INDIA 3ALES.
;j S,ILES at JiUCTIOX,
By ISAAC JMO§ES, & SONS,
The C/IRGO of the (hip Sahsom. Samuel
Hubbart, from Calcutta £s" Madras
tfifitled to drawback, for apptavtd
inddrfe4 notes at 2 and 4 months.
• eotrsisnxG or ■V-
' Very valuable and Wll thofen afot'tikent of "
MADRAS 5 e GOODS ' '
■ v{ *ad Qualities.
Days of Sale will be as follow,
Monday, ) The SUGAR, corififting of 1300 bag!
March 15.) and PEPPER 100 bags.
1 The fhi P SANSOM,
j As ftie arrived from Sea, burthen 310
Tuesday, | ceppcrcd, with \6 guilty
March 26 equipped in tne h- ft and most warlike
mannc*—a fwifl sailer, is in the com
pleat&fl order and can b; itrmediately
fcrnt to Tea. Inventory at th 6 Au&ion
j Room.
... ,1 "J The DRV OGODS, confiding of 650
. l a ' '*> bales" «f the moll feafonaUe and best
A P nl j alfottment.
N. 33. Tl>« particulars el the above will ba
given in a few' days.
New-York, March 15, 18 5
Warned a House Servant,
vrcll recommended ; one who can dr.-fti hair
will be preferred. to the printer.
March' 18 diw
IMPOR 1 E D,
In the Britiih fliip Douglas, capt. Walker, from
London, just arrived.
" Cannon—Woolwich 9lb caliber, bored from
the solid <wigbuig 16c'wt. 2cjrs. and lolb. each
Ditto of 61b caliber, wt. newt," 1 qrs. each,
Din® Sw)ve!s, mount d
, Cannon (hot, vis. Canaifler, i bar and round
30 cases fhipo mulketa, fowling pieces aud musket-
oons
Ship Store, Horf men'* anrl Sadtlc Pistols,
A Urge alioTtinent of Flirts, »"
150 casks Porter, Erowo Stout in Bottlct,
pantheon staves afl'orted irom ao to 40, inches
diameter
46 Caflct Shot, tfb.i, to 6,
jooo Buflnls Coalt,
50 Crate* Window Gl»f» " '
100 Crates and JO hhds. Queem A
(ht; Well India Mrrket,
6 bsics Whitney b.jnketj 8-4 and 10.4
KOl sale by <
THOMAS (3 JOHN KETLAND.
Walnut Street Vharf.
March 16,
IVho have also on hdtid,
Claret in cales, firft quality,
Old Port Wine,
ftorfemen's swords, haogers, Sec-
Dry White Le<>d,
Ironmongery and webbing by the package,
Bolton Reel,
a cafo »? best roll amenta,
Paiii'ed floorcloth*,
fcnjjKfh quart bott]is in crates of la dozen each,
RufTia bar iron, Hemp and coidagc,
Cables from 7 »o 16 inches,
Pla sllas and tSrit.ignes,
A ftw kid and morocco rkins^
tfsU.id bfeds.
Tp holders, of unseated LANDS in
Lycoming county.
WHERE AS divers pcrfons, intending to enter
«hf.ir Lands with us, the commiflioncrs ©i
said county, according to Law, tranfmitted
to us imperfewk ftarteni<*nm of treir Lands, whereby
we&re unable to diftinguiflt them on the general
returns of the deputy surveyors : we hereby notify
all persons holding unfeaced Lands in the county
aforefaidj who are defirou* ot entering their lands
With us according to Law, that they transmit to
usa (hewing the names of the waVran
tees, and dates of the warrants, the qual
ity fu'rveyed upon each, and the name of the depu
ty who surveyed the Lands. Such a ftarement for*
warded to thepoft office at thu town of Northum
berland, p"o(l paid, will be duly attended to by us,
•and thi owner speedily furni&ed with an account
of his taxe?
Those persons who do not enter their Lands as
aforcfaid, avid pay their toies, within three months
frotfi this notification, an intercft of one per oent
fcr inonth, will be charged upon the defaulters as
the' Law direfls, betides the expenses accruing up
on a to falc, which will be in the names
oF the original warrantees, of which the commif
(ioncrs are in pofleflion of accurate Lifts for the
whole county.
