Philadelphia, March 1, 1794- JUST PUBLISHED, y MATHEW CAREY, No. 118, Market Jirctt, 1 HE FIKST VOLUME OF A NEW SYSTEM OF Modern Geography i OR. A Geographical, Hiflortcal, ana Commercial Grammar; Ami p«-efent of the several NATIONS OF THE WORLD. CONTAINING, I. Tlv* motions, and distances of the planets, according to the Newtonian fyf- Min and the latest observations. 2. A general view of the earth, confide red as a planet; with several ufeful geographical definitions and problems. 3 The grand divisions of the globe into land and water, continents and islands. 4- l*he situation and extent of empires, kingdontsj states, provinces and colonies. 5 Their climates, air, foil, vegetables, productions, metals, minerals, natural curi fefitiesj seas, rivers, bays, capes, promontories, aud lakes. 6. The birds and beads peculiar to each country. 7. Observations on the changes that have been any where observed upon the face of na ture since the most earjy periods of history. 8. The history and origin of nations; their forms of government, religion, Jaws, reve nue-*; tnxes, naval and military strength. 9 The genius, manners, customs, and ha bits of the people. ID. Their language,learning,arts,fciences, manufactures, and commerce. 11. The chief cities, ftruftures, ruins, and artificial cttriofities. 12. The longitude, latitude, beT-in**, and distances of principal places from 1 hilade'phia. To which are added. 1. A Geographical Index, with the names 4nd places alphabetically arranged. 2. A Table of the Coins of all nations, artd their value in dollars and cents. 3. A Chronological Table of remarkable •vents, from the creation to the present time. By tTILLIAM GUTHRIE, E/q. The Agronomical Pa it corrected by Dr. Rittenhouse. To which have been added, The late Discoveries of Dr. HerschelL, and other eminent Astronomers. The FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, Corrected, Imp oved, and greatly Enlarged The firft volume Contains twenty-one Maps and Charts, besides two Astronomical Plates, viz. 1. Map of the world. 2. Chart of the world, 3. Europe. 4- Alia. 5. Africa. 6. South America. 7. Cook's discoveries. 8. Coun trie* round the-north Pole. 9. Sweden, Den- maik. and Norway, id. Seven United Pro-* vlnces. 11 Auft< ian, French and Dutch Ne ' tl>erlands. 12. Germany. 13 Seat of war in France. 14. France divided intodepait ments. »5- Switzerland. 16. Italy, Sicily, and Sardinia. ij- Spain and Portugal. 18. Turkey in Europe and Hungary. 19 Ire land. 20 Weft-Indies. I\. Vermont. 22. Ar millary sphere: 23. Copernican system. With the second volume, which is now in the prc-fs, will be givefi the following Maps : Ruifia in Europe and Asia. 2. Scotland. 3. England and Wales. 4. Poland. China. (y. Hindoftan. v •j. United State*. g. Bntifh America. q. S ate of New-Hampshire. ,o. State of MaHTachufetts. ji. State of Connecticut. ,2. State of Rhode Island. j3. State of New-York. ,4. State of New-JeiTey. 15. State'of Pennsylvania. 16. State of Delaware. 17. State of Maryland. 18. State of Virginia. 19. State of Kentucky. 20. State of North-Carolina. 21. Tenheflee Government. la. State of South-Carolina. - 23. State of Georgia. TERMS. Y, This work will be comprised in two vo lumes. 2. Subscribers pay for the present volume on delivery, fix. dollars, and the price of bind ing, (56 e'ents for boards.) 3. They may receive the succeeding volume in twenty-four weekly numbers, at a quar ter dollar each, or else, when finilhed, at the fame price as the firft. 4. The fubfeription wiil be raised on the firft day of June i 794» to fourteen dollars, ex clusive of binding. 5. Should any copies remain for sale after the completion of the work, they will be fold at sixteen dollars, and the price of binding. 