Imported jrfjM Amfi,rd-i n, and fjr fate
M.. Mcffcher t,
r o. If J,' South y)'o".l Str:et,
Freflj Bplica Teb,'
Blit-kPejffipr,
H63(tvj'd,aliceting» %' .
JWt pfnAbng*. X"s3vfd>>Kg*,
i>utcii grent and Sailors Coau,
Am) on fa«g isridit, ««$.-
A <p .and blue ' ; •*
Leydeh Broad-^ioths.
Dec. xj
For Sale by the Subscribers,
A'o. Bi> Walmit-Jheit,
17 Hogfhcads and 14 Barrels
Muscovado SUGARS,
19 Iheils H/im Tea.
7 Do. Souchong Do.
23 prpstsSjisiry Wine, 4 years old,
jjoquvter calk-Do. Do.
14 quarts' etfcs Fo't Wine, t
2 1
5 'J-.i ctn Ca >»l m Do.
M.I 11 d 12 half M l . Bofion B.e r ,
p 1 y'i. , T cki :n6w g*,
Oz J.J' ■.;< «nil Knvens Duck,
,",1 thithrp.nr Bale: ana 145
Boxes Window Glass,
8 BY -O.
Hali'rst, & John Frazier.
Dvc-,'5 * eod3-
PRINTING,
Its its various and extei'Jivc Brancke:,"
Executed with Accuracy, Elegance, Ex
pedition, and on Moderate Terms, by
Ormrod & Conrad,
At the Old Sii;n of Franklin's Head, No.
41, on the novih fide of Chefnut
Streef,
J. Ormrod has for sale, as ulual, a Gene
ral Assortment of
Books, Prints .& Stationary.
Dec. 15 d6t
NEW THEATRE.
THIS EVENING,
Dm'embfr 15
Will be Pi-ei'ented,
A COMIC OPERA, called
Lionel l & Clarissa,
•W
Or, A
School for Fathers.
Sir John Floucrdaic, Mr. Whitlock
C'ol. Clciboy, Mr. Bates
Jiflamv, Mr. Moreton
J.ionel) Mr. Marlhall
Harman, . Mr. Cleveland
Jenkins, Mr. Darley
Servants, MefTrs. Darley, jun.
Bliilett and J. Warrell
Mrs. Oldmixon
Mifsßroadhurft
Tlie Scenery dtligiW and executed by Mr
Milbourne. '
JDiana,
Jenny,
Ta -which will be added,
A COMEDY, called
\ 7avs & Means,
j 7
© R
A Trip to Dover.
Sir David Dunder,
Random,
Scruple,
Tiptoe,
I'aul Pecry,
Lady Dundir,
Harriet, Mrs. Francis
Kitty, Mrs. Mar/hall
Box onr Dnl'ar—Pitt § of a Dollar—and
Galle J' i a dnllat.
Tliedoors win W opened at a $ after five
8«<l the ptrfotinauce l-egin at $ a'ter six
c'clock
Ticket and-place for the Boxes to be
taken of Mr. WZLIs, at the Theatre,
fiom tsn'tillone, and on days.of pe.fo>m
ance from TEM'til! o'efrck.
Ladies and Gentlemen are requested to
fend their fervarts to keep places by five
o'clock, and order them, as soon as the
company are seated, to withdraw, as they
•annot on any account be permitted to re-
inasn.
No ir.oney or tickets to "be returned, nor
any person on any account whitfoever, ad
mitted behind the scenes.
Vivat Refpublica !
Frefli Teas,
Of 81-pemor Quality, tifc.
Impriiai, or Gunpowder
H) son Gomee,
11t quality Hyson,
id. do. do.
Young Hyson,
Hyson Skin, and
Souchong.
A few Bozti of cach, far fate at
No. 19, Third street south,
eodtf
Dee. 10
Boarding:
Genteel Boarding'and Lootings forthree
o fW men mav be had a t
No. Ba, south Fourth street.
Oer. I ( *e»d4t
CONGRESS.
HOUSE of REPRESENTATIVES.
Friday, December VI.
A bill to authorise the officers of the
Trcafui y to audit and pass the accomptt
of the late Edward Blanchard, deci-af
ed, was read a third time, and patted.
