>W|| . ~/ • __y'
New Theatre.
On fTEDAFSDJr EVENING, Felrvsrv tj,
Will be prcfenied (for the sixth time) an Hiftorical'Play,call
ed
Columbus ;
Or, A World Discovered.
To which will be added, a Farce, called
The Ghost.
'Sir Jeffery Content, Mr. Warren'
Captain ConfUnt, Mr. "Darley, j«n.
C! iichj Mr. Morris
'irully, Mr. Francis
Roger, Mr. Bares
Belinda, Mra. Harvey k v
Dorothy, Mrs. Francis
Box, One Dollar twen«p-five cents. Pit Seven Eighths
of a Dollar, end Gallery, half a dollar.
0" Tickets to be had at H. & P. Rice's Sook-flore
No. 50 Higk-ftreet, and at the Office adjoining the
Theatre.
Ladies and Gentlemen are requ-efted to fend their
fcrsrants to keep places a quarter before $ o'clock, and
to order them, as soon as. the company are feaffcd, to
-withdraw, as they gaunot on any accpunt be permit
ted to remain.
The Doors of the Theatre will open at 5, and the
Eurrain rife precisely at 6 o'clock.
Places for the Boxes to Be taken at the Office in the
frdnt of the theatre, from 10 till o'clock, and from
10 till 4 on the days of performance.
riFJT RESPUBLICA r
College-Hall.
Readings and Recitations,
Moral, Critical, and Entertaining.
On THURSDAY E VENING,
February 16th, at 7 o'clock,
Will be recited
FIRST PART.
AnthcJny's Funeral Oratioa, Shakespeare.
Cato'i Soliloquy on the Immortality of the Soul, Addifon.
Ode on St. Ccecilia's Dav, Pope.
second part.
The Story of Lavinia, Thomson.
Edwin and Emma, Mallet.
Maria, firft and second part, Sterne.
Ode to Madness, Penrofe.
' THIRD PART.'
Ode on the Paflions, ColIin».
Alexander's Feast, Dryden.
OnSATURD \Y, February 18,
Will continued,
Sele&ions from the tragedy of
hamlet*
'With a Critical Invcftigation of the Chara&br of Hattilet,
and Qbfervations on Shakespeare.
Tickets to be had of Mr. Poulfon, ju*. at the Library ;
atmr. M'Elwee's looking-glass-store, No. 70, S. Fourth
ftreet; and at Mr. Carey's, Bookseller, Market-street—
Half a dollar each.
Will be fold,
/ '
On Wednesday, the 22d day of February y inflant,
At the Merchants' Coffee-Houfe,
At 12 o'clock, nbon,
A Lot, or Piece of Ground,
Containing 11 acres and 100 perches, situate near the
Blue Ball Tavern, on the Paffyunk road, four miles
from the city of Philadelphia. This . Lot commands a
of die rivers Delaware and Schuylkill, is nearly inclof*
ed with a good cedar poll and rail fence, and has a never
failing spring of frelh water rising in it—One acre of '
which is good bottom meadow—adjoining lands of Willi
am Bingham, ilfq v Jacob Sink, and others. The terms L
of fait, one fifth part in ten days after the day of sale,
when immediate possession will be g;ven, the residue in
payments agreeable to the purchaser, on paying legal in
terest therefor, and giving security for the fame, if re
quired. An iudifputable title will be given, upon mak
ing the firft paymtnt as aforefaid. »
A Draft of said Lot may be seen at the Merchants'
Coffee-Houfe, and at the officc of Alexander Power, No.
145 Ohefnut-ftreet, where further information may be
"d. Philadelphia, February 14 §tlj
- JVill be Sold, by Public Vendue,
P n the gt/j ef March next,
IX, £■„* NTAT IO N,
N Ridley townftiip, Delaware county, state of Penn
fylvanii, eleven mtlyfrom Philadelphia, and one from
the great road leading thencf «a Cheftcr ; tontai ning one
hundred and twenty-three acres, tfc e «ty-three of whick
are woodland, and eighteen meadow. On the premises
there are, a dwelling-house, barn, and ether o*t-houfes,
repair ; a gpad spring of water close to
and a fine stream of water runs through the premises; by
which pait of the meadow Is watered, &c.
also, • v ,
On the fame day, the (lock on tkc said farm ; confin
ing of horses, cows, Iheep, hogs, &c. A cart, plough,
harrow, and other farming utensils; also a large copper
fti 1, with the household and kitchen furniture, amon«-
rrhich are beds and bedding, an eight day clock, and mat
tiy other articles too tediouslto mention.
