Gazette of the United States and daily evening advertiser. (Philadelphia [Pa.]), 1794-12-23 00:00:00

Gazette of the United States AND DAILY EVENING ADVERTISER.
[No. 166 of Vol. VI.]
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1794.
[Whole No. 716.]
FOR SALE, At the STORES of Jesse & Robert Waln, PORT WINE in pipes, hds. and quarter casks...
LANDING, from the Ship Adriana Kieran Fitzpatrick Master, from Amsterdam. HOLLAND SAIL DUCK, Ditto--Sheeting, Ticklenburgh, Osnaburgh...
Green Coffee, Not entitled to the Drawback. A FEW PIPES Holland Gin, At a Reduced Price, JAMAICA SPIRITS, ANTIGUA RUM...
COFFEE, Entitled to the Drawback, in hds., barrels and bags. D. 4
FOR SALE BY John D. Blanchard, At his Stores, in Third Street, 66 PIPES Choice TENERIFFE WINE, of superior quality...
Lottery No. 2, for the improvement of the FEDERAL CITY. GENTLEMEN, desirous of receiving regularly correct slips of the drawing of the Lottery...
For Hamburg, The fast-sailing ship INDUSTRY, LYING at Walnut-street wharf, will sail in about 15 days...
For Charter, The BRIG FAIR HEBE, John M c Keever, master. BURTHEN 1700 barrels of flour, she is in complete order, and sails fast.
For Sale or Charter, The SHIP MARGARET, Robert Robertson, MASTER. She is in complete repair, and of about 3200 barrels burthen.
FOR SALE, THE CARGO OF THE American Ship HENRY, Capt. Crowninshield, from CALCUTTA, CONSISTING OF THE FOLLOWING GOODS:
BENARES SUGAR. The ship Henry is arrived at Salem, and will be ordered to proceed to Philadelphia, as soon as the sale shall be effected.
Burlington Pork. A QUANTITY OF Best Burlington Pork, FOR SALE BY Levi Hollingsworth & Son.
Forty Dollars Reward. RAN away from the subscribers in Woodbury, Gloucester County, New Jersey, on Sunday morning the 12th instant, Two young Negro Fellows...
Bank of North America, December 8, 1794. The Stockholders of the Bank of North America are hereby notified that an ELECTION for Twelve Directors...
Office of the Insurance Company of North America, THE President and Directors of this Company are now ready to receive applications for Insurance on Houses and Stores...
Any person desirous to contract for the supply of Rations for the Recruits in Philadelphia, Lancaster, Reading and Carlisle, or either of those places...
For Sale by the Subscribers, No. 81, Walnut-street, 17 Hogheads and 14 Barrels Muscovado SUGARS, 19 Casks Hylton Tea...
The Stockholders of the Bank of the United States are hereby informed that according to the Statute of Incorporation, a General Election for TWENTY-FIVE DIRECTORS...
Whereas an attachment at the suit of the administrator of all and singular the goods and chattels, rights and credits, which were of William Burnet deceased...
Fresh Teas, OF SUPERIOR QUALITY, viz. Imperial, or Gunpowder Hylton Gomez, 1st quality Hylton, 2d. do. do. Young Hylton, Hylton Skin, and Souchong.
LANDING, From on board the Birmingham Packet, Lockyer, and the Henry and Charles, from Hamburg, HEMP, Petersburg's first quality, BAR IRON, Sweden's, assorted TIN, in plates, do. do. GENEVA in hds. BAGGING, German assorted CLASS TUMBLERS, and Black Quart Bottles, DEMIJOHNS, Window Glass, MATTS, &c. &c.
FRESH Bohea Tea, AND GIN in Pipes, Now Landing from on board the ship Peggy, John Elliott master, from Amsterdam. Also Imported by the late Arrivals, Russia Hemp, first quality Ditto Sail Duck...
5-4 & 6-4 Boultng Cloth, FOR SALE BY Pragers & Co. Nov. 11
George Hunter, Chemist, At his Laboratory, No. 114, South Second Street. INFORMS his former customers and the public, that he has begun the DRUG business again on an extensive plan.
FRESH DRUGS, CHEMICAL PREPARATIONS, and PATENT MEDICINES. Likewise, painters' colours, dry and ground in oil, paint, brushes, window and couch glass, dye stuffs, linseed oil, oil of Turpentine, copal oil, varnish and japan, warranted good.
India Nankeens, On which the Drawback may be obtained FOR SALE BY Samuel Corp, New-York, or Henry Philips, No. 118, Spruce Street.
PRINTING, In its various and extensive Branches, Executed with Accuracy, Elegance, Expedition, and on Moderate Terms, by Ormrod & Conrad, At the Old Sign of Franklin's Head, No. 41, on the north side of Chestnut Street.
