Mrs. G RAT TAN, RESPECTFULLY informs theLadietand tkmer of the city, that her firft CONCERT of Vrcal Music will be on Thursday next, the ziil of December,-intt. at Mr. Riciiakoisi's. ACT 1. rtette, . Pleyet . Angels ever bright, Handel | •Gle^*—MfflYs Carr, barley, jun. and Hill, j The Mafincr* j —Mr Carr Dftett—Mrs Grattan and Mr. Carr, PauVillo Sorg:—Mr. jpurVy, jun, fccoreh G\c—Mrs Grattan, Meflrs, Carr, Darley, B£U. ACT. IL Concerto Piano Forte, (by a young lady) Viotti Song—Mr». Grattan, ' Sacchim Glee—Messrs Carr, Darley and Hill, JackfjH Duett—Mrs. Giattan and Mr. Carr, Time [Has uot thin'd Songs—Mr. DarLy, jun. Quvielitf—Mtir Grattan, Meflrs. C.trr, barley and Hill. Six dollar* each fu l fcriber for one ticket of ad rimtahce during thefeafon. ffujforibers ticket transferable, but any sub- JtriHer on paying his fubferi; tion, will have a right to tiernand tickets for the unmarried p nrt .pl his fa , mi!y, wfcich ticket will admit them tvery wight during the fcafon, but are not transferable. The Conceit to bet;in at half past fife and the mu' sic to attend for the Ball at eight, the cxpehce of which Mrs Grattan engages to . Kan-l'ubfcribcrs ticket—2 dollars. Subscriptions received and ticket* delivered by Mrs. Gr^tt.v.i'jiclerk, at No 191, High ftrrtt, r» on-iuttcrlh ws tickets to be had the day of the Concert tt the Bar at Mr. Richardct's. December 15 dtuft Marjhal's Sales. United States, 1 Didrift, j BY virtue of writs of venditioni exponas, iffjed out of the diflrift court of the United Stales, and to me dirt&fd, will be fold at public Sale at the mer o! ant's Coffee-Hou'-e, in Second street, on Wednesday the 27th dav of December inft. at 6 o'clock in the cveiii >g, ail that piece orpucelof rtieadjw ground fuuatc, lyiog and being in the tQwnlhipof PafTyunck, .a. A c ur»ry-ofPhiladelphia, on the road leading to kta.'e IHjim Ferry, abou: fitly, four acres •an 4 three perohes, whereon are erefted a two {lory b'iek Mcfiuage, out houses and a barn ; aKo one o wther traft or piece of meadow gioutld, situate in the f.vd fownlhip and county, and nearly on the oppofue .ftdcoKh- laid road to the faidlerry.conlainingfiXLeeii a cres& ih-ec quai tcrs: also a mefTua,»eor tenement and lot or picer. of grout d situate on the north fide of High Crrrt, bet ween 51b and 6th flreets, in the city of Phi ladelphia, containing in fronton High (Vreet, thirty thrie feet, ar«cj in length or depth two hundred feet, bounced cast by property of Hannah Pembcrton, north by South alley, wed by property of William Be 1, and south by High llreet aforefaid. Seized and taken in execution as the property of Hefiry Scckel, and to be fold by William Nichols, Marjhal. Marshal's Office, "> D. cembe'r December, dtf T - - * 7 - Public pf India Goods at New-York, Will commence on Monday the 18th inft# by A L. Bleecker & Sons ; The cargo of theJhip Swift, Pierre dt Peeler, Commander,jujl arrived from Calcutta, on a credit of 2, 4, and 6 months Confiding of 279 bales of the following ar ticles : Manikpore Kirabod Guzzena I Baftas A'ddee j > Eni<:rtie * < Patna J Jellepore Ouddee CofTaes Tigerry Guzzenas Beeboorn Gurrahs Blue Guineas Guillaudendiary Handkfs. t ' Doreas Dacca Mulmuls Taoda CofTaes Santipore Muslins Kermichee Romals Chatlderconah Nayanfook & Bandanoe Handkerchiefs The above Goods to be fold without tlie smallest reserve. Philadelphia, Dec. 12. *ds t rTo~T" 1 c E. To holders, of JAMES GREENLJZAPs and EDWARD FOX's Engagements • o IN confequcnce of many having been prevent ed, from late unavoidable circumflancc« from obtaining their Certificates, agreeable to forrtier notice. The Trustees now inform them, tHtfy are ready to ifltae the faiSc to those vvho may ap ply v itbin fixtydays, at No. 8-Clufmit Street, and those" who do not, will be confidercd ai re linqiiilhir.g their dawn on the Aggregate Fund provided for their payment. HF.NRY PRATT, THOMAS W. FRANCIS, JOHN MILLER, JUN. JOHN ASHLEY, JACOG BAKER. December 15. d fiot Ncw-Theatrc, December it, 1797* TKF. Mavagirs particularly request the con currence of the public in the abolition of a custom, which hwhitherto obtained, of giving a vay or difpoftng of RKTURN CHECKS at the Thebtre. . They are aware that gentlemen arc ur.conlcious of any wrong dene to tne intercft of the ti<jpby this praflicc, from a general, though mis taken idea that Checks arc the representatives of a right to to many feats in the Theatre, during an Evening'" Entertainment,and transferable jt will; when in f»a, they were never intended as more than txiens by which the Door-keepers are enabled to ascertain with the l.alltrouMe to xbcparhn, that they iienfclvti have lisen before in the I heatri, or raid for their admission. Independent of the injury the Managers fufiain, such a