New Theatre. On FRIDAY EVENING, January 10, ' Will be presented, A Celebrated PLAY, in three a<£ls, interspersed with songs, called The Mountaineers. Written by G. Colmati, jun. OSavian, Mr. Moretan Virolet, Mr. Fox Kilmallock, Mr. Wa<~rcn Roque, Mr. Wignill Muleteers, | t 'P" rl g' P arltJ ' jr ' 5 Mitcbefl, Mxcdonuld. Lope Tocho, Mr. Francts Pereqoillo, Master Warrell Goatherds, I Meflrs: War,ell, Bliffett, 5 Dcdlor and Morgan. Females, \ Mrs " H "rvey, mrs. Bailor, . ) mifis Oldjield, &c. Bulcaziu Muley (ill time) Mr. Cooper Ganem, Mr. Warrell, jun. .Lacha, Mr. Darlev t jun. S a< 3i, Mr. Hariuosd M«ors, Meflrs. Mitchell, 4cc Zorayda, Mrs. Warrell Floranthc, Mr*. Francis Agues, Mrs. Oldmixon The xd ar, perform the whole bufinefi of the present numerous train. In cafe of fire, these horfmen would inflantly spread the alarm ; they could to the best advantage ai range thelin > to supply water, or remove goods. :d They would, at all times, be an excellent che:k so the watchmen, and with ease take up or dispel the night walkers. This city or grand patrole (hould be veiled, by the corporation, with certain powers, to enable them to preserve order in the night. They would form a fort of night magidracy. They should, nevcrthelcfs, be accountable to the city police ; a report by the mailer or captain of the corps, foi the preceding night, should be by him filed ia the mayor s office by 19 o'clock next day. r » This grand patrol shall confill of the must refpea. e able matters of families; they should have certain le privileges and honors annexed to their office. Jt will be proper that they have a certain badge or le iymbol of their commission, by which they will be able to detcdl and have impofters puoifhed. it is e not supposed they will receive any pay, but it is 1 reasonable that the public stall defray their unavoid- : j r able expenses ' I 4 The regulatiohs of this grand patrol, if not laid 0 down by the city police, should be approved by the I t- mayor. Their number mi/ be increased or diminiflied, as 1 prudenee rtiall direst ; but they (hould not, be abo- 1 Hllied, as the magistracy ef the city is not more im- ' portant than the PATROL OF THE JIOHT. 1 ■■■ — I CONGRESS OF the UNITED STATES. ( HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. < — t 1 Tutfi'ay, January 3, concluded, ( Thereport ofthe cominiltee of Ways and Means ' h on the fubjedl of the balances due from indivi- c dual States to the United States being under c»o- t ndcratioD. • The gentleman before him (Mr. Williams) said t hc 1 House would not give them time to make the ne- c cefTary enquiries. Mr. Thatcher aflted whatenquiiies 1 were neccffary ? The gentleman seemed ta mifun- c derfland the resolution. It was merely to givg no- £ 'ice to the (late, to pay the debt, and did not pre !• ■ elude any reason which they might have te give " why it should" not be paid. He hoped, therefore, a no paflponement would take plactt, but that the re- v solution would be agreed ta. Mr. Murray said, the gentleman from Mafocbu- P fctts (Mr* I hatshcr) had misunderstood him, if P he thought he had aflerted that certain ttate* would " be thrown out of the union if the resolution was en " tered into. He thought hi had accompanied what hi had said with such exprcffior.s as that he could " not have been mistaken. His meaning was, that b if the (late of Delaware, for instance, was obliged °! to pay the debt due from her, added to her present burthens, it would have the effcift to bear her down so much as to deprive her of her political confe- ol quence in the union. He disclaimed the other a ' idea. tl Mi. Craik rose to make a potion, if in order, ar to postpone the farther eonfitkiaiion of this ques tion till next ftfiion. He wiflietl «hi«, beeaul'e it cc would give time fer cool deliberation. He was fu surprised to hear gentlemen deny that the carrying f° of this measure into effe& was not likely to produce warmth io the country. He thought the conduct Dt of gentlemen in that House proved the contrary; th for be thought they could net exped tl.at the peo- nc pie whom they represented wonld be more cool ob nc the fubjcA than they were. The cenfidcratien of this warmth, he said, operated ia his mu.d against taking up the business at all. Gentlemen said they ln did not mean to take any coercivc meafurcs, but only bc to make the demand; but did they not know that whertfhe demand had been made, they mud enforce S' the payment, or shew they bad nut th. power of doing so ? so Mr. c. thought the date of Delaware, though it had scarcely been mentioned, would be more par- wl tievi arly affe&ed by a payment of the balances in wl qiiellior. than any other.. The state of New-York, he said, was fully able to pay ; but the fame could bu not be said of Delaware. Indeed when, he saw *ei New-York unwilli-g