, £=. »f" wW *♦" " AN ELKO AN r ASSOII t'M"N 1 Or p Madras Handkerchiefs, yon uli «■» ... del Mcrdccai Levin* „ n jan. >6. £a 40 Boxes of Fresh Citron in Tj'i arrived via New-York, arid for Sale by ail J JOHJ-J CRAIG, tlj Who has aifo for Sale, ex Old Madeira Wine £ of the firlt quality, ; ' India Muslins, th< coarse and fine. See• fu< A quantity of the best Englifli large leaf f a j Clover Seed; th AIV „ nz J» n - "• *■ —= to; TO BE SOLD, . ed A two ftofy Stone Houlej au T ATELY built, with two acre, of land, on L the road, about a mile » b <£ ™ d m fart. The tituation is high and he , M si the water excelleut.-For terms >PPV th John McClelland, or Mr. Richard Whitehead, No. 6», Vine-street. r)iw ri Jan. 11 1 ' '■« bi PUBLIC NOTICE j IS hereby given, that application will be made to the Directors of the Bank of Pennfyl va.iia f-r the renewal of a Cei tificate for » (hart i ! the said Bank, No 0 . ,Q-, Mantling i* tbe name of JOSEPH REED, o'XT\J*i been accidentally Uft or dc- « ftroyed, a Philad. Jan. IS- li FILTERING STONES. I Of an excellent qoal'ty for Snip* or Famihea A ton SAlt BT Thomas W Joshua Fisher. No. J, Dock street. c yft mn. tf. o AIX PERSONS r h i Indebted to th«Ht»te ot Mr. Jobn FiNNo.latc h of Philadelphia, dcceafcd.arc dsftred to make pay incut, and those having any demands, to prelent tliKin for fettlsrvcnt, to j SAMUEL BLODGET, Adm r. «• or JOHN WARD FENNO, Agent o to the adniiniftiation. ei nov. P JAMAICA RUM, b A Cargo now landing at Southfired wharf, d FOR. SJ.ll BY PE-fER B/.IOHT, !' Apply at Stores on the Wharf, WHO AL SO OFF £* * ' OJI ,All » • «. BSANUY. Id and 4th proof * 11 Madeira and Port WINES, &c. &c. P No*. I. l . ■ 4ltf .. Five Dollars Reward. 'J STOLEN yelterday morning, between 10 and g ( 15 o'clock, from No. 68, South Fourth Street, ,j a A Single cafe Silver Wat eh, oi the tn.ker's naiuoMarknoble -number not known, ci ihe letter* W. H. are Scratched on the rim of the hi cafe—a iieel chain and key, gift? seal with acypher W. H. engraved on it. Whoever will give me n information.fo :li*t t|>e thief may be brought to „ rutlice lhall receive the above reward. 11 1 W. HAYDON. u jan St . d Stray Horse. 8 WAS taken up, treffpaffing on the fubferiber, in the townftlip of Paffyuiik, in the county P 6f Philadelphia, a grey Horfe,about fourteen hands high, thirteen or fourteen years old, blind of his right eye, anfl (hod before- Whoever ha» lotl him,.by proving property and paying charges,may 1 him again on applying to the fubferiber. fa 10HN SINK, «< Oothe Banks ot Schuylkill. A j"- I 9' * £ WHEREAS " TSAAC PAINTiR having made as affignmfHt l j n f all hi property to me the fubferiber for the bereft »f hi< crediton, thi» uto request all per- c to. indebted to the said Ifaae Painter, to prevent J further trouble, to make immediate payment to me tl>e fubfen'ntr ; all those having any de- < mand« against him m render in their acco»nt« to 1 JACOB CLARK, JJigncc. t jSh. .6 atf ; NOTICE, PURSUANT to a Resolve of {he Board of Truflees of Washington Academy, in Som rffet county, Maryland, authorising WaiUM ■Polk, efqr. majors SaMUtL Wilson, and William foNts, Mrrnßets of said Board, to 'procure a principal teacher for said Academy.- NOTICE ii here y given, that a gentleman quali- Jfad ro teaeh the Greek and Latin Language.