Gazette ox the United States. P I'JL A 0 i' L P 111 A, T;iua r suAT jvly 17. >itiL;t'.o-OF^s'i'Oct;s. Puil-Ar tLPUM, JULT 10 8 per Cent Stock for cash 105 t« jo 1 ) p. ct. 5- Sll per Cerft. do. 84 / " Navy do. do. 84 S Three per Cent. do. 51 \ Deferred, - do. So B4.NK United S&tcs, do. 30 . Pcmifyivania, do. 27 V n. North Amer'si, do. 50 j Iflfuranas ccmp. N■ A. (hares 8 to 10 per cent, below par Pennfylvania, fharos, iSI4 30 per cent, adv Eafh-India Company of N. A. 7 per cent advance Lani Warrants, 15 doll* per too icr«s. COURSE OF EXCHANGE Bi'iUon Lon. at 30 days for ca!h 171 12 per ct. Do. do. 60 days do. 170 a. 171 do. Do. do. 90 days do Bills on Hamburgh at 60 days 33 1-3 a 34 cts, per-Mark Ifanco Do. in Amllerdam, 60 days 39 a 40 cts. per Florin Capt Darby, arrived at Salem (M.) from Naples, informs, that—The Fremh troops in Italy were nearly familhed fur want of proviGons ; and Maffena, previous to enter ing Genoa, made a dsfperate attempt to gain pofftlfion of the Atsftrian stores, but failed ; and though he effedted his entrance into Genoa, yet, from the want of provisions in the K'irrifon, ar.d the desolation in the coun try aro. u:l it, it was hardly poffiide to hold out till reinforcements could arrive. When Captain Derby \v s at Naples, ex ecutions were carrying on with a vindiitive spir t, in confcquence of th: fate rebellions ; luppolsd so be greatly indicated by the Queen. This princess is a lifter to the late Queen of Fr mce. An Eimlilh expedition, with to,ooo land forces, pa(Ted up the Straits while Oapt/in Derby was at Gibraltar; their objeft un k»< wn ; by feme fuppoied to be to inspire the King of Naples with courage to return fri«'m oiciiy to his ancient feat ef govern ment. v. i Died.it Norfolk. Monf. Lepretre, former ly of St. Domingo. 1 The Captain of the sloop Lavinia from St. Croix, arrived at New-York, informs, that 75 fail of American veflels (including 7 Fivnch privateers, prizes to the United States Ihips) failed from St. Thomas the firft inllant under convoy of the frigate Adam.. A .gentleman who came pallenger in the sloop Lovina informs, that a French cor vette had arrived at Guadaloupe, in 40 days fi"bm France, and brought out orders t,o the commanding officers 111 the French Weft- IndieS, not to fuffer their privateers to make capture of American veflels.—Fudge. On Monday morning a man by. the name of Collins, living near the (late prison, Green wich, N. Y. put a period.to his existence by discharging the contents of a loaded pillol through his body. What led to this rash and horrid- act we have not been a,ble to a ('certain. The reason why our Commifllpners have failed in the enibafly to France, is conjec tured to be owing to the inability of that pov er to comply with our firft requisition, viz.—retribution for the spoliations on our commerce. If fo,, they must have loft light of their own intertft, in nst offering us shipping at a fair valuation. Their nary, conlidering the growth of that of Great- Britain, is of no service to them. If they ■were to pay us, fay ao fail of their line of battle ships, we Ihould be f.ived a great ex p?nce of taxation ; much time would be laved us in building ; we fliould always be ready to meet and relent ( with the addition of what (hips we have at present) depreda tious committed on our trade by any power •whatever. Fran'ce would not be injured by the contrast, and flie would be relieved (without burthenmg her citizens) from rai ling a film of money, which national juflice demands flie flit uld pay. [Norfolk Herald] The weather was so extreme hot last week, that a negro dray-man refufed to cart some wood for a gentleman, unlets he would ajree to lend him an umbrella. Among the toasts, drank on the 4th of July, in the State of Conne&icut, we remark thfc following. TIMOtHT Pickering, tale Secretary of State.—May he find in retirement t bat peace and happiness, which courts can neither give, nor take away. Thus there are some, not unmindful of paftfervices, not blind to integrity and ta lents, and not flow or timid to exprefsgood •wiUies for the profpenty of a discarded statesman. The grateful party, who thus manifefted their rrfpett and atFedlion belong to that rare tribe, described by a moral Poet. " Let others hail the rifmg fun, We b >vr to that, whose course is run." Anecdote. Andrew Mitchel Esq. British Minder at the Conr:. of Berlin,' was much eflcemed for his personal merit by Frederick the Great, though he often oppoftc} the philosophical and political alfertions of that monarch, •with" frank but decent firmnefs.