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KV-nts, U is idle ami hdhnlous fori Mr. Tayi.Oa suid that it svos ih the gov.: unu -.1 m a:./ ;r.ca.surc8 nc
m id s ol this House to ho pop duty of Compress, whi n both Moust jacssary lor the preservation of ih
; h:.; up in their seats, with shit, jliadconvened here at the commence j ights and interests ol tills coun.n
and patches and disjointed nienr.hersjm lit of the session, and received no hie cared not whether the quesuoi
of sys tems which can never make ajtice that the non-intercourse law w:n
»holu one. System supposes con-iunavailing, tint moment either to
t c tion and sympathy of parts ; and, have amended the law or repealed
after giving as much credit as youiit—and how, asked Mr. T. have we
please to the independence of ihelexcused ourselves ? The propositi-
t»vo Houses of Congress—I speultion which came from the committee
now of no undue influence, hut oi jof lort ign relations, and which in-
fuir constitutional influence, and duty volved the repeal of that law—and
as taken up to day or to morrow
He should probably vote against post
ponement, and then the world would
see who was willing to set all afloat
and who was for maintaining the
rights of the nation.
I*‘OK illT wr.
nudity of the merchants u;-U
English, or perh.ip^ even any
— : colonial produce, The iim
French customs at Hamburg!
uher
1 die
BOSTON, April 14. French customs at Hamburgh, Bre-
liv the snip Jutio, which arrived la*. mjn anc i Eabrek, is also tu be tripled.
Thursday in a very short passage \ French decree or order, is said to
from London, papers to march 1- have arrived, or on the way, accord
were received.
ing to which no colonial produce
The London Courier of March Ovwhatever, whether American or Tin-
says, the ship John Adams was ex-jghah, j s to p ass the French line of'
Mr. W. Alston said it was a very sa ‘ Cow-, cust hootat oBccr. at Msmhurgh.
• ss, and is to touch at a i'rench port' coin ’, n g from Altona, or any part oi
to take despatches from Gene raljthc Danish territory.
easy matter for gentlemen to workl^
Ton—the members of this House the embarrassment we met with in themselves up and attach great lm- Arinbt # ft » said she will card The shores of the German ocean
cannot make a system of foreign po-'rclation to that measure from another portance to a subject to which ready. |ry Qut witU her the basis on which i t | arc , jy (}u . , ame attoul)t s, to bo
iicy which shall seem good in thejbranch of the legislature must plead
eyes of the President, and which he|otir escuse hitherto. But that excuse
- an execute beneficially to the state,(must cease, and we are come to this
•unless he be consulted in some wavjpoint: that the law must immediately
directly or indirectly as to the naturejbe done away, or we must enforce it.
and extent of that system. It be-jSliall we postpone it another day,
'omes a question whether the direct to-morrow and to-morrow and one
influence of the President shall notlday more? It may do here, but I
upercede an influence, if such there fancy in the gn at, body of the com
munity we shall not he excused.
One day is of importance in coming
to n decision on this subject. It is
well known that with respect to the
non intercourse law I have no respon
sibility on iny shoulders. It was not
"'ZSrSS' »Udiffr« r ] 8Wr> U by an army ogf.0,r.K>
question was taken up to day or to
morrow. What was the question :
ol a worse kind. The President
has a great duty to perform. Icon
dude tliat he is unable to devise any
system, or that bethinks none neces
sary, because if he had been able to
devise such a system he would as
in duty bourn! have submitted it to
t’.ongreBS. TTu i*e is then no system.
Far he it from nuf fO attempt to make 1
fine, especially out of discordant ma
terial*.. But surely, sir, when a law
lias existed on our statute hooks for
months, an acknowledged exet'es-
* nice, I may move its repeal: If the
. *-n intercourse lie this manly resis-
» Mice which some gentlemen seem to
suppose it, let us have a resolution
lo continue it—let us re-enact it. II
not, let us repeal it now, when tin
merchants and planters may receive
Mime benefit from it. Instead of
Jetting it die what may be called a
j'.atur■ardeathy^Mthotigh it will die on
the gibbet) fit! the end oi the session,
1 hope it will be now repealed. How
ever the House may act, no part of
the responsibility for its continuance
can attach to me.
