' * ' ' L V ' - 1 to several a< lu& resi dence at Mr. Con fat Stonghton's. It is a strong proof of the salubrity of the air of this town, and the a&radtions of its inhabitants, that the southern gentlemen in the r,northern visits, give it the preference. Tfce.town is now thronged with ftranger3 of refpe&ability ; and a remarkable degree of' health .prevails. On Saturday, a weli-drefied fwindler,was fcen eying very curiously the pockets of the gentlemen on the Exchanger—and not giv ing faticfaftory answers to proper inquiries, he was obliged to make a speedy retreat to avoid hustling. Lad evening, Stephen Smith, a blackman, was convifted before the Supreme Court, .now fitting of Burglary in Mr. Gyldfbury's /house the b.ft spring—Death. Monday la ft failed from this port the sloop , for the Bay of Fundy, carrying Mr. Wright, astronomer on the part of the British government, and profeflor Webber, astronomer on the part of the United States, and a young gentleman, as an assist ant. The-objeft of their voyage is to ascer tain the longitude and latitude of the two rivers St. Croix's, and to complete their surveys, that the result of the whole may be laid before the Commiflioners at their nieet ing in June next in Providence. g The annual " Dudleian Le&ures" wilf be delivered at Harvard University, 011 thii : day. The fubjett of this year's discourse} is " the errors of Popery." Rev. Mr. will deliver it in the College Chapel, at 3' o'clock P. M. SALEM, September 5. Cspt. George Hodges arrrived here on Saturday from St. Domingo, where he was obliged to witness the facrifice of his veflel and cargo to the French pirates who cap- j tured her on her homeward paffagc from | India. Not content with so rich a prize, j we understand that capt. Hodges anp his ■ people were stripped of almost every neces sary personal article. COUGHS, COLDS, ASTHMAS, and CONSUMPTIONS. ■ ■ ■ r*. Just received, by Wm. Griffiths,No.South Second'ftrcet, i frefh supply of Qenuinc Bal/am of Honey, A Medicine invented by the late Sir JotirK Hill (who knowledge as a Botanist procured liira the appellation of the Linnaeus of Britain) and 15 •onfidered in England as a ctrtaim «#■/ for the above complaints ;• it is also of Angular efficacy in the Hooping Coueh, It may alftToe had retail of W. A. Stokes,N». 61, South Second-street, and T. Snrr, sjjNew ftreet, in bottles at 75 cents each. Wm. Griffiths having observed the happy et fe& of the medicine, (several cases of cures hav ing eomp within his and the great demand for it has induced him to order a large fupp'jr, a part of which he has just received. 3- xaw3W At a Meeting of the Board of Property, June 6, 1797, Present John Hall, See'ry. Francis Johnfton, R. O. > oflandoflice , Dan. Brodhead, 8. G j Nicholas Bettinger, •veifus >■ ' Samuel Cunningham, j rfithis cafe the proof of service of notice be ing ialufficient, Itisordered that notice be giv en in one of the Philadelphia and York newspa pers weekly; for it lealt eight Weeks to the heirs or afligneet of S.irnuel Cunningham de eeafed, to atttend the board on the firft Monday in November next, to shew caule why a patent ftouM not ifliie to Niehola* Bettiuger for the land in question. (A true Copy.) JOHN HALL, Secretary of the Land Office. Aug. if. *rawg\v. Excellent Bourdeaux Brandy- Ditto ditt>> Claret in cases Just received, and for Sale by Rundle & Leech. 4*g. 11. aawtf This Day is Published, BY NJcff. Dob (on, Carev> Campbell, Rite, anil the ochef Booklellers» frice One Dollar and twenty-five cents, FJeganty printtd oh IVove paper, and Hot* prejfed, By John Thorapfon, A COMPARATIVE VIEW OF T*he Constitutions Of the several States with each other, and with* that of the United States: exhibiting in Tables, the prominent features of eaeh Constitution, and elafling together their most important provisions, under the several heads of administration ; with Notes and Observations. By WILLIAM SMITH, Of South-Carolina, ' L L. D. and member of the Congrcfs of the United States. Dedicated to the People of the UnitedStatcs. N. B. A few Copies printed on an inferior pa per, at 3-4thsof a dollar. February 6 mwf * — : ; just published, And to be fold at the Bcokftores of H. £3* P. Rice, No. 50, Market-street 1 J. Ormrod, No. 41, Chefnut-ftreet, and W. Young, 1 corner of Chefnut and Sec ond-ftreets, , An accurate System of Surveying; IN WHICH 18 CONTAINED, 1 I. Decimal fractions, in a plain, coricife, j *nd easy manner. j ». Theextraflion of the fqnareroot. 