£ 'JS. § Foreign Intelligence. BAGDAD, December"29. Every thing announces a speedy change in Persia, which, influencing the powers, and especially the commerce of Asia, will interest the powers of £u rode, but msre particularly the Turks. Aga Mah met Kan, an eunuch,"having succeeded in defeating twice the young prince LolfAli Kan, and making himfelf mailer of Chiras, as well as the treasures and families of the Grandees of Persia who were there, the latter retreated with the remains of his army to Keirmann, wherj he has claimed the assist ance of the Ruffians, promising to give them any advantages they pleased to a(k. It appears that from these offers Russia has formed an idea of ap propriating to htrfelf the provinces she prefers, and (jveral fads come in aid of this report. A Kan of M.ifenderan, a partizan of Lolf All Kan, having marched with some troops to the Ghilan, the Ruf fians, to the number of 1500, coming by the sea of Aitracan, disembarked and joined him, and took pofleffion of Becht, which is the capital of Ghi'.an. We learn beside from Tefflis,the capital of Geor gia, that prince Heraclius expedited two Ruffian regiments,with which and his own Georgian troops he intended to enter the provinces of Chervan and Adeiheian ; this prince is entirely at the order of the, Ruffian court. It appears every wher- herea bouts that the Ruffians have really an intention of making an irruption into Persia. GENOA, December 29. Two imperial privateers, froro Trielle, have jiid. entered this port, after fending two rich prize* into Vado, not knowing that place lemoned in the hands of the Freud, where they were prevented from following them by a hard gale. CAGLIARI, January 1. A desperate engagement has recently occurred between two vessels under the colours of Savoy and a Tunelian xebec, about 40 miles from Cape Car fconara, in this island, whieh la'Aed four hours, when the Barbarians attempting to board the merchant* men, We repulsed with great (hughter, and oblig ed to (lieer off. A vefftl that came into this port soon after the Savoyards, saw the xebec link at sea. The Capt. of one of the merchantmen is dead of the wounds he received | they were bound to Bar celona ; the xebeccarried 16 guns and 130 men. LEYDEN, January 22. The French gen. Kleber, formerly a Lieut. Col. in the Auttrian service, has lately dined with prince Wurtemburg, near Coblentz, and the general be haviour of the French and German /oldiers to each other since the true<*, seems to indicate that they are rather upon the point of being friends than en emies. AMSTERDAM, January 14. I am informed from good authority, that Mr. Pitt has said confidentially, that if the for ed loan ordered by France be filled up, he would determine the king to accept overtures of peqj*, but that previously he would spare nothing to obftruft that salutary measure, and continue the war with more fury than ever. (Signed) THIBAULT,' Representative of the people, commissioner of Jhe government with the republic of the U liited Provinces. Al an authentic copy, \. LAGARDE, Sec'ryGenl. : v.A PARIS, Janury 21. Le Cenfeur is of opinion, that if Auhert Dll - quits his fitnation, he will have Dubois Crance as his successor. It is also said that Charles de Lacroix will fpeedilv be fuccecded in the office, which he holds 39 mimlter of foreign affairs, by a perfoa capable of preparing and managing negoci ations. 1 hey talk also that Chenier will be ap pointed an Eighth Miniller, under the title of min iftcrof arts and fcicnces. January 24. Since the English fleet, who ha* e so long ho vtred on the eoaft of Britanny have disappeared, cur shipping has resumed some degree of activity. A .trong convoy failed on the 22d January from Nantes for 1 Orient and Bred. Another convoy from Bourdeaux, which w.is detained at Rjchfort, has alio put to ft/a. 1 wenty ships of the convoy for Nantes have happily arrived ; the reltare bound so different deftiuations. CAMBRIDGE, Jan. 9. BANK OF ENGLAND. On Monday 1a It the following very important notice was given officially at the Panic! ' " I" future, whenever the Bills sent in'for dif eount (hall in any day amount to a larger sum than it sHall be resolved to discount on that pro rata ' proportion of such of the Bills as are not'otherwife" objedtionable in each parcel, will be returned to the persons fending them, without regard to the ref p*<&ability of the party fending in the Bills, or to the sol id it y of the Bills themfelves.