STOCKS.
Sir jier Cent. 17/8 to 8?
» __v Three per Cent. - - - - 10/8 j
Deferral Six per Cent. ... - to 8
5 A per Cent. - - - 16-3
4; per Cent. - - - - 14/8
BANK United States, • - - - 27 pr. ceuU
- Pennsylvania, ... . ty
■— -- North America, - - - . 48
Infuraace Comp. North-America,
Pennsylvania, 15 per ct.
I Eichancc, at 60 days, ... 160
MJiS. HARVEY and MISS. WfLLEMS'j NIGHT. ,
New Theatre.
i
ON MONDAY EVENING, June 6,
VVi'! be Presented (for the nrft time this Sejion) an
fii.'ijrical Tragedy,(written by Shakefpearej called
RICHARD 111.
Henry VI. Mr. Whitlock.
Prince Edward, Mrs. Harvey.
Duke of York, Miss Solomon.
Puke f -Glofter, Mr. Chalmers.
Duke of Buckingham, Mr. Green.
T.arl of Richmond, Mr. Moreton.
Duke of Norfolk, Mr. Warrell.
KatcliiTe, Mr. Francis.
Catelby, Mr. Darley, jun.
Treflcl, Mr. Mar/hall.
Earl of Oxford, Mr. Bliflfett. 1
Lieut, of the Tower, Mr. Warrell, jun.
Lord Stanley, Mr. Beete. (
Xyord Mayor, Mr. Bates.
Tyrrell, Mr. Morgan.
Queen, Elizabeth, Mrs. Morris.
Lady Ann, Miss Willems.
Duchess of York, Mrs. Sliaw. t
Eivd of the Plav, will be p resented, f
AGRAND MASQUERADE DANCE c
'In which will be introduced, 1
A PAS DE DEUX, t
By Mr. Warrrell and Miss Willems,
A HORNPIPE, by Miss Gillafpe, and a MINUET, a
By Mr. Francis and Mrs. Harvey.
1 To which will be addsd, (performed but once,) the t
Farce of 1
BARNABY BRITTLE, ,
Or, A WIFE AT HER WIT'S END.
[As often performed at Convent Garden, with general c
Applaufe.J „ j
Barnaby Brittle, the CheapEiie Glafman, Mr.Bates.
Clodpole, u Mr. Bliffett.
Jeremy, Mr. Francis. e
Sir Peter Pride, Mr. Morgan. a
Lovemore, Mr. Green.
JefFery, Mr. Warrefl, jun. c
Mrs. Brittle, Mrs. Shaw. j
Lady Pride, Mrs. Rowfon.
Damaris, Mrs. Harvev.
Between the Aft» of the Farce Mrs. Marilull will recite Y
BELLES HAVE AT YE ALL ! P
Tickets to had of Mrs. Harvv, 17S, Race-street, y
ana of Miss Willems, No. 67, Cherry Ailev. y
On WeJnefday, a Trigedy, called Romeo and
Juliet ; with a Comedy (not aiied thisScafon) called
the Liar—For the Benefit of Mr. Warrell, Mr. Warrell, >
jun. a;jd Mailer Warrell.
M. Lege and Sig. Joseph Doctor's Night will be on 2
Friday.
BOX, One Dollar—PlT, Three-Fourths of a Dollar— ti
and GALI.ERY, Half a Dollar. c
, Landing this day,
From the Sloop Indyfiry, Capt. Wharton,
22 Puncheons Barbados Rum, ti
For sale by 11
Kearney Wharton. f;
June 6 +6
—— — v
By an Artist resident at Mr. Oellers's Hotel, t
MINIATURE LIKENESSES \
ARE ta'ken and executed in that elegant and delicate t
stile, which is so necessary to render a Miniature Pic- t
tare an intercfling jewel. r
He will warrant ia strong and indifpa table refcm- i
and he take • the liberty to lay before the public c
of this place his moll earnefl intention to deserve their pa- ,
tronage by his best encLeavors to pleaXe.
