Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

NEW-YORK, August 2.

Last week the citizens in the vicinity of Coenties-slip, were alarmed by the appearance of a disease resembling in its symptoms the Fever of 1798. The number of cases was small, probably not exceeding eight at most, of which five terminated fatally. We are happy to remark, that it now appears to have subsided entirely. On enquiring in that neighbourhood yesterday, we could not learn that a single new case had occurred this week, and that two persons are still indisposed, though far advanced in convalescence.

Two opinions are entertained of its origin. Some ascribe it to the ship Gen Wayne, from Havanna—others to local causes. Though the truth may not, perhaps, be accurately known, 'tis said by some that if it be now extinct, and do not appear again, it will not be easy to establish that it arose from causes existing on the spot.

We thought it necessary to make this brief statement, after particular enquiry of Physicians and others, more especially for the information of our distant readers, who have no doubt been imposed on as usual by the most exaggerated rumours; an idea is rendered the more probable, from the contradictory and unfounded reports which we know have been circulated even in town.