WHK Gazette of the United States. PHILADELPHIA, WFDNESDAV F.VKNIKC, jvi.\" JO. FHICKS OF STOCKS. VatUDtLran, J»LT t per C«m Stock for cafb icri Jaf p. tl. tt;i pis L'cut. do, 84 a<< Navy do. . do, 84 «gj Tfcrce per Cut. do. jl\ Del'e«red, '.' Jo. 81J B \N'tC Uiiite l do. 30 PcnnffWaaia, dv. if - North Amenta, d-i. 46 Infuranji comp. N. A. (hares 8 to 10 per cent, below par. Pennsylvania, (hare v* J per cent. zAt, Baft-India Company, of N. A. 7 percent advance Land Warrants, 2 J dolls, per 100 acn>s. COURSE OF EXCHANGE Bifison Lon. at 30 days for caSh 171 per ct. Do. do. 60 days < do. 170 do. Do. do. 90 days do 169 Bills on Hamburgh at 60 days 36 a 37 cts. per Mark Banco Da. in. Amsterdam, 60 days 39 a 40 cts. per florin. 6C7-> The Boflon Papers, due by this days Mail, have not been received ; scarcely a mail arrives that we are not deprived of either a N. Y. or Boflon Paper, it is a se rious inconvenience to the Editor. To Reaiif.rs and Correspondents. We have given to " Viator" a place in the firft.rjnk of Correspondents. We hope that we, lhall hive frequent oppoi tuiiit'its of iufcrting the efTays of a fenlible man anil corredl writer, wnom we delight to honor. We exult tli.it he employs his excellent archery against that naufioas, and impure and vulgar diflion, which has no authority in the British' Classics, and whjch a weak and presumptuous Diciiovarj maker is a bout to perpetuate in a vdume, \vh.,fe title ought to be a " Record of the blunders, and a monument i>f the vulgarity of American stile, and of the disgrace of the country." The Editor, like his cor respondent " Viat r," wishes to be {killed, in no other choice or combinations of words, than those which are derived from the coun try of his ancestors, rnd which constitute the English (lite. He is fatisfied with Bo lingbri ke and Burks and with Addison and Goldsmith. Let pthers make a new lan guage from the colloquies of our Clowiu, from the drawling cani of provincial idioms and the turbid oratory of a Town meeting. " An Obl'erver" fliall be observed in our paper, in a few days. The crowd of matter excludss him only for the prefen't. The Editor is fortunate in obtaining from an obliging and classical friend several very beautiful pieces of original poetry. As soon as we can tranferibe his manuscripts, We flr.ll gratifiy the Public, cccaHonalty, wifli lays tuneful, correft, and elegant. We are much obliged to an attentive cor relporidint for the ufeful loan of an inter esting book from a Calcutta press. Selec tions from this work, relative to the poli tics of India, shall be promptly made, and the requilition of .our friend punctually an fwe red. - IMPORTANT. A letter from Captain Richard Gardner, of the (hip Hazard of Salent, MafT. dated Teperiffe, May 27, informs: Thn he has seen and converted with the captain of a French national biij, wliich had been chiifed in there, direct from Bird, bound to the llle of France, who informed, tnat Peace had been concluded between Fiance and America ; that the American flag was flying at Brest ; that Tits orders were pa> t ctilc.r not to interrupt unarmed Neutrals, i. e. veflel* without Commissions, and positive, not to moled any Amer : can fliip whatever ; and that Prize velTels been purchased -ipby the Africans at the diflff-rent ports in France, in order, it was supposed, to come home in. This intelligence the French Captain certified in the presence of the new French Consul (who'Capt. Gardner speaks of in refpeflable terms) to be the truth ; v and the Consul affixed the Seal of the Re public to the Declaration, and gave it Capt, Gardner, brig left Bred about the tad of April or the fird of May, was bound to the Isle of France with new Commilfion ers and Dispatches from the Fird Consul. which the Conimillioners a Berks County, on Mo. day, the 29th Sept. Dauphin 6th