i * 11l THE Piefident -nil Dirediors of the Compa ny fur a cting , a permanent Bridge over the river Schuylkill, at or near the city of Phi vhiich 10 eredl laid bridge fhoulifte procured.— That obje£l bci g how cffedled, by a purchase of tlie iieceflarv property at the weft end of jTigli street, oa both fides of the river Schuyl kill. Public Noiice is Given, That the hook Jor Subfcripttani to the capital or ointllcck of the said company Will be opened at jtheir office No. 23, nor;lt Fifth Street, on Mon day the ictli of June next, and continue open from ten to one o'clock everyday (Sunday's «xcepted) until the whale ftiall be (nbfcribed for, time is extended in order to afford op portunity to the, friends of this important un dertaking, 011 the weft fide of Schuylkill, or at a distance, to participate in an objeil of great . tiotis over and above the limited number of 13th day of June enfning. Tll the 10th fedlibn of ihc law of incorporati on it is enable;!, that the nett profits on tolls Inay equal, biitlhalinot exceed 15 per cent an nually ; and that the excess shall compose a fund for the redemptionol the said bridge. A port fclio is opened at the said office, to re ctive all communications, prints or drawings, on £g£ coffer dams, or any information which may V ' tend to mature the knowledge of tUe diredlors previous to the intended eretftion: They arefid icited, rare wiH be uken of thein, and return ed if defircd. JOHNDORSEY, Secryprotem. Philadelphia, May a7,«h 1799 mwf 13J Valuable Lands for Sale. ON'Tuefduy the 20th of August nsxt, I shall cxpofc to public laic, at the town of Ncw- Maiket, in Dorchetier county, all that valuable tra& or parcel of land commonly called the Chop tank ludian Lands, situated on the fcufth fide and binding on the Choptank river several miles, tup pofed to contain about fix thousand acres, to be divided into lots to contain from 100 to 500 acres each : The term* of file as follow, viz. Purchasers to j»ivu Hoad immediately after the sal« with ap proved feenrity, conditioned for the payment of ♦he purchase money, with interest from the day of sale, in four equal annual inftalmcnts, agreeably to an ait, entitled, " An ail appointing ronimil koncr to contract for and purchase th« lands com monly called the Choptank Indian Lands ki Dor ehciler county, and for appropriating thefameto the use of this Rate, and torupcalthe ail of afletn bly therein mwi:ionedpalTcdat November (ef- fion, 179 ft. .ayril HOARDING. \ 4 A few Young Men can be accommodated with Ger.tcd Board on seasonable terms, at No. 8 Cherry Alley—the situation is plea • fant arid healthy. 'n i v ! <;. Just Published, Bf JOHN ORMUOD, -7*^ A S E R M 0 N, OX THfe burr of. civil obedience, it ahQuißn) iv scrip t.ur 6. Delivered in Chrill Church ami St. Peter's, A - pr!l 1799, being a day of general Humilia tion, Appointed by tki President of the United States, by WILLIAM WHITE, v. d. Bishop of the Proteftatit Episcopal Church, In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania- M*v 1 o. JUST PUBLISHED, ROR SALE SY THOMAS CONDIE, RICHARD FOLWELL, No. 33, Carter's Alley, [PRIC.F SEVENTY -FIT* CENTS.3 HISTORY Of the Pestilence commonly called TEILOW FEf£S, Which alnioft dfjolated Philadelphia, in the months of Augufl, September and Odober, 11798- JJ* THOMAS CONDIE Sa'RICHARD FOLWELX. ' tri»y*3 3t NOTICE. THE Public are requested not to receive any draft>, notes, obligations or bills of any kind drawn in favor of oriodorfed by Abijab Hunt. J. if A. Hunt. yesse If Abijab Hunt. Jcrcmiab if Abijab Hunt. Abijab if Jno. W. Hunt. Snodgrais, i!f Co. Those on whom they are drawn are also defltcd to suspend acceptance, until referencs be had to the subscriber. , About twenty thou fan d Dollars of bills of the -above description having been taken from the car rier near the mouth of Tenniffite river by a party of Indians. SAMUEL MEEKER, april 26. tu th&f tf REMOVAL. ROBERT COE & SON, HAVt REMOVED THEIR fifittb Manufactory and Ironmongery Store, to No. 175, Market Street, nearly opposite the donneftogoe