Neiv 7he at re. 7he Managers, EVER solicitous to vary and improve the Entertain ments of the New Theatre, and evince their gratitid* for the patronage they rcceive, refpedfully inform the Public, that they have, in addition to th«ir present Efla blifhment, engaged a FRENCH COMPANY of COME DIANS, who wlu make tbeir firfl appearance in this city, THIS EVENING, Saturday, December 17. The Entertalnmentf of the Evening: will commence with a foaourite French Comic-Opera, in one ad, called Le Tableaux Parlant; Or, The Speaking Figure. The music by mons. Gretry. CafTandre, M. St. Mare. Leandre, M. VielUri. Pierrot, M. Rouekoni. Ifabelle, Mile Tejeire.< Colombjne, Mile. Sophies After the Opera will be presented, a COMEDYy in tkree art*, called Next Door Neighbours, ■By mrs. lijchbald, authoress of " Every cite has hi J I Fault, 4tc. Taken from the Fr*nch Dramas, « V Indigent" and " Le DiJJ':j>ateur." Sir George Splendorville, Mr. Morelon. Manly, Mr. IVarrell. Blackman, Mr. Fram'u. Lucre, Mr. Btijfett. Lord Hazard, Mr. Darley, jun. Wi'.ford, Mr. Warren. Henry, Mr. Fox. Biuntly, Mr. Harivood. Shopman, Mr. Morgan. Lady Caroline Seymour, Mrs. Francis. Lady Squander, Mrs. Mechtler. Evans, Mrs. JJeflor. Elei-ior. (firfl time) Mils L' lift range. To which will be added, a French Comic-Opera, in one afl, called - " Les Deux Chasseurs et la Laitiere. Guillot, M Viellard. Colas, M. St Mare. Berrette, Mile. Tejfeire. With the original mnfic and accompaniments. Box, One Dollar twenty-five cents. Tit one Dollar. And Gallery, hilf a dollar. £3" Tickets to be had it H. & P. Rice's ftook-ftore, No. se High-street, and at the Office adjoining the Theatre. The Doors of the Theatre will open at 5, and the Curtain rife preciiely *t 6 o'clock. Places for the Boxes to be taken at the Office in the front of the theatre, from 10 till a o'clock, and from lo till 4 on the days of performance. Ladies and Gentlemen are requested to fend their fcrvants to keep places a quarter before $ o'clock, and to order them, as soon a*the company are seated, to withdraw, as they cannot on any account be permit ted to remain. VirAT RESPUBLICA! New-England Rum, Salmon, Beef, Chocolate, Rice, Boflon mould and dipt Candles, a /ew quarter-casks of Sherry Wine, a few barrels of Cyder, and a few quintals of excellent Tlbk COD FISH —for sale by Ezektel Hall, No. 42, North Water-firect. December 14th, 1796. THOMAS DOBSON, At the Storte House, No. 41, South Suondjlreet, Philadelphia, HAS FOR SALE, A Isfrge and very general afiortment of STATIONARY Drawing and Writing Befl and feoonH Swan Quills Pahm. Black and red Ink Powder Antiquarian Ditto Liquid Ink Doable Elephant Penknives Atlas, Delk knives Elephant Superfine red and black Seal- Imperial iug wax, Super Royal Bcft vermilion and coloured' Reyal wafers Medium, Large and small office wa- Demy iers Thick Pod folio Red tape broad, middling & Thin ditto narrow Extra thin ditto Elastic gum, in bottles or Thick Post Letter pieces Ditto plain Pounce Ditto gilt Ivory pounce boses Ditto lined, Cocoa and bone ditto Thin Post (very paper-knives Ditto gilt Black sand Mourning Sand boxes, japanned J Ditto plain, or lined Lignumvitx and common 1 Bank 1 oft Ouster's fciles , Small Po? tap fixe Brass dividers 1 Bed Englilh and American Leaden preffars t Foollcap, various qualities Black lead pencils f Superfine Pot iliding ditto t Second ditto 4 Japanned card racks Blo'llom and grey Blotting Writing parchment Ditto vellam 1 Wrapping paper Morocco writing dels I Letter files and laces Spanish tambour ditto t Paper cases, various files An elegant variety of ebony i Bonnet pafttboards ink-ftandifiies J middling and small ' Merchants Account Books, pewter ink ftandifiies c vi *> , I.arge, middling and small ' Ledgers, single or double, countKig-houic ink-pots c ruled for 1. s. d. or dolls. An elegit a.Tortment of r Scents,oj Imperial or Su- chryflal anrl wedeewood , per Royal, with or with- philosophical ink-pot. ! out ercl vlines li*-glafie«, various lize* " b Journals, Day Books, In- Leather ic paper ink-pieces ' voice Books, Account eur- for the pocket t rent Books, Sales' Books, Small gilt vising car.'s Letter Books, aad Pecordlßlank n.e%,. cardS| ] ar „ e J Books, of Imperial, Su- and small, gilt and ' per-royal, Royal, Medi-Boxes of markinz-tYDes for v m, Demy or Foolscap, linen. 