The Ijfrter Bag of the Ship
Ad riana, K. Fitzpatnck, Mai
ter, for London, will be taken
from lire Poll-Office on Wed
nesday next.
Nov. 1.
The Letter bag of the §hi]i
Wilmington for Briitol, will
remain at* the Pott-Office, till
Monday livening, 5 o'clock.
November 1
For Nc-w-Tt>rk,
The Schooner
IiLPORGEE,
Ciifldfa RorF.K,
TO fa:' pnii'i .'Ciy next Tuesday. —
For freight or palta'p", anplv to
JOHN WELSH,
No.lU, Couth Water street,
WH') HAS
OPORTO SALT,
ACvt for laic, and a iWquirter casks
Malaga Wine.
SEVLKAL YEARS OLD. .
Nov. I
For Sale or Charter.
EAGLE,
HuVtd WilViamf'm, Majier"
THE Ev'le v itjoiit Iwo years old,
iJ«,sc.o :><iihc!*, aild in compleit
'"i'.ikr.
Fo-v'
• lMiiL A
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%- to
CC C ).
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C'd Ainerivuii Company.
THEATRE—CEDAR 'STREET.
THIS EVENING,
November 1.
Will be Prefi-ftTcd;
A COMEDY
Called the
Weft-Indian i
End of the Pluy, Mr. Solomons will firtg
the favorite Ion?: of
Heaving the Anchor Short-.
To -which <u'i!l be added,
A PANTOMIME, never performed
here, callqd
Sophia of ikabant j
O R,
The Falie Friend.
Performed in London and Paris upwards
of one hundred nights. t
With en-ire new Mu.fic, ocmpofed by
Mons. PELISIER.
BOX, fane Dollar —PITT, tliree quar
ers—G A LLFJIV, half a dollar.
places in the Boxes may be had at the
Box Office, from ten to one every day
(Sundays excepted) and on days of per
fomiancc from three to five P. M. where
also tickets may be had; and at Mr. Bed
ford's book-store, No. 8, font It Front
street, and at Mr. Carr's music-store.
The doors will be opened at half after
five, and the curtain drawn up precisely at
half after iix o'clock.
Messrs. HALLAM &HODGKINSON
TefpeiftiuUy acquaint the Citizens in gene
ral, that every expencc lias Been chearful-
Iv fuftaincd. that might tend to make the
Old American Compa.if, worthy a (hare o
fheir patronage, during the (hort stay the
nat> '-i of their engagements will permit
them to make here.
,For the Benefit of Messrs.
Afhton and Wools.
THEATRE—CEDAR STREET
On Monday Evening, Nov, 3
Will be presented,
That moll celebrated COMEDY, writ
ten by Mrs. Inchbald, Authoress of
" Every One has his Fault, Child of
Nature, Simple Story," &c. and never
performed here but once,
called
Such Things Are.
After the Play, will be delivered Satan's
Soliloquy to the Sun, (taken from Mil
ton) by Mrs. Mtlmoth.
After which an Eulogium on Free Mafon
rv, iu the character of a Royal Arch
Mason, by Mr. Afr.ton, and an Ode to
Free .Masonry, by Brothers Carr, Mar
tin, Wools, iU, Prig*-
«nr>re, Barwick, and Ryan, as Matter
Masons, and Mtffrs. Lee, Munto, &c.
To ivhich will be added.
A NEW COMEDY,
In two aJts, never performed in America
written by Mrs. Parsons, authoress of
the " Errors of Education, Miss Me
redith," &c.
Called,
l 2 be Intrigues of a Morning.
For the Gazelle of the Umlcd State's
ON PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS.
Ms. Printer,
J>J this astonishingly improving city,
fcaretlv yet anived at one seventeenth
the aj/e of London, or many other larg
crries in Europe, it is remarkable hoar
fertile human invention has been in the
contrivance of public amufemeuts, in
tended to dispell the gloom of the
thoughtful, exercise the lively aclivi'v
of the young and gay, or relax the
minds of the Sedentary and iudufirious
Tradesmen.