Stock Brokers Office, No. 16, Wall-street, New-York. THE Subscriber intending to confine himself entirely to the PURCHASE and SALE of STOCKS on COMMISSION, by which he will leave to offer his services to his friends and others...
Moreau de St. Mery, & Co. No. 84, South Front Street, corner of Walnut. RESPECTFULLY inform the public that they have just opened their Store of FRENCH, ENGLISH, GERMAN and LATIN BOOKS, of STATIONERY of every kind, ENGRAVINGS, MATHEMATICAL INSTRUMENTS, MAPS, CHARTS, &c. &c.
Moreau de St. Mery & Co. No. 84, cote Sud, au coin de Front et de Walnut Street. ON l'honneur d'informer respectueusement le Public qu'ils ont ouvert leur magasin de Livres Francais, Anglois, Allemands et Latins, d'objets de Papiers de toute nature, de Gravures, d'Instrumens de Mathematiques, de Cartes Geographiques, &c. &c.

MR. FENNO.
A character of eminence in the political world has said that the best government may be destroyed by reiterated and unrefuted calumny. The constant repetition of attack will finally destroy the strongest work. The appearance of a settled design in a certain party in the United States to overthrow our constitution has suggested these remarks. While these attacks were simply the feeble efforts of scattered individuals, their malevolence was less to be dreaded than despised; but at this day when their intricate projects have ripened into a regular system, strengthened by numerous combinations and spreading themselves all over the continent, it behoves every good citizen, who values the existence of union among the states and a regular government to oppose the extension of so formidable an enemy to both.
Shortly after the arrival of Genet in this country, a club was instituted at Philadelphia under the title of the Democratic Society ; the period of its institution and many well known circumstances attending it, authenticate the report that Genet was its founder, the primary and real object of this society was to propagate French principles among us, and to gallize the American nation, and to vilify and insult the executive of the United States if he should oppose the will and views of their patron; the ostensible object was to check the unconstitutional encroachment of government, and to keep alive pure democratic principles. How far this virtuous conclave answered the wishes of their founder, their publications have demonstrated; how far their proceedings corresponded with his designs, the precipice to which our public affairs were brought last year, and from which they were rescued by the magnanimous conduct of the President, is a sufficient proof. After the recall and disgrace of their creator, this junto, unwilling to disband themselves, and having acquired some degree of influence by the association of a few bitter societies, gave a new direction to their views; that vanity , which had first brought the leaders into view, and had designated them to Genet as fit instruments for his purposes, which had afterwards prompted them to figure as orators on the floor of their club rooms, now opened to their views the seducing prospect of a more dignified and enlarged theatre. Ambition soon united with vanity to urge these leaders to every measure which could accomplish the desired object. A seat in Congress or in a state assembly, or a lucrative office under the federal or state governments, one or other was the goal proposed, according to the degree of ambition, vanity, cupidity, or influence of the respective leaders.*
To succeed in their views it was necessary to remove out of their way all those public characters who enjoyed the public confidence, for they had sense enough to see that they could not get it, until the others were put out.
To succeed in turning out those whose stations they coveted, it was necessary to prejudice the public mind against them. This was to be done by a regular, systematical, and unabating abuse of all the proceedings of government, but particularly those measures which were owing to the exertions of their rivals. By associating a number of clubs, all stimulated by one common motive, all uniting their joint efforts, all disseminating the inflammatory publications of each other, such a fund of materials was established, and such a momentum of force provided, as must in a short period effectually crush their adversaries.
The above short history of the institution and views of these clubs is a clue to their conduct. If any should entertain a doubt, a review of their resolutions and a little insight into their private transactions must completely remove it.
ANTI-CLUB.
* In proof of this assertion, the reader is referred to several recent instances of leaders in the Democratic Societies being candidates for Congress, &c.
MR. FENNO.
EVERY peruser of your Gazette must be struck with surprise, nay, astonishment, when he beholds with what depth of penetration "A Citizen of Philadelphia" comments, or, to use a more apt expression, satirically criticises on a speech which was read, at a late commencement, by Mr. Swanwick. The speech, whether written by Mr. S. or not, is certainly most floridly ridiculous. The first sentence from the
introduction is almost incomprehensible, and from that to the last sentence there is little perspicuity or elegance; but who cannot discover wit, genius, and every attendant requisite in his imitable commentator! No envy, no jealousy discernible, nor biased by no party prejudice, he has given his ideas purely for the emolument and recreation of the public. Tho' some few partizans of a late contested election were somewhat subject to his , yet this gentleman does not appear to have the least symptom of that direful malady. So impartial, so just, so intelligent a critic will not fail to gain the most general approbation; and, as I have lately been informed, there is to be established (as soon as time and circumstances will permit) in this city , a Critical Review , to be similar I imagine to that which is at present carried on in London, I am very solicitous to learn the real name of this admirable character. It must not be supposed, however, that I mean to depreciate this sublime Quintillian, Aristotle, Longinus, or—I know indeed of no epithet sufficiently expressive—I only wish to intimate that with the judgment, candor, & erudition he possesses, he might, could he so far condescend, prove of the most infinite utility as a director of so arduous but desirable an undertaking.
