EVE N I [No. 49 of Vol. V.] City Commissioners Office, January 30, 1794. IN pursuance of a Rcfo vc of the Common Council, dated the aoih day of January, 1794, for dividing the Cuv into five Diftrtfts, by lines drawti F.aft and Weft, wherrof each ol the City Comhnffioncrs is to take the fupcrin tendance of one of the Ltd Diftrifis, and to be accountable for the cleansing, good order and .regularity of the fame. The Commissioners have accordingly made the following arrangctncnt for the prefer.t: Dijlxicl the \Jt. Nathan Boys, to have the chaige of that part of the streets, lanes and alfeys from Ccdar-fticet, to the north fide of Spruce flrcet. Dijlfil7 the 2d. Hugh Roberts, from the north fide ot Sjjiuce-ftrtet to the uorth fide et Walnui ftre< t. DiflriH the 3d. Joseph Claypoole, from the north fide of Walnut to the south fide of Hi»>h ftreet. Dijbicl the \th. William Moulder, from the north iidc oi High, to the noi tli tide ot Mulberry flreet. LijlriS the sth. Nicholas Hicks, from the nonh fide ot Niulbeny,to the north fide of Vine ttrcec. Ext' a/7 from the Minutes, JOHN MEASE, Clerl N B. The carriage way in Market-street, i s owder trie charge nt the Commiflioners g-neraHv» for the pre fern, the foot-ways on the north and south fides thncof, are conne&ed with the ad joining Dittrifls r« fpe£l»velv. NORRIS-COURT, Back of* the New Library, between Chefiiu and Walnut Streets. George Rutter, RESPECTFULLY informs his friends and the public in general, that he continues carrying on the buflnefs of Sign and Fire-Bucket Painting, Like-wise, JAPANNED PL A.TES, for doors or wtmlow- lhutters,donfc in the mod elegant manner, and with dispatch. Orders from the country will be thankfully received, and duly attended to. December 30, TO BE SOLD, A large elegant House, and Lot of Ground, IN an eligible situation,—also a Country Seat within 6 miles of the City, with 9 aci-e&of land, or 42 acres of Jand and meadow, the House is not exceeded by many in the vicinity of tlie city, in size or convenience, For terms apply to the printer, January 23- Parry and Mufgrave, Goldjiniths & Jewellers, No. 42, SOUTH SECOND-STREET, HAVK FOR SALE, An elegant AJfortment of SILVER & PLATED WARE, JEWELLERY & fine CUTLERY, Which they will dispose of on the most rea sonable tei int. Devices in hair, Miniatures sett, and every thing in the gold and filvei e as ulual. D-Tftyilvr 24. Daily's Hotel. GIFFORD DALLY, Formerly Keeper of the City Tavern, and of the Merchant's Cojfce-Hcvfe ef this City :— RLSPECTFULLY informs his Friends and (he Public in general, that he lias THIS DAY opened a HOTEL in Shippcn-Strcct, be tween Third and Fourth-Streets, at the House formerly occupied by Mr. Timmons, which has lately been greatly improved, and is now very commodious ; where he has turmthed him fclr with the bctt of LIQUORS, and will fur nifh a TABLE for Parties, with the bell provi fioni the Markets afford, at any hour, on the ihortcft noticc. From his long experience in tbisliueof business, he flatters himfelf he (hall be able to give latisfa&ion to all who may pleafc to favor him with iheir company. Philadelphia. Januar\ ">O. 1704. Excellent CLARET, In hog(»eads and in cases of 50 bottles each, also, A few cases Champaigne Wine; MADEIRA, In pipes, hof (heads and qiuricr casks, FQR SALE BY JOHN VAUGHAN, No. in, South FroQi«:Licet. Jan. 2, *794. " dif of tfje liiiifeii To be Let on Freight or Charter, or for Sale, The Ship MM HERCULES, Samuel Chauncy, Master, 10 be- ready in a frw days to receive a Cartoon board,at Hampton Road, in Virginia; is an American bottom, burthen 500 tons,pierced for 20 guns, quite new and well fitted. Apply to WHARTON & LEWIS. Philadelphia, Febiuary 4, 1794. dtf e< M. Carey,No. 118 ,Hrgb-Jireet, The PROMPTER; Commentary on Common Sayings and Subjects, 'which are full of Common Sense, the bejlfenfs in the zuorld. r ~|~ 1 H IS little book is written in a stile altogethcf X novel, and is adapted to all capacities, as Well as to all claflVs of people, merchant, me chanics and farmers. Such a reputatron has this work acquired, thzt it hr,s pafled thio three im preflions in The eaftem states, and many houle holders deem it so ufeful as to purchafc a copy for every adult in their families. Price 2s. February 4. JAMES LEACH, I.Y informs his friends and the public, Thdt from the encouragement he has received, from