Canal Lottery Office, ]
yvw the Ba-ik of the United Slates,
Philadelphia, jaucary aß.h, 1796.
STATE of the WHEEL:
1 pr'ze of 30,000 - - *30,000
3 do. so,ooo - - 100,000
2 do. 10, coo - - 20,000
3 2, .500 - , itOOO
4 do. a,OOO - . S.ooo
, II dc>. IjCOC - - 11,000
20 do. 500 ' - tojooo -
44 do. 100 - - 4j400
Wit'i a proportionate of, 12 dollar prizes.
1 rum the a - '~ nd th.e ftatc of the draw
ing the Pubj.L : *iiiormed the Wheel & 60,000 dollars
. richej at ffiet conjnuncement; and if none of the
fii H J*rizes ajjc ctrawn qu or bafore the pricc of
tickets will be Fourteen oil Tuesday morning, the second
of tebiuary next.
By order of the Committee,
Wm. Blackburn, Agent.
A utc., A Check-Book, kept at the abe>ve oflice for exa
mination, at iwocehtseach number, or twelve cents for
r .vii^ering.
i'"; rdiakrs vvijl be accommodated with a credit propor
«io to the number of Ticlv?t« they take.
£anal Lottery.
oF]*lQEi No. I 4£» Chefnut-Jlreety between Fourth Is.
Fifth-Jlr^ets.
TCfCETS are for falc, \va rka NT e r>u Ndr a w n—alio,
Prize Tickcts exchanged, o>r. bought for rea.it jtjk.
flood approved Notci will he taken for tea Tickcts, and
I(pwar4s; 01 diicounicd to an) amount,
THOMAS jLF..
January 26^
Paterfon Manufactory,
AX a special Meeting of the Board of Diredors for
eftabliihing ufst'ul Man'ifadures, held at Paulus-
Hook, January 25th, 1796. "The Board taking into
confidenition the general affairs of the. Society, it
ntceffary t..at a meeting 01 the Stockholders Ihould be
called as soon astne Law will permit; it is therefore ra
folvetl, that the Stodihclders be called to. neet on the firft
Tuesday in March next, a,t Egerley's Hotel, at Paterfon,
by ten of the clo ( ck oi the forenoon of the fame day, then
and there to take into serious consideration, affairs of the
utmost importance to the fai j Society; and that every
Stockhol.de! be tarneftfr requested to attend either in
peiipn or by proxy."
A true extract of Minutei,
P. COL 1, Superintendant.
January 26, §tItM
New-York,
United States, £ _
Pennsylvania Diftrifl,
NOtice is hereby given, that in pursuance of a Writ to
nic diredled, rom the hon. Richard Peters, Esquire,
Judge ot the Diftriit Court of the United Stares in and
fer the Pcnnfylvania Diftria, Will be ejpif-d to public
Sale, at No 117 in Saflafras Street, on Monday, the Bth
day of February n:-xt, at 12 o'clock'at noon,
2 Puncheons of Country <\ lIM,
\ 3 dags, of CO FFEE. *
The fame having been li::elhd sgainft, prafecuted and
condemned i; ferieited in the laid Court.
William Nichols, Marjhcl.
s Office,
January 27. 1796.
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An ACT to afford further rel':ef to ccriain dijlrejftd■
French Emigrants.
WHEREAS the calamities of war, and toteftine
commotion, have compelled numbers of the French
inhabitants of the Weft-India iilands to abandon their
ellatcs and dweUjiigs, and to take refuge in the Unit
ed unprovided with the jjeceilary means of
fubfi(mice; and thefcegiflature of this Commonwealth
has ncretofore granted relief to those who had arrived
in Pennsylvania, many ps Tyhorn yet remais here ia
a ftateofundiminii'hed distress.
StCT. 1. Be it therefore ewadled by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania in General Aitembly met, and it. is here
by cnadled by the authority of the lame, That it frail
and may be lawful to and for the Governor of this
Commonwealth, and he is hereby author ifexl em
powered, to, one or more warrants on the State-
Treasurer, for any sum or furns not exceeding one
thouland fye hun.dred dollars \n t> 4 e whole, in favor of
Godfrey Haga, Edward Pennington, Robert Ralfton,
Samuel P. Griffitts, Jofeplj Lownes, Samuel Mecklin,
and joseph Sanfom ; who are hereby ap.point?d com
mijiiorters to receive and distribute the fame, in such
manner and proportions, either in specie or irt necef
fories by them provided, to and among such, perfo/is,
fpffering a fore fa id, as to them the said Cominiffion
ers, or a majority of tljem, shall appear proper obie<sls
of this charity.
