had too miv All tlic afiiftntiee t1
of art was ineffectual to favc him. si
" Fq» seven or right days, he experienc- r<
ed from time to time to time fijs of fiiffoea- !i
tion, which palled off with exceeding diffi- b
cnlty and uncommon agony ; the f.Tialleft rt
motion produced these fits. V efterday, a- k
bout lb in the evening, after having pafled J
a tolerable calm day, and Havinjjevcn appli- ,
ed to some bufmefs, his fuffermgs were re- V
doubled ; a dreadful fit of fuffocation took ti
from him the use of his ferifes, arid after fix E
hourj of indescribable agony he expired iq g
my arms. His body will be opened to-mor
row, In order to deltroy the report in circu- tl
lation, of his having been poisoned. On o
the day after to-morrow, he (hall be sent ai
from Wetzlaer with all due pomp, to be ti
carried to Coblcntz, where he will be in- p
terred by the fide of Gen. Marceau in the
Fort of Peter/burgh. '
" Health and Refpeft.
COUNCIL OF FIVE HUNDRED.
' 3 Vendemiaire, Sept. 24. a<
Malibrand said, " The hero, celebrated 1
by sb many exploits, by the battle of We if- p
femboiirg, the delivery of Lapdau, the sac- n
cess at Quiberon, the pacification of La- a
Vendee, and the lalt paiTage of the Rhine ti
Hoche, is no more. He whose heart is d
■tiot rent with grief, is not a Frenchman, a
Weep, Soldiers of Liberty, weep, Repub,- p
licans, over the death of this intrepid warri- p
or." He concluded by moving that a fu- u
tferal ceremony (hould beheld in the capital, S
and in ail the camps of the Republic,—Re
ferred to a Committee.
GENERAL HOCHE, ! ii
/ V TO THE ' ! C
Diretlors of the Journal de Paris. p
Wetzlaer, 2C.11 year. o
General Hoche* to Citizen Dufrrfu St. Lion, , v
Member of the Council of. Five Hundred, b
and Reporter of the Commjjpon cf the Camp- li
trailer of the Treasury. * 11
Citizen, 1 read in No. 1682 of a Journal > c
entitled, •' The French Republican," t{iat, ! ]
giving an account of th/alVufe of power j
committed as ycu fay by tiie M;|ita-y Au- ii
thorities, you have not scrupled to advance I
the following affertibris :
" TKe General of the army of the Sam- t
bte and Meufe has laid a contribution of d
3,725,000 livres, of wh'icn 219,400 only c
wert paid into the coffers of tin Payrr,alter f
of the Treasury, 736,6 o livres hive difap- r
peared in the hands of the ctat-major. The a
reft has bt;en paid into tha hands of a private c
agent, upon whom the general has given >
drafts to divers contractors."
I am that general whom you have dared, t
to represent in th' National Tribune not on- <
ly as a than who has aCted againftthe law, c
but also as a cheat who has defrauded his ]
brother soldiers of the pay that is due to t
them, As such I ought tb be punished. <
Before you published my name, you (
have done, was it not your duty to examine
the fafts ? Before you traduced an entire t
etat-major whejhave fought for the Repub- (
lie which yo\i are beginning to serve, was
it not your duty to inquire into the charac- ]
ters of my officers and myfelf ? Have you .
been deceived, or are you a deceiver ? Are s
you an ageitf of the faction that piirfue* e- ,
very man who has behaved honorably at the <
head of the armies, or are you only the dupe
of certain villains ?
These questions you will undoubtedly
answer. In the mean time here 4 are the
fafts : -
When I arrived at the army, the pay ot
the troops was several months In arrear.
An infinite'number of expencea were to be
provided for,-without which it was impot
fible to open the campaign. I provided for
them with the funds i f which I was then
depository, and I organized the conquered,
country on the left bank ?f the Rhine in
such a mariner as to enable us to draw from
• thence our fubfiltence, and a part of our
pay. • f
. After signing the preliminaries of peace,
the vifiorioa*-army wßs on the banks of
the Nidda and the Mein, in an indifferent
eouHtry, already impoverished by the armies
of th- Belligerent powers, who had occu
pied it for of fix year.. By an
arre'.e of the XOth Floreal, I laid a contri
bution of 3,725,000 livres. But upon the
representation of the inhabitants, who were
obliged to feed the army, and repair a part
of the claathing and equipage of the soldiers
whom the adminilt ration fuffered to go na
ked, yes, Sir, absolutely naked, I remitted
them a fifth part: therefore the sum of
2,980,000 livres remained tp be levied.
