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(By Authority.)
AN ACT
To alter the time for the H»xt meeting of
Congre/s, “
RE it enacted by the Senate and flosife of
Keprefmtatives of the United States of Ame
rica in Congrtfs Ajfembled, That after the
Mtifficnt of the present fcflion, the next
meeting of Congtcfs (hall be on the fourth
MondayAf May next.
J. B. VARNUM,
Stte.hr of the Ihufe of Reprefonlalrties.
GEO : CLINTON,
Eke- Pr/Jf.fent rs the U. 9. and. Prefdcnl
of the Senate,.
Approved Jar. 30, 2809,
TH ; JESX^HSON.
AN ACT _
Avtharifng the' employment of an additional
rrmal force .
RE it enacted hy the Senate and Hnufe of
■Rf rrefentatrves of the U, S, nf America in
fjng-cf uffemhled, That in addition to the
iiigates row employed in aftual fervicc,
there be fitted out, officered and manned,
as fcon as may be, the tour following fri
gates, to w it, to U. Stalest EJfe r, John
Adams, and P ref dent ; and moreover .the
Picfidcnt of the U. Sutcs is hereby authon-
Ird and empowered to equip, man, sod em
ploy in aflual fetvice, so many of the public
armed vtffcls, now laid up In ordinary, and
gun boats, as in his judgment the public ser
vice may require; and to caufc the frigates,
and other armed vdWs, when prepared for
aftual fetvice, tefpcflivcly, to be flattened
at fucb ports and pLces on the fca-coaft a*
he may deem most expedient, or to ciuifc on
, any parr of the coafl of the U. Slates or the
tirritoiicK thereof.
Sec. 2. And be it further ena&ed, 1 hat
for lire purppfc of carding the foregoing pro
vision into immediate effifl, the Ptfidwit cl
the u. s. be, and be is hereby authorifed
and empowered, in addition to the nuniner
ot petty officers, able learner, ordinary sea
men and boys, at present authorifed hy law,
to appoint/and canfe to be engaged and era
ployed as soon as may be, tr.ree hundred
midlhiprnen, threeVhoiifand fix hundred able
ft*mcn, ordinary Teamen .and boys, who
shall be engaged to lervc for a nenud not
exceeding two years; but the Prefuitritmay
diftharge tht f 'me fuor.er, if in his judgment
their fcjvicc may be difpcr.fencl with, Ard
to latisfv the nrceffary expenditures to be
incurred therein, a film dot exceeding lour
hundred thousand dollars he, and the fame
is hereby appropriated, afid (bad be paid
out of any merits in the treasury not other
wise appropriated.
1 J. B. VARNUM,
Speaker efthe Ihufe of Ri present alive s,
JOHN MILLEDGE,
P ref dent if the Senate pro tcm.
Approved, Jan. 51,1809.
'IH: JEhFERSON.
AN ACT
For the relief of Edmund Sea moot.
BF it enati* iby the Senate and Hnufe of
Re present Strutt of the United States if A-’
meric a in Cong refs ajfetnbled t 1 hat Ed
mund Beamon t, now imprisoned in the date
of Connecticut, (hall be and hereby is rclca
fed and difeharged from all claim and de
mand of the U. S. to a certain judgment
(or a penalty of four hundred dollars, rc.
covered, with cifis, at their fuu, before
the diftritSf court for ibe diflrifd olConnefli
cur, boldcn at New-Haven, in the month
of August, digbiAn hundred and fix ; fa
ying and referring, ncveihelefs, the right
and intrrefi, if any there lx , which belongs
to any thud person.
J. B. VARNUM,
Speaker of the Ihufe efSiepref utalivet,
JN : MILLEDGE,
P rtf dent of the y pro tcm.
Approved, Feb. 1, IHO9.
TH : JEFFERSON.
From the Monti or.
HOW SHALL WE STAND?
It seems prertr well decided that the em
bargo will be raised on the 41b cf March
next. It, therefore, becomes the people of
theU. S. to weigh well their real situation,
and take a view in advance of what their
pnfition is likely to be.
We must not forget, that the orders in
council cf the Brid(h, and the decrees of
Bonaparte are flill in force.
What, substantially, is the operation of
thofc edicts upon the commerce of the U.
States'?
