Philadelphia, . » WEDNESDAY EVENfNG, DECEMBER 14, 1796. ELECTION RETURNS. Return or For&s ST rOR S §> <1 •§ PRESIDENT I I T a AND § £ p k J VICE-PRESIDENT,. / « New-Hampfliire, Maflachufstts, Rhode- (flaud, Connecticut, 9 4 5 Vermont, New-York, 12 I* New Jersey, 7 7 Pennsylvania, 1 >'14 ij Delaware, 3 3 Maryland, 7 4 4 3 1 Virginia, Kentucky, T?nneffee, North-Carolina, South-Carolina, Georgia, Total, *„* The piece Cgned " Candor" in our next. The publication of tha Paraphrase on a paflag* in Shakespeare, would not promote any valuable end ; and the original poetry subjoined, tho* it potTelTes considera ble merit, is too incorre'S for publication. Yesterday Elijah Paine and Isaac Tiehener, esquires, Senators m Congress from the ftat« of Vermont, pur ftiant to a resolution of the Council and General iffem bly of Vermont, presented to the President of the' Un ited States the following ADDRESS, palled by the unanimous voice of both Branche. of the Legillature of Vermont, OClober 25th, 1796. An address from the Legislature of the Jlate of Ver mont, to thi President of the United States. SIK, FROM the unrecognized situation of this Jlate, the legillature had not an opportunity in common with her filter states, to anticipate', by an address, the blef fingsthat were expected from your administration. Permit us, now, with fiuccre fatisfaCtion, to allure you, that the event ha* juftified the mod sanguine hopes of the legislature of Vermont, and theii' conftitu •jfits When we contrail the gloomy aspeCt, both of our domestic and foreign affairs, a few years since with the flattering prospeCt now before us, we at once ap preciate the advantages which immediately refulffrom our general government, and the justice, magnanimily and mode ation, which has marked your administra tion Convinced of our true mtereft, you have fuc < efi,ful!y oppoftd faction, and maintained that neutral ity, so ueceffary to our national honour and peace — Accept, fir. the only acknowledgment in our power to make,or in yours to receive, the gratitude of a tree peo ple. Ardently as we wilh your continuance in pub lic office, yet, when we relied on the year< of anxiety you have lpent in your country's fervire, we mull re luctantly acquiesce in your wishes, and consent that you Ihould piss the evening of your days, in reviewing a well spent life, and looking forward to fctnes beyond the grave, where our prayers (hall ascend, for a com plete reward, for all your fe.ricts in a happy immortal ity- We receive your address to your fellow citizens, as exprefiive of the highest zeal for their prosperity, arid containing the bell advice ta enfurc its continuance. We cannot, fir, close this address ( probably the last public communication we may have occasion to make to you) without alluring you of our affeClion and ref peCt —may the (hade of private life, be as grateful to you as the l'plendour of your public life, has been ufeful to your country ! we (hall recolleCt you with filial af fection your advice as an eltimablelegacy; and (hall pride ourselves, in teaching our children the impor tance of that advice, and a humble imitation of your example. To whick the Prelident returned the following An swer. To Elijah Paine and Isaac Tichenor, esquires, Senators in Congress from the Hate of Vermont. Gfntlemen, WITH particular pleasure I receive the unanimous address of the council aid genei-ai assembly of the (late of Vermont. Although but lately admitted into the union, yet the importance of your state, its love of lib erty, "nd its energy, were manifefted in the earliest pe riods of the revolution which eftablilhed our indepen dence. Unconnected in name only, but in reality uni ted with the confederated dates, thele felt and ac knowledged the benefits of your co-operation. Their .mutual lafety and advantage duly appreciated, will never permit the union to be difiolved. I enjoy great happiness in the tellimony you have presented, and in the other proofs exhibited from vari ous parts of our country, that the operations of the general government have juftified "the hopes of our citizens at its formation, which is recognized as the ara of national prosperity. The voluntary acknowl edgements of my fellow-citizens persuade me to be lieve that my