3. Plain trigonor.Ktry, redlangular and ob lique. 4. An exa<S method to call up the contents 1 «f lands. 5. Field surveying. 1 The whole being performed without the life . •f scale and compalTes, on a table of logarithms. In which is given some account cf-the variation of the needle, and the canfes of its attrition. ' By SAMHfiL MOORE. 1 August 1. ' aaw2w I Window Glass, < Of Superior Quality, and cktaper than any other in ] the City— 1 OF FURIOUS SIZES, i From Bby 6 to iq by 14, . By the fi(i){' c " Qx or Quanii'.y, may be had at th* S:oic of the Silbl'ciiben, comer of Arsli and Froßt ftrect. Jtitrtes C. & Samuel W. Ftjher. i Philsdelphia, J' vfg, 1797. fiwrowftl yrtte. PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY EVENING, Septembfr ii. . Totals of burials for 24 hl'lrs, ending Satur day at noon. • St. Mary's Church 1 Adult. German Lutheran 2 I Child., German Calvinifts 3 O Field o 4 City Hospital* 17 o ' Kensingtons 1 3 Total 24 8 * Fourteen of theft -Mere from the city. f All from Camptown. At a meeting of the inhabitants of the Nor thern Liberties, held at their toivn-houfe on the 28th ult. a Committee of Enquiry, tonfijl i"g of 49 persons, <were appointed to aft in con junction ivith the Board of Health, in order to prevent the spreading of the prevailing dis ease. / September 9th, 179^7. f Mr. BENJAMIN WTNKOOP. Sir, Agreeably to promise, I fliall now 1 nply : as concisely aa pofiible to such parts of your letter as occur to my recolleftion. The reason why I did not mention the ctrcumftances which gave rife to the yellow fever in 1793, was not, as you insinuate, because those did not suit my system, or because the dites were so recent that I was afraid of having the fubjedl in vestigated ; but, brciufe the colltge of physicians had publiihe<l their opinion that . the disease took its origin from contagion, j and that they believed the contagion had ! been imported by a vefTel from t?ie Weft ■ Indies. Let those desirous of feeing* the reasons afligned •by the college for their opinion, call on Dr. James, the secretary of the college, and fatisfy themselves ; or read my ( review of Dr. Rufli's book on the subject, published in 1794. You ask how certain pcrfonJ-to the nortti, came to be affe&ed with fever, before those to the south of the Arsthufa, (which I have charged wijh giving rife to the dife.ife) when the wind mud have carried the efflu via, if any arose from that veflel, in an op posite direftion to them. This circum stance is easily explained.—Contagious dis eases do not require wind to waft them from one person to another—all they re quire is the near approach of the found to the bodies of the sick, or to any porous substance that hag lately been near the body of the sick in a confined situation. While the brig Iris from Oporto was unloading, the crew of the Arethufa had to pass across that veflel to get on (hore with their chests, bedding, &c. ar.d it is natural to suppose, as some of the bungs flew out of the wine calks and the mariners were miking merrr, that some of the crew of the Arethufa alio partook of their cheer with them. Mr. Latimer, Mr. Lewis, and others, might have received the contagion from palling near thole people with their infefted mate rials ; those who workccK in fail-lofts from her fail* and those of the Hind ; and this is the way that contagious fevers are generally propagated, and this, I am sure, is one of the ways that the disease now continues-to be propagated. Contagion is an invisible substance, known only from its effefts. The effluvia of mar(Ke3, of putrid vegeta bles, or of bilge water, which contains no thing different from ftagtiant marfli water, namely, vegetable and animal substances in a state of putrefadlion, when they have any effeft at ally only produce an intermit ting or remitting fever, according as the fubjeft to whom thejr are applied is morfc. or less vigorous ; and diseases pro duced are never propagated by contagion. Please