r er« could n«t pierce. The hlgliell terms of res p?ift which could be ufcd, they owed to the Pre sent of the Unite! States. 'This, it might be laid, was leading- to adulation, but it was neverthe left true, whereas the efieace of flattery- is falfe hood and deception. Let gentlemen deny it. Let „ them fay that the country does not entertain these featiments. The yeas and uays, he said, would undoubtedly be taken, when the real friends of the President would be known. (Mr. Giles had said he rejoiced to fee the gentleman determined to go to his feat in Virginia, and did not regret his religna tion. His name will appear to that opinion. It was not present impreflions of the President's con dud, out the whole of his life which (lamped his ch»rafter. His country, the admiring World, and faithful Hirtory, were now the keepers of his fame and rvould keep it inviolate. We might refufe our fuffrages, and thereby separate ourselves from the general sentiment of mankind. We miy be lingu lar ; he will be illustrious. ~ If, said Mr. Ames in we address the President at all, it should be in a refpe&ful manner, for lo;h tefpeft is.infnlt in disguise. He hoped, therefore the motion be« fore them would be disagreed to, at»d that the eri giaal address would be adopted to be continued.]] JOR THE GAZETTE OFTH£ UNITED STATES. NEW THEATRE. The Comedy of the Child of Nature, performed on Friday last was received with the greatest applause, the vivacity of Mr. Moreton ir>the Count was natural and entertaining, Mr. Wignell and Mr. Warren forcibly impreflid the audience, and excited appropriate i'ym pathies, Mrs. Morris (hewed gaiety and spirit in the Marchioness, the Amanthis of Mrs. Merry was, alto gether, fafcinating in the extreme. Such a faithful por trait ol arch simplicity, tender emotion and filial affec tion we do not remember to have seen, (he never o'er fteps the modesty of nature, (lie leeks not £ y artifice to entrap applause, but while (he fitisfits tHe undcrftan ding her appeal is to the heart. Mr. Cooper played Albei to with much propriety and feeling, tho' a part so old was but ill suited to him, he being, aswe are informed, but 21 yeafs of age. This young mail, whole privatechara&er weubderliand to be unimpeachable, pofleffes all the retjuili'es of a firft rate perforner, but the acremonious and cruel attacks which have been made upon him in some of the pa pers, And which breathe rather the spirit of private malice than either of justice or candour, seem to have deprefled his spirits, and abated a little of his ardour, but he need not be alarmed, while he trulls himfelf to the protection of this geherous public, he has nothing to fear from malignant or designing men who, what ever be their motives, may attempt to undermine or dtherwife injure his reputation as an aitor. The play was succeeded by a ballet of which we lhall only fay that Mr. Byrne danced extremely welt, wish Mrs. Byrne had not danced nt all, indeed we hope for her o\vn fake as well as for the fen f-.tionsof the audience that (he may not appear again till (he can Ihew her very great talents to that advan tage which her present embarrassed situation pre cludes. The farce of animal magnetism played f®r the firft thne was truly laughable, and the principal parts were ■well ailed, we (hould be happy to be more particular in commendation if they hart been more perfect in them. _______ DRAMATICUS. F.r the Gazette or rm United Statis. Mr. Fenno, It hat been said often that Frenchmen have rob bed and mafiaered with better excuses than Ame ricauscan plead forjuflifying them as they do, with out the like temptations and in cold blood. I saw with approbation a paragraph in your paper con demning the plunder of pictures and other -outrages in Italy. A reply in the Aurora (hews a fouler spirit than even pi£lur« Healing., A jult censure on the outrages of a conqueror is termed abuse in the Aurora which is devoted to calumny on our ( own government. Excellent decency thai owes no thing-at home. The writer of the reply infills that the world will be benefited by the use the French will make of their colledion. Is this an apology ? It was the creed of the Jesuits that the end will fanftify the means. Surely Mr. Bache'9 correspondent has not turned Jesuit ? To levy contributions in money was ever considered one ef the rigid rights of war— But to war againd the arts and sciences was reserved fer the iafamy of the modern Vandal philosophers. To spare from pillage, Libraries, Pictures, Col leges and Altars was ever deemed a law of war. Conquerors prided themselves in afcrupulous obfer ■vation of it. What a suss their toad eaters In this country made because tTiey had charged their naval officers to forbear molesting