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rr.ent; but he could not consent to suppress j Uie original . esumtion p; dpcSt-u by the gentle* j Tun from Yiiginia He uid not iise io appeal fioin the decision ol the chair, 01 to question the correctness of its opinion: but Ins own ideas oi he spirit of the i tiles of this house would govern his vole on this occasion, were evety other consideration out of view. ‘1 his rule stales, that “no new motion or proposition shall be admitted under colour of amendment, as a substitute for the motion or proposition under debate.” \\ iihout appealing from the decision of the chair, he could not help consid ering the present motion to be a violation of this rule; as it was, in his opinion, under colour, a complete suhstitue for the original motion. He thought one part ol the information required by this amendment was altogether unnecessary. He alluded to that part which asks for the man ner in which the attack was repelied. Every man, woman and child in the United States, knew that no resistance was made. llhe were ’ to vote for the resolution, he should wish the I word received to be used instead of the word < r. pelted; but he had already stated, he be lieved the motion was in conflict with a rule of ; the house, and therefore he could not vote j for it. “Mr. Smilic said, there was one thing which ‘ the gentleman from Massachusetts him seif, on reflection, must think itnprope:—that was, ’ that part of the motion which relates to the manner in which the attack was repelled He understood the commantiei of the Chesapeake w as now on trial, and he hoped this house would not do anv acy which might have an influence on that trial. Whether that officer’ acted pro perly oi improperly, will be determined by ‘he pi .-.per tribunal before w Inch it will be tried. Indeed he saw no necessity for this amendment. The original resolution gives the committee inti power on this subject, and it cannot be sup- ,■ posed, that a committee of this house will not : do their dutv. ile had no doubt but that be- ! fore this business was got through, there would j be complete information before the house. We J sitouid know whether the se men taken from 5 the CneSapeake were really British subjects or f Ameiican citizens. The enquiry will force it-, self upon us ; and the t esolulion as it stands will ‘ be sufficient for the purpose Mi.Quii.i y rose to explain. The gentleman j from l ennsv Ivaiiia had said, that he deemed it | improper .to pass this resolution at this time, j because of the effect it might have on the trial f now pending. If the object of this motion I had been to obtain from the house, a vote of Cv tsure on one side or the other, he should not n w have proposed it. It was merely a direc tion to the committee in what manner t ev were to proceed, and to collect a statement of the facts attendant on this otenrrence If the punciple were correct, that this house should be prevented from exercising its duties on any point, because a tiial vyas pending in some of the courts, what would be the consequence? Notiiing further would be necessary to ev tie enquiry, titan to put an officer under ai rest, b-inp; him to t'iai, and po-tpone the decision from time to time, and thus prevent this house i * from parfoamig its duty He saw no weight in this argument. The amendment was rejected, without a di vision. The resolutions being gone thuough, a mo tion was made for tne committee to rise, which being agteed to, the speaker resumed the ■ chair, and the house immediately took up the j resolutions, and agreed to them unanimously, j A message was received from the senate, j informing the house that, they had chosen Dr. j Gantt as chaplain on their part. A motion was made to adjourn, and negativ- t eel, 32 ri-ing in favor of it j Mr. Thomas submitted the foil lowing resolu- \ tion, which was adopted. “ I Resolved, That a.committee he appointed to j enquire whether any and what alterations are I necessary in the bill e tablishing a post-office I and post-roads within the U. S. and that they re- j port by bill o>- otherwise. Mr. Fisk moved that the house should pro- t cesd to the appointment of a chaplain. It being suggested that it had been usual j that the time for balloting should be fixed on a i pvevioOs dv. Mr Fisk withdrew his mo' ion, ) and the following resolution was adopted, on j motion of Mr Southard : Resolved, That the house will, at 12 o’clock ! to-morrow, proceed to ballot for.,a Chaplain to Congress on their part. The house then ad journed. ~ H igh floss, co>:tin t u**s to trvnsact FictorajA’ ‘ v . v o ) *v ~f>, ,f > iusi^ss, on MelTrs. Smith & Bohrke’s wharf. He has for sale, a f> w bales of WV.cli PLAINS, a.id a quantity of Weeding Hoes. November 10 T 125 - 1 ‘ - Loaf Siipar. \ Fo'ty hogfneads firfl quality J.OAF SUGAR, re vived on consignment, per ship Eliza, from Liverpool, for sale by Tayior 8c S ;ulr u | October 6- 1 10 REMOV AI ~ ! THE Subscribers have removed to the tarce done building, on Tayior & Scar, brooch’s wharf; where they are now receiving a principal part of their {’‘all Supp: r ot - * out Is, By the America, captain Nichols,and the Ai. ex an- D.ER Havcslton,captain Callahan, from Liverpool, and for faie by James i Aon &. C>. i Septeobdf 3*. LU lU6 j PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE, From the National Intelligencer. The communications of the Resident to Con gress. at the .