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rake them conform to republican principle*,
had been referred to commiffioncra, had
been reported to the fcpfl«w« **** J'* rt
before, and had remained unafted on, I hat
work w» now taken up> and was earned
through principally by the effort* of Mr.
Madison. And in particular the bill for
religious freedom, which made a p«t of
that work, was indebted mainly to hi* able
and zelous advocation, for it# passage,
without any retrenchment of it# liberal prin
cinles. Through #ll the rnterefting feenes
of that fclion, Mr. Madison displayed
firh talents, integrity and patriotism, that
ar the end of tbit year there was no man
who (food higher in the confidence and af
feftions of all win knew him. In 1785 he
wai re.eltftrd to the Virginia allcinbly.
During the felion of «hat year be propufed
and carried through that body a tccoai.
rnendation that deputies ftiould meet from
all the Ihtcs, at Annapolis, for the purpofc
of making some change in the confederation.
It i# known that this offer did not produce
all the good expeftrd (tom it: but it
is likewise known, that the rccomrocnda.
tlon ot that meeting caufrd the convocation
ot the convention at Philadelphia that gave
us our present constitution, Mr. Madiion
was it is believed, elected a member of that
convention by the unanimous vote ot the
legifl ttore. It is (aid in that body there
was no member more diftinguilhcd for wif.
dom and love of country. About the fame
time Mr, Madison was re-cleftcd a member
of the old Congrcfs. The evidence of the
▼cry able support given by him to this con
dilution is in print ; Upon that fubjeft the
reader is referred to the Debates in the Vir
ginia Convention. Mr.MaJifon was elect
ed a member of the firft Huufe of Represen
tatives that convened under the conftitu
lion. Hi* fcrvicc* in that body duringeight
year* of the administration o( G.n. Waih
ington arc known to ail. For several year#
before the establishment of this government
and until the commencement of tnc war be
tween France and England there was no man
in America in whom Geo. Washington con
fided more than in Mr. Madison ; and if he
Wis afterwards less frequently confolted by
him it was owing to the afeendancy whic.i
Col. Hamilton had obtained in the admin
iftraiion. He returned whin General Wa(h
ington did, but had not been long repoling in
the quiet of domestic life, when, aroused by
the danger into which the principles of ad
miniffration pnrfued by Mr. Adams were
evidently bringing our republican inftitu.
lions, fcnfible that the torrent could no lon
ger be retifted in Congress, and that th
hate legiil iturcs could alone arrest its comfe
he again took his (land in the legislature of
Virginia, and there prepared and carried
through his celebrated report against the alien
...J r. i;.:— l nfivv*givhi
to fe derail fin its urd mortal blow, and to
have firft planted the standard to which the
republicanism of the nation (0 rapidly rallied.
Wt th Mr. Jeffafon he came into the present
administration.
M-. Madison has been in public life for
thirty.two years. He is about fifty-fire
years of age. During his whole life it is
believed there is not a Angle aft for which
he can be reproached as a yian or as a citi
zen. He is a Angular instance of a person
who has been so much the ohjeft of envy to
fomc’ aud so much in the way of the views
and iuterefts of others, cfcaping the intputa.
tion of having done an improper aft from an
improper motive.
It is believed that Mr. Madison has not
at this rime, and that he never had a per
f»nal enemy, for a cause that could b«
avowed.
Tenth Congress.
V HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE*.
WcdncOay, February to.
Navy Department t zytk January 1808.
SlR—Your lerterof yetterday in relation
to the number of seamen at present wanted
bv government for the ferviceof the United
States, Jus been referred to the President,
and i am charged by him to inform you
that he dnes not with to be empowered to
employ more seamen than the number at
present authorifed by Jaw, viz. 1425, of
which f)iy were authorifed by the aft of
Congress of 21st ot April, 1806, and 50#
by the aft of 3d March, igojr,.
1 have the honor be, rcfpeftfnlly,
Sir, yout out. servant.
(Signed) Rr. SMITH.
