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the birth of liberty. WHEN firft infant Liberty drcpt upon earth, The mountains and forefis then cradled her birth ; Nurs’d by Na'ure she dwelt among lavages wi:d, V/hilft numerous nations adopted the child. Her mind wa9 for ages a* dark as the night ; Her form, unadorn’d wander'd naked to fight ; Slit in huts and in cottages only w'as fuUod, Reporting at ease on the grass-ch athed ground. Bnt banifil’d: from earfh by a profligate race, Long, time the conceal’d both her gr:cf and d.fgrace ; Till heroes demanding a charter of laws, Recall’d her from hcav'n to enlifl in their califs ; In Columbia she landed, delighted to fee Men firm to their country,; ct refold’d to be free. In these slates then, forever may Liberty reign, The People's bed friend, and of Tyrants the bane. V TI .g V ~Z. IT~ - ■ - CONGRESS. SOI7SS OF KEPRESENTATirFS. Monday, November SO. Mr. Blount Bid the object ofthc committee was to put so much money at the disposal of the Prdidcnt, as to answer boih the put poles of repair and creftion. If the words did not express that feene, he Ihould cheerfully acqui efee in any amendment which might be made. An amendment was offered by Mr. Dana, but afterwards withdrawn, to make way for one offered by Mr. Ckowninshield to the fame effeH; by which the resolution was emended to read as follows: Resolved , That it is expedient to authorife the President of the - United ■States to cause such fortifications to be repaired and erefted as will, with the affiffance of gun boats, Arc. Mr. Thomas enquired as to filling the blank. Mr. Blount said he had Hated while up before, that 300,000 dollars in time ofpeace wasas much as could be expen ded in the course of a year. But if they could not enjoy peace, more would be necessary ; and from the un certainty of this the committee wiflied todecline filling the blank at the prefeut tunc. When the bill Ihould be laid Before them, they might be better qual ified to judge. Mr. Gardiner was not fomuch op posed to the not filling up the blank in the resolution at this time as to the rea son which had been given for not do ing it, or in other words, the reasons why the House ffnouhl not now debate on that part of the resolution on which it was moli important to deliberate ; file sum to be allowed. It was hard ly necessary except in point of form, to have gone into committee of the whole for any other purpofethan this. All agreed that the ports and harbors of the United States Ihould be better fortified than they were at present; on that point he trtiffed there could be but one opinion : but utilefs a sum cer tain was named tiie people in the sea ports would remain in the fame flats of doubt and uncertainty which they had experienced ever lince the com mencement of the session. He wilhed to come to that point which it was moll important to c./odder ; he wifhcd to know how much gentleman would give towards the proteflion of our ports and harbors. If they were not lo fully prepared to decide as they might per haps hereafter be, he thought they might do much by entering into the dilcuffion of the fubjefr. For him fclf, he could not teadily assent to what had fallen from the Chairman of the committee; he could not compre hend the propriety of making a differ ence between the expense to be incur red in case the appearance of war Ihould increase, and those estimated or, a proipeCt of peace. He had heard nothing said that was calculated to (mange nis uniform opinion on this lubjen, that a flatc of peace was the lt^fon tor a nation which had fomanv vulnerable points to prepare for war. and place itfelf in a condition to repel atlack. In a Hate of war, and it seem ed to be seriously approaching, it would be impcffible to lay out pipuey to so -much advantage as in a state of peace. It was in the time of peace jeculiarly that they ihould, as much as they could, ercti barriers against (dine of the tnoft dreadful evils of war: he would here apply the maxim of Walhington, quoted by a gentleman from Maryland feme days finer, “that to preserve peace, we should be pre paired for war.” Supposing it should happen, improbable as it was, that the country should remain at peace, were’ they on that account to relax in the for tification of their ports and harbors? How could they, acting in this way, expert ever to he prepared for war, when it should afilually arrive ? A country whofc coaffs were so much ex posed, ami whole cities were so rich, so valuable, and therefore so tempting, should never be unprepared ; but if, said he, we should be persuaded to poffpone the defence of the country, while v/e are waiting for neats-and ho ping for peace , the enemy may be at our (loots our cities may be ransacked, and nothing left in them worth defend ing ; it would be too late then, because if will he to no purpose to fortify, and the money we now talk, of appropriating may be'faved, while our ernes are def troved and defoiated. Gentlemen fee rued to take great de light in flattering rhemfelves that they might yetefcape war; they wtihed, ho ped for peace. Mr. G. had no hope that at a period when all the world was convulsed, kingdoms