evening advertiser.
[No. 55 of Vol. V.]
Vo the Militia Officers of Pennsylvania.
HTM IE Officers of the First Division
of the Militia of the State of Penn,-
fylvania, are requeued to meet at thePhilo
fophical Hall, on Wednesday Evening, the
lath instant—To receive and take into con
sideration the Report of their Committee on
thefuhie<£fc of the State Law, as it now stands.
Such other Officers of the Mititia of Penn
sylvania, as may be in town, are. requested
to attend said Meeting; and should any of
them be at the trouble of committing their
thoughts on this very important fubjedt to
writing, they will be gladly received and
duly considered.
These obfervatinne are intended to be laid
before a Committee of the Aflemblv, who
appear to have every disposition to bring for
ward as perfetfl a System, as the Existing
Law of the United States will poflibly ad
mit.
WALTER STEWART,
Major-General ifl DiviHon
d3t,
Feb. ro.
To be Let on Freight or Charter,
or for Sale,
The Ship
J|& HERCULES,
-c 7 Samuel Chauncy, Matter,
ii*"cclcu to be ready in a few days rr> receive
• Cargo on board, at Hampton Road, in Virginia;
is an American bottom, burthen 500 tons,pieiccd
for 20 guns, quite new and wcU fitted.
Apply to
WHARTON & LEWIS.
Philadelphia, February 4, 1794. dtf
THE Trufteesof an Academy,
or any individual wiihing to engage a
perlon to superintend the Education of youth,
in the comfe of studies usually adopted iu
Academics, or any biflnch of business requir
ing similar qualifications, may open a com*
municarion with a person willing to be em
ployed a few years (for a generous compensa
tion) by writing (letters to be post paid) to
Mr. John Fjenno, Philadelphia.
(£3T Printers to the Southward would pofjibly
tbfigc font of theirfriends, by injcriing the foregoing
* few times in their papers.
dxzt
Frhrtiary 8
Excellent CLARET,
In hogfVeads and in cases of 50 bottles each.
ALSO,
A few cases Chatnpaigne Wine;
MADEIRA,
In pipes, hogsheads and quarter casks,
FOR SALE BY
JOHN VAUGHAN,
dtf
No. ui, South Front l^reet
frn. a, x 79 4 ■
TO BE SOLD,
A large elegant House,
and Lot of Ground,
IN an eligible situation, —alio a Country Seat
within 6 miles of* the City, with 9 acres of
land, or 42 acres of land and meadow, the
House is not exceeded by many in the vicinity
of the city, in size or convenience/
f'<v terms apply to the printer,
January 2\
City Commissioners Office,
January 30, 1794.
JN pursuance of a Kelo v«. ot the Common
Council, dated the 201 h day of January,
*794» r dividing the City into five Diflrifts,
bv lines dihwi) East and Weft, whereof each of
the City Commiflkwiers is to take the fuperin
tendance of one of the laid DiUr&s, and to be
accountable tor the cleaniiug, good order and
regularity of the fame.
The Commiflioners have accordingly made
the following arrangement for the prefect :
Dijlrift the iji. Nathan Boys, to have the
chaige of that part of the Arrets, lanes and alleys
from Ctdar-ftrcet, to the north fide of Spruce
lb ert.
Dijlrid the 2d. Hugh Roberts, from the north
fide of Spruce-ftreei to the north fide of Walnut
ftreel.
Dijlrift the %d. Joseph Claypoole, from the
north fiae of Walnut to the loath iidc of
ftrcet.
Dijliifl the \th. William Moulder, from the
north fide ol High, to the nofth fide of Mulberry
Arret
Dijlrid the sth. Nicholas Hicks, from the
north lide of Mulberry, to the north fide of Vine
ftrcet
F.xt' afl from the Mirtufss,
JOHN MEASE, Clerk.
N B. The carnage way in Market-street, is
under the charge ol the Commiflioners generally,
for the prefent,the foot-ways on the north and
south fides thereof, are conne&ed with the ad
joining Diihidl* rvfpedlively.
d tije knifed Ipfati^
GIFFORD DALLY,
Formerly Keeper of the City and
oj thf Merchant*s Coffee-Houfe of this
City :—
RESPECTFULLY informs his Friends and
the Public in general, that he ha» THIS
DAY opened a HOTEL in Shippin-Street, be
tween Third and FOurth-Bireeis, at the House
formerly occupied by Mr. Timmons, which
has lately been greatly improved* and is now
very commodious; where he has fut nifhed him
fclt with the best of LIQUORS, an.! will fur
nifh a TABLE for Panics, with the bell provi.
fions ihe Markets afford, at any hour, on the
Ihorti ft notice. Fro|ii his long experience in
thislin. ot bufVnefs, he flatters h'tmfelf he (hall
be able to give fat)s(a&inn to all who may pledfe
to favor him with their; c ompany.
