f " Front -Kfngfton I proceed to Niagara, in a 'schooner of upwards of one hundred tons burthen a.-rofs this little sea of frefh water ; a sea it may jutliy be called, for we arc a great pan of the time for three days out of fight of the land; though pas sages have been made in twenty hours ; we enter the Niagara river between the fort and the town callcd Newark, with a beautiful profpeft of both. « The fort (tands in a commanding fituatisn on a point formed by the jun&ion of the rivar and lake, upon the east (i Je of the river, and is a regu Jar fortification, in good repair, and well gartifon cd. " The mouth of this river affords a f?fe and copious harbour, fufficieatly large for half the Bri tish navy. " The town of Newark is situated in lat. 43 north, on the weft banks of the river, extending a long the lake about a mile, enjoying in the summer the frefh breezes from this little sea, in altnoft eve ty direiSion, plentifully supplied with fifh at all fca fon» of the year. In the winter here are caught by fcins, quantities of white fifh, which seem to be peculiar to that river, they are generally from two to fix pounds weight, and are considered the bed fifh in the lakes; betides these sturgeon, brass, and many other excellent fifh, are in great plenty ; sal mon are taken in all the creckcs round the lake ; these varieties of fifh arc not only eftecmed a luxu ry, but a great afliftance to new beginners in sup porting their families, many laying in a half dozen barrels or more for their winter's use. " The lower landing or Queenltoa, is about fe ten miles up the river from Newark, where the Teffels difchargc their cargoes, and take in furs col lected from three to one thousand five hundred ■tiles back, there I have seen four vefiels of sixty and one hundred tons burthen, unloading at the fame time, and sometimes not left than sixty wag gons loaded iu a day, which loads they carry ten miles to the upper landing place or Chipawa creeks, three miles pad the great falls. From Chipawa the merchandize is tranfportcd in batteaux to Fort Erie, a diftancc of eighteen miles and are shipped there on board of vessels for Detroit and Michili mackinac. Detroit, I was told was a pleasant coun try, through a low and marlhy foil, more noted for its fur trade, than its agriculture. M Niagara is at present the temporary feat of government, confiding of a governor, a legislative conncil, and houfeof aifembly chosen by the peo ple ; here annually in the month of May, they meet for the purpose of legislation. Members of the afTem Jy are chosen sot four years, and havcal lead fat three sessions. '« The ftreights of 'Niagara, from its peculiar ituation, being the channel through which all the produce of the vafl country above mult pats, is look ed forward tsMS a place of the firft confluence, and where a farmer will at all times find a market for his produce, the transport being easy from thence to the Atlantic. Here have 1 seen with a mazrment that famed catataft, which exceeds eve ry defcriptioii I have ever heard of it, but it would be idle in me to pretend to give you an idea of it —It ftriltes the eye with more grandeur and fub limi y than the jfn can convey. Among many other natural curiosities, a spring about two miles above these falls, attracts the attention of the curi ous } emitting a gas, or inflammable air, which, when confined in a pipe, and a flame applied to it, will boil the water of a tea kettle in fifteen minutes : Whether this may hereafter be applied by machine ry, to ufefol purposes, time will determine. It was lately discovered by clearing away and burning the brush under the bank of the river, to credt a mill, and was observed after the brush was consumed to burn for days together, to the great aflonifhment of the inhabitants. " About three hundred miles weft of this fort Detroit fittiate on the east fide of the ftreights, be tween lake Erie and Huron, around which,a French fettlemenr was eftabhfhed before the reduction of the province, but attending