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UIV. FAN'iHEON,
And fUCJCETTs's A WPHrt-lIEATRE,
for Eq'aeftriaji and Stage performances, Corner ot '
Chefnut and Sixth streets
THIS EVENING, Saturday, November 5, 1
Mr. Ricketts refpeiflfully informs the public, that
in order to make the amusements of the Pantheon as
plealing a? pofljblei he has engifjen forr.e eminent per
formers' from Aftley's jinphitheatce and the royal
circus, London, one of ~vhom,
Majler Franklin, o years old,
Will perform several jPleafing Feats
in Hort'emanfhip.
"To which will be added, a Comie Ballet Dance, un
der the direflion of Mr. During, called
The Two Huntlmen ;
Or, Ihe Death of the Bear.
Gillot, Mr. Durang
Cul'6, Mr. Sully
Liwycr, Mr. Su ly
Country Girl, Mrs. Tompkins
Mrs. Durang.
To conclude with a Pas De Trots.
Eqiiestrian Exercises.
In particular, for this night,
IMr. Ricketts will go thro' the Manual
Exercise, on horseback,
, (The horse in fuil speed)
Drefled a3 an American Officer.
With other performances by the reft of the company
too tedious for insertion.
And, by particular desire, (for this right only)
The splendid and favorite Pantomime of
Don Joan ;
Or, The Libertine Deftxoyed.
Under the of Mr. Sully.
In the courfeof the Pantomime will be introduced the
favorite song of
« WHITHER MY LOVE,"
By Miss Robinson.
Sale by Au&ion.
To be fold on Saturday evening the sth of November, at
7 o'clock, P. M. at the Merchants' Coffee House.
TWO three story brick honfei with convenient kitchens
north fide of Marktt,between Seventh andEighth-ftreets,
each house with the priviledge of an alley is 16 I-i feet
front ; the lot is 150 in depth »
One two story brick house in Za*e-ftreet, commonly
called Sugar alley, jfhe house is 16 1-1 fe«t front, on said
alley, with a good kitchen ; the lot is go feet in djpth.
One vaca.it lot,adjoining the said house, in Zane-ftreet,
16 i-i feet front, and 90 fe«t-dotp ; at the end of 90 feet
the said lot widens 33 feet, and runs back of the Marke' ,
street lots 111 feet. 33 feet wide.
One two story jriek house and kitchen in Zane-flieet;
16 1-2 feet front; the lot 45 feet in depth.
45 acres of excellent meadow land in Greenwich,
which wtll he fold either by small pafcels or 11 acre lots.
50 tons of excellent upland hay. Enquire of
HENRY SECKEL,
, * GEORGE COOPFR,
HENRY SHE \FF,
-ABRAHAM WILT, or
OAob«r 19. T7 ' w Auctioneer.
Wm. Holdernesse, No. 76,
HIGH-STREET,
Has received by the late arrivals,
A IVell Selected Assortment of
Silk Mercery, Linen Drapery, and
Haberdashery Goods,
Which he will fell, wholesale and retail, an the very
lowed ferms j
Amongjl which ire
Some elegant 4-4 arid 7-8 Chintzes and Cottons, new
patterns
Diyo Foi'niture ditto
Ditto Dimity
Tamboured, Book, and Jaconet Muslins
Ditto in Gold anri Silver
Ditto Neckcloths, very fine
Mantuas of the firft quality
Silk and Cotton Hosiery
Umbrellas of the firft quality, afTorted
Jrifh Linens, very fine, ar.d Table Linen»
Marfeillcs and Cotton Counterpanes
Rose Blankets aflbrted—See. <3cc.
06lober a 6. d
' 'OLD
London Particular Madeira Wine,
In pipes, hoglheads and quarter-caflcs,
L»nding this day at Chefnut-ftreet Wharf, and .
for fa!e by 1
Joseph Anthony & Co. j
Nov. 1. d
Befl Boston & Nova-Scotia Mackarel,
Excellent Halifax Salmon in bbls.
