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NEW THE ATRE. ~~
fy' The Public are refpeflfolly inforro«d» that the
Doors of the Theatre will open at half an hour after
FIVE, and the Curtain rife precisely at half past SIX
o'clock, for the remainder of the Season.
On MONDAY EVENING, April ij, Sc
Will be presented, rat
A celebrated Play, interspersed with Songs, in 3 A<Jls,
(performedbut once.) called wi
The Mountaineers.
[Written by George Col«ian,jun.] ,
Oiftavian, Mr. Moreton,
Virolet, Mr. Green, f e .'
Kilmallock, Mr, Marshall, J Ol
Koque, Mr. Wignell, Pr
Muleteers, i Darley, K'arrell, jun. Rob- T<
inns-y and Koqufon'
Lope Tocho, Mr. Francis, p r
Perequillo, Majler T. Warrrll,
Goatherds, \ MM*. IVarrell, Bliffett, DoHor, P°
( and Morgan.
r Mrs, Harvey, Mrs. Bates, Mrs. De m <
I- m, 1 J Marque, Mrs. DoHor, Mrs.Lege, lik
' ) Miss Row/on, Miss Old/leld, Miss
(_ Melbourne, and Mijs Willems. ,
Bulcazin Muley, Mr. IVhithck,
Ganem, Mr. Beete, rp,
Parha, Mr. Darley, jun".
Sadi, Mr. Hardwood, w *
Moprs, MeiTrs. Solomon, & Mitchell. P°
Zoratyda, Mrs. Whitlock, ftc
Floranthe, Mrs. Francis, ha
Agnes, MrS. Oldmixon. an
» Previous to the Play, ry
jA new OVERTURE—composed by R. Taylor. of
The muflc of the Songs, Duetts, Glees, and Chotuflas, by
Dr. Arnold.
' The accompaniments by Mr. Reinagle. 1
With new Scenery, IJrefles, and Decorations. j' e
The Scenery defined and executed by Mr. Milbourne. do
The 2d a<st will conclude with th
A SPANISH,FANDANGO,
(composed by Mr. Francis)'
The principal parts by Mr. J IVtrrell, Miss Willems, Miss
Miltcurne, Miss Gilafpit,\& Mrs. De Marjne.
To which will be added,
A CO ME DT, called th
Ways and Means; ed
01, A TRIP TO DOVER. J°
Sir David Dunder, J J Mr * Hanj ** d ' of
Random, Mr. Msreton, of
Scruple, Mr. Green, of
Tiptoe, Mr. Bates, '
Paul Peerjk Mr. Francis. ,
Lady Dunder, Mrs. Rowfon,
Harriet, Miss Oldfield, to
Kitty, Miss Milbourne. of
pe
BOX, One Dollar—PlT, Three-Fourth» of a Dollar—
and GALLERY, Halt a Dollar. m ,
TICKETS to be had at H. and P. RICE's Book-Store.
No. 50, Market-Street; and at the Office adjoining the The
ttie. ha
Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Wells, at the mi
Front of the Theatre; (J r
No money or tickets to be returned ; nor any person, on
any account whstfoever, admitted behind the scenes.
Ladies and 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 permuted to remain.
VIVAT RESPUBL.ICA. tr
Miniature Painting. Z
A Foreign Artist refpeitfully informs the Public, that th
he paints LikeneiTes, and warrants them. few
Specimens of his abilities may be seen at his Room No.
JO, up one pair of Stairs in Mr. O'Ellers' Hotel, Chef- .
nut-street, next RickeMs'Amphitheatre. April 23. § 0
NOT I C~E~ ~
AGREEABLY to charter, is hereby given to f the
Members of the Corporation for the relief of poor
and diftrcfTed Presbyterian Ministers, and of the poor c '
and dillreffed Widows and Children of Prefcyterian Mi- v<
nifters, that there will be a Meeting of said Corporation cc
in the second Presbyterian Church, in the, city of Phila- r jj
pelphia, on the 13d day of May next, at 4 o'clock, P. m. j
for the dispatch of all such business as may than be brought
before the board.
ASHBEL GREEN, C
April 22. d Secretary of the Corporation' b<
— hi
3"he Creditors of the French Republic oi
FOR supplies furniihed in the Weft-Indies, are re Ji
quested to meet their Committee This Evening, w
the 25th instant, at half past 6 o'clock, at the Coffee- u |
Houfc, pn business of Importance. » 1 *
Walter Stewart, Chairman.