some navigator or dif eoverer, whose name I forget. Yet by the bye our quakers and abolition focietics should remember tiiat the French ships destroyed the benevolent Sj erra Leone Settlement which the Euglifo had form ed in Africa. One might expect the French would rob chur ches, because their antichriftian calendar, their ap plause of atheists in their conventions, the perfec tions and murder of priests, &c. &c. have given the world fair warning. But their endless declama tion about the arts and sciences, would lead one to hope some protection for their maftcr-pieces, where ver their conquering arms might seize them. Alas ! this is frail rated ! and Americans are found base enough to jullify it, nay, pretend it is the lore of the arts and sciences that makes prize of the pic tures, statues and booksof Italy. Are these "fair daughters of the ikies'' to be woo'd only by ravilh- < i»g them ? Only sword in hand, and amidst the smoke of burning towns ? Delicate lovers, who j will not be refufed ! , Plainly and seriously, is any man blind to the ( tendency of making plunder or these rarities to de grade the arts and to barbarife men worse than for nserly—for these very things escaped deftrudtion by 1 the old Goths and Varidals. The feeble nations must renounce a property now ' no longer spared by conquerors, as a neighbor na- f tion might befeizej) with a piaure rags, aTid begin , or pursue a war merely to peur the colle&iens ef half a dozen nations and half a hundred cities into 1 the mufesm of Paris. Ridiculous as this passion < is, we find the French avow it, and our vandals ' applaud it. Naples, Florence, Parma, Modena, Turin and Rome, will in future dread to have ma- j . nufcripts, pifturcs and statues that will draw upon j them malfacr», plunder, snd what i» worse, igno- 1 wmy. The trephies of their abafetnerit sre to be - proudly displayed in the m life urn of Pans. A-id : this toe by the gentry'that proclaim fraternity to • the whole world. To pursue the idea before dated, - where will p.ftures hang fafely except in Gibral - tir. Uther European towers are more or less lia : Die to be taken. I In vain is it said, the mnfetim will exhibit in a : groupe the united glory of the aits. Suhjeaing I them to military outrage will degrade them dill > more. Princes, no matter from vanity 01 other motives, have been proud,of-Mm",jg them by their munificence. In future, they will be cau ttous. Not will the French ca(h supply what will 1 be withdrawn by other nations. For while every war may collell (mind the Aurora phrase) rare works of art, fifty waggon loads at a time, who will recotnrr.etid paying lor them. In one word, the poffl-ffiun of these things will be in future precarious, if not dangerous : the taste for them will decline, when ihcy are outraged, ex hibited in waggons, broken, (tamed and bloddy, through five hundred miles of country. The rage of war is thus embittered, by falling on rarities, which wete the pride of a nation, and are now wet or rotten in tents, or gone to drew the fides of the Alps with^their fragments, or to ionmortalife in France, the humble Hate of iheir farmer owners. | The pica that pictures were taken as a ransom for the territory, is pretty enough, an'l well becom ing the Aurora. Have not the neutral states yield ed pidtures by fear, as well as enemies by force The conquering French faints, it fcems, have a right to inherit the earth : and because they forbear to take pofleflion of their inheritance, they have a right to every thing betides. Implacable :nemies, fays the Aurora—And were not the French their enemies also ? The right of the conqueror goes far, it is allowed : but it has bounds. This use of the right, is a horrid abuse, and an injury to man kind, as tfell as the arts. The feelings of mankind will go with the conqueror, when he exposes his enemy to the extreme ot either misery or in-j dignity ; and accordingly, the currency of French principles will be opposed by the remembrance of French exactions. It is tmpoffible to Urip a coun try, arid profclyte it at the fame time -.-Miad that, Mr. B.iche. if the contagion of rapacious anarchy should ihus (top itfelf, the lovers of tranquility and the arts will fay—Amen. . New-Jersey, Dec. 13, 1796. N. B. If the word irata/ loldiers so ofFenfive to the writer in the Aurora and the diead of mafTacre suggested in this paragraph should seem too harsh, let him read the proclamation of the French gene lal Angeieau at Verona. He threatens to burn whole towns and kill evjry fcml if one Frenchman is killed. Gracious heaven, if a drop of enemy's blood is Ihed by the people , who fight for their hearths and their altais! Read Buonaparte's letter refpe&ing Pavia; and, reader, blulh up if you are ashamed of your indignation. Phtladelph ia, MONDAY DECEMBER J9, 1796, Return or Fotes .r' c -r S FOR t- .