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
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May 17 §_ \
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[Price half a dollar] (
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Hashes, Flummery,
Soups. Jellies,
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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.
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the'ir-orders from any diflanee, whether for a single vo
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Catalogues for the present year are prepared, and
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.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