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
Conne<siicut,j 94 j
Vermont, 4 4
New-York, 12 iz
IMew ferfey, 7 7
Permfylvauia, ST«a 14 13
Delaware, 31 3I | |
Maryland, 7443 1
Virginia, t 110 I 15 31
Kentucky,
1 T'nnnTee,
* >iorch-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<ftion of the Bye Laws,
the Stockholders Of the said Bank are herehjt notified to
affemhle a General Meeting, at the fame place, on Tues
day the third uay of January next, at five o'clock in the
evening. * _
By order of the Board of Directors.
G. SIMPSON, Cafhitt.
*nd Fundamental Article.
Not more than three fourths of the Direflors in ofScc
exclusive of the President, (hall be eligible for the nest
succeeding year, but the Director who (hall be Prefidcu*
at the time of an eleAioc may always be re-eie&ed.
' eftel.
THOMAS DOBSON, '
At the Stone House, A'#. 41, South Stfondjlrctt,
Philadelphia, ,
HAS FOR SALE*
A large and very general assortment of
S TA TIQNARr.
Drawing and Writing Sell and second SWan Quilli
Papers. Black and red Ink Powder
Antiquarian Ditto Liquid Ink
Double Elephant Penknives
Atlas, Desk knives
Elephant Superfine red and black S«ai«
Imperial iag wax,
Super Royal Beit vermilion and coloured
Royal wafers
Medium, Large and fmatl office w»-
Demjr fers
Thick Post folio Red tape broad, middling k
Thin ditto narrow v
Extra thin ditto Slaftic gum, in bottles ef
Thick Post Letter pieces
Ditto plain Pounce
Ditto gilt ivory poUnee boxes
Ditto lined Cocoa and bone ditto
Thin Post Ivory paper-knives
Ditto gilt Slack sand
Mourning «aud box«s, japanned
Ditto plaia, or lined Lignumviue and cottSmeß
Bank Post Gur.ter's scales
Small Post cap fixe Brass divider.
Bed- English and American Leaden preffart
Foolscap, various qualities Black lead pencils
Superfine Pot iliding ditto
Second ditto Japanned card racks
Blofiom and grey Blotting Writing parchment
Paper Ditto vellum
Wrapping paper Morocco writing defkl
Letter files and laces Spanifb tambour ditto
Paper cases, various files All elegant variety
Bonnet paft*board» ink-llandiihes
— Large, middling and fmali
Merchants' Account Books, pewter ink ftandifhes
viz, Large, middling add fmali
Ledgers, fmglc or double, counting-house ink-pots
ruled for 1. s. d. or dolls. Ad elegant aflortment of
& cents, ol Imperial or Su- chryftal and Wedgeweed
per Royal, with or with- philosophical ink-pots
out cross lines Irik-glafies various sizes
Journals, Day Books, In- Leather & paper ink-piece*
voice Books, Account cur- for the pocket
rent Books, Sales' Books, Small gilt visiting cards
Letter Books, and P ecord Blank meftage-cardsj large
Books, of Imperial, Su- and fmali, gilt and p'ain
per-royal, Royal, Medi- Boxes of marking-types for
, um, Demy or Foolscap, lined.
crols ruled or pUiu. • -f
Receipt Books Bills of lading,large & fmali
Bank Books Bills ef exchange
Memorandum Books Elegant copperplate ditto
Bill of l ading Books Cuftom-houfs entries
Bill Books, payable and re- Manifefts
ccivable Seamen's articles
Bank-Check Books, ef vari- Blank bonds
ous fixes and for different Judgment bonds
banks* Judgment bills
Cyphering and Copy Book* Mortgages
Common place Books Arbitration bofi'ds
Apprentice's indentures
Bed Dutch Quills, No. 1, », Powers of attorney
3. 4 and 5 Bank chocks, &c. &c. &c.-
December 17. 6S
To be Rented,
A Large Vault and Cellar,
That will contain 200 pipe 3, ikuate in Walilut
between Fourth and Fiftli-flreets. Also a COACH
HOUSE and STABLE, with Stalls for five horses.
1 N. B. Goods Stored by the month.
> Enquire of Benjamin W. Morris,
Narembw jo. >