more to the Indian trade than agriculture, made but little progress as farmers. The English fettlemcnts lately begun on the shore are already in a high ftatc of cul tivation, however the French have fine orchards, from which Niagara is at present supplied with cy der and apples. " To the northward of Detroit about three hundred andfifty miles, lies fort . Michilimackinae, on aa island between lake Huron and Michigan, is aboute five miles round, arid an entire bed of grav el incapable of cultivation, but mod remarkable for being the general depot and grand rendezvous of all the Indian trader*, who meet in the month of June from every quarter, delivering their furs and receive their outfus for the ensuing year. Spanish set lemeius many mihsdown the Miflifippi are sup plied with British goods through this channel, to mu h greater advantage than from New-Orleans where the rapids of the oppose almost Unfurmountablc difficulties t;i ascending it. " This .fort, the forts of Detroit, Niagara, and Ofwego, fell within the United States, when the line* of separation were drawn, at the treaty of peace, in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty three; fort Miami, which was built by the British lately, is also within those. lines. ' M o ■ *34' Diftrift of Pennf, Ivanin, to wit. 5 ) 13E it Remembered that on the 23d <iay cf May, in •13 the year r>t ttie Independence of the Uni ed States of America, Francis Sha'lluS, the laicl diiirift hath dcpofitfd.in this office, the title of a book, the right whereof he claims woprietor iu the words foMowing to wit THE DISAPPOINTMENT, jor THE FORCfc OF CREDULI TY, a new Comic :Opera in three aCls, by Andrew Barton, E'q. ad edition reviled and corrected with large additions by the author." " Enchanting g,,ld ! thatdoft confpireto blind, 44 Mans* erring judgment and tnilguide the mind, 14 In search of thee, the wretchcd worldling goes, u Nor dangers fee s, tho' friends of right oppose." In conformity the a& of the of the United States, entitled " An a&ior the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps.ckarts and books to the authors and proprietors of such copic? during theUimes therein men tioned. Samuel Caldwell, Oik. Dift. Penn. I tic above Opera will be tubUfhci in the a>H r /c of two or three July 2g ' J J t4 t WANTED, A SERVANT GIRL, or a NEGRO BOY in a ■l J- genteei family, who can produce pood recom mendations,for whom constant employment and gene ram wages will be giver}. Inquire ®f the printer. July aa. „ it, . Philadelphia, -FRIDAY EVENING, Jolt 21, 1796. La ft evening were married, by the Rev. Doctor Andrew«, Mr. IVMiam Harrifun, jun. to Mrs. Sarah Mi tier. Extras of a letter, dated New-York, July 10th, 1796 " Reports ire spreading that we have the Yellow Fe ver amongst us, and I believe we have had" a few in stances of it, but do not find that it increases yet." Several other letters from New-York csntain the like difajreeablc information. The Star of the ißth of May, the Uteft London pa per brought by the Manehefter, fays, " We are informed from very high authority, that parliament will be prorogued to-morrow, and difiolved by proclamation on Friday." t — The Letter bag of the ship Harriet, capt. Nor man, for Hamburgh, will be liken from the Poft-of fice at i o'clock to-morrow evening. The (hip General Walhiugton, captain Perry, the (hip Huldy, captain Warner, and the brig Frieudihip, captain Trott, for Philadelphia, were advirtifed in Gore's Liverpool Advertiser of May 19. The Huldy to fail the 30th of May. The (hip Eliza, captain Benfon, of Baltimore, has arrived at Liverpool. Extract of a letter from Madame de la Fayette, to General Ferrarri, (one of the Emperor's Mi nisters.) " I am particularly grateful, for the regret you express at the impossibility of granting my requests. I made them 'in the firft instance to the cotnmaiicL ing officer of Olmuta, because hit Imperial Majesty had told me to address myfelf to him—l made them in writing because 1 had no means of feeing him. " I asked 