For Boston, W eft- Point,, Henry Jack foil, Mailer. TO r iil in <n>- f»(> t pply t» t&V<j&ipc*»iTuu iMJ»>tt, atUff-l nu. /tofrt or ' John No. 81, south Water Strvri. tXc. 29 tljt A House wanted. • A Ge«ltel $m»U Hou e, <il' which pof (»S»an can he« n»veii tiflw f»om t hi* ( fa the ift Ap*»l «e*t. of the Friu ttt twreof. - 4**: NEW THEATRE. THIS EVENING, DtCKMBt* 29. Will he Prelenttd, A NEW C DMEDY, written t>y the Author of the Weft Indian, called The Natural Son. Sir Jeffery Latimer, Mr. Bar wood niuilicnly, Mr. Moreioii Rueful, Mr. Green Jack Huntings, Mr. Chalmers Major O'Flaberty, Mr. Whitlock Dumps, Mr. B?tes David, Mr. Francis Thomas, Mr. Darley jun. William, Mr. Price Mrs.Phcebe Latimer, Mrs. Shaw Lady Pai agon, Mrs. Whitlock Penelope, Mrs. Cleveland To which ivill be added, A FARCE, in two a<sts, called The Spoii'd Child. Little Pickle, Mrs. Marshall Mr. Harwood Tag, John, Thomas, Miss Pickle, Maria, Margery, Susan, gox onr DnHsiV—Pitt J of a Dollar—and r ial'*- v £ -i rlollsri Thedoors will be open- rt ai a i after nvE anil the p«rfounance begin at £ altei six (i'clock. Ticket* and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Wilis, at the Theatre, from ten''i)lonk, and on day of pc toun ance from TEN'rtll o'rlock. . Ladifa and Gentlemen are reqnefted to fend their frrvants to keep plarc* by five •'clock, and order them, as soon as the company arc feateu, to withdraw, as they cannot on any account be permitted to re main. Vivat Refpublica!> RALPH MATHER Is removed to No. 71» Rice ftrett, op posite Moravian Alley. Dec. f). GEORGE MEADE's COMPTING HOUSE is removed to the South fide of Walnut-Street Wharf, one Door Weft from the Cor- This Day is Published, A N Authentic History OF THE Revolution in Geneva: Price i» i-i Cents. Tlt riritet of the utrvr inlriituts tie frffaw wg hi kh mletefiing remark — " Such a detail will be neither void of interest nor titility to your prudent coun. tiyificn, May they reflrft on it with at. tpiitfon, and leam by the dilsftrrm exatp. p'e ot the mod derooc'atical state tbat'ex lis on continent of Europe, the ex. treme d;ing«r ot foreign influence ; and a. bovc all, how rapid and inev't'ble ii i* to transgrels the feeble interval which iepa. rates the abate of liberty (torn its rain !"' Si.ld by Thomas Doblon, No. 41. Sseond ftveei, lol'n Ormriul, Chefnut iliret, by M. Carey. Market ltrect, and by the Edi- tor hf rtot' Oeccml-xr 11 tuft Publilhed, to he Told by the EDITOR, at M» J ionic, cornet of' ami Fifth ftiects, mud by the diffiieot fcookfelleis in the City, THE Philadelphia Dire&oty atid Register, &c. Kmbellijhed vtiih a correH plan of the city By JAMES HAhDIE, A. M. (PRiC£ 6» i-a CE'.JTr.) ALSO, A short Account of the City of Philadelphia, Am 1 »t t * charitaM* a d lite, t.irv indithtions rhervi", eirbvllifted with t 0 fitoe nlftn< price 37 1-2 ceit I *. \V'ie r e (ike»ife may be hid ihe Plan by irfelf, ,Tice i$ cruts. N B A" .V,.p?Jw!iX» Cnntal»irj the Hin r mm} rffWew* of the Cofigreu, tl* Lc .(I. u e «.!' fennfslVtM\i4, names .imit red, Hid o' t.* d fft-ieni Societirt, &c. will i e .tclu-ei rri t.. Subrcubt-rj for Ik* Oi'ifturv. «>'!> D c * For the Gazette of (he United States. — Mr. Fknno, THE, pitblic lately been fur feitediwith a swarm of vindicatory ad dreffts from the Clubs. They have in general been foflat and tnjipid, as to pals unnoticed. The addreis however of the German Republican Society has some in, it, and therefore re quires «pt*e.' The true intention of their inftittiti'> n ; s there announced in plain language ; the honest Germans art- said to be plain spoken men ; and the members of this society, laying a(idc the mantle with which some of the o thcrs have thought it prudent to cover j themselves at present, have explicitly I announced the views of their association. They tell u« " that all governments are more or less combinations againjl the people ; they are Jlates of violence againjl individual liberty, and as rulers have no more virtue than the ruled ; the equili brium between them can only be preserved by proper attention and ajfnciation ; for the power of government can only be kept within its constituted limits by the display of a power equal to itjelf, the collected sentiment of the people: soli tary opinions have little weight with men whose views are unfair, " but the voice of many Jlrikes them with awe;" to pb tain a conne&ed voice, afiociations of some fort are neeeffary ; the checks and ballances of government arc inventions to keep the people in