if)is 'SDap's i^aiL 11A.LTli.iOR'D, May 28. Tin , Pluming, hetween the hours of 2 su4 ; 'clack a five broke out in the bake fioule Mr. Patrick Mdlian, in South-street, laid ui have been occafioneAby the bursting of the oven. The citizens soon turned out with their usual alacrity ; but, notwithftan -iTing every poffible,exertion was made by them to extinguish vhe flames, they in a Ihort time spread to tlif buildings on Pratt-ftreet, thence, round the CQrner of Pratt-ftreet and Franklin to within one door of Wood i'lreet —In the other direttion, they exten ded themft'lves round the corner of Pratt and South-ftssets, to within two doors of Wood ftreyt-—and left nothing but the bare walls, that was not previou/ly removed.- The flores on the latter street and one on Soutb-ftreet, which are all that remain of the square, have been considerable injured. A list 0/ the buildings destroyed, ivitb the . names of the owners and qccupicrs. William Woods, three stores, occupied by Wood;, T ijrlorand Co.—James Piper—and William J .Rfcimond Barjy, ;i house, by lvimfelf. ■ A. W. Davev, i (tore, by Wiljhm Ry- I.tpi!. . _' ..•'Mr. . Eafcault, I c'o.by G fVan.l Tcepkin. . Patrick Milliau, i Uoufe.and bake do. bj .hitvtlT-H. . .. .Benjamin .Will'ums, p. Ilores, by Vor Kaf)ff■.»i I »d;An*'pac.lv—ansi himHl f. ; tcihn Str'u I|-t, -7. tic. by. Rogers and Ow '.*tn"s—wcl himfrlf. ■ • John ii'jfanon & Co. i do. by James f'prvie Elizabeth Lav;foil, inse • • 8CJtr........ " The damages Curtained on this occafian •afecomputed at % or 300,000 doljars. NORFOLK, May 23 , the following Addref*. wos pre ..fented by a-committee from tlie mayor, Rt cordtr, and Aldermen of this Borough to Truxton. To THOMAS TRUXTQN, Esq. comman tier of the U- S.fhip of war Cancellation. SIR, ■The mnydr, Recorder, and Aldermen, of the' Borough of Norfolk, take pleafur in welcoming you to your native fhcres Amid our congratulations on your fafe- Cy. and that of the br ive officers and - men under yemr command, we view it, as a cir eumftance or pleasing contsmplation, that at a time when the interests of your country call for the exertions of its citizens, you, Sir, bv your late brilliant contest, have been the ifrft to evince, to an imperious auti insulting nation, the only tribute hey c.n everexaft from tlic American charafler. May your future returns to the bosom ol a grateful country, be as auspicious as the prefimt. We are, Sir, in behalf of the Mayor, Recorder, and Aldermen, Your obedient f rvants, . V h ft r 'j Committee J K. Kcaa, j . To zchich he returned thefolio-unrig flnfwer. To the Mayor Recorder and Aldermen of the Borough of Norfolk. Gfntlemun, I receive with unexpreffible etmtions (through your committee Meflrs. Folter and Read) ths honor you have done me by this addrtfs. To be thus welcomed to my native (hores, after a fatiguing campaign, and for my condnft to have met the approbation of so honorable and so refpectab'e a body, in one of the firfl (tates of the union, is highly gratifying to my heart, and will lezvs an impreKion on my mind, that can only be defaced by the end of my existence. To have been the firft to evince, to an im perioiu and insulting nation, that the thun der of cannon and showers of ball, in the only tribute they can frofti the United States, lias been my good fortune—for. I hav? no doubt, but any of my brother com manners, in other (li : ps, having fnch a brave f c t of officers, and so aftive and de termined a crew as that of the Conftella tfon's, would have done at lead as mnch as has been imputed to nip, if chance had giv en them the opportunity. Accepti fellow-citizens, my sincere thanks for your good wiflies towards me in future and believe me alwavs devoted to the honor, interest and liappinefs of my country: Your obedient humble servant, Thomas Truxton. May 12, 1799. Toe following is a correct list of the captures made by tie Constellation frigate, during her last cruize. I.'lnfnrgente, 40 guns, 409 Men. L'Union, Letter of Marque, Dry Goods and Privifions. L'Diligentr, Ditto, Flour, oriiv Brothel's, of London,-recaptured. By the Uondellation, we also learn, that the U. St-brig Richmond, Lieut. Spearke, ha-; captured a French febooner loaded with 1 offee. J*er the'■schooner Thro Brothercapl. Ester - brook, -j days from Nevj-Providence. NAGSAu, April uy. Tte brig Naaicy, Coffin, from New-Or Jeajjs.