New Theatre. By Particular Befire, On MONDAY EVENING, January 9, Will be prelented, a COMEDY, in four a£fs, called The Child of Naiure. From the French of Madam Genlis, by the authored of Every one has his Fault. Marquis of Almanza, Mr. IVtgnsll Count Valantia, Mr. Moreton Dike Murcis, Mr. Warren Seville, Mr. IVarreU Grenada, Mr. Worrell, ja«. jft Peasant, Mr. Cooper *d Peasant, Mr. Mitchell Marchioness Merida • Mrs. Merry Amanthis, Mrs. Morris To which will be added (for (he third time) A Comic Opera, in two a&s (as performed at Covent- Garden Theatri upwards of ijo nights), tailed The Lock and Key. Brummagem, Mr. Francis Cheerly, Mr. Darley, jun. Cai 'ain Vain, Mr. Fox Ralph, Mr. Hardwood F! >rel!a, Mrs. Warrell Fanny, Mrs. OlJmixon Selina, Mrs. Hartley Miss Milbaurne &■ Box, One Dollar twenty-five cents. Pit one Dollar. And Gifllery, half a Hollar. £5" Tickets to be had at H. & P. Rice's Seok-ftore, No. 50 High-dreet, and at the Offioe adjoining the Theatre. The Door 3 of the Theatre will open at 5, and the Curtain rife precisely at 6 o'clock". Places for the Boxes t» tie taken at the Office in the front, of the theatre, from io till 2 o'cUak, and from , Jo t>ll 4on the days of performance. Ladies and Gentlemen are requested to fend their servants to keep places a quarter before 5 o'clock, and to order them, as soon as the aompany are seated, te withdraw, as they cannot on any account be permit ted to remain. VIVAT RESFUBLICA! College-Hall. Readings and Recitations* Moral, Critical, and Entertaining. MR. F E N N E L L Refpeflfully informs the Public, that On TUESDAY EVENING, Jan. 10, at j o'clock, Will'be delivered, (first *art) * PREFaTORT OBSERVATIONS, Including feledtions from Dr. Blair—on Criticism, Tasts, Bulles Lkttrss. (second and third parts) The EFFEC7S of JEALOUSY and REVENGE CONSIDEKFD, In a Sritical Investigation of the merits of the Trage dies of Othello and the Revenge, by Shakespeare an.i Dr. Yomig—by an examination Of their moral u-ndency ; Of tiie appropriate aflignment of plot and chara&er conduci - £0 that moral tendency ; Of the debtee of talent and genius exereifed for the perfection of the refpedlive works; With fele&ions from the most ftrikiag passages in each. The above fubjeft will be continued on Thursday next. Subscriptions are received by Mr.Zachariah Poulfon, "n. ar the Library, where the Ladies and Gentlemen ■ .iy be inclined to honor the undertaking with prtronage, are refpe&fnlly requested to fend • ames ami receive their tickets. Us ca'.ional adm .lion tickets to be had of Mr. Poulfon, at the Library ;at mr. M'Elwec's looking-gtsf»-ft«re, ' •j. 70, South Fourth ilreet ; and at Mr. Carey's, Book- I f. !ler, Market-street—Hals a dollar each. Bank of the United States, 'January 2nd, 1 797. I The Directors have this day declared a Dividend of 1 Sixteen Dollars on each Share for the last fix months, which will be paid to the Stockholders after the 12th C G. SIMTSON, Caihier. ' : t By Authority. t Schuylkill Bridge Lottery. Sold by WILLIAM BLACKBURN, No. 64, 1 South Suond-Jlreet. F SCHEME of a LOTTERY, » For raising Sixty Thousand Collars, agrenbly to an Aft erf h th 4 Lr S'l alure . of Pennfylvaaia, patted during the last fethon, for building a Stone Bridge over the River . Schuylkill, at the Borough of Reading, in the County of Bcrki - . , Dollars. « a Prize of 20,000 Dollars )ao,oso V t do. of 10,000 do. . . 10,000 I 3 do. of 5 ,000 do. . . 15,000 4 do. of 2,000 do. . . g, coo " »o do. of I,oo® do. . . 20,000 i: 39 do - of 5 00 do. . . so,too V 80 uo. of goo do. . . . ,6,000 n #00 do. of 100 do. . . . 10 ,000 300 do. of 5 o do. - . ij,eoo i do. of joo do. to be psid the poffcf-) w for of the firft drawn no. J 4 CO \ j do. of j,ooo do. to be paid poflTeffors ) u of the fire last drawn nos J J.4°° do - 0 : - .41,000 £ 10,054 Prize* 300,000 tl 10,046 Blanks - a l 30,000 Tickets at Tan Dollars aoc,oqo All Prizes Ihall be paid fifteen days after the drawing is N Snifhad, upon the demand of. a pofleflor of a fortunate f 0 ticket, fubjeQ to a dedufiion of twenty per cent. The 1 Drawing will commence as soon as the Tickets are disposed ,of, or perhaps sooner. of which public notice will be given. ' B£ Ihi lip Miller, Peter Kerjhner, William Whitman, hi Joseph Hiefler, Jsn:es Diemer, Thomas Dun das, j tli Jamet May, John Otto, John Keim, Daniel CraeJ, \ V Sebnflian Miller', Commissioners. b< Rending, May the 9th, 1796. J,, Tickets in the Canal Lottery, Wo. to be had at the D above office, where the carlisfl iniormatlon of the draw- j ingof the Washington No. a, and Patterfon Lottery's, are retired, and ch«ck hooks fcr