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CONGRESS.
House or Representatives.
MAH'. !l 16.
After the reeption u:,cl reference of vari
ous pet tions, amongst which was one pre
sents.! by Mr J. wett, from sundry inhabit
ants of he Green .Mountains in Vermont,
praving u repeal ot tls duty on imported
salt :
A committee offive members was appoint
ed, on motion of Mr Forney, to require into
the exprdii- cv of increasing the salary ot
the clerk of the house of renreseotaiiyes.
Tile engru.-.ed bill for the relict ol Kras
fits Loomis ; the engrossed hill making ter
ther provision tor settling clairttr, to land in
the I linois Tee- urn-v ; and tlK* engrossed
bill for the relief of certain claimants ty
lands in the district of Vincennes, wereseve
lallv read the third time and passed.
Tee house took up die bill front the sen
ate, relative to < vldetice in cases of naturali
sation, as amended, passed and returned to
the senate
The lionse then went into committee of
the whole, Mr Moore in the chair, on the
bill providing for quieting and adjusting
certain land claim in llie Mississippi Terri
tory.
Amotion made bv Mr Strong to strike
out the Hast section, produced a good deal
of debate on the inert sos the bill, from
which w extract the so lowing subs 1 antral
view of the questi. ai: After the treaty of
178.3, that is in 1795, when the U. 8. took
possession of tit'” Mississippi country, they
found certain settlers ort lands, who had set
tled under Spanish grants, issued when
.Spain was possessed of the country. The
IT. fi. without demanding Any equivalent
the fir, relinquished to those letliers all
the right acquired by the treaty of 1783,
but without warranting them in the title—
subsequent l.j however, certain pern* ns hold
ing patents under the British government,
set up a claim to these lands, as having tiie
elder title, and the actual settlers, those
holding under the Spanish grants, petition
the U. S. to examine and decide th - claims
of the British grantees, and If it be adjudged
that tliev have the stronger title, that their
claims ruav be satisfied by an equivalent
grant of public land elsewhere The bill re
po-led by the committee on the public lands
to whom the petition was reiered, and now
undiT consideration, provides that the Se
cretary of State, the Attorney General, and
the Commissioner of the General Land 01-
fic.e, be authorised to examine the disputed
claims, and decide thereon according to law,
as soon as the claims to 140.000 acres have
been filed for decision, that it the claim f
the British grantee should in any case be
confirmed, the Commissioner of the Land
Office shall issue itis Cer'ificate for the a
l*Mti o. thereof, which Certificate shall be u
final satisfaction ol his claim, afitl shall he
received in payment for any of the public
lands oft he U. S. at the ran of iWo doiluis
per acre fur every acie of the Certificate ;
that no claim shall he filed under ‘his Act,
which has been barred by any former law,
tnd that the decision of the Cummissioi.t,.
shall be final and conclusive.
Tin- on ton to strike out the first sectioi.
being a vital one, gave rise ’o the debate a
foovc m> ntioned, in wntclt Mr Strong, Writ. :v
Fo‘">y!h Jackson and Ross supported ‘■'>
mo'.ioo, and ot course opposed the-bill ar.-..
Air ICilx r s jo, M’Kre, Johnson, Clark, o,‘
K\ I’.cker ng, Li'iitnore and Ho]ik,os.
spoke against s iking out the section. M
Cl.i. ids.i, on a ■ lbs q lent morion, advoca
t-Alie id Toe qmturn was finally dete
mined against si iking out trie section ; an
ter some fu • her unsuccessful attempts
itK itd the bill, the coninmtec rose, rep . -
cl progress, and tilt house adjourned.
■ St —i ii .....
FOR R f g N.
YF? Y LATE FKOM ENGLAND
MEW YORK, M4K, 9*
Lad evening arrived at this port,
the elegant fait failing ihip Integrity,
cap’ GiUenHer, from Liverpool,
whence (lie failed on the lit ot Feb ;
and from the Rock on the7ch ; ma
king her passage only 29 days.
