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Amphitheatre.
For the Benefit of Mr. Stilly.
THIS PRESENT EVENING, the sth of April,
be exhibited,
A variety of New- Entertainments.
HORSEMANSHIP.
The Sailor's Frolic on Horseback,
By Mr. Ricketts, in which he will introduce a Horn
pipe, ride blindfold in a Sack,
And change to a Sailor's Doxy.
Various FEATS by Mr. F. Ricketts.
COMIC FIiATS in the character of Mr. Mcrryman,
\ by Mr. Sully.
The Horfemanlhip to concluJe with the COMIC
. SCENE of
The Taylor riding to Brentford.
On the HUNTER & ROAD HOUSE, by Ur.Rickettj.
Ground and Lofty Tumbling,
In which will be. displayed a variety of Manly Feats,
By Meil'rs. Sully,
F. Ricketts, Lmgley, and
Reano, Mailer Sully.
Clown to the tumbling—Mr. Spiriacuta.
The tumbling to conclude with
Mr. Sully 1 s throwing a Row of Fiipfl'apsacrofs tht area
of the Circus, with
Fireworks tied to his Feet!
In the course of the Evening, for this nig'it only,
Mrs. Sully will perform
A Concerto on the Grand Piano Forte.
SheVill introduce a favorite Scots A,ir, with variations
To which Vill be added, (for th'l3 night only)
a NEW PANTOMIME, called
Harlequin's Olio ; or,
MIRTHS MEDLEY.
Harlequin, Mr. Sully. Genius, Master Sully.
Pantaloon, Sig. Re ana. Clown, Mr. Sprnacuta.
Lover, Mr. Macdonald. and,
Dwarf, Mister Schnyder. Columbine, Mrs Spinacuta.
Magigrtan, Witchcs, Millers Servants, &c. by the reft
of 'he Company.
In the course of the Pantomime will be difplaved the
following TRICKS and MACHINERY
Ihe Dwarf outwitted; or, Harlequin turn'd market-
" woman. /
The Magic Band Box ; or, Hal-lequin's a!d-de-camp.
Necromantic Hati or,Clowa'sFlight in a Balloon.
iTbe Transforming Chair; or the Lover defeated.
A grand change from the Sea to the Grotto of Mirth
and Good- Fellvw/iifi.
The Scenery painted by Mejfrs. Shnyder & Hall am
The entertainments of the Evening ta conclude with
Goldsmith's Epilogue,
By Mr. Sully, (in the charafler of Harlequin) who
will, for that night only, take a flying Leap into
The Crater of Mount Vcjuv'ius.
At the moment of Eruption. The- .
Fireworks by' Monsieur Ambrose;
In Arch-ftrect.
Tickets to be had of Mr. Sully at Mr. IVadman's
corner of Race 4c Frant-ftreets, and at the usual places-
4-*4- The Doors in future to be epened at S I X
and the Entertainmer.t to begin at SEVEN o'clock.
*,* Boxes, one dollar—Pit, half a dollar.
CONCERT
OF FOCAL INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC.
R. TAYLOR,
RESPECTFULLY informs his Friends, and the Pub
lic, hisbenfit Concert will be on Thursday, the aift
ps the present month, April, at Mr. O'Eller's Hotel.
A Band of the most eminent lnftrurnental Performers
will be engaged.
The Vocal Part by M : fsHuntley, and R.„Taylor
Particulars will be made known in due time.
April 4
For LIVE RPO OL,
Philip Atkins, tiiafler,
BURTHEN 446 tons, to fail with all convenient speed
lor freight or paflage apply to *
Samuel $5° Miers Fijher,
No. 27, Dock-ilret't.
* Who have Imported per /aid Shi/>,
A general assortment of—Queens Ware in Crates;
Short Pipes in boxes, three groce each,
An aJTortment of Stone Jugs,
Together with an assortment of
D R r G 0 0, D S,
iuited to the Season—as usual,
4th Mo. sth, 1796.
JuH: Landing,
From oh board the Ship SEA FLOWEii, Captain Ben.
Swift, from GUADELOUPE,
A quantity of Sugars,
5 th April.
FOR SAL £,
Or will take FREIGHT for Newport, or Pro-
NOW lying at Chei'nut-ftreet wharf. For tcrnis ap
ply to John Proud, the matter on board, or to
Samuel Coates,
" No. Si, Frout-ftreet.
Who hath for SdLE, imported in said Vejfel,
A quantity of i)IO£R j I SOAP; and 1
CANDLES; I TJMOiHY SEED.
Mo.jth, 1796. « . *6t.