WILLIAM WILSON,"I
HENRY DONNEL, >tommijjiontrs
THOMAS FORSTER, j
march ij
William Wilson, one of the commillioners is
now is the city where he will remain until the rßth
inil—Ar.yper.fon wifhingto enter their Lands may
make application to him at Win Elliot'a, Croft
Keys, No r rli i'«u;th ftrrct.
A Meeting of the Creditors of
BANKS, is rcqucftrd on Thursday next,
the I4'h instant, at-the house of Mrs. 'Nicholas, sign
of tne Coneltoga Waggon, in Mar Vet street, at 6
o'clock in the evening.
Joseph Ball,
John Baker,
martb 7
Nankeens. .
1-0,09 0 pieces Nankeens, entitled to. draw-
back,
7 bales Blue Gittrahs,
2 bales Checks,
For Sa;.e by
No. Bc, south Third flrect.
d6t
march 14
NOTICE.
THE Following certificates of
share* of the ftor.k of the Bank of the ,United
States have been loft or dsftroyed at sea, to -wit
13 (hares in the name of Peter Blight, of which
/(tares I?o 4iSj- i share« No 4186. and 3
jfhares No 4187, and 6 (hares in the name of
John Barker Church, No 2058. which were
forwarded by the Countess of Leicester packet
Jrom. Falmouth for Ncv-York —and ten (hares
of fsid stock in the name of Stadnitfki & Son,
ef Amfter<Un>, No 1796. which were forward
ed by the Packet from l'almouth for New-York
in November 1794 ; and for the renewal of
«hich application 13 made at the laid Bank,and
all acrfon* concerned are desired to take notice.
r ■ CLEMENT BIDDLE.
d.tm
' match ia
t Boarding & Lodging.
' f 'HR£E or four ('Jenticmen may he arcommodat
jL esl with genteel boarding and lodging in a
feu 11 family.and upon reafona!>le turns, by apply
ing at No. 1 ij-Pcar Street,
marcl 15 $
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
March <\tb. 1799-
PUBLIC NQTICE JS HEKEBY C.IVSN,
Pursuant to the ail of Cdngrrfs pilTed on the
lftday of June, che tlioWarid, seven hun
dred and ninety fix, entitled " an a«fl regulit
ing the grants.of land appropriated fnr mili
tary services, and for the society of United
Brethren for propagating the gospel among
the Heathen and l-he a<S supplementary to
the said recited a<s> paired on the second day of
March, one thoiifand seven hundred andnine*
ty nine——to wit:
THAT the traft of Land herein aft?r de
fended, namely, " beginning at the North Weft
corner of the seven ranges of to»\nfhip«, and
running thence fifty miles due fputh, along the
western boundary of the said ranges ; thence
due Weft to the Maiii Branch of the Scioto li
ver ; thence lip the Main Branch of the laid ri
ver to the place where the Indian bduttdary line
croflrs the fqme 'thence along the ftid boun
dary line to the Tufcaroras branch qf. tfy- Muf
kinguni tiver at the crofting pUce
Lawrence ; thence down the said rivff. it»vthe
point where a line run due weft fro'm,tn'e
of bejiitining, will interfefl the sara fiver ;
thence along the line so run to the place of be
ginning haa been divided into townfhipa of
five miles square, and (rational parts of town
(hips ; and that plats and surveys of th# laid
townships and fraAional parts of townlhips are
deposited in the offices of the of the
Trealuryand Surveyor General, for the infpcc
tion of allperfons concerned. »
11.
The holders of fueh warrants as have be«j>
or fisall be granted for military fervicespcrform
ed during the late war, are required to present
the lame to the Register of the Treasury, at
some time prior to the twelfth day of February
in the year, one thousand eight hundred, for
the purpole of being registered ; No registry
will however be made of any l*fs quant'ty than
a quarter townlhip, or four theufarid acres.
111.
Th« priority of location of the warrants which
may be presented and regifter;d in manner afore
faid, prior jo the nth day of February in the
year one thimfaiid eight hundred, will immediate*
ly after the Cpid day, be determined by lot, in the
mode dtefcribed by the a& firft recited.
IV.
