PROPOSALS
»* THE
PRESIDENT V DIRECTORS
6 F THE
INSURANCE COMPANT
NORTtt ° AMtRIC A.
WHEKBAS by an aft of the Legijlature
of the State of Pennsylvania incorporat
ing tin lnf»ran(t r Company of North A
mericU, tin Prcfd-nt and Direflorj ate
avthorifid to extend their ajfurante to
Goods, Worn and Merchandise, or o
ther ptrjbnal property in Duflling Houf
ts, Warehouses or Stores, or to Buildings
agar ft the njk Ori/htg from Fire, and
having ascertained that it is a general
d-firt that Property of this defeription
Jhould be assured frbm Jo Jat at a riji\
the President and DireHors of the Infu
ranee Company of North America are
induced to offer the fallowing
TABLE
Of Rates and TermSi
Tahiti of Rates of Annual Premiums to
be paid Jor Ajfurance agumjl Firi.
No.I Upon conxiN infiirances, or hazards
tti the withirth- city of Phila- I
clelphu and Notiherm and Southern Liber- -
" B. ick Of Storrr houses. or Stores.
Furnnurc 01 Mcuti*ndixe not hereafter fpe
cified antxua h>«rdOus, contained in Brick
or Store Hnufes
For sums not i Breeding 8000 dollars *t >110
jrfier ihe rate of 30 cents for every hundred
Dot lass.
for lunn not rxceo'l g 16000 Dollar! at
and after the rate of 45 rents for every him
e'-rd dollars.
si). lums not exceed ng 250 OO dollars at
aod after it* rate of t» cents tor every bun
dled du'
N. B. As the neighborhood of framed
fcuiioii.gs. or ft circuniftances, may ren*
dera nflt inrlig'blc which is within the let
tsr of thi fe proposals, the coiWpany reserve a
r nht to rejeff fi.ch an afoarance at pleafur*.
Ko. 11.-— Upcn hazards of lit
Jecondclaft'
Houses or Stores of wnich the walls are
not wholly of Brick Or Stone.
FurAiture, of me>chandite, including ex.
tra hazardmm Goods, as Pitcn, Tar, Tur.
per.tine. Wax, Hemp, Oil, Tallow, Spirit
oua L quora contained in houses or ftotes
ol which the walls afe not wholly brick
or stone. _
These fait recited extra haiardoßS articles
in any building whatsoever.
Ships wfom > the pteihifes and
property therein contained of Carpenters
Joiners, Oopcrs, Ta«'nk' epers or Jnhol
oera, Stable keepers, gakers, Ship Chandlers
?nd iioat Builders, MaltC'rictSf BicWers,
Tallow Chandlers, Sugar Bakers, Apothe
caries, Chrmifts, DilkiUers, Printers, Oil
and Colotfrmen, Chin". Glass and Earthen
ware Sellers.
MiWs «sirs Machinery : Porcelain, GHafs
ind Pottery Wares in Trade. y '
fvt faros not exceeding Bo©6 dollars at ana
after the rate of 75. cents for every hundied
4oll»r«,
For fuirtj not exceeding 16000 dollars it
itirf atttr 1 i<e rate of ijO cent! tor e»ery bun
elred dollars.
CONDITIONS.
ift A wutit n application mud be left at
the Company' Office ft&iing the sum desired
to be infnrctf, by whom, and a drfcription
of the kind of property, whether Building*
or Goodi ; what kind of goods, and how
much upon building, or the goods in each,
ti'hiie there arc obi houfei or itoris. When
Household Good.* ate intended to be inCured
Wtc application should fpecify as tuliows,
Dollars
On tixufehold Tatniiore and
L'nen
On Weaiing Apparel
On China and Glass
t)ti Printed Uooks
On Liquors
ind. The Premium mtift be paid when
she order is given and accepted, the Infur
•nee to commence the in(tar>k|it it pa<d, and
continue in force so long a? the ptyment fhal]
be annually made a t the office before $ o'clock
p. M. on tfte day *rhen each revolution of the
term i» complete J or if that day shall happen
on a Sunday or 4th July, or any other Holi
day kept at ihe Office, then on the day pre
ceding.
3d II any other insurance be exiftingon
the fame propylty notice thereof must be
given w lih the oider,otherwifc the Policy will
he void.
4th. Goods held in Truftor en Coaimif*
ftoii, must be declared to be so held, other,
wife the Policy will n> t cover such Property.
