THEATRE. OBSERVER No. XXIII. Mr. Fenxq, It has been said of the works of fomc authors, that after the fiftieth reading they are SS fieth at ever. Tlie writings of Shaktfpeare will continue to please y.s long as taste or genius ihnll exilt.— The public are always pleased with a gi-od repiefentation of the Merchant of Venice, tho' pet haps not one of Shake fpeare'* play? has been tnorc frequently repeated. The lufhe of this immortal man is often obicured thro' the incom petency of those \v>lio attempt his cha- , rafters—but, the lad evening, he had , , i:s much justice done him, in many | trts of the above juitly admired come- [ : ,as was perhaps ever witnefled on an - c • merican theatre. j Mr. Chalmers in Shylock, was great —.he molt deservedly received the full- t 'one 1 plaudits of the house thro' the t .hi e play—there W3S no faultering on c as art—and no diminution of theap- { use which was excited at his firft ap- f carance—what a Jew ! '' r • IVhitlock, Mr. Moreton, and Mr. p .iJ. • 'hall, filled their several parts with J cue,-j and propriety j and Mr. Bates, , r n I.auncelct, was never more in his r leme it. V( t Finch, whose benefit it was, play- J, * 'rh uncommon animation, arid to ft, £"«t -ceptance. The Observer thinks t t i a; ti i Audience discovered new four- r cr ' ,-uture entertainment in this per- t ]] 101 rn . • IVhitlock in Portia, played with pr {-■ fual spirit and propriety—and 100 irs. Francis in NerifTa. The house Ij, ""'"recovered greater approbation of J ih< ■ t ,-rformers. I Characters in general were ex-1 t.. r tier, ,y well filled. I w j '' r ' Francis in Old Gobbo, was an I arl ex silent old man. I J / It was expected the house would A have been crouded—The Observer re- ~1, grets that It was not. It is a reproach be to lay the world runs after novelties, ten except they are imported. , " The Embargo" was well received Qllf —the incidents are few— pl„ t or f ur _ V pnze, neither the allusions, popular- the the sentiments, just and oatriotic. i Mr. Finch in Patrick O'Flanagan, t ha was, at lea ft, as good an 1 rid, man » ts has appeared on the New Theatre. bifl The Observer has said nothing of thai the performance of Wednesday (Mrs. I ~ » h:dock s Benefit.) There were some I F"( things to admire—and some that were r f admirable. But the Critics have drawn their goose quills—perhaps, just. I Jy. If faults are let the auf-1 tenty of punishment be tempered with I V mfrc y> good gentlemen ! ijuftii 14th June. I day, I to m — I pi e , From the General Advertiser. nefs > I daloi I From Correspondents. I conf| What a generous, grateful and ho ° U ' 1 lorablcl people are tHe Americans? How th"" nobly have they rewarded the French 1?" nat.on for their services, and how zea Tw lous have they discovered 1 hat the cause of liberty! A conduct f" pUbh ' p r» R and how much they'" re e '° ql " to the affeflion of a generous 1 enm, g • " lmou * gallant nation ! During "he American itruggfc f orl ; b '8 th * ctise, fd money, and Frtnce ™ t; during her (lroga-] e . fl,, ,7 r P , Qnhi er minister a ment of apart of the sum /, j I mon < have refufed it. Yes .l a we j prison, patriotic body, the Senate f ed States, have reieetrrl kn i" fr°m t the House of Reprefentar' '\ P d> n ing gi fum requested. What fc ' the P ublic people of the United L t T\ the fall U P from the virtue andlratriotifm thfm ' Senate ! Liberty malt fl ° s uch a ! A "J tl auspices, and the riohj, / 11 undcr »s 1 peopk slumber in security ful C ° nv « f'P" f Tyrants maS, of fee such union ; n< United she tnt W °' ld and ,0 future "es"? l ° the for the ' and j u «; c , J} * of national pl e a , ld lcd humanity ! 