Ricketts's Circus. MR- KICKETTS refprdlfully informs the Ladies and Gentlemen of Philadelphia and it» vicinity, that lie will open bis Circus on Thursday, November 21. The Evening's Entertainment will commence with ftirprifing Feats of HORSEMANSHIP. Ground and Lofty Tumbling, Vaulting, Dancing, Singing, &c. &c. To conclude with A New Pantomime, called THE VALIANT SOLDIERS; o*, The Two Robbers. The Pantomime to conclude with A Dance. Doors to open at 6 o'clock and the perform ance to begin preciff !y at 7, e/ery evening until further notice. Tickets to be had at the Cir cus. Box, one Dollar j Pit, Half a Dollar. Madeira wine. ■T'HF, Subscriber, hasjufl received a quantitv of HILL's First Quality London Particular TVine, In Pipes, Hhds. and Quarter Calks. GIDEON HILL WELLS. Phi rdelphia, Nov. n- jtawim Now Ready for Sale, GEORGE* DAVIS'S Law Book Store, " * No. 319, High Street, A \?ry valuable and extensive AlTortment of jLaw Books, TMPORTED this iall and immediately before A the late sickness, comprehending almost every Book in use, of the latest London and Irifti edi tions. 7 hey will be disposed of from a (ingle vo lume, to an entire Library at the fame prices a! have heretofore given fach general fatisfaflion. By sundry veiTcl- daily expeaed irom Loodor and Dublin, his fiock will as uftial be kept up, f< that gentlemen Will ftltlom be disappointed whet applying it his flore. N. B. *1 his day is publiibed, Davis's Law Cata logue for 1709, of books for sale, which may bi had gratis, on application as above. November 8 \ - Just Published, A COMPENDIOUS SYSTEM Of Practical Surveying and dividing of land; hritfiy comprized under tie following beads, viz. TWENTY THREE Geometrical Definite _ rail eleven Geometrical Pofitioni, ex hibiting to view the properties and dependen cies of triangles ; followed by problems and examples preparatory to Trigonometry, heights and diftiiu*> 1 hen fifteen problems and ex amples nrccfiarily previons to calculating a Sur vey lscceedei by seven surveys, the area of the four firft is found geometrically, and of the wr )Ie number by difference of latitude and de parture, (hewing hew to tike *Yi inaccessible boundary, find thtbearing and diftanee df the d< ,r iice without running it, also the dif tar re; to an inacceflible corner from the two adjice. t cornets, followed by examples of off fets on to winding ftrearas of water, Die wing how to jfccitain the area without the trouble of measuring the windings with chains and iri ftr'!tnenf>—s crocked water ceurfe firaitened, and .1 qnanlity of land on each fide fouHd by thefc offsets. Ten examples of dividing land, with many fbb-rlivifiufcs, leading into the moil critical cir c»mfls»ces that dan occur in pralHce ; an ex ample of Interferons, and an example (hew ing how *ne bearings of a field may be truly taken whe. !• she needle is attracted, altho' the attraction may vary in quantity and d«nomina ti.in at every station ; examples Ihewing the me thod of measuring by the chain only. All the rules are clear and explicit. This work con tuns the tables of difference of latitude and de p.rture and o e logarithms. Orders feMt to Jofepb and James Crbcklhank, Booksellers, No. 87, High-ttreet, Philadelphia, BonfiH and Miles, 173, Market Street, Balti more, or the Subscriber in Wilmington (Del. 1 will be duljAattended to. Thole who have the care of fubfeription pa pers for this work, are raquefted to fend thsir refpeilive numbers as soon as poflible, to whom the quota's will be sent agreeably to the pro- 1 pofals. zachariah jess. Wilmington, 9th 11 m 0.