This Company wilt not be accounta
ble any loss or dam.ige caused by any Fo*
ffign li'vafion, or by any Military or Ufurp
cd Force, or by reason ol any civil Commo
-1 ftHI.
6th. Bills o' Exchange, Bonds, Securities,
Title Derds, Ready Money, and Bank and
other Promissory No'es are not included un-
infurar.ee- Pointings, Medals, J> wcls
Gems, Antique Coriofities and Mirrors, a
bove 101, each, may be lofured by special A*
greemcnt.
yth. No Insurance will be made for a less
term than One Year.
j h. Peil'oos choofineio In Cure lor Seven
years (hall be aHowed One year's Premium
fey way of difcoum j also one-third of a
year's Prr miura upon a trn nnal Inlurance.
gth. When any fofs by Fite it futtaiiied on
property irfuied at this Office, the fufterer
shall in thirty days furnifh the best docu
ments he is able rf the value of the Goods
d. maged ot drftroyed ; this afceitained, the
)ofs within the sum insured, ffiall be paid
withow deduction in thirty days after proof
thereof. •
N. B. It ia cxprftetl a little experience
irav authntite the Company to extend sflur
ance from F<re to other .Cities; at present
thv'V confine this branch of their business to
Philadelphia and «'a Vicinity, in Pennfylva-
Bv Ord*',
tßf NF./.£R HAZA RD, Sec'ry
There is a frepbrt in circulation that
*vessel arrived at New-York yelterday
in a very (hort pafiage from Europe ind
brings an account that the French have
taken Rotterdam.
Old American Company.
STREET.
Hall am & Hougkinson refpeS
fully inform the Public, there -will be no
performance this Evening, at the Old
Tkratre, in consequence of Mrs. Puwnall
having met with a severe Occident, and a
htarfnefs of Mr. Hodglinjun.
TO-MORROW EVENING,
QBober 18.
Will be presented,
Will be presented, a New Serious Opera,
called
TAMMANY;
O R,
America Discovered,
7*o "which -will be added,
(reduced into two a<9s}
The COMEDY of a
Bold Strokd for a Husband.
The doors will be opened at halt after
five,and the curtain drawn up preciftly at
half after iix o'clock.
BOX, one Dollar—PlTT, three quar
ers—GALLERY, half a dollar.
Meflrs. HALLAM & HODGKINSON
refpe&fully acquaint the Citizens in gene
ral, that every expence has been chearful
ly sustained. that might tend to make the
Old American Company, worthy a share of
their patronage, during the short stay the
nature of their engagements will permit
them to make here.
Places in the Boxes may be had at the
Box Office, from ten to one every day
(Sundays excepted) and <>n days of per
formance from three to five P. M. Where
aHo tickets may be had, and at Mr. Brad
ford's book-store, No. 8, foiith Front
street, and at Mr. Carr's music-store.
On Thurfdav,
The 23 d Injlant,
At the Dwelling House of Patrick
Hogan, No. 183, south Second
Street,
Will be Sold by Public Vendue,
ALL HIS
Houfhold and Kitchen
Furniture,
CON S 1 ! ST IK G OF
Feather-Beds, Bedsteads,
blankets, Arrets, &c. chairs, card-tab)-';,
looking-glaifes, an eight day clock, and
irons, Hiovels, and tongs, window and
bid curtainsj- leveral letts open stoves, a
mahogany deik.
J.ipan'd bread baikets and waiters, pew
ter and Queens plates and dilhcs.
A variety of
KITCHEN FURNITURE j
ALSO,
Silver, table and tea-spoons,
Soup Ladle* Silver Can and Cream Pur,
S its, J'ea Tongs, China Caps and Sau
cers, Dilhes and Plates.
Footman Iff
Odlober 17. dt2j
Foreign Intelligence.
7 R A N C £.
NATIONAL CONVENTION,
13th Thermidor, July 31,
On the motion of Andre Dumont,
Hermann and Lhane, two public offi
cers, were ordered to be arretted ; as
accomplices with Robespierre.
On the motion of Tallien & Dumont,
Macadret, one of the teachers at the
school of Mars, was ordered to be ar
retted ; syid the committee of general
fafety was ordered to make a general
examination of the persons employed in
that institution.
Barras, representative of the people,
Commandant General of the armed
force of Paris, to the National Con
vention.
