occafior.s tsith psif.-ft.unanimity i-ffcijliirrnt
and fulTiage ; and, if t)ie corjyyit'ee think
they jre, so, it was the gentleman's own po
rtion that thry should fay fa.; and if .they
were uijufl, tbev Ihould be repelled, and the
United States (hould look .forward t;> that
Date of things, when it shall he ueceflary to
repel thrm.
lie did not think it neccflarytoreprit his wilhej
fur peace. He thought it pofTiblo for this Go
vrriiner.t to purfiie a line of CondufJ which,
whilst it secured our neutral rights, would not
be a departure from our neutral obligations.
Hewifbedto take-a lit'le notiei'of what had
sal en from ibe gentleman from Virginia, on the
I'uLje.'t at ljcnficc of epinion. He had already
oblerved tnat he hoped that gentlemjp would
allow the fame liberty of fentimerit to dthers
which he claimed for himftlf. He would not
ftophere. After great ptiblic measures have
been the objeft of deliberate difciiffion in other
branches of the' government, and have hem car
ried by a raajority, he thought it the duty of a
minority to acquicfee in the determination. —
It is the chief duty of the members of a re
publican government —Where through the re
presentative channel the epiniens of all the ci
tizens are communicated, it cannot be expe<9ed
but that on great otcafioiu there will be a differ- 1
enceof ientiment; and thi«unavoidable diffcr
erce creates the obligation of perfect acqaief-
C.cnce in the major opinion ; for otherwise there
would be a perpetual conflifl between the mem
bers of the fame government.
It was from this opinion that he wis concern
ed to litar the past eonduift of any branch of the
government censured. Whatever legitimate afls
of government were parted, they should be pro
tefUd by the mil' ority as well as the majority—
They Ihould be held as sacred and never blown
upon by us. They should hold but one
in their support. Whatever difference of opini
niJH might exist amongst theinfelves, this dif
ference ought not to appear in their afls to fo
reign nations. —We ihould speak. said he, in
these cafe*, but as one people. Therefore, if
the answer to the President's addrels, be an in
flrumentof which the French Kepubliemay take
notice, it Ihould not appear to them that we have
been at any time, or are now, divided in the
fctttiments which it contains : theafls of the go
vernment are the a&s of the country, and net
a whisper Ihould efeapefrom us in opposition to
them, when they have been concluded and car
ried into effril.
He wiflied the gentleman from Virginia had
omitted his observations with refpeflto faSions
which may exist in this country, as there was
no necellary connexion betwixt that fubjefl and
the onrunder confederation. It was one which
ought to be kept out afview within those walls.
It was to be regretted that the press .was conta
minated with this kind of rubbifo; but when
the gentleman had exprefled his contempt for
charges of thw fort, he lbould have extended it
to both fides of the house: For if French faHion
was tried out on one fide Briti/h faction on the
other, had for these last four years been rung
from New Hampshire to Georgia. He should
have spared the committee these remarks, if the
gcptlcman had not, perhaps unwillingly, in some
degree added to the odium which was cast
upon one fide of the house, by fayisg that when
he firft came into the government he found a
general disposition againll the French eaufe ,
and even against Republican government (Mr.
Nicholas denied having used this laftexprefiion )
Mr. S. said he so understood him. However,
when he fpokt of the exinence of parties, he
■wilted he had looked on both fides of the quef
tisn.
But, said he, let us on this occaflon confine
ourfelvea to the real queilion before us. We
have been informed, said he, by the President,
in his speech to both houses, of the conduct of
the French towards this government, and have
fiuce received the documents upon which this
report was founded. He had not heard any
gentlemen juftify the condudl of the French.
He had heard, indeed, some attempts to palli
ate or apologize for it, but none to vindicate it.
His ideas of these things were, that the French
had not only injnred us, but added insult to in
jury ; and whilfl he retained this belief he could
not help feeling indignation and resentment.
