r r in in 1 —a—" > NEW THEATRE. THIS EVENING* DECEMBER 13;. wlB be-grefcMted. a New COMEDY, (neVer pir foi rned in this city) called, WIVES AS THEY WERE. . , and, MAIDS AS THEt ARE. „ [■Written by Mrs. Inchbald, authoress of OncHai. His Fault, Such Things Are, &c.] Sir William Dbrrilldn Mr. Harwood Lord Prioi-y ~ Mr. Warren Sir George Evelyri Mr. M°reton Mr. Norberry Mr* Taylor Mr- Bronzely M r - Bernard Nabfoh Mr- Wariell Oliver Mr. .Bliffet Goalet Mr. Sully John Mr, T. Warreil James Mr. Warreil,ju. Set vants—Meffrs. Lavancy,Lafferty, Sic. Miss Dorrillon Mrs. Merry L?dy Mary Raffle Mrs. OJdmixon Lady Priory Mrs. Morris Honfe-keeper Mrs. Doftor To which will be added, a Musical Drama, in two acts, called, THE ADOPTED CHILD. Sir Bet tram Mr. Warren Michael Mr. Cooper Record Mr. Francis Spruce Mr. Warreil, jun. Le Sage Mr. Darley B6y. Mifs.L'Ejltrangc Clara Mrs. Warreil "Nelly Mrs. Oldmixon Lucy < Mrs. Francis gr Of Friday, th« cel«brated Comic Opera of the HIGHLAND REEL—with entertainments. Box, one Dollar ; Pit, three quarters of a Pol lar ; ani half a Dollar. tr 'i 'he doors of'the Thtatre will open at five, ar.d the Cb: tain rife st fit o'clock . , Places lor the nose« to fallen at tile Office in (he front of the Thratre, from 10 till i o'clock," and from Jo till 4 on <h- days of performance. Tickets to be bad at H. ahd Rice's book-store, No. 50 Markst-ftriet, and at the Office adjoining the Theare. yiVJT ££s PiIJILIC.I ! Public Sales of Irtdia Goods at New-York, Will commence on Monday the ifcth inft. by J. L. Bleecker s£? Sons ; The cargo of theJhif\Sivift, Pierre de Pey/ler, Commander, just atri-uedfrom Calcutta, on a credit of 2,4, and 6 months— Confiding of 279 bales of the following ar ticles ; Manikpore Kirabod Emertie Patna Jellepore Ouddee Coflaes Tigerry Guzzenas Beeboorn hurrahs Blue Guineas Guillaudendiary Handkfs. Doreas Dacca Mulmuls Tanda Coffacs Santipore Muslins Kermichee Romals Chanderconah Nayanfook & Bandanoe Handkerchiefs The above Goods to be fold without the smallest reserve. Philadelphia, Dee. 12. *dct To be lold at the Merchant's Cot"- see-House, ON wednesday the 13th of December at 7 o' clock in the evening, ene certain bond or obligation dated July 16, 1795? signed by John Love of Alexandria for bimielf, Jafiah Wabfon and Samuel Love for £ Alio Virginia currency, ' payable on the jrft of Oflober last paft,to Stock- 1 ley Donelfon or his assigns—which Bond the I said Donelfon afligned to James Grant, under whose power of attorney' this sale will be made. For further particulars apply to the fubferibers. FOOTMAN and Co. Auflioneers. ■Nov.ii?. " dtijthd Just Imported, And for Sale at William Priestman's, No. 129, South Front Street, Nexj dnor to th« Cufi<jm House, a large affort nurt of low priced Silver Watches—confiding of plain, capt. capt and jewell'd, ftope andfeconds; Gold Watche6by Mudge, Ellicot, Holmes, Tre gent, &c. A time-keeper l?y Arnold—Diamond and Pearl rings and lockets, some plated canrilc flicks, elcgrani double barrel'd guns by Mortimer, do. by by Trimbly, a re fleiStiag telescope, by Rcbright, a box »f patent medicine, 6o lbs of Scotch thread, a dozen of tra velling caps, and a small colle&ion of scarce valu able bo oks. December ia diw Imported, in the brig Eliza, • Capt. Hastie,from Bourdeaux ; Claret in Cases of a very fuperier quality, White Sauterne Wine in Cases, Olive Oil'inbafcets of ia bottles each, White and coloured Kid Gloves, do. do. Silk do. A few pipes of Bourdeaux Brandy, •For Sale ly JAMES I ATIMER, jun. 7T, South Wharves. Who has also for Sale, A*few qr. Caflcs Old Sherry Wine. Dec. ?. d2w 1 FOR SALE, By JOHN MILLER, jun. fcf Co. No. 8, Cluff ut-ftrcet, One hundred and eighty bales • BENGAL GOODS, - /imongft which arc, Gurrahs M3»ioedtes Baftas Sannas Gaizcnahs Tanda Coflaes Guzzics Emertics Blue Cloths Calicoes Palampoors Romall Handkerchiefs Amongii them are a great proportion of the mjnnfafloies cf Patr.a. December I. § Uriah Smith, No. 20, north Third ftreet—uas for sal*, A neat and general of Broad Cloths,Kerfey meres,Napt and Drab Coating*. rlso, A variety of Gentlfni«yis' fafhionable fancy Waift coatirig, fifk Holiery, s;c. December J. "t-odiw %U <ga3ette> I PHILADELPHIA, j WfeBjjESBAY EVENING, DECEMBER 13 To the Stockholders of the Bank of the Uniteb States. Gentlemen, IF the spirit with which you engaged in I J the original plan of the Bank of the United I States, and-the vast aid which you have af | forded to the government and to yc»ur fellow citizens by this laudable enterprixe, : be justly confideredas