X.
NEW THEATRE.
The Public are refpaflftilly informed, that the
Doors of the Theatre will open at half an hour after
FIVE, and the Curtain rife precisely at half pall SIX
o'clock, for the remainder of the Season.
WEDNESDAr EVENING, April 13,
Will'be prefcnted, a TRAGEDY-, called
HAMLET,
PRINCE, Vf QEHMARK.
Hamlet, (firfttime) Mr. More ton,
King, Mr. Green,
Ghost, Mr. Wbitlock,
Horatio, Mr. Marjball,
Laertes, Mr. Wignell,
Folnnius, Mr. Morris,
Rofencrans, Mr. iVarrell,\\in.
Guildenftern, Mr. Beele,
Francisco, Mr. parley, jun.
Marcellus, Mr. Hardwood,
Bernardo, Mr. Worrell,
Oftric, Mr. Francis,
Officer, Mr. BliJJett,
v Grave-Diggers, MelT. Bates & Milbburne.
Queen, Mrs. Shaw,
Ophelia, Mrs. Mar/hall,
Player Queen, Mrs. Row/on.
To which will be added,
A FARCE, in two ails, called
The Village Lawyer.
Scout, Mr. Hartuood,
Snarl, Mr. Francis,
Charles, Mr. Darlry, jun.
Justice Mittimus, Mr. Warrell,
Sheep-face, Mr. Bates.
Kate; Mrs. Bates, '
Mrs. Scout, Mrs. Sbaiv.
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 betaken of Mr. Wells, at the
Front of the Theatre. *
No money or tickets to be returned ; nor any person, on
any account -whatsoever, admitted behind the scenes.
Ladies arid Gentlemen are requeued 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 RESWBLICA.
FOR SALE,
THE time of a NEGRO GIRL, about 24 years oi
a (re, an excellent disposition remarkably indaftri
ous, and can be well recommended for sobriety and ho
nesty. For further particulars enquire at No. 14, north
April I■?. §9t.
To the Public.
AT MR. O'ELLER's HOTEL.
A French Miniature Painter rcfpe&fully oilers Jiis ser
vices to the Public, and hopes that the moderation
•f his terras, the very fbort time of his fittings, and the
rate of hi 6 abilities, will induce his visitors to become his
, Feb. jo.
patrens.
JUST PUBLISHED,
By Thomas Condie, No. 20, Carters Alley,
And Sold by all the Booksellers,
[Priclr Yhrce-Sixieentbs a Dollar^
THE
CONSTITUTION
OF THE STATE OF
TE NNES SE E.
April n
Canal Lottery Oftice,
Ktar the Bank of the United States.
Philadelphia, Jth April, 1796.
THE Publie are informed, that Tickets are Thirty-one
Dollars cach, and will continue to rife a dollar at
leaf! every other day; As the Lottery is near five-fixths
finilhed every day's drawing mud greatly enhance the va
lue of Tickets on account «f the five stationary ones of
One Hundred Th»ufa*d Dollars, befldes the 30,000 dollar,
and other conflderable prizes (lill in the Wh:el.
Wm. Blackburn, Agent.
JST.ATE of the WHEEL:
I prize of 30,000
3 de. ioiooo -
1 dp. 3>500 -
4 do. 1,000 -
8 do. jco - - 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
rcgiftering. §
The annual Election
FOR DIRECTORS and a TREASURER of the Libra
ry Company of Philadelphia, will be held at the L>-
_ brary, in Fifth-ftreet, on Monday,-the fccond of May
next, at three o'clock in the afternoon, when the Trea
surer will attend to receive the annual payments.
As there are several shares on which fines are due, the
owners of them, or their reprefentatWes, are hereby no
tified, that they will be forfeited, agreeably to the laws
of the Company, unless the said arrcajs a e paid off on
the said second day of May, or within ten days after.
