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CON (IK ESS, HOUSE or REPRESENTATIVES. JlE.mlw/, . J/ji il 6. •Veto I) ijjiculty with France, ‘Hie Committee of Wavs and Means, reported a bill, authorising the fscr.ro tary of the treasury (o suspend (.he payment of vrtain bills of cxelmnge drawn by John Armstrong, our late minister in France, upon the treasury *■ the United States, which arose out of tin? Louisiana purchase ; read twice and committed t<, a committee of (he whole house, and made the order of (he day for Wednesday. \lr. Bacon, tie chairman ol ’fiat committee, ofier ed a few cxniam.tory remarks, on this subject, to the following purport— !!-• said that tb - reasons which Imd induced the committee to report this b.il. weio found ‘d on a transaction which he would briefly state, ft would be recollected, that by the con vention between the United .Stales and France, commonly called the Louisia na Convention, the government of (be United'States had agreed to assume the payment of a sum not exceeding ‘.•O minions of francs on account of hi bt due by the government of France to citizens of the United (States. The mode of liquidating and aseertainiag these debts was provided for in the convention, aid by the 3d section of the art of November, to, iHd.i, it was, provided, (hat the payment of (lie • iaims this ascertained should be made by orders drawn by the minister of the l i.tfed .Stiles in fi'ice, upon the treasury of the United State's, who simnid be charged with the whole a mouiit of such payments until he should exhibit satisfactory proof that such orders were issued according to treaty. These orders led generally been drawn in favor of the persons in whose favor such debts had been liquid ited, and there had been no dbnculty in giving the American mi nister credit for this amount, when they were presented and paid in that form. Upon the close of that ad jiirtmmit, however there remained n inut 115.000 francs to be applied for the benefit of claimants, in order to complete ~0 millions, the amount of which was liquidated in favor of sun dry persaus Living debts due from the I'reach government. Instead, however, of drawing bills for the suni as usual in favor of the claimant*, (be French government in. ;i tied. Fir reasons which did not dix- Hfi.tly appear. Uial our minister should draw fer this amount iq favor of the eas lit of tin* French treasury, that govern:*: ut ass timing upon itself the pay;.!,".it .of the particular claims on viiV’ • cera.int they were drawn. This arrangement was ivsisted for -o.nev up, hot ultimately acceded to by il-ucral Armstrong, ruder a wish thnlh to close so important a trans a lion. Notice of the manner in which it had been conducted was gi\e*i by him to the government $ and the trea sury officers being of opinion (bat the amount of the bills if paid, could not under the circumstance,s be credited to lu n, he requested that (ho payment of (hem might bo refused or suspended until evidence of their proper applica tion should he furnished by (lie French ,ovi rivaeot. It was however the opi nion of the secretary of the treasury that under F c luvv of 1803 he had no discretion given him to refuse the pay ment of the hills whenever presented, which had not yet been done,anil there was still an opportunity to prevent their payment. The subject has been brought before the Committee of Ways and Means, by the secretary of the treasury, some tunc since, who from the difficulties of the transaction had at the first instance declined to interfile: howev >r, the committee had been given to under stand that a portion of the sum of the 11. 5,000 franca, instead of being appli ed ! > the payment of the tl"i ; U due to the claimants, iu whose favor they had been iiiimdvtcd, had been diverted and Uiijdn'.i ter (he benefit of a person in no wise entitled to it under the provi sions of the oor.vectir.iv, and to whom nothing Imd been allowed. Under these eireumsta'aees and in concurrence w ith Hie opinion of the sei retary of ilie treasu-iv, and agreeable to the wish of General Armstrong, the eerctmittce iui! thought it their duty to report a lull author;slug the treasury department to suspend ti e payment of the bills, whenever they should be presented, un til the ! ■ curb government should e furnished * atisiaetory proaf that the amount of the bills has been applied for the pnrpjsei provided for in the; ouiivutiiion. the Zfmloo Suh, At,nit 13. Extract of a Letter from ‘Stockholm, dated March 3. “ We are ail anxiously expecting an answer from Russia, or’ rat iter ah ex change of ratifications of a conventian entered