New Ci On FRID VY EVENING, February 17, WII L be presented. (for the fecontl time) a celebrated NEW COM£\DY, (written by the author of Colum bus, The Children &c.y caHed The Way to get Married. 1 JA» performed atCovent-G»rden Theatre 39 nighis, without s u ss the firft season ; and firice, upwards of 15^ nights", with unbounded applause.] r L Tangent, Mr. Mo're.on Ned, Mr. Bl.flfett the Toby Alfpice, Mr. Harwood Pollillion, Mr. T. A arrel he Cap .Taulkner.Mr. Cooper Undertaker, «Mr. McDonald m ;, Cmrtic. ' Ms. Warren Jailor, Mr. Mitchell Dick Dalhall, Mr. Wignell Sol'cilor, (Ml'. Morgan M'Queery, Mr. Prigmore Officer, Mr. Warn 11 Lawllord, M- Darley William, Mr. J. Darley tha Shopman, Mr. J. Wariell tha Julia Faulkner, Mn. Merry ~ Clementina,. Mrs trancis Lady Sorrel, Mr.. L'Eftranje cn< Fanny, Wm. Dnftir. A thl To which will beadefed, a Comic Opera, called The Padlock. . Iwb Don Diego, Mr Darley Leander, (firfttime) Mr. Darley, jun. hei ift Scholar, Mr. Warrell, jim. em ad Scholar, Mi. Mitchell tic Mungo, ( Mr. B.ites ou Leonora, Mrs. Warrell Urfuta, Mrs. Meteht'.er. J Ob Saturday evening, will be pe-fbrmtd, for 1 ; the feventhandlaft time this season, COLUMBUS ; B'| or a World Difcovercd ; with Entertainments. mi Th? third night of THE WAY TO GET MAR- i 8 RIED will be on Monday next. . at< Box, One Dollar twenty-five ter.t9. Pit Seven Eigh:hs of a Dollar, and Gulltfry, half a dollar. 0- Ticket»-to be had at H. & P. Rice's tfook,ftore "* No. 58 High-street, and at the Office adjoining the N< Theatre. M Ladies and Gentlemen are requested to fend their f a , servants to keep places a quarter before 5 o'clock, and t ] ( to order them, as foos as the company are feared, to withdraw, as they cannot on any account be permit- ted to remain. The Doors or the Theatre will open at 5, and the 311 Curtain rife prccifely at 6 o'clock. 00 • Places for the Boxes to lie taken at the Office in the la 1 front of the theatre, from 10 till 2 o'clock, and from f lc lo till 4 on the days of performance. 0 f FIT AT RESPUJSLICA ! u ———————; • w College-Hall. f« Readings and Recitations, in Morale Critical, and Entertaining • iy m On THURSDAY E VENING, in February i6th, at 7 o'clock, c | Will be recited * first part. Anthony's Funeral Oration, Shakespeare. rc Cato'»soliloquy 00 the Immortality of the Soul, Addifon. 0 Ode on St. Concilia's Day, Pepe. SECOND PART, The Story of Lavinia, Ihomfon. n Edwin apd Emma, Mall«t. vs Maria, fi'rft and second part, Sterne. a Ode so Madness, Pcnrofe. THIRD PART* Ode on the PalTions, Cellini. n Alexander's Feast, Dryden. p OnSATURD VY, February 18, Will be Continued, Selections from the tragedy of 0 HAMLET, ( a Critical Invcfligation of the -Chara&er of Hamlet 0 and Obfervatioire on Shakespeare. fc Tickets to be had of Mr. Ponlfon, jun. at the Library ; c at mr. M*El wee's looking-glass-store, S. Fourth ftreet; and at Mr. Carey's, Bookseller, Market-ftrcet — j Half a dollar each. - • 111 ■ ( IVA NTS A PLACE. < A Woman who can be well recommceded for honesty, so- { briety, and j>ood temper. She wiftics to eng jge as cham bermaid, or sempstress for low wages on condition she may retain a young child with her. Enquire at No. 58 South j Front street, February t6 d g? Do«flor Priestley intends to deliver a Dif- Course for the benefit of' the Philadelphia Society for the relief «f diftrefled Emigrants from Foreign coun trie®, on Sunday morning next, Feb. 19, at the Col lege Hall, in Fourth ilreex, at half past ten o'clock. February 16 3 C To-Morrow Morning, rft 9 o'clock, will be fold at PUBLIC AUCTION On Hamilton's wharf, ' Fresh Fruits and Wine, Jul! arrived from Malaga, viz, 480 kegs RAISINS of the Sun ,130 boxes Bloome ditto 180 ditto Mufcatcl ditto , 4t kegs FIGS 50 boxes PUUINS 20 sacks foft-fhtlled ALMONDS to Qr-Caflts old Mountain WINE of fuperiorjqual ity A few jare G R APES and keg« ANCHOVIES. Approved endorsed notes at 6a days will be received inpayment for purchases of ico di nars and upwards. All purch«fes under 100 dollars, to be CASH. February 16 WM. SHANNON, Auft'r. Will be Told, On Wednesday, the lid day of FeWuary, \njlant y At the Merchants'Coffee-Houte, At 12 o'clock, noon, A Lot, or Piece of Ground, Containing IX