Rickett/s Amphitheatre.
The last Night of performing this
"
On SATURDAY EVENING, April* 3,
Witt BE PRESENTED,
. . A variety of New Entertainment*.
horsemanship.
The Sailor's Frolic on Horseback, by Mr. Ricketts, in
which he will introduce a Hornpipe* ride blindfold
in 4 Sack, and change to a Sailor's Doxy.
Various Feats by Mr. F. Ricketts.
Comic Feat* by Mr. Sully, in ttte charafler of Mr.
Merryma'n.
Mr. Riekettsyill rid- two Horses in full speed, tike a
Spring over a Garter 10 feet high, and alight on his
feet on the saddle.
The H-orfennnftip to conclude with the Connie Scene of
The Taylor riding to Brentford,
On th.e Runter and Road Horse, by Mr. Ricketts.
Ground and Lofty Tumbling,
In which will be displayed a variety of manly Feats by
Messrs. Suijy, F. Ricketts, Reano, Langley & Mas
ter Sully—Clown to the tumbling Mr. Spinacuta.
The Tumbling ta conclude with Mr. Mr. Sully's
throwing a rowofFlipflapsacrofs (he area of the Circus.
Mr% Ricketti's favorite Horse will dart thro' the imita
tion of a Blazing Sun, with a rider on his back.
To which will be added, a new PANTOMIME,
called
Harlequin's Olio;
OR, MIRTH's MEDLEY.
The Anmfement* of the e»enimg to conclude with
GotJfm'tt'b's EPILOGUE—by Mr. Sully,
in charafltr of Harlequin, who will take a flying leap
into a Ballom surrounded with Fire-Works.
*»* Tickets may be had at the box-office ad
joining the Amphitheat re, and at Mr. Oellers's Ho
tel.
The Doors in future to be openedst halfpaft FIVE,
and the Entertainment to begin at SEVEN o'clock.
' *,* Boxes, one dollar—Pit, h*lf a dollar.
NEW
0" The Public are refp«&fiiHy informed, that the
Doors of the Theatre will open at half an hour after
FIVE, and the Curtain rife precifeiy at half past SIX
o'clock, for the remainder of the Season.
On MONDAT EVENING, April 15,
Will be pre fen ted,
A celebrated Play, interspersed with Songs, in 3 A&s,
(performedbut once) called
- The Mountaineers.
[Written by George Colman.jun.]
Oiftavian, Mr. Moreton,
Virolet, Mr. Green,
Kilmallock, Mr. Mar/ball,
Roque, Mr. Wignell,
Muleteers, j Meffr.. Darley, RoL
t bins, and Ro<wforr
tope Tocha, Mr. Francis,
Majler T. fParrell,
Goatherds, i Meffis. Worrell, Blifett, Do3or,
\ and Morgan.
C Mrs. Harvey, Mrs. Bates, Mrs. JJe
J Marque, Mrs. Dofior, Mrs.hcze %
' 1 M,/s Row/on, Miss Old/,eld, Miss
(. Mtlbourne, and Mijs (fillems.
Bulcazin Muley, Mr. Wbitlock,
Ganem, Mr. Beete,
Parha, Mr. parley, jtin.
Sadi, Mr. Oarivood,
Moors, MelTrs. Solomon, Sc. Mitchell.
. ,Z«rayd4t
- v Fl«r*«tH*,
Mrs. Whitlock,
Mrs. Francis,
Mrs. Oldmixon.
Previous to the Play,
A new OVERTURE—composed by R. Taylor.
The music of the Songs, Duetts, Gleet and Ghoruffes, by
Dr. Arnold.
The accompaniments by Mr. Reinagle.
With new Scenery, Drefles, and Decoration!.
The Scenery defined a»d executed by Mr. Milbourne.
The ad aft will conclude with
A SPANISH FANDANGO,
(compofedby Mr. Francis)
The principal parts by Mr. y. IVarrell, Miss WiP.emj, Mifi
MilicurncyMifs Gilajpif, V Mrt. De Marque.
