Gazette of the United States.
PHILADELPHIA,
WEDNESDAY KVKNIMG, OCTOBER 22.
The Seleft and Common Councils of
the city met yesterday morning for the
piirpofe of electing a Mayor. The fuf
frages of the members being duly taken,
it appeared th*t they were unanimously
for the re-eleftion of our worthy fellow
citizen, ROBERT WHARTON, Esq.
which being immediately fignified to
him, he made a communication to the
two Council's, of which the- following is
a copy:
Philadelphia, Oclo. 21, 1800.
SIR,
PERMIT me through you to com
municate to the Seleft and Common
Councils, my acknowledgment for the
additional mark of their esteem, by a
gain electing of me, to the important
office of Mayor of this city.—Whilst I
feel, Sir, the strongest sense of obligation
for xheir partiality,; I am compelled by
private considerations to decline the ap
pointment, the duties whereof are ex
tremely 4rduous, and too confining for
my health, or convenience.
In thus retiring in a considerable de
gree from public employment, I can
with truth aver, that the general good
of society has been my firft objeft ; and
although in many instances I may have
erred in my official capacity, yet I hope
they will be viewed as they really were,
" errors of the head and not of the
heart."
With great regard, I remain,
Sir,
Your sincere friend,
ROBERT WHARTON.
Henry Pratt, Esquire,
President of the Seleft Council.
The Councils then proceeded in a se
cond election and unanimously elected
John Ins Keep, Esq. Mayor of the City
of Philadelphia—a committee were ap
pointed to wait on Mr. Infkeep, to in
form him of his election, and request to
know of him if he would serve.
On report being made, that Mr. Infkeep
accepted the office, a joint committee
was appointed, consisting of Abijah
Dawes,Andrew Bayard, Thomas P.Cope,
and James Milnor, Esquires, to present
the Mayor eleft to tlit Governor, to be
qualified according to law.
The following Resolution was then
agreed to UNANIMOUSLY, by the
two Councils :
Resolved that the thanks of the Citi
zens of Philadelphia, be prelented to the
late Mayor, Robert Wharton, Esq. for
his vigilant, independent, just and ho
norable discharge of the arduous duties
of his office.
Resolved, that the Presidents of the
Select and Common Councils, be re
quested to make the above resolution
known to Mr. Wharton.
Communication.
On Monday evening we were favored
with the Comedy of the " Will or
School for Daughtersand the " Critic,
cr a Tragedy rehearfedi" When Miss
Weftray, from the New-York Theatre,
made her firft appearance in the charac
ter of Albinn Mandeville; though this
lady chose a very arduous part, the vi
vacity which Ihe generally displayed
throughout the performance, was ex
teedingly pleasing, and fully entitled
her to the applause she received.
Mrs. Shaw, in Mrs. Rigert, gave ge
neral fatisfa&ion ; but there is nothing
of consequence in the character to do
justice to that lady's well known abili
ties.
Mr. Hopkins must have studied the
art of knocking at a door with great at
tention, we should be happy to fee this
gentleman turn his abilities to objects of
greater magnitude*—Did he think him
felf of less consequence, than he does,
liis playing would be more pleasing.
The hint we gave to a " certain per
former has not been taken notice of—
if he attends to it, the advantage will be
obvious.
The play in general was well fupport
ed —We think, however, that Mr. Coop
er, in some of the feenes, did not enjoy
that cafe, which the charafter requires.
Mr. Bernard's Puff,\ was a very natur
al one, but had he puffed his two friends,
Dangle and Sneer, in anyother characters
he certainly would have o'erfteped the
bounds of veracity.
For the Gazette Of the United StJtes.
PROCLAMATION.
By his Serene High nets, the Redoubtable
Ifut', Prince of Vain Hopes, Marquis of
all the Barratrarias, Major-general at pre
sent, and Generaliffiino expedient, on the
Meditated and intended change of gov
ernment when it takes effect.