acres and 100 perches, Ctuate near the Blue Ball Tavern, on the Paffyunkroad, four miles {rom the city of Philadelphia. This Lot commands a view of therivers Delaware and Schuylkill, is nearly inclaf. Ed with a good cedar pod and rail fence, and has a never failing spring of frefh water riling in it—One acre of - -which is good bottom meadow—adjoining lands of Willi »m Bingham, Esq. Jacob Sink, and others. The terms of faU, one fifth part in ten days after the day of sale, when immediate poflelfion will be given, the relidue in payments agreeable to the purchafeir, on paying legal in terest therefor, and giving security for the lame, if re quired. An indisputable title will be given, upon mak ing the firft payment as aforefaid. A Draft of said Lot may be seen at the Merchants' Coifee-Houfe, and at the office of Alexander Power, No. IXS Chefnut-ftreet, where further information may be had. Philadelphia, February 14 §t2z FOR SAL E, At Whitefides' Tea Ware-Houfie, No. 99, North Second Street. Imperial f Hyson Skin. Hyson, > frelh Teas. < SouchoDg, Young Hyson, J XJec. 9. 3Uwjm. CONGRESS of s thb .UNITED STATES. • I HOUSE OF REPKBSmTATIVSS. Wednesday, January 18— Cominued. Mr. Craifc's fpe«th continued. He wag,afraid this view of the fubjcfl had not fufficiently engaged the attention of #emlemen. When he read the accounts in theytiblic prints ot the flagrant att.uk made upon our commerce; when he not only saw deprecations and spoliations com mitted, but adual hoftilitiei threatened, he thought there was serious grouud for alarm. One of the strong eftobjc&ions to a direst tax was, that we cou}d not expert immediate revenue from that fourcc ; but the force »f this objection ap plied with equal fttength to the adaptiop of any energetic measure. If it required time to m?.ture this plan, it was necessary to bepn it immediately, that it might be gradually prepared, and ready whenever ueceflity (hould impel them to have re course to it ; for it would be preemption and the height of folly to suppose, we (liould always be ex empt from what was the common lot of other na tions. The propriety of'the measure of enereafing our revenue, had been agreed on all hands, how ever gentlemen differed about the mode ef effc£iing it. It appeared to him essentially necessary toori ginate/ome plan of diredfc taxation to which the} might resort. If it be admitted that such a plan is necefTary, though not to foe carried into immedi ate effect, the present queftioa ought to be agreed ' t0 " If he understood the gentlemen from Nsw-York, ; New-Jersey, and South-Carolina, (Mr. Williams, Mr. Henderfon, and Mr. Harper) all agreed, that r further revenue was necaflary, and two of the gen '. tlemen were in favor of originating a plan of direfl ' taxes. The question t«e choice of evils ; they were unpleasant, but the; vrere necefTary. It had been objcdled againltadi re£t tax, that it was unequal on account of variei; "• of population, wealth and fituation.—Gentk-me had not been fatisficd with fuppofiog that a bad pla might be adopted ; they had supposed the ver worll to be entered into ; that the nffeflors to b appointed would bethebafeft of men ; but he trufl ed the committee who was charged with the bus ness, would have the good sense to prepare such plaa as ftituld be free from many objections whic had been bro't againtt it. Mr. Craik differed i opinion from the gentleman from South Carolir ( Mr. Harper) that this tax would bear hardefl u; et on the farmeVs far removed from the sea coail. T' believedrfhey would rather have the advantage th; y ; otherwile, from the low value put upon their land h- The expence of collejSioii had been urged as an o jeftion. He had been much surprized to he gentlemen calculate that expence, one at fifteen ai oue at thirty per cent, Hejwoiidert'd that the ge eialaeeuraey of those gentlemen (hould have suss. Ed them to have wandered so much from the poi on this occalion. He believed the eftimarc of t nth gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Gallatin) w I high at 7 1-2 per cent. An obje&ion of this kii —** was lels applicable to land, than to taxes on a; 'if- other species of property. f° r A tax or an heaith-tax, had be j q "' propofedasa