I have few papers with me. I have ne
ver been able to get from the pay matter an
enaft account of what he had received.-
However, I can prove, that down to the
30th Thermidor, there has been paid into
the chest, • ,
By the intermediary com- L, # s. a.
million charged with the
Administration of the
country on the left bank
of the Rhine, -1 - 962,303 4 9
That said commission has
now at its disposal - 100,000 o o
Of the contributions of the
righi Bant, - ' -
Drawn from the country in
four months and a half, 2,840,962 10 5
A sum of twelve hundred thousand livres
remained therefore to be paid in.
I "have the honor to whether you
think that a contribution can be levied im
mediately, at a season when the harvest is
itill (landing, in an impoverished country,
and in many parts of which the inhabitants
harrafled and ruined, have betaken them
lelres to (light. .
You fay that I have a private chest .
Where is it? Who is chared wit.l it J
Name him to me. You fay that I have giv
en drafts upon it to different contractors.—
Name <?ne of them : one to. whom 1 have
given a single crown* Can you be ignorant
that the contractors were the men who cri»
ed loudest again a my nomination to theTOi
r.iftry ? Can you bs ignorant that ior these
thre; months ai.d a half pall I have provided pc.
for the fuhlirtence of 50,006 men on the an<
rtght baiik of the Rhine, without the de- dr)
hvery, Ido not fay of money, but of any ab«
bons to the contractors ? And'this is the ble
reward of my economy ! I have pursued tie!
knaves arid flock-jobbers, and I am accused. cor
Just God ! bo'
1 would have given in qiy accounts to the of
War Miniiler, were it not for the perfecu- an<
tion,l have fuffered on my journey to Paris, boi
But now they are printing, and I intend hoi
giving them to the whole nation. all
I expeft from your candour an anffrer to ty,
the present letter, which I publilh by means, to
of the press. If the facts advanced by you
are true, I ought to be prosecuted the yo
tribunals. If you owe me a pei
public reparation. t bo
(Signed) L. HOCrtE. nal
I am
LONDON, September 28. j A(
The feccnd Baftivian national alTembly, ! elk
according to letters from Hague, dated the lift
15th inllant, have not 6s yet been aile to pu
proceed tp any business. Several of the in
members \who served in the fir'A alTembly,
and were ele£ted to the fecood, have pofi- foi
tively declined to a£t, or to fubferibe to the tat
declaration required. T'iey fay, that they ;be
are convinced, from experience, of the ira- inj
poflihility of forming, uyder the regulations pa
prcicribed, such a cynftitutinn as would be . res
acceptable to the people of the United , do
States, or conducive to their happintfs. : pr
September 30. i ini
I By the 6t'n article of U*** treaty of com- jit
; merce between this country and America, it j gr
j is agreed that in cases where our • merchants re!
I cannot ob.tain just debts due to them, or com- ed
penfation for loss or daifV ; e,fuih"ined in the ti?
ordinary eourfe of juflics, the t tited States wr
, will
but this proviliou is oi.iy tb <tend to such ty
loss as has been oecafioned by lawful jmped- m
' iments, and not to those caused by infolven- to
; cy. A notice to this elfe£t appeared in the b(
1 of- the 12th inft.
It was not WtlA-rtoknownthatthe French (ic
had contributed to the check which the wi
. Gogtifh fuffered at Tencriffe. We learn to- ro
! that the good genius of our allies had pr
thrown mofl a propis on their coafls for their
defence 150 men of the great nation. This yc
circumstance, as wonderful as it was unfore- :n
seen, very,much served to increase the shame a
of the repulsed English ; hut that which, ] th
above all) added to the combinations of a th
deftinv the mull romantic is, that Drouet ar
wa3 there.—Le Republicain. pi
By a report o<f the minister of police to so
the direftory, by them transmitted to the fu
council of 500, the completeexecution,with- m
out any exception of the law of the 12th an
Fruftidor, relative to the condemned depu- „
ties and to the emigrants and priests in gen- b)
end, is represented as necessary to the repose P
of the republic. br
Daunou i« appointed by the institute na- di
tional to pronounce a funeral oration in hon
or of general Hoche.
