New Theatre. By Desire, THIS EVENING, Friday, February 3, Will be presented, A TRAGEDY, called Venice PrefervM; . Or, A Plot Discovered. Duke of Venice, Mr. Warrell Priuli, Mr. Warren Bedamar, Mr. Fox Pierre, Mr. Cooper Jaffier, Mr. Moreton Hennault, ' MrJ WignM j Spnofj, Mr. Barley, jun. Elliot, Mr. Mitchell Theodo-e, Mr. Biijett Officer, Mr. J. Worrell Belvidera, Mrs. Merry End of the tragedy, a new Ballet Danee, compofsd by Mr. Byrne, callwl The Drunken Provc*cal; Or, The Sailor's Return. I vr *> Mr. gyrnt Will, Mr. Warrell, jun. Vicar, Sig. Doßor Mafes, Mr. Blijptt Dicky G»ffip, Mr. Mitchell Solan. Miss Melbourne Sailors, Meflrs. J. Darley, T. Warrell, Macdonald, Morgan, St. Mare, Lavancey. Laffet, Mrs. Doiftor, Miss Oldfield, Miss L'Eftrange, Miss Bates, Miss Anderfon, M'llc Sophie. To which will be added, A FARCE, called Animal Magnetism. Marquis de Lancy, Mr. Fox La Fleur, Mr. Hanwood DoiSer, Mr. Francii Picard, Mr. M'Donald Francois, Mr". Warrell, jun. JefTcry,' Mr. BliJJett Conflance, Mrs. Harvey Lifgtte, Mrs. Francis Box, One Dollar cents. Pit Seven Eighhs of a Dollar, and Gallery, half a dolliir. £j* Tickets to be k id at H. & P. Rice's iSook-ftare. No. 50 High-street, and at the Office adjoining the Theatre. Ladies and Gentlemen are requefled to fend their servants to keep places a quarter before 5 o'clock, and to order them, as soon as the company are fsated, to withdraw, as they cannot on auy account be ted to remain. The Doors of the Theatre will open at 5, and the Curtain rife precisely at 6 o'clock. Places for the Boxes to tie'taken at the Office in the front of the theatre, from 10 till 2 o'clock, and from so till 4 on the days of performance. FIFAT RESPUBLICA ! College-Hall. Readings and Recitations, Moral, Critical, and Entertaining. On SATURDAY EVENING, Feb. 4, at 7 o'clock, Will be continued; THE EFFECTS OF AMBITION AND <»UILTj. Confidcred, traced and exemplified in the character of Macbeth. With a recitation of the whole character, and moral \nd critical observations on the character, and on the au thor; £3" On Tuefdav, 7th February, The EFFECTS of AMBITION and C-UILT, Exemplified In the charades- of iiatan and the Fallen Angels, with rtcitatiom from Milton. Tickets to be had of Mr. Poulfon, jun. at the Library ; «t mr. M'Elifree's looking-glass-store, No. 70, S. Fourth fireet ; and at Mr. Carey's, iJookfeller, Market-ftrect— Half a dollar each. FOR SALE, A very Valuable Eltate, CALLED T WIT T E If H A M, fituare in the township of Upper Derby, andedunty of Delaware, 7 J-2 miles from Phiiad Iphia, and half a mile from the new Wcftern road :containi»g 230 aer« of excellent land, 45 of which are good watered meadow,of prime wood land, and the refl arable of the firft quality. There are on tire preroifes a good two story brick with 4 rooms on a floor, and cellars under the whole, with a pump-well of excellent water in front; a large frame fcarn, (tables' and other convenient buildings; a fmoke-hoafe and (tone, spring-house ; two good apple orchards, and one of peach es. The fields are all in clover, except those imnieiiately under tillage, and are so laid dut as to have the advantage of waterin each of them, which renders it peculiarly con venient for grazing. The lituation is pleasant and healthy, anh from the high cultivation of the land, the good neighbourhood, and tht vicinity to the city, it is very suitable for a gentleman') country feat. \ The foregoing is part of the estate of Jacob Harman deceased and offered for sale by Mordecai Lewis, OA" 31. law Surviving Executor Second Ball. New Cotiliens, Scetoh Keels, Contre Dances and a n.w Qindiille. * S ESS FRANCIS S3* BYRNE beg leave to inform JVI their fchblars, frjends and the public in general, that their second iJallf. r thisfeafon will be on Tuesday the 7th of February, at Q'Ellers's Alftmbljr-Room,— and in addition to their new Cotiiions and Reek, will be introduced an entire nsw QTJADIULLE, compos ed by Mr. Byrne. Mess. Francis and Byi nc propose to give gratuitous at tendance at their School-Room, for the inltru&ion of those ladies and gentlemen in dieir new dances*, who mean to honor the ball-room witfc their preftnei, 7—attendance for this purppfe after their school hours, on Tuesdays and I'hurfdayS. Tickets to be had of MefT. Francis sind Byrne, No. 70 north EightSi-flrect or at O'EUers's Hotel. Ladies are rcquefted to apply to their female friends, Icholarsof Mess. F. & B. or is above, at their lefhjtnce. N. B. The