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NORFOLK, Leccnilcr 30.
bin a our Jail we were po
litely handed Glafgow papers to
luc 10m of November, (re
ceived !>v ine General Carlton)
wliii'h enables us to extend our
London accounts to the 1 jdi,
tight <Nvs later than bt fore.
Affurs in Europe wear a ve
ry unfctrlcd and threatening al
peft—the face of Switzerland is
decided, weak and deftituic of
refources, (he has humbled her
(elf before the overbearing pow
tr of France. French troops
are polled in Zurich, Schwitz,
Claris, St. Gall, and various
other places. —i he confederate
troops are, in conftquence of a
circular letter from gen. Bach
man, to their chiefs, chlbancling
themftlves, and returning to
their homes.
England is aftively engaged
in manning and preparing her
Ileus for Tea. Orders have
been iflued to all the Gover
nors and Commanders of thofe
Britifh fetclements which were
to have been given up by trea-,
ty, not to yield them till further
orders. France is not back
ward.—Naval preparations are
making with the greateft induf
try. This bufllc and activity
is the prefage of a fb>rm, which
W'ill probably, ere long, dif
chargc its fury on thofe devoted
countries.
The corporation of Dublin is
purluing a<slive meafures for
clicking rebellion in itsfource.
On November sth, a meeting
of the lord mayor, aldermen,
and common council, was held,
to confider a charge againft: an
alderman, f<r drinking as a toaft
“ James Napper Tandy, gene
ral of divifion, ai d fuccefs to
freedom.” The opinions ofthe
recorder and attorney general,
that the crime was punifhable by
indictment, were read. The
alderman attended, full fubrmf
fion and ample apology for his
rebellious conduft. The mat
ter is net, however, at an end.
PETERSBURG, Jan. 4.
We have feen a letter from
New-Orltans as late as the 28th
of Odober, which Bates that
the port continues (hut againft
Americans—that the boats
which have arrived ftnee the
(hurting the port, have been
differed to land their cargoes on
paying a duty, but vcflcls com
ing up the liver were not per
mitted to enter or depolit their
cargoes—that a quantity of
do aching had been fenttoNcw-
Orlcans, by the fecretary of
war, for the American troops
at i ombigby, which were re
tained—that an American offi
cer had arrived, and demanded
them, and offered to pay area-
Jonabie price for Borages, but
had been put off ihiee or four
times, with promifes of an an
swer the next day in the mean
time it had been hinted to him,
that if he could gee the gover
nor to afk it as a matter of
rourreiy, they would be given
up—lhac the minds of the Ame
ricans as well as the Spanifh
fubjeft were much agitated,
iuilv expecting a war, that a
gentleman had juft anived from
Bourdraux, who ftaced that ar
rangements were making by
France to take poff HI on of the
colony, with id,coo troops —
that the command had been of
fered to general Bernadette,
but owing to a difference be
tween him and the ftrft ccnful,
the command was piven to pen.
w C'
Viftor. This feems to be the
fubftancc of the letter—a num
ber of pertinent reflexions are
fubjoined, but we will not men
tion them, as we wiffi the pub
lic to draw their own conrlu
fions. [Guardian d\
C O N G R E S S
Of the UNITED STATES.
House of Representatives.
Friday , Dec. 24, 1802.
A communication was re
ceived from the fecretary of
Bate, containing an abftraft of
the collectors returns, purluant
to the aft for the relief and pro
tection of American ftarr.cn;
alfo extrafts Bom the commu
nications received from the
agents in foreign countries for
the relief of American Teamen.
Mr. Thatche*- presented a
petition from fundry inhabitants
of Maine, praying for a divifion
of the diftrift ofWaldoborough.
Referred to the committee of
commerce and manufactures.
Mr. Greene called up the re
folution, offered by him yefter
day, inftruCting the committee
of commerce and manufactures
to enquire into the expediency
of providing by law, for fixing
the port of entry for the Mifiif
ftppi Territory at Fort Adams,
and the port of delivery at the
Natchez.
On the fuggeftion of Mr.
Gf fwold, the refolution was lo
modified, as to confine it to an
enquiry into the expediency of
making the Natchez a port of
delivery, in which (hape it pair
ed.
Mr. Van Renflelaer moved
the appointment of a commit
tee to bring in a bill for ereft
ing a monument to the memo
ry of General Herkimer, pur
luant to a refolution of congrefs
paffed the 4th Oftober 1777.
Ordered to he on the table.
Mr. Rutledge prefented the
petition of Thomas Shubrick,
of South-Carolina, praying to
be releafedfrom a contract made
by him in 1799 f° r Applying
timber for the building of 74’s.
Mr. Rutiedge Bated at con
fiderable length the circumftan
cesattendit g the cafe, and mov
ed a reference of the petition to
the fecretary of the navy.
Agreed to.
Mr. Lowndes prefented the
petition of Adam Tunno, and
others, affinees of M‘Farlane,
&c. praying to be releafed from
the payment of duties on floods
deft roved by fire.
Referred to the committee of
commerce and manufactures.
Men dry, Dec. 27, ISO 2.
