Britijb, ♦ Capture* of American reffels tinder the British orders of Not. 6, 1793 300 reffels estimated on an average at 10,000 dollars each 3.000,000 Subfeqii'n' cap'tires and detentions of provision vessels, the payment for which is promised by the British go vernment _ • 1,500,060 4,500,000 French. American property fold to the French government, from '92 to '96. not yet paid for by an offi-ial return, Sept. 96, nearly 35,000,000 livres 7,000,000 Vessels seized, and cargoes detained or fold in the We ft-Indies, aboat 100 1 k'l i, 000,000 8,003,000 It is probable that this amount of twelve millions and a half of American capital is now in the hands of the British and French. The seizures under the orders of Nov. 6,. have been declared by the British admiralty mostly illegal, and reflitution twarded. Bat the money is not paid. The French government have also promised to fulfil their con tract, but imperious necejfity has yet picvnted. Such defalcations from the capital of our mer chants mult fererely affect the course of business. On Sunday morning lall at about 4 o'clock, one of the patroles of the second ward discovered in Mr. Patten s Cooper (hop in Depeyfter street, a light. Upon examination, a considerable paicel of coopers (havings were on firt upon the hearth, ha ying from appearances, communicated from fire left in the fire place, and would, in all probability, ' have set the shop on fire, had not the patrole extin guished it. Ihe window of the shop was open. The patroles of the fame ward fonnd two men and a woman fitting by a very large fire in the coo per's shop of Mr. Wilson, near the Old (lip, until 2 o cluck on Sunday morning. There was a con siderable quantity of Savings about the (hop, from which the fire was kept up. The mailers of such fliops ought to take care of the fire themLlves. ARRIVALS. - Ship Neptune, Jcfferfon, Lisbon, 64 days. December 1. Spoke the (hip Camilla of Phila delphia, 41 days fiom St. Übes, bound to Phila delphia, lit. 33, 16. Philadelphia, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 19, 175-5. * Return or Fgtks TZ T| for 5V J i £ - PRESIDENT I-I . I £-8 3 AND i S «&. L . VIC&P,RESIDENT o New-Hampih i f e> I 6: 11 1 1, 1 I 6 MalTachufetts, 16! 13 2 1 Rhode-lfland, 4I 4 Connecticut, 94 j Vermont, 4 New-Ym-k, nil New Jert'ey, 7 7 Pennsylvania, 1 i 14 13 Delaware, * 3 I Maryland, 7 4 4'.? 2 Virginij, I 110 115 -3 r Kentucky, T'nneflee, North-Carolina, 1 1 11 6 I South-Carolina, j 8 8; ; Georgia, ! 4! 4 Total, . 71 59 61:23 n ! 1 _51_7 2 211 In North-Cnroliha, one vote was given for Charles Pinckney, and three for Judge Iredell. Ext/aft of a letter from Baltimwe,"dated 27th December, 1796. " Cap'. Barney has arrived lit with two frigates, a id is himfdf at Baltimore, and publicly declares he has received orders from the Dire&ory to capture all American vessels, bound to and from Engliih ports, either in Europe or elsewhere " Genuine extraS of a letter from a icery refptSahle gentleman in a country town in Nc-u> England. " Is there no way to flop the impeitinence and insolence of French ministers? " The people in this quirter are vtniverfally filled ' *. ith indignation, and lament that there is a ■Frenchman to be seen in the United States." Extract of d Letter from a Genileman in Annapolis, to his Friend in this City, dated December 27. " Last evening, commodore Batmey and a Fiench ' General from St. Domingo, arrived in this City. The Commodore's Fleet is at Norfolk—The Ge neral is on his way to New Yotk, to .go to France in a corve'te, to fail fr»m that plate as soon as it ' shall be officially declared who is tlie President of 1 the United States. Barney fays, should Arfams ' be ele£ted we (hall certainly be engaged ! in a war with France in less than three months :— and he knows not how we could have avoided that 1 misfortune, but by electing Mr Jefferfon our Pre- ' fident, who (lands much higher with the French nation than any other man in our country. He fays he has positive inftruttions to take all Ameri can vessels going to «r coming from British ports ; but the vessels and cargoes are not to be disposed •f, 'till further orders," COMMUNICA TION3. The Aurora fay*, •« When tha Minister of the ' French republic prtfumes to publish to the Ameri can world, a decree of his nation, that deeply con cerns their interefls, it is " an outrageous attempt upon the dignity of an independent nation " It is wonderful, that the Aurora should desert its paymaftersin the hour of their difttefs, and have honesty enough to publish, for once, the truth. The democrats in. the Aurora, affect to make a doubt, whether a President 6f the United States (hall bc'appoiiiitd by the Jacobin members of the Ho«fe of Reprefentativsj, J n 0 f , majority 'of the "f the cicftora cbofrn by the people. From the Aurora. 