THOUGHTS
ON t»E
Ittertafing Wealth &? National Oeconomy
Of the United State* of America.
INTRODUCTION.
FROM the time of the eflabliflmient of
•ur European Ancestors on the western Sde
of the Atlantic Ocean, to the recent contefl
of the United States for Independence, all
faithful representations of the rapid growth
of the country, were in Europe deemed fa
bulous,—and tlill there must remain a vast
•variety of opinions both in Europe and
America on the rate of our annua) increase.
Toftoitit, out an eligible node-by
to aitftterthe varioifs subordinate queflidns
eomprifed under the ieveral' heads of the
Statf.hical Table annexed, and to conGder
the natural result of the whole, 'is the sole
objeft both of the table and ot the explana
tory renanu.
for the United States of America, for a succession of years, compiied chiefly from Official Documents.
•Length of the United States,
Improved
Lands, part
of 640 mil
lions acres.
Years
jpopulatten.i
■■■■" i
20,860,!
2,486,1
*77 4
1784
21,500,01
3,350,000
30,000,00©
1790
3,930,000
17 91
(4,047,900!
31,000,000
4,169,337
1792
32,00'0,00(
i7s3 4,294,417
1794 k,433,349
33,500,001
34,000,000
1795 |4,555*946
34.550,0*0 759.3 2 4
35,100,000782,104
35,600,000.805,567
1796 4,692,624
1797 4,833,402
1798 4,978,4^4
1799 5.127.75 6
36,100,000
|36,300,0«0!854,626
Note.—The several sums under the head 01
therefore inJerted to be re-considered in the r
NEW THEATRE.
(VEVER ACTED IS AMERICA.)
For the Benefit of Jlir. Bernard.
On Wednesday Evening, April t6.
Will beprefentcd,a celebrated new Comedy, called
SIGH S;
OR, THE DAUGHTER.
(Written by Augujliu Fen KotzbueJ
Tillman Totum, {with a song) Mr. Bernard.
Von Snarl, Mr. Warren.
Hans William, Mr Cooper.
Adelbcrt, Mr. Wood.
Leopold, Mr. WignelL
Nicholas, Mr. Bliflett.
Josephine, Mrs. Merry.
Louisa, Mrs. Snowden.
Mrs R«fe, Mr 6. Francis
Ellen, (with a forg) Miss Broadhurft.
End 9/ the Play an Interlude, called
THE SAILORS GARLAND;
Or, Family Picture.
George Standard, Mr Bet sard,
O'Daub, Mr Warren,
Old Piticher, Mr Warrell,
Mill Piocher, Mrs Oldmiioa,
Maria, Milt Arnold.
To which will be added, anew Farce,
(for the second time here) called
FORTUNE'S FROLICK;
Or, The true use of Ricbeu
Robin Ronghead, Mr Bernard,
Snacks, Mr Francis,
Dolly, Mrs Olrimixon,
f Margery, Mrs Francis.
Box. one Dollar, Pit, three quirtera »f i
dollar, and Gallery half a dollar.
Tickets to be hid at the Office of the Theatre,
and at Mr Ricc'i book (lore, Chalk'» library,
Hardy's Tavern, and of Mr Bernard, in Carpen
ter's street.
|C7* Mrs, Oldmtxon's Night will he on
Friday.
(tJ'Mr. IVarr/n's Night will be on Satur
day next.
VIVAT RES PUBLIC A.
NOTICE.
AS my wife Polly Williami, a Servant of
DoAor John Hill, has left my bed and
board, Tbit ij to tutrn mil per/on that I will
pay no debtg contraAed by her in my lumc from
this date.
HENRY WILLIAMS.
April
The firft EfTays will be offered to the pub
lic in their crue fhte in the order in which
they may arise, but if they {hoiild ever be
conlidered of I'ufficient importance to call
for a revision, method may be more attend
ed to in clatfing the several remarks each
render its proper head.
No. 1.. On Population,
Tfce very ingenious and indefatigable Dr.
Morse, in .his elaborate geographical work,
makes the following remarks, which are war
ranted in fa£t both by the opinions and the
experience of cotemporary writers of cele
brity.
Admitting the population of the United
State* at present (1796) '< to be five mil
lion*, and that thi* number will be doubled
in twenty year*, and continue te increklc in
that ratio for a century to come, at that pe
riod, viz. 1796, there will be in United
America one hundred and sixty millions,
nearly twenty million* more than there art
at prefcnt in all Europe.
Navy
J. State.
Militia.