vraflice encourages a eroud of iale boy< and other disorderly psrfons to surround the doors of tht to the corruption of their moraU ana the great apnoyarce of the Audience. Jt has aifo been the fonrce of two evils of no in eonlidi rabltj magnitude 5 one «». that l .metimcs very imr ,p P'' r campany is by these means admit-, ted • aitd the other, that owin, to Checks pafung into diftionelt hands, they have be n Irequenaly countcrlcit-d to a large amount for the purpofesof This ttatement will, it isrcf,>edtful!y hoped, in duce rhe Public to difeaurage Ijch a ualhc : and the exertions of the Managers will, «f thus abided, «afily prove adequate to i's entire W^ohtu-.y, WIGNELL U REINAGLE. December 13 - ,w IClje dgajettc. PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 16. '— Fur the Gazette of the United States. Ma. FEN NO, I have not the smallest doubt but Con grifj will duly appreciate the advice given them in yeur paper of Thursday evening,by " A friend to laws and freedom." If poli tics alone were affe&td by his remarks, I (hould not have taken this notice of them— But in order to render his reasoning irri-firt ible to Congress, he has introduced a kiad of mercantile arithmetic.-" I conclude, that considering the members of Congress as mere politicians, he hadfup pofed that they would be so bewildered in his arithmetical logic that in order to extri cate themselves they would be obliged im plicitly to adopt his conclusions—Be that as it may, his arithmetic is certainly very fallacious. He goes upon the idea that the capture of one vclfel out of four sent out by a mer chant mull proportionably raise the value of the other three, because it will make pro viliotis scarcer. This would be true if the cargo in the captured velTel were destroyed ; but notwithstanding the capture, the cargo I goes to market ; if not to the fame illand, to a neighbouring one —So that r in faiS, it wouhl be better for a nation fhat a veflel should founder than that flie (hould be.cap tured ; for in neither cafe is the country indemnified ; but in the former the cargo cannot go to market in competition with 1 our other produce and so lower the market; in the latter it may—And yet the friend to laws, &c. fays, that in the former cafe there is a national loss, and in the latter not. One other delusion—that the national loss is not so great where the ycflel taken is insured as when it is uriinfured. It is true ! that the individual loss may not be so great in the former as in the latter, for the infur a»cc may be by a company and the proper ty owned by an individual—But as it ref pe&s the nation, the loss is exa&ly the fame—The property has gone out of the eountryand'nothing is returned for it. I have thought it proper to make these observations, for fear that our merchants and underwriter,, being convinced by the reasoning of the " friend t* laws &c.'' that they loft nothing by the captures made of their veflels, should be induced to priva teer upon their «wn property —For certain ly it would be a great saving to thtm, to take the one vessel out of four, which he supposes may be taken by an enemy without injury to the country. AN EN EM Y TO NONSENSE. Dee. 15th. From an Eajlern Paper. European intelligence; of the moll recent dates, furnifhes nothing consoling to the friends of peace. Accounts from Hamburg, to Oft. 4, mention, that the negociation at Udina, was positively at an epd ; and the German troops were marching for the fields of controversy. The French armies, our readers will recolleft, were ordered to be fil led up by the 6th of Oft. Thus on both fides, is note of a dreadful combat given. On the Rhine both power, have very form idable armies ; and Gen. Buonaparte, on the other fide of Germany, has a powerful chain of pods at Udina, Belluno, BaiFano, Verone, &c. which menaces Germany, from the borders of Austria to Tyrol. We know not what force the Emperer has to oppose the French in this quarter, but if it is not powerful, the firft intelligence we may re ceive, maybe his appearance underthewalls of Vienna ; or a division pafliug the Tyrol country, attack the flank of the Gennan ar my on the Rhine ; while the powerful force of Angereau afiails them in front. Those who delight in human carnage, we doubt not, will befoon gratified. Oneßailleul.areprefentativein she French council of 500, published an address to his conflituents in August last, in which he de clares to them, and to all France, the majority of the two councils favor a royal id conspiracy, and that the nation is betrayed. On the 30th of August, only five days be fore the late explosion, a motion was made in the council of five hundred by Duprat (one since banilhed) for a vote of censure a. gainst this incehdiary address of Bailleul. The tumult and violence of the debate that ensued, tho' common enough there, are scarcely to be described or conceived by A mericans.