',J • ' _;■ C Philadelphia, THURSDAY EVENING, May 19, 1796. £ Rufus King,, Esq. is nominated by the Pr-efi. fl dent of the United States Minister Plenipotentiary v_.of the United States to the C6urt of London, and David Hhmphreys, Esq. to the Court of Madrid. fURNPIKE TRAVELLING. On Monday lalhhe Philadelphia and Lancaster Stage commenced tKe route to go through in one n day. The itase left Laneader at 5 o'clock, P.M. f with 10 Passengers, and arrived in this city at 5 t o'clock A. M. This, we understand, was per formed with ease and convenience—The passengers 1 flapped to Breakfalt and Dine upon the road. c Much may he expedte.! '"omthe Turnpike road 1 when repairs and broad whec'3 make it more perfedt, t if so great expedition can be made in its present 1 imperfect (fate. COMMUNICATIONS, The Aurora contains articles of British am.tt y. Has the Editor of that paper, in his zeal for our neutral rights, noticed the petition of Walter Stewart, and fifty others, Merchants, of Phila delphia, who complain that the French have seized their property in the Weft Indies, to the amount of two millions of Dollars ? Xs this French Fra ternity ? The Toasts of the Tammany Society exhibit Ja» cobinifm in its n»ked deformity. Truly is it said, •When the Wine is in the Wit is out.' Until each man held begun to quaff his second bottle, would all prudence and decency have left the Club ? Yet so ' it was. Third toast, The Constitution of the U nited States. Three Cheerd. Fourth Tosft, The French Republic. Nine Cheers. Look at these drinkers—they are our patriots. Three times the applause to the French Republic that they can af ford to our own Constitution ! Such patriots pro. perly omitted the name as Washington. Well did a Virginia treaty memorial complain that for eign predilections have too much sway. Such patri ots combine to carry elections, and alas with luccefs iu some indices. Volunteer. " A Plentiful Harvest in Germany, and may the French help to take it in." Excellent. This is their idea of the cause of Frertch liberty. The liberty to " reap where they have not sown." Such a sentiment is worthy of Jacobins. A gov ernment of plundei deserves three times a's many checrs from them as a free constitution of equallaws, and fettled order, which forbids even the French to tail in the hufbanJman's harvest. In the Volunteer Toasts, Mr. Swanwick and "The Political Prosress" are connedted in the fame line—and where is the unfitnefs of this con nsdtion ? While anti-treaty Inobs, &c. were employed, and n some inftinces no doubt tried to bully the into a refufal of his lignaturc of the rati fication, and to browbeat and confound the friend# ofallotder and government-, it .leemed for a time as if the merits of the bargain were not to be de fended. The system of terror was efUblifhed, and men of good dispositions who hate, brawling and dif piltation fitemed to be effectually iutimidaied. They shrunk from the fubjedtinits m.ifs, and contented theinfelvcs'with faying—the treaty is bad, but it must be faithfully observed. Let such men learn from the event that a bolder courfs of plain dealing will better comport with manly principles as well as the public good. In the debate on the meritsof the Treaty has any plausible objection been omitted—and has any one passed unanswered ? The public and especially the candid oppofm are invited to read the debates.— They will be that the treaty is a good one, by far the bed co-nmercial treaty the United ts ever made. Nothing is facrificed and fome g is obtained. After this triumph of truth over prejudice, let •ur over r prudent shy good men be induced when a nother violent party clamor is raised (and party will raise fifty such) to take their ground with sinceri ty and decision. Let them tell the multitude of 1 erednloua well defignirtg clamorers that they are 1 raided, that fadts and principles are not as have been represented to them by party. 1 Had this manly plain language been held on the 1 firft treacherous publication of the treaty, the cla- , mor would not have been so loud, nor would it have been in the power of party to keep it up so long. It has had its day, and the objections are Jhadows which have (hortened as the fun approach- 1 »d the Zenith, and will entirely dffappear before his vertical rays. It is not in the power of party, how- 1 ever defireable to stop the sunshine. 