Sec. 2, And be it further ena&ed by the authority
aforefaid* 1 hat the State Treifurer (hal! pay the furn
or Turns of to be mentioned, in the said warrant
or warrants., out of the fund appropriated to, the sup
port of Government* and shall change and be allowed
for the fame in the ps his account:*; and
that the find Commiflloner fliall keep and render to the
Governor, to be before the a jiift a<3-
€08i|t of the diftributioa and expenditure of the said
monies, and of the cumber description of -periods
relieved thereby.
GEORQE LATIMER, Speaker of
the House of ReprclVntatives.
ROBERT lIAIIE, Speaker
of the SertaE?.
Approved., January jjth, 1796.
Thomas Mifflin, Governor of t'.ie >
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. }
CONGRESS
HOUSE of REPRESE.NTATtVES.
Wedaefday, jmuary 27. ,
Mr. Gregg urefented the petition'of a number
of peiTons, citizens of Fayette, Mifflin and Nor
thumberland counties, praying an e"xrenfi<»'. of the
poit load, by, the eftablifliment of a cross pofl (ha/
these counties—read and referred to the comtnir.ee
on the poli-office law.
On motion of Mr. Wm. Lyman, the petition
of Thomas Flint, prefeoted to ihe lad Congress,
and referred to the Secretary of War, returned to
the House and not aded on, was called up, aud
referred to the committee of claims, with the ac
companying papers.
A petition p-. .-fen!ed last session 'by Aogaftina
Biddle, was cailed up by Mr. Cliriitic—read, ana
referred ta the committed of claims.
A petit :on of several merchants of Newbern,
Narth Carolina, praying the reroiflion of the dii
ties on sundry goods def!toyed by water, was read,
and referred ta ti<e committee of commerce and
manufactures.
A report was read from the committee of claims
on fundrv petitions, all of which were negatived in
the report, which was agreed to by the House.
The petitioners were 33 follow ;
Ebenezer Lord and Sarah his wife, Joseph
Vinton, James Bonney, William Tbompfon, John
Toran, William Courtney, Ebenezer Stetson,' Da
vid Grant, John Andrew Meyer, Thomas Cretier,
Elizabeth Cutney, Rupert Smith, Timothy K s ,
Margaret Lent, Rev. John Lewellen. A. Rarer,
Wm. I'idout, John Highee, Francis Monteath,
Wm. Waddy, Fred. Foliz, Henry Drefban, Na
than Davis.
On motion of Mr. Hartley, the petition of Fran
cis Mentges wgs recommitted to the committee of
claims.
On motion of Mr. Dearhorn, the report of the
committee of claims on the petition of Reuben
Colburn, was talyen up in committee of the whole,
Mr- Muhlenberg in the chair.
Theteport heing read which negatives the pray
er of the petition, Mr. Dearborn rose and detailed
to the House the origin of Mr. Colburn's claim,
and the various steps he had taken to obtain pay
ment ; from wliich Mr. Dearborn supposed that
the petitioner had not been remiss in making
rcafonatde application to the public offices. Mr.
Thatcher also gave fouje information in the cafe of
a Cmilar import.
The petition is negatived on account of its be
ing barred by the acts of limitation.—The chair
man of the comtnittee of claims stated, that there
were no documems in any office to shew that the
accounts had been seasonably prtffented to any pro
per officer forfettlrment. Some diverfityof opinion
appeared relative to t»\e fa#. It was said, evidence
ponld be obtained from a clerk in the loan pffice at
Borton, who had been a clerk to Mr. Imlay, the
Cantinental Commissioner, as to the presentation
of Mr. Colbqrn'f accounts to that commilfioner
It was therefore moved, that the committee fnould
rife, and the bufinefsbp suspended till this evidence
could be procured.
It was objetfed to theadmiffion of this fpecips
of evidence, as being contrary to the praflfiee of
Congrrfs, who had never admitted any thing (hort
of forne wiitten document in some public office,
as evidence of a claim having been lodged in fea
fo^.