Amoiigfl these the Stage has been in
troduced with uncommon success and
indeed with a greater degree of, refine
ment, titan in any other part of the
worM ; nor can the mod riged oppofcr
innovations on the purity of the
morals of the American Chaia&er pre
te id td fay, that there is any tiling in
heTErttly evil in any public exhibition
hitherto aiithonfed in Philadelphia, al
though it is not attempted to be denied
that "hey may sometimes be made sub
servient to, licentiousness of manners ;
but where is the institution that is not
liable to.limtlar obje£lions t have not
the Pulpit, the Thrdroe, the Bench, and
the Senate, [although each of them
were jieiuaps necessary at different
iEraa to the welfare of society,] been
converted into intriguing Cabals, blas
phemous perfecutioas or unrighteous
4«cifioiis ? nay have we not recent in
stances of the mod limple combinati
ons, even private clubs and alfociations;
being tampered with, and made only
the inftrumentsof a few designing usurp
ers ? Under this impression, how can it
be expedled that the Stage would be ex
empt from the fame natural consequen
ces attendant on other public inllituti
ons ?
For my part Mr. Printer I frequent
the Theatre, the Circbs and many
places of amusement, with no other in
tention than to be entertained, Sindthey
never have operated any corruption in
my morals—A corruption of the heart,
mud proceed from a very different ori
gin : Vicious habits are too often inocu
lated into the humart cbmpofitiOn at a
much earlief period in life, than that
wherein the Stage becomes an example ;
sud then, it is the obje& of every exhi
! bition to mertd the heart, and by (hew
ing " Vice bis own Image," to bring it
back to repentance.
Biit whilst I am advocating the The
atre, let me not fall into so great a par
tiality as td entirely omit the pleasure
1 have frequently received from feeing
Mr; Ricketts performing in the Cir
cus. This is surely a species of amuse
ment that may be altogether exempt
from the censure even of the illiberal.
Here we fee crowds of our fellow-citi
zens assembled to enjoy an hour in the
frefh air, and to take an agreeable pro
menade. Here we behold the fairest
part of the creation interspersed with
their friends and admirers, enjoying in
the molt innoccnt manner the pleasure
of the scene and every one appearing
highly delighted with the wonderful
exertions of the performers.—With
refpeft to Mr. Ricketts, it has general
ly been allowed that he is the moll
graceful, neat, and active matter of
Horsemanship that has ever appeared
on this continent, or indeed I may fay
in any part of'the World, for we know
that he has performed feats never at;
temped by any other person in Eu
rope —One of these is his leap over
ten horses, which is taken notice of
in the Edinburgh Newspapers, whilst
he was there in 1792, and which I
hope he means to bring forward in the
Circus in Philadelphia, as he ha* cer
tainly met with gre&t'encouragement,
and ought therefore to exhibit all his
best exercises before he leaves us—l
recollect he leaped over Six Horses here,
but Hill If he is capable of deing the
fame feat as is mentioned in the Edin
burgh prints, it is but natural to expect
it from him here, and now that the
weather is tolerably fine, he is in duty
bound to please the public as far as his
power extends during the time he may
remain here this season.
it is not my intention to injure Mr.
Ricketts's feelings by these remarks, on
the contrary I would recommend to
him to begin his Performance for. the
next week, at eleven o'clock, which
will afford an opportunity to his patrons
-flf /pending an hour at the Cinn« pie,
viotis to the usual time of going to hear
the debates of Congrel's, a quorum of
that body being fcldom formed before
noon, and by that time the Performance
at the Circus will be nearly finifhed.
Thus already in this infant Country
the City of Philadelphia may with pro
priety be said to have arrived to a de
gree of civilization unknown ill every
other part of the world, for at about
the fame age many of the now great
capitals of the Old World were in a
itate of actual barbirifm, whilst here in
the New World; we so quickly natur
alized and eocouraged all the fine arts,
that we can justly boast of having some
of the firft * Performers that ever graced
the Drama on the American Stage J—
and one of the best Equestrians, that
ever appeared, in the Circus.
JUVENIS.
* It is 110 refle&ion on any of the
Companis to fay that Mrs. Whitlock is
one of the firit Performers in the Woild
—indeed 1 am of opinion (he is a better
general Aftrefs than Mrs. Siddons, who
is only famous for a few Characters,
whereas Mrs. Whitlock is great in a
vast variety.
