Delaware & Schuylkill Canal. r ~|" , HF. Stockholders are hereby notified, that the X Els<Stion for l'refident and Managers, for the ensuing ye.ar, will be held at the Company's Office, on the ficft lc. in January nsxt, at ten o'clock in the forenoon. Susquehanna & Schuylkill Canal. THE Stockholders are hereby notified, that the Election for President and Managers, for the ensu ing yeat, will baheld at the Company's Office, on the flrft feconJ-day in January next at ten o'clock GEO. VVORRALL, fec'v to Delaware & Schuylkill Canal Company. dee 19 dte Bank of Pennsylvania, December i-jtb, 1798. NOTICE is hereby given to the Steckholders of the Bank of Pennsylvania, that an Ele&ion Of Nineteen DIRECTORS, to serve for one year, will be held at the Bank, 011 Monday the fourth of February next, at 10 o'clock. JONATHAN SMITH, Cafljier. Extra ft from the seventh Sedion of the A3 of Incorporation. " Article id. Not more than fourteen of the Directors clefled by the Stockholders,and'atSually in office, exclusive of the Frcfident, shall be eligible for the next fuc eedinjj year; but the Dir«<9or who shall be President at the time of an eledion, may always be re-cleAed." dt 4 F " ' Bunk of North America, January 1,17^9. AT a meeting of the Directors this day, a divi dend of fix per cent, was declared for the last half'year, which will be paid to the Stockhold ers or their reprefentativei, at ar.y time after the loth infant. By order of the Board, RICHARD WELLS, Cafiiler, dtiojy. "" NOTICE. THE COPARTNERSHIP OF HUDSON is? YORKE, is this day dissolVed by mutual consent. All per sons indebted to said firm are rcquefted to make immediate payment—anal those who have an/ de mands are requested to prefect them for fcttlement to WILLIAM HUDSON, who. is duly authorifad to adjust the Tame. REMOVAL. WILLAM HUDSON, Has removed from No. 54, north Front ftrcet to No 8, Chclnut, near th« corner of Front, (to the ftcre formerly occupied by Mr. Jon*) Mil ieu, junr.) Where he has for sale on his usual low terms, an extenjive ajfortment of DRY GOODS. deeember 18 djw 7he Sub/cribers, Have received by the Clothierfrom Liverpool A CONSIGNMENT OFTENCAJES 6t Well AfTorted Buttons, About 501. flerling each Cafe, which they will Jifptfc of per package, on liberal terms. Mcdford ts* Willis. No. 78, Norrh Front'near Arch fl»fcct. WANTED, ABOUT fifry Calks of Flag Anaatto or Rocoa, Apply as above. -free t FLOUR, FOR SALE, DELIVERABLE at N eV r-Caftle or Port i Pcnn, by LEVI HOLLINGSWORTH &SON dec 19 d4w N O T I C E. THE Public are cautioned not to trust any of the poopte belonging to the Swedish Snow Maria, on my aceoujit. Hans Olof Koci, master. dec i 1) § 14 Pipes Madeira Wine, FOR SALK BY, Crookt Stevenson, ' t No 4, South Water-street. dec i» § On THURSDAY, the 3d jfa unary, at 6 o'clock in the evening, At Benson & Yobkk.'s Auftion-Room, 1 No. 39, South Front-street, r WILL BE SOLD, fmall,but well-cliofen and feleft Library of Medical Books, &c. [ together lirith sundry Surgical Infcruments, d "1 h. property of the late Dovior Francis B. Sayre. BENSON !c YORKE. - dts Black India Lustrings. l A quantity just received and of the firft n fir It quality, & to »f. sold low fob CASH p At No. 55, north Third, Jlreet by h ; SAMUEL C. COX. * dec. 28 diw J TO RENTED, a] The dwelling hotrfe No. 153, t] fotith Water street, together with a flack of [tores tl and wharf «f c] JOSEPH SIMS. w daw All Pcrfons indebted to the Estate nf Samuel Cooper, late of this city, l'hyfi craft, ileeeafed, are requested to make payment ro the fubferibers ; —And those perlbns who a l bjve any demands against the said Estate", are t' desired to bring in their accounts for fettle- u merit to I SAMUEL COATES, } THOMAS MORRIS, f„ " MORDECAI LEWIS, or r eC " tor! t ELLISTON PEROT, ) b uftbe Will of the said Samael Cooper. IJhila.. i\ mo. j6, 1798. eout :.J3" Several of the Do&or's hooks are miffing, r:i particular five or fix volumes belonging to setts. :> is fnppofvii they hive been lent to some «f his J friends who will oblige the Executors by returning A tij.ro without dday. To he Sold, cheap for Cash, v I A HORSE AND GIG, " \pply at Mnleafcey's Livery stable, in Whalefeone alley. Jar.uwy ) djt ! Bank of Pennsylvania. January 2d, 1799* I*KE Dire<slo-s have thisday declared a dividend e of sixteen dollars, of Bank flock,for e the last Sit Months, which will be paid to the Stockbo'dcrs, or their legal representatives, after 1 the lath instant. By order of the Board, JON. SMITH, cafbier. jstn % dt^i i WR SALE, n THE rllLOwmo k