Nstr Theatre. On FRIDAY EVENING, December is, W 'ill' be Arefenteti, A COMEDY, in four a£U, called The Child of Nature. f-From the French of Madam Genlia, by the author of Every one has bh Fault. Marquis of Almanza, Mr. Wijnill. » Count Valantia, Mr. Mtrcton. Duke Murcia, Mr. Warren. Seville, Mr. Wmrrell. Grenada, Mr. Worrell, inn. jft Peasant, Mr. Cooper, id Peasant, Mr. Mitchell. Marchioness Merida, Mrs. Morris. Amanthis, Mrs. Merry. -End of the Comedy, a new Pantomime Pallet Dance, {coinpofed by mr. Byrne) called Dermot and Kathleen, Taken fom the favorite opera of the Poor Soldier, art performed luttb univetfal applauje. upwards of too nights at Covent-Carden Theatre. - Patrick, Mr. Worrell, jun. Dirby, Mr. Blifett. Father Luke, Sig. Doflor. Mother Kathleen, Mr. Francis. Norah, Miss Mi'lboiirne- And the parts of Derront and Kathleen, . By mr. and mr». Byrne, ieing their feeond appearance in America. To which will be added, a FARCE,never performed here, called Animal Magnetism. Marquis de Laijcy, Mr. Mo r Hon. JL.a Fleur, Mr. Har No. 42, North Water-street. y< December 14th, 1796. FOR sale, ~ At Whitefides' Tea Ware-House, . , No - 99» N»rtb Second Street. i?P er{a ' ? filyfon Skin. Yl «yfon, < Freth Teas. J Souchong r Young Hyson, J sri ttawtm. ! c: A Genteel House. FOR SALE, a new, conv Srrlr. ley, Captain Hodge, from St. Peter/lurr, The following Goods : Riiflla Sail Dhclc, firfl quality. Do. Mieeting do. Do. Diaper. J Do. Huckaback. pat D* Cralb. . an< j Do. Mould Candle,, 4, s and 6, to the lb. of the as r Enghlh fizc. r Do. White Candle Tallow. ? ' . Do' White Soap in small boxes. t:m Do. Cordage of fine yarn. Con Raven*, Dnclt. toc lfinglaft, ,ft and ; fß d fort. are i Horse Hair uncurlt d. S Ruflia Bar Iron. " Ul Do. Hoop Iron. dees Do. Nail Rods. inha 10 Tons Oakum and Jimlt. on tl «t. reterfburg Clean Hemp. pmv For Sale by altift vcv.Uru Phiii P s > Cramond, & Co, I § noj'fc w—iwinjmmj'wv-'. or..*-*, - m i sun October 18. Kxtrnflsfrom the fpceeL of the lord lifMenant of . Ireland, on opening the lrifh ParKainent, OSo bcr 13. " My lords and gentlemen, "I have his majesty's commands to sequafnt you ' V that he has thought it neceflaty to require your at tendance in parliament at this early period, and to rcfort to your deliberative, wisdom at a time when the ambitious projects of our enemies hare threat ened to interrupt the happiness and prtifperiry of his people, hy making a dcfcent on this kingdom and Great-Britain. And nltboagh his mij.rly looks forward with the utrnoll confidence to the fpiri', loyalty, and ability of hi. faithful people of Ireland to repel ftich an atij, k, it will yet become nee, your wisdom to neglect no precautions -which may preclude the attempt, or fccure the fpeedieQ means cis turring it to the conltifion of tlve enemy.. -DO ' III! mjjrfty Jias been graciously pleafrd to di rect an addition to "be made to the regular.forces in this kingdom, by troops feot from Great-Britain, the greater part of which are already arrived ; and in pttrfuance of his majesty's commands, I have also encouraged the loyal and zealous clifpofition which has generally displayed itfclf, to aftociate in arms under his majilly's authority for the better ica. property, -and the preservation of tran quillity and good order. Ned " My lords and gentlemen,' The expediency of the vigorous menfnres which you have adopted in the 1 ft feflion of parlia ment has been amply proved by the .tmtrages, which they were inten«ie»! to suppress, having in a great mcafnre fubli led. I am, howevet, to lament that in one pait of the country good order has not yet been entirely relUred, and that in other dif tniils a treasonable system of fecrct confddeiatirw, by the adminiflering of illegal oaths, rtill continues, altnough no means within the reach of government tar. a * c ' cft untried to countetaft it. j " The prosperity and of the king. If' I I°|?' unproved by your meritorious care, ! (l ' l, """in uunimfaired by the prcjfure of the mar; he and 1 trull to your unremitting attention for the 1 further advancement of our national