NEW THEATRE. BY DESIRE. WEDNESDAY EVENING, April 6, Will be presented, (For the last fime this Season) a celebrated CQMEDY, (written by the author of the Dramatist) called The RAGE! [At performing at Cwent Garden Theatre tvitb thfgreatcj! applause] Gingham, Mr. Wtgnell, Darn ley, Mr. Moreton, Sir George Gauntlet, Mr. Green, Hon. Mr.Savage, 1 Mr. Harwood, Sir Paul Perpetual, Mr .Bates, Flush, Mr. Francis, Ready, Mr. IVarrell, Waiter, Mr. Darley, jun. Richard, Mr. BliJJett, Thomas, < Mr. Mitchell, William, Mr. JVarrel, jun. Groom, Matter IVarrell. Lady Sarah Savage, Mrs. Shaw, Clara Sedley, Miss Willems, Mrs. Darnley, Mrs. Whitlock. End of the Play, A'Serious Pantomimical Ballet, (under the direction of Mr. Francis) called Shipwreck'd Mariners Preferveci; O R, L A BONNE PETITE FILLE. Capt. Hatchway, Mons. Lege, Jack Ratling, Mr. Blijjett, Gerald, Mr. Warrell, Ramirez, Sig. Doctor, Banditti 1 Mfflrs. IVarrell,jun. Morgan, Mitch ' I ell, Beetee, See. Sailors, Meflrs. Darley,)\tn. Solomon, &c. Rosalie, Miss Milbourne, Jaqualina, (La bonne petite Fille) Miss Solomon, Leonarda, Mr. Francis. The Overture and Mufie campofed by R.Taylor. To which will be added, An Exhibition of Scenery and Feats of Aiflivity, CALLED 7'other Side of the Gutter. With a variety of new performances, by Signior JOSEPH DOCTOR. In the course of whicli he wHI repeat some of the most 'approved Feats in the last Exhibit!")?*, which were received with unbounded applause. The Public are refpe<stf»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 notice. BOX, One Dollar—PlT, Three-Fourths of a Dollar — and GALLERY, Haifa Dolla/. TICKETS to be had at H. and P. RICE's Book-Store. No. 50, Market-Street; and at the (Mice adjoining the The ttre. Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Wells, at the Front of the Theatre; No money or tickets to be teturncd ; nor any person, on any account whatsoever, admitted behind the scenes. Ladies and Gentlemen are requelled to fend their servants to keep places a quarter before five o'clock, and order them as soon as the company is seated, to withdraw; as they can not, on any account, be permitted to remain. VIVAT RESPUBLICA. For SALE, CONCORD, THE Concord is upwards of 300 tons, about three yars oIH. lion -vnJ—j" Oil voy a g e to India, or elfewhcre—is in the best order, could fail dire&ly. For terms apply to PETER BLIGHT. April 6, *796. §aw. Canal Lottery Office, Near the Bank of the United States. Philadelphia, sth April, 1796. THE Public are informed, that Tickets are Thirty-one Dollars each, and will continue to rife a dollar at least every other day: As the Lottery is near five-fixths finiftied every day's drawing mult greatly enhance the va lue of Tickets on account of the five stationary ones of One Hundred Theufand Dollars, besides the 30,000 dollar, and other confidcmble prizes still in the Wheel. 1 Wm. Blackburn, Agent. STATE of the IVBEEL: I prize of 30,000 - - 30,000 3 de. 40,000 - - 100,000 3 do. itSOO - - J,ooo 4 do. 1,000 - - 4,000 8 do. 500 - - 4,000 16 do. 100 - - 16,00 With a proportionate number of iz dollar prizes. A Check-book kept at the Office for examination and negiftering. § CONCERT ~ OF VOCAL Ist INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC. R. TAYLOR, RESPECTFULLY informs his Friends, and the Pub lic, hisbenfit Concert will be on Thursday, the aift of the present month, April, at Mr. O'ELLER's Hotel. A Band of the most eminent Instrumental Performers will be engaged. The Vocal Part by.M : fsHoNTLEY,and. R.Taylor. Particulars will be made known in due time. April 4 t,th&s*. Pennsylvania .Hospital. THE Election will be heici at the Hospital purfuarjt to law, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon on the second of the fifth month next, being the feeond day of the week, at which time the Contributors are defrred to attend to Choofs out of their milhb -r Twelve Managers and a Treajurer to the said Institution for the enfuingyear. By order of a Biard of Managers y SAMUEL COATES, Clerk. 4th mo. sth, 1796. § To the Public. ✓ AT MR. O'ELLER's HOTEL. i. French Miniature Painter refpeSfully offers his fer / 1 vices to the Public, and hopes that the moderation of his terms, the very short time of his fittings, and the rate of his abilitiee, will induce his visitors to become his pairsria. Feb. le. § This Day is Publi/hed and Sold At BENJAMIN* DAVIES' BOOK STORE, No. 68, High-street, The Political CenTor; Or, MONTHLY "REVIEW of the bioft intVre!;ing polhicial occurrences relative to The United States, For March 1796. By PETER PORCUPINE. This Work will'be continued monthly, and the future numbers wHI be publilhed on the last day of tvery month. April 5. " 3awitw. , it; CONGRESS. L „„ ea HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. fr W Monday, Match 15. Debate on Mr. Livingften's resolution continued. Si Mr. Page spoke as follows : 1 confefs, fir, that i had wished that this House, instead of a/king the President for information re- 0 fpc£ting the segociation and ratification the v treaty, at this late day of its fefiion, had given him c as soon as pofiible after its meeting, fully their opi- P l 'nions and that of thrir eonftituents > efpeSing the w treaty itlelf. But, as time has been afforded for 0 deliberation, and the Konfe has waited most pati- entiy and refpeftfully till the President could "place ' the fubjedl before them," according to bispromife ' ' in his address to Congress, I think they have Ihewn '» a spirit of moderation which deserves credit.