Mr. Johnson expressed his regret
that a resolution had been presented
to the Hoyse embracing a propositi
on which thev had decided hut the
moment before it had been offered.
He believed that there was not a dif
ference of opinion in the House on
excluding British and French armed
vessels from our waters. Indepen
dAt «if this principle, the repeal of
the non-intercom se was the only
question presented to his mind on the
question of adhering to the amend
ments of the Senate. We are again
(said he) presented with a propositi
on simply to repeal the non-inter
course, without the consolation of
a favorite project of mine. But being
a law of the land, and evaded and
ces between Great Britain and the|F rc nch, } n Jrdc-r to prevent all trade.
United States. It is stated to have The Hamburgh merchants who trade
obtained the entire concurrence of to America, and had co: sig; nunta
made to them via Tonningen end o-»
ther ports in the Danish Dutchies,
ire under great apprehensions tha>.
the French should enter Holstein,
under some pretence or other, and
seize the great quantity oi Anuncen
products now hoarded up tin rc-
Simplv to repeal the non-intercourse. .. .
r. r - , Air. I mknev.
, An Order of Council lias been is
sued for continuing open the West
India islands to vessels from the U-
nited States till December 1811, or
How came that system into operation,
asked Mr. Alston. It will be recol
lected, said he, that it was passed at
the heel of the session before the last,
and continued in force till the session,.. .• ,,
6 months after an European peace,
in May. It was then officially com- , • . ,. * . • ,
. - , , ■ 'll the Colonial Governments think
mumcated to us that an arrangement
had been made between this country,* .... * , . f . . T .
. ,. • ,,,. u u ' 1 fle subject ot commercial I.icen-
and Great Britain. 1 he British go-I . . J . .. .
, . . i ,i 'Vises has been under consideration m
vernment and its agents here thought . u ,, .
. , .. . ° | , . ; lIlc British Parliament; and papers
the law of some importance and hot- , • , , • ,} .
. * .... Irelative to the suhject tvere called lor
iomed an arrangement on it. hat
trampled u'ncler foot, converted to
the advantage of the dishonest part
of the community, if it lie not the du
ty ol those who passed it to repeal it,
it is to enforce it—and I want to
know what is iny duty. I believe that
resistance to the decrees and orders
was departed from at the very hour
you adopted this law. To be sure, sir,
there may be such additions to it as to
make it resemble the embargo, and il
so amended as to deprive the bellige
rents of supplies and prevent them
irom sending goods here it would he
inefficient measure ; but short of this,
it is worth nothing. And, because
gentlemen have propelled them
selves into Tyber creek to avoid the
rain & will not come hack, if theyalon
were floundering in the mud they
might stay there for me ; but it does
ippear to me that we are trifling with
the rights and interests of the people
bv this way of procrastinating from
day to day a subject of so much im
portance. I will say to the House
that until the vote oi’ Saturday was
decided, there was an excuse for not
taking up the subject. But it ceased
the moment that vote was taken, and
now you must do your duty—and the
people have a right to say that you
must not postpone it for a day nor for
an hour. Whatever may he the de
cision of the House, whether to re
peal the law or to retain it, it is pro
per they should come to an imtnedi
And granted. The Earl of Lauder
was the conduct ed the legislature inL k ic(J d himself to vc that
June ? If they had not legislated on^. Liccn J se , had actUJ u v injured the
: the subject the law would have b^»je 0 . l . mcrcia i imere8t of thc J coun - r ,.