Ihuorahlt Mr, Daw fan, "i
Cengr t / S J
Orr motion ot Mr. Cooky the house went
into a committee cf the whole, 51 to ay, on
the bill for extinguilhing the debts due from
U. S,—Mr, Curts in the chair.
The firft feftion of this bill provides.
That all perfous, or the legal reprefentafives
ot person s, to whom ioaii office, or final
fettirmemr certificates, or indents of intet
eft, have been iffrcd, and all persons in
whose fa/or fee tic meets have been made at
the treifury, or who (land credited on the
baoks of the tteafu.y, which faici certifi
cates, credka and fettle mints, were i.Tucd
or ma in ior fervors, or fnppUes, done or
furniihcd prior, to the fourth day of Match,
in ths sea*' one thousand seven hundred and
eighty nine, and have not since been funded
or prid ; and all persons who served in tlte
armies of thi U. States, during the revolu
tionary war with Great Britain, and to
whom arrearage* of pay, clearly appearing
on the muftei and pay rolls, or ether au.
thfntic documents now existing in the war
office, or in any other department of gov
ernment, may be due, fcall be allowed to
present their refpeflivc claims at the treasu
ry, and (hall receive the amount thereof,
without any interest, upon proving by the
oath ot affirmation, of at feaft one disinter
ested witness, to the fatisfaflion of the ac
counting officers of the treafnry, that he or
(he so claiming, it the person or legal repre
sentative of tnc person to whom the lame
was originally due.
The fccond feftion provides, That dat
mants for fervicet of any kind rendered,
and for supplies of any kind furnilhed to the
U. States, prior to the fourth day of March,
1789, which have heretofore teen barred,
or foppofcd to have teen barred, by any
refolutioni or any law* of congreft, (hall be
allowed to present their refpedlive claims to
the accounting officers of the treasury, who
are thereby authorifed to liquidate and fettle
the fame without in‘ere(V thereon, provided
such claims are duly A'pported by fufficient
vouchers, &c, the claimant making oath,
that the said cLim, nor any part thereof,
has been tetore paid to any person or in any
manner whatever.
The 'ther five (tfiiont contain details.
On M >tion of Mr. Uphan , the committee
rose, reported progress and aflted leave to
fit again.
February ti.
Mr. N' Wtvn, prayed for a grant of *5
or 30 000 dollars ro complete a canal con
necting the waters of Albemarle found in N.
Carolina, with thofc ot Elizabeth river
referred.
Mr. Sew ton proposed new reftriflionso n
the Embargo aCt—to prevent fraud and im
position, practiced by boats on lakes Cham
t plain, Erie See. and on waters contiguous
to foreign nations, which may be carried on
to the detriment of our citizens—The refo.
lution was adopted without eppofition, read
twice, and referred to a committee of the
whole.
Re/olved, That the committee on Public
Lands be inflrufted to enquire into the ex
pediency of offering for falc the lands lately
ceded to the United States by the Choftaw
nation of Indians, in the manner in which
the other lands of the United States sooth of
the (late of Tenneffce, are directed to be
fold, and that they report thereon by bill or
otherwise.
February iy.
Mr. Daw/on from the committee on mil
itary and naval eftablifhmcnts, reported the
following rtfulution, which was agreed to,
aye* 58, and referred to the committe who
reported it to bring in a bill.
Re/olvtJ, That the sum of
dollars be appropriated to enable the Presi
dent of the U. States toprocmc by purchase
terflftTutcontfc
U. States, and to cause the fame to be dc
pofited in Case and suitable places.
Mr, Dfiru/on laid upon the table the fol
lowing resolution:
Re/oheJ, That a committee he appointed
on the part of this Houfc jointly with such
committee as may be appointed on the part
of the Sena’e to confider and report what
further business it is ncceffary to be don#
during the present session j and at what time
it will be proper for congreft to adjourn.
DEBATE.
On tie motion for admitting an agent of the
Yazoo company to be heard at the bar es
the Houfc iu fuppott of the claim,
February 12.
