frpnraim Clark, SLOCK & WATCH MAKER, PHILADELPHIA, - Has received by the different arrivals, A VXRY LAXGX AND EXTENSIVE ASSORTMENT Or Gold, Silver, and Metal Watches; ALSO, A GENERAL SUPPLY OY TOOLS, FILES, AND MATERIALS; CON SIBTIMG OF Japann'd Clock Faces; Eight da" r , and thirty hourbrafs; ilit-pinions and forged work ; large and small bells; time piece and watch glafles ; springs ; Urge and small stakes ,and beek irons; ditto hammers; large and small bench vice?, and hand vices; Aiding tongs and pliers; screw plates; round, oval, and square draw plates; shears; blowpipes; emery; rotten stone; pumice stone; cruci bles ; cat-gut, and 30 hour lines; an elegant assortment . el ladies and gentlemens' steel and gilt chains, silk strings, gilt and steel leals and keys. All orders from the Country carefully attended to. February 11. tu&f stop, and take Notice, As the undermentioned paragraph will be found well worth your attention —such indeed has never been offered to the Public. The Suhfcriber, ju/l from London, Has brought by the ship Favourite, four thoutand pounds woith of Plated Goods, Silver Plate, Jewellery, life, and a fi-w WATCHES, WHICH he tvill fell for little more than half the price that such articles arw fold tor in this country. A pair of the best plated candlestick}, that are generally fold for 16 dollar*, wi'l be fold for dollars; and every other arti cle in the like proportion; such as waiters, bread baskets, tea and coff*? urns, tea ana coffee pots and biggins, tea caddies artd ftells, milk pots, sugar and cream basons, difti croJTes.with lamps, dilh rings with ditto, toast trays, cundlefticks of various patterns and lizes, branches to match, emit frames, liquor ditto, wine and water ditto, eg£ stands, butter boats, sauce turoans, fifh knives, ink ftanJs, wine strainers, wax jacks, salts, goblets, and eve >y other plated article that is made at-Sheffield, and of the latest fafhi n; and will be open for SALE, this -week (only) wholesale and retail, at Maiame Andre's, south Third-flreet, third house from Market-street. : Fhe jewellery will be open for sale on Monday next, and will continue one week (only) such as ear rings and drops of plain gold, cornelians, and set with pearls, neck- laces to match, neck chains, lockets of plain gold with fine paintings, forrie set with diamonds and pearls, ladies' and gentlemens' ring*uf e/ery kind, l ilies' and gentlemens' watih chains, keys, feils and trinksts, and various other ir'icles, all of gold, and the latest falhion from lon. The Public will not think the above mentioned llrange when 1 inform them, that the deftrudive war that En gland is engaged in, has reduced the Manufacturers to thi« necessity of railing money. Feb. 10, § Canal Lottery Office, Nzar the Bank of the United States, Philadelphia, February n, 1796, STATE of the WHEEL I prize of 30,000" - - 30,000 5 d». jo, 000 • - 100,000 I do. 10,000 - • 10,000 a do. »,s°° - - 5,000 1 do. 2,000 - - 4,000 10 do. l,ooc - » 10,000 15 do. 500 - - 7,500 39 do. 100 - . - 3,900 With a proportionate number of n dollar prizes. From the above, and there being conflderably more than half the Lottery drawn, the Public are informed the .Wheel is 70,000 dollars richer than at the commence ment; and that if the Thirty thousand dollars is not diawn -on Friday, the price of tickets will be raised on Manday morning, the 15th inflant. By ord«r of the Committee, Win. Blackburn, Agent. Note. A Check-Book kept at the abare office for exa mination, at two cents each number, or twelve cents for rtyifieri'ig. Purckafers will be accommodated with a credit propor tioned to the number of Tickets they take. 3t To the Public. THE Miniature Painter from Paris begs leave to inform the public, that his hours of attendance for the future will be from 8 o'clock in the morming ■unremittingly until three in the afternoon. id cf February 1796. THE STOCKHOLDERS In the Insurance Company of the State of Pennsylvania are hereby notified, That a dividend of Sixteen Dollars on each Share of the Stock of said Com* pany will be paid to them, or their Representatives duljr authorized, on any day after the ioth instant. _ By order of the Dire&ors, Samuel W. Seer'y. Philadelphia, Feb.l, 1796. § JUST PUBLISHED, ByMATHEW CAREY,No. i iß,Market-ftreet, [Price Three Dollars, in Boards] THE American Remembrancer. IN THREE VOLUMES. This WORK contains the whole of the Eflays un der the iignatures of Cnio, Juncoim t Camillas, 6inna y Decius> The Fidcraliji, Attieus, Tally, Caius, Columbus Carolinienjts, with an extensive variety of other EfTays—Likewife the