agency has contributed to produce this tffeCt. This belief will be to me a source of perma nent fatisfaClion, and those acknowledgments a rich reward. My sincere thanks are due, and I beg you gentle men to make them acceptable to the council and gene ral assembly of the slate of Vermont, for the very obliging and affectionate terms in which they notice nte and my public Services. To such confidcnce and support, as I have experienced from councils, legifla tivc affcrablies, ic the great body of American citizens, ,T,pwed the best exertions of every faculty I possessed : happy now in the reflection, that our joinr labours have been crowned with success When withdrawn to the (hade of private life, I (hit! view with growing pleasure, the increafirg prosperity of the United States: in the perfect protection of their government, I trust to enjoy my retirement in tranquility ; and then while indulg ing a favorite »i(h of my heart in agricultural pursuits, I may hope to make even my private business and amufemtnt of forae use to my country. Go. WASHINGTON. United States, ? J Ith Dec. 1796. 5 COMMUNICATIONS. "Some persons pronounce it base and servile to speak flronjtly of the virtues and services of the President a# .even 'irs rcvilers think is true —for few of those vho speak against hirn believe their own calumnies. Yet these men <*Ji« itrair. at a gnat, actually fwallow er' a camel in the cafe of Genet. Dinners, songs ar.d addrtffes-—fealting on roasted and raw oxen flags, cannon, and aTT the fooleries of liberty-caps on Aim poles and thick heads, could scarcely iatisfy French idol-worlhippers. J n like manner, the praise of our free constitution, and its prosperous administration, offend those pa triots, (what a name for such men!) who quarrel with you if you compare any thing with French libarty, or ftippofe any place out of Paradise so happy as France. These men would be curled if they Ihould enjoy for only fix months the glorious privileges they so much prefer to their own. They want a little of the felf-refpeCt spoken of by the President. GLEANINGS, From the Critical Review. Flowers of Englifli Rhetoric, applied to the Age of Reason, by Gilbert Wakefield j tending to exhibit the prefeiit liberal mode of treating an adversary. Mr. Wakefield in his reply to Th 'mas. Paine's fecopd part of the Age of Reason, introduces the following curious charaCter of Mr. in th<; course of hie reply—that he is a compound of va mty and ignorance, a (illy blockhead, a head strong sciolist, who has neither learning enough to know when he is confuted, nor ingenuous candor to ac-' knowledge the contutation—a puzzle pated fellow —a swaggering polemic—an illiterate mountebank, acquainted with no language but his own—a noily coxcomb—a bullying champion—a vain glorious and empty bluftercr—,an infuriate polemic—the pi tiable viCtim of conceit and ignorance, who fumes and foams in an idle corobit with.the phantoms of his ow,n disordered imagination—the most impene trably stupid and Fi>tile braggadocio, that evar vio lated the facrci feeling of fe!f-veneration, ami every principle of literary integrity, in undertaking with out candor, without modesty, and without know ledgc, to canva(« that multifarious and comprehen sive topic, the evidences -of revelation—and in the bitterness of his wrath, Mr. Wakefield ex laims— " Nincompoop (for insulting truth and violated " honor, demand thy true appellation with a vche " mence liordering on reproa h) if thou fin.left " any of thy vifionarv audacities unnoticed in fu " turc. modestly suppose tUe genuine reason to re " fide in their futility and nothingiiefs." Mr. Fknno, I observe in your paper of this day my name in the lilt of those clergymen who were voted for to serve as chaplains in Congress. As it may, in con sequence, be supposed that 1 had applied for a re inrtatement in that service after'having declined it fame years since, and that accordingly, in nominatiou; you will oblige me by inserting in your next, that no application to tha: purpose had been made by me, orhy any other person, with my knowledge, in my b»half; that the fame reaf us hold good against my returning to that ferviee at this time, which prevailed with me to decline it as aforementioned ; and that, had I