New Theatre. THIS EVENING, Friday,, January 30, ■Will be presented, A Celebrated PLAY, in three ai£U, interfper&d with fotigs, called The Mountaineers. Written, by G. Colman, jun. Oflaviah, Mr. Moreton Virolet, Mr. Fox Kilmallock, I Mr. Warren Roque, Mr. IVignell Muleteers. ' I Mffrs ' P ar b> Darby, jr. J Mitchell, Macdanald. LopeTocho, Mr. Francis Perequilio, Master M'urrcll Goatherds, ] J^ arre { 1 ' 3 Dcftbr and Morgan. \ / Mrs. Har'vy, *nrs. DoJlor, Females, j 0/^> Bulcazin Muley (ifttime) Mr. Confer Ganem, Mr. Warrell, jun. ■Pacha, Mr. Darfev, jun. S.idi, Mr. Har-vjoed Moors, MelTrs. Mitchell, Sc.c . Zorayda, Mrs. Worrell Floranthc, Mrs. Francis Ague«, Mrs.' Oldmixort ' The jd ail will conclude with A SP \NI H FAN DANGO, composed by Mr. Francis. The principal parts by Mr. J. Warrell, Sig. Do&or, and Miss Milbourne. To which will be added A Celebrated FARCE, inwic a<Sl, (never perfsrmed here) called Seeing is Believing. , Sir Credule, Mr. Francis Captain Night (hade, Mr. Fox Sceptic, Mr. JVarren Simon, Mr. Flnrkvood Porter, - Mr. Darley, ]\m. Miss Di, Mrs. Harvey Kitty, Mrs. Francis Bo*, One Dollar twdn%-five cents. Pit one Dollar, And Gallery, half a dollar. Tickets to be hjd at H. & P. Rice's Bo4»k-ftpre No. 50 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'clock. Places for the Boxes to ue taken at the Office in the front of the theatre, from 10 till i o'clock, and from 10 till 4 on the days of performance VIVAT R ES PUBLIC A ! On Saturday th'e Tragedy of Venice Preferv'd, (not ifled these two years) with a French Opera, called, X<e Tableau Pirlant. On monday, the Road to kuinj with the Flitch of B&con, in which mr.Prigmcre will make his rft appear? nee at this theatre. ' College-Hall. Readings and Recitations, Mural, Critical, and Entertaining. Mr. FENNELL Refpeflfully informs the Public, that On SATURDAY EVENING,, Jan. ai, at 7 o'clock Will be delivered, (first part) On the Means of Improvement in Oratory. includ ing felefiions from Dr. Elair. ( second part) Satan's Address to the Stin, Milton. Anthony's Speech on the ef Julius Csel'ar, Shahefpeare. Anthony's Funeral Oration, Shakespeare (third part.) Hamlet's Soliloquy on Death, Shakespeare. Cato's Soliloquy oh the Immortality of the Soul, Addifon. Ode on the Passions, Collins. t — £5° On MONDAY, January 23d, Seleftinns from History. Edwin and Angelina. Gray's Elegy ; aacT Part of the Deserted Village. Tickets to be had of Mr. PonJfon, jun. at the Library ; at mr. M'Elwee's looking-gtefs-ftore, No. 70, S. Fourth- \ street; and at Mr. Carey's, Bookseller, Market-ftrect— -Half a dollar each. Admiffiuri tickets for Children (a. quarter of a dollar each) to be had at either of places. A Watch Loft. Loft on Monday last, a Silver Watch, makers' names, •' Hauxhurft and Donlt New-York, 809," on the face, hour Kind in a .small circte ; the minute hand revol-' "ving in a larger. ' Whoever has found and will return the fame, to jAi>ift:s £f>g k, corner or Second and Ca- ' tharine Streets, stall receive Ten Dollars'reward. If: of-ic-red for fate, it is requeued it may be flopped. January, 18. *5t FOR S-A L E, \ very Valuable- Estate, CALLED TIVIT T E NH A M, fitunte in the ; towrdhip of Upper Derby, and county of Delaware, i 7 1-Smiles from Phiiad; lphia, ar»d half mile from the i new Weit?rn road containing ijo aores of 'excdieutlaM, , 45 of which are good watered meadow, 90 of prime wood- j land, and the reifc arable of th-i firft quality. 'i here are j on thepreroifesagood two fljory hrkk houfo with 4 rooms on a floor, and cellars under the whole, with apufifip.-wetl of excellent water in front; a large frame b . :i, ftabi.s and convcnieiM: buildings * a iinoke-konle and ft6n£, \ spring-house ; two good apple orchards, and <>irs of -pekch e*. The fields are all in clovcr, except those v>j.mediately uuder u tillage, and are so laid out as to have tht advantage of water in each of them, which renders it peculiarly con vergent for grazing. ■Th« fituatiori is pleafont and healthy, and from the'higk cultivation oi the land, the good neighbourhood, and th« vicinity to the city, it is very fuitahlc for a gentleman'* . country feat. The foregoing is part of the estate of jkbob Harraan and offered for fa la by Mordecai Lewis, i Oil* 31. iaw Surviving Executor ' A Pointer found. Any person having loft a small POINTER PUP PY -abuii' a fortnight since, may have him again by proving property and paying charges. Apply to the Printer. Januaiy 10 3 CONGRESS OF the UNITED STATES. HOUSB OF REPRESENTATIVES. Wednesday, January 4, continued. The report of the committee of Ways and Means on the fubjeft of the balances due from indivi dual States to the United State* being under con federation. Mr. Gilbert fjud, the proposition offered by the gentlemr-n from Virginia (Mr. Nicholas) however it might ferveto di/lingui/l the mover, was of such a nature and complexion, that he was persuaded it t. otildmtjet with no countenapca from that House; he thought it ought to be rejected with indignation. It was true, he said, Virginia, as an individual debtor Hue. could not be effected by it, as (he h.d no property in fndh condition. It icemed to him, he said, altogether unexampled ; and to carry with 1 it a violation of the principles of all public confidence and good faith ; fir.