New Theatre.
*s
THIS EVENING, Saturday, January IT,
Will be presented,
A TRAGEDY, (not ailed these. two years) called
Venice Preserved;
Or, a Plot Discovered.
Duk« of Venice, Mr. H'arrell
Priuli, Mr. Warren
Brdamar, Mr. Fox
Pierre, Mr. Cooper
Jaffier, Mr. Moreton
Rennault, Mr. V Eft range •
Spinofa, Mr. Darlev,'jun.
Elliott, Mr. M'Donald
Theodore, Mr. Eliffett
Officer, Mr. Wdrrell, jun.
Belvidera, -Mrs. Merry
After which will be performed, by the French Com
pany, a Comic-Opera, in one a£t, called
Le Tableau Parlant; A
Or, The Speaking Pi&ure.
The music by mons. Gretry.
Caffandre, M. Viellard
Leandre, M. Glaire
Pierot, M. St Mare '
Ifabelle, Mile. Sophie
Colembine, Mils. Tejfeirt
0- On Monday, The ROAD TO RUlN—with
The FLITCH OF BACON, in which mr. Prigmore
will nuke bis firft appearance at this theatre.
£!T Box, One Dollar cents. Pit one Dollar,
And Gallery, half a dollar.
£3" Tickets to he'had at H„ & P. Rice's tiook-ftore
No. 50 High-flreet, 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 ne taken at the Office in the
front of the theatrfc, from 10 till 2 o'clock, and from
lo till 4 on 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 company are feafed, to
■withdraw, as they cannot on any account he permit
ted to remain. '
VIVAT RESPUELICA!
College-Hall.
Readings and Recitations,
Moral, Critical, and Entertaining.
Mr. F E N N E L'L
Relpeitfully informs the Public, that '
THIS EVENING, Saturday, Jan. 21, at 7 o'c-lock
Will be delivered,
(first part)
On the Means of Improvement in Oratory, includ
ing feltsiflions from Dr. Blair.
(second fart) 4
Satan's Address to the Sun, Milton.
Anthony's Speech on the BoiJy of Julius
Csefar, Shakespeare.
Anthony's Funeral Oration, Shakespeare
(third part.)
Hamlet's Soliloquy oil Death, Shakespeare.
Cato's -Soliloquy on the Immotiality" of
the Soul, Addifon.
Ode on the Passions, Collins.
—— V
£5" On MONDAY, January 23d,
SeltiSions from History.
Edwin and Angelina.
Gray's Elegy ; and
Part of the Deserted Village.
Tickets to be had of Mr. Poulfon, jun. at the Library ;
at mr. M'Ebvee's looking-gtefs-ftore, No. 70, S. Fourth
ftreet; and at Mr. Carey's, Bookseller, Market-flreet—
Half a dollar each.
Admiflion tickets for Children (a quarter of a
dollar each) to be had at either of the above place?.
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carried oa in an extensive manner for these 30 years
past, the various branches of Goldsmiths' and Jew
ellery, plaied and hard-ware Cutlery, and Ironmonge
ry business, and haj general knowledge of the Dry
Good and many other businesses. He has a particular
taftc for building, has built extensively for himfelf,
has condafted buildings for others, and is of opinion
that his lervices to auy gentleman that might be in
went of a person to condufl any of the aforel'aid busi
nesses, would not onlj- be ufeful but an acqmfition, as
he will engage, ou liberal terms, either as a falsfman
or tc fell on commiflion as an agent, afl as a partner or
take the care of a manufactory, or fupcrintepd build
ing;, &c. He is a married man, and having no family
but his wife who v. ouldaft as a saleswoman or houle
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lutes, or to take a voyage to Europe as a fupereargo.
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li(h,lrifh, and Scotch manufactories, as he carried on
business for ten years ill London, but; od account of
unavoidable.misfortunes in his country, he is now for
ced to seek for a living for himf If and wife in this
way, and he flatters himfelf that he will £iv«/ entire
f»tisfai?.ion to his employer. And as he is well known
in this city, and to the msft char/<3«rs on
the continent, doiibts-not but his cluraAer, morality
and indefatigable industry, will bear the ftrldleft en
quiry
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January; 18. *jt
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PY about a fortnight since, may have him again by
I roving property and paying charges. Apply to the
PriiiUr.
