NEW THEATRF, Will open on MONDAY even'.ng next, Djc. ; J, With a Comic Opera, called ROBIN HOOD ; Or, Sherwood Fore/l. RF.tIDFKTS IN THE FOREST. Robin Hood Mr Darley Little John Mr Wigncll Scarlet Mr Francis Bowman Mr Warrell Archers, Miflrs. I3liflVt,T.Wan<.ll, 13 often-, Laffcrty, Sully &c. Allen-a-Dr.le, Mr Warrell, jun. ■Stella Mils L'Eftrange Shephcrdeiies, Mrs Harwootl, Mrs Dtictor, Mil* Anderfon, &c. VISITORS TO THE FOREST. ' J Rutted in Mr Bernard (Being his firft appearance in Philadelphia) Friar Tuck Mr Warren Ed"in Mr Marlhall Ctorinda Mrs Warrell Anette , Miss Milbouriie Angelina Mrs Oldmixon Wirh the original Overture, by l?au*ngar;cn. I'bc rr(l of the Music atfd Accompaniments, conSpo fed by Shield, with additional airs by Mr. Rei • najrle Tho which will be added, a CbMiDv, in two adts, called, THE LYAR. Old Wilding, ■» - Mr. Warren Ylong Wilding, - Mr. Bernard Sir Junes Elliot, - Mr. Warrell, jr. Papillion, - - - Mr. Mat'fhall Servant, - - Mr.'F. Warrell Miss Grantham, - Mrs. Francis Mils Godfrey, • - Miss L'Eflrange Kitty. - - - Mrs. Doftor. Box, on? OnlUr ; Pit, tHre* quarters of a Dol -1 tr ; and Gallery, half a Dollar. l doors of the Theatre will open at five, »nd the curtain rife precisely at fix o'clock. Ptaces for the Hoxes to he taken at the Office in tV;e front of the Theatre, from IO till i o'clock, a:id from 10 till 4 on the days of pcrf-ifnjance. Tickets to be had at H. and Rict's book-flare, No. and at the Office adjoieipg the Theatre. VIVA T RS&SIZJUIGA ! JUST RECEIVED, ~ (via New-York) itio NOW OPENING, BY George Dobson, No »5, fauth Third flreet, An cxtenfive and general aflbrtment of HABERDASHERY, viz. Bell London mixt Pios Galloons and Ferrets Common do. do. Voj-fled Bindings, aflor- Makenssie'sfuper,patent ted colours v.-i>ite chapel N edle, Imperial, diaper, and Nurs Thmad no. 6to Thread Tapes 40, regularly assorted hite Edgings I.isle do r.o. x,;o to 500, Black nd coloured Chi regnlarlyafiiorced nefe Ribbands Coloured do. Sattin and figured do. Slack fevvipg Silks Black Velvet, 1-4 to lid Coloured do. and Twill Velvet & pelon Sattins Silk and cotttn Wires French Catubrick Do do. Ribbands Scotch do. •Shirt Moulds and Wires Plain gilt and plated Black brulh Feathers Buttons And a compleat aCTortment of Gaods, suitable to the pr-sent and approaching season, at reduced prices D«c. 6. dtf " rnlTslL B, By JOHN MILLER, jun. 0* Co. No. 8, Chilrut-ftreet, One hundred and eighty bales BENGAL GOODS, /.mongft which ar?, Gurrahs Mamcodies Baftas Sannls Gu2ze ble by the gentleman from Vermont (Mr. I Lyon) which he thought ought to be dis posed of. It proposed a retrenchment of e, the unueceflary expences of Government. Mr. T. sAid he had observed that a refold- | n tion of this kind was always brought for-' ward in the feflion preceding an ele&ion.— e> He did not wi(h, kowever, that the propofi ig tion ihould lie longer on the table. ■ If it __ were true that the expences of Government were excelEie, they ought immediately to set about retrenching them; and if it were not true, the sooner they t*ild the people so, by reje&ing the motion, the better. The question for agreeing to the resoluti on was put arid negatived, 33 to 30. Just as the Speaker was cbunting the votes, Mr. Lyon entered, and said, had he been present when the question was pat, he ■- should have called the Yeas and Nays upon it. Coit moved that tlie report of the Committee «f Claims, made in January last, 1- on the petition of Edward St. Loe Liver more, be referred to a Committee of the j whole. Agreed for Monday. The fame gentleman moved a resolution to the following effedt: " Resolved, that the committee of ways' d and means be inftrufted to enquire whether any, and if any, what alterations are proper j to be made in the aft for laying a tax upon licences for retailing wine and spirits, and" that they report by bill or otherwise." Mr. Coit said, that, as the law flood at present, licences were taken for a yeai from the time at which they were