Odt. Northumberland 13th do. Lycoming 2gth do. By Judges Vcates and Smith, , In Franklin County, on Monday, 29th Sept. Slnißfftt Tuefllay, 7th Oft. F-.yefe Monday, 13th do. Wjfliiiigtort do. 26th do. .Allegheny, do. 27 b (so. Welimorthnd do, 3d Nov. Bedford do. icth da. Oil Monday 1 ift, a peiTon who Intd taken loJgingi at tit? llgn of the Sv.'Bn, 111 TlfiisJ ftreet, made an attempt on his liir. He h:is iiiice been cfiniex! to the Pennfylvar.ia Hofjjical, where he Ji a very iil. In the city of New-York, there were fifty Deaths, from the 2.3i.h'to tlx s7 ch July —Ot whom there were 9 men, 3 wcuitn. and 38 children. A P rfon qafliiij l-unifeM" Balev, lately from Ireland "took' the liberty of carrying aw*y_a Gentleman'? Trunk as his own, from the Stage office in N. Yi—lie had proceeded 30 miles on his way to this city, when the Huge was overtaken J>y the owner of the trunk, who claimed and received it, Mr. B ! a;l now another name and el'caped detec tion. [7l is fAlniv was mi his Iray to Penn sylvania—l iv ,ndcr whether /it bad beard. ifSiever's appointment. J At Elk Ridge, and Annapolis, M. meet ings of the people have been held at d the different Candidates for Elefto'rs of Prefi dentard Vice President attended a Mr. Duval and Colonel Mercer, warmly advo cated Mr. JefJVrfon, and attempted to prove tlie neeeffity of turning Mr. Adams out. Our worthy old Friend Adams was advo cated by the honourable Samuel Chafe, who pr ved that the meafuresjof the present ad miniflratiou were conceived in wisdom, and exetutsd with firinrefs, uprightness and abi lity— that the path laid down by Wafhing tonhad been faithfully purfueiJby Adams ; and that the latter had done all that could be done, and no more, to from abroad and tranquility at home. He was much applauded. DISD,] —at Augusta, on the nth ind. Copmodore OLIVER BOWEN.' At Raleigh N. G. the infant daugh ter of Henry Potter, Elquire. At Fayeiteville, Mrs. Susanna R jwaV, relict. of the late Colonel Robert Rowan, and Mother of Wm. B Grove, Esq. Near Fayetteville, Mr. Robert Greer brother to the deceftfed Mrs. Rowan. A memoiial has been presented by the merchants and Planters of the Bririlh Weft- Ittdies, to the Chancellor of the Exchequer complaining of the measure which withholds, upon the re-export of lugar, part of the du ty levied upon its import into the King doms ; at a time too, when that duty was accumulated to a degree which, a few years ago Would not have been thought credible. They deprecate the impending danger of a redudtion df the drawbacks on sugar, when ever its average price lhall for a short period have exceeded 7° Shillings per cwt. duty included, at the British market ; an average price not hereby secured to the celouift, but stated as a m ximum and which maximum is yet a price inadequate, under all the con tingent chatges of war, to fuppovt the plan tations. They farther (late the unequal, and to them injurious, operation of the different modes in which the duty on sugar imported from the Weft Indies, and on that from the East-Indies is refpedtively levied ; being cal culated, in the latter cafe, on the aflual va lue at markt t ; in the former cafe, on the quantity, rcgardlefs of quality and value. They conclude by relying on his Majcf t) 's minister to alleviate, as far as pofßhle the weight of that high duty, by recom mending to Parliament a continuance of the bonding fyflem, and also a redu&ion of the duty on such sugar, a3 may,' for a limited time, be consumed in the diUilleries ; and that they will also, for a limited time, au thor,ze the free use of sugar in the brew eries ; and fugged, as the only certain means of securing to them, at all times that protesting duty, to which as colom'lls they are entitled, that an uniform cf levy ing the refpe&ive duties, either upon value or open quantity, (hall be adopted. That