" The more important the powers in
truded to me by the Convention, the
more eager I am to resign them, fmce
the danger which occasioned my nomi
nation is totally dispelled. I have tra
versed Paris, have visited all the princi
ple ports, and I find the duty done with
an exa&nefs truly Republican, I as
sure the Convention that all is calm ;—
that Paris is in perfeA tranquility. The
people saw the deepness of the abyss
ditj under French liberty ; the peo,4e
applauded the punilhment of the hypo
critical conspirators who had usurped
their confidence. For to the people
the republic is every thing ; individuals
are nothing ; and the Convention i«
their watch word.
" Accept, then, Citizen Colleagues,
my resignation of the office of Com
mandant General of the armed force of
Paris. 1 (hall forever retain a profound
sense of gratitude for the confidence
which the National Convention repo
sed \n the hour of peril; and I (hall ne
ver forget the energf and the ztal with
which the brave National Guard second
ed pay efforts. I pfopofe that yo\i de
cree, that the National Guard* of Pa
ris have deserved well of their country.
" Health and Fraternity.
(Jjigned) . ,
«B ARRAS."
Referred to the committee of pub
lic fafety.
Goupilleau of Fontenay propoied
that the chiefs of legions, who are in
future to .command the armed force of
Paris in rotation, fhonld be attended
by two members of the Convention,
with the fame powers as the conimif
fioners with the armies.
This was referred to the committee
of public fafety, and the fitting was
suspended.
PeyiTard wrote to refute an aflertion
that there was a magazine ot arms, un
used and badly guarded at the mi
litary fcliool—none are there but iuch
as art neceflary soi 1 the inftruftion of
youth; [Disaster seems to ha*e quick
ened suspicion beyond bounds']
she commune of Blois, and the
department of Loire and Chere address
their felicitations ilpon the late occur
rence*.
JACOBIN CLtf B, July 3'<
Collot d'Herbois, Prejidcnt.
Every day furnifhes frefli proof* of the
ails of despotism extrcifed by the fallen ;
tyrants. Couthon had in his neighbor
hood some lodgers he did not like, and
i lent an order with his own hand to quit
in twenty four hours, under pain of incur
ring his difpfeafure. Four Or five fathers of
families, among whom was* poor fruiter- i
er, were obliged to obey this mandate,and !
thus make room for three or four ladies of
HiJ Holimfs's acquaintance. The Con
vention annulled this order, and referred
the petition of the injured parties to the
Committee of Domains, to frame a re
port lipdn it. ■ received a pension from the French
Amongst {he viaims to the momen- j ]j; n g i to enable them to continue their
tary power of the rebellious Commune, ■ They were afterwards put un
the Convention has discovered the good • dcr thc care of MefTn. Brifon and Cadit,
citizen Mathis, Commandant of the |tQ j eanl c j, em ift r y, in which science
3d legion. As fi>on as this pattiot was (} lC y made a great proficiency. They
informed of the decree of the Conven- \ were tail gh t drawing and engraving, and
tion, he hade,led to traverse the places : f omc Cbinefe landscapes in ac
occupied by his legion, from les luva- ( j Ua f ort ; s< They were sent to Lyons to
Helen to Pont-fill-Change. In the l ilt i„fp e £fc the silk manufa6)pries ;at St.
placc he met with a number of persons Etienne> t h ey tooka ciniofy view of
who did not belong to 15 but t^e manner n f arms, and
who declared their relpcft for the ] a- werc taught the various ways'of prepar
tional Representation, and, "in proof of jng return L.a to Paris,
their sincerity, they told him that m jjjejr t(0 ; { some kflons in printing, ex
the Mayor's court were some people er ,. ;rtng t h e mfelve* on a lit.le portable
they did not know, and of whose fide- , fs> of which the Ffclleh K ;„ g had
lity they were fufp.crous. Mute in ; a prefcnt .
the instant flew and addreiled himfcit to i , ,
the traitors, who answered him with 1765, they (.eparted, having re
twenty cuts of their sabres, and threw ceived fevernl queries from the Literati
him into a dungeon, where he lay wd- Particularly many from Mr.
tering in his bfood till five in the morn- Tu.got, which they proirifed to retum
ing, when he was relieved by the pa- answers to, and for near twenty years
troleof Gensd'Armes, who sent him ,he ? annually tranfmutcd memoirs to
home to have his wounds dreficd. Paris.
The Convention ordered honorable
mention to be made of the gallant cori
duft of citizen Mathis, and charged
the Committee of General Safety to
bring in a report upon what was expe
dient to be done in his favor.
LONDON* Aur U (t 22.
Offutr Jhct, at Danlury Camp, EJfex.