F. I. N. I. S. Phila. Dec. 23, 1794.
FROM FRANCE.
Translated for the Minerva.
The "Dying pangs of the Jacobins;" a supplement to the "Jacobins unmasked." "Se taire est un crime, quand parler est utile."
'Tis a crime to be silent, when to speak is useful.
For many days past I have been punctual, in attending on the terrace of the national garden, that I might find there the man who promised to prove to me that the Jacobins are the High Chamber of France, and that the National Convention was not opposed to them, but formed only a House of Commons. It was not 'till Primida , [the first day of the new French week] that I found him. Well said I, as we met, have you yet seen our conversation printed? Yes, answered he and I am delighted with the effect it has produced on the public, that is among honest people, those who are sincerely attached to the Republic, and who are heartily and warmly the friends of the National Convention, as being the central point of union for all good citizens. There is not a brave Sans Culotte, not one honest man who does not abhor that sacrilegious society; and you need have no doubt that the few honest men who have joined their meetings, will speedily retire from the club. There will then remain in the society none but the managers, the factious the intriguing demagogues, and such as are paid for applauding them. But these will not remain a long time; for the society has no money; Robespierre is no more, and those who have taken his place have not the same knack of plundering and pillaging one man to enrich another, & you may rely on it, that lately they have been obliged to incur heavy expenses to pay their retainers for their acclamations, to send abroad advocates in groups, in short, for the multitude of means those brave people employ to mould the public opinion, to gain the favor of so many good citizens, who never had a wish for the good of their country, but for their own personal benefit.
You are wrong said I, in supposing them short of money; do you believe that those of them who have had the management of the monies of the Republic, will not sacrifice one part of their dilapidations and exactions to save the other? Be assured they will neither spare money nor intrigue to corrupt the public opinion, and shelter themselves from the vengeance of the laws.
I could wish, continued he, you had been at their sittings on the 29th ult; you would have rejoiced in their confusion.—The Jacobins unmasked ; but this did not produce all the effect they expected; altho' they had advanced the most impudent falsehood, in declaring that pamphlet was distributed gratis among the people who refused it. There are a thousand hawkers who can attest the contrary.
What surprizes me, said I to my companion, is, that there is not one of them who will undertake the defence of the society, when so many publications appear against them. How! replied he, you believe they dare enter into a controversial discussion? No; no; they know too well the weakness of their cause—they know the patriots, the members of the Convention, will always have the advantage over them.—They act with the utmost precaution—"They take important steps in silence." They so prepared their measures on the 27th July.
At present they perceive the public opinion to be against the society; that is with great displeasure we see in the number of its members, certain deputies who have not the most unfulfilled reputation; they are reduced to the necessity of causing addresses to be written by the affiliated societies, which all complain that the patriots are oppressed. The addresses from Grenoble and Salons, afford them some consolation; but that which raises their hopes, is from the society from Marseilles, which
says, that the signal given by the Jacobins; the battalion of the Marseilles is come to overthrow the throne, and the tyranny, and which ends by demanding if the society have need of further succors, speak, speak, say the Jacobins of Marseilles.
[The Readers notice is called in particular to the following.]
You see, said my comrade, that the society has constituted itself the chief of a formidable power, which has an army at its command; since it has only to speak, and battalions march against those whom they consider as their enemies; this society which had Robespierre for its chief, Henriot for General, and a commune [of Paris] with a treasury at its disposal, which could arm the people of Paris against the National representation. Alas! this society may yet command the forces of the affiliated societies. You see how pressing the necessity of annihilating it.—Already the society sends its assassins in Groups, for the purpose of intimidating the citizens by their menaces. On the evening of the Decadi, [the tenth and last day of the French week] there were brigands and abandoned women on the terrace of the national garden, they came in troops armed with clubs, to fall on those who dared to speak against the society, and upon the hawkers who dared to sell pamphlets written against them. The Jacobins not having a syllable to answer against these crimes with which they are charged they seek terror to be the order of the day; but it is the terror of nocturnal assassinations. During this day, they are content to cause a few hawkers to be arrested, whom they wish to deprive of the means of subsistence; for this class can subsist only by the liberty of the press; if this liberty were to be belimited at the pleasure, of that society, the enemy of all liberty and which wishes nothing but for itself and friends, those good citizens would be reduced to certain misery.*
It is then important that all good citizens should know all the falsehood of the allegations of this society, which would rival the National Convention, and which would usurp the sovereignty of the people.