—" By the htlpof God," said Mitchel on a certain oc cifion, " we have gained a vi&oiy over t!ie French." " llov. is tins my Friend," fa id the king, '■ is God one of your allies" ? " Yes," replied the Envoy, in a farcaflick Vfiy, " and the only one ,wlio demands i'i fubHuirs of US." The following was peb!/flied <"n this Gaz ette some time ago. but as it is expedted the game v.ill soon be played 'lis thought proper to re publish it that the FEDE RALISTS, ma\ be on their guard. MR Pri'NTF. H. JACOBIN cunning I know to be equal generally to all their purports ; but let me ask, whether they can so manage the hufi nefs, alluded to in the annexed extraft, as to nnfwer tlitir views. I confefs, that lam so short lighted, as not to be able to disco ver, or w':ether there be any solid founda tion for the report, I do not undertake to determine ; but the public may be aflured that the writer of the letter (a resident in a remote county, and a ttfpedt'able citizen) is fully convinced of the truth of what he writes. A VIGILANCE. ExlraS of a letter from -——in , to his friend in Philadelphia. " The next ftffion of .A(Terribly, which the G is to convene, by such notice as for the Jacobin party to be ready at or near Lnncnfler at th<: /rW,and to meet and proceed 011 bufioefs btfore others that live rei ote can take their feats. Strange as it may seem, such is really the plan, that the friends and confidants of our G '■ cai culaje their schemes on. 1 wish to be i formed • f the intended plan for the G to previously t otiiy one party cf the Legislature to be near at hand, wi./'le the others at a distance arc to be called with a sudden Proclamation of (h> rter no tice than will ei able them punfiually to at tend at the time appointed, a"d thereby af ford an cppuriuniiy to pass some favourite Laws 1 1 ! ." [The following Alcaic Ode was written; by Mr. Gray in the Album of the Monks ot t! e Grande Chaitreufe, a religious order of the hicft aufterc kind, whole "is f queftcrtd amid the solitary leer.es i f Sav; y The solemn deportment of the Ffiars, medi tating iJeath and Eternity ; their profound filenctf ; the deep gloom oi' the forelt ; the milling of mountain "torrents ; and Nature in lonie of her wildest and moll tremendous forms inspire religious awe, and melancholy meditation.* Viewing this scene, with the feel'yigs of a moralist and a poet, Mr. Gray has traced them in elegant and sublime la tinity. An American gentleman, whose tafle causes him to read the I ;iiguage of Home with delight, and whose learning en ables him to translate it with skill, has ren dered Mr. Gray's Ode into blank vcrfe. Of the various versions, which the Editor has perused, this is the molt faithful to the phraie and spirit of the sriginal.] Oh In, fcveri Rcligio loci Quocunque gaudes nomine, noil leve Native nam ccrte fluenia Numcn habet, vetercfqne fvlvas ; Prjefentiorem et confpicimus Drum Per itivias rupes, ftra per juga, Clivofque proeruptos (uiwntes Inter aquas, nemorumque nottem ; Quam si rep Ibis, sub trabe citrea Fulgeret auro, et Phioiaca manu, Salve vocanti rite,felTo et Da placidam juveni quietetn. Quod si invidendis fedib us, et frui Fortuna (acra lege filentii Vetat volven'tem, me leforbens In medios violenta fluclus: Saltern remoto des, Pater, angulo » Horas feneflje ducere libera? ; Tutumque vulgari tumultu Surripias, hominumque curij TRANSLATION. 0 Thou ! the Power, that o'er this solemn scene, jPrefid'ft, whatever name bed fnits thine ear, For sure these native streams And these primeval woods, Own no presiding Power of light regard ; Ami inidft the patliltTs rock and mouutains ■wild Where waters rrurm'ring fall And bl.ickning lliadei embower 111 clearer view appears the present God 1 han if, beneath the Citron rafter'd Dome, He besm'd in mafly gold By curious sculpture wrought. liail to thee, Genius, thee a weary Youth Invokes with holier due, and alks repose. But if to fit secure Beneath the wilh'd for (hade Fortune forbids me by her stern decree, If by her hurrying hand, fore'd from the Ihore, Again thy votary's lofl, • Auiid the dafliing waves. O Father, in some lone, fequefler'd vale Giant me, at least, to spend the