THE PANTHEON,
Jvd Ricketts's Amphitheatre,
4 For Equestrian and Stage performances.. Corner of
Chefnut and Sixth-streets.
■
THIS EVENING, THURSDAY, o<Sober n,
Will be presented,
A variety ofpleafingEntertainments.
HORSEMANSHIP.
Mr. F. Ricketts will pick up a pin from the grdurid,
the horse in full speed.
» And in particular for this night, Mr. Ricketts will leap
oVer a pbltten feet high, the horses in fullfpced.
After which will be presented,
A COMIC DANCE,
By Mr. Durang, who will c! »r.ge from a dwarf three
/eethigh, to a woman Gx fee' high.
EQUESTRIAN exercises.
By Mr. Ricketts and Co.
And (for this night only) the whole to conclude wrfh
a Pantomime, called.
The TRIUMPH of VIRTUE,
Or, Harlequin everywhere,
Among other scenery will be represented,
, An elegant view of
Broadway and the Government-Haufe in New-'Torh.
Also,
A grand view ef the Delaware and Jeifey Shore.
To commence with the origins! Overture of
OSCAR and MALVINA.
Harlequin, Mr, Sully.
Lover Mr. Tompkins.
Pantaloon, Mr. During.
Punch, Mr. CofSe.
Palliafo, Mr. F. Ricketts.
Piero, Mr. Spinacuta.
Ariel, Mrs. Tompkins.
. And Colnmbine, Mrs. Spinacuta.
MANDARINS,
MeflVs. Griffin, M'llroy, Grant, Snider, Mills,
Frost, &c»
Sailors, Watchmen, Sc.c. by the test of the
Company.
In the ccurfe of the Pantomine, the favorite
song of
ICH BIN LIEDERLIG.
By Mr. SULLY.
The whole to conclude with the view of a
Superb Temple-,
AND A
DANCE by the Characters.
£5" Box, 7s. 6d.—Pit, 3s. 9d.
Tickets to be had of Mr. Ford, at the ticket office m
Chefnut-flreet, from ten to three o'clock each day.
~ FOUND,
• • A small Bar of Iron.
Supposed to have been dropped from a drxy. The
owner may receive It by applying to the Publisher of
this Gazette.
Ocflobtr *7.
iTbe, Subfcrtbers have for sale •
The Following GOODS:
Claret in hogfliea'ds
Do. of the firft quality, in bottles
Malaga wine
Old red Port do.
Madeira (London particular) fit for immedi
ate use.
Philips, Cramond & Co.
Oflober ty. ■ 3
Just Landing,
At Southjlreet-wharf, from oh board the /bip Sedg
ley, Captain Hodge, from St. Peter/lurg,
The following Goods:
• 1 Rsflia Sail Duck, firft quality.
Do. Sheeting do.
l}o. Diaper.
Do. Huckaback.
Do. Crash.
Do. Wou'd Candles, 4, j and 6, to the lb. of the
Enghfti Ijzc.
Do. White Candle Tallow.
Do* White Soap in small bores.
80. Cordage of fine yarn.
Ravens Duck.
Isinglass, ill and and fort.
Horse Hair uncurlcd.
Ruflia Bar Iron.
Do. Hoop Iron. <
Do. Nail Rods.
jo Tons Oahum and Junfc.
St. Petersburg Clean Hemp.
For Sale By 1
Philips, Cranvond, & Co. '
Q&obcr is.
SAIL CLOTH. :
On Monday, the 3 17? infi. will be Sold 1
at Public Sale, at the Store of Messrs. '
George Hunter & Co. No. 153, Pearl \
1 Jireet, Neiv-York, ,
275 Pieces of the Befl I
Engiifli Weft Country Sail Cloth, j
By some perfqns called Eafl. Coken, and by others J
Weft Coken.^—lt is of known excellency; wears ,
white, and does not mildew.
Oflober iS dtigth
Printed Calicoes.
JOHN MILLER, jnn. & CO.