—•>The fame will be ohferved as to Notes." The causes of this remarkable Refolutioit of the Bank, which does not manifeft that fluarifhing (late of Commerce which Mr. Pitt has held out, de serve the molt serious inquiry. It has given a ge neral alarm te the Merchants, and his occalinned much speculation.—Stocks have fallen one per cent, f'nce the notice was srfven, and conjecture cannot 1 fathom the extent of the confequ*yeej. In the firft place the quantity of fp°cie"4ent out 1 of the kingdom is known to have raised the price of I gol-J so much that thrrr is a profit of 7 t-2 per cent. ">» the melting down of guineas ; and consequently the temptation to export thein has been so great; that it became the duty of the Bank moll rigorous ly to watch the iflua of coin. S i OCK.BRIDGE, (mass.) April 5. The contract repealing Legiflatilre of Georgia have honored Gen, Glinn, one of the Senators from th-it Hate, in Congress, by a declaration, that he ha« lust their confidence. They have also A . ■*< ft -«■!'■ t~ »><*•.• refolded, that it appears by. the d?poutte of the United States. fro. Fill. I believe every candid reader will admit the po fltum which 1 have faitly quoted from Mr. Vans Murray, in my last number; has as (trong a ten dency to eftablilh the rig'hts contended for on the part of the Houle of Reprefeotatives, as any of the arguments ps the majority. It now remains that I perform my promise as far as refpefts Mr. Harper. i his gentleman concludes a long speech, 011 the 24th March, which was puhlifhed in the fun pie ment to the American Daily Ad.ertifer of the 7th inft. with the following Itrong and conclave argu ments . " that treaties ■when made, and complete, " istte no mire than executory comprint, depending fir " ll>"r execution upon the aid of the Legijlature, in "giving which aid it must, from the nature "OF THINGS, BE A FREE AGENT. Herein" he said, " confided the renl security against the abufc " of the treaty making power, that it could never ",a£l ■without legislative aid. While that House held " the purse llrings of the people, while no treaty •' could produce its ejfeß ■without a la%v, and that "the concurrence of that House was nec.-jfary in " pafling the law, there could be no real danger. •' Great, indeed, was the refponfibiKty which those " tnnfl take o,i thcmfelves, wfiofhonld reftife in 'hat " House to execute a treaty. Weighty, indeed, " mull be the reasons which could induce the House " to rifle all the consequences which rnuft be ex " pefted to 'result from such a refufal : few, he be " lieved, woulcf be found to ride them in ordinary cases. In some cases thky must be risked, " and «o decide what those cases are, is an obied " of found dif retion." Now, reader, whatever be your politics, if you •btfj as I hope you are, a man of candour, answer me a few qaeftions—lf " treaties depend for their execution upon legislative aid"_and if, " in.giving this aid, the House of Representatives, f ro 7n the* nature of things, are free agents;" in other words, are " free" tt> give or withhold that " legislative aid'* 011 which " treaties depend for their execution," ought not they to be poflifftd of all those docu ments conne&ed with the fubjeiS, which are necef. fary, to enable free agents to decidc whether Or not they would " rifle the consequences that would result from a refufal to carry a treaty into executi on >" Again, if a treaty ip only •' an executory compady* depending " for its execution on legis lative aid," ought the British treaty, at the very tim« of presentation to the legislature, and conse quently before it could have received that " Jegif. lative aid, ' to be accompanied by a proclamation, " enjoining and requiring all persons bearing offices " civil or military within the United States, and " all others, citizens and inhabitants thereof, or be " ing within the ftme, to esecute the said treaty >" Does not such a proclamation either destroy the free agency of the House—or the free agency of the House destroys the validity of such a proclamation ? How can the free agency of.the House to give or withhold "their legislative aid" to the British trea ty, be reconciled to the appointment of commifli oners to carry that treaty into within a few days after it was laid before the House ? 