By order ef the Directors,
BENJAMIN R. MORGAN, Secretary.
iril 9
\ United States, ) /T
Vctuifyl-oania J)jfri£i y ) JJ *
N O TICE is'hcreby given. That in pursuance of a Writ
to me dire&ed, from the Hot!. Rjchard Peters,
Judge of the Diftridl Court of the United States,.in
and ibr the Fennfylvania Dillridt,
WILL BE EXPOSED TO PUBLIC SALE,
* at the Store® of David Callaghan, on Pine-street wharf,
on Saturday, the 16th day of April, instant, at twelY?
o'clock at noon, ,
28 Pip-S of LISBON WINE ;
8 Hoglheads of Do.
43 Qurfttr Caflts of Do.
The fame having been saved from a wreck in the hay of
Delaware, libelled agriinft, prosecuted, and condemned,
and to be fold for th» benefit of the salvors.
William Nichols, Marjhal.
Mar(bal*3 Office, yf/ri/ 12, 1796. §
Pennsylvania Hospital.
THE Elr&ion will be held at.the Hospital pursuant to
law, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon on the second
<?ay of the fifth month next, being the second day of the
week, at which time the Contributors are desired to attend
to ehoofe out of their number Twelve Managers and a
*lreafuTtr to the laid luilitution for the ensuing year.
by vrUtr oja Board <>f Alanagcrt,
SAMUEL COATES, Clerk.
4th n-o. ;th, 17
FO R $ si LE.
A FOUNT of BREVIER, half worn ; about four nn
dred weigbt. Enquire at the Office of the Gazette
of the United States, No. 119 Chefnut-llreiU
Sece<t&er J. §
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Wednesday, March 16.
Debate on Mr. Livingflwn's resolution continued.
Mr. Freeman observed that the refutation before
the committee had unexpectedly to him involved in
its difcuflion a qusftion of a serious and inWrefting
nature. It was not his intention to conlider at
present the principle advocated by the gentleman
from Pennsylvania, that on all treaties embracing
ligiflative obje<3, the ultimate fanflioi* of that
house was necessary to give them effefl. Many in
genious arguments had been adduced for,and against
the principle, and had created luch doubts' and diffi
culties in his mind, that he coufd not fidw fol»e
them to his own fatisfadlion. He regretted that
any z?al had been difcovere.l in,difcuffing a delicate
constitutional question. He did not thiirk muth
zeal had a tendency to difcovrr the tiulh. Men
a&uated by it were generally like bodies which are
consumed by their own heat without imparting
much warmth or light to others.
In the course of the debate gentlemen appeared
to have (haped the question to the observations they
intended to make, instead of adapting their obler
vations to the real Hate of the question. A gen
tleman from Maflachufetts had dated the real ques
tion ta be whether that hbufe (hould by conltruc
tion and implication invade the powers veiled in the
other departments of, government. He did not
think this a fair vi«w of the question. He confid
ered the real question to be, how far the treaty ma
king powercould be extended without infringing
the fpecific powers delegated to Congress. He
ftiould fellow the example of other gentleman and
take such a view of the fubjeft as appeared to him
fufficient on theßiefent resolution—and the ques
tion with him was whether the hoiife when called
upon to make legislative provifiori for carrying a
treaty into effedt had a to discuss the expedi
ency or inexpediency ef granting it; Oh this
question he contended the house h£d is compare ah d
absolute a discretion as they had on other object of
legislation. If the granting an appropriation to
carry a treaty into effedt, would produce greater e
vils to the community than the withholding it, he
certainly-Ihould consider the house juftifiable in re
futing to make the appropriation. Gentlemen have
contended that the representatives wete under a mo
ral obligation resulting from -a treaty to' tfarry it
into eff?£t. But many circumstances ave*mention
ed by writers on the laws of nations. t£hieh render
treaties a nullity of themselves—and each individ
ual when called upon to give or withhold his assent
to an appropriation bill for carrying a treaty into
effect wasto examine, for Uimfelf of the
extent of that obligation, and of the propriety of
giving or withholding his assent. He mutt bi? go
verned by his own moral sense, and not by that
which relides in the breast of another. The ar
