ped instead of'..mliiijj, ii lite b>; . • voy'.d pu:h it evtjry bjOiTy, and M woultl.be modly exported. And hovv, he aGtfd, were it to be got back ? Nobody had said any tiling on this fubje£l but the gen tleman from Msffachufetts (Mr. Stvvall), He said that doubloons, or four pi Hole piec es, were imported at n loss of |ths of a dol lar, and that these woflld continue to be im ported. He did not know but finall fifh inj* vefFclt; might be in the habit of thus dealing ; but merchants in any extensive bu siness made remittances to London, where doubloons .were at their full value, and drew bills upon Londpn ; or sent doubloons to the French Well-Indies, where they were worth the full sixteen dollars, and got arti cles in return which afforded a good profit. They were in the habit of importing gold from Lisbon, when the exchange was against them, but there was a profit upon this gold jof fix grains upon a half-joe. Thii was oik -of the inducements ; but it could no longer be an inducement, if they were to be nn longer payable. Gold therefore would be no longer imported. If the mint were # tobefupported,the plan of making an appro priation for the purchase of bullion was the only one which was at all feafibls. He ihou'.d of course be against the committee's riling. Mr. Sitgreaves wiflied to set the gentle man lad up right as to matter of fa ft. He had said no deposits had been made from a distance ; but if he attended to the report of the direftor, he would find, that he ex pected about 300,000 dollarsfrotn the banks cf this city and New-York, and he was in formed that 250.000 of them were to come frrim New-York, as soon as the mint was ready to receive them, and a guard was provided. Mr. S. Smith said he supposed fjiefe were crowns whoft circulation was (lopped. Mr. Swanwick observed, that it some times happened that legi/latures im proper laws; when they did so, they gene rally to correift themselves. What was the fa& refpe&ing the lqw in cpieftinu : A law had been'palled declaring that fr?3ch crowns ftlould not be a lawful tender after a certain period ; that period was pasTed ; but the Secretary of the Treafnry, in contradic tion to it, had dire&ed the officers of the cuftotns to receive them as usual. Waa not this an acknowledgement that the law was improper and inconvenient? Jtwould.be well, he said, to take a view of the iituati on of our commerce, with refjedl to circu lating medium. The main objeifl in the in flitution of tha bank of the United States was to give a general currency to its paper, that it might take place of coin in a great ; but they had been told by the gen tleman from Virginia (Mr. Nicholas) that though these notes were a lawful tender in all payments to the United States, they were not current in the interior of the country. The chief circulating medium of the coon try was, notwithstanding this, paper. Mer chants, in paying their duties, generally gave a check upon their banker; therefore, though our revenue produced seven millions a year, but a small part of that sum is paid in calh. What, then, wan the use of fo reign coin ? It was not wanted so much for a circulating medium at home, as for ex portation. Much iif it was sent to the East Indies and to Great Britain ; and, though Tome gentlemen h?d said a gold coin #f the United States was so fsarce au article in the interior of the country, that when it was met with it was hoarded as a pocket piece, be had been lately informed by a gentlemen from London, that he had seen a large quan tity of our eagles sn a goldsmith's (hop there for the purpose of melting down, so rapid ly, said he, does our eagles talc thc':rflight. Foreign coin being therefore neccfiary to pay the commercial balance due from us to foreign countries, it would certainly be im prudent to call ic in. Mr. S. was opposed to the powfcr being yefled in the Executive to regulate the business of making foreign coin payable or not payable at his pleasure. Ifthemint ellablifhment wereto be supported it mud be done hefaid,out of the revenue receiv ed. A fmallfum would do it. Butwhyforce individuals to bring their crtiwns into the mint ? Whqt advantage would there be in ii ? Could any one fay this new money would (lay at home ? they could not, and there fore, where he could fee no advantage, he