substitute, which would in fact nothing more than a house tax. He thought tl j filch a tax was liable to every objcj2ion that coi be made against a tax on land, and to great ma others peculiar to thcmfclvcs. Houfcs were JN e q u ' voca ' representation of propefty, and a tax them would fall on some parts of the country mu heavier than on others. Indeed it was fufcepiil of so many obvious objc£tioiig, that they were r necessary to be detailed. Mr. Craik said he did tiot conceive it import; to go into an enquiry how far it was prudent or | litic to go to an extent ion of the impost;, r.s he! 110 authority on which to found his opinion ; a he would caution gentlemen from being diver ual- frdm the quelfion by a expectation of an encrea revenue from thence. It had been proved very I isfa&orily by the gentleman from Pcnufvlva (Mr. Gallatin) that there no certainty advance in the imposts. Upon a calculation of r . duties paid upon goods from the Eafl Indies, ::r - Indies and Europe, they amount at least to fixt per cent, and were gentlemen prepared to fay t | even this duty might rot prove a temptation ant > merchants to become fmuggftrs. The quefl was an abftrafi principle, and did not pledge £ tlemen to this source of taxation only \ if oil rthe cou ld be found more eligible, they might .be ap niles ed to. He hoped, therefore, tLe committee Wc d» a find no difficulty in agreeing to tlii proportion idas« f ore them. Mr. W. Lyman said a land tax had always t /illi- COB f'deied as an impolitic tax. It would be we! erms enquire why this tax (hould have been so c'oAl? sale, ed ; whether the whole world had erred in' lie m ca f c) or there was some natural cause for the o ( ion., A tax on land was calling forth property mak- fo,e ' l wss produced j for, until land was cultiva it produced nothing. To call for a tax in this lants' had also a tesdency to difc»uragc thecultivatio • No - land. 2 bc Mr. L. said, he admitted that the consumer indirect taxes'. that thry did not conv from merchant, but from the person who purehafed £ goods for consumption. it the person *£> cultivated the ground who paid a direst tax on lj but those who bought the produce of the land I the [market. The cwfumei paid the duty in cafe as well as|the other. j*. Tlic queftioa, then, he said, was merely u tii bfftmodp. "ft faidtw, tou«ll ior adnect tax on Ul ' * kliev upon a class ®f people whoperhaps have "" ■ r<> difcharg# it. A m,> who poieffe. land. o. verse who is the cultivator of it, may not a\e > until he has fold his produce, locol e . ■ in rhis way, was therefore tedious c.rcuJ .nd Let uncertain. Wl„t was the cale wuh fjf. *** taxes, in mdireft taxes, or cxc.fe, the . gl», cess, he said, was unerring and certain. They were fa much so, that an eminent wrttsr 0.. the fubjeft y had said, it was » pay the debt to government, or pay wou the debt to nature/The tax mult be paid, or the «th< person mult cease to exill. -- • When he contemplated the fubjeft in this poin of view, and if he weft tight* that direst taxes were the, paid by'-the as well as indirect taxes, he t e c could nJt be at a loss what vote to give on tne pre- {ent ©ccafion. . ~ „ r in whatever joint of view he co* idered direst be^ taxes, they could not, in his opinion, be compared with indirect taxes. It was true, that some nidi per reft taxes, and all taxes in a greater or lei- applicable to all countries, there was one which ap ca 'e plied-particularly to the United Slates. If a di nt reft lax was laid, it mult be according to the lalt L s. ceafutt. In this way the tax would fall very une- ir 3- qually ; for, it would be found that the population an ar in some parts of the United States exceeded that ac 'd of other part 6in proportion to the extent of terri- fa n- j lory, an» wealth and produCtivenelsot foil. Where- fr< r- | ver commerce had extended to'a confiderahle de- di nt j gree, the landed interett would be taxed on account in 116 los the population which those improvements may tl; as have produced. Population, was, perhaps, as sure io id a mean of judging as ally other of the ability to o! iy pay of any diftrift ; but from the situation of the la United States it was not, he said, a good criterion M