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Tf.e committee, therefore, sub
mit the following resolution :
Resolved , That the further con
sideration of the message be pod*
poned until the next feflion of con
. gress.
Mr. Bibb, from the fame com
mittee, reported a bill further to
provide for the colle&ion of the
duties on imports and tonnage ;
which was read.
The committee on military af
fairs reported a bill providing—
That the Military Peace Eftab
lilhment shall consist of such pro
portions of Artillery, Infantry, and
Riflemen, not exceeding in the
whole ten thousand men , as the Pre
sident lhall think proper; the troops
of Engineers to be retained. The
general officers, to consist of two
Major Generals and four Brigadier
Generals.— The president to cause
selections to be made of officers from
the existing force, and to cause the
Tupernomcrary officers to be dis
charged as soon as circumstances
fljall permit.
House of Representatives.
Monday, February 22.
Military and Creek Lands.
Mr. Harris moved the adoption
of the following resolution :
Resolved, That the committee
on the Pubic Lands be inftru&ed
to report a bill with provisions for
.having the boundary lines of the
lands ceded to the United States
by the Creek Treaty recently rati
fied run and marked, and having
the fame laid off into fe&ions and
fe&ions, preparatory to the
sale thereof, and for making an
appropriation for defraying the ex
penses incident thereto.
Mr. Humphreys remarked, that
there was already in existence a
general law authorising the laying
off lands, &c. and that so much of
this resolve as embraced that ob
j;e& was not neceflary ; an appro
priation of money only was neces
sary to enable the President to cax
yy the law into effeft.
Tuesday Feb. 28.
Mr. Fisk of N. Y. from the com
mittee appointed on the fubjeft,
reported a bill to alter the time for
the next meeting of Congrefs*(fix
ing it for the fourth Monday in
May next.) The bill was twice
read and committed.
Mr. Pleasants , from the Naval
Committee, reported a bill author
izing the Board of Naval Commif
iioners to appoint Clerks ; which
was twice read and committed.
The Speaker laid before the
house a letter transmitting an ac
count of the receipts and expendi
tures of the government for the
year 1813.
The bill from the Senate to pro
vide for exploring Chesapeake Bay
and its waters, for the purposes
therein mentioned, was twice read
and committed.
The bill from the Senate to pro
vide for afeertaining and surveying
the boundary lines fixed by the
Treaty with the Creek Indians, &
for other purposes, was twice read
and committed. -
sr.The bill frc*u the Senate to re
peal certain acts therein mentioned,
was twice read and referred to the
commiitee on Foreign relations.
The galleries of the house were
then cleared, and its doors closed,
and remained so for more than 4
hours. When the doors were a
sain op^ed*
‘The house resumed the ccni'de
ratiort of the bill fixing the Milita
ry Peace Establishment.
Mr. Cannon withdrew his mo
tion which was under consideration
when the house yesterday adjourn
ed.
A motion was made by Mr. Al
ston to reconsider the vote for stri
king out the donation in land to
officers who shall be difeharged
from service in consequence of this
a (ft, or to the representatives of
! such as have fallen.
After debate, the question of re
consideration was decided in the af
firmative as follows :
For consideration 64
Again ft it 50
The question recurring on fin
king cut the fame part of the bill—
Mr. Gaston moved to amend the
said sixth feftion so as to limit the
donation to such of the difeharged
officers as have by name been
thanked by Congress, or have been
brevened, or have been wounded
during the war.—Negatived.
Oil motion of Mr. Macon, the
donation to field officers was redu
ced, the Major-Generals to 1280,
Brig. Generals to 1120, Colonels,
to 960, and Majors to 800 acres
each.
And the question to strike out
the donation clause (thus amended)
was negatived.
The bill was then ordered to be
engrossed for a third reading.
And the house adjourned at fun
down after a session cf more than
seven hours.
AN ACT
For the protection of the commerce
of the United States against the
Algerine cruisers.
Whereas, the Dey cf Algiers
on the coast of Barbary has com
menced a predatory warfare against
the United States—
BE it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives cf the Uni
ted States in Congress assembled,
That it shall be lawful, fully to e
quip, officer man and employ such
of the armed vefiels of the U. States
for prote&ing effe&ually the com
merce and leatnen thereof on the
Atlantic ocean ; the Mediterranean
and adjoining seas.
§ 2. And be it further enacted,
That it shall be lawfulfor the Pre
sident of the United States,, to in
ftrud the commanders of the ref- *
peflive public vefiels aforefaid, to
subdue, seize, and make prize of
all vefiels, goods and efFecis of or
belonging to the Dey of Algiers,
or to his fubjedts, and to bring or
fend the fame into port, to be pro
ceeded against and distributed ac
cording to law ; and, also, to cause
to be done all such other adts of
precaution or hostility, as the state
of war will juftiry, and may in his
opinion require.