By a letter from an officer in the arp»y of
prince Charles of Anftria, an extraft of
which is given in the Annates Politique!, :t
appears that the prince of Conde is no long
er considered to be 011 good terms with the C
court of Vienna.
%\>% dftasette* /
PHILADELPHIA, ( '
MONDAY EVENING, - NOVEMBER 17.
A great numberof American vessels from J'
Europe have been parmitted to pass after ((
■ examination by Freifch privateers.
' 0
A Gentleman of this City has received r
1 letters from Barcelona, dated in September, '
, which inform that orders had been received !'
■ there by the Consul from the French Gov- j.
ernment againll capturing any more Ameri-
can vefTel* whose papers are regular. e
f \
I When Muir, Margaret, Skirving, Pal
-5 mer, and other turbnlept and restless dema- '
. goguts, were- transported to Botany Bjiy, 1
1 by the British government, or rather by a
decree of their fellow-citizens, after a can- j
= did trial, and molt elaborate defence, the
» Jacobin presses caused the woVld to ring >
t with complaints and criminations of what 1
s they declared to be a fcandakms and tyran- '
. nical aft : Nay, so greatly were they fcan
-1 dalized at this pretended abomination, that .
f they have not to this day ceased to reprobate ,
the aft. Contrafl thi3 aft of the British t
- government with a recent occurrence in 1
u Francejujlificd by the fame people, and def
_ pise their hypocrisy and falfehood.
o The commissioners appointed by the go- ,
vernor to carry into effeft the law for alle
l. viating the distress of the citizens of Phila
» delphia, and the suburbs thereof in conse
quence of the late calamity,
To the benevolent donors who came for
-9 ward to give relief to our fuffering fellow
citizens at one of those trying periods \thich
0 seldom happen in any country.
It is to you that we conceive it our duty
1 to address at this time ; riot only becanfe it
_ belongs to you to be acquainted with the
appropriation of your money that was en
-5 • trullcd to us as your agent 3, but likewise
;s ! to give vent to feelings of gratitude that are
! engraven on our minds, for the generous
iu ' and spontaneous supplies deposits d in our
hands, at a moment when our thoughts were
is deeply engaged to find out ways and means
f, '! to afford relief to about fix thousand diftreff
ts ed men, women and children, who had be
o- ; come objefts of our care, in consequence of
' having received fuppcit from the sum grant
_ led by the Legislature, which was entirely
> i expended by the eighth of Oftober: At
v- ' this junfture we called on our fellow-citi
_ zenSj and were answered with that noble
ve ness of spirit whiqji charafterizes cur court,
nt try, by receiving iu cafli upwards of twenty
V thousand f.ye hundred dollars, cxclufive of
ii- I three hundred and thirty five barrels, and
f t t sixty hundred, three quarters and fifteen
pfoando, in bagSibf vv'ieat, rye, buck.vhtat, &irt
ci:d iodinn meal; befidv'J potatoes arH fit".- w ", l
dry otKtr l.inds of proviilon : aided by the
above, and affivled by a number of refpe&a- rlf> r
ble inhabitants of the city, northern liber- ftck.
ties, and Southwark ; we were enabled to ' f''- 1
continue relieving, by weekly donations, a- p 1 "
bove thirteen hundred persons, chiefly heads j y j
of families, opprefled by poverty, sickness foun
and distress, and to give employment to a- wen
bout'fix hundred men on the roads ; who if 1
Hot provided for in that manner would, in
all probability, have been, from dire neceffi- 0 j- {
ty, compelled to de&end to meant injurious and
to.t'uemfe'i*es and to the corarYiunity. fuel;
Thus have we endeavoured to explain to "
you, in some mcafure, the inapner we ex-
pended your money -entntifted to us until a
bout the ifUh 111 ft. at whiih tiife an exami- | <•
nation of our funds tock place, Siud the, bal- I caul
ance found to be but two thoufand,dollars, j r ''- tc
After making appropriations for the pur- i
clwfe of five hundred cordi of wood, and f( ; j.
l'.rteen- hundred bushels of potatoes, for th< the
purpose of meeting the diftre(Tes of-the poor bav
in the more inclement feaion.
