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ilud been thwarted in their fa
vourite tneafurcs, charges of
precipitation had been urged
by them. What were the rea
sons assigned for recommitment
at rhh period ? Not that the ra
tio agreed to was an improper
one, but that there were certain
informalities in fomc returns
which required a cure. But
how were thefc informalities to
be cured ? Was it to bo ctane
by delaying the pa 11 age of this
law until fuch cure was made ?
Jf fuch delay were fan&loned by
the houfc, where would it end?
Would a few days or a few weeks
accomplish it ? The fade was,
though there might be fome ir
regularity in a few returns, that
there was no reafori to believe,
or even fufpicion whifpered,
that there was any fraudulent re
turn. The houfc muft aft up
on the returns they had, as to
open the door to further enqui
ry would bean aft of injullice to
remote States, and might entire
ty defeat the palfage of any law
on ihe Subject thisfcflion.
The debate was conducted
with uncommon warmth, and
pi rfonal infinuaiions and politi- I
ca) reflections Were made and
repelled with keennefs. As it
has been the invariable effort of
the National Intelligencer, to
reprefs rather than to extend
matter calculated rather to irri
tate the feelings, than to enligh
ten the understanding, no other
apology will be required for de
clining a minute notice of the
debate.
The question was taken by
yeas and nays on the recommit
ment and loil—Ayes 34 —Nays
55-
The yeas and nays were alfo
called on the paSTage of the bill;
and were, ayes 85 —Noes 4. —
The noe.- were MeSTrs. Daven
port, Van Ranflelaer, Walker,
«nd T. Morris.
Adjourned.
Thursday , January 7.
Gen. S. Smith reported a bill
fcr the protection of American
commerce and Seamen in the
Mediterranean and adjoining
leas, which empowers the pre
sident fully to equip and employ
fuch vcflcls of the United States,
as he Shall deem requisite; that
they be empowered to capture
Tripolitan velfels; and that the
prefident be authorised to com
nvifllon private veSTels, with
power to caoture veSTels of Tri
poli.
Read a fecond time, ami re
ferred to a committee of the
whole.
I lie houfc went into com
mittee of the whole, on the
Handing rules of the houSe.-
Mr. Davis in the chair.
Mr. Lcih moved the addition
of the following rule : The
fpcaker Shall aflign fuch places
to the Stenographers on the floor,
as Shall no: interfere with the
convenience of the houfe.
On which a debate of confi
dcrable length enfued.
Mr. Huger moved to amend
the motion So as to read as fol
lows : “ Stenographers Shall be
admitted, and the fpcaker Shall
aflign Such places to them on
the floor, as Shall not interfere
with the convenience tf the
boufe.” j
Dr. Lcib* agreed to thjs mo
' did cation.
So modified, the mutism was
agreed to. —Ayes, 47—Noes,
The committee then rofe,
and reported the rules wijh the
above amendment.
The amendment was imme
diately taken up,
When Mr. Rutledge noved
to amend the report cf the
committee by making it read
as follows :
“ Stenographers may be ad
mitted under the direction of
the fpeaker, who lhall aflign to
them fuch places on the floor,
as fhall not interfere with the
convenience of the houfe.”
On this amendment, a further
debate of length enfued, on
i which the yeas and nays were
| called ; and were, ayes 21
noes 51 :—-
The quell ion was then taken
by veas and nays on the above
additional rule reported by the
committee, and carried.—Yeas
47 —Noes 28.
The report, as amended, was
then agreed to.
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| LOUI.SVILL E,
WEDNESDAY. January 27 1802
Thomas Jefferfon is defted
prefident of the American Phi
lofophical Society.
THOMAS PAINE, at the
date of the lafl accounts, re
mained at Paris* engaged in
writing a third part of his Age
of Reafon * it is aflerted that he
intends to pals his declining
\ c cirs the boibm of his adopt
ed country, and dole in the New
World a life, which, though
lignally beneficial to mankind,
has been pre-eminently ufeful to
the United States.
A refolution has palled in
the fenate of the United States,
admitting any flenographer de
firous to take the debates of
that body on legillative hufmefs,
to luch place within the area of
their chamber as the prefident
of the fenate lhall alloc.
The following PROPOSALS
of amendments to the Fede
ral Conftitution, are now be
fore the Legillature of this
State.
WHEREAS there are defefts
in the Conftitution of the Unit
ed States, which, from their
operation as heretofore expe
rienced, have excited well found
ed fears in the people and the
dates individually, that certain
principles under the influence of
the defefts alluded to were ra
pidly progrefling, which were
deftruftive of the liberty ami
happinefs of our fellow-citizens
at large ; and believing as we
do, that a corruptadminiftration
will at all times have it in their
power to give that direction
which will moft probably fix
upon the people a fyftem of real
opprefllon—in order effectually
to quiet thofe fears, and to prune
; the conftitution of its exube
rances which may ultimately
lead to the cftablilhment of an
1 tfriftocracy or monarchy; thefe
conuclmrions induce the leglf*
larure of Virginia, to luggcit to
her filler (laces, the propriety
and neceffity ot amending the
Federal com pad, in Inch away
as toil-cure the invaluable rights
which ought to attach to a re
publican form of government.
