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given by tbe. Brit *'l< gbvcroinienr, on lift*
point, fto fay tinth'im* of various other
powerfu' confider.itioin) tli* prompt rt»
linquifhment of the fyftrm' to whrh yout
lord (hip's reply to mv nnteof the 23t!i of
Auguft. itlJacrj.:»indmpenfable.
.1 need fcarr.efv mention how important
it is to the trade of the United States,
that the government of (irrat R.itain
fltould lofc no pirne in disclofing with
lrankncfs and precifion its m'entions on
tliis head Intelligence of the French
repeal has reach'd America, and com
.mercial expedition* have doubtless hern
founded npotr it. It will have bren ta
ken f or granted that the Ilritifli obftruc
tion* to thofe expeditions hiving thus
loll the support wi\,cli however timiffici
ent in its-if was the anly ooe that could
ever be claimed for them, have hern with
drawn , and that the seas are oner more
retlored to the duminion of law and jus
tiee.
I purviade mvselt that this confi
dence will be aubsinntiitlly justified .
by the event, and that to tlie speedy j
recal of such orders in council us j
were subsequent in date to the de
crees of France, will be added the i
annulment of the antecedent order I
to which my late letter respecting j
blockades particularly relate*, lint
if, notwithstanding the circumstan
ces which invite to such a course,the
British government shall have deter
mined not to remove those obstruc
tion* with all practicable prompti
tude, I trust that my government
will be apprised, with as little delay as
possible, of a determination so unex
pected, and of such vital concern to
its rights and interusts ; and that the
reasons upon which that determina
tion may have been formed, will not
be withheld fronf it.
I have the honor to be with high
consideration, my lord, your lord-
ship’s most obedient humble ser
vant.
(Signed) Wm. PINKNEY.
"1 he Message and documents were
referred to the committee of Foreign
Relations, and tbe House adjourned
at four o’clock.
wiliij'i toe liiyhigci the states with
out. their c nsent, that they might
have an opportunity of making thfc
bill as favorable as thev could, and
guard agti n-t all the abosvr, to which
such an mslitution was liable. It
was important in every point of view
that it should be decided as speedily
as possible, whether as it regarded
the people, the stc»ckholdcrs or the
pecuniary arrangements of the go
vernment. If the genileinau would,
consent to postpone the discussion
of his motion to Monday, it would
meet his approbation.
Mr. BASSE 1, complying with
the wishes of his friend, withdrew
his motion for rejection, and movqd
to postpone the further con-id'eratibn
of the bid to Monday. One of the
great arguments used in favor oi the
renewal and against the constitu
tional objection, was tlVe acquies
cence of the states in the act; he was
desirous to reject this bill before ar
guments of an acquiescence on the
| part ol tins House could be drawn
from their consideration ol it.
1 Mr. MITCH EL said he was a-
gninst the motion for postponement;
toe chuittpan of the committee, he
said, had well expressed the reasons
which had induced the committee to
report this bill. They had been dis
posed to bring this subject beiorc the
House, that it might be there acted on
in committee oi the w hole House.—
The gentleman from Virginia (Mr.
Basset) who had first spoken had ex
pressed his manly and honest disaji-
probation of the bill, and had p ous
ted against it as unconstitutional.—
Mr. M. said he washed after having
expressed his opinion, that the gentle
man would ha\e permitted this bill
to take the ordinary course of bills.
That was the wish of the committee.
The bill contained an insulated sec-
:;. w t •. .,;c mguae Tjeubvrx.iji tpc bid.
Nevvrfheicsf.lv;-"as Very W’ilimj; to
hear the sublet liwuwd, and to re
ceive light on it. He thought gtn*
tlrincn were toy much in a hurry.
This was a subject in which the whole
Union tvas mu<h interested, and
ought tube i'ullvdiscussed.
Mr. DAWSON said, that al
though he belieted the bill uncon
stitutional, he mast vote against re
jection, because re believed it ought
to be.lnily discussed.
ftfY. If A (JON saw! he was opposed
to the bill on constitutional grounds ;
but his mind wa> nut so fully made
up $ he had not ary much confidence
in his own infallibility, that he would
rij.-ct all discussion. He should
therefore vote against rejection j but
he hoped that this vote would not be
considered as precluding him from
voting against the bill.
