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• H T J "JUST 4, Abril ». RETIE# of Ti S'-'fUON of CON CRESS. Tin proceedings of the fsHion of congref?, which writ this d iv terminate, are too intereliing to our fello w citizens to he pilled over in silence. We have t!ie more pleasure in bredy reviewing them, as we rind tint tiie good wiiicii h i- been done this feifion is chiefly ow ing totiiofe fame patriots who prevent ed the mifchief which was near being done it tne ThenlWft promirient meatures of the present le.lion, are an , authority to the president to station troops it Pittflb’rgii, rite naturalization b'.il, the tnuiury eitabiifhment, the aiit for rifting forth the militia to sup press insurrections and repel invaftons, a provisional relief Outlie good citi zens wide property was destroyed in tiie weftern country by the infui JF some further regulation- f--*r tbe{JP&f ing of peace on the frontiers, by res training the la < id's inhabitants of thole region*, a provision to facilitate a loan for the Algerine negociatiof,:, and the aft for ths support of public credit as. ! iye redemption of the pub lie debt The rituatiolt of the welern country so evidently called for the rirll tpe.ilure, that it was agree-I to without opph ition in both luj.ifes. T'’e naturalization hill w;> s introdti Vced by a member whole chief inject |hj&p«ariJ to be the exclulion ts forljgn , 'ers from tlie commercial jpenjoyed by American citizef'S byt a . V tr»!i e enlarged and b mih'chil Yli£ r ’‘i'jjT 5 wis given to it after it gotjf home of reprifentatives.wlsN* , fp njpdtfisd.as to ex chi ie foretgnMHpNMn 4 a jJWtictgtt|Jop of political rjiMH un it T til i loiijj tefiti of proba ion 'a \ the yljf proof ol good moral c!i n icier ayd priu [* Ciplet should entjiie them ther/to* I? | The •nilitflry been ■ » rendered {flo_fe adequate to tfne else tn |§» defence of the frontiersVoy incre af the py and bountyJ The fame llr ' {') rU I yW s*,' *"' ,r Several y.-Jlrs has ftiiiiu r jJ‘ w d to tuY ‘ V»f'?TES f fl|bftitiite nliiitta al: V *jS»» ars for the frontier opperationh/J Wee dn attempt in this fuiraou to xydr 1 the weftern army ; but ,^ e rece^PHB !eol irs * need's, its ds c d-d over m ’btia in many in the article of ck ■ ’nf e JK ll a<^e d defeat of the at- t ‘ n? t abnfl a nutter of course. The | ' a j vmilages <l^rtved from that army 1 Y ive (, t en con'"'triedby tiie application for oe ic ' by the Winn tribes who were ♦tnOlf": policy tit* Wuluir i>^ W ing our force . at the moment of vifto. ry, would lu "e been only equalled by the ridiculous atfedt.ition of tliol'e who pretend that a i n all army is jnconfirtent with our libertfcr. The adl providing for calling forrh the militia to suppress InfurrecTons, is varied from the former lava-, by leaving it to the dilcretinh and reljronlihlfity of the executive to judge of the-exigency, in (lead of requiring, as in the former aft, a certificate of ajldge. Tiie re g- medy '.vilj thmbe not only more prompt |\ but i«fi liable to Ire nbftruct-d by tiie ||% rfto fttuce »r hßtTi.Kion of a judge to Js|k neceilVy c^-iiricate. The aft for the relief of the weftern who *2 proper.y mv:-. dellro , C J the wfurgeut*. wa: a, just as it was political, and will ire attended with ob vfoufly good elfefts The tf-rers are however conli Je, eJ a- bound to nrofe cote tlfb often.lers, and recover what •they can* winch they are to, account for; the provilion :icde for them bv , cohgreu being oniy to aiford- them a temporary aid, and to indemnify them agaiiift any future lot's, in the event of their fairing to recover, of which, . bo vever. there is little prol'peft, the , ofFe-idtrs being be competent. To feeurc peace on the frontiers, a restraint of the whites.is found i i f K c ; the fa’es of hinds by of( r+ Georgia will ear. re ale the of vigorous reflraints, 'or war witfT tiie* mil formidable tribes will be unavoid a tie. This is among the mod difficult i'fms of leg'-.1. tion; 3 timid policy,'" l ' cohiV mtlv withholding thole regalati ois which can alone curb the licen tious. • ■ There are few objects more defira b'? 