CONGRESS.
HOUSE of REPKESEN TATIVES,
Friday, May Ig.
Mr. Brent, (rum Virginia, Appeared and took
his oath and feat ; aud Jeremiah Smith, from
New-Hamplhire, did the fame yefterdiy.
The speaker ofefcrved, that there wu a rule
of the House in these wotiU : " No committee
liiall fit during the fitting of the House, without
special leave."—He thought il neceffaryto ob
fcrve, that he had sent to the committee to
whom it was referred to prepare an answer to
the P=efident's fpcech, to learn if they were
ready to report. They relumed for answer,
that provided they had leave to Gt, they (houtd
be able to report the answer in half an hour.
On motion, learc wis gives.
Mr. Coit, from the Committee of Elections,
madea repart from the documents which they
had received, of memberseutitled to theirfeats.
The speaker informed the House that he had
received a communication from the Department
of State, containing sundry Documents referr
ed to by the President in his Speech to both
Honlcs, numbered from Ito 18. He proceeded
to read No. viz
i. A letter from General Pinckney -to the
Secretary of* State, dated Paris, Dec. 10, 17*6,
giving an account of his arrival at Bourdeaux ;
of his jobrVjey from thence to Paris, in which,
from the badriefs of the roads, he broke three j
wheels of his carnage ; of the ill treatment he 1
received from M. Delacroix, &c. He remarks
that it is »ot furprHing that the French Repub
lic have refufed to receive him, since they have
dismissed no less than thirteen Foreign Miniliers;
and fine* they have been led to believe by a late
Emigrant, that the United States was of no
greater confeauence to them than the Republics
of Genoa or Geneva. He also mentions, that
it Itemed to be the opinion in France that much
depended upon the election of the President, as
eoeof the candidates was con Cd-red as a friend
•f England, and the other as devoted to Franc*.
The people of France, he observes, have been
greatly deceived, with refpefl to the United
States, by mifrepreftrnations, being led to be
lieve, that the People and Government have dif
ferent views ; but, adds he, any attempt to di
vide the People from the Government, ought to
be to the People of the United States, the Jignal
far rallying —GenEinckntyfeveral times men
tions Mr. Monroe in this letter with great ref
peft ; and fays that before bis arrival the Di
reilery had been very cool towards him, but
since that time, they had renewed their aivilities
to him.
t Is a report ef Major-General Mountflo
rtnee to General Pinekney, dated Dec. 18,1796,
on the fubjefl of American veiTels brought pri
ses into the ports of France.
3. Extract of a letter from Gen. Pint kney to
the Secretaryjof State, dated Paris, January 16,
1797, in which he mentions the dillreffed situa
tion of American citizens, arriving in the ports
of France, who were immediately thrown into
prison, and could not be released, until an order
was got from the American Minister, counter
feited by the French Minister of Foreign affiirs;
and no Minister being acknowledged there at
present, no relief could be afforded, tie how
ever applied to M Delacroix on their behalf, by
means of faia Secretary Rutledge, and got
them attended to through the Minister of Gen
eral Police Gen. Pinckney gives a further ac
count of conventions which pafled between
})ii Secretary and M. Delacroix, on the fubjeil
of quitting Paris, in which he told hi be mull
do so, or be liable to the operation of the Police
Hws : but refufed to commit his orders to
writing.—-He motions Barraa's answer to Mon
roe's address, as » curious production ; but
fays it was not particularly <alculattd as an an
swer to what was said by Mr. Monroe, as he
had it prepared, and was unacquainted with
what would be said by Mr Monroe.
4. Extrifl of a letter from Gen. Pinckney
to the Secretary of State, dated Amftcrdam,
Feb. 18, informinghim.that having had official
sotice to quit the French Republic, he had gone
. to Amftcrdam.
} Extra# of * letter from Gen. Pinckney to
the Secretary of State, dated Amflerdam, March
j,in which be observes, that before he left Pa
ris, it was rumeored that the Dutch were de
termined to treat American veflels in the fame
manner as the French had done. He now be
lieve* that the French wilhed them to do so,
as he had lately received intelligence that the
Dutch hadohje&ed to do this, a Hedging lhat it
would be a great injury to them, astheyfhould
then lefe their trade with this country, and if so,
they would be deplriredol fur*ifcing that sup
port to theFicneh, which they then gav£ them.
