STOCKS. t ■s, J* F« .. v- .j---vx - 1.8/* . %ttieHr.Ceßt. s , r ,..-r t<^6' ■•••■% P e MrsWsr', .'■? v'v- v ij/9 BANK. United States, - - - - pr. Cent. • >:- .»■> "Sc at '/Jo '•' *Wfirica» - ,n>\ ->..;- 46 NflrthiVweric#,» 4,d0115, or 40 p.c. '•>* / v,i rj. 9»«o ' .Ij6 to rjß pfer£<pt/ l^e M<mche(t«r, be~m*h fivm the PoJl-QJice on Saturday. . 2^r,.V Dancing Aflembly. i ,-T" , , ' Mf The $ubf 9 rib eps to the Building for the Dancing aje defic?d to me«t at the City Tavern, onj Wtfttaef&Y ri£ci)"ad March, at 1-2 past 12, A. M. TO BE SOLD. /It PUBLIC VENDUE, A' the Merchant's Coffee Hiufe, at 7 o'clod on IVtdnrftfaylhe l \Oth Jay of Mareh haxt, Pursuant • t)i,tbe tafl Will and Trjlament of John Brjng j'HOßSTi lute of .Germantown, Coach Maker cieeeafed. I«o.- r. A VALUABLE PLANTATION, or i jL\- trail of Land, situate about 7 miles ia a 1 the end of a road ieadinc frona KSitrmantown Main Street commonly called Biccufes SS.ang, about half way between Germantown and Miles ■own', and i< the neighbourhood of fcveral Mills, boun- Ijpid by lands of Dr. William Shippen, Delfnan Kolp, g*hs lime kiln road, and the road that divides German- Bto\vn& Bristol townfhips.—ltsfitvjation is equal to any gwithiu the &me diftanee of the City, f«r a srentleman'j g country feat, having a full view of the city Philadelphia ■ and the river Delaware'—Containing 66 acres 47 per- I (Met more or less, 16 acres whereof woodland, 10 acres | can watered by a never failing spring that arises on 9 the premises—The whobe of the foil naturally good—- ■ On which is eroded a (lone messuage with an excel- I eht well of wat«r at the door, a frame barn, &c. A I young thriving orj|>»rd of 3 acres, a good kitchen 1 garden with a variety of peaches, pears, plumbs, cherry and English walnut trees; the whole inclosed by a good port and rail fence, and the garden paled in. No. 2. Three contiguous lots or pieces of land Jying en the north fide of 3 road leading from the German - town road at Nice town to Schuylkill 4 3-4 miles from the city—bounded by the rear of the Nice town lots, lands of Thomas Fiiher, James Logan, and the road aforefaid—Containing 27 acres and 112 perches, more or less (after deducting ao undivided 15th part of iaj acres jr The whole can be made good meadow, about 5 acres r'hereof is woodland, on which i 3 ere<sled a two fbiry frame messuage with an excellent well of water »t the door, a liable Stc. and a never failing spring nearly in the center of the premises—the whole inclos ed bv a goodpoA and rail fence. No. 3. A two (lory messuage, and gardsn encloftd ■with a good pale fence, fituatt on a lane called Shoe maker's lane near Germantown Maiii Street, contain ing half an acre and 11 perches, inotading a small piece ot land of Benjamin Shoemaker's for a tail-race. The whole being in ;o«d 5 No. 4. A barrack lot marked in the plan ofth»bar raek square, No. 60 fituase on the eift fide of 3d Street in the Northern Liberties, containing in breadth 10 feet < ert to Rose Alley, bounded north d.by.) ~>i<u Crawl's lot, and southward by a lot of Henry Fraley. I'fffjffton m«v be had immediately. The termi and cc iitiomof be made knnzvn at the time and place above mentioned. A?:y perfen. d{frolls of •viewing the above pre miffs, car afifily to either of thefubferibers. GEORGE BRINGfiURST, JOHN M'CULLOH. N". B. The Executors of t]}-: above eflete, once more fbUcit all persons hv-Arig demands aga 'tnft said ejtate to ft 'ftnt them -'-(fore the "day of fait. ' ' 4* '' PhilaA. F, brvary Ij, 1796. "~k y advertisement. SubfcriWr informs the Public,, that he has disco- JL vered a method by which Pains may be removed from the Human Body in a very easy and simple manner,, •by the application of pointed metallic substances ; and H.