WHERAS nothing can better eflahlifh
the permanency of any Government more
than a reciprocity of nfTe&ion and love, fub
lifting between the head thereof and its mem
bers ; and it being aght, jull, and befitting
a Prince of true v«lour, and no ways degra
ding or iuconliflent with his dignity or re
nown, gratefully to acknowledge and confeis
the love and favor of his fffbjedls at anytime
manifefted towards turn. BE it therefore
made known and authenticated to all people
by these prefects, that we out of our prince
ly grace and favour, and from our cert in
knowledge and mere motion, have thought
fit to express our grateful fcnfe of, and the
high regard which we entertain for our lov
ing lubjefts, by reason of their utianimousex
altation of our felf to the Chair, at a late de
mocratic meeting at Slab Town, held on the
20th of September last, aad in copfideraticn
thereof, we do give unto our truly and well
beloved St. Thomas and his foil Amos, our
hand offellowlhip ; they by their exertions
in our princely favor having jullly merited
the fame. And for th»fe hnd other good
causes and considerations, us thereunto mo
ving, we do for us, our heirs and fucceflors,
invert thein with our inoft noble order of the
garter, being a ribbon of yellow colour, in
scribed with theft words in black letters,
" dctettion, convifli«n, rejeftion, male
diftion." To have and to hold the laid
honor and dignity to theni the said Thomas
and Aruos, and the heirs male, of their and
ouch of their bodies (being peculators) for
ever, and for want of such male heirs, arfor
lack of due qualification, to sustain and en
joy the said honourable appointment, we, of
our further princely favour, da confirm and
grant unto the other sons of the said Tho
mas, to wit, Samuel and James and their
male heirs, as aforefaid forever, the honor,
aforefaid, on the condition aforefaid, with
all rights and immunities to the fame be
longing. And we of our !urther princely
will do declare, that in all courts whatsoever
throughout our vast and extended visionary
dominion, this our charter of honor confer
red as aforefaid, lliall be expounded again!!'
us and our fucceflors in favor of the said pa
tentees. And we of our further princely
will do also declare and make knowp, that
to take away all (lain or blemiih from our
laid loving and highly deserving fubjeAs,
Thorhas and Amos, we will in convenient
and proper time cause all the records of the
Supreme Court at Trenton, and of the Uni
ted States, touching the ingenuity of our
said loving lubjetts to be erased, and the
names, of those juft.ces and the prosecutors
of our said loving fiibje&s, whocaufed such
records to lie made, to be held up to overlay
ing infamy and contempt. And we also of
our further princely will and favor, do make
known unto all pec foils literate our peculiar
esteem for all other our loving fubje&s who
have been contributing in any manner to our
princely exaltation, er aiding us in our el
ectioneering purposes and schemes, whether
by writing any sophisticated or lying piece in
our tavor, or those whom we have thought
fit to recommend corretting and superintend
ing the press, printing, circulating or pub
lishing the said pieces or writing's in any
manner whatloever, and that none of our de
serving fubjefls in all their labours, civil,
political, religious or otherwise may br un
noticed, we do hereby make honourable men
tion of Ifuf, furnanied Do-little, heretofore
colonel of a regiment ; Eftevan our prime
Secretary, and would-br colonel of cavalry ;
Tony Tool our bladder-blower; Doftor John
our physician in ordinary, and liberal Tom
my our plain Quaker looking friend, not on
ly for their munificence, manifefted at a for
mer democratic meeting .held at Julius
Town, in paying the club of all thole who
attended that meeting at their request in fa
vor of us and our recommended friends, but
for their intense fludy of Tom Paine's Age
of Rtafon, and unwearied induflry in the
propagation of the Heavenly dodlrine con
tained in the fame ; but in a more particu
lar manner we are indispensably bound to
mention that comfortable religious opinion
introduced by our said physician in ordinary,
from his own country, that death is an eter
nal sleep—a sentiment if well speculated on,
by either ourfelf or any of our truly loving
fubjefks, may enable us to attempt and ac
complilh all things however difficult »r
dreadful. Such essential services to us atld
our extend-d and visionary principality in
religious affairs actomplifh d by such adepts,
aided by the elaborate refearche6 of the Vir
ginian pfeilofopher, cannot be too highly ef
ti mated.