AT MR. O'ELLER'i HOTKL.
A French Miniature Painter tcfpcitfuliy offers hi- ser
vices to the Public, and hopes that the mpdshUiin
of his terms, the very ihort time of his fittings, and the
rate of his abilities, will induce his vifkorSlo become his
patrons.
FOR SALE, Br
F. Coppinger,
§ v south Front-street,
To the Public.
Feb. M.
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From tke Wejitru Ttkgrafhi,
or ill wilhin their authority, but on their opinion
i whether t'pty have exceeded th-ir authority. If
THE important fubjeft of the Britirti Treaty t ), ey ~o u ](j re f u f e to provide for t' e execution c«f a
is now before the House of Representatives of the Treaty, no.t because it is uncnnftitufional, but be-
United States: and the Ireaties w.ith Spain, Al- coufc it is vinjuft or improper, there would be no
giets, and the Indians, which offer to us peae'e with tell to try the propriety -if their opinion, and they
all the world, will perhaps faon occupy their atten- would be left at liberty to annul every treaty, reu
tion. On these fubjefts, opinions may vary with der the President and Senate, in making tieaties,
interests; and the intereftaof this Wellern Country mere puppets to be wire-drawn and moved at theii
are peculiarly involved in the success of the British, pleasure,' and overturn this part of the conftitu'.ion.
the SpaT#h, and the Indian Treaties. It mull have It is by the conftitutiou, therefore, not their opi
occurred to almofl every person, that the failure of nions, that the British tn-aty muit be tried. If the
the Btitifh Treaty will of courfeoccafiou the failure , House of Representatives refufe ro provide for the
of the Indian Treaty ; but perh'aps it not oc- j execution of the British treaty, they mult letufe on
curred to every person, that it will also occasion the i constitutional principles. The fame principles which
the failuie of the Spanish Treaty, and destroy all are objected to the British treaty, lie also against
the bi ight pr.ifpects which these Treaties have open- the Spanish treaty; and if they annul one, tiiey
ed to the Weitern Country.—lt may be asked, how mu (l annul both. Nay more, on similar principles,
can the Britilh Treaty fail, fine'e, being ratified by the House of Representatives -niufl also refufe ta
the King of Britain, and the Pre!i lent of the Uni- provida for the execution of the Indian treaty,
ted States, it has become a law binding on both j an d the Algeritie treaty. Nor is there a treaty
parties, like any other mutual agreement, ligned, | ever made by the President and Senate with any
."iealed and delivered ? This queition is natural, per- | nation, which on the fame principles might not be
bapsjuft ; but it is one thing to ratify, and another annulled. A proof, that the objections to the Eri
thipg to execute an agreement ; and many fufpefl tifh treaty have their birth, not to much in princi
that the House of Representatives of thp United pie as in the paffinns of the times.
States may have the inclination, and some a fieri See then the point to whieb the rejection of the
that they have the power to render the whole Trea- British Treaty brings us ; all treaties with every,
ty of none effett, nptwithilandtng its ratification, nation annulled, the posts detained, another Indian
How can they do this ? It will be recollected, t bat war, dellrudtion of our frontiers, increase of our
the conflitution provides, that no money (hall be debte, obftruftion of the M ifTilippi 9 the loss of all
drawn from the trcafurv, but in conference of ap- those objects to which this country looks forward
propriatiOns made by law. The British Treaty f o r profptrity. But if the Britifn treaty be, the
reqdires money to pay the expences of Commission- Spanish treaty will, of course, be carried into exe
ers, who are to fettle the boundary lines and adjust cutioiv by in ; then the posts -rill be furreadered,
the claims on both fides for fpoliationsand detained peace and trade with the Indians will be fscured ;
debts. If the House of Repiefentativeb rstufe their Orleans will be a free port ; the navigation of the
consent, no appropriation of money can be made Miffifippi will be free to us. We may build flups
for this purpole. If no appropriation be made, 110 011 the Monongahela, and fail thence to the Welt
commiffioners will be appointed. If no commiffi- Indies or to Europe A vessel of seventy tons has
oners be appointed, the lines will pot "be fettled, fadtd round the world. Our pro luce and our lands
nor the claims adjusted, nor the pofls furrehdered ; will fell as high here as in Conecocheague. Not
and we shall be preeiL-ly in the fituition in which do I fee any thing that will then fc>e wanting to
we were before the Treaty : and I fear, in a worse our prosperity, but indultry and virtue.
