New Theatre. THIS EVENING, December it, Will be presented, A COMEDY, called The Road to Ruin. Dornton, Mr. Warren Harry Dornton, Mr. Cooper. Sulky, Mr. L'EJlrangt Silky, Mr. Francis Goldfinch, Mr. Harwted Milford, Mr. Fox Smith, Mr. Barley, jun. Tradesmen, Mitchell, Morgan, See. Sheriffs Officer, Mr. IVarrell Jacob, Mr. Blijfett Marker, Mr. Worrell, jnn. Postillion, Mafler IVarrell Mrs. Warren, firft titne, Mrs. Qldmixon Sophia, Mrs. Merry Jenny, Mr,. Francii Mrs. Ledger, Mrs. Doflor To which will be added, « A FARCE, called The Iriftiman in London. Captain Seymour. Mr. Fox Mr. Frost, Mr. Francii. Mr. Callooney, ' Mr. Darley, jun. MurtOch Delar.y, (with t Ceng in character) Mr. H r arren Edward, Mr. Harnvood Cymon, Mr. Blijfett I.cuifa, Mrs. Harvey Carolint, Miss UEJlrange Cubba, Mrs. Francis On FRIDAY the Tragedy of The Orphan ; * Or, The Unhappy Marriage. With a New Ballet, composed by Mr Bjrrn, called THE B O ITQJJ E T : In which will be introduced, th» favor A TAMBOURINE DANCE. . & The French company of Comedians, having been JionorecL with confiderabtc applause on their firtl appear ance, will perform again on Saturday Wxt, and every Sa turday, until further notice. Particulars will be express , tdin future Bills. gjT Box, Offe Dollar twenty-five cents. Pit one Dollar. And Gallery, half a Hollar. igT Tickets to be had at H. & P. Rice's Book-store, No. 50 High-street, and at the Office adjoining the Theatre. Places for the I}°*" to be taken at the Office in the. front of the theatre, from 10 till i o'clock, and from lo till 4 on the days of performance. FIVAT RESPUBLICAI 111 ' I r Pantheon, AND RICKETTS's AMPHITHE ATR.E. Corner of Chefnut and Sixth-ftreeti. For Equsstrian and Stags Performances. THIS EVENING, Wednesday, Dec. 21. "Will be presented the following entertainment*, viz. HORSEMANSHIP, by the Equestrian troop. A Comedy, in two A&s, called, The Lying Valet. (the Lying Valet) Mr. Chambers Gayjefs, Mr. Jones Jtiftice Guttle, Mr. Dnrang Bea* T rippet, Mr. Tompkins Diek, Mr. Sully MelifTa, Miss Robinson Mis. Gadabout, Mrs. Durang Mrs. Trippct, Mrs. Tompkins Kitty Pry, Mrs. Chambers A COMIC DANCE, called The Dwarff; or, The Warsaw Wonder. A §ong ky Miss Robinson. In the course of the evening, a Duet by Mr. •nd Mrs. Chambers. The whole to conclude with the Grand Pantomine of Don Juan ; or, The Libertine Dejiroyed. This Day is Pnblifhed, Porcupine's POLITICAL CENSOR, For NOVEMBER, 179 6. CONTAINING OBSERVATIONS On the Insolent and Seditious Notes, (Attacking the ftvereignty and independence of the United States J Communicated to the People, by the late French roinifter, ADET. I>ecember »i. * IW CAUTION. WHEREAS very large and heavy dsbti are justly dbc and owing from theft s. Blair M'denachan and Patrick Moare, of the chy of Philadelphti, merchants, trading un-ler the firm of Blair M'denachan and P. Moore, and from Blair M'Clenachan in his separate capacity; to which, by the laws of the.land, all the joint as well as separate property of the said Gen'le-' men, is, and ought to be, liable. And whereas it is clearly and fatisfa&orily ascertained, that mr. Blair M'denachan, of the said firm, has conveyed away to mr. John H. Hujlon, his foil-in law, to his daughter, miss M'denachan, and to his son, George M'denachan, several large and valuable real eftatcs, as well as confidrrable personal property, in the city and county of Philadelphia, in the county of Lancas ter, in the county of New-Castle on Delaware, and elsewhere, with a view, as it is apprehended, to de feat the Creditors in the recovery of their juA debts.— This is, therefore, to forewarn all persons whomso ever, againflthe purchase from the said grantees, or cither of them, of any portion of the said l eal or per sonal property, as the most vigorous measures will wit!#'it delay be taken to render the fame liable to thejvft demands of" the Credirors. By order of the Creditors. Thomas Fitzjfmons, Philip Nick/in, I Jfaac Vharton, r Committee. Wiiliam M'Murtrie, 1 Samuel IV. Fi/her, J Philadelphia, December jjth, 1796. scth.J CONGRESS or the UNITED STATES. HOUSE ©» REPRESENTATIVES* W-cdnefday, December 14. Continuation of the delate on the ad'dreft in anftacr to the President's fpceeh. Thursday, December ly Mr. Amrt said if any man were to call himfelf more free and enlightened than bit fellows, it would be considered at arrogant felf-praife. His very de claration would prove that he wasted sense as well as modesty, but a nation might be called so, by a citizen of that nation, without impropriety; be cause, in doing so, he betiows no pvaife of superi ority on himfelf, he may be in fail and may be sen sible that he is less enlightened than the wife of o ther nations. This fort of national eulogium may, no dotibf, be foftered by vanity and grounded in mistake, it is sometimes jyft, it is ccrtainly com mon and not always either ridiculous