France acquiesced, beeaufe five saw it was for
)ier interell; and having 35,000 troops in Bata
vij, it wis generally known, tHey could do
whit they pleased with that country. The
General adds, with delegation, that there are
American citizens who fit out privateers to
cruize against the trade of ttis country.
6. Extradt of a letter from Major-General
Mountfloreuee to Gen. Pinckney, dated. Paris,
Feb. 14, mentioning the capture of a veflel f rom
Boftoß, and another from Baltimore, by an A
merlcan citizen on board a privateer ; adding
that American citizens, of this elafs are contin
ually wilhing for more rigorous laws against
American commerce.
j Extract of a letter from the fame to the
fame, dated Paris, Feb. *l, giving an account of
two more American veffcls being brought into
L'Orient by the fame man, and of another vef
icl taken by a French privateer.
8. ExtraA of a letter from Geo. Pinckney
to the Secretary of State, dated Amsterdam,
March 8, mentioning the capture of several A
werican veffcls ; he alfofpeiks of the difagree
ablenefs of his fitUition ; and was of opinion
that the new Third of the French Councils
would determine whether this country and
France were to remain at peace, or go to war.
Though the former was desirable, he wiflied the
measures of our government to be Jirm.
9. Speech of Barras, President of the Direc
tory, on Mr. Monroe's reeal.
" to. The Decree of the Executive Direflory
of March,», relative to the l'eizing of Ameri
can veffcls.
ft. Exfrafi of a letter from John
Adams, Elq. Minister Resident of the ti
nned States, to the Batavian republic, to
the Secretary of State, dated at the Hague,
Nov. 4, 1796, giving an account of the dif
pafition of the people of that country to
wards this, which lie Rates to be friendly ;
and thii he attributea to its being their inter,
eft to befo. Thia country, he remarks. it
the only 'quarter from which they receive
regular paymenta. He adds, however, that
I hey have no will in oppoGtion to the French
Government.
11. Eslrad of a letter from the Com
mittee of Foreign Relatione of the Batavian
Republic to the above Minister, dated Sept.
*7,1796, making it appear very desirable
that the United .State* ftiould join them in
their common cause against Great Britain,
reminding him of the many fervieei which
tkey h «fVto sic red to this county.
'3- E*lra£fc of 4 letter from Join Quiujy
Adams itTanCwer to the above, wherein he
fays hi (hall not omit to forward their letter
to his government.
!+• Extradt of a lettel- from John Qjincy
Adams, to the Sccretaty of State, dated
Hague," Feb. 17, 1797, representing" the
French Republic as paying at little attenti
on to other Neutral Powers at to the United
States. He alludes te their conduft towards
Hamburgh, Bremen, Copenhagen, See.
15. Extritft of a letter from Rufut King,
ECq. to the Secretary 6f State, dated Lon
don, March 12, 1797, to tbe fame effeft.
16. A letter from the minister of Spain,
resident in Philadelphia, to the Secretary of
State, dated May 6, 1 complaining of
the injurious operation of the Britilh Treaty
against Spain, in three refpeflt, viz. as it
destroys the do&rine of free ships making
free goods ; as it makes certain articles con
traband of was, which in former, ireatiet
were not considered lo ; and as it givet to
Great Britain a. right to navigate the Milfi
fippi, which that minister infills belonged not
to us "to give, as it belonged wholly to Spain
before it gave the right tethe United States,
by the late treaty,® to navigate that river.—».
He concludes his letter with faying, that
the King of Spain is desirous of harmorfy
between the two countries, and relies upon
the equality of his complaints for fatisfae
tion.
17. A letter from the Secretary of State to
the Spanish minister, in answer to the above ; in
which he acknowledges that the treaty lately
concluded b, tween the two countries, had prov
ed'fatisfa<Sory to the United States, as it put an
end to a dispute wh'ch had exiited for many
years refpeifling the navigation of the Milfilippi,
and also as it afforded fatisfaSion to our mer
cantile citizens for the capture-os our ffiips and
cargoes All these, he allowed, were a<sls of
fubffabtial justice ; but all the ctker ftipulatiotis
were wholly voluntary, and perfetSly reciprocal.-
With refpeft to the three articles of complaint
refpeAing the Britilh treaty, he juftified the Ih
pulations as being just and consistent, and such
as this country had a right to enter into.