—16. JUST IMPORTED, In thc 'jdg Fa-twite, Henry Sufi, jun. Matter, from St. PeterfHurg, laying at the wharf of the fub 4€rib«rs, About 40 tons clean Hemp, 25 tons old fable barr Iron, A (mail parcel of Cordage, A few bales Ruflia fail Canvas, Ditto Ravenf.luclc, and Ditto g-Bth Sheeting, , FOR SALE, ( By ELLISTON and JOHN PEROT. O(Sober »1. tawtf OX BEEF, Of the firft quality, and fit for ladii voyages, FOR SALE, By WILLIAM SHEAFF, No. 168 High Street. November 19. To be Sold, Cbtap, The Time of a young healthy Negro Girl, Who Jus eight years to serve. She can cook and do all kinds of house work. gT For terms, apply at No. 171 Chefnut itreet. November 19, 1799. WANTiD, A NEWS CARRIER. AN a leded for the WefUnfr, marJm, as well as fuitaMe for hoine confuraprion. _ AICa, just' arrived in th« (hip America, 100 pieces Blue Plahw, 3 trunks fancy Chintz, 1 trunks mulling Jf trunk Checks, and 1 trunk Ginghams. Likewise a handsome Coachee and a pii.- ef quiet, large; wcl.U>roke Bay Horses. tuth&fjm GEORGE WILLIAMS, AS'wg a&nimJtraUr A. lie ifatct/Gco. Painoci, aiccafa/. November lj. Just Imported, Tn the and otlier veflels lately arrived from England, and - - FOR SALE BY THE SUBSCKMEK, t Biles ot' low priced Broad Clptfis,,. 2 do. Role Blankets, i do. striped PuiHl do. i do. Twilled Coatings, • 3 do. Flannels afTcrted, I do. fine Plains and SwanfilijiVhs. i do. Moreens, Wildbores, Tambo rines and RufTefcts, I do. Brown Sbeetipgs, ' ■ •' ' * t cafe Mafliriets—and Ton of Miot afljarted and in 1-4 ctvt. bags. A I, SO, A few pierces of Rice. THOMAS SILPIN, Jfrf W9," South Front Street* CO2W. BANK OF THE UNITED STATES; Novemter |j, 1799. THE STOCKHOLDERS of the Bank of ■ the'Umted States trt informed, that ac cordirg to the Statute of.lncorporation, a Ge-- neral Elcdion for twenty-five Direiftors will be held at the Bank .if the United States m the City of Philadelphia, ori Monday the 6th of January next,, men o'eloek in tha forenoon. And purliiant tq the eleventh fedlion as the bye-laws, the Stockholders of the said Bank are also notified to aflsmble in general meeting, at the fame place, on Tuesday the ;th of Jauu ary next, at fix o'clock in the evening. G. SIMPSON, Cafliier. 3*WID). Second Fundamental Article. Not more thin three fourths of the Diretfors in office, excluflve of the President ft til be eli gible for the next ensuing year, but the Di re<£lor who (hall b« President at the time of an tlecSion, may alwayt lie re-eledUd. November 15 To be Sold, Agreeably to the iafl Will and Testament of Joseph Knight, deceased, AT PUBLIC VENDUE, On the Premises, the seventh dav of De cember next, A VALUABLE PLANTATION, or trait of Lind.conuiniHg abaut 780 acres, pita lamly in the townftin of Middletown. cosnty of Bucks, and State of Pennsylvania, adjoining lands of Samuel Watson and others • about 6 mile, from Newton, s from the bo rough of Bristol, and 23 from Philadelphia. There are on the premises * two story dwelline house, with three room, on the lower and four «n the second floor, a kitchen adjoining, milk at • j J*. , and a pump of good water, a good ftoaebar., hay houfc, waggon We and fom« other out-bvilding. ; a |ood bearing apple orchard, containing about aSO tree. ; abom 70 aeres of good timber land, and about jo acres bottom meadow. Two ne»er failing It ream, of water run through the farm. a w! " be made known on the SAMUEL HULME, j Btctutars. Jr.'. lo Tltw tire pre r l T! r .. by applying to eitbtr of the at Millford's milis. no\r. 16. d6t d s t '•* *"•* V . .. ( . 