The bill for regulating the pay of
he non-commissioned officers, mufici
ins and privates of the militia, wlien
hird time and faffed.
This bill provides that the allowance
>f bounty, clothing and pay to the
ion-commifli<>ned officers, mulicians Sc
jrivates of the Infantry, Artillery and
Cavalry of the Militia of the United
States, when called into actual service
hall be at the rate per month, as fol
aws :—Each L'tgeant-major and quar
er-maller-fergeant, nine dollars; cach
irum and fife-major, eight dollars and
Jollars ; each corporal, drummer, fifer
md trumpeter, seven dollars and thirty
hree cents ; each farrier, faddlcr and
irtificei (included as a private) eight
loltars; each gunner, bombardier ant l
>iivate, Six Dollars and Sixty Si)
That in addition to the monthly pay,
there (hall be allowed to each officcr,
non-commifiion .3 -fficer, musician and
private of the cavalry, or the use of
his horse, anr.it and accoutrements, and
for the rifle thereof, a. pt of horses
killed in afVon, V .rty wti per day ;
j and to ea n rton-comm'ilioned officer,
musician and private, t ve..(y five cents
per day, n lieu of rations and forage,
when they (hall provide the fame.
That whenever the militia (hall be
called into the actual service of the U
nited States, their pay (hall b# deemed
to commence from the day of their ap
pearing at the places of battalion, regi
mental or brigade rendezvous, allowing
to each non-commissioned officer, mufi- j
cian and private soldier, a day's pay and-j
rations, for every fifteen miles frotn his j
home to such placc of rendezvous, and J
the fame allowance for travelling home
from the place of discharge.
That in addition to the pay hereto
fore authorized by law, there (hall be
allowed and paid to the non-comroifii
oned officers, musicians and privates of
the Militia lately called forth into the
a£tual service of the United States, on
an expedition to Fort Pitt, such sums as
(hall, with the pay heretofore by law es
tablished, be equal to the allowances
'.'■e r, • j" *V 'l • __i -». •—«
That for the completing and better
supporting the military eftabliftiment of
the United States, there fliall be allow
ed and paid, from and 1 after the firft
day of January one thousand seven hun
dicd and ninety five, to each non-com
mifiioned officer, musician and private
now in service, or hereafter to be inlift
ed, the additional pay of one dollar per
month, during the terms of their ref
pe&ive inlitlment*.
Mr. Heath read the following reso
lution.
Resolved, that the Secretary, of the
Treasury cause to b« laid before the
House a statement of the balances re
maining unpaid, if any, which may
have been due by individuals to-the U
nited States, previous to the 4th of
March, 1789, and whether any, and
what Iteps, have been taken to recover
the fame. And also abatement of the
sundry sums of public money, which
may have been eutrufted to individuals
previous to the said fourth day of
March, 1789, and have not been ac
counted for.
Mr. Harwood
Mr. Moreton
Mr. Cleveland
Mr. Bates
Mr. Francis
Mrs. Shaw
K4r. Heath introduced this refolu'ti
on with some remarks on the impropri
ety of making new loans, if any thing
could be bad from the debts due to the
United States.
It was agreed to take up the lefohi
t;on. Mr. Sedgwick moved to refer
it to a felcft committee. He observed
that a gentleman who was not at pre
here, (Mr. Jeremiah Wadfworth) and
who knew more of the public accounts
of the United States than any gentle
man in the Heufe, had always oppofcd
motions of tlu's kind. He gave as a
reason that people could not get their
accounts fettled with the Treasury after
waiting months. This arefe from the
confufion and loss of documents ; and it
would be wrong to be Watty in pnblifhing
such persons as debtors.
Mr. Fitzfimons said that ever since
the new government had been eftablifli
ed, ten or twelve clerks had constantly
beeD employed in endeavouring to fettle
these accounts between the United
States and individuals. He was not
sure but what these debts had cost more
trouble to the United States than they
are v 4-.11. Seme people arc stated in
the IkhJw a <r.e I'ued &**•
ors to the extent i millions, tyho c*'-
themselves crcJUo to the
States. He moveanotlier re up lit ion
v liich would anfweall the purposes in
tended by Mr. HeA, and 'this was that
a.comraittrs (hould e appointed to en
quire what progrefsad been in
the settlement of pulic accounts, wllc
ther any farther nxfurcs were wanted
to expedite tk& buficfs, and to get a
date of balances de. Mr. Heath
withdrew his ir.otiou and a committee
of five was agrc.able to the
ref<>lution proposed l ' Mr. Fitzfmons.