■ The holdeis of registered warrants, (hall on
Monday the nth day of February, iu the year
1800, in the of which the priority of locati
on ihiil he determined by lot as aforefaid, pcrfon
ally, or fey their agents, designate in « riting at the
office of the Regitt'r of the Treasury, the.particu
lar qnarter townfbips eleited hy them rwfpeiiively,
and such of the said holders as shall not designate
their'locations on the said day, (hall bepoftponed
in locating such warrants to all other holders of
registered warrants-
e adkpted"to
The holders of warrants for military ferviees
fufficient to cover one or more quarter townlhips
or traits of four thousand acres each ; (hall, at any
time after Monday the 17th day of February, 1800
aod pri»r to the firft day ol January, tßoi, be al
lowed to regiftcr the laid warrants in marner a
forcfaid, and forthwith tomake lucations therefor
on any tract or tra&s of land not before located.
All warrants or claims for lands on account of
military frrviccv, which lhallnotbe registered and
locaud before the firft day of January, 180 a, are by
th« supplementary *& of Congress herein before
recited, passed on the second day of March, 1799,
declared to be forever barred.
THAT by an a£t of Congress
palfed the jßtli day of February, oi.e thousand
seven faandred and ninety- nine, the following >1
tei ation- aud amendments have been made te an
act pafT.d ort the sixth day of July ane thousand
seven huuared and ninety seven, intituled, " An
a<sl laying duties upon llamped vellum, parchment
and piper."
The (limp duties heretofore imposed upon foreign
bills of exchange and bills of lading are to cease
and determine from and after the 31ft day of
March, one tltoufand fcven hundred and ninety
nine.
For every (kin, or piece of vellum or parchment
or (heet or piece of paper, upon which {hall be
written or printed either of the inftrilmejui or
writings following, to wit.
Any foreign bill of exchange, drift or
ordor for the payment of money in
any foreign country, ... jo
Any note or bill of lading, or writing
or receipt in nature thereof, fir
goods or merchandize to ba export
ed if from one diflriA to another
diftrift of the United States, not
being in the fame Date, - 4
Iffrom the United States to anyforeign
port or place, - - XO
Any policy of infurancc, or inflrument
in the nature thsreof, other than
those heretofore fpecified in the
above recited a&, when the sum in
lured fljall riot exceed five hundred
dollars, - -
When the firm insured (hall exceed five
hundred dollars, - - -■ X
Andthefaid Duties are chargeable upon eaeh
and every Bill of Exchange Mid Bill of Lad
ing withoat refpeft to the number contained
in each set.
1 Jt
| Trustees*
dtioMir
SAMUEL HATS,
Bonds required in toy cafe by the Lawi of the
Uaited States, or of any state, upon legal
procefa, or in any-judicial proceeding, or for
thefaithful performance of'jny trull or duty
are exempt from the payment of. Stamp-
Duties. . ■ < i
Given under my hand at PlnUcJelp&ijj,
the day and yrar abovementinncdT 7
OLIVER WOLCOTT, ,■ S
Secretary of the Treafurj. '
<t<m
Gives under my hand at Philadelphia, the
d<y and year above mentioned.
oLiy&R ivolcott.
See. of tb\ Treasury.
Treasury Department,
~ •March stb, 1799.
PUBi.rc wotice is hbriby: given,
The fever al stamp duties hereafter, eaumerated
will be levied and collided throughout the Uni
ted States, from and aftsr the 3ill day ot March,
one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine.
march 7
FOR SALE,
Creas ala Morlaix, ->
Dowlafa, whole piece", ( Entitled to draw-
Ditto, half pieces, f back.
Brown Phtillas, J
Holland Glais-ware,
Brandy, 4th proof.
Rice, ,
Ruffian horie hair, curled and nticurlcj,
Ditto deck nail rods.
' ISAAC HAZI.BHURST & SON.
March 16. -- dtw
A neat, pocket edit ion of the
Conliitution of the United States,
Together with the Amendments, may be bad
at this office- —Prist 2$ Cents.
March' it. .
