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Mr. Francis refpe&fully informs hii scholars, , zr.d tl.'e public 111 general, that his third pra<£>- ifinir Bal! will be thi* eveningthe 15th, at the iiewAflemblyßnftttii South FourthStreet,between ' Chefnut and Walnut street—Ladies tickets to be ' had by applying to the scholars of Mr. Francis, 1 or at his hnnfe No. 70 Vorth Eighth Street.— < Gentlemen's tickets one dollar each* to be had 1 of Mr. Francis, at the Academy, or at his house. Mr. Francis likewise inform! the Subfciibers ( to the Seleifl Ba/ls, that the next will be on Tuesday th« 30th —Those fubferibers who hive not yfct received their tickets, are requested to apply for them as aoove. Mr. Francis continues to take Scholars as u • fan. 22. ajt ( DON JOSEPH IGNATIUS Dfc VIAR, ] His Catholic Majcftv's Confut-General and Com mi f fioner to the United States. WHEREAS, bv the 17th article of the existing Treaty of fiiendfhip, limits and navigation, ] 1 between his Caiholie Majeft«r and the United States of j America, it is stipulated, '"That fitch (hips, being la- ; 4t den, are to be provided not only with pa(Tpott?,but i J " al'o with <erti6eates containing the several partieu- ' ' Jars of the cargo, the place whence the fliip failed, I •• that so it may be known whether any forbidden or 1 41 contraband poods be on board the fame, which cer- j «• tificates shall be made out by the officers of the place ' " whence the ship failed, in rhc accustomed form : * and if any one lha'l think fit or defirabie to express ( " in the said certificates the pcrfons to whom the j « goods on boaid belong, he may freely do so ; witb *< out which rcq ifnes, tliey may be sent to one of the ' «' ports of the other contrasting party, and adjudged i •• by the competent tribunal, actotding to what is a- r •' b ve set forth, that all t w e circumdances of this o " miflion having been well examined, they (hall be * 44 adiudgfd to be legal prizes, unlets they (hall gve t 44 legal (avis faA ion of'their property, by teftimpay e f 44 quivalem " —Now therefore, in order to prevent the improper capture, ieizure or detention of any A- T /nencer vessels trading agreeably to said treaty, by a his Otfrolic majtfty's cruisers or other armed veflels, C Ido hereby give notice, that such documents as are r required iu the said article, (hall be granted to those < who may apply at the office of the Confolate General k or at any oth rof the Consulates throughout the Uni- C ted State*. J m. 83 6c t For Sale, 1 A complete file of the Philadelphia Gazette {or C the year 1797. £ .Alio, several other files of Gazettes, published 0 in this city, for the last 9 months of the year 1797. {j EHquire at no. 94, north Front-flrett January 24. 3 t c All Persons 1 V Having any dtraan Js aga<nft the Estate of the . latf Captain George Irwin, are reqntfled to brinj in their arcoiinti pioperly attested, on or f bef.>'e the f»rft day of January next ensuing 1 and those who are indebted to said estate are so r , li.i.edto mike i«r.mediate payment to t SARAH IRWIN, Adminiflratrix. no v. it) 1707 i j Princeton—iS'ew-Jerfey. v To be Sold, e 'I "H 4.T neat asd convenient House in which J; 1. th: late Mrs. Ann Witherfpeon, now Mrs. c Ann Walker, lived; together with all the appur- k teoances. The house is two (lories high, of frame f= work, and painted. There are are four rooms 1 ar.d an entry on the lower floor, u>d five ro*ms I on the second floor. Ihe cellars are dry, and the f ga:ret fpaeicus'—Th« back yard is pared with ft one*. In it are a well of excellent water, an oreii, a fmuke house, and house for afl^is —and behind it a carriage house; hayloft, grarary, and c nv -:>'ent (tables, with four ftalla for faorfes, and h four for neat cattle. The Ipt is 6ofeet wide upon { the flreet and 154 feet d.ep,fomewhat more than one half of which is made isto a kitchen garden £ us an excellent foil. ' For ttrtns,which will be made very reasonable, c apply to the rcTcrcnd t Samuel S. Smith. f Jannarr 19 lawaw f liyJon and Yeung"Hylcn.Tea. 3 a lew chetb of eiccllent quality, Tot t>at\ cor ner of Second an; 4 Pine \ lseccni!»er aft. fctf \ CONGRESS. . HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. I Debate »n Foreign Intert'lurfe. 