prosperity." I 1 HALLOWELL, Nov 26. cir I.aft Saturday afternoon Henry M'Qaufland, nd (who is confined in gaol in this town for the murl it° I Wing of Pittfton, and burning " j Church there, in Otftober 1794, had hfs trial at ny 1 Wifcafiet, July, 1795> judgment was fufpen nd ofl ftippofil ion of his being infanc) after ha ving Solicited Mr. Pattidge, the gaoler, for three or four days to tome into hisrtjom and clean his (love - —he accordingly went in and took the a flics out & ' (arriedthem to the door,and while he was doing this, , his child, about two years old, followed him in, t at and M'Csufland, a» ufui.l, careflVd the child—Mr. then ftept out for to carry atoay a on the ashes in, and M'Caufland immediately feircd k o ed ' ar g e cl "b which he ha*d concealed in his bed, and n t, ftrutk the child on the head ; the mother, wfio ti it, nood near the door, heard the blow and flew to the 0 re chfld, but did not reach it before he had repeated b - the blow on the head ; it was apparently l.fVlefs,, tl b«t revived in about ten minutes, and there trq il t . hopes of its recovery, although the scull appears to to have been craekcd by the blows.—Whllft the 0 e- attention of the family wns taken up with tlie » >y child, M'Caufland rail to the door and attempted P n' bUt W3 ' P reVfr "lt is fjppofcd tha' tl M Caufland intended to have killed Mr. Pjtricige « - and make his escape ; but, perhaps, feaiing he ta could not efTeft this, he struck the child. Ie , " n efl '° n e for a "eprefenntive in the pl , Conprets of the United States, for this dUfrift c om- f _ mences in the different wards of t&is City. t At a meeting of the. AlTociated Underwriters in er * I Clty it being unasimoufly agreed til ,f tr.exprefs the thanks of that lfody to capt.Sharpe, la, •"» Britannic majefly's packet Swallow, f nr his he exeruons at tl,c late fire-the following letter was , h . yeftcrclay addrefled te him by their president. „ John FiRRERs, fec'iy. if SIR, New-Yoik, Dec. 10, 1796. "o The Associated Underwriters of the city of New- York, take the opportunity,-before your depatturc C o tram this port, to express the sense that they en tcrtam of the feryiccs you rendered the commercial i„ iriterells of tn.scity, by your ready affiHatice nnd | exertion, at the fire which happened in the night | hot . of the Bth infi. to which null be attribute, a h a , great degree, the fafcty of a number of veffei, fr u m pi/, the consequences o{ that calamity. F - J .k IhhrC > r thc f "" n,T ° { r ou to difttibMte an' the enclofedfum among thofeperfons who aided you with their services on that occ^fion. . I beg leave to fuhferibe myfrlf, in behalf the As- fie fociation, Wrh much refpeft, fir, rcp Your vety obedient servant, to ' the debates propoftd to be publiflied, at the choice c the of each member. - The report was rejected, 19 mem- " ted hers only rising m the affirmative. The report of f ! :fn, the committee of the whole agaioft the report of " cr<> the feleft committee was agreed to, c< ara he order of the day in committee of the whole, cl he on the draft of an answer to the Prefid. nt's fpeecls li lie was then taken op, Mr. MiJlilenberg in the chair. u ed On motion of Mr. Venable, the word interior in ai ,at the fecund paragraph was (Iruckout and the word w ge iL'eJlcrn fubitituted, so as to read—" and to main- 01 he tain the tranquility of the -wejlern frontier." Mr. Giles did not approve of the expressions eon- fr tamed in the reported answer to a very important P 1 and delicate part of the Preiidtnt's address. The he present he said 'was a very important crisis of our 9' affairs with refpeft to France. He considered a "< uipturchctweenthiscountry ard France as a threat- 01 ening danger, and in that view he did not altou-... vv the. approve ot theclaufe io the report that had re- ,0 e, lat,*, to the fubjefl. lW was fojne diffic«ltv, •>' " 3 h , e fu amending the paragraph ;he would as incrcrorc oftcr an smendmeni more wiin a view of nc expreffiug hit objedion to the report, that it micrht, if the committee concurred with him, be recom muted. He wished