'i ;n the liberation of our fellow : now in captivity at Algiers, and 4 of h.’re ;fter inthe vicifltty of.the mediter ranean. To obtain both tiiefe objects cong-efs have at the prei'ent session, with alacrity, concutred in such mea l.ires as have been recommended • y the executive, to give full effedt to bis operations, and a flattering hope is en tertnine'd that they will be crowned with , luccel's. Atjjon£ the lad in order, though a mong the nrd in importance, is the aft f°r the redemption of the public debt. This measure was intteduceJat an ear- Iv period clblm feftion, by Mr. fnitb - -<r t u whole motion ■' was i efolvsctcy the.hnfe, that fur ther provifioit ought to be made for the redu : ..u of the debt. i lieu rii tlm report cf the comiiiittee ippoinred to prepare a plan, wa made early in tit a leihun, it encountered so ouch onpo i ton, *i : ,.J from iliolc v,, o ud v.v /steer, the clamorous tor * redact on of the debt, t.iat it was near tiie dole of tiie feifion l- fore the report was agreed to; atid had it not b:en, for the perleveiring efforts and repeated exeriioos of that member and a few others, this bufinef.s, interesting a, it is to the nittoti, would have frirthe prelent, defeated. While the continuation of tiie neceflary revenues for this purpose was under difcullion, tiis then lecretary of the treasury, Mr. Hamilton, feat in a very able report, which, in addition to a variety of va- Hi! ib!e matter, eviiued ilie liecellity of te.- r e revenues, without however dim! n Hiing the opposition to them. Tliis report recommended to congress feve rai important points, loine of which were incorporated in the ad for the re duclion of the debt/ By that ad, a poking fund is conftiiiited, cpmpoled »f the lurplufles of revenue*—of the b-mic dividends, and of the proceeds of the weftern lands, when fold. This fun I will not on'y amj4P futfice to pay "ft !o nmch of i i cer,'. and de ferred Jij i)t a : ilio government has tiie fkight to redeem, but will have an o iverpiu* for purchal’es of flock in the I market. To prevent the mil'.,ppli mi- 'I on, or dividon of this fund, f; am its intended ule, the monies bW utging to ir art) ve/ted in the totktKifiioftert of t he Jit.king fund, as property, in irttjl, to be applied to the discharge iid redetstp tion of the debt : end the f .ith of the government is I'oieinnly pledged, thru they 111. ill be inviolably applied to that purpose, nod no other. Though this proviliou was the bell in the /id, and the key flor.e of the lyftem, it was op poled with a warmth which could only have been e/peded limn thole whowilh ed the debt never to be difeharged; and which aftonilJ'cd, by the quarter from which it cams. he invariable expe rience of t’.icfe countries which are groaning under enormous debt 3, ought j to hare adrstonidiej every retfonable i mind, that to leave the monies of a I finking fund liable to be diverted, on every dec tliotvil exigency, from the pi r prtltfs of its inftitutibn. would b. t . - , feat every serious tiforr tq get out , dc-'i'. r! er-«lon ft I- ,ie( of ii •• t!ii. j , s 'ivu.m, prevailed over an in>; > f' linked f'n a pretended /.;.<! I'ori!ic ii bur-y of the h mile of reprel'eiiutives, to ci(# Slid (ittuo it its pie,mi re fortu* nve!y a fytlern is now ellabiithfd which doe; no lei's honour to the wifdcni and (•arriotil'm of its promoters, than it re lit et, lufler on the government of the United St-.t-s. To eAabliJh a fit,king fund !avi It and unalienable, which ss to be lie Jiiiiy applied to tlie redaction of the national debt, until ti e v. hole of it be dilcharged ; and which fund is competent to the difeharge of the whole debt within a Jliort prri>d of years, is a great ami. glorious meaiure, the example of which is fir It given by the Uiuted States to the nations of tu rope. c sale of the weflern lands will, it is ...