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L O U IS'VII. I E, n £I)NESI)M' } Drcrniler 17, 1800 - 'Si, /7i 1; v * —— ■■- Died, cn Thurfday evening, the i nil infbnt, after a few days' illneE, Capt. Patrick Con- N O L L Y . Died, on Monday night, the ft of December, Mr. John Parsons. #* Died, fuddcnly, in the tov/n of Sparta, Hancock County, Mr. Simon Day. TI IE POINT SETTLED. The votes of South fie North Carolina, arc now no longer doubtful. Eight in the former, and nine in the latter, fo the republican candidate, Thomas J lffEßsorl, for the prdidential chair. Six in Maryland, and feur in Rhode-If!and, making the neat majority 71, independ ent of Pcnnfylvania, fo that even without counting Rhode- Ifland we fhall have 67 votes — being/Ye more then cue ugh. CITY or WAS] I IN G TON, C O N G R E S S Of the UNITED STATES. House of Representatives, r Yuej November 25. The hftufe went into a com mittee of the whole on the Pate of the union*, to take into con lideration the Prelident’s fpeech. A number of refolutions were (Tired cn the different fuhicbls f Emitted to CongreE ; but as it was deemed premature to enter into a difcidlion of them before nr. an Ever \va given to the pre ii dent’s communication, the committee rofr, and the refolu ti* ns were directed to be print td. The letter of the fecretary of the treafurv, notifying hi; inten tion to refign, and T -lie:ting an enuuiry into his official conduct, was called up, and a committee ii] r in ted to confider it, and n.a!:e report. A refoiution was laid on the table, fof the appointment of a committee to confider and re port, on the beft means for commemorating the political and military conduct of George V\ afnington. A refoiution was laid on the table for the appointment of a committee to confider whether any, and what amendments were medlary to the aft eftablifihing poll roads. P ednejdny , November 26. 1 his day, the houfe went into a committee ot the whole, on tht anlwer to the prefident’s lju < mu 1 he anlwer was agreed tp in committee ; in the hmife, the' yeas and nays were called upon ir, when it was agreed to, p 6 to 22. The refoiution refpefting Ge< rge Wathington, was called up. and agreed to. The refoiution re fpecling poll roads, was called up, and a dopted. ' nomination of chaplain? v a ma le, and to-morrow al ii gned for the appointment. A com;-! it tee was appointed to wait upon the prefident, to deliver him a dopy of T,C an fv.er, and to know of him, w hen, and at what time, lie would re ceive it. I fe appointed to morrow, 12 o’clock, at his own houfe. The houfe agreed to proceed in a body, to prefer:: the fame. Thurfday, November 27. A bill extending the ufual privilege of franking, attached to the members of the houfe, to the delegate horn the terri tory N. W. ( f the Ohio, and for making prov-ifion for Ids compenfation, was read twice, and referred to a committee of the whole houfe to-morrow. The houfe then proceeded in carriages in a body to the houfe of ilit* prefident, to deliver their addrtE. A confklerable num ber of members remained be hind. In a fhort time the members returned, when the ipcaker took the chair, and the reply of the prefident to the addrefs of the houfe ware read. The houfe proceeded to the ± election ot a chaplain.' Mr. Dent and Mr. Otis w as appoint - ed tellers. A meffage was received from the tenure, informing the houfe, that they had defied bithep Clagget their chaplain. 1 he eleflion w as then gone into by the houfe, and rev. M. I yfle, previoutly nominated by Mr. Parker, was chofen. Friday, November 28. The houfe w r ent into a com mittee of the whole on the pro fidcnt’s fpeech, Mr. Morris in i. * the chair. ’Proportions foi the reference Jl of the fcveral parts thereof to fclefl committees were made and reported; to which the houfe agreed, and the committees w 7 ere appointed. Mr. New moved that, a bill regulating the grants of land appropriated for the refugees from the Britilh provinces of { 'anada and Nova Scotia, palled laft fefiion by the houfe of re prellntatives, be referred to a lelefl committee which was a greed to. IN S E N A T E-, November 25. An anlwer to the prefident’s fpeech was agreed to, and No vember the 26th, it was pre lim ted to him. k The following Letter , written by Thomas Cooper, Ffq, of Northumberland , and addrejfcd to General Hamilton, at Albany , cn the fuhjeft of bis late [editions and libellous pam phlet, a grind Mr, Adams , we eytrahl from the Albany Ee ry for. o •/ SIR, I came to New-York for the purpofe of afking General I la milton, in perfon, whether he w as the author of an attack on the character of Prefident A dams, which bears his name ; and to fay that 1 mean to ufe that information tor the purpofe of milituting againft you, fir, a pro fecution under the deteftable e-t ol Congrefs, commonly known by the name of the “ [edition lave." Tnder this law, palled through the influence of a party, of which j you are (and I think juftly) re- j girded as the head, i have fuf- | ferred fix months tedious impri- I