general terms the impressions which the fubjed had made on his mind ; to exhibit its general object; to prove that it was not unimportant: And that if fcich should be the opinion of the House, the stage of the fcfiion require 3 that it Ihould receive im mediate attention. PHILADELPHIA, MARCH 5. THEATRICALS. OBSERVER, No. VI. Monday evening, at the New Theatre, the " Schpol for Scandal," —and the " Poor Soldier" were played. The Performance was honored with a numerous and refpeflable company, fi lming which were the President of tne United States, his Lady and family, and the Vice President. The President was welcomed with 3 cheers, and the miific gave us the Prefi dent's March; so far, well; but in the course of the evening, the people in tiie gallery were extremely noisy and inde cent. To the managers a hint; — The persons in the Gallery interrupt those who vvilh to hear, they hiss the heft pieces of mafic ; a per lon in one of the fide-Boxes, observ ed iome lads of Spirit spit upon people in the Pit. Gentlemen, a reform mud be effe&ed, oryourhonfe will be solitary.— Those who wife for rational and decent a musement, will contribute to indemnify you, and (hut the Gallery entirely, if you cannot reilrain the unruly people who fre quent it. Your interest is deeply concern ed in attending to this hint. A hint to the a&ors.—Set afiae Mr. Bates and Mrs. Morris, and the " School for Scandal" was not performed well ; the Old Company have done it much bet ter ; choose a better play, or perform this better, if you mean not to ftupify the au dience : ITie play itfelt will never rife a bove mediocrity, and unless helped out by uncommon merit in action, had better be consigned to oblivion. Mr. WignelPs forte, is the part of Dar ky in " Tbe Poor Soldier," and Mr. Dar ley and Mfs. Brnadlmrfi, in the songs of the " Twins of I.atona" and the " Mea dows loot Cheerful" were equal, if not fuperiot- to themselves, on any former ex- hibition. But however much the Observer wifties to praise, the players will consider, that undeserved applaule,is the highest exercise of cen'fure ; and that disagreeable truths are often profitable. The whole performance on Monday evening was but tolerable, when conlider ed / collectively ; when analysed, many parts wanted animation, were awkward, and in Ihort, if not intolerable, approach ed very hear to it. If this hint is improv cd to advantage, particulars will be pur pofclv avoided. Genuine extra£l of a letter from a Mer chant of the fiift intelligence and re fpeftability in an Eastern State, to his Correspondent in this City. " I am happy to find it your opinion that Mr. Madison's plan would have been reje&ed, had it been put to the vote. 1 think the question being deferred until March will not render it more likely to succeed—their party mud and will lefTen. AU the merchants in this and the neigh boring towns, are decided againil the lyf tem at this time; and consider it,if adopt ed, calculated to involve us in ruin, by the total deftru&ion of our fiourifhing com merce. Our navigation is well employed— ofcourfe our marincrs& mechanics. Their wages were never so high in peace, and the produce of our country finds a ready market. Mr. Smith of South Carolina, has clear ly proved the advantage of our commerce with Great-Britain. Indeed it must be obvious to every one—his speech has been much approved here. I presume that Congress will be influ enced by motives that will conduce moll to the general good, and not by that pie judice and party spirit which Mr. Madi son's* plan appears to have been founded upon. No advantage can derive from any pl-.Ds formed on tlnjfe principles. It gives us pleafare to find the northern members and (o many from the commer cial towns to the southward, united a gaiaft the reftri&ing system. I wish they may continue united and firm in opposing this and every other mealnre calculated to destroy the good government, and im poverish and dilturb the happy people of the United States. Ido hope and be lieve thev will gain strength and support in every measure, tending to support go vernment, and to keep us from the great calamity of war, and European politics. Many of our merchants have fullered greatly by the detention of our vefiels in France. They will not continue to fend their property to that country from whence there is no return, except mad politics. Such conduct as the French are pra&ifing will loon wean us from pre judices in their favor. Many among us complain that Congress have not duly attended to checking the Algerines. We think that object merits their firft attention. I am.glad to find the vote for building fix ihips has been ob tained, they are thought to be adequate to keeping the pirates within the Streights. Wilhing that pe?ce may be obtained with them, and prcferved with all other nations. I am &c. A correspondent observes, that the public councils of this country can never be expected to prosper, till the supreme executive (hall employ the paragraphia of the General Jdvertifer of this, morning, to help him keep the secrets of ftatc. For the Gazsttx of the United Stjtf.s A LAW SCRAP. Part for ike vfe of M. Carey—the fefl. for whom it may cotu'ern, A YOUNG man who was confined in gaol, in October last, amongst a number of other prisoners, for a debt of £. J 13 9. at the suit of a Quaker trader of consider able property in the county, was taken dangerously lick with the Yellow Fever, which he had catched in Philadelphia :— At the earned and repeated solicitations of all the prisoners and inhabitants of the village, he was removed ont of prison to hi? mother's house, where he died of the fever about two days after.—The plantifF a few weeks ago brought an action against the Sheriff of the county for the escape of this dead man, before a Justice of the Peace, and obtained a judgment against him; from whieh the. Sheriff appealed to the feflions.