and thrones were overturned in such rapid succession, when all the free slates of the world j had perished as it were before our eyes, that we should be able to escape with lout enduring fome part of the general calamity, lie entertained now the {fame opinion which he had done ever fincc the attack on the Chesapeake was ; made, that the country would be com ; pelted to go to war, or facrafice its hon or forever. They could not avoid it, unless they would accept of peace, on terms, to which no independent nation could liffen. An attack like that on the Chesapeake had never occurred before. The making of it Was not a ione an outrage of the very worff char aiter, but alfoan assertion of the moss positive kind, that Great Britain was a bout to introduce anew principle in to the law of nations. Wc have en deavored, said be, to soothe ourfclves with a hope, that this attack was the mere unauthorifed aft of a British com mander, which bis government might afterwards disavow or not as they pica fed. And while wc went on hoping we might as well hope too, that they would disavow it. In this hope, said he, we have wrapped ourselves 1b se curely up, that at the very moment I atn Ipeaking, the cannon of Britain may be carrying ruin and havoc into our def’encelefs sea-ports. Mr. G. could not persuade himfelf, that a British ad miral would voluntarily a flume so aw ful a responsibility. He could not be lieve that the admiral’s own orders were !efs precise and positive than those which he gave to the captain of the Leopard. Yet, if he could even be lieve tkaß he could not believe that.this outrage would have been followed up, and confuinmated by bringing to trial, condemning, and executing one of the unfortunate men, who owed his death to his confidence in the inviolability of the American flag ; and that too, after it was known at Halifax, what poig nant sensations the attack itfelf had ex cited here ; aftc<- the President’s pro damation itself was know there. He would have paused: said Mr. G. be fore he proceeded to this dreadful ex tremity. He would have waited for new, and mote prccife orders, if his tnffru&ion had not been already clear and explicit. Can we, said he, in e vents lublequcnt to this, find any cause to confide each other with a hope of peace ? No, fir. From the time the proclamation was issued, to this very moment, has a British squadron re mained in our waters, persisting in the violation of our territory, with an air of scorn and defiance, which while it oughtto awaken all that is American iu us,-excludes alatoil ev?ry ray ol hope. Could gentlemen indulge ini hope, when they heard that the Britifh l vessels in the lakes had been armed r. That the British forces in Canada were j encreafed and concentrated? Ihat, the fortifications at Quebec k were re pairing? That at Halifax, ico men I were draughted from the miliiia, to aflifi in placing that post in a flaie oi defence? That an additional number of ships and troops were expended t Did aby thing from our miniffers at St. James’s encourage hope ? Any thing that could be collctfed from the political journals’ there ? when wc. fee the British miniffry, said he, pre pairing for war, taking those ffeps wliich this government ought to have taken long age, could they longer con fide each other with the hope of peace ? There was nothing to induce them to delay for a moment, the mofl afilive preparation. It is true, they were in fome degree excusable, for not having acted on this fuhjefii hither to. The Prelident s Mefiage, though it had communicated to them infor mation of the attack on the Chtfi peake, did not Rate, whether it was in the opinion of the executive mod pro bable that we {ball have war, cr that we should. not have war; it merely dated, that peace might not contin ue. They were left, therefore, to de liberate as they could, uninfluenced and undir&ed by an expteffion of what was the opinion of the execu five. Bui, as from their cwnimpulfe, they had at la ft artived at the fuhjetf, he hoped they would go fully into it. Our ports, he said, ought to be fortifi ed, whether we are ultimately to have peace or war. But if only in case of war fetming inevitable, he entreated gentlemen to confider whether the profpecl was not as gloomy as it could be in any state of things short of act ual war. But if contrary to all found calculation, our peace should continue, the determination to fortify ought in his opinion not to be give?) up; that, at another time, we-may be better pre pared than we are now. He hoped, ! therefore, fome opinion would be ex- Jpreffedas/o/he sum to be appropriated for fortification: he muff pro fiefs his convi&on, that neither of the sums mentioned by the chairman of the committee were enough to futisfy that part of the peop/e to whose fafety ef fectual fortifications were so essential. The sum of 750,000 dollars had been mentioned as a fufficient sum ; if they! jonce attempted to fortify, they muff; : do it effectually ; if they appropriated : af’um for defence it muff be fufficient, [or the money they did expend, would |be completely thrown away. He ho ped the House would resolve effectu ally to protest our ports and harbors : j when they did that, they did what their country demanded and had a right to j demand of them. Y/ucn they only I half fortified, they made a (how to in jduce the people to believe they would jdo something for them, lie” should las soon expctl a farmer to fence but I half his ground, and thus leave his crop | exposed, as that they would go but j half way in fortifying againff an ene | my. He hoped they would not fquan jderaway money to no purpose • for his part he would not vote for lels than a fufficient sum ; for if he did, tie should confider himfelf as violating those principles of economy which should always be attended to in gov ernment. Mr. G. vvifhed /he House nb/ only to make a found, but act as though /hey mean/ to do fome/hing.