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jgreen bag fitted with toUs -of parchment,
*a«d Itaving the ward Admiralty in large
letters «n fho front of the J>ag.
James Head, £ffl. wearing a Silver pen ia
his hat.
Oemeoct Biddle, Effl, M*rfhal* carrying a
lilver oar adorned with giseu ribbands.
XX.
The Wildcat Ai the Port end Tonnage OITI
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XXL
Cdfleflof/®T tlit Cufloms and Naval Offerer.
t\ xxn.
Canton, Esq. as a citizen, and Col.
JXaac Mr Ichor at an Indian-Chief, in arar
wage, fmoaking the calumet of peaceto
.■flether- The Sachem magnificently dresf
ied, according to the Indian cuflum ; -his
liead adorned with leaflet and white
plumes.; jewels (ft filiter hanging from hit
nose aqd ears; ten firings of wampum
round his ‘neck; the bread belt of peace
•and brotherly love in his hand; an orna
* rijented veil and other decorations suitable
to the character.
xxm
'Theßeflis county Troop, confining of 30
<iragoonß, commanded by Capt. Philip
Strubmg % in their /uniform* compieatiy
mounted and accoutered.
xxiy.
The NEW ROOF, vt GRAND FEDE
HAJL EDIFICE, on a carriage, drawn .by
ten white horses ; the dome supported 'by
thirteen Corinthian columns, raffed tm pe
•dedals proper to that orders .the frieze deco
rated -with thirteen liars j ten of the columns
compleat and throe left tmfimlhed—on the
§>edeftals of the calamus were mferibed, in
ornamented cyphers, the initials of the thir
teen American States. On Hie top of the
deme a handsome Cupola, ftrrrounded by a
sfigure of bearing her cornucopias
mud other emblems of her charafter. The
4dimenlions this /building were a6follow:
Ten feet diameter* eleven feet to the ‘top of
ith ec or nice, the dome four fee thigh, the cu
pola dive feet high, ehe 'figure of Tlemy three
ieet dv inches; the carriage in whichtt was
mounted three feet high * the whole thirty.
4frx feet da‘height. Round the pedestal of the
edifice were these words— u In anion ibe fa -
Jbruci Jlandi firm*
This Elegant building was hegun and finifh
*A .ra the Aert space of four days, by Mcffis.
ffifiriiliam Williams and Co.
The Gyand Edifice was followed by ardhi
fetds and houfe-carpenters* lin -number four
tun deed nod fifty, carrying insignia of the
erade, .and proceeded by Mess. Benjamin
JLoaley, Gunning Bedford* Thomas Nevel,
Budd, Joseph GgUby .and William Ro
berts, difplayang designs in*fcbiteftur<!, &c.
Blc. (George Ingels bore tpe houfe-carpencers
filandard—the company’s arms properly em
felaroned on a white field-*——Motto “ juf-
Xue and bonewtlenot?* ].
To this corps* flie Saw-makers and File
cwttera attached themselves, headed by MefT.
John. Harper and William Cook, and carry
ing a flag, with a hand and law mill, and
few gHten a prink field.
•On the Boor of the Grand Edifice were
placed ten chairs, for 4 he accommodation of
aeu gentlemen* via. Mess. Hillary Baker,
George Latimer* John Wharton, John Nef
%it* Samuel Morris* John Brown, Tench
Francis, Jofitph Antony, John Chalonet and
Benjamin Fuller. These gentlemen fat as ve
piefonrauves of the citizens at large, to whom
the Federal Condkution was committed ptt
wious to the ratification.—When the Grand
Edifice arrived Hie at XJnion Green* these.
gentlemen gave aip ebeirfeats to the Reprefen
<ativ.es «f the States, enumerated above tin
jarticle XV. who entered the Temple, nad
hung their Bags on the Corinthian columns
*0 which they ctfpefti vely belonged, In the .
evening, the Grand Edifice, with the ten
tStates noiwin norm, was brought hath in great
triumph, and with kmd hwczaa, to ripe Statc-
Idoulc tin Chefmtt-ftreet where it now Bands.
KXV-
The fennfyUrania Society ofCINCTNNATT*
XXVI.
Corps of Ught infantry, commanded by
Capt. Rest?, with the standard of the sth
regiment
XX’VH.
