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TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 24, 179 7,
A monartg paper informs that authentic advices
have been received from Capt. O'Brien of the U
nited State« bn'n Sophia, who was dispatched lafl
summer with money conferred by «ur government
ta the Dey of Algiers, informing that his veflel had
been captured by a Tunisian corsair, and carried
into one of the ports of that state—that representa
tions had been made to the Dey of Algiers on the
fubjeft who had fe it to demand reft! tut ion of the
money, and the head of the corsair who had com
mitted the hoftihty.
of a letter from Mr. John M.lrwin, dated
llava»nah, 28th December, 1796
" I am hippy to find that the Governor will not
permit the rtiip Golden Age, nor her cargo, to be
condemned here. The captors mean to write to His-
for condemnation. The prize-master hi» re
turned me the few dollart which were taken from mi
■when I was captured."
The following petition i> now circulating for sig
natures :
To the Senate and Httipc of Reprtfentalives of the
Freemen of the St/ite of Pennsylvania.
The Petition of the Subscribers, Inhabitants of the
City and Liberties of Philadelphia, refpedlfully
fheweth ;
THAT the praihee of difesunting negotiable notes
of hand and inland bills of exchange, at greater inte
refl than allowed by law, through the agency of a
broker, or third person, hath become too prevalent
in this city and its vicinity, to the great detriment of
mechanics and the industrious and honest trader.
That this practice is definitive to the niorals of the
people of capital, as it induces them to decline the
fair pursuits of honourable trade for the immediate
and great gain of ufury—lt introduces diflipation, and
denial of all honest loans at legal interest on bond and
mortgage, and thereby compels the neaeffitated to
resort t« their deftruilive avarice for a temporary re
lief, which too frequently terminates not onlyini the
ruin of the borrower, but also to the great detriment
cf the community, in general.
That the present existing law against usury hath
been found ineffeilual, in as much as through a third
perfoivln the negoclatien it has been eluded; and al
though this praflice would appear to be "indiredtly"
and within the meaning of the law, yet the judges
of supreme court have eonfldered it usury only in
the ioftances of buyer and drawer or indorfer, and
not in the third person, and that notes thus fold by the
third person were not within the law.
' Your petitioners therefore pray that a general law
may be pal Ted to remedy the evils complained of.
From the Aurora it appears that the party are
spelling very hard to get Mr. Madison appointed
envoy extraordinary to Paris. This would be beg
ging with a vengeance ; before we have heard of
the reception of one envoy to fend another, woatd
look indeed Hke " humble fupplicationt to the ter
rible republic."
For thf GAZETTE or thi UNITED STATES,
Mi FEN NO,
The old fan's of Pacifcui, on partv-fpirit, which ap
peared in the Gazette of Friday, would nnt_ merit a
comment, if their evident hvpocrify did not provoke
one- Hi thinks the bints and communications of the news
papers difgulfin>s; and advises, that writers ihould pro
ceed with "moderation" and abflain •'from all UNNE
CESSARY satire." the flat jnfipidity of these remarks,
would fecuie them from reply, if it >vefe not the ex
perienced artifice of the Jacobins, to preach moderation
and candor, whenever their attempts to enflame the
popular mind have milcarried, and the public indig
nation has turned, as it his always done when matters
are brought to a crisis, againfl themi'elves. After every
attempt to iroduce an infiirre.'lion againf> the treatv
that could be ma-lf by lies, expresses to Bolton, and
other 1 ities, midnight clubs, and conspiracies, and fo
reign c#>wns 'by thoul'ands, at last the people, the nat
people, who are probably the word to make fools of in
the whole world, fpokc their solemn voice in favor of
> t ] ien the. y cried moderation, candor, error of judg
ment, recommended harmony, and rung all the changes
upon their ten or twenty deceiving words When the
house palled their ever memorable unconftitutioual
vote about the treaty power, the Jacobin writers ei
toii'd the hou e. no doubt, for that very reason, and
