NEW THEATRE. THIS EVENING, February Will be prtfented, A TRAGEDY, called - JANE SHORE. Duke of Glofter, Mr. Green, Lord Hastings, Mr. Wignell, Catefty, Harweod, Sir Kichard RatclifFe, Mr. WarrelU Belmour, Mr. Beete, Dumont, Mr. IVbitU.k, Earl of Derby, Mr. Francis, Alicia, Mrt. Morris, Jane Shore, Mrs. WbitUck. To which will be added, for the fi/!t time, Grotesque Pantomime Entertainment, (partly new and pat tly compiled) called The Witches of the Rock ; Or, HARLEQUIN EVERT WHERE. With a new overture, Incantation, Airs, and Cho ruffes, composed by Mr. Reinagle. *b? Pantomime compiled by Mr. Milbourne, and under the direction of tnejjrs. Francis and Milbourne. Harlequin, Mr. Francis, ift Witch, Mr. Barley, ad Witch, Mrs. Worrell, tnrflrs. J. Darley, Rtbbins, X Mitchell, Miss Willems, '3 e Mr. Ifarrell, Mr. Dttrley, jun. Mr. Milbourne, Mr. Beete, Sig. JoJeph DoSsr, Mr. Morgan, Mr. Warrell, jun. Mr. Mitchell, Mailer Worrell, f Miss Willems, Miss Rvtufin, I Miss Oldjield, &c. Mrs. Ro-wftn. Miss Milbourne. Attendant Witches, Pantaloon, Lawyer, Drunken Valet, Surveyor, Pero, Miser, Pompey, Tinker, Bfick layer, Milliners, Fruit Woman, Cojumbine, Old Lady, Miss Solomon. With new Scenery, Machinery, and Decorations. — Interfperled with a variety of mechanical changes, magical transitions, and whimsical metamorphoses. To conclude with a DISPLAY of The Great Falls of Niagara. The Scenery designed and executed by Mr Melbourne 0* The Public are refpectfally informed, that the Doors of the Theatre will open at a quarter after FIVE o'clock, and the Curtain rife precisely at a quarter after SlX—until further notice. BOX, One Dollar—PlT, Three-Fourths of a Dollar— tad GALLERY, Half a Dollar. Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Well sl, at the Front of the Theatre. TICKETS to be had at H. and P. RICE's Book-We. No. Market-Street; and at the Oflice adjoining the No money or tickets to be returned ; nor any person, en any aceount whatsoever, admitted behind the scenes. Ritkeitss New Amphitheatre, CHESNU r-STREEf. TO-MORROW EVENING, Saturday, 17th February, jljtonishing Feats of Horsemanships hy Mr Rultfttt. a Mb. Sputavuia, Mr, F. Ricketts, Mr. Langley, and Mr. Suily, Clown. Mr. Ricketts will ride Handing on the saddle, and take several surprising LKAPS. Mr. Sully will go through bis comic feats on Foot ' and Horseback. Mrs. Spinaciita will perform her pleasing Feats on two horses, in full speed. ■ Mr. Ricketts's favorite Horse, dart thro' A BLAZING SUN, With a rider on his back. Likewise his American Winter, Cornplanter, will take his fuxpnfinjrLeap over another Horse near ly his own Cze. Ground and Lofty Tumbling, By the Company.) THETBEAUTIFUL PAINTING txeeuted by Mr. Jcfeph Perouani for the President's birth night will be exhibited for the last time. Mr. Ricketts will make hisfurpriftng Leap over Seven Horses, with riders on tnem.j Also, will throw a Sommerfett over 20 mens heads. The Evening's Amusement tt conclude with ricketts's new pantomime, called, The Triumph of Virtue; ©R, HARLEQUIN IN PHILADELPHIA +*+ The Poors in future to be opened at FIVE »nd the Entertainmem to begin at SIX o'clock. *,* Boxes, one dollar—Pit, half a dollar. js* Those Gentlemen who intend to take places for the Boxes, are desired to fend in time. There are a numbe.' of Stoves placed in the Amphi theatre -yhich render k perfectly comfortable. Bankof Columbia, FEBRUARY 22, 17Q6. THE STOCKHOLDERS will please to take no tice, that an Election for twelve Directors will be held on Monday, a ift M*ach next. S.HANSON, of Sam. Cajhier. zawiSM. Feb. *6. Jamaica Pimento, A quantity for SALE—for Exportation. 1 FETEK BUGHT. 1 Teb. %6, Political Boot-Store, (Jo. 8,/outi Front-Jlrcst. THIS DAY IS PUBLISHED, By THOMAS BRADFORD, A PROSPECT FROM THE CONGRESS GALLERY, Paring the Stjiati beginning the nth December, 170?. CONTAINING * The* Prefid«nt'» Speech, the addrefles of both Hou fet, some of thp debates in the Senate, and all the principal delates in the House cf Reprefenmires. each debate being bfeught under one head, and so digested and Graphfied as to give the reader the epmpleteft view »f the proceedings with the least possible fatigue. With Occirfionttl Remarks, Br peter, porcupine. . v '7«ft Pufajhed, "A pottilxt psraphrafe on our Saviour's Sermon an rtle Mount, Crawford Esq. Harper'* ad«lr<fi to hit Canftituenti. The Guillotine. "" Martan's Law'of Nations. , 1 Hunter, e» thr bi*o<t, | Feb. zj. VIVAT RESPUALIU. Perfoivs who mean to read lectures