1 nce of °ppref- render a political ==* 'CONGRESS. IN SENATE, |une sth, 1794. The Committee to which was referred the bill ins illed, "An (tilpro viding- for the nf'fomc payment of a certain sum of money doe icad! i" to Frcnch Republic—make thefjl ,Tilings lon '' n S re P' rt • > please IT appears by a flaterrient of the ac •xilt.— count between the United States and with a France, reported to the House of Re hnntnf prefentatives, that according to the view Shake- which is entertained at the Treafurv of |iiently that account, the United States on the mortal firit day of January, 1794, were in ad- j , incom- vance to France the sum of two milli- j is cha- ons one hundred eleven thouftud and j j ic had eighty-fix livres tournoisand five deniers ; ( many (being 383,16 a dollars and 11 cents) j J come- beyond the instalments of principal and on an a JI interell which had accrued to that t period (— a great It further appears upon enquiry at c e full- the Treafurv, that since that period t 0 the there has been advanced on account of v ng on our debt to France the further mm of . These sums embrace all the parts of ve w 'th principal which by contraa would be- do " a "d come payable to France during the year b u OU t J r 794» beyond which, were there no co in anticipations, nothing would be demand- t w able during the present year, but the in- mr ex - terell on the balance of the entire debt, t h t which balance on the id day of Janu- t i'o 1 an ar>'» '794> is computed at the Treafu- the 1, Tat 2 »6i 1,587 dollars and 88 cents— rev >U ' wben « ' £ tefults, that the paymcr.ts w h rc - which have been' made, and engaged to P, , 3ch Ibe made exceed those which by the „y ten " s , of contraa could be demanded. t ioi , , I being the cafe, and the loan in j t fnr I q -r !! >n t,aV " 1g been - in its origin fpe- ato c . a y appropriated to the purpose of zen r — the finking fund ; j ,j" I 1 It .' S . the o P in i° n of tbe Committee, j ] Qll , > I that it is not advifeable to divert it from J 1 as us destination, as is proposed by the tee I ra referred to them, and consequently j r„. of I that the bill (hould not pass. [rs. I ff^T- J °rcign IntelJigencc * I P art c I — I cont 'ft 6 ! na TMNAL CONVENTION, coul us- I Sixtidi Germinal 16. th }. Vadier. At the moment in which I r I justice and probity! are the order of the . , I day, I feel constrained to open my heart n to my virtuous colleagues, and the peo- f°" pie who hear me.—Yesterday I was wit- J, ness, without being seen, of the scan dalous debates which took place at the r I Revolutionary Tribunal. I there saw I ' I conspirators conspire in the face of i H f. ! tice j I was witness to the molt attroci- 7". ous proposals ; I heard it said by those J 1 o- criminals: Nothing is more glorious M " than to conspire against a government r° Wn a- r h h : Ch , itWf C °" f P ;res - Damon said, T in Ilr US f" emies ' the committees of! 0 P , We ' farC and g"-" 1 fafety, and ? *! .. t] } e Convention should be torn to 3 t p , ,ecesa few days. What! Danton, « the enly rrran "hom I have f eared fo ' r IJ™ liberty, whose robult figure, cololTal j. 1 eloquence, and hideous countenance was enough to haye terrified its very image, JtW . f accufes the Convention! I have fefn , m citizens, the conspirators insult the judg! I y> : •" \ i, U " eS W " h an audacity which • Wat< - can hardly be credited. In g an 1 At the fame moment Dillon, and Si t! "f 1^ • mon our colleague, conspired in their ; P"fon. They had organized a cohort neg ° Cl of wretches, which were to have ifTued ! fr ° m , the Luxembourgh on a signal be 1 *? themselves of the f™ 1 "? Paiges leading to the committees of ? ° f public welfare and general [ 3 fa v / the nat fall upon the members .vhich