1 FRIDAY JANOARY 19. [Con'iPued froni v<-ffetday's Gazeftr.] Mr. Gallatin said, the committee had ; been told, in the course of the debate, by c < some gentlemen that this attempt to reduce I the number of our miniftera was unconftitu ' ] tional; by others, that it was inexpedient, and even some gentlemen who agreed to the general expediency of themeafure, believed it would beattended withinconvenience from our present foreign relations. In relation to the couftitutionality of the " thing, he did not believe, whatever doftrine was suppOrted with refpeft to treaties, that upon this occaiion the eommittee (hould be told that they wtre interfering with ►bft con stitutional power vested in the Prefdent. It was true, that he had the genera.'power of appointing ambafladort; but it was not less true, that the legislature had the sole and exclitfive power to provide forall the expenc es of the union. Hence a'ofe the idea of ours being a governmentoo r departments, so it formed as to be a check upon each other. K But the gentleman front Connefticut (Mr. " N. Smith) said there vas no such thing as a check of department?; that each was dif tc tin<k ; and, though had checks within itfclf, none of them checked the other. And to illuilrate his poutioa, he introduced the simile of a clock, at the fame time that he told them that the Executive department was the Main Spring which put the clock in motion, whilst Mr. G. supposed he meant that the other branches w«re merelyithe hands which moved 9s they were diredted. But if there was any aft which could not be done hut by all the branches, each had its share <■ in deciding upon the propriety of it, Wheri 1 a treity was made, it had been argued that that hotife had nothing te do but catty it into effeft; but here it was said, that the I,„tr. .. esc DounO to provide tor"every Am bassador appointsd ; and if, by withholding salaries, they obliged the President to fend Ministers Resident, where he wilhed to fend Miaifters Plenipotentiary, they would aft inconsistently with the Constitution. Tho' gentlemen might make Speeches on this fubjeft, they mult know that where the le gislature had a right to aft, it had a right to deliberate and to use its discretion. That is was better for the interest of the Nation r that the Departments should aft in union, he allowed, and also that it was right to give the support to the Executive which the dig •i nity and happiness of the nation required. With tflpSSlWlty bv . ameudment, he would a/k whettcrany thing e had been said to (hew that the exteufion of i our Foreign political con-- - duce to the greater happiness of the U. S. d Our present critical situation was not owing as had been ftatedby the gentleman from S. s Carolina (Mr. Harper) to our Commercial Intercourse, but from the operation of trea -0 ties and our political conneftion. No truth was more strongly impressed upon his mind, 1- than that the extension of our political in tcrcouifc wftli Forcigirimtixfßß was highly _ dangerous to us. And when the gentleman from Connecticut (Mr. Dana) charged those r " who advocated this amendment with address- R ing the galleries, and people out of doors, 1, | rather than the members of the committee, » f ! Mr. G. supposed he believed the public o ] pinion was with them, and that it was this I conviftion which produced the declaration. I,» He said he thought the gentleman right, and lr . that the people would read their fpecches, e attend to the fubjeft, and decide with them : againftincteafing our diplomatic interGOurfe. Is Could it be said that any good had arisen ' from this source? It was true treaties had e been made; but no treaty had been made d since tht adoption of the present Govern ment, by Ministers resident at any court at e the time. If any benefits were derived to e the country from the British treaty, they muftbe attributed to the Envoyextraordina ' ry, and net to our Minister at that court ; y and when our treaty with Spain was con , eluded, it was necessary to fend a minister * resident at another court to do the tufiDefs. ■j Since our treaties were always made by spe cial envoys, what advantage could it be of, to have numerous ainifteri plenipotentiary in Europe? In the present critical situation r of that country, agitated as it was to the center, was it not to be apprehended tbat 1 our ministers would participate, in some de . gree in the party spirit which there abound ed, and rank themselves on one fide or the other, which would have a tendency to draw this country into a vortex from which we were so happily separated by the Atlantic. We were the only nation, he said, who pof r fefied a Government on a firm foundation, , in which civil and religious liberty vras fully > recogqized; we, therefore, enjoyed, what the people of Europe were seeking after. We have nothing to wish, except to remain . ill our present situation. Why then, (hould we hazard the being involved in European broils? He had before stated Consuls were equal to every commercial regulation, and 1 he had heard nothing to change his opinion. . Seeing, therefore, that these Diplomatic a . genti were rather dangerous than ufeful, he , thought it time toput aftop to their increase. > It might be said, that in this opinion he dif ; feied from the Executive. He felt the J weight of this remark, and it was with some I diffidence that he cxp»e(Ted it ; but it was ! his opinion, and thereforehe couldnot with hold it. Whether the President had any ' information which