Airs. WhitlockV Night. j — I New r l heatre. On MONDAY EVENING, Msy i*, W ill be pre tented, (never performed here) re ( anew comedy, called j First Love ; g<- Or, THE FRENCH EMIGRANT. »o [Written by R. Cumberland, Esq. au hor of the W. po Indian,' Natural Son, <Scc. and performed at Coverit Garden Theatre, London, wi lithe grcatcft appiaufe. an Frederick Mowbray, Mr. Moreibn. David Mowbray, * Mr. Bates. Sir Miles Mowbray, Mr. Whitlock. "ll Billy Blufler, Mr. Francis. ail Mr. Wrangle, * Mr. Green. w ] Jlobin, Mr. Bliffett, Servant to Lady' Ruby, Mr. jun. Servant to Mr. Wrangle, Mr. Darley, jun. 'Lord Senfinve, Mr. Marshall. a p Sabinaßofnv, Mra Marthall. j Mrs. Wrangle, Mrs. Shaw. Mrs. Kate, Mrs. Rowfoiw Waitng Woman, Mill O'dfield. b< Lady Ruby, Mrs. Whijlock.' ar End of' aft 3d, a Song, The Prussian soldier—by Mr. Darley. t( End of the Play, A BRAVOURA SONG, Compofrd by 'Giordaiii,——bv Mrs. Oldmixon. To which will be added, never performed here, a favorite comedy in i acts, ealled The Maid of the Oaks ; ' w n * Or, A Fete Champetre. in [As performed at Drury Lane Theatre 100 nights.] fil Mr. Oldworth, Mr. Green. iji Old Groveby, Mr. Whitleck. Sir Harry proveby, Mr. Mar(hal)« Mr. Dupely,j Mr. Moretoa. m Hurry, Mr* Bates. ta Lady Bab Lardoon, Mrs. Whitlock. t {, Maria, with the song of " ing 'round my favorite Tree, Miss Willems. In the cojjrfe of the Entertainment, ARURALDANCE, F Composed for the occalion, by Mr. Francis. Principal Dancers, Moos Lege, Mr. Warrell, 4 jun. MifoGil- N lafpie, Miss Milbourne, and Mrs. De Marque- S Shepherds and Shepherdelfrs, Sig. Do&crr, Mess. Darley, jun Mitchell, Morgan, and T. Warrell. Tickets to be had at the usual places, and of Mrs. Whitlock, 66 north Bth street. Mr. MORRIS's Night will be on Wedneiday next. E Mrs. SHAWIs Night will be on Friday. ti BOX. One Dollar—PlT, Three-Fourths of a Dollar— j. and GALLERY, Half a Dollar. Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Wells, at the °' Front of the Theatre; fc No money 01 tickota to be returned ; nor any person, on c< any account whatsoever, 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- 8 not, on any account, be permitted to remain. \i VIVAT RES PUB LIC A. Five Hundred Bales of ir Excellent Bourbon Coffee, d g For Sale by o Joseph Anthony & Co. u May -a 1 jw Landing, l AT th£ Subscribers' wharf, from on board thefhip Au- y rora, capt. Suter, 150 Hogsheads Prime Jamaica Sugars, I For sale by ] Wtilings and Francis, v May 17 §_ \ fujl PuWiJhtd, By JAMES CAREY, No. 83 North Second Street, I [Price half a dollar] ( The Frugai Houfewife ; 1 Or, COMPLETE WOMAN COOK. Wherein the art of drefling all forts of Viands, with . > cleanlineft, decency and elegance, ' Is explained in five hundred approved Receipts, in Gravies, Pastries, ! Sauces, Pies, ( Rosfting, Tarts, Boiling, Cakes, ( Frying, Puddirfgs, Broiling, Syllabubs, Stews, Creams, : Hashes, Flummery, Soups. Jellies, Fricaflees, Jams and I Ragouts, Custards. I Together with the -best methods of Potting,' Drying, Collaring* Candying, Vreferving, Pickling, - And making DOMESTIC WINES. To which are added, various Bills of Fare, and a pro per arrangement of Dinners, two courses, for e- | very month in the year. , ( fly Susannah Carter, of Clerkenwell, London. May 18. wf&m-,t ' LAW-BOOK STORE, NO. 313, HIGH-STREET, AVERY GENERAL IMPORTATION OF JUST OPENED. GEORGE DAVIS's EXTENSIVE colle&ion of the latest Irish Editions - ing now arranged, he begs to offar them for Sale, on the Tame mofiera.te .erms, as have for several years part, so particularly distinguished them ; and to affurc those Gentlemen who may favor him with attention, that' the'ir-orders from any diflanee, whether for a single vo lume, or an entire Library, fliall be executed with the like promptitude, and acknowledged with thanks. Catalogues for the present year are prepared, and will he delivered on application. .V. B. A number of Trunks to