Rickeltis Amphitheatre. Forthe Benefit of Mr. Francis Ricketts. On SATURDjr EVENING, the 2d of April, Will be exhibited, A Grand Proceilion with Horses; By Mr. RiclUtts, Mr. F. R'uhctts, Mr. Sully, Mr. Spinacuta, Air. Langlcy, Mr.. Mdc !inald, y Majier Sully, and Mrs. Spinttuta. Mr. F. Ricketts will, for the firlt time in America) ride a fmgle Horse, and in full speed blindfolded, 1 (£nd HCK u? a WATJC H, from the ground. Mr. Ricketts will thr jw a Sommerfet over TWENTY MENS HEADS, With other* on their Shoulders. Alfa, over Seven Horles with riders on them. Mr. F. Ricketts will ride (lauding on his head on a Pint Pot placed loose on the saddle—this Feat was never performed hefre before. Mr. Ricketts wMI leap his favprite Hprfe through an imitation of a BLAZING $UN. Mrs. Spinacuta will exhibit her pleasing Feats on Two Hdrfes. TIGHT ROPE DANCING, By Mr. Spinacuta, who will dance on. the Rope with Wooden Shoes, &c. Mr. Ricketts will ride two Horses, in full speed, And Leap over a Garter Ten Feet High, and over a Barr at the fame time. He w ill alfathrow a fommerfett from the two Horses in fall /peed, and alight on his feet on the ground. HORSEMANSHIP BURLESQUE, By Mr. Sully, who wilt perform his Comic Feats and ■ iLeap on foat and Horseback. Thq Horfemanlhsp will conclude with Mailer Shnider riding on'the Qioulders of Mr. Ricketts in the atti tude of a flying Mercury, being his fir It appearance. The Evening's Amusement to conclude (for the last time this season) with a grand Pantomime the direction of Mr. Spinacuta, called VULCAN"* G IF T; THE BOWER OF HYMEN. The Doors in future to be opened at S I X and the Entertainment to begin at SEVEN o'clock. *,* Boxes, one dollar—Pit, half a dollar. NEW THEATRE. f HIS EVENING, Saturdax, April j, Will be presented, For the lift time this Season, a GOMEDT, written by the author of the Well-Indian, &c. called The JEW. Sir Stephen Bertram, Mr. Wbitlock, Frederic, Mr. Moretan, Charles RatellJTe, Mr. Green, Saunders, ' Mr. Warrell, Sheba, Mr. W\ncll, Jahal, Mr. Harvjood, Waiter, Mr. Darley, jun. Mrs. Ratcliffe, Mr». Skazu, Eliza Ratcliffe, Mrs. IVhitlock, Mrs. Goodifon, Mrs. Bates, Dorcas, Mrs. Rotv/on, To which will be added, (for the last time this fea&a) A Grotesque PANTOMIME, ( partly new, and partly compiled) called The Witches of the Rock; « *, HARLEQUIN EVERT WHERE. With Alterations. With a new Overture, Incantation, Airs and Chorufles, ' composed by Mr. Reinagle. The Pantomime compiled by Mr. Milbourne» l and un der the direction of Meflrs. Francis & Milbourne. Harlequin, Mr. Francis, Ift Witch, Mr Dartey, ad Witch, Mrs. Worrell, C Messrs. J. Darley, Robbins, Attendant Witches) Mitchell, Miss IWillems, ( Mrs. Harvey, &e. Pantaloon, Mr. War ret I, Lawyer, Mr. Dartey. jun. Drunken Valet, Mr. Milbourne, Surveyor, Mr. Beete, Miser, Mr. Morgan, Po;npey, Mr. Warrel, jun. Tinker, Mr. Mitchell, Bricklayer, Mifler T. Warrell, Pero, 3ig. Jofepb Dc3or. C Miss Willems, Mis. Row- MilUners, £ s o n, Miss Oldfield, &c. Fruit Woman, Mrs. Row/on, Old Lady, Mis* Solopton, Columbine, Miss Milbourne. With new Scenery, Machinery, Dccoratitns. Interspersed with a variety of Mechanical Changes, Magical Trinfitions, & whimsical Metamorphqfes. To conclude with a difplay.of The Great Falls of Niagara. The Scenery designed and executed by Mr. Milbourae. ** On Monday, a comedy, (never performed here/ called ALL IN THE WRONG—with NO SONG NO SUPPER. 0" The Public are refp«ctf»lly 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 notic«. BOX, One Dollar—PlT, Three-Fourths of a Dollar — and GALLERY, Haifa Dollar. Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Wills, at the Trout of the Theatre; TICKETS to be had at H. and P. RICE's Book-Store. No. 40, Market-Street; and at the Office adjoining the The ttre. No money or ticket* to be returned $ nor any person, on any account whatsoever, admitted behind the scenes. Ladies and Gentlemen are retjuelled to fend their servants to keep places a quarter before hve o'clock, and older them as soon as the company is seated, to withdraw; as they can not, on any account, be permuted to remain. VIVAT RZSPUBUCA. To the Public. AT MR. O'SLLER', HOTEL A French Miniature Painter refpe&fully offers hi; Cer vices to the Public, and hopes that the moderation of his terms, the very fliort time of his fittings, and the rate of his abilities, will induce his viiitori to bccome his patrens. Feb. z«. § O