ITALY, f.t'ilier tlnn the greatest military prepsrlti-, ot|S are still on foot on both fides. Buona parte, who takes hi? aims from afar, and 13 subtle and profound in his. views, and in his rcfources mol fertile and various, appears to have had a design to amuse the enemy by making a (hew of a wilh on his part and an expedition of peace, while he seemed anxious above all things to fettle his new republics. The Emperor was not iitdeed lulled into security ; but it will be difficult to escape some snare that lies hid under the open proceedings of the Italian, and not an adventurer from another country. Two circumftances,relativeto the probabledefighs of Buonaparte, have lately drawn universal attention. He humours, flatters, and courts the OTTOMAN COURT, and he shews an intention of taking under his prot'eftion the cause of the Polish na tion. This is certainly placing France in the Situation she was wont to fold in the chain of. political powers ; the ally of the Turks, and the Poles, united with the Turks in hoftilit.y to Austria and Ruflia. But the KING OF PRUSSIA, is the tyrant of Poland, is the ally of France. How is this majter to be arranged ? His Pruflian Majesty is sick, and according to all accounts, drawing near his end. THE DUTCH SAILORS, have lately, given a proof of their attach ment to the Stadtholder in refuting to weigh anchor and fail out of the harbour under Admiral Winter. The cause of the S-adtholder does not by any means appear to 11s. to be desperate ; though it is better to give way for a time, and wait far favor able opportunities, thau to attempt any fchemts for restoration by fafce of arms. FRANKFORT, Sept. 16. In the fair of this city, many French emi grants of diftinclion kept (hops ; their com modities were for the mod part, the produce of their own industry. ITALY, September 28. The French have set up a printing press on the island of Corfu. At Genoa the ex-patrician Spinola, who has been envoy at Paris and London, as also Rivarola, who has been envoy in the latter city, have been declared emigrants, arid their effefts confiscated. The fame has heen deereed at Venice against Morofini, Jate infpeftor generalof the Venetian troops; he has also been burned in effigy. The famous Dondolo, an apothecary, it gone to general Buonaparte at Udina, to make some new proposition relative to Ve nice. The Neapolitan prince Paterno, who fail ed from Sicily to Naples, in a (hip which had above 200,000 ducats on board, in jew els and valuable commodities, hat been taken by a Tunisian corsair, and carried into Tunis. The Neapolitan eonrt has dispatch ed a courier to Constantinople on the oc casion, and the Spanish envoy at Tunit has taken the prince under his protection as a grandee of Sp&in. The pestilential distemper that prevails in Corsica was brought by a Turkish ship that was stranded on the island. Some of- the people of the coast ran to pick up the goods fromthe wreck, though the Turkscalled to them that the plague was on board ; this, however, did not restrain them, and the con sequence was that joo persons died > n the town of Murgo. A drift cordon is now drawn xound theinfefted country. MILA.N, September 9. Though the German papers have dated that the Imperial troops occupy the whole of Venetian Dal mafia, it is certain that the nature of the cour.try, anrtrhe of the inhabitants, oppose great ohftacles to that invasion ; and admitting even the supposition of peace, the pofleffion of th« Auftri ans will net remain long tranquil It cannot be difiembied, th.it the new acquisitions of the house „f ~a imift be of the greatest importance to its commerce and its revenue ; and the inttreft which it has in preserving them, and ittfuring their peaceable enjoyment, inclines u« to believe that! the Ifmperor would not eipofe himfelf to the chances of war, which cantlot but be disastrous to him. The