be disposed of. a£th April. m&t<w This Day pub lifted, Price 31 i-» Cents, Mr. AMES's SPEECH ON THE BRITISH TREATY. Sold by William Ynjng, corner of Second and Chefmit (Ireets, and by theßookfellers generally.. May iq. ij By an Artili reUUent at >Jr. (Jellera s Hotel, MINIATURE likenesses ARE taken and executed in that elegant and delicate stile, which is so neceflary to render a Miniature Pic tare an interfiling jewel. He will warrant a strong and indifpUtaWt refcro hlance; and he take? the Hberty to lay he'ore th» public of this place his moll earned intention to A.'serve their pa tronage by his hel endeavors ro plcafc. N. B. Specimens ate ta he seen. May it. ■ § CONGRESS. on an HOUSE OF RLi RESENT ATIVES, ,h Saturday, May 2t. Mr. New, (turn the committee to wl>om vhie mi refeircd ;bc amendmenis of the Senaie to the bill . t |, laying a duty uporr carriages, made a report to a- , of -ree to the amendments. Thcfe amendments do t0 not make any material change in the bill, i he,re port of the committee was agretd to. Mr. Bourns, from the committee of commerce and manufacture?, reported a bill to authonle the President lay, regulate and revoke embargoes, w during the recess of Congress. It was twice rea., and ordered to be referred to a committee of the whole on Monday. i i e The bill to suspend part of an aft to alter apd d| amend an act for laying certain duties upo»ifnuft o( and refined sugar, was read the third time and/pa*- ed. Also, tc The bill limiting the time for allowance of draw- a backs on the exportation of domefticditUlled fpiTits, ai and far allowing a drawback on furh spirits as ibal t< be exported in veflels of less than thirtj tons bur then by the MifilfipFi. 3 The bill from the Senate refpeamg the Mint, was twice read and referred to.the Mint commute?.. 0 The amendments of the Senate to the bill for fix ing the military eftaWifhment of the Usi ted States, were taken up. The amendments proposed, that, in (tea d of two companies of light dragoons, con fining of 52 men, a fqnadron of 320 Ihould be kept tl up. 'and that the major general Ihould also be retain- t< ed. After a few observations on the fubjeft, on h motion of Mr. Williams, the 'ayes and poes were a taken on the amendment refpedling the augment#- tl tion of the dragoons, as follows : AYES. Mess. Bourne, Bradbury, Coit, Cooper, D. tl Foster, Gilbert, Glenn, Goodrich, Gnfwold, tl Haitiey, Hindman, Kittera, S. Lytiwn, Malbonr, o Murray, Sitgtcaves, N. Smith, Isaac Smith, S. tl Smith, Thatcher, Tracy, Wadfworrfi. *2. V noil's. stl Mess. Bailey, Baldwin, Baird, Blourtt, Brent, 1, Bryan, Eurgefs, Christie, Cla/bome, Coles, CrabN f Dent, Earl, Findley, A. Foster, Franklin, Galls, d tin, Giles, Gilman, Greenup, Gregg, Grovf, ' 0 Hampton, Hancock,- Harrifon, Harper, Hatfc orn, Havens, Heath, Henderfon, Holland, Jack- C son, Kiichell, Locke, W, Lyman, Maclay, Ma- a con, Milledge, Moore,.Muhlenberg, New, Nicln- 0 las, Parker, Read, Richards, R.utherford, Jet. a Smith, R. Sprigg, jun. T. Sprigg, Swanwick, , Swift, Tatom, i'homas, Van Alen, Van Cortlandl, 0 Venable, Williams, Winn. 58. t Upon the next amendment, proposing to retail j in the eftabliftiment a major general, a conSderabfc I debate took place ; in which the personal merits cf r gen. Wayne were highly spoken of. On motion t of Mr. Bailey, the ayes and noes were again taken t upon this amendment, as follow : » ayes. j. t Mess. Ames, Bourne, Bradbury, Coit. Cooper, i D. Foster, Gilbert, Glen, Goodhue, Gregg, GiiiV. 1 wold, Hancock, Harper, Hartley, Hindman, Kit- ; tera, S. Lyman, Malbone, Milledge, Muhlenberg, 1 Murray, Read, Rutherford, Sitgreaves, Jer. Smith, < Isaac Smilh, Samuel Smith, W. Smith, Swan- I wick, Thatcher, Thomas, Tracy, Van Alen, 1 Wadfworth. 34. 