Mrs. G RATTAN, ESPFC T FULLY informs &en »> tlemer of the'city- that her firo CONCFRT of Vecal Muf.c will be on Thursday iiext, the alii of Deretaber, inft. at RicrtahdetV ACT 1. Quai t< tte, t'leyol vnpels ever brjghc, Handel Giec— tocrfra. Carr, Darky, juh. and Mill, The Mariners Mr Carr Orattari and Mr. Carr, Paffeillo 1 Son?—Mr PiHey, jiin, \ Scotch Gice—Mrs. Grattan, McflVb,Carr, Darley, > Hill. | ACT. it. Couctrto Piano Forte, (by a yoivig lady) Viotti Song-—Mrs. Grattan, Sacqhini Glee—MefTrs Carr, Darley and HiU, Jackl'on Du Gratian and Mr. Carr, Time x [has not thiii'id Cs°ng—Mr. Darl«y, jun. > Qu^rtelle—Mre. Grattan» Meflrs. Carr. Darley add Hill. Smx dollars each fa u fcriber for one ticket of ad mit unce during the season. No fupfcribtrs ticket transferable, but any fcriber on paying his fubferiptioo,will have a to riemand tickets for the unmarried pnrt ot hiii fa mily, tichet will admit them every night the season, hut are not transferable. The Conce t to b.-tjin at half part fix and the jnu lir to attend for the Ball at eight, the expcnce of j vhich Mrs. Grattai< engages to discharge Non-iubfdribers ticket—i dollars. received and-ticket* delivered by Mrs. Grattan**clerk, at No 192, High-flreet, Non-fubfci ihrrs tickets to be had the day of the Concert at the Bar at Mr. Richardet's. . P C \ dtuft B A L L. MP 'F&AT* CIS refpedlfuJ lyinforms his scholars and the vublic in general, that his firll Ball will be 011 '| ucfilay, the 19th of December, at the New Affcnibly Room in forth Fourth street, be tween Chel'nut and Walnut flrcet. * Ladies rickejs to be had by applying to the fchnlars of Mr. Francis, or at his house, no. 70, Bor.th fi^hthftrca. Gentlemen s Irckets, at one dollar eqyfr. be lud ac 'the Nt*w Afleinbly R6om, 6r of Mi. Far " Itfs house. December 16—^t Creditors of BlairM'Clenachan, urld of Bla ; r M'Cxnachan and Patrick Moqre, arc n q;iefle«4 to meiet at the Coffee honfc, at'fix o*cloc^ v i» the-evoning •£ th# 19th inft. A rull acd atfenoancc is required, as bufuiefs of will be brought to lights December r6. *3t MarJJjal's Saks. United States, 1 Peunfylvanja jDiftrid, 3 BY virtue ps writs ot venditioni exponas, issued out of the diftrifl court of the United States, and ta cic dire£led, will be fold at public Sale at the mer chant'sConee-Hou r e, in Second street, on Wednesday the 27th day of December iatt.' at 6 o'clock in the evcni. g. all that piece or parcel of meadow ground situate, lying and being in the townftiipof Paflyunck, and Philadelphia, on the road leading to Stafe Island Ferry, contqiliing about fifty-four acres and three oe'ches- w iereon are a iwo story brick Mefluage, ont houses and a barn ; %Iso one o thcr traft or pi«c« oi meadow ground, situate in the townU ip and coun v, and nearly on the opposite (jdc of the said roadioch** said ferry.corrtainingfixtecn a ciei.Sc ihreeqaartcts; alfua meffuageor tenementand lot or piece of ground fituaie o?i the north fide of High ftrcrt. beaten sth and 6th streets, in che city of Phi -1 adelptia, contciniugin fioiitonHigh street, thirty three feet, snd in fength or depth two hundred feet, bounced east bv property of Hannah Pemberton, j riorth by South alley, weft by property «f William Bell, and fnuth bv High street aforefaid. S izei and tsken in execution as the property of Henry Seckel, and to be soW by- William Nichols % Marjhal. „ Marfhal*s Offee, ") December 15, 1" 97- J December 15 4tf James C. & Samuel VV. Fisher, At rilS R STORK, Np. 13, corner of Arch and Front flreets, \ UJVZ FOR SALE, Cotton and worlted Hcfiery in trunk.*, affbrted A few bales red, white, and yellow Flannel* Ditto futty romall Handkerchiefs Ditto Puljcat fiik ditto Ditto Pondicherry .and Madrafs Ditto Gurrahs Bengal black Taffrties 4000 piccss Nankeens, and Fev> chests beft-Hyion Tea Alfo —1500 beit London Window Glass, j from 8 by 6, to fgl by 14 —and 15 hhds. Qlafs Ware, afTorted, which they will dispose of cheaper than any in the city. noyrmber *8- 1 Imported (via New York) on the ' <hip Hero, from Madras and Calcutta, and for 1 sale by the fubferiber, at No. 61, Chcfnut street, ' between Scoi-nd and Third Streets, the follow- j inp articles . , Maha-agonges Dorens Chintz ami Calicoes Dacca wdrked muslins Gillis Roma'.