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CONGRESS.
}\ouse oj Keprnentativti-
Monday Jan. .10.
_ PREPARATION FOR WAR.
On motion of Mr. J). /i. William*
• lie unfinished business (the 50,(>fH)
volunteer* bit ) was ordered to lie
on the table.
And the House rrcolrfd it«elf
inro b committee of rh* wholeqMr.
Wacok in the rh.iir, on tli**re-o!u
--tron submitted by Mr. Nicholas a
few days ago in the following
words : *
J'tsched. As the opinion of this
House that the United States ought
rm to delay beyond the day
of to repeal the embargo laws,
ami to resume, maintain fc defend
the navigation of the high seas
•gainst any nation or nations ha
v,ng in force edicts, orders or de
crees, violating tlie 1 iwful com
merce and neutral rights of the
United States.
di/r. Milner moved fur a division
©f the resolution, sons to take the
question first on repealing the cm.
bargo j and moved to fill the blank
with the fourth day of March.
Mr. Handolph said hr had risen
for the tame purpose as ihe gentle,
man Irom Pennsylvania ; &. he sub
mitted to the committee whether,
if the embargo law* were to be
repealed, it should not be done
with all possible speed. Ills
sources of information, ho said,
were neither very numerous, nor,
possibly, very [correct ; but lie did
understand it to be a fact that in
certain parts of the Pastern states
the embargo was daily and hourly,
in the broad glare of day light
not evaded, but disregarded ; that
sleighs to an immense number
were daily passing from the United i
Slates into Canada, laden not only ]
with the product of that part of
the union bordering on Canada,
hut also with the product of the
f'omhern states, which was carried
by a long and expensive carriage
Irom the Atlantic states to Mon
treal for exportation. There were
two points ot view in which Mr.
K andolph said it appeared to him
that, if this law was to be repealed
at all, it ought to he done with all
pOisible expedition. The first
was, that those persons in our own
country, who had set the law at
defiance, who had been guilty of
the nujst intivic conduct, should
not reap the exclusive benefit of
the commerce carried on. The
other reason was, that it was well
known that the St. Lawrence was
trozeu up, & would remain frozen
long after our own waters were
©pen. Adventurers, lured by the
hope of great profit, had at a vast
txpence transported products not
the growth of that part of the
country into Canada, knowing that
the p an of embaigo, if continued,
would amply repay ihe extra «x
--jxjiice of carrying it. This pro.
duce, Mr. Randolph said, to an
immense amount, was deposited
as he under tood, at Montreal, lor
the purpose of exporting n as soon
us the ice broke up & bo presumed
it was already paid for in British
gold or commodities of some sort.
And ihu, he said was one of the
ways in whten he should have no
objection to finger mine of tlreir
gold, viz. by getting to market be
fore them, under selling and fore
stalling them, which might easily
be done Irom the expence of the
• transportation by laud. H e sub
mitted it therefore to the gentle
man from Pennsylvania, wheihcr,
if the committee determined to
repeal the embargo, it should not
be as soon a» possible. If imme
diately removed, it must shake,
and severely too, the Capitalists of
Canada ; but it the temoval was
procrastinated, they would reap
the profits, whilst w e should car
ry our produce to a market alrea
dy glutted, or if not glutted consi
derabty gratified. When the re
solution came before the House,
if the committee of the whole a
greed to it, he said he should cer
tainly move the earliest day, pos
sible for lint removal of the em
bargo.
Mi, Milner said the gentleman
from Virginia must be tally per
suaded that he was a» willing to
get rid ot tlie embargo as the gen
itcuiau hnusclf could possibly be j
lor he had been opposed to the*
embargo sy»i c , n f roin t | lc fi rst
Uic oiigiu*!embargo law was pas
j *rd. He said he had moved to
fill the blank with the 4th day of
March for several rotiaiderations.
The resolution contemplated a re
peal of the embargo at a future
dav *nd not at the present day {
and from conversation which he
had held with gentlemen hereto
fore friendly to the embargo and
now disposed to remove it, he had
sepponed that an earlier day would
not be agreed to. One. other con
• ideration he said had considera
ble influence with him. At pre
sent there was a natural embargo
on a considerable number of the
ports of the United States. By the
fourth day of March it was
pretty certain that nature would
have repealed that embargo. To
place the merchants upon an e
quality, he had supposed, he said,
that it would be proper to fix a
day for the removal of the embar
go, which would give to all equal
advantages.