1 cross ruled or plain. ' Receipt Books Bills of lading, large & small f! Bank Books 15ills of exchange Memorandum Books Elegant copperplate ditf« " Bill of Lading Books Cultom-h^c? aI Z S Bill Books, payable and re-Manifefts ti ceivable Seamen's articles 21 Bank-Check Books, of vsri- Blank bonds out fixes and for different judgment bonds banks] * Judgment bills 0 Cyphering and Copy Book- Mortgages ir Common place Book. Arbitration bonds ci , , Apprentice's indenture ai Bell Dutch quills, No. I, a, Powers of a' ;ornev f 3. 4 and s Bank &c . ' &t< &< _ '< December 17. - 60 01 Ths PAINS OF MEMORY. . From Mr. Merry's Poem. j. As the proml veflel o'er the ocean glides, Is And seems to scorn the winds and mock the tides, le The jocund Mariners expand the fail, a- To seize the vigour of the viewltfs gale: 5- From the high Ihronds their caroll d ditties raise, y, To many a favorite maid, the notes of praise ! But now Aiore sullen blows the perilous blast, Unsparing tempests work the struggling mall: :e A moment lulls—and from the treacherous patife I, Frelh horror gains, and fiercer fury draws ! 1 n vain the pilot fliuns the o'er whelming wave, Useless the caution—for no (kill can save ! The timbers crack, the ruddder quits its hold, At random here and there the (b'p is roll'd. Then comes the field of mem'ry tq dispense Among the crew affliction's keener sense : Dwells on each tender tie they left behind, Grapples the foul, and preys upon the nun J! Shews the lorn wife dLftraiiled at their fate, The weeping Orphan'j unprote&cd (late ; Tells of the plighted Virgin's ceafe'efs moan, n The faithful Friend's dismay, the Parent's groan, —And as to endless darkncl's down they go, Clings tothelaft, and leaves the hted woe ! Ij From the Connecticut Couhant. s, "*7. Hint to Religious Men. LEAVE sff that prayer for French fuctttfs. That a wile governor continues it in his proclama tions, exciife for y6u. He has ends to an- ' fwer which you have not ; and besides can take lacl \ or erase upon after calculation. To pray for French ! success is praying for the misery of Europe; and ' the corruption, moral anil political, of your ovrn 1 country. These evils proceed exa£l!y in the ratio ' of that success ; and are as naturally the effcdls of ' it, as ravings are of the bite of a mad dog;. Give up also your deluflon about the Millenium. ' It did not commence with the " regeneration" of J n France. Nor can it be made of an " age of rea- 1 son."—This certainly is a peribd in which Satan t was to be loojed, not bound.—When Paine pro- ' claimed his " rights of man," the kingdom nf Sa J tan was at hand But when we»ks were tnrned in to decades ; deep eternal inferibed on the tombs ; 1 and a naked girl, for adoration, was placed on the ' altar ; then it was come. And the son« of Belial 1 r - far *nd near, thpugh you did not underfiand rhem, c scouted for joy !—From that time France has been ie drunk -with whoredoms, and the blood tf the /lain. We 1 too have been made to drink of h|i- blnfjbemies ; ] ie and mult for a season, drink of ber plague: The 1 Jews, you fee, are not callcd to Chriltianity 1 but ,c Deijls 1 o Athe'-.fvi. Ours are nearly: all in.—lDrean ' 71 not then of being in the Millenium, or its dawn. ' j r For your confalation however, Satan st« be 1 j bound again. But not by a king with fr.e heads. ' :o Nothing so ill fhapen for good was seen at Patmos. ! t- As to the time, it will be known when the event ' takes place ; whick is as ioon as any prophecy can | be mtafured. Z. ' r — i ■> FOR THE 3AIITTE OF TH£ UNITSD STATES. > * Mr. Fenno, t I HAVE had it ii contemplation since I saw ' Mis. Meiry in tha character of Juliet, to my r sentiments ef her theatiical talents, but a diffidence ' t- naturally ari/ing in those, who have ntrvtrt giwn ( their thoughts on any fubjeft to the public, has prevented the execution of my design until now. t The dramatic fame of Mis. Mfrry was not eonfined J ' to Europe, but had reached the (hotes of Am?ri- f ca, long before her arrival in this citj. When her ' r appearance was firft announced here, in a character > that required no iefs nicety nf judgment, fully to * comprehend, than abilities fuccefsfully to execute : z I, it was justly to be expe&ed, that thefrieno* of the a drama would be witnesses to her merit, and-yield c their approbation to the palm of excellence, flie 1 had received in Europe. With this mutive, I St- r tended the Theatre, and to fay that