47 bbla. prime Coffee, '
Bed Boston Beef, 1
Codfifh in hds. I
Spermaceti Candles, '
Spermaceti, and 1 _, _
Northern J OIL.. ,
Mould and dipt, tallow candles, of a superior 1
qtftli'y. ' <
A Few boxes excellent brown soap, 1
6 Pales of Corks. i
/.o Pipes excellent Lisbon Wine. 1
A few sacks of Feathers. J
A few bales India Muslins. ,
FOR SALE BT t
JOSEPH ANTHONY, h Co. «
Oflober 31. <j [
This Day is Publifhed7 '
And ibid by IOHN ORMROD, No. 41 Chefnut-ftreet, '
C Price one ftxteenth of a Dollar.)
A P O£ M [
Onre-.ding the President's Address,
WITH A SKETCH OF THE '
CHARACTER of A CANDIDATE, c
r 0 r t a e ''
PRESIDENCY. | n
This elegant little Poem is printed in a form to be bound ' V
-with the President's farewelUddrefs,lately published by , J
John OrmroJ. ¥ ,
November 1.
Washington Lottery. d
The J4th and 3jth Day. Drawing are arrived at the "cl
office No. i47> Cbrfnut-llrett. r
Pnaes in th. above Lottery are exchanged for tickew
warranted undrawn fa
3. tti 4 te
%
The following judicious and candid analylis of
it t( A Defence of the American Constitutions, by John
Adams," is earnestly recommended to the considera
tion of the Eledlors, generally.
it ~
< For the GAZETTE of the Unitfd States.
j1 SHORT VINDICATION OF
Mr. Ad • ns's
" .Defence of America;, Constitutions."
There never wis r rary work so much
»- talked of, I'd so lit til" this part of the
Union, as Mr 4< - of our Conjlilu
t'tortt.— Lcl.-imk' r.d men judge of
v a merits ami >t» 4vfe&* b'» a •envierate pcrufal.
Let every in (low ■ trie ctoce Ik- pafies
sentence—is 1 jud To \niri iviflieut
the conjtn jii im i. «.!• j- V, >i any man lhall,
without having, f ei- ' eoutjfirtination ot
this work, a.id of'tou the charaSer ot on&
of the eartieft and moll ironui men of our
revolution ! Let the man of harity refumc his in
estimable principle—and hefore he condemns such
ll a tharafter, read the work.
As far as I am capable of judging, the follow
ing appears to my 'mind, a (hort outline of his
main do&rine, in tRe " Defence of our Constitu
tions''—He calls his work a defence of our free
governments and it 19 so. These governments were
censured by a M. Turgot,of France, because they
had a.legislature of two branches—and an ii;de
pendent executive. He charged upon those who
formed them, too servile an imitation of the En
glish constitution. Mr. Adams had heard ef ihe
| le intended views of-a faction in Maflachufetts to in
troduce monfienr Turcot's theory there ; —to abo
lilh their separate executive, and their senate—and
wrote this hook, Vol. I, to prevent this anarchy.
_ Before he finifhed his volume an infurre&nn had
a£tuallj taken place tn Maflachufetts, (1786) the
objetft ef v»hich was to establish one supreme body
at to govern the Hate. The anarchists were then, as
they have since been throughout the Union, de
ns frated. In orderto vindicate the established repub
ts, lican forms of three branches, each branch having
ct a negative, Mr. Adams was led to review the, fe
,l veral governments in Europe, wherein the people
.id had any (hate. He and every man in America
knew that we not only imitated the parts of the
et > English government which were proper to be a
dopted here, to wit, a feparatiotv of the different
power* of government into three branches, the
t; complete independence of the judiciary ; —a bill
of rights ; —the haieas corpus, arid the inettimable
*» trial by jury; but alio continued in France the
Cs - English (latutes-that had been heretofore adopted,
and the common law of England. These princi
ples of public policy were adopted at thefametime
that wc wifely reeded the name, and political cha
racter, of a king ; —a hereditary senate or nobi-
I'tv : and a bench of biftops —The Enelilh »o
- vernment wa, ai and ha(! ten for
ages, the only one in. Europe wherein the people
had a (hare, and in which was to be found the
principle that we had aSually adopted, vis. iS, e di
vision of the powers of government into the one—
people, with a Negative on each—His work was
r particularly 3 'defence «f the principal outlines of
the government of this slate, where we have a go
w v ernor a senate, elofled for five years by eledtors
—and a house of delegate., chosen by the people
immediately.