I must tell them, "when citizens have named their representatives, these are invested with full powers to make good laws and a constitution, to produce their happiness, and secure the prosperity of the republic. But since they have been stripped of these powers, they have been a corporation of men whom they have not deputed, to whom they have entrusted no power, no commission, raising itself between the people and the National representation; this corporation influencing their deliberations, examining the laws, discussing them before hand, opposing them, or demanding the report when they opposed a political body, which the nation cannot recognize. No, there is no citizen who did not understand, when he delegated his authority, his portion of national sovereignty, that his representatives are free, that they depend on no man, on no body of men.
The 39th article of the Constitution, declares the legislative body to be one, indivisible. Why do we find a society which wishes so to identify itself with the legislative body, so as to make it believed, that the destruction of the society would dissolve the National representation. It is because the society wishes to revive the system of two houses, which has been proscribed by the general wish, and the Jacobin society would make one of those houses; it wishes to be the most powerful and it is become so; it is so at this moment; it has, in the view of the people, overturned the constitution; and such is its art of fascination that we hardly perceive the two Chambers which the people abhor; and that it partakes, as in England, of the legislative power, but in a way less reasonable and more dangerous.†
In England, it is the house of Commons where the people are represented, which proposes and digests the laws. The house of Peers, whose members vote for themselves, without any delegation of authority from the people, adopts or rejects the bills proposed by the house of Commons.
In France, on the contrary, the society of the Jacobins has constituted itself a house of peers. There the members keep their seats, as formerly in the Parliament, without commission from the people, upon the consent of the other peers and by purchase. There the members vote for themselves or for the society, upon their own authority; and this house of peers, self-created, not elected, and where the nation is not represented, has arrogated to itself, and they are suffered to arrogate to themselves the functions of a house of Commons. This society proposes the decrees, digests them, discusses them and causes them to be presented to the National Convention, by those of its members who will yield to the trouble of sitting in both houses, and who have
* In Paris and in London Newspapers and pamphlets are sold mostly by hawkers.
† In France there is a strong prejudice against two houses in the Legislature. It revives the idea of a house of peers. Time will be required to correct these prejudices.
the weakness to fill in the legislative body, the station only of ministerial organs of the society which supports them by the warlike force of the tribunes and the mob.
There remains then the second house, called the National Convention; the only one established by the constitution; the only one where the people can be represented by the men of their own choice; that which we have all promised to live and to die in defence of the legitimate rights which we have confided to them;—there remains nothing for this Convention but the liberty of discussing the laws in the form and adopting them as the society has proposed them, with the applause of the tribunes filled by their direction, or to reject them, at the risk of their reputation, perhaps at the hazard of their lives.
By what abuse of principles, has it happened that our National Convention, that, great sovereign legislative body, invested with the whole national power, and whose unity we would guarantee with our oaths and our constant determination, should be so degraded, and rendered so subordinate, that in fact its authority should bend under that of a society, which would form a corporation in the republic—a society in the bosom of which have been generated all the traitors, all the conspirators, all the faithless agents, all the preverse magistrates; for these were Jacobins, the Dantons, the Chabots, the Chaumettes, the Heberts, the Vincents, the Momoro's, the Ronfins: these were Jacobins, the Robespierres, the St. Justs, the Couthons; that Dumourier was a Jacobin, who alone, as the Society said, was worth an army; they were Jacobins who conspired against the National Representation on the 27th July; who united with the Commune composed of Jacobins; and at the time when this society announced that it had taken important measures, prepared in silence ; when it pursues the principles it professes, and when it perceives that patriotic writers strive to enlighten the people, to invite them in the name of their country to crowd round the convention, and make for them a rampart of their bodies against the attempts of the society meditated in silence; they dare to calumniate the purest intentions; they dare avow their wishes to dissolve the Convention and the Republic; as if all the French were not persuaded that the Convention is the only power that can save the Republic from the horrors of anarchy which the society contrives in silence; as if all the citizens were not ready to shed their blood in support of liberty.
Let us then warn the people to distrust a society, which they have not founded, which takes measures in silence; which maintains a correspondence in the departments, which has only to speak and an army marches at its orders; a society in fine which seeks to impress terror on the public by the most detestable means.
