Vw/ Old American Company. THEATRE—CEDAR STREET. For the Benefit of Mr. Prig more &c Mr. Martini THIS EVENING, November 26. Will be prefentfd, A much admired COMEDY. (perform ed but once in this city,) call'd NOTORIETT. Aftc the Play, Mr. M irlsn will deliver a DifHrUtion upon Hob';>y Ilorfcs, in the charifler of Squire Groom—the Sutef man's hobby, tiie Soldier's the I jwvtr a h&bhy,. {he Beau*? hobby, thd Phytician's hobby, the HBgrt hobby, -♦♦nrPatridt sliobby, the Fiddler's hob by, the Manajjcr's hubby, and Ilia own hobby. In the course of the evening, Jonathan's journey to Philadelphia, his vilit to the Theatre, peep into the Mnfeum, view of the Circus, his trip to the Camp at Carlisle, and defeviption thereof,by Mr. Frigmore. To •which ivill be added, (by Pirffcftlar Desire) A Musical Entertainment, never perform ed uere'fHut once) called the Children in the Wood. ' Performed in all the Principal Theatres in Great Britain, with unbounded Ap plauft- i The Music by Dr. Arnold, with accom paniments and additional Sengs, by Mr. Carr. Between the ails of the farce, Mi. Hodg- jcinlon will sing the much admired long of the new " Jjow Wow." End of the Farce, Mr. MSrtin will recite Dr. G l .nith's celebrated Epilogue in the c!i trailer of Harlequin. The whole to conclude with a Leap thro* a Barrel of Fire. The doors will be opened at half after* five, and the curtain drawn up prccifely at hair after fix o'clock. BOX, one Dollar—PlTT, three quar ters —GALLERY, half a dollar. Mefihr.IIAIXAM & HODGKINSON- acquaint the CitiKiis in gene ral, that every -xperce hJh hseti chearrul ly ftllMiud'/ that might te:id to matte the Oid American Co npanv, wort!i/a fliare of their din ing the fhorl flay the nature of rileir engagements will per .rat jhem to'ti Wfc hwe. Places in the Boxes may be had at the Box OBict, from ten to orfe every day (Sundays excepied) snd on days of per formance from three to 6vc P. M. where also tickets may Or bad, and at Mr. Brad ford's book-flore,' No. 8, l'onth Front street, and at Mr. Carr's nrafic-fiore. {, —4.' LAST NIGHT BUT ONE. Tor. th: Benefit of Mrv Nel- son y Mrs, Wilfoti v On Friday Evening, Nov. iS, wilt be pre sented a much admired" fc'omedy, cal led Wild Oats } o R, The Si rolling Gentleman. End of the Play, " Thte Soldier Tired of War's Alarms," by Mrs. Pownal. Afterwards a CATdll CLUB, under the diraiSVion of Mr. Carr, President Mr. Hodgkinfon, in which will be introduc ed several of the newest and inoft ad mired fongn, duettes, catches, and glees aid " the Heaving of the Lead," by Mv. Nrffon. To which will be added a FARCE, called The Ramp, Tickets delivered for that night, by Me firs. Lee, Miller, Keonard, M'Night, or Humphreys, will be admitted. THE LAST NIdHT THIS SEASON Mr. y Mrs. Hodgkinfon Refpeip, he ■ ould not reconcile it chrred it as improper to pafsa vote of to his duty to remain silent on tire 6c- cinfure, as it would be to pa fa a vote of cafion. approbation. Besides, where will this Mr. Giles then entered into an eriio- birfinefs of censorship end ? It would be , mium of some length, ob the public much better not to meddle with'the services and personal character of the mocratic societies at all. Some of theifi President. He vindicated himfelf from were perfectly fenfibje that they 1 had any want of refpeft 01 esteem towards gone too far. He (hould therefore him. But at the fame time contended move that this committee do now i¥fc, that they had a right to canvas his com- and that the chairman (hould report the municatiouS. He then entered into an address as it now flood. . examination of the propriety of the ex- Mr. Thatcher hoped that htY Col prefTion employed by the President, with league would not ihfift On taking that regard to felf-created societies. Mr. question just now, before other gentle- Giles said that there was not an irtdivi* men had an oppoi ttmiiy of atifweri'ng dual in America, who might not come him if they saw proper.' , _ under the charge of being a member of j Mr. Lyman in reply, fti'cf that geri lome one ot other felf-created society. j tlemen were at liberty, in difcufllng his AfTociation's of this kind, religious, po- ; motion, to ex'prefs their minds as to the litical and philosophical, Were to be < felf-created societies- He had no \vi(h found in every quarter of the continent, j to preclude any member frorti deliver- The fiiptills and Methodifti, for exam- j ing his opinion. pie, might be termed felf-created iocie- 1 Mr. Sedgwick requested that Mr. ties. The people called the Friends x Lyman would tale this Motion out cf the wcic of the fame kind. Every pulpit j way. Mr. Lyman withdrew