. Sallad Oil, Of a Idpei o quality in boxes u s twelve Bottles ; lO * SAtE BY Grtibb, Mather 13 Hill. Ni>v. j(i j come to Hand, And to ae Cold at N0.68, Market street, A of Portraits, i vjj. i orirairs, Price 6 Cents. This Card repreHinii nv» D (tinft Fi £ui es, which at ilrft view uat the linalleft ••■femblanee of 'the faces dtfig.i'cd tobe exhibited ; but al'trr a clil"er iiVfjlct tioir, the likjiiefles appea- lo itTik'r.- jrhat the p,>rfon who views them tan hardly lee any :liing el r e ? and is fitrf>- iled He had not difcbve'rcd tUein Ibpnei , Nov. 27 rodt OU American Company. THEATRE—CEDAR STREET. LAST NIGHT BUT ONE. For the Benefit of Mr. Nel fo)i & Mrs. Wllfon, Cn Friday Evening, Nov. iS, will be pre sented a much admired Comedy, cal led Wild Oats• O R, 'The St foiling Gentleman. End of the Plav, '■ The Soldier Tired of War's Alarms," by Mrs. Povnah Afterwards a CATCH CLUB, under the direction of Mr. Carr, President Mr. IJodgkinfon, in which will be introduc ed several of the newest and most ad mired songs, ducttes, ratches, and glees aud " the Heaving of the Lead," by Mr. Nelf'on. To wl>ich will be added a FARCE, called: The Romp. Tickets delivered for that night, by Meflrs. 1-ee, Miller, Keonard, M'Night, o. Humphreys, will be admitted. The doors will be opened at half after five, and the curtain drawn up preyifely at half after lix o'clock. BOX, one Dollar- —PITT, three quar ters —GALLERY, half a dollar. MefIrs.HALLAM & HODGlONSON tefpe&fuily acquaint the Citizens in gene ral, that every expe-nce has been chearful ly fufiaijied. that might tend to make the Old American Company, worthy a fhace of their patronage, during the Ihort flay the nature of their engagements will permit Them to make here. Places in the Boxes may be had at the Bfix Office, from ten to one every day (Sundays excepted) and on days of per- A>rmancc from three to five P. M. where also tickets mij- had, and at Mr. Brad ford's book-store, Mb. 8, foiith Front llrc-et, and at Mr. Carr's mUfic-ftore. THE LAST NIGHT THIS SEASON Mr. £s? Mrs. Hodgkinfon Refpotffully acquaint the Citizens in ge neral* their BENEFIT is 011 Monday, December 1 ft, wheu will be presented, the very popular OPE liA or The HAUNTED TOWER, With new Scenery and. decorations —by particular desire, the Dance of the TWO PHILOSOPHERS. Aild the Coinedy of the L Y A R. antfot Mr. and Am. Hodgkhiffch, N«, 89 Foarth To-Morrow will be Landed from on board of the Brig Mary, Capt Beaks, at Sims' wharf, Old flierry Wine, In hhds. and quarter calks, Pofc sale By Philips, Cramond 13 Co* Nor. 24 djt — i v.\ ». ~f - FOR SALE BY GILL iff MENSHAW, Na. 128, South IVater Street, CLARET in cases, Madeira, Sneriy, and Lisbon Wine? Philadelphia Porter in |>ori;es,for expli cation at The ilnitulk riutiir, or for prr vnre families and tavern keepers, d«;iver ed in «nv part of the town. ALSO, Jtr. nffortnent of 5-4 6-4 American manufactured Bolt- ing Cloths, Which will bt warr»nred etjusl 10 any imiwrttd, for the reTpeftive pqrpofes re quired—as has already befcnfi und on trial A Liberal Ailowanie to dfeal* ers. A C"mplfiit Set of Grocer's Cannifters tot. SALB. 1 f t GONGRESS. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Tuesday, November 25, 1794. Debate an Air. Fitzjimons's motion rela tive to felf-createdfecieties. Mr. Murray (aid, that he did not al together like the precise wording of the amendment now before the house ; he had hoped that some modification of h would have been prepared by some of j the frieuds to it« general object : but as none was off. red, and there was a call for the queliion, he would vote for it, rather than ngainft it. He said, that he had not been personally attack ed by any of the tribunals in question, and no farther injured by their machi nations, than as he was a citizen of a free republic, in whose prosperity he felt the clofelt polTible union, and in whose calamities he of course felt the comple teft lympatliy. Among the various sources of the late calamity, the Presi dent had.traced and designated certain ltlf-created locieties, who had arrogated the management of public opinions and affairs, artd whom he had declared to have been in his opinion inftrunaental