They think the prelent the mod
proper nmc to commence this
highly important work, whjift
I they have i’rcfh in their recollec
tion the extreme danger from
1 which they have emerged ; and
I it is further their opinion if thefe
deleds (hould not be now cor
reded, that the mildnefs of the
prefeat adminidrauon will be
fuch as to lull the people into a
! Hate of fecunty, which will ren
der any c(forts of tins kind
fruitlels and abortive, and that
| no future attempt can fucceed
until the people are forced into
it by the hand of opprclnon.
They therefore take the liberty
to propole the following amend
ments to the condicucion afore -
faid. *
Fird—That from and after
the next presidential eledion,.
the prefidenc of the United
States (hail not be permitted to
ferve for a longer period than
tour years fuccdlively, and that
he diall be uieligabie until one
complete term (hall have mter
j vened.
Secondly—That the Senators
of the United States fhail in fu
| turc be elected for three mdead
of fix years, and that they (hall
be chilled as heretofore, fo that
one third may go out of office
every year.
Thirdly—That the treaty
making power lhall be focOn
drued, as to give to die houfe of
reprefentatives of the United
States a complete controul over
all treaties, whenever their agen
cy lhall be required to carry
fuch treaty into tiled ; and that
all fuch treaties are to be confi
dered as not ratified or binding
upon the government, until the
fandion or the houfe of repre
fencatives lhall have been obtain
ed.
Fourthlv—That in all future
cledions of P red dent and Vice -
Prefidenc of the United States;
the charaders voted for lhall be
particularly defignatcd, by de
claring; which is voted for as
prelkient, and which as vice
prefidcnt.
The executive of this date
are hereby direded without de
lay, to tranfmit the foregoing
amendments to the different
date leginatures through the
union, and to invite their cordial
1 co-operation.
BALTIMORE, January 5.
AXOTH £R
Infur region at Gaudalupe.
Arrived yederday fchooaer
Exchange, capt. Viberc from
Guadaloupe. Left it on the
nth, at which time Point-Pe-
I tre and the whole of the Ifland
| was in confulion, another infur
redion having taken place there,
which, had it not been fortunate
ly difeovered at the moment,
would have involved the total
dedrudion of every white and
mulatto in the ifland.
The rebels in the prefent in
furredion, were the country
blacks againft she whites an 4
The former having'
lent a helping hand in the in
furred!on wulch had been juft
effefted, expeded a total eman
cipation from their nutters i
but not finding that event con
firmed or even contemplated in
the proclamation of the yellow
general, Pe age, they had de
termined to atchieve their ovvq
liberty, through the blood of
Pelage and his party. For this
purpofe, 1 1,000 were to have
been organized on the nighe
fuccecding that on which the
plot was difeovered—to have
burnt the towns—and to have
murdered every man, woman
and child of Pelage’s parry I
At that very moment only
when it could poflibly havo
been deflated, was the plot dif
eovered by a black woman, who
was the kept mifs of a whito
man, when four of the ringlead
ers were apprehended.
Notwithstanding the bloody
project had been difeovered*
and for the prefent warded off,
yet every thing was apprehend
ed from the vengeance and fe
rocity of the blacks, and all was
in the utmoft confufion. la
fuch hafte was the bland defert
ed by thofe who could get oft*
that the Exchange came away
on the nth with only 2 hands
on board. An Englifh and a
French frigate were at that timo
oft the ifland, cautioning veffels
not to go in. Accounts had al
fo been received that general
M'Donald, with 18.000
had faded for the Wind ware If
lands, and general Rochambean,
witch 40,000 for the Lcvvard If
lands.
Among theft , f our country mm
who have the meft indejaligably
prcfecuted their reft arches in h»
J 'ever at provinces of natural hi ft o
ry> is Charles Wiifon Peale, cf
Philadelphia . Animated by «
love offcience , and deeming its ex
tenfeoK and improvement eminently
promotive of the happinefs of hi %
fellow-men, his efforts have heeri
unremitted.
It is with great pie ofure ti>at it}
making the following public at ion,
we add an additional proof of bfp
indvftry.
MAMMOTH.
Ninety years have elapfed'finch
the fir ft remaim cf this animal
were found in the country ■—they
were then thought to be the re*
mains of giants numerous havA
been the attempts by Scientific cha*
raiders of all nations , to procure &
Satisfactory collodion of bones j cJ
length the fuhjcriber has a cum*
plijhcd this great iljcd, and now
announces to the public , that be VJ
in poffejfton cf a complete Sktle- •
ton* of this antique wonder if
North America ; after a long
laborious and uncertain enterprize.
’they were dug up in Orange and
Ulfter counties (ft ate of New*
Terl:) where they mu ft have I am
eer tairdy many hundred years—
no ether veftige remains cf theft
animals , nothing hut a conjuft*
tradition among the natives of our
country , which ft ales their exig
ence ten thou find moons ago ,
but whatever might have been tm
appearance cf this enormous
quadru: cd when clothed
fleftjy his maffy hones can alone u*
tus t$ imagine ; already convinr *