*, Geo c.riphy and the Mathematics, and fach other 'branches of l.itttature as it is l uftoinary to teach . liich Schools, will meet with Viberal encourage ment and it is presumed will be well accommodat es ill taking charge of this Academy. The build ing is fpaeious and Will accomodate at least filty Students. Propofuls may be addreiTcd to John Dennis, Mo. i'ii Arih-ftreet, or Williaru Winder, accountant in the Navy department, Walnut street; Philadel phia, or to either of the three gtntlemen above -mentioned, near Princeft Anne, Maryland, dec 17 J NOTICE. r r"HE co partnership of JOHN GREEN &Co A i. this day dissolved by mutual consent. All pcrfons indebted to the fcid Firm are requelled to n-.ake immediate paymtnt, and those having any demands to present them lor fcttlemcnt to any one < of tbe Subicriber^—each being du>y authorized to jr'iull the fame. JOHN GREEN. EDMUND DARBH. samuei. DARCH. jj. b. They have the remainder of their Hock si Goods—confiding o4 Ironmongery, Hardware, &c. \t No. i 6, North S<cond Street, which they are filling on vtry low terms to dose thebufinefi. •«n. 18 taw 3 w NOTICE. A"' 'ii- perious indebted to James Emlcn, late of Midd'e'owu, til the county of Delaware, fjr.tcifed- are refuelled to make payment to either of ihe fiibfcr b?r«, whom th< y Stall find it most convejiicnt to call on; «nd all persons havivg de mancS, will be pleafcd in like manner, to furnifh them, thai th'V may paid. A I rejjti, nfiich fell due oa or" tforu the fourth Jiy us tiie Ictb month la 11 are payable to the fub j'Cdbcri and those which accrued after that day wil be payable to the guardians of his children, who ■w ;:l daly notify the tennants where to pay the i" me. MIF.RS FISHER, of Philadelphia, > £xec -VBM. PBKNEI.L, of MiJdltiown, \ utors, .:tt :? »aw6w /i HERE AS, BY. a* AiSl of pjfledon the fixteiiilh J n day of J«ly in tiie year of our Lord one thou, hundred and ninety eight, ilia Inci dent , ft hi Urtited States ts authonled lo borrow on behalf of the United States from the AT Bank of the United States, or fr.mi any other bod; or bodies politic ur corporate, or troca any person or persons, and upon luch terms aud conditions as he (hall judge most a vjn- 2 1 tageons for the Uniterl Statet, a lum not eweeding five millions of dollars, K> however, that no contrail or engagement be made which | (hall preclude the United States from reimburl- yi. ing any f»m or lum. borrowed at any time after . the expiration of fifteen years from the date ot such loan. JnJ whereas, it is declaredT>y the said Aa, that so much as may be ncfreflary ol the surplus of the duties on Imports and lou- 30 nzge beyond the permanent appropnati ns here 3 toforecharged upon them by law, ih&U b<; uleog- 3 ed and appropriated for paying the lutereft, and also for paying and the principal 5 sum or lumi of all the monies which may be V borrowed, according to the teran or terms wIiKJ i mav be fixed, pursuant to the authority atore- | said—And whereat by the said Acl, the faith ot tbe United States is pledged to ellabliOi tumcient ( permanent Revenues for making up any deth.ien- cy that may hereafter ij-pear in the provifi >ns t before-mentioned for piymg the interelt and s principal sums, or either of them, of any mo- j nie< which may be borro scil pursuant to the laid 1 A<l. And whereat the Prelideut ot the Unit- ] ed States did by an A<ft or CommilEon under his , hand dated the ninth day of January inth.year one thoufaud seven liundred and ninety nine, au- ; thorife and empower, the Secretary of the I rea- I: fury, to borrow on behalf of the United . tates, 1 aay sum not exceeding in the whole, five in 1- lions of dollars and to make such contrail or contracts ai (hould be necefTary, arul for ihe in terelt of the linked State<, in purluance of the A a of Congress above recited. Now therefor,, the undersigned, Secretary ( of the Treafurjr, in purluance ot the A<s\ ot Congress, and the authority from the Pre illicit of the United States, above mentioned, doth hereby on behalf of the United