R, foreign By the Concord from London, we have been favor ed with fileg of the levettl London papers, which ' tho' not so late as those received by the Ham burgh Packet, furnifh a variety of inteie'lling matter. LONDON, February 5. An Imperial Loan of three millions .is undoubt edly determined upon by the Miuifter, and he has had the address so conquer the peevtlh oppofilion. set up by the Governors of the t'o.tbe roes (ate of the further export of money. BV what ar guments he prevailed on them 'to withdraw their holliliiics it is not for us to enquire ; he' has, no doubt, perfuadeJ them that the meafut-e is for the interest of the Empire. The HouCe of Meffis. Boyds Benfield, and Qo. as agents for the Empe ror, will of course contra# forthe Loah." This measure fectled decides in a great degree the great question of Peace and War. It almost to a certainty secures to us another campaign ; since the money, is literally to be given to the Em peror to prevent him from making a separate Peace. Whether even this bribe will induce him ferioufty to runtinue the War depends upon circumstances which wc cannot controul. The appointment of Admiral Vandeput to cruize off the Spanish coalt has renewed the idea of a Spa ni(h War; but why we are to have a Spanilh War no reason ha* as yet been assigned to us. The Spa niards have given (helter to the fleet of Riqhery— so would any neutral nation ; but they have sur rendered their part of St. Domingo to the French contrary to the Treaty of Utrecht. It was time for them tofurrender something at a dillancr, when the Freneh had penetrated into the very heart of Old Spain. Nothing can be more contemptible than to make th« Treaty of Utrecht the cause of a quarrel, unless we can prove that we were able to protest Spain if (he had continued the War. It is a moll serious thing for a nation exhaulled as we are to involve ourselves in new wars. We may flatter ourselves that Spain is in a condition so im potent as to present to us a vast scene of plunder. This has always been the temptation for a Spanilh War, and the experience of its falfeiiood has never been fuiScient to destroy the delusion. If i: were true that her unwieldy riches made her an easy prey, it would be but a coward's trick to seek pretences for a quarrel; but the pretext is as falfe as it is disreputable. Her poflefiions hare beeu the source of her own ruin, and they have never yet paid to England, in cases of war, the expcnces of the ori ginal outfit of our veflels. The India Ship» taken into his Majesty's service hare fully Ihcwn their efficacy in the late tempestu ous dorms. They are equal to our ftiips of war in every rcfpecl. The good accommodatiomhey have for our troops have been very much the means of their returning so healthy. Accounts were received yesterday thai the Bri tilh Queen, transport, foundered in Hoieley Bay; Some of the people were happily saved. Grofe and Hay Ward, the young men wlio hoilVed ] the tri-coloured flag at the Tower," Majes ty's Birth day, have been excluded from the Me» chant Taylors School, for their conduct on that occasion. . '* The following inscription is copied from over the door of a house in a small village in Dorfetlhirei John Sibbins, tailer, fchoolmaiter and aftrono tner. 1 also keeps a journyman to do all forts of blacksmiths and carpenters work, and to hang church bells, &c. Any gentleman as bespeaks a coat may have it on Friday ©r Saterday without fail.—N. B. Being rumord that I entends to leave of business on account of my being elected Church Wordding, I hopes my friends will not give ear# to such blood thurfty reports, by ther humble servant, JOHN SIBBINS. January 18. Tuesday a meeting of the Whig Club was held at the Crown and Anchor taverij. It wa6 the most numerous ever witnefled at this season of the year. Mr. Erlkine addressed the meeting, exhorting them to ptrfevere in those effort! for the repeal of the late a&s which they had so auspiciously began. No publication hat been read with more admira tion, than the late speech of General Wartisngton • temperate, bold, moderate and humane.-—" Look exclaimed Mr. Erlkine, in the conelufion of his eloquent speech, on Tuesday, at the Whig-Club, " Look, while the blood add treasure of this country are lavishly wafting and exhausting, how that great and immortal pattiot, preserves the peace the harmony, and the dignity of America. Like' a great Coloflus, surrounded by liberty, plenty and peace, he bestrides Europes—obferves all the mi* series with which it is afßi£led, and, by his wif- Com and philanthropy, prevents America from ex periencing the ill effects resulting from similar ca lamities. Good God !