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I.'. '1 II) • 4 :A ' 4 / 4 , •J: ,, kie .4.1 di - % ' improper, as bring ca. Itilktdisi et e itiemlteoll abe t i t object of the petition keit' die . bpteatiort of:thr set should irritate ' Britain. - t 1 hencd this great respect for Great t:Wsin ? Was it &auto it her conduct ? Waa it. to the impress's's:44;a our brauueu, whom she iid retoisted foe 7 years 1 Was it due to the principle site had intecipohitrd into the law of nations, to the shetroction of neu tral commerce ? Wee it due to the blond of Anieri eons which she had spilt, and the outruyea coin mittcd on our public sad other vessels? Is. she, mild he s entitled to respect front its for these ? And Yet Noutenseil tell ito this tneinorial contains revel:tin Eauguage! They no doubt felt the effects whit.* taiga rook from war, and be *is* wished for peace.* fist country ; but would never ',wahine it by atioiving to Great Britian. or any other power. • Mr. G. W. CASPAELL S as convinced the House would be of opinion that his application was, if not a direct, at least an indirect *emit on their digni ty. The petitioners state they are alarmed, to consequence of the high demands made by this Coverinnent on Great Britain, and that their alarms are increased by public rumour. !low do these petitioner. know the nature of the tansies which hare been matte ? and with what propriety do they state to this House their alarms en account of demands made by Grweriumeat be redrew, sr a time when the whole nation fret with indignation the insult which had ?mattered these dernanilsne cessart ? But slppose the Monte showld refer this petition ; it wonld be essential!!! iie.Twary, before they could act on.if; or remove those alarms eamplisined of, the they should know what those *wands were that occasioned them.— They could not decide. MI the subject with-' but knowing them ; and how were they to *too the information ? Negotiations ou die subject were now pending; the petitioners build not they're,* expect that an inquiry into the =tuns irtheolia‘waands would be made by this lisiwie, and u would cot hr consistent with the interest Of policy of the nation to Molar such in -94;17. lentil t h e result it those negoeintions was %Nowa. What benefit could therefore result to the retitimitT s in regard to the Intended ground of Mir iilanit2 mimeos their petition ? None. bet **Object the • to asi obtain a fe cal of dpe • act ; and they state as a nimas f or , • ' supeal. that the act is etaesiobllll to embirrsiii* of this rosin ed tbs. pea* ,•& Ilkwernmeut of . •If Ilenftlll.l.lloelket al this W . m wo# he tuiviimmii, ituedellor peti s Wipe -. still these retreat from the grossed we had previously ttecu pied--to relinquish the only measure of resistioce we had taken. After the murder of Pierce, and the still more leatherette& murder of his fellows eititehs in the Chesapeake (since the passage of that law and its suspetisiont, you are raided upon to re trace your steps--to decline all resistance—to shrink from :he cont..st—and virtually toy to Great Britain, •• we feel your chasti,..erneot, and we re gret that we hair taken any steno which iitav ir ritate your people or Gove rn ment." The pecyle of Anterioa r saitills..C., woad frown with indigo:4ot etintempt on a conduct dn. kiwi ; and even the people of Great Britain, 4 tiwy posseased the spirit et freemen, would feel a Outeinpl for a conduct PO • pusillanimous, so inconsident with the dignity of a natien. They could not do otherwise (however they might seem to ;tower the tntontre) than de spise the meanness of a people. who would make a chew of resistance is de ore of their injured rights, and, after repotted Millts, relinq u ish the contest, without reparation. and tamely nit to the moot liggrovated aggroniens. If we ere to deliberate on persulng such itasonduct—if we expressed a doabt on the peopeirti of rejecting with indigna tion such a oropositiot, we would justly merit and receive the universe everration of. the prottle of Americo Mr. C. ehecluded by declaring his de termination to votd against the ref*reisce of the pe tition. to ant Cningsittet—tind expressing has hope oast such reference *mad