on political fnbjedts, artdfor money, and no others, are requir ed to apply for a licenfc so to do> figncd by two magidrates The whole bill is temporary. Short O&Jervations. This is not a bill to infl>& pains and penalties, but merely a bill of prevention ; to increase the fe«uri ty of his Majefty'* royal person, (which the late diabolical attempt on his life makes absolutely ne ceflary) to maintain the public tranquility, and to preferre the conflitution. There is no additional power whatever given by tht bill to gpvernment, or to either House of Parliament j but only a power, to be exercised difcretionally, to a defcriprion of gentlemen, perhaps the mofl independent in the kingdom. The right of petitioning to the King, or parliament, retrains exactly as the liitts finds it. The necessity of procuring a licence to read po litical lefturcs, is by no means so strong a measure as the Keen fin g of play-houses, which has never been objeded te. The bill is only meant to con tinue in force till that fpitit of sedition and treason, which turbulent clubs have unfortunately been too fucccfsful in exciting, (hall have subsided. Let the public coiifider this meafurc with attention, and -without prejudice, and judge far itfelf. A private letter received yesterday from Mtmftcr, dated the 17th inft informs üb, that gen. Warten flehen has had a battle with gen. Jourdan, near the IVlofelle, and that after forcing him to retreat, the Aufyians took the Chartrenfe, near Coblentz. The french troops which had lately advanced again to ifartk the Lahn, have been driven back. ■ . "^. e e '"ft°r of Saxony, it i> said, lis* sent to the impeiial army, ifi fquadrong of horse, jud eight *d3t LONDON, November 17. It was from the fulled convi&ion that the dearefl Rights of the People, and the fafety of the confti tution, ®n which the exigence of those rights de pends, raoft imperiously called for the adoption of decisive me»fures, for the fuppreflion of feJitious meetings and inflammatory publications, that we originAlly suggested the propriety of fcna&ing laws tor the accoinplifiiment of that salutary purpose. Daily experience fervei to ffrengthen our convic tion, and the very nature of the opposition to the bills before parliament, demonstrates, in the mod forcible point of view, the abfelute neccflity of the measure. At no period did the mcropolis swarm with so many preachers of sedition ; at no period were so many inflammatory publications published and circulated ; at no period did Trezfbn affumelo many fliapes and forms, and such a bald and confi dent afpeft. While the secretaries of the societies publicly disavow all treasonable intentions, the in- dividual members glory in their infamy, and boast of their crimes. Regular feftions and divisions arc still maintained among them ; delegates are lent to different parts of the kingdom, for the purpose of making converts; —all the hated forms and appella tions of the Gallic Regicides are preserved One of their delegates lately boasted, that he could bring 40,000 Miners to their support; anj another, de puted to Newcastle, flatters himfelf with similar suc cess among the Colliers. The very mode of their juflification eltablifhes their guilt. At their lail meeting at Copenhagen houfe, and on the 9th of November, their leaders iflued their mandates for the prefrrvation of tran quility in the metropolis, and tranquility was pie fervtd; while, previous to the 29th of OiSober, no ,such mandate was iflned; and it was a matter of public boall and public exultation, with many mem bets of the focietics, and with masy of their friends, that the king should be attended to Parliament by 250,000 people 1-r-The event is known—Thus it is ptoved, beyond all pofiibility of doubt, that there exiUs a power in the kingdom fupeiior to the laws; and from the circumstances we have adduced, eveiy honest and tational man will conclude, that such power is aflumed and cxercifed by the seditions so cieties. Their suppression, therefore, becomes a matter of such infinite importance, that we have only this alternative—Either to fupprtfs thetn, or to fnffcrthe Conftitntion to be defltoyed. We are the more anxious to impress this truth 011 th« mind ef every true-born Englilhman, as we are eonvinc ed, that on the iiTue of the present druggie', in which faflion, falfhood, and mifrrprefentation, are opposed to loyalty, truth, and facts, all that a well-formed foul holds dear inlife, ultimately depends. To these abfervations we shall only subjoin the following fa ft : At a late debate at one of the se ditious meltings, presided by a member of the Cor refpor.ding Ssciety, it was formally resolved., that the aft ef palling a Convention-bill, absolved fub jefts from the criminality of Rebellion; in other words, frora their oaths of allegiajiee.