Asd we promise on the word of a prince
that as soon as ourgovernmentfhall get into
full operation and we are fixed in the saddle
of Hate, we will reward Tommy with an in
crease of his eight per cent. Stock, and such
of his coadjutors as by their idleness, extra
vagance, or improvident manner ot living
have become needy. We will give such pe
cuniary aid as to be on a footing with the
mod favoured of our loving fubjedts. And
we out of our princely indignatioh cannot
forbear fignifyiag our stern displeasure at
such chicken-hearted persons, who unmind
ful of our clemency towards them, in ap
i pointing them as corresponding committees,
; have not only receded from thole honourable
; appointments, but to the degradation and
I debasement of us. and our loving fubjecls,
have certified their dilapprobation of such
our appointments and retufyl to ad under
, them, as appears to our confulion and mor
i tification in the public ncwfpapcrs.
Provided' always'nevertheless That if it
ftould so happen that (contrary to our san
guine expe£\ation)thofe who bear rule flionld
by the aid of their loyal and dutiful fubje&s
abhorring our French principles of liberty
and equality) defeat all ourfchemes and thro'
their aristocratic laws occalion us and our
faithful adheit-nts to be suspended between
Heaven and Earth, or circumferibed with
in the walls of a Penitentiary House—thin
and in that cafe, or in cafe of similar ailal
ters all the gifts and favors of honor, wealth,
or preferment herein held topth, (hall be ab
solutely Void and of none effedt, any thing
heroin contained to the contrary notwith
fta tiding..
Given at our Palace in the delegable if
latid near Matinicunk the sixth day of the
fii ll moon ot' our ideal exaltation, vulgarly
called O&ober, and sealed with our linnet,
containing our armorial bearings, to wit,
on a field mottled or party coloured, en
circled by flames, a Cherron Or, bearing
near its acute point the Holy Bible, couch
aiVt, bound down and fattened with an iron
chain—Crell, Paine's Age of Real'on in the
mouth of a Dragon; rampant, with a label
llrestming from bis mouth,inferibed with the
fo]lpyving words, " Comtf li(le« to me
lupporters—oll the dsxter fide, Balaam, i. e.
swallowing or devouring the people, on the
fintfler, Allaroth, each of their temples bound
with fillets of burning Brimstone, motto—
Mit other God, save moniy.
By command of his Highness,
ESTEVAN, Secretary.
Extract of a letter from Pittsburg.
"All the enlightened part of our diftritt
are oppofcd to d.illatin for the following
reason viz.
He is a foreigner, and came from France
since the rfliabl/lhment of our Independence.
He has always been antifederal, and there
fore he opposes all the present doings of the
present governmmt of the United States,
He is endeavouring to excite another in
furredlion hy circulating artful! misftate
ments refped\ing the American debt.
He is considered as the rfeal cause of the di
rest tax, by tjrging for this mode in ex
change for the "Stamp, excise and duties.
He is atcuftd of wilhing to payoff our
national debt, thereby to reduce the amount
of our circulating medium—with the price
of Lands, and every thing elie.
He is accuTed "f betraying his trust as a
commitee-man for Congress, on the business
of the treafirry, by allowing his name 10
be annexed to specious falfehood in all the
Jacobin papers &c.
It is believed Col. Ne.vil being a native
American, who fought for out independence,
will have every honed vote in his favour
ngainft de Political Sinner."
William French,
No. 48,
Soura FROsr-srREpT,
HAS JUST DECEIVED,
Bjr the Pennsylvania, captain York, from
LOUDON,
An extensive and elegant assortment of
LONDON SUPERFINE
Broadcloths and Caflimeres.
o<sUber ai 4W.
New-Theatre.
ON WEDNESDAY EVENING,
October 22.
Will be pref nted, (lor the firft time this season)
a celebrated Tragedy in 5 a<Ss, called
Pizarro ;
Or, THE SPANIARDS IN PERU.