flood forth the preachers of respect for one of the con
fli jilted authorities. It was, to be sure, rather answk-
Walrfl filiation lor them, as they abused the others al
most in the fame breath In a few days the hcufe
voted >11 favor of the treaty, and then the love of
d jcenry turnM again into rage and reproach
! hers is something ridiculouflv prndifli in some
men's notions, or at leaf! their talk about parties : as
it it conld not be that thcycxift, or, a* if a man ought
tofhut his eyes wheh they do, and swear that they do
not. In free countries, they ever did exifl, and ever
will. We have found some fools, indeed, who think
that nature is human on the other fide the Atlantic,
and angelic on this. There are fools beyond these, who
will hare it, than the people are more than men, and
the constituted authorities worlc than drvils, and for
this cause, they try their utmost to persuade the public
to difpofTefs these devils of their power, and place it
in the hands of the angels Nay, -there are son e who
go very far beyond this raivng ; and maintain, that all
this angelic chapter of their nonsense is proved by the
example of France. How much satire Pacifieus would
employ againfl this conceited race, without exceeding
the " nKeJfary" measure of moderation, I know not
l>ac'ificus may, if he likes, renounce wine, and fay,
there is intoxicating fpirtt enough in milk and water-
But to the point : Parties we have, and as it hap
pens in all countries, the division of classes and cha
racters is made exactly according to she nature of the
government- The better and freer that is, the more
furcly are the wicked, the immoderately ambitious and
the hot spirited dupes arrayed in close phalanx Againfl
if. The foul and bitter dregs of our society are the
parts that have kept it fermenting ever firtce it was
made ; and these dregs, including thefcum as well as
bottom of the great European calk, are lhaken and
ftirr'd up l>y the ambitious demagogues in our cities, as
-often as they fee fit. No wonder if the sweetest li
quor turns four by such overworking—no wonder
Pacifieus taflcsa little sharp vinegar ip the " hints" and
u communications > .
The truth of this division is undeniably obvious.
The men of virtue, property, learning, and character
are on one fide—on the fide of Washington, and the
Constitution. Their moral and political antipodes
are the fame.
This is not all: Foreign influence has leagued itfelf
with the disorganizing party How happens this ? the
reason is plain—there was a common interest. The
government (lands in the way sf both. It is the go
vernment that compels the payment of debts, and
therefore the " persecuted patriots," as they have been
impudently called, would get it into their own hands,
or cripple it in the hands of its real triends* It was
the government that prevented the nation from being
dragged iuto a war with and therefore our
di fan pointed Foreign " friend* and allies" would wish to
fee • s offices in the enlto'ly of their crealurei ai d de-
pendents. Then tbe republic, as F%ichet favs, even
without a fttiv Hj'jujunds of dollars, decide on zuJr or peace.
To promote these mutual views, much been
done at home and abroad. Base Americans, at Pari.,
have intrigued against their country! Base allocates
here have ailifled in the work ! Here they have tried
to weaken and to discredit the government, to stir up
the people, and to turn their affei 1 ! oils-from America 1
to France. lit Francc, they have no doubt, made it be
believed, that a certain course of meal'ure», firft bv
threats, and then by depredations on our trade, would
raiic up their party here, and overthrow the federa
catife and its supporters. This very fyft#.n is now
going oil, and every newspaper has a lift of vefiels cap
| tured in consequence ot the connection between our
Democrats and the French It is owing to their in
trigues, to their encouragement at the French, to their
assurances ten thousand times printed and reprinted,
that we have wrong'd them and expert their refvit-
Tnent, that we curse our own government, and hlrfs the
rod of chaQifement whilethey (hake it over our heads;
it is owing to this, as well as to the urgent need the
French have to plunder the ocean as well as the land,
that our trade now fufFers.
