BW Tor the Gazette ajtbt United States. Mr. Fkmo, AS the College of Ptijrficians and the Aca demy of Medicine, have delivered opinions diametrically opposite, restive to the nature and origin of the fever, at present prevalent in the i'outheril extremity «f this City, and in Southwark ; I request yout;o publilh with out delay, the annexed names >f the members of each society, that the public may judge ■whose opinion is mod probable. The following* are the names f the mem bers belonging to the College, length of time they have been in pra&lce—viz. John Redman, President, about jo years I \Vm. Shippen, Vice President, about 40 do. Adam Kuhn > Censors, Sam. Duffield, each more than 30 years CharlesiMooie > eac [ l mo p t t'nan 40 v-ears Robt. Harris, $ Andrew Rofs, more than 30 years Th'mas Parke, Censor, more than 24 years Benjamin Duffald") William Currie I , VT , t-> r > each j* years Nathan Dorfey I Ber.j-.ißii 11 Say, J Michael Lieb Sam. Powel Griffitts I each more thsn 15 do James Hall, J Casper WifWy, Censor, more than 15 do Benjamin S. Barton") Thomas James leach more than 7do Plunket Glentworth, J , Adam Seybert > , Wip. Boys, $ each 4or 5 Charles Caldwell, 6 The following are :he rnmes of the Aca demy of Medicine; nndthe length of time they have been in pratticer—viz. Philip Sing Phyfick, Pitfident, 8 yearb Charles Caldwell, Vice Prtfident, 6 - do. Benjamin Ru(h, about 55 do. James Reynolds, 7 cr 8 do. Wm. Dewees about i2ori4do. Felix Pafchalis t> do. John R. Coxe, 3 or 4do. James Stewart, 7 do, James iVle.ife, 6 do Joseph Strong, Isaac Heylin, John Otto, August 16th 1799. REPORT Of the Sixtons of the different grounds, of the number of Funerals at tbeir grounds. FOR THE 24 HOURS, ENDING THIS DAY AT II O'CLOCK. Nantes of the Burial Grounds. Christ Church, o o o o o o o o do. 3d Seots Presbyterian, - 00 Aflociate Church, - 00 St. Mary's, ... 10 Trinity, '«. - _,' . 00 Friends - - 11 Free Quakers, - 01 Swedes, ... 00 German Lutheran, - - e o Gc rman Prelbyterian, • o o | Moravian, o o Baptist, - - 01 Methcdift, ... 00 Univerfalifl, - O o Jews, - - 00 African Episcopal, o o do. Method! ft, © 1 o o 4 a- St. Peters, St. Pauls, lft Presbyterian, / "" Kenfingtou', Public Ground,* Total 10 The above list comprehends all the burials from the City and Liberties of every disease. By order of the Board of Health. WILLIAM ALLEN, Health Officer. CITY HOSPITAL REPORT, August 27. Admitted, James Meetb, Walnut-street. Catherine Brown, from No. 164, Couth 4th street. .Nancy Whitr, No. it, south Third street. Michael Hefferman, N«. 132, Arch-street. James Holland, No. 198 south Fourth street. Michael Lioey, from the street. Jaeob Myar, south TJiird street. Mary Hebran, Arch between Ninth and Tenth street. Died since the last 24 hours. Esther Dixfy, insensible when admitted. Remaining in the Hospital 38 Interred in rhe Public Ground- City and Liberties, City Hospital, ■> ' . ' We underfland that the Board of Health have it in contemplation, to open the buil dings, at Mafters's Fields, to-morrow or next day for the reception of the poor. dsasette #ariiu JLift. . • ,•* i Port of Philadelphia. ARRIVED. Brig Enterprizc, Langdon, Havanna Schooner Sally, Scherer, Jamaica BALTIMORE, August 26. Arrived—Brig Lo'.us, HendricAson, 84 days from Bremen. do. in practice. 5 or 6 do. 3or 4. do. A. NEUTRAL. tl fl 1 V £• s * £ rt n § => le ? P 1 4 i Total Sloop George, Barron, days from Ber muda. Sloop Hope, Eddy, 13 dcys from Barra coa. Ship Venus, DifliieU, belonging to Stew art and Sons, of this port,—came in under French colour, as a cartel, with 86 priso ners Americans, Portuguese and English. Sailed from Gibraltar on the 29th June, for Batavia } 01) the \3tii July put into St. Jago, one of the Cape de Verd's, where lay the (hip Jolin, of Salem, capt. Putnam, and an Enghfli'and PcrUjguife ship , in about 12 hours afterwards, 3 French frigates from Rochefort, under English colours, enttred the harbour, and immediatelyafter dark,t!iey