been chosen by a majority of the House, 1 fhonld have been under the disagreeable neeeffity of repeatihg to them my desire of being excused. SAMUEL BLAIR. December 13th, 1796. - * ' N. B One motive for desiring this publication is, to obviate a report, which had been by some persons officioufly circulated, that my not having been re elected at the time above referred to, was owing, not to my desire, but the difapprobatiou of Congress FOR THE GAZETTE OF THE UNITED STAT ES. To the public auJ private Stockholders of the Bank of Pennsylvania. No. 1. AN event hitherto unknown, I believe, in the annals of banks, hath, within five days, divulged itfelf of a molt alarming nature in this city ; but to calculate on the tremendous evils, that it threat ened, is impoflible. Consolation, hswever, is de rived from its recent discovery; because, had it proceeded another three years—the immensity of your lofles, would have been in the ratio of his mighty peculations. And who can fay to what'an enormousfum, the and flexible disposition of your late president, would have exunded itfelf? For, if in this small space of time, he could in gulph, in wonderful fthemes and contrivances, so much as to leave a balance against him of one hun dred and eleven thousand dollars ; what would not his fertile geuius, and the ready accommodation of his needy friends, have demanded of him, while he held the uncontrouled purse ftringi of the great bank of Pennsylvania ? May I not cry out, O, fortunate public and private flockholders of this bank ! ye have cfcaped Scylla, by a happy poflef fion of nearly all your president's property through a late, though " a hair breadth" investigation ! It is, gentlemen, to gua;d your vessel from run- 1 ning on the rocks of Charybdii, that hath brought me forth on '.his lamentable occasion- And as this anxiety for the general welfare is my only prepon derance, so (hall it urge me, in some future papers, tufpread my knowledge, and my advice, on the proceedings in that bank, devoid of fear or favor. It may be neceflary, however, to inform you that, neither party zeal nor enmity to any individual di rector, cause my animadverfions; —for I have met with no unwelcome denials, or refufals tTom them in a collective sense—and for several of them, I am in the habits of intimacy and friendfhip; but para mount to all other considerations, my attachment to my native country, is abhorrent to all peculators —and therefore my future communications lhall be striCtly candid, in doing justice—-where it can be found. PUBLIC GOOD. Philadelphia, Dec. 14, 1796. For the Caxitte or tie Unites States. Mr. THOMAS PAINE's letter to the Pre fident having accidentally . fallen into my hands, 1 was equally surprized at the composition of inso lence and ignorance, of which it is made lip ; and I could not but smile when I reflected, that this in left was striving to (lain a charaCter, which, at the very moment of his appearance, the legislatures of every slate in the union, are vying with each other to emblazon. It is possible, that his malignity may have been provoked upon a comparison of the jus tice the people of the United States have done him too. in the resolutions of con grefs, which are sub joined. At the time of palling tl.em, Mr. Jaybe ing President of Congress, it became his duty to speak in proper terms of the criminality of this pretended Apostle of Liberty, in answer to the French minister's complaint against him ; and hence it is, I suppose, that " this John had always been the sycophant of every thing in power from Girard in Ameiica to Grenville iu England."—These are the refolutioHS. " Saturday, January 16th, 1779." " Congress took into consideration the letters from Thomas Paine—whereupon a motion was made," " That Mr. Thomas Paine, fecretaty to the committee of foreign affairs, be dismissed from of fice." "To which an amendment was offered as a sub stitute, in the follow! g words," " Thit Thomas Paine be directed to attend at the bar of this house on Monday next, at eleven o'clock, to aufwer whether he had any direction or pcrmiffion from the committee of foreign affairs, for the,publications of which he confeffed himfilf to he the author, when he was before the house on the 6th of January last. " Another