■ PHILADELPHIA, 5 TVF.SOAT F.rXNLVG, OGrogSR 17. ■ Health Office, Oft. 9, 1757. " That th<; cSnfulting and v'- £ting phyficiatis be infomed, that the Board Live i.t in contemplation to publtlli on Mon ti iy next, and on every Monday following, during the prsfent calamity, a state ofthe health ot the City and Liberties, including the public Hdfpital: they therefore request I the coufulting and visiting physicians to fur i ilifn us particular a return aspolfible of the patients under their care, who art alFcdted | with the prevailing fever." r iillfalth Office, Oft. 16, 1797. '*■ The Board ot Infpedtors having for the information of their (by the foregoing resolution of the 9th inft.) called 0:1 the physicians connciSted with the Hqalth Officer fqr a state of the Hospital, .md a ge neral ilateof the sick under their care. The following is the result. Do&ors Dufiield and Stevens, consult ing physicians, state", that there are now in the Hospital Fifty-four patients, thirty-two of whom are affected with the prevailing fe ver, and Twenty-two are convalescents Poftors Church, Coxc and Lei'b, visit ing physicians, state, that since the 9th 6 inft. they have been called to Ninety-one patients, 1 wenty-five of whom have been ier:t to the hospital, four have died, twenty eight arc convalescents, the remainder'(till id ; most of those patients were in the low er part of the city and Southwark—five on ly in thi* Northern Liberties. The Infpettors of the Health-office at an -early period of the prevailing fever, re commended to the indisposed, an immediate application for medical a:d, the Infpeftors \ lament that this recommendation has not been generally attended to—the sick and those who have the care of them, ftiould epnfi.ler that even one day's delay may be at tended with lerioud cohftquences- From thls cause the mortality has probably been much incrtafed in the city and liberties, but most certainly in the hospital, where many have been admitted in the lift ftajre oP the difcafe. Published by order of the Board, WM. MONTGOMERY, Chairman pro t*m. The Phifadelphia, Atfwn, and 7 ucltrton MAIL STAGE. rHE proprietors leg lta-or to irform tie public, that t/j/y e rfhiblrfbed a Stage between Philadelphia, Atftcn, Hampton, SpeelweU, and Martha Fur' nace, IVadhng 'pi'oer flitting mill and the town of Turf* erton, in TSeir-Jerfey, to.go orr.t a week, and are provi* ded with I !>erfir, a cow fori able carriage, and a tare ful driver, for tbf conveyance nf the mail, passengers, and goods. The Stage nil? fart every Tburfday, at 10 0 c ock, A. M. from Aft . Daniel Cooler's Ferry, and lodge that night at foel Bodine's, as Longacoming ; and on orf at 6 o x clock, P. M.. arrive at Ctlek E Vanj'k, inheefer, in Tucker ton * dijiant from the city S4 miles, (from tie Atlantic 6, and from the F.af Groufmg 'Plains 7 miles/ nvbere are goei accommodation t for tra veller s % end where ate commodious and fafe passage boats I pravin'ed /•» ennvey fa/fingers to Capt. William War rington's bcufe, on Tucker s IJland, adjoinining the At -lat tic, where are aeconmo4at\prts y and a convenient place to bathe ; the fportfqian ti'bo ivijhet to regale. himfelf tsith few liny andjijhinfi, may at this place be highly grs tifLi' there being at aim of every fcafin of the year foxol andffo it abundance.—The Stage an its return, farts from the aforefiii C Evans's in Tucker ton, every Tuef £day. at 6 ('civci, A. As brexkfajls at John Bodine's, at Wading R ver Bridge, lodge that night at Longacoming, and at l o'clock, P. JU. on Wfdnefday, arrive at the aforesaid Cooper's Ferrym It is presumed that no route of an equal difance 'will be less expenftve Or ftrnijh the tra veller ivitb a greiiter variety of amusement y as be in ill not only have a pleasant fail to tie atlant.c from Tucker• , ton, but have the euriojfty of feeing on the rosd thither a , number of capital- furnaces and forges, and one flitting , mill, in complete order, and at work ; gentlemen, too, rvhf j are owners, or faSlors, of any of the aforefjid iron works, j are solicited to encourage and support this sage (by wh V> 4 they can he so well accorrnno>la'ed) the continuance f tvbicb will much depend on their aid. The rates of passengers 3 and baggage are as flloivs : For a passenger from the j afore fa id Dar iel Cooper's Ferry to Tuckerton, including ( 14 lb of hdggage. Two Dollars ; for way