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