manned their boats, to the number of 8 for each veffel,cut their cables, and carried them 20 leagues to sea, where they robbed them of every moveable—taking 40,000 dollars from the John, which ship they burned, run the Portuguese on shore, after taking' her men out, keeping the English men with them ; and robbing the Vein's of 35,000 dollars, all in folidcafh ; after which, put all the crews on board the Venus, and gave capt. D. a pal's port for Baltimore, ordering him to proceed directly thither, and there deliver the 86 men to the French consul, to be exchanged as pri soners of war, taken by the frigates Con cord, commodoie Randolph, La Fraricaife, and La Medee, belonging to the French re public. The Frenchmen threw the guns of the Venus ourboard, took on board the fri gate the arm chefl, all the arms, ammunition i cabin furniture, &c. &c. and with much sang froid prefenung capt. D. with 2 doub loons to dring. to the health of the great na tion-, iuifcred him to depart. The Ihip Triumph, of Baltimore, from Leghorn to Batavia, put !e river bound ap, one ef them it from New-York. Ship Apollo, Thurfton failed from Li verpool 17th June —left there, (hip Sally, Holbrook. to fail in 6 days ; Mope, for City Point, in do.' Nancy, for do. in do, Chloe, Gardner, for Philadelphia, |in do. Sally, for do. Spoke two weeks since, (hip John and Jane, from hence, for Li verpool. Near the Grand Banks, was cha fed by a French privataer, that had 3 pri zes in fight. Also spoke the British frigate Boflon, who informed that he had fallen in with the United States ship Boston, having a fleet of merchantmen unde convoy for the W. Indies. Arrived at Annapolis August 21. Schooner Brothers captain Fairfield—fai led from Cap?-Francois, Augufk Ji, in com pany with the schooner Cii2i»li, J. Tophan, mafier, for New-York. Left at the Cape, about 70 fail of American veflels ainongfl which vyere the following : Sch'r America, Vibert, (arrived) Bakimor Evelina, Robb, do. dr Phillis, Greenough, do. - Ship Kingllon, Philadelphia, Several others belonging to Philadelphia, fcc. names not iTcollefted. Several belonging to New-York, New- London, Providence, and Boston. Sch'r John Hooper, Marblehr.td ——, Giles, do. Hawk, Cook, Salem Trial, Tate, do. ——, Bradcfifh, do. Ship , Manfize, Newburyport William, Pickett, do. And several others from do. Brig , Tinman, Portland Sch'r , llinfon Charleston And several others from do. Brig Defiance, Manfize, Savannah do. About 15 fail had left the. Cape, for the Bite of Leogani—amongft which th» fullov.'ing .vessels Sch'r Carmelite, Jeny, __ Two Brothers, —, do. ——, Abbott, d O . Baig Express, , New-York Betfyi Ropes, ■ Salem Schr.——, Green do. Brig: , Perkirts K^nnebunk At the C;ipe, American produce of eve ry kind very low, and dry good* of every kind the fame. Flour at\7 1 2 dollars per bbl. Island produce very high, HRICECURRRENT. Sugar to 10 dollars per cwt. Cof fee 30 and 32 sous per pound. 12$ per cent, duties on all dry goods landed at the Cape, to be paid—2\ sous on coffee brought off per lb. Red Wiue dullfaleat 32 dollars per ca(k. Two French ships arrived ab«ut the 15 th Aujuft, loaded chiefly with wine from Bordeaux, Spoke a schooner, captain Grant, from Salem, and the Ichooner Volunteer, captain Prebble, from Frederickfburg, just entering the C.«pe harbor—B fail more Americans in fight bound in. Two Englilh frigat-i are said to be cruis ing to windward of the Cape, but do not flop any Americans from entering that port. THE STOCKHOLDERS Of the Delaware £3" Schuylkill Canal, WILL plearfe to the whole of the Pubfcrij tion money on their refpctftive shares has been called for by thePrefident and Ma nagers ; the three last calls are payable as follows: One for IJ dollars,on the\sth Augu/l, infant One for %0 Jo. on the 1 stb September next One for 20 do- on the \stb Oflober neKt —And if not paid on thofc days, are iubject to a penalty of five per cent per month. Wm. GOVETTy treasurer. 