6. The names of the fubferibers will be pub- Jiftred as patrons of American literature, arts, and sciences. It is wholly unneceflfary to expatiate on the advantage,to American this edi tion poflefTes, over every imported edition of any fyftrftrt of Geog aphy extant. The addi tion of maps of the several state , procured at a very great expense, and from the best ma terials that are attainable, fpcaks such fall convi&ion on this fubjeft, that it would be difrefpe<st to the reader's understanding to Ibppofe it requifire to enter into a detail of arguments to prove <ts superiority. In no funilar work have such maps been ever intro duced. The emendations and additions which are made in this work,are innumerable,arfd occur in every page. The public are referred to the preface for a flight (ketch of a few of them. The publiftier takes the prefect oppoi tu nity of returning his molt sincere thanks to those refpc&able characters who have favored him with documents for improving the maps of several of the ltatcs. He requests a conti nuance of their kindness; and hopes that such public spirited citizens, as are poflelfcd of si milar documents, will favor him with their assistance in perfecting his undertaking. The extraordinary encouragement with which «he has been favoredj has excited in his bread the warmed Pen tiuients of grati tude—sentiments which time will not efface. He pledges himfelf to the citizens of the United States, to spare neither pains nor ex pente to r ender the pr< Pent edition ofGuihrie's Gertgraphy improved, deserving of their pa tronage. waff NORRIS-COUK.T, Back of the New L brary, between Chefnut and Walnut-Streets. George Rutter, RESPECTFULLY informs his friends and the public in general, that he continues c trying on the business of Sign and Fire-Bucket Painting, Likewise, JAPANNED PL ATES, for doors or window-(hutfers,don4 in tnc moll elega-it manner, and with dispatch. Orders from the Country will be thankfully received, and duly attended to. December 30, dtf JUST PUBLISHED, AND FOR S\Lf. BY M.Carey, No. 11 S,Higb-/lreet ) The PROMPTER; Commentary on Common Sitings and Subjects, -which are full of Common Sense, the lejl fetife in the world. THIS little book is wntien in a stile altogether novel, and is adapted to all capacities, as well as to all claflTrs of people, merchant, me chanics and farmers. Such a reputation has this wo>k acquired, that it hat paded thio three im pnflions in the eastern states, and many houie holders deem it so ufelul as to purchase a copy for every adtllt in theit families.- Pr ice 2s. Fehruarv 4.. dtl War Department. January 30th 1794* INFORMATION is hereby given t«. il the military invalids of the United States,that the sums to which they are entitled fdr fix months of their annual penlion, from the fourth day ol September 1793, and which will become due on the sth day of March 1794, will be paid on the said day by the Commissioners of the Loans Within the states relpe&ively, under the usual re gulations. Applications of executors and administrators mull be accompanied with legal evidence of their refpc&ive offices, and also of the time the invalids died, whose pen ft on thev may clann. By command of ihe Prrfidtnt of the United S»a'p.*, H. KNOX, Sect clary oj War. The printer! in the relpe&ive Gale# are requested to publish the above in iheirnewfpa pcrs lor the space of two months. January 30, Parry and Mufgrave, Goldsmiths Es° jewellers, No. 42, SOUTH SECONb-STREET, HAVE FOR SALE, jin elegant jHTortment of SILVER & PLATED WARE, JEWELLERY'd fiur CUTLERY, Wiich they will dif poie of on the inoft rea sonable terms. Devices in hair, M matures lett, and c'irery thing in the gold and silver way, done as usual, December 24, AVIS. LE habitans infortunls de la Colonie Franfaife dc St. Domingue qui dans i'mrend e du Cap font venus chcrcher un aftle dans les Ecats Unit font informcs que la Rcpublique leur ac cordt un paflage pour Fiance. Its font invi'es en consequence a fc prcfrtiler a cct effet d'ici a hu't jours chcz les Consuls ic agens de la Re publique dans les difFennts Potts des Etats Urns. A Phi lad il phi e, le 10 Ventos— I'an 2d de la Republiqut une Sc indivisible. (28 Fevrier, 1794. vieux Jliie) Le Miniftre Piempotentiare de la Rcpublique Franyaife. % JH. FAUCHET. The editors of new/papers in the United States are requcjlcd toiinse t tk- above notice in their paper. 8 A RECOMPENCE OF One Hundred Dollars, IS hereby offered by the Prefidem and Direc tors of the Bank of the United Stares, to any person who (hall, on or before the firft day of May next, produce to them such a plan and e!e vaiion of a Banking House, as (hall be approved of by them.