(annual opening of their session, always interesting, are tendered peculiarly so at present by the thtevening aspect of affairs. Different opinions have, lor some time past, been entertained by the public. As, on the one hand, a strong hope, aiising from the pie ilon inant wish of every genuine American, was cherished of the full adjustment of our differ ences with Britain, so, on the other, an appre hension equally strong, prevailed, perhaps in an equal degree, that those differences would appear, from the information of the executive, likely to lead inevitably to a state of hostilities. Neither, however, of those results are announ ced by the President, and the mind is compel led to t est in nearly the same state of uncertain ty to which it has been already so long con signed. There are, however, some points of informa tion embraced by the message that must give peculiar satisfaction to the people, and afford some grounds for hope that the differences be tween the two nations may be amicably adjus ted. Os these is the intimation of the circum stances under which the returned treaty was signed Ly our ministers and submitted to the govc.-nntent. From these, it can only be view ed in the light of a project, which left all ulte rior cle.'erininaiionto the President. Two con clusions may be drawn from this fact ; fi st, the fuii power of our government to adopt or reject it, without tile slightest room for improper im putation ; and secondly, the doubt, to say no more, whether Mr. A tin roe and Mr. Pinckney themselves actually approved it. On this last point vve pretend to no special information, and itis possible ‘hat the qualified inference drawn may be unsound. But it is of light import compared with that pieviouslv specified. Os even the absolute rejection of the project, the Biiiish government could have ted no reason to complain ; for, in being told by our negocia tors that it was framed against their instruc tions, they were advised of ns probable fate. Instead, however, of an absolute negative, it lias been .submitted to negociation, and the two na tions now occupy the same ground in which they stood previously to its formation. VV e shall here offer no remarks on the ca lumny cast on the President, on the assumed fact that the project had been signed by our miniate: s under the same circumstances in which treaties are ordinarily signed, and on the charge of his having instructed them to con clude a treaty on principles, which, after its for mation, he determined to reject, except to ob serve that on this, as on many other memora ble occasions, falsehoods propagated against the same man have, after Inn ing had their day, been invariably dispelled by the light of truth. At such a crisis of affairs, when every arm-may be required for defence, vve shall not hesitate to av/id. -,o the utmost of our power, not only eli mination, but even reci'iminau. n. H our poli tical adversaries will press their discontents at this moment, vve wain them that the fault will lie a’ their door. With regard to the recent conduct of the Leopard, the President well eniaiks, th it on such “ an outrage no comments are necessa ry”—uddi ig, that • ‘ is character lias been pro nounced by the iudignanL voice'of our citizens with an emphasis and unanimity never exceed ed ” The suggestion of the policy of refusing ad mittance to all armed foreign vessels in our harbors, is entitled to the attentive considera tion of the legislature. If such an inhibition! unsupported by a strong force, should, as it pro bably would, prove no security against precon certed aggression, it might at least have the effect of averting many of those collisions that arise Do in foreign siiips of war habitually fre quenting our ports. The public will regret with us the unsettled state of our affairs will Spain. Th possession of the Floiidas is an event infinitely desirable, and vve have every n o ive to wishthat that pos session may be the offspring of pacific arrange ment. Passing over the measures adopted for the belter fortification of our ports and harbors, vve reach what appears to us, on first impressions, an excellent idea. We refer to that