examination and regif taring are kept. 1 to o<ftuber 7. j»wtf CONGRESS OF tub UNITED STATES. — \ HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Friday, December 30. Debate on the report of the committee of ways and means, on the unfcttled balances due from tit individual states to the United States. f Continued.J . Mr. Gilbert, said, he should not then have risen again on the motion for the committee'* rising, had it not been f»r the extraordinary observations just made from th« honoorable gentleman from New- Jersey. Mr. Gilbert faidyhe had never boasted of the wealth of New-York, or made, or noticed, any remarks like those imputed by the honorable gen tleman—that he was .at 2 loss to fee, how that gen T tleman's observations were applicable to the mat ter under consideration, or indeed, admiflible on the lt . ground of propriety—tl.ey seemed to him, he said, to contain such insinuation, such implications, as he was furpriled to hear advanced from so enlightened a quarter. What state in the union, Mr. G. asked, had not acted upon the fame principles relative to property and jurifdiftion, with New-York ? Had not, he said, every fovereigu state done the fame ? And had not New-Jersey done the fame ? Has not New.Jerfcy exclusively exereifed and claimed to herfelf the benefit of all a&s of confiscation and disposition of property within its jurifdi&ional com pass ? And what state had ever ceded these things to the union, or (liared the right with others ? Why then, should fueh things be mentioned as (ingularly e> a pplying to New-York ? As te her back unappro be Pasted wild lands, Mr. G. said, it was well known, that one of the principal creditor states (Maffachu-, setts) had fully and, equally participated in the wliole of them. But, said Mr. G. what has the comparative indigence, or wealth of the states, to do with the fubjeft of cenfideratien ? Because j r New-York might be considered wealthy, he did id no * it would therefore be considered that Hie should pay—nor did he know how the gentle t- man from New-Jersey would take it for granted (he said) that the balance Handing against New- York, was the result of a just fettlemcnt, and in fact, a righteous demand. . He said, there could not be a gentleman present, acquainted with that buliuefs, who could, in liisfoul, believe it, especially when he peiceived the immense sum rendered a gainst. that state, far exceeding the balances against all the other states united. In order, however, to have a fair inquiry into that fubjeft, he really hoped tj the committee would then rife. Mr. Holland hoped, from the commencement of this debate, that it would have been conduced with temper and moderation ; but the gentleman from New-Jersey (Mr. Dayton) had implicated all the states which were reported to be debtor states. Mr. H. said there was juftire in tbofe states; but when it was generally believed that improper and fraudulent charges had been admitted by theccm miflioners. was it not to be expedted that there would be a desire ia them to have a review of the ■ settlement ? He was confident whenever the debtor e states should be convinced that the demands were just, they would open their funds and pay them, r but not before. Mr. Dayton (the speaker) rose to give a short t anfwei- to the members from North-Carolina and New-York, who had commented upon his obfer -1 vations. The former gentleman had insinuated that those who advocated the motion had done it > with intemperance bordering on indecorum, but Mr. Dayton was happy to find that no expression of his had been pointed out, which might be con , ftrued into a violation of the ftridteft rides of deco -1 rum and good order, unless indeed for him to fay (hat certain Rates were debtors of the United States, and that they ought to be required to pay what they owed, could be liable to that conftrufti , on. The member from New-York had affe&ed to mifunderfland him when he spoke of their having withheld from the other states and appropriated to their own use that immense mass of property which had been acquired in the course of the war with Great- Britain and their allies, from the savages, at the common expence, and bythe common exertion of the force* of the United States. He fuppwed that every member who heard him mtift have known 1 that he did not allude to petty confifeations, but to 1 those vast trails of land called vacant or crown lands, in theconqueft of which every regiment be- J longing to New Jtrfey as well as to other states ' were employed. New-York had beea willing that 1 thf union should participate with them in the ex- ' pence an<l danger of the