—A plain, yet handsome front is dcfired : The whole building is to be substantial and commodious with as much space around it, at th<! (ire of the ground will admit. The Lot on which the building is to be ere£U ed, is fiiuated on the weft fid-of Third-street, between Chefnut and Walnut-streets in Phila delphia ; and its dimension'- are no feet en Third-ftrerr, and about 100 fret westward. THOMAS WILLING, Prefidcnt, cop , - , JuJt Imported, From London,' Dublin, ahd Glasgow, A»ul now opening for Tale, By MATHEW CAREY, No. 118, Marlct-Jlrcct, A Lnrge ;ir d Valuable ' COLLECTION OF BOOKS, Among which are the following NEW Annual llegilter for 1792 European Magazine for the firft fix months of 1793 Gibbons decline and fall of the Roman Empire Memoirs of the Manchester lociety, 3 vois> Priestly on matter and spirit on chrifttanity Disney's life of I)r. Jortin Kingville's ancient geography D'Anoirs of Guy Joli Memty,a colle&ion of e flays Varieof works Calm obferver->—by Mackintosh Ruflell's ancient and modern Europe Langhorne's Plutarch Elegant superbly gilt Elegant extracts of natural hiftor} Saugnier and Briflon's voyage Rochon's voyage to Madagascar Townfend's travels in Spain Taflo's Jerusalem delivered Sinellie's translation of Buffon Berwick's history of quadrupeds Buffon abridged History of birds Philips';? history of inland navigatio® Hooper's rational recreations History of France, in 3 vols. Curiosities of literature, 3 vols. NVhitaker's defence of queen Mary Sheridan's di&ionary, 2 vols, Dow's history of Hindoftan Sketches of the Hindoos Key to polite literature. Imlay's description of Kentucky Present state of Nova-Scotia Present state of Hudfori's Bay Preston on masonry Lavater on abridged Zimmerman's survey Murphy's life of Dr. Johnson Necker on executive power Kifies of Secundus Gallery of portraits Volney's mins of empires Vaillaint's travels, with superb engraving! Downman's infancy Adair's history of American Indians Behington on materia'.ifm and immaterialifm Berchold'«; advice to patriotic traveller# Builder's magazine Complete farmer ChaodonN life of Voltaire De Kofi's travels Franklin's life and works G ozier's description ot China Vlui Dhy's translation of Tacitus Godvrin on po! tical justice Gazetteer of France, 3 vols. Helvetius on man ICaimes's (ketches of the history of mnn Liberal opinion*, or the hift«ry oFßenignut Mawe's gardener's dictionary Noble's memoirs of the Cromwell family Plavhoufe dictionary Reveries of solitude Smith's theory of moral sentiments Stackhoule's hifto» y of the bible Watfon*s life of Philip lid. Hid. Wonders of nature ancl art, 6 vols. Wan ley's wonders bf the little world, called d 2m ma ft Walli# on the prevention of diseases Moore's journal in France Cox's travels into Denmark,Rnflla,Poland,See. Cox's travels into Switzerland Rabant's history of* the French revolution Life of Lord Chatham Mallet's northern antiquities Motherby's medical dictionary Grigj*'s advicfc to females Hamilton's outlines of the pra&ice of mid- wifery Manning's pra&ice of physic Cleghorn'f. diseases of Minorca Innes on the 'mufc.es Pott's works Fourcroy's chemistry Armstrong on diseases of children Qnincy's d fpenfatory Edinburgh dispensatory Lewis's dispensatory Ryan on the asthma Robertfon's treatise on fevcn Lee's botany, Leake on the viscera Leake on diseases of women Nrcholfon's chemistry Gardiner on the animal economy Lewis's Materia Medica Fordyce on digestion Withering on the To* glove Lind on the diseases of heat Monro on diseases of arfnies Haller's phyfi'ologv Spalanzane's dfflertmtions London pra<sVice of phyfrc Bell's forgery Chaptal's chemistry. mw&ftf FOR SALE, By MATHFW CAREY, No. 118, Market-Street, An EfTay on Slavery: Dtfigned 10 exhibit in a new point of view, its effras on mota/j t indvjlry, and ihe peace of ocitty. Sonte ta£U and calculations an- ottered ro prove the labor ofJreemen to be much mote produdive than that ot Jflaves ; that counirirs are rich, powerful and happy, in proportion a; the laboring people er»ioy the fruit* of their own labor ; and hence the nr£k(City concluGon, that slavery is impolitic as well as unjvjl. Pk ic* Cents. February 15. JAMES LEACH, RESPECTFULLY informs his friends and chc public, That from the encouragement he has received, ffrom several tefpcdfcablc Gentle men, he is induced ohce more, to embark in the PAPER LlNE—and would offer his feivices to all those Gentlemen, who can place ennfidene* in him ; and ht allures those who employ him, fhat thrir confidence (V)a 11 not he milplaced;— but it shall be his tonftant endeavor, to pay thle ftnflelt attention to kheir best interest, in all ne gociations