-for Havanna, with lumber, is sent ii feere.by the Priinroi'epriv;;teei-, Weft. The ifcro pritfa'teer is in the offing, with the American Dennet, from PbUwfelphia, detained under , suspicion of ypgfiipi board. April 53. Yc (ierc'ay arrived here, a D inifh Govern ment Schooner, tii col. Peterfcmj Asdio is »a CcmmifiToner appointed to enquire into the captures and detentions of vrfTcls, fail ing under Danifti colors made by the British cruizers in the Welt Indies. She left Port Royal on the 7th inft. when there was no thing new ; and on the 12th called in at Gape Nichpla Mole, from which gen. Tout ' April' 26. A Spanifti Xebec, laden with Whale Oil, See. lately from .Malaga, was last week cut out of Porto Plata, in St. Domingo, to wind ward of MonteClirifti, by the Lark priva teer, captain Tucker, and arrived here to day. " •It is certainly neceflary that the people of this country Ihould weigh well the con ferences of entering into those Handing ar mies which are now raifmg in this country. Can any afieft;onate and prudent father wil 'ingly Ice his son consigned over to every ice which can disgrace human nature ? - a n any lenhble young man engage with a body ot men. who have Hot one solitary vir ile to compensate for their innumerable vils ? Can he brcoine a member of a society 11 which his principles will be contaminated nd his moral feelings extinguilhed!—lt is ii 4 that there are to be twenty two ihitions ii Virginia where the recruiting buliriefs is ') be carried 011 and that to mark out the places of rendezvous is one of the bjefls of the military .officers that are now n town. It is to be hoped that for the ho ">r of Virginia there wiil be but few per .ns so ig'o-ant or so unprincipled as to sf ociate with the miserable beings who gen rally .compo.fe {landing armies. Fellow-ci .zens, let not their intriguing arts ensnare you, let not their handsome coats and neat ppearance captivate you, let not their im udent swagger, and lofty airs frighten you •nto compliance. Be guarded. Freemen night to adhere to the militia." 1 do. by Solomon That the impudent swagger and lofty air f the federal troops should excite the fears f the Examiner or any other jacob'n, is as atural as that they ftiquld be ofFenlive to 'he French, our open enemies ; the morti ying circuirfiance of his not being admir ed to afTociate with them while in town, recounts for his illiberality towards those who vjfe. It is hoped that for the honor f Virginia, there will be but few persons so vnorant or so unprincipled as to associate ■»ith the miserable beings who generally impose standing armies, but what of all <;'ner things seems to be mo ft diftre fling to ' im, he seems ro be afraid that their in triguing arts may ensnare him into an en 'iflment ; and that their handso ne coats . 'nd neat appearance may captivate—Who ? Madame ; but although his diminutive fi ure and squeaking voice (flrong evidence f, imbicility) may be fufficient ground for •ne/of" his fears, it molt certainly fecutts 'lim from the other ; for his strength would 'lot enable him to Carry a musket oraurum, ind his Eunuch-like voice is not suited to the fife. The soldiers are men, as well cal culated to charm and give pleafureto the wo men as to exciie the tears of jacobins. Among the many abfurditics that attach to the oppofers of our government, that of the gross perversion of language is not the leall fingnlar. If ever there was a govern ment that could ftridtly be ftiled the peoples rhat of America is one. Yet the men cho sen by the people to administer it, and the great bulk of the people who support it are termed a faftion. If these cumpofe the fadtion in this Country, then the legitimate government is lodged some where else, And where are we to look for it ? Is it at Monti cello in Virginia—at Lyon's diftridt in Ver mont—is it lodged with the Kentucky Af fenably—or the Irish in the suburbs of Phi ladelphia ? Do it« decree* iflue from the foul pages of the Aurora, the Argus, or the Ceritu > of l reedom ? Or are they to be gathered from the