into between Sweden and Rus sia. Thu sudden entrance of the French into Pomerania., uiJ the Siiiic attention paid by the French Empcrer to the on the part of Sweden, have At Icug-ili drawn from the Swedish government a declaration, to he delivered by the Swedish UltargcM Affairs, Mr. I). Osson, stilt in'’ that Sweden had inlirdy with drawn herself from the continental system. While writing this letter, I am told that a Danish messenger is arrived, bringing intelligence thal Denmark has an inclination to with-, stand the French troops destined to ; occupy Holstein ; but this might mere- 1 ly be a political trick; for Denmark I must follow the dictates of Buona parte. A rumour is also afloat, that lor the sake of preserving some of (be remains of a balance of power in Eu rope, Austria has in strong terms pro tested against any encroachments on Prussia. At all -events, you may rely, that within a month from (be date hereof, war will he commenced in the north. It is a. painful task (o inform vim, (bat General Tibell, a Hvvede by birth, but who has served several years in (lie French army, is married to a French lady, ami who has resided at Stockholm several years, and has been employed as a General in (he Swedish army, lias turned out a trai tor. He received permission of King Charles to go to France on account of private family affairs, and during his absence, a secret correspondence be tween him and one of the cabinet '•- cretarics was detected, tending to in form Jioonnpatc of what was going on in the Swedish Cabinet. He is struck out of (lie list of Swedish generals; and the secretary of the cabinet lias been placed under arrest, on the charge of having given him the information thus traitorously communicated to Bo naparte.” JItOIJjYT .thIT.WA. The following is an Extract of a Let ter from Messina, dated December 22, 4811. “ I dare say you heard in F.ngland of the eruption of Mo nut .Etna, which took place on the 27th October. On the same day a great quantity of pul verised cinders fell in Messina ; a dis tance of 50 or eo miles, and some ear ned to a mueli greater distance. This grand work of nature prompted a par ty ol us to be witnesses to its great operations, and accordingly we set oft’ on the 4th of November*, when if was burning in its most violent slat *. The sight was beyond description grand, ant! having seen it, no consideration could have deprived me of a view ol so great a curiosity. The burning lava had then proceeded about two or three miles from the.volcano, forming at the extremity immense beds, for(\ feet <>r more in height, mid making “a very slow progress in a barren vallev. At 7 o’clock in the evening, we were 1 only a quarter of a mile from the mouth of the crater, which was emit ting the liquid lava , columns of smoke and stones throw n to a greal height in the air, many degrees more livid than the hottest (ire: the whole mass of matter poured into (he air by dischar ges us loud as cannon, w ith intermit tent terrific explosions, shaking the ground under us. We bad a most dis tinct view of the volcano; its mouth is the shupe of a cone, without the top. We saw several old craters near it. \. t n minutes view fully satisfied us. when we hastily returned, fur if the w ind hail suddenly changed, J believe in that situation, our lives were not worth sixpence. We had a dangerous enemy also under us, which was He snow, covered with many feet of cin ders.” am the Philadelphia freeman*! Journal. Fhenck Fleet—-The London Star of March 2, stutes the following to be an remirate account of the naval force of France, now in the harbors of Tou lon, Brest, Antwerp, L'Orient, Roche fort, Genna and Cadiz— Os 120 guns s SO do. r> M- do. (>o Ships of the line S3 Frigates 7g Total of the French Navy ta<> France, with 83 ships of the line and 72 frigates, uares not exhibit them out of port, ami yet our briniborion ad mini (ration talk of chasing the Bii tish from the ocean with six or eight frigates I IMPERIAL HONESTV. E.\irr:d vj ,t letter J rum a cornu,ereied, f wik • mnUtr'am, iu a merchant hi the town of Salem. ” We beg your reference to our last as respects, informing you fruit the sale of the Teas ‘ your 99 chests per Neptune ii.