A!iD Philadelphia Daily Advertiseri *By John W. Fenno, N°- ii 9 Chefnul Street. 11 ... From 'ht Farmer's Weekly Museum. " And fad v 'font appeared unto them with heavy countenances." With the punctuality of a merchant, I ihall now perform the prorraifc ir. my 'all speculation I then took occasion to , review and to reprove the fantaftic romances of the eighteenth century. To shew f -me of their operations upon nervous, timid, and indeed upon all exquisitely organized systems, {hall be the business of this sermon. Jn my digreflive manner, a few topics, slightly conne&ed with the main defig-n, will be darted ; and may possibly add to the amusement of the reader, though they will hardly improve his logic. If, ns the farmers fay, "mv memory serves me." Dr. Beattie his somewhere cautioned yovtthful readers of fenfibiiity to beware of immodrately indulging in the pcrufal of such works as the Night Thoughts <jf Yot'NS. Thia judicious Scotchman as signs an excellent reason for his rule. For he adJs that books, which present sometimes falfe, and always gloomv views of life, and which wear ontthe mind by a i onftant fuc- Ccffion of h'Trors must ultimately prove per nicious. For terrific and mournful images are from their very nature striking, and to men of strong farcyj easily adherer,t. Hence, in time® of grief and sickness, and even a inid the common calamities and cares of life, such images will rife and, in " a long, un broken, funeral tra n," will continually pass before our diftradled eyes. One of the most ufeful and necessary of our virtues is Forti tude ; a Companion, in the season of distress, absolutely necessary to enable the fretful im patience of our nature to tolerate its woes But when, from our habits of reading and ' thinking, fpp&res, demons, melancholy, sorrow, black cares and " fights unholy," are present with us, Fortitude flies away. We mistake the phantoms of imagination for the ills of life. The poison of romance tijia every arrow from the quiver of fate'; and we fall viftims not so much to the fever in our veins, or to the poverty of our coff • ers, as to the despondency of our thoughts, and lo the '• giant of Despair " In the works of Mrs. Radcliffe, and of all her imitators, mournful or horrible description predominates. The authors go • out of the walks of nature, to snd some .dreadful incident. Appalling noises must be created. Ghosts must be manufaftured by dozens. A door is good for nothing, in the opinion of a romance writer, unless it creak. The value of a room is much en -1 hanced by a few dismal groans. A chest full of human bones is twice as valuible as a calfcet of diamonds. Every grove must haw its quiet t-ifturbed, by the devil in some fh pe or other. Not a bit of tapestry but • must conceal a corpse ; not an oak can grow without flickering banditti. Now, in real .life, examined ia any age, or in any coun try, we cannot find such a series, such a combination of horrible events, as the ro • mance writers display in almost every page. AH their knights ate knights of the doleful Countenance. Fortunately for mortals, though there is much misfortune, and much evil here, yet every objeft is not covered with a pall. There are cbjefts less fable to our eyes than the coffin. It is misrepresentation to state the whole world resembles Bun Van's 'valley of the shadow of death. It is mis chievous to exhibit such a falfe picture, It enfeebles the mind. It, induces a habit of melancholyit strengthens frantic fear, a . passion remarkable, according to Collins, for beholding " appalled the unreal scene " Instead of 'hus wantonly weakening the mind by «iij-e£ting its attention toghalliy il lusions, to 'horrible (hadows," and " un .real mockery," we should adopt the disci pline of the poet, " That superstition mayn't <rrcate " And club it* ills with those of fate, M I many a notion take to talk 44 Made dreadful by its vizor