Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

Agreeable to notification in several of the newspapers of the City of Philadelphia, requesting a meeting of the merchants, traders, mechanics and other citizens, at the Union School House in Germantown, on Wednesday 29th August, at 4 o'clock P. M. in order to fix on a suitable character to be offered at the ensuing election to represent the City of Philadelphia in Congress, in the vacancy occasioned by the decease of John Swanwick, Esq. and also in the next Congress--A senator, to represent in the state senate, the city of Philadelphia and County of Delaware--and six persons to represent the city in the house of assembly.

A numerous and respectable body of the freemen of the city attended. The business of the meeting being opened, a letter from captain Joseph Anthony, addressed to the chairman of the meeting was read, expressing a decided opinion on the necessity of uniting the interest of the friends of the constitution and government in the choice of their representative, that he conceived Mr. Robert Waln well qualified for a seat in Congress, and soliciting his fellow citizens that his name may not be offered in competition with that gentleman, who has his full concurrence and approbation.

ROBERT WALN,

was nominated and unanimously carried as the Candidate for Congress.

FRANCIS GURNEY,

as state Senator for the district composed of the City and County of Philadelphia and County of Delaware; and as members to represent the City in assembly--

Jacob Fitizbeimer,

Lawrence Seckel,

Andrew Bayard,

William Hall, printer

Samuel W. Fisher,

John Clement Stocker.

The question being put, will this meeting support the foregoing ticket? it was unanimously agreed to, and it was also recommended to the freemen of the City of Philadelphia attached to the federal government for their support, and to those of the County of Philadelphia and County of Delaware in support of the Senator.

Ordered, that the minutes of the meeting, signed by the chairman and secretary, be published in the newspapers of the City, for the general information of the electors.

LEVI HOLLINGSWORTH

Chairman.

DANIEL SMITH, Secretary.

Germantown, 29th August, 1798.