!ft - _ ~I KJ >o pledge Inmfclf, Vie i« Thiii
rinarv of nature, which- Dear
,y, a" unnatural (late, for a
ft every faculty and quality Not ■
him a moral agent, furroun- Not l
ntial relations, and, of course
to discharge duties of a so- Not
Nor
; c v ih'ed this government, while it Nor 1
. , ,dopted the right of naturaliz
i,4 to do aad to fay nothing Watt
•at hjv ired a conttadi&ion between
,lcs and prattice. If it ac-
Pdlegiance of>" alien, it pre- p rorr
the alien Vas the right to p ar t
~a»«»ia:iLc : md one clruife Spre;
;«i •tion of ;,
>:s certainly prcber : In do
.„c mil admits, uftquivocally, " ; e
. of fuhjefts and citens to ex- _
u The Biitiflv goveVment, by "; n<
a Td i i't conformity betweefrheir firlt "
as laid down in Vcir law er<
id the pia&ice of Payment,
ve iiio 11 us a fipguiar mixtur of old Hen
>rinc'tp ! i which the nation ha\ out- Whc
'row: It is a maxim with the*.that
■ can not be diffulved b>„y Hen
iin"ge-«;f time or place, nor byi],e Her.
,13th of < fubjeft to any foreign po^ : Whi
Yet 'it naturalize by a£t of Par^.
nient: " icy accept what they declw Sons
by theit theory of civil law can not V j o ; n
.'.rhtfully offered ; nay for one centur*
... of England ha#
■ . wtr- foreigner> WUH-V om
r C.."ii-.gp*-as a P iIHXTi but V.f was et
tO O c f a fine ii jjowsi, and \
firft was a .■ri'mfisr. of *\c \
body. "l' ! . - ger \
-?• ? -naps; wfctf «-i being ttii
, vriii tnroWoff. ,n>tn pla
the United States. The amendment
which prohibits their re-admif(ion to a
..•.»rt;Ci, stion of all the rights of citi» f .
Z.li/hip, will he a fufficient penalty, if
any -e Though they may
'• a vijjllt to ex patriate themselves,
fer can not be inferred a right of re- J
turning' ; for every body politic must
If tiie right of faying upon what
tern., the will accept any addition of j£
ali -to "heir numbers—and the ex pa
tri-.i tti 110 longer belonging to this
locii i 1 nd being an alien, the govern
in ; may chufe whether he ever [hall [ n
en, »y .t privileges again. T
Tlr icndmeiit was negatived. The ' (
Comitiittv 1 rose ; the chaiiman reported j;.
progress, and the House adjourned. j c fc (
. ; 1.1. ' rfe'
I , ■ '-i • ♦'ic
"K tut Federal Orrery. (
J. -'■■■- - •»<*__; " 1 ,i
1 |m
MOI'TH, 1" -"'V>C 2te j thjl
V: '•< ; L»eit!< V- ■".hry gigs
•l.e lan 'igolour ancetrorsyi itm
whicli wis the firfk laftinj settlement,
n.; de in New-England, number of / " ,
genlleipen of this and tlr neighboring !
towns convened to the day.
With fecial glfe and iarmony, they / '
f ',T«>ok of 2 frugal 4al, which was ' ? 1C
yf-Mvy* : to bring to riembrance the I ® n<r
C;u ri! inces of thofejod and great j 3
r . hose mtmoiies ty were afTem- tl,r t
i- 'n r.-verc. Variou»]e<id(ite S> res- ouss
. their emigratiotW settlement, " egt<
vvre related by tl.ofe, 4iainted with 1
| .. * early history of thi,, fltry . and
t . n !»d was led to recif, with ve- "
per non'ftnd sublime pl<j Cj t f, e l]ar _ "ffedi
. rntri'nri fe, the noblt,!, and thf fufc<p
. valor, of t|;j] uftr ; ous
• « this place, ~l )e f ()Un .