mafic, " Since optic reason (hewsme flaiu, M I dreaded sPECTRf.s of the bkain." If I had a friend of exquisite fenfibiiity, whose irritated nerves vibrated like the chords of music, I would lock up Mr;» RadclifPs novels.from his morbid curiosity. I would not fuffer him tef'turn pale at the thoughts of any of her ghosts. He should •" laugh and (hake in Rabelais' easy chair." He fliiuld not walk in any of her galleries, "nor abide in any of her courts. I would address him, in the words of the sensible Greek, " Love not so much the doleful knell, " And news the boding night birds tell; " Nor in imprefl: remembrance keep " Grim tap'Ory figures wrowght in flcep; " Nor rife to fse in antique hall " The MOONLIOHT MONSTtRS ON THI WALL, " And {hadowy ipeilres darkly pass. " Trailing their fables o'er the grass." A hypochondriac would be as much in jured bv the gerufal of the woful romance, as by a denial of air and exercise. He would fancy like Don Quixote, that his iick chamber was a castle. He would mif wke his nurse for a witch; and call h s apothecary " Mentoni.' He would con ver his phials into " vials of wrath" and poison, and insist that h s pill box was made of " gloomy pine" or " black larch wood." Twt LAY PREACHER. • ihe Public are hereby informed, THAT I did not mean to authorise Col. Will iam Nichols to declare, that I would not pay, un'efs recovered by law, my note alluded to in his caution of the 6th ®f Angnft, published in the Ga zette of the United States of last evening. I sin cerely lament hit lo!?, aud teld him I would t'o all I could do confidently With my credit to serve him, but went no further. JOIIX TKAFJS, august 7 i. august 7 )H I ]%d DELP HI A: THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 20, 1798. BY THIS DAY'S MAIL. NIW-YORK, Sept. 19. Died, On the 15th inft. Mr. Horatio Gates He -'iUud, iff the bloom of life On Sunday, of a mortification in his arm, Mr. Samuel C. Ward, gold-smith and jew eller ; a native of England. On Monday night, Mr. Lewis Ogdea, merchant of Pearl flreet. Yesterday morning, at 5 o'clock, Ann Curteniu*, of the prevailing fever, aged 27, the wife of Peter T. Curtenius. Yesterday morning of the prevailing fe- Mr. Andrew Miller, merchant, Maiden lase. Yesterday mnming of the prevailing fe J ♦er, Mr. Allen Jackson, merchant of this city. He was a native of Mancheiier in England.. BOSTON, Sept. 15. From GIBRALTAR. The American Consul at the Havannab, has purchased of the Spanish government, on account of the United States, an 18 gun (hip, with brass artillery. • She is to be commanded by capt. Preble, and manned from the American (hipping there. • Capt. Johnson, from Gibraltar, left there the 26 July. At that time no accounts of any aftion between Nelson and Buonaparte had been received; nor where the fleets were. The French frigate captwred was cohjeftured to be n'orth 2,000.000. She has been manned with prime faiiors, arid sent to England. French gasconade was never more con spicuous, ihan in (he bombastic accounts they have giver, of the capture of the little ijland of Malta, by Buonaparte's army, af< lifted by a large fqnadron of (hips. The fores of the " Terrible Republic," directed by one of its most victorious Generals, era played in the conquest of a " Lodge of Free Masons It is rather lingular, th3t the pretence of Buonaparte for his ffault on the unprepared, and unfufpe&ing Maltese, Ihould be a want of water for the fleet, when it is certain, that he had not been at sea twenty days, and had been into Corsica dur ing that time. But with Frenchmen, pre texts are easily found or forged. MALTA. The French make merry at the conquest of Malta. It must be remembered that Malta was a neutral power ; —that it had never joined the combined powers, in repell ing the French ; and, of course, that the at tack lately made by Buonaparte on it, adds another violation of the sacred law of na tions, another