Ricketts's Amphitheatre. For the Benefit of Mr. Spinacuta. THIS EVENING, Tuesday, April T i, Mr. Spinacuta, ever Itudions to render the Amufe menta of I»is Benefit truly pleasing, will, in the course of th* Evening, particularly exert himfelf by a varie ty of NEW PERFORMANCES On the Tight-Rope. Mr.Spioacuta will, for this night only, dance<witb large Twig Baskets fattened on his Feet. Second A comic DANCE, in which he will throw a s half summerset, backward & forwards, and Dance upon his Shins injlcad of his Feet, (For the firft time this fcafon) he will throw himfelf into the air, and perform the Single and double SERPENTAtJX. He will also Dance with two Beys tied to his Feet. For the (scond time, the SURPRISING LEAP OVER THE GARTER, Backwards and forwards, upwards of ten feet high j and will likewise Play on the Violin, and perform se veral tricks with a Cane. Without theafliftance of the Balance.Pole, he will go thro' the surprising MaHceuvres of the American Flag, Displaying it round his neck, arms and body, in several pleasing attitudes. He will conclude with descending and ascending the 'steep Rope, and perform several aftonithing Feats attempted by any one but himfelf. Horsemanship, THE BACK COUNTRYMAN'* FRO LICK On Horseback, by Mr. Ricketts, in which introduce a HC RNPIPE. Various FEATS—by M*. F. Ricketts. Comic FEATS, in the character of the Clown, By Mr. Sully. Mr. Ricketts will ride on two Horses, and perform several mafterlv Exertions. Ground and Lofty Tumbling, By Meflrs. Sully, F. Ricketts, Langley, Reano, Matter Sully, Ar.d Clown, Mr. Spinacuta, Who will jump down from the table and ehair, and will throw a Summerset with his feet & hands tied. Mi-. Sully will throw a Summerfst tied up in a Bag, and also with an expanded Umbrella in his hand. To which will be added, For the firft time, a NEW PANTOMIME, ■ under the diredHou of Mr. Spinacuta, called—The Power of Magic; or, HARLEQUIN IN THE SUN. Harlequin, (for this night only) Mr.Simonet. Old Man, Sig.Reano. Lover, (for this night only) Mr. Sully. Piere, Mr. Spinacuta. Columbine, Mrs Spinacuta. Magician, Mr. Macdonald. Servant, Mr. Price. Cottager, Mr. Langley. Supernumeraries, &c. by the reft of the Company. With the original Overture, and interspersed with the celebrated Music of Don Juan. The new Scenery executed by Mr. Schnyder. *** Tickets to be had of Mr. Spinacuta, at Mr. Wadman's, corner of Race and Fiont-ftreets, (north) No. 137; at Mr. George Wfflig's Music Shop, No. 165, at the usual places. 0" Places for the Boxes may be taken at Mr. O'EU lev 8 Hotel. The Doors in future to be opened at half pall FIVE, and the Entertainment to begin at SEVEN o'clock. *,* Boxes, one doliar— Pit, half a dollar." JUST PUBLISHED, By Thomas Condie, No. 20, Carters Alley, And Sold by all the Booksellers, [Price Ybrtre-Sixiientbs of a Dollar] THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF TE NNE S S £ E. April 11 To the Public. AT MX. O'ELLER', HOTEL. A French Miniature Painter rcfpcdfully offers his ser vices to the Public, and hopes that the moderation of his terms, the very fliort time of his Jittings, and the rate of his abilities, will induce his visitors to become his patrons. Feb. 20. § Canal Lottery Office, Near the Bank of the United States. Philadelphia, sth April, 1796. r T"I-lE Public are informed, thakTickets are Thirty-one A Dollars each, and will continue to rife a dollar at lead every other day; As the Lottery is near five-fixths finifhed every day's drawing mult greatly enhance the va lue of Tickets on account of the five stationary ones of Ont Hundred 'Thru/and Dollars, besides the 30,000 dollar, and other conuderabtc prizes (till in the Wheel. Wm. Blackburn, Agent. STATE of the WHEEL: I prize of 30,000 - - 30,000 i do. 10,000 - - 100,000 a do. 2,500 - - j,ooo 4 do. i,oqc - - 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 rcgiltering. § The annual Kledtion FOR DIRECTORS and a TREASURER of the Libra ry Company of Philadelphia, will be held at the Li brary, in Fifth-ftreet, on Monday, the second of May ftext, at three o'clock in the afternoon, when the Trea surer will attend to receive the annual payments. At there are several (hares on which fines are due, the owners of them, or their representatives, are hereby no tified, that they will be forfeited', agreeably to the laws of the Company,' unleft the said' arreaji a e paid off on the said second day May, or within ten days after. By order :f tbe Dircciori, BENJAMIN R. MORGAN, Sccrctary. 