fonment, and paid a fine of ico \ dollars. I therefore have a right | to retaliate : 1 have aright to try ' die experiment, whether repub- | licanijm is to be the v:6lim cf a Jaw, which arificcracy can break through with impunity. There have been many petty offenders in this rcfpect, among what is called the federal party , but 1 have nothing to do with the Fenno’s, tlie Wayne’s, and the joi rneymen of fedcraldm. You are worth trying the expe riment upon. Your energy and your talents have rendered you a confpicuous object cf praife anti blame, 1 therefore have determined that in one way or the other you mail be brought before the pub lic on this account, and I did fo far calculate on your character as to fuppefe, that you would not deny what you have really written and fanClioned with your name. I expect by your anfwer (directed to me at Lancaftcr, I’ennfylvania) the fame informa tion which I Ihould have hoped for perfonally. I came to town lad night between 7 and 8, and fent to you immediately. I write this haftily at eight this morning, to fend by the ftage. I fhail purchafe your pamphlet at 1 ang’s, but make no life of that opportunity of profecution till I hear from you, which I expedi by return cf poft. The anfv cr, I have no doubt, will be inch as becomes your cha racier. lam your obedient fervant, THOMAS COOPER, Of Northumberland. To General A. Hamilton , at Albany. COMMUNICATION. To Alexander Hamilton. In the whole of your letter concerning the public conduct and character of John Adams , uiq. Prefident cf the United States, you have cautioufly a voided giving your real fenti ments as to the government beft adapted for the people of the United States. Permit me to a Ik you thefe queftions— id. Why have you withheld your opinion, as you have had now a fit opportunity for doing it ? 2d. Do you know Mr. A dams’s fentiments on that fub jeCf ? 3d. I lave you ever corref ponded with him upon the fub je<st before or fince the adoption of our prefent conllitution—if, yea. 4th. Did you not, whilft Mr. Adams was a minifter from this country at the Court of Saint James’s, receive a letter from him upon the fubjeCt of the go vernment beft adapted to the United States ? And in that let ter, did not Mr. Adams give it as his opinion, that a monarchical government was the beftj end advife with you to confuk infiu cntial characters in the United States upon the fubjecl ? And did he not, in that letter, pro pole one of the Rcy ! KarGiy of Great-Erimin as a fukab,,* perfun for a King to rule cy f ns? And what anfwer did v n rdve to that letter ? o Your Anlwers will old' - AN ENQUIRIIe. From the /JUROR./. The Editor, after attendee* the proceedings at lancaG-r from the opening of the Union left that Borough on Wednet. n y mohning, in confequence of t impreflion made on his mind hy the proceedings of the confert and the hoftility of the thnm x members of the fenare to tl.: peace, credit, and due weight of this date in the union, a; j of their fixed and determined purpofe to oppofe the voice (f the majority of their conflu ents-. An article prepared for this day, vas about to go to p ref, when an exprefs lent from I ,an caßer arrived, and the Editor by that medium, learns that the houfe of reprefentatives had undertaken to make another effort to fave the (late from dh franchifement. In order that the public fbouki be pofieffed of the ground upon which the rights of this flare am placed, it will be proper to give a light fie etch of the bufinefs, deferring the detail and the de bates nor yet given, for to-mor row and the next day. The conferees of both ho efts had five feveral meetings, on 1 # O' the immediate bufinefs of their condiments. We lubjoin the prcpo/itions of the popular branch of the legiflature ; for, flrange to tell, the houfe of reprefentatives have ached rather like fupplicants, and been treated as inferiors through the whole tranfaction. The following are the props* ficions and the reply. Prcpcfiticns cn behalf of the com mittee of conference of theheufe of reprefentatives , to form the hafts of a free conference cn the EleElorial Bill. 1. That the choice of fhall be made by a joint vote ot the two branches of the legilla ture, but the above fhall be fo regulated as to p*ive each branch O \ c a portion cf the number choltn. 2. That before the joint meet ing each branch fhall nominate a number of perfons, equal to the whole number of debtors to be chofen ; and at the pint meeting each member of the two branches fhall vote for fif teen electors of whom fhall be taken from the nomina tion of the fenate and from the nomination cf the houfe of representatives. 3. That the fenate recede from their amendments to the bill; and that the bill be fo a mended in the houfe of repre fentatives as to conform to trx firft and fecond propofitions. REPLY. The committee cf conference entj-* part cf the fenate , deliver t 0 the conferences cn the the heufe of reprejentatmes in ■ the prepejitien cn Monday ingi 17 tb Ncv. in tic fh neon. Ihe committtee 01 cm- |