inltanceot mercenary violence, and diabolic ambition, to that black cata logue of French wickedness, which would call a (hade over tjie regisr.g of Erebus and Night. We know net what gov -mment will be established in Malta ; but we know the old one, whatever it may be, will be overturned. The Demon of degenerate Democracy having great power is riding on the "wings of the wind ; and a celebrated French writer, has predicted, that "De mocracy will devour Europe, and having nothing tilfe to feed on will devour itfelf." We trust enough of Europe has already been destroyed ; and hope the latier part of the prophecy will fooii be fulfilled. A Charlejlon p .per of the 2J ft ult. men tions, that a French 74 had been spoken in lat. 31. long. 78. —We think it a miflake. The Decade, a French 44 gun (hip, which trar.fported a number of Frenchmen to Cayenne, has been cruizing between the la titudes of 39 and It is to be hoped, (he will come, to the northward and west ward, whan wc doubt not, a good account of her, will be given to the Secretary of the Navy. The Mavbleh;'ad fifhermen have been very fuccefsful th's ftafon Vast quantities of .fifh have arrived there within these few days. the Fever. Since the return of the 12th inft. eight persons have recovered, two,bare died, and Jixteen new cases have occnreed. Thirty three now remain sick, eighteen of whom are on the recovery, By order of the Seiefimen, WILLIAM COOPER Town Clerk. Sept. 14. By this correft ftaremer.t it will ap pear, though the nurfiber of cases has in creased, that the malignancy of the fever is much abated. The chance of recovery of those tak«n nour is three times as great as when the diftafe was firft engendered. Capta'R Robert Burnes, informs, that he was cap<ured by the French privateer Vulture, of Bourdeaux, and detained on board several monlh>, during which time the Vulture captured several vessels, three of which were burnt; among the captured was the Peggy, of N- York ; this (hip-had a great Dumber of letters on board, that ought to have been deflroyed ; they have given fatal information for many merchants and underwriters in New-T»rk, as they contained information of goods (hipped on account and rilk of many merchants in Lon don, Liverpool, Cork, Bublin, &c. and some (hip owners, writing for insurance. All vessels fa infurtd in any part of Great- Britain is bona 6de Britilh property with the French. In consequence of this infor mation, there are three] privateers cruising i for the (hips so loaded, ai'd to' fa l from N. J York to the different ports in Britain, — J r v s .1 4 c . • * " "*• Their cruise is frorp 16 degrees weft of Pa ris to 35, arid I t. 48 N. Capt. Sterling of Portsmouth, has reta ken his vessel from the French. S A L SB M, September 14. In our last we mentioned a report, that the Havannah fleet was convoyed by Spa uifh armed (hips : find, however, that the convoy was entirily Ameiicah, and con fided of the (hip Fanny, Wellman, of Sa lem, 16 guns and'6o men ; the (hip Eaglfe, Morrifon, of Charleston. guns and 75 men ; br g Fanny, Orroan, 14 guns and 4a men ; brig Rainbow, 10 guns ant". 20 men. There tveie 13 Spanish (hips of war lying at the Havarmh, bu them can-.t as convoy. Commodore Wellman, on his arrival in port, gave a federal and truly joy ful salute. Much anxiety had been euter tained for the fafety of ihe property now arrived, as the French pirate boats had been a long time waiting at the Havannah for its failing, to take it under convoy to a French port, but they at length found that they would have too many guns to encoun ter, and had waited in vain. PROVIDENCE, (R. I.) September .15 A fubfeription is began in this town for the rebef of our fuffering brethren of Phi ladelphia ; and as every feeling mind must be sensibly affefted by such complicated distress, it is prtfumed that the laudable ex - ample by some of our benevolent citizens wilj be generally