The Reader kuill perceive that the follow
ing is an amended Statement of the Jl
merickn Min'jlers ADDRESS to the
National Convention.
NATIONAL CONVENTION.
29tb Thcrmidar.
A dlfciiflion on the Constituting of various
Committees was interupted by the intro
duction of the Minister Pleniopotemi
al-y of the United States,
JAMES MONROE. /
Not being familiarly acquainted with
the use of the French language, he a iked
that one of the Secretaries would be good
enough to read the translation of his dif
courie, which was as follows:
Citizen President, and
Meprefentatives of the French People,
My admifiion into this Aflembly, and
into the presence of the French Nation
(for all citizens of France are here rfcpre
lir.ted) in order to be received as the Re
prfr'fcntatlve of the American Republic,
affedts my sensibility in a manner that I
caniiot explain. I consider it as a new,
proof of die frier,dfhip and efleem which
the Frehch,nation has always teftifitd to
wards its Allies the United States o» Ame-
rica.
Republics ought to draw nearer to-'
wards each other. In many points of *iew
they have the fame interests. but a maxim
so generally truf, is particularly so with
refpeA to the French aiid American Com
monwealths. Their governments have
much analogy to each other. They both
cherilh like principles, and repose on a si
milar basis, to wit, the unlaienable and e
quarrights of Man. The remembrance
even of common dangers can but augment
their harmony, and cement their union.—
America has had her days of oppreffion —
of difficulty, and war ; but her sons were
brave and virtuous, and the storm which
so long obfeured her political horizon, is
difiipated, and hath left her in the full en
joyment of peace, liberty, and of inde
pendence.
France, c.Ur ally and our friend, who
assisted us in our ftroggle, is now launch
ed into the fame honorable career, and I
am happy to be able to add, thatwhilft
the perseverance, the magnanimity, and
heroic valor of her troops comtnand the
admiration and applaufts of an astonished
.world, the wisdom and the firmnefs of her
councils equally promise the most fortunate
success. America is not an inltnfible fpec
tarix of your effoi'.s in the present crilis—
I lay before you, in the declarations of each
branch of our government, declarations
founded on the affeiflions of the mass of
our citizens, the most convincing proof of
their sincere attachment for the liberty,
prosperity, and happiness of the French
Republic. Every member of Coilgrefs,
according to the mode of deliberation es
tablished in that body, hath desired the
President to inform you of these fentiment6
and in fulfilling the desire of the two hou
ses, I am inftrufted, by the President, to
to add, that they alio express his own feel
ings.
The powers con'ided to me, being re
cognized by you —I promise myfelf the
greatest fatisfadtion in the exercise of my
functions, as I am intimately persuaded,
that in obeying the impulses of my own
heart, and in forming the wirmeft wifhta
for the liberty and happiness of the French
nation, I (hall belt explain the wtlhes and
fejitiments of my country, and doing eve
ry thing ift my power to preserve and per
petuate the good harmony exilting be
tween the two Republics* I (hall render
the best service to them both.
Towards this objeA all my efforts shall
be directed. If Jam fortunate enough to
merit the approbation oi the two Repub
lics, I Ihall regard it as the happiest event
of my life, and I Ihall afterwards retire
with the conscious pleasure of baring lhar
ed feelings with those whose intentions are
upright, ard who serve the cause of liber-
f y-
The loud and universal applauses which
had accompanied the Minilter at his en
trance, frequently interrupted his dis
course.