Ou.- atflions, better than our words Ihew our
desires for peace. It was a desire in which we
were too much interested, t<> render its sincerity
at all questionable ; yet it was proper that this
desire should be accompanied with expressions of
our feelings on the oceafion —What objections
could there be to this ? If we were funk so low,
if our fears of the French republic aie so great,
that we dare not express what we feel, our si
tuation was really deplorable- He hoped this
was not, nor ever would be the cafe. He ho
ped we should cultivate peace with sincerity.
but with firmnefs. For if the French republic
is so terrible to us, that we ttiuft crouch and fink
before her ; if we hold our rights at her nod,let
gentlemen fay so. And if we are to give our
fclves up to her, let it be an aft of the govvern
nurit, founded on our sense of weakness ; do
not let u» conceal, under the appearance of spi
rit, aflual fubmiflion. Nations, it was true,
might be brought into such a situation as to be
obliged to surrender some of their rights to other
nations ; but, when this is done, it should be
done with some degree «f character. Let it not
be done as a confrfTimi of guilt. Let us said he,
surrender any thing sooner than the fair fame of
our country. He was not a military man, not
did he know how he should aft upon such an
ertafion ; but he knew what we ought to do.
We ought, rather to die in tit lajl ditch. Why
insinuate that rhe government had been wrong ?
Was it not enough to submit to iajury ; foall we
not only receive the Uripts, but kiss the rod that
them ?
But, said he, arc we in this situation ? Must
we surrender any <*f our rights?—He knew if
we fubinitted to injury and insult, this would be
the unavoidable contequence. He disdained a
ny reliance on the generous magnanimity of the
Jrench Republic. He thought htr condufl to
wards this countryjustified 110 such reliance.
He was of oginion we ought to take a firm
And decided attitude on this oicalion, and at a
my rate, before we mike a surrender of our rights
<we ought to make a ftruggleto retain them.
Mr. S. said he had made these observations
snore witn a desire to prevent any falfe reprcfen
tions of the views of the house from going a
broad, thau from a desire to throw much ad
ditional light on the fubje£». For his own part,
he fa * nothing in the reportedanfwer that could
either irritate, or offend against decorum. We
aiTertthat we have not injured the French Re
public, but if foe will injure us, we will defend
ourfclves. Thinking thus he should be in fa
vor of the original report, and agaiaft the a
mendment.
Mr. Otii observed, that he was so little
accudomed to tie mode of coudu&ing a de
hate in that honorable house, that he hardly
knew in what manner to apply his remarks
to the fubjert before the committee. A fpe
cific motion had keen laid on the table by
the jcntleman from Virginia, which reduced
the true queflion before them to a narrow
compaft; but the mover in difcufTiaghitown
propofuion, hart *&!.•• ised up<*i fuhjefts clear
to his mind, and familiar to Wis reccllrclion.
In this circuit t.c Lad been ably followed by
the gentleman Carolina, »*d o
theis; so thatthe whole fuUjeCt of the id» refs
of the Prefident,,jnd the reply of the com
mittee, was brought into view, with many
tonfiderations that did not belong it.. It was
his design to have remained lilcnt un'il the
fubjeft had been cxhauded by other gentle
men, and if any remark of an important na
ture had been omitted, which was not likely
to be the cafe, he would have suggested such
ideas as might have presented themselves to
his mind ; but a motion having been made
for the committee to rife, he would then of
fer a few observations, not so much for the
fake of illuflrating the qieftion, which bad
been done so much more fuccefsfully, but in
order to declaie his sentiments upon this 1m
portent eccafion. He so faragreed wiih the
gentleman from Georgia, that he believed,
upon ordinary Occasions, an answer to the
President's address should be calculated to
preserve an harmonious intcrcourfe between
the different departments of government,
rather than to pledge either branch of the
legislature collaterally, upon fubje£ls that
would come regularly- under their con.'idera
tion. But the present was not an ordinary
oceafion, and the situation of the country re
quired that the answer (hould not be a spirit
less exprefiion of civility, but a new edition of
the declaration of independence. He exprefled
his regret that upon this question gentlemen
should hava wandered into a review of mea
furcs and fubje&s, so frequently examined,
so deliberately fettled, and which had a ten.