18. A letter from general Pin kney to the Se
cretary of State, dated Paris, February j, Hat
ing that the day after the arrival of the news of
the French general Buonaparte's fuceeffes in Ita
ly, he received a letter from M. Delacroix, di
re&ing him to Ipave Paris. Gen. Pinekney con
dudes this letter with observing, that the French
seemed to speak of this country as if it were
indebted to them for Independence, and not to
any exertions of our own. Our treaty with
Great-Britain is execrated : they with us tahave
no connexion with that country ; they wish to
to destroy the trade of Oreat-Britain, and they
look upon us as her best cuftorner.
The whole of these documents having been
read, on motion, they were committed to the
Committee of the Whole on the state of the U
nion, and 500 copies ordered to be printed.
Mr. Venable, from the Committee appointed
to prepare an aqfwer to the Speech of the Presi
dent, reported one (pretty much an echo of the
Speech) which was twice read and.committed to
a committee of the whole.
On the Speaker esquiring for wh»t day it
fliould be mader, Mr. W. Smith mentioned to
morrow—Mr. Nicholas Monday.,
Mr. Giles said the Answer could not be print
ed before to-morrow. As it was, perhaps, the
most important answer which ever was returned
to a speech finee thncommencemeni. *f the pre
sent government, and therefore ougqt to be well
considered, he thought Monday as early as it
ought to be taken up.
Mr. Livingfton said there was another reason
for delay. In the reading of the Answer, it
appeared to him to go to an approbation of alt
the measures of the executive in /elation to fo
reign nations. If so, it was of the utmost
eonftquence that the papers which had just been
read, Ihould also he laid before rhem previous to
its difeuffion, as they < ould not form an opinion
on that fubjedl until they had au opportunity of
perufisg these papers.
The question was carried for Monday.
Mr. New presented the-petition of Robert
Rutherford, complaining of the undue ele&ioii
of gen. Morgan (for the diftrifl which he for
merly represented) and praying for redrefc in
the prcmifes Referred to the Committee of
Eleflions.
Mr- W, Smith moved, that as the eonfidera
tion of the anfwtr to .he P efidtnf'sSpeech was
made the order for Mouday, that when the
House adjourued, it naight adjourn to that elay.
Agreed, a .d Adjourned
jForeign Intelligence,
HAMBURGH, March 23.
Lettert from Peterlburg of the 24th of
Feb. state, thai ilie couufcls of jhe emperor
Paul appear to have taken a decisive op
position to every overture of interference in
the fubfiMing war; in confcquence of the late
deliberations on tins fubjeift, the militia
eftabliftiment is already rediued to the'imita
tion of 1791, by which 5 major genera s, 13
brigadier generals, and 26 colonels arc Itruck
off the establishment. Thit reduction of
the military, does not operate with like effeft
ic the several naval departments, where mea
furet are carrying forward for the effe&ual
revival and support of the great naval neutral
system, which hat been eagerly adopted by
the emperor at the iirftance of hit Pruftiau
majesty.
Advices from Copenhagen of the 21ft
March, state the indisposition of the king,
and that the Pruflian ambassador, baron. Senft,
had left that city, on hit retuin home,
with hit lady and suite.
(JLn the zsth, the fleet, appointed to pro
tefl the trade in the Sound, during the
Summer, fell down to the Baum, where they
dropt anchor, they consist of the St. Thomas,
Lintworm, and Seaworm, of the line, and
several of inferior rates.
Os the 13th March, his Serene highness
the duke of Bruufwick, wat fcized with a
disorder in hitbreaft of which he died in the
"76th yenr of hit age—he had heard of the
fall of Mantua, and other serious newt before
hitdectafe:—his unexpe£ted death has ex
cited grief, and it has been notified in form
to the several courts of Europe. [1 his is
the celebrated duke who commanded the
Prufiian troops that invaded Holland in
1784, and France, in 1794 —with various
fucceltesj
In the proceedings at Rorpc on the 1 tth
February, before tlic surrender of Mantua,
a general council was held, cotifilting oftweji
ty cardinaltand eount Gal!ej>pi,on the <{V e !-
tidnof continuing the war, or executing the
treatv of peace forqvflj piopctfed. On the
liivifio-), there appeared sixteen vateg ;in f.«-
for of prosecuting the war, and but four
against it.
