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THE General EJeflion will be held at the Com miftioners' Hall, in the of Southwark, at the house lately oecupicjl by Mr. Samuel Goff, at the corner.of i'ifth and Christian ftreeti, near the PafTyunk road. OS. 1. ' Public Notice is hereby given, THAT tke Commifiloners for the nift,ri6t of Soufhwark have removed thrir hall to the houfa formerly cccupied by Samuel Goff, in Christian at the corner of FifA street. Oft. 2. THE MAYOR'S OFFICE ~ IS KEPT, FOR TBI PRESENT, AT THE CITY HALL. . c «ft ?. • A Stated Meeting OF the Pennsylvania Society, for promoting the Abolition of Slavery, &e. will be held at the ufualphce, on Second Day next, the 2d of the >oth Month (OOnber) at 7 o'clock in the even, ing. BENJAMIN KITE, Sec'ry. 9th Month, i7Q'J- The Members of the Society For the relief of poor, diftrefled masters of (hips, their widows an 1 children, are desired to attend at a Quarterly meeting, on Monday, the 2d day of October, 1797, at the Carpenter's Hall, in the Court going up to (he old United States Bank, at fix o'clock in the evening. Sept. 31. M E D I C I NES. OF every kind. n«ctffary for the Cck ; slfo, Sa go, Barley, and Oatmel. for diet drink, will be delivered gratis, during the present contagion, to thvfe who arc unable to pay for it, at rfi)»TE«'j Laboratory, No. 114, South Second Street. ~Tvf:E DXc rN ES. THE Poor who may ur.d it inconvenient, from distance, to make use of Mr. Hunter's truly me ritorinju offer, will be supplied with medicine*— sago, barley, oatmeal, Ac. by ap-lying at tlie fubferiber's (tore. No. 36, Market-street. ROBERT S. STAFFORD. The Health-Office IS remorrd to the City-Hall, and i» kept open night and day, where persons having bnfin- ft may apply. Wan. ALLEN, Health-Officer. Sept. 4. dtf NOTICE. THE Office* of the Dejfcrtment of War are for the present removed near to the Falls of the*Scuyl kill, on the Ridge Road. September 4. dtf Bank of North America, September Bth, 1797. Monday next the Notice, for all Notes er VJ'Bills payable at thisßank,which fall due on that and the ensuing 6 days, will be served on the Pay el's: And the like Notices on every Monday, till the further orders of thr, Dire&ors.—Perfons wi(h ihg to deposit N»tes or Bills for ColleSion, which jire to fall due within the week, must themftlves Undertake to give notice to the Payers. dtf Insurance Company of the State of Pennsylvania. THE Office will be kept until further notice the Srfiool Hoyfc in The Crtmpiny still retain the room in Chefnut, above Seventh street, where a perlon will attend to re ceive and give anlwers to applications, svery day from lo until 1 o'clock. Sept 13. d3t2awtf Red Port Wine. Just arrived, by the brig Iris, capt Rhodes, from Oporto, Red Port Wine in piped, hhds. and quarter caflcs 6c. cwt. Cork, for sale by Philips, Cramond, & Co. f(TM~SOLD VERT CHEAp r A Light W GGON almost new, with a frame— and a pair of harpefs ■( English collars) has never j been used—price 90 Dolls. ; A Horse 16 hands high, ftven years old—and a > new chair, with a falling top and harness 320. j Enquire No. 331; Market-ftrcct j : Augufla4- Iw Xije (gazette. ' PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY EVENING, October 2. At a meeting of a number of the citizens of Philadelphia, held at the Union School House in G ;rm?.ntown, on Saturday, the. 30th day of September, 179" >— It was agreed unanimously, to recom mend the following gentlemen as suitable charafters to fill tlje offices which precede their refpettivc names : Member of the Senate of the Jlate of Penn sylvania, for the diftriß composed of the city and county oj Philadelphia and county of Delaware : Benjamin R. Morgan. Members of the House of the City of i hilitdetphia. George Latimer Robert Wain Jacob Hiltzheimer Lawrence Seckel Joseph Ball Francis Gurney. Members of the Sfletl Couutil of the City of Philadelphia : Godfrey Haga Henry Pratt James Read Franyis Gurney. Members of the Common Council of the City Of Philadelphia. Matthias Saddler Michael Keppele James Todd Walter Franklin Thomas Parker, Thomas Allibone Geofge Pennock James S. Cox Edward Pennington,Henry Drinker, Jun. Henry Wharton, Caspar W. Morris Joseph Hopkinfon Thomas P- Cops Thomas Greeves Levi Hollingfworth Conrad Gerhard Lawrence Herbert Gk'eon H. Wells George Fox. Published by order ps the Meeting, HENRY PRATT, Chairman. JOHN HALLOWELL, Sec'ry, m Two vcflels havejuft arrived from Bo.ir deaux. The one has had a long passage—. pafiage of the other not known. MR. fenvo, In your paper of last evening, I read a paragraph of furpriling mortality at the house ps Job Whitall, at Red Bank : it 1 appears from the account there given, that they all died on the 25th instant, which is not correft, and at the house of Job Whit inftead of James Whitall, which mistake I think it proper to correft.