-luuivc j fixed by tfie Asiatic council o;j .stii June, last veer, had been sus pended by the government; Apprchen ■ : y e el the consequences we have endea vored oy all means to have your pro p rty restored; (pit lave never been M Lie to obtain sooner intelligence ei’its fate. “We are now informed that your Teas have been carried off to Antwerp, together wit h other American property, where it is held t the disposal of the government, and that thus the whole is irrecoverably lost. ” We sincerely lament the unfortu nate circumstances by which our friends experietlce sneh considerable losses, and regret that all our endeavors on their behalf have prov ed equally un successful.” A letter from Mr, Robert Dawson, Master of the brig Hannah, of Nrw- York. dated Plymouth, March 3, says •* l sailed from Savannah on the first of February, and yesterday arrived abreast of the Starts Point, at two o’clock in t e morning, and perceived a sail corning up fast—at 3, was hail ed, and on answering from Savannah bound to Portsmouth, and that. 1 was an American brig, be ran up along side, and kept up a constant fire of musquet ry for eight or ten minutes, which lias done us considerable damage. He af terwards boarded us with tvvcntv or thirty men HOVE THE JUTE O VERBOeWiiI, wounded inoMof the crew, myself they heat out of the cal.iu into the forecastle and then back into the cabin—took the bat off my head, broke open all my ehesfs and trunks, and plundered them of every thing valiittole, took’my papers, writing dc ,k, and all the cabin stores—took myself and aJI the crew on board their vessel, which proved to be u French privateer, their name they would not tell. Steel ed to the southward for the first port in France. In the morning about eight or nine o’elock, they perceived a In ig of war in chase—they “bore up for the Hannah, took out all their men, put myself and crew into the boat, and .‘nst. us off’ lotlie merry of the waves, vv ith a small boat all stove to pieces : I waved a handkerchief to the brig of war, which they perceived from the mast head, tacked and picked us up— mil up to my vessel and took charge of her, and steered for Plymouth. Thinks Jto myself. —ls it character istic of grave Legislators, who have their country’s good at heart, to vote a bill to its third reading, when they do not intend to vote for its final passage ? Phis thought was suggested to my mind on listening to the ayes and noes, on the question of passing the bill, report ed by Mr. Wright, “ for the protection. <Sf indemnification of American seamen.** to a third reading in the House of Re presentatives on .Monday last. A more preposterous proposition was perhaps never brought before a deliberative body, and yet. absurd as its principles cert inly are, it has been entertained in the assembled wisdom of the nation, till it has gone through the regular forms of legislation to the final vote. Thinks J to mystify when gentlemen w ill so far descent} from the elevation w hich they occupy as guardians of the nation’s honor and welfare, as to give their countenance, even in an incipient state, to the frothy ebullitions of a po litical fanatic, calculated to reader the acts of the government contemptible in the eyes of all the world, then do 1 in deed despair of flu* commonwealth. Alexandria Gazette. Another public meeting hi Pennsylvania. At a respectable meeting of the citi zens of Northampton County, at the house of George Heller, in the bo. rough of Easton, on Saturday even ing, the 25th of April, tst2. Christian Butz, Esq. \\ as called to the chair, and Phillip Mixsell, Jun. Appointed Secretary. The meeting faking into considera tion the embarrassment and distress produced by the embargo to the Agri cultural ami Manufacturing interest therewith connected—and also consid ering tfie measure as having assumed ■he churaeler of a precursor of war. have tho’t it their duty ns citizens of a free and happy country, to express in this public manner, their disapproba tion ol said law, and to endeav or by every honorable means in their power to procure its repeal: to av ert the evils of war, and preserve to their country the blessings of peace—with this view it was Resolved, That David Wagner, Esq. •Tohi: Herster, Esq. Jacob Heller. Ph;- !ij> Mixsell, Jun. Joseph Burke, John Mixsefi. .file.ib A uglier, C hristian ‘icnel . \\ illiam Woodiing, John Hunt. Jacob Savvdig and John Celt, should be a committee of superir. tendance for the puipose of procuring signatures to the remonstrances to (Joogiess. praviot* for a repeal of the embargo law, at the expiration of fio days or sooner if pus sibie ; and that they likewise be autho rised to correspond with other commit tees. which ui e e.r may be appointed fur like purposes. Re snivel!, “bat this meeting approve of the eouiluet if William “Rodman, Esq. one of the Representatives in Ccn giess from this distrh t, in opining the passage of the embargo law. Resolved. That Peter Miller and Jo seph Burke, he a lonftnittee to wail upon the Hon. ’Williitm Rodman, with the