part of the message which suggests the formation of the seamen of the United States into a militia to be called on lor tours of duty in defence of the harbors where they may happen to be. Should a more mature examination of this point develope no great evils likely to ensue from such an arrangement, the President will merit the thanks of his country for the intima tion. To us it appears to he perfectly feasible and consonant to the principles which ought to prevail under every government, and particu larly republican government, in the preserva tion of which every citizen, whether emploved ou the Enid or the water, is -equally interested, atid whose services il consequently has a right to demand, whenever the general interests re quire them, of which the government only can be the judge. The nation will applaud the spirit with which the chief magistrate has assumed the respomi bility of providing military s'o'-es, notwithstand ing the want oflegal provision ; they vvill also th mk him for uniting the attention of congress to the defects which exist in the criminal code, and more especially relative to the crime of treason, which recent occurrences have so glar ingly exposed as to supercede the necessity'of any i nin nent. A r a period, so interesting as the present, the flourishing sate of tlu-finances wifi be a topic of high felicitation The past year appears to have furnished a revenue of sixteen tni'lions, which exceeds, we believe, the revenue of any antecedent year, even when ‘excises and a di iset tax were in existence; and which vielos a sum of three millions beyond our annual e\- pendituics. But, still higher will be the satis faction ul the official intimation that there are now in the treasury eight millions and a half unappropriated. \Y iili such resources, should the injustice of a foreign government drive us into hostilities, the means of defence actually possessed will be abundant ; and should the subsisting diff'cienccs he amicably settled, as vve trust they will be, the means of cat ly ing forward internal improvements on a se.de that shall ensure a diffusion of incalculable be nefit, will be still more ample, and thus remove every obstacle that can be apprehended to such a measure. May this be the closing scene of an admin istration, not less rich at present in the affec tion of its country, than it will be hereafter dis tinguished by the gratitude of posterity ! Savannah, SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 14, 1807. We learn from Milledgeville. by a gentle man who arrived in town yesterday, that the legislature have elected Wilmam H. Cuavv fohd, esq. to fill the place ot the hue Mr. ikdu win, in the Senate ol the Untied States. Major William Blown is re-elected Har bor-Master and Dr. YYillivm Uccke Health- Officer, ol the Port of Savannah. The U. States gun-boat, No 12. lieut. Dexter —— 13 Alexis j 1 j, v.'eri il i Sailed on the 12th ult. for the Belize—deslin- ; etl to cruize in lalte Pontcharirain. —Orleans pa/:. I Norfolk, October 26. Yesterday, about one o’clock., the French fii- 1 gale La Cybeile got under way from Cfancy Island, with a strong wind at W.S. \V. and pro- i ceeded to sea. She was left by the pilot at 8 o’clock last night, about six leagues to the east ward oi t ape Henry, going oil’ under a press of sail, at the rate of 11 knots. About an hour i alter leaving the Cybelle, spoke a pilot, who in- j formed that the British ships were ail at sunset j about six leagues to the southward and eastward of the Cape.’ The wind shifted to north about ] midnight, and has been blowing very strong j ever since, so that there is every reason to be- j lteve >*v frigate has escaped. j The following decree of the French govern-1 ment wMI impress on-the merchants of the f United States the necessity of taking the pie- > caution therein require and : DECREE * j Os the French Republic , 13 h Messidor , year 10 Ij Art. Ist. AH foreigners are prohibited from j bringing within ihc. tort Holies of the republic, i any black, mulatto, ocother person of colour of ! eithersex. j Art. 2d. All blacks, nnilaltocs. cr other per- ‘ sons ol colour of cither sex, who are not in ser vice, aie equally prohibited from entering the continental lewitories of die republic in future, j tinder any pretext whatever, unless they biing | with them the special permission of the tnagis- ! of the colonies from whence they come, ‘ or it they did not come from the colonies, w ith out the permission of the minister of the ma rine and the colonies. I Art 3d All blacks or mulattoes who shall come within the continental territories of’ the republic, after the publication of the present j decree, without bringing with them the per- > mission pointed cut in the preceding article, !