« Y«.;jg obtained a Patsnt for the (tine, which secures to himfelf the sole privilege of the pra<stice, he now pro poiefc felling the privilege of pradlifing agreeable to hi? d icovery, by Towns, Diftri&s, or States, as shall be moil ? greeable td the purchasers. For further particulars en quire at No. north Second-flrect. ELISHA PERKINS. February 27. *eo4W kof Columbia, FEBRUARY 22, 1796. will please to take no _ tice, that an Eleilion for twelve Dircfl'ors will he held on Monday, 21ft Maarh P. 1 \ 51 . S. HANSON, sfSim. Cajhler. Feb. 26. iawißM. »*<•*>* .. T 0 B E SOL D, Sundry LOTS fcf TRACTS «f l.Am) in the pur cbajtjnatle fro»y Gongrefs by the Ohio Company, viz. f-\NE and nine Lots m.th U vicinity of the city of Muic&, which is beauti -1 lily situated at the confidence of the rivets Ohio aad I Mulkingum. • ' „ Five Lots jjj&k. thii J ffbwuttiip iiv the eleventh range, amounting to about twely ■ hundrej <»nd etgHty acres. Three Lots in the fir ft Townlhip of the fifteenth range, containing'about feventeeu hundred ani'futy acres. This frsrKK; *. .h. M I range, amounting toaboat eigKt thouf;md eight hundred I »nd thirty atres." pIIE I The fertility of the foil of the Western Territory, and * the rapidity with which it# population ipcreaijesj are well I.iiowd i Several Settlements are already formed on the Ohio Comp»ny > s J Purchafe,and iu the vicihitY of fnirie of '.he Lands above offered for sale, v.'iich most greatly en hansy their valu. m.aihoit time l TW» circumlWe, add-. cd to their eligible situation, renders them an objefl pecu liarly worthy of attention. They will be ioid fcjj.irately •r together. For terms appi} to Ebenczer Hazard. February 19. lawiw Public Notice is hereby given, rpo the Stockholders in the Laocattcr amlSufquehannh. J. Turnpike Company, that an JOeAio* for one Pre iiiknt, tight Managers, and cne rre*ftaer»i the laid Company, will be held at the Houfc of Matthias Siough, Kfq. in the Bbrough of I.ancstter, on 'Monday, tic 2id day of March next, at Wycfcik-in the fore noon fDW'ARD HANI), M ATTHIA SMiCUG'H, ALEXANDER. SCOTT, ISRAEL W HELEN, • i * GjiORGE BICKHAM, FRANCIS JOHNSTON, GEORGE LAUVAN. —J— — — The following report was read i» the Houfe.of Reprefentati»es of the United States on TuefJay 1-ft) and refeired to Committee of the whole. The Committee of Ways and Means, having ta ken into thejr the filbjeft of inter nal revenues, and the proviliom requisite for im proving the fame, and for more effectually fe curiiig the collection thereof, recommend to the House the following- rcfillutions, viz. tft. RESOLVED, That it will be expedient to abolilh the tax laid on Tpirits diflilled from materi als of the growth of produce of the United States, at any other place than a city, town or village, or at any distillery in a city, town or village, at which there {hall be one or more (tills, which Ciiijjly if only one, or together, if more than one, (hall be of less capacity than four hundred gallons ; and to collect this branch of the revenue from a tax on the capacity of the (tills. 2d. Resolved, That the officers of the revenue to be authorized by law to require of the city distillers, and the refiners of sugar, the verifi cation on oath, of their books, ance a quarter, and that to be made the cou(HTnt duly of fueh distillers and tefiners, to exhibit their books, if re quired. . 3d. Resolved, That a time ought to be limited, within which, she exporter of fpiritsdifFilled with in the United States, dial! be entitled t<- a draw back ; and that, the drawback ought nut to be granted, unless where the expoitation is from the diltrid or Kate, where the fame is distilled, or the n«xt adjoining dillrift or Hate. 4th. Refol»ed, That it would be expedient to modify the a& imposing duties on licences to re tailers of liquors, so as that the said retailers should pay in proportion to th^amount of so far as to divide them into three or feur classes. sth. Resolved, That it would be expedient, af ter demand made of any tax (except on goods im- and a negleftor refufal to pay, to autho rize a collection thereof by distress. 