-V "^s. * * ■
Mr. Parley, jun. & Miss MUbourneV
night.
New Theatre.
On WEDNESDAY F.VENING, June 2a,
Will be presented, a Comedy, called.
The Dramatist;
Or, STOP HIM WHO CaN !
Scratch, Mr- Bate.-
Neville, Mr - r ' reen -
Floriville, . ' M '
Willoughby, Mr. Darley, i«n.
Inoui, Mr, Marshall.
Peter, Mr - r^ncis.
Vapii. {wirfitfce Epilogue, Mr. Chalmers.
Mifi o« r tnfy, Mr«. Francis.
Ladv UYufor't, Mrs. Suaw.
Le*y, Mr». Solomon.
lisriannr, (ift 'ime} Miss Milbourne.
•letwe** fourth and fifth *£b of the domcdy, Mr. t)*r
ley, ju-n. will sing the
INVOCATION TO LIBERTY.
Taken from the plav of Jhe Patriot.
ITo which will be added, * favorite Mofical Romance, in 3
a£ta, (taken from the French) called
The Prisoner.
Marcos, Mr. Marshall.
Bernardo, Mr. Darley, jun.
Pafquel, 'Mr. Darley.
Mr. BMfctt.
Lewis, Mr. Morcton.
NarcifTo, (firft time) Mallei R Bates.
Clara, Mrs. Warrell,
Theresa, ' Mrs. Harvey.
Nina, Mrs. Marshall.
Juliana, Miss Solomon.
"With New Scenery and Decorations.
The Scenery designed and executed by Mr. Milbourne.
The Music and Accompaniments, with the original Over
ture, composed by Mr, Attwood. ,
Tickets to be had ot Mr. Darley, jun. lso Vine Greet, of
Miss Milbourne, 34 North 7th street, and the ufoal places.
On Friday, THE WEST-INDIAN, with the Farce of
CROTGHET LODGE ; or,/I he Spouting Landlord, with
©tber Entertainments, for the benefit of Mrs Francis.
Mr. MILBOURNE'S Night will be-on Monday next#
BOX, One Dollar—PlT, Three-Fourths of a Dollar—
tndGALLERY, Haifa Dollar.
Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. We l ls, .at the
fron'" u 'Theatre;
No money or ticket! to be returned; nor any per foe, on
gny account whatsoever, admitted behind the scenes.
Ladies and Gentlemen are reauefted to fend their fervints
to keep places a quarter before hve o'clock, and order them
as soon as the company is Seated, to withdraw as they can*
cot, on any account, be permitted to remain.
VWAT RES PUBLICS
• FIFTY DOLLARS REWARD.
RAN away from the fubferiber living -near Church
Hill, Qu-en Anns County in the State of Maryland'
about thefirll of January :laft, a black negro man, named
Sun, about thirty years of age, J feet 8 or 9 inches high,
has a crooked finger on one hand, and one leg and foot
smaller than the other, somewhat round-shouldered, his
eloathing unknown. Any person who will secure or
bring said fellow home,fo that 1 may get him again shall
have the above reward witlvreafonable charges.
WILLIAM JACOBS.
June 4. "tawjra.
War-Office of the United States,
May 4th, 1796.
> ' I 'HE following Rulos, explanatory of those published
1 the 15th February, 1789, are to beobferved by all
perfoos entitled to Lands, in purfuaHceof resolves-os
Congress.
Every certificate of the acknowledgment of a deed or
power of attorney, either before a notary public or other
magistrate, must, in addition to what is usual, set forth
that the parson making the acknowledgment is known to
ta.i fnj« •*r-- ' r - - f - 1 —
or rmporF mult be mfcrted in the certificate.
"And I do moreover certify that the said A B making
-this acknowledgment has been for perfoually
known to me."
If the notary or other magistrate has reason to believe
•that he isth person he repreifents hknfelf to be, he wil
also certify it.
Andifthe proof be made by a witnefsjrwitnefles,h«or
they mud swear to some general ftateof their knowledge of
him, which matter mull be fetforthin the certificate ; and
the notary public, or other raagiftrate, before whem tj
acknowledgment is made, -must also set forth that the.wit
n«fs or witnesses has or k->ve been for upwards of
personally known to him. 4
If a julice of the peace is employed, the clerk of the
court of the corporation or county mull certify that such
perfota is a justice of the peace of the county or corpora
tion as the cafe may be, and that full faith is due to hi»
ads as such. JAMES M'HENRY,
Secretary ps War.