BALL. i Kingston, (jam..) i>cc. 29. J
MR. and Mrs. BYRNE refpeclfuHy mtnrm the | Muititv'# o'>P Lark «V company
Ladies and Gentlemen ot l J Wtad?ljtrib"niat , . - artrnri- fivo
their BALL will be on Tudil.y the 1,,| *.«.« , *«>» f nol !' cr ma " ° f , W "»
O'elßr-s Hotel In the cburie of the .evening fe-y French pnvateers on.thc,coait.ot Cuba, the
veral AVw .Cotillio/u'*nd Covnlty Doners wUI be in- crews of which all escaped, except 1 R?
troduced. J Frenchman, who, when th y were quitting
jnarch M- . I t h e cuaft, informed them that a caflt con
• Weavers. j tainivg 8000 dollars had been thrown out
SEVERAL WEAVERS may find.em- j of the vefTcl he hid been on board of, wMch
oloymfntbv applying to IfaacT. Hop- had bten mistaken by the ships ot war for
per, No. J9, Piite-ttreet. ' an anchor ; accordingly a search v.-as made,
' 3 mo. 15th, <799. | and the ca(k was found.
Wu are informed that the Lark on her
cruise fell in with an open boat having .on
board fevernl French persons that bad elcap
ed from St Domingo, and wers going to
St. Jas;o de Cuba ; thuy mention, that it 1$
impofiible to live under the tyranny exerci
sed ia that island.
Si getiteel Home to Rent, - ■
Situate in Spruce, between 4th & sth Kreets
IT is acc mmodated with cxtenfive back v
buiWiifgs, three fiories in height, two pumps in
the yard—one of excellent water and the other
in a Hain Cittern. Apply at t>lo. 109, Spruoe
ftreet, '
marrfi ■ j 6
hmt hidia Company qf
; . TH-E Cotrrjyatij* arc deiir
\.".J oiw of a
fnbftairtial'Wettbniit faft failing ves
sel, completely fitted lor sea, a (hip
already coppcrrd will be preferred ;
her burthen to be not iefs than Three Hundred
Tons. Any pcrfon having such veflcl to dispose
of, will be pleased to forward their propofab on
or before the I Jth inft. with a particular descrip
tion of Oie vefi*el,the timber ot which (he is built,
the number of gtrns (he is calculated to cany, and
her dimertfions, to the secretary of the boari of
sgents, who willreceive the sam» for their con
federation.
Tor ordtrof the boar J,
S. BLODSET', Secretary p. t.
march $.
From on board the fliip Jof-phua, H. Kennedy,
matter, at Rpfi'e wharf, from tjie Havaona, and
for Sale by the. fabf^riber,
91 hogsheads of prime Molafles,
31 tierceV o£ Co(ffee,
73 of Iyogwood.,
. Wlto Km mo forfale,
Bill Macfeirt WINE
of 6 years old, in pipes.hoglheads & quartercafVs;
I box of low-pr'icbii Lrifh Linens, Window Ulafs,
'Clover Seed,. S&. Ac.
SAID SHIP
gjgjL JOSEPHUS,
or SALE or CHARTER.
march 11
Byway of Public Vendue, on Thursday,
the 26th of the Third Month next,
A VALUABLE
Plantation of Lime-stone Land,
Situate in the Gre.it Valley, in IVijl•
Whiteland tonrn/lip, Chefier county,
A DJOJNING lands of Joseph Downing,
iTa. Joshua Roberts, TJwraas Merrifs and o
thers ; and near the Turnpike road, 18 mi<*s
from Philadelphia—the trail contain* 498 acres,
with then fual allowance, about too acres clear,
of which 50 acrts is Meadow, the remainder
weU timbered, molt of the meadow ground is
watered—also fufficieot water in all the fields
by never-failing fpririgs ; the plowland is ef
(emncd to be equal or superior, to any in the
neighbourhood ; one third part it now under
clover; the Wildings are a two-story stone
dwelling houl'e and kitchen adjoining a milch
houfe, smoke-house, waggon-house, two large
barns, one stone the other stone and logs, and
other out-houl'es. There is two bearing orch
ards, a garden enclosed with a stone wall, &c.
Credit may be had for a considerable part of
the pArchale money. Any per fin inclining to
view the prentifetmay apply to the owner living
-thereon.
WILLIAM BEALE.
N-B. The sale to begin at 1 o'clock on said
day, on the premiies.
Weft-Whiwland, the ad rao. 11,1799.
John Miller, junr.
HAS REMOVkp. FIOM NO. 8,. CHHNUT,
To the Five S lory Building, in Dock, near
Tbird-flreet.