gument founded on the moral obligation did not a
mount to any thing. For in all cases of legislation
where the most ample difcietion, wm admitted, if
the fitnefs of a meafurt could be demonstrated, the
house were under a moral obligation to adopt it.*—
It was true, he contended, that £ treaty a for
eign power was a serious thing, and ought not for
light eaufes, to be violated. The nature and obli
gation of the compact would be taken into view on
the question of the expediency of giving it opera
tioti ; but gentlemen ought not to confound the
freedom of the will or the right of resting accor
ding to the judgment and discretion of the agent,
with the strong motives which may be offered to
influence the deeifion eithef the one way or the o
ther. To fay that a man was under a moral obli
gation to do a thing without examining the fubjeft
and afceraing the moral obligation hy his own mo
ral sense wasabfurd. He conceived that even where
existing laws ascertained the compenfatipn for cer
tain officers, still circumstances might arise tojufti
fy thelegiflature in suspending the necessary appro
priations for the payment. The whole refourcts
of the public might be absorbed of war in
providing the means of national defence. It might
becomeindifpenfably necessary todelaythe payment
of the salaries due even to the Prelident, and judi
cial officers whose compensation by the con it it tit ion
is not to be increased or diminiftied during their
continuance in office. .But causes us.this kind stop
upon ftroriger ground, than compenfatiousto other
officers, and appropriations for carrying laws or
treaties into effedt ; neither did he agree with the
gentleman from South Carolina that the President
of the United States had the fame right to refufe
to fill an office created by a law, er the judges of
the supreme court to refufe to decide cautes, as
the house had to withhold their assent to an appro
priation to carry a treaty into effect. The only
discretion in the firft instance wits not to determine
whether he thould obey the law, but to feleft a
proper character ; in the second. not to determine
whether they (hould decide caufcg bat the manner
in which they Ihould be decided. And if either
of the officers above mentioned were to refufe to
obey the laws, they were impeachable ; but that
house was amenable to no tribunal on earth, for re
futing an appropriation wheneverthey thought pro
per so to do.
m,th&s.
30,000
100,000
5»ooo
4,000
The {gentleman from MaflachufctU had said that
he was advocating an unpopular do&rine.
Mr. Freeman did not know why he should think
so. The gentleman undoubtedly fuppofet that he
has justly. If so why should he conclude
that a majority of the people will not reason as cor
rectly as he had, and entertain the fame fcjttiments.
Mr. Freeman believed that a majority of the people
generally reasoned jnftly upon political fnbje&s.—
But in debate he did not like allusions of that kind.
A gentleman from New-York had laid that re
venue officers might folio*? the example of that house
and fay that their will was neceflary, and refufe to
execute a law until it .had their approbation But
did it follow from the do£lrine that the eonr.unence
ot the House of Reprefentativet was neceflary in
palling a law, that the concurrence of Revenue of
fleets was also necessary i—The f§me gentleman
farther observed that the people might fay their
confentwas ncceffary to feodtion a law. In the lat
CONGRESS.
ter cafe the gentlemat Aood on better ground. The
consent of the people was r.eceffary anu by u eir
cuuAituti,on the legiHptlite are the orgay to exp-efs
the puUic will. Imperious nvetfli:y might induce
the people to demand a new organization of the go
vernment, but he presumed the enlightened people
of America would never seek an alteration in the
form of their government, in any other than rhe
conilituiiowal inydc, until all hopes of fucccis in
that way Aiould fail.
The gentleman from Maffhehufetts has said that
the house had no right to call for th« papers in ques
tion because they were ihe joint property of Gieat
Britain and the United States. They may contain
secrets wrßch would not be divulged without a
breach of faith—ln support of the do&iine the
gentleman alluded to some principles in Paley's Mo
ral Philosophy and Vattel's Law of nations. Mr.