Mr. SM I LIE said, whatever they
might ultimately do, the question
was of too great magnitude to be de
cided without debate. It was a res
pect due to the intt rest which the sub
ject had excited' in the public mind
that it sould take the usual course of
business. Me hoped ihe House would
not reject the hi}! without hearing the
arguments in favor ol it. By voting
against rejection, he did not consider
himself committed as to his future
vote.
Mr. WRIGHT said, he wished
the subject postponed to Wednesday
next. II thegejitieinan from Virgin
ia would consent to withdraw his
motion for rejection, it would be a
great accommodation, and give an
opportunity to’examine the subject.
His present impression was that no
-charter ought to be granted.
Mr. GOLDS BOROUGH said,
that the vote on this question would
„r,.ve?f.nn tit b.’.'e. »■> avw IO 'oil *■' |
ciii« sji y a* »'o treat with one ^Mcav t<-r '!»•
ucciioatioa of unotoer, they -.vtui'i nero
a'ul julllv receive the r< probation <>l eve.
ry ho'-eli nn, i ni society- l idea is v>
p epo terous £: unprincipled, bia: ivc can
not. dwell on it.
HORRID MUR Dll ii /—A. most
horrid murder was committed on the.
11th ult. within one bundled yards
of Englehearl’s (being hall a mile
it d extraoi
l the Roy:
owing has
.!••) irv Goiter., - • cmhlcd
1 Islam' of Leon, the fol-
bven r.solved and de-
cri
The general and extraordinary
Cort ;s confirm and sanction the in-
!if pi-nsai.le opinion tiutc the Spanish
dominions in both hemispheres form
but one and the same monarchy, one
and the same nation, and but one-
family, and that lbr the swme rea-
;t the natives of raid dominions,
IronTTincastlv.) It appears dial two ; European or L T llfamarinc, r.r>t
mtn, supposed to be Situics and
Taylor of Tennessee, were taking out
11 Negroes to that State j but on the a-
bove mentioned night they turned on
their masters with clulis, ::ud,mur-
dered them wliilc asleep. I hey then
made for Bath, where five ol them
were caught and lodged in Jail, when
they confessed the crime, and told
that they had hid them in a gully ad
jacent to their encampment, . Two
men from Bath came over and in
formed the citizens of the circum
stance, who immediately turned out
in search of them, and in a short time
discovered them, hut torn and man
gled in a most horrid manner. Their
bodies we brought to town and buried j [ >e g ur j’.,j
after ml inquest wasJu-Ul over them, i
Lynchburg Slur. ■
uqual in rights to those of the Penin
sula, it being for the Cortes to deli
berate, on a more convenient •Occasi
on, on every thing which may con
duce to the well are of those citizens
beyond the seas; add likewise to
treat of the share both hemispheres
are to have in the national represen
tation. i he, Cortes iikevdse ordain,
that as soon as those Ultramarine
provinces vvii-ii b have evinced a spi
rit oi insubordination, shall, return to
their duty, and make due acknow-
iedement to the legitimate sovereign
authority established in the mother
country, they shall receive a general
pardon, and all that has passed shall
cbhiion. The forego
ing order of the Cones, the council
of regency is directed to publish-and
circulate for the due observance there
of.
(Signed)
Ramon. Dtzaro ek Don, President.
Evariste Perez de Castro, Sec r rv.
We are informed that a poor man,
near this place, having tost a Cow,
which had been the. principal depen
dence of his family, a number of his
neighbors assembled, ostensibly wi,h
a view to sympathize with him, and
to relieve him from his loss. While
they, each in their tjjrn, were vocife
rous in expressing their sorrow at
the poor man’s misfortune, a French
Gentleman (who is pa well known j placed on its former footing.
An attempt was . made by
Malta, Oct. 1.
All American property recently
seized in Tunis, in con»cqu<aice of
the affair of the 'American ship Li
berty, is liberated, and every thing
not be conclusive of any thing. He
tion for renewing the charter, a mo- j had been happy that gentlemen, in
tion to strike out which would give ! principle opposed to the bill, had de-
ample scope to debate on the cornu- dared that they should vote against
BANK OF THE U. STATES.