WHERE HE HAS FOR SALE,
300 Bales of Bengal Goods ;
COSS AS
Baftas
Mamoodies
Humhums
TafFatics
Striped D«rca<
Caliron
Handkerchiefs, tlfc.
Dolls. Cts.
<4lfo, a targe ajfortment of
Madras Handkerchiefs,
of various dtfcriptiont
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
Joni 17 JllaS.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, Thai' by vir
tue of an ail, pafied during the prafent fef-
Gon »f Congress, so much of the a& entituled
" An A& making further provision forthefup
•' port of public credit, and for tht redemption
" of thg public debt"—passed the third day of
March, one thousand feveD hundred and ninety
five, as ban from fettlemeat or allowance,
Certificates, commonly called Loan "Office and
final settlement Certificates, and Indents of In
ferefts, is suspended until the twelfth day oj
June, which will be in the year one thousand levcn
hundred and ninety ninj.
That on the liquidation and fettlementef the
said Certificates, and Indents of Interest, at the
f'rcafury, the Creditors will be emitted to receive
Certificates of 'funded Three Per Cent Stockequal
to the amount of the said Indents, and the arrear
ages of intercft due onJ!.h«r fai4_C?rtifkates, prior
to th« firft day of January "oi7e thousand seven
hundred and ninety rr IV7- £l3l j
That tht principal sums of the said Loan Office
md final fetticment'Certificates, wish the interest
thcrean, Once'-tlie-firft day' : o( Jlpuary', one thou
-1 sand fevert hundred -and ninety one, will be dis
charged after liquidation at the Treafiry, by the
I' payment of interest and reimburftmeut of prints
j pal, equal to the sums which would have been
payable thereon, if the said Certificates had been
fubferibed, purfuam to the Afts making provision
For the debts oi-Khe-Unit-ed States, co»tra<Sled dur
: ing the late war, and by the payment of other
lums, equal to the market value of the remaining
Stock, which would have been created by fucli
fubferiptions asaforefaid, which market value will
be determinedly, the Comptroller of theTjiafury.
OLIVER WOLCOTT,
Secretary of Itc Tresfury.
iawtt
June a 8
io u-.i ——
A Three Story Brick House,
With convenient b»ek buildings— Na. it, South
fourth ltrect.
march 8.
NOW LANDING,
JOHN CRAIG.
dtf
To be Sold
CONSISTING OF
. diet
St. J ago d' V r Z a -> 7""' 2< >;
On Tucfday last, three featnen belonging
to the Hermione frigate were tried on hoard
the Abergavenny ; when it appearing that
one of themiwas lick in hammock at
the time the mutiny took place, he was con
sequently acquitted ; the other two were
found guilty, and sentenced to be hung in
chains.
"NASSAU* February 8.
The following prizes ;»nd detained vtffels
have arrived here since our last :
Spanish schooner Maria, prize to the Nan-
cy privateer.
Brig Aurora, Philips, from Charlefto*
for Havannah, and the l'chooner'William,
Dixon, from St. Domingb for Charleston ;
Cent- in by the Pleasant and Lynx (loops of
war.
Brig Diafnond, Tyles, from New-York
for Hew Orleans, sent in by the Dasher pri
vateer.
Brig Maryland, Roxburgh, from Curacoa
for Baltimore ; had on her Out-ward bound
voyage been taken by a French privateer,
and sent int« Curacoa. By the Lark priva-
teer.
Shooner Bctfy, Small, from North Caro
lina for Havannah with naval stores. By
the George privateer. v
Spanilh schooner N. S. d«l Gullo from
La Vero Crux for Bilboa. By the Mary-
Ann } riva'eer. .
The Here and Lark Privateers of this
port, have arived lince our last, with 126
Negroes, saved from the neutral Brig Juno,
Price, from St Croix hound for Havannah,
and a large-quantity of dry goods, saved
from the neutral (hip Jupiter, Koppcr bound
from Hamburgh for Havatina. Bothofthofe
vessels were cast away in the night of the
loth inft. upon Sugar Key Reef, in the Old
Sraits.
The paflcngers and crews. of both, the
wrecked ve.flcls, are brought in here.
It wa9 reported at St. Croix,abeut three
weeks since that.a fccfet expedition was pre
paring at Martinique. St. Martin's and St.
Euftatius were cenje&ured to be the objects
of it.
February ij.