hour of age freed from the clamorous croud every vulgar care. 9 " In our little journty up to the Grand Cbartreufe, I do not remember to hire pone ten paces without an exclinjation, that there ■*-i» no rellraininp. Not a precipic e, not a torrent, not a cl'ffbut is pregnant with re ligion and poetry. There are certain l'cenes that would awe an atl.eift into belief, without (he help of other argument. One nejrt not have a very fantaftic imagination to fee spirits 'here at nocn day. You have death perpetually before your eye#, only so far removed, as to compose the mind, without frighting it." See Gray's Letters—Mason's edition. The scheme of uniting all parties ; of mel lowing-down ancient prejudices ; of believing that a Jacobin may be a good man j that we have all one common interest ; that it is prudent to be lukewarm and faint-hearted, and variable, and that we nmft be smiling members of one great political family, is benevolent and good humoured in the ex treme ; the only difficulty is, that it is a senseless, abftird project, and totally 'im pradiicaWe. There isa frt of small, timid, simple, changeable politicians in ourenlight ed country, who huddle together, and en deavor to persuade fools that every thing i$ right, and that we fit [eriVftly f.ife, direftly over the flaming fr.iter of voKanic France. This is a feSnibls d lufion, ™d we Coon' weep our lolly in t-ars' of blood. With K-vity, we either fondle tlie ty ;rers and wolves of» Pinris, that (leu of wild beasts who claw ;uxl \yorry one another, when thry ha?e no other prey ; or thirp like cuckooes, Comegire us a fang, the LaJycrjr'd, , An ! lay your difbuies ' alic, Wbat iionlet.fe i-'t lor 'oik to chidp For what's been done l)c ore them.. Let Whig ana Tory all aorrre To dr-p their l^kigmegrraruni. L"t Whig and Tfery a'! .gree / To spend their days jr. nr. :h &nd glee And ehecrful sing a'.o w'th me 1 he reel of Tullo?hg rum. A HINT.. J " D.ffi rent modes of chpimng eledorj," lays'* Calender, '! have.betrn pursued, The fit ft was by dift,ric\s. Each of these nominated it's own eledW. This was the only fairly and equitiV le method, because it give both fides an equal chance. The second was by a general ticket, and the entire niafs of iutfrages in a (tate w;!s lumped together. Each parjy published a lift of the eledtors whom they wished. to prefer. Put the cafe that a l)a;e contains 30.,c0d citizens. Of these 14,000 votes on the federal, and 16,000 on the other fide. Thus the former are Cut off from all share of influence in the choice, l'hey do nxit make so much as a lingle vote. H.d they voted fepjirately for an e'e&er of their own, so large a minority would have etnrned 6 or 8 out of the whole number of elefUirs." Ihe 1 itter is the mode now ad . -t --- one common level. The proportion of time given to sleep is in some cases more and in others less ; hut upon an average I believe mankind flcep about one third of their lives if not more. SOLITUDE. Many persons have no happier moments than those they pais in solitude. Aban doned to their own imaginations, their ideas are filled with pleasures of intelle&ujl en joyment. Imagination will place sceptres and honor in th v hands of the ambitious, glory and success in the pofft.fli.-n of the warrior, promotion in the view of the as piring, mutual attachment in the expiftati oo of the loves. and even difappoifltment will oAen times find confo'lation in faljtarj reflection ar;d calm retirement. COMPETENCY. "Thedefires of man increase with liis ac qu'fitions. Every one who reads this will feel the truth of the repark ; he will recoi led some point which in profpeft he cenfi dered as the summit of his wishes ; but that point gained, and he still looks farther, to fonaetliing still before him that is is bound his wishes Where neceflity ends luxuiy begins, and we no sooner are fupplled with every thing that nature requires, than we fit down to contrive artificial want 9 and ap petites: and mankind like the grave, will never fay, " It is enough." MEMORY, When an offer was made to Themiftocles, to teach him ihe a t of memory, he answer ed that he would rather wish for the art of forgetfulnefs. In Iriifery and dillrefs it adds no comfort to the mind to refletl on former day.', when the concraft riflng to the view heightens the sense of the present em barraffmenti, and renders them less toler able. It