in fomenting the late infurreilion. Mr. Murray confeffed that he had feared iatt •'•inter, lefl the disorganizing spirit, which had gone abroad in the (hape of resolutions from these societies, would have produced the fcffeA ascribed to them by the President. The conduit of the democratic clubs, or those of them with which he had mod acquaint ance, appeared to him to have been in strumental to an event which had threa tened dellru&ion to the legitimate go vernment of the citizens of the United States. If we believe this to be the cafe; Mr. Murray knetf no motive, du ty or policy, which ought to restrain us at this period from faying that we be lieved it j and from lamenting it. If ar>y one of the sources of this evil be found in an abufc of the press, we may tell our constituents what we believe and la ment—but if the fountain of this evil flow from the root of the tree of know ledge itfelf, it is our duty to point out its waters, which too freely drank have produced detraction and insurrection. Our declaration will rather hold out pa- I ternal catition to the thoughtless, than inflict legal penalties upon their follies. It will present to our fellow-citizens a memorable example of one fouree of er ror and political misfortune, by (hewing them the danger, which has»alreadv cult above twelve hundred thousand dollars ; and it will enforce a great republican truth, that in cases wherein ? from the difficulty of definition, and from the ve ry genius of freedom, a lavfr would be dangerous, public virtue, in her enjoy ment of a right, ought herfelf to prc feribe the bounds which separate the use from the abuse. He could not fee any evil that was to result from an ex preflion of tiie opinion of the house, by the proposed amendment. It had not the quality of a law, for if a law were proposed for the abolition of these soci eties, h« would oppose it. This amend ment to the address would operate as an advice. It curtails not the right of a free press, which Mr Murray held to be the luminary of the public mind. It would tend to excite a judicious and fa- lutary enquiry among many, refpefting the just and true limits within which a virtuous and enlightened well-wisher to our country would think it fafe to cx ercife this right. Of the inutility and danger of such iocicties in this country, he had little doubt ; the scene of their birth place was well adapted to the wholesome display of their powers. In France, where a despotism impregnable to public opinion had reigned, where no channel opened a sympathy by rcpre feutation, with the great body of the nation, those societies were admirably adapted to break down the old bulwark of habitual authority. But in Ameri ca the cafe was widely different. Look at the immense body of public function aries, who in this country are ele&ed immediately by the people, or by their elcftors, in a constitutional mode, and fay, whether they are not adequate as funflicmarles to the public purpoCcs of the country. Including every descrip tion of legiflatdrsy councils, governors, courts, jurors, and (heriffs, there are a bovt twelve thpufand. Of thele more than eleven hundred are actual Icgifla tors, besides the hundrid in this corn- mittce arid thofc above flairs. These all aft in the states, counties, townlhips, and hundreds, in separate but relative circles, so as to pteclude a partial at tention to any one scene to the exclusi on of another. The whole country is full of well constituted organs of the People's will. Many oftbefe legis lators are in fefiion twice a year, and all of them annually. In surveying this beautifully ray'd corps of vigils nee and *«dtl' subiic good, we might be confufed by for evil ?He a g a '" remindedthecom j heir fcLenfc number, were they not so miltee, that the Republican Society at idmirably dispersed over tfie continent, Balt.more was composed of a band of I % tots ox, lance of the laws, with the harrtlony of the present day, but the pam#9 ot fe he spheres. It would not be easy to vemyf ve, the men who were not afraid J irganize tJk nation into a more multi- to rally round the American »»■"-- . fariout fl^R." when that Ration was a.molt concluded * The cXiaintained by