was not for putting any class of people to inconvenience. It were; - b«(l, he believed, -to let the bufinefss of foreign coin remain without.restraint. _ (Tote continued.) THURSDAY DECEMBER 19. Mr. T. Claiborne moved that th- report of the committee of claims on the petition of AmyDar dirt, lie referred to a committee of the whole. The Speaker said, that the report having been negatived at a former felfion, and a hill brought in for her relief, but not decided upon, the pro per motion would U*, to appoint a committee to bring.in a bill. M». Claiborne made that motion, which Mr. v Coit moved to be r«ferred to the committee of claims, in order that they might report the fa&» relative to the cafe, which were not generally known. Mr. Cbiborne objedied to this } and Mr. Bildwip fuggetltd the propriety «f commit ting it to the fame committee of the whole to whom were referral the fubjeil of conGdering the expediency sf excepting certain claims from the operation of the Limitation A&s ; thi» course was adopted. The bill for the relief of North and Vefey of Charleston, was read the third time and palled : as was also The bill for suspending the second f * nn of the - a& lor iej£ulating foreign coins, and for other parpofes. Two and three years were piopofied for filling the blank for the duration of the suspension ; the latrtr mo*ed by Mr Gallatin wes carried. Mr. D. Fo:\er, from the committee of claims, made an unfavorable report on the petition oL George Turner which wascor.curred in by thehoufnp The house went into a committee of tKe whole on the re ort of the commute of claims on the petition of JolinCarr ; but some doubts,ariftug as to certain fa«Sb, the committee rofs and the report was recommitted. The Speak -r informed the houfc he Ivd received a communication from the treafui y department, in dofitlg the accounts of the tnalurei for she !>r j of SiptcaiW, which was ordered to he printed, ' rvTr. Alien iiroyirn-j I a r:ioi'jtl >n>to the foll.-:.-w ---irij c;T.«5t, wiiieh vv.i- 1 . il ■ : ' i " tiefolved, that a eom*n : tt?.e be apo'nntc I to enquire whether any, arid if any, whit alteration' are neceuary to be niaie in the ail eilaMifijingthe judiciary department, and tine thiyrepart by i»iil or other wife." Mr. Coit Called for the or.! -r of the .fay, on the till for the relief of capt Hurlrut ; which being acceded to, the h'oute w.:nt into a Committee of th> who-le on the 'fnbjtS', anil rcpor'ed thc bill without amendment, i'hl hcuf: took i: up, wiien j Mr. Nicholas hoped thc.bU'.vbutd not be en gro/Ted, but recomm it.dto af.'leS committf, in order that a bill might" <ie reported on the fubjeS. generally, as if relief were to be afforded at all he hoped it would not b« confined toone cals. Mr. William-; seconded the moti-n. Mr. Coit fai<l, as there wa< no probability tjiat tbe r e conld be many cases of this kind, he fa\v no reafoo for palling a • eiicrs l law on the had only cf orie other ease. Mr. Nicholas f;id, that thouph gentlemen might amongst tbemfclves' have cone uded that the revolutionary war ended i-i Ja-iajry yet hd believe ! the rapref nta-ive.s of peifons who served during all th? aft'.ial war tdl the year 17S I, and ii ed before 1783, woa'.d fujiyofc f bey had ground f-r making except th- came to 1 some exprefi declaration en the fu!tje&. For his part, he saw norifference betwixt the cafe of a I man who died at one time or the other, he thought j th« wnr continued, so long as the enemy's armies remained in the country, j Mr. 3rooke was in favor of the the motion ; ; for though these might k e but Vw instances of thfs | kind, he wi<V?d them all to be put upon tha fame Noting. Tha enemy evacuated New-York, iie said, on the 25th of November—he waaprefentat the time; hut the :rttiy had beea-genjra'ly dif ■ charged on the J of "Nownther. Ke fuppofeil a vari.