th, house to express unequi voeaUy their wish for a preservation of peace with to the trench Republic, that was the ohjea of his re< »- motion, and he conceived the of it Q,t re cou.d he hell modified by a recommitment for His motion was to introduce the words marked ' lio »l m Italics into the following sentence; Ihe d » Your endeavors to fulfil that wist, au J t y a // ' l an. it honourable mem, to prefers peace Wio rt nJ e , ht I a harmony and aJcßion -which havt hmtofore so hat,- me n pilyMM'J let ween the French RepMic and the U- j he e melt'n!" ihtrcforc '° ''"tej-eft our ! the " M , r - Smilh T - S. C. had no ohjeflion to the a- \l< . mendment. He considered it as merely an ampli- rbi - ncation of the fent.ment already toinained in the bee report He believed it was the wish of every one to to preserve peace ; and he could not objeff , 0 in r dilating on that fubjeft in the answer, if it was the wna wi(h of any one member. v j Mr. Ames wiffied to know whether the motion t'», went to concluding the paragraph with the words of I above dated, orwhether the remainder of it was to I hand as in the report. Mr. Giles fi'ggefted that there might be a dif- vine tirct amendment introduced to the latter part of for the paragraph after the present had been d fp.fed of. Inc. Mr. -snes w.fficd the .mentions of the member dc£l with refnea to the whole paragraph might he dif. be c „He ' a well fitio that members when they agreed to amplify the that part °/ ,! ? e clause f1,0,,!d underlbud what r,as on v meant to be a, teredin the latter part. By the a mendment great reliance w*. to be placed on the crisis French for the maintenance of harmony, and if cd t Uft P ara g ra P h was to be ft ruck out, ens r none would seem to be placed on ourfelvej. It curre n»ght be more patriotic, in the opinion of some If gentlemen to pU-e this great reliance on a foreign sense nation, and little on ourselves j but for his own the I part this was not hi 9 opinion. Mr. Giles said that he had no idea of propofin* 'hat . "inyamendment to the remainder of the clause £ 0 f .. two sny manner com eAed with the prefenf. He wifli. Ed the House to exprefo in the firft instance une. crally qutvacally their feotiroems with refpea to the pre ifhes. (ervation of peace, and not leave their opinions oir this important head tg be deduced hy conftruflion. He did not wi(h this to be done by referring to ant, what the President had exbrefled j but that the E. House Ihould express their Swieleelings on the 6c llow. carton. He contemplated, he said, fdbmitting another amendment after the present one was decided. Though he conceived no connection between the two, yet he would here, he said, mention it by way ident of information—Thi« amendment was to the lit oard ter part ot the sentence. The drift of it was, by the a trifling alteiation, to express the reliance of the irpe, House on tha mutual justice and moderation of the ■soU two nations for a continuance of harmony, and not a reliance on the moderation and justice of ying France only. fica- The question was put upon the firft amendment lents and agreed to, nem. con. as was also the second *. Mr. mendment. is at Mr. Parker ohjefied to the last claafe but one nod in the report in which Americans are msde to stile the therrtTelvs the fretjl and mojl nation in (hip the ruirld. He meved for striking out those words (1 as observing, that though the fact werefo, weouoht Hied not to be the heralds of our own praise. sof Mr. Harper wilhed to make a motion that would , in fupercede the last, it was to strike out of the istter om- pa; tof the additfa, all that part which related to the Prefideftt's services, talents, virtues, &c. and an- to fubflitute one paragraph expressing fentitnents of t of refpeft for his much mure concisely ag- We could not catch the words of the fubftiiute' ion as it was but once read. * Mr. H. observed, tha: he did not make this mo tion, bee.:life he himfelf difapprored »f any thinfc the contained in the report as it flood ; but the fublti. tute he proposed was more simple and coneife ; and ap- in this way