0 < .NOTICE. eFtE COtjU MATTHEW M'CONNELL Having opened an Office in Lbcsnut street, {A' few doors above Fourth ) At No. 141, A ND again commenced tfießnfinefs of Ne- gociations, in the various kinds of Public Stock. Bills of Exchange, iSc. (Sf(- Engages to do every th'iag in his power to giv« fatisfic tion to those who may think proper to employ him. He means to confine tranfall such bu siness as is ccJmmoa to the profefßon The purefctafe and faleiof Houses and Loti in and near the City will be attended to, and also if Lands, when that bafioefs again revives. November 19. . djw WILLIAM HUDSON, No. 8 Cbesnut Street, RESPECTFULLY informs his friends and the publit, that he has received by the late ar rivals from Europe, in -addition te his farmer Stock, A complete AJJ'ortmcnt of Goods, which are now opening, suitable lor the approach ing, feifcri j Amongst ivbicb are— Superfine Cloths and Caifirneres, Double milled Drab Cloths, Superfiife Nap Cloths, aborted colors, Blue and Drap Plains, Swflnfdowna and Swanskins, Drapery, Baifes. afforded colors, Blue, green, white and spotted Bockings, Blue and grey Coatings, Scarlet, white, red and yellow Flannels, Velvets, Thickfcts, Corduroys, a-nrf fancy Cords, - Striped-clastic Cfoths and Codings, Fancy Marseilles Waiftcoatingi, Mrrvs' and Womens' fine worded Hnfe, Do; do. worsted Gloves and Mits. Mens' Sicks, rants Sc Joans Spinnings, 6.bales "ftofe Blankets, canipletely af fvvted, hy the bale, &c.&c. Nov. f> d lot >t \ COPPER, I Proper far sheathing vessels, andfur u Coppersmiths use, is J!OK SALE, a By JOHN ALLEN, x » ° Nc. 122 SPRUCE SJBJHTr. P k Also, / j t A few Crates Glass Ware, assorted. S " November (4. - telot ei *—' —* ' ' li rCK BALTIMORE, r« BRIGGS, Msifttr. 1- ' '' l*.- ~4/tot zy. 'Wty jdollaks REWARD. OM Thursday, »»d OtStohcr, lijin/i, ; born in the ccanty iPfyrore, Ireland, hd'is Vfittle jioop fhouldsred and fpealtj -in a tow ro6}'6T Voice. -r-]rl, r'T' —:» v I'-' 4 L SV,' ~ Defctird from the ctjfunury of eapratn'Hjch Brady ,\oirsarttrday, i6(fc Odober, four privates, JOHN Og#, igad 34V1 feel g inches "high, ;.b'orn in Ncw;.York,-jrry tyes,brown hair.'brown coniplcxjon, was .much to liquor, and when iirtoii.c«ed vary taikitive. Soi-OMON SMITH; afcetf .17, j-feet t inches high; bom in New-.Yoj-k, grey .'"eyes, brown tair, fair com plexion, a notorious offender, this being his third desertion.. &lM£Q>f pyN, aged >xi years; and 6 months, 5 feet ejptheshigh, torn in Ne*-Jer 'ley, grey cy.es, fair hrir, Ure*n coaptation CHARLES Mc.LEY, aged 16, 5 feet 6 inches high, bora in Ireland, grey eyos, bla«k hair, dark comp!tiioo—he ivfuppofed to b« in NorriftoWn,' oy its neighbourhood—it is not known what clothing they (tad wjien tli.y deserted ; but the probability i, that they have changed their mili tary habits.—Also BENJAMIN GIBBS, jun. Captain, lotb U. Slates Regiment infantry. November u. diw. Twenty Dollars Reward. AN-A WAY from Spring Forsje, in York I V" h° unt y> an «B'' oma n, named ISAAC, aiht*. wife CUDJO about M years «ld, the property of Robert Coleman; Esq. He is about 5 feet 8 inches high, has a blcmifh in his eyes, more white in them than common, by trade a Purge man • had en and took with him a drab Coloured broad cloth coat, almost new, a sailors jacket and pamnloons printed fancy cord, a fwanfdowft striped under acket; a rerun hat; one fine and one coarse Ihirt one muslin handkerchief, fpriggsd, two !° F ed border, a blue Persian under jacket and two per cotton (locking,. Whoever take. «p faiJ negro and lodges him in anv jail in this or any of the neighbouring dates (hall have the above re ward or reasonable exprnces if brought home ; JOHN BRIEN. Spring Forge, Odlober 43,1799. N. B, As said negro formsrly lived in Chefler count y, It u probable he may return there; '• November j TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD. "D AN AWAY OB Saturday evening the nth Lanr/ft y *"'» { ™ m Colebrook Furnace, k COnDty, " Ncgrq Man »»med Cate, tu i±°\ 4 \ yei " ° { ? Be ' fivereet si * «*fe- KW !