Gazette of the United States. PHILADELPHIA, fcOVDIY tVKNING, NOVRMBF.K 24., Oii», »t Charlelton, oa Saturday the ift inttant, a young man who called himfelr 'ohn Irving ; but a myllery surrounded him which the gloomy horrors of death never dispersed, He aknowledged r hat Irving was nut his real, but mother'! maiden name ; said that he was born in New Jersey, and bound an apprentice to a conditioner; that he became weary ofhis bufincfs, wished to fee the world, and eloped front hit matterj that he failed from Baltimore for the Wtft Indies, and was obliged to put into Charleston through stress of weather, where he soon formed a connection with a painter, and studiously applied hirafeff to acquire his art. He was attacked by the fever, common in that place, which at firft did not exhibit any symptoms of mortality, but on the third day he was seized with strong convulllve fits, which Continued till he expired. Perhaps from this im perfrft (ketch of his hiltory, his friends may be able to trace hit melancholy fate on a foreign Ihore. ——, At Filhkill, Abraham Schenck, Eft], late Senator from the Middle Difkridt. A yeungf French foldiler of the depart ment of the Meufe, formerly officer of the Health of the Marines, blew out his brains in the Inn at Dijon, 011 the 7th or September last. Nothing could be done ■with greater co'olnefs and even gaiety than this a£l of difpair. He left behind him two written papers in one of which he re lates the preperations which he had made for his death ; and in the other, entitled an Advice to Amateurs, he ridecules his ene mies, the revolution and eternity. 14 Wea ried of sojourning in this world," said he, " I feel desirous of visiting another. If you wifli to hear any news from me, my address is at the Supreme l Temple, depart ment of eternity ! When I return your children will be grown up. Those who went to overtake me, mutt put on their seven league boots." The lift account! from Indii mention, that > flight of Locufti several miles in extent, ind so thick is in their progress wholly to obscure th* fun, had palled over Malda, Rajemel, and Helebai, for tunately for the terrified Inhabitant! without (lop ping From Helebai they dire&jd thei- eourfe along the Jemaa, toward! Agra ; in the neighbour hood of that city they are Rated to have defceided, and to have totally deftrojed the vegetation of the ■diAriS. London pap. In England a mode has been di (covered of manufafturing paper from Straw It is of strong confid ence, and thiugh it retains the colour of the material from which it is made, will serve fer, packing parcels, printing hand bills, potting bills, and such other ordinary purposes. It is hoped, therefore, that this invention will We likely to reduce the pre sent advanced prices of rags and piper, and destroy a mod infa-.nous monopoly. M. Achard, the Pruflian chemist, has at length brught his discoveries, in the artirle of Sugar ft-om rn furh perfe&ion that h« is enabled to vend it at lix.sous the pound. * Mr. Woodbouse has returned fro'n Paris, where the introduction of th« Cow-pox did by no means meet the encouragement that it has had to this'country, as it was impossi ble to l'urmount the prejudices of the people. ■Lond, Ptp. The Pope has found it necessary to re trench greatly the usual establishment, and lias fixed the expences of his palace at 30,000 crowns a year, in lie ad of 150,000, Srhich they cost his predecessor. HE-MANUFACTURE OF PAPER. A. company has just been eflablilhed in London, for the purpose of extracting every kind of ink, printed or written, from paper of every fort, and re-manufafturing it in the usual way, Such an invention, which lias long been a great delideratum, promises to be of conliderable benefit to the public, by converting to great use, the iminenfe mass of waste paper, which is everywhere to be found ! and thus, we hope, reducing the price of this moll ufeful article, which has of late risen to such an extravagant height as to impede very materially the advancement of Literature. A patent has been granted for this difco^ery. Paper already printed on, is now regu larly beught in at the rag-ftiops of foreign countries, to be re-mauufadured by the paper makers. Newspapers. old books, un saleable books,can all be reduced to a white pulp by the process of Madame Maffon.