To -which vrill be added,
A COME DT, called
Ways and Means;
OR, A TRIP TO DOVER.
Sir David Dunder, J j Mr. Harwood.
Random,
Scruple,
Tiptoe,
Paul Peery, ,
Lady Dunder,
Harriet,
Kitty,
BOX, One Dollar— PIT, Three-Fourths of a Dollar—
and GALLERY, Half a Dollar.
TICKETS to We had at H. and P. RICE's Book-Store.
No. 50, Market-Street; and at the Office adjoining the The.
ttre.
Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Wills, at (be
Front of the Theatre.
No money of tickets to be returned ; nor any person, on
any account whatsoever, admitted behind the scenes.
Ladies arid Gentlemen are requetted to fend their fcYvants
to keep places a quarter before five o'clock, and older them
.is soon as the company is seated, to withdraw as they can
not, on any account, be permitted to remain.
- VIVAT RISPUSLKA.
Miniaturfe Painting.
A foreign Artist refpc-ftfully informs the Public, that
he painti Liksnefles, and warrants them. A few
Specimens of hit abilities may be seen at hi* Room No.
10, up one pair qf Stairs in Mr. O'Ellirs' Hotel, Chef
aot-ftreet, ne*tßicketts' Amphitheatre. April 23. J
""" ~N OT I^C~E,
AGREEABLY to charter, is hereby given to the
Members of the Corporation for the relief of poor
and diftrefled Pre(byterian Ministers, and of the poor
and diftrefled Widows an J Children of Prefcyterian Mi
millers that there will be a Meeting of said Corporation
in the f-cond Prefbyteriati Church, in the city of Phila
pelphia, on the 13d day of May next, at 4 o'clock, P. M.
for the dispatch of all such bufinefa at may thtn be brought
before the board.
. ASHBEL GREEN,
4 Secretary »f the QeijontM*
" April 23.
Season.
tE.
Mr. Mare ton,
Mr. Green,
Mr. Bites,
Mr. Francis.
Mrs. Rov>J»n,
Miss Gldfield,
Miss Milbourne.
n i
CD N G R E 8 S,
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Friday, April 21. 5 y
Mr. W. Smith informed the House, that the
committed appointed to wait upon the Directors of
the Bank of the United States, to enquire whether
it would be convenient for them to continue the
money which they had advanced to government in
of the revenue, on loan as usual, had
dire&ed hinl to move that the committee of the
whole might be discharged from a farther confidera*
tion of the bill before it, providing in part for the
payment of the debt due to the Bank of the United
States, in order that it might be re-coHitnittrt to
the committee of ways and means, (o undergo some
alterations, in consequence of the result of their
enquiries. The committee of the whole was dis
charged and the bill re-committed.
Mr. Goodhue, of the committee of commerce
and manufa&ures, reported a bill for allowing com
pensation to officers in the army for horses lulled in
battle ; also a bill for providing relief to distillers
tn certain cases, were twice read, a.ld committed
to a committee of the whole on Monday.
The bill providing appropriations for defraying
the expences as carrying into effect the treaty lately
concluded with the Dey and Regency of Algiers ;
and the bill for making provision for the Revenue
Cutters, were read a third time and passed. The
blank in the former bill for the yearly allowance
to be paid to Algiers, was filled up with 24,000
dollars.
The report of the commit tee .of commerce and
manufactures on the petition of David Mead Ran
dolph, to be relieved from a penalty which he had
paid on account of the loft of a {hip's tegifter, far
which he had been surely with Mr. Backhouse, the
owner of. the (hip, who was became insolvent
The report was agai*(t the prayefr of the petition
er, supposing that-the register had b«n fold, and
wa« agreed to. , , ,
Mr. Hartley prefent«d petitions from 650 citi
zens of York county, from 104 merchants of Phi
ladelphia, from 195 other inhabitants of that city,
and from 6& Penn£yl?anians, in favor of the British
treaty.
