V— CONGR E S S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Monday, April 4. Mr. Thatcher brought in a report from the Committee on the Pod Office Law. A petition was read from Samuel Legare and Co. of South Carolina, and referred to the Com mittee of Claims. The report from the Committee on the Pod- Office was then read. This report piopofes a num ber of new routes for the transportation of the Mails, and the fnppredion of some of the present routes. An increase of compensations of the De piry Poft-Maders, and further provilion to fecnre the tegular transportation of riewfpapers, Read a fecjnd time and committed for Monday next.— Interim to be printed. 's MK Smith of New-Jeffey bad leave of absence for two weeks. A petition wag read from the inhabitants of ,Geot{Je Towrt, (S. C.) praying that a pod road mpy be eftablilhed Setween tU'at place and Charles ton. Referred to the Committee of*the whole to whom the above report is committed. Mr. Bfojirit called up a refulution laid on the table last week, the purport of which is to autho rize the Secretary of the Treasury to grant relief to 'certain dilhUers in the date of North Carolina by commuting the duty on the capacity of their iKITs, for .1 du'v on,the qvvnntity of Spirits a&uilly diftil lt-J. The wurde " State of Carolina" >vere ftr.uck out in qrder to making the refutation general. It was. then referred to the Committee of Ways r.nd Mean*; 11 committee of the whole on the report of the CorhsHitee of Ways and Means. Mr. Midden- b< *h in the Chair. The following retaliations vure agreed to. Resolved, That the Secretary of the Treasury iie&ed to preoare and report to the House of Reprelentafires at the next fe.lion, a plan for laying and collecting direfl taxes, by apportionment a *n>n£ the several Hates, agreeably to the rule pre- ferred by the < Conftitutiou ; adapting the fame as nearly as may be to filch ol>je<fts of direst tax ation, and such modes of eolleftion as may appear by the laws and pradtice of the states refpe&ively, to be mod eligible in each. Resolved, That thefumof dollars ought to be obtained to discharge the debt due to the Sank of the United St3tes, by creating a (lock bearing an interest of fix per cent and irredeemable for years ; the redemption thereof to com jneo.ce thereafter and to be payable in yearly iiiftalmeurs. Thef.- resolutions were taken up by the House and adopted, and the second referred to the com mittee of Ways and Means, with inftruftions to bring in a bill accordingly. A nK'flsgefrom the Senate by Mr. Oti» inform ed the house that they hare pasTed the bill authori zing the building of a light house on Baker's Island in the ft a; c of Massachusetts. In committee of the whole on the bill providing for th? Qhtands inthe Trr n'tTnv nmiK wclLof -th< Mr. Muhlehberg in the Chair. The bill was difcufTed, and progref» reported. Adjourned. r THEATRE. N JBT DESIRE. WEDNESDAY EVENING, April 6, Will be preiented, (For the last time this Season} a celebrated COMEDY", ( written bv the author of the Dramatist) called The RAGE! performing at CovcntGarden Tbeatrfwiti the applaufe\ Gingham, Mr. iVigmll, Oarnley, Mr. Moreton, Sir George Gauntlet, Mr. Green, Hon. Mr.Savage, Mr. Har-wood, Sir Mr. Bates, F rll, Mr. Francit, ] , ly, Mr. IVarrell, ' Waiter, Mr. Darby, jun. Richard, Mr. BliJJett, Tlmmas, * Mr. Mitchell, William, Mr. IVarrel, jun. Grotm, Mafler IVarrell. Li.ly Sarah Sarage, • Mrs. Ibi:u, Clara SHl?y, Miss IVUlems, Mrs. Darnlty, Mr?. IVbitlock. End of the Play, A Serious PantemimKal Ballet, (under ilie direction of Mr. FVancis) called Shipwreck'd Mariners Preferveti; 0 R, I. A BONNE PE TITE F'LLE. Capt. Hatchway, Monj. Leg?, Jack Ratling, Mr. Bflflett, Mr. Worrell, Ramirez, Sig. Doctor, Banditti, \ Meffi-,. JFW/.j.in. Morgan, Uiteb I ell, Settee, &c. Sailors, Messrs. Darley,]vm.Solomon, &c. Rofaiie, Miss Milbtume, Jaqualina, (La bonne petite Fille) Miss Solomon Leonarda, Mr. Francis. The Overture and Music rompofcd by R.Taylor. To which will be added, An Exhibition of Scenery and Feats of Activity, CALLED 7'other $irfe of the Gutter. With a variety of new performances, by Signior JOSEPH DOCTOR. In the coiirfe