* Bandannoes ' Ni'las & Penfiafo.s Chafla Romals i Blue cloth Hair ribbon i MullMullhankerchicfs Palemporej ( P itna do. Banares Opium Lcltor Cardimum Seeds. Samuel Wilcox» rovember 17 ' tuths4W New-JTheatrc, 1 December 11, 1797- r ~pHE Mavacfrs paiticularly rcqueft the con i_ currence of thr public in the abolition of a custom, which has hitherto obtained, of giving m vay or disposing of RETURN CHECKS at the Theatre. They are aivare that gentlemen are nnconfcious of any wlong i'®re to tje interest of the inilitu tionby this practice, from a general, though rnif ta>en idea that Checks are the representatives i»f a right to so many, feat" in the Theatre, during*an Evening's Entertainment, and transferable at will; when in fact, they were never intended as more than tektni by which the Poor-keepe »are enabled . to ascertain with the least trouble to the W<«,that t/jij tbcmfelvcs have been befor? in the Theatre, or paid'for their admiflion. Independent of the injury the Managers fuflain, t such a pi'aittce enconragts a croud of idle boys and ' other disorderly parsons to surround the. doors of j the Theatre, to the coiruption of their morals and f j the great annoyance of the Audience. | It has alio been the source of two evils of no in- j 1 cotiftdorable magnitude; one is, that f)mctime» | t very improper company is by these 1!■ CiilV- admit- j ted ; and the otber, that ev/ni , to Checks pafling ! , into dishonest htmds, they h?vc be n frequenaly > , counterleit :d to a large amount for the purpofi-sof Sale. . i J This statement will, it i»r(f;'e<?fully hoped, in- J duce the Public to discourage fjih a traffic : and J t the exertions of the Managers will, if thus afli ed, . x eaGly prove adequate to irs entire abolition j r ' WIGNELL Of REINAGLE. | } T*"cembcfl3 { c _ Alphabetical Lilt of Duties, [ ■ Payable by law dn all Goods, \Vares, ind \ er- £ ch»ndize, imported into the Uniied States—t tefk rdi'ion, to be fold by JOHN no. 41, £ Ch.fnut-ftrcet. Dec. 16—d Xlje dSasetie, PHILADELPHIA, tuesdaj' Evening, December 19. For the Gazette of the United States. MR. FEN NO, " I have not the fmallell daubt but Con gress will duly appreciate the advice of" the learned gentleman who signs himfcrlf " an Enemy to Nonsense," and though I do not think ' right and juftiee'entirely wrong,both fecm to have drawn very hasty conclusions. Not over tjnacious of my own fpiuioiis, 1 entertain and treat with due rtfpeft the fen timenti of those who differ with me. The nonfenfual gentleman like many other reafonor3 would no doubt lay a ivagtr also to convince Congress and the public " that he alone can think or argue" ! Now as to his "arithmetical logic," though ihe cargo tak en may go to market it it to an island or port of an enemy of the other, and though that port or all the ports of ths»t enemy may have a superabundance of necefiariee, if the neighbouring island be Jlarving it cannot ex pe3 or obtain relief frcm thence ; it is not therefore " in competition with our wther produce, and so lowers the market." " One other delullen," that the loss to the < country is exaftly the fame in all cases of misfortune to individual property " when nothing is returned for it," but when one veflel in four bound- to the fame port is tak en and carried to people at enmity therewith, the other three upon general calculation ob tain and bring bzck the value of the four— when a veflel founders it is a national loss, if uninsured it is both individual and national. I do not " fear our merchants and under-" writers being convinced" by " an enemy to nonsense," that they should do .wrong, or that they cAn pglnfrun. j "try m ny measure : —he recommends. He may not be thought ft much an enemy tp nonsense as he imagines. As to " she whole statement" of right and jufti'ce," it is not so much " a mifrfpre fentatioji" as the want of cool examination of the causes that Have produced " the dif trefTed situation of eur commerce.", Mr. Swanwick has written a pamphlet not to prove the'eontrary of any thing av erted by me, but to afford positive evidence to every body that will have the patience to read it, that instead of being worth nine dol lars his creditors will