k. Toe (Jerti jlcates' vf Scrip us the Eight per cent Lqtmtlave been 'LOST OR STOLEN, To wit : No. 2974 Charles Jamf9, 1000 Dolls. 3658 ditto 400 2791 Andr'aw James, 1000 3611 ditto 400 2792 Martha Mullen 1000 3656 ditto 400 3672 Ann Williams, 400 In caf the fame (hould be offered for sale it is 1 equefted that they may be (topped and no; ice given to the printer hereof, april 23. To Printers or Publijhers. ONE of the mnft lucrative eftablilhments in the above lines of bufintfs in the United Stiffs, is sow offered for sale on liberal terms. The eftahlifhrnent confiftj of the publication of 3 very extensive circulating, commercial News- Piper, in a capital city ; and an office furnifhed with letter fnfficicnt for the execution of other work. Further particuhrs may be known on appli cation to A. B. No. 47, north Third-street; but none, other than principals, or persons fully enabled to make a purchale of some confidera b 1 m.igmtude will be treated with. April j 3 Delaware £s" Schuylkill Land Office. January 25, 1795.! "'HE Stuckh»lil#ri of the Delaware Schuyl- JL- It'll Canal Company, are hereby notified and jen dollars 011 (heir refpedive lharcs on ai heFjre the til March next, to tbe Treaforer of the Cornptny at their office near the Babk of Pennfylvarjia. Extr*<& from the Minutes, George'Worrally secretary. Wm. Govett, treasurer. dlw il ao Wants Employment, A MIDDLE agetfMati, bred to the MercaH tile business; fpcake and writes the Englilh, German and French larguage, atld has been em ployed a< book-keeper in this city for several rearspaft; on whose ekpanty, indullry and hones ty may !;e ivl d. Pleas; to apply at No. 6», north Fifth street, above Arih street. Philadelphia, april 18,1799 Notice. A t. persons indebted to the estate of John / V O'Conorof Warwick township, Buckstoup decetfed, arc requested to pay the fame ' 'Sforiber, and those who may have any m is against said estate, are desired to bring in accounts lega'ly proved for payment' to STEPHEN MOYLAN, Executor. dzw April ai > he fnbfcrihers have on hand, and for sale at re duced prices, the following articles, viz. Seventy Pipes London Particular Madeira Wine, the vintage of *96, lince when they have lain in a ft ore well adapted to rheir improvement ; a 5 Cheilsof Young Hyson Tea ; An Invoice of well-aflorted China—-original cost between 8 and 900 doUs. in Canton. HIGBEE Sc MILNOR. march «T THOMAS RTERSON,, North fide of Market-street. No. 177, -OFFERS FOR SALE, HIS (lock of Ironmmgery, hardware, 4cc. On very moderate terms, —Tht House and may be had with the goods. This {land is iinqutflionably one of the betl in Philadelphia, in fho line it is naw occupied, or for the Dry Good butiief.-'—The House and Stores are spacious, and taken together -with the Stable privilege of a large Yican- lot and other accomodations, make the wi:o!c very eligibW and convenient—The flock of gn-,ris ,i|rhough not very confiderablc in point of value, K notwithftardirg very well .ifTorted. Jt the fame place may be had, A p:iir o( erccil nt, yate ef Terneffee. ' : ic JOHN VAUGHUN. April 20 N ANKEENS, Hvl'on, Hylon Skin, and j- Soiichcng . J JUST LANDING, From on board the Ihip YVooddrop Sirat »rom Canton, and I or/ale hy jjmn C. Fisbcr, No. 13, Arch-ftrcet. April IJ THE ROBBERS. Maximilian, Count de Moor, Mr Wigp.ell Charles de Moor, Francis de Moor, Spiegelberg, Switzer, Mr Warren Grim, Mr Warrel,jr. Roller, Mr Bernard Herman, Mr Downie Schnfterle, Mr jflliffictt Uazman Mr Warrell Commiflary, Mr Darley Kozinlki, * Mr Hardmge Robbers, MclTrl. Doflor, Lavancy, &c. &c Amelia, Mrs Merry. In yIS thi $th —Afplendid representation of De Moor's Castle in Flames. dtf Between the Play and Farce, the favourite The United Volunteers. By Mr. Fox. To which will be added, a favourite COMEDY called f3« Or On Saturday, the Comedy of THE STRANbER—with theFarteof The FARM HOUSE,—-and'other entertainments—For the benefit of Miss L'ESTRANGE and Mr. L'ESTRANOE, Prompter. A Valuable Plantation, In Blockley Town (hip, On'the Weft fide of the River Schuylkill, about one and an half miles from the Middle Ferry, and one fourth of a mile from the Turnpike. To be Sold at Public Vendue, At the Merchants' Coffee-Houfe in Philadelphia, To. Morrow, the 17th of April, at 7 o'clock in the 3' ' • property bat been lately surveyed, and di vided into Fiur parts, lu'tth a-vieiv t? accomt date, purchasers, Contains 51 acres and i» perches on which is a brick dwelling house (built in the year 1794) | j 7 feet front by 37 feet deep, with a piaza on one fide and a portico en the