1 believe the answers to those questions will ac compli fh my design, of vindicating the House of Repreftntatives from the charge of attempting "to overleap the bound* prescribed to th»m by the con fiitution, and encroach on the executive." The convfftion produced muftacquire additional strength from the consideration, that the arguments are fairly and unexceptionably drawn from a member of considerable talents, and one who has most elabo rately advocated the caufe'of the President and Se nate. HAR RINGTON Ricketts's Amphitheatre. IV[r. Collet, TJ Efpeflfully informs the Public, that his BENEFIT IV will be on THURSDAY next. Between the different new Feats, Mr. Collet will r!a7 A Concerto dejarnowick, on the Violin. > Mr Caotier will a'fo play A Concerto on the Clarinet, Computed by himfelf. gT Tickets may be had at Mr. Collet's, No. 171, north Front-street; T. Bradtorb's, No. 8, south Frout- Orr -r ■ r'nd O'Fli.ers'Hotel. For LON DO N, THE SHIP ATLANTIC, SU.AS SWAIN, Commander, WILL fail on or about the ift of May I ? or freight or laffage apply to tjle Captain on hoard at Walnut-ftrect wharf, or to PHILIP NICKLIN & CO. April 13. § N. B. The Letter Bag of the brig Peggy, captain Heyef, for London, will be taken from the Polf-OfHce on Friday morfling, the 15th inft. at 10 o'clock. The Letter Bag of»the (hip Hamburgh Packet, captain Clay, for Liverpool, will be taken from the Poft-Office on Saturday evening, the 16th inft. And the Letter Bag of the ship Diana, captain Pilf, for Hamburgh, will be taken from the Pofl-Office or Monday evening next, the 18th inil. k'-' Philadelphia, WEDNESDAY EVFNIttG, APRIL tj, t 79 A. Exiradl of a letter frum Port-au-Prince, dated Mm-h 27th, j796: Th? inhabitants here were Riuch difappnircjet by the arrival of the fleet yerterday, after an unfuc celsful attack mi Leogane—Tlie French forcej there prove to be (Ironger than was expe&ed." *•* The lixtraft of a Letter from a Gentle man in Baltimore-Town to hi». fi\-.nd in this City, (hall be inserted to-morrow. [ Qr> Tkurfday n{by General Thomas Ptofter, in tnc.latc war.bctwfeii-Great Britain and America j m-luch dutl'vs h« aifc!iV;{ed with honour and fide •lily. Ever ready to -fnpport the laws of his coun try, he llcpard forward ?s adjutant of artillery in the late Wi-ftcm exped.tion, where he corttrafled a cold, that a lingering illnc-fa, which he bore with manly fortitude, until it terminated in liia death. On Saturday his remains were interred ifi St. Peters cluirch burial around, attended by thtf »ffic#r» of the militia companies of Phila delphia, and a icfpettable number of other citizens. With justice it mayibe said that he was an hooeft man, a(,triie patriot,-and good soldier. A Correspondent wirtics to know what atr. the real intentions of theprefent majority f n the House of Rcprefcntatives—if War is their object, why not candidly fay so, and let us he prepared to meet it—or if, it is not intended to make the neceflary appropriations to carry the Treaties into efT*&, we can then judge for ourfeltes—Of all things, to merchants, a (late of suspense is the word j and at this moment many readable underwriters are -e fuling to write Policies of Insurance; our Stocks aie the uncertainty ; if War the Sotnliern States, the Eadein Delegates wil) no doubt give their Con stituents the earliest information and let tliefe de cide whether, to aft a conspicuous part in it, or, by preferring Peace, divide theUiiien. i From the Aurora. That a public debt is a public blejfing has been the favourite and avowed maxim of the party who have hitherto held the minrfterial reins of the General Government. The condudl of the aristocratic fac tion (hews that they were in earaeft at heart j for dbriuj; " the fix years' glorious adminirtration," they have contrived to encrtaft the public debt one million per annum. l'he firft part of the above paragraph ha* not the lhadow of truth to support it—with lefpefl to the other fays a