541,661
654,000
677.65 o
694,889
715,736
737,208
V. G
3 12
'3 36®
I s 29.73 4
I+2 95° I
.WAITED'IMMEDIATELY,
"Journeymen Taylors.
SUCH u are induftriiui and well difpofc,!, will
meet with libera! encouragement, by applying
to either of the fubferibers, at their rc£ps3ive
places of abode.
James M'Alpin,
Charles C. & J. Watfsn,
John Stiley,
James Curamings,
Selby Hickman,
Thomas Harrifon,
Caleb Hughes,
William M'llhenney,
Kenneth Jewell,
Benjamin Sharp,
Jacob Thomas
t Willinm Afhby,
Enoch Wright,
Joseph Wildes,
Benjami i Shaw,
John Web£
April 14
LANCASTER STAGES.
THE Proprietors of the Philadelphia and Lan
eafter line of Stage® DISPATCH, return their
grateful thanks to their friends-and the public in
general, for the pad favors they have received,and
inform them that in addition to the regular Line,
tfcey are provided with Carriages, sober and careful
drifters, to go through between the City and
Bow>*gh is two day s. Those who prefer this mode
of travailing can be accommodated at the Stage
Office, sign of United States Eagl«, Market street,
Philadelphia.
Slougk., Downing, Dunwoodj V C».
1 2t_{
Nsv. 30.
THE HEALTH OFFICE
Is removed to No. 141 South Front Street,
Near the Drawbridge.
April 1
Burthen attul 148 torn,
■jaEpSaS? WILL BE SOLO,
For account of the Undei write™, at the Mer
chants CoffteHoufe, on Wednesday the i6th
infiint, precuely at one o'clock,
BY PUBLIC AUCTION,
With all her materials, at (he now lays at Wil
ling# wharf, agreeable to inventory, to be seen
at the au<£lion store, and at the office of Shoe
maker and Berrett, Insurance Brokers, No. 9,
South Front (Ireet.
SHANNON Sc POALK, Auctioneers.
April is- (US
fdjt.
A STATISTICAL TABLE
,250 miles—Breadth, 1,040 miles—containing more than one million fquate miles, or 640 millions of acres.
EXPORTS.
leamci
Domestic
Produce.
6,100,000
15,000
18,000
10,150,000
9,000,0J0,
16,000,000
25,000
14,200,901
28,000!
(4,600,00 c
15,060,500
21,005,568
30,09 a
33,060
26,011,788
15,420,000
16,200,10-
33>°43»7^5!
39>900
18,064,050^
45,001
51,500
20,024,021
60,20
24,052,671
51,294,710
62,300
27.991,413 61, 337.4 11
33,142,187178,665,522
63,50 c
[ic medium, are neceflarijy conjectural, but are neverth«lefs of immediate importance to the completion of the table, and
lual statement, at which .period the whole table will again be compared with }he public documents, and errors corrected.
' metaH
iext am
a number of
divr
The copper bottomed brig
JAMES,
Sir William Petty, in his Essays on Poli
tical A-mhiMtic, bat given an average va
luation for each inhabitant of Britain in his
time ; they are rated by him at 90 pounds
sterling per head, or 400 dollar*; if this
rule be applied to the jirefent inhabitants of
these States, they are now worth more than
two thoiafand millions of dollars ; in addi
tion to this statement, the following will be
more generally understood, and as far as it
agrees with, mul>, strengthen the poGcion
formed from Mr. Petty's rule for a personal
valuation.
The taxable property of the United Statci,
per valuation under the recent law of Con
grrfs amounts to more than 750 millions,
Wl iih will auttioriie a valu-"
atiort of perf'.'nal property
in (lock, money, fliipping, "^s°
See. at a« much more
And about 500 millions of*
landa toaverage one dellar ■ 500
per Mr*
Total
Tonnage
merchant
vessels.
Total.
Dollars.
6,100,000
98,001
250,00©
486,890
18,399,202
502,698
567,69
527,57<
628,617
•7» 5 55'55 6
747.96'
831,9®'
7,064,0.;7j
876,912
898,329
920,oo<
'CHINA GOODS.
Imported in tßb ibip N-w Jersey, from Can
ton, and far sale by Archibald McCall,
Ni. 13/ South Second Street,
White'and Yellow Nankeens,
Imperial, Hyson, Young Hyl'on, Hyson fcin,
Bohea and Souchong Teas,
Black Sattinsand Lutestrings, Hair Ribbon,
Cassia, and Rheubirb in cbefts,
Sugar in betfe'iand bags.