-h as was aat, at this day, to t>e paralleled, or juilified hy the practice of any en- civilized nation on earth. Hi cinfidered, he said, that the principles of public law, no longer allowed of (uch praSic., not even in a date of hof tility between nations. He trusted, he said, that, the United States, wh"o, by conditution, could only adt upon individuals, not upon dates, would never tatnilh its character by such proceedings—nor ex hibit t<» the wbrld faeit evidence of depravity, or so weak a lenfe of regard to (he common principles of . confidence, good faith, and morality. He expect ed, he said, the would be,indantly re jected. / M r . Hartley hoped this motion would not be referred. He thought the meafurl a very Improper one. It differed eiu:eeding]y from the resolution reported by the committee ; that contemplated a friendly requeit to the debtor states.to make pay ment ; but ihe resolution now offered went to coer cion immediately. liy our treaty with Great- Britain, bt public fecu<itic3 were guaranteed, and not to be attached or leized, upon any pretcnce vv itever. iSlr-iH we then, said he, treat a fitter state worfe'tfran a "range nation? He hoped so ungene rous a would not prevail. He had no doubt but the date of New-York would be inclined to do v hat was jnit and light ; and if they objected to pay, .they would doubtless give their reasons for it. As to the ftite of Delaware, Mr. H. was of opinian that (he was unable to pay thexbahnce found a gaina her. He prefnmed {he would state her ina 'jili'.y, and that relief would be granted her. Ths' tint Hate, perhaps,'did not advance much money during the war, yet (he furnifhed more than in pro portion to her number of citizens. He vas there fore decidedly againd the refutation. Mr. Livingfton had no obje&ion to the reference; becaulc he was curious to hear arguments in sup port ot 1 his new mode of keeping up harmony be tween the dates and the United States, It would doubtless require great ingenuity, and introduce a new kind of morality and of logic, to prove that to seize upon the property of a date was to culti vate harmony with it : for, in hit opinion, the propsfition was contrary to all (principle and fair conduit. Mr. Coit was at a lofi to know the intention of the mover of the present tefolution, whether it was to forward or defeat the objeiSt in view. If he in tended to serve the cause, he would make use of the fame homely adage in refpedt to him, that he had done with refpeft to another gentleman, that " he leaped before he came to the flile."—The original refelution, he said, was merely to call upon lite dates for payment ; but to talk about Seizing their property, was to suppose they wculd not pay. The gentlemen of New-York, it was true, had said much againd thejudiceof the debt but they were not authoriled to ;tt in the business. Had they afl<ed for the money ? No. Was it proper, there fore, in this of the buiincfe, 10 lake such a dep as was then proposed ! It was even a very feri ou» queliiwn to determine, whether, in any cafe, they Ihould be autiiorifed to seize their fundi. Mr. W. Smith hoped the refutation would not be committed. He thought they (hould hare more confidence in the date of New-York, than to sup pose it would refule to pay its debts. He belicv ed they would not refufe. Such a IKp at any time would require much ferrous confederation before it was adopted. The measure was particularly level led at the ffste of New York, because if was the on ly state in that fittiation. Even-were they to refufe Uj pay, he had great' doubts whether it would be proper to ittze- ttteir property. The meagre pro-, posed by the rep rt was moderate, and equal to all the dehlpr dates, which the mode now offered was not. Mr. G ) urn laid the arguments of the gentle- IT: n from Si. Carolina, were i«thcr againd the re "folu i«r< itltll, than againd the propriety of cum liiituiy it, '.)