I was pleased r with her performance would be doing injtiftice to 1 J my fceling6, aod faintly conveytlie ideas that were a excited in my mind by the bBRe of talents, that t obfeured the eye of the. eiitic, and captivated the t fenfesof the fpeftatorg : whenever (lie expreQesthe c various feelings which agitate the bosom of the in- t r terefting Juliet, every foul is tremblingly alive, and S vibrates in uiiifon with every paflion (he rcprefents. t Her powers seem peculiarly fitted for this tharac- a ter ; the melodious flexibility of voice, cliaftity and c gracefulnefs of action, and propriety of dflivcrv, a all conspire to astonish and delight us. If Shake- (! fpeare InmMf could have beheld the darling- of his I fancy perforated by Mrs, Merry, delufioj miolit p have overcame his ienfes by the momentary belief 1 that he saw the reality of thof. fce.es, and the i< force of that paffioa, which his imagination has so b elegantly drawn. In representing charters, where U ove, tendernels p.ty, with the reft of tho amiabU . train of our affedion. are alternately predominant, ,1 Mr. Merry is unrivalled. I will venture ,0 assert 0 the opinion, that pet formers teprtfenc with more justice, those prions of which they have a real-r o , or lcfs tmaure iB their native difpo(ltio a », S nd i j, - on this principle that Mrs. Met rv r*hit,;,. u . P ; "■ • V" - -. be held up the object of our aKK " UUK,,t to " , the idol of our relard aTlon t""' ?" d V " ,Ur it., ««** of - we may calculate OR Z " feme criminal 4tßre to hjr ass i 1 may be seasonably brought ,0 a f"J c J 7*' P ' ger, and a foundation laiJ for a 1) l f 'r tion, by witneflins (h amp l!u> 'oujh refot.ma- et attend thbfe fiaitious chaiadkr- pu " l{ j} n,ent te fed to have adlcd from V , ?.,* re f u PP°- our nature. In Mrs Meri v^" 3 P<>fu " >,lK of \ inftrumest, for the accomnHri *' V '°T 3 l )ow " ful cial effects that result from » ° 1 be " efi " w and Mr. WigntlJ deserves the th '• b ) for haying engaged an !u of thc Public h, Chief ornament, of Z bZ!'■ W3S °" c of ,he « outa tival i a Amciica. "- urc P c ' a "d wth- a ! " AMATO* DR4M 4TIs< \ ■ From the (New-Tor, y M'mcrvi. Thk ANSWER. [■Concluded fr«m yeflerday's Gazette.] The French nation will not persist in asserting. that becatffe the exercise of rights which (he has claimed as legitimate on former occasions, become! inconvenient when exercifcd by others, she may therefore refufe to acknowledge and refpeft them. This would be the language of an haughty despot, in a conquered country, not of justice, honor, and : good faith from one friend to another. It is said that the 18th article of the treaty with Great-Britain, suspends all the commercial rela tions between the United States and France, by preventing the fapplics looked for by France from this country. This article has not introduced any new cafe, in which provisions may be contraband : It only alters the eonfequence resulting from a seizure of them, i when they are so. Valin (i vo], 264) fays, "By our law, and the law of nation*, provifians are not prohibited, except to plates befnged or blockaded." j The article eomplaincd of, fays explicitly, that | whep provisions and other articles not generality con- t traland are become so, according to the exijiing law , of nations, and (hall, for that rtafan, he seized, they , (hall not be conflfcatcd, but the owners (hall be <■ " Si completely indemnified, and reccive"btfi;les a rear a . fonable mercantile profit. This principle operated , as an encouragement for American vefTels to feck v .j, the French markets, by insuring theft agair.lk iols, h , if they happened in any instance t , «be interrupted t l( j in the voyage—France, I presume, f n our vessels bound with provisions to a place besieged f „ or blockadaded, liable to ftizufe, after due notice n jf of the fail ; if, instead of this, they contend for t the privilege of paying for them according 'to the c terms of the treaty with Great-Britain, 1 suppose h ,f it will Hot ( be denied to t/iem. But if, under pre- h fence that aveffel is bound to a besieged or blockaded t n part, wheß (he is not, either France or Great a Britain should seize or detain her, it is an injury n , not authorized by the treaty, or the law or|wtion». ti ! This is what both nafi(Jbj have done, when, their j| . inteiefts and necefiities required it—sometimes with v e and often without any