conquest, but, after it 1 was efFe£ted, they had refufed any (hare of the be- 1 nefits, and thus by means of this and other spoils had enriched their treasury. t Mr. Gilbert laid, it would feern by the obferva ' tione of the gentleman from New-Jersey, that the 1 conduA of the state of New-York was fmgular 1 with refpe& to their having fold their vacant lands. *■ He would aJk if there was a state in the union 1 which had vacant land, which had not done the ' fame thing ? Had any such state ftiared its land with the union i Certainly not, and he could fee 1 no propriety in the charge against New-York. !l Mr. W. Smith wiftied to observe in reference to e what had fallen from the gentleman from New- ' York (Mr. Livingfton) refpefting that state not ® being bound by the decilion of commiflioncrs be- '' cause the state had not coafented to the settlement. ' He would remark, that befidcs the co-operation of w the teprefentatives of that state, they appointed an P j agent to bring forward their claims which certain- '' ly shewed their acquiescence to the proceeding. u M. S. said he was surprised to hear gentlemen dwell " so much upon the injustice of the proceedings of M the cornmiffioners, and upon the improper claims ndmitted, fincc lie did not know how they could have come at their knowledge on the fubjeft, since . those proceedings had never been made public. ~ With refpeft to the unfortunate frigate which had been alluded to by the gentleman from New-York, he cculd fay that the state ot S. Carolina was then »e paymg-for that frigate, and that it was not charg- Io ed to the United States as had been insinuated. The committee rose, and on leave being asked r f to fit again. ro Mr. Harper hoped leave would net be given.— J t ■ He would not repeat reasons fat wifliing this, as he had already laid them before the committee of the whole. Mr. Baldwin relied upon it that leave would be given for the committee to fit again. It would be in 1 fa& to purfuethe idea whiob-rhe gentleman him jl felf had lately exprefled. The resolution under n Consideration is commencing the negociation with the dates which he had lecommended. Mr. B. ex prefled great confidence that nothing would be ne ■ n Ceflary but t* commence this negociation, and that id tfce states would at least discover a fatisfa&ory dif ift position. If it was true, as had been contended ir. by lnmc members, that tl»e general board of com of miffioners had conduced the business tjadly, or ty that they were wicked or currupted, or if it fhouW n- be thought by the dates that they ha 4 proved B . themselves unequal to the vork, as some seemed to t. suppose, which would set aside their award, the )e sooner it is known the better, that msafures may be taken to form a new board and begin the matter le anew. He persuaded himfelf when they commu ?d aicated with the ftatcs, it would be found there was j t not one which would desire such a measure. When 0 he recalled the recolle&ion of the manner ia which id the whole war.had been carried on without any rule J of apportionment or any settlement of accounts be it tween the states, and the ill-humour which had .o grown out of it, canftantly aggravated by the yearly d calls on the flares for monies to support the old I. union, he was sure tfiat no perfoii who was a wit rj ness to the tranfa&ions of those times, would have y a W 'H' to fee them repeated. The amount was so y K reat i an d the whole so perplexed, as well as irri tating, that the frien «Js to the peace and union of J the couatry have perhaps never experienced so criti j. cal and anxious a period. The to e bring forward their own Hate's claim, warmed by e Io»al zeal and private intcred, and the councils of ci 'he union were for years agitated by the violeace ° c and passions of parties fettling their own old dif d puted accounts. Experience seemed to have con j vinced evcty body, that no settlement could ever be i. made in that way, that fomc persons mult be clothed j with the character of judges, and the whole put ■„ over into their bands. n In October, 1786, the ordinance for this pur -3 pose firft pafTed. He believed it would be found t by the journal that it pasTed unanimously. He y had ncyer himfelf been witness to any public mea sure which fee rued to take off such a preiTure from > the mind of every one, or which was received with d fach enthusiasm. Ihe meaCure was so popular and j fatisfaAory, that it was thought expedieut the next year to extend the provisions, and give larger pow t eis of chancery to the general board. The Anal j ordinance on thisfubje£i was then pafTed. Hebe , lieved it would be found