Philadelphia*
THURSDAY EVENING. August i 5.
From the New-York ARGUS.
By the RhodeTflaad Packets we learn, that 2
French corvette arrived at Newport about the mid
dle of lafl week, direfi from Guadaloupe, and in
forms, that twelve or fourteen French 50 gun ;
ships and frigates had arrived there tvith a British J
50 gun fiiip, a piize. The corvettc was chafed
"into Newport by a British frigate. ,
A Correspondent observes that the " rxtrafl of ■
a letter from an Eng/i/h Gentleman, to his friend in .
this city, dated June 16." Publilhed in Mr. Brown's !
paper of Tuesday, affords, like many others, a flri- ,
iirig specimen of the fabricating epistolary talents j
of the writer.
This extract which fills a column, contains not \
onefentence of liws, except the following, for the
truth of which, further extra&s will be neccfTary as ,
vouchers. " The opptjition made to the Treaty and (
particularly the motien of Mr. M' CLy, one of your ,
Representatives, has not been dijerviceable to you in ,
the minds of thinking people here." .'4/ n. ;
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STOCKS.
Six per Cent. - - .... . jy-j,
Three per Cent.
4| per Cent. - - none for sale. . . \ A f URprice '
5| per Cent. i 4,6 * <
Deferred Six per Cent. - - . t
BANK United States, - . . 22 pr. cent.
Psnnlylvania, ... .
■ North \meiica, ... .46
tnfurance Comp. North-America, 40 per' Cent. aeh 1
~ 1 1 Pennsylvania, j per cent.
COURSE OF EXCHANGE. I
On London, days, per £.100 fieri. par. ]
at 60 days, par to 1621-2
■ — at 90' days, 161 a 162 1-2
w 60 days, per guilder, 41
9c days, 40
communication.
The French are exercising the rightsof conquefl
lin Italy—at the fame time they are fraternizing the 1
people—The poor are to be diflrained upon as lit- c
tie as pvfiiblc in collecting the rcquifitiops, dill
they are not ttj be exempted. The requisitions
have been more than the whole circulating medium t
of the conquered ■ eountries could balance; hence 1
they have heretofore remitted the deficiencies in f
numerons in (lances. The rich and middling eiaffes v
will f»el that they are dripped—t|ie poor, that v
their pittance is diminished—Fraternization, on a
such conditions, will appear a dear bargain. t
Is it jft human nature to be so imposed upon, .as r
'■to believe, that a people can be tbus conquered t
into -liberty ?
The transfer of the riches of the Greeian States C
to Rome, and malting that proud city the " mu-~ v
SEt/M Of the world," was compensated by de- -t
claring the Grecian Republics free—What fort of fc
compensation that was, ftibfequent fa&s demon c
ft •'ate—Drfpondencv, misery ar.d -flavtry cafued— i
; and more than two thousand years have born tefti
mony to the degradation of thofi once free dates
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Frsm the Farmers VTeekly Museum. t
THE reader will recollect, that he was~laft I
week requeued to refrefh himfelf beneath the cool- n
ing shade of a maple : Presuming that the frequent a
showers of the season have, ere this, obliged bim' p
to leave'this rural arbor, if his patience is not
exhauded, the hermit would be happy in his com-, I
pany, while rifiting some of his rudick acquain- d
tance. f,
Devoting my .morning rambles to the contem- g
plation of what my profefTor elegantly termed p
M the great volume of nature," in the afternoon I b
quit the mountains, rills, and flowers, and droll to d
some farm house, to amuse myfelf with the artless t
tales of its tenants. The good landlady, in the f
• neat attire that designates the golden days of good 0
Queen Btfs, compares the present times with the. u
ancient, that licenfcd the/persecution of witches f
and quakers, and blefled her flats for permitting ji
her to fee these better Jays i next succeeds a lec- 8
lure on the blue laws of Connecticut, plentifully f
mixed wi h digrefljon in praise of the piety of the h
Coventry parfgn and the faint like conduct of liis ii
parifhieners : how puddings and homefpuiP have t