other; two (lories of ia feet .high each, four rooms on a floor with fire places in each, and four-feonvenitn chambers in the garret, three of which have likewise fire places. A hall 10 feet wide; a reoiarably dry and commodious cellar, divided into sundry a partmedts, including a pantry, flore rooms, &c. The kitching is 10 feet square, containing bake ovens and other eonvenier.cies ; a pump of ex tellent wafer *t'the door. A stone barn and good (tabling; a carriage house and granary, and a large frame lately built, for hay, &c. A stone farm house and walh house, with a brick milk house over a never failing spring of good water Two large gardens in high order, and richly stored with a great variety ef bed froot; ft raw berry, and asparagus beds ! Ihrubs, flowers, Ac. An apple orchard in its prime, containing 600 trees. The situation is high, pleasant and heal thy ; a great number of liandfome fruit, and other trees in the court yard, round the house, &e. The foil is good and produces remarkably well, and there is now a confiderabU jastity under clover. About 10 acres of meadow,, ad joining a stream called Mill Creek, which runs through the premi(es, and on which there is a good fcite for water works. About twelve acres of very thriving young timber. Contains 46 acres and 39 perches of as good farming lapd as any in the tewnftip, divided into five fields; with about S acres of excellent timber. A never failing fiream of water runs through the premises, adjutant to which, and near the West-Chester road, is a fine situation for building ; and within a Gmaldiftanceof twO springs. One of the fields is under clover and timothy. Contains 10 acres and 139 perches, about 7 acres of which is good farming land with a small piece of meadow ground; and,the remainder covered with good timber. Two nevtr failing Dreams of water rans through the premises, and near to which and the Weft Chclter road is a handsome situation for building. Contains j acres and 16 perches, it a rich foil, chiefly under clover, and mostly orchard ; in which there »re upwards of 100 good bearing ap ple trees. There is a fmalllFream of water run ning through the east end, near to which, and the Haverfordroad, is a beautiful situation for build ing', garden, &t having an agreeable profped. The Weft Chcfter road bounds part of No. I to the fotthward, and divides Nos. » and 3. And the Haverford road bounds Nos. 1 and 1 and 4, to the northward. There are on each diviGoa very convenient situ ations for creaing either breweries, distilleries or tan yard ; befidea the mill feat on No. i. before mentioned, A draught of the wh.le may be seen at the cof fee-houfe—and at the office of Thomas M'Euen & Co. No. 78 Chefnut street ; where the terms of sale and any further information that may be re quired, will be made known, At a Court of Common Pleas, held at Greehf burg, for the county of Weftraoreland, the second Monday in March, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety nine, present Alexander Addifou, Esq. Pre fitlent, and his AiTociatei, Judges of the fame Court.' ON the petition of LUCAS S. GIBBS, an insolvent debtor, to the Court of Common Pleas, for the county aforefiid, praying for the benefit of the laws made for the relief of such persons, and subjoining a lift of his creditors and effedls on oath, the Court appoint the se cond Monday iu June next, forbearing the pe titioner and his creditors, and dir» Hence is enjoyed, in the liigheft luxury, It is nearlyjpnpoiftble for me to convey to my readers an idea of the " vernal deliglit" felt at this period by the Lay Preacher, far declined in tbe vale of years. My fpeiStral figure pinched,by the rudtgripe of January, becomes as thin as that " dagger of lath" employed by the vaunting Falftaff ; and my mind, afteftetsby the univerl'al desolation of Winter, is nearly as vacant; of .joy and bright ideas, as the sorest is of leaves, and the grove is of song. Fortunately, for my happiness, this is only periodical spleen. Though, in the bitter months, surveying my extenuated body, I exclaim with the melancholy pro phet, " My leanness, my leanness, woe is me ;V and though,' adverting to the state of my mind, 1 behold it " all in a robe of dark est grain/' yet, when April and May reign in .sweet viciflitude, I give, like Horace, care to the winds ; and perceive the whole system excited by the potent stimulus of sun shine. , An ancient bard, of the happiest descrip tive powers, and who noted objects not only with the eye of a poet, but with the accura cy of a philosopher, fays, in a