In the vindication of f„»h a political form, and
ot such imitations and adoptions from the Englifo
government and civil system, Mr. Adams was u»der
a neceffi-y.f vindicating the Englifl, gove.nme.K,
as tar as it bore a companfon with any at that
time in Europe. Wherever his companfon takes
pl ie between that and those conations which he
was then defending, we alway., in every instance,
_ hnd that he 18 exulnsgly in f a v or of the free confti.
tutions of America, and adjudges the palm of glo
ry to them no: because they are called republics : .
' * Pame the most tyrannical gUvern
men's at thu day in Europe ; but because ths fieo- 1
pU weredually foreign and free ;_becaufe they <
ch«fe their own governors, re J. ,
fenttt,vc, annually ; and because there were no here■ 1
r y honors, titles, offices er diJlinSiont ; and the <
powers of government were catefujly divided.— >1
Vid. I vol. 95 6.
No where doe, he even inGnuate, that we .ught J
nohi ? H a l y , firft m, e iftratts > or kings, or 1
5 J" H ,'f wi,ole bt>ok «'•» written for the pur .
pose of luardmg againjl a state of thi.g,, w Lh i
might give birth to such charter, in slates !
!nd d r e ent r " lto lhc histor y of cvernments,
vKf,d t Pe 'rV " RftitUC " t ft/itics «f every c
ir vil,fed and wealthy society. He fh»w, ,he daLer ■
.* , tree government becoming arifocratical h„
pointing sut this truth, that ia every fo.ietv, which
L'JtV f: .J'Zf,
'. c ' ""qv* ! 't'es of condition— fotne rieh feme 1
indigent; some famous, others obfeure • that some
;
ngh" " .Key in r ob h '
and other governßeat,, where ihefe mutual checks ff
and balances of power did not cxift. The Enirlirti
constitution, in theory, has certain checks, which n
z monarchy, have certainly raa de it one of t U ti
,! vfz [Tine E ::n ? ut iu checks and baiant «.
; "e. ?IXIS Mr ; Ada - a
It 1 ' [;
,7 "J* /,h ma S\ft rat es hereditary •hZ
great prcpn.ty. Can language be aore expli,,V» p
Heth,nk3 anygovern.ent wiihout our checks a ,)
* J1
''■ • • '
! one free republic. The -attire and qa.ii;>y ■»■ •
( arcby be would populate (if fuel: « ,
° used) into a chief raagiftrate, like a president o. t e
,B United States, with a veto; hut obftrves, he would .
•a- have him deßbe.—And that he is a friend to fre
quent and popular elections, fee page 311 39* (
to this mngillrate, he would give the executtvipewr. .
Thus it is jiven in one unrivalled federal ccnftttvtion.
Again, he° would cVec-k tMs firit magiltrate— the 1
monarchy feauite or quality, and the rtprefcnlatrjes, '
the democratic part, by the aristocratic quality of .
society, in a senate Here he differs from the Bntifh 1
*' euiogift, because he would not have this senate a he
reditary body. Again, he would have the third
:h branch of government a house of delegates, imrr.e-. 1
lie diatelychofen by the people, to check the natural
u- aristocracy, and the executive. He defends the free <
of governments of his country in so doing ; & proud
,l. ]y exults in the fuperioiity of her forms, over those
es of every country, inckidittg_tbe constitution of Eng
ut land.