Mr. BURWELL having intro
duced the biii'to continue the charier
of the Bank of the United States ;
winch was read througn lor informa
tion—
Air. BASSE T said he had a con
stitutional objection to the bill, and
could not by his vote sanction it in
any shape. He therefore moved
that the bill be rejected. He did not
wish' to discuss the motion to-day,
but would rather it should lie over
till Monday. He made his motion
now to enter ilia protest at the
threshold against the bill on consti
tutional grounds. He had hoped
the committee, who had the subject
under consideration, would have sub
mitted the question of constitution
ality, in some shape, before they had
gone into derails i that not having
been the case, he was compelled to
make this motion.
Mr. BUR WELL concurred with
his colleague in his objections to the
principle of the hill, it was his con
viction that the constitution did not
give to Congress the power to es
tablish a Bank of the United States.
Thts being his impression, and a most
deliberate one, because he had view
ed the subject in every light lie could,
jn the situation he occupied as a mem
ber oi the committee, he could not
but vote lor the rejection of the bill ;
although he had intended to move
that it should take the usual course
of all btlis. In this wole business he
said he had been guided by the in
structions of the committee. When
first the subject had been presented
to the committee, he had urged the
same objections as were now stated ;
but without effect. On the details
of the bill tlie committee had differ•-
cd very materially ; and reporting it
in its present form was tlie result of
a mutual accommodation in order to
bring the subject before the House.
The hill as now reported, he said,
.was very similar to tbe one reported
to this House at the last session : i.
differed but in two points, the one
was in repealing the 12th section of
the net of Ifyi, which precluded the
government from establishing any o-
thcr bank, the other in authorising
the government to increase the ca
pital and uke shares itself with a
proportionate direction. If the ques
tion of rejection was put, he was
bound to vote for it, because he
could not vote for the renewal either
on the grounds of constitutionality
or expediency. Hut he thought it
would be fair to take up the discus
sion at a future day; and if a majo
rity should be really of opinion that
the constitution had given to Congress
power to establish corporations
tutioir.il question
Mr. GHOLSOX rose to make a
question of order, whether, wiienob
jcciion was made to its passing to a
second reading, any motion m rela
tion to the bid could be received,
unless to reject it. Believing the
bill to be unconstitutional, and feel
ing himself bound by his oath to
Vote against it in all its stages, he
tvas desirous to take a vole on rejec
tion.
Messrs. Basset, Ghblson, Pitkin,
Burweil, Newton, and Sheffey, spoke
to the question of order.
The Speaker decided that when
opposition was made to the second
reading of a bill, the motion of rejec
tion superceded every other motion,
except a motion of adjournment.
Mr. GHOLSON renewed the mo
tion to reject the hill.
Mr. SHEFFY intimated that
as he was not satisfied that it was
within the power of Congress to pa is
such a law, and therefore wished die
subject discussed, he should vote a-
gainst rejection.
Air. MACON said this was a great
question, touching the whole monied
interest of the nation, ant! materially
affecting the collection of the revenue.
He was as clearly of opinion that it
was expedient to rem vv the charter,
as he was that it was unconstitution
al. He did not believe the wisest
man among them could teil tlie evil,
which would result from the disso
lution of the bank. Nothing but the
most perfect conviction in his own
mindjlrat they had not the power to
pass the bill would compel bun, when
the question was put, to vote against
it. A decision ought not to be delay
ed. They must decide whether they
would take the paper of the state
banks, or leave a powerjin the Secre
tary ol* the Treasury, or somebody
else, as great a power almost as could
be given, to say what state piper
should be received, in payment of the
revenue, or whether nothing but spe
cie. He wa3 against any postpone
ment.
Mr. SOUTHARD said, he
thought it would be proper to per
mit this bill to take the common
course. He could nut see any thing
so .very obnoxious in it as to induce
the House to reject it. He w as hitft-
selt unfriendly to the renewal of the
charter ; but, as the people were
much interested, and petitions on the
su'4-tt had been received from many
respectable citizens, it was their du
ty to meet the question fairly, to give
it that consideration which the impor
tance of the subject required. His
reason for voting against the rejecti
on was that they should meet the
question fairly.
Mr. BEYBERT said, if he was
compelled to give a decisive vote, he
rejection because they wished for dis
cussion. He hoped no gentleman
would consider himself committed by
this vote ; he certainly should not.
Mr. M’KEE said he had not ex
pected that so great a qursi ion as this
was to have been decided in a few
hours. He had reserved to himself
time to examine difficulties in relati
on to the subject ; and, not having
done so, must now for that reason
vote against rqjection.