Mu. Tr*up hoped the resolution would
not be adopted. Ido not know whether it
is cuflomary to admit within its bar the ad
vocates of claims. For my part Ido not
know if such performs were admitted within
the bar, that 1 would keep my feat and
listen. is impossible that this Haute could
be so loft to a fenfc cf its own dignity as to
enter into a controversy on its own floor
with fpcculatois or their agents. What is
the objeft of the present motion f Is it pro
posed, by admitting a praflifing attorney
on this floor, to enlighten us on a fubjeft
of which we arc profoundly ignorant ? No;
with the principle of this claim we are all
acquainted. Its objeft is to give (omc
(Length to a claim which has not the smallest
foundation in juflice, and they know it.
They have no more claim on the U. States
than on you or me. Why then do they call
upon us ? Bccaufc the U. S. have an over
flowing treasury. If I had it they would
make tte fame claim upon rat. They are
*he cormorants which perch upon the trea.
furies of all nations ; and as long as you
have gold and silver, and manifeft a difpo
(Lion to give, they will flick to you,
Mr. Bib# remarked that there had been
in the year—a general invitation to all
claimants for land, and to thde amongfl the
others, to attend and fuppott their claim.
At that time these claimants refufed to at
tend. If the claimant* then had not been
heard it was their own fault.
Mr. Love hoped the resolution would
not be adopted.
Me. Cook had yet heard nothing which
convinced him of the impropriety of hearing
the claimants at the bar of the House.
Mr. Holland rose to express a wish
that the motion would prevail.
Mr. Bibs—No possible good could rc
fult from a difeuffion of the claim. Gen.
tlemcn mud be convinced that they would
injure the American character by (looping
to examine a claim founded in bribery, per
jury and corruption. 1 rose to fay that if
difeuffion does continue upon this motion
with a view to force upon at the sacriti of
the claim, I (hall more *« indefinite pot
ponement of the motion. .
Mil. Gardner was m favor of adopting
the motion.
Mr. Bib. said bo would only observe
that he had been informed by a colleague
of the gentleman last up that governor Sul
livan was one of the claimants.
Mr. Troup said they were not permit
ted to avoid a difeuffion on this (object.
Let gentlemen give us credit for our mode
ration andAirbearance; let thufe be esteemed
the real fUnds of this molt admirable (j 1-
tem of administration who set their faces
against corruption in every (hape, who ttnve
to purge their country of the lawlcfs banditti
which infefts every corner of it, of Yazoo
ifm, which is the mother of corruption. It
has been dated by my colleague that the
interference of the legislature of Maflachu.
setts has been unbecoming, improper and
unworthy of her. I fay so too. If Maffa
chufctts—l do not wan the people of that
state, for 1 believe them to be generally
virtuous, and well disposed; but i t e
government of Massachusetts will array her
felf against Georgia and on the fide of Yazoo
corruption, if (he will proditute her power
and sovereignty to the basest and viled of
all purposes, let her dand to the conic
quence. And if her governor, as ray col
league has told you, will defeend from the
dignity of hisftation to patronize Yazoo, it
he will proditute the dignity-of his high
office to the mod ignoble purposes, be ought
to be tumbled from his feat; and I trad
there is virtue enough in Massachusetts to
put him down. Has the gentleman from
Massachusetts read the Yazoo memorial ?
I did read it and was ihundcrdruck. What
docs this governor fay ? That the violation
of claim in a free country it a violation of
fundamental axioms, and may lead to a vio
lation of thsfocial compatft 1 This gover
nor Sullivan threatens you with a violation
of the social compaft—this man of Yazoo,
fame, and of speculating morals, threatens
you with a difTolution of the- social compact
—he purposes to march his thirty thousand
men into the Miffiflippi territory ; and this
agent whom it is proposed to introduce, is
his pioneer. 1* not what 1 have dated iadf ?
It is in black and white, and now on record,
that the governor of Massachusetts has thus
threatened you ; and yet gentlemen can ex
pels their wonder and adonidiraent that we
have feelings and express them ! He hoped
the motion would be rejected.