—They called— robber, rogue, and murderer ; but Hopped, however, Ihort of blows. Duprat expatiated upon the evil tendenay of this address, and moved that it (hould be referred to a committee to report the proper measures to be taken against the author. Hardy, and others of the party of ' the direftory, then a minority in the councils, opposed this, and exclaimed—" Dare you violate the liberty of the press ?" Yet, on ly five days after, 32 out of of the news papers then printed in Paris, were fuppretT ed by the direftory. This is liberty of the press ! Tallien, on the fame fide with Har dy, diftingui(hed himfelf by his zeal. In answer to the reproaches call upon him, for the many murders of which he had been guilty, he gonfeffed—" that he might have committed some errors—he might have been hurried away by the ardor of some principles —he had perhaps concurred in the deuth of some reel patriots—but such was our fate, that republicans must die by the hands of re publicans." It is curious enough, that Tallien made this defence becaufc he said, it was impor tant that the members (hould not be viftims of the fouled aspersions. What could his enemies have charged againd him more scandalous and horrid, than he has said of himlelf to clear up his character ? It is tf pecially singular, that this fame lamb like Tallien—this babe of grace, concluded his harangue by recoramendiug to tbe council, 1 mutual fqrbearance ( harmony and brotherly 1 love, and " that they would extinguish ev- 1 ery passion for .the public weal." If one Could possibly fufpeft, that there was any hypocrffy in politics, especially in regenerattdiPrance, the numerous bombas tic profeffioHS of love for liberty and patri otism, and love of mankind, so fafhionable in their legislature, would not be in.future so edifying and comforting to their admir ers, as they have been. From the ALBANY GAZETTE. Mejjrs. Printers, In a lectrft-vifit to the Cohoes Falls, with gentlemen, one of the company un dertook to account for this molt wonderful cataraft, and gave it freely as t Jhis» that the time was when the waters below vthe falls flowed on a level with the bed, river above. An idea at once so novel, aadrtp us improbable, although en forced by philosophical arguments, and a depth of reasoning to which it was impofli ble for us to reply, had 110 conviftion on our mindi ; the old opinion, that it Was so from tjae... beginning, being firmly Seated there. On my return, in casting my eye over a volume of Coxe's travels in Switzerland, I found this ingenious author to entertain a similar opinion of the falls in the Rhine. As it is a matter worthy the inreftigationof the curious, I have made an extraft of it, and fend it for insertion in the Albany Ga zette, not doubting but it will be accepta ble to lome of your readers. " About three miles from the commence ment of the Via Mala (fays our author) we came to a (tone bridge of a single arch, thrown across a gulf; a sublime scene, which I (topped to admire, and which I left with regret. The Rhine falls in a beautiful cas cade, n.lh in a narrow channel at the depth of above 4QO feet perpendicular, furioufly dalhinjf under the bridge, expands itfclf in a and there is loft under a rock,, through which it has forced a pafiage. " The impending mountains, partly bare and partly embrowned with firs, call an aw ful gloom over the gulf below. " I was here greatly struck with one cir cumstance, which I examined with much attention, and which I had observed in sev eral other v«Ulit;s of Swiueiland, but never in such perfeftion as at this place.. The Rhine, Which is at present about 400 feet below the bridge., fecnis evidently to have once flowed as high, or even higher, than the place where the bridge now stands ; to bave gradually worn away the rock, and ex cavated the deep channel in which it now runs." . . qpf NJEW-YORK, December 14. From,recent European accounts it appears that unless our Envoys so the Fr«nch Re public, accomplish the objeft of their mifli en, .by a treaty stipulating reparation for pad injuries, and a more friendly conduftin future, no hope of averting the ruin of our commerce will remain, but what depends on our own measures and refoiirces. From the decree" in the Council of Five Hundred, dis avowing the apparently amicable motives which aftuated tfiat body a little before the ljje violent change, to adopt tbe report and the motion of Paftoret; and from certain unfriendly decisions by the Maria e Tribu nals, we may infer, that unless engagement* are entered into, and rtligioufly observed, of treating Vis Vyith mpre equity, the fame