The AGiaCIfLtHRAL SOCIETY,
hesdai their dkefident AatnuA Powil,
"l* A dagtuusne iby Majsr Uodt*
V
s
. ion, on a buff-coloured ground iu an Dval
? compartment. Jndttjiry .represented by a
* ploughman, driving a plough drawn by caen,,
followed at -a dmail by the. Goddess
\ of Plenty, bearing a cornucopia in her left
< and .a ffjcklcdn her right hand—|o «the back
ground, a view of an American Farm
Motto—“ detternte the .Plough.**
XXVIII.
FARMERS, headed by Richard Peters,
* Rncfhard Willing, Samuel Meredith , ljaae
Warner, 'George Gray, William Peltz »
Burkhart and Lhe. rles Willing. Two ploughs,
the one drawn by four oxen, and direiledby
- Richard Willing, Esq. in a Tanner’s dress,
Mr. Charles Willing in the .character of a
plough-boy driving the oxen: the other
* drawn <by two *horfe«, and directed by Mr.
Burkhart—followed by a Tower, fow
' * ing feed—-Farmers —Millers, &x.
t hi. B. This conspicuous and inf or est mg
< part of the Proceffam cannot be minutely de
icribed, as flic gentlemen who concluded it
* live in the country, and there was noc time
for procut ing an account .of the arrangement
{ from tbem.
i XXIX.
The Manillafturing Societr, with The fpin
•ning and carding machines, looms, &c.
Mr. Galludet bearing a dag, the device of
’ which was a beehive, wifii bees illuing from
it, landing iu the beams of a tiling fun;
j the field of the Bag blue, and the Motto—
** In ‘its raysvee Jhall feelww vigour,”
Written in golden charatiers.
! RobertdJare, Esquire. - -
Managers of the Society*
Subscribers to ditto*
1 Committee for managing the manuFafhiring
fund—-JSubfcribcrs to the man ufatl wing
J fund.
The carriage oT she tfcamfFafhrres is m
letigth thirty feet, iu breadth thirteen feet,
, and the .fame height, neatly .covered with
white cotton of therrmainifathu e, and drawn
hy tew’large bay ( horCeson ibis carriage
was (placed the carding 'machine* Worked by
two perfems, and warding cotton at the rate
s of fifty pounds weight per day; next a fpin*
* ning .machine of eighty .spindles, worked by
a woman, {a native of and inftrufted in this
•city ) drawing totton fuitahle for .-fine jeaus or
federal rib; on the eight of <he stage was
next .placed a lace loom, a workman .weav
ing a rich scarlet and whirr livery dace; on
the left a ihan weaving jean on a large loom,
with a fly (buttle ; behind thelooms wasfix
- ed the apparatus off Mr. Hewfon, [printing
■ muslins ofanelegant diintz pattern, and Mr.
r Tang designing and cutting prints fat (hauls;
) on the right was Heated Mrs. Hewfon and
her four daughters, penciling a piece of Very
neat.fprig’d diintz of Mr, fiewfo*i*s printing,
; all drefled in cottons of t heir-own manufac
ture , on she back part of the carriage, on a
lofty -ftafF, was displayed the calico printers
’ dag, in she centre thirteen Bars in a blue
Reid, and thirteen red ftriptsin a white field,
. round the edges of the Bag Were printed fhir
> ty-feven different prints of various colours,
one of them a very -elegant bed furniture
- chintz off fix colours, as fpechnens of print
ing <done at Philadelphia—-—-Motto—
' ** May tbt Union Government proteQ ihema
•nt/aSures of America.'*
Then followed the weavers flag, a ram
pant lion in a green field, holding a lhuttle
In his dexter paw—— Motto-?
144 May government proieS us*
Behind the flag walked the weavers of die fac
tory accompanied by other-citizens of the
fame trade, in number about a hundred.
The cotton card makers annexed the ni
felves .to this fuciety.
XXX.
; Corps of Light 'infantry, commanded by
Capt. Jtobinfou, with the standard df the
! <6th regiment.
XXXI. The Marine Society.
Capt. Greenaway, carrying a
globe, Supported by Captains Jieyfljam.and
Alberfati, with spy glafles in Their hands.
Ten Captains, .five abreast, .with quadrants,
reprefeutiug the ten Sates that have joined ihe
Union, viz.
