SALES AT THE CUSTOM-HOUSE. ON TUESDAY NEXT. ' I 'HE 7th instant, it ia o'clock at noon, will be fold JL at the Custom-House, for payment of dutic-6, 40 Pipes of genuine London Particular Madeira Wine, By WILLIAM NICHOLS, Marshal. Marfljal's Office, Philadelphia, February 4th, 1797- New Theatre. Br Particular Des/re, ON MONDAY EVENING, February 6, Will be prefentecf, the HiftoricaJ Playof Columbus: » 7 Or, A WORLD DISCOVERED. WITH NEW SCENERY, MACHINERY, DRESSES AND DECORATIONS. The music composed by Mr. Reinagle. The proci«ons and Pageant by Mr. Byrne. In this Play the manners and daftoms of Mexico and Pera characterize the firft discovered nations of America. Such deviation from Historical truth was deemed neceflary for dramatic cffeiSt, and has enabled the author to intro duce the pathetic Tale of CORA and ALONZO, from •larmontel's Incut. The PROLOGUE will bespoken by Mr. Wigkill. SPANISH PARTY* Columbus, Mr. Cooper Alonzo, Mr. Moreton Harry Herbert, Mr. Wigmtil Dodler Dolores, Mr. Hariuood BTibon, Mr. Frpnas Roldan, Mr. Fox Valverdo, Mr. JJarlej Mwfcofo, Mr. BliJJett Captain, Mr. McDonald til Spaniard, Mr. Darley, jun. »d Spaniard, Mr. Morgan , INDIANS. Oroximbo, Mr. Warren Snlafco, Mr. VF.Jlrange Catalpo, Mr. Worrell ' * Cuto, Mr. J. Worrell Cora, Mrs. Merry Welti, Mrs. Francis Priefteflei of the Sun, \ I Mrs. Mechtler, Sic. Indian Women,—Mrs. Harvey, Mrs. Doctor, Miss Mil bourne, Mis» Oldfield Miss L'Eftrange, Miss Bates, Miss Anderfon, and M'elle Sophie. in aft 1. A PROCESSION Of INDIANS, and the firft Landing of Columbus. In 3. REPRESENTATION 6F A STORM AND EARTHQUAKE ; With a Grand E*uption from a Volcano. In aft 4. A March of Sacsi jici', and Proceflion to the Execution Of COK,A. The whole to conclude with A GRAND PAGEANT. The scene of the Volcano designed by J. Richards, Esq. R. A. principal Scene Painter to Covent-Garden Theatre. The reft of the Scenery designed by Mr. Milboitrne. | and the whole executed by him and under his direc- , tion. Mathiaift,. Mr. Lenthall. i The dresses designed by Mr. Gibbon#. To which will be added, j A called • \ ( Barnaby Brittle ; Or, A WIFE AT HER WIT'S END. (As often performed at Coverit Garden, with general , applause.) Barnaby Brittle, Mr. Bates 1 Clodpole, Mr. Blifett ■ t J crfrn y. Mr. Francis t Sir Peter Pride, Mr. Morgan Lovemore, Mr. Fox Jeffery, Mr. Worrell, jun. Mrs. Brittle, Mrs. Francis Lady Pride, Mrs. Metcbtler Damans, Mrs. Harvey Bo*, One Dollar twenly-five cents. Pit Seven Eigh:hs t of a Dollar, and Gallery, half a dollar. 0- Tickets to be had at H. & P. Rice's tJook-ftore No. 50 High-street, and at the Office adjoining the . l Theatre. J' Ladies and Gentlemen are requested to fend their 1 servants to keep places a quarter before $ o'clock, and a to order thepi, as soon as the company are feared, to n withdraw, as they cannot on any account be permit- a 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 Be taken at.the Office in the front of the theatre, from 10 till a o'clock, and from 10 till 4 on the days of performance. h VIVAT R ESPVBLICA! 11 College-Hall. f< V Readings and Recitations, h Moral, Critical, and Entertaining. On SATURDAY EVENING, Feb. 4, at 7 o'clock, Will be continued, THE EFFECTS OF AMBITION AND GUILT, T Confidtred, traccd and exemplified in the charailer of Macbeth. With a recitation of the whole character, and moral ir and critical observations on the chara&er, and on the au- tl thor. n , — !rt jjT On Toefdav, 7th February, a' The EFFECTS of AMBITION and PTJILT, l J Exemplified In the character of Satan and the Fallen tr Angels, with recitations from Milten. a< — in Tickets to be had of Mr. Poulfon, jun. at the Library ; at mr. M'Elwee's looking-glass-store, No. 70, S. Fourthl tr street; and at Mr. Carey's, Bookseller, Market-flrcet fa -Half a dollar each. la; Just Published, th And to be Sold by T. BRADFORD, No. S South to Front-street. A new pra&ical system of HUMAN REASON. to Divefied of all metapyhyfical ineomprehenfibility Jf c and founded on COnceivability alane, as efficient to all the purposes of human exiftescc, the discovery of universal truth and universal good. " Mind makes the man, and want of it the fellow [ 9l " Mind is all tforth ; the rett is all prunella." ' ' By JOHh STEWART, the Traveller. February 4 ». t PT « * mt SALTPETRE. — del A large quantity of Double-Refined Salt Petre for for sale at No. 25, South Third-ilreet. i ßt November j. § jj c . ■ o i d Philadelphia, February 4. 