Freeman'denied the application of'the principle to
the cafe before the committee—V. here two natiohs
were in alliance and carrying on joint operations a
gain A a common enemy there njr'ight be fc.-rets which
neither paity c«uid divulge without a breach of
faith. But the United Suites are nut in alliance
with Great Butain. They are concerned in no
operations againA a common enemy. What feciets
could potfibly exill betwixt them. Were the Prefi
dest and Senate the depotitory of the fecrets'of the
Britilh court? He did not conceive thjt they were
upon so intimate a footing. liideed he Aiould con
ceive it to be the vileA calumny were any man to
luggeA that any other connections fubfiAed between
them than what was publicly known. A treaty of
ami;y commerce and navigation was a raeic bar
gain—And the negociatols would represent the
lituation of their refpedive . countries rn the molt
favorable point of view. Would Mr. Grenville be
tray the secrets of his government ? Would he re
present it to be exhausted with public debt, and
crumbling to pieces, or exhibit its lituation in the
moA splendid Colours ? On the other hand would
Mr. Jay communicate any thing to the Britilh mi
niAer refpefting the fituationof this country which
would be improper to be laid before the House
of Reprefe'ntatives ? Surely not.
A gentleman from New-York made fume fi;r
thfi observations which he fliould not notice. He
iai4 comruoH sense revolted at the conltrudtion put
Upon the conlHtution, which lie said had been well
understood from the school boy to the Senator. Mr.
F. did net know how well the gentleman understood
it, but for his own part he had his doubts. The
Judges of the Supreme Coiiit and other gentle
men of abilities had held different opinions 011 fe
vttral parts of the Conftitutibn. Was it wonderful
then that members in that lioufe (hould entertain
different sentiments with refpedt to the extent of
the tryty-making powir. The fame gentleman
said it was no matter whether the treaty was good
or bad—it was all ftuff—That many people were
determined not to like it before it was promulgated.
Mr. F. observed that he should be extremely un
happy that'the people (hould suppose that their re
prefentativej assembled to support a fide, not to in
vestigate truth, that they voted one way or the
other, j\i(t as party spirit or prejudice led them.
Though he believed that gentleman had made up
his mind on the fubjed, his mind, and he believed
the minds of many others Were open to receive such
impreflions as the arguments which might yet be
adduced ought to produce. The fame gentleman
bad said that some persons were opposed to the
treai y, because it compelled them to pay their debts.
Every one knew that the remark was pointed to a
particular state ; but he would ask whatdaufe in
the.treaty placed an individual debtor of the Uni.
ted States in a worse situation as to the payment of
his debts than he was before ? He could discover
none. He could not, he said, place his eye Upon
a tingle member in that house, and fay that he be
lieved he wished to subvert the government, or to
destroy the peace and hapf>inefs of the United
States. The fame member had said that the gen
tleman from Virginia ought to be bold, and that
he might expedl to be called, jacobin, revolution
ill, diforganizer, &c. as of ancient land
marks were always ill spoken of.
Mr. F. held it to be criminal, not only to remove
ancient land marks, but to fiiffer them to moulder
away through inattention. The present question
was not intended to remove land marks but to a£
certain and eftablilli them ; not to invade the pow
ers of any department of government, but to afcer r
tain the true boundaries, and the appropriate powers
of each. The gentleman had said he fliould vote
in the negative, because he had sworn to support the
constitution. Mr. F. said that he fliould contend
for the right of the house, not only because he had
sworn to support the constitution, but from a more
generous piinciple, because he was attached to it.