probably get that much from his estate ! " The situation of our prison" demands a general bankrupt law to compel honefly andre lievt misfortune." It is to be regretted that our merchants-become fpecolators & our spe culators merchants ; the fortuitous gains of a season or a voyage was mijlalenly (onfalter ed as an income ! The man who made twen ty or ten thousand dollars by aecident seems to have thought he had so much a year and was entitled to set up a carriage and live in y?:7c,ir.fteadof wifely reflecting that he should ufc it as a capital, or an increase of his cap ital, the benefit of which only he was autho rized to spend. IVe have been drawing too much upon the wealth of future times ; . our commerce has not so much out-grown the natural disposition of its strength as the ideas of some of our merchants in not confidcr ing that throughout the world it has been and wjll continue liable to ebbs and flows ; .the | wife will and benefit by the turns of :h<j tide, and the weak and thcrunwary will be neapt. In Dunlap and Claypoole'i paper in June or July 1795, upon the appearance of a rupture between Spain and Great-Britaiu, I ventured to' express an opinion " that it was advisable to adopt a state of ftri& neu trality," and recommended a proclamation ,to that effeft (under another fignatufe) ; it did not then become neceflary, but when the present war commenced it. was ifiiied and the beneficial effeftsofit are universally ad mitted. Mr. Ames eloquently urged the fullfilment of the treaty with Great-Britain te avoid a war, and our late beloved Prtfulent wifely cautioned us to " beware in our re sentment against om natiog not to throw ourselves into the feale of another." Are we then hastily now to forego or hazard in the mojl diflant degree all the blcftings of peace and internal tranquility to be revenged on " a Fiench marauder ?" No Mr. Fenno, we had much better be five years without any fo reign commerce (we can do very well without it) than one year with war. Wt have cho sen to negotiate, and until that is at an end the United States cannot with propriety take any other step. A FRIEND TO LAWS & FREEDOM. Bee. 17 th. From a IVafhington (Penn.J Paper. EXTRACT FROM BACHE'S PAPER OF NOV. 6. Extraß of a letter from a Gentleman in Wash ington County, to his friend in this City, dated 6Sober 17 I 797. " The Republican Ticket has carried by a great majority in this County for the As» fembly. , " The Aristocrats succeeded in getting their Senator—John Woods is elefted— The dittrift of Pittsburgh turned out nine hundred votes—lt is said they have but five hundred taxables, we may therefore conclude, that there has nqt been fair play. BeGdes the Addifon junto fixed upon a stratagem which lc cured Wood's Eleftion, and they were confident also of carrying Mem bers of Affcmbly. The buiinef6 was this: Addifon by management got himfelf ap pointed a of the Ele&ion for the dif tri£l of Wafinrigton, the result therefore, was, that the Ele&ion lavvgf 1785 vvps en forced in this diftrift. No man was allow ed to vote who did not produce his certifi cate of alleigance, or made oaih that he had done so agreeably to the afts of afiembly, or naturalized agreeably to the aits of Cbn grefs. By this febeme, four hun dred in this diftrift were deprived of voting, ! whose votes would hzve been alri;o!t to a man against the junto, as the. i igiiers here are generally republicans. I "In Pittsburgh they pursued a different j plan—there they let every body vote, and I more than everv body—furthe* they kept emiflfaries at the' windows to foree the people to put in their tiekets. —One of these emis saries, since the eleftion, has been heard to fay that " they treated the damn'd rascals 1 (meaning tl>e country people, &c.) as.they ' ought, to be ; fur on their comihg up It vote, if I they had not their ticket, they obliged them to change before they got leave to put them in." --• V I The abdve evtraft from Bache's paper (the common fewet'of all the filth in the date) is 4 small fpeciinwi of that impudence and falfehood which the meancft of those they call demdtfrafts trumpet abroad, to de ceive simple men. If one may form a con jeflure from its (fyle and matter, it is the joint