dency to re-kindle party animosity. If they
would never acqtiß-fce in the deliberate afis
of the government, because perfonal
sentiments had been averse t» them in the
season of their difeuflion, there could be no
end to controversy—for his part he conceived
that all party diftinftions ought now to cease;
and that the House was now called on by a
warning voice, to destroy the idea of geogra
phical division of sentiment and interest exist
ing among the paople. His conftitucnts, and
himfelf, were disposed to regard the inhabi
tants of the southern fl&tss as brothers, whose
featufes were cast in the fame'mould, and who
had waded through the fame troubled waters
to the shore of liberty and independence—
He hoped that gentlemen would, in their
tilrn, think the other part of the union enti
tled to some consideration.
The address of the President difelofed, for
the contemplation of the committee, 1 a narra
tive of fads, and of the exilting caufesofcon
verfy between the French republic and our.
selves ; the overtures for reconciliatios, which
were to be repeated by attempts to negociate,
and the measures of defence that might be
proper, in cafe negociation should fail. The
injuries sustained by us were of a high and
atioeious nature, confiding in the capture of
our vessels, depredations upon the property
and persons of our citizens, the indignity gf
feied to our minister; but what was more
aggravating than the reft, was, the prafefled
determination not to receive our minifler un
til the complaints of the French should be
redrefied, without explanation and without
exception—until we should violate treaties,
repeal laws, and da what the constitution
would not authorise, vaeate solemn judgments
of our courts of law. These injuries should
not be concealed ; he did not wish, however,
to indulge the unnecessary expreflions of in
dignation, but to state in plain and unequivo
cal terms the remonflrances of injured friend.
ship. If any man doubted cf the pernicious
effefls of the measures of the French nation,
and of the adual ft ate of our commerce, let
him enquire of the ruined and unfortunate
merchant, harralTed with profeeutions on ac
count of the revenue, which he so long and
patiently toiled to fupport^—lf any doubted
of its efFe£ls upon agriculture, let him enquire
of the farmer, whose prdouce is falling and
will be exposed to perish in his barns—Where,
said he, are your sailors? Listen to the pas
sing gale of the ocean and you will hear their
groans ifluing from French prison ships.
Such were the injuries, and such the requisi
tions of the French nation ; and he defied the
ingenuity of any gentleman to draw a com
parison between the Dire&ory and the Briiifh
Parliament, in favor of the former ; and in
filled that the demands of Charles de la
Croix were upon a parallel with those of lord
North. He enlarged upon the analogy of the
circumstances attending the pretentions of the
British government to bind us, when we were
coloniea, and of the French to us,
now we are free and independent Hates ; he
thought it expedient to cultivate the fame
spirit of union, and to use the fame firm and
decided language. He regretted that ques
tions should be agitated upon this oceafion,
which had been formerly the cause of party
spirit and diflenfions ; and did not believe
that the immortal men who framed the noted
instrument which difflolved the charm of al
legiance and (hivered the fetters of tyranny,
condescended to differ about verbal criticisms
and nice expreflions, thro' fear of giving of
fence ; nor that it was incumbent upon the
members of the committee to repress the as
sertions of their rights, or smother a jutt and
dignified expreflion of their fiifceptibility of
insult, because the French had been once our
friends, or because the commencement of their
revolution was a ftru;'gle for liberty. There
was a time when he was animated with en
thusiasm in favor of the French revolution,
and he cherished it. while civil liberty appear
ed to be the obje&—but he now connfiered
that revolution as completely atchieved, antl
that the war was continued, not for liberty,
but for conquelt and aggrandisement, to
which he did not believe it was the interefl of
this country to contribute. The only precise
obje&ion which he recolle&ed to a full decla