amendment was moved as a fubfti. tutr to both the foregoing propositions, in the woids following. " Whereas Congress were about to proceed againll Thomas Paine, secretary to the committee of foreign affairs, for certain publications and let ters being inconsistent with his official character and !uty, w .en the said Thomas Paine resigned his office— l'hei ciipon, " Resolved, That the said Thomas Paine is dif mifled from any further service in the said office, ; and the committee of foreign affairs are directed to call upon said Thomas Paine, and receive from him on oath, all public letters, papers, and documents, in his pofTeffinn. " A fourth amendment was moved as a fubfti tnte to the whole in the words following," " Resolved, that the Committee of foreign af fairs be directed to take out of the pofleffion of Thomas Paine, all the public papers entrulled to him as Secretary to that committee, and then dis charge him from that office." " When the qutltion was about to put, a divi sion was called for ; and the queltion being put to adopt the _^»j?part, " PafTcd in the affirmative. 1 " Ori thequtflion to adopt the second part, the yeas and nays being required by Mr. Lovell, " It in th« affirmative. " The question being then about to be put en the main question, a division was called for ; and the yeas and nays being required on the firlt part by Mr, M'Kean, " Resolved unatiimoufly, in the affirmative. " On the.queftioH to agree to the second clause, namely, and then df charge him from that'office, the S'ares were divided." Thn it was unanimously resolved to take the pa peia <-.f wffi e from him ; .ifter which thclgttei clause was immattri-d, although it was also before carried. The diklolurc m pathy from evtry eye. Indeed, this accomphlhed aftrefs exceeded every prediction that could have ! been formed refpefting her, ■however sanguine. Iu Califta, (he has furmfhed a ftandatd of excellci-ce in acting, that will long be resorted trt—Happy will it be, if Mrs. Merry hetfclf should be always able to aft up te it. Mr. Cooper was chaste, dignified and correct. He ga»e not, however, all the lirength to Horatio that the character required. Many parts demand ed a fiimei and more energetic tone of voice. Mr. Warren, in Scioltn, furnifhed proofs of flrong natural powers; and his performance of ma ny parts of the character, was at once feeling, ner. vous and pure. Mi. Morton gave the " gallant, gay Lothario," in an elegant style. This performer has seldom ap peared to greater advantage. His improvement has been rapid, fincc we last saw him in this cha racter. The rising merit of Mr. Fox, ef which we had so conspicuous a specimen, in his Altamont, ceuld not, without injustice, be passed over in silence The chief defect in his performance of tbe charac ter was, that by labouring to render his acting cor rect, he appeared rather ftiff, formal, and somewhat too cold. We cajnot omit, however, awatding him gre'at credit for performing, with so much ac a character on which, in no secondary de gree, depends the developement and completion of this iqterciliog drama. We have seldom fcen a play perfumed, in which the charaSers hav.e been better allftted, than in the Fair Penitent, on Monday eveniDg. The remiss ness, however, of the actors, in not committing their refpeftive parts to memory, was too glaring not to c»n(l, : f(re a gieat drawback upon the en tertainment of theaudien c. All the fighting 1 wa« execrable. The Managers of the Theatre have, it seems, fallen under the difpleafure'ofcthat Atlas of Infor mation, the very papular Philadelphia Gazette, for bringing- forward the flale dramas of the " worm j eaten" Shakespeare, J For my own part, I could with to fee tbe Im mortal Bard of Naiure mare frequently resorted to ; ana instead of repining at the too frequent perfor mance of the plays of the sweet swan of Avon, every man of taste and sentiment, must consider them as a capital (lock, whence to derive relief and relaxation from the dramatical cant, nonfcnfe, and plagiarisms, of modern Cumbetlands and liichbaldl. W. BY THIS DAY's MAILS. BOSTON, December 6. There will probably be the wholu number of , Electors ptefentat a preliminary meeting this day Mr. Rire, from the Flrft Eastern, and Mr. Rof leter from a Weltern Diftrift, are both in town.