hasty resolutions of some obfeure town meeting. But the Federal cause cannot be -fuccefs fully aflailH by truth, by descent argument, 01 found r«.;:foning ; for th re is nothing in its charaler on which they can take hold No ; the more it is brpught to the touch, stone <jf truth, the brighter it (bines. But calumny, like a bottomless pit of filth, is forever fending forth its noxious vapor, to obfeure its ' eauty, and bring it down to the standard of its own deformity a Fn&ion ! Those who apply this tern/to the federal government and its supporters, know they are a faftion themfel»es ; and tbey know the deserved odium that belongs to the charac ter of the faction : henc: it is that they apply, the term to their oppefers—Like the house-break r, who thinks to efcnpe detec tion by running into the (Ireet, and crying —Jicp thief ! CHARLESTON, May 8. SrJTB OF SoUTHB-CtIIOLIVJ. ernor and Commander in Chief, in and over the State aforefaid. /! PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS I haAe received informati on that a malignant contagious fever nov rages at the Havanna ; and importance H tkh of the inhabitants .nis ftaie,that meafurej rtiould imrtiediate y be adopted to prevent the introduction of so great a calamity ; I have, therefore, (halt arrive in this port from the Havanna, or fron; any other part of the ifiand cf Cu- fiint A few t!nys before, to meet GuJ. iI in ourt at Port-in-Prince. Augullus Love, the pirate, who wis fen from hence to in the Proselyte sri- has rqade his drape from Plymouth, and is luppofed to be ere this in the Weft- T'.idies at his old occupation. American fcfir. Sally and Peggjr, Holli day, frorn Baltimore fcr Havanna, with contraband goods ; by the privateer Dalher, Picket. RICHMOND, May 21. Extract from; the Examiner. Richmond, May 16,'99. REMARKS. Richmond, May 19, 'O9 NEWARK, May 28. COMMUNICATION FACTION. hi be brought to under the guns of Fort { ,hu(ton, and there perform a quarantine of twenty pne diyj And Ido fuither nrdcr and diredl. that all vefTeb which (hall ar rve in this port from anv part of the Weft- India fflands, theSpanifh Main. Pe'facola, or the Mediterranean, flral'. be fubjeft to ex amination by the port physician, and to the performance of quarantine as he fhali judge it necefTary ; an] I do hereby prohibit and forbid all pilots and other persons, from bringing any of the fa'd vefTels f<> arriving in port, beyond Foit johnfton, until they (hall'have received a permif for that purpose from the port physician. And the com manding officer at Fnrt Johnfton, the port physician, and all other officers whose duty it is to attend to the fame, as hereby requi red to be drift and pun&ual in the due exe cution of the regulations required by this my proclamation. EDWARD (J. m- i.J RUTLEDGE. Yesterday arrived ihe brig Little BcrijSU min, Cooke, Teneriffe,,39 days. ... c The brig Little Benjamin, which arrived vefterday from TenerifFe, a vessel which was purchaftd in that Island by caps. Cooke, late of {the £hip Caroline, from London bound to this port, which was captured by a French privateer belonging to Bordeaux, and carried into that Iflnnd, where fliip and cargo were condeinr>ed. The Lttle Be ia min was an English vtfiel. captured by the fame privateer. Several of he palfengers which were on board of the Caroline, at the time of her capture, arrived yefte day with capt. Cooke. The privateer which captured the Caro line, carried 20 guns and 170 men. Capt. Cooke had 12 guns and 17 men; with this unequal force, ke fought the priva'.eer one hour: his mate was the only man wounded; he received a mufquet ball in the upper part of 1 i» cheek, which came out at the o her ; but he recovered, and arrived with captain Cooke. One man was wounded on board the French vcffel. The schooner Maria, of Charleston, T. Cortlett, master, failed from Philadelphia the 28th of March, laden wi h flour, tallow and some dry goods. April 2d, in lat. 25, 27. n. long. 74. 