Gazette of the United States. (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1795-1796, April 08, 1796, Image 2

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    , NEW THEATRE.
FRIDAT EVENING, April 8,
Will be presented,
A COMEDY, (never performed here) called
The
MISER.
([Written by Henry Fielding.]
Lovegold, Mr. Bates,
Frederick, Mr. Mar/halt,
Clerimont, Mr. Oreen,
Ramilie, Mr. Wignell,
Mr. Decoy, Mr. Warrell,
Mr. Furnilh, Mr. Beetle,
Mr. Sparkle, Mr. Darley,]\in.
Mr. Sa:tin, Mr. Mitchell,
Mr. Lift, Mr. Blifett,
Lawyer, Mr. Morgan,
Thomas, Mailer Warrell,
James, Mr. Francis.
Harriet, Mrs. Francis,
Mrs. Wife'y, Mrs. Rouf/in, * )Jt ;
Mariana, Mrs. Oldmixon,
j Wheedle, Mrs. Solomon,
Lappet, Mrs. Morris.
To which will be added.
An Entertainment of Music, Dialogue, & Spectacle,
Called
The JUBILEE.
[Written by the late David Garrick, in hoHor of
Shakei'peare.J
it ilhmanj Mr. Whitlock,
Ralph, Mr. Bates,
ift Serenade,(with i Song) Mr. Marshall,
ad Ditto, Mr. Darlej,
3d Ditto, ~ Mr. Darley, jun.
ift Gentleman, Mr. More ton,
id Ditto, Mr. Beete,
Ostler, Mr. Blijjett,
Cjok, Mr. Morris,
Mm Ballad Singer, Mr. Harnuood,
Woman do. Mr. Bates,
ift Waiter, Mr. Francis,
id Ditto, Mr. Warrel, jun.
3d Ditto, Mafler Warrell,
, ift Pedlar, Mr. B/iffett,
»d Ditto, Mr. IVarrell,
Trumpeter, Mr. Raw/on,
Showman, ■) Mr. Morgan.
Goody Benfon, Mrs. Bates,
Goody Jarvls, Mrs. Row/on,
ift Country Girl, Mrc. Oldmixon,
*d Ditto. Miss Wrllems.
With a Grand PAGEANT
Exhibiting the Principal Characters in Shakespeare's
Plays.
Tragic Muse. Comic Muse.
Mrs. Whitlock. Mrs. Morris.
To conclude with a Roundelay and Chorus.
i?T The Public are refpeclfuliy 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, Half a Dollar.
TICKETS to be had at H. and P. RICE's Book-Store.
No. 50', Market-Street; and at the Oflice adjoining the The
ttre.
Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Wells, it the
front of the Theatre. '
No money or tickets to be returned ; nor any person, on
any account whatsoever, admitted behind the scenes.
Ladies and Gentlem.-n are requeued to fend their servants
to keep places a quarter before five o'clock, and order them
as soon aa the compjpy is featcd, to withdraw; as they can
tot, on any account, be permitted, to remain.
VIVAT RESPUR'ICA.
Canal Lottery Otfice,
Ntar the Bank of the United States.
Philadelphia, sth April, 17
» TV « •
r —a, --frit, 179b.
riE Publie are informed, that Tickets are Thirty-om
Dollars each, and will continue to rife a dollar a(
east every other day. As the Lottery is near five-filths
finiflied every <jUy'» drawing must greatly enhance the va
lue of Tickets on account of the five llationary on s of
Qua Hundred Tbmfand Dollars, besides the 30,000 dollar,
and other conliderable prizes still in the Wh:el.
Wm. Blackburn, Agent.
STATE of the IVHEEL:
j pr.ze of 30,000 - - 30,000
5 do. 20,000 - - 100,000
2 do. 2*500 " • 5 >000
' 4 do. 1,000 - - 4,000
8 do. 500 - - 4 >000
16 do. 100 - -. 1,600
With a proportionate number of 12 dollar prizes.