The sale tob«gin at ten o'clock in the forenoon, where
the conditions will be made known, and attendance given
on the premises, by CURTIS LEWIS.
Ridley, February 13 i 4 -ttlift« 9 -
FOR SALE,
At Whitefides' Tea Ware-House,
No. 99, North Second Street. '
!fP er,al } C Hyson' Skin.
Hyson, C Frefll Tcas . ) sbuchon
Young Hyson, } (.Bohea
Pec - 9- 3taw 3 m.
Washington Lottery. j
TICKETS, warranted undrawn, may be purchased or 1
exchanged for prizes, at the Office, No. ,47, Chefaut-
I.rect, where a corre& Numerical Book is kept for public <
infp-Jicii. Also Canal Lottery Tickets for sale or ex- ]
changed for prizes diawa in the Washington Lottery, of ,
1 a days returns arc revived.
The Bufincfs of a Broker carried on as usual.
. 3 a, \* ar >' l ±_ ttstf
To the Benevolent.
T HE Subscriber having rented that well known tav (
J. trnhoufe on Silver Springs, Cumberland county, t
on the great road leading from Philadelphia to Fort Pitt. 1
which he had completely furniflied for the accommodation a
of travellers, but which unfortunately, by accident c*u E ht
fire about Il o clock in the morning, the 3d of Novem- c
ber last, and m the space ef one hour was totally confum- j
ed with €U the furniture, wearing apparel, (lores of li
quoi, Jce. to a very large amount, atten.'.ed with the me- 1
lanchnly loss of a daughter about twelve years of aee '
who on y fumved a few houii after the fire ; hi, wife If! £
so disabled; and others of his family much hurt • he is *
" 0W " d "«d to an unhappy and de.Htutc fitua ion—he L
therefore beg, leavt to fohcit some reliePfrom a gen.rous c
pubhe. The following gentlemen are pleased to undertake a
the trouble to receive fubfeription, for hi. benefit: viz.
Samuel Richardet Merchants- Coffee-Houfe ; James e
Thompson, Indian Queen ; George Irwin, Croft Keys, in
Fourth-street, and John Dunwoody, Spread Earlc, Hicrh- b
iV.'. , David* briggsT a
I-h.ladelph.a, February 14 ttli&ft.vi 3 a
Tiic oUicr Printer* are reqwfUd to public the above, v
(sasette-/»-Slnite'oS>tatcs,
AND.
' Philadelphia Daily Advertijer.
PHILADELPHIA, Fsbruary IJ.
COMMUNIbjiTIONS.
Some convulsive dying Ornggles were to be ex
pefted fromthe jacobins ageinft the " last not lead"
measure of' Waihington. The correS apd able vin-
the government, agaiult French claims
and charges, has produced a neccffity of fubtaifuge
amongthofe who hate plain fads. Now it is affer
, ted that the old court were Bot fincrre in their offi
cial publications—and that though we
ledge their dijtrterejledneft, we oujjht and rauft firlf
; adtait that they were not to be truficd —the citizen
can perhaps tell us -when they arefmcere ? Are they
[ fmcere when t-Jiey talk of fraternity—or does
, matrimonial language of " drawing the bonds of
. the two republics closer" mean a diplomatic jtietti
nefs of fxpreflion ? Is a minister sincere wh«n, as
Genet did, he tells us that France does not wish us
to go to war—that (he loves us too well to wish any ,
thing more than our peace and prosperity—or does
he mean the reverse ? Was the ci-devant
cere cither in his threats, too certainly have 1
been amply realized upon oar defenfelefs trade in '
that very scene to which they invited it—or in his !
carejfes of the people—or in his marvellously modest ,
demand of gratitude, the difinterelted boast of hi
ving given to us our in his manly
discontent at the A.lmanac precedence ? Some years
hence, a future citizen may aflert that this lan
guage was, at the time it was nfed, intended not to
rouse the people into civil, war, nor to lead us into '
a war with England, but that it wa» intended to im
pose upon the whole world.