States of Ame rica, contrail aud engage in manner following, to wit. ift. A book for receiving fu'ofcriptions to a Loan of five millions of dollars tor the pfe ot the United States (hall be opened in the city of Philadelphia, at the Bank of the United State! on Thursday tbe twenty eighth day of February _ eal'uing, which book fliall continue open for the purpose of receiving lubfcriptions, nfltil the whole of the said five million" of dollar a fliall be fvbleribed. It more than five inilli >ns of dollars lhall be lubfcribed on the firll day of opening the fiirl loan, the lurplus lhall be de dueled 1)1 prop ir'ion to the funis liibfcribeil by / individuals, exceeding tour tlioufaml dollars. V a<|. For every hundred dollai s whi. b may be 11 fubferibed there lhall he forthwith deposited and Oi paid the sum of twelve d'liars and titty cents, it and fike payments of twel/e dollam and filiy cents, shall be made within the firll ten days ot the month's of April, May, June, July, September and Oiflober ensuing. The Secre tary of #ie Treasury however rel'erves the ritht of reducing the number of inflallments by fpc cial agreements, with the individuals who may become I'ubl'cribers. jd. On the fiilure of payment of any inftall mcnt of the sums fubferibed according to the ■' tenor of tbe i'ecohd article!, the next preceeding 1 mftallment of twelve doltirs and fiftv cetlts, '' which (hall have been paid, for every hundred dollars fubferibed (hall be forfeited to the Unit- States. , T 4th, The sums fubferibed (ball and may be '' paid to the credit of the United States, at the Bank of the.Uaited States, or at the offices ot ' l discount and deposit of'be said rtank at Boston. ' New-York, Baltimore, or Charlcfton, or at ri, ' tber of the Banks of Salem, in Mafiachufetjs, ' Newport and Providence in Rhode-llland,Hart ford in Connecticut, Albany in New-York, or J Alexandria in Virginia, for which payments,the r receipts of the Calhiers of the Offices of Dis count and Deposit and of the Banks aforefaid lhall be received at the Bank of the United States t as equivalent to money ; but no payment of a subsequent iuflallment shall be received at any other place than that where the firft installment was paid, except at the Bank of the United , States ; in cafe any deposits (ball be made at the offices of Discount or Deposit, or at either of the Banks aforefaid, wbich (ball not be applied to the payment of the firft mftallment of fubferip tions to the Loin aforefaid, the said deposits (hall be forthwith refunded by direction! from the Treasury. f jth. For the fum-* or number of lbaresofone hundred dollars, which may be fubferibed, cer tificates (ball be given by the Cashier of the Bank of the Uoited States, which (hall be afiignable by indorsement, and delivery of the parties i*i 0 whole favour the said certificates may be ifliied, r until the cdmplctinn of the payments required by the tenor of the second article preceeding. 6th. The furn< fubferibed and paid in purfu 'h anee of the tenor of the second article precced s_ ing, (hall after the fiid payment* have been t _ compleated, eonftitute a funded capital flock j. divisible into (bares of one hundred dollars each, y which capital flock (hall bear interest at the rate of eight per centum per annum from the times o. hxed for the payment of ike refpeiflive inftall nt ments payable quarter yearly at the Treasury of :l- the United States, or at the Loan Offices where ve the fame may stand credited, until the last day of December, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eight. 