' «.
Tilcketts' New Amphitheatre,
In Chesnvt-st&ect.
THIS PRESENT EVENING,
nth November, liiftant.
Novel Feats of Horsemanship,
By the Equeftrim Troop. .
TIGHT ROPE DANCING.
Ground and Lefty Tumbling. . 1
The Sailor's defcripcion of a
Fox Chase;
Vith a comic Dialogue b tween the Clown and Siilpr,
With new Metamorpk*jet ;
Never performed here.
The whole to conclude with
The PONEY RACES j
With aheration*.
Particularly the Ponies wijyiart from the ft age, and re
turn to the wir.uirg poll in full view of the audience.
gT Mr. EICKETTS refpeftfullf inform« his liberal
bencia&ort, that he will spare no expense to procure per
formers of the fcr.t •minence, and mtroduce that novelty
which he flatters himfelf will please the public ia general.
*,* The evening's exhibition will be divided into two
afis; a suspension of ten minutes will is'ce place, as a com
modious Coffee Room will be opened contiguous to the
Circus, for those, gentlemen v/ho arc inclined to take a
refrefhmciit.
The Box-Ofiic* adjoining the Amphitheatre, will in
future be opened at 4 o'clock.
A r . B. Ne money taken at the doors, nor zny admitt
ance behind the scenes.
•.* Boxes; one dollar—Pit, half a dollar.
Doors to be opened at ha'f pad FIVE, and the
Eatcrtairmcat to begin at half pad SIX.
Mr. RICKETTS begs leave to offer the,following
PropoiaU to the Ladies & Gentlemen of Piiilad«lphia:
TERMS
For breaking Horfts, »rd inftrufUng Ladies and Gen
tlemen in the true art of R1 dinO and man aging
I „ their Horses, on the Road or Field.
Geutlemens' iionrs from 3 o'clock in the morning
'till lo; Ladies' hours from 10 to 12.
For breaking a yonng Colt from the Field, 18 dolls.
Bitting & throwing a horse upon his haunches
and learn to leap, - - 14
Dressing a horse to carry a Lady, - -18
Drellnig a Charger complete, 45
Brtffing a Stalkmj Horse, or Shooting Poney, 10
Ge«tle>nen to be taught by the season, - ao
Gentlemen maybe provided with Horses, and taught
Qt One Dollar per lesson.
Ladies may be accommodated with proper dreffid
Horses to ride on.
Gentlemen pup,ls may receive tickets of admitt
ance to the Equeflrian Performance at 10 dollars for
the season.
City Dancing Affembiy.
THE Affem'ilies will eommenw for ths Scifon, on
Thurfjuy Evening, the 19th iaft.
'Jot. Rfdmah, ~l
Sam- SztKßifT, 1- Managers.
Tho. It'. Franc it, j
November 4. dtiqtli.
IV/INTED TO PURCHASE,
Or is take ou a Leak of about 3 years, to commence
oa or about ift of April next,
A small Farm,
FROM 30 to 60 acres, with futficient building for far*i
icg the fame, and a decent house for a genteel family—
a:i equal proportion of msadow, arable, and woodland,
and a short diftauce from Philadelphia, Trenton, or Wil
mington, will be the more desirable. Apply to No. 187,
south Thiid-ftreet. Nov. i. §6t.
Notice.
A LL-perfons indebted to the late partnerftlip of Web
jljL Jltr, Adgatd) & White, ar« to make
to Peter W. Gailavdzt , No. 63, Chefßut-ilreet, vrko
is authorised to receive th« fame. Thofs who hay® claims
en the said Firm wili prcfent them to hira.
Demands on'the estate of the late Pdatiab JVehJitr, de
cked, are Co be exhibited to the fu' fcriber—and those
indebted to the said estate, are requeued to make pay
ment to RUTH PERIT, Executrix,
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il'T their I rfcenefTe« rakca, may havt them done by I •
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FXQM THE ARGUS.
THE OEFENCE—No. XXII.
[cosciomii.]
It is now incumbent upon m: to perform ftij
promlfs of replying to such objeftious to tlie arti
cle as may remain unanfweici by the preceding
rcnjevka. It is with piealuie I note thit the field
is very narrow—that indeed there scarcely remaiM
any thing which i» not io fiivolous and impotent as
almost to forbid a serious replication—lt will theie
fore be try aim.to be britf.
r, It is said there is only an apparent reciprocity in
the article, million* being due on out tide, arid lit
tle pr nothing on the otlict.