Pizarro,Mr. Warren—Alonzo, Mr. Cain—Rolla,
Mr. Cooper—Ataliba, Mr. Wood.
Elvira, Mn, Merry—Cora, Miss E. Weftray.
Afer the Tragedy,
Minuet De La Coira, and a new Gavotto, by
Matter Harris, (pupil to Mr. Francis) and
Mil* Arnold.
To which will be Added,
A FAHCE, (in one a£t) called the
Horse and Widow,
CbnAn as Babe*.
|C7* A NEW COMEDY is in Rehear
sal, and will be speedily produced, with new
Scenery, fee.
%• Books of the Songs in Pizarrt, to
be had at the Theatre.
Box, one Dollar. Pit, three quarters of a Dol
lar, and Gallery, half a Dollar.
The Doors of the Theatre will open at 1 4 past
5, and the Curtain rife at 1-4 past 6 o'clock-
Gentlemen and Ladiet are requefled to fend their
fcrvant» to keep places in the boxes at a quarter past
five o'clock.
Just Received,
By the George, Amiable and other late arrivals,
AND FOR SALE,
On low terms, by tie package, at
N®. 48,
South Front street,
io Bales Rose Blankets;
5 bales DufTill ditto
Ij bales Kendal Cottons
4 bales low priced Broadcloths
4 bales London fuperfiiie do.
1 bal«s Plains and Forest Cloths
X bale fathionable fine Coatings
a bales fafliionable Lionlkin do.
,1 Imall bales low priced Swanfdowns
- 4 bales lngraio Yorlctfhire Carpets and
ao hhd. Seiu Twiae.
. i • Aise,
An extenfivs aod choice aflortment of
DRY GOODS—
' •• ■:9 T , K m. ■■
WILLIAM FRENCH.
Q«obe»:»* '.=r . ■•••' -i4tW.W-4W.
THE LATEST
Foreign Intelligence.
FURTHER EXTRACTS
From London papers to September 9, re
ceived at' Office of the New-York Daily
Advertiser.
Letter from Sir Sidney Smith to General
Menou, Commander in chief of the
French army in Egypt, dated,
Joppa, June 2 id, 1800.
Genera!,,
" I received this evening the letter, da
ted the 20th of June, which you have done
me the honour to write me. At the mo
ment at which I expetted to fee General
Kleber under the mod fortunate aad favour
able auspices, I'learn with the highest cha
grin, and with the greatest grief, his tra
gical death." I immediately communicated
to the Grand Vizier and the Ottoman Mi
nisters, in the terms in which you commu
nicated to me this melancholy event, and no
thing but the certainty and the details with
which you gave me this intelligence, could
have induced their excellencies to believe it.
The Grand Vizer formally and officially
declared to me, that he had not the leal!
knowledge of those who committed this
affaflißation, and I am very sure that his
declaration is true and (incere, and without
entering into the details of this melancholy
event, which gives me intxpreffible uneasi
ness, I (hall content myfelf with replying
to the article? of your letter which treat of
our affairs.
" If the Grand Vizier has retained in his
camp the aid de camp Baudot, who was
sent to him at Je hill il Illam, it is because
his excellency did not think it right to fuf
fer any person to depart from his camp at
the moment when he law himl'elf surround
ed by his enein;es. Baudot was retained at
Jehill il Illam as the Turkifli officers, de
tained to serve as hoflages reciprocally with
him, were retained at C.iro.
" This aid de camp has been sent to the
Ottoman fleet to be exchanged as you de
sired, and in the mean time, his excellency
the captain Pacha having arrived here, his
absence from the fleet has caul'ed the desir
ed exchange to be put off. When his ex
cellency shall have returned to his fleet, as
the aid de campt Baudot is before Alexan
dria, the business of the exchange may be
concluded if you think it proper. But I
do not fee why you flioqld make it to de
pend upon an affair which only concerns
you and the Porte, the setting at liberty of
15c Englifli, who were ihipwrecked at
Cape Brulos. I expedl from your good
faith, and from your juflice, that according
to the regulations agreed upon between our
two nations, for the reciprocal exchange
of our prisoners, which we are aathoriled to
carry into effeft, you will permit the re
turn of captain Butal, his officers, and
crew.