whateVefr. He has taken the Chamber, in State-Street, over Mr. David Ivtonfend, Watch Make.'s Shop. Where PUBLIC SECURI TIES, of all kinds, are bought and fold} and where Commiflion Bulinefs of all kinds, will be tranfafted on leafonable terms. HOUSES and VESSELS will be conftamly exposed lor Lie, on commiflion. %• Calh paid for Salem, Providence, and Portsmouth BILLS. N. B. If any Gentleman in Philadelphia, o r New-York, has any Bu/tne/i to tranjafl at Boflon* in Paper Ncgociaiions, he will be happy to be em ployed on commiflion. Bolion, Jan. 24, 1794. Fifty Dollars Reward. ON the 31ft of lafl! month, the fubferib r ad drtfL'd a letter to Miffrs. Thomas Pearjalt S3 merchants in New-York, and inclokd therein a bank note, No. 445, for twenty dol lars ; one ditto, No. 151, lor thirty dollars ; and one ditto, No. 3,866, for twenty dollars. —He also addrcfled a letter to Mr. Gilbert Sgltonflall, merchant in New-Yoikf inclofinga bank bill, No. 148, for fifty dollars, indoifed on the back thereof in 1 heft words— 44 Pa) the within to Mr. Gilbert Hunting* tin.''—He also addreflVd a letter to Mcffis. White & Warde/l, meichants in New-Yoik, and inclo sed a bank bill sot ten dollars, and a draft in fa vor of said White & tVarde/l, which Utters were put in the Poll-Office on said 31ft January, to be forwarded to New-Yoik : But by letters re ceived from the Gentlem«nto whom they were severally addrefod, the money was robbed from each letter before delivery. The Public are requested to endeavor a dej teftion of the V Mains who commiued the above robbery. The bill indovfed, I think was a York bank bill, and some others, one or more was of the United Sta'es bank, remitted at Philadel phia. Any person discovering the Thief, and returning the Money, shall be entitled to fifty dollais reward. EBEN. HUNTINGTON. Norwich, 14th Feb. 1794. gwjttw Phi l adi lphi a, F< binary 13, 1794. PROPOSALS To p iuiing b> i>uufcription, AW ik|io he entitled, THE FIRST VOLUME OF Paitifylvaiiia State Trials. THE want of (uffit-icnt information of the state trials of Gteat-Britain in the earls period* of that government is now lamented : Hi herto there ha'h been but one trial in the state of Pennsylvania on impeachment :—and here also it is to be regretted, that, being negi Itttid at the time, the public are now leU with out fufficient intormation on the fubjtft of thaf 'rial, it is howevei in this vOrk defined to res cue what can be collected thereof from fouicea of indifputaple autfiority, so that the fame thai! be pnferved from oblivion. Another impeachment and the fccond is now deprndmg. An officer is charged by the late Honfe of Reprefentnnres, who ha h for many years been largely cor.ftdrd in by th:s state, and ha;h long b<cn at the head ot the financial de partment of the sam , and it imports ih-t citi zen!, 10 know his coi.oufl, and the circomftanccs which may be broftght foiward on hu trial. In this woik the Editor will be cartful to (late the fatts, as they may be brought forward, and to lay all the evidence and papers before the public.—With this viaw— The following Terms are refpeflfully Jubmilted to the Public : I. The Woik ihall be prated in nttavo, with a good type, on fific p>p;r, and delivered to fubfenbets at the nfprftive places where the f-jb'ci iptions. arc taken in,as fooo as the woik fhail be compleatrd. 11. As no eonjedure can well be made, as to the lebgth of the prcfi nt trial, the G*e of the volume cannot be ascertained at this lime But the pi ice fhail not exreed that of fame of the la:elj publications in thiacity. 111. It will contain all the preliminaries and in cidental circumstances thai may occur denng the trial of John Nitholfon, Efquiie, Comp troller-General of this commonwealth, with the arguments of counlel oa boih fidea, together with the articles of impeachment, and the pleas and replications at large, the fevaral re foiutions of the two branches of the state Le g flature, refpefting this impeachment, and •he final decifien of the SENATE icfpeiling that officor. To which will be prefixed, as much as can be colle&ed from authentic documents, of the im peachment, trial, and aequital of the laie Francia Hopkinfon, Esquire, Judge of the Court of Adimralltv fbr ihe slate of P nnfylvania, during the late war, never before pnblifhcd. 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