ration of our sense of injury, was the differ
ence of the system, which, it was fuggefled,
had been adopted by government, towards
■ lie Biitifh, under firailar circumstances of
unjust aggrtflion. But if it were ttue that
this difference existed, it did not become those
who thought the measures of government
wrong upon that occafiin, to advocate * re
petition of error. In his opinion however a
dilfeience of measures would be juflifiable by
a reQedion upon the causes which induced
the Briiiili dtprejaiiuns, anJ th'-fe to win <i
the measures of the frem*'i miv he affi;ned j
and yet there was not in fa<3 i hr variance be
twee.i the plans reoomtfTonJeJ by the sup
porters of the late Erse utive, and adopted
towards the Britiflv, and rh f; whieh have
been purfueC, and are now defended, with
refpeft to the French, «ht;h gentlemen were
ready to imagine. He was contented to re 1%
the firft of these positions upon the fa£la, that
the BritiHi were Simulated to annoy uur com
merce, through an appreh'nf.vn that we litre
united again/3 tkrm, and the French, by a belief
that tufwere divided in their favor. To un
deceive thrm in these opposite prejudices
might have required or at lealt jtftified difli
milar modes of speaking and ailing. Yet
the language adopted, and the measures ad- j
vocated, were nearly alike—To fay nothing j
of the late inftruflions to Mr. Pinckney, the j
famous memorial of Mr Jay to lord Gren
vilie, which has been the fubjeA of so much
calumny, was not couched in more concilia
tory ot ttnafTuming terms, than the answer
of the House of Representatives to the Presi
dent's speech atthe la ft feffion—(tie rsad here
the answer) —and yet it is intimated by our
minister Mr. Pinckney (a man who, he hoped,
was not meant to be-included by the gentle
man from Maflachufetts in the description of
Bri'iOi influence ; a man of high and untar
nished reputation and known attachment to
his country) that this very answer was pro
bably among the causes of theconduft of ihe
Directory—He then added some further ob
servations, to prove, that when the country
was menaced with Briiifh hoftiliiies, measures
of defence had been proposed by the friends
to the administration, comptifing the equip,
ment of a navy, fortifying ihe ports and or
ganizing the militia.
Having thus, as he contended, demon'
ftrated the / right and propriety of Rating
our complaints, his adverted to the next im
portant fubjeft contained in th- speech :
" the refolutian of the Executive still to per
fifl in pacific means of negociation," and
what thus led to analyse the motion for a
mendment submitted to the committee. He
sincerely approved of this intention of the
Executive, and most earnestly wished that it
might be attended with success : No man
could more anxiously deprecate a war, than
himfelf, or was more impressed with a persua
sion of its calamities; and he knew that his
constituents were solicitous to avoid it by all
honourable means. The preamble of this
motion was not in his view objeiflionable ;
but to cxprefs the sentiment " that the French
merely intended to fufpind the ordinary, and
bring into use the extraordinary means of inter
course with foreign nations, was decidedly a
gainli his judgement. Was it pefiible for
any man of veracity to make this declara
tion r If this was really the sole objett of the
Directory it would hare juftified thedifratffi
of Mr. Monroe, equally with a refufal to re
ceive Mr. Pinckney. A wish to suspend the
ordinary inter'eourfe would have been display
ed in their conduit to the resident minilter :
yet Mr. Monroe was not only permitted to
reside is France in his public capacity for
many months subsequent to the pretended
grievances, but was told by the Diredtory,
•* that he parted with their regret.'* It was
therefore a mod absurd and humiliating apo
logy which gentlemen were disposed to fur
nilh to the French Dire&ory; he believd
they would smile at and disavow it. He
thought it degrading to make, in J heir be
half, timid excuses, whieh they would dis
dain to accept- The only chance for a pro
pitious iflue by negociation, depended upon
permitting the executive the constitutional
depoQtory of this right, to exercise a free
agency, and the subsequent clanfe of the
motion, which diftated terms to tie execu
tive in the removal of the inequalities of our.