Illve received per the William Pcnn, in addition to
rheirown afiurtnefU, (
A consignment of twenty trunks of Calicoes, ele- ,
" £ P™' I.ftodon patterns; »Koa few cases of handsome ,
Buttons—Which will be fold at a (hort credit, on very
rrafonable' terms, by the package only. :
OA- 14. ' dtf «
A CI OSE COACH, which has ran about 7 months, '
aruUpair of hrown, able-bodied hctr«is, for sale
on rtafocable utms. Apply at No. 63, fcuth Third- 1
flreet. j
P- S. Tile coach is more particularly calculated for the
winter feifon, having large glals lights Venetian blinds. 1
Qflobei 14 j
WAN IS a ntuation is CLERK,in a mercantile house c
m this city, a yor.ng man who can be well recom
mended : he is well acquainted with book-keeping, and
writes a rood haftd. Enquire of the editor of the Ga
zette of the United States.
Qflober 13. «Sd '
University of Pennsylvania,
OSo'oer 5, 1796. r
The MedicalLednres will coimncncc the firft Mondav '
m ij'svcinkerr >
For the Gazette of the Unitid States.
of 1
PHOCION—No. X.
"* WE afe next informed of Mr. Jefferfon's " at
tachment to the RELiSious rights of mankind,*'
and are referred for his sentiments refpefting religi
• ous liberty to his writings, bis conduct, and partieu
j larly to the "aS ejlabli/hing religious freedom," drawn
up by him.
'P Hampden would have aftcd more wifely, and j
more conformably, I am persuaded, to the wilhes of
his patron, had he pasTed over this tender fubjeft in '
ftlence. It wa» certainly indifcrect to mention The
ee mas Jtfferfon and religion in the fame parat;»a{ih,pf 1
an eulogy.—Rtligibus freedom and (freedom from re
ligicrt are now becoxne convertible tcrm« with most
$ modern philqfophrrs, particularly tliofs who h3ve
been educated in the philofuphical schools ot France.
MY.'Jefferion has been heard to fay, fine* his return '
from France, that the men ot letters and philoio- '
phen he had met witb in that country, were gene- '
rally Atheifis. The late impious and blafphemeus
( works »f Thomas Paine, reviling the chrijtiaa reli- '
gion, hav« been much applauded in France, and '
have been very indultriouljy circulated in the Uni
ted States, by all that class «f people, who are c
friendly to Mr. Jefferfon's politics, and anxiously £
desirous of his els&ion to the Prefidencyi Mr. Jef- c _
ferfon'»~friendlhip for Peine has bfenalready men
tioned ; that anti-ibrijian writer barf apartments at £
Citizen Monroe's at Paris, and (hould Mr. JeSerfon r
be President, there is no doubt he would return to r
this country and be a conspicuous figure at the v
President's table at Philadelphia, where'this cn- .