passengers Per mile. Four Cents—lso lb. of baggage rtjual to a pas fenoer. Poßage of letters, newspapers, tSV. will be agreeably to law. N. B. The mail crosses from the Old Ferry. ( - THO MAS WARDLE W Co. I Tuclerton, Sept. 18. larvtf ( The Norfolk Mail STAGE. THIS Stage ftam from the GEORGE Tavern, r at the corner of Second and Arch Streets, in Philadelphia, cv- ry Tuesday, Thursday, and Satur- f day, at 3 o'clock, in the n orning ; arrives at vqr the firft day, at Snowhill the second day, at (: Northampton Court House the third day, and on i the morning of the fourth day the passengers find c a fafe and eomfortable packet to convey th«m to Norfolk. A packet leaves for Northampton feiry, every ThurHay and Saturday, and the F Stage starts from this ferry so/ Philadelphia, every j Wcdnefday and-Friday j'putsup at Sncyvv j Hill the firft ni£tot, at Dover the ad night, and ar-> r rive« In Philadelphia in the evening of the third day. ' F Thediftance on this rsute, between Philadelphia > and Norfolk, i« Jo milei less than on any stage route t between those placet Too much cannot be said in favor of the road, f which is most excellent indeed. The proprietors willingly engage to return the whole fans to any e paflengtr, who, after having performed thi» route, \ •will fay that he ever travelled in a stage for the fame 1 distance, so good a road in America. { Anguft ti. dini.eotf. Th« Medical Ledtures i In the Univrrfity of Penniylvania, are ' poned until tile la!t in November e next. t rc Oiflober 14. aay>-4w c The Health-Office e IS removed to th« City-Hall, and is Ijgpt open t night and day, where persons having basin fs may apply. W.M. ALLEN, Health-Officer. Q Sept. 4. dtf , No rIC £7 p THE Offices of the Department of War are for the«p£cifcnt removed near to the falis of the Scuyl- 1 kill, on the Ridge Road. September 4. dtf >' r: - . Public Notice is hereby give-;, ' " THAT the Cotumiflioners for the Djftriit of , Southwark h'-ivs removed their hall to the house formerly occupied by Samutl Gofl", in ChriiW-.tn at 'g the corner of Fittb ttrees. Oil. 2. e) Xijc ©ajette. PHIL AD EL PHIJ, , TUI'.SDAY EVENING, October 17. Aurora in on the nep*o ci'ation at Lisle between, France and Great ?' Britain pbferves, " Happy will it be for le our country if it breaks ofF, for then France S will the mote readily accommodate matters with us"—As much as to fay, that right and r " j»Ji" have nothing to do in the adjustment ,of the finTerenfes between the two coun •d tries, so far as refpedsthe conduft of France. 4fhii is an avo\val which wa6 hardly to be expedted on the jiart of the faaion, who l? haVe always advocated the eaufc of that na tion in oppofitioa to the intereftt of the ;cl United States. :h _ c " Portrait of a Democratic-Republican Sena ,e tor—by a mtujltr The Aurora speaking of the late eleftion of a senator fays «' it is a circumstance alcr jft ln unprecedented"—and '• that the republican 0 candidate Israel Israel is one of those e- democrats nmft obnoxious to the fadtion ; vice-president of the deqjocratic focietv, an t- enemy to the prominent features of the'fede ral government, in a word, according to the 'e indufti ions calumnies of his adversaries a n dilorganizer, a bloody jacobin, a fomenter the western infurredtion, every thing in II politics th tis vile and violent." So much for negative qualifications— now for pofi -- .live—.He is, continues the Aurora, " a plain man, of natural good sense, poflefTcd t of none of those brilliant attradtions which :- | a polished education gives. But he was the e champion ehofen foi the occafioa by the de s mocrats.; that was enough, he met their t support, and has been carried into the legif d lature against the utmost exertions of their d adversaries in favor of B. R. Morgan ; a young man who has been constantly inpub -1 lie life, the foul of the party in the senate ; 1 a person of hqndforfie acquirements, and as t a man equally refpeftable with Ifravllfrael." Surely, as the hxifbandman said of the tares s among his wheat, so may the democrats fay of the writer of the above, an enemy hath Jane this. " Did you not moralize this fad fpeSaele K* Oh ! no : we were busied in better fp?culation«, and did not find time to reflefl that the awful visi tation which ft ill lingers over our demoted heads, was not ordained without by that being without whose notice not a -sparrow