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SATURDAY, Jpril 3 , 1790.] THE AUGUSTA CHRONICLE ♦.*. * m m AND • ft ( GAZETTE of the STATE. FREEDOM of the PRESS, and TRIAL by JURY, (hall remain iuviolate. Conjlitution of Ctorgia . AUGUSTA: Printed by JOHN E. SMITH, Printer to the State; EJfays % Articles cf Intelligence , Advertisements , &c. will be gratefully received , and every kind of Printing performed. PROCEEDINGS of CONGRESS . la the HOUSE of REPRESENTATIVES of the UNITED STATES. Saturiay, Jan. 9, 1790* t Clymer took his feat this day. A letter froth the Secretary of the Treasury was read, informing the Houfc, that agreeable to their resolution of the 21st Sep tember, he had prepared a report, refpe&ing the Finances, with a plan for the support of the public credit, and requefled to know at what time the Houfc would be pleased to re ceive the fame. .... The time and manner of receiving this com munication was made a fubjeft of debate. It was contended by some of the Members, that there was the greatefl propriety in the Secre tary’s delivering it in perfoa, and giving a verbal explanation of the several parts, as it could not be supposed that the Members could fully comprehend a fyflem so various and 'complex, without its being accompanied with in explanation: That fubjefts of this kind are in their nature intricate—the House would Want information, and mull wilh to receive it from tht bed source, A resolution was propoled that the Report fjsould be received on Thursday next, accom panied with such reasons and explanations as might be nectfiary, Hated in writing. After some further conversation, in which the per sonal appearance of the Secretary on the floor of the House wa6 alternately objefled to, and contended for, the following resolution, in fubflance* was adopted, viz. That on « Thursday next this House will receive, in « writing, the report of the Secretary of the « Treasury Department, agreeable to the or « der of the 2ill September last.” The order of the day being called for, the House went into a committee of the whole, on the President’s Speech.—Mr. Baldwin in the Chair and adopted the following resolu tion : Rejoined, as the sense of this committee, That an Address be presented by the House to the President of the Uujted States, in an swer to his Speech to both Houses, with af fgrances that this House will, without delay, proceed to take into rtteir serious conlidera- > tidn the,various and important matters re corofneafled to their consideration. This resolution being agreed to by the Uoufe, the following gentlemen were appointed a committee to prepare the Address, Mr. Smith, (S. C.) Mr. Clymer, and Mr. Law rence. iVlr. Ames introduced a petition of Chriffo pher Saddler, of Nova-Scotia, Hating, that his vessel and cargo had fctfcn seized at the port of Boflon, for a breach' of the law of the United States, of which he was, at the time, jgnorartt, and praying relief: Laid on the table.—Adjourned. Monday ,' January 1 1 • Mr. Hathorn, Mr. Trumbull, and Mr. Moore, took their feats this day. Mr. Boudinot, of the committee appoint, cd to inquire into the upfinilhed bufiuefsof the laH Seffiou, brought in a repert, wbirh was read, and laid on the table. On motion of Mr. Ame*, the petition cf Christopher baddlei wa« i«id a fecund lime; GEORGIA and referred to the Secretary of the Treasury. Mr. Smith, (S. C.) from the committee pointed to prepare an Address in -nfwcr to the President’s Speech, presented a report, which being read, it was voted, that the Houle would to-morrow rcfolve itlelf into a committee of the whole, to take the fame into coufidera tion. Mr. Goodhue, of the committee appoint, ed laflSeflion, to prepare a Genius or Enume ration of the inhabitants of the United States, enquired whether it was considered 'hat the committee then chosen, is now in exillcnce— if it is, he moved, That more effeftually to ♦ answer tke objeft of their appointment, the committee fliould be enlarged, to coufiil of a Member from each Hate. M. Smith (S. C.) observed, that the se veral matters recommended to the coqlidera tion of the House in the Prcfident’s Speech, are objects of more immediate attention—fug gened th« propriety committees to take them refpeftively into consideration, and accordingly moved, that the House lhould' go into a committee of the whole. Several gentlemen observed, that it would be perhaps more proper to* wait for those com munications to which the Prelident referred in the Speech. Mr. Goodhue suspended this motion, till the House Ihoqld decide on that made by Mr, Smith, which being put, was not adopted. Mr. Goodhue then rose to enquire, whether it is considered that the unflniilied business of ' the laH