en at present. b be Coming from oie Itatehe did, he should be obli at ped, it he did not generally object to the system of si i'd direst taxation, to objcA to it on that account. He !tl "y did uet think a dir«6t tax could comport with the a as into eft of a populous (late. )f gentlenhen thought v on Inch a lax would fall heavy or unequal in thinly in- u habited llates, he mud-give up his argument, but he jle did not btlieve this could be the cafe. c He might have said that indirect taxes were indivl- ! t: dually unequal, unless upon the principle that con- ' \ int fumers pay the duty. It was not in human wist jo- dom to lay a direst tax equal. But it was said, 1 iad that money mult be had ; that there was a defieien- j nd «y. in the revenue, and therefore this tax must be ,ti ed laid. Several gentlemen, he said, had proved that f fed there might be considerable retrenchments, made in f at- the puolic expenditure ; peihaps enough to make 1 ma the receipts equal to the expenditures. They had 1 an not yet determined how fai the military and naval : the j eftablilhment might be curtailed, and several other ! s eft j articles of expence would admit of retrenchment, t «n | Betides, if that, were not the cafe, and the sum in t hat ; question must be raised, he thought there were cert to tain articles of importation which would admit ofa < ton hightr duty, and which would not only prod Ace r«- i tu- Venue, but operate as an encouragement of the ma- 1 ters uufailures of our own country. ] pit- It would be recollected, Mr. L. said, that peti u c tioos had bea> received from hat and glass manu J e- tacturers, and various wthers, praying for an aug mentation of duty ou thoft articles, as they found een the preient duty not a fufticient proteftioH to their ta maiiuUdure,. Indeed the fnanufafture, of the U- Jer- nitedl States were almost wholly abandoned. Thole this of glass and of woollens were abandoned those of pin- cotton, which had progressed to some extent, had, e in a considerable degree, been abandoned, and some ted, others were likely to be so. Ec*his pait, he tho't way 1 t cy iad no other objedt in view than merely the. not protection-os the manufactures ®f the United _• j 1 UU r' imp®fe a higher <3uty on a num tl , Ct ° f rUC , Ca ". had been informed from piel- J ? Uv ' ior ity, that the importation of huts in. . 1 C fl° V* , ne » ' ia ® 'ad year exceeded io,oool. who and that porter had for the two iaft year, ind j exceeded any former importations. The kapona. thT. C ° alwaEalfe leafing. When it was eon ' [ ld «cd that our own country furnifhed matcials 1 the r. -Ti Tn"' u f ° llCy 8 " d inUrelt that , " iould bt a d»t j u Fa thtrn. Theft U' tides, he said, were a!f» so bulky, as t« run so rifle »f being fmugglcd ; if this were not the c/ife, he knew that a revenue calculation raigbt prove the re verse of a mathematical calculation. But, when ar ticles were fufficiently bulky, the duty might br ii). N creased to any height,.wit! out danger of fmuggiiiv. Let the duty be what it would on perter, on coal, and almost on hats, there need be no fear of fmuir gling. There was another article. He believed the duty on rutn imported might bmatiy other articles whieh would admit a higher duty, that there was no neceflity for resorting to that. It would leally be an extraordinary thing, if, af; er declaring this country free and profperojis eyoud all. calculation, it (hould be brought into such a lituation, as that nothing could save it but direCt taxation. He fondly hoped, he said, we were a free, enlightened and flourifhing country. He wished he could fay that the government had used our peculiar advantages to the bed parpafe; but everyone viewing the proportion before them, must be of a different opinion. We mull, said he, either . believe the United States are not prosperouS, ©r that the natural eaufes of our prosperity had been defeated. -, - . — ; i Mr. tr-ftrtflf lie "dtff not, mean to take longer time of the committee, the fubjeCi having already undergone a very copious difcufiion. / Mr. Findley hoped the tax, which was the sub jeCt of their diffusion, had been so long in con templation, that members would have been more ready to have met it. It