falls to the ground. In the old world, the Almighty hath ehofen to visit with revolution and murder, a land long pr«- ■ eminently 'dillinguifhed as a " gay feat of mirth and ease," luxury ind rev.lry, and riot, debauch ery, and eoiruption. and every species of abomina tion. And this modern crowd •( Sodoms and r Gomorjahs now fjnarti under his avenging hand daily ripenirg by accumulating ignorance and athe. , ism, and new infulti continually heaped to the af toni 1 cd fit ies, for that lad tremendous crash which shall hurl into ncn-emity the filthy mass of far s ealottifm. "Do we not moralize this fad fpedta ele ?" Oh ! no ; for, drunk with the new wine of modern philosophy, we are daily inporting from this land of blasphemy, the feeds of death and patriots, «f the new growth, who know not vir tue nor honerty, are exalted to the high pod of 1 honor, in (lead «f that of forty cubits whereon di ed an ancient enemy of the Jews. And is tty» the course whereby we seek to fliun the chaAifemcnt of an avenging God ? Shall we behold the hand of the Lord, avenging himfelf ' upon iniquity in a foreign land, and must we seek to fhiin ourfbareof ehaflifement, by aping thofo , crimes and importing those blaiphemies which in duced there the (hadening rod ? " ] If the Almighty, in pmiilhment for our iniqoi ] tits, "and the apathy wherewith we have looked on I the flrugglc. of the faithful, hath ehofen, by visit , mg us with peflilrnte, fire or famine, to exempt us from those othir more terrible fesurges, revolu tion, atheism and jacobinism, comparatively for - ' tunate will have bien our lot. But if, while we ( fmart.uader the lash of pedileoce and fire, we give 1 loose to wild and demoniac debaucheries, surely a | double eurfe will be our lot. Let us, then, moralize this fad fpe&aele; and by a right train of"reflexion, and an aSive and ufe ful improvement, turn our energies to the meant ot warding off the desolating Ihock. TIMON. J 2 The faftipn which has so long disgraced , our country by its publications in the jaco- p bin gazettes, continues itslaold and abandon- c ed attacks on our independence and felf r government. In the Aurora,of th* 14th t inft. we find a frclh inltance of perfidious . counsel. Encouraged by the success of for-' a mer propositions and hints to the French c govern ment, by which the United States f have fuffered so severely, a new idea is thrown s out by these internal traytors in the follow- { ing terms, the impudence of which is exceed- ; ed only by its folly. 1 From the Aurora. c " But little reliance, we think, is to be placed on the generality of the French in ad justing the terms of accommodation. We v have given them a leflon of thejiolly of {- national gratitude, genero/ity, is'c. they will ; profit by it. But we may expedt justice n from them. In their terms of adjustment E they will throw the burden on those who gave them the blow. The federalilts of a the ,east may look to their tonnage and fifh- v eries. Perhaps the French Weft-Indies t will be thrown open for the importation of t Virginia and other wheat in French or I southern bottoms; so of rice, and of tobac co for the supply of their continental pofTef- p lions. Such a regulation would be less dif- t liked to the south and much more so to the , east, than the 70 ton article in the British r treaty. Other regulations equally benefi- v , cial to the southern and injurious to the eaftem states may be adopted by them„and t; this they can do by, or without treaty. n They can also lay such a duty on the fifh b of the Ealtern Itates as to oblige them to f ( keep much of it at home which is new im- a ported. \ Our federal and yankee president, and fe deral and yankee chief justice ; all ourfede- b ral yarikees, and yankee federalilts, would v , think this very ill, not to be treated by the ft French as if they were friends. But will / they go to war, because the French chufe to /, grant an exdufive advantage to their foyth- 0 era brethren ? They will cot be so ungtne- b - I rous, or unjust. Yet, tlx? iSduftrious, New- England men need not fufer by fifth an. ar rangement. He can move with his capital I to Virginia, enrich himfclf, ani that state by his industry, convert it to federal I come a democratic republican himielf. I Perhaps We (hall however- hear as much I noise, (hould the French make this diferim- I inatiort between eaftc-rn