The answer to this is that no right being r^lin
quired on either fide, no privilege granted, the
stipulation amounting only to-a recognition of a
- rule of the law of nations, to a promile to abstain
from injuftict and a I,reach of faith, there is no
I room for an argmerit about reciprocity further than
to require that the promise (liould be mutual a« in
v the cafe—This is the only equiva ent which the na
!. tur'e of the fubjeft demands or permits—lt wauld
a be diQionorabie to except a boon merely for an en
- gagement to fulfil a rporal obligation—lndeed, as
e heretofore intimated, the true rule of reciprocity in
1 flipulations of treaties is equal light, not equal ad
vantage from each several stipulation.
n But it has been fliewn, that the stipulation will
be beneficial to us, by the confidence which it will
give on the other fide, wbviatiug and avoiding the
obftru&ions to trade, the injuries to and incum
brances upon credit, naturally incident to the dif
e trust and apprehenliou, which after the question had
been once moved, were to be expefled—Here, if
a compenfatioti were required, there is one—Let
" me add as a truth, which perhaps has no exception,
however uncongenial with the fashionable patriotic
in the wife ortjei of Providence, na
tions in a temporal sense may fafely tr«lt the maxim,
that the obfervjn.-e of juitice carries withit it«
s own aud a full reward.
3 It is also said, that having bound ourselves by
treaty, we (hall hereafter lose the credit of mode
ration which would attend a forbearance to exercise
the right. But it having demonstrated that
no such right exills, wc only re;nosnce a claim t»
the negative merit of not committing injtillice, and
we acquire the positive praise of exhibiting a wil
lingness to r#notince explicitly a pretention which
C might be the indrument of ogprcfllon and-fraud—
It is always honourable to give proof of upright
intention.
It is further said, that under the pioteiSion of
r this Ripulatiou the King of Great-Britain, who
has already /peculated in .cur funds, (the afTertors
- would be puzzled to bring proof oftl.efaft) may
cngrof* the whole capital of the bank of the United
Sta es, and thereby secure the uncoi!tro{jled dircCti
non of it—that he may hold the ftpek in name
of his-ambaflador, or of foir.e citizen of the'Ui.it
ed States, perhaps a Senator, who if of the vn
tuoui twenty* might be proud of the honotii —
that thus our citizens it) time of peace might expe
rience the mortification of being beholden to Bri
tish Dircftors, sot the accommodations they might
e want, that in time of war our operations might be
cramped at the ple-afure of his majesty and accord
ing as he (hould fee fit or not to accommodate ou
_ government with loans—and that both in peace aud
. war we may be reduced to the ahjeft condition of
I, havingjhe whole capital of our national bank ad
" miniUercd by his Britannic majesty.
' Shall f treat this rhapsody with seriousness or
_ ridicule ?
The capital of the bank of the, United States is
ten n 'lions of dollars, little fhorf,/ at the ptefent
t maiket price, of three millions as pounds Heiling ;
, but from the natural operation of such s demand
s in raising price, 'tis not probable .that mtich less
than four millions ilerling would fuffice to com
[ plete the monopoly. I have never understood, that
. the private purse of his Btitannic majesty, if it be
true as afltrted, that he has already witn'efled a re
lish for fpeculatibn in our fuads (a fact, however,
from which i. was natural to infer a more pacific
difpolition towards us) ivas so very aniole as coa
veniently to spare an item of such fize-fora fpecu
. lati-m across the Atluntie. But perhaps the nati.
- onal purse will be brought to his aid—As thisfup
f poses a parliamentary grant, new taxes and new
: loans, it does not f<-etn to be 3 very miuiagrahle
' thing, without difelofurc of the object, and if dis
closed, so very unexampled an attempt of a foreign
govcir.trunt would present a cafe completely out of
the reacli of all ordinary rules, jullifying by the
manifelt danger teu's even war and the confifcation
of til that had been puithafed. For let it be re
membered, that the article does hot protest the
public poverty of a foreign government, piince,'
or (lite, independent of the observation jull made,
» that such a cafe would be witheat the reach us or
dinary rules. It may be added, that an attempt
of this kind, from the force of the pecuniary ca
pital of Great Britain, woidd as a precedent threa
. ten and alarm all natious. W-buld confluences
like these be incurred ?
