Library Company of Pbilaaelphia. THE M?mbcr? of the Library Company of Philadelphi a are* hereby informed, that the Libra ry will be open ou Monday acxt, th~ 4th of De cember, f»r the reception and delivery of books. Thole who ni-g'cifc to return the books, Which had been taken out. j>r vious to the firft of Septem ber lust, in the course of the ensuing week, will be fined as th.» rul s direit. "7 he Loganian Library Will »!fo be opened,at th« sam« 'ime, for the like t>nrpofc9. tl. B. \ few copies of*th« catalogues of the bookn 'iclo'-pi:/ to these infl nations may be had at the Library. Z. POULSON, jUN* Librarian. I ibrary. novembi'r .10. A person well acquainted with the theory of hook-keeping, who hts been many years togaged in business tcr himfelt' and-ethers, would be glad tu be employed, either as an agent or laiSor ; or in polling books; gating infettled accounts ; or in ficeculing any other kind of writ iiitT, in or RngH'-il, A liole acV*i'*fled to j. A. and left at this office, will he | unilna'ly attended to. tiov.-mbi-r 3.?. 3* w tf BV Virtue of a. writ Fieri tacias tXme direiteJ, will feu exposed to Public- Sale, at my OOica, Rice, or SalTafris Greet, no: 117, 011 Monday, the 4'-h 'day of December jiext", -at n o'clock, a.m. 9 3 i groc« Buttons, aSarted 1 do. Shirt i J o. JO bags Imperial do. 4 J-4 dozen ftoe P.u;kles 1 pail Buckles with Lutcbets 4i-i do. en Knives and J'orks * i') S'ia do. worsted Hole, assorted 17 i-i 1 do. fruited linen Handkerchiefs 1 ,pi?ee clear Lawn \ 1$ 1-4 lb sewing Silk 1 piece» Vlaek Lawn (stripe) 5 X-4 yar:!s flriped Caffiaiere *4 groce, 5 j-2 dozen Tape, allotted Si I dot-n Nonfopretties I 1-2 groceTally Oart«*» to pieces black twilled Galoon S°i do. Ribbon, alTortei S3 <!*>• Bandanoca 4 3-4 lb. gloss thread do. coleured 6 pieces 4-4 white French Net 48 do Oauze 1 do. fpottfd Mode I do. drab S.attin 1 do. white Flannal 1 do. yellow do. yards Parlatian J whi-s filU Shawls J3 1-3 doz. fiik and Cotton do. 'o piecet Ferrit 3 do Shalloons 2 black leather Gloves I do. best beaver do. 1 pieces llucki-ani 95 • 2 doz. Englift Fans 5 do. ladies tinsel Bands a ib- fearlet worded Chord I * groc« white ccttton do. 1.1 M chapel needles, assorted 5/8 yards mixed plaint IS .1-1 dnz. worftedSocks 1J ib. Twist I I-4doz. best Clkftayl.iue, 5 do. best Ferret do. r do. iror C ndleflicks I piece black elailic (Prire) 7 do. cap Rordsr. T r'irlilf the property of .be Void b) " Millard Gibbs.knd will Wiiliam Nichols, Marflial. Marjbal*s Office % "> 19, 1797. J dtS . _ Mrs. GRATTAN, IX I - »■ v. PFULLY informs the Ladies aud Gen- P,^ r ' hc that (he propoles having * ni l BALLS duiing the winter f»ii Dollar, each Strbfcribfr, for one Ticket of admittanceWu.inj the season. # No Suhfcribers Tickets trausferrabl ■. •wo Dollars a'fingle "Ticket, Th« Concert to begin at Rklf F ast fix, and the I x? the Fa:i at cxpence of wh.Kh Mrs Gs.-.ttan to difchare-. tie Concerts will b«gin as feon at the Band ar rives from New York. November 39. Slw _ ' now~la"nding, : From on board the fcip F-jrmer, lyin e at Karper'» Wharf, Claret in hhds. Ditto in cases • S iuterre Wins ixi do. lor Sale, apply to John Whitc/ides & Co. No. rjg, Marict-ftreet. on hand, S'urdcaux Brundy in pipes i inc old Antigua Rum A few cases of Claret, of a superior quality, * IMPORTED " I?> the ship Aurora, from Hamburgh, and for i»le by the Subft riher. Brd ticks, 8-4, 9-4, and 10-4. A quantity of Tapes, No. 13 and 25. And o>l Hand, German black Ribbon, No. 3 and 4. George Perrmck. novemfcer 11 3aw»w 1 he City Dancing Aflembly, Will commence at O'Eller's Hotil, on Thursday December 7th. Thomas M. Willing Stephen Kingston J'mes Gibfon William Read Henry WikoiT Robert E. Griffith. Marugers. no-v. 19th. djt All Persons Having any demjn<!s ag»«nft the Effete of the Utc Captain George Irwin, are requtfled to bring in their accounts pioperly on or before the firft day of Janiiary next tnfuing and those who are indebted to fiid estate are so licited to make immediate payment to SaKAH