1. Bv the Britifti ordctc, yuo cannot
trade to France, or to the ports of continen
tal Europe, without going to an Enghfh
cudom-houfcand paying duty,
2. Bv the Ercuch decrees, if you go to
an Englilb port, or are wifued by an Eng
li(h veflel, you arc excluded tiom the ports
of France and from thofc ot her allies, or
dependents.
Well; in this situation of affairs, the
embargo is raised. 1 prelume, as a thing
of coutfe, that our vctTds will be per nitted
to arm.
Away, then, gt oar (hips and msrehan
dixe. To England? Then ynj mbit en
counter whatever of French force you ni'et
on the ocean—which, indeed, ca.moi be
great. Bat, you go to England ; white it
is well known you can fell bat little nf your
produce ~Englaad having been, all along,
more our tailor than our cohfj.nsr —more our
banker tfun our purchalcr. You canuor go
* v ' •' -f‘V Vj*'
*
ftp iptinpft of Europe from Engird be-
I canfr If yon d<> your veflcl and merchandize
1 will be confifcated. Are you bound to
France direfl, or to her allic* ? Then the
British navy obftrutfs vour progress, cap
ture* you, carrie* you into nn English pirn,
■ where you are condemned for net paying the
duties.
Thus we are oitcnirfcrihed on both fulcts
What, then, remains for u* ?
Why, there i« this—and this cowrie only
—Wt mad trade where we cent, and
when <we cannot avoid it.
In this medley of trading and fighting,
ought not our veflclj to be allowed to can
ture their affailant* ? These sorely cen be N
no impropriety in fuffering our (hips to Adze
npoa depredator* w ho mileft them in the ex.
erdfe of a right.
For example t If an American veflfcl be
bound to Fiance, or any European continen
tal port, and Is attacked by a British priva
reerj or other war (hip—authorife tha Ame
rican to capture her if he can, to take her
with him to the port for which he is destin
ed, and there fell her.
On the other hand, if bound to an Eng
lish. port, and i« in ter raped by a French pti
fatccr, let the American capture if poffiblc,
take the Frenchman its tow, and fell him to
the heft advantage*
This will partly \nv for the ezprnfc of
arming. And, a* wc do not want toe treu
) b)e of keeping the prisoners, let them be put
, ashore at the firft port.
Documents
ACCOMPANYING THE PtrtlDEST'l MK3-
SAGE, OF THE 30th Jan. igop.
Sir—l have the honor 10 fend endof d,
a copy of a letter received" last night from
Mr. Canning, in anfwcr to my letter to him
ot the 10th cf faft month.
The tone of this letter renders it impossible
: to reply to it with a view* to a difeoffion of
what it contains j although it is not with
out farther inadvertencies as to fafts, and
many of the obfervatkms are open to ex
ceptions, I intend, however, to oombinc,
with it acknowledgement of the receipt of
it, two short explanations. The firft will
idatc to the new and extraordinary con
jedturc, which it intimates, that my author,
ity was contingent, and the second will
( remind Mr, Canning that my letter of the
IOtH of Oft, does not a* he imagines,
icart unexplained the temark, that “ the
provifiona! nature of my offer, to make my
proposal in writing, aroie oat cf circum.
, ifanccs but, on thfc contrary, that the
/ explanation icimcdiattly follow* the re.
mark.
The Union is not yet returned from France.
Lieut. Git bon arrived in London mete
than three weeks ago, and delivered your
letter of the g'h September, with duplicate*
of papers, in the Little William, and copies
of letters which lately patted between the
depanment of (late and Mr. Erskine.
I have the hotter to be, with the highest
fir, y» ur mott obs. humble
servant.
Ww. PINKNEY.
The hon. James Madison,
See, See, See,
. Great Cumberland I‘lace, November 1%,
1 1808.
0 Snt--1 have had the honor to receive
yoilf kcccr cf the zxd si ft, and to tianf.
mit a copy cf i; to my government.
( Without dtfirir.g to protract a difenflion
1 in the conduct of which neither ycur fin.
eerily ror nine will, I leel attured, be
doubled by any ore, I may be permitted to
fay, that the authority under which I added
in cur laic communications, wa* not con
iirge.it, as ycu now appear to corjetfure ;
I and that ihcjrennuk, contained in my letter
of the tocLofOciobe.r,“ that the provif.
ional rwtuic cf my offer, to make my proiMi
fal in writing, amfc out of circumftunccs,"
will be found explained in the fame letter,
by paflages which immediately follow the
remark.