chief part of the Jtefolvee and Proceedings throughout the TJnitedStates, «n the fubj&ffc of the treaty, February a, yusr PUBLISHED, {Pr'ce, one doliar and a half.] And to be fold by Messrs. Bailey, Rice, Da vies, Stephens, Ormrod, and Dobfon, The. United States Gazetteer; OR, A GEOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY. CONTAINING an authentic and full account of the different states; their iittiation, extent, boundaries, foil, produce,climate, population, trade, and raanufa&ures ; with the amount of their exports for four years subsequent tb the adoption of the federal government. Also the ex tent, boundarioe, population, aHd foil of tkc* refpe&ive counties. Togethcr with an authentic description of the rivers, lakes, tays,harbours mountains, caves,capes, mines mineral*, and iprtngs. LikewiCe the cities, ports of en tries, (with the amount of their exports individually for one year) poll towns and villages ; with the number of their dwellings, public buildings, latitudes and longitudes bearings and distances from Philadelphia and the metropo lis of the state whercinthey are fitoated. Also the times, of holding the courts ot justice in the chief town of each country, carefully colle&ed from the laws of .the different state legislatures. To which are added, the residence and number of the several tribes of Indians within the territo ries of the United States from the latest information The whole embeliifhed with nineteen msps and a hand- Jome title pag« At any of the above places may be had also, a large (heet map of those countries through whrch thc'Apoftlcs ~iting chriftianity. Elegantly engrav "i paper. Price one half do lar. eodsw. r,I. No. i, North fifth street eodiat From the Farmer's Weekly Miuehw. " Quench not the Spirit." FOR, (hould you, ye infeafible ones, you would perhaps, put out a light to lighten the nations. —- The lultrc of (pint is brilliant, and even its beat is cherilhing, let thu fire from heaven, therefore, ; be never obscured, left darkness ovorjhadaw the land, and thick darkness the people. .Let him > who is largely furnifhed with the gifts of mind, not only have his metits seen, but rewarded s and, in . obedience to the precept of Paul, let the world . fondly folter his active fpftit. For if it prove a spirit cf enterprise, or inyention, how will that > world rejoice, to behold it, like the hero of Mil ton, (hooting upwards, in a pyramid of hre. My readeri must excuse the preceding rhapsodical and glowing paragraph, so foreign from the usual level (tile of the Lay Preacher. ■ The noble na- tureof the mind, naturally renders one, supposed to have the care of fouls, eager for its advancement, and grieved at its depression. Quencfi not the spirit," what an apparently fu perfluaus caution ! At firlt a carclefe unreflecting critic, might suppose, that the phrase wajemploy ed by the faint of Tarftis, as a rhetorical flouriiTi, to allure the attention of Agrippa, or tickle the ea of Felix. 'J (Quench the Spirit," tie would ex claim, why who is there, that would put that light under a bushel ? 1 will tell thee, thou vain reafoner, and vindicate the Saint. The neglectful undifcerning world, thatfuffers talents to lie in the napkin. Paul both felt, and saw the nceeffity of fiich a feiious warning as the text. Doubtless, while he was preaching in the forums of Rome, or the churches of 1 heffalonica, he experienced the negligence of some, and the ingratitude of others. He dreaded, left even his own fervent Jpirit (hould be damped, perhaps quenched, by the frowns of Cxfar, or the hand of a Centurion. He felt, that the supine lethargy of Paganism, could not be ■ roused, even by the energy of his eloquence. .He reciillefted that, determined by exteriors, the batty Corinthians caught not the spirit of his dotfrine, and undervalued his mind, because his body was weak, and his speech contemptible. Conscious of ; the homage due tointelleift, and forrowtng, to be hold_the pearls of wisdom, trodden underfoot, he pertinently advifjs the Theflalonians, as in the text, not to quench the spirit, not to fuffer genius to pine in obfeurit}. Some years ago, in the capital of New-England a certain literary lawyer* Hood up,not to tempi, but to teach his townsmen. The desperate debtors of his native state, had endeavored to interrupt the course of its justice, and cru(h the wheels of its government, and he hiftoricifed the events of the infui region. When I was on the form of a Latin school, 1 recoiled studying a narrative of a coa fpiiacy at Rome, written with Angular purity, by Salluft. I think, and politer