tice, humanity, true principles of patriot ism, the duties of morality and the best iiiterella of our country require us to de precate, aud, if potiible avoid. I have endeavored to examine and con sider the fubjeit with candor. I have formed mjr opinion upon serious delibera tion ;-.nd feel an impression of duty when the queftionTkallbc takcu, to vote againit (he proportions. (Debate to be continued.) NEW-YORK, February 26. A brig which left Bourdeax the 27th Dec._ is arrived at this port. McffisTou rons and other paflengers report, that at their departure there was in the prisons 401- yooo persons, and that the guillotine was in conitant action—that the Mayor and two officers of the municipality were the iirft victims—that a seal was put on the houses of all the merchants, and it was believed that this measure would be ta ken in all the commercial towns in I''ranee —in each of the houses under seal, four Sans Culottes are quartered at four Francs each per day. M. Raba has already been forced to pay a voluntary contribution of 500,000 livres, and it is expedted that Meiiers. Bo iiafe will be taxed one million. For a long time the inhabitants have been at eight ounces of bread per day. It was without question that another naval force would fail for this part of the world to convoy the (hipping of St. Domingo, which had taken refuge here'. They were allured that the Commerce of -Nantes had prop*fed to the Conven tion to fell the colonial produce with which those veflels are loaded, and to re place their cargoes with grain and flour. PHILADELPHIA, MARCH 3. The following is the resolution See. which passed the House of Reprefcnta tives of the United States, on the 24th lilt, refpefting the Treasury Department. Refclved, That a committee be appoint ed, to examine the state of the treasury department, and that they be inftru&ed to report to the House, generally thereon, and among'other tilings more particularly: id. Whether the form of keeping the accounts be calculated to effedhiate the dispositions of the public monies, as pre fctibed by law. 2d. Whether the cafli receipts, from the domestic resources, have exceeded, equal ed, or fallen fliort of the domestic cash expenditures, from the establishment of the government, to the firft day of Janu ary, one thousand seven hundred and nine ty-four, remarking the dates and amounts of any excess, or deficiency, quarterly. 3d. Whether the finking fund, at the time of its establishment, consisted of cash or bonds; fpecifying hi the latter cafe, as nearly as may be, the several dates, at which any funi or sums of such bonds be came payable. 4th. What proceedings have been had under the laws of {he fourth and twelfth of Aug lift, one thousand seven hundred and ninety, authorizing loans of money, and what authorities weie given for !hole proceedings: That they also ttate, in dol • lars and cents, the grcfs principal of debt in Holland, produced to the United States, by the said loans, and the ptecife amount of the principal of the foreign debt, which has been discharged thereby : what porti on of such loans has been drawn to the United States, at what dates, and by what authority; in what manner such drafts have been applied ; under what forms and checks those drafts were made, and whe ther the monies raised thereby, were im mediately deposited in the treasury; if not, what places, and to what amount, were such monies deposited ; how much time elapsed after such loans, before the said monies came into the treasury ; whether a complete fulfilment of our engagements to France, was, in any degree, obviated by such drafts : whether any portion of the French debt remained unpaid, at the end of one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two ; and whether any balance of the said debt is yet unpaid : And that the committee do also report the date of the firft information to this House, communi lating the said drafts; and whether any call of the House was made upon the trea sury department, which embraced the idea of a previous disclosure thereof. sth. That the committee be also in ftru&cd to report the whole amount of the exiting debt of the United. States, dlf criminatieg the dorreitic from the foreign debt, and fpscifying the arroupt of do mestic debt, bearing a prefect interest of fix per centum ; the aniotmnt bearing a present interest of three per cent, and "the amount deferred : That they also report the increafc or drcreafe of the whole debt of the United Spates, and the operation of the finking fund, to the end of the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety three. Ordered., That Mr. Baldwin, Mr. Hunter, Mr. M'Dowell, Mr. Giles, Mr. Greenup, Mr. Dent, Mr. Latimer, Mr. Irvine, Mr.Beat ty, Mr. Van Cortlandt, Mr. Niles, Mr. Swift, Mr. Malbone, Mr. Coffin, and Mr. Wingate, be a committee, pursuant to the said resolution. THEATRICALS. [The following was not received in season for Saturday's Gazette.] OBSERVER—N°. V, LAST evening, at the New Theatre, were exhibited to a cronded and brilliant audience, the JEALOUS WIFE, and the LIAR. The Obfervcr accidentally overheard a gentleman and lady