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To be fold by public fiile,
ON Wednesday, the 7th day of September next, on
the premises in Mount-Holly,Burlington county, by
the Subscriber,
The Dwelling-House and Lot
Whereon it stands, having been in part occupied as a (lore
for several years past, and in a good stand lor Vtifinefs,to
gether with the (lorc-houfe, stable and buildings thereon
erected, having two large cellars under them. Also, the
shop goods and household furniture. A clear title will be
given to the purchaser on payment of the money or fuf
'ficient bond therefor, and possession of the premises will
be given in the said month of September.
. The/ale is so continue 'till the whole is disposed of.
Mount Holly having become rhe County Town, makes
this property m«re valuable than heretofore. The condi
tions willbemade known at the time and place of sale, by
PETER SHIRAS.
N. B. All per Tons indebted to the fubferiber, are requeu
ed to difchargethe fame immediately, as he intends soon
to remove out of this ft ate. Any person having a just de
mand againfl tha fubferiber, is requested to produce the
fame for settlement.
Mount Holly, August 16, 1796- '
"wanted,
A STORE and Cellar or Compting house and Cellar,
for the Wholesale and Dry Good business. Enquire
at No. Ix 9 Arch-flreet.
For Sale at the alove place,
500 Boxes Window Glass, 8 by 10, 7 by 9, &c.
500 Cream Cheeses in the bed order, imported from
Holland, and entitled to drawback. Enquire of
Peter Borger,
Aug. 16 iaw3w
For Boston,
The brig Neptune,
James Tower, Master,
WILL fall on Sunday next. For freight or pafiage apply
te EDWARD STOW, Jun.
Aug. 16 § No. 76 South Front-street.
Letters Patent,
Granted to the Subscriber, for the Cure of
Incurvations and Di/iortions of the Spine.
EVERY thing has been studied to render this applica
tiorifTafe, cafy, effeSual, and generally ufeful, and
' that if necessary, it may be accompanied with any other
mode.
The/uccefsof the Patentee in the cure of distortions,
from Incurvations of the Sp%le, the Wry Neck, &c. in
. thi» city and in different parts ef the United States, under
the of eminent physicians, when every other
mode had failed, wiU, it is hoped, afford the public fuf
ficient testimony of the utility of this application.
N. B. He makes an apparatus for refloring distorted
feet in children —Bandages in general—Truffasof various
deicriptibns, and one in particular on a plan entirely new,
•which in some cases is found to answer better than any
other.
He returns thanks to those medical gentlemen in differ
ent parts of the United States who have honored him with
their patronage and confidence.
gy The Ladies are refpedtfully informed, that he has
an elegant assortment of St"ys and Corsets for Sale, which
■will be altered if necessary, free of extra charge.
LUNDIN M'KECHNIE,
Aug. 16 21W3W No. 17 Dock-street.
Wr AN ARTIST,
Resident at Mr. Oellers's Hotel,
MINIATURE LIKENESSES
ARE taken and executed in that elegant and delicate
stile, which isfo necessary to render a Miniature Pic
ture an interesting jewel.
He will warrant a strong and indisputable refem
blar.ee; and he takes the liberty to lay before the public
of this place his most earned intention to deserve their pa
tronage by kcA-enUiavnrs-tcv-plettfc.
N. B. Specimens are to be seen.
May 12. ' ?
Auction Sales.
India Goods at Audtion.
ON Friday next, at 10 o'clock in the meaning, will be
fold at auction, at No. 56 South Front-street, about
60 bales of India white Goods, entitled to the drawback,
confifling of—
Long Cloths
Baftas
Gurrahj
Emerties
Coffaes
Humhums
T anjibs
Mull Mulls.
, Edward Fox, Au&'r.
Aug.ii.
Sherry Wine T
NOW LANDING,
FROM the Ihip General Walhington, at Riee-flreet
wharf, and WILL BE SOLD BY AUCTION,
On Wednesday next,
A.t lo o'clock in the morning, for approved notes at
SIX MONTHS,
Four hundred Quarter-Caflcs of
S HE R R Y WINE.
Edward Fox, Auctioneer.
Aug. 1;
Lottery
FOR railing fix thousand fix hundred and sixty-seven
dollars and fifty cents, by a deduction of fifteen per
centfrom the prizes, and not two blanks to a prize, viz.
