Public notice is hereby given, To the Freemen t>f (be City and County of Philadelphia., arid the County of Delaware, ' I 'HAT a General Eleition will be held on JL Tn'efday the loth day of October next , the eledlion to be opened between the hours of 10 o'c'ock in the forenoon, and I o'clock in af ternoon —wlie'n the freemen of' the city of Phi ladelphia are to tnfet fat the State-house, in the faiu city, to eledl Six re.prefentatives for the laid city in the gen era] aflrttibly. Twenty perlbns for members of common , council. four prrl'ons for members of the felc<£l coun cil, in the rpom of Francis Gurney, Godfrey Haga, Henry Pratt, and James Head, whoft time expires. \ The freemen of the county of Philadelphia to eleft Six reprefentativey for the said county in gel - aflembly. The freemen of thecity and county of Phila delphia to eleB. Taw Bank of North America, September Bth, 1797. OV Monday next the Notice. for all Notes er Bills payable at this Bank,which fall dueontbat and the ensuing 6 days, will be served on the Pay ers : And the like Notices on every Monday, till the further orders of the DireAors.—Perfons wi(b ing to deposit Notes or..Bills for Colle&ion, which are to fall due within the week, mud themfslves undertake to give notice to the Payers. dtf Insurance Company of the State of Pennfyivania. THE Offire will be kept until further notice at the School House in Germantown. The Company Hill retain the room in Chefnut, above Seventh street, where a person will attend to re ceive and give answers to applications, every day from 10 until I o'clock. Sept. 13. d3t2awtf Red Port Wine. Just arrived, by the brig Iris, capt Rhodes, from ' Oporto, Red Port Wine in pipes, hhds. and quarter cases ' do cwt. Cork, for sale by Philips, Cramond, & Co. J"'y " 5 The Health-Office IS removed to the tity-Hall, and i* kept open sight and day, where persons having hufinrfi may , apply. Wm. ALLEN, Health-Officer. Sept. 4. I dtf NOTICE. j THE Offices of the Department of War are for ( »he present removed near t« the Falls of the Scuyl- j kill, on the Ridge Road. 1 , September 4. dtf ( . The Inhabitants of the Diftridfc c v of Southwark, c ARE informed that a Coachee is provided, to be C kept at the Constables' office, the north east f earner of Front and Almond streets, where the friends of those sick persons who desire to be rs moved to the City Hospital, arc requested to make application—Also, a Hearse will be kept in readi- ness for the removal of the dead. JONATHAN PENROSE. H N. B.—rha Poor, who wish to remove to the A Tents on Schuylkill, may be furnifhad with orders 0 Iry applying as above. A up. 39 R This Day is Published, s< BY MefT. Dobfon, Carey, Campbell, Ric 9 and the M other Booksellers, * Price One Dollar and twenty-five cents, IJe%ant'yprinted on Wove paper, and Hot pre/Jed, By John Thompson, —- A COMPARATIVE VJEWOF The Constitutions Of the several States with each other, and with *hat of the United States: exhibiting in Tables, yy the prominent features of eaeh Constitution, and j claffingtogether their most important provifionn, J' under the several heads of administration ; with ' Notes and Observations. By , WILLIAM SMITH, Of South-Carolina, |,y L L. D. and member of the Congrcfs of the United States. the Dedicated to tho People of the United States. uic N. B. A few Copies printed on ai) inferior pa yor, at 3-4thsof a do%ir. Jul February 6 ' tr.wf l 0 j From the Farmer's Wt/ttiy Muscxim. on ARE M'N A N T, t j Found in the Jhop of Peter Quince, formerly < [Herethe best part of th: poem is nvffingl hf I • . . . • . . * , . , V • I Meek Peter scorns thee as the word of ill; Much dreads thy entrance in his humble cot— I Had rather bear of penury the lot, I Than all the jileafures which thy powers inftlll. j Thou fcattercftpoifop through the feeble mind, I And thy vfltaries to compassion blind, a- I id I rh°u changed friendlkip to a falfe parade , • as j Playeft the fool with many a feeling heart; n, I Deeper thou plunged keen afflidtion'i dart, Is I Then fmilft contemptuous on the wounds fhou'ft h I made. I E'en from the palace to cell, te I works—curs'd Gold—in wretched ruin dwell. (I I PETER QUINCE. d I i. ( THE CHEERFUL PARSON. SINCE bards are all wilhing pray why may not I ? I I Though but a poor rhymer, for once I will try. ' I The life which I choose would be pleaiant to scarce one, I Yet the life which I choose is the life of a parson. 