Philadelphia, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 31, 1796. Return of Votes P~] ,5 FOR 4 I £ £t- • ? '"§» o PRESIDENT cs| . I .!! -1 and VICE-PRESIDENT N "o Ncwf-Hainpfliire, 6 . ~' P£ MaiTachnfetts, 1613 21 Khode-Ifland, 4 4 Conneiorch-Caroli»a, I I it 6 1 f South-Carolina, j 8 S I4j I 4 Total, •* 71 59;6i»3 ij 2 5 7 % in In North-Carolina, one vote was given for Charles Pinckaey, and three for Judge Iredell. FIRE. About 8 o'clock last evening, an alarming site broke out in the roof of a house in the College yard, the property ef the Univerlity of Pennsylva nia, and occupied by the Rev. Dr. Andrews. The fire having got to a great height before the ■citizens aflembled, the utmoll exertions could npt arrest its piogrefsi 'till it had destroyed the whole upper part of the house, as well as the one adjoiri ing. Various ideas have g»ne forth refpeftiog the o rigin of this fire. It appears, however, from a con sideration of all the circuriiftances, that it could not have been kindled with design. In a late paper we inserted some obfervatisns of a European, strenuously recommending the use of Holes, to be screwed on the Engine, in lieu of the pipe, and of Efficient length to ejOend to any qd3rter of the house : It clearly appeared that by the help of one or two of these, in the commence ment of the fire, its progress might have been speedily arretted. * # * Dr. Roesits begs leave in this public man jier to return his wanned thanks to his friends and fellow-citizens, for their exertions in the securing of his property, during the alarming fire of lad evening. Extraft#f a letter from Baltimore, Dec 28. «« Repeated attempts have been made by indivi duals to burn this town. Almolt daily alarms.— Great numbers are dcte&ed and confined for trial. Thismorninp, a biick dwelling house was set on fire, and principally consumed, by a negra woman, who endeavoured revenge on her matter for fevere s treatment. She is also confined. The house be ing near the water, thelTfc was got under, foai not to communicate with any other." To the Inhabitants of the City of Philadelphia. The great inquietudes, terrors and apprehensions, excited in the minds of fobcrand ton&derate citizens, ky the very absurd and difgraceful practice, which for many years pad lias prevailed in and near this City, of firing guns on or near new year's day, induc ed the Legiflitureof Pennsylvania to express their disappro bation thereof by a law pafleU in ihe year 1774, where in declared 'obe " a disorderly pra&ice, which is "frequently attended with much mifchiet', arid great •' lydiilurbs public peace," and in order'ro fupprels the fame, certain fines and punishments arc infiidted on petfons who thereafter should be convicted of having offended against the said law. Notwithdanding which, ptrfons have been found in this City, in every year since the palling of the said Ail, who, in contempt of law and good order, have repeated the unwarrantable praAire iforefaid, and have thereby terrified and dif tui'bed the peace and tranquility of good citizeus, and endangered their lives and property. In order therefore to redrain unprincipled and in considerate persons from the commiflion of similar outrages at the close of the present and beginning of the next year, the Condables of the City are hereby required and enjoirted to use the utmod vigilence and diligence during the last night of the present year to apprehend and confine in the common prison, all per sons whom they shall find in the ftrcets attempting to •disturb the peace of thi City ; and the citizens who lhall then patrole the City for the protection thereof, ire requeded t» assist the Condables in preserving the tranquility ot the City, and bringing offenders topun ifhment.— It is deemed necessary, for the effeflual fuppreflion of the practice aforelaid, to carry the laid law rigor ously into execution, and therefore it is wifbed and hoped, that none of the youtli3 or other inhabitants of this City, will expufe themselves to the disgrace of be iny coafitlered and treated as disorderly persons, and diflurbers of the public peace. HILARY BAKER, Mayor. Philadelphia, 30th. Dec, 1796. COMMUNICATIONS. ■ Demociatic v ; r tut is at an uncommon ldw point of dejection and discouragement. It haa been the delusion of several, (one or two Jacobins born, and at lead two new converts) thai the Vice-Presi dency was within the gtafp of each of the four pretenders. Each took his chance, andadedCa .as to make the mod of it. But, alas 1 what Gg tiifies duplicity ? what avails a coronet ? To be the tool of Jacobins, en this very profpeft, is nothing. The claims of a law chief, and once federalift, are iiothing : since we fee, that if a man dicks to his like a Buna, even Virginia will faoner vote for old Scratch, than for him. The scratching governor of