1 Prize of jooo dollars is dollars 5000
j 1000 1000
i 500 500
j aoo ioca
4 o 100 aooo
99 jo 4950
aoo 3-J • J°°°
aoco io ao,ooo
5 Last drawn numbers of 1000 dollars' each, 5000
4331 Prizes. 44i450
4018 Blanks. ,
635 c Tickets at Seven Dollars each, 44,45°
By order of the Directors of the Society for eftabiiih
ingUfeful Manufactures, the luperintendants of the Pat
erfon Lottery hive requested the Managers to offer the
foregoing S«heme to the public, and have directed them
. to refund the money to ihcife persons who have purchased
in the former Lottery, or exchange ti*e tickets for tickets
ip this Lottery.
I'he lottery hasaftually commenced drawing, and will
continue until finilhed. A lift of the Blanks and Prizes
may be seen at the office ot William Blackburn, No. 64
south Second ftrett, who will give information where tick
ets may te pocured.
Dated tliis 17th day of June, 1796.
J. N GUMMING-, 1
JACOB R. HARDENBERG,> Managers.
JONATHAN RHEA, J
'7*ranjlated for the Gazette of tb- United
From 3. Parii gaper entitled L.e Republican J /(in
fait, dated April 10, 1796.
To the Editor of the Republican Frangais.
THE Treaty of £ommerce lately concluded
between the American and the English govern
ment, is the specious pretext on which the enemies
of France found their insinuations that the execu
tive of the United States is not well disposed to
wards the Fiench Republic, and that he is entirely
in the iaterefts of England. A true exposure ot
facts will demonstrate the falfeßood of these insinu
ations, and juflify the condu£l of the government
of my country.
When the French Republic declared war againfl
England, orders were given by tie committee of
public fafety, to seize, without difoiimination, all
American veflels which French (hips ps war should
find on the sea, and fend them into the different
ports of the Republic. These orders have been
flri&ly executed, and even with a good deal of
1 rigour : numbers of American captains have been
taken from on board their veflels, a.id carried fey
the captors to ports rfmote from those to which
they sent their pretended prizes; the crews dis
persed, some of them impiifoned, Itnd otherwise
ill treated ; the agents of the government seized
many of the cargoes, put them in a state of re
quisition, even of those velTels deltined for the ports
of France, and many of these cirgoes are not yet
paid for, notwithstanding the numerous representa
tions to our ministers againfl all these violations of
our treaties of Alliance and Commerce, violations
which would be regarded by ail oiher powers, less
moderate, and less fineercly attached to ths French
Republic than the United States, as so many- .acts
of hofliiity.
The Convention passed a Jeace, purporting
that France would cease arresting our veflels at sea,
when the powers at war with the Republic should
refpeft our -flag.
We had no treaties of Alliance and of Com
merce with England, and we never should have
formed any if France had not forced us to it by
this folimn declaration.' In short, vliat else could
the government of rhe United States do, to pro
te& the maritime commerce of iti citizens, in
-circumstances so diffieult ? The Erglifh pillaged
our veflels on one fide, and the Frerch ruined cur
commerce on the other.
Our commerce thus a prey to two of the belli
gerent powers, France reduced us, by the declara
tion above reeited, to the alternativ of breaking
with England, or of making a treaty with her.—
This last measure, since the peace of 1783, had
always been avoided by oar government; bgt it
was preferable to a rupture which would have been
prejudicial to our commercial intereils: we should
have been deprived of the means of provifloning
the French islands, and of furnifhing the French
Republic with those innumerable cargoes of grain
and which have entered their ports. The
committee of public fafety were ve.y sensible that
our neutrality was more advantageaus to France
than a state of war, without a marine equally re
fpe&able to oppose to the fleets of Great-Britain,
and it was this consideration that led them te ap
prove of ouf neutrality ; but the depredation
committed upon our commerce rendered a treaty
witlr England inßifpenfable, in order to put an end
to it.
' Nothing was more .difficult to acsomplifh ; the
English minister saw with jealousy the marked pre
ference of the United States in favor of France—
the part which they took in America, in the fuir
ceffes of the Republic—the public rejoicings in
which they celebrated the news of every victory
of the French—and the public wishes of all my
fellow-citizens for the prosperity and triumph of
the Republic, pubh'fhed in all the journals and ga
zettes of the United States; in fa<ft, the Britilh
minister was so much irritated againfl us, that in
the end of the year 1793 ' c was decided in the
council of St. James to declare war againfl us :—
but the retaking of Toulon by the victorious arms
of the Republic, and the subsequent conquests of
France, diverted the florm which was ready to
break upon us.