followed. At Smithficld, on Tnefday lalt, a cart fell on Mr. Gideon Aldrich, while he was grerfing the wheels, by which accident he was immediately deprived of his life In an affray at Cvanfton, on Saturday last Hopkins Hudson stabbed Rufus Randall with a knife, of which weund he died the fame evening. Hudson was committed to Gaol, and on Thursday night he attempted filicide. At Plainfivld, on Saturday evening last, an elderly woman, by the name of Cole, accidentally fell down a pair of stairs and broke her neck. BALTIMORE, Sept. 18. Arrived yesterday, Ship Maryland, Capt. Beard, 116 days from Batavia. No»news. The pilot who brought up the Maryland fay 3 he saw the Constitution's prize, that she had a great part of her galleries (hot away, and that (he has now gone into Nor folk. We hope to receive the whole parti culars of her capture in a day or two from some of the officers of ths Constitution themselves. MAILS For Canada Ss 5 Nova Scotia. A Regular communicatian has been fotnstime established between the Poft-Ofßce« of the United St ites and the Post Offices of Canada, New Brunfwick and Neva Scotia, and will be continued until further notice. Those who have occasion to fend letters or news papers through that, channel must pay the United States portage at the pott-office, where the letters or newfpap.'rs are depofted, and without such previous payment they will not be forwarded. General Poft-Office, "J Trenton, Sept. 19, "98. j September 20 > Itaw^w. Bank Notts Loji. TWO letters addressed to Edward Edwards of Philadelphia, have been loft, between the Poll Office of that place and Frankford ; the ift letter, dited at Baltimore, September nth, 1798, con tained in notes of the Bank of the United States : No. 30, dated July I, 1794 —30 dollars. 583, do. May 16,1798 —100 dollars. In the 2d letter, dated at Baltimore September 12, 1795, were tbe folljw'ftg notes of the fame Bank, viz. J No. 36, dated.Junelcth, 1798 —50 dollars. 877, do. July nth, 1708 —JO dollars. 6389, do. 0(3:. 6th, 1798 —ico dollars. Fifty dollars will be given to any pcrfon who has found and will restore the above letters and notes, either to Robert Patton, Esq. at 'he Post Office, or to Mr. John M'Clcllen in Frankford.' September 20 § Cauyiont WHEREAS a certain perfonfwindled from me on the firft inft. by giving me inlieuthereof aforged check on the Bank of North America, anote of that daie, drawn in my favour by Mr. John Travis; and pay able in fix months, for three thousand four hundred fifty seven dollars and forty-fix •cents. ALL persons are desired not to re ceive any transfer of it, a 6 it will not be paid by either the drawer or cndorfer imlefs recovered by law. WILLIAM NICHOLS, Race Street. august 6. For Sale at Public Auction, ON THE PREMISES, FOURLOVSon Harper and Keith's wharf. In Alexandria, on the «6ih day of OiSaber next, if not fold at private sale before that time. One of these lot* is near the end of the wharf, twenty feet beyond which the water istwo fathoms deep, al out forty feet cut three fathoms, fifty feet out the water i« four fathoms, and grows deeper until it come? to the channel, wh/ch »6 about sev enty feet from the en.l of the whart. '1 li'te is as much dirt belonging to the bank as will level the wharf, which nr.ay want raising about a foot near the end. There is in thi6 sale an half acre lot very fitforataverft ; it if well watrred, and an ex cellent (land for that bufinel's. This property will be fold for ready moaoy, and or lepar ate, as may heft suit purchaler ;it Uv» 011 the lower fide of Alexandria, which is now improving very faift. A fketeliof the ground may bv f.en in tha ?n.ndi of the Printer hereof, for terms at private sale, apyly to Wm HartsHorne, or to the fubferiber, inAlexandria. JOHN HARPER." September 3 iawßw Wanted— A lioy to attend an Office, situAted ia a heilthy yart of the rity. Enquire at No. »i, North Seventh llrect September tisajette. . _i ■*--!