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CO.YGRESS of Ox EXITED STATES.
HOUS3 OF REPKKSKNTATIVES,
Tuesday, February IT.
A message was received from the senate,
staling t'.ut they had passed the bill authori
sing the president of the U. S. to accept the
service of a number of volunteer companies
not exceeding 30,000 men ; also an act further
supplementurv to the act entitled an act con
cerning the district of Columbia ; and that
they bad agreed to all the amendments propo
sed by the house to the bill to prohibit the im
portation of slaves except the t>th amendment.
The house proceeded to consider the fol
lowing resum'd n, offered by Mr. Broom.—
<• Resolved, That it is expedient to make
further provision, by law. for securing the pri
vilege of the vvs it of Habeas Corpus to persons
in •custody, under, or by order of, the authority
of the U.'S.”
Mr. Broom moved a reference of this reso
lution to a committee of the whole house.
On this motion a debate arose, which occu
pied the residue of the sitting.
Wednesday, February 18.
The house cockle red the message of the
senate, stating their.disagreement to the ninth
amendment proposed by the house to the bill
prohibiting the importation of slaves into the
U. S. determined to insist thereon ; and ap
pointed a committee of conference on their
part.
.The house resumed the consideration of Mr.
Broom's resolution on the subject of the writ
of Habeas Corpus.
Tip; debate was resumed, and continued (ill
■near 3 o’clock.
‘The original.motion to refer the resolution
to a committee of the whole house was varied,
aud a motion offered to refer it to a select com
mittee.
‘The house adjourned without taking the
(question.
Thursday , February 19.
Mr. Morrow of Ohio, from the committee
®n the public lands, to whom was referred the
amendments of the senate to the bill confirm
ing the claims to land in the district of Vin
cennes, reported the same without amend
ment —Referred to a committee of the whole
house to-morrow.
• Mr. I. Clay, from the committee to whom
was referred an a.ct from the senate in addi
tion to the act i elativ e to the mint, reported
the same with one amendment—Referred to a
committee of the whole to-morrow.
The house resumed the consideration of the
ic so hi lion offered by Mr. Broom.
The debate was opened by Mr. Bunveil,
who advocated the reference of the resolution,
and concluded by moving to amend it by in
serting after the words states, the following
words “ and the necessity of defining the pow
er of the supreme court of the U. S. in issuing
at writ of Habeas Corpus.”
This amendment was agreed to without de
bate—Ayes 76.
Mr. Quiacey supported ; and Messrs. Jack
eon, Bidvvell and tiregg opposed the reference
of the resolution to a select committee.
Mr. Gregg moved to postpone it indefinite
ly’ . r
. 1 his motion was supported by Messrs. Smi
lie, Eppcs, Elmer and Sloan ; and opposed by
‘Messrs. Newton, J. Randolph, Elliot, J. Clay
and Kelly.
When the question was taken at 5 o'clock,
by yeas and nays, on the indefinite postpone
ment, and carried in the affirmative—Yeas 60
£<ays 58.
HAMBURGH, December 33.
Bonaparte in his conversation with the Dep
uties of this city, made several violent sallies
against Great-ISi itain ; and among other things
is reported to have said— ■* I hate the English,
and the more 1 can injure them, the happier
shall Ibo 1”—It is hinted in a popular French
Journal, that the three Manse towns will have
to pay a forced loan,of 30.000,000 of franks, cut
of which, Hamburgh alone is to contribute 13
‘millions! •
The white flux continues to rage among
the French army in Poland, besides another
Shocking disorder called the Vistula yuci/es
(Pluia Polonica.) In the latter, purulent mat
ter Hows out of the end of every hair on the
bead, and the hairs swell anti grow down to the
middle ot the body in the form of queues.
The disease is almost incurable. The body of
t.iie pat amt is also in general covered with a
leprous eruption. Ihe facility of medicine
a> Vienna having been consulted about the
best method oi curing the white flux, have
returned for answer, that the patient must eat
very strengthening food, and drink choice white
wine. The Emperor of Austria has, it is said,
offered 1-1,300 barrels of Hungarian wine, for
the relief of the French sick.