Mr. Ifaae Smith presented a petition of the fame
tenor from 172 inhabitant* of New-Brunfwjck.
Mr. Gallatin presented a fimi'ar one from 49
inhabitant! of the Western counties.
Mr. Kittera also presented a petition of a.like
kind from 260 inhabitants of Newcastle epitnty. i
Mr. Swanwick presented a petition frortu 300 in- J
habitants of Philadelphia against the Britiftt treaty.
1 He house refbjved itfelfinto a. committee of the
whole on the state of the union ; when the resoluti
on for carrying into effect the Britifti treaty being
under consideration, Mr. Coit and Mr. Ifaas; Smith
spoke in favor of the treaty ; and Mr. S. Smith
spoke on the fubjeft, generally against the treaty ;
but believing it to have been constitutionally form
ed, and finding that his canftituents were aimoft
wholly in favor of it, he declared his iflt?ntion of
giving his rote for carrying it into execution.' The
committee rose and had leave to fit again.
Adjourned till Monday.
from'the Columbian Ceatintf.
EPISTOLARY
Dear Friend,
YOU observe very truly, that all the public de
monstrations of opinion, from one end of the Union
to she other, are unfavourable to the an»j r treaty
me ? *. ai they ground their principles and
their influence in obt affairs on popularity, they
will not dare, nor be disposed to aft again ft the
plain sense of the eoantry: that, altho' thev may
pretend to deny the fact, they will not ia their'hearts
entertain a doubt, that since the firft hot fever a
gainst the treaty has cooled off, the general senti
ment has turned strongly against them. In the
fact, I fully agree with you< 1 also agree, that
t)te conduct of the Virginia afTembly gives no color
of encouragement to their doctrine. For the Vir
ginia amendments proceed on the »iidouUting faith
that the Gallatin interpretation of the confttf ution
is not true.
There are very great difficulties in the way of
the anti-treaty party and their new tights on the
constitution, and I believe .with you, they go for
ward with faint hearts, and sensible that it is on a
forlorn hope, as the million of lit? against the treaty
have now spent their force and loft their power to
deceive.
The (late legislatures, the chambers of commerce,
the toad* of public feafts, the univcrfal sentiment
of our enlightened substantial yeomanry, have piled
one proof upon another, and have added demon
(lration to demonstration, until bo one doubts that
the nation will support the conftitutcd authorities.
Still, however, and contrary to your vrrynatuial
expectation, they will go all lengths, undet pretext
of the treaty, to attack, and if poflible to usurp the
treaty-making power.
In judging of parties, yon must attend to the or
dinary operation of party paflions. This party, so
long a tool is the hands of France, sod many of
them, beyond all question, hired for the purpofa,
lias long laboured, with unwearied zeal, to involve
thw country in the war, because wai* would bring
anarchy and the «verthrow of the conliitifcion ; all
wiiicb are as dcai to our.jacobins as to tWe
France. j, -
While jthe war rages inEurope, the passions of our
citizens will scarcely become cool, and defigoing de
magogues will not despair of fuccei's in their schemes
of confufion.
But a* that war it evidently drawing to a close,
the operations of the party are crowded into a small
space of time. They mud conquer before a peace,
or the laws will conquer them. Their ftmggle at
lhi» late day, and under so many difeouraging cir
cumstances, is neveithelef* for life. If-the treaty
wifl not kill ihe government, the life of the party
is gone. Peace will remove from us foreign emifla
ries, and the government will find the whole strength
of a happy nation, then grown calm, then steed
from tl.? leaven and the four fanaticifra of Freoch
madness, united to fopport it, w« (hall then have
none but our own rogue* to deal with.