1 A memorial from the County of Weftmoreland j >n Virginia expresses a dread that the house will be < too much fivayed by foreign predilections. A writer ; >» the Aurora of the 16th remarks upon this and 1 #th<"r parts of the memorial wi.h great asperity. He fays this is a libel, the words are not decent 1 and lefpedtful. But, Mr. remarket, pray tell us, 1 whether on the supposition that they are true, they ■would amount to a libel ? There is no harm in a m ere supposition. Suppose for inftanee, many mem bers avow that a treaty with England will offend France, and therefore they will ftrugjjle to the last minute to rejedt it, would you fay that such men we»e too much fivayed by foreign brediledions ? Per- i naps the Weflmoreland petitioners read this moll i fneakingand abjcct of all objections in the papers ; i for a thousand lies get in'o print, as every reader I of the Aurora will alfow. And if such a datement 1 of the debates has reached Weftmoreland,it is some excuse for those distant citizens, if all that is ho- j nor, all that is American in them sickened in their fouls at the reading. They would think it high j lime toufe plain dealing with their own membeisat I lealt—tso mttch infinitely If we must lick the dust before pfance or any other powef. Was there or 1 was tlicr# pot two years ago a callfor money by the < late French Minitler vrh*n he did not wain it, and < our treasury had it not ? Did or did not cer- 1 t*'U members, whole jiati'iotifnj was given to the <■ Convention with the fW-bucklrs other trinkets uifnt—that we might to pay the sum demoded and rejoice in the opporttinity to prefej the French cause to our own inteieft ? A certain party fpokt for several years in no other drain. And what is the (train ? Such as our farmers will applaud ? No the applauses are to come from the tribunes not from Weftmoreland. mrs. oldmixon's benefit This deserving- member of -he Theatric corps has made a mod judicious feleition for her Benefit. Novelty, Variety, Harmony, and Humopr, unite to excite curiosity. A rich repast of entertainment may justly be an ticipated without fear of disappointment ; and a doubt cannot be entertained, that an overflowing house will teftify the public sense of those exertions to pleaie, which have always diflinguilhed the pub lic exhibitions of Mrs. Oldmixon. The following animated sketch of certain Modern Philosophers, is extraded from Mr. Burke's Let ter to a Nable Lord, jufl publi/hcd. Hide Philosophers hre fanatics; independent of any. which if ir operated alone would make . them niuoh more tradable, they are carried with such an headlong rage towards every defperatetrial, that they would tsciifice the whole human race to the flighted of their experiments. lam better a ble to enter into the charafterof this description of men than tfce noble Duke can be, I hare lived long and variously in the world. Without any confide", able pretensions to literature in myfelf, I have as pired to the lave of letters. I have lived for a great many years in habitudes with those who profcfTed them. I can form a toletable estimate of what is likely to happen from a chara&cr, chiefly depend ent for fame and fortune, on knowledge and talent, : | as wall in its morbid and perverted Hate, as in that which is found and natural. Natu.allv men so formed and finilhed are the fitft gifts of Providence to the World. But when they have once thrown off the fear of God, which was in all ages too of ten the cafe, and the fear of man, which is now the cafe, and when in that ttate they come teundtrdand one another, and to a£t in corps, a more dreadfiil cala mity cannot aiife out of Hell to scourge mankind. Nothing can he conceived more hard than the heart of a thorough-bred metaphysician. It comes near er to the cold malignity of a wicked spirit than to the frailty and passion of a man. It is like that of the principle of Evil himfelf, incorporeal, pure, unmixed, depblegmated, dctccated evil. It is no easy operation to eradicate, humanity from the hu man bread. What Shakespeare calls " the cfcm piinftious vifiting# of nature," will fometimrs knock at their hearts, and proted