§ C ' 4 •f', » PRESIDENT 5 i i ,is H AND 1 -S < YFCE-PrtESrDENI ' • s o o New-Hampshire, 0' 6 » Massachusetts, 16 13 1 1 Khode-lfland, 4 4 Conneflicnt, 94 5 Vermont, New-Ynrk, 11 u New-Jersey/ 7! 7 Pennsylvania, 1 1 14 13 Delaware, 3! 3 Maryhnd, 7443 j Virginia, I no i.tj 3 1 Kentucky, T.nnefiee, j North-Carolina, I I 11 6 1 South-Carolina, TScorgia, Total, ~ - ~ T"':' Aurora lately defcarited on the cunning of the Yankees, but is silent on the defection ef the voters of Virginia and North-Carolina.—The Jacobin Buckjkim would not. stick to the Burr. E%tra<sl of a letter from a gentleman in Annapolis, to his friend in this city, dated the 14th of Decem ber, 1796. The l louse of Delegates of this state have this mo ment given their afTent to lend the cemmiflioners of the city of Wa(hington one hundred thousand dollars, and there is no doubt but the Senate will agree to it. A paragraph from Fredericklburgh informs us that James Madison. Esq. one of the present representa tives for Virginia declines being re-elected from that ; diftri<ft and that under this idea T. Pofey, Esq. offers ! himfelf. , It appears from entries at the Collector's Office for this port, made in pursuance of the a<ft of Congress of ihe last session, that in the quarter commencing on the ft of July, and ending on the 30th of September laft,t *90 seamen have been registered ; and that during the fame, period, 22 seamen were impressed, of which 4 were natives, 9 whose citizenship was unknown or un certain, 2 Swedes, 1 Dutchman, 3 Irishmen, and 3 foreigners, whose country is unknown, but in place of whom 2 Americans were returned by the veflel which impeded them. But one of these impreflments was made in Europe j and one also from a veflel returning frem Europe. The Legislature of New-Hampshire met at Concord, the 13d ef November. Governor Gilraan addrefftd them in a very full and elegant Speech ; in the tourfe of which he observed, that " The a<st of dignating a man to preside at the head of our national government, must always be deemed highly important. Hitherto ' the voice ot our country in this choice has been as one. 1 But the illuirious patriot whose wisdom, prudence and fortitude have been so eminent in conducing the af fairs of our nation, has mad# known to the public his determination to retire, at the expiration of the time for which he has been eleited. The eflemblage of virtue and talents which he pofTefTes,have been exhi bited in a manner exalting to hitman nature. May the sentiments contained in his late address to the people, ' be deeply engraved on all hcaits,; and may the great rulcf of nations continue to guide the public fufFrages and deliberations." * To which the Ijegiflature replied—" We heartily concur in ientiment with your Excellency, on the im portance of feleiling from the people, a man to preside at the head of our government j the unanimity in this trjniaiftion hitherto, has been no less remarkable than the virtues of the man who has been the objeil of our choice. May every inflruiHion he has given whether by example or precept, make an indelible impression on every heart, and a remembrance of the unrivalled services he has rendered, iafpire with gratitude to heaven that he has bv-eti lo long continued the gleryof his country; and whje we regret the neeeility of turning our attention from him, in the choice ofa chief magistrate, our hearts follow him to to thefcenes of do mestic retirement with the mod fervent wishes for his present and future happinef*. ALARMING! Lafl evening between 8 and 9 o'clock a fire was discovered in a bark framed building of Mr. Cres ses in Maiket street, between 6t"h anc! 7th dreets. Frytn eveiy circumdance it is indubitable that this fire was kindled by some incendiary with a design to spread a conflagration. A small quantity of draw was plased under two pieces of bo&rd, the fides of a wheel barrow—the draw was set on fire by a coal, and when discovered was in a blaze, the boards were much burnt. .1 he fire it appears was brought in two pieces of leather which were found near the spot. A timely discovery prevented in all probability much mif ehief. COMMUNICATIONS. It seems as if those acknowledged trtlths, or axi oms, which guide men in other sciences, jniflead our democrats in their politics. The pronenefs of liberty to licentiousness no one denies—and the ter mination of licentiousness in despotism, is no less agreeable to fact and found theory. Vet the de mocrats fay, and fsy to a man, tbe Frcnch are in a revolutionary date, their excelles and woi fe were to be exprtted—that is impofiole, but they willeda blilh libei ty. Now pray what right has a friend of anarchy to affirm that liberty will come next. Af ter licentiousness comes what ? Despotism. Liber ty is the daughter of honelt parents, not of vice and violence. 