correspondent, Mr. Gallatin llated yesterday as the result of his relearch*s into the funding fyftetn, in fobftancc, " that the United States were trot one farthing richer or poorer than they were os the fitll day the present Government came into operation," the IVeJlern Infurredion, In dian War, Algcrine prifontrt, Fortifications of Ports anil Harbors, and fitihing a portion of the Public Debt, nofwifhllandinfc. It is preftimed adds our Correspondent, that however others may doybt the accuracy of Mr. G—'s ltaieiaent, the Autora will not dare to de ny it. • 1 couuvNicj\rior The party has fhifted its ground very often, and r et lias been, in every change, equally overbearing md dogmatical. Firlt it was impossible we (hould > t any treaty. Britain was not disposed to treat. ;ain was beaten and would refufe nothing. Then t was said, exultingly, by the friends of our inde pendence, France would go to war with us. No treaty, no treaty . with her enemies. The treaty »r/ives, the virtuous ten think the terms might have been better, more Intercotirfe, islands and all, more amity and mutual advantage ; and to Ijting this a bout, negociate again, said they, A printer pub lifhcs the treaty with a faithfulnefa and accuracy that reflected exactly the due praise on the disclo sure of it. - The virtuous ten had not, it seems, found out a word of the right objeaions. Conlli tution— treaty being against >he Conftitutien is a dead letter : Thus roared the wis dom of a hundred mobs. The House convenes, and behold the objeflion just whizzing in our cars like the din of a great water fall, turns out an emp ty found. ThePrefident and Senate are the treaty making department—But then, they are not the treaty making department—as thus—and thus (here please to insert, from the press of Mr. Bacbe, 400 pages of metaphyfiral jargon.) After (hed ding for 3 weeks lays of darkness on the fubjeft, the Prefidert's me(Tag« is delivered. The woid» of the ConlUtutkm, the words of certain gemlertieu, (mind 1 do not fay their honor) opinions long efiabiiftied, usage public and uncoritrovVrted, the analogy with common good and corrlmOn sense, throw the new creed into some discredit. What is to be done i Deny it—change it, hide it in some new form of afly thing, rather than let it lie long on the anvil of drfcuffion. Is this- Pro. teus never to be catfght ? t» the refouree of party • hvention tinexhaufted, or does fume new Archi medes forge new weapons for them as fact as they in the lianas oif rhe champions ? Or when naked and disarmed is their modelt appearance a coal of tnsii ? Art itTfournfd meeting of the First day or Sun day School Society, will be held Jt 7 o'clock this ivenino, at John Ely's Schcot-Room' Ajfril l.nh, 1795, ' PQiiT OF PHIL 4Q&LJ>IIIA t A H R 1 V t D. DATS. Ship SiK?cefs, Robert foil, Antigua 15 Biig Charlotte, Cufhinj;, Port-au-Priuee zo Schr. Delight, Durphey 4 do. 15 Telrgraplie, Colycr, Richmond 4 Betsey, Bawitt, Norfolk 4 Experiment, P.iole, Miraguane 17 Sloop Nabby, Bingham, St, Bartholomews 19 Nancy and Prggy, Young, N. Carolina 4 About lj days awo Capt. Poole fp:>k« the brig Mary, Norris, from Jacqiiemel to Philadelphia ill well. . La(t Sunday off the capes Capt. Bingham spoke the schooner Hawk, Pennrotk, from Kingston (Ja ijisicaJ to Philadelphia all well. The Mio-ner Eagle, which was upset on Sunday lalt, scot into Marcus Hook, wilh ali her cargo &c. iaveii. BY THIS DAY'S MAIL. NEW-YORK, April ,2. Ship Fanny, Brjine, A jroilu, Bttflificiti, , Swan, Woodliam, Brig Siifah & Polly, Abeel, Nancy, Sch. Harmony, Baldwin, Sully, Snow, Bl'p Perctlay, A r.fo n, Barlow, Mary, L'Hbmrciedieiij r NtVV-BRUNSVVICk, Ap.il tz. The following' pirferitinent wis made lafl week, bf the Grand Jury of the eounty of Middjefex. T HE Grand Jury of the county of Middlesex* cannot refrain from exprcfiing to this Court and tjieir fellow-citizens, the heart-felt fati«fa£ion they h.ive iece 1 11y t-xpe rtenced, by finding that the Pre sident of the United States has refnfid to comply wiih the ÜBconlUtUtional rcfolution of the House of Keprcfeutativrs, by_ not fending to them certain papers therein r-cjrteiled. Ami as our deferredly beloved Chief Magistrate continues to study the true interefls of his country, and