Pantheon, AND RICKETTS'j AMPHITHEATRE, For Equestrian and Stacs Performance s } \ Cower of Chtfnut and Stxth-flreets T HIS EVENING, Saturday, November 19, Will be piefented, A variety of Entertainments. Ground arid Lofty Tumbling, By Mr. Sully, Mr. F. Ricketts, Mailer Franklin and Master Hutchinsj In which will be introduced, for the 2nd time, The Force of Hercules, By Mr. Franklin, a performance never before it tempted by any in America. Horsemanship, by Mr, Ricketts, Mr. F. Ricketts, Mr. Franklm, Master Franklin, Master Hutchins, the Yotfng .American, and Mrs. Spinacuta. Clown to the Horfemanltiip, Mr. Sully. A new Ballet Dance, Under.the direction of Mr. Derang, called The BACK COUNTRYMEN; Or, the New Settlers. Mr. Franklin and Mr. F. Ricketts will ride three horses in full speed, carrying Mr. Ricketts on their ftioulders, a Pyramid never attempted by any pcrfom "before. The whole to conclude with A Comic Pantomime, called HARLEQUIN FOUNDLING. Mr. RICKETTS takes this opportunity of inform ing the Ladies and Gentlemen who attend the R : ding- Sehool, that ht has, at considerable expense, engaged Mr . Franklin, to give lessons in the art of riding and tnanaging Hsrfes, as he finds it impossible to attend to it himfelf, in eonfequence of a variety of business which he is atprefent engaged in. *«* The Ladies and Gentlemen who secure Seatsi 3 the day time, are requefled to attend punflttally at , r as the performances a're so arranged as to conclude!* 1 JO o'clock—the doors will open at 6. a 0" Box, 7s. 6d.—»Pit, 3s. y MORDECAI LEWIS, Who has also to Jifpofe of on reasonable terms, „ IRISH LINENS, well assorted ! BANDANNA HANDKERCHIEFS ? WIDE NANKEENS • P? COSSAS AND BAFTAS '?' F RAVENS DUCK ch , a .' DIAPERS wh ; QUICK SILVER J CHINA ROLL BRIMSTONE, kc. \ °'' er *7- tawrm — THIS DAT IS PUBLISHED, By Benjamin Davies, No. 68, High-ft rent, R The American Repository of ufeful Frie information, for 1797. CONTAINING, A Calendar for the year A complete Register of the Executive, Legislative, A and Judicary Officers of the General Government. mat, A Lilt of the Military Forces of the United States. Fa l> Poll-Office Establishment—times of receiving and ttiin tlofingthe Mails at Philadelphia. pun, The post roads and towns, and their diflair- es Times of holding the i'preme, Circuit and Diftrifl Courts. A table of Impost duties, alphabetically arranged. A lift of the custom-house officers and their fees. <- Rules for reducing the currencies of the lever a 1 r PI slates into one another, and all of them into the mo- ,°u ' nty cf the United States. ® Ufefnl tables of the value of pounds, Ihillings and pence, in dollars and cents. „ A rcgifter of the&nicersof the civil governmimt of u Pennsylvania. „ A gardiner's calendar for Pennsylvania. tfck- And a great variety of other articles of ufefHl informa- '• Ai tion. Embellished with twelve elegant vignettes, an en- the I graved title-page and frontUpiece.—raaking together, a and handsome, as well as very ufeful, little pocket companion, me" Oflober jo. 1 3awlf The brig Weil-Indian's Cargo Will be Landed on Monday morning, tS ' The 7. \JI inflant, At South-street Wharf, From the North fide ef "Jamaica. 19' I*o Hogfnctds and one barrel Coffie 13 Hoglheads of Sugar lOJ Hoglheads hijli proof Rum. ; For Sale by . 1 , ' PETER blight. and November 19. u ~ PROPOSALS, ; By WILLIAM COBBETT, opposite Christ Church, Phi- t c la Q f Philadelphia aud New York The fubferibers ts the Hiflory of Jacobinism are res- | peiftfully informed, that it will be ready for delivery i E early next week. I j ri Nov. 16. §x. 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I I her BE ,t remembered, that on the twenty-fourth'day ef mav I f P .fc m^ r ' '1 C Uvtnt T- firft y«r of the independence , r J, of the United States of America, Willian PnKli. ~«r I the said diftria hath deposited in this effue the Title of pe C ' : er > 1 _ c PHOCION—No. XXIV. ipy ABOUT the beginning «f the year 1791, the f its' house of representatives of the United States, re- lr ferred !o the secretary of (late, a representation of w I legiflatureof Malfachufetts on the (lecayt*tl [late u 0 f ®f the cod and tuhale JjJhenes. The object of the reference was to eaufe an enquiry into the real (late ? of the fifteriw, and to revive from the secretary, " some plan of legislative aid. The representation . ( complained " that the fidieries laboured under ma- K ' ny and heavy embarraffmen's, which, if not remo- a . r S ved or lessened, would render thrm every year lass it- extensive and important, that these embarraflments I weie, heavy duties on their produce abtoad, and ilt bounties on that of their competitors, and duties at *»' home