subordination ; a re action of some fort is therefore neeeffary to keep up the equipoise between the people and the government." The tneaning of all this jargon is, that not withstanding the checks in the constitu tion of the United States and of the several Itates, the right of ele&ion vett ed in the people, and all the various rights refcrved to them, by the trial by jury, the habeas corpus, &c. &c. the people of this country would undoubt. edly be enslaved, if Citizen Genet had not arrived in this country to found the Democratic Club of Philadelphia, 01 if it had not entered the heads of a few honest. Germans in Philadelphia to es tablish. a society ! that in spite of the good sense of the American people, their knowledge of their rights, «nd their determination to preserve them, they would have fallen a facrifice to the tyranny of their rulers, had not Citi zen Kammerer and Co. hit upon the lucky expedient of eftablilhing a Club ! Rifum teneatis ? ' HAH! HAH! HAH! Mr. Francis Mr. Blifiett Mr. Darley Mrs. Rowfon Mrs. Cleveland Mrs. Bates Miss Rowfon For thi Gazette of the United States. I HAVE been so much ft ruck and pleas ed with a fmirt little sentence in ' the Ad dress of the German Society, that I can not forbear recommending jt, as a metto to the Clubs : it is this, " Solitary opinions have little weight •with bad rulers„ hut the voice of manyJlrikes them with awe." Having lately pa (Ted by a German church during the pfalm-fifciging service, I felt the force of the above sentence, as proceed ng from the German Society, (the voice of many Jirikcs them with awe J for I confefs it was one of the mod awful things I re collect to have heard, and if the Society, when they have any complaints to utter a gainll Congress, would fend their remon strances and denunciations by a committee of th«ir best fingers and loudest ftentors, and have them fang, I am persuaded it would produce a wonderful effefl. But their present mode of doing business wont answer for who knows how many are present when their resolutions arepafied, or whether they are sung or said, (no trifling circumstance) : where can be the effeift, of the voice of many, when we only fee the names of the Preli dent and Secretary ? and where will be the awe, if tuey should happen to hav« little squeaking voices ? GERMAN REPUBLICAN SOCIETY A: a full meeting of the Society, the fol lowing Address <waj unanimoujlj agreed vpon, and ordered to be fublijbed. The German Republican Society of Phi. ladelphia, to the free and independent Citizens of the United States. A voice too loud not to be heard, calls I upon u> to ajdr<;fs you. A just and an ho norable caiife fummoiu us at your bar, and we nioft cteerfully pay obedience to it, un der the fulleft perlwafion, that reafoa and not authority, is the scale by which you measure the anions of men. The right secured to us by the late glorious struggle for liberty, and guaranteed by the consti tution cf our country, has been exercised by us, and for this we have met with the most opprobrious denunciation. The right consecrated by our facial compaA, and held sacred by every nation pretending to liberty, the right to speak and publiih our fcntiments, has be?n railed into qneftion, and'the Leeiflature of the' Uniud States were about to er*& themselves into a tri Jar. tf 1 .J •» Mr. Fekno, Fellow-Freemen, bunal Censors, to deprive the freemen ot America of their birth right. «-n. usurpation of po.ver so flagrant, l'o con trary to tilt true intent and spirit of our constitution, so repugnant to the principles of liberty, could not have ekaped your cbfervition. The moil extraordinary fa& in the annals of J.be age could not have pal Ted unpcrceived by you, that that p*- i irio.'icfocieties <wire the oujeds of denunci ation in the fame tear, in Gnat Britain, France, and the United States of America.! We have been charged with the author- j (hip of the western infurredtion, and upom j this mifupported alTertion, an interdict ion j of the molt dreadful kind was to be ful- j minated against us. How tiue this charge j is, we will leave you to determine. The ; proofs are in your hands, and you are al- I ready competent to decide upon them ; ' for every ail of ours wh.t'h had relation to public affairs, has been promulgated to the world. Let ui call your attention to our resolutions in reprobation of the inlur reiflion, and search in them for matter of crimination. , Did they arise trorn fear, as has basely been inlintfated ? What is to de ter a freeman from