If Pacilicus is no Democrat, he will fee that their
fanitical and (lupid party-cant about the Frcnch cause,
and our love lor it, &c Ac. (more than five hundred
folios would contain) has produced all this embarrafl
ment. The Demo,-rats have succeeded to make the
French believe that they were as ftroag here as our
government, and much fironger in the affe&ions of the
people. G«vernment has no armies, nor treasures, ner
clubs, nor hireling writers, nor petitioned newspapers;
andfliallnnt its iriends and the friends, of virtue Attempt
to engage the warm and honed public Feelings in its sup
port ? If I'aciScus is no Democrat, will Ke not allow
that some thing more than calm insipidity is becoming,
when thefeFrench outrages are juftified after having'oeen
invited ? When one newspaper, known to be hired,
speaks of our Loyalty to France, another cenlurcs our
REBELLIOUS spirit towards that nation j when we
daily read that these captures are good enough fur us,
that we have " provoked" and extorted it from the mild,
humane, just arid terrible republic ; that thejlrltgunfired
ag.iinjl France ivill be our ruin. Infamies of this fort have
been multiplied and aggravated b«yond credibility, and
almost beyond patience. Probably in any other country,
and mod certainly in France, the printers of these abo
minations would be kick'd, if not baftiled.
Neither ot thele chatHlernents is approved or recom
mended The liberty of the press. thus outrageously
abused, affords antidotes as well as poisons. Thcaerimt
nious and virulent paragraphs, as Paeificus calls them, are
the inevitable and the salutary effufions of the general
indignation. There is occaliim for more than a tame
" djfplay of principtti" which Pacificus thinks the only
proper use of the press These are already known and
refpedted by our country, and despised and trampled
on by Fiance and the Democrats, The breach ol the
Treaty is even avowed by her mini Iter, and its disad
vantages are pleaded in excuse for the perlidy. How
lung will Pacificus fay it is proper for a man to Hand
reafnmrg on "principles," after he has beencudjelled ?
The proper appeal is to the spirit and insulted liWiour
of the Americans, to the men who res edl its indepen
dence and conftitutcd authorities. Those who give
leads to the patriotic Democrats in foreign uniform, who
reverse our flag, and who hear the orders to make wsr
upon it, will become, through the newfpapers,the pub
lic scorn. They will be gibbctted in print. They will
know that they are no less despised than contemptible,
and it they lhould not reform their principles, which
no one will expesft they will be deterred by the public
sentiment from a trai terous perfcvcrance In t heir schemes,
A foreign nation may also then learn that their flan hat
! failed, an i instead of dividing cur eitizens by their in
trigue*, that they are united to one another and to their
ovfi government by a common sentiment of duty and
indignation. This's better than a war, from which Rod
preserve us. Nothing however is so likely to involve u»
in its hotrors as the fuccelit ot the Democrats to con
vince their allies that they may go oil capturing our
veflel6; not only without provoking refcfitment or re
prisal, but with the joyful approbation of the mas« of
our people.
From the Baltimore Telegraphs
Meftrs. Clayland, Dobbin Sc Co,
I have just been presented with the enclosed letters,
and fend y"U a copy, (the original* are in the hand;
of Mr James Calheun.) in order to make it known,
that, however faithfully I may execute the orders of
the government ef France whole (hips I have the hon
or to command j yet my private interefi has nat the
lealt weighi in my conuixSV. Captain L'l veille has the
fame right and permission to take American velTels com
ing f.-om a British port, as any other vefiel of war, yet
"he confines himfelf to Hopping and seizing only tha
enemies of his nation- Much has been said lately, in
certain New-York and Philadelphia papers of insults,
piraces, robberies, &c. &c. &c.—the whole of which
I regard 3s the venom of a party in this country', who
never dared to (hew their faces in the gl»riolus revolu
tion of 1776, the greatelt part of whom were a&ually
fighting againfl America—burning their towp.s, poison
ing their citizens ia the prison of New-York, fuffoca
ting 11,000 seamen, ori board the Jersey, and other
prison ihips, employing the savage Indiana to scalp
their wives and children, and burn their property —
who afterwards, had tiie impudent* to return to Ame
rica, and to bring with them the hords which we fee
daily in al public places—who have fpeenlated and de
prived 'he poor officers and foldiersof the only proper
ty which was in the power of government to give
These men, or rather the true robbers and pi
rates, now wish to dilate and make laws to govern the
freemen, who gave liberty and independence to Ame
rica ; they are truly beneath the notice of a Kepubli
can—l can only ebiirrre, that time will Ihortly provt,
" that, like the drowning man, they are catching it
ftrawt."