in the journal about May j 6th, 1787, and that- this was alio unanimous. As , tke formation of the government, under thepreCent t constitution, the fame diTpofition continued, and 1 the ail jult read by the gentleman from South-Ca . rolina, (Mr. Smith} was pafTed. If he miftuok, , nor, this was without opposition. , TKefe things, said he, are not unknown in the . several states; the men who were concerned in th'efe . times and events, are not all dead. He believed, when they should commua'icate with the different (late legislatures, these men would not be back ward to (how themselves, and to (how that they were ft ill of the fime mind, and faithful to their engagements. I hough some individuals in this house appear to be quite frefh on the fubjeft, as if they had made freftvdifcoveries, and seem dis posed to-begin anew, and fay all they know about the S. Carolina frigate, Penobfcot expedition, fea coaft guards, military .bounties, rule of quotning, &c. &c. which had been for months, and almost for years, the fubjefts of general fcramblc, he had no apprehension that there would be found in the dates any difpnfition to revive those difgraceful scenes. However, if the states choose to go over the bulinefs again, the sooner it is known the bet ter. 1 his can only be done by writing to them as the present resolution proposes. If they mean to abide by the present settlement, and yet state incon veniences ia complying with it, they who had ferv. Ed mod with him knew, he had not often been an an advocate for intemperance in public mcafures He (hould not forbear to mention, that there was one part of the fubjed which gave to him the molt unpleasant sensations, and that was, where a state had, in a manner which he thought waj not to be judi6ed, obtained an advance from our treasury, of certificates to the amount of cue million two hua dred thousand dollars, in theaffumption, before the settlement of the accounts, upon a falfe pre'fump tion that we were indebted to them, when at the ' time they were indebted to us a million of dollars. ! He (hould never believe, until he had seen the at tempt made, that they cauld be reluitant in re- ' turning to our treasury, the million two hundred thousand dollars in certificates, which had in fadt been advanced to them by mill ate, or that they could expect in futh circumstances the states to submit to a dire-dt tax to raise money to pay ] them a quaiterly interest on those certificates. , Mr. Livingftoa could not permit it to go out to the world in the aecouat of thisday's debates, that he, or any of his colleagues, had made ufc of fucti ' expreflions as charging the commiflionet.s with be- [ mg wicked or corrupt, or with being bribed. Such expreflions had neither fallen feom him nor his col- ' leagues. the highest refpeft for one of .' them who was fincedead, bot still he believed men - with the bed intentions, might have admitted im proper charges to an immense amount. Indeed, if f it were deteimined that the states (hould be called Upon for the balances, he (hould bring forward a resolution to the effed, and (how the grounds upon which his suspicions were founded. The committee had le»ve to set again, 1 Adjourned. w—lb Wanted on hire, A Cook, male or female—alfo a man fervaat to at- si tend in a private family and perform the dutie* be- ft longing to the dining room. None need apply who do not and have not been accustomed to the q refpeflive fervicesand who are not well recommended for honesty and good behavior. Ci ApplyatN».lß», Mulberry.ftr«et,er to thepriater. a ' January si Mwzw p By this day's Mail. !! NEW-YORK, January 7. i- The following late and important articles are ex. ;r trafted from London and Liverpool papers to No h vember J7, received by the (hip Hope, Capt. Ed c. gertion, arrived at New-London on Friday lad, in 36 days from [//rgusl] it From London, Nov. 12. f. Thq three Hamburgh mails due since Wednef d day last, arrived in town this morni-ig. By the letters which they biing it appears, that general , r Wurmfer gained a complete vi&ory over the !d French at Marmirolo, on the 7th ult. The loss d of the latter, in the aflion, was between 4 and 0 50C0 men killed and taken, besides several pieces e of cannon, many ammunition waggons, all their y magazines and a mili'ary chest. ■ r Letters from Heidelberg of the 27th ult. con [. firm the accounts of the signal advantages obtained s by the archduke over general Moreau, between the n 12th and 22d of P&ober. The loss of the A4l. [1 ftrians on this occasion was about 2000 men ; tnat e of the French was considerably grealer, some ac counts making it amount