Philadclp'n a, January 29, i 794.
JAMES LEACH,
RESPECTFULLY informs his friends and
Ihe public, f-hat Irom the cncouragcment
he has received, fromfevcral refpe&able Gentle
men, he is induced once more, to embark in the
PAPER LlNE—and would offer his feivices to
all those Gentlemen, who can place confidence
in him ; and he allures those who employ him,
that thrir confidence (hall not be miiplaced ;
but it {hall be his constant endeavor, to pay the
ftri&eft attent'on to their belt interest, in all ne
gociations whatever. He has taken the Chamber,
in $tat€istrect % over Mr. David Toxunjendy Watch
Makei's Shop.- Where PUBLIC SECURI
TIES, of all kinds, are bought and fold; and
where Commillion Business of all kinds, will be
tranfafled on leafonable terms. HOUSES and
VESSELS will be constantly exposed for sale, on
commiflion.
*»* Cash paid for Salem, Providence, and
Portsmouth BILLS.
N. B. If any Gentleman in Philadelphia, or
New-York, has any Bujinefs to tranfafl. at BoJUen,
in Paper Negocuitions, he will be happy tt be em
ployed on commijjion.
Boston, Jan. 24, 1794,
War Department.
January 30th 17.94.
INFORMATION is heieby to all the
mil itaty invalids of the United States,that the
sums to which they are entitled for fix months'
of their annual petition, from the fourth day of
September 1793, and. which wtl) become due
on the sth day of March 1794, will be paid on
the said day by the Com mi (Trailers of the Loans
within the states refpe£lively, under the usual re
gulations. '
Applications of executors and administrators
mull be accompanied with legal evidence of
their refpr&ive offices, and also of the time the
invalids died, whose penfron they may claim.
By command of the President
of the United Spates,
The printers in the refpe&ive dates are
requtfted topublifh the above Jn their newfpa
pcis for the Cpace ol two months.
January 30.
NATIONAL CONVENTION
REPORT upon the NAVIGATION
ACT, made in the name of the Com
mittee of Public Safety, by B. Barrere.
iTranfmttted by the President of the Uni
ted States to the House of Representa
tives, on the 16th January, 1794.
ni&th— tf
\_ConcludedJrom our Paper of ith infl."]
TH£ maritime transportation of our ex«
change with the Europeans, the Levant, the
Barbary states, and the Anglo Americans,
eftima ing a mean year, freni 1787 101789,
inclusive, has employed in the whole, 16,225 :
veflels, measuring 1,134,170 tons, which,
taking one with another, at 36 livres the ton,
Wculd produce 42,630.120 livres of freight.
There have been employed in this transpor
tation, during the fame period, only 3 763
French veflels, measuring, in the whole,
295>*51 t' ns, making, at the fame rate,
10,808,316 livres of freight.
That is to fay, the French flag has appeared
to come 111 for only a little more than two
tenths, whilst the English flag has participated
therein to nearly the amount ol four tenths
and that of other nations in the remaining
four tenths.
In the firfl fix months of 1792, in near
6,000 veflels, meafuiing 500,000 tons, which
hflve been, in like manner, employed in our
commercial imports, and exports, to and from
the fame peopie, the French had but three
tenths »f the total mass, whilfl the veflels of
England and Holland, and the Hanfeatic
towns had four tenths, and the veflels of other
nations the remaining three tenths.
If we view this navigation under another
afpeft, that oi eur dired relations with each
of the European states, of the Levant,-Bar
bary, and North-America, it will be seen,
that during the fame time (taking the mean
Wednesday, February 12, 1794.
Daily's Hotel.
H. KNOX,
Sectetary oj War.
AND
year of 1788 and 1789 inclusively) there have
been mixed is the maritime transportation of
our exchanges ; with Spain, 190 vessels other
than French or Spanilh, dedodion being made
of the foreign vessels who might have intermed
dled in this carrying trade, under either of the
two flags. With Sardinia, 269 veffels,alfo in
termedial. With the Republic of Genoa, 261,
similar vessels. With Holland, 253, similar
vessels. In a word, with all the slates of which
I have spoken, 2368 vessels, employed in indi
rect commerce, and whose tonnage amounts to
230,00© tons; which valued at 36 per ton of
freight one with another amount to 8,303 600
livres carried off wich impunity, in one year,
from our carrying trade, merely from the want
of a navigation ad in France, without counting
upon the confidence advantages which would
otherwise result from it, for her industry and
commerce, for ship building in her ports, and
for the employment of the whole or even
half ofthefe 2368 intermediate vessels.