" The promises which you make me in
the hope of reciprocal ones being nude by
me, c.mnot be applied to this circu mft ince
and I think it fuperfluous to offer you in
return the promise of my good officers in
favour of a person who finds himfelf in a
dilagreeable fi,union, which I myfelt have
experienced. I am purfuaded that the
Grand Vizier will give the (lamp of his gt
neious and high approbation to all the ho
nourable proceedings we may have one with
another. The stratagems of war are un
known both to you and to us; and besides
that, I (liall continue to comport mylelf to
wards you with the fame franknefs, and
the fame gocd faith that I have hitherto
done, I (hall earnestly employ all my efforts
to prevent any person with whom I have
any influenee, from holding a conduft con
trary to these principles. Be persuaded
that the hostile dispositions which have
been announced by the firft oppofnion to
the execution of the treaty, and which has
acquired both extent and publicity, may be
done away by the means which the prei'ent
dircumftances will furnilh to the two par
ties et corresponding and mutually under
(Vmding each other, and that in the end
we shall be united by the bonds of a lincere
friendfhip. In the mean time, we Ihall
carry on war with the means which we have
hitherto emplo/ed against you, and with
thole farther ones which we can procure,
ar.d we (hall endeavour to render ourfelws
worthy of the esteem of your brjive troops.
" The hostilities which you have com
mitted without waiting, for the reply ef
Lord Keith, who was not acquainted with
the convention for the evacuation of Egypt,
has served as the rule of our condutt. I
had not aflced of my court its ratification.
I had only endeavoured to obviate some un
forefeen difficulties which opposed them
selves to the return of the French into their
country.
" General Kleber, in the lad prelimina
ries which were flopped, not having made it
understood that the treaty which was to
follow would require the ratification of the
Consuls who now Govern France ; this con
dition which you put into your prelimina
ries appears to be a refufal to evacuate
Egypt, and the Grand Vizier has charged
me to demand from you on this subject a
clear and precise answer. You defireas well
as me the termination of the calamities of
war which desolate the whole univerie.
>< It is in your power to remove one of
the obflacles which oppose the conctofi'>n of
peace, by evacuating on the condi
tions, agreed upon by General Kleber ; if
you refufe this, we will emplov all our
means, and all those of our allies, to oblige
you to some conditions which may not.be
so advantageous for ynu. J connot difient
ble to you how much the diltharge of this
duty will cost me, but the evacuation of
Egypt being a poili wo imerefting to the and
good of humanity, the way of tonferences
correspondence for making the necefl'ary
dispositions for this purpose is always open.
" As the admiral, under whose orders
I aft, is at a considerable distance from me,
I am authorised to fubferibe to such arrange
ments as circumstances may require, and
though under the present circumstance I
am not ip the situation of making any new
proportion, yet 1 am ready to listen to any
which you may be difpsfed to make to me J
and I can officially allure you that I will
use every means in my power to oppose every
ineonfiderable step, arid every vexatious op
pofitiori, from whatever quarter it may
proceed.
*' I will ftridlly perform the precise in
ftruftions of my court : I know its princi
ples are founded on the moll exatt equity
and justice: My Conduit shall ftriftly con
form to these principles, and all my efforts
shall be employed in performing my duty,
and promoting its interests.—As it is not
yet certain to what part I am going, I mutt
beg yo* to fend your answer by two couriers,
one to Alexandra, and the other to Jaffa,
at the camp of the Grand Vizier."
On Saturday morning Cable Robert, the
commandei of a trading vessel unJer Pruf
fiaii colaurs, laying in the river Thames,
was arrefled under the alien aft by virtue
of a warrant from Mr. Ford, before whom
he was examined the fame day, when it ap
peared by the testimony of a Mr. Wood,
that in Oftober last he was captured by an
Englilh vessel off Flamborough head, by I.*
Republican, a French privateer ot 32 guns,
of which the prisoner, Robert, was lecond
captain ; that'during the time (14 days) he.
