reduce y»urfelves by any.proposition for pea« in the P rcfcnt moment - Al W lu h proportion mud r.ecelTarily imply a ionfeflwn of your own weakness.— You muii a(k for peace, not indeed in the language, but in the posture of sup -plication. He had not yet heard our «wn difficulties stated in such terms, as {bewed ar. absolute necelTity of immedi ately having recourse to peace. What had chiefly been infilled on, was the un fortunate events of the lail campaign. He was no* disposed to diminish our ca lamities, or holdouf a flattering -prof peft of the success of our operations. The speech of his majesty mentioned the reverses and disappointments, which bad attended the progress of our arms. But was this a fuflicient ground why we should ail at once be induced to a bandon the war, and to sue for peace ? Was the enumeration which had been made of the checks and defeats which we had met in the lad campaign to be considered as at all conclusive ? Had ' aot limilai checks and defeats occurred in forjner wars, where the object was much lets serious, and where, after all, the event had been fuceefsful ? Would any ma* then from the experience of former wars, pretend to fay, that the bare check of military operations, or the transfer of territory from one pow er to another, were fuflicient ground of discouragement, or formed the ultimate criterion of success ? No man would • pretend to fay such was the cafe. And if such was not the fa& with refpedt to wars in general, muchlefs would it hold with lefped to the present war, as car ried on by this country. AH modern wars had been remarked to depend 011 a eomparifon of the means by which they were to be carried on. That power that poflefled the superiority of resources hid been found finally to be fuccefsful. The great question between Great Bri tain and France, in the present contest was, which should be able to hold out longed in peint of pecuniary resources I At present, both the balance of terri torial acquisitions, and of pecuniary re sources, was on the fide of Gre»t-Bri- tain- N:ry, he (hould go farther, and vendue to aflert, that if all that had been loft by Austria, Prufiia, and the the Rates of Italy, weie to be put toge ther, it would not amount to the ex tent of the loss which had been sustain ed by France alone. With refpedt to the resources of France, they had cxilt cd, and they had ceased, These re sources had originated from a rigorous fyilem pervading every department of life, and ijuai tcTT3f tin? country. They had beeii founded on a fvfyem of terror. That system, it was contend ed, had now ceased ; but the present, fu far from deserving the name of a fyttein of moderation,- was to be confi dercd f), only as it diminished the me. ns by which the great engine of despotism, which formerly exilted, had been enabled to produce fuel) pi<odigi oui effects. - His honourable friend, (Mr. Canning) had Itated I lie expense with which the French government had been attended fmce the commencement of the revolution. As to entering into details of this fort, he wished to ob- serve, that if any member was desirous to be acquainted with the authorities upou which he pro<?eeded, he was rpa tly to entarr into any particular difcufii on, and point out the sources from whith he had derived his information. The Chancellor of the Exchequer here entered into a detail of the state of French finance, from the reports of Cambon, &c. He stated the whole expence of the government, since the revolution, to have amounted to 480 millions Iterling, of which nolcfs than 320 had been expended since the com mencement of the war with this coun try. This enoimous lum had been stat ed as a proof of the immense resources of the country. But at what price had it been procured ? At the expehec of wrcfling from the poffefTors all the pro perty of the country, and of putting in a state of requisition every neceflary ar ticle of consumption. They had like wise been obliged to have recourse to an unlimited paper credit, which fur pafTed all calculation, and to which no bounds had been set. If it had even been stated by their own leader, that it had now been carried to that point, be yond which it could not be extended without min to the country. lit for mer times the circulation of France had been stated to amount only to ninety millions annually, of *~hich it may na turally be ftippofed that a great part re mained inactive. He mentioned thi?, in order to shew how far the scale of their expenditures exceeded what might be fyppofed to be the natural refource9 of the country. He then entered