—James Whit all's wife died the 22d instant—his son Job the 13th —grandson the 19th —and grand daughter, Sarah Whitall, the 20th, aged 19 years, whose early loss is deeply felt by her numerous friends and acquaintance ; for in her were centered, in an eminent degree, all those virtues which ornament the fait sex. Nrw Jersey, Sept. 27, 1797. G. 1 The following summons, couched in the true French style, was sent two or three years ago, to the governor of Bencoolen, an English settlement in the Eaft-Indie6. IN THE NAME OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. The citizen lean Marie Renaud, com mander in chief, of the naval forces of the French republic, to the eastward of the Cape of Good Hope, To THE GOVERNOR OF BeNCOOLF.N. I fend you a boat, and an officer directed to treat with you for the ransom of the place which you command. lam matter of this Coast, and I can land 1,500 men who would put every thing in fire and blood. Make your reflections with the fhortelt delay, or I bring my vefTels near, and I will not an swer for the mifchiefs that may result from it. One hundred and fifty English prisoners, that I have on board jny squadron, will re main security for the good or bad treatment that you /hall use to the men that I fend to you. On board the French republic's frigate La Prudente, at anchor in Bencoolen Roads, the 10th February, 1794, and the second year of the French republic. (Signed) RENAUD. Remarks of eminent persons on Temperance,&c. Soon in the lufeious feaft themselves they loft, And dra k oblivion of their native coafi ; Instant her circling wand the Goddrfs waves, To hogs transforms them, and the stye receives. Cotvley. In proportion as luxury in creased, the life of man was abbreviated : the seven kings of Rome reigned longer than the firft twenty emperors. Addifon. It is said of Diogenes, that meeting a young man who was going to a fealt, he took him up in the street, as one who was running into imminent danger, had he not prevented him. Anacharf.s. This celebrated Scythian philosopher being alk«;d how it was possible a person might contrail a to wine, answered, by beholding the indecencies of the drunken. Cicero. Temperance is the source of great peace and tranquillity to men, for it brings their desires and aversions under the laws of reason. Comoro. Of all parts of a feaft, that which a man leaves does him the mot good. Cadogan, m. d. However common it may be for men that fuffer to complain of the evils of life as the unavoidable lot of humanity, they are the sole authors of their mi (tries ; mod of them, however, he affirms they acquire. All chronic diseases, molt undoubtedly, men create by their own in digencies ; nor will this physician allow of hereditary gout. Epicurus. Give me but bread and water, and I will dispute the point of felicity with Jupiter himfelf. Hippocrates. If p man cat little and drink little, he brings r.o deadly di order upon himfelf. Hoffman. Intemperance may properly be turned the executioner of mankind, (gene ris humani carn sex.) Plato. To eat to faticty twite in one day, and never to lleep alpne—This is a Way of life in which no psrfort vfill ever become wife. .. ' » . Price t m. d. The black catalogue of diseases which ravage human life is the off fpring of luxury and falfe refinements of civil society, intemperance and debauchery | lay the foundations of numberless fuffer j ' n g 6 » and terminate in premature and mife rablc deaths. t 1 Pythagoras. Dmnkennefs is the study .of madness.' Choose the best kind of life, ' and custom will focn render it permanently J agreeable. Seneca. Inebriety is neither more nqr less than a voluntary insanity. Socrates. Nature's real wants are few, but the cravings of fancy are infinite. Temple, Sir William. O temperance ! thou virtue without pride and fortune, with out envy, thou best guardian of youth and fnpport of ol(J age, tjie precept of retsfon as well as of religion, and'phyfician of the foul as well as the body. Zeno. A wife man will drink wine, but will not fuffer himfelf to be intoxicated by it. This Celebrated philosopher was high ly pleased with the morality of the cynics, butdifgnftedwiththeir immodesty and impu dence. He therefore instituted a new fe&, which from his teaching in a porch or por tico were styled Stipes ; hi# reputation soon spread all*t>ver Greece, and he became, in a short time, the mod distinguished philoso pher in that country. Zeno lived to the age of ninety-eight, without ever being at tacked by any diseases. He taught philo foghy forty-eight years, and died in the hun dred and twenty-ninth Olympiad, and was regretted by all who were friends to virtue and learning. The Atheniaus caused a tomb to be ere£ted sacred to his memory, in the ftiburb of Cararifica, and by a public de cree gave him a crown of gold, and caused extraordinary honours to be paid to his mem ory, as the decree expresses it, he perfeftly excited the youth under his care .to virtue, and