(Viiv tud uniformly voted a• I Hit H • 'Hfc it fiffo" ,'ther, even after it h'-tl p U , r;,-. .veil • ! iTitifl l» fitggelled by them- j r y ( If hat TUdi to bi cxpcSt-t (&J» fiu ait com,.tines as that ? He wondered , that ttfty ;x>t a.lvjfe r total *7 icpeil of tlie b;i}. The fcffls gentle- an m •• who bid obji'&ed ti» it in tfc feleJl the committee, were i;» ther number of thole who had voted a., .raft "the bill in all i.s &*pe& This not a random afler- er< for M*. Hdlhoufe bid examined j ce i the journals, aad now pre luced them j cr ; to pr >ve wit:it he f.iid. With ge;itle- ; Burn lo determined* im t U>Cihlc ■ to expert tuVjr jomproßiife. As to the j fa i> v betjgtf the comnv.tee, lie rlipught that ;he_ pecchants had much " gr atrf reason to complain of the two and a half per cent, of additional its poll, than the bakers of the two w) cents per pound on their manuKiLtUie. ( ne •» That any body Hiould imagine" said ho Mr. H'ltiio'ufe, " that two treats per ] m »> pound of. advance would reditcc the (1( _ «' oonfnmption of refined-fugar, is j»ilo " ni-'hing to me 1 Have we not seen " refined sugar at sixteen, eighteen, and " twenty-two pence per pound, <hd did " ever any body use the less of it when P "it tof, in price? The fa rt is, that sb " they never thought about the price of "„f it at all, but purchased txaftly g; 44 what they wanted." N^ r - Hrllbfljpfe w - Co. hdered all that had been fit id the tax, as the mod gfoundlcfs clamour m that couW be conce:v.-i?. He hopej that that hou f 'e would take these taxes an ! appropriate them as prop®led in the report, and thus put it cut of throw er of any future Congress to lepeal e\ »W, -JTlitrf Othwa in tiiei' n< place 5 ' antefa Tuch future Congret.s fnould make a breach of public faith, Which. Mr. Hilliioafe did not fee any re4ft.ll to look for. It fecms, that when . once a rax has been appropriated by { | the »-j>i:lafire, to the difeharge of any > 'bis cannot be tak- en even by the legislature itfcll, g without placing another to supply its J 0 room. . s - ( Mr. HilU'-o'.ife was, therefore, totally f agui'tft the amendment. '/i be ermtiuued. Philadelphia, Jan. 20. } - s • i It ts i(ked, by ai querill in the Aura- t »•(/, how the sentiments of Smith and t Ames, in thvir oppofuion to Madifon'a \ pr g f'irß would harmonize with t the cipiruOJia.UWWjj.. kjjj. U planters in their memorial ? 'i'he answer i i? plain—Sthith and Ames exerted thetn felves to prevent •wiir, which would liave Been an infeparablc bar to the ai tain- , incut of the WeTf-I.idia intercourse ; ; *he maintenance of peace, which is in 1 i great measure due to them ; and the fcejrooiation in England, now depend ing, were the rnotl certain me ins of pro- ; curing to tlie United^States the adven- , taffsofthat intercourse. Tlitf memo rial :-f the Welt-Intiii planters and rner- , chants, to Mr. Duadas, is supposed, 1 with good foundation, to be the rrfull of that negociati'.n, and the baiis oi a commercial treaty. It was necessary ! that the application fliould come from' i the inhabitants of th« Iftando, least a i concefiion of colonial advantages exclu- , fively, to this country, should give um brage to N other nai ions. i 0« Saturday the toth I»lt. departed this life, in the 43d year of his age, Mr. Daniel Tyfon, of this City, Mer thant. 1 By this Day's Mail. NORFOLK, Jan. 7. fefterday arrived the (hip Bowman, Hen ry Diekfon, mafler, from Port Ghf gow : By this vcffcl we have received London and Gkfgow papers to the rith •f November, from which we have ex fcradled tlie following very Interfiling Intelligence. HAGUE, OA. ai. A gentleman just arrived from Manheim ates, that the Elector Palatine is difguft <l with the war, that his troftps are difpi - r .fed, and that many of the German prin :j ara determined to make peace at any it?, during the course of the ensuing vinter. The moderat ion of tlie National Con tention is truly alarming ; when milunelt secomes the orler of the day, it ir#itifi' Aicciy more formidable than tertor. ■ '5-'' ' '' -\ - ' '■ .