■ : V '• - I * • ' ' "»- ' so the Electors of the City of Philadelphia. the if GrstieWN, _ lu Having attended at a meeting at Mr. Hoffman's tllC c fcfiool, Cherry-street, as well as at *M.r. Little's avc . /chool-hotife on Friday evening last, for the purpose ID K 1 of nominating suitable cdara&ers to he submitted nowf to our fellow citizens for their fuffrage at the en "filing eledi»n ; it appears but reasonable and pro- "'P pcr,°that the bufmefs, so far as it hath been acted ou 'upon, should be laid before the citizens, generally, ~ de* i for their information, that they may thereby .have h time and a-i opportunity of conlidering the charac- ' 4cr» of the several proposed candidates, and there- I'y 1 from feleft those men who are mod efleemed for an ' their wisdom, jvittue, and political knowledge in £ ent government affaiis ; as well as the propriety of fe- man ' kiting Counsellors and Common Council men, for eer making ordinances and bye laws to regulate the po lice of this city. _ At this lall meeting (at Mr, Little's school) a printed ticket, or lift of names, was offered to the r:! gentlemen present, from which it was prepofed (at a subsequent meeting to be called for the purpose) 3f( to fclett a ticket to be supported by all the gentle- men then present, at the ensuing ele&ion, for the following offices, viz. Governor. A Member of Congress. A Senator. teer Six Members of Assembly, j jot| Twelve feleft Counsellors. Twenty Common Councilmen. The propriety of the chara&ers contained in this lift, to fill some of the important stations intended |^ r for ihem, are so felf evident that they need no com- raent : it is only withed that a choice had been sub- npr mitted.to the meeting, as well in that of Governor and Member of Congress, as in the several ttations and v of less importance ; for though we have heard of , )nd no opposition to the Governor ele&, zi Governor, d , v>e have heard of other candidates for Congress ; ' and could wish that JONAIHAN B. SMIIH j n fee taken up for that important flation, Mr. Smith js a native of this (late—received his education j (which was liberal) amongst us—was bred a mer- chant ill the countisg-houfe of his father in this city—served as an officer in the militia, with; great of reputation, daring the trying seasons of our glori- con ous revolmiori of '76, '77, and '78—Cannot be £ supposed under the influence of foreign nations, ei- ther from family connections, kingly patronage of q{ his friends or family—or from receiving his educa tion in Europe. These considerations ihould have their due weight with all independent American electors. . _ j Subjoined you have a copy of the printed lift cir- r j >; •ulated at Mr. Little's school room, nothing t j w doubting but that from so refpeanifh vefTel fays, that he underftoodthe schooner belonged t« Bahi- ' )urr ' more." lor The subjoined it the letter alluded to. 'i nei Sir, - m " r 1 WISH to let you know, that a French priva- c ° ra teer has brought into this port (Urgin) a coppcr P* 1 " 8 1 bottomed schooner, bound to Jamaica, with a car-1 go valued at twenty-five thousand dollars, besides I one bawl of dollars and another of half joes—the I c fP' people were murdered oil board, and theeargo fold I for nine thoufaad dollars and divided ztaong the| colr smugglers. There were tiunkson board the fchoo- r2m ner with the following advertisement pasted in I 1 31 them: " William CtauH makes and fells trunks wet 'p and portmanteaux of all kinds, after the English I 0 and French modes, No. 71, Chefnut flreet, Phila- I r ' delphia." The cards on the trunks may lead t# I theowcierof the cargi., the whole of which is now I r , in Urgin, and might be recovered, if immediately lan ' 1 demanded. I t^le Urgin, August 6. " 1 r " The letters from wjiicfi the stove public infor- 1 ren " s motion is taken, are in the hands of the printers j ta^ V of the Federal Gazette, and msy be seen by thofc I n- j concerned. • CO*. Other Editors of papers by re-publidiirig j 1 'j. the above, may render an efi'ential ferviee to some j ter of their readers. N I ] on a " Married, last evening, Mr. S. Mode to Miss IL c Ann Hotvarrl, daughter of S. H. Howard, Esq. j ten a " of Annapolis. jXI It is with fap&faftjon w« are informed of the ar- J ,- 0 | ,r " rival of the books for the library company of Bal-1 tiwore, ai d that the quantity is by no mrans small I ea | on —-also that they will soon be in readiness for the j v it ' Lt use of lubfbribers It is sincerely wished our citi- j f] a a< zens will apply for Shares, and " endeavor to pro- I (t r mote as an obje£t of primary importance, inliitu- I tioas for the general diffufion of knowledge." | ft, et_ NEW-YORK, September 24. jqi By captain J®hnfon, in thefhip Nancy, 42 days j yj from Lisbon, we have advice of the arrival of tlie j w Brazil fleet there, S.ith property