woutd be convinced that (he (hould parti
cipate in oor commerce, which would not
be the cafe, if we fpplyed ourselves, (he
would certainly never humble herklf be
fore us.
Strange and absurd suppositions were
made to lay the foundation on which to
build this system. It was fnppofed that
without any considerable distress of our
citizens—without a (hock to public cre
dit—without (hipping to export or im
port—and, with a deficiency of commer
cial capital we could divert, and that im
mediately, half our commerce from its
natural channels, while Great Britain,
mull be ruined, or at lead compelled to
submission, by a diversion of a (mall por
tion of hers, altho' (lie had (hipping to
transport thro' the world and more com
mercial capital than any nation on earth.
" Take care, fir, (aid lie,' I beseech you,
that led astray by resentment, gratitude or
refined theory, the curse of modern times,
you do not dillipate your goodly inherit
ance." Gentlemen had said, our consti
tuents are improvident, that the exttntion
of credit afforded the means of difllpation ;
let usdeltroy th»fe means. " Strange doc
trine laid he, and unfounded as strange !
We have no right to aflame the character
of their guardians in this refpe£t. There
are not as has been jultly (tated by a gen
tleman from Virginia, (Mr. Lee) any
mea. by which this can be justly done,
bul ,jy giving liability to youi govern
ment, and enforcing a prompt and im
part; il execution of your laws, which
indeed . . ... _er extend th.in limit cre-
Was Great Britain to relinquifii her
commercial connexion with us, though to
Ijer it would be a misfortune, yet to us it
would be a very unhappy event. Ever
since he could remember, it had been the
fafhionable cant to exclaim against credit ;
yet under a system of credit, .America had
enjoyed un :ampLd proipeiity. That in
his op.nion, experience was the only un
erring dire&or in political investigations.
The commercial intercourse between G.
Brita n and America would continue, should
this system be adopted or it would cease In
either cafe or in a mean between the two, the
'burthens created by it would fall principally
if not wh6lly on our citizens—Should it con
tinue, it w: uld be a charge on our imports
and exports to be fatisfied by the labor and
industry of our people. On our exports be
cause in all foreign markets the produ&s of
our country have to sustain a competition
with the fame species of the produce of other
countries —A hogshead of tobacco for instance
has its price determined by the demand for
it compared with the capacity of supplying
that demand by this and other countries ; an
indemnification for the additional expence
.cannot be obtained in the sales; it must there
fore be an expence in the labor and industry
which produces the article. On our imports
the fame will be the cafe, for a merchant will
not continue to supply a market which will
not indemnify him for all his expences, and
besides afibrd him his usual profits. In this
cafe also there would be no other source of
indemnification but the labor and industry of
the country. Under the preflure of these
burttens the reduced price of exports and the
' enhanced price of imports, how altered from
its present happy state, would be the condi
tion of our'planters and farmers ?—lf the in
tsrcoyrfe should not continue, thenftiould we
destroy our best markets, deprive our people
of the most valuable source of supply, and
destroy too, the best means of supporting
the public credit.
It remained Mr. S. said, to be considered
what effects would probably result from G.
Britains meeting our regulations with coun
teracting reftriftions. But previous to an
immediate confederation of this question; it
would be proper to enquire whether the com
mercial conduct of that country towards this
would jullify this measure as a mean of reta
liation ?
He said that he believed the condu# of G.
Britain, had on this lubjedt of commere,
been too limited and narrow. That this was
particularly true as refpe&ed a commercial
intercourse between America and G. Britain
and her dominions in the Weft-Indies. But
it should be remembered that she was an in
dependent nation, and as such had a right to
consult and pursue her own interest. That
until she should be convinced that a more
liberal and enlightened policy was for her
benefit, it not be expe&ed that file
would facrifice her own interest to our bene
fit—-That she would be at the expence of
maintaining and supporting her colonies, that
we might participate in the profit. That all
we could in realon demand of her was, that
flie should not discriminate against us, but
that her condudl should be as favorable to us
as to other independent nations. Was her
conduct influenced by the considerations
which have produced the resolution before
us ? did she single out America as the only
objedt of her resentment, the ardor with
which this measure was pursued, would
have fusficient foundation for its juflification.