granted, be that time when it might, so that they were constantly becoming due. He wi/hed to have riiis inconvenience remedied, by put ting the law upon the fame footing with the carriage tax, the licences under which all became due at one time ; as when a licence was taken, it was taken so as to fall due at' the time fixed. The motion was agreed to. Mr. Williams said, he found in the re port of the committee of revifal and unfinifh ed business, the report of afeleft committee on a letter from the Secretary of State, in clofmg a report of the direftor of the mint, suggesting the expediency of some altera tions in its eftablilhmcnt, to render it less expeufive to the public ; and as he wilhed to render that establishment less expensive, he moved 'that the'letter and report be re ferred to a conlmittee of the whole house. Agreed for Wednesday. Mr. Harper said, that the committee to whom it was referred to report a bill for establishing an uniform fyftcm of bankrupt cy, conceiving this fubjeft to be of such general concern, embracing so great a varie ty jof interests, and a question in which the meraantile affairs of the community were so deeply involved, that they had wished him to request an augmentation of the committee. The motion was agreed t®, and eleven members were added to the committee, com prising a member from each state. No business being before the house (though only twelve o'clock) it adjourned till Monday, a previous motion having been passed for adjourning till that time, when the house did adjourn. NEW-YORK, Dec. 4. The second part of the Medical Reposi tory has lately made its appearance in this city, from the press of Meflrs. Swords, prin ters to the faculty of physic of Columbia College. The firft article is a communication from ' Dr. Mease of Philadelphia, on the Digita lis purpurea, or purple Fox Glove, as a me- ' dicinal plant, in which the writer attempts ' to (how the rcafons, why the exhibition of it has often failed of success. The fecdnd article is from the fame gen- ' tleman, relating totheeffefts of eating phea sants * [partridges] in the spring of the \ year, when their flelh is poisoned, as it is (uppofed, by eating the berries of the Laii- i rel. This article is of praftical use to all ! descriptions of people ; as there is real dan- ' | ger of eating those birds from February till J May. Persons, in a few hours, after i'wal lowing the flelh that is tainted with the ber ries, are seized with giddinels, slushing of ' * It is wished that the people of the United , States might all use the fame language. The fbeafart is net known in this country. Tie people in the middle and southern dates, .call 1 p-artrirges, pheafarits ; and qiuils, partridges. ' 'I he New-England people tall tKofe bird* ly ! their true Englifli names. ' face, sickness and vomiting, followed by delirium. Iwo clergymen in Boston, a few years a S°> fullered fevcrely from the fame cause. Fhe third article is a letter from Dr. Davidfon of Martinique to Dr. Mease, con taining observation? on the yellow fever iir 1 793• From flirhe observations and experi ments, the writer is led to afcrilje the fever • in Grangers from a northern climate, to their imbibing an unilfual quantity of oxygene gaS \ i v The fourth article is a singular cafe of a " child, apparently fatiphulous, by Dr. Hedg . es of Newburgli. 1 The fifth article is an account of the fuc | eefsful application of caullic to a ftridturc . in the urethra,'by Dr. Seaman of this city, f The fifxth'artrcle'is a"cafe of Mania cuYed r tiy mercury, producing . "salivation, by'Drt Sriiith of this fcjty. The seventh article contains fails and ob fcrvations of Dr. Mitchel, explaining the . true OperatJbn of Alkalis and lime on other ( fiibftances—in a.letter to Dr. Beddoes, at . the .close-os which the phildfopber turns po et and takta a tt-ip to ParnafTus ; and we , confefs, the Doctor on the parnassian deed, . appears to be very well mounted. The.eighth article, contains some judici p ous