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the House, Hull be empowered to nuke the
ucceifary com. rail. ,
Wulrjfcay, May 1J»
The Clerk proceeded in reading the bill
refperting tonnage.
A motion was mace to insert in the bill a
clause, impofiiijj a duty of 5 o cent* on all
vessels not built within the United States,
which may become the propci ty of citizens
thereof. This was carried.
This bill will commence its operation on,
the 15111 of June.
Mr. Fitzjimons , from the committee
pointed for that purpose, picfcured a bill tQ
regulate the collection of the import.
7 bur [elay, May 28.
The tonnage bill with its amendments was
read and agteed to, and ordered to be en
g rolled.
Mr. Gerry moved, that a committee be
appointed to take into confidcration the Itate
of unappropriated lands, and fd report mca
fdies for promoting the falc thereof.
Friday, May 29.
The bill for laying a dury on tonnage waß
rdad a third time, and parted the House.
The bill to regulate the collection of the
import was read a feconrt time, and edmmat
ted to at committee of the whole.
Monday, June I.
Mr. Lear, (the Prefidertt’s Secretary) pre
ferred at the bar of the Houle the art preferib
ing the time and manner of taking the «ath
of office required by the Couftitmion, ap
proved and figoed by the President.
Mr BcnfOu gave notice that he intended
to move for a resolution to this effect— i hat
Congress will enrncltly recommend to the
Legislature of Rhorie-liland to call a con
vention of the people of, that fiate, in order
to adopt the Constitution.
He hid no other view jn bringing of this
forward, than that the United States ihould
know certainly and speedily whether the Hate
cf Rhode-Ifland, intended to become a mem
ber of the Union. It might be said, that
that state bad already given its ultimatum,
but he could inform the House, that the go
vernor of Rbode-Illand bad communicated
information to the late Congress, that theCW
f itution had been submitted to the dccuion
vs the several towns in that date, and there
appeared to be a majority opposed to it.
That Congress had taken no notice of this
communication, as it was considered an im
proper and oocoiiftitution.il prude of detet
urinhig on die meiits of the Constitution,
Mr. Baldwin, fiem tbc committee of
compensation, reported, tljat the President
fliould be allowed 20,c0b dollars per annum,
comprehending the allowance for his secre
tary, clerks, Sec. andcxclufive of the expence
•f his equipage, servants, and some other
ohjerts to be provided for and defrayed from
the public Treasury.
That the Vice-President Ihould be allowed
tfooo dollars per annum, and the Senators
and Reprefeutatives fix dollars per day during
their artual attendance in Congress, and for
the expence of travelling to and from the
feat of government, fix dollars for every
twenty miles.
On motion of Mr. Smith, (S. C.) a com
mittee was appointed to bring in a bill.for the
cfUbliftmient of a fyftcm of bankrupt laws,
throughout the United States,
Tttefdav, June 2.
The House went into a committee of the
vhole, on the bill to regulate the coUedron
of the import. ,
Mr. Trumbull in the Chair.
The clause refperting the crtablifhment of
ports of entry and delivery being still under
confiderafion, the committee proceeded to
fill tip the blank with the following names,
which it was refulved ihould be ports of en
v v and delivery, viz In the date cf New-
Hampibivc, Portsmouth ; in the date of Mas
sachusetts, Burton, Newbury-Port, Salem,
Plymouth, New Bedford, Sherburne (itlmd
cf Nantucket) Portland (in Calco Bay) Glou
cester, Marblehead and Diabton *, besides
these, tbc committee have it in con
tttinpUtion to ertablilh itveral other ports in
the it etc of M ill'.ichufetts, but the determi
naaioit i'u tltofe was J,
In the date of Conneflicut, New-London,
New-Haven, and Norwalk; it is also in
tended to eltablilh a port of entry on Connec
ticut river, whrth will probably be Saybfcdk.
In the state of Ncw-Yoik, the city of
New-York, and the port of Sagg harbour.