population of Iftria amounts at present to no more than 140,0.: O ; but, under a good eov ernmeni, it would soon increafeto half a million. This province ha* about a dozen of potts, several of which are much superior to that of Tried. The ports of Rofla, Queto, and Pola, are capable of containing the most considerable fleets, and the fpil-jof the country is fufevptible of every species of cultivation. The wines ai;d the oils of Iftria have a great reputation. VenetianDalmatia containsabout 3 o,o^oinha bitants. Rara, SeVienifco, Spolatra, and Macarfea, are the chief points of communication with Euro pean Turkey, which supplies Dalmatia with pitch, wax and wheat. We have read with much plcafure the report made by the committee of publicfafety to the pro visional municipality of Venice, on the political and commercial iituition of Venice, and which is addrefled.to the Gifalpine republic, and to all the French people of Italy—This report contains a statement of the public debt, and the resources of Venice ; presents a beautiful perfpe&ive of its ma ritime power ; and finally demonstrates, under ev ery relation, the utility of an union with the Cis alpine republic. General Buonaparte hai presented .100 mufquets to the Venetian national guard. Venice, after the example of Brescia, is about to form a regiment r.f youths between twelve and fifteen years of age, who, thus exercised during their infancy in the pr»fcffion of ;rsrs, will acquire a taste for it, and form a nursery of warriors disciplined, and capa ble of being employed every where. Tire French have reqeired of this country eight millions of livres for the support of their army, which sum wil! for the most part be levied on the capitaiifts and the clergy. Our republic has raort traced togesr al Buonaparte yearly half the Duchy of Slantu-I, lying on the right tanks of the riv ers Oglio and Po a part of Brcfcia, and some valleys bordering on the 1 yr®l. The -city and ior trefj of Mantua is not, however, included. jf—j —C"C MR BYRN&'s fitft Ball will be on Tuesday evening next, t2th Deceraberj at O Kllcr.. Hotel, when several new Country Dances for the enfuiug season be introduced, composed, and figures adapted, by Mr. Byrne, for thpamufement the company in general. The Doors to be opened at fix, and the .■ all conimf nee at seven. Gantlemen's T.cke'.s one dol lar each, to be had at O'Ellerss—Ladies' Tickets, tratis, for the season, of Mr. and Mr*. Bysne, No. 114, north Sixth street. Dec, 8. By this driy's Mail. BOSTON, December 2. THE UNIVERSITY AT CAMBRIDGE, Says a correspondent, is in a more fiourifh ingifituation than at any period since its ex ifience. The visiting committee from the | board ofoverfeers hasfora considerable time past exprefled their warm approbation of the state of things in this important seminary. It must be pleasing to the parents and friends of these young gentlemen to hear that there has not been a public censure passed on any scholar for more than four years, con fequent ly on none that is now in college.—lt is a fadv that many of these young men have du ring the pad feafon,-beenjfy£ and tlx hours in a day, either hear rig lectures from the different profeffors, or vaptipg to their Tu tors. There never was a period when there existed a greater hafmouy between the gov ernors and governed, between the teacher and pupil. It is also a faft, which the whole town of Cambridge can ttftify, that since the bridges have been built over Charles-Ri ver, there has been less noise and riot after fun set about college, than ever was known before. Tfie increased and still increasing number of leftures seem to have opened new profpcfts to these Undents, and to occupy their minds so agreeably as to leave little inclination for riot and disorder. It may be said with tTuth,and therefore it ought la be 1 said, that the present set of students atCam