The House xtt n ' ■■><- op tallow
ing refohn';. ,vt- by Mr. Blount,
that a coitip hi .-: he pj niuted *•» k "g
in a I;'" k* ,>i - < f 'he
conruvifi: ot tt - of
the Ur" <: jutes. Mr. lomit .aid
I that the lov pay of t!; • e:s • the
militia, wa? not a canfe of p.ra;t dis
content, than the hipfh payo; thecom
miGioned officers.
Mr. Blount moved that the house
should go into a oommittee ot the whole
on this fubjedt.
Mr. Parker seconded the mo'.ion.
Mi Fitzfimons was for a feleA corn-
Mr. Claiborne argued for a feleft
Committee in the fivft place. H: said
that four thoufatid and fifty seven dol
lars per annum were given to a Major 1
General, which would be fufficient for
paying twenty eight or twenty nine men.
This was an absurdity and the army
were sick of it. He wanted a feleft
committee fir ft, that some kind offliape
might be given to the resolution-
Mr. B. Bourn b*4 n® l ' r ' *"J any 1
complaist ijaiii't ; he pa; the rtiii'- |
tia officer: <1 to Ki*h. i'lc had b* .
COfTtpir/ •« OiTj Olii'T _ 2'VITtCCtt
nmadc by Mjvcrfiixifr.t* such as the fix
dollars a day to ifiei crs of th?? house. |
He w ' link i: v: y : , roper to
make any diiliD&ion bttweep the pay of
officers in the rililitia. and , the other
troops. We have been raising the pay
of the privates in the militia somewhat
j above that of the reguhrs ; and now it
1 is pro poled to reduce the pay of the rni
j litia officers below that of the regulars,
j He thought that all tlus had somewhat
: of an odd apjearance.
The resolution was referred to a com
mittee of the whole on Monday.
On ltiotion of Mr. jSourn the house
vent into Committee of the whole on tie
Resolution moved by him on the loth inft.
viz. " Tha* provifionb; made for eTedling
the transfer ofio much ofthe stock handing
to the credit of a.iy state, purluant to the
report of the Commifioners for fettling
tl»e accounts between the United States and
individual Statei, to creditor* of such state
ti'wc dein with the ao tiler, t of tlefaid
State and its creditors —This resolution
was agreed to —and the house appointed a
Committee to bring in a bill.
Fereign Intelligence.
LONDON, August 23.
Tie CONDUCT of FRANCE
IN
BRIBING FOREIGN POWERS.
We have heard a great deal said at dif
ferent timet of the virtues and purity
of a republican government, con
traded with the profufenefs, and enor
mous expences of maintaining a mo
narchy. The following extradh from
a pamphlet, published by St. Just,
a few weeks prior to hit late execu
tion, but which was fuppiefied almost
at the moment it ivas published, will
place the conduct of the rulers of
the French government in so striking
a point of view, that we think we
rtiall not hear much more said on the
score of its political integrity to
wards the unfortunate people over
whom it rules. Of the truth of the
facts contained in this extract, no
peifon ought to entertain a doubt,
for they are the words of a man who
was himfelf a member of the execu
tive government, and consequently
extremely capable of knowing every
tranfadtion of it.
Report made by Saint JuJ!, to the Cem
mittee of Public Safety, at Parrs, in
the month of May, 1794, on the fub
jeß of expencet incurred with the Neu
tral Pezuert.
" FOR these four months have I
been out of patience with so many
(hameful and useless manoeuvres, and
fatigued by so ftiahy fhtpid political
speeches. If minillers are not tired of
impaling on lis, I am tired of feeing
them continue their proportions offer us
phantoms for realities, and open the
sources of the public treasury to insati
able and contemptible powers, in order
continually to purchase for us their in
ability, their cowardice, their treache
ry. It would certainly have eoft us
muchlefs to have fought and conquered
ibcsit than to have purchafcJ their c\
traei'dlnary neutral.:;..