MalTaehufetts has become remarkable by the name, as well as the deed. THE PLUNDERED STATUES, PAINTINGS, AND MANUSCRIPTS. Carry these preeions curiolities, fays the Aurora, from Italy to France, —where they may4o fomt good; that is to fay. take them by force from the country ■w! re they are almost worshipped, because they aug- TiieiU its wealth, and ill&drate its own glory and that the atti ■, and carry them int« the country which warand anarchy have made a chaos-'-whel'e properly* principles, men and government, are all revolutionary and changeful as the winds. In spite of all the affec ted veneration for the arts, Franpe has shed mjre of the blood of the literati, and of clergymen, than the pagan persecutions of the ehriftian religion, and de stroyed not much less ©f the precious remains of the arts and sciences, than the old Gatbs and Vandals _ i What a hard (hip our Jacobins submit to ? To defend Fiench principles after their authors have given them Up, is a tough bufmefs. The edufe of liberty, the rights of man, the happiness of the peo pie, are itords, and very clever words, to collect a mob. None are better to itop that cursed think ing on facts that have flopped every Jacobin rasuth in France. But fafhions will do far us after they are worn out in Paris. The Boston Chronicle is at this of time day the fitted tool of foreign in fluence, becauf.- it is the dulled. Ignorant of prin ciples, and heedless of experience, the thick head ed paragraphias of the Chronicle go oo to extol the happiness and liberty of F'ance. The very words found ironically. Lit us repeat them—The happiness and liberty of France ! The knowing ones t.f the club, already laugh at these droll woids. To oppose Chronicle lies, take French evidence " T.he laws with(»ut execution: The cunftituted authorities impotent and disgraced : Crimes tinpuu ifhed : Property of every kind attacked : Pcifonal fafety violated : The morals of the people corrup ted : N<> constitution, no government, riojultice." — C Brifot's appeal to his confiituents J 1 his is ihe liktrty, the happiness, the Chronicle extols. The readers of that venal Gazette knb*, it is hoped, what it leads to in America. Folly has had its day ; and Mr. Adet's appeal to the peo ple, has cured many who tefufed all other mediefne. SERIOUS TRUTHI Without good morals, it is allowed, there ean be no free, fepublic. The democrats have talked as loudly as others on morals, but they have tlbne more thaw all other men to corrupt them. ! heir admiration of French examples, has been a contagioi. They extolled anarchy, and they vin dicated ferocity ; and for a time, it feemtd as if the meafnres in Pai 13 weie approved well enough to be imitated. How mueh ien'.iments so falfe and so tiuly hortid, as have had their da\ of popularT ty in our country, have changed the milk of chari. ty and human kindness, that wewfed\J« have in A maiica, into vinegar and aqua fortis, cannot he certainly known. Confufidn if the democrats could bring it about as they wilh, would (hew how much more of the blood of fa hers and brothers a fetond American revolution would shed, in coufe quence of our being taught and accu.'tomed to think so much more lightly of shedding it, than we did during the firfl. God of his uiiircy forbid that th* matter fliould be teiied by experience I Anothet veiy great cause of the general corrup tion in the United States is this—Lately, vice and villainy have found a way t» hold up their heads, not only without thame or fear, but toith audacity. Clubs receive difgractd men, bankrupts, swindlers, over d-.f.wers at the banks, renegadoes from Britain and lieland. Party combinations protedl men who are shunned and abhorred by their btethren of the fame profeffion. Is there no itiftsnce of a merchant despised by all other merchants, trullcd by n£ne, driven from their company, whe huds sup port from other quarters, and gets int« power by club influence ? The public is invited to attend to glaring and foaudalous infla.ices of diltinction, power, and public trust conferied upon individuals, from whom ill pii»ate trust has long ago been with drawn : nay, more, who are thus advanced for the very reason that their beggarly circuiuftances, their profligacy of principles, and blaited chara&era, qualify them to serve the party. For a conspiracy againlt a free commonwealth, Catalinc is fitter to be trusted than Cato. The paity judges right, it is admitted. ' But is not the power of public opinion counter ailed and wholly perverted, when knaves thus mount above their altsnifhed accufcrs ? when they pofTefs at leali public marks of honour, and hurl their calumnies even agaiaft such virtue as'Wafh ington's ? The democrats have certainly impair d morals, which is one Sep towards fubverfing order. Warning from the sfukQRA. Fanchet, i» his intercepted letter, calls the de mocrats and the whisky infqrgents the patriotic par ty. As Mr. Bache oftfen applies Ihe name to hit rlan, it is lucky that we know its true meaning.