bridge«!o honor to themselves and to the college. PROVIDENCE, (R. I ) Dec. 2. A letter has been received here from Mr. William Magee, of this town, dated at sea about 25 days since, which informs; that the (hip Eliza, capt. William Page, of this port had been attacked in the Streights of Banca by a Prow, when capt. Page, Thor- i as Page, seaman, and a Dutch Liaguift, ; were unfortunately killed. By the bravery j of the crew, the nativee were beat off, and the Eliza had failed for Manilla. NEW-YORK, December 8. Carnot, it is said, informed Barthelemy, on the 3d of September, of the scheme plot ted by the Triumvirs to arrest them, and proposed to prevent the execution of this plan, by denouncing them to the couneils. He took upon himfelf to cause the Trium virs to be arretted that night for which pur pose he had prepared every neoeffary mea sure. Barthelemy more accustomed to the quiet proceedings of diplomatic business, than to the violent movements of the revolt ution, could not convince himfelf of the reality of the plot of the triumvirate, and rejefted the proposed raeafure. The French seem to have copied the Ro mans, servilely and abjeftly, in retaining many particulars in their new constitution, which it was thought worth a revolution to remove from the old; and leaving out the good parts of their model, which made its defeats less glaring, and compensated for its want of perfeftiou in the whole. Like the firft consuls, they have increased the veftigalia of Tyan*y, and kept the insignia of loyal power, but omitted to provide for the exercise of religion, and forgot to be no ble, generous, and magnanimous. \_Ltnd. Pap.~\ The Abbe of Bologna lately preached a sermon to the church of St. Roch, in which he assured his congregation, " It was use less for them to deceive themselves any lon ger; and that the Catholic religion is in compatible with a democratic government." —This is a new proof of the endless errors into which they plunge themselves by fol lowing theories. In the United States we find that the Catholic religion harmonizes as well with a republican government, as a ny ether. LONDON, Oftobei 6. The Earl of Mornington embarks for Ben gal on board La Virginie frigate, in which also Sir JohnAnftruther takes his passage la Virginie is expefted to touch at Madrafi, in her way to Fort William. Accounts from the Hague 'give the fol lowing particulars of the late infurreftion in the fleet in the Texel :—Several battalions being sent o» shore for their ill-behaviour, admiral Winter sent fortheirofficerson board his ship, and asked them whether they chose to go to the Weft-Indies, or resign their fituationsds6th year .of his ministry. This Divide adoiit ted to the Church 261 communicants, offi ciated at every communion for more than 55 years ; baptized 916 persons and .married 336 couple. Of his society 410 have died. That esteem and veneration towards him which had been maturiug for anore than half a century, was by his parilhioners and others otnanifefted at his funeral, by the respeCt (hewn to his memory. ■ At Litchfield, Connecticut, an mon day the 27th Nov. the Hon. Andrew A dams, Esq. Chief Judge of the Superior Court; aged 61 years. To the Editor of the Gazette of the. U. States. S i A* Among the papers lately read in congress concerning Mr. Blount, there was one which the fhort-haad writers have reported as"en dorsed by Judge Turner." I feel it incum bent on me to obftrve, that that paper was altogether in Mr. Blount's hand writing. He wrote it in ir.y prtfebce, tfr»m aiifwcrs I made to certain propounded. It contained notes concerning Upper Lou iiiaca, where I spent part of the winter of 1794-5. It will not be deemed requisite by those who know me, to observe further, that I was not aware, when those notes were taken, of any improper use intended to be made of them. I should readily have giv en the