11, This appears, to my mind, the principal outline
of of his work. Those among my young country- 1
na men, whose education deft ines them to learned re
ur fle&ipn, and probably to public ftatioiu will find, 1
n- in this work, a clue to guide both to political know
:h ledge, and to the pra&ice of virtuous sentiment :
they will find, too, that this learned and able llatef
w- man, no where fabftitutes an audacious phihfphy,
119 in,the placf of religion■
u- I appeal to federal men—is not tTiis attack on
ee the work of the man whom the federal party, <he
re lovers of eur constitution, and the fricßds to the
ey treasures of our government, brought forward as '
I'e a candidate, any thing more than a continuation of
ho that holtile spirit to the government, has al- I
n- ways distinguished the southern faction, Jtmore par
he tic.ularly the slate of Virginia? In what papers do
In- you find the moll virulent attacks upon Mr. Adi'iru ?, I
10. In the precious Aurora of Mr. Bache, from whirk *
nd the filler Telegraphe, of Baltimore, interchanges its 1
y. signs and. motions of ießiiioH, upon all occafioris.
ad A letter is propagated in the latter, from the for- 1
be m<r, said to be from Thomas Paine, relative to Mr.
ij Adams.—There is the higlieil probability that the 1
as whole is fabricated, or grounded in egregious mis- 1
lc- representation. 7 lie probability is, that Thomas
b- never enjoyed a single confidential coftverfation with ;
ng Mr. Adams in his life. He was a ready writet, '
fe- and did us-I'ervice by his pen, in '76 : but 1 no 1
>lc more believe that Mr. Adams bad the conversation, 1
ca afTerted with Paine, than Ido the stroke of politics '•
he that was propagated, so industriously, about two i
1. years since, by a member of congress, viz. that '
nt Mr. Adams had said, among a few fenatora, in the '
he senate-chamber, that our government would never
lill do, till we had an hereditary firft magistrate, and '
>le senate. This story, 011 inquiry, turned out to be '
he a falfehood, or a gross mistake, " flock and block
d, It is not to be wondered at, that those writers,
ci- who have so long oppofrd and vilified the conjlitulioti,
ne which is the checked and balanced government that '
1a- Mr. Adams- so much admires; and the President, '
si- together with his measures of government, which
o are perpetually abused by Bache, (as they were by i
or hi« ptedeceffor, Freneau, who, while he was one of '
»le Mr. Jefferfon's canJUentiaLclerks, was the editor of
he one of the moll virulent and antifederal papers in the *
li- union, the National Gazette) it is not furprifir.g '
— that those writers,.and men of the fame complec- '
tiaii fhopld Daw auy—.,..ihfrrt- '
si ITJppporters ot our prefect incftimable constitution !
as Are they not the fame meu who have kept this
of countiy on the veige of war for three years past ?
0- and who have uniformly opposed and vilified every '
>rs measure which the President adopted to avoid war? «
lie Arc they not the fame men who lately oppofeH
the treaty ? Look at them—hear their names—»(k ,
id their party !—You will know themjo be the fame si
(h men, with unchanged minds, and unaltered views. C
er The only pieces I hive seen against Mr. Adam's. a
it, are two—the one alluded to in the Tclegraphe, and
!t some references to Mr. book, in a late Bal
es timore paper, {Tid to be taken from a Bolton hand- ~
ie bill. The references are either designedly or unin.
e, tentionaijy inaccurate, or mifnndtrflocd by him who
1- made tbem. It is to be lamented, that great na
il- tion, ir| the moment of exerting one of the proud- fa
; ell and'molt splendid of its rights— a nation thatde- _
1- lerves, from its moral excellence, long to enjoy this
J- unexampled excrcife of y« sovereignty, the eledlion
y , ot ,ts c h 'ef magistrate, ft >uld be insulted in the \\
f- moment of its eiioiee, by the wantonnefs of malice I;.
f- or the taunts of the fediiious. Let us /how the' m
ie world of kings, that the freemen of America de- dl
ierve this happy exemption from arbitrary rule "
And let 1 manly h. d elevated contempt of all elec- ft,
•r would not be browbeaten by foreign power, are th
. " n ° t f , t " be drce ' vc,i «jol.d by domettic tricksters, I
f I r' Whcu their „,obe w
i. moa nobly exerted UNION 'nf
1, Ealtern Shpre, Maryland, '
i- 26th O<Sober, 1796. pa
x gag——--
y- PARis; August 39 . v f
, tl r „ . *f Germany.