Mr Sloan gave one reason in
addition to those urged hy the
gentleman from Virginia, why
the embargo should be speedily
repealed. It was a fact known
to many members on the floor that
large speculations had been made
in consequence of a belief that the
embargo would be continued for
a gnat while. Articles of foreign
produce, which, though not abs’o
lutcly necessary, had become ne
cessary hy habit, were up to an
extravagant price. An early re
moval ot the embargo would tend
to remove the sufferings of the
honest part of the community in
consequence of the high price of
these commodities-
Mr. .\fcholas , who had been ab
sent, when the subject was taken
up, wished to modify his resolu
non. 1 his being considered out
of order, Mr. Nicholas moved to
amt nd the resolution under consi
deration by striking out the whole
of it after the word " Resolved,”
and inserting the following:
He solved, as the opinion of this
House, That the United Stat c 8
ought not to delay beyond the
<la y °J *o resume, maintain
and defend the navigation of the
nigh seas ; A that provision ought
to I’e made by law for repealing
on the day of the se
veral embargo laws, and for au
thorizing at the same time LET
TERS OF MARQUE AND RE
PRISAL against Great Britain
and France—provided on that
day their orders or edicts viola
ting the lawful commerce and
neutral tights of the United States
shall be in force—or, against ei
ther of those nations having in
force such orders or edicts.
Mr. Lyon opposed the striking
out the substance of the original
motion, under the idea that it
would deprive the House of an op
portunity of taking a dir cc t vote
on the repeal of the embargo.
Mr. Nicholas said that the ob
ject of both resolutions was t j )e
same. The object of the rcsolu
non first proposed was to repeal
the embargo laws, to assert and
prepare to enforce our rights.
Ihg only object in proposing the
amendment was to bring the sub
ject to a close in one way or other.
It had been said that the other re.
solution was not specific enough
that it could not be undestood ;
that it would take up m uc h |j„,e
ot the House, and when it came
before a commute* to draft a bill in
pursuance ot it, their construction
of its terms might differ from that
of the House, and the whotesub
ject must be gone over again.
He wished the question »o bedeci*
ded, and that die whole nation
should know as so >u as possible
what was to be done. Gentlemen
wbo thouglK that we ought to
take a determined stand agamst en
croachments on our rights, he said
would vote with him ; gentlemen
of a contrary opititom would vote
against him.
Mr. Dana said he was for stri
king out the wohls of the original
icsolution, because be did not
wish to vote on them, scarcely
knowing w ijat construction to put
upon them himself, or wlrnt con
siruction others would put upon
( ‘ ,ll ' 'oie which he might give on
idem. Ihe resolution as it origi
n.uiy stood he said did not contain
an affirmative proposition, but a
sort of compound negative one.
It declared that the luited Stated
j ougm nol oejoud the
dav to delay repealing
the embargo. Now any gentleman
who might w’nh it to be repealed
today, would b-* clearly of opinion
that it ought no. to be Relax ed for
six months or a rear. So that a
vote on the resolution, supposing
the day ot June, to be in*
scrted as the dav bevond which re
peal ought not to be delayed, would
give no dt finite idea of the setiti.
itients of any gentlemen who should
vote for it. He was therefore real
ly obliged to the genii* nun that
lie had brought forward a resolu
tion which lie could understand,
and which had a specfic practical
bearing. At it respected the
character of the proposition, it was
a declaration of war hypothetical
ly* He could not express an opin
ion on the stib-aitiite proposed, but
would vote? to strike out the origin
al words, because tliev were liable
to a diversity of construction.
The fl. •use agreed to strike out
the substance of the fust rcsvlu
lion.
A division of the substitute offer
ed by Mr. Nicholas, was called for,
so as to take the question first on
the question oi repealing the em
bargo laws.
Mr D. R, W'illims laid if
trver a man's mind was tinbar.
raffed on a topic on which he
had to legislate, he conlelfed
that his was. He law a mea.
lure and a fyitem which he th >’t
lufceptii)!e of the cleared dc
nioniiration to be more war
like than war itfelf, a fyllem
which preserved this nation in
peace and happinels, about to
he abandoned, and for the cau*.
les which had been afligoed.