several refpe&able Gentle men, he is induced once more, to embark in the PAPER LlNE—and would offer hii fe*vices to all those Gentlemen, who can place confidence in him ; and he assures those who employ him, that their confidence fnall not he mifplaceri; but it shall be his constant endeavor, to pay the ftrifleft attention to their best interest, in all nr gociations whatever. He has taken the Chamber, in State-Street, over Mr. David Tuwnfend, Watch Maker's PUBLIC SECURI TIES, ot all kinds, are bought and fold; and where Commiflion Business of all kinds, will be tranfa&ed on >eafonaMc terms. HOUSES and VESSELS will be constantly exposed iorfale, on commiflion. *** Cash p.iid for Salem, Pravidence, and Porrfmouih BILI.S. N. B. If an\ Gentleman in Philadelphia, or New-York, nks any hvftnej's 1o travfacl at fiofton, in Paper Ncgoctdtions, he tvi/J be happy to be em ployed on commi/JioTi. Boston, Jan. 24, 1794. This day is publipoed, By MATHEW CAREY, No. 118, Market-street, ( Price a quarter dollar) nj&th— A short account of ALGIERS, Containing a defcnption ol I he rlitrwlc of that country-os ihc manners and cuftotns of the in habitants, and of theirleveral wars against Spain, France, England, Hollind, Venice, and oilirr powers of Europe, from the usurpation of Bar baroflTa and the invasion of the Emperor Charles V. to the present time ; with a eoricife view of the origin of the runture between ALGIERS and the UNITED STATES. Jan. «. War Department. tmv&r/Vf January 50th 17 04. TN FORM ATI ON IS heieby givtn to all the 1 mi! itarv invalids of the United States.that the Imns 10 which they ire milled for fix monihs of their annual penp.on, from the fourth day of September 1793, and which will become due on tne ,sth day of March ] 7 q 4 , will be paid on Ihe fald day by the CommilEoners of ihe Loans wiihin the ftaies refpeflively, under the usual re gulations. Applications of executors and administrators must be accompanud with legal evidence of their refptftivc offices, and also of thet.me the invalids died, whose pension they may claim. By command of the Prrfident of the United S»afr«. Secretary of IVar. (fT The printer! in the refpettive Rates are requelled topubltfh the above in their newfpa pcrs lor the space of two months. January 30. Stock Brokers Office, N'o. 16, Wall-street, New-York. THE Subscriber intending to confine h'tnfelf entirely 10 ihe PURCHASE & SALE or STOCKS on COMMISSION, b, gs l cavc to of fer his fcrvirrs to his friends and other>, in ihc line of a Stock Broker. Thole who my pleafo to favor him with their bufinels, may <Wud upon having ii tranfafled wnh theutrtioft fide lity and dispatch. Oidcrs from Philadelphia, Boston, or any other pa it of the United State.', w,|| be ll.iflly »ttcodcd tu. LEONARD BLEECKER. N G AD V E Friday, February 7, 1794. JUST PUBLISHED, AND FOR SALE BY H. KNOX, d*?m AND The following Interejling ADDRESS, From A Citizen of America, to the Citi- Zens of Europe, tvas publijbed in Paris, at the English Press, in oßuber lajl, and supposed to have been re-printed in London, Jbortly after. T TNDERSTANDING that a proposal is in w tended to be made at the ensuing meeting of the Congreis of the United States of Ameri ca, " to fend Commiflioners to Europe to con fer with the Ministers of all the Neutral Pow ers, for the purpose of negociating prelimina ries of Peace," I address this letter to you on that fubje«st, and on the several matters con nected therewith. In order to discuss this fubje<Sb through all its circumstances, it will be necessary to take a re view of the state of Europe, prior to the French revolution. It will from thence appear, that the powers leagued against France are fighting to attain an obje<st, which, were it poflible to be attained, would be injurious to themselves. This is not an uncommon error in the history of wars and governments, of which the conduct of the Englilh government in the war against America is a ilriking instance. She commenc ed that war for the avowed purpose of subju gating America; and after wafting upwards of one hundred millions sterling, and then aban doning the objed, she discovered, in the course of three or four years, that the prosperity of England was increased, instead of being dimi nifhecl, by the independence of America. In short, every clrcumftance is pregnant with some natural efFe&, upon which intentions and opini ons have no influence ; and the political error lies in misjudging what the efted will be. En gland misjudged it in the American war, ai d the reasons I shall now offer wiil shew, that she misjudges it in the present war.