now given place to bohea and muslin, which she c
judly fear* is injurioOS'to the morals and prosperity p
of opv country. Her white headed husband hitches
his armed ehair nigher the table, and tells some t
Pequod anecdotes ; thii leads him to give the hiflo
ry of a battle in the Indian war, when he bore a n
dangerous share ( and saved his Colonel from a a
fcalping-knife, by leaping a log fence and grasping- c
t the favagc ; he tells me when General Diefkau was h
wounded, and many feats ef Johnson's bravery, o
Here the old foldrer forgets his age, and takes a
flride across the room, to (hew the fiimnefs with
which he led his company to battle on the day that I
Baum was defeated. I covered, fays he, the right
Hank M Stark's division, and my orderly ferjesnt
was the firft who killed a Heflian with a bayonet. £
He then takes his crutc'rf, and marks out the en
trenchments pn the floor—brings up the feveralde- u
tachments to the bread work, and at lad coues the
whole of the enemy. He then proceeds to tell w
the rapid progress of this new country, since his ,e
remembrance r thirty years ago, fays he, where a
you now fee that mceting-houfe, I was obliged to
go twenty rods on my knees to shoot a deer. In n
that corn field' my Tyger treed a Bear and two t
cubs; and, in that upper pasture flood a house (
from which the Indians flole two children. But,
fays he, I have lived to fee the Indians extirpated-,
1 have fought for my country's freedom, and live fl
in its perfedlion,by my own labor. 1 have brought it
my wild farm to easy cultivation ; I have five sons, fl
who are good hufbandi, and now nothing remains
for me but to learn to'die.—After toasting Wash a
ington with a pint of metheglin, I leave the good u
old man and his family to enjoy a good night's n
tcCtf while my own (lumbers are abundantly foften u
ed by the rational amufemert I received at his g
>oufc. T»e HERMIT. |o
From tie Fahmeh's Weekly Muslim*
A CHARACTER.
TIM TRIANGLE is a whimfieal fellow, in
my opinion. An txcellent mathematician, a per
fe£l Webber* in geometry. Tim meafurcs the
parallax of Venus, folrc3 adfefted equations, or
proje£ls a solar eclipse on his thumb naii, with
2 microfcopick accuracy. But Tim is not fatisfied
with such trivial attainments. Law, politics, re
r!" ligion, men and manners, are ind'feriminately fub
jefted to Tim's calculations. He can explain the
mechanism of the Federal Syflem, point out the
parts of the political machine, which are exposed
to the moli violent friction, or give dire&ions to a
G illatin for 1 ' flopping the wheels of government."
1 Tim underfltands the balance of power in Europe,
n and has drawn many a diagram to elucidate its
s principles. He has made great improvements up- 1
'• on Montesquieu's theory, relative to the physical
18 influence of climate, in flamping the charaftc-r of
a nation. Forty-threr degr«(« and thirty-three
'' minutes, fays Tim, is the latitude of perfeflion.-—
( * Rife to the pole, or recede to tFic equator, from
l ® this parallel, and hutnin nature dwindles in arithme
" tical progreflion. Borrowing a hint from the iflge-
[ r .nious Dpdlor Rush, he has conflru£led a scale, by
which the latitude of any place given, after miking
a fort of tare and tiett allowance for adventitious
circumftanees, he afcertaint the character of its
inhabitants. Tim illuflrates Lavater's phyfiogno
ray by conick fe&ions., and can guage the c<\pa
:e cit y a statesmen, or a barrel of porter, with
equal facility. He never ventures to decide upon i
the charafler of his mod intimate acquintance, till
he has taken the angle of incidence, which his
tiofc forms with the less prominent parts of his
visage.
Tim wants a wife, and threatens to lay siege to
'a young lady in the neighborhood, and to proceed
according to <he principles of ta£licks, till her
ladyfliip capitulates. PICTOR.
* An eminent ProfefTor in Harvard University.
BY THIS DAY's MAILS.
NEW-YORK, Augufl 24.
