the People of the United States, A f Announcing his intention of retiring from public life tat the expiration of the present couftitutional term ef T3 pfeCdency. Srffnber 10. d Watson's Answer to Gibson. \ i JUST RECEIVED, 1 And for tale by J. OH MROD, No. 41, Chefnut-ftreet, Apology'for Ohriftianity, air In a Jiriet of Letters, addressed to Edward Gibbon, _ Autiter of the History 61 the Decline and Fall of the R.oman Empire: Bv R, TVATSON, o- v. f. r. s. B'ifhop of Landaff. •*- (Price 75 cents bound ) Watson's Answer to Paine, <=« To be had at the fame place. The enemies of Religion are awake ! Let not her frit:: \? sleep. r. mw&ftf Philip Nicklin & Co. HAVE FOR SALE, Souchong Hyson Skin ) Young Hyson V FRESH TEAS 13 Hyson and \ 4 c Imperial _ Yelldw Nankeens 63 China Ware, aflorted in Boxes and Chests Quiekfilver in; Bandanno Handkerchiefs of excellent quality in er chefh so London Market ~f MADEIRA WINE to London particular >in pipes, hogflieads, & j n New-York Market J quarter calks Teneriffe Wine in pipes and hogflaeads Sugar Candy by the Box co Sail Canvas No. 1 a 8 jj 1 . Lead in Iheets 0 3 Calks of Cutlery aflorted et A few chests of Manchester Goods, afiorted.thick iets, cords, striped Nankeens, &c. 3 Small packages of black fewing-filka 8 Tierces Virginia Snake-roK. m Nails aflorted in calks — July 18 mw&f 70,000 Pieces Nankeens, j v Of the befl quality and on reasonable terms, TOR SALE B7" Philip Nicklin £sf Co. c " August 16. dtf da For Sale, AThree-ftory BRICK HOUSE and Lot, in Chefnut " n street, between Front and Second streets, in which Melfrs. James Calbraith &Cb have for many years (and 0 f now do) carried on business. vv Poffcflion will be given in one month, or sooner. For terms apply to WILLIAM BELL, or .l HECTOR CALBRAITH. al April 21. § ' A Manufactory FOR SALE. p A Valuable SOAP and CANDLE Manufa&ory, situate 'in a convenient part of the city ; the works almost new, , on an entirely original conftru&ion, anci built of ihe best 1 and may be set to work immediately. Persona Z€ whowiftito purchase, arc requested to apply at No 273, at South Second Street. September 13. t t f tf « Brokers Office, and COMMISSION STORE. £ No. 63 South Third street, opposite the national new Bank, h SAMUEL M FR \UNCES and JOHN VAN REED, f e have entered into co-partner(hip, under the firm of FRAUNCES 5c VAN REED, in the business of Brokers, Conveyancers and Commiflion merchants. They buy and _ fell on commiflion every fpeeies of stock, notes of' hand, bills of exchange, houses arid lands, &c. Money procured on, deposits, &c. &c. all kinds cf "1 ■writings in the conveyancing line, done with neatnefsand J dJfpatcfi -, accounts adjusted, and books fettled, in the o rnoft correil manner. Constant attendance will be given, p They solicit a (hare of the public favor; they are deter mined to endeavour to deserve it. 2 N. B. The utmost f'.crocy observed. a SAMUEL M. FRAUNCES, li JOHN VAN REED. p Philad. Augdft 47, 1790- m&wtf p Treasury Department, September 28, 1796. 1 41 NOTICE is hereby given, that proposals will be're- ; " ecived at the office of the Secretary of the Trcafury j " until the expiration of the firft day of March next en- " suing, for the supply of all rations which may he required J " for the use of the United States, from the firft day of i * June, 1797, to the thirty-firft day of May, >798, both , " days inclusive, at the'places and within the diftri&s hire- ) " after mc'nf-Managers, ph JONATHAN RHEA, ) da dtf eo th Samuel Richardet, g» RESPECTFULLY informs the Gentlemen Merchants, that he has this day opened the CITY TAVERN and MERCHANTS COFFEEHOUSE in the city of Philadelphia: The Subscription Room will be furnifhed with all the _ daily papers publilhed in Philadelphia, New-York, Bos- ton, Baltimore, together with those of the principal com mercial cities of Europe—They will be r«gularly filed " and none permitted to be taken away on any account. A Tea, Coffee, Soupes, Jellies, Ice Creams, and a variety "* of French Liquors; together with the usual refrelhments, H wiU at all times be