speaking his ferrtiments, when he is within the pale of the law ! A thought so foul is worthy only of the wretch who engendered it, and marki him a fit iollrumeht of cowardice an 4 treach ery. Are we the abettors of insurgents for supposing government can do wrong, tor difa'pproving an extife ? Then is the free dom of opinion at an end, then is that au gust hand of patriots, who combated a gainst a Britrfh tyrant, a precedent for dis order, for having declared to the people ot Canada, that Excijes were the horror of all free governments. But our declarations in 'disapprobation of the infurre&ion has been questioned as to its sincerity ; for we have been accused of wearing the masque of conspirators. As well might we fay that our accusers wear the garb of patriotism. and are load hi favor of freedom the more certainly to effeil its deflruition. As well might we fay, that the pretended friends of law and order had secretly fomented the inlurreftion, that they might borrow a nother argument against republicanism, and be furnifhed with a stronger evidence in fa vor of a Handing army, as that the patriotic societies were instrumental in difleminating feditiori. The language cf Pitt (that sa tellite of despotism) was in praiie of the glorious constitution of Great Britain, and the liberties of Britons, even at the mo- ment he was Tapping the citadel of person al fecuritv, the heabeas corpus, and how near is its affinity with the late language of American legislators when about to plunge a dagger into the bosom of liberty. Our accusers have not been daring enough to lay our institution was uncon ftitutioaal, how great thtn their absurdi ty in arrainginßy this they meant to diihonor us •• —WtTjnth cannot be fnllied by any contact with (alfefijMife If Demo cratic Societies are not proscribed by our social compadl, why this congressional en quiry, why this denunciation ? Was the national treasury in a frelh, that it was ne cefi'ary to find such a flu joe for its abun dance ? Or did the denunciators, by a de claration of their opinion», expert to give a law to the United States ? Here then rests thf artifice-^-Men are the creatures of opinion, and its by opinion alonethat laws In all well regulated societies can and ought to be enforced. What it the common law of England & which has taken root in this country, bnt opinion It is opinion atone that gives force to our laws ; for we have not the physical power of a standing army to argue obedience to them. Thus then the re presentatives of the freemen of America designed to give an opinion which was to have the operation of a law, and by means of it effeiS the deftruftion of speech. In this view of the fubjeifl fay, fellow-citi zens, who are the conspirators against the liberties of the United States ? Say who meditate the deftrudlion of our constituti on, and seek to plunge us into all the hor rors of anarchy or of despotism i Say which is the felf-created society, the one composed of citizens under a conliitution al fandtion, or the one, delegated for the purposes of legiilation, and usurping a censorial authority ? But lelf-created as we are supposed, here ditary diftin&ion has no place in our code, diplomas, with the mfignia of nobility, adorn not our mansions, neither does birth give ap exelufive claim to a place among us. We drain not the public treasury for difputjtions about diphthoags and parti cles —the public purse rewards us not fpr making handsome syllogisms or pretty me taphors. We have never fiepped forth the champions of an enemy, who fought to en ilave ui, and difhonort d a friend on whom our political salvation depended. Princi ples and conduit so unrighteous cannot be imputed to us, though truth, as in the de nunciations against us, were placed upon the rack. Fellow-citizens, a bare view of the fubjedl will (how that our enemies teem with absurdities—At one moment we ate said to be felf created, at another, the lateminifter of France is said to be our parent—At one moment we arc coiifideied as obfeure and contemptible at another as a combination so formida ble as to endanger the government— At on» moment we are supposed the abortions of society, at another as possess ing influence and vigour to fupercede the wifdoin and (Irength of the nation. Dilhontftv cannot be rendered so fvfte matic at long to pass for truth ; the cloven foot of falfhood mull be seen ai last, and such his been the fate of our accusers. In the ronvulfion of zeal and ■ of exultation they have unmasked them ■ selves and presented the Dold front of MOMUS. confpiiators agair.ft the iiitS I.r.dblc li- J berty of opinion. The right to associate in Democra tic Societies' has been questioned by some ; but if we have not this privilege by what coiiftitutional text will other atfociations be juttitied ? If we as a num ber have not the right to speak our frn timents, by wh-.it political logic will the right of an individual be defended ? If many have not tli is privilege, few certainly mufl be deptived of it, for the j tight mult be multiplied by the number ) which compose the foeiety, up to the } majority of the whole nation, who 'give law to the community. To de j prive a number of this right wni leave i not a ftiadow of claim to one ; for it is in dire& contradiction to the print? i | plei of a free government'that oueindi-, vidua] (hall have a right from which ma ny are eXcJucJed. The principle recog nized by our'Conflitution, that the ma ny are to govern the few, must be at an end, if this reasoning dbtairs ; for the right of an individual to publilh his feu— ttments, noonehasyet been bold enough to controvert. But admitting we are criminal, by what clause ofthe constitution exprefied or' implied was Congress metamorphosed into a body'of juror 6 for our condemna tion ? The remedy for trespass ot the kind imputed to us is plainly pointed out by our laws, and to wander from it is an usurpation exceeding in guilt the crime with which we ;\e charged—Nay so great is the advantage of government over us, that if we had been guilty, they had the powet to translate us from the vicinage of the criminal commiflion : to any place favourable to their views. If Democrats have been the inilrti- of the western infmre&ion, how | will it be explained, that they were among the foremoft to ftippYefsit ? Oui . brethren, the Democratic Society of Pennsylvania, could have made a quo rum in the field, and they were among the number who received the commen | dations of the Prcfident of the U. State?. Fellow-citizens, thi&fubjeft isfolemn . ly important to every freeman in the ■ United States. For however some may r difapprovc our inflitution, all must. : unite infupportof the liberty of speech. It is but too obvious that an endeavour was made to wrest this right from us: how incumbent then is it On every one > who values his feeedom,lo bend his at -1 tention to a fubjeft so highly inter • tiling. All governments are more or less combination* against the people: they [ are states of violence against ;n !V;di:al . liberty, originating from man's imper - feflion and vice, and as rulers have no ; more virtue than the ruled, the eqi.illibri -1 um between them can only be prefer- ved"by proper atteiition and afTociation ; j for the power of government can only be kept within its constituted lim its ! by the display of a power equal to itfelf e the collected sentiment of the people. Solitary opinions have little weigh with men whose views are unfair ; but the voice of many ftr : kes them with awe. To obtain a connetted voice associa tions of some fort are necefiary, no mat ter by what names they are designated. The checks and balances of government are inventions to keep the people in su bordination ; a re-action of some fort is neceflary, therefore, to keep up the eqiripoife, between the people and the government. Whether these be town and township meetings, called to echo the pre-eminent virtues of adminiflra tion, or whether th<y are alfociations of another kind, that approve or con demn as their judgment directs, they are alike legal, they may be alike ufc ful and to interpole a veto to them is alike tyrannical. It is the fnbftance and not the sha dow of things that we Ihould regard, and if the fub'ftance meet 9 onr wi'hcs no matter by what found it is conveyed to our leniet. The bugbears anarchy and antifederalifm, invented to flifle free en ; quiry, can no longer lead you sftrav : they hav* been so hackneyed, that,! ke worn out jades, they are no longer fit for service. To your judgement we now submit our cause, for it inuft ulti mately reft with yoti, whether liberty or tyranny (hall reign among us, and whatever may be your opinions of our institution you will do u* the jtiftice to believe, that we owe no great ness to our country's ruin. In defiance of every menace and denunciation we are deter mined to remain firm at our po!t, and never will we surrender the rights of freemen but. with our lives. By «>rder of the Socicty, HENRY KAMMERER, Prefidrnt. Attest, Andrew Geyer, Secictavv. The printers in the United States who have not fntrendered the fir,c<'i.»m of the press, are requeftid to }/i.e a place in their paptr» to the fiurcgoi.