Mi. Errts said it seems that the claim
is now brought forward in a new form, like
a fcoundrsl introduced into a decent compa
ny in a new gatb, who wilhes to become the
bead of the cutuoany * nto w bich he is in
troduced. Lad session the claim was rejec
ted here ; It has been renewed under a ref
-—p..» IwMi.r. wr hav*
treated the memorial of a date with refpeft,
arc we to admit one of the gang interested
in the original fraud within our walls ? I
hope not. Whenever this fubje& is brought
up, I (hall meet it in every form, and so
long as 1 am able, oppose it with my voice.
The quedon on the rrfolution was taken
by Yeas and Nays, as follow :
YEAS—MdTrs Bacon, Barker, Champu
oi. Chandler, Chittenden, Cook, Curts,
Dana, Davenport, Deane, Durell, Elliott,
Ely, Gardner, Harris, Holland, Ildey,
Kirkpatrick. Loyn, Mofdey, Pitkin, QJn
cy, Stedman, Sturges, Taggart, Tallaadge,
Upham, Van Renflelear— zB.
NAYS—Mcffrs Alexander, L. J. Aldon,
W Aldon, Bassett, Bibb, Blacklcdge, B ake,
Blount, Boyle, Brown, Burwell Butler,
Calhoun, G. W. Campbell, M. Clay, Clin,
ton, Clopton, Cobb, Dawson, Desha, Eppcs.
Findly, Franklin Garnett, Gray, Green,
Helms, Hoge, Holmes, Howard, Jenkins,
Jones, Kelly, Kenan, Knight, Lambert,
Lewis, Love. Macon, Marion, Mailers,
M‘Creery, Milner, D. Montgomery, Jcr,
Morrow, Jno. Morrow, Mumford, Ncw
bnld, Newton, Pugh, Rea. (Penn.) Rich
ards, M. Riker, Rowan, Seaver, Sloan,
Smelt, iMqjlie, S. Smith, Jno. Smith, South,
ard, Stanford, Swart, Taylor, Trigg,
Troup, Van Allen, Van Dyke, Van Horne,
Verplanck, Wharton, Wilbour, M. Willi
ams, Wilton, Winn, Withercli—76,
f %* The members of the BOARD
of TRUSTEES, jitc requeded to meet at the
Richmond Academy, on Monday next,
at jo'dock in the afternoon.
Bj trier •/ the PrefiJtnt,
T. BARRETT, Clerk.
March 5. •
notice!
Will be Sold ,
At Public Audlion on the 20th
of April next, at Vernon, the lots of Land
of said place, being the (he fixed for the
COURT-HOUSE of Morgan County, by
the Commiffioacrs, on a credit of 1 a months,
STEPHEN NOBLE.
WILLIAM BROWN.
ISAAC HUGHES. ' 1
Cemmijtrners.
February 20.
Notice.
ALL those indebted to the cf
tate of Jeff: Wright, late of Warren coan- ,
ty deceased, are de fired to come forward
and make payment, and all those who have
demands against said ed ate, are desired to
render them in properly attedad within the
time preferihed by law.
LEWIS WRIGrfT, Ij . ,
JOSEPH WRIGHT. j Un "*
- Fcbmary 20, (j*j
AUGUSTA, March 5.
Extract of a letter from otcr eorre/pondent
at likens, dated February 28 th.
SIR,
I cnclofe you the Intelligencer of the ith
ulc. 1 embrace the opportunity of a moments
time before the Mail leave this office, to
Copy for your information, a fcmence from
a letter of the ipth inst, from Mr. Craw,
ford.
“ We have nothing but flying reports
about the pending Negociation, ar.d they
are so contradictory and very absurd, that
they baffle conjecture."
Mr. Madison has been ill, this may
have delayed the Negociation..-he is now
in better health. *
NEWS.
Every Mail furriftes os with Tome
ftrarge notion or another.—For example;
in the canton of Juclcnow, in Russia, a
huge blaik stone tell from heaven, weigh,
ing 160 pounds J —lt was an oblong square,
rcfrmbling cast iron, and a coffin on ore
title I—it fell on the 13th March last, and
was Cent for diffießion to the royal academy
at St. Pcterlburg.
