AT PRIVATE SALE,
Srveral wry tlegsnt Situations for
SUMMER ' RETREATS,
fhiec anJ an half miics.from the couit-houf* near
Frankfort road.
'H£SE situations ars ccnfidered in point of
X health, beauty and elegance, equal to any
near the city ; commanding a very cxtenfive view
of the Delaware, the {hipping in the harbor, the
city, Harrogate, Frankford, and several elegant
country feats.
Any person defirotn of viewing the groupds
will please apply to Henry Hainzs, on the pre
miffs, ani for terms, which will be made easy, to
Abraham Shoemaker, ne. 124, south Fourth
lifect, and for title, to
BENJAMIN R. MORGAN, Esq.
Arch.betwten Second and Front streets.
jrn. 8 dlw
For Sale,
(For Cash, or ■, proved Notes, at 60 days,)
A QUANTITY OF
Demy Printing Paper,
OF THE FIRST QUALITY.
Sixty Reams of Foolscap, No. 2.
Enquire of the Printer,
jin. 7
Sales of valuable Property.
A OREE.ABIE to the last will and tefiament
./ \of J.OSE r H ANTHONY, senior, deceased,
wiff K- so! 4 at public iale (if not previously fold
at private fa!») on 'lhuifday, 14th February, at 7
o'clock ir the evening, at the Merchants* Coffee
Haute• fire**. the foll<*>winfr
REAL ESTATES,
Jin elegant three story brick house, situated at
Ojo.north-eaft corner 0/ Ninth and High streets,
twen.y eight feet front, with »hrce story brick
building*, extending on Ninth ftrcet,two hundred
feet to a thirty feet wide court, on which is ereit
dd a brick-fl'able and coacli house, the whole fi-.iifh
cd i> the hell manner.
Also three Twenty-five feet Lots bhunded by
"Filbert and Ninth Sreet "xtendin<«l'ack from Fil
bert Strc t feventy-five feet to the thirty feet Court
before mentioned with the privilege of the said
CoOrr.
Also a I ot with the Buildings thereon ereded
confiding rf a New Four t'tory Briak Building on
the e;ift end and a five Story Brjck Building on'the
weft £nd ifituatcd in Water Street between Chefnut
and Market contnining in breadth Twenty-three
fecr and extending Eaflward into the River' Del
aware Two hundred and fifry feet hounded east
ward by the River Delaware Southward by James
Pcmbertfco, WcfJward by water Street and North
ward by Mary Fox*s ftftate with a reservation of a
Cart way aorofs the euft end of said lot.
The Conditions will be made known at the time
of Sale> and immediate 3 polTeiTion of the House
and Lot* on High .and Ninth Streets will be given
and of the ftOrc and Lets in water Sreet the firft
of April next.—
JOSt-AH HBWSS -j
JOHN MORTON > Executors.
JOSEPH ANTHONY 3
BENSON & YORKE, Ati&iortcers.
Jan. 9 di4F
WANTED IM MEDIA I'LLY,
In'he School Hmife of the Holy Trinity Church
An English Catholic Teacher,
Wh j can- produce .good recommendation. 'For
tunhcr particulars apply of the futfcribrrs.
WILLIAM ELLING, pastor.
JAMES CELLERS,
ADAM PREMIR.
Jan. 7. d.H
WILL BE SOLD;
At Public Vendue, on the I 'Jth Instant, in the
evening,
Two Tradts or Pieces of Land,
SI TUATE in the (late of Tennessee, one of them
lying and being in the county of Sumner, on
the Head-waters of Flinnj creek, containing one
thousand ftven hundred and ff.nrteen acres, and
the other fituare in Hawkins cnunty, in the fame
slate, containing five thcrufand acres
Conditions of sale will be cash, to b« paid on
the execution of the deed. Information, relative
to the titles, may be had on application to Joshua
B. Bond, no—, corner of High and Sixth streets,
Philadelphia,
Shannon Es 5 Polk, Ancfrs.
Jan. 8 » dtl7fy.
The Creditors of Samuel Rut
tek are informed, T'# the Trullees will con
tinue to attend at the House of Christopher
Thoinpfcn, in Kobefon Township, Berks coun
ty, on the »Bih ar.d 29th days of the present
month, and on the Bth, 9th, and 10th days
of January next, in order to reeeive proof in
support of their refpefiive claims—And at Nor
riftown for the pnrpofe, at the house of Jere
miah Wills, on the nth and_i2th days of Fe
bruary next, of which all petfons concerned,
are requested to take NOTICE.