Your's &*.
Baltimore, Jan. ao.
Charlejlon, Jan. 3, 1797.
James Calboun, Esq.
Sir,
A French armed veflel, Called the Vengeance,
took from on board a vessel of our't, coming from
Jamaica, a hogrtiead of Jamaica rum, and gate the
captain an order upon a Mr. — ,of your place
to pay the amount, (on account of capt. Barney)
to whom he likewise addrefTed the within letter u
pon that fubjeA. You will particularly oblige us
by receiving the fame, and remitting it to u» by a
ny opportunity that may offer, &c.
(Signed) W. &. E. CRAF'FTS.
Jit Sta, 11th Deembtr 1796.
Sir,
Having met the schooner Sally, bound to Charles
ton, captain John Leich, who had on board sever
al hogflieadi of rum, and finding myfelfin want, I
took witW the cehfent ef the captain, one hogfliead
containing 109 gallons, which I pray you to'pay
for, at the price of the market, and place it to the
account of capt' Bar»ey,niy owner.
I have the honor to be
Your humble fevvant,
(Sigiied) L'EVEILLE.
, Merchant, Baltimore
Mr.
JOSHUA BARNBY.
Brigadier-General in
the service of France.
By this day's Mail.
NORFOLK, January 14.
TharfJay arrived here the (hip Martin, captain
Nath. Colley, from London via Lymington, 75
days. By thTa- veflel we learn, that the dreadful
weather on our eoaft must have caused the deftrnc
tian of some veflels, as they have fallen in with dif
ferent pieces sf wrecks during the fix weeks the
above veflel has been on the coast.
Dec. 10, in lat. 36, 18, long. 6), spoke the (hip
Fidelity, capt. Wheems, 11 weeks out from Ham
burg hound to Baltimore. Capt. W. had met
with many heavy gales of wind, in which he hail
loft his beats and every thing off the dcck, his
beams all broke, and one hand walbed overboard,
he was obliged to bear away for the Weft-indics,
being in want of water and provisions.
Dec. 31, in lat. 33, 57, long. 66, spoke the (hip
Criterion, capt. Johnson, from Amsterdam to Phi
ladelpaia, out seven weeks, with 200 paflengerson
board.
Dec. 13, in lat. 34, 32, long. 68, spoke the ftiip
Lydia, capt. Todd, out 27 days from Charleston
bound to Baltimore ; had loft theirboats, and wsre
in want of every kind of proviliona ; he was bear
ing away for Chark-ftan or the Weft-Indies. Capt.
Colley supplied hira with cheese and porter.
Jan. 2, in lat. 34,40, long. 70, spoke the brig
Industry, capt. RiafTell, of Philadelphia, 94 days
out from St. Übes, in great diitrefs, having neither
water nor provifiuns on board ; had buried one man
and bad two more likely through fatigue and
hunger ; had one pump continually going ; he was
bearing away for Bermuda. Capt. Colley supplied
Uim with cheese and porter.
Capt. Makim, of the (hip Andrew of Philadel
phia, was paffenirer in the above brig, having left
his (hip at St. Übes. Capt. M. informs that 14
days bef®re, they had fallen in with the (hip Eli
zabeth of York, capt. Wilson, 45 days out from
Jamaica for Norfolk ; had loft all fails, waa then
under reef forefail and mizen. Had spoke also
threa other vessels, beating away for the Weft-In
dies.