It is strongly reported that the French have
been defeated by the Russians on the Narva.
PRESBURG, December 30.
All private let* :rs from the neighborhood of
the French armies agree in representing the
scarcity and sickness which prevail amongst
thi in to be extreme. The empress Josephine
and the queen of Holland have fled from the
contagion. ..
Advices have been received here, that the
Ru .i .us. 50,000 strong, have taken pesession
rs M iduvia arid Wallachia, friends and al
lies of ‘iic ouhiime Porte; that they have ad
vanced as ur as Widden, and united with the
Servians, who are about 40,000 strong, under
fiu.-.vmn u.ukof Czeroi George.
Accounts’ from Warsaw, of Ist December,
say, thatjgcpcral Beningsen, who commands
73.0C0 men, had then his head-quarters at
Puitusk, in Russian Poland, beyond the Vistu
la, on the Narva. The king of Prussia had
been there eight days before.
LONDON, January 6.
Sir Harding Jones lias brought the latest ac
counts to government from the head quarters
of the Prussian armies.—He had a full opportu
nity of seeing them with his own eyes, and up
on his authority it is stated, that he never saw
an army in a higher state of discipline, better
appointed in every respect, or more eager to
meet the enemy a I'arme blanche. The two
columns of the Russians under generals Bcn
ningsen and Buxhoydcn, amounting in all to
150,000 men, he says, must have joined onjthe
Bth December.
Several letters, dated the 10th of December,
have been received from St. Petersburg!!,
which mention that a strong Russian force,
under the command of general Von Essscn,
had taken possession of Choczin.
January 7.
The Prussians appear to be rallying. Fred
erick William has addressed a proclamation
to the inhabitants of Silesia in which he feel
ingly appeals to their loyalty and patriotism,
anticipating the approach of the enemy, and
painting in strong colors, the depoulating war
fare which he wages against the peaceful in
habitants of every country in which his armies
gain a footing. Ills majesty boasts being still
at the head of a powerful army, purged of trai
tors and burning with zeal in the cause of its
Country, supported by a yet more powerful
ally, determined to revenge his cause.
January 18.
We understand that subsidiary treaties
have been entered into by our government with
the courts of Russia, Sweden and Prussia,
by which we have engaged to furnish them
with five millions sterling, in order to enable
them to keep the field’ against the common
enemy. The greater part of this sum, if we
are correctly informed, government has the
means of immediately transmitting. Towards
the close of the last session of Parliament, a
vote of credit was obtained for the sum of five
millions, of which it is said no more than one
million five hundred thousand pounds has hi
therto been applied, leaving in the treasury a
balance of three millions five hundred thousand
pounds. The first instalment of the subsidy,
is immediately to be conveyed to Gottenburgh
in the Quebec frigate.
The Austrian Emperor has been summoned
by the French general Montesquieu, to declare
himself for or against France, as his neutrality
could be no longer respected. The answer of
his being determined io maintain his neutrality
has been sent to Warsaw, by general Vincent,
l'hc same demand has been made of the Courts
of Denmark and Sweden. The latter rejected
it with becoming disdain; the former seem to
temporise. Count Bernstoff, the Danish
Prime Minister of State, has obtained from.
Napoleon, the Order of the Grand Cross of the
Legion of Honor.
The Paris papers state, that Louis XVIII.
or as Bonaparte lias been pleased to call him,
the Count dc Lisle, has been driven out of his
asylum at Krew, in Russian Poland, and is
now on his way to Moscow.
The Emperor Napoleon is said to have sold
to the King o! Holland,thecitiesof Hamburgh,
Lubec and Bremen, on condition of his receiv
ing a certain annual tribute.