-ry of eonC.'err.'iols h.d induced congress to' ; drtermine tile *.var as closed at the time they had i fixed. | Mr. Gordon w.s in favor of the motion. The ' gentleman f.omConneiSicut had founded the claim ! of capt. Harlbut. oa his contra<3. an ! bad there- IforHrad ri;c nrfe to fixing the period ot the ter. mina'ion of the war at a different time Urntbat ] &x-d by congr f«. When They were about to de clare the determination 0! a former congref. wrong,' he thought they should do it rxpref-ly. arid not by implication.; and be rrtified thegeiitl man from Connc Slcut was not a f r.iid cf being railed upon to d« jnftice in other cases, which stood upon the ground with the prefcrt. Mr. A.Ffiflfr said, this cor.flruflinn of the termin of the war wonhl elti"brtt» nmra tifes tHan «'.i< inn -ined ; be frppoied it Would extend fci'foltllers jr well as cfScers, whn died after that period. Mr. N's mntion was ptit-and carried. Mr. VntDvin moved to amend the motion, by including soldiers who had died after the signing the preliminary articles of peace, as entitled to the eratuity of eight dollars, which was allowed to those who served to the close of the war.— Agreed. Mr. Gallat'n presented a petition from Gaz zam, Tjylor and Jones, of this city, praying for the allowance of a debenture for poods which they had loaded on board a vefiel for St. Tho mas's, in December last, which, after it set fail, was found to be leaky, and flopped at Reedy- Island to repair ; hut the freft setting in, the goods were afterwards laden «n board another veflel, and exported to St. Croix : certificates of the landing wherajf were delivered to the collector of this port. Referred to the commit tee of commerce and manufaflures- Mr. Coit moved for the order of the day on the report of the committee of commerce and manufaflures on the petition of Pierre Joseph Fiamend irt behalf of Louis le Guen ; which be ing agreed to, the house resolved itfelf into a committee of the whole on the fubjeift. The petitioner states that on the 16th of Sep tember, 1795, JVrl/iam Macarty, esq. thecon ful of the United States, at the IJle of France there Jhipped on board the brigantine Mary, captain Rolertfon of Philadelphia, twelve caflts of indigo cohligned to George Latimer, cfq. of Philadelphia, owner ef the said brigan tine who was desired to deliver the fame to the bearer of the shipper's . orders—that the said indigo arrived herein January 1796 ; was duly entered at the Cuflom-houfc. and the duties paid by George Latimer, efty -who flored the fame, waiting for orders to whom to deliver the fame < . and that these orders were de layed by accidents of the sea, from arriving till within the lufl fortnight, when Louis Le Guen received the fame, and applied for the indigo It Mr. Latimer, who delivered the feime, and confirmed on oath all the f*3s above Jlated, as far as rebate to him -but by the delay tf the arrival of the letters of advice and bills of lading, the time had elapsed in which the indigo might be exported and be entitled to drawback—wherefore the petitioner prays for an extention of time to export the said indigo, with the usual allowance of drawback on 'ex portation. The committee of commerce and munufaclures were of opinion that as the loss of time artfe only by the dijlance of the Isle of France, and accidents to letters, and not by any fault in the petitioner, and as there was no probability of any precedent of this kind, frequently oceuring, they thought it but jus) and reasonable, the prayer of the petitioner should be granted ; aud therefore recommend the house to come to the following resolution " Resolped,— That a committee be appoin ted to bring in a bill in pursuance of the prayer of the petitioner." Mr. Swanwick moved that the committee concur with the report. This motiou called forth a confidenble de bate. It was opposed by MefTrs. Coit, Gallatin, J. Williams, Allen, Gordon, and Edmond, 011 the ground of its proving a dangerous prece dent, as many cases might occur that would in ■ dace merchants to keep their gondii pad the twelve months allowed by law, bttore they ex posed them ; that no accident had occurred in the business; that Mr. Le Guen. at the time of (hipping the goods, knew the risk he woUM run of loling the drawback ; tkat he chose betwixt two evils, and rather thsa ri(k the lending ad vice in the fjme veflel w : ti hjs goo Is (which would have proved them to be French property) he chose the lefler evil of rilkine tfie loss of the drawback ; that if persons chose to run these rilks, tHe government had nothing to do with it, ants rt ought to have no operation upon our laws; but if fuhjefb of the belligerent p-'\ve.