Let us warn the people to rally round the National Representatives; to offer their persons as a rampart, as they did on the 27th July; while the Jacobins joined Robespierre and his accomplices, and the traitorous commune of Paris. Let us urge them to keep an eye on the tawny and strange figures, [alluding to the battalion from Marseilles] which swarm in Paris; all the people with Mustachios and clubs who spread themselves among the crowds; and that they arrest and carry before the committee of General Surety, those men who vilify the upright majority of the National Convention.
I left my companion, with an eager desire to deliver this advice to the press, but we promised each other to meet again speedily.
BARALY.
Note. At the moment this paper was going to press, we learnt that the Jacobins and their hirelings had collected on the terrace near the National palace, were endeavouring by their provocations to excite a tumult among the people. We hope the Convention will yield to the wishes fully expressed by the citizens, who supported them on the night of the 27th July and not trust at all to the purification of the society.
[Had the foregoing paper been written in America, it could not have been more conformable to the opinions of intelligent Americans. The whole foregoing description of the Jacobin Clubs answers precisely to the ideas and expectations of Americans, respecting their progress and pernicious influence. The whole description is supported by indubitable facts, and is one continued comment on the reasoning of Federal Americans, against the establishment of such societies in this country.]
P A R I S. SITTING of the JACOBINS, 7th Vendemaire. (Sept. 29.)
Audouin, read a long discourse, directed against the new faction, which he said was an emanation from that of Orleans, Danton, and Fabre D'Eglantine; he predicted of it the same fate which had befallen those which had preceded it. He justified the Jacobins from their calumnies. "It is publicly, it is openly," said Audouin, "that we attack the enemies of the people, we drive them from among us, but we do not direct pistols and daggers against them in the dark." He assured the society, "that the people were for them." "Yes" cried the Orator "let Catiline with his troop, let Pisistratus* with his wounds given by himself" (loud applause) "come forward, they shall meet the reward of all tyrants." Where is the vessel which after a long voyage has not been exposed to the storms and tempests? Where are the sailors who have not been roughly handled by the winds and waves? The vessel is the Republic; the sailors are the faithful defenders of the popular cause; and the sharks which follow the vessel in the hope of some prey to devour, are the Scoundrels and Aristocrats.—
[Applauded.]
It is to royalty, continued the Orator, that they with insinuity conduct us, not openly, but by an Aristocratic institution similar to that of the two houses of Parliament in England; and by the privileges, and power which they wish to give to that million of sleep fathers of the people, whose subsistence they would devour. The faction, says he, demands the reign of honest men, but we are not agreed as to the acceptation of this word; according to us, honest men are patriots, rich in virtues, who devote their faculties, their persons, and their lives to the defence of the Republic; according to them, honest men, are those who have good wine, keep a good table, and have a great deal of money, that million of rich egotists, who seated by their fire side, with their toes well warmed all winter, have not gone a step to forward the Revolution.
The Orator, after having invited the society to answer all calumnies, by rendering the people happy, and destroying great fortunes and misery, which always go together, thus terminated his discourse:—"And thee, oh Paris! City celebrated in the annals of the Revolution, know that thou art like a colony in a desert Island, which have burnt the vessels they came in, and with whom their remains no hopes of return.—Remember the horrible imprecation of Isnard; know that it yet exils in the hearts of thy numerous enemies, that it would take effect, that thou would'st be undone, wait thou to consent to the re-establishment of Royalty, or even of an Aristocratic Republic, and that thou can't exist only under the government of a Republic, one, indivisible and democratic."
* We suppose the Orator here meant to doubt the account of the attempts made to assassinate Tallien.
COMMUNE AFFRANCHIE, (Ci-devant Lyons.)
The Representatives of the People now in this city, have denounced, in a proclamation, the following maxims, which were lately declared to be incompatible principles by the popular society of this place.
"The sovereignty resides immediately in the Popular Societies. The public opinion is drawn from the will of each Popular Society."
We did not expect their pretensions would go quite so high as this. Do these things proceed from the whim, and folly of the societies? It is better to think so, than to imagine that they aim at a domination, a hundred times more abominable and absurd, than was ever meditated by the ambitious disciples of Loyola, (the Jesuits.)
Notwithstanding the representations of every rational being in the society, the printing and posting up the shocking dogma, was ordered and executed.—But the Representatives Charlier, and Pocholle, have entirely tranquillized our minds. They have in their excellent proclamation, declared the principles of the popular Societies to be destructive of all social order, and have uncovered the snare, laid by anarchy and villainy.
They have also adjourned the sittings of the society, for the present, and sent the orator, who first broached the horrid doctrine in question, under good and sure guard, to the Committee of General Welfare.

published in this city, does not diminish—they are remarkable for the oddity of their titles. Here they cry, "the Infernal Club," there "Well, Jacobins! What will you do about it?" A little farther you hear, the deep despair of the Jacobins, departing in a malediction for La Vendee."