againd their mur derous speculations. But they have a mean of compounding with their nature Tiieir humanity is not dissolved. They only give it a long proro gation. They are ready to declare, that th;y do not think two thousand years too long a period fat the good that they pursue. It is remarkable, thai they rleverfee any way to their projedted good b' l ' by the road of fjme evil. Their imagination is not fatigued, with the contemplation of human fuf leting through the wild walte of centuries added to eentui ies, of misery and desolation. Their ha manity is as their horiion—.and, like the horizon, it always flies before them. The geometricians,and bring, the one from the dry bories of their diagrams, and the other from the foot of their furnaces, dispositions that make them worse than indifferent aboilt thal'e feelings and habitudes,which are the fupportsof the Ambition is come upon them suddenly; they are intoxicated with it, and it has rendered them fearlefs of the dan ger, which may from thence arise to others or to themfelvej. These philosophers, consider men in their experiments, no more than they do mice in an air pump, or in a recipient of mephitick gas. I. H mß3ggS,gsamamii. BY THIS DAY'S MAIL. NEW-YORK, May 17. I IMPORTANT. The following Extradt of a kttei from Paris has : come through a chanivel whiih gives fufficient title to attention to be published. We do not, however, vouch for the authenticity of the information it con tains. Indeed the condudt described is so atroci ous, as, it refpe£t» thofeof our own Citizens, who are implicated in the charge, and the unkindnefs and imprudence of the views ascribed to the French > government, are so glaring, that the information is : rendered almost incredible. It feem6 impoflible - that any American citizens could be so lod to all ! sense of virtue and duty, as te have endeavored to ■ bring upon their country so great an evil, and it seems less improbable, that the governmeut of France should so far forget our rights as an inde -1 pendent nation, and so unmindful of the spirit and : genius of freedom, as to be disposed to follow the pernicious advice, dated to have been given—a 1 condudt that could not fail to excite universal indig nation in this country, and to dissolve all the ties : between it and France. Time and events wilj how , ever probably explain. Minerva. 1 Extradl of a letter from an American citizen, dated Paris, Feb. 14th, 1796. I " Could you imagine, my dear Sir, that any American citizens could be so abandoned as to invite 1 Francs to attempt, by coertion. to prevent the free ■ exercise of the Judgment of our country concerning its own intcreds, and to awe it into a surrender of its own opinion to the mandate of a foreign coun try ? Yet so the fa£t undoubtedly is. Influential men on your lidc of the jvater, have invited the French go/ernment to speak to ours a decided lan guage against the execution of the treaty with Great Britain, and even to go so far, as to claim our guarantee of the Freneh Weft-Indies; placing be fore us the alternative of war with France or Great Britain, The idea has been lidened to by the go vernment, and it has been in contemplation to fend a new Minister with a fleet to carry the plan into effe& ; tho' I am inclined to hope that it hai been recently laid aside. The extreme embarrassments of the affairs of their country, especially with r* ::"V '■ •• ' 1 > d its finances, and more serious refie£H'i;w.on . 1 "1,-. 'or <Jp«'»g us into an eleih'on to take ! < 'J' Grent Britain, as well from the cxpofeil | ! " if us oif- commerce, as from the refem men*. i »in.Ji so dictatorial a conduit would naturally in I pire, have at l-.tft produced a halt', and, 1 uult, t at thelielltatian which has begun, will end in a re a ution not to rifle fa unjust and so mad a procee- ! ding, Would to Heaven that the war -was at an ' end . 4 <)i we (hall not be fafe ftotn the maahina- 1 ttons of this wicked portion of the globe till that j event takes place—justice and morality have flyd from Europe—but alas 1 are they flying from America also ? 