work of Sleepj Davie and Dr. Mor pheus, tfie vise' min of the East and the Weft. They carried on a very pretty cor refpoiidcncc of this kind, jull before the lad election of electors, and, from their great deputation in this wiy, it is not at at all un fair to set them down as the putative fathers of all the trash from Washington to Phila delphia. The- impudence of calling the fuccefsful ticket for representatives in Washington county, the republican tifcket, is only match ed by calling the men termed democrats re publicans by way of distinction. It will not fcrYe them to compare thtf understanding and virtue of the two tickets or the two par ties. A set of Wretches in France, the otoft notorious f«r {.heir crimes and theirbafenefi, for their hatred to all religion and all govern, ment but that of mobs and clubs, were dis tinguished by the name of excluftve patriots. The Pharisees amoig the Jews affe&ed to be righteous and dyfpifed others. Tliey were po(»pou4,prtCPudtrs to. religion,' but noted for hypocrisy and oppression. Ttiis letter writer and his republicans are of this class, or the dupes of fiich. They are Sthe Freach exclusive patriots—the Pharisees in politics—rW-hited fepplchres which indeed appear beautiful without, but within arc full of rottenness and dead men's liones.— There are among them men of, warm arid en thwfiafUe minds who fancy all men as ready to be governed by rcaton as themselves, de rive all their notions of government from theory, and have never had them cerrefled by experience. There are alfd among them honest apd simple men, who have never had an opportunity of examining the principles and tulesof government, who believe every rant, every tale, and every (lander; and whose credulityisferverted into a confidence that our government is oppression, and our officers tyrants. , These men may sometimes deserve our pity, sometimes our esteem. But the base and detestable class of our felf flyled republicans is ps another kind. Some times ignorant, sometimes intelligent, some times weajt, fonaetiines able, they are vain, impudent,"eftvious malignant and flauderous —and.their malice and d«famation is always in proportion to the.virtue and refpeftabili ty of the ctiara Aer they attack. From such men what good and great man can hope to efcapc, when " not IVifhington himfelf is fafe."—Their praise it a certain mark of disgrace, and their obloquy of merit. The wife willalk up other encomium than their censure ; nor desre a more pointed stigma on bad men than their applause. It is an indelible mark on every Cain of the country. Of this kind are your letter-writers who. write of things which never happened, and your letter-publilheri who publidi letters that never were written. And it is by their lies and misrepresentations) that discontents murmurs and confufions are bred among ourfelves—raud injuries and contempt tow ards lis foftered in foreign nations. " The ariflocrats succeeded in getting their senator—John Woods eleited." And this is attributed to fraud in Pktfburg, and'the exclusion of three or four hundred unqualified votes in Washington. As to the word ari/loirat, I have never undertfood what it meant, and thought even the silliest Were* afilamed to use it its a terra of reproach. .If fnccefs in eleftion were any tell of ehar after, a comparison between the'two-candf dates would itelf-juftHy the success of Mr. Woods. He had in the three counties put together, a majority of nearly 700 votes— and in the county of Allegheny, where he and Mr. Morton both lived, a fnajority i»f nearly 900. In Greene county Mr. Mor ton had a majority of about 16, and in Washington county of about aoo. In these* cotintiee Mr. Morton hada great advantage,' he was but little known, and his qualifica tions were taken on the word of republican letter-writers. I believe Mr. Morton is an honed man enough, and may make a very decent member, oreven elder, in any church. But surely he is no Solomon, and it will hardly be pretended that hchasthe qualifica tions of a legidator. " The diftritt of Pitt(burg tuVned out nink hunbrep votes—lt 'n said they have but five hundred taxables." This will do ve ry well for Philadelphia ; but, foolifh and lying as the