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Some confidence debate took place, rela
tive to the erection of alight-house at the
mouth of Chel'ipeske Biy, at the expence of
the United Sta;es. The bill was, at length,
gone through with amendments, and the com
mittee rose and reported the fame; after
which, the -House adjourned till Mouday,
>1 o’clock.
Monday, July 20.
The bill for eftabliihing the Department of
Foreign Affairs was brought down from the
Senate, concurred with amendments.
A message was received from the President
of the Umted States, accompanying the ton
nage bill, approved arid signed by him.
The engrofled bill for eftabliihing light
"h nifes, was read a third time, and pafled the
House.
The House thkn l todk up for a firft reading
the hill communicated by the Senate, to or
ganize the judiciary department —The fubjeft
of this bill was ordered to bfc taken uf> on
Monday next.
The House went into a committee on the
bill refpeding the weftern territory and hav
ing gone through the consideration of the
fame, it palled the House.
Mr. Sinnickfon had leave of-abferice foir
three weeks. *
Adjourned.'' ,
Tuefday, July 2 T.
The bill to provide for the government of
the territory north-weft of the Ohio, was read
a third time,, and pafled the House.
Mr. Madison then moved, that the House
resolve itfelf intoa committee, in order to take <
into consideration the subject of amendments,
to the Conflitutiou.
Several Members ftiggefted that it' wduld
be more proper to refer the fubjeft to a spe
cial committee, a motion Was'made in form,'
that a committee of one'Member from each
state be appointed to take into consideration the
motion of the fifth of Julie, [Mr. Madison’s
motion, offering certain amendments] toge
ther with the amendments proposed by the
conventions of the different ftateS, and to re
port thereon.
Upo.i this motion a diffulive debate ehfued,'
which turned altogether upon the point of ex
pediency as to the m>de; it being agreed'
that it would be pn.pjr for the House to take’
the fubjetl into consideration The principal
argument in favor of the motion was drawn
fronvahe infinite embarraflinents which would'
take £iicev if the fubjeft in its present irregu
lar' and disorderly state fliould come firft be
fore the whole House, and the great delay
which it would occasion.
- O;. the other hand it was chiefly contended,
that the method proposed would not give fa
tistaftion to the people ; and that it would
not facilitate the business, finco the whole fub
je& would, on the report of the committee,
lie open to theHoufa.
The motion was however carried by a large
majority, and the House proceeded to ballot
for the committee, which,'■’’on counting the
ballots, was found to consist of Mr. Gilman,
Mr. Goodhue, Mri Sherman, Mr. Benson,
Mr. Boudinot, Mr. Clymer, Mr. Vining, Mr.
Gale, Mr. Madison, Mr. Burke, Mr. Bald
wiri. Adjourned.
(To be continued.)
V I*' E 1 N N* A, 1 ’ Jave 10.
WE learn from Croatia, that the Turks
? have been repuU'ed in a second irrup
ttoii’ which they had attempted to make into
the Licca, in the Austrian territory ; and that,
after thisr defeat, the Austrians had taken a
redoubt with four iron cannons. In the even
ing of the aft.h ultimo, the Turks retreated
towards Vakup.
The la It accounts from Moldavia, ftafe,
that the Prince of Saxe Coburg, with the array
under his command, ’had reached Bakun;
that the Ruffians were "ported in the environs
of Gallacz; that a considerable number of
Turks weie atfembled neat'Fiockfrhm, and
that the Grand Vizier bad arrived on the
Wa iks of the Danube opposite to Ifmaei*
PARIS. July 6.
The mesfures adopted by the National As.
fantbly <0 obtain the pardon of the fotdiera re*
leafed by thy peon)# from prifott, have hid
tiivit rffe/t, T ot King w»mt I 'hair r#|ueit,
#«t J vu tU'MitM »atiiß known it tub, avaly
thing returned into its natural course, order
is restored, and all tolerably quiet.
* The Assembly, confiding generally of about
900 Members of the different orders, conti
nues its proceedings.
Mr. Neckar laid before the States Genera!
a mdft admirable account of all the steps taken
by government to alleviate the distress occa
sioned by the fcafcity'of corn throughout all
the with the quantities pnrehafed
in foreign countries, 82 c. from which it ap
pears, that, notwithstanding considerably
more than a million fterliug has been advanced
for the purpose, and great sums facrificed by
the King to keep down the'markers, the situ
ation is still exceedingly precarious; the ne
ceflity of generally recurring to the use of
rye bread is mentioned as probable, and the
K ing’s intention of setting the example, of
tiling it at his own table- At this moment
the capital is supplied from dav to day with
corn and ffour brought post by frellt relays of
horses from the"fea ports, and in such quanti
ties, and of such a quality as can be got. Va
rious modes of relief have been proposed to
the committee, but none adopted.
NASSAU, (New Providence) AuguJl I.
By a vessel arrived this day front Havanna,
we haVe intelligence of an order from the
King being received there,' that in
future no NegfoSs running away from fo
reign settlements, an‘d going to the Spanifii
colonies, will receive any countenance or pro
tection ; and directing that such runaway Ne
groes as are thfere, notwithstanding they may
have received the pfoteftrOn of the Church,
(hall be forthwith returned to the owners who
may claim them. This order wiS brought
, out in a packet from Corunna, which arrived,
after a pali’age of 47 days, on the lift of last
month.
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Mr. Printer ,
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AS the Legislature which are to meet next
month, will have a great deal of im
portant business on hand ; and as the forma
tion of the Judiciary will be the firft and
greateA objeff, I beg lekve to represent to the
PEOPLE, for their confideratiori, through the
channel" of your paper, the following out
lines of a plait,'which, in my’humble opini
on,' will be found in its operation very aptly
to apply to our prefCnt condition.