4t f&f w&th august «6 APPROACHING P.LECTION. Mo. V. T1 the Electors of Pennfyfo'dnia The next charge which the Election Com mittee attempts to repel, is that which accu ses Mr. M'Kean of aiiftocratical principles, and of contempt for the poor. '' Strange inconsistency of party credulity ;-.n:i pallion," exclaims Mr. Dallas. " A Jacobin and an Aristocrat at the fame time" ! And do the Co remittee then really believe that jacobin ism and aristocracy are thus diametrically opposed ? Have arrogance and meannels rever been united ? May not the fame man as basely lawn upon his superiors, as he haughtily spurns away those wllom fortune has placed beneath him? Are there 110 in stances to be found, in the history of man kind, of traitors who, under the ma(k of friendfljip for the mob wlien flattering their prejudices nrd cringing to their paflions, have built their own aggraudizement on the ruins of theircountry ? Was notCatalitie an Aristocrat, and will it be said that be was not a Jacobin ? Cromwell, D'Orleans, Ro befpierre'and Marat, as well as Mr. M'Kean, declared theinfelves the lovers of liberty and the people, and yet they surely aimed at nothing less than the eflabliflunent and maintenance of a government truly and I lubftantiaily free. I oblerved in a former number the office whkh Mr. M'Kean fills does not in its na ture afford us many opportunities of dif { covering the character of him who holds it, | Confined to the beaten track of authority. i tive precedent, if a judge pcflcfles a compe | tent share of legal knowledge; if his cha. rafter be not of a nature uncommonly vio lent, his heart viciously corrupt, or his tem per conspicuously intolerant and tyrannical, it is difficult to conceive how he should fur nidi matter for serious accusation. Indeed I have frequently been, astonished at per ceiving that so much had occurred in the condufl of this gentleman to gratify " the tempers of the envious and the malevolence of party men." The proofs ot his total di(- regard for the liberties of the people to be drawn from his behavioar on the bench, I (hall however jeferve for future discussion, only observing that in all instances (except ing those perhaps wherein some principle has been involved, tending to the support of the Federal administration,) he has Qiewn him felf the decided friend to a high-toned system of government. In the convention which formed the slate constitution, his ideas were more fully de veloped. He there difhnguifhed hirofelf by his loquacious vehemence in favor of mo narchical do&rines in a degree infinitely greater than any of those who are now branded with the epithets ef " high-flying arifipcrats." Unfortunately his lpeeches were not preserved, and we are compelled to resort to the minutes of the convention as the only authentic source of information. He voted that the number of reprefenta ti,ves fhouH never exceed the number of one hundred, instead of one hcndredAnd twenty, the number proposed by Mr. Gallatin.— Min. Comminee of the whole—p. 19. It was argued by Mr. Gallatin and his afiociates, pia; large bodies of men are less liable to corruption, are animated a more enthuiiaflic love os-liberty, and are therefore less disposed to barter away the rights of the citizen than those which are smaller. Nevertheless Mr. M'Kean was in favour of the leaf! number mentioned. He voted that the Senators fhoulcl We appai tioned between the several diltriAs of the (late, in a ratio, compofea of the number of taxablcs in, and the quota of state taxes affelTed upon each diftricl, erftlmating the tptal amount of the (late taxation, and t'le whole number of tax able inhabitants as equal to each other.