Waggon, where they have (or falc as ufual,home manufa&wred and imported Brug es of almost every description, togeher with a ge neral assortment of Ironmongery, Cutlery, Sad kry, and BrSfs wares, to which they expe«sl by the spring vcffeh, an ample addition 4th ma. 10 NO i I C E r I 'HE «rcditor« of TODD W MO IT arc requcft ■*■ ed to leave their accounts «alculatirg intercft ts ths of November, 1798, the date of Todd and Motts's affigriment, with \V. Moxr, tie. 145, Market street, on or before tbe firft of July next, as a dividend will be immediately made alter that time ; those who negleil to feiFiciii their ncttfuntv will be excluded fxoro that dividend. John H addrr-J'ii!, j John Rl'odt i, I A til«* i<-< s» John Allen j Wm MARBURY, Agent f6r tfee Maryland. d^sn eodtf No, 41, Cbefnm-ftreet, 40 —AND eodtf tew '[Jy W ILLIA M ' M A NNING, Tin Plate Worker, Nrt. 22•'*>y South Second Strf.f.t, IMPRESSED with a due fen'fe of gratitude for the numerous favors conferred 011 him fincehis commencement in Bufincfs, leave to prcfent his inofl,sincere Thanks to his Fkiends and the Public, and informs them that he has for sale every Article in the'l I Trade, which he will ren der on zn moderate terms any person in the city. THE ROASTER, which has of late become so particularly ufeful throughout the United States, is rendered more so by an Improvement of his own, which he flatters hmifelf cannot be imitated by any other person. He trolls that an afliduous Attention will ensure him the prote&ion of a discerning Public. N. B. Merchants and Captains of vessels supplied with Shot Cannifters, Lanthorns, Cooking Utensils, and every other article in the above line ncceffary for (hip* use. Country Orders executed nvltb punc tuality and dispatch. May ix Pennsylvania Population Company. Jfotice is hereby Given, TO THE SHAREHOLDERS, chat an alTefT nicHt of Six Dollars is levied on each {hare, payable immediately, which they arc requeued to pay to theTreafurer of the Company, at the Com pany's Office. No. J3, North Fourth Street. By order of the Board, SOL. Mar ACHE, Secretary. m*y io. jawlw LONDON, January i, 1799. 500 Guineas Reward. LOST this evening, between five and Ex o'clock, in the neighbourhood of Grace chinchJlrtcl, a BLACK CASE, containing the following Bank Notes and Drafts, with sundry Bills of Exchange, not due : £IOOO N0.19,19, dated 1 Dec. 179S 10:0 864, a 6 Nov. Ditto 1000 384, aiDec. Ditto loco 171 }, 17 Oft. Ditto 1000 i/i 4) >7 Ditto Ditto A Draft on MefT. Hankey and Co. £5 3 13s Ditto Dorien and Co. 367 7 Ditio Carnet and Co. 30 16 Ditto Stephenlon and Co. jz 4 Ditto Rogers and Co. S3 16 Ditto Prefcot and Co. 37 18 Ditto Harcourt and Co. 17 16 Ditto Smith, Payne and Co. ao 15 Ditto Dorien arid Co. £45 7s 6d Ditto Le Fevre & Co. lit n 6 Ditto Ditto - - 810 o o A bill drawn on Fleming & Wake, Bow Lane, by Fleming, & payable to Orm.ord,dated Nov.s, two mon;Jis after date, valueX»o. —One ditto on Fell, No 31 Old Change, by Hall, OTid payable to Smith, dated Nov. 30, at two months after date, 1 —One ditto on Say well & font, Wood-street, by Ball, and payable to Braddock, dated Dec. 19, at two months, for £.30. — One ditto on Eden, Wood-ftre.t, by William), payable to order, dated Nov. 1. at ehree months fsr £3O it —One ditto on Neale & Co.St. Paul's Church Yard, by Adams, and payable to Kencoright, dated Dec. 7th, at two months, for^i4 —One ditto on Stewart, Red CrofsSqtiare, by Young, and payable to Mar shall, dated Nov. 21, at two months, tor .£33. u. <)d.