thereby prcmotci the happlncfj of his fellow-citizens, we conceive it becomes our duty and that of every clafsof citizen* to appiobate hit fiim attachment to our glorious Conflitutioo ) and at the fame time to express theif Und;q>tnifl)ed confidence in him ; and while we view with equal pleasure the conduct of the Sena tors of this (late, in uniting with him in their offi cial decisions, we cannot but lament it as a griev ance should any of our Reprefcntativcs in the lower House join in "giving oppofuion to measures which m?y tend to encreafc the happiness and prosperity of our dear couutry. In trilimony whereof, we have hereuntb fub fcriberi our names unanimouflv. Thomson Sielle, Foreman Ehenrzer Ford John Plum. Go. Me Aioy Jicob Dunham Garret W. Dcnnii David Chamber* Noah Miller QUEBEC, March 17. Iloufe of sljfembly, Ularih i£. A meflagc was receitcij from the LejjiflatfvC Council, purporting that the-y'had agreed to,-the bill f.,r allowing the importation of Beef, Pork, Bte. from the United State l :, without any amend ment. From the StUthern Crnii 7*o T I M S H A R P. Dear I AM truly sorry to find the firft officer in our Sou* them Republic tinder the particular influence atid im» mediate direaion of General Jackfoh, who I think the most rlangerous man to the peace and pood order of any free people on ;his,continent —witnefs the last as* fembly and Judge Oib rne s trial. I will give you an instance of his influence over our Chief Magistrate ; a few m'mutej preceding the rife of the last legislature, Col. M'Niel informed thehoufebya letter to the Spea ker, that he declined accepting the appointment o( the proper channel, and the letter was direfled to be sent to tlje Governor ; by this time it was ten o'clock dropt off. About twelve o'clock I wetit round to se veral of the boarding houses, with a letter addrefled td 'he Governor, requeftirg him to appoint Judge Wal ton, who was the only candidate except M'Niel; there were not more thati thirty-five members then remain ter to his excellency—this I then thought, and do still think, was fufficient to guide hitti in his choice ; But it seems that Gen. Jackson had advised him othcrwife* and on Saturday last he appointed William Few, Esq. a man of no legal abilities, partial in all his a&ions» and upon the whole without any one good qualification to recommend him. This was done by one man, con* trary to the opinion of Judge Taliaferro, and the othei* signers. the meanest of which, I conceive to be infinite* ly preferable to his honor, in point of understanding, and equal in common honesty—and of better princi ples thah the General. To add to the misfortune the appointment is diti greeable to nine tenths of the inhabitants of the diftrift and at least to twenty-nine thirtieths of Columbia coun* ty, the residence of the judge, who must know tiiirt better than the governor with all his art and diflimula tion so much for popularity. You have begun a cor* refpondenc* with his rxcellenty to which you owe thi» letter; ai I thought his condvns\ teprehenfible, indeed unpardonable, and you appear to He capable of paint* ing him in his true colours, and this is such a glaring instance of his duplicity, I wish you to dress Up the bu* Gncfs and let the world fee his cloven foot again. I am, Yours sincerely, TIMOTHY TOUCHTR TT TH. FOR SALE, TUE SCHOONER to r n E r v j, BURTHEN 9? tons, (Ingle dek'd, and New-England built; a {launch goodveflel, a 8 month* old, lying at Chefnut fti'eet wharf. For terms apply to he Captain on board, or to 'Jtfeph Anthony & Co. §iv /ptil lj. partntrlhip of tVRIG LEY {j* StkRIMAN't JL Printers, twing difiolved, all persons who have any demands agairift the said partncrfliip, are requested to fur nilh their accounts for settlement; and thdfe indebted, to make payment to either of the fubfcr : bcrs. FRANCIS WRIGLEY, JACOB BERRIJWAN. Philadelphia, Aprils, T796. eodjc £5" The Eufineli will be carried on by J. Eirriman » AKRIVED. Greenock 3 5 Amiletdam and Rotterdam 48 N-.'vV 9 19 do. \ co. 20 Geoijjia i t, Jamaica 25 Ouadalutipe ara St. Bartholemews 23 Philadelp! .ia 6 • Jhhn Dffinil - G». Firdirt T"hn Angiu -£ >RoV , J- hn Ficl4 ■: Daniel Lott .™ 1 Pw«i. Bjtty.' J 'hn Snfdiker Mofe» Lj-te • . v <%! da?i