will be more ufeful to (brink from re olledlion, and to look forward to prof pe&s that may brighten ; for there is no ftateof distress ffom whichjHe who holds the destiny of roan, cannot elevate and restore him. To the Editor ■f the Gazette of the United Stales. Sis, B inginform?d by a friend and countryman of «iine('\:i Irish Gentleman) that there, was hii advertiltment made its appearance m your paper a few days ago, offering a reward,.to any one who .l&oiuid return a noggin, of Gin to Jaipor Dwiglit Elq. whom you in a mistake of the prefscall Jal'per Traytor ; and conceiving the publication was pointed at me, as. we Were seen in company, too ther late one evening at a certain public b■ use, winch weans in the habit of frequenting, this isto inform you and the public in gene ra!, that the whole is a bale fabrication of some Miliclous person (no doubt an Aristo crat) with ade/ign to make a breach between my cousin and me as the liquor wascluboed and fairly drunk between us. THE LEARNED PIG. SONG, Written for the 4nuiverfarry of the Liver pool, ( Eng ), MARINE SOCIETY. [Publiftied September 1799; WHAT is life but an ocean, precarious asthofc Which fyrroundi) this terraqueous hall ? is ixan but a bark, often laden with woes, What is death but tfce harSour of all ? On cur pafljge, to-day may bemikl aud fe/cne, And our loftictl canvass be ihewn, While to morrow, fierce tempells may blacken the scone, And our mads by the board may be gone. On life's r- fy rhorn, with a prosperous breeze, We ail oui light fails may difplajr, With a clou I'efs horizon may fwecp at our eafc, And ol sorrow ne*er feel the fait spray . But, c ie wc have reached cur meridian, the gale From the point of ill-fortune may blow. Ana the fun cf our being, all cheerless and pale, May ftt in the wild waves of woe. Experience when bound o'er the turbulent waves Refntmb'-rfl that ills may arise, And with ledulous care, ere the danger he braves, His bark with fparetackle supplies: So y v», or life's ocean, with providentmiad*, Ilavt here a fparv anchor fecur'd, With which, in oefpife of adversity's winds, The helpless wii! one day be moor'd. When the ftrcrg arm o! wicter uplifts the blue miin, And fncw florr.is ant! ship- wrecks abound. When bellow chtck'd 'amine ii.fli&9 the fell pain And the swamp fl ngs deflrudi in around, Wheu the folly of ruUrs embroils embroils human kind, »nd myriad'ure robS'd of their breoth j Thi< wife inttitmion «nay come o'er the mind, And may ioften the pillow of death. she poor widow'd mourner, the sweet prattling throng, And the veteran whose pew»rsare no more,'.; Shall hire find an arm to defend them from wrong, And t« chace meagre want from the r door ; Thi- is tempering tie •win)to tht lamb ne-wty Jbtin, This is following the ant'b prudent wi) s; And, O bjeft Infhtution ! the child yet unborn, With rtf ture fiiall lisp forth thy praise. BY THIS DAY'S MAILS. NORFOLK, July 10. The town of Norfolk bids fair to be the Montpelirr of Virginia. If we can ward off the ellow Fever, which in a great measure depends upon ourielves, at leatl those who rcprtfent us in the Common Hall,property within the borough will eucreafe in a pto portion that will defy the greatest specula tor on chances to calcjlate. Norfolk hath a great l umber of natural advantages, and it would seem a species of ingratitude to the deity, if man did not exert himfelf to give it some artifi ial ones. The reformation of the streets is a work begun ; it is beg 'n by employing workmen to drain the Mgin ftreet ; it is much to be wished however, that the narrow part of streets and alleys Ihould be ktpt clean. Suppose they weie to be guttered immediately, and the inha bitants of these streets, by a bye-law, com pelled to have on each of the lots a large box. wheein the dirt and filth of the hou- fe« fliould be constantly of being thrown in the ftieet, and two carts kept in constant employ, twice a week, to cairy th" fame away, at feme little distance from the town, there to be piled for com pofl ;it would fell at the end'of the year to farmers for enough to defray the expence of the fcavengera ; but if the tQwn were at the expence, it cannot bear a serious re flexion, when placed in the scale against the health of the people. We hare now a Common Hall formed of persons whose charafteri are fucli as to en sure to the tewn a good police, as far