-■ « ■! 'l'fecaggglMl . U-=. ■■WJ',t j. PHI LADELPHI A , THURSDAY EVEt'iMf!, SEPTEMBER 10. mortality in p^iladelphu. COMPARATIVE TABLE. ■ Deaths in > Sept. 1 17 "I • tß| - -9* 3 11 4 *3 - *7 5 2G 50 6 24- $3 7 J8 . '63 8 421 ; . >■ i4i 9 323 \ 19 29 73 11 23 71 12 33 S7 13 37 61 14 48 60 •5 56 57 16 67 6i 17 81 58 18 68 , ' 58 Total 911 1698 The statement of the affair at the jail is not fufficiently correft. As I have it in my power, I consider it a duty to reprefer.t to the public an exaft account of the event— not of the beginning.' 1 Three men were wounded. Miller, was I presume, killed by Mr. Wharton, who deserves all the gratitude that his fellow.ci tizens can give. He -eceived a ball, which ' was fpli'ted when in wai put in the pistol, : in his r'ght arm, which broke the bone of 1 his arm into pieces, it paiTed through his ' body, and was extrafted afer his death, for the fatisfaftion of the jury, from between ' the fifth and sixth rib of the right fide 1 He survived nearly one hour and an half. ' Vaughan ree'eived a ball from a muffcet pointed at him by one Thomas Evans, who had been employed as a turnkey and con stable, and is now keeper of the vagrant house. It was extrafted from his lungs yes terday with some difficulty at a quarter pad 12. [He died this morning ] The other received a wound of a bayonet from ft fpii ited black man, <*hofe exertions entitle him to notice. He is not dangerous. The cdwvias behaved well indeed, and it is with pleasure I inform the public in this liafty manner, that every commotion seems to-be at an end. B. DUFFIELD. Sept. 19 th. DONATIONS, Received at the Tents near Schuylkill, for the use of the Poor. September 19. Cadi sixty-one dollars, 77 cents, nineteen hundred two quarters fourteen pound rye an-1 one hundred two quarters wheat flour. Three cheeses, one ham and a jowl of ba con, from the of the town of West-Chester, EaljLßradford, Penrfbury and Birmingham townfliips forwarded by Mr- Phillip Price, jun. also a quantity of linnen, ar.d other cloathing fer the Ma rine and City alofpitaL i Two carts loaded with potatoes, onions, ap ples and cabbages, calleded by Mr. Ni cholas Pickel, from Messrs. HeylVrmin ger, Morris, Packer, Lefher, Snyder, Weaver, Longfingtr, Wetler, Kucher, Ulrich, Bartholomew, Henry and Mrs. Katy. Two l;gs of veal from Mr. JcfTc Doning ton. Twenty loaves bread, from an unknown per-, son, left at the City Hall. PETER MEIItCKEN, Sept. 20. Chairman. DONATIONS, Received at, the encampment at Maftet's place, for the life of the poor. September 19. From a person unknown, 20 quarts milk,fo be coutimi:d every morning. Mr. John Übritb, 44 pair women's leather shoes. Mrs. Malfby, a l®ad of cabbage. Col Joflma Lad Howell, 45 bush els potatoes, 2 bags rye flour, fix fbvep, about 701b. fait pork, and a quantity cheese and butter, collc&«! from a number of the inhabitants of Glouceftcr county. New Jersey. From Keyfey & Gorgas, 200 feet of pine hoards. From sundry inhabitants of Burling ton and its vicinity, ten cords of oak wood, 13bbls. containing flour, in diaß meal, fait meat, fuft soap, ap ples, men's, fiioe-, &c. Also, about 50 bushels of potatoes, a bundle of warm cloths, 20 dozes bundles of a quantitf butter and cheese, a variety t»f other very valua .le.arti cles. , > JlillL-livttCp, ~l Jona. Robeson, J-Committc. Isa ;c IV. Morris, J Bitter herbs, particularly Centaury will ' be very acceptable. Where bodies are found in a putrijied slate, quick lime with water Jbvu'd be thrown about them, which will iijflantly purify the eir, ar.d shut up the deadly vapours. «Esr*v*To*. CITY" HOSPITAL REPORT. roit ssprßMßi R 19. AD MITT 1 D, Mary Law Geo. \;e Gallon Mi»y. Gallagher, ; Silas Steele Silaj Steele, . A worn AH, "urllimw*L. Jofepli Clark Nancy C?rer»rillc his wife. J Kaac Kcrps, x Nancy Dunn Sarah M'Miiltin Mary Lagan Elizabeth Landruli William Davis ' Elizabeth Cox Patrick Marsh Jane Copafll Henrietta Stamford Polly Seed Philip Norman. DIED. John MacK John Boyd Nicholas Mutiny Nelly Ealiy Bridget Mowc v Jane Pointer. Wm. Morepurt Thos. Mtnney Hannah Mach DISCHARiSD. Philiip Zn'ae- Msry' Wheeler J-jhu M Koy Samuel Cook John D^-iman. ELOPED—TWO- v Interred.from city and suburbs < City Hospital R<maiiiinnr the Hospital iyc, of wu>'ii 65 are on the recovery. PH I MP S. PHYSICK. Chvillopher Darrab, Steward.' By order of the Boprd of Managers. WILLIAM JONES, Pr^fid«t» Attefi—Timothy Pax son, Clerk. SEVEN IY- rVVO new cases of the prj vailing fever, reported by 20 Physicians, for the last 24 hours. C5 4 BURIALS in the City and Hof J¥ *- tal burying grounds, for the 24 hours, end ing lad evening at 8 o'clock—Adults, C 4. children, 8. 1 Number of deaths at New-York on Mon day, 45—36 of the fever. Died yefterdav, Mr. Zephin-ah Wtlfttr* Piinter, and Wife. Mr. William Ruclach, huufe earpenter, MR. PRINTER. On reading a newspaper not a year since, I was very much struck, with a ch'ata&cr that was given of a certain man, of whom it 13 laid, he was efleemed a good chriflian by all who knew him. Ail that I will fay of this man is, that I knew him too wellj to fubferibe to that opinion. TRUTHS AT 7 ENT 10-N! The gentlemen returned to foveas guar dians of the poor will please to take notice .that the Court will be held at the Alma House on Tuesday the 25th inft. at 10 o'clock in the forenoon where they are re quired to give their attendance. At which time and place a meeting of the General Board 0, Guardians is requelled. Those memberk who'e times expire are particularly ■ untreated :o attend. - PETER MIERCKEN.A-^/. Alms September 17, 1798. Relief of the Poor. The undermentioned persons arc appoint ed by concurrent resolutions of the boards of managers of the Marine and City Hos pitals and guardiam of the poor for the pu pose of relieving such of their fellow ci tizen* wliofe situations render it improper for them to remove to the encampments. John Kthr, I'eter Barker, Heter Miereke-i, John tiulchinfon, Alexander Steel, William Stc-vsnfon, Thomas /Wtbetie, John James, Edward Garrign.j, Tbontas Sa-very, Stephen Mttxfwld, Rhea Kin?, V < Nathan St. Smith, Pa/chat Hollingjkuortb Daniel Doughty, John feat. ' By order of the loard < i Mauagi rt of the Marine and City Hofpijats. Wm. JONES, President. ■ Attest ' Timothy Psxon, Clerk. By order of the board of Guardiant »f the poor- PETER MIERCKEN, Pre/,dent. THE committee appointed by the above resolution for the relief of such peifons, whofie situations render it impradli'cable to remove their families to the tents, being rea dy to enter upon the important duties of their appointment; inform the public, they will meet on the 2nd. 4th. and 6th. days of each week from 3 to 6 o'clock, at th< Senate chamber in the Mate House, where the indigent of the above clafi will be re lieved, upon producing certificates from one or more refpeflable inhabitants who conti nue to reside in the City or Suburbs; that theit families are in such a situation as to render it improper to remove them to the tents. The Committee being sensible that no en deavours will be lacking in the committees who fnperintend the encampments, to make tlve temporary refidcnce of the poor as inha bitants who remove to them as comfortable as poflible; and believing that the removal of them from the may, under Provi deuce, be the means of flopping the prevail ing disorder ; are desirous an much at pofli ble to encourage it; and therefore molt ear 'qellly request, their fellow citizens, to re commend none to them, but such families, who from fickn'fs or other important confi deralions, are improper o'jedU to receive the bublic benevolence at the encampments* Ed. G.aRRIGUES, President. Peter Barker, Secretary. Philadelphia, <jth mo. 19tb, 1798. [ VqIvMR XJV.
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