lightened pair of phiiefophers wotild fraternize, aad 11
1, philosophize against the chrijiian religion,and theaa- e
furdity of religious worfiip.—Whatever new lights "
e they may have acquited in France, it i» certain that a
Jefferfon had nal nrally very good prc-Uifpoptions
on the fubjedl of religion. In his notet op Virgt- r;
nia, page 169, in discussing the fubjeft o{ a
freedom, he makes this witty observation—'" It n
" does me no injury for my neighbour ts {ay there '
" are twenty gods, or n» god ;it neither picks my 11
" pocket nor breaks wy leg ; if it be said", his tef- h
rt timony in a court of jultice cannot be relied on, n
" reject it then, and be tb« liigma on him In
" page 170, he fays, " millions of innoccnt men, v
n " women and the introdvSion oftbrif. v
" tianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and im- 1
" prisoned." In page 171, speaking of the state h
o( religion in Psnnfylvania and New-York, he fays, 0
" religion there is well supported, of various kinds
e "" indeed, but all good enough ; all fufficient to pre- F
r " fetve peace and order.'' •
Which ought we to be most Ihocked at, the leoi' n
ty or the impiety of these remarks ? "it docs me no
injury, if my neighbour is an atheist, because it
does «. »t break my leg !"• What ? do I receive no
injury, as a member of society, if lam surrounded j
with atheists, with whom I can have no social in- 1
tercoutfe, on whom there are none of those fslipi
ous and sacred ties, which retrain mankind from the C
perpetratian of crimes, and without which tics ci- V
vil society w&tild soon degenerate into a wretched *
state of barbarism, and be stained witb scenes of
- turpitude, and with every kind of atrocity ? Good r
God f is this the man the patriots have cad their
_ eyes on as fucccfTor to the virtuous Wajhington, who, '
in his farewell address, so warmly and afFectionate-
ly recommends to his fdlow-citizens, the cullivati
on if religion. Contrail with the above frivoh.ue t
and impious quotatrons* the following dignified ad- a
vice from that true patriot t "of all the difpuGti- B
" ons ard habits, which lead to political profperi- »
" ty, religion and morality are indispensable sup- Cl
= " ports. In vain would that man (he seems to f
«« point at J-tfcrfon !) claim the tribute of patrio
tism, who Ihould labor to subvert these great pillars t
of human happiness, theftfrmeftprops of the duties
of men and citizens. The mere politician, equally
with the pious man, ought to K*fpcft and to cherish
them. A volume could not trace all thcif eonn/xi
ons with-private and public felicity. p
Let it /imply be afited Where is the fcenrity for
property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of *
rettgnus obhgation dejert tic oaths, which are the
tnftrnments of inveft.gation in ccur t« of j u fti c . e j »
And let us, with caution, indulge the supposition
that morality can be maintained, without re/igwn. ?'
Whatever may be consedcd to the influence of
fined education on minds of peculiar flruflure tea so
I (on and experience both forbid ns to expeft'tha' f °
national morality can pvevail in exclusion of relin- P"
(SS ous P'inciple. Tia fubftantiaUv trL-,, that Virtue *
or morality ,s a necessary fpr.ng of popular govern- ta
ment. Ihe rule indeed extends with more or lefa ac
force to every species of free government. Who N
that is a Jincere friend to ii can look with indfffer- Cl
ence npor> attempts to jbake the foußdation of tlw be
; o'' T5 a " 11 be ' that Prov has not con
nected the permanent felicity of , nation with it's th
virtue? The experiment, at least, i»recommended
by every fen;,men, which ennobles human nature; F
alas . is it tendered impofiible by its vices >"
What fublirae sentiments, what admirable ad
vice ? How must ,t fink in our eyes the pretended
, phiiofopher, who could attempt to degrade the
- m il; re hg lo n by charging to it the murdcr of in
ml lions, who ceuld view with such the 1,1
; m ® n y alarming mnovations on the mild and ftmple **
religion of our forefathers I « There are religions
of wtms, kind, indeed, fcys-our phijofop'herf W ,' &
ALL GOOD ENOUGH.'* or
I Good enough indeed for one who effablift.d and A
• patronized a newfpnper, one ohjeft of which w as ?
■ v-'l V , C il r anity !,h ,s not 'orgotten that the
National Gazette, publiflied by a clerk in (b A re
. cretary, loft no convenient opportuurty of makieg " Q
■ * Contrast even an observation of bis own in nn.
bis letters, already referred to, where he fays, « the
cUrat '°n. religious faith (hall be unpunilhed
does not give impunity to criminal aflj Jiff , , , aD
« religious error." He then b f l,7"d thal W 'h°
ror would produce criminal atfs - In d vet „£ "*
r 1 z
I eh
"• it mockery cf religion i-, ~nd viHtying cv
of the Country.
