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c fay, frcrfi j£f ti i rw iD \ fmb fraclj fi,; iff if ) pi oil: front what \h** is kcn place. The Cou ykr and the 'J imes seem to ' think, that al! 11. t l'e cabinets y in the cit fire of fonie i n.:lull to iee the French rati. a p'-n sLed. Tbefe Ca /iW»t’is ate not so execrably lool.fh. The PraflianCabi net, for indance, is con ft i]e» ing, not how it fliall go to work to gratify the hatred oi England, but how it shall go to work to fortify it < P against Austria. —lr the F qnch people remain al t»chet. to Ffapoleon, nothing that the coalition can do will hurt him ; and I think there are aen dunces to one, that the o-alition u ill he divided in lets than three months. Doe.- the reader fuppofc that cur power by sea is no object of j iiouly v itb any of the Aim ? Does he imagine, ti': i they would be content to brave us vdih all that power in our hands, and Without a riral too? There n;.:y be men who think this, j tiur national pride and pie- ! itwintion make us look upon ‘ ounelves as swallowing up, | of light, all tlie carts and Confide ration of the world. 1 .V, whoever thinks thus, Will find nimfelf egregiously ' mi fia ken. • • CONGRESS. Hove of Representatives. TuVs. h , Masch 3 YaZ-OC CLAITyIS. The biii i-otii tile Senate for co ipcrdaong certain claim au .v io lands"in the Missis sippi territory, was taken up, anti, having been once read, the question was dated, shall the bill be read a second lime ? A motion was made to lay the lame on the table, but, at the earned suggestion oi Mr. bisk of Vermont , and Mr. hattitno'e of Mississippi, was w *lhdra yen. Mr Tioup of Geo. refe as he oblerved, with very great r s 1 ucl a nee, to move to reject a bill co* mg from the other bs.incu or the Lygifliture, It vft'ub not his d.f r »oiition to tr at with ciiitlpedt what Codies from that body ; nor, viol Id he do 1«i in any case, but tor om or two corifide f.i.io'ss either thutthcn.ea iuie idelf was founded in corviij.» ion, o: trial it was «i!C* ' itiiutional. it was tor the ft i f t thtfe grounds, ts if it v .. $ founded m cot iuj i.iv that tie u ifiied this bill fcj.diec’. lie did not o eart •« be uoderftood as laying to art tl eiiKafure now I > Uv t t it Houle Cvas i in i':, \. itlv ionuiied in cor . {A .* >1 ), "l>v*t that' c.rup \t u vu’ the loun c oi the t!: on, to w uch it idates '( j Mil i rope led to give gluons b‘ acies of iand u v*ay ci coil. '<fvimfc to * 4 j certain persons usually call !ed Yazoo claimants. How I would pnfterity be able to account for the appearance ] of this transaction, should it receive the sanction of Con s grefs ? The Legislature oi 1 Georgia originally fold the I land in quefton for 500,000 dollars j the United btates shortly afterwards pu chal- S ed it for 1,250,000 dollars j and it is now proposed to j give 5,000,000 acres of land equal to more than 5.030,00 c dollars to the Yazoo cliain ants to compromise their claim. Pofierity mu ft f>y that we ourielves have been corrupted to consent to such a barter of principle ; that thcle Yazoo claimants like j the Goods of Milton, car | tied mountains in their hands, and menacing yon with claims to the amount of fifty millions of acres, under the deofion of the supreme Court, carried eve ry thing before them. As luck would have it, Mr. Troup laid, this was one i ! of the mutt plained cases in 1 j the world. Either the Ya j zoo claimants have or they I have not a claim. If they j have no claim, you have no j fight to eompenlate them j for a claim they have not. I; j they have a claim for fifty j 1 millions, will you takeadvan- j tags of your iuperior power to do injustice to these i<n. potent individuals ? If they have a claim at all, they have a claim to the whole, and becomes you to give it them, and fay no more a bout it. Mr. T. adverted j to the notorious fraudulent character of the Yazoo aft, and the bribes which were proved to have been given to and accepted by every member of the Legifl tore who voted font, one only ex cepted. It was contended, he j knew, thattheprefem claim I ants had purclnfed without knowledge of the fraud, & were therefore not liable to its c mfrqnences. The quel don, however, turned on the validity of the \azoo act or 1795. U the prelem claim •ants had any claim, it was | a claim deiived from the 01 i jginal granites; if thole gran -1 ices had a just claim, or any . claim, it was derived under the corrupt att of 1795 : if the lecond purchalers had no claim, it was because the grantees had none. Was it; not plain, then, he alked, j that the question turned on , the validity or invalidity of the act of 1795 ? If Congress fliuuld dctennine that a tine ! did veii in the grantees un- , der that adl, they would de- | termine that it Was compe- l tent to the corrupt Repre ! Dntatives of a