Nzu 7jib Jrun. Oj MONDAY IVENING, January*, Wfll be -presented, An HISTOJIIGAL TX.AGEDT, (Written by Shike fpeare) called Richard 111. Henry IV, Mr. Warren Prince Edward, "Miss L' Eft range Duke of York, Matter LfEftrange Duke of Glofter, Mr. Ctoptr Duke of Buckingham Mr. Wigiull Earl <tf Richmond, Mr. Moretan Duka of Norfolk, Mr. Francis Ratcliff*, Mr. Morris Catefby. Mr, Barley, just. Treflel, Mr. Fox Earl of Oxford, Mr. Bliffe-tt Lieut, of the Tower, Mr. Warrell, jun. Lord Stanley, Mr. L'EJlrange Xord Mayor, Mr. Warrell Tyrrel, ' Mr. Morgan Queen Elizabeth, Mrs. Morris Lady Ann, Mri. Francis Duehefi of York, Mrs. VMJtrangt End of the Tragedy, 'A Seotek Pantomimical Ballet, .(compobd by Mr. Byrn) called, The New-Year's Gift ; Or, Highland Frolicis. Stndy, Mr. Byrn Jamie, Mr. Warrell, jua. Young F«dlar, "Master Bates Father Oibby, Mr. Sliffett Mother GibWy, Mr. Francis Poggie, Miss Milhournt Annie, Mrs. Byrn Highland Lads and Lafles-—me<Tr«. Doflor, J. Dar ley, Mitchell, T. ' Warrell, Macdonald, Morgan, ' -M. Poignand, M. Lavancy—Mrs. Harvev, - mrs- Mechtlcr, mrs. DocSor, miss Oldfieid, raifs Anderfon, -mUe. Sophie, and raif'L'E ft range. , To whieh will be added a FARCE called Animal Magnctifm. Marquis De Lancey, Mr. Moreton La Fleur, Mr. Harwood Doft»r, Mr. Francis Picard, Mr. M' Donald Francois, Mr. Warrell, jun Jeffery, . Mr. BliJJett Conftanco, Mrs. Harvey Lifette, Mrs. Francis Bo*, One Dollar twenty-five cents. Pit one Dollar. And Gallery, half a dollar. £5° Tickets to be hud at H. & P. Rice's Sook-ftore, ,JJo. 5® High-llreet, and at the Office adjoining the Theatre. Places for the Boxes to be taken at the Office in the front of the theatre, from lo till 2 o'clock, and from la till 4 on the days of performance. The Doors of the Theatre will open at 5, and the "Curtain rife precisely at 6 o'clock. Ladies and Gentlemen are requested to fend their fervanti to keep places a quarter before 5 o'clock, and to order them, as soon as the company are seated, to •withdraw, as they c-aHnot on any account be permit ted to remain. , nrAT RES PUBLIC A ! College-Hall. Readings and Recitations, Moral, Critical, and Entertaining, Mr. FENNELL Refpeilfully informs the Public, that On SATURDAY EVENING, December 31, at 7 d'clock, (by particular defirt, and for the last time) will be repeated An Explanatory Address. • After which will be recited an Allegorical Poem, in three parts, called The CAVE of NATURE; "Or, A Plfturc of the Virtues, Vices, and Passions, of the Human Mind. ' The n«*t Reading will be on Tuesday the 3d of January, 1797* —The course will be continued regu larly every Tuesday and Thursday evening. No repetition (if any should hereafter take place) will be given on the evening of either of the above days. Subscribers' tickets (net transferable) admit to all repetitions. Subscriptions are reeeiredby Mr.Zachariah Poulfon, jun. at the Library, where the Ladies and Gentlemen t "who may be inclined to honor the undertaking with their patronage, aje refpeafully requested to fend their names and receive their tickets. OecaConal admiflion tickets to be had of Mr. Poulfon, Jun. at the Library ; at mr. M'Elwee's looking-gtaft -store, No. 70, Sooth Fourth-flreet; and at Mr. Carey's, Book- j feller, Market-street. M/tS. G RATTAN RefpeAfully informs the Ladies and Gentlemen of the ■ City, that the second LADIES' CONCERT' Will be o» TUESDAY NEXT, the 3 d of January at Mr. Oellers's Hotel, Act , I. Grand Sinfonio, % Haydu. Holy Lord, Mrs. Grattan, Handel. ;Concerto Violin, Mr. Dillingham Trio and Chorus, Siege of Belgrade, Storace. Act 11. Concerto in Bb. Mrs. Grattan,, Daflek. All non fai, Mrs. Grattan, g ar(l ' Quartett, p, el ; <jfand Chorus Pirate, Storace *4.* The Concert to begin at half past fix ; and at half past eight, the mufic,will attend for the Ball. Mrs. GratUji beg' 'ejve to inform the-_ Ladies and •Gentlemen, that the fubfcriptioH-book is at her house No 39. -North Sixth-flreet, for the reception of thofc names Whp wish to honor her with their commands. A fubfeription for eight frights 16 dollars, including a and Lady's ticket, both Uansferrable— Malffubfcriptiens g dollars, including one ticket. Single ticket a dollars. Mrs. Grattan takes the liberty of requesting the fubferibers to fend for their tickets any day after Thursday, the 15th of December, at No. North Sixth-ftreat. £F Single ticket! to be had the day of the Concert' only, at the Bar of Mr. OeUew's Hotel. ,X)eteinber 30. j CONGRESS of ths UNITED STATES. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Tuesday, Deeember 17. [CONTINUED.] Mr. Cnik said, he was eqaally surprised »n3 afto" nifttcd with his colleague at the decision which haj just taken place. It was conceived by gentlemen who opposed this report, that it contained fomc fe «ret poison—some dangerous principles which did not appear upon the face of it; they referred to the fpecch of the President and to the memorial of the commiflipners, and charged the report with in. tending to carry into effe& the molt extensive plan there contemplated. For his own part, Mr. C. said, he was free to confefs, he ftiould have been ready to have (hewn the wisdom and policy-os ctta blithing a national univetflty. It had been said that the President had taken nie opportunity of recommending this meafme, as it was the last time he would have toaddrefs them —-This recommenda tion, Mr. C. said, was another proof, in his opi nion, of the wifdfrin of that man. But, added he, neither the speech of the President, nor the memorial of the commissioners after t fie report. He thought the commiflioners seemed to have- antici pated the obje&ions which would be made to a na tional university. They had had the fame ideas which he entertained of the eligibility of such an institution ; but, forefeeing that the plan would be obje&ed to, they relinquiflied that idea, and request only an incorporation for th& purpol'e of receiving donations. They did not, he said, call upon this house to put their hand in the public treasury on their account. He thought tbe commiflioners were entitled to some credit for this forcfight. They called merely for an aft, which no other power could grant them (as had been (hewn by his col league Mr* Sprigg) to enable them to receive what might be given to them for this institution—to re fufe which was an aft of the highest injustice, since it was a requelt which they would have had no dif ficulty in obtaining from the ftatc government,before the ceflion of the territory of the United States. • Truly lamentable, 1«.- said, would be the situation of the people of that Jilt rift, if they were to be thus treated. Nothing could be more extraordinary, Mr. C. said, than the do&rine aflerted by gentlemen who opposed this meafuie, viz. that if the house en tered at all into the business, they would be oblig ed to go through with it. As well raigh. it be said, when Congress removes to that diftrift, if they are applied to for a law to build a bridge, or make a road, they will'bind tbemfelves to go thro' with the expence. The two cases, he said, were perteftly similar: and if the people who were fet tled there could not receive vhe privileges to whieh other citizens were entitled they might be looked upon as outcatts of society. The objeftious of gentlemen, Mr. C. (aid, did not go-so much against the expediency of the mea sure, and the conveniency of tbe people who ask for the iullitution, as against the danger of legif latiog at all in this buiinefs- He would again fay, he was surprised to hear the opposition come from the quarter whence it did come ; for he would fay, there was a great want of public femi'naries in that country. Was there any man, heafked, who took a view on the south fide of the Potomac, and con sidered the probable incrcafe of population which was likely to take place there, who would not fay that such an institution was a defiratile objedt ? Or that would fay that the period of that popula tion ought to be waited for before luch an institu tion was set about ? It was his opinion that such objects (hould grow up with the growth of a fet tlemeal, and strengthen with its lirength. Tho* furh a seminary could not be eftablifhtd now as might be rftabliflied fifty years hence, should they refufe the power to persons to receive donations for the ereftian of such an one as they could find refourccs to complete ? If there were ftiong claims for this interpolition, they had nothing to do with the funds which were to carry the fcl.eme into et feft. It was well known there was a fund in the hands of the President of the United States, which he wilhed to have employed in fome'hing of this kind, and he wondered gentlemen from that quar ter (hould be opposed to its having an opportunity of being employed in this diftiiA. If gentlemen did uot wi(h the growth and im- I provement of the diftridt which they have taken , under their direction, and wouW fay so, he should not be at a loss to account for their cor.dust. If they were determined to (hew the people of this dißrift, that they were Jeiit-d common justice, I every man would avoid thisfjut, as enjoying fewer privileges than any other. He hoped, therefore, that when it was seen that the report did not contain more than appeared on the face of ft, nor than would be granted to any other part of the union, that the oppofitiojj which had been raised