r° I dla : j™. - frf „ p ; And these men still breathe 1 R„t tl at the People exist to support the energy of " 9 Convention, and to aid it in fIT j-r ab o' very of ,v„, p |„. j'fc- which , »«. fulfe Kberfy b , LfcEf E" »• ! y P art ' I declare, if 1 ' F' 3r hand as the members which com "7 Vem ' Cnt e LWO committees, I Wou)d . P ° re P°fit ft courage, though ma v K f% C r I,n va^u e kj» «">h mr ou fl p« b '». Plaudits resounded from ihVl 1, C ' et us make known to the people I < . /_ what we weic before the revolution, and I what we have been since; what has J been our profelfion, what our fortune, j ' tlieac- if we have augmented it, and by what I es and means, or if we have become more rich | of Re- than virtuous ; (applauses). Let each I r ie view 0 f us have this account printed : For jfi lury ot m e, 1 shall present you with the truth, I c on the if J deceive you in a single syllable, 1 I ■in ad-j ca ll national vengeance on my head. lii ) milli- j (The hall resounded with the loudest I t< ld ? nd i plaudits.—All the members fpontane- jli Jeniers ■ oufly rose, and voted with acclamations j ti cents) for the propositions of Couthon.) I y ial and Couthon. It is grand, it is fublimc I S 0 that to fee the Convention rife in a body, to J adopt my proportion : But as it is ne-1 h; iry at cefiary properly to digest it, I demand lec period that you decree the limits and principles Ita int of which Ihould be observed. Let each I w jm of deputy present, within a month at far-1 ti< and theft, a faithful account of his public Iyc ;nts. conduct and the state of his fortune :I wi ie P a - and let my proposition be referred to I fci at the the committee of public welfare, with Jw] P a )'- an order to have it presented to-morrow Ibe t of properly digested. No- This proposition was adopted in the I pii l>7s° loudest applauses. I , )a nder ~ Vadier. I should add to what I have Iwl nfc of already, said, to console the patriots, that j ass tions the number of conspirators is small: that I C x< y t!le people en mafie love liberty ; that lon IC ' f by far the greater number of the Con- jFt ts of vention are men of integrity. But what I si C ; dc- do the wretches fay who breath nothing led } car but calumny : The accomplices of the I . E"° conspirators said yesterday: To day fOO and- twenty deputies goto the fcaffold, to of - morrow as many more, after to morrow fro leDt > the fame number, and thus the Conven- I tin, a "u- tioii will soon be diflblved. These are Th the atrocities publilhed by the counter the 3f« revo,utlo nifts. Let the wretches perish I and dto P J: n " lum, ' niate the Convention ! ma' 1 all the monsters, friends of tyran- I yoti ttle ny & enemies of liberty ! The Conven. 1 • tion, ever faithful to the people whom the r'' 11 represents, will not fail to crush to cor P ; atoms every counter revolutionist. Citi- he -°t j zens let us be united, and we /hall save min tTl' 7 % a " faVC the Re P ublic - ~ lola, cm d P aud,t s often interrupted the orator, inde th™ JfTu- o " ame ° f the « V lt ly sos Publ * S presented to the take ) j Convention the following lift of new ad- I S na w — ( i lie Gazette Nationale contains onlyT ■' P art . ot this account, andpromifes to continue it >n the next paper, which we T , | I could not procure. ) j1 o t ch I n LONDONTApriI 8 . he i r Mon . da )'» a woman was commit- I_ A art r n r ,nal / rom the public-office, fclkn ;o- ?° W "? ree ' cha rged with extorting >' outl it- J;° u a nk Eardle y. IOL and a draft on f ul ln - Mtin I5 ° L b y threats of pub- lnd,vl he ?