Mr. Dayton to be a forlorn hope. They were men * yefterdayTmpeared to be Itrong. He who, with their persons and propert.es, , laid that Xhad enquired into the de- had assisted to drive from the foil of A feat of St. CV ir'3 army, and so we merica, the present lawless disturbers of might into the causes of the infunec- the world. " Are thele the men, lion. The house have a right ta en- said Mr. Christie, " who ought to have in the raidft of our liberties, that fane- upon them ? I trust not lir. I tiult, i luary is not to screen it from remark, that if particular gentlemen are illil eraK To point it out to a people so enlight- enough to censure them, yet that this ' :ned, will be to prevent it. in futiirt. If House will neveragree tofuch iniquitous [he house agree in opinion with the measures. What was the conduct ol President, they will speak their opini- this society, when the firft news of the sn, and do their duty. This declara- late infurredtion reached them ? Did tion goes to the condituent body, thro' they not, in the molt pointed manner, the executive, and while it gratifies their difcounteiiance any fuel) proceeding? inquiries, in a point of so much folici- Did they notrefufe to correipond with tude, it eredts a warning beacon. It any society that aided, or in any man fhews to them the stormy breakers ner abetted the inlurrtftion ? They did which lately threatened the public; peace more. They offered their perlonal fer ivith shipwreck, and invites them to ad- vices to go and lk'lp to crulh this com to charts with which they are acquaint- joined that he would venture to fay, and ed.. . , at the fame time he spoke within bounds, If the President had not thought that nine tenthi ot this society adtiially some of the societies inftrnmental to the took ififg their muskets, and marched in late calamity, t)iey would not have at- to the field, for the above laudable pur tracied his notice, nor that.of the house. pose, and that number, p; them it ill It is because they are believed to have continue 'there and are the friend* of assisted and fomented the infurrettion, peace and order, pik] ,iot the JJorgani that ourconltituents ought to be warn- %crs, that the present amendment would ed against them j and that another ne- rr.ake them. Mr. Christie applied to the ceflity for exerting their patriotism may committee, fay whether the Balti be saved to those brave men, who are more jdf-cruiicd Republican society were at present encountering every difficulty the description of men whom the Prefi in the Weft. These societies ate not ~:ent, in his fpeeeh, meant to dclcribe. attended to by the law, because, howe- He was sure it was not. Therefore, ver offending some of their proceedings why involve in this indiscriminate cer> and doctrines may have been, yet the sure, m en, who have deserved so well of rights of the press ought not to be free- their country ; men, who, inllead of ly handled. The probe that would having odium call upon them, merit reach the bottom of thi fore might give every praise, which the federal govern a spasm or a callous to the fin eft nerve ment can bestow. Forthefe, and some which enlivens the organs of liberty.— other reasons, Mr. Chriitie declared that Mr. Murray added a vatiety of other he should v ote a.Tair.it the amendment, obfervatious which we are forced to and he truftcd that he should vote in the leave out for want of loom. majority. Mr. Fitzfimons had no violent predi- Mr. Murray rofc to explain- He lection for any performance of his own. did not mean this society. It was the He had therefore, to prevent so much Philadelphia and Piiifbuign foci-ties, disputing, prepared to withdiaw his mo- Mr. Murray was acqu-aii.ted with 'his tion, providing that the committee were society, and had trie greatelt refpeft for willing that he should do fo,and In the them. As for the membets of the room of this motioii, he would read ano- other societies, he was for gibbetting ther for which he wag indebted to a their principles only. gentleman at his right hand (Mi. Mr. Giles anc Mr, Tark.r fevewlly Bourne.) The committee consented.