S Ihe following plan has been submitted to the '
e French Government, for revolutionizing Germany «
at .he conclusion of general peace : ,
ceror T "'f nO , German!c Empire, no Em- th.
. F er °r, aid cohfcquently no Eledors. a]
3 1. Auftiia and Prussia shall have no m«,r f t! "
: I
title r' L«ch of Which shall bear a -
title, foch for .nttance „ that of Grand Duchy
' a federal ultxr If r" W ' th ** ch olher
: »» f,„« ;F Jh"Cut
such as free ImS" • of tholc diftricls,
p "'n«s, (hall bet- Clt a ß ' Provrncia l States and
deration CQnftltUent P««' this Fe
which fhalfbc fupprcLd f WerS '
;oy th« r rcvenue , for lifc ; the .
V
»" cities fee Inrflefffw*, r« Jikewlfe thcf&rr'
3t for lhe4ar.iili.-5 whicii fullered too much by
le vuges of this vrar, fucti as the tw 0 Pa!stine h 6 ' 3 "
Id of Deuxponts and Bavaria, the drano/- "
e- 8. Prnflkt ftlall tenounce
5. coma, and reie.ve ■„ exchange , "°-
r. ccrs on tiTr territories. . uur
n. 9 Tlie Pruflian pafieffions i n WtM, t
le the Bifhopricks of Ofnaburg, Paterborn 'an,}
t, of the Eleaorate of Hanover, shall form a '., p3 ' L '
of dage to the elder Branch of the House of
(h fwick. I'
ic. Provision shall also.tie made for emichi
rd patrimony of the Duke of Meckfenburc Iu
e- different branches of the house of Anhalt'
al 11. The extent of the territories of t'hr P •
ce of Hesse CasTes, Daimlladt, &c. Ihall a ls o h'""*
J- Urged. btf cn -;
fe September 18. I
t. General Buonaparte has authored 0 «r minittA
at Rome, to figmfj to the Neapolitan m ; X
le Acton, that if the Nopolitan troops ii,v „'„ ./
y- territory of the pope, he will ordei a div.f.on 'f
e- his army to march to the defence of his huliaefs'
J, dominions. Eighteen- thoufanri men arf alread'
v- preparing to. march towards Bologna. Th- j
. ; apolitans were at Ponte Corvo to the number si
f. 3,000. It is feared that another column will march M
y, to the Romagna The heapolitans replied -hat I
they took thtfe precautions merely to picvcn ' t )
:n lertion. Tl^ishowever is but an excuse. /
ie September 19. ' ' '
,e The change which we have announced is deeid •
as ed : Jourdan goes to the army cf the north, and'
of Bournonville will take '.he command of the '<4 «
bre and Meufe. ~, ,B *
r They write from Nantes, of the 22d Fi "'Jor
!o (September 8) that the squadron under" Richety
if lad entered she port of Brett, with four Spawfh
■y f)lips, which had not left them since th« : r failing
t8 fiom Cadiz. S
s . In JL'Etiair of the 18th also, there is ait'article
r . from BrutTels, of the 28th Fruftidor (September
r. 14). wbigh (late _that.general Jourdan was in full,
,e ret re-; tat all points —The siege of Menu h ag been
f. raised.
„ Several corps of the army of the Sambre and '
h Meufe are already fallen bat kto Neuwied. All the
if kaggatfe of 'he army is psffing the Rhine in the
,o trfmofbdifordei . The confwfion is such as never
, n was known. The baggage of Jourdan is arrived
at Coblenfz. All the roads arc covered with wag.