By the last accounts from Spain, it appears,
that the Spanish government has been com
pelled, by a peremptory mandate from France,
to prohibit the sending of any wool to this
country, as has been the practice during the
present as well as former wars. The same
prohibition, we find, by one of the late French
papers, has been issued in the kingdom of Italy
against the exportation of raw silk to this coun
try.
The intelligence from the continent, relative
to the operations of the armies in Poland, is of
a nature so very fluctuating and contradictory
that no reliance whatever can be placed upon it.
1 be different articles of which it consists are
said to have been brought by vessels and boats
from the French and Dutch coasts; but they
differ most materially—some representing the
French as victorious, and others stating the
success of the Russians to have been decisive.
In this dilemma, when we have no authority to
acccreclit, but the reports of masters of vessels,
we shall not trespass upon the good sense of
our readers by giving the various acconnts at
length.
Dispatches are said to have reached the ad
miralty on Saturday night, communicating the
arrival of the Carrier cutter from off the Texel
at Yarmouth, on Friday last. She is said to
have spoken a vessel on the 14th, from Am
sterdam bound to Drontheim, and the master,
a Dane, privately stated, that it was understood
at Amsterdam, that the French had suffered
considerable loss in a partial engagement near
Warsaw, which is reported to amount to about
15,030 men, and the combined armies about
the same number. I hat a general engagement
was, it is said shortly expected, as the R ussians
had been joined by the remaining Prussian for
ces, and were very numerous.
Rumours prevailed a few days since of a bat
tle having been fought between the French
and the Russians, in which the latter were said
to have been defeated with very great loss.
1 his report rested on the authority of a letter
said to have been received by the Austrian
ambassador in London, Count Stahremberg ;
but reports now say, that even this letter is a
fabrication ; we must wait patiently a few days
longer, as the next mails will, no doubt, bring
us information on this subject.
Saturday three vessels arrived in the Thames
from the Baltic. 1 hey sailed; we understand)
from ?.]sir.cur with the fleet, and have brought
later German papers than those previously
received. The Bamberg papers mention the *
receipt of advices from Warsaw of the £6th iff
December, at which period, two smart actions
had been fought between the French and Rus
sians. The first at Newamaisio; in which
about one hundred and twenty cossacks w ere
made prisoners—the other at Cicclianoa, which
appeal’s to have been warmly contested ; but
in which the French arc also stated to have pro- ,
vailed.
The Bamberg editor, on the authority of a
letter from Augsburgh, states, lire slaw to have
capitulated , but the date and particulars arc
not mentioned.
One ot the deputies sent from Hamburgh to
Bonaparte, and who, from particular ihtiniucv
with 1 alley rand, had, it is supposed, an oppor
tunity to ascertain with tolerable precision the
condition of the French army in Poland re
ports, that the French troops, who had, on the
22d of December, crossed the Oder, amounted i
to 300,000 men ; and that the sick in the hos
pital at that time exceeded 17,000 ; subse
quent accounts represent the sick to have in
creased to nearly 30,000.
London- Gazette, January 10.
At the Court of the Queen's Palace, January 7
Present the King's most excellent Majesty in
Council.