• ; T'lj Vccac'u republican army is ia a « state of the feve;v(l dife'i lir.e : Fichep us pun'.TWs e .'try oiknia>id repretLj e.e- •{ ry degree of rtrfonier. Ltftvre geii^iai oi the army of the Moselle, prote&s not ou- •7 property but persons—even the Priests | and Nobles are put under the fafeguard of the Republic. t On the other hand the Emigrants are l every where 'persecuted ; I have just re- [ ceived a leiter from a ' family ot this def ; cription which has been exiled from Duf. 1 ie'dorff, Cologne, and Bonne, and has jo ily been permitted to remain provifian i ally at Munfter, on account (Jf a commif fi .11 from the Emperor. ra t It is with pleasure that we behold the an( white cockade worn by the officers of the tw j new eorp3 raising here for Britain; but wa : however critical the situation of Holland tel ; may be, 10,000 men landed in La Yen- P a! dee would make a most powerful diversion ve ' art in favor of the combiued Powers. are The Government has arretted several j per To us at Amilerdam, diftinguilhed by their riches and employments', on account Q f of their having a<3ed the part of Propo- tra gandifts ; several hundreds of individuals T who posted up Jacobinical bills, have been mi driveu oat of the city, among these were many French hair-dreCers, who entered Pj! private houses by means of their combs, and lefttheir printed poison on the toilette —Some of the Magistrates of Leyden are £ even said lo have sent large sums of mo ney to ihr Fifer.'eh and the Dutch Emi ! grants M-lfc accompany them. p |( •" T! LONDON, Novembei 7. P in A morning paper of this day states, c j that a by» boat had arrived on Wednef- | night at Harwich, by which a mer- j tn chant 111 the city had received intelli- ! ' gence i>f the French being in peffeflion 'tv s !of Maeltricht and Rotteidam, and of \p] Genera! Abercrombie having been de feated with (laughter. GLASGOW, November it. RETROSPECT, Great anxiety ha 3 hung "over the C public mind for several davs past, on account ol the n»n. arrival ot intelligence from the Continent. The mails, how - eter, were received on Saturday, and l c 1 the accounts which they bring are cer s tninly less affecting than we had rcafon r i h to expect, froir the alarming rumours i J 'r time pafl. q 1- The Duke of York still Temains at e Arnheim. 011 the 27th ult. the French drove in the Britilh outpolls at "Nime i and of Fort Saint Andre, and n have commcnced the (lege of Nimeguen. t ie Venlo has fLit rendered. Coblentz and o 1- several other places on the Rhine, have 3- aifo iailen into their hands. These fuc- j r- cefTcß seem to have made a considerable imprefiion on the conduit of the Ger r- manic empire ; and the Diet of Ratif- j bon has paflTed a resolution of the inten !> tions to negociate an immediate peace, a The King of Pruflia has also informed y his army that he entertains hopes of j n making a speedy peace; and some of t a the provinees of Holland have expref- J- fed a similar hope. r- The intelligence from France is ex- tremely interesting. The power of the Jacobin Club is at length dellroyed by ( a solemn decree of the Convention. e t Peace is at present openly talked of at j r- Paris; and the French papeis afTert, that it is the wi(h of the government to make peace with Prussia, Sardinia, Spain, and Holland. NATIONAL CONVENTION. October 13. Merlin of Thionvil'le, read a long ac count of atrocities committed ill the Weft, n- The account was received by the Conven- 1 f_ tion with the most marked indignation 1 the authors of these atrocities were order- 1 ed to be irrefted and sent in chains to Paris. 1 th The feition of Champs Elifiecs appear- ] x _ ed in a mass at the bar of tlu Convention, and entreated the afiembly,to fuffer no fo ci-ty to rival the po\?er ot the Convention ] (the address which was directed against ■ the Jacobin Club was received with the 1 loudest plaudits.) 'BALTIMORE, Jan. 19. j m The fflip Equality, Capt. Sprigg, ar rired yellerday from Rottterdam, ** which place (lie left 011 the Bth of Novembsr, but did not put out to '7 sea till about the 20th, being de tained till that time at Helvoet- Sluys. 