"["'re ; and *brep V ed,
clime, an a\, for t()e
and opprefTed lhe o]d '
veral toails were ' r . Tb_e 1
1! sentimental ; and ow . '-' (1
■ c, written for the occf, was
in 1 id repeated, with the
1 i&fi'3ion and pleasure. ■
_ _ - Th
AN ODE, pftcn
lid of December, the in
our Ancestors' landing i re<^" r
1620,— " P ,efcr
B V the P l
W - 'IS, ESQUIRI c n a u n an 0 c ,
NGB Y t
_J_thomas.\ t ; r c '
. , with
.» ' ned fires, t, yo
ha m.. us choirs, e^u
.11 your loud songs
ert rlefs dames,
ia?n"s CCkimS 5
rll on your tongues : '"J
feats, ,>
iuj;hed before,
(land :
cring grove,
: -y. • I
1 Their faithful partners move,
u Dear pledges of their love,
i In either hand.
r Nor winter's fallen facc—
Not the fierce, tawny race,
c In arms arrayed—
- Not hunger shook their faith—
Nor sickness' baleful breath,
t Nor CARVER'sf early death
Their fouls dismayed.
> Watered by heavenly dew,
a Th, germ of empire grew,
Freedom its root:
" From the cold, northern pine,
P Far tow'rds the burning line,
e Spreads the luxuriant vine,
Bending with fruit.
j— "Columbia, child of heaven—
r The best of beffings, given,
' ' Refl on thy head:
Beneath thy peaceful skies,
While prosperous tides arise,
v Here turn thy grateful eyes—
Revere the dead !
>
d Heie trace the moss-grown (tones,
:- Where reft their mouldering bouts,
it Again to rife :
y Here let thy sons he led ;
e Here emulate the dead,
: While on their tombs they tread,
1. With moiitened eyes!
Sons of renowned fires,
Join in harmonious choirs,
Swell your loud songs :—
.Vs. Daughters of pttilefs dames, ,
' yome with »our foft acclaims;
" v3S Jet their revered names
'Dwell on your tongues 1
1 :;e \
S er \ The rod, upon -which our foreja
ing thl Jitjl landed, •was in view nf the I
om pl\ tyhgfc sh e company <was ajfembled.
a firjl governor of the colony—
,j • he %r chosen immediately upon their ar
j|- riva but died in a few weeks after.
nay nn—imwii
ves>
just Jan. 2.
hat —
of ESDNATION or GEN. KNOX.
pa
this Philadelphia, Dec. 28th, I 794.
M'n- Sir,
[n jxirftiance of the verbal communi
cions heretofore submitted, it is with
! t utmost refpeft, that I beg leave
tetl j c?ially to requefl, you will please to
cpder that after the last day of the
' fpnt month, and year, my Services
10 S y for the Department of
j Vf will ttafe.
endeavoured~Vathe bu
fiit of the Department in such a train,
ri .ny Successor may, without much
' d-'»ulty, commence the duties of hi;
■ -in. Any explanations,or afiiftance,
' wHi he may require, fiiall be cordially
( p affded by me.
i)fr j fter having served my Country,
0 ! twenty years, the greatest portion
•' ■ of hich, _ under your immediate auf
I pic; it is with extreme reluiftance, I
! finoiyfelfconfli;ained to withdraw from
at :fo anorable a situation. But the na- (
turi and powerful claims of a nuraer- ,
p ousamily, will no longer permit me to ]
t negift their eflVntial intarefls.
I whatever situation 1 shall be ; I
j your confidence and kind
ness.with all the fervor, and purity of (
affeiion, of which a grateful heart is
_ fufept ible. ,
s 1 have the honor to be,
with the greatest refpedt,
Sir,
your obedient servant. !
I / (Signed) H. KNOX.
JTbe PREsiDEhq; of the
United States
i
Philadelphia, Dec. 30/ A. I "94.
Sir,
The considerations which you have,
often suggested to me, and are repeated
in your letter of the 28th instant, as
requiring your departure from your
present office are such as to preclude
the possibility of my urging your conti-
nuance in it.—This being the cafe, I
can only wish that it was otherwise.
I cannot fuffer you, however, to close
yotir public Service without uniting |
with the f;*tisfa<s on, which rnuft arise 1
n your own mind from a confcioiu j
eftitude, my mod peifeft persuasion
> '"iat you have deserved well of your ,
nUntry. ,
My personal knowledge of your ex- j
ues • ,O " S> w^''e '' authorizes me to hold t
' j lana;jage juftifies the fin cere friend- 1
"which I h ave borne for you and (
ch Accompany you in every situ- j
n of c
Being wiN nfFedtionate regard, r
always'touirs,
oed) G: Washington. 1
■ Knox, of War. (
f
Says a Corref!>ond.\t. a
; coincidence of a mone h
'riots of our country, in t o f
✓
certain felf-created Societies is worthy of
remark. The sermon by Mr. Ofgood of
Medford in Mairachufetts was delivered
before the President's Speecji was seen in
t'ut quarter of tiie Union.