\Y hereas the French government has issued
certain orders, which, in violation of the usa
ges of war, purport to ptohinit live commerce
ol all neutral nations with his majesty’s domi
nions ; anil also to prevent: such nations from
trading with any other country, in any articles
the growth, produce or manufacture ofhisma
jesty’s dominions; and whereas the said go
vernment has also taken upon itself to declare
all Ins majesty’s dominions to be in a state of
blockade, at a time when the fleets of France
and her allies, are themselves confined within
their own ports by the superior valor and dis
cipline of the British nav y ; and whereas such
attempts on the partot the enemy, would give
to his majesty an unquestionable right of retal
iation, and would w arrant his majesty in enfor
cing the same prohibition of all commerce
with France, which that power vainly hopes to
effect against the commerce of his majesty's
subjects, a prohibition which the superiority of
his majesty’s naval forces might enable him to
support, by actually investing the ports and
coasts ol live enemy with numerous squadrons
anil cruisers, so as to make the entrance or ap
proach thereto manifestly dangerous; and
whereas his majesty, though unwilling to fol
low the example ol his enemies,by proceeding
to an extremity so distressing to all nations not
engaged in the war, and carrying on their ac
customed trade, yt feels himself bound by a
due regard to the just defence of the rights and
interests of not to suffet such mea
sures to’ be taken by the enemy, without taking
some steps on his part to restrain this violence,
. and to retort upon them the evils of their own
injustice ; his majesty is therefore pleased, by
and with the advice of Jus Privy Council, to
order, and it is hereby ordered, that no vessel
shall be permitted to trade from one port to
another, both which ports shall belong to or be
in the possession of France or her Allies, or
shall be so far under their control, as that Bri
tish vessels may not trade freely thereat ; and
the commanders of his majesty’s ships of war,
and privateers, shall be, and hereby are instruc
ted, to warn every neutral vessel coming from
any such -port, and destined to another such
port, to discontinue her voyage, anil not to pro
ceed to any such port—and any vessel after
being so warned, or any vessel coming from a
ny such port, after a reasonable time shall have
been afforded for receiving information of this
his majesty’s order, which shall be found pro
ceeding to another such port, shall be captur
ed and brought in, and, together with her car
go, shall be condemned as lawful prize. And
his majesty’s principal secretaries of state, the
lords commissioners of the Admiralty, and
the judges of the high court of the Admiralty
and courts of Vice-Admiralty, are to take the
necessary measures herein, as to them shall
respectively appertain.
W. Fawkf.ner.
‘fVTr The MAYOR gives notice, that on
MONDAY, the 16th in(V. a Clerk of the Council will
he elefted in the room of Job T. Bolles, Elq, resigned.
Candidates will lodge their applications in writing, at
the Mayor’s Office. March 12.
Nankeens and Teas.
The Subfcnbers Offer FOR SALE,
2000 pieces blue India Nankeens,
30 chests Gunpowder Tea, 20 lb. earh.
TAYLOR & SCARBROUGH.
March 12. b. 21.
Cider and Apples,
Just received per brig Cleopatra.
40 bbls. of excellent Newark Cider,
40 do. of Apples,
1 do. of Shoe Thread.
ROBERTS k BRANT.
March 12. 21 Telfair's IV/iurf
Notice.
I HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, that in pursuance of
a resolution, of the Board of Commifiioners of the
Town and commons of Friderica, all those persons
•vho have failed to comply with the terms of their
respective leases, or purcliafe, of without
discreminatioti, be sued on a further failure, of three
months, from the date of this advertifementi
By order of the Commiflioners,
JOSEPH TURNER,
Clerk of the Hoard of Commissioners,
fto derica, March 12, 1807, jn 2J
Savannah,
THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 12,1807.
~ ~r—■ . v --—r. r.r.ijr:
Intelligence of a very late date has been re
ceived by the arrivals vesterdav from Charles
ton and Ncvv-York ; but nothing positive is fur
nished respecting the buttle between the French
and Russians, mentioned by the letters from
Bourdeaux in our last. The number of reports
on the subject and the various sources from
whence they spring, seem to indicate that
something of the kind has happened; but us
the French are represented in most of them la
have been victorious, there is little to warrant:
such a belief, if the frightful maladies stated
under the Hamburgh head to prevail among
them he true.
The British government has issued an order
similar to Bonaparte’s lain imperial decree.
All trade in neutral vessels between ports be
longing to Franco or her allies, or so far under
their control that British vessels cannot eliter
them, is forbidden bv it.
Notwithstanding the assurances of France
and England respecting neutral commerce, it
is questioned from which side it is likely to
suffer most. Both powers have now declared
each other in a state Os blockade, and neutral
vessels trading with the one, will no doubt bis
made prizes of by the other under some newly
established pretext. What else can giv e rise
to such measures ? Are their own vessels more
liable to seizure now than formerly ? No ; but
neutrals are—and neutral commerce will feel
die smart of them. Policy, not friendship,
prevails between nations.