always led a life conforma ble to the precepts he inculcated and taught. —■ n ■ *wv->—fVM.'miwi'iwwr.iiwonww I ft D V'yf. CALCUTTA, November 16, 1796. The French frigates were repairing at Mergui, they had sustained in the late action. Their loss is reported to have been *v?ry considerable, both in the number of their killed and wounded, as well as in the injury done to their hulls and rig ging. Two of the frigates were completely dismasted. Admiral Sercey intended to have gone to Batavia ; but the dibbled state of his squadron rendered it indispensably neceflary to bear .up for a nearer port, in or der to effect some urgent repairs. The detachment of Native Infantry order ed to be formed at Midnapore, are to remain at that station, till the progreflion of political affairs to the southward, shall determine the impending question of peace or war. Without pretending to better means of judging than our neighbours, we are decid ly of opinion that there will be 110 war. The best reason for thinking Tippoo paci fically inclined at present, is, that it is his best interest to continue in peace. Yet, if contrary to all reasonable expectation, war should become unavoidable, it is highly fa tisfadlory to know and to reflett that the English goverument is fully competent and prepared •pads import ere morem, Par cere fubje&is, et deb el I are fafter bos. t We cannot too much admire the genius of that philosophy, which teaches us to feel with luch perfeft composure, or rather 10 feel not at all, for the distresses of others- In a bosom, for instance, whose pafiions are not dignified by the absolute controul of rea son, the slaughter of twenty thousand human beings, might awaken a spark of companion or invite a fyrapathetic tear, for the fuffer ings of widows, or helpless orphans, or of families bereft of all their support. But how vain and ridiculous would such sensibili ty appear in th« eye of that superior wisdom which, in the happiest style of pleasantry, difcovcrs even in the death of twenty thou sand men, in the fufferings of their friends, nothing more than a source of jest, from which we may be ingeniously provided with les veritables bonnet touches, of the Ortolan kind. Oath in Evidence. The witnefljk-iwears, fays Dr. Paley, ' to speak the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, touching the matter 111 question.'—Upon which it may be observed, that the designed concealment of any truth, which relates to the .matter, in agitation, is as much a viola tion of the oath, as to teftify'a positive falfe hood ; and this, whether the witness be in terrogated to that particular point or not ; for when the person to be examined is sworn upon a voire-dirc, that is, in order to en quire, whether he ought to be admitted to give evidence in the caufc at all, the form runs thus : 1 You shall true answer make to all such questions as (hall be aflied you ;' but, when he comes to be sworn in chief, he swears— ' to speak the whole truth,' without re straining it as before, to the questions that shall be asked ; which difference shews that the law intends, in this latter cafe, to re quire of the witness that he give a complete and unreserved account of what he knows, of the fubjeft of the trial, whether the ques tions prapofed to him reach the extent of his knowledge or not. So that if it be en quired of the \vitnefs afterwards, why he did not infovm the court so and so, it is not a fufScient, though a very common answer, to fay—' Because it was never asked me.' In refutation of the complaint of a paper of last week, that the Delhi* newspapers were not prpcurable here but via Bombay, we have been mofl obligingly favored with several of the latefl of the Delhi newspapers, received immediately from that capital. We regret extremely that we have been unable to prepare tranfltions a in time for this day's Mirror. We are sorry to find it confirmed that the recent death of the Nabob of Furtuckabad was iji confequer.ce of polfon adminiflered by his eldest ion.' Crimes of such atrocity, it is always painful to relate. Three of the Nabob's Wotften, who eat of the polfoned dishes, are also dead. The late Nabob's, second fyn has been placed upon the Mufnud. * The celebrated capital of the Great Mogul— plundered ly Nadir Scliah. To the CONDUCTOR of the MIRROR. Ecce, Crifpinus minim? me provocat. Behold the Crispins •u'a'untirjrly appear, The Goose *// champion* 'yainjl the hundredth yrar. SIR, The question Ivben will the eighteenth cen tury end ? was firfl proposed here month ago, since which time the of it has set many of his majesty's loyal fub je£ts by the ears. What a pity it was not darted to the good people of England two or three years ago, ; it might amuse them fully as well as politics, and though probably With equal danger to themselves, yet certainly with lefs danger to the state. But 4s we are very harmless politicians in Bengal, and as this