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i>pt fee tWr prey i one of our
tompan OiS having already (alien a
v <ffim to their jaws before our
fight.
In this (ituarion we continued fe
ventecn days, iubfiffng wholly on
raw potames and port wine, much
damaged by the fait water; when
captain liudfon of the (h p William
and Henry, by an inter pofirion of
heaven, too aff ffirg to be ever for
gotten by us, came to our relief and
I hatched us from dcfpair and im
pending death—fi* ciing us cold,
hungry and txhaufled, he cloched
and fed us, and by the tendered ex
rrctfe of hofipitaiity and kindnefs,
cheered us back to life. Not to
acknowledge our obligation to fo
great a benefactor, would be to
Lipprrfs the involuntary tfFufions of
giateful hearts. For myfelf, there
fore, rs well as in behalf of my
fu • viving fcllow-lufferers, I take
this public opportunity to exprefa
onr varmeft acknowledgments to
opta'n Hudfon, and aifo to his
m ues and crew; for the promptnefs
s; i perfeve ranee which they Ihew
v 1 m refeumg us from a watry
g ave, as well as their humanity and
a rent ion lo uniformly continued to
us till our arrival in this port.
JOHN TABER, Jun.
FOREIGN NEWS.
The (hip William, Moran, from
London, and 2$ days from the
Downs, has arrived at New-York,
bri gng Loudon an d to the 11 th
Move mb- r. The treaty between
France and Auftria is received. A
Mr. Hartfii jrn, paflVnger, is bear
er of despatches from Mr. Pinkney
to the fccretary of Rate. Two
letret bags, out of three, containing
ab iut 2000 letters, was taken out
cl the Wdham atGravefend, by a
revenue officer, and fent to the
Ge teral Poll Office in London,
aif-gni g as a rraion that they were
ur.li *kd, whi h was contrary to law.
} e lc:t a ceitdi ate of the adit. The
Grenville pary is exp.dtcd to come
in ) the ruin .dry after the meeting
of Pari.ament. A general convo
<•*■ ion of all the Italian Cardinals is
’ ! cake place in Paris in Novem
>. A large French convoy from
Toulon to Barcelona has been del
ayed bw the F.ngl fh, a 93 and an
60 £v. \ jfhip and frigate were run
aihart , the two former blown up to
prevent their failing into the ene
my’s nands. Banaparte held a
. n ncil at Fountainbleau on the 27th
October. An t xpedi ion has faded
* otn Mika, deftmat 01 conjectural.
Prin e G igal , aid de-camp c f
Ihe Emperor of Rulfia, nas arrived
l: Paris. The L )ndon Times of
N vember 8 lays tiiac Ferdinand
VII. has been poifoned. Charles
IV. hs contort and the Prince of
p ace are at Marleiiles, reported to
h • living on the bounty of friends.
Bonaparte is to make his triumphal
♦tt y into Paris December a. A
3c tier frm a certain Wm. Cox to
the governor of Oportd, dated Ak
ov roa, Oil )ber 24, dates that the
duke Drl Parque nad an engage
ment with the French troops com
manded by Gen. Marchand, who
had advanced from Salamanca.—
Toe battle was Laid to be fought at
*i an ames or its vicinity, and ter
m nated in favor or the Spaniards,
who Ift oniv 150 men, while the
ihs cf the French in killed and
v-i uaded is (aid to be 1000 men,
a 12 pounder, one Hand of colors
and 300 mufksts.
Central Gardanne, the French
minder ct the Pcxfiin court, has
kfr that country, h>s m.filon being
tin.etcel l . uir oir Haricrd
the Britiili envoy to that court, has
concluded a treaty with the Khan,
arid fucr ceded in deflroying the
French irfluence there. The treaty
is faid to be very favorable ; but fir
Harford Jones has been attempted
to be divefled of all his minifterial
fui&ions and declared a private
perfim, by lord Minto, governor
general of Bengal. Lord Mmto’s
powtr is confidercd as very quef
rionable j the Perfian Ernperor de
clares he will abide by the treaty,
that detained the Britdli envoy at
Tsehaan, and has ordered a Peifian
charge aTFairs and the fecrecary of
the Britilh embafly to depart for
England on this bufinefs. Lord
Minto has ordered all the bills drawn
by fir H. Jones, on public affairs,
to be placed to his private account.
