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•€ OJSfCi i& M SB* In Sen February 9. Tile Senate resumed the oon 'sbleraticm of the bill to reward the Outers and crew of the late U. F>. briar Argus (lor services prior to her capture by the iate enemy} —and. on motion of Mr. Tait, the b ll was postponed to the first Monday m July next (equivalent to rejection.) For postponement ——Messrs. Dibb, Gail lard, King, I.acock, Macon, Mason, of N. H. Mor row, Roberts,Talbc , Tait, Tay lor, Thompson,Turner, Varnum, 1 v eils, Williams, Wilson—>l3. Against ike postponement \ Messrs. Barry, Brown, Chace, 5 Condit. Daggett, Dana, Fromen t n, Golds bo rough, Harper, Hor sey, Howell, Mason of Va. San- : surd, Tiehenor—l4. Lite Senate then resumed the consideration, of the amendments •<,f the House of Representatives to the bill concerning the convert* I non to re.guH.te the commerce be-{ tween the territories of the ; V , j St. tes and his Britannic Majesty. Considerable debate took place j on the subject ; various modiii-i u cations were suggested to the a-j amendments, by those who were* not disposed to refuse to legislate vU ah on the subject. A motion Was made by Mr. j King to postpone the further con- ; It ratio nos the amendments and 1 •he bill indefinitely, After d>! bate, the question on this motion] was decided as follows : 2 or the postponement for nyec* I ran) Messrs. Barbour, Brown, I Chase, Daggett, Fromentin, Gail-j lard, Goldsborough, Horsey,) 11 owell, Hunter, King, Mason,! otN.B, Sanford, Talbot,Thomp-1 son, Tichenor, furrier-—l 7. Against it— —-Messrs. Barry, Bibb, Campbell, Condit, Dana,’ Harper, 1 .acock, Macon, Mason •of Ya, Morrow, Roberts, Bug gies, Tait, Tavlcr, Varnum, Wells, Williams, Wilson—lß. The further consideration of the bill was then postponed.— The Senate adjourned to Mon day. February 12. ‘ The Senate were principally occupied to day on the amend ments of the blouse cf Repre sentatives to their bill concern inrr the commerc'd treaty—— on j whtC'i subject a highly interest-! iiig a bate took place. At. length! ice Senate by a large majority,! rejected the amendments of the* House. The • bill now stands j precisely in the shape in which it j passed the Senate; and in thatj shape returns to the House oi; Representatives. House of Representatives, Feb . Q. CIRCULATING MEDIUM, &CC. Mr. Ward of Mass. submitted for consideration the following resolutions; Resolved, That ail duties, im posts and excises laid by Con gress, ought not only to be laid uniformly throughout the Uniter Mates, agreeably to the provi You m the constitution, but ought to l a eolk eu ewin ail part* n . tuv. LTnted in ’-.uics tn die sanx currency, nrln currencies eqliiva ent in value. Resolved, That the Secretary >fthe Treasury be instructed to receive, alone, in payment of du des, imposts and excises and debts due to the United States, gold, -silver and copper coin, trea sury notes, and the notes of such banks as pay specie for their bids, [excepting in cases in which it is [otherwise provided by law. Mr. Ward briefly assigned his ! reasons for offering these propo i sitions, which will be found con cisely and clearly stated in the first, of the above resolutions. Mr. Smith of Md. rose to speak —-but, on motion of Mr. Tucker, the resolutions were laid on the table for the present. E ‘juiry respecting Office. &c. Mr. Randolph submitted for consideration his promised mo- [ tion for an enquiry into the con-j stituiionaliiy of the appointment) of General Porter, which after aj long debate, was modified and a-j greed to in the following words : j Resolved, That a committee be appointed to enquire, Whether the appointment to, and accept ance by the honorable Peter B Porter, late a member of this bouse, from the state of Nevv- York, of the office of'Commissi oner under the late treaty at Ghent, is in contravention of the constitution of the United States. THE REVENUE. | The house then resumed the j I consideration 61 the report of the I committee of the -whole on the : remaining proposition of the corn*, mittee of Way's and Means. The proposition respecting the i duty cn distillation (to repeal the , duty on the quantity of spirits r distilled, arid to add 100 per cent, to the present tax on the capacity of the st ill') first came up. Mr. Throop moved to amend! the proposition by striking oat 100 and inserting 50 in lieu! thereof, so as to reduce the t.l- ; divioual capacity tax from 100 to 1 50 per cent, on the existing duty. This motion was decided with-” outdebate. by the following vote A For the amendment, 75 Against it, 70 ! So the amendment was agreed | to. Mr. Goldsborough then mov- ? ed further to amend the resolve! so as to exempt from this addi-S tion to the capacity tax on stffbJ such stills as shall be wholly em ployed in the distillation of spirits derived from fruit and roots. This motion \vas opposed by Mr. Lowndes and Mr. Ross (by the latter on the ground of the! impossibility of guarding the du* j ty liius modified, from evasion)! —and was negatived, by Yeas & Nays-—lO7 to 36. February 12. The Canadian Ref ugees* The House resolved itself into a committee of the whole, Mr. Condit in the chair, on the bill ‘or the relief of certain refugees from the British provinces during the late war. Several papers were read re pect-ng their merits Ik services, among which was • ft-very strong cstimony to their merits, Lev :rom Gen. Porter, lately a mem ber of this house. This bill gave rise to a rather animated debate, in which the claim of the petitioners to indem niiy-or compensation