procured at the bar. Gentlemen may depend on being accommodated with the choicest of Wines, Spirituous Liquors, and the most " approved Malt Liquors from London and other breweries. _ The Larder will befupplied with the prime and earliest productions of the Season. Large and small Parties, or single Gentlemep, may be re te accommodated with Breakfafts, Dinners, or Suppers, at hours most convenient to themselves—a cold Collation is _ regularly k«pt for conveniency, the Bill of Fare to be had " at tha bar. The Lodging Rooms will be completely furnifhed, and the utmost attention paid to cleanliness, and every other c requisite. gf Sambel Richardet will beh?ppyto receive, and execute the commands of his Friends, and the Public at large; and with gratitude for their favours, he pledges k- himfelf that nothing on his part lhall be wanting to pre "» serve that patronage with which he has been so diftinguiflj- ' °singlyfingly fionored. fs, Philadelphia, April 19. mwf ad __ : ld> Treasury of the United States. c f TOTICE is hereby given to all persons who are or \ may be Creditors of the United States, for any sums he of the Fundid Diht, or Stoci, bearing a frefent inlertft oj Jix ;n. per centum per annum.. •x- ill, That pursuant to an Ath " one thousand eight hundred and seventeen inclusive, at ti re- ' " the rate of three and one half per centum upon the ori at " ginal capital;and by a dividend to be male on the last 0 [ky " day »f December, in the year one thousand eight hun- a: ik- " dred and eighteen, of such sum, as will be then ade n ; " quate, according to the contraA, for the final redemp- v at " tion of the said stock." 1 at ad. All diftindion between payments on account of f> ort liiterefl and Principal being thus abolilhed by the eftablilh- il ort ment of the permanent rule of reimbursement above de- a Tac scribed, it has become necessary to vary accordingly the tl ver powers of attorney for receiving dividends; the public ti creditors will therefore observe that the following form i jot is eftabliffiedfor all powers of attorney which may be t ur- granted after the due promulgation o( this notice, viz. v the KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that I on I tf { Jo make y conjiitute and appoint * sol- of my true and lawful At- a torncy,for andin my name, to receive tlx dividends ivbieb are, or Jball he payable acaord'mg to laxu, on tht (her# describing the c 5 of stock) flan ding in my name in the books of (here describing the 1 books of the Trcafury or the Commiffioncr of Loans, l where the flock is credited) from (here mfert the com- * mencement and expiration of time for which the power of cn9 attorney is to coutinne) tvitb power.afro an attorney or attor- 3 nics under b)m y for that purpose to make and fubjlitute, and to do all c lawful a&s requ'Jitefor effecting thepremifes, hereby ratifying and r hat confirming all that my said Attorney or hisJhlfiitutc,fbaU lavjitl ient ly do, by "virtue hereof. * L Dc- In ivitnefs hereof\ I lave hereunto set my Hand and Seal the 1 .9 in day of in the year ' iof Sealed and Delivered y ' ome in prefenctef, £ Ui> BE IT KNOWN.that on the day of * j and efore me personally came and within named and acknowledged the above litter of attorney to be [ or bit aft and dttd. ptfid In tejlimony whereof I katoe hereunto set my Hani and affix y on §d S'al tbt day and year last afortf aid. cha- Given under ray Hand at Philadelphia, this twen , as- tieth day of July 1796, pursuant to directions sunt from the S&tetarv oFthe Treasury. SAMUEL MEREDITH, Irrtfurrr if the United States. y. Jnlyil* & j t 1 J, Valuable Real Estate, For fait at Auß'ion by Casper Thicll, of Hamburgh late the property of James and William Kinnear. - n j, ■ For sale by public auction,on the 9th day of November next ensuing, at the-fign of Gen. Washington, Wood s tavern, t borough of Reading, Berks county, the follow ing real estate, viz. XT \ TRACT of land containing 46530-05 with I' M\. allowance for roads, called the Pur chafe, fiuated in townihrp, Berks county, patented, 00/ 18th