IRWIN, Adminifirit. !x. ii»v■ 19 1 j To Gentlemen who intend /pending ike Winter in the City. ROOMS to LET, WITH or without Uo^rd—at No. 114, cornar of :-ixth and Race Streets. The situation agreeable—and vicinity has bjen fre« from the late contagion. (lil.j-—,|tf N u T J C £. ~ ""T'HE^ r !acHb!p between John Ikston*k ard * i J a «..io Bacon, under the firm oflrftoneand Bacon, is this day diffclved by mutual qrnfent All persons who fUnd uidccted to fa d frni aj-e ! reoiiefted to make immediate payment of their rtfpiCtive iccou-:ts, to Jon:/ 5 svaiM on Landen- , burger's wharf, wjjo j* «uljr au horifed to receive thr f*me ; and all perfom h-ivinir any dcm.in Is. gairift the said firri, bp. ovfircd to" 1 ring in their accounts immediate')' tok r.i for fcttlcmrr.:. John InJlcr:c, i 'Jama JSacvn. • rov;aiber 20. ccdti | Xi)e (Basetie. PHIL ADEL PH IJ , THURSDAY EVENINtt, NOf'SMSEX ?o. PRICE O !•' ST OCRS. Philadelphia, 2st!» Nov. I 797. 6 per Cent. • ittj'lo to i if. 2 per Cent. ' 10/4 to 6 Deferred 6 per Cent. 11fO BANK Ijnited States, 23 per ct. at'vanoo. North America, to do. Insurance Co. Pennsylvania, fharcs'o-' peretnt. N. A Ihyes do. COURSE OP EXCHANGE. On London, at jc> days par at 60 days 65 at jpdays 6i Amflerdam, per guilder 40 It it said there is a letter in town, dated Paris, Sept. 2A., with a peftfeript dated 3d Oft. which informs that three Cominif fioners have been nominated by the French Government- to come to this country to en quire ihto and adjust the business of the fpo liationson the American commerceby French eruizers.—lt-is added that the persons no minated had not immediately accepted, but had the offer undtr consideration. A pamphlet written by Fauchet, the former French Minister to tha United States has lately been received in this country.— We hear it reprobates the policy of entering into a war with the United States on the part of France. Several publications on the fubjeft of Go vernment have lately been made by the ce- Ulrated Barrere—One of which is an eul»- gium on Mantefquieu. M. Neckar has lately pnbhfhed a book in which he has panegyrized the Confti.utiou of the United States. It is amuflng to notice the various ru mors of peace, politeness and conciliation on the part of France to the United States, and their extra plenipotentiaries. Time will (hew whether these are founded, Jor de signed to diftraft.' The commillionerß appointed by the go vernor to carry into effed the law for alle viating the distress of the citizens of Phila delphia, and the fubiirbt thereof in confe qucnce of the late calamity, To the benevolent donors who came for ward to give relief to our fuffering fellow cLizens at one of those trying periods which seldom happen in any country. It is to you that we conceive it our duty to address at this time ; not only b«caufe it belongs to yoirto be acquainted with thi appropriation of your money that was en trafted to us as your agents, but likewise to give vent to feelings of gratitude that are engraven on our minds, for the generous anAfpontaneous supplies deposited in our hands, at a moment when our thoughts deeply engaged to find out ways and means to afford relief to about fix thoulatid distress ed mcR, women and children, who had be come objefts of our care, i.i consequence of having received fuppoit from the sum grant ed by the Legislature, which was entirely expended by the eighth of Oftober: At this juncture we called on our felloe-citi zens, and wera anfw<fred v.ith that noble ness of spirit which characterizes oUr coun try, by receiving in cash upwards of twenty thousand five hundred dollars, cxclufive of three hundred and thirty five barrels, and sixty hundred, three quarters and fifteen pounds in bags of wheat, ryo, buckwheat, and indian meal ; besides potatoes and sun dry other kinds of provifioti : aided by the above, and assisted by a nunjbtr of respec table inhabitants of the city, northern liber ties, and Southwark ; we ate enabled to continue relieving, by weekly donations, a bove thirteen hundred perfom, chiefly