From London Pabtrs to April 3.
VIENNA, March 15.
The Audiian army in Italy has now taken
a concentrated fituatioh on the river Taglia
mento, as the inundation! of the Piava pre
vents taking an advantageous situation 011 the
latter river. <
During the lad three days, public prayers
have been put in all the churches and chapels
of this city and fu!<urbs, for the success of
the imperial arms ; from which we are in
clined to augur a continuance of the war, tho'
our hupes of peace are not entirely vanished.
Prince Nicholas Efterhazy has set out from
this city for. the Italian army ; he carries
with him 12,000 ducats, a part of a fubferip
tion laifed hereto be didributcd by the arch*
duke Charles among the soldiers, according
to their merit!.
Yesterday it was reported, that the arch
duke Charlei had had a fall from his hotfe,
n«ar Udrina, and hurt himfclf in the right
fqot, t.iough not dungeroufly.
Several officers of the Italian army, who
have been guilty 0/ mifcondutS, have been
rigorously punished by the archduke ; but
it is not true that any have been hanged.
Great quantities of heavy artillery have
been fcrit to the Italian army.—2o,6oo men
of the new. raifedHungarian troops will go
to the army on the Rhine ; and a corps »f
refeive of i2,QtS> men will be formed from
'the recruits from Bohemia, Gallicia, &«.
THE MOP.N.tN.O CHRONICLE.
. LONDON, April. I.
We lament to fay, that according to the
reports in the-beft informed political circles,
the accounts which ministers received from
tbe-contineot on Thurfdav, by no means an
nounce the profpeft of peace to any of the
belligerent powers. The league of the Pro
tcftant princes of Germany begins now to
manifefl and intentions. The army
of the king of Pruflia is atSlually in motion,
and his deligns are no longer equivocal. He
threaten! to fall upop Bohemia, while Buona
parte penetrates by the Tyrol, and Hoche
by the Lower Rhmc. This formidable at
tack, in the exhausted Hate of the house of
Austria, threaten! the very exigence of the
emperor, and there is no doubt but he mull
finally yield to their unprincipled demands.
By this league, and mi the event of the
feculat Ration of the-bifltopricks, the emperor
will have the inadequate compensation of
Saltzburg ; the king of Prußia will fcize on
the rich bifhoprick of Munfter, end the elefl
or of Hanover, upon Ofnaburgh. The flad
tholder will have the bifhoprick of Fulda, and
each of the contrading partiei will have the
slice most convenient to hi! present eftatei.
A meeting of the clothier! and woollen
manufa&ureri of Gloucestershire, ii to be
held on Monday next, to petition parliament
for peace. The corporation of Salisbury m.t
00 i uefday, and the manufacturer* and in?
. habitants of Salisbury met yesterday on the
fapir business.
Dupont de Nemours, in the French coun
cil of ancients of the 14th inft. announced,
that he had long entertained an amorouspaf
fiw f'-r Truth, Morality and Jufi'nt; arid
that he was then to consolidate his intimacy
with them by marriare.
April 3.
The Hamburgh mail which arrived on Sa
turday brings dill furrhec.confitmation of the
important fad*, that the emperor of Germa
ny, with a eondancy that doei honor to his
courage, though it will be probably unavail
ing, mutters all his Ifrength to stem the tor
rent just ready to brealc in upon hisiiereditary
doßimi.onsj and to force him to the surrender
of his preponderance in the Germanic body.
He is perfectly aware g{ the tende'ney of the
league which is formetTfor t<K aggrandize '
nient of the house of Erlhdenburgh. In the
February last Ist prefentcd a rescript
to the diet of the empire, in which we find
the rolluwing remarkable passage:
His majesty has repeatedly apprized the
dates of the empire, aftd particularly iheec
Llefiallica! dates, of their danger. ' He has '
endeavoied to convince them, that their event,
tual exittence, as independent dates, .was
threatened; that prbjefis of secularization '
werfe secretly forming, and that it was ap
parently in contemplation to grant an iudecn.-
nity to the ecclesiastical da'es, with a view
to compel the empire of Germany, divided
and incapable of defending itfelf, ro accept
this facrihce at the principal basis of the termi
of peace ; and thii objeft ii attempted to be
accomplished by a-jun&ion'and co-operation
of the power of s r rance with the Pipteitatit.
intered dependent upon Prulfia.*'
The danger is now -brought to its head.