—Let Britons reflcft seriously on these proceedings, and ait with that spirit and decision which the temper of the limes so ftronglv demands. As friends to good government, and to public tranquility, we earnestly recommend it to those who have an oppoi tunity, carefully to read the bill now depending in parliament, for preventing fedttious meetings, aa the bell answer to the misrepresenta tions which Anarchilts havecitculated againftit Wc solicit the attention of those, who have not such opportunity, to the following fhort > but corrc&. out line of it. In the firft place, the firft clause of the bill ex pressly excepts from its operation all county meet ings,all meetings ofcorporate bodies, as well as meet ings of every kind, called by any two magiflratcs. The bill, in fact,applies only to such other meet ings, the object of uhich, real or pretended, is the red ess of some public grievance, or some alteration in church ,or state. The bill rot-rely requires, that a public notice (hould be given of such intended meetings, (as is the conllant practice of all regular public meetings) not summoning magistrates to attend, but enabling them to do fp by such mttiee, fltoutd they have rea son to fufpeft a seditious intent in such meetings. Should such seditious intent appear evident from proceedings heW at such meeting, two magillrates are empowered br the kill to dissolve it, for the ex ercise of which discretionary powei they are refpon fibk ta courts of law. December 1. Thc Priiffians have evacuated Frankfort, and an imperial regiment has marched into that city. The Aftrea frigate is bringing general Paofi to England from Crtixhaven. Thi* quantity of cannon taken at the Cape of Good Hope, amounts to 430 pieces and 18 brass mortars, with an almost incalculable quantity of am- mulution. , OPERATIONS ON THE RHINE Official bulletin of the Imperial Airny, under the orders of field marftial Clairfayt. Head-quarters, Pfederfheim, Nov. 11. Intelligence having been received that general Picheg»u, with his whole army, had advanced as far the Pfreim, and taken poll between Worms and the Dounerfoerg (Thunder Mountain) it w..s tefolved to attack him in this position, as loon as the reinforcement expefteJ from the Upper Rhine (liould have eroded that river. This corps having on the 9th inllant, formed a jun&ion with the grand army, early in the morning of the loth, a general attack was made on the enemy's whole line, whilll the army in three columns advanced towards the Pfiiem. General count Wartenfleben ptifhcd for wards from Alzey to lCirkheim Poland, carried that important poll, and took poll oa the heights of Mafhrim, whiift at the fame time general count Nauendorf advanced as far as Gelheim. In the mean time, gen. Kray, at the head of the van guard, harrafTed and amused the enemy, greatly superior in numbers, until the arrival of the three columns, which immediately formed the line of bat tle. • The firlt line then advanced, under the protec tion of our grape ihot batteries, on the heights of Flcerfheiui, and the enemy's batteries having been hlenced by the fire of our artillery, the villages sit uated en the Piheim were tlormed. Our intrepid irffantry forced them with fixed bayone's, and took pod on the neighbouring heights. Pk-liegru for ced by this manoeuvre, after having made an obfti tiate resistance, and sustained considerable loss, to abandon the field of battle, retreated at the fall of night with his whole army behind the Elfbach, and further into the position between Neuftadt and i)urkham, aftei having tendered impassable all the avenues of the Pfreim, and of course prevented us from following them during the darkness of the night. Worms was abandoned, and at the break cf day the flying enemy was out of our reach Before the ai rival <as our columns the enemy made several attempts against the left wing of our van-guard, and efpeeially against the battalion of Clairfayt, which fuffered them to approach within mufljet-fhot, then fiied a general discharge, and ad vanced against the enemy's horse with fixed bayo nets, which forced them to retreat. Our cavalry charged several timeS with the greatest success.and in general all our troops fought with their usual gallantry, steadiness, arid order. We have made 500 prisoners, among wham are several officers, and taken some pieces of cannon. Our army is now encamped on the right banks of the Pfreim, be tween Pfederfheim and Wackenheim.