to an isrimeuf j ' at value. J w We have be«n favoured, with tlie following e:;- I tva£t of a letter, frtm an American in Lisbon, tc 1 , a his brother in this city, dated I t ( " Lisbon, August u, 1796. w " Ever, fmce 1 have been here,, there has beeu the -j grcf.teft -appearance of a rupture between Spain I [ a and England. It hes at length taken place : Spain |y, has (hut its ports against Englandj and it was Ve-J w ported yesterday, and currently believed, that a t [ part of the Spanish fleet had failed in conjunction q with the French-—their destination unknown. " The French have keen uniformly fuccefsful in j 0 Italy ; and the present appearance is, that the Pope t ; will be dethroned, or will be forced t<) make peace ! {] with the French upon »heir own terms. Indeed, a they have already levied heavy contributions upon I several of his provinces, and made a demand upon j t . them of 20,000,000 florins. On the Rhine, they , are equally fucCefsful. If this campaign ends as a fuccefsfully as it has begun, the French will have no t enemy in Europe that will belble to contend with { them. | { " The Portuguese are in expeAation of a viGt t from them through the territories of Spain. In |, consequence, the greatest exertions arf making to raise an army of 50,000 men, to march to their frontiers, by the firit of Odtober." Extradt of a letter from a mercantile house in Lif-] bon, to his friend in this city, dated the Ilthl of August. "The political situAtion of Portugal becomes I ■veiy critical, finee it is no longer to be doubted, that WAR will immediately take place been Eng land and Spa n. A Spanifti fqiudron failed on the 1 4th inilant from Cadiz, in company with the French ■vessels of war which have been so long there, ugder the command of admiral Richery. It is said also, i that the French have demanded a passage through j Spain, for 50,000 troops, nominally destined against j Gibraltar." MR. M ( L c an, Be plea/ed to insert the following in four Gazette, | aud tblige a PLEBEIAN. j A Searcher after Truth, in this age of Phari- j faical delusion, enjoys with great delight, even the I 'v. breathings of philanthropy ; btjt viewing as be docs . the very marrow thereof in the resignation and ad dress of our beloved President, he is anxious that it may be retained: and to this end he thinks it I worthy the pttionage, yea, to be the patron of the the human race .: and that they may ever have it annic ; n their eye, it would be weH (next to the Bible) ILES a copy thereof was framed and placed over the man- tlf-piece of every family, as not only a true but ' **' ufeful picture, and by way of the Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution of the Uniied States, ought to be its supporters. ife in May abler champions come forward with their eu 2to iog' es - The motive of the {iirferit writei is two 1 our fold; firft, to bear grateful tedimony to the inftru iflied ment, in God's hand, that hath uircited the pub lic affairs of America to a happy issue in the mod in, in trying timrs, such as she may never again have to / cacouater ; therefore the approbation of !.is con- Sloi (liments must add ba!n to the residue of his life, Br; notwithftandinij I have aot a doabt he is perfectly happy ia the possession of an approving conteiencc : Brig ] but, secondly, that bi» fucceflW may be stimulated Schr. to emulation, in order to obtain a like reward. SWp — Schr. NORWICH, September 22. Wc art informed that two persons have bees ap Schr, prehended span suspicion of having committed the I murder and robbery in New field,' at mentioned in ] the lad packet. They live adjacent to the pjace where it was committed, and were apprehended as Bhi they were pursuing their route to New-York. It fto". ' is said that as soon as their pursuers had entered the S!o room in which they were, and made known to thim St. V what they were after, they immediately discharged Caj eaeh their pistols, wounded one man, and eadea- a Frc vored to effect their elcape; they are secured in tal tit Fairfield jail, * ai " e — had tl WHITESTOWN, September 14. one o A Correjpor.dent fays, off tw ( Much has been said of the barbarity, of the in. was £ , ; humanity, and of the want of confidence-in Indian Hujjl or savage tribej. Let us look into it—a few days L« since an Indian was taken for having committed j Tl 1 murder, and bro't before a civilized tribunal, ac- j only . I companied by. mere than 20 chiefs of his nation j r his examination was candid, and circumllances ap- j I peared fufficientto order a commitment. No ob-1 3 1 jeflion was offered on the pait of the Indians, ex- I Ship . j cept that the criminal (hould be neither bound nor I . j 1 tied ; and they would be his fponfers. This was I 0 j j I complied with, and the Indian remained all night, I § c h r . I rambling the'ftreets, without any one to guard him. gj,ip ; „I In the morning, however he was lit his pott, and Sej 3 j went to jail singing merrily.