it. in the United States might be incjft- i Mr. W. Smith then rose, and enter d«l in thin vote of censure, lince, from ed at large, into the ftibjecl. He said every one of them, ttpon occasion, in- that if the committee withheld an ejj iti iidtions had been delivered, not only prefTion of their fentintents in regard to for the eternal welfare, but likewise for the societies pointed out by the Prefi the temporal happiness of the people, dent, their filenee would be an avowed There had bVen other societies ill Penn- desertion of the executive. He had no . fylvania long hefore the present one ex- ! fciuple to declare that the conduct of itlcd, and for several purposes. The these people had tended to blow up the venerable Franklin had been at the infurredb'on. Adverting to Mr. Giles head of one, entitled a society for poli- he thought the afTertion of that gentle tical information. Tliey had crimina- man too broad, when he spoke of not ted the conduct of the governor of this meddling'witn the opiniomof other than slate and the governors of other dates, political societies. He considered the 'yet they were not prosecuted or dilhir- dilFetftination of improper sentiments as bed. 'There was, if he rnillook not, a fuifable object for the public reproba ;once a society in this state, for the pur- tion of that house. Suppose an agricul . pose of oppofiug or subverting the sexist turaf society were to eltablifh itfelf, and ; ing aonflitution. This was called a under that title to disseminate opinions republican focicty, and finally succeeded subversive of good ofder, the difference in its object. They also were unmo- |of a name (hould not make Mr. Smith lefted. If the Honfe are to censure think them exempted from becoming the Democratic societies, they do objects of jullice. Would any man fay the Cincinnati. It is out that the sole object of felf-created foci of the way of the legiflatflre to attempt eties, has been the publication of politi checking or retraining public opinion, cal doctrines? The-whole of their pro- If the felf-created societies a(?£ contrary ceedings hat bem\a chain of cenfttres on to law, they are unprotected,, and let the conduct of government. If we do not the law'purfue them. That a man is a support the President, the filcnce of the member of one of these societies will not house will be interpreted into an implied prote t him from an accusation for disapprobation of that part of his speech. treason, if charge is well founded. He will be left in a dilemma. It will If the charge is not well founded, if the be said that he has committed himfelf. focicties, in their proceedings, keep Mr. Smith declared that he was a within the vetge of thfe law, Mr. Giles friend to the freedom of the Press ; but ■would be glad to learn what was to be would any one compare a regular town the sequel ? If the House undertake to meeting where deliberations were cool censure particular classes of men, who and unruffled, to these societies, to the jan tell where they will stop ? Perhaps nocturnal meetings of individuals, after it may be advisable to commence moral they have dined, -where they Jhut their philosophers, and compose a new fyflem doors, p«fs votes in secret, and admit no of ethicls for the citizens of America, members into their societies, but thnfe of In that cafe there would be many other their own -way of thinking. Mr Smith fubjedts for censure, as well as the felf- by way of illustration, observed, that created societies. Land-jobbing, for this house had never done much business example, ha 3 been in various inltanees after dinner. In obje&ioo to this ainend brought to such a pass, that it might ment it had been Bated, that the felf be defined swindling on a broad scale. created societies would acquire import- Paper money also would be a fubjeft of ance from a vote of censure passed on very tolerable fertility for the censure ps thera. They were, for his part, wel a nforali'l. Mr. Giles proceeded to e- come to the whole importance that such numerate other particulars on this head, a vote could give them. He complained and again insisted on the fufficiency of in (trong terms, of the calumnies and Jlan- I the existing laws, for the punishment of ders which they had propagated against every exilting abuse. He observed, government men and meafutrc. Eve that gentlemen Vfere sent to thrs house, ry gentleman who though; that these ' not % purpose of patting indifcri clubs had done mifchief, was by this a minate vote# of cenlure,but to legillate me nduient called tfpon to avow hisopi only. By adopting the amendment of iiion. This was the whole. Mr Smith