§ 3. And be it further enacted,
That on the application of the own
ers of private armed vefiels of the
United States, the President of the
United States may grant them spe
cial com millions in the form which
he shall diredt under the seal of the
United States ; and such private
armed veflfels, whenfo commiffiou
ed, shall have the like authority for
subduing, seizing, taking & bring,
ing into port any Algerine vefiel,
goods or efiedfs. as the before-men
tioned public aimied vefiels may by
law have; and shall therein be fub
jedt to the inftrudtions which may
be given by the President of the
i United States for the regulation o(
their conduce fznd their commit
fions fiiall be revocable at his plea
sure. Provided, That before any
commifiion shall be granted as a
forefaid the owner or owners cf the
vefiel for which the fame maybe
requested, and the commander
thereof for, the time being, shall
give bond to the United States,
with at ieaft two responsible fure
tieis, not interested in such vefiels,
in the penal sum of seven thousand
dollars, or if such vefiel be provi
ded vwtuh more than one hundred
and fifty men, in the penal sum of
fourteen thousand dollars, with
condition for observing the treaties
and laws of the United States, and
the inftrudtions v/hich may be giv
en as aforefaid, and also for fatis
fying all damages & injuries which
shall be done contrary to the tenor
thereof, by such commiflioned ves
sel, and for delivering up the com
mission when revoked by the Pre
sident of the United States.
§ 4. And be it further enacted,
That any Algerine vefiel, goods or
efredts which may be so captured
and brought into port, by any pri
vate armed vefiel of the U. States,
duly coiiin.rnioned as aforefaid, may
be adjudged good prize, and there
upon shall accrue to the owners,
and men of the capturing vefiels
and shall be distributed according
to the agreement which {hall have
been made between them, or, in
failure of such agreement, accor
ding to the diferetion •of the court
having cognizance of the capture.
1 Arriva’ of Commodore Deed
's
lur.
New York, Feb. 25.
We announce the return of this
naval hero to his country and his
family, with do ordinary emotions
cf pleasure. He was landed at N.
London last Wednesday from the
NarciiTus frigate, capt. Gordon, in
14 days from Bermuda. Lieut.
Shubrick, Mr. Rohinfon, Midship
man Cramer, all late of the U. S.
frigate President; and Capt. Wil
liams, late of the feftr. Armistice,
were landed at the fame time from
the Padlolus frigate, and reached
town last evening in the eastern
stage. On Commodore Decatur’s
landing, the populace placed in a
carriage and drew him through the
principal streets of Nevv-London,
amidst the shout of huzzas of thou
sands of the citizens of that town
and the neighbouring metropolis.
On felting him down at Brown’s
Hotel, the Commodore attempted
to add refs the multitude, but the
acclamations were so loud and in
ceflant that he could not be heard.
In the evening, we understand the
: Commodore, together with Ad
■ miral Kotham, and a number of
other.officers belonging to the Bri
tish squadron off New-London, at
tended a splendid ball which was,
got up in celebration of peace and
the birth day of the father of our
country.
As the President entered the
harbor of Bermuda, and came in
view of the immense crowds of
fpeefcators assembled at the wharves,
they rent the air with their fliouts
of joy.
February 23.
Arrived since our last, the
private armed schooner Whig,
(noticed in our last,) Joseph
Skinner, Esq. commander,
from £ cruize pf 23 days,
V > ‘ ‘ .s’
with a cargo of 7 5 package*,
cf dry goods, supposed to be
worth 60 or 70,000 dollars.
January 5, had an engage
ment with a Tkritish packet for
about 2 hours, within musket
shot, and had two men slight
ly wounded. The packet had
14 guns and 80 men, 8c made
her escape.
London, Dec, 8.
1 he report now is that Bonaparte
is to be removed to the Britifii liL
and of St. Helena.
Notwithstanding reports to tbs
contrary, the duke of Wellington
will remain ambassador to Paris.
December : 7,
The Turks have impaiea 42
Christians in Servia, and had avast
number in prison destined for the
fame fate. The grand feignor has
seized upon the property, (feverai
millions) of Solomon Lipman Be
gender, a moft benevolent Jew, who
fed 8000 of his diftrdfed nation in
a time of scarcity. Throughout
the Ottoman empire, .the Jews and
Christians, forming a very large
pouion of the population, are. treat
ed with a degree of oppression
yond the conception, of those who
have not witnefied it. Mahome
tan superstition is.a .gradle for the
plague, as they scruple apy attempt
to it. Tbefe are,. ; £adts
worthy the attention of ChfSfleo*
dom, its princes and its press.
, r 1 n . _
Congress.— Yesterday was the last
day of the prefcnt session of Con
gress, and we may be thankful to
Providence for it.—We have never,
witnefied as much weakness in any
previous Congress as we were com
pelled to fee of the present—it was
almost beyond forbearance—So
much temporifing, so much talk*
and so much money spent, and so
little done. Oh fhatne where is
thy bluffi—Oh talkers where is
your patriotism.
Republican Gazette .
The Algerines have declared war,
it is said aginft Napoleon Bona*
parte, and have given strict orders
to their cruisers to seize the Ex-
E m peror if possible.
m:
Orders have been Hiked for the
difeharge of ail the militia, volun
teers and detachments now in few*
vice.
Preparations are making to di£?.
charge, as soon as possible, all foU
diers enlisted for during the war.
lb.
Njew-Orleans, Jan.
OnTuefdaywe celebrated, in as
splendid a manner as possible, our
victory and the defeat of the ene
my, by the performance of tha
Catholic religious ceremony of Te
Deutn, at which Gen. Jackson as
sisted ; and a procession of ladies
honored him with a triumphal arc It.
eredted in the square in front of the
church, thro’ which he had to pafa
in his way to the city where he
was received by the city volunteer
corps and t 8 virgins, representing
the 18 states, and in passing under
the arch he was crowned by two
infants representing the goddess of
Liberty and Justice. The remain
der of the day was spent in hilarity,
and in the evening an illumination
end public balls took place.