A Check-book kept at the Office for examination and
xegiftering. §
CONCERT
0/ roc At W INSTRUMENTAL music.
R. T A Y L O R,
RESPECTFULLY informs his Friends, and the Pub
lic, hisbenfit Concert will be on fhurfday, the Jlft
of the present month, April, at Mr. O'Eller's Hotel.
A Band of the most eminent Inflrnmental Perlormers
will be engaged.
The Vocal Part by MTkHuntley, and R. Taylor.
Particulars will be made known in due time.
April 4 t,th&i\
Pennsylvania Hospital.
THE E'-eStion will be held at the Hojpital purfaant to
law, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon on the second
day of the fifth month next, being the feeond day of the
week, at which time the Contributors are (iffired to attend
to choofg out of their number Twelve Managers and a
Trcafurcr to the-faid Inftitnt ion for the entiling year.
By order of a Biardrf Managers,
SAMULL COATES, Clerk.
4th mo. jth, 1796. §
To the Public.
AT MR. O'ELLER's HOTEL.
A French Miniature Painter refpcSfully offers liiijer
vices to the Public, and hopes that the moderation
ef his terms, the very short time of his fittings, and the
rate of his aWlities, will induce his visitors to become his
patrons. t'eb. to.
Wanted to Rent,
IN a central fttuation in Philadelphia, a Jet of Livery
Stables with other conveniences fujficient to contain
forty korfes and upwards.
Also, wanted to take a farm not exceeding 30 or 40
milts font the city, of about 150 or 206 acres, house,
tfc- upon it, en either the Pewfflvania or Jerfcyftde.
Any per/on having either to rent, may hear of a tenant
( lately from England) by applying tf> IFm. Hen/haw,
tht tamer of 3d andfoutb Jirecti.
rfflrti A,
IV A N T F i)
ONE Journeyman Coppersmith, and ene Jour
neyman lin Plate Worker—to whom the lugheft
*age» will be gipu—Enquire at No. *35 Arch-Street.
/ April 5 ■ eedlw.
CONGRESS.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
A report was made by Mr. Goodhue of, the
Committee of • Commerce and manufactures ti
whom the refohition offered by Mr. Macon, refpe&*
ing the distillers «f N. Caroliua had been referred,
this report is 111 fa*or of granting tke relief pro
posed by the resolution.
A report of the attorney general on the petition
of Peter Perit was read, and agreed to by the Koufe
—'this report is againll the p*:yer of the petition.
A report on the petition of r Pobas .Lord and
other was callcd up by Mr. Thatchtr, this report
is in favor of the petitioned, was agreed to, and
the committee of commerce and tii
reQiCd, to bi ing-in a bill aiv'ordingly, _
In committe« of the whole on the President is
meflage of the 30th ult. Mr. MnMe*berg in the
Chair. After a few remarks from Mr. Swift da
ting the importance of difpateh in diipofingof the
resolutions moved yesterday ; thefirft resolution was
put and carried : Also the second— 5' rtiembers
rising in the affirmative in both instances. The
committee then rose and reported 'he resolutions to
the house, which wrre immediately taken into con
sideration.
Mr. Sedgwick called for the previous question,
also for the ayes and
The previous question was in the following words
—(hall the main queflion be now put.
NOES.
Meflrs. Ames, Bourn, Bradbury, Buck. Coit,
Cooper, Dent, A. Foster,. D. Foller, Gilbert,
Gilman, Glenn, Goodhue, Goodrich, Grnwold,
Harper, Hartley. Henderfon, Hillhonfe, Hindman,
Kittera, S. Lyman, Malbsne, Murray, lte.id,
Sedgwick, Jer.Smith, N. Smith, W. Smith. Swift,
Thatcher, Thomas, Thompson, Tncy, Van Alcn
VadiWorth, Williams—s7.