ALL PERSONS indebted to the said SAM
UEL RUTTF.R, previously to the 19th day
of June last, are informed th.lt, unless pay
ment is made te fotne one of the subs riberj, be
fore the ift day of February next, suits will be
commenced against them without refpe€U of
persons.
SAMUEL BAIRD ")
REES MOORE >Truftees.
SAMUEL POTTS 3
j" 1 '- 7- 3t,
The Creditors of William Steed
man of Derrs-Town, in the county of Northum
berland, £ate of Pennsylvania, arc hereby inform
ed, that'the said William Steedman has applied to
the Court of Common Pleas, of the said County,
to be admitted to the Benefit of the Insolent Laws
i.l the date of Pennsylvania, and that the Judges
of the said Court hava appointed the fourth Mon
day of January 1799, at Sunbury, in the said Coun
ty, to hear him and his Creditors.
WILLIAM STEEDMAN.
January 7 jt.
Java Coffee,
350 Bags of First Quality,
Now landing from f>n board the (hip INDIA,
at Mr. Thos. Penrofe's Wharf, and for fait by
John Ashmead,
No. South Front-Street.
WHO HAS ON HAND,
jFor Sale, on reasonable terms,
CofTacj
Baftas
Bl.uk TafTaties, &«.
•!ec ic eodtf
Wheat, Ginfang, &c.
4000 buftiels of white Wheat, of excellent
qwality
Calks of Gin/ang
30 Piyes of Madeira Wine, three years old
100 Barrels of Prime Beef
Pork in half bMs. and barrels
For Sale ly
JOHN SKYRIN,
No. 96, North Front-llreet.
dec 16 jawaw
Batik of North Anwica,
"January 1, 1799.
AT > meeting of the Directors this day, a divi
d«nd 0/ fix per cent, was declared for the
lall half year, which will be paid to the Stockhold
ers or th«ir reprtifentatives, at a*y time after the
ioth instant.
By order of the Board,
RICHARD WELLS, Cashier,
dtiojy-
Bank of Pennsylvania.
January 2d,
THE Direflors have this day declared a dividend
of sixteen dollars, on each (tare of Bank flock,for
the lad Six Months, which will be paid to the
Stockholders, or their legal representatives, after
the 12th instant.
By order of the Board,
JON. SMITH,' cajhier.
jan 1 dtn
Bank of United States,
January 7,1799.
THE Direftors have this day declared a
Dividend for the last fix months, of sixteen
dollars per (hare, payable after the 17th inft.
to the Stockholders or their legal representa
tives. G. SIMPSON, Cashier.
(d6t)
Abner Briggs,
Of the City of Philadelphia,
STOREKEEPER,
HAVING ai&gncd over ail his eff«&s, real, per
sonal and mixed, to the fubferibers, for the
benefit of all hi.- creditors—
SOriCE IS HERE Itr GIVEN,
TO all persons who ar« indebted to the said
Estate, that are requested to make immediate
payment of their rcfpedlive accounts, t<S either of
cheaflijnees; in failure whereof, legal measures
will be taken for the recovery of such debts, as are
not difchat-ged without furth«r delay.»
GEORGEPENNOCK,
WILLIAM FRENCH.
January % wed:&*r 6w
The Creditors of John Lawflie,
of Derrs- Town, in the county of Northumberland
State of Pennsylvania, are hereby informed, that
the said John Lawfhe has applied to the Court of
Common Pleas of the said county, to be admitted
to the benefit of the Jnfolvent Laws ot the State of
Pennsylvania, and that the Judges of the said
(Jourt have appointed the fourth Monday of Janu
ary, 1799 i at Sunbury, in the said county, to hear
him and his Creditors, JOHN LAWSHE.
)»"• 7- l3t
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From causes, which are too evident to need
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beholden in a very considerable degree, to the
prcfTes of Great Britain. The literature of the
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ilock ; but, for one publication of ours,, .we re
ceive, at least five hundred in return. While
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ufeful, and all amusement, howeverdelightfcrme,
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to their censure. For so full is onr conviaion
that the war, which now desolates Europe, and
menace this country, is a war ef ambition and
plunder, on the part of France, that nothing
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• reftlefsand ambitious peop'ebeen like a volcano
- in the centre of Europe, dilturbing the surround
ing States by its intrigues, and once in every
eight or ten years overwhelming its molt fertile
countries with devaltation and carnage.