question is agitated with a degree of warmth bordering on violence, by men even of the best education and the firft rate abilities ; and as hiftoriaps and chranologifts may be ranged 011 each fide as authorities without elucidating the fuhject ; I trust that some indulgence will be grant ed me, if by close reafqning, clear deduct ions, and flri£t analogy, I endeavor to an ftver the question, reconcile the contending parties, and afTert my own right to be a component part of the century, to which I only have the power of giving the name. I take it for granted that every person will allow the moment immediately after the nativity to have been the JirJl of the christian sera, that this firft moment and fif ty-nine more were the JirJl Uninute, that this firft minute and fifty-nine more were thp firjl hour, that this firft hour and' twenty three more were theJirJl day, that this firft day and 364 more were the JirJl year, and that from the begging to the end of it eve ry day might be faid to.be in the JirJl year—and that it could only be denom inated one ycaf-when every moment of it was completely past. Here then it evidently appears that JirJl takes precedence of one—lt was the JirJl year when palling, only when past. The next year was the second when- pasT ing ; and when past and added to the JirJl, they counted two years. The third year when past and added to the JirJl and second were counted three years. The Jixthyear when past and added to the 1 ft, 2d, 3d, 4th and sth, were counted Jix years ; and by the parity of reasoning the ninety Jixth year when past, and added to the ninety five preceding years were counted ninety Jix years, of course when the hundredth year was past and added to the preceding ninety nine years, one complete century had elapsed—which proves by the clearest de monstration that this century ends with the last moment of the eighteen hundredth year. To every man open to conviftion the a bove flatement will be fatisfadtory andcon cluGve—lt shews the absolute neceflity of employing ordinal numbers to denote the faffing or current portions of time in every xra that was since the beginning of the world, or tint will be reckoned until the end of time. It flu we that the only use of cardinal numbers 'when employed, for they are not necefTary simply to dtnote the units or complete ) ears that are past, but cannot ap ply to preitnt' current time—nor has the number emj loyed a greater reference to the last year of the series than it had to the firft. Still however the advocates for ninety-nine alTerl that cardinal numbers only were used in the computation of the christian; sera, be cause it was not computed regularly from the nativity, and only firft thought ps by Dionyfius, five hundred and sixteen years afterwards. But he could have veiy little trouble in reckoning the years past, he had only to count a hundred to every century, as we would count Gold mohurs, and the year in which he was doing so would molt certainly be an ordinal year, and denoted Jive hundred and seventeenth year, and the sera would go on regularly afterwards to the end of the world, had it not been interrupted by the present reforming fcepticks in chronology. The whole force of their argument goes to prove that we cannot fay the year ninety Jix till ninety jix be past (for they mak? it an adje&ive in the fingnlar number) and there fore that we continue to fay ninety Jix till nintty-feven be paft—fothat we must denote every occurrence which takes plaee in this current year as happening in last year, tho' past nearly ten months ago. An exTinple or two twill illuftratc this new mode of com putation ; for instance the Arrogant and Viftorious had an aftion with the French frigates on the eight day of September, beiijg the nine month of this ninetyjix year. And yet the aftion must have happened on the day before as day eight was past before it could be counted, and in the month before as month nine, was also past before it was count ed, in the fame manner that ninety-fix was past before it was so denominated. Again, I have written this defence of myfelf on this nineteen day of O(Sober, which was past last night, at twelve o'clock. This may be conlidered ps turning the fubjeft into ridicule, yet I d<?fy any man ot use cardinal numbers io denote current time in any other manner ; but if any one think he can, let him answer in cardinal numbers the following questions : In what year did our Gracious Sovereign come to the throne ? In what year did Lord Howe defeat the Freirch fleet ? On what day of <his month will term begin ? and by what names will the lawyers call it and the day after it ? Some would call the firft Zero day, and the next day, One, and find out by adding them that 0 and J would make Tn»o, Some however admit that tin's may be the Ninctj-fcvmth Tear, forgetting that the moment an ordinal number clcpreffed or tin- * "derftood is at all admitted, their whole fa bric tumbles to the ground. For the dif- i •PUte entirely hinges on the fmgle qutfticn. Whether the ordinal number iooth ■ Was made or not in the firft century to 'denote the twelve months intervening bet ween the inftartt which completed ninety nine years, and the instant which completed one hundred years ?