« 1 jm really tued oi so much peril
dy, so much ftupiditv > and I wi(h tt
open the eyes of miiuTters to the dan.
rrcrs which threaten them ; and yours,
matas, vvhofe great knowledge has a
vailed them so far only as to accom
plifti, with all our means* with the molt
ruinous expence, what would have been
done without them, by the raiuralcow
have bought with our gold, but who
interest." ' . ,
" Not a (late in Europe, not a hngle
state, is governed by our principles ;
all of them are guided more or less, by
old'prejudices. The purity of our prin
ciple* allows n» compact with tyranny,
no compact with error ; these will gc> to
wreck in support of our triumphs. Now,
in this state of things, can you really
believe, that, among the old irtftitutions
which govern the dates of Europe,
there is a single one whvcli fr.icerely ap
proves our principles ? No: thut is
not the cafe, bccaufe it cannot be ; and
there is not, according to your princi
ples, one free state in all Europe. Do
you really believe then, considering thofc
of their
any state which can approve your prin
ciples ? Certainly not ; individuals are
ittached to them : French liberty has
her templet in many hearts; but she
lias none, and never can have any, in
■normity of the erfpencc occasioned by
efficient number of partisans in tlmfe
iates which were neutral through in
ereft, to derange the prudent policy of
ie found this neutrality desirable, what
lad our miniiters to do ? One thing
>uly—to remain quiet ;to take no step
vhatevci, but to keep a watchful eye
ity adopted by the belligerent powers."
" Which are the neutral powers in
his war? In the lift of kings, the
[}rand Signior, the king of Denmark,
ind the king of Sweden : among the
oidifant republics, those of Switzerland,
Zlenoa, and Venice.
"The principal object of our mini
ters seems to have been, to open a
lumber of channels w hereby to drain
he nation of its wealth. The milli
ters have b' :> changed, but this kirj
>f ministerial spirit has not changed.
rhereafoo. :gf
expences, secret by their i>a
. which at any rate are incapa
<eing verified, ate a very fruitful
jf profit for covetous mini Hers,
•t>*t swarm of hungry depend
>nrage them, in
numerous «xj*
Hire, and wh
ble of being »
source of pro.
and' to that f .
ants who flatter and encourage them, u
order to participate with them in the
of the state.
This, then, is the permanent pivot
on which the policy of our ministers
turns, in order to authorise the continu
ation of enormous expences.
"When neutrality is to be preserved
in a republic, it is the government, it is
the fevcral parties that are to be bribed j
nay, the very people mull come in for a
fliare of the emoluments. When kings
are to be jnade neutral, it is individuals
who are to be bought over: and they
are not less mercenary than the fubje&s
of republics. Examine the accounts
which miniftersgive us, and which Bar
rere is here spinning out 5 and you will
fee whether, for these fix months past,
it has ever been pofiible for us to get
out of this vicious circle.
" Undoubtedly the plans which have
been continually proposed to us with
reQ>eft to Turkey, have appeared of jhe
highest importance. But what
been t.lie confrqucnce of-an expenditime
of above 4.0 millions ? for i fhoukl bring
my calculation up to 70 millions, were
I to reckon the feveial diamonds em
ployed in presents, according to the cf
timate of the. jewellers who made the
valuation. And what has all fhjs pro
duced to us ? Nothing, no
thing. At one time, the Reis Effendi
cannot be brought over; at another,
the captain Pacha is not to be fatisiied ;
then coire demands for aids and subsi
dies; and at the very moment we grant
them, things"are changed, and they no
longer with for thetefame aids and sub
sidies.
" The most powerful i( terell of the
Porte, had (he been able to a&, was, to
avail herfelf of our alliance, in order to
exterminate Rufiia ; and if (he could
not adt 4 her interest was neutrality, the
consequence and the net-effary concomi
tant of imbecility."
••Two wretches, two ex-noblemen,
two tninifterisliftg, two fcnillaus, two
Mcnin and DcfcOrchis, are
our fluni&cra at Conftniitindpfe. The
guillotine alt ne ca
their ferviees ; ai d the it,! iiVauoa cf
their rich booty can alone irderr.uifv ;
For a part of our expcnces. There,
[hameful disputes divide the nation, re
duced to the disgrace of choofmg be-
( to complete the analysis) art 110 othtr
than two cowardly rascals, quarrelling
for the division of the wealth of the
date."