piracies will be exercifedon our (hipping, which, during the two lad years, have so indelibly tarnilhed the annals of the Repub lic. That their privateers have been fuccefsful in crpizing against the American, as well as Britilh commerce, is a known truth ; and the induftrioui preparations to catty it on more extensively than ever, leave little r«om to hope for the escape of any of que mer chantmen, bound to the Bntifk European dominion^. If then, by a denial of national juftiqe, we are to continue exposed to the fame and greater lifques, from French cruizers, and from the unprincipled paricides of Ameri ca refidentjp France*—Jf no resource, but but repelmig force by force, -remains, if, to submit tamely to the blow aimed by an af faflin, be fynonimous with deliberate suicide —(hall we continue to fit with arms folded, without one attempt, one effort to avert our deftru&ionNo—We do not desire war— we folieitoufly wish for .peace with its at tendant bleflitigs—our pafl conduftis an a dequate proofj and v our obviousiniere Its are fufficient pledges, of this. But put ourselves in a posture of defence. Let us aflame a repulsive attitude. Let cir ves sels be armed. Let them no longer be the prey, of.ruffirns, unprovided themfc|ves,. with the means of offenfive operatron, and formidable only by their numbers and -cha racter. i > It is not uncommon to find cowardice as sociated with cruelty. The miferablc pol troon who fees a weaker individual in his power, feels no sentiment of humanity, but gives a loose to the molt boundlcfs cxceffes. Whei ehe finds him felf matched,br his pow er overbalanced, the contemptible jvretch is as abjeft, as/he hefyre (hewed himfelf des potic. This serr.ark is-Jtonfirrtfed by an incident which late. l y t(«jkplaee iu the Britilh chan nel. * Art armed American 1 hdiaman (that defcriptioflare'permitted to carry guns) was met by « French privateer full of men, who after firifig into him.'ordeled him, in terms the mod Sominet'ririg, to heave to, and threatened fnftant deffruftion in cafe of nen compliance. The American, calm and un moved, sent one ball into the picaroon, which so deranged his courage, that he im mediately with the magnanimi ty of a hero, gave himfelf lip. Oilr coun tryman bid hmi •flve'er off, and be more care ful in future how he meddled with Ameri cans. This, with other fafts of a similar com plexion, (hews at how little expence one half the property facrificed by our forbearance, - might have been fstved ; and bow great a \ part of tbe disasters incurred by our nier- i chants, might have been avoided by the fin- i gle permiflion to carry a few guns. i The idea of being involved in war, by i measures of felf proteftion, is chimerical and ■ degrading in the extreme. If we may not ; defend ourselves when attacked, how con- i tetnptible i 3 out situation ! We may at i once renounce independence as the shadow of a (hade, and acknowledge the United States to be colonies of whatever power i pleases to seize upon them. Let us think like the Treiident, and with him declare, that— Nothing will contribute so much to the prefer fat ion of pea<?e, as the'ifiilnifeftation of that energy and unanimity, of which, on many former oocafions, the people of the •United States have given such memorable proofs ; and the exertion of those refourc ' es for national defence, which a beneficent Providence has kindly placed within our power." ' CHARLESTON, Nov. 28. Y Aerday a negro man named Mecredi, I charged with being a principal in the late confpiraey with Jean Louis and Figaro, who were executed on Tuesday last, was tried by a court of justices and freehold ers j the guilt of the prifonr was fully prov ed, in canfeqUeuce of which he was fenteuc ed to be hanged this at 12 o'clock. A correspondent begs leave to remind his fellow-citizens of the neceflity of placing lights to their windows, on an alarm of fire. The advantages refultiHg therefrom are too obvioua to n«ed further observations. HALIFAX, N. C. Dec. 4. On Saturdary last, the company of artil lery belonging to the brigade under the com mand of captain Smith,"paraded in this town.' ' At the close of the parade, a pro portion was made to fuppiy the quota re quired from the volunteers : when they unanimously ftrpt forward, and offered their services. We are likewise informed, that the quota required from the lower regiment of this county, was furnifhed by volunteer* on the 16th. The arfk company called on (capt. Morris's) turned out to man. I-t is witb pleasure we announce the above ■deroonlt rat ions of the patriotism of our fel low citissens ; by which they have evinced, that whatever may be their sentiments re fpe&ing other nations,they are pointedly de termined on the defence of their own. CONGRESS. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. THURSDAY OECEYBER 14. Continuation of the Debate on the fuijefi of Foreign Coins. The Honfc having resolved itfelf intoa Com mittee of the whole, Mr. Dent in the chair, on the Report of the Seleft Com mittee relative to Foreign Coins, and Mr. Nicholas's Resolution having been read. Mr. Sitgreaves said, he had mention ed yesterday, that there was in his opinion, an obvious distinction between the cases of Gold and Silver Foreign Coins; and all tbe reflection he had fmce given to thefubjeft, had confirmed him in the conviction which he then exprefled. He moved, therefore, to amend the resolution under consideration, by adding after the word «• Foreign/' the word " Silver," which would have the ef fect of confining the suspension of the aft in favour of silver,' and leave the aft of 1794, to operate on gold coin. If, said Mr. S. j the design of the Mint had been only to gratify the pride of Sovereignty, the object would have been inconsiderable and unwor thy of the expence of supporting it ; but it was established for far more important ends. It was, that the Government might have a control over, its circulating medium, which was efTer.tial, in order to prevent its debase ment by alloy and fraud. This debasement was chiefly applied to Cqpper and Gold Coin, but not so much to Sib(*r. He saw no t reason, therefore, why Fqreig.i Silver Coin, which had long been cntrent irt this Country, (hould be forced ofH.-of circulati on into the Mint; they were of the fame use and value with any which might be re-issued; but it was very different with refpeft to Copper and Gold Coin, which was subject to be debased in so many differei t ways, and which could not be prevented, until we had a fufficiency of our own coin, which would be under our own direction and control.— Let the ftoppzge of French Crowns take place when it might, it would be attended with some inconveniences, yet the period mutt arrive, if the Mint were to be support ed ; but he conceived these inconveniences would be felt in a very small degree with re fpeft to Gold Coin. The proclamation of the President of the United States, which notified that Foreign Coin would oeafe to be a legal tender after a certain day made in Oftpber, 1796, related to both Gold and Silver Coin; but the notice refpefting Gold Coin was much farther removed than that of Silver ;' it was not to go out of circulati on, till July next, whereas the silver coin had already gone out of circulation, except that it were payable at the Banks and to the Revenue Officers. It was, iherefore, much more irt" the power of perfrins holding Gold Coin to get it out of their hafirls brio re the time arrived. The quantity of Gold coin in circulation, compared with the Whole cir culating medium, he said, was very final!, and therefore, but little inconvenience crtald arise from its circulation being flopped; and on account of the probability ofGold coin, it would be much tafier transported to the feat of Government. But the mod import ant consideration was, the present mutilatrd state of Foreign Gold Coin, which rendered it impoflible for those who were not well a % qtfainted with the detail of bufidefs, toguard against frauds. In the State of Pennsylva nia* -not one man in 50G was in poffefiion of 3 pair of Gold Scales, and without thum, it was impossible to afcertaiti wtertjjer gold wa& weight or not, and there were (till tuwer per foas, if they had scales, who knew the;eal value of gwld » when it was deficient iif weight. This great evil in the middle dates whatever might be the cafe to the Eailward and Southward, convinced him, that the sooner Foreign Gold Coio was thrown out of Circulation, the better. Bllt it was yes terday said. that when our own gold coin (hould get into circulation, it would he e qually fubjetV to debajement, and therefore, that it would be impossible to pass it by tale. He would not fay, that, in the course of time, this might not take place j but on theoutfet, trade and intercourse would be coniiderably facilitated, by having a proper medium of our own; and when our gold coin (hould become corrupted, by clipping, See. it would only have to be returned to the' Mint to be re coined. These eonfidera lions had induced him tu'make his motion. Mr. J. Wilciams wasagainft the amend ment. The observations of the gentleman were favourable to the cities, but not Jo the extreme parts of the U.nion. Suppose it were practicable or n'ecefiary. to call in the Foreign Gold Coin, where would the Mint si id bullion to replace it; The difficulty was the want of bullion; and if they prohibited the circulation of Gold Coin they (hould prevent its increase. And even if they had fufficient bullion, he thought the