AY K f
Mefirs. Bailey, Bai.rd, Bald-wrJiu-Bintor', Blount, i
Bryan, Burgefl, Cahtlt, C'iriftie, Cl<»pvn» Coles, ;
Crabb, Dearborn, Earlt, Fifidlcy, Franklin, Gal- j
latifl, Giles, Gregg, Gioye, Hampton, Hancock, I
Harrifon, Hathorn, Havens, Heath, Heifler,J.ick- j
son, Livingfton, Locke, Maelay, Macon, Madison, j
Milledge, Moore, Mnhlenbcrg, Nicholas,Orr,Page,
Parker, Patten, Preston, Richards, Rutherford,
Sherburne, Isaac Smith, S. Smith, Sprigg, Swan
wick, Tatom, Van Cortlandt , Variium, Venable,:
Winn— 54. j
The firlt resolution being read was agreed to.
Messrs. Ames, Bourn, Bradbury, Buck, Colt,
Cooper, A. Poller, D. Fuller, Gilbert: Gilbert,
Glenn, Goodhue, Goodrich, Grif void, Hatpei,
Hartley, Henderfon, Hillboufc, Hiiidman, Kitte
ra, S. Lyman, Malbone, Mutray, Reed, Sedgwick
J.Smith, N. Smith, W. Smith, Swift. Thatcher,
Thomas, Thompson, Tracy, V. Allen, Wadfworth
Willianjs—3s.
AYES.
MelTVs. Bailey, Baird, Bald, Benton, Blount,
Byian, Burgess, Cabell, Christie, Clopton, Cute*,
Crabb, Dearborn, Dent, Earlc, Findley, Franklin,
Gallatin, Giles, Gilman, Gregg, Grove, Hampton,
Hancock, Harrifon, Hathorn, Havens, Heathy
HeilWr, Jackson, Livinj;lton, Locke, W. Lyman,
Maelay, Macon, Madison, Millege, Moore; Muh
lenberg, Nicholas, Orr, Page, Parker,Patten* Pres
ton, Richards, Rutherford, Sherburne, S. Smith,
J. Smith, Sprigg, Swanwtck,Tatom, VanCortlandt
Venable, Varnum, Winn—s7.
The second refolutiou wat then read or which
the ayes and noes were the fame.
The resolutions being disposed of, Mr. Tracy
moved that house (hould go into Committee of
the whole on the state of the Union. This mo
tion was succeeded by a motion to refer to the com
mittee of the whole, the President's message co
vering sundry estimates relative to appropriations
necessary to be made to carry the several treaties
with foreign nations into cftedi. Both these motion)
were oppofeJ on the ground of their being unex
pt&edly introduced, and the members not beinj
prepared to discuss the fobjeft. The question be
ing taken on the lalt motion it was negatived <<i ti
37-
The house then on motion of Mr. Paaker re
folred itfelf i*to committee of the wliole qd the
bill received from the Senate refpe&ing the naval
armament.
A motion was made by Mr. W. Smith, the ob
ject of which was to try the principle whether the
whole number of frigates (hould be built." He mo-
Ted an amendment which went to repeal the lad
feflian of the firft law authorizing a naval equip
ment. This if agreed to would authorize the Pre
sident to proceed in tinilhing the whole number of
frigate* originally intended ; after a long debate
the moiion was negatived.
The bill wai further altered by finking out
the fe&ion which authorized the President to cause
tbcother three frigate* to be provisionally comple
ted, and fubilituting a fedion providing for the
sale of such of the articles on hand as are of a per
ishable nature. The committee rose and reported
progress.
On motion the confidential mefl'age of the Pre
sident covering sundry estimates of appropriations
neceflfary to be made to carry the treaties with for.
eign nations into effect, was referred to the commit
tee of the whole on the Hate of The
galleries were cleared.
• Smith Co.
No. 58, south Front-street,
Have reeeiwd by the late arrivals from London and Li
verpool,
A general assortment of Goods,
Suitable for the Season;
And by the Veftels that are daily cxpe&ed they wilt re«
ceive a farther supply, -which they will dispose of on rea
fona'ole terms for Cafli, or 011 a Oiuu credit.
They l.ave also received a quantity of
.NUTMEGS h IvUCE.
w eoJjt,
April 8.