—! he 1 ' friends of the treaty cannot complain that it has cc been-haftily and rudely attacked ; and (hould not k l ebjeft to the request which is proposed to be made Cl to the President, to furnifh a llatement of fatls, t ' which, from what has been said elfewheie, may be supposed fjfficientto hlence the molt clamorous op pofers of the treaty. I have been allonifhcd, there- P fore, to find that several members have most ftrenu- tu oufly opposed the application to the Prefldert as an a insult to him ; as useless and unconllitutional, un- ' ' less intended as the loundation of an impeachment of him, of his inioy, or of the 20 Senators, and lastly as founded 011 a mistaken luppofition, that the treaty is unconstitutional. In reply, fir, to these objections, I remark, that the idea of its being an ln insult to the President mull be founded 011 a inifta ken opinion of the conllitutioiial powers of the President, and of the House of Reprerentatives; " and of the relation the President and Representa tives have to each other, under the conftitutipn of m the United States, for unhappily the ideas which at forae members have adopted refpr&ing the autho- 1 rity of our executive are derived from a rfcpllecHon f' of what was the executive authority in the govern- 1 ment under which we once lived, and of what they have read in books written to fjpport that govern ment. Gut there cannot be a greater error than to P adopt these ideas; /or the executive authority of ° ( the United States, flowing from the people ; the Jl President, or person inverted with that authority, t( elected by them, (hort stated periods; allowed " only a limited negative 011 the laws of Congress, " for which negative'too he is to give reasons, which c if not fatisfadory to one third of both Houses, are w to be valid without his assent ; retrained from ere- '' ating ofSces, giving salaries, or making war, and 8 bound to give account of the ftatc of the Union to- P Congress, and moreover impeachable by the House of Representatives, and triable by the Senate, can- j 1 not be compared to one of thofemonarchs who hold lc their kingdoms and fubje&s by hereditary right, e to whom all property and power originally are sup- K posed to belong, from whom all honor and autho- 11 rity flow ; who can declare war and make peace, c and to faiidtion whose a&s of sovereignty, it has ' been thought prudent to affirm that they can do no wrong. I fay, fir, that there can be no re femblanee between such an awe-commanding being, i and nnr fellffW-riti/.f" '*1? PffiHent nfLtlialWj ' States ; and that it could be no insult to him, to ' aflt him for information refpe£ting an important tranfadlioh in which his conllituents and this House are deeply interested ; for such requests are made every day to the British King. If the constitution requires that the President (hall give an account of. , the (late of the Union to Congress una(ked, it (hould not be said, that it is unconstitutional for , this Hawse to alk for information, especially as it t is acknowledged by the very objedtion itfelf, that s (uch information may be demanded, if it be intend " ed as the foundation of an impeachment; and if it is confeffed that it may be ufeful in cafe of an im ' peachment, it mud be a contradi&ion to fay that it is useless to call for it; and especially as indepen dent of an intention to make this use of it, we have been told that it may silence clamours against the treaty. The application therefore to the President, as proposed in the resolution, is neither an insult to him, nor useless nor unconstitutional ; but on the contrary is fufficiently decent, may be ufeful, and is perfeft'y within the spirit, and I may fay, the I letter of the constitution ; (hoold it be found ne cessary to apply it to an impeachment. But we have been told that the treaty being constitutional, and the treaty making power out of the reach of this House, we have nothing to do with any infor mation refpe&ing the treaty, and that the President ■ having ifiued his proclamation declaring the treaty ratified, it is now the supreme law