3aw. April 9. Pennsylvania Hospital. ' 1 'HE Eltflicn will be held at the Hospital pursuant to X at 3 o'clock in the afternoon on the second day of the fifth month next, being the second day of the week, at which time the Contributors are dciircu to attend to eiiOofs out of their* number Tweht Manag.rs and a Trcafttrtr to the said Institution for the ensuing ye.ir. by order of a Board if Managers, SAMUEL COATES, Clerk. 4'-b mo. jth, 17}6. § FOX THE GAZETTE OF THE UNITED STAI£S. Mr, Fen mo, THE Anarchists are sadly puzzled to guess the design of.'publifhing the BLOODY BUOY at this crisis. If yau will ba fa obliging as to insert the following extra& from that curious work in your evening paper, you will inform them of the author's intention in his own words. " Now, what is the advantage we ought to de rive from the awful example before us ? It ought to produce in us a watchfjnefs, and a steady resolu tion to oppose the advances of disorganizing and inGdel principles. I am aware that it will b: said by some, that all fear of the progress of these prin ciples is imaginary ; b'ut conflant observation as sures me, that it is but too well founded. Let man examine the change in political and religious opiniors fincethe establishment of the general go vernment, and particularly the change crept in a long witlf our filly admiration of the French revo lution, and fee if the result of his inquiries, does not juftify a fear of our falling under the scourge, that has brought a happy and gallant people on their knees, and left them bleeding at every pore. Unfortuuately for America, Great Britain has thrown from her the principles of the French Re volationifts with indignation and abhorrence. This which one would imagine should have little or no influence on us, has served, in some measure, as a guide to our opinions, and has been one of the prin cipal motives of our anions. The word republic has also done a great'deal.— France is a republic, and the decrees of the legisla tors were neceflary to maintain it a republic. This ' word outweighs in the eflimation of some perforis (1 wifti I could fay they arc few in number jail the horrors that have been, and that can be committed in that country. One of these modem republicans will tell you that he does not deny, that hundreds of thoufandsof innocent persons have been murder ed in France ; that the people have rather reli gion nor morals ; that all the ties of StSure are rent asunder ; that the nfing generation will be a race of cut throats; that poverty and famine stalk forth at large ; that the nation is half depopulated that itl riches along with millions of the bell of the peopls are gone to enrich and aggrandize its en emies; that its commerce, its manufa&ures, its sci ences, its arts, and its honor are no more : but at the end of all this he will tell you that it mull be happy, because it is a republic. I have heard more than one of these republican zealots declare, that he would sooner fee the last of the French rxter- , minated, than fee them adopt any other form of government. Sueh a sentiment is charadleriltic of a mind locked up in savage ignorance ; and I would no more trust my throat within the reach of such a I icpublican, than I would within that of a Louvet a Gregoire, or any of theircolleagues. Our enlightened philofopheis run on in a fine canting strain about the bigotry and ignorance.of their ancedors ; but I would alk them what more ttupid doltish bigotry there can be, than to make the found of a word the liandard of good or bad government ? what is there in the combination of the letters which make up the word republic ; what is there in the found they produce, that th« bellow ing of it forth should compensate for the want of every virtue, and even of common sense and com mon honesty ? If we call our own government that of a republic, and judge of the meaning of the word by theeffeds of that government, it will admit of a moll amiable interpretation ; but, if we are to judge of it by what it has produced in France, it means all that is ruinous, tyrannical, blasphemous and bloody. Last winter, one of these republican lieioee m Congress, accused a gentleman from New- England of having adopted anti-republican pinci ples, because he proposed something that seemed to militate against negro Jlavery ! thus, then, repnbli cauifm did not mean liberty. In short, it means any thing ;it ,a watch-word of fa&ion, and if ever«ur happy and excellent constituted republic Ihould be overturned, it will be done under the malk of republicanism.