remarking upon the players, and from some emphatic words, was induced to listen to their dis course. The gentleman with much fang fro':d, observed upon one and another— This is not a Yates, a Palmer, a Wrighten, a Kemble, a Henderfon, or a Siddons. The lady told him Mrs. Whttlock was fil ter to Mrs. Siddons—Egad, fays the gen tleman, is this the famous Mrs. Wh'tlloci ? why (he has not a feachure of Mrs. Siddons ; damme but Mrs. Siddons petrifies the au dience ; why this woman, why (he has no eyes, no face, no killing tout cnjcmble, no true ban ton about her : pfliaw ! only fit for boor 6 and bumkins. The gentleman, as the Observer supposes, had, or pretend ed he had, an acquaintance with European Theatres and a£tors ; for upon a queition from the lady, whether Mrs. Siddons ever a fled in comedy he said yes, he had of ten feert her in comedy, it was her forte, (he drew cror.ded audiences in the charac ter of Bchidera, in Venice Preferred, and many other of the belt comedies fh the Englifli language. The lady observed, that Venice Preferred was a tragedy : No, no, said he, Venice Preferred is a tragical plot, but that plot was discovered, and saved the State, and so all turned out well—egad that makes it a comedy. Of Mrs. Francis, in Harriet, he said, why fne does not top her part at all : damme, I like to fee all the characters on fire ; that's the bon ton. Similar observa tions and sentiments he exprefled upon all the exhibition ; the music was a bore, and even the Theatre itfelf was as gloomy as a Dutch funeral. Refletting upon the opinions of this Standard of Tojlc, the Observer began to feel drongly induced to pity thefc poor Players, who had taken so much pains, to gratify and improve us, and at the fame time to obtain the means of an honelt liv ing for themselves ; for if these lentiments become general, he said to himfelf, the Theatre mud be (hut. Some such ideas mull have occurred to the lady, as (he observed to the gentleman, " Why, teally Sir, I think you are too hard upon thefc people, for if yourfenti ments spread, you will undo them ; and if they are not good Players, they are said to be honett, good chara&ers—and deserve not severe treatment." Egad, said the gentleman, I do not know that —chiefly call off, I believe, from the Theatres in England—and as to charac ter, damme, if I believe any of them have too good characters. This brought to the Observer's recol lection, a pafiage in his favorite author jEfchylus:— "'I his is the (late of man! In prosperous for- tune, " A shadow, pafling light, throws to the ground " Joys, baiclels fabric : In adversity " Comes Malice, with a fpunge, moistened in gall, " And wipes each beauteous character away." The Obfervcr, is in justice bound to add, that since then, he has obtained in formation from indisputable authority, that this company of players, are persons of ir reproachable chara&ers, as men and wo men ; and as performers, many of them have not left superiors, and forne jnot equals, in Europe.—The persons who are now on the stage in England, the Obferyer only knows, by hearsay; of the former actors he had some knowledge ; and would just mention to modern travellers, that he will dete& their ignorance, and punish their insolence, whenever their empty sculls, flu'll attempt to use " the Jpungc moijlened •with gall." This will only apply to a* certain class of modern travellers, and let such be cautious, as the Observer will handle them without mittens. Mrs. IVhitloci's articulation, is so per fjdtly just, her face, her eye, and indeed her whole attitude and gesticulation, come f > near the model the observer had figu red to himfelf for an adlrrfs, that he mud do a violence to his own feelings, not to declare, that altbo' Ihe may not be equal to Mrs. Siddons, yet (he is so equal to any expectations, we have entertained in America, that the fealt of feeing and hearing her on the ftagt, the Observer hopes will frequently be repeated. Mrs. Francis, in the part of Harriet, was reserved, shewed little action or ani mation, this the Observer, heard faulted by many—but he ventures to aflert, that nature, was much better exhibited, in that th%n it could have been by more anima tion. In the Obferrer's opinion, Mrs. Francis, acted; what the author meant by the character of Harriet; and in the cha racter of Miss Grantham, she certainly evinced her accurate knowledge of the author's meaning, and there, put on ani- mation enough. The Observer presents his moll refpedt ful compliments to the Ladies who attend the Theatre, and begs them to take no tice of Mrs. JVhitlock and Mrs. Francis, when they speak a sentence, mark their modulation, their accent, and, as occasion offers, endeavor to form their own pro nunciation ; this will be adding profit, to amulement, and the price of their tickets, instead of producing a talent, proper to be hid in a napkin, will produce a ufeful haneft of an hundred fold. March I ft, 1794. Captain Vanlife is arrived here from Martinique, in a short passage—We hear he brings accounts of a large number of American vefiels being there—that pro visions were plenty, and the force