7th. After the lad day of December in the said year one thousand eight hundred and eight, and after reasonable notice to the creditors, which (hall -o lie given by an advertifemcnt in Tome public news — paper, printed at the feat of the government of the ed United States, the said Capital (lock (ball be re ny deemable at the pkafure of the United States by inc the reimhurfement of the whole sum or sums to borrowed, and which may cnnflitute the said capi tal (lock either at the treasury of the United States or at the loan offices where the fame may (land credited. Btli. The credits for the faidxapital flock (hall k and may lie feparaUly certifier 1 , in sums either for one hundred, four hundred, one thousand, four thousand or ten thousand dollars, and the credits so certified lhall be transferable by the creditors, or are their attoroies, at the Treasury and Loan Offices respectively, in pursuance of the rules which have > been, or which may be eltablilhed relative to the transfer ot the funded dock of the Un'tcd States, 9th. A fufficicnt lum of the surplus of the duties on Imports and Tonnage beyond the permanent late appropriations heretofore charged upon them by ire, law, together with the faith of the United States her are hereby pledged for the fulfillment of this con rod trait, in pursuance of, and according to the terms de- and coniitiom of the aft of Congress herein be lifh fore recited. Given under my band and the Ceal of the ub- (L S 1 Treasury of tbe United States at Phi " ladelphia, this twelfth day of January -h,, one thousand seven hundred and nine the n 'ie. w OLIVER WOLCOTT, rj. Secretary of tbe Treasury. Jan. 13. $ Imp O K T c U In /.fc arrivals from Bremen, i Hamburg and Amster t n, AND FOR SALE, of] at RIAIONAKLI fKICEI AHuON * LIBERAL -j CUIiTITi ».* fifctfi P&ATT W KINT'/INQ, [lev N0.95, North Water ftrcet 1 215 bales & boxes ricklenburghs, hempen linens and oanabrigs from 1/5 t" I ■3J t>w <y _ , 70 do. bleached and brown heflians 40 do. brown rolls luitablc tor col fee bag» :>to 20 do. strong do. do. for cotton do. csr 30 chests platillas 1 do. fcaling-wax 3 da. dowlas- 3 packages oil-cloth 30 do. creas ala Morlaix 4 do. lail-twine la do. cftopailles . 1 do. watchei v 15 do. Bklcfield Rnen 14 pipes Port wine abi 90 do. patterbomes 9» calevcJatet wi 41 do Brittania* 13° do 6ne lorg corked s OT t do. Holland canvai's claret arc I de, Ruliia do. 1600 hufll.'U fine U.t 3 do. Russia ihnetings 40 «*iktofr<Ul brimstone I do. ravens duck iOQ calks of naval tlore*. a do. Ruflia driUcns 50 logs prime mahogany 1 do. brown l.olland 4 hhdv coffee mills -p> » do. Silesia rouaos 6 bundle. Qermau lleel JS I dk.Wahrendrop lmefl 10 chcfli ot flat" and I do. Caraudoles pcnclU w ; I. do. Flcmilblineni A packageof lkate* 5 do. cambrkks and A do. woolen caps, &c. ) iWB , 4 chettt ot Nurenberg 1 do. diaper *°l» >vl II do. stripes 40 kcjs of yellow ochre wi 18 do. checks 3 H.*id». Glue | _ a do. tiamoi* 8 barrels of Lentil.ea I do. Arabia flripe i chelts of prime red I «I».buntiug fprcolw crust Holland checfn 1 pacha. Madras hand- <o kegs of pearl barley , kcrchieU to boles of capers ye I do. Turkey yarn 400 fides of upper and F< 6 hales empty bags foal leather fti 1 chcft hair ribband 300 boxes window glass 3 boxes rapes,aflorted ioo Demijohns ■ I in a do. bobbin, aflorted 50 boxes glass tumblers j I box threads & tapes aHorsed I do. fine blue liftados a hhds. pumice ftoae J chctts men's flippers 1 box of mill laws 3 do. bed ticks I calk of cutlery a oils hog's bridles A quantity of Hone jugs 6 dulls writing paper and pickling pots 4 do. quills A few fcips anchor*, See. November 11 tu&fjtfj English wrought Nails. Imported in the Jbtp* Moliy and Dianas from Ll VIM fO'l L . 