53. w. at half past one o'clock, r. m. a violent whirlwind upset the Maria, there being at the fame time no appearance whatever of a squall or hard gale in two minutes after the schooner was filled with water, whereupon the master and Iv's crew made every exertion to right her again, and for this purpose cut away all her fails from the masts and yards—having staid by the vessel until ten o'clock, p. m they were then obliged to quit her and take to their boat; they endeavoured to keep the head of the boat to the sea, but the wind blowing very frefh from the weft ward, a. heavy sea filled the boat with water several times du ring the night. At fix o'clock, a. m. made for the schooner; at ten o'clock got along fide, when one of the men got into the wea ther cabin window, got a hand saw and cut away both mads, whereupon (he righted a little ; but at two o'clock, t. m. thry were once more compelled to take to their boat, there being a heavy sea from w. n. w. In day light they dire&ed their course by the fun, and during the night by the liars for four days. ' » • A SOLDIER. On the 6th April, they were fortunate ly picked up by the Hoop Peggy, capt. Jo seph Smith, of Rhode-lfland, capt. Cort lett and hi* crew being almost ready to pe rish with hunger and fatigue. On the itth of April, made the iflar.d of Bermuda ; spoke a filhing boat, on board of whicb captain Smith put she mailer and crew of th* Maria. The next day they landed at the town of Halnilton in the island of Bertituda, and werr treated very politely by the inhabt, tants, who raised by fubfeription i»o dol lars for their relief, and afforded every re quisite attendance on the tick. THE quarterly meeting of the St. An drew's Society will lie held TO-MORROW Evening, at Barnabas M'Shane's Tavern, North Third Street, at •} o'clock. IVtT. YOUNG, see'v. pro tern. mav thScf Twenty-five Thou/and Dollars IS yet to let out tor one year on good real estate, in this city an~l its ficinity, by mort gage, The title mult be and the proper ties insured. App'y to JOHN SHIELDS, broker. No. 22, ChefnutJlreet. 0" All kinds ot Pu! lie Securities, Bill; of Exchange, Notes, &c. &c. bought and fold on commission. 0 Three or four gentlemen may He accommodared with Board and Lodging, at Mrr. M'Cr t a's, no. 19, north Eighth (treer. niay 3© thfa.mo.tf Samuel Miles, jun'r. Of the city of Philedelphia, merchant, hav ing assigned over all his crTcfls, real, perfonsl and mixed, to the ftibftribers, for the benefit of iuch of his creditors as may fubferibe to the said alignment on or before the firft of Auguit next. JSoti oe-rc hereby given, Xi all persons indebted to the jfaid estate, tha [ they are requeued to make immediate payment to either of the aHienees, or t.o the said Samuel Miles, who is authoriftrd to receive th*" f«rme ; in failure whereof legal fleps ' ill be taken the recovery of such debt's, as arc not difebar gcd accordingly. GEORGE ASTON, 7 CORNEIJS COMEGYS, £ ACL'ree? JOHN ALLEN, j feb.l4. Given under my hand, and the seal of the Rate, in the city of Charleston, the tenth day of May, Anno Domini, 1799, and in the 23d year «f the indepen dance of the Uuited States of Ameri ca. By the Governor, Isaac Motte Dart, Sei'ry of State. St. Andrew's Society, way 30 %i)e (sasette. PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 30 CONFIRMATION, Defeat of the French. Extract of a Letter received by a Merchant of this city,,dated London, April 10'99. " The Frencii have received a severe check from the Auftriarfs, in a battle which took place lately. They loft upwards of 2000 men ; this event is likely to give a new turp to the affairs on the continent. I pray, noft sincerely these infamous despots may be crush ed and blotted from the.face of tilt earth. "This goes by the Minerva to Bottom which is to run (and will be out before the fleet) a packet. Extract of a Letter from Madrid, dated " I have learned from various charters, tiat the gallant defence nnide by our armed merchant vessels againfl French in several instances, has- greatly tended to inspire a r< tpeift in the crews of the latter for our flag. Captain Gamaliel Bradford, commanding the (hip Mary of Bolton, tar- ryiwg 25 men and io four pounders, has ac quired much reputation by repulsing two French pinateersaf superior force, and tn- iaie at Malaga, a few days agp, with a valuable cargo of Sfli and iugar. He had not a man killed or wounded. The French privateers i'oon followed