Mr. Fitzhmons, the House would only begged the house to take notice, and produce recrimination on the pnrt oil he repeated his words once or twice, [ societies, and raise them into much did not mean to go inta the oon more iinportar.ee than they poflibly | llitutlon of these foe.eties, or to fay that O N G R E S S. C < they were illegal. TV before the house vras not whether tKcle locie ties were illegal or not, but « hether they have ;-eea mifchievotw in their conle quences. . . , Mr. M'Dawell wa» of opinion that the terrii of fetf+reated for id its was too indefinite. He profciW the lligheft refpeft for thecliarader of the President; but lie did not think that the proofed vote of censure would be u(ineis, and the fvffem of funding ; hut the rejl of the pedfle, as well as well as democratic societies had very generally, censured the affurtptToW, an 3 the funding trail fac tions. Theft laws were, wantonly pas sed in dai'.nefs—they Ijatfe occasioned the iirfifr'reftion which have called the citizens by thousands to the field find have occafiohed ah expenceof millions He thought that some "laws ,had been palled whi'. h answered ho goodpurpofe, nor in deed an/ pnrpofe, but that of irritating the public; The plefent amendment he considered as deltru&ive npt only to the intercourse of dotneflic society, but ; that it involved a profpeet of throwing restraint upon the conduct of gentle nten in the house of reprefentafi/cs. With the gentleman from Virginia, (Mr. Giles) he was fatishee, th.it the a mendment, if adopted, would have no weight whatever with the citizens of rtic United Statesas fhey were too enlightened to accept of opinions froiVi their representatives. Mr. McDowell, in different parts of his lpetch, spoke of the societies in general, as mjjch less of fenfive than they were supposed, if in deed they were not entirely free from blame. Mr. Tracy rcrfe next. He had i rtiagined that i)o man would have the Hardihood to come forward in that house and vindicate these societies. He quo • ted,' from ;he remarks of Mr. M'Dow- J ill, The words " your wanton laws, be ; gotten in darknefr,-firrf raised in furreft- I ion, and have from hw If} .. Quitting this topic, Mr. Tracy, said that he would, for his own part, be difpoied to let these societies alone, and leave them/o the ehaflifement of their oivn confeiences. If they were to fav " gentle men you, as tyrants make laws, end slaves obey them,"—" I would answer" said Mr. Tracy " 1; is very ra(h. Think before you fay this again. We be lieved that, from inadvertency, some things have escaped from Democratic soci eties. which they had not well weighed, and which had a bad effeil on weak and ignorant people in the western counties of t'ennlylvaria. You have feeri the bad ef fects of your temerity. Take care befor you publish my luch thing again"—'* this is all the length which we frican to go, and can any body objedt tothiVf The Demo cratic iboieties form hut a very small pro portion ofihe penplcof America. Where is the harm in faying that one hundredth, or, J believe I might fay, not more than one thousandth part ©i the citizens of the U nited States have been millakert, and that they have been imprudent in printing cer tain indiiercet refiriotions : Mr. Tracy de clared that if the Preside t had 'tot spoke of the matter, he -hoLt, i have been willing to let it alone, becaufc whenever a fub je&of >h;skiiul was tourhid,'there werecei'- tain gentlemen in that honfe whofhook then uacks, like a fore bathed fjorfe, and cried out the libe; ties of the people ! Mr. Tracy wished only that the house, if their opinion ofchefe societies corn fponded with J that oi the Weftdcnt, lhouid declare tl>at ' f uc h an opiniou. This was quite i different irom attempting to legislate on ; the fubjeif. Ha« not the legislature done ' h) before ' Js there any impropriety In pay ing this mark of respect to a man to whom all America hath such indelible obligations' He thought that this de ■: la ration from the Honfe of Reprefentatiyes would tend to difcotirage democratic focic ties, by unitinr all men of sense against them. Mr. Tra cy said, that perhaps the member who spoke fa*, might be ronne&ed with feme of these societies. o which he entertained so tavoraok- an opinicn. Mr. M'D o w ell fait" that he had want ed the House to avoid quarrels, and to mind their proper bufinrfc of legislation. He dec.:.] id tlint he w.ta not a member of any such society. H? did .ipt know shat he had ever been in the company of any perforc, who was a any of them He was even, he (ic , < " cd upon Lis honour, ignorant »l )et | " there Vere, or ever had been, , n ' I'ocieties in Nortli Carolina, ij' *. verted to the simile of the Yore-h ac ]^ p j horse, and said. that he lie believed hi back to have been rubbed hardei in t |* latl war, than that of the gei,tfe lniUl He imagined that these societies had done both good and harm, and ap ,; n declared, that he could not confeiit vote of indifcrimiiiate reprobation. ?