111. Permission to go to mass, bccaufe 1 ought to do every thing in my power to go to it. On Sundays and hollidays. " 2d. To be attended accafionally by a servant, because having learnt when at Vienna, that M. Bournorville, Camus, Bancal, and others, Con ventional prisoners, who had fervanta, enjoyed here the libetty of feeing them all the day long, I flat tered myfelf-that the fame favor might be granted to me for fomc momenta. " 1 have also asked that M. de Maubourg and De Puay might pafa some houra with tia, because in the difjrrent prisons of France, in Robefpierre'a time (where, aa yeu know, I have 'pasTed sixteen months) I waa in the habits of feeing the prifonera communicate with each other. " 1 beg pardon, for having in thia vefpefl allow ed my confidence to carry me too far. " I confeft with great pleasure, that we agreed to paticipate all the rigours of M. de la Fayette's prifon,and that this was the only favor wc appli ed for. Our sentiments aro still the fame, and we repeat with all our hearts, that we ire happier with M. de la Fayette, even in thia prison, than wc should be any where else without him. " To juftify, however, the liberty I have taken with you, I will remind you, fir, that his Imperial Majesty in the audience he war pleafcd to grant me, had the goodness to fay to me that " 1 should find M. de la Fayette very well treated, and that if I had any request to make, I ihould be well fatiafi cd with the commanding officer." " I have also the honor of reminding you fir, that hia Imperial Majesty permitted me to write dire&ly to himfelf, and toaddrefa my letter to the Prince of Rofemberg ; and, aa since we have been shut up, I have been utterly deprived of the means of writing to the Emperor, or even to Mr. Rofem berg, I conceived it ray duty to addrefa my te quefts te you, and beg you will excuse me, if they have appeared fomewnat exaggerated to you. ARRITEB AT THIS PORT. DAYS. Brig Jane, Lillibridge, Ncw-Orleana >8 Sally, Stubbs, Jamaica 35 Betsey, Holt, Kingilon 25 Sch'r. Sally, Hitchcock, Demcrara 23 Nancy, Town, Jeremie 18 Betsey, Whfte, Virginia 5 — Kitty, Shaw, North-Carolina 6 Sloop Betsey, Colburn, Richmond 12 Mary, L'Hommedicu, New York 13 Arrived at the Fort. - Ship Sally, Wickes London Sch'r. Sincerity, Copia Aux-Caycs Sloop lnduftry, Dillingham, St. Bartholomews. 1 Brig Simons, from St. Jago, (Island of Cuba) is arrived at the Fort. A ship, said to be the South Carolina, was in Cgbtthis evening; (July 21.) Captain Frost, of ship Molly, 64 days from Li verpool—spoke 22d June, lat. 42, long. 53, (hip Fox, Dackray, from Savannah to London, 16 days out, all well. 25th, lat. 40, long. 62, spoke a fchooncr from Wifcaffet to Liverpool, 16 days out, name not known. July 17, about 10 leagues from Cape Henlopen, spoke (hip Seaflower, Boland, from Philadelphia to Havre, with a number of paflengers on board, all well. 14 PafTengerß came in the Molly- Ship Success, Babcock, from Bourdeaux to Philadelphia, was captured on the Btb inft. by the British frigate La Raifori. Tbe'orig Twins, Keelerfrom St. Croix is in theri yer. > Arrived at St. Thomas's fchooncr Expedition from Philadelphia. Capt. Peirce of the schooner Delight from Porto-Ri co arrived at tile Fort—in lat. 28 was boarded by two French 84's and a 50 gun (hip from France —they were fleering N. E. under easy fail. Scl:»oner Dion, Capt. Doyle for Philadelphia from Aux-Cayes is taken by the Argonaut and sent forKiagf ton, Jamaica. BY THIS DAY's MAILS. BOSTON, July 16. No particulars of the late engagement heard off the bay have tranfpiied.—There are three French frigates on the coast, the Concorde, the Infurgcnt, and aijoiliyy , t< was repo-ted yesterday, but upon no account able authority, that the Concord French frigate had captured the Hnffar British frigate. It 13 not im poffiblc but that the report may be founded on truth. Yesterday arrived here the French privateer A onor de la Patrie, from a cruise. She has sent in a piize. . emigrations to the United States increase in ; maugre the {ombre (hades thrown over her eharafler and prafpefts by the diforgauiz ing faftiori. 