January 10 .3 ,
CONGRESS OF 'THE UNITED STATES.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Wednesday, January 4, continued.
The report of the committee of Ways and Means
011 the fubjeft of the balances due from indivi
dqal States to the United State* being under con
_ fidcratioru
Mr. Williams recapitulated what he had before said
on the fubjeft of emigration, and infilled upon the rfif
advantage it was of to them in the settlement.
Mr. Gilbert said, before the queltion was finally
taken, he wa'f dlfpofed to make a few obfervatioas
more 011 the fubjeft, though he did uot know that
he should fnggelt any new arguments. From the
apparent disposition of the committee, frpm their
r#fufal to grant any time as requafted by the debtor
Hates, that Mey might be enabled to convince the
Hotife of the iujudice of this claim against them,
{he said) lie could entertain but little hope of suc
cess, by any argument or consideration with the
committee ; he (hould, however, as a duty he owed
ta the general sense of mankind, as well as to his
immediate constituents on that lubjedV, proceed in
| a summary juray to examine Jtirther into the merits
I and propriety of the refolutioa before them, and
fuhmit certain considerations resulting from the
fabjefl, to the reflection of' those who were dif
poled to consider them.
The resolution, be said, was in effect, afTerting a
claim, by the United States, to those balances
againlt the individual liates, and making solemn
demand oflhem for the payment. It would there
' fore be proper, he said, to examine the fubjeft, in
order to be clearly fatufied, against all objections,
'that this was a jujl and righteous claim. And in
his opinion, Mr. C. said, the present was the pro
per m«ment, notwithstanding the opposite feuti
ments exprefled by some gentlemen, for makinjA
the enquiry and ascertaining the important fadL
It would be remembared, he said, that when
Congress m?de provifian to pay the balances claim
ed by the creditor dates, about three years agoj
the fubjeft of these corresponding balances was
prcfented to the consideration of that House,
and underwent a particular animadversion and dif-
It would be recollected how solicitous the
creditor states then were to secure from the.United
Statej provifian for their claims ; and how far they
wese, at that lime, from Hrging or even proposing
the idea contained in the present refeltitioo, ofex
•aQing these balances from the individual states. It
would also be ree»lle&ed by many who were then
present, he said, that certain gentlemen frojn those
states, favoured the opposite idea in behalf of the
debtor states—that one ef the commiflicners em
ployed in the settlement of the accounts, and then
a member of that House, and who, he said, from
his intimate knowledge of all that bulinefs, was
better acquainted with Its nature and merits than
any other member, explained it, and in order to
prevent any measure like the present, proposed a
relinquifhment of all such claim on the ground of
justice, policy and equity. It would also be recol
lected, he said, that it was considered at that time,
by certain gentlemen of the creditor states, that
such lelinquiftimeot ought to be made; and that it
was particularly so contended by one of those gen
tlemen, then very adtiveas well as eminent en this
floor, and now of the Senate—that this geutleman
considered the law prefenbing the mode of settle
ment and rule of apportionment (and he was one
of the makers of it) no more than 1 an artificial ar
rangement for effecting a final settlement and quie
tus of that difficult business—which con(tru£tion,
Mr. G. said, derived great strength from the a£t
itfelf, as well as from other confiderations—for it
was remarkable, he said, that the a£t prescribing
the mode of settlement, without expreffiug any
thing as to exaflting payment from the individual
states, against wl»m balances should be rendered,
cantains express engagement that prorifion should
be wade, by Congress, for the payment of such ba
lances as should be rendered in favor of individual
states. This remarkable omifiion and fiienie of
the aft rtfpe£ting the debtor states, feemcd to him,
he said, strong evidence that no such thing, as now
contended for, was then coinempla'cd. It it true,
said Mr. G. that no such relinquifhment was then
made; but it i» equally true, that after provision
was made for the creditor states, pursuant to the adt
of settlement, no .motion or idea like the one corf
tsined in the resolution before us, was offered ; and
j t,hat, the impreflious arising from the con
| liderations then suggested, it seemed to him, and so
;he had beett, he fafd, in fact assured by others, that
1 no fiich cljl.ii, as the present, would ever be af
j ferted.