««#£ Uk gentleman's arguments was not Jaunded in fast. He had said that the measure fid affcrr New-York only. But of the fix debt ■ : 3, feur of them' had property in the funds of the United St- es ; two of them had more than they owed. Pejinfylvania had fix times as much n the run .: as 1' was reported to ewe ; therefore (lie meature could not be singular iowards New- V >k t . , Mr. G. said, heconfidered that when a re mstton w i hid upon the table, the only argument ft cot. mitting it mud be, that it was evident i:-)g!y imprudent and improper. As to this rt.'ohr si betag proper, or improper, prudent or iri'pruccni, he could not fay, because not under consideration ; but he thought there was nothing so glaiingly improper in it, as to prevent difcufli on. He said he 1 had only Heard one thing which was an objection to the motion being committed, which was from the gentleman from New York. He said the mealure was difgraceful, and such as woirid not be adopted by one hodile nation towards another. That gentleman, Mr. G. said, should recoiled! one thing. Supposing that it would be difgraceful to seize the ptoperty ef individuals in the public funds, on account of any piifcondndt of that nation, yet there was nothing difgraceful in the measure nbw proposed. That gentleman had said that no nation at war would seize the property of thair enemy. Did nc not know that England had seized all :® French property which they could lay their hands upon. Here 1 was a state, he said, owed them a sum of money, and the measure proposed was, to tffke their property in the funds to pay it. He -thought there was no difficulty in the cafe, if they 3 supposed the tranfa&ion, to happen betwixt itrdivi J duals. If a person had hid mortey in his hands, . and at the fame time owing him money, he (hould at leatt discuss the matter in his own mir.d, whe e ther he would let him have t&e money before he r paid him what he owed. All that was asked, he h said, was that the matter (hould oe discussed ; if it ; was found improper, it would of course be rejeftej. Mr, Coit thought there was some differeucc be u twixt the resolution before them being referred to a committee of. the whole, and the committee upon J the fubje£l of the balances. Mr. S. Smith said, before quell ion was put, h ha wiihed to fay a few words on the fubjefif. G en " e tlemcn might fay they would lay hands 011 the pro c perty of the state of New York. The gentlemen . fri>m thence had said, that date fliould not pay the | debt. But Maryland, he fqid,. would pay ; and r (he depended on the iwiereft of her (lock in the funds of the United States to p3y her ciril lift. If j they chose to seize the funds of New-York, why y fliould they leize those of Maryland ? Maryland, r he said, was every year purchaiing frefe dock. At this time, he believed, Maiyland had money to lay 0 out in these docks. A resolution fcf this kind, he ,f said, would make it poffibleJor the United Stales . to seize the property of dates without right. He thought payment (hould firft be aflced. Until this was donej they (hould not take a dep of this kind e which would have a tendency to defttoy the public r faith. He hoped, therefore, that the resolution n would not be committed, as ke would not have it a supposed possible that the United States would at _ anytime seize property which had been lodged fer . security in their hands. Mr. Nicholas said if the motion could have the J effedt the gentleman mentioned, be would withdraw e it. He thought it might be so modified as that e such an effect Could not even be supposed H« . said he had heard no obje£iens to hi* motion which t had had any weight with him. He should not, as 3 had been insinuated by the gentleman from Naw j York, use either new logic or fine words; but it . was his opinion the measure would prevent the paf -1 fions of the people from being raised ; as it was . not likely that men (hould embedy their Force, when it could have no effect. He did not think it • was proper to interfere with the proptrty of Mary s land. He meant this measure only as an eventual . security. The motion was put and negatived, 42 to 3J. The house then went into a committee of the . whole on the original report, Mr. Muhlenberg in the chair, when M'\ Read hoped the resolution would be agreed | to. He laid he had attended to all the objections 1 which had been made to the measure, and they did • not appeal to him to have any real weight. They . were principally these.: It was said by some the . debt was not justly due. that the lule of appor tionment was not what it ought to have been ; and • that it was not iB the power of the United States ■ to enforce payment of the debts. The resolution , was alfooljeited toon the ground of policy. With relpeft tothe judise of the fettlementi he did not believe that the debtor dates would pre tend that tfie debts were not justly due, and there fore ihe arguments on