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.
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