°'' S P a mphlet against him. ,deas .W ■. /" |° hn Bu "y an 's Pilgrim's progiefs t L ainl J ,f- 3, 18 a cataUogue of colaterals that that 1 •i I r , 3PP yto me ou >" great men I doe «t fe P r f fent K da r ; Christian asks a led g^ ns Hf F"r T h ' s kindred the -it f ",° f Fairl Peech; and is thus an- ftatlol d a, I other J_ "• , most thc w hole town ; and in I ment rr,, Lord '» „bj,a i, Ir- ■ ' ' Mr. Smoothman, Mr I terr ,r the C 'n! f° r a> ' S ' Mr " Anything, and a . rece ' j I p rfon of our pan/h, Mr. Two I vlclou < is hvTh "pr, my mother ' s own brother I world » by the father's fide, and to tell the truth tation ' lam become a gentleman of good pua if 1 hat waterman, lookmg one wa d > I .iftivt mebT.k'V *" d ' ™ " hi •I Mr « me oc c«pation. I hithert r I n>> C - '' le ' oan has been I advan c, : grSTad the ft ° ck Cxcha "S= with snd of great advantage to the pnrchafers. ,K • 'zti v, D , f ment of Ireland, under the author,' . ty of an aft c f Parliament m„ h I Mas: dia Bond, bearing an interest of 5 " The at the R T n Tt P a y ablc half yearly m,tted bout JZ ,hr gbnd ' the P r,ce a - optn '" s of above 2 jpor cenT' a ' ,oWa " Ce 1 which when we consider payments ' the st ock transfei r T'™ ° f hand as a bank note so °"V nd l ° Whil I venient for lodeino- n ' f a rfeftjy COn . I have rei posit for money everv"! , '° C 3 de * I e " ts1 in value, there can be L S I b "e bleffi j becoming a favorite fer '° U lts le' a public, and that it muflnT^v' I '' ! a " d anni tion to the Entrli/h c Propor- ar fctisfe | arenow above par. cents, which I fovereigr UNITED STATE? r't^ at ° I bearthei: „ PROVIDENCE, Tune c to 1 the peo- ter, in this state, to Connefticbt, we Ehe ap- j have the pleasure to learn are proceeding hole as- j with great fpiriu About a mQe of the jueftion roughest way is already transformed in- I to a beautiful and permanent Road, 21 i render I feet wide, and the committee exped to :al con- I have thc whole completed by the lirit ; people I of October." on, and I lat has j NEW-YORK, June 12. ; ortune, To JOSEPH PRIESTLgY, 1.1.d. f.r s : Y what Sir, ' c >re rich I Ihe associated Teachers.in the city a ft each I of New-Yoik, beg leave to offer you a j f I: For j sincere and hearty welcome to this land t truth, I of tranquility and fieedom. able, 1 I ImprefTed with an idea of the real J r head. I importance of so valuable an acquisition I n loudest I to the growing interests of science and | a mtane- j literature, in this Country, we are par-1 o lations J ticularly happy that the Honour of I tl I your firft Reception, has fallen to this! ir üblime I State, and to the City of New-York. I tc 3y, to J As labourers in those fields which you I F is ne-1 have occupied with the molt diftinguifh-1 vv ?mand jed eminence, at the arduous and impor-1 fe lciples I tant talk of cultivating the human mind, I b< each Iwe contemplate, with peculiar fatisfac- bt at far- j tion, the auspicious influence which Ith public your personal residence in this country, p, tune : I will add to that of your highly valuable I all ed to I fcientific and literary produaions, by ie with I which we have already been materially I oil arrow I benefited. I 0 f We beg leave to anticipate the hap- j a 1 the I pmefs of sharing, in some degree, that I th I patronage of science and literature, Ipa nave I which it has ever been your delight to I ed , that afford. This will give facility to our I ful : that exertions; direst and encourage us in co. that our arduous employments ; aflift us to I ch; I ° n " Form the Max, and thereby give ef-1 to what ficacy to the diffufion of ufeful know- de< ■ n g ledge. I f or f the Our mod ardent wilhes attend you, I fat day l S ootf S,r, that you may find in this land cot d, to of virtuous simplicity, a happy recess wh rrow from the intriguing politics, and vitia-I cor iven- ting