works of the Mint too contrasted, to coin a fufficien cy for all the purposes of the United States, and he did not think it would be right to to extend them, since, if a Nation were to have its Mint, it (hould be at the feat of Government, which in two years, was to be removed from its prefeni fitnation. As to the prefeat EftaMUhment, it had been at tended with considerable expence, without : affording any benefit, except to this 'City. Our own gold, the gentleman said, would ' not for a long time'be either clipped or swea ted; but when it was, it might be returned -to the Mint to be re-coined; so that there would be a conllant routine of sweating, clipping and coining. But the gentleman said, it was impossible to prevent imposition in receiving the g»ld coin now in circulation as few persons were possessed of gold Scales he was certainly mifipformed in this refpeft, as few persons who were in the habit of re ceiving any eonfidorable sum of money, were without gold fsales, or ignorant of the val ue of gold; Why then, compel people to fend this coin to the Mint? Was it because they were (hortly to be called upon for far-, ther sums of money to support th« establish. ment, and gentlemen wished to give it the appearance of ufefulnefs! With whatever view it might be done, he certainly 'could not agree to it. Mr. PiNCKhEY was in favour of the refo. lution of the gentleman from Virginia, with, out the proposed amendment. He was a. ; gainst agreeing to the report of the'commit. | tee, because, it would either produce no cf ' seA, or an injurious one. Gentlemen diff ered in opinions as to the effed ; force sup posed it would depretfate the coin, othtis thought it would produce no such effefl. To him this was immaterial. If it did not tend to depreciate the coin, it would have no effdft to force it into the mj'nt ; there ; fore, the arguments of gentlemen went toe far. And, if it did tend (to depreciate the coin, it would have a very injurious ef j fcCt He did not fay this because he was | against the establishment of the'mint ; he I believed with the gentleman from Pennfyl ; vania (Mr. Sitgreaves) that it migh be pro dudtive of gdod ; but he did not think this the proper way to fiipport it. Mr. Otis rose with some regret, and a good deal of diffidence, on this question, bec&ufe his opinion differed from both the gentlemen whd hadjuft delivered theirs. He I was equally opposed to the. ;»mendments of j the gentlemen from Pennfylvahia and Vir j ginia, and in favour of the original report. Heconfidered both the amendments as hav ing a tender«cy to undermine the mint es tablishment ; if that of the gentleipan from Virginia were agreed to, that institution would have but a fliort duration ; and what ever credit may be due to the ingenuity of that gentlemtfli, and others who support his motion, for this indiredt attempt to deitroy it, be thought it behoved gentlemen who wi(lied well to that institution, and consid ered it as connected with the national pros perity, to pause, before they gave a vote which (hould'go to this effeft. If the mint were found to be an inconvehient establish ment, and the expence of it greater than the'convenielice, let a proposition be bro't forward, and let the question be fairly met, and not endeavour to effect its overthrow in the way proposed. In order to elucidate his assertion, that this proposition would ds ftroy the mint, he would enquire how tfee mint was to be supported ? It could not be supported with fufficient bullion, except by means of the foreign coin now in Bullion was not imported in large qnanti-. ties into this country. In looking into a riport on this fubjeft, he found the quanti ty of bullion imported was fnhall. Govern ment had no power to traffic in it, and our merchants did not aften import it ; there fore foreign coin was the only aliment with which the mint could be fed. And if th# business of calling in this com were post poned for two years, no argument ..would then cxift forfloppi.ig the cTrciilatjon which did not flow apply ; thev should thin be told that the expence of reeoinirig won d et ceed the utility of the measure. It had been said that the measures recommended by the report would not have the effeft qf throwing foreign coin into the mint, fin«e though nearly ("even millions of revenue w-ete received from the cuftom-lioufe, little of this coin had been sent there heretofore.-r- Tli'is, Mr. O. said, could not be expe&ed when there was no restraint laid opon thi banks to do it ; besides, dollars had been in gre&t demand for the London and Ball-In* dia markets, and the bauk bad found it re ctfTarj v to keep back their dollars, and pay out their . towns. ' Hereafter this reafoij
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