Capt G has favored’ the editors
of the Mercantile Advertiser with
Liverpool papers to the !ft pf Feb;
London to ;he 30th of Jan ; and
LL'iyd’s I -ills to the 23d. We have
copied ;he molt prominent and in
terelting articles.
•The Niger frigate failed from
Po'tftriouth on tho 28th of Jan with
the britilh mlnilter, for the U. S. of
America.
LONDON jan 29.
French papers arrived yesterday
and this forenoon we received the
Pans Journals of the 27th ihft.
The political arrests are still con
tinued with an atlivity, and in such
numbers, as to evince that the gov
eminent is its the utmost dread of a
con ulfion. Armed forces are em
ployed for the purpose of making
these arrests, and handing over he
luf ied’ and perlon to the civil au : ho
nties. 1- is aifo evident, that the
sea s ts the government are not ill
sou t led. a proof that the police, nu
m; >u a. tin, aT'.Ve body is, ar.j
ryfufijcient to prevent the elements
of popular vengeance from collect
ing, and threatening-the’mbditiiieful
catastrophes ; yet the departure of
the foreign force is again spoken of.
The fatisfatlion pre
fence of onr countrymen inarms,
who have conferred so manybieff
ings on the French r.a ion, tv re
storing the Bourbons, alfordsto the
French people* may be eftimat’d by
the solicitude winch iT
fliows to convince its a ,
speedy departure of ‘heir deliverers i
It is now itsrad, tint all the English
troops will have reached then defti
nations by the Ift of F-b ;of course
that they are to be withdrawn from
the capital, a measure as unlikely as
it would be dangerous to the Bour
bon'authority ; and, [till more for
tunate circufnftance, “he weather has
relaxed and allowed feme of the re
giments that were on their return to
embark for England I Ihe British
artillery, however, are dill menacing
the Fauxbourgs, and Handing watch
St the gates of St Denis.
DECEMBER if.
A defaulter in the ‘collection of
the French raxes lately decamped ro
England, with bills on London to
the amount of 10,000 £. iterling.
He got them difeounted, r vl ship
ped at Falmouth for A
nays before he was TotTgl PtfeTn j
England by the French government
January IS.
We regret to learn that so die as
the 24th of lalt month, frefh tftur
bances broke out at Sonamieres four
leagues from Nifmes, (in Fhnce)
and that in othfcr places, ir the
neighborhood, the perfecuiinglnirit
of the b'gots was only kept and T n by
the prefer.ee of an vmed forip.
JANUARY 30.
It by the daily bii’eton,
that the prince regent recover, very
(lowly from his goufty arrack,arid is
Itill inconvenienced by fome cf the
usual consequences of that punful
and Border.
Safety ofTheking.
VERBAL INFORMATiOy;.
An intelligent paiTenger io me A
lexander, informs us, that just pefore
tailing, it was reported, that LQUIS
XVIII feeimg himfelf Fety insecure
cut account of the seditious afpedl of
.he city of Paris, rcquefled of Lord .
Wellington 8,000 troops, as a check
upon ihe French, and a guard for his
own person. To which, his lordftiip
replied, that utalefs tiie National
*uard were completely disarmed,
such a mearfure, in the present feei
ng of the people, might lead to
doodlhed—but expressed his will
t gnefs to fend into the city 18,000
aen i o this measure Louis con
fented, adding that as it would Be ra
ther difficult the National Guards,
his lordfliip might fend to his afTtft
ance 25,000 men. Wellington, ~c
cordingly, was mn.king
o re-march that number of troops
int* the city. (Char S.Patsict.
Paris dec. 26,
Budget for 18)6. It appears,
(hat for the service of the year 1818,
the sum of 800.000,000 of francs
will be required Os this sum,
524,700.000 are for the ordinary ex
penses of government, and 275.300
000 for the support of the al ied
troops, and the payment of one-fifth
of the war contribution of 700
millions
FEBRUARY 28.
FROM PORT AU PRINCE.