Mr. Secretary Pickering is accused by the jaco- '
bin Writers wttfi having taken two months, to com- '
plete a production, which was destined to widen thc 1
basis of American Independence. The French par- '
ty will excuse ub in this country, if the natural 1
phlegm of an American mind retard the progress
of decision—when documents of higl rreaning and 1
authority ate to be resorted to and compared ,5 where t
faSs, those provoking ftambiing blocks to the vifi- '
onary, are to be difplay'd, and indudlions to be 1
drawn from th«m, these intuitive gentlemen will |
forgive a minilter of our republic if he use dili- 1
gence in research, and slowness of judgment, upon v
points, which when once fixed, are twt to be reeed- ,
ed from—we are neither Pope-raakers, nor French- '
m <n—we deny both infallibity and iafpiration,and
never do a great a£t by acclamation. Had the fe- 1
cretary fcllowed M. Adet's method, materials and F
Jiile, it is to be presumed the piece would have been I
never written, but printed ojf, as fact as invention '
furnifhed the paflages ; and with as much prompt
ness as a certain novel writer is said to have exerted. 1
This notable author was alfa a Printer, and it is c
said, by Gibbon, used to print as fact as he compo- 1
Jedj without hafing any copy before him ; rapid all
from his own head — this might do for a work of *
jillion—On the whole, truth is so valuable, that it '
will be found more'lafting, thoughJlowly developed
and acknowledged, than those falfefhoods which v
haste engenders, and lefle&ion destroys. 1
COMMUNICATION. ]
In arbitrary governments, where the gift of almost i
every office, whether considerable or unimportant, is v
in the erown, disappointments, which rpuft necelTarily •
be frequent, die away in whispers or expire in, silence. '
Fear is the principle that produces order and lubmrf- V
fion. Were permission given by such governments to c
«vtry man inclined to appeal to the public, and dif- »
posed to emit hit spleen, there would soon be a com
plete revolution. A despotic government must necef
tarilv engender abuses more enormous ani numerous
than one where the conduct of public officers may be
fcrutiniaed freely. Hence their policy of reftrainine
the liberty of the press. This valuable centinel of
freedom is doubtless one of the firmed barriers against
tyranny; and if permitted for a ffiort time in countries
\yherr prevails, would speedily operate a .
changefavorabU to the general mtertfls ; bnt like moll
■privileges it lsfubjefl r-» abiife. a
In a limited monarchy, iUse England, the rage .of
a disappointed candidate, or an' ambitious or needy so- I
licitor for office is vented through T!,,- Dar t
ty gazettes! and often becomes l'» ,rkfome to the mi- ,
n y, that something tangible is held out, and the
patriot bccomes filcnt. c
In the United States this is not the cafe. A Prefi- 0
dent, though participating with the Senate in the a
power of appointing to offices, cSnnot gratify everv 3
claimant who thinks himftlf entitled to notice Dif si
appointment impel, him to the fide of opp'ofijion. p
There, without enquiring into the motives of prefer- I
ence, he abuses and misrepresents without jullice 8 r ,1
mC f rCy '.i, T "/ the con sequences influence him n
-for the press is free, as ,t ftiould be in every free "
country. No pecuniary donations can be offered- P
No offices are vacant: he therefore goes on «.«»■
and declaiming till the exceli of his rage exhausts his c
tfgued f ' tß d ° Wn ' not fatisfied ' but f- <'
A President of the United States must expert to en- r
counter all this. It is a concomitant lrfe-wb'e fmm
htspoft. The molt i mmicu!ate and
rafler in the Umon has experienced it, and his f uc
celTors cannot hope to escape. fTV. Y. Daily Gaz.'j
NORWICH, (Connefiicut) February n. 't
WE believe that no douffma'ins with th (l
,HC ba ™ burnt " n Saturday evei'n? "
the aßth ult. (mentioned in our hft pap Cr ) wls bv £' I
sign set on fire, by fame d,visg villain or vi"a : n< 1, f
<1
clock, another attempt was In 6 "
house adjoining the back P art cf "weffis ll P
Huntingdon's Itore, in thi. city : a number o fi V a " d P
were immediately alarmed, and the fire Zt *
got to a great height, was soon e.vinguiC F V '" g «c
person is confident that this lire was hut Jf a ,
before kindled bv some hnM ."n a w m,lllJ tes 81
coai of'fire
a carnage where the fire was kindled ! Y ° f
lietween the hours of 2 anH n'/j i
evening last, the inhabuams of thisluv -^' 7 ,c
larired. by the cry of Fir» wete again a- .