not be- agreed to by the Mb doe. Mr. Perri said, that in voting against the re fsersce of tills petition, he siiionld not comidet him sett as castiug a 1:4.90e on the presentitti it, or es violatinc the rigrit,W petitioning, a every man putses,e.l. (hi aeon only would indigent* him In his vote. frifid not consider filogresa nos 's...led of that iftleserstation which wouldiemiblo them to act off any subject relative to oar relations with Great Britain. Mr. J. CLAY conceived there was no necessity boom had paid i . iiroper reapert to the interest 4 of theist country . or k * dignity of this Home. they would not, at Oda time. hare and. thiosupplica- tien. Thelma* ot that aet Ins tbailitst step which had been taken by the Atureican Uslsernment. deelmateety of their determination to teat !gm*. Maw. orkiek boa been tong rentistwil on their com- merce and (interns. It was puma kir a very large intiorkv of the llouse, after a finslisrassims of its anatita.. At a subsequent session tts operatken was roopooded i nod en what Remand" On this exiles s.ciethen . which was officially made known hi the that Great Britain had manifeited a friend- . towards this emintry,and that ear dif- with that tuition were in a fair train of ami- beNalairent ; Mr.Ca!idevensaid,t he wr ad th o is tiv siiifonnations gierded awa6lol of the set, be belted not repealed it. Itat l olllldinte with a tie* teat*, in • proper num- *Pr =Rlpt4ll4i 1.6 WON sit the part of that nation. illart=4:lll.4Bol4llZes.erlenwlatesioto coz indued sintmismt to Amato iiita . ground aly maidanen eel they lisdtaken. a ibitsuk fain a Cri i it thane ammures fi rst ined on, lei Ilterallin for the a ' it of thlsensitruey, had not the oqpdiset of elllailain banns dear of aggravated insults' IA 1111•4=11011 been committed after .nave, in succession, and with in- emasul u strocity , ' . initil the climax of aggni- tated 'ay was completed by the attack an the ssrefice, Was it neressary to et, peat the einattestaners of this mitragr. which. far cowardly arrOonce, and delihrrate insult. alceeded i any thing of the kind ever yet known "tong etvilised nations. The univerwti iudigna. *in which it excited throughout the Union, still remains unabated, and would continue to do so while the mistme was unotoned ; and yet, under these eircumstances, said kir. V., we are called upon to a ailk_• • . _ fncesterlng into teecuttee enerete or to go i oto the office if rue Seeretory of Statce lie merely wished on inquiry into the petition. i Mr.,..Katt osstrii--.The right of pet i t i on s an inhereut right of the eitiseie recogisisied by the Coustitutem, utid during the time that lit bad held a mat io that Itouse. he remembered but a stogie easseitt which the refereutv of a petition had been refuted. it was Vegaotsctitiosi which had been m entioned . intuit /5.44ni51e0 had been brought tOrward, on this oecaston, to treat the petition of (sus - iudfgettQVl citizenewith ' calibuipt ? The example of that Parliament, whore invetenite corruption and stupidity laid' diemanbered the British Empire. llad lie eter expected to hear the conduct of Parliummit untll-r • Lord' North's Adatieistration roe Ards these then colonic., cited to juaity any proadure of that Home, in relation to its own pititeese 'pie frceruen of America had a tight to petition, to retire amoral , mid udeise, not snit w th respect to the past, hut to the future also. if thee dill not polies this right, how our the nation to Le unde ceived if on e it should be plunged into error Suppose a motion brought frowned in that !louse for a deelaration of war egainst Britain, should it not be competent to the people to 'lmmo atrium. Dull and temonstrances for or at rtiu4t it ? And could tiny man pretend to sav that the national wel fare and dignity would be loos involved in such a roc, torn iis u proposition to repeal that "thing of Aired% and leaches." the ion-importution which to this hour had never been put intoaewrm tion Ttei consideration of a memorial it one thing, compliance is soother. The suggestion of the 4:entlentan from South Cameos (Mr. D. It. Williams) was mellower:elite. if the petition is unreasonuble, if it requires. what it would be impolitic and • untlignitted in them to grant, it its weakness be exposed in a well &awe, masterlyreport, which might receive the enaction of the Horse. Wenld not this be more digniiked, in reality, as well as more satiefaetore,to all parties, than to skip the doors in the, petitioners feces. affecting the airs of Asiatic monerults..refusiug to listen tothe pruyessof their suleeetiwfor.ref4seds he must be allowtekto culrthem, if 'the Moue per- . shoed to treat them as dU:11. , • 4 • On the eve of a foreign war. they were trendiest . in the footsteps of the Brithilt. Mittistry at the Com mencemeist of our tevolutionary struggle, awl of the war with France,rbitth was-stispended by the truce of Amiens, turtling a slaw( esti to the prayers of their own people. The British Parliament would not listen to the petitions against the war. The commanding eloquence of Mr. Fox himself could not obtain a hearing---ho was obliged to quit the !louse of Commons: What followed ?--Ois the verge of the grin e. hew.* called, be the unanimous voice of his country, to repair, it possible,, those mischiefs against which he had vainly protested, and which he had fruitlessly laboured to avert. The Non-importation Act was a thing at this time so contemptible, that were a proposition made fol. its repeal, he would hardly gyve himself the trouble to vote for or against it. Did the Non importation law eonstiotte allttheir preparation for a war with Great Britain ?i' It was idle to attach any ire to its • . If they were. as he moist or lemnlvt=. to have a war with (Seem Britain, itiwisiood thaw, at the outset, to conciliate Pew by whom it weeto.be carried on—the whole body of the Allatitiellt people. Let us not, said Mr. IL, if we that have war, *et out on the principles with whi it Mr. Pitt end his majority began their war wit i France--ptineiples of proscription to all in cubi. Let nerthsehniesple of their arrogance and its bemillatiou be bet upon us. Mr. Lama patine LLD did not consider the pro priety of repealing the.set or not ; rhe cbuctused that would &rend alogether on the nature of the dispatches obeli might he received. Ile thought it peeper immure when it pawed, thou gk he wish to have gene farther t he was one of those who wished to pass a total non-importation law. The qmostimi of reference to the eninutittee of Commerce and Nlanufarturee was then taken by yeas dad nays :—Yees ho—,Asyt So the question far referenow.wws 105 t.., The SPLAKER said, if Ulf • further esiebe were taken on the suen iorial. it would lie 011thnitsdila of course. No further order being take% it woe beistrel .SO lie on the table. . • ...; e l f • DEC. 10 . The Bill from the Senate. eggeopriating a sum of money for the construction „of an additional number of gun-boats, was reud a third time. A deleite commenced, which continued till four teelterk. when the hone adjourned *idiom coming _to a decision. The noose did no other business. we. 11.. The della! e on the pasence of the Bill from the Spur, approffiat IN a snni of money for protiaing her of gte nn-boa. was reFutnetl awl COI ii tt Until nesethree o'clock. The ques tion ou its 11101111gP wits then talen, and curried— _ Mr. DAvi SON, from the Committee nppois2ell on the military and naval establivlinitsist4 of the Tnited State's. and to whore war referred the peti tion of the ()Hirer's of the American army praying for an anipnentatinn of their pay, reported the f - ro. Items' utioo - Resolvrel, That the prayer ut• the pet deters is reasonably and ought is le pimpled. -- - - Referred to• Coulmiftee of the whole flunw, and made the order for Momilay.—The !louse then ad journed tilt Monday morilllh eleven o'clock. 14 11"1".Y01111, DEC. 15. A Rll.l, Surflrosenttiry to the Art, iutitiiled rr An Act to prohibit Ilyr importatioe of orrtriu Goo d% Wares, and N.ichait- (haid the first and amid tiwe, old eimiseittea to a Oouirr. thr spiltelt Homes « TlNersdep wet.) - - - - - Ssc. I.—& it enacted by the Senate and I Intise ist'llepreisentatives of the United States of America, is That aathing the Act to *Well t is is a Suf ',phloem, shall be .o const Pie 3at to prohibit the importation of the follow iag artictri, that Sr to am :•-•-• Fina,Wrapper. and nut vide packages, in which Nose, the importation of which is not prohibited, aauatly are and shall be wrapped or packed at the the. if their importatiton. Sossowil..