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bOSTON, November 6. niGiur important. The U Mowing Note was receiv ed in town yefterday. Marblehead, Nov. 5, 1800. “ I aft evening arrived capt. Swan, in 22 days from Bilboa: He informs, that our commif flcners to France had fettled their bnfmefs, with the French government —were to dine with the chief conliil on the 2d Odlo ber, and leave Paris for Havre the next day. N. HOOPER.” T his intelligence is corrobo rated bv capt. Young, arrived here vefterday from I ifhon : JJc ftates, that 12 davs after leaving I.ifhon, he fell in near the Grand Banks, with capt. T revet, of the brig Mentor, who failed in company with him from Lifbon, and w r as informed, that the day previous, captain Trevet fpoke a Hi ip from I on dor for Philadelphia, the capt. of v Inch reported, that he left 1 ondon Odlober 14, and that intelligence had been received there of a treaty having been made between France and America; and that the com nv(Tinner' had departed for the United States. Gant. Young further advifes, that intelligence had been re ceived at Lifbon, of cotnmiflio ners having gone from England to France. —- PHILADFT PHIA, Nov. 13. Extra ft of a letter from a gentle man in the IVcr-Office to his brother in this city , dated the Bth infant. “ 1 was lall night a fad fpec tator of a tremendous fight. The War-Office was burnt down, and with it every book, record and paper, fave the ac countant’s, which were down flairs. The fire is fuppofed to have communicated from the adjoining home, which was alfo deftroyed—a piece of timber projected from under the hearth of Mr. lack fan’s houfc into the houfc occupied by the office, and the fire commenced on that lide of the room. ? T he fire places of the office were all on the other fide of the houfc, and in the fecretary’s room where the fire full fhewed itfelf, there had been no fire for three weeks preceding, owing to his abfence. -—The morning had been w f arm, and the fire in my apartment had been fuffered to expire fame hours before I left it. Thclofs is great and irretrievable.” The bill providing for the appointment of Electors of a Prefident and Vice-Prefident of the United States, by a joint vote of the members of the tw o houfes, palled the houfc of reprelentative> by a majority of thirty-four—Yeas 54, Nays 20. The bill is now before the Senate. Frfdericksburgh, Nov. 18. Ext rail of a letter from a gentle man in New-Tor k, to his f iend in this town , dated the 10 th infant. 11 The heft new r s I can give yon, is, a certainty of an ami cable adjufiment with the French republic. This will give a fput to commerce. Its effects are already experienced by the rife of flour and tobacco. We have news from the feat of our government this morn ing, electors were chofen on Priday laft—Republicans 65. Antis. 39. Majority on a joint ballot for Jefferfon, alias re publican 22. —This flare has completely retrieved its charac ter.” An arrival at Bofton furnifhes London dates to the laft day of September—the following furn marv is given by the Editors of the Maftachufetts Mercury: The Britifh channel fleet has been obliged bv ftorms to return to port. The Britifh have eva cuated the Ifie de Dieu, on the French coaft. Pruflla and Ruffia have entered into an alliance for eight years. The alfaffination of French officers continues in the Cifalpine Republic. Scve ralEnglilh velfels having arrived at Eubee from Riga, it is fup pofed the embargo on Britifh fbips did not continue long in Ruffia. Advices have been re ceived from Sir S* Smith, off Alexandria, July 6. He ftill correfponds with gen. Menou (then living) refpedting the eva cuating of Egypt —and had juft fent particular difpatches to Cai ro—the anfwer to W’hich anxioufy expedled. But the Grand Vizier is ready to advance with 20,000 men if the million is fruitlcfs. The Cormorant fioop of w r ar is loft off Egypt , and the crew detained by the French. CITY of WASHINGTON, November 18. C O N G R E S S Of the UNITED STATES. Yefterday was the day fixed by law r for the meeting of Con grefs in the city of Wafhington. A number of the members of each houfc aflembled in the a partments prepared for them in the capitol. In the Houfc of Reprefent a fives. The following members at tended to wit— Mefficurs Eofter, Shephard, Varnum, Wadfworth, Williams, John C. Smith, John Smith, Platt, Thompfon, Lelb, Heifter, Muhlenburgh, Smilie, Bear, Chriftie, Nicholfon, Page, Daw fon, lackfon, Alfton, Huger, Freeman, Reed, Sedgwick, Si las Lee, Biffiop, Davenport, Cortland, Glen, Batly, Thomas, Brown, Woods, Dent, Craik, J.C. Thomas, Powel, Nicholas, New, Holmes, Standford, Sum ter, W. C. C. Claiborne. The fpeaker obferved that it had heretofore been the invaria ble pra&ice of the houfe to ad mit new members to take their feats previoufly to being (worn, though the conftitution direeled the very reverie. As there was a new member prefent, he fug gefted the propriety of admi niflering the oath to him before he took his feat. Mr. Macon thought fuch a ftep premature. He wxis of opinion that no inconvenience would arife from delaying to admiaiftcr the oath until a houfe was formed, and he thought great caution fhouki attend an innovation oppofed to all prece dent. Mr. Nicholas afked whether it had heretofore been ufual in the cafe of a new r houfe to fwear the members before the choice of a fpeaker. Mr. fpeaker replied that it had not. Mr. Nicholas laid that though on firll' thoughts he was favora ble to adminillering the oath at the prelcnt time, yet this prece dent inclined him to think fuch a Hep improper. Mr. fpeaker waved the ques tion. The members prefent not being fufficient to form a quo rum, Mr. Sedgwick the fpeaker adjourned the houfe till this day. SENATE. Thirteen members appeared, viz.