led him to a different o | pinion, he could not tell ; he could only aft from what he knew, and he (hould not be , deterred from forming an opinion because a nother department of the government might poflefr. information which he had not. He should follow his own opinion, unbiassed by any authority. But it was said, though it might be pro per to diminish our foreign iutercourfe, it was improper to do it at present. He a greed it wsuld be wrong to do it viole'iilv. tint Wa? not the intentioii of the mover of th>' amendment ; but h# couid no objedlion to faying at tliis time when the extension should cease With refpe£l to the gentlemen now abroad, they knew when they accepted their offices, they were liable to two events, viz. to the rccal of the Prefidtnt, and to a refufal of the legislature to renew the law relative to foreign inter ' course when it expired. It would, there* - fore, injoffice to them to agree to the amendment. ' Gentlemen considered the saving of a few ■ thousand dollars a year, a paltry economy, and that it was necefTary to appoint men of 11 talents fully competent to •offices of this kind. He agreed that competent persons c o tight to appointed ; bht ministers resi dent at a fMaty of 4<s co dollars a year were • pofTefieda/ the-fame powers with ministers plenipotentiary—the onlytiifference betwixt them was in their ftife of living. To low [ er the salaries, therefore, would not dimin ish the competition for these He ' did not know that the one salary would command higher talents than the other ; " nor did he suppose tllat when our ministers 1 resident at Portugal and Holland were cloth ' ed with tke commissions of ministers pleni potentiary at Madrid and Berlin, and of course their salaries doubled, that their ta -1 lents received the fame proportion of in crease. ' Mr. G. infilled ihat his former statement with respect to the appropriations for this : objeft were right, notwithstanding what had been asserted by the gentleman from S. Carolina to the coritrary. But the advocates of this motion,'had bteu charged with improperly drawing in -1 to view the ftfbjtcl of executive patronage, and when speaking upon this fubjeft, he himfelf had been charged with mating an " illiberal and unfounded charge." That ' *hat he said might be incorred, was prob -1 able, frtnri -the information given by the gentlciaybirom S. Carolina, but that what he said wai illiberal and unfounded, he de nied. Mr.G. said it was true, that the ■ sum of mor*y proposed to be saved by this amendment was net large- Gentlemen might if they pleaftd, call it a paltry saving ; but having firft tftablifhed the fa£l, that these officers were not only unnecessary, but dan gerous, though the saving was not large, it ought to be made. Bnt it was said that out government was so pure, so untainted, that the patronage which was wished to be guarded again ft can have no effect in this country ; and the gentleman from Connec ticut had said the charge cotald have no ground, exc/** V- b ,' s (Mr. G's) ftandard. Heßcnct t « t ha( the observations on this fubjeS had nothing to do with either of their hearts. He should not expedl much credit to be given to any declarations which he might make on that floor as lo the purity b{ his mo tives. Indeed, he took it to be his duty to state his reafensfor"or against any qoef tion which came before that house, and af ter delivering them in the best manner he was able, to leave thsm to have the effeft they deserved. He thought the gentleman's rcpnark, unworthy of notice, but he again called fupon the committee to consult tbe hifteryofall other nations whose governments were, in any degree, fimilarto ours, and it would be seen, that an undue extension of executive patronage had been the deftru&ion of them all. But was there no reason to guard against this patronage upon the gentleman's own ground ? There certainly was ; for, according to their doc trine, the power of the executive was un bounded in its nature, and without check, as they fay the PreCdent has a right to ap point as many ministers as he pleases, and that the legislature is bound to provide their salaries. When such a doftrine was avow ed, was it not right, he asked, to state all the conferences to which it led ? He tho't it was. Again, he would ask, whether the ex perience of this government lir.d not shewn that this patronage, so far as it related to the legislature, was more dangerous than a ny other. In the last four years, five min isters had been sent to Etn-ope, four of whom had been taken from the legislature of the United States—one, he believed, after the periSd for which he was ele£ted was expired. Combine with this faft, that it is the duty of tht executive to chufe men for office only froito those whose opinions are consonant to its own, and look at the Gtuation of members of Congress. They fee written, in legible