1 noes. 1 Mess. Bailey, Baldwin, Baird, Benton, Brent, 1 Bryan, Burgess, Cabell, Christie, Claiborne, I Coles, Crabb, Dent, Earl, Findley, A. Foster, 1 Franklin, G»Hatin, Giles, Greenup, Grove, Hamp ton, Harrifon, Hathorn, Havens, Heaih, Hen- I derfon, Holland, Jackfun, Kitchell, Locke, W., ] Lyman, Maelay, Macon, Moore, New, Nicholas, 1 Parker, Richards, N.Smith, I-frael Smith, R. ,1 Sprigg, jun. T. Sprigg, Swift, Tatom, Van < Cortlandt, Venable, Williams, Winß. 49. 1 The other amendments were gone through (one of the principal of which was, that men in future (hould be entitled for five instead cf three years) and agreed to, except such as were connected with thofp which had already been negatived. Mr. S. Smilh, from the committee appointed to confer with a committee from the Senate, o* thefubje&of their amendments to the bill for the relief and ptotedlion of Ameiican seamen, report ed that the committee appointed on the part of th« house had receded from their disagreement to the amendments of the Senate, except in one, iqftance. • The report was agreed to. Instead of having cer tificates issued to three descriptions of American ci tizens, viz. natives, foreigners who were in this countryin 1783, and those who have obtained their citizenship since, they are all to be included under the head of Ametican citizens. Mr. Henderfon said he was very deftrous of ob -1 taining all the information possible, before he was •called upon to give a vote on the claim of the wi dow oPgeneral-Greene. He was more defirons of this, as hehad received no information on the fub-. s jest but what he had heard in that house, and he e had considerable doubts in his mind upon the sub. 1 je&. A letter having been mentioned yesterday to c be in the office of the Secretary of War, which he tmdetftood would throw light upon the fuhjeil, he d moved a resolution, calling upon the Secretary at War to furnilh the letter in question. This motion occasioned foree debate, in which _ it was said the letter alluded to was a private letter from Mr. Burnett to general Knox, the late Secrer tary of War, and that it was therefore m»ft pro bably not in the War Office. The motion was a r greed to. id rkc dlfa 2 rcement °f tfie Senate to the amend ment to th« bill for the relief of petfons impnfoned | for debt, was read. The amendment proposed by _ the house was to put the laws of the United States, with relped\ to debtors, upon the fame footing vyith !S the laws »n the (late, where any action might be ite roU K' lt * On motion for appointing a committee 1C _ of conference, to be appointed to infill upon the », mendments, it was carried 36 to 24. : r . ' m- The committee of the whole, to whom was tf fer r<;d the amendments of the senate to the bill in ad dition to an aft, entitled, an aft to the atV, entitled, an aft to provide more effeftuallv for the qollcftion of the duties t>n goods, wares and merc M.* itfo theUms J*"*** on the ton-age of ihips or v'efch, w» bn r.nd the bill with the amendments were reterred to Ilk the committee of commerce and manut^Acres. Mr W. Smith, from rhe committee of wap and means, to whom was referred the' amendment* .«* P r the Cenare to the bill regulating the combat .on th of clerks, made a report thereon, which was ngued to, read thethird time and palled. Mr. franklin obtained leave of absence :rom Monday next. . . . , ri: Mr. Kittera presented the petition of Michael Hillegas, for a fcttlement of hi. accounts, which was reed and referred to the committee of claims. Mr. Madison, from the committee to whom was referred the bill frotn thejfenate refpefling the mint, reported the Ml, with an amendment l.mitting it s duration to two years, and frem thence to the end of next feflion of congress. The report was or er * w <rd to be committed ro a committee of the whole to-day. The house, therefore, rcfolved itfelf into a committee of the whole, agreed to the bill and amendment, the house took it up, and ordered it to be read the third time on Monday. tj Adjourned* ~~k eport Of the Committee of Senate to whom <wts referred the la mefftgi