against it would be withdrawn. He hoped the fubjeft would be permitted, therefore, to lie over for further confideratioa. It was moved that the business should lie ever until the second Monday in January. Mr. Sprigg wished the report to be re-commit ted. Mr. Coit was against a poftponerntnt—The fub je&, he said, had undergone considerable discussi on, and he doubted not the house was as ripe tor a decision then as they would be hereaftfr. To polipone was to protract the dispatch of business, and consumed double and treble the time that would otherwise be occupied on any fubjeft. Mr. Harper hoped the postponement would take place, because it would give gentlemen an oppor tunity of putting the business into such a form as to be more acceptable to the house. the principal objection made to the report was founded on an apprehension that the house would be impli cated in future expense by agreeing to if, if some method of introducing the fnhjeft could be hit up on, which could obviate that objection, it via* de ferable it should be done. He thefeforo wiflied gentlemen to have time to do this. Mr Nicholas thought it unnectfiary to postpone the buiinefs. The objection in his mind did not atile from any implied promise, but from the in- Rant that Wife gave the authorl: y aflctd for, In believed they should be considered as haying given a fanftion to the piaceeding ; and then confiitency of conduct, dignity of govcriitnenc, and other cob fidetations, would oblige them to fuppert the in stitution. Any determination now made to the contrary, he said, would avail nothing. If the bulinefs was entered upon at all, it would end in a national university. Mr. Nicholas denied that he had any intention of disregarding the wifbe* of the peoplte of that diftrift. If an opinion of that furt went forth, the gentleman (Mr. Craik) must attribute it to himfelf. When he was up yesterday, he had said, that when the people of that diftrift wanted a pub lic seminary, he would be ready to afford them eve ry afiiftancc. Bot, said your officers, and they alone, are the projeftwis of this bulinefs. Men who went there to execute public bttfinefs. Was refilling their request, then, Tefufmg the request of the people of that diftrift ? He thought not. He thought it had been Veil, therefoie, if these ex pressions had been spared. He never 'either made or felt them. Mr. Nicholas asked with what view donations would be given to this institution ?—Would it be for a seminary of learning for a diftrift <of country ten miles square i He believed not ; but that every donation made to this institution, would be made t« it as a national university. If gentlemen viewed it in any other light, they were deceiving the public.) He hoped, therefore, they fhouid negative the pre fect question, and disagree to the report of the fe left committee. Mr. Brent said, he was at a loss to know how gentlemen cduld raise the objections which they had made to the report in question. He was sure they could not arise from the report itfelf. This did not reeognife the university as a national univeTfity. The matter appeared to b>m to be fiKiply this, that several individuals in the federal city, who were greatly intcrefted in its prosperity, were of opinio)*, than an institution of this kind would not only ad vance the interests of the city, but be a mean of difieminating learning ; tbey had therefore prayed an incorporation for the purpose. Why his col league should call this a national utiiverfity, and that by a mere aft of incorporation, they should pledge themselves to fapport it, was to him afton ilhing and incomprehensible. If any particular body of men fhoald apply for an aft of incorpora jion, by granting it, should they pledge themselves to carry their fiheme into effect ? The thing was too unreasonable to be supposed. Mr B. said, if he was of opinion that the in coiporatinjjr persons to leceive donations for this university would oblige their to fofter this establish ment, he should be one of the firft to object to it. He should object to it en eonftitutional principles ; because, whatever had been the praftiae of that house, he was of opinion, that imposing a revenue for fuel) a purpose, would be unconstitutional, and arrogating a right which they did not pofTets. Under the afpeft which the fubjeft Ipefore them bore, he trusted all objections to it would be with drawn. A 'free government, he said, had its foundations in wisdom, and the legislature of such a government ought to encovirage every institution which tended to infoim and enlighten the people— a contrary procedure were to ftifle knowledge, and introduce barbarism. Thc speaker reminded the house. that