— It is thus described in a continental journal ; Choose papers of similar hues to be used to gether. On one hundred weight .of paper pour five hundred weight of boiling water. Stir it continually with indented paddles, until the whole is reduced to a pulp. Drain off the water through an opening covered with flannel, pour on frelh boiling water, and repeat the stirring with incessant indui try. Such of the component parts of the printer's ink, as are not soluble in water, will,fink to the bottom of the vat gradually, suidthe pulp will assume a whiter and whiter appearance, and may be removed in fliallow pxils to b*l'ubmitted to the usual process of manufafture. This fortunate discovery will be the grand defence offofterity against fu peffluous and tedious bo'dfcj. The quantity of paper fluff may in ano ther manner be increased. latfead of ma king tinder from rags, it twight be made, as in France, from the agaric of the |jh. The fungus is flicrd thin, dried, beaten Jtath a , hammer imtil it becomes veiy elastic, >tod ; boiled in water impregnated with lalt-peifct j In this state it readily catches fire from the? spark of a flint, and is fold very cheap at the Ihops by the name amadou, lf„this fub llanue were easily to be had, the rags now burnt for tinder might be prefemd. j From the Lancaster Journal of Saturday morning. In the course of the. last two days we have been vififjxl by fever.il alarming Earth, quakes. The rumours as to the number and violtnce of ihefe convulsions have not yet been reduced 10 certainty by the pub lic opinion. We believe the firft appearance was on Wednesday morning, about five o'clock, which 4 seemed like the murmers of distant winds.' A few t»- nutes before fix on the fyine morning we had the mod violent (hock. It continued for about 50 seconds, agitated every thing, and was in found like the rumbling of many carriages over a (lone pavement. Yesterday morning Ihortly before 2 o'clock, there was a (hock nearly as violent. Irr the interval, and since, f»ur or five more trivial agitations have taken place. We reserve particulars and observations till our next publication. From a Utc Loodoo p'per Ihe PaiLASTHROPisr.—We have al ready mentioned that a Angular man with a long beard tiavels about the country of England, felling wares, and distributing money among the poor. , The following is a very particular and curious account as him : William Dakens is a resident of Cliff Regis, about fix miles from Oundle, Nor thamptonfliire ; he is not more than forty five years of age, though the coarse, dir:y habit which he conftaotly wears, and the enormous length of his beard, which he ftif fers.to grow, only now and then clipping it with fcillars, giving hinj much older appear ance. Nor was he always that filthy and extraordinary figure which he now appears, for his neighbours recolle A Kis being- elean (haved, and habited like other men. He is not a native of Cliff, but came out of York (hire to reside there, upon obtaining a small ellate in that place. He is at present pjf fefled of £-5W a year in landed property, and is generally supposed to be worth mo ney. There is no doubt of his being deran ged, yet, by thole who bed know him, he is thought a llirewd cunning fellow. A tinker, who made his appearance foine years ago at Cliff, who was an occafionly preach er, firft iafedted the poor man with this en thusiastic delirium }'• for with this itinerant apostle he formed a ftritt intimacy, and the warm imagination of the one being ferment ed by the canting of the other, Dakia began to fancy himfelf to be Jesus Christ. His sis ter Hannah Falkner, who lived with him> did net escape the contagion, and in their frenzy fits they hare not unfrequently run into the water till they were in danger of being drowned, calling on the people " to follow the lamb," nay, once they procrded with lighted torches to set fire io a hay rick such afts of insanity caused them at last to be taken before a magiitrate, who advised their friends to fend them to some proper perfor. to be taken care of, and they were accordingly sent to Dr. Willis, they, wese ho\»evet, soon liberated, and lince that time Dakin has been more reafotiable and tautlous ; noc but he (tni is occafipnally poffefled with the ideapf beine the Saviour. Some time- after he c»me home from Dr. he clothed himfelf in lackcleth, and attended at the parilh church, for the pur pose of receiving the sacrament ; the offici ating curate, however, reftifed him ; upon which he made a vow ihat he would