New Theatre.. THIS EVENING, FRIDAY, January 13, Will be prcfented, A COMEDY, called The School for Scandal. Sir Peter Teazle, Mr. Bates Sir Oliver Surface, Mr. Morris Joftph Surface, . Mr. Wignell Charles Surface, Mr. Moreton Sir Benjamin Backbite, Mr. Fox Crahtree, Mr. Har-wood (Sareleli, Mr. Blijfett Sir Harry, with a fang, Mr. Darley Rowley, Mr. War reft Moles, Mr. Francis Saake, Mr. Darley, jun. Trip, Mr. IVarrell, jun. Lady Teazle, Mrs. Morris Lady Snecrwell, Mrs. Harvey Mrs. Candour, firft time, Mrs. Qldmixon Maria, Mrs. Francis To which will be added, A Comic-Opera, in a afb, called Peeping Tom of Coventry. Peeping Tom, with the song of the Little Farthing Rush-light, Mr. Bates Mlyor of Coventry, Mr. Warren Harold, . Mr. Darley, jun. Crazy, Mr. Francis Earl ef Mercia, Mr. Fok Count Lewis, . Mr. J. Warrell Maud, Mrs. Oldmixon Emma, Mrs. Worrell Lady Godiva, Mil»OldJieU Mayoress, Mrs. L'EJtrange Box, Ona Dollar twen«f-five cents. Pit one Dollar. And Gallery, half a dollar. Off Tickets to be had at H. & P. Rice's Book-store, No. 59 High-street, and at the Office adjoining the Theatre. The Doors of the Theatre will open at 5, and the Curtain rife precisely at 6 o'cleck. Places for the Boxes to ue taken at the Office in the ■front of the theatre, from 10 till 2 o'clock, and from 10 till 4 on the days of performance. Ladies and Gentlemen are requested to fend their servants to keep places a qvirter before 5 o'clock, and to order them, .as soon as the company are seated, to withdraw, as they cannot on any account be permit ted to remain. VIVAT RESPUBLICA ! College-Hall. Readings and Recitations, Moral, Critical, and Entertaining. Mr. FENNEL I, Refpcflfully informs the Public, that On SATURDAY EVENING, Jan. 14, at 7 o'clock Will be delivered, (first part) THE EFFECTS OF RfLyENCJE, Exemplified by feleflions from th<r eharafler of Zanga, Dr. Young (second part) THE PROGRESS OF JEALOUSY TRACED In the eliara&er of Othello, Shakespeare During which will be recited speech to the Senate The celebrated scene with lago And the molt ftfiking paflages during his paroxyfin df jealousy * (third part.) THE EFFECTS'OF JEALOUSY,- Exemplified in Othello's soliloquies before and after the murder ef Defdemona Alonzo's soliloquies before and after the death of Leonora With critical observations on the authors. Subscriptions are received by Mr.Zaohariah Poulfon, jun. at the Library, where the Ladies and Gentlemen who may be inclined to honor the undertaking with their patronage, are refpcflfully requeued to fend their names and receive their tickets. Oecafional admflfion tickets to be had of Mr. Poulfen, Jun. at the Library ; at mr. M'Elwee's looking-gkrfs-ftore, No. 70, South Fourth-flreet ; and at Mr. Carey's, Book eller, Market-street—Hals a dollar each. Mas. G RATTAN Refpeflfully informs her friends, and the public in general, that on Tuesday the iothday of January, ?he propefes opening, at No. 39, North Sixth ftreet, a Linen and Muslin Warehouse. IJook Muslins, from 6/3 to 12/11 per yard Jaconet ditto, from 2/8 10 g/8 per yard Striped ditto, from 7/10 to 10/10 per yard Fine (JolTae* Tambour'd Book Muslins, from 13/9 to 21/ per yard India Muslin, from 11/3 t» 15/ per yard Sheeting Muslin Jaconet muslin Handkerchiefs, from 4/3 to ff per hclkf. Book muslin HandkcrchiKs from 5/3 to tq/6 per hdkf. Muslin color'd and border'd Handkerchiefs Dacca Handkerchiefs Tambour'd Cravats from ic/S to 11/11 Pocket Handkerchiefs Cambric, from 11/3 to 16/3 per yard Tahle Cloths Kuu>ubuck T Dwelling Women's Cotton Hole, from 6/3 to ijJper pair Dimity from 5/10 to 6/11 Men's Silk Hole TambeurM muslin Handkerchiefs from iifn to 1 jfl lriffl linens for Gentleiren's.Shirts, from s/S t0 2/7 And a variety of other articles. N. B. Orders received for all kinds of ready made Linen, Gentlemen's Shirts, ruffled or plain, Cravats, Pocket Handkerchiefs, &e. &c. Houfhold Linen, &c. &c. A plain ihirt, made and mark'd, 3 1-2 dollars. > A full ruffled ditto, 4 dollars. A plain (hirt, made and mark'd, 5 dollars. A full ruffled ditto 6 dollars. A plain (hirt, made and marked, 5 1-2 dollars. A fill ruffled ditto 7 dollars. A plain lhirt, made and mark'd, 6 dollirs. A full ruffled ditto 7 1-2. A plain shirt, made and mark'd, 6 1-1 collars. A very fine ruffled ditto 8 dollars. Janu.rv 13. § Bank of the United States, January 2nd, 1797. The have this cl.ty declared a Dividend of Sixteen Dollars cn each Share for the last fix months, which will be paid to the Stockholders after the 12th jjitsnt. G. SIMPSON, Cashier. CONGRESS OF ths UNITED STATES. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Monday, January 2, concluded. The order of the day was next called for on the report of the committee of ways and means, on the balances due from individual states to the United States. The Hou-fe accordingly entered into a committee of the whole on the fubjefl, Mr. Muh lenberg in the chair, when Mr. Cooper said he had no expectation when this business was firft brought foiward, that he should have taken any part in the debate that might arise on the mode of dunning the state c£. New York for a balance of two millions 01 dollars said to bs due to the United States Yet, when he heard a gentleman from ConneClicut, (Mr. Coit) fecm to pride himfelf that a settlement had been made, and our state iound in debt, and treating our complaints of errors in that settlement, ai laughable or ehildilh j when he heard a gentle man from New-Jersey (Mr. Dayton) dcclarc, in a serious tone of voice, that no consideration would ever induce him to relinquish that claim ; although errors may have exiftej, ■itbuugh frauds may have j|een introduced, although we may have mauy large and just demands not brought forward at the time of settlement, notwithstanding all this, it seems the gentleman's ears are shut to our complaints. When' he heard a gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Nicholas) bring forwaid a resolution to fequeftratr, or in milder words, withold the ttock which the state of New-York has in the funds of the United States : when he heard a gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Ealdwin) who had been on the floor of Congress almost from the beginning ; when he-had heard that gentleman, with ail his experience in the money concerns of the nation, declare, that the United States was always conCidered indebted to to the state of New York until the (ettlement was made, and by this declaration bringing into view high-toned evidence that errors, did fxilt against us, in that fettlemt nt ; for 1 contend, said Mr. Coop er, that men and governments always have a pretty carreCt idea ®f their general concerns. T<j hear all this and he silent, said he, would be critr.inal : yet to argue on the fubjeft, feenaed t» be of little use ; for, when we look the United States in the face, and demand of them neither more nor less than fnbftantial justice; when we complain that egregious errors exist in the general settlement ; when we state that many just charges of large a mount were not brought forward ; when we state that large quantities of wheat was delivered by our state to the armies of the United States, at the deprefTed price of one dollar per buftiel, according /to a price-limi'ing ftatutc of onr state, exilting at that time, and certificates ifiued by the officers for this less than quarter price; when we state that some other states received certificates at five dollars per bushel for their quotas of wheat, and that th»f« certificates counted on their face at the time of liquidation and settlement with ours ; when we state that powder-houses were eredted at the ex pecee cf our state, and the proceeds turned!intd the magazines of the United States, and the charges never brought in at the general settlement : when we complain of these hardships, what answer do we receive ? Why, from Connecticut, the settlement is had ; we do not understand you ; —from Massa chusetts, a still more disagreeable tone, e*enaTort p{ intimation that we are quibblers ; —from New Jersey, a solid declaration that n» consideration ought to diminish or dismiss this demand—giving our complaints to the wind, without a hearing ; — from Virginia, a Jlill mire tough fill, even an attempt to fcquejlrate our Jlock. And why, or for what cause, are we thus roughly bandied? Is it, said he, because our government, in eider to keep up the armies of the United States, gave a bounty of fix hundred acres of land to fuel} as would serve tlirte years ? Is it because our leaports were in the hands of the enemy during the whole our towns consumed with fire, and our merchants driven to the mountains ? Is it because our frontiers were over-run with white men from Canada, and lavages from the wilderness—our floaiifliing villages laid waste, and the inhabitants carried into savage cap tivity ? Is it because our miodle counties bore the burthen of being the feat of our own armies for several years? Or is it be k -».ufe the revenue which our state produces to the union, is not more than a quarter of the whole revenue of the United States, that feverah states, whose revenue to the union is next to nothing, are so deaf to our complaints of errors and hardlhips on our part in that settle ment ? What opinion, Jfaid Mr. C. should we have of a mer chant, who (liould refufe to correct an error of great amount in a fettlenftent made with his fellow merchant, but should plead the settlement, and thus hold what he j had got by raiftake or by a trick ? Why this would be his true charadter, that the man who is only bound by the law, would do any .unjust thing were it net for law ; yea he would if yon please, pick pockets, were it not for the penalty that follows. An honest man is never afraid to have his charges examined again and again ; knowing that the more the truth is rutbed the brighter it (hinesj, If the charge of the United States against our {lata is a jtift one, it will no; be the less so for a new heat wg. I again re peat it, said he, what individual would refufe a re-ex amination of his accounts, if stared in the face by a fellow trader, fiating :hit he had obtained great part cf his wealth by an error in fettlesnent ? No man would, no man dare. Ihe frowns of society would prostrate hinvfor ever were he to attempt it, and more especially if theperfonof whom he had taken this ad vantage, vasa man of good fame and »f equal (land ing with himfelf. And, in this point of view, 1 con tend, said he, that the state of New-York is of fuffi ciefit refpofibility in the unior.; and of such reputation as to her accounts, as to have a fair claim on the Uni ted States, that an order may be had for a n«w hear t We further ccmplain bitterly of the rule under which this settlement took place. In (hort, said he, if it is honorable ; if it is dignified, for the United Staies to refufe 11s a re-hearing, or at tempt to sequestrate our stock, it is not less honorable, it is not less dignified for our state to fell and transfer their (lock in the public fund, »atid withold payment of the fame until the errors which exist against us, can ' be cwrr<<3*'t. /, I I (halt he aferd, said he, how this can be done ?On ! which lubjeiil I beg leave to advance one thought that ha. struck my mind as * thing that would be fatisfa&c ry to our Hate ; and no more than tubltantiaily hono rable and just on the parte the United States, which idea I (hajl oast before the committee, to the end that it themeafure now before the committee Ikould prove in efficient ; fomthißg on its basis may be adopted,—that is that three commifiioners be vetted with full power from the United States, to join three commiflianers from our state, with like power. Let them hear and determine whether any, and if any how much we are in debt to the union. I have no doubt, said he, such a measure would be fatisfaftory to our legislature, and I believe if found in debt, they would take order for payment- Should Congress refufe a re-hearing of the juil complaints of that settlement, as it relates to our state, which is intitled to this fort of tender dealing ; I (hall be for no provif.on being made to pay the de mand. On the other hand, should Congress offer this reasonable and fair thing of a re-hearing ; and our state refnle or negleiS toacfl; I (hall be greatly disappointed in their attachment to the general government which I am sure i# firm and of a durable nature. Mr. Havens said, when these refutations were firft proposed, he did not think them very excep tionable, being brought forward on the plausible .ground of giving information to the different states of (he Aims in which they flood indebted ; but, if his infoimation was right, notification had already been made to the different Hates, of the arjiount of the balances found against them, and, therefore, these resolutions could only be looked upon as lead ing to something further, even to comuulfory means being used to obtain a settlement. In this point of view, though thtrefolutions contained no thing dire<S!y objectionable, they became fa, and it behoved the reprefentalives of New York to op pose tUtm. Though Mr. H. said he was not authorized to fay what was the opinion of the legislature of New- York of the settlement in question, amongst the moll enlightened citizens of that state, he knew it was conttdcred not only as unjitfl as to principle, but verygieatly erroneous, ao.d highly injurious. tA that state. He thought it probable that this was the opinion sf tht legislature also ; afld fubftttitial jus tice required that any error in any account should be rectified at least, that the party who thought there was an error should be fatisficd. If the state of New York was fatisfied with i ef^eCt-to the debt in question, he had no doubt, it would be paid. With a view of putting the business intoalefs objectionable form, he would propose an amend ment, viz after " earnest reqneft," " that if they (the said states) or any of them objeA to the prin ciple upon which the balances have been made, they will make known their objections to the govern ment of the United States ; but if no objection, that they will cause provision to be made, &c." Mr. H. said he eould fee no objection which could be reasonably made to this amendment.. If the state of, New-York had any objections to the set tlement, they would of course appoint an agent to enquire into the mode in which the accounts had been fettled ; this enquiry would produce fatisfaCti on, and whatever was found to be the balance, it would be chearfully paid ; but, if this amendment were not agreed te, he said there might be embar . ra(Tment3 thrown in the way ; embarraftmeßts wliieh mijrht prove