—One ditto r>n Royd's, Buklerfbury, bv Lord, atii payable to Jackson, dated Dec. 3 at two months, for £lB. —One ditto on Miller and Co. Gracechurch (treet, by Redway, and pryable to Hartley, dated Dec.6, at two months for £?o. —One d«to on Spitta & co. Lawrence Pountney Lane, by Lange, and payable to Hoyle dated Nov. 4, at two months, for £l6l. Whoever may have found the above, and will bring them to Meflrs. Atkinfor. & Robfon, No. » Weft End of Royal E*;hange, (hall immediate ly receive Five Hundred Gum, as Reward with out any furthtr Trouble. N. B. No greater Reward will be offersd, as payment of the whole is flopped, and the loss made known throughout tilts Country and Cqn tiuent April 19 A WATCH FOUND. WAS found on Sunday the 19th instant, a Elver Watch— The owner, by proving property and paying charges, may have it a gain, by applying at No. 135, Spruce street. may a 3 it Notice. THE fubferiber, havir.g been appointed ad* roinifirator of the eftatc of Mr. John Lup ti f> late of this city, merchant, deceased, re queftt those who ire indebted to said estate, to make payment, and thole who have demands againit the fame to exhibit thetn to him with out delay. W. MEREDITH, No. 16, #'s NIvW-YOKK, May 27. The letter further m.'-nvi" 1 hrrt ! ->!- Icy rand hes l'libraittud a lengthy Mtmor.-a} to the Directory, in which he re commends the expediency of laying aside ..11 ill will and animosity towards America, aiul of adjufling matters with us as lpeeddy and amicably as they can ; and further proposes, that in Amba'flador Extraordinary be in ftantty dispatched to America, to endeavor to fettle the differences existing between the two Republics." This information comes from aloiirc*: tdo refpe&able to admit ot a doubt of its auihen ticity. Now u the trying tune ripjmnir',- ing. Having been 1.1 led in their threats', they now mean to employ the jtjni".' 'eair otu weapon of inhmution and intrigue. How happy are we that a man of Mr. A dams's penetration and firmnefs is at the head of public affairs. Lall evening arrived the fliip Mermaid, of Portfmoutli, N. Hampftiire, 2$ days from Martinique ; the fchr. Hera, Savage, 22 days from Antigua ; and the {loop—, from Nevis—all under convoy of the Portsmouth as far as Sandy Hook. In the Mermaid came Mouf. Marolles—Mouf. Malbepes, lady and two daughters, intending to irfide at Elizabethtown. M. Malherbes was formerly an officer in the French army in America. The schooner Eliza from Charlcfton, on Wednesday last, on foundings, left the U. S. frigate Portsmouth, with 18 fail of Ame rican veflels from St. Thomas's, bound to different ports. [This fleet originally con sisted of 73 fail, from the different islands, some of which have arrived.] CHARLESTON, May 16. A raufe of considerable corifequence to the United States, and the {ltuation in which (he (lands as a neutral nation with some of the belligerent powers, was heard on Tues day and Wednesday last, in the Circuit Court of the United States, held in this city. Prefcnt—the hon. Oliver Elfworth, chief justice ; the hon. Thomas Bee, diflritt judge. Don Diego Morphy,-, Bill inEquity,to,enjointhede conful of his Ca- J lendam trom felling the fch'r tholic majesty, vi, [or felucca, Noltra Sig"inra,icc. Benjamin Moodie j a SpaniOi vt(Pl, prize to his confulto his Brit- j Qritranmc Majesty's (hip, the tannic tnajefty. J Melcager. Mr. Desaussure and Mr. Parker, for the complaimnt ; Mr. Pringle and Mr. Ward for the defendant. On the part of the defendant it was object ed, that the intended sale is neither contrary to any exi fling, treaty, or regulation of the executive of the United States, or law of Congreis, or luw : of nations ; aud that the sale of prizes made by the Britifli, from their enemies, the Spaniards, maybe lawfully made in the United States, till our government does, (as it may) by treaty or otherwise, pre vent the lame ; that the judiciary potfer cannot intetpofe its authority to enjoin a sale, until tha executive fliall positively in terdidt the lame. On the part of the complainant it wasan fwered, that where r:o right to fell is grant ed by treaty, or express permission to l'ell is Ihewtl, that the court of equity is the pro per court to apply to, to retrain the party ; that it is a right which cannot be supposed to pais by implication, as it goes to ceffipn of a sovereignty ; that the permitting a sale would be. at breach of neutrality, which ought to place the belligerent powers on an equal footing in all rcfpcf\«. Tlie chief jufrtre cMiveied the opinion of the court, to the following rwport: The right to fell