You will therefore agree with me, thai the party
ii driven to desperation. Since the date of my l«lt,
y*u will find this proved by their condudt. It is
truly a bold thing, by a vote of one btanch only,-
to make a new constitution, and one in every refpedl
much worse than that which the people ordained—
The attempt will fail, and draw down the authors
of it into utter disgrace.
How is it, that a majority of »ne popular body
is found so little in correspondence with the sense of
the country ? This queition is very natural. Re
member, however, that our last elections were made
while the elubs and the reign of terror were at the
highest. A great ferment had almoll convulsed the
canntry. It has since subsided, but while it lasted
a fort of men came in who will as certainly go out
at th» next choice. Many of them know it, and
think it for that reason the more urgent to make
the most of the prtfent moment.
So far as one can judge of the general opinion,
it was never more corre&— ne»er in any instance
more dccidedly a majority, than it has appeared
against the late new fangled do&rine of the (hare
of the House in the treaty-making power. It
would, be Grange if the public (hould believe the
preachers of the new do&rine ; for it is well known
they do net believe it themselves. It is perfe&ly
well known that fomc of the speech makers were
zealous oppefers of it in the great Convention.—
Wl.at matchless boldness (f want a fironger word
for this bfaien profligacy) what boldness by a
new,comment on the conftiturion in dire& repug
nance to their own declared and solemnly repeated
conttrnftion of it, thus to make War on the coniti
tutcd Authorities—thus to attempt to nrakea new
government by usurpation ; or in other words, by
cunning and sophistry to turn Congress. into a
French Convention.
On this great question, the public mud judge.—
Thanks to our wile forefathers, whoere&ed schools
and fettled ministers, it i# an- enlightened public
•hat has to judge between the Preftdent and an u
furping majority. If the nariop -will not hold
tip its own conflitutcJ authorities, they mull
fall, they have no armies to hold them up by
force. But if our citizens are c*ol» imprefled with
a sense of the crifta, the conllitution will prevail—
it will go on asit was intendedit should when it was
made—party will fall, and peace will baniih foreign
passions and foreign gold, that (lir up mobs aitd
popular iocieties. Until that tak«s place, the pre
servation of public order wdl be both difficult and
hazardous.
The ioterefh'ng crisis that is now unfolding itfelf
is to display whether our citizens are worthy or un
wort?iy of a free courtitutitfn—Whether they really
possessor unhappily want the Spirit and good sense
that will support it.
Foreign Intelligence.
' [By theflip Adriana.~y
LONDON, March 5.
Our affairs in the euft prosper to our be ft wifhei.
We already hold in our hands enough to make us a
bove listening to any thing but fair and honorable
terms of peace.
Cochin is a town on Malabar coast, with a good
harbor. The Dutch had in it a froall fort, which
retains the name of Ctangapore. The firft Euro
peans who fettled in it were the Portuguese, who
were driven away by the Dutch.
Malacca is a town in the moil fotithern part of
the further pemnfuia of India. The Dutch took
it from the Portuguese in the year 1640. The pe
mnfii'la is bound by the kingdom of §iam on the
north, bytheotean on the ealt, and by theftralis
of Malacca, which separate it from Sumatra on
the fourh well, being about 6oo i mil«s in length,and
200 in breadth. It produce* a variety of pleasant
and curious fruits, arid pofltflss an abundance of
poik, poultry ?nd fifh. The conquest of Bataria,
would, it wag supposed, soon follow the capture of
Jaffnapatam. <
. La ft night, during the reprefeatatiou of The
Mountaineers, Drurylane threatre, one of the ba
lance weights, nearly soolb. which hung over the
pafiages leading to the (lrefpng rooms, fuddenfy fell
through the eieling, carried boards, floors and raf
ters along wirh trwtWMrery abyss of the theatre,
Fortunately Mr. Frofbrook had just removed froir
the very spot at the moment to give room to Mrs
Maddocks, and so inllantaßeou* was his rteova
that Mrs. Maddocks wm grazed by the fide on it
fall.