fcholats than a Lay Preacher, are of a similar opinion, that if Salluft could have been ftimmoned to record the revolt of Shays, he could not hare produced a work frugal of words, prodigal of ideas, happy in expression, like the volume of the lawyer. But it seems that his fellow citizens wanted a Paul to caution them, for they would not defray the charges,- even of binding the book. They quenched tie Jpirit of the historian. Fager to know the cause of such criminal lack of patronage, in my last journey to the metropolis, I traced many a street, and lane, in quell of genius. I looked, jand lo ! a modest man, neither a French philosopher, nor a dancer on wires, nor a vaulter upon deeds, nor a writer in the Chronicle. Ah, I muttered to myfelf, if the flame of hisfbirit has not b/azed'm these directions, it is not marvellous, that the cautious Boftsniana (hould cry " quench !" The LAY PREACHER. * George Richaids Minot. REPORT Of the Committee, appointed to enquire into the actual state of the Natal E enacted, that fix frigates should be built for the p>c«eftion of the trade of the United States, againil the Algerines, then at war with the United States; that four «>f the frigates Ihould carry forty four guns each, the two others thirty, fix guns each—By this law it was enadUd, that in cafe of peace with Algiers, no further pro«eed ing (hould be had under the said aft. That on the 9th of June eufuing, an aft passed, appropriating fix hundred and eighty-eight thou farid eight hundred and eighty-eight dollars and eighty-two cents, for the purpose of carrying en the building and equipping of the fix fiigales or dered by the preceding law ; and the sum of eighty thousand dollars was appropriated by the said aft, for the building of gallies or other velfels, as the President of the United States might direst ; the above sum of fix hundred and eighty-eight thou fend, eight hundred and eighty-eight dollars and 82-100 at the time of palling the aft, wasthought would be fufficient to build and equip the faidfri gates ; and tliey might have been built and equip ped in one year, if common materials had been pat together, and the size of the frigates had sot been extended. » But it appears to your cnaamittee, that after the law passed, the President of the United States, un der whose direftian they were to be built,.deemed it most adrifable to extend the size of the frigates, and determined that they should be near three hun< died tons larger, each, than the vommittee who rc ported on the naval armament, had ellimated ; tbat lnltead of making use of common tiirber for ipg the frigates, he caused the belt live oak attd red cedar, to be got in Georgia, from whence it was to be exported to the different naval yards eftablilhed under his direction, at the following places, viz. one at Portsmouth in Virginia, one at Baltimore, one at Philadelphia, one at New-York, one at Bollon, and I'Onc at Portsmouth in New-Hamp(hire ; at which | place) much of the timber has arrived, mqre is daily expe&ed, and the whole is probably contra&ed for, I al, d may be expe&ed in the different yards by May j or June next, as may more fully appear by a letter j from the Secretary of the Department of War, j received the fourteenth of December last ; to which the committee heg leave to refer. Your committee further report, that from the belt information.they can obtain, in coafequence of the increased size of the frigates, the additional ex pense of live oak and red cedar timber, and the un exampled rife of labour, provisions and all other articles necessary to the equipment of (hips of war, since March 1794, when the law was passed for pro viding a naval armament, that the colt of the fix frigates, excltifive of provisions and men's wages, when equipt for sea, will amount to one million one hundred 111 d fifty-two thousand one hundred and sixty dollars; hesce if they are to be cdmpleated, they will require the further sum of four hundred and fifty-three thofifand two hundred and feventy two dollars ; afuin, in the opinion of the commit, tee, which it would be inexpedient to apply to this objeeft, whilfl labour, provisions, &c. &c. remain at the present advanced prices; and as the committee arc ef opinion that many of the articles on hand may be preserved a long time without injury, and such as are of a perifhahle nature, tjiay be fold with out loss, if not to advantage ; and as the primary cause for which the fix frigates were to be built, is probably accomplished, although the committee re luctantly give up the idea of finiihing the whole for the present, are