John Woods Robert Betiie4
John AAuntad William,Aifcu
Wilhstu Miller William Tanner
Samuel Flow ell Lee Am Simmons and
John Smider George Atkiafon t
Members of alit fbeiety,
; /riuipets, fpy-gfcuUs, charts, aad fuudry
♦ * •
other implements cf their profeffion, wearing
badges in their hats, reprefeating a lhip—
8p in number.
i XXXIS.
The —A Federal
Ship jffijjlfa UNION,
Mounting twenty gu©3, camraanded by john
Grce;i, Lfq. Capt. S. Smith ; W. Belchar
and Ms. Merter, Lieutenants ; four young
boys in uniform as midshipmen ; the crew,
including officers,-confined of men. Ths
fiiip Union is 33 feet in length, her width and
depth in due proportion. Her bottom 13 the
barge of the ship Alliance, atrd chp fame
barge which formerly belonged to the Sera
pic, and wt« taken in the memorable ea
gag cine nt of Capt. Paul jones, of the Boa
Homme Richard with the S'crapia ——
Union is a master-piece of elegant workman
lhip, perfectly proportioned and compleat
throughout; decorated with emblematicaf
carving, .and finished even to a stroke of the
painter’s bruih. And what is truly aftonilh
ing, fl'.e was begun and coniplea’ed in less
than four days, viz. begun at eleveu o’clock
on Monday morning fbe 30111 of June, and
on the 'field of rendezvous on Thursday even
ing following, fully prepared to join fn the
Grand Procession. The WorkinanrtiFp anil
appearance of this beautiful objeft command*
ed universal admiration and applause, and did
high, honor to the attifts of Philadelphia, who
were concerned in her co.nftruftic*. She was
mounted on a carriage made forfhef purpoife,
and drawn by ten hoifes.-—A flieet of canvas
was tacked all around along the water line,
and extending over a fight frame, bung to
the ground, so as entirely to conceal the
wheels and machinery. Ibis Canvas was
paiuted to reprefctlt the Tea •, so That nothing
incongruous appeared to offend the eye. The
ceremonies in setting fail, receiving die pilot
on board, trimming her jails to the wind,
according to the feverai toudesof the line ol
march, throwing the lead, her arrival at
Union 'G-een, carting anchor, being hair'd
and welcomed -with tlifee cheers: and the
Captain forwarding his dispatches to the Pre
sident OF the United States, Sc c. &c. were
all performed With the drifted, maritime
propriety Bet 'neither time;, nor theXpace
allotted for this account will petmit iuch a
detail as would dojuflicfito the conduft
, "Captain Green and his crew, and tothearebi
tefts and feveial workmen concerned in tbie
beautiful feature in our Grand Procefficm.
These particulars may be fubjefts of future
dlfplay and amtifeinent.
The ihip was followed by the Pilots <ff fbe
' Port, .
With their boat, (named * The Federal
Pilots’) under the command of Isaac Roach*
who Iheer’d akwig-fide thefhip Union at the
place appointed, and put Mr. Michael Daw-
Jfon on hoatd as pilot; then took his station
with his boat in ihe and on her
arrival attended and took the pilot off again.
ITo &t ccntinvd.l .
B O S T ■© N, J«ly 2 . .
Eixtwfi of a'Utter from a gentleman in Ncwy
'3~or& t> dated ‘dune 26,
Congress will proceed t&.Wthe new
government in operation aboae firft of
August, <fr at fun heft the loth.V*^
Orders have been feat from f** American
agent in China, for building g OO
. t on* for that .trade.—fJßTe terfu'whh plMiucc
that the «ei£U is <0 be built in tUt town,
, t **" h ■ i A
.WfW.Y OR £, T# :•!
It js said that the French miuirtry are de
termined. to encourage tmuuufafturiag la‘the
United States of America, as they fay, the
more trade-Great*Britain has, rhe richer
will he, which will make her a Wronger ami
more powerful enemy to'France w hen thefc
two countries ane-at war with each
huton the contrary, if rhey can transfer tire
manufacturing -Ulincfs from Great-Britain t*
America, aad can he fuppljed from thence
with the goods which they now get from
Gieat-Britaia, that they will thereby enrich
this country 4j(dJtave rhemfdves, for u vre
have an alliance with them, th« j^h er
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