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vices had entitled him to, the tirl’i place in his country's love, and detained fir him the faired page ii the volume of faithful hiftory* i all: fo much confidence only as may give finrmefs and tire ft to ahe legal adminiftfation of your affiiirs. I fli.ill often go Wrong through deleft of judg ment. When right, I (hall of- O " ten be thought wrong by thole v.hofe potations will not com rnanda view of the whole ground. 1 a fie your indulgence for my own errors, which will never be intentional ■, and your fuppbrt againft the errors of others, who may condemn what they would not if feen in all its pares.—The approbation implied by your fuf nge, is a great confutation to me lor the paft j and my further folicitude will be, to retain the good opinion of thole who have bellowed it in advance, to con- | dilate that of others, by doing them all the good in my power, ; and to be inftrumental to the happinefs and freedom of all. Relying then on the patron- i age of your goodwill, I advance with obedience to the work rea dy to retire from it whenever you become fcnfiblc how much better choices it is in your pow- i er to make. And may that in finite power which rules the dcl rinics of the univerfc lead our councils to what is bell, and give them a favourable iflue for your peace and profpenty. The addrefs of Thomas Jef feiTon; Prefidcnt cleft, to the fc nate, inferred in our Lift, was referred to Mehtas. Morris, Day ton, and J. Mafon, who on Monday reported the form of a reply, which was agreed to, and preTented by a committee to Mr. JefFcrfon on Tuefday, It follows : SIR, While we congratulate ydu On thole expreffions of the pub lic will which called you to the the lirll office in the United States, wc cannot but lament the lofs of that intelligence, attenti on, and impartiality, with which you have prefided over our de liberations. The Senate feel ihcmfelvcs much gratified by tnc fenfe you have been ple'afed to exprefs of their fupportin the performance of your late duties, lie perfuaded that it will never be withheld from a chief magi fi liate, who in the exercife of his office lhall be influenced by a due regard to the honor and in to cil of our country. Jn the confidence that your official con duft will be direfted to thefe great ohjefts, a confidence de rived from pall events, we re peat to you, fir, the affiurance ol our conditunonal fupport in your future admmiflration. JAs. HILLHOUSE, Preft den! of the Senate pro tern. To which the Prefidcnt EUtt Re fhe 'd: Gentlemen, I receive with due fcnfibility the congratulations ofthe Senate on being called to the flrll Ex ecutive office of our govern ment, and I accept with great latisfaftion their affiuranccs of 1 uppert in whatever regards the hono-f'and intcrefl of our coun- 1 ‘ r\ T, ; * ■ J t f , 1 * / ■ n i ■ j U . r • • iilv v '-A i in tint A icharge of try public ; duties, their confidence in my ' future condudl, derjyed from pad events, lhall not!be ditap pointed, ho fur as my judgment may enable me to clifjern thole objefts. The approbation, tlcy are fo ; good as to exp refs of my con- 1 duft in the chair of the Jcnate, ; is highly gratifying to me ; and | I pray them to acceptmy hum- j bie thanks for thefe declarations j of it. THOMAS J EMERSON. Manh 3, 1801. Aaron Burr, V:ce-Prefi dent of the United Slates, this morning took his feat in the fe natc, as Prefidcnt of uat body. On Saturday Jail Thos. Jcf , ferfon, at p re lent Vicc-Prefi | dent of the United States, and ; Prefidcnt of the Senate, took leave of that body j on which | occaflon he del.versa the fol ! lowing addrefs : Cent I emeu o f the Senate, To give the ulual opportuni ty of a prefidcnt pro tempore, 1 now propofe to retire from ; the chair of the Senate:— and as the time is near at hand, when the relations will ceafe, which have for fume time fub fifted between this honourable houfe and mylclf, I beg leave, before 1 withdraw, to return them my grateful thanks for all the inllanees of attention and relpeft, with which they have been pleated to honour me. la the dil charge of my funftions here, it has been my confcicn tious endeavour to obferv'C im partial juflice, without regard to perfons or fubjefts : and if I have failed of impreffing this on the mind of the Senate, it will be to me a circumitance of the deeped regret. I miy have erred at times. No doubt I have erred. This is the lot of human nature. For honed er rors, however, indulgence may be hoped. I owe to truth and jutaicc, at the fame time to declare, that the habits of order and deco rum, which fo drongly charaft trife the proceedings of the Se nate, have rendered the umpir age of the Prelidenr, an office of litde d;' ,• dry ; that in times and on queiuons which have fe verely tried the fenfibilitics of the houfe, calm and temperate difeuffion has rarely been dif tuibed by departures from order. Should the fupport which I have received from the Senate, in the performance of mv du ties here, attend me into the new flation to which the public will has transferred me, I lhall con fide r it as commencing under die happiefl aufpices. With theic expretalons of my dutiful regard to the Senate as a body, I afk leave to min gle my particular willies for the health and Happinefs of the in dividuals who compofe it : and , to tender them my cordial and refpeftful adieu. Thomas Jefferson. WRITING PAPER, For