When the late intelligence had
reached him from the north.
ealt, he (aid it had borne a char
actei inoit dilirefilul to every
man Who valued the integrity
of the government. Jt appear,
ed to him to be of fiich a char
set as not to leave a doubt
as to what courle fhuold be
purlued. There could be but
two courses, either to extend
the llrong arm of the govern
ment, or to abandon ihe law.
Under that imprelliou (laid Mr.
W] dialing not to enforce the
law with the bayonet, I thought
it proper to acknowledge 10 the
Houle that I was ready to aban
don the embargo. 1 did talk
about inlurgency and rebellion
too, fir ; and ihe reproof which
I received iions the gentleman
from Kentucky (Mr Rowan)
was coried, that the belt way to
drive people into rebellion is 10
accule them of it. Pei haps,
fir, I ought to apologdeto the
gentleman from Virginia (Mr.
Nicholas) for calling up ' this
(übject, when the reiolution
was proposed by him, and he
was not difpoled >t up.—
1 applied to him to call k up,
and undcritood that jt would be
dilagieeable to him on account
ot his indilpofiuon. But ] felt
mylelf obliged to call it up, and
not to penmi luch a piopoli
non to lie on the table beyond
the moment when 1 could get to
act on it. Like the gentleman
fiotn Pennlyivama and Geor
gia. 1 am dilpoled that we
lhould ad for ourlelves and
not for the next Congrcfs. To
rat *» ]l > the embargo always ap*
pearea a blcfling to this coun
ty. 1 rue it has always ope
ned to prevent us from mak
ing money, but that was all that
was injurous in its operation ;
and, fir, ! was lo much of a
fool, had so little knowledge of
human nature as to believe that
mere was pciiriotijm enough,
* ove °J enough, fkide
enough m the nation, to induce
its freemen to be willing to ab-
Uin horn making money, for
the good of tne nation. 1 have
been egregiously miliaken, fi r ,
I thought 1 was Icgiflaimg so,
freemen who valued their rights;
that whiilt they were the only
people m the world traded with
arms so defend themfelvcs, shey
would have (corned to take
money for ihe proflitu ion ol
I their country. 1 aid no?
! think ihere was a man in the
nation who would act the pari
of a pimp to his mother, it
has been so however; Sc dread
ful cruel mult be the torments
of thole who have been acccffo
ry to it.
Tuesday Jan. 3t.
The House resumed the discus
-1 siou of Mr. Nicholas’s proposition
and the motion pending when the
house yesterday adjourned. Was de
bated until five o’clock, when the
House adjourned without taking
the question.
———
From the National Intelligencer.
The Secretary of State for
foreign affairs of his Royal
Highness, the Prince Regent of
j Portugal has officially infmmed
Mr. Hill, the American conlul,
, at St. Salvador, that the vcffels
| of the U. Slates will be treated
i in ihe ports of Brazils as those
of the mod favored nation, and
that it will be lawful for them—
lit. enter all the ports of
Brazil, where there are cuftoin
Houles, and to import all forts
of goods, from whatever part of
the world they may come, pay
ing the accuitomed duties paid
by other nations.
2d. That American vessels
are to pay the lame anchorage
that otner veflels pay • and when
there lhall be a new regulation,
they will be put upon the foot
ing of other foreign vessels.
3d. 1 hat goods imported in
American vessels, as well as
those of every other foieign vel
fel, pay one third more of duty,
and this is the only favor grant*
ed to the Portuguese mercantile
marine, to raile it from the low
Hate in which it is.
41b. That every citizen of the
United States, confouning him.
lell to the laws of'police, and
making the neceffarv declara
tions on his entrance into the
ports of Brazil, and taking af
ter wa.ds the proper passports,
may remain in, and transfer his
, icfidence to any part of Brazil,
without being dilturbed or fuf-
I feting iiioleftaiion of any fort;
and that 11 will hkewile be law.,
j lul for them in their own names
or in that of any mercantile
houle of which they may be the
agents to traulact and to treat
ot every kind of business, and
to make laics and purchases of
every kind of goods, on which
they are to pay the lawful duties,
excepting diamonds, gold dutt
and wood of Brazil, which are
arucies belonging exclulivcly to
the crown and royal revenue;
the tradic 111 which is forbidden
even to the iubjetis of his toy.
al Highnels.
51b. The citizens of the U.