Mr. GIIOLSON had supposed,
thrt, as the question.of conptituticin-
ality had been the subject of discus
sion for twenty years past, every gen
tleman’s mind was made up on it;
hut, seenig so many gentlemen un*
Iricndly to the bill afiout to vote a-
gainst rejection, and finding that the
question, when taken, would decide
nothing, he withdrew the motion Jor
rejection.
The bill went to a second reading
of course, and was referred to acorn-
ini' tee <|f the wh,°Ry
'domestic.
for his liberality and nobleness of
spirit, as for his genteel address
and deportment) came lip, and thus
alternately accosted them-—“ yon
are sorry—and 'you are sorry—and
you are sorry !—Pray bow ail cii are
vou sorrv l For tnv part, I am sorry
TEN DOLLARS !” at the same
time tendering the money to the poor
man. The reader is kit to immagine
the confusion of his very sympathi
zing neighbors ; however being irre
sistibly overpowered by such a noble
example, they contributed to make
up the poor man’s loss on the spot.
(Morri stoivn paper.)
FQEfiltiN.
Uatchkz, December 17.
WEST-FLORIDA.
Lieut. Patterfon ot’tue ravy a: rived
in lint city yesterday ineming. oirectly
from da toil' Rouge—-From; him we learn,
that prlkssiuii was uktn by our troops,
ol me iort ot Batsii Rouge «n Monday
last, witlrou. uftpaiu&u- Tuc di#uacts
of Bald) lV'Mis e 4UU New Fcliuana arc
perfectly tranquil—tne guu boats have
gone to New Orltam, ana the troop
tnat tTuiclied uiidir Cot. Bike, aie on
the r return to cantonment W .llnngton*
Fio n mis movement we mtei that no
oppntition is expected tiom tue dutnets
of St. ritlfna, fanclupaho and at. her
d.naild—- But who can s..y wtiat will be
die icception Col. Cuilnug wilt aieei
with at Mobile i
i wo rtpo ts have been hi general tn-
cuia ion here, lincc our lull publication,
neither of winch, in oui opinion, is enti
tled to credit —Tiie hrii n that Col. Kein
per has taken Mobile, with the lots ot
loity men—The sec, nd that IV5 has been
defeated and is hiraieif a prifoner.
We have t»ten told, on nspetabe au
thority, that Folch has at t'cn;>a..oia,
7OO mtn, and hasjent off me women ana
children, it this report lliould. prove
true, his farce, conceutiated at Mount,
will amount to about 1000 men—-unu
lliould he resolve on deiemiiftg the place
to tne iait rxtrrrou j»f*will H sopmiea witn
amumti n and pruvilion.nuKc a &efp„iate
re fid n-c.
Again we are. told, that nolw.thdaiia-
ing this force, Folch is icidy .0 lurren-
per Mobile to Col. (Juthingf in coaae-
qjcnce ol a secret convention between
our government and the captain geneial
of tne Ifiind of Cuba. However we
may oe inclined to believe that Fo.chis
ill-paled to lurrcnde^MoOiie, we esunot
attach tbe Ihghtelt ciedit to the idea, that
it it in consequence of a lecret under*
Itanuing between our government and
that of tbe illaud of Cuba. Could ogr
the
French'a few days since on Sicily.
Four thousand men landed, 2<)00 of
which, with 2 colonels, 4G ofii' ,-rs,
and (') gun-boats were taken. The
residue re-euibiuked in the night ami
escaped.
There has been a seizure of Ame
rican property in Turkey, iu conse
quence, as we hear, of a non-compli
ance with a demand of ii per ct. on
inward and outward cargoes ; !>ut
we suppose the property re
leased and the difference settled on
payment of the duties.
Luoien Bonaparte and family are
here, prisoners.
Cadiz, Ndv
The French forces in Sp in i r v ;ve ii-
ber Lft. were computed a', ah Ut 2vd,tJOO
men. diftiibuted as follow-. • QO OOO un.
der Mafleni in Par'tigai 40 000 under
Soult in Andalnlia , 20,000 uudatr Macdo
nald in Catainnia ; 20.00 > unde«- Suchyt
in Arragon and brfo-e Toiio a ; t e ie-
tidue divided in the province- of lb .cm ,
Navarre and in the two Coftilrs. "Jo-
sept Banapar e was at Madrid but with
Philadelphia Jan. 9.
late English infers.
By the ship Amity, from Liver
pool, London papers to the 9th of
Nov. have been received at the of
fice ot the Register, from which the
subjoined arcicles are taken.