It mull then appear plainly to the convi&i«n
of every person, that nothing would contribute
more to the prosperity of our navigation, and
consequently to every branch of our commerce
and industry, than the adoption of an a<st,
which,by severely excluding all foreigners who
hitherto have forcibly taken from our fellow
citizens the richest portion, if I may so express
myfelf, of their patrimony, would in the fame
proportion increase the amount of their direct
relations with foreign nations.
I.et us hasten then citizens, to restore to our
conntry all her rights, by adopting in this ref
pc<st:, a grand system, worthy of all that we
have done for liberty.
It, at the epoch at which I now speak, our
navigation is proportionally more languilhing
than that of England was, when the genius of
Cromwell gave her that so renowned a6l, let us
hope that by consecrating it in our maritime le
gislation, ournavigation will in a'Jhort timeacj
quire the fame degree of splendor, as that of
our rivals. With more than 250 leagues of
coast on the ocean, and the channel, and more
than 100 on the Mediterranean, with ports as
38 e *tenfiv« and commodious, with an
infinite number of havens, of dock yards, of
manufactures of every kind, with an immen
lity of people,as enterprizing,as iriduftriouswith
incalculable territorial riches, & a mass of colo
nial commodities, superior to that of all the pow
ers of Europe united,& above all, with a tree &
Republican Constitution, let us hope that France
freed from the yoke of the feudal system, and
mat of the fifcal. iafeparahiy_ counted with
it ; delivered from her kings, her nobles, her
prieds, raised to the happy condition of depend
ing on those laws only, which are made by her
felf, and Hot obliged to receive them from any
power upon earth ; let us hope, I lay, that, in
Inch a state of things, France, with an ad of
navigation, would behold the rapid cnvelope
ment of all the feeds of public and private
prosperity which ihe contains in her besom.
Let usalfo hope that the decreeyou are about to
pafs,will prove more efficacious for obtaining
a peace with the belligerent maritime powers
than if they were to lose 100 of choir best ves
sels ; and as to those, who at this moment pre
fer ve circumfpfcdt neutrality towards vou be
purfuatfed that! the inevitable effedt of your'na
vigation a&, will be the attaching of them te
you by indifloluble ties. All will be eager to
seek an alliance with that European power
from whom thty will <Jerive most benefit, by
the fuppreflion of indirect flavigation, and the
lmmenuty of its confumcrs. Every one, from
the moment of the promulgation of your de
cree, will pray, and perhaps make use of iecret
efforts to procure you an advantageous peace
which doubtless at present, they have some in
terest in preventing ; and besides your inde
pendence, your political liberty, the eflablifti
nient of your republican constitution, will be
to them as much as to yourselves—a fubjedt of
triumph and general vidory.
The navigation a<ft, as 1 have already said,
is the basis of the commercial constitution of
the Republic ; or rather, it is in this refpedt a
true constitutional zA. All the other laws
upon maritime Havigati®n, should only be view
ed as corollaries of this adt, provisions as to the
manner of its execution in a word, merely re- j
gulatinglaws.
d2m
The latter may be fuceeffively prelented to
you by your committees. The moll imerefting
of these are relative to the tonnage of veflels,
upon the means of multiplying (hip building,'
and of bringing them to more perfe&ion ; up'
on the forms of fimulees and pafiports ; upon
the means of discovering and preventing frawci
fatioas, &c. and above all, upon a bet
ter tariff of rates of navigation, without which
the conttitutional ad, in this refpe&, cannot
produce all the effe£t which we have a right
to expe& from it.
Your committee will now confine itfelf to
laying before you the £roje<a of that a<9. By
prohibiting all intermediate navigation be
tween you and each foreign nation, it extends
this prohibition not only to the transportation
of the commodities, nwrchandifes, or produc
tions imported, of their growth, produflion or
manufaflure, but also to the tnnfportation of
those imported from the ordirary ports of sale,
and ot the firft exportation. If is neceflary that
&cb a prohibition (hould be as extensive as it
ifould be made, without which a navigation a<9
would become a mere illusory measure. The
Engliih from vvhem wr borrow this fjftem,
[Whole No. 51 i.J
have given It that extension ; and indeed they
are to be applauded for it.