belonging to Samuel Tracy, h° in
SS
»u. ik,... t „„ w „;
"» horse and federal tons of hay. It is very evident that
this bu.lding also was let on fire by ilefign.
«' On Monday morning last, about 7 o clock, a Irnokc
wk per eived to iflue from the barn a few rods welt of
the meeting-houfc in this city, belonging to Mr. Aza
riah Lafhrop. Search was immediately made, and it j
was found to originate from some fire upon the top of
a hay mow, which, if it had not been immediately ex
tinomlhed, would in a few minutes more, have been
beyond the power of all those prffent to save it. Two
chips were found on or near the hay, which convinced
the aftonilhed citizens, that a coal of fire was brought
, in them with ail intention to destroy that as well as oth
er buildings.
It appears almost an impossibility that four luch dar
s ing attempts, within so short a space of time, fliould
t be made to fire this city, three of which were made
early in the evening, and one after the rising of the
fun in the morning, and yet the perpetrators (hould «f
---cape undiscovered, and not even any person (hould be
fufpefled, with a degree of certainty, so as to have
thein arretted ; all appear* to be a mystery ; no person
' can conjecture what their design is, but nnmbrrs of ob
' jecftions will immediately rife to oppose it. Alarm and
1 fear occupy the attention of all clafTcs of the inhabit
: ants, expelling every moment to fee the city enwrap
ped in flames We are happy in mentioning that up
wards of twenty of our citizens voluntarily tarn out
and patrol the city every nrght. We hope soon to be
able to inform, that the hardened wretch.who has dar
ed to commit so great a crime, is fafely lodged in tke
hand's of justice.
Another alarm. —Wednesday, February 3th, 3 o'
clock, P. M. The cry of Fire has at this mon.ent a
larrried the inhabitants of this city. Our paper is
printing, and we can only mention that a barn belong
ing to Mr. Lynde Latlirop, is entirely confumcd ; the
fire it is said was kindled by some daring villain.
From late Englijh Papers.
November 23.
Mifj Harrifon, filter to ths late Commodore, and {
sister-in-law to Admiral Macbride, lately eloped j
with a recruiting officer of a French emigrant corps,' •
to whome (he gives 2,500!. per ann. She saw j
her gallant with other soldiers at the isle of Wight,
and liking his person, sent her servant to him re
queuing an interview, in which fuccceded
in strengthening the fit ft imprelfion, that (he return- |
ed to town, and on Sunday last with due form,
gave him her hand
The great importance of thediftilleries in the ar- (
tide of fatted hogs may be judged of in some dc- j
gree by the number turned out of the distilleries in j
Surry only, which arc estimated at 11,79© a y eir » j
value at 46,2 151. besides the great number fed in
the starch yards. It is said that all the distilleries
in the kingdom, when in full work, lend to market j
weekly 30,000 hogs ; during the last year they
were at a total Hand, and the price of bacon has
been enotmous.
From a correfl calculation it appears, that when
the new military levies are raised agreeably to the
plan now before Parliament, the officers alone of our
present forces will exceed in number the whole ftan
din;? army during the reign of Charles 11 1 j
Two vefiels are preparing in the river to convoy f
to Botany Bay the felons in the different goals, un
der sentence of tranfportation—ln the next cargo e
their go no fewer than five Attornies ! 1
Ihe following remarkable inferiptian is copied
from a tombftoue in the £rro«»d over pgaiivft
Spring Path, in the Island of Jamaica. e
" Here lieth tne body of Lewis Galdy, Esq. a
who,died the 22dofSept. >739, aged 80 years
He was born at Montpelliec, in France, which, f
place he left for his religion, and fettled in this
Island; whete in the great earthquake in the year r
1692, he was fwa'ilowed up, and by the great pro
yidence of God, by a second Ihock was thrown out
into the sea, where he continued swimming till he j,
vras taken up by a boat, end miraculously preferv- c
ed He afterwards lived in great reputation, and r
was universally lamented."