Thursday, April 7.
r • 1
NOES.
AT the Circuit Court, of the United States,
for the New-Jerfcy DiftriS. held at Trenton
the zrtU a very pert!#.* Charge *** del,-
*e ed to the Grand Jury by Judge Iredell, in a..-
fwer to which the following addrefc was drawn up.
unanimously agreed to by the Jury, and at their re
request delivered by the Foreman.
May it pli'afe the Court,
The Grand Jury of the Dill,id* of New-Jersey
have with great pleasure heard the Charge which
hat been delivered to them from the honourable
Bench. , .
While contemplating on the important ideas
which have been communicated, they have thought
it a duty in this manner to cxprefs an enure convic
tion d£ th<" trmh of fuctl «+,. uu..
lity of holding them up to p,ubHc view.
We are sensible that the opinions, paflions and
l'ntercfts ofßJivftJiliis, or of any particular part ot
the community, (Wild be subordinate to the gentr
al wHU and that a deviation from this principle, in
the recent inlWe which you have mentioned, pro
duced ihat mod dating and dangerous infurrea:on
which ypti have deftribed, and which eminently
threatened us with all the evils eonfequent fiom dif
corp, disorder, anarchy and civil war—We trust,
however, that the rife, progreft and fuppreflion ot
this enormous outrage .upon law, order and true re*
publicam'fm, will form 1o a page in our
hiflory, that it will long indeed, we hope forever,
remain afolitaiy inllance in the annals of our coun-
When we look on the world arround us, and
view almost eve-y country in Europe, torn by the
ravages of war, and behold thousands, nay, millions
of its late peaceful inhabitants, deluged in their own
blood when we fee the calumities of war extend
ing themselves to Africa and the Indies —when we
fee whole nations rn array, continuing fur that liberty
which we enjoy, when danger and fatigue conduits
the van, while famine, with al! her horrid train of
evils, is bringing up the rtar.—We fay, when we
look around us and fee these things, how do we
felicitate ourselves that we-are Americans; with
; what complacency,-with "what superlative delight,
do wc turn out eyes on our nappy, thrice happy,
country, blessed wilh peace, blefled with freedom,
blefled with plenty, where no rude hand dares ap
proach the peaceful dwelling, where tvtn
elt cottager enjoys his pittance-and his fentimcnt,
where every man, without hyperbole, fits under his !
own vine, and under his own fig-tree, and enjoys J
the fruit thereof, while there is none to make him j
afraid-.— Surely no nation on earth has greater rea
son for thankfulnefs'and content ; the rneafura of
our enjoyment, is tuß ; and scarce a reasonable wish
remains unfatisfied.—With all these bit flings in
(lore, with our cup full and overflowing, are there
yet those among us who are diflatisfied ? Sorry Ire
we to fay there are—there are who complain—there
are wko find fatflt-J-with our conftitHtion, with our
government, with public men and public meafure9
—furi-ly, if we are to judge of these by their effect,
and if the maxim be ju't, that by the fruit ye (hall
know if the tree be good—we must all with united
voice exclaitn, that we live under the happiest con
ftitution,'aiid under the best government that ever
blefled a nation.
But let us examine if there be real eaxife of com
plaint—The late Treaty with Britain seems to be
the present foundation on which those complaints
are built—tlis instrument we have seriously consi
dered both in its causes and confequenees.
After seven years contell with that nation, in
which every thing dear to freemen was at stake on
our part, we at length succeeded, a treaty was
formed in which our independence was fully ac
knowledged, and we took place among the nations
of the earth.— But, alas ! we soon discovered that
our confederation, formed amidst the din of arms
and the confufion of war; was of too weak a tex
ture to combinc so many discordant interelis, and
that nothing but the sense of common danger had
united us so long—A solemn pause ensued—The
good sense of the Union at length formed a consti
tution of government for tjic whole, and the people
willed it (hould be permanent—A coiiflitution of
Checks and Balance*—A conilitution which se
cures to every claf»of citizens their equal rights,
and to every order of government its regulated pow
ers—A conftitutioh wlrch has been the admiration
of the world, and which we hope will be cu-exift
ent with it.