short poem, devoted to the praises of Mirth, that Xije oa3ttte. ' PHIL AD E L PHIA , FRIDAY f.VENING, APRIL *6. The two faltb'.vir.g paragraphs are extract-. eel from the l r ergennes (Vermont) Ga zette, an excellent paper, edited bj Mr. Samuel Chipman, jun. Leroi, a Frenchman, has made an exper iment that 'phosphorus, internally applied, will fufprrfingly stimulate a weak constitu tion, and even prolong, for a day, the life of a dying man.' The interefls ot' the arts and sciences have not been neglected amidst the atrocities of revolution and the demor alization of the. republic. The experiment suggests the i:.ea that even Sansculottes are willing to keep off the king of terrors, and are no t always eager for everlasting sleep. The genius'of Connecticut is destined still to (hine in the literary world. Dr. Benja min Trumbull, of N. Haven, is engaged in the publication of a " Systematical demon stration of the divine origin ■of the scrip tures." Tjiat state, emirtent for its litera ry productions, is not yet fufficiently depra ved, or rathsr indoctrinated in French phi losophical principles, to reject a i'vftem, which enjoins submission to government, pure morality, and sublime piety to God. From the u Farmer's Museum, " And Lat Preacher's Gazettc.'* THE LAY PREACHER. " Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is fcr tbeeyes to btboldtbe Sun." " Diy, and thtfwcet approach o'fev'n and mom, And light o( vernal bloom, and lummer'9 rose, And flocks and hcrdl, and human face divine." 44 Ypune*ridold come forth to play On aifuolhine holiday." In merry Spring time', not only birds, but melancholic old fellows, like myfelf, ling. The fun is the poet's, the invalid's, and the hypochondriac's friend. Under clement skies, and genial funffiine, not only the body is corroborated, but the mind is vivified, and the heart becomes " open as day." I may be considered fanciful in the aflertion, but I am positive that many, who, in November, December, January, February and March, read nothing but Mandeville, fcochefoucault, and Hobb?s, and cherish malignant thoughts at the expense of poor human nature, abjure their evil books and four "theories, when a fofter season succeeds. I have in Winter, felt hostile to thofc, whom I could smile up on in May, and clasp to rnybofom in June. Our moral qualities, as well as natural ob jects, are affefted by physical laws ; and I caneafily conceive that benevolence, no less than the fun-flower, flourifhes and expands under the luminary of day. With unaffefted earneffnefs, I hope that none of my readers will look upon the agree able visitation of the fun, at this beauteous season, as the impertinent call of a crabbed monitor, or an importunate dun. I hope that none will churlishly tell him " how they hate his beams." 1 an) credibly informed that several of my city friends, many fine ladies, and the worfhipful society of loungers consider the early call of the above red faced personage, as downright intrusion. It must be confeffed that he is fond of prying into chambers and closets, but not, like a tude feqrcher, or libertine gallant, for injurious or licentious purposes. His designs are be nificent, and he is one of the warmefl friends in the world. Notwithfonding his looks are sometimes a little suspicious, and he pre sents himfelf with the fiery eye and slushed cheek of a jolly toper, yet this is only a new proof of the fallacy of plivfiognomy, for he is the moll regular being in the universe.' He keeps udmira'ble hours, and is fteadv, dil igent, and punftual to a proverb, 'Gone Icious of his ftinipr; meiit, and dazzled by i Front late Englijh Papers. his regal glory, 1 mud rigidly inhibit all J Yesterday a Promotion of Flag Offi,- from attempting to exclude his perlon. I , took place- It being the 14thof Febniir™ caution lluggards toabftain from the life of j the Anniversary of Earl St. Vincent's V" Ihutters, curtains, and all other villainous | tory over the Spanish Fleet, the Promotion modes of insulting my ardent friend. My j was announced in compliment to that g! or i little garden, my only support, and myfelf, j ous Event The Vice-Admirals of the are equally the objeCts of his care ; and were t Red. T£e Rear-Admirals, down to Lord it not for the conltant loan of his great lamp ! Hugh Seymour inclusive, are made Vi'ce- I could not always fee to write ! Admirals. The LAT PREACHER. From Porcupine's Gazette. COMMUNICATION. M'KEAN. To the Citizens of Philadelphia, j IHE Democratic Committee appointed to circulate theincelligeticeofThomas M'Kean's being