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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.
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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 <econd tim«.
Ordered, That this bill be referred to
'Mr. Taylqr, Mr. Br&dley, anil Mr. EUf-.
worth, to consider and report thereon to
the Senate.
The bill, lent from the House of Re
irefentativcs for concurrence, entitled,
• an ast for the relief of Leffert LefFerts
ind others,'' was read the second time.
Ordered, That this bill pals to the third
reading.
The bill, sent from the House of Re
presentatives for concurrence, entitled,
" an ast for erecting a light house on the
island of Seguin, in the diitridt of Maine,"
was read the second time.
On motion to add the following clause
as an amendment to the bill to wit:
" And also to provide by con t raft for
building a light-house on the island of
Cumberland at the entrance of the river
St. Mary's in the state of Georgia"—
Ordered, That the bill together with
the amendment proposed thereto, be re
ferred to Mr. Cabot, Mr. Jackson and
Mr. Rutherfurd, to coniider and report
thereon to the Senate.
The bill, sent from the House of Re
presentatives foi concurrence, entitled,
" an ast to authorise Ephraim Kimberly
to locate the land warrant iflued to him
for services in the late American army,"
was read the second time.
Otdered, That this bill be referred to
Mr. Mitchell, Mr. Brown, and Mr. Mon
roe, to cehfider and report thereon to the
Senate.
The Senate, adjourned to 11 o'clock
to-morrow mprning.
Friday,' April 11.
The Senate affembltd, and the several
committees not having perfected their re
ports —
On motion,
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Tlie Senate adjourned until Moaday
next at 11 o'clock in the morning.
Monday, April 14.
The Vice-President laid beiore the Se
nate a letter from the Secretary for the
department of Treasury with a general
(latement of exports from the United
States for one year, ending 011 tRe 30th
day of September 1793 ; which were read.
Ordered, That they lie for considera
tion.
The bill, sent from the House of Re
presentatives for concurrence, entitled " an
ast for the relief of Leffert Lefterts and
others," was read the tßtrd time.
Resolved, That this bill pass—
Ordered, That the Secretary acquaint
the House of Representatives with the
concurrence of the Senate in this bill.
The Senate adjourned to 11 o'clock to
morrow morning.
Tuesday, April IJ, 1794.
Mr. Mitchell from the committee to
whom was referred the bill, entitled, " An
ast to authorize Ephraim Kimberly to lo
cate the land warrant lfiued to him for
services in the late American army," re
ported that it pass without amencjment,
and the report being adopted.
Ordered, That this bill pass to the
third reading.
The following written meflage was re
ceived from the President of the Unitei
States by Mr. Dandridge his Secretary.
United States, April 15, 1794.
Gentlemen of the Senate, and of
the Houfeof Rcprefentatives,
I lay before you a letter from the Mi
lifter plenipotentiary of his Britannic Ma
jesty to the Secretary of slate ; a letter
from the Secretary of the territory south
of the river Ohio, enclosing an ordinance
and proclamation of the Governor there
of j the translation of so much of a peti
tion of the inhabitants of Poll Vincennes,
addressed to the President, as relates to
Congress ; and certain dispatches lately
received from ourCommiffioners
—-These dispatches from Madrid being a
part of a bulinefs, which has been hither
to deemed confident, thty are forwarded
under that view.
G. WASHINGTON.
The mefiage and papers therein referred
to were read.
Ordered, That they lie for considera
tion.
After the consideration of the execu
tive business,
The Senate adjourned to 11 o'clock
to-morrow morning.
Foreign Intelligence
BRITISH QUARTERS IN FLAN
DERS.
Wevilgaam, Jannary 20. ,
WE took this poiition'a few days since,
in consequence of some movements made
,by the enen»y, to attack Menin and
Contrary. —This village is situated be
tween thdfe towfis nearly an equal dill a ace
from each ; .and we can instantly assist ei
ther in Cafe of an attack, an event we
hourly look for. Four regiments of ca
valry from Ghent are stationed here, with
some infantry of the 14th; the 34th' And
53d" are to take this duty next Month.
Notwitftnnding the proximity of this
place with the French Frontiers and that
the inhabitants have been twice plundered
the are engaged with as much
zeal in their agricultural avocations as the
' hufbandmeri in England who sow with the
conviction of reaping also. The village
is charmingly lituated, and the adjacent
country richly cultivated.
A. few days ago, an Austrian piquet of
20 men, with two or three Britilh light
dragoons, which had advanced too far into
French Flanders, without leaving centi
nels behind them, were surrounded by a
party of the Carmagnols ; a smart action
ensued, but terminated in favour of the
enemy ; some were killed, and the Survi
vors were made prisoners.
WORMS, February 8.
The French are again advancing in great
force, and already in poffeflion of Oggerf
heim ; a great number of fugitives are
therefore again daily passing the Rhine to
escape from the rage of those republicans.
TREVES, February 6.
A person who arrived here from Lux
emburg this day informs us that ihe inha
bitants have received orders to proviiion
themselves f«>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<fied his part: Polonii.s
alth'o' a very conceited, pragmatical, opinion
ated old man, Ihould never excite the laugh
ter which wps occasioned, more particularly
when he s killed.
In the firft a<3, the centinels were not per
fect in their parts—The cock did not crow,
on (he disappearing of the Gholt; the Glioft
did not in time, on the proposal of the »
oath —The elegant soliloquy of the VlinyW
was omitted, and the larger part of the
Player King's fpeech—Ofrick's dress was
too finical, and his part over a (fled. Mr.
F{nnel did not perhaps express fufficient
surprize, on learning Ophelia's death, and
the bowls of wine and the rapiers would
have been more properly arranged on a table,
These things if corrected, will render the
exhibition much - more pleasing: But when
we set th'.m aside, and consider the perform
ance of Mr. Fennel and Mrs. Marlhall, v.';
mult pronounce it superior to any thing yet
exhibited.
Mrs. Marshall had exhibited before, so
well, that all further 'improvement was sup
posed to be precluded,.but her appearance in
Ophelia beggars all praise.
A Cerrefpondent Sayj,
Whether it is incumbent on the officers
the police of this city, to take some ef
fc&nal measures to guard the lives ana limbs
of the citizens, old and ycung, from the
dangers and accidents to which they are
exposed, and from which they very fre
quently fuffer, thro' the carelelmefs of dray
men, carmen, waggoners, coachmen and
others, who drive carriages thro* our streets
in an unlawful manner, the fad experience
of many leaves no room to doubt. Two or
three very melancholy instances have occured
jn the course of the lait week, of children
being run over, and lhockingly bruised—
some have been so 1 adly injured, that their
lives are almost despaired of. A perlon can
scarcely walk the streets without witnessing
the most wanton deportment on the part of
i'ervants and others, who gallop thro' the
streets and turn corners with such rapidity as
to hazard the lives of foot paflengers, who
cannot be apprized of their danger, till mif
chief overtakes them; surely these things
ought not to be.
At a stated meeting of the American
Philosophical Society, held on Friday last,
the following gentlemen were duly elefled
Members of that Society, viz.
Thomas Mann Randolph, of Martictllo
in Virginia.
James Anderfon, L. L. D. of Cotfkld,
Scotland.
The Earl of Buchan, P. S. S. A. of Scot
land.
Dr. James Greenway, of Dinwiddie coun
ty, Virginia.
Edward Stevens, M. D. F. R. S. of Edin
burgh, &c. ef St. Croix.
John Nancarrow, of Philadelphia.
Eberhard Augustus William Zimmerman,
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