Indeed it is more than eighteen hundred years
since the grtat Roman Orator* thought it his
duty to warn his countrymen against that con
duct and those principles, for which the present
race of Gauls are asjuftly to be dreaded as their
lavage ancetlors ; " Gallis fidem »on habendum,
hominihus levibus, perfdis, et in ipfos Deos im
mortales impiis."
By the proper management of this topic our
countrymen wi'.lbe able to fee the real charafterof
the nation, which they formerly considered as their
friends, now more justly execrate as their Kofi
dang-rom enemies; and they will be better prepar
ed to appreciate any overtures, that may be made
hereafter, for the refloration of peace and amity,
In the execution of this part of our design, par
ticularly " we look with confidence tor the itipport
and afliftanre ot all persons who ilia]t consider our
motive* as laudable, and therefore wifb to contri
bute to the success of our design ; —of all who
think, with us, that the prefshas been too long an
engine of deltruftion, and that it ought, at length
to be rendered a mean of prefervatioD, and an in
ftrurrent of prott&ion."
* Cicxro. .
" Literature, well or ill conduced, isthegreaf
" engine by which, I am fully persuaded, all ci
" vilifed State-: «nuft ultimately be supported or
" overthrown." PurfJiii of Litcfbture.
The CONDITIONS.
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and if a moderate encouragement is given the
firft number will appear on the fir ft day of Feb
ruary next.
Each number will contain at least Fifty pages of
letter in o&avo, under a blue cover. It
will be printed on a fair and good paper ; and,
as soon as our lift of Subscribers will warrant
the expence, every number will be embelliflied
with an elegant engraving.
The price to the subfcribcr« will be twenty-five
cents lor each number, to be paid on delivery at
some one of the places fpecified below, where
the fuhfeription been received ; and as soon
ai there are tufficient to.make a handsome vo
lume, they will be bound together, for such sub
scribers as choose it, they paying the additional
eipence.
Subscriptions will be received by Benjamin Davi<-s
st No. 68, High llrret, where the favours of all Cor
tefpondents'of which the peftage has been peid, will
be received, ar.d duly attended to, v well ai by all the
principal Book-fellers in the ciiy ; by George Hill,
Book feller in Baltimore ; and by Achibsld Drum
mond, Book feller, in New-York.
«<• ' ' i aw3w
FLOUR, FOR SALE,,
DELIVERABLE at Nfw-Caftle or Port
Penn, by
LEVI HOLLINGSWORTH & SON.
dec 19 d4Mr
No. 128,
Tht ftutb taji corner of Market and Fouth
Jireett,
JACOB COX,
HAS just received by tfie late arrivals from
Europe, a large, general and elegant aC
fortment of the moll
Fashionable Merchandize,
(in the gentlemen's line)— The whole of which
will be dilpofed of, wholesale and retail, at re
duced prices forcalh.
ec ' *9 aawtf
NOTICE.
THE creditors of George Johnfton, late ef
Queen Ann's county, in the flat* of Mary
land, deeeafed, are hereby requested to appear
at Church Hill, in the county and state afore
laid, on Tkurfday the 11ft day of January next,
with their claims against the said deeeafed,
properly authenticated, at which time a propor
tionable division of the afTets in the hands of the
fubferiber will be made among* the creditors ac
cording to law; and those who do not appear
on the said day, will be forever preeltided rem
their claims on the said estate.
REBECCA JOHNSTON, Executrix.
Church Hill, Dec. 11.
AM ACT,
Limiting the time within which claims against
the United States, for credits on the books of ,
the Trealury, may be presented tor allowance
BE it enabled by the Senate and HotiJ'e of Re
fire/entatives of the United Statei of Ameri
ca, in Congress ajfembled, That all credits on
the books of the I'reafury of the United Staaes,
for tranfaftions during the late war, which,
according to the course of the Treasury have
hitherto been discharged by issuing certificates
of registered debt, (hall be forever barred and J
precluded from settlement or allowance, uniefs .
claimed by the proper creditors, or their lejial
representatives, on or before the firft day of
March, in the year Ine thousand seven hundred '
and ninety-nine. And the Secretary of the <
Treasury is hereby required to cawfe this A<st to i
be publilhed in «ne or more of the public papers ]
of each state. ,
(Signed JONATHAN DAYTON, j
Speaker of the Honfe of Representatives.
THEODORE SEDGWICK,
President <>f the Senate. Fro. Tem.
Approved July 9 , 1798.
JOHN ADAMS,
President of t e United States.
December 13. w t ift Var.