-s chose te ptib.their property on hoard our vcflels under the slmfrican Mantle, tfiev ought n:>t to expe<sl the additional advantage of a suspension of our laws in their tavor. Mr. Allen, in particular, caA a severe censure upon our consul at the J(le of France for having connived at this decs ption,and that to grant the prayer of the petition, would be a fcandaloits -partiality in favor of oue of the belligerent powtrs. 7he niotion was supported by Mtflrs. Swan wick, Livingfton, S. Smith, J Parker, Pinclc ney and Brookes, rn the ground that tbere had Veen net omission on the part of Mr. le Guen ; that it had been owing to the ascidciits of the Ted, that advic. W-u in due tim: ; that it wjs nev r Intend* I tfc« (foods no; i;on iui.u-ctin this con itry (hoti'dpay 'he doty; that .i* England, wbnfe praiiice* in this refoefl, have copied, a biUSnels of this kind would have been resided by rheir board of trade, without bringing the matter beforc-thf legislature; that it would ha e been <* mark of t'nijy to have ferit any papers by theveffc! whleh convey ed (he property, which wu'd have proved it ta have been French, kno vinpvas'thppirry did, that French property 011 b-iarii our v (T.-is was liable to be taken by the Eajriiili ; that' so far from there being 1 any morn! iurpitudr in thus carrying t-h? property of p«rf im twijefls of any of the be'Jijfr.ent powers,, i: wjs a v ry profita ble branch of our trade, and that H;i- rn-iful at the ia ff< of Frarfee was pcrfccVv jjjft fijble in ■ cnnficjnin- toe re he had done. Mr. Fi'ichney v.'ss of a different op'nion as .to the eßjiitU'S) of ('O'l.fAt; he tlioujiit it de lidedly -vrong that, he ftrtttlJ have any thing to do in thabuftoefn,'tHoug)i*;h«i jttltifietl «ur thus carrying the jirop-rty «f Ihe ful<jefv» of the bel ligerent powers j th it no American ve(Tel should receive property 011 board tp any bel ligerent power, which flv~>uld br en'.ered asfuch; that in allowing the prayer of (he oetition,' go vernment would ftiew no more p.irthlitv 10 any belligerent power, than was (hewn dai'y in al lowing (foreigners a drawback on goods ex ported ; and that to deny the pnyer of the pe tition would be such a derclii!ion of jnfliceis it was tended that hoid'e would never eonfent to. Thr committee rpfe without tiiing a vote on the fubjed, and had leave to fit 3<;ain. Latejl Foreign Intelligence. LONDON, Oftober t6. At the clnfe of the Comedy on Saturday evening the curtain rofc again immediately, and exhibited, iu honor of admiral Duncan's vi&ory, the fpe&ade of .a sea fight, accom pinied bv the songs of " Britannia," and " God save the King,*' in full chorus and followed by a fire work. The songs of course were encored. The audience of-the evening was one of the most nciff, we have fct with for forte time past. The whole neighbourhood of the Theatre was illuminated, as indeed was the greater part -of the town,*veft of the ci ty; «' uik' i ; n j It is with great & we understand, his moft graciously exprefTed his intention to honor admiral Duncan and his fleet with a visit. This eir cumdance, we conceive, will be of the ut most national utility. It will present to Europe the proud fpeflacle of a Britifli monarch twice, in the fame war, visiting in person a vidtorious fleet j and we apprehend it will have the mod beneficial eonfequences with refpeft to otlr domestic feelings, and the perfedt re-union of British seamen to the warm wishes of their country. It is remarkable, that the three most brilliant naval viftories this war hava been gained, the one by Lord Howe, an English man; the other by Lord St. Vincent, an Irishman; and the third by admiral Duncan a Scotchman. And what still makes it more remarkable is, that these gallant officers have each beaten the enemy to which, rela tively, their nations are nearest.