I have said in my letter of the 10th of
CMober, that ** I had no precise irfhuitiem
,i» to the manner of conducting amt illuftra.
ting the fubjtdl ” confided to my manage
ment? but you will tuffer me ro enter my
friendly proieft agair ft all fuppcfitießi that
41 the manner, the time and the conditions of
the overture were left Kimy cwn diferelien,"
that 1 had the power nearly absolute ever it,
or that u was in a great « eafu.e of my ow n
suggestion.
Twill trouble you no further, fir, on this
orcafion than to allure jou that nothing
could give ire mote imteie plrafure than to
fee fulfilled the hopcwliich yon express, that
it may yet fall to our lot to be irulrumemal
in the renewal c-t a good underfunding be
tween cur two gov emit end.
1 have the honor to be.
With theliighsft consideration, &c.
(Sigrcd,)
Wi\f, PINKNEY.
The Right Honorable.
George Canning, Stc. ftc;
} Joseph Reed, trfpeflor and Surveyor of
the revenue at T homatkwo, {Maine) has
re tinged his ertiee.
Nat. Int,
1 The OMo in tlw l ift days of December,
rr.fc to the heigh o?sj feci, h rum the par
j tial accounts received, the definition cf pro-;
: perry is apprehended ro have been dreadtu!. 1
i i; has never tifen so high dunrg the winter,
1 and but in a Angle instance for »o yean do
ringthc faring,— ibid.
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Fron the Havana a ddri'ti, received hy an
arrival at Ckarltftony oj thetftth “Jan,
London, Dec. 16.
The government has publifiied the fol
lowing declaration upon the negotiation pro
posed hy Ruilta and France :
, “ The proposal* made by »hc governments
of Ruflia and France have not terminated in
any negotiation ; and as ihc correfpcrdencc
is concluded, his majefiy thinks fit imme.
diately to make public the rcfulr, The
continual appearance of a negotiation sfter
feeing that it was ahfohitcly impolfible to
obtain a peace, would only he advantageous
to the enemy. It would offer to France an
( opportunity to few difeord and jealousy in
the councils of those who are united to re
fill oppression, and the illusive profpcdl of a
peace bceween Great. Britain and France
could only be prejudicial to thofs nations
which groan under the tyranny of French al.
lb nee, or thole which preserve a vacillating
and precarious independence, if among them
there (hoiodbe one which squally is war.
ering between the inevitable ruin of a pro.
looged inactivity, and the confeqiunt rilks
of an efiem to liberate itfc!f r r I hefe pro
posals would hold out the vain hope that
they might b? permitted to renew' their
I tranquility, or would alarm them with the
1 fear of remaining done in the Cornell.
H's majesty was fully purfuadtd that this
was »)'c principal objedl of France in the
propofala that wer* made to him from Er
iur'.h, at a time when fitch terrible confe.
quenccs would result from the dccifion of
peace or war, both from its importance and
the uncertainty refult. His majefiy
saw the ncccdiiy rs invcftipitirg, if it were
poffihle, the view s end dtfigns of ihceiinny.
It was dlfiicult for his majefiy to believe
th <t the emperor of Rutiia fi ton Id so blindly
have delivered hitnfelf up to the violence and
ambition of that power, with whom his im
perial majefiy las unfortunately allied hjm
fcll j that he (hnuld be difpuftd to afftft o
perly in rhe usurpation of the Spanifii mon
archy, and acknowledge and defend the
rights which France has arrogated to her
feif 3 to depose and imprison the royal family, *
-nd to compel them by force to transfer to
her the oath of fidelity of an independent
nation ; thtnfore, when it was prop 'fed to
his majefiy to enter into a negociaticn for a
general peace, Ir. concert with his allies, or
to trcateitl er oa the baits of the mi poffidris*
which until now ha* been a fubjeff of so
many difputei, or on any other
ver, compatible with j"ftice, honor, and
fidelity ; his majefiy determined to oppo-c
to this feigned candor and moderation a can
dor real and Greece on his parr.