[I The fo'Jowing was handed yeflerday for pub
e lication, by Capt. Place, of the Two Friends, 15
;- days frorfl St. Marks :
!1 Off St. Marks, July 10, 1796.
s My veflel was drove out in distress about 8 in
a the evening by a gale of wind—so light of ballad
e 1 was forced to cut the cable to keep the veflel
ii from upsetting. At day light, flood for the port
s we failed from—We discovered a boat rowing to
t wards us with 16 oars, which we supposed to be
:> a l'rench pirate : they fttipped us of every thing
they could, and said all the Americans were
s rogues, and they were determined to plunder all
3 they fell in with. Paul R. Place.
Augufl 11. Spoke the brig Lucy, Captain
s Crawford, belonging 10 Col. Smith of Baltimere,
- who was on shore at Atwrtiod's K,ey. 1 offered
- him all the afiiftance in my power, and proposed
f bringing his cargo to New-York—but this he de
clined, and abused me because I would not convey
- it to Crooked-Island.
KINGSTON, (jam.) July 22.
The master of the Salter, from Teneriffe, men
tions, that a Dutch squadron of 7 fail of ihe line,
weakly manned, left the Canaries on the 17th of
I May, the day before which they had bctJn recop
• noitcred by an English 74: on the 20th and 2id
t a heavy cannonading was heaid, and it was fup
r posed two fleets had met.
t His majedy's ship Alfred, of 74 guns, Capt.
1 Drury, arrived cn Saturday at Port-Reyal, in 17
- days from Martinique. In the Moiia pafTage (he
fell in with and capti:f>d the French national sri
• gate La Renemmee, of 44 guns : the frigate fuf
i petling her to be an Eall-Indiaman with .troops,
I bore down upon her, and' endeavored to escape on
j discovering the miflak'e, but a broad fide which the
s Alfred poured into her, made her strike. The
: frigate is an excellent sailer, only two years
3 old ; she had failed from Cape-Francois in compa
c uy with another frigate called La Medufe, and had
s fallen ii with five English tranfpoits, with 100'
; jnen 011 board each, coming from Martinique to
- (he Mole, and captured the whole of them, the
f frigate with difficulty escaped.—.She continued on
e her cruize, and the other convoyed the tranfpoits
s into Cape-Francois and was again to join her on
e the cruize. On board the frigate captured is a '
e corifiderable quantity of baggage, of which they I
f plundered the officers belonging to the troops,
s Lieut. Richards, id lieutenant of the Alfred,
commands La Renommee. '
The captain of La Renommee French Frigate
mentions, that finee file has been built, which is
about two ysars, and during which time he has
commanded her, he has captured l2ovefTels, but
has to this moment reaped no benefit from the sale :
of bis prizes.
NORFOLK, Augufl 18.
IV: have extracted the following from Antigua papers,
received by the funnel, Capt. Whitbee.
St. JOHN'S (ANTIGUA) July 25th, 1796.
Two Dutch 50 gun ships and three frigates, we
underfland are arrived at Demarara.
A severe cannonading was heard to the fotith.
ward of this Island for feverjl hours on Thursday
.evening lad, but 1 the cause of it we have not been
able to learn.
Admiral"Bligh, it is said, may be expedled every
moment .at Barbados, with the remainder of ihe |
troops, ptomifed for the reduction of the Island of j.
Guadaloupe.
July 26.
The gallant Capt. Vaughan of his Majedy's
sloop of war Alarm we are sorry t<» learn, has lately j
lod hi's life at sea, by being washed overboard in a
florin. . i
s A report prevails that his ship L'Aim- \
able lias lecently had an engagement off Gaudaloupe
1 with a French veflel of superior force ; the engage
s ment, it is said, commenced in the evening, and
was renewed again the next morning, when an En.
3 glifh sloop of war heaving in fight the enemy made
off.
The f< liooncr Louisa Bridger arrived this noon
from Martinique, she brings, an account that the
l Beaulieu Frigate was believed there to have taken
- a French Frigate and to have brought her to this
: Island—She likewise brings intelligence of the ar
t rival of the firlt .June packet at Dominica.
1
1 BALTIMORE, August 23.
MefTrs. Edwards & Smyth,
AS the contributors to the relief of fueh per- (
: son» as by the Jate calamity of fire at Charleston,
: were deprived of other meansVjf I'upport may wisH
1 to know the amount of fubferiptions in Baltimore,
' you will please publish the following ftateraerit—
' . Dolls. Cts.