400 Casks of Nails, CONSISTING ot' 6d, Bd, lod, lid, «d | p aod, flat points luitible for the fouilitm muket—6d, JW, icd, 1 ad, and aod, finedrawn n] (harps—alio t, 3, 4, and 6 clouts— (prigs — c( iucki—Uupper nails—ftirathisg nails, ni roK iali »T| a , Robert Denifon s junr. * 117 Market-llreet. 111 l SUBSCRIBER 1 i ; * LATKLT or TNI HOUSI OK LANE, GODFREY Es? Co. INFORMS hi* friends in particular and the c< public in general, that he continues in the lime d line ol buflnel* as formerly at the (lore lately C occupied by MelTrs. Morgan and Price, on , 1 Stamper's wharf, below th# Drawbridge, where >■ be haifor file a general aflbrtment of bar, rod, 1 ® (beet and hoop iron, country and Eoglilh Heel, open and ten plate lloves, a few pair ol double fortified 4 and fib iron caution, cannon ball i * and grape Hiot. forge hammars and a quantity of cast iron ballilt for velTcis, chin ney backs »nd jams on a uew and improved plan. Hollow ware aflorted. Order» for any j kind of casting will b* received at the store j and executed at.the air furnace at the shortest notice. A small House to kt, ' 1 Above b'i/th flreet —Enquire of the Subtcriher. 1 Wm. LANE, ian. 3. eodnt t ' Charles Campbell, F W AT C H-M A K E R. > TT AS removed to.the Shop formerly occupied - 11 by Mr. John Wood, No. Jb corner of ' Front and Chefmit-flreotsj where he will thank -1 fully receive and execute orders with neatneft and dispatch e >1 HAS COM STAN it t OH HAND, A Neat and.Large Afibrttnent of Clocks y Watches. C ? WANTED, d A JOURNETMAN ; ALSO, one or rwo Apprentice* of relpefla -- ble parent*. 1- n FOR SALE, k A large quantity of Watch Glasses '' WMtfalc and Ritail. ' nor a 4 3»wt f To be Sold, « OR iy For property ?n the City, or within Thirty ht mile* of it, id A Valuable Plantation, id TN Tutcorora Valley, MifHin county, containing ill 1 about three hundred acres, the whole capable of cultivation. At prefer.: there is about jO acres he cleared, ao of which is a rich bottom of Meadow ■ c . Ground, enriched by a never failing ft ream, that by has fall and water enough for all the ptirpofes of m, a Country Mill. For turiher information apply at pi. No. 68, Market flreet. te« Rovember 10 taw nd NOTICE. >all 'T'HE creditors of George Johnfton, late ef lor J. Queen Ann'* county, in the Itate of Mary ur land, deceased, are hereby rcquefted to appear tits at Church Hill, in the county and state afore or fald, on Thttrfday the aift day of January next, "• with their claims again ft the fa id deeeafed, lve properly authenticated, at which timea propor tionable division of the afiVtc in the hands of the "• fubferiber will be made among the creditors ac. :ic * cording to law; and thole who do not appear c , nt on the said day, will be forever precluded'from theirclaims on the said eltate. REBECCA JOHNSTON, Executrix, rns Church Hill, Dec, ai. be ' Thw Day is Puhliftied, AHDFOSIALS SY J. t XHNO, I Iq.CHISNUT-Si A »IT the an address To the People of Maryland, lie . ON the origin, progress and preftut state of French ajjgrelfion, witli a (ketch of the infamous attempts to degrade the Oovermivnt of the United States, and some reflections on the late proceedings in Congress; written the lall of April in the jire rJ- sent year, by a Member of the House of Reprcfen | tativei. 5 junell b R E A I > lie di-livcrrti 'o rl<e I'oor 1h • City an i 1 i,U><.r:i *a- l i ionds Mc»ti'ig rl-ul',: in »Vi«r- A ker, the corner «l Secrn i.tlreet. Fii ey tl'.e ~f 1 ebruary, at 10 o'clock, agr.ri!>:d o flie will, of l'etty and tarter. The guardians of the poor rrc rrqticfted to y-Iv.