—ln difculflng this fubje&, I leave out of the question every thing refpe&ing forms and systems of govern ment; for, as all the governments of Europe differ from each other, there is no reason that the government of France should not differ from the reft. OF THE STATE OF EUROPE PRIOR TO THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. The clamours continually railed in all the countries of Europe were, that the family of the Bourbons was become too powerful; that the intrigues of (he court of France endanger ed the peace of Europe. Austria saw with a jealous eye the connexion of France with Prus sia; and Prussia, in her turn, became jealous of the connexion of France with Austria; En gland had Wafted millions unfuccefcfully 'in at tempting to prevent the family compact with Spain; RufTia disliked the alliance between France and Turkey : And Turkev"became ap prelienfive of the inclination of France to wards an alliance with Russia. Sometimes the quadruple alliance alarmed some of the pow ers, and at other times a contrary system a larmed others, and in all those cases the charee was always made against the intrigues of the Bourbons. Admitting those matters to be true, the on ly thing that could have quieted the apprehen fioiM of those powers with refpedt to the inrcr- { C T^?T C i,f r ™ ce '. would have been her entire n-u? RA^'^ Y in Europe ; but this was im pofiible to be obtained, or if obtained was im pofiible to be secured, because the genius of her government was repugnant to all such re ftriiftions. It now happens that by entirely changing the genius of her government, which France has done for herfelf, this neutrality, which neither wars could accomplish nor trea ties secure, arises naturally q{ itfelf, and be comes the ground upon which the war should terminate. It is the thing that approaches the nearell of all others to what ought to be the political views of all the European power?; and there is nothing that can so effe&ually fe'ctu e this neutrality, as that the eenius of the French government should be different from the reft of Europe. But if their objeA is to reflore the Bourbons and monarchy together, they will unavoidably restore with it all the evils of which they have complained; and the firft question of discord will be, whose ally is that monarchy to be ? Will England agree to the restoration of the family compart, against which Ihe has been fighting and scheming ever since it elided ? Will Prussia agree to restore the alliance be tween France and Austria, or will Austria a gree to restore the former connexion between France and Pruftia, formed on purpose to op pose herfelf; or will Spain or Ruflia, or any of the maritime powers, agree that France and her ihould be allied to England? In fine, will any of the powers agree to strengthen the 1 hands of the other against itfelf? Yet all these cases involve thcmlelves in the original question of the restoration of the Bourbons; and on the other hand, all of them difappeai- bv the neutrality of France. If their object is not to restore the Bourbons it mull be the impracticable projeit of a parti tion of the country. The Bourbon, will th -n be out of the question, or, more propcrlv peaking, they v. ill be put in a worse condition lor as the preservation of the Bourbons nii.de a part of the firft objed, thee::tirj,„:ion of them ' S E R T I [Whole No. 507.j makes a part of the second. Their pretended friends will then become interested in their de fl;ru<stion, because it is favourable to the pur pose of partition, that none of the ncaiina] laimants fnould be left in existence. But however the proje£ of a partition may at firft blind the eyes of the confederacy, or however each of them may hope to outwit the other in the progress or in the end, the em barraflfments that will arise are insurmounta ble. But were even the objc& attainable, it would not be of that general advantage to the parties, as the neutrality of France, which costs them nothing; and to obtain which they would formerly have gone to war. I OF THE PRESENT STATE OF EUROPE, AND THE CONFEDERACY. In the