I herniation fpr the coin i(iit tee's rijing wijj agreed
4 to 37 —The copiwittce accordingly rose,
and a&ed leave to fit again, which was agreed
WY, Harper presented a memorial of Wiqthrop
Sargent—which >yas read and referred .to the com
mittee of claiins-
On motion of Mr. Buck, Charles Whitney had
leave to withdraw the wri;jen argutpent which had
been delivered by him to the Jcioufe
Mr; Cl.fiflie presented the petition of Jacob
Holljfijrfworth, relative to a Ml certificate-
Read, and referred to the committee of claim*.
The report of the committee of claimi, on the
petition,of Sarjh Smart, was taken up-—'This re
port negatives the petition, and was agreed to.
Mr. yenable, of th? committee cf elefUotvs,
b-qught in a report oo the memorial of Matthew
.Lyon against the «!e£tioii o/ Spiith, 04*
s£ the members returned from the Hate of Ver-
rr.ont,
This report concludes in the following words :
" That IfraeJ Smith is ft> takq his feat in
ti»is Hodfe."
l'he petition of James Powell of New York,
was lead,
In committee of the \vhole, on the report of
tliQ committee of claims, on 'lie petition of \ym.
Morris and others, ivlr. Sedgcwick in the chair
This'uport negatives the p tit ion, and was agreed
to by the committee of the whole, and the vcjte of
the committee concurred in by the hou(e.
Mr. Harper laid the following rcfoliuioo pn the
table :
Rcfolved, That copies of all reports made
to either House of Cangrefs bj the heads of depart
ments up to the present time, be printed for the
ivfe of tis.' members, and that a committee b« ap
pointed to bring in a bill accordingly.
Mr. Tracy caHed up ins relohition for extending
the privilege of franking to the accountant of the
wsr-departmentt and moved, that it be referred to
the committee on the petition of Nathaniel Ap
ple;on, which was agreed to.
Tk\& report of the committee of claims on the
petition of John Turner, which is agaiwlt the pe
tition, was agreed to.
The report of the committee of elections, on the
memorial of Matthew JLyon, was made the order
of the day for Wednesday next ; interim to be
printed. Adjourned.
From hit: London Papers,
Account of Thomas Toeham^
£From Ifutton'a Hiflory of Derby.3
Wli le.i rn from private accounts, well attelled,
that Thomas Toplsam, a man who kept a public
house at Ifliugton, perform-d furpriling feats of
flrength j i\s breaking a broomstick of the hrft
magnitude, by Itriking it again!* his bare arm
lifting two hogftieads of water ; heading his hoife
over the .turnpike gate; carrying the beam of a
a soldier his fiitlock, See. Hut however
belief might dagger, (he soon recovered herfelf when i
itui lecond Satnpfon appeared at Derby a? a per
former in public at a (hilling each. Upon applica
tion to Ali4e:#nan Cooper for leave to exhibit, tht
magiftrafe «as surprised at Ihe floats he nropof.'d ;
and ;rs his appearance was like that of* other men,
he requeued him te (trip, that he might ermine
whether he was made like them ; but he was found
to be extremely muscular. What were hollows un
der the arms and hams of others were filled up with
ligaments in him.
He appeared near five feet ten, turned of thirty,
well made, but nothing lingular : he walked with
a Imall limp. He had tormeiiy laid a wager, the
usual decider of disputes, that three horses could
not draw him from a polt which he could cl ip
with his feet ; but the driver, giving them a sud
den lash, turned them aside, and the
jerk had broke his thigh,
The performances of this wonderful man, in
whoni were united the llrcngth of twelve, were,
rolling up a pewter di(h of seven pounds, as a man
rolls up a (heet of paper—holding a pewter quart
at arm's length and squeezing the fide- together
like an egg (hell—lifting two hundred weight with
his little linger, and mpvingit gently oyer his head*
The bodies he touched seemed to have loft their
powers of grav iation. He also hrpke a rope, fatt
ened to the floor that wold fultain twqnty hundred
weight—lifted an oak, table fix feet long with hit
teeth, though h; if a hundred weight was hung to
the extremity ; a piece of leather was fixed to-one
end for his teeth to hold, two of the feet ftcod up
on his knees, and he raised the end with the weight
higher than that in his mouth. He took Mr.
