it a greater stimulus than it now had, so as to divert the young men and farmers, sons from other occupations and elpeciai ly that of agriculture, and by that means under the pretence of encouraging na\i gation, to do a real injury to America ? He said he would now bellow a few observations on the political considerations which are urged to induce the adoption of these resolutions ; and a gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Giles) has told us that three quarters of his arguments and in ducements for adopting them are deri ved from that quarter. Say the gentle men, the treaty of peace has never been complied with on the part of Great Bri tain : Thev excited a savage war on cur frontiers, and Algerine depredations on our commerce. These are iejious evils that readily ad dress themfelvcs to our paflions, and any attempts to palliate or lelfen their influ ence, could not, he was sensible, meet with a very favourable reception. When we are,, however, called upon to delibe rate upon great national concerns, which involve both the honor and most impor tant interests of our country, we ought to examine with the cool deliberate eye of a judge, and not under the influence of passion. That Great Britain has vi olated the treaty, does not admit a doubt, and that (he was also the firll to violate ; but if we lock at home, {hall we not have the candor to own, that we,havea!fo vio lated that treaty ? Do not foine of the public officers admit that we have ? There are mutual complaints—and the Execu tive have put that in a train of negotia tion—and as the various ads of the State Legislatures, the adoption of this govern ment, which has opened the Federal Courts in an honorable manner to the claims of British fubje&s, has removed the principal ground of complaint against the United States. And the able and mailer!y manner in which the Secretary of State has arranged and brought up the matter, he flattered himfolf would fa tisfy the court of Great Britain, and in duce a full compliance with the treaty on their part, he thought the matter was.re duced to such a fituatton that (he could not withhold her compliance. A letter has been lent to the British Court thro' her -Min+fter on the fubj£&, to which 110 anfvver has yet been received—and one gentieman has gone so far as to call the delay a firjh injult. He thought that candor lequired that we (hould admit tliat the reason they had given for this delay had some wait.— Have not we ourselves confidercd Great Britain as being in a very critical lituation ? Has not that in fact been the cafe ? Have they not conlidered the government it fclf as being in danger ? If a man's house was on fire, was it to be supposed that his attention could be engaged in regulating the mere unimportant concerns of his fa mily ? Surely 110 candid man will fay that the government of Great Britain are ve ry criminal for having delayed an anfvvcr to those representations, which have been forwarded from this country. It could not be expe&cd that they would instantly lay aside all their great national concerns, to decide upon them—it docs not seem to have been expected by the executive. He. noticed in the President's inftruc tiows to Mr. Pinckncy—he was directed not to commit himfelf by ill timed or too ardent demands; he was to urge an an swer as much as pofiible, without commit ment, and on the firlt day of December, to give information of the (late in which the matter was. The time in which we might expect an answer, is not yet arri ved. We ought to wait a reasonable time —if the answer (hould be unfavorable, and all hopes of success from negotiation should fail, and there (hould be 110 prof peft of a compliance with the treaty on the part of Great Britain, it will then be time enough to bring the fubjcCt un der confederation. He wished to have it fairly brought up unconnected with any other natter, and fucli meafurcs adopted as (hould be judged best upon mature deliberation, and after deeply weighing evtry ciicmnftar.ce. At present the fub jcCt appeared to him to be prematurely brought forward. (To le concluded in our next.) New Theatre. ALL persons holding shares by trans fer, are requefled to give notice to the Managers at the Theatre, on or before Monday morning the 17th inli. at 10 o'clock, in order that Subfcribcrs Tickets may be provided. Feb. 14. PHILADELPHIA, FEBRUARY 14 CONGRESS House of RcprefentaU vt Friday, Feb. 14 A message from the Senafe by Mr. Ofcis their secretary, informed the house that the Senate have pafled' the bill for the re lief of Thomas Jenkins and Sons. The house then proceeded in the consi deration of the report on the Delaware e- leclion. The qucftion for agreeing to the clause which fhtcs that John Patton is not duly ele&ed to fcrve as a member being put, was carried in the affirmative, nearly una- nimous. The clause of the report which states that Henry Latimer is duly ele£te<J, be ing put, a debate ensued— The qudtion was at length determined by yeas and uavs, 57 in favor of agreeing to the clause and 31 against it—Mr. La timer was accordingly qualified, and took his feat in the house. The Governor of New-jersey has, by proclamation, dated the l.oth iiiftant, ap pointed the 20th of next month, to be held throughout the State, as a day of Thanks giving and Praite. A correspondent hopes, that the pre sent republican Congrcis will, among other republican acts, bear a teltimony against every practice, the offspring of monarchy. Birth-day celebrations are inconsonant with republicar.ifm, and as such ought to be proscribed by every man who willies to preserve the purity of the principle—lt is to be hoped, that the representatives of the American