The Ruffians have 58 fail of the line,
including 10 on the fucks, 54 frigates, 59
cutter#, &c.
The Swediih fleet conftfts of 12 fail of
the line and 8 frigates—two on the hocks,
—The Danifli, for the most part, in Bri.
tifli porta.
The firitilh comprises x6i of the line,
35 fifties, 298 frigates, 530 sloops, with
an immensity of cutters, catamarans, and
ftiploads of Congrave's Rockets I ! —of the
fame kind as set Copenhagen on fire.
On the beginning of February the Em.
bar go, or Ograbme was laid on all Amer.
ican veffcls at Barbadocs,—ptovifions very
fcarcc, —flour from 18 to 20 dollars.
Gordon, author of the hiftory of the A.
roerican revolution, died lately in London.
—Sometime ago in Martinico, Maj. Ri.
vardi, an officer in the American Revoiu.
tion—at the head of lake Ontario, the ter.
rific and much celebrated Col, Jos. Brandt,
chief of the fix nations.
Died on the 15th inst, at Wllmingtrn,
(Del.) John Dickinson, Esq. formerly
Prefidenc of that Commonwealth, and ?u
-thor of the Farmer’s Letters.
King George is not dead, as lately re.
ported.
A London Paper, alluding to Cofenha.
ger , fays that the British ports are now
open for ft den Goods. Another oblcrvts
that (he war with Russia is vastly popular,
w ith th* and p!eLpocl*tt, as hemp
and cordage will now be /caret. And ano.
ther fays that (be Manufacturers will have
a good chance of dying, now that they
have the controul of the Brazils /‘—.They
would live better, if they had a chance of
nuheat and flour from America.
The Dutchman fays he has plenty of
pipes but no f obacco...& nd damn’s General
Embargo .
The Irishman has Batter, but no Jldves,
and lays the blame to poor Embargo....ln
fine, it is useless to talk ; but this young
Embargo with his a3, supplementary to an
*B, all on his back, begins to bother all
our foreign Relations.
Once more—-there is still so much diffi
culty in understanding the orders of council,
that it is expeCled a few more will be i fitted
for the purpose of explaining the explanatory
orders.— ■ London Paper .
Thomas Pain?, for his services during
the (evolution, has petitioned Congress for
compensation, and assigns his reasons.
The citizens of Baltimore have entered
into a fubfeription to the amount of one
million of dollars, for the purpose of eflab.
lifting Cotton and Woolen Manufactories >
in the Bate of Maryland—so dollars each
ft a re.
The Duck Manufactory in Lexington
Kentucky, within the last year, has produ
ced from 3 i to 40,00* yards of cotton-bag
ging.
Admiral Cochrane went to blockade
Martinico, from St. Croix—at the latter
liland, on hearing of the Embargo, flour
tofe from 8 to 14 dollars in one day, and
ether notions in the fame proportion.
A schooner from Rhode. 1 (land, bound ts
Martinico, with a cargo of floor, had been
sent into Tortola,' by rhe British for a vio.
lotion of our Embargo lanu !
This we can confidently afiert, tint we
have seen, and had in cor pofliffion intelli
gence from at refpeCfable authority as any
in Europe, whether in point of morals or
fortune— that the British government had
determined to land a force to the fmth'ward
•—where southward may be guetLd by the
difeerning.— Aurora.
On Napoleon’s late arrival at Venice,
the Patriarch, previous to Crging aTe
■ Drum, told bis Majcfty, he would pray fcK
all; do so, said Bonaparte, and 1 (bed
fght for all.
On Thurfdar evening the 2 jrh nit. tf.S
Thespian Society- performed the “ Heif
at Law" to a numerous and highly pleased
audience..-. The object of this Society »*
tm ! r laudable...-They have it in contem
plation, we LTderftrrd, to efiablift a Pch'
lie Library for the use of the Citizens nf
Angcfta, at the expence l>f a few hose Dol
lars, on which the Embargo has not .ye*
been hid. *
Ncte —Thefpia, ore of the Mufc* i I.