new dances will not infringe upon the usual loutinc of the evening. Thedaysof teaclnisg, for their young pupils, arc Thurs days and Saturdays, from three o'clock in the alternoon, 'till fix—and oh Tuesdays and lhurl'days, from fix "till nine, for th<ffc of a more advanced ajje. Private Tuition as u&wl. January 28 taw Philadelphia, February 3. ExtraS of a letter from a refpeflabU character in HHJbro', North-Carolina, to hisfrieud in Phila delphia. We have received a paper containing a ftateroent «f votes which decides the quellion of prefi'clency in favor of Mr. Adams, and although we were oo pofed to his election, the people here generally fcem disposed to (hew that submission to the majority which is alwayi due from the minority in a repub lican government. Philadelphia, February 2d, 1797. Sir, *' 4 IN consequence of repeated publications in the several newspapers throughout thV states, intimating the illegality of the appointment of Ele&ors in the (late of Vermont, arising from an idea that the Legislature proceeds to the choice of Electors, not having an existing law directing the made— to couoteraft the ill impreffiong such publications may have made, I enclose for your publication, a true copy of the law under which the Legislature of that state chose iheir Elefters. ISAAC TICHENOR. Mr. Fen no. s An aft directing the mode of appmnting Electors tocleft the President and Viee-Prefident of the United States. It is hereby enalftd by the General AlJfembly of the fiate of Vermont, That the Eleftois for electing a President and Vice-President ef the United States, be appointed by the ballot ©f the Governor and Council and House of Representatives met in grand committee ; and that those perfoas, to the number \yhiah they have a right to appoint, who (hall have a majority of all the votes of said grand committee, fltall be declared to be duly appointed Eleftoii of this state for the purposes aforefaid. State of Vermont, Secretary of State's office, Vergermes, January 11th, 1797. I hereby certify, the preceding in a true copy of an aft of the .Legislature of this state, palled No yember third, one thousand seven Hundred and ninety-three, and now remaining in force. ( Attest) iIOS. HOPKINS, Secretary. COMMUNICATIONS. Mr. Barney s haste to persuade his fellow-citizens that h<?has, as yet, committed no piracies upon their property, has brought to light some curious cor.feflions. Among other things, ic appears, that he is, at lcail, part owner of a privateer called the Vengeance; and that there is fomelody in Balti more, upon wbom Ill's captain can take the liberty to diaw bills. Had not Mr. B»rney made this dif coveiy, his captain's sea drafts might have been clafled with Buonaparte's Leghorn receipts. He also informs the public that his privateer had cap tll red no American vessels on the 12th December. Why alf j did he not add, that no po/itive orders to capture had been received from Mr. Adet sr the time Ins privateer failed upon her cruise ? it i 6 whispered that before he left the Cape, his privateer was put in poflfeflion of orders to capture out ves sels, and that his agent, Mr. Willfon, was to fell them and their cargoes. Mr. Fenno, THERE is nothing more common than to im pute a public evil to a wrong cause. Thus at the present foment, a number of people fcejp tp think, that the high market rate or interest of m»n«y, it owing entirely to the will of the comparatively few who have it to dispose of. In order to draw the at tention of individuals, both legislators and others, to a full difeuffion of the fubjeft by an able writer, 1 request you will publish the following extracts from " Smith's Wealth of a book Jiighly esteemed by every one who has read it. 111 Vol. 2—Page 41 —Dobfon's Philadelphia Edition, art the following obfeivations : " In fome,countries the interell of money has been prohibited by law. But as something can every where be made by the use of money, some thing ought every vvheie to be paid for the use us it. This regulation, of preventing, has been fouud from experience toenrrrafe the evil of usury ; the debtor being obliged to pay, not only for the use of the money, but for the rifle which his creditoi runs by accepting a compensation for that use. He is obliged, if one may fay so, to insure hisereditor from the jpnalties of usury." In the fame page, be observes, that " where the rate of interest is fixed bylaw, it ought always to be somewhat above the lowest market price, or