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Mr. Wickham then proposed, that Mr. Hay should enter a Nolle Proftqui and that gen. Dayton should continue hi* recognizance : to which Mr. Hay acquiesced. Adjourned till this day (Saturday) 11 o'clock. W JUNES bay, September t 6. Pursuant to the notice given yester day, Mr. Hay brought forward a mo tion to commit Col. Burr, Blannerhaf fett, and Ilrael Smith, with a view to fend them to another diftrift for trial. Col. Burr inftfted that a piecife charge should be made, as to the time, place, and offence. He said that he felt confident that it would be in his power to put a flop to the bufmefs as it re lated to himfelf, by availing himfelf of the verdift of acquittal which had been foundby the jury. Yet a/it had been al iened in bold and strong terms that afls of war had been committed, he should suspend for the prefeut, his objections arising from the circumstance of his acquittal. He should therefore indulge the gentlemen in the relation of such legal evidence, as was adapted to the fahlof war. If they deviated from the course of legal testimony, he should . bring them back. He again urged the propriety offeparating his case from that of the two others; and concluded by observing that he had a right to de mand a fpectfication of the charge be., fore the evidence was gone into. The Chief Juflice (aid that with ref pe£l to a fpecification of the charge, it was a mere corned about words. That a charge bad been made by parol; and that it muff be reduced to writing if re quired by the accufcd. Mr. Hay oblerved that there was a difficulty, in fpecifying the place so far as refpc&ed the mouth of Cumberland. It is doubted by feme to what date the ifiand at the mouth of Cumberland on party affemfeled, belongs.— Although the date of Virginia has long ceased to elaim any jurifdidion over it yet it is said to be doubtful whether it is included in the afl of cession. But if he were to fpc ci y a place, and the evidence should establish the fa fils, at any other, there could be no doubt of the right and the duty of the court to commit for trial at that place where the sass was committed. He could not fee the and fficulty suggested by the accused from an examination of all the cases together. The wjtneffes have been here a considerable length of time, and at great expence ; the money which .they will receive fiom the United States be ing inadequate to their fuppoit. He therefore begged for the idke of hu- ‘ inanity, that the testimony of the wit- I nefies might be received, and the ar gument podponed, till after all the evi, dence should be gone through. Mr. Hay. then reduced the charges to writing; and proceeded to call james M‘Dowel as a witness. The witness . having related the tranfabtions from the commencement of his voyage on the river to the mouth of Cumberland, was going oft with his evidence as to fads which occurred lower down the river. As loon as he mentioned fa£ls which had taken place in the Milfiffip” pi territory, he was (lopped by col. Burr And his counsel, who objected to the in • trodu&ion of any testimony of fads out of the jurifdidion of the date of Ken- | tucky. i Mr. Bolts commenced an argument on the part of col. Burr, and contend ed that no further testimony could be heard, on the present motion. He re lied principally on the former acquittal as a perpetual bar to any future profe cution;and that the aft of Congress which authoriles a judge to transmit a person charged with an offence from one diftritl to another for trial, does not extend to the territorial govern, merits. He was followed by Mr. M‘aae on the part of the United States. Tliurfday, September 17. The arguments on the motion made yederday to exclude all further tedi mony, on the prelent queltion was re r ’ fnmed. Mr. Hay, Mr. Martin, Mr. Wirt, M> Wickham and Mr. Bolts se verally delivered their femiments. An unusual (hare of animation and eio quence marked the speeches of ail the gentlemen on this imerefting fubjefci. Mr. Kandolph will dole the arguments on the part of col. Burr to morrow. Friday, September 18. Mr. Randolph on this day conclud ed the argument and the Chief Julltce delivered his opinion in writing. He refer ved the quell ion, concerning, the prior acquittal, for future coniideration : but decided that ht had no power to commit the accused for any act of trealon done y,vi?e MifTiffippi Territo ry. He admitted, however, the evi*- dence relative to the tranlactions in Kentucky. BRITISH HOUSE OF LORDS. Monday, J nly 27. Previous to the reading of the order of the day, Lord Holland role, for the purpole of obtaining I‘otne information from Miniflers, on a fubjafct which ex tremely agitated his mind ; he alluded to the reports of lotne unplealant oc. currences on the coalt of America. He wished to know whether it was the intention of Miniflers to make any ! communication to Parliament on the j fubjefci. A war with America was, in I his opinion, a molt fenous calamity, the effefcls of which would be equally felt by both