nation, will not fuffer a sus pension of their funftion6, by an adjourn ment, to ast the part of courtiers. If la dies and beaux take a pleasure in keeping up this farce, that they may have an op portunity to !hew their fine cloaths, and display a pretty form,foot, ■ hand, or face, it cannot be supposed that the American Legislators are under the influence of such frippery. Gen. Ad. The chairman of the feleft committee on the poft-office law, yellerday commu nicated to the house when in committee of the whole, a letter from the Post-Master- General, received since the report was drawn up, of which an extract follows : The abuses practised by means of prin ters' newspapers, and the great and, for the moll part useless burthen of them in the mails,. induce me to suggest for consi deration whether it will not be expedient to charge them with the fame pojlage as those of their fubferibers ? In this cafe we should rid the mail of much lumber and make room for something of value. The Print ers in the few great sea-ports receive large packets of newspapers by every poll, many of which they do not unfold. One of the Baltimore printers lately informed me that he makes no other ufeof mcft of them than to furnifh the neighboring' (hops with waste paper. Hardly any one printer would theu take more than fix or eight newspapers: now they receive from 30 to 50 or 60. Two years ago about 600 were received weekly at the Philadelphia Post- Olfice, for the printers of that city alone. If they are now charged with pcftage, the printers in half a dozen of the largcft towns may, perhaps, agree on mutual ex changes, to the number of fix or eight. The printers in other towns would proba bly content thcmfelves with the best pa pers printed in their own capital, and a couple from the feat of the general go vernment. Formerly Printers used to publish the lifts of dead letters gratis : now they de mand and receive pay ; and in the large offices this expense is considerable. In Philadelphia it amounts to a hundred dol lars a year ; though done at rates below the usual advertising prices. This cir cumftancc at leaf! lejfens their title to the favor of receiving their papers free. If by means of the proposed reftriftion the Printers' newspapers were reduced (as they would be) four-fifths in number, it would be more pra£tieable to expedite the conveyance of them ; and expedition would much more than counter-balencc the ex- pencc. Extrafl of a letter from Georgia, Jan. 17. " You will receive by General Gunn, an account of the melancholy and untime ly death of our mutual friend Major For fyth. That vile hypocrite Beverly Allen, of South-Carolina, the pretended Mctho- Jwt Clergvihxn, whom you will recolletl when you arc told it ii the one who de bauched the daughter of his neighbor, (one ct his -brethren) and that almost in the presence of bis wife, was the monfler who added this to the lift of his other a bominable deeds. Forfyth was serving a civil process upon him in favor of a citi zen of this state, when without the least caution or threat, he discharged a pillol at him, by which he died in 2 hours.— Allen immediately (hut himfelf up, but it was with extreme difficulty that the ma giltrates qoulcl prevent the people of the town from tearing him to pieces—He was got to jail, where he i 6 now in irons, and awaits his deserved fate. You know the fituaticHi of the worthy family of our friend, who depended entirely on him for their support, and are now entirely desti tute ; as he was in the service of the Uni ted States, in an office which afforded but trifling emoluments, and had long and a bly served the public in the late war,would it not be poifible to obtain some compen sation to his diitreffed family for so irrepa rable a loss !" By this Day's Mail. BOSTON, February 5, The Theatre in this town was open ed on Monday evening-—The truly Re publican Tragedy of Gustavus Vasa, the deliverer of his conntrv, .was honoured as the introductory performance The" House, as was to be expected, was filled, " from the lowest note to the top of the compass and the decorum observed was charafteriftic of enlightened freemen.— The ladits in the boxes, confirmed the ob servation of the Poet, that " beauty needs not the aid of ornament, but is when una dorned, adorned the moflThe request of the Matter of Ceremonies, was universally complied with, and much benefit derived therefrom to the auditory. NEW-YORK, Feb. 13 Extract of a letter from a merchant in Li verpool, to the friend in this city, dated November l j —receivedyefterday per the Jhip Lydia. "■We have accounts this day, that the Trench have orders, and do capture, and fehd into port all neutral vejjels, either bound to from the ports of their enemies ; for this purpose they have nowfeven large *.igates' cruising between Cape-Finifter and the Lezaro. American (hips are now greater rifques than British vessels, as no American {hip coming home, can be ap prised of this Order of the Conven tion. They have capturcd several Danes and Swedes, the only two nations they were not at war with." Extract of a Tetter from Capt. Cheefcman, • who failed from Bolton for Philadelphia, the 27th of November, dated Charles- ton (6. C.) Jan. 13. " I arrived here after a passage of 46 days, with no provisions of any kmd, hav ing been on (hort allowance for 10 days, till we were reduced to half a pint of wa ter a man, land half a bifquit between four. " Seven days after I left Boston, got foundings off the Capes of Delaware, in 15 fathom water, but unfortunately it came on to blow a heavy gale from N. E. and by E. which obliged me to get off immediately into deeper water.