May 11. law^m
Eank of the United States,
JUNE 14th, 1796.v
NOTICE is hereby given, that applications will be re
ceived at Bank, until the firft day of July next, m
clufive, for the purchase of the fix per cent flock bearing
interest from the firft day of July next, to be issued agree
ably to an adl of Co grefs, palled the thirty-firft day of
May lafl, entitled, " an ad making provision for the pay
ment of certain debts of the United States."
CONDIT I O N S:
xft. Said flock will be fold at par, for notes with-two
endorsers, to be approved of, at terms not exceeding three,
four, and ve months, in three equal instalments. '<
2d. No sum less than one hundred dollars will be fold,
■or any sum expressing a fractional part of one hundred
dollars.
N. B. tbe applications accompanied by tbe nates offered in
taymexi art to be made in tbe fame manner as for difcaunts and
are to be banded to tbe Cajbier, from ivbotn astfivers can be re
ceived en tbe fecund of July.
By order of the Directors,
tJ. SIMPSON, Cashier.
lawtl J , wftjr
FOR SALE,
An ekgant 3 story Brick Messuage
And LOT of GROUND t <
(Late the property of George Dannacker, deceased)
\TTITH piazza and -kitchen, cow-house, and stabling
▼ V for 14 hcirft s, a good pump in the yard, &c. Situ
ate on the Weft fide of Front, near Callow-Hill Arect—at
present occupied by Mr. John Kincaid.
N. B The Lot is zz 1-z feet front on the Weft fide of
>ront Street, in depth oh the North fide, 157 feet, and on
the South fide, 4 j6. GEOHGE KEMBLE } .
JAMES TRIMBIJE {Ex rß '
3t lawim
Treasury Department;
P Revenue- Office, March loth, 17,06.
POrOSALS -w ill be received at the office of the
Commoner of tic Revenue, (No. 43, at the corner" of
Iftird and Chefnut-ftrccts, Philadelphia) for huildinV in
North-Car.lina, - 6
I. A Light-Honfe upon Cape-Hat teras.
11. A Beacon House llpon shell Castle island.
Delcriptiors of each, and all other particulars, may be
fcen on application at the office.of any of the Surerinten
da its of l.ight-Houfes, or of the Supervisors of the Revt
nue, or of the CollcSors of the Cuiloms n any 0 f the
States ; as also at this office. iaw un
Sales of India Goods.
AT 10 o'clock, 011 Friday mr-rung, will be io!d, in
the Stores back of ths Auolion Room, N0.56 South
front street.
One hundred Bales of Muslins,
Imported in the ship GANGES, c*pt. y, from 111-
du, confilling of
Pun] i'ni Cloths
Gurrahs
Bafta.-.
CofTaes,
Mamoodies
Humhums
Emerties
Addatics
Doreas
Tartoers
Saatipon and Pulicat HandkerchitfT^
ALSO,
5 Cases of Chocolate Bandanoes
5 Cases of Choppoh Rornals
j Cases of Taffaties
The Purchasers will be entitled to the Drawback, and
to make payment in approved notes at <jo days, for all
sums above iooo Dollars.
Edward Fcx, Audlioneer.
Junezi
St. Groix Sugar,
LANDING on Race-street wharf , from ®n board the
brig Pi agers, capt. Thomas Watson, and for faleby
Pragers Iff Co.
Who have REMCft'ED th'.ir Coulltillg-.hou.Jc te the S.
fide of iv«\nm-jlreet wharf.
June 10
Twenty Dollars Reward,
For delivering to his Mafler, a Black Servant Boy,
named "Jack Roiiftfott, about 13 year! of age, a
smart Attivc and likly lad. Had on when be went
away, a short dark olive coloured cotton velvet jacket
with sleeves, a pair new fujlian overalls, of tbe fame
colour, and an old round black hat, no Jhoes His
time was purchased of Thomas Fi/her, SuJJex County
Delaware State, where his mother lives.