of the Prrjident of the United States of the b Btb of April, 17 96, relative to the 1 erritory of tr the United States, Soutf) IVeft of the river Ohio, a, BY the deed of cession of the State of Virginia, tl the United States are bound to lay off the Te.ri- n tory north weft of the u*tT Ohio into states not n Itfs than one "hundred nor more than one hundied o and fifty miles square. And by the ordinance of a the 13th day of July 1787, Congress refolvedthat tl so fooh as. Virginia fuouLJ by law conlent to the laying off the said tei rity so as to form three dates, 11 that the fame /hould be bounded in the manner o therein fpecitied. By the fame ordinance the whol.e - of the-territory of the United Slates north weft of the Ohio is made one diftrift for the purpose of temporary government, and it is therein declared, thai so soon .as any one of the said states so to be laid out as afoicLid, should confilt of sixty thousand free inhabitants the lame (hould be admitted by their delegates in Congress on an equal footing with the 'original States. By the deed of cession of the State of North- Carolina of the lands therein described, it is mnde a condition that the territory so ceded (hall be laid r out, and formed into a State or States, containing 1 afuitable extent of territory; the inhabitants oj a Iwhich (hall enjoy all the privileges set forth in the ordinance for the governm nt of the western terri- 1 tory of the United States. By the aft for the J government of the territory of the United States south of the river Ohio, the whole of the said ter ritory for the purpose of temporary government is made one diftrift, and it is declared that the inhabi tants thereof shall enjoy all the privileges set forth in the ordinance for the government of the territory 1 of the United Slates north weft of the Ohio : as 1 in the territory north weft of the Ohio, it is nece( 1 fary that the fame (hall by Congress be laid out in < States according to the conditions of the aft of eef- : Iron, or to the provifioris expiefTed in the ordinance 1 of Congress, and that such States (hall each contain I sixty tljoufand free inhabitants before they-are enti- ' tied to be admitted into the Union ; so in the ter- 1 ritory south weft of the Ohio, Congress are obliged ' by the aft of cession to lay out the fame into one or 1 more States,' the inhabitants of -which so soon as they (hail amount to (ixty thousand free petfons will be 1 entitled to be admitted into the Union. Congress have declared that the whole of the I tenitory north weft of the Ohio (hall for the pur pose of temporary Government compose one dif trift ; and likewise that the whola of the territory ceded by North Carolina (hall for the like purpose compose one Diftrift ; but they have not defini tively laid out the territory north weft of the Ohio into States, nor have they decided whethei the ter ritory ceded by North Carolina shall be laid out in to one or more States. If the Diftrift north weft of the Ohio contained more than sixty thousand free inhabitants, it would not from thence follow that the diftrift could demand admission as a new state into the Union, because the diftrift mull by the terms of its cession be previously divided into a number of states, ths free inhabitants of each of which mud amount to sixty thousand, before such state would have a right of admission -into the onion ; in like manner although the diftrift south weft of the Ohio (hould contain sixty thousand free inha • bitants, it cannot from theneebe inferred that they 1 would have a right to be admitted as a new state into the onion, because Congress have not decided ■ whether the fame shall compose a single state, or be laid out irttotwo or more states. The number of ■ inhabitants which establishes a claim of admission i must be the number of inhabitants of a state previ - ouflj.laid ont, and defined in its boundaries by Con s grefe, and not the number of inhabitants of a ter - ntory which for the purpose of temporary govern : ment composes a diftrift which may be divided by • Congress into several states. 