——— 1
A Correspondent remarks, that the re
port made by St. Just on the fubjedl of fe
rret service money must be conlidered as
incomplete for want of Citizen Genet's
return. The large sums for which this
Gentleman drew bills on himfelf during
his journey from Charleston to Philadel
phia, afford good grounds for believing
that his expenditures in that line placed a
few millions more in the calks of the Da
naids. If Robel'pierre had been ilill liv
ing, he would have gritmed ! (for it is. said
he never laughed) to hear, that his golden
pills had so inflated some people in this
country with patriotism, as to almoftburil
them 1 *
Captain Decator arrived yesterday from
Bourdeaux brings verbal accounts of the
fiirrenderof Rotterdam. By him we have
received Paris papers to the 18th of Ofta
ber, which contain 110 news from the ar
mies—From them it appean that the
minds of the peaple of Paris are in con
siderable fermentation 011 the fubjeft of
popular societies. The Convention have
paired a decree forbidding in a degree the
lbcieties corresponding with each other, &
have lipiited their power of a<£lion inothei'
refpefts. Each society must publish a lift
of its Biembers. Aurora.
Sad profpedt, Ben, for their humble im
itators.
Shtefl'ton for Johnny, from the Aurora.
Is Sedition Nonsense, or is Nonsense
! Sedition ?
Answer for Benny.
< a , Benny apply to your dupes under bail,
Or those near at hand —jour scape goats in
■d. JaU - *
— Thefhip John, capt.' Whit well, in S3
r- days from Amjierdam, has arrived at the
Fort. She was /poke in the river by capt.
Decatur, who was informed that the En
glish and Dutch armies ivere reflating to
wards Am/lerdam,biit that th/mhabitants
of that city, were averse to t/eir retreating
there.
Letters from Cha -teflon, of the l<)th of
"L December, receive•/ yesterday contain intel
ligence of the French W'Jl India Flees, of
7 fc.il of the line, and several Frigates,
with a confer able body of troo'is, having
arrived at' Guadalou'e, and that Bajje
-11 terre haSprevioufly surrendered.
:h
'e German Lutheran Church.
to The late unfortunate deftru&ion by
le fire, of one of the largest and most ele
gant Buildings appropriated for Di
-3 vine Service in this city, cannot but
have struck with sympathy the members
of all Religious Societies, whose places
I' of worship are equally exposed to simi
lar disasters. The German Lutherans
who are the immediate fufferers, with a
'' zeal becoming the importance of the oc
y cafion, have Resolved to exert every
nerve for the speedy re-eftabli(hment of
'' of their own place of wotfhip. Con
" fcious, however of the too frequent ha
. bits of applying for fubferiptions, which
are by many considered as unequal and
71 improper burthens upon piivate munifi
ccnce : They are not inclined
r * ly to apply to any individuals out of the
0 limits of their own Society : Yet, as
j the expence must be considerable, and
assistance of course acceptable from all
who may be induced voluntarily to
'■ contribute, have appointed John Stein
ls metz, of this city, Esq. their present
Treasurer, in Market street, between
sth and 6th streets, to receive any do
nations, great or small, which the liberal
may be disposed to offer for the re
building of this Temple, dedicated to
the honor and praise of a common Sa
viour. Such donations will also be re
ceived with equal gratitude by any of
the Clergy and members of the Corpora
tion of said Church.
Henry Helmuth, 1
j f Clergy.
is Frederick Smith J
Henry Kammerer F. A. Muhlenberg,
!■ . Ef 1-
Conrad Haas Henry Kepple
1 Martin Bailh Andrew Bolhart
Boltis Emrich George Leib
John Hay Peter Kraft
e Caspar Snyder Andrew Geyer
? George Kitts George Forepaugh
e John Nagle George Honey
' Daniel Miller John N. Wagner
11 George Ballian Jacob Eckfeld
r Lawrence Herbert
At the feme time, those persons who
~ have been kind enough at the late fire
to take in to their care any articles be
" longing to the Congregation of the Lu
theran Church, are kindly requeued to
deliver tlse fame to either of the above
named Gentlemen, in particular any'ar
ticles belonging to the Organ such as
pipes, &c. &c.