Philad. April 25. 2
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At Nw. 201 Arch street, mid may also be had at Fol
well's Printing Office, No. 33, in the fame street,
A MsP OF THE RIVER RHINE
From Nimeguen to Basle,
Shewing
The a&ual Seat of War
Between the French and AuJlrUns.
March 26 " law
JUST PUBLISHED,
[Price 25 Cents]
By Samuel H. Smith, N°. 118, Chefnut-Jlreet,
LETTERS
OF HE L VI D I US:
m In reply to Pacificus, on the President's Proclamation
of Neutrality. v
Afcfibed to Mr. MADtson.
i
' Lately Published,
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In afe w Days ivill be published,
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, A REVIEW of the $tJESTION—In whom has
the Conllitution rested the Treaty power ?
By a Senator of tbt United States.
April 18. iaw4w.
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GENOA, February 12. to
We tinderftatrd, that the Republican General a (j
Schetef has received orders to recommence his ope- f U]
rations as soon as pofiible; and that, in consequence
, of these orders, his at my, compufed of 50,000 men,
will be put in motion, in order to penetrate into m ;
Italy. We learn, however, at the fame time, that fy
this army is much weakened by desertion. j n
Letters from Turin Hate, that all Sardinian offi- p C
cers, on leave of absence, have received ord«rs to flj,
join their corps. At Marseilles, as well a:, all over p r
Provence! sailors are prcfTed for the manning of the r ; e
■ Toulon Fleet. Prp r
OirT Government has rejiSed the demand of the m(
French Government to put the Fringh*lroops in r y
polTeflion of the fortrefles of Savona »nd Gravi j npi
d® we learn, that the request of the fame Govern- c ji
. ment, concerning a loan of 30 millions in specie, is J
, likely to meet with more fuccefi. tw
Sa
HAGUE, February 27. of
In Friedand a Revolution has again taken place.
The Representatives of the People of Friefland, an
who on the 26th of January were driven from their ; n
palls, and either fled or were arretted, but were re- ca
stored by the interference of General Dttmonceau,
have been a second time forced from their polls, w ]
and compelled to leave the Province. The milita- f l( ]
ry appear not to have intermeddled in these disputes
of the citizens. da
The Hall in whjch the National Convention is to th
held its fittings, is fitted tip nearly in the fame man- w:
ner as that at Paris ; except that adjoining to the
box for the Foreign Miwifters, there is a box for na
the Ladies of the Representatives. th
de
FRANCKFORT, Feb. 2z. m;
Our advices from Coblentz ttate, that in Jour- da
daß's armyjti7ooflicers,whocould neither, read nor f u
write, have been difmifled. The French army of (j c
the Moselle, which has been considerably augment
ed, is to be divided into 175 brigades, General
Jourdan is hourly back frorrt Paris. ' C
Letters from Munich inform us, that the dates
of Bavaria have granted three millions and a balf je
of florins to the Elector, for the raising of an army fj c
of 30,000 men, 18,000 oFivhom are to join the a r
Austrian army, in cafe the war fliould be continu- t»
ed. The Princede Bretzenheim will be appointed fit
to command this, but will, with the reit of the th
officers, be under the immediate orders of the 1m- th
perial commander in chief. is
In Alsace the forccd loan is now collcftltlg. by ve
means of military force. ,ni"
A rumor was circulated here, as if the French f r
had proposed to prolong the armistice for three L
: months longer : it has, however not yet been con- ta
firmed. p,
. FRANCE. b.
\ PARIS, February 27.
Whilst the execution of Stofflet, and the dif- T
trefTed situation of Charette, whom a letter of a I'
representative of the people states to be arretted at
seems to announce the approaching termination of ec
t the cruel war in La Vendee, the Chouans aft with
1 the utmost audacioufneft in Britanny <ind Lower 8:5
| Normandy. Some of their hotfemen lately gal
lopped 5 thiough the town of Caen, crying xiut—
"Vive Louis XVIII. a bat les bleus," —(Long
live Louis XVIII. Down* with the blue'coats ;)
and that numerous detachments of troops are mar
r ching to that quarter. On the other hand, Lou
- vet (tates, in the " Sentlnelle," that besides the
' companies of Jesus and the-Sun, companies of Ma
rat and Carrier are forming in the South, demand
t" ing the Constitution of 179 J.
The Executive Dircftory has ordered the
Church of St. Louis, at Versailles, to be fhtit up,
because the Curates ef the Diftrift of Versailles
- have published a writing entitled, " Tranfaftions S
; of a Synod, held in that Church on the 18th of
Jan," which encroached on th* freedom of religious
worship ; insidiously recommends the advantages
" of the ancient religion, and extols the favors be-
flowed on the Church by the kings of France. n
Fsbruary 28.
