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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