It is not unlikely but he may be gone that way. 7he
above reward will be given if he is apprehended ten
milts out of the City, but if he is taken within less
diflance, ten dollars, bcfulcs all reasonable- charges will
te paid by tbu fttbferiber, No. »3S, Atarirt Street.
WILLIAM HUNTER.
June 18. $
FOR SALE,
A very Valuable Eflate,
CALLED TWITTENHAM, situate in the
townlhip of Upper Derby, and county of Delaware,
7 1-2 miles from Phiiadelphia, and half a mile from the
new Western road: containing 230 acres of excellent iand,
45 of which are good watered meadow, 90 of prime wood
land, and the reft arable of the firft quality. There are
on the premises a good two story brick house, with grooms
on a floor, and cellars under the wholey with a pump-well
of excellent water in front; a large frame barn, llables,
and other convenient buildings-; a smoke-house andftone
spring-house ; two good apple orchards, and one of peach
cs." The fields are ail in clover, except those immediately
under tillage, and are so laid ont afc to have the advantage
of water in each of them, whick renders it peculiarly con
venient for grazing.
The situation is pleasant and healthy, and from.the high
cultivation of the land, tfie good neighbourhood, and the
vicinity to the city, it is very suitable for a gentleman's
country feat.
The foregoing, is part of the estate of Jacob H*armaii :
deceased, and joffered for sale by
Mordecai Lewis,
Oil. 9. eo.] Surviving "Executor.
MINI ATI) RE LIKEN ESSKS
ARE taken and executed in that elegant and delicate
stile, which is so fieceflary to render a Miniature Pic
ture an interesting jewel.
-He will warrant a strong and indisputable refem
blancej and he takes the liberty to lay before the public
of this place his mofl earnest intention to defexve their pa
tronage by his best endeavors to please.
N. B. Specimens are to befeen.
May 12. §
JOHN PAUL JONES.
INFORMATION is hereby given, that ths late John
Paul Jones was a proprietor of five (hares (amount
ing to about 5867 icres) in a trail of land purchased by
the Ohio Company, in the territory of the United States
of America, north-weft of the river Ohio ; and that his
heirs, or legal representative, on application to the direc
tors of said company, at Marietta in the territory afore
fiiid, will receive a deed of the said five fha»cs, or rights
of land.
The application may be made personally or by an agent,
but proper documents must be produced to prove the
claimant or claimants the legal heirs or representative of
the said Jones
n.e. As it is not known in what country the person
or persons interested reside.it will be an ad of benevolence
•in every Printer in America and Europe, who shall insert
this advertisement in his paper.
•In behalf of the diredors of the Ohio Company,
RUFUS PUTNAM.
Marietta, May 20,1796 [Jury; 4 ] -awqw
AN 'EXTENSIVE ASSORTMENT OF
Books and Stationary,
Wholesale and Retail, now opened and for Sale by
WILLIAM TOUNG,
Bookseller, No. sa, Corner of Second and Chefnut-Jlreets.
A MONG which are Fngzish, Latin, and Ghesk
xi Classics and Dictionaries, Divinity, Law, His
tory, Travels, Voyao*s, Miscellanies, and themoft
esteemed Novels.
WRITING AND PRINTING PAPERS,
From the best manufacturers in Europe, andTrom his ma
nufadory on Brandywine, viz.
Imperial,plain and xove flat Small folio poll, plain
Super-royal do. do. Ditto gilt
' Roy?l do. do. Blolfom paper assorted
Medium do. do. Transparent folio post
Demy .do. do. Superfine and common foolfc.
Glazed and hot-preffsd fohoMarbled papers.
and 4to extra largr .post coarse papers.
Thick post in folio dito][do. -Londonbrown, assorted
Ditto in 4to. ditto do. Hatters' -paper
1 Folio wove post, lined Stainers* paper
■ Quarto ditto do. -Common brown
Ditto gUt do. Patent (heathing
Common size folio post Bonnet boards
Ditto quarto, plain' Binders' Boards.
Folio and quarto post, gilt,
Also, a variety of other Stationary Articles, vix.