This ftrange conduff: is faid to be
in confequence of the refufal of the
Perfian court, to receive general
Malcolm, as envoy from the Bririlh
government in India. , *
American.
St. LOUIS, November 6.
On Monday laft,two men belong
ing to the party which conducted
the Mandan Chief to his nation, ar
rived here in 43 days from the
Mandan village. They fay, they
anived at the village on the 24'hof
September Jaft, all well, having a
p;fftge of 101 days from this piaee.
Fro* the mourb of the M’ffburi to
the village 1610 miles, and ealeu
lating their being obliged to flop
fcveral days on their journey to
procure provifions, progrdfid up
wards of twenty miles per day.
The men report that they arriv
ed at Ricaree vilkge on the iiih
September, anc( experienced a con
fiderable degree of hofpirality from
thefe people; the Seaux appeared
very hoftile and nothing but fear
prevented their (lopping the parry.
Thefe rnen left the hunting party
about 0.5 miles above the Manda
village on their way to the hunting
ground, at the (cot of the moun
tain, they exprefs great apprehen
fion from the B!ackf ot Indians who
fwarm in thofe regions, and who
appear entirely in the intend if
the Britilh faffors, who have trad
ing houfes on the Yellowftone ri
vers, and other dreams which emp
ty into the head branches of the
Mifiouri.
Meflrs. Cook’s, Miller and Mc-
Clelland who had permiflion to af
cend the Mifiburi to its head, were
dopped by the Titans andefcaped
by ftratagem, otherwife it was ex
peffed they would have been cut
off. Thefe gentlemen are now
trading with, the Maha’s an the ri
ver Plate.
Milks. Pierre Chouteau and two
fons, Augufle fon of col. Augnfte
Chouteau, Mr. Manuel Lila and
doctor Thomas, arc expected daily
-—from them we expert a more
particular detail of the voyage.
OHIO, November 23.
It is about twenty years fincc the
fird iettlemcnt was effected in this
(late. For (everal years after it
commenced adedruClivc Indian war
retarded its growth. Since that
period* rapid emigration from the
different dates, and aifo from Eu
rope, has greatly increaEd the
nujpber of the inhabitants Sc chang
ed the wildtrnefs into a fruitful
field. The population of this date
is at preient nfing of two hundred
thoufand fouls. Agriculture is car
ried to a great height. Commerce
and Manufactures are rapidly in
creating, There ate four different
Bat ks with Ir.rge capitals, already
tftablifhed—-And thirteen public
ntwfpapers publifiied weekly.
CONGRESS.
IN SENATE .
“December 20.
The bill to prevent the abufe of
the privileges and immunities en
joyed by foreign minifters within
the United States, was read a third
time and decided by yeas and nays
as follows;
Yeas—Meflrs. Bradley, Cond’r,
GaHard, German, Giles, Lambert,
Leib, Lloyd, Matthcv/lon, Meigs,
Parker, Pope, Robinfon, Smith ot
Maryland, Smith of New-York,
Smpter, Turner —20.
Nays—Me firs. Hillhoufe and
Pickering—2.
House of Representatives.
December 18.
v T*. Troup called for the confide
ratk-n of the motion made by him
on Friday lad for priming for the
life of (he Houfe certain papers re
lanv- to the Yazoo claim.
Mr. Bacon moved to amend it fo
as to include the following papers :
tG >a of ti e legiflature ©f Georgia
j if don the 7 hof January, 17 55,
[j- ;it?rg to (undry companies and
individuals certain lands therein
rie'cribeu ; the m’ flags of the Pre
fix nt if the Ui/irea Hiatts ccmmu
mcated ro this Houfe on the 17 th
d.v of Feb-uary 1795; an adt of
Corgrefi, f ailed the 7th day of
Ap-iJ, 1798, for an amicable fetrle
i: ent of lim ts with the date of
Ge ga, and authorifing the efiab
liffment if a government in the
M tl.fliippi Territory, and an adt
fiipp’cmental to the lad mentioned
id, pafled the 10th day of May,
1800 ; and the report of the com
mit tee cf claims on the memorial
of fundry citizens of the date cf
Maflkchufetts and others, purcha
fi rs under the Georgia and MiiTif
fippi company, made to this Houle
an the iS hday of January, 1805.