Jan 4, in lat. 34, 20, long. 70, fpokt the schoo
ner Harriet, capt. Godwin, of and for Button fiom
St. Croix, out 28 days.
Jan. 7, in lat. 35, long. 70, spoke the schooner
Atlantic, of and hound to N«w-Yovk, out 42 days
from the ]3ay of Honduras, in great distress for
provisions ; supplied him with chtefe and porter.
S*me day spoke the fchoener Minerva, captain
Perkim, out 24 days fiom Antigua for Norfolk.
War with Spain was declared at Lymington the
day, the Martin failed.
Captain Calley, and paffifngcrs in the Martin,
would deem it highly ungrateful were they not thus
publiely to acknowledge the extVeme potitenefs and
assistance they received from Capt. Johnson of the
ship Criterion of Philadelphia ; he having laid too
in a hfavy gale for two days and a night, to rendct
any affillance in his power, and furniihed them with
provisions of various kinds, of which they (toed
molt in need. This obligation is ihe more felt,
from the confideratiOM of great number of paffcn
gers on board-,
Thru ft! ay 'arrived the ship Fortitude, captain
Dyer, 87 days from Cailir., in distress. A lift of
.Americans left there fliall be given in our next.
Captain lairdiild, of the brig Diana, arrived
here on Thursday, 18 days from Bermuda, spoke
(goinjj ihere) the Fredi rickfeurg packet, captain
Richatdfnn, of Philadelphia, from Malaga to Bal
timore, blown off t.lve coallj had 101 l her fails and
damaged part of her eatgo.
Captain William Lovell, of the ship Felicity, of
Boftun (new in the Roads) on December 24, in
lat. 37, 51, long. 68, 30, spoke the ship Sally of
Narwich, captain J. Smith, from Anguilla to New
London, out 5# days, with only fix days provilion
on beard, and wjs running for the Wett-lndies ;
it blowing so heavy ami so much sea, coold not
render him any afliftimce.
Thursday arrived the schooner Phcebe, captain
Webb, 37 days from the Mole. Captain Webb
whs taken on his pafi'age from New-London ta
Jcremie, and carried to Petit Guave, where he was
detained 90 days, the greatefl part of his cargo
taksn without trial: they even refuted giving a re
ceipt for w'flat property they took, and the cona
miffarfcs refufed provisions to subsist his lick people.
FotJr Spamfli prizes were earned into the Male
before thfc Phcebe failed.
Vtjfels arrived at Petit Cuavi to pttrehafe cargoes.
Sloop Delight, Warner, of New-York ; schoon
er Sally, Courfel, of Baltimore ; schooner ,
Pool, of Philadelphia ; fchoencr Angelica, How.
ard, do.
Vrjftls carried in there at prizes.
Brig Naney, Webb, of New-Lond«n ; schooner
Hope, Jacocks (dead) of Philadelphia ; brig Pol
ly, Waifon (aband»ned) of ; brig Nymph,
Sullivan (dead) of ditto ; brig Clio, Ball, of Bal
timore j sloop Lead, Warner, of Cape Ann;
schooner , Cockrin, of Boston.
Thursday arrived the (loop Polly, captain Wil
lis, 37 days fiom the Mole; captain Willis was
taken by the brigands, but a breeze of wind favored
his escape in the Mole, where he purchased two
4 pounders to proted himfclf.
Sailed in company with the flo*p Thomas and
Sally, Allen, for Norfolk ; the fchooaer Zephyr,
Hamford, for ditto ; (afterward* taken, carried
into Jean Rebel, and condemned.) Schooner
Lark, Hand, for Charleston, (taken and con
demned at fame time and place.)
December 26, in lat. 29, long. 73, spoke the
brig Clinton, Nurri*, of Providence, R. 1. 16 day*
out from Surinam to Ckarlcfloa.
NORWICH, Jan. 19.