felefted to fill the office of Chief Ex ecutive Magiftr.ite of Pcnnlylvaiiia, after I pompously enumerating his " perlonnl merits j and public Cervices", have aff-rtcd a wife hood which opght not to go uncontradicted. I hey fay he has been governor of a fifer I state, meaning I suppose the state of Dela | ware, for of any other state, no one I pre j fume will alFcrt that he ever was governor. Now the fact'is limply this. In the month of January, 1777, John M'Kiuly, Esq. then speaker ot the house ot aflembly of the state of Delaware, was by both houft-s of the ge neral aflembly, elected prelident of the Race, agreeable to the tlifn constitution. This event rendered the speaker's chair vacant,' upon which Thomas M'Kean. thon a mem ber, was by the house chosen speaker, in which he continued until tlie termination of the session, Which took place in two or three days after. In the month of September, 1777, the British army paffsd through the state of Delaware—a detachment of it touk poffeflion of Wilmington, at which place Mr. M'Kinley, the prelident, became a pri soner of war : by the capture of whom, the powers of government devolved on George Read, Esq. speaker of £he council, but he being at that time absent in New-Jer!ty, tUey then devolved on Thorn a? M'Kean, as speaker of the aflembly, who otercifed them until the return of Mr. Read, which was in a few days. So that by the capture of Pre sident M'Kinley, and the accidental abfenct of the speaker ofthe council, Thomas M'Kean exercised the powers of government for a few days. Hence it is, that this committee in duce the people of Pennsylvania to believe, that he has been eleCted governor of a filter state, and thereby endeavor to procure their fuffrages for his eleftion to the fame impor tant office in Pennsylvania. To what mi serable Ihifts, to what democratic tricks, n?) to what palpable deception are these people driven, in order to accomplilh their purposes. Be .on your guard, therefore, my fellow-citi «ens, against their deceptive wiles. Thomas M'Kean never was eleCted governor of the state of Delaware, and I trust your good sense, patriotism, aod truly republican prin ciples, will prevent his being eleCted govern or of the state of Pennsylvania. PLAIN TRUTH. Philadelphia, April 2id t 1799. From the Virginia Gazette. MB. DAVIS, I FIND, by your paper of the 7th instant, which I got a few days since, Mr. Giles has, at last, condefcendesi to de ny what he is pleased to call a charge against him in yours of the 25th of January last ; aiid to invalidate the teftimon)- of Mr. Bur well, he fays, " The coriverfation is presum ed to have happened on the 22d ult. at the house of a person in Richmond, generally called 4 Little Lewi Burwellbut from his adherence to the British cause during the re volutionary war, &c. has obtained the name of 1 Little England." Mr. Burwell, todif tinguifh him from three other gentlemen of the fame name, has been called Engliffi Lewi Burwell, from having spent the early part of his life in that country, and by his intimate acquaintances has been called Little Burwell; but, I believe Mr. Giles must have the cre dit of naming him 4 Little England,' which I never before heard of; and, in whatever light he may attempt to place him, lam per suaded, where they are equally known, Mr. Burwell's aflertion will always gain as much credit as Mr. Giles's. I fhoul<| have paid no attention to Mr. Giles's letter to you, but for one part of it. He tells you, " In Mr. Ne'.fon's condua there are circumstances of a very extraordi nary nature. He heard of this expression the evening proceeding the 24th of January, which was on Monday. On Tuesday he wrote his letter of alarm for the next day's paper. I was in Richmond on Monday, on Tuesday, and on Wednesday until after 12 o'clock. On Tuesday an intereftiflj debate took place in the House of DelegatesWpeift. ing the affairs of the Union, in which I bore a part." Mr. Giles is corrcdt in faying 1 heard of this expression the evening proceed ing the 24th of January, but he is jniftaken as to the day of the week ; tor the evening proceeding the 24th was on Wednesday ; so that, had I been inclined to his mode of ex planation, it would have been impracticable ; both the debate, and his leaving town, ha,v iug happened before I heard a sentence of the expression. The interesting debate alluded to by Mr. Giles, Ifuppole, was on the lub ject of the address to the jeoplr, which took place on Tuesday the 22d of January. Had Mr. Giles and his party told the people, in plain terms, that disunion