Valuable Real Estate, Free from every incumbrance, viz. '• A LOT in Union, between .Second and Third xjl streets, n feet 4 inches front,, on Union street, on which is ertited an elegant two story brick house (no. 35) compriGng two parlours, seven chambers, a large kitchen, pantry, and er.try if throughout; the yard is paved and contains a cif. n tern and other conveniences; the cellars, vaults,&c. ', are large and commodious—on the back end of if the lot isereiled a two ft-.ry brick ftorr, with floor ed cellar, 10 feet front (on a court which accom modate s the whole premii'es) and 37 feet deep,fi» conftruAsd as to ba convertible into a convenient f dwelling-house. ' ALSO, e A Lot on Chefnut, hetween Trnth and Eleventh ' streets, J4 feet front on Chelnm, ard rn-nding in depth to George street, *35 frfft, hn\ iac a front 011 eich street, which, to purchaf.r', may be divided ; into two lota. For terms, apply to EDWARD DUN ANT, N° 35, Union, or no. 149. South Fi'ont ftroet, WHO HAS LIKEWISE FOR SALE. A Bay Ilorfe and a Chair, e not more than 3 or 4 months in use. January 2 d4t e All persons Indrhted to th« Estate of Mr. Johm F«NNO,late of Philadelphia, deceafed,arc desired to make pay ment, and those having any demands, to prefcut - them for fettlsisent, to SAMUEL BIJODGET, Adm'r. or JOHN WARD FENNO, Agent to the adminiflration. Nov. 3o 53m . Printing Work, t Of Kind, i EXECUTED AT THE SHORTEST NOTICE, At the Office of the Gazette of the United Staots, O.St. 13. dtf, ; JOHN SHIELDS, MOST earnestly solicits all hii Creditors, prior to the 23d day of Anguft, 1797, ' thit have not fnrnifted ("heir accounts, to render them to hire befort the 10th instant, as after that day they will be excluded from his firft dividend. January a d ticjy. NOTICE. THE creditors of George Johnfton, late of Queen Aan's county, in the state of Mary land, deceased, are hereby requested to appear at Church Hill, in the county aod state afore faid, 011 ThUrsday the aift day of January next, with their claims against the said deceased, properly authenticated, at which time a propor tionable division of theaflets in the hands of the fubferiber will be made among the creditors ac cording to law; and those who do not appear on the said day, will be forever precludetfrrom their claims on the said estate, REBECCA JOHNSTON, Executrix. . Fhiirch Hill, Dec. 22. •THOMAS MuM&ATKOrI), ~~ Has entered into partnerfkip with his two Sotif, UNDER THE FtSM OT Thomas Murgatroyd & Sons, WHO HAVE FOR SALE At No. 35, Docl-Street, Ift and 4th proof Brandy in Pipes and Bucrs Irish Market Latour, and f WINES . in Cases. j Lunelle J , Two Trunks Umiirellas. , drw , No. 128, ' i The south eajl corner of Marlet and Fouth : Jlreets, t JACOB COX, s TTAS just received by the late arrivals from t A A Europe, a large, general and elegatu it- t fortmeut of the most Fashionable Mer<Jhandiae, (in the gentlemen's line' The whole of which I will be disposed of, wholesale and retail, at re- I duced prices for ca(h. dec ' J 9 aawtf Beware of the Rascal! > THE Public in general, and the Book r Binders in particular, throughout the U- v nited States, are cautioned against the de- ception of a gallows-looking, ye!low-com- black-haired fellow, who calls htnfelf, JOHN HOLT, by trade a Book* Binder—by his a&ions, I judgehim to be a \ He yesterday secreted him felf from the ptirfuit of his lawful creditors, c although, the day before out of mere chari- ty, I bailed him from prison, offered him f the highest wages and constant employ, to enable him to do jiiftice—he pledged his 0 word, his honor to be industrious, to be faithfull to his benefa&or—he has put him- felf beyond my reach for the present he ~ has added ingrafttude to injustice In or- J der, more effeAnally, to guard every person against his impofnions for the future, I t think it neceflary to decribe him more min- utely than above. He is about 5 feet 7 in- n ches high ; slender make—he is a profane V wearer, a liar, a drunkfardand a glutton. ? He was gß,ilty of several afts of swindling f btfore he left this town. 1 ROBERT HARPER. Chamburgh: December 12, ? t notice: I Joseph Thomas's Creditors t are hereby earnestly requested to furnilh tbeir f Accounts duly attested, as ioen as convenient : n thereby.to enable the Aflignees to form an idea J of the state of bis afr 4 irs and all those ijidebt ed to in id T hom as, Jre rfquired to make ira mediate payment to either of the Stibfcribers. UEL W - h WILLIAM BUCKLEY, > if si ; JOHN HALL. SJ. Thomas. : dfC - #, 4,f [ PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUASr 3. COMMJJtfIC4TJONS. - ' MR. Fknno, ALI HOUGH Dr. L— n appears to be elected to fin the vacancy in the- Philadel phia county representation in the (late legif. lature, occasioned "by thp relation of Mr. Hufton, y«t it may not be ainifs to state to his Constituents, through the medium of your n paper, two circumstances, which, if funded y Ifl fad (as I have not the least doubt will be found to be the cafe if strictly enquired into) will (hew how improper a choice they have made, and how unworthy he is of the honor . they have imprudently conferred upon him. 9 It is said, that this felf-conftituted envoy, c to the French Dir'f-ttriry, or more probably, this pitiful tool of a baneful faction, which it is to be feared at present exilh within the J United States, applied to a ichool-mafter in iJ h' s neighborhood, to introduce as a lchool j book, ir. the institution under his care, " Point's Age of Reason," and as an in ducement to his doiir/ i*, off-red to put his sons under his care, to be instruCted in the principles of that infamous production. He is also reported, and upon good authority, to have influenced the trustees of a feminarv of learning, lately eftahlilhed in the vicinity of the Riling ikin upon the Gcrmantowii road, to (eleCt, as a tutor, a man of vcrv com mon talent?, who was charged before the trustees, with having bflaftingly professed a ivant of Belief in the Holy Scriptures, of known immoral conduct, and accustomed to spend more of bis time in-taverns, than tvas consistent tritb tie situation to which be aspired. At the fame time, a clergyman of respectable acquirements, good tnorul conduct, producing undeniable testimonies of bis worth, was rejected, as was alio another gentleman who had taught a lchool in Delaware coun ty, and was fuppurted in his application by undoubted proofs of his qualifications. Tlieie two circumstances alone are fuffiei cnt $o Ihew that His voyage to France has been turned to some account, and that he has been in putting tti praCtice some of thole lesions, which the arcb-apos tate Talleyrand and the former' Chorister Merlin * have no doubt taken care to have him taught during his refidtnee amofigft them r tor they know full well that' religion and good government must go band in band in every civilized society, and that there is no i'urer way of destroying the goodly fa bric of the latter, than by Tapping the foun dations -of the former. Whether the thinking part of the com munity in the Northern Liberties, will be fatisfied to exchange their churches for ta veifir, and will cheerfully lurrendtr their wives and daughters to fatisfy the lewd cravings of inordinate., paflion. in the moll wortilcls ot mankind, and the - molt aban-~ doled of their fpecics, worthy 6f lbme «on4deraiion. It ; s true that, district ap pears to eftiruate lightly the right of fuffrage, if we may judge from the lelcCtion of cha- ' rafters they have already made to represent them in the prefeftt'and'approaching Con gress of the United States; jn -what moral point of view the characters of thpfe re pre fentatives would merit to b<? confide red, could ' with more accuracy have been ascertained, had the legal proceedings instituted. in cer tain cases been brought to issue. 'l'he literary or political talents of- Blair were always considered beneath mediocrity, indeed, there was any gradation upon the scale of learning fufficiently minute to delignate his precise Situation ; and with refpetft to the other, we should have had much more cer tain data to proceed upon, had not private interest, which often outweighs public good, and, as the world sometimes imagines, elec tion interest, exerted lu favor of the prefirnt Iheriff, been the cause why a ce/tain aCtion, ; about which he made much noise previous to his eleftion, been fuffered to lleep upon 1 the dockc!. 1 pennsylvaniensis. 1 • See Anecdote* of Pcrfom canne&ed with the ' French Revolution in the, 4th vol. of the Monthly ' Magazine and British Rcgiftcr, page an.