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At t ie expriict of l!icif bvh i.ucrcit* ?iid l beau:
;viicv/cd. .Ordered
It was true irdtrd that Ohio
became a (W hi fore (he u-d 60 000. i f
lie were to reafun on thin fubject, Mr.
S fnid h* would Cay, under the Fofterinp
to i.e on the table. *
The resolution of Mr. Love, pre
sented a lew days since, calling on
the Secretary of the Treasury, for in
hand of the prnrral government let thrm | formation relative to the United
become accnflometl to cur govrrrtnrnt
befoir thofe were permitted to jp vern
throifrlves who had lo lately ftntrgW
from drspotifm He was not he faid-
directly tiodile to the sdmiffioiv ‘f this
territory into the Union; but he miide
tlieft ohlervatioas in answer to I^Kftula-
tionsulhered in to lead the Honte Lorn
its duly* They ought to have the lie
ceffary information The id* a of a gen
tleman from Georgia had aKd occurred
to him refpecting the extrnfion of die li
mits to the Terdido. ..When,the K*«m
five had directed tne occupation of that
territory it had ,»iven a pledge that it
fhould be fubje£\ to future negotiation
And would gentlemen fay, that 'he 1 Ex
ecutive could convey away any pirt of a
flatte ? Although it fliould be hereafter
dearly proved, that the territory waa not
ceded, what is he boond to do ? To efla-
bi.fli a doctrine fpurned at by all, that
the treaty making power has a right to,
cede a (late or any part of a Hate I Cer
tainly not. This confideration wa* fufli
cieni to induce the Houfe to look about
them before they piocetdcd. Why fhould
they be hurried on without information l \
T lie part cular lituat.ou ol the Territory
had been mentii tied as a ground ot an
immediate dccifiou.' What was itsiitu
ation? It is far diftant: lo is the Mif-
.fiflippi Territory The latter haa been
nut ted in the principles of civil liberty ;
the tormer has not. The latter compos
• cd chiefly of our own citizens ; the for-
juvr is not Mr. S. laid he had always
underltood that New Orleans was'the
mull vuiaerable point ot the Union, and it
was therefore the more proper 11)11 to keep
the power in our own hands.
Mr. MACON said he would treat
these people as he would the people
of every other territory. They were
a part of the nation, and to ought to
be considered. There ought to be
no question as to what stock they
sprung from ; the true question was,
ought they to be a state 1 The true
policy, Mr. M. thought, was as they
were to become a part of the United
States, to make them one and indivi
sible as soon as possible. They had
already served a sufficient appren
ticeship to the United States, hut
not under a free government, for the
territorial governments were not tree.
The advantage of exacting of them
the condition of using the same lan
guage, was a great one. How could
they be made one with the United
States unless by the use of the same
language i Mr. M. wished to treat
this territory as well as the others,
and no better : he would not treat
one as a daughter and the other as a
step-daughter. He was as willing
now to make Orleans a state as he
had been to make Ohio a state. The
great object is to make us one people ;
to make this nation one. As to the
Mississippi territory, it had not ser
ved a much longer apprenticeship
than Orleans, having only been ac
quired by the treaty with Spain in
1795. 'file people of Orleans pos
sessed certainly as strong an attach
ment to the nation as could be expect'
ed from the time they had belonged
to it. When the Spaniards invaded
the territory, they stepped forward
promptly to repel them ; and when
some citizens of the old states forgot
the love every honest heart owes to
his country, they showed their attach
ment to the Union by the readiness
with which they lent their aid to re
pel them. To make them a state
would make attachment still greater,
and it was therefore advisable to act
on the subject.
The committee rose, reported pro
gress, & asked leave to sit again ; but
before leave was granted, the house
adjourned
Thursday, January 3.
On motion of Mr. Johnson,
Resolved, That the Committee on
Public Lands be directed to enquire
into the propriety of designating a
portion of the public lands, West of
the river Mississippi, to satisfy the
claims of individuals, holding under
the act of Virginia of 1779, add re
port thereon to this House.
On motion of Mr. Witherspoon %
Resolved, That the Speaker address
a letter to the executive of the State
of South Carolina, communicating
information of the resignation of John
Taylor, one of the members returned
from that state to serve in this House,
that measures may be taken to sup-
S ly the vacancy occasioned there-
y in the representation from that
state.