resolutions and proceedings of this meeting w itliout delay. Resolved, That the proceedings of ibis meeting and their litter, as adapt ed. to William Rodman, Esq. he pub lished in (lie German and English pa pers within the Congressional district. CHRISTIAN iUTZ.Chairman. Philip Mxs->-.11, Jun. bee ry. New-York, Mat 2. The Election —We have the plea sureof presenting our readers with re turns from ail the wards in the city and county of Nc w York- Federalism has f.iil tause to he proud. A large iru jeril v of the community have Again, after long and sad experience es the mischiefs of democracy, returned to those principles which were the steady guide of a Washington and a Hamil ton his eldVst son. Gur majority over the administration party rises fourteen hundred votes: A difference between the present result au I that of a few years past, of nearly three thousand v otes! But the party bus split. True ; but unite their strength for a moment, and it gives a result in favor of the federalists in the greatest commercial city in the union, of nearly five hun dred votes, and increasing. Tfie truth is. that several gentlemen of wealth ami distinction in this city, have taken frequent occasion, during the election, openly to declare, that although they never‘failed to support tie measures of the democratic administration. — in every election since it came to power, yet they could not, in their consciences, gb any further. And it may. with truth, he added, that had Ant great exertion been made at the polls to persuade the electors there was not the least danger of war, the federal majority wouid have been, at least, trebled. Queens County. —We have it in our power to gratify our friends with an of ficial return from the county of tiueens, and trust vve may congratulate the lov ers of sound principles throughout the State, with the complete emancipation of this county from democracy. It was federal last year, but its federal majo rity has nior.* than doubled. Senators. —For the first time these 13 years this district vvill be represent ed by two Federal Senators. The par ticulars will be given as snon as we receive returns from Suffolk. From the Baltimore Fed. Ecp. POSTPONEMENT OF r?;F. XV AH. A celebrated vvit is recorded to hare proclaimed by the common cryer, the postponement of an eclipse, ami to Imv ■ found the multitude credulous to believe it in his power. An inev li able war to be actively carried into Canada before the end of April, has been so long the burthen of messages, speeches and paragraphs, that the beetles, which receive tin* promises ol their leaders as acts consummated, feasted themselves, in anticipation, with havoc, ruin and confasiun, iiml even many sober and reflecting citi zens began to lay aside their common sense, and to suppose it possible, that so impotent and cowardly an admi nistration, as that which is seeking to prolong its pestilential career, was t-a-’ pahle of one aet of manly and deter mined vigor. The first description of believers cannot be disturbed in their faith and will certainly believe the iip.r postponed as authority announces ; l ut the latter will find iu the extract we give from the government paper, such new means of judging as may save them from being duped upon future oc casions, by the hollow pretences con jured up to suit temporising purposes and selfish calculations. \\ C defy any man of ordinary discernment and can dor to read the explanation es Mr Madison in the Intelligencer, and to suppress his conviction, that the em bargo is a scheme to avoid the pledges given for war with England. We are expressly told, that “ it is not war, nor does it inevitably lead to war,” —” it would be dishonorable and might be ruinous, if without a redress of our wrongs, war did not promptly fol low the expiration of the embargo.” Li the last preeeeding loteliigeoeer, the government informed us, that “ iii the meantime preparations lor war like operations may and probably will go tin with gieat activity.” This, ii must be Confessed, is eooiing off’ more rapidly than by evaporation, it is absolutely the application of ice to produce a sudden chill. A little while ago we had Gallatin’s budget of ex cises, stamps and loans, then the ap pointment of Dearborn as refrigiratirs, but all would not cure the fever artifi cially excited, ami now rather unex pectedly to the audience, whose pati ence was strained to the highest pitch, the larec is announced to he put oil’ for three mouths at least, but without h xiug precisely the day of perform “ce. A certain taectious and much admired artist undertook not long ago tc fly from the top of a four slot • j, n , I hi the citv ofNewAork, and the p® ■ was timely announced by public t>!fl J veitisemeiits. On the day aj:p o i w> ,i® which was one of the wannest days, thousand* assembled, min,i n( !r® of the almost vertical rays,ffutr ut a ther L oin conscious inability . peiloi mer oi’ the well foiin ei f., ,j ® J his friend* and the more consider <ll part of !i;e public, who wished t<> .jj® • vent the destruction of a genii;., determinod to stop Lis essay; ;!r i ,'B® disappoint the multitude in the J Best manlier, it was announced p ®t the performance was p-ustpt.ncd ‘, ®) three hours, if we mo.'i-n Meanwhile, the heat of ti e sun ® * persed the assemblage, who w.;i; |!