It is said, that the two Spam'lh frigates
which were iu the port of Matanzas on the
28th of last month, have a large quantity
of treasure on board and are deflined for
Europe. 1
The Monarcha of 80 guns which got
fafe to Vigo, in Aug, last was chafed in the
Gulph by com. Loring's fquadroa ; but
got clear by superior failing. It was said
(he had five millions of dollars on board ;
and in all probability, the cargoes of these
two frigates united are not less valuable.
February 19.
The fc-hooner Fox, O'Brien, from New.
\ ork, for New-Orleans, and the fthooner
Goliath, Raymond, from New-York for
Havanna, both with contraband articles de
tained by the Vigilant and Clover privateers
ot this port, have arrived here iince our
last.
Extract from tie Log Book of the sloop Henry
" Oftnber 2i, 1798, left Giboon River
on the of Africa Nothing nwteiial
happened until the 28th of December, when
I was dialed by a French privateer in lat.
2od. N. long. sod. 30m. W. On the 9th
of January, at 4 p. m. being in lat. 22d.
1 cm. N. long. 7 id. 40111. W. law ave fle l
to the Ealtward in chafe of nie, coming up
very fall, and at 9 p. M. was within hail,
firing at me. I hailed her several times, but
got no answer ; she being, close, I' opened a
brisk fire upon her, which was kept up for
about 40 minutes, when fl)p dropt astern.
At r1 P. (he returned again under my lee ;
after a close engagement of about three quar
ters of an houi, beat her off. Immediately
made fail to the Northward, and the next
morning saw nothing of her. At 10 a. m.
however, 1 dilcovered her a second time in
my wake, and at t p. M.was within gun (hot.
—Finding myfelf so near that I could not
possibly eft-ape by failing, foortencd fail; on
coming up along fide they gate me a broad
side which was immediately returned, after
which, engaged her within half piUol (hot
for fix glalfes, and was then obliged to (Irike
having all my {landing and running rigging
cut to pieces, and my vefltl ungovernable
My antagonist was a Sp.niln packet, called
the St. Rofclia, Capt. Monors, carrrying
ten 18 and 12 poiinders'wirh 75 men, from
TcnerifFe bound to Havanna. I had only
fix 3 pounders, and two 2 pounders, with
14- men. After taken possession of my ves
sel, they ran her on (hore about seven leagues
to leeward or' Cape Maize, where all the
crew and slaves perished, ex,cept 27 of the
latter who swam alhsre. Myfelf and crew
were extremely well treated by the captain
and officers of the St. Rofelia, but alter ar
riving at Havannji, I was imptil'oned among
people of every denomination, and extreme
ly ill fed, being only allowed 3 fixteenlhs
of a dollar per day, by the Commiflionrrs
lor my fubfitlepce."
lawtf
■ U^ ' ate l^le loop Henry,
lus Mate, and an Apprentice arrived here ye-
Iterday in a Cartel from JHavanna.
1»t
* "■' ''
'- ' ' '
captain Cvsttb.
About fix weckriince a fleet for Spain
under convoy of a frigate and a Corvm-'
failed from Havanna. ...
Kingston, January 16
Arrived at Port Royal fmceour last'
Ship William Henry, Crufcatcn N. Y o rt
tichr. Del Carmen, Rofomanta Biriha
Edward Bunknor, Baltimore
We understand and from good authority
that the failing of (he next convoy i s po £
poued for ten days, from the time origi oa []
ly fixed, from the port of rendezvous.
Arrived the ship Merchant of New York
tnken some dayt since by hia majesty' s K r
Diligence. This vefTel was bound from
[acamel to Aux Cays, when the Deliver.™
fell in with her.—She since fell to leeward
of this port, and was obliged to put iatu
Withy wood Bay.
The American (hip Margaret, of New
York, last from Martinique sent in by hi»
Majesty's (hip Aquilon, arrived on Th ttr f
day ; she was bousd to the Havannah with
a cargo of Tarpentine.
Fran the New-York Gazette and General
Advertiser,
IT might be ufeful did eyery
reads a book with plcafure and advantage
poijn it out to others, efpeciallv if tlie hook
be new and not generally known. Under this
iinpreffion, I take the liberty of recommend
ing to all lovers of found learning and true
criticism, a late work published in London
entitled " The Pursuits of Literature, a s
tirical Poem in four dialogues—with notes."