„ 1 Wedgwood and glass-philosophical ink stands, well affut
- ted { pewter ink chefls «f v»i„ u , sizes ; round pewter ink
stands ; paper, brass, and potifoed leather ink (lands for the
pocKct. Shmmg tand and f«,d boxes, pounce and pounce
fcoxes, inkand ink powder. Counting house and pocket pen
kmve, of the best quality, rfs (kin tablet and memorandum
books. Red and colored wafen, common size, office ditto.
c Si , , J° m a dollar ' 10 three d o»»" per hundred,
clack lead pencils, mathematical instruments, &c. &c.
" Allforts and fi«s of Blank Books, ready madeor made
" i° OI ] Cr " R cheeks, blank bills of exchange and notes of
- hand, executed in copperplate, bi.lt of lading, man if efts,
teamen s articles aud jourcali, 4c.. &c.
iOR THE GaZKTT* 1 Or TAE Li>iT£D STATES.
MR. FEN NO,
THE JacobWs of our country (fliame fu ft life
our cheeks thatnieie are such beings in it) have long
been in the habit of abuling our government, and
the men who adminii'ter it. 1 here is icarcely a
single article in the whole fyflem of the laws which
have been e;iadied, that has receiver their appioba
tion—On the contrary, while they have cried up
the infallibility of thr majority when they ftippofed
it to be with them, they have as constantly abused
that majority, when they have acted in opposition
to their opinions.
These, or fjmilar remarks have been repeatedly
offered to public confederation, and the people ap
pear to be fully sensible of their truth, it may,
however, be proper to observe, that as the spirit of
sedition is inveterate, and is constantly (hewing its
malignancy in one form or another, the friends of
the United States ought to be constantly on their
guard, to watdh the motions of their insidious ene
mies, who fcek, by an almost infinite variety of
modes, to rob the country of its.honor, peace, and
happiness.
At the present moment, all is calm ; iin'ivcrfal
tranquility prevails; and the people express the mofl
generous confidence in the constituted authorities.
The difsffedted, the rcftlefs, the tuibulent, are
frowned upon—the people turn their backs oirthem,
and elect the friends of peaoe and independence,
through the Union. Who would imagine this to
be the (late of things, after reading the abuse pour
ed out againflthe Executive of the union, in.some
late publications, for thofevery measures which the
-people feel and applaud a» wife and pa-ridtie and
whicu the majorities of the Legislative bodies have
fandtioned .' It is impofiible that one spark of pat
riotism can animate the minds of those who thus
traduce our national charadter. The authors of
this abuse are not Americans—they bore n« part in
he labors of atchieving the independence of the.U
nited States—They do not speak the language of
Americans—they know not the illustrious men who
saved this country ir. war, ana who prefcrve it in
peace. Our prosperity is the bane of these calum
niators ; our misery is their object. Our union
and refpedlability of charadter, they are solicitous
to delftoy—Nothing like Independence of charadter,
mee's their approbation—nor will they be guiet till
they despair of reducing us to the abjedt condition
of dependence on some foreign nation.
Some late publications in the Aurora, are evident
designed to excite uneasiness in the public
mind relative to the final.execution of the treaties,
concluded by this country with several foreign na
tions.
But this is not all. Uncommon paina are tak
en'to furnifh some of the parties contracting with
the United States, with reasons on which to found
a suspension, if not a final and total refufal on their
part to carry the treaties into effedt ; 1 refer parti
cularly to the Spanish treaty. The following quo
tation from a late Pitt&urgh paper, may serve as a
key to the abuse of-the executive for the explanato
ry article lately added to the British treaty. The
remarks, it is true, are conjedtural ; but due in-'
duftry will not be omitted, that they may be real
iifA jn .llthiMr mifrhicllfl- ,|r ■■*
— me quotation is as follows—
" Spain will mofl; probably suspend the ratifica
tion of her treaty with us-under a pretence of
wishing explanations on the fubjedt of the British
treaty, t fo far as refpedts the privilege given by the
United States on our fide of the M fßlippi. This
will be done at the interference of France, on the
principle of diffatisfadtion with our treaty with Bri
tain. Of the opposition from ourselves, J will veil
ture to fay, some leading charadters expedt and wish
it. For they will (land in need of this • ircumftance
to jiiftify the opposition. It is well if they have
not taken, and are not now taking undue means to
accomplish the embarrafiment. I apply not this
to our immediate reprefentativesf, it goes to a high
er source.