— Min. Committee, p. 26! i hus, in his opinion, the senators ous;ht to have represented not only perions but ivcaltb; for thole diftridls which pofl'efs moll wealth pay the largest quota of taxes, and as the senators were to have been ap. portioned, between the dilVid}s, not only according to the number, of persons, but in a compound ratio confiding of the number of inhabitants in each diftrift, and the quantum of taxes paid by it ; the more opu lent counties would have sent so large a part of the senators as to have completely con trouled the proceedings of the legislature. The western counties who pay but a small portion of the ftaie taxes,"would have been completely ousted of their weight in the scale of legillation. For this attempt they will no doubt acknowledge their obligations to him at the ele&ion. Baltimore He voted that the Supreme executive pow er fliould be placed in the hands of a go vernor alone, and-againft its being vested in a governor and cbuneil. Min. Committee, P* 39* It has been a maxim strenuously supported by the democratic republicans, that the ex ecutive power ought not to be concentrated in one man, but diluted and weakened by being veiled in feveraJ. They have lnppofed that the ambitious will always endeavour to aggrandize themselves, when entrufied with powerful prerogatives, and that I'ome con trouling check was necelTary, in order to fruftrate the execution of such liberticide designs. But Mr. M'Kean thought other wise. He voted against a resolution propefed by Mr. Pickering, « tfiat estates tail are repug nant to the principles of republican govern ment, and lhall not be supported." Min. Comm. p. 90. The great ariftocratical -houses of Eurrpe are maintained in their splendour onlv in confcquence of their estates constantly' de fending to one branch of their families. Their wealth cannot be dissipated, and there fore the influence which it always creates, is hereditary. The division of property among the descendants of its rich, possessor, alone serves to reduce' them to a level with their >.?■ •:- -n- ■ . .. ' 1 r- \ '"■' • ■-- ~ _■ -» fellow-citizens ; fence the children cf the man who had himfelf rioted in all the extra vagance of enervating luxury, are compelled to embrace t!ie lame pi'rfuits ■with the rt ft o! tlie people. A3 however the deftnaotion of estates tail involved a principle truly /tear., the democratic Chief Justice could not agree to i t. , He voted again ft a motion made by Mr. Rors for preventing officers of the Federal Governmerit from holding offices upder the State Conftitution.—Min. State Conven tion. pt 85.— So that by uniting the dif ferent offices of the two governments in the fame men, he would have fuffered the influence of the administration of the United States to have directed the measures of this | (late. It is mipoffible to beljeve that he, who held an office during the pleasure of the Executive cf the Union, would have ihred to displease him by his condufl ft a ftaxe officer ; and therefore the fame spring which directed the operations of the nation at larje, might have been equally powerful in Pennfylviuw. Not only would tile pa tronage of the Preiident by this fubftantiaj increase ■£ his power, have been greatly augmer, ed i l>ut tfi6lican\nd Mr. M'Kean the ar.\~!ocrat. He voed against that part of the constitu tion, wl.ch prescribes, that on indifttn-uls for libels he truth of the facts stated in tbem may tr given in evidence on the gene ral iflue. Mftn. Col). P92. A warm debate was excited in the Con vention on tlils fabjvet, in which MrM'Kean took a pfirt as active as it was inefficient. Always oppoled to the real liberty of the people lie was of course hostile to this, their mofl important prerogative. If there be a right effcntial to the exist ence of freedom, it is '-hit whict) permits a free public difcullion of men and measures, and although truths may sometimes be pub lished improper for the public eye, because indecent in tliemlclves, or unconn.