40 —-—— COMMUNICATION. ■ Mr. Fenno, * I have frequently remarked, that when the scrib blers in the Aurora are at a loss for new iubjefls of al fafiination, they indulge their murderous habits by at tempting to deprcciatt. the talents of gentlemen who now prcfide at the head of the departments of slate and treasury. It is rather lingular, however, that in order to effeift their purpose, they lboald-be com pelled to resort to the unmeaning exprefiion of " suc cessors.in form," adopted by a mas, whose abilities were never the objeit of envy—and to whose preten fions for honelty, 1 belienf no person could be ambi tious to lucceed. S If the secretaries of slate and »f the treasury, ably and faithfully dil'charge the duties ot'«their refpef\iv£ offices, the public surely have no caule of complaint. Upon what principle, therefore, can Mr. Bpche's cor nd I reipondent's pretend to fay, that they are not equally ca - : entitled to an encreafe of compensation with the other "7 j officers of government? Is it becanfe they are not ro" i members of feme foreign philosophic.l fociety—yr, ra jm ther, becauft, they prefer living on the_fcanty stipend allowed them by their country, lo imitating the base - examples daily exhibited by pretended patriots? Let the people determine. Thursday last the Senators and Reprefentativs in ■Congrefe of the State of Delaware, pursuant to refolufioni »f the Legiflatare, waited on the President of the United States, with the follow ing addreflts. To GEORGE WASHINGTON, Prejidtnt of the United States. Sir, THE Senate of the State of Delaware cannot view with infeefibility your contemplated retire ment from the fiift office of your country to flic rrpofe of private life. Upon Cuch an occasion to bfc silent and to with hold the mod cordial expr«fliou of «ur aifeilion, ■ refpeft and veneration, for your character, vould 1- be as ungrateful to you at it would be di/hoaorablc s te ourselves. It it in attempting therefore to do justice to our ft feelings, and to discharge a patriotice dutyi that we present this address as a tribute of gratitude, . and a homage due to your virtues. More than twenty years have elapsed since you left the civil gouncils of America, to undertake n and sustain the more difficult and perilois duties of the chief military cammarid. The seven years con , which ensued must have been to youa gloomy n series of seven year's fufferings, except a»it was re lieved by temporary vidories, and the plafing hope that the exertions of your country and the aids of heaven, would crown yaur labours witi ultimate success. At the close of the important contelt w® view you in the command of a disciplined, sffeftipnate and admiring army ; and from, the example of other conquerors, we might have trembled for the fa'e of our country, in the appiehenfion thaC itsptotccior would become its tyrant. j happily for the United States, and honora bly for yotirfelf, and the chafer of human na- Lure, the feelings of the conqueror, were loft in those of the patriot; anil the i f«,uations of ambi tion were reprefled by the triumph of virtue. Ihe glorious fpe&acle was presented to the world, of a popular, powerful and fucccfsful gene ral, atchieving the emancipation of his country, and then tefigning his command to an unarmed repub- < lie, voluntarily retiiing from the honors of office, : and receiving in return the tribute not oi pr.-wer i but of public gratitude. We view you a second time in obedience to the : unanimous veice of America, rciinquiftiing the en joyment of your beloved retirement, and accepting the chief magistracy of yeur country, in erder to 1 add character, credit and energy, to its govern- I ment. That character, credit and energy, ycu have ' affilted, in forming, and fecuting to our govern- ' ment j' and wc hope they will be preserved, as well i to perpetuate the memory of your virtues, as the • happinefv °f your feliow-citizen*. i We ad-dress you fir, in the name, and on the be- 1 half of the citizens we represent. We know that < they unite with us in viewing your abilities with i refpe«, your virtues with veneration, and your ' fervicee with gratitude, and in soliciting ftom hea ven for you, every bluffing which can increafc your < happincfs here, and hereafter. j daniel rogers, i Speaker of the Senate of the State »/ Delaware, t Dover, January Z4, 1797. t T° GEOftQE