—England is nearer France nor either Scotland or Ireland, Ireland is nearer Spain than either England or Scotland ; and Holland is near .er Scotland than any other of our enemies. Odtober' 17. A neutral ftirpon Sunday morning Hnder • took the kind office of conveying the abov,e important intelligence to Calais. By this time it has reached the Direftorial Palace! The illumination of last night was gener al, and equally brilliant with that displayed in honor of lord Hawe's viSoty of the firft of June. Most of the public, and private buildings, exhibited fanciful devices in col loured lamps, mottos, ice. The admiralty in the Weft, and in the manlion house in the city, were fplended in the extreme. Admiral Duncan, who is now 63 years of age, is nearly idatcd to lady Mary Dun can. He is fix feet three inches high, his fortune is about io,oool. half of which he got as prize money at the Havannah, the war before last. We believe he is married to a relation of Mr. Secretary Dundas, by whom he has three or four children. Admiral de Winter was born in Demara ra, when very young he served in the Dutch "navy, but changed (hortly to their army, which he afterwards quitted for the Rnffian service, where he remained until 1786 or 1787, during the troubles fit Holland, where he returned and sided against the O range party, on whose success he went to the French, with whom and his old friends he returned when they conquered Holland. Oftober 18. Advice was yesterday received of the loss of the Dutch (hip the Delft, of 56 guns, in the Downs : very few of the hand*, it is said, were saved. Admiral Duncan states, in his second let ter, that the Erdymion bad, in the course of the night, fallen in with a Dutch (hip of the line.off the Texel, and had engaged her, but that he had not heard the particulars. The engagement took place in the night; and it is said, that owing»to the heavy fire of the enemy, the Endymion was obliged to delift the contest. Admiral Duncan's flag, with three other (hips was seen from Harwich on their way to the Nore on Monday. " This moment" fays a letter from Yar mouth, received yederdayj " I have retur ned on fhorc from on" bftard the Hercules, of 66 guns, whose captain lieswith his hand (hot oft above his wri#, and woundtri in the body; her mizen mad is £one, and (he is torn to pieces. The frciiiid is the. Alhmaar 54 guns. Her, main trail went ia the aft ion ; her mizen mtift was so wounded that they were forced to cut it away after we got possession of her ; and her fotemaft went over in a gale of wind yesterday ; (he is (hot to pieces, and was brought in by the Monmouth with extreme difficulty—The Monmouth has alio \aken a 64. A rascal 011 board the Alkmaar yesterday attempted to blow her up, and had got one of the locks off the magazine. The Hercules was on fire in the a£tion, and the after part of hef is very much dam aged; the fire broke out afiefh after wc had taken poliyV.on. " Admirals Duncan and Onflow brfeaveJ nobly ; the former had four on him at cue time ; the latter three. " A brig, armed .with iS,pounders, .had the audacity to get under admiral Onflow's stern ; he got fix guns to hear upon her, and funk htr with every plan on board." 1 The circuniftanccs which gave the fir ft. turn to this glorious victory, which will e vcr be d'fh'nguifhed in the annals of Great- Britain, arose from the Jupiter of 74 gun's, with two admirals on board, being difmaft fd, and alrrcft (battered to pieces, before (he could bring a gun to bear on the Mon arch of 74 guns, which raked her. This was the iirft (hip that ft ruck. Admiral De Winter's (hip did not frire much better from the fire of the Venerable. Both (hips were so unprepared for action at the moment, that they could scarcely bring a gun to bear until they had received tbt?fire of our {hips repeatedly. The obstinate bravery of the Dutch in the battle was so grl-at, that when admiral Winter surrendered, he was the only per son on the quarter deck of the Vryheid, and he is said to have been so for half an hour ; every other officer having been killed or Wounded—Having performed his duty in the most gallant manner, he appears, since his capture to be in very good fpiritsj and has paSed great part of his time in admiral Duncan'3 cabin. 