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TO MATILDA. THOUGH thine ey, as brilliants fparkie, Though thy lips with rubies Tie— Twee not lip, that vie with rubies Nor thehiftreof thine eye, That taught try Worn fir ft to sigh. No, ’tii not that bright completion, Rival to the uew blown rose, Nor thy gently heaving bofoin, Whiter than the defeeruling fnotva, •For which my heart thus fondly glowe, r Tis not all the witching gracee, That aronnd thee ever play, Nor thy voice, so fwectfy warbiiog. Many a witlly pensive lay, To chafe my moody carea away- Charma ail ehrfe, far, far furpafnug, Taught my bosom firft to ftgh, A foul replete with virtue, honor, Truth and fenftbility, - And forrow-footliiug fympaihy, Htu.ce have sprung those fuft ir. prrfHar.s, Tender, conftanc and finecre. Which for thee I fondly cherish, Tormed rry future life to cheer— More lov'd, more lovely, each fucccdirg year ! CONOR ESS. • fJOt'SE OF KEPSKSEXTATtrEi. Monday, November IS. Mr. Poindexter, after a few preli minary observations, exposing various defects in the organization ofthe courts ofthe Miffifippi territory, moved the following resolution, which was adopt ed ; and a committee appointed ac cordingly conhlling of Messrs. Elliot, Van Allen, Key, Howard, and Foin dexter. Resolved, That a commute be ap pointed to enquire whether any, and if any, what alterations are necelfary in the aft, entitled “An aft for the ap pointment cf an additional judge for the Milfifippi territory, and for other purpoles,” andallo in the aft entitled 4i An alt to allow jurisdiction in cer tain cases to die territorial courts,’’and that they report thereon by bill or o therwise. Mr. Barker moved the following relolution, which was negatived, 50 to 4j. Resolved , That the committee of Commerce and Manufactures be in llruded to enquire into the expedien cy of granting a bounty on all fait which ‘.hall be manufactured in the United -States, and report by bill or otherwise. Mr. M. Clay moved the following resolution, which was adopted, and a committee appointed, confiding of Meflrs. M. Clay, Thomas, Butler, Dana, Chandler, Holms, and Dena. Resolved , That a committee be ap pointed to enquire whether any, and if any, what alterations are needfary to be made in the militia laws, and that they report by bill or otherwise. Mr. Dana laid he had a resolution j prepared for the purpofc of calling the j attention of a committee of this House; to a fubjeit materially intereding to the sovereignty of the nation; the com mittee he wtlhed to inllrud was that on aggressions committed in our wa ters, Sic. but as he did not fee the chairman of that committee in the House, he should lay it on the table and cal! it up when that gentleman was p-efent. The re fohuion laid on the table was) SS follows Resolved , That the committee, to whom was referred so much of the niellage of the President of the United States as relates toTaggreffions within our ports and waters, to vislations of our jurisdiction, and to measures ne , ceilary for tiie protection of our ports and harbors, he mltruded to enquire into the expediency of providing for ill* employment of adequate force to compel the immediate departure of /uch foreign armed vcffels as may be found remaining within the waters ol the United States in dctiancc of any interdictory proclamation duly tfiueo by the Prehdent of the United States; and that the committee have leave to report by bill or otherwise. Messrs. Howard, Jer, Morrow, and each presented “petitions or reio luttons rrfpcding port roads; which were referred, Mr. Holmes from the committee of Claims made a report unfavorable to the petition of Daniel Buck; which was referred to a committee ‘of the whole on the motion of Mjgflfetfk, and ‘orderedto be printed. Mr. Findley moved forme order cf the day on the report of the com mittee of Eleftions on the contested elcftion of Wrn. N'Crcery: Where upon, The House went into a committee of the whole—Mr. Basset in the Chair, on the (aid report. A motion was made by Mr. Bibb, to amend the tefolutior. by raaLingit read fubftantj aily as follows : Resolved , That Wm. McCreery is duly elefted, agreeable to the laws of Maryland, and is entitled to his feat in this House. Gn this motion a lengthy debate took place, which was not solely con fined to the amendment; but extend ed to thefubjeftgenerally. Thefpeak ers were MeiFrs. Bibb* Quincy, How ard, Gardner, Gardenier, Upham, Nel son, Findley, Holland, Sloan and Key. Tuesday, November 17. Mr. Blount from the committee to whom was referred so much of the meflage of the President as relates to aggreffioris, See. made a report. The report commences wish ar. e:t preflion of sensibility at the outrage committed cn the Cbdapeake, dates the receipt ol information relative thereto from the fiaie and navy dc pirtmentc, presents a general view of the circumstances, observes that it might be fa id to have been incontef tibly proved that Wm. Ware, John Strachan, and Daniel Martin are citi zens of United States ; but the com mittee add that they conceive it un.ne celfary for them or the House, to go into any enquiry on that part of the fubjeft, as in their opinion whether the men taken from the Chesapeake were or were not citizens of the United States, and whether the Chesapeake was or was not within the acknowledg ed limits of the United States at the time they were liken the charaftcr of the aft of taking them remains the fame. 1- rom the foregoing fads it appears to your committee that the outrage committed on the frigate Cbefapeake ‘has been stamped with circumstances | of indignity and insult of which there is scarcely found a parallel in the hiltory of civilized nations, and requires only the fan&ion of the government