Hi* majefiy declared he wai ready to-entcr
into the ncgociarion in concert with his id
lies, and therefore communicated to them
immediately the propofol* which ha had re
ceived. ‘ ‘ ;
But as his mejefty was not le gued with
Spain hy a formal treaty of alliance, he
judged it ntceffary to that the
engagements which he had com rafted in the,
face cf the world with that nation, he con
ifidered not lef* sacred nor less obligatory on
his majefiy, than the meft folctrn treaties ;
that his mafefiy would nryocbte in concert
with the Spanilh gcvcrtuaetii, in the name
ol his Catholic majefiy Ferdinand VII.
The anfv>cr given hy France to this pro.
pofal of hi* nwjrfty difcovmd immrdiatHy
the veil which was ufcd’to cover its feheme*,
and (howtd, at crcr, tic artcgance ard
injustice of that government. To the Spar.
i(h nation in general they have applied the
degrading titled Spamfh iivfilrgents, & the
demand of the admifiion of the Spanish
government as a party in the negociaticn,
was rhrowv ?fide as inadtnifliblc and in
fulting{ His majefiy has received, with *s
much afiouifhment as sorrow , the anlwer of
the emperor of Ruflia ; and although to the
fame clreft, is kfs indecorous in its tone and
manner.
Ha charsfteibes as an iufurrefHon, the |
glorious efforts of the Spanilh people in fa
vor of ihrii legitimate sovereign, and in de
fence of the independence of their country ;
and has fonhtioned by the authority of his
I imperial majefiy, an usurpation which has
( not its rqual in the hifiory of the world.
\ His majefiy would have readily embraced
) the opporu nity o! a negociafion that would
have prefened feme hope or profprft of a
peace coirprtible with jultice'ard honor.
His majefiy tcgrc's extremely ary thing
which will aggravate nr, A piolong the fiJ
• ferings of Europe ; hut neither the honor of
hia majefiy, rcr the gencrofity of the B:it
j ilh nation, will 3 can it him so cotrmtnce a
\ nagcciation hy ahandenb-v s loyal end nrave
/ prorle, who ate fighti.-,g lor the pn-firva.
1 tion of all that is. smoft ci«ir ro men, and
-j whoferfforts,in a caufcfo nctortot.lly just,
J hi* majefiy has obligated birr ft If moll so
) kmnly ,n Atpjwift*
j “ IVeJi'ntnpr, Dec. 15, ;BoS.”
i
1 Fxirnfi 'fa htter from art Officer i* the U
nited Stales arn-y, to the Editors uj tie
I lUfton Chronicle , dated*
j •EuRUMTdm, (Vcr' Jartwry 8,
“ I have t.ken thelibtuy to ir.fnrn you
1 of the piocfcdings ct the Court In
i this place, on the tml of bd.r.tscJ /. M«u,
one of the iniirdeter* in takiog (.{ the Black
| Snake.— Ti.it> Mott hs> hsd ore trbl bciorr,
but in confe<jße«<e cl the « f:kei not Icing
; fwern, the vesd'ft cf the jury (which vas
I; g*ihy) was ljf;d aside, aui new trial ordered
I tiiit trial ha* been the court for ih»*e,:J
» days p»fi. , Lalt night, at 11 o'clock, tjhe
P jury Kiurocd a v«iha of manjlaugbtet.
_ 4l lt ii «rhofi ifiaiifh;™ f a /> t f |
•Hici will have filth influence over « • **
to return a vedirt of •Awnfla^hipr! 7 '
it was proved to the fatiiftftion nf eve *
pfefent, that he, Mott, had drlib, ra J
ken a wall piece and (hot two \
quarters of an hour after their boat
ken, the faft was not even denied h
prifoner’i council. *
Judge T/jer prefided* This trial,
not end here, or rather the confeq„ enC(i
“ Imroenie quantities of prodace of
deferiprion, find theif way into
ry day; on a fair calculation, too bad
day for 15 days pats, have gone inter*
da thru’ Swan ton.—There are a nurr!*
other roada, and we cannot make a c 3 |v
tion how many load* gees over the 1
Thefc sleighs and (leds are driven by a !
perate let of fellows, many of whomj rt
med, and have been encouraged to d t i
. therafelves against any force that aitemm
take the*. At orefrnf, we have no/j
rity to (top them, but when the new l 4t
rives we (hall have feme emploviiitn.
have not the lead doubt but some five!
be loft in consequence of the veidicl.”
i bis is truly the age of revolutions it
the fame moment that the univeffal eq o j|
Os naynn-v, as to rights and independence
atticked by a natidn that calls irfeit tDc
ly free nation in Europe, (hr, pretends tc
fighting for the lihenjes of the world.