Notice-
ALL persons indebted to the Es
tate of Isaac Telfair, £fq decked, arc requeu
ed to make immediate-pavment, and those having a
ny defnat'ds agairvft said Estate wi: J pJcafeto furnifti
their accounts 'or settlement to
GEORGE DAVIS,
- Attorney in faft to
JOHN M'KIM, jr. Ad'm'tr.
2W6W
Xljc <Sa?ette. •
PHILADELPHIA,
1 THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 10.
CONGRESS,
t
» HOUSE of REPRESENTATIVES.
I __
Debate enfllr. Qristvold's motion.
j (concluded.)
Friday, December 28.
r Mr. Macon said, that notwithftinding the
1 admonition of the gentleman from N, York,
g whogenerallyoccupied unnecefianlv as much
time as any member in the hodfe, he wished
t to fay a few >vords on this queltion. It was
3 said this proposition was necessary for de-
t '."lice. He had waited with some impatience
. to ' lcar w hat fort of defence it was to afford,
without being gratified. At the last felfion,
t it was said that certain laws, which had lince
9 proved very obnoxious, were intended as
- objects of defence, but he had never heard
ot ain they had afforded, and this measure
appeared to be of the fame description, bro't
! ward * or the purpof; of anticipating ano
ther queltion, viz. a motion for repealing the
. alien and iedition laws. He believed, if
f gentlemen wilhed to provide defence for the
Country, they mult do it by means of guns
powder, and men, and not by such laws as
these.
Mr. M. said he had heard a great hue and
cry again ft a French party in this country.
If such a party exists, why can thev not be
pointed out ? It might as well be laid that
there is a Britifli party in this country. He
believed there existed full as much reason for
faying there is the one as the other. His
reason for thinking so was, that great part of
the commerce of this counuy is carried on
by means of Britilh capital, and British fub
jefts are feenfroin one end of the continent
to the other. And will not this capital, and
these perf> ns, produce a IJptilh interelt ?
They will and do. The diplomatic ikill of
France, Mr. M. laid, was conJinually preach
ed up. It had been clearly fliewn that they
had never discovered any of this Ikill in
fending ministers here. But if he might
lpeak out, he would fay, that the Britifli had
discovered more diplomatic Ikill in this coun
try than any other nation, and that the pre
sent Britiih minister had fliewn more of it
than any other. [I he Speaker declared such
remarks out of order] Mr. M. said, that
it had been insinuated, that all those who wilh
to fraternize with France, and to pay them
the 50,0001. which they demanded of us,
would oppose all measures of this kind. He
had himlelf never heard of a man willing to
give a cent to France to procure peace. If«
France could believe there is a party in this
country in her interest, lhe mult have col
lefted the belief from such observations as
these.
It bad been said, that certain gentlemen
high in authority ih this country, were privy
to the departure of the, gentleman who was
lately in France. For aught he knew, these
gentlemen might have named him. But it
was a little extraordinary, said Mr. M. that
in our discussions on this floor, we Ihould be
talking of an officer in our government being
a traitor. Such kind ot language can have
no eifeft but to create fufpicionsin the minds
of the people that that man is an enemy to
his country; Ibis does not look much like
a wish to conciliate differences of opinion,
but the contrary. If gentlemen possess proof
of any mal-conduft in theperfon particularly
alluded to, it is their duty to bring it forward
and put him from the situation in which he
is placed ; and it any futh could be brought,
no man would be more desirous of feeing
him displaced than he should. But if no such
proof exists, it is a ft range way of fupprming
the constituted authorities, thus to calumni
ate a man whom the people have thought
proper to place in so high a station.
An expreflion had escaped the gentleman
from South Carolina, who always spoke much
of his American feelings, which he did not
understand. He said, that during our revo
lutionary war, there were men who would
have been ready to have purchased peace by
fubmilllon. Surely the gentleman must have
been mistaken, except he means such as were
opposed to the revolution from the begin
ning. [Mr. Haiper said he did mean those.]
t Every body knows, continued Mr. M. that
such as took up arms against us, would have
been willing to have purchased peace by fub
miflion.
For his own part, he fiw no good to be
answered by this law. He could not con
ceive how an individual could ufarp the ex
ecutive authority against the voice of the
people of the United States, supported by all
the force of the Unio* ; and if any individual
were so mad as to invite over a French army,
he would find himlelf milerably deceived, if
he expected any body in this country would
join them. He did not think a lingle man
could be found that would join a French !
standard. But if we were even in a state of
war, and an individual could prevail upon .
our enemy to offer such terms of peace as
our government would be willing to accept,
it would be a good thing. He could him
felf conceive no fituatio"n in which such a
law as proposed would operate ; and as he
believed our government as firmly fixed as
the land we live on, he saw no ne'celiity for
any such measure.
