New Theatre. The Entertainments of the •'Now Theatre will be •postponed 'till Monday, the 30th Inft. on account of the preparations nccefl'ary f'»r the Historical Play of COLUMBUS. College-Hail. Readings and Recitations, Moral, Critical, and Entertaining. Mr. FENNELL Ref(jedlf'illy informs the Public, that THIS EVENING, Monday, Jan. 13, at 7 o'clock. Will be delivered, * (First part) The Death of Julius Caesar. Anthony's Funeral Oration, (recited) The effefis of Ai thony's Oration conGdered. The Death of Cicero. The Death of Brutus and Caflius. (second part) Edwin and Angelina Elegy in c Country Church Yard, (third part.) The Deserted Village, ( rlt part) TO-MORROW EVENING, Tuesday, January 24, Will be delivered, (first part) Beauty and other pleasures of Taste. On the Means of Improvement in Tlite, including felefliorn from Dr. Blair.* ( SECOND PART) The Choice of Hercules, or The Triumph of Virtue, (third part) Ode to Truth, Sitsn's Address to the Sun, Ode to Madness, Tickets to be had of Mr. Poulfon, juII. at the Library ; at rnr. M'Elwee's looking-gfefs-flore, No. 70, S. Vourih ftreet; and at Mr. Carey's, Beokfeiler, Market-ftrcet— Half a dollar each. J Admiflion tickets for Children (a quarter of a dollar each) to be had at either of the above places. NOTICE. Persons having Goods on board the Ship Persever ance, James Williamfon, mailer, bound from Ham burg t« this Port, and lately put into New-Yerk, where the Vefiel is discharging, will please apply to THOMAS and JOHN KETLAND. * Philadelphia, Jan. ji, 1797, tf Loft or Miilaid, At the Bank of the United States, Joseph Higbee's Note, dated 29th December latl, lor twelve hundred dollars, payable at 60 days to Nathaniel I.ewis & Son. Whoever may find the fame will please return it to said Bank, or to the fubferibers, who will allow a reward." Payment being barred, it cannot be of «fe to any other person. NATHANIEL LEWIS & SON. January j. J. ii, Jt FOR SALE, A yery Valuable Eitate, CALLED T WIT T E NH A M, situate in the townlhip of Upper Derby, andconutyof Delaware, 7 1-2 miles from Phiiad lphia, and hats a mile from the sew Weftarn road , containing 230 aer«s of excellent 45 of which are good watered meadow, 90 of prime wood land, aad the reil arable of ths firft quality. There are on thepremifesagood two story brick honfe, with 4 rooms oh a floor, and cellars under the whole, with a pump-well of excellent water in froßt; a large frame barn, (ÜbLs and other tonvenieut buildiEgs; a l'moke-hmife and (tone, spring-house ; two good apple orchards, and one of pesch- The fields are all in clover, except those immediately under jtillage, and.are so laid out as to have the advantage of water in each of them, which readers it peculiarly con venient for grazing. Th« situation it pleasant and healthy, and fro:* the high cultivation of the land, the good neighbourhood, and tht vicinity to the city, it is very' suitable for a gentlemau'i country feat. The foregoing is part of the estate of Jacob Harman dcceifcd. and ofTsrod forfale by OA- 31. law Surviving Executor CONGRESS of run UNITED STATES, HOtTSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Wednesday, January 4, concluded, The report of the committee of Ways and Means on the fubjeft of the balances due from indivi dual States to the United Stai«j being under con fidcration. . Mr. laid, from the nature of the ob jefiioos which had been made, h; (hould have been as well fatisSedjf the present fubjeft had not at all been stirred ; but having been moved, i[ ought not to he abandoned. And thi3 flowed fro(« the nature ' of the ebjt'flicn offered ; bccatife, if they had a right, they had the moral or phy/icalpower of en forcing that light. There could be no doubt, if the money was due, it Slight to be paid, and every C9ltfideration of expediency pointed out thisasthe proper tine. He knew he had heard Ihe gentlemen from New-York, over, and over, and oyer again, deny that tl|« debt was due ; but, fiippofing this 'to be the cafe, why not make the application ? If when that application was made, any flaiettid not chafe to pay' the money, they would ef course Kate their ebje&ions. But he watT well fatigfie'd they ' ought not to flop at making the demand. They j K»d been told, though not in dircft dims, in faeh as were well understood, that we might demand if we pleased; but, under the present impreffiuns B f New-York, they would not f»j the debt said to be: due from them. They had been told by other gen tlemen that they had not the qjeans to coerce the ! payment. If this were rhe cafe, it was proper they fhouM lay hands upon, the only thing in their pow er, which, was their>fliare of the public debt of the- UOtOlt. By