never enter it again ■, and, in order to have tame place for public worlhip, he built a meeting house, and procured a preacher to officiate in it; but this only laded a year, and is now unconfecrated and literally metamor phosed into a dovecote. The fuAis of mo ney he has distributed at Cliff are incredi ble, particularly intent, when the inhabi tants from all the neighbouring villages for miles around would dock to his dwelling ; l'ome were regaled with hot bread,cheefe & beer ; foine relieved with money, & others ent back, with many admonitions and revil ings. This expense he was the better ena bled to afford by his drift and unremitting attention to bufinel's, whifh is vending the turner's ware of Cliff (for which it is much noted), and the plated goods from Birming ham and by his farming. The occasion of his present perambula tion is the denth of his filler some months ago, leaving him a property of abiut 20001. to be distributed to the poor. This filler, in order to keep his vow, he would not fuffer to be buried b.y the clergyman, but interred her hiinfelf in his own meeting house ; her death has much affefted him, for he had persuaded himfulf that neither of them could die I and he has determined to make a year's pilgrimage to dispose of her legacy. He let off from Cliff some time ago, travelling fouthv'eft, accompanied by Mary Burrell; they had three afles la den with wooden ware, plated goods, kc. When olked at what time he (hould return home ? he answered at Christmas but he rather thought sever, as by Christmas he j supposed the world would be at an end— His lifter's fate bore ft> hard upon him that he has negledted to cultivate his land since that period ; the wheat crop indeed was in the ground when IVe died, and this he has commissioned pne John Nutt, of Cliff, to harvetl, that if he returns he may give it to the poor. Ihe reft of his land is lying ufeleCs and untenanted. The following curious notice was lately fixed upon a church door in Ludford, Hesrt fordlhire in England, and read in church by the clerk, vii" —"This is to-give notice, that no peiToii is to be buried in this church yard, but what lives Hi this Parifli ; and those who wish to be buried here, are desired to Ofply to me. EPH. GRUB, Parish Clerk. The celebratedPiftures of Lebrun, re presenting the Battles of Alexander, are ordered to be hung up in the Gallery of the First Consul. By this Day's Mail BOSTON, November 18. FEDERAL UF.PRESENTA FIVES MASSACHUSETTS—defied— H n •Wil liam Eultis, 'Nathan Read, JoLph B Varituin, *Man«flah Cutler, Lemuel Williami, Peleg Wadfworth, Phanuel Bifliop, *Levi Linceln, Ebenezer Mattoon, William Shepard, and */oho Maco* j —for the fourth Middle, the firft and third Southern, the l'econd Baftern, and four Western diftridts. *New Members. Firfl Western DiJlrifl. The lift return of votes, including all the tnwns except two l'mall ene», gave Mr. Bacon z mijority of near thirty ; —we presume, there fore, he iachofcn- In the fccond Southern diftrift, the votes in eleven towni, are, for Mr. Mitchell 475. — Mr. Smith 37i, and 397 Icatteriug. There certainly has been no choice made; and we hope the federalifts at the next pull will unite in Mr. Mitchell. Third Eajlerrt DiJlrifl. Thatcher. I Cutt«. S*4 I 413 The Hon. Samuel Lyman, Esq. has resigned his feat in tie present Congress. There are now two feat vacant in the Congreflional repre fentatioa of his State, in the third and fourth Western Dttri&i. A Refoluton yesterday pafled both Houfei empowering the persons appointed as Eleflors of Prtfidenr. a»d, Vice President of the United States, to supply vacancies which may happen< in their body, by death or resignation ; and di recting them to a(Tt:mble on the day preceding the day of voting, for that purpose. The Niarine Society. On Friday last celebrated the anniver sary of their inftitmion in this town- The principles, views and feelings, on which this highly laudable and refpetta ble society is founded, are intimately entwined with the fineft fibres of human sensibility, and embrace the promotion of some of the noblest purposes of hu. man virtue. To relieve from penury or distress the widow and the orphans of the daceafed mariner ; and by the magic force of example, to bid the door of hospitality fly open to receive the wet and famished sailor, these are the plea sures of benevolence, which have annu ally added the zest of sentiment td the