• shall be arrested and detained until they are ‘ sent out of the country. Died at Cayenne, the wife of Victor Ilngucs ; —the general himself is not dead, as staled. ABSTRACT From the Obituary of ‘he City of Charleston, for the month of October, 1307. Male, Females Tot. < White peifons above the age of 40, 12 5 17 ‘ Do from the age of 21 so 40, 39 9 48 , Do. from the age of 12 to 21, 3 10 13 Do. from the age of sto 12, 1 2 3 Do. under 5 years, 8 4 12 While persons, of a!! ages, 63 30 93 ; Perlons of colour, of all ages, 1 ’2 j Total, 2:5 j W bites- Blacks. Tot. Os the above, by Endemial Fever, 42 00 42 Dysentery, 1 61 62 lulluenza, 5 5 10 Total, 48 66 114 j N. B.- Os the deaths by endemial fever, forty- j two were foreigners anti strangers to tbe cii maje. 11 y order of Council, G. AI. Bounetheau, c. c. PORT OF SAVANNAH. AUttl VEX). Schooner Columbia, Haws, Boston. CLEARED. Sloop Delight, Cooper, Charleston. Republican, Brown, do. Sclieon r Mary, West, and sloop Regulator, i Hay, have arrived at Charleston from lienee. THE SOBSCRIBER opfkrs for sale, His two valuable LOTS, near the Exchange, in his city Joseph Habersham. June 16. 62 I PRICK 3 CHRPKNT...SAVANNAH. Bacoii- 2u c, nts——.vet/; <,. Bccs-\Y.ux—2B to 31 cents. | Ihundy, Coj niat . [ <Jll on, Sea-Island—32 to 35 cents —dull 1 “ i Upland— 19 to 20 cents.—<, nick. Corn—7 s to 80 cents. 1 Uttficc—-80 to 32 cents, 1 foul S doilais 50 cents. Gill, Holland—lo 6 cents. Iron, Swedes —6 dolluis. Molasses—3A cents Rice, new—37s cents. Rum, Jamaica —ll 2 cents. Sugars, brown—9 dolls, to 10 50. i—loaf—Oa tents. Sah—s6 -o 62 cents. 1 eas. Hvson —l dollar (j cents 1 obateo—7 dollars, hone. i'he Subscriber Imendii g to !e .vc Ins Rate in the month c-f .Unn an tuxr, in rccjuui f $b ul Have of health, ofTcni lor talc. Oil very advantage- us Hums, hu pie lei it Siock in t rude, Coi fifth “of Un It eveiy ankle > rheGUOCFRY ,sl but we. ! -ch lon ail'. lament cl DIUf GOOLS, kc. ftc. NOTICE. Ail per fans Imvim, demands tgairfl him are invf cd t. cam, forvv tr.l : v.d eceive Heir pry , ar d f cl , | ar - a,c n'd/'lrt dto him ar in-Ul rarndllv entre-ued ~ i ‘Trkf fp.-t-dv pavmtnt, i thfiwilc thelracc urns w II I be pip in fn t He at the t'.me time fr.vwaras all persons fr m f giving credit t > any one on Ins ..re t witluut Vt S ,vv vuten iiitier. Delns ci-ntrafl/d in any / iher vvay j ( uot IJ > himfclf in perl, n) will not hr p.ud ? James England. November 14 —177 ! Received by iate Arrivals* i 50 hluls. N. Rum So bhls. No. 1 and 2 Beef I 30 bills. No. 1 and 2 Fork j SO bags prime Coffee 70 Lbls. fiesh inspected Mackarcl For Rale by . s. & C. Howard. November It— l — l 27. j Land for sale. t: A Traft • f t\vo lmndied and two acres and a ha'f, ; ‘ n th’ “’ H li diltr fl, vV ilku-.f n enuitty, vvil he I !,t v. ry low. !■ r tin her infaimatinn, enquire of the I Printers. jj November 14— it 7 j Sales at Cost and diaries. y O CEO. BUCHANAN Sk CO. i Desirous, this season, of bringing ‘heir busi . ncv> ’o .1 cdosCy oilei- lor sale, on ai conuut tin 14* terms, l>y ilie piece or package only, ibeir | idesei.l Stoe;; el Goods j 5 CONSISTING OF White and coloured plains - Coatings lose blankets Superfine and forest cloths Swandovviis, toiiinels and cassimcrcs Got ton and worst etl hosiery , Calicoes and muslins 1 3-4- 7-8 and 4-4 Irisli linens 6-4. 7-4 and 8-4 diapers ant! table cloths J Besides a variety of other mtides, such as . arc generally to lie found in well-assorted whole- I sale stores, which are recommended, as well f worthy the attention ol town and country traders. 1 October 22—117 JUST ITbC'hIVED, * Per schooner Three Friendfl, from Hofton, l cn chests uihl one hundred und twenty boxes ■ First (j’lalily Hyson ‘lea, Warranted to be all /if this year’s importation, and entitled to benefit of drawback, for sale by ! Smi.li 8t liourkc* ■ October 31 —l7 | | Crockery Ware. Received on consignment, /lev ship America, from Liverpool. 40 crate, welt affirted CROCKERY WARE, which will be foil very low. Apply to j Taylor &. .Scarbroup’h. I September 29. 107. Pi vc Dollars Rcwur 1. AN AW VV from thr Dhfrrihfr, on tlu* ioflk I\a N'e/io Wendi num**d TYiuAlI, about fiv* eet four or five inches hi .h ; had ffti when (he went aw.ty, an petticoat a.id a kumhums wtapper ad carried away several other f utts widi her. Sl.< hib t 55 years of a*re jq •.#* y cunniutr and plaufiS cin bur stories; lias a fear ou the back oart ol h**r head, wh* r e (he was bunjr with fi.-fe wh n (he was fin and . an.l the ; hair has never grown there Anee. .She is wedknoAa ; abou Whi e-Rlu/f and Savannah. The ab'ere wad vvill b • oa. Ito any one who will deliver hM k the fuhfcnber on (,'olnne-Vlfland; *0 Mr Wili am Woodiik lorn:, in Savannah; o. to the mailer of Savannah g ai. Jkdmund Adams. November 12—12 C. Blank Warr .nts c}’ Ai praiwmcnt. rr flak thE tSkoi