firft place, the confederacy is not of that kind that forms itfelf originally by concert and consent. It has been forced together by chance. An heterogeneous mass, held only by the accident of the moment, and the instant that accident ceases to operate, the parties will retire to their f6rmer rivalfhips. I will now, independently of the impracti cability of a partition proje&, trace cut some of the embarraflments that will arise among the confederated parties: for it is contrary to the interest of a majority of them that such a pro jecft should succeed. To understand this part of the fubjetft, it i» neceflary, in the firft place, to cast ail eye over the map of Europe, and observe the geographi cal situation of the several parts of the confe deracy ; for however strongly the passionate politics of the moment may operate, the poli tics that arise from geographical situation are the raoft certain, and will in all cases finally prevail, The world has been long amused with whpt is called the " balance of poiverßut it is not upon armies only that this balance depends. Armies have but a small circle of aetion. Their progress is flow and limited. But whc-n we take maritime power into the calcu lation, the scale extends universally. It com prehends all the interests conne&ed with com merce. The two great maritime powers are England and France. Destroy either of thole, and the balance of naval power is destroyed. The whole world of commerce that passes on the ocean would then lie at the mercy of the other. And the ports of any nation in Europe be blocked up. The geographical situation of those two ma ritime powers comes next under cojjfideration. Each of them occupies one entire fide of the channel, from theftraitsof Dovet and Calais to the opening into the Atlantic. The commercc of all the northern nations, from Holland to Russia, must pass the straits of Dover and Ca lais, and along the Channel, to arrive at the Atlantic. This being the cafe, the fyftematicical politics of all the nations, northward of the straits of j Dover and Caiais, can be ascertained from their geographical situation ; for it is neceflary to the fafety of their commerce that the two fides of the channel, either in whole or in part, fliould not be in pofleflion either of England or of France. While one nation poflefics the who's of one fide, and the other nation the other fide, the northern nations cannot help feeing that in any situation of things their commerce wili ai ways find protection on one fide or the other. It may sometimes be that of England, and fonic times that of France. Again, while the Englilh navy continues in its present condition, it is necelftry that ano ther navy Ihould exist to controul the universal lway the former would other wile, have ov,t the commerce of all nations. France is the on ly nation in Europe where this balance car. be placed. The navies of the North, '.vere thsy fufficiently powerful, could not he ftifficiently operative. They are blocked up by the ice fix months in the year. Spain lies too remote ; besides which, it is only for the fake of her American mines that {he keeps up a navy. Applying these cases to tht' projt »S of a par tition of France, it will appear, that the project involves with it a destruction or ihe ba- LANCE OF MARITIME POWER; DCCaufe it is only by keeping France entire and indi-.-iiibie that the balance can be kept up. Tin's is a cafe that at firft fight lies remote and r.lmoft hidden. But it interefis all the niaritirr.c ..r.d commercial nations of Europe i;i as gTcar a de gree as any cafe that has ever come b 're them—ln lhort, it is with war an i law. In law, the firft rocritt < f th. _ >JC u<: come 101 lin the multiplicity of ur£un: t nts* and in war they become loft in the variet / o£ events. New objcdls arise that take the lead of all that went before, and every thing fumes a new afped. This was the cafe in the last great confederacy, in what is called the fur ceflion war, and most probably will be the cafe in the present. I have now thrown together such thourhts as occurred to me on the fewraj febjeci; c. imeiSed with the confederacy France, ard i«. terwovenwi:h the wtere'l neutral oowei-_ Should a conference of the neutral powers 1.1 c (lace, thefeobfervations will, at lsail, fe,, eto R. ir :s T.it'i
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