—When the cause came 011 (General Whiffet* havingprevioufly iflued fer.ret orders to his subalterns for'conduc ing the battle) Corporal Catfjh supported by Serjeant Snipe, opened for the appellee, by moving the Court " to order the Pre lidertt of the Court togo off the bench."— After about 3 hours grinning and chin wagging, the President addressed them to the following purport: " Gentlemen, you • r, ay save yourselves any further trouble on this fubjeft. 1 know my duty and mean to do it. I will not desert my post let who will order it.—Force may remove me, but the Law will not. I am no boxer or military man, but your attack formidable as it may appear to yo-.t, does not terrify me. As for General Whiffet and Corporal Catfjh, I have been a witness of their re doubtable prowess, in the Yellow Fever campaign of last fall. I know the force of Camphorated bullets while I was a prafti cioner, and I have not yet forgot the smell of them. Pleafc to change your plan of operation and go on with the appeal, which the Court ordered on accordingly. N. B. The particulars of this cafe will be published after the decision. * This fame General was the mojl aflivr man in the To wn, in urging the removal of this Sick Man, and was so frightened with the name of the Yellow Fever, that Camphor itfelf eould hardly leep life in hiifi—The very smell of gun-powder inflantly gives him the Cannon Fever. Tie following mifcdlannus articles are co pied from the American Star. A letter was read to the Convention from the Commidioners at I-a Vendee, conceived in these terms, " La Vendee is 110 more—all the country that it con tained i 9 actually occupied fay the troops of the Convention—a profound silence reigns over this land—the country may be travelled without almost meeting a An gle man—except Cliolet de St. Florent, and some little villages, we have not left behind us pnv thing but allies and dead bodies." The Commidioners of Lyons wrote (the 22d) to the Convention, that since their entiy they have every day been en- gaged in decapitating criminals, and that they are disposed to put in execution the decree for the detlru&ion of that rebel- lious city The Revolutionary tribunal ha« divided itfelf into two fedtious for the purpose of accelerating its labors. The Convention decreed on the 6th of December, that the itatue of Rousseau be erected in one of the squares of Paris. A report was made to the Convention, whose tendency was tofubilitute an univer sal worship of Reason infteadof Chriftian ifm. The report finifhes thus; " Con tinue to diredfc in a firm and rapid man ner, the great movement imprefTed by the French people on the human heart, and compleat the gospel of equality, which is to triumph over the most ancient preju dices and renew the face of the world." The day after this report, Gobet, the conditutional bishop of Paris, with his vicars, accompanied by the conllituted au thorities, and wearing the cap of liberty, declared at the bar of the Convention, that they renounced their fun&ions as bishop and prieits. Coupe, an ancient curate, Lindent, bi shop of the department of Eure, Miller, curate in that of the lower Seine, Julien de Tooioufe, miniiter of the protestant re ligion, Cevernon, curate of La Vendee, and many others appeared at the tribunal, and there made the fame declaration. General Doppet, conqueror of Lyons, is appointed to the command of the ar mies of the Eastern Pyrennees. NEW THEATRE. THIS EVENING, March 5, Will be performed, A T RAG ED T, (never performed here) called The Carmelite. St. Vafcri) Mr. Fennell. Lord Hildebrand, Mr. Whitlock. Lord De Conrci Mr. Green. Montgomeri, Mr. Cleveland. Gvfford, Mr. Harwood. Fitz Allan, Mr. Francis. Raymond, Mr. Warrell. Matilda, Mrs. Whitlock. End of the Play, a new ScotJ Dance, called, the CALEDONIAN FROLIC, By Mr. Francis, Miss WUlems, and Mrs. De Marque. To which will be added, A FARCE, in two Adb, called T*he Spoiled Child. Little Pickle, Mrs. Marshall. Old Pickle, Mr. Finch. Tag, Mr. Francis. John, Mr. Bliflet. Thomas, Mr. Darley, jun. Miss Pickle, Mrs. Shaw. Maria, Mrs. Cleveland. Margery, Mrs. Bates. Susan, Miss Willems. Boxes, one dollar—Pitt, three quarters iif a dollar —and Gallery, half a dollar. For Frederickjburgb and Falmouth, (Rappahannock River, Virginia) CTfck. THE SCHOONER FriendJJjip, Henry Macnamara, Master, Will fail on Saturday next. For freight of pafTage apply to the Captain on board, at John Wall/8 Wharf, or to Emanuel Walker. WHO HAS FOR SALF, TOBACCO, FLOUR, VIRGINIA WHEAT, and GINSENG. March j. 3tswf Philadelphia, March 1, »794- JUST PUBLISHED, By MATHEW CAREY, No. 118, Mar lit Jlrcct, THE FIRST VOLUME OF A NEW SYSTEM OF Modem Geography OR, A Geographical, Hijlorical, and Commercial Grammar; And piefent state of the several NATIONS OF THE WORLD. CONTAINI NG, I. The figures, motions, and distances of the planets, according to the Newtonian sys tem and the latest observations. 2. A general view of the earth, considered as a planet; with several ufeful geographical definitions and problem*. 3. The grand diviftons of the globe into laud a'id watery continents and iftands. 4. The situation and extent of empires, kingdom*, states, provinces and colonies. 5- Their climates, air, foil, vegetables, productions, metals, minerals, natural curi ofitie*, Teas, riversj bays,capes, promontories* aud lakes. 6. The birds and beasts peculiar to each country. 7. Observations on the changes that hav€ been any observed upon the lace of na ture since the mod earjy periods of history. 8. The history and origin of nations; their forms o( government, religion, laws, reve nues, taxes, naval and military strength. 9. The genius, manners, customs, and ha bits of she people. Jo. Their language,learning,arts,fciences, manufa