It is will observed by a modern writer, "that
patriolifm, as a moral principle attaching itfelf to
political society, depends, like every other moral
principle, on it» relation tc religion. Ihe creator
it- of man.has bound the social to the divine virtues, ;
and made cur devotion and »ur reverence ro hi.a
ji- felf, the ground work of our duties to our brethren
u- and to our country."
rn The ltd for tflab/i/bing religious freedom, in Vlr-
ginia, (the nrcefflty for which is not veiy obvious,)
. has been.much extolled by Mr. JeffVrfon's panegy
-1 f rills. l aik them what good effitfts has » pro
duced ? Does religion flourilh in Virginia more
r than it did ar more than in the eadern dates? Is
public worftiip better attcaded ? Are the ministers
of the gofp«l setter supported, than in the ealteru
jj. (lates ? jj
, e That aft, which is nearly all preamble, setting o
e Forth a fctifs of principles, some of which are j
n proved by late experience in France to be very qn f
tiotmble, has, in nty- Opinion, an immediate ten- o
dency to produce a total disregard to public wor- (
jj ship, an ahlalute indifference to all religion whate- £ '
!i. ver. It dates, among other things, " that wc f(
J ought not to be obliged to support even the mini*
j. I fters of our own religious persuasion, aiad that our
- e civil rights hav« no more dependance on our reli
gious opinions than oil «ur opinions in physic or gc
ometry theaft then declares, " that no man
(hall be compelled to frequent or support any reli
lt gious wotfhip or minister whatever, and that all
n men (hall be tree to profefs, and by argument to
0 inaintain, their opinions, in matters of religion,
e without diminishing their civil capacities."
I will not accuse Mr. Jefferfon of having been
j influenced by f'ljijh jyitws, in getting this aft pasT
ed ; but th»fc acquainted with h:s conduct and opi
s nions will agree with me, that he has fully taken
, advantage of every little of the preamble and enac
s sing-ciaufe : he has proved his leligious freedom, or,
rather, hi? freedom from religion, by his condu£l ;
s and by his opinions, his rjgbt to maintain by argu
t ment any opinion whatcrer, in matters of religion. C 1
e Who ever few him in a place of warfliip ? The
r IBan who can fay he has seen such a phenomenon, is
[•_ himfelf a much greater curiosity than the elephant
! now travelling through the southern dates.
n But how inconfident, not only with truth, bat
, with'themfelves, are these vifienary philofop her*,
who are thus always Unking out some new doc- j t
u trine ? The states, that our c'rtiil rights p k
e have no dependence whatever on our religions opini- a
. ons J and yet it immediately after admits, thatr<r/r- p r
l s gious opinions may break out into overt eids against
peace and good order, and yet the Uttei jufl qaot- Z(
ed speaks of criminal *3s diHated ly religious error ! V(
What a conformity do we find between the fenti- f,,
1 men is of Mr, Jefferfon, in matters of religion, and V 1
0 thofeof Tom Paine ? Where, is the wonder, then,
11 if the woiks of the latter are circulated with so tc
" much zeal by the frier.ds of the former ? Tom C(
Paine has ridiculed the Holy Scriptuies, and repro
bated public wotfhip. Tom Jefferfon has attempt
| ed to disprove the deluge—h»» made tt • qucflion
! whether the Almighty ever had a chosen people,J
■" and has, by example and precept, /fiftouHrena/ieccf
pub/it tvorjbip. Such is the Chief Magiilrate wb e! n
the patriots of citizen Fauchet have fele&ed for the
United States! ! Such the kindred philosophers (
r ti-hofe new lightt ate to be disseminated thioughout
'» America, under the atfpkes of the 'Chief Magif.
irate of the Union ! !
f See. among various instances, tftejSth nnwherof
e the National Gazette, where the belief of a Pravi
dir.ee is treated as an impitus tenet. In the time of .
. Rcbefpierrc, a number of the convention who had
introduced into his speech the word Providcnce, was *1'
called to erder, by the cry «f Point de Providence, no p<
Prov^ence.
% Notes on Virginia, p.i 75 . « Those who labour
in the earth, are the ckofen people of God, if ever be „
' bfcd a cbcferi peoplf."
f, From the Providence Gazette. e '
J Mt'flrs. Pnnters, cc
You Will oblige a number of. your cuffomers, by ar
pubhfliing the following advertifemcnt iu the acxt dc
r Gazette. th
f FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS REWARD.