Mr. Davis obferved that lie
was of opinion that a member
of the houfe retained his feat
contrary to the fpirit and fenfc
of the conftm.tion. It, there
fore, became his duty to offer
a refolution for inftituting an en
quiry into the fubjeft, in doing
which he difclaimed all perforal
view. He then made the fol
lowing motion:
Rcfoivcd; that the commit
fte of elections be, and they are
hereby inflru&ed to enqirrc,
whether John P. Van Nefs, one
of the members of this houfe j
from the State of New-York,
returned by laid ftate to ferve
as one of its members in the fe- f
venth congrTs of the United ;
States, has not, fmee his eledhon 1
as a member of this houfe, and j
fince he occupied a leat as a 1
member, accept of, and exercife
the office of major of militia,
under the authority of the Unit
ed States, within the Territory
of Columbia, and there by for
feited his right to a feat as a
member of this houfe.
Mr. Mitchell confidered the
point as interfiling in two rela
tions ; that wnich involved the
decifion of a pfnciple, and that
which went to deprive the Stare j
(New-York) one of whofe re- ;
prefentatives he was, of a mem
ber. For thefe reafons he hop
ed the buflnefs would not be i
prefled. He acknowledged this |
was not the firft intimation he
had received of the contempla
tion of fuch a motion ; but he
had entertained a hope that the
gentleman with whom it origi
nated, had, on reflection, confi
deted it not inconflllent with
his duty, to abandon it.
Mr. Davis replied, that he
felt no difpofition to prefs a dc
ciiion. He had communicated
the firft day he took his lear, his
ideas on the fubjeCl, to certain j
members, the friends of the J
gentleman implicated by the re
folution, in hopes that he would
refmn. Pie now entertained no
O
wilh to pufli the buflnefs. He
fuppofed hov/ever, that the refo
lution would of courfe go to the
committee of elections. He
repeated that he was governed
by no perfonal prejudice, but
entirely by a fenlc of duty.—
He concluded with faying he
was in favour of the queltioaof
reference being immediately
taken.
But on Mr. Mitchell repeat
ing his dcfire for fome delay,
Mr. Davis agreed to let the re
folution lie till to-morrow.
Tuefday , Dec. 28, 1802.
A meflage was received from
the preflclent of the United
States, mclofing plana and efh
mates for a cliy dock, on tiie
Eallern Branch of the Potomac,
capable of containing twelve fri
gates of 44 guns.
The propofed plan, in an ac
companying report to the lecre
tary of the navy, is exhibited at
confiderable length, by Mr.
Latrobe with cllimates for two
plans j one for fupplying the
dock with water from the Ty
ber, the expence of which is cf
timated at 27,000 dollars; the
other for fupplying it from the
Potomac, at the little falls, the
expence of which is eftimated
at 222,000 dollars.
Referred to the committee to
whom was referred lb much of
the prefident’s meflage as relates
to dry docks.
MAT BE RENTED ,
r PHRFE Planiai ionSy within
fve y fx and /even miles of
Louifvilley at the low price cf
One Dollar per acre , and make
a few repairs. Apply to
R, FLOURNOY.
Jen. 4, 1803.
LOUISVILLE.
IV EDNRSDAT, January i(j, iScJ.
Died, on the i sth inftant, at
die houfe of Capr. Marbnry,
in Louifville, much lamented.
M r . JoJ'eph B. Spencer, in the
33d year of his age. Me has
left a wife and three final! chil
dren to lament the lofs of an
affectionate hnfband, and a ten
der indulgent parent. His re
mains on the following day were
Interred in the family burial
place, attended by numerous
friends and relations.
i.
Tames Turner, a decided re
publican, is elected governor
of North Carolina. On the
fourth ballot Mr. Turner had
112 votes, out of nearly 180.
Richard Winn, is eleded a
rep re Tentative in Congrtis fo**
South-Carelina, in the room of
Thomas Sumpter.
Stephens Them Ton Mafon,
has been re-eledled Senator to
reprefent the (late of Virginia. *
in the Senate of the United
States, for fix years from the
3d of March next.
The Prefident of the United
States has difmiffcd General
St. Clair from the government
of the N. W. Territory. Un
til the conftitution be perfected,
and the right of electing the
Governor be veiled with the
citizens of the date of Ohio,
the duties of the office will de- ;
volve on Mr Byrd. The ex
ecutive refufed to nominate a
Governor for the intermediate
period, left fuch nomination
would be confidered as an at
tempt to influence the future
choice of the people.
The South-Carolina Leglfla
ture clofed its feffion on the
18th ult. Nineteen laws were
enadled, among them is the law
* O
for incorporating the State
Bank, by which the ftate iub
feribes the fum of 300,000
dollars offered by the Bank, and
has chofen three director?, viz,
Henry Deas, William S. Smith
and Felix Warley, Efqrs. alio
an aft preferibing the times,
places and manner of holding
elections for Reprefentarives to
Congrefs, dividing the ftate
into eight eleftion diftrifts.
The public mind is, no doubt,
intcrefted as to information rel
pefting the imprifonment of
Mr. Callender, in this place.
The fir ft Monday in January
next, being the commencement
of the court in Richmond,
vdiere the iffuc will be known ;
wefhall make fuch arrangements
as will enable us to lay btfore
our readers a minute derail ei
circumftanccs. \_Argus.
A gentleman from Cape
Francois informs, that a dread
ful maffacre of the blacks, pri
foners on board .‘he French lhip s
in the harbour, took place
about the middle of Nov. 1
| was computed that in the cour.e
| of one day, not lefs than 6000 01
I thefe miferable wretches, after
! beng bayoneted, were ihrov
■ overboard. Our informa
counted 240 floating by