this head were of no weight, | a»they ought not to anticipate such a conduct. . With refpefit to the power to coerce, it was frivol ous in the extreme to talk of this. It was suppos ing the debtor dates to object to the demand, whereas they pretended bo such thing. He believed the debtor dates w mid pay. With refped\ to the policy of the measure, it was his opinion that there was no better policy in either dates or individuals than to pay their debts, if bur government, he said, was founded upon erroneous principles, vicious | mei.furcs might be rieceffary; but so long as it was founded on equal rights and privileges, there could 1 be no founder policy than to auke ju.lice auU equi ty our guide. It had been supposed thtt tha state of New-York would not pay her debt j that she would herftlf less friendly to the union, lei's federal, than others. He did not believe this, believed the state perfectly federal. Would not the fame argument fall upon the creditor states ? Were theytooaiit tailing upon the ri btor states, would not the creditor dates be disappoin ted by these debts not being paid ? Would rt not have a tendency to make them less friendly, lets federal, were they to be called upon for money which the debt or states ought to have paid ? Air- R. said it was clear, upon the principles of po licy and juflice, the application ought to be made at this time. The longer perfons'negledfed to pay any just debt, the more unwilling they were to pay, and the difficulty of recovering it, increased in proportion to the delay. In refpeff to the state of Maflachufe'tts, which he had the honour to reprefi,nt, it was one- of tile creditor Hates. It was at present burdened with very large debts, contracted in support of the war. per sons expeffed, and perhaps the state in general, that their accouut would be allowed, ihe Jrijount was 1,100,000 dollars. They supposed this sum would be paid by the dobtor dates, and if it were not paid, it would make a direil tax very unpopular with them. There had been Jn objection urged by the gentle man from New-York ( Mr. Williams) which he tho't h«d not been noticed. He said there had beeu large emigrations from other states into that state liace the settlement of the accounts, which had so increased their population, as to have greatly increased their debt, that being edimatei on a scale of population. If it was true that such an emigration ha 4 taken place, and he expected it was, it enritfheu the state of New-York, and enabled her to pay the debt. The people knew when they went into that state that they would have to bear a part of the debt. They had left creditor states and by these emigrations of young and enterprrzing men, those states were impaired, the aged and infirm being left behind. Mr. R. concluded by faying, that it was evident the money was due, and it was proper requisition should be made for payment, and he doubted not it would be complied with. Mr. Freeman-said he was in favour of the resolution. It was Agreed on all hands that revenue was wanted, and the people in the creditor states were extremely diflatisfied that the debtor states had not yet paid their balances. Indeed, he could fee nojuftice in calling upon the creditor states for a direst tax to pay the interest of a debt due from certain states in the union. [7# it CtniiautJ.] » CONTINUATION OF Late Foreign Intelligence. From the Lor.dan Gazette Extraordinary. Parliament-Street, November 3, 1796. A dispatch, of which the following is a copy» was this day received by the right honourable Hen ry Dundas, one of his raajefty's principal feorefa rieS of state, from rnajer-geriaral Craig, command ing his majelly's troops at the Cape of Good Hope, dated Camp on the (bora of Saldanha bay, August 19, 1796. SIR, 1 have great fatisfa&ion in reportingto you the event of an attempt which has been made by the enemy, and which has termjnated to the honor of his majefly's arms, in the entire capture of the squadron of Dutch ships of war, deltined for the purpose of retaking this settlement. Having made every arrangement within my means, by the establishment of a imall poll, and the laying the road by a fufficient number of the few men which 1 had been able to mount, tor watching Saldanha bay, I received a report an the 3d inttant, transmitted in fourteen hours, that line ships had appeared off that coast o« the preceding afternoon, which I immediately communicated to vice admiral fir George Keith ElphinJtone. By the fame report there appeared to at the Itrongeit probability that his majelly's brig the Hope, had been captured by them ; and as there was no fur. ther account of them the next day, I concluded that the information which they had