At tin's time we were called on by an as
sociation of young women of great refpec- j*. T
tability and known philanthropy, who have xv«:
been for fereral winters employed in reliev- vpr
ing without partiality the fnfFering poor
particularly of their own sex ; .paying no Ju <
regard todiflance weather or fittiation ; not via
doubting but it would meet with your ap
probalion, aud be ss agreeable to you to be «d' '
informed of their praife-wortby vcqneft, as
it '.vas to us hy having it in our power to
grant five liundr'ed dollars and ten bar-» rhc
rels cf flour, at a time when «e had conclud- pea
ed to suspend the supplies as our fellow-ci- c '
tizens had returned home and employment | '
was attainable ; yet there might oe nume- t |, ;
rou« cases wherein this worthy female focie- f m r.
ty might indulge themselves in visiting the he
mansions of distress and thereby give relief
to many, whose situations would never have
been otherwise known. • V ; t
Although we have the aoove balance be- Qui
fides wood, potatoes, and flotir, we fear it nt
will be foarccly fufficient to mrst the nume
rous wants of the inhabitants durinrr the.ap- J '
, . . 01 ;o\l
proachtng winter. w j.
Having been as brief as pofiible in giying equ
you a detail of our proceedings, a more obf
minute one we should be willing to afford by cx f
a conference with any persons who may feel
themselves interested in the expeaditure of till
the money, &c. entrusted to our care ; or liei
are desirous to obtain information for the del
purpose of improving by our experience, "j'
for the advantage of fuffering humanity in
future. For this purpose a' reference to the „„ y
minutes of our proceedings may be had at he<
any time, oh enquiring of the members. vei
. Thankful we are that vrt have been aided hl(
by some, fupplfed by you, and dire&ed by
Providence to give comfort to the mourner,
bread to the hungry, and consolation to the me
diftrefl'cd widow and fatherlefs. a" 1
Robert Whartm, Samuel I'/hee'er, ""j
Edward Garriguti, John Wagner, ' *'
Gforge Krels, George Ingles, ° io
J%'m James, Robert M'MuJlin, 10 ,
Israel Israel, William Linnard. CI
Tbanif-i Savery, 48
Commtffloner's Office, Old Court Hoitfe, cx
Philadelphia, Nov. 24, 1797.
far tie GAZETTE of lie VKITP.T) STA%F.S. P
(Continued from our Gazette of acthinft. ) f»
, Mr.Fenno. ' U
As an .additional proof of the poflibility of U,
vegetable exhalation producing n contagious fe- f, t
ver I may adduce the faiSl uientioned Dr. t h
Rogers in his account of the epidemics ofCo k, s ri
of a malignant"fever that swept away a great te
many of the (Indents of VV'adham College | pro- f)
duced" from the putrefadlion of a vast quantity r (
of cabbages thrown into a heap out of the lev- T
eral gardens near the oollege " Lancili relates, r n
that one end of Rome was nearly .UfolateU m
by the effluvia of some rotten hemp, thai, lay ot
in tho neighborhood. " Fourteen men out of V f
Gxteen, perilhei by a inalignart fever, a few
' years ago, at the island of Tortola, from tht rt
effluvia of some putrified potatoes which were
taktaogt of the hold of a Liverpool velTel." hi
The effluvia fays Dr- Zimmerman from a lit- cc
. tie heap of flax, has been known to occaGon a t h
malignant fever, which prov«d fatal to the w
' family, in which it firft began, and afterwards c
1 spread its contagion thro' a whole country." b(
(Rush's works, vol. 3, p TJ4-) pi
c Is the investigation which this ftdijefl under- |,i
I in the winter aft«r the epidemic of 1 f c '
t ftir.e of the abeve fitJls were adduced to prove ct
the point again contended for, and which is
now corroborated by m4ny additional ones. t |i
Drs. Currieand his roadjntor Cathrall however, IX]
1 anlwered them by obfenfing " none of the ««-
- thoritiiS were qtu'ified to dfcern the connexion f e
1 between cause and efftHJ' but it. ii presumed e ,
1 that the refpedabie number of facls from t .