—But it continued to blow so severe, that I hove her too under a balanced reefed forefail, to range off—this was 8 o'clock in the morning. A heavy sea going, and it blowing terribly, I (hipped a sea, which entirely cleared the deck, wafting over board myfelf mate and boy ; but by the blefling of God, 1 got on board again, and put the helm up, before my people got the mate aboard, who was 15 feet from the vefftl, but fortunately caught hold of the cable, and so was laved : But the boy we never saw after ; his name is Joseph WiUcut- My passengers below re ceived no material injury except being thrown from one fide of the cabin to the other, notwithstanding {he lay with her forefail in the water, half way to the gaff, for four minutes. The fore-fail split, and then £he righted. In five days after, we got fight of the Capes again, and was a gain blown off. This gale blew all my fails to pieces. I have experienced tight of the molt severe gales I ever knew, and was glad to arrive at any port. Having been ptcferved most miraculously from (hip wreck. It may be proper to mention that we (houlcj all have ptriflwd after the firll gale, had wc not spoke a vessel from Mar bfehead, the Captain of which generoofly and humanely supplied u» with 40 gallon* of water;" Extract of a letter from Savannah, Janu ary 29. " Our harbor at present wears a more lively afpedl than it has for fix months past ; we have here two copper-bottomed merchant (hips from Liverpool, armed for their defence as letters of marque, and X 32 gun Britilh frigate, called the Hufiar, commanded by Rupert George, from a cruise, but lalt from Halifax. " No doubt you have heard of the at tempt made by the Negroes in some part of this (late to rife, it was in Augulli and its vicinity, on the 25th of Dec. and there was not a Negro to be found in the town, they having all aflembled privately at some house in the suburbs, all armed ; but something of it being fufpefled, Gov. Matthews ordered out the militia, and he at their head difperfcd the Negroes, and patrolled the town a whole night; by which precaution nothing was effected. Departed tins life the 6th init. aged 23 years, William Heylegar, Efa. late of St. Croix—a gentleman of a most refpeftable family, and whose personal qualities and amiable disposition, endeared him to all his acquaintance, ,'uid whose death they most sincerely lament. ARRIVED. Ship Wilmington, Magee, Alexander, Carpenter, Lydia, Draymond, Brig Merciuy, King, Nancy, Harris, Schr. Experiment, Bruce, Union, Lovett, Atalanta, Skinner, Eliza, Fanning, Charleftori Sloop Industry, Allen, Frederickfburgh Hannah, Conklin, Turks-Island Jamaica,^ An Ast for giving validity in this IJland to Probates to be taken, by certain Officers in the United States of America, of D'.eds to be there executed, and atfo to Exempli fications of Wills there proved. WHEREAS, since the reparation from the crown of Great-Britain of the late co lonies, now called the United States of Ame rica, great inconveniences have arisen to many of his Majesty's fubjefls occasionally res ijng in tliofe States, for want of a legal provnion relpeiHng the probates and acknowledgments of deeds executed in the said States, and in tended to operate in this island: For remedy whereof, we, your Majesty's dutiful and loyal fuhjcils, the Lieutenant-Governor, Council, and AfTembly of this your Majesty's island of Jamaica, humbly beseech your Majesty that it rray be enaded ; Be it therefore ena&ed, and it is hereby enadled and ordained bv the authority of the fame, That, from and im mediately after the palling of this a<3, any conveyance, letter of attorney, or other deed whatsoever, which (hall be hereafter executed in any of the United States of America, and (hall be proved by a fubferibing witness, or acknowledged by the party or parties, before any of his Majesty's Consuls or Viee-Confuls residing in any of those States, or before the Chief Justice of any ef the said States, or be fore the Chief Justice or any of the Judges of the Supreme Court of the said United States, and certified under the seal of any of the said States, or the seal of the said United States, (hall be, and the fame is hereby declared to be, as good and effeilual in the law as if such conveyance, letter of attorney, or other deed, had been refpeiftively proved or acknowledged before a Judge of any court of record in this island; any law, custom, or usage, to the con trary notwithstanding : —Provided always, That in all cases wherein the right cr property of any woman under coverture is intended to be conveyed, (he (hall be examined separate and apart from her husband, by the Judge who attests the probate, and the said examina tion (hall be certified in like manner as is prac tised in Great-Britain or in this Island. n. And be it further mailed by the autho rity aforefaid, That the probate of any Lalt will and tcftament, taken before any officer authorized to take probates of wills in anv of the said State 9, and exemplified under the seal of the State where such probate fhr.ll have been taken, shall be, and the fame is hereby declared to be, as good and efiedtual in the law, as ifiuch probate had been taken before tlie ordinary of this ifiand ; any law, cuftcm, or usage, to the contrary in any wile nctwith flanding. Pfijfed the AJfembly this nth day of Xmem 'her, 179.?. WILLIAM BLAIvE, speaker. 7 njfed the Council, this \\th November, *793. G. ATKINSON, CI. Council. I coxfenf, this 6th December, 1793. * ADAM WILLIAMSON. Vera copia extur. G. Atkinson, Sec. *„* The American Printers are reqtiefted to publish this in their f'cveral ntwfpspers. Cadiz Savannah Liverpool Jamaica Lifboa Kingston Petersburg Bermuda
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