Mr. Seubert presented a memorial
signed. by 2^84 persons, inhabitants
of Philadelphia, praying that the
Charter of the Bank of the United
(lol’ms, borrow'd tj.e year eifi! 1 ' . lyiuiuig Was ^l>p;eicd tu, o'* ickuju
t<-c:i hundred and tin Ihali he coiifider- I couid be received, but to jrjeciit
i i . ... ' I .. .. . .... l. .i .. .r.;;,..
States Baulk, was taken upland agreed
to without opposition.
Mr. Rhea, (Ten.) reported a bill
“further providing for the_govern
ment of the territory of Louisiana
which was referred to a committee of
the whole. • •
Mr. Pearson reported a bill sup
plementary to an act passed in 1793,
respecting fugitives from justice, and
persons escaping from their masters,”
extending the benefits of the said act
to the different territories. Referred
to a committee of the whole.
TERRITORIES osthk UNITED
STATES.
Mr. HlHBsaid it would he recol
lected that in the course of the dis
cussion yesterday on the subject of
admiring the territory of Orleans as a
state into the union, he had explicit
ly declared himself hi favor of such
a course whenever there was infor
(nation before the House to justify it.
The bill now before the House on 1
that subject provided for including in
that territory the tract of country the
occupation whereof had recently
been directed by the President of the
United States. He had said yester
day that, although this step had been
taken, the President had given a
pledge that the territory should here
after be a subject of negotiation ; and
that in making it'it’sfcfite they would
forever preclude negotiation on the
subject. Mr. B. said, when the bill
again can\e up, it was his intention to
move to strike out the provisions re
lating iO this territory ; but before
that bill came up, he thought proper
to move the following resolution.
Resolved, a That committee be ap
pointed to enquire into the expedien
cy of ahnexing to the Mississippi
Territory, or of creating into a sepa
rate territorial government, the tract
of country lying south of the 31st
degree of north latitude, and extend
ing-from the river Perdido, to-a line
drawn along the middle of the lakes
Maurepas, and Poncliartrain and the.
river Ibberville, to its junction with
the river Mississippi.
The discussion of this resolution
had progressed to some extent (a
sketch of which hereafter) when a
message in writing was received from
the President of the United! States by
Mr. Edward Coles.
CLOSED DOORS.
The Speaker having opened the
message, declared it to be of a confi
dential nature. :
The subject then under discussion
was postponed ; the galleries were
immediately cleared, and all Stran
gers excluded.
The doors were closed the remain
der (>f the sitting; which continued
till 4 o’clock.
rd a- pari ihr-eof, uid. ih*t no gieaie
» nou (lull be rrquJM Ir>
of a year than one milubn of dollars Alii
provided further,'fnat all luch loans
fhall be rehnbiirlablt at or before the ex
piration of the fa Id t;rm of years,
unlef* it ThaU be orhcrwile agreed be
tween the laid corponuiMi and the Unit
ed S.atrs — .
. § 4. And best further enacted^ That
if the said President and Directors
shall on any occasion fail to furnish
any load or loans, Mt be required by
the United States in the manner
herein bcfoift enacted, their corpora
tion «hall fortiiwtjjMwr dissolved, and
the power, itpemdj. shall cease and
determine, any thing in this act, or
in the. act. hereby eputinued in force,
to the contrary thereof in any wise
notwithstanding.
§ 5. And be it further anacted, That
the Directors chosen by the stock
holders of the sajd corporation on
the first Monday of January in the
present year, and the President cho
sen by the Directors at the first meet
ing after such election, shall be capa
ble of serving by virtue of such elec
tions, until the first Monday in Jan
uary, eighteen hundred and twelve.
§ 6. And he it further enacted, That
the act entitled. “ An act to punish
frauds commuted on the bank of the
United States?’ passed the 24th day
of Februaryj 1807, be and the same
is hereby cdnfifiued in force, during
the continuance of the said corpora
tion, and the tanje shall at ail times
hereafter, audio all respects be deem
ed aof! taken..(> appfy to the said cor
poration, and m tne same manner
that it has bee» deemed and taken
to apply to the pame heretofore.
§ 7. And be it further enacted, That
the President anti Directors of the
said bank shaiDafter the fourth day
of March next,(pay the United Stats,
an interest atrjthe rate of three per
centum per ye# on all sums of mo
ney above the sfim of —— millions ot
dollars, which
the credit of tl
Mr. Basset wished a discussion of
*ny qaat-ter j ifoe question. Several gtnileiiten i! qn-
“' u,, * r * Ani 1 friendly to the bill appeared desirous
that it should take ^tie usual course,
and declared that.tliey should vote a-
gainst rejection. .
