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