In this hostile disposition towards us on the pait
of G. Britain, it was'impoflible for our govern
ment to conclude a treaty with her, for the pro
tadlion of out commerce, without giving her some
great advantages—but the clause of the treaty
which formally declares that no article shall be
construed derogatory to our treaties with France,
ought fully to fatisfy the government of the Re
public in t}iis refpedl.
I do not pretend to defend the treaty of Mr.
Jay againfl the attacks of several of my compa
triots, but only to demonstrate that France has no
cause of complaint, and that the government of
my country has done nothing to juftify the accusa
tions of those who endeavor to perfuade'the people
that the President of the United States entertains
fentimer.is unfavorable to the Republic. They
ought to be considered as the enemies <jf France,
as well as of America, who seek t6 disunite the
two nations. It should be reoolle&ed, that the
United States are the firfl power who, at an im
mense diftanee, recognized the Fiench Republic ;
and that it was the firfl who appointed a minister
j lenipotentiary to iefide in France in that capacity..
I know that it will afford a tnuipph to the enemies
of France should they succeed h» their endeavors
to embroil us. The difaffefted will leave no me
thods uneffnyed to flir up jealousy and discord be
tween the two Republics, and for this purpose
they will repeat at Paris the fame intrigues, which
they would have playeS at Philadelphia but the
government of France is too wife to give intofuch
palpable attempts to them,,aid they will
not be more fuccefsful here than they have been
with the executive of America.
AN AMERICAN.
LANDS, —
In Harrifon county, Virginia, so- Sale.
FOUR Tradls containing .5000 acres each, and a moiety
of one other tract of 5000 acres, all lltuated on the
waters of Elk and Hughes's riven
For further particulars enquire at No. 70 Ciefnut-fl reet,
where the Patentsjhay be seen.
E fw&m3t
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'ifiiirrr i"-- - * V- - t■ > •"■-
CONTIA 'JATIOK OF
Foreign Intelligence.
From London and other F.ng\'i[h'bnpers received by the
Jh'ip Farmer, M'Collom, from London, and other
late arrivals.
LONDON, May 12.
" • SIERRA LEONE COMPANY.
The Dire&ors have lately published their Re
port, delivered at the last Meeting by the Chairman,
Mr. H. Fliornton, which contains a brief account
of the pre lent ttalc of'tnc Colony, grounded upon
the declaration they had proposed on a former oc
casion, of reducing wjthin narrow limits the whole
amount of the risk which they wire about to in
cur io Afiica. The fettlcment has, since the at
tack there reported, continued uninterruptedly to
improve, and has not become fobjedfc to any new
danger or calamity. The healthiness of the cli
mate has also improved. The deaths of iVjhty of
the one hundred and twenty. BritiCh sailors then
said to have been landed (here by the French from
captured /hips, and of several others since, are found
to have been caused by the hardfhipa they had fuf
fered, and the Want of medicines and accommodati
on, which had been destroyed in the unprincipled
ravages committed ; and those other cases which
have happened, have not excliifivcly aiifen from
climate ; for it is remarkable that, during the rainy
season, the Company loft none of their servants.
The Nova-Scotia blacks have been remarkably
healthy, and their births have far exceeded their
deaths. This account is up Co the 31ft of Octo
ber, 1795.
The lirft ship, carrying any material quantity of
trade gaods, which failed since the Colony was
plundered by the French, had not arrived at the
date of the lad dispatches. A fa&or) has been
raised at a small expence on the river Rio Pongas,
twelve leagues from the river's mouth, which af
fords an easy introduction to ths capital of the
Foolahs and is under protedlion of that King.
Some delay and, difficulty occurred in forming the
factory, by the opposition and mifreprefentatious of
the neighbouring European traders, and Dy th# uni
ted efforts of the (lave traders ofall the nearer and
some of the more distant parts, to induce the na
tives to remove it; but a palaver was held, in which
the Chiefs gave credit to the good designs of the
Company. From the call for various articles of
eommerce, those already shipped are expe&ed to
come to a good market; and a second (hip has been
freighted accordingly.
The Company's preferrt property is dated to con
fid of a capital in securities of 60,0001. in trade
26,0001. and of Stock 011 the Colony o£ 9,0c01.
making a total of 95,000!.