1 " The honour and dignity of the nation are treat ed as empty founds, that ought not to lead us astray from our interefls, when the British plunder our defeneelpfs merchantmen, violate the neutrality of 1 oar Hag within our very waters" This i» very severe on our democrats in Congrcfs, w% said blulter, talk big, and thea—why, then sneak They would not go to war in any event. The faderal men faid—negociate, prepare for war, do every thing to avoid war—and if negociation fails, then assert your rights at the point of the sword. These are fa£ts. From the Aurora. " A late Secretary wiilied, that the citizens of the western counties would burn Pittfburgrh—And probably Jaime of his partisans are fulfilling the wish of this incendiiry in different parrs of the con tinent. He wished Pittsburgh burned to give go vernment a pretext for glutting its vengeance ; and hit partisans may think, that setting fire to the dif ferent cities on the continent, may give them an opportunity of implicating the democratic repub licans, and give them a coup de grace." The above, fays a correspondent, can allude on ly to the Secretary of the Precious Coofeffions. When the people of the United States discover tha f t the warmest terms of friendfhip have been made [ use of by any nation to cover designs hoflile to their interefls and their independence, however lull ed by foft founds for a time, however pleasing na tional friendfhip may have'appjared to their philan thropic andgenerous hearts, they will be aroused to an .indignation and a contempt of their insidious de ceivers, proportioned to the value thry had set up on sincere promises. When they (hall know, as soon they will, that it has heeri the horrible design of the French, to gain the direction of our Ex ecutive ; and to do this, that they lay it down as | a fettled plan of afiion./o projlrate the character of IVafhington, and to produce a total change in the j»rm of the Executive in,to a DinSsry of Five, the | good sense of the people will perceive the extreme i danget of putting themselves, as in many parts of < the union the Jacobins have done, under the ' ance of any foreign influence whatever. They will then fee how effeiitial it is to know less of fereign agents, and to adhere to a government of their own adoption— to men of their own choice. It will soon be fonnjl, that the maxim, that tut ought nei- 1 ther to love nor to hate any foreign nation, is a found one. Had the people of the union displayed in fa your of the BHtifh the fame enthiifialtic, blind and ignorant love which they Lave toward# the French, we should have seen similar efforts made bv the Bri tish to involve us in a cornmoa war against France, and similar appeals to the people to set them against iheir government. The British court would have confideted, this overflowing Love of the people was an invitation to them to interfere in our affairs ; j and as (killftil politicians, they would not have been juftifiable to their own nation, if ihey had not foiz ed a fit oat ion of things so favourable to the promo tion of their own inrerelts and views against France. The wild attachment of the people to the French catife, and to the French nation, proceeded from sympathy at firft, and was augmented by a rooted avetfion to Great-Britain. This temper the French nave had art enough to turn to their advantage ; and flattered into a belief, that the fame people who had affections for a foreign nation, could have no fettled principles, and lio national character of their own, they have a ventured, in the moll open/nan net, to make an appeal from»the government to the people, with a fixed deteimination to threaten us into one of two things—a civil war between those ' traitors who would support them, against those who would cling to the government—or, into a war ! with Great-Britain. lhele evils, it may ' be avoided by that man on whom all hearts and eyes ' are turned; who, it is believed, may yqt be able to ' conciliate the fitmnefs and dignity of his indipeu ' dent country, with the reftoraiion of harmony with ' our ambitious filter republic. His endeavouts mud however depend for fticcefs on the firm coun ! tenance of om freemen. Tha evil has sprung from 1 a national disease ; the nation malt aid the removal ' of that evil, by discarding from their bosoms those exotic poisons, that have unhappily invited the en croachments of the French government. The Aurora talks of removing the statues and paintings from Italy, in order to take the dufl off them. This may be well enough—But it reminds one of a char after in Hamlet, who, wishing to get out of the air, was afksd, whither he would fly from it f- ' Into the grave, replied he. ' < Mr. Bache thinks, the piiftures and statues plun dered from Italy, will be brought fafely. Their ' hze, their delicacy, the badness of the roads over ! 