The day before yesterday, a number of waggons arrived from the Netherlands, loaded with precious metals. We are assured that the National Treasury was never so full of specie, as it is at this moment. There is also another kind of riches which we have drawn from the Low countries, that is a collection of the finest Paintings of the Flemish School—they will soon be exposed to view in the National Museum.
The tragedy of Mahomet , was lately presented on the Theatre of Equality, Ci-devant, Theatre Francaise. The public applauded with enthusiasm, every time the following lines were repeated.
"Exterminer, grand dieu, de la terre ou nous hommes, Quiconque avec plaisir repand le sang des hommes." Great God! exterminate from the earth, whoe'er takes pleasure in shedding the blood of his fellow men.
UNITED STATES.
BALTIMORE, Dec. 17.
We hear from Fayetteville, (N. C.) that a fire broke out there on the 18th ult. and destroyed six houses.
NORFOLK, Dec. 20.
Arrived. Ship Clermont, Stewart, London Hercules, Clancey, Do. Aba, Petreje, Baltimore Schooner Mary Whitney, Philadelphia Betley, Bouch, N. Providence
PHILADELPHIA, Decem. 23.
The hon. JOHN HENRY is re-elected a Senator of the United States, by the Legislature of Maryland.
Benjamin Edwards Esq. is elected a member of the House of Representatives of the United States, for the State of Maryland, in the room of Gen. Uriah Forrest, resigned.
Says a Correspondent,
Our anarchists whose success depends on concealing their true character dislike the title ant federalist. They say we are all federal—party names and distinctions should be dropped. The very fame men with the impudence that suits their want of principles, and the inconsistency that might be expected from their superficial knowledge, claim the title of republicans , as the distinction of their party; as if the friends of a republican government whom they slander and oppose were not republicans. If they will give party names, let them patiently wear their own. They chose it in 1787 and 1788, why because the people are federal should they shrink from it now?
In several factious newspapers, no moderate share of impudence has been exerted in vain to distinguish the factious by the pretty title of the Republicans . The Republican interest &c. &c. But it would not answer. Who are the mock Republicans? The whiskey men, and the members in a certain assembly, whose speeches and thirteen letters and whispers of calumny and falsehood at the elections inflamed the whiskey men and gave them pretences for mischief.
Now it may be Republican for a party who are in the United States, about 5,000 to five millions, to meet, and resolve the laws odious, and then trample them under foot. It may be Republican for the leaders of the party to make speeches, which stir up such excesses. But if this is Republicanism, it is of a new and most abominable sort, from which and the professors of it, Good Lord deliver us—and we shall be deliver when the people attend their elections, and cry—
AMEN.
Most of the ant federal newspapers in the United States seem to be silent, or merely to whisper faintly the old accusations against Government. The Boston Chronicle has long been remarkable for perseverance as well as hardihood. Mr. Genet was given up here by his friends, and his accusers had nearly dropped the mention of his name and his excesses. The Chronicle writers however still fought for him. They lavished praises upon his spirit and republicanism as if such cordials could raise a dead man. Either the orders from here miscarried or the subs at Boston mistook their tenor and meaning. Here the vent of incendiary calumny has been shut, because the licen-
siouness that disgraced the newspapers some time ago would strengthen the prevailing opinion that such things fomented the insurrection. But the Chronicle writers go on to vindicate themselves and their party from the charge of sedition with a spirit worthy of the whiskey cause. Some means ought to be fallen upon to prevent the insurgent printers at a distance from marring the designs of faction and anarchy, as they seem to be so much behind hand in their politics, they never fail to disgrace their party more than the Government. Could they not correspond by the Telegraph?
Extract of a letter from a merchant much respected for good sense and patriotism, in an Eastern State, to his Friend in this City.
"I find it is the general opinion that no vote of Congress against self-created societies could have been more damaging to men that have one particle of feeling, than the opprobrium thrown upon them in the house. The contempt with which members of this society are viewed by every one who has the least pretension to character or patriotism cannot be expressed; and no human consideration will soften this sentiment, unless a degree of pity should be excited for the fate of those few who have so far out-run the great body of their fellow-citizens as to have reached the goal of moral and political infamy before the many who have only come in sight of it."
Last evening arrived the brig Mary, Capt. Fleming, from Bourdeaux, which he left the 19th of October, Captain Fleming was at Paris the 7th at which time every thing was tranquil—the people highly elated with the success of their armies, and of their cruising ships who take an amazing number of prizes. Provisions were in great plenty, and not so high as might be expected. Two divisions of waggons, loaded with treasure, under an escort of dragoons, arrived at Paris while he was there. The Breft fleet was still in Port.