of which he will repeat some of the mod approved Feats in the ltft Exhibition, which were received with unbounded applause. C 5" The Public are refpecSifully 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 SIX —Until further notice. BOX, One Dollar, — PIT, Three-Fourths of a Dollar— and GALLERY, Half a Dollar. Pennsylvania Hospital. THE Election will be held at the Hospital pursuant to lalv, at.3 o'clock hi the afternoon on the second day of the fifth month next, being the fieeond day of tbe week,. at which time the Contributors are desired to attend to chooftf out of their number Managers and a Treasurer to the said Institution for the eni'uinjjyear. By order of a,Board of Managers, SAMUEL COAXES, CUrk. 4th mo. sth, 1796. § < Foreign Intelligence. LONDON, F;b. 6. Detection of a Spy, \ cderday by virtue of a warrant from the Secre tary of dates office, backed by the right hon: the lord mayor, a person of the name of Gillot was apprehended at Batfott's Coffee Houfc, in the city by Mr. Walfli, a mefftnger, 011 suspicion of car rying on a secret correfpondenee to and from this country with France. He was immediately secured and condu&ed by the officer and two of the City Marfoal's men to the Duks of Portland's office, where he underwent a private examination ; the result of which was, that he was detained in cultody for a further investigation into the enormity of his offence this day. At the time he was apprehend ed, he was making enquiries at the Coffec-houfe, if any leters or papers, had been left for hinvthat day, and on being answered in the negative, he kerned much furprfzed, and on g'oing to lit down, was fc.zed by the officer, to whom he adted in a very violent manner, and would mod probably have escaped, if other aflidance had not been pro cured. From Nieuwicd it is (aid, that fii>ce th£ truce the French have removed all the cannon from the batteries upon the opposite ftiore ; the picquets had entirely disappeared from the banks, ahd the French officers frequently came from Coblentz to dine in the valley of Ehrenbreitftein. I he accounts ftorn Sardinia by way of Leghorn fay, that, fom;bf the refra&ory diftrifts having re filling to pay the late imports, government sent 6oc men to force obedience. Several of the ringleaders were made pvifoners, but being afterwards pardon ed, tranquility was perfedtly reltored. The trench have again taker) hollages a\va\ from D.-ux Points. At CoblenVz Gen. Klebei has been inlnltcd, and neatly ill treated by fomc French foldieis. They have been banished frbn theaj my, after cuttingofF their hair and eye brows The exportation of rye, barley,, and oats is pio hibited at Dantzig until next Aiigult. By a letter from Como, dated tie 29th Dec cm her,it is itj.red that an armtllice between the Frencl and Auftro Sardinian army, had been agreed 01 By a letfer from Madrid, dated December 20, it appears that the camp of St. Roche already con tains 20,00»men, besides 8000 men ingar.ifoft, & 12000 more canto»td in the environs. , l'he King of Prussia has appointed the la:e mi nilter of finance, Struenfee, (brirther to the unfor tunate count Struenfee) to the falt-bffice, hitherto held by baron de Heciwitz. Among the immenre fortunes gained by the Freßeh revolution, it that mnJe by a jew from Al tona,*who'arrived at Paris about April with no more than, 200 louii-d'ors in his pockets, a*d »ow pofMVsa ftiperb .bote!' in the Fanxboiirjr St.. Hartore, for the furni'tire »>f which he paid 300,000 Jivres in hard cash. He has also bought a cpun-, rtf poflef*. a fortune of *JO millions in aflljiiati. Iroufibe juonJan 'ieltgraphe of Fib. 19. FORGERY OF L'ECLAIR Whereas a French paper, purporting to he of Feb. 10 was forged, and sent to the office of .the Telegraphe. And whereas, by another application, the said French paper, of the date before mentioned, was made an inftiument of a conspiracy to defraud. And whereas, in confequenee of that conspiracy many perf«ns have been defrauded oflaige funis of mo«ey in regard to funded property, the property of this paper and othcrwife. And whereas, betides the person firlt delivering the fa id French paper (which person is fufficiently