apology—and what they ti will often continue to do, [fear, as long as they 0 )( know we cannot ptinifh them for it. B n Thcfe injuries are said to have been received while \ e every object around reminds us of thetyrandiof d . Britain, atid the generous aiTtftance of France, dur- c e iDg ihe American war. it The generosity -of France and the ingratitude of tl n the United States have been often suggested by r some of our own citisens, and we are now fte- tl lC prcached with it by France herfelf. Gratitude is 0 r _ due for favors received ; and this virtue may exist h s _ among nations as well as among individuals: but w lt the tnjtive of the benefit mud be solely the advan- so n f a £ e "f party 0 « whom it was conferred, else a ! it ceases to be a favor. There is positive proof that r j I' ranee did sot enter into the alliance with us in yv f* r our edmantage; but for her mvn. The S whoiccourfe of the neg'ociation, as well as a poll- h tivc knowledge of the, fact, proves this. She re. C i w fitted ail our folicitatiens for effe&ual afliftance for V ; y near three years; and rose in her demands during si c the campaign of 1777, wlien our affairs presented p n raoft-tfrratcfling afjJefit." " " 7" "i s Memorials were presented in August and Sep- ni _ tereibtr of that year, while general Burgoyne was V d advancing from Canada, in a stile of importunity, t in . proportioned to the daoger we were in from > junc- tt ;l - tion of the two armies ; and they were received in ;r with inereaied coldness, from the fame cause - f\ 0 w htn the knowledge of the capture of Burgoyne's tl : army arrived in December, fearing we might be ti e aisle to do the bulincfs without them, the French h< C ' C ° Ur V' egan t0 tllan 8 c tone - In January, the 0! t British minifler gave notice in the house of cam- ti mons, that he meant to propose terms of accom- ]i d modation with America. Thr French ministry, on rc u t*e arrival of this intelligence in France, iminedi- ef c ately pre, Ted the concision of the treaty, which M t they had refilled for three years, and proposed ! c terms much more favourable for us, than tbttfc eur {c< c commissioners had offered, iud tl.ey had refufed I w • L before ; Thc treat y was ri g net) 1 s ,k ° , P frcmc no generosity in all a. i. this. I hey did then. z s »e have done now, and j -as every d.fcermng nation will do—they regarded 'fe 1 only their own mterefl and advantsge, and not that h! , o any othet nation. Jn thc interval between tfee ' si, ■ ceciaiation of independence and the alh'anee with S s France, that court sometimes ordered awa* our m t privateers, and sometimes reftorcd their prizes— f i hey r«hifcd to receive an ambaflador or acknow. t„ " ! e ;S e . uur independence— A!l which was for fear of '01 j bringing i'rance prematurely into the war. The e fad is, that the French spoke of very different t terms, as the condition of their afift.net, before , thc capaure of Burgoyne, from those actually a , rrc ,j t or, %ftwwa:d}, 1 b j e There can be ro doubt, (hot our fucctfs on that ! w r occasion, and the di-fpafition it appeared to j,^J hi 5 P , rtK U " r d B'h.lU minift,f, were the c « 1 -te causes of that alliance. It was certainly t} : ,- • mtcreft ot the French to unite with America in ,hc ,t war agiinft Great Britain, They therefore acted S r f l ,h ' s « though with too much tr > refinement in putting ,t off so lonj ; but it is n,,f I ■ -the intei*a of the United States to he L ■ any witr whatsoever much less do thvy dclhc 10 P ' z^;ri: ha i' K • gratify the hatred or iv.vc the interest of another, w . W._hj|j f S a t j iftJaying it down as f„ : the wa'r of E o< 10 f " ft<:r ?. , / dvC ' be dl ™» i'»« 0 je, the vvara of Europe; and -~f lV e hnift have a war J prfeplc. be f ° r refufirg 10 d ep att irom e„cv u ; B g ,°r n r n - haß / acd w;th ch oy conctjiion, m any »»ft an re- i„/ i r hands the admintftratioH of W 'f" ! "'J fr:o P'- r «*«« perfeaiy in exprefW , hsir • re pea for the Pr.Sdent, but to disagree as tifwhat y related to companLns betwixt the Ctuatiun of th : » country and that of foreign nation,. Whatever ■a- may be our feeling,, said he, with refp ft to other C , nations it is as .veil to keep them to ourlelves. If '* we are more happy than other* it ii well for ut - but it would be better to leave it to other n.tioai to dtfeover our t'uperior enjoyments, and notour* " W ve ' m » ke » boast