N- B. Specimens to befeen. *
May ia. * t
JUST IMPORTED, !
AND FOR SALE BY (
W. POTNTELL, \
No. 70, in ChefnutJlreet, between Second and I
Third Jl reels,
A GENERAL ASSORTMENT OF <
Stationary Articles ; . 1
AMONGST WHICH ARE, * 1
Writing Papers of every Office wafers,
fi2e from quarto post up to Best black lead pencils, ;
Elephant f.ze, Ledgers
Spanifiiandtambour writ- Journals
jag cases of various fires, Wafte,lettir,invoice,fale«,
lnk-ftariidt of every de- accounts current, bill, and
* fciiption, receipt books,
Penknives and erafera, Red tape,
Qnills of every quality, Ivory folding knives,
LeftDutchfeahngwaxand Redand black iukpowder,
liilh wafers, tfr.
ALSO,
Portable writing delks backgammon tables, Reeves's
water colours, cases of mathematical inflrureents, 3, 9
and 11 inch globes, thermometers, barometers and ther
mometers, pentagr.iphs, pmtradors, scales and (e<S.or»,
rocket compafles, scales, dividers and bow pens, tele
types, from 18/9 to £24, guitars, music tutors and mu
f.c books, ladies' and geutlcnjeu's mciocco pocket books,
1 taps ol Europe, Asia, Africa, America, and the World,
0.1 cloth and rollers, maps of France with the departments
a 3-4 of a dollar, morocco travelling cases, lportfmcn's
g'inning knives from 7/6 to (,1/6, hydrostatic balances and
tnicrclcopcs, chelsSßd cribbage boards,money scales, Stc.
b'V. 6. mufj
Just Imported,
Ju tlie Ship Ganges, from Calcutta and Madras, and
for iale by
SAMUEL b 3 MIERS FISHER,
Twenty-two packages of Goods :
CONTAINING,
Gurrahs
'i ickerys
Punjem Cloth*
Hurnal Huinhunis
liaftaes,
Roflciah Goffeas
Bahar Handkerchief*
< vUiLzinahs
Tsfatltt
1 ullicut Silk Handkercliicfs
I'atna Chintz coarse and fine
Pcu'uicocs, l?e. Gin
6 nao; c. jico2w
{Trail slated for tlte New-York
Liberty, EquALiry,
i In the name of the French Republic,
A PROCLAMATION.
Leger Felici'.e Sonthonax, Julian Rai'moncl, Marc
Antoine Alexis Giraud, Picrie George Iy.blane,
and Pnilipe Rose Roiime, CommifTtnVs
ted by the French government, to the Wiud
ward Islands.
To all the Citliens of the Colony, and to a!! thofa
whacotnpofe the Land and Sea Force*
dellined toj-.s defence.
1
Citizens,
After so many storms and critical emergencies,
inseparable concomitants ofa revolution. France en
joys at last a constitution worthy of a people who
knows how to value liberty.
Already und«r a truly republican government,
the French people begin t» reft from their long and
arduous toil, and to enjoy the happy efle&s of the
liberty which they have attained—already the go
vernment diredUits solicitudes towards thofeebjedis
which are to preserve the rights and increase the
happiness of the people.
Firmly resolved to cause the constitution to be
executed, the executive diredlory is conllantly em
ployed in searching out means to have it eltablilh
ed in all the parts of the Republic.
That Constitution states, article 156, "That
the legi(l<:ive body can authorize the diredtory to 1
feud into all the French colonies, as the emergen- 1
cies of the cafe may require, one or more particu- '
lar agents, whom it will appoint for a lirr.ited '
time."
These agents are to exercise the fame fundtions
as the ditedWy, and ba under its orders.'' <
The sixth article of the constitution llares, " That <
the French Colonies are infaperable parts of the i
Republic, and fubmittcd to the fame constitutional '
law." 1
It is particularly for the execution of that arti- »
clc, that we have received fiom the government the t
honorable million entrusted to us, and, at the fame 1
time, to let you know all the means you ought to c
employ to preserve Liberty and Equality, which t
are the fundamental laws of that conliitufion.