To the head of t'le government, organized un
der this conilitution, the unanimous voice of the ex-
ulting people called that great man,whofe wisdom,
whose prudence, and whose fortitude, had led them
through all the various fortunes of the war, and
whose patriotifin and invincible fidelity had (hone
confpicuaus through th^wholecourfe of it.
Was it not natural to suppose that between two
nations jtift separated by the violent effects of a
civil war, and iiritated by the event of it, disputes
would arise refpefting the fulfilment of the article
of that treaty . by which they were separated ? such
disputes have arisen—it. has not been fulfilled on
their part, fay we—it has not been fulfilled in our
part.faythey—ihe psace contemplated by that trea
ty wasaffe&ed, hostile appearances were seen, mens
minds were agitated, a rupture was likely to be
come the eonfequence. War with all its concomi
tant horrors rose i; 1 our view. The executive at
this important moment stepped forward and mildly
said, before we plunge into a gulf so profound, in
to a situation so dillrefsful to any country, so de
ftfuftive to a young country, and so uncertain in
its consequences, let us make one more peaceful ef
fort, let us try negeciatiue t A negochttion is set i
on fbot.a new treaty is formed, not witji all the
favorable features we could have wished, couUl <we
have dißatcd, but iit our opinion much more favor
able to us than the dire alternative : suppose it docs
not embrace all the ohje&s we conceive it ought,
yet it opens to us a confiaerable lhare in the com
merce the European as well as of the Eallcrn
and W ellern world—it gives tit an opportunity »f
]>oflt(ling wrfelves of by much the most confide™
hie part of the fur trade, by fecu.ing to us the
polTellion ofthofe keys to the Indian countiv- the
western polls—it secures to us a genrral peace with
the Indian tribes, by enabling us 10 t;u«t;d our
own influence ?.nd preve ' tfctt <-- other
aino. gr them, an ofciedt of more cor[ C q Utnct to
thai) al! the otheis contended for— an( )i
puts in a (tate of fertlement the difput t< i
' rie« "f owr territory—-shall we then fp« rn at f
treaty: '.ve a.ilwer no, and are free to fay, v [ ut ■*
our opinion both they who advifej and he w ho '
ified this treaty, have deserved well of their cour.tr
Confirmed and ratißed as it has been, we ho he >'
obltaclcs, which may be thrown in in w„y )VV ;j|
vent its being carried into effect ; and have ,~j '
doubt but ihwfe parts which now appear K-ait
vorable, may hereafter by peaceful «»eyociation be
accommodated to mutual inrerelt and fatisfadlon
Finally ;we cannot hut indulge the hope,em, 1.
Sadie as it may seem. that a ftcady and wwiolabic
[ adherence to the Isccllc t
constitution, may ettablilh peace,
oiTtlll'li asio render a political millcuium
not altogether a vifiunary and ideal thing.
I Signed by diredtion of the Jury.
JAMES EWING, Foreman.
' * ' — mX
• For the Gazette of the United States
V No. VI.
THE « strong restraining flue nee," why,
Judge Wilson pleages himfelf the Koufe of R e
prefentatives should have over the Prefrdent and
Senate, although they (hould have « „ 0 aak
part in making treaties," is precisely the riVht foi
which the majority of that house are now conterfd
ing. If this was not his view, Iris words were
lufion*, merely calculated ad captandum VU U U S _
But if, accord,ng to the idea of the Prefiden? tr'ea
ties are absolutely obligatory and ihetuprcme law
of the land, as loon as his fiat is annexed to the'ra
without any possible controul of the House of U«'
prefentatives, to pretend that the latter have afiv
more " retraining influence" on the Preside.it ai d
Senate, with refp.dt to their treaty powers, than
the board of Aldermen of Philadelphia, is a mtie
mockery.