characters, " There is no hope of being appointed to office, except your opinions be in conformity to those of the executive of the United States." If, said Mr. G. in the youth of our coun try and government, we 1 do not feel the ef fedi of this kind of influence, as it had been experienced in other countries, it is owing solely to that cause, and he would venture to fay there was rio other legislature in existence upon which such a faft would not make some impreflian ; and if it did not make any here at prefcnt, were thev to suppose- that this country was so much more favored by providence than others, that the fame effefts might uot, in process of time, be produced here, as had been pro duced by fiwiilar causes, in other nations ? And ought they not to giiird against it in time ? lie thought prudence directed them to do so. With relpefl ta thdlttberal and unfounded charge which-ah Taid he had made.— When the gerjUriah from S. Carolina had dat ed, that lince the appointment of an cmbafla dor to Berlin, nothing hid taken place which could induce u«s to change our views- He, in answer, dated, that there were other realuns, l and then, Hot as it he were making any new j discovery, asked if such a fa<St were n >l recol lefied ; but, at the fame time, acquitted the gentltjnaa alluded to ot under undue iin preffions. Indeed he kuew that gentleman's cpinxn lo well on matters, of this k:nd, that he j was certain he would save votfd the money,; wr-oever might have been appointed. But he' j drew the conClusion that ha kuew the fail that ! J he was to be appointed to the office atthetime j ■ f y . If that wis an illiliti a' concUifisn, ht wasgui'- sty I but when a man fuppirted art appropria- I tion to day, and three days after was appointed to the office contemplated by it, it waj difficult II to fippol'ehe knew nothing of it at the time ' The gentleman !rom S. Carolina had said it v appeared from the journals>hat he did not know e of it ; but he supposed, notwithllaading, that, c mere than three days were neceflfary for the e arrangement >-f fucb a bufjnefs. But it was fup poferf he meant to make an illiberal attack upon that g-n'lem.in ; the truth was, he did'not mean the attack up~n the perfsn appointed, hut a c gainfl the perfort riialti' g the appointment. — He conceivedtheapp«>int»ient improper; but he t exprefTeHhimfelfasrfefir.-.'elyishewa*able Now lie was put upon this h ad, he mart go farther. £ He found iii the confutation thtf following clause : " No senator, or reprelentative, (hall, s during the time ftr which he wis elected, be 5 appointed to any civil office, under the authsri - ty of the United States, 'jjkichfhal! have been : created, or the emoluments of which'/bull biive 3 been encreafed, during such time." And here he t would ask gestieinen wiio thought executive pa tronage oufht nrt to bt feared, why rhe fram ers of our conftitutiun inferred a clause of this " kind, if they had not feared this patronage ? It - was to this claufo of the conriitution, and to I n«ithing else, that he had reference, in the allu • ■ tion which he had made j and though the ap -5 porntment mijht not be expressly agairift the letter of the constitution, it was certainly against its /firit. ' He would make only an additional remark in 1 relation lo expediency. It had been said that ■ topafa this amendment in our prefeat (Situation with foreign countries, woold ten-d to (hew an ' exilting division betwixt the Executive of the United States and the people. Thi6 argument might be brought at all times, a» the occafious ' were not unfrequent in which the several branch es of govern nentdifferedin opinion; norwas this to be lamented.it was natural, and what could not be avoided. But it was said that those gov ernments with whom we were eonnefled, might take umbrage at a measure of this kind ; and that when foreign countries lent ministers of a certain 'grade to us, we were bound by the forms cis etiquette to ret urn to them toiuillers of the fame rank. To do thi«, would be to d 3 fome tbing more than what the prefidentof the Unit ed States might require them to do, it was oblig ing the legislature to follow, not only the will the prcfident, but the whims and caprices of every foreign nation who choie, from what rea son nobody ceuld tell, to fend ministerial- cha raflers to this country. To support an expente' of this kind, he believed, would be making a little.too free with the treafsry of the United State-. Gentlemen who supported this amendment had keen charged with using declamation j yet, said hi, those who thus charge us, tell the com mittee, that we are persons ujho ivijb this ctun try tamely to submit to the luill of a foreign na titn ! He would alk whether, or not, this was declamation ? H« alked what connection f«b ---! mining to the will of a foreign nation, had with this amendment ? and what kind of