heads of families, opprefled by poverty sickness and distress, and to give employment to a beut fix hundred men on the road 3 ; who if not provided for in that t»anrifr would, in all probability, have been, from dire ne<jflTs - compelled to defcetid to means injurious to themselves and to the community. Thus have we endeavoured to explain to you, in some mcafure,-in what manner we expended your money, entrufled to-us until about the 18th inft. at which time an exam ination of our funds took place, and the bal ance found t» be but two thousand dollars After making appropriations for the pur chafa of five hunffvd cords of wood, and fifteen hundred bushels of potatoes, for the purpose of meeting the distresses of the poor in the more inclement season. At this time we were called on by an as«. fociation of young women of great refpefla bility and known philanthrophy, who have been for several winters employed in reliev ing without partiality the fuffering poor par ticularly of their own sex ; paying no re gard to distance weather or fittrution ; not doubting but it would meet with your ap prohation, nnd be as agreeable to you to be informed of their praife-.worthy request, as it was to us by having it in our power to grant them five hundred, dollars and ten bar rels of flour, at a time when we had con cluded to suspend the supplies as eur fellow citizens had returned home and emplovmcot 1 w-a attainable ; yet there might be nume- il ; rou3 cases wheivin this worthy female focie- v: ty unight indulge themselves- iff visiting the 1 1 mam'ior.s of distress and thereby give relief' i to many vyliofe sitUations would never have ' . oeen otherwise known' j ( Although we have the above balance.be- '. ides wood, portoes, and flour, we fear it , 1 will be scarcely fuScient to meet the nume- j 1 *ous wants of the inhabitants during the ap"- | ' pror.ching winter. j s Having been as brief as poffWc in (riving ! j >-;;u a detail of nur proceedings, a n-.oic mi- c lute one we fiiould be willing to afford by i c 1 conference with any persons who may feel r hcmf.lves interested in the expenditure of t J the monty.'&c. entraftcd to our care; or are dcHrouS to obtain iurormatV'n for the I purpefe of improving by our experience, , for j the advantage of fuflering humanity in fu . ture. For this purpose. a reference to the minutes of our proceedings may be had at , any time, by enquiring of the members, j i hankfm we are that we have been aid ed by forae supplied by vmi, and direfted ky Providence to give comfort to the mour ner, bread to.the hungry, and consolation to the diflreffed widow and fatherlefs. Robert .Wharton, Samuel Whee'er, Edward Garrtguts, John IVagner, George A rcls, George Ingles, John James, Robert M'Mullin, Ifiael jf/iitl, ;v„ , William I.innard. Thom'H'£tii>erv,t ' 1 , Commifaner's Qfirt!, Old Cnurt Ihufe, Philadelphia, Nov. 24, 1797. By a careful pervifal of the following ex trafts the public will fee that the views of the directory were foretofd a month previ ous to the 4th Sept. but 110meansfufficiently forceful were; used to repel them, and as has i usually beeu the cafe in France, since the ; condemnation of the king, the mofl aban doned triumphed. (Colnntb. Cent.) Affairs in paris, (Aicordnig to djtsren: Paris papers to the "]th of Avrujl.) " lucre is not one reprcfentative of the people who does not receive daily letters, , by which he is informed that terrorists, sent for from Paris for an important expedition, hive set out on their journey for that capi tal—and that it may not be said the a/rival of these dangerous men is the mere effeft of chance, it is of importance to make known to Francetbecircumftance of thisaffemblage. " The fame invitations to come to Paris hare been sent at one and rite fame time to every part of the republic, and to known terrorists. The jacobins flatter themselves with a speedy explosion, with an attack a gainst the legif'ative body, and the of ftreral deputies, viz. Dumolard, Vaub lanc, Pichegru u Villaret Joyeufe, Wiltbt, Boiliy &'Angla3,,Camille Jordan, Henri La riviere, See.