Mr. FRANCIS'S Last Public Ball for the present Season• Mi. FRANCIS RBSPECTf ULLV ioformtVis Scholar! and the Public.in general, that hi> laftPvßi.iC Sall will be on Tuesday, April i ft, at the loom in South Frurth Street. In will le introduced an entire new fct of Cotillions, ismpofed by Mr. Francis, called Les Delices D'Amerique. ift The id. The Military, 3d. The Bath ( Strathspey 4th. The l(Jfe (Keel Compnfed entirely of the favourite Scotch ftepas. Alfa, Ttui New Country Dances Tor the present Season, called The First of April, AND 7b* Philadelphia Medley. The of the Medley i* feleAed from the most admired Country Dances. " 0 m An additional Band i< engaged to play the New Dances. £T Children that are not Pupili cannot be admitted. Mr. F. inform* his Pupili that a PraAifing Will take place on Saturday evening, at which . he reqjeft? their punctual attendance! in erdtr ' to be perieil in the new dancca for the Ball. N. B. —Mr F. begs leave to remind Ins Scholars end the public in general, that after the of April he will remove his Academy to Harmony Court where he will attend to give inftruAion in the art of dancing, at his usual rate of 5 dollars per month. March 15 No. 111. OF TNt RUSH-LIGHT Will be published next Wednesday mcrning. gj* Ah a nr.oft tyrannical a?t«#pt has bees made to fupprels the»fale and put a !,epto the circula tion of this w#rk,/« Philadelphia ; and,as it i* ap prehended that those, in the city, who *' hate the hght, because their deed's are evil." will succeed in intimidating the bookfelicrs so far as to prevent them frcm felling ; this i« to give notice, that any PhnaJtlphutn, who still wiflies to fee the truth, (hall be fuppijVd with the RUSH LIGHT regularly by and that I will pay tie postage. The money mud be paid in advance; but this may be very easily managed. Five jzertiemen, for i.nftance, may join together, and fend on a five dollar note, upon the receipt of which credit wilt be to each of them for four Numbers which will be regularly fant on, the moment they are puMiJhed. This puts one in mind of the means formerly nj :de sfe olro ftesl books lr. m free Hates intodef pctic ones. What strange things come about in his world ! Mirch 14 AUTHENTIC LIFE OF SUWOROW. JVS7 PUBLISHED, AND FOR HALS, AT THIS OFFICE, A SKETCH OF THE 2Ufe ana character PRINCE ALEXANDER SUWOROW MTM- NIKSKI, Fbld-Ma.Oial General in the service of His fmperi al Majesty, the Emperor of all the Ruflias, WITH The History of hip Campaigns. Translated from the German of Frederick Antbmg. To which is adrffd, A concise and comprehensive History of His Italian Campaign. By William Cobbett. With an elegant Print-Portrait of thai re- HQiuned Warrior, [Price % I-a Doliara.'J Portrait"of Metrsbtil Suworow, Gty.tlemen desirous of poffefling a capital like ne&. executed in the firft fiyle, of this illustrious 'Chriflian Chieftain, may be i'urnifbed with parti cular proof imbfieilons at this office, price one Dollar. February la. Schuylkill Permanent Bridge. STONE. PROPOSALS in writing will be received until the 1.5 th A»y of April neitv at the office of th» Xreafurer of the Schuylkill Permanent Bridge Company No. Church alley, for a fspplv of :eH thousand perch of the b«ft quality Free Stone, one half of which mud be of large dimensions, viz 7to I» feet long, to 3 feet wide in the bed, 9 to 18 inches deep—tha remiiSder to be of the fuse which is generally called large foundation Done, to be delivered at the Veil end of High flreet, in such quantities and at such times as (hall be required. Price and time of payment to be expressed. JOHN DORSEY, Secretary pro tem. A quantity of for mortar will be wanted. March 17; Will be exposed to Public Sale, On Monday the 31ft instant, at fix o'clock in the Evening, At th« Merchant's Coffee House, LOTS No. 21, 22, 23, 24 ; Part of the Springetfbury Edate, The two former contain a great body of Excel lent Building Stene easily Quarried. The plot of the whole Etlate may be seen at the Bank of North America, where perfoni desirous of purchasing other parts may be informed of the conditions. dt3iil. March %p. NOTICE. ALL p«rfon« indebted to the estate of JOHN RHOADS, late of this city, deceased, are requested to male immediate paymentand those fiaving accounts against the fame, to bring them in, duly attested, for payment to RACHEL RHOADS, Admin'tx. No. 19 North Third ftrcet. March 24. NOW LANDING, (FOR HAL&J From the (hip George Barclay, at I.arimtf's From the schooner Fansy, at Latimer'j vrkarf, ioo hhds. clayed Sugar. From the brig Betsey, lying at South ftrect wharf, 40,00q foet Bay Mahogany, 17 tons Logwood, 6 tons Fustic. A 4.59, White Havanna Sugar, Brown Sugar, Old Red Port Wine, Sherry Wine, . Claret in cases, C&jy.rs in barrels, Madras arid Pulicat Handkerehit-fs. Apply to PHILIPS, CRAMOND V Co. March 21. d6t Just Arrived, and for sale by the subscribers, OF THE SHIP PHILADELPHIA, Theodore Bliss, Commander, from Bengal CONSISTING OF An affbrtment of Piece Goods. Sugars ot the firft quality, And ioo qr. chests of luperior quality Hyson Teat. d6t. March 17 FOR St. THOMAS'S, Jr*** the ship Thomas Chalkley, Thomas Kenny, Majler. Saih faft and expe&cd to depart 4*S$R in fix or day*, 3 or 400 barrals will be received on freight, if fpecdy ap plication be made. For which or piflfege apply to March 21 nrltE Creditors of the late houTe of Irwin & cf Lexington, Kentucky, are hereby informed, that a dividend of fucfc mot nieaof that firm, as have been received by the fubferifeer, will be made on the twentieth day of April next, among those credrtora who fliatt have before that time furniftcd their accounts properly attested to March 15, ADVERTISEMENT. THE SUBSCRIBERS OFFER FOR SALE, Two very valuable Farms, IN the townfbip of Springfield, and county of Burlington, containing about two hun dred acres tach. The Woodland and Meadow, of which there is a fi.fficient quantity, it not inferior to auy in the Stite. aftraA the notice of. periods residing' within the county'of Hurlmgton, desirous of purcbafing good land, 'tis only- neceflVry to mention that theft faro*# we parts of thatex cellent trail of iioo acres lately ovuied by Samuel Bullus. The term 9 of sale will be mad* convenient to the purchaser and may be known by apply ing to the faWcribers. Those who may w;(h to view the land, wiii please to call on William or ITrati Shinn, the present occupants. SAMUEL HOUGH, JOSEPH McILWAINE, Attcrnies i:i faR for John Bullus and Ruth BuHut. Burlington, New Jtr.'ey, March 12,1800. Tie Cargo of the ship Molly, .captain Swain, Jrom Batavit, CONSISTING OF SUGAR in whole and half caßnifters, Ceribon Coffee, Black Pepper, Sap an Dye Wood, -Ebony, and Thirty two bales of Cotton Yarn, ALSO, THE SAID MOLLY, BURTHEN feur thousand three GEJWiZZxr hundred barrels of Flour, 3icu«t« it Hine pourderi, with flint and small arms compleat and is newly coppered to the bends with patent copper. Apply to NICKLIN V GRIFFITH. March 15. A VALUABLE TRACT OF LAND, LYING on the Potomac River, county of Nor thumberland, state of Virginia; containing about r 400 aeres—its fituatien is equal to any other in the Northern Neck, lemarknble for evory kind of wild fowl, oyfiers, fifh and crab, and none bet tor for health. It i« about the fame distance from Baltimore, Alexandria a»d Norfolk'; and not more than one days fail from either. Th«re are three improved plantations with dwelling houses, the one known by the name of Exeter Lodge, former ly the rtlidence of col. John Gordon, is an elegant two (lory brick house, with four rooms on a floor, and a pafiage sixteen feet wide. mwfim The other two are commodious and convenient iy fitted, wi:h good and suitable out houses, at one of which John Murphy, fcfq. (now of Weftmore land county) lived fcveral years;on this farm there is a good grift mill, with water fufiicient to turn any number of stones j alfe convenient {lore hou ses and granaries ou a public road, well situated for a country store. On eaeh of those places there are fine apple and peach orchards. The greater 1 proportion of the land is of the firft quality, at.d near the half ef the whole heavily timbered. The terais may be known by applying to Wm. P. Tebbs