A letter from Ormea dates, that General Serru
vier, as well as Malus, commiflary general of the
army of Italy have been arreded»
1 be Central Bureau has fixed the price of Meat
for this decade at the rate of 97 litres in ailignats
per pound.
In the night between the ißthand igthind.the o
Chouans attacked the t»wn of Maye'nae, but were E
repulsed withlofs.
An arret of the directory orders the following n
clubs to be shut up, viz. Le Sallon des Princes— 11
- Le Sallon des Arts—Le Sallon d# Serilly-—La J
Societedes Echecs—Pantlheon, and Le Club des
Patriotes. I
' February 29. v
Citizen Charlier, who had been sent to England t
by our government on a particular million, is return
>n ed. We underdand that 7000 French 'prisoners
remain dill confined in the different English ports, I
for whose exchange the most efficacious means are ]
to be adopted. <
The Jury of the department of the Seine has ;
declared, that there-are grounds for accusation a
gaind the famous Richer Serizy, on account of his i
as condu&on the 13th Vendemtaire ; but notwith- 1
danding this declaration, he has published two frefh 1
numbers of his " Public Accuser."
_ March 1.
Goupilleau, member of the Coutcil of Five
Hundred, has addrefled a letter to General Hoche,
whereirv he charges him with proceedings, tending
to rekindle the war in La Vandee by the military
government he has edablifhed in the 13 depart-
S° meats ; by his continual quarrels with the Admin
illrative bodies, and by the devastations committed
by his troops, which proceedings had greatly en
- creased the army of Charette, and enabled him to
defeat our troops," and intercept our convoys.
March 2.
he Riou, representatives of the people at Bred, has
informed the Dire&or'y, that the of sri-
pates, conimrinded by Capt. Montrfonne, has set to
fail 10 cuiuinue its cmize ; during the last, it took th<
four prizes of considerable value. La Renominc bil
privateer has taken two Englifli veflels, valued at
360,000 livres in specie ; the artizans, belonging jlift
to the port of Brest, have for a second time refufed Tvr
' aflignats in payment of th»ir wages, but this in- hai
furre&icjn has been quelled. wa
March 3. P°
General Hoche has addrefled a memoir to the it
1 mimfter for the home department, tending to jufti- pu
fjr his coridu£t in the war of La ; wh*re- adi
in he mentions the d Htulty of disarming a whole
people, inured to war by three years bloody con- no l
flifts, and driven to despair by the loss of their tio
property, and the burnings and drownings of Car- fla
rier. He observes, that fix hundred thousand
Frenchmen have perHhed in La Vendee. From mc
motives of prudence, he forbears divulging some ve
ry advantageous confequertces of his operations ; mc
but he fays that this war is drawing fall to its con
clusion.
1 Stofflet was taken with two of his aides-de-camp*
two of his couriers, and a servant, in the farm of an-
Saugreniere, in the Canton of Jullais, and diltridi to
of Chollet.
It is to the vigorous measures of general Hoche, T1
' and the great.a&ivity in which he kept the troops to
in the former kingdom of Stofflet, that we owe the ms
capture of this perjured chief, who could not in- ch;
1 duce the inhabitants of, the country to rife, and pri
1 who is going to receive the jiift icward of his per- be
• fid-y.. ho
'• The value of a Louis d'or in aflignats is this ms
day 7700 livresj and the rescripts lately iflued by a (
' the executive dire&ory, lose 50 per cent and up- Br
wards. * ani
The Legiflatnre is still employed upon the si- its
nances. The meflage of the dkeftory relative 'to pa
the (hutting up of the clubs, occasioned a warm to
debate in the Council ot Five Hundred. La- to
marque, one of the deputies exchanged for the mi
■ daughter of Louis XVI. disapproved of the mea
' sure. The Council, however, appointed a commif- rej
fion to examine and report upon the meflage. on
_4 an
I LONDON, March,9. be
general fast. —Holiday at all the Public Offices. Pr
s The gentleman alluded to in our, paper of yes- bi'
f terdayas having arrived at Lord Greenville's of- of
r sice from Paris, with letters to his lordJhip, is one
: among many others who now almoll daily pass be- tit
tween the two countries, without having any often- fr<
I fible connexion with public business. We believe nc
: that both governments are «»xious for peace, if •
- they could only arrange the terms of it ; and there of
is no way so likely to bring about this desirable e- de
f vent, as not to reltrain the mode of general commu- ex
.nication. Whether any thing will result from this \\
1 frequent pdflage of foreigners between Paris and in
e London, is a -.matter which time alone must afcer- pr
- tain; but in the inflance of this gentleman, weare of
persuaded that nothing important has arisen. so
The intelligence of the death of Charette is not T
believed at Paris. m
A letter from Cork, dated Feb. 27, fays, " On w;
Thursday about five P. M. the fleet of the Weft bx
a Indies were clear of the harbor, with a Fair wind H
i at N. E. Previous to their failing they wercjoin- w
f ed by some frigates and a fleet from England," re
! The Dutch fleet which failed from the Texel, la
r consisted of the following ftiips : ■' ■■XT- " f
Piet Hdin - Admiral Braak. o]
Dordrecht • Captain Lucas. al
j De Revolutie - Captain Cyneinde.