—(From the Invariable.) letter to the Editoc of the Memorial, " The following is what I have just learnt, and I haftcn to communicate it to you.— The direilory, or rather the direftorial tri umvirate, project a terrible blow, the execu tion or which would complete the ruin of our unfortunate country : We mud hasten . to announce in order to avert it. Irt about four or five days the jacobins in their pay will be sent to the houses of the energetic deputies of the new third, and will surround them, to prevent their going out and repair ing to the councils. The direflory will address a message announcing a royalist coii fpiraey, difcoyered during the night ; and among the authors and accomplices will name all the deputies whose talents* virtue and ( are fp. great an obstacle to the perfioy ofjheir iibwticidal designs. They, will demand their trial before the high court. All the isoturtjgineers will rceelye, with a transport of rage, the denunciation. A great part of the Ventre (the belly) will join them. The decree will be carried, and the acciiTed will soon be sent un der a ftrtng escort to Veudome, and the reign ofjerror wilj J,e re-eftabliflied. The confpiraey will be founded upon pretended \ papers, to have been found in the Portefeuilhr of M. d'Entraigues, or some ; other ; and the names of all th# deputies to be destroyed will be inserted in it. "There are in Paris 400 1 men dressed like citizens, who are not so : The terro rists abound at Paris ; and in a few days there will be a movement. " Among the warnings which the mem bers of the legislative body are receiving, the following expression has been remarked : The dyke of the legislative bo dy is behind them ; if they have the mif fortune to retreat, they will fall in ie, and be forever loft. It is said that the diredtory had a stormy Itting last night ; that the triumvirate persist in their fatal designs I he tempi ft, and the fearful calm that pre cedes it, infufes horror and dread into the hearts of all.— (By a deputy, in the memorial.) "Itis no longer polfible to doubt. Not. only does a confpiraey exist, but it is carry ing into execution. Paris is enveloped at a distance beyond the constitutional circle., The danger is imminent, The National Re presentation is on the point of being struck at. Men who are to be affaflinated are men tioned by name : the places of abode of the 1 Deputies are known. For some time men 1 have been sent into the Tribunes and envi- ] rons of the Assembly, who examine us, re- 1 eognize us, and mark out thair vi&ims The moil pressing and alarming warnings are ad dressed either to the members of the Councils i or the'eoniffiifiion of infpeftors. It is not 1 possible for us longer to shut our eyes to the 1 danger that surrounds us—we mijft speak 1 we fnuft aft. Detachments without arms I are introduced daily into Paris, and the I number isalreadyconliderable. The mir.ifter / ofTolice fays nothing. The parts are dif- 1 tuibed, and in a few days the blow is to be : struck. Yederday in the Corrulers and .in 1 thejA(Terribly, men were seen, who caine to < ifcertain the disposition of the fiifferent plae- I -s. The day before ytfterday, two foleiiere 1 being in an Inn near the Hotel of the Mi- c lifter of \Vacv or.e of them, whom too much a wine ij?fj, indifcreet, said to his I jomradej that, hoiwas Well'paid; and that f or his p»it, 'he legkoaed »pon lcillidg ten 1 >r twilite of thofc- o£ Deputies. The c peeqhes which, the soldiers make from the t of the Sambre and Meufe are nearly 1. >f the fane iind; and yet the Legislative ] Sody do nothing to epen the eyes of the v nen who are mi 'led; they do nothing to a nake sure of a force to protest o rhe hall of the Assembly is to be irtfmedi- 0 te!y yccupied by firmed men, who will get & lofieffion of.it during the aiglit. Deputies v lift of whom is made out, will be umfia red, pr taken up in their houses ; a certain I umber of Deputies will alonehavethe fecul- t! y of.oak'aj a