treaties, was equally impolitic and injudici
ous. It was probable that the executive
would make the concelfion alluded to by the
gentleman, if an equivalent could be obtain
ed, by a compensation for our ioffrs, and the
security of our peace ; but of this he mutt
be the judge, and we should leave him free
to grant it as a facritice made to the desire
of peace, and not authorize the French to
claim it as a right—if it was known before
hand, that the exeeutive was bound, and
that the minister was inilru&ed, to remove
a pretended eaufe of grievance, without any
flipulation for an equivalent, he would com
mence his overtures under manifeft disadvan
tage. The Direftory, secure of one pre
teufion, would probably urge others. In the
prefentcafe, there was 110 reason to conclude
that the grievance ariling from " the inequali
ty of exijling treaties," which was the only
one mentioned 6y the mover, was the princi
pal source of our disagreement with the
French, or that removing that alone vwsuld
«lfe& our objeft. Did he therefore mean to
pinion the executive down ta that (ingle con
cession ? Or would he enlarge his motion,
and diredt the executive to fay that our laws
should be repealed, and the judgments of our
C9urtß vacated ? Was it wife or politic to
publiffo to the world, at the outset of an Em
bassy, the ultimate terms that were to be of
fered, and to fend an envoy with open orders
ta accede to every demand of the French
Natien ? If he was t» b.' dispatched under
these auspices, let him be decorated not with
the cap of liberty, upon which our former
motto, was " liberty or death," but fuL,fti( ute
in it*.place " humiliation andfubmiffiou to your
will." He may then perhaps be admitted
to th: honors of a fitting.
Mr. Otis then proceeded to the last divi-
Gon of his fubjeft, the means of defence re
commended i'j the speech. It was, he said,
unfair to conncfl with an approbation of such
measures a difpofuion for hostilities with the
French. War was the greatest of all pofli
ble calamities into which the pride of kings,
or the ambition of rulers, could plunge and
provoke an unoffending aud neutral natior.
He did not presume that any member in that
house could derive a benefit from so deplora
ble a condition ol society. But a small por.
tion of them would probably go into the ar
my ; and of that portion, few could expeft
to make foitunes by their commifiions. A
desire of war, was therefore entirely out of
the queflion. He never undcrftcod that
w: ;n contTOvrr .en 01 a threatening nfpeft
fufefitieJ between rarnns-prefraratory aJii dt
fenftve meafiMes were cor.ttrtird into aits o'
liability, or iiiro a determination to mike
war ()ri the contrary, the dfage of all na
tions fa i£tioned CjcUACyu'luA. Hi;
not however, rcfurl to monarchies, O" to
great and formidable nations, for examples ;
but to' tfie litrie republican canton of birfle ;
That independent territory, was expoferl like
our own country to the. unfounded cr.fjiiii.il
tions, and unmerited oirtiages, of boltileand
belli\;erenc nation*. But in ifply to the re
quisitions of the French ; it bravely infilled
upon the right of remaining neuter, and an
notyicrd itsdrlign of augmenting iia milita
ry eftablilhaieni, tor the proteilion and-.nain
tetiance of its r.eutrality. Perhaps this car
ton may be compelled to dipart from tilts sys
tem. Possibly it 1,:.s no longer the power of
exercising its own will ; but it will not be
pretended that this defenlive conduit evinced
on their part, a willingness to be engaged in
war. It was then a fimpleenquiry, whether
under the prcfent afpeft of our effaits, war
might not be brouglft home to our doois,
contrary to our wishes, and prior to a Hate
of preparation. Gentlemen were willing to
fay, that if negociation failed, there would
bean end to every friendly relation between
the two countries. Our poflure then would
be unfriendly: and who can fay it will no:
fail ? If a war with this country makes any
part 6f the fxflem French aggrandise
ment, we should probably have it without the
forms of confutation. Do gentlemen sup
pose that when negociation shall have abso
lutely failed, the French will give us time to
equip our veflelfe, fottify our ports, and bur
nish our arms, in order to (hew us fair play.