The armicsof France "have no other objeft ;
and he l;asnoally but England. What aid
fnecan give him, is a quedion that a parlia
ment repreferrting the people of this Couritry-
Would speedily decide what decision .a, bar r .
liaajent Answering the defcriptiori of the tin
certand candid bishop of Rocheflef will.give
it is easy to determine. Tile chancellor, of
the exchequer has laid, in his place, that it is
for the inter-eft- of this country that we fhpiald
fend him more money; and accordingly ( m«re
will be sent. r
The emperor Francis's address to' Paul has
rot heen so fortunate. Letters from Vienna
fay that his answer is equivocal, in co'nfe
qucoce of which a favorable interpretation
has been given to it. Our reader! shall judge
for themfclves. The following article is from
Hamburgh. It will appear that out miniders
are more zealous in the cause. They have
not only agreed tojrive the house of Austria
fucconr in thoney dire 6t t but they have.held
out most tempting offer! to RuHia of a large
subsidy tq engage that court to inttrfere.—
The article from Hamburgh is as follows :
HAMBURGH, March 22.
Out accounts are, that the emperor Paul
has given an unfavorable answer «o the court
of London relative to hisfupport of the tri
pic alliance ; and that his proir.ife of an equip
ment of another fieet is couched in very
doubtful terms To the eourt of Vienna
his arifwer haabeen dill mere explicit, urging
that fce found the Ruffiig srmjr in so bid a
I ftitethnt not more than ty oa 20,003 men
could be fparej ajauxtllaries; that h • linan
| cea were remarkably low, and therefore his
advice to the emperor win to think seriously
of peace ; and at the fame lime announcing
1 hat he had written to the king of Pruflia to
induce him to become a meditator bet ween
Austria and France; and that he fhonld de
dermine what pjrt to take, by the answer he
should receive frotji his Prußjin rtpjefly,—
This, i: ii observed, is laying the pride of
Austria at the feet of it» rival with a wit
nefa.
The mail brings no other newi. The ar
mies are generally in motion, and all appear
ances indicate a most obstinate campaign ;
in which, through councils te
which wc are condemned, thii country is to
be deeply involved.
It it only by the declaratiwn of the united
fenfeof the country that we can deliver our
felvcs from this dreadful calamity. London
has given a grand and laudable example. The
common h'alf have solemnly ennfirmrd their
firft resolution ; and w* have seen that the
body of contractor! and jobbers, who thrive
upon the public spoil, have not-dared, as
heretofore, to agitate the question of a coun
ter addr«f» in the common council.
This day the city-os Wedminder, the
residence of the king, the parliament, the
Ctiurts of law, as well as of the nobility and
gentry of England, also meet to conlider of a
petition for the removal of miniftets. We
(hall fei whether the voice of found wifd'om
and independence will not triumph even -in
the chosen abode ®f influence and corruption.
OnWednefdaya meeting of the freehol
ders and taxed houfholderl of Bostons in
Lincolnshire, was held there, John Cart
weight, Esq.. in the chair,—The chairman,
after entering at large into a description of
the fiate of public affairs, and endeavouring
to shew the true f«urce of our calamities ;
proposed a petition to the House of Com
mons, which was seconded by Samuel Bar
nard, Esq. and met with no'oppofitien what
ever.
COMMON HALL.
On Saturday tbe Lord Mayor, Aldermen
and Livery of the City of Lotidon, afiembled
in Common Hall, to consider the report of
his Majesty's answer as to the time of receiv
ing their iddrefs voted on the 23d of last
month.
The Hall being opend with the usual
formalities, the lord mayor informed the
meeting that the report of the Sheriffs would
be read by the Common Sergeant.
Mr. Sylvester (the Common Sergeant)
read the report. It ftatird that the Sheriffs
had attended at St. James's on Friday, the
24th of March, to knowlwben the addrefa,
carried in the Common Hall, which was
held on the 23d, should 6e presented to his
maje'fty ; that the duke of Portland had in
fisrnted the Sheriffs that his onajefty received
addresses from the city of London as a corpo
rate body oa/y, and that he would receive the
address of*the Livery in the common form at
the Levee on the Wedriefday following, or
upon any utber. Levee Hay.-
Mr. Hvmfon adorcfTed the Livery. After
a speech of confidetablc length, in which he
vefy forcibly dated the insults which his
roajefty'ijminifters had,in this inllance, given
to the Citizens of London, He moved—•>
That the Sheriffs of. London have.at
all'times a right to an audience of the King,
arid when deputed b.y 'tfie Lj,very of London,
they are in duty bound to demand it."