Influenced by these suggestions,
Mr. liholson, who had again moved
to reject the bill, withdrew his oppo
sition.; and the bill was read a se
cond time and retired to a commit
tee of the whole.
On the. question when it should be
taken up, great interest appeared to j
be excited., * ••.
Por Wednctdiy nest ss, against it 1%
Tuesday As, a ain.t it 50.'
ORLEANS TBKRITORY.
The bouse again relolved uselt in
to committee of the whole on the
bill for erecting the Orleans territory,
into a state.
Mr. Wheaton spoke against the bill
on consitutional grounds. ..
Mr. Miller spoke against it, and
moved to strike out the whole substance
of the bill, and insert a provision for
INCORPORATING IN ONE -STATE the
Orleans and Mississippi territories.
This motion was opposed I ly Messrs.
Rhea, (T.) Bibb, Oliolson, Macon,
and Poindexter. [The debate will
hereafter be given.]
The committee rose about 4
o’clock without coming to a decision ;
.and, after ordering the memorial of
the legislature of Orleans to be
printed, and refusing to print Mr,
Miller’s proposed amendment, the
House adjourned. e ■ •
Friday January 4.
BANK OP THE UNITED STATES.
Mr- Harwell reported the following
bill :
A BILL continuing in force for the
term of the act entitled “ An Act
to incorporate the Subscribers to
the Bunk of the United States,” on
the terms, and conditions therein
mentioned.
BE it enacted &c. iTTi'aj the act to
incorporate the subscribers to the
bank of die United States passed the
25th day pf February, in the year of
our Lord 1791, be and the same is
hereby-continued in force, subject to
the provisions and conditions in this
act specified, for and during the fur
ther term of years from' and
after the 4th day of march next.
§ 2. Provided however, and be itfur-
ther enacted, That the President and
Directors of the said bank of the U-
nited States shall, on or before the
day of next, pay into the
treasury of the United States for
the use thereof, one million and two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted
That the Prclidcnt and Directors oY the
(aid bank (hall at all tunes, from and af
ter the paffing of this act, and dtfring
the continuance of the fame. >e hylden
and bound to make a loan or loans to the
United States, if required and authorised
by law, of any fum of turns of money not
exceeding in the whole at any one time
five millions of dollars, reimbursable at
the pteal'ure of the United States, and at
a rate of inttred not exceeding fix per
eenuim pen year ; Provided, that it Ihall
be the duty of the Secretary of the Trea>
fury to make his application in writing to
tbe iVefident and Directors of the faid
bank for fuch loan or loans at lead three
calendar months prior to the time when
furh loan or loans (hall he required; Pro
vided alia, that the sum of two millions
and seven hundred and fifty thoufand
shall accumulate .to 1
le treasurer of the U. |
States in said lank, or in the branch
es pf the sarue.J
there fpr
id which shall remain
Provided, it shall be I
the duty of, the Secretary of the Trea
sury, from tl<a* to time, to give no
tice in writitg, to the President and
Directors, at feast' days before
(he term or time at which the said
interest shall begin to accrue find,be
computed) fehicli notice in writing
shall specify'me exact amount of the
deposits so 'td''remain for the whole
year as aforesaid.
$ 8. Arid be ii further enacted, That
the United States shall be authorized,
at any time duriiig the continuance
of this act, to increase the capital
stock of the.said corporation, in such
manner as may be hereafter prescri
bed by law, and for which the Uni
ted States shall be the subscriber,
and own to an amount not exceeding
in the whole shares and not ex-
deeding in one year shares
Provided, That during the ti floe the
U. Sates shall so liold stocks in the
said corporation, they shall have the
right to appoint, in sach manner as
shall hereafter be declared by law,
a number *npt^ exceeding of
the Directorsy r And provided also,
That ,the Shares, thus to be subscri
bed^ arid acided^Jby and on behalf of
the' United Stfifcp, shall not be sold
at a price ifi.‘ss than per cen
turn advance on each share.
§ 9. ‘And be it further enacted, That
the twelfth seci;dn of the before men
tioned act,.entitled “ An act to in
corporate the subscribers to the bank
of the United States, passed March
2d, I79f, be and the same is hereby
repealed.