into a detail of the depreciation of the paper money, and of the forcible means to which ihey had been obliged to have re course, in order to introduce it into currency. He particularly mentioned the revolutionary committed, which had been appointed in every diftrift, and were supported at the immcnfe »x ---penfe of twenty-fix millions annually, and concluded with quoting the opinio* of Tallien, " that it was only by dimi nishing the number of their forces that they eould be able to reducc the scale of the public expenditure, and to preserve the credit of the country." It was this unlimited power which the Ficnch Convention had afTumed to purchase or fei2e all property, as suited to their purposes, which accounted for the flu pendous scale of operations, which they had been enabled to purftie. This cir cumstance solved the phenomenon which otherwise appeared so inexplicable, and was adequate to all those miraculous ef fects which had attended the progress of the French revolution, and which seemed to baffle all reasoning, as much as they had exceeded all human expec tation. In all these circumftacces, he would fay, that we had fufficient in ducements to carry on the war, if not with the certainty of faith, yet at lead with the confidence of expectation.— A war, the immediate termination of which would be attended with certain evil, and the prosecution of which, un der the present circumstances, was at least not great probable hope. If we looked to the situation of France, they were now attempting to have re course to a milder and more moderate system, a system which would only de prive them of those prodigious energies which they had hitherto exerted with such astonishing effect : they no longer indeed poflefTed the fame means, and could not therefore be expected to dis play the farae exertions. Would it be possible fey them all at once to restore the farmer to the occupations of agri culture, and the merchant to the pur suits of commerce* and to replace in an instant, the devaluations of war and plunder by the arts of peace, and the exertions of industry. It would require years of tranquility to restore them even to the enjoyment of those ordinary resources, which they had poflefTed pre vious to the commencement of the pre fect deftru&ive war—resources which they could no longer employ. For c ven could it be supposed that Robe spierre were raised from the dead, they would no longer be qualified to difpl y the fame energies which undei his admi nistration, had been called forth by the influence of a system of terror : the means by which these had been fupphed were now exhaufttd. The quefton then was ■ had we, under the orefent cir- cumftances, the profpcct ot being able to bring as great a force into the field as would require from the the fame degree of exertion which had been necessary in the- former campaign* ?— Even let it be supposed that Holland (hould fail, & that circumltancei (hould be such that we could no longer look for aififtance from the court of Berlin, yet he could fee na reason why the aug mentation of the British force might net fully supply the loft, and do something more valuable in efie&, with refpcdl to the operations of the war. He could fee no reason, if we gave to Austria the pecuniary aid which ft required at it* own expence, why we might not "be able, in conjun&ion with the augmented force, which, from the aflifta ce of our credit, it would be enabled to bring forward, along too with the power* of Spain-'and the states Italy, to effedt a powerful diversion, and to ai-complifh the important purpose on which de pended the permanent interest of this country, and the general fafety of Eu rope. * [Mr. Fox's speech to-morrow.] Philadelphia, Marcb 17. Married on Saturday evening last, by the Re*. John B. Smith, Mr. John Welsh, Merchant, to the Amiable Mils Maris, both of this City. Mr. Fenno, Hovr long is this wordy war »bout the Co lumbianum to continue ? Of what Importance is it to the Public whether the name belongs to the Gentlemen who meet at Mr. Peale's Museum, or at Mr Groombridge's ? Is not the world wide enough for both ; and would not the cxercife of their genius in their refpedive profeffions, either individu ally, or in concert, be more beneficial than Newspaper Controversy to themlHves, and much more plcafing to TREASURY DEPARTMENT, February 26, 1795. SIR, I HAVE the honor to transmit a return of the exports of the United States for the year ending the 30th of September 1794 i with a letter relative thereto, from the Commiflion er of the Revenue, of this date. I