of* opinion, that twoofihe fri gates, one of forty four guns, and one of thirty-fix guns, should be finifhed as soon as possible which 111 the opinion of the committee, may be effected with the money already appropriated, and com p'eted by November next—Therefore, Refulved, as the opinion of this committee, that as there is a peace with the Empero' - of Morocco, and good realon to believe that there is one with Algiers, that only two of the fix frigates fliouid be completed at present, and that as speedily as possi ble j and that the President of the United States ihould be authorized to dispose of such part of the materials procu.ed, as may be-of a peiifhable na ture, after referring a- fufficiency te complete one frigate of forty four guns, and one of thirty fix guns. [ hat tie surplus be fevuredin the bell man ner the nature of the cafe will admit, to be ready whenever G-.ngrefs may deem it advifeable to di rest the linifhing of the other four frigates. Rcfolved, 1 as the opinion of this committee, that the surplus mojnes appropriated for building of fri gates, after completing two of them, Ihould be ap plied to the finking fund, for the iedu£tion of the public 4ebt : SENATE of PENNSTL VAN lA. Hiur/day, February u, 1796, WHEREAS the eliablilhment and operation of the present federal Conllitution, by promoting the extension of commerce, manufactures and naviga tion, by enabling the United Sta es, and the se veral Itates, to provide for the payment of their relpeCtive public debts, by contributing to'eftablifh public and private credit, by increasing the natiot, a rcfpeftabtlity in the ertimation offoreign nations and, byprefemng the bleflings of peace, have dif niled a general prosperity throughout the United States: And wherea», amidst the emiment advantages de rived from the present system and before any fub jtantial i :conveniencies are felt therefrom, to Make important alterations in the c®u9itution, would be to rehnquiih principles eftablilhed by experience, 111 order to follow opinions founded only in theory and to expose the welfare ofthe people to hazard : And whereas, frequent alterations in the consti tution, would have a tendency to excite a spirit of retlefs innovation, to bring on the reproach of na tional levity, and to diminish as well the confidence of the people, as of foreign nations, in the exit ing government ; and therefore, ought not to be resorted to without cogent motives for so doing : whereas, if it were proper, at this time for this house to join in an application to Congress, for calling a Convention to alter the Constitution of the United States, the amendments, to be pro posed, should be such as would promote private justice, by rendering real property liable to the payment of just debts ; and 1 would eftablifli the National LegiHature on the true principles of rep. refentatien, by enabling fieemen, as well as free holders to vote ; and, by apportioning the Repre sentatives among the several states, according to the number of those freemen : Bpt this is not the period for experiment. And ■whereat, the amendments suggested by the Legislature of Virginia, have not teen proposed in the manner prescribed by the eonaitution ; which authorizes the L?giflatures of two thirds «f the several states, by application to Congress, to cause a Convention to be called for proposing amend, ments; but does not impawer the state legisla tures to use influence to obtain amendments in Con grefo. Therefore, Resolved, 1 hat the Senate do not concur in the alterations of the Constitution of the United States, piopofed by the Legislature of Virginia.in their resolution pasTed on the fifteenth of Dec. last, and transmitted by the Governor of Virginia, for the conhderation and cnocHrrence of the general afiVmbly of this commonwealth. Portraits. ANY Ladies and Gentlemen, who are deiirous of hav ing their Likcnefles taken, may have them done by applying; to the Painter, at No. i iz, corner of Union and Fourth streets, where they ctin be referred to Prober r Hi'. C> AZ.'t. f k t, v «' / i -.1 ijii oi. - i i.