-fted with the public welfare, yet this inconvenience is far more tolerable than a lubjedtion of the propriety of the publication to the arbitrary discretion of a Judge. When the promul gation of truth is declared to conflititte no legal offence, a criterion is at once fixed by which to determine the nature of the doc trine of libels; and the citizen, conscious that he is guilty of no fallhood, fccurely re liei on the protettiop of the laws. If this grand bulwark of our rights had not been canftitutionally eilablifhcd, even the follies and the crimes of Mr. M'Kean would proba bly at this important moment, have been palled over uncenlured and unknown ; for who would have dared to rely on the difcre. tion of the Chief Justice as to what matters were proper for the public eye, in a cafe where his own pafiions Would be the rule of his decition, and his own resentment the measure of the punishment. If courts of jullice were always composed of Mansficlds or Ellfwortlu, we might indeed be unsuspi cious of their ability to discover what was right, or of their integrity (leadily to pursue it; but fmce such men as a Jeffries and aM' Kean have prtriided on the Bench, the en trenchments ot the real liberty-os the press ought to be built of the ftror.geft materials, or the citizen will be tyrannically trampled underfoot by thd (hair.elefs inftiuaients of le gal intolerance. It was 'moved bytthe republican candidate,; that no person ftiould be Capable of being chijlen a Senator, who was not Seized of five hundied>acres of land within this Common wealth, orpoflelTed of real or personal estate to the value of five hundred pounds, Min. the opinion which the Committee acknow ledge him to entertain " that as the poor are :norc exposed to temptation than the rich, therefi»; they are more vicious", that he thought it proper to make '.ueallb one of the molt necelTary qualifications to office. He fccondedthe motion,for mating it ne ceflary to the election of a Governor, "that he should bclegnily fcizt'd and pofiVfled ps a Clear real and perlbual"eftate, to the value of fitut tbiutend Dollar j fix months before: his cjiiflion." The fame, motive and the fatre vi*ws mail have here actuated him.—Min. Con. p (52. He moved that the lenators should be cho sen by Eledlors, and not by the people at larr;e* —Min. Con. p. 166. This prmpofition. created a longer and more animated debate, than any which took place in the convention. All the old ponfti tutionalifts who are the present republicans, most violently qppoiid it. They declared it to be inconliftent with the liberty of the citi zen, Tince it deprived, or at leaf! abridged him of the right of fufFrage itfelf, by remo ving one of the legislative bodies farther from the people, by making the Senate lets dependant on their will ; it was Said an aris tocratical body would be created who would be regardless npt only of the wirties, but even of the interests of tfceir ultimate con stituents. NevertheleS? of this principle was the republican Mr. M'Kean the mover and the most zealous supporter. Thus then in evcry 4 inUance, was he the opponent of those doftrines which were -then deemed by Ms preftnt advocates* to be most truly congenial to democrat c Republicanism, nor is there to be found upo\i the mblt atten tive research, a .Single vote made by him, again ft those parts of the constitution which most tend to royalty and aristocracy. Let it not be supposed, that I mean to in culpate the whole of bis conduft during the fitting of the Convention. I well know that he found among his coadjutors on many oc casions, the moftilluftrous men whom Penn sylvania has ever le«-n in htr councils, and I lincerely regret that some of his propclitions were r.s|-adopted, but it mult be recnlleded that 'f am otie of those whom Mr. M'JCean ar.d his adherents stigmatise with the re- animated by aristocrat teif I proach -of 'oein natives, andgfoverned by monarchical ViejM* >• » Stilt however his notiohs-of the pbliiy' ad vening great energy ai)(l,ftrengtft,in Cjortrn meht, far exceeded those of his former a fib dates, nor can itW doned his principles for a lortger period th*n, ' is necessary for the gratification of his pirfde, : t and the fuciefs of ambition. . , It is well worthy of observation that Mr. Rofs on the on all