the ques tion of p»ftponement was before them. Mr. Swanw'ick was against a postponement, be cause he thought the question could as well be de cided then as at a future day. As the application now itood, he was ready to give it his negative, be. cause he did not think it was proper tojallow any charter to the commiffioncts. He should therefore vote against the report. H» should have wifti ed to have made some further observations on the fubjeft ; but in this flagc of the business, he wras doubiful whether they jvould be in oider, and there fore he should withhold them., Mr. Giles was in favour of a poftpooement, nnt that he wanted time to consider the fubjeft—He was ready to vote against it, but because the advo cate* of the meafuie wilhed it. He himlclf was opposed to all kiuda of corporations ; but he did think the prcfeni fubjeft had not berfn fully discussed, & wished more time to be allowed for gentlemen to bring forward the queltion in any other way which they might think would be more acceptable to the house. Mr. Vcnable said he was opposed to a poflponement. it had been repeatedly laid that there was nothing a larming or under cover in this report.—For his part, he believed it to be connected with t National Uui verfity, and that it was introduced in this fliape be cause it was apprehended it would not pass if brought into the House without disguise- Mr. V. wished the bufincft not to be postponed, be cause the Maryland legislature was then tkiiS'g, and Jhe commiflioners nightapply to it and get their bufi nels done ; for whatever might have been said to, the contrary, he believed they could as well incorporate them, as foreigners to hold lands, a navigation compa ny, Columbian bank company, Jtc. and if they could do this, he believed it would not be said, that when the federal government took peffeffion of that diflriil that corporation wouldnotbe valid. If a local seminary was only intended, he thoaght this the best way of pro ceeding. Mr. Craik believed the period for which the idl .was pal Ted which had been mentioned, would expire before the year 1800. Mr. Murray said, it weuld be no indulgence to the friends of the present measure to dispose of the busi ness then, that tuey might apply to the Maryland Le gislature ; because he believed t hat Legislature was now riien. He hoped the House would therefore agree to a poftpoaement. The question for a poflponement was put and car ried 37 to 36. Mr. W. Smith moved to call up the resolution he ytftcrJaylaid 011 the table refpefting an allowance to the fufferers by the late fire at Savann-ah ; when, on the fenle of the house being taken whether it should be taken into eonfideration or not, there appeared only 16 votes in favour of it. Mr. W. Smith gave notice he should to morrow again move to have it taken into consideration. The house went into a committee of the whole on the bill for relief of John Seats, which was agreed to wirhout amendment, taken up in the house, read a second time, and ordered to be engrofled for a third reading to-morrow. Mr. D. Foster moved that the report of the Com mittee of claims on the petition ef Willam Parsons be committed to a Committed of the woole. Agreed and made the order tor to morrow. Adjourned. Wednesday, December 28. Mr. W. Smith wifked the house to resolve itfclf into a committee of the whole on the Tefolution, which he had the other 1 day laid upon the tablr, proposing to afford fame relief to the (ufferets l.y the late fin at Savannah. FOl his part, he said, he could fee no reasonable objection which could be made to so benevolent a proportion. A gentleman in the house had got a plan of the ruins of the ci ty, it wa§ indeed a Hull diftrefsful scene. There had never occurred so calamitou» an event of the kind in the United States, or which had so strong a claim upon the general government for relief. He said they had granted allirtance to the fuflerers by fire at St. Domingo ; and surely if it were juttitia ble to grant relief to foreigners in diltrefs, it was at lead equally so when the objects were our own citizens. If gentlemen had objeiSions to the mea sure he wished they would state them. 1 lie fjiw with which he ftiould think of filliug up tjhe blank, would not be fueh as to materially affett oar finan ces. Mr. Milledge said, if the unfortunate had any claim upon gove'rnment for relief, none could have greater than the citizens of Savannah. Few hou ses, he said, were remaining of that city, and -thofc few were the leafl valuable. Not a public building ; not a place of public woilhip, or of ( public justice ; all was a wide watte of tuin and desolation, such as scarcely could be conceived, and fiich as it