of Jan. 1788. This tra&, of which about 25 acres are cleared, is of good foil, situated on the or Little Schuylkill, well watered and timbered, on which is - ere&ed a-good log dwelling house and liable. i No. 2. A tradt of unimproved Itnd, containing 284 a- cres, with allowance, &c. t nnR ANSFERS of the right to remove pains and inflamma -I tions from the human b»dy, asfecured to Dr. ELISHA h PERKINS, by patent, with instruments aud directions ne ceflary for the practice. This mode of treatment is particu s larly ufeful in relieving paint in the head, face, teeth, breast, A fide, stomach, back, rheumatisms, recent gouts, &c. &Q. N«twithftanding the utility of this practice, it is not pre sumed but there are cases in which this aud every other >e remedy may fometimcs fail. ? June J, Jaw is ■ ld City cf Wafliirtgton. ,d er SCHEME '.of-the LOTTERY, No. 11, ld FOR THE IMPROVEMENT 0 t THE- th< FEDERAL CITY. de] " A magnificent > 20,000 dollars, &} no j|~ dwelling-house, 3 cash 30,000, ire J ' I ditto 15,000 & cafl» I5,oo& 40,000 <* r; 1 ditto 15,000 & cash 15,00 a 30,000 I ditto 10,000 & cash 10,000 20,000 1 ditto s> 000 & cash 5,000 ro,ooa 1 ditto 5,000 & cash 5,000 10,000 3r x cash prize of 10,000 a do. 5,000 each, are • 10,000 '* 10 do. 1,000 - • 10,000 to do. 500 - - 10,000 le 00 do. 100 - - 10,000 100 do. 50 10,000 400 do. »s - 10,000 ld 1,000 do. ao - 2»,ooo 15,00© do. xo - - 150,000 1rt,739 Prizes. thi a- 33*»6i Blanks. of ' hl i\. 50,000 Tickets, at Eight Dollari, 400,000 . of — ne N. B. To favour those who may take a quantity of :ar Tickets, the prize of 40,000 dollars will be the last drawn 1 0 at tkket, and, the 30,000 the last but oni : ri- And approved notes, fecuriilg payment in either money aft or prizes, in ten days after drawing, will be received foi in- any number not less than 30 tickets. c le- This Lottery will afford an elegant specimen of the pri- LD- vate buildings to be efe&cd in the City of Washington.— Two beautiful" deitgn's are already ftlcded for the entire * of fronts on two fef tht public- squares; irom these prawings tu lh- it ispropoftd tpsru-fiV two centre and four corner buildings, Je- as soon as lottery is fold, and to convey ihc them, when complete', to the fortunate advehturnrs, in — ,lic the manner dcfcriKcriJ in"tHe ; fcherr.e for the Hotel Lottery, rm A nettdedhftion cent, will be made to defray be the neceifary expinfes of printing, &c. and the surplus will be made a part of the fund intended for the National / bat Univerlity, to be eredgd within the city of Wafhmgton. V, The Drawing will commence as soon as the tickets are 7 fold off.—The money prizes will be payable in thirty days n( & t . after it is finifhad ; and any prizes for which fortunate 4: %re numbers ate not produced within twelve months after tlx' la the drawing is closed, arc to be considered as given towards oi t h ff the fun 4 for the University ;it being determined to fettle 01 ns the whole business in a year frorii the ending of the draw- 0 I m .' ing, and to take up the bonds given as security. ai -of The real securities given for the payment of the Prizes, are held by the President and two Direflors of the Bank c a !l of Columbia, and are valued at more than half the a- u a n d mount of the lottery. o fit/. The twenty four gentlemen who by appointment of v the late Comn-.iflioners affiftcd in the management of the tit Hotel Lottery are requeued to undertake this arduous talk e a second time on behalf ef the public ; a fufficient num v ber of these having kindly accepted, it is hoped that the c friends to a National University and the other federal ob- 1 • joSs may continue to favor the delign. Id By accounts received from the diflerent parts of the olt Continent as well as from Europe, where the tickets have been sent for sale, the public are a (lured that the a x . drawing will speedily commtme, and that the carc and ■ caation unavoidably necessary to infijre a fafe disposal of ten- tlw tickets, has rendered the fliorr suspension indispensable. • ions SAMUEL BLODGET. Tickets may be had at