to 8000 men. It fefmt j to have been the objecft ess Moreau to raise the y siege of Kehl, with a view 10 secure a retreat over d the Rhine at Strafburgk; but the activity of th« archduke had defeated this fchemtf; and after fere e ral a£tiogs, in which he must hjve fultained very j great loss, "be was compelled to make good his pas . fagfc at Huninguen. f 17. There has b»en a report in circulation, that mi , nifteis have received accounts from Bclfaft, that a r vessel bearing American tolours had flood into that f harbor, but feeing a kind's/hip lying at a>l hor, . had endeavored to (Tioer „ff ; bur was taken, and . it was found that she had I £,000 (laud of arms on . board. The captain lad tune 10 burr) his p rs, . and he would neither fay fr.nn win-use he cam,, or | whither he was bound. Wc epeai the Itor ex -1 aftly according ta rumor, but on the face of i.; it is a molt improbable tale If there was any deiign . either on the part of ihe qnetny, er, the dffiti !ed | perf ns in that country (if there are a y really , difaffetted) to froOjjgle fiji a ma into the kingdom, . they would hardly have tent a vessel in, , ~-rt f® , public as Bclfaft. The Irish papers fay ) i3 tb, rof ! such an event. | Yesterday an account was received Iver, «- (taring, that intelligence had been c« ..ed . by the Telegraphe to Lifle,-a few h>rj >. he | failing of a vessel fiom Calais auiv I)a t in engagement had taker ~la&- ! , „ c t Au trian general Alvimy, and Lh !• -u h ai M#4- fena, on the 20th uit. neai »Trkite, vmiui the former wercdcfeafed ; the F h'hi vmg ni*.;p a bout 3000 croatt and;? •c. e ,ii ers p ii„n er*. The cannon and • the- Au. ftrians ajfo fell into their fit' LIVERPOOL, N .ember 11. The American (hip, Gtb Planter. Cihon, si n* DerriKrara, is taken by ih* French, and .a.iicd into Guadaloupe, where the fliip and cargo wa* confifcated. OFFENBERG, October ai. On the 18th iuft. general Moreau endeavored to penetrate with all his force to the vicinity oF Kenfingen, to raise the blockade of Kehl, and procure himfelf a free, passage over the Rhine. Ihe afition was obflinale and bloody, but as loon as the Hungarian grenadiers, headed by the areh duke Charles, came up, fell like lions 011 the enemy and forced them foretieat. On the 19th, the Aultrians again attacked the French in the ne'ighbnihoud of Rit'gela. This battle was likewffc very bloody. General War. tenflebea was wounded in the left aim by 9 grape (hot- The loss of .he French is very coiffiaerable, and they have been obli'ed to abandon Elliach and Emraendingen. ) he head quarters of the arehriuke Charles were rejnoved on the 20th from Herbollheim to Em. raeridinjjen. IbeAuflrian troops have again en tered i'reybourg, victorious; and tien between general Moieau and the cprps whick iad advanced to Huningue«, is cut off. FRIBOURG, October 22. Afier a continued fighting for four day*, the Aultrians have driven the enemy from EJlzach< and out 08 Friboui'g, into which they yelterday enteied. .These advantages coll them about 2000 men ; but the enemy according to the account of the i<rench generals themselves, loft between 5 and 6000 men, among which arc 2000 prisoners. The French general Beaupais is killed. RASI ADT, O(Sober 23. On the 19th, the archduke attacked the Frenck wuh hi* whole army, along the valley of Ellzach. by Swonfwaid, and Ending, to the Rhine, and totally defeated then^. On the 7th', Wurmfer, witli the rreateft part of his army, attacked the French st Marmi rolo The battle lalled seven hours and ended in the route of the French, who loft between 4 and 5000 me» in killed, wounded and prisoner*' seve ral pieces of cannen, ammHiiition waggons, all their magazmes.zoo oXfr)i and the ; r chVft. he defeat was complete, and the Austrian cavalry purfned the French quite to Veroua. The flaughl leAufirians S>vc no quarter on the road from Mantua to Verona. VIENNA, O&ober 19. We have finally letters from Mantua, dated 2d and &t 1 Oftobcr, confirming not on/y the advanta. ge* which Gen. Wuimfer has obtained over the french on the nth, 15th, and-i 7 th of Septem feer, but menrtoning also of another attack on them on the 23d September, at the head of 15,000 me,,, in which the French were compelled to retire from ieveial posts which ihev occupied near thefottrefs. Many waggons of prftvilions were taken from the •nemy. General Wurmfer ordered on the 2Qih September, a divifian ef 30C0 men, to attempt a coup de main upon Goveru.»] o , occupied by about as many French troop* ; but these troops were ,e ---puilcd antf.eturned to Mantua, with a lof* of f^;
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