author is, he would not, I think, have liked to have ptfhlilhed this in Pittfbilrg. This is a lie of uncommon im pudence. There are, I think, at ftaft five hundred taxables in the borough of Pittf burg itfelf ; and in the didrii!t of Pittf biirg; whyre there were but nine hundred votes, there be at lea(t fifteen hun dred toters', exclusive of the settlers 011 the wed of the Allegheny river, and north of the Ohio river. For this diftriA includes an extent rtf perhaps t\Venty miles On the O hio and Monongahela, and fotrr or five miles back from those rivers—and perhaps twen ty-four miles on the Allegheny and Monon-- gabela, and spur or five miles back from those rivers.—And, belides these it includes all the new settlements on Beaver, and all the other settlements wed of the Allegheny and north of the Ohio, except the CufTawa* go and Prefqu'ifle settlements. What an impudent liar this republican Is! And, when thisrvaft. drftiiiV.mnitd out but 900 votes, how malignant is his concliifion, " that there Was not fair play." What is said of" the Affdifon junto,dra tagem, and management," ir. tpo unmean ing, in it a present fhape,'to dcfai ve any re mark, A better opportuqity will perhaps occur. I (hall now only fay, it i 9 foolifli as Davie Acbefon's petitions, and falfe as his affidavits. " Yhe election law of 1785 was enforced in the diftridt of Walhington. No man was allowed to vot,e who did not produce his certificate of allegiance, or made oath that he had done so agreeably to the adte Of alfembly, or naturalized agreeably to the a&s of congress."—Nothing is more odious to your republicans of thin, damp than en forcing laws ; and this is what they hate mod in officers. Government and officers would be very liarmlcfs and good things if they would not enforce laws, and re lira in the rights of republicans to do what they please, whether lawful or unlawful. The statement made by this letter-writeris about as true, as that which he and his brother republicans spread all over Washington county, when David Achefon'; vote was rejefted, as an alien, at the township election for an Honeft David sent ex prefles to the feverjl didrifts to inform them, that all the IRISH were to be ex cluded ; —and a wife uncla. of his said witti ly I suppose, they were all to be .hanged. The truth is, that the law, not of 1785 but of 1789, was .enforced again (tall aliens, whether.lrifh or Scotch—But no man born in America—no man who in any of the United States, at their separation from Britain—no man, who in 9ny way was an American citizen, was ever called to pro duce a certificate, or other proof, of his having taken an oath of allegiance. Yet it was reported, and you fee the republican letter-writer reports, v that a certificate or oath was. required from all and this was, so well believed,jhaf, when it was known that representative Achefon* s feat.would.#e dis puted, Jsecairfe he was not a citizen ; a col league of his in the republican ticket was a fraid that he, though a native of Pennsyl vania would also be turned out, becaufehe had never taken an oath ofajlegiance. Whe ther it was the alien, representative that in spired this fear in the citizen, to secure one vote for himfelf, I did not enquire. That it is proper to exclude aliens from any agency in our government I think no wife man will doubt. Before they under take to judge or to manage our intereds, they ought to have time to learn them.— And, after the term of probation is expired it is reasonable, that there be some solemn \*(k of their adtniffion as citizens. The let ter-writer will tell you why. " The foreign ers here are generally republicans." Often coming from governments whiclithey hate, t-hey are told by ou» republicans here, that our government and officers hive all the faults of every other. Lies are made and tales ffcigned, to confirm* their opinion. Strangers hare no means of dete&ing the misrepresentation, they beliete all, join themselves with the ftanderers, and are hon ored with tjie title of republicans. After some years they get better information, or their own observation enables them to cor reft their mistakes: from foreigners they beepme citizens; but Alas! 0111 exclulive patriots no longer