Mr Wood, was 011 board La Republican, flie
captured 14 other Briti/h vessels, among
which was his majesty's cutter the Swan, to
which La Republican firlt (truck, without
firing a gun ; but while theSwan'wa* hold
ing out her boat, La Republican poured a
broadside into the Swan, which killed the
captain and many others, and wounded so
many of her crew that taking advantage of
the confufion they had thus difgracefull/
created, they continued the aftion, and in
the end boarded and took the Swan.
The prisoner denied ever having been on
board La Republican, although Mr. Wood
related several circuniftances that t«ok place
while lie was 011 board her, and particularly
lii» dining with Robert every day He was
committed for further examination.
LONDON, Auguftjr.
Government yesterday received accounts o£
increased exertions to prepare the Brest fleet for
sea ; that conliderablc bodies of troops had been
ordered thither from the interior, and that Bu
onapaite was abour to repair to Brest to accele*
rate and animate the mediated enterprizs.
Lord St Vincent has moored his veflel in
such a manner, that whilst the season will ad
mit of his retaining his situation, it is impossible
that a vtlTcl of any description can either leave
or enter Brest—-Our tars were in high spirits &C
the profpeA of more aftual service.
The public funds yesterday experienced a
further rife of one per cent- nndsr a prevalsnt
opinion, that France had exprefled a desire to
treat with the allies collevftively for a general
peace. We are wholly unacquainted with the
circumstances which have induced this impres
sion. We are aflared, that Citizen Otto, the
agent for French prisoners in this country who
has been mentioned as the medium of yicific
overtures from the French government 10 our
cabinet has not, dire£My or indireflly, received
from M. Talleyrand, or any other individual
compefing the French executive, any commu
nication which in the flighted degree invo ved
the fubje& of negociation'
September 9.
The Bamberg Gazette has only published 31
articles of the preliminaries of peace, which
havi been circulated among the Anglo Catholic
party in Germany, in order to dispose the pub
lic mind to the renewal of hostilities. The gaz
ette of Hanau has published the remaining arti
cles . The substance of them is, that the Em
persr, in quality of head of the Empire, con
sents to theccffion of the left bank of the Rhine
to France ; and that if the peace of the Empire
be not soon concluded, he will withdraw hi*
contingent from the imperial army, and efta- '
blifli another for the purpose of forming a cor
don —The Emperor also engages not to sup
port the Pope or the King of Naples, fliould
they continue to be at war with the French re
public. The Hanau gazette slates these as the
preliminaries proposed by France, and to which
the Empire has confirmed.
On Friday morning landed at Portsmouth
from Cork, 300 rifllemen, commanded by ma
jor George Callender, of the 6jd regiment.
They were all picked from the Highland Fen
cilile regiments in Ireland, and are the fined
body of young men we have seen this war.
From the London Gazett.
Downing-Street, Sept. 6, ißco*
Dispatch from Lieut. Gen. Sir James Pul
teney, to the hen. Henry Dundas, dated
Renown, at sea, August 27^,1800.
Sir,
I have the honour to inform you that
the on board of which the tranfportt
under my command were embarked, arrived
before the Harbor of Ferrol on the 25th
inft.
I determined immediately to make a land
ing, with a view, if prn&icable, to attempt
the town of Ferrol, being certain, if I found
either the llnngth of the place, or the force
of the enemy \6 1 great to juftify an attack,
that in the landing there was no conliderabls
risk.
The disembarkation was efftfled without
opposition, in a small bty ncarSCape Prior ;
the reserve followed by the other troops as
they landed, immediately ascended a ridgr of
hills adjoining to the bay ; jufl as they had
gained the submit, the rifle corps fell in with
1 a part of the enemy which they drove back.
I have to regiet that lieut. col. Stewart,
who commanded this corps, was wounded
| ui the occasion. At day break the follow
ing morning, a body of the ene-
sw, i.v- •/
I . I ?'