contemplating the return of peace and the low prices that mull bcconfequent thereon, they cannot but view with the moll serious alarm a disproportion which in that cafe will operate permanently againtt them, and prove entirely subversive f that pro tsftion and preference at the home market which Great-Britain has pi dged to her colonies. XNSco.rt or Mb. Jo ok Howard, When the benevolent Howard visited the Imp-riil Dominions, he had an interview with the Emperor Joseph the second. In the courl'e as their converfatiou, the Eng lishman expatiated largely on the conifort lefs and pernicious date of the Austrian and Hungarian prifors, and the (hocking (itua t.on ot the prisoners. The Emperor who valued him'felf 011 a code of penal laws, more efficacious, and less sanguinary, than the Englifli, was nettlad, and repli-d,'• I don't use them worse than you do in England, where you hang them up by dozens at a time." <> Very true " replied Howard, '• but permit nle to allure your Ms jetty, that I would rather be bunged in England, than Ihe in your German Dungeons." He soon took leave : "in truth," said his Majefly, '• this little Englilhman is no flatterer." We. hear from Nantes, that one of the powder magazines of the 'castle has blown up, and orcafioned so great an expolGon that several of theneighboarln houses were thrown down, and a four pounder was dri ven as far as the ;oof of. the house of the ci devant Canrjciites. Fortunately the o ther r.agaziuM were not touched. 'Phe lofa by tiy'a txph fion is incalcu lable. Many people pcriflied or werewoati ded. Judicious Piayers, in poflVtfion of Genius, Talie, and Elocution, have in every age re ceived tin; app'.aules of. the multitude, and enjoyed the patronage and approbation of wife and cJit'c-rnji.ft- meif. Koscius was prailcd by Cicero, a(id to Garrick Johnson was a friend, mid Bvt.k a patron. Even.ip the hvftoiy of our American arid Infant Stage, fope names may .1 e found, which the lovers of the mimic fce.iie will love to repeat, and foine performers, who'A adting .will si. ways be admired. Among this cL.fs are Messrs. Barrett and Hodckinson, who, in the opinion of the bed critics, are at the head of their prolefiioii. We hope that tc-iv.rtrrow evening, the united powers of Humour, Sentiment, and Sor>g, will attrad a liberal audience, and that Genius and Merit will meet a reward. A French Artill h-.s irtventetfr-a methpd of making candles without wax or tallow, and a CommiHary the (till more ufefulone of making ivbea:en bread without Jlvur. A hivv has pasTed the Legislature of Maf fachulttto, tinpuwiring the inhabitants of the town of'Salem in that state, to eftabiith a Board of Health. As Boadicea was making her appeal to tlie Britons the other riljfljt at Sadlers Wells and exhorting them to follow her agailift the enemies of their eonntry, when flisceme to '■'■l'll be djm'a if yon, do !" cried an horeft Tar, trying to get frpm the gallery to the fhge, " here Jack let us go dnd we 11 shew 'em as tight work cs we did under lis honour Admiral Ne'j n."~.thegreateft proof ot the excellence pi an entertainment which could To far intercft the pafiions of a fpefta tor, as to betray .him- into an idea of its being a reality } and we believe proofs of this natUie are not all unfreque-nt in the Theatrical World, particularly at seaports, where our Tars are in their element. BA.SSATERRF., (St. Chris. On Monday the United-States Frigate, Constellation, Captain Murray, artived from jftmeric^. The Brig Eagle has brought in a large schooner from Guadalcupe * and many French Privateers and Re Captures h«ve been fnt in this week by the U. S. Ships of War. Yeflerdny about 70 vessels failed from this for the U. 8. under convoy of the A dams, R. V. Morris, commander, and brig Scammel, Capt. Fernald. A re captured Amtfrican brig, with a val uable cargo of