1 I First as me, kind Heaven, a fortune bellow, r Too high for contempt, and for envy too low, r I On which I with prudence may hope to fubtili, I Should I be for my damnmllc dcßrint dilmifs'd. " In a rich, farming s (hall plead, I And D —r feel pulfrs, give physic, and bleed, * Wdere A—t the youths and the children (hall teach, I There may I be call'd, and there fettled to preach. J Not damning a man foe a different opinion, : I'd mi* with the Calvinift, Baptifl, Arminian, Treat each like a man, like a christian and brother, I Preach love 'o our Maker, ourselves, and each other. . I On a snug little farm I'd provide me a feat, j With buildings all simple, fubflantial, and neat, I Some (beep and some cattle my paflures to graze, I And a middlc-pric'd porey to draw my new chaise J r When I find it no longer good ktinf aloft, .I . 1 May a mild, rural nymph become tout of mi bnt; \ • Not fix'd, like a puppet, on fafhion's ftiff wires, 1 1 But'who can be genteel, when occasion requires; 1 Whofewcalthisnotmoney; whofc beauty's not paiat; , 1 I Not an infidel romp, nor a fourhearted faint; S I Whofereligion'snoi heat, and her virtue not coldness, I Nor her modesty fear, nor her wit manly boldness. i j Thul fettled, with care I'd apportion my time ' ITo my sermons, ray wife, to my garden and rhyme, 1 I To teach the untaught, and to better the bad, t ITo lauyh with the merry, and weep with the fad. ] , j At the feaft, where religion might be a fpe<9ator, , j Where friendftiip presided, and mirth was a waiter. _ I I'd fear not to join with the good huntor'd clan, ' ,^ n» gloomy place, \Vhere the unburied corpse *• of his father, that cannot be irtterred till the conclusion of this awful ceremony, '• awaits his arrival. There the elders expav tiate to him on the virtues and defefts of his deceased parent; describing, with pa negyric or censure, the meaiures that ex »• alted or funk the glory of his reign. " Yotf fee before you," fay they, " the end of '• your mortal career: the eternal, which suc ceeds it, will 1 be miserable or happy, in pro "• portion as your reign shall have proved a curse or a blefiing to your people." h t EXTRAORDINARY ENTERPRI7.E. s Cadwalader Colden, in his hijlory of the s Five Nations, gives the following remark e able tnjlance, of savage courage and perfe -3 verance in pursuit of revenge. s An Indian, named Pifkaret, one of the - captains of greatest fame among the Adi rondacks, with four other captains, set out for Trois-Rivieres in one canoe, each of > them being provided with three mufquets, 3 which they loaded with two bullets apiece, r joined with a small chain ten inches long ; f they met with five canoes in Sorel River, 5 each having ten men of the Five Nations on board. Pifkaret and his captains, as ■ soon as those of the - Five Nations drew ! near, pretended tor give themselves up fori loft, and sung their death song , then fud- j ; denly fired upon the canoes, which they re peated with the arms that lay ready lpaded, ■ and tore those birch vessels betwixt wind and water. The men of the Five Nations i were so surprised, that they tumbled out • of their canoes, and gave Pifkaret and his companions the opportunity of knocking* i as many of them on the head as they pleaf -1 ed, and saving the others to feed their re | venge, which they did, by burning them alive with the most cruel torments. This, however, was so far from glutting Pifkaret's revenge, that it seemed rather to give a keener edge to it; for he soon after under took another enterprize, in which none of his countrymen durst accompany him : he was well acquainted with the country of the Five Nations, and set out about the i time the snow began to melt, with the precaution of putting the hinder part of his snow shoes forward, that if any should happen upon his footfteps, they might i think he was gone the contrary way ; and, for further security, weot, along- the ridges and high grounds, where the snow was 1 melted, that bis track might be often loft ; i when he came near one of the villages of i the Five Nations, he hid himfelf till nijrht, i and then entered a cabin, while every body I was faft asleep. murdered the whole family, i fpeulti'S of thofi ly whom the re volution has been conduced, and whom alcnt e it has benefitted, he fays : n " Go, O you who hrlve conspired to k beggarize the honest man, fettle the impious calculation of your riches ; go, fee the vic tims that despair facrifices to yqu every day ; f- and read on the lank visages of those who' «- dill revolt at suicide, how much they curse i- you, how complete is the measure of your criminality ! You have dipped my foul in e gall ; it will no more be alive to the impref if iions of forgivenefs—it will break rather , than bend ! You have only left