on several articles, particularly used in the fifli- tC , j etics, and it asked* that those duties might be taken T I off, that bounties might be given to the filhermen, . apt and the national influtnee liftd abroad for •btaining I letter markets for their produce." " j Ihe course to be pursued by the secretary was plain and simple—to inquire into the truth of the , C I representation, and if tiue, to report some system of .' e Initiative aid, either by taking off the duties, or y j g' v '"g bounties, or using the influence of the go j vernment with foreign nations, to procure better I markets, or all of these measures. dij But instead of following this direst and obvious or : , c °" rfe > he be g iH » with a long, tedious, and pedantic nic U | h'ftory of the discovery of Newfoundland by the B u er Calsts, as far back as the year 1519, and a detail of ou or the fifhing adventures of the Basques and Biscay- .ou ui I aRC ' ~^ ai Bretons, more than two centuries ago, '« Wl ' h lhe r 'k and progress of the French, Spauifh, ,n 3 and Portuguese fifheries, from the year 1519, to the fe " 5 ' rep ° rt ' aII of whicll > tW no doubt Is \ faithfully copied from booh of ;.ufhority, were as h " ' I """"welling to the impatient filhermen, as they were e useless to congress. poi 5 tortl)nn E the patience of the lioufe Th Sj . and the feelings of the filhermen, he might at lead 0r have concluded with recommending fomethinrr pre- on L' "j'\ P ra ft.d will long contißue to double, at very fliort periods ccrr Ihe fccietaiy might have his argu- i men' very considerably, if |, e had had all hi. wits a- ,hc u im at the time ;he might have {hewn that Bril tar ® a ' ,n g filh would have promoted popu P en ' peoDteThe 3 ' n°k C was con^urnu 'd, the more people there would be to eat fifh, and thus by a hap. ««< m, fin ss "'? o " ° f Cause a ' ul effe ' ' 'th tn V ; mCn Had Vicw ' and faV ° had been the efential points of the reference ■ in ,f P f e / CC ' i°/' mer ely obierves, '• that it will 7 f u m y 't c!e^Uure vvhc ')» a »d which of the naval and sther duties anc * may t remitted, or an equivalent given to the fi{h form °f a diawback or bounty ;in res- "f I P o at •wbuh ivasthe mofl material pait of the t ' c ' a "r-r™' tu ' ,rft , o the wisdom of congress. 'Ilhc fifh: be E a ermen pray that heavy duties may be taken "off 'or B ' » &Tr 0r bm ". procured abroad "the thrr ' r ' eretar y»'nflead of retorting whe- !natt ther any and what duties ought to be i.K prev what would be the effefl of (o doing, al it concc ° r J' mifir * r.ge 7, tCf.rt, ~ ' .thej ply tl»f dcficicnav, whether It -v M cnnftlt , gran coupes, and if f ( ,, whether it w.uld L' * peaiant, we might negotiate w '''** obtain better ri*e;», , Toids a) 1 ««» ica a» pics of governmental interpoiition a „d aid " f the gravely recommend, that, which the trover.',, nent, could not meddle -with, to convert all the n,„ mpts the United States into Ichthyophavites «, P" ° and JiJb. The fiftermen pray for fomc tegij al ; v ,}%£ r ma- to preterve them from rum—conerefj.efrr.i. to all tinon to the secretary-he acknowledges tha'X 3 per' will be ruined without some immediate I Fetni- aid, and yet instead of recommending an/; r " C üblic congrcfs, that if individual, in the Un- Vs"™ 18 have can be eneouraged to eat fifh, from patriot J°£ i, let as the nation doubles in fliort periods, the d e ' good at home must in progress of time be rawn Congref,, however, wifely conceiting, ?| lat ' tru- learned anecdotes about the Bafoues, Bi?cav a „ o j [is of Bas-Bretons, and the didant profpeft of' a 3 pa- domeitic consumption, from a future •dou'-'m'^f nfelf our population, were but f iamy mean, of Kite for the poor ftamng fifhermen j dev.fed some im ding mediate rchef, which tho' promi/kg, f rcm , hc ' ould information, to be cheap and effectual, was, under" ? Tu C9 f f Un "f w armly opposed, in ' P 3 : a c Hcb ( a,C 0f^ f " ! "«« friends of ' lie . and Secretary. This oppofmon at once, accounted f„ r der the Secretary s cant,on .