Flour, was sent in ycftcrday by oue of his Maj;fiy's /hips. A cartel sloop. with French prifon crs, failed on Satflrday from hence for Guad< aloupe ; and oa Tuffday a csrtd schooner, which .carried 79 French fcr Guadaloupe on Friday, returner with 31 Americans in exchange ; as did the above (loop ailo, with 51 Americans* A vague report is in circulation of the capture of the Packet, Pvincefs Amelia, Captain Stephens, that failed from he ct for Europe on the 7th of April last, but we' have every reaf: n : to believe the account is premature. Rum Sugir Coffee Cocoa Caflor Oi!, and » . FRUIT, Just received per the :Lop. Supply Jrom KhgStOn, j.AHAICA, FOR SAIE BY Thomas & Peter Mackie. ♦ , - ~ l - '■ t Who bnvc- on hand, OKI Madeira Wine, fit (cr inmodijte ufc, • Pipe 6 of Old Port Wine, and ic© Bags Eift India Sugar, 3:c. Ju»y 30. djt€ost Just Imported, In tbe ship Kensington, from London, and for sale by Joseph 8c James Cruklhank, N-. 87, High-Rtrect, A luminary of universal Hifkry, exhibiting the use, Decline, and Revolutions of tht different Na tions of the world, from the Creation to the prc ffnt time, 9 vols. 8 vo. trar.flated from the French of M Anguctil . Travels through the Uwi'ed States of America, the Country of the Ircqowis, spd Upper Canada, with an authentic account of Lowtr Canada by the Duke de la Rochefoucault Lia'nccurt a vols, 4 to. Memoirs i dative t» Egypt written in that coun try during (he campaigns of General Buonaparte in (he years 1798 anl x 79.9. Public Characters of. 1798—99 —18:0 1 Vols Bvo. A Voyage to the East Wifscpctain'ng an ac count of the manners, Cuftonu &c cf the Na tives with a Geographical defcript on of the country by FraPaoleno dafan Butolomeo. The annual NeciWegy of 1797, 8 including also various articles of negletfed Biography. Watkins Uuiverfal Biographical and Hiftjri cal Dictionary. Walpoliana 3 vols. A Digested Index to the seven voluri.es of Term Reports by l ! - E- Tomkins • Mavors Natural Kiflory for the use ofSi J oo!s The Britift) Nepos or Mirror of youth con 6fling of ftletfl lives of Illufinotis Britons, by William Mivor. L. L.D. Pair's. May 31. Pocfns 011 various fuV.jeits feleCled to enfprse the praflics of virtue Scc.bv £• Tomkin*. Moires Navigation 14th Edition enlarged. Nautical Almanacks fer 1801 July 30. eadit THEATRICAL. From a Late Lond.n Paper. If your breails conceal ane coward care, Alone I go AN ASSORTMENT OF BOOKS AND STATIONARY, Amongst which ate the following NEW BOOKS: POLITICAL. [We sic gratified by tfie receipt of the fol lowing acute Eifay. The correspondence of'the Author' will be grateful to the' Editor.] For the Gazette of the United States, SB. WATNi, I HE prtece I.abided you by young T. M'Kean, in defence of his father, for fctting a convitted thief in tiie l'tcred feats of Ju!- tice, is so truly contemptible in maiiner and matter, that it is but loft labor to make * fer'ous reply to it ; yet, to let it pass with out obfervution, might feeni to some, to be yielding to its force. This ridiculous jargon to prove that a m?.n convicted of robbing a -(tore may nevertheless be a " respectable citizen" and worthy to set in judgment over the honest citizens of Pennsylvania, begins with some confufed nonsense about A. B. C. and D. Bcc. about as iwuch to the purpole as the intrigues of X. Y. and Z. Let us .mend tu such parts of this per formance, in which the wi iteraffeifts anargu meiv't. It is firft very seriously objefled that the u r ter in the Lmicafter paper again 11 the Governor and his friend Stever, is in fafl n» Republican, but a mere pretender to that honor : This indeed may hurt his credit and influence with your (launch Jacobin Repub licans, but cannot deflroy the invincible evi dence of an unalterable record, which de clares to ns, and will continue to declare to all posterity, that Stever was