° Ie . rible black,-wJth-s down illjook, fqumts, he is *cunnin£ artful fellow hnV* 'j"'. J »d vtrjr fond 0 f ftfong'liquor' *■» been broughftfp to ,{, e farming'bufiniVh very handy any kind laboring work he «hL W,th hlra clothiifg arnonp/i mow TO N»«kiSusfc£ S' 1 '•«P'&tf b« haifca'pefffi?, pl,u OT New York. j T The'ibove reward will be curing him In anvgaoLin t fi e u.ffi l«t« «afoMWe clWe* 'if brought home. Celeb™.* JACOBS. (OißJ CC '799' ' %t)t (Sasettc. •j. ' PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER it. Juftum et teaacem propofiti virum, Noa civium ardor prava jubemium, Non vultas inflanti* tyranni, Mente quatit folida. i ■ " Un Sot trouv* toujourt un pint Sot qui Pad mit." EXEMPtI riCATION. [From the Columbian and MaflTachiifetts Centinel Fiohuuit] The Poets of our country are, almost without an exception, Patriots. In rousing the American people to a sense of their dan ger from foreign intrigue and internal fa&i on, they have been in the advanced guard. That they are not wearied in well doing, al moll every public celebration gives abundant evidence—The tuneful bard of New Hamp fhreon tUe last anniversary of the Prefident'* natal day, produced a song which would not Tuffer in those rarku where " Adams and Liberty" (hould be the commander : The following is a fpeeimen of it« excellence : B«' tnrn *sto Europe—How farts it wich France I What I ' —confounded? amaz'd ! such aftonun ment ne'er rose! From th« Ncrth bsrflt Suwsrrow! I f*e him ad 71I1CC, That Vi&br of Vi&ors ! that Hero of Heroes ? Hardy Ruffian ! Men Dieu ! this course you purfuc, You will leave mighty WASHINGTON uothine to do— * At that name the muse kiadles, and twinine ficih bays, Blends with Adams'#Glory groat Washivo ton'i Praise ! / The audacibus—the atrociout mutilation, by the True-American, and Time-Serving Editors, of an official deteftion, piibliff\cd in this Gazette* of the frlfehood* palmed upon the public irfpcfting Jonathan Rob tins, will be hereafter more fully unvciUd ; •and the caitiffs who have been guilty of th« outrage upon tj-uth, decency and honor, exl pofcd to the infamy they merit. It is of no conference to me, that a Scoundrel who commit* such aa imposture an the public, be the protegi of metropo. litan wealth, taste aad fatriatt/m ; that be receive his daily contribution, alike from ev. try claft of the tribe of Midat ; do, no ; when truth and justice demand the punifli.' meat < fa criminal, he ought to be leuurged, however numsrout hit accomplices. A Talsr far a Land of Liber.y. " May wy Swnb, who calls io queltion •the wifdorn r.t" the Captain, that keeps the reckoning, be ordered to the gang. Wav, and receive a round dozen.'* The above ftupida»d malignant effufion ,fai Uttered by a quaiitiLy t>t at Bur ton* caHmg~thelnielves the Marine Society. •The feaiiment is eaadNy in corroboration of brute-like, could gain admittance into the diferirninating Ga leffe oT John' Russell. It has been Minimally, by littemng to the mercenary talei of unprincipled, ly jog Sailors, and contraband traders and smugglers, that the people and government of America, have been led into all their er rors, embarraffmeots and misfortunes. . *kj re wa > * gentleman who faa&ionad thu toast, by withholding his indignation ; it there was one maa of sense or honesty, who heard the toast and cursed it not, let hira immediately do so. In ;h: Aurora of the s th O&o'utr last, we- find a long letter!from Jonathan Rob bins, da-ea on board tfee Sprightly, Charles ton, July 30, 1799. ■' It i s prefixed by a letter " to the editor of the Aurora," in w.uch the writer, with great prudence, fays * you might life cv name, but Ido not wifli to encounter party rage, when tiirre is not an ablolute necelfity for it.