces ol heavy artillery were ex pected to commence playing against the fortrefs, which, however, w:;s in so excellent a ttate of de fence, that sot the lmalleft apprehension was en tertained for its fafety. The garrifun at Gibraltar, according to the re port lately made, cotfifts of near 7000 effe&ive men. The corps and commands are as follow : Garrison bitta'iwn, commanded by colonel Frafer; aßih regiment ot foot, colonel Paget ; 37th* co lonel Buchanan ; <J2d', colonel Dexin ; 70th, colonel MoncriefF ; and tooth, major Napier; co lonel marquis liuntly being absent with the aitil lery bombadiers. > Letter#from Italy and Tyrol, down to the 22d ultimo, by way of Vienna, bring intelligence, that the Auilria# general Alvinzi arrived at Trieste on the 14th ultimo, and was preparing to march to the relief of Mantua through Friouli. Generals Quofdannovaah, Hohenzellern, Provers, Pittani, Suotcht and Mitroflu, commanded different divi fiont of the army ; Mitroflfi had already advanced •n the Venetian territory e» the 16th. Three English frigates of 38, 36 and 32 guns, had ar rived at Triette. The Aultrian army, nnder general Alvinzi, had already penetrated to both banks of the Pinaoa, on the 18th, and the want of Pontons had delayed his advancing farther against Buonaparte. , The island of Minorca is reported to be taken by 1 fir John jervis's fleet, atfilted by th« troops frotri 1 Corsica. 1 Letters from Cologne of October 28, state, that . general Hoche will probably obtain the command of . the army of the Nort^. 1 From the London Gazette. : ' Admiralty Office, October 15. Extract of a letter from Captain Mowart, of hit Majelty'a (hip Afijftance, dated Halifax, Sept. ; 14. '9 6 - " I have to acquaint you, for the information of ' my lords Commifiioners of the Admiralty, that on the 28th of lalt month, about 4 leagues E* S. E. t from Cape Henry-in Virginia, the Thitbe who had - been sent to look out in the E. N. E. quarter, a t little after 5 in the rhori.ing, made the iignal for : three ttrange ships being in the E. S» E. The s Bermuda, who had been in chafe of a brig the e -1 veiling belore in that quarter, and who was 7 or 8 miles nearer the (trance (hips than any of the squa dron, the Thitbe excepted, repeated or made the llgnal, that the (hips seen were the enemy's ships ) upon which the Admiral immediately made the sig nal for a general chace. The squadron was then , comjpled of the flag (hip, (he Aflirtance, Thetii Thilbe, Twpfi, and Cermuds- So very light was the breez?, arid withal partial, that the (hips did not steer for sometime. The Topaze was the firfl (hip that had ihe breeze, the Thetis being at some distance fr»m her was the next, and the flag (hip foen after. The squadron continued in pursuit, and about half part five in the evening the Tspaz, brought the nearest (hip to adlion, upon -which he returned a broadlide and hauled down his colours. The Bermuda being near, bore down to the prize, & the signal was made to take pofTef fion of her. The flag ship and the frigates, without a moment's loss of time, continued to chace the other two The Admiral's verbal message te me by capr. Maxtone, was to proceed to Hali fax, with the prize ; upon my taking pofleffion ot her I found her ta be the l'Elizabe'h, mounting 36 guns, 24 pounders an her main deck, and 12 nines on her quarter dec£ and forecalile, a large ship, said to bf about 1000 tons." RICHMOND, January 9. . Lad Weduefday night, an attempt was maJe by feme daring villains te get into the treasury of* sice of this (late.—They made their way good through the outer doer, by cutting two holes near the upper and lower bolts, large enough to admit one of their hands—by which means they gat out the two large bolts. After getting into the pas sage, they drove a large wedge between the folding outward door of the treasury canfiderably above the lock, and forced it wide enough to get a crow bar in.