CONTINUATION OF ~ o
Latest Foreign Intelligence.
By an Arrival at New-York. 1
STOCKHOLM, November ro. c
bmce our young king has taken into his hands a
the reins of government, the politics of our court ®
appear to have nndergone a total change. o
H(T C marr ' '£f. 'be ''ing with a princess of n
Russia, we are assured ~ completely broken off, and a
that, liftemng only ,o his incKriatien, he is ,bo« to I b
espouse the princess of Meclenhurg Strelit*. The 1»
empress o£ Russia has left nothing untried to break
offth.s match. A penficm to the German princ.fr
as queen dowager of Sweden- 5 00,0c0 roubles ai f<
a parlion to the Ruffian princrft, a«d an annual fob- '1
My of los.ooo roubles, were i. have been Z b
En of h' gUa ; dmn :: P 01 ,he kin S> and the sub- «
** C 'n Um l anCe s have followed by a'<
republic 0 h j"o C ° Urt and tbe French "
epublu. The baron de Stael and his lady, it e
Paris "* ' mmed,atcl y 18 ta ke their departure for P
a
It a B o R r USS f LS ' Nov . I
eve ot beino- 3 gX /" d °P era,ion '• now on the »
eve of beng executed. The diviliou of general
the pilofth nn R V° ,8,0 °? mcn ' has
to Andernach, to rein force* V
In th#» rv» • centre ©f ilie army.
Rhine at 'he '' '° pass thc if
the north whi I ? Ne«wied, and the arsny of P
as W„ y of hay ratlons . bread, and u
«° be sent to Mulheim '^ prc P a " n g at Cologne,
arrived by poll at Col ogn J Bournonv.lle has S
TO,. PARIS, November 34.. u,
'<> to 'he Tile'de'Fran^' rC^ are determined S
b«n, the famecomi J " the t,
iuftruftions to P ° fltivC
tl.eabolit.on of fIX eXfCUU ° n of law of W.
n., . November 26.
. fhc 1... ma . j«™«, ,]
it revoking all nfl.er decrees, by whieh so np B(rg l
been pei mined to refidc in Pa.is. Those who *2
« • to obtain leave for continuing their residence ar
I deliver in petitions, setting forth the place of th '°
t ; birth, their condition and profeffion, the place d
,f their last domicile abroad, the different houses '
- 1 which they have liv a d at Paris, and their mjtiv l!
n ; for having obtained 'heir last leave of residence
J I Yesterday a worn n hawking about a tra« e J
J ! "titled, the treatment of Louis XVI. was t J'
- ' '"to in the Jardin Egalitc, the ci-dev a „t
ralais Royal.
■ eft " da y mining the ci-devant marquis d.
1 Cufy, formerly French ambassador in Eavaria, wa ,
■ guillotined, as was the marquis de Meynard
Vendean officer of rank, accused befidesof cmiVrs
tion. * •
November 28.
The grand jury of the department of IH e and
Vilame, on the 27 Brumaire, placed in a ftati of
acculation Jean"Moreau, who fired a pistol- at Ee
neral Hoche ; Charles Teysflere, who abetted that
crime ; Adelaide Marie Lecointre de Grave, an d
the widow Porin, who concealed the arms of Terf
flere. ' '
A. traveller of fidelity, and on whose patriotism
we can rely, hasjuft returned from a journey int.
the country between the Meuse and the Rhine, the
eleaorate ot Treves and the Palatiuate. He fp'eaks
highly of the date of the public mind in these
countries. He assures us that the retreat of
• army is there regarded as a misfortune, but not a, »„
alarming .anger for these frontiers; that the pec
pie look anxiously forward to peace, and expcS
that an armftice will fpcedly take place. He adds
that it is the general Wish of the army, Ihould the
war continue, to have Pichegru at their head:
that the fold.ers have the greatest confidence in I
his talents, and arc perfaaded that were he to re- .
join them, discipline and victory would retarn with
him.