( ,®’ ly exchanged the marvellous speetj®! ctr for the refreshment of the sha<!e®i anil never thought again of the ;,ii.® which drew them together. ■ 11 Chatham Superior Court Ant-® 1 Term 1812. i GEORGIA. I ! FkXat is Hcm/xt ■ 1 vs. C KULE A7.il. ■. it'lH’ S K ~ST YPGN the petition of Francis Hep*® tU; kht* of the county of Me It.: !,■’ planter, praying ti e foreclosure ■ ,1,.-1 equity of redemption of the follow V.H premises, mortgaged by the said .fi.fc® Fraser to the said Francis Iliq.fi;:.,® on the fifth day of April, in the of our Lord owe thousand ei .i t iv.-H dred and ten, to secure the payment nil a bond bearing even date t! crew ith u,;.H ditianed for the payment of the tH seven thousand seven hundred dolhnsM w ith interest from the date thereoi. > itl which there is a balance wow due : owing by the said John Fraser to ;! :■ said Francis Mop kins, cf. seven lh; I sand And sixt,-.;e dolTars a;.ii f ,tol eight certs, viz. all that tract <.!’ lauiil situate in Cfinthein county nr.d atr.t"B aforesaid, called i'hat'mn;, forta’ il;g of Oak, Hickory and l'ia and ... ! contain fug by nsm voy smen 1 o:i,d ;l and thirty-eight acres fiirmerly the j> *>- psrty of Ira rah Oiiiiigselis, hounded e:i the north by the bat annah farm- Ic.x on (be south west by the village of r>e ticn, on the south east by trie Orph; a .House tract ami cn the uurth east ly land fanner!y Jirs. Moores. Oa motion of Richard VC. t!ai i'cvsfiiun attoi t.ey for the Petitioner It is ordered, That the principal in. terest and costs due upcu the said mert gagod premises be paid into court vviib in twrfve months from this date and imicss ihc seme he so paid, the eimitv of redeir-ptioo shali thenceforth be irr closed r>nd oflierproceedine* 7■” J. I;ff. purstrant to the aet of az-senddy itssnch case made and provided, and it is xai ther ordered, that this rule he pu! :i 1 - ed in one of the pehii Gazettes of (’ is state once a mouth tor twelve months', or served on the n;ortgager or 1. s spe cial agriitat least six mouths pie vices, to the time, said money is ordered to be paid into court as aforesaid. Exit-ltd f>■■■•:• the Jlicuies. JOB T. BOLLESq Cl. ,i< . May 5 lain t2m 7 (.’h-itham Suptrlor Court April Term 1812. GEORGIA, E. .Xuh-. lsjunr.f.rh UPON the peti- Asm'gates vs. V titMl of Ebi:;e zei- Owen Hughes. J .richols junior preying the loreelvsure of the equity of redemption of the following ’pre mises, mortgaged by the said Gwen Hughes to the said Ehenezcr Nieiwds* junior, ir: the seventh day cf June one thousand eight hundred ai.d eleven ; to secure the payment of a hoed, bearing even date therewith conditioned, for the payment of the sum of five Hun dred and eighty eight dollars and sex e.;- ty five cents, with interest from the seventh day of Jane ons .thousand eir; * hundred and eleven, viz. ait that * of land in the city of s>ava:s:;al>. , i Oglethorpe ward,! nowo in the pi;,a t f said city by the letter [V [ b-uundett “>i tii.’ west by FahiasSreet , case b . a lane, north by Peter Me I'srluue and sui.ifi by Uoitons, containing one hundred and twelve feet and a half from Fa) r.; street, bitch to the lane and sixty seven • feet and a half in hre&dik froiit no: !i to south. Oil motion of Thomas I LLoyd attorney for the Petitioner It is ordered that the principal intei est and costs ,lue upon said mortgaged premises be paid into court within twelve months fror.; this date,ut.fr {he same be so paid, the equity of redemp tion shall iliem eforih he foreclosed amt other proceedings take plate, pi;:.-meat to the act of assembly, in sa. h ease marie and provided. And it is liiithc-r ordered, that this isle l.e published i-t one of tl;e public Gazettes oi'thristate, once a month for twelve or served on the mortgager or Iris special agent a*, least six mouths previous to tin. time said money is ordered to be paid into court as aforesuid. Extract from the JFnntes JO) T. BGLLES, C'/erk. April 2- k turn J2m