Mr. Farmer the motion. He
said he had more refpeft for his msjeny than
to believe that the aofwej given tc. the Iher
iffs was the king's anjwer*. . Precedents had:
been fought for to fupporl the present rtYufel
to receive the. city
said that it was'in'fome degree warranted by
an aft of Parliament passed in the rtign of
Charles 11. but that was surely an »ra too
inauspicious to liberty to permit aay of its
regulations or praftitsi to be ngw held up
as example!.
The quedion being put, tue resolution
was carried in the affirmative, as were .all
those which followed.- "On the shew of hands
orily tw»-appeared against each refolutipn.
One of .the nop contents was Mr. Ketnble,
a tea-broker. ,
Mr. Waddirigton said the resolution- he had
tp propofc would have'come e with peculiar
propriety from the Alderman of the wafd
of Farringdon Without, (Mr. Wtlkp) who
he was forty to observe, was not preferit orf,
that dajs. He thought the fheriSfs had. ,
very impfopetiy in taking an answer from
ilie-dukeof Portland, and returning without
ta agdiepce of the king. Thu duke of Port
land afled, t in this inftauce, only as a fervent,
and it did not become the citizens of Lon
don, m Common Hall afTerriblrd, to receive
the answer of a servant of fcrvants. He
hoped the Lirery of London'would not fuSer
thi rights and liberties of'the'eity to 6e in
fringed. : tie concluded a'very able speech
by moving, t •- •
.-".That the- lord-rtiayor, attended .by the
ihetiff, and-the reprtfentativvs of the city i.>
Parliament, be -aga'in rrqucfted to present to
hii majesty, the ad'dref* voted in the Com
mon Hall of the 23d cf'March, and that no
jnfwer be received through the medium of
a Secretary of Rate.
Mr. Wait-bman seconded the motion
The .following,refolution, moved by Mr.
Haofon and fecot d:d by Mr. Wsfddingtofc,
was next carried - i
That the fheriff of Ldndbn, attended by
the city remembrancer, do wait ou ,his ma
jesty to know when l he will be gracioufty
pleased to receive the fat'd address on the
thror.e.
'On the m»tion of Mr. Farmer it vra» re
solved :
Tjiat ihe fherifis V inftrufted, if nerejftiry,
to infotm his majelly, that the lor.d mayor,
aldermen, and livery of London, cannot de
liver tbeir address in any other manner than
to the king on hU throne.
After this tefolutiori wii passed, Mr. She
rifF Langfiorr erme forwerd and infotmed the
livery, that they might depend upon the (her
iffs of London doing their duty agrieable to
thcif inllrufliops.
Mr. Wrfithman flatcd that the proceedings
relative to the calling of the last Commuli
Hall hid not been entered upon the journal.
He therefore .meved,
. " 1 hat the answer of the lord maycr to
the rrquifitioi).«f t.he liv.ery for holding «h<
lail Common Hall,. together with tbtfirtc*
monflraucc.be entered upon the journal of
their proceedings."
Mr. Waithman faid,-that however he
might, have tJi&pproved of the; condtift of
the chief magistrate with.regard torhe calling
of the last Common Hall, Hia hsrdlhip on the
present occasion had. a&rd in such a raander
as cquld not fail to procure him jhe spproba
tionof the lifjry. Imprcffcd with this fer
ttment he feiovod,
, .That the thanks of .this meeting be giv
en to the lord mayor sot hie impartial conduit
this day."
Carried unapitnouily,
On the motior. of Mr. Farrier, the refo
lntions were ordered ta be correftly copied,
ligned by the town elerk, and publilhed in
all the morning and evening papers.
PORTSMOUTH, Marclr3o.
This day arrived lord Bridport, with the
whole of his fleet.
Xftc ©alette.
PHILADELPHIA,
SATURDAY SfENING, MAY »«, 1797.
Exlrt/R of (f lifter from a gentleman in Lon
don, to a merchant in Philadelphia, dated
Marcbl 5, 1797.