the Bank of Columbia ; of James Weft &Co. Baltimore; of Peter Oilman, Boston : t. of John Hspkihs, Richmond j and of Richard W«lls, J. Cocker's Ferry. «e University of Pennsylvania, 08ober 5, 1796. The Medical Ledures will commence the firft Monday in November. taw3w By s Authority. Schuylkill Bridge Lottery. Sold by WILLIAM BLACKBURN, No. 64, South Second-Jlreet. SCHEME of a LOTTERY, For raising Sixty Thousand Dollars, agreeably to an Aft of the Legifiature of Pennfylvaaia, passed during the la'k fefiion, for building a Stone Bridge over the River Schuylkill, at the Borough of Reading, in the Coutity nf Berks - Dollars, x Prize of 20,000 Dollar's - so,ooo t do. of to,ooo do. - - to,ooo 3 do. of 5,000 do. - - . 15,000 4 do. of 2,000 do. - . 8,000 1 20 do. of s,ooo do. . 20,000 39 do. of 500 do. - . 80 do. of 200 do. ... 16,000 »oo do. of too do. ... s o 000 300 do. of 40 do. - 15,000 1 do. of 500 do. to be paid the posses- ) for of the firft drawn no. £ 5 do. of 3,0e0 do. to be paid pofleffors > .of the five last drawn noa J 's'?°® 9,400 do* of 15 do. : . 141,00 a 10,054 Prizes 300,t00 10,046 Blanks - - t 30,000 Tickets at Ten Dollars 300,000 AH Prizes shall be paid fifteen days after the drawing ij finilhed, upon ihe demand of a poffeflor of a fortunate ' ticket, fubjeft to a dedu&ion of twenty per cent. The Drawing will commence as soon as the Tickets are difpolVd > of, or perhaps sooner. of which public notity will be given. Philip Miller, Peter Kerjhner, William Witman, ' Jofepb Hiejler, James Diemer, Thomas Bun das, , James May, John Otto, John Keim, Daniel Graef, Selajlian Miller, Commissioners. Reading, May ihe 9th, 1796. Tickets in the Canal L«t or», frad ar the ' above office, where the earliest information of the draw- 4 ing of the Walhingron No. 2, and Patterfon Lottery'*, are received, and check books for examination and regif ; tering are kept. > O&ober 7. aaw tf Washington Canal Lottery, • nO. r. "ITTHEREAS the State of Maryland has authorised VV the underwritten, to raise twenty-fix thousand, two hundred, and fifty dollars, for the purpose of cutting a Canal through the City of Washington, from th Poi ■ tomacto theEaftern Branch Haruour. The following is the SCHEME of No. I. Viz-.1 Prize of io.oqo dollar a, 20,000 I ditto 10,000 10,000 7 lad drawn > Tickets, each f s '°°° 35P00 6 ditto 1,000 6,000 10 ditto 400 4x and his friends, who wish to purchase or fell Bank Stock* Certificates , Bills of Exchange or Notes, Houses, Lands, ' lm &c. or to obtain money on depoiit of property. %* Also Tickets in the Schuylkill Bridge Lottery for , e sale at Ten Dolltrs each, which will be drawn early in £ 8 the Spring. s, Wm. Blackburn. ■Y Philadelphia, Avrufl *8, 1796. mth in *" ——" r——— ——— y. F 0 R S A L is, Z A very Valuable Estate, al /CALLED T IVI TT£N HA M, situate in ths VJ townlhip of Upper Derby, andcountyof re 1 1-2 miles from Philadelphia, and half a mile from the T s new Wefternroad: containing 230 acres of excellentland, tc 45 of which are good watered meadow, 90 of prime wood he land, and the reft arable of tlw firft quality. There, are ds on thepremifesagood two story brick koufe, with 4 rooms le on a floor, sr.d cellars under the whole, with a putnp-well of excellent vater in front; a large frame bain, ft aides, and other convenient buildings; a smoke-house and stone, fpring-houfq; two good apple orchards, and one of peach lk es. The fields are all in clover, except those immediately a- under tillage, and are so laid out as to have the advantage of water in each of them, which renders it peculiarly cpn of venient for grazing. he The situation is pleasant and healthy, and from the high 'Ac cultivation ef the land, the good neighbourhood, and the m vicinity to the city, it is vary suitable for a gentleman's :he country feat. )b- The foregoing is part of the eflate of Jacob Harman» deceafedj and offered for sale by the Mordecai Lewis, j"' Oft. 9. tt&l" Surviving Executor. ind ~ of ' — ,Ie - PRINTED BY JOHN FENNO, of 119 — an : ,JJ s | CHESNHT-STREBT. [Prioc Eight DtiJJ.H per Aan am.]