he conceived the fer.timems would be ket expressed with better effect on the public mind wg and more fu.taljy to the dignity of the House an 1 ing »t the character addressed. Amplification, he re nil. traiked, ofien dimii.ilhed the force of expreffiom Mr. Giles said he had oLjeflions to fere,,l p . ra ■graphs o. the report; to the whole of it from th. sixth clause inclufire. He wished the whole of that to e flruck out and the report recommitted, not _ doubling but that the committee will be able to Si! { rr rd Tr" a fl,ape more With thefee.ingsot the House, and more agreeable, indeed, to those of the President. wn^'"'f rtl .' ,h ( S - C 0 wifl,cd ,M know whether ft , be ,n , order ta strike out clatifei of the report already agreed to. re . n>e Chairman decided that such clauses as had e3 . not been amended might be moved to be ft ruck Mr Harper was opposed to (Iriking „ u t for the d ' Trbfe H p ood "doners, hefaiil, " r J ' C p, "" D S off an " lfw « to the Pre. ' e(l fident till to-morrow, when it could as well be o{ done to-day. The committee of the whole, he ce conceived, were as well qualified to make any „- n . me. dment now as ever. When all the parts of a of yftem were to be weighed and balance* orw . of ter of fa ft to be eoliedted, a reference to a Meo* committee was neccfTary'; but on t),e present f. a ° n he ™uldf;e n .° fucl > necessity ; tvcrvlnforma •ll ee" an7fh ry ° f ,h ' e T- U '' Jnd thc y wcre now as competent to decide on ; n any amendment as they ever would be, and they 1 he motion was declared to be on .Iriking out n - 'nclufively, as that motion fu nt pfroe'lrd that of Mr. Harper, as ft included more. " aul f / r' J called for a division of the Jr question, so that a separate motion should ba cut 3 Z par ' g ? ph - r He W3S °PP-fe» to ftriklg w" chL P , 'u' M '"Z' ot ' h < Ho <4 « n «tved ought at this time particularly he H"r v. adlTrt<:d '° 'he address of '' 1,11 rt - elca,on o{ the President and Id ?«> the glowing language then used ; why should it '/ e°fion bC " gl ° W ' ng ° n the P rt f«' o,: 1" . , A ', th '' S P"f'cularly, the House onght not to be backward He conceived th„ no objeflion h to language ought to operate a, an inducement to , recommit. It was impossible to use such a phrase. 1 U ';' bc P frfcil, y agreeable to every per- . I ~l f j' le ifitiments exprelfed were not ofejec. i j , ne h °Es d . an y "rbal criticisms would r«, t | heotem.d a fufficient inducement for (Inking out 7 ! and recommitting. s uc ' | Mr " Gi, « fald not objea to every fe„,;. " : rnent exprefTed £ the portion of the reporl whfch ; i™d°rV°n, n c u out: he u * d °° , the address (hould be complimentary, bin wiftied it to be so with,n the bounds of modJr'ation afd 0 f! V". would state the parts which he conceived • objectionable. He objeaed to the 6th paragraph because he conceived it unnatural and unbecoming to exult at our profpenty by patting it pointedly in ('omparifon with the calamities of Furore It was not neceflary , 0 tell persons unfortunalely in. thtnli:°y aC Th"^ Hat "7 Were f ° mud ' ha PP ! « of the house. ' °° f '' 0 " W " h ,he bufinef « In the next place, if he stood alone in the opi- 4 mon, yet he would declare, that he was not con viDcecl that the administration of the government for these fix yeais'laft past bad been wife ?P d fi!Z - Inceed he had opposed every measure of theirs ref praing our foreign relations,, aad unless he could be convinced that he had been wrong in th.t 000 l fition, he could not be made to feel the exitercr f that wisdom. If the measures of thlt admfnift",;. on with to foreign powers had been wife we fhou,d not have been brought to the pre-'ent ed the r f , W ' rd ' >m and firmnef » conduct ed the affairs of the nation to a c.-rif lß which threat curred" 1 " " lha " a " y that ha " oc If the report had been f 9 framed a. to express a 1 Ik P a " Mtlfra ' virtue and uprightLfs of rose ' t r m ' , \ t have obtained the unanimous rose of the houle ; but .t was lo be expeaed that many of the members should so far l o se fight of Itlf refprtV a, to condemn by one „tc the