Baltimore, Fouftee G. Teb'b», esq. of Richmond county, Virginia, or to Thomas Murgatrojd and Sons, Philadelphia. Feb. 5—14. wharf, Java Coffee, Java Sugar. THE CARGO Witlings W Francis, and Thomas isf John Clifford. MOOKE WHARTON, No. 11 j South Water street. dtf NOTICE, WILSON HUNT. Atfting aflignee. duo SITVATXO dim For Sale, tu.th&fa.tf. FOR SALE, 3taw MISS BROADHURST RESPECTFULLY informs h*r ir tends and the public, that Ihe intends having a CONCERT at the City Tavern on Thuifday evening the 3d April— Particulars of which will lie mentioned in a luture advertilement. Tickets to be had at above, and at Chalk's Cir culating Library, No. 75 North Third ftrect. March 14. PROPOSALS For publishing in Weekly Numbers, THE HISTORY (CITIL AND COMMERCIAL) OF THE Britilh Colonies in the Weft Indies, In tiuo •volumes. By Bryan Edwards,' Esq. Oi the liland of Jamaica* m. p. f. r. s. a. s. And Member of' the American Philosophical Society. 7$ •wbii.b •will It added, IPubliihed since the foregoing, by the fame author) TUP DD/\/>Dr>niMro THE PROCEEDINGS In regard to tie Maroon Negroes in the Island of jamaita ; With Observations (>n the disposition, charat ter, manners and habits of life of the Maroon»; and a detail of the origin, progress, and termi nation of the late war between those people and the white inhabitants. ALIO, An Historical View of St. Domingo, or Hispaniola ; Comprehending an account of the former go vernment of the French part of that island, its political Date, population, productions, and exports; a narrative of tile calamities which defolaisd the island ever since the year 1789; and a detail of the tianfaflions of the BritiCh army in that island to the end of the year 1794. To be illustrated with a large two fteet general MAP of the WEST INDIES, and ten other Mips, ill executed in the bed manner, viz.—■ of Jamaica, Barbadoes, Grenada, St. Vincents, Dominica, St. Chriilopher's, Nevis, Antigua, the Virgin Iflaods, and 3 Iheet Map of the Island of Hilpanibla. to be embcllilhed with SIGHT COPPERPLATE PRINTS, The ift An Indian Cacique of thelOand of Cu ba, addrtlF.ng Columbus concerning a future fUts Note—lt it print, -with the fourth aaajixth, are par ticularly iUuilrabJ. In tie illujlruticn cf th/r fourth it given a , try curtoyt description of Gzlumlus't pcrfon and i- iti which tie print it said accurately t) Mr refpond. 3u The Br fa J Truit of Qtaheite as produced in tke Botanical Garden at Jamaica. 3d A Faisily of the fled Charaibes in the IflanJ of St. Vi.,(eut. 4tk Columbus ani hi? two sons Diego and Fer dinand, discoursing on tkeir difeoveries and prof peifls; from a* ancient Spsnifli pi<3ure in the pof fcflion of Edward Home, Esq. of BcTis Mount, near Southampton. ♦ Jth The voyage of the fable Venus from An gola to the W t H Indies. 6th A. Negro 1-cltiTal in the Island ol St. Vin cents, irom life, from ao original pifiure drawn by Agofiino Brunyas, in the possession of Sir Ww. Young, Bart. 7th Plan and elevation of aa improved Sugar Mill, designed hy Edward Woollary, Esq. of Ja maica. Bth Leonard Parkinfon, a Captain of Maroons, at taken from life. It is P»cpese4 to print by subscription, (To be pvblifhtil in weekly numbers) THE FORESnINO VKRT Interesting and ufeful Work. I The fubferiber therefore ofers (htfe prspofals to (he public, intending as soon ti three hundrsd have f*bfcribe, J , to publish the firft number, co*n. meacisg if with the General View of the Ancient State of the Inhabitants, their origin, manners, customs, Jtc. as well ol liifpanioia, Cuba. Porto Rito, ice. as of all the BritiOi Iflaudj; and he will continue publishing a aumSer weekly, till tile whole is finifhed—on the following terms, T;2. ift. It (lull be printed on a handfnme quarto, on a neat Type, and on the bell Printing Paper. ad. It lhali be published in Numbers weekly, and is calculated to be compleated jn Fifty Numbers: Each Number to contain Twenty four Pages of Letter Press. The Price for each Number to be One Quarter of * Dollar, to be Paid on Delivery Should it exceed Fifty Numtun, the Romainder will be given gratis. jd. The