own them as republicans. "In Pitt (burgh, they pursued a differ ent plan—there they let every body vote— and more than every body"—Prodigious! —Yes and they did "force the people to put ill their tickets." What barbarian Ar istocrats thofc people of Pitt(burgh are ! Yes and " they treated the damn'd rascals (meaning" to be sure " tbc country people, &c.) as they ought to be, This I take to be one of the plain down-right lies, which it is not lawful for any but a republican to utter. It does not fee'm to have the lead mixture of Ariftgcratic truth, or even to fc? at all corrupted with probability. I (hall not therefore pollute it with any obfm va tion of mine. * SlirEß COIN FOUND On the I Bth Aug. soon after the removal of a dung heap in a yard ■ at Winterborne Stoke, Wilts, an earthen vtffel containing 301 pieces of silver coin, -was discovered, the top of the vessel being even with the fut'face of the earth The coins are all of the reign of James I. and Charles I. and notwithjianding the situation in which they lay, are remarkablefrefh and •wellprefervrd. It is conjeßured they were bu ried during the civil war in Charles's reign, when probably fume building covered the spot, and that fsnce, a dung heap has f>een laid there, its repeated removals have occasioned the earth to be gradually scraped away, till it became even with the rim of the vessel. A girl of fourteen, daughter to the farmer who occupies the yard, d\fcovered the prize, and removed it with (jfe to her fathers'* house. —Eng.Pap. DIES—At Dundee, Scotland, Mr Francis Sievewright, Schoolmaster,' The un common success which has attended ■the labours of this respeHed veteran, affords remarkable exemplif. cation of what may be effected by perse vering industry, without any extraordinary attainments, either of genius, or of education. During the lafl fifty tears for so long has he officiated as a public teacher in.Dundee—many thousands of the youth of that , town and its vicinity have been under his care, and have been prepared for the pursuits" bf busy life by his ins'.ruSio'ti. His profession was his meat, his drink, his pleasure, and his pride and his devotion to its duties was carried to a high degree of enthusiasm, which was strong ly manifested even when the hand of death was upon him. With these qualities, added to much private and genuine warth, he was a most ttfc ful and estimable memb-r of society, and as sueh "his death is justly regarded ar a public loss It is remarkable t'.at the Grandfathers of several of his last pupils wer: also taught by him. He died on Monday se'nnight, in the 86thyear of h s. age. . CONGR E S S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.. MONDAY DECEMBER 18. Mr. Dwight Fofler mote«l that the com mittee of claims be discharged fiora the. further consideration of the petitions of Israel Jones and Edward" Johnson, as they, had already bten reported upon at>a former fefiion, awd no frefh facts appeared to in duce the committee to report differently- Agreed. The fame gentleman made an unfavour able report on the petition of Mary Ivings, which was concurred ifi by the house. Mr. Harper, from the committee of ways and means* made a report on the petition of William Tomlinfon, and others, citizens of Virginia, who complained of being ed by the aft relative to the distilling of spi rits,' to take out licences at inconvenient seasons. The report recommends a lavr to be passed to obviate their complaints. It was committed for to-morrow. Mr. Livingftoti, from the commute of commerce and manufactures, reported a bill for the relief of North and Vcfy, of Charles- - ton;— Committed for to-morrow » i On motion of Mr. Harper, the house re-, solved itfelf into a committee of the whole, on certaio resolutions which were lately re ported, prescribing the mode of taking e*i dence in safes of contested eleftions. They were agreed to both in the committee of the whole, and in the house, without debate, and a bill direfted to be brought in accord ingly. Mr. Venable, from the committee to whom was referred the resolution for sus pending the second feftion of the aft for re gulating foreign coin, and ether purpofes,i reported a bill, which was twice read, and committed for to-morrow. Mr. Wadfworth moved the order of the day on the bill authorising the President of the United States to poftpoiie the meeting of Congress in certain cafe J. The house accordingly went into a committee of the whole on the fubjeft, and, after making a verbal the committee rose, and the houft-agreed toil; when Mr. Gallatin moved a provision to the following effeft : " Provided that the day to which the meeting shall be postponed (hall flat exceed thirty days from the day to-, which Congress flood adjourned.'