The Secretary then read his Letter of
Credence, whereupon the President of the
National Convention, made the following
answer:
The French people have not forgotten
that it is to the American people thty owe
their initiation into the cause cf liberty, it
was in admiring the sublime \furre<slion
of the Americart people against Albion
once so haughty but now so humbled, it
was in taking themselves arms to second
your courageous efforts, and in cementing
your independence by the blood of oar
bravest warriors, that the French people
learned in their turn to break the sceptre of
tyranny, and to elevate the flatue of liber
ty on thc-.vrpci of a throng supported du
nng fourteen centuries only by cnn#»aad
\nd by corruption!,' ■ ■
' -«•- . A.-» * **"
How theniholild it happen that we Ihould
not friends ? Why fliould we not afloci
ate the mutual means of prosperity that our
commerce and navigation offers to two
people freed by each other? But it is not
merely a diplomatic alliance. It is the
sweetest fraternity, and the moll frank at
the fame time that must unite us, this it is
that indeed unites Us ; and this union lhall
be forever indissoluble, a« it will befoerver
the dread of tyrans, the fafeguard of the
liberty of the world, nd the preserver of
all the social and philanthropic virtues.
In bringing to us citizen the pledge of this
union so dear to us, then couhl it not fail to
be received with the livel iell erfcotionS. It
is now five years since art usurper of the so
vereignty of the people would have re
ceived thee with the pride which belongs a
lone to vice ; and he had thought it much
to haVe given to the ruinifter of a tree peo
ple some tokens of an ihfolent protection.
But to day the fdvereign people ihemfelves
bv the org;n of their faithful rcprelenta
ti'ves receive thee ; and thou fceft the ten
derness, the effiifion of foul tkat ac
companies this simple and touching cere
mony. I am impatient to crown thee
with the fraternal embrace which I am or
dered to give thee in the name of the
French people. Come and receive it in
name of the American people, and let this
fpefkaclc compleat the annihilation of the
last hopes of an impious coalition of ty
rants. ,
The minister theti advanced and mount
ed up to the Prendent's chair, where he
received the embrace in the midst of the
loudest and mofl reiterated plaudits ; after
which he took his feat among the rejjre
fentatives.
The Convention then declared its recog
nition of the minister to the French Re
public. Xhe speeches pronounced on the
occasion were ordered to betranflated in-
to all languages: And the American
colours were suspended from the roof of
the hall of liberty along with those of the
French, in testimonial of the intimate uni
on of the two people.
Imagiffetion cannot do fufficient jus
tice to this majellic scene, so touching, af
fecfllng, and penetrating to every fpeftator.
The hall was full as it conld hold ; the mi
nister himfef being most deeply impressed.
Foreign Intelligence.
FROM PARIS PAPERS.
ANECDOTE
of Coffinttl ex President of the Revolution-
ary Tribunal at Paris.
When Coffinal presided, he generally
confounded the accused in words like
the following, pronounced with a thun
dering voice :—Thy name ?—Enough,
get thee gone. He often ridiculed the
accused, made abusive remarks-on his
figure, insulted him 011 account of his
Countenance, and judged him ia the
fame moment.
When he tried a prisoner, who, in
timidated by his blultering interrogato
ries, or rather struck with terror, ap
peared to be discountenanced—There,
said he, you may fee the confcicntioufnefi
of guilt.
If the accused betrayed some firmnefs
in his answers : what a boldness! ex
claimed he, fee the audacity of crime.
Did the accused infill tQ juftify himfelf
—tu n'as pas la parole—it is not thy
turn to fpcak.
A fencing matter being once on the
fatal lift, Coffinal, after having sen
tenced him to death, cried out, there
parry that—pare% done celle la. When
this villain, CofSnal, waa carred to the
fcaffold, where he had sent so many in
nocent victims, the populace resenting
his former cruelty, cried out wherever
he pa (Ted—tu u'as pas la parole—-parex
done celle la.
NATIONAL CONVENTION,
Auguil 14
The refugees of Poland felicitate the
Convention on the late trmmphs of li
berty.
The President answers: Machiave
lifm produces alternately alliances and
divisions among tyrants ; fraternity u
nites all free uations together, and their
union is everlasting like virtue, which
conflitutes its basis.
Freemen of Poland 1 it will be fuffi
cient to tell you, that you, will ever find
as many brothers in Fiance, as th*re
are friends of liberty.