>ped, hereafter cnnlidsrably in crease the flrength of -lie fit;king fund. A bill for opening land otfice- in the ter ritories north and Couth of the Ohio, was reported to tiie house, but the de lay produced by the opposition, which hi; been mentioned, occasioned a poft poiientent of it to the next fctlion. Hat :his fund will not yield much, if the fpecuhtions in the territory fold by Georg! t iljould draw adventurers to that qtiafer: It is imagined, however, and not without reason, that the energetic meaiure;, contemplated by the govern > ntetvr v States, wbj ako fi e,l,er projects of the A new niliti iTVleem brought forward ; but a dilfarejice of ientimeut on a fundamental principle, and the lateneis of session, induced a postpone. merß to the next congress: In the mean time, a thousand copies of tlte bill are printed, in Vder to be didributed throughout the da.ts, and thereby to invite infoi nation, and obtain the sen timents of the people, on a subject as difficult as it is intcrelling. . ' Several other matters engaged the j attention of congress, duripg the fef fton : Some aids pa (fed for ante liorating the revenues of the United States ; and affording additional Bene fits to cdTnmerce and navigation ; thus i fetlion has closed, with as mucli har- ! inony as lias been witnessed since the i edablifhment of the government, which | ,may truly be laid to ha'/e been as be ne ictal to the nation as any former fef. fion- March 3. ' r ' r *A, •« i c?inber 2?. ' ,nt ' : > ei >‘j r>.ainbc; lain to tbs grind duke of f.Ycariy, it i.- re jurteJ undertakes *|ji urney to Paris, o couc tide a cot. v|niion relative to he neutrality of hr tout,try. Seventy more.lnspected perlons are arrelted in Hungary. The exportation 1 cf trem manufacture is agaiu permitted at Vicuna. LONDON, February <y. The minister has fucteeded ive un derstand in his with the fti- * rectors of the Ealt India company and owners, for taking tip a nut..bet- of their large ft. ps for tt.e public teivice.— Thirty (hips are to bi trg-iged by go veru iicut in tiiis d y, wi. ci, will carry from 23 to gum e„ch. Ihe command b officers of the Queen's Boys*, and £ the Royal North Lincoln militia, quavered in Norwich, have let a laitd'acTtuJteatnple, by order itig the soldiers to tjiconrinus tlie uie ot powder and flour in titeir hair, ex ctpc witen on guards* it is computed that eac.i luldiwj. ilb ot iiour a week. v TV It ;s a no'or’ocs that fogreat is the de'ire of the peci-le at Lint iugham, W .17*1, cic. for p-. n? r that at Y\ ei neibury a barber L.s writ.cn upon his sign, 4 Democrats ihived for 4 penny. —Anflocratr owing teethe length of their f..ces mau p'T'Tfee halfpence. * When oar left le.ijtfs left Utrecht, a common council wa 1 " lining, at which a French hollar pre.'ded, armed with piltols. 'i he lurch every where fraternise with the iVcnth who have not yet laid ti.• coin . r y under rontri but ion. It i toeir intention to lay the principal burthen, .mjye aristocrats. and tliole Coutraftor who encour igrd the war. after it had been fomented ai the H gue by the rn gihfli ambailador. By tljts last mi i f1 am Holland, re mittunces are r -.re,ved to the amount of upwards of half - .million . Letters from War w, of the Ift inst reprelent that city/>. be in the moll dtpior.