Since the foregoing wai written, the
Corporation have with the most heart
felt fatista&ion understood, that these
ate certain Gentlemen in this city who
r have generoully undertaken to colledl
) fubferiptions for the above purpose r.i
*
1
f their respective Congregations. This
| puSlica i>n is by no means meant |
to interfere with their r.-y laudable and
affedlionate undertaking. Those only
are meant to b« included in it who are
. not members of those Societies where
- the above mentioned Gentlesr.en belong.
!
S
' r Arrivals at the Port of Philadelphia,
' from Jan. 1, 1794, to Janl I, 1795.
Ships. Snows &Bi ig£. Sch'rs. & Sloops.
I 191 334 844
Total, 1369.
Clearances for the fame period.
I Ships. Snows & Brigs. Sch'rs. & Sloops.
1 192 361 1087
Total, 1640.
PRICE OF STOCKS.
! 6 per Cent 1 g/9
. 3 per Cent 1 1/2
Deferred 1 $f
■ Bank of the United States 26
Pennf/lvania 26
North America, * 40
%* The Herald of Reason
e to the People is abroad. This or .nothing
i will bring conviilion, it is the language of
r truth and plain dealing. Awake, only o
t pen your eyes, and read, compare, ar.d
judge for yourfelves—dont be alarmed for
. though it is all truth, there is not one
word of religion or treason in it; it may
be had for a cent though every fectence is
acknowledged worth a pound. Enquire
every day, this and the sext week, at No.
99, Second street, opposite the City-Tav
ern.
Jail. 1 *3t
By this Day's Mail.
I WILMINGTON, Dec. 31.
We learn thai-die Ihip Jemeaux, com
* mar.ded by Capt. Ruault, fitted out in
f Philadelphia, and now lying in the Dela
ware near Reedy island, is fufpedled by
the Executive of the United States, of in
tending to cruise as-a privateer. Her e
quipments have been kept secret, and she
has now on board 6 carriage guns and 70
men : 6 more cannon intended for her,
are detained in the city. Orders are re
' ceived by our Governor, to seize and de
' tain her, for having violated the laws, and
contravened the neutrality of the United
States. \
Drafts from the several militia regiments
ofthisftate, of 50 meh each, are now un
■ der requisition, to aft in conjunction with
. the armed revenue cutter and 50 men from
Philadelphia. The trpeps are expedled
to depart this day.
' The service of the Wilmington Volun
! tecr Company was voluntarily ofi'ered, to
1 a man ; but could not, as a detachment,be
legally allowed to ail under the general
i command.
. NEWARK, December 24.
It is with pleasure we announce to
f the public, that the commodious and
elegant Bridges over the rivets Paflaick
■ and Hackinfack, are nearly completed ;
1 the Bridge over the Paflaick is entirely
so, and the railing only is wanting to
■ finilh the other B r idge ; but as the
balluftrades are erected, it is palled,
: with carriages, in perfect fafety.
These Bridges are thirty eight feet
I in width ; the foot ways five feet ; the
I Bridge over the Paflaick is four hundred
and ninety two feet in length, and that
over the Hackinfack, nine hundrad and
eighty feet.
1 The Causeway which is about three
• miles in length, conne&ed with these
I Bridges, is not entirely completed ; it
■ is, however, daily made use of by car
-1 riages. About three fourths of its
distance is, in part, gravelled, and is an
■ exce lent load, supported by piles ; it
is eighteen feet wide, and elevated two
feet above the furface of the meadow.
It is expected the whole of the causeway
will be so far finlfhed as to receive its
firft coat of gravel in about two months.
The expence of thele Bridges is a
bout fifty thousand dollars. They do
honor to this country, and we cannot,
but with pleasing fatisfaflion, contem
plate the great utility they will be to
the public.
II
Foreign Intelligence.
PARIS, September 22.
Dubois Crance demonstrated by in
controvertable arguments, that the
reign of terror, founded by Robe
spierre, whose principal miniiler, (ac
cording to Cranre's assertion) vtas the
daughter of the joiner Duplets, ought at
last 'o be defttoyed so." ever.