^, Mr. FENN'O, THE Bth Toast of the gentlemen who dined »t Richard*t'» on Saturday la(t, and who call thew felves " Democratic Republic ins," is, " The Slate of V'uginia : may all the States in the Union imitate herpatriotifm.'' I do not with to take from the merits ef an itlJi vidual, much lefaftom a refpe£table lifter it ate, but 1 cannot conceive that Virginia could be heid up as a pattern by real democrats or republicans, loi tire following reasons among others which might be mentioned: More than one-third of her inhabitants are hrld ill the moil a-bjjjciJ}auery, to support their ulajien in idleness and luxury. , The property of those naefteis that con lifts in land, cannot i>c fold to f>ay the hard-turned pit. tance due to an haiieft mechanic or trn>letrr,ai., * Let the mechanic fee ever iix ittdufl. ious, or let his contributions to the public be ev.tr'To great, or let his wealth or talents fc>e what they may, he can have nothing to do with government, not even so much as to vote at an eleOion, unless he has become a Lord of the foil. I believe this is not the cafe in any-other state in the Union, but I am not certain so far as it refpe&s Kentuckey. I am afraid those ten or twenty gentlemen wlio gave the sentiment above alluded to, are like too many others, who, \\hile they have democracy in their mouths, are far from it in their hearts and in their conduit and conversation in the wutld : he whose preaching and pra&iee atie at variance, mull not tjike it amiss if the world laughs at his fine sentiment? when contrasted with his condudh I am willing to allow much to individuals who live in a state circumstanced as Virginia is : no doubt (he has rcuny valuable citizens, who sympa thize with those who fuffer in their liberty, perfoi# or property; but as a state (he cannot merit imitation. She comes forward and requests, that the Senator of the United Slates may be chosen for three years, and her own state Senators are cholen for four years. —Pull firft the beam out of thine own eye. Real liberty is, like truth, immutable and un changeable in her principles, and all her a&ionj petitions will forever correspond and agree with each other ; she cannot debase one man into a slave, and exalt another to be his mafler and tyrant—She who doe 8 this may a flu me the language and dreTs ot the goddtfs, but her real votaries will discover the imposture, and know tbat flic is a wolf iii (faeep's cloailiii'g. Arc the representatives from the (late of Vir ginia the representatives of the people at large, or are they only the representatives of the aristocracy of Virginia ? Is the government of Virginia a go vernment of th« people al large, or is it a govern ment founded by and en the principle* of trie .aris tocracy of the country ? If this is ctco queftiqn able, vyhy propose her as a pattern ? S.' ■ NEW THEATRE. £3° The Public arc refpeclf»Hjr informed, that the Doors of the Theatre will open at a quarter after FIVE o'clock, and the Cuitain rife precisely at a quarter after SlX—until further notic*. On FRIDAY ITEMING, February it, Will bsdrefented, A T R ur, called The Roman Father; • OR,DELIVERER OF HIS COUNTRY. Tullus Hoftilius, Mr. Green, Horatiui, the Roman Father, Mr. Whit lock, ' Pub'""'. Mr.Moreton, *» «»•» Mr. Wignell, Volfcinius, Mr. JUar/ey, jun. Roman Soldier, Mr. U'arrtll, ift Citizen, Mr. Mitch J, 2d Citizen, Mr. Blijjhtt, id Citizen, Mr. St lomtn. Horatia, Mrs. nhitlock, Valeria, Mrs. Harvey. In Ail V An OVATION, with the Triumphal E»- J 1 ? ° Publius, the Deliverer of his Country, after his V letory over the Curiatii. The Vocal parts by Messrs. Marlhall, Darley.Darley, jun. Warrcll and Solomon; Mrs. Warrell, Mrs. Solomon, Mrs. Bates, Mrs.Dodor, Mrs. De MarqDe, MifsWillems.Mifis Milbourne, Miss Rowfon, Miss Oldfield, &c. ' * /-ira . E " d of Tragedy, (for the 2d time) A GRAND DIVERT! 3EMENT, composed by Mr. Francis, called The Warrior's Welcome-Home. . With aA introductory symphony of military music. To which will be added. The FARCE of I The Spoii'd Child. rt, t J tl n. P i C . k!e,withfon S s . Mrs. Mar/hall, O.d Pickle, Mr. Earqjjmd, T - Mr. Francis, J?. hn * Mr. BliJJett. Mr. Darley, juu. . Mils Pakle, Mrs. Row/on, M ana > Wrs. Francis. Mfgery, Mrs. Bates. buf!ln » Miss milems, s rlrJr'" bt ui " »'• w " '*•« v„ TlC „ K "\ ,o c be had at H - and P - RICE'S Book-Storr. aire. C " : and Office adjoining (he The- No money or ticket* to- be returned j nor any pcrfon on any aceount whaifoever, admitted behind the scenes. Ladies and Gentlemen .re requested to fend their ferrants to keep places a quarter before five o'clock, and order Them wI foonas the company leated, to withdraw; as they can. not, ob any account, be permuted to remain. VIVAT RES PUBLIC A. * . For Sale, or Charter, BETSEY, J ohn Dankios > matter, T URI HEN about 200 barrels flour, in complete or r'ce,ve a car p immediately. For terms apply to the Captain on board, at the fubferiber's wharf— 0r rrrr , , „ , JOSEPH SIMS. % ho has/or Sale, jujl imparted in /aidJloop, Coffee, of an excellent quality, in hhds and tierces. Sugar, ditto in hhds. and barreJs.