have the honor to be, with perfect refpeft, Sir, your obedient servant, OLIVER WOLCpTT, Jun. Secretary of the Trcafury. The hon. the Speaker of the lioufe of Representatives. J • TiSJiaxr Ds?j&t\ient, Revenue- Office, Feb. 26, 179.5. THE inclosed return of thf exports of the United States, for the year ending on.the 30th day of September 1794» has bSen prepared, as usual, for tragfmiflion to the House of Re prefentaives. It may be uleful to observe, that, if the three quarters, unreturned from Charleston, Ihould be no greater than those of the preceding year, the expor s of the United States for the. term comprehended in the pre fentreturn, willamount to 31,116,771 dol lars. As that is a very riling port, and the general increase of the value of our exports in the latter year appears to be on a medium about twenty five per cent, it cannot be doubt ed, that the prefjnt return, if completed, would amount to thirty two millionsof dollars. lam, Sir, with great refped, Your most obedient servant, TENCH COXE, Commissioner of the Revenue. The Secretary of the Treasury. OF Goods, Wares, iff Merchandize, Exported from the United States from the ift O&ober 1793, to 30th September 1794. Speciei of Merchandtzt. Aflies, Pot Applet Bark of Oak Bricks Boats Boots Shoes Beer, Porter Sc Cider bottled dozens Blacking or Lampblack packages hogsheads bags tons boxes Cotton Chalk Candles, Wax Cordage Coal Cranberries Cards, Wool & Cotton dozens Coffee Coco* Carriages Coaches, Chaifes&Chairs number Waggons, Carts, &Drays Wheel barrows Copper Corks Duck Drugs and Medicine Saflafrafs Earthen Ware Flax-Seed F)ax Furniture, house packages Tables,bureaus&Deflcs number Chairs — * CiieiU Fiftiery Fish dried pickled Oil Whale Oil Spermaceti Whale bone Grain andPulfe Wheat Rye Barley Indian Corn Bu k-Wheat Oats Pease and Bean* Groceries Loaf-Sugar Brown 3c other Sugars — Chocolate — Raisins x Almonds ~ Pimento — Cloves — Pepper — Ginger hags Cafiia & Cinnamon packages Glass boxes Ginseng Grindstones Hides — Horns and tips — H ts - Honey gallons Hops pounds Hay tons Iron- Nails calks Axes,fpades,hoes, &c. number Anchors — Mulkcts and pistols — Pots, kettles, and other callings, Cannon — Shot — Wrought Iron Pig Bar Hoop* Indigo* * Ivory Lead Bar Shot Sheet Leather Lime Tour Sulfcribtrs. Live Stock- Horned Cattle Horses Mules Sheep Hogs ° Poultry dozem Merchandize or Dry Goods packages Nankeens Tow Cloth, f / *, ABSTRACT Quantity. tons of 4,8j 4 Pearl barrels hogsheads cords number pairs gallons Myrtle Spermaceti — Tallow tons bufliels hogtheads tierces 1,183 barrels ' 8,643 bags 14.494 pounds 11,761,575 — 1,141,801 pound* groce pieces packages pounds tons crates calks pounds quintals barrels gallons pounds , bushels 696,797 hogsheads tierces barrel# pounds packages pounds packages i- o /lumber calks tons calks poupd* pounds tons pounds bulhels number picces yards Molafles Naval Store— Pitch • Tar Rosin * T urpentinc * Spirit sT urpentioe Negro Slaves Nuts Oil- L in feed Sweet Powder- Gun Hair Paper Paints ProviHons— Rice * Flour Provisions— Bre&d Crackers Rye Meal Indian Meal Ship Stuff Buck-Wheat Meal Beef Pork Neats Tongues Tongues an J Sounds Hams and Bacon Butter Cheese Lard Sausages Pickled Oysters Potatoes Onions Reeds Spirits— American Foreign Gin Saddlery - Saddles Bridle* Soap Starch Snuff Salt Spruce, Effenceof Steel Skins and Furs Tobacco* 5,137 Manufa&ured T allow Twine Tin Teas— Bohea Souchong Hy'on Other Green Vinegar Varnish 34 665 Wines- Madeira Other Wines Bottled Wax, bees Wood- Lumber Timber 575 5.699 59 108 38,620 8,66 5 39 pieces 6,1 J 2 Dye-Wood tons 682 Staves and H.'ading number 2>.874.0? 1 Shingles - 2;,6.50,017 Hoopsand Poles — 2,640,845 Shooks — 54,200 Empty Calks - 12,144 Malts and Spars — 1,286 °ars _ 14,456 Handspikes - 9,3.13 Pumps - 86 Blocks - 2,868 Spokes and Fellies — 6,2c0 Cords of Wood — 491 Frames of Houses — 89 Frames of VelTels — 2 Cart Wheels — 106 Yokes and Bows — 462 Tubs, Pails, &c. — *>476 104 1,996 •so 418,907 36,809 970,628 82,493 31M67 1,472,700 346 55 > 00 3 197.877 Value of Goods, IVares, aud Merchan dizc exported from each llale. Dollars. 153,856 5,299,913 *0.335 17,563,811 11,684 20,41.5 i,oßo New-Hampshire Maflachufetts Rhode-Island Conne&icut New-Yoik NewJerfey Pennsylvania Delaware Maryland Virginia 37.573 I,9°° 33,386 1,136 - 65 164 479 21,132 189 1,083 35,146 132,600 13,235 3.746 98,712 918 North-Carolina South-Carolina* Georgia Total Dollars 29,464,470 # N. B. Three quarterly return# for the diftrift of Charlelton, South- Carolina, commencing Ift January, and ending 30th September 1794, and fun < dry returns from fevcral (mall porta, not yet received. 