to permit me to tranferibe the o pinion delivered gn this fubjeft, by one of the best informed and molt judicious physi cians of the present or any former age, the celebrated Cullen of Edinburgh, in his firft lines, vol. i " As fevers are so generally epidemic, it is probable that some matter floating in the atmosphere, and applied to the bodies of men, ought to be considered as the remote cause of Fevers : and theCr matters present in the atmosphere, and thus afting upon men may be considered, either as contagions —that is effluvia, arising direftly or origin ally frotnthebody of a man under a parti cular disease and exciting the fame kind of disease in the body of the person to whom they are applied ; or Miasmata that is efflu via, arising from the stagnant water of marsh es (which contain more or less dead and putrefying vegetable matters) producing a disease in the person to whom they are ap plied." " It appears likely that the contagions which produce fevers are not of great vari ety ; perhaps there is but onecommon of such contagions."- s " For it is well known that the effluvia ftantly ifluing from the living human body, if long retained in the fame place, without being diffufed in the atmosphere, acquire a Angular virulence ; and in that state being applied to the bodies of men, become the cause of a fever which is highly contagious." " The existence of such a caul? is fully proved by the late observations on jail, hos pital, (and ship fevers)." That these contageous effluvia are render ed more or less virulent as the dircumftance of climate' and season happen to concur with the other circnmftances which give origin to the contagion has been l*telyconfirmed by the obfervationsof Do&or Chilholm of Gre nada an a (hip fever which was introduced into that ifknd in the vernal season of 1793, and destroyed one fifth of all the inhabitants and nearly one half ot all the ijiariners at that time in purt. I have foftietbing rrore to [add on this fubjedt, but ahi obliged to defer it to a fu ture opportunity. In tl.e mean time ac cept «f the firi«re!t wishes for your welfare. From your humble fervnnt, r WILLIAM CUR RIE. MR. *iV\'o, / An artful, mfidious paper, signed A ' Friend to Mankind, was left at my houfs the other day. It affects, with wonderful 1 philanthropy, to give advice for the cure ;of the prevailing disorder. Any one who reads that trash must bt more than a fool ! not to fee at once the object of the writer. You will oblige me by telling the pale-faeed hypocrite who wrote it, that if he had any friendfhip to mankind, he ought to have damiled his performance b< his name. I will answer for it, that he who is the friend • of so many, has not one real friend on ctirti. T Surgo-ut-pro/im, the Jacobin Ther/ites, who has so long furnifhed dull wit for the 1 gitdgeo/is, flimfy scandal for the ipilH-fops,. and gross lies for the more malicious and hardened of the Jacobin fed ; has decliued (the very natural confeqence of a continued : fairienefs) to a mere caput morluum, an dSi gy of what once attra&ed some notice. Every body fays now—" I wonder that I you will still be talking, fignior Bache, no body marks yon." His paltry calumnies have loft even their power of exciting indignation, and a tran fien* emotion of contempt is almoit tie only attention they attraft ; they are now re garded things of course, arising rather from 3 native propensity to bafeneis, than founded on this or that particular exciting canfe. A French writer on finances, fays, " the ' various' miseries, created by the Revolution, ! have received as yet no alleviation. The towns are yet unable to maintain their, police, tals, or work-houses for their poor,- who can find no employment " A tax which has been laid upon Salt is little better than a renewal of the Gabelle, one of the principal topicsjkpf all the abuse pour ed forth again/1 the ela fyfiem : Jlill the roads are neither mended nor guarded,—nor are the flreets either watched or'lighted. " The tenant, deprived of the means rfiob taining bread by the fatal unhingement of fotit ty, the natural offspring of the accursed Revo lution, beholds his defpajfk encrtafed by the ix prr/Jions of a flerile pity, and'by rhoek