Philadelphia, February 8. This day agreeable to the Constitution, both I Ho:ifes of Congress met in Convention in the Re presentatives Chamber, f# r the purpose of count- j ing the votei of the Electors for the several Hates for Prefideat of the United States, when it appeared that there were for JOHN ADAMS, Vice Prefi- i dent of the United State 9, and PrefiJent qf* the Senate, seventy one votes, and for THOMAS I JEFFERSON, sixty-eight votes. Whereupon the. Vice President, pursuant ts joint vote 6f both Hotifes, pafled the present fefiion, declared, JOHN ADAMS, Preside.it of the United States; and THOMAS JEFFERSON, Vice Prefident—for four yeart commencing the fourth of March next. . *«* 1" the paragraph, immediately, preceding the from Gov; Adams's fpeach in yefter- i day'c paper, for Corporals, read " Consuls". ' STOCKS. ' Six per < Three per Cent. ...... . ' Ah per Cent. - - . : Si per Cent. ..... ... t Deferred Six per Cent. .... ufy a SANK United States, ... itperct 1 • Psnnfylvania, - . j, ,j 0 — North \merica, .... - 4 o do f Infurame Comp. N. A. fliares, - a , per et . t —— Pennfylv par On Monday last the fpllowing gentlemen were h elected by the Stockholders ofthe Bank of Pennfyl- •" jama, Direflors, on their part ofi that institution for the current year— Samuel Howell, Jolyi C. Stocker, Robert Ral- si flon, Joseph P. Moths, Philip Nicklin, William r< Montgqmery, James Vanuxem, Godfrey Haga, George Plumlied, William Sanfom, Matthew Lawler, Thomas Norton, Thom*s L Moore, P J George Per.nock, J»hn Brown, Jehu Hqllingf- I 1 worrtr Edward Pennington, Jacob Baker, James * ■> Strawb.idge. The following were elected by the Legislature on tu the part of the State. gr Samuel M. Fox, Kearny Wharton, William 2C Mil'er, Charles Biddle, Jacob Morgan, George a 1 Bickham- Yesterday at a meeting of the Stockholders, {J* Samuel Mickle Fox, Esq. was unanimously chosen afe ( President. jy, A gentleman who came passenger in the Packet, rei fays that the substance of the following account P 0! was published in the English papers, viz. On Lord Malmefbury's approach to Paris, the W ' PoifTardes and populace of that city iffiitd fortJi to " h ' meet him ; and. at a considerable distance from the ma city, took the horses from his carriage, and drag, in i ged him in triumph to Patis. ° of This is a corroboration of the opinion that the hil! • Sovereignpetple of Fianee eagerly pant for peace. f. iie Netu Market Hall, Feb. 6, 1797. '" a At a dated meeting of the Hope Fire Company of Philadelphia, presented by publication to the Infurancel Company cf North America, and ftich other citizeus as have , generonfly made donations to company, by which they have been enabled to procurc a com. """ pleat new: Fire Engine. And that the thanks of the meeting be also pre- fented to the of the First Piefbyteri an Church of this City, for their grant of the use ®f a lot on Pine Street, for the purpose of ctefiing 1" an Engine House thereon. ! dvo Extrafl from the minutes, '! '' A. MUSGRAVE, Sectary. .. t Frem the Daily Advfktisl'R. 1 The gay ujfem^iy 1 ! smyefl room raitc , but the upper Jlory to the tomb™ ( Men imp so fajl, ere life's mid Jlmge -we tread, IT ' f° m ' "y fr'endt a'.ive ai dead." i is- due to the public curiosity, so strongly excited by the late awful events in Mr Andrew Brown's family, to £ivea narrative of such of them as can be collected. Mr. Brown, his wife, and George hi* fori, were at the Circus on 1 Hrfday evening, the a6th ult A sudden in dir^6tH>n of Mr.. Brown, obliged them to retire before the perlormancej were terminated. On their return home ! T it an "ndrefled as (he was, ran down stairs. Her !r, f„ Mary, had likewise come down. Alarm- ! f PV ing as were appearances at this time, the danger did not ! thc L seem.by any mean, so imminent as it really was. It wa« 1 advic < judged, as the fare was then confined to one room, that It A V' me t0 tV " y and r«f on a few should tier T n,ot,ve had weight with the fond mo- ! f ur fu j Two or n hcr children were flill above flairs, and in j danger ot periimg : two highly laudable inducenTe,ts, ! therej.re, female dehcacy, and parental a/Tcflier, com- I t0 im P c i Mrs. Brown to ascend tfeofe flair, which she Th was never to dtfeend with life. | r Ai: this occurred between the firft discovery of the' "m* A n ' l " :ngnt o{ "» forcing a palTage up 1 5 wands. Mrs, Brown had dressed herfelf and Bet fey, and with that child was at the room door of the SlCll,a third ltoryj v hen the irresistible torrent of devour- to , ' lt; Wg flames and smothering smoke