You will undoubtedly, believe your old and fin r
ccrc friends ; undoubtedly you will listen to phi- t
1 .nthropifts, who have fpoutaneeufly devoted them v
selves to almolt certain death, in order to vindicate '
your rights. Bound by the principles they t
propose to themfelvcs only «ne end—that of leading a
you to the true happiness, in prefcrving among a
you liberty and equality. c
Citizens! Rally then at the voieeofthe dele- J
gates of tSe Republic., finee it is in her name, and ''
for your dearelt interests, that they are going to c
address you. t
The ancient government of the Colonies haddif- t
tinguifhed three different clafTes—the whites—the a
coloured people and the (laves. To those different e
claftes, now united and honoured with the name of e
French citizens, we are going »o speak alternately, c
We shall firft address that portion of the people of f
the colony, which has moll fuffered under the tyran- f
nic order which has been abolitlied, and we (hall '
fay to t item—"By the republican con ft it u t ioa which a
the French nation has just adopted, you have reco- t
vered your primitive rights ; but you must know f
the proper means to prelcrve them undisturbed, and 1
to transmit them without interruption to your re- 1
moteft posterity. Those (hips, the warriors whom
they bring to you—all those formidable prepara- t
tions are deligned against the English who are the *
most cruel enemies of your liberty 1 They dare to t
indulge the hope of framing new chains far you. 1
See those blood thirdy tygers, bending (lill you' !
brethren under their homicidal whips. Can you '
fuffer any longer so dismal an objedt ; join the for- '
ees which Fiance fends to yon, expel from the ter- t
ritory of the French Republic, those tyrants of t
mankind ; pursue them even to their haunts, and I
destroy the last of them ! What 1 Is it not incum- ]
bent upon you to rjvenge your biethren whom i 1
they keep fettered in the surrounding islands ?— I
Yes, citizens ! every thing ought to impress you 1
with an implacable hatred for those tyrants, whose
mod lucrative trade is of reducing you to slavery,
to mifety and death. What can withhold your re
venge 1 on that impious race ; make it dif.
appear from that sacred spot, which, too long, has
been the theatre of its crimes and depredations.
The Republic has not only provided you with
j means to destroy your most cruel enemies, but has
farther teftified her parental falicitude, in indica
ting and facilitating to you such means a* can only
consolidate your re-conquered libeity.
' Those means, citizens, you (hall find in labor and
intlrudtion, and in the pradtice of moral and civil
s virtues.
) Labor and inftrudtion, citizens, are necessary to
" the prefervati in of the pcopie, and the constitution
imposes them as a duty upon all citizens.
The 151b article of the second title, contains
i, these words : " Young men cannot he inferibed in
'> (lie civic register, if they do not prove that they
s can read, write, and fallow a mechanical branch of
d bpfinefs." That clause, citizens,can and ought to
t. take place only agreeably to the constitution, after
the firft day of the twelfth year of the Republic.
" The manual operations of agiiculturc belong
j to the mechanical atti.
Yes ; labor, and agriculture particularly, is abso
lutely necessary to him who wishes to preserve his
right, and eniov his liberty. Through labor wr
procure the this ;s necessary to oui cxiftence and
enjoyments ; un wugh labor only, we can jprefcrve
001 liberty. Woe to the people who negledt la
bor ; Inch people cannot fail becoming (laves to
an adtive nation. Never forget, that the English
your neighbours, are very adVvc, and that they may
rivet your cha n« once more, (hould you everforfake
labor. Ah! has not a dreadful' and too long, ex
perience taught you that truth? Mad your ances
tors, tnc inhabitants of Africa, devoted themselves
to the culture of their fruiiful lands, they molt al
furcdly would not have debased theuifslves bv rccip
-4
-oral Moody wars, of which frrfc*; Europeans h.iri
availed themfclres to reduce them t» ?' - mo.'l inrol
•x able and deg.ading slavery. Whit; remaias for
ynu to do, irt order to avjyd all the mis fortunes,
which are mfeparahle concomitarvf of id!enefs ?