—Gen. Kray ii at Grunftadt—field marshal Latour, with whom he »fls in concert, is rtegr Frankenthal—and gen. NaUendorf at Gellieim. I.andon Gazette Enraardinary. HORSE GUARDS, November 3, Extract ot a letter from vice admiral, the hon. Sir G. K. Elphinftone, K. B. to Mr. Secretary Dundas. dated on board his majesty's ship Mon arch, Table Bay, Cape of Good Hope, Set tember 23. " 1 liave the honor to inform you, that on the 3d inft. the India (hips from St. Salvador, arrived in False Bay ; his majetty's (hip Sphynx, which failed with them, having met with an accident was obiigei to return to the former place for repair. " On the 4th, Gen. Clarke came into the har bour, and on a conference with him, it was de termined to land the troops without a moment's loss of time; but, notwi'.hftanding the uimoft ex ertion of the troops and seamen, it was the 14th before prevision, guns, ammunition, &c. could be colle&ed to enable »he general to move forward from the camp at Muyfenberg. " On the morning of that day the army march ed, each rr.an carrying 4 days provisions, and the volunteer seamen from the India ships dragging the cannon through a deep sand ; the country being difficult to proceed on, they were considerably gal led by the -enemy during a fatiguing march, per formed in hot weather. " At Wyneberg, the bulk of the Dutch made a stand, but were ioen dislodged by his majetty's forces, and ncaily at the fame moment, commodore Blankett, whom I had previoufiy detached for the express purpose of alarming the enemy, and giv ing a divcrfion on the Cape-Town fide, appeared off Camp's Bay, with the America, Echo, Rat tlesnake, and Bombay Caflle India (hip, and per formed (lie ferviee in the completed manner " At eleven, P. M. the commiflary Sluyflcin sent a flag of truce, to demand aceflfation of arms for forty eight hours ; and on the following mot - tling the colony was surrendered to his majelty." ADDITIONAL ARTICLE. It having beeß teprcfented to us that the utmost corifufion mull ensue in the coleny, and that it would, in all probability, be attended uiih the en tire ruin of it, if the paper money now circulating in it were deprived of that security which can a lone give any effe& to the eighth article, we : therefore consent, that the lands and houses, the property of the Dutch East India Company, iu this settlement, fltall continue the security of that part of the money which is not already secured by mortgages upon the estates of individuals, by its haying been lent to them. This is to be, however, without prejudice to the government of C*reat Britain, having the use of the buildings,&c. for public purposes. And we k will further repie fent to his majesty's government, the infinite im portance of the iubjeit to the future prosperity of this colony, and requefl that they will lake it in to consideration, in order to make such arrange ment as may appear proper for its further security, PFED|IRSHEIM, Nov. )2 . The following is the official account of the affair between the advanced polls wliicit look place near Frankenthal, un the l ithof Nov. The enemy advanced yeilcrday, with a great quantity «>1 aitillery, a gainflafquadron of Latour, forming the advanced poll near Fraiikenthal.— Count Latour being with a column of the army on his m-ireh thither, immediately dispatched Col. Count Klenan, with 5 squadrons of Wurmfer, iSe a battery of cavalry, for the puiptife «f luj port ing that advanced pott, upon which iheenrtnv ran* nonaded very viofently. Barons Tonou and St. Quintin availed rhemfcives of this favorable mo ment by turning Frai'kenthal to the right and thereby fallingoll the enemy's rear, of whom thev took 3 cannon, 2 howitzers,, and several arnmuni tioH earls ; they cut a number of the c..eniy in pieces, and cook some prifonejs. The enemy was pursued as'tar as Oggerfhrim ; at which place they left their advanced p.ilts, and retreated, for the gieatelt part to Neulladt, at which place Piehigru, with his head .quaiters had arrived before. After which Count Latour enter ed the eamp of Bodenheim. and pluctd his advan ced polls near Neckleflieim. The pat roles of gen eials NaudeudorfF >iid Kray brought- in some ptif- onets. The advantage thus obtained