—Gentlemen, when I read the speech of that illuflrious character to the house of Rcprefentatives, 1 (hould not be surprized that the people of America adore the great and benifi cent Father of the creation, who gave them such a Guardian, and that they fhonld only be prevent ed by a sense of religious duty, from paying an e qual adoration to Washington himfelf." FRANCE^ PARIS, January 31. Yesterday the Executive dire&ory gave: t public audience, for the purpose of receiving the Ambas sador from the Gtand Duke of Tufcany, Jkf.d'Or fini. Carnot, Letourneur, and Lareveilliere-Le paux, were the only Directors prefeot, on account •f the tndifpofition of Rewbell and Barras. They were attended by seven of the mimfters. The min iiter for foreign affairs introduced M. d'Orfini, who was accompanied by bis Secretaries of Legation M. d'Orfini addrefled the direftoiy, and observ ed that the government of Tufcany had felt a pride in having, during the present war, notwithftwding every infimiation to thecoi.trary, firmly fnpported that neutrality which its political principles led it coadopt, and invariably manifefted its friendship for Intelligence* thc l*reneti republic. He dif<s"'owed, in the name of his court, the condast of M. Carletti, declar ing, that it was direflly contrary to his i:?ftru£ions, and added, that the Grand Duke it would not interrupt the good undcrltanding which had fublided between the two Cojrts. He concluded by exprefiing his ardent wi(hes, that he might soon fee.pcace, happiness, and abundance, reign through out the republic. Letoumeur replied to the Ambafiador by de claring, that the French republic wilhed for noth ing more ardently than to fee the olive of peace ex tend its branches over every part of the world : That the republic would always maintain its alli ances with the fame refpelt, and she fame energy, with which it had combated those powers which at tacked its liberties and independence. Some deputies sent by the French Commi!T°aries ia the windward islands, presented fix (landards ta ken from the English and the Royalifta by the re publican" army of the Antilles, united with the pa triotic inhabitants of all colors. The CommiflV lies observed, that they Htould have presented more had they not been torn by the soldiers in the heat nf victory. They announced the reconqueft of the French pofTedione in America, and said that the tti-colourtd flag was displayed in many of those which had belonged to the enemy. The President teftified to these deputies thefat isfaftion of the Directory, and its firm refutation to succour and dtfsnd the colonies, and then gave them the fraternal embrace. Camus refufes decidedly to accept the pod of minister of Finances, thinking that the keeper of Archieves more solid. COUNCIL OF FIVE HUNDRED. January it. The fitting opened with patriotic music. President Treilbard pronounced a speech, ana logous to th* celebration of the Anmverfary. "It was on the 21ft January, that the late King of France expiated, on the fcaffold, the crimes which he had committed againrt the Sovereignty of the People. Thiijutt punishment, wHich jultice and the consolidation of the Republic required, was for om enemies thefignal and the pretence for the mofl frightful plots. •' Proud Albion covered thefeas with her fleets, and undertook to starve us ; ambitious Austria marched its innumerable legions to our frontiers. Againfl such numerous enemies, against soldiers who grew old in the profeffiun of arms, what re finance had the young Republic to oppose ? How could men levied in hade, without arms and with out clnarhes, repulse such formidable phalanxes ? But why do I wonder ? Those men are French men ; they are free, and will be so forever } they are heroes, and engender nothing but prodigies." Here Treilhard gave a detailed, but short ac count of the brilliant vi&oties which have eftabliftjed forever the Repulic, and insured the French peo ple the firft place amongst the nations of the uni vcrfe. " But, continued he, the efforts of our ex terior enemies were nothing in companion of those of the interior. The Fre ncTfpe ople uld be free, but Royalty armed by fanaticifm, kindled in all France