But let it be foppoled, that the inclination (hall
" exiit and that a!i about funds have been
surmounted—Still to effect the plan there must be"
in all the Itockholdets a willingness to fell lo the
1 B' itilh King ot his agents, as well as the will and
means on his patt to purchase. yere, too, some
, impediments might, be experienced ; There are per
foiis who might choose to keep their property in
the ft>ape of bank (lock, and live upon the incomc
of it, whom price would not readily tempt to p-;rt
with if. Besides, there is an additional obUacle to
complete success 'The Unite'd States are them
selves the proprieteis of two millions of tfie bank
uock. >
Of two thiags, one, eithcrthe monopoly of his
Btitinnic majrlly would be known, (and it would
b- a pretty arduous talk to keep it 4 secret efpeci
ally if the stock was to stand as suggested in the
name of his ambafiadur). or it would be unknown
and tonrealed nnder unl'ufpefted names : In the
former fnppofition, the observations already made
r<vu-. T e.-c would he no protedior r< j't
' T ha J< "dvtjfd tu a Ratijicutttn of the
j
as tie article ; and the extrarrjimiy »ature of die
cafe would warrant any thing—Would bis majelly
or the parliamei t choofc to trufl so large a property
in so perilous a lku»tiv» ?
It' to avoid this, the plan should be to keep the
•y operation unknown, the most efft&ual method
would be to place the Slock in the names of our
<g own citizens. This it fecrcs would be attended
'd with no difficulty ; since even our senators would be
• 8 ambitions of the honors and if they Ihould have
a? 1 qualms ahdjFcau, otheio more compliant could no
e ' doubt be found amonflthe numerous Secretaries or
Adherents of Great Britain in our Country : pro
-111 bably some of the patiiots would not be inexorable
if properly solicited. Or in the lad resort peifons.
micjlit be teitf from Great Britain to apquire nstur
slization for the cxprefs purport.
Ie In this~fuppofition too, the article would be at
a the lealf innocent. For its piovifions are entirely
n foreign to the cafe of Stock (landing in the names
0 of our awn Citizerts. It neither enlarges nor o
n briges the power of the Government in this re
n fpect.
l * 1 Further how will the article work the miricle,of
placing the Bank under the management of Briti/h
: Direflors It givts no r.e'w rights, no new quali
1S si cations.
n The conlVitntion of the Bank (icftion the sth
' 7th ot the aft of Incorporation) has provided with
fulicitude these iirport'r.nt guards, agaiiHt foreign
" or other fUifter i»iHienct>—l. '\ hat none but aci
-11 tizrn of the United States shall be eligible as a idi
e rector. 11. That norie but a ftockholdei actually .
relident within the United States, shall vote in the 1
- jfhjftions by proxy. 111. That one fourth of the
J director*, who aie to be defied annually, must ev
f ery year go out'of the direction. IV. That a di- j
1 redtor may at any time be removed and replaced fey 1
> the llockholders at a general meeting. V. That a j
e (ingle share shall give one vote foi" directors while I
- any number of (hare#, in the fame peifon, co part- 1
> ncrfhip or body politico-will not give more than i
• Thirty votes.
Hence it is impofiible, that the Bank can be in
f the management of British directors—A British .
fubjeft being incapable of being a director. It is :
e also next to impossible that an undue Biitith influ- ]
t ence could operate in the choice of direfters, out 1
u o! the number of our own citizens. The British I
1 King, or British lubjefts Out of the United States, 1
could not even have a vote by Attorney in the i
1 choice. Schemes of, secret monopoly could not be I
- executed, because they would be betrayed, unless 1
' the secret was confined to a small number. A small <
number, no one of whom could have more than <
f thirty votes, would be easily overruled by the more t
B numerous proprietors of single or a ftnall number j
s of'(hares; with ( the addition of the votes of the 1
Y United States. J
' But here again it is to be remembered, ttiai <■• <
• to combination with our own citizens, in which 1
<■' they were to be ostensible, for any pernicious for
- eign projedl—the article under consideration is pei- 1
- feftly -ngatory—lt can do neither good nor harm, 1
- .since it merely iclates, as to the exemption from t
- confirmation and seizure on our part, to the known t
property of British fubjefts. t
' It follows, therefore, that the dangers pourtray- t
« ed to us fn ni the fpeculatiugenterprizes of his Brit
tannic Majelly are the vagaries of an overheated t
imagination—or the contrivances of a spirit of d»- 1
1 ception—and that so far as they could be supposed
f to have the leall colour, it turns upon circumllanc- -