VIOLENT t THUNDER STORM.
From Nantucket.
We learn that one of the most severe thundcr-ftorms
attended with very iharp lightning. was experienced
at that place, than was ever .known there before, on
the uight of the ift instant; tw* barns were set On fire
by the lightting and entirely confunsed, together with
14 head eattle and a quantity of hay, grain, &c.
which was in the baras; confiderakle other damage
was doncv
College-Hall.
Readings and Recitations*
Moral, Critical, and Entertaining.
Mr. FENNELL **
ReTpmafully informs the Public, that
THIS EVENING, Tuesday, Jam 14, at 7 o'clock,
Will be delivered,
(first part)
Bnuty and other pleasures of Tiftei
On the Means of Improvement in Taste, including
feleAions from Dr. Blair.
(second part)
The Choice of Hercules, or
The Triumph of Virtue,
(third ?art)
Ode to Truth,
Satrn's Address to the Sun,
Ode to Madness,
Tickets to be had of Mr. Poulfon, jttn. at the Library j
atmr. M'Elwee's looking-gMs-ftore, No. 70, S. Fourth
ftreet; and at Mr. Carey's, Bookseller, Market-street—
Half a dollar each.
Admifiion tickets for ChiMren (a quarter of x
dollar each) to be had at either of the above places.
New-Theatre.
The Managers refpeftfolly inform the public, that
«■ account of the extenfi*e preparations for the Hi£-
torical Play of COLUMBUS, or A WORLD DIS
COVERED, there wil be no performance at the New
Theatre until Monday the 30th inft. when the above
piece will be produced, with new Scenery, Machine
ry, Drefles and Dccorationi.
January 14
All Pcrfons having Demands
Against the Estate of the late Thomas Fraaklia,
deceased, are dc&retl to bring in their accounts fat
settlement; and those indebted to make immediate 1
payment, to ISRAEL PLEASANTS, v *
WALTER FRANKLIN, or 5- , c ""
SAMUEL R. FRANKLIN, J
January 14th, 1756.
This Day is Publilhed,
Br 810 REN vo MA DAN,
And to be 3<;!d at their Printing-Office, in Dock*
street ; by M. Carey, No. 11S, Merkft-ftreet ;
Thomas Bradford, N». t, South Front-street, and
Georg« Douglaft, No. i, Ssuth Third-ftrect,
(Price, neatly bound, two dollars
AN ENQUIRY
Concerning Political Justice,
And its Influence on Morals and Happiness,
By William Godwin.
THE reputation of this work is already well esta
blished in Europe—lt is hardly neceflary for an Ame
rican editor to fay more than barely to mentian, that
the Enquiry concerning Politieal Juftiee has ever
since its publication been a favorite performance with
the friends of republican government. The fti'e ia
pure, nervo'M, and claflical; the ideas are strongly
marked by ah original vein of thinking ; and, among®
a ijipltitude of other just and striking pafiage*, the
author's delineation of the peculiar infelicities insepa
rable from the condition of a King, may be pointed
out as a specimen of philofbphical dit
quifition. I«Wateft London edition of this work
fells in thi« city at four dollars and an half.
January *4
This Day is Publiflied,
Porcupine's
POLITICAL CENSOR,
Fty December, '796.
CONTAINING
Remarks on the Debates in Cotigrefs, particularly
on the timidity discovered by the House of Reprefen
tativfs in their language toward* the inf«ient French.
A LiTTSR to the infamtvs Ton Pains,
In tmfwer to his brutal attack on the chandler and
condurft of General Washington.
January 14. ,
Hibernian Society.
Such of ths Members of this faeiety as are entitled M
Diplomas, »r« requelttd to apply for tJiem t* -
Mr. Hugh Holmes, Vice Prrftitnt;
Mr. David M'Csrmiei, Treasurer ;
Mr. Robert H. Drinker, LcunJtiler ;
Mr. Jojeph Brown ;
Mr. Edward Fox ;
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