- thtfir attendaaee 'in rtlolve ol the neval fioaru of the 14th !ul:aot ' Jonathan Robeson, i'nefider.t of the General Brard ol Gu iMians PhiiaJelpliia,Jawutry aB, 1 -yy dtfr Richard Bayley Co. RLSPECTFULLY iniora> t* c rhar the Retail Bufmcf*carriud cn l>y th-m at «hei* Stofe. Ko. J36, Market-f:rcet, will in I'uture he T Cinied on by Mr. Wm. Bonnak, whpm they hej; leave to recomniwnd to the favor of th*:r fronds, aud the i>ubiic. nuc All Pi-RsoNS indebted to the Vc> above tirm and rhdie to whoAi they are indebted, will pUaff to aj jJy to Joii.v v* dtTJ BOtit 5c Co alii for the lettlpmeijt ol their reipcsSlivr wc.ouiits, who "g arc Cu\y empowered forthar pnrpofe. t»vc Richard Bay ley & Co. m >' * / cou WILLIAM BONN All, % RESPECrrULLY informs Ins lri< nd"» and the or 1 üblic, that the ahove Store will he opened by him on Mow4*f the 4h *f Pebraary next, tllc with an aflortmert of pile DRY GOODS, I" Suitable to th? ftaf«n, wiiich he flutters himfclf e < • will meet the approbation of tiiofe wh«# honor him 1 with their lavor. j- I ' S gin WANTED, To Article for two or three q ui years a young Man to a profitable liufiticfs— ' ur . For particular* enquire at uo. 68, l'outh Fourth r , ttreet A person who ha* some knowledge of paiut i ing or drawing would be preferred. W. HAYDON, WHO HAS A Cellar to Let. jan II $ Pocket Books, for the ye,*- 1799. rMII DAI WAS fUILIINID, Br WILLIAM T. BIRCH, ™ No, 17, South Sscond-Urcet- THE AMERICAN LADIES te POCKET-BOOK ; th yojt THE TF.AR 1799. cy Embellished with miniature likenesses of the $j ' Prefidcnt of the Uuitcrf States aud General Walh ington ; containing all Almaujck, ruled pages lor memorandum*, and lor an account of monies re ceived, paid or lent, for every day in tlir ysar new count*y dances, mifcellanrous pi-ces inprofe and verse, new songs, a marketing table, and other ttfeful table*. ALSO, THK C.ENTLEMAS'i ANNUAL POCKET REMEMBRANCER, rox TUB rt** 1799* - Embelli&tid with the fame roiuiaiure likenefles, containing an almanack, ruled pai<es for memoran dums and a calh account, a lift of the numbers of Congress, the departments of Stale, War, Navy, N > Trealury an.l Judiciary, with an account of what : ' i< material in each} the federal courts of law, ( , | Mint eftablilhment, heads of all the most impor [ tan; ails of last fcflion of Congress, a lift of the 1 ftarap duties, of duties payable on goods imported I | atid on do.iwflic srticle*, a lift of the Britilh na\ y 1 feveraiufct'ul tables, and other intetefting matter. 1 1 he a bote books are neatly bound in red leather . with tucks and pockets _ Sold also by O. Hill, Baltimore ; Somervilte, J New York ; Bailey and Waller, Charleston; and by the principal booksellers in Boston. 1 WHERE ALSO MAT BE HAD, [price ia I-a etnts.] Heads of the moil important adls of the latlfef fion of Congress, prioted in a pocket Cze, and neatly don. up in marble paper- W. Y. Bxaca has forfait, a good aflortment of merchants'account books, paper and other Uation ary goods, playing c.trds, hair and leather trunks, dec 19 "4W Abner Brigcs, if Of the City of Philadelphia, J STOREKEEPER, l ' TTAVING assigned over all his effeflt, real, per- I i tl fonal and mixed, to the fubferiber*, for the benefit of all hii creditors— NOTICE IS H&RF.BT GIVES, TO all persons who are indebted to the Caid Eftate,that tt.ey are rcquefted to tuake immediate payment of their refpe&ive accounts, to either of the alfignccs; in failure whereof, legal measures will be taken for the recovery of such debts, a* are l " not discharged without further delay. GEORGE PENNOCK, WILLIAM FRENCH. January % wed.