a pledge of your fidelity' to your intereft3 as they are iiifcparably con nefted with the general weal, we are natu rally led tor ask if you will now consent to an addition to your capital (lock that it tWay ; keep pace with the increased and increafijig demand* consequent to the growiug popu lation and general bufihf fs of your country ? If you can coijfiently with your rights and to do this, you will confer new obTigatians on your country, if you will also ask for an extension of your charter, in return for a permiflion in favour of govern ment to create a limited number of addition al (hares to be fold at not less than 25 per cent, advance, forWje sole benefit of the Uni ted States. Thus whenever one million of new stocks may be created, 250,000 dollars will be gain ed to the Treasury of the Union, and in due time, wkich in the nature of things cannot be far dijlant, four millions of stock might be beneficially fold, by which the United States may gaia one million, and for which permif flon on your part, they will not, they can not, reasonably refufe to double the term of your charter. In a future essay, I will en deavour to /hew in part the incontrovertible benefits that will result from this plan which sooner or later mull be adopted. You are therefore only reqyefted to con fider whether this is, or is not, the accepted time and of course a day of falvatton to many important concerns of your country. W we agree, you will consider the propriety of preparing a petition to Congress for these pufpofes at your next general meeting, if not, it will only be deferred for futiire con fideratiori. PUBLICOLA. WASHINGTON, (Pot»<wmac) Dec. 2. Mr. More, I fer.d you extra&s from original letters written by a real American in Europe, who fees and judges of the palling events with impartiality. They tend to shew that the recent violeneet in France are not the consequence of any real plot or conspiracy (at least not on the pa»t of the perfoiis accUsed) in favor of royalty, but are the effe&s of a dfep and long me ditated plan of the old Jacobin party to continue their power and tyranny over the people, by a most atrocious and arbi trary violation ; not only of the consti tution but of every moral and political right, which a nation can hold sacred. D. June,.z6, 1797. —The negocjations for peace between France and Great-Britain are resuming—They are to be conduced it -is said at LifTe in Flanders ; I still doubt ve ry much whetherthey will terminate fuccefs fully ; there is yet too much ambition and too much of the disorganizing spirit in the French government to allow them a disposi tion sincerely pacific Thei* treatment of Venice and Genoa,both neutral Hates, which hare nerer been engaged in the coalition has been in open defiance, not only of all juflice and honor, but of all shame ; they have not been fatisfied withdifTolving thegovernments of those republics, but are dismembering them, and taking part of their territories to give them for indemnity to the Emperor, and the king of Sardinia, instead of the do minions they have facrificed to the conquer ing genius of France. Buonaparte, not on ly wages, but formally declares war—makes peace—diltolves governments—orders the adoption of others—sets up or pulls down the fovereigrvpeople, just as suits his own caprice, or that of hii employers—And ie the midst of the deep tragedy of massacre, pillage, aflaflination, and crimes of every dye, that attends these revolutions, the farce of liberty, of equality of fraternity, of the rights of man, with its whole babyloniflidia left of imposture and hypocrisy is afliduoufly kept up, and I verily "believe still finds its dupes. July, 2 1797.— I wrote you three or four days ago from , which I left the next day. I then mentioned that Paftoret had made a motion in the couucil of five hundred, tending to annul the arrete's of the directory relative to Ameriea ; particu larly that of 12 Ventofe, which he truly re presented ascontrary to the constitution. It was referred to a committee offive, to report upon it—You will have a more circumstan tial account of the whole matter frum ano ther quarter, but there are feme observa tions which will not occur elsewhere, and which may perhaps in some degree contri bute to give you a just idea of our affairs in France. Infinite pains have been taken there to spread universally the idea that there are in America only two parties, the one entirely devoted to f ranee and the other to Eng; land. Mr. Adams has been, in the Paris news-papers expressly represented as at the head of the latter, and Mr. JefFcrfon of the former.