1 dare not trnft to this mode of conveyance the persons supposed to be the authors of this nefarious plot. But a few months may en able me to make the disclosure with more certainty, where I can do it with perfect fafety.'' Arrivals at this Port. Brig Unity, Creighton, Guadalotipe \Cleared. Ship America, Crowninlhicld, India Hunter, Whitlock, Canton Biig iiflTex, Landon, St. Croix Mary, Noys, Well Indies Ttio, Jajobs, • Jamaica CHARLESTON, May 9. Oil Friday evening, bhe armed schooner Lea Droits d'Homme, citizen Martinot, commander, belonging to the French republic, arrived herefrom a crirife, during which (he captured the (hip Ann, Davidfon, from Jamaica, bound to Glasgow, loaded with logwood ; as this (hip was coming «ver the bar on Saturday morning, (he (truck on Stone's Breaker, and was loft. Capt. Rca left Martinique, the, 12th of April, ancounts were received there of the Btitifh troops and fleet having failed from Barbadoes, on the lolh; their dellination was kept secret, though it wds 'generally believed they were going against St. Lu cia and Guadaloupe. A gentleman who came paffengerin the Andro maehe, informs, that several of the American claims for depredations committed in the Weft-Ir.dies had been determined on by the lords of appeals in Lon don ; in every instance, the decifiou was in favor of the American owner. May 10. The British vice corilul, in _thie city, having pray ed the circuit court of the United States, to jtay the sale of the (hip Amity, a prize to the French cruizer Leo, as being in contravention to stipula tions contained in the 24th article of the tieaty lately made,with Great Britain ; the chief Justice of the United States heard counlel on the petition, yelterday, at his chambers in this city ; Mr. Prin-' :, r le, on the (ide of the captors ; Mr. Maifhall for the consul. Alter heau'ng the nguments of these gentlemen,'he granted an injunction to (lay the fate until a farther hearing could be had at the circuit court, to be held at Columbia, on the 12th in(t. Arrived at this Purl. Ship Andromache, Kings, London Jkig Fra»klin, Wtgfdall, Madeira Nefdham, Pallifon, Port-de-Paix Groce, Savamiah Industry, Todd, do. Sloop General Gurin, Ruly, do. Lark, Nartham. Demarara CLEARED. Sloop Bet fey, Pease, Boston Lark, Burrows, Philadelphia SAVANNAH, May 3. Last week came on at the Federal Court in' this city, before Judge Elllworth and a very repe£table jury, the long conteften cause between Hunt, Stal lings and C®. and Birch and Ouvry, when after a full investigation, the deed of aflignment was fully eftabiifhed ; and there appearing 3 large balance due Birch and Ouvry, the jury without hesitation, gave a verdifl in favor of Birch and Ouvry, with full colts of suit. BALTIMORE, May 17. Yesterday arrived, the (hip Swift Packet, Capt. Malcolm in 20 days from Jeremie. Capt. M. in , forms, that the brig Dispatch, Capt. Donaldfon, failed from Jeremie, for this port, one day before him, that after being about three leagues out, capt. Donaldfon discovered, that he had omitted to bring his papers, he immediately proceeded back to Jer emie in his boat for them, but on his return, found , his brig had been carried off by a privateer ; to ! whence he could not tell, but went in purfnit of . h "- I DUBLIN, March 24. 1 Several necessary alterations are making at Ma! • ton house, in the coonty of Wicklow, by orders of : Lord Fitzwilliam ; and we hear, that his Lord ship means to come over to this kingdom in the ! course of a few months, and to make Ireland here after chiefly hie refiddnce. In what point of view the determination of the • efleerned Earl Fitzwilliam to reside in this country i is considered, it must operate as a most national ad • vantage. The expenditure of his princely fortune alone, would be an objeCt of nofmall moment ; but the splendid example which he must furnifh of pri vate and public virtues in a time so barren of both, is more an object of popular expectation. The presence of such a man, elevated as he is, by man ners, principles and property, far above the under takers of government for some years pad in this country, would have been a salutary check and controul upon their pernicious measures. Hart, the unfortunate boy, who was executed on Saturday la it foi high treason, through the whole of his awful fuuation, from his arraignment to be ing launched into eternity, exhibited a fortitude worthy a bettei cause. On the morning