- es, upon which the treaty can have no . influence 1
whatever. In taking pains to expbfe their futility, 1
r I have been principally led by the desire of maki g '
my fellow citizens fcnfible, in this inflance as in
' others, of the extravagancies of the oppofcrs of
t the treat jr. J
i One aitifice to render the article unaeceptable has r
1 been to put cases of extreme mifeondtift, on the t
' other fide, of flagrant violations of the law of na- e
tions, of war,of juflice, and,of humanity ; and to
t a(lc whether under such circumstances tbe confifca
tionor fequeflration of debts, would not be juftifi
able—To this the answer is, that if circumstances
. so extraordinary should arise as, without the treaty, '
would warrant so extraordinary an they will
equally warrant it Hnder the treaty. For cases of
this kind are exceptions to all general rules. They
• would excuse the violation of aa express, or posi
tive, as well as of a tacit or virtual pledge of the i;
' public faitlv: which describes the whole difference a
• between the exigence and pon-exillence of the ar- n
ticlcin queition. They referable those cases of ex
-1 tremeiteceffiiy (thro' exceflive hunger for inllance) r
r which in the eye of the law of nafurt will cxcufe d
the taking of the property of another, or those si
» cases of extreme abuft of authority of rulers,which a
amounting unequivocally to tyranny, are admitted t
to jnllify forcible rt liftance to the established author- c
i" ities. Constitutions of government, laws, treaties, e
> all give way to extiemities of fuck a description d
■ the point of obligation is ta diilinguifli them with b
firreerity, *and not to indulge < ur pafTtons and iuter
• efts in fubjtituting pretended f«r rea'cafes. v
A writer, who disgraces by adopting the name 11
i of Cicero, makes a curious remark by way of ob- ' 5
jedtion. lie affirms that the article 'is nugatory, vi
I because a treaty ir dissolved by a date of war, in o
1 which Hate the provision is designed to operate. If n
' this be true, the artiele is at leafl harmless, and the li
trouble of paiuting it in fueh terrific colour night
' ha, [' e spared. But it is not true. Reafun, y
wi iters, the practice of *11 nations accord in this r<
pofi nan, tlut those stipulations, which contemplate ir
the (late of war, in other words which arc designed m
to operate in war, preserve their force and Ie
obligation when war takes place.* To what end tr
else all the which have been cited from ai
so many treaties ?f , 0
* VaTil, B. iii. cb. x. >
f 1 hit writer is as he is absurd ft
LcfiJes imputing to Camillas, in general terms a e:
cumber of things oi which he never dreamt, he has pi
the effrontery to forge as a literal quotation from b;
him (calling it his hot language and defgiating it tl
by inverted commas) a pafTage refpefting the im
prefiirig of feanien, which certainly not in terms, ai
nor even in-fubftanee, upon fair conlliuftion, is to a(
be iound in any thing he has wiitten—Not havin« ai
all the numbers of Cictrt at hand, I may rrefisgs, w
'H
he Previous t* a come'uiW, [ ;I ,aji ol,f me U
ity wah a,v ie w ic, accuracy, that the article 1 T' \
rty protea«l all veflels, good* ;! „d mere!,,Ji«f
fpeoes of propei ty i„dccJ, exce , t d .,,„ ,' ■ r J r
h ! ' n tr. ,U « 3l: . and , fl,e P r °f« rt >' ■
od public funds and ,n public: a „J ptivate '
>ur ,b,s exception, whatever before n, a> have ' 4 f?
td abUtoco.ifileation Or fequcftrction, iHll i„- s r s
be any thing contained in
ve 1 o overrate the value and of UU| . ~ ™ c!f
---1,0 «■"•«•* >sa natorri foible of
or vineed without convincing ot'.c mi ' ''° n '
o- fate of a writer or fneeker—h-i> i - K0,:,m0 »
>Te ordinarily miiiaken if ever" n-'u ' JL **"
»• ff li n »>ave been faLiSttj J" ° 1
:r- offered—that the tenth srtici- of tV'"*. }"** I
ly negociated with Great R,w"* 1 ' a '■>'
at but- confirm by a pofitive -m m " >c * IW! J" n g
!>' law of nations—iiid'icatedHfc ,r 7' V the "
es the better opinio,, 0 f writ-.' r-T'l^ pont<l | b T
- u%e, dictated by jLftice
e- zed by formal ads and deJUtlCof 1
i
{ ista
h i ire iiicirfTiafl has been dra\vn out to so great a
h length,'beeaufe the objediww ,o ti.i, „, . * f
.» amoogft tlu.fc which have been WW 2 1
>- greatelt warmth and emphasis ? t lhe &£? •
'* T 'VT f! ° m ,kem ' 'fW&ftcrv, mu st
y go far. towards fecurmg to it the public fuffi- e I
>c C itizensof Amenta! 'tis for r ■ , . r 6
te pait of the taflc, "lis for you toi IZi"? 1°" *
r- the arguments which have been >'
judgment., to eonfult without blaf, the inte^ritr
le fc I f Th r t! " ; ' tllfiCtS of and
k a.fchood . rhere can then be no danger that pa. . I
mV v _vc l ° lament ' or honor ta
n blush at, the.fentro.ee which you ikall p,onom.ee.
