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.