was sustain ed by Messrs. Throop, Yates, Wright, Gold and Johnson of K. and opposed by Messrs. Huibert, Webster and Brooks. This case has been fully pre sented Yo our readers in the shape of the petition of the com j mittee on behalf of these suffer-! ers. Their claim is precisely ofj a character, as the reporter un-j derstands it, with that for which! ample provision was made for those at the Revolutionary war They were natives of this coun try, and, at the breaking out of f the war, preferred rangingthem-l selves under the banners of their j [native country,than that to which, j j for the purposes of business they: | had assumed a temporary alle-j j giance. j The opponents of the billj j (which proposes to compensate the claimants 5 losses bvdonations of land) oppose it as rewarding treachery, as poisoning the foun tains of morality, and vise those general expressions cf dislike, & even detestation, which such a bill is likely to call forth from those who view it in so odious a ’% h! - . I he bill was not decided on ; but on motion of Mr. Johnson,; laid on the table. | The committee then proceed i ed to the consideration of another i bill, makihg further provis onfor ,the widows and orphans of those ; who fell in ■’the late war j T he House were occupied on [this subject till the usual hour of adjournment. ALGERINE AFFAIRS. Extract of a letter from an Amer ican Naval officer , to hv f fiend j in Baltim ore, dated Port Mahon, ’ Nov. Hi. 1315. • ! “When I last wrote yon from ! Cibralter, I had not the least idea that my next would be from this pan of the Mediterranean, as I ■ had led you to believe We should [have sahe-d immediately for France I to- winter. —But we proceeded ’from Gibralter for Malaga, where Iwe remained three days, and sail [ed again on the 16th. uk.—the ! Commodore, with the store ship, S for Port M anon, and the Constitu- Ition, with the Ontario, from A1 jgiers, with dispatches from the Commodore. “On our arrival off Algiers, on the Ist inst. Mr. Shaler, our con* sul came off from the shore, and S informed us, that the Regency was [very favorably disposed towards -us; but that the Dry himself was [very dissatisfied with respect to {the prize brig not being returned as Commodore Decatur had prom ised him, and alledged, as a sub stantial reason for his dissatisfac tion that he had made a peace with us more favorable to the United States, than any of his predeces sors had ever made before with tny Christian power; observed -hat the people were not altogether atisfied with it; and as he was but young upon the throne, tht restoration of tlieYvo prizes was absolutely necessary to his popu larily ; that he had faithfully ob served and executed all that part of the treaty which related to him; that although the restoration of the two vessels was not a speci fication in the treaty, yet he con sidered Commodore Decatur’s promise of restoring them, as sa cred as if it had been; and that he felt, truly mortified, after a laps of four or five months, that Mr. Shaler could give him no satis factory answer whether the brig was to he returned to him or rot, or why she was, with her crew, detained at Carthagena. “ True it is, and strange as it may appear, Commodore Decani • \ sailed from Carthagena for the U fnited States without commun*’ca sting with cur consul at Algiers ‘since the peace, or even letting him know of the detention of the Trig by the Spanish government; | and aitho lie-had staked his pl edge !of honor, arc- even laying in the j ve v y port with the detained brig, did net give himself the least trou ble to enquire why she was de tained, ot what was her situation, “When the Dey was about to sign the treaty, and wished that the restoration of the two vessels should be specified in it, the Com* modore obj cted to any alteration being made whatever, but pledg ed his word, that they should be delivered at Algiers in their pres* ’ent situation, and would send ves jsels to escort them over in safety; that the returning them shotddl not be considered as a part of the treaty that the Dey should re ceive them as a present from the United States; so that Com mo de re Decatur has not only left his ’ own promise unexecuted, but has left our national honor at t-takc, in the eyes es the world. His indiff Terence to our Algerine affairs has been remarked with astonish ’ mem by every commander in the squadron. | .“The frigate was given up with* out any difficulty, but the Span iards kept the brig under a plea that she was captured in their wa ters, and in this situation she re* . mains at present. But Capt. : bliaw is himself going to Cartha genia, to demand an explanation of the .Spanish Governor as to I her detention. : “Mr. Shalt r gives the present ,} Dey the character of a dignified, ■ j noble and intelligent man truly {honorable in all his public trans actions, and in his private char acter worth v of imitation. i “For my own part, and under . present circumstances, I think he II has just cause for his displeasure \\ —-and most assuredly we ought >1 to have paid attention to this ma* Tter, as it contemplates the execu i ■ tion of the treaty with both par . ties, and is now the only obstacle ■ (in my opinion) to a permanent ■ peace with the Algerines. “We are now landing all our stores at this place, from the store i ships ; after toe completion of which the “ United States’* w ill proceed to Carihagenia ; the Qn- I tario, with our consuls, Mr. ■ Call and Major Barney, to Lt& horn, and this ship to Messina fol [cloathing,* (where it is iQ Life i k - V* - *