gone. We find almost an unanimous! Two ncw Commercial Decrees
vote for continuing it .as to France haye recui?t j y been rromu i ga ted in
i tie one has lor its object
having it in our power at the sain elate determination on it, in order that
time to vote the exclusion of Britishjthe defects noticed in it may be re-
and French armed vessels from ourjmedied if it is to be continued. It
waters. That we should have thejs jiroper that we should change it
time of the House at this period of from being a system exclusively fa-
the session consumed in discussing ajvorahle to the dishonest, to the ad-
proposition which we had just before vantage of the honest and patriotic
rejected, I consider unfortunate, part of the community who obey the
law, though not compelled to do so,
jVre we one day, when a recommen
dation comes from the President, and
we advocate it, to be told that the
independence ol the House is en
croached on, and the next day, when
no recommendation comes, are we
to be told that we are not to act at all,
that our hands are tied up from at
tempting to alleviate the difficulties
of the nation ? If, sir, it is my duty
to wait for the recommendation of
the President on every thing which
comes before us, I have not under
stood that duty which I have to per
form to my conscience and my coun
try.
Gentlemen may think that the non
intercourse operates on ourselves a-
lone. Under that idea, perhaps this
House did by a large majority adopt a
measure for the repeal ol the non-in
tercourse. What was the fate of that
measure ? It failed—and by this pro
position the question is again present
ed—Will you repeal the non-inter
course without adopting any other
measure ? Sir, had we not better take
up the convoy hill, the only measure
v c have before us to resist the edicts
of the belligerents ? Gentlemen sa\
thev will not submit. Under this view
oi the subject, n ill we simply repeal
that non-intercourse Indore we obtain
a substitute? II not, let them manifest
because they might creep out of it
with impunity—to a system which
hall benefit the fair trader.
Mr. Key hoped the House would
not postpone the consideration of this
question. Did any gentleman, he
asked, want light on the subject r
Could the House be better possessed
of it at anv time than they were now
Was the subject new ? No—for it
had been discussed long and often.
Every member of the House had
made up his mind on the subject. lie
could not conceive by what reasoning
the proprietv of its continuance could
be enforced. Wasthe non-intercourse
resistance to the belligerents ? If it
was, it was a most strange resistance,
harmless to the enemy and injuri
ous to ourselves. It did appear to
him, he said, that the people were
waiting in anxious expectation for
the repeal of the measure and had
been so for many months. If it was
to be continued it was incumbent on
the House immed
it. If it was to be
as incumbent on them immediately
to act. It was at present a great c-
vil ; and having no other imperative
business to prevent its being taken
up, he asked how gentlemen could
justify tlu msilves to their constitu
te ho had proposed r.o arrangement
Now it seems to be contemplated by
almost every member that the sessi
on will not continue more than fifteen
or twenty days longer. If we do not
•e-enact the law, it dies by its own
limitation, and \vc do not ourselves
repeal it. There is a great difference
between repealing the law and letting
it die by its own limitation. It would
hold out to the world an idea that we
believed the system wrong, that we
ought not to have interposed any
thing between us and the edicts of the
lelligerents, if we were to repeal the
non-intercourse law before we know
w hat measures are taken on the other
iide oi the water in consequence ol
the dismissal of IVIr. J ackson. There
is a difference between a record on our
ournals of absolute submission & let-
i ing the law expire. Notwithstanding
the abuse the system has received, it
produced the arrangement in April,
and has therefore been of some effect.
Even if I were to agree to repeal it,
I should deem it proper to give fif
teen or twenty days notice of it, that
no advantage might be given to a-
ny one part of the country over ano
ther.
The question was taken by Yeas
and Nays on postponement till to
morrow & negatived, Yeas 5T, Navs
59.
The question recurred on M
Montgomery’s amendment.
Mr. Randolph said he really did
not distinctly understand the meaning
of the amendment proposed. He be
lieved as far as the rights and inde
pendence of the country could be
maintained and defended by law, they
had got nearly to the end of the tether
jf legislation. Mr. R. said it had been
no part of his intention in submitting
that motion to the House to get ano
ther discussion on the subject, or an
additional amendment to the articles
of American independence. 1 had no
wish (said he) to present to the House
any thing but a naked proposition
whether it would or would not repeal
a law which our own officers have told
tranee
to prohibit all ships from leaving
French ports with corn, unless hall
their cargoes consist of wine or bran
dy. That ol the other is to lay a
double duty on all merchandize
brought by loreign ships into French
ports.