him into the fame port, having had two men killed and thir- teen wounded—some of them mortally. Letters from Algeciras advise, that the French privateers, which have so long in fefted the ftreights of Gibraltar, are now very #*utious in not approaching near A mertcan veflels,until it be afcertaincd wheth er they are well armed or not." Extract of a Letter from a respectable mer- cantiie bouse at Lisbon, to a correspondent tn this City, dated 27tb March 1799. " A large force is preparing in England to defend this country, so that we have not any apprehensions even if the French Ihould make an attack on it." " A Federalist" fliall be attended to. Mr. James Caiey is not interested in the new paper, mentioned in an article under the New-York head, in yesterday's Gazette. This day's Mail, our readers will perceive, brings melancholy news of the further ra vages of that destroying element, Fire : Property to the a;ncuwt of half a million of dollars, is fsid to have been deflroyed in this (ingle inllance. Whilst diftrei's in its moil horrid forms, is thus repeatedly visiting other cities, how grat ful Ihould the citizens s qf Philadelphia be fortheir remarkable preferv: - tionfrom this devouring element. It should not, however, be forgotten, that it is to the wile regulations of ou> corporation, that, under God, we have owed our escape hither to, and .in this view, we ought never to for get the man, (whom men vicious as himfelf would now reward with civic honors) to whom we are indebted for the nullification of the mod ialutary and neceiTary provition that ever was fallen upon for a populous city. Colonel Silas TalJiotof the. itnerlcan na vy, heretofore appointed to command '.he United States' frigate now building in New York, is to command the Constitution, of 44 gujis, via Captain Nicholfon. The Montezuma sloop of war will pro ceed on a cruise this day or to-morrow, un der the command of Capt. Mullowny, late firfl lieutenant 011 board the United States. Capt. Murray, late of the Montezuma, is to be removed to another veflel. The quarantine of the sloop of war De laware, "Captain Decatur, will bs out this day, when (he will come up to the cijy. <Bajette Jtift. Port oj Philadelphia, Arrived at the Fori. Brig Aurora, Strickling, " Barcelona, via N. York. The Herald, sloop of war, capt. Ruflell failed from N. Castle on Tuesday last on a cruize. 3>w im The Montezuma, capt. Malony, fails to morrow. Brig Polly, Chamonk, from hence, has arrived at Rotterdam. An armed inward bound brig, was »b'reaft of Chester til's morning. The (hip Criterion—of thlsi port is fop. posed to have arrived is England, from N. York, as answers to her letters have been leceived, dated, London, Jth April, Ship Alex. Hamilton, Fe~nell, has arri rei at JLondon, from N, York. Arrived at th r port, this morning, Schr. Nancy, Logan from Havanna ; crew all well ; failed th£ 15th inft. Ship Hanr.ory, Willington, of thisport sent into New Providence on her passage from Cape Francois to Baltimore is con demned, with 400 bags of coffee, the re mainder of the cargo to the value of 80,000 dollars, is liberated. JtWtf 19 tb March, 1799. On Monday next, the of Juhc t WILL START, THE SWIFT-SURE, A NKW LIN £ OF STAGES, Ho run daily between Philadelphia mid NEiV-To/ttC, by the short and pjeafant Ro.id of Bustieton, Newt own, Scotch-Plains Springfield and Newark* THE excellence of this Road, the popu loufnefs of the country through which it pafles, with fun dry other "advantages, which render it so far preferable to the Old Road through Bristol, Brunfwicfc, Ecc. long ago fqggefted the propriety of its becoming the Grand . Thorough-fare from Philadelphia to New-York. During, the preient.year, a minute ftirvey of it has been taken, and its luperiority over the Old Road, both in Win ter and Summer, has been cleariyafcertained. There are good bridges over-all the other waters but the Delaware, and here the crcf fing is performed with great fafetv and in lcfs than half the time, required at the Tren ton ferry. This Road is severalm!'if short er than the Old Road, but this is a mongst the leaf: of its advantages, because daily experience proves to its, that dispatch as well as comfort in. travelling principally depends (in the goodness of the i oad and the levelnel's of the country, arid, in tittle re jbtdl?, the New Road is, beyond all compa nion, the befl. It prefems none of' thoie rocky hills, which render the .Old Road so fatiguing between the Delaware and Newark. The foil, too, for the far greater part, is such as to produce but little mud in winter, a .1 very little dust in summer, which ci.c.,ni-. stance, added to.the beauty of the v and a considerable proportion offline 1 reader travelling in the latter letflon jiecu.