The Amity brought despatches
from Mr. Pinkney, which were sent
on by this morning’s southern mail
very little authority ’’hr F*encli gene
Decree of the Grand Duke of Frank- ‘ al * act ] n a ?er Y d^poock and a vt a,y
J 0 rt, I martfer in the provinces under ,htir »ub-
WE, Charles, Uy the Grace of
God, Prince Primate, &tc.
By desire of his majesty, the Em
peror of the Frencjh, king of Italy,
protector, Sic. we have dtcreed aud
do .decree us follows. That is to
say.
Art. I. All newspapers,, whether
French, or German, published in. our
grand duchy, shall cease on the. first
of December of this ve:ar, and we
herebv revoke the privilege granted*
II. F rom the first of January,
eighteen hundred and eleven, only
one official newspaper shall be pub
lished in our chief city of Frankfort,
and no other political print shall
appear throughout the whole territo
ry-
ill. This official paper shall
hear the title of Gazette of the
Grand Duchy of Frankfort, and the
articles contained shall be inserted in
the Frenclymd German languages.
IV. Our minister of the police
shall appoint the editor of the official
Gazette.
V. Our director of the Police at
Franklort, shall lie the censor of this
official gazette, and shall Le answer
able to us for its conduct. Our min
ister ot police shall communicate to
the-director those instruction# by
which he shall be governed. >
VT. Our ministers'ot the interior,
of justice, and of the , police, are
charged with die due enforcement of
this decree.
(Signed); CHARLES, Grand Duke.
Frankfort Oct. 16.
CORTES.
Don Ferdinand y.h, by the grace of
God, king ot Spain and the Indies,
and in his absence and captivity the
council of rtgency, provisionally au
thorised, make known to all whom
it may concern : that in the general
provinces
jection The provinces of Spain >Hat
•we frpe are Gallicia. F.strema.iu a Mar
cia and Valencia bsfrVs part of A oni-
a , AmLIulia anil (vital >tva. T”'':.3pa»
11 111. forces ot regular uootv fnav b conr.
pnteit at about i00 000 nt-n viz 1 f t<>
1 IS 000 in (iallida. un-wr M,hy ;
under Rom ilia p irt,isi Pwrttigal.H"-, * 1 Vi r t
in Esti'emadmaf ir.ooo.n t hr III. a net
Cid'Z, uud<r pc 1 era I Pena ; b Ivivsi
from 4 to .5000 Englifh a •".' Po-tugui f-’jj;
and further.. the nilitia and V jlunteja 1
amount to about To no. In Muecio,
14,000 under Blake j i Valencia I4 00il
aider BelTc 'urt •, and 18 000 ind- r O .
Donnell in Catalonia. Belide- theft-, aty;
a mi nber ot parties of arniru' patricts*
in the different p. ovincis occun -d br
ibe F ench, lome Conlifting > f Irom t to
>009 men
These parties annoy the French
ettrem<-Iy by intercepting their cuu.
riers and convoys and seldom give
quarter, but are at the same time a
great nuisance to the poor inhabi
tants whom t ier frequently
these vexations and those co n nutetL
by the French, have reduced th-. .in-'
teriour country to the greatest dis-»
ress and misery.
Tiie French forces to the neighbourhood!
of Cadix, computed at f-onri fourteen t u jg}
thoufand, are too ioconfi (eraMe to attempt:
an attack »n the iftind— Our fo-ufici|jon-|
are fo-oiMahle helidei i'U' Hr .n* «irrifon >,
The Fren-h l»>ve ereftt d several (Iron® »>ai„
ferieii .<» the n-.elr of Ian i ailed the Troca-
dero that run* nv:o rmrnbij^- wtVe' ,rf * ard’
from the <:a Me of St- Catalina, at the fi-te'ftt*
P >r* St. Mwys they thr m flint and (folfsi
nmonpft the fli oping,bui annof reach the’
town ; we are abundantly fupplied with
all kind* of provifion*.
Our Goru-s, Na ioniil Assembly,,
composed of the represent.ives of*
the different provinces ol Spain and
irs colon cs, had its first sitting on the
2+th Sept, last at the I-t.i. T'l1- ■ oti- r
stitutioi it not vet formed, but sup
posed it will be similar to that of
Engi.tnd. 1 he .liberty of the press
is grunted, and the colonies declared