'j We are of opinion, that mu»h later g- news is btought from the continent of Europe by the Equality, tlian ! . t ' '■ what w; row lay before eur Tracers,, peat finer she did not fvil from Htflvoet- ■ j_°j" 'Sk>v» t.ll about the 20'.h -if Nuvem- I i Se ber. Noleuc.s nor papers, have- \y c ver, which we have yet seen, contain in g V r h any Lter advices than the Bth, which as they are only a repetition, or ra- an ther a confirmation of what we have thci before extracted from Hambrgh Pa pers, we have translated as eoncifcly as poffiblc. vac: the LEYDEN, Nov. j, are It is well known that the court of »ag Berlin is treating with France for a fVpa- the rate peace. V attc This day, the public prints of Basle der and other places, fay " that peace he- enc tween Pruflia and the Republic, the was concluded and signed at Neuffcha- of 1 tel ; that the plenipotentiary on the W1 part of Pruflia, is a member of this go vernment—that the treaty consists of fix C 4 articles ; and that the Prussian troops the are to retire from the Rhine." w 'h A letter we received from Hamburg coi does not permit us to have the leall a»< doubt of this important event, the news ■<-' of which was brought here by an ex- th< traordinary Courier. Wc learn the m '- Treaty was signed on the 13th of latl *d month. et A body of Austrian troops in the rc pay of Great Brittin, for the defence tat of Holland had marched to Guilders, a g thefirftof this month. m; Extraß of a letter of the 31ft OSober. Ul from Hamburgh. " A letter we have received thjs day an from Basle, fays, that Citizen Francois p| Balire, feci*etary to the French embafly fh in Switzerland, has officially comnvjni- w »] ' cited to the senate, that peace was con- . U ' i eluded with Pruflia on the 12th. of Oc "jtober. alfoletteis which fay, an ' j that peace is also made with Spain, and nc I that a suspension of hostilities is to take Si '> place immediately. gi "P. S. W? learn at this moment, th from Ratifbon, that Baron Diede de Furftenftein, mimfter from Denmark, ol to the German diet, has set off for Pa- el ris, as a mediator oxl the fide of his a' ; Court, between Germany and France. c; II '' e PARIS, October 18. « Another convoy of five waggons, 'j I loaded with silver, part of the contn- ' ■ butions from the Low Countries, is ar- II rived at th: national tr'eafury. Warm " s | Debates took place in the Convention e 1 on ttwfvtr-af ron- 1 quered Countries. 8 t v h BERLIN, October 28. h { ' From appearances, the events of the p lOth of this month will be followed by f '' the mod fatal consequences to the cause t of Polish Liberty; their last hope to j s put a flop to the further progress of the j Ruffians to Warsaw, seems to have va- f e nifhed away. The body of troops commanded by , Dombrowlki and Madalinfici was sur rounded and entirely cut off. Prince Joseph Poniatowlki, who had t , fallen back with the main body of the j. Polish army, saw the necefiity to secure f ' their retreat, and on that account,he j attacked, on the 19th of this month, j the Prussian General de Klircknowftiom t "" on the river Brura; but, although the t le attack was made in every quarter, with j y the greatest. bravery, the enemy oppof- £ ed them with equal and the Po- r lt landers were repulsed. We have taken many prisoners; of this number is the 11 adjutant of Prince Poniato:viki. 1 For the Gazette of the United States. \ c . Mr. Fenno, 1 (». Asfome of the hereafter fpecified er- I n " rors might have escaped my notice at the ' _ time of writing the piece which I tranf- 1 r _ mitted to you yesterday for publicat/on, I ' request you to insert in your this day's pa- ' r . per, the following lift of n, ERRATA. ] 0- In tlie piece signed " A German Rcpub m lican" publiftied in our-laft evening's Ga ift zette: Second paragraph, line 13, for tie efteabifhed" read eftablifhed —also line ' 19, " monariehifts" read monarchies, & line 20, " invite" read incite —firft line ] third paragraph like a base" read, like base. r« — n That the abeve errata can be imputed . ' to my tarelelTnefs alone, I cannot easily of accede to, tho' to A German Ripublican. e 't- Fsr the Gazette of the United States• Mr. Fen no, THE incendiaries of this city, who, nt thrO' Mr. Barhe's paper, contributed »n to excite the Weltern lnfurreftion, ap- pear, from their late publications, to De lor-r for -the rellor ition of q'.::et, and . fabintfGofl to tlu- 1 .vis, in tli :t part ot Q Stale. Why" r'jt lr- >'C it tn Weftetu people to complain ot their l;e ---ing disfrancbifed and unrepicfi-'iited ? Why endeavour to irritate those woun;'s which are almofl healed ? Why m.ike an attempt at a lecond insurreCtion there, before they try their fereugfh xd spirit Irere ? The inhabitants of the W.