—The English too have been much disposed to countenance the fame idea. The ■ artifice of the French party America, to throw the odium of partiality to the Eng lish, upon every man who would not facri fice his country to France, has heen very induflriaufly pursued, and in a very consid erable degree fuccefsful. It is one inftanee cftheirdenominaticn-giving fyflem, which 1 Fauchet so much extols—ln France, every i thing has contributed to give prevalence to this falftbood. Paftoret therefore, iB mak- . ing his motion said that the Arherican gov ernment had indeed given some reason to doubt of the loyalty of its intentions, by their treaty with Great-Britain, but that this was not fufficient for a rupture, &c. The universal dislike of that treaty, by all the parties in France, while none of them can give one substantial reason for their dif like,is forus its brightest panegyric. Itfhows that it interferes with vitws which they dare not avow. The objeftions that they have ever made against it are perfectly futile.— The arrete of 12 Ventofe bears internal evi dence, that tie reafoni assigned are not the teal ones. Some observations were drawn up, about 2 mouths ago, concerning*the ar rete, They dWelt particularly. upbn the poit)t of the Brififh treaty, and fliewtd that the jdireSory, try rafting Ae rules of their upon certain articles of the treaty, merely fought a pretext : that it was totally destitute of foundation,fince every one of the rules, was not only variant from, but in di rect violation of the article cited sot itsjuf tificatiou. In order to {hew this jn it* clear est and mod; linking light, the several rules, and articles were placed in opposite tolumns, so that their incompatibility might appear at a Cngle glance, and some observations were added at the cjofe of each. This pa per was fecn by Paftoret before he made his motion, and he concurred in the opinion that the arrete was Uiconftitutional. But as to the opposite columns, it was said, that in these difcuflions all long quotations (hould be avoided ; because they would not read them. Whether Paftoret read them or not, I (hall not fay ; but what fort of difcuflion can be carried on with perfbns who will not read the very state of the- queflion in debate ? Whether that part of the paper was read, or was offered for reading or not, Paftoret did not thekfs complain of the British trea ty, and complain of it as an aft of the A niericin government, unfriendly to France. v Paftoret is ope'of the noil distinguished memberj of theVouncil of five hii/idred.—, He ctnf in at the firfl constitutional elec tioarih Ofteber 1795, an< * was not a mem hef of the convention. He has all along fnpported, with eloquence and firmnefs, the cause of moderation and jufticfc, against t(ie revolutionary violence and wickedness which ' has so often prevailed, even since the estab lishment of the constitution. Dumolard is anothej- member of the fame description, and these two are certainly the most con spicuous charafters that have arisen in that third part of the legiflatura. Barbe Marbois, our old acquaintance, came in at the fame time,>and appears to have the fame system in the couficil of el ders. This party, since the introduftion of the new third part, have an unquestionable and firong majority in both councils ; but the old remaining third of the convention, with their fourfifths of the directory are reviving the jacobin clubs, preparing for infurreßions and endeavouring to secure the armies on their fide. Since the motion of Paftoret, Dumolard hat brought forward one of the like nature against the measures condufted or permitted by the direftory in Italy'. It occasioned forae debate and finally was adjourned, until the report of the committee upon the motion of Pajloret Ojould be made. This circumstance deserves notice, for the adjournment was upon an observation of Thibaudeau " that it was improper and might be dangerous to investigate these tranfaftions in Italy,fince they might be deep ly conneded with the negociation for a general peace." So you fee Genoa, Venice, and perhaps Switzerland are to be not only re volutionized but plundered, ifflmembered, divided, tern in pieces in every way, to make au arrangement for a general peace. And as the fubjeft is adjourned until the re port upon the differences with America shall be made, ft looks very much as if some ar rangement relative us too, was in con templation as connefted with the negocia tious for a general peace. There is an ob servation