States may 1» port ail and every
kind of production or manu
facture ot Brazil—the duty be
ing lo very tmali on fomc arti
cles, that 11 might almofi be laid
they were exported without pay
ing duties.
6th. Every American vessel
which enters the ports of Brazil
ought to declare she brings goods
detimed 10 be fold in the coun
try, or if she wishes to carry
them to oilier ports, she is to
ask a clearance (Franquia) and
in that caie is only obliged to
pay the duties on these arti
cles really imported lor the con.
iutnption of ihe country.
7th. 1 here is no law here
which prohibits the owners of
American vctleis from leiiing
their veflels or dilpoling of them
as they may think proper ; and
at present they are not obliged
to pay any thing, but perhaps
a duty may hereafter be laid.
Bth. No law prohibits the ci.
tizcns of the United Stares frcm
uilpofiog fieely of their proper
ly, eithei by donation, by
<>r by iuccefhon—the Droit d'
aulanc does not exilt heie, nor
m carters of this kind are they
licaud differently irom the iub.
jetls of his toyal Hghnefs.
9'h. 1 he citizens of the U. S.
as well as thole of every other
(late, will not be moielftd or
dtflutbed in Brazil, or in the
other dominions or territories
of his royal Highness, for
their religious principles, which
they may profefs, particularly
:n thter house and in those
of their mmilters and consuls—.
nothing more being required
from ihem on this point than
me greaieit refpecl in public for
«hc gene.al cfiablifhed religion
of the country, and that they]
should avoid finding fault of it,
or endeavoi ing to make profe!|
lytes for eny new fed, which is
Itndly prohibited by the laws ofl
bis royal Highness, and will bd
ngorcufly Chafiifed by immediJ
ate exputfion, or by a fevereil
punifhmem, if the crime is agJ
gravated, j
loth. The citizens of the U|
S' Bl ' 5 . ™ a y appear, anJ
efteb.ifh their rights in any tril
bunals of the country, in thJ
lame manner as the fubjeds <1
his royal Highness ; their perl
Tons and property being tqualll
protected by the laws ; and hi
royal Highness will be able J
afhgn them a judge to forwa J
iheir caules, if the United State!
should lb requre. r
CONGRESS— House of Reorl
sent at iv es 7ue sday January 24 -M
ihe bill making appropriations cl
complete the fortifications confl
rneoced for the security of the s M
port towns ami harbors of the Ijfl
States, and to defray the exp c , J
of deepening and extending to til
r.v.r Mississippi, canal of Garonl
let, was passed. The bill appronri
ates 448,000 dollars. I
fn the Correspondence betweJ
Mr. Pmkuey and Mr. tannin!
laid bUote Congress bv the P.J
stdent on the 30t h ul t .
!h ltC ,7n Mr - P ‘ Dkne y is dated M
the 3d December, i ßoß>at whl J|
time the Union had « ot retur.J
rom France, ( as reporte(]) ■
of l ‘gei #
The length of Mr. Cannin*
reply prevented its publication t 9
evening, it j s dated on the 2 S
November, and concludes as ffl
lows; Times . 1
** 1 cannot forego the hope J
.t may yet fall to our lot to be 9
strumental in the renewal of t l9
understanding between our tV
governments, which i s as conceit!
al to the feelings, as it j, essen*
to the interests of both count.*,*
which nothing hut the forced ,1
unnatural STa lc of thcwor)d c »|
have interrupted ; and which the*
is, on the most anxious and u*
oated dewre tare More.” t|
The persons against whom 9
dictments were preferred beiflj
concerned in tarring and feathfll
ing an Englishman by the name*
Beaty, for reviling the Amen*
government and people, have b 9
sentenced to three month’s im9
sonment and, to pay a fine of H
dollars each, and find security ■
them good behaviour for' *
12 month— except the Drumni*
who was fined 2o dollars and *
month’s confineinem.-Jt tncJ-I
testibly appeared in court by 9*
ferent testimony, that Beatv f j
utter treasonable Word , asC ritJJ
to turn. I
- PalLJ>af*m^
NOTICE 1
THE Citizens of RiclinK*!
county, Jr its vicinity, are
mat the Richmond county
my will open this day, under M
direction of the Rev. A. J. B *
as rector, and the Rev. Jaalfcl
Holcombe as English teacher. 1
Border of tkt President* I
Jan. 3. I