« evadifcg the pom(J refer . nd ? red to h.m by congref., and urg, ng wilh an ass temy ted zeal for the welfare of the filheries. that which atcd he knew to be as delusive, as it was ridiculous and ams pueule. •era. The foregoing ftriflures apply to that part of the uro- report which relates to the codffbery. When the jufe secretary comcs to treat of the whale fifhc n \ A- it furnifiles hiir. with some materials whercofr'tj <}ne build his favorite fyftern of hottility towards En r ers, land, and partiality for France, (from whence he ngs had returned but the preceding year) he is more by particular and decided in his recommendation. As ter Hating,' that the remiflion of duties would fUnd' on the fume ground as in refpefl to the Codfifierv that is, resting on the ivifdom of congress, he pro cceds to the fubjeft of foreign markets, and informs ' con;refs, that France is the only mar let for our thc common oils ; that, although there was an i„t, re /l re . tf, at country soliciting the exc/ufon »f cur oil,, vet : of we might hope, t,hat the government of Fr'snce jte would view us, not rivals, hut as cooperaters a. the S a '"lft * common rival ; and that friendly arrange. ate ments with France would long fecuie to us this re. source- Full of this ohjefl, so near h/s heart, h s [ on ' then Elates from the fubjeft of the fifhcrie#Jr{|£ M . gather, to make a pompous statement of tKi great amount of our general exports of American prft sf.g duAion* to that country—a statement which fubfe nts q uent information (hewed to be extremely fallacious. nd tben ® alcfi ' " 'he market for th» as greater part of our fpcrimca:ti oil; but, to conn. teraft this circumllance, adds, "that the tenure by , which we hold the admiflion of this commodity in >n their markets, is as precarious as it is hard j" -tho' ' in truth, in was, at Jeaft, as likely to be durable, ' o as the tenure by which, from his own account, we* hold the admilfion into the French market, wheie he had Rated, " that there was i particular (and, he might have added, a powerful J interfl perpctudl or h soliciting the exclujion of our tils." a . Growing (till warmer on his favorite topic, lie er adds, " Nor can it be announced, that there it my dijpofition on thc part of England to arrange this us °f an V ot her commercial matttfr, to mutual conve tie nience ; the ex parte regulations which they have be be B un > f° r mounting their navigation on the tuin of of our's, can only be uppufrii by counter o<> , our part." Howevef reluctant thc secretary had been to give |, ( any positive advice to congress, refpeds'ig the t{- )e feutial aid which the cod-fifhery required, content- ' j,, ine himfelf with leaving that to their wisdom ; vet, as here, his zeal for counter regulations againfl Great re Britain, overcomes his diffidence, and lie plainly and pointedly advises decisive and important measures. f e Though evidently indifferent about Ihe prnfperity ft or distress of the fifiiermcn, yet he is ready tofeize on the intereftsand paflionsof the New Englardeu, and embody them-on his fide, against thfir fappof ed enemy, Great-Britain. But these prudent peo i. p' e > too wile to be caught in such a snare, and too | e well acquainted with the true interests of their e country, were almofl unanimouHy opposed to Mr. [, Jefferfon's plan of counter-regulations, which he afterwards more fully developed, when cirtumftan e cc ® prf-mifed a more fuccefsful refnlt. It wa-i not a ' Jt little surprising that he he (hould, thus early, Jiave n complained of the disinclination of Great Brilain . n to meet us in comm.'rcial arrangements. Mr ferfon had not been many months in office under the new government, which was then but in its in .. fancy, and it was known that Great-Britain was e about to fend a this country, who in g deed arrived here within a few months after this complaint. Anxious as was the secretary, thus early, to sow the feeds of commercial hostility againlt Great t Britain, some fails incautioufiy escaped from hi* pen, in this leport, of so unfavourable a complec e tion t» France, he took special care, in his . commercial report, to pass them by in silence, tho' . they were full as relevant t* the fuhjeCl, as ihofe n be then detailed refpefting the rival nation. Thus, jn page 5, he fays, " the navigation of France, from . being the most economical, was become the mofex - penjivt of ar,y nation." This is the navigation, in 1 favour of which, he recommends in his commercial 1 report, the excltifion of British vessels. In the | fame page he tslls 01, that, though the filhcjits of . 'be United States were annihilated during the war, 5 and their markers in the Mediterranean and Brit/11 . America lolt, yet their produce wis dutiedin thee . °f France. In page 9, he tells us, that, at this ci:- . ticlal time, when the filhermen of the United States, t left without r?fource by the fofs of their markets, ; began to think of accepting an invitation from 0. . Britain, and removing, fonee to Nova-Scoua, and I others to England, the government of France, not inattentive to these proceedings, endeavoured to prevent this emigration of our filhermen, by pro mising, that our friends in France «*jgu!d do fcace thing f#r them ; but that, irftead of doing any thing ro induce them to ilay in the United States,, the government of France, injidioujly, and contrary