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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.