Iu public bodies there are few men who
meet prepared on great points : This plan is
delivered' out to iuduce our Representatives
to think 6n theTubjeft, and to bring together
their feVeraL opinions,' maturely formed, fo’
that the fyfiem may be made a.v pet fed, and
as compleat as poilible.—lt is with pleasure
that I view the lift of the Representatives from
the several counties : There are among them
men of reftedion, and “great good’ fehfe, who,
no doubt, wilt take up a due confederation of
this interesting lubjed; one charader parti- *
cularly whom the people of Richmond have
cholen, and whose talent for legdlation I have
long admired and refpeded, iris hoped will
turn his attention pointedly to this important
department of our Government.
GAL B A.
The' P L A N. '■
THERE lhall be three Judges of the Su- V
perior Court for the State of Georgia.* The
State (hall be divided into two DiftritTS-—one
to be called the tipper, the other the Lower.
There lhall be two Superior Courts held in
each count/every year, and one of the Judges
lhait prelide thereat, who lhall, in rotation,
‘ride the circuit, one of the Judge* remaining
always at the feat of Government.’
The Superior Courts (hall have original ju
rifdidion in all causes where the title of land ,
is dtfputedj and where damages are to be af
fefled, and in all criminal caf-js where the
off oce amounts to a felony ; and (hall have
appellate jurtfdidion in all cases referred to
them by the Supreme Court of Error and
Appeals, hereby eftibliihed>-A Supreme
Court shall be cftabtilhed to he called the
Court of Error* and Appeals, to conftft of the
three Superior judges, or any two of them,
who ate to fit at the (cat of Government im«
mediately after the circuit, to whom applica
tion (halt be made to coned any errors that 1
may have happened ou the timm, audio
' whom also application (hall be made for a
new trial, who, after due consideration, IhouM
they thitm it proper, are to order the fame
to be tried the next term in the county where
it originated.—On all appeals the Superior
Court '(hall have Chancery powers granted
them, to try all matters in law and equity,
and to compel the parties, on oath, to difeo
ver such fifts as may lead to a fair inveftiga
tionof the truth, which, when obtained, lhall
-h be referred to a Jury, whose verditft or de
cree (hall be final.—The fury to be formed
for the trial of such causes, (hall be drawn in
the following manner:—The Sheriff in each
county lhall keep a foil of the Jurors within
the county in which he arts, from which forty
eight men lhall be named by the Clerk of the
Court, who (hall take them indiferiminately
from the different parts of the lift. As they
are pointed out by the Clerk, the plaintiff
and the defendant', or the appellant and the
refpondant, (hSll the privilege of objeCl
ing to twelve each * the remaining number
twenty-four (hall be ptit into afrox, and the
firft twelve who are drawn lhall try the cause, ,
The Inferior Courts (hill be' held in each
county tour times a year, and fball be com
posed of four to be called County
Judges, any three of whom lhall form a quo
rum, who lhall have, original jurifdiftion of
all civil matters where the debt, or case be
fore the Court is afeertained as. t<s the sum»
but not where damages are to be assessed, and
exclulive jurifdidiou in all petty criminal
cases, (
AUGUSTA, o ßober 17.
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Colonel Irwin, of Walhingtou county, has
informed Government that Mr. Jaffold had
removed from his place near the Long Bluff
on the 30th ultimo, when it was found that
the treaty had failed. That the Indians had -
returned, aud eroded over on this fide the
Oconee, and, on the sth instant, burnt his
house, and carried off some corn. The peo
ple at Capt. Kemp’s fort being alaimed at
this, and there appearing much lign in the
- neighbourhood,-they evacuated it on the pth,
and the Indians burnt jt on the 10th. The
Colonel farther reprints that the people are
in much perplexity, between the danger to
which their families ateexpofed, and the im
portance' of Paving their little crops, what
Heps to take.
Government has no advice of the Spanifir
Ambaffadqr leaving New-York abruptly ; and
it is taken for granted that the report is with
out foundation. It is well known that Don
Gardoqui had permifiion of the King to return ,•
. to Spain near a year, ago, which he fignified
to the United States, »
f On the 15th ult. in the; Pennfyhania As
- fembly, in Committee of the whole, on the
- fubjeft of calling a convention to alter and
amend the Conflituiion of that a Refo
. lution in favor of a Convention was, adopted—
Yeas 39 —Nays 17. —The Convention is to
meet in the city of Philadelphia on the fourth
Tuefday of November next. ;
Agriculture, commerce and population in
.creafe in America with much rapidity. Ver
mont, which, a few yfcars since (fay sc) was
a Vvilderneis, now coutains 200,000 inhabi
tants —Kentuckey 50,00a.
Accounts from Virginia 2nd Maryland
mention the extreme heat of the weather on
the firft and second weeks in August, and
many sudden deaths which took place in con
sequence.
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The lh:p Granvillej DiXori, from London,
is arrived at Charleston.
WESTERN POSTS.
We have it from good authority, that the
PRESIDENT of the United States has lately
difpatchedCapt. Guion, formerly of the Ame
ncdii artillery, to Canada, to inquire of Lord
Dorchester, Whether he lias orders to furren
dcr to the United States, the Polls within the
territory thereof, noWgarrifoned by Britilh
so rces; & if he has not, that be write to Europe,
that he be immediately furniihed therewith*
This'intelligence,. if authentic, of which we
hav*? not a doubt,'tnuft jjjive great fati*faftion
10 the people of the 1 United Siates, who hive
too long lamented that the weakness of their
govcrnment'Tubjelfed them not only to a na*
tioual indignity, ’ but to a gteat lofi in
ibeirfar and other trades. Jn the potent arm
1 j the EateutNe'tHtv their hopes.