WASHINGTON, President of the c United States. r fir, j TO enjoy the advantage, resulting from your wife ad- , minjftration, and not to cxpr.f, our trat.fication • to IWI a b 7 fic f ?' ■*> of y-r fii mneff and palriotifm" S 1 not acknowledge them ; to admire your magnanimity and V ,"xi c W ? U thr ° w a over the Republican char- er, of which we boafl ; in d would wound the fenfibili b tributeiiq C °" {muCf,ts - . Permit to offer th* only v tribute m power to g,ve. and the only one worth voZ 32t^ t,fUl acknowledgment, of a free^d trv W !r° T f " V r\ into th « hands of your coun- v try that which had been entrusted to you for her fafcty , and retire to domefric p -aev and tranauir* lamented that we could Kot t&? WC c Which ha va since ft one. with such refplen/etcy ,_b»t"n i« tha approach of a new sera, and wh-nit berW n <r E,"',sar/- - fellow- citizens that J°V '< al m eftabhlhing. .It hasbeen our happiness to aurces and credit of the Republic, and the profperitVof Vl her citizens k«p pacc with your adminifrraC. P T b« In our foreign relations, we perceive rh« i. k pyeffeas. P " ' ments with one nation, and the nejratity, due fo'o" SffiSte r' 3 1 P! », w ,uk ■r We hive yielded to your desire of retirement only ~ to give repole to the evening of a life which has been spent in the pursuit of noble deeds ; and although you may not much longer personally direfl the councils of America, yet we trust that a recolleition of your vir tues and wisdom will forever guide the steps of your (uccefTors. » Signed by order of the House of Representatives of u the state of Delaware. l{ \ STEPHEN LEWIS, Speaker. it •n To the Senator) and RpprefeHtative of the State of of Delaware. as Gentlemen, c _ I receive with great frtisfa<ftion the Addreffe* of e8 the Senate and the House of Representatives of ti the State of Delaware, which you have now pre >i- fented to me, on the occasion of my contemplated retirement fro* the Presidency of the United ll States.— t These evidences of their effe&ion, and teffimo r_ niesthat my public services have been ufefal to my ly country, will ever be dear to me. rr If yielding to the calls of my fellow-citisens, I it* have renounced the ease and* enjoyment of private life, to encounter the dangers and difficulties of the firft and moll arduous employments, it was becaufe et the facrifices> on my part, were by them deemed interefling to their fafety and welfare.—Animated by such motives, and supported by the general spi n rit and partiotifm of my countrymen, when the ob -0 je£U of my public agency were attained, nought (' remained to me but to seek again the private station r . which their partiality- and confidence required me for a relinquiih.—ln thiVchofen retirement, the approving voice of my country will ever be a fubjevt of grateful reeolleftion ; while 1 behold its increasing prosperity, under the influence of the fame public spirit, energy, justice and moderation, t in which its independence, charatlcr and credit 1 have been founded.—That such may be the fruit ' e of our labours, and such the happy progrefs>of our ' Republic, is, and will be, the objet* of my 1 . ardent wifties.— < , r These feutiment*, gentlemen, with my grateful 1 j acknowledgments to the Senate and the House of 1 : Rcprefenunves of the State of Delaware, 1 pray < you to communicate to them in such manner as you 1 r (hall deem proper. ] United States 2d. of Feb. 1797. Go. WASHINGTGN. ! , ' < From the Farmer's Wkikly Museum. '• " No man al/g having drunk old wine, Jlraightway ! defireth new : Fir he faith, the old is better." 1 HE might have said so at Jerusalem, in the year 1 : of our Lord, four or five : But in the enlightened i 7 eighteenth century, the depraved palate of the 1 : moderns often piefers new wint to old. This ab 1 surd preference was deemed an impossible thing, in 1 ■ days of yore, by an excellent judge, whose tiniver- 1 ■ fa "y negative proportion, i the text affords an in- ] ■ d libit able proof, that his age was not the age of ] r innovation. 1 How unfortunate for the benighted Jews, that ( Thomas Paine was then unborn, and did not print ' Common Sense at the foot of the Mount of Olives. ' How many inftru&ed readers would have leaved to ' pieces their old win# calks, and, wiih an air of in- a dependence, swallowed huge draughts from the a new. a j But though the men of Palestine were denied the r privilege of examining wine, or any thing else, hy 1 the lump of Paine, we enjoy its full blaze, and may c discern the imperfections of many olef thisgj, fueh as old principles, old government, or an old Bible Nothing can flake the prefem third for novelty, rbis is the age of experiment ; we desert the old and fafe way, and turn aside eagerly into untried paths. 