vir.uous Pco j pi , uiiutr the influence or | the molt detestable bribery j ai d corruption, to bartei j awuV tiicir rights ! Was tf;h ' boule prepared to i u.cf.io j ! iuc * l a P‘hici|de ; iD called » upon the majority of the houie to recoiled how they came into power. The peo ple had become alarmed left purity of Republican prin ciples ftiould be contamina ted, and the present majority came into power under the well grounded expectation that they would preserve the principles of the government pure Sc uncorrupted. Could it be laid that they had done to, if they elfahiifhcJ a prin ciple like this ? This gov ernment was f unded exclu sively on the balls of virtue and morality, if fueft ads as this Were to paf>, theje foundations v/i a! j be broken U P» overturned, uprooted 6c deitroyed, and with them the bed hopes of u an fore ver biaaed. Is i.»ch'a prin« tip-1; Ihould be eftabiiftnjd as Dc had defended, theft could not longer be' in the community either virtue or morality. Mr. T. he t er» ! tered into an argument/iive | and legal view ol the lu/jeCt. ! He ui f Jr; to, k to prow that cue tlature ot Gteorgia liad no power to di/poie of the , ui»hc territory ; that \ even it they had tly power, I they had not tiie power to difpoieof it fraudulently and conupjiy i that it by fraud ulent anu corrupt tale they could transfer a right to the land, the claimants, having notice of tiie/fraud, weie partid w enmitis —they had pure d ot, the grantees with their ey/s open - y they were not inudeent but guilty purchasers, aid were not en j titled to the,-mtei ference of congiels in their behalf.— Ihe hit petition he hap pen teo t)y \ riojs arguments drawn ‘torf; :he nature ol the case, by ,iae authority of iiurUtnar; li, Grotius, Puf fendoii.f 4' others publicilts, ail tend g to this point, that tu; power of dilnolii)'* or the public domain re bed with the people, unlefs‘ex prel- ly delegated. This doc trine icc. giuzM by the constitution oi tne United States, in wm n the power oi dilpclal of Inch property was given to congieh, and in tiie comfitutions of several oi the dates the power of the pcoptt on this head was ex prelsiy recognized in so many words. It might be said, he added, that instances might he cited in which the State ; Legiftatures had aftumed this [ p->wer without express grant iroui tlie people ; but in all tucli instances the Legiila lUres so adting had been guil ty or a flagrant and flagitious i breach of trust, Upon the I whole, he concluded his ar -1 gument on this point, by ! observing that the Legiili- I lure oi Georgia which pre tended to fell the land plain ly, cbvioufly, and demon itratively, no eonftitutional | power to do fj. Hut, fup | pole they had such a power : could thev ij leli tiie land * i ! i i t:ie state fraudulently and corruptly? No,certainly. It was an univeifal rule, that iraud and corruption vitiate every act, invalidate every grant, buppoie any instru ment of trust contained a declaration that the powers therein given (hould be fair ly executed, or that thecon ftituticn of any community were to contain a clause that the Legislature of the State fhotild not fraudulently or i corruptly fell the property of the state, would not inch proviiions be ridiculous and absurd ? Certainly, and they would be lo because the idea of guilty transfer ot; coirupt right conflicted with the laws of God and Man. Nay, lie would fay more—the great God of Heaven could not convey the right to do a cor rupt and fraudulent adt, be cause it would be i neon fift een t with hUdivineattributes, and therefore a power im poiuble to be conferred.— ! And yet thisLegiflature were I called upon to do what is ! net within the power of the Almighty, to fandtify cor ruption. The ties between the representative & his coa ftitutnrs are landered when he is corrupted A Repre ientative Bouy therefore was ob Ho illy incapable of bind ing its constituents by the palHge of a notoriously cor rupt adt. But admitting for argument*, sake, *!iths giantces under 'his corrupt net C 'uid convey a ti le ignorant purchasers ; \«t, Mr. T. con cubed that the claimants, hav. iag notice before purchase ot the I f:*ud, became p?? tics thereto; and i that, :n tiie eye of law and q <ity, ne her Congre s nor any other tri bunal were bound to recogn.'Z 1 t'.ieir claims. To establish this po snon, 1»- adduced many fact* and 1 a gutneota, of which the following 1 w <r« the mo*t premia nt ; '1 he | ttivial price given -o-ihe j.roperty, tha i> io say, sivc hundred thousand dollars for hltv mil ions of arreo of land, which wuiot itsslf so&ciem to have alarmed and dc erred ho nest purchaser*; me rapid succes sion of event* which followed the p ssagr- of that, act in the s ate of G;o< gia, p i;tending a rcvoloti a—- ti« j pcopie in a ferment, Go Jack sou, on who.e cha"a;ter Mr. T p ouoanccd a very animated cuio giom, cail«d from the Senate at PhiUdelpllia by the commotion of the tim=i, a man who threatened to ( disclose t‘ie corruption murdered ia his h ust, and these eve ts pre. s. n.'cd to he public through all tiie j papers, even at Boston in the midst of thi;«e purchaiers ; the public av-ssage cf Gan. Washing'on to Co igicsn announcing tn* ttannac. tion, wh >s» warning vo ca v/*h on tha; neca ion no mene h-itded bv , ( these ciiimauts than ins parting ’ addre.a iu> since been ; the form of die deed conveying ;h.