— There is no expectation of any vacancy ; and the late contested law will not come into operation. NEW-YORK, Decemher 13. We are happy to^ind that the loss sustained by' the late fire, will be in a part mitigated to the proprietors, as a number of the buildings were insured. This in ftan<;e plainly proves the advantages resulting from this excellent inftitdtion. We have again the disagreeable ta{k of announ cing i dreadful conflagration which has vifued the city of Savannah ; am! of which we this day give the particulars. It appeais to have originated from accident ; and to have been greatly increased Ky a fatal security in the inhabitants, and a confcquent want of enter prizing exertion at a moment when the si ft destruc tive effects might have been checked, «r the imifery which has followed been considerably abated. E very part of the continent has, within a (hurt peri od part, experienced the horrid viGtatinn of this ca lamity to a truly alarming degree : and we must be indubitably led, from this hard earned axperieuce, to adopt every possible precaution for a llate of greater security to our large towns ; where not on ly the comfort and property of its own citizens are placed at fueh hazardous Hake ; but the inteieil q{ the country at large, and the depofitg of. foreign merchants become also so precariously involved. df A Stated Meeting of The American Philosophical Society, WILL be held at their Hall next, Friday evening- at 6 o'clock ; when the annual Magellanic Premium is to b« awarded. The Society are also desired to meet at their Hall, on Saturday next at il o'clock, in the ioicnooti, to proceed from thei]££ to *he Presbyterian Chtfrch, in High-street, where an eulog;um to the memory of their late PrefiJent, David Rittbn house, will be pronounccd before ;i cm at i a o'clock. Dcc 14. New-England Rum, Salmon, Beef^ Chocolate, Rice, Bollon mould and dipt Candles, a tew quartcr-cafks of Sherry Wine, aud a few barrels o£ Cyder—for sale by Ezekiel Hal! ? No. 42, North Water street. December 14th, 1796. . Pantheon, AND RICKETTS's AMPHITHEATRE, For Equestrian and Stage Performances Corner of Chefnut and Sixtli-flreets To-Morrow Evening, Thursday, December 15, Will be presented, A Variety of Manly Feats Horsemanship. , After which will be presented a Comic Entertainment in two adls, called THE GHOST; Or Living Apparition. (Between the intervals of Stage and Equestrian Ex ercises) The whole to conclude with the grand serious Panto mime, under the direction of melTrs. Solly and Spinacuta, called The Death of Captain Cook. Mr. F E N N £ L L * RefpeHfully submits to the public patronage his in tention of delivering, during the ensuing winter, * A CoURSfc OF Readings and Recitations, Moral, Critical, and Enteriainiug; Confiding chiefly of detached p,ece», icledled tVom the molt admired authors, in prqfe and verie:—Ar jjngfd in such a manner as to exhibit a striking display of the human passions, and the gradual influence o£ vices on the mind contraited with that of their oppo site virtues, in affe&ing the happiness ot' man and th« welfare of nations. The readings wi l ! be occalionally interspersed with observations on the mott celebrated authors, And the ART of SPEAKING. The whole intended as a combined system of moral, critical, hiitorical, and oratorical infirufhon, calcula ted to form the patriot and the man, and lay a !oun dation for the science of moral and political govern ment. The course will consist of thirty readings. Each reading will be delivered in the morning and evening of the lame day. The dayt of reading willbeTuefdays &Thursdays. 'i he morning readings will commence at 10 o'clock, and the evening at 7. None but fubfcriberi will be admitted to the morn ing readings. The evening readings will be public, to which also fubferiptions will be received. Subscription to the mornings 8 dollars. Subscription to the evening readings 10 dollars. ' CJtcalional admission tickets to the evening reading* half a dollar. Subscription? are received by Mr. Zachariah Poul fon, jun. at the Library, to whom the Ladies and Gentlemen who may be inclined to honor the underta. king with their patronage, are refpeftfully requested ta fend their names. Dec. la. d6t.