! In addition to these obferrations, in reference to
the former impressions entertained upon the lubjeft,
Mr. G. laid, he /hould be glad to fee on what ba
sis this claim agaiijft the individual Ita'.es rcfted, and
whether it were fohd or net. When he contem
plated the state of thiftgs nnder the »ld fabrick of
confederation, lie could find he said, no principles
contained in that? com past, to warrant the course
and proceeding adopted, in refpeft to the settle
ment of those accounts, by the present government.
He could perceive 110 fort t»f provision ji\the new
con ft it ut ion, by which cohgrefs could derive, ores
ercife any power of arranging and dire£ting the
mode of settlement in the manner they had done ;
and although such proceeding, so far as it, related to
the United States only, might be proper aqd found,
if they contemplated a mere artificial arrangement,
for ascertaining and fettling all accounts, andqui-""
etting those who were creditor states ; yet if they,
intended by such mode of proceeding, to exaiEt the
balances which should be rendered against individu
al (tales also, the procetfding anf) a£t of congtefs as
to their binding influence on individual states, he
considered (he said) quite unconstitutional and nu
gatory. And this consideration also, he said, cor
roborated th<f conftrudtion whish had been made,
that the law us the United States prescribing the
mode of settlement, was but an artificial plan, for
aecomplifliirig an easy and final close of that bttfi
nefs.
To avoid the force of ftiph übje£tion, as wtll as
all other exceptions, belaid, it had been urged and
refptikd, that the settlement had been the relult
of an aibitration between th_- ftat/s, and that this
was the filial award, as repotted by the commifii
oners. But where fir, he asked, was the evidence
>.f such arbitration among the parties ? Where are
their submissions to befaund. He said he had ne
ver seen any- Certainly th« legislature of the U-
Rited States would not he said, consider their own
a£ts competent to such and arbitration,
as must bind all the individual states, uulefs there
was. eXpVefs power given them by the conftitutian
fijr such aft of legislation. Certainly he said, it
was not pretended, that conprefa had any special
delegated authority from the individual" llates for
tha* proceeding. Admitting however, that con
gfefj had been specially authoriz-sd to adt on that
fubjeft by way of 'arbitration, yet he said, palpa
ble error, or mistaken principles tending to an une
qual result, without any frgud or fault in any party,
and much more so, when the unfair com'uft and ex
travagenee of a parry contributed to such result,
would always nullify the award. • On the ground
therefore, of arbitriment and award, he said, the
claim mult alio tail.
The principles of the extraordinary mode of f«t
tlement, the unequal rule of apportionment, their
application.to New-York, with theit unequal epi
lation and effects, he said, had already been fully
explored by hii colleagues as well as himfelf, to the
committee, and therefore needed not again to fee
fpecified.
When we take a retrofpeflive and compara ive
view of the efforts and conduct of the feveraf ftntes
during the revolutionary war, anjl compare it'with
the statement of accounts made by the (.ovnmiflioß
ers, and fee the enormous sum placed against New-
York, far beyond the amount »f all the sums pla
ced against other states ; at firft blush he said, all
would be convinced, (except those who intended
not te be) that the settlement must have been une
qual, and if f« found a claim against the ttate, ve
ry unjulf. He had said it before, and he said he
would here repeat it, that he did not think there
was a member on that floor, who -w3s acquainted
with the whole btifinels, how gravely soever he
might affe& to think otheiwife, that could in his
confcienec believe the statement made against New
York to be the result of a fair equal adjustment.
In that settlement, he said, was found, (and that
under direction and fan&ion of the law) that while
no charges by New York had been made againlt the
United States, but for general defence, and autho
rised service Jlridty vouched ; there had been allow
ed in favor of other states,, charges and claims of
all forts, as well for private as for general defence,
for unauthorised as well as authorised Services, and
all these whether vouched or not. Was there ever
said he, such an inequality heaid of ? He believed
not. This circumliancc however, afforded convic
tion to his mind, he said, that what had been here
tofore urged, was true, tw wit—that congress canfi
dered it but an artificial arrangement.