under color of whole authority it was perpe | £r atcd to make it just cause of, if not |an irrcfiftablc call for, inftantand fe j vere retaliation. Whether it will re jcei'. e that fandion or be disavowed and declared an unauthorifed act of a subordinate officer, remains to be de termined by the answer which shall be given to the demand of explanation, that aniwer, now daily expeded, will either f:nk the detestable ad into pi racy, or expand it to the magnitude of premeditated hostility against the fovc reignty and independence of this na tion, and until its true charadcr (hall be fixed and known, your committee deem it expedient to decline expres sing any opinion 4s to the measures proper to be adopted in relation to iu But as other ads of aggrefiion have, been committed within our ports and waters by Britifii (hips of war, as weh. I anterior as polterior to this, fome of them manitelling the the fame disre gard of our national rights, and I'cem mg to flow from the fame contempt for the authority of our laws, and espe cially as the Biitifh squadron, of which the Leopard was one, after being no tified of the President’s proclamation ordering them to depart from the U. .'States, which they knew had been published in conformity to an ad of Congress, anchored within the Capes, of Chesapeake Bay, & in that fmiation 1 icmaincd capturing-American vefiels even within our acknowledged terri torial limits, and fending to Halifax for adjudication—-impressing Teamen, on board American veffdsj firiug on • - ,;■ . V Veflels and beats c? all deipriptions having occasion to pass near them in pUrfuit of their lawful trade, and oc casionally denouncing threats, ealeu jated to alarm and irritate the good people of the United States, particu larly the inhabitants of Norfolk and Hampton, all which fafts are fupftan dated by the accompaying documents No. 1 to 6, the committee are ofopin ion that it is expedient to provide more efreftually for the protection of our ports and harbors, but not being prepared to report fpecifkally on that fubjeft, they ask further indulgance of the house, and beg leave to submit for their conuderaticn the following rcfolution : Resolved , That the attack cf the Britilh fiiip of war Leopard on the U. States frigate Chesapeake, v/as a fla grant violation of the junfdrction of the U. States, and that the continu ance of the British squadron (of which the Leopard was one) in their waters, after being notified of the proclama tion of the President of the U. States, ordering them then to depart the fame, was a farther violation thereof. The report was referred to a com mittee cf the whole on Monday. T ’ Wednesday, November 18. Mr. Murnford presented the peti tion of a number of merchants of the city of New-York, dating, that owing to ihe ambiguity of the law refpefting the importation of copper, fome dif ference of opinion had taken place a mor.g the cclleftcrs of revenue, and praying that the lav/ may be amended, referred to the committee of Com merce 2nd Manufaftures. Mr. Holmes fa id he was indrufted by the committee of Claims, to move that they be difeharged from the fur ther consideration of several petitions and claims for compcnfation for ser vices rendered during the revolutions ry war, and to move that they be re ferred to the committee appointed on claims barred by afts of limitation occ. Agreed. Mr. Quitjcy said the House might have oblerved that in the meffa;;; of the President of the U. S. to Congress delivered on the eyth of Oftober, j there was an express referrence to a 1 certain proclamation interdifting our pons and harbors to Britilh armed ves fel.t, It v/as in Great Britain he urs derftood, an universal parliamentary rule that proclamations of this kind j foould be laid before parliament; and j in this country it had heretofore been | the usual pratice. Jin the case of the* proclamation of neutrality ifiued by President Washington, in 1793, in his firli communication to Congress, he ’aid it before them, and it was entered on tne Journals. Circumstances cf. however great notoriety, were not of-j ncia! information on which they could | est; but, were it so, he had not been i able to find it in any papers he could procure. Fie had expected it would; have been conneftcd with the report | of the committee on agg r ession?; but, I as it was not yet befors'the House, he moved the following resolution : Resolved, That the President of die U. S. be requested to cause to be laid before this House, a copy of his pro clamation interdicting our harbors and waters to Britilh armed vefteis, See. 1 referred to in his message of the 27th Oftober last. 1 Hr. Crowninfhield could not fee any neceflity -or calling ior this paper. He well recollected that the fVefident had issued proclamations on o tner (objects which had never been laid before the House. That issued in the cate of an aggref -lon committed by Capt, Whitby, commanding an armed fiup of Great Britain, had not been trash-rutted to the House ; fb, in the case of the famous confpircy of Mr. Burr, a proclamation was issued at the time, and not laid before the House, nor had the House thought necessary to cad f#r these papers. They were before the pub lic, and every member of the House mult have perused them. Mr. C. wished his colleague to ihewfome r.ecefiity for the present call ; for he could fee none. The practice which had taken place, mother ccuntries v/as not to govern them ; w r ell have drawn a precedent from the practice of France, Germany, cr any other country as from Britain. Eefide 3> he ‘clouted whether it was the practice there* ; it was well wro-.'