" France in fix months will probably have Lou
isiana, or at least the eastern bank of the Spanish
Miffifippi, and this cession will be made precisely
with a view to rescue Spain from the Itipulation of
her treaty with regard to the river, and to put it in
the power of Fiance to diftsember the Union, by
inviting a feceflion of the weft, on the ground of
no otherwise participating in the freedom of navi
gation. All these things are not only possible, but
probable $ and when they happen, our reprefenta
•tives will have the advantage ground with the ma'fs
of the people, whowill look at what exists bad, and
not at what, on a contrary system, might have ex
ifled woife. It will be the profound and the re
flecting only, that will separate unfavorable conse
quence from juftifiable principle."
f Gallatin and Findley.
Translated for the Mercury.
SPEECH of TREILHARD,
President of the Council of Five Hundred,
Preliminary to the oath of
*" Eternal Hatred to Royalty."
It was on this day—the moment in which I
speak tnat the Tyrant fuffered the punifliment
due to his crimes 3 It was, indeed, a great ohjcdt of
justice, to have struck the crimhial; but it would
have proved of small importance to the nation, if,
from theiame stroke, royalty had not been annihi
lated.
So many misfortunes—fo much blood—so many
crimes—ate not expiated by the death of a man;
and this great revolution, of which the universe
does not yet present an example, ought to raise up
on the bloody ruins of the throne, the immoital
edifice of a pure and unblemished republic. 'But,
as if the firft efforts of a nation to re assume its
rjghts were always a signal of alarm to tlje despots
of thc-cart-h, the wilh of Frenchman was fcarccly
known, and already monstrous alliances, defUuAive
treaties, liad prepared the slavery of patriots ! al
ready the Tyrant of the ocean, projected to starve
us ; and the ambitious House of Auftr'a, whilst
threatening our ffontiers, disposed, by anticipation,
, ; as if a nation, who contemplated to
i etcct ttklf into a democracy, was neccffjrily to dif-
appear from the furface of the globe. at rt
fiflance, it was asked, had we to oppose to warhk"
phalanxes —'o officers grown old in the art 0 f u ar >
Should we oppose to them young soldiers Gc:
rals, whose despotism had ftifled t in-obfcm
employments —a nation, in fadt, torn by a thou
sand intestine fadtion, ? Be encouraged, entmies f
tyranny, those young fold it 13 are thefoldier,,"]
berty ; those generals, who were thought in«
rienccd, are warm with c«urage, animated with' '
triotifra ; that nation, torn by fadtionc, i, si""
French nation, who cannot, in vain have fivorn
establish a Republic. In an dtiv.en be'
comes foldiets ; numerous battalions are form
the thunder quits the entrails of the earth • and Jf
treafoH at firli deceives our hopes, soon an almol'
perpe-ual series of fuccefles and triumphs, carry V
naongft our enemies that terror and dejedtion which
Republicans nev,r know. These honorable fp a J s '
however .; these glorious trophies, the fruits of u'J
vidtories, are stained with republican blood • Tim
are but few families who do not demand of the'tT
rant, a father, a husband, a son ; their death is the
crime of tyranny. Shad«s of our brethren re
ceive our oath. Hatred, eternal hatred to the re
alty of whieh you were the ridtims.
But the love of the republicans, whose blood ha,
-mo.llened the fields of glory, is not the moil o
idious of the crime* of the ty.ant : The rights of
nation, violated, all the bonds of huaanity broken
the fir ft principle, of natural right forgotten, an-'
archy, robbery affaffinat*,, organized : This i,
the work of a despot ; these the fruit, of royalty.
"Doubtlets, long abuses, inveterate evils, are not
destroyed without great shocks. So many con '« en _
ding intercftc; so many suppressed passions, pro
duce emotions sometimes eonvulfive ; and an abfo
lutc regeneration cannot be effected witheut forr.e
corrfufion. Jt was in these particular misfortunes
that the tnends of -kintf, placed all their hopes • to
provoke disorder, to i/icreafe St, to maintain it •
such was the obje& of their fatal policy : to m ;[.
lead opinion, to corrupt public triwvKry, tQ con
found all ideas, to-favcrrfo prepare exc?fics of eve"
vy !..,d ; such the_obj«6
combinations.; they wiflied to .egpdjir.frightful th e
effedls of the revolution ; ; to extingui(l Ve if
ble, the love of nations for freedom.