489 3,170 139 5° 681 30 500 14 3,037 839 A Summary if the Value and Deflination of the Exports of the United States, agreeable to the foregoing Aljlraft. 1,069 283,928 Dollars. To thr Dominion* of Rufiii 90,388 Dominions of Sweden . J 20,31.2 Dominions of Denmark 1,136,958 Dominions of the Uni- 5.3°» 14,000 3 746,853 2,083 ted Netherlands *' Dominion* of Great- 3.495 1,818 1,617 9«577 5.413 5.097 Britain Imperial Ports of the Au(lrian Ncther lahdt & Germany To Hamburgh, Bremen, and other Hanfe.Towßs 3,828,82.) The Dominion! of Francc 5.451 40,742 21>i$3 gallons barrels f 3,814 46,650 1.480 40,598 7 S 69 45 calki number builwls .gallons packages qr. calks 528 is, Si 573 3*7 pounds reams tegs JJ,oa6 818,405 tieiret barrel* 68,479 40,516 4,034 4^,834 9-7.779 47,»4» 7»J 688 barreft kegs barrell kegi pound* firkins pounds 995.93S 36,93 a 576,957 1,018,410 M 56 kegs & pots 2,218 bushels 37»307 bushels & bunches 748,8X5 number 22,000 gallons 174,401 108,341 >5.970 cases cumber . aoB *5.7" 37.415 *6,173 boxes ' pounds bufaeU boxes pounds 17,005 8,463 1>3»9 3 8 »776 7»»958 i?>37° 130,012 J. 71 57 package* Dumber hogfheadi pound* poynds 4- boxes fou#ds 46,336 7,718 48,2.58 3.*63 gallons 17,46, cnfki tl gallons 6,135 814,836 dozens 9,463 pounds 330,871 feet tons 34,341,847 5,709 954.573 806,746 5,408,430 58,152 6,643,092 233,460 5,640,347 3'32».495 337,015 443>57 2 263,820 ■j-i 5.341.357 7,158,183 164,156 4.967.799 7,*16 Dominions of Spaw Djrr.inipr.s ot Portugal Italian Poits China Kill -1 ncl'ea—generally Wert Indies—generally • Afri< a — generally Nortli-Well Coatt of A nu rica 6.997 i,94# Uncertain Total Dollars 29.464,470 TREASURY DEPARTMENT, RfcVLKtJK-OFFiCE, Feb, 26/ A, 1795. TENCH COXE, Carti'ffivnrr of tbt Revetiut. NtAc from yiulharity, Sundry quarterly return* are lince rcctivtd stir>oui>t ing to Dollars Which added to the fore* going general AbftraA make* the total amount of the exports of the United far as returned. Dollars Ttvi quarterly returns frim Charlcf* tan in South-Carolina, and sundry return* from small po> ts aic yet-to be received* These will make the total amount cf exports above 3a million* of Dollars. By this Mail. NEW-YORK, M:,rch .4. At the moment when this paper wag put to ptefs, the foutnern mail *n fir ed—We have,examined the Fhilm I phia papers fin a report prevalent since tact evening, the capture <f a* number ofFrvneh f 1 ips in ihe Mediter ranean—We find they contain nothing • refpedtinjj it, and therefore conclude it premulure. To Correfpor.tieritt. *' Its all my eye"—will be denomi nated a [amis faced production. (O* The JVece finned " A Friend to Deitncy," was wrote feveril hours be fore Wm. Rush k ew of it—at d was handed liim in the flritt, by a gentle man who i« not a mr-mber of t lie Co lumbianurr, with a rcqucll that lie would hand it to the printer. *** The remaindei of Sophocles is unavoidably poHpoued until to moriow. NEW THEATRE. TO-MORKOW EVENING, March 17, • Will be Prefentitf, A COMEDY, not performed this Seafoa, The School for Wives General Savage, Mr. Gate* Belville, Mr. Chalmers Torririgton, Mr. Mnrrit Leefon, Captain Savage, Connolly, Spruce, Leech, Crow, Wolf, Miss Walfingham. Mr». Belvilic, Lady Rachel Mildcvf, Mrs. Temped, Miss Ledon, Maid, After which, a Comic Dance, compofcd by Mr. Franc s, calL-d The lrifl} Lilt ; Or, MERRY REAPERS. By M flrs. Francis, Nugent, J. WaTell,Mift Milbournc and Mrs. De Marque. To 'which will he added, (Never performed h re) a MUSICAL, DRAMA, iii two i<9i, calkd The Children in the Wood. Sir Rowland, Mr. CJr en Lord Allord, M . M..rfhall Walter, Mr. Harwood Apathy, Mr. Bates Gabriel, Mr. Moruon Oliver, Mr. Darley jun. Ruffian, Helen, Jofep ine, Winilred, Boy, M-tiler Parker Girl, Mifp Solomons (being her firft appearance on tiiii llage) B.jx one Di>' pr—p tt jof• Do !ar— and Gal'e'v 4 a Hollar. The Public are rrfpe&fully informed that the Lioors of the Theatre will open at a quar ter after five, and th.- curtain rife precisely at a quarter alter 6 o'clock. Tiike sand plat*', for the Botes to be tjk« i ot' JVlr. Wills, at tie Tlie.it «, fio'hi TEN 't«H O NX, aiu on Hays ofprifoim atttr i'roin TEN'ri 'three o'cl.ck. Alfoat Rice's BookAore, No. 50, and atkl Carey's No. 118. Market street. Ladies and Gentlemen are reqnefted to fend their servants to keep placcs by five o'clock, and order them, as loon a« the compauy arcfeated, to withdraw, as th_-y cannot on any aciount be pcnuitted to re mam. 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