-bl- It ate \t \the inlutb tarns are reduced to beggly. Nothing hut allignants w<-e aliclt, 1 and the ready specie had a.l h>*J pourec. into the public elicit leagues a round Warsaw, norejtlam, no cattle and no poultry are t>. be seen. The hftaftktte, w ]ti the llutementof tie f.irrendcr of VV It law, arrived at td ." gb < tjv. I 30th Nov The - > ~,Mi>:j.d on the Ift o J < t er. i 11, tsoU'cls Immediate,'. ’ . i Jt fIyWyMT- -- ,-/j r .f 1 ami. lent 1 in 11 a in T.aal’a in diamonds. I'liat Ic.l rgt the em ptefs of RuiFia, with whom we were not long titice on .bt point of enterfti” in.o a war to prefetj/e the hal nee ol Europe—but whole powerful co ope ration we are 11 v.iffb frequently told of—lias now compf,iely enslaved the virtuous and uiifo. t |ia.e Boles; and, from accounts wide! may be reiied on, it appears that SuarrtL, one of her fan- * guinary general, i 0 lately deftroved 30,000 of ih it unofonding people, in the space of 2a duji; three thousand of these victims wc|l defencclels wo men and children. The monarch of Pruflia, to whom we h*«e paid feverai lundred thousand pounds, has of late dine little else than aHi ft tlte cruel and Reliable Catha rine ; and yet it is cciiidently aliened, and we believe with perfect truth, that we ftiil continue hisjnormous subsidy. Mr Sheridan conitjented upon these ; facts yesterday in t!fc house ®f com ! moils, in liis l’peech ifpcn tlte motion ; s's repealing the' a t palfed the lall I’elfton for I'ufpeudinu the habeas cor- j pus. 4 See (said Mr. Slieridan) how that (hamelefs anJ penjdions defipot oi' Pruiiia, that trickilej and tyrant, has violated every principal of truth, hoflor and humanity, in hi; murderous, though impotent attempt, at plunder and rob- Poland S/Ha who had enco , and even to them their constitution: See him, with (can lalous profanation of the resources which he had wrung by fraud from the credulity of Great Britain, trampling cn the in dependence he was pledged to maintain and seizing for him eif the countries he had pioteft. Mark the (till more sanguinary effects of the def potofßufiia, taithh.s not to us only and the cauie of as it is called, | but craftily out wit mg her perjured | coadjutor, profiting bv his dil'grace, and grafpino to herfe f the victim which had been drained to guilt their joint rapacity. See her thanking her fa vorite general S narrow, and, itill more inV-ously thanking Heaven for tie op j (•'htnnjty; thanking, him for the moil j 1" ]uract of cruelty the blooey ip ■ of inuH'y ev»r recorded; the m . derouj Icene.at Fraga, where, not in tie fury of aflion, rot in the firu of revenge, but . # after a deliberate piufe cf ;?r. hoars, with temperate brabariiy, he or,:ered a conddemte, methodical maf facree of ten thousand women and children. These are the actions of mom.reus. to tht exur.-.yle cf Kmgi. ’ In the course of the debates in the houte of commons yesterday, on the habeas corpus act, tue fuiiown g uif graceful fait was introduced : Mr. T. Thomas depreciated in strong terms the lulpcniion of tiie habeas cor pus act, and the many outrages agaitift the liberties of the fnl ject w ith bat: taken place to his know ledge in differ ent parts of the country, particularly by inferior m; giftrate«, since the bill paiied. One circumf.ance occurred very lately, which l.e thought it ticcef lary to state in his place, he went to the public ofiice, in Bowftrecf, w l:ere an apprentice was brought for fteaiing from his mailer ar. old Ic.iffolding Loaid, originally valned at nine-pence. 