Capt Buck, of the Richmond Pac
ket, informs us, that aniexpedition,
confuting of about 5,000 men, molt
ly thole who had recently fled from
Caniiagena, war collecting at Aux
Cayes, undeit the jnuttv^knm i sr- %r
tiun, with a view of makh a de j
(cent on fome part of the t panilh i
Maine. _ . ■
A lew days before Capt E left
Port an Prince, a report reached that
place, that the Revolutionills had
taken the Caraccas [ The report;;
is dtferedited by late accounts fror. t
Caraccas via Havanua ] fc
FROM St.DO MINGO.
A friend who has jult arrived
from the kingdom of Ilayii, h s
furniilied us with the Royal Ga
zette ot that State, a variety of
printed documents, proclama
tions, &c. from the Royal Press
oi Cape Henry, [Francois] and
verbal intelligence of the date of
| (he coyntry. King Henry (Chri
■ (tophe) was at peace with Petion
i and the world, regulating the ci
vil policy of his extensive territo
ries, and encouraging the pro
gress ot cultivation, and the arts
and sciences. His residence is at
the palace of Sans Souci, in a
town built by him undeda moun
tain thirty miles from the Cape,
highly cultivated and defended
by works covered with three hun
dred and sixty pieces of cannon.
The population of his fubjedts
enereafe rapidly, and it is lup
pofed he has one hundred and
fifty thousand men able to bear
arms (Petion is said to have two
bun red thousand) The Crown
ot King Henry had lately been
received from I ondon, where it
colt twenty eght thousand dol
lars, exciufive of the diamonds,
which his fable majesty furnifhed
himfelL His State-Coach had
•
also arrived, and is a fiiperb car
riage built st the expence of
eighteen thousand dollars in Eng
land. Schools and Academies
are patronized by him, and he
is about commencing the erec
tion of a College, for which he
has sent to Europe for twenty
Profefibrs or Inftvu&ors. A con
contract for eight cargoes of ium
her from this country for the
completion of the Collegiate
buildings, we have seen. Com
rm rce and the culture of the foil
A>erc improving in his dominions.
Strangers on mercantile bufmefs
are treated honorably ; and the
Kingdom fifing in power and
refpe&ability. The iff and 2d
of January, the thirteenth anni
versary of the Liberty and Inde
pendence of Hayti, was celebra
ted with the greatelf solemnity
and magnificence at the city of
Sans Souci, by a procelfion, re
view, mass, levee, addrefles, feaft,
illuminations, &c. A roll of the
Knights of the royal and miltary
order of St. Henry is given in
one of the papers, and a lift of
fifty foreign vefiels which failed
from Cape Henry from the iff
of July to the 9th ot November
laffc. A catalogue of the Princes,
Dukes, Counts, and Barons,
dignitaries of the Empire, is
found in foirfe of thepublications.
Notwithflanding the ceflation of
arms, a paper-war feenis to be
direded from Chriftoplie’s press
againU Petion—and the pamph
lets, journals, &c. are written and
printed in a relpedable fiyle.
L— - - (COLUMBIAN.
DOMESTIC. _
CHARLESTON, feb. 29.
The court of Common Pleas dol
ed Its term on Saturday lalt. To
lodge Smith belongs the honor ot
going through at one term, the whole
docket; an achievement not acccm
ptilhed by any of his predeceflbrs
for many years. Seven hundred and
sixty-sour verdi&s were obtained cn
the i:Tue docket, many confeflions of
judgment, and numerous non suits ;
without mentioning those on the in
quiry docket. It is considered an e
poch in jurisprudence ; and the gen-
Uernen of the bar celt as a
jubilee, by giving to JudgeSif!pH||p
eN'-emt diWr. (:;> They manage
tli.’te matters better than we do.
( P and. Nftvi )
PRESIDENT'S ELECTION’/
The Legiststu eof Kentucky hai
recently adjourned, after a ceflion of
ttn weeks, and the writer of th.is ar
tide is well known to its members,
and call aflert, that so far as theiy
opinions were afeertained, four fifft.g
of that body were decidedly in f:ivc?
of Col. Monroe.
It is also a fad we!! afeertained,
when Controls convened, a mod de
cided majoriiy of the Repubiicana
were in favor of his election.