1 his inference is plain, .those who look for the loss of liberty a 9 the probable consequence of con fufion ate wiser, fafer, and more watchful keepeis «f it, than those who can believe that licenciouf nefs only brings more liberty ; even such o%>m de mocrats as are houeft, as fume of those who pin their faith on the sleeves of wicked leaders, may be, are dangerous in their principles, and unfit to be intruded with federal authority. They cenfureTear and hate our -conditution, or, as they will acknow ledge, several very important parts of it, and almost all it's admiilidration : its entire overthrow so far from dangerous, much less fatal, is only a new Ihuf flin£ of the pack of clrds, a new chance for the people to chtife a form of government, more pure, tree and amijble. This iilca is chirafterifticof the party, BDd it Ts nor unfair, nor exaggerated in the lead, for'thofe now charged with it, maintain witk-the ze »l of fee taries that fs<ft and experiment, no one can fay how many times repeated in France, have proved nay, more have made it an article of the political gospel, that revolution and liberty are fynonimous terms The quelfioti ia seriously repeated, are such men proper .to be chosen to office, at any time, when their ele&ors do not wifli for a revolution. " You aft mad ! You have not fenfc enough." (Diggory,in All the World's a Stage.) Mr. Fenno, I; is reported that the fupporterg of the Auro ra from a deficiency in rational cor respondents and from innumerable difappointmenls in the demo-po litical line, have been under the neceflity of opening a correfpendence with one of the democratic refi dents in the Lunatic HoTpital. I have sent yon, from the Aurora, the firft num ber of the Demoniac ; and if the future numbers should be written with equal spirit, they are at your fertice. A. B. THE DEMONIAC—NB. I. Contrail the boaded prosperity, blasphemy in contempt of truth 1 so loudly and daringly vocife rated by the Executive of the United States, and reverberated by Congress ; by the Executives of the dates and re-echoed by their legiflaturcs, with existing truths glaring as a fumtner's fun, with the loudly crying facts. Our commerce and navigation prostrate at the feet of British despotism. Our sea men in chains or under arms against the advocates of the rights of man, their muscles contorted *nd finking under the British lash, our merchant* rob bed of their merchandize—crushing in ruin every sea port town in the union ; and in their ruin in volving thotifands of their unfufpefting fellow-citi xens 1 This is prosperity with a witnefi. Our ap parent prosperity alas! ha 9 been the refalt of our fictitious credit of funding and banking fjftems, and withal rifißg out of the miseries, the imperious ne ceflities and wants of a filler republic, who raised America into existence among tjje nations of the earth struggling for freedom with the combined des pots of Europe. Is this the prosperity of which Americans should extiltingly bos It ? Gad forbid. And this appaient prosperity is impudently ascribed too, to the 6 years glorious Washington adminif t ration. BY THIS DAY's MAILS. NEW-YORK, December 17. We learn that Robert Troup, Esq. is appoint ed judge of this didrift, in the room of John Law rence, Esq. lately chosen ta represent this date in the Senate of the United States. SALEM, December 9. Releaft of American Seamen. Capt. Elias Grant arrived since our lift in 19 days from Martinique and St. Bartholomews. At Fort Royal, capt. Grant saw Mr. Talbot, agent of the United States for obtaining the release of Aracritan Seamen from an boaid British reflcli of Jwr, who informfd him, that be hsd pieeurcd the release of several, some of whom capt. G. saw. Mr. i alliot appeared fatisfied with the conduct of the sritilh commanders, as far as he hadssen, in delivering them up, and declared that he had not marie a fmgle application that had been reftifed, A Stephen Croel, of Long-Island, state of Newyork, who had been discharged from on board a veflel of war, came on board of eapt. Grant at Tort-Royal, but was fhoitly after taken sick and died. Captain G. saw his difch«rge, and certificate for pa\ while on board the ship. While capt. G. lay at Fort-Royal, fevefal car tels arrived with priloqers from Guadaloupe—one of the ptifomrrs with whom capt.G. eonverfed, said that of about 1500 that had been taken by the French, only 500 were then alive—the reft died ia the French prifo'ns in Guadaloupe • The fleet that we have had accdnnts of failing frunv Martinique, had returned without performing any exploits whatever. £The friends of the above deceafrd S. Creel, by applying to capt. Grant may receive the certificate entitling him to his wages.] OF THE ONITSD STATUS MARINE tIJT. PHILADELPHIA, December 19. ARRIVED. Days. ARRIFED. Days Brig Florida, Hoare, St. Domingo 41 Livinia, Caflin, Martinique 35 Sloop Driver Paddock, Richmond 7 Salem, Watfen, New-York 7 ov , • CLEARED. Ship Wilmington, Hillman, Amsterdam Brig Weft-Indian, Charlton, Hamburgh Sch r Eagle, Hall, St Thomat Antolope, Wllfon, Norfolk Ship Ann 3c Mary, Billis of Philadelphia is arrived at from Hamburgh. Pantheon, AND RICKETTS's AMPHITHEATRE. MR. RICKETTS refpsf.fully informs the Ladies and Gentlemen of Philadelphia, that from the Theatre having been originally opened, (as he has been informed) on Monday, Wednesday and Friday evenings, wishing to avoid the lead appearance of opposition to what he imagi ned to be the wilhes of the public, during the time the Theatre might be open, determined to perform on Tuef» day, rhurfday and Saturday, tho' the Thursday evening has generally proved unprofitable. The Managers of tho Theatre, having resolved to play on Saturday even ing, in addition t» their other nights—Mr. think* it but a duty he owes to himfclf, now to alter the night* of his performance, to Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday evenings, so long as the Theatre (hall be opened orr the Saturday. In this condu& .lie flatters himfelf, he lhall meet with the fame approbation and liberality, he has hitherto been honored ; as he pledges himfelf to th» public to resume his usual nights, fofson as the Manager# of the other Theatre c?afe to invade what he thinks hit right. This prtfent Evening, Moriday, December 19. Wili be presented, the following entertainments. HORSEMANSHIP. A Musical Entertainment, Called, THE PURSE, OR BENEVOLENT TAR. A comic ballet danee (under the direction of Mr. Du ran;;,) called Tug Country Frolic, or Merry HaY Makers—The whole to conclude with the Grand Seri* ,ous Pantomime (under the direction of rjefirs. Sully and Spinaeuta) of OSCAR AND MALVINA, • Or, The Hah of Finqai. Doors to open at 5, and the Performances to com mence at a quarter after 6 o'clock. %* The days of performances, to be Monday, Wed nesday, Friday and Saturday. On WEDNESDAY MORNING will be Publifced, Porcupine's POLITICAL CENSOR, For NOVEMBER, 1796. CONTAINING ' OBSERVATIONS • On the Insolent and Seditious Notes, (Attacking the fe-vereignty and independence of the United States J Communicated to the People, by the late French minister, ADET. December 19. *iw For Sale, AN ELEGANT PHAETON, almost new, with pla ted Harneis equally new*; and also a Pair of handlome CARRIAGE HORSES, warranted good and found. Tb* whole to be seen at the Indian Queen, in Fourth Street; for terms, apply to THOMAS Mc. KLANS. Deccmbei 19. ,j Territory of the United States, N. W. of the Ohio* TURXtR } v. V Foreign attachment. Parker. J Notice is hereby given, *To JOSEPH PARKER, late of Kalkaflcia in the (now) county of Randolph, in the Territory aforefaid, Mer chant, that in pursuance of the laws of the Territory in that cafe provided, a foreign attachment hath ilfued out of the county court of common pleas of the said county, against the lands and tenenr ents, goods, chattels and et feAs, rights and credits sf the said Joseph Parker, at the suit of George Turner, Esquire ; and that unless the said Joseph Parker appear by himfclf, or Attorney, to give special bail to such suit, judgment by default will be en tered against him, at the court to be held in and for the said county, next, after the expiration of twelve month* from this date ; and the estate.or estates so attached, will be fold for the fatisfa&ion of all creditors, who lhall ap pear to be justly intitled to a demand thereon, and {hall apply for that purpose. Dated at Kallcalkia, aforefaid, this twenty-ninth of March, 1796. d ' JOHN RICE JONES, Attorney for Plaintiff. Insurance Company of the State of Pennsylvania. THE Stockholders are hereby notified, that an election for thirteen Director* to serve for one year, will be held at the Company's Office, en Monday the 9th January next, at II o'cloek.—And agreeably to the act of incorporation a statement of the affairs of the company, will then be laid before them. SAMUEL W. FISHER, Sec'y. Philadelphia, December 19, 1796. dt 9th Jan. Just Arrived, In the (hip Dispatch, Captain Morton,*from Havre; de-Grace, and for sale by Isaac Snowden, jun. No. 141, SOUTH SECOND STREET, . An invoice of Gloves of various kinds, Men's White Silk Hose, Black and White Laces, and a few pieces of Black Silk. December a. J*v.
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