refinements of the European world, uni " are 'at your patriotic virtues may add to I hor "X the , V ' S ° Ur " f ,""' ha PPy co "ft'tution, and 1 and l^ at ' !l e bleflings of this country inv; on . may be abundantly remunerated unto I lire ran- your person and your family. I v ;d, ven- And we rejoice in believing, that of 1 hom the parent of nature, by those fec.et An. 1 to communications of happiness with which sure « " he never fails to the virtuous our m'nd, will here convey to you that con- the 5 • — lolation support, and joy, which are futu Tf irfe J",' 10031 CllTUm dances, and litv. rnit- Which the world can neither give nor pekc \ I™*!? the M-J Signed by order of thc Committee, not "to I Edward Shephard, Sec'y." dopt we I rp . edS jTo the Associated Teachers in the City right of New-York. of oi Gentlemen, T , ' t " I f 11 A Tl C ° me t0 tl,is COUl, try from my " de . ce , feUow-labourers in the inftiuaion of rr youth, ,s, I affiire you, peculiarly o rat ,. of fu< on ful to me Clalles of men, as well as lb . individuals, are apt to form too high V m . ideas of their own importance ; but cer dcntl efs Ihl 7 <>f most '' m P° rta "t £fn lat that which contributes so much as oure M f a en do^tothecommunicationofufefulknow a ledge, as forming thecharaaers of men he » he r eb y ''tting them for their r" n Iftations , n focJety. In s ome f orm or for J"» other this has ever been my employ- ?. nd h in I and delight ; and my principal ,y I objea in flying f or an asylum to this r r- , C ° U " tr s''. " a land »" as I hope you juft r> I y ttrm it, " ( ,f virtuous simplicity, and ld a recess from the intriguing politics, and Wlll ~ refinements of the European te, /' t,or ■ r ' a l that 1 may, without moles- R h at 'on, pursue my favorite studies. And ,R f it I had an opportunity of making choice y of an employment for what remains of Pa !" ker - a( -t lv e exertion in life, it would be one °' "• hith » a d * 38 1 h °P e 1 have ntherto done, with you, to ; a, : New.Y„ rt , J i;™ l^ TLEi '- Mot!; . I came di I Massachusetts Legislature. I rpi J u,, e 5. "Or mined ? ,m^' UCe to whom wa 3 com- I , flanJ ' mitted the Governor's Speech at the the pro l I opening of the ftffion, take leave to ceded l< I report thc following terminec ANSWER. u P°'i on May hplcafe your esCfJl ""' and f el,c 'tate their constitutions anc I ble bleflinrr C r'""! uance of the invalua- [ the forti 1 e'eaed an? ° (I,I S governed bv men, estimate and anmlal'f *' b >' th^V R « d ar fotilS Iht 'y , feel a Peculi- Euftis, j I fove-eir'it!. IIOnf n n g l h' s of their joined. SSfflf. ge "T Uy cxe,clTed It i at prcfent ch 'V magistrate. b«r their CC 3 Pr °° f ° f U,c I(,ve th T ment t tk 0 f U ' ntry * 3 " d of their at,aci '- A quan Sves to ' r Wh ° have devoted them [<* sWf fuffraJe [ CrV ' Ce : And the repeated n bel ° th l Pe °P lc of Maflachiifetts, No. 3 [ beftowjng their Jirft pla. e, of hono Ma, 6 eta, we and emolument on ti,ofe k coding dopted and never defertL^ o^ * '°f the mult convince the med in- tude is not the characWVr T 8 ™ 1 - ' 22 cratic Republics • while tK * M abiii.y, ,„ d ?«»» ™«, Bnghi example „f Am,,,,,,'™';" Under the influence of f u , h ~V P '" U •Jd » furtherance of f.r.s. aflure your excellency that we In . deavour faithfully on our part to "i" ,C C,t >' s and S.uard the you a I fovereiontv of the thevf&rU&.Sr" 041 ''" We consider the present war in F • e real J rope, as a war of principles l°" ufition J nation of kings and nobI«, •e and and fp.ntua , againlt the e par- of men, civil »hd religious H„ «r of the exillent, „f fe 0 his in such a critical contest, mav be S Y -'n U " eh arms > and however the guifh- I wishes of our citizens may have