, First uiftriS produced 523 85
i Second do. 40
•' Third do. 52S' 87
1 i-oarth do. 1204 41
f Fifth dp. j, QO
Sixth do. 250 o
Seventh do, 2o? g*
Fell's Point * ' til 12
4579 73
As soon as 4,000 dollars was colledkd, (viz. ott
23d July) thst iu&i was forwarded to John Mat
thews, Esq. Chairman of the Committee of Charles
ton, appointed to aflc contributions for those fuf
ferers, and on the 6th August the balance of 579
dolls, and 73 cents, was also forwarded to the fame
gentleman to be distributed by the committee,
amongst the fufferers, in such manner astheyfhould
deem molt advisable.
LONDON, June 14.
WESTMINSTER ELECTION.
Yesterday the candidates by agreement began the
Poll at an hour earlier than usual, in order that it
might finally terminate at three o'clock, at which
time the numbers wens dccUicU as follows :
For Mr. For, '5160
Admiral Gardner, 48*4
Home Tooke, 2819
The high bailif then returned the right honorable
Charles James Fox, and viceadmiral Sir Alen Card
ner as duly eledted, at which moment a loud crv
or joy and exultation was set up all round the hutt
ings.
I .
Tranjlated for tht Daily rfdvertifcr.
OFFICIAL PAPERS.
Note of Count Ofterraan, Minister of Russia, to
Monf. de Mordwinoff, Ruffian Miniftei at Ve
nice.
Her Majesty the Empress having ehofen your
Excellency, to felicitate in her name, his mod Chii
ftian majesty, upon his coming to the throne, lam
charged, Sii, to transmit to you the letter of cre
dence, which will serve you as an introdu&ion to
that prince, and of which I add a copy for your
information.
Having repaired thither afer his reception at
Verona, you will present it to the king of France
in an audience which you will-request for that pur
pose, accompanying, ii with an address analogous to
its contents. After you have passed feme days at
Verona, you will take leave of his most Cbriftian
Majesty to return to your post, and you will not fail
in due season to render an account to her Imperial
Majesty, of the manner.in which you shall execute
that commiffien. The expences which shall thereby
accrue to your Excellency,' will be put upon the
lift of extraordinary expenccs, and will be reim
burfed toyotl.
I have the honor to be, &c.
(Signed) The Count OSTERM AN.
Lettci in I.ouis the XVllltb's own hand writing,
to Monsieur Mordwinoff, Minister of Russia, at
Vcniise.
Verona, April 20.
1 could not, Sir, deposit in better hands than
yours, the letter of attorney which I havediredted
the Count to transmit to you with
i this letter. I have aheady entrusted to you what
1 had most precious at Venice, the portrait of the
king my brother, I join to it the armour of Hen
ry the IVth—and by. this doable deposit, I hard
. the happiness to prove at once my friendihip for
your aijgyft sovereign and my cfteem for you. Jdo
i not doubt but that her Majesty the Empref* will
1 an order, if you should consider yourfelf
1- obliged to aflc it, to aft in consequence of my letter
, of attorney. 1 anticipate it on my fide from what
! has palled and,from what I have done in confe
tjueni-e of it. I have received the letter you hate
, directed to be fertt to me. and I have answered by
the courier whicii I have difpatchcd. Informed,
Sir, as I am of your sentiments and of your gene
-1 rous care for my faithful fubjeds, I can beg you
i with confidence to charge yourfelf, in opposition to
the of Venice, with those whom I
(hall leave behind me in the territory of the Re
public. Yob wilt readily suppose that I would re
commend to you, more particularly than any other,
the Count d'Entraiguee.
Be persuaded, Sir, of my high esteem, &c.
LOKIS.
Letter of Attorney.