fame information to any other person profefiing, as Mr. Blount did, a desire to collect fatks respeCting the interior of North America. . G.TURNER. Philad. Dec. Bth, 1797. MR. FENNO, The publication from Alexandria of the number of vefleli captured by the French belonging to that town, is an example that ought to be followed by all the sea-ports in the United States. The annals of naval de predations do not furnifh such instances of outrage and lawless plunder, and this perpe trated without the smallest pretext—pre text did I fay ! the French government are under the highest obligations to the people and government of the United States. Ttuc can be made to appear by a recital of fa&i innumerable. The treatment we have re ceived is a meft serious leflon to our coun try j it fully proves that whatever men may pretend, those who call themselves republi cans, will prey on those who are really so, whenever they have power so do it. The magnitude of our lolTcs by the French ought to be known. It will account for that dis tress in which so great a number of persons are involved at the present time. It will serve to convince the people of this country, who have been so often insulted with the words national gratitude, that they mull look to themselves and their own resources, for justice and protection from lawless violence. c; A " Friend to Lpws and Freedom" on Monday. (Cj" On Sunday next, there will be Chari ty Sermons and Collections, forenoon and afternoon, in Christ's Church and St. Pe ters, for the Poor of those Churches. (Cs* A Charity Sermon will be preached by the Rev. Mr. Neale, next Sunday, in St. Mary's Church, at 10 o'clock, A.M. for the benefit of the poor of the said Church. PRICE OF STOC K-S. Philadelphia, 25th Nov. 1797. 6 per Cent. 16/101017/. ] per C«nt. iOf4 to 6 Deferred 6 per Cent. I.yfc BANK United States, 13 per ct. advance. Pennsylvania, 1J d«. North America, 50 do. Insurance Co. Pennsylvania, (hares percent. N. A (hares 50 do. COURSE OF EXCHANGE. , On London, at 30 days par at 60 days 65 at 90 days Amsterdam, per guilder 40 GAZETTE MARINE LIST. PORT OF PHILADELPHIA. The following bearings of a (hoal lately discovered in the entrance to False Bay, are made public for general information. It lies about five miles' ftoirt the western fl>ore, Cape of GiWi'd Hope point, bearing S. W.-i W S. E. \ Ei—Seal I (land, N. E. fix N—Pniefberg, W. \ N. —Mifenberg, N. -§ W.-~GrotMidths Win kle, weft—Depth of water before (triking, twenty fathom. The Alia (truck very hard going about four knots, and immediately on heaving the : lead had no graund twenty fathom, this was ; July 21 ft. About a fortnight after, his 5 Majeily's (hip Trident (truck on it—and on 1 the fleet under Sir George Keith Elphin I (ton leaving the Bay, the .America favv th tock' r.lofe along fide. The bearings are by j cotnpafs and were exadtly the fame in all the j (hips. ■' >' r LCilcHtt* Qhtoniele,pec. 27,"96 ] The feh'r Swift, Tremmels, from henee . has arrived at Martinique. The (hip Magnet, , from London derry to this port, has put into New-York. The following outward bound vessels lay at Reedy Ifiand on Wednesday last : Ship Joan, Macpherfon, for Savannah Sweriger Rigfdag, Nannings.Lilbon Brig Pennsylvania, Tatem, Cadiz S'chr Hetty, Mason, Savannah Alciope, Rice,' Jacqmel Harriot, Da C°fta> St. Croix. A brig without a head, and the Revenue Cutter, captain Roach, were also at the 1 Island. The brig Sally, Logan, for Bourdeanx, , and a yellow sided schooner are at New Cas tle. The br!g Molly, Kilby, for St. Bartho lcmews, fch'r Hamdallah, Montgomery,for Algiers, (loop Sally, Stote(bi)ry, for St. Thomas, are at Marcus Hook. The Carteret Packet, which was to have failed from New York last Thursday, in confequenet ofthe arrival oftheQueen Char lotte, is detained for a few days. The (hips Thomas, captain Martin, and i Gadfdtn, captain