Seflion, lhould be taken up iii the Hage in which it was left, or de novo. This enquiry occasioned considerable dif cuflion. Many of the Members spoke on the occaflon —The Speaker said, that it had been cuHomary in the legislative aflemblies with which he had been connefled,.to continue the business from one ieflion to another, during the time for which the Members are eletfled, but it appeared that this was not (Iriftly eon fonant to parliamentary usage, and as the fub jeft is of very great importance, and differ ent fentimentfi are entertained l>y gentlemen, it appeared neceflary that the House should come to a decifiou upon it. Mr. Livermore, adverting to the neceflity and importance of the two Houses adopting fimiiar rule 6 of condutl, ptopofed that a ccm - mittee fliould be chosen on the pait of the House, to confer with a committee on the part of the Senate, to determine on a uniform fyflem to be adopted by both Houfe*. Mr. Page, Mr. Lee and Mr. Smith, were severally of opinion, that the bufinefs,of the last feffiou could not with propriety be taken up iii the present, in the situation in which it . was then left. They contended thas it lhould be entered upon tie novo, as on the. contrary supposition, queflions of the highest impor tance to the peace and happiness of a f great, part of the Union might be resumed, and de termined, in the early part of the fefflon, in a very thin House, and by a small majority of the bare quorum of Members. ’Jheexteu five territory which is presented—the great diflance Lorn which molt of the Members came—ail concur in favor of taking up the bulinefs anew. Mr. Ciymsr observed, that CongrcG, by ehuting a committee to enquire into, and re- j pent the imfintilied business of the lart fcifun, j • plsinty indicate that tti«r f,o not confidn thu ' bufmsfi as dead—hr »t' it had been fv ton- [Vol. IV. No. CLXXXII.} fidered, it was abiurd to appoint such a corn mittee. Mr. Lawrence said, that when the btifinefaof the last fedion thould come before either House, it lay with them to determine in what man ner they thould proceed with tefpett to every article He objeded to the appointment of a committee. It was then moved that a committee of ten be appointed to bring in a Bill for the adual enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States; which parting in the affirmative, the following Members were appointed, viz. Mr. Kofler, Mr. Clymer, Mr. Goodhue, Mr. Seney, Mr. Sherman, Mr. White, Mr. Lawrence, Mr. Smith, Mr. Schureman, Mr. Baldwin. . A meflage was received from the Prefirtent of the United States by Mr. Secretary Lear, with a communication of the Kate of Norths Carolina having ratified the Federal Constitu tion, after which the House adjourned till to morrow morning, 11 o'clock* ‘ Tutfday , January ta. The order of the day being called for, the i House resolved itfelf into a committee of the ! whole. Mr. Baldwin in the Chair. The report of the committee appointed to 1 prepare an Address in answer to the Presi dent’s Speech to both Houses, being read, the fame was taken into consideration. The committee having difcuHed the several parts of this Address, rose—and the Chair man reported the fame without amendments, which being again read in the Iloufo, was adopted unanimously. It was then moved, that a committee he appointed to wait on the President of the Unit ed States, to learn from him, at what time, and in what place, he would receive this Ad i dtefs; and Mr. Smith. (S.C.) Mr. Clymer, and Mr. Lawrence, were appointed the com mittee on this occafihn. A mefiage from the President of the Unit ed States, by the Hon. General j£hox, Secre tary at War, was received: This being ac companied by a number of confidential papers, the House ordered the doors of the gallery to be shut. (To be continued•) L O N DO N, December 4.. 1 /' HE march of the rrtifiian troops towards ] J[ Brabant, gives no small uneasiness to i the French;. There is an acknowledged good ! underftaiiditvg between the Kings of Sweden j * and Pruflia, and the former's having ordered ' ar asylum to the Prince de Conde, aud the latter being no apoflle to the cause of liberty, thisarrxity appears at least to be plaufibie. The King of Prufiia, it stems, is the peo j dilium mat is to set us a moving; all our ron- all our treaties with that power, could not induce the least diversion in our fa vor, w hen furrouiided with a wot Id of fpcs— and tluill we, without any cause of our own, a r the hazard of our own internal peace, rn j gage to gratify the ambition or jealoify ii i another power t Such a proceeding, in the \ prelent fitostiou of this country, would be at tended with very fertou* contrqutsicfi* beveui pwtii;ooi have b%lwU ptcfintfd by