known) there are pthers partaking in the perpetra tion of the forgery. The proprietors of the Telegraphe, in conjunc tion with the mod refpe£lable committee of the mo. nied imerefl, do hereby mod earnestly address the public, (of the fake of public justice, and the tr.an ifellly necefTary preservation of their property from cheats and felons, to transmit all poflible information upon the fubjeel, and touching any of the ac om- ( pices, to Mfffrs. Jones and Co. solicitors for the prafecution in Chailot'e street, near the mansion house. Who are empowered to give rewards of money upon conviAio* of the offenders. The said rewards to be proportioned to the degree of evi dence given, from fiveto five hundred pounds. * # * The name of any person thus communica ting intelligence to the folicitois, will be kept per fectly ftcret if desired N. B. The plaintiffs and prosecutors particularly require a more ample description, viz. Chri'tian names, and Sirnanaes, places of abode, &c. of all the persons concerned in the office where the said forgery was printed. | And further intelligence to complete a series of ! proofs, refpefiting a fufpedled Jew and Frenchman, Telegraphe, office, Feb. 18, 1796. Admiral Cornwall's is to hnre the Jamaica, and Admiral Chrittian, the Leeward Island Itation. 'I'he former being appointed to Jamaica, proves that Government considers it as a m«ft important com mand at the prefect jun&ure, probably on account of the unsettled (late of St. Domingo from the late ceffiun of the Spanish part of it to the French. We dill think that our Government will judge it necef lary to refill this i#ffion, it is in diredl violation of the Treaty of Utrecht. Times The five Departments of Belgium are obliged to furnifh 20C0 heads of black cattle, and jooc sheep, for the Republican army ; afid the forced loan in that country njaft be paid in gold and silver, either in bullion or coin. Affignats, at the hundredth part of their nomjnal value, ate not received there, as they are in France. The rflates of several Ab beys are sequestrated. The preient fafhionable mode of wearing the hsit turned up so close behind, is an imitation of the Republican toeffure ala guillotine. We hope thr French falhion will go no further. I 1 is, however, not unworthy of remark, that this fafhion of headt a la guillotine, has cfcine into vogue in London at the periodtif its-being unfafliiohahle in Paris. Should it, however, be.recorded l y future liiftorians, we hope they will give ihe priority of the fafhicn to the French, as jt is one we fhoula not wifli to dii pute with them about. Tranjlated for the Gazette ef the United Stater from the Hamburgh Gazette. ' JLxtraß of a Letter. PARIS, December id, 179J, 1 here fend you a more particular account of our minilters. 1. Merlin of Douai, (minider of justice) fot merly, a lawyer, prefideut or the criminal tribunal for the department ofnhe Norths then member of the Conftiiu,ent'Affembly, then of the Convention and lately of the Council of Ancients. He has been busily employed in the committee of fifety. Qne of his boldest motions in the Convention was that in -1795 for the convoking a new Netional Af fcmbly. 2. Aubert Dnbayet (miniller of war) before the revolution an officer in the troops of the line, a member of the firfl National AfTcmbly, com mander of a battalion in the year 1792 in the army of the Rhine under Cu'tine : Brigadier General in '93 ; where he remained in the believed of Mentz till Angult 1793. After its lurrender he was sent to the western army against the Vendee ills ; in the latter end «f 1793, he was broke and a.relted- After hi# liberation he was appointed a general of division in 1795 and commanJer of the army of Cherbourg undei Hoche. 3- Benezeeh (ininiller of the interior) of a pro test int family in Lnngtiedoc, in public lervice lince 1789, lately head of the department for arms and .<mmunition. Till now there was but little talking of him, pel-haps on account of "his modesty, as se veral Parisian jmirnalills characterize him " the modclt Benezech being adminiilrator of the department .of Seine and Oize, lie organized 12 battalions of National guards at the irruptioji of the Prussians in Champagne He is rich and married. 