situation, for I (liould have very little hope of ob It may be said, that we can take the posts, and
taining anoiher Treaty, and fee war only as out re- can take New Orleans, I believe we can ; but that
source. If the House of Representatives have and would produce a war with Britain and with Spain,
exercise this power of rendering void, Treaties ra- and be a far moy: iirational and expensive way of
tified by our conftitutior.al organs, they are more obtaining thetn, than the preterit treaties. Be
fanjjuine than I, who expedt.that foreign nations fides, * w?:r with Britain and Spain would take a
will readily listen to ptopofals/or another Treaty, way the he ft markets for our produce in the Weft
The example of the British parliament is cited. I Indies, c.r prevent us from reaching them. When
hope the «afes are not iimilar. The, British parlia- our (flips have got out of the Miffifippi, or any oth
ment, like the senate of Augufttis, is too often fi)p- er port, they would be taken on the high seas. I
posed to be the parTfament of the minifter.—lt is have even been told, that Spain, by finking a few
well known, that the mioifter, either by his elo
quence, his pationage, or his money, canalways
comma d a majority in parliament. When he can
not do this, !e cannot be miniller. Any foreign
natjon nwy therefore be allured, that a Treaty ap
proved by the miniller, will be approved by the par
liament ; and their votes on a measure adopted by
him, are the .votes of a 4<af» and chapter on a
conge d'clire, or leave given by the king to eledl a
Sifhop ; leave to elect him whom the king names.
I am not now to er*er on any defence of the
Briti(h Treaty. It has been fuceefsfully defended.
And to attentive, intelligent, and candid readers of
the arguments on both fides, the oppofeis of the
Treaty will have little vidtory to boast of: to any
other readers all argument is vain. I will, however
observe, that as it refpedts the Western Country,
to me it appears without a fault ; that the princi
pal objedtions to it are drawn from those articles of
it, which relate to mawfime affairs.and are but tem
porary ; and that one' of those articles is not con
firmed, but referied to a further negociaiion, which,
if we rejedt not what has been already given, may
improve it. Self-defence is the duty of every nation.
—The grandeur of Biitan (lands only by her com
merce and navigation ; and if (he was to (hare ge
nerally with other nations those sources of her pow
er, (lie would (hrink to her natural littleness. She
has given us more than she has given to any other
nation ; perhaps more than, if this fail, (lie will
ever give to us by another treaty. 1 believe, what
we have received will be advantageous to us ; and
when two persons negociate about their several in
terells, each mud take only whpt the other is wil
ling to allow. And 1 believe, that the present
treaty would have been thankfully received by lis,
if Britain had not been at war with Fraace. If,
in comparing our mutual claims, we Calculate from '
the complaints of the sea coalt, of spoliations, or
of the frontier, of Indian ravages ; Britain has far
more in her hands than we ; and it is her interell
more than ours, that the meaty should not be exe
cuted. The detention of the pods exposes the
Wellern country to a continual Indian war, deprives
us of the peltry and tur trade, and obdrufts the
sale of our lands, and the extending of our settle
ments. The surrender of the pods can hardly be
purchased too dear by the Wellern people, and I
despair df our ever purchaling it so cheap as by the
present treaty. The time named for their surren
der approaches ; but if this feflion of Congref?
closes without providing for the execution of tl«is
treaty on our part, it will not be executed on theirs,
and the pods will not be furrendeied. Thus the
British Treaty will fall.
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But how will the Spanish treaty fall with it ?
Legislators do not ad\ from wanton, corrupt or
partial motives; but from principle, and with an'
even hand to all. If the House of Representatives
refufe to provide for the execution of the Britilh
treaty, they mult do it, I presume, on the groUnJ
that the Pretident and Senate-house have exceeded
tljeir powers. Nothing that I can fee but this, or
Come neceffiiy, can juiiii'y their refufal. Nccefiity
is not pretended ; and it so happens, that those
points ill the British treaty, in which the Piefident
and Senate are said to have exceeded their authori
ty, exili also in the Spanilh treaty. It also, like
the British treaty, fettles boundaries,'interfetes in
titles to lands, and 1 in the regulation of trade,
prescribes contraband articles, defines piracy, ap
points commissioners to adjil(t N claims, &c. If, on
ilirfe principle?, the House of I'vepvefentativeS re
fufe to provide for the execution of the British trea
ty, they mud also refufe to provide for the execu
tion of the Spanish treaty ; for they mull aft from
principle, and must determine, not on their opinion,
whether the Piefi;ie:it and Senate have adled well
veficls in the month of the Mifiilippi, could entire
ly dcftroy its navigation ; so that it is only in a
friendly way, that the navigation of that river could
be ufeful to us.