3 Hence results this conclusion, c That Congress must have previously enacted that e the whole of the territory ceded by North Caroli t na, and which row composes one diftrift for the purposes of temporary government (hould be laid h out and deemed to be, one Slate, before the inhabi t tants thereof [admitting them ta amount to sixty > thousand free persons] could claim to be admitted )- as a new state into the union. i- Had the territory south weft of the Ohio, which for the purpose of temporary government composes 3- one diftrift, been laid out by Congress into one d state, the enumeration ef the inhabitants in order to y ascertain whether such state was entitled to be re s,! ceived into the union ought to have been made un h | der the authority of Congress; for the enumera >e j tion of the inhabitants of the originalftaies for the ce | purpose of apportioning the Representatives, and ; ascertaining a rule for the apportionment of direst taxes must by the Constitution be made by Con r- grefs, and cannot be made by the individual state fl d- And as the rights of the original states as mcmbtrs to of vhe union are affected by the admission of new ly tiates, tue fame principle which enjoins the census id of their inhabitant! to be taken under the authority of CoagTifi, re-qaires the enumeration of the mha. bitants -of any new (late laid out by Congress, in like manner, to be made under their authority ; did not the principles of the Constitution seem to leave Congress without discretion on this point, yet the propriety of the enumeration being made under their authority, will be manifcft on comparing t!ie jth fedio»l of the law for the enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States with the law un. der which the census' has lately been taken in the territory south weft of the Ohio ; by this rifon it will be perceived that .the guards again it error provided in the former law, are omitted in the latter, and that inltead of confining the enumeration to the free inhabitants of the territory south weft of the Oiiio ; the law authorizes and requires tlie enumeration of all the people within the Faid territo ry at anytime within the term allowed to complete the fame, including as well the pet Com casually within or pafling through the said territory, as the inhabitants thereof. From the prececding view of the fubjefi, the committee are of opinion that the inhabitants of the territory south welt of tKt; Ohio are not, at this time, entitled to be received as a new state into the •union. But as the said territory may by Congress be laid out into one state, although fiom the distance between its extreme parts the inhabitants thereof may, thereby be cxpofed to some inconvenience, and as it appears to be the desire of a majority of the inhabitants of said territory to be received as a new state into the union, the committee recom mend that leave be given to bring in a bill laying ■ out the whole of the said territory into ope fiate, and providing for an enumeration of the inhabitants thereof in the manner prefctibed in' the aft entitled, " An Aft providing for the enumeration of tljr inhabitants of the United States, pafled on the fiift of March, one thousand leven hundred and ninety.'