* m,th&s. Let us, then, be on our guard ; let us look to the charters sfnd adlions of men, and not to their profeflious ? lejf us attach ourselves to things and not to words ; to sense and not to found. Should the day of requisition and murder arrive, our tyrants calling themselves republican* will be but small con folatioa to us. The loss of property, thfc prcfTure of want, beggary, will not belefs real because flow ing from republican decrees. Shall we fay that these things never can take place among us ? Because we have hitherto pre ferred the character of a pacific and humane people shall we set danger at defiance ; Th V ugh we are not Frenchmen, we are men as well as they, and consequently are liable to be milled, and even to be tunk to the lowed degree of brutality as they have been. 1 hey too had an amiable chara&er : what ch a rafter have they now? The fame principles brought into a£tion among us would produce the fame degradation. I repeat we are not what we were before the French revolution. Political pro jedors from every corner of Europe, troublers of ocicty of every description, from the whining phi lofophocal hypocrite to the daring rebel and more ; daring blasphemer, have taken flielter in these States. Nor are there men of the fame ftam. wanting among the native Americans. There is not a single action as the French icvolutionifts but has been juftified and applauded in our public pa pers, and many of them in our public assemblies Anarchy has its open advocates. The divine au'thor ot our religion has been put upon a level with the infamous Marat. We have seen a clergyman of the Episcopal Church publicly abused, bwaufe he had recommended to his -congregation to beware of the atheistical principles ot the French. Even their calender, the frivolous offspring of infidelity, is proposed for our imitation. How many numerous companies have iflued, under the form of toatts, fentiroents offenfive to humanity and difgraeeful to our national character ? We have seen the guiUa- ? Witness the late call on the President iir the confidential papers relating to the treaty with G Britain. ■ " J tine toasted to three times three cheers, and even under the discharge of cannon. And what will the reader fay, when 1 tell him that there is a member of Congress, who wifhcd to fee one of those mur derous machines, employed for lopping off the heads of the French, permanent in the State house yard of the city ef Philadelphia. If these men of blood had succeeded in plunging us into a war; if they had once got the sword in their hands, they would have mowed us down like Hubble. We might e'er this have seen our places of worship turned into (tables ; we might have seen the banks of the Delaware; like those of the Loire, covered with human carcases, and its waters tinged with blood ; e'er this we might have seen our pa rents butehered, and even the head of our admired and beloved PrefiJent rolling on a fcafFold. I know that the reader will start back with hor ror, his heart will tell him that it is impoflible! But, once more, let him look at-thp-exam pie before us, the man who, in 1788, should have predicted the fate of the lait humane and truly patriotic Louis, would have been treaied as a wtetch or a madman. The attacks on the character and con duct of the irreproachable IVafhington have been as bold, if not bolder, than thole which led to the downfall of the uufortunaieFre&ch monarch. His impudent and unprincipled enemies have reprefont ed him at the betrayer of the liberties of his coun try, and have even drawn up and published atticles of accusation against him. Can it then be imagin ed that, had they poffefled the power, they wanted the will to dip their hands in his blood? I am well affined that these wretches do not make an hundred thousandth part of the people of the Union : the name of Walhington i# as dear, or dearer, to all good men as ever it was. But of what consequence is their affe&ion to him, if they fuffer him to be thus treated, without makiiuj a lingle effort to de feat the projects of his infamous tradncers. It is not for me to di&ate the method of doing this; but sure I am, that had the friends of virtue and order (hewn only an hundredth part of the zeal in the cause of their own country, as the enemies of both have doric in the cause