—For the number of i years, days and hours computed by each par ty are exaaiy the fame. If Cardinal num bers alone were fufficient, no doubt their mode of computing a century wouldbeftriS ly cQireft ; for the twelve months mention ! tioned mil ft have been must have been called Ninety-nine, until rffte hundred years vvefe I completed. But we shall immediately fee ! that no cardinal number excepting the firlV, , can Apply to a single year, that all the Vcft being adjectives without a lingular number can only denote a plurality of years which in calculating an JEn are ccmpleated and past, or supposed to be' so. We cannot ! join'an adjective in the plural number to a fubilantive in the lingular, without grofV violation of gramaticaal concord. And it i* just as absurd to fay the year Ninety fix, as to fay the Man Ninety-fix, or the Ninety-fix, Calf, or Coofe. I instance these as substan tives in which the finguW is different from the plural in found, that the absurdity may appear in a more conspicuous point of view. Here then the neceflity of using ordinal numbers to denote present or current porti ons of time is evident. They afe adjectives that have no plural number, and can denote a lingle purtioit of time as present, whether it be a century, year, or day, .&c. and every number not only denotes the current j year, but also all the past years of the cen tury, Eighteenth Century denotes the cur rent one, and that seventeen had preceded it—ninety-ftxth year denotes the present year and that ninety five more are past, Tenth Month denotes the present, and that nine more of ithis year are past, and the nineteenth, the prefect day, and that eighteen More are alre-c'y past of this month. In this way we can date the tranfafliuns of everyyear without ambiguity or absurdity j even to the very moment of a occurrence happened. The action just now alluded to will again serve as an ex ample. It took place on the eighth day of the ninth month, of the ninety-fxth year of the eighteenth century. I may be told that JthappenedOneThou fand Seven Hundred and Ninety-fix Yeais, Eight Months, Seven Days, Eight hows and a half, after the Birth of Christ, but as it lasted near three hours, was it in the One hour, or the two hour, or the three hour, that Captain Clark was wounded j or fec<*/d, or third hour of the afiion ? Having now clearly proved the necaflity of denoting current years, &c. by ordfnil numbers, and (hewn the propriety of apply ing them exclusively to the composition of the Chrifu'an and every other -/Era, and de monstrated that where cardinal numbers are at all used, they must succeed the ordinal as regularly as night fuccecds day, viz, one fueceeds frjl—ten the tenth—fifty s thefftieth, and one hundred the huudreth.—Let us now try how far we are fupportsd by analogy— His Majesty calls this the 3stb year of his Reign—the Americans call it the 21 ft of* American Independence—the it the sth jmr of their Republic, all call it the 4th year of the present War.- And to conclude with the best authority, Doftor Johnson expressly asserts, that A. D. 1751, means in the seventeen hundred and fifty firft year from the birth of our Sa viour ; and would, I dare fay, if now alive, knock any man down, with his foh'o di&iofc ary, who could have the effrontery to dispute the rank in the Century, so jullly claimed by the ONE HUNDRED TH YEAR. , P. S. The Card in alia ns driven to theut moft ver<je of sophistical ratiocination, are now obliged to deny that time is ever present or pajfing. If so, there can be no time in which any thing can be done; thepoflis gone the Juture may never come; and it is only aftonifliing in what division of time they were able to advance such novel dodlrines. The Inftact in which our Savior m- •*} was-born. i Year past 1 As figure 1 mufl- be l_. " marked at the t-nd / > of the fijft year, so e- J figure 1 mutt he Year past a—— marked at the end, of S the second year. OK > Figure 5 ut the end of O" j the fifth year. . Do. 3 Figure 16 at the end J? of the tenth year, o 5 > Figure lea at the eni ; '5- ) of the hundredth Do. 4 year, & confequerrt* ■ t, } ly figure iSooat the os* f end of the eighteen J hundredth ytar. Do. j „S 1 i o 6 M w s* . ( 1 p t r : jfc i Do. 8 -■- \ I Do. 9 0 J ?5 I f # mL £r I J r" ■ Do. io I - - Si quid Novfti rcfttas t(lh Candidas i/nperti : Si non, his utere tnccum 7 W. Berhamvnre, Oil. an, *796. , . ~ H Excellent Bourdeaux Brandy I Ditto riitt ■> Claret isr.cafes Just received, and for Sale by Rtmnlf is Leech. H Air. ci. leWtf H
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