the neceflity - of doing wrong, or the resource of death to ' those who had not the insolent courage to , speculate like you on the lives ofyour fel e | low-creatures, for I will not fay yqtir fel "» low-citizens : Tots have no country J 7~ou e will never have any ! Tour intfrcfl is your e God ; arjd provided you have the'leifure to e drown yourfclves, without shame, without f bounds, without-delicacy, and without tad* in the wade and not of fuperfluouß things* ■ at the fame time that you hold in your hands - without pity articles of the firft neceflity, 1 you never trouhle yourfelvcs with what be , comes of the universe ; you do not even take J P™ns palliate your rapine ; 'you make f a trophy of it, and arfwer to the unfortu nates who cry and who accuse you, that - they ar£ fools, for not imitating you." i "It is then for you that the state has made war ; it is you who have profitted by the discredit of her paper, in. paying yortr - debts with what your unremitted exertions i have contributed to depreciate ; it is thro' you that the honest man is about to die, in being compelled to receive from you the means of subsistence for a day which mult r serve him a year." " Could any thing else be expeded when the dregs of the nation are uppermost ? Would he who h;»d known FtliWee formerly, recognize her to-daj > Would he recoiled, in the attire of a princess, the miserable ob jeft who was at the corner of the dreet ; if her hoarse voice, the thick (kin of her face and bands, the folly of her discourse, her ig noble manners and her insolence did not dis cover her through the rich disguise, with which (he is covered by speculation ? Would he know those furious revolutionids, those valets of every regimen, those felf-ftyled Spartans, in the gilded equipage which for merly belonged to their maftera; if they • had not preserved in their manner of living, and even in the choice of their *lothes, all their primitive taste ; if the force of habit did not sometimes carry them behind tfieir coaches, after having refpeafully. helped in the pToftitute, whojhinks so little.of herfclf, as to feN "them her favors ? 1 have.seen these diftraftiong ; I fee them still ! I grumbled at thembecyafe I to keep it to my felf : my country is covered with mud ; be cause I hear men, who call themfeives patri ots and philosophers, cry out that it fignifies little to government, in .whose- hands for tunes are placed, provided that.'.they exist, and that the government can aflefs its taxes. What then will become ofthe agein which we live, if robbery can become a source of public felicity ; if the guarantee nf property exists only for robbers \ if after having de molidied as immoral all great fortunes, it is neceifary for the state to rebuild them in the hands of thieves, at the expenee of eve ry thing honest ?" REMARKS. Such are some of the blefled That the revolution in France has not tended to the good of the people at large, is glaring to every perfijn who knows the general misery which prevails in that un fortunate country. The great body of the people have only changed mailers—have, in i eturn foi their former landlords, who were in general, polite, refined and humane, re ceived as mailer's a banditti of idle, lawless ruffians, at once brutal, unpoliihed, and un civilized. Ihe great estates formerly own ed by men whom a principle of honor re- ' drained within the bounds of moderation and benevolence, are now owned by the des perate unprincipled villains who have per verted the objed of the revolution, and car*. ried it to such an unheard of extreme. Property is gone out of the hands of honed men, into that of scoundrels ; and the poor of France, w|lo hardly own a An gle acre of the foil they cultivate, have by the glorir.us revolution, only be ome demo, cratic instead of feudal vaiTals. They have this additional mortification', that their pre iep.t brutal, unpolifljeJ and *nprincipled lords are deftitutt of that mild douceur, that refinement of manners, which makes even slavery itfelf supportable. It is a notorious fad, that the greater part of those immense estates which were ccnfifcattd in France, have'througli iniquitous laws, got into the hands of the most furious of the revolution ids, who have paid little or nothing for them, by means of a paper-currency depre ciated to almost nothing. lam convinced thattlie war owes long continuance to the rears of the n...rs of France and their partisans, of being dripped of their iic menfe and i!l-gottc» polTeilions, which they are fe ß fible will be taken from them on the •vyitofa general peace, and whith they