Don Quixote of the North, the po
verty, the wretchedness of Sweden, Mir
ally, rendered neutrality uectfaty to
two months it has been flill propoftd to
pay for it ? I hope that, after en inir- ,
ing the proposals which have been n , rie
to us, the committee will declare that it
purchases allies, and dots not brii c
neutrality."
«• Denmark, though neutral frc.rr po
however succeeded in dialing ftbiidits
from us ; and our agents there, in rob
bing us with the moll dagufting impu
ns, which, by the price it costs us, one
would imagyne to lie gold dr.il ; fume.
times to procure ptovifions tor cur na
iumeiimes foi Mr. Such-a-or.t, or Mrs.
Such-'a-ono, who poflefs an influence in
fitch or futli a way ; so that, ii ever the
correspondence of our agents is btought
to light (and I hope the lime is not
far off) it will be imagined lliat we pjy
our subsidies to kings, for their alliauie
or their neutrality, in whoies, pimps,
and rogues of every kind—Such, gen
tlemen; is the policy of our mimileis,
and such are its effefli whh xefpoft to
kings. litt us fee ' what it has been
irith refpeft to republics.
"I am happy, in ha-ing to L'-in
with the Helvetic cantons, in this exa
aud is ctmfidered as the molt fkilfnl in
;ociafcor, and his service as of the jmai
r(l utility ; the txptnees of his n.i.iilhy
ire beyoiid all proportion the mou i
ravagaut of any diplomatic expci.cts
r.currtd by the republic for tlufe two
'tars.
"Above forty millions have been
uuk in aii abyss, by being transferred
jing and insatiable jaws, in a couutry
vhere,for want of proper fultenance of
•ommerce, justice, liberty, men, and
he opinions of men, arc exposed to Calc
by auction.
" There is no end to the importu-. ~
nitics with which we are haiiatled : th; .
indefatigable Ba.ththmi is diaivurj
naids : to htm, i lu.pcCt, this may pe
more prod nftive : bit;, to us, it is of the
fame inutility as every tiling eifc that
has been done on the fame account for
these four years pad.
*' In thefc countries not a ungle flep
s taken that we arc not made t» pay
"or—and good heavens ! at what a
ate !—lf, however, every thing is lohl
here, and we mufl. pay iyr every thing
we may at lcaft a(k our n ntftevs Why
do you purchafelhofefavcurs which aic
Itfs >
have been expended to effect the exptil
fu.ri from some obfeure spot of thole ob
fcurc countries, of a fifcrc perhaps, flf
wretched emigrants, purfitcd by lum
ber, and awaited by the guillotine, and
whs have nothing left but a night Cap
And what is it to the republic whether
this night cap, and the wretched head
that wears it, feck a hiding place t;nm
Bade to Fribourg, or from Laulanne to
edjthen with that of the headset title
slaves ? Must we pay jo exoibitautly tor
rags r And, because fume wretches,
eager to barter every thing, aredehr t.»
to treat with u« for-thefe outlaw;, vho
, have taken (hclter in their territory, is.
it neceflary wc should fnfTer them to t;x
on such a wretched commodity, f.ich
an extravagant, ridiculous, iniuhtng
price i "
" I have r,«u' to fpeaknf Genoa, and
I am ready to allow that the negociau'on
citTrieii on V.hcrc, is the least unprofita
ble of any the miuifter has been engaged
in, it has however cost us an mormons
Aim, the expencc has exceeded all calcu
lation. What 1 have to observe how
ever, is, that for the objeift lealiy cfieiiti
al, scarcely any thing has been expended
but vrhat was absolutely nepeflary. whikt
the wealth of tl.e republic Ims been ia
vifiied in extravagant, impradtiiabie ;io
je£\s, useless even had they been atten
ded with success, and i>liich, if tiiey
had been ufefitl could nevtr have indem
nified us for the money la:d out upon
them.
« There are two i b -61s which strike
the attention of tin c immittee, in exa<
mining the series oi the mir.iller's ct-r
---refpondence on the fu -jeCt of the nego
i.iatipuat Genoa.
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