For (he said) a these things, with the unequal
rule of apportionment must, and moft»certaiuly
yvere foreleen, it weuld rat otherwise be explained
or accounted for, at this day^—and thetefsre (he
fajd) he gave it that conftrudtion, which alane it
would coujlitutionably and rationally bear ; and
some »f riiefe, who were makers of the law* de
clared was its only intent and meaning. To for
tify this conclusion the more, (he said) he fhauld
present another view of thefuhjeft resulting from
the change of politicalfituation, which he thought
defeived feriaus confidcration.
It seemed to him (he said) that gentlemen mis
took the state of things in refpeft ta. the United,
and the individual states, and confounded themselves
with those local feelings and dilpofiti».ii so predo
minant under the old confederation. Under the
old fabric (he said) each state stood alone clothed
with all the right»-u£-fc>vereignty and means of re
venue. The United States who had incurred this
debt, were refj-ouirbie for its payment, without
the power or means to difchargc it—To remedy
this defedt, to give all power and means to the U
nited States requisite to fatisfy this debt, and pro
vide for all other exigencies, and to meet all oc
currences, a new compact was formed and lyftcm
adapted. To effect this purpofc, the individual
states ceded great portions of their sovereignty and
all their principal means ef revenue. These ces
sions were more ar less impßrtant to the United
States (be said) according ta the magnitude and
peculiar lucxl Jxtuation as the state. The cessions
made By New-York in-this refpeit, if not equal
or superior toar.y other, were (he said) of gteat
er value than ftidfe of .one halt of all the other
states in the Union, and served to afford ta the
United States mere a&ual current revenue. And
yet so little grateful or imprefled with manly re
fpeil for the boan, in which they ali participated
alike, (he said) thert,*feemed a mntradmg levelling
defpotilin that was not to be fatisfied, so loßg as
that state was luppofed to be more wealthy than
ftime of her neighbors. He hoped however (he
said) that liberal feelings and candid reflection on
this fubjeft, would discover the injuilice, the Im
.propriety of asserting this claim against the indi
vidual states ; and that a due confidcration of po
licy and of justice, in reference to the mode of
settlement, and lii-fegard to the conftitutionajity
of the, la vr p efc ibing it, as well as tHe political !
change in the arrangement of the government of
the United States and th? great resources of reve
nue ceded by individual states, when feiioufly con
templated with all the probable cenfequences re
sulting from this proceeding, would restrain the
committee from adopting the resolution piopofed
and induce them to abandon the projedt, as unjuit
and eppreffive, cantrnry to the Spirit and meaning
of the law, as well as the constitution of that go
vernment—But if they were inclined (he said) to
adopt it, in order to hear what the states had to
allege against the demand, he was confident New
\ ork would be able to offer good and Sufficient
reason, to (hew that the claim against her was un
just and ill founded and ought not to be.exa&ed.
[To be Continued.]
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FHILADELP HI A,
SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY ai, 1797.
Died on Wednesday morning last, at Burlington,
New-Jersey, Richard Brooke Roberts, lifq. of South
Carolina, Major of Infantry in the fervicc of the United
States.
Meflrs. Wignell and Reinagle, Managers of the
New Theatre, have put i«to th« hands of the Mayor
of this City, ttoo hundred and forty-fix dollars and
fifty-five cents, for the benefit of the fufferers by the
late fire in Savannah.
COMMUNICATION,
%
The Aurora it angry beeaufe writers in England
fj»eak with refpett of the President's valedictory—
beeaufe they derive from it texts of political wjj".
dom, and apply them 16 their own affairs—beeaufe
they barrow strength from I hat name which it,i#
the pride of all good men here to believe will L.e im
mortal; and beeaufe tbey use that lirength agamlt
the enemies of the human race—call them jacobins !
Men abhorred by all the friends of liberty & jaw—
Hrangled by the very mother who boie them—a
felon race who have found in the Botany bay of fomc
of our cities a refuge from the whips of their native
country. Formerly, convi£ts, when they did come
among us, rej^eneiated—a murderer, lung inured to
humility and hard laoor, repented and reformed ia
a scene that was aufpicieus to human nature—
The crimes of men were then perpetrated or, a small
fcale—collediive murder—butchering en mafTe wa»
not knowh. The wish of the flagitious Roman ty
rant, was the ridicule and the horror of the school
—The harr:ble grime -of jaeobiniini was unknown.