The firft dialogue was firit published in 1704
the second and third in 1796, and the fourth
in r797. Thqy were collefted and publish
ed in one volume o&avo in 1798, and the
edition which I have seen, i> said to be the
seventh, revised.
The author of this work is unknown.
" I declare to the public," fivys h», " that
neither my name, n«r my situation in life
will ever be revealed."—And again, « I t
will be idle to conjettun? concerning the au
thor, and more than foolifh to be very in
quilltive." His motive for this is, as he
fays, not " the apprehension of any private
resentment," but that his name could add
no weight, and might hinder the rood ef
fects of his satire.
" The general fubjeft," in his. own words,
" is Literature, however exerted, whe
ther for the benefit, or for the injury- of
mankind and he- declares it to be his 0-
pimon, "that Literature, well or ill
conducted, IS THE GREAT ENGINE hy
which all civlfifod states must ultimately ie
supported or overthrown." With this view
he Uiews the deftruAivc tendency of many
publications of this-age, to morality, social
orderand happiness.. He is particularly fc
vere on Godwin's Political Justice, andEn
guircr ; 011 Volncy's Ruins; and on the
novel or romance called the Monk by Mr.
Lewis.-
The Angularity.pf work is, the
notes are, and were intended to form the
chief part, Tte author tlynks, " that, in
the present change of irfanners, opinions,
government and learincr, a variation is now
required in the mode of coudu&i.ig satirical
writings, by calling in the reciprocal aflift
ance of poetry and the fajne work."
Though so many notes may not divert the
attention from the poem',' 'and leem a little
troublesome, yet no man would wifhtliem
abl'ent ; and having firfl read the poem in
connexion with the notes, he will findtt, on
a f'eeoiid pjsrufal, better understood, and as.
-fordinga moreexquitite rclifh.
Perhaps, there will be found no where, fa
accurate* an account of the writers of this
dav, 1c great a body of just criticism, and a
work so well calculated, in every refpeft, to
gratify the scholar, the man of taste, and the
lover of mankind, as " The Pursuits of Lite
rature." Ihe quotations, however, from
the ancient Greek writers are so numerous,as
to render an American edition difficult.
I shall conclude with giving a few short
extrafts from thtt poem. I have marked ma
ny paflages both in this and the notes, some
ot which I may hereafter fend for publica*
tion.
On Dr. PRIESTLEY. 1
" If I may write, let Proteus Priestley telti
He writes on all things, but on nothing well;
Who, it the D*tnon of the day decrees,
Air, books, or water makes with equal ease."
He is introduced in another place with a
reference to the religious controversy be
tween him and Bithop Horfly.
" SocinLus Jroops, and baffled Priestley flif.
And at the lirength of Horfly /brinks and dies."
ON GODWIN.
" Godwin's dry page no flatefman e'er believ'd
'I hough aids, what lophiftry conceiv'd.
ON EfiSKINE.
"In flats affairs all Barrifiers are dul!,
And Erfkine nods, the opium in his skull."
I wish I could accompany those quotati
ons with their notes, which are very charac
terise. The following encomium or Sir
William Jones, ontr'of the Judges in Bengal,
is beautiful and j'uft :
" He to, whom Indus and the Ganges mourn,
The glory of their banks from Ifis torn,
In learning's ftrcngth is fled, in
prime,
In /cience temp'rate, various, and fubKme :
To him familiar every legal doom,
The Courts of Athens, or the Jialls of Rome,
Or Hindu Vedas taught ; for him the Mtife
Diftill'd from every flow'r Hyblean dews;
Firm when exalted, in demeanour grave,
Mercy and truth were his, he lov'd to save»
lis mind collected ; at opinion's (hock
ones flood unmov'd, and from the GhrifU**
rock,
Teleflial brightness beaming on his breast, )f
lefaw this star. and worlhipp'd in the Halt.
Tke Creditor** • XT>\
OF HUGH MORISON,
. that ,he has applied. tt» the Jwdgtivf J®
C- urt of Common Pletsfor rhcxfJWQ'
ladclphia, for the benefit of of.*#*" 1 '
bly, paflied tor the relief of i n sol teflt
and they have appointed tV
at io o'clock, a. m. to' Jiaa.-'himftlf in<l crcol*
tors.
j-. inarch 7.
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