of Montesquieu, that it is some times bad policy, in a small state to re main neutral in the wars between two great powers its neighbours, because neither of them being bound to it by the force of ob ligation or intertft, they may finally fettle the difference by Sacrificing the small power between The truth of this remark fs ftrtttigly exemplified by the pTcfent state of the Italian republics though it is far from beiug clear that they could have escap ed it by taking part in the war. However that may he, it is important for us to take care not to be made ourselves the viftims of any such agreement. If France had any such designs, it mii/l be in the plan of fevering the United States into two republics, on« of which (he would take under her proteftioti, and mould to her will, leaving the other to the influence and management of Britain. lam far from being certain that the British government -would be averse to such a division. I hope they will both be narrowly watched. July 6, 1797. —Our Situation with France is ft ill equivocal, and dangerous, Gen. P. afts with gre-t pruder.ee and wis dom, and I ana persuaded will do every thing poflible in the disadvantageous Situati on in which he still remains. But there are ! many wicked Agents, and many {very bad pafiions at work against the interest and the friendfhip ofithe two nations.—With regard to the Weft-India depredations, the Direc tory h? Ve published a letter from Santhonax and hii brother Robbers their Agents, in which they freely declare that they had em ployed Cruizers against American vessels without authority—but because they want ed provisions—because the Americans were ill disposed and because after the eleftion of j John Adams as President of the United! States, they concluded there would be a war j between the two Countries. The Direfto- • ry haverecall'd those Commiflioners and their infamous piracies have not been unnoticed even in Paris. An investigation and fcruti- j ny has been called for into the hostile mea- : fCires of the Direftory ; there is, no doubt, ' a strong party in France who disapprove of, themj but they are afraiddf nothing so much as being too much in the right. Among those who call and think thera felves our friends, and who are indeed sensi ble how unjustly the Djreftery has treated us, is Barbe Marbois, a man well known in America, and now a very diltinguifhed member of the Council of Anticnts.—He has. lately made a report relative to the ex pences in the department of foreign Affairs. It appears they .are four or five times as great a3 thty were in the mod extravagant periods of the did government. And for all this augmentation of charges, they "have according te Marbois got but a very con temptible set-«£ negotiators abroad ; among whom he has with equal joltice included their late MinilWr to the. United States " One of them, (fays Marbois) Sent to a friendly nation,, will imagine he feryes his Country by sowing -diitruit and suspicion between the Government and the people.—' In order to acqqire the Reputation ofbeing aftivc and influential, he will expose twona tious united by their reciprocal lnterefls, by benefits and Gratitude, to a fatal rupture ; he will exert himfelf to fully the splendor of the faireft'life, the eminent qualities ps the greatest man, that our Century .can offer, to history, aud present to posterity ; And e ven though he should not attain the End proposed, the minds of men will neverthe less be alienated, and a double portion of Wisdom will be necessary to bring them a gain together." So you fee that even in the Capital of France, even in the fanftuary of their Legislature, a public, and an eloquent voice is yet found ready to pay the tribute of Justice to the Character of Washington, and to reward with richly deserved Contempt the reptile that would flied its filth and ven om upon such brightnrfs. July 29, 1797- —My means of commu nication from France are very much abridg ed since I left , and I do not well uri derftand what the Confluences to be expefted from, the late phange of Miniflers there, yau wijl find that strong diffentioiis' have broken out between the legiflatita artd executive bodies, and between the Members of the Direftory. They will perhaps bring on an accomodation, that will reftfire a fort of Peace, but the remnants of the old Con vention have entailed upon themselves fore ver, the curse which Tyrants never escape ; the undying worm of a guilty conscience, and the terrors of approaching punifliment. They never can be recoaciled to the Nation which they have ruin'd and difgrae'd, nor the Nation t® them. War, open or Undcr ftood, /s their irrevocable destiny—they can never support themselves but by force, and evem appearance inditates that their only reliance ts upon the military. August 17, 1797.