of the land, and it is rebellion to oppose it. As to the constitution ality of the treaty, I did think that when that fub je£t (hall be brought before the committee of the" whole on the ftzte of the Union, it would be the only proper time to examine it, but as it has been forced upon the present dommiteee, 1 will take the , liberty which has been used by otheis, and (hew 1 what I think at present refpedling it. ; 1 think that the treaty is conllitutional as far as 1 it relates to the powers of the contrndling parties to make treaties ; and is eonftitutioal and valid al so, as far as it relates to that part of it, which gives it the name of a treaty of Amity, and which might be in a separate and diftinfl treaty by itfelr. For the-Prefident, by and with the advice and coti fent »f two thirds of the Senate present has an un doubted authority under the express words in the J firft article of the constitution, to make treaties ; and I have no doubt that the treaties which were in s the view of the framers of that artiele must have been principally treaties of peace, of amity, of neutrality, or of alliance. This is the more pio bable, as the firft and principal treaties in which nations were concerned, were treaties of peace, or treaties to secure the bleflings of peace ; and it Is certain that the treaty of peace with Great Britain ( was the very treaty which gave rife to the declara tion ot the cqn!titution r that all treaties made and to be marie by the authority of United States (hall be the supreme law of the land ; for the treaty of peace with Great Britain was said to be in 3 ilate • of inexecution on account of an obitru£tion thrown in the w,ay by the laws of certain States. The article, therefore, was intended to remove all ob ' ftacles which had »"fen or rowUt anfe from ft;» « Legifl.itures, and might, I will 1*« cJy have been extended to remove al obit, 08100. n H tlfe general Legifla.ure by adj>ng to the words " any conftuurioß or law of the state. . « these words, or the con.l.tuUon or laws of the U. States nutwitfaftanding. Ihe power to m=£< strea ties of commerce and navigation, 1 numbly ceive, could scarcely be within the view and drfg of the conventional lcatt not as a primary objedt, f when they farmed the articles refpe£hng V eal,e * 5 c becaufethey knew, that the-extciu fituauon po pulations, and produSions of tr.e United Mates were such as would command them a fuffitient Ilia of the commerce of the world without the aid o i commercial treaties. They kne# that al.noft all « Europe flood in need of their productions, and e that Great Britain and her islands could fcarely ex- f ift without them; they knew more, they knew t this lir, that the almost utiiverfal belief of their t conftitnents, that giving a power to Congress to re- c gulate commerce, would anfwet every purpose ot r commercial treaties, gave existence to the very pow- 1 ers'under which they were a&ing at the moment £ they framed that article.* This mode of regular ting commerce was favoured by the opinion ot the t people, who celebrated the adoption of the confti- < tution with so much 'exultation and expensive pa- v radc in the great commercial cities of the United 1 States. They had no doubt that the new Con- c grefs would use the power with which it was in- i veiled, so as to oblige G. Biitain to open her ports c to them in the W. Indies, and to put their trade 1 with them upon a more equitable and liable foot- j ing. Indeed, fir, the people thought, as alTocia- ! tions not to import certain articles from Great En- ' tain, entered into by them when they were poor i coloiiitts with halters about their nccks, repealed the ] stamp a&, that acts of Congress regulating com • merce, so as to retaliate on Great Biitain, would 1 at least prevent the enaiting of the law by which ) the British king was authorized to regulate the ' commerce of the United States with Britain and j ! her Islands. 1 acknowledge, fir, that whenever a treaty is ■ to be made, the Prelldent and Senate are the pro pel agents to make it. I think it an excellence in • our couftitution that the Prehdent and Senate, though not allowed to declare war, have authority j ' to put a (lop to its horrors. This is a wife provi I fion agair.lt the injury which the pride and ambi 1 tios of the larger iiates might do to the smaller, by ■ ! continuing a war. But I cannot conceive that ' . when Congiefs is authorized to make all lows neces sary and proper to carry irno effedl all the powers , I grante3 by the conHitution, the treaty making ( power as well as others, and are to provide for the H . general welfare, which is not jonfided to the Pre lident and Senate, nor can beentruiled to them a j lone by the people upon any principle which has ever had weight in the formation of a republican government, 1 cannot conceive, I fay, that as this is the cafe, and the House of Representatives is composed of members proportioned to a certain ra tio of the number of perlons to be reprefented,and * Friday, April 30, 1784. Congress assembled, present eleven States.