been ropor- fek or expressed for the triumph £? mind, berty, yet such has been the coil "rt v t? th ' government and people 0 f / Ch the United States towards the comL j M' 1 P ll >WC j' ! at the le g' tima,c interests of table all and each of them have been sacredly 'n } le S a ™ ed ' and equally proteficd. This naily ought to have secured to us the ri, b of neutral,ty. But we have seen, St h\7 XU, T rCgr " and ind, i"«ion, that I these rights wantonly invaded on the ht to P r 0f fl Gre n ? rit " ln •' She ,las infult to I ed our flag, (he has interrupted our law > our ful commerce, (he h a , captured us in condemned the property of our met us to chants, (lie has imprefTedour fan,® i„. 'e cf- to her service, and in fine, ftefias ,„ va . now- ded our territory. To our comolaint, I for these injuries, her minims have an ycu, I fwered with indifference, if not with land contempt. It was a cnfi» like this reefs which the people of the United States " a-1 contemplated, when they formed their irld. I union ; that the liberties, inteiefts, and Id to I honor of the whole may be preferred ion, I and vindicated against foreign insult anil ntry I invasion, by the federal arm. On the into j strength of this arm, under divine Pro- I vidence, we mud rely. On the v.-ifdom that I of that government we must confide. ctet j And we hope and tnift that their ma lich I fureshave been such, as (hall procure to ious J our citizens indemnity for the injuries ■°n- [ they have received, and secUrity for the are J future exercise of the rights of netitra and j lity. Tor although the prcfervation,f nor J peace, on fafe and honorable terras, is I the firft wish of our hearts, yet we can ;, I not but highly approve the energetic i ts J;ivu been,, or rr,; a- I dopted by the government of the \3mt j ed States in vindication of our violated it) j h' s > a"'' for the immediate defeiw j of our fommsn count rv. That in cafe the measures pursuing n I under the wisdom of that government of I r t ' lC c °ntn'ua; ce of peace fliould fail tc _ I °f fnccefs, they hope, and have a right as I t0 ex P we may be prepared for the ?h I le f° r t °f nations. And we confi- ? r j dently trust, that fliould that unfortu is I natc alternative happen, the people of 1s j a^~a eh(ifetti will meet its calamities v J witlxhat unanimity and fortitude which n j becomes freemen ; and when called, will a * he found ready, with their lives and Jr fortunes to support the rights, interests, and honor ps the confederated Repub -1 j lies. To the several important fubjedU, referred to in yoUr excellency's commu nications, the House of Representatives , will pay the earlieit and most vigilant at tention. n / Read andunanimouflyaccfpted—or * dered, that Dr. Jar vis, MeflVi. Matoon, ' Parker, and Dniry, be a committee to wait on his excellency the governor, with the foregoinganfiver to bis speech. Friday, June 6. 1 A report of the joint committee on i the fubjeft of fortifications, with f* e following order of the Senate thereon, came down. " In Senate, June <">. " OH the question, whether Cailie- Island in the harbor of Boftcm, iieirtg the property of this commonwealih, be ceded to the United States? It wr.s de termined in the negative : And there upon ordered, thnt Thompwn ]• 5>« 111- ner, and Thomas Dawes Efqu:res, with such as the honorable house ma} join, be a committee to enquire » hat aitcia tions and rrpairs'rnay be Seceffary up;-n the fortifications on Catile-Illand, & « n eftimateoftheexper.ee." > Read and concurred, MtfTn. Euftis, Jarvis, and Bigeloir. (C.J a.c joined. Os: A quantity of stout well nrartr Mrr s fee SHOES, adapted for t.ie Sout! em w ke^/'x fitle at No. 36, North Thirdjtreet- May 6