of hie trial, his life was offered him on condition of his pleading guilty j his counfe! advised him to accept of it ; but he refufed, alledging as a reason that ( the part of-- the charge which Rated a confpiracyto murder the protestants was falfe. After sentence ( hopes of life were offered him, if he would disco ver who were his accomplices as a defender; he ac- i / \ to the difeovery which wa* "defireJ. The fame cofiftaney a~companied him to the Tata] hoard. He looked on tile apparatus of definition, the head's, man with his naked axe and lojyi kn.fe, who ijood before him, and the rope by which he was to be K»aj»j>ipi! with aftonifiting unconcern. He addref* j fed the cloud in a loud voice from the platform < , j thanked the ftieriif for his humanity, defireA | their prayn<s, acknowledged that he was a defender ; all d declared that part of wjiat hiV profecutojr j fiVQi e was trije, and part falfc ; when his cap wis pulled over his face, and without isy fytsptoo of fear, he was plunged into eternity. The affixes of Longford ended on 'Friday, at which c!i;ht perfor.s were capitally coavj&ecj so." the murder of Mr. Harman— Gorman who fired the fatal shot, was ordered, from the dock to imme diate execution. The refl fuffercd on Saturday, before an amazing crowd of {petistors. Thcfe un happy wrfohes acknowledged the jaftice of thctr sentence, and died with contrition. The folemuity of their trial, which lasted three days, the exertioa of their eouafet, and the :.<knir» able patience and humanity of ibeir judge reade a deep impreflion upon tlve people. Mrs, Harman was examined as a witneis •; the contrast between her agitation upon the trial, and her uncommon fortitude during the attack upon' her hofband, affe£led the court, the jury, and alt that were piefent,wjth the ttrowg emotions of pity and admiration' It it to be regretted that a rooted animosity to the Irish name, chataser, language, and we may «uJ interests, should fooften manifett jtfelf in the public eondttft andmeafures of tho4e identi'cal mea who arc in the receipt of princely revenues from this abused people, Tlie late idea of disfranchifmg every fubje& o£ whatever extent or tenure his landed property might br, who spoke only Irifk, was one of those fetches with which a pettifogger would naturally feck to undo the work of a legislature intent upon promo ting the harmony of a nation In vain would the sovereign have recommended this rettitution to the catholic body, and vain would parliament have granted it, if by a clause in an election bill, their joint a& was rendered a dead- letter to more than two thirds of the people. Thus by a maftcrftroke the pains and penalties, which have just been taken off the old Irish religion, were to have been trans ferred to the old Irish language i The unfortuiate native Irish for more than fix hundred years have preserved both their language and religion, through the ruinous perfeeuttnns and opprefiions which they have endured duting that time. That many of them are in a Hate of igno rance, and the uncivfiivsation which is a necessary confequencc of it, is i6o true ; the laws at once cu£ off learying and property in their -defect) t, and left them heirs to nothing but poverty, ignorance and opprellion. The wonder therefore is that under the scourge of so diabolical a po'iej they have not -degenerated more; they yet courage and raufcuKir strength equal-to the inhabitants of any nation, they furnifh thebett materials for fleetsand armies; they have nothing to give to the empire, but their hearts and their services; and yet they are doomed day after day to experience new flights, injuries, and insults. 1-OliT OF PHILADELPHIA. jRK'yiD. days. Brig Polly, Dorfon, Port-au-Prince 2$ Schr. Swallow, Camby, Norfolk 4 Sloop Lark, Burrowes, Charleftod 8 Brig Cruger, Tinker, Trinidad 26 Phoeenix, M'Gregor, St. Simons 12 Adventure, Potts, New Orleans 20 Altona, Knapp, Marseilles 91 Ship Criterion, Cunningham, Boston i» Sloop Polly, Gladding, New-York 3. . STOCKS. 6ix per Cent. - - - - - 1 to 8T Three per Cent. - - - - rq{6 > Deferred Six per Cent. ... - itfbtof per Cent. - - - - i6 y g 4% per Cent. t - - - - 14fb BANK Unjted States, - - - 27 pr. cent. 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