—Congress took into confideratioir the report of a [imimiiw . ing~ei wears. Readrwilliamfon, Chafe, and Jef ferfon, to whom were referred sundry letters and papers relative to commercial matters, ar.d the following para e graph being under debate : 1 hat it be recommended to e the Legislatures ol the several States, to weft the United States in Congress assembled, for the term of fifteen years, with a power to prohibit any goods, wares, or merchan dise from being imported into any of the States, except in t vcffels belonging to, and navigated by citizens of the J r cited States, or the fubjefls oi foreign powers with whom t the United States may have Treaties of Commerce. t A motion was made by Mr. Howell, seconded by Mr. Ellery, to postpone the consideration thereof, in order' to take up the following: That it be recommended to the t 'Legislatures of the several States, to restrain by impofi: - or prohibition, any goods, wares, or merchandise from t being imported into them refpeftively, except in vessels . belonging to, and navigated by citizens of the United States, or the fubjedts of foreign powers with whom th- United States may have Treaties of commerce, or the fub e jedts of such foreign powers as may admit ef a reciprocity , ill their trade with the citizens of That it be 0 recommended to the Legislatures of the feyeral States, to e prohibit the fubjefts of any foreign state, kingdom or em , pire, from importing into them refpedlively, any goods, wares, or merchandiie, unless such as arc the produce or e manufacture of that state, kmdom, or empire, whose sub •- jedls they aie. And 011 the question to postpone for the e purpoie abevementioned, the yeas and nays being required | by M*. Ellery, it passed in .he negative,' ,f . * lc reposed in Congress, renders it their duty to oe attentive to the conduit ot foreign nations, and to pre vent or restrain as far as may be, all such "proceedings as it might prove injurious to the United States. The fitnation y of commerce . t this time claims the attention of the feve- J ral States, and few objedts of greater importance can pre | sent themlelves to their notic*. The lortune of every citi zen is interested in the iuccefs thereof; for it is the con »• ftant source of wealth, and incentive toinduftry; and the ie" value of our produce and otfr land mijft ever rife or fall in , e proportion to the prosperous or adterfe state of trade. n Already has Great-Britain'adopted regulations deftruc e tive of our commerce with her Weft-India islands. There was realon to expedt that measures so unequal and so lit 'V tle calculited to promote mercantile intercourse, would not be persevered in by an enlightened nation. But th fe is meaiures are growing into system. It would be the duty , s of Congress, as it is their wi(h, to meet the attempts of ]. Great-Britain withfimilar reftridtions on her commerce; but their powers on this head are not explicit, and the' ' propolitions made by the several States, render it neceffa h ry to take the general ienfe of the Union on this fubieift L Unless the United States in Congress assembled shall be 1- veiled with powers competent to the protedion of com merce, they can never command reciprocal advantages in trade; aiui without thefeour foreign commerce inult de cline, and eventuallybe annihilated. Hence it is ncLeifa , ry that the States should be explicit, and fix on some effec n tual mode by which fcfreign commerce, not founded on •e principles of rquality, may be feftrained. That the Unk if ed-StaUs may be enabled to ftcure such terms, they have Resolved, I hat it be, and it hereby recommended to " the Legislatures of the several States to Vcft the United ' States in Congress afiTembled, for the term of fifteen years, >r with power to prohibit any goods, wares, or merchau is f'om being imported into, or exported from any of n r f . S^ !eS i ve "" t ' s belonging to, or navigated by the ot any r ower with whom these States fliall not have formed Tieaties of commerce Resolved, That it O JC, and it is hereby recotnmunded to the Legislatures of ill the several States, to vest the UtiiteJ States in Congress aflembled for the term of fifteen years, with the rower ! te ot prohi.iiting the fubje<Ss ot any foreign state, kingdom, .' n or cm pire, unless authorised by Treaty, from importiTp- , C United States any goods, wares', or merchandii", which are not the produce or manufacture of the do:;-.ini >- otis of the sovereign whose fubjefls they arc. 1 J
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