countries. He trufled i and hoped that Minilters would be pre- • pared to make such a communication, and lav Inch documents before Parlia ment as would juliifv them in a mea furs of such importunce and tefponfi bility. Lord Hawkefbury replied, that all he j could fay at present was, that he was not auihorifed to make any communi cation to the House on the fubjefci al luded to by the Noble Lord. He could venture toaffure the Noble Baron, that his Ma j e fly’s Miniflers would as fin* cerely deplore a war with the United States of America as the Noble Baron could poflibly do. His noble friend would feel the impropriety of entering into any premature difeuflion of the fubjefci. Should it be neeffary to make any communication to the House on the fubjefct, Miniflers would fee that it ; should be as lull and fatisfafclory as pos sible. Lord Holland v.as far fiom w'Cbing to force a fubjefci of such extreme de licacy into premature di feu {lion ; but he could not help repeating, that he united a speedy communication, ifany were necelfary, would be made, and that Parliament would not feparateun r til they had ail lire circumflances be fore them which gave rife to such an unhappy Hate of things. BRITISH HOUSE OF COMMONS, Friday July 24. Ihish Insurrkction Bill. Mr. Grattan role at nearly 3 o’clock, end delivered a molt energetic and pre (five speech, which from the lateness of the hour, it is quite impoflible to de tail. The Right Hon. Gentlemen be gan by deprecating the doctrine, that the exiflenct* of a power itahat power ws not called in;o afction, was not to be considered as a grievance. What, he would ask, was slavery ? Nothing but , fufferance. Great odium, he knew, at | tached in Ireland to the nrieafure under j the confide ration of the comrnitte. A 1 variety of letters from that country, mat- 1 nv of which be had himfyif received, fully fatisfied him of tliis point. But Hill, from a coniideration of the necel- ! firy of the case", he was ready to take ins full {hare of that odium by iupporting the bill. This was a time in which eve'Ty man should be prepared to facri fice, not only forne portion of his liber ty but of his credit, and he was ready to make fowe facrifice of both for the good of the Hate. lie under Hood from his right honorable friend bdide him, that there were secret meetings of a dark and dangeious delniption in Ireland. This iormed a ground for the bih. He va afraid if 3 Finch, intcreft in lietand, and be wished that gc’ ctr rreru fheu’d be. fu> nifhe-d with ti e means not merely of refilling, but of extirpating that ir.tereft wherever ar.d wherever it appeared. With that view he would support this bill. T be que ll ion in Ireland now had no thing to do with Republic avijfii ; but was limply this, whether {he should continue a portion of the Rritifh Em pire, or become not a portion of l* ranee but nothing—ahftlutely noihtvg ; at Hrlt she might coquet with France—but it would end in a meretriciousconnefclion. J be right hon. Gentleman earnedly exhorted the Irish Ccntiemen as they cart vailed their countrymen for feats in ! that House, to canvass them aifo for the British Empire againH the designs of France. Nations iike individuals, were often the arbiters of their own fate, and much might be done for this country in Ireland, if so determined The gentlemen connefcled with Ireland ought earnedly and perfonallv to solicit the aid of the Irish people, ought to use every means in their power to cir culate in that country the fundamental maxim of English policy, to have no thing to do with France. The right hon. gentleman tepeatedhis resolution to vote for the Bill, notwithflanding the odium that attached to it; rather than give up the State he wou'd support the Bill. He never had, he never would capitulate with any popular error—although he always rt fpefcted popularity when at tendant on virtue. The right honora ble gentleman was frequently interrupt ed by ihe unanimous plaudits of the Committee. Monday, ‘July . The House having resolved in a Committee, on the motion of Mr. Rose, to confider of the propriety of permitting the importation of certain enumerated articlesintothe Weft.lndia colonies from the United States of America, and the exportation of cer tain enumerated articles from the Bri. tifh Weft India colonies to the United States, agreed to a resolution to that rf .f fefcl ; 2nd ihe house having resumed, the chairman reported, ar.d moved for, and obtained leave to bring in a bill accor dingly, The principal articles in the former case are provisions, pitch tar; j and in the latter, gypsum, an article of considerable ule in the United States. LONDON, August 3. The conditions of the Treaty be tween Ecu Hi a and France cannot have surprised any one. It was easy to fore-’ fee from the relative situation in which Bonapaiteand the king of Prulfia were that the former would reduce the latter so low as to prevent him from being able to oppose any obllacles to his de signs, or of being any longer an objefcl of the flighted apprehenlion. Deprived of every