feaft of luxury The spirit of the toasts drank at this celebration, will evince the pure federal charadter of a focioty, whose menrtbers, though their earlier fortune* have "breaded the lofty surge,'' and rudeft element in its molt boisterous mood, can never forget the duties they owe to their country while they remember the charities that belong to fellow men. New York, November 23. Brig Diadaiua, Sims, from Jamaica is aftiore at Saybrook. The brig Hope, his arrived at Charleston from the Huvaima. The sloop of war Baltimore, has arrived at Baltimore from Norfolk. The brig Harriet and Ann, Prince, bound to this port from Cuba, has arrived at Chailefton. About 30 fail of American vessels from the W. Indies, for different ports, awongfl which was a fchr. from North Carolina for this port, put into New London on Monday last. A (hip said to be fr«m Glasgow has ar rived at New London. By the ship Swift, Rogers, frem Liverpool, via Newport. Captain Mark, »f the (hip Margaret of New York, informed captain Rogers, that on his paffagefrom New York to Liverpool, 9 days out, saw about 60 hhds. of Tobacco afloat, water ca&s, fpara, oars, dead hogs, and many other things, andlikewife picked up a yawl, with The Newport, of Boston, on her stern, and it is fuppjfed to be the (hip Newport, of Boston, that failed from Norfolk for L»ondou about the Ift of Sept. and nu doubt the lliip mult hare foundered. Captain Galder of the (hip Martha Wa{h. ington, of Glpucefter, from Norfolk bfcund to Liveipool, the Bth September, long. 60, W.1at.38, N. in the gulf dream,fell in with a copper bottomed veflel,bottom up,fuppoled ta be a brig about 65 feet keel. Captain C. tbinks Ihe had been upset the night before j all that they picked up was one barrel of flour marked S. F. No. 366, with black. Capt. R. informs that he was 16 days in the river after coming out of dock, and du ring mod ot the time blowing ievere gales from the westward, and much damage done in Liverpool. . Capt. R. experienced a tre mendous gale of wind on the 9th of Goo ber from the N. W. to the. westward of Holy Head. A lift of American, vessels left »t Liverpool O&ober 6. ShipPerfeverance, Moors, of and for New York, tdfail the 12th August, Henry, . Anderton, Dublin, for Baltimore ready for sea, brig Frrendlhip, Patterfon, Kenneben cle, for Bollon, ditto, ship Polly & Harriot, Noble, Doftofl, for Savanna, ditto, Rose, Jones, of and for Philadelehia, about 15th fancies, Lunt, of and for Portsmouth, nearly ready, Juno, Owen* Rotterdam, far Norfolk, uncertain, Nabby, Grandall, of and for Portland, re?dy for sea, Three Sifters, Murphy, Ply mouth,for Philadelphia, 15 days ; brig, Wexford, Blinn, of and for Washington, 8 days, ship Swanwick, Kiik bride, of and for Philadelphia, five days, Mary, Gray, of and for Charleston, sixteen j days, ship Onflow, Barney, of aud for Bsl ton, eight days. I CHARLESTON, Nov 8- Yesterday, Robef-t HazlehurtY, eiq, as one of the committee appointed to fupermtend the building of a National Branch Bank in this city, Isid the corner flone of the fame, in the presence of the president, und direftors of the Bank, and a number of other citizens. From the plan of thv; * tended building, and the known abilities and Ikill of Mcfl'rs. M'Grath and Nicholion, the archite£U, and Mr. Andrew G-crdon the builder, we ven ture to allure the public, that the Bank, when completed, cannot fail to prove one of the chief ornaments of Charleston. Moultrieville, Nov. 8, 1800. Mr. Timothy, YOU will oblige me by inferring in your gazette, the inclosed letters. I remain with refpeft, Your moll obedient servant, THOMAS PINCKNEY. Charleston, Sept. 16, 1800. Sib, I HAVE the honour of transmitting herewith a Charleston gaaette, containing a letter, copied from a newspaper ef Baltimore, to which ynur Ggnature is fubfertbed : con scious as I am that I never either dire&ly or indiretfUy, by myfelf or by my friends, have been concerned iti any Britilh intrigue, or conne&ed with Britilh influence. Knowing •that my nomination to the EngliQi million, was not only unsolicited, but was unknown to myfelf and my immediate friends, until announced to rae officially by Mr. Ji fferfon, then Secretary of State : Believing as I do, that ho improper influence preponderated in the mind of the officer by whom I was nami nated, I take the liberty of making this ap peal to yourjuftice, requefling, if the letter which has been