DOCUMENTS
Which accompanied thevnieflage of the President of
the United States to both Houses of Congrei's,
January 19, 1797.
Letter to Mr. Pinckmy, Mirujler Plenipotentiary of
the United States to the r'rench Republic.
Department of State, January 16, 1797.
SIR,
In ray letters ef the sth and 26th u!t. I feat you
two Notes from Mr. Adet, the Mi liter of ,ie
Frenvh Republic to the United States ; the to m
er dated the 27th of Oitoher, and he latter the
15th of November lalt; and my infwer to the
firft. The latter note embracing nUrr.eroiu topic*
of complaint, and going as far bai.k as the year
1793, required a particular examination ail the
tranfafiions of our government from that time to
the preffint. The other iiidifpqttfable duties of the
office prevented tny entering on this examination
as early as I had expected, and she current bnfi
nefs has retarded the pursuit. The result of this
examination 1 am how, by the dircftion of the
Prelidcnt ps the United States to communicate to
you. This history of out affairs you will tmi sup.
ported by documents, many of which were deliver
ed to you at your departure, and the relidue will
be herewith tra«fmitted. The remarks and reason
ings on fadh you will duly appreciate ; aad, from
the whole,joined with your own obfervation6, yoa
will be enabled, it it believed, to vindicate the li
nked States, and to their impartiality
as a neutral nation, their fidelity in the oldlervatiori
of treaties, and their fricndlliip as an ally.
Ihe difcuiDon on which I am entering will in*
volve much repetition ; for tkegeneral queftioimand
particular cales grouped together i h the Mini tier's
last note, have been fubjetis of controveify and
correfpondeuce from May I 793 to this dav. Some
Other points have indeed-feeen contended for, which
the Minilter has now without notice. Why
they ate omitted I know not ; for in these cases
the United States were as ppfitively charged with
violating treaties as in those which he has been
pleased now to detail. Some ol thwm it may be
fouud proper to introduce, to render less imperfect
the view of our relations to France.
The complaints of the Fr'ench minister against th«
United States, have reference ta three principal
iubjc&s. 1 ft. lo the abandonment of their neu
tiai ri'hts to the injury of France,-in not maintain,
ing the pretended principles of the modern law of
cations, thatfree/lips make free goods Ani that tim
ber and naval ftorcs for the equipment and arma
ment of veffcls, are nut coutrabar.d of war.
2d. To violations of our treaties with France e
ven in their letter. '
3d. Tiil the Treaty of Amity and Commerce bet
ween the United States a„d Great-Britain ; which
he alledges '< deprive, France of all the auvanta,ei
ftipulalcd in a prev.ous treaty." A fourth com
plaint i» t. uly ingenious. The fortune of war ha.
constrained some of the belligerent powers from e
nemres, to become her allies ; aad if the alleged
abandonment of the rule of the modern law of na
tions, limsconfequences, works an injury to those
ahies, from that moment France is alio injured.
1 evhaps 1; will be in time to notice this last charge
when the allies themselves complain ; if the answer
to the firft, involving the fame principle, should not
render inch notice altogether URneceffary.
1 fiiail now prcL.it to your view those fads and
observations which will pr.ve,.we con:ei,e, that'
the mini Iter's complaints ar« without any iuft foun
dation. J
Under the firft charge, That we have not main
tained, as we ought to have done, our neutial
rights, it is alledged ;•
ijL That the pofuion, that frte Jhib,make free
goods, is an eftablUhed principle of the modern
law,ot nations, and that Great-Briuin, by cap
turing French properly on board our vessels, has
violated our neutral rights ; and that unlrfs we
canape! Great-Britam to refpecl those rights, France
will be jultiSed in violating them.
Not to remark on the singular reasoning, Tbat
if one warring pawer commits an adl of injustice
towards a neutral and innocent nation, aiioiher
warring power may lawfully commit the like id.
jultice, we may ask what authority is adduced, to
fl)ew that the modern law of nations has eftablifh
!ed the piiutiple, That free Jhips make fee goods