-ltcrn Country expedted all that fiu happened, and luokcd 'forward to the vacation of their eletiions as a part of j ir , the punifhinent of their rebellion. There Bat are some here who think they can ma- D;r nage the Weltern representatives to Ws their own purposes, and tliciefore n'>w ■ attempt to creaU- liejr auimofity, in or- j ®^| r der to retain their old pernicinus mtia- j ence over that country—Why elf-' rue they so carefully blowing the dying coa!s of sedition every dav, thro' the AuroraP Why censure the Legislature of the for an aft of duty and patriotism ? any reasonable believe, that the Insurgents oupht to fend delegates, y who (hould fit and vote whether their conllitiients fliould be subdued or not ? rp r and, Whether arms and money fliould oc collected, and fetit forward to correct Mi them, and bring their leadeis to punifll- Jer ment ? or, That men who had fmltrat- Gr ed the laws, expelled their oflkeri", and Ad set the United States at dcSanct, could . freely elect a pure, legitimate tation to legislate for the polit'r, against which they were prepared to make -year ? As well might it be said that the In- M furgents after having defeat tit out ar- M my and returned home fiom a vidfori- i ei ous expedition, could aflemble quietly ' and feud representatives to deli' -frate in q | ! Philadelphia, whethei another army ' (hould be sent or not : Or that a State - who may rebel and defeat the aimies of th - | United States, year after year (hall 'd - (till cleft representatives to Qongrefs, SI: » and that in such a cafe Congiefs could ta 1 not go on to make laws without them. f r , c Strange political logic indeed, that le- an giflatioi) (hall cease because a part of , the State had refufed to obey the laws 1 aE e The silence and terror of the friends , of government and order at the late Q > . election was produced hy the vinlenre ec s and outrages of the Insurgents. Thefc C a cause* had not ceased t° operate for m . ths army was not within protesting or terrifying diftar.ee. It was not believed 5 that, the troops would or could cross 115 the mountains. Not one of the hun dreds-who afterwards fled from punilh n ment, had then left their homes. A n leader among them who had near five l hundred votes as a candidate for COll - openly declau-d, that he neither j wished no r expected support from any but Tom Tinker's' men. Such was the - fear of the peace officers, that they did le nat dare to arrest and fend forward a '/ fmgle traitor or felon. How then was the public mind free ? What evidence I 0 have we of returning to order and obe le dience ? The western people know and a " feel these things. Is is hoped they will no longer listen to the city demagogues, who have milled r " and besruyed their unfufpettiog confi dence, deserted them in the hour of their distress, and would now, if poffi ie ble, rephinge them into that abyss of re misery from which they are emerging. ( Let the cowards who are attempting, ' from behind the curtain, to play off o m thers, come forward, in person, and try 1C their prowess in open opposition to the 'I. 1 laws, and we (hall find them as destitute ps spirit, as they are known to be of °* real attachment to this country. fn A MILITIA MAN. he 1 From the Aurora. A rorrefpondeot would be glad to k/.ow how the fcntimerits of Spiitk and Amej,m their notable opposition to Madison's pro positions, would harmonize with the opi- ( nions given to Dundas by the Weft-luditi ; r- plantei s and merchants in their memorial ? he It would seem as if the imagination qf the nf- American representatives exerted itjeif J more warmly in conjuring up benefits for ,a- Great-Britain than her own dear iubjefts ; and that they laid ki's ftrel's upon Ameri can consequence than even thole who con . feft themselves devoted to the Britilh interest ib- or" PRICE OF STOCKS, ne 6 per Cent ig/5 6 3 per Cent I'fi ne Deferred 13/ Bank of the United States 24. 