the price which is commonly paid for the use of mo ney by thofewho can give the moil undoubted se curity." He adds, in page 43, that "No law can reduce the common rate of interest below the lowest ordinary market rate, that cxifts when the law is made." Mr. Smith fnmewhere fays, that the precious metals are the money of the world, and that every country will have the (hare of them, to which it is entitled, in proportion to the amount or produce of its labour ar.d industry. in fpeakiug of indivi duals, in pages 129 and 130, he fays, that "over trading is the common cause of the scarcity of mo ney," owing to individuals adventuring more large ly when the profits of trade happen to be gteater than ordinary, and meeting witfe difappoinimcnts in sales and expected returns. It is frequently said that money being the stan dard whereby to fix the value of every thing else, the rate of inteieft ought to be permanently fixed 'by law. Mr. Smith in of the vol. before men tioned, iilows it to be »' the inftrnment of com merce and » nieafure of value." He however fays, in page 126, " Gold.and Silver are to be bought for a certain price lika all other co,n*ncu/ttics, and as they are the price'of all other commodities, so all other commsdines arc the prict*t)f those metals." . If fortunately the foregoing quotations should induce any of your readers to peiufe-the Doctor's general reakning on ike Jubjtft, my eoi will be anfwercd. It is I believe an acknowledged truth, that gold and filvcr change their value, owing to revolutions in trade combined with other circumftanccs. It then the legislature should attempt to fix a certain price oa them, at lead for any considerable length of time, would it not in all human probability be an arbi.rary one ? AN OBSERVER. From the jimeri\an Daily Aivertifer. DIRECTIONS fk_ / For preventing calamities by F I R E. 1. Ksep your Chiainies and Stove-pipes clean by sweeping them at lfaft once every month. 2. Never remove hot alhes in a wooden bucket, or a wooden velfel of any kind, and look well to the alh-hole. 3. After sweeping a hearth, fee that the hearth brush does not retain any partiulcs of fire, before yoa hang it up in its usual place. 4. Oblige all your servants to go to bed before yon, every night, and infpeft all your fire places before you retire to reft. For fear of Occidents, let a bucket ef water be left in your kitchen every night. The-wriier of these aireftions oncp saved his house from being eoril'umed by fire, by this pre caution. , 5. Do not permit a servant to cany a can lie to his bed roam, if he sleeps in an unplaiftered garret. 6. Cover up your fire carefully every night in ashes. Let the unburut pirts of the billets, or chuncks of woad, be placed next to the hearth, by which means no fparka will be emitted fron) the wood. Pour a little water upon the bu-ning ends of the wood which are not completely covered by • heafhei. Place before the fire a fender made of (heet iron. This contrivance was well known in England many years ago by the name of a coverfeu. It has lately received from a top being added to it, the name ot a hood. 7. Remove papers and linen from near the fire when you leave it, to a remote part of the room. 8. Shut the doors of all the rooms in whiirh you leave fire at night. By thus excluding the supply of frefo air, you will prevent a flame being kind led, should a coal or spark fall upon the floor, or upon any other combustible matter in the room.— The smoke which ifTues from this smothered fire will find its way into every part of the house, and by waking the family, may save it from de^ilftion. 9. If sickness, or any other cause should oblige you to leave a candle burning all night, place it in such a situation as to be out of the reach of the tats. A house was once destroyed by a rat run ning.away with a lighted candle for the fake of the tallow, and conveying it into a hole filled with rags, and other inflammable matters. 10. Never read in bed by candl: light, especial ly if your bed be furrouoded by curtains. 11. Strictly forbid the use of fegars in your fa* mily at all times, but more especially after night. May not the greater frequency of fires in the U mted States than informer yeats, be ascribed in part to the more general use of fegars by careless servants and children f There is good rea£bn to be lieve a house was lately set on fit* in Northumber land cop nt y, by a half consumed fegat 1 , which a negro we>mjn threw away, to prevent her being detested by her matter in the unhealthy and otfen five prafticc of imoking. In cafe of fire, attend to the following direc tions, to prevent or restrain its terrible conse quences. 