is of more co«f»- quence, as the enemy had lefolvrd npi-n attacking the imperial army with the armies of Pichefciu and Jourdan combined, and to drive them conjuu&ly from the borders of the Nahe and the Ptrimm. MAYENCE, Nov. 12 (in the evening.) We are this moment informed, that the Auftri llrian advanced polts are already at Kaiferfl utem. The head quariers of Count de Clairfayt were this morning at Worms; but it is determined to puih forward. The loss of the enemy in the aflion of the 10th mud have been very confidtrable ; fevcral marked batteries which were played wilk great effeA, spread great disorder through their ranks i Among the prisoners wera fereral Carabineers '1 he enemy attempted ytfterday to make a diver lion, by menacing the body of prince de Hohen loUe towards Nahr ; they even succeeded in reput ing some advanced posts near Krentzenance, but the reinforcement* fents to that general enabied him to resume his original polition before Nahe, and to oppose their furtherprogrefs. The enemy altempted likewise on the 9th to harrafs Bingen ; they advanced from the wood fil trated beyond the Nahe, and penetrated to the banks of that river, but a diverlion of the troops of Bamberg and of Maycncc who were at Bingen, were immediately difpstched from that quarter.— After a briflc engagement, they repulsed the ene my beyond the mountain, and took twenty prison ers. At Frankcuthsl our troops got pofleflion of the flying artillny of the enemy: they likewise took three French turr.mlffioners prifonVrs. At Worms, a very considerable magazine fell into our hands. The enemy did not pillage this city upon evacuat ing it, but they took hollages. CONGRESS. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Thursday, February \f>. Mr. Sedgwick prefcnied four memorials Vom plaisinjr of undue proceedings in the election us one of the members of the HetifcL: these being read, it appeared that they referred Jo Mr. Varnutn, member from the fecund dillrlet of Maflachufett*. These memorials import, that a nmuter us rote* had been received at the election from persons who were not qualified to vote, by which means Mr. Varnum was returned as having the highvfl. number of votes. On motion of Mr. Varnum, these petitions w<nc referred to the committee of elections. Mr. Var num remarked, that these petitions were in pur suance of a plan laid before he left home, but ear ned into effect since—He had not heard of the petitions till this morning. In committee of the whole, on the bill antl.o rifing a loan for the use of the city of Washing ton, Mr. Muhlenberg in the chair. Mr. Venable's motion for striking out th« firft and second feAions, in order to admit the fubttitute he proposed, was agreed to, 40 to 32. Mr. Venable then prspofed an amendment to the third feilion, to conform it to the spirit of the fubflitute, by making the lots the appropriate fund for the basis of the loan. ' , Mr. Smith, (N. H.) ohjefted to the amend ment j he said it did not go far enough; The feope of his argument went to {hew, that the pro perty contemplated as a fund foi thefecurity of the United States, was not so filuat"d as that it could be so appropriated. The property is afcfclutcly vested as a fee simple in the commilfioners, and not as a trust j and tiolefs there (hould be a conveyance of this property either to the United States or to the person under vvhofe fuperintendance the loan is to be made, the property is no kind of security whatever ; and he was fully of opinion I hit to con fidcr the fluid in the light contemplated by the a mendment, the government could hare bo controul over it whatever—he was fatisfied that it would be difiipated, ar.d the U,«ited States would have to pay the vyhole of the loan which thev should gua rantee. Mr. Venable said the gentleman entirely ir.iftook the principle on which the commifiioneis held the P'operty—Adverting to the law for eliablifiiing the permanent feat of the government, he inliticd that the lots were held by the commifiloners in trust on ly, for the use and benefit of the United States, and the Prelidciit of the United States has a full and perfedl coßtroul over the fame. Mr. Smith, (N. H.) recurring to the law, read Hie two ft-aions referred to, and from thence de duced this conclulion, that the United States .had not, in the remo.eft degree, the right of the Jo peny in quellion veiled in them • the law empowks thevPrefident of thcUnitea »-i- .
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