insurmountable. It had been remarked, Mr. H. said, that this wbs a kind cf arbitration, and that the award was final. He never understood it in that point of light. If the bufmefs had afTumcd the face of an ar bitiatinn, it would have been fettled in a public man ner. An agent would not only have beea appoin ted to bring in their own claims, but also te have examined thsfe of others. But the bulinefs had been fettled rather in a p:ivate manner than other wise. The books had been kept from view. If there had been no irregularity i n the" settlement, he could fee no objection to its being laid before the Ui.ited States at large. He had always understood jhere was some reason for keeping the accounts from public infpeflionj and it appeared fomcwhat (trange. It looked as if there had been some er rors committed which it were improper to (hew to .the people of the United States. At any rate such ideas had prevailed ; tl.oy had at least prevail ed in the state ol New-Yoik. For these unfens, he trusted, the amendment would not he oKjeCted to. Mr. Henderfoß hoped the amendment would not prevail : it looked like inviting objections, at a time when theie was no proof that any objections exified to the payment of the balances in question. It was allowed by the oppofers of the report be fore them that at some period it would be proper to enter into a nagociation kith the debtor dates ; he thought there could be no better time than the pte fent, nor any better mode than that prefciifced by the resolution before them. Mr. Kitchell faicl it appeared to him as if the amendment was introduced for the ptirpofe of gi ving the State of New-Yprfc an Opportunity to make apologies for not doing what juflise and ho nor lequired' of them. It was extraordinary he said, that 'New-York had been notified two years of this debt, and that they should now require them to give some plea i:i j unification of their con duCt. The gentleman from New-Yoik (Mr Coo per) had printed the situation of that state during the war in very strong colours. Other states Mi. K. f id, fuft'ered equally with them. That gen tleman had also dv*ek u-iuch upon what that state had dons during the war j he would fay what the state of New-Jersey had not done. Mr. K. then went (too rapidly for us to follow him) over every thing which he eonjeived the state of New-Yoik had done to iis dil<-rn!it during the war, which be fid Had not done. He said that state was now only called upouto pay the debt (lie owed. If they had objections to do this, they would make them ; but rficy were not to cram them down tbrir throats. Let them state their objections them selves. He did not believe the state of New York had empowered their delegates to objeCt to the pay ment of this debt ; their business wai of a gene ral legislative nature, and he thought it would have been belter for them nat to have .interfered in the business. Mr. Havens said the gentleman from New-Jer sey had dwelt much upon what that state had not done ; he would just remind them of what it had done'. Did it not lay a heavy tax on the light house at Sandyhook ? For his own part, he despised any thing like adverting to dale.merits. Rethought such praflico '"ad ar. unfavorable afpefl t« other parts »f the Union, and therefore he would with always to avoid refle«io:B on any state. t Mr. Kitchell said he did not mean to reflect OB the state of New-York. He intended only to re,- fer ta what Had been said about the indufiry s „(l wealth of-that state at the expence of alltheother dates. Wiih fefpcCt to the li\ laid upon the light honfe, he would aflc whether the flats of' New. York had not laid taxes upen every ftv.llop.and boat whuh passed from New Jersey to that (late i Mr. Swanwick fifa it was of little importance to •he honfc what taxes had been laid by tlie state »f New-York or New-Jrrfey. He hoped the amend merit would not pals, becailfe it would fcern as if they themfelvcs. doubted the jultice of the dehi. If they had objefiions to the demand, they would state them; without any piovilion fwr the purpose. Mr. Livingfton said lie (hould. confine bis obfer. vatiwns to the amendment, as that was under confi. deration. When the general refutation was under debate, it was objected by the icprefentatives from tbe state or N«w-Yoik, thnt she could uot be boußd to pay the balance in quellion, tyecaufe {he had not given her consent as a state ta the law for ap piopriating the mode of settlement ; but now they were told they njuft wait till that state make objec tions ; that the dulegatesin that houfehad no right to objedt to it, yet the state was to be bound by 'this fetilemen: which was made according to a law palled by the delegates of that state ia-common others. But it the delegates had not a right (whic*. was his own opinion) to object to the jnft. ness of the debt, they had certainly no right to frame the law originally, and