'I he mafttr informed Mr. Justice Bond, that l.e was willing to forgive him, and the ju'tice toid him 10, adding tl.at he mu! terye ti.e king as a foidttr. Major Leeion’s ierjeant was called in, and the lad was told that lie mult etilift with this osiicer: he fa id he would not, t.tlft cou.d hot : he had an aged mother hole foie fupporr derived from his labour, and he couiJ itot th.nk of leav ing her to Itarve. The jullice then laid, take Inm into cultody ; he fliall be lent as a sailor ;*and the lad was dragged away in thh fhameful and il legal manner, lie (Mr. Tluunplcn' l.ii'J tli.it wl 3 strange law; and lome body who heard him repeated his I .vords to the jtilhce, who cslied out in j 1 voice of authority, who laid so? I 1 anl wered that I, a member of Parlia ment, did. He laid i mult know that the king wanted men. I laid lie did. and I was afraid inuft want manv more if this ruinous war continued, but that this was not the way to get them; lending men to the field I considered „ lending them to the (laughter house, but that this proceeding was fcanda tsus and illegal. Mr. Bond laid, I might investigate the bulinefs in the house of commons, but he would de cide there, and that he had his indruc tions in a circular letter from the fe cretary of state, and lords of the trea fury ’ The accounts from the continent are most melancholy, in regard to the ge r.eral fear city which prevails over ..urope. In Hungary and Bohemia - T•• ’••• Vl,p-- Jc _ u tt 1 and Pi'isiid, which uTad to be the granary of tpat part of the vnrld, by the Korrors which we ha<;e connived at, if not enabled our allies to commit, so far from ass rding the n reLef, is in the most pitiable state of want, in consequence of the ravages which have been peipcirated. Even Holland itfelf *is ill provided, a!id amidlt all its other alarms, has to 4rcad the approach of a famine. The sortie from Luxembourg was made with the whole garril'on, a thing which is never done but in cases of extreme distress. They . inuft be ob viouily in want of provisions ; in which case it ;%not unufal for a German del' pot t- .. ake a lullv f.,r the purpose of lefi'enir.g the number of mouths he has to feed- If this was their object it prolpered, fortbetween 4 and 500 men were left in the field. This is what Mr. Windham calls regaUve success- Letters from Ireland mention, that, in tlie next feflion of the Irish parlia mont, a bill will be brought in, to grant the Roman Catholic inhabitants «;f ‘bat full equality of rights with thole cf the protestant and other religions; and to capacitate them fer fitting in parliament, arid holding ail other public places, except thofb of lord lieutenant, chancellor, cheifjuf tice, and Ipeaker of the house of com mons. It is also rumoured that a pen sion of 2ocl. will he granted to the Roman Catlu'.ic bilbops, one of sol- to each curate of that rffigicn- The emperor lias the city of Uim with 'military executidn, t!;e burghers having refuied to let the can non he removed from the arsenal, and otherwrfe resisted the magistrates am! the duke of Wirtemberg. The following letter has been sent by the committee of public fnferAn Barthelemi, the French Switzerland, dated De?:.'2 3. 1 We are informed, th?.t the emi grants and pffefts, who have been transported, affeeft to fay that they fttall loon return to France. We can alone atribute ro these reports the facility with which the Cantons appear to tole rate them cn their territory. The rfcfult is, that these men have ! een in yiguing in the neighbouring depart ments lor the purpose of producing frefh disorders. We diredt you to declare to a.l the Cartons, that the •migrants, justly leaded with the execration and _ " • Contempt of all Europe, u ill forevtfr be considered by the French nation as tutors, and that the just vengeance of :1m republic will pursue them. ♦ We do not doubt but tha f this de ation will be fulEcrent to induce a government whidi has giver, u: so ma ny proofs ot us j. ftice, franknefs and friendlhip, to rid itfcif of this impure horde which breathes cniy c.'me?, and Jiloi'd^rs; which wan'd only ir.d;t ufi#' >f the hofpitaijtv of a gentrous pebnlt tor the purpole of lowing discord, and by these means would punilh u.c S\Afa Cantons for their unlhaken atiachictot to tlie French people- * Letters from Mentz of the 3d iuft, fay that on the