4. luiguet -(miniiler for the marine) during the revolution he ivas appointed rear admiral and had a command in the fquaitroons of admiral La Touche that appeared before Naples iu 1792. Our Directory anxionfly waits for dispatches from Conllantinop'c relative to the coiiclulion of an offenfive and defcnfive alliance with the grand Seigniot. For the Gazette of ths United Statss, Mr. .Penko, i HE aQivi.y difpl-iyed by Ware Company, in coulequence'yf the facc'efl attending the forced loan has become the fubjedt of muih speculation. • It is ia:her unfortunate however, For the con cerned, the zeal »f the chef Forger to cxcil in In* bu'iiu-u fh'.iuld. icinj lum to palm new man u ~rrctttTEa3«y;-Hf-«nc public Ml liiki m. - A_ . „ of the kind which has lately occurred is tooglaring to unnotiicd. In the■Anittfirwf this morning, a paper devoted 10 the interrtts of tin-company, an article is far fate, said to ha-.e been fab'icated by a cerair. A*, Theremin in 1795 —Mow alt ho it has been a commr.n pr a Slice wiili the said chief Forger to fell the ma tm.fa it 11 re» of his employers under feigned nam.'a, yet, that in lift (ling up the article in quel rion he (hould lease the cloven foot exposed to view, 11 unpardonable. \ This piece of Hollow Ware for example, is Ha led to have been fabricated in the beginning of 1795— how then does that fact acct rd with the following fcntsnce ith which and many others of a similar nature, wetiiid it to be decorated. " Ame rican nov'gdti n is by no meant njfured by the truce with Algiers" The Truce or Tieaty with Algiers was ligned 011 the sth of September 179?, and yet this cir cumftancc was known to M Theremin in the be ginning of the fame year ! ! ! ! If I was permitted to hazard an opinion on the fubjeft, it would be, that if tin* artkl* was not m'atiufa<ftured by the Hollow f. are Company, iVis the handy work of their dignified agent at Paiis, who mull have fabri cated it towjrda the close and not in the beginning It dots not rcquiie much penetration to disco ver, that the object of ilie chic-f Forger and his agents, is to render the President unpopular ; this however is what might be naturally expe&ed frsm tren of their (tamp,— but that they ftiouM be join ed in the base attempt by the representatives of freemen, is a circumllance for which all present and , future hiftoruns will be utteily at a loss to account. In vain the sons of mifiule whet their fangs and point their ifV tnives at the Father of his country ; their empty thread the infallible diagnostics of a ba' 4 catife, will foielrer terminate in theii own dis grace, when combated by the invincible arm of TRUTH. JUS?' IMPORTED, In the ship Liberty, from London, a handlome well as- sorted Invoice of DRY Goods, (Oi - ABOUT £1000 STERLING) Con/i-fling of 3-ItiOl and India Eook MuHills, Chintzes, Szc. two Bale-os wide Book Mufiins. Also, a fmal T Parcel ps ,Nu*.mcgs; and for Sale by James c. a* sam. vv. fisher. T/j's £)ay is published and So/d At BENJAMIN DAVIES' BOOK STORE, No. 68, H;gh-ftreet, The Political Censor; Or, HONTHI.r REVIEW of the moil iiiterefiin? politicial occurrences rclaiive to The United States, For A"arch 1796. By PETER PORCUPINE. Thu work will be continued monthly, andthf future numbers will be published ou the lift day oi April 5. j Philadelphia, TUESDAY EVENING, APp.IL 5, ,1796, The Legislature of this State yeHtrday adjourned fine die. IMPORTANT! Extraß of a-, letter from Samuel Bayard, Efj. agent ef the United iitules in London, to a gentleman ■ti iLis city, dated Jan. 17, 1796. "As soon as Miniliry. learn the line of eonduft which the House of Reprefrntatives mean to pur- Ale, I am pe< tlicjr cuiuiuci, as it regards us, will be less flu&uatfiig. Should the J-ioufe coincide with the Prefideht and Senate, every thing here will go well : Should oblfacles, on the other hand, be thrown in the Vcay by the popular branch of the government, 1 doubt whether the Wcfterii Puft. W 'H be furrendcred, or restitution made'of our captured property. However, f trull that eveiy man who has any regard to the honour, the faith, or