as their powers extend. That they will exert those powers we have no right to question. MelTrS. WILLiT O'CoNKOR, 1 ete Jb. rg, "une 30, 1800; Gentiemf.n, I Observe in your paper of the 26th a paragraph under the Richmond head, Ha ting thai there has been 25,000 hogsheads of Tobacco received at the infpeftions of this place this year ; that information is said to come from gentlemen, wnofe pur suits in life enable them to form a C9rfe& judgment ; it these £>entl pursuits" than in this, they are poor judges iHdeed ; for to my certain knowledge on the 2jft of M y, there was only 16 220 hngfheads taken, and since tha date, there cannot be received more than 12 or 1500 hogsheads in addition, which makes your gentlemen's statements erroneous by 7,210 hogsheads. CANDOR. Nearly one half of what is taken is yet in the ware-houses. IpTF* A Special Meeting of the Philadel phia Fire afTociation, -will be held at Crtr penters Hall', on Fiiday the 18J1 instant, at half past (even o'clock, in the evening. TAMES MILNOR Scc':y. J»'y is- j Gazette Marine Lift, | No arrivals at the fori. , 1 Brig Beaver, Elliot, from tenet has been fpeken oft t.ape Florida, out thirty fix days, boupd to Havanna, ' Brig John, Atkins, from heree to Lis bon, yvas spoken the 22d ultimo, in latitude 43, 10, N. bngtitude 57, 30, W.atlwell 1 —out seven days. —• V ' Capt. Flinn, of the (hip Fame failed from Leghorn in company with the (hip Maria, j Tho.npfon, of and far Philadelphia and fev j eral others. Left Gibraltar 20th of May | with a fltet. Same day spoke the United ; States • brig Sophia, Smith, for \ hiladeJ j phia, 27 days from Algiers ; saw her thro' ; the gut. July 4, 28, go, N. long. 67, jgo W. spoke the brig Eliza,, Pendleton, from New-York to Jamaica, 20 days out, all well., July 8, lat. 36, 21, N long. 72, 30, f oke the Hoop Rambler, Gallaway for St. Thomas, out 3 days, all .well, from Philadelphia' July 10, in lat. 38, co, long 73, 00, W. spoke the brig Friend ftiip, O'Connor, from Philadelphia for St. Sebastians out 2 days, all well. Two inward bound ships were in fight of New Cattle this morning. Exlraft of a Letter fom captain Cu'ver, of the brig Nancy, at Cape Franco". Ob the :3d of June, fprkethe schooner Success, captain Charles Johnson, in the Turks Island Paflage, ont 25 days from Philadelphia. NEW YORK, Jnly ifr sir rived, Schr. Betfty, Johnson, Wilmington 7 Cornelia, Barpeit, Baltimore C eared, Brig Sally, Andrews, New Oilcr.no Schr. Nancy, Redfern, Halifax Brig Eliza, Dtiinifon, ha 3 arrived at St. Croix. Ship Hercules, Breath' has arrived at Batavia. Yeilerc'ay arrived flo p Lovina. Storms,, St. Croix, 14 days. On the paflage fpeke the big Amelia, Sinyvcrfant, sri m St, Sebastians for Baltimore, out 70 days. BALTIMORE, Tuly 15. Arrived this day, Schooner Polly cant. Myrick, 14 days from the Havani a,.-' 5 he schooner Vlonericf, capt. Pearfe, of Balti more, failed two days before us. Left there the bi/g Hunter, Edwards, and fdhorner Nitnrod. Hamilton, and Nymph, Ml. fly, belonging to Baltimore. Spoke the brigs Union, of Biiflon, and Beave , of Philade phia, off Cape Florida, out 36 days, bound to the Havanna. A schooner in the bay bound up. %* A fbt d meeting of the Arrferican PbilolopWcal S cicty, will be Iteld at their Hall on Friday ginning the 181 h inftan •., at fix o'clock. J'- SEPH CLAY, Secretary. N. B. New Members will be balloted for. July 17, iBco £3= THE member* ol the Society oftlie Sons of St. George. at PK!.Kii-ij>hu,'far the aflillance of l igl lhwcn in diflrefc, are r„quefteif ' to attend a quartet y meeting at tf u faij «ccicty, at the City favcrn. on Wedntfday the 13d day of July, at 7 o'clock in rhe evening. GEO D\vP!,Scc r ry. N B Several rrcmbtrs to hi ballottcci for. July 16 TO CARPENTERS. FOR SALE, On Saturday next, at 5 o'clock in the afterr.odcr, at No. if' 9 Chefnut fireet, Al Frame Building, About 80 feet long and jo bruad, with iivtral glal's i'afhe;- IT bas been hcrstc f re u'V-5 as a Primirtg Office ; it f.anis back in the yard of No. 119, Cf.tfnut flreet, where it can he fccn .'t a- Nepu*'s Ferry, at Markrt flrett, a reward us f :ur Dol his will be pai>i July r NOTICE. ~ ■ "TTTHr-UE rrv witV. Margaret Connor, VV has'- bfentert Itetfelf from my bed and board, v ithout »cy j'ifl oayfe. 1 hereby for warn all periVins from HarHoilririg nr ce,Siting her on uiv accorirvt, a-1 ■!'?>