—The debates m Congress upon the importanrfubjefts which were brought before them in their extraor dinary session, fall far short of the manly and vigorous spirit, which discovered itfelf in the answer of the house to the President's j Speech- If their deeds had corresponded with the language of that Answer our Ne gociatorj would have come out with a favo rable profpeft of Succeeding in their million. They will arrive at a time when negociation is going forward in all quarters, and attempts will doubtless be made to confound and in fluence one with the other, though our pre tensions have nothing in Common with any other nation! Portugal hasjuft made a Sepatate peace, by which another ally of Great Britain is taken off without its Con sent. The terms are yet unknown, but the " Times" Says " that the Conclusion of this treaty was one of the last events that our Court could haveexpefted." Of the famous Coalition it i*ay be said, that it was Joint and Several; they began all together, and concluded all alone. August 31, 1797 —It is painful to e very true American to fee ene foreign Mi nister using such language, as has been em ployed by Miniflers of powers profeffing friendfhip towards us, ever since the time of Genet. To degrade our Government in the Eyes of the world by (hewing that it may be insulted and reviled with impunity, is a part of that system which our foreign and domeilic Jacobins pursue with concert ed exertions for the difTolution of our union and the overthrow of our Conilitution. The figure of a Spanish Minister, afting as an instrument to promote such views, however incongrnnns, cannot be furprizisg. It does 113 no honour in the eyes of the world,when they fee Such Conduft paSs without marks of resentment : but the national charafter fuffers still more, from instances »f such tran faftions as are unfolded in Blount's letter. A Senator of the United States !—and write such a paper !—and aft such a part ! We have Enemies and Enviers enough in c very part of Europe to feixe hold of such Circiimftances, and blazon them forth as proofs of our depravity and Corruption. ■ In this country (England) a profound tranquility generally pAvails: in Scotland the papers of the day mention some Riot which has been excited by anew Militia law, but the Affair wilLprobably not be ve ry important. Inland is quiet Miile the sword waves over her head. I perceive by the public accounts from Holland, that 'he Constitution which had been so long foi miiig, and with so much pains made conformable to the Will of the French Directory, has been rejefted by the people .in the primary Affcmblies. Vet the French Minister had formally declared it was approved by his Government, and formally intimated their Expectation and wish that the People might adopt it. It appears that a very small por tion of the People took any part in the de liberations upon it; or attended the prima ry AiTemhlies : a declaration of political faith was preftribed, as a tell which inevi tably operated an exclusion to one halfof the People, Of the reft, fhat is the moderate' patriots,who have hitherto held the reigns of the Government under French 'protecti on, the numbers among the People are so small, tliat the Jacobinical Patriots out-vot es! them by a large majsrity, and threw out; the plan as not fufficiently democratic, and as bearing unequivocal marks of federalifm. The negociat ions for peace both at Udi na and at Lisle, advance but slowly,. It jg, probable that the conclusion of the former is retarded by two points upon which the; parties cannot agree. The ceflioa. or redo ration of Mantua, and the appointment of a. congrtfs for a general peace. Upon the is sue oflhefe quedions, probably depends all so the profpecl of peace, or of a continuance to the war between France and Britain. The ftatc of internal affairs in France, af fords the fame profped of disunion between .the legislative and executive powers, tW fame symptoms of approaches towards a mi litary government as wiien I, wrote you hi ft; the parties are becoming.more ar.d more bit ter and rancourous against each other from dw to day. Tie peopit very evidently fa vor the fide of the legiflijture but the armies have very apparently been conciliated by the directory. \ London, Sept. ii, 1797. You Will have seen hv the publie.prints that Edmund Burke died in the course of the month of July. His executors have within these few days published,three memorials upon French affairs, written by hitn in the years 1791,' 1792 and 1793. I have sent you a copy of one of them. If the several states and governments which are spread over the face of Europe are considered as composing a fort of con federated whole, thei.