November 29.
The executive iffueu ■ decree on the
23d of November, the objetfs of which is to en- -
force the existing orders for preventing any kind
of communication between England and Franee.
All that the Spmilh fleet has yet done, istoraife
the bloekade at foulon. A letter from that port
states, that orders are come for the equipment of*
squadron as five fall of the line and two frigates,
supposed for Conftantinopkr
The Spanish fleet, in the harbor as Toulon,
consists of twenty-two ships of the line and ten
frigates. »
General Hoche still prosecutes with the fame ar
dour, the equipment which it is believed is destined
to operate a descent upon England.
COUNCIL of FIVE HUNDRED.
November 24.
Rouyer, in the nams of the committee, made a
report concerning the paflage of recruits raised in
Italy for the Spanish service fever the French ter
ritory.
It was decreed that a toll should be paid by all '
carriages palling along the highway.
PARIS, November 29.
The meflenger sent to London by Lord Mafm
e(bury U returnedpaWlßenegociations are refam
ed. 1 bey have at last made a step forward j for
after childishly refufing to explain himfelf on the
principle of compensation, set forth by Lord Malm
efbuiy, oar learned Minister afiumes in the molt
positive mannei, enlightened, no doubt, by a fort*
night study, and also a little by the leftbns of the
writer, who proved to him that there was no im
propriety in acknowledging this principle, «nd that
it was indeed pledging ourselves to very little ; be
cause we reset ved still the full power of (hewing our v
selves as difficult as we pleased tefpe&ing the na
ture and the extent of the exchanges and propor
tionate compensations. At least the firll difficulty
.of formality has been done away, which is certainly
something, as the official' diplomatic notes will
shew. ■ -
If our Plenipotentiary, instead of his last infignifi
cant answer, had returned that which he uow gives,
and formerly admitted, as he now does, the principle
of compensation, he would have accelerated theiflue
of the negociation by a fortnight, and would have
not appeared to be a man who quibbles and recedes,
and pretends to have already said what in fact he
had not said. We might go 011 and a/Jc of Him >
little less diynefs and asperity of language ; but hi*
diplomatic education eannot be perfedl all at once.
By Lard Mamefcury's answer, which we do not
suppose he will fend to hit Cabinet by a Courier, ai
ths question addressed by the DireAory must have
been forefeen, we shall fee, whether he will also
make use of mare franknefs in his overtures ; whe
ther he will relinquish his perplexing and dilating
course, with men who despise and cannot patiently
bear the delay of formalities.
That of the two governments which, without
losing itfelf in the labyrinth of formalilies, shall an.
! nounce with prpeifion and moderation, the principal
conditions upon which it wishes to ntgociate, will
prove the sincerity afits pacific intentions, concili
ate the general opinion, and make it a terrible weap
on against its enemy. It wovld be worthy of the
Directory tt> set this great tnd fine example of loy
alty and good faith. ' «
LONDON, Dec. 1,
1 he following arrangements were yeflerday final
ly fettled.
The Earl of Weftmoreland to be Lord Privy Seal,
111 the room &f the Earl of Chatham, appointed
Prefidcnt of the Counejl.
The Earl of ChefterSeld to be Master of the
Horse to his Majesty, vice Lord Wcftmorelatid.
Lord Auckland to be one of the Poftmaftsts-Ge
neral, in the room of Lord Chefterfield.
Ine Duke of Roxburgh to be Groom of the
Stole to his Majesty, in the ream of the Marquis of
Bath, deceased.
Lord Macclesfield to be a Lord of the bed cham
ber, vice the Duke of Roxburgh ; and Lord Cbarlts
Somerset i&jo succeed Lord Macclesfield as comp
troller of the King's Houfhold-
Earl Howe is to have the Blue Ribbon as the
Marquis of Bath.
The Minister still prefeveres in his plan of a volur*
t* r y.fnbfcriptioß, and having obtained the pronnte
of eight millions fron public bodies, he i» eager