■- authors of the firft flanaing in medicine, be- ; i
fore mentioned, will convince every one of the [,
truth of the occational contagious nature of dif-
eases .fifing from marshy exhalations. It is „
" true we fee thonfands of cases of remittents, and ,]
- intermittent*, in this country, which are not t ]
- cental;. oils but this no more proves the noti-exif- n
tenre of contagion in them sometimes, than t |
the freedom from disease after visiting a person
ill with the late epidemic, proves it not to have ti
been propagated in the fame The truth ,
" upon this lubjffl is, that it merely requires a ( j
h certainJlAtt of the air, or ef our ewn bodies, j ;
to make theleifevers contagious or not. This\
y onjtiiuticn cf the has been rvticed
[t by all the writers upon epidecnics since Hippo
ie crates; artd is frequently mentioned by the stc
-1 curate Sydenham. Dr Lind, (of Maflar) one of
the most obfervinj physicians of Great-Britain,
e has recorded the influence of the particular state (
" e ot' the air, in the produflion and continuance
is of remitting and intermitting fevers iu the yoar
ir 1765 : they were not remarked f;9 be propagat
-e cd I'V contagion, and yet we hr.vc seen that the
|S remitting fever he mentions to have preyailedat
!- Cadiz, was highly contagious.
Thisconftitution of tke air doe? not alirayi de
;- pand for its efleA, upon the ferfible qualities of
>f heat, moiflure, or drynefs. It fomttiniej hap
t_ pen*, hat tbel'e ejrcumltsnces do r*t produce that
change upoh oifrafts, winch it is w. 11 known, they
co.nimorly do; and heitcv the error into which tna
ny people qre led, r when on the appearance of an
i" epidtmic, they iri-.jiiediateiy try to refer it-to the
S- preceding, ot exiflicgflate of theeivments.
A medical gontlcrnan of Hartford has rercrded
in Dr. Eayloy'a ac.counf of J-he " Dect fiver if Wcw
y_ Ycrkin ItQ.fS a remarkable prouf ot the noxious
power of putrid vegetables, in txeiting fever."
id Soii-etinie in the month of September 1 wa f called
:n to visit a young man about 18, in a Lar.ily in the
Sfirtt of the town. lie ws« violuutlyi attack"! g] n
with niofi el tin", chara&eriftic fymptonis of the
i'o-.v fever Ai>do r fribeil by Uiifli. ih- nest (iAy
"a fcccrid was taken in the f. :ik' manner, anu on the
morning of the- third day ib'ce mote ware tak-n
flck. i hi« led me to fufpefl some particular cause.
1 frarcbed lor it in vain at tin* time. The next 1
morning, on palling through thf kitchen. I smelt (
fomt thing very offtnflve, wh;ch none ol the farm- f
lv had noticed. On opening the cellar doer, I rr>
foetid it proceeded from the cellar. Two perfon<
wen' down to rju'r.ir.c, and found in one enrnvr of Br
a fn: dl tight rood, a quantity of 'Jur.e cabb.igcj,on f : v
which the fu- had shore ah ;ut three hour-; i i the j
day. They had rotted, aiu',fa.nk down into a lump
of pluriftiSioii. They run a flick under them,
and lifted them up. and there immediately ifiued
fticli an irtoVruble flench, as obliged them inftar.t
]y to leave the cellar. A vomiting was brought on g]j
at once which 'laltad.nearly an iiour. No other
person in the fam'ly was«aken afterwards ; and
ihofe who weir already seized, ail recovered t '
" Here was the fame difeaf«, excited by the fame Br
eaufe which produces it elsewhere, and that
<ictcfled. Vi hy may we notfuppofe, thai if this
circusViJhmce had taken place fa a thickly inhabited
n> ic;hbori!'.tod, prer ared hy predisposition. and aitj
fi by all those causes which generally exist during
the hot fuiifo?! iu populous piaces, that it would
have fprcad with the fame rapidity it did in New
York or in 1 hiladelphia ?"—lt may be answered,
that the conjeifure appears highly rational: l'lia
immediate rcmeval of the noxious cause in the a-
S*'rr iaSanee. the thin (late of population, aad
wart of correlpondtng eon(V;utior. of th* air, fa- .