— The famtpatriots who rose in arms, and were quell ed at the expence of a million and a half, he tells us, will' have a place of shelter, if the French fliould obtain pofleflion of the Spanilh country be yond the Miffifippi. There, he faye, wilt be an afyium for the patriots.- Another whisky infurric tion maybe hoped for the sooner, bccaufe Bradford & Co will then have a place of refuge, a t'afe asy lum. This, Mr. Bache allures us, will be a great advantage to the United States. t Some perfous make the fuceefs of French prin ciples an affair of duty, not of simple truth. H» ly infurre&ion, and fcttiug up the governed agaiuft the governors, has been called the cause of liberty, and thofc among us who denied, or even doubted, the good tendency of such Wh'tfkey and Shays prin ciples,' were denounced, oppof'ed and hunted at e le&ions, or, when cliofen to office, fhndered and news-papered aimed daily. Will their Jacobin high mightinesses permit . b to i'peak out, now that in their, fallen date they cannot help it ? Has French republicanism fuceeed ed ? Has not the experiment wholly failed ? Has not American republicanism, as the President ob fetved in' his Speach, facceeded wonderfully ! It lias, and every farmer's, every mechanic's, and e very merchant's experience, at lefts it. The causes of this marked and signal difference depends 00 circumstances which every man of sense should in veltigate calmly. Americans, he will fay, may be and God grant they may ever be republicans. The French are, if we may trust experience, un fitted sot it. It is not our fault that they have fail ed, nor is it our misfortune. Great cities we have not, morals we have, uui "citizens live difpafed, > they know fomethlnjr, anj they poflVij forhething. I lie success of our government is therefore onr pe p culiar and perhaps our finale felicity. If these , »re true* it it any crime to offer thism . to the public confiieration. Bache having piiblifhed at last the statement of the returns into the Colle&or's office, of the Port , of Philadelphia, wherein it appears that FOUR Ameiican seamen, and no more, hare been ed by the British ; —only a faint regard to charac ter will now be requisite to prevent the continua tion of those ahfyrd alTfrtions on this head, the falfehood of which has disgraced even the Aurora. BY THIS DAY's MAIXS. NEW-YORK, December 30. A gentleman who came passenger in the Hunter, Montague, from Bristol and Ireft, has politely in formed us, that when he left Brest, O&ober 26, about 1J fail of thfc line lay in Brest waters, nearly ready for {*. ; that several vessels were repairing— and that there were about 26 armed veflels, belides a number of privateers which were fitting. The Hunter was boarded three days out of Brif. tol by the French privateer fhlp Buonaparte of 16 guns, Oapt. Raymond, who treated them politely except putting on board them 16 prisoners againlt the will of Capt. M. Having the prisoners on board Capt. M. fleered for Brelt, where he debark id them, and reprcfented the faits tc the admiral and tl»e owners, who highly disapproved of the conduit of Capt. Raymond, who had n» orders to diHrcls the Americana. The Buonaparte had been out three days, and had taken three prizes, one of which wSs the Duke ot Clarence Weft-India mai, valued at 25,«c0l- iterling, the other two were de stroyed. ARRIVED. Days. St. Sand&ery Packet, Hariifjii, Port au-Pr.ince 33 Ship Camilla, Wiiiiamfon St. Übes 73 Venue, ditto — Schoonei Nymph, Johnfdn St. Croix 52 Sloop Alcnifna, Folfome Richmond 6 Snew Harnjony, Williams, from this port, has arrived at St. Croix. Schooner Favorite, Allen, arrived fafe at New port, 51 days from Surinam. Brig George, Richards, from this port, artived at Brelt in 48 days. Ship Planier, Capt. Montague, 70 days from Bristol, and 63 from Brelt. OAober 23, th* (hip Sally, of Boston, was fsnt into Brest by La Vengeur privateer, being bound from Limerick to Lilboti, and having on board a bout 45 tons of butter. Also was fent,in, an En gliili brig from Ceik Dound t# Barbadoes, captured by a cutter. Oito'oer 2,7, the (hip D ana, of South Carolina, I from Liverpoon>onnd to Savannah, was carried b) a privateer into Bred. N ivemhef 10, spoke the (hip Walliington, from Philadelphia to Hamburgh, all well. November 12, spoke the (flip Wilson, Capt. Allen* from Coik to Philadelphia, out 17 days, Ib\. 