On Saturday morning last, the whole
line being, drawn out in honor of the
Dukd of York's birth-day, on the feu
de joye beiog fired the Adjutant of the
Leicester militia fell suddenly ftom his
horse in front of his regiment : some
officers running to his afiiftance, found
to their astonishment that he was wound
ed ; on being carried to his tent, the
surgeon discovered that he had received
a ball a little below the left bread, which
no indrument could reach nor has it
since been extracted, so that his life is
despaired of.
The whole regiment were immediate
ly ordered to ground their arms, when
every firelock and cartouch-box was
examined, but nothing was found that
could leaf to a difeovery of the despe
rate offender. The soldier fufpeftcd of
this deliberate villainy is the brother of
a private, who with four other men,
received 100 lathes the preceding day,
for leaving their work as Taylors to the
regiment.
No evidence had on Thursday morn
ing been collected, by which the offen
der it likely to be discovered.
CHINESE PROCLAMATION.
Made by the prefznt Emperor, in the year
1780, when be was 70 yeart of age
" I WILL, that one child or rela
tion of every man aged 70, be exempt
ed from road-work and military service,
in order that an old man may always
have somebody to wait npon him. 1
give to every man aged eighty, one piece
of silk, [Silofeilc] a pound of cotton,
ten bushel* of rice, and ten pounds of
V,'v •
meat. The old mff> from eighty to
one hundred, mult receive the double
of this ; but those of one hundred I
mult be acquainted with myfelf» and
the blefiings I intend them."
In another proclamation the Empe
ror promise* to perform the gieSt Hated
facrifice himfelf, but apologizes for not
being able, on acconnt of his age, to
move the tablet which rcprefents the
Spirit of Heaven and Earth, from the
place where it is usually kept, to the
place of facrifice, and carry it a
gain. He Concludes this proclamation
by jeclarißg, that on account of his en
creafing age and infirmities he wul ab
dicate the crown when he (hall have at
tained the age of eighty-five. This age
he attains next year,' and, admitting
that Lord Macartney had madi an ad
vantageous commercial treaty with the
present Emperor, it doei not seem ab
solutely certain that his fucceflor woiild
have adhered to it. But as (lability
doe* not seem a favorite word with our
prefetit sapient ministers, they perhaps
contrived thus to time it, that .hey
might have tHt pleafuVe of beginning
the whole business de novo next year.
They could hardly be ignorant of this
determination of the Emperor, for it is
recorded in a well known, anu authen
tic volume entitled, " Memoirs con
l'Hiftoire les Science, les Arts
les Maeurs, les Ufiges, &c. des Chinoife
par les Miflionaires dc Pekin. Tom c
quarto."
The materials of which this volume
is composed, were collected from tht
French Missionaries, in Pekin, and from
paper* traofmitted by two Chinese, who
came to France at the age of nineteen,
to inform themselves of the manners and
customs of Europe. In 1763, when
the Jesuits were banished France, these
I the Convent St. Lazarus, and soon after
One of the papers which they Tent,
contains a very curious order of the
College of Religion, fettling how the
ceremonies, not performed by the Em
peror himfelf, fliall be conduced in any
future period, and concludes with a de
scription of the Emperoi's reading the
Tupee, or piece of satin, on which are
written, all the good and bad actions he
has committed in the course of the year.
This he does with a low voice, or only
with the eyes, doing an aft of reverence
whenever he acknowledges hirrrfelf to
have been wrong, and praying God to
enable him to io better.
UNITED STATES.
PITTSBURGH, Oflober it.
A Correspondent observes, that he is
happy in having it in his power, from
personal knowledge, to announce to his
fellow-citizens, that all the inhabitants of
Cauorifburgh and its vicinity have signed
their names to the terms propoled by the
Commifßoners from the government, re
quiring peaceable conduit and obedience to
the laws.
The drubbing General Wayne has giv
en the western Indians, has entirely chang
ed the tune of the Cornpljnter—He now
wiihe* peace as much as he lately did war.
.itizens of-the Diftriil of Wafliington
and Alleghany
Previous to the late convulsion, it was
proposed to nie to give my name as a
candidate for the Congress of the United
States. I accepted the compliment. It is
now circulated that I have declined it.—-
No—Considering the delicacy of the times,
I might wifli I had rot thought of it;
but as it is, it would imply a star of sub
mitting iny conduifl to inveftig«tion, to
withdraw my name from the public. I
have ther fore not done it. I may at pre
sent have less popularity than I had, but
the time will come when I lhall be consi
dered as having deserved well of the coun
try, in all the delicate conjunctures in
which we have been situated.