1 • The ciraumftance of two admirals be ing found on board the Vice-Admiral's ship is owing to-the senior, who is infirm, having wished to retire, which the Dutch govern ment oppoftd, on account of his populari ty with the seamen. A junior admiral was, therefore, appointed to affid him in the duties of his office. When admiral Duncan made the signal to break the enemy's line, the Dutch admi ral, immediately perceiving his purpofc, made the signal for his fleet to close, which was very alertly obeyed, particularly by the Vice-admiral. It was under the stern of his (hip that admiral Duncan passed, andlm mediately ranged up alongside. Itwasfe ven or eight minutes before a gun was re turned on that fide—a proof that they were not ready. We have dated that the king intends to visit the victorious fleet as soon as they shall be joined by the (hips that still remain out. Earl Spencer, Mr. Pitt and Mr. Dundas set off yesterday mornfng to congratulate admiral Duncan, and prepare the fleet for the reception of his majesty, who will fail frem Greenwich in the Princess Auguita yacht, captain Riou. All the firft lieutenants of admiral Dun can's fleet are immediately to be promoted to the rank of matters and commanders. Captain Fairfax left town yesterday in the afternoon, with dispatches containing the pateut for creating the brave old admi ral a Peer ot Great-Britain. ——l——————————. By yesterday's Mail. NEWYORK, December 20. OUR ENVOYS AT PARIS. The " Annales Politiques," of the nth of Oftober, fays, " On the 7th of Ottober, the Three American Negotiators were prcfent ed to the Minilter for foreign affairs, They are—Mr. Pinckney, of South Carolina, who served with diftin&imi during the whole of the war for American Independence— Mr. Marshall, of the State of Virginia, who also bore arms during the fame period, but who has applied since the peace to the study of law, and now occupies the situati on of Advocate General of that state—and Mr. Gerry, of Massachusetts, member for that state in Congress, where he is equally diftinguiflied by his taints and his modera tion-. These three men, who t\.fide more than three hundred miles from each other, art scarcely acquainted ! The firft time they ever met was at more than a thousand leagues from their country, to fulfil an important million-! This confidence of the American government, in citizens who never were em ployed in diplomatic affairs, for renewing the political and commercial relations of the United States with France, gives us reafort to presume that the government withes ra ther tt> rely on the fidelity and candour of the French government, than to feck a sup port from the intrigue or the fineffe of men (killed in the Machiavelifm of Cabinets— This nomination, therefore, augurs the for tunate issue of the negociation which is a bout to commence." It is anxioufiy to be hoped that this E ditof may not be mistaken in his conje&ures refpe£ting the ifTue of the negociation—we cpuld wi(h we had a foundation on which to build similar expectations. NOBLS INTENTION. A gentleman of Rotterdam, fays our last Lotidon paper, has invented a new Float ing Machine, which, though small, is ca pable of hplding four men commodioufly j and such is its astonishing conftrufiion, as to defy the utmost fury of the seas, or the refiftanct: of the mod boisterous winds. It can neither ovtrfet nor fink, and may in all weathers and gales bedeered whatever course those within (hall deem neceflary. The phi lanthropic views of the inventor are to fuve the lives of those unfortunate mariners who incur the danger of (hipwreck. It may be made, on the fameconftrn£tion large enough to hold upwards of fifty persons. GAZETTE MARINE LIS'T. New York, December 21. ARRIVED. JDaYS. Brig Enterprise, Mailary, Havatfle'4s Nanny, , do. 55 Captain Geerman, of the (loop Fanny, from Newbern to this port, on the 19th ult. spoke the (loop Lydia, Jones, from Btandywine to this port, diCmaded, in a gale on the 15th, off Crambcrry Inlet, (hurt of water and provifiot:*, the latter of which C.'ipt. Gterman lupj-iiicd him with, in n lit. 37 %5, Capt. Geerman ls ai ' ,u ' 'I'C Jkjrdit iiiis been blown 001 ft. I* 10m tbc Log I3t o\ of tlie brig Enterprize, i homas Mcukry, innftei", from Havjni.;:, Dec. Blb, in Lit. 53, Jong.. 72, at night, ipoke the schooner Sally, Ccip£.. of Philadelphia, from. Jacquemel, bound to IMjdc'phia, out 35 days, then laying to, with mod of her hands lick, end had 101 l all his fails, being then nearly in a fimi la'r fituacicn, could not assist him. Mejfrs. M'Lean &' Lang, Having underftcod, on my arrival this day from the rfavanna, that it. has been re» prtd-nted during my absence, that the (hip Andromache had been captured on herpaf fage to Jamaica, by the French privateer fchr. L'Efpeigle, Captain L.c Barron, or Barry, rti conltquence of information re ceived from me, of her detlination, See.