Imperial Marriage.
A Pa ris paper of March 1, con
tains a communication from the Em
peror Napoleon to the Senate, an
nouncing that he had concludes,
treaty of marriage with the Arch
duchess Maria Louisa, daughter ol
the Emperor of Geimany.
The Archduke Charles has been
appointed to receive the hand of his
niece as proxy to Napoleon
A vote ol censure had been pas
sed by the British Parliament on the
Earl of Chatham, for making an im
proper communication to the King,
and the Earl had retired from the
Ministry. A further change of Min-
istry was expected ; but tilt- Couri
er intimates that neither the Gren
ville or Fox party will be introduced.
Canning is expected to come in a-
gain.
The revival of the Kingdom ol
Poland, under a monarch of Bona
parte’s appointment, is again spoken
of.
The Danish troops, a lew daj s ago,
began to form a numerous cordon oc
troops, from the mouth ol the river
Elbe as iar as Kiel ; with what de
sign is not known. The lertresses
along that cordon have also betn put
in a respectable state ol delenc , and >
supplied with a numerous artillery.
Exit act of a Idler from Hamburgh di - -
ted January 20. .
“The chancery took the papers
of vessels indisciiminateh—m,ving
examined them and have ordcied
the sequestration to be taken off :
the cargoes to be at the disposal of
the proprietors. They have named,
commissioners in Altrna,Tonningen,
Frederickstadt and Ausum, & have
instructed them to examine the pa
pers appertaining to American pro
perty in those places and il they find
them in order, to release ihe proper-
ty immediately. There is no doubt .
but that tire Russian and Danish go
vernments are well disposed tow nrds
us and will do what depends on them
to encourage and favor the American .
trade with them. “ But they art:
ruled by a higher power.”
Nrw-Tork, April 16.
Extract of a Utter from Gen. Arm
strong to the agetit of an American
house in Bordeaux, dated, Paris y ■
30ih January.
“ I have received vour letter of the
24th instant and exceedingly regret •,
the embarrassments with which you
have met. The explanations I have
received withj-egard to the seizure
made of our ®iips. See. in the ports'
of Spain are not of a character to
tranquilize you. They are said to be
the result of a principle adopted by
his majesty, that a commerce denied
to France shall not be permitted to
her allies. The presumption is that.
A NEW DECREE.
In a letter received yesterday from
Holland, was enclosed the following y our case will be sent before the
abstract of a decree :— council of prizes. You should
“ The chief secretary of his ma
jesty’s (Louis) council, authorised
by the resolutions of the 1st of Fe
bruary, (No. II.) hereby acquaints
the directors of the custom, that it is
his majesty’s firm and positive direc
tion that (provisionally) no Ameri
can vessel shall he allowed to enter
the harbors of this kingdom, under
any jiretext whatever, let the cargo
consist of whatsoever it may. Th
place from whence she may come is
of equal indifference ; whether she
may not have been in England, or
prizes.
therefore, make your protest before
competent authority, and forward it, .
with power to employ attorney, 8*c.
if necessary to Mr. D. R. Warden, .
our agent here.”
Extract of a letter from an intelligent'
and respectable agent in Nantz. tj
his' friends in this city, dated Fe
bruary 13.
“ Our affairs grow more gloomy c-
very day, and, I have lost all
hopes of seeing the sequestration re
moved from the American propi rtv.