party ques tions, maintained the noble independence of his cha ratter. To the arbitary ideas of the Chief Jultice he was a vigorous and generally a fucceisful oppoijent. The one while yet a youth, with the Eagle eye of an experien ced statesman, law the true intends of his country, and fihce, ihough placed in a mod tempeftuoils scene of'faftious uproar, with the firmnefs of a rock, has Readily maintained them ; while the ovh;r, grown grey in the lludy of jurisprudence, has always been tos sed about by the hurricane of his own pas sions and capr ce, has been the sport of every wind, and an apostate from every party. MILO. tils &>*?'£ BALTIMORE, August 26, The particulars of the hoi rid murder, an account ps which we published in the Gazette of Saturday, so far as we have been able to ascertain, are as follow—The young man murdered, supposed a Frenchman, is a Mr. George Mellinger, of this city, ae'out 25 years of age, who was oti bis way to the house of a friend in the country, when be was attacked and received several wounds on his head, his nrck cut round to the bone, and one of his eyes forced from its fpcket ; 25 dollars were tak<.n out of hit pocket, and a changeable color, middle umbrella ! taken away ; several buttons were torn from his waistcoat, all which are evident marks of the greatest violfnce. Mr. Lightner, living in Old-Town, will give 50 dollars for any information that may lead to a discovery of the perpetrato\ of i this inhuman aft, and no doubt society in : geafra) will exert them'elvts to bring these | villains to condign punitl mem. NEW-YORK, August 27. Pojlfcript. Last evening, halt palt 9, vre called on Gabriel Furman, Esq. Cli irman of the Health Commifficnirs, and received the agreeable information that dur n<» the 24 hours preceding, only two new Cases of Fe ver had bean reported at the office-—one in Front.ftrffet, between Coenties and the Old flip the other, in Jmes street ; and, that only 2 Deaths had been reported---one, a Mr. Jenkins, from Carolina, the other, a Mr. M Knab, mahogany sawyer—both in the upper part of Greenwich-ftrfet. Thi» information may be implicitly relied on. r • ——— 1 PRICES OF STOCKS. Philadelphia, August 24. iix per Cent. Deferred 6 per Cent. 14/4 Three per Cept. " 5/3 BANK United States, North America, 45 to 47 / S l'ernl'ylv-Tiia, 14 V ft Infnr,in»e comp N.A.ftares 17J In — Pennfylvjnia, fharei, 27 -{ J " $ per On: Stock—funded— 2 rr jl rrrecnt. adv. Do. Scrip v.-i-h the fix Inf;a!f:-nts 1 do. do- Do. the jth and 6th Instalments a do. par. Eaft.lndia Company of N. A. par. Land Warrant!, 30 do!l». per ico acr's. COURSE OF EXCHANGE. On London, 51 at 30 days jo at 6c a 90 days Amsterdam, 35 37 i-fooper florin Hamburgh 30 23 a-ico per Maik Banco. THE Office of the Board of Commiflioners, undrr the 6:h article of the treaty of Amtfy 3cc. with Great u.-itain, removed a place (formerly called Taylor's) on the weft fide of the Germantown road, about 3 miles from the city. august 18 ' d6t Mr. Spence, Dentist, has re mover! to his hoafe in St. Andrew's Squares » Squares N Wof Bulff" Hill. iawim. Joseph H. Feming, has re moved his Agency and Coramjflion Office, from No. i4,Chefnut ftrert, to his houlc at the Rising Sun village.on the Germantown road, near the 4th mill (lone, where he still continues his bufinels. Several persons having already applied to htm for the purpose of collcfling debts, looking out lands, recording deeds, &c in different parts of this and other States—he so icits the further patronage of the public before he proceeds on his journey. N. B He would have no objection against trav elling to the British or Spanish territories, to tranf afi: bnfinefs for Gentlemen. anguft 18 \aw 3 w. District of Pennsylvania—To st hath deposited in this office the title of'a book* the right whereof he claims as AUTHOR, in the words following. Tv ■wit " THERMOMETRICAL NAV GATION. Beingaferies of experiments and obfervatiohs, " tending to prove, that by ascertaining the