\ To praft'ee meakr.efs, forbearance id charity, fays the Layman, istHtf duty •f-all uankind, and particularly belongs to those persons, who call therrffelves the servants of God, and the successors of the Apostles." This is certainly true, and it is also true, that it is the duty of a Christian Minister, to warn the people whom he addresses, against the introduction of all such principles, as would inevitably sub vert not only their temporal, but Eter nal happiness. JAMES ABERCROMBIE. 1 have signed my name to the above, because the attack was so pointed, that the reader could not mistake its application. Cong reft of the United States. IN SENATE, Wcdnefday, April 9. The hon. John Henry from the state of Maryland attended. A message from the House of Repre sentatives by Mr. Beckley their clerk : " Mr. Prefideiit—The House of Re prefentativea have passed the following bills, to which severally, they desire the concurrence of the Senate—a bill, enti tled, " an ast allowing Lieutenant Colo nel Toufard an equivalent for his pension for life," A bill, entitled, " an ast for the relief of Leffert Lefferts and others" a bill, entitled, " an ast to authorise Ephraim Ivimbevly to locate the land war rant issued to him for services in the late American army," and a bill, entitled, "an ast for erecting a light-house on the island of Seguin, in the diftrift of Maine"— " The Pjefident of the United States | hath notified the House of Representatives, that he did on the Jth instant, approve and sign, " an ast to provide for placing buoys on certain rocks off the harbor of New-London, and in Providence river, and other places."—And he withdrew. The bill, sent from the House of Re prsfentatives for concurrence, entitled, "an ast allowing Lieutenant Colonel TouCird an equivalent for his pension for life," was read the firft time. Ordered, That this bill pass to the se cond reading. The bill, sent from the House of Re presentatives for concurrence, entitled, " an ast for the relief of Leffert Lefferts and others," was re?d the firft time. Ordered, That this hill pass to the se cond reading. The bill, sent from the House of Re presentatives for concurrence, entitled, " an ast to authßrife Ephraim Kimberly to locate the land warrant issued to him for services in the late American army," was read the firft time. Ordered, That this bill pass to the fe- cond reading. The bill, sent from the House of Re presentatives for concurrence, entitled, V an ast for erecting a light-houfc on the iiland ofSeguin,in the diftrift of Maine," waaread the firft time. Ordered, That this bill pass to the fe cond readed. ' 1 ... . »^«< The Senate adjourned to 11 o'clock to norrow morning. Thursday, April 10. A message from the House of Repre sentatives by Mr. Beckley their clerk : " Mr. President—The House of Re presentatives agree to the amendments of the Senate to the bill, entitled, " an ast limiting the time for presenting claims for deitroyed certificates of certain descrip tions."—And he withdrew. Mr. Vining reported from the commit tee on enrolled bills, that they had exa mined the bill, entitled, " an ast limiting the time for presenting claims for destroy ed certificates of certain descriptions," and that it was duly enrolled. A message from the House of Repre sentatives by Mr. Beckley their clerk : " Mr. President—The Speaker of the House of Representatives having signed an enrolled bill, I am directed to bring it to the senate for the signature of the Vice- President."—And he withdrew. The Vic£-Prefident signed the enrolled bill, entitled, "an ast limiting the time for presenting claims for destroyed certifi cates of certain descriptions," and it was delivered to the committee to be laid be fore the President of the United States for his approbation. The bill, sent from the House of Re presentatives for concurrence, entitled, " an ast allov i.ig Lieutenant Colonel Tou fatd an eqaivalenffor his pension for life," was read the r three months, and that all ft rangers had been ordered to quit the city in 24 hours. Fifteen thousand French threaten Mer zig, and another column of 40,000 men is on its march from Thionville against Luxembourg.' FRANKENTHAL, Feb. ro. The hostages whom the French carried from hence to Landau, returned hither the day before yesterday to the great fatis faftion of our citizens. The cordon form ed by the German troops on the left bank of the Rhine extends at present from Mentz to Mundenheim where 400 Aullri ans took pod yesterday. It is said that the French at present intend to entrench themselves along Spirebach, from Spires to Newftadt, and that they have a design to unite the grand Bailliwick of Germer lheim to the French Republic. LONDON, March I. HAUT TON. On Saturday morning, in consequence of the necessary official documents from the Right Reverend Father in God, the Bishop of London, to the Dean of the Arches, a suit was instituted in Doctors Commons, at the instance of the King. This suit is to set aside a marriage which has for some months occupied much of the female conversation in the upper circles. It is that of Prince Augustus Frederick with a Lady Elizabeth M y, which about ten months ago, took place in Italy. It is also rumoured, that this curious affair will be followed by another equally novel, in which a young gentle man nearly allied to his Royal Highness is implicated. The proceedings are founded on the ast which was pafled subsequent to the marriage of the Dukes of Gloucester and Cumberland, for the purpose of prevent ing in future the Blood Royal from be ing prophaned by mingling with that of the Swinish Multitude. Lady E. M y came from Leghorn, we hear, in one of the lalt veflels from thence. On the arrival of the (hijt on the coafl of England, {he wrote to Lord Grenville, stating her marriage, and re queuing to be extmpt from the usual form of quarantine, being far advanced in her pregnancy. Her request being instantly complied with, her Ladyftiip hastened to town, and was a second time condu&ed to the Altar, where the sacred ccremony was a second time performed. The Duke of Montrofe bantering Mr. Pitt, on his intended tax on carriages and horses, at Lord Chancellor's late feaft, observed, " Do what you will, Pitt, his Majelty and myfelf will drive more car T riagcs and horses free of expence, than any other two persons in England,"— " Aye," replied the Heaven-born Minis ter, (looking at the Duke of Portland and Mr. Powis) " that; you might do, but 1 will take care to drive more ajfes I" PHILADELPHIA, APRIL 28. A eonefpondtnt fays, the letter from t}ie American Captains at Bourdeaux, to their deputies at Paris, exhibits an affect ing recital of the diftrefles of a large num ber of American Citizens—he queries whether the humanity and justice of this country are not pledged to make immedi ate provision to enable those unfortunate men to return to their own country, should the embargo, which has plunged them in to their present destitute situation be ta ken off ? Are the Clergy to be browbeaten and calumniated for pointing out the dange rous tendency of Atheism in a foreign coantry ? Is it not their duty to guard against the corruption of morals and the prostration of all religious principles, by exhorting their congregations to prefevere in the ways of truth and virtue ? The Clergy may err, it is admitted.—lt may j be that what France is doing, is to encou rage religious faith, and the practice of virtue—But they mult preach as they be lieve, unless like the Paragraphift in the General Advertiser, they make the truth a matter of indifference as.many exam ples, and one recent one, have (hewn.— Go on, Gentlemen of the Clergy, you have the refpeft of a Public, not yet as deeply corrupted as your Calumniators. On Saturday morning expired, from the wounds receive i by a light waggon's run ning over it on Thnrfday laft,a child of Mr. Brown in south Fourth ilrest, about three years old. As the Tragedy of Hamlet is "e> be repeat ed, an Obferi er would suggest the correc tion of several small oversights; errors which appear trifling at firft, are often of great confequtnce. "Was not the character oi Po lonius particularly defective ? Mr. Morris is in general an excellent performer, yet here he certainly over a