of them. It was probable, he laid, that those nations which we comtniferateo, ce might think themselves as happj at we, If gen' »r tie men referred to the fpeeclws of the Btitifh Chan. ,e cdlor of the Exchecquer, it would be fuuud that le he painted that country as the moil flourifhing and hippy on the face of the globe. The French na tion alio congratulated themselves with being a free 1 and enlightened country, and yet these were the / nations which were looked upon as a proper con- 1 *• tract to our fopcriority. Much l«ad been said of •r this prosperity, and the commercial derangements h which had taken place to foch an unexampled ex -7 tent had by one gentleman been -very highly spoken 7 of, and by another compared to fpees 011 the fun, and foch as jouglic nut to have been mentioned. r Was this tbe way in which to speak of the piefent diftrefles of commerce ; when our vessels inliead of r * coming fafely into harbour were taken and carried into Halifax, Cape Francoife, Cunaives, and 0- ther ports ? This was a situation in which geatle -7 men who spoke so lightly of it, wonlj not like f- themselves to be placed. All these evils had their origin in the present war, from which this country I had by no means been exempted. Indeed, whilst II we had been thus fufTering, France, he said, had been colle&ing gold and silver and the moil valu es ablc\ productions of the arts and fciencrt from va !t rieus parts of Europe. Yet this is a nation over " which we are fheddirig tsars. We cannot, said Mr. *. Swanwick, fend a ship to sea, with any hope of »- her arriving at tl* port to which she is bound. In conftquence of this, the rates of infncance are ad "■ variced to double their usual price. If the public g funds were looked to, they would b ting so ? Envy, he said, was created by good foe* tune ; no one envied the poor. Shall we, said he, d invite new depredations upon our commerce by it- such reprcfentations of prosperity ? He did not s think this exaltation of ourselves above other iia >e tions was a fit fobjeft for this address. Wt might, h he said, express our own fatisfa&ion with the stare • e of our affairs without depreciating that of other na -- tions. Our calling ourtelves the most free and en »- lightened natien in the world, would not be well n received by other nations, and could have no other 1- 1 effect than to create rivals. He wished the addrefa h I to be re-committed in order that it miVht be made 1 ' d | more acceptable to all parts of the house. Whillk ir 1 every one was calling out agsiinft foreign influnncc d i ;y® were every day fuffering from foreigners—Mr. e ! Swanwick referred to the treatment of capt. Jtffup, It and to the unproteftcd (late of our seamen, and at» d j tributed all the depredation* and injuries sustained d by our shipping and commerce to be owing to our it ' having no means of defending ourselves. The Prc c tide t, he said, I:.V mentioned several thing* in ins h Speech which did not indicate our prosperity ; 2- ir mang other things he had hinted that a navy wis - neceflary to our defence. Let us, therefore, said M be moderate and fatisfied wirh our own fittMli ■ f on, but avoid rcfleiVing apon others. «f [Debate to be Continued.J e Friday, December 16. Mr. Ames from the committee appointed to wait j 'ipon the President to know when and whete he f 1 would chufe to receive the answer of the Heufe so e j,tiis speech, reported that he h«td '9 r f" I- j ceivcit at his hotife to-day at two o'clock, - j A report was received from the commifSontri of / c the finking fund, which was ordered to be printed. d A letter was received from the fecretsry of the b treasury enclnfmg an account of the expenditure t of the year 1796, and an eflimate of the appro n 'priationa neeeflaiy for 1797. » Mr. Sherburne presented the t^tit ion of J. Bap. n lift Dumont in behalf of a claiy due to bis father, . which it appeared had been deeded uprn If ft, fc r s frort by the committee of claijfs. After some «t» J jeftiop made to the receivinWu this petition a If , ; cond time, to which it was mfottcd that new « were adduced, it was refejftd to the committee of claims. Hi Wt Mr Swanwick resolution io ; tTre follow* - ing efFrft— JT. 1 " Resolved, That Mtpft'umm referred tv> t committee of covnmfceSwl manufactures diiiinu^ • the last felllon, anipot iepbtSd on, be refetrd ' the cotjimitjee this'-feffiun." ' On (notion