Mr. N. Smith wilhed to make a few re
marks in reply to the gentleman from Penn
sylvania, who had noticed tome of his former
observations. The gentleman had, in the
firft place, miftated his argument, and then
answered it in his own way. It would be
recollected that the gentleman from Virgiaia
bad stated to the house that if an individual
had opened a correspondence with a foreign
government for the benefit of his country,
so tar from its being criminal, it would be
■ praie -Worthy. In answer to this, Mr. S.
said he had remarked, that it might be laid
I
down as a general rule, that no fore, K „„.
tion would open a correlpondence. with Z
individual, intending to fey or the mtil
which that individual belong, because Y
they were inclined to do this" they con 1,1 J
.....rough rtetol „ g ,„. v.2£
this argument, the gentleman states it rlif
terently. He makes me, observed Mr S
to fay " that no government could ever rr>»'
t with good faith, open a correspond"
ence with such an individual." He harl r j
no such thing. Afterdifferences arise and
one nation receives injuries from another
many ind.reft measures may be neceffarv t«
compel the offending nation to do j u fL
One nation may goto war with another con*
fiftent with good faith, but whoever heard
01 this bang done to confer a favor ? After
thus misrepresenting his argument, he did not
even attempt to answer it; but attempted
. to prove that our envoys had been Ru iltv of
miiconduft. Mr. N. S. did not wish this
ule to be made of it. Did our envoys, raid
he, treat with a set of persons who declared
they were not authorised by the French go
vernment? No; the persons with whom
they negociated, said they were authorized by
the government, and he had no doubt they,
were. They did not fay, « our government*
will not treat with you ; but we will, being
ot a different opinien from our govern
ment."
Mr. S. would notice one or two other in
consistencies in the gentleman from Pennfvl
vania. Aware that, he had gone too far in
declaring that an individual might assume the
executive authority, he attempts to qualify
the doftrjne. by faying that an individual
may, but a party may not. What ! an in
dividual may do a favor to his country, yet
several individuals may not! Strange ijscon
litency. It was aftonrfhing that the gen!
tleman could have fuffered hiinfelf to fupnort
luch an opinion. j
Ihe feme gentleman had alTo told the
house, that there is a difference between ne
gociation and correspondence ; and that a
negociation mull be criminal, but a" corres
pondence may be perfedUy proper. What is
the difference ! A man goes forward and
con.fponds with a foreign government with
respect to lubfiftmg differences betwixt it and
the government of the country to which he
belongs. What is this but negociating ?
And the gentleman from Virginia does not
pretenu to make any difference ; because his
argument was, that such a person could do
no harm, because he could not conclude a
treaty. In (hort, said Mr. S. the whole
comes to this. If this nation and onother
are at war, and onr enemy chufes rather to
negociate with an individual than with the
government with refpeft to peace, they may
make one treaty after another, and caule
them to be laid before the executive; and. if
the argument of the gentleman is found, they
inuft examine each gf these treaties to fee
whether they are proper, or not. It is true,
the government would not be bound to adopt
any of these treaties, but tkey will be oblig
ed to fit down, and form an opinion upon
them.
I hus, the power of carrying on foreign
negociations would be taken from the execu
tive, and placed in the hands of any indivi
dual who might chufe to enter upon the bu
linefs, which would be defeating a law placed
in the President by the constitution of the
L nited States, and which is so guarded, that
even he cannot exercise it, without the con
currence of the Senate. And why, asked
Mr. S. has the constitution been thus cau
tious ? For this purpoie ; because these are
matters which ought to be in Ikilful hands;
and not in the hands of a novice. It was
well known tha; foreign nations will always
look well to their own interests, and that this
catlfcn ought to have persons of great abili
ty and integrity, and persons who have the
good of thar country at heart, employed on
their behalf. But if the gentlemen are right
all this constitutional barrier is to be thrown
down, and the business lie open to anj» one
who will take it up. Mr. S. said, it was
uftonilhing to him that the gentlemen who
had always been for limiting the power of
the President, Ihould now advance a dodlrine
which gives power to individuals in diretl op
polition to the constitution. If this doc
trine had come from gentlemen -who have ne
ver been so scrupulous on this fubjeel, it
would not have appeared so strange ; but, to
come from those who have ever been so very
jealous of an extention of power, is perfect
ly aftonilhing.
Mr. Harrifon called for the reading of the
aft proposed to be amended ; after the read
ing of which the yeas and nays were taken
upon the resolution and it was earned 6; to
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