( Speech to be continued.)
Foreign Intelligence.
NATIONAL CONTENTION.
Tuesday, December 24.
Thuriot read the following Letter.
" Oilioules, Dec. 19, 5 o'clock in the morn.
" I arrived from Toulon, my dear friend,
which a division of our troops entered about
3 o'clock in the morning. After having
bombarded that infamous city durhig twelve
hours, the enemy evacuated it with precipi
tation, at the moment when the scaling lad
ders were ready to feale it: but setting out,
they set fire to those of our ships, which they
could not carry along with them, as likewise
to the Arsenals. The city is now all in flames,
and exhibits the most horrid fpe&acle. Al
most all the inhabitants fle^; and those that
remain shall serve to appease the manes of our
brave brothers who fought with so much va
lour.
" Adieu, dear friend !
(Signed) " SALICETTI."
u Lyons, De vmber 21
" The representatives of the people at
Albitte have received the news of the re-cap
ture of the Port of Toulon by the army of
the Republic. —This intelligence is the more
interesting, as the patriots, whom aristocracy
began to divide, will re-unite ltronger than
ever. We only loft about 200 men in that
imporfaut affair. The enemies set fire to some
of our (hips, but many of them remain for
us. The Spaniards are done for : we enter
their country as we please.
« SOULES."
" Commiflioner of the
Executive Power."
(Signed)
PHILADELPHIA,
MARCH 19.
It is reported that a Spanish frigate, hav
ing on board three millions of dollars i 6 cap
tured by a French frigate, and carried into
Norfolk, Virginia.
By this Day's Mail.
NEW-YORK March 18,
Baron Steuben has been to take a view
of the harbor of this city, to ascertain,
for his private fatisfa&ion, the bell place
for ere&ing fortifications. We hear he
is decidedly of opinion, the best place is
at the Narrows, several miles from this
city. This place was contemplated by
the British, during the last war, in cafe
they had been necefiitated to guard the
city from an attack by sea. It is judged
that resistance at that place will he as ef
fe&ual as any other, and certainly a stand
at a distance from the citv will be the moil
eligible.
A number of citizens inCharlefton (S.
C.) have met and appointed a committee
to draft a memorial to Congress, on the
fubjeft of the depredations committed on
our commerce by the Englifti.
M. Mangount, the French Consul at
Charleston (S.C.) has commenced a pro
secution against Mr. Bowen, Printer of a
Newspaper there, for (lander.
ExtraS of a letter from Gibraltar Bay,
dated January 17.
" I suppose you must have heard of
Lord Hood's getting pofTeflion of Tou
lon ; which 1 now inform you he was un
der the necessity of evacuating the 18th
of December last. The fame evening
they .burnt ten fail of the line of French
(hips, ten frigates with their arsenals, &c.
We brought off our (hip of an hundred
and ten guns, two seventy-sour, four fix
and thirty, four two and thirty gun fri
gates, and eighteen gun (loops. We
left undeftroyed nine fail of the line, three
frigates and three hulks, which the Spa
niards promised to destroy: but whether
it was from fear or policy they left it un
done, I (hall not pretend to fay.
For the Gazette of the United States.
Mr. Fenno,
IN the heat of party rage, we are very
apt to overlook every question which ought,
to determine our proceedings. I would wifli
to recal to the recolle<flion of our country
men, that the firft insult and wrong since the
commencement of this war, was given by
this country against England—They will flop
to refle<fl that in our eagerness to fulfil our
treaty with the French, we fuffcred them
(and have continued to doit to this mo
ment* ) to fell their prizes in our ports, con
trary to the usage of neutral nations in time
of war, and not stipulated in any treaty with
the FrencTi, and lately declared by our Fede
ral court to be illegal ; (fee their late deter-
mination) we did this even without giving
any formal notice to the British court, and
prizes have been fold, I believe nearly, if
not quite equal in value to what property
they may have in the Weft Indies of curs.