this, Mr. S.said, it would be fern, that he meant to revive the quellion of the gentleman from Virginia (Mr Nicholas). He w? s very indiffer ent about the fate oT the former motion, bccaufe he Goldfmilh Cray Goldsmith \Lwwth Mason Milton Penrofe Mordecai Lewis, knew there was no rule of order that could prevent an amendment being introduced in thi committee of the whole for difcudion. He-said, if they could get at this money, violating any principle ol right, they ought to lay hands ou at lealt a debt of I ,200,000 dollars, for which they were receiv ing ititerelt ; more especially as this,was a part of the balance found againll them in the settlement of the accounts. Mr. S. said he could drawns analogy between the -prefeut business and the Britilh treaty, and wondered any gentleman should think ofintrodu cing that fubjedl. It might be porfe&ly true, he said, that it would be improper for one nation to lay hands on the property of another ; but, was there any law to prevent him from laying hold of his antagonist ; and if, said he, the property of the Hate of New-York is in my hand, and (he owed me money; where was the propriety of with my right hand, when theie was an uncertainty of receiving with the other ? He thought there could be no objedlion on this ground; but there was an objection on a(A.oiM*t of the negotiability of go vcrnment paper. He owned he had fcrupies on that,fubje&. The gentleman from Virginia hav ing douhtlefs considered the fubje£t, could perhaps remove them. In order therefore to bring the motion before the committee, he moved to add the following amendment. «• Relolvtd, that any transfer of the debt of the United States in the books of the treasury, held by any of the debtor states, by the settlement of accounts between the several states and the Unfced States, or by any person holding evidences of the said debt, (hall be withheld, until the balauces of the said states (hall be discharged. Wr. Nicholas said he did not understand what fciuple the gentleman from Pennlylv;mia could have about the transferable property of these debts. He was fntisfied with refpeft to New-York, and it was iinpoffible any other corporate body or person cf>uld be affefled by the motion. he said, was a sale of the therefore, a denial of transfer- would completely prevent any person from being involved in this measure belides the state in queftmn. Mr. Gilbert asked the gentleman last up, if there was ho difficulty of a constitutional kind i:i tke way of this measure ? If he understood the cqnftitution, they could not pass an ex post fa£ti> law. Had they not alreaiy said this paper should be transfer able ? If so, had they a right to fay it (hauld not b«transfetable ? Was this the regard which the I-e ---giflature intended ts shew toils own faith? He trusted it was not. Mr. Potter objected to the present motion. He fiid the state ot was a del,tor or not. She would either (hew berfelf not to be a debtor, or pay. But to pass this refutation would be to cenfider them as swindlers. If jt wasa debt, he was confident they would pay it. Mr. P. (aid he could not account for the manner in which the gentlemen from New-Yprk had.mana ged this business. In one place they fay they have no authority to adV, and yet in the next moment they proceed to oppose the refutation to eall tjpon their State fur the debt, as tf they fnppofed that unlrfs they opposed the business, their Itate would be so simple and honeit as to pay, without objfc&i on. Bat, for his part, until he. kne<fr whether thai state would pay this debt, or hot, he (houffi believe they would pay it honorably. Mr. Williams defended the conduct of the dele gates ftom the state of New-York. Mr. Gallatin wiflied the mover to modify the re foiutinn, {& that it (hould Rot aflcdt any (late to a greater amount tl«an the debt they owed. For in stance, the balance against Pennsylvania was about Bo,coo dollars, but (he had upwards of 400,000 in the funds, and he (hould wi(h that the pioviflon (hould not reach to a higher sum thsti the Bc,ooo. He laid he had, however, no fort of view to Penn sylvania, because he believed (he would make no obje&ion to fulfil her engagements. An amendment to this effect was introduced, when the queflion was put and negatived, 45 to 30. The original resolution being under confidera lion, Mr. Hendeifon said, he should not have rose, but for an observation of the gentleman from New- York (Mr. Gilbert.) That gentleman had said, " That he did not believe thtre was a member of that committee who really believed the balance found against the state of New-Yark, to be just." Mr. H. said, if he were of this opinion he (hould vote again It the resolution ; but believing, as he did, that the balances were just, being fcultd by men of. abilities and integrity, who had no iitfereft to do OiLer .han right, and as no objection had ever been made by any of the states against the.balan. ces, be should think himfelf unfaithful to his con diluents if he did not vote for it. He begged, therefore, the gentleman would except him from the number who did not believe the debt juti. I Mr. Gilbert allowed the geuileroan might be an exception. Mr- believed the debts just, aud deftr ed to be ane'her exception. Mr. Potter said one gentleman from New-York talked of the great exertions of th.it state in the war, another came forward and said he tfcd nat'be lievi t.'