— Upon/his fubjeft his confti/uen/s were feelingly alive to every /hing which Zransptrcd from that House : they uad pefifioned formerly and had received pefiy appropria/ions which migh/ all have been expended on 15 fee/ of ground. This would no/ do any lon ger ; fome/bing muff either be dono for /hem, or /hey muff be/old that /hey 11. u 1. Zake care of /hemtelves, and /hen /ney would to do. At this time when they saw approach ing so nearly to them—when they saw almoff realized that Rate of war which they had so often.been told might hap- P en j *nd for which the pcooh; had bean so ofien warned to prepare, Xff M hoped they woul 1 give up fome I that tenacious harcl-fiffedness -aV -I had hitherto clinched their fingers ciofely in the purse firings ‘of J national treasury. It was their which now called for was better to expend money in prot ?c ß ting these dcpolits of individual these fcources of national revenue, in buying unproduclive wildemcfs, 0: l {peculating in hot beds of feditim, t reason j better protect what they ka ( |H than purchase that which might a curse to them. They had better J something, lor what a gentleman Ci 'l that Hoofeonce called ” the good cffl thirteen United States,” and not | :; l ail their care and all their tendernefiß travel well ward. Do something ferns I (aid Mr. G: but do not think of fi:.l isfying us by merely pretending to and,! it ; let us know what you mean to do . I I feci rnyfelf authorifed to demand! that what we have affted (hall be gre-.l ted to us or that we fha'l be tcld direct terms that yen will do noth-1 ing for iu, At leaf! deal plainly wifi, I us. When you come with yccrl 300,600 or 750,000 dollars what do; I it amount to? Can any member n I the House lay his hand upon his heart, and fay, that either of these iutr.s would an fiver the purpose of effectual defence for the whole sea coa(l of the United States. Mr. G. hoped the chairman of the committee of aggref lions would not misconceive him;he meant no lefietlion oti the committee or its chairman. He avowed his be lief that the comfiiittee meant to dis charge their duty—but they muff for give me said Mr. G. if I too led the necessity of doing mine. Both resolutions were adopted; the firfi without a division, and the second, Ayes 93. When the committee refr, and the Hcufe acrced to the refolu *■ c-> tions, which were referred to the fame committee that introduce them to bring in a bill. IN CO UN Cl 1,, RESOLVED, that frojn and after the 241'j flay of ibe present month, until the 2d day of J.v u-ny next, not more than two negroes from one and the fame plan, lotion fhaii be permitted to ccmejnto tbs city on the fame day or night; and that if more than two negroes belonging to the lame plantation lh.!l be seen, or found within the limits of the city, on any o’ay |or night from the 24th 2nit. to the ad day next, even though they truy j have-tickets, they fitoSl be taken up, atii ; itnprif.med by the City Matfhaf, Superir:- tendant oi the City Guard, or any of the City Conflahk's, and {hail remain in prifa-2 until th y Ihaii be regularly dtfcuatgvd and colts paid. Ordered, that the City Matfha! do Coll on three Conllabies, to aflifl him in carry ing this retoiution into cif if. Lxtrafl from the minutes. D. D. WILLIAMS, c.c. December 22 £7 In Council, MONDAY, 1 4-h Deeem K e-, rS.-W ORDERFD, That cn Mcut!ay the ‘SL-'th r-ft tl,tt the City Council will, pr eeed to the Ekcti 11 T DEPUTY GOALBK, vice W;l!iam Simmonn, relics ed, with a faiary of five Hundred Dollars per annum. Candidates, who villi to spi iy for the Office, Will iot* ward their petitions 10 the City Clerk. Extract from the Mfiia’rs D U WIOLIAMS, C. C. T' < 01 ror bale, SEVERAL valuable Traila of Land m M lotos!), Glen and Camden Cour.tie--. A prime gang of feuf med Negroes. An excellent houie Wench. A complete fikooner rigged Planter’* s B at, of t-afy draught of water, fills v sass, and will carry 10 Tales of Cotton. A 1 so, an .excellent Cyprcfs Ca^ne. And a cor.lt ant (npply of New.Yotf; pa ■ tent navy BREAD* • M. SHEARER. OBober 16—67 ‘ Belton's Wharf. | NOTICE. j ‘ITTAMTS a fithation on a Cotton or Rice Plrcyla ! VV tton, a mars who tmdrrftand* the culture of j Cotton and Rice, and tyliocati bring good rcconUu.eti* j dtion. Enquire it this Otlkc. • j December i 5 S 1 _ FOUND, A batidfome DOG—The owner, by cdliusr ■' , - thii Office, eta chuta information reCpccTm;hen. Dec. tr 8?