interest of his country, will fee the ne- Cefiity of carrying the treaty fully into effect, so far as regards the United States." ExtraS of a letter from New Tork, dated dre tJ slfrit, to a mtrchaul in this city. " It is with regret 1 inform you, that the Ocean is taken by one of the Bntifh cruifrrs commanded by Captain B.resfotd, and sent for Halifax, on the jilt ultimo. One of your apprentices is juil brought up by the pilot, and fays all the icft of the crew, except Captain Vreflenbtirgh and the chief mate) are on board the frigate now lying at the Hook. Should you wilh to write to Halifax, there is a vclTel to fad from hence on Tuesday next, wea ther permitting." A letter from dated February 22, mentions the arrival of the (liip Sally, C.-iptaift Wicket, in 22 days from Philadelphia. The let ter was brought by the Packet arrived at N. Yoik. The writer faj a, that "ail profpett of peace has vanished." A gentleman lately frotr Martinique, was re*- qutflcd to make known in Philadelphia, foi'-the information of those. concerned, that a complete collection is made of all documentary papers rela tive to captures and adjudications 09 the part of the Britilh government, and that the fanre may be expected shortly to arrive in the brig Venus, Capt. 15urrows for this port. Six per Cent . . i-/i 0 ">int. 1 lircc ptr Cent. ... . . i O /6 j off. Deferred S ; x per Cert. ... 13/15 if per Cent. . . . iCyB BANK United States, .... 29 pr. cent. PennfylvarUa, ------ j8 1 — North America, 48 •rifurance Comp. North-America, 1 j dois. or 50 pr. ct- ——— Penufylvania, ... 14 p r . ct* BY THIS DAY'S MAIL. NEW-YORK, April 4. The following vemaiks were made by Capt. Earle, who arriveil from St. Thomas's, the night befoti 'all, in fourteen day* pnff«i;e. Ftbmaiy 161 A laige Enjjhfh (hip arrived this day at Poipt-Pctre, a prize'to the Decius, a French sloop of war. Wlien captured, (lie was 011 her paf tage from England to the Well Indies. She parted from a fleet in a gale of wind* She hud on boatd a targe quality of hamrrlocks and tents. About the tame lime another (hip, taken by the tame sloop of war, arrived at St. Mai tin's ; (he had on board a company of Grenadiers. She Had <^fa paited fiom the fleet in 3 gale of wind. Ano! her ship of the fame fleet ran into St. Lucia, the captain taking that island for Martiuicoi he did not discover his millake till he was under tfae prevented. February 29. The (loop Aja*, ef New-York, Capt. Hoyt, arrived at Poißt Petre. He had been out 112 days from Portsmouth (England) bound to New-York. In tat. 40, 20, long. 61, he loft his mall : he was then compelled to go to the Well- Indies. - Capl. Nicholl*, of New York, loft hisfchooner: going into a l'mall port near the eall end of Guada loupe, called the Mole, (he struck on a reef. Capt. l'almtr, also of New-York, loft a schooner on a reef on the north fide of Guadaloupe. Both these veiltls were loft about the middle of February. Arrived at this Pert. Days. Packet flountefs Leicester, Dodd, Falmouth 39 Brig John, Webb, Charlel\onß Oi« 1 Inirfday lail tbe {hip Ocean, Vredenbirg matter, on her paflage to this port from Harre de Grace, was taken off Sandy Hook by the British (loop of war Prevoyantc, commanded by Captain * 3n& sent to Halifax ; her men are how confined ort board thatJloop of war lying within Sandy Hook. Canal Lottery Office, Near the Bank of the United States. Philadelphia, sth Ajril, 1796. THE Public are informed, that Tickets are Thirty-one Dollars cach, and will continue to rife a dollar at least every other day. Ay the Lottery is near five-Cxih» fini&ed every day's drawing must greatly enhance the va lue of Tickets on account «f the five stationary on-s of One Hundred Tbtufund Dollars, befidas the 30,000 dollar, aud other confidcrr>ble prizes flill in the W*i;el. Wm. Blackburn, Agent. * STATE of the WHEEL: I pi' ze of 30,000 - - 30,000 5 do. 40,000 - - 100, coo s Jt>, 2,500 - - s>cpo 4 I,o©o - - 4,c00 8 (*o. 500 - - 4,000 do. 100 - - 16,00 With a proportionate number of t z dollar prizes. A Chcck-book kept at the Office for examiration regiftcring. j jawiw. STOCKS. %
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