■o gons, filled with wounded, which tkey fend to the
,t left bank of the Rhine. The general of division
;e Bcrnadotte, is of thetitimber.
• r P. S. Werire assured at this inflam, that the
!{ ) head-quarters of Jourdan's- army have been traat
)e ferjed to the left bank of the Rhine.
>j • »
B) LONDON, September 25.
The lord chancellor yesterday had the king's or* I
lt deri to prepare a commifiion for afiembling both J
t) house* of parliament on Ttiefday next.
h The fubferibers to the second loan this day made
y good their payment of 151. per cent, on the whole
of that capital at the bank.
jf On VVednefday earl Macartney kifled the king's j
le hand on being appointed governor of the Cape-of*
t Good-Hope j as did Sylyefter Douglas, Esq. ca
being appointed deputy-governor.
T Ob TUESDAY EVENING, the Bth inih
"? Will be Sold,
dt the Merchant't ~
\ The Schooner Lucy,
H ?" ow ] >" n S at Cbefnut-flreet wharf; a fine, (tout
' buiit vefiel, one hundred and sixteen tons burthen; in
every refpe<St well found, and lhay be sent to fra at a
e frnall exper.ee—the inventory may be fees at
Compting-Houfe of the fubforibers, or at Footmaa
i, and Co. auctioneers.
J Joseph Anthony Co.
- Nov. 5: d
; SALTPETRE.
A hrpe quantity «f Double-Refined Salt fttre for
sale at No. 15, South Third-flreet.
November dtf
s to be Sold,
1 A LOT ef GROUND, 164 feot 7 inchei front on South
: Water-street, and bounding on the Delaware aboct the
, Tame width, with a whari thereon in good repair. On the
north fide adjoining l"un alley, is a large and well built -
dwelling hoafe, and cnumii«g house, communicating with
each other, 47 feet wide, a l'pacio u kitchen, and other
well planned accommodation!, and below theft a flack of
■ (lores, 6i feet in front, by 93 feet in length, built a few
1 years ago ;on the remainder of the lot on Water-llrect,
there are two ancient brick dwellings, a Cooper's Ihop, k
a frame store, now occupied by Mr. AlexJrtiier Tod, and
' bounds adjoining the stores of the heirs of the late Joft*j>i
Wharton. It will he better described by drafts and pans
of the ground, and buildings, to be teen at JOHN' V. 11.-
COCKVs compting house, on the prersifes, and of whom
particnlars of sale may be obtained.
The whole will be fold together, or detached a« may
bell suit the purchaser. Nov. j _5_
" " No. 153.
D'rftrift of Pennsylvania, to wit- ■
BE it remembered, that on the twenty-fourth day of
September, in the twenty-firft year of the independente
of the United States of America, William Cothf" of
the said diftricl hath deposited in this office the Title of
a Book, the right %vhcreof he claims as proprietor, m
the words following, to wit.
" The Political Censor, or Review of the mod
" refling political occurrence! relative to the UriitedStates
"of America—By Peter Porcupine"—ln conformity 1
the A3 of the Congress of the United States, intitule" ,
"An A<X for the encouragement of learning by
the Copies of Maps, Chaits and Books to the antho"
and proprietors of such Copies, during 'he tinw* fi *ror
mentioned." SAMUEL CALDWELL,_CIerV
Diilri.'l PennO/lvjnia. _
A few Pipes of WINE,
Imported in the brig I ; A\'il-, from Madeira, to be fold
by MORD EC A I LEWIS,
Who h?.s alio to 4ifpofe of on rcafonable ttrvat,
)KISH LINENS, wcllafforted
BAND ANN A'HANDKERCHIEFS
WIDE NANKEENS
COSSAS AND BAFTAS
RAVENS DUCK
DIM'ERS
QUICK SILVER " •
CfilNA mt
ROLL liRIMSTONE, See.
Oter i 7. ni
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