1 FROM ST. VINCENTS, June Is. ExtraS from a teller. \t may be interesting to you •to know how thing! go with the French and Engliih. St. Lu cia is totally >in pofleffion of the former; they ftorm{;d tiie forts, and succeeded in carrying them. Some!negroes, and naturalized French were hang ed, ajid some brought to this place for the fame purpdf-. -The commander in chief, Sir Ralph A- j bercrombie, arrived from thence to this place, seven j days ago, with part of the forces to retake the | windward fide of this island from the French and Charibs, who have had pofleffion, a long time palt. On the 10th at sunrise, the British commenced tbeir ajtack with 4,300 men ; at two in the after noon they stormed and took the old fort, and three redoubts between It, and the new fort", About three the firing eeafed ; and a flag of truce from the French came in.—Finally it was fettled to sur render all the pofleffions.on the island to the Bri tish, and the French prisoners to receive the ho nors of war. Those who were natural fubjefts of Great Britain, and had.joined the French,' were to be at the discretion of the commander in chief —as also those negroes who fled to them. The Charibs, however, in the night, as well as, the plantation negroes, got into the woods, and a bo dy of rangers and riflemen are-after them. On the-, lith, at 3 o'clock, P. M. the prisoners came in, and were conveyed on board the different (hips in the harbour. Such a (habby set I never beheld be fore. Thejr amounted in all to above 400, out of whom only five or fix were white men ; the others were negroes and mulattoes. They were com manded by a negro, who had a French commission of Captain, as had also many of the other negroes and mulattoes. They came into town with their fide arms, and (omitting the balk of the prison ers, who were (the dirtiest and most ragged crew under heaven) appeared decently dreft in their uni form." • The English successes in the Weft-Indies, have n«t been equal to the immense expense of blood and treafurc lavished to attain them. In one action at St Lueia, we are allured by a correspondent, they loft fix hundred mec. Notwithftsnding we are not able to lay befor. our rearers this day, the report of Marbois, an nounced in eur lalt, we can aflure them, that even a Hamilton, whose knowledge of the law of nati ons, wliofe talents and inveltigation, and uniform candour and liberality are univetfally acknowledg ed, could not have vindicated the rights of a neti tral nation more forcibly, nor have condemned thr G?net}n conduct adopted in the United Slates, with more effcift. The French Directory ar* clothed with much more powei-than the Piclidcnt of the United States. Befid«s appointments, in which they have not tc advise with a Council or Senate, they have the re gulatiou of the armed force of the Republic ; and tliey have lately encreafed the number of polie bl ditrs, of 'those they have at their immediate com ihand to execute their order, to 13,000 men. Arrived (hif\ Eagle, Capt. Swcst, 40 days from Lilbon, via Marblehead. Spoke July 2, brig Blos som, Capt. Mark Pool, bound to Hamburgh, 7 days from "Boston. Left there a brig belonging to Mr. Parsons of this town, had loft her inain-maft j snow Ann, and Mary, Smith of Philadelphia ;— fchr. ——, Gale, of do. July 9, capt. S. was brought too by the English frigate Raifon, former ly a Freneh ship, Cape La Havre, bearing N. by E. 15 leagues, they had a ship in company that they had taken the day before from Bouideaux, bound to New-York, captains name was Babcock, he had a number of French paflenger* on board, July 10, was palTcd by two more frigates, one of which brought him too, and meant to have boarded him, but.upon his telling him he bad been over hauled the day befor*, by the La Raifon, he was then fuftered to pals. Arrived at BREST, 7th Floreal, ApHl 27. The Sea-flower, eapt. Cromby, from Hamburgh. The Fame, of Boston, capt. George