ruflied torward, d.fcn^ a m "" inlUnt hurried her into eternity. and f, * J PP r - p --j pppe's J ,ntiiuonj) in agfe <.fan 'nteftir.c lufurrtift&n • an 1,0,1 t,r f° r "ial atttick of the French. But ie the holintfs, d<;fiioui_nf counteracting the prrjjfts ndow, . conspirators, havi ig rtqtieftec his ma . He J e ". v » ,n 1 Inter written wiih hia own hand, to .'ay bv march 10,000 troops into the papal territory im w, to mediately, the king of Naples has fignified <4 the -oi- pope in his answer, which reached ihis place the lhirt h e f°re yesterday, that complying with hii re que l, he had ordered the regiments of the queen : His ant) Pu g' ia . with two battalions of volunteers, to )f the | f l ®®' 1 to 'J** by Tronto ; and the royal broke Italian regiment, two regiments of national volun mger- teers, two battalions of chasseurs, the regiment' of : j. horse Rofliglionc, and two battalions of can- i rl£; ni> " C< '" t0 P'Oveed thi-her by Ricti. All these ' ita«ch'v| tro "P* •''re ahcady , n raociow, and ijie road of Ce- I tehfy 1 P ,an ° 'fcl'kewife 4)j eparing with'fhe utiHolf speed I tar the paflage of a column of militia. s en- I, lie VENICE, O(Sober 26. [ J „igh 'Re Algiers ha » dctlareu .var against oui r /here .r, . a ;areft j . * 5 ' :£:cbr *ted Paeha of Scutari, who has ex ,-ered j l,eat, havc taken poffefljon of the Cc , dto illand of Capraja, by their commissioner Sanaui nette. & q 1 her PARIS, 1 Frimaire, Nov. 21. C , a P' p ne g°Cu£ions with Portugal appear to be fuf- t ] ,he m 1! 1 •,f' aCU^ i ° n of Cjfr '" has r P"*d gr«»t joy at jell | AWiciljes. The merchants of that place flatter them elves, that the Engl,i> pofltifing nf> port in the medi- tu l" here their fleets can take fljelter, qr whi- re non ther they can carry their prizes, will repafs the (freights th eat eipetia iy at this stormy wihter season, and allow the ftc lat 'ench merchants to resume fume ailivitv, in the Le vant trade. A nutii er of vefTels are already arrived J „si. 111 tlut port from Genoa. The peace concluded with , de- the kingof Naples willalfo again open a dircfl trade j ng with Sicily, which, dnring the war, haj ceen'carried wl hi s on through the Oenoefe. These commercial advan- vci ur tages will be atteoded with a political advantage, still ra' de- m °T e 'mportant, namely, that r-ommercc and indnftry no will give employment to "a great namber of idlers, „ led "O) _™r want of opportunities to employ themfelvcs .• the in a uieful way, give tjlemfelves up to reyolutionizinp hat jpcculations. /he torrent, which has so long- over ltSj fl. wed its banks, will at length resume its wonted r «f an, <-*oi>ne, ( — eX j ce , Die news of an armistice having been concluded be- coi „ re tween Cienei-al Moreau and the Archduke Charles, i« t h f jri, premature. K >nt , ' hey now talk of coUe t,,e fil !i ' f has admitted 13 the clia.lenges of the granJ jurifcout of 24, made by,the ( " accuiea: by rbelecond it has rejected a requeftof Ba- pi It bccut, wishing the evidence of foiir prisoners to be fj 0 " ru in America, Conlfantinople and Algiers. re Ihe court adjourned till the 29th, for the pwrpofe of and p r ei'enting to the accused a general lift of the high jur the she tribunal of c .flation has received *a charge a- 0 f ( gjinii Frcron, relative to a crime which he committed t while he was pro-consul in the south. Freron is rora- . > prehoided in the law of the 3d Brumaire, because his ® mother is an emigrant, and he is godlon of Staniflags, king of Poland, and duke of Lorrain. fifln T he famous Antonelle .was arretted the day before yeiterday, at 7 o'clock in the evening. His defliny is C j molf capricieus one. He was iinpriforted in 1792 by car)l La Fayettein the citadel of Sedan ;iu 1794 by Robe- \ ipierre in the Luxembourg ;in 1795 by the Thermi- , donans in the prifen of the Rue des Orties: iu 1706 , r c] at Vendome by the CijnAitutionalilis."—Where will he on |. be Jii 1797 / van , \ BRUSSELS, Nov. 7. " Maj Oeneral Werneck, who has the command ef the yet t corps of troops polled between the Sicg and the T « Lahn, has fallen back with a pan of his forces be- tain t bind that rivet, a»d bis head quarters are atSu- by t ally at Limbourg. B All the magazines of provision* and ammunition with I'd >nging to the enemy are befween the Lahn and Orat [ the Main, £veiy where multitudes of pioneers j St _ work night and day, conftru£iing formidable bat the 9 1 teries and enttencliments. The Imperialilts have, SI "otwi'hltanding, Hill two small camps on this fide fori the Lahn. takei . The corps commanded by Gen. Kray, reckoned Tl , a bout 30,600 ft rung, >9 polled from Wallendan and BendorfF t® Eili h. Almoll every night this the p corps of the army is under arms. ~ ==== 1 he Imperialills are eonltrudting numerous bat teries along the left bank'as far as Leyderfdroff.