From every part of the world wete colledled the
agents of tyranny, oi'rather every thing which the
dregs of nations could present the moll corrupt:
It,was through these impure channels that the ty
rant concerted with our enemies, his plots, his in.
action, his speeches, and even his filenee. Perlidi.
ons men ! with what profound hypocrisy did they
deceive, simple, credulous minds.! and., vvhijlt they
sported with the candor and integrity of repuLl.-
cans, with what fplendoi did they preach up the j
dolatry of that liberty they detested, and the hor
ror of that despotism which they served with b
much meanness. In order more completely tode
ceive us, they had the addiefs to deck therafclre*
with the honors of perfection : .even shefucrificer,
commanded by paniolifm, were jiot foreign to
them; and the fame hand which covered then
with an apparent proscription, 111 a country they
feigned to have abjured, secretly lavished .upon
them, in France, the gold destined topenfion.crime
and to corrupt weakness. Yom wet: know, lucti
ly upon almost of the that v
they have appeared so p rov j.
dencehad drawn from its ttcafuK, to enlighten our
progress. &
Every thing was soon inverted by their impof.
tures*. the virtuous man was only a weak man •
the man of intelligence only a dangetous man ; foi!
tune was a ciime against equality ; philosophy an
attempt against patriotism. It was thus that pla
cing all interells in oppofitiou, lliarpeniSg everv
paflion, they weic enabled to form those fatal lifts «f
proscriptions, in which mere found included ,whoLj
classes of citizens.
O, disastrous days j days of Bit J
blood, organized by despotism ! may
present to the memory of nations whi
tend for their freedom, as an ufeful and
son, capable of preferring theifi again
ble fturms which have long agitated us.
however, the perfidy of oui :eticmie6, h ,
fame excesses ; those hprrors-they had
provoked, they llill exaggerated, to pai
terwards in the mod frightful-colours ; t
ted them to foreign«»M«M<9,»« a natural 1
revolution ; and more ftlly to convince , v ?
necessity of these cruel .•onftquenccs, t'
. 'ne . no tin
ced (lometimes by anti:: iatl m ) . . ;
they had themfelvcs ar - .c:, . . ', '
with the gold of natio 1, whom e)j 1 ■ %0
deceive. Thvs you bthold ' ' l ,rc j a ;. ,T * a .-
ny ■} it is with this era. ; aed'refs : ~, . ,
cover event,- with an ini'itnc:. bl .
crape, and it is thu, i- effrc'i. to cm, ccrnn
everything: What do I f .' 'v .
tred which we vow t royalty y t (at | uU ,„.
has become part'of o ex 'cq ; v ; ' 0 Vl .;
profound sentiment, wbjifh we cin n- 1 IbMicr it
ftritn, »h, well! Roy i! " ■ ,- e Unt i\
dei Hill to calumniat . oam
it a, a declaration of • wit 11 i.-rions w> «>
not live under are bli'- , and 1 reproacb«»»
already so often repeated, 1 at v . (h to dellroy
every other gorerni ,er.. rfr civ of kings area
bout to reproduce \ th a ■■ :v. HV-, o t.
Frenchmen! you who have sosig contended
for yaur indepeod ice, couir - then have con
ceived the tyrannic f ~ •,< atwcl the indepen
dence of other na'. vn we . > havc6> (o
iettinv proclaimed 1 • d;'ciara on of the rights of
man, could we tic. v »ec- ;-;nized those rights,
only hereafterindecentiy t.j vi ,:e t : rights'of na
tions ? Yes, dotibtlefs, .id .'ten > to its enemies,
the French republ.c will not 0 piepare for
them death and lieUii ' .on ; bfer r e thfy have
themfelve, wished for the death of ou fieedom and
the deftrudlion of our independence. Already
have they learnt what the enthusiasm of liberty eaji
effedt ; their flying, scattered phalanxes ; thci.
strong holds, fallen under our efforts ; our palt tri- ,
umphs; their daily defeats ; every thing announce;
to them, that " a people cannot be enflaveci, wh 1
1 are determined to be free." Every thing inforir;
them, that if they perfill in their ambiiious plans,
they mult themselves soon ierve aa a kffor. au'J ex