—Trust me, if yoi: can [ out 1 h I find an inftanee of the kind in the civilized world. I Se _ 1 Another Cerrefpondent adds, I w View them in the diftiibution'of their annuities, I v they receive each one, from the suckling to the sage, f r ; ci „ an equal (hare, and they go away contented with IS 1< shell proportion. All above 14 his money j Y« las he pleafes—Jthat of those bi-l-aw, goes 10 the pa- j ter lv rents. No civrlizcd natfion pra&ices these indubi- I 3 l nf ' l table tights. doil - I QUEBEC, September 8, j g j On Tuesday lad, about four o'clock in the as- I I lc J ternoon, a dreadful 6re broke out, in, a stable be- 'd t I longing to the Honorable Thomas Dunn, in Saint I fron i Louis street, which fcemed for some time to threa- j com J- I ten deftruflion to the greater part -«f the town, j pbei I The wind blowing frt'ftv from ihe v.elt,, inftatuly ! f'tie r - j communicated the flames to the house of tlie hon. j I Chief justice Mor.k, and to that adjoining'on the j '"[ east fide. While these were turning with gieat J j i violence, and it was feared would communicate the j f Qr J flames to the adjacent houses on both fides of the j • j itreet ; the fire was observed to have caught in the j ] {IIU u-1 convent "of the Recolet's, at thelo.»er end of the | | ; ca I street, »t lead two hundred yards from where it be- J I gan. In a few minutes the loos and foire of the 1 Church fell down, and the whole convent was in a j 'y 5 blaze. At that moment it fee.-n;d very doubtful J ' le whether the Castle, or even the lower town could I 'f c I t>e saved ; but the wind fiiifting a little to the north- I , | ward, carried the flames up Cavrier street, facing J !S " 1 ihc Chi'eau garden, where the fire continued to J tc I ia g?> bumiiig down all before it, until it reached j I the turner of the back-ilreet, which leads tip to- 1 wards Mount Carmel, where at last it Hopped. I 'he The Jioyfe of H- W, Eyland Esq. oppose fide of j a ' n | said street, escaped unhurt. Thirteen or fourteen j a ' n [ houses in all, are entirely burned down—among I j which aie, two belonging to Chief Jultice Monk, j ' a three to Berthclot Dartigny Esq. and two to Mrs. J ion Cugnet. ' J ™ During the conflagration, the roofs of many J ji ' ■" j others houses aifo catched fine, winch were saved by I De °P e ] timely affiftanee, particularly that of Thomal Ain- J B/ ace I flie Esq. facing the Parade, the ho C cleared, Schr, Two Brothers, Spencer, St. Thofr.-s's Catharine, Lee, Weft Indie* Elisabeth, BUcjcwiM, * do. The (hip Sroallwood, of Alexandria, Capt. John* Son, failed from BourSeaux for Ahofia, in July. Sloop Friendlhip, James Barnes in 11 days St. Vincents.. Capt. B, was brought to under St. Vincent's by \ a French privateer, who treated him very ill, feve i tal times threatened to put him in irons. The fame privatser who moused only 6 carriage guns, had the day before engaged two Britidi privateers," one of 12, and the other of 6 gum, and beat them off two different ti«ncs. The Frenchman* nan:e • was Stevens and the schooner belonged to Vi&or i Hughes. 3 Left a sloop from New-York, captain Hughes. 1 j The above privateer had been from Guadaloupe • J only three days and had taken fix prizes. . j New-York, September 24. ARRIVED. Dr/s. Ship William & Henry, Ciirnes, Londonderry j6 I Nancy, Jahnfon, Liffcon 4: 1 I Brig Jenny, Daubigney, Senigalel 55 s I Bellono. Crocker, Savannah t ■' I Schr. Hazard, Hubbard, Jamaica. '• Ship Nancy, capt. Johnl'on, 41 days fr»m L'ftion, d Sept. 12, Spoke the brig Suckey, capt. Thornton, n I out xx diys from Profidence, l?t. 32, 49, long. 66. ] I Sept. 9, spoke the schooner Dolphin, from Ncw- Yoik, out 11 days, lat- 30, 43. lon g- *5> all well. Brig Bellona, capt. Crocker, 8 days'tro/n Savannah. s ' I Spoke the brig Summerfv-t, of New-York, from A- r > I frica tJ/o days lince, who had loft her mainraaft about hi 1 j leagues from the Hook. •y I Yesterday failed from this port, with a pleasant wef i- I terly breeze, the (hips America imd kajih, for India— I and*the Ihips Belvidier, and North-Carolina for Loa -1 don. 1 WALPOLE, (New-H»mpfhire.) September 20. if. I Daftor Bollman, who so courageoufiy sttetnpt e- ed the delivery of the unfortunate La Fayette,, nt I from his prison, is now making the tour of this a- | country, not as a casual observer, but nt a philolo n, ! pher, examining minutely into its beactiea, cuiio ly | iities, and natural advantages, in. I ' ~ bc Mr, FENNt>, , at | Pje»fc to publish the following fele&ed Tick/t^ I for the confidtiation of the Eleflors, at the enfu. ! ing Ele£tion ; they being gentlem n n of tried and J' 4 j known aUachmest to the Indepcr.,'£ icy of Ame» lc j rica. 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