1 the Alps, forbid the hope that the eminent artifls 1 (French grenadiers) will get them fafely to Paris. J t here, fays Mr. Bachc, they will do more good thaniin the cloilters of monks. There, it maybe ' allowed, they will eternise the barlarifn of the trench. What fine keepers of books, pictures, ' and statues the French artists (armed with pikes) ; will prove in future, may be conjeaured from the 1 pad. " For five years, whatever was precious in paint ings and libraries, has been destroying, or felling at a vile price to Itrangers—eat by worms—exposed to dull and rain. The library at Arnfey has been < put into bog {heads." " Hoi ace and Virgil have i been made walte-paper, because ihey acknowledged I tyrants." " At Lyons, Soo antique medals of gold were < melted down.'' I " At Nancy, the value of 100,000 crowns, in ' books and pidtures, was drftroyed." " Learned men were Men of genius fhotild be guillotined. The national li brary should be burned.''—Gregoire's Report. Captain Jeffup was cruelly whipped by captain Pigot, and a young American gentleman was im f p'eff-d end (hoi at. Thcfe fa&s ara rehted dai'y '"the Aurora, with evident fatisfatlion, as a<ty dis cerning reader will plainly discover. The repetition of them evinces a desire of the party to palliate the ■ outrage offered to the country, by the ing minister ; and, fccondly, to criminate our go vernment, aj if it had to answer for the injury to, captain Jeflup, and the perfwn who was (hot at. Fadls, that tend to either of these points, are mat ters of joy and exultation to the party: and if all our captains (were whipped, and their m«n all im prefled, the party would tejoire, because they.would expe& to gais (Irength by every new cause of irri tation. Like their paymasters, they would acenfe our government of having allowed the Britifhtodo It. Not one instance has yet occurred of the admini (l rat ion having neglefled the interest of the citiiens. It is no thaniis to the party in Congress or out that our pnfoners are not now in Algiers— that our ships are not all captured and without compenfarion. In every tranfaaion the vigilance and faithfulnefs of government have left the Jacobins no right to find fault. And in no instance have they a right to boast of their own-spirit to affcrt American dignity aid hoaor. When they marched under a French flag to ' vott, when they formed mobs to protest privateer ing, when they aided Genet in their clubs, riototis afTembiirs, See. to levy war within our territory and i to |nfell our goeernment. Surely in neither of those instances have they cause to boast. Some years ago, a sea-captain was whipped by a Frenchman They were calm enough then. Our veffals were (lopped in France, ftired on the high seas, and many millions of property are taken from us, without profpeft of compensation. The Jaco bins bear this wonderful well—better, it seems, than to have our veflVls carried into England, and PAID FQR. To insult our government, to med dle in our elections, to rob our merchants, to break Memn treaties, to tamper with the weltern settlers all this, and more, our Jacobins bear: ar»d what is (Iranger than all, they—yes! by all that's im pudent ! -- they talk of aliening our itational ho nour ! dignity ! and independence ! The Bo don Chronicle remarks on the thanksgiving, " Thit we ought to humble ourselves for our rebellious iifpofition"- which that truly independ ent gazette exemplifies in our demeanor towards God and the French Republic. Modern patriotism and the wodhip of lit of on seem to have made some progress in Boflon. . ■I 11 rfterday, at 11 o'clock, a deputation from the Grand Lodge of the Ancient and Hfcnoiable Fraternity of Free and Accepted Mafsns in Penn fvlvania, waited on the President of the United States, when the following address was delivered to him by 'he Grand Mailer : To GEORGE WASHINGTON, PrefJent of the United States. The Address of the Grand Lodpe of Pennsylvania. Moji refpeSed Sir and Brother ; Hiving announced your intention to retire from public labor to that rejrtjhment to'which yottr pre eminent services, for near hWlf a century, have so juC.ty entitled you, permit t" t Grand L<vige of Pennsylvania, at this la 11 fcalfc of