In the state of New-jersey, Perth Am
boy, Salerr, and Egg harbour.
in the state of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
Ip the date of Delaware, Wilmington.
The committee theu rose.
On motion of Mr. Lawrence, the House
direrted the committee appointed foform the
bill for the regulation of the collcrtion of the
import, to prepare also a biffor bill* preferih
fug the mode of regifteiing and clearing out
veifels, afeertaining their tonnage, and re
gulating the coarting trade, pilots and light
houses. Adjourned. .
(Jo be continued.)
LON DON, April 14 —25.
LETTERS received in town yerterday
morning from Vienna, elated March .
29, make mention of a courier having »i riv
ed theiS’thc preceding dayfrom Constantino
ple, who alighted at the hotel of the French
Ainbartador; "he is said to have brought over
tures of peace from the Ottoman Pone, and
dc/ires to know the true dfpofitmn of the!
Emperor on that head
The last accoun s from Sweden fay, that’
the officers, who were taken up on account
of refuting to flight in Finland, and entering
into a confederacy with Rufiia, were now on
their trials at Stockholm, and several others
at Gbttenburgbj 1 foY not repelling the entry
of the Danes. It is exjrerted some of the
former would fuffer death, as an example,
though the ringleaders have escaped to Rus
sia. ' .
We are sorry to hear from Bologne, that
there his lately been committed in that city
a moll attrocions and cruel murder. There
was in Bologne a beautiful young daDcer and
her husband ; wi hiti these few days an Itali-.
an, who arrived there by the Florence coach,
waited unfneduiely on the beautiful dancer,
aud aftei a minute’s conversation, plunged
his rtiletto in her breast Whilrt (he wasex
piriug, he attempted to blow’his own brains
out, but his hand trembling, he frartured his
Ikull in a mod horrid manner, arid after
lingering some hour*-, ibis silicide and mur
derer, died in the moll excruciating tortures.
The applications from the Englilh Roman
Cathoticks, to take off the double land tax,
aud some other buitheus under which they la
bour, have been renewed ; and last Monday
Lord Petre, Sir Harry Englefield, and Mr,
Farmer, had an interview with the Mibifter
on the occaiion.
7 *.
we learn fiffim f opcirliagen, that Benzen
ftietna has declared that it was out of love to
his country that he intended to burn the Ruf
fian fleet, but docs nor fay where he got the
I 2,0( o rix dollars employed for the purpose.
Letters from Pcttitlourgh mention, that the
Engluh officers in the Ruffian navy have ex
perienced very litre encouragement, and
most of them speak of returning home.
The Porte, finding the disadvantages of
want of lpecie, have irtued or ers'for the s
coinage of all the fiver that can be found.
This order has been ieligioully carried mro
execution, as will appear by the following’
items. The Greek nation is taxed to the
•amount of 5000 okas, each oka about three
lhilliugs of our money. The Armenians
mull furnifh 4-000, the Jews 3000, and the
Mu ieimen 20,000. Goldsmiths are prohi
bited from exercising their employment, and
any person fceu wearing gold or silver orna
ments are to be ft ripped of them on the spot.
It is expertedthat government will, by those
means, be able to ratfe thirtv-fix millions of
pialteis. It is alio in contemplation to re
coin the whole coinage, by which govern
ment expert to gain 1 6 per cent The peo
ple are very turbulent, they set fire to, and
burnt the Grand Vizir’s Hotel; whfcre the
greutet part of the state papers and foreign
archive* are deposited, a loss which it irre
parable. A furious mob also attacked the
houle of Mr, Anllif, the Engljil) Ambafia
r, who clcaped with hi* life, and that with
difficulty, The people are exafperbttd at
the declaration of war, and the lofa’of l)o
I zukow. I* out* EngliiU vciltli arrived tl>er p
the beginning of February, laden with am
munition, which the ministry immediately
purchased for ready money.