He communicated a memorandum,
which proved that formerly, silk ltuff*
for 2CO millions of livres had been year
ly fabricated at Lyons, from a mass of
raw silk bought for 12 millions of li
vres. An immense number of (ilk wea
vers, he said, are ncrtv occupied with
carrying stones from the palaces which
have been demolifhcd ; # ferocious pu-
T ' 1
*
..... . •. r ,n 1 . » e •-
1 niflwnen?; it refle&s dishonour on the
I conquerors ; and the groans of tile sub
! mitt ed,'partakers in the rebellion, excite
tlie cotrrpainon of every feeling, foul,
10.000 wbrkmen in thejfupei'fine cloth
manufafiiires' of Sedan,, formerly so
flourifhinsf, will soon he jvithout em
ploy. The 'commerce of Nantes, EourJ
deaux, Nitres, Montpeilier, Maifeilles,
Rouen, &e. want a fpecdy relief.
He alTurcd,-that the Vendue produ
ced now JOO.OOO oxen or iliules less pet
annum than,before the revolution, and
calculated that iix million acres of land
now lay wafle in that cuuntiy.
i - '
From a Charlejlon Paper of the 18th of
December.
o£taber ij.
Yesterday morning two meiTeiigers,
Mr. Lauzun and Slater arrived at the
Secretary of States office jvith dispatch
es, the former from Earl Spencer at
Vienna, the latter from the Duke of
York.
Mr. Slater left the army on the even-,
ing of the 16th, at which titfle, we un-'
derltand, no new movements of impor
tance had occurred. 1
The accounts received by the Dutch
mail serve only to tell us that neither at'
Leyden, the Hague nor Amsterdam,
car *.ny regular intelligence be obtained
of the operations on the Leaver Rhine,
or even on the Dutch frontiers. They
mention as matter of report that the
French having eroded the Me«f; at
Batenbmirg, on the nth, Grave oli
the Meufc,and Emmerickon the Rhine,
are both taken ; the line of communi
cation between Gen. Clairfayt arid the
Duke of York consequently broken ;
and Nimeguen on the point of being
inverted.
, A letter from the Hague of the i«h
. fays, that information hadjuft been're-'
ceived of a party of French, polled
between the W aal and Meufe, having
been defeated with the loss of 200 pri
soners, besides killed and wounded. An
article from the Hague of the feme
date, in the Leyden Gazette, makes
. no mention of this.
Ihe Dutch troops have Evacuated
Philippine, Sans-de-Grand, Hulft, and
all the other pofls in Dutch Flanders.
The French are said to have taken
Coblentz ; but this we believe to be
mere conjedture, originating in the re
port that they had made preparations
for attacking it.
The Poles, altho' defeated by the
| Ruffians in Lithuania, continue to be
fuccefsful again it the Prussian treopr.
They ate approaching Thorn, and aic
efcpefted to get poficflion both of that
place and Dantzick. Kofciufko is
gone with the flower of his army to
repair the lodes in Lithuania.
A Stated Meeting of the
Pennsylvania for .promoting
the abolition of Slavery &c. &c. will
be held at the usual place, on second
day next the sth itilf. at 6 o'Clock in
the Evening.
ill mo. 2nd, 1795.
The Old Adriana
fail from New-York
L ONDON, ,
The 7th inft.int precisely. Enquire for
passage, &c. of
Ralph Mather,
No. 71, Race street.
Jan. a 2 t, .
FOR SALE BY
John D. Blanchard,"
At his Stores, in Third street,
66 P I P E S v '"
Choice TENERIFFE W r .NE/
of (upenor quality,
Comae B' andy in pipes " *
50 Cases ofCiaret of"a >**p«rioi quality
fubj< 61 to diawback.
B .'Hon T«.a Ki-tiles, aiirgfalfrrtih'
Shoit ol alUizti and cuinbcn _
Ba r r Lead,-
in p*gs
Kuflta Sheetines
Women's Stuff Shoes by the quant'
Cutt Nails
Rl;odeUlaud Cbeefe \
A d a la'ge and fjegant- kffortrT'nt of
European and India
GOODS,
At the most rcdlied prices.
N->v. 25 2.1 V ■
Bohca Tea.
sochefts Bohea Tea, of fupe---
riqr quality, ju't lececvetifrr the Situunex
Porgr, from tyo^on,
TO« SAIL BY
Nalbro' h John Frazier,
No, 81, 'Aalnvt Street.
Dec. 17