Louis, by the grace of God, King of France
: and Navarre, to Mons. the Count Alexander de
Mordwinoff, Privy Counsellor of her Majesty the
. Emprefj of all the Ruffias, her Minister Pienipo
tentiaiy at the Republic of Venice, and' Knight of
tire order of Saint Wolodomir, Greeting : The
.Senate of Venice having fignified to us in an of
fenfive manner, that the asylum which we had
■ : tnought tit to chjofc for ourjeltes was from that
moment at an end, arid that it was expedted we
| wouid without any delay depart from Verona, we
. have answered in the following terms, tj the Mar
s quis Carlotti, charged diredtly to execute that
oommiffion to us—" I will g (l> but I demand two
1 indifpenftfcle conditions—thefirft, that they present
| to me the golden book in which my family is in
scribed, that I may erase therefrom my name—
secondly, that they restore to me the armour which
the friendlhip of my Grandfather, Henry IVth,
[ can fed to be prcfented to the Rcpuhltf. ».
1 he jtift impatience which we have to depart
hom the Venetian States, deteimines us to give
you, by tbefs presents, power to demand in out
behalf, ijje fulfilment of two eopjufons, ,to crafe
the name of our family from the goiden book, and
to receive the armour of our Grandfather Henry
the lVth of glorinua memory. Done at Verona,
under our hand and our common seal, 20th April,
in the year of our Lord, 1796, and of our reiga
the fi'r.lt,
1 I IHU'll 111 lIIWI I■II I mr—IMIMIIIIIIJII I ■ lIIMI
GAZETTE OF THE VKITEDSTATES MARINE LIST.
PHILADELPHIA, Auptft t 5 .
ARRIVED.
Ship Fabius, Corran, Havannah t 2
Scr. Minerva, Cjtter, do. 11
Betsey, Fletcher, North Carolina 12
Sloop Olive Branch, [arvis, do. 6
Elizabeth, Garriion, Virginia O.
Arrivals at Baltimore—August 22.
Yesterday arrived fht'p Fame, George Cunning
ham, in 62 days from Lisbon.
August 15, lat. 38, 37, long. 69, 41, fpokethe
(hip Harriott, Moore, of Baltimore, from Phila
delphia, bound to London, out 3 days, who sup»
plied Capt. C. with some provisions; Hndfam?day,
ipoke the /hip Columbus, from Philadelphia, for
London, out 4 days.
Arrivals at Norfolk —Augujl 18.
Btig Janet, Whidbie, .Antigua
Fayorite, Williams, St. Bartholomews
Abigail, Elliott, do.
Schooner Mercury, Tiltoti, uo.
Bttfey, Dalton. Cape Nichola-Mole
Ne-n>-Terl, Augult
Capt. Attwood, of the brig George, arrived
yesterday from, St. Mark's, spoke, about 12 day*,
ago, the'brig Delight, capt. Toplift, from Jeremie,
bound to Bolton, ia lat. 27, long. 74. About 5
dayi ago, spoke off Cape Hatteras, brig Com
merce, of Wanen, from St. Croix bound to Bal
timore,
The brig Polly, capt. Watfoti, of Philadelphia,
had arrived at .St. Mark's j uIt lilU-hj- in.
wood tailed : She had been taken near Leogane
by a French privatesr i'chooner of 16 guns ; but
the Quebec BtitilTi Frigate falling in with the pri
vateer and prize, the Frenchmen abandoned th«
prize and the Quebec run the privateer on (hore, •
and ferlc the brig into St. Mark's. In confcquencc
of an American boy being left on board the brig
by the Frenchmen, when the Quebec tosk'poffel'-
fion of her, the salvage was f-ved to h~r owners,
and she was delivered up to her Captain.
Wll LI AM HASSELrON.
TTJ" AS csmmitted to the goal of Dauphin county, on
VV the July lad, a lad 'who calls hiinl'elf
William Hassei.ton, aged about 1,3 years, and has red
hair—fays he was an indented apprentice to oiae James
Demster, Weaver, now in Philadelphia, and ha* lived
some time with Peter near New-Holland, Lrjicaf
ter.county ; and'furth'er lays, that his mother lives in
Brandywine-hundred, near Newport. The master or
ownvr of the said boy, is hereby no ified to come and pay
the charges and take him away, otheiwii'e he will be dii
eharged ;iy due course of law. JOHN M'CHESNEY,
Harrifburgh, Augufl 1790. 3t J;>i(or.