- 1 MR. FF.NNO, < Finding my name has been made use of in < your papers of late, and wrong impreflions may have been made on the minds of some, t with respeCt to Mr. Philips' telling me of his ( bringing a sick man to his house, lays me un- i der the necessity of removing thole impref- 1 (ions, by dating the cause that gave rife to 1 them. On the afternoon of that day previous t to Mr. Philips taking lick, I called on him 1 for lome money he owed me ; after faying he j could not give it at that time, he told me < (what he had formerly done) of a certain nier- c chant that owed him a conliderable sum';- 1 but that he was kept out of it for the want 1 ol a witness, an old lodger of his : that that 1 witness had of late arriv«l at the Fort, but 1 being sick, he had gone down and brought 1 him up ; thi3 being the firfl mention made of c fever or sickness between us, I observed that 1 I had heard the fever was below, he replied, that he did not think it was the fever that 1 the young man had. Indeed, I did not wait 1 to discuss this matter with him, I left the t street as soon as I could : next morning I t heard that Mr. Philips was very bad of the J 1 Yellow Fever. With rcfpeCtto-my conver- e fation with-Mr. J. Milnor at . the Eagle, I only mentioned the circumstance of Mr.Phi- f lips' telling me of the man'sbeing brought up, e not those that led to it ; he replied, that (as r he had heard) he believed it could be proved t that Mr. Philips had brought up a sick man f irom the Deborah on the ninth night of her j quarantine ia a boat of a Mr. Dawfon. t Mr. -Milnor did not fay, as it would appear t in the way'exprefled in you-r paper, that Mr. 0 I hilips told him of his bringing up a man to r his house. I have not spoke to Mr. Milnor t lince I law him at the Eagle. t JOHN PURDON. t Jam»ry 2, 1799. „ c o y G re & ,y, . Ft HOUSE 01 REPRESENTATIVES. Debate on Mr. Grifji'd's yastioK (CONTI N UIU ) Thursday* Deceit iber 27. This, Mr. Harper said, he'took to be a tru : hiltofy this CranfaCtion, ;.s to its mo s lives and What, he could now alk, - mcft have been the arguments urged to the - DirrCtory, in order to insure its success i Cquld any reliance have be. n placed by the ' authors of this mil Son on an appeal to the '■ justice of Franfce ? Certainly not ; unlef9 1 they were downright blockheads. And Mr. H. said that although he had never thooght 1 highly of ihi underitanding of the person whom he fuppofid to have been the prime mover in this affair, yet he could not rllimate it so vrry low as to imagine him capable of ' talking seriously about jnllice to a govern ment which had told us plainly " that it car ed nothing about the jullice of our coin p.ainta or our claims ; that we na'ght in deed have just cause of complaint, but the quellion was not about justice or injustice, but whethjr we were prepared to fuljrai: on the conditians prefcrib.-d ?" To a govern ment holding openly this language, it would have been the laltitage of folly lo talk a bout juitice, with any ferioun expectation of being liltcned to. The appeal therefore, mu!t, he conceived, have been to tie policyj the interests, of the Directory—And in what language would this appeal be made ? By what topics would it be en'orced? He imagine !, by such as these, it You have» it , it true, a party in America, and a ttrong one; but not so strong a one as you may imajine, and much of the force which it d.oes possess depends oa public opinion ; . and the adherence of peifons not fully apprized of its views. Of this force you ?re about to drip it by the intemperate violence of. your late conduCt. You overfkoot the mark, and rouse the public indignation against yourfelvei aad your friends, whose popularity and influence you wholly d ftroy, thereby breaking their strength, and thereby diiabling them from readering you arty service in future. Therefore slacken your hand a little. As sume a lmguage fomcwhit more cemplai fant, a behavior somewhat left offcnlive. Hojd but some appearances of an amicable and conciliatory spirit. You need not re peal your decrees agfainftour commerce, but abate a little, and I'or a time, from the ri gor of their execution. Talk about calling in privateers ; release a few seamen and a flap or two, now and then. This will as suage the of the pepple, unnerve the arm of the government, and leave you at leisure to prepare your plans for execu tion at more favorable moment. In the mean time, we, your friends, lhall regain our , infiuencf:, or, at least, pfeferve what we have left, and may render you good fer 'Vice in future* After your war with Eng land is, at an end, we may, perhaps, (hew you the way into America, as well as citi zen Oths and his friends (hewed you the; sway into Switzerland, as soon as you got the emperor off your hands. On the con trary, lh,ould you pu(h matters to extremi ties now, when the national spirit is roused and high, a war mtift be the conftquence, ,atid that will overwhelm you and us, as far as respects your influence in America, in one Common