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• u [ i f cns C(i the Hate of Ohio,
L< —it ported a bill to modify
the prop Talons in the ad ad
mi -dag fhe people of the north
wtflrp.i territory as a flare into
the union, &c.
Referred to a ccrr.rr.ittee of
the whole to-morrow.
1 he amendments of the fenate
to a bill to amend an ad fixit y
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the military peace eflabfrfliment
were read.
Referred to aft led committee
of three.
Mr. Newton called for the
order of the day on the report
of a fded committee, recom
mending the adoption of a refo
lution, that it is not expedient
to repeal the Bankrupt Law.
Mr. Grifwold moved to pofl
pone the confideradon of the
report till the fiift TueLlay in
November next.
This produced a fpirited de
bate which continued beyond
the ufual hour of adjournment.
On the incidental qoeflion of
poflponcment, the mfn prin
ciple of repeal was difetiffed ;
thofc in favor of the poflpone
ment being againfc the repeal.
Meflhs. Grifvvold, S. Smith,
Goddard, Thatcher, Biyard,
Gregg, Euftis, Dana and Mitch
ell, fupported, and Mt firs.
Newton, Varnum, Haflings,
and Bacon, opposed the jnft
poncment ; when the que'flion
was taken by yeas and nays, and
carried—yeas 5c —nays 39.^
Mr. Nicholfon reported a hill
to reduce the marine corps of
the United States.
Referred to a committee of
the whole on Monday next.
Monday, February 21.
An engrofied bill making an
appropriation for the navy for
the year 1803, was read a third
time and patted.
The bill appropriates the
fun of 1,098,797 dollars 42
cents.
An ensrotted bill concerning
the infurance of goods, build-
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irgs and furniture in the county
of Alexandria, in the territory
of Columbia, was read a third
time and patted.
The houfe went into a com
mittee of the whole—Mr. Var
numinthechair—cn the amend
ments cf the fenene to the bill
providing an additional arma
ment for the proa ebon of the
commerce and Teamen of the
United States.
The fenate propofe a new
fe&ion, authorlfmg rhe prefident
to build a number of gun boars
not exceeding fifteen, and ap
propriating 50,000 dollars the re
fer.
Mr. GtAvoid moved the re
commitment of the bill to a
leleft committee.
Lott—Ayes 17.
The amendment cf the fenate
was then agreed to.
Ihe houfe went into a com
mittee of the whole on the bill
making an appropriation for the
fupport of government for the
year iSc?,
The fcveral blanks were filled
and the bill reported, agreed to
in the houfe, and ordered to a
third reading to-morrow.
/ uejday , February 22.
An engroiled bid m addition
to and modification cf certain
propositions contained in an adt
for admitting the people of the
eaflern divifidn cf the north
wtflern territory as a flare into
the union, was read a third time
and pall( d—-Yeas 62.
Mr. Gregg fpoke againfl the
bill.
MefTrs. Randolph and Bacon
defended it.
A bill making appropriations
for the fuppott of government
ferthe year 1803, was read a
third rime and patted.
A lemr was received firm
the claimants, and their agents,
of lands ceded by Georgia to
the United States, declining to
appear by counft j at rhe bar of
the houfe ; and ottering certain
new propr fitions ofcomprortlife
with the United States.
Referred to a committee of
the whole to whom was referred
.a bill for fettling claims to lands
north of Tennettec—and order
ed to be printed.
The galleries were cleared to
take up two bills of a confiden
tial rsatuie, received from the
lenate. Adjourned.
LONDON, December 7.
Extract cf a letter from Paris,
December 1.
cc i Another attempt is to be
made to retain pottettion of Sr.
Domingo, though it is allowed
by all who arc verfed in political
oeconomy, that the colony is not
worth retaining. The expence
of every foldier lent out on this
expedition, amounts to no lefs
a fum then fifty guineas. The
whole returns cf the colony, at
the moflttiourifhingperiod, atthe
time Santhonax commanded in
1707, did not exceed nine mil
lions of livers. The cxpences
cn the other hand, were upwards
of fifteen millions, of which
upwards of eighteen millions
were for the military e-ftabli(la
ment. Thus, inflead of being
a gaining, it is, at.cl mutt long
remain, a Lotting concern.”
December 8.
It is now faid, that citizen
Louis Buonaparte is going to
Italy, for the pinpofe of being
invefied with the Dukedom of
Parma, i his will be a power
ful proof of his wife’s influence.
Report flares, that the love
re gn cf Etruria will foon be un
kinged, and that his dominions
wdi be added to thofe of the
ficcre Emperor of the Gauls.
Private conferences are very
ft c uenc at Sc. Clsuc—no others
arc admitted to them but Inch as
well verfed in diplomatic
bnliutfs; whence it is inferred
that fame thing is machinating
aga u«. rhe peace of Europe.
u is again positively faid, that
Buonaparte will foon be fainted
• emperor, and wiil retain, in ad
dition to that high dignity, the
titles of conful of France, and
prefident of the Italian republic.
A letter from Par s, dared
December 2, dates as follows:
<f A dreadful circumftance
took place here yeflerday. The
lots have been lately drawn to
dr rei mine which ci th<* ccn-
Lripts mould join the armies in
the en filing year. Ihe new re
gulations rtipcdlmg the con
icnpis arc Jo various, and in
cumbered with lo many forms,
that the difficulties arc almoft
inli'pcf-able. A number of
young men were ye Aerday rol
ledltci at the hall cf the niunici- ■
pality. They demanded loud
ly a more practicable mode of
providing fubflitutes, and from
clamours, were proceeding per
haps to violence, when the order
was given for calling in the mu
o • o
riicipil guard. The confcripts
being greatly enraged, feized on
the dcfks, table and chair of the
hall, and piled them up as a
barricade —From behind this
they infultcd the dragoons, and
threw>at rheir heads, the books,
the inkAands, and the firewood.