Hey ward, are taken by British frigates ; the firft sent to New Pro vidence, and the latter to Halifax. The (hip Swifj Packat is arrived at Savan nah, from Philadelphia Capt. Lee arrived here last evening : he came passenger in the South Carolina,which (hip is arrived at New-Castle from Charles ton. The following outward-bound vessels are now laying at New-Tort. For London, the copper-bottomed]hip Mary, captain Allyn. Enquire of Dunlap and Grant, no. 6g. flone-Jireet. For Glasgow, the Jhip Amjlerdam Packet, capt.. Archibald Crockatt. Enquire of Smith and Wick off, no. 11 I, Pear Jlreet. For Dublin, the snow Pallas, captain Noah Wyeth. Enquire of Thomas Carberry, no. 144, Frontflreet. For Dublin the Jhip Lydia, captain Charles Hendcrfon. Enquire of Hugh Pollock and Co. For Hatnburgh, the Jhip Roebuck, captain Stephen Shew all, Enquire, of Hoffman and Seton, no. 67, Wal'-Jlreet. For Londonderry, the ship New- Tori, capt. George M'Leod. Enquire of George Gallaher no. 88, Front-Jlreet. For St. Thomas' the fchotner Barbara, captain John Prime. Enquire of Thomas Stagg , jun. Rofs's wharf. For Liverpool, the ship Portland, captain Hufjey. Enquire of Hallett, Bownc and Co. j For Leghorn, the Ragufon t brig Good Union captain Matteo Fifcovick. Enquire of E. Bru/h no, 139. Gretnwtchjlreet, For Havrt-de Grace, thefhip Fabius, capt. A. Difvernay. Enquire of J. B. Defioity, no. 74. Front-Jlreet. For Amjlerdam, the (hip Fair American. Enquire of Charles Smith, no. 14, Dey-fircet. ; For New Providence, the Jloop Harwich Packet, captain Jeremiah Stimfon. Enquire of Baily and Bogert. Frontflreet. For Hull, theJhip Fame, captain Gabrie Havens.. Enquire of Lawrence and Vanzandt no. 177, Waterflreet. For Dublin, the bark Albany,'captain Judah Haddock. I nquire of Isaac Hicks. For Marseilles and Genoa, the Jhip Caro lina, captain George DoJJc. £ nquire of N. Gain, and Co. no. 41. Courtlandt-Jlrect. For Marseilles and Greenock, 'the Swedijh brig Ctnjenlfure, C aptain C. D. Hallery, inquire of N. GoixandCo.no. 4 1 j Court landt Jlreet. For Cadiz; or Liverpool, theJhip American, captain William Shallfrojs. Enquire of bbenc- St evens. For Cadir., the ship Polly Enquire of Mur ray and Mumford, no. "}s,JloneJlreet. For Amjlerdam, the Jhip Minerva, captain K. Clarkfon, enquire of Charles Clarkfon, no 2 5 Dey-jreet. For Dublin, the brig Resolution, eaptain Parkham, enquire of Isaac Hicks, no 14 Crane wharf. For Bourdeaux, the brig Hudson, captain Henry Fanning, enquire of Peter Malidran, no 13, Wcdl-Jlrect. For Londonderry, the barque Pallas, capt Thaddeus Waterman. Enquire of Bunlap and Grant. For Newry, the ship Catharine, capt Macey enquire of Dunlap and Grant, no 60 Jlor.e- Jlreet. From Llotd's List, From September 19, to October 3. A letter from Nantes, of the 15th of Sept. mentions the Farmer, Macey, from London to Rhode-Island, having been ta ken and carried into Rochefort. The Chatham, Peters, from Saloe to New York, is taken by a Freneh privateer, and condemned at Barcelona. L'lntrepid privateer, 20 guns and 150 men, and Chalfeur do. of 12 guns and 50 men, were destroyed by the Brilliant fri gate on the coast of Norway, the lit of September last. Arrived. From Stafford, Balk, at Gravefend, Virginia South Carolina, Robinson, do. Havanaa Paddy, Dafcall, do. do. Manchester, Shewell, Cowes, Philadelphia after beinff chafed on the coast of Ame rica by a French privateer. Jane Barrow, Liverpool, Virginia Elizabeth, Webb, do. Savannah Paddy, Lee, do. for Virginia put back leaky Eagle, Hubbard, do. Bolton Commerce, Califf, Bristol, Virginia last from Falmouth Mary, Earle, Dover, Philadelphia Roebuck, Hume, do. Havailna ; detained by a sloop of war Maria Jane, Blunt, Hamburgh, Victory, Stafford, do. do. - •. * ' « . ,1. ( Ring Sun, B.ndford; do. Pciinfy]vaHra,Wi!iiauifoii, do. Philadelphia Holhroot, M'Call. . do. do. .. Nancy, Bttcker, do. New-Yorfc — , Rikkers, do. do. , pill, do. Bcfloij - , Burn, do. _ do. Louis, Dcalc, Bremen J Baltimore Providence, Otto do. do. Phoenix, Becker, do. x do. Anchor, Brant, do. do. with loss of cables, Maryland, Beard, Lisbon, do. St. Tammany,Dangerfield, Miliford, Liver! Molly, M'Dowell, Kircudbright, Virginia Lexington, M'Kenzie, Rotterdam, Maryl. Regulator, Lee, Cadii, Boftou Charlotte, Jone, Dartmouth, New-York Mary, Ingalls, Clyde, Charleston Stpl. Sailed for 17, Sillers, Callahan, Gravefend,Charlfton 22, Efiex, Waddle, Falmouth, N. York Betsey & Jenny, Young, Plymouth America 23, Eliza, Harrington, 'do. Philadelphia 28, Integrity, Gillenger, Deal, Charleftoa 29, "Pa'llas, Cook, do. do. New-Tori, Dec. 8. ARSIfED. Ship Magnet, Londonderry Schr. Ar.telope,M'DowaH, Peterlburg Elizabeth, Drifcoll, Jamaica Thf following vefTels left the Hook, onWed nefday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Ship Belvidere for London Dispatch, Liverpeol Fanny Glasgow Charlotte, Guadaloupe And several other veiTels—with a fine wind at S. S. W. THE PARTNERSHIP OF Richard & James Potter, IS this day diflolvcd, by mutual consent. All perfous indebted to the said firm, are reqntfied to ray the fime to either of the fubferibers; and ' ajl persons having any demands against them, are requeued to fend thiir account foi fe'ttlement. Richard Potter, Jamet Potter. December 9 , 5 For Sale by the Subscriber, 10 bales Codas 40 Ho. jßaftas 11 do. Mamoody 17 do. Chinrz 1 do. Tookery 7, do. Gorah* j. 25 do. M«ragunge«<» £ do. Check Stripes I do. Guzzie I box Diapers 7 do. Umbrellas 25 pip§s fineft particular Madeira Wine, of the vintage 1795. MORDECAI LEWIS. December 5. 3aw 4 w MUSIC. J. L. LENZ, Teacher ot Vocal and instrumental MuCc, RETURNS hisfincere thanks to the Ladies and Gentlemen, from whom he received a very liberal encouragement fusee his residence in this ci ty , and refpe&fully informs his friends and the pub* lie generally, that, in confequtmce of the request of fume of his friends, he has opened a Musical Scheol at hishoufa in Sprmce Street No 174, where he will teach on the Piano forte, Violin See. &c He deems it unnecefiary to enlarge upon the ad vantages the learner will derive from an inflituti- O'j of this kind; he will only fay, that attention and zeal are much excited in an aff.mbly, where numbers are in pursuit of the fame object, hit arrangement is such, that in interference of the the differ, ntfexjswill be avoided Those Ladies and Gentlemen who cannot make it convenient to attend at his fcheol he will wait upon at their houses ——-Applications will be thankfully receiv ed at hii houf;, where his terms and further parti culars may be known. Dec - 7" "iweod The City Dancing Aflembly, Is unavoidably postponed till the 14th inft. Dec. 2. Uriah Smith, No. «o, north Third street—Has for sale A neat and general aflortmsnt of Broad Cloths,Kerfey meres,Napt and Drab Coarings. at-so A variety of Gentlemen*' fafhionable fancy Waift coating, (ilk Hosiery, See. December 5. *eodlw Philr.delphiaandLancafter Turn pike Companany. THE Stockholders are hereby notified, that the annual Elusion for Officers for the ensuing year .will be held at the Company's Office in Phila d Iphia, on thefecond Mondayin January next, at 10 o'cl-ek, a. m. Wm. GOVETT, Sec'ry. Decern! er 7 Its m&wt7j Geenteel Boarding & Lodging. A Family may be accommodated with a Draw ing Room, two BedChambcrs, and suitable accommodation for servants—at no. 53, north Fourth street. Dec. s—*tts5 —*tts Musical In/irument Manufactory t 167, Arch-flreet. TO THE LOrERS OF HARMONY, HARPER, INFORMS his friends and the public, that he has now ready for sale, a few of his new invented, and much admired fide board Piano Fortes, with Pedals,patent swell, fonop;Aant and French harp {lop, which for fer.fibility of touch, brilliancy of tone, simplicity and durability of