* Philadelphia, ( MONDAY EVENING, Ma} 33, 175,6. COMMUNICATION. The letter from Pans, difclofin& a Corrfpiracy to engage France in acts of fcollility againll the Unit ed States, is treated with affedted contempt by one of the hacks of the Argus. Let tiie readers of that paper, the Chronicle, of Boston, the Aurora, and the public rtfteithew many paragraphs have been published in those pn pers, to stir up the French to open violence a nation in amity with iliem and all the world ; at:d let thdfeveditors flirnifh a black"catalogue of nan bs or they may themselves be held accountable to" the world, for openly abetting the treafohable corre fpondeiue alluded to. Extract from PORCUPINE'S PREFACE TO BURKE's LF.TTPR. This Letter, besides its other merits, contains 3 molt excellent leflon for the ** peor rich men" in this country. When I read of the Duke of Bed ford presiding at a revolutionary club, I am natur ally led to compare him to the poor rteh. merchants and others whom wefometimes fee bullied on tr.wn • meeting llage, ftfrring up King Mob to gut their 1 ftoresjind burn theiLtioulrs, TLefc wealthy hut culottes are here exactly what the l)uke of Bed. . ford is in England. Like him, then all depends ! on the (lability of the govertimci t, and yat like huij - they are endeavoring to ihake it to the ground r Mr. Burke tells this poor innocent Duke, that the ; cut throat Philosophers would laugh at his pave I. ment and his wax ; and would they not do the fame ; here ? Can it be supposed, that the old folditrsof last"war would not seize 011 the lands which they . fold for two pence an acre, and which, indeed they r fay they were cheated out of by the rich i I have ; no scruple in faying, that such a seizure would be . much juit and less inhuman than the feiiure j of the church lands in France, which we hive heard . spoken of in terms of the highest approbarion.^- . Take care then, you rich, fat brained, round head l ed demagogues, you American Duke*of Bedford; J take care ; for you will be the firft that Ivill fall a ir facrifke to the principles you prdpagate,. v ... "" / Extract ofa letter from Chartrjlon,' dated ~pn Afimdny a lajl, brought by the trig Ann, Capt. *§weeifer. f "At a little after 2 o'clock on Satur.day morn i ing lafti a fire broke out in this city at a house at ; we corner of King CiifrortT'ftreet'i, oc-opied f by Mr. Lyon Motes : as the weather had beenve - if diy for some time before, and the house being y a wooden building, the flame was soon at a confider e able height, and communicated with rapidity to th« a neighbouring buiidings, mod of which confilled e of wood. Notwithstanding the exertions ef the ci s tizens, the pmgrefs of the fire was not .arrested till n 6 o'clock in the morning, during which short space - of time, fixty-five dwelling houses were deltroyed 1- in King-Street, Cliffordllneet,and Beresford-ftreet. r- Property to a very considerable amount was conhi -1 med, and upwards of seventy indultrions families y were diiveafrom their dwellings. Ihe commodi ous inn of John' Christopher Martin, long known ai the resort of gentlemen from the counfy, th* it dwel'ing house and extensive tannery ol Mi- Chril i- topher Williman, are amonglt the mod valuable ie buildings destroyed The other fufferers s r e mcfTrs. d Flagg, Selby, Lsveday, Geddes, Da Costa, Nifc* i- fer, Gordon, Sarzedas, Lauderdale, Cameron, y Wolf, Isaacs, Moses, Cohen, Kalkoffin, Deleon, :d Mrs. Harper, Mrs. Meu:zirg, Mrs. Kempton, and a number of others whose names we have Bot jh yet obtained. Besides the dwelling houses above es rtientioned, a considerable number of valuaole out ie buildings, between King and Meeting-flreets, wire to either confuraed er pulled down to prevent the flatn.s e- spreading. At one period the profpeft was truly n- alarming, as the wind blew frelh at S. W. it drove a- largej flakes of fire on several buildings at a confi he deable distance from thole ori lire, but by the pre nd caution used by the occupiers, of bavrtig c tft the tops of the houses, with buckets of water, tnuco n- mifchief was prevented. It would be impiopo to conclude the account of this dilafter, without at iti knowledging that the citizens in general were«eiy ;w active in giving their affiftsnce. Many thanks »' e f«8 due to theFiench citizen*; wheie the greatcll ex ity ertiooi were waiiteJ, they attended, an" wlih
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