convicle'd of Larceny, by the verdift of twelve of his peers, legally and impartially summoned to pas? between him and his country, and de livering their veididt under the l'olemn im prefiion. of an oath, pledging them to their country and to their God for a true verditt, according to their evidence. It is dated that " Judge Tales asser(t" in a petition ta the Executive Council, that the alibi of Stever was proved by three wit nefies. Let it firfl be ricolle£led that Judge Yates was no Judge then, and ailed not as a Judge, but as a Lawyer, engaged, I sup pose, to render every service in his power to his client, for which, I presume, this respec ted atizen and hi?ocy respecla'.L friends am ply rewarded him. Mr. Yates, therefore, drawing a petition as an Attorney, to obtain mcij:y for his guilty client, cannot be consi dered as pledging his veracity to the con tents cf this petition, which is to be iigned by the client and not by him. But does this petition bring forward any thing new in fa vor of Stever—Certainly not—lt merely dates Certain evidence, which was heard, and I dare fay, fully urged at bis * trial. If the proof of this pretended alibi had been disco vered after the trial, it might indeed furnilh an argument favorable to the convift. But as it was fully and fairly heard from the mouths of the witnefles themfclves, by the coprt and jory, it must be prefunxd it was duly conlidered and jtiflly compared with the other teflirrtony, and fatisfaclorily disproved by that testimony ; or the man would have been acquitted ; < therwife tjiat Jury is per jured, which is the only manner in which Stever can be purifird. If this ali i was f.> clearljr proved, and the verdicl unjullly given againfl it, why did not Mr. Yates, wlipfc profeffionr.l zeal and talents are well known, movei the, Ccurt for a new Trial, which under such circumft.ances could not have been denied. Tl is was the true way to wipe away the slain of the convi3ion, whereas a Pardon but prevents the puni(h ment without cleanfiag, the criminal. His back escapes but his name is loft—lnfamy covers his chrracler, although h-kcarer,fe .is Ipared from the la(h. A third juflificatioti of Stever is that Jie received 3 pardon on the petition of three or four hundred Petitioners—And is this a proof"of innocence in Peenfylvania ? Ex amine the recotds, of the gaoj, and fee if more than one third of all the convidled rogues, thieves, murderers and traitor-, do not, iH fi>me flage of their punifhmfrnt, re ceive pardons, and many of them on more mime'rous petitions than Mr. Stever boafls < f—Petitions may be i-.htained for any thing, however at>furd or pernicious.—See the gangs of convi&cd Democrats, which the difinterened humanity of his present Excrf lency has let loose upon society, to exercise their democratic vocation;, and fay, are they therefore innocent, refpe&able and fit for Justices.—The fhnmeful exercise of the purd.ming power has a&ually become one of the heavifft grievances the (late labours un der, and threatens a total contempt of the laws and the ruin of all honesty. The wri ter of M'Kenn's defence pretends that eleven of the jury were in favour of Stiver, and"but one against him. Idle stories of the deli berations of Juries are frequently propaga ted, but feldqm correft. At this distance of time, a story so grossly improbable, and so difgraceful to the Jury should not be countenanced, without direst proof. On their oaths, those twelve men, in the open court of their country, arid in the awful pre sence of their God, have declared Stever guilty of the larceny of which he was in difled ; and so he remains and so he must and will ren ain, should a thouf'.nd Repnb lican Governors give him a thousand offices, and ten thouf.ir.d humble defenders of every outrage of those Governors, alien hits in nocence. Let the names