and ufeful observations hfDn Mijlerof , this city on the effefts of 3bftineace in pre venting ot mitigating diseases. We have great faith in his opinions, arid firmly be lieve, >hat abstinence, at the approach of disease would prevent much sickness. ' The ninth article is the cafe of change in the human liver- by pntrefaftion, from Fourcroy. The tenth article relates a cafe of fever • supposed to he caused by putrid beef, by Dr.Ofborn, surgeon to tht gatrifon on Go vernors Iflatx^. ./ The remainder ,of this number of the re pository is occupied with a review of medi cal b6oks, meteorological observations for July, August and Sept;mber, lift of patients adrr.itted into the hospital, Medical news, } Concluded with art 1 Appendix containing a lcttef fnem-Dr. Mitchell to Dr. Percival of Manchester, on the use of Alkaline remedies in fevers ; and an article on the use of ijitrous acid in Syphilis, by Dr. Beddoes. It mull give plealure .to the lovers of fci enee and truth, that this attempt to colled the particles of knowledge, which are scat tered over this and other countries, and save them for future use, is in a fair way to suc ceed ; and we expeft this repository will in time be .a large and valuable magazine of medical truths ana experiments. Continuation of Late Foreign News, By the Britifli Packet. LONDON, Oft. 2. The follovying is a letter from a naval officer (late aprifoner in France) to his friend in Greenock, dated on board his Majes ty's ship Inipeteux, Torbay, 16th, ulti mo : " 0 n the flocks in the different building yards at L'Orient, four ships of 74 guns each ; one of was ready for launch ing, a second qfarjy f», the other two only in the framep,,and no workmenabout them. In the harbor pae large frigate fitting for sea with the greatest expedition, destined for the East-Indies, and will be ready for sea in ten days. There were likewise a great number of privateers fitting for sea with no less dispatch ; one ofthemmounted 28 guns, and would fail in a few days ; her cruising latitude was from 49 {o 25 N. and from 19 to to W. While I remained in L'Orient, fix privateers failed, although the signal was flying every day in the dock-yard for a British squadron on the coast. I was told by the merchants at L'Orient, that they could fepd to sea from the different ports in France, from 400 to jooprivateers, and that they did not mind losing a few of them ; they flattered themselves that one British merchantman would make up the loss of a dozen of their JVnall craft ; indeed the crews of these veflels prepare themselves to be cap tured, by taking no clothes with them but what they' have on their backs, and one change. " I left L'Orient on the Bth of August, and arrived at Bred in three days afterwards. There ygrejn tjjat harbour four ships of the line,two of which are three-deckers, and two two-deckers, viz. l'lnvir.cible, and l'Ocean, of.ioo guns each, the Berwick 74 and Jupiter 80 guns, and two frigates and a corvette, all ready for hending their fails, except the Berwick, which had her top mad an end, none of them well manned. There were on the flocks one of 140 guns, Le Vengeur, in the frames, but no people employed on her, one of 80 guns in the fame date, and two frigates. 111 the docks four of 80 guns, and two of 74, but no men.em ployed about them, three of which were in the engagement of the id June 1794, viz. L' Aigle, Trajan, and Tyrannicide ; and have not been at sea since. There were in the Inner Road 16 fail of the line, viz. two of three decks, and three flags, the flag ships are La Terrible and.Le Republicain of 100 guns each, aqdL'lndomptable of 74 guns ; nine of them had their fails bent, and in a date of readiness for sea ; the others are not half manned, and nothing but discon tent prevails among the seamen, on account of want ,of wages. In the Outer Road there were Iyi«g at anchor two ftiips of the line, four frigates, one corvetSi, and a lug ger, all readyi&nv;iea ; they were to be joined of the line and