While the c * jjerors and kings, who®
no pretentious to liberty, are dciermkei
cnahlilh the freedom of the fcas.
At (jiis time also is exhibited. two
mens as exfraordi • try in their fphere,*
I he Spaniards have proclaimed the call
the Jefars,
And the Turks have ahoHfhed theca
of Januaries which have rulfd the law,
the Ottoman empire for more than a «
fy * .
Another curiosity is exhibited.
The Fiench emperor feme time ago a!
ifhed the temporal power of the pope, »|
has endured ten centuries, the fime 1
whom he brought to Paris to crown Bi®
Rut he has lately added 30.000 curate
« the secular clergy, in France, and has
dowed the Romifn ecclesiastical collcgi
Erfurth with a benefice of 1/00,000 fni
fcle has conferred an order of nuhiliit
the German poets, Goethe and Weila
. ?nd has required df the king of Bavaria
abolilh feudality, which is done.
'1 he Britiih armies, to the amount
50,000 have been sent to Spam to fupj
the Bourbons and the inquificion
While in rwe of tfji Bain'll provit
(Ireland) they will not admit one oft!
fubjcils to any place of honor, profit or ti
if lie is of the fame religious fed as theSf
iards. 1.;
1c is not at all improbable, that an
othv-r revolutions, that the mirth of the
riih to Paris, which was intimated byi
kinfon, and Hawkelbary—may he real
by the troop# now in Suain before ail I
day.
A pardon, has been iflhrd by t!;r emp
of Germany to general Mack, prince A
berg, prince Aufenburg, and col. Ti
who had been femeneed to long picri d
confinement and degradation of rank,
being conquered at Ulm, in 1805.
A native officer of cavalry on the (Brit
Madras cflabiithmenr, has been found gt
of seducing native pdvmcs from the lei
of G. Britain—and has been thot.
The court of enquiry concerning th<
pitulation of the French in portuga),
going on in England ; and much new i
thrown on the fubjeci. It appears upon
evidence of lir A. Wcllelley, that he
manded a reinforcement of xooo intan
' 400 light troops, too cavalry Irnmiht
tugoefe, prumifing to supply them from
British magazines, they refufed 10 gi*«
aid 1 Aurora.
NEW. YOB K*, February 9.
A letter wss received in town yeflt
from Anjigu*, dated the fi.fi of J* ni
1809, which dates, that five French fti|
had recently arrived at Martinique, aid
at Gjjadaloupe, from France, fuli ot
and ptovifions.
A gentleman arrived in Bcftcn on St'
evening, who left N. London on
arte moon, and inform*» that the bug*
of New. York, arrived at that place «
day, in 30 daysftopi Antigua—ag<atl<
whocan.e in her, reports that he kh
unique on ihe 4th December, st wh.i f
there were thirty f;iii of Fnglilhjhip*
iflat'd for an in .ended attack ; that k.
ped at Antigua, and failed from the*-.
4; that news had just arrived from H
dots, that general Proved had arrh (
St, L-mia, with 4cco —and rba'.
neial attack was tilled 20* the yh j’ r
and in all probability would be facccl;
February u.
Yesterday morning, .bout three n(
a F'tc was (Jifcovtfri». Waitien-laov,
doers above Pear ft reel, and lie lore I*
arretted, the following houses were dm
j cd, v iih con Adorable other properf’i
—SsurdetJ and Leonard’s (We id unk
where the fnc broke our, containing 2
ualilettotk, partly iidured, James I**
veil's locking gbdsand paper-hanging
with a very valuable flock, only P
j wh : ch was laved or colored. I h* - b ;l
i longing to the eftatc of the late P. &
occupied by Mr. D. MaU-olm, £
(lore below, and by Mrs. B :,i(Ce
hoardiogwhoufe—and th’e adjoining
cccupbd hy Mr. AlleVt, guo-ia.i'n.
two latter hutfes jUily njurjrd