TO BE SOLD,
That Neat and Convenient House,
WHEREIN the fohferiber now liven. There are four
rooms on a floor > the house js two ftorjes high,
with a goodgarr«t above : under the whole is #n essweij
ent cellar, with a dry well, in which is 3 convenient
framed chamber for preserving meat, butter, &f. ij) warm
weather. Attached to the house is a Stable for three
horses, hay-los , granary, and carriage-house, a wood
yard paved with stone, and a garden with foil of a fine
quality. An indisputable will be made to the pur
chaser. For farther particulars apply to the fubferiber in
Princeton, or. in her absence to Thomas £>. Johntjii, Esq.
or the rev. Samuel S. Smith.
' ANN WITHERSPOON.
Princeton, >Ag. 14. 2aw
A very valuable Merchant Mill,
A DISTILLERY and BREWERY, and sundry STONE
-QUARRIES'to be let.
I will rent my merchant Mill at the little Falls of Pd
towmac, for any term not iafs than seven, nor more than
eleven years, from the firli day of September next. The
mill-Jjouie is 42 by 40 feet, three ftoriss high, built With
stone, and has in it three pairs of s»ftich Burr Stpnes, two
overshot 18 feet water-wheels, and Evans's machinery
complete, with every other thing proper and necessary for
carrying on the business with dispatch, and at as little ei
penfe as poftible, all in good order.—from the mill to my v
landing on tlie Potomac river, (whtrs craft, of any bur
then may deliver grain and take in flour) it ip about 40
yards, and from thence.by water tn George-Town,and
the City of W.alhingtcH, about 3 miles, and to Alexan
dria about 11 miles. This titration, aided by a fufficient
■ capital, Will command the ptodyce of a very extensive
back country, where large quantities of wheat and other
grain is annually made, the distance to it being from 3
to 10 miles less than to any market town up >11 the navi
gation of the Potowniae. There are on the premises a
large stone Coopers' flop, a stone granary, and a commo
dious miller s houffe. At the landing aforclaid a bridge
is now building over the Potomac, which is in (treat for
wardnefs and probably will be finifiied the etifuing fall.
1 here are also on the premises, a Brewery and Dilrille
ry, built with stone, in them are three Hills, two coppers
or boilers, with every necessary article, all new, aiid in
good order, and l'ufficiently large to on the Brew
ery and Distillery upon a very extensive plai}. This prop- ,
erty I will rent for the fame term of years.
Upon my lafeds adjoining the premises, apd along the
banks of the river, where craft may lead with eafc and dis
patch, is an innaerife quantity of building and lounda
tion-ftones. Four quarritJ are now open, and as many
more may be opened v ith ease: the stone taken from these
quarries is better, and has the preference at this market,
to any other stone brought to it. I will rent these quarries
separately or together as may best suit.
On the topol the hill, and about 200 yards from the
mill, is a stone Dwelling-house, iarg* enough for the ac
commodation of a family: »l!b, a kitchen, dairy, smoke
house, &c. and a garden, ehc'ofed and in cultivation, the
foil of which is equal in goodtwli to any in this state. I
will also rent this property.
Adjoining to the Brewery and Distillery « a Smith't
fliop, in which is a complete set of Blacksmith's t.~o)s.
whieM will also rent, and if agreeable I will hire to the
tenant two negro blacksmiths, one of them is a complete
workman.
HI rent cut the stone quarries, I will fell three crafts,
which were built for the purpcfc of carrying stone : they
will altogether bring upwards of 90 perch. Immediate
poflefiion will be given. For terms apply to the fubferib
er in this town.
The Mill, Brewery and Distillery, with their appurten
ances, will be delivered to the tenant or tenants in good,
repair, and lruift be so returned, at the expiratioir of the
leal'e or leafesL
PHILIP RICHARD FENDALL. •
' Alexandria, Aug. 16—
WASHINGTON LOTfERY.
Fourteenth and Fifteenth Days drawing received at the
Oflice'No. 147, Chefn*t--Street,
Augufl; as. Jt>