our. £vai)geli<* I Ma ft er St. John, on which we csb hope for ao im J mci'iaic communication with you, to join the grateful voice of ouj country, in acknowledging that you lij»e carried forth the principles of the Lod;:r into every walk-ofyour life by,your con (lint labors for the prosperity offhat country ; by your unremitting endcWors to piomote order, 11- nion, and brotherly affVftion amongst us; ar.d last ' ly, by the vows of your farewell address to yout brethren and fellow-citizens—an address, which, ' we trust. our children and our children's children will ever look upon as a mofl invaluable legacy ] from a Friend, a Benefadtr, and a Father. Fo these our grateful acknowledgments, (leav- t ing to the impartial pen of history to record the 1 important events in which you have borne so illuf trtous a part) permit us to add our mo(t fervent prayers, that, alter enjoying to the utmost span of 1 humaij life, every felicity which the terrestrial lodge can afford, you may be received by the Great Mas ter Builder of this World, and of Worlds unnum bered, into the ample felicity of that celejlial lodge, in which alone diftinguilhed virtues and diftisgulh : ed labors can be eternally rewarded. 1 By the unanimous o»der of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania. WM. MOORE SMITH, G. M. ] December 27th, Anno Lwcis, 5796. To which the President was pleaf«d to reply : Fellow Citixrns, and Brothers of the Grand Lodge of Pennfylvania,f 1 have received yonr addrels with all the feelings of brotherly affection, mingled with those lenti- | ments for the society which it was calculated to excite. To have been in any degree an instrument, in \ the hands of Providene*, to promote order and-u- . nion, and ere&, upon a solid foundation, the true 1 principles of government, is only to have shared, ] with many others, in a labour, the result of which, ■ let us hope, will prove, through all ages, a Sane- 1 tuary for Brothers and a Lodge for tht Virtues. • j Permit me to reciprocate your prayers for my temporal happimfs, and to supplicate that we may ' all meet hereafter, in that eternal temple ; whose buildet is tSe Great Architect of", the Universe. Go. WASHINGTON. K NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That it (hall and may be lawful for the citizens ef the United States of America to import into }he Btitifh ports of St. Domingo in their own vef fels the following enumeiated articles, viz. Flour, bread, biscuit, pease, beans, potatoes, wheat, rice, oats, batley, and grain of any fort ; tobacco, pitch, tar, turpentine, hemp, *fiax, malls, yards, bowsprits, slaves, headings, timber, shin gles, and all forts of lumber; horses, neat cattle, (heep, hogs, poultry and live (lock of any fort. And the following articles are allowed to be " imported until further public notice be given : Claret in hogsheads and cases, hogs lard, sweet oil, onions, apples and oiher gretr, fruit } b?ef, pork and 6(h. I No goods or whatever (Jiall fx- Im - ported or brought from the United States of Am-. • r *'' n ,nt " »-iy P°rt,or ports of St. Domino in pos e feflion of the British after this date, except the -« ahove, under the penalty of the forfeieme thereof, and also the (hip or veflel in which- the fame shall lie brought, togeihet with her guns, furniture, am • munition, tackle and apparel. "G. FORBES. Maj. Gen. 1 Port nu Prince, August ill, 1796. c. W. PEAL E, t To the Citizens of Philadelphia. , Willing to contribute my mite to aflifl the fuffirers at Sava»nah, I propose to aopropriate the produAs of the Mu&um.ofl Wednef<lay, of January next, for that cxprefs purpose. rhe con (lan; call for my daily exerti ons, to prepjre the numerous febjeefb for the mufium, has, and will for a long tim« t» come, prevent me frost giving my personal attendance on the visitors of this re • pofitory : But on this particular occasion, it is my inten tion to he prcfent the whole day ; and it will give me much pleasure to fee the rooms crouded from the early morn until ten o'clock at night. N. B. C. W. Peale during the lafl nine months, his made uncommon exertions to enrich and improve the Mo feum, ahd although it is not yet "what it ought to bt with the aid of the City of Philadelphia, the praprietor tf ; furei the public that It is «!aily prsgreffing in ufefulnefs ; and the constant visitor will always find some additions j to elevate his mind, and call forth ft ntinunts of love, won der and admiration of the jvifdom of the great creator of all things. Mufeu'm, Dec. 9. tw _ NOTICE. Those Gen:lemen who hold any of the undermen tioned Notes of Draughts (whether due or nctj arc