and Delaware unable to pay th: I these balances, as a repr.efentative of Maryland who lio | was a fmali debtor, he could not consent to the vir . payment of that debt, whe« thef'e seemed te be no pa probability ef enforcing payment from other wh Uates. th( He hoped, therefore, the House weuld agree fhc that this wa* not the proper time ta make the ap- fin< plication ia queflion, and vote for a poflponcment me till next session. wa Mr. lfaac Smith said, if he understood the mea- " s sure, it was to inform the dates, that there was [ eis such a sum of meney stood charged against them, or Theic was no thicat iu the resolution; and if they I the — bad any obje&io:. t« mike to the demand, they would then make tliem. He had no objection to the notice being expmffed in as mild terms as pofli «. | We. The oppoliiioii te> the refolutiou was as warm, ;ht he said, as it it carried an execution along with it. of He thought this warmth be withheld, at f e . least, for the prefer*. in- Mr. Livingfton said there seemed to be a mistake ty. as to the language of the resolution. If it went nfe no further than a notice, it would not be objc&iun led a ble ; but it was accompanied wirh a lequelt. Lr , B g payment. Mr. L. went again into arguments to :ed thew the necessity of a postponement, in order to an investigation of* the bufiuefs. jf| e A member enquired what was the quefiion. ieh Ibe speaker said the question was for a poftpone he went for three weeks. The gentleman from Ma, rylaad had moved to pcftpone till next session, eir whish was not in order ; a day certain mutt be i,g mentioned, and even that would not be in order, ng except fecondfd, which was not the cafe with the nd gentleman's former motion. Mr. Craik then moved and the motion was fe he ceuded, to postpone the quettion until the firlt rly Monday in December next. he Mr. Gallatin said, there seemed to be three dif re. ferent grounds upon which a postponement tvit ur de Red, The firft was, on an insinuation that some :w fort ef agreement had taken place, when the sums i!d doe to the creditor ftajes were funded, that the ba ius lances due from the debtor fates were to be reliu tly quiftied. So far fn>m this taking place, Mr. G. ge said, a motion te this efFefit had been made and Be ds. gatived at that time, by the yeas and nays being ta an ken upon it, jg to 28. He was hurt, therefore, he lo bear of this infinuatinn. The next ground for a poftpenement was toundedon a suspicion that the by fettleinent made by the commissioners was not just. )) e He said he was net going to express ai « opinion ild whether the fettlemeut was a just one or not 5 »he d, thcr the rules adopted by the cdmroiffioncrs were a good er not ; whether the mode of Hating the ac o, counts had been the best. It was delirable that a lie private ihculd take place, and though it fell hard on some, it was not the Ids defirablc ; but J. supposing, however, that any of the debtor ftatcs, in or any state, had a right to object to the settle ment, to the jurisdiction of the commissioners, aad er "f congress, and were not to be bound except by be the judges of the supreme court, thi* proper time i s te have wade these objections was when the bill for i s funding the balances of the creditor Hates pafied, J. for that was the time of carrying the settlement in to execution. id Why, therefore, said Mr. G. there should he a le poftponemcnt of three weeks to enable the New- York members to fend to their fate, he did not al know. They had had time enough ; and he □- thought the bufmefs would have been better danc n . three years ago than now. The arguments adduced by the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Murray) seemed to have weight ; _ that to carry the measure into effed might create confufion j and that we had not power over the Hates to enforce payment. As to the danger of cotifufion, there was as much on the one fide as the other ; becjufe those Itatcs which were to re ceive benefit from the payment by the debtor dates 13 would have as much cause te complain if these i- debts were not paid, as tbofe debtors being obliged j- to pay what they owe, could have. The only ground, then, was the want of power ie to coerce the dates, and this, he owned, appear .. Ed te be ltrong. Yet this ground was rather againlt , 3 the resolution itfelf. It was better, he said, ta long dlfpute. Mr. Williams spoke at fo'tiC length in favor of e- his colleague's motion, and Mr. W. Smith laid a ft few words agaiult it, when it was put and Rsga tived, there bein# only 10 for it. f- Mr. Macon then said that the United States had r- been the cause of entreating the debts oftheftatea ie by assuming the state debts, some of which were is nost half, others not a quarter of the sum assumed. j. Mr. Locke alio spoke a few words on the hard j. (hip of the cafe of "North Carolina, who had made I. three times greater exertions in the war thais fume of her neighboring dates, who were made credi* t tars, and yet they were brought in debtors. ?l The committee rose and the house adjourned. e Wednesday, January 4. , Mr. Dana from Connecticut, a new member, (in " place of Mr. Tracy now in the Senate) ycfterday took " the usual oath and his feat in the House. Mr. Malbone presented a petition from John Rohin e foil of Newport, merchant, praying for the rem.ilion of a penalty incurred on account of due form not being a obterved in the rtgiftering of the ship William of Charlcftsn. Referred to the committee of commerce and manufactures. 