Mr. Troup had no objection to
imluqe in h s motion all the papers
merdoned by the gentleman irom
Iv (fachufetts but the fird. The
H ufe could not get at the ad there
a iuded to, becaufie the virtue of the
people of Gtorg a had induced them
iok mr.iy to confign it to the flitnes
&'.d nothit g cf it remained but its
sfhes, from which it could not,
Pi ceuix I kr, revive. Ic had bttn
committed to the fl .mes becaufc it
was an uncoriditutional adt of an
uncct diiuiional leg flatuie ; a le
giflicure unconditutional beeaufe
corrupted, an adt unconditutional
becaufc refulting from and originat
ing in fraud. He afked the Houfe
Wi eiher they would fandtion the
corrupt adt of the leg'fluure of
Gnorgia, when in the mod foiemn
manner the people of Georgia had
configned ic to oblivion ? Unlefs
for the purpole of infulc to the date
of Georgia, the houfe would not
in any manner far.dlion fuch an adt.
It would be in cffldt to kg (late for
the date of Georgia, which this
houie had no right to do.
Mr. Bacon iaid that cne fraud of
the tranlacbon had been alleged a
gaind the petition referred lad
week, as a rraion why it fhould not
be confidered. Ic was impjflible to
get a corredl underda.idir g of the
circurr.fiances attending the granr,
unlefs the houfe had the adt in its
poffcffion. How would it be made
to appear that the legiflature had
adted corruptly, except its adt, and
the names of the members concur
ring in it v’ere produced ? file
knew not how the g niletnan would
preve the corruption vvh.ch he had
pledged himffll to prove witiiout
that -..dt—and Mr. B. laid he was
d< Srous of affaiding every conve
nience to the gentleman in the talk
he had undertaken. As to the adt
having been burnt, Mr. Bacon faid
he was much miftaken or he had
fieen ccpTs of it in the printed doc
uments in the Clerk’s Library.—
The houfe, by ordering it to *e
printed, would not exprds any opi
nion on the validity cf the adt.
Mr. Troup obferved that as much*
cf the adt of 1795 as was neceflarv
for the purpole alluded to by the
gentleman from Maflachufetts, was
recorded in the adt of 1796, and fo
much he had no ohje&bn to have
printed, as it was a matter of record.
Mr. Bacon replied that as much
of the adt of 1795 as was necelTiry..
for the purpole of the refeinding le-’
giflarure had been pubkfhed in ihe
adt of 1796 j it was not to be fup
pofed, without imputing to that le
giflature any improper motive, that
any more of it would have been
publilhed in the aff. But he was
defiroua of feeing the whole of the
adt.
M r . Bibb remarked, to (hew that
this adt was not on record, that a
year or two afi.er the pad ge of chs
refeinding acr, certain gentlemen
had been appo ; nted to publlfh a
ciigefl: of the laws of the (bate of
Georgia. They happened to be in
favor of the claim, and in
filled upon inferring in the work
ti c act of 1795. The people of
Georgia would not permit if, aid
the book in which this act was in
ferred was declared by the legifla
ture not to be a digeft of the laws of
Georgia.
Mr. Livermore made feme fur
ther obfervarions ©f the fame tenor
as thofe of Mr. Bacon, and Mr.
Troup replied.
When the queftion was taken on
including the paper objected ro by
M r . Troup, ic was negatived 53 to
46.
And , Mr. Troup accepting the
other papers as a parr of 1 i
tion, the whole was *g:'* ;
42.
December e-o.
The houfe again r V 0
into a committee of tit v:J ; , ,vT.
BaflT tt in the chair, or. .1
tion approving the con’ vi
Executive in refufin; > h<- ;J
ther communication with VtuuUS
James Jackfon.
M? IB s M'Kte and Jack fon fpoke
in favor of the refutation, and
Mefirs. Wheaton and Emott agiinff
Ic.
When Mr. Emott had fipoken
rather more than an hour, a motion
was made and carried, he having
given way for the purpofe, that the
committee rife and report progrefs.
The committee obtained leave to
fit again. And the houfe adjourn
ed.
December 21.
The houie again in committee of
the whole on the refutation from
the Senate. U
Mr. Emott concluded his ipeech
againff it.
Mr. Gbolf on & Mr. Rofs fpeke la
favor of it.
And at half p;H three, on motion
of Mr. Upbam , the committee rofe
and obtained leave to fit again.