lilting; and this number, t> or which the •onfpirators are Cure of before he hand, or who will be rtprefltd by fear, will "or form the Dire£iorial Majority. A 31ft of u- May is immediately to bur ft forth ; and we he cannot forefec all the frightful effects of it. at "If the inhabitants of Paris do not get argis for themselves, if they do not evince d- vigor, if they do not round the Nati ed onal Reprefentatiop, if fear keeps them (hilt ir- j up in their houses, the city will be loft ! to • What curb can keep in soldiers drawn j by the hope of pillage, and who are to piy themselves with their own hauds ?—(By a Depute—Mrmorial.) " The recruiting goes ori by the party that meditate:, a speedy exhibition. The letters from Beauvais inform us, that 150 soldiers from one of the regiments there have set out for Paris. " Paris is at this moment a real Tower of Babel, where rill languaq s are heard in ner x- fc£t eonfuuon. One is frightened with the of quantity of pattois, j/rgon, accents, gutte 'i- r.iis, noisy, See. See. heard on all (idea.— ly ( Memorial of the ,6.' Z.) as , he From an Augujlh Paper, 'ti- The following was crmpofed in c-'tnCequcncf of an > ai.lv rri.fenr.rn rifiliHi dfome time Store frjow. of the <ti r"'H papers, John H.rro*v , f'-ewarning all person» from har>o-is»i» brs wife fh:- haVing t'l.orirfl from hi bed and biMrd. Since Jacobin J cl:fon. by 'U of aorruiying, ie An-rjll'J n't -or fiith in conjugal knot. • s ' Like JEufcrn Ri n i3'.vs. we m-.y now a' onvon Pick&rhoofeasweylcsfe, witlioutflvnderorblot. „ Deign, father of f.l.2ion—ml political sparrow, • To jive one m reproof of your faaf.nlntte force. By fro inn th» fair on •, now linic'dto a/? rroiu, a ' Wlih tkat all healing cordiil, call'd a divorce. of rn FROM A LONDON PAPER. e. ■is REPUBLICAN AMUSEMENTS ! EO BARTHOLOMEW FAIR. - ■n On Saturday at one, the Lord May»r, the es Sheriffs, and several Aldermen, attended by a- the city officers, proceeded from the man re. fion house in state to open the fair. His b- lordship flopped at Newgate, where Mr. t, Kieby prefeiited him with the annual cold a- tankard, which, it was observed, had much better have been warm ( for the weather was, for the season, extremely cold and wet. t, The fair being proclaimed, and the clat tering of harmony having ceased, the annu i- al fun, feftivity, humour, blatkguardifm, ii- thievery, noise, confufion and debauchery, as began. It being, unluckily,on a Saturday, n 1 the Saint Monday's boys were disappointed it —the fair was much crotided notwithftand y ing the weather. Tlte Scaramouches with ic cracked trumpets, crazy horns, hurdy-gur d dies, and broken winded organs, made a r- moll glorious concert, which, by way of 11 the thorough bafa, was-filled up with the 1- roaring of lioiis, the squalling of birds, and d the eternal bawling of " Walk in, Gentle -11 men and Indies, waik in." The booths e notwithftandingtheattual dijlrefs ofthe times e were considerably morenumerous than usual. y , The fneceffor to old Flockton had a capital t. FantoctiV.i. The leaftcjjes and birds exceed a ed any thing ever before seen. The nymphs si;d fwaina from St. Giles's, Lukeifer's-lane, U Saltpetre-Bank, Wapping, Field-lane, and d the Borough Mint, were there in great plen -- ty. Saturday being their holiday and Sun « day their market,—The tall worhan and the e dw!)rf inhabited one booth, and the cow* d and oxen with two tails, two heads, three e horns and five legs, had their adrairers.