Tell your fellow-citizens, that the
French nation observe with the mod
lively interest, their struggle for liberty
—that it applauds their generous auda
city—that it receives every intelligence
of their fuceeflts, with an agieeable sen
sation, but tell them at the -fame time,
that feeble measures are often piodii&ive
of irreparable difaflers in great revolu
tions; tell them, that even a jting in
fetters always threatens liberty ; that
tygers and leopards.are not to be tamed,
and that, whoever fparet there it an
enemy to mankind; tell them before
all, that nothing bet a representation
can conduct them fafe into port, and
| that if they do not make hallc to form
one, they will only change their mailer
inflead of conquering liberty. * '
Honorable mention of this addreft. ■
ordered to be inserted in the bulletin'
as also the President's answer tu it. '
Barras read several imporrant pirc e ,
■elatiye to the confpy-ation happily frtif!
rated on the 27th July.
He related among other t^at
■tobefpierre had chosen Monfleaiix *
Bagatelle,* and .St. J u fl ) £ t
Unci,* for their country feats.
* Three magnificent chateaux near
Paris.
DUBLIN, Aug. 23.
The people of Francc aft upon prin
ciples of which they never lofc
parties may deltroy, each other, and
when they have done, things continue \
in the fame date with only the Lfs of
so many busy men to the Republic.
The charge of the accuser and the de
fence of the impeached, it is to be ob
served invariably turn upon the fame
point, a regard to liberty and rqtiality,
which unerringly points oi:t the nation,
al pafiion from the pains which :re ta
ken to flatter it.
Any measure hostile to this paffinn
would fooh attract the attention of the
enligfitened mob of Paris—And the
Convention, instead of voting law, will
vote its own doom. Hcnce it is eivi.
dent that we can have nothing to ex
pert from the exaltation or tht down,
fall of this man or {hat—of one faction
or another.
We have system and principles ta
contend agaitifti—not pedoiis. We fee
the fixed defpcration of France—and
have rcafon to fear that if (lie penfhes
in the conflict, her fall will rcfemble
that of Sampson, by involving all those
near her in the fame deftru&ion.
UNITED STATES.
ELIZABETH-TOWN (M.) Oft it
We are credibly informed that the
tnfurgents of the Well are panic struck
—some of the principals gone down the
Ohio to the Spaniards—That Wm,
Findley David Reddick, Efqrs.
were sent bv the mass of the people to
a(Tare the President of tbeir fubmiflion
to all laws and endeavour to difTuade
him from profeeuting the march—that
they met the President at Shippenlburg
and had an audience with him—-hut as
they could urge no aflurance other than
their bare opinion, the million had no
effedt—the President pet fevering in hi»
determination to punilh the guilty and
protest the innocent.'
PHILADELPHIA,
NOVEMBER i.
. By the proceedings of the National
Convention of France, of the 17th, ißth,
and 12th Thermidor, it appears that
the decree of aCcusation against the
commiflaries Sonthonax and Polvere! has
been suspended—and those commifla
ries set at liberty, after which thcv
went to Paris.
A member demanded that the colo
niftslhouldbe liberated who weredccreed
in a state of accusation on the 19th
Ventofe. This was opposed by Bour
don, who observed that th<? meaiuie
w6uld be contrary to the views of the
AfTembly, who meant to render jultice
to all the opprefied patriots, and not to
enlarge the Arillocrats. —He laid the
motion would go to release Page and
Brule, who ought to be held to answer
to confront Polverel and Sonthonax.
A member complained of the man
ner in which some Journahfts had pub
lished his opinion on the detained colo- ,
His complaint was received with the
cries of " Liberty nf the Preft," too
long ftifled by a facliou which meant
to annihilate it.
The Chevalier Dt Freire. .
Tliurfday prefentcd by the Sebeetuj
of State, to the President, as
Resident of Her Moa Faithful Majefffi
to the United Slates of Americaj *#4
was received as such. ■ _ .
We also hear, that Madam 0e Fretr*
was yeftevday introduced to the Frew*
dent and Mrs. Washington. ___!
Yesterday arrived the fchooiwNep" i
tune, in 15 days from CharWlloßj
which we learn, that WilKam S»«h,
Esquire, was on the 14th ult. rt-Wt® * - v
ed Representative <•: the DifljW
Chaileiton, in the House of l "V w '
•fei)tative» of the United States.
OLD THEATRE.
Mr. Hallam Jun. we undetfland, "
length makes his appearance, in the par
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