— spoke against the term " fejf created fcci rhe former motion was withdrawn, and etie the latter gentleman moved that the other was read. Thi* wai an echo this ftouia l,t " n ! ck out_^ r - Sedgwick of that part of the fpeeeh of the Prefi- T ° ?P °- ct ° *" S ° Ut ' 1 u j i• L • rtr tr • democratic iocieties were certainly tile Go* dent, which mentions felj-crcahd foci- j c a of censure in the fpeeeh-they certamly etlcs - _ _ merited censure, and fueh ought to be Mr. Christie then rose. He was for. the declaration of the committee. In this rv to differ from his worthy colleague way the President ought to be supported (Mr. Murray) on the question then by the Legislature. Mr Venible twin before the committee ; and he wasdou- tavor °f diking out the words—he fa d blyforry to hear that gentleman labour mvolved every c n n r ~, ... ~ uefcription ot ucicties not tezatuea by so strenuously to faddk a public odium hw w l hatevcr VVVIS the cV , c , . Ilf f ]ieir inlU l on lome of the belt citizens of the fote tution—this general.exprci]ion involves;ve (Maryland) wh'ch he represented.— ry serious confeqiiences—it goes to the sup- Mr. Christie should not have risen on prefCon of free difctilfiun—and the ex the present occasion, although he preflion of the public in ivi'prft to public thought it an important one, had it not ] ncn aml l' ul,lic m"fures-lf; any ot rhefe been to endeavour to rescue from public "" : '" : T ' , o alluded to the Republican society of ver "ment were well know n- Mr. Dextci the town of Baltimore. If the present obie f kd to ftr: j k ' n ", out tht or,ls—He en . i_ t t r • tertrtl into a detail ot the proceedings ol amendment took place, that society these focieties-their object has been invari would be involved in general and unde- ably to cerdme the adrtamffration of the served censure. He would therefore government —wbile they clo?.k tiiemfelvts inform the house of what description of under the appellation of" Republican they men the Republican society of Baltimore ' iave constantly aiSed in contradiction tc consisted ; and then thc committee their title, by opposing the firft principh would be th# belt judges, whether they of that a m jority should ought to be rewarded in the manner in stated the reasons on whieh the pro which they were about to be rewarded, priety of echoing that part of tbe fpeeeh if the present amendment should be a- under confideratkm is founded. rlopted. They were a society of gen- Congrcfs is the centre of information— tie men associated together, foi the pur- is tl- eafon against the people to withholc pose of diffufing political knowledge that from tbe people in thc thiough the state of Maryland, and To "'ZU l ° f ■ n . c . • ■ A r pomble to notice that part of the fpeecl inftrua their representatives in Congress, now under consideration without givin f and in the L.eginature of the (late, in an opinion relative to a —wemufthav< any point that they thought necessary, an opinion on the occasion ; two branche: and not for the purpose of sowing dif- °f the government have exprefied their o Mention among the cititens of America, P'" ion —and it is the indefpenfable duty o >r of cultivating dislike to the union,and £ Committee to exprels theirs. ' , i-very man laid he who votes againlt e* -reflin' ' ' -r This society con lifted of men, whose characters were superior to any censure that might be thrown agninft them, by th« mover of the amendment, (Mr. Fitzfimons) for they would consider it r.o discredit to have his disapprobation. But when Congrofs are about to call an odium on a particular society, who have every refpeft for that body, and have always inculcated obedience to the laws of the United States, Mr. Chriitie left it to the committee to determine, whe ther, if they were themselves, in the place of the Baltimore society, they would not feel their fcnfibility materially wounded ? Was not this returning good irefTing this opinion will be con idvocating these inflitutions. Mr. Gilbert—regretted that the fubjetfi had been draxTi ir.to so imje'n discussion— but it bad developed so many fadis and oc casioned so many afiertions n 1 stive to these societies that it was become i idifpenfably neceflary for the Committee to give an opi nion—and he conceived that no solid ob je for it-he trusted that no "nliden.'i i".