.ere was a member in thehoufe who believed in his heart the debt was just. Every Bate in the Union, he said, might come forward and boast of what what they had done ; but it would serve little purpose ; for his part, he-believed New-York bad done the lesl}, and been benefited more than any two states. lie wished also to be excepted from the gentleman's account. He thought the debt just. 6 Mr. Burgefsread feme ebfervations, which flat ted the hardihips experiended by North-Carolifia during tht; war; and as to the debt which she was laid to owe, (he ceuld not p«y it. Mr. B'» voice was so low, that it was impossible to take s (ketch 6f his ideas. Smith (aid he was one of those who could W»e wished the present fobjcft had not been bro't before the hoiife ; but being before it, h« was rea dy to give his vote for the measure, as it was in cumbent upon them to endeavor to get the balance paid. Th« gentlemen from New-Y«rk and North- Carolina had complained of the ir.juft-tce'of the vebt. The Hate which h« represented, he said, was a .debtor (late, and they were willing and able to pay. The -gentlemen from New-York, it ap peared, were anxious to have the whole business opened again. Oneijf those gentlemen gave as a for this, that (lores in the account were charged more in one state than in another. He saw no injury in this, as flour might be pnrchafed in Virginia at 7 dollars a barrel, when m Pennsyl vania it might be I». This tingle objection (hew ed-what cavilling would be the confequcnce »f an opening anew of the accounts. Mr. S. said it appeared to him that the state of North-Carolina had less reason to complain, than any other state in the Union. He did not mean to fay that they exerted themselves less, and he be lieved the exertions of New-Ysrk were not exceed ed, according to her means, by any other state. An observation, he faiJ, had been mads on the fubjeft of affnmptions, by a gentleman from North Carolina".' He meant not to hare ripped up this bufmefs afreftl ; but since it had been mentioned, he wuirid fay their debt had been occasioned by too high an aflumption ; if that had not been the cafe, they would tiave had to receive a very considerable futn. How, he a2<ed, did New-York get poflef fion of her treasure? By theblsod and- of the whole* in her vacant territory. This was the way in which (lie became rich, and it was extraor dinary that a state which had gained so much by -the revolution, (hwuld be avcrfe from discharging hei just debt. How they were to get at this debt, he knew but the,y mull pay. It was doubted it would not be paid ; but he trusted that a ft»te famed for her order and good government, would not refufe to pay a debt so justly due. When the mode settlement was agteed to, Mr. S. said, none knew wh<» would be debtors and who creditors. All acqiriefced in it. Why, then, talk about going anew into the business, which might take them a year to fettle the principles upon which it should be opened ? He trusted these balances would he paid, as the reprcfentatives of creditor dates would be very un willing to lay a direiSt tax upon their conftitueHts until they were discharged. Mr. Blount observed, thet he had said so much on a farmer occasion upon this fubjefi, and know ing that whatever he might fay would Save no ef fect upon the decifimi, he meant to have fatiified himfelf with (hewing by the yeas and nays, that he had not been cotifeHting to the measure. But when he heard the gentleman from Maryland ( Mr. Smith J f;:y " that North-Carolina had less reason than any other state to complain," it would have been criminal in him to have been filenl. He had made the aff.