ruin." -This, Mr. H said, he supposed must have be*n, and »e verily believed was, the lan guage wh .he person employed in this million was intruded to hold, and did hold, in fesret, to the French governmmt. His more oftcnlible communications, if he made any, as was said to be the cafe, might have, been, and probably were, more cau'ious in their exprcfiiops, and mere guarded in their sense 5 but it was on these con.lderations, and these alone, that, in his opinion, anyreli ance was placed by the authors of the million. These, he had no doubt, were fubftantial ffcrts of the negociation. The reft was mere talk and ceremony—the cover thrown over the real design. To have held other language, under such circumstances, would, ' in his apprehenfioti, have betrayed a degree of incapacity, of ignorance, and of childish simplicity, ef which he could not suspeCt the contriver of this million, m>r even the agent employed in it. 1 1 am very fenfibie, Sir, continued Mr. H. ' that the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Ni cholas) may again tell me, as he did on a 1 former occasion, that in reasoning thus I set up my own ufiderftandi'ng as a meafurc for ' those of other men, and find every body guil- ' ty of ignorance or folly who differs from : myfelf in opinion. But there-are some pro- 1 positions on which, such is their fullnefs of evidence, it is impo(Tittle for the»raind to ' doubt, and in which we njuft l'uppofe all 1 men of common fenle to agree ; in the fame ( manner as every man who has eye-fight ' must agree that the fun now (hines; and 1 Ihould any one deny it, whatever rel'peCt 1 we might have for his difcemment on other ; occasions, we rnuft suppose him to be blind 1 upon this. c Mr. H. said he was ready to adm it, with 1 the gentleman from Pennsylvania, (Mr. Gal- 1 latin) that the embaflV in question had pro- 1 duced no effeCt. Of this he was weS allured, 1 for he believed it to be a very weak project, 1 not calculated to produce any efFeft what- 1 ever. < The small apparent changes, in a few tri- ' fling particulars, which are said to have tak en place, he had no doubt were to be alcribed, not to the representations of this envoy, but to the vigorousmeasures of government, the 1 firmnefs ot the executive, and the spirit dif- ' played by tke country at large. It was not 1 the effsCt ot the million, but its principles, its nature, and its tendency, at which he was 1 alarmed. He wiihed to hip this most dange rous praCtice inthe bud, to cut up, by times, ' this plant of usurpation, which, if fuffered to taste root and flourilh, must Toon deftfoy ' the government by its poisonous (hade. This was to be egeCted, not by puuifliiag- this in- ! ' diviJu; 1, Vhkh he- iklkvcd could cet U doue, tor Ik knew of no few therein the calc was included, but by making a law to pre\Te;H .uch iiiii'cluevous practices in future 1 ■ "*n Wc know, laid lie, that other countries have been ruined by this very en g»ne of .a factious intercourse between their tu .nt citii'.ensaad theFrem hgovernment, when we'know that this government openly l avows ;t . 3 determination to encourage such in . tirrcourle, to proted all fadions, all male , tents,- all infurgehts, in all Countries; . when we know, inline, that this intercourse and her consequent protedion of domeftis . taftions, are the great engines of her foreign , policy, and the weapons wherewith she has , already p.oftrated so many wretched coun tries ; when we know all this, lhall we not oppoie an effectual barrier against this terri ; ble plague ? Shall we not pass a law to pre. vent individuals from thus transferring to themlel ves, by their own authority, the pow . Ms oi the government, which they may af terwards ule for placing the country under foreign dominion?, I hope, Mr. Speaker, chat we lhall pass this neceftary law, that wc lhall courageoully meet this new and formi dable danger. To do so, I know, will be contrary to the new code of the rights of man, according to which an kandful of in. dividuds, ao, 50, or au 100 may aflemble call themselves « the people," and afTume, at once, all the powers of government. It will, I know, be tinning against the new hjht. But in this new light lam not a be liever. I ftlll think that the majority of the people, by their representatives andagertts le gally appointed, ought to rule, and that all interference with their fundions, or usurpa tions of their authority, by fclf-appointed individuals, or felf-conftituted bodies are dan gerous encroachments which ought to be it (trained aud pun ilhed. This, lam sensible, IS an old faftnoned dodrine ; but the experi ence had under the new fyft JU i does notfeem to me to speak much in its favor, and I t( > closely and fteadil*. to the old plan. Although, therefore, Mr. H. said, he was ready to acknowledge this embatfy to have been in itfelf a very filly affair, yet he believed, that if tht pradice were once per. nutted, and thus the principle eltablifhecTit Wauld ljieedily be drawn into precedent, and m ,cad t0 the to tat subversion of the go vernment. The effeds of such a principle reduced to pradice, had already, he bid, made themselves lufficiently manifeft in se veral nations ol Europe, to the catalogue of which, preiented by his colleague, the gen lemanfrom Pennsylvania had with great pro priety added Switzerland- And by whom were the inhabitants of that beautiful and happy country delivered up to pillage, (laugh ter, and a foreign yoke ? By whom tut her own profligate sons, who, Emulated, by a boq/idlefi and unprincipled ambition-, chose, rather than not rule, to rule over a country plundered and ruined, and to hold a precari ous power as the miserable vicegerent of a foreign despotism. Are there no persons of thi« defer,ption, said Mr. H. among U j! none who for the fake of authority, would ' conlent to obtain it by foreign aid, and hold it by a foreign tenure ? I hope in God them are none : but I know of no reason, why we (liould be happier in this refped than the Swiss. Surely we have no less reason to be difconttnted than they hid. But this spirit, a spirit oi nJurpition, of a (Turned power, and of revolt, oat of which this particular cafe has grown, is not confined to this or that country, nor to this or that form of govern ment. It exists more or less in all countries, and under all governments, however julland mild ; lor in all countries are to be found restless, discontented, turbulent individuals, unfatished with the portion of power which theypofffs, or can by regnlar means obtain and therefore disposed, according to oppor tunities and circumstances, to use irregular means for the attainment of more. The spi rit, thus universal, has committed dreadful ravages in all those countries where it has not been vigoroully resisted, and clofefy tt ftrained. It is therefore onr wisdom to uieet it in the threshold, and ■ ppofe to it a a timeiy and a vigorous refinance. left it de stroys us also. " Obfta principus" is a wife maxim in all circumstances of human affairs, elpecially in the affairs of government. When a cancer has (hot deep its roots, it cannot be torn out, without destroying the vital parts. A timely use of the knife or caustic,- might have dellroyed it in the beginning without danger or inconvenience. This cancer in the body politic has but just made its appearance. Its roots are yet (hort and feeble. The pro posed law is the caustic and the knife, which I hope to lee applied with a firm and steady hand ere the evil spread and grow more in veterate, otherwise it certainly will spread, and destroy the body politic, perhaps in less tune than any one now apprehends. The house ineecd had been told, Mr. H. said, that they ought to rcjed the proposed resolution, because of some defeds in its form ot expreflion, which, however, would be found in no degree to effed the principle,, whereon the resolution was founded. Objec tions of this kind are never proper except to a bill on its thiftl reading, when, being no longer open to amendment, it muftbe rejed ed by those who cannot agree to its particu lar provifians, but such ohjedions were wholly inadmifli/Me, when urged against a resolution, which mult pass through various fubfequeut stages, where- all those small de. feds may be amended. In this firft stage, nothing but the principle ought to be in question, and it was the principle alone for which hfc contended. A little regard, he f.iid, was due to what had been said refpeding the intentiou with which an interference of .this kind mult be made. The gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Gallatin) had laid that the impropriety of ads like tbismuft depend on the intention • with which they were done. But how were, men's intentions to be judged of, but from their adions J Might thej- not fometintes think their projeds beneficial, when they were, w tad, of a most mischievous tenden cy ? And it the principle were once admitted, how would tUc intention of those who might pradice o» it, be afcer*ta4l tU principle,
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