1. Do not open the room or closet door where you fufpeft the fire to be, until you have secured your familr, and your most valuable effects, nor until you have coilefted a quantity of water to throw upon the fare, the moment a frefh supply of air excites it into a flame. Where water cannot conveniently be had, try to iniother *fi>e by throwing two or three blankets over it. A British sea captain once saved a king's ship by throwing himfelf with a spread blanket iu his arms, upon a fire which had btoke out near the powder room. He was pensioned for life, for this wife and meri torious aft. 2. In t afe it be impossible to efcapr by a (lair cafe from a house on fire, shut the door of your bed chamber, and wait until help can be brought to secure your efeape from a window. 3. If fafety does not appear probable in this way, wrap yourselves up in a blanket, hold yoar breath, and rush thro' the flames. If water be at hand, firft wet the blanket. 4. To-prevent fire descending from the roof, or ascending fiom the firft (lory, form by means of blankets, a kind of dam on each of the interme diate (lories, near their flair-cafe, that shall confine the water that is thrown upon the roof, or into the windows. It will effectually check the progress of tlie fire downwards or upwards in brick aad done ho'jfes. 5. To prevent fire spreading to-adjoining houses, cover them with wet bankets. 6. To extinguish fire in a chimney, (hut the door and windows of the roorp. Throw a quart,' 9rm»rc of common fait into the fire. Hold, or iiail a wet blanket before the fire plate. If these means fail, throw a wet blanket down the chimney from the roof of the house. There method used in some countries of glai aing chimnies when they are built by burning com mon fah iu them, which renders" them so smooth, that no foot can adhere to them. Chimßiei lo conflrtjfted can never take fire. Ladders are commonly used as the means of con veying perfens from the windows of houses on fire. Would ttot a long and (liff pole, with a rope fixed at its upper end, be jnore portable, and convenient for this purpose ? The famous Mr. John Weftley, when a child waa taken out of a window in his father's house whilst it was ia flames, by one man (landing upon the shoulders of another. This practice may be used to rescue persons from tlu firft story of a house on fire, where other means cannot be had with lufSci ent convenience or expedition. A WATCHMAN. CONGRESS OF the UNITED STATES. I HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Wednesday, January it. Mr. S<wan<wick'j Speech, concluded. This, Mr. S. said, was the m»ft impo.rant ques tion which was ever brought before that house- He trembled every day when ha confide.ed on what a fliadow the revenues of this government reded— upon what ev»y nation seemed to rob us of : for, added he, all are agreed inane paint, however rticr msy disagree m othe.f, viz, to rub and ill treat ug. Ihey were, indeed, invited to I, this; for, said he, we have no barriers but treaties, and ihcv are worse than nothing. , Mr. S. said we had no dependence upon owt re venue ; at any rate it \Vas not mcne than fupporteil eur present expences. Suppose, added he, all the present nations at war, make pence, would there than be na dangei of a defalcation of revenue » There could be ho doubt of it. So that wheth r war or peace, no certain dependa»ce could be plated upon our revenue. Did it not, then, become government to look to something more substantial than commerce for support ? It certainly did. Let us, said he,'fix upon the principle of a direst tax, and not be de terred at tlie threshold of the bafinefs. To fay it was impoffiSle to fix upon fueh a plan so as to be generally fatisfatV-ry, would be to fay we coiild not do what many other nations had done. He would again repeat that it would have been better tor this country if the present plan had been adopted sooner. However, as we had lately declared ourfelvts the mutt prosperous, the moil free and enlighte: « ! lOuntry in the world,this rould not be an for introducing it. He was rather glad, however, that a degree of neces sity had brought the present mea&irt before thetn. Misfortunes, he fsi fornerimWTTr'oveirtiie g.eat. eft of bltflingi. He irufled the present ' event would