on the Island so refpeftable as to be under no apprehcnfion of the English. The consideration of Mr. Madison's Resolutions was this day postponed to Monday next. We are informed the embargo in France on American veflels is taken off. BOSTON, February 22, We are happy at all times to give cir culation to intelligence, in which honora ble notice is taken of our countrymen. In a late London paper, mention is made, that the Grand Majlcr of Malta, hat eftablilhed in his principal city, a magnifi cent AJlronomical Observatory—to which he had invited the most celebrated Astro nomers of Europe. " Of the apparatus," fajs the account, " is an Orrery, of the invention and conftruftion of the celebra ted and ingenious American, Mr. Joseph Pope." The gall of bittcrnefs lately poured out on the Massachusetts members in Congress is but the dregs of the old phial. For fix years Meflrs. Ames, Goodhue, Sedg wick, &c. &c. have been the theme of calumny; butat three feveraleleftions when the '« VOICE OF THE PEOPLE" is most emphatically pronounced, we have seen them honoured with the increasing fuffrages of their fellow citizens, as the reward of their independence and patrio tism. They know, that from them their conflituents ftili expect a continuation of that conduit: They bid them be unmov ed by the clamour of competitors, and unshaken by the arts of those who would difTolve the Union, destroy justice, intro duce domestic infelicity, and entail on their country the horrors of an unnecessary foieign war ! COMMUNICATION. The Funding System of the United States, has long been the stalking horCe of the antitederal scribblers. But though the Legislature of this Commonwealth have recently pafled a Funding Law pre dicated on cxaßly the fame rate of interejl, and totally excluding every' idea of difcrimirtaticn, not one solitary word of complaint is uttered. The fame may be said of the Bank of the United States. It has been thundered in our ears as perni cious, as dtftru&ive of liberty, &c. yet we fee Banks daily established by.the State governments, and from the pen of censure not one drop of ink has been (hed. Think ye, the public doth not discern tliefe things ? NEW THEATRE. THIS EVENING, March 3, VVi'l be perfoi med, A COMEDT, called the Schoolfor Scandal. Sir Peter Teazle, Mr. Bates. Sir Oliver Surface, Mr. Morris. Joseph Surface, Mr. WigneU. Charles Surface, Mr. Chalmers. Sir Benj. Backbite, Mr. Finch. Crabtree, Mr. Harwood. Careless (with afotig) Mr. Marlhall. Rowley, Mr. Warrell. Moses, Mr. Francis. Snake, Mr. Green. Trip, Mr. Moreton, Lady Teazle, Lady Sneerwell, Mrs. Candour, Maria, At the end of the Comedy, a new Comic DANCE, composed by Mr. Francis, called The Scheming Clown, Or, the Sport/man Deceived. By Mr. Francis, Mr. Darley, jun. and Mrs. De Marque. To which will be added, A COMIC OPERA, called The Poor Soldier. With the original Overture and accom paniments. Capt. Fitzroy, Mr. Darley. Father Luke, Mr. Finch. Dermot, Mr. Darley, jun. Patrick, Mr. Moreton. Darby, Mr. Wignell. Bagatelle (with a song in charaSer) .Mr. Marlhall. Boy, Matter J. Warrell. Norah, Miss Broadhurft. Kathleen, Miss Willems. Boxes, one dollar—Pitt, three quarters of a dollar—and Gallery, half a dollar. ,%* As inconveniencies to the public have arisen from the Box-book being opened on the days of performance only, in future attend ance will be given at the office in the Theatre every day from ten till one, and on the days of performance from ten till three o'clock in the afternoon. Applications for Boxes, it is refpetffully requested, may be addressed to Mr. Franklin, at the Box-G(nce. The Doors will be opened at 5 o'clock, and the performances begin at 6 o'clock pre cifcly. Ladies and Gentlemen are requested to fend their fervar.ts to keep places, at half an hour pad 4 o'clock, and to order them to withdraw, as soon as the company are seated, as they cannot on any account be permitted to remain in the boxes, nor any places kept after the firft adl. N. B. No money or tickets to be returned, nor any person admitted on any account whatever behind the scenes. The managers request, to prevent confu fion, servants may be ordered to set down and take up with the horses' heads towards the Schuylkill, and drive off by Seventh-street. Pi-vat Refpublica. JUST PUBLISHED, AND SOLD BY H. & P. Rice, No. 50, High-Street, ( Price One Dollar) The Gentleman's Pocket Library. CONTAINING, I. The Principles of Politeness. i. The Economy of Human Life. 3. Rochefoucauld's Moral Reflexions. 4«Lavater's Aphorisms on Man. 5. The Polite Philosopher. 6. The way to Wealth, by Dr. Pfinkiin. 7. Seleit Sentences. 8. Detached Sentences. 9. Old Italian, Spanish and English Pro verbs. 10. A Tablet of Memory. March 3. ' 4 t AVIS. LE habitant infortune* dc la Coionie Franpife de Si. Dominguc qui dans I'inccndic da C<»p font vnu» chcrchcr un afilc d?n» Jes Etats Unit (but tiiformes que la Republiquc leur ac co'de un paftage pour France, lis font invites cn conlcqutnce a fc prefrnicr a c«*i cffct d'in a huit j«>uis chcr les Consuls Se a gene de la Re puM que dan* Irs differ nts Pons des tnuUnu. A Philadelphia le 10 Vcn