- fituatioij aod circum ilances appear to resemble in an extraordina ry degree, thofc in which the fame portion of the earth was placed at the period when the Roman republic fell under the ambition and talents of Csefar. There is.atthis time, as there was then, one single fundamental principle upon which the' whole fabric of 1 European policy ftafids.—A revolution is taking place which mull entirely overthrow that principle. Such was the cafe then. The ultimate,cosfequence, in that indanee, was the total dissolution of the system by which Europe was governed, and centuries of barbarism ; the novelties of the present day are calculated to produce, with much greater rapidity, the fame effed. If there be any accuracy in this view of things, the similarity between the charader and genius of Burke and that of Cicero will appear wonderfully ftriking—lt is one of the :50ft. retnarkable circumlt.inces common to both that riling from an obfure origin, or as Paine expresses it, upon the democratic floor, they were the mod ftrennous and energetic defetv ders of the aristocrats ; that is, of the inftfr tutions upon which alone the protedion of property subsided. In one refped the mo dern philosopher, orator and statesman, was mate, fortunate than the'antient ; he did not live to fee the EnaTTff3"fPfsmevable ruin of his cause, nor did he the martyr of iu CONGR ESS. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. TUESDAY DECEMBER 12. Mr. DwightJFofter, £rom thecommittee of claims, made an unfavourable report on the' petition of Joseph Gofs, late a phyficiart and furgeou in the army, praying for cosn penfation, which was ordered to lie on tfc« table- The fame gentleman moved, that the re port of the committee of claims on the pe tition of the Corporation of Rhode Island College, with a report of the Secretary of the Treasury thereon J be referred to a com mittee of the whole honfe. Agreed for to morrow. Mr. Shepard presented the petition of Giles Wolcott, late a captain in the army, praying for recompence for lodes sustained in the service. Mr. Lyon moved to have this petition re ferred to a feled committee ; as he found the committee of claims were determined to reject every claim, however jud, if barred by the ad of limitation, and as he knew, though this claim was harred, that the peti tion was- deservedly entitled to compensa tion. This motion not being seconded, Mr. Shepard moved to have the petition referred to the committee of claims Agreed. Mr. Harper called for the order of the day on the bilLfor podponing commence ment of tit? ad for laying a Stamp Duty ; which being agreed to, the House resolved itfelf into a committee of the whole on this hill> Mr. Dent in the chair. The bill hav ing been read,- Mr. Lyon moved to'expunge the word June and insert January ; but on the chair man informing him that would not be in or der, he changed his motion to the inserting of the 3id 'of December, 1798; instead of the 30th June, Mr. Williams believed- the necessity of a postponement of the commencement of this aft, was oecafioner} by the ftcknefs which had lately afflided thfs city, as that render ed it impossible to get the prepara tions for carrying it into effect executed. 'The Objed which lie fctppofed the gentle man had in view, would be better attained, if he Ueferred it until the bill was introduced for making the alterations Which had been ' u ggcfted as tieceffary. A resolution had tbeen feut to the committee of ways and I means, directing- them to report a plan for railing a iutiicient revenua to meet the de mands which would be made upon govern ment in the year fSoi. If this plan (hould include u land tax, he {hould wiih that the damp duty might not take place, as he vo ted for it only on the ground of its prevent ing the neccffity of a land-tax; but until ;his were ascertained, he (hould be in fa vour of the ■ damp-tax. [The Chairman reminded Mr. W. that the quedionwas not whether the Stanjp-Ad fnould be repealed, but whether its operation should be fufpeud ed for a limited time.] Mr. W. (aid, if the amendment proposed were agreed to, he
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