He could not give an impreflive effect to his obser
vations by appealing lo the blood which hehad shed,
or to a frame mutilated in acquiring the indepen
dence of his country, but if occasion required, he
'was willing to mmilate the one, and to shed the
other in its defence ; but the man wjio means in
these times honeltly to discharge his<duty, mud pre
pare for a fevererdeftiny ; to have his reputation af
filed by unfounded calumnies ; to be branded with
epithets which he does not deserve ; to have senti
ments ascribed to him which he never felt to be
charged with bale, dark, malignant designs agaiuit
the government, which the human heart is hardly
capable of conceiving.
With refpeii to the refolutirtn before the house,
when it was firlt laid on the table he viewed it with
regret ; but as the discussion had involved a'diflferent
question, if the amendment formerly moved by a
gentleman from Virginia, ihould be renewed, and
obtair, he should vote for the refolutfon.
Gentlemen asked what benefit would refu't from
adopting the resolution ? In the .firlt place it would
be concilitory. Many members wished to fee the
papers, and he was willing they should be gratified.
In the second, they might explain any doubtful
parts of the treaty. If the present resolution was
co nude red by him an encroachment upon the exe
cutive, he certainly should be against it. On what
principle was it that the representative we.e placed
at fuqh an immense diilance from the executive
that they could not approach him with decency and
respect, to ask for information on a fubied bi/orc
them ? J
J"££>?•.•?<*
W*-V Wrf.vt
them be compelled to u 0 im«, rl, k 1 **•
tefyof ihecleik for jn* riMtioo J.. '. cW
wcil be obtained in a more dirrcf hm ""u'" 3 '
improper to have that formation b.fere'the h •'
which might be obtained in a murt "
ner. <«aiftct man.
The nr<rofi?ti>r has puhli. lv o,fh,,j „
correfponden* e, r.r.d pehap. if ihe v ho/"" ti"*
seen bythehoaf, A i *
genera] friendly d,Tp-fi,ioo of Cr ca t B,i, ai „ '
this country. w a■ s
Mr -Freeman did not co cei* himfelf commit,*,
*s he-claimed the iiir'n us . I '""nned
SKE* ; wfoM •S-Jfsi;:
[Debate to be continued.}
, r MoHda y. April ii.
Ihe house went mt u a committee of thr «,V 1
on the b.ll for imerccurfc w„|, liie f,,'
dian tribes, wh.ch after making f„ me ft w '
•mentsto it, was g o „e thrrugh. The
rose and reported, and the hoijfr took Up -
Odrntion of ,t, when coming t0 , lle cu P ufc "
mgthat a forfeiture gfaHt.tletn Uieir ei»,l
and. fltould take place,',n cate ofbeing found with"
„,u „ ftbt ; nd b„ Tl ib,;r; b d "
pose of marking out lands, & c . thcrcou • M
Blount again moved to ft,ike out vhat clause', S
Mr Holland moving that thOyea, and nay, foju
lows —- °" que "' on ; tbf y vvere taken as sol-
YEA S.
Meffis. Bailey, Baird, Baldwin, Benton, Blount
Brent Bryan, Burgels, Cabell, Claibomoe, Coles'
Frankltn, Gallatin, GiHifpie, Creep- p,„ '
Hampton, Karnfon, Havens, Heifter, HolUnd'
Jackson, Locke, W. Lyman, Maclay, Macon'
Milledge, Moore, Muhleoburgh, New, Orr, Page'
Parker, Patton, Tatom, '
, * nays. ' ;
• Ames, Bourne, Bradbury, Ruck, Clirif
tie, Coit, Cooper, Crabb, Dearbotn, Dent Far/
A. Poller D Foster, Gilbert, Gilman, & mn [
Goodbye Goodnch, Grifwold, Harper, Hathorn,
rl.ath, Hewdetfon, HiHhoute, Hindman, S. Lr
man, Malbone, Murray, Read, Rutherford, Se~e
wick, Sherbournc, Jer. Smith, W- Smith, N
Smith, Isaac Smith, israel Smith, Sprigg, Swift,
I hatcher, Thomas.Thompson, Tracey, Van AI.
let), Van CortTandt, WadfwOith, Williams.— 47.