— # Ihe fortrefs of Ehrenbreitftein is provisioned for more than Tix months. We are nffured that the plan of the Archduke Charles, is immediately to take the fort of Kehl, The! and after having entirely cleared the left bank ef the Upper, immediately to del'cend the Lower Rhine with a corps of 25 or 30,000 good troops, and not to go into winter quarters till he fhal! have taiten Duffeldorff. These plans are very fine, but the array of the Sambreand MeXife is there to op pose some obdacles to it. I g n < Ihe inhabitants of Neuwied have obtained leave cm phfi from the imperial general to obtain provifious when l :ci 1 hey want them, from places occupied by the 1m- I ftr—,'.' perialifls. Ttiofe inhabitants, far whom tfee ma-"'Half a filtrates will answer, may go wheraver their affairs 7i may eall them. The Republican Generals have lOideuted on their part to this arrangement. s F \ ii IS, 1 j. We learn by a letter faam Genoa, dated the 22d ' 01 tbst tbii Reputlit has at length deter- FeUr # nn'ne.J to conclmle 1 tr«sty with tlu* F.ench Dirff, But tory, by which it hopes to ward of the mpfl immiV (jjfts nert dangeis that threaten it at the piefent rpjj 5 ma menf d, to The Republic confenti to pav four millions an'l y tm- a half lives Toi|rnois to France, half of which is to o- the be inflantly paid infperie, and the reft at an ap, : the pojnted time. The French Government engages, s re- on its part, to renaunce all claims on tu |ueen forget what ha« pafTcd during the present war, and s, to ""t to trouble the G l * n °efewiih auy future demands, royal If we are to credit foine of <>nt public prints, jlun the fleet at Brest, composed of 17 fliips of the lira it' of and 14 frigates, hon th» point of failing, Admi can- ral Villarei and Gen. Hoche are alone entrulled these with the secret of the expedition. It is alfs said, Ce- that the pott has been blocked up for some days peed past by an Et'gHfh fq,„d r o n ps j 2 fliips. Letter* from Bred, however, give a very different account, They ftatc, that the expedition is not only delayed, but that ic is entirely laidafide. General Hoche is our returned to Reuses, to expedite the trial of thafe accused of attempting to a:Taflinate him. 1 ex- We hear ftbm Vienna, that the mariiage of the 3ff n Archduke Charles with the Princess Royal of "te- France is abfolu'ely fixed on. I he Fiench offi er sent to Vienna as a courser # from the Direae- nornc tnuol* more pernicious to his kingdom than the prosecution of the war, should rsfufe to ratify the treaty signed at Paris, unless the con- H- dd,a froa » on the EccJeliaftiea) BAL I [MORE, February 4. li' , 9-' Pt ' Buchillla "oft h .s port, bound. Its to the Weft Indies, was captured the beginning » ! " ,d 'c _ NASSAU, (N. P.) December 13. Ihe bngantine Frieiidflnp, Arnott, from Exu. n. ma torjLondon, was cast away the 22 d of last mosth ;h on a ledge of rocks, ofT the south-cast end of Elea. 3 tncra -part of the cargo is saved »- p, Q " last m °" ,h ' the Sooner Molly, )£ Plomwright cf 1 appafcannock, was aw V eo 5< Henranga. Iwo of wreckers fell in with ber. #f and have saved the crew, and cosliderable part of j r the cargo, confining of flour, a most '"son.We supply of 600 brfrels of flour, in a vessel from Savannah. From the vessel wrecked.on H.neaga, above ,oo • s barrels are saved, i, two parcels form a quantity equal to the eanfumption of this place for nearly two month,. m J r, .. December 16. is On Wedncfday, his majesty's ship Prevovante y captain Wemyfs, Tailed on a cruise. ' ; Yesterday the armed fchoonei May Flower, ten s der to his majefty'g {hip Porcupine, arrived here e from a cruise, with a Spamfh brig bound from Ha. vanna to Campeachy, and a Spanish sloop. The May Flower alio captured a polacre, which is not c yet gome in, : This morning hi, majefly's /loop Swallow, cap. * ,ttU e ned f :° m a Cru>ife ' a «o ra panje4 by the following Spanish veffelsr r Barque St. Domingo, frem Cadiz for Havanna, , with a valuable cargo, cut out the jnflant, from Orange harbor in Cuba. ' 1 Guai ;* oupe » a guarda cofla, taken the 7th lnltant at sea. Sloop Santiflima Tri«ida "ICo, on the 9 tb, took a schooner , .^ a Dok "" es . which w 3 s giveji on the 1 ith to ;f.e prisoners, to carry thetn to Cuba. 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