1 Mr. Swanwick prefanUd a petition from the lnfpec > tors of theCuftoms at the pcit yf Piiifadilphia, piay - ing for an increase of salary. J Mr. S. Smith presented one to the fame purpose from Baltimore , both ot which were referred to the cora. e mittce of commerce and manufactures. r Mr. Swanwick preferred a petition from Philip Audibert, late a clerk 111 the public office oi govern > ment, but who now from hi« age is past service, be ■ ing 65, praying, in cosfideration of pait ufefulnefs, for relief, that he may not fink, from a state of ease *jiil 1 content, to that of poverty and distress. Referred to . the fame committee. t Mr. Swanwick also presented two petitions, out from William Patten, the otherfrom David Miller, formar * ly grocers in this city, praying for a remifiion of pen c alties incurred in having fold winean thing. Mr. Swanwick observed, on the other hind, , that he understood the cases of ti.eie petitioneis . were hard ones, having had some conversation with j the distriCt Attorney on the fubjea, at lealt, the petition ought to have a reference, since, if ths committee of commerce and manufactures (or a lelcif > committee, if such a reference lhould be thought more proper) saw no reason to make an exception against the law, in favour of these peiit;uncrs, and he believed it . would not be said they weie Very apt to do so. theip report would be very summary, anc consume but little of the time of the house. A reference Was denied by a great majority. Mr. Harrifon presented a petition of Lucy Clerk praying for payment of money due to her late iulband* a director of artillery in the late war. This petit,on having been decided upon last feflion, some ckieftioas were made to the referring of it again, but, on tlw ground of new cvldencc they were over rule®, and it was referred to the committee otcUims. Mr Blount moved that the petition of Richard Blackley, with a s report thereon which had not been aiiled upon.be referred to the committee of claims. r - Dwight Fofier, from the committee of claims, made reports en the petitiens of George Marker and wite, iamuel VVilkiafon, and Gilbert Dench, which were againfl the petitioners. Their wer» twice read., the two former concurred in by the House, und the last ordered to be comnutttd to a committee of the whole, anu made the order of thi< day. Mr. Livingftoii fiij, as t ) lcjr luj J ate iy Oi nwn m „ c i, anxiety about the ideal property of the United States, he thought it was ncecfTary to ftiew some refpeft to its real property ; for this purpose he movjd a rclclu tion to the following efiedt: " Hefolvcd that a committee be appointed te enquire into the title of the United States to lands lying weft a, between the 41ft and Aid d.grees of North latitude, lately claimed aud fold by th« itatc of Connecticut. Ordered to lie on the table On the Speaker's informing the House that the bufi neis.which had priority in the orders of the dav, was f,,K- rC d means on the übjeU of balances due from individual iUtcs to the United Starts, Mr. Nicholasihrought forward a refn lutmn which proposed the of the propertv veitrd by the state of New-York in ,he funds P rfs?Urt|rf Mates, for payment of the balance due from that state in the fettlcment otthe eommiffioners, to the United states, i his motion occafioncd conliderable debate, and was negatived 41 to 35.~-.The house then went in to a committee of the whole on the fubjeel, when a amilar motion was introduced in the form of lu araCnd ment by Mr Sitgrcaves, and negat,veu 4, to 30. The original resolution was at length put and carried by a conquerable majority, there being 5 ! j,« t e, i n it, fa. vour. The committee ther. rose, and on motion for the house to take up the i.ufir.efs, a motion for adjourn, menc was made and carried. When the house was about to form itfelf into a committee oPthe whole, on the fubjeft of the balances due from individual ltatcs to the United States, * Mr. Nicholas rose and said, though the propo- Ik ion he had made the other day was at that time thought improper, he was more'and more convin. ced of its piopiietjr. He thsught the courfc pro.