The Grand Vizir is now afiembling his
troops in the neigbourhood of Orfova, and
will, as soon as the season permits, crpfsthe
Danube. His intention, it is confidently said,
. is again so invade the Bannat, and to repair
the errors of the last campaign. He hat
declared, that hewilldeflroy his bridge over
the Danube when he has crofted it, and thus
take away all hopes of a retreat. Victory
or death must then await the Ottoman army,
Thursday arrived the mail from France.
The government of Polaud has written to
Prince Potemkin, who commands in the
Ruffian service, that as a fubjeft of the re
public, it did not become him to allow any
Ruffian troops to quarter in his territories cf
S/mila and Ukraine. . . .
The armistice agreed on last year between
the Emperor and the Turks expired the 15th,
inst. but there*was no talk of its being renewed.
The EfnperorTs tranfpOrting large quanti- *
ties of artillery towards Seralin.
It is strongly reported by the mail of yes
terday, tliat the Empress is determined to pass
a Ruffian army in the Pdlifh Ukraine* and if
ucceffary, to ftatjon it there,.
All hopes of peace between their Imperial.
Majesties and the Porte, are entirely di/Hpat—
ed ; every thing anncftiu'cei a bloody cam
paign, from the preparations that are making
by each of the contending powers.
The Turk is alTembling his forces; and
the city of Constantinople, as well as all its.
environs, swarm with troops, who are con
tinually .joining the armies of the Grand Vizir,
and of the Pacha de Romelle; nevertheless,
our letters fay, that among that iintnenfe •
multitude, there arc very few cavalry. The
Emperor of Germany, on the other hand,
is very diligent. .His army aflembled in the
Banriiat, to opphfe that ot the Grand Vizir,
will consist of 48 battalions, and of the fame
number of fquadions, besides Hollars. The
corps of Trince Hohenlohe, and Prince Saxe-
Cobourg, are already on their march, thefirlt
from Transylvania, the Second from Molda
via, intending..to penetrate into Waliachia,
in order to aft in concert with the Ruffians.
The Venetians have met with a great loss
at the Ifte of Corfu. , Thearfcnal accidental
ly, it is supposed, took fire on the i2rh of
March, which communicated to the powder
magazine; a terrible explosion then took
place, by which a fleet of gallies was almost
entirely destroyed, together with all the
(tores, add the wall that surrounded the ar
senal. The number of lives loft was 160,
besides the ptifoners, and a multitude of
wounded.
* *
A treaty of Sextuple alliance are confirmed.
The refpeftivc Ambaftadors of France, Vi
enna,. St. Peterfburgh, Spain, Copenhagen,
and Naples, who are appointed to negociate
this treaty, have received their final instruc
tions, and are on the concluflouof this grand
affair. .. , .
Our readers yviil readily perceive that this''
measure forebodes further war, which is
strengthened in appearances by the prepara-*
tidii^makingjn every .quarter of Europe.
The Turks are hkewife firmly resolved to
proceed, and havb absolutely lefufed all pro
positions for peace—their preparations are'
immense—all their forces both by laud and'
sea are in motion.
The Emperor is entirely recovered, and'
preparing for the field—his camp equipage'
has'been'al! difpatchsd from Vicuna.
There is not ,any particular news either*
from Sweden, Denmark or Russia.
Extras of a Utter, from Paris, Match ig,
“ The Prince of Nassau set off for Madrid'
on the charged, it is thought, with foinc' -
commission from the Empress ro the King of
Spain, he being the only Monarch whole me
diation Russia has not rejefted,' The expe-:
ditioo of the Prince of Na&ui is extraordi
nary ; for in less than forty dav S i, e will have
paid his court to five Sovereigns. He flopped
three days at Warsaw, five at Vienna, feveu.
here, in eight days he wfll.be at Madrid/
.and 1 htuks on returning to PetefiWgh before
the Bth of May. It j* thought that the King
of Spain, who, when prince of Aft uri »», had
a great regaid for him, will appoint him a
I.inntnant-Geueral, two of kisCaders, C'amp-
MaKhals, ryifyd to that
rank. He will Bnjvjft Wi th* * 4