-se laada 1 rr' in the grameea to th.- present da man s, in which there was not only an absence of general warran ty of tiile, bui an express clause ofsecuriug ;be grantees fioai all f jtuie regponsibih y on account thert-01, i o these proof-, Mr. T. S"pe;a<l lcd a stat* meet of iufor. • uution il« ri «a from a g„nileroan I w’ho Ind io.) / been a member of j this H >u»e from Aia sa husttts I W - converseot *viii» j k >h circum stances of the by th pe- | sent ciaunai.t-, tnat they k* ew all the ciicuins.ancea oi tiie purcha c ' as well and as soon at the gran ei s. lie conclude I, trieref re, »h«t H e present cla manis atood In t u k , ne rcla iOU id- gta.j-cwd, ai.v. » n I | I i ) I. no bipher ch'nii on the comm..; i ty. Mr. T. th;:n adverted to *" otner point*. It would b; Conr djd . h. believe,l. for i, h, iC : 8,,d -Isewhore. thu the faith of.? government was pledged to ih e propriaiioo of these hve '»;i! U)fu ?c acres to satisfy these claims -j ? 1 «rg sment, said, was unto ind •? ; because, altho’ this q ia-it.iv had been set apart by the compact w,t.h Georgia, and s<ib; qieatly b v | a<v far the satisfaction of claim* on h* whole, Congress had reserve tu the<nselve>iii* right and the p v r of exatTiinti.g and Jeteru*,,) ~ j • he p**ttriston3 of these claim?., t , Iu support of this construction, M r * I . adduced the Opinion of a f>r ‘ mcr committee of th s H ou .e 0 „ the auty- ct, and of Mr GalUip *» expressed in a letter w r i:tr n j n IdOS, in an wer to a In.ar of en. qiiry add essed to him by Mr Dana, cha’rntian of the committee o.i that subject, i„ which Mr. Gal facia s:a>es it to have been h'n ovn opinio that the five in l|, oos of acres would be sufficient to coves ail actual elaims,aat! to make reasonable compensation f Qr a |[ claims derived or preieud-sd to be dcived from G~otgia : tto d j eavrJ j$ m iheir power t 0 compromise, Without p edging the government , to compromise the claims, if 0 a a *"‘l vi«. w * different, cou-se should |b; thought proper. V/b tt was the ! ica .on these claimants, if tltev- Ju c i I been deceived by the grantees, had | ot permed the obvioa* course of 8° ,n K to the origin*! vendors, tor repayment of their purchase money, interest k costs ? iieca.isc ,he > had precluded thnnadves by dteir own act-, and refused t 0 leaa than the penalty of the bond. After reading a few docatneuis from the volume in print on the subject of -his claim, in illustration of hia remark*, Mr. T. concluded by b itfly remarking, being ured, wearied out and disgusted with ihe subject, on the argument that tha Supreme Court bad dscidid against Uiv United States. Although a decision of this kind might have been surreptitiously obtained, the Aiepresentauve* of the People ought to do their du y to them. itiV'.s and to the gowd People of the United Sia.c«, anu the rehicdy m this case was obviously is ihsif power. New York, March 4. A letter to the Editor of the A!. bane Argus, dated on Wednesday, at Pltitsburgb, says ; “ On Monday, Gfn. Wilkinson feceived intelligence, that the eot’*’ my were advancing from 'he wss r , 'oOO O strong. The iniaotrv and some compamea of artillery and dragoons, iaunrtdia’eiy m.iiched to meet them, and the troopr at Burlington were ordered here- — Ihe troops proceed'd 11 or 15 mils*, when finding the enemy had turned back, they returned to this place It appears the ene my have been at Malone, and car* r:ed off 5 or 600* barrels of pre * visions, left there in conirq 'fries of a person’s neglecting to b i g ihein on according to contract— They burnt the stare arsenal sc Malone, and destroyed some p'i vato property, n.osily betoogmg to setleis.” • A gentleman from the army states, that ( j cniy So barrel* were taken by the enemy. Grand Lodge of Georgia. March 5, I Resolved, That those Lodjre* fl that R-e two or ir ore ) ear, ,n fl rears shall nut on orb - H St. Join the Evangelic, the 24 » ■ December next, pay up such a;- ■ tva's, shall be strucken off thi b 1 V of Lodge* } their charters ■ 1 iir,g them to give degrees > r > * I ( soory be revoked from that d»r» ■ aud they declared no lougff r ■> 1 g:: lar I.odges j that D->tifi * * K. ,’hereofbe published in a.l m fc’ I zettes of ihe state, I Extract from the minute a, D. D. Williacrrs, [«B3] Grand Sec eUr^f \ /L\