&fr.6w :S L A N D I N O, From m board the Brig Experiment, WhilM, from Surinam and the fch. Fkiindship Wallace, from the Havanna, At Mifflin'* Wharf, t 81 Bales bed Surrinam Cotton, 43 Hogsheads") C q F fee. 91 Barrels j , 54 Hhds Surrinam MolalTj* n _ 46 do. Havanna ditto jit- 110 Boxes white and brown HavannaSugar re, 64 M.best Spat.iOl Segars, , w HAKE ON HAND, lat Queen's Ware, in Crates, aflorted, of Irilb Lumens and Checks, in Boxea, And an assortment of German Goods. For Sale by SMITH & RIDGWAY, ~ No. 47, North Water-street. Jan. 19 eodjt e f 1 _ ry- A handsome compensation will be :lr given to a person of unexceptionable moral cha re" raiSer, and who has received a liberal education, | xt > for inftruaing a fcleft number of you' g persons in E d, Geography, Ari'.Hmetic, Writing, and Reading or- —His attention only will be required part of the the day, ualefs his wishes would he to engage in a ac. more general plan ——Esquire at the office of rar this Gazette. im January a 6. eod3t ALL Persons having any De mands against the estate of the Utc Robert Hardic, mariner, deceased, are hereby reqwefled to present them for fettUment, and all those indebted to (aid ,1T estate, to make payment to either of the subscriber» PET£R BAYNI ON, Walnut-(ire it. ( r of JOHN CRAIG, ( Ex " u,m oug ' Ao. la, Doch-Jlrttt. J ited jan- »4' .^ awlf T MAYOR'S OFFICE "en- REMOVED to 157 South Second fireet. 1 (aw jkji PubUJhed BY THOMAS DOBSON, At tr.c bfone-hoMfe, no. 41, louth Second-street I'HILADFI.i'UIA. LNCTCLOPJEDU: D I C T lON A R Y OF A RTSand sciences, AND MISCELLANEOUS LITERATURE, On a plan entirely if sir. BY WHICH I'rtE DIFFERENT SCIENS£S AND ARTS A re digested into the form ofDiftinft TREATISES OR SYSTEMS "COMPREHENDING fHF. Hiltory, Theory, and Plaice, of each: according to the late ft difeoveris. and insrove meiu»: and Jull explanations given «f the Varitui L /'arts vf Knowledge, whether relating to liatiiral and artificial obje&s, or to matter. cccleG a 1 ' civil, military, commercial, &c. Inclad ng elvcuWipn of the mall important topics rela tive to religion, morals, manners, and the acano my ol hie: together with a defesiption of all the countries, pities, principal mountains,leas, rivers "'roughom the «orld; a general history, an irid W<T«, of the different empires, king doms and ft-itcs; and an account of the lives of the- moil eminent jierfons in evary nation Opal die ear heft ages down to the present timet, Com'f piled from the writings of the b«ft authors, in fc-C vcral languages ; the mod approved didionaries, as well ol general science as ot particular branch es ; the trjinfaSions, journals," and memoirs, of learned focieti.s; tin- Mb. lectures of emineot pro filer- on different ciences ; and a variety of ori t»uu. materials, lurniflscd by an cxtenfivc corre tpoHdcnce. The work, is now completed in eighteen larjre quarto volumes, illuftratcd wuh five hundred and lorty-twu copperplates. The few copies which r«main on hand are of fered for iale at . ISS dellars for the 18 volumes in boards l 6» dollars neatly bound in Iheep leather lea dollarshandfoni.ly bound in Calf ioj dollars in Russia or Morocco. T. dTTBSON, HAS JUST OPENED A „ „, v. SUBSCRIPTION, k '[ a s >«pplmient to the Work he objeS of which i,to correfl fu.!, mis-state ments as have been found in the Work, and to-ive an account of the moil important dilcoveries and n..f rovemenft which have beeu made for the last fen ye»r«. It i> eipeAed this fupplcmtnt will conCft of three volumes, on futh paper and type as the En cyclopedia, at Si* Dollars per volume, in boards. Su Dollars ot which to be paid oa fubfetibirg, cc 'S law6w Is there an American f young or aid, nat.in* ttrcjlcd in the History of tbe first Hise and Progress of bis native Country, and from so celebrated open as 1 bat of Doctor Robertfon ? Just Published, AND