-»- e ; Thatold Bawler-mafter-generalwitba mouth 0 ' as wide as that in Bull and Mouth llreet, | invited the company to fee the Egyptian d mummies, four thousand years old, swallow - bot soup for 3 wager of a cool, to be paid s at Grand Cairn, out of the sale of the next flock of Crocodiles, eight of which are to - draw LouisXVJII. triumphantly into Paris, y, whenever the throne is ref-ored to him. 11 " Walk in, and fee the late empress of - Russia : fee an old sow eat pease out of a - pnil The fellow spoke so immensely ra e fid, that numbers walked in and paid theii f pence ; when they fa-.v ah old black sow, t with its belly to the ground, eating pease - out of a large tub, made exadly in the shape - of Poland: the bait took, and numbers f flocked thither—The wax work, or rather ) timber covered with wax, was peculiarly fa t, tirical. The firft piece was the Holy Fa - therembracing Buonaparte—but how? as 1 Dean Swift a/ks-r- IVly tl - terrible g, neral did to bin difcltfe A face fir to ir, nation! eyej, ears, or . There was a violent horse laugh to fee the 1 - Pope kneeling down to salute the French 1 : conqueror, " a pojleriori the fubjeA was 1 ta'cklifh ; but the drapery was so well difpo- 1 ■ fed, that there did not appear the least in- 1 - delicacy. A large groupe of figures, the 1 ; (hewman said, were all the Emperors, Kings, 1 • Landgj-aves and Bi/hops of Europe, con- c i fulling how to place the French Ring on * : his throne, by Jlrippirg him of half his do- t ■ minions. There was a large map of France r - before them, and oath was pointing what { . he had iixed upon for his own part. The v • showman said that the town was called Pil- ( /age : one of the company said it-was Pil- t fij/c. The (lie wir.an said, he was a fool and | j a lyar, it was Pillage, for did he not fee \ that they intended to carve one half of the ' country amongst them. There had like to a have been a light, but the company una 1 voce joined the flu-vvman, and said the t of the place was Pillage.—The Guillotine, \ and the body a id- head of the unfortunate t Louis, were next fhrwci ; and the fl.ow msn ;i said, he was murdered si- Paris A little t Welchman swore by St. Taffy, he was mur- a dered hi London. Air Iniliman sWore b'. e the holy proker that ir \yas at Paris were the p bloody deed was thine. The Welflimas -ve \- plied, that our coot king and coot queen were king and 'queen of England, France f ( and Ireland', and there was no other Kinjr a ot France ; and if the Irishman denied it, li or even doubted ir, he would be tried for a Seedd'jh'jn, and hanged by the neck, that he I Would. _ The Piayhoi-fes wcre thronged: "The ' Road to Ruin," and " H-lte/sio lter, «r o tiie Devil take the hinihnotc," s faree \vi;t- r ten for the oetaiiou, were creuded x or f< eight times : and all glorious c " very 11 well worthy of the rank and'dM motion of if the Gjni'imcn and Ladies who reiorted thu ether. •M^w^r^Mw^wyrTjarwai'wiiMiwMMiMiiiiiaiiiißiiiiijrii-ii, , umm * CON G R ESS. i- HOUSE Oljp REPRESENTATIVES. t ! WPDNESDAY NOVEMBER 29. n Mr. Coit observed that the memorial of y Robert Rutheford complaining of an undue a eleftion, was before the committee of elec tions at the last session, but no report was y made upon it. He moved, therefore, that e it be now referred to the present commit- D tee of elections Agreed. e Mr. Sewall preferred the petition »f Ro bert Cooper, of Marblehead, merchant, stat s ing, tint owing to some mii'cake in obtain - ing the certificates to authorize him to the drawback upon a quantity of wine imported fro.n Madeira, he had been prevented from - receiving the usual allowance on its expor tation. He prays for redrefs—Referred to the committee of commerce and manufac tures. " Mr. Hajper moved far the order of the day on his resolution regulating the mode of taking evidence in cases of conteiled elec tions ; But, upon Mr. Coi't's wishing the comjderation to lie over till' to-morrow he corfented. ' I.ir. Lyon said, when the motion was proposed yeftcrday on the fuhje<£t of wait ing upon the FreSdent, he fhou!d have op posed it, only that he did not wish to de prive some gentlemen of the gratification of attending the ceremony ; and now hi hop ed those gentlemen would consent to grati fy him, by agreeing to a ftfnilar resolution to that of last session, excusing him from an attendance upon the bulinefa. : Mr. Sitgreaves said, that not with Itandinw r the precedent of lafl session, he should be - opposed to indulging the gentleman from i Vtrm#nt in his request. When a resolu tion palled that hcufe.it was entitled to