The Bririih minrftry have complained of
this, and have declared that they will look
for restitution. Can we therefore vender
that they have done the fame by us ? But I
am not yet convinced that they have kept
their intentions a secret from us, because I
read in our papers, an extra<ft from the Bri
tish papers of date the ill of Jan. which came
by the way of the Weft Indies, wherein the
people of England are infonned that their
government were about to take such mea
sures against American veiFels j and it was
very finguiar that a newspaper should be in
porfeffion of this intelligence, & Mr. Pinck
ney could not obtain it. lam rather inclin
ed to believe that the veflel which was to
bring us the intelligence has been loft or tak
en.
This being the cafe, I would ask what
right have we to seize any individual proper
ty in this country, when we have been the
firft to give the offence, and continue to do it
without offering any excuse, palliation,
or apology to the Britiih government.
Ityh March, 1794.
P. S. What has been the, conduct of the
Danish government ? The privateers of
France carried several Britilh prizes into their
ports, and so far from fuffering them to fell
them, they would not fuffer them to depart
with them as is the usage, but gave them up
to the owners again.
* The writer is to ejlahlijh this
fa&.
N. B.—ln the last sentence of the Attor
ney General of Jamaica's opinion, publiih
ed in yesterday's paper, «the word No should
have been inserted before the word " con
demnation".
SHIP NEWS.
Late last night the brig Susanna, Capt. Ter
ris, arrived in the river, below, from Bour
deaux, which place ftie left the 18th of Janua
ry last—The Capt. has since come up to town
—It isreported that this vessel is come with
dispatches to Congress, from the American sea
Captains in Bourdeaux—The embargo there
is still continued—and about one hundred fail
of American veflcls are now detained in that
port —many of which have been there three,
four, and five months—The rumour there
fore of the embargo's being taken off, it ap
pears is without foundation.
Capt. Terris informs, that the combined
forces at Toulon, destroyed onlyfeven fail of
the French .ships —the arsenal, and part of
the town —That fifteen ships were recovered
by the French army.
An oyster boat arrived here, brings infor
mation that on Friday morning last, the brig
Mercury, Capt. Thompson of this port,
bound to Falmouth, was spoke with in a
leaky condition, on her return.
We hear that a brig belonging to Boston,
from Bourdeaux, is arrived in the river,
loaded with brandy, on account of the French
government —Several other vefTels we hear
are below.
Cape. Perry from Cadiz, on the 3d March,
lat. 31, 26, long. 68. Spoke the (hip Jefle,
Capt. Colman of Bolton, from the Isle of
France, bound home—out 72 days—all well.
February 13th, the Spanilh fleet failed from
the Havanna, consisting of, four 74 gun (hips,
two frigates and two ltore ships, besides two
schooners and three sloops, all destined for
the blockade of Hifpaniola, except two seven
ty fours and one frigate, for Cadiz with mo
ney as follows:
The St. Pedeo, 74 guns, four million dol
lars.
The St. Lorengo, 74 do. four and a half do.
The frigate Ceres, ao do. three and a half
The Spaniards were fending troops to Flo
rida. -
The fubferibers agree
ably to the direction of their fellow-citizens,
hereby give public notice, that a meeting
will be held at the City-Hall at 5 o'clock, on
the afternoon of Thursday the 20th inft. to
take into Consideration, and decide upon the
report which was made on Saturday last, of
an instrument exprefiive of the thanks of the
citizens, for the services rendered by the com
mittee of health, during the late calamity ;
and of the measures proper to accompliih the
obje&s that were recommended by that com
mittee to the public attention.
It is presumed that the feelings which were
excitecf, and the sentiments which were ex
pressed, during the fatal months of Septem
ber, O<slober and November last, have not
been extinguiflied or forgotten; and of course
that every citizen will be happy in the pre
sent opportunity, of personally acknowledg
ing the debt of fraternal gratitude, and of
perpetuating the example of civic virtue, a
rifmg from the important, hazardous and
fuccefsful ferv<ces of the Committee of
Health.
Thomas M i Kean > Jsbn Swamuick,
A. J. Dallnj, Qbprla .jj id die,
Anthony Morris, Witt'taM Rogers.