--Hegl or sailLs iA which salt *hull be imported. • Third: 2 -oa% bottles or phials in . ..olliNtiraO• o sUerfloilies, or au other otlwr alsicle, the.upportatiou of %OM:is is mg ibited, shall be imported. Fourth.— r hinted books, nial.a mitt charts. Fittli.—Watches, mathematical, totrouomical, and ourgiettl. - _ ClNSll.•••••7i.stranan and woollen stuffs. Sac.-3.--And he it further enacted, That the articles of the following description shall he held and considered as being embraced by the descrip tion of articles, the importation of which is pro hibited by the Act to wh►ch this Act is a supple ►uent, that is to say : All articles manufactured entirely of silk and Wool, or of silk and flax, or of flax and wool ; not uselciths ; Woollau cassitnerno, carpets, carpeting, and mats, whose invoice pricts !hall exceed five shil ling* sterling. per s q uare yard. Sgt.. 3.—And be it further enacted, That when ever is doubt *hall arise whether any articles im ported into the l'uited States are embraced by the detwriptimi of articles, the importation of which is prohibited by the act to which this act is a eupple ment, the antiptroller's decision thereon, approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, shall be final and conclasil e, and he taken and held in every- respect as the tnte construction of the act. Sic. d.—.dud be it further enacted, That no ar ticles which shall lw imported from any place be yond the Cape of Good (lope, on hoard any vessel, cleared out ,before the day of from any port within the United *tee, or tlw twritories thereof, for the said Cape of Good Iliqw, or any place beyond the same, shall be sabject to the pro hibitiou eimeted by the act to which this act as a supplement. xtw-vorta, DEC. 16. The following Letter is inserted at the request of a mows:table friend : HIS EXCELLENCY. GENERAL. JOHN ARMSTRONG, MINISTER TLENIPOTF.NTIARY OF TOE UNITED STATES Or AMERICA. We, the andersiguied Atneekan Masan and Su • now to the port of Narita, have the honour to • rem your Excit an _a subject which naturally COPreflil Ilt, not only as • g ing rind to the safferm, and as Americans, but as be ing hable ourselves to he in the same predicament. We, therefore, with ose voice, earnestly solicit the latter femme., of your E%relkury, to procure the liberation of Mr J. Kennedy, Muster of the ship Missouri, of Philadelphia. Hr is a was, who, Ouronsh a quiet and just discharir of his duty, ha • danigetous pi ofesslon, during a sc enes of rows, his at lemstis attained the mans uf prow' .for a jew46.l, wife and a large family of children. He is it s on sr count of allieatioes Emile by people, nose Whom be dues Out know ; allegstitms, of the misdeals of which he is irorutit, nor ony mode of trial Orem him, whereby he can susaidest his Innocentr. Thus he la deprived of the means of 'importing his family and their very oilstone is vadmigered. Every ves sel engaged iu the track to France may have mertnis board, who cue be corrupted to Wendt runairay - s. As this involves a question so insportaat, ant only to oar - selves, hat to the owners of the ships under' oar chine, your EXClliielleY will perceive its nalinallinetwe, sad wi* what m aim we Wog the ems bows is warselews. We k i ps you will sot deem oar lotoeflosstor kilfrares, confiding.* pis will be pleased sikciaellpte gnat to as, and his jowl EMINII, lowa sr', sod whetting yew Excellency to favour to ad* speedy repiy.—heats, Oct. 6, tow-. • I Here follow the sigasturss.] .. ' Extract of a letter from an udeUigent gent in Paris, dated Oct. da, 1007 :--,‘ It his been en rently reported and geoegglbr believed here withii a few Jays pact, that the Emperor has asserted that he shall &outsider all nations who have a Mi nister in London as his enemies, and shall treat them accordingly. 14o* much confidence is to be placed in this report I autnot say. If it is true, it will soon lw publicly known." TILE BRITISH PRESS. LON DON, JA,. IS. 