then the resolution was wholly out of 'he question. Mr. L. said he did not think the amendment of liis colleague invited objedtion. The friends o! the refolutihn told them that the. application was made to know whether it was agreeable to the state to pay the money or rot. Now the amendment made the explanation what thry said it was, but what ajipeared'to the delegates from New-Ywrk doubt ful. He hoped therefore the amendment would prevail. If it fliould not, it would cause what gentlemen seemed to wish to avuid, delay ; be cause, if it was negatived, he fhoult} think it his duty, to call for forae delay, before the house a greed to pass the refutation before them. He there, fore hoped, if gentlemen wiftied for celerity, or confiflency with their-own arguments, they would not oppefe the amendment. The motion was put and negatived, there being only 2 1 members for it. Mr. Livingfton then moved that the committee rife for the purpose of a postponement. He tho't they had a(right to ask this from the candor of the house. It was a fwhjeCt, he said, which required mature canfideration, and more time tha-i gentle men had been yet able to give. He hoped there fore this delay would be granted. He wilhed be fore he decided on the bufintfs to obtain the sense of his constituents on the fubjeft. For his own part, he did not wish tne ciecifron to be put off al together. He knew tho difsdvantages under which the representatives of what were called the debtor states labored, and he wilhed to have it determined whether the-Hate of New, York was a debtor or a creditor, whether the whole transaction was to be binding, or whether the whole fttouhl be buried in oyition.—The result he said might be this ! The delegates from the state of New-York do not re.' present her as a separate state, but as a fiate of the whole. It waspoffiblc that that (lite might com; to measures, ae might induce her reprefematives in that house to wirhdtav/ tarlhei opposition to the resolution before ihem. Mr. W. Smith hoped, as the gentleman seemed so earncftly to wifli it, that the committee would rife. The committee accordingly,tofe ar.d obtained leave to fit again, when Mr. Livingftau asked if it was in order to move to postpone the buCnefs to a certain day ? If io,he wilhed it postponed till that day three wcks The fpesker informed Mt. L that the business Wfe net then before thein, and Mr. W. Smith mo ved that the koufe adjourn—it adjourned accord ingly. Rtpulliflied hji dtfire. From the Gazettp. Mtm.oirs of GENERAL WAYNE. ANTHONY WAYNE, late Major general in the army of th« Ujiitcd States, was born in Chtfier coun ty, Pennsylvania, in 1745 His grand father bor a captain's conmiiflion at til* -battle c# Boyne, un der King William, and was diftinguiftied for his at tachment to the principles of liberty. The General's father was a refpcclable farmer, and served for many years as a representative for the eounty of Chester ia the General Aflembly of Pennsylvania before the revo lution. His son fuceeeded him as representative for the County in 1773. In this eventful year, he began his career as a patriot, and friend of the rights of man. He took an active part in all the measures of the Assem bly for that year which were opposed to the claims rf Great Britain, and in connexion with John Dickin lon, Thomas Mifflin, Edward Biddle, Charles Themp- Ibn, and a few ether gentlemen, prepared the way for the decided and ufiful part which Pennsylvania after wards took in the American revolution. In the year 1775 he quilted the councils of his coun try, for the field. He tutercd the army of the.United States asacoloncl. His name recruited a regirneiat in a tew weeks in his nitive eounty. In the clofe'ofthis year, he accompanied General Thompfen into Cana da. Here he was fuon led into aClioti. In the defeat of General l'hoipplori, he behaved with great bravery, and was Angularly ufeful in saving a large tody of the army,,by the judicious manner in which he coi,:du£teil their retreat atier th* General was made prifaner. In this battle the General, then Col. Wayne, received a Rcfh wound in his leg.—ln the campaign sf '7761 he served under General Gates at Ticondtrnga. Gen. Gates esteemed him highly, not only for his courage, and other military talents, but for his knowledge as an engineer. It was said of him, that his eye wa-> near ly equal to a meafnre, in judjring of heights and distan ces, .a talent this of incalculable consequence in an offi cer. At the cloie of this campaign he was ?i »-ated a Brigadier General. He bore an afiive part in the campaign of 1777. He fought at Bran.lywine, and for .1 long time retard ed the progre'fi ..f tile Britilh arm; in trVrffiivg C had's* ford. Germantown, and at the I'aoli, on the Lancaster road. In the la/t of these battles (wheithehad a leparate command) and in whit!.
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