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granted. The report was agreed
to by the house.'
Mr. Claiborne Hated that du
ring the last session, a committee
V as appointed to enquire in«o
the Hate os the trade, authorised
bv law, with the Indian nations.
Xha: committee had reported
unsavorably to the trade. But
dsirous or maturing with deli
beration a new plan besore the
old one was supplanted, they
had seoorted a bill sor continu
ing the existing s/stem sor one
vear. The bill had palled the
house os representatives unani
moussy, but had been postponed
by the senate to this session.
For his own part he was alto
gether unsavorable to the trade ;
sar he believed it answcred no
jrood purpose in relation to the
Indians, while it was a loss to
the United States. It was,
however, proper that somc Ic
,ridative provision should be
made immediately. The old
law, regulating the ossicers who
had the luperintendance os the
trade had expired, and they
were, os consequence, under no
legal controul.
He, theresore, moved the
appointment os a committee to
enquire into the expediency os
carrying on any surther trade
sn a capital surnilhed by the U.
States, to report by bill or other*
vi- . which motion being read
a iccond time, w r as agreed to,
and a committee os three ap
pointed.
Mr. Otis observed, that at
the time he moved sor the reser
ence os the letter srom the se
cretary os the treasury, he was
os opinion that it might be ne
cessary to give particular instruc
tions to the committee to regu
late their measures in the con
templated investigation. But
on sunner resledion he thought
it would be better to leave the
committee at large to make the
investigation in such way as they,
in the progress os their enquiries,
should consider most satissaclory.
Objecls, not soreseen, might
occur, requiring disserent modes
os procedure srom any now a
grecd upon. Such was the opi
nion os the committee, who had
slireded him to move an instruc
t'on to the committee to exa
m'nc into the Hate os the trea
sury, the mode os conducing
t “ e husiness therein, the expen
ditures os the public money,
and to report such sads and
tatements as will conduce to a
Hi and satissadory undershmd-
JsS °s the (late os the treasury,
lince the appointment os the
kcretary. Agreed to.
general Lee, srom the com
rri!ttee appointed sor that pur
reported a bill sor ereding
d nauj oleum to George Wash
tN'GTON, w r hich was read twice
reserred to a committee os
the whole to-morrow.
The bill direds that the mau
si’cum shall be os marble, to be
peered, in the city os Washing
l°n > tinder the supcrintendance
** the sour secretaries.
ednejday , December 3.
H r - Gregg moved that the
Petition os Oliver Pollock, with
e documents accompanying
'A s a nne, and the report made
1/ Cre °n last session, be reserred
3 committee os the whole.—
On the suggestion os Mr. Gris
woid, a reserence made to
the committee os claims.
7 hnrsday y December 4.
Mr. Macon srom the com*
mittee os claims, made a report
on the petitions os Michael
Muhlcnburg, and James M*Ne
niera, sor services rendered
the United States, that, being
barred by the limitation law, the
petitions ought not to be grant
ed.
The house took up, and a
greed to the report.
A letter laid besore the
house srom the commissioners
os the city, inclosing a plan os
the city os Washington.
POLITICAL SCRAPS.
In proportion as the right os
lussrage is abridged, or the cx
pression os the public will sup
pressed, in that proportion re
publican governments become
weak and turbulent, and in the
same proportion monarchical or
aristocratical governments be
come st ong and oppressive.
This principle Items to be lb
well known, and has become so
impressivc upon the minds e>s
the American people, that what
ever man, or party os men,
shall dare to violate it, they can
not long escape popular neglcd
and contempt.
The party os junto in Massa
chusetts, who have taken away
the right os popular sussrage in
the choice os electors sor press
dent and vicc-president, arc
about to receive their just deme
rits. That sadion in this statc
who organized a plan sor the
choice os president, in which
the will os party, instead os the
public will, could only be ex
pressed, have at length become
bound by the chains which they
had prepared sor others.
In Maryland the dcsigns os
the monarchical party were not
clearly diseovered, until they
began to declare their determi
nation to deprive the people os
that slare os a vote in the presi
dential election—and this may be
considercd as one powersul cause
os the deseat os aristocracy in
that Rate.
The people os Pennsylvania
have shewn a spirit on this occa
sion worthy os sreemen and re
publicans. As sar as their voice
could be expressed, they have
disearded their would-be tyrants
—but while they have over
thrown sederalism in the house
os representatives, the senate
still continues to have a Snail
majority determined to go all
lengths in dissranchising the state
—These senators w r ere chosen
when alphabetical delusion pre
vailed—when X. Y. and Z.
were called on to aid sederalism.
Since the people have been un
deceived, no opportunity has
occurred to divest these sriends
os order os that powxr with
which an insultcd people have
clothed them—but perhaps they
would do w'cll to consider that
the day os retribution is not sar
distant —and that thesovereignty
os the people is not to be tramp
led upon. Am. Cit,
The wretched, starved and
naked people in many parts os
England have become riotous,
to such an alarming degree, sor
a reduction os the prices os nc
cessarics os lise, that the king
has ilsucd his proclamation, and
the aid os the militia been called
in to suppress the commotions,
'mpcrious necessity urges them
to a6ls os dclperation, sor driven
to the last sil l Its, there appears
no alternative but to die by the
sword or samine. The cries os
sullering humanity arc unheard
or unheeded by a proud ambi
tious iministry, who appear de
termined to sacrisice every thing
to conquest and domination.