• | Mr. Dayton said, He could »«.JiI T believe the declaration of tfie {;rr;; ;r , an from North-Carolina, that lie r3 , r ,, s member of any Democratic society, f or it was very certain that if he had been a Member, their principles and v j rw< would have been better known.,-to him and he or course would have been more cautious how he defended the whole them. Mr. Dayton said he could p ut that member right in one particular by telling him that he was millaken, in fuppoiiing that tile J« e j a . furredtion was to be afci ibed solely to o,Ur laws. New-Jersey was one of th e Hates upon which a requisition was made for, troops to march agait ft the Infur g,ents. There were citizens in that liate,' who were not in favor of the law s in quc!lion, particularly the Excise Law, hut instead of being lei's friendly 16 good older and to the governmr:'i, they were anion- the foremull to oft r themfefves as volunteers. They argutrd thus with themselves (and Mr. Dayton [ said, he wilhed the member from N„ith | Carolina had in his discretion, adopted the fame just course of argument before he had conle out in his. fpeectw) "The q\ieflio'n is .not now whether this ortlut particular law begood or bjd, but whe ther the authority of the laws shall be maintained, whether the will of the ma jority (hall be ftipported, or anarchy and disorder (hall prevail ? Imprefled with tkefe nobie kn'timents, .his eoriftituenti, at the call of the President, a man in | whom they all confided, and whom they all loved, had zealously ftept forth, and were now {baring the hardfliips of the camp with their brethren in arms from ihc other dates. Mr. Dayton conceiv ed it to be, the duty of the house, to ao fwer that psftt of the Prefident'sfpcech which pointed to certain societies, and combinations cf men, as the fomenters of those unhappy disturbances. The Legiflativj and executive branches were established by the people, to promote their most and de«i It rights. The members who compoled them, had been duly elected, and were regarded, as the centinels over public ti beityand general order. If he whom the confidence of the people had placed in the highest watch-tower, and whole commanding situation enabled him fiift to fee the approach of danger, founded abroad the alarm, Ihonld we in our sub ordinate stations, fear to convoy the ivorct and tb communicate the alarm, left thereby we may render ouifelvcs more conspicuous to our energies, and itvy be mqre finely aimed at by those wiio are equally the enemies of our conftiru eots. Such a conduct Mr, Dayton ad ded, would be dastardly in the extreme, and would be treacherous to their trull. It was not that he feared as some gentle men had expressed themselves, to leave the President to the single resentment of ■ those societies, for his character was a bove their censure, and was too well es tablished in the hearts of the people, to be affected by any of the machinati ons of those felfcreated foeie ies. As for himfelf, Mr. Dayton declared he Ihould think it an honor to be censured by-thofe societies or combinations which had been guilty of designs to defeat the operations of the laws, and to dcfleinii nate suspicions, jealousies and accusati ons of the whole government. Mr. Nicholas.—" When we fee an ' attempt made in this House to repro bate whole societies, 011 account of the condtift of individuals, it may truly be suspected that some of the members of ; this hsuie have fore bads. The Prefi i dent has beenapprifed of the abfurduy : of making this a Legislative business." | Here Mr- Nicholas read a pafTagefrom 1 the Prelident's fpeecb, to (hew, tl it the notice taken of felf-created iocic ties, was not intended for a topic of dif cuflion in that house, The pafiage wa# expressly addreded to every drfrr'tptirn of citizens. " And when in thecal™ mo ments i.f refUflion, they fhal! have rc ti.rced the origin and progrcls of tl 8 injurteeHoii, let them determine, whe ther it has been fomented by combina tions of toen, who, earchfsof confequen. ces," clcdern. Wasthistanaddrefs to i"» two houses ? Did this paflage fhcwtfft the President wanted them to intermed dle ? Were they called upon to give an opinion ? Where could be tie for any thing of this fort ? The Ho" ' have made a£ts. The Democratic ocj