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' .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
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