and southern states, or I as took place when they made a diftinftipn ce I between the people and the executive ; tho' ™ I that lucky and just diftinflion saved us from 1 I tbe horrors of war. But what then ? The nt I French can surely grant favours to whom n " they please, aad none have a right to take. e - oiTeijpt in not (haring in them, provided 3e I they receive no injury. A division of the 10 Union would then once more be broached a " by the federali/Is of the east. Butrfhey may le quiet their heartburnings by persuading I their friends, the Britim7 to open to them I their ports in the Weft-Indies on the fame I terms that tbe French may chufe to grant to the foutherri states. This they can rea dily do, as the British are not at all attached ' I to an increase of their navigation." fe From the (New-Tori) Commercial Gazetit. > j The following extrafts from a French n I in answer to Paftoifet, will (hew =" j what opinions are entertained >n France, re le I United States. In answer to a j the objeftions darted against a rupture with ■ r France, the writer fays » The United " j States have no marine force—fcarcely can I their revenue cutters, armed with a mulket, check the clandestine trade—Congress, two j I years ago, directed thirteen frigates to be ° I Jjuilt, and not one is launched. Their bed marine officer, commodore Gillon, e dead two years—their other sea and land ~ I officers have an honorable sentiment -of at .r tadnunt eternal to France. Mod of the mas " I ter» of their vtfTels are intrepid, but not well I (lulled ; bold, but addidled to drong liquor. a I The revolted colonies formerly could uot» ' have maintained their independence, but by ! the land and sea officers furni(hed them by » the French' government, and by the purchaf#' of veflels and ammunition in 4775 in France 5 —by France declaring war against England r in 1778—by the support of her fleets, the J transport of her armies, thejunftion of Sp«n and Holland, to the holy coalition against against the British Leopard. Tn (hort, they are indebted much for their independence, to '• j the unpardonable fault of Burgoyne and Cornwallis, or of their indrudlioni, which r required them to advance their armies in • land, indead of menacing and scouring the I eoadt. ' No sooner wa» their independfence ac -1 I knowledged, than their regular troops were ■ di(banded—their forts levelled and dedroyed ' I ~—The forts on the fca board were rebuilt I ,n '794> they confid only of simple re- I doubts of light ejirth, very easily dedroyed, I and whose cannon can serve no purpose but to fire evening and morning guns, falutcs, I and to celebrate the (houts of liberty. I In the year 1794 (amidake for' 93) the I yellow fever ravaged in Philadelphia; in 1795 I fijes dedroyed the one half of the marine I cities. The coWinet of St James maintains 1 j constantly in America, a horde of incendi- ] j aries, as it keeps in pay ,in France, cut- ' I throats, chasseurs, emigrant and turbulent I prieds. Every tide wafts from Europe a convoy of emigrants, dedined to the western i I parts of America, who are extended already t Ito the Mifliffippi. In this mature of peo- c pie, of whom one in twenty is rich, the red 1 I poor, there can be no public spirit—no nat I tional character. The French republic has > lon her fide the most numerous part of the t I United States, the cultivators, who are a/1 I I adorers of liberty. While England counts r Io» her fide, the nursery of peerage, cotnpo- v I fed of rich planters, of avariwous merchants ; r I the slate holders and pardoned refugees— j I that is, the Canaille by excellence. The re- t I fult of the eleftion for president has demon- c I drated this troth. p I The Executive Directory, if they know f I how to use their means, and choose proper I agents, of T tlIS is precisely a conjuration, with this the difference, that we are sure the words of the conjuror can do neither good nor harm, rcrc but we are sot sure whether the preventa •ing tive may not do more harm than good. In iuld another paper we find the old doftrine of the Animalcule revived, and that the yellow ne- fever is occasioned by myritds of these float to- , ing in the air. Here, instead of the great ike j demons of former ages, we have legions of raa- small ones, only that thf latter, {ike the Ge | nii and Fairies of the Orientals,,are mortal, han The doftrine, however, leads