Chambers, Vicar of All Saints, who weighed twen
ty seven (tome, and taifed him with one hand, his
head being laid on one chair, and his feet on ano
ther j four people fourteen (tune each, fate upon
his body, which he heaved at pleasure—he (truck a
round bar of iron one inch diameter, againll his
naked arm, and at one stroke bent it like a bow.
Weakness and feeling seemed fled tagether.
Being a mailer of raufic, he entertained the
company with Mad Tom. I heard him sing a solo
to the Organ (then the only one in Derby) at Sf
WetUuigh's Church; but though he might per
form with judgment, yet the voice, more terrible
than sweet, scarcely seemed human. Though of a
pacific temper, and with the appearance of a gen
tleman, yet he was liable to the insult of the rude.
The hostler, at the Virgin's Inn, where he relided,
having given him difgtlft, he took one of the kitch
en spits from the mantle piece, and bent it round
his. neek like a handkerchief; b«t a? he did not
choose to tuck the end in the bottler's bosom, the
cumbrous ornament excited the laugh of the com
pany till he condescended to qntic hi* cravat. Had
he not abounded with good nature, the men might
have been in ffar for the fafety of their persons,
and the women for that of their pewter (helves, as
he could inftaritly roll'up both. One blow from
him would for ever have fmleneed those hproes ps
the silt, Johnson and Mendoja.
The celebrated Klopfteck has lately publiflied
some refle&ions on the fate of La Fayette, which
concluded thys ; 'f Yet detefled as he is by both
extreme fa&ions, profcribrd hy Robespierre at his
club of Jacobins, inveighed against by Pitt in his
........ he still enjoys the ponfolation of
knowing that his name is dear and refpedfcable to
the small number of real Friends to Liberty, whom
the violence of fadion has left |'n the world. The
wife and illuftrinvis Bernftorff applauds his virtues.
1 he kindred foul of Jvofciuiko glows with indigna
tion at his unmerited fuffering j the eloquent voice
of Fox and Sheridan has been raised to load his
persecutors with execration ; a.nd the heart of
Washington himfelf, ha? bled for the hard fate of
his fellow soldier in thecaufeof Liberty."
There is a magiflrMe in Gloiicefierfhire, who
has n goose now in the 25th year of its age, of
which hi* worship is very fond, as he fays they
used to go to school together.
X". tlte Edith*, if lit ica.
li:ic'..e,
As you have announced your determina. ion to
pnbiiih, an impart open to the inveihgai i-m
of tiuth fiom all fnies, I have chosen it°as vhe
channel for conveying the following obfci vatious
to the public ; and I request you to. giv« them a
place ;is soon as possible.
Some of thole who have opposed the treaty with
Great Britain are continually telling us cf '• the
will of the people," of the " general voice of th;.
peopleagait.lt the treaty," and it Iras lately been
alked, whether the firmnefs of the President, so
much extolled of late, has been exerted in refill
ing "the unequivocal voire of his fellow citizens
from New-Hampshire to Georgia/'
1 Mr. Bache, am one of those who think that
the voice of the people is the voice of God, w hen
deliberately, and unequivocally pronounced, it
mult and will be obeyed. But what is this unequiv
ocal declaration of ihe public will tefpefting the
treaty ? tiow has this ■* unequivocal voice of the
people from New-Hampshire* to Georgia" been
collected ? The truth is, tha,t a very small number
of persons, scattered through the different Hates,
have assembled, have aflumed the right of fpeiking
in the.name of the people, aijd have attempted to
direct that government which the >vhole people
have eftabliiied. These prefumptujus individual*.,
not content to exercif* their right of fpenkingfor
themselves, call themtelvca the people," and ar
rogantly speak for the whole community, which
has not appointed them, dees not know them, rr
pwfes no confidence in them, and nfufes to la no
tion their acts. And yet they go on to call them
selves " the people," and aceule the govcrum nt of
oppohng the " unequivocal will yl the psopV'>
j be<.alife it has refuted to exercile a truf!, confided
|to it by the whole community, according to the
will of a few unauthorized iniUvidvals. I«et
begin with New-Hampshire and examine the pow
ers of these individuals who claim the right of de
claring the general vvill and directing the govern
ment. New-Hampshire contains 141,000 citizens
of whom according to ufu&l calculation, 28,0c0
arc able to bear arms. The fiate confilts of five
laigc counties, and [93 towns, two of which are
Poitfmouth and Rye. Portfmouih contains
inhabitant!, and Rye 865, in the ;
of this number, according to tt e usual calculation,
1 100 are men capable of beating arms. In P,;;l
mouth and Rye there were meetings on the fubjejft
of the treaty : 500 I think, are said to have at
tended a,t the former, and a out fifty at the latter
place. 1 his was barely a majority of the freemen
of tne two towns, and they contain less th»n a
twenty filth part of the people of Nevv-Hampfhire,
All the reft ot the Hate, with her five counties, her
hundred and ninety three towns, and her twenty
five thousand freemen, remain perfectly quiet, fays
not one word, and yet these two towns are to
speak sot the other hundred an-1 ninety one 1 These
550 individuals are not onlv to call themselves thti
people of Poitfmouth and Rye, of which ihey
conllitute barely a majority, but are to be conhd
ercd as representing the will of New Hampflme !