-—At I was ac quainted with the decealed, it will be forae UtlsfaAion to fee the last sentiments of my frtend laid before bis country," the writer wiihes to be understood that he means America. 1 hen follows the pathetic letter I 2"™ of „ various name?, Jonathan, | oi Nathan, or William, or " whatever title please his tar." Htr informs us that " there were a great number of Americans on board the Hcrmione," of course these unfortunate wretchs* " were: treated in the in oft (hock ing manner." But here the judicious '.on and urn ' dit y appears, for *?" tP mention names, a S pro bably tnty would be hnnted up by the blood hounds that puri'ued him." It would have been indeed impudent to have named these 1f o . , CB n murderers, becaui'e the Bri ' haVe , *' wa > s had aft range cufto.n of hanging felon,; aud it is ridiculously enough , fuppofednn the courts of conference, a, well as of King- s bench that justice »nd the ?ood n.o fia'-iT requ,r f L \ hat p,ratcs aßd , . bt T with death. But the amiable Jonathan proceeds thus « It was d ,V"—l " alluding: to the murders &c. en hoard the above frigate, for = y, ptracjr, ,„ d knp , king outVm'aS brains, or cutt,„g bis throat, are, afttr a n 2 "? the opinion tv \h Robbhxs, but of all hispar £ whlv Very : , rifi and harfn lefs tbin^, t.rely owing to the barbarity of oul n l r ' nal commander •• Tv, _ ... •* * he common difcipliue dim MAXJM. and feveritv of a nauticaUhitf doubtltfs fufficient to ]uft.ly- mu ri M , £< c . The wl " ' of this Rabbinical or rather'' Robbinical doc"" trine is extremely mor.l, mild , IK j n)ercifu '' and it is fubimtted whether it might net' fo-**3B k ' t , ere the ""fortunate men who were prefTed Han,, ? when they we * continaally beat and abnicd, woiftl ,'ot l! tortus man, if he had the Hrt pk have done the fam ? l ! „ r», *'*; Ru^, "s, here w e confefi we arc , vttle i„pt,«al : we admire ?3&« mush any man ; nay, we believe entirely tha we are npt whoMy dcfUtute of Amer] canlpint;bu t , indeed, indeed we hope you or year will pity our pu ,i„ " We cannot think that our spirit woulJ m-J «...«B«rt BkUSa witb great diffidence ear incredulity coj££, •ng your op.n.oq of the probable conduft J a mod virtuous man" in the fixation to vrh.ch you allude. To be fore it i, rather an old falhioned feutiment, and might per hap* look very dim in the full blaze «fVbe new philosophy, but a « most virtuous man generally thinks it a duty to do unto others as he would wish they would do u „to him' Such an individual, therefore would, for h" own fake abflsin from deeds of vioience and blood. Mr. Rqbbins and his com,**,* will, doubtlcfs, be ,fliocked at such itL. nance and call it an affiled delicacy, and\ fort of Chnftjan that a " mod virtues man" would pause a, long tin.e, before Kr plunged a dagg .Vin his neighbor 3 heart. Many circumlhwcM would conspire the hand of a " mo st virtu J ous man.".