the 1 obedience of all the members ; and except 1 the gentleman could assign some better rea , foil than he had,for the indulgence, he trust ed he would not be excused from comply ing with the order. Mr. Lyan hoped he should be excused , fro m.repe -ting the reasons which he had hit , session given for his motion.' ' . Mr. Macon observed, that whether the refutation wa3 agreed to or not, the gentle . man might doubtlcfs remain behind if he 1 chose, as he had no idea that the houfc could compel members to go about parad -1 ing the flreets of Philadelphia. The gen tleman might have confeientious scruples, and if the ceremony were meant to be ref peafnl to the President, members should at tend it freely, or not at all. He should wish, then ;ore, that gentlemen disinclined to th« service, would rjpt join in it. Mr. Thatcher saw no reason for esrcufiiifc the gentleman from Vermont from his du ty for a few minutes. If he had business and chose to ask leave for a few days, lie doubted not it would be granted ; but when he vvifhed to be excused fiom attend ing upon a business of importance, he "tho't very special reafona IliouJJ be given for th« indulgence. Mr. Williams wiihed thegeritlenan would withdraw his motion, as it wf u trifling with t.ie resolutions of the hotife to excuse any member from a compliance with tftem. He hoped the gentleman would not pcrfevere in his fihgulitrity, though it might fee the wish of some of hiscoufiituents, against the will of folaige a majority of the house. ■ ir. Otis hoped the [notion won't] not prevaij. He prefumrd no gentleman ther* was particularly anxious for the frciety of the gentleman from Vermont on this jucca fion. iJo doubt he would grace the prc ceflian, but it would be fuflSciently long without him, and if he chose to remain b;- hind, he need be under no apprehensions of being called to account for his conduit. It was not becoming the dignity of the house to pass the resolution in quettion. It ap peared to him that the gentlsmpn was in full health and fpiritr, and every way fit so/bu siness; and as the houfc had rcfolved the thing should be done, he had no idea of ad mitting the protest of an individuafuppn their journals jigainft the measure. Mr. N. Smith knew the gentleman from Vermont had obtained leave of absence, up on a similar occasion last felfion ; but he be lieved the motion past without consideration. ft was ur.expedtedly made, and by some a* uriexpef-edly carried. Whenever gentle men gave a reafouable excuse for an absence from the duties of the house, they were eon. ftantly conferred to ; hut when a gentleman came forward to ask for the indulgence, without giving any retfna, exccj t telling the house they had dcUdl\he fools, he could not consent to his being excused. If the gentleman wire unable to attend, if there were any difficulty in the Way of his atten dance, aside from the want ota difpofiti'oa to do it, he should no* objeift to the indul gence. Mr. S. said, he' could not wf:h the gentleman frora N. Carolina, (M;~ Macon) that no gentleman was obliged to attend upon this ceremony. For his part, he always conlidered a minority as b«u:id by the vote of a majority, and the majority had pafled a vote that the house should at tend the Speaker in prelecting not "hat A, B and C ihould do but that • the House of Reprcfentay'ves fhonld attend ; a-'.d he believcdit to be as mueh the duty of every metr.ber to form a house for this pore, as far any bth-.r. He believed, not. rnh'hndmg, that ii' a*y gentleman remain ed behind, he would not be called to account for is co dud ; out he was of opinion, that a mot on like the present ought to be con sidered as an indignity offered to the house, and they ought ro decline afting upon it Being of this ogjiwos, he flionVd move the previous qneft^p^ Mr. Gal'.stin.l.iid, he should be in f.vr of the previous que If ion, hut nor fc, t' - r.afon,-. aHigit-.d Uy tin mover of it : • : for thole offered by tl,'.- gentleman f,-. ;n
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