Jon tf/.v n B. Smith,
Philad. 17th March, 1794.
(EJ - For three days part, the deliberati
ons of the House of" Representative» of
the United States, have been private.
Tho Naval Armar. ent Bill bat pajjed the
Senate of the U. S. w : 'h amendments.
" Fair play" To-morrow.—
Advertisement.
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ed r a plantation, firmte in rhe Township of
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more may be made at a fmallexpence, about
25 acres.of wond land, and the remander it
good fertile land well fuppiied with water.—'
There are on the prenii e*, a good fto: e
dwelling House and kitchen, an excellent
gll den, an orchard of 25 good bearing trees
a good barn cellar'd under, a Jaw-mill, and
an excellent feat for a grift or merchant mill,
with a futficiency «>f water.
Like wife a tract of wood land ajoining the
above—lmmediate pofTetiion w.ll be given to
the purchaser—'The sale to begin at 2 o'clock
on fa id day, where attendance wtll be given,
and conditions made known by
JOHN CHEYNEY, ? Executo , s .
WILLI AM CHEYNEY, $
March, !Q. d4t.
NEW THEATRE.
THIS EVENING,
March iq,
, Will be performed,
A Comic Opera, called the
CaJlle of Andalujia.
(Written by the Author of the Poor
Soldier.)
Don Scipio,
Don Caesar,
Don Fernando, Mr. MarfliaflL
Don Juan, Mt. Morris.
Don Alphonfo, Mr. Moreton.
Pedrillo, Mr. Bates.
Spado, Mr. Wignell.
Sanguino, Mr. Green.
Phihppo, Mr. Darley, jun.
Banditti, Meflrs. Harwood, Cleveland.
Warrell,' Bliflet, &e. &e.
Victoria, Mrs. Warrel.
Lorenza, Mrs. Mai (hall.
li'abella, Mrs. Bates.
Catalina, Miss. Broadhurft.
The Scenes designed and executed by
Mr. Milbourne.
End of the Opera, a charafteriftic Panto
mimical Dance, called the
Sailor s Landlady.
OR, JACK in DISTRESS.
Jack, Mr. Francis.
Ned Haulyard, (• with a new Song)
Mr. Darley, jun.
Sailors, Meflrs. Warrell, Bliflett, War
rell, jun. Lee, Bason, and De Moulin.
Lafles, Mrs. Cleveland, Mrs. Bates,
Miss Rowfon and Mil's. Willems.
Landl.idy, Mis. Rowfon.
Orange Girl, Mrs. De Marque.
To which will be added, A FARCE, in
two Acts, called
The SPOIL'D CHILD
Little Pickle,
Old Pickle,
Tag,
John,
Thomas,
Miss Pickle,
Maria,
Margery,
Susan,
Ladies and Gentlemen are requeftcd to
fend their servants to keep place*, it half an
hour pall 4 o'clock, and to order them to
withdraw, as soon as the company ate (eaaed,
as they cannot on arty account be permitted
to remain in the boxes, nor aay places kept
after the firft a6l.
N. B. No money or tickets to be returned,
nor any person admitted on any accoun
wbehind the scenes.
As inconveniences to the public have
arisen from the Box-book beieg open on the
days of performance only, in future attend
ance will be giv.n at the office in the Tbeatre
every day from ten 'till one, and on the dayi
of performance from ten till three o'clock in
the afternoon. Applications for B oX es,iti«
refpc&fully requested, may be addreiTed, to
Mr. Franklin, at the Box Office.
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-llreet.
Places in the Boxes to be taken at the Box-
Offiee of the Theatre, at any hour from nine
in the morning till three o'clock in the after
noon, m the day of performance*. Tickets
to be had at the office near the Theatre, at
the comer of Sixth-street, and at Carr & Co'»
Muficalßepofitory, No. u;, Market-f«xeet.
Mr. Finch
Mr. Darley,
Mrs. Marlhall.
Mi. Finch.
Mr. Francis.
Mr. Bliffet.
Mr. Darley.
Mrs. Rowfon.
Mrs. Cleveland.
Mrs. Bates.
Miss Willems.