6th. Resolved,. That it would be expedient, af *cr of.aßy fuck tax, and a nepleft or refufal ta pay, to allow the officer employed to coll«<st the fame, a certain mileage for his travel fyeh ta* over and above the commis sion which he may be entitled to by law. 7th. Resolved, That prov fion ought to be made for allowing drawbacks upon spirits, export«d (via MiflifippiJ in vessels oflefs than thir;y tons. From the Netv- fork Minerva. The quantity of land ceded by the,lndian na t"?ns tj> the United ■ Stales, at the Treaty of Gfeenviiie on the jd of Augull last, amount) in eliding file grants formerly made by Congress, and ths Board of 1 reafury, to upwards of twenty mil lictr.s of acres. This Territory lying betwixt the 37th and 42 degrees of North be yond a doubt, an equally if not more abundant ioil and falubiious climate, than any trad of the fame extent, within tlie jurifdidtion of the Uuited States. Indian title having been extitiguifli / by fair and honorable means, and the slate of Virginia on a former occasion, having relinquiflied tier right, derived from the original charter, has left to the nation an undisputed title to the fame. The original policy of opening for sale this vast territory, feemaa matter worthy of the greatest consideration; It appears by the public debates, thaf the expediency of the measure is not doubt ed, bat ley few. I con/ess the fubjeft ftiikes me in a different light it seems pregnant with evil, un der whatever form it may be brought forword—lt cannot be disputed, that almost the whole revenue pi this country arises from its foreign commerce,all those fertlements which have a dnc6t communica tion with the ocean, within the juiifdiftion of the bmted States contribute to the augmentation of our exports, and ot course to the ability of import 'r-£» ttic luij of inhabitants from those diflri&s, & other parts of the atlantic states in general has di reftfy a contrary effefl, and though tKey remain citizens of the United States their indjftry can turn to no account whatever even admitting the Spaniards grant the free navigation of the river MifTifippi, can it be supposed wi (hall be fubjedfc to riff reftrifiioßs in the port of New-Orleans, or that Americans (hall have the exclußve benefit of the trade of that country • It would therefore ap- j pear, the bed and wisest policy in the government, ! by every prudent measure to ftrertjjthen the nation- j al industry and population where it has the mod direct tendency to benefit the nation at largt, this not be by encouraging emigration beyond the mountains. The fiates of New-York and PennfyJvania are nearly equal-in extent, and popw lation. The number on each mile square by-Goxe's view of the United' States* Ruthe ktter, docs not amount to to, in the (late df - New-York to »0,6-io. It follows th'eitYhil before these Hates ... ..V ■ '■ , , level of Europe they would bear a 10 fold multi plication of inhabitants, notwithstanding this thirinefs of population, the value of thie exports of these two itates taken together Amounted, in the year 1795 to upwards of twenty one millions of dollars, a proportion to the whole exports of the United States of 45 to 100, the return of Ken tucky not included. % Betides this wonderful effe& of their industry, great propels-for opening water commendations in the interior of the country are on foot in many of th« states, jind the two last in particular, no oac in the lead acquainted with rh? nature of these im provements can doubt their utiliiy when perfe#ed, but every one knows their at reft of progress, is principally owing want of Capital, and la bor, mast individuals engaged in Plans fa ufeful to the public, do not look for an immediate perfection of them, content with the p'rofoeft andfencouraged >y the solidity of th m, their pes of ultimate in fi-aiion and benefit .its upon the iricreati tt&f tciof A 41 e<! > ky !