or offenfive. It did not fay that France or England had not been remarkable for enlightened men ; their literati are more numerous and diftingu'ifhed than our own. The chara&er with refpeft to this country, he said was ftri&ly true. Our counttymen, almost uni versally, possess some property and some portion of learning, two diftin&ions so remarkably in their favor as to vindicate the expreflion obje£led to. But go through France, Germany, and most coun tries ef Euiope, and it wiiuld befpundthat out of 50 millions of people not more then two or three had any pretentions to knowledge, the reft being comparatively with Americans ignorant. In France, which contain# 25 milliors of people, only one was calculated to be in any refpeft enlightened, and perhaps under tne old system, there was not a great er proportion possessed of property; whilst in A merica, out of four millions of people, scarce any part of them could be elaffed upon the fame ground with the rabble of Europe. That class called vul gar, canaille, rabble so numerous there does not exist here as a clafi though our towns havu many indi viduals of it. Look at the Lazaroni of Naples there are 20,000 or more houseless people, wretch ed and in want ! He # asked whether, where men wanted every thing, and were rn the proportion of 29 to J, it was possible rhat they could trusted with power. Wanting wisdom and morals how would they use it ; it was therefore that the iron hand of defpntifm was called in by the few who had any thing, to preserve any kind of controul 1 o»er the many. This evil, as it truly was, and which he did not propose to commend, rendered true liberty hopeless. . In America out ot four millions of people the proportion which cannot read and write and who, having nothing, are inte rested in plur.dtr and cortfufion and disposed for both, is small. in the fouthcrn states he knew there were people well informed, he disclaimed all design of invidious comparison ; the members from the fou:h would be more capable of doing justice to their constituents; but, in the cartei n dates, he was more particularly convetfant, and the people in them could generally read and write, and were well informed as to public affairs. In" such a country liberty is like to be permanent. It is pof fible to plant it in such a foil and reasonable to hope that it will take root and flourifh long as we fee it. But can liberty, fueh as we understand and enjoy, exist in societies where ike few only have property and the many are both igaorant and licentious. Wat there any impropriety, then, io faying what was a fadt I At it rcfpe&s government, the decla ration is ufeful. It is refpe&fu! to the people to speak of them with the justice due to them, as e minently formed for liberty, and worthy of it. The gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Giles) on a former occasion had said he adored the people ; but now when there was a wish to pionounce thf;.attri butes of his divinity, he was not found snore fer. vent in his adoration than many who had made no such profeflioD. If they are free and enlightened, let us fay so—is they are not, he should no longer adore them ; they would not certainly be worthy of honors quite divine. Mr. Ames said they ought not only to fa} this because it was true, but because their faying so would have the effect to produce that felf-refpeft which was the bed guard of liber ty, and most conducive to the happinefsftf society. It was ufeful to /hew where our hopes and the trne fafety of our freedom arerepofed. It cheriftied in return from the citizens a just confidence, a spirit of patiiotifra unmixed with foreign alloy, and the courage to defend aconftitution that a people real ly enlightened knows to be worthy of its effortt. If the words were e'bjeftionable, it would be ea sy to alter them to avoid the objection without im pairing eflcntially their force. A gentleman nfar him,had funnelled the propriety of faying we were " among the freed and most enlightened." He had no objedtion to the alteration, though he saw no reason fer altering the phraseology. The citi zens of a free government ought, he said; to be lieve they were the most free and enlightened, be cause, having the power of making' the govern ment what tln-y plc-afe, if it were not the belt, ft would be their own fault fer not making it so. He believed the house would not be surprised, if he took notice of what had been said in illulion to him in the course of the debate—allusions with which he could not be offended, bccanfc they were urged with so many expreflions of the most flatter ing civility. But every gentleman would believe those things were not applicable to him, as their recolle&ions would not fail to prove. What had been his language with refpeft to Great-Britain ? Did he fay we were to submit ? Did he fay we were not 10 defend onr country ? .Was he then a fraid as they were now, that foft words would not be foft enough ? No ; such language came not from him. Do nothing to irritate ; wage no war ; no hostility. Such he called sequestration and o thei a&s of that nature. We were, h« faid,about to make war on British property, and that such a war would have been considered as an open war. He therefore wished to shut ourselves up in our (hell like a tortoise. But, at the fame time, he recom mended troops to be raised, ships to be built, taxes to be laid, sad a spirited claim «f justice to be urged. The £cntletr?n who wiflieJ at ihat timS particularly to preserve peace, did not wilh to h»ld eut the olive branch alone, by leaving the country defencel'efj. This many their oppoferf abfo iutely did. These, he said, were their reasons, and they had been effectual. He wauld net go into an examination of the fubje£t now. It was their wilh to urge every exertion of the country, to have cal led forth the last dollar and the lad man in defence of the country in cafe of necessity. Did this look as if they-wifhed to truckle te Great-Britain ? Ma ny of their *>ppofers, so Kealous then for retalia tion and reprisal, were not for any thing else— neither troops, (hips, taxes nor treaty. This the yeas and nays op the journal will eftab'lifh. Will the oppofer3 (hew half the spirit now that we felt and expressed at that day ? How happened it t he asked, .that gentlemen were so angry beea'ife they had then heard the lan guage of pence, and tow because the fame lan gtwge was held ? Not one of us desire hostility. Was it becaufc Great-Britain was then the ebjedt and France now. Wrongs from the former cannot berefented enough, and wrongs and insult too from the latter require words of more ardor than a lo ver's. No man Jclt more for the wrongs of Ame rica than he did. But, was it not the part of dig nity and prudence to endeavour to obtain restituti on for those wrongs rather than take up arms. But was it suited to national dignity to make use of the language that had been uled on that occafmn by many of his oppofets, he thought both national and p'erfonal dignity forbade it, he had thought it equally intemperate and unbecoming. Did not gentlemen seem to feel more for one in dividual than foran insult on the nation and its government. The administration might fuffer contumely and abuse, and the country too with out producing any emotions in the breads of gen tlemen ; their feelings Teemed to take quite ano ther dire&ion ; if# British minißer should outrage our government as the minifterof France had done, every one would be for avenging the wrong. Ai d ha thought it right that they Ihould now declare their determination «f supporting the executive in the fuppott of our national honour and dignity, or let him fee in season that he was to be abandoned. The gentleman from S. Carolina (Mr. Harper) had jnftly said, that though we had no navy to flip port our pretentions, we had yet come off better lhag Sweden or Denmark—countries which had beeft produced as patterns of wisdom. Though he did not suppose the British treaty would be carried into effedt, so as to fatisfy every person who had fuffered in his property by the British, yet hetruQ. ted, tiie event would prove in a degree fatisfaftory. He wished all other depredation on our commerce might be in the end as nearly com pensated. At the time when government was pursuing her negociation, we were cmbarraffed with Spain, with the Indians and with the Western people. On the f»a our citiiens were fuffering in their property. The British treaty was therefore made under disad vantageous circumstances. It was not a little ho noiabltf to the government, and truth would in time procure the universal assent to it, that we have saved our peace, recovered our territory, and made pro vision for the reparation of the spoliations. It fcemed as if gentlemen could never fay enough on the fubjeS of the British treaty aod of Great- Britain. The bank, treasury, and other topics ef declamation, which were formerly always tn order, seem to be almost forgotten. Was this the way, he aflced, in which they meant to recommend to the citizens the due refpedl for the adts of a majo rity of that house and of congress. If they think this the belt way of answering the endt of govern ment and of producing confidence and harmony amongst tho people, they did vtell. The means ap. pearcd difprogortiened or rather ftfangely oppofiie to that end. He was of a different opinion. He thought, and it was with due seriousness of delibe ration he declared the people were called upon to chufe between them ; between those who wished to fuppor; government, and those wlie avowed so tin feafonffile and so excessive a sensibility to a foreign intcrert and foreign nation ; between those who con demned the infuiu offered to the government and those who seemed to approve them ; those who thought the experiment of oar government had succeeded aad thole who were bound in consisten cy with their own assertions to fay it was to be n bandoned with difgult and in despair. He was of opinion they could not go on as tbey were ; and the people could remove the evil by chufing ;hofc who would he better agreed—the people free and enlightened, would have no difficulty in chu fing between them. Both fottsof men ought not to be there; rither those who like the government are in the right or those who .lifpute, revile and des pise it. The people would he joubted not, judge tight. He wished the appeal to be raada without delay, and so solemnly at to make it effedhisil. Mr. Christie said he was not afraid of offending any nation ; but he did not think we were the molt enlightened, and theiefore he was unwilling to fay so. If -the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Parker) would permit him to amend his motion, he would move to have inserted after the word " freed'' and " among the most enlightened.'' \ Mr. Parker cojifented. Mr. Swanwitk thought- the amendment had great advantages ; but he thought the word " among" should come before, instead of after " freed" because, notwithstanding all that had pas- I kd, rxtthing would tend more to preserve the peace of the country, than the treating of others with refpeft. Mr. Christie objefled to Mr. Swanwick's prepo fitioH, because he believed we were the freed, but not the most enlightened nation. Mr. Coit thought the present was an idle difputc about words ; and that instead -of a feflion of thiee months, they should require sne of twelve to do the necefTary business, if they proceeded in this manner. He wiihed the proposed alteration might take place, amongst the freeft, &c. Mr. Oilet could not help observing that the gentle man from,s. Carolina ( Mr. Smith)* had brought for ward an example from the pradice of the French, which he seemed to expedl to have great force, as if a precedent from that country was t6 have influence here> If the gentleman thought it was to have any tffv 1 * K'f ipin'oti', fie tell Jiim ni wr» ttaftifcen. He ihould think for himi 't, and neither be guided by the French government, or any man in France. Indead the vaunting itileof the French wis one of thole things which he liketi the least iu that country. The gentleman from Maflachnfetts ( Mr. Ames) had insinuated that he ( Mjr.Ciles) no lander adored the peeple, because lie declined to call them the freeft and most enlightened. He would tell that gentleman that he thought as highly ot tne people as he ever did ; and that he waspleafed with the pictur; which Mr. Ames had drawn between the lower elide* of Europe and those of this country ; but tho' he tho't highly of their enlightened state he did not think it necessary to tell the world we were the freeft and me£ enlightened. Mr. Giles did not think the diftin&iou which Mr. Ames had drawn between a nation calling: itlelf the most free and enlighened, and an individual calling hmfelf so, was well supported. However if the house were determined to use.the exprefißbn, he should fay no more on the fubjedl. The gentleman from Maflachufetts ( Mr. Ames) had spoken of individuals being opposed to govern ment. He wifiied to have this matter rightly under stood. If Ae gentleman meant by government all the branches as organized by the conftituion he would fare him he wasafirm friend to it; but if he callt fertion of the gentleman from Maflachufetts. The United States must not sequester, for it was wa. t but the plunder and confifcation of the property of our citizen, was not to be termed hostility, but «ai only ground for negociation. If , t \we ppflible for tint gentleman to reconcile that ftWking i»eon nlrcncy, he mtght then free himfelf from the impu tatiou. x hat he himfelf had advocated all the en ergetic measures which were proposed on a former Critical occasion in that house, was, Mr. Dayton said h,, r e and his boa ft. He then thought, and he (hU thought, that if they had been carried into effed., the lituatiou of this country both as it re, P cfted the indemnification of our fellow.citizena who had been plun&red, ,nd our commercial and political connedhon with Great-Bntain would be tar more favorable than it could be said to be at that moment. £ Debate to be continued. J Tuesday, December 20. A letter was received'from the secretary of state. ineiofing the annual report of the director of the m,:it. flu, report was very long, and propefed means of tendering the eftablifWnt lefg expei,five and more produdtive, one of the principal of which was that the depofitore of bullion (hould not have the, lame advantages as heretofore, but be char?ed with deficiencies on account of the inferior qualify o. theiT.+iulhoßy and either ejtpences attendiie- rh» coining of As a neeeffity for «hi» regulation^