Many of the Nova Scotians, since the French
attack, have been diiven from the coast through
fear, and have established more distant farm lots,
which had been before neglefled. These lon on
the mountains are the belt, the others generally
good ; and the cultivation of fifty new farms has
been begun. Premiums of forty dollars have been
given as encouragements to fettle within a mile
from Freetown. The Company's cultivations on
the Bulam (hore have not advancejL_for_w«u..o£-
goods, Jcc. Coffee and cinnamon plants, ginger,
and several other articles, have been obtained by a
vessel freighttned from the Colony to the island of
St. Thomas in April 1795. Tropical feeds and
plants from the Weft-Indies have been loft by the
captureof Weft-India vessels ; and the vessel Prant
Hatch, containing many valuable articles from the
King's garden at Kew, was entirely destroyed by
the French.
The conduct of the Nova-Scotians has been very
refpe&ful ; they ha»e voluntarily offered to erect
some works for the future defence of the cclony ;
they have elected tithing men and hundredors; their
young persons have been put apprentices to English
artificers ; they have built boats, and began to car
ry on a trade by barter' with the neighbouring
head men or chiefs: their children are at school in
the colony.
A delegate from some free blacks in Rhode Isl
and arrived at Sieria Leone last year, and terms for
receiving twelve families, certified to be of good
morals, have been fettled to encourage their emi
gration ; each family is to have ten acres of land
on the Bulam fide of the river for a farm lot, and
an eighth of an acre for a town lot also, for which
they are to pay a quit rent, and conform to
laws of the Colony.
Two baptist missionaries have failed from Eng
land in one of the Company's Yhips, wishing to fet
tle under some African Chief ; and other persons
properly qualified have also failed for religious in
ftru&ors j a few Englilh families have also failed
for the purpose of going directly to the capital of
the Foolah kingdom, 300 miles itiland, and to fet
tle there ; their exper.ces ar<t borne by a voluntary
fubfeription in England, and ■ they allowed a free
pafiage to Sterra Leone. .
The disadvantages under which the Colony has
laboured have been greaj, arid the expences consi
derable ; nevertkele's; every year's experience fecms
to have added to the of its establishment
and future prosperity, and to have afforded freth
proof of the pratticability of cultivating and civi
lizing the Continent of Alyca !
May 11,1.796. A PROPRIETOR.
SALFORD, May 10.
A person, lately a resident of Salford, a few
evenings ago, having faqrificed a little too freely to
the jolly God, in a viiit to a few of his old neigh
bours, took his departure for home at a very late
(or rather early) heur in the morning : having a
bout three miles to walk, and very often losing the
balance of power' ere he had attained half the way,
at last he fell near the moutii of a coal-pit, about
half a mile from his house ; here the leaden hand
of Morpheus lay so heavily upon him, that he soon
forgot h.s danger and himfelf in a found sleep. Not
long had he lain there before the black gentlemen
. of the pit arrived, to resume their daily task ; these
wicked wags (four or five in number) fodn agreed
to fallen the sleeping vifitar.r into th«ir bafltet, and
introduce hiai into tlieir internal regions jthis was
done with all poffiblc fafctv ; an'd he ,va.s fe n j f
in the subterraneous regions. A figure of « blsc
ugly boy whs placed by his lide to watch him dos
ly when he (hould awake, wl.'icli, when he did an
opened his eyes upon the ohjeft, proceed an e'flv<
upon his mind, body and face, that emphatically d,
elared (for he vvas fpsechlefs with h orror i j,
thought himfelf really among the dlmn'd, a㤠t h; ;
this lad was no more nor left than one of ti
D 's Imps. As soon as he was fjirly awakt
the sweat running from his brow with horror ti
lad exelaimed, "On ! wh.t you're corns a; la'ft at'c
you! Aye, aye, I'il fetch my Meatier, the eaw :
one, to you." Accordingly the lad ran, and foo;'
brought, not one, but four 01 five old ones, who
bilrft forth with horrid diffinant voices " Oli
what he's her?, is he ? aye, we're been expecting
him this Jong time part ! Come, come, confefsyoir
finsdiieaiy, or elfc you go !« o a bed of btimlton
in a momefit:" Here they prtrcloeetf a black booi
in which they pretended to regifier what h •
(hould confefs. As soon as he could speak, h
begg'dfor God's fake'that they would have mercy
011 him, and he would tell all his offences, thong,
he solemnly declared, they were very few. H« '
then said, that he had got drunk with fomefriend:
in Salford, and fell afkepoH his way home, whe
he supposed that a cart had gone over him and kill'
him. " Aye, aye, that w« know very well,"—
roar'd the demons, —" But your fins ! yourlks !'
" Why, cries the trembling b-ulprit,—" 'Trs true
me and one Thomas did once (leal a pig,"
" a pig did you ? come, as it was only one ol
the fwinifli Aultitude, we'll forgive him for that.'
