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.
Vivat Refpublica!
3.749.978
992,561
2CO)Si|
57.^27
24 r .'57
994,n 8
»77.643
S.3 8 3
29,981
>>551.368
called
Mr. Mor ton
Mr. CI vclsnd
Mr. Whitlock
Mr. Franci*
Mr. Gr n
Mr. filillett
Mr. Worrell
Mrs. Morris
Mrs. Whitlo k
Mrs. Rowfoa
Mrs. Solomons
Mr:. FruncU
Miss WilK-mi
Mr. Dc Moulin
Mrs. Solomons
Mrs. Marlhall
Mn R wfon