Let gentlemen consider our defencelefs situa
tion in such citcum'tances.—Let them not
pause until it should be too late.—The tide
of conquell has deluged Europe ; it might
swell the great Atlantic, and roll towards our
shores, bringing upon its troubled fuiface
the spirit of revolution, which might spread
like a pestilence, poflibly in the Southern
States, and excite a war of themoli dreadful
kind—of slaves agaiuft their mailers ; and
thereby endanger the exillence of that union
so dear to his conllituents, and the reparation
of which would be painful as the agonies of
death. He concluded with many other ob
fcrvations, having for their ofcjeit, th'e pre
servation of the Union, the necessity of form
ing and displaying a national chara&er, and
a demonstration of the absurdity of suppo
sing that the President of the United States,
at this period of his life and reputation, could
feel an inteteft in promoting a rupture be
tween France and this country, by any mea
sures he might adopt.
By an advertisement from the Port Office,
New-York, it appears that an Extra Mail for
Bslton, will be made up every Tuesday, Thurs
day and Saturday ; and depart with the Uhsde
Island Mail at 9 o'clock, A. M.
GAZETTE MARINE LIST.
Port of Philadelphia.
The mate of a vessel belonging to this
port, who was landed at the Capes, hasjuft
reached the ci:y; and informs that he was
taken, together with four other outward
bound veflels, by a French privateer of 14
guns, io the mouth of the Delawaie.
Arrived. Days.
Ship India, Afhmsaii, Madras*
Diana, ——, London 52
Schooner Eliza, Stcvcnfon, St. Bartholomew'* 15
CL KA AID.
Ship Brothers, Henderton Amsterdam
Aurora Sutcr Hamburg
Brig Donna Cecilia, BroderfoX do.
Franklin, Morris, Wilmington, D.
Maria, Strong Charleston
Schooner Tclegjraph, Davifon Alexandria
Pomona, Gardiner Boston
Experiment, Etherfoa Baltimore
Saucy Jack, B~>ggea Norfolk
Frier,dlhip, Odlin. Curracoa
Two-Sifters, Carmut, North Carolina
Sloop Nabby, Abbot St. Thomas
Peggy, Herrv Alexandria
The Harriot lc!t at St. Thomas, the nth iait.
Schooner Little Fanny, Cox, of this port.
Ulalia, Wheeler, do. from Bordeaux.
Polly, Davis, do Philadelphia.
New York, May 25.
arrived. days.
Brig Mary, Church, London 49
Excradt from a journal of a pafleuger on board
the brig Mary.
April 19, spoke thelhip Cleopatra,capt. Con
nor, from Baltimore, bound to Bremen, out 13
diys.
April 30, at 5. P. M. saw a fail to the Soifth
and East, ltanding to the north, at hilf past;,
P. M. fpokeher ; (heproved to be the Young
William, Macey, from South Georgia, bound
to London. We took on board capt. Farmer,
and two ®fhis hands, who were Ihipwrecked at
the island of South Georgia in the Suutli Seas,
who with the whole of the (hip's company, a
mounting to 13 hands, remained on the defart*
island for 8 months, surrounded by snow and
ice.
For the GizTttc of the United Slates.
M*. FEN NO,
I am at a Ipls to underdand what gentlemen
mean by undertlking to jujtify the Preficient in a
late appointment he made. As for Mr Bache, it
han been his fettled purpose f.r this iong time to
vilify every ait of the f ircitive w : thout difti c
tion, and therefore wc cannot wonder at his a'i
furdity in the present inflanee ; but t cannot fee
any nt ceflity for the friends of government endea
voring to r.futi Uis assertions —It appears that he
has mifreprefunted the matter by Rating it to be a
new appointment; but allowing tliat it -was a new
appointment, what d fhonor could accrue to the
PreQdent for making it ? It is always the duty rf
the Executive to place in ofiice thole whom he
deems moll worthy; and to withh®ld it from any
man of merit, merely because he was a relation,
would be extremely censurable, since it would 1*
renouncing the interests of hi- country fur the feif
i(h purpose of appearing to a& difintereftedJy.