i he artu.tt, whieh adjuftrtie matters «f contra.
n verfy .j,tv,een The two countries, all tko£e which
h are permanent, have now been reviewed Let me
i> appeal to the coufrience. of those. who hnveacc.i
pan.ed me .n the review_if theft- articles were all
it that composed the treaty, would it be .the better
that tht 7 lhou!d exilt—or that all the foureea of
>, rupture «nd war with Great Britain should have
e rY, ,T- ■„ e " c R l otiat ' on to cxtinguifh them, and
e fhotild flill a thirdly fubftft in full vigour ? If every
s en.ightetied and honelt man mull prefer the form
er—then let me make anothe, observation and p J
n another queflion. The remaimng articles of the
e treaty, which, conflicting its commercial part, ex.
>' pire by their own limitation at the end of/Ww
e years. It !S ln t |i C power of either party ccufift
. g " t ) f , w ' t | h ,'l,'*, jnjhument to term,,,a,. a the
h war between France and Great Britain.
I» it at all probable that they can contnin any
- thing so injurious, ccnfidtring the Ihort duration,
i, which may be given to them, as to counterbalance
n the important confidcratian ol prefeivmg peacc to
n this young country ; as to warrant the excrltive
clamours which have been raised ; as to authorize
- the horrid calumnies which aie vented j and tojuf.
t.iy the f\ Hematic efforts which are in opera: lan
d to convulse -Cur country and to hazard even ciTtt
- WAR.}
d CAMII.LUS.
e '* attributing to him the principal leiaiment, which
,is from memory but 1 have under my eye the num. ft
j ber hich witnesses his foigery.
0 §In applying of diflfonefty & tur.
f pi:ude to the piiuciple of confifcation or fujueftra.
110:1 —I am far from intending to brand asriifhoneft
' men, all those whose opinions favour it—l know
e there are,fome ardent fpi:its chargeable with the
- erfor, ofwhofe integrity I think well.
1 i ' |
From the DeUwart Gazette.
s _ —
, Tot In author of thi ptrfo'fmanct und:r the fignatuft
| »f BRUI US, publjjhcd in the Advcrtijcr o] ]i/cd
s ntfday and Gazette of Friday lajl.
f SIR,
I AM at a loss to conceive the motives which
; induced you to make a public attack againit m»,
c. as the editor of the Delaware Gazettes #»r I vwaW
- not hastily attribute to you improper motives.
You insinuate, fir, that the Delaware Gazette is
) not replete with the ufeful information that my ad
: dress to the public led you to expedt. Are ync,
t fir, a fubferiber to the Delaware Gazette : if you
i are, propriety of condua fhou'.d have dii Sated you
1 to communicate your observations through the
- channel of that paper. If you are not aiuhferib
, er, you have no reason to complain that you are
- deceived in a paper which you have not, and pfo
, bably never intended to., fubferibe to.
There is fomc small difference between the rasn
who from principles rf phiianthropy and public
' i utility, endeavours t» correa his fellow crearure,
■ & the person who under pretence of ad/niniiterin.r
, whokfome advice, intends deftruftion. To which
of those claifes of reformers your publication ma
il ifefts you to belong, is not so» me, but the pub
lie, to determine.
You fay, fir, " that my declaration persuaded
you to believe, that my sentiments of justice would
i restrain me from the promulgatien of every Atng
injurious to truth, of every opinion which (liould
not augment the mass of public virtue and know
ledge." This, fir, would be equal to rry declaring
myfelf the political Pope of Delaware, omnifeitnt
and infallible. But I iiope that 1 have a jurttf
opinion of my own infirmities than to make such
foolifh vaunts. So far em I from believing any
finite being to be possessed of that infallible toucji-
Hone of reaitude, which you have been pleased to
extraft,fruna my.address, that I have considered the
piomalgation of e,r»r in feme raeafure necefW"',
by collilion, to generate the spark which enlightens
the torch of truth.
You, fir, cannot be so ignorant as not to know the
argument used by logicians, called the argument,!®
ad abl'urdam, which by Hating a falfe propofi*' oo
and purfuirg its confequcncet to the nbfurdiiy tf
which they tend, prove demerfltsLly the coßtrary
.