The dragoons being incenfed in
their turn, rullied in upon and
toredown the barricade,and then
fell on the unarmed confcripts
with rheir fabres. No lefs than
eight of thefe unfortunate young
men were literally ditto pieces.”
The following is an extredf I
of another letter from Paris, cf
tlie fame date:
“ Ye A e relay I was wi fuels to
a moA melancholy feene, but
which in this country is patted
over very (lightly. A young
man who had been drafted
among the confcripts, wifhtdCo I
find a lubAitiue. This produc- |
ed fome altercation between him i
and one of the ferjeants ; the
latter in a rage truA him through
the body. The re A of the
confcripts, of whom there was
a large party, inAantly difpatch
ed the ferjeant. Aconflidfen
fued between the confcripts
and the military. The guards
were called, who fell upon the
confcripts with great fury, and
cut them down. Five and
twenty veere killed, beAdes fe
veral wounded. Two or three
of the guards likcwife loft their
lives. This took place in the
public Areet, in La Rue St.
Martin’s. ’Tis yours to com
ment —I only Aatc facts.”
The Batavian vice-admiral
Dc Winter, has been at Triopli,
and concluded a peace with that
Ante, under a promife to pay to
the Pacha an annual acknow
ledgment cf 80,000 Spanifli
piaffers, of which Aim 20,000
are to be paid immediately, and
the remainder after the expira
tion of fix months. A yearly
preheat of ycco piaAers is be-
Tides to be made. The Dutch
have likewife given the Pacha
120 barrels of gun-powder* and
a quantity of tar.
December 10.
Letters from Vienna Aare,
that poAtive intelligence had
been received, that ConAanti
nople was almoA entirely de-
Aroyed by the earthquake, on
the 26th Odfober. r \ he Se
raglio and a great part of the
city are Aated to have been
fwallowcd up. This earthquake
was productive of moA extenfivc
mifehief infeveral parts of Tur
key, particularly in Wallachia,
and Rotnelia; Bucharas, Adria
nople, and others towns have
been partly deArcyed. The
earthquake of the 26th of C6t.
was productive of the mcA de-
Arudlivc effrfts in Turkey.
A confiderable fpace of ground
between Siliftria and RcAok was
entirely fwollowed up, and con
verted into a lake. A mountain
(hared the lame fate, after ex- i
tiding for five hours a fluid, re- |
fcmbling milk. The town of
Kiagovra anu Wicklen, \* ? -■
conliderably damaged, 7
raAle cf Bucharc il, built by the
Mcmrns, Las been rendered a
heap of ruins. The prince and
1 he inhabitants of Buchartft,
quitted the city, and encamped
m the plain. The moft dif
aflrous accounts are expected
to be received from Conftanti
repk*, cf the damage caufed
by this event* though no intel
ligence refpeding it has yet ar
rived from that city.
Several fhocks of an earth
quake we re'felt atAutun, in the
night between the 26th and 27111
l: ' c * [ True Ei it.
LOUISVILLE,
WEDNESDAY, March i 6, 1803.
Extras cf a letter from a gentle
men at WaJhwgton> dated Feb.
11, iSoj.
“ The prefident has received
di{patches from our mirnfter in
France, which will fhadow the
hopes of the friends cf religion,
the federa lifts. The accounts
are fo pacific, that unlefs we
are difpofcd to ad the part of
the wolf in the fable, we fball
really have no pretext for war ;
and how a bate of peace will
be relifhed by thefe prcfefibrs
cf chriftianity and denunciators
of infidelity, we can be at no
lols to conceive—war was their
lad hope, and having this laf:
and only hope dcflroycd, what
have they left to confole, them ?
Reflection affords to them no
comfort, and anticipation is a
worm that gnaws their vitals.
But to proceed to the news.—•
The fubftancc of it is, that our
minifler at Paris has received
affurances from the Frenc h go
vernment, that they had the
greateft defire to cultivate a
good underflanding with tbs
American government, and than
general Vidor, who is to com
mand in Loujfiana, had received
inllrudions from the firft confi I
to purfuc conciliatory meafures,
fuch as would conduce to the
harmony and mutual improve
ment of the interefls and rights
of both countries, and to relped
the rights, territories and per
fons of the people of the United
States.” Aunra.
. i ..
After four ballots in the Hpufe
of Keprefcntativcs cjf Maffa
chufetts, the Hon. John Ck A'-
dam?, was fC fqueezed ” into the
Senate of the United States, by
86 votes to 85. The EiTex
Junto fought with all their might
for Timothy Pickering.—Vv ith
all their fubtlety they could not
put him into the fenare, but
were obliged to “ threw him up
in the wind.” The Centincl
fays the Hon. Dwight Fofter
has refigned his feat in the fenaie
of the United States —Picker-
ing is to be run another beat for
Air. Fofter s place.
It Teems Pickering and A
dams are not only at logger
heads, but violently eppofed r»
each other ; the ballotting i ■'
a fen a tor is almoft enigmatical
now for Pickering then for
dams ; what a wonderful icei.e
muft have been prtTented,
of the molt violent federal 3