cannot be claimed by treaty. On what ground does the right to fell reft? If it exists at all, it reft on a per mifiion. Without doubt a cation may per mit a belligerent power to fell, without vio lating its duties as a neutral power. Treaties aside, it is wholly discretional. The sove reignty of a aeutral power authurifes the exercise of such discretion. There is a dif ference between aiding Commerce, and the sale of prizes; iileticc in the ordinary cases of commerce, may be eonfidered as consent ing to it; but the sale of prizes Hands on different ground, and a positive permiifion must be granted, before the rjgkt can be said to exist. If permitted to fell, they must fell the prize; without a regular enquiry being made, \Vhether it was a legal prize or not, pursuant to the courts of the capturing pow er; and there is in such cafe great danger of fraud, and even of the commission of piracy, (a eufe in which all maratime cations are concerned.} Ido hot fay that a condemn ation is.requisite; but all nations are inter ested to\difcountenance it. The felling of prizes is often very ensnaring, and insensibly draws in tta citizens of a neutral state to de part from the obferv mae of a firict neutrali ty, which is a reason why the neutral nati on should be consulted. In this cafe, no permission from the government Ts (hewn ; none is grapted by tieaiy. An attempt therefore to exsreife it, is incompatible with the sovereignty of the flat*-. What we are at liberty to grant as favours, must be grant ed equally ; and as we are precluded by treaty from granting this right to a Span iard, the reason applies with force, why we should not grant it to the British. As the court does not undertake to decide what it would be proper for the executive to do, I wish to frame the decree so as to admit an application to the executive. Let there be an injunSion to flop the sale unti' the further order of the court, unless permtjfton Jkal! befooncr obtained from the Preft dm los the United States. Captain Micheal Peirce, of the ship Af trea, of New York, burthen nearly 400 tons, with a valuable cargo on board, of tobacco, logwood, sugar and cotton, owned entirely by John Cornelius Vanderheuval, of New-York, with only one paflerger on board, who wasayousg Spanish gentleman, bound home to his parents in Spain, failed From New York, on the 2d of December : on the 20th of the fame mouth was taken by the Britifti frigate Thalia, Con.i.- , lord Henry Paulet, who took capt. P e !r ' liis mate and ten of his crew on board th'.' frigate; after fame time, feat back to the Aftrea the mate only, whose name is Th'o mas F. Bates. O" the r6th January arrived at Gibraltar, the friga'e and ship incompj. Ny: performed » quarantine of a fortnight." On the 28th January went to court where the Aftrea was libelled : there a pack et was produced, adclrefied to Talleyrand the contents in cyphers, which the 'udec' William Mansfield Morrifon, who appeared t« be about 18 or 20 years of age, surrogate of Duncan Frafer, cfq judge of vice admi. ralty, said ht rould make nothing of, nor could any of the court. This packet of C y. phers, capt. Peirce understood, was found on board the Aftrea, concealed in her quar. ter galleries, some days after he was carried on board the frigate: the captain of the frigate, it was said, conveyed the packet to admiral Jervis, who conveyed it to the A merican cortful. Under pretence that the above packet being mysterious, mud of course be treasonable, capt. Peirce was sent prifnn«r again on board the frigate on the 31ft January. On the 9th of February, the frigate/ailing, capt. Peiice was removed on board the Aftrea; on the 25th was sent on board the prison ship; and on the 20th of March was sent on board the fchooser Nancy for Charleston. In the mean time capt. Piirce ltarnl, that the Aftrea and her cargo were cor.dtmned as the property of the enemies of Great- Britain; even his own small adventure wai not spared. Capt. Peirce undtrftood that the A men can consul sent him on here, consigned to the Amer