The latter part of the extra#, m t!lc
Judge lefeis to England, appears at firft f,„ht
have no small ambiguity in it, and is upon
with some hesitation. But the ambigur.y vanilhes
on a re-examination. The fears of the enemies of
the constitution had been very powerfully excited
about the magnitude of the treatv powers. To
allay tliofe fears, he firlt dwells on the " flrtmg re
flraining influence" of the House of Reprel'enutives,
—then gives a Statement of the practice in Eng.
land—and a(ks this emphatical—this unequivocal
queltion—">■ and <wi/l not the fa#e thing take place
here ?" Whit is this " thing" which is to " t<;ke
place heic r" Unqueftioriably the pra&ice in Erg
land. What is that pradtice ! That the Kir,"
makes treaties, and the Parliament deliberates wle
ther or no they (hall be carried into execution.
And is not that power which fatisfies a King of
England, euough for a President of the Uni'ed
States ? Widely do 1 miltake the age in tfhieh,
and the people among whom I live, if this import
ant queltion receives not an affirmative aniwer, it
echoed from Nevv-Hamplhire to Georgia* wuli
hardly a diflenting voice out of a thousand.
Thus, to candid men it will appear, that, Vert
were we to reft the queltion on Hie opinion preva
lent in the state conventions, there is, in this one
'cafe, a full refutation of the dodlnineon which the
President has grounded his conduit. This ctfe is
every way remarkable. A member of the federal
convention is chosen into a state convention far the
express and avowed purpose of removing the doubts
and difficulties to which the conliitmion. might be
exposed ; this member is a man of diltinguifiied ta
lents, long devoted to researches on government :
when such a man proroifes to the Honfc of RepVe
fentatives a " Jlrong reflraining influenceas a
compensation for the want of " an active part in
making treaties" (hall we be now told, that the Pre
sident's " coullrudtion agrees with theopin'«» en
" tertaincd by the state conventions, when ibey
" were deliberating on the constitution?" No, lir,
the thing is impofiible : And I ventuie to ft alee my
exiltence, that the President, wium he made this
communication, could not possibly have known of
this speech of Mr. Wilson ; otherwise, he never
would have hazarded an atfertion to which such an
indisputable refutation could be given.
Friends and countrymen, " hear rue for my
cause !'' My object is not to ejneite any at" tb« ao
gry warring passions—l despise the man, who,
whpn he fails of argument to convince, f) : es to Bil
lingsgate to blackguard those with whom he differs,
1 and tries to renr'er infamous th'ofe whose only crime
1 is to use that freedom of judgment on political fob
' jedts which our constitutions wifely lecure us on
religious. My ftridtures (hall be, as they have been,
preserved pure from such a foul (tain. T<» your
' reason I address myfeli—and I (hall do.so unbiased
1 by party or fa<£tion on the one fide, and by an un
-1 worthy fear on the other. I know the danger of
entering the lilts with such an influential chara&er
1 as the President. Were the crifu less awfu', I
' might (brink from such a danger. Bot in an f
mergency like the piefent, when the issue of this
question decides not o.ily our fate, but that of out
' pofttrity, not to press forward in our country's ser
vice, were worse than nuifiulmanic prodration —a
" prostration which 1 (hall never fall into, however
1 minous may be the confequenecs to
HARRINGTON.
i (OR THE G AZETTE OF THE UNITED STATES.
t Mr. Fenno, . «
5 tri the Aurora of this morning we obferre an
-1 diculous display of the names of the Paper Sculls,
" who are puffed off by the writer as the moil diltin
s guifhed Patriots of their Country. This is impu
> dert enough ; but fat less so, than the affettion that
the indulgence granted to the minonty by these
men of paper mari/iry was the effect of their candour;
f the fsti is, th:it a negleA of duly has betn the only
1 object in vitw bv the delay ;to DO NOTHING 'M
l ' ihf prcfent cafe, will tie to *io every thing the antt
c federal fattion can hope for, or elle thev -re da
'' ceiving theinfelvrs. CIVIS.
lr April 7.