—- In order, therefore, to contradift so great a falfehood, and to do away the unfavour bale impreflion fucha report mull have made of my charefter, I hereby declare, that un til my arrival, I neveV knew there was such a fliip as one abovi-mentioaed.o/courfe tot.ihy ignorant of any particulare refpetU ing her ; that so far from being ddirous of rendering any service to the ft id privateer, 1 had every reason to poTcfs a "different dis position towards her ; for they came on board of me on the 7th of September, then 2 days out, bound to Kavaiina, and after" overhauling all_ my papers, plundering me of a .quantity of apples, potatoes, onions, I calk of water, Sores, with which they load ing their boat, and a great many fmntt arti cles from the cabin.-—When I demanded payment from them for the property thiu Eaken, they threatened to put me in jror.s, obftrving I might think myfelf v. v ;' off, in being allowed to keep poiiciibn nf the vef. fel. 1 hcv took from ipe ntfo, all my news papers, from which they mult have obtain ed the information refpe&ing the f-.id (hip THOMAS MALLARY, MadiA of the br'g Entcrprize, g( N. York. Xfie PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER »». " T -T-r."!"-- i,fT>TT Married^—On Tuesday evening last, by the Rev. Mr. AbercromLie, Washing- TON L. FIXNEY, EeQitoMifsCHP.IiTIANA Bickham, daughter of George Bickham, | Esq. of this City. There are several letters in towD from Norfolk, which inform that Commodore Barney is appointed Judge of the Admi ralty Court at Cape Francois—and that A ; merican vcffels bound to British ports (such as were before the war) with neutral proper ty on board, are no longer condemned- PRICE OF STOCKS. Philadelphia, 21JI Dec. 1797. 6 per Cent. i6/9> Ir-.tcreft 1 per Ctnt. <£. Deferred 6 per Cent: iify BANK United States, azldividenj North America, 50 tfo. Insurance Co. Pennfyivania, lharj« 3 percent. ■ N. A. shares jo do. ! A Friend to Laws and Fectdom, will ap pear to-morrow. Cms, will be attended to. •WJ'* w HB —m.*. < mw.v- '* ■■u NEW THEATRE. THIS EVENING, DECEMBER 22, Will be prefemul a lavorite COS4EDY, culled EVERY ONE HAS HIS FAULT. Lord Norland, Mr. Warren —sir Robert Ram ble, (wi'h the Epilogue) Mr. Bernard—Mr. So lu», Mr. Morris—Mr. Harmony, Mr. ftarwood— Captain Irwin, Mr. Cooper—Mr. Placid, Mr. Moreton—Hammond, Mr. Warrell,juc—Porter, Mr. Warrell—Edward, Miff Hardingc (beifigher firlt appearance on this fiage.) Lady Eleanor Irwin, (for that right only) Mrs. Hardinge, (being her firft appearance on this ttage) —Mrs. Placid, Mrs. Oldmijon—Mif«\ Spinfler, Mrs. L'Eflrange—Mif» Woburn, Mrs. Mcrris. To which will be added, a Comedy in l a<5U, called THREE WEEKS AF 11R MARKIAGIi Or, What <we mu/l all came to. Sir Cbsrlrs Racket, Mr. Moretnn—Deugget, Mr. Watrgn—Woodley, Mr. Fox—Servant, Mr. T. Wsrrtll. Lady Racket, Mrs. Hardinge—Mr® Drugget, Mrj. C'Hftrange—Nancy; MS. L'Jsftrarge—Di mity, Mrs. Francis. On Saturday, Tbs Mounta>'i*zrt.- —Ofljviap, (firft tiaw on ct.is llage) by Mr. Taylor, from the The atre, Hollon :—with Enterta j. neats. Oa account of Mondiy being d;iy. will he .a performance on Tu.f.liy— particulars in future bills. Marshals Sales, United States, 1 Pennsylvania Diftrid.j BY | rtue of a Writ of venditioni expense, ifiiietl rut 6f the Circu't Court of theUr.iccd States, inani for tjic P.-nnfylvama cf the Miodie Circuit, and to me dire*sled vrili be fold at public faie at the MarihaU OiHce in Race Street No. 117. on Saturday the 30th day of December ii;ft. at p'clock at noon, two elegant plates ofSHakefpearc, ouepjate of Harmopy, one plate of prudence, do. one- pi?.te oi nicckn one plate of beauty, and one plate of Marvcft- do—Seized and taken in execution as the property of '1 tHlram liatnpfylde Freeman, and John Nichollon, trading unaer tlie firwl cf Freeman and Company, Andtobefo4d by William Nichols, Marfbal. Martha' 8 office > December 18th 1797 ) dtf TH ESUBt CRIB F.R, ONE of the late &m cf ts? Co. thinks it a duly he owes to liirr.fclf, to 4c» c'ate, that he is no wife cojvrrned ituhe property above adveitrfed hy the l !, nor ought he ro he fu' je£t to the f*ii! i. a s icn, v. hich v/ill bs dilut ed by the party whcf_- intereO it i^. Iri/lrsini Freeman. r-c<2iber si ' titj^th
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