" Yeflerday ftrotig reports and indeed
publications were ciiculated, of.Pruffia hav
ing joined i'rance with 60,000 troops, and
that ihe Emperor |iad in cotifeqcience con
cluded Peace. It proves however to be no
thing more than a developcment of the secret
articles of-the Treaty of Bade, in 1793,
between Prussia and the Republic, by which
the former it feemn has guaranteed to the
latter the pofleflion of Belgium, the inde
pendence of Holland, the eftahlifhment of the
Stadtholder in fomc part of Germany, after
retaining a few of its provinces for himfelf.
It is supposed that the knowledge of these
articles will draw R«ffia into hoftilitiej
againlt Prussia and France : whether or no,
it may not contribute to a general peace is
matter of speculation.
Every thing temains here much as it did ;
the credit. »f thg Bank-paper remains unim
p aired; the Miniftcr and Parliament are dill
engaged in wry'.'important enquiries into thg
finances of the country, and ' though every
thing is certainly very critical, arid a change
•f Ministry wiih many other measures are
talked of, yet the Government seems strongly
fupportpd, nor do I fee much probability of
either taking place.''
The brig Nancy, Ellifon, 40 days from
Cowes, arrived at Niw-York, iffth instant,
brought London papers to the I'ti of April
only.
LailtSon's Circus,
South Fifth-Street
t The Performances at the NEW CIRCUS
This Evening, Mav loth,
Will begin by a Giar.d Parade of Equeftriatl
Pei formers of both feres.
A grand display of Horsemanship,
By&alTrr Langley. Sully, Herman, C. Vande
tVeUe/'Berg, and r.t'Donald, the Clown.
■ Lofty-Tumbling Groupe,
Cciifofcd of Meflrr., Lang'ey Sully, M'Qon
j aid, the Clown, a»d Rcand, will execute fevaal
; dilEailt oxercifeson the Stage—-which will be pit;.-
■ fantly decpratrd.
Mr: LaxglfjTj the American Eqneltrian, will
perform federal curious and difficult' Excrcifta
which he has never performed here. He will
jump over feretal I urs of a prodigious height
with the greatest agility. *
Mr..M'Donald, in the chara&er of Clown, will
perform a variety of Comic Feat*.
MISS VENICE
Will parform several aftonilhiog feati which have
never been attempted but by hers. If
Mr. Langley will perform numerous exercises
teo tedious to inftrt in an advertirement, a»d leap
over a ribbon, standing upon two hor.ej.
After which, will be presented (forthefirft
time) a beautiful Freach Comic Opera, called,
Les Deux Pctits Savoyards,
OR,
T.HE LITTLE CHIMNEY SWEEP.
'l'he raufis by D'ALeyrae.
Mr. DouvilUers
Clermont, , , Mr Poignard'
Judge, Mr. Vielliard
; Jan»e«, Mr. 6t. Marc
Thi Sweeps J Michael, MifsTeffeiro
v i Joseph, MifrSopic
The evening's entertainmew will conclude by a
called
La Guingette ;
Gr, THE GOOD HUMORED GIRL.
In which Madame Douvillirri will dance L vera I
Pas tleuls.
AFO'Elfers's Hotel.
Readings and Recitatigns,
Moral, Critical, and Entertaining
FOR ONE IVEEK ONI.T.
On Monday evening, Miy nd, at eight o'clock,
WILL BE DSUVERID.
Part 1.
Effiiyon Taste and Oratory
Part 11.
Othello's sddrefs to the Senate Shakespeare
Brutos's fpeer.h on the death of Csefar <i«.
Anthony's Funeral Oration do.
Part 111.
Satan's address to the Sun Milton
Ode on St. Cecelii's Day Pope
Ode on the Pillions Collins
Tiekett (half a dollar each) tobehsdof Mr.
Foulfon, at the Library, and at the Bar of
O'Eller's Hotel.
; he nighis of the Readings will be on Mon
riav. Wrdnef'tav and I ; ridav
Ling Ga*qsa
THIS EVENING.
At the Merchants Coffee-
At 1 o'clock in the evening-
SH 5 ! will he in gord order, hiving been just
ho*e down, and may take in a cargo im
mediately, and be sent to sea at little or no ex
pense. Inventory to he fees, and terms made
I kno v »n at the time o£ fait.
I Fhili*. May »o.