Maps and Prints will be delivered with the Numbers to which they particularly attach, free of any additional Piice. And a Dire<slion will be given igair.lt what particular Page each one is to be plai ed. The tubferlbers Names, with the Title Pages, &c, will be given with the last Numbers. Note. Such Subfcibers as do not incline to receiva the Numbers as they are publiflied, will have them carefully reserved for thein on pay ing F »ur Dollars at the Time of lubferibirg, and the Remainder when the Work is fimihed. To prevent Difappnintment or Complaint, it is HOW premiled, that a: there will be bot a very few Copies struck off more than may be fubtribed for, the Price of them will be consi derably raised after the Publication of the Numbers which are to compost tbe firft Vo lume. JAMES HUMPHREYS. Philadelfhia, Marth u, 1800. SuBtCiPTiONs are received by said Hum phreys, at No 106, the Sofoth Side of Market- Street, M«flrs. Pritchard and Davidfon, at Richmond, Virginia. Mr. G Hill, Baltimore, Maryland. Mtflrs. Thomas and Jimes Swords, New-York, Mr. Jimei White, Bollon ; and Mr. T. C. Culhiwg, Salem, Maflachufetts. March i§, eTb4w MUNGO PARK'S TRAVELS, JN THE IHTI.KIOR OF AFRICA, Is now in the Prcfs of James Humphreys, PRINTINC Bl" SUBSCRIPTION, And will be finiflied witiall the expedition poflible; THt CONDITIONS All F, IT it in large eSavo, on a beautiful vellum pa per, a neat type, and will be illustrated with a Urge elegant MAP of the route of Mr. Park thro' Africa. I he prire to fubferibers will be two dollars and an halt for it neatly bound and lettered. The Subfcribeis names to be printed iathe be ginning of the book. Note.—lt will be necelfary for thofc who wi£h to be poifeficd of the above celebrated woik on thp superior paper to fubferibe for it soon, as there will be but a few copies printed more than what it it imagined will, be fubferibed for. Subscriptions are received by said Hu*ipt.iey3, at No. 106, south fide of market street. ■parch 8, v Xjje oasf tte. PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 16. Juftum et ttnacem propofiti viruin, No» civium ardor pravajubemium, Non vultus inflamis tyranni, Mente quatit folida. Mr. Fenno, I wifli to know the natne of the patriotic member of Congrefi who wrote to General Collot, an agent of the French government, to the following effeft, viz. " I intepd being, soon, in Philadelphia, and as I wilh to have frequent communica tions witji you, I requcft you will produre me lodgings as near you as possible, if we cannot be together under the fame roof. I ihall immediately an my arrival, want two thoufa/id dollars, imd hope you will be able to accommodate me." I wifli likewise to know the name of the patriotic member of Congress, who, on firft hearing of the defenfive measures adopted by Congress in 1798, declared that he " tioped in God that France would bring tbte United States to their senses in fix monthsand whether the said patriotic member «f Congress was, at tbe time of making the said declaration, a Governor, as has been alledged, of one of the States in the Union. If y'cu, Sfry or any of your c.orrefpondents can give the above information, ynu -ii'Hl render an important fervite to the public, and oblige AN ENQUIRER. MO2AL REFLECTION. It is an honorable charafleridi* of our country to spurn at oppression and p?rfecu tion. Every body detests the malignant villain who, too mean and too cowardly to cope with antagonists oil a footing witli him, converts the glaaray and empty fabric of hit garly into a prifon-houfc for the young, " the amiable," the innocent and the defetceltft. Such baseness, to the diftinguifccd credit of our country, is here overtaken in every instance, with a signal and just vengeance. The is that of a thief who robs a child or a ladv, but feiilks when challenged by men who might expole him to exertion, and colt him sfcon teD. We are told, that an aftion has been commenced at the suit of Dotlor Binja- MIN Rush, against young Mr. Dickaw of this city, for felling some pamphlets ani madve. ting upan sundry of his opinions, &c. Senator Pinckney