, Was millaid, or taken away by mistake (soon ar
1 X I Abolition Society) from „
. lhe G,r!s ot th " fwn, all inclination to So C
. f n y kind of work and! left, ia lieu thereof, an
- ' mp . u . c "* a a strong and continued tltirft bl
- ? Wa ? ts ' 3 goflipiag iifpofition for every 2 f
t iorl ot an>t|fe--ut, a leering and hankering after F e
petfonsof the other fex.adefire of finery and faßiion,
. a neve, ceasing irot after new places more advan on
. tageous for tieaimg—with a number of contingent P c
, 'ccompltihnieiMs that do not suit the ffl
, Now ,f any pernor persons will restore to the own
■ u'T r CrU < U "" e fiy a "d Indufiry which has m '
; ST.,, hc or thc Y receive
' F ' ve Hu "dred Dollars, beside
, the warmed Lkffings of many abused and insulted v
I p ~ . HOUSEHOLDERS.
, Providence, C 3. 1756.
MOT.
1 A gentlematyvho poffefied a much larger qua\ _
' " Ju'T' n r ' atUre »fu*Hy bedows upon A i n
F contrived ,0 make it more enormous b'
! ar^aCh ,? n, '° thc boUk ' wh,Vh co
. Wet t wuh emeralds and rubies. To add to 1.; r
J, ui.1,1, a»a the other of 2V CC W ft, k.ipl .■
: reason. " 1 , . dcn,amJe<J Cc
' sis your eyes had been i J ° C " lar « enins 'i of
■ certainly Le f ft th ™ ' "° fe f bu
conflagration might have Been £
, B[
From a London Pacer rml
• E»ano, L C C ° fk ' G,,., in
hcafe, on the fame day • were tfcS 't'
• they were born in ; where fcn Ph ° , hCilfe coi
and died on the lame rkv un iamc \
.k.r »^Z£«S6tJ3, ta »» ! V" >' ,h!
Philadelphia.
at »
THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER j 7>
Died, yesterday, Mrs. Sarah Emlen, w if. „*
J Mr* Samuel Emlen, fen. now in England.
. n . *)•'* mormiig, Mr. Joseph Sharpless, mer
chant, formerly a reputable Schaolmafter in thiscitv.
r * AT a meeting of a refpeftable number of the ci
'> tizens of Philadelphia, held at Dunwoody's ta.
, « tn - for ,he purpose of fele&ing suitable pcrfor,,
. c as ele<ftofs of a President and Vice Prefidenr „f
( the United States—the following proceeding
were reported, to wit.
* At a meeting of a confided number of the
members of the legislature and other citizen, oftii«
different counties of Pennfyltania, held in the city '
£ of Philadelphia, on the evening on which tl.eleeif-
r e lature adjourned, i-f
Cumberland, ii the Chair, and Robert Frazer
of Che'ler, Secretary ; it was uiianimcufly agreed
tii recommend the following named peTfons for el?c«
tors of President and Vice Prefide.r, at the efcflioo
t» be holden on Friday the fourth day of Novce.
ber next.
ELECTOR S.
Ifrae! Wlielen, Philadelphia,
* Samuel Miles, Montgomery,
Henry Wynkoop, Bucks,
j John Arndt, Northampton,
Valentine Beiks,
3 Thomas Bull, Chester,
' Robert Coleman, Lancaster,
John Carson, Dauphin,
1 Willfam Witfon, Northumberland,
Samuel Poftlethwaite, Cumberland,
John Hay, York,
1 Benjamin Elliott, Huntingdon,
Ephrzim Douglas, Weilmoteland,
' John Woods, Allegheny,
* Thomas Stokely, Washington, ■
Whereupon— It was Biiantmoufiy agreed to re.