! Mr. Harper could not fee any good effeft which this amenndment was calculated to produce. If the gentleman -were of opin ion that it would not be fafe to trust the President of the United States wi|Ji th« power of postponing the meeting qf Con gress, in cafe of a contagious sickness, or o ther calamity, the fafeft way would be rejeft the bill; but the present motion, he thought, (hewed great hostility, and the highest difrefpeft, to the President of the Uuited States. Mr. Gallatin said, it was extraordinary, that upoa an amendment to a bill veiling a ppwer in the President of the Unitfd States, which was not given to hita by the coafti tution, because he did not wi(h to invest him with the powsr, without limitation, he fliould be charged wijh a want of confidence and a want of refpeft. He fuppafed, that so far as related to confidence, they wertr bound to give the President just so much as the constitution required, and no. more.— Confidence beyond this he did not veiy well understand. As to the motion's containing a want of refpeft to the President, that charge was (till less applicable. Refpeft, he said, could only be personal, and could,, of courje, only apply to the present Presi dent ; whereas the bill under consideration did not relate to him only, but to all future Presidents of the Unilcd States. How the argument of difrefpeit to men not. yet. iij existence, could apply, he was at loss to know. Cvt, he said, it was no uncommon thing, whenever gentlemen Offered in opin ion on any fubjeft touching another branch of the government, however harmless that opinion might be, to be charged with a want of confidence and refpeS towards it. He (houhl, however, never be deterred from aft ing as he ahought right h,y such arguments. Mr. G. referred to that part of the C®n ftitytioH where it is said, that, " neither House, during the feflion of Congref*, (hall without the consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days, nor to any other place than that in which the two Houses (hall be fitting and also to that where power is given to the President " to con vene both houses, or either of then* on ex traordinary occalions ; and, in cafe of dis agreement between them, with refpeft to the time of adjournment, he may adjourn them to such time as he may think proper." It wa3 clear, therefore, that the two houses had the exclusive power to adjourn to what ever time they pleased, only that in cafe of difagretment, the President had the power to adjourn them j but this bill went to vest the power in the President of fixing another period of meeting than that agreed upen by the two houses. This, he said, was a de licate fubjeft, and he thought they ought not, upon so (light a vie.-v as the prefc.t bill had received, to part with a power, without some limit, which the Constitution had placed in their Hands. What was the ground, he alked, upon which the hill was founded ? The President had fuggefttd, in his Speech, the propriety of giving him the power, in cafe of similar returns of con tagions sickness, to poflpone the meeting of- Congress. It had been suggested that in the month of November, the President had had doubts whether he (hould convene" Congress in another place, in conformity to the poweV placed in him for that plirpofe ; but that if'. ehad had the power tohave con* ventd them a few|days later, he would have done it. The limited power which he pro-' posed to give would enable the President, in any future" emergency, to do this, and if, from contagious sickness, invasion or any o ther.cause, a longer postponement (honld ap pear to be necessary, be tho't it would te
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