&jpnv!iii&s »j^fjftrfcabi*an tO-{fet lefourcc as some may thii k these ■ lands, I would Venture to- aflert that rather than dispose of them now, cougreft had better give them awav ir thr proprietors would engage to prevent the fettlcment of them foAwenty five years to romp, and duiing that period prsferve a peace with the Indians. livtravelling through the back parts of the states of Virginia, and Pennsylvania, no want of land is observed, the pcuple have ten times as much as they can cnltivate l yet they sigh for pofleffio . of the Indian country ; the mode of cultivation ptir fued by these people evinces reftlefs,unquiet disposi tions. From the foot of theLaurei hill to Pittlburgh in the ftateof Pennsylvania, a country that has been fettled 25 years with few exceptions, the inhabitants still live in log hutts and have log-barns—What ad vantage can result to the United States, to invite these people to cross the Ohio—'tis a fact they have an implicable hatred to the Indians, retrained by no moral principles they are ready to commit mur der whenever opportunity offers, ff the .mode there fore of disposing vf these lands a faci lity to those people to remove to tir-t country, the Government by that lingle aft vvoufd create an em barrafTment to a friendly intercouife -with the In dians, which perhaps without very flroivg measures would defeat the pollibility of prefer vipg peace. The above ate a few arguments thkt com? into view agninft the measure, I trust many more could be brought forward, and not a single one in favour of it—lt may he urged that thefale of these lands,, will immediately biih'g into the public Treasury an enormous film of money, jf even the fact was ad mitted, does the public want money ? but it is ve ry questionable whether a con/iderable fuin could be realised ; if fold to settlers only, a long time will necelTarily elapse before any considerable quantity is fo'.d, all this while the whole eftablifti meryt of Surveyors offices, GVrifon? &c. will be kept up at a great expence to the Government — If fold to Capitalist they will give 110 mere for it, than upon a nice calculation it may answer in com parison' to the employme/it of iTK)ney in various parts and upon different objects hi the United States and upon the probability* of tl'ic incieafe of population and fettlcment of that country in future —-whither our citizens go to the western parts of Virginia, into Kentucky, north weft of the Ohip, or fbuth western territory they are efTentially 101 l to the Government, at least a great number of years to erntie and when they might return into the pub lic feale, they probably will chufe to set up for themfclves. CORBULO. From the Aur.hr a PENNSYLVANIA LEGISLATURE. HOUSE of REPRESENTATIVES. February 24. Virginia Resolutions. Dr. Lfib next addrefled the Chair as follows Mi . Chairman, 1 Hever rife to give an opinion on this floor but wi h the extremclT diffidence. Ontheprefent oc casion this diffidence is unabated, and I trust I {hall have the indulgence of the Committee as a young member, and as being entirely undisciplined in public proceedings or public difcuflions. Silence on a qiicftion so momentous as the one undercon fideration might argue an apathy for the publie good, which 1 am unwilling to be charged with, and which my feelings tell me 1 do not merit — Not only the state which ve represent, but the U. States are deeply interested in the present qucftion ; it is therefore incumbent on every member of this Committee to thtow every light upon the fubjeft in his power, and to examine it with all that can dour, manliness, and independence, whieh a fub jedl of such high importance merits. The propositions before us have a fourfold af peft : 1. The extension of the treaty-making power In certain cases to Congress. 2. The eri&ion of another tribunal the Senate to try impeachments. 3- The abridgment of the duration of the St nate. 4. The prevention of mingling other offices in the government with the judiciary. 