Cunning- from Havre. The Minerva,of New-Yoik, capt. K. Eldridge from Havre. The Commerce of Baltimore, capt. John Brown from Havre. Sailed from Brest. The Sally of Boston, capt. Harlow, for Bourdeaux. The Katy, us Boston, capt. Rides, bound to Setubal, in ballast. The General Greene, of Philadelphia, capt. Hodge, for Bourdeaux, in ballast. De Rouges of Boston, capt. Atkins bound to Falmouth with exchange of prisoners. . The (hip , capt. Blackington, owned by Mr. Meffct, of Wifcaffet, lately foundered at tea, in the English channel: the capt. and mate and one seaman saved. We undefftar.d she was in fU■.?' NEW-YORK, July 21. Oil Monday last, was heard before the Mayor, a complaint made by Meflrs. George Lord, and Sa muel-Lord,,of the 7th ward of this city, carpenters, against Geo. Tibberths, one of the cartmen, who drive* No. 28, for a fraud. The following is a Uatement of the fa&s which appeared upon the examination : That Mr. Tibberths was employed by Meffirs. to cart two loads of plank from the Albany bason at the north river, to the Bowe ry, for which cartage, Messrs. Lotd paid him eight Shillings : That Meflrs. Lord, as ufsial; intruded bim with the monies to pay to a captain Martling the amount of'hi» bill for those plauks 5 that upon such payment, Mr. Tibberths demanded of him al so eight (hillings for the cartage ; that Martling at firft tefnfed,but Tibberths peremptorily infilled up on the paymeat thereof, and capt, Mattling then paid him th« sight ftiilliaga j. that tipoi) it* beisg discovered by Meflrs. Lord that he'SiiM ... >rted payment from capt. Martling alf . ' uad returned the last mentioned lumßl* Ma; Upon this statement of facts. the M;. ; or (iifplaced Mr. Tibberths from the office of a cart man of this city. Arrived at ih'u Port. Sch'r Regulator, Allen Richmond, Vir. New Adventure, Harrington St. Thomaa Sloop Commerce, Johnson New Providence Franklin, Rufleil Petit Guave PORTSMOUTH, (N. H.) July 14. Arrived la-re the Sdioor.er Aflive, Capt. Samuel Cuttt, in 11 days si.mi Port-de-Paix. Left there the brig Frieudfhip, Capt. Kipley, of Philadelphia. Schoo ner Harriot and Ann, Capt. Ruler, and Schooner John, Capt. Stewart, of Charleftsn. Sloop Scftib, Capt. Wil liams, Miridlctowu (Conn.) Sloop Cnfis Capt. Cook, of New-London.—A Pilot boat, Capt. Jones fron: Bal timoi-e. The Brig Friendship, and thefloops Crisis and Scrub, were carried 111 there as prizes. Capt Wells, of the Sehr. Success, has been waiting at Port de-Paix, Upwards of fix moofts for payment from the Adminiltrnion, and has reilmd nothing as }t ' NEWBURYPORT, July 16. St. LUCIA RE-TAKEN. Last evening it was reported {hat St. Lucia wa» re-taken by the French. It was received by an ar rival at Portsmouth. KINGSTON, June 16. His majesty's brig Drake, and feboaner Port- Royal, arrived late on Tuesday evening frum the Mole. I The Drake has taken and brought in with her, a French privateer flocip named the General Thouf faint,* and a French schooner l'Oifeau j the eom mandSr of the forirer fays he failed from Port-de. Paix with a commission to cruize agawft the En gli h, and had also inftmftions to fend into that 'pott, all American vcffels he should fall in with,, la den witl? provisions, which are extremely scarce there, flour felling at 30 dollars per barrel. He adds that they were in daily expedition ps the. ar rival of Richery's squadron at Cape. Francois ; at which place the mailer of l'Oifeau, fays that San thouax and General Rochambeau arrived in the ate armament, which confills of two fail of the ine, five frigates, and fifteen transports. The American schooner Polly,capt. Eafton, ar rived on Tuesday evening, in 3 days from Si. Ja go de Cuba; she had been taken by the priva eer Rights of Man, and all her cargo condemned and fold. The captain reports that a French pnViteer „ called Freboftic, a schooner mounting 2 guus, ij cruiling on the outside of the harbour, which took some days ago air Erglifh barque, and a brig bound to this island off the weft end of St. Domingo; these