) Admiral Tromp - Captain Walkenberg. es
The frigates are, • ai
Pellux Sirene Snelheld
e Castor Bellona Mug 01
[. Braavc Venus Zwaliew F
|. Jajon Havick Iris ai
Jager d:
e March 10. -
)j Tuesday morning died, at his house in Norton- f
;8 street, Sir Wm. Chambers, Knight of the Polar
,9 Star, Surveyor-General of his Majesty's Board of
,f Works, Treasurer of the Royal Academy, and
i S Fellow of the Royal and Antiquarian Societies.
. s Tuefda/a Court of Aldermen was held at Guild- f c
>. hall. The Coui t ordered the price of bread to re- n
main at is. 3d. the quartern loaf.
BRITISH PARLIAMENT. c
ie — I
HOUSE OF COMMONS, n
it March 7. n
is SLAVE TRADE. I
The order of the day being read for a committee e
ie of the whole House on the bill for abolishing- the p
re Slave Trade at a limited time, a
Mr. Wilberforce, after Rating that it would be e
ig necessary to make some alterations & amendments v
-in different clauses of bill, moved, " that the g
Speaker do now leave the chair."
es General Smith said, that as the hoa. gentleman f
had not, particularly noticed the alterations which r
were intended to be introduced, he Would oppose a
id the motion. {
n- Mr. Montague spoke in favor of the motion. 1
rs General Tarlton was of opinion that the bill, if \
s, fuffered to pass, would materially affect a class of t
r« people who were already too much diftrefled—that 1
class consisted of mechanics, manufa&urers, and t
as artificers, who depended very much on the Slave t
a- Trade, as the articles which they made were used !
lis in Africa and the Weft-Indies. The merchants ;
h- who were engaged in the trade, particularly those 1
:(h of Liverpool, would be considerably injured, as the i
veflels employed by them were of a particular con- 1
ftruftion, and coald not be easily converted to other ;
v.e purposes of commerce. The Weft-India planters
ie, would necessarily fuffer great loss by the bill, as a
ng vast number of pegroes had beeir lately attached to '
iry the army a*d navy ; black regiments had alLbeen
rt- raised, and those men could not at the conclusion
in- of the war be employed in the fame
ed way, but would be emancipated. It therefore fol
:n- lowed, that all future improvements wwuld be ne
to gle&ed, and the cedcd islands, in which elates had
been purchased by fubjeds of this country, would be
abandoned.
las Mr. Dent wiihed to suggest whether it wotild no*
fn- be proper to introduce a clause of indemnification
I
,
to the Weft-India merchants, for the immense l 0 f (
tlirfir property must t'uffei from the passing ot <|, e
bill into a hw ? >
Mr. Braham thought that the bill, far from abo-
Jifhing the slave trade, would, on the contrary,
render the abolition more difficult. The discussion
had already excited rebellion in the islands, and he
was somewhat ffcrprized, that not one of the pro.
posers and fuppcrters of the bill had ever thought
it neceflary to visit the Weft.lndia islands, for the
putpofe of ascertaining the fadti which had been
adduced a's the consequences of the traffic.
Mr. W, Smith replied, and contended that it was
not necessary '.o go to the Weft-Indies for informa
tion to eflablifh a balis for the abolition of the
slave trade.
' Mr. Bouverie ~and Mr. Milbank supported the
motion, and Mr. Aldington opposed it.
The Heufe then divided on Mr. Wilberforcc's
motion e
Ayes, 76
$oes, , 31 —Majority, 4.5.
The House accordingly wer.t into the committee,
: and Mr. Wilberforce proposed in one of the clauses
to'limit the time-to the tft of March, 1797.
Mr. Dent laid that the limitation was too short.
