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colle&or for the diftricf of Portf mouth, and who Uwc .f. iTvred a lofs of property by ti e late conflagration at thar place, (hall be, and they hereby are allowed to take up, or have cancelled, ah oonds heretofore given for duties as-afortfaid, upon giving ' tb 'hc Paid colic ft or new bonds, with b>r~ or mote (arctics, to die fatisfaftion of faicl colleftor, for the (urn's of their former bonds refpeftively, .payable in twelve months from fcrtd after the day of payment fpccifled in the bonds to be taken up or can celed as afore faid ; and the faid colleftor is hereby authoiifed and direfted, to give up and 4 cancel, all fuch bonds upon the receipt of others as deferibed in this aft ; which laft mentioned bonds (hall be preceded with, in all refpefts, like other bonds which are taken by colleftors, for duties due to the United States: Provided however, that nothing in this aft contained (hall extend to bonds which had fallen due before the 26th day of De cember lad. Nathaniel M A CON, Speaker of the Ht ufe of Reprefentatives, Aaron Burr, Vice-Prefideni of the United States and F ref dent of the Senate, Approved, Feb. 19, isoj. 'J homas Jefferson, Prefdent of the United States. \ W.I ■ *»■■* ■ 111 11 I«r WASHINGTON, March 14. (official.) Tranflation of a letter from the Marquis de Cafa Trujo , to the Secretary of State, Wcjhington , March 10, 1803. Sir, When you reprefented to me towards the end of November lad, that the port of New-Or leans had been (hut againd the citizens of the United States, without the alignment of any equivalent place of depodt for 1 their merchandize on the banks of the Mifliffippi, according to the dipulation in the 22d arti cle of the treaty of amity, com merce and navigation, between the king my mader, and the United States, I did not hefltate to declare to you, that I confi dered this meafure as flowing folely from the midaken zeal of the Intendant of Louifiana, without the approbation, and even without the knowledge of my court —I well knew the fin cere defirc of the king my maf ter, to live in peace and harmo ny with the United States; as I alio knew well the (crupulous good faith with which the Spa niih government fulfills the en gagements which it forms, par ticularly when they arc founded on the folemnity of a treaty. I have now the fatisfaftion of informing you, that my (lift opi nion has been verified, and of declaring in the mod pofuive terms, that the proclamation of die Intendant is an aft purely jjcrfonal, without the fanftion, i r.J even without the know ledge of his Catholic Majefty. In reality if the proclamation had appeared here in an entire ftatc, no doubt could lave taken place as to the frurce of this proceeding; but the operative through the United States, *iie .■preamble introducing it, having been probably without defign, omitted. I heve therefore the honor to communicate herewith, an en tire and correft copy of the afordaid proclamation ; and by the cxprtdlons which 1 have underlined, it will be clearly fern that the arrangement was abfolutely pcrlonal, and has originated in the faculties which the Intendant fuppofed to be in cident to his (itnatron. This aflertion is not merely founded on the obvious infe rence from thefe cxprefllons. The Intendant himfeif declares it to me in the mod direct terms, in a letter of January 151 b, which I have juft received fiom him, and the Governor of the province confirms the fame thing, with the fame folemnity in another letter of the fame dice. Neither the one nor the ether difpute the rights of the citizens of the Weftern States to a place of dcpofit on the Spanifh banks of the Milfiffippi, but the Intendant thinks that the term of three years allowed (or the purpofe at New-Orleans having expired, and much pie judiceto the ro)al intertft hav ing been experienced from its continuance in this city, it was incumbent on him to fufpend the depcfit there, without ven turing to take on himfeif the af fignment of another equivalent place; not becaufe he doubted the right of inhabitants of the United States thereto, but be caufe it appeared to him to be an aft exceeding his authority, and which he ought to leave to the royal determination of our So vereign. The Governor of Louifiana faw the fubjeft under a point of view more correft in my judgment, and more favou rable to the inhabitants of the United States. From the whole, it refults that tiie fufpenfion of the depo ne not being an aft of my court, and no perlon even disputing the right of the American citi zen in the cafe, I (ball now take upon mjfclf to adopt meafures, which mud enfurc to the Unit ed Stares, the enjoyment of all the rights ftipulated in the 22d article of the treaty, on the ar rival at New-Orleans of the difpatches which will be for warded under this date. From the American Daily Ad vertifer. Mr. Povlson, Have not the Britifh govern ment employed men, at the ride of confinement during life, in the mines of South America, and a great expence, to obtain three or four living Cochineal infefts for their Weft-India lf lands ? If it is of fo much im portance to them, would it not be worthy the notice of in -1 dividuals of our Southern States*—whole climate and pro ductions arc natural for this fpe cics of inltfts ? In addrdling you Sir, I hope, | through the medium of your 1 ufcful paper, you will inform : them, that Georgia peflefs in 1 abundance this fine colouring i w)c liLIT fhf-vvn rm* 1 73 Major Craddock, on "he , beach or the liule Illand of Sc. j Simons, cn the under Tides of ' the lower leaves cf the plan: they vulgarly call the large Prickly ‘Pear. Whilft fpeakirg of Georgb, it would not be amiTs, by the fame means, to give them ano ther hint, that may be of Tome confequence to them, as well as every clafs of citizens. I have fecn immenfe quantities of cotton left to rot on the (locks—Would not this fine cotton, with that which is an nually condemned and burnt, be more than fufficient to fup ply the whole United Stares with a white flrorg paper fiefor printing or writing—Rags are Icarce, and require much labour to reduce them proper for this ufeful manufacture, whereas bluffed corton wants only gin mng. Making this idea public, for the good of my fellow countrymen, (an ideal have had thirteen years pall) I hope the government of the United States will not grant a patent to any for the exclufive privilege or tiling this valuable, though heretofore ufelefs article, I remain Sir, your’s, &c. R. PEAL. LOUISVILLE, WEDNESDAY April 6, 1803 Married, on Sunday evening, the 27 th ulr. Ahner Hammcnd , ; efqutre, to Mils Sarah Dudley , both of this place. Died, at his plantation, near this place, on Monday, the 28th ultimo. Col. Themes Me riwether. Died, on the evening of the the 23d ult. Mr. James Mickle jvhn. CIRCUIT JUDGES. Thefc men, in their late peti tion to congrefs, have di (played the full extent cf their patrio tifm. 1 hey have told the pub lic, in alm( ft fo many Words, tc we are patriots who love good placed at our hearts.” Their folicitude fer the fafety of the conftitution, is evinced by their anxiety for the continuance of their Salaries, and the preserva tion of their places, T hey might as well have Paid in their memorial— <c we, vour humble petitioners,having been well pro vided for, by our midnight ap pointments, as being lately in the receipt of comfortable fab rics, as the reward cf fervent attachment to the power that made us* finding curfclvcs un expectedly deprived of our liv ings, and cc impelled to refort to cur former preft (Hons for the means of cur fupperr, do there fore humbly lupplicate your honors, to take into cor fidera ticn cur hard and difire fling cafe, end to make fuchprovi- Hon for cur hcncrclle cafe and independence , as we have merited by cur zealous fuppert cf the Federal imeuft.” '1 his lan guage would have been more ay 1 1 update, 21 d far mere hi no -1 able, than the filly arc! ludicrous prept fnicn cf a} pointir g aibi k ira-crs. to fe-rie the cent: overly between the nation and a.doz en oil banded judges! q Fs would, indeed, have be en a me ft dignified mode of procedure on the parr of our national iegifla ture, they would have laid to the petitioners—“ We have re pealed a law, by which you arc deprived of ycur falaries. You fiy that the repeal was irncon flitutional, and that you yet to receive them. Now as we are not the proper judges in this hufmefs, we will therefore cc leave it out to men,” whether we have dene wright or wrong, or whether you are entitled to receive your falaries cr Suppcfe a bar room arbitration had been appointed for this purpofe. Would the nation, have been one party and ti judges the other ? Or would the members cf congrefs, in their individual capacities, have entered into the rule on one fide, and bound themfelves tc> fulfil the award. This learned propofition, of thefe learned gentlemen of the law, is fopreg nant with folly y that it is impef fible to handle it with any de gree of fenoufriefs. If there had been any doubts before, of the expediency of lopping off this excrefcence upon the judiciary fyftem, they will at once be re moved by this infallible indica-. tion of its fickly and diibrdered habits. Whatever may Be the neceffity of having a circuit court hereafter, it will, at any rate, be a fubjedt of congratula tion, that the former judges have been removed. If the office was not fuper ftuous, it will yet be admitted, that the officers were incompe tent, and unqualified for their duty. rn «■■■ ■— ■— i mnm It is painful to fee that the fame bale and tory fpirit which prevailed in England during the French revolution, is now re vived, and kept alive in this 1 country, by the devoted flaves and agents of the fame perfi dious and jealous government. The fathers cf the French re volution, panting for the free dom and (.mancipation of their country* —of the human race, were coolly and deliberately ebufed and libelled by the hire ling and profiituted prints o t Great Britain and Ireland—Eve ry effort was made by the balb governments of thole countries, to degenerate the character- —• the views and intentions of men, who afted firm principle and difregarded gold. It is with difguft we look back at the period, when the fir ft men in the world were held up to contempt and popular odium, by the bloated and pam pered fycophants cf a profli gate ancl extravagant ccurt, ban krupt in honor, virtue, morali ty and chaftity, wifhing to im pede on the nation, by the me retricious charms of a nobilit,V> created by their derelidhcn ot principle, and devotion to the j everlrftirg enemies of equality ) and freedom. The page of biflery will bit m ; with thefe vile records, anc pop teriiy fha.ll be afhanted oi ht fathers. The cay cur will ccmc, when men v- 1 L