of France, we should not now have to lament the exillence ef an hardend and impious fadtion, whose deitru&ive principles, if not timely and firmly opposed, may one day render the annals of America, as difgraceful as those of the French Revolution." NEW THEATRE. £3* The Public are refpe.af»lly informed, that the Doors of the Theatre will open at half an hour after FIVE, arid the Curtain rife precisely athalfpaftSlX o'clock, for the remainder of the Season. WEDNESDAY EVENING, April 13, Will be presented, a TRAGEDY, called hamlet, PRINCE OF DEN MARK. Hamlet, (firft time) Mr. More ton, Kin g> Mr. preen, Mr. IVtiiilock, Horatio, Mr. Marjhall, Laertes, Mr. Wignell, Polonius, Mr. Morris Rolencrans, Mr. Worrell,jun. Guildenftern, Mr. Beete, Francisco, Mr. liar ley. jtin. Marcellus, Mr. Harivood, . Bernardo, Mr. Worrell, Oflric, Mr. Francis, Officer, Mr. Blijfett, Grave-Diggers, MeiT. Bates & Milbourne. Qneen, Mrs. Shaw, Ophelia, Mrs. Mar/hall, Player Queen, Mrs. Row/on. To which will be added, A FARCE, in two adts, called Ihe Village Lawyer. ? cout ' Mr. Harzveod, 5? ,» Mr. Francis, Charles, Mr. Darlry, jun. Jultictf Mittimus, Mr. Worrell, Sheep-face, Mr. Bates. r^ ate > Mrs. Bates, Mr». Scout, Mrs. Sbaiu. j?. 0 a ?',?£l Do "? r ~~ PIT ' Three-Fourths of a Dollar— and GALLERY; Haifa Dollar. TICKETS to be had at H. and P. RICE's Book-Store. s°> Market-Street; and at the Office adjoining the The- Front'of £ '° *° f Wl "°> « a ,r°" ey °J " ckeU to bciemrned; nor any pirfon, on LT Um^' tr ° ertri idink *4 behind "« tcenea. _ Udici and Gentlemen are requested to fenjf their servants m fil!? Pk" * quauer before " ve o'clock,'and order them WV » &«<*, to wi.hdrtw a, they eaT. not, on any account, be permuted to remain. ' VIVAT RESPUMLICA. Bar-Iron Manufadtor TO BE SOLD, n reasonable termsiand convenient payments, a new FOUR FIRE FORGE A Dvanta g e ° ufl y Ctuated on the river Walkill. in the county of SulTcx, and ftite of New-Jersey, and dis tant one m.le and a half from Sharp's Furnace j he Foree t f Wen i y " Cight aCr " ot land > which are four good houses for th* workmen, with lots adjoining for gar- Flf° CS ' 8 blac k-smith's and carpen „„ j S' a "d also commodious dwalling-houfe, with a goed cellar and garden, for a Vanager, and a Store adjoin ing of twenty fe.et square. The buildings are new and the £ppHedwhh T'' iD full buflnsfs > and f«»y applied with stock and the necessary workmen • wood and v r COalm «' lu . fficieht «° afford a never tailing lupply "S foment, w ;„ fo , d wkh F * PP J Thc purchafcr Wf"? V* COrd ' * (whTchtay £ gf tifement) the Foree Fo r« U, ° f tWs adver " gether with 1500 cords ft wood" u'V ' 8 ' tl " re ° a > to il public VENDUE on * ' Wl "r be exposed t0 sale 3d day of Mar nm J ° nth< ;P«m.fes, on luefday, the ROBERT OGDEN Sparta, April ELIAS OGDEN. of Robert ind siiwugdia, : c 0 N JL5 E s & - HOUSE or REPRESENTATIVES. ~ e Monday, April ii 4 Mr. Christie cailcd up his resolution f or appoint > mg a committed to enquire into and report on the 1 expediency of prohibiting for a time the exporta^ :Vr u In , d 'r n COrn ann corn meaK ° 11 "0n,,,, (>t - Mr. Henderfon, rye, and rye meal were added t„ the resolution. It was then moved to lefer the '« • resolution to the committee of commerce ai d 1 ufactures. ! J S<^ C - °PP ofit; ° n ™ td the refererce U Mr. Colt ana Mr. Bourn as the house was not pofleluon of any facts irlative to the fubieci whit , ■ would juftify the exciting f, lc h an alarm as would S be occafioncd by referring the resolution. : Mr. Christie observed that it was « f less ccnfe quence that an alarm (hould be excited, than that the poor (hould fufler. His infortnatio)i ftom the Itateof Maryland, a (late that raises it ore Indisn corn than any other in the Union, was fnch, as to convince him, that something was necessary to be done immediately. Gom is now from a dollar !u ten (hillings a buihel ; and unless meafurcs are ta kentopreve.it the exportation ; before the next harveft,which will not be till nine months, the'poor mul be great fufferers ; he urged an immediate attention to the fubje<3. Mr. llepderfon, and Mr. Giles fuppof ted the motion. Mr, Kittera said he w as oppoled to it at preient. He did not think the high price was oc fflf fP HeWSS opinion that the state of Pennfylvama never had more grain at thisfeafon ot the year than at the p f efem time. Mr. Goodhue objected to preference to the committee of commerce and manufaaures. As the objea