* commend and support the foregoing ticket at ihe
: /aid ele&ion.
Attest, J. BIDDLE, Chairman.
c DANIEL SMITH, Sec'y.
TO sHE FREEMEN OF PESHSYLVANIA.
» v It having been determined by the legidature at
its last fefiion, after several endeavors ta obtain di
s R,ri<3»s had failed* that lhe cleft ion for ele&ors of
a president and vice-president of the United States,
" fhoald be fcy the citizens-os the ttate at large, a
meeting was held, cowipofed of a number of citi
zens from various wF the ftate,iiupludng fe
■ veral members of this (late in congrcfs, and of both
" houses of Hie state Icgifiaturc, which we''"" con.
vened at tire ffatj-houfe previously ta th'
> mrn» of the legislature, wlten after d
' to fapport the following ticket, they ag
* commend ft to the fepport of their filld
Thomas M'Kean, ctty of Philade"
Jacob Morgan, county of do.
1 James Boyd, Chelfer.
fi ,r)a » HattzeH, Northampton,
* jofepfi Heitler, Brrks.
1 William M'Clay, Dauphin.
: James Whitehill, Lancalter.
> William Irviu, Cumberland.
f Abraham Smith, Franklin.
William Brown, Mifflin.
John Piper, Bedford.
r John Smilie, Fayette.
P Jsmes Edgar, Waftington.
, . C?' The printers throughout the (late are rr»
j qaefted to giv' v • abiSi" '■< Vets a place in their ps«
I pers.
. . i
The Ed.ito >■ ■) Star,,a paper jjrin
ted at Belfaft i .is • t Tie other printers in
that town we :■ ri 16th S»pt. on a
charge of high ucaioa.—, military force ac
companied the civil officers—when as the editor of
another paper fays, a common couftable might hare
done the htifinefs, no one being djfpofed to refill .
the authority, —■■ "TV "*"
The new French minister Aubert Dubayet, has
arrived a; Confiantinople.
Mr. Hammond, on the igth Sept. embarked at
Cuxhaven, on his return to England.
Col. Crawfurd who is mentioned in the Hani
burgh papeis, was wounded in an action on the
25th Aug. he was exchanged, aud the Eng'.ift pa
pers date, was in a fair way of recovery. _ v
Louis the 1 Stli, has found refuse in the tlomin.-
ons of the Empress of Russia. The English pa
pers fay that the King of Frufiia would not con
firm to his hrihg at Brunfwick.
Lord Dorchcfter and family are arrived at Port!-
mouth England.
The gartifon of Q.fahar confilfs of 5600 men.
Reading. Berks county,
October 11, 179^*
Mr. Fenno,
By publijktnu the following Rcmarls and Return jo*
witloblige , A Subfei'ber.
General Daniel Heifler, who, it is wt>l known*
| voted agninft making the appiopriations (or catrv
ing the treaty with into cfifeft, h""*
ing his condu(£i not approved of by-his
coeffituents, resigned his (eat in congress
fcquecceof which, the gcrernor of this (late iffoea
his writ*, dire&ed to the (hetiffsof Berks and $JO
zerne counties, commanding them to hold an elec
tion for a person to fcrve the next session of c<rn~
I grefs in his place, at the fame 'ime that a memfe"
was to be eicfled to Ferve in the next congteis.—■-
Colonel Jofep'n Heifler, cousin to thegeneral, a.»
of the fame political opinions, was a candidate,
but the friends ef government, thinking
) change would not be for the better, propefed Mr-
George Ege, who was known to be a firm federa -
ift. They also proposed Chrillian I.Jwer, # e
ralift, (and who, as colonel of rr>.lit i«, jvafr decide y
in favour of government during the inf«rte£lio r >
the westward) as a fcnator for Berks and Daup 1
counties, in oppoliiion to Gabriel Heiller, v - >0
thinks with his brother Daniel. Every exerlioa
{ wasmade,.on both fides, forupwardsof two rno.;
previous to the election j and on the day, G— *'«