1 will briefly examine these several propositions, and w*!l then appeal to every candid and unpreju diced mind whether the adi-» tion of them is not neceflaiy to our security and happiness If ob jections Srife in my mind they go not jo the propo rtions themselves, bat to the remedy being partial instead of extending itfelf to evepy unTound patt of the body politic. At preient I shall not enter into a detail of the other lalutary parts of our Conftituion, but (hall confine myfelF. to-the fpe cific casts which the propofiiions before us cm brace. In considering ereaties I cannot avsid fuggefiing my opinion, that they are altogether iniproper, considered in relation to the U. S. What Wave we to do with treaties ? Situated 3000 miles from the theatre of European inter eits and intrigues ; proprietors of avail Continent abounding with every thing neceflary to the com fort of man ; no enemy contiguous to us that can vxciteappichenfion, and competent to repel every attack which pan be made upon us, whence the necessity of treaties? Are Tj-eaties of Alliance neceffafy toils, whose geographical situation affords the strongest bulwark and the greatest security J In a state of infancy, when we had suddenly emer ged the lap of an unnatural parent, without rtfources to fnpply our wants, and dellitute.of the means of refinance, an alliance then became a thing of necessity ; but far different is our present condition. Treaties of alliance render us parties in the intiigues and corruptions of European na tions they expofeusto a participation in;,-jail the distresses and oppressions resulting from y<af, T - Scarctly a lapse of 10 years takes fotne; part of Europe is the Theatre of Daughter ; *njd when once the trumpet of war is founded it fuin mons all allies to the field. E<ffope for centuries past has been a great human (laugher honfe, *(i(J by combining with any ef its nations, we pxpofe equally to become the murderers of the Uiance cxpofe us on the of war is n»r r»iUch g'eatrT than the risque they create oil ac •bunt of our republican government. Treaties ijivt-n»ti~n* a footing among us which they would not ©therwife acquire. They dumellicate thorn -md uive them an i pportunity of effe&ing their object by intrigue and by corruption, more ceitaiu reioiii ces than open violence. Republi ;:nifm is tlie Upas of tyrannic government, and for the se curity of monarchy it becomes eflential to *xter minafe it; Can monarchy behold rcpiibtfctnifni. unmoved ? Is liberty a thing which dt spore dil're gaid? It is their kane, and an ailiancc between a republic r: monnrchv a'i oppoiiunitv to root out frttiiom, which dclpotscannot iaii to em- brace. Which ever way 1 turn my eves treaties prefctit a gh.dlly fpeislacle. Treaties always bind the weak, but they have no cords flrong enough for the piiwcf ful. The weaker party mult fiibir.u to the ii'jujtiac X)f the llrmger, or the treaty co'nUriitfd by power ti a -pretext for War. Ihe connediion of two nations uy treaty, diiijmiiar in their strength, reminds me of the faille of tha lion and four beasts who hunted together. They caught a (lag and the lion divided it into four pf.rts. The firft part he claimed on i. count of his ihare, the second as being the chief, the third as being thrmoft ut'eful and oowerful, and the fourth hecauie he cliofe it. This is an epitome of treaties of alliance. Rut let usconfider the injulticeof treaties, and here th.-y will be found equally exceptionable. A treaty is an a A which binds poßeri|y, and over which tl»rjc have no controul without hazarding the miseries of war. The laws, nay the cor.ilitutioi. at a cuumr> may bi changed,modified, or made ine\*' ad libitum, without danger. _No ether coiifcriti» ftcceliaiy ihanu.„t of :lie people, who are immediately tfitirclledi bilt a tr.-aty makes the content of another iiatinii nec- ffiry, cannot be dil'penfed with, or changed Without uar ; although we have a right to bind ourlejves, dees this right extend to»otterity > hi confirmation of iliefc opinions, permit me to cite the authority of Godwin, a* autlier of political eminence. " A second article wliigh beWgs to.(he milita ry system' in a fen fori of peace, is that of treaties of aUiance. This fubjee\ may eatily be <J.(parched. Treaties of alliance in all eaicsare wrorg ; in t«e fiift place, because ail nbfolttte prcmifea a<e wrong, atid neither icdividnal* nor bodies of men ought t.