$ 10. And be it further enacted, That
it shall be the <foty of the President
and directors df the said bank, on
or before the day of
next, to signify to the president of
the United States, in writing, their
acceptance i*’behalf of the said cor
poration,of t{\n terms and conditi
ons in this itqt contained ; and if they
shall fail to do 30, on or before the
above mentioned day, then this act
shall cease t6 bu in force.
The lull having been read through
for >infona.ati4n,'<- i * ► -*■-
Mr. Basset WtSb a motion for the
rejection of the hill? grounding it on
the constitutional objections th its
passage.- • -'"- 1 “* ~ ;
After remarks' from various gen-'
tlemen, which our wfii)t 'of room a-
lone compels os to omit for'the pre
sent— ‘ jo-
Mr. Basset withdrew the motion
for rejection, and moVed to postpone
it to Monday.
After some discussion,
The speaker decided, that on the
first beading of the foil, if a second
The aboriginal inhabitants of the
United States are opening their eyes
to their true interest; a great num
her of whom representatives of jhir-
teen nations (and in all about 2,000)
lately kindled a council fire near De
troit to take into consideration the
present state ot their alfairs. Red
Jacket spoke almost a whole day—he
advised the Indians to peace, to attend
to agriculture, and change their man
ner of life with their circumstances
—he forcibly pourtrayed the different
policy of France and Great Britain,
and the United States—the former
had always desired to make them
parties in their wars—wars in lvhich
they had no interest: the latter ad
vised them in every event to re
main at home in peace attending to
their wives and children, The grand
council sent a speech, urging nearly
the same things to the nations they
represented, and strictly cautioning
them to be peaceble towards tne U.
States. A speech was also sent u to
the prophet and our younger brethren
the Shawanese,” commanding them
to be quiet and to attend to their
domestic concerns, and orderingahey
shall not kindle a council fire'except
for their own tribe, “ being the youn
gest of the nations.”-—East, pap.
rcSpci'f tu {• relit Huiiiftif’ But th6
fuel is - , n!l the hostility coorrs from
that Chui t, die United S'.atcs having-
exhausted every friendly measure'
within tlieir power to propose. ; It
inav not perhaps be amissfto take^A
short /eyiew of the situatlbftwT- our
commercial affairs with Frfihcrf a&d
England, for the last four yearsi' Ut
Previous to the promulgation df.- ’’
the British order bearing dxtfc hi ‘ r
May 1806, our commerce was
molested No piratical depVedatiJ- 1
ons were made by either belligerent, * *'
under the fallacious plea of “ orders • • 4
and decrees.”' The above stated or^ ' -'
. der declared the whole coast front
Elbe to Brest, in a state of blockade* '<-•
The French government waited 1 4l#
months before they retaliated; at the J
expiration of which time the Berlin ••
decree appeared. This was -follow
ed by an order in council, alle&ged - •->
to be in retaliation ; but it was nbt
stated by the British that the Berlin
decree was in retaliation of the order ■ '
of May, although such was clearly -•
the case. This order in council was
followed by the Milan decree, and
that by another order. This is the
whole history of the commercial res- ■
trictions. The British order of May, .
being the source from whence all the
others origirtat.d, ought to have been
first repealed; The French, howe
ver, have set' the example of-justice,'
by cutting off their decree. If Great
Britain wishes for our friendship, let r ~
her repeal her orders and blockades, ■’
and send out a Plenipotentiary in the '•
room of Mr. Jackson.———But we
are inclined to think, (to ’ use the v
words of that -minister*) that the)
“ Orders in Council are partkff
systemi, which will never be abandon
ed bv great Britain.” If this proven
to be the case, the sooner we disco
ver to her our unalterable determina- '
tion to vindicate our neutral- rights,
the better.—Boston Chronicle. s £-- *
Thirty nine boat palled the rapids of
Ohio, between the 24th of Nov. and the
. thof D ermber. laden with 3071 bbls.
flour, 329 ditto cider 33 ditto dry Trust.