ALSO ON HAND,
A small afTortment of China ware, and a few
Hhds Prims Jamaica Sugfrs.
April 4. dtf
THIS DAY
WILL be landed at Morton's wharf, from
on board th# brig Hope, Anderfon, from Ja
maica
SUGARS fc? PIMENTO,
Apply to
MOORE WHARTON,
No. hi,, South Water Street
d6t.
April 15. *
FOR LIVERPOOL.
A MIAB L E,
T n C. TillinghasT, Master.
PHILADELPHIA built, of Jive oak and ce
dar, will be ready to receive her cargo at Weft's
wharf in a few days, and to fail aboift the fif
teenth of April. For freight or paflage apply
to the captain ob board, er to
JEREMIAH WARDER.
WHO HAS FOR SALE,
The following articles entitled to Drawback.
Cotton Hose, fine Holland Shirting Linen,
Table Linen, Ticklings, Rags for Paper ma
kers, Ruflia Sil Cloth, Ravens Duck, Irilh
Linens in trunks, Losdon White Lead, Dry
and ground in oil, Red and Barr Lead, London
Tin in boxss, London refined Salt Petrc, Vew-
Castle Grindstones, Roman Tea Canniiiers,
elegant Girandolej, ten four ponnd Woolvvich
proof cannon, double fortified with apparatus
compl»at, and a quantity of three and nine
pound font.
march 31
CLERK WANTED.
A STEADY, trust-worthy person, compe
tent to keeping a set «f Books, will hear
of a situation by applying t» Mr. F«*nno.
April 15. 6r.
WANTED,
To go a few mijes into the country, a WOMAN,
who will undertake to rook, in a plain way, and
one who can produce* chara&er.
Enquire of the Pointer.
April 15.
3000 mil. dolt.
Receipts,
Revenue,
&c.
Expendit.
Dollars.
J.797j43 6 ]
4,771,342
8,962,920
8,772,45^
6,479-977
6^50,19.
9»439,85d
9>°4*»593
1,0151,24®
9,5*5,75
8,367,776
8,740,329
8,625,8 77
8,758,78
10,161,097
9,«2i,3*3
12 >7.7 7 >4B 7
r I *»354»7°3i
3taw»w,
f-3t
An annual compound inereafe of 3 per
cent -will double the given number in about
14 years, by this rulf the population has
been averaged in the annexed table from the
time of cenfbs in 1790, although the exports
of merchandize and the tonnage have more
than doubled in half that time J yet soT
a fuccefiion of years it maybe fafer toconfide
in the rule adopted for the rate of inereafe
in population, more efpccialiy when it i»
found that undar such prudential calculations
the nett amount of the inereafe of wealth
for the last year only is at least three per
cent, on two thousand millions or the sum
ofsixTt Mll.7,ions of »ollaks. When
it is considered that the whole of thisafhial
inereafe amounts in faft to a ptfitive tho'
in part a passive fund, and is therefore call
ed a natural finking fund to distinguish it
from the viffible operations of the ordinary
revennes of the (lute. Keiice it wsy not be
difficult to conceive that the United States
are within a short space to rank with the
moll powerful States on Earth both in Po-
Metallic
Public Debt
Nominal.
Medium.
Dollars.
r 200,000,000
(_ Paper Money.
4,000,00e
10,000,000
'art of the war!
8,000,000
lebt was funded
12,000,000
efore 1790, &.
[17,000,000
he residue be-
20,000,000
fore 1795.
21,500, c00
84,989*438
19,000,000
83,404,139
19,500,001
81,324.139
14.e00.000
79,105,20.
113,000,000
*4>»Bj,4Q«>l
16,000,000!
CHINA GOODS.
Imparted in the sbip Jean, Daniel M'Pber-
son commander, from Canton,
ANB FOR SALE,
By JAMES LATIMER, jr.
Nankeens, white and yeiuw
blue and colored Lutestrings
Black and colored Sattins
Mazarine blue do.
Sattin Stripe
Dove colored Shawls
Black and celcred Taffetias
Cantoo Long Cloth
Imperial, Hyson, Young 1 TEAS of the firft
Hyfoo and Souchong j quality*
April 8 diot.
IMPORTED,
In the ship Jean, Daniel master,
from Canton, an Assortment of
CHINA SILKS,
CenOiling of
Black and coloured Lutestrings
Black Sauins
Black Senchawt
Black and coloured Sewing Siikt
Nankeen*, Fans, &c.