They are the dlsturbcrs os human
repose in every quarter os the
globe ; and every nation and
people ought to unite in termi
nating the career, and putting a
period to the crimes and wick
edness os this detcstable court.
IS IT IVAR OR PEACE s
We were led to put thisques
tion, upon seeing sorme days
ago, accounts os an adion which
lasted one hour and an hals be
tween the United States srigate
Bollon, os 36 guns, capt. Geo,
Little, and the French corvette
La Berceau, os 28 guns, capt.
Louis Senes, on the 12th os
Odobcrlast. Upon the account
itsels as it appeared in the Bol
ton paper, upon the captures os
American vclsels, &c. sluted
therein, we Ihall only osser a
Tingle remark—the Frcndi na
tional ships have been notisied
sor sevcral months to resped
the American slag, and not to
molest any stiip under that slag
unarmed. No order has been
issued by our wise adrninistration,
although pacisic negotiations
were carrying on j but the same
murderous spirit which com
menced, has charaderized the
progress os our naval assairs to
the present moment.
One seature marks this ac
count, however, and merits the
marked notice os every person
endowed with humanity, or pre
tending to a Tingle spark os re
ligious seeling.
Is on a morning in ourstreets,
the assrighted people should see
the liselcst mangled bodies, the
(battered limbs, the streaming
blood os twenty os their sellow
citizens. The bloodstaincd bo
dies stretched bessde each other
—and over their senleless re
mains, their widowed wives,
their orphaned children, their
parents, kindred and sriends,
pouring out their asslidling tears
—what abhorrence and execra
tion would not the voice os the
public declare ?
Would not the public seeling
be roused ? Would not rewards
be ossered sor the diseovery os
the perpetrators ? Would not
the community blush with hor
ror, and glow with resentment ?
Yet !—Let humanity alone
govern the judgment sor a mo
ment, and ask, wherein consists
the disserence between a murder
so perpetrated, and the butchery
os as many os our sellow citizens
on board a ship ?
Does distance—does the Tea
make that innocent, which on
land, and under the eye os so
ciety is murder ?
Docs that solcmn command
ment — THOU SHALT NOT
kill!’’•—Docs that scnous obli
gation ns God obtain a remisliosi
ot atrocity, or alteration os cri
minality, by the change os
place ?
Ye who talk os religion—
and who talk only, say who it
is that must atone sor the murder
ot your sellow citizens on board
the Boston srigate—and those 3$
strangers on board the Berceau ?
It is time that the nation pre
tending to a superior value sor
religion, and obedience toserip
turul ordinances, should manisest
by their work* the smcerity os
their proscssions.
It is time that the people
should determine between the
ads and the proscssions os those
whom they cntnist with power.
Mere we sind a calculation—
not os the injury which jullice
and morality sustains—which
society and the samilies os tlio
murdered susser—but a calcula
tion os the value os La Berceau I
That The is <c one os the sailed
sailing vrssels in the French
navy !” T hat “ she served as a
look out vcssel sor the French
sleet sor 18 months !*’—Thac
u she was never overtaken be
sore”—which renders her cap
ture as os more importance than
appears at sirst blush ! Gra
cious I leaven, and this is the
rcasoning os a nation proscssingj
a peace and the religion os „
Christ 1
A tribute is indeed ossered to
be paid to the merits os one in
dividual in this odious article—-*
but what sentiments will it ex
cite, is we but turn to the rest
os the catalogue, sor whom no
mourner sorms a panegyric, sor
whom no political zealot srames
no horrible casuistry, no impu
tation on sate, at the expence os
reason and religion—Ford, Hig
gins and Jasey arc passed over
with cold indisserence—and the
blank in their samilies is unno
ticed and unregretted!
Such are the hardened horrors
and indisserence which sollow
the mad projeds os war—mur
der becomes a trade, and morals,
a mere echo.
Aurora .
ji/yjAVt* Ko/tMUK,
CEORGIIjs Clerk os the Court 0/
> Ordinary s%r Out
Jessa son County, V County os J’ss'.r-*
' Jon .
WHEREAS Jan* ha-h v.-
, lied 10 T.»r os ad-.i
(r-.i'on on lll* ar.d t (Tceti os D.
M ( N*il la’e os the rounty as iss.id*
dretasrd : ihrse »r« U.eresore co rj,c t &
admonllh all and sjng ilar the klndr.-i! nml
c editors .*s the saicl ro sri'* lirir
»hr ir c bye A ion», is arv ibry h.i *•, in tny
olsice, on «r besore the third Mo»tj im
Jantiary nrxi, oih*rwise letter* os ; min.
mllraiinn will he granted her.
Given under niy hand, thia dny
« s Dec. »800, end In the twenty
sisth c«- ot the American Inde
pendence.
By in,
GEORGIA./ CUrh ostht Court 0/
V Ordinary s CT
Jtsrsn* County. I County os
J s on '
WHEREAS P. Iljr Coooollr Uib
th'B day tpp 1 esl to me sor letter®
os admmistrarion, on the tstate and tic&B
•s Patiirk ConnoUtr, lue os the
os Jesltrson, deceasrd : rhtse Are theresore
to cite and adroon ih tli and sioH'ijltr
the kindred and crcd tora os lh; s»'<s
deceasrd, to sile their hjedtoos is tns
they hiae, in my on or besore
the third Monday in January neil %
otherwise letter® os adm n itration will
be rranted her.
undrr my hand, th»» day
os Dec. 1 too and in r h t> eney
sts h year vi Amwicaa Indepciwl-t
Csusty