Tuesday, April 1 r.
Mr. Sherbourne, of the Committee to whom
was.referred the btifmefs of the revenue cutters,
brought in a billon the fubjetl, which was twice
read and ordered to be commuted to a committee
of the whole to morrow.
Mr. Hanifoii of the committee to whom was
referred the bufioets of regulating the weights and
measures of the United btatcs, made a report,
which was twice read and. rcferje/Tto a committee
of Hie wholq on Monday.
Mr. Trace y, of the committee of claims, made
a report on the petition of John Gibbons, trcafn
rer of the slate of Georgia, refpe&ing the renewal
of some certificates, which was'againl: the petition
er ; the report was read twice and ordered to be
committed to a committee of the whole on Monday
next. '
Mr. Dearborn, of the committee to whom was
referred tie President's mefiage relative to the ter
ritory fcuth weft of the fiver Ohio, reported that
the territory, now bearing the name of the date
ofTcnncflce, was entitled toali the privileges enjoy
ed by the other States of the-Union, and that it
should be one of the sixteen Hates of America
Thereport was twice read and committed to a ctm
mittee of the whole on Tuesday sext.
The order of the day bsing called for, the house
formed itfelf into a committee of the whoie, on
the bill for making provision in part for the pay
ment of the debt due to the Bank of the United
; States ; when the motion made by Mr. Gallatin
yeilero'ay to strike oot five millionr and insert
1,200,000 dollars, heing under confutation, Mr.
' Sedgwick, Mr. Dayton (thd Speakw) and Mr.
Hillhoufc opposed the motion, and Mr. Gallatin
supported it. The cpmmittec rose and. had leave
to fit again. The debate which was of confidcr
able length (Mr. "Gallatin liavlng spoken nearly 2
hours), will be given in a future paper.
Adjourned.
Bar-Iron • Manufactory
T 0 B E SOL D,
On reasonable terms and convenient payments, a new
FOUR FIRE FORG.E,
A Dvantageoufly situated on the river Walkill, in the
il county of Suflex, andftate of New-JerJey, anddil
tant one nule and a half from Sharp's Furnace; the forge
lot contains twenty-eight acres of land, on which are four
good houses foi; the workmen, with lots adjoining for gar
dens, two large coal-houses, a black-smith's and carpen
ter's (hop, and also a commodious dwc»iling-houfe, with a
good cellar and garden, for a \ anager, and a Store adjoin
ing of twenty feet square. The buildings are new, and the
works in good repair, and now in full business, and fully
supplied with (lock and the necc;Tary workmen; wood
land for coaling, fufiicient to afford a never failing supply
and lying cohyenient, will be fold with the Forg:, o^
wood supplied on contract by the cord, as> Aiay belt suit
the purchaser. If desired, a FARM adjoining the Forge,
of 150 or 200 arable a*idmeadow lafld, witha«good orch- /
ard, and convenient buildings, will be fold to accommo
date the Forge : And also, a four horse team, coal ando
ther waggons, and implements of every kind toxwry on
the works. If not before disposed of by pmvt-contract
(which may be known by the continuance of this adver
tisement) the Forge, Forge-let and buildings thereon, to- -
gether with 1500 cords ot wood, will be exposed to faie
at PVBLiC VENDUE, on the premises, on Toeiday, thd
3d day of May next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, at
which time and place the conditions will be made kaewn,
und attendance jriven, by thL' proprietors.
ROBERT OGDEN,
ELI AS OGDEN.
Sparta, April 9, 1"96. *eodt3«iM.
N. B. The partnerlhip of Robert and Elias Ogdea,
will then be dilTolved,
l os r,
A TICKET in the Wufhwgton Lottery, No. 17901.—
Any person having found thc faine is requeited to
lckvr ;t with the Printer hereof.
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