H. H. BRACKENRIDGE.
OAober 8, 1794.
PHILADELPHIA,
OCTOBER 16.
ExtraS of a letter from Dr. Gcorg t
Buchanan, of Baltimore, to a Phy/ician
in Philadelphia, dated OQoler nth
1794.
" From the frequent raini that fell
in the early part of Summer, all the
flats in and about Baltimore were kept
wet, and a great quantity of ftagnnnt
water was retained in the ponds and
hollows into which all the small dead
animals wereoccafionally thrown, which
occaiioned a conllant putreta&ive fer
mentation, and as the season advanced,
the weather became dry and hot, so
that in every part of the town there
were snore or less of Mia/malic Effluvia
exhaled, \tfhich produced fluxes, inter-
and in a greater
number tlian has been known for seve
ral years past.
But about the lad week in July and
the firft week in August, 3 or 4 cafcj
of a mofe malignant tendency .occurred,
all which in a few days proved fatal,
and were finally pronounced to be the
coptagi'ous Yellow Fever of the Wdt-
Indies, or the fame that prevailed last
year in Philadelphia.-*—This report ex
cited confidcrable alarm arfiotigft oar
Citizens, in consequence of which a
Town-Meeting was called, and a Com
mittee of Health appointed.
Several other cases occurred soon af
ter, on Boley's Wharf and on FelPt-
Point, where about the Ift of Septem
ber the disease became truly alarming,
fyi<f continued to rage with much vio
lence until the last week of the present
month, when a change in the weather
from exceflive heat to froft has produ
ced a considerable abatement, so that at
this time (a few rare instances excepted)
Intermittents and Remittents alone pre- •
•' This contagious Yellow Fever, or
which I more properly denominate, an
inflammatory bilious Fever made its at
tack diffeiuntly, but in genera!, a high
Fever succeeded a chill, accompanied
with a very severe pain in ;tlie head,
back, and joints, with pain and infiam
motion in the eyes ; dry win, a vomit
ting of bile, and a considerable pain,
sense of swelling and fullnefs in the right
hypochondriufn and region of the sto
mach. In some the pain in the head
brought on a delirium, f.nd in many, as
the disease advanced there was a bluci
vomitting and purging ; the pupils in
foine were dilated and generally accom
panied &ith a low pulse. Neither the
yellowness of the eyes or (kin was , ne
ral, many who died wanted this iyr . ■-
torn, many who recovered had black
(iools. SKiV-V* . ■■BHIk
The remedies raoft fuccefsfiil were
moderate bleedings, purges and sweat
ing.—Two bleedings were generally
fufficient. The]e who bled if letter 101 l
the mojl Patients. By frequent purgta
of Calomel and Jalap, not exceeding 6
or 8 grains of the one and 10 or 15 of
the other every symptom of the dileafe
was mitigated ; but unless the perspira
tion was kept up during the fever by
the ejfervefccnt mixture or some fudorific
powder, the other remedies seemed all
to fail in their effects. 1 found Bliftors
upon the temples to fupercede the ne
cefiity of moie bleeding, and Blisters
applied upon the liver had their advan
tages.^—The drink, t recommended was
warm Lemonade, Bailey water and now
and then in order to aflift in keeping up
the perspiration, warm Sage tea & Vine
gar. I remarked, that during the pre
valence of this disease many perions
complained of a pain and fullnefs about
the stomach and right hypochondrium,
who were relieved by a smart dose of
Calomel and Jalap.
At the two places already mention
ed, viz. Boley's Wharf, (which is an
extensive new-made flat of ground, ex
tending several hundred yaids into the
Bason, on which there are a great num
ber of dwelling houses and Bores) and
Fell's-Point, did the disease rage with
any violence or appear to emit its fatal
fhafts.—Almoft all the Clerks and ma
ny of the Merchants of that diftridl, to
gether with many of the other inhabi
tants who had bufmefs there, have been
attacked, with the Inflammatory bilious
fever, whieh in too many instances prov
ed fatal.
I believe there is no fact better esta
blished in medicine than that Intermit
tent! originate from marih effluvia, and
are not contagious, and that all conta
gious diseases have for their remote
cause a fpecific matter capable of pro
ducing them without which they can
not exist, and.of which principle no hu
man power can divest them. If there
fore the disease which lately made its
appearance in Philadelphia, was the
fame a* that which occurred there lait
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