-ig address. Gen. jtdvtrtifrr. jfes CONGRESS. • IPO USE OF representatives) Wedntfday, December a. r * —* A report oit the lubjrA of making. . provtfion fcr paymeirt of ,he thir.l , r . 1 ftalment of the debt due to the Bpm!c ? ot the United States, afo tlie i„ii i mentß due 0.1 foieign loai.s «;.s bn.ufk s in by Mr. Sedgwick, read and rttenre r to the committee of the whole on Fr> e day y On motion of Mr. PrelVon, the house _ went into Committee of the*whole e the bill to determine the northern hmir. 3 dary of the territory ceded to the -Uni . ted St?:es by the state of North Cam. _ lijia—This hill was oppoied by Mr, Greenup, and Mr. White, delegate from the south wejtern territory—the , committee rose and reported piogrefi; r , and the request of the Chairman for e leave to fit again on the bill, wasneja. _ tived j which amounts to its rejefliwn. j, In committee of the whole on the leported plan for the reduction of the y public debt.—The fiiil rcMutioo after striking out the words Six Hundred J T/ronfanJ, referring to the sum to be appropriated for the discharge of two c per cent, of the capital beaiing an irr. j tereft of fix per cent ws are.d to—A ; t blank wasleft, tohefilled up in thciioufe. c The second resolution which pro. y Jjofes to extend the duties on Loaf |( Sugars, Snuff &c. to the year ißdi . occasioned lome debate—the coifimi'tfe > • without' coming to a vote, rose anj re _ ported prcgref!. 5 Adjouriwd till Friday, l *' Fiidsy, December 26. •e , _ „ A bill to indemnify the officers of ,f Government and others, who fuHaii.cd j. lofles by the Infurredtion in the tout wcjtern counties of Pennf h" , was tw'ce re;d, .<nd committed for f _ The rtpo to 1 the mea: so: d-ii.> arg. 1- ing the imtaiments due pn foreign and i e d«meltic loans, *as taken tip in com ,y mittee of the uh< e—:-gre<d to, and a bill ordered to be brought in In committee of the whule on the Jr naturalization bili—The tc. l .-wing a mendment was ur der confic p. " That no »lien be <dmi: ed to become a citizen, Unless he fliiltpnve by the oath of two or mi re tu.'.il :e .yitnefies, that he has wl.in tba United St?.te» yta'S, aid during that time, has behaved as h n.iii of good mora! character, and utll ( poled to the good order and happinds of the United States." Th? amendment o-.-c aGored some I jttj in the course of yiiuh <'• ditional te(ts were p opoferi, hut it the committee without aflteiauon. The next amendment is a provif.i in the following worn. " That any ?len, who fl ail have de elated on oath or affirmation, beioit tome common law or record, m one of the states, that it was, bona fv e, his intention to become'a citizen of the United States, and to renounce forever all allegiance and fidelity to t*c y fo reign prince, potentate, Hate o: love- whatever, and particularly by m>me the prince, potentate, ilate or ln »ereignty, whereof fucli alien may at the ti(ne be a citizen or fubjrcl, 31 1 (hall, subsequent thereto, have refidet! within the United States, two years, and ftiiLconti'nue so rciwknt, flia#l Le hulden to pay no other duties f.»r the tonnage of any (hsp or vessel to ti m belonging, than an American 1 t would be holden to pay, until tl"* (hall come, when by this aft lie may become a citizen." This, occafioped farther debate, I oommittee reft without decicnp hp the amendment, and hat; leave to lit There is another amendment - !" th'« bill before the committee, moved by Mr. Giles irt the following v ords " And' be it further eraded J bat anv citizen of the United States, u. o (ball have heretofore expat": ed, < r who (hall hereafter expatri: e hmMsj. in virtue of the laws of any #«'«', (h« not aj;ai 1 be admitted to the u ' of ci izenfl.ip, w tho-> a special t& of Cor.grefs, and ot tiie ih'e for that purpose, from whifh he < expatriate!, or (hall hereafter expatn ate himfe . , A mefTage from the Senate wf> rrr.eu the Hou. r e that they have J committee t® confer w"th a c«.mi.tre of the Huuf-, on the difagrtem> nt of the Hotife to the Senates amendment to the bill entitled an a£t toi ngof* the my of the militia it: kivcti the House concurred, and appoint * committee on their pa't. Mr. S fowWk tepo-ted a h ing pinvifioii for difrhaigirj tl"- m#». mer.ts due on ' r \ loar.s —read and committed cri J' A'djcurncd. Aurora!
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