It is to be hoped that those who are called to
preside over this csuotry will always view tl.eir
own families as part of the great body of the Re
public, and will nci.htr (hew them any particular
favor, nor be deterred from advancing them to
honor when their merit and abilities recommend
them
It used to be remarked by way of en:ominm
upon the adminiflration of Walhington, that he
never appointed a relation to fill any public flntion.
For my part, though I revcrethc excellence of this
great ch-tra&tr as much a< any or.e, I could never
fee any thing in thii circumfiuicc that demanded
applaufc. It was bo more than hi 3 duty. While
there we're any men to be found which, in hit opi
nion, were letter qualified to fcrve their cour.'ry
thru his own connexions, it won!d have been he
tr ytng his rule twinge given. them the *rcitr
cr.ee.
On the other £ard # if he thought tye)! cf them,
and d. ilir.ed to advafced t-t'Oi only left hi* imour
,t:*lky ' c.u;J be cal.'cd in fcueftiori, it v/as equally
criminal: fa tl.c one ujft r>ce the public is
•facri&ccJ to private friendship, and in the other,
to popularity.
.Theft: obier vat-ions are not offered as conveying
any new ideas. Upon the but only made be
wufetlie cenfiirerscf jVTr. BacheV.nfmuation learn
ed to adaiit by thejr mode of reasoning that if
Cache's charge had besn true, ir had been a reftroa.b.
A MONlTCfci.
\ GUSTA, May ir.
A foreigner made his appearance ia Art*
gufta in ihe touile of last week, to wfiom
fume-gave the title of a Spatulh general
otl.ers, that of a i'Vench gcnerjil, and fom.;
again called him the governor of Louiftana;
be his rank what it may, it is certainly undcr
ftood, that his errand was to induce Atttef:-
caiis to aid and afilll the republic («f France
in their new dotnintyns, the Flortdas, in cafe
of any attempt by the Britifli in that quarter:
A very delicate reqtiffltion this, on the pare
of ciiher France or Spain, whitlt theo/v in
fnlts us with the difmiflal ef our ambassador
and seizes our property wherever it cm be
found } arid the ether rrfufesto furresder the.
pofta which by solemn treaty they had yield'
ed to llie United States ! It is doubtless a
very natural predile&ion fi>r the people of
the Southern country, to prefer their Spanish
neighbor* to any change which the present
profprft of affniis piomifes; but drfpotie as
the fyHem of the Britiih government is, it
would be found to fait uj quite as well in
the way of neighbourhood as the liberty
and equality wiiich emanates from the
terrible republic. The Saturnalia fejla in an.
cient Rome were well enough for» little
fun occasionally, but \hc perpetHafatvrnali*,
would go d—mn*—bly ( again It the gtain of a
Georgian or Carolininn.
FREDRICKSBURG, May 19,
Sporting Intelligence
Wat run for, over Tappahannock ground, on the
9th inlt. a purse of Eighty Peunds ; which wa»
won with great ease by Mr. Tayloe'smare Virago,
in jwo heas ; beating Mr. Butler's horse Colum
bus, Mr. Holkiu's mare Kitty Medlty, Mr. Sel
don's horse Flagilator, Mr. Alcjnnder's horse-
Gloucester, and Mr. Turner's horft. Planter.
On the ioth, a Purse of Forty Pounds, which
won by Mr. Tajloe'smare,Calypfo, in two heats;
beating Mr. Alexander's horse Le 800, Mr. Scl
don's horft Colleflor, Mr Hoikin's mare Bctfcy
Baker, Mr. Butler's mare Camilla, and Mr. Dun
bar's horse .4 lborack.