Nothiito Sm to devote yourfel»«B to the culture of
rhe rich productions of the colony yuu inhabit !
Many of you have been to France , they will tell
you, that the people are there constantly employed :
i at ufefti! labors, and agriculture in particular. 11l- ;
itate that a&ive people who you as fheir >
brethren, and you will etlablilh, by that means, a
trade of exchange with which will cement
and dreagtheri your brotherly relations.
Indruflion is as ufeful to you as labor ; by it
yoti will transmit your rights to your children ; by
it you will learn how to fultihhe duties of good ci
tizens ; finally, by instruction you will attain that
degree of morality which diitinguifhes the civilize !
from the savage man, the honed from the perverse
. citizen.
i The government will omit nothing foa'tain an
object so intereftiog and so worthy of its solicitude.
Public schools will be edabliflied throughout all the
colonies ; your children fhsll therefore receive in
ftru£tion, imbibe a talle for labor and morals,which
ate to accomplish their full regeneration. The re
i public will extend farther her cares for your chil
dren ; for Ihe wifhesthat a certain number of those
who (hall have produced a greater difpofuion and
zeal for inltruflion, be sent to France, with the
canfent of their parents, there to study in a more
perfedl depree th<fciences or arts to which they
may have (hewn a more decided inclination.
The fame resources are likewile offered to the
children of the whites and of the colored people ;
for the primary schools, which will be edahlifhet,
will be open to all individuals boin in the colnny of
whatever color they may be. ALL MEN ARE
EQUAL IN RIGHTS.
An irreproachable probity if confi/lered by the
eoiiftitution as so ufrful to citizens, that when they
are punished by law they lose for a while their po
litical right 3. It is therefore neceflary that the
man who wiflies to preserve his liberty withont in
terruption, should, to labor and inftru&ion, add mo
rals, which are absolutely neceflary to the preserva
tion of a social llatc. Fr»m what you have just
now read, you will no more doubt of tlje intention
of the government to maintain you in the inalicha
ble rights and of your liberties.
To you citizens, whom a barbarous custom had
made formerly of slaves, we fhallobfeive
that in confeqaence only of the mV.t ltrange fub
verfionof what is known under the name of jullice
and humanity, the molt sacred rights of man had
been forfaken in the former order of things which
allowed men te be reduced to the mod i.ifu(fciahle
and abiedt slavery ; we shall tell you that a ilate so
contrary to nature, tho' apparently favorable to
your intereils, was of too violent a nature to lad
long. How could the mailer (hake off the thought
of the dangers with which he was inceflantly threa
tened : Does not the experience of ages and nations
traafmitted by history, infoim us, that tyranny has
alwys fallen a to its own crimes ? Undoubt
edly, fix hundred thouf.ind slaves unjudly and cru
elly tortured, in almoit every inliant of their lives,
could not afford a great degree of security to the
small number of their matters. Surrounded with
foes, tormented with nr.iilrull and fear, what could
be the enjoyjuent* of maUtisT i ney were mult"
atiurVaTjTjiilurbed by the ctuel enormities. And
to this the continual fear they laboured under to
fee themfelv;.-* utterly ruined by that moitality which
is the inevitable consequence of the manner in
which the blacks were treated in the colonies.
Inftcad of that violent Itate in which lingered
the late proprietors of slaves, liberty and equality
which flow from the conltit'ution, offer to them no
thing but true enjoyments, and perfect feeurity to
their lives and fortunes, surrounded with free and
peaceable hu-fbandmeu, who will cultivate the lands
for a just salary, the owner will dread no more the
fury of the revolted slave ; he will live among
those men as among his children ; he will aiHlt
their activity with his knowledge. Their poderi
ty will no more dccline, but rather incieafe in pro-
J portion to the foltering cares paid to them , and
i that increase of population, as it will give more
hands to agriculture, will improve more and more
the estate of the owner, and procure him enjoyments
more sweet, and gratifications more real, as they
will not be acquired at the expence of the happi
ntfs, as they will not be the fhameful price of the
tears and the blood of their equals. As, by the
new fyftcm, the proprietoi of lairds will dread no !