42, 53, long. 36. v November 20, fpwke the ship Thomas •'.Vilfon, lat. 40, 23. November 24, fpokc a brig from Baltimore for Bremen, out J days, lat. 3?, 23, long. 65, o. November zj, spoke the brig Mercury, from Philadelphia, bound to Hambuigh, out 3 days, lat. 37, 10, long. 65. December 5, fpwke the brig Grace, from Phi ladtlphia boui.d to Amllerdam, out 4 days, l»n gitude 63 December I 2, spoke the brig John, from Charles toe, bound to New-Yotk, out 22 days. December 18, fpi)ke the brig Two Friends, from St. Thomas, f«r New-York. BALTIMORE, Dec. 19* A numbtr ofcitizen soldiers from Fell's Point, con fiding of eaptain Weaver's artillery, captain Stew art's Hioernia buigade,Yapt. Reating's grenadiers and one or two companies of infantry, yesterday paraded before commodore Barney's door, to wish him the compliments of the season, and congratulate him on his arrival once more among hi» old friends and acquaint ance. Yesterday morning, about 8 o'clock, a fire broke out in a house belonging to Mr. Maubry, near Prat't-ftreet, 1 j between Hanover and Charles-street. From some I threats of a negro girl belonging to the family, and I from its breaking out in the garret, it is supposed (he designedly set it on (ire. It was an happy circum | ltance (he did npt execute her wicked def.gn until day- j light, as from its h gh and inaccelTible lituation, the j flames mull have spread far jnd wide before effectual I means of prevention could h»ve reached the place. By the exertions of the citizens the fire was soon got 1 under, without much other damage to the house than the loss of-an old roof. Uncommon regularity and . alacrity were observed in forming and preserving lanes for the supply as water. We are requested to fay. that the citizens rtfidiag on that part of Howard's hill where the fire broke out, cannot opuit acknowledging the grateful sense they en tertain for the signal services of meflieurs Daniel Fi(b er, John Lee, Samuel Lee, and others, whose manly and generous exertions, in and on the top of the house on fire, saved it in a gait measure, with little other loss than the toof, which was thrown off; by which theflames were loon extinguiihed and prevented from I spreading "their ravages to the adjacent buildings, which are compol'ed of wood and very combustible Since writing the above we learn that the nrgro girl, ! on examination,"cot.fefied she set her mafters's house a fire j and has accordingly been committed to pri • son. SUSSEX, (New-Jersey,) Dceember 16. We are informed that the following persons were s put in nomination in this county, for reprefenta ) tivej ia Congress, and we aie happy to obfervethey - are all Federal—the election Will be held in each r township, on the second Tnefday in January next. Mark 1 hompfon, Jonaihan Dayton, James Im lay, I homas innnickfon, Jjitics Schureman, A- Hraham Ogden, Joseph Bloomfield, William Crane, e James Linn, Charles Stewart, John Blackwwod, , , rhoaias Luwrey. MFOkMATIOHi IF Ann Burns, who cam? to Philadelphia from Oriftol, in the (hip Four Friends, Cifytain Wad« i Jell, in May last, will apply to JefTe and Robert Wain, she will receive very agreeable and interest. dtf Dee. 31. THE SUBSCRIBER WISHES to ascertain, whether a certain EDWARD NEVILL, by trade a stone-Cutter, or Brick-Layer, who quitted Ireland 1*783, or 1784, and came intd this Countryj ('tis supposed to Philadelphia) about fojir years since, be living or dead. As this intelli gence is of thehigheft importance, it wilibe thankful ly received, by GEO. DAVIS, No. 313, High-street December 3t. w fcf im Pennsylvania Populatioil Company. THE Stockholders arc herfljy notified, that an elecftioa For Officers for theenfuing year, will be held at the Com pany's D'flicc. No. 53, North Fourth-ftlfect, bn Wtduef day the nth January next, at la o'clock. By Order of the Board, SOL. MARACME, SECRttAnr. Decembef ji. . s. w. & w. FOUND, At the Daneing AfTembly, last Thursday evening, 29th inft. a GOLD BRACELET.—The owner may have it by applying at this of&ce • December 31 g The Elephant, Now exhibited, was bought for Teh Thousand Dollars. . He is 3 years old, < feet high, growing to 18 feet. He eats 150 weight a-day, and drinks a barrel of water ; he has drank some days forty bottles of porter* drawing the corks with hu trunk. He is perfectly inoffenfive; travels loose, at the rate of five miles an hour, and istiie greatcfl curiosity ever brought to this Continent. He i» to b« seen 'till the 15th of January, in Market-ftrret between Third and Fourth-streets, at a quarter of a dollar, that every one may fee him— after which time the former price of half a dollar will be resumed. He will leave Philadelphia as soon as the weather will permit. Dccrmber 31 d THE STOCKHOLDERS Of the Bank of the United States Are hereby informed, THAT, according to the Statute of Incorporation, a General ElesSicn fur Twenty-Five Directors will be held at the Bank of the United States, in the City of Philadelphia, on Monday the second day of January next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon And, pursuant to the eleventh fe Enquire of Benjamin W. Morris, Narembw jo. >