difference it could make in the termination of our present ' negociation, QTfiaiJir condudl hereafter, whe thecillii aj«*ci>dment palled or not ? He could tee none ; and when gentlemen were told they mjde speeches to catch the ears sfthe populace, or vulgar he thought they might with propria ety reply, that nothing which had fallen from them was more calculated for this purpose, than what fell from the gentleman from S. Carolina, (Mr. Harper.) / Mr. N. Smith denied that he had compar to to the main ffcria£ of a clock, and re ftateet what he biJ laid refptiVim; thedif ft rent branches of government being mdepett-' dent of each «ther. The committee r.ofe asd hid leave to fit a gain. FXggjMV MONDAY—- JAHV AR Y 22. The House having again resolved itfelf into a Com mittee of the Whole, on the Bill providing the means of Foreign Intercourse, and Mr. Nicho las's amendment bcii.g under consideration, Mr. Griswold said, ifinftead of redu cing the number of our foreign Miuiifers Plenipotentiary, it had been the intention of the present amendment, to make an enquiry into the reasonableness of the salaries at pre sent allowed to our Foreign Agents, be should most cheerfully have gone into the investigation, as he believed it was a fubjeft upen which the house bad a full right to le gislate; but when he heard Gentlemen de clare that this was not their objeft, but that it was their intention to check a pow er which the constitution had placed in the Executive, the motion would meet his de cided negative. The ground which gentlemen had taken went to declare, that though the Constitu tion had said that the President, with the advice of the Senate, should appoint Am balTadors and other publie Ministers, the Gentleman from Virginia and others, fay that he should not do this; that they will tic their hands so as to put it out of his power t» execute this provision of the Constitution. So that in this question the people of the United States and the Constitution were on one fide, and the Gentleman Virginia, and his friends on the other. For himfelf, he had no difficulty in deciding, where such were the parties. If past experience had not tatight the house that attempts were frequently made to invade the Constitutional powers of the Executive, such a motion as the present wbuld produce surprise; but, as former at tempts-os that kind had not only been made but repelled as they ought, he trusted the fame iflue would take place on. the present j occasion. Gentlemen had dated our Constitution as filled with balances and cbecks, and that different departments were intended to check each other. He allowed that each had checks, within itfelf: but if the depart ments were to check each other, the govern ment could not proceed? and however this d.jftrine might be difcufTed with metaphys eal fubtlcty, its tendency was to flop the wheels of government. He hoped this doc trine of checks which had been introduced into the house by the gentleman from Penn sylvania (Mr. Gallatin) would not extend itfelf in this conntry, as it contained more mifchiefs than Pandora's box. But suppose for the fake of difcuflion. this dodlrine were admitted, and that the house had a right to check the Executive in the exerclfe of its Constitutional powers, would it be proper to exercise it on the present occasion? Was it, even in the most peaceable times, pro | per to curtail our Diplomatic Corps, since ! our Commerce fpveads to all parts of the ; world, and disputes tauft necefiarily arise, !- which could be removed only ir, tl 4e ; nUr ' *- fereucc of our Ministers. Gentlemen ailed "u ged that this could be done by Confulj ; it e rtrucjc him not. Who were these Confuf s > ; t Men of refpeftability adoubtedly; but mtre ,r monied men, pursuing private ohjedts for it. the purposes of gain, who pofleflcd neither leisure nor ability to manage a buflnefs of this kind. Diplomatic Agents, he said, 2 were uniformly employed in all countries! 2- except, indeed, in Turkey, or in the tyran _ nical States of Barbary; States which he ic truited Gentlemen would not produce for w the United States to imitate. If even it r ' Should b« proper, in such a state of things, S would it be properat this time? Was the pre sent a state of tranquility and peace ? Were our affairs going on well; was not Europe 7! ponvulffd to the centre > Did,not every day produce a revolution or a maflacrei And rt were we unconne&ed with Europe? t)id '' not our carry us there, aad was '* not our capital there? Vet our Diplomatic I, Agents are to be discontinued, and our com, 0 nierce left to Shift for itfelf, and in cafe 1 of disputes no explanations could be had. »- The business was to be dropped at once; ■ and what was worse, it was to be done be cause the Legislature placed «o confidence „ in the Executiveofthegavernment—-bccanfe lt one department of government was opposed n to the other, which