By this arrival Paris papers to the 12th are received; among other important articles of information which they contain, it appears that the city of Cologne with an immense quantity of property & the finest arsenal in the world have fallen into possession of the French—and the allied army after a series of further defeats had been compelled to pass the Rhine.—This account is contained in a letter from the Representative with the army Gillet which was read in the Convention.
CONGRESS.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Monday, December 22, 1794.
After reading and referring a number of petitions to the committee of claims, the House took up the transfer bill, founded on the resolution moved by Mr. B. Bourn; which was read a second time and ordered to be engrossed.
The house then went into a committee of the whole on the bill providing an uniform system of naturalization, Mr. Cobb in the chair. An amendment was moved by Mr. Giles, on the subject of expatriation, the substance of which is, that persons who have, or may expatriate themselves from any state, shall not be restored to citizenship without a special act of the legislature of the state from which they expatriated themselves. Mr. Tracy moved an addition to this amendment; which provides that an act of the general government shall be also necessary to their restoration. This amendment gave rise to a debate. Mr. Giles finally withdrew his amendment. The Committee reported progress.
PISCATAQUA-BRIDGE,
Leading from Newington over Piscataqua River to Durham, is now passable, and in a few days will be completely finished—Its distance from Portsmouth is seven miles—from Dover four:—The River which it crosses is of a great depth—in most places about fifty-two feet at high-water; the whole length of the Bridge, is 2362 feet—width 38.
This piece of Architecture has been under the management of THOMAS THOMPSON and JOHN PEIRCE, Esquires—Agents appointed by the Directors—It consists of two principal parts—the first is a Pile Bridge, carried from Newington shore to Rock-Island; the second is an Arch, from Rock Island to Goat-Island; the third from Goat-Island to Durham shore; is similar to the first, supported on piles of great length; from fifty-five to sixty-three feet, driven into the bed of the river by large hammers, of oak-timber, braced and framed on a new and improved plan. Mr. ENOS WHITING of Norwich, in Connecticut, has had the superintendence of the pile work, which is finished in a strong and workman-like manner. He has also constructed a draw for the passage of shipping, which moves across in a horizon-
tal direction, instead of being raised on hinges; but it is feared this expected improvement will not answer the purpose.
The Arch is supported on two Abutment—the one on Rock-Island, the other on Goat-Island—the Chord of this Arch, between the two Abutments, where the water passes, is two hundred and forty four feet, six inches in length, it is composed of three Tier Girders or Arches—the Crown of the lower one next to the water, is sixteen feet from the Chord, and twenty feet from high-water.—The second tier supports the planking on which the road passes—which is on a larger circle to facilitate the travelling. The third tier or cap-pieces, forms the top railing of the bridge, which is handsomely ornamented.—The length of the arch being much greater than there was any satisfactory account of—appeared at first a very formidable difficulty, but its present great strength and firmness is equal to the most sanguine expectation, and sufficient to answer every purpose.
Mr. Timothy Palmer of Newbury Port, in Massachusetts, was the Architect who contrived and presented the model on a plan entirely new, and under whose sole directions this accurate and beautiful piece of mechanism was executed. The model of Merimac Bridge was had from the same person, who from his knowledge of the theory and practical part of this sort of mechanics, may justly be considered as one of the most ingenious Architects of the present age.
A convenient Tavern House and stables are erected at the expense of the Proprietors, on Goat-Island, for the accommodation of travellers. The road is now very direct, and from the exertions of the towns contiguous to it, is put in good order. This road & bridge being on the great route from Portland through Dover to Newbury-Port and Boston, will greatly accommodate all who pass that way.
The work for building this Bridge was begun in April last, since which as much as three thousand tons of oak timber—two thousand tons pine timber—eighty thousand tons stones, have been used, and a suitable number of hands employed. Such exertions reflect great honor on the Agents and others concerned for completing in so short a time so great a work.
By this Day's Mail.
NEW-YORK, Dec. 21.
Charleston, Nov. 19. John Neufville, Esq. has lately issued his certificates of funded debt in favor of this state to the amount of nearly one million and a half of dollars, due from the United States. A specie interest of about 13,000. sterling, will be annually paid on this capital, from the commencement of the ensuing year, and a considerably greater sum after the year 1800. The whole debt of this state is about half a million of pounds sterling. If therefore the legislature can annually raise, by taxes, seventeen thousand pounds, in addition to the current services of the year, the whole debt of the state may be funded at six per cent. To ensure punctuality in the payment of the interest, it will be proper to lay the tax this year, and to defer payment of interest till the year 1796. With a year's tax in advance, and five quarters interest from Congress, amounting to 69,000 dollars, also in advance, it will be fully in the power of the state to be punctual in the payment of the interest on its whole debt, from and after the end of 1795. The creditors of South Carolina are therefore cautioned against parting with the evidences of their debt, as the legislature, at their approaching session, have the means of doing them justice; and it may be fairly presumed that they will not neglect so important a part of their duty.