teach government econ'orey; tor, lince they found the difficulty which attended the mifinj; of money, they would be careful hosv they laviihed it away. He trulled this meafurtof tai iug the far mer, would also have the effedi upon him to awak en a watchful attention to the operations .of j>a vemment ; it was also give us, the means of pay. . ing our debt, and of (hewing to foreign countries that our revenue relts upon a foundation which they cannot shake. v Viewing the matter in this point of view, how ever unwilling he was, in general, to call upon the people/or he hoped the principle befoic them would be adopted. Mr. Gilbert said, the question was whether they (hould raise the revenue wanted fey dire& or indirect taxes. Though he was opposed to dire£t taxes, he had no obje&ion to the committee's riling, that the report might be re committed, in order that • the committee of ways and means might be in ftruited to report to the hnufe a plan of direct tax ation, for the decision of the house. He acknow knuwledged the neccflity of something being done, but he was not ready- to vote for diredl taxation, until he saw Something more of the business. Mr. Christie was against the committee's rising, becaufc he thought it was necessary to determine upon the principle. He did not know whether he should agree to this principle or not. It wa* proposed that each state should be apportioned ac cording to its last census. By this, he said, Mary land woold be eonfiderably aggrieved. Several o ther Rates were in the fame situation. If the gen tleman would therefore withdraw his for the committee's rising, he would move to (trike out the words " according to the last census." (The former motion was withdrawn.) Mr. S. Smith hoped the words would ihe (truck out; for, if they were truck oat, the whole resolution would fall to the ground, as. if they were not to mike a calculation ripen the tact eenfus, they must either poltpoue the bulislefs un til a new census was made, or go into the expeuce of making a new census for the business* Ihe gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Swan, wick) had gone fully ihta the bufifefs, and (hewn to the fatisfa&ion, he doubted not, of many in that Houle, the necefiity of going intn f»n>e effeiftual mode for fceuring a permanent revenue. Hi Le lieved it would be found a fubjedt of difficulty to carry into effect a direct tajc throughout the uniou, but as the committee of Ways and Means had brought forward the proposition, he doubted njt they had attended to these difficulties. He was not afraid of the state of Maryland being, over-iated by taking the last cenfu-. it was not necefi'ary, he said, to go into that fubjedt, or he 'believed Maryland ought to have had another re presentative on that floor. He thought they (hould not object to the plan befoie them on trifling ground, as they Heed ntver be able to apportion any system to farthings. Whether he (hould vote for the system proposed h: knew not, but he wished to have the fubjeit taken up, that we might have, it in our power to fay, we arc an independent na tion, and that it may not b<: in the power of any > other to cut off our supplies. Such a step, he fai4, was necessary, and he doubted not the people would be found willing to give their government a proper support. Mr. Christie said, if he thought his motion went to destroy the principle, he would withdraw it ; but he believed the principle wo.ild be as well tried without the words as with them. He thought it would be proper to have a new census taken. He wondered his colleague (Mr. S. Smith) (hould think Maryland would u t be over-rated by the present census. He was confident they would. If those words were out of the refjlutioify He would vote for it, but not other wife. Mr. Nicholas had no objection to the words being (truck out, because if they were out, they must be guided by the last census, except a new one was taken : and if the gentleman could not take the sense of the House upon the propriety of taking a new cinfus, with out ftrikmg out these words, he hoped they would be struck out, in order to give him an opportunity of try ing that question. The question for striking out was put and negatived. Mr. Dayton (the Speaker) said the fubjedt was aa important one, and from his prepoffedion (gentlemen perhaps might be inclined to call it prejudice) against a system of dL'edt tuition, be could, aot think the
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