voratje to the propagation of the conragiods efflu-jj 1 )
via, weretht c:u.'e> to which the cefTjlion of t'ie I Clt
fever in this f.iiiiily niay be ascribed ; but the pro- | ers
duf.ion of thisfn-er, !": ews the aiSivity o. the ef- ari
via from putrid vegetables. . ' J
Th« identity of the autumnal remitting- fever of i
all vapm cliteetes and feafonr, with the fever gen- ■ an
eral'y denominated yellow, has already been jhewn | 111'
hy quotations from the writings of phyficans up- jth
"r\ the difeapf of the \Vtft Indies. l)r. Currie, in j
the year 178;, er.t*rtaircd the farr.e idea, a« a.) |
pear* by thf following extraifl from his " Acccfnnt j
of the ilifcafts cf I't Vnt-d Stain " p. 390. " Ihe | 1 '
: greater yeilmvr.rfs of the skin appears to bethetw. ve
jty circumjlante in which it (yeUou\trHer ) diflu- from bJ!
the bilious remittent# of hot climates, or -jery hot re
feafint ef any climate. Dr. Lining himfelf, though
he confidii sit as a fpecics of pe?i!ence, fays the *''
negroes were exempt from it, though expefed as
much at the whites, and that those who Were con- P.
vyedto the country with it, never communicated
ic.tothofu with whom.l hey had communication."
But we find, during tIT? late epidemic, very differ
• lot fcirtiiwe'nn tntirtained by Dr. C. In the Oa
ictte of theUeited States, OAober 11 (letter to
Mr, Wytkoop) he fays, '• If wc compare its (yel
low fever) leading and chara£eriflic fymotoms
with tbofe of the tilitut remitting fever in its mod _
equivocal and dangerous form, as well as with the
okfcrv:«ions of ail the citizens th*; have written
expressly cn the fubjeA, the causes "
which give rife to other contagious fevers, iro ftrfen a r
Acquainted •with meJical Jbijtery, and qualified to discern a
the connexion between eaufe and efl*B, can hefitaU: in be
lieving that the disease never baj originated in Phila
delphia, nor ever can be occasioned by putrid vege
table effluvia ; but is always importtd by rtf
fels with sick persons or infected goods on board \
He adds 'hat " the difeafs was generated in «
nny ether paries the United States-os but at
had always been introduced, when it did occur, by 01
▼effels from the Weft Indies, though the seasons fe
had frequently been an hot and dry, and some ta
more so, and the (ireets more replete with putrid p'
vegetable matter than in 1793. Araonj otuher in-
Hancrs of itsliaving-heen imported headduced those
mentioned by Dr .' Lining in Charleston, in proof;
and yet wefindthatheformerly believed Lining was
mistaken is to' the real source of these fevers ;
witness the following extract from " The account
a/ the difcafcs of tbr United States," above men- /
tionod, p. 389 : " Dr. Lining fays, that the yel
low-lever has been four times epidemical in
Charleston, viz. in the autumn of 1731, 39, 45» (
48 ; anil ax none of these were remarkable for
extraordinary heat orniny weather,
that it did not taieits origin from any peculiari- I
ty of thd chtnate or foil, but was imported from it
th« Weft-Indies ; and even afierts, that whene
ver the disease ippeartftJ,it was easily traced to
some person who had, litely arrived from the c
Weft-India illands, where it was epidemical." I'
IV't from a comyirifon of the description which
fie (fives ef the symptoms of this fever, with
that '/ Chalmers, and partieularly
from the more recent obrervations of Dr. Hun- "
ter in the Weft-Indies, I am inclined t J think
Dr. Lining has fallen into a very great er- 1
ror natir: andrab/eof thit disease. J
The eelAaated Lind, of Haflar hospital, appears c
to have fitlleu into a similar error, owing to the
mifreprefcntition of fa<sts hy L)r. Wafren, and
others. He has also recordeil an aerount of the
vellow-fever betoming epide-nie in Phil idcipbia,
In theve.ir 1740, «» ing to some infeiSed appa
rel of a.gentleman who had died of it in Harba
does. These clothes, he fays, being unluckily
hung abroad to be airrd, presently diffufed the
contagion of the fainc ftver over that pait of '
the town, and deftroved 100 persons. [ Ibis
was another of the proofs lately adduced by Dr. '
C. in his letter to Mr. Wynkoop, of the disease j
being always imported.] "It is however at (
present geaera'.ly known.{ for it has been proved j
by the, mofl accurate and usexceptionable ob- t
i'crvations,) that no infeclious disease can he
commumctted without contail, or the near ap
proach to the body of ininfeiied person ; or to
rhe somites orftibftances imbued with infeiftious
matter or morbific miafinata."