- liarly agreeable. The SWIFT-SURE will fkrt at 6 o'clock every morning (Sundays excepted) from the Gkek.n Tuee, oppolite- the Lu theran Church, North Fourth Street, Phila delphia. It will go through Frank-ford to Buftleton, where it will flop to brrakfaft ; frcfir; Baffleton it_ will go through to Pennytown to dinner ; ffSilT "ytownT through Hopewell, Millstone, Sound-brook, Quibbletown and Piainfield, to Scotch- Plains to lodge. The next morning it will stop at Springfield to breakfafl, from whence it will go through Newark, and arrive at New-York by noon. Fare for passengers, 5 Dollars, Way passengers, 6 cents per mile. If Each passenger is allowed to take on i4lbs of baggage carriage free ; but all other bag- ' gage, taken onby a pafTe'nger will be charged at 4 cents per pound weight. With refpeft to Packages sent on without pafleng-ers, the proprietors preluma they have adopted a regulation, which, though un known to other Lines of-btogts, they think mufl meet with general approbation.—They pledge themselves to make good every package on the following conditions. The person who delivers the package at the ofiice fhali fee it entered in the Stage Book, for which entry he fball pay 6 cents ; he will then ftatt the value of the package, and pay, (exclu sive of the carriage) one per cent cn the va lue, as infuranee, and for which he will re ceive a receipt. Thus, for inftancc, if he estimates his package at one dollar, he will pay one cent, and if at one hundred dollars lie will pay one dollar infnrance, and in like proportion for packages of any other value. Very few persons, it is pre fumed, will dislike this regulation ; it will however, be aptional with every one to avail himfelf of this security or not. But the proprietors think it right to ft ate very explicitly, that they will be refponlibie for the fife delivery of no package, jwhich is not regularly enter ed, and for. which an insurance receipt 'can not be produced. In the diftribilUon of the Route the great est care has been taken to fix oiv-fuch places and Taverns as ftiall a'waiys afford good ac commodation and entertainment for the pal fengers at the most Reasonable rates. The' Stages are all well-equipped, furnithed with fleet and steady horl'es, and committed to the tareof intelligent, sober andobliging drivers. The Proprietors themselves live at the dif ferent towns and villages -where the Stages will flop, fothat the conduft of theperfcns they employ will be-continually an oljedl of their attention. They will take care also fee, that the paflVngeri are well prCv«ir , fO - politely treated at the Taverns, * anc [ t |, a ,. no fort of chicanery or i'tifoltr» lce ft,-;} pra&ifed upon them : in fh<r^ rt;? t j, C y rt _ solved, that neither pain' no- expert re fliaii be wanting to ren. J <r* the SWIFT-SURE the very best Line 0 f Stages in America * JOHN I/cCAI.LA, Philadelphia THOS. PAUL, bvstleton. JOSEVH THOR N TON, -) , r NICHOLAS WYNKOOP, I 7V£ ' K '" 'ACOB KESLER, j to '' Jn - JOHN MOREHEAD, Pem;tmv,u 'I HOS. KILLMAN, near Milestone. EI.IAS COMBES, Bmnd-Broek. R. STANSBURY, Scotch-Plains, ISAAC RAWLE, > „ ROBERT PEARSON, S -P r,n^e!d , Philadelphia, May 30, 1799. FOR SALE, PACKET. .. She is well taftiiUma as a Packet between this and the foutheiß frates, hiv ing handfor.ie and extei five accommodations lor paflenger#. She it wirllTuiteWor the (Ireiahts or Weft India tra'ls, and con be ffcnt 10 fia at a fril ling cxpence. The inventory may be fien and the terms of sale made litiown by applying t© N. 8c J. FRAZIER, 2Vo. 95 South Front t. Ira y 3°- diwjawtf , * 'wmasw&t * w*^acawrjfr
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