whom, (taking the word of his friend, the successor of Bache) people begin pietty generally to call The Orator of tbe llunarj Race, has, it frems, waxed wroth, at being put sn a level with the Hon. Mr. Cocke. It would be an un toward circumstance if, in his /cat to repel this farcalm, he should have recourlt to such exprcffions concerning the Hon. member's talents, as to lead to a breach. The sword ol Calligclli would effect an hidous hiatus in a Senatorian bread. Mr. Jeflferfnn, in his veracious declara tion of Independence, tells us that all men are, by nature, equal ; and all good re publicans ii* affedl to reteive this as faift. Yet how strenuously do the most eminent of republicans deny that Mr. Pinckney it equal to Mr. Cocke. It is Vomtivhere said, that " wit is a bur lot i" and the Democratic and True Amer ica.) Or«;o/s and writers of the present day, seem implicitly t« believe the aftrtion. Certain it is, they do, in this regard, pre serve a r.ioft inflexible chastity. OIJ Priestley, We 1 earn, contemplates the eftabhfhmen l : of an Academy, after the mo del of that of Lagado ; in this Academy, the modem doO.rrt'e of Airs will be explod ed, and that of PMogjfton established. As a war with Great Britain will be one of the firft steps «f Mr. J's administration, young gentlemen will be particulaily inftru<3ed in the best method of calcining Ice into Gun powder. X. B. It is not precisely known whether this be the Academy alluded to by Governor M'Kean, in his nieffage refpeft ing " the benevolent Priestley." " Let not the rustling ®f silks, nor the creaking of shoes betray thy poor heart to worfaab." This admonition of a wife man, was levelled at a danger probably more pre valent in the present day, than in thole of old King Lear or good Queen Bess. The " rustling of silks," the " creaking of shoes," the display of bas de soie, cles seirts super bes, See. &c—all of which are dominant evils at prelent, do, it is feared, betray many a " poor heart." When I heard an obfeurc Attorney, in pleading again)! a poor village newsmaß, who had been prosecuted for a libel, aflfcrt that *• the Five Thouland Dollars verdi& againfl Porcupine had not met with a fingk ! obje&ion ; I could not forbear remarking to my triend, " il ment ici comme un arra cheur de dents. My friend was an Attor ney, and rejoined, "he fays it cum privile ge"' The author of the publication which ap peared in Fenno's Gaseite of lafl evening, ana which Mr. Fenno fays was handed to him by Mary Burgess (.corner of Second and \lmond ftrec:).;j requeued to leave hit n.-n;c wit!: the printer. JOHN RUSH. J," U. s. Philadelphia. March ?,£. For tbe Gazette of tbe United Stales. Mr. Fenno, The following appeal to Congress for the fulfilawnt of u contrail of the U. States, is, we are told, prefenied and under con. fideration. If the statements are true, if it be a fa& that tliefe securities bear ths endorsement of the United States, as copi ed in the memorial, it will, we (hould f«p. pose, appear clearly impossible, to refofe payment, and preserve the faith of go vernment. Ia order that every one Concerned may have a view of the fubjcdt, Mr. Fenno, you are requeued to give it a place in your gazette. AN AME*ICAN CITIZEN. To the Senate and tbe House of Represent' atives in Coxgrtss assembled. The Memorial of the Subscribers Jbevjtth, THA I' your memorialists have long and greatly fufFered by the non-payment of the interelf due to them from the United States, and ensured in the Hallowing words,'»is. " The United Status en I are tlfc pay ment of the within Bill, and will draw bills of exchange for the intt reft (tnr.ualljy if demanded ; according to a refelutio!] of Congress of the 18th of March, 178a-."