, The and imports of these islands amounted
to 10,000,000}; annually ; and property of that
magnitude ought not to be trifled vtith. The mer
chaats, he contended, ought to have more time to
prepare. In every view, he said, this bill would
be an infringement of right and property; and
however gentlemen might be impressed by decla
i mations, he thought the passing this bill would be
a disgrace to the British House of Commons. The
British Constitution Was built 011 Magna Charta,
and this bill would'b* a direct violation of one of
its fundamental maxims. It was exprefled in that
palladium of our liberties, that " Right ought not
to be fold, delayed, nor denied." He need not urge
to the House, that this bill would be/an infringe
ment of that maxim in all its parts. 1
Mr. Serjeant Adair had read Magna Chaita,
• repeatedly and attentively, and could not recol!e&
one word in it favoiable to flavet;y ; the merchants
and jjlajiters complain of prfccip:tat'»cn T
because they in fad) had the be, of 4 seven years'
, neither could they pietend that this
■ bill was unexpected, unless they tliought-thc Honfe
■ of Commons faithlefs to its own refutations.
: Mr. Dent infilled, that the passage he had men
tioned was in Magna Charta. He then read it
■ from an extract, and the words-were, " Right (ha!l
: not be fold, delayed nor denied
f Mr. Serjeant Adair ihfifted, that by the abolition
: of this trade, right was neither fold, delated nor
denied. Where had it been proved that the right
• existed ? nay, what right hid the planters in the
> Weft-Indies to dominion over their fellcjw- creature*
1 in Africa ? Such a property was repagnant to the
• principles of natural justice—and highly as he tho't
: of the power of the British Parliament, he must
forever deny that it could bestow any such right,
t The bill was, on the contrary, cenfon&nt to the,.
maxim Magna Charta. Right, he cotfiended,
1 was sola so long as Waft-Indians purchased the li
t berties of the Africans: it xvat'delayed until that
1 House carried its resolution into effect, and it
- would be denied if the British Parliament did not
relieve the oppressions under which the Negroes
, laboured. _ '
Getierar Smith dectirel} it to be his confirmed
opinion, thit this bill would never pass into a law j
although it might pass the House of Commons.
Mil Dent opposed aclaufe, for punishing offenc
es against this adl with 14 years transportation, as.
an unnecessary extension of the ctiminal code.
The several clauses being gone through, on every
one of which Gen. Smith put his negative, the
House was resumed. The report was brought up,
and ordered to betaken into confideratiou on Mon
day next. Adjourned.
FfR the Gazette or the United States*
•f ALARM! ALARM! ,
d _
Sons of Liberty ! join me in a fervent prayer
I- for our falling cause ; that " falls, like Lucifer, *
never to hope again."
Great, Spirit of Democracy ! whose head
to-wers among the and whose arm would
extend over" the universe ! assist thy votaries now.
If our exertions in thy cause have deserved ought
now let it be made manifeft—now the trying
moment—now the crisis ps thy fate and ours.—
Have we vilified virtue in vain—have we prostrated
:e every patriotic, every facial, every worthy princi
le pie, and shall we not meet the reward ? Have we
affunjed the garb of humility, while empire was our
>e object—have we worshipped the filly people that
t* we may oppress them—have we clamoured of their
le glory, while we would lead them to deftru&ion—
have we called on their honour, jvhile we would
in fink them to treachery and disgrace—and shall the
:h reward of these faithful services be difappointmenc
fe and infamy in this world, and the comfortlefi as
surance of damnation in the next ? Great Spi
rit ! thunder with thy thousand tongues, scribble
if with thy thousand hands—Damn the Treaty, and"
of the paper on which it is written, and the paper,
at maker—damn the ship that brought it over, and
ad the owner, and the crew—damn the negociator,
ve that arch fiend, Jay ; and O ! sweet, benignant
ed Spirit ! damn, O ! doubly damn, the President
its Nor ye, children of democracy, be
>fe ye idle—Come forward and sign petitions against
he this aceurfed instrument—sign them with your own
in- names—the names of your children, your servant?,
ler and all the names you have ever known or heard of.
trs Firfl and principally,
s a Frenchmen ! lit me,addrefs you.—Whether
to ye be the inestimable portions of free will, erfianat
:en ing from the vast mass that now rolls over your
on country, or the refpe&ahle tenants of giols thrown
>us down by the levelling arm of equality; whether ye
ol- be the blefTtd emiflaries of anarchy, the humane
je- disciples of Robespierre, or the devout adorers of
lad the Heaven-descended guillotine ; in a word, M.
be true, .noble, magnanimous Frenchmen, who, in
defiance of Heaven and of humanity, have dared ta
no* assist the cause of liberty and justice by tossing the
ion ariftocraticinfanl to your dogs, and piercing with