And on the nth, a cup of 20 guineas value,
vrhich was was by Mr. Taylor's mare Flirtilla,
in two mile heats; distancing Mr. Turner's mare
Kitty Boxer, Mr. Smith's horse Baron Trenck,
Mr. Alexander's mare Creeping Cate, and
Mr. Young's horse Whittle Jacket.
N. B. Mr. Turner's horfeJPlatiter, and Mr.
Dunbar's horse Alborack, were diflanced the
firil heat; Mr. Alexander's horse, Gloucester,
was drawn after the firft heat. All the other
horses are inserted as they came ill the second
heat.
Lailson's Circus,
South Fifth-Street•
The Performances at the NEW CIRCUS
This Evening, May Ifth,
Will begin by a Grand Parade of Equestrian
Performers of both sexes.
A grand display of Horfemanfliip,
By MefTr#. M'Donald, Herman, C. Vandcve.de,
Nicholas Corre, (being his firft appearance in this
city) Sully, (the Clown) and Ltilion.
The Lofty-Tumbling Group,
Composed of MefTrs*,Sully, Reano, and M'Do
nald, the Clown, will execute fevtral difficult ex
ercises on the will be plcafantly de
corated.
Mr. Svs.tr y in the chara&er of Clown, will
perform a variety of Comic Feats.
Mr. Lai lson will perform levcral curious and af
touiihiug cxercifes, which he will not undertake to
enumerate, in order to furpriz the foc&aior ; his
aim bring to plea'e and nothing Ihali be negle&cd
co tender the txercifci worthy the attention of the a
rnat<*urs of this new art.
After which will be prefentcd the Pantomime
called
Le Marechal de Logis j
Or, THE TWO THIEVES.
In which Madame Douvilliers will dance fcreral
Pas Stuls.
The evening's entertainment will conclude with a
second representation of
HA RLE QUI N'S WHIM;
Or, The Doctor Outwitted.
Hirlcqvir., Alt . Sully, jun.
No d/n,(ibe May':t:arJ \
,uM a f« t in darJ.r, j Mr S *"*
Fjnta!s»n t Ivfr. *R:ano
l r aJet, Ar. Sjvtit
Lvucr t Mr. Largley
CSoun t Idir. KundafilJe
Co'ombiie, Mtfs Sophie,
Jf! In rehearfa!—L'AMANT JALOUX, a
French CTperain three aits, in which the fame gen
tleman who performs in the character of Geronte,
the Melomanie, v\ ill perform in that «>f Don Lopez.
At O'Ellers's Hotel.
Readings and Recitations,
Moral, Critical, and Entertaining ;
On Monday Evening, May 29th, at 8 o'clock,
IVill be delivered,
The effects of Ambition and Guilt, consider
ed, traced and exemplified in the charj&er of
MACBETH}
With j. recitation of the whole charadler,
nd moral and critical obfi-rvatioßi on tke cha
afler and the autho .
Tickets (half a dollar each) tsbeh:dof Mr.
Poulfon, at the I.ibrary, and at the Bar of
O'ElUrs' Hotel. .
Lolt—A Gold Bratelet,
Marked S. H with a double Chain. Any
perl'on v.ho may hive found it, and will return
it at No. 47, Pcnn-flreet, will be handfoqtely
reward«d.
May i-j. d:f
Pennfyl vaniaPopulition Company-
NOTICE is hereby given to the Share Hold
ers, that a further afleflHient of kin e dol
lars is levied oa each {bare, payable as follows,
viz.
Six Dollars immediately, and
Three Dollars on the iltof July next.
Which they are requested to pay ta the Treasu
rer of the Company, at the Company's Gffiee,
No. 53, North Fourth-street, sgreeably to the
times above mentioned j and they are further
informed, that on their neglecting to pay the
fime «s above dire&ed, the fevtral forfeitures
will be exaded.
By order of the Beard,
SOL. MAKACHE, Treifurer.
1 May 17. djot
May »7