more those fudcJen changes of fortune, he will be a
ble to encreafe itill more his enjoyments, and give a
i greater falubiity to his poffeifions, by those rural
ornaments which have made Francc lo delieious a
Ipot. The land holdeis in the colonies will also
enjoy all that advantage over the inhabitants of;
I Fiance, which are to be derived from a beautiful
I climate, and tl>e high price of the natural produc
tions of the country.
. The Republic, therefore, has a right to expect
i that the misfortunes which have attended the revo
lution, will have the happy rffeft of making the
i planters wifers than they were ; the republic has
i aright to rxpedt, that, recovered from i heir errors
occasioned by a long habit, they will resume prinei
f pies of eternal jultice ; that, influenced by the love
i of their country, they will concur with all their
■ might in the redoration of the order and profperi'y
of the colony, and that they wiltaflid, with as much
eagerness as zeal; the wife and humane views of'
the governmrn;.
In addressing those formerly didinguilhcd by
i whites and people of tol»mr without pofieifions, we
• would fay to them, that in a free Itate, all hands
ought to be employed, that every one ought to
■ make a choice of a kind of labor which, in concur, j
ring to the general welfaie, would procure to the
I labourer not only exiltenct, but the conveniences
of life ; that the colonial system being alteied, they
mud no mote establish tlieii hopes of fortune on j
' Slavery, for it is forever abohfhed on the whole ter \
■ ritoty of Fiance. Let every one therefore make ,
the best of his iududry, devote himselF to agricol- I
i ture. Let not any ill founded ilisoit keep him in i
inactivity, which is as dangerous to himfeif as it is j
rumous ttj the common weal. Let hitu be con- j
; vtiued, t!- no oeenpattbn o'eUfes man ; let hinj
know, that with the wtfeil people of antiquity
r agriculture was considered as the firft of all occupa'*
i, lions. Let them therefore renounce that Hate of
? vagrancy which the laws of the Republic will DU
if ni(h.
! ] _ I" fine, we would repeat to thrm, that as all the
11 inhabitants of the colony, from this inllant, will foi m
d ■ but one class, every citizen will have the fanse lights,
- | and enjoy the fame advantages ; and that the Hp!
r I public eltablifhes no other diltiuAions amtrr mcn
a than those of virtue and vice, of talents and igno
t ranee. • <
In the name of the republic—in the name of hu.
t inanity—in the name of the sacred love of countiy,
y we invite all citizens to concur with us in iht rect o .
i. ration of order and agriculture. We invite them
t to torget their refprftive wrongs and quarrels • to
.1 make it now their sole hnli-iefs to expel the enemies
e of the republic, from the territory thev have inva
ded, and then to repair the evils and deviations
n which have been occalioned by hatred, passion and
■. civil war.
e Constituted authorities will be eftablilhed.through
r out the whol? colony, agreeably to the conftitutio,,.
h every thing will be disposed to promote the good
of the people :—We invite them, therefore, to in
- form us of all reclamations they have to make and
e the means of improvement which they may think
i moll likely tp contribute to the public happincfj.
e They will find, in the delegates of the republic, the
e greatest eageniefs to favour their efforts, an!-! to
f adopt, with unbounded zeal, whatever may encreafe
the fafetyand profpeiity of the colony.
c This proclamation is to be printed, publiflied '
; and polled up, wherever it wifl be necessary, in
, scribed in the regiiters of administrative and jikitei
f ary bodies; sent to the major generals, the com
i manders of camps and posts, and the commanders
of the (hips of the republic.
: D->neat the Cape, the 25th Floreal, (May ij)
r the fourth year of the Fteneh Republic, one and
- indivilible.
: The Prcfident of the Commiflhin,
SONTHONAX.
The general Secretary.