—Befng alarmed (as is conjedured) they defilled and lrft the implements (landing in the doors as above described till next morning. , __ Women's Cloaks. x GEORGE DOBSOM, No. 25, South Third-street, Ha« just reeeived, pet Eagle* Capt. Fofiick, tia I.wi* don, an assortment of Scarlc* " 'Drab / Cloaks trimmed with fur and v Purple and { ermine. Pearl J December 5 . . WM. HAT DON, Drawing-Master, from London, Where he has studied several years under one of the most eminent matters in that science, attends young Ladico and Gentlemen at their refpefhve hemes. His terms are 6 dollars per month for attendance three .times per week. Likewise all kinds of ornamental Painting, Flowers, Fruit, &c. taught on the above terms. A line dife&ed to W. H. leit with the Editor of this Gazette, will be immediately attended to. January 13. toivr BALL. Netib Cotillions, Scotch Reelt, and Centre Dancet. Messrs. Francis and Byrn beg leave to inform their Scholars, friends, and the public in general, that tlieir I firft Ball for this feafou will be on Tuesday, the 14, at ' )'Ellers's affembly-ruom ; at which a variety of ne,w Cotillions, Contre Danees, and the most celebrated Scotch Reels, will be iutfjduced. Meßis. Francis and Byrn propose to give gratuitous attendance at thV'ir school room, for the inftrudion of those Ladies and Gentlemen in their rtew danccs, who mean to.hott#r the ball room with their prefjnee,—at tendance for this purpose after their school hours, on Tueldays, and '1 hufldays. Tickcts to be had of Meflrs. Frances and Byrn No. 70, North Eight ltreet, or at O'Ellers's Hotel. La dies are requcfted to apply to their female friends, scholars of Messrs. F. & B. or as above, at their resi dence. N. B. The new dances will not infringe upon the usual routine of the evening. The days of teaching for their young pupils are Thurf days and Saturdays, from three o'clock in the afternoon till fix—and on Tueldays & Thursdays, from fix till nine, for those of a mors advanced age. *„* Private tuition as usual. January 11, 1797- iawt24. Cheap French China. THE subscribers finding it impossible to supply their store with any -more China from Fhince, the prices being too immoderate in the matiufaflories, give no tice that they will foil at priaie colt the remaining Heck tn hand, confiding of Dessert Setts, Tea-Table Setts Separate and Saucers Groupes and Figures Alabaster Vases Looking (Siaffes, in gilt frames, Befidci India Japan'd Toilet Delks, Chairs, Table* nad Quadrille Boxes. PASQUIER & Co. No. 91, South Second-street. December ?rfi. *** fOR SALE, - A. very Valuable Ellate, CALLED TWITTJLNHAM, situate in the townihip of Upper Derby, andcountyof Delaware, 7 1-2 miles from Philadelphia, and half a mile from the new Western road -.containing 230 aires of excellent land, 45 of which are good watered meadow, 90 of prime wood land, and the reft arable of the firtt quality. There arc on the premises a good two story brick house, with 4 rooms on a floor, and cellars under the whole, with a pump-weil of excellent water in front; a large frame barn, (tables' and other convenient buildings ; a smoke-house and (tone, spring-house ; two good apple orehards, and one of peach es. The fields are allin clover, except those immediately and are so laid out as to have the advantage of water in each of them, which renders it peculiarly con* venient for grazing. The situation is pleasant and healthy, and from the higlj sultivation of the land, the good neighbourhood, and th« vicinity to the city, it is very fuitsable for a gentleman'! country feai* The foregoing is part of the eftatc of Jacob Hirman, JhceafCd, and offered for sale by Mordecai Lewis, OA' 31. law Surviving Executor. - . James M'Alpin, Taylor, No. 3, South Fourth-Jlreet, RETURNS his grateful acknowledgments to his Friends and the Public for their liberal encouragement« and begs le»ve to foiicit a continuance of their favors. He has 00 hand an extensive assortment of the MoH Fajhionable GOODS, And of the bed quality, suitable fc r the season. At this fliop Gentlemen can be fur- flted with the belt materials, and have thorn made up in '.he nested and most Falhionable manner, and on the (hor eft notice. He will ' thankfully receive any orders, and pay a prompt at (I 1 punctual attention;, to them, 1 Nov. tab cr 10. ws
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