inch jof territory on the left bank of the Elbe, and ftrctching onr ly to theVillula by that fniail and unprodufclive Province which lies be* tween the Ncumarche and the Villula ; fullered only to prelerve a petty tiafct of territory on the right bank of that river, in order to connefcl the ancient possessions of bis house with the Heriie Province of Pomerelia and his territo ries between the Oder and the Elbe; I deprived of Dantzic, of T horn and of ! Warsaw, M the command of the navi | gafion 01 the Vistula, of all the belt and I moll fertile part of Poland, Pr uilia is a | power of less magnitude and relources 1 than the newly eietted kingdom of j Saxony. Siiefia indeed has been re. 1 lloredtohis Pruflian Majelty, but with j the humiliating condition of allowing a military road through ii.to the noopa of that power which is to be the future foveieign of his Polifli provinces, and which at no diftarit period we pre dict vvili add Siiefia to the other poflef fionsihat have been wrested from his house. The union of the hetrefs of Saxony with the new Sovereign of YVeftphalia, will unite the two king doms of Saxony and WcHphaiia, ami tiius a power will be created, which ex* I tending from the confines of Ruffjkfl Poland to the Rhine, will render PrIVJP fia a power of as- little magnitude al importance as Saxony, and were before the French had carried” their arms and their conquests beyond the Rhine. The King of Prulfia binds hirrjfelfalfo to acknowledge the pr?- sent and future members es the Rhenifft confederacy. All the petty princes in the North of Germany, who were for'J tmrly under his influence and control, and w ho are to be liiffered to retain or recover their territories, will be com pelled to join the confederacy and thus Ptuffia is left j,fo!ated and alone, sur rounded by States, whole resources can in an inllant, at the command of Fiance, be combined and direfcled against her. T’he policy which led to the formatiou of the Rhenish confede*7 racy, was, it mud be conf(ff:d, diabo lically profound.—lt cements and con-, firms the influence ol Fiance over! Get many, by dividing Germany agaiolt \ herfclf. Bonaparte has made Germany afcl against German—the Bavarian against the AuOrian—the Sexonagainft the Hellian—the Bavarian and the Saxon against the Pruflian. He has Town the feeds of jealousy and hatred between Prulfia and the confederacy, and Aullria and the confederacy; and the confederates, whatever may be their sentiment of each other, must re main united and obedient to his com; ntands. It is this confederacy that has rendered the German Empire a mallea ble ore in his hands, which he may shape and taihion as he pleases. Soon * fliall we lee (he ancient princes and houses of Germany give place to the novi homines , tl.e race of the Bona paries and %auharnois; and (ftrangc reverse of fortune !) the country in which the pride of family was carried to an extent unexampled in any other - part of the world, is dellined to We go* 1 verned by the ioweft of mankind ! T his treaty with Prulfia is remarks- . ble for a principle by which Bonaparte hopes to give a mortal fliock and blow to all coalitions. Ha has made ally prey upon ally, given part of the terru tories of Piulfia to Ruflia, and thus consummated her inifery & humiliation by making her the vifclim of both friend and foe. In the article of the Treaty (the 18th) by which pan of Pruflian Poland is to be given to Ruflia, it is endeavored to be reptelented as the cftablifhrnent of national boundaries between Ruflia *nd the Duchy of Warsaw—National boundaries ! as if such petty liver* could oppose any ob stacles to the encroachments of either power, if either power were ed upon making encroachments!— T his article of the ireaty did indead fur pi ife and afflifct us—bccaufe we thought that the Emperor Alexander would have rejefcttd with (corn and disdain, any offer that should tend to call in . quellion his dilintereflednefs and mag” nanimity, and to enrich him at the ex pence of his prostrate and ruined ally. —T his condufcl towards Piuffia pre pares us to lufpefcl that the nature of the ireaty between Ruflia and France is of a very different nature lrom what —but we will not anticipate. The new kingdom of Westphalia is to be composed, we suppose, of the territories of the unfortunate Duke of Bi unfwick,the Eiefctorate of Hefle, Ful da, Ofnabutgh, and that part of the duchy of Magdeburgb, including Mag deburgh itlielf, which is on the left bank of the Elbe. Hanover, it isfulpefcte'i by fome, will be incorporated with it.— We do not believe it. The placing it in the hands of the Spaniards (hows that it is meant to be ceded to us in re turn for the celiion of our conquest in South Aaueiica—But will any inan lay that in thepiefent date of the con- , tinent we ought to give any thing for Hanover ?—Could his Majefiy re poi fefsitasan independent Hate ? Whatever improvements were made in it during a llace of peace, would only De so many incitements for the French to bverrun and pillage uin a war. We should be