1-2 Pennf/lvania 25 North America, 40 Hjr VV ANTED, An Apprentice To the Watch making and Repairing Buimels apply to C. Campbell, r°> No. 3, south Foarth street, (wo doors ;ed from Market ftrsct.' ip- Jan. T<) iawtf b / -v * ? NEV/ THEATRE. On Wednesday Evening, January »1.. I fill be Presented A TRAGEDY, callcd GAMESTER Beverly, Mr. Chilracs ! Stukcly, Mr. Wigucil Lew ion, Mr. Cleveland Jarvis, Mr. Wliitlot); Bates, Mr. Ortc« Daw-fan, » Mr. More-.- .i. Waiter* Mr. Darky jua. Mrs. Beverly, M«s. VVhitlock i Charloite, M*s. Frarcis ! Lucy, Mrs. Clevttand To which will be added, For the firft time, a Comic Opera, in two acts, called The Volunteers. The Overture and Millie entirely new, compoilii by Mr. Reinagle. Trueman, Mr. Ma. ihali Manly, Mr. Darley Millikin, Ml. Francis Jerry, Mr. Bates Grumble, Mr. BlilTett | | Adams, Mr. Greea I J Thomas, Mr. Darley jun, [ Jacob, Mr. De Moulin iioldiers, Mefirs. YVarreil, J. > Warrell, Mitchell, > &c. Miss Aura, Mrs. MaHhall Mrs. Grumble, Mrs. bhaw . Jemima, M.L Broadhurft Rosalind, Miss Rowfdn J Ruth, Mrs. Cleveland I Omecah, Mrs. Olimixoß c The public are reTpeftfally informed, t that till further notice, dpurswil! b; o'pen- II td at five and the performance begin at . six o'clock, prccifeljP. ! Tickets ar.d places for tffe Boxe, to be taken of Mr. Weils, at the Theatnf, '• from T£N'tillone, and on days of pe form :- ante from TEN'til I three o'clock. if Also at Rice's Bookstore, No. 50, and I and Carey's No. 118. Market ltreet Ladies and Gentlemen are reqiiefied to * fend their servants to keep placcs by five e o'clock, aud order them, as soon as the _ c company arc seated, to withdraw, as they ie cannot On any account be permitted to rt >r main. >r No money or tickets to be returned, nor j any person on any account whatsoever, ad r mitted behind the scenes. __ Vivat Refpublica ! \ On Friday Evening, '* The TRAGEDY of cr Richard the Hid; *y ■ ■ —■ ia Inland Navigation. 'as — ce In the Press and speedily will be patbliflie4 «■- # b y ltd Zachariah Poulfon jun. . No. 80, Chefnut street, en A N ,-d HISTORICAL ACCOUNT flj. th e of Rife, progress, and present ft ate °* O P T H E >g ' Canal Navigation in Penn ig» r, 6 • o- Jylvama. ry With an Appendix, containing Abflrafti of theAtti of the Legislature fi»ce the year 1790, and their Grants of Money for iin -I S, .coving Roads and Navigable Watek* thronghout the state to which is an nexed, " An Explanatory Map" Publilhed by Diiectiou ol the Pieljdent and Managers of the Schuylkill and Sulque ow hanna, and the Delaw are at.d Scbuylkirt . Navigation Companies. iro „ "Here smooth Canals, acrols t'.'extend >pi- ed plain ■ Stretch their long arms to join the distant p main. , The Tons of toil, with many a weary It ok e .'r .Scoop the hard bosom of the solid trek ; 1 Refiltlel's through the ftifl'oppoiing cla>, tor with llead) patience, work their gradual ' s ,> way; ?rI " Compel theGenit.s «f tV nnwiiling,flood on ~ Through the brown hoi rors of the aged reft wood; Cross the lane waste the silver urn they pour, And cheer the barren heath.or ful'.cn moor. ,A "The traveller, with pleating wonder .f lees DJ The white fail gleaming through (lie dulky trees} And views the slter'd landscape with fur p i»e And doubts the mag'c fcer.es that round him rife. Now l'Je« a flick of swans, above his head. Their woven winns tJi■ fly ng velTeh spread Now meeting ft'eanryn artlul maa- s,gl.de While eaeh, uninuigledy pouts a\/ej;si ate 1 tide; Now, ihiou'th the hidden veins of earth the> flow , ~ .. And visit fj,lchorous ro'nes and be low. jorj The ductile ftrcsmi obey the gnid:*<( ha il,' And foc;ial Plecty crowuith' Happy landi' :f | Jan. if Jptiwtf
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