Also on band.
INDIA MUSLINS,
Guzzeenas
Gurrahs
Codas
Baftals, &c.——and
India Bandannas.
For Sale by
ROBERT SMITH If Co.
No. 58, South Front Street.
djw
April 7,
FOR SALE,
70 bbls. Halifax Heiring,
Halifax Shad, ia barrels,
150 bbls. Mackarel—Salmon ") Fat and
in tierces, bbls. and half bbls. y in good
70 bbls. Bay of Fundy Shad J order.
A few quantel of Cod Fish, .
Spermaceti and common Oil,
10 bbls. (Burlington) Pork,
Spanish Indigo,
Also,
Very good Vinegar by the pipe, barrel
or gallon—A calk of Venifou Hams—i
ale of Cotton Ciiidle Wick, and 18 kegs
if Hogs Lard.
Apply x»
PHILIP S. BUNTING,
No. 96, Race, the corner of Third Street.
4tb mo. Btb April d6t
pulation and in general wealth. And f«t»
tfcer to consider the efFeasef population on
ly it may be said with truth that by con
stant increase it has Cnce the year j 796 re
duced a public debt of 20 doilan for each
individual to fifteen dollars, and if the con
"jefVural increase for 1896 <h»u!d be verified
the whole amount of eighty millions may
then 'be redeemed by a capitation of fifty
cents only, the ultimate population destined
for the United States may be better imagin
ed bv a comparitive view of the old worldj
where it will be found that France, Eng*
land, Italy and the Netherlands will aver
age about 160 inhabitants to each square
mile, and China with, no favorable differ
ence either in foil or climate, has above three
hundred, which rate of population would
give to the United States above three hun
dred millions : but experience has (hewn
that a population less than half that of Chi
na would he more conducive to'health and
to every rational enjoyment.
OBSERVATOR.
SINKING FUNDS.
ACTIVE
Sinking Fund.
DORMANT AND ACTIVE.
Note.
Specie, by law U. S. of August
1790, Dolls. 2,000,000
The finking fund.
if deduced from
Ditto, Surplus of Duties, per
ditto,
'the amount of the
nominal debt forj
Ditto ditto, May 1792,
.the year will leave
: Ditto by Sale of Lake Erie
lands, Dolls. 406,941
the net amount oi
235,000,000 Acres Wester*
Territory, limited by law*
at not less than two dollar*
per acre,dolls 47o,ooo,«oo
:he public debt
3,258,669
3,901,403
4,549.59 2
icy Part-os theft, lands hive
been fold at auftion, Jl to average
more than the of tw®
dollars per acre.
6,6 90,000
8,002,104
ALL Persons having claims against Richard
S. Footman, surviving partner of the house
of Footman & Co. also those having claim»
against the eitate of Richard S. Ftttman, de.
ceased, are desired to exhibit their account!,
well authenticated; and all those indebted to
the said firm are retjuefted to make immediate
payment to
JOHN M'CLELLEN,
Administrator to the eflate of R. S. Footman.
Frankford, April 9. dsot
"TPHE Creditors of the late house of Irwin Sc
Bryfen, of Lexington, Kentucky, 1 are
hereby informed, that a dividend of such mo
nies of that firm, as have been received by the
fubferiber, will ke made on the twentieth day
of April next, imoltg those creditors who (halt
have before that time furnilhad their accounts
properly attefled to
March 15
Just Atrivtd,
AHa FOR SALt ■ * Tff't SUBSCRIBERS,
THE CARGO
Of the Sbif C A uroit,
Ric'iard Dale, Commander, from Canton,
Bohea
Souchong
Hyi'on Skin > TEAS.
Young Hvfon
and Hyi'on.
White
Yellow 5
Sugar of lit quality.
China Ware.
Cassia.
Fans.
An assortment of Silks.
WILLINGS ti FRANCIS,
April 14.
Just Arrived,
AND FOR SAL* Br THE SUBSCRIBERS,
THE CARGO
OF THE SHrP PHILADELPHIA,
Theodore Blifa, Commander, from Bengal.
coxsrsrivG or
An aflortmenvof Piece Gsodi.
Sugars of the firft quality,
And to« qr. chefit «f superior quality
Hyson Teas.
Willings V Fronds, and
Thomas if John Clifford.
March 17.
NOTICE.
NOTICE.
WILSON HUNT.
Ailing aflignee.
fdtao
Consisting or
NANKEENS.
No. si, Penn Street.'