But it may be faid,that the British treaty'is bad,
and we ought to give no fanftion to it. This is
begging the queltion. It does not appear from
the arguments 011 it. I lay little stress on the voice
of town meetings: They are not adupted for a
full discussion of any fubjedt, much lcfs of this.-—
Neither is their voice a jull efttmate of the voice
people : it is rather the voice of party and pal
on, than of reason and judgment. The parts of
called bad, affect not us : we ought not to judge
or others j but fuffer those whom it afifefts tojudge
or themselves We ought to think, and speak, as
t affe&9 us. Every part of the Union will do the
fame. And the representatives of the whole will
then hear the voice of the whole, and judge for the
whole.
It may be said, that te trufl our repre
sentatives, and let them a£t for,us. Perhaps we
might fafely do so, if fucli clamour had not been
raised elsewhere against the treaty, and our silence,
in this critical (late of the treaty, could~not becon
fidered, as approving that clamour. We thought
it our duty, when the a6\sof government were in
jurious to us, to express our objeflions ; it is equal
ly our duty, when the a£ts of government are ad
vantageous to us, and while they are yet'uiifinifhed,
to express our approbation. The treaties are not
so important |to others as to us ; and who will re
quire their execution, if we do not ? will the in
habitants of the sea road eall for the surrender of
the polls or the navigaiion of the Miffilippi, that
their lands may be drained of cultivators, and fall
in their value, and that our produfce may supplant
theirs in foreign markets ? We know it is not their
interift, but it is beyond conception ours. It is
therefore our duty, to ltrengthen the hands of our
representatives, by expressing our desires and out in
tercfts, and to ilir tliem up, to provide for the exe
cution of the treaty, and thus secure the advantag
es which it offers to us.
It mud therefore ippear to our felloiv citizens of
the United States, that, as it js yet in fufpence,
whether the BriiLfh and the Spaniih treaties will be
executed or not, thecoudutt of the grand juries of
Allegheny and Weftmoteland counties (which has
been followed with fu_h unanimity by other citi
zens of these counties) in signing and recommend
ing a petition to the house of representatives, for
the complete execution of those treaties, is the re
sult of duty, and pursuit of the true interelts of
this country, and that this petition oupht to be
signed by every man who regaids either duty or in
terest.
From the Wtjlern 7elcgraphc
Mr. Ffkno, T fenil you a WaQfington paper, con
taining some rtbfervations on A Speefh, read by Dr.
Leib, ill the Honf? of Representatives of this Stat..-
during their late Seffioh. Your's, C.
The extract published in your lad Telegraphe
may have its meiit ; butju't sentiment, good tea
foning, orlhat kind of kcowledge which i« acquir
ed by «>bfervation end experience, mull not be look
ed for in it. It seems the work of a young politi
cian, entirely uficjifc-iplinrd, and thou'd be received
with the extremeft diffidence.
It is the fault «>f young and warm minds- to be
unsuspicious, and Jo imagine tlie world governed,liy
virtue. Poets have fancied a golden age, an.) vi
fiouaries have pi edited a millcnium ; if fate I.ad
caftourlotin such times, we migln indeed difpi;,fe,
with treaiiei.
" W:iat have to do with treaties," fay» this new
!tatefm;m, •• three thousand miles diltarit from J7 U .
rope poll, fling eveiy thing neceffaiy toi man, , n
enemy contiguous, nnd owmpcteiit to repel everv
attack..'" Iconfefs if we could be content toitay ut
home, and make olher nations content to keep three
thouJand miles off from us, I fh'-uld be of his opin
ion, that treaties were useless. But if either -ve.
will gQ to olher nations, or if other i. tions will
come to us, I do thilik a treaty, regulating t.-,c
terms of oui intercourse, is not ainits. We have
at present fume very upwejeome intruders, c.vo
within our territory ; and if he would without a
treaty persuade them to ki-ej) three thoufsnd milej
off, we ihould have some proof of his leafbninjr
powers, and thfte troth of by; pinions. .3ujov toe
fame atguments of mti' ?.l convenience, which
would perftiade us to make no trea• tes, will per
suade the Britilh and Spanilh garrisons tofurrender
the polls, and pcrfutde the Indians to keep trie
peace and be of good behaviour. s Did not the
walls of Jericho fall down at the fou'd of ramj
horns ? but until he can do so much as this for ui,
(iAce ihofe people are here and will he trouhlefome,
let us make one treaty to keep them quiet am. get
them away $ and then if we can do without them,
let us make no more. Fot my part, when a oian
is willing toliften to reafpn,andfettle difkrcntcs'oy
a contract o> aii_arbiuation, 1-frke this way better
than'the heroic way of knocking him down.