— As 110 form of words, your rneincrialifta, conceived, could express a mare fpecinc and absolute engagement, or more solemnly pledge the Faith of tbe United Stales, they placed entire confidence in it; and gave pre ference to Stole securities. But finding to their great difappnintment, Tim pro»ifi»u. wai not made for this debt in the firft law of the present government, for the payment of the public debts, your mem jrialilh peti tion the next Congress; and lodged the ob ligations in the Treasury for payment, con formably to the aft limiting claims; and repeated their petitions from year to year. In 1794, a committee of Congress, to whom this fubjeft was referred, reported, " That the contrail for the interest appears to be an absolute and original undertaking of tbe United States."—ln 1795, the Secretary of the Treasury to whom this fubjeft had been referred, reported to Congress, " That the United States absolutely engaged to pay tbe interest on these bills in sterling bills of ex. change annually, ufttil the principal Oiould be paid;" and that ".This engagement hit never been revoked. 1. And as sterling i'iiis of exchange were generally better than money, this engage ment was pre-eminent to all other notes or obligations for money. No scale for tte~ predated notes or frills,' ever made by Con grrfs, extended to theft"fecurities. Eminent Statcfmtfi allure your memorial, iffs, that as the Constitution ordains that '""All debts contracted, and engagements entered into by the former government, fiiall be equally binding upon the present,"—this engagement mull be as obligatory as if it had been the a£\ of the last br the pre fan t Congrsfs. And your memoiialifts are as sured by eminent judges of law, that it is not poffiole to pledge the faith of govern ment in a more perfefl manner. It will He remembered that these securi ties were iffu<-d upon a complete funding system, in order at that all-important pe riod to establish their credit upon a perma nent basis ; therefore the combined faith of the United and of the individual States was pledged for the payment of the intered and the principal equal to specie. Congiefs re quired the rtfpe&ive States (before they re ceived any of the bills) " to establish by law permanent funds for they payment in gold and silver, the sums they might receive in these bills from the United States, by the 31ft day #f December 1786." This was done toenfure universal confidence in these feturities, and to ensure repayment to the Union, such sums of interests, er principal, as Congiefs might provide for. By the contra# on the face of these obli gations, the refpj&iveStates were not bound to pay the interest until the principal be came due, but the United State* bound themselves by the contra ft in the endorse ment, to " 1 pay the interest annually." Wherefore the creditors had a prior demand upon the Union. And the Union alone has the means te obtain payment from the delinquent States. The committee on claims, once suggested an opinion, that those States would make provision for those obligation*, and that therefore it might be unn*ceflary for Con giefs to do it: but thefaft is, some of your memorialists before and finc<j that period, made application to those States, and were refufed payment. As the States arc not amenable te !a-j>, upon the demand of citizens, however legal and (acred the contraa, your snemorialiftj have no means to obtain payment from them. If the fundamental principle of a free go vernment, "a government of laws, an! not of men," was in active existence, your memorialists might long since have received payment from the States. Tjie Union alone poflcffes .the neceijary constitutional powers to obtain payment from those States. To the Union, therefore, your memorialing mud appeal for juflice. It was in the en gagement of the Union they confided. And as they fulfil all their obligations to tie go vernment, and pay all duties and taxes ac cording to law, they ought not to entertain the painful idea that Congress may violate this solemn obligation, and refufc to fulfil the public engagement to them. According to the letter of the law, made by Congress for this purpose, your memori al ills now have a right " to receive their in tcreft annually at the refpe&ive loan offices in sterling bills of exchange."—But when they apply for the fame they are told that no provilion it made to fulfil the law. Thus
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