were impoflible to describe. He hoped some relief would be tfiordsd to distress so uuexaaj pie#. Mr. Cooper said, it was a very unpleasant thisg to come forward to oppose a measure oi this foil ; but when they looked into different parts of the union and saw the loffcs which had been fattained at New-York, Chariefton, &c. it would appear only reasonable, that if Yclicf was ifforded in,one cafe, it ought to Tie extended to another ; and if this re fclution were agreed to, he fliould cfcrtainly move to have some relief afforded to New-York. He hoped, however, the business would »iot be pro ceeded with. If the principle were a good one, it would bear going thiough with ; but it would te seen, this would, on the contrary, pmve a dsn geroiis-one. What they did to day, lie f..'d» would require repeating to sionow. If they were to 1* ke good losses by hr«, there would be no occasion for | Insurance Companies, nor any inducement t» fitiild with brick in preference to wood. Hcfcll as muck as others for the distresses of tbe people of Ssvan nah, but was of opinion it was not a proper buS» nefsfor the interference of that house. Mr. W. Smith thought with the gentleman fro«» New-Y.ork, that they ought to attend to the ptin. ciples upon which they acted, and not do a thing-, to-day which they ought not do to-morrow. He trusted the house would not beoften called upon to relieve a calamity like the present ; nor need they be alarmed at the gentleman's intention of bringing fciward New-York for relief. Charlellon, he said, had experienced great distress by fire, yet he had not moved that house for any relief. The quelHon was, whether this was not a peculiar cate of dis tress ; and if so, whether they had not the power of affording relief ? And as to this being brought forward as a precedent, it was as he hoped they fiiouid net again fooo hear of four, fifths of a whale city being burnt so ashes; but if such an inltance should occur, he should vote for affording the fufferers relief. He thought the jeftiuns did not apply. On the quethon being taken whether the house would then refolvc itfelf into a committee of the whole on the fubjeft, therfc appaaied 38 for it, and 39 against it. A (notion was then made to discharge the com mittee of the whole from any farther confideralioo of the subject. Mr. W. L> man hoped the business would not be disposed of without going into a committee of the whole. Ke thought more refpedi*6vas due to the feelings of the fufferers than to dispose of the fob jfA without diktffion. He hoped the committee would not, therefore, be discharged. . Mr. Hartley trusted the committee woyld not be discharged. He believed the dellru£tioa of Lis bon by an earthquake did not oecafion greater raif chiefs than the late fire had doae at Charletton. The legislature of Pennsylvania, which had no greater power than the general government to af ford relief to these fufferers, had given 15,000 dol. lars. Indeed he thought it more the province of the general government than of state governments, to afford-relief in such cases. He referred to what had been given to the fufferen at St. Domingo, aud to the parliament ofEnglatid having given l.icooeo to the people of Lifbun, after the earthquake there, though connected with them only commercially. Mt. Kitchell was in favor of the committee of the whole being discharged, because, if the fubjeft lay over, the legislatures would beat a loss to know whether any thing would be done by the general government, and would keep back their donations. If it oame within their power to relieve them, he should wife to do it, tut not othcrwife. At any rate, he thought it had better be determined at present whether any (hing would be done in their behalf or not. Mr. Sprigg, jun. hoped the committee, not be difdiaiged, but that they would go into the business at an early day He said he had «*>t ma»e up his mind how far they had a power to afford re lief in a cafe like the present. There was an in* ft a nice, he said, in the iclief afforded the daugh ters of the count de Grafle, as well as that given to the fufferers at St. Domingo. He wished for further time to make enquiry on the, luhje&. If there were not insuperable objections to the rac&- sure, h« hoped relief would be afforded. [To be continued.J Delaware and Schuylkill Canal. arc llereb >' notified, that the an nual L edlion for Officers for the ensuing year, wiil be held at the Company's offiee, near the Bank of the United States, on the firft Monday in January next at 10 o'clock, a. m. ' - IBy the Board of Managers. p., .. , . _ IVM - MOORE SMITH, Sec'ry. Philadelphia. Dec. J, 1796.
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