1 imported, in the last vessels from Europe, many new books, and a brilliant (hew they made, ranged on my rtudy fhelf, by the fide of my dog's eared 5 Shakdpeare and worm eaten St. Bernard. I then examined critically, the ttyle and the sentiment of [ modern literature. I quickly found that the falhion able fine writing of the day, was like new wine, crude and mawkito. No tnan who has read Alter- ° bury and South, Addifon and Goldsmith, will pre- j £er this verbose trash, said I, fcornfclly glancing at d liX m3 J iz '" e > te the sense and ini- ■ mitable expreflian of my old authors. C A few evenings ago, I heard a pert eollegian C declaiming the study of Grecian and Roman P pages. I then began to indulge one of my reveries. £ Here 1. a babe, whose (hallow brain cannot Lear l . ern "o ' C c, and chokes with the ° grape-ttone of Anacreon. I (ball fee him in a mo ment running after some of the /mall wines of the country to a French press. I „ as rj ght : be be- , gan to -deafen me with the praise, 0 f Mirabeau'g ipeeches, Gregoire's report, and th« Abbe Coo- f dorret, and vijhed that Virgil had been a poet of anguedoc. May American Students, I ejaculated " when they neglect the elaflics, and prefer a French spangle to ancient gold, be doomed to read nothing but a butcher's bill of Legendre, or SanterreW ventory of his brew-hoefe. ° ! This sermon is not dedicated to Frenchmen. C unSef "Th 7 Prcacher ca!l fa ywill « help their unbelief. They are so drunken with new wine i a n V VT d ' fcCrn "P»> ccs > »bbey lands, an- k ent landmarks, nor day. of ,he week. They di D?efen7 tl° j'''"* 4 ' that f h° uld t,u(h P efent to them her old gjafs, they would turn w l !t0 y° B » fßber Americans,! addrefsmv w exhortation. You, whether called M tor Js "d ol federal,ft,, or old fools, will never hazard rash in T nor march in the patriots forlorn hope m relLTen d ' fl ' ke " 0t cxcclle form of fe religion or government, because it is three hundred te years of age . Satisfied with things a, they /re £ you do not run tumultuouny through your ft reel«' w b m r K f T ! Wd ° y° U ' li^Ke 7 ra(h kS I toX\ 8 k ~ h e J CO " nc ' 1 of ancient, to listen ve Distrust Tf F ° jVaS ° f jUVC " i!e ir > dil ""etion. of fore wh!; c ° u,ltcnance ' despise the man, there- Be iJou»7h P r f l, «' 08SOr P° litieal «pedie, tS . to your JXrs fl 1 ' 1f j- to be A ,f >»' of qt • . ra. Burn the sedition and impiety of an Bible' "NoT,7 th » C ICaVCS ° f the an "^ atcd th • iNo man of taftc or piety hiving read it, pc ll defir « h Jnfidclfty, for he frith, the en gospel it better. >u of Thk Lay preacher. jr £*■ FRANKLIN. 1 he economicka and the proverbs of this writer ,f have been over-rated. His system of frugality i. fuchas every prudent old gentleman draw, up for h.i ufc of yo.ng Hopeful, when bound to sea, or to College. Hu adages referable Sancho's firing, h U " ®T , theC a ° ass > run a »d frtcb « halter. _ They who l.ke to behold lightening lam beat on iron, or to warm themselves at a dull Rove ' ,f or to v,ew acock gasp i„ mephitick vapour will ,f read Franklin. For morals, let them conlult Epic •j letUß » or Palc T- [ Farmer't Weekly Mufium.] d From 'he Farmer Weekly Museum PATRIOTISM. . I never wrote a Didionary,; I believe that I f have no talents for fueh a work, but, were I to print two folios as ample as Johnson's I could not [ define the meaning of that impofirg word Patriot - , Sfiiie Jenyns, one of the few and thinking ; philofophei's of the present time, has remarked a .. cutely that patriotism is not among the lift of New | 1 ettament virtues. No wonder that it is hot an 1 article in the Christian catalogue. That amiable perlonage who went about doing good, felt no par tulity for thu, or that fide of the brook Cedron. 1 he world wfs his country, and benevolence to all. not attachment to a placc was what he enjoined, ."atnotifm is ,he mark.of felfifhnefs, and patriotism il a found tp my ear*; as grating as Tristram to rathei Shandy «.■ It is unison to nincompoop and every name vituperative under heaven." 