" Are treaties of alliance necessary to us." I
know of none that we have but that with France, y
in the year 1778. Ido not that any others
areneceffry to us, nor that now. I bei ve, at
the time it was made, it was of some use to us ;
and unless we can bind ©tiler nations to their good '
behaviour, Ido not know but the time,may come
when perhaps some other may be neceff.iry to us.
1 cannot calculate events ; and, 'till tFft age of
reason arrives (on which all his calculations seem
foundid) Ipm Jifpofed ro rakeatt thc feeir.Try I
can againll the vices of nations.
" But which ever waji he turns his eyes, treaties •
present a ghastly fpeflacle. They always hind the
weak, but they ha»e no cord IViong enough tor the
powerful." If the weak cannot bind the-It rung by
a treaty, I do not know what other cor;l the weak
can use. He would surely not advise them to use
force*. And it will not hurt his own fyttem of mo
ral obligation, if a pof.tive obligation be fupcra.'ded
to it. The natural duty to refpedV the life of ano
ther, is not weakened by the command thoujhalt
not kill, or tjie statute again ft murder.
" To commercial treaties his are not
so strong ; but he aflerts, that rommerce ought to
be free as air, and left like fluids to seek its own
level." This, like many other things,, would be
very desirable, if it could be accomplished. Bui
like the precept, " to give yw»r-<n>at try hlm' wfio
takes your cloak—and to turn your left check to
him who lb ikes your right," this dotlrine, excel
lent as it is, will not do for a literally pradtical ap
plication, till we get to the age of reason, When
ever this politician can make nations and meii ra
tionally purftie their trueiiitertrftu. I -Wf4l TiGt —
only that there tliall be no treaties, but also that
there shall be no laws, and that every man do what
r eems good in his own eyes. But it is unfortunate
or his conclusions, that he males his premises, and
locs not Jind them. He fuppufes a (iateof things,
nd then reasons from it as real. He draws men as
hey ought to be, not as they are.
" What commercial treaties has the Emperor of
!3hina ?" Our politician might as well have sliced
vhat commercial treaties "has tl\e Emperor of the
Slkimaux Indians, the Hottentots, or the Laj*.
anders ? And I miy ask, what is that to ns,
inlefs we be in the fame tituation ? When men
it her want nothing, or have nothing to give, thi-v
iced no commerce ; and when they have a com
nerce in which none can lival them, they may
nake their own terms, without a (king the tonfeut
if any others. China contains about two hundred
nillions of inhabitants, and there are born in it
very year a numbet equal to about one third of the
vhole number of inhabitants in the United Stires.
t abounds in arts and mv.nufaiiuies, and its foil is
•uhivatcd to the utmolt pofiible extent, and so iu
ompetent are all their exertions to procure from
he fruits of the earth and the fifhes of the sea a
lare fubfillence, that they are sometimes obliged,
nd the law permits them to expose their infants to
>eri(h. If he had alked, why do not the people of
he United States do so too ? 1 flionld have thought
he queltion just as pertinent, and the argument
riling from it just as conclusive. The use of com
nercial treaties, I had thought generally
sdged. The want of one with Britain has been a
onftant theme of complaint, Audio
trongly were we impressed with the injury of her
efufing it to us, that, just be-fore Mr. Jay was
ent to make the present treaty, the Ho use of Re
jtefentatives of the United States was about to
nuke a law te punish Britain for nor making fu.h
; treaty with us ; and defittcd only in
if his million. Britain saw ail--this before he',
ind I dire fav gave us the bed terms !l"e fafely
ou'.d, in order to keep us quiet.
" The right of originating money bill?," fays
his writer, " is, by the constitution veiled excln
lvely in the honfe of Representatives." Ido no!
inowthat. Ido not recollect, that the conilitu.
ion speaks of money bills; nor do I know what
le means by money bills, He feenis to me to mean
ppro-priation bills ; and the ponltitution docs not
elt in the house of teprefentatives tie exclufivv
ight of originating these. The constitution pro
ides that " all bills for railing revenue fliali origi
.ate in the house of repiefentatives," ihat is, tin
louse of reprtfentative shall fir It point out the man
ler and objects of taxation ; but it is not verv lo
;ical to conclude from this, that the Senate canno
irft point out, to what purposes the taxes (hull bi
applied.
I cannot tell for whit wid the extract was pub
lished here at tliis time. 1 wi(h true opinioqs to
prevail, ami for tiiij purpose only have I made these
few remarks on it. The extract (hows a good heart,
and some fancy, but a falfc judgment, and verv
weak reafoi;ing,
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