received, by that means,of our lirength here, had induced them to continue their route, and that they would Hand far to the westward before they doubled the Cape, to avoid fir George's Sect, which had put to sea at soon as was poflible after the receipt of the intelli gence. In order, however, to omit no precaution, I sent up lieutenant M'Nab, with a few mounted m«n, to watch the bay more narrowly ; and from him 1 re ceived a report, on Saturday night the 6th inliant, at twelve o'clock, that the fame number of ships which had formerly been reported, had anchored that morning in the bay, and that theie was no doubt of their being enemies. I 101 l not a moment in fending dire&ions to Simon's Town, from whence, by the general willingness and activity which prevailed amongst all renks, five vefTels win e dispatched by nine o'clock, in quefl of the admiral, with the information. As it fortunately happened that the 2jth and 27th light dragoons, with part of the 19th, and the whole of the 33d regiments, were in Simon's bay, 1 eould be under no apprehenfiou for the fafe ty of the coiony from any force which could be lan ded from nine ships of war. It became, however, ao ebje&'ef infinite importance to the welfare of the settlement to pi event any body of the ensmy from throwing therpfelvej into the coantiy. At the fame time the security of the Cape Town be camc jB object of particular attention, both from the reasonable expetlation, that the enemy would not have ceme with filch a force without a profpeft of a jundioa with forae other armament, and from the possibility of the admiral being prevented from doubling the Cape by the North Wctlerly winds which vfaal'y prevail qt this season, and which would carry the enemy infix hours from Saldanha to Table bay. It was therefore with particular fatisfattion that I found myfclf poffciled of a force adequate to both these objects. No time was lolt in making the neeeffary ar rangements in a country totally unused to a move ment of this nature, The tiooptt began their march \ on Sunday morning, nectfTarily by divisions, on ac count of fyhfiflenceC The BUrgher Senate was af lembled, to whom I «<pofed rr.y intentions, to which they exprefied the moll ready compliance. Waggons Were every where demanded by them, and fyrnifhed with chearfulnefs. Cavalry was ne eeffary, but the appointments ©f the 28th wct\j or* board a Alio which had failed in quelt of the admi ral. Thole of the 25th were alio on board a Ship in Sifnon's bay, and we had not above fifty The appointments were brought up, and I did not scruple, on such an occafibn, to require all faddle horfes without exception to be brought in, which were valued by two members of the court of jus tice, and (wo officers of the 28th dragoons, ana paid for on the spot to the entire fatisfattion of the owners. By these means, fir, leaving major-general Doyle in the command of the iroops at and about Cope town, amounting to near 4000 men, r.nd briga dier-general Campbell in the immediate command of the town, I, on the morning of the i(sth inft. leached Saldanha bay, at the headof the advanced guafd, confining of the light-infantry, a body of Hottentots, and fifty of 1114.25 th light dragoons, a (filled by brigadier-general M«.Benzie, the remain der of whefe corps, confiding of the grenadiers, the 78th and Beth battalions, fifty more of the 25th, and one hundred of the 28th light dragoom, in all about 2500 men, with two howitzeis, and nine field pieces, arrived theie also iB an hour after. In ihe mean time the "admiral had • returned to I'alfe bay, and on there Veceiving the firfl accounts of the enemy being in Saldanha bay, had pu* to sea again with the utmost expedition ; and we had the fatisfaClion, from ihe heights from whence we defceiioed to the shores of the bay, to fee him, with all his fails crowded, advancing-with a. fair wind diredlly tu tha mouth of the harbour, though flill at some diflance. One of the enemy's frigates, which lay near the fliore to cover their watering, cannonaded us very briskly as we defceuded' the * heights, though without effeil, and/we returned their fire with as little, having at that time only three pounders with us; a howitzer being brought up, a few shells were thrown wi.h great precilion by captain Robertfon, who would prol.a bly foon'have destroyed her; but perceiving that our fleet then entering the bay, and :lfat there was no poifibility of her escaping, I defilied from firing, thinking it more for his majefty'a intereil that fhe-fyould share the f£te of tl\e remainder of the squadron, the capture of which appeared to me inevitable, tuaii that we should the destroying
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