laws, which decree thai men Jhall pay their debts, while the law makers well know that-thcre is no money on the foil of the Republic ; because they have wrung it, by the iron hand of pow er, from the Wretched people, to emplty it to the deJlruSion of mankind, and the depopula tion of the earth. " All parti of the public ftrvice are about to fail ; Jlill the government jogs on its plun dering, depredating courses —hunting over the wide-spread furface of the earth, for new feeds of enmity, hatred and discord :—as if our difaflrout and fatal career had not already proved a fufficient 'curse to mankind, and not fufficiently drawn down on our heads the exe crations of the whole earth.'* From the Arovh POLITICAL CONUNDRUMS. Why is the term Federalism like Charity ? Because it covers a " multitude of Jins." Why is the term Jacobin like Chymiflry ? Because it discloses the base properties of a counterfeit currency. Why are " Tommy Argus" and " Fool" fynonimous terms ? Because the latter is a quality of mind of which the former is the representative. In vulgaracceptatiqn thefcare fynonimous. Why is Tommy a Jacobin ? Because he is paid for it. Why is the term so hateful to his ears ? Because it reminds him of the base properties of his own venal foul. Why is the term Federalism so hateful, to the jacobins in general ? Because it renews in their minds the recol leftion of a firm barrier to their schemes of plunder and murder. ANECDOTR. A certain notary beinglately applied to by a French functionary, for papers relative to the estate of a deceased Citoyen, declined the surrender, as not knowing the cha-Ac ter of the applicant, who instantly puHed out his pocket-book, unfolded his credent, tials, and observed, " You are Monsieur ! I ain de Shancellor of de French Confulat de Sharlelton, and must have de papers!" The notary very deliberately surveyed the funftionary's documents, and gravely re plied—" Sir, I am fatisfied now of your public charafter ; but as the French govern ment have refufed to receive Mr. Pinckney as our ambassador, so it is out of my power to receive you."« InfpcSors Office, 6th Sept. 1797. ' Sir, In compliance with orders received by me this day, you are hereby required to hold in s to march at a moment's warning, the -fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth classes of the companies composing your regiment, in order to form the body of 81 7 men from the brigade of this city; and a3 soon as pofiible inform me of your proceeding, that I may make my report to his excellency the com mander in chief. lam &e. LEWIS NICOLAS, Infpe&or. Inform me of the number of notices, your regiment will require, and they Pnall be fur nilhed without delay. Col.' Gurney, or Officers "1 Cammanding the sth regiment, j Mrs. G RATTAN INFORMS her friends,and the public in genera], that h,r house. No 191. Market-flreet, will con tinue open during the G*!»nef>.. Board and I.odgiug in a separate room, ten doli.ars. in a double room, eight bollaks. For the eoriv. nifnee of thof- who hare not thair families in town, Mrs •ratt»n will receive jentlemen to dine at iiai.t a dollar a ;'ay. GAZETTE MARINE LIST. A Bermuda paper of the 12th August, contains the following paragraph ! Thursday a brig drifted up to the land from the ea ft ward of these i (lands bottom Up. From ier being scuttled in the bot tom, we imagine she miift have been fell in with at sea by some veflel. She is brought into harbour by the boats, and has on her item, " Atlantic of Bolton ;" (he is laden with lumber and spars, and appears to be a new veflel, built of birch and maple. Whether the grew were saved or not it is impossible for us to tell. New York, September gth. ARRIVED. I Ship Mary, Battey, Havannah v Brig James, Fitch, St. Vallery Hetty, Robcrtfoir, South Seas '] ■ ■ v ,v sew ■' \» • Newburyport, September 5. Arrived, brig Friendship, Ellis, Lisbon. Saturday arrived brig Friendlhip, Ellis, ' 61 days from Lisbon, Ifeft there brig Vul ture, Walton, of this port, to fa?l in seven days. July 29, lat. 42, 51, long. 41, 30, fpoktf I brig Integrity, of Charlelton, bound to London, 21 days out. Brig Ranger, Hufe, after being taken by an English privateer, and"cleared on paying one eighth