The feat of Government of the
State cf Ohio wjll be removed to
Columbus, in October next, pursu
ant to an Act of the Legislature of
that S r are,
The bi’l lately before Congress to
repeal the Act laying duties on cer
tain articles of home manufacture,
hats, boots, &c. has become a law.
Thomas Jefterfon, efq, has decline
ed accepting the appointment a one
of the Directors of tiie F3i ard of Pub
lic Work, recently instituted by the
Legislature of Virginia.
An extenlive cave of Epsom Salt
has lately been difeovered about 36
miles from Louifviile, K The cave
to all appearenCe, ir inexhaufi ible.
Gen. Jack'on, accompanied by
several officers of the United States’
army, left this place for Mobile, on
Monday lalt. We are unacquainted
with the objefts of his visit to that
point; but presume it is for the pur
pose of eftablifliing foTficatior - j &c 0
( Nnjh. IVhig 2 c ,th ult.
THE With bridge.
A? the wire bridge seems io excited
considerable enriosp perhaps a description
of it may not be unacceptable vour read
ers. It is supported by six ‘.vires, each .3 8
of an inch in diameter—three on each side
of the bridge—these wire,s extend front‘he
g-arret windows of the Wire Factory to a
tree ort tiie opposite shore, which is braced
by wires in tiire- directions The floor
rimbers are two feet ioc.g, or.e.inch bv three,
suspended in a horizontal line, atirrtms,
of Nil. 6. wire, at the ends ofth- bridge, and
No. 9.0 t t lie centre, from the curved wires.
Tile floor is J 8 incites wide, of inch board,
secured to the floor timbers bv uafls, except
where tbe ends of the hoards meet. ; here in
additron to’ the nails, the boards, are kept
from separating; by wire tic# There is a
board, six inches wiiie on its t dge on each
side of the briclpfe, to wliicii the floor tint
hers oh each'side are likewise, seen red by
wires. Three .wires stretched -b each side
of the bridge along the stirrups <0 a'barrier
to prevent persons from failing off. The
flour is 16 feel from the water, and 400 feet
inieng h. The distance between tiie two
points of suspension of the bridge, is 409
feet.
The whole weight of tiie wire is 1314 lbs.
Dp. do. wood work 3580
Do. do. wrought nails 8
Total weight of the bridge 4702
Four men Would do the work of a similar
bridge in two weeks of good weather, and
the whole expense would be about % 300.
. . vv. nr.
(tVe have walked over the wire b idge,
and felt confident of its security. Where
the span would not be so great as at tiie
Scuylkiil. we apprehend that a tvire.bridgfc
would be cheaper, and as safe and durable
as any other for foot passengers.)
THfE NAVY.
Vfe observe that the committee on naval
affairs have reported a b ll for the gradual
increase of tiie navy. By this bill, one milli
on of dollars is appropriated annually for 8
years, tor this object. The president is au
thorized io purchase timber, &.c. and build
9 ships to rale 74*guns, tint! 12 ships to rale
44 guns, to purchase steam engines, and o
ther imperishable materials, for tim e steam
batteries—i|o for ‘he waters of the Chesa
peake, and one for New Orleans.
A person lias petitioned the Legislature of
New York, fora loan of four thousand dol
lars, to facilitate tiie manufacturing of
weavers’ reeds,
A petition lias been presented for encou
rage mentof the manufacture of maple suga>.
The Houle of Reprefer.taiives
were engaged on Friday last on the
Bank bill. A motion to llrike out
so much of the firft fec’ion as allow
ed the Government of the United
States to fubferibe for 70,000 (hares
of the (lock, was rejected. For the
amendment 38, ag&infl it 61.
(Rich Ever
A man by the name of White lately rect iv.
ed from the Treasury of Bucks county, (P.)
59 dollars as bounty for killing 1799 crows.
Tiie United States have paid the S’ate nf
Virginia 600,000 dollars of tl.e debt due to
that Slate, lor expenses incured in the late
war.
A patrol of citizens lias been established
a'. Charleston, S. C. in coosi quence of ti e
numerous robberies committed in that citv,
and tiie incendiary attempts.