The day I left Bordeaux, (Fib. 8th)
us as far as it has force operates mis-! h . as noL ^ een Vl a»ted by by the flagof an alarming letter was received by
chievouslv, but which is in fact almost' nat,on on her voyage. Such.the Director of the Customs, from *
wholly inoperate. This is mv soie Ve . ?’ on thc contrai y- wdl be per-lMonsieur Coilin, Director General
object’, and I wish to try the sense of m,tt 1 cdt0 re ;, urn ^ sea directly, with- at Paris.
the House on the question. For that:° ut ™. owed to dl * C , har K c even “ A smaI1 Baltimore' schooner,
purpose I beg leave to accept by wayi a P art of the,r car S°- 1 he director captain Jacobs, bed entered the Ga-
„r .k the
of modification the words added b’v| 01 mL ‘ CUSt ? ms ’f ordered , to b rive thc
the gentleman from Maryland aud : n^essary directions lor the immed.-
ask a division of the question so as ate a “ u execution ol these or-
to take the question first on that part UU
which includes my original motion ;
and if the House do not chuse to re-
Louis Bonaparte, king of Holland,
m a letter to the Dutch legislative
iatelv to enforce P ejd the non-intercourse law (as it i; p , Icut ‘ ™ uutc.i .eg.siattve
,<• r, Um i°.“'commonly called though it consist, ot B° d y, t Npfcsses nston.shmtnt & m-
Lm'Tnldlr* two different acts) I shall have thc
tislhction of reflecting that I havci or tt, charges against his subjects,
\uthe President of the United Slates,
1 conceive that lie has performed his
tiW, and ihat we have performed
ours in revising thc Jaws and en
deavoring to subsutiuo a better nu-a-
lone my duty in proposing to do away
that which I believed to be hurtful to
ihe country.
tin it zeal.for die public good by pro- vnts ior one hour s delay ol a deei-
posing some adequate measure. As *ion.
Mr. Smii.iv said that he differed
a little in opinion with the gentleman
who had spoken last. He said he
could tell that gentleman that the ho
nor aud independence of the nation
sure Jor the nun-huei course. What- in the opinion ol his constituents was
Notice.
eui d*e consequence may he,I shall
nlvvaT s vote against a naked r
ihe iiutJ'intmoursr. . .
al ot
of much greater importance than the
.ipeal ot this law. ilis opiuion ol
Idle j eojde v. e.s that they noilid follow
NINE month* after ila'c I fhdt apply to
the honorable the Inferior Court of Wilkin.
Con county, for leave to eell tfts following
tract* of Land, (lying near the mouth of
Little Black Creek, in the 5th uiftrict Mid
Wilfcinaon county) viz Lot, No. 303, No.
254, No. cr>3, and one halt of Lot, No. 234.
Alto, about 100 acres on Reedy crecki
Warren County, all belonging to the ellatt
>f Jellc Matthews, deceased, for the benev
lit of the heirs aiul creditors.
JACOB MERCHANT, Adm.
Warren county, Jan. i*,
“that they have betrayed the commoi
cause in their commerce, and not
done sufficient for the interest of
France.” He promises to labor that
Holland may be permitted to exist
as a nation. The letter is dated Fe
bruary 1.
A French Imperial Order of Jan
uary 21, says, Louis Napoleon is i>e-
calltd from Holland, and the countn
Hiall be occupied by French troops.
Heligoland, Feb. 23—A division
of the French army in Germany is
'xpccted every moment to occupy
Hamburgh and its dependencies, Jo>
the purpose of preventing every pus-
ronne in real distress (bound to St.
Sebastians) with a cargo of tobacco,
and was seized by the custom house,
officers, because she was less than
100 tons burthen, and consequently
could not bring tobacco to France.
Monsieur Coliin u rites, in answer
to a letter sent him by the Director
of the Customs at Bordeaux, that ho
had mistaken the real ground on
which the above schooner was to be
seized— that it was not for the trifling
lifference of a few tons in her bur
then, nor lor the merely violating
the decision (act) of the 14th of
April, 1808, but on account cf her
nationality being Amerlfcan, and as
such was possibly liable to confisca
tion. He then orders the director
to make a new seizure, founded on
the vessel being American, to have a
new process verbal made out, and
sent him, stating that the vessel and
cargo was American and that ho
would urge the condemnation at the
Council ol Prizes. I saw a copy Vt