and reputation then of this Stever anct his patron M'Kean, be hereafter forever blended together. I did sot furnifh you with the ftatemtnt of the conviftion, :>nd never heard of it un til it vras published ; but the evasion of the charge is so paltry and palpabie, that I have ; hastily fltetched these remarks to expose it. DECENCY. EDEWTON, W. C. jtfy- > ArrivfJ. Schrt, So Flower, Tillet t, - N<*» York' Good JToicrrt, P«ynV Phitidrt* v i '» Cph*' ■— Jofep'i, Bonnar, . Laiiilia, Toler, cleared. Hannah, Cratch, Philadelphia. Dolphin, Etheridge, Baltimore: The sloop Cares, Carpentet, has just arrivedi Gazette PORT OF PHILADELPHIA. - ARRIVED. Days' Sthr. Clar:fl"a, Daniel, N. Carolina § Lumber, to capt. do 6 Edna, Bell, do (5 Paragon, Geyer, Baltimore 8 Sugar, to capt: John, Bator?, Norfolk. 4 Hour and pork, J. Lcarny. YVafliington, Trefitlien, Portfinoutli, N. H. sundries, to capt. Nancy & Peggy, T-ylor," N. Carolin:r6 CLEARED. Ship RoeSucl;, RalVr, Loi.don Hamburg Sloop Amity, Woodward, Portfmcuth, n h Ann, Saivfls, Nurfoik Arrived at the Fort. Sclir. Aiidrew, M'Gregor, Tcneviffs [Wines —M. Keeley. Came up from the 'or t, Ship Fame, Flinn, Leghorn Brig Fame, Brown, N. Orleans Sloop Blanch, Pilt, Turks Ifiand Ship Abigail, from New-Yorkto Ham burgh, is taken and sent for Halifax, by che St. Alban's, Britilh man of war, plea, hav- * irig no bill offale or charttrparty on board. Ship AQive, days from Li/bon Philadelphia, was fpoktn the. 21 ft ins- it) lat. 41,00, N, long. 67, 41, W. Schr. Fly, Palmer, of and for N. York, from St. Sebafttans, has been condemned at Halifax, velTcl and cargo, a3 French pro- Letter Bags at lie CnJfa Eoufe- Boston Packet, for Cowes, cn Tuesday next, 5 1h Augult. i Rose, Jones, for Liverpool, ditto. Elizabeth, Dyer, Hamburg, ditto. Volant, Hovey, London, ditto. Marshal's Sale. United States, ? Pennsylvania District, y PURSUANT to a writ to me frrjn (lie Honorable Riikttd Peters, Esquire, Jodge of tli- Piflridl C urt of the United States in and for the Pennfylvaiiia DiilriSl, will be ex posed to publicise, at the Merchintj' Coffrc- Honfe in the city of l-hiladelphia, on Saturday the 9th day oi Augult next, at u o'clbck it norm, The armed French Velfrt, ci.lea Ap§£ La Leger, Villi ail and her apparel, and appurtenances, the latrn eanffiSiilSe having been la'e'y condemned in the said Court as forfeited, &c. JOHN HALL, Marshal. Marfcal's Offiie, \ July 30, ißco i For Halifax, Nova-Scotia, The St hjOner m&u Success, Gearge Cook) Mailer ; Now lyiuj* at tVe firft wl.arf above Market ftrret—She his excellent accommodations fee paflenfers. For freight or paflage app'y to the Cssptain WILLIAM RAT, Market Itreet wharf. July 30 Now Landing, And for sale by the subscribers, Ijo PIPES OF Lisbon WINE. JESSE CS" ROBEIIT WALN. diw July 30 Just Received, Br A. LICKINS, opjusife Christ Church, & View at THE CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES 0 1 r THE American Revolution, In Nineteen Discourses. Rev. Jonathan Boucher, A. M. F. A. S. Price 2 Dollars 50 Cents. July 30. Loft, JHE undttrmmrioned Certificates of Ftock of I lie Ba".k of the United Slates, viz. No. 38c4,da ! eil Ift Ju'v 1796, for teri fliarea in the 1 line of Charles Lovrgr ve of New.- York. No. »sj»j —No. 25-21. doted id' July, jjaiV, for five (hares eich in the narr.e of Saiah kVrdt>eu(o 1 o! Etr..rb. No. »"8c8 — dated. Ifl Jat.uarv, ißor-. fortm fturrteach, in >hahar:ie of Henry Waddington, Merchant, London. Notice is -hereby gk'S'U That application is Hit ended t.i lie trade at the Oid liankVv t&{ |jl fcfibwt, ft r a rehe val of the fame, ct whtcW ail prrfaiM concerned are recpified rrvtckf '' tic.". WADDING I'OM ir KARVVOOD. ' H''!i(2e!j.'hi;>, J' 'v "Cj :Sco. finvfjm " U/ New-York. ditto," .«* •' M .V • Vi;:-* •A->, "f, >» •• * sK mwf ts -i t t \r». *• ?*• f ' v \ 0 * / ■ji ■ -■ > ' *