Thus we find, in 1789, Dr. C. entertainsd
fentimentt which he now fayj,cannot be espous
ed by any " quajifed to discern the connexion be
tzvten cauft and effect and the fa£t is, that
■ the former were right, and the'latter wrong.
la confluence of the astonishing improvements
• ;hat have been made ir. medicine, in the eourfe
' f the last twenty years, it is no uncommon
I thing for medical gentlemen to renounce falfe
' theories, (except by some who suppose a dimi
- nuticn of dignity is eff«aed by acknowledging
1 the pofiil>illty of their having been 'ever wrong)
1 but it is a novelty for pbyficians to renounce
' truth and adopt errfr ; mofl men love U) ad
vance it> science, but the above inPmct s flftw a
1 dil'oo'fuion to retrogade, which i» a finally afton
. ifhing. MEDICUS.
s\
1 E MARINE LIST.
} PORT OF PHILADELPHIA.
ARRIVED DAY 8
l Ship Venus, Waddcl, Bristol 62
r Brig Eliza. Haftie, Bourdeaux 66
Neutrality, King, London 137
e Schr. Triton, Myers, Snowhill 5
t Fortitude, Taylor, New York 6 j
Polly, Pendleton, Ditto 6
( Maria, Bur Vows, 1 Ditto 6
!. Kitty, Smith, . Ditto 6
t Trimmer, Duly, N. Carolina 28
y Rambler, White, Ditto 14
Sloop Favorite Packet,Stevenfon.Charlcf-
ton, S. C. II
Mxiccry, Nantucket 14
:d Sally, Nichols, New-York 7
w CLEARED.
Brig Abigail, Brown., . Portsmouth
Id Stlir., L)diaSnd Pollv, fenkins, Boston
;c Ann Et.d/Mary, Jcliufton, Alexandria
Sloop Oiorge, Geev, fcio.sv
Robert*, Bright, B'Rv'?.a-nj|
Dolphin, rfait, LeogvW-J
Laura, Barker, NdOt»c»4ft
Eliz-i, Bnrnnrd,
The Ship Birmingham Packet, Kiliey#
from Havre, and' Barque Mars, Tovvk-r,
from St. Übes, are arrived in the river.
The fliip Roba & Bet fey, Nimmo, frota
Bristol, blown out of the Delaware, is in* (
rived at Norfolk, and will proceed to Phil
adelphia, to discharge her cargo.
New-Turk, Nov. 25.
Arrived. days.
Ship Cleopatra, , Lisbon 9J
Caledonia, , Liverpool Bis.
Bark Eliza, Africa
Brig Little George, Howley, New Of
leans
By this day's Mai-L
BOSTON, November 20.
By capt. Giant, who arrived here yeftef
day in 41 daysTrom Amsterdam, we have
the-jneans of of announcing,from theauthor.<
ity of the American consul rt-lident in that
city, that the thtee American commiffion
crs, to the republic of Fiance, had ftfely
arrived at Paris—that .they were received
with every mark.of respect and politehefi—
and that t!»ere was nat the smallest doubt of '
iheir feyling the ihifundei'llanding between
the two countries, to the fattsfa&ion of the
j federal government.
