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