- He would feel some few pric ings and warnings from a very vigilant bo. l«m hiend, called conscience in the works of li'.tnyan or some other obsolete author. He would think of tlx; and inconvenience commonly frit by one of our jpecifs, whr' run through the body, or knocked down by a marlm spike. He would pccll»& cc/tain Bible doclrines and moral precepts that he had learned from nurses and priests, and con elude by no very ibfurd logic, that commit ting murder would only fcrve to make hint .inferable, and condu A to the gallows in this world, and prove a lurt guide to a olace called Hell, in the next. It it with p.iin that we check for a me mentthc flowing, peifuafive and convincing eloquence of our letter writer, who proceeds thus to drmonfirate, with mathematical pre cifioii, the place dfl.is birth : " It has been said I am an Irishman, hm you know I am an American." It Items, from some recent fafts, that this Vuu, who frankly calls hirw ftlf R®bbins't/ri>«rf, must have been a pro digioull/ knowing one, if he knew this. However, at " ft-a nge things incur Philosophy, Horatia," pdrhans it falls to the lot of a democrat to know the unknown, and to fee the invisible. " For any man, with half an eye, What's right before him can espy ; But optics (barp it n'eerii, I w«en, To Jit Mr. Robbing, who, as a feiman, naturally uses rough language now begins to cxercife his privilege, and talk* of being " preflfcd, beat, and abused, by a,set nf rascals. By these he means certain people, ailing under the authority of Great Britain, an island dif. tioguiflied for the purity of ■ its justice, the excellency of its religion and the humanity of its manners. Mr. R. is here evidently in a paflion ; for the exprsflion of " a set of rascals" does not attach or apply to English men. Indeed tbU reproach, like a blow, unavoidably aimed, recoils and wounds none but our Jonathan. For it is clear from his charniler and conduft, tha the as a very great individual rascal could not with a good grace otjeft to the villainy of others, even if proofs of such villainy were flagrant. Waving our objeftion to this inconfiflency, we now proceed to leok at Mr. R. in the aft of ' cloling his plaintive cpiftle. Were, forget ting " hi; inoft virtuous man," the place of his birth, and the " set of rascals" by whom he has been injured, he rises to a higher tone, and the " paulo majors] canamus" fits 011 his lenrntfl lips. He seems enlarged above the life ; and, throwing off the jacket and trowlersof a feanien, appears be fore our aftoniflied eyes in the ch«ra£ler of a civilian, a jurifl. For he avers with the gravity of a Martens and a Vattel that, "if a man hid entered, perhaps he ought to be delivered up let the treatment be ever fot>«d, but the Treaty could never intend a prefled inari lhould be delivered up." Here we are !«ft ' n admiration, of the various talents and learning of Jonathan Robbins. He is a Proteus ; the very " admirable Chrichtori" of He is an Atnerirfin ; nay ■more, he is a native of Conne&itut, arid Danbury, in her register of births enrolls him as her son. He is likewise a mutineer, a pirate, a murderer, and a democrat. He is matter of the cpiftolary flile, and lafHy he has a lotig diplomatic head, and construes a 1 reaiy, and dil'cerns its spirit, and kindly gives us his sage interpretation. I' 1 bus far, having amused ourselves with an analyfU and exposition of all tlie fooliffi and the factions in this curious epiflle, which is a fort of vade mccum aDd " only fare guide" to the lifpers ot democracy, it is proper to add that the whole letter, contain ing, it; is true, every thing that William Nash might have said, is a dowwright forgiry. It has been officially proved that there was no such American as Jona» than Robbius, and the man who falfcly swore this wss his name and the United Stafes his country, has,, «t the foot of the gallows, confefled hiir.felf to be perjured, and an Irifliman. The above letter was, therefore, a fabrication for criminal an 4 party purposes ; and men may judge of thr morals and objedU the faftfon, ♦ho employ