the fire of hatred, vengeance'and diflentU ons—lt armed the son against the father, verted citizens into enemies—lt threw the apple of difoord. amongst the members of the Convention— supported it& efforts by the raoft violent, and, ap- the mod contrary means. " Sometimes royalty, covered with the rags of ,anarchy, decimated the Legislative Body, covered iFrance with mourning and blood, with aflies and .ruins ; at other times in gilt cloaths: It (hewed it self naked on the 13th Vendemaire, and no longer concealed the horrid plan it had plotted, to substi tute monarchy in the place ofthe republic. " French People, ye wish for Peace ! Well, I fwe«r hatred to Royalty. It is Royalty which has constantly maintained, in every country, the light ning! of war. You are fuffering the mod cruel prorations. It is Royalty which Jias caused them to you, in order to difgufl you from a Republic." The President here repeated the oath. " I swear hatred to royalty," in a loud voice ; " and you, Representatives, come, to fatisfy your jull impatience, and pronounce this oath, which y«*i reproach me, perhaps, with not having strongly «- nough sworn.'' The Council ordered thefpeech of the President to b« printed, palled up, and sent into the de partments and to the armies. It was under the idea, that Concrete had nore controuhng power over treaties under tlie p , ent conltitution, than was ported by the Stale J 'Matures underth» old confederal ion, that the pi pie of the State he had the horor to represent, ti ■ • adopted the conltitution. They conceived tl the whole power at to making treaties, was vert in the Preiident and Senate, They Urongly c iefted againlt adopting it, e»#n under this c< truftion, but he was ture tho'e objedlions woi lave keen much ftreiigtbened, had they conceiv he treaty-making power, as deferibed in the Ci Utution ; but if itie featiments he was corobati prevaileJ, the small states would be deprived of o ot their molt essential rights ; for-the power of ma ing treaties is o'e of the principal rights of U.i reignty, was verted in all the states fepaiately wh they became independent, were aftet wards, and : the old confederation, verted in Congress, ea \ate having an equal vote, it was now, in his ©| lion, excluhvely veiled in the President and Sens' n which body the great and (mail states h..d t aire equality of fuffrage. 1 he opinion which ,he advanced was not inert the opinion of Rhode Island, when the Condituti was adopted A gentleman lrom MalTachufe had already {hewn from the debates of the Virg ia Convention, that that assembly euteit.iined t fame opinion. He was sure the opinion prev-.ii in the Convention of Maflachufetts, he had atte: ed their debates when this part of the conftitn; NOTICE. I was thefubje&of difeuffion. Objedions were r THE President ar,d Managers of tkc Delaware and a g "> fr 0I « the indehtitenefs of the po Schuylkill Canaf,, having determined to ftipply the er v ?fted in the President and Senate', of maki city of Philadelphia wi th water, early in th« year 1797, : treaties. No one luggefted, that the House Bsisi»j»sasgi:«*ai for the calling and delivery of hoB pipes neciffary lor the ! P^ rncl P a,lon ,n |!,IS powei. It Wat urged frc bovepurpofe. WBy the Board, | the nature of the power, it ought to be plac. M MOORE SMITH, Ste'rj. j "Wrf it was, in the President and Senate. T•- 1 SawtJ. Senate reprsfented the sovereignty of the Sutct Every member was called over from the lift, and each of them fucceflivcly mounted the rostrum, and swore the oath of hatred against royalifta. Jan. 27. The Commifiion piopofeto the Council to adopt the following resolution : " I. That all horses of luxury (hall be put at the disposal of the Dire&ory* By horses of lux ury ate meant all those neither employed in com merce, nor agiiculture, nor by the agentt of the republic, who have a ri;;ht to have them. " 11. That every "thirtieth horse used for labor in Canton, (hall be levied. " *tl. That the price of the said horses ftial. be paid to the owners immediately upon their be ing levied " The repiOTt of the Commiflion was ordered to be the difcufiion adjourned till after the printinsj of the report. Sitting of January jB. Ramel propo&d the ere&ion of a gallery paral lel to that of the Louvre, on that fide of the river —1 his gaUery, he proposed filould join the Na tional Palace on the fide of the Rue Heoorc, and thould serve as a depot for the Chef d'Oeuvres of Engraving, &c. The pMpofa} wae referred to a Committee, and a report was ordered to be prefenteJ in two months. ' WILLI March 31^ CONGRESS. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Monday, March 14. 1 Debate on Mr. Livinglten'i refolurion continue' Mr. Ruther/ord said he was neither in a temp for picking or breaking locks, nor for pailive ob dience. Therefore it was with great concern i 1 saw many genilemeri, excellent patriots, excttedii alarmed. He said there was noc a man of comro' honeity who did not fee that union was the llu anchor of the United States, and that the gre family rnuft not be divided—as that would gi great pleasure to their enemies. He would not'w to increase party spirt. No indignity, he said v intended to the President or Senate- ; alt view t' President with great and lively pleasure. No cliai he said was intended in the Federal Conftituti/ till the Majesty of the people required it, theref. arguments On that head were fallacious When treaty came under consideration, it would be coi dered, he hoped, with great moderation, on con tutional ground. The matter was very moment —no less than including the rights of a gener< and free people. Much ilrefs had been laid on ;ic I partriotifm of the President; he knew it well, had known him 44 years, he had a£tcd with hi and though he was his inferior in age, he had alw ■ ; looked upon hint'as a father. Yet he was indepe - ent of him. He (hould (till avow his princip and he (hould neither be afraid noralhamed to a* them, nor did he think they would be difpleafin^ that great man. What was the treaty laid bef •< them for, but for their aid and affiilance to ca it into efFeft. Why then hefitafe ? Were t not the representatives of a magnanimous peo;: r-. and that they had nothing to fear ? He toucl upon several other matters, and concluded with proving the motion. Mr. Bourne said he would have given a silent \ u on this question, had it not hav c been for ft strange doctrines which had been allcrted, for • did not consider the question in itfelf, as necefla involving any constitutional question. He reg ted the debase had taken the turn it had. T •. before they had gone into the committee of whole to whom the treaty vvas referred, they « r debating what constitutional agertey the house co a take in relarion to it, those who opposed the pas the resolution, were charged with naving given .<.; dire£tion to the debate ; but he would ask, \ o had advanced the position, that the treaJ-y was the law of the land till fandtioned by this Hcu Gentlemen in favor of the motion wtye certai y chargeable with this, and hence originated the C ftitutiotial points now in ilifcuffurc.. The do£ti that the formal assent of the House of R'fprefcr 1- tives was essential to the legal exiltence of a tre? v, (truck him as a perfect navel'y. That the Pi dent and Sen&te had .power under tlic-conllitutmn to make treaties, and that tljefe treaties v.ere laws of the land, he had never he;,rd denied r this debate. It wSstrue he had heard it faiJ, t the House might conttoul the President and Sr in the exercise of this power, by refuftng to ca treaties into effect, by withholding- apprtjDiiadAs uinnfy hiif •»efc »- the .11 tion, tnat the ratification of the House was necx ry to a treatyj before if became the law of the la He callcd the attention of the committee to powers of forming treaties and alHaflces, as veil* in Congress under the former confederation, wf j was exactly similar to that veiled in the Prelid ■ and Senate under the present conltitution. Tiw \ ! the power of regulating commerce, laying ta: &c. was vested in the several State Legidatu es.— Was it ever heard that the treaties then made un the authority of Congtefs were not the laws of the. 1 land ? Was it ever foggefted that the Treaty w1: France wns not a law until it had the affen*. of the State Legislatures ? Yet, according to the afcr tions of gentlemen, this treaty was not of le> 1 effipacy without, for the ttates had the fame po<T of regulating commerce, which is now veiled Congress, and, fay the gentlemen, treaties whl embrace commercial regulations are npt valid, u Congress who poficfs the power of regulating co merce, ratify them. The fadt was, the treaty » France did embrace commercial objedts, and is 1 law of the land withot the consent of the St L.eg ilia lures. 55
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