requested to meet at the City-Tavern on Wednesday n*xt, at ft o clock in the evening ; at which time ail arrangement will be jjropofed which it-is expeaed will be fatiifai)ory to th« holders. Edward Fox's notes in favor of James Greenleaf. James Green'eaf's notes in favor of Edward Fox'. J •lines Greenleaf s draughts on Edward Fox. Abraha,m Dubois s note to Edward Foj^ Edward Fox's note to Abraham Dubois. Jamts Greenleaf's draughts on Abraham Dubois. At the requtjl of a major part of the GtntUmt» interejled. EDWARD FOX. Deeember 19. d tw A PRINT. " T MR. SAVAGE begs leave to inform the fubferibert to the Portrait of David Rittsnhouse, l. l. b. r. *. a. Prefideut of th% American Philosophical Socicty, that it is ready for delivery, Subfcrikiers may have their prints put into elegant gilt and burnished frames, fimlhed every way in a much better manner than those things are generally done, at nine dollars each, print included. Third door well of Tenth-ttreet, in Chefnut-ftreet. December 19. ' J WANTE 1), A MECHANIC, to ere (ft Spinning and Weaving Machines by water, such as are used at my manufac tory-Apply to JAMES DAVENPORT, No. 401, North Front-street. N. B. None need apply but a complete mechanic, and a man of liability. Globe Mill, December 19, 1796. J A Gold Watch was Found A few days ago, in the lower part of Second-ftreNk The owner, on calling at No. 117 in said street, and proving it to be his or hais by a description in writing,. may receive it on paying for this advertilcme-nt. December 29 3 A Ball. J. DOZOI.'s Ball will be held on Friday next, the 30th December, at Mr. Oellera's hotel, and continue every fortnight during the season. Gentlemen's tickets at one dollar each, to be had at the hotel, where ladies who choose to honour him withtheir company may alio be supplied with tie'reta. J. Dozol refpeitfully infbimi the ladies and gentlemen, that he Hill continues his dancing school at the above -hotel, and the hours of attendance for ldies are from ten to one in the morning, and tor gentlemen from fix to nine in the evening, on Monday, Wednefdayand Friday, during the season. N. B. Private lellons will be given, either at his school, or at the houses of those who may choose to fa vor him. Pec- *9- ' §2t. To the Public. IT has been the wiihofalmoft every class of citi zens in America, that a Gazette might be publifbed in the Metropolis, o«« a which would exclude ad vertisements altogether. A large sheet, an this plan would contain all the intelligence, foreign and domes tic j—it would come to the fubfenbers at a small ex pence,c< spared with that ot the Daily papers,* a great proportion of which is neceflariiy filled with ad. vertifementa i —it would beeafily preserved and bound in a volume at the end of each year, or be convenient ly transmitted to correfpondcnts in any part of the world. The firft number of a paper on this plan to be entit led THE UNIVERSAL GAZETTE, will be published in the city of Philadelphia on Thurf -1 day the jth day of Jaauary, 1797. It will be printed with an elegant type, on paper equal in size and quality to that on which the Philadelphia Gazette is printed ; and it will eontain every article of foreign and domestic news, including the arrival of veflels price offtock&c. and a corredt account of the pro ceedings of Congress, with an authentic copy of the laws ot the United States, from the begining of the prcfent session of the Federal Legislature. The priee of the Universal Gazette, exclusive of postage, will be feur dollars per annum, to be paid in advance, in Philadelphia, yearly ; untefs inllruilions (hall be given by the fubfenbers to their correfpond cnts in the city, whs will engage to pay the fubferip tion money as it becomes due Orders for this paper, post paid, are to bcaddrefled te Andrew Brown, at the office of the Philadelphia Gazette, No. 19, Chefnut-ftreet, who will be airfwer able for all money advanced on account of the Unjver fal Gazette. * A Daily Paper, by pojl, frnt any dijlance within one hundred miles, eojls the fubferibers twelve dollars, and twelve cents, per annum ; any dijlance beyond one bundrtd miles, it eojls th'trtem dollars and J'xty eight cents, per annum, including p"Jinge. The Universal Gazette, by excluding uivertifementt will contain all the intelligence oft'ee <u>etk, and ccjl the fubferibers by pajl, any distance within one hundred miles, only foiir dollars aid fifty-two cents, per an num ; —any dijlance beyond one hundred milt r, it will cojlonly four dollars endfeventj-eigbt cents fer anr, unit including postage. Dec. 19. *31
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