falvage—failed'with a fleet home ward bound, and was again taken by a French privateer, capt. Garrifcas, and his crew pot on board another vefTel and sent home. The above privateer had taken four American vessels within 24 hours, when she captured the Ranger. The captain of the privateer, Garrifcan, altho' a Frenchmaa bom, is a naturalized citizen of the United States and has a family and property in the United States. Capt. Matthews, arrived at Bolton on Sa turday last from Baltimore, fooke a few days since, the brig Aurora, 6oulci,'from Nevis for Kennebimk 20 days out having ori board the crew of the brig Ranger, Hewes, of Newburyport, which had been captured by the French andthe crew put on board a veflel belonging to Virginia, cap tured and a cartel of. Besides this crew, there were on board the cartel, the crews of the brig Success, Rogers, of New- York, from St. Kitt's, sloop Dependance, of Richmoad Montague, from Antigua ; brig Peace, Allen of New York, from Mar tinico, all captured and carried into' Porto Rico, for condemnation. BALTIMORE, September 7. This morning, precisely at 9 o'clock, at the navy yard of Major Stodder, the build er, was launched, the United States frigate Constellation. The novelty of the scene, she being the firft frigate ever built at this port, drew forth an immense concoui% of citizens, of both sexes, and of all ages,, and notwithstanding the carlinefs of the hour appointed for the launch, the number, we are warranted in faying, was never e qualled on any oecafion in this city. The furface of the Patapfco was covered with in numerable boats, and the adjacent hills, east of Harris's creek, swarmed with infpe£tors; and so admirable, too, were the situations around, that every one had the pleasure of gratifying his euriofity, without risking the least accident. A number of volunteers, in uniform, were admitted on board, while others were set to guard the yard and permit no one to enter, ; unl«fs engaged in the business of the day.— The workmen, amounting to 200, being thus kept iinobftiA ted, carried on their work with such regularity and dispatch, ss reflected the greatest credit both on themr selves and their able conduitor. Every or der was commiiflicated by a taffle from the drum, and the operations of the men in wedging ug the veflel, &c. were apparently performed with as much and preci sion, as the manual etfercife by a regiment of veterans. The anxious moment noiv ar rived—and now description is beggared. Every thing being In the molt complete preparations, all the bloeks taken away, e very man from under the veflel, and the hull standing upon almost nothing but the'flip perry tallow, orders were given for knocking atfay the last ftaunchion: this being done, j file moved gracefully and majestically down I her ways, amidst the silent amazement of 1 thousands of fpeftators, to her destined ele- ■ merit, into which she plunged with such ease and fafety, as to make the hills resound with j reiterated bursts of joyful acclamations. Her plunge into the water was attended 1 with so little velocity, that she came to an chor within ICIO yards of the shore,'' and we can pronounce, from the authority of able and experienced judges, that no vessel was ever taken from the Itocks in a more fafe and • judicious manner than the Constellation, and I that no man, on a similar oceafion, ever ac quitted himfelf with more honour and abili ty than did Major Benjamin Stodder. The Pannerihip, UNDER the firm of FREEMAN & Company, is diiTolted by mutual corfoHt. All perl'ona Jpving any demands against Koufe de-. Yred to render the fame to T. B. Freeman ; and : those indebted to the Houfc are desired to mahe pay nirnt to him—By «vhem fcuiinefs Avili in future be carried on, at his Store, No. 39, South Front-ftrceu j Augufll eod^w Bank of North America, September Bth, 1797. OV Mondny n.st the Notitn for all Notes or ) Bilk payable fall du. onthat aad the epfuiuu 6 dap,,will be.H-rv. dtn the Pay ers'-/ Arid! the like Not.cos on every Vloiiday, till the further or<itrs of the rHreftcrs—Pci son» wi{h- s ingto depbfit Notes or Bills fin OcHeJtioM, vHiich j are to fail due within the v'tclt, muit tf virf.ivcfi j andertak.r to gire tmt'et r< «t»f • ] TO BE SOLD VERT CHEAP T ; A Light W h GGGN tlmoft new, wieli a f/ame — and a pair of harncfi (ti gliih collars) lus n#vc'r been ufed-i-p ice 90 Doll*. A 1J or ft 16 hands high, seven year* e',d— and a n»w chair, with a falling f.j>ah<i hara- fs—fao. -y ift-'iu-e ifo. jji; MarKt-lir::t. t'lw X!)c (^asette* PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY EVENING, S-pietJtifr it. ' .... CITY HOSPITAL REPORTr^ From 9th to foth Septet, in the' Morning Admitted, since lnfl report, StufSl Ryenfullt, North Livery Stablca, New Market. Jacob Beacomb, Dr. Currle, *g, Pine ftreet. Thomas Marshall, corner Front and Queen. Patrick Galligher, Tent on common. Samuel Bell, Mr. Steel's, German ftreetv Died since last report. Elizabeth Ellis, admitted sth igft. Nelly Corral), sth Samuel People, Bth Stuffil Ryenfullt, 9 th (8 hours af ter admifiion.) Remaining last Report 41 Admitted, . ' ' 46 Discharged None Died 4 ' Remain in Hospital, j 85j interred in City Hospital burying ground ■since last report : From the city and suburbs 10 From the city hofpitaj 4 Total 14 Five of the sick are dangerous. Stephen Girard, (Signed) Caleb Lownes, , John Connelly. CITY HOSPITAL REPORT, From th? 10th to 1 ithSept. in themorning# Admitted since last Report* Nancy Berry, Creffon's court, Cherry alley, between sth and 6th street. Leonard Brown, Corner sth and Cherry alley. Win. Hartoan, Mr, Bennet's Union fte et. Sarah Deveuny, corner South and Front ftt. Mary Haywood, Robert M* Fee's second by Shippen street. Majy Woodward, 16 Piae street. David Givens, Harris's, South street. Wm. McDonald, Tents on Common. Wm. Silby, Brig Clarissa near Swede* Church. Paul Long, do. do. James Clarke, No v l, Market street. Daniel Rourke, Joseph Ploughman's corner FroHt and South. Francis Lefby, Hill's, 247, South Seeond. Elizabeth Boyd, Durney's, biscuit baker, comer Shippen and Second. Jane McFarland, 50, Rao: street. Died since last report. Wm. M'Donald, 12 hours after admilllon. , Paul Long, 8 hours do. Catharine Turner, admitted Bth Hugh Parry, sth Joseph Azani, 9th Remaining last report 41 Admitted since 1 j , V 57 Discharged none SDied j Remains in Hospital. | akfcent j 91 5, In'erreJ /ince last repprt. From city, and suburbs , jo Hefpital Total'' 1 g Stephen Girard. (Signed) iCaleb Lownes'. John Connelly. ?? The Commiflioners appointed by th« Governor, .MJ carry into effeit the law for alleviating the distress of the Citizens of Phi ladelphia, and the suburbs thereof; inform their fellow-cjtizens, that they have attend ed to their appointment, and now invfte them to recommend in writing, signed by one or more reputable inLabitant,"fuch of the indigent as may come "to their know ledge, who will be assisted as they may ftnnd in need, by applying at the State-HouTe, from 3 to 5 o'clock, on the 6th in ft. and every second, fourth and fixtl* days of the week, called Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, at the fame hours, while neceflary ; and those who want employ, may likewise apply as above, or to either of the commif fionersat their dwellings. v CommjJJioners for the eity. Robert Wharton, S. Third-street, No. X Gecrge Krebs, N. Fifth-ftreet, No. J7. John James, ditto No. 18. Israel Israel, corner of Chefnut Sc Third St. Thomas Savery, N. Fifth-ftreet, No. 20. Edward Garrigues, 1 Cherry-street, No. 39. Commijponert for the Northern Liberties. Samuel Wheeler, Wne-ftrtet, No. 99. John Wagner, Noble-street. George lnglis, New Market-street. Commissioners for Sovth-cvari. Samuel Church, corner South 8c Water St. William Lennard, South Second-street. Robert M'Mullen, Swanfon-ftrcct. Philadelphia, September 5, 1797. The Health-Office IS removed to the City-Hall, and is kept open night and dr.y, wl.cre persons having b'.fin, ft may apply- Wm. ALLEN, H(,a!ch-Ofticer. Sept. 4. dtf Post Office, September 1797. > Cr3" The Post Office will i»e removed tor morrow at 3 o'clock, P. M. to Mr. Dun' lap's Coach house, 12th ftreet,bet ween-Mar ket ar.d Chefnut street, where merchants and others Will jneafe to fend for theirlett-rs, is the letter carriers during the continuance cf the present prevailing fjsksels will co> be sent out. ,
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