of the reference was information— he luppofed a committee to consist of a member from every state was the mod proper. The resolution was refered to a committee of fifteen. In committee of the whole on the bill to re.,,,- late trade and intercourse with the Indian tribe and for preserving peace on the frontiers. Mr ' Muhlenberg in the Chair. The committee p te . cceded thro' the remaining fe&ions of the bill Some amendments were agreed to. The Commit tee then rose and reported the bill with the amend ments. The house took up the amendp and agreed to the fame. The bill was the- <*rdet"ed to been grofled for a third reading. Several motions were then made to take up vari ous orders of the day. Mr. Cooper said tWe were important reason. why all other business (hould give way to that of making appropriations, to meet the several contra&f now exiltirjg against the United States. He called the attention of the House to their new Ass, he laid the house has palled a bill to furve'y aad fell a great trad of country, obtained from'the Indian 1 nbes, by the late Treaty negociated by General Wayne, but the House had made r»o provision for making the payment stipulated to thole tribes in the body of the Treaty, for the land we have fa willingly accepted and directed to be dilpofed of; and thought that if the bill was now complete n ,k ---ing the appropriations that it would be impuffibie to purchase and deliver the goods to these tribes by the time named in the Treaty, and thereby, if we refufe or neol e a to comply punaually with our* part of the contract, can we blame them for a breach of faith on their part; or if another Indian war follows, who ought to be accountable > Then: was one other objea, he said, which to tHie State'of New-York, was very incereiting ; he meant the sur render of the Wtftern Posts ; this was a defnabJe objea with ins constituents: the evil experienced by the settlements on the Mohawk river, a.id the once flourifhing town of Schenea'ady, by beini: de prived of the Western trade on the lakes, is f, well known by the whole delegation from the State, that it is almoil needless to fay it is the firft wifli of that country : it is their primary oEjefl. The firft of June is looked to by the people of Scheneaady, a da y w ' len that advantageous, but; long loft' Weltern trade will open to them again ; and he called on his colleagues with a friendly hope, to aid the speedy completion on the part' of the United States of the Treaty, which restores to so )ar>r*. a portion of the citizens of the State of New-York. a trade, the loss of which had almost caused that very refpeaablc town of Scheneaady to dwindle into decay No reply being offered, a motion which had been made to take up a report of the Secretary of the 1 reafury, relative to the Revenue cutteis, was past and agreed to. In committee of the whole pn the report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the memorial of °f 7; at .°" a " d othcrs - Tfie 'eport bein read, Mr. Coit moved several resolutions purfuaut thereto, in lubftance as follow : The firft, that the wages of the officers and raa men of the Revenue Cutters, ought to'be raffed. I ic that a new division of fines, penal ties and forfeitures recovered in fonfequence of in formation by the officers of the revenue cutters,one third of which are to be divided among the officer, and men of those cutters, in proportion to their pay. tt j tj" P ro P°fes thp the President of the United States be authorized to build new cttfteis m lieu of such as may be rendered by use, unfit for further service; and that in lieu of the levenue cut ter lately employed in the river and bay of Dela ware, the President be authorized to build or pur- ' ? C a vessel suitable to be employed occSfionally in carrying dispatches to foreign countries. Thcle reiolutions were agreed to. The committee then rose and reported the refo lut.an. which were adopted by the House, and a bill or bills ordered accordingly. Mr. Harper, agreeable to notice on Friday last, moved that the House (hould go into a .ommittee of the whole on the state of the Union, in order to take into confederation the fcveaal Treaties referred to that committee. Mr. Baldwin moved that the report of a feleft TOmmittee relative to the military establishment, (hould be taken up m committee of .the whole. | r»-r. r.arpei's motion >vas negatived—49, te 3*9. - $ • u H 'I
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