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There is a report in Town that Amsterdam was not in possession of the French on fourth November.
The British Mail by the October packet was received at the Post Office this day.
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NEW THEATRE.
TO-MORROW EVENING
DECEMBER 24.
Will be Presented,
A new COMEDY, never performed here. (written by the author of the West Indian, called
The Natural Son.
Sir Jeffery Latimer, Mr. Harwood, Blufhenly, Mr. Moreton, Ruefull, Mr. Green, Jack Hufings, Mr. Chalmers, Major O'Flaherty, Mr. Whitlock, Dumps, Mr. Bates, David, Mr. Francis, Thomas, Mr. Darley jun., William, Mr. Price
Mrs. Phoebe Latimer, Mrs. Shaw, Lady Paragon, Mrs. Whitlock, Penelope, Mrs. Cleveland
End of the Comedy, a Comic Pastoral DANCE, composed by Mr. Francis, called
L'Amour trouve La Moyens,
Or the
FRUITLESS PRECAUTION.
To which will be added,
The COMIC OPERA, called
Flitch of Bacon,
OR
Dunmore Priory.
On Friday,
The TRAGEDY of
George Barnwell,
With the
Birth of Harlequin,
Or the FRIENDLY WITCHES.
And on Saturday,
The COMIC OPERA of
Lionel & Clarissa,
With
Modern Antiques,
Or the MERRY MCGURNERS.
Box One Dollar—Pitt 3/4 of a Dollar—and Galle 1/2 a dollar.
The doors will be opened at a 1/2 after five and the performance begin at 3/4 after six o'clock.
Tickets and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Wells, at the Theatre, from TEN till ONE, and on days of pe fo mance from TEN till THREE o'clock.
No money or tickets to be returned, no any person on any account whatsoever, admitted behind the scenes.
AMSTERDAM.
The fate of this important city, greatly interests the commercial citizens of the United States. At the late hour we received the intelligence announced in the Centinel we had not time to investigate the authority of the intelligence, and we announced it as we received it.
The alarm it has excited in the merchants who trade to that city, has induced us to make every inquiry into the subject; and the result is a belief, that Amsterdam was not captured by the French, at the date of the latest accounts from Europe, although the event is not now improbable; for success has made the French Republicans invincible. Several vessels from Europe have been spoken with, the captains of which mentioned the continued successes of the French, and that they did not doubt that the French were in Holland.
If Amsterdam has so suddenly fallen into the hands of the French, it must have been by capitulation or treaty. The event of the Dutch making a separate peace with France, is not improbable; and should it take place, it will be highly favorable to the commerce of the United States. Col. Cent.
AN AUTUMNAL ODE.
YET once more glorious God of day, While beams thine orb serene, O let me warbling court thy stay, To gild the fading scene;
Thy rays invigorate the spring, Bright summer to perfection bring, The cold inclement days of winter cheer, And make th' autumnal months the milder of the year.
E'er yet the russet foliage fall, I'll climb the mountain's brow; My friend, Haman, at thy call To view the scenes below.
How sweetly pleasing to behold, Forests of vegetable gold? How mix'd the varied scenes between, The tawny-mellowing hug, and the bright vivid green.
How splendid all the sky! How soft the whispers of the sky! That wind along the dale, So tranquil nature's works appear.
It seems the Sabbath of the year— As if the summer's labors past, he choos'd This season's sober calm, for blandish- ing repose.
Such is of well spent life the time, When busy days are past, Man verging gradual from his prime, Meets sacred peace at last!
His flowery spring of pleasure o'er, And summers full blown pride no more, He meets pacific Autumn meek and bland, And dauntless braves the stroke of Win- ter's palid hand.
For yet a while, a little while, Involv'd in wintry gloom, And lo! another spring shall smile, A spring eternal bloom!
Then shall he shine a glorious guest, In the bright mansions of the blest, Where due rewards on virtue are be- stow'd, And reap the golden fruits of what his Autumn sow'd.
M'Pherons Blues.
THE Corps are desired to parade in Uniform on Saturday next at 9 o'Clock, A. M. in front of the State-House; with their Arms, accoutrements, ammunition, Knapsacks, and every other public property in their possession, for the purpose of delivering up the same, By order of the Colonel. ROBERT HEYSHAM, Adj. December, 22, 1724.
A Frenchman about
19 years of age, who writes a good hand, and can count, would wish to learn, in Philadelphia, the trade of a COACH-MAKER—Any commands to be addressed to Mr. Cadet, in Water Street, No. 71, north. Dec. 23
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