'We hare received New York paper* to the 17th last, containing the proceedings iu Congress to the 12th. Private accounts state, that the Americans "are determined upon war with this country, and that a ca►tiacation of all British property will be the first act of hostility ; of which, perhaps, it is also one of the motives. The public news, although not decisive of peace or war, is, we think, rather pacific. The Supplementary Bill to the Non-Im portation Act has been read a first and second time, and referred to a Connniftee. Its Author pro fessed his object to be merely to prevent the perplexities which might arise from the loose and defective wording of the original Bill ; but . it appears to go farther, and to relax the seve rity rif some of its clauses. It is not merely ex planatory on doubtful points, but it also intro duces new matter. Shalloo►►s and woollens, pro hibited•hy the original Act, are excepted free► iss operation by the present ►neasure. it is also raid to be in contemplation of Congress, to vest the PIOADENT, with power to suspend the Non-lin portstion Act, whene►er he thinks proper. We give a sketch of the delu►te upo►► the Memo rial presented against the enforcing of the Act, so far as it may afford an idea of the spirit and temper of the House. Mr. Iltxpokes, a leading Member, it will be seen, considers war u►►avoidalde. The fate of the Memorial is ►'ready known. The motion for referring it to a Committee was rejected, and it was permitted simply to be laid ea the table. AI inther Austrian Mesaengisr arrived about elei o'clock on AVcdiieulay. at Dover, from Calais. The flag of truce iu which he sailed was descried Donn al.er she Itft the French harbour, and the Mrs ..triger wa, brought on shots. at Dover in the Custom-home hold. The Austrian Count MIER, readied Calai. before the other Flag of Trace carne away. T 1 I . name of the Austrian Messenger arrived is Itisvn '- ott : he reaehrel town at 12 o'clock on Wednesday sight. with dispatches for the Austriaa Waists-. Count SwanstrwnEnn, which he nrintediatel7 de livered to his Foccellctley, who erianutuniestvki their content. to 111 . • ter. yesterday. A Mil iron Jamaica arrived yesterday morning, brou7,lit to Falinotith by die PTlnett! Amtha packet. • She railed on the 23d of November.-- His :1.1.tr LsTv's ship Chichester was to sail on the 26th. I'h. convoy was appointed to sail for Eng land on the 3061. The letters and papers ton tain no news of any importaiwe. A letter from Diablolues, dated No►ember the 16th, says, 4. Fire French privateers have been captured by ills MAinarries ship Blonde, within two months. The number of French prisoners now here is so great, that we are obliged to send them down to Grenada, to the amount of 7 or 800. By a vessel that arrived this morning, from Monte Video, we hear that the troops which served under General WIIITELOCKZ are its the utmost rage with him, and carry things to such a length, that they tear their regimentals from oif their backs, and say they have disgraced their country. We are all ready for an Etpedition against the Danish islands here, every thins embarked except the troops, and that will not take place till further orders *ism England, our Commander in Chief not thinking himself sufficiently authorised to under take the attack." The Chunnel Fleet, under Admiral Dueß- OtTN, liai fiallstd front Torbay to resume its station off Irshant. Letters of the tat ult. by the Mixer's Mary, from St. Thomas's, give a deplorable account of the gnaw of %but island, for want of provisions.— The people were almost in a state of famine, end saw no prospect' of relief, as the island was blot k aded ; notwithstanding, the Danibb Governor kid the temerity to refuse a *apply of ?revisions, which our officer* prompted by humanity, bid offered the enemy. Lietnobes were issued co Wedocedsy for 1.6b0n awl" Oporto, hut the sospensiou of fawners for lading ;still continues. • The Samuel, Meraleasoe 1 the Ann, CONN' YOUTH, and a brig (name unknown) were driven on shore near Arundahl, in a gale on the 23d Novem ber; the former was totally wrecked, the Asa floated off, and was taken possession of by the kp e •es ; the latter went to pieces, and it is supposed t Wserew4eiiib in. les. • the • of Hoodey, MARTIN, and the Celestