Nstr Txejtre. Li \ THIS EVENING, December ij, Will be presented, A TRAGEDY, called M The Orphan 7 Or, The Unhappy Marriage. 1 Acaflo, Mr. IVarren Caftalie, Mr. Morrtm . ' Polydort, Mr. Wignell Chamont, Mr. Cooper • ErDello, Mr. fFarreU Paulino, Mr. Warrett, juu. 1 ' - Cordelio, (the page) Mfls L'EJtrange Cbaphin, Mr. L'EJlrange Monhnia, Mrs. Merry Serina, T Mrs. Francis Florella. Mrs. Ruri-ef — i Sad of the Tragedy a new Ballet Dince, (eompofed | by ror. Byrne) called •»' ,• , " THE X B O U Q_U ET: Is which wiU be introduced, tj»e favorite < TAMBOURINE DJ&CI.. « . < To which will be added, . ' A FARCE, (written by Foote) reduced to one a<B, a called The Mayor of Garrat. , Sir Jacob Jollup, Mr, Francis ' ♦Major Sturgeon, Mr. IVarren ' Jerry Sneak, Mr. Hartvood Crispin Heeltap, Mr. Darley, jun. , Bruin, Mr. tVarretl o Roger, Mr. Blijett Mrs. Sneak, Mrs. Francis Mrs. Brain, Mrs. Mecbtler ' 1 n< On Saturdav the Comedy of SHE STOOPS T8 CONQUER ; Or, The Mistakes of a Sight. Vith a celebrated French Opera, in i a£t», called K LES SOULIERES MORDORES. {jr Bsx, Ooc Dollar -wenty-five cents. Pit one Dollar. And Gallery, half a dollar. ; Tickets to be had at H. &P. Rice's dook-ftore, J No. 50 High-street, and at the Office adjoining the ( Theatre. M \ Places for the Boxes to bAaken at the Office in the front of the theatre, from 10 till- * o'clock, ind from y 10 till 4 on the days of performance. j The Door* of the Theatre will open at 5, and the Curtain rife precisely at 6 o'clock. , _ j Ladies and Gentlemen are. requested to lend their servants to keep places a quarter before 5 o'clock, and ■ to order them, as foo* aTthe company are seated, to ; ■withdraw, as they carniot on any account be permit- ' j ted to remain. . nrAT RESPUBLICA! s ' Clocks and Watches. _ IO: LESLIE AND PRICE, f?0. 79, MaRKET.*HEIT, PailJDSlfßlJ, t HAVE IMPORTED, by the late arrivals fiHnm London, a large alTortment »f WARRANTED JVAr CHES, confiftiug of horizontal, capp'd and jewel'd Gold Watche, with seconds, of fnperior workmanlhip and elej,anc£ ; aifo capp'd and jewel'd Ye and plain Gold Watches ; capp'd* jewell'd, capp d, seconds, day of the m'outb, ar.d plain Silver Watches j ' eight dav & chamber Clock*; elegant French Clocks ma with marble frames; eight day and thirty hour, brass thi works, &c. — Dcccmbet l», 1796. dim Readings and Recitations, Xorat, Critical, <tna Entertaining; Mr. FENNEL L Q, RESPECTFULLY informs the Ladies and Gentlemen ef P iladelphia, and its vicinity, that an !n roduilory Reading will be delivered at the College-Hall, on Tnefuay evening next, at 7 o'clock. —Where, by permission of the honorable, the TruJlees of the ODiverfity, the couxaewill be regularly continued during tke winter. admission tickets to be had of Mr. PcFjlfon, Jun. at the Library jSit vlr. M'blvec'f looking-glass-Sore, c No. 70, Sonth Fourih-llreet; and at Mr. Carey's, Book- u fSer, Market-street. E ' Dec. 1L dst. Ui Jult Arrived, fer fchcorur Daphne, Captain Mor/r, from Aim- Fj Caycs, ' - at , A Cargo of Sugar and Cofjee. Also, per trig Betjey, Captain WiUe, from the IJle | of trance, so; y» Hogfteads, I puncheon, ans 15 cattilUrs, of Jbtavia Sogar ' an 45 Hogsheads Pepper of Malabar 65 .oca lb. Coffee 13.0C0 Cotton — 4,00 c Indigo For Sale by F. Ccppinger, .. , t No. in, Soutft-Front-ftreet ,"* December »i § j On Wedn'efday, the 28th inft. ,h At i o'clock in'the evening, will be fold 'at public ed au&ion, (if not before difpoi'ed of at private sale) : di It the Ci'.y-Tavein, • . or All that capital manlioii-honfe, ftibles, oat-hoofes, &e. ! N and three contiguous traSssfland situate on the Weft-fide • of Schuvlkill ia the townftiip of Blockley and eounty of Philadelphia,gtnerally by the »jw ofLanfdown, containing 199 acres I»1 perches more or less and a messu age plantation and traA in Bloekky townOiip a- ~ forefaid adjoining Lacfdown, containing 64 acres one ' perch. f,' The prcmifes are so well known as to need no partienbr r defcriptiou. few ftau' in America can compare with Laofdown for-convenience and elegangt; ft ecmmand« a Tarieiy of rich beactiful ang it remarkably heal thy. Terms affale will be made fenovrn By PHILiP NiCKLIN, > Attornies in ■ifcD V faS to n ROBERT E. GRIFFITH, J Jame. Greenleaf. b< Dec. »i. §t«8;h tJ This Day is 11 4 Poxcupine's * POLITTCTAL CENSOR, for NOVEMBER, > CO»»frA!SI>.G OBSERVATIONS On the Insolent V:d Seditious Notes, y (Attacking the Joveretgnty and irjeptndenu as tbc a United StatrsJ p Communicated to the People, by the late French o samifier, ADET. I December 11. *iw List of Phizes and Blanks in lb( ' Wajhington Lottery, No. fl. 46th Days Drawing, December 10. _ No. BtHs. No. DiL. No. Dolt. No. Dots. ' 11* 9554 i° 143*1 40658 Jl4 857 7" to 67* , 4*l 10063 SjJii 8 j 3 jra 11404 16074 4>oit J° 514 599 *? r 339 10 659 <>53 J® 4&5 5*7 10 669 10 12457 15 1747* 4"&5. IO 718 13091 769 ?94 10 f BX3 354 *Srss ro 14« . J 1103 , 963 10 Jij 10 , 689 14174 29033 49* , 785 io Sls ro 068 ; 517 961 *5019 10 ' 6 9 IO - 546 10 , 1305 ' 16315 IS6 591 38.1 754 »o 8;8 10 9SB t 533 * 984,10 30001 43-i* <J , 855 173>5 159 J ?** f 941 10 619 10 181 . . 649 t 971 883 / 668 ro 3154 18197 10 315*8 10 A 4684 10 651 19335 3*3*4 Jo 145455J % £ 4607 10 aoooc J46aj7 "847 31J 1® £36 ' TT7 10 t 5136 10 335 . 497 J 746 47« f/*5« « 987 1 ' 6119 t 717 *J 36615 i* 47*71 Jo a 781 911 640 ! 513 903 10 11083 10 J7354 618 9?3 481 10 30J. 861 7'35 *" 718 316 io- 936 10 0 459 11354 J«39* «» » 611 10 Scß 10 830 136 898 13610 10 879 49553 t 8198 IO 669 to 968 717 10; ( 4J5 810 10 39447 M 5 ' *>t% 91° 10 5 2 * PJ 745 »4?i4 10 965 J 9CII 1278 40083 £ 47th Dayt Draw ing, December 11, r - " ? No. Dob. ho. Dels. No Dots. No. Do.'s. t 363 IO7TI 137H 19 c 92- "55* *4455 4»5 *® 1516 10 993 10 • 617 10 815 1198 ,41069 718 4 40995 J" ; 4:8 511 750 10 41319 561 10' 841 814 394 .t 661 13607 , 375 t ■ 3403 10 15596 677 498 (i 4T74 19 799 16938 668 10 895 16136 to 17384 43754 t 5408 17101 6jt 44704 10 , r 453 ro - 174 18419 10 45343 j <380 10 18319 19461 391 9ro 19306 10 Bai ' 476 b ] 7169 465 30306 503 663 ■ 10689 IO 799 565 f; 697 11069 Bx3 40 951 TO c 8784 193 31566 *0 460:4 9688 348 31707 754 713 10 636 811 50 988 r 10151 10 731 34158 47346 1 183 11513 36166 8.-4 ' 063 7'9 37037 887 10 x 381 740 539 48436 10 g j 385 13485 10 855 49«>» a JFou N D f i Yesterday afternoon, in Second, inc. < t ' " Kace-flrcets, , A small sum of money ; whoever hu toft the fame, j may have it by proving thiir property, and paying for this advertisement.—Apply to the Printer. Dec. *3. *3<- c FOUND, 1 By a Gentleman, a SUM of MONEY. '■ 1 The owner may have it by applying at the Indian Queen. Dec. 11. "3 j y Dancing. i y _ 1 • j MR. FRANCIS of the New-Theatre, in conjiinSioii with Mr. BYRN, late BaUet-roafter, and principal dan , cer of Cevent-Garden Theatre, London, now as the j New Theatre in thit city, opened their Acad-my at Mr. Oeller* Hotel, on Tuei.iay, December 13, where th«y propofr to leash, in the most now and approved methods, ' Dafccing in itj various ufeful and ornamental branches. I - Mr. Byrn'i recent attention to the uancet of London , and Paris ». ill enable him to complete this branch of j education in his scholars in the mo# finifhed style. ( Favorite Scotch reels will also engage tbeir particular attention. The days of teaching for their young papili are Thurf- 1 -j. ' days and Saturdays, from three o'clock in the afternoon ' till fix—md onTaeldays it Tharfdays, front fix ti.'l nine, for these of a more advanced age. 3 ' For farther particulars enquire of MeSrs. Francis and B/m, No. 70, north Eighth-fireet. * Privite tuition as ufnal. Philad«!phia, December 16, 1796. _ oaw I— Any Person el Whi is well acquainted vth m River _i • MIS SI • And will give Direflio: l £ . ;j) c fame, | that can be depended on, ! "•- e v eward ic ' ed for his information, \ ■; --ide. l-ive the :) dtre<£>ious with Mr. John Fci . r - r, . or Edmund M. Blunt, Nev e. November 3. " de ~ * of IV y) N >, /), ». A MUSI A V, Who is capable of comp< A-coPp;:;;! to te Songs for an Orchtftra. He ,r. 3 halt i:!.«-r en- I gagemcnt as a composer. En reit O' e . this iar P 4 ?*'- December n. 3 Delaware and Schuylkill P- i The Stockholders are herebv u.-.f ■ f an nual Ele&ion for Officers for "t 7 " will f. be held at the Company's office, t)« ; f the I United States, on the firft Mono . in -nuar\ nest; at 10 o'clock, A. M. By the Board of Manaf'r». fTM. MOORT SIU ."'> >• y- PhiTadelphia? Dec. I, 1796. For Sale, Seven elegant Scites for , Opposite the Sute-Houfe Gard'.n -eT # - ] > Hail; each Let being 15 f«et*frc -i: «S! i*cc:. the and 119 feet deep to al4 ieet Co-.rt, o a plan which may be seen at the Coffi r-H.i at '-be ich oS' eof Abraham Shoemaker, No. r;«, S firert, wMere the terms Wiil be made December 16 ce, 11.* I . ; v ; CONGRESS ot tat UNITED STATES. ( HOUSE OF *EP*.ESE*TATIVEI. V - ' I Continuation of lit Jtbate on the addreft in onftaer ' to tbe PrtfiJent's fpertb. Thorfdav, December 15* Mr. Giles said the gentleman last lip had talked _ of improper language being; held an the difference between the French republic and this country. The fa&s he had mentioned, he £aid, were at we!' . known to tlie French directory as to any gentle- ( man in that lioufe. He /poke of things a* they } existed, Sfl3 ipeke of them with a to caution the bou(e againfi war. Hewifhed thai gentleman to look OcOO all the gloomy thiogs he had":{»id in the last fcfSpn on the fubjeA of par. when. in his * opininion, it much less prdtalJcjhan at pre sent. With refped to tbe rarobabiliiy a rup- , tore with Franre. everyone knows that a tu/penfun j of the powers £f the rainilter of that country had taken place. This, !t had keen inlinuited, Jasto hart an influence on a eertafii ele£lion. TV's tras tpo, improbable to be iqiagifed. He \rouid ask gentlemen when tbey saw 21* thingui»thiicountry wjiich placed us in so de'icate a lit nation at we were at present with the French republic j for, from ,jhe revocation of the Britifl) edict of the 6:h of No vember, he never believed tbefe.was any probability of » war with Great-Britaia—.Jjur, at prdfcjflt.Tk v acknowledged he had very ferity appsaftenfrf s. The jeutleman from MaffacKtifetts ?ll«ded to certain information from Paris. If he supposed there was other information than such as was received from oee iniiividnzl to another, he believed he was oiifirrfofmed. Mr. Giles said he had him- ? felf lately leen a friend from that country w'»o Had '« given him information on affairs there. He did 1 not thii.k theie was any thing trcafunable in this. ' Much had been said about improper correspond- v er.ee with France. He believed gentlemeu : ' of Ytich things until they fancied them real. There ! t( might be persons, he owned, wicked enough to ' inflame the citizens of one country against another, j •'] hut tbefe could have little effefl, and he djfctlicved a their eziftence at prelent. Such ideas were merely n the fabrications of prejudiced minds, and it beiame P ne?effary to fprak to them. . <3 Mr. KitchelKhought it was full time that gen- g tlemen o« both fides of th* present queflion Ihauld hare exbaufted themselves. He though! too muUT t had been said, and he wished the qucllion might t be taken . , t Mr. Sitgreaves agreed that a great deal of time t had been spent in rlelefs difcufltons foreign from the Y quell ion befyie them. He wofojd however fay a few words to the jnotion before them. It was Sift ( thoved to tlrike put " freeft and most enlightened." t It now moved that the passage (hoi:ld re>d, 3 " fftcft a;;d among the most enlightened " He t though: the criticism in itfelf of like consequence ; and he (hould not have troubled the committee with J any lemarks on the fubjed, had he not heard one t gentleman doubt ous being the most free, and ano- t ;i:ej tljai we ww «")i t ;)m.rrnL. i liic i.et Wa«~c»HcJirtfo giirftidti, he wilted"she "ex- j preflion mfghl; not b« (truck out or altered, bscaufc t the dotug so, would countenance the idea that we c were not free and enlightened. The light spoken , of, he laid, wis political light, and had" an refer- J ence to arts, fcienee or literature, ano-in that sense i he believed the affrrtiou to be founded. The pre- t sent, he said, ought net to be considered as a pub- t lie aft to be noticed by other nations, Wit at a com- ( pooication entirrly domeflic—as a cooverfation of j individuals ; they fhonld be considered is speaking { in soliloquy, and if another nation chance to over- l hear them, it flioutd bj confiotreO as a kind of 1 Eaves dropping. , This fentirnent was Taluahle, he said; becaofe, | to believe we are the frteft and ir.dft enlightened, ( would have a tendency to make us so ; an 3if we , were r,ot so, we ougbt to take fliame to ouifclves, | since we have the power of making oiirfelres what i wechufe. The belief was therefore valuable, and 1 if it ought to be cherished, it was proper auJ p»a dent to expref;; it. But to Jtidgeof the prt>prietv of tiiis, or any other fentirawit, it ought not to be considered in the ahftraft only, bat in its applies- , tion. The President of the United States, whose 1 administration had been so valuable to the people of the United States was about to retij-e from his 1 station, and the honfe of reprefentalivea were go ing to t>xprefs their approbation of bis fervic*.. , This approbation, said he, iV tbe <m!y reward he can receive ; it oitght, therefore, to be made as ur. 1 equivocal and valuable at polfible. Now, wiß a»y One deny, he added, that the whole force of tbe compliment is derived from our beiiijr free and en- , lightened; f«r, if the acknowledgment wis not iroro such a people, it would ceaf; to Be vatuaUK , The more Hrongly, therefore, tnu irnitiment could he expressed, (be higher was i t vahje. • (Mr. S. read the passage.) Would any gentleman fay thit the fpe&acle of a nation which was not free and enlightened wouid either be " novel or iajtreflin;;?" Hiftory.tellt us that such an expreflian would m- r.ovel, Lptercflinef or valuable. Those, therefore, who voted tot linking out these words, Uiotaidir.ov- r 0 strike out the wljple He 1 was cpjiofed to all amendment of the original. Mr. Thatcher said he did not think »he objeQ before *hcm of <onfeqtunce. He wilhed to fee tbe house unanimous on this fubjeft, and he would propofr in amendment which he hosed might have ; the effrft to make them so. Hr move-1' to have ! passage read « the fpeftacle of a free and en lightened nation." Mr. Ciiriftie's motion was put and negatived. Mr. Thatcher's was then put and carried. Mr. Isivingfton moved to strike out the word " tranquil prosperity," in tbe sixth paragraph. He 1 had two reason for thit motion. The Crftrefpefted the fentkeent, the second the form of wording. • He could not eor.Gder the present period as a period of tranquil profpmty j if he did, he {hould moek the ailtreis ot his conrtiturntt, who™ he law greatly . embarrassed ; but though he could not agree to that . term, hr did not believe we were so mifrrabJe~a» •hole nations to which we were compared, and -hetCiOre he thought the language of thcaddref. might be ret s'oed.as far u U drew confbhtloi fr* n thai view. The other objection which he hid to the passage in qtteftion wa», to the wording of it which indeed he ftiould not have thought of luff,, ciant consequence alone to hate made hi* had it not been conne&ed with the other objeftio*. He believed it inaccurate to compare tranquil prefc to period, »• there wa« no fitrilarity between them.—He hoped thi» amendment wouW takeplace and that the addtef* would at length pift unani anoufly. he expressed his gratitude to anl admiration of the charafiei of the President, he wifecd not to hurt hit feeliogs or pricciples, the former, indeed, he might facrifice a little on the occasion, but his principle* be rould not facritice to aov man. 7 Thi* amendment wa* put and carried 42 to $7. Mr. Lrvirgftnn moved to flr.ke out io the ntxt paragraph, " wife, firm and pain'otic adminitfrsti. an."* am! to iufert in their place, " wifdo®, firm. ness and pitriotiftn." Mr. L. said he did not be* ljfve th'at all the a&» of the Pfefident's admioiflra tion had been wife and firm, but he. would fay that hi* wisdom, firmnef* and patriotism have beat fij. nally conducive to the success of the ptcfeot form of government. JJ Mr. W. Smith thought the gentleman who made this motion eonfidered the word* ohjefled tr»a* em bracing rnjrethan they were intended to embrace. They fignified no mqrc tbaa that bit administration in jreneral- had been wife, firm and patriotic. Tfii* did not embrace every a£V. If she had not bren in the address as reported, to hate omitted 4 therh would not have been of confequencc ; but now they were there, to strike them out, would convey cenfurf. Mr. Giles said, it was well known that macy gentlemen in that house had been particularly oppo sed tithe British treaty, and to the emission ott.ie quantity of transferable paper which had been emit, ted. The gentleman last up had said, becacfe the wird* were in the a. dress reported.they ought not to be Arvck out. He did not think that commit tee ought to be influenced by what had bee* repor ted to them. The thing ft >od as if tbey had whol ly to form the add reft. He acknowledged, if thf amendment place it woutd make the thing more palatable to him. He believed the PreGdent pojTeffed taient*, virtue and wisdom, but thit tbefe qualities had not becn-fo eminently difpU)ci in the government as in the other ad* of Li* life. Mr. Gilbert spoke agaiuft the motion. He thought to feparatc the wisdom, virtue and patrio tism «>f the President from tys public character, wa* v to take away the force of the compliment intended to be conveyed to him, a* it was his public, and not hi* private character which they meant to approve. Mr. Craik said the gentleman from (Mr. Gile«) seemed tothirk it immaterial whether thefubjeft wa* before a committee of the whole or a fele£t committee. The diltintfion was certaioly material. What wa* done in a felcdt committee was kuown only to themfelvej ; but what was done in a committee of the whole wa* made public j a* no gentleman could be at a lot's to know, that the reported ad J reft, witty tly present delates, would isc pnWifhed in all the paper*. The priuctpal rea fen urged for fti iking out the exprefiiont in quef. tion, bad been'grounded on the opinion that lame of the acts of the Ptefident'a administration had not been wife and firm. Much discussion had-la* keo place. Some objeSrd lo'hrQf expi<o°"» account of the Britift treaty, .£><?<?-■#». account ■rf the emiflion of transferal paper. It therefore, the amendment proofed was adapted, the o'-jettr ons would be admitted to have forte, and that the adoiiniilration of the President had not been wife, firm and patriotic. And were there, he ulkcd, a majority in that houfc who would fapport thra opi nion i Beftdes, as it had been juftjy observed by the gentlercan lift :;p, the -compii.-«eri: intended t» 1 be conveyed, fliotild cd to the public cha . the or it would imply a tacit reflection on !-ii administration. Qa thefe^round*, > he fell, as hetrufted a majority of that botife would !eel,'a dehre to expreis his opinion, in favour^of ! the wife, firm and patriotic administration of the President. Nir. Isaac Smith.—The fin of ingrathnfa it worfetha- the fin of witchcraft, and we fhzfl damn ourfelvcs to cve.-lafling fame, if we withhold the mighty tiibute due to the excellent man whoa ' we pretend to address. Posterity tjiro'out all fa ' turt generations wiilicry out jT.amie on us. Onr sons wiil blufii their fathers were bis fact. If ex cels were pcffible on this wooM be a r glorious fault, and worth a little fneakmg frigid virtue*. I abhor a grudging bankrupt payment, where the debtor i« much more benefited than the creditor. The gentleman from Virginia milreprefents his own conftitueiits ; 1 am fute he docs aii the reft of the union. On the prefeat oc cafiou, we ought not to consult our own little feci -1 Trigs and sensibilities. We (hould speak wi h the heart, and in the voice miillioet, and then we t ihould speak warm and lond. Wbat! " Ejhi with fai-it praifc ?" And foppref* or freeze the warm cnergctic grateful fecfations of alreoft evetj - honest heart from Maine to Tenaeffee. I will ait , doit. Bvery line should burn. This it I ' w »y of adoring the profile. ' £ -V - Dayton ( the Speaker) said tlje motios theu be'ore them was of great* importance, abd-oe i ry man v.ho thought favourably of rke Prclidoot'* ; »<'n>!»inratios wquld Cuetc inske a stand. For if i the word* ttere llfrick out, ii would convey an idea to the woild that it was the opinion of that houte that thf tt4ah6t#caTtoe of the President haJ »e»th er been wife fitm nor patriotic. Gentlemen might concur in the addrcia io its present torn, • *bo did not tbink that every iiugla set of the Prr ( had i»eco wife aari firm, since it was his al« - tr.inidration in general which wa* referred to and not = eseh individual aft. He hoped, theretbre, tit i amendment offered, would be decidedly oppoftd, E '^ at the words promoted to be ftruckout nocU t be retained. Mr. Pa»e thought ihat Mr. Living (lon's amend* > ment properly c-yifined the eoaapliment to the I t President. ithoit it that complimeflt would be « extended to all those that had any (hare ia the sd miniitratieii of the goverment of tbe United Stat'fc » Senator*, rcf rcfootatives, and head* t»f dtf-«t-
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