—" But what else ?" " Why, once i did rob ul<
Mary —— —'s garden of some of her codlings.''
" Well but," fays Bclzebub the chief, " What fe
male connections have you had ? Have you neve
ruined any wenches !" " No ; God knows I neve
have ; 'tis true, I once had connection with a younj
woman, but who turned out nought, ,or I wouh
have married her. " Who was (he ?" cried tin
leading fiend : •' Her name was Peggy •'
Here three of the black gentlemen buifl out into i
roar of laughter ; but the leading »ne, who pu
the queltion,~ was chop-failen, as fcloueft Peggj
turned out to l?e no other than-his own dearly be
loved wife ! ! ! it is unnecessary to add, that th«
culprit was again basketed, and restored to the
light of Heaven, to the mutual fatisfadtion of hot!
the Devil and the Damned.
LONDON, May 28.
Philip Parry Price Middleton was tried on
Thursday in the Court of King s Bench, for en.
deavoring to entice artificers to emigrate to Ame
rica.' It appeared he was a of property, and
had engaged 1500 persons for that purpose. He
was found guilty. The penalty is 500!. and one
year's imprisonment.
A most (hocking scene was witnessed yeflerday
in Dean-street, Eaft-Smithfield. The inhabitant!
of an houfeof ill fame in that (treet, having made
an lialty decampmdnt eaily in morning, fome
of the neighbors, whose suspicions weifc excited by
this sudden movement, went into the house ; and,
on going up stairs, 1 one of the rooms,
the body of a weii drclTed young man, suspended
by the neck from the bed poll, with his hands pini
oned slofe to his fit e, by alt out cord. TV ■ i"¥~
"petratois ot mis norna att wefeTnTlai.ily traced and
apprehended. The unfortunate young man was a
(hip mailer ; and is reported to have had about him
a considerable sum of money.
Last Wednrfday as some men were attempting
to recover a but!, : which had fallen into a draw
well upwards of an hundred feet deep, belonging
to the New Inn (tables, in North-flicet, Brighton,
they drew up, by means of their g*a; p!e-hooj;s,
which had fixed in one of the thighs, the body of
a young woman, well known at Biighton, where
■(he had for some time pall fubfiCkiT on t:.e~f<ecariout
and sorry wages us pro(litutL6n. It is not howe
ver even fufpe6ted that she put a period to her own
existence, but believed that (he vvas dabbed wjdi »
bayonet and thrown into the well; for in her Tide
there appeared a wound evidently given with fnch
atl indiument, and on her head there was a large
contusion. The Coroner's jury fat on her bod)
and delivered i;i their veididt Wilful Murder againlt
persons unknown.
In one of the causes tried lately before Lord
Kenyon, at Guildhall, wherein Counlel contended
that, two witnefle.s were not entitled to crcdit, on
account of-kerpmg itrfamouig"3m£7Tt Ij> houses, his
Lordship said, " I am sorry I did not know i'oon
er that ftich witnesses were to be brought forward,
for I have in my pofTefiion a-lift, containing a great
number of persons of that description, sent to me
l>w the unfortunate Mr. Weftan ; and, I am sorry
to fay, that amocg the number is the came ot a
pet foil of very high rank."
In the career of copqueft, the French have nat
attempted to revolutionize Italy ; and we find that
our minillers persevere in their scheme of exciting
civil war in the interior of France. What (hall
we fay of this conduct ? Is Jacobinism transferred
from the Rue St. Honoreto Downing-ftreet ?,Cer
tainly the proclamation whicn the gentleman who
calls himfelf the Prince .de Bouillon has put forth,
inviting ( Frencji officers to fly to the Itandard of
royalifm in Brittany, is calculated to piovoke the
fury of fraternization. Civil war is the Jacobinism
of Royalty, as Revolution is of Repubhcanifm ;
and by an attempt so impolitic as well asfcandaloul,
it cannot be denied that we juftify the French in
turning all the force of their indignation against
England.
From a Paris paper.—Tranflatcd for the Aurora.
Defcarles defended by Lalande.
To the Editor of the Journal of Paris.
College of France, 6th Prairial.
Men of letters indignant at the speech of citizen
Mcrcier (one of the Council of Five Hundred,
who opposed the motion for depositing the afhesot
Defcartcs in the Pantheon) againil Descartes have
written against Mcrcier, but they 'have have not
yet written for Descartes. Give roe room for two
sentences in the name of the universe and of po!le
rity.
Descartes is or.e of those creative geniuses thai
do honor to his age er.d country he fr it took iotc