publilhed at yours, be a for gery, that an immediate and explicit decla ration of this fatt may be promulgated : but if the contrary should be the cale, I equally rely upon your juiVice to explain how far you confidcr my brother and myfelf to have been jullly obnoxious to the suspicions which you appear to have entertained at the time the letter was written, together with the basis of such suspicion. While a due regard to our best property, reputation, impels me to lfl-ge this claim on your justice. I entreat you, Sir, to consider me as not intentionally deviating from a due refpedt for your private virtues, or derogating from the confederati ons to which in your official capacity you are juflly entitled. I have the honour to be, S 1 R, Youi» rtfpeflful, And most obedient fervaat, THOMAS PINCKNEY. ThePiusiDmT i of the United States. 3 [The letter alluded to in> the above, it the answer of President Adams, to Mr. Pinckney's firft'letter— it has been publilhed in this gazette.] FOR SALE, The fallowing Real Eltate ; the property of Anthony Francis Haldimand, Esquire, of London, 582 ancfain half Axres Patented Land SITUATE on Vinsyard Breek, in thctownfhip and county of Huntingdon, in the (late of Pennfylvanii, on a public road about 5 miles from the town of Huntingdon, which is Gtuated on a boatable river—there are on the premies a water Grift Mill and Saw Mill—several Log dwelling Houses—one of which is occupied as a Tavern, with a Distillery fappliedby a powerful spring of excellent water—a coufidcrable quantity of Timo thy Meadow fit for the scythe, and several acres of arable Land already cleared—Thistr»s; Officer, mr During. Sophia, Princess of Lombardy, mrs Merry ; Alin da, miss E. Weftray. Attendants—Miss Arnold, miss Stuart, mrs Doc tor, mrs Warren, miss Solomons, See. See. In aft sth, a Procession and Dead March. To which will be added, a Comic Opera, (for »d time this season) in two ads, called Lock and Key. War Department, November 13, 1800. THOSE Gantlemen who have applied for mi litary appointmenis in the fervic# of the United States are informed that their applica tions with al therecommendatory letters accom panying were consumed by fire in the War Of fire, on Saturday evening last. Thole who continue to desire to be oonficlered as candidates will fee the propriety of renewing their appli cations. SAMUEL DEXTER, Secretary of War. £5" THE Printers in the different Statea arc reqaefUd to givt this a .place in their Gazettes. Removal. PETER LOHRA AND JAMES HUMPHREYS, Jr. Notaries Public, RESPECTFULLY inform their refpeiftive friends and the public, that they hive're moved tbeir office to No. 90, south Front street, the fourth door below Walnut street and nearly opposite the Cuftom-Houfe—-where they continue to draw and authenticate, according to the moll approved forms, and with the greatest dispatch, Letters of procuration, attorney and fubflitution of every kind, sea letters and rolls d'equipage, proof «f property te be (hipped to foreigu'ports, affidavits to obtain seaman's protections at the Custom H. nfe, and affidavits of every other kind and description, charter parties, bottomree rclpon deatia and other mercantile bonds and obligations, bills of sale and all other instruments of writing, certificates and attestations relative to the different kinds of stock, trade and commerce ; and rcgifter letters of attorney for the recovery of debts, aa well as all other documents usually recorded in the office «f Notaries. They also draw deeds, bonds, mortgag s, wills, &c. &c. November at dlw—»aw4 cond Monday of September, in the year of our Lord one th»ufand eight hnndred, before the honorable Alexander Addifos, Esq. PreCdentoX the fame court. ON the petition of Thomas Pew, an insolvent dcbt«r, praying the benefit »f the ad of Aflcnibly, patted the fourth day of April one thou land seven hundred and ninety-eight, for the relief of insolvent debtors. The Court appointi the facMid Monday of December next t« heat the petitioner and his creditors, and orders that he give bin creditors notice thereof by a publication for three fucccfliv* weeks in the Fayette Gazette, and in the United States Gazette, printed at Phi ladelphia, the last of which publications shall be at leafl three weeks before the day of hearing. By the Court. EPHRAIM DOUGLASS, Pratkonotarv. Offober a*. Decanters Quart and pint tumblers Travelling Cases Glass Beads, violins and *