veflels are layinfF in the outer load of St. Ja go de Cuba, and not permitted to enter. The capt, likewise mentions that, a schooner privateer with one only, and a pilot boat which fails remar kably fact, and with about thirty men, are cruizing" n the north fide of this island. July gift, i 7 96. The Members of " the society of ihe Sons of St. Georg*, eftablifhedat Philadelphia for thead~ ice and afliftante of l-.ngliflmien in diftreis, are requclled to a-tend aquartrrlv of the Society on Saturday the iuft. at o ie o'clock, P, M. at the City Ta crn. A HUMPHREYS, Sec'y. N. B. Som-new members to be balloted for.. Dinner to beoa thetableat 4 o'clock orecifcly. #2 —it THE SALE OF The TOWN, and OUT LOTS of the TOWNS of ERIE, WhTERFORD, FRANKLIN and WARREN. A DVERTISED for sale by the State Agents, in the Phillu l\ delphia Gazette and Universal Daily to be Sold in the City of Philadelphia ; wiM Commence at the Ciiy Tavern or CofFte-Houfe in Second-Street, in the said city, oa Monday the day ot July inft. at 7 o'ciock in the even ing, and becontiiiued by adjournment from day to day, Irom, 1 s o'clock at p®on, Oflril two o'clock, and from 7 until 9 o'cl« ck in the evening, ut)tii the whole of the said LOTS and " OUT LOTS are disposed of. The condition* of faie will b« made known, and the plans of the said LO IS and OUT '. LOIS be (hewn at the time and-place of.fale. By older of WUtium Irvine, Andrew EMic tt And .Agent,. FOX, Auflitnuri July 22. DUTY ON CARRIAGES, Notice is hereby Given, THAT agreesbly to an of CongreTt of the UniteA" Slates ot America, passed at Philadelphia, (he ftSik day of May, 1796 ; laying duties on Carriagei, f»r the convey, ance of perlons, and repealing the former afti for that pur pose there lhall be levied, collected and paid, upon all carriages for the conveyance of perforn, which frail be kept by or for any person, for his or her own use, or to lec out to hire, or for the conveying of palTengeri, the fereial du ties and rates following, to wit. For and upon every Coach, 15 dob. upon every Chariot, la dols. upon every Post Chariot, a dol 11 upon every Pott Chaise, 1 a dols. up*n every Phaeion, with or without top, g dots. upon every Coachee, 9 dols. upon other Carriages, having pannel work above, with blinds, glafiesor curtains, 9 dols. upon four wheel carriages, having framed pods and topi with ftcet fpiiogs, 6 dols, upon fogr wheel top Carriages, with wooden or iron springs or jacks, j dols. upon curricles with tops, 3 dols* upon chaises with tops, 3 dols. upon chairs with tops, 9 dols, upon sulkies with taps, 3 dais. upon other two wheel top carriages, 3 dols. upon two wheel carriages, with steel or iron springs* ) dols For and upon all other two wheel carriages, 1 dols. upon every four wheel carriage, having framed poll* and tops, and reftiug upon wooden spars, a dols. The Coll fctora of the Revenue of the firft survey *f th« Diftrift of Pennfylvaoia, Will attend daily, until the 30th day •f September next, for the purpose of receiving ihe duties 00 Carriages, at No. 117, in Race or Saffifras street, in the City et Philadelphia, at the house of Dnnel S. Clair, Esq. in the County of Montgomery ; and at the house of Abraham Du bois, tliq. in the County of Bucks; of which all persons pof leffed of fuck Carriages arc deflred to take notice. Notice is also given, TO all retail dealers in Wines, and foreign distilled fpiri» tuous liquors, that licences will be granted to them j one li cence for carrying on the business of retailing of Wines, in a lets quantity, or in Jels quantities than 30 gallons—and onr licence far carrying 00 the bufineis of reta_ilingSpirituous li quors in lefsquaptities than 29 gallons at the fame time, and at the fame places, by the officers legally authorized to graus such licences. WILLIAM NICHOLS, Inrpcclor of the Revenue ot the fit ft larrey of the diltrift ol Paiuiijlvania. 4 \ Office of Infpeftion, at ? Philadelphia, »>ft July, J7s6. > t 3# f.
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