two fri gates from the Inner Road, and were to pro ceed to feti iu a few days, but I could not learn thcir.'dedinatiorf. " I was informed, by a person at Bred, on whose information I could place a little dependence, that the French were making 1 preparations for a descent on Ireland and Scotland this winter, for which purpose 1 thty had 40,000 men in the neighbourhood of Bred ready to embark. I saw part of 1 the troopsat exercise on a grand parade day, city ; they expedl that thisarmame\it j before failing, will be joined by the Spaftjfh and Dutch fleets." > A letter from an officer in the Orion, of • 74 g uns > dated Sept. ii has been received . here this morning ; by this letter we learn, ■ that the Orion had been at Gibraltar to i .Water, whft;- they lay ten' days; when they • came away an attack on the town was dai r ly expedted from the Spaniards, who feem r ed to be making formidable preparations : for that purpoic. Flags of truce are cou | tinually passing between the commanders at i I Cadi/, and lord St. Vincent, and a report - Was prevalent in the fleet,nhat the guillo tine has raised its direfulhead in sundry pla ces of Spain; ; Cflober 3. The Dutch papers to the 25th ult. state 1 that an oflenfivc and definitive alliance has r been concluded between the Batavian R«- public and the court of Maffrid, on which - they engage to ad in conceit dining the 2 prefen't war. The king of Spain, as a proof r of his sincerity, has pmniifed, to indemnify t the Dutch merchants for the detention of - their (hips in the years 1,779, 80 a e 1781. > A Britifli veflel, the cargo of which was valued at 60,0001. was lately seized on the - Barbary coast by fix Portuguese, partof the f crew, while the mailer pr«ceeded to Ceuta - for provisions. They had taken shelter in ; one of the ports on that coast, but werepur - sued, and probably ere this taken. f The three Spsnifh Prelates who have been so long upon a million at Dome, have 1 left that city, upon their returp to Madrid, 1 carry ing with them the fanftion ot his Holi nffs for the reform of the Spanish Inquifitf ■ on, the reftri&ion upon religious foundati ■ ons, See. The Inquisition in Spain is uot . totally abolished, as has been, reported. Though in none of the papers by the Triumvirs in order to fubdantiatc the . charge of a Conspiracy, the least mention is made either ofCarnot or Bsrthelemy, yet 1 it is easily conceived, how extremely impor tant it was for the Triumvirate to get rid of these two Directors.—Both, and especially Carnot,could not but be intimately acquainted with the secret of the adtual Caufpiraey of : the Triumvirs against the Legislative Body, and of the measures planned for the dettruc tion of the new Third. In order to blot out every trace of the traiterous scheme, nothing could be more convenient than to murder one and to transport the other to a distant country, in the paflage to which he may perhaps find his death in some means or other, in the manner of Carrier's downings at Nantes. In refpeft to the Fast of Carnot's afiafii nation, whether by the hands ofßarras, or of two Myrmidons whom the Triumvirate had placed in the Gallery of the Luxem bourgh to do the deed, at h« pasTed from the Council chamber of the Directory, after re fufing to give , his afTent to the plaa of the late revolution, there is no doubtoffthe mur der, nor of the person* who gave the order for it—the truth will come out. Carnot's Brother is also fuppufed to have been afTaffi nated.. This morning we received the Paris Jour nals down to the 30th ult. of which the following are the principal contents. 1 lie moll remarkable information in the French papers, is the appearance of a coun ter revolutioo in Poland, about to commence under the auspices of Buonaparte. To that effeft he has written to Count Potocki, for merly anibaflador at Cendantinople from Poland. The French General earneft'y so licits the speedy assemblage of the Marshals and Chiefs of the Diet of 1791 at Milan. The exiled Poles, driven from their country on account «f the lad infurreiSlion in Poland and who have lately reiided in Paris, have left the latter place, by invitation, for Ita >y- Odtober 4. The latest advices from Admiral Duncans fleet off the I exel, give the following infor mation.