was admitted the laCt fe®on to be necessary, and the secretary of the treasury had been direCted to report a plan. At that time they were convinced more revenue waa wanted ; that by anticipations, and other caufis, we were in a filiation to require a direCt tax ; but no& they heard that the iS was impiaCticable, un wise, impolitic and unjust. * He objeCted to its being impracticable ; indeed this had rather teen suggested than proved, and he had been surprised to hear such a charge. To fay 11 that so important a thing as the laying of a tax on . land was impracticable, was a moll extraordinary t assertion ; but he trulted, as it had been found per- I fedtly practicable in most of the (tates, it \yould be . found practicable with us. It had been perfectly . practicable, and most effectual, he said, in the (late ; of Pemifylvania ; and if so there, why not practi cable in the present cafe ? The gentleman from Maffachufetfs (Mc. W. t Lyman) had said that in some parts of the coun . try the people were more numerous than in others'; i and that a direCt tax would call upon them to pay t according to their numbers. Were not the manu facturers, he said, who might pay tjiis, exempted from the impost duty, (which would be equal to the diriCt tax which they -were called upon to pay ; and t indeed if they were no! called upon lor a direCt tax \ y they would pay no tax at all. But with refpeS to e individual injury, he said it would beasjult as any 0 other tax ; the principle was more jult, becaule ie land would be taxed only in proportionVu its value. n No inditeCt tax would operate equally, but would , , be more unequal than this. i- But it was laid this tax would fall upon theeoru jf i sum«r 4 only. He differed in opinion from the gen ie ; tlenwn from Massachusetts in this respect. 'Wraith ie and industry, he said, mult pay taxes. Indultry it was the cause of wealth. A lax may be levied n- upon the poll ; but it mult be paid out of wealth.-' ie But it was said wealth could not be found ; it could not be found, it v/f/f true, in t ri-1 hut in thole in which it w.is visible and ex-poled. n- I Was there a greater mass of wealth than land i cer if- i tainly not. It was said that it'difcouraged cultiva d, lion ; but it did no such thing. n- ! Mr. F. said, Pennfylvsnia had always been in the be habit of collecting direCt taxes, whiilt a culidv, and at since. This tax had the effeSt to prevent the land in from being engrossed, and kept it in fmnll iraCis. ka DireCt taxes were not imputed until indircCt taxea ad had been tried to the greateii extent. iral Mr. F. said there were greater landnj t dates thaa ler i any other ; and why should they ci'. ;« a sax. It it. could not be supposed that he could advo ate. this it) tax from any other motive than pri'tuple, (nice er- the whole of his property and that of iris conltitu >fa ents was lanok; but, said he, we coufidcr it is a re- jult and equal tax. It is n»t unpopular ; we think. r.a- it [fceferabli to an indireCt tax. People in towns, he said, paid for every thing they eat, drii«k, o* :ti- wear, therefore paid most of the impoli duty, iu J tbey drd not pay much of it, and therefore wouid lg- not obJeCt to a lmall tax or. their land. Mr. F. fiid he had observed a i.onteft in that house between the agricultural and trading interests, thought-it was 100 early a-day tn have i»- troi'ilced that kind of fpiiit. If they lock a vie* of the countrry, or of the members in that house, they found one or the other almost altogether agri cultural. Tt was certainly the molt productive 10 1 property in the unioß, and why (hot 'i it not fay ® : ita share of the public expense? am- i The prosperity of the commercial interests, de. 1 et . pended principally on agriculture, and a direA UK . was necessary to equalize, the taxes. aol. Salt, be said, had beeu wentiored for au add«- ear» i tional duty. This was a most necessary asticle for ita- the poor. Sugar alio, though it had been called a :oo- luxury ; tin he believed it was become from habit lials a necessary of life.. Bohea tea was an article used that by the poorer elaffes also. If this principle of ux . at- iog the poor prevailed ifl our ias,»i : if they ivcis la *0 ' .* >1