-> preclude themfelvcs from the benefit of future im provement and deliberation. Secondly, they are Wrong, because they are i:! all cases nugatory. — Governments, and public men, tviil not, and ought not to hold themfelvcs bound to die injury of concerns they couduii, because a parchmcnt, to which they </r their prcdecefiovs were a part), re quires it at their hands. If the concert, dtmandtd in time of need approve itfclf to their judgment, or corrtfpoud with th'.ir inclination, it will be yielded, though ihey were under no previous en gagement for that purpose. Treaties of alliance serve no other.end than to exhibit by their violation an appearance of profligacy and vice, which ui.for tungtely becomes too often a powerful encourage ment to the inconfirtency of individual. Add ta this, that if alliances were engines as powerful as they are really impotent,' they" could fcld.'m 1 e «F use to a nati<sm--utufbr.Tily adhering to the priuciplts of juflice. They are in reality ill calculated for any other ptiVpoles than those of ambition might be pernicious, bccar.u. it v for nations as for individuals to look for rch at home, iniitad of depending upon tlic companion of their neighbors." Arc treaties of c.ommerce more neceflary then of alliance ? Not involving, perhaps, inch feriotn conftqueiu.es, they are Uibjcft to the flrongeli ob jections. Commerce ought to be Free as air, arkd by allowing its natural freedom it will always re gulate itfelf—like fluids it will frek a level. ' The commerce between nation and nation ought to be governed by the fame rules which dire ft the inter course of individuals' intcrcft. Individuals irad« with those who fell cheapest and give them the belt prices. This is the only negocfation which oi;ght to attain between nations. The, produ&s of our country are the neceflariea of life, and will always command a ptefcremx to its luxuries. Commercial treaties are (lilts to com merce ; they give it a tottering and a hobbling gait ; they are like crutclies which may fctve to aiu the lame and infirm, but which eu.banafs the her.l ,thy and t! e vigorous. Are wc in a {late of dec/e ---pitade that we need artificial means to support us ? If our proda&s aje neceflary they will Le in de mand ; if they are sot necefiaiy, treaties of com merce cannot render them so. What toromercial treaties has the Emperor of Chinas' It is well known hat he has no navigation, excepting a coailing trade can be called so, and yet a 2 nations tefort t,o his territories for their products. Whence is tlu. ? Certainly beetle the articles «f that country mjJ,. neceflary. to other unions, andlxcaufe merchants will always trade .where they can find moil advantage. If the fuperfluitks ot life can find an outlet irlthout comn.ereial tfs is lite cafe in China, surely flick treaties are not requisite to us to give vent to its necelTaiie.;. Eut as- we have admitted the neccffity of a treaty making power, we ought to guard it in such man ner that it cannot be made to baiier away rights, and place all that is dear to freemen ia jeopardy. The constitution, in its ptefent form, gives to the President and Senate the-power of !c ---giflating for the Union. It giwcs to twelve mca the power to bind us and o»r pollcn'ty ! What pre-eminence of virtue are we to look for in a Pre sident and eleven senators, ftiat vye fkoulc coi.fide to them the power'of making a treaty, which hull be more immutable than our saws, and more binding than our cofcftilution ? Is there a talifmanic pro perty in the name of a President and a Senate, whiqh will convert those who are this deiigr.strd into pawgons of virtue and excellence? It is a doctrine lately contended for, that Con gress are bound to make' appropriations to fulfil the stipulations entered into by the government. If this be admitted to what a dilemma are we reduc ed, the whole legislative power may, by means of this afiumption, be fwal'owed up by the executive aflid Senate and the Houle of Repiefentatives be converted into a parliament, according toA'ne an? eirht FrencU eftaQilhrneiiU 19 reg'itrc u| fdtir and his council." , Th::y ~ -1 ' > <s 1
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