the Writer we ban speak of, to assign to his cures the most ex lim traordinary recommendation perhaps ever of given, viz. that they are dtllru&ive to animal ires. life. In like manner the doftrine of conta hat gion, ptitrefaftion, effluvia of any kind, or ate in short any thing beyond the reach of our Tial senses, leads to an unknown empirical kiud :di- of remedies, which mult be disgusting to a patient ; and it is absolutely neceflary that bp- the patient have confidence in his phpfician, s— or he will never obey him. of Thus much fur the pra&ice of quacks;, . we mull now coiifider that of the regular pie physicians who have adopted in the disease we speak of, methods not only different, but lim a! most entirely opposite. As the writer of his this paper is no physician, he pretends not iif- to determine any thing coneerningthemodes fer of cure. He lays it down !fs a maxim, that no physician hath any interest in killing or on- injuring bis patient ; neither does he believe vill that any physician would perfifl in a mode the of praftiee which experience fiicwed to be al- pernicious. The design of this paper is to lan shew that patients having once called a phv. eing p- cured by methods seemingly the most op id poGte and unaccountable. JQr. Hillary, ia ;h a treat ife on the diseases of Barbadoes, men ill tions the cafe of a furgeop't mate, who by ? ly intemperance and lying abroad all night had m got the yellow fever in a very severe manner, er but was cured by qierely drinki.;g a large n. quantify of warm water, till the enormous er quantity of bile which irritated his stomach H- was thrown off, and afterwards taking a few n- doses of laudanum.. It is a well known ly (lory of a diflipated gentleman in Jamaica, i- that being deemed past hopes of recowry in Jt a yellow fever, he invited his bacchanalian - companion, to have one more liberal potati p- on with him for the last time. Only one o is beyed the summons. The sick man found ic hiwfelf invigorated by the liquor he fwallow i- ed, drank all the night, and was thus cured re of his fever. L.afily, it ha» been mention ed in the newf-paperi, that a person near in Charleston, infefttd with the yellow fever, h and past hopes of recovery, was cured by a- rolling among tar, which inveloped his a- whole body to a considerable thickijefsi and [y could cot be got off afterwards without dif e ficulty. d Thus it seems to be established as a faft n that the mcft pestilential diseases may be cu« n red by opposite methods ; and if we know that the plague may be cured by blood-let :- ting and by fweatitjg, that the yellow fever >, may be cured by exjiaufting and excellively 0 debilitating Operation of vomiting, as well e as by the most violent ftimulants,why (hould i- it be incredible, that it may be cured by d Dr. Rush's method »f blood-letting and ■, other evacuations ? TIT? cafe of the tarred il patient may indeed be said to favqr the dot trine of Invifihles, aud the effluvia will in r ftantly be thought of; but by a proper con federation of the nature of the. disease, it is f hoped that it may be accounted for upon much more obvious principles. In the yellow fever, the mere colour of t the flcin ought not to be an objeft of terror, d as it takes place in other diseases, and the e catife is well known to be a dilfufion of the i- bile through the bo'dy. The causes by - which such a difi'ufion may, he made are 1 known to< be thjte at lcaft, and perhaps I : there may be more. One is an obflrutlion c; in the pafTages of the bile from the gall. f bladder to the inteftine;> .which isfhe cafe J in jaundice.—Another is by an excHTive and s irregular motion of the body, as in sea sick s ness; for this, when Jong continued and- vi t 1 olent, makes the patient quite yellow.— j The third is in cafe of violent heat and long f i. continued acceleration of the blood through , ; the liver, accompanied with a generdlo-dax , ' ation of the body, which I suppose thciin- • i j mediate cause of tin yel'ow fever, when - ; combined with that disease which American ' pfo'ficians call fynochut. In «tht cafei of' v I jaiwdice and sea-sickness the of rht - j bile is evident, but in hot weather aifySivi - crease of the secretion or diffufion of this i | fluid is apparent. By-attention, how - ever, it may be discovered. In the begin ning of jauudice, before the flua is tinged, ft .'J