— MelTieurs Anderfon, Brown, Cocke, Hillhoufe, Langdon, Schureman, Wells, Baldwin, Chipman, Fofter, Howard, Li vermore, Tracy. But not forming a quorum, a!fo adjourned till this day. House OF H EPRESENTATIVES, | ' Tuejday , November 18. The following members, in addition to thole who ye Herd a} attended, took their feats in the houfe, viz. Meliks. Goodrich, Edmund, Grifwcld, Cooper, ElmendorfF, Imlay, F. Davenport, Wain, S. Smith, H. lee, Evans, J. Trigg, Spaight, Dickfon, and Taliaferro : which being 59 members and 54 making a ma jority of the whole number, the houfe proceeded to bufmefs. Mr. fpeaker read the ufual orders of the houfe for the ap pointment of committees, when Mr. Dent moved the appoint ment of a committee of elections —feven members were accord ingly appointed by the fpeaker. On motion ot Mr. S Smith, feven members were appointed on the committee of commerce and manufactures. On motion of Mr. Grilwold, the ufual order for furnilhing the members with three newfpapers, fuch as they refpedtively mould choofe, to be delivered at their lodgings, was made. No farther bufinefsprefenting, and the fenate not having form ed a quorum, the houfe adjourn ed. Friday , November 21. The following arc the amend ments to the conllitution of the United States propofed by Mr. Nicholas, which were referred to Mellrs. Nicholas, Harper, Macon, Grilwold and Evans. Resolved by the fenate and houfe of reprefentatives of the United States, two thirds of both houfes concurring, that the following articles be propofed to the legiflatures of the United States, as amendments to the conllitution of the U. States— 1. That after the third day of March, in the year one thouland eight hundred and one, the choice of eleftors of prelldent and vice prefident, fhall be made by di viding each Hate into a number of diftrifts, equal to the number of eleftors to be chofen in fuch Hate, and by the perfons in each , of thofc diftrids who Shall £f v ;* the qualifications requifuc f ;1 , eledors of the moft numerous branch of the legiflature of inch ftate, chufing one elector in the manner which the legiflatun thereof fhali preferibe. 2. That theeJedionof rcp> . fentatives to Cong refs, who a t to ferve after the third day of March, in the year one thoufard eight hundred and three, f}--.]* be by dividing each ftate in - a number of diftrids equal to a -of reprefentatives to w'hich fuch ftate ftiall be entitled and by the people within each of thofc diftrids who ftiall have the qualifications requifite f CP eledors of the moft numerous branch of the legi(lattice of fuck ftate, chufmg one reprefentative in the manner which the Jegifix ture thereof ftiall preferibe. Saturday, November 22. This day, at 12 o’clock, the Prefident of the United States met both houfes of Congrefs in the lenate chamber, anci delivered the following SPEECH: Gentlemen of the Senate , adi Gentlemen of the Houje of Rc~ prefentativeSy Immediately after the adjourn ment of Congrefs, at their laft feftion in Philadelphia, I gave diredions, in compliance with the lawsj for the removal of the public offices, records and pro*, perty. Thefe diredions have been executed and the public officers have fmee refided and conduded the ordinary bufmefo of the government in this place. I congratulate the people of the United States on the allemb ling of Congrefs at the perma* nent feat of their government, and I congratulate you, gentle men, on the profped of a refi dence not to be changed. Al-, though there is caufe to hend that accommodations are not now fo compleat as mighc be wiftied, yet there is great rca fon to believe, that this incon venience will ccafc with the font feftion. It would be unbecoming the reprefentatives of this nation to aflemble for the firft time in this iolernn temple, without looking up to the Supreme Ruler of the Eniverfe, and imploring his bleffing. • May this territory be the refidence of virtue and hap pinefs. In this city may that piety and virtue, that wifdoiri and magnanimity, that conftancy and felf government, -which adorned the great charade r, whofe name it bears, be forever held in veneration. Here and throughout our country, ma/ fimple manners, pure morals, and true religion fiourifh for-* ever. It is with you, gentlemen, ta confider whether the local pow ers over the diftrid of Columbia, vefted by the conftitution in the congrefs of the United States* ftiall be immediately exercifed If in your opinion this import* ant truft ought now to be execu* ted, you cannot fail while per* forming it, to take into view the future probable fituation of the territory, for the happinefs ot which you are about to provide ( See fecond page. £