Msrch I®.
Count Schoenfeld, the Minister of the Ele&or
of Saxony at Vienna, has officially announced to
to the Imperial Court, that his Msfter'i contingent
of troops would fct out on the 7th inft. on their
march to Franckfort, and there wait the orders for
their further defti nation.
Louis XVIII. has invited Mr. de Cafales to
take a feat in bis Council. The King's letter, ad
drefled to him on this fubjeft, is written with a de
gree of sensibility equaJly hanourable to the writer
and the Gentleman to whom it is dirc<fted. If this
celebrated Ex-constituent has an opportunity of
(hewing as much /kill in the conduct of public af
fairs, as h« displayed eloquence in the Constitutional
Aflembly, he will blend to the f*tjie of one of the
greatest orators of his age, the reputation of one of
the greatest statesmen. Mr. de Cafales is on the
point of leaving town for Verona.
Wt trt informed by a letter from Hambuioh of
the 4 th mil. that the Magistrates of Bremen, in
confequcnce of the repeated complaint, of the ac
tual Dutch Government, have, by a Placard of the
26th ult. ordered all military Emigrants, who re
side in that city, to quit it within the space of three
uays.
On rhe 4 th inft. the COU rse Exchange from
Hamburgh on London was 38 ft. >
Mr. Burke', Pamphlet on a Regicide Race Is
reefing,.and will probably appear in thc'tcurfe of
next week.
From the RHINE, Feb. 25.
F,?:r\ J ri an > w , h ° haa <=<»>«, with the
Cxecut.veDtreaory.tht plan of operations'for the
ensuing gartipaign, bring, with him a great number
of engineers, w!*o are t« fe< ve In his at my, General
Kleber, who, during his absence, had the coft
mand)in chief of the army of the S.imbre and Menu-,
has cautioned all the General or Divffions to keei>
theit corps in readiness for aflion at a morse,n'»
notice. Bernardot, Championef, and Marreav,
have marched with their divifioas from the envivora
of Luxembourg to the Moselle. The firil lioftil.'.
ties will bfc committed between the Moselle and ij.e
Nahe. The corps on the rijjht Banks of the Rhine,
under the order# of Geneiifl l.cfcvtt, which coi --
fids of about 24,000 men, is defticed tn make :t
diversion. Ammig the gr?at m:iny c rpi which
arc marching to the Rhine from the Interior, is. -
theColonne lnfernale (tne infernal Column,) which,
is compafcil of grenadiers and chuffcurs, aud
hitherto served in La Vendee.
( 1 k , ' ".. .• •
HAMBURGH, March 4.
[Extrad cf a Private Letter *J
"On the 27th lilt, every thing remained
on the Rhine ; but it was feared that tlie renewal of
hoflilitits was near at har.d.
V Letters from Vienna ftatc, that his Imperial
Majelly may perhaps proceed in person to Mentz,
for the purpwfe of being near the operations of war ;
but this is not yet certain. A report, which is
current here, and may perhaps End its way in the
newspapers, that Fieid- Marshal Wurmfer is to.be
entrulied with the in chief 01 both the'
Imperial armies on rtie Rhine, is without
tion."
We flnderftand that Mr. Charles Greville, fon
in-lavv ta the Duke of Portland, is to be the new
Under Secretaty of State in his Grace's Office.
It is not generally known that thcprefent Ductv
efsof Bolton v/sa engaged to tht late Gen. V.'tolfe.
Letters from Fianrkfort by lire lall mails men
tion, that the reigning Duke of Wurtetnburgh has.
sent his Grand Maitre Zeppelin to Vienna, to in
fluence the Emperor in favour of a marriage be
tween the Hereditary Prince (f hole fitter was
Emperor's firft wife) and the Princcfa Royal «f
England j another, it is fa id, is difpauh
ed to St. Paterfoutg, on nfitniiar miffian, the Grand
Dachtfs b?ing filler of ibc Hereditary Prisee.