Capt. Grant, from Amsterdam, informs,
' that the Dutch fleet confißing of 36 fail of
J vcfiTels continue blockaded within the Texc!
by admiral .Quacan, whose squadron by the
reinforcements sent him then amounted to
37 &il.
Prices of American STOCKS in London, re*
cAvt ti ly the latejl arrivals.
6 Per Cents, - - 8p aBl pr. ct.
3 do. doJ - 50 *
Deferred, do. - - 56
5* Per Cents, - - 80
Bank Shares, -
* # * " A Subfcribcr" in answer to "A'
„other Subfcribcr," and " A lover of Laws
jid Freedom" will appear to-morrow.
THE, SHIP
"XK COMMERCE,
Captain Ricuar» Waistcoat,
rom Liverpool i» now discharging
at Hamilton's wharf, near the Drawbridge, where
owners of goods on freight, will please speedily to
fend their permits. Said vrflVl will dire&ly alter
take in freight on very low tertns for Boston. Ap
ply to the captain, or to
Jfaac Harvey, jun.
No. 5, South Water Street.
A few tons efftone.'or sand ballast wanted.—
Apply as above. .
november 27 ____ §tot.
Chocolate and Mustard,
of a superior quality manufa&ured,
GINGER and Pepper, ground ; fbelled or
pearl Barley; Philadelphia Porter, Ueer,
Ale and Cyder ; Taunton and Burton Ale 5
. London Porter ; red. Port and Lisbon Wine,
Iwitahle.far exportation or home coafumption.
The highest pi ice given for Mullard-Seed.
Also forfait, A quantity of Booking and'
common Baizes, a variety of colors; a bale of
Fuiiiam, Shawls, &c, for file by
JOHN HA WORTH,
1 No. 98, fjutli Front-llreet..
' ntv n- '■'■ killt IJ
LOST,
" TN thia City, on Sunday, 16th November, 1797,
• J. a red Moroeeq Pocket Book, containing 7 note*
s of toREA» & Pirate, as tallows,viz.
r fohn Duffleld's, for 44> dollars, 73 cents.
1 vWJlfean M'Laws 435 37
; George W y's, 177 l 9
, John Diwlts, II 9°
liaward Clayton's, 60
l)o. 3°. .
f Do. 47 •
e One 10 dollar Bank of Pennlylvanianote—an of
f der upon Walter Franklin, Esq. in favor of Charle*
Read, and fuudry other papers that can be of no
use but to the owners. .Payment of the as refold
■ notes of hand being ftop'd, a rewatdof fifteen dol-
C lars lh?ll he piidto the perfin or persons bringing
! said pocket book with the aforefaid' coßtents to
1 Read and Pierie, N°- 6 J. Cbefuut flreet and no
queftioraS aflccd.
c novcmbcri7 *cod3t.
" s Wants a place,
\ S a Wet Nurse, a yning woman, who can
d ±\ be well recommended. Inquire in Eleventh
f. flreet, near Race-street. Nov. 27.
*eo(lrw _
A journeyman Hair-Drefler,
ts "\T riio is sober and steady, and nnderftands
"e W his business, may have immediate em
>n plovment, on application to GEORGE AB
fe BOTT, No. 9, Chefnut-ftreet. n0D.27.
i- eodiw\ ''
r) Mordecai Lewis,
" HAS FOR SALE,
At his Store, No. 15, Great Dsc'c-ftreet,
n a . 250 bales of Bengal Goods
Containing Baftas
Coffas
_ Gurrahj
'• Moragugung;es
Tookzry
Check and Stripes
idano Handkerchief*
y 1 Mamoody
52 Cilicoes
gg U boxes Irifii Linens v
I do. Diapers
37
• 7 do. Umbrellas
5 40 certifiers Java 'Sugar
6 ji Lags black Pepper
6 > I' 6 do Eafi Indi •. Ging*
£ 100 calks roll Brimstone
f 7- pipes Maiicira Wine
57 calks Gin
2o .Vquantity ot focathing Copper ar.d Kr.iln.
14 r no.
~ Landing,
14. From on board the {hip Edward, at V/alnut
rtreet Wharf,
' Loudon particular Madeira Win*?,
ith of a filler.or quality, For Sate by the fulfcriVr.
ton ' ' ■* Robert Andrew.
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