—" By a Danish ship, which left the Texcl yederday [Sept. 36], we have ob tained ih formation, that in consequence of lome serious misunderstanding between the Dutch and French, the Dutch f »ilors had lefufed to go to sea, when the Admiral made the signal to weigh ; upon which most of the officers had their baggage lent on fliore ; and very soon after they followed it {hemfelves. Their transports have been re move 4 from the outward to the inner road, and the troops are disembarked." A young captain (of great military tal ents, no doubt, though not quite twelve years of age) was asked the other day, what regiment he belonged to ? The of light dragoons." " Are you sure you're not miftaflen ?" said an elderly gentleman in company—•' I (hould rather suppose you belong to the light «y"b»<-ry !" Madame Carnot, with her children, now reside at the house of a relation near Arras. We are intreated not to confound the seducer of Miss King with'a gentleman who is generally known by the name of Flying Fitzgerald, and who wounded Harvey Al ton in a duel about fix years, ago, in conse quence of a dispute at Ranelagli. Maj. Wood, who was second to the hon. col. King in a late duel, is nearly related to the fami y of lord Kingfborough. Colonel Fitzgerald is half-brother to lady Kingfborough. His father's second wife was her ladyship's mother. The unfortunate Miss K is describ ed, by tbofe who are acquainted with her, to be one of the fined young ladie&rin this country. A barpnet atithe we# end of the town has, withitr these few days, been discovered by his lady in an amour with .his cook.— The enraged midrefs beat the peccant fair t/.ie so fevercly with the heel of her shoe, that it is supposed she will lose the fight of one of her eyes. Why Sir Benjamin Hammet should de cline the honours of the civic chair, it is ra ther puzzling to conjecture. Now that certain parliamentary regulations have per rnitted him to rcpofe from the endlcfs toil of f:anting, surely the leisure he has been thus indulged in, might as difni e r.dm!, be de voted to feajling for the public good N6r can we he induced to believe, as has beer, nuliciou fly mfinuated, that his rehaance to. enter ori the d'lties of the digeflive dire&or fhip can poifihly arifr from any dread of iu belrtg ihftng employment ; on the contra ry, according to an experienced writer, he will then be entitled, as alderman, especially as city chief, to make a trade of his eating, and, like a cock, to f?ape while he feed*. The privateer L'lntrepide, belonging to Nantz has sent into Minden the Mary, an American brig, laden with sugar, eoffee, cotton and pepper. The privateer fell in' with two American vessels, on their way home, with 450 passengers from Ireland on board. | Storaee and Braham are now termed the two Canaries, from the eireumftance of those amorous -warblers Wia-gjhut up in a cage ! OFTICO or THE MINISTER OF MARINE. ' {From the French papers.) The privateer La Reprise, from St. Jean , de-Luz, mounting two guns arid eight fwiv | els, after three-attempts to boafd, and an en gagement which laffed five hours, has cap , r turcd a Portuguese ship,' named the Caro ! line, of 400 tons, carrying fix 12, 8, and 6" pounders, and copper bottomed, returning from Fernambuc to Oporto, with 6000 quintals of sugar, 242 bales df cotton, 2135 cow hides, 431 logs of wood for furniture, and 1900 cow horns. This rich vessel has been earned into Vigo. The captain of the privateer is citizen Lavagne, 80 years of age, who took on him the command of the privateer in lieu of his son, detained on shore by iicknefs. The privateer La Mouche, belonging to Rochelle, has carried into port an Engliih prize, the cargo of which is estimated at 1,700,000 livres. This