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y r. RaudolpblVcm the c:*m rni k. v boat \as ftfcrrccCthe • 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 • • O 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- O 7 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