had the appearance of a n nation fighting againfl itfelf. Were gentle e men desirous that such a pidture of our situ ation Should cross the Atlantic ! He tho't n ° gentleman could fay this would be afting s prudently. d But, notwithstanding these confide'rati -- ons, gentlemen (till fay tt>is motion ought if to be agreed to, because the Executive is « already poflVfFed of immense patronage, m which is Spreading its mfiuence through e . very department, and is become so alarrain-T .. as to make it necessary to Sacrifice every co n b t- iideration in order to have it lessened. When he heard a language of this kind, he could " scarcely refrain from smiling. Whit, h* _ asked, was this alarming influence ? It could L _ not be doubted that in some governments, e . where the appointments were numerous, and' a where the executive was a permanent eSta d blifhment, immense influence might be ac quired. But what was the Situation of our executive ? It was true it had the power of ,! appointing to office ; but the offices were not very desirable, and the execution of „ some of them Was atteuded with obloquy .« and reproach ; besides, the duration of unr >- executive was limited to a four years Icafe. h And yet gentlemen charge this executive * wi'h being possessed of an influense which , they foretel will prove the definition of gov "d ernment. Such opinions he could only con y fider as mere chimeras of the brain, support ed upon no rational ground. But gentlemen went farther, and said n that this power had already been actually a " as the executive, in his appointments ' to office, had refpeft to the opinions o{ .. those whom he chose. He cpnfeffed.Ujat , he had thought, from some apuointrqeau f- whtcti n«a-oeeii made. that the jPhlUfnt' "BacThot adopted the determiiialiju s some gentleman were of opinoiYhe bad, tho he acknowledged it was a determination which every real friend of the government mtift wish to fee adopted. Could it be fee lievedj .that* the President would not. Ie some refpeft to the opinions of the menjie i- employed ? Gentlemen could not Ectcvf this. What ! employ men wliofe very o pinions and principles led to dilorder !—ta * appoint men to office for thepurpofeofprt -11 serving order peace, whose very opini y oris lend to disorganization and confufion \ ■' Was this to be done ? Me thought not ; e and if the determination of attending to the opinions of men appointed, had not been •• adopted, it ought to bs adopted. Indeed he had been led to believe, that there was a class of men in this country, who, from 1 the sober conviflions of their minds, being convinced that most of the measures of gov e ernment we;re wrong, had determined not to accept of any office under it, and by that means assist in its execution ; but ifheright n ly understood the gentleman fro.4 Georgia (Mr. Baldwin) he supposed he had been e deceived in this refpedt, as he Seemed to fay, that they were not only willing, but defi- ,■* : rous of accepting offices uader ■" He could notTiave believed this, as it fijp ~ posed a baseness of character which he had _ r hoped did not exitt in the United States.— What ! were gen lemen who had been unt e formly opposed to every measure of govern ment, now ready to Step in a»d take part in ? the execution of that government ? Were ' they willing to become the juSlifiers of those 1 measures which they hr.ve heretofore ur.i-. formly declared to be wrong ? He had hi e therto refpefted this class of men, becauie L * he believed they aifted from condition ; but e if they were about to add hypocrisy to their c other crimes, it was a proof of their total want of integrity. Indeed, for a man to " fay administration was right, when he be " [lievedit was wrong, was to prove that lie C 1 had no confctcnce. He thoug«t, therefore, | it. was highly proper to chufemen only mio s office who would aft from principle. [ K- concluded, therefore, upon ertry , ground, that the motion was wrong. Mr. G- said he could not Sit down, without no ticing some sentiments which tell from tu«. s gentleram from Virg.Gia, which wotea.t rious ,al'pe£t, auditeuiud to aiqa «t tne very , fxistehce of <»tir governiaent. _ I hat' gen . tlemau begun his Speech br telling the houie J thatallreprcfeiUativi republics natura..y :en . ded to corruption ; and that republics were i capable of attaining more tyranny t e monarchy, and more opprefHon than r . tifms. [Mr. Nicholas explained whaL ; he had faid.]Mr. G. inGfted upon being 5 correG i.i his Statement ;. bvt I'C Said tie 3 gentleman did not Slop here, riiereme y r for these evils, he said, was only in Kf s minorities —in Short, that the ftw were to . be set. again(l the tr.afly. This \ras de . nouneing republics with Vengeance itwer.t ; to' tht: very foundation »f our government. } It was a vyhich be never expected
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