I5J33 bt>ls apples 14150 gallons and 63
bbl*. whifkey, 151.400 lbs pork, gOObbis
beef 10 bbis, and 2500 lbs. hogs Sard 400
lbs. heotp, 13 h jrlVs. 9OOO feet cherry
plank, a*ns veniloii. 1000 yards cot
ton bagging, 9OO yards tow lin- ti,' 110 lb
cut nail ', 11 11 ibs. cordage. 3 olili four
krout 100 horfe collars .70.000 lbs. yarn,
160OO lbs , bail rope, 1180 lbs butter,
53 bbls. cider royal 1180 Ibs.flioe thread
141 flave>. 500 ;bs cheese, 9bbls bran
d> o bbls bean?, 5oo fowls, 46 ’julhels
potatoes, 2 Franklin tloves, 60 peck and
half peck baskets brlides laddies, 26 cos
dollars in nie.chabdife and 4«oo dollars
in fnndries. not enurnesred The above
property was all piloted by two men in
the period above Hated befides ten boats
which pafled down on the cppolite fide of
he riv-r the cargoes f which so account
was taken. .
Linn Enterprizc.—X correspon
dent has favoured us with a statement
of the annual product of the labours
of our industrious, enterprising, and
persevering neighbours in the town
of Lynn.—It 'does honour to our
country; tyid we are particularly
pleased in finding so much ofthe a*
mount to be the eflecl oFthe industry
of the fair' females of that Undent
town. In the manufacture of Women's
Shoes in Lynn, 1037 persons are
employed ; they produce annually
987,000, and wh-n 'manufactured
are worth about 800,000 ; giving
8300,000 as the reward ofthe la
bour. Of this sum 84.9,395 annual
ly is the product ol the work of fe
males in binding, &c. the ehpes. .
tfdbtbn Gcniinel.
From whence arises the difficulty
The Federalists nu*ke a great cla
mor about what they term the *$hos*
tile intentions of our government with
Nearly three millions of dollars were
lad fpring Hupped froip the singli port of
Philadelphia for Canton an*- Calcutta in
the E Indies. When it is corfider-'
ed that every pecuniary Imh&rrafCiBent,
attributed.to the scarcity of ntoney is.'
brought shout by fending our fpreie oat -
of the country to procure rnsny articles,,,
of luxury which we lo not want, and ci
thers which indolence alone.prevents our.
manufacturing among ourfelvet ; how
powerful is the incitement to' encourage'
our own manufactures—to wVai- lioitic-
fpun in the place 6f the flimsy cloths fitr-
pofed on us from foreign-counthe**- -§8
long, tioweve-, as 1 •'
“ Women for tea foifake (pining and ktiiting* '
And men for Punch,leava off hawing A f plitipgY
We may expetil individuals en,..arrayed,
and whenever fueing time comes round
trembling for the fear of toting tbetr ally
and being imrourred within the walla of «.
pnlon.—N. H. Patriot*
London, Nov* 6. - ’ ■
La Peyrouse.—By the Dfomedary
storeship, iroin New South Wales,
some letters arc iitolight over, which
were found by an olticer at Van Die-* :
inan’s Land, in-New Holland. TKje
discovery Was made from observing
an inscription upou a tree in j'rencltj'
which directed the reader to dig for
a bottle a) the loot ol the same tree.
The letters are addressed to som« .
persons in France, and were written
about seventeen years ago* Upon
their arrival in England, they were...
forwarded to the Earl of, Liverpool.
The following are the particulars of
this extraordinary event.
“ An officer of the name of Ed’ >
wards, belonging to the 8tH-regimen k •
ol light dragoons^ which has Been
long on service in India, was proceed*.
ing to New South Wales in. the Ve—*
nus, for the benefit of his .health*
When the vessel wasoff VanDieman’s,
Land, Lieut Edwards and some, b-
thers landed lor the purpose of amu
sing themselves, and seeing. a little
of the country. Auer walking about
lor some time, some of the .company ;
, perceived an inscription cut 'in .the ',
bark ot a tree, the characters of which'
were nearly.obliterated or filled up.>.
The date,- however, waslegible* which -
by a singular coincidence, proved to ’ - '
have beeu insertb^d exactly that very
day seventeen ycaraT Asuhe wfc*14*k
of thcYnscription, from the- circum- ’
stances, we have stated, could not be
decypbered, tne company rcturneii - 1 '
on board, giving up all ideaoj fnrther
research. Tne extraordinary disco- -i
very having made a deeper impressi-'- *,'.
on on M r. Edwards than it did on his '
.fellow passengers, he determined
rpake another attempt to decypher- \
tlie inscription ; for which purpose - 1
he went on shore the next morning, •
accompanied by soma persons |o i
whotn.he had imparted4‘portion'bf •
his zeal ;flnd curiosity* Their first
proceeding was to clear away the