can secret .ry of (late, in consequence of a note from Lord St. Vincent, requeu ing him to fend him and his mate to Amer. ica as ftate-priforers. I have been induced to publish the fore, going narrative in this plr.ee, in co jcquence of an illiberal paragraph which appearij this morning in a paper called the State Gaxette, where the editor, or more proba bly, lam tald, some little-minced paragraph maker, fays, in an ironical flyle' fpeakirgof myfelf and ma e, " These good men will be very soon able to vifn the feat of govern, ment, ai d state their grievances;" andalfa to remove from the rr.inds o : mv fellow citi zens, any prejudice they might harbour a gainst me. on reading the contemptible ac count he has given of a tr&nfa&tion, of which the particulars were unknown tohim, and which could only spring from malice or ignorance. I fail to-morrow for New-York, from whence I (hall repair to the feat of go vernment, where I flatter myfelf my conduct will appear becoming of the charafier I held, and where will \ c investigated the pro priety of an American consul's fendi g me and my mate home as prifoners,«at the re qucft'of a Britifti sdmiral, after that admiral bad canfed to be condemned, without a (hadow of proof that has come to my know ledge, a vessel, which perhaps was as valua ble as any oni that has left the cont nent for a number of years pad. Signed, Michael Peirce. n.r < . _ - _ N. B. Mr. Young of the ftiip who is stated ill a N®w-Yo) k paper her mate, and to liave'ari ived there, was. boatswain. . Michail Peirce. • May 16, 1799. _ BALTIMORE, May 24- E>trai't of .1 letter from a mercantile. boyfe in Cadiz, to his correspondent in this city, dited the 30th Fkbruary, 1799 lv I have no interfiling jicws to girt you respecting our situation here, as we continue blockaded the fame as before, except forA mei;can \eflt-K. vi.ich line hitherto, at lea It for fnme tilr.e pad, been allowed to tome in'—they have brought us fcvcr.it val 1 ■ ble cargoes- of which many were to niv a>i dri 1«, v hereof ! disposed at very good prices. 1 have recommended to all mv friends in ycur continent, to fend no vefl'rls without the Spa 111 (fa confu'.'s certific ite to all their papers, as a neccfTary circumstance for their in-mf admitted in cur cufloni house, tbe waul of ■wb'th has of late given us much trouble." THE PAIITNFRSPIP OF TUNIS, yIN.\ J ESLi:r Co. BEING difloived by the diath rfThomas Roberts, all thole who h;\ve any ilema.-.ds igairilt them are defircd tofurtiifh their accomns and those indebted to (Yni firm arc reqiielfetl to make immediate juvmcnt to kit hard '1 unn KobjrtiAtmeflcy. fin »ivir.{t partners, \ehnpur uofe continuing ;lie hufinefs a> nlui! muler tlie trm of And have for J James' River, Georgia, Carolina, tsf Of yo< Maryland jth rao. aßth Supposed to have been Stolen, And detained by the fubfcntjrr a few '>M since, a valuahle platfd SKI OLE RITI • THE following articles were al io found in a trunk in their cellar lonif time a gn, which it is prel'unied were through mu take or flolen and depofrted there (as uitceWf door was out of order and not f # ftened lor fe» e " ral nights together) viz.— 4 Dozen pair Leather Gloves. The owners of the above goods, by P ro ';'' property and paying theexpence of advertiii may receive them on application at no. I3 l ' Market flreet, to w _. jAC HAINES V JONES. Who have for sale as usual, Mens and woroens fashionable laddlcj ol * an oas descriptions ant! firfl quality ; likewi c ferior and common ditto; an affirtm 1 ■ 0 elegant plated bridles; ditto common ditto o all kinds. They alio mJouf»f ure * Bt ' for fa!e, plated and brafc-mountedl Harnels , forts waggon gears j cavalry tquipiyie ,ia '» u as light horse taps, piAol holsters, twrofd f' ' Sac. &c. together w'th every other article ari' f taining to their line of bufirieli. i. They alio offzr i 5 cents reward .or u., ing up a black apprentice boy, who has < •> J from their service, called JAREH- a jj years, old; he is adlive, ftucy »nd d'rtV pei lons are cautioned not to harbour may 28 I