TO BE SOLD BY JAMES HUMPHREYS, No. J9, south Third llreet, oppoGte the Bank o the United States, (Price one dollar neatly bound and lettered, in boards, fix fhiltinqs) Dr. Robcrtion's History of (BRITISH) AMERICA, Containing The history of Virginia to the year 1685, an>the | " history of New-England to the yeur l6ja, be ing what the Doctor had completed pre vious to his death. Itlias lately been given to tie public with a pre face by hi» son at Edin burgh, has already pair ed through three or . four editions, and hasbeen trar.fla ted and pub', lifhed in _ French at Paris. Mr. Robtrtfon in his preface ohfervei, " During the course of tetlioys illness, which he early furefaw would have a latal tsrmination, Drli Rebertfon at different times dettroyed many of if: papers: But after his death, 1 found that part o •- | the History of (Britilb) America which he had e wrota many years before, and which is now offer ed 10 the public. It is written with his own hand as all hit works were ; it is as carefully corrected j as any part of his manuicripts which I have c seen ; and he had thought »t worthy of being pre ,f fcrved, aiit elcapcd the slimes to which so many es other papers had been committed I read it with ■ e the utmost attention; but, I eforc I came' to any rtfolution about the publication, I put the MSS.• into the hands of some ol those friends whom my father used to consult on such oucafions.as it would have been ralhnefsand preemption in me, {0 have _ trusted to my own partial ('etifien. Itwasperuf ed by f >me other persons also, in whoie tale and judgment I havu the greatcft confidence : by all ofj them I was encouraged to offer it to the public, si ir curious and intcrefting in itfelf, and not inferior to amy of my father', other works." 7be Editor of tbe Paris Edition apojlropbizrs the above work in tbe following manner. " Every thing ensures success to this volume the talents and reputation of the author, and the iraprelfion Hill recent in the minds|ol all who have read the excellent work us which this is the com pletion—all conspire to give it an sxtenfive fpreaJ. The history of America was the mafter-piecc of one of the two ablest, < r rather one of th«.two only modern historians. He has created this part of history, diftinguiflicd this chaos ol the New World, dillinguilhed with the hand of a mailer the part of genius, fortune, courage and crime, and conquer* ed as it were, America, for literary, commercial, and political Europe. " To ensure this last volume circulation, it is necelTary only to name its author, and to rtmark, it possesses all that acutsnefs of observation, that 3G perspicuity of exposition, the art of referring cf ia- feds to causes, and of mingling with the account >n, of events, the wholefomell and most approved in priciple? of morals and politics, for which this ng writor was so eminentlj confpic«ou»—ln Ihort, the that it exhibits the talents »f RobihTsou " 1 a jan. 10. fj' of SAMUEL PARKER, BRASS and BELL FOUNDER, No. 137, MuLRERitr-SrREEr. »e- /CONTINUES to carry on the Brafs-foundery lie, Bufinefs as usual, former cuftomcrs ent and th« public may be supplied with castings for aid machines to any pattern, rudder braces, bolts, &£• >er» far ships. It may be proper to add, that, as it has been re ported he had declined the bafinefs, S. P. take* this means of informing the public that he is makiEg arrangements to carry it on still more extensively, f hoping thereby to comply promptly with such or — dirsa.i he may have to execute. Bells, of any size, cast for churches and other institutions; printets rnles, &c. J jan. «3 co i e
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