- th.s fort would induce any ma,, to devUfe from the dilates of 4ns confrience, or lk lcrince his independence. £■ He then entered irtV, a confident™ „f the mode of attack on the (ocietie, tdof ted by the advocates of the motion • th-v had entered into a long f. ment of departments, such as That of the Uuited States, where the executive power was lodged in the hands of an i„. dividual, and where the Icgiflaturt « as not perpetually in session, there seemed to be a propriety in point of theory, fanftioned by the practice of all fuel,' governments of which we hadanv know. ledge, that the executive fhoiild' exhibit to the legislature, at the commence. ment of its deliberations, a general pi r . ture of the state of. the community, and announce such fadt« as had, or might materially affed the public happintis. That in addition to t|Je obvious proprii ety resulting from the nature of things, it was made conftituiionally the duty of the President, to reprelent to Congrel* the (late of the union." And that in doing this, such fubjetts were not alone to be feW&ed, as were within the appro priate limits of legislation. That the President in comformity to a univerfaliy established practice, and fn the p;rma nence of the duties exacted as well by the confidence reposed in hid), as by the express provision qf the eonftitution, had declared to the legislature, that an unnatural infurre£Hon had taken place agairdl the government and laws, and that it had been fomented by certain combinations of men, under the gene ral denomination of felf-created focic . ties." ; Tbefirft question which presented it felf to the committee, was whether the , fails as ftattd by the President be true ? and i; so, the second question was whe : 1 thcr it was the duty of the house to ' give their voice in support of the Preli dent's declaration ? He was- prepared, upon very mature and deliberate conft deration, to give his unqualified aflent to both quellions. A Gtntliitiau (Mr. Gilts,) had fa'd that to echo the sentiments of the Pre sident, would deltroy that unanimity which was so desirable in the houfc, and produce difcotd and irritation. No man would go further than himfelf to obtain or continue unanimity in the public councils ; but he was at a lofc to determine why gentlemen (hould permit themklves to be irritated at a declarati on of the truth, refpedting mifcliu ous societies, who one gentleman (Mr. Nicholas.) had afieited .to.be contempti ble, and whom he said he heartily def piljed—Societies whom no man had un dertaken to defend, hut which another Gentleman (Mr. Lyman) had repre sented as in deep repentance for palt mifoondudt. It hsjd been said that the adoption of the proposed amendment, mi|>ht be con strued an intention of reftraiuing the freedom of debat?. He was sorry to fee /my where, and more particularly in the legislature, a disposition to con found freedom and licentioufnefl. They were indeed as Chrill and Belial. Was there not he allied, an obvious on between a cool, difpafiionate, hone it and candid discussion of political mea sures, and a wicked, falfe, and leditious misrepresentation of public men and public measures? The former was with in the province, and it was the duty of freemen—the latter was inconsistent with moral redtitude, tended to the dtf tru&ion of freedom, and to produce every evil which could afflict a commn s nity. He was w.liii gto concede that - perhaps no boundary would beioactu * ratelv marked, by which the one miij'it in all instances be subjected to puniih ment, without endangering the other. The boundary was nevertheless uiftindt t ly marked in the mind of every mm - corrcctly iuftruCted in morality and po • litics. If then it was agreed that this was not a fnbject on which legal difcuflion was -contemplated it was acted, why , fliould the house express an opinion on it ? Mr. Sedgwick said he would aft m his turn, why express the other fe> ti ments already unanimously agreed to mi the address ?' Why particularly approve the gallant cond«nfl of Gen. W'tynea. his brave army ? If the house o thi« to conduce to the benefit, by fh'mulating t« like nrt* / I idered a* *-o»