fale, l'y the rheam or quire. j. LONDON, January 20. j On I* rid ay the Migaera fri-| | gate arrived at Torbay, with | | difpatches to Earl Sr. Vincent, [ I from Sir Henry Harvey, com- a j man ding the fleet off Breff, flaring that the combined fleet, O < \ amounting to fifty two fiil of ; the line made a movement frem ; ingly with an intention to put to : lea, bur our fleet appearing, the j | enemy put into a bay dole to | 1 Bred. Ail accounts from France ! ! agree that cohfiderable efforts arc making to prepare the navy for addon in as great force as j the means of the Republic will ! permit. It -docs not appear i ji 11 j probable however, that the enemy will yet come out to venture an engagement. They will keep our fquadrons on the alert, and perhaps endeavour to fend out detached 'parties on particular expeditions. As loon as the fate of the continent is fixed, the French will difeover the mode of attack they propole to employ againft this country. • Should hoftiliries actually take place between us and the three Northern Powers* our tra.ie with Hamburgh will be cut off, although the communication with Cuxhaven may remain. If batteries be ereded by the Danes along the fide of the Elbe, i: will be imp edible for our veffels to navigate the river. The part that America may take will be of much import ance. If Mr. Jefferfon be elect ed prefident, which letters by ■1 the Maria, Inglis, which arrived } eflerelay, dates to have taken place, there is in impoftibiiity of faying how fir the French interefc may fuccced in that quarter. January 26. French Journals to the 20th in ft. hiclufive, were received ycflcrday ; —their contents are of confiderable importance.— The army of Italy is purfuing ! its victorious career, uninterrup- I’ ted by the armiflicc concluded I on the Rhine p and General Brune 1 writes to the Minifler of war, | that agreeably to the wilhes of the 1 reach Republic, he will conclude no anmilice until the Auftrians fhall have furrendered 1 Mantua, Pefchiera, Ferrara and ' Ancona. In driving the Auflri ans from Montebello and Ta vernrdlc, the Republicans had made 1500 prilbhers in the hofpital of Verona they found 900, and in that of Vicenza 700. The whole of Italy fee ms to be now in pofleffion of the French, including all that ter ritory formerly called the terra firm a of Venice. But there is intelligence in the papers or much more interef: i to this country, than that above ! flared, the Moniteur of the 20th ! inflantalferts officially that Pruf- I fia had fubferibed to the nor thern neutrality at Peterlburgh, on the 17th of December, the day after it had been figned by Ruffia, Denmark and Sweden. , Nor does it appear that there was any reservation made upon lier in this ad, io contrary to her proftffions, to her faith, and to her real interef: • and which, if correCHy flared is meant 'to flrike at the mofl vital part of Britain, by impending our com- i merce and connmnicationsv., I die North of.Europe. Wirtzburgh was taken do;'. fefiion of by the French cVthe* I 6th inftanr. PETERSBURG, March i O . In our next we Jhall proba bly be able to give our readers fome important European news a:; will appear by the following letters from Norfolk. Extrr.il of a Idler from Norfolk , dated lie sto5 to inf. to a mitlL mud in ibis town . <c We have juft heard of the arrival of rl.c January Packet at New’-York, bringing an ac count of peace between Aus tria, and war between Great - Britain and all'the Northern Powers'." IN trail of another letter from Norfolk, fame date. “ To day we have accounts’ by a vc fieri which has had a Ihort paftage from Ncw-York, of the arrival there of the January Packet, which brings the news of peace between Auftria and France—as alfo a declaration of war having taken place between Ruflia and Great-Britain.” Ext rail cf another letter, fame date. “ By an arrival from New ' York, in thirty hours, the Tuef day evening’s paper is received, which brings the account of the arrival that day cf the London Packet, with the intelligence up to the corn of January. War was declared agaaiftßidna, Swe den and Denmark, and 350 of tficir veftels feized in the ports of Great-Britain. Lord Ncl ibn was going to the Mediter ranean to look out for the Ruf fian licet there, of 8 fail of the line, frigates, and a fleet of tranf ports, font to take pofleflion of Malta. “ The Auftrians, after be ing beaten by the French where - ever they found them, are, by confent of G. Britain, making peace for themfdves; and the armiftice was then figned.” CON T G R E 5 S Of the UNITED STATES. Housn or Representative?, 7 hurfday, February 19. Mr. Platt from the committee of revifal and unfiniihed bufi ncis, reported a bill for conti nuing the ad generally denomi nated the fedition law, .which was read. A motion was made to rejcA the bill, on which a debate en lucd. On the queftion being taken by yeas and nays, it was rejected ; there being yeas 50— nays 40, and the Speaker de claring himfelf in the negative, bat uyday, Fehru ary 2 1. An aft direfting the mode of eftimating certain foreign coins and currencies, and of making out invoices in certain cafes,” was read a third time and pafled. Taefday, February 24. The bill from fenate entitled “ an aft concerning the diftricc of Columbia," was read the third time and paffed ; yeas 57 —nays 36. Relived, That the Prefident of the United States be direffed to be laid before this houfc an