AIJ the late difcuffionr in tke French Legiffa
ture on the ruinous (i*e of tbe Public Finance*,
clearly demonstrate aot 'Only their tiuly defpeiate
condition, but alio the utter impofiibility of reil.ir
ing public credit. At fiift it was.fujapofee, i liar
by depreciating the aiHgnats, fpetie would be k>rc
ed back into circulation ; but the measures adopted
for this purpose, having entirejy failed of futcefs,
they are now again endeavouring to raise the cre
dit of afiignats. They may be compared to a whirl
wind, toflcd about its centre, and carrying a way
with it whatever it meets in its dreadful (weep.
That Gay Vernon, the Jacobin Bifr.op, ftiould at
tribute the depreciation of afiigiwts to counter-re
volutionary plans, at the very moment when j:he
French Government is obliged to reduce them ttt
the looth part of their nominal value, is curieu»
indeed ; for if this be the cafe, Gbvernment itfelf,
and not the Royaliits mud needs have formed (btle
plans.
RATISBON, Feb. zj.
TheTnipcfial decree of lauficatiun, concerning
the 100 Roman months granted by the Diet for
the prosecution of the war, was yellerday didlatcd,
a* the phrase is, or published to the Diet. It bears
date the ijth iuft. and after having, as usual, re
peated the contents and very words of the advice
of the Empire, and ratified the fatfie, concludes in
the following manner :—" His Imperial Majelty,
at the fame time expedts, on his own behalf, well
as on that of the Country, that, in purfuante of
the ratified advice of the Empire, of the 22d De
cember, 1794, the Electors, Princes, and States,
will exert their utmost effors, by joining and enforc
ing all the remaining means for attack and defence,
to attain that just and honourable peace, the con
chifion of which is merely rendered difficult by the
enemy's overbearing projcfls of conqyeft."
YORK, April 13.
Yesterday afternoon, a meeting of the .inhabi
tants of Yotk Borough, and it* vicinity was held
in the Court Ho.use, to - confidcr the propriety o£
presenting a petition to the house of reprefer.ta
tives of the United States, praying that thTne
ceffary laws may be passed for carrying the treali#
lately concluded into effedl, when a committee was
appointed, and the following petition agreed on.
to T H F.
Honorable HOUSE of REPRESENTATIVES of
the UNITED STATES,
The petition at the lubfcribers, citizens 0/ ihe
County of York, in the State of Penijfylvauia.
Rtfpeujully Shewed,
Thfit your petitioners have observed, with anx
iety and concern, certain proceedings and refolu
tions,voted by a majority of your honorable house.
the treaty, lately negociated and con
cluded, between the United States, and Great Bri
taiii ; which lead.us to entertain apprehenlions left
the decenary laws for carrying that Treaty (as well
as others, lately concluded f agreeably to the conlti
tution, and under the authority of the United
Jes) into effect, may not be paffed| during the
present frffion of Congress.
C)n a fubjeft so important to the peace and prof
penty of our country, we deem it our duty with
suitable fieedom and refpeft.to offer our fent.meutr
and wishes.
GsnftTtution of the United States, display
ed to t he-world much political wifdora in its form
ation, and the general good sense of the people,
tempered with a conciliating and accomodating spi
rit, was equally conspicuous in its adoption. Our
hearts and our voices cordially united in promoting
this .aufpicous event, and it is our sincere and ar*
f "'J'' jf' \ r may cominue lun g inviolably pre
served, and faithfully adminiitered by the feversl
cepartmentsof government. In forming that in
ltrument, it was judged expedient, to confide the
power of making Treaties to the President «« by
and with the advicc and consent of the Senate,
provided two thirds of the Senators present con
cur, and it 1a thereby declared that " all Treaties
madeor wh.chfhaUbe made under the authority
of the United State, shall be th, u... /.