<rtion without a single fa& : it could not be ttSe. He believed the lAiited States would not believe it. not Georgia and Sooth-Ca rolina, Mr; B. asked, defended by North-Carolina? Could it have been believed that Georgia was a creditor state, when charged 0:1 the ratio of two rrprefeotatives when entitled to less than one. Had nor South-Carolina militia from North Caro lina in almost every month of the war? Such an aflertion was one, that, on reflection, the gentle man w«uld be ashamed of having made. Mr S>, Smith defended his afTertion, which he grounded on her debt having been very considera bly over aflfumed. Mr. Blount said, if they had no other grounds of complaint, they (hould have complained of this.. If North-Carolina had had no debt assumed, he laid, (he would have been a creditor for more than two millions. She would have funk the debt, inftcad ps having a debt of more than 430,000 at home, and under a charge of owing to the United States more than 500,000 dollars Mr. Livinglton said it was extraordinary, that gentlemen Pnould be continually infilling upon the impropiietv of going into an enquiry whether the claims in queilion were just or unjull, yet they themielve9 went into comparisons betwixt the ser vices o( different states. He would not make any comparison on the ; bat he would do what lie thotiglit neceflary, viz. tcilify to the world his ohje&ious to the present proceedings. He had al ready taken up so mu.h time of the committee, whi.-h however had been moltly employed in fruit less attempts to get the Lufinef> postponed, that he lliuuld bt unwilling then to trespass long upon their patience. 1 his bulinefi, he said, originated under the old confederation. The states agreed upon an order for the settlement t>f their debts; but in the new conftitijtiob they entered into a new governmental compa& for the settlement of tbele debts, so that it was Sound to be necefTary to'take up the fubjeft. They therefore found two laws palled. Here, he laid, was the great evil which New-York had to complain of. Here, every state who wilhed to set aside the settlement, fhnuld point. The United State*, who was a party concerned, pafled a law appoint, \g commissioners arid prefetibing rules 10 govern the two parties, without any delegation from the states. AH the states, be fni'd, would al ways have an interest in throwing a burden upon one ftaie, and the tnjuftice complained of would ap pear, if it was (hewn that this was done. It was not only their interest, he said, to da this, but rules had i&lually been prescribed which were unjust to fume ol the states. This hw, he said, was pafled. New-York had no representative in the business who had the power to bind her to this new settlement. 1 he accounts of that state were kept clear and te gulat, with vouchers to eveiy charge ; but in this law, it was allowed to the commifiioners to receive accounts unsupported by vouchers, if they (hould fee proper. He afesd if this were just to those who had been scrupulously carreft ? If it were just, lie thanked God he had never learnt or pradtifed upon such principles of jtiflice. Another rule established was, how the debt should be divided amungft ihe different states. The states had prescribed rules, under the old confederation ; but these were chang ed by this law. It was now fettled that the rule of apportionment should be made upon a scale of population. How this affected New-York had been (hewn by one of his colleagues (Mr. Williams). From forty or fifty thousand inhabitants, which was about their number at the conclusion of the war, from emigration, they had then one hundicd and thirty or hundrrd and forty tht ufantl. asked, therefore, whither thii rule'-wc* jult I It it was not, how could gentlemen be chained with advocating unfounded positions, and even have a week's delay retufed to gain information o:i the fubjeCt. It was his opinion thef.- arguments had weight, but perhaps, his opinion might not have much weight with the committee. But, setting aside this principle of apportioning the debt, taking it -for granted, that New-Yotk contented to the whole, ftili, he said, there were principles even ia common law, under an award, which thigbufinefs had been likened to, that would enable them to attain relief under their complaints. It was impossible, time had not beer, allowed them to doit, tobring forward vouchers, otherwise they (hould have proved that fuck overcharges had been made by other states, a 4 would have convinced that House of the propriety of setting aside this settle ment ; but not having thele voucher*, he would fay no mere en this head. The rule* of settlement being changed without their cenfent, being, ia their opinion, uiyult, it it was in vain that to the jufticc and equi ty of the house he woulti appeal 10 the expediency of thep'refeat meature. The debt, he said, might be just. He woßld not be underltood as faying, that the state of New-Yoik considered the debt as unjust, but he thought (he did. Thinking it un just, the probability