privateer has also captured two Poriuguefe vefTels. The privateer Le Castor, belonging to St- Maloes, captain Leredda, lias captured the Resolution, belonging to Limeriefc, laden with fait, and has carried her into Rofcoff The privateer Le Lazare Hoche, be longing to Brefl, has sent into L'Orienr, the O.iio, of 300 tons, laden with pitch, tar, wood for building, cotton, See. under A nierican colours. _ The privateer Le Voltigeur, belonging to Calais, has captured and sent off the Uhe, the English brig the ReMiition, captain Long, from Memvl, laden with timber for building. The privateer I'Enttrprize, belonging to Nantz, has sent into Minden an English ves sel named the Grace, of 460 tons, on her paliage from Liftjon with a cargo 9f fait. The fame privateer has sent into the river of Nantz the American ftiipthe Light Horse laden with beer and other commodities, s j n Ebglifh galliot, laden with 74 pip& and 150 cases of Fort wine, bound to Gib raltar, has been aaptured hy fomc French vessels, and sent into Cologne. The privateer I'Aigle, belonging to L' Orient, has entered that port with the Ra ven, an American vefTel of 300 tons, laden with sugar, cotton, nankeens, The privateer L'Entrcprenant, belong ing to Dieppe, captain Black, has carried into Cherbourg- an Eirglifl, brig named the Hope, which (he cut out of the road of Guernsey. She is laden with wine, hrandy and gin. 1 From the Whitehall Evening Pojl of Oa. 7. ABRIDGEMENT OF TH E STATE OF POUTICf, FOR THIS WEEK. We have not been informed of any thing remarkable, in the course of the present week, in the interior of France. The Di rectory mud, no doubt, be busily occupied in filling up the vacancies occasioned by their late violent proceedings in the Coun cils. Indeed it mull, we are afraid, he a long time before any tiling very remarkable eau happen' in that humbled kingdom : in which as complete a tyranny fcems, for the present, te prevail as ever existed, and in whieh the very voice of liberty is not heard. The people, wearied of fruitlefs efforts for the re (iorarion of tranquility, and afraid of the Direftory, consults every one his own fafety.—Such are the fruits of jacobiaifm ! the innovations of vilionary politicians ! the (ticklers for the rights, but the defpifers and violators of all the duties of man !—The French revolution mult be allowed, at the fame time, to be a warning to kings, as well as to the people ; for altho' the prince on whom the florin broke, had this world been 3 place for an equal diftnbutJon of .rewards ■andpunifhments, would have been secured from such extreme calamities by the inno cence of bis life, and the sincerity of his d-.- votion ; the elements of that storm were prepared for ages, in the opprefiion and the profulion of his predecessors on the throne, and in those unfortunate councils by which he was, soon after the commencemeftt of his reign, and without experience ofthe expence of war and the inconltancy of affairs drawn in to take a share in the contest between A mevica and Great Britain—The appearance of Flags of Truce and frequent lieffrngers from Fiance, with difpatchjs addrsfled, not to lord Grenville, the miniller of this coun try for foreign affairs,-but to Lord Malmef bury, has been considered by some as an indication, on the part of the Direaory, as a disposition to Peace, and a wi.ih to re' Hew, or rather to continue the negociation, which, they think, has never been entirely brojeen off. But to thitf conjecture we op pose the aftual breaking up of the conferen ! ces at Lifie, and the interest of the present rulers of France to carry on the fyitam of war and plunder—to go on with pillage and conquest—to make their neighbours pay for the maintenance of armies, by which they keep themselves in power, trample on their own countrymen, and harrafs all the nati ons around them—Nothing new has tran spired on the fide of «- SPAIN and PORTUGAL; nor yet have we been informed of what has t iken place at Udlna, the feat of negociati an in