And yet we are told of the unequivocal voire of
'hepeople! Did the 25,009 freemen of New 5
Hampshire depute the 550 citizens of Portfmou'h
and Rye to speak for them ? Have they confirmed
and coincided vith.the fa£s of ihefe 550 ? I Ihould
like to know the nature and tendency of that re.
publicanifm which sets up the vvill of a fr?,dl mi
nority, of a raere fraction of the pe.ip'.e :o govern
the whole community.! which enable? 55c tin-au
thorized individuals, to pronouuee the voice, the
V unequivocal voice" of 25,000 freemen ! 'Till it
is better explained to me, 1 fhalltake the liberty of
calling it rank ariltocracy, and of curtfidering those
who contcnd lor it as a set of dangerous and de
signing aiiftocrats, whose desire is to rule under the
malk of patriotism.
Let us go next to MafTachufetts, and fe: how
the voice, the " unequivocal voice" of that great
and powerful commonwealth has been expressed.
Maflachufetts contains 475,000 people of whom,
according to the usual computation, (£5,000 are
able to bear arms. The (late contains 16 counties
and 39 towns. Four pfthefe are Boston, Charlef
t»n, Dracut, and Plymouth. Bonlton contains
18,000 inhabitants, Charleston 1500, Dracut 1200,
and Plymouth 2990, in the whole 23,690; of
which, according to the usual computation, 4,50:5
are capable of hearing arips. In these four towns,
yhich contain less than a twentieth of the freemen
in Maflachufetts, meetings on the fub
je& of the treaty : 1500 are said. to attended
at Boston, and 150 at Charleston. The numbers
at Dracut and Plymouth, 1 have not heard, bm
supposing them to be in the fame propoitian with
Charleston, there would be about 2GO at Plymouth,
and at Dracut. This makes up 1970 pcrfoi.g
who have declared against the. treaty in Maflachu
fetts. All the reft of the slate remains in lilence.
Four townj speak by their own authority for 389 :
'979 P er fo»s for a community containing 95,600
freemeo. T' le f c l97operfons compose little more
than a third of the freepien in those towns where
they afiemble ; and yet they are to speak. not only
for thole towns, hut for 92,000 freemen in the
of the state, for nearly fifty tipies their number of
citizens, who have not appointed them, or expres
sed the smallest approbation of their a6t! This is
the <• unequivocal voice*' of Maflachufetts.
Tn the fame manner froja one to two hundred
perfone in Newport, have declared the unequivo
cal voice" of Rhode Island.
The " unequivocal voice'-' of Connrftiaut has
been exprsfTed by absolute silence. That great
state, containing fouls, and remarkable far
being the bell informed, the snolt independent, and
the mod republican in the union, has not said one
word about the treaty. Some wife-acre, in a letter
dated from Philadelphia, on the loth of October,
to hi 9 friend in Charledon, attributes this acquief
ccnpe of Coone&icut to the influence of, Colonel
Wndfwoith and a very fevy others, {' who dirrdt
the meafurcs, the likings and diflikingso.f theftale."
But if this discerning hedtor, while he was " re
mainirg fume time in the Itatp," and riding, as he
said lie did, a good deal up and down it, had em
ployed himfelf in observing the cbara&er of the
people, l'.e would have found cut that Col. WadT