was, (he would reiule to pay it, and produce her vouchers to the woild, to tliew that (be ought not/ ta pay it. In what fnuatiou would the United States then be ? The state ot New-York was not to e looked upon as jn individual, it was a sovereign indepen dent Hale of the Union, persuaded of the injustice of the present claim, (lie would rclufe to pay it. Already, laid he, you would have taken one itep, you have said you would he paid. They had been told, he said, by the gentleman from South-Caro lina (Mr. W. Smith) of the advantages which wnuhj arise to the Union by the payment of this drbt, by the Hate of New York. He told them of the Navy, the Forts, &c. it would build. In deed he put him in mind of the exploits of J)on Qwixote i for though he had not built himfeif Wind-mills, he had ereifted himfeif many beautiful castles in the air, which, he fam.ied, would hav« their proper effect upon the house. He hoped the reasons he adduced, if they had not the cRcSL to reje<ft the prop<»litio», would at Icaft shew that the itatc of New York had ground to be dtfTatisfied with the proccedit g, Mr. Baldwin went over many of the atgumenu of thelait speaker, and endeavoured to prove unfounded. He also 'juftifkd the state of Georgi a's b«ing a creditor state, which he said was owing to its debt having been aflumcd at 300,000, instead of 700,000 di'llavs. Mr. Potter alio notictd the arguments which had fallen fiom the gentleman from New-York, infif. tinj(> upo« their iintenablenefs of the objections, and of the juliice of the claim. - The qaeftion was put and carried by a eoniider able mjjority,there being 53 membeis iti fiuor of it. The committee then rrafe, and on motion being made fur the house to take up the buiirtds, Mr. C'hriftie hoped the house would adjoHfa, or had no doubt the gentleftien from New. Yotk meant to give them a few more longfpeeche* on the osca fion, and he did not with then, to Hay to hear tbera. Adjourned. D OCU ME NTS Which accompanied the me.Taf, f the President of the United Stales to both i-toui'cs ot Cdngrtfs, January 19, 179;. Letter to Mr. Piucknej, Minijter Plenipotentiary if the United States to the Frtnch Republic, [Continued from Saturday's Gazette.} With these dispositions, the empress of RufHi in February 1780, made public the principles on which fl>e would maintain the commerce of her ful»- je£b. It is neceflTary here r* recite only two of them. 1 ft., That all the effe&s belonging to fwb jc&sof the nations at war ihould be free on beard neutral vessels ; contraband goods excepted. That the articles of contraband, (hould be regulat ed by the 10th and 11th articles of her treaty »f commerce with Great-Britain, extending the regu lations of thofc articles to all the belligerent paw ers. To enforce the observance of t'hefe principles, (he gave orders for eqtiiping a confiderabl.: pan of her marinei lii Jtily of the fame year, Denmark acceded to the principles of ihc armed neutrality, and entered into a convention with Ruflia, for maintaining them, afTtiming for her rule in determining what articlet Ihould be deemed contraband, her treaty of com merce with Great-Britain, eoncluded the i|th of July, 1670. In the third article of this treaty, the description of contraband goods is 111 general terms : " Any provisions of war, as foldieis, arms, machines, cannon, ftiips, or other things of ng ceflary use in war." But by a convention conclud ed at Louden on the 4th of July 1780, between Great-Britain and Denmark, " te explain the trea. ty of commerce of 16 jo between the two powers," the articles deemed qelttiabnnd aie particularly enu merated, and among them we fee " timber for fhip-btiiidinj;, tar, refm, c&pper in (heels, fails, iiemp and cordagr, and generally whatever ferret diredly for the equipment of a veflel, unwioughl iron ancj fir-planks excepted." It is remarkabk that thele are the vuy atticlc»_ admitted as eontra bandin the tSt'u article of our treaty of cemmerce with Great-Britain, and for which admiflion Mr, Adet declares, " All.the commercial relations-be. tween Franc# and the United States are entirely broken.", But it ii further to be noticed that this coiitcii tion between Rufiia and Denmark, concluded in the midfl of the American war, for maintaining the principles of the armed neutrality, and tu which oth*r European powers acceded, is explicitly declared, in the gth article*, to have .been coit. eluded and agraed on fur the time thai war should lafi+ ; though it was to serve as a basis to future en gagements; which cir;-wn(lances might render no- * Hist. armed neutrality, page 77. f Marten's Treaties, volume *, page 103.
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