-n that under that government the king and council “leg iilatetl in a variety of j'n Janets. Tii citizens of this country had fuffered fevere’.y by these measures. They legislated for neutrals is this way, and property to an imtnenfe amount had been taken from our merchants under thef* orders, and Mr. C. did not know that their aft* in such cases had been laid before the Parliament or even called for. He should, however, have no objection to the call in this instance, but that he saw no neceflity for it. The gentleman might perhaps not have seen the proclamation ; but it was well known that it had been pubhfhed in a’,, mofl all the papers in the unio*. It fu ft appeared in a paper of this city, and he presumed was co pied from that paper into the others. He h? r>o doubt but the proclamation would be comrau. nicated, or any other paper that might be called for. Mr. Alston fa id, it was certainly very mv.j terial whether the resolution was adopted or not; but it was certainly caufuig confidetable trouble for nothing to fubrait such a resolution to the House. The gentleman might have laid hie hands on it in any paper pubhihed in the union. Did that gentleman receive an official copy of the proclamation for convening Congress at this time ? If,he did, Mr. A. said he had an advin. tage over him j for he Caw the proclamation in • the tiewfpapersand came on in confequenge • s n d if there had been any proclamation iffiied,Mr. Q. could have found it ia the newspapers. He • had an objeftion to this resolution because it was going out of the way ; he had never before known an inilance of a call upon the President for any proclamation which he had not thought proper to lay before them. Mr. Quincy said he had cited the example o: G. Britain, because that was the country front whole parliamentary practice so many precedents had been drawn. The proclamation of President Washington, however, was publilhed in all the papers on the continent, and yet the President had laid it before Congress on the Ift day of the Proceeding session. He would refer to the mode in which it was presented, in order to convince the House it had been heretofore dons. The case was thus : The President of the U. 8. after fome prefatory observations tells them that the proclamation lai/1 before the House had been is. Cued. Immeditaely after this, she journal fays, 2 menage was received from the President of the U. S. enclosing a copy of the proclamation.— The case in the prel'ent iuftance was of much j more importance : he had no conception, before he saw the report of the committee, but that ic would be laid before them ; he had not conceiv ed it possible that it would not be laid before them in Pome way. It had been said that he fliould give reafone for calling for it. He tho't that in an important case like this the House should know what was done. He had no ob je'ddi.cn to the proclamation; but it contained certain national principles to which they ought to refer. He wav st a Lfs to account for th appatj/wsr., which this motion received from forrie ocarters of the House : it was itrpoffible it could be mad* on any other grounds than a determination to vote down at all events any queition that might be moved, or ar.y enquiry that might be request ed on the part of gentlemen of one defeription ia the House, It teemed to him to be following up the advice v/hich had lately been gives to them through the channel of a paper printed in this city, which was understood generally to speak a demi-official language. I have before rnc, (said he] the words in which this House were a thor* time fiuce addressed in that paper, by a person making obfervatior.s on a motion which Mr. Q. had made, and which was nega tived. Mr. Q. then read th.e following para graph from the National intelligencer of !\overr.. ber 9 : “ Let them weigh well the advice cf ah enemy oefore they adopt it. Let them act, as they have done in the present instance. Let them e> j tertain no appreher kon on the score of popular ] ity, even though their adversaries fit odd found j toefin 02 alarm, and declare themselves ia patriotic ftraais the exclusive friends of the per : pie. Let them remember that while their oppe [ neats have ncthing to do but tc talk, they hist I ts a a .” j And was this the language in which thus I House was to be addrefled through the medium cf a ncwfpaper printed at their doors ? Was a mere Printer to obtrude upon them his advirc as to what ccurfe they were to pursue, in relatu a to the interests of the nation, and to denounce 2 portion of the House as unworthy of notice or confidence? He hoped not. But he could ac count for the opposition which was now gireti I to this motion front no other reafdVts ; for if % proclamation of this kind had been issued, they j ought to have it before them. Hr. Q. said, he pofTeffed no intere&s dhT.-rsrt from any other member of tire House ; and as* ’ fuming the right to which he was entitled, he would ask for information wlien he had occ-v.ea for it. Mr. Crowninlhield felt much surprised at what had been laid by the gentlemen lad up.**” Had Mr.C. said any thing about-it, had he made any allusion to what had appeatd in a revr-fpsper in this city j the publication was math beiore he had been able to arrive at this city, f Mr. Quin cy here'remarked, he did not refer to him.j Mr. C. did not know to whom he con'd refed except to him or his iriend from North Carolina, He had no intention to make any remark to. hurt the gentleman’s feelings with refpeCl to Wh-i ‘ had appeard iu a new-fpaper of this city 1 but what relation could that have to the fubjeft '* *’ der conlideration ?If the paper alluded-to had. 4 infringed any privilege appertaining to him a- 1 ( member of that House of which Mr. 0. fa'-* , he knew nothing, he !v>d his rAftiedy. ff o % [k-r-. fonal.atttrc. the gentle mor. :>ad other nisans. o *