ift the arch ahtka Charles, the duke of Saxe TefCL.cn, field tnarflial MoilendoriF, and gen. Clairfuyt, held a conference there, and left the city on the evening of the 2d. I According to letters from Poland, of * the 2d mft. the king will be under the hard r.ecefiity of obeying the ensprefs of Russia’s order to repair fioni Warlavv. A to Grodno, without knowing when, or ™ if ever, he mall be allowed to return. The intended fate of the ur.bapy coun try is ftiil kept secret; but it i general ly apprehended that it i to be parcelled! out byway of compenfatioD. for the facriiices which the fucceies of the ' French arms will compel certain pow ers to make. Ruftia is already in polie<]toti of I.uthuania and Samcgina; and in concert w ith the nobility es ("norland* file will atll cl. that duchy and < ?em>galii to the domains of her empire, at lead by the fame ties of I'overeigtuy which unit ed them to Poland. A mono the Poliih generals raker by the Ruffians, is general de Mirbach, who has been lent from Rigvo to Mittau to i.e tried according to the laws of the country. The French, in their progress, haVtf found so much of the (fores and cloath* ing Cent out for tlie Britifli army, that on the representation of general Picheg ru, tlie committee of art 3 and manufac tures has b-*eu directed to report on the bed mo le of dying red cloth blue. The (ladtholder does not correto 'his country empty h tnded ; he has brought, with him specie to the amount of 60a,0001. Ifirlitig which he Secured * oar of his private property. A caricature tngraesr has !a*e’y fi nhiicJ a print repreltilting the I'ubiime emprel- us all the Ruffias, endeavoring to cover the whole kingdom of Poland with her ample petticoat, while a tur- I baaed co ties qii,etlv behind het, T '■-•V- f , I ' r ' I *HI iffll On Tuefd iy the corporation of Nor wich nn m mmtily voted an addrch so the king, praying that steps might be taken to accomplilli a speedy peace, and dating the diftrelied (ituation q; . the poor of that city. • v * Copies o* the following httsr, fittp'fed to be written by the king of Poland, to the empress of R/*£la t so -t after the capture of IV a'faw, hr e b--cn . circulated. • Madam, my filter, 4 The whole of Poland,is in yout 1 hands: your power and your wildoni Hiail decide upon it. Wlfatever may • • be your intentions with rofpect to mjfi own person, it i£iot permitted to me while I can to negleifl my duty to my nation, by invoking in its favor .Ylajelljr. 1 The militarytof is de(troy j ed; the nation hotMyer' (fill exiftsj but it will soon *if your orders ! and your greatness of foul come not to its aid. The tumult of arms has pre vented low mg the ground in a great part of 'he country. T’llage is ren dered impoflible, ®s 'he cattle have been carried off; tlje peafartts, whose ban s are empty, whose e&ttages have been burnt, or rendered uninhabitable, .have tied by thousands to foreign lands. Many of the'erritorial iords have done the fame, and for the fame reasons. I 4 Poland already begins to refen ble | a defan; for the next year is almost j inevitable; especially if our neighbors | continue to carry off our inhabitants and our cattle, and to occupy your territory*. . Ai 4 It seem« referred for the power . whose arms alone have subdued every thing, to prescribe bounds to every o’her. when it (tail have the use it meansjo make of its vi^ories. I prefnme not to amiteat'e thi| use,. but I am sure that ha most truly glorious f r vrnj, vvhfTwill rendei three millions of men the lead unhap py, will always have the flrong.eft claim to influence your determination. 4 May you, madam, receive favor-* ably the representation which your I grand char acter gives me confidence-tc f and accept at time of expreflion of the sentiments with which I am. .fire. j Warsaw, Nov. a t, 1794.* . / air* *