1 have looked narrowly into the characters and exploits of fame of the mod noted patriots of ancient and mo dern times. History and Chefterfield assure us that the great Brutus was a thief in Macedonia, Attt cus was a time server, and if the reader will be at the trouble of confultlng Dalrymple's memoirs he will find that Lord RufT.l and Alfiernuo,, \Sv j ucy were hired by France to dothediity work of cor ruption. Yet these men were called lovers of their country, and were doubtiefs toasted by many a po pular club in Rome and London. The year 177 C produced many Bruti? One has cheated his audi tors, one has defrauded the public ; theie have been renegado patriots, and patriots who have capered at a whipping poll, and dangled from a gibbet. One may at any time, after an Irifti assize, pick and choose full grown and athletic-ones from the goals of Dublin. A patriot is aifurprizing a cha rafler as the admirable Crichton. He can' do ma ny and 11 range things. Out of leve to his country hecan make free with other people's sheep and goslings ; love to his country loosens the rudder bands of his (having mill, and crowds its fails after the merchantmen of England } love of his country makes his tongue clamorous against the administra tion J and holds fact his purse firings from excise* Patriotism is squally alert in whipping Oaves on the Potouiack, or catching them at Garee. It is • Proteus. It fometimesftarts up in the shape of a Governor of Massachusetts, and sometimes dwin dles, like Milron's Satan, into a " familiar toad,'* and is called Thomas Lfead aohoufand ions, whom I meant to educate liberally, I fcould advise them, when reading the clafficks, to consider all ancient stories of patriotism, as mere rant,; and if I wished to mo»e their loudest laughter, I should not refer them to Plautus nor Terence, but to e very passage in Greek or Roman authors, where that cheating word Patriotism occurred. CONGRESS or thk UNITED STATES. HOUSE or REPRESENTATIVES. Friday, January lj. The speaker laid before the house a lettei and re- , , port from the attorney general on the petition of Fanny Forfyth, widow of Rribert Forfyth, refp<*c« ting a lot of land in F-ederickfburg, which had beenjeonveyed to Gen. Greene, as a counter securi ty. He recommended a disagreement to the prayer of the petition. The report was ordered to he committed to a committee of the whole on Mon day next. Mr. Dwight Foster, from the committee of claims, made reports on the petition* of T' Currey and Henry Hile. The firft was against th* petitioner, and conr urred in by the house, the last, which related to a sum of upwards of nine thou sand dollars which had been misplaced in the ac count of the late John Banks and Charles Pettit with the United States, was referred to a commit tee of the whole or Monday. • Mr. Kittera presented a petition from the Illinoio and Wabafh land aimpanies praying for certain im munities, which was read, and ordered to be prin ted, and committed to a fcleit committee of three members. Mr. Kittera moved to have the unfinifhed busi ness pofiponed, in order to take up the report on the petition of William Alexander, but his moti on was negatived. On the motion being about to be put for going in to a committee of the whole, on the fobjeft of further revenue. Mr. Coit' wished the house to take up the reso lution he had yesterday laid the table.—The difference, he said, betwixt this resolution ard the one reported by the committee of ways and means, was, that this called for the particulars as thspla", whilst that called for an agreement to the principle of diieA taxation without any reference to a plan. This difficulty, he said, occurred. Many gentle men objeded to a direst tax, because they oould not fee their way thro' any plan of carrying it intnef fedt. He himfelf did not feci this difficulty. He should vote far the resolution ; because, if a plan was brought forward which he did not approve, he should vote against if. It appeared to him, howe ver, that the house vyould have a more diftintl view of the fuftjedf, if tpey bad a plan before them. Mr. Swan wick fairt theobjedHen which he had to the motion was, that it would embarrass the queflion whether or not the house wculd agree t» any system of diredl taxation ? Some gentlemen thought itJmpoffible to devise a plan for this pur pose j if could not be expedted therefore that the
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