T heneceflity of determining the requisite qua
lities for enjoying the privilege" of a French
veflel, that is to fay, for theexclufive admiflion
to carry on our dire# navigation, in concur
rence with the veflelsof the people, from whom
we receive our articles o.f supply ; this neceflify
I fay, was an immediate confluence of the
prohibition of all indireiSfc navigation. The
project of the a (SI regulates these qualities ; it
also determines the only evidence by which
we could know the veflels of the nation with
whom we may trade : and it is easily perceived
that if we did not impose in this refped, those
conditions which are mod conformable to our
interest, everyday cr.mds of intermediate vef
. wou 'd borrow the flag of filch na'ion ;
and we should have employed hut half the
means for abolishing indiredl navigation. Be
sides th«fe conditions have a tendency ta favor
th« direfl navigation and commerce of such
nation. By 'hem it is put in the happv necef
*7- «f multiplying by every means, its (liip
building, nautics, and maritime population ;
and if, ih the meanwhile, its own veflel, and'
marines are infufficignr for the exportation of
its commodities and merchandises, then it be
longs to us alone to supply that deficiency, and
oflr navigation would then receive a further in
crease from this source, and our, commerce an
additional degree of prosperity.
Thas every thing concurs, citizens, to induce
you to adopt the projedt of the navigation ait,
which lam inftru&ed to present to vou. It is a
national right you are about to proclaim*after
having feh mnly recognized the faciW rights of
man and of citizen, and founded the freed
constitution under the globe.
If all nations ought to recognize the equali
ty, the liberty of nature and the fafety of foci
tty in the exposition of the dodlrines of that
immortal declaration, all the maritime nations
ought to recognize the rights of property in
the dispositions of our navigation acft. Would
to heaven that a'l had the courage or the wis
dom to follow our example. Then there would
be no exclusive privilege between one nation
and another ; and were the ad of navigation
adopted by a 1 the maritime powers of the
globe, it would in some degree realize that in
definite commercial liberty, which without
doubt is the firfl element of commerce but
which ar present in particular, is not suitable to
the interefls of any commer ial nation
"With so many powerful inducements to de
cree an a<a of ns-riV.'. ion, you doubtlefi will
not in the exifling circumstances, be withheld
by the appretienfion fhat such a difpofitinn
would injure the obtaining of supplies fur the
republic which they are obliged to draw forth
from foreigners. It is an acknowledged prin
ciplewiih the English themselves, and constant
ly pfadhfed among them, that in time of w Jr
neutral vefTels are excepted, of right, Irom the
dispositions of the navigation a<S. This adt
therefore will n«t add to those rertriflions
which the maritime at present imposes on
the maritime transportation of our exchanges
or of our supplies : and neutral veflels will
continueto bring us every thing which we dare
not confide to our own
Veirher will 'you be deterred by an appre
hension of injuring the personal intei'efts of
some hundreds of cosmopolite capitalilh, of
felfilh cnnimidloners for whom the want of a
navigation ast in France, has been theprinci
pal, the molt fruitful source of the r celoflal
fortunes. The general interest of the country,
that of her labourers, of her manufacturers, of
her artifls, of herfeam n, her merchants and
ah her fans cu'ottes, to whctm yon will alTure
employment and bread : These reasons (hould
determineyou : These reasons fhoulj influence
you eiclufively in your deliberations. All wiil
bless you ; all will look upon the ast of navi
gation, as one of the most precious gifts you
could bePow on your countrymen, next to the
conflituu'onal charter which you have iu(l ,]i.
gefted. When Oliver Cromwell had, through
the medium of his parliament, established a
navigation act. all the ports of England mani
telted, by illuminations, the joy which that
memorable ast gave them; and the Eng'ifh
people forgot for a moment, that they received
this gift from the hand of a tyrant. How
great then ought the transports of our fellow
citizens to be, when they receive your decree
from the fame hands, which gave them that de
claration of rigUts, and the French constitu
tion.
May France be enabled, in the end, there,
fore, to boatt of hiving a navigation atft; may
it henceforward be the basis oT her policy as
it is about being that of hercommercc. May
flw soon become more rich, more flouri/hino
more happy, tha» (he has been under the most
bri liant reigns of her despots, and never treat
wirh foreijjn powers, without her con(lituri,m
in one hand, and hernavigation in the other •
and ai. onifhed Europe will doubtlefi Itc her
merchants become one day, her only ambafTa
dors, like those of London and Amflerdam for
merly, negotiating at foreign courts, the mod
important inrcrelts of their country, and alter
having weighed the deflinie. of the two words
and secured the prosperity and glory of their
country, reaffuming the peaceable pursuits of
commerce.
[The Ast of Navigation which fol
lows,has already appearedinthisGazette.]