Privateers are equipping in all die French
ports to carry into force the blockade of Eng
land. Eighteen sail were fitted out at St. M.i
loes, within a fetv days after the publication of
the decree. In consequence of which, and a
great number having appeared'in the British
channel, a special order had gone from the ad
miralty, for the sailing of every armed vessel
then in port. Several privateers had been cap
tured and sent in. —Charleston Paper.
111 die house of commons, on the 14th of
January, general Gascoyne wished to know
from lord Ilovvick, whether the American 11011-
imp illation act had undergone any alteration,
and if live trade could be resumed with safety.
Lord Ilovvick replied, that if the. treaty re
cently concluded should be ratified, and there
was every reason to expect it would, the non
importation act would be repealed of course,
anil all proceedings had under it would he re
versed. This was all the intbrmaMon he could
give. He also staled, that the treaty contained
a full reservation to his majesty of the right to
exercise restrictions equivalent to those which
neutral nations may submit to allow the enemy
to exercise, by their means, against the com
merce of Ills majesty’s subjects.
’Flic fortunate holder of No. 16053, a prize
of 10,000 dollais in the New-York Lottery, is
Mr. James Morel!, of this city—he holds two
other Tickets, one of which is a prize of 100
dollars, and the other 10 —Museum
Married, lafl evening, by the rev. Dr, Kollork, Mr,
Richard F. Williams, to Miss Mary Millen,
both of this city.
Port of Savannah.
F. X T E R E I).
Brig Naney, Berry, Barhad es. Mafleti
Mary & Rachel, Lewi*. D< niarara. Caig &. (. o.
Cleopatra, Hoadly, Nev.-cork J. T Vies ,
Sloop’Sufan Sc Naicy, Wel(ien,Charlefton, C. M'Kenna
C L E A k x. D.
Ship Ann and Hope, Grave#, Liverpool
Hercules, Harmen, Boffon
Schr. Eaterpiife, Blodgett, fit. Thonuut
Sloop ba ly, Martin, S. ptjHh
Arrival from this Port
Ship Alexander Hafhilton, Callaghan, Liverpool— ’
Brig Georgia, Joceliu, Ncvv-York.
Al’C HOV
TO-MORROW, liu da r, the 13/A lest, will be
sold on HOWARD'S WHARF,
Without renew , 0 close Consignments,
120 JI hds. Muse avauo Sugar
70 Puncheons \Y esl-India Rum, 2 & 0 pi
54 Hhds. Molasses -JL M .
2 pipes 4th proof Brandy.
5 bags Coffee,
5 chests Hyson Tea,
5 boxes Cotton Cards,
3 tons Swedes Iron,
1000 bushels St. dies Salt,
500 ditto Liverpool ground ditto,
Cosutr/os v —All sums over S 200, and roe
exceeding 500, notes with appr'rved endorsees
at 60 days, and over so 500, 3 and 6 Months*
Rale to comnrnce at 1 1 ‘o'clock.
t S. H. Aucl'n.
Marel 1 12 ,
, FOR CHARLESTON/.
. The new and faft failng Sloop
pi'Ag'W’ nancy & SUSAN.
mlrrjVi tew Captain Weli, rn, Intended a, a re*
gnlar Packet, will fail on Tuesday next.
Tor freight or palfage, having excellent accommoda
tions, apply to the Captain on board at Telfair’#
wharf, pr to
6HftRI.ES MKENNA.
J March 3 2 * a 2J
N ‘TICK IS HEREBY GIVEN. -
THAT an cjlcdtion for five Truftee* of the EX
CHANGE, will late place on Monday next, the
16th inftan#(lat the Exchange Building. The poll
v. iil be opened at ttn, and doled ar two o’clock.
THOMAS PITT, Seajrjr*
March Igj