' PASCAL.
t _ _
1 The following is a translation of the Circular meant
to enclofc the preceding Proclamation. /
Caps, 25 Floreal, 4th year.
1 Liberty and Equality.
• The Secretary Gcneiural of the commifiion dele
gated t;u Islands.
. To-
1 The com million has dire&ed me, citizen, to
1 transmit to you the proclamation they have thou't
jieeeffarv to address to nil the citizens of the colony
> upon their arrival. You will find delineated in it
> the principles you love, that you ought to defend,
and which, it faithfully adher ed to, mufl secure the
: general good. The commiilion will receive with
- pleafnre, information upon the situation of that part
1 of the colony which you inhabit, upon the if ate of
1 cultivation and the difpoG'.iotl ot the citizens ; and
■ they will second powerfully all your tffjttj in fjvjr
■ of the pubiic good.
> (S'gned) Pascal, Seeretary Getter L;
' * Philadelphia,
Mnynxv evphimo. —
I To what purpose do our Legiflattws pais sifts of as
' lembly, if the persons dominated to carry then into
t execution ftiew by their conduct an inexcusable dshy
in carrying them into effeiS. We allude to tlp/t IJr
providing a suitable place for removing persons infected
I with contagious diieails. The kafon is already ad
vanced wKen we may daily expedl to be alarmed with
' accounts of the arrival of velFels with some peftilenrial
' difordcr—and alas !no place provided for their recep
) tion. The trust committed to the gentlemen in nomi
-1 sationisof the hipbeft nature; and th#y cught ccrn
s fclentioufly to acquit themselves.
» So fay Thousands.
r
[ Extract of a letter from Angufta, dated May 13,
" 1 have to acknowledge the rcceipt ps your
. much esteemed favor of the Bth April, which was
3 | forwarded to me at Savannah, where Walker, Wat
e kins, and myfelf have been attending the Federal
e Court. The Chief Jultice, Mr. Ellfworth, gave
s great fatisfafclion as well by judicious determina
y tions of the vaiiotis business of the couif, as by the
- 1110 ft punctual attention. 1 have the higheff e
e iteem and refpedl for him, and therefore could not
; ; without great pieafure, fee the citizens of that
3 | proud city vicing with tS-h other in endeavors to
j make his flay among them agreeable to him. Gen.
a | Jackson was absent at Louifvilie the firfl week of
il ] court. On his return he did 11s the honor of feal
a 1 ing himfelf once or twice at ths bar, hut it did not
0 I appear to me among ten or a dozen of us, that he
f , had above one or two acquaintance. Stephens and
il Mitchell were the only gentlemen he spoke to.—
- t He and Watkins have had another renconntrr, ?s
doubt less some of your friends have made known
1 to you, but having witnetfed the most important
I part of the fcenp, you may incline to hear my ac
e cnunt of it. The court having adjourned about
s eleven o'clock, the chief julliceand members ps the
a bar walked ofl in different directions, leaving Gen.
i- Jackson in the" court hou r ft piazza. Seeing Mr.
e Wa kins and Mr. Phinchas Miller walking towards
r the bay, he after some time followed them,and took
y great pnins to walk briskly by Wa'.kins and to go
II round just in front of him. Moved by eontempt
f of such ptierilf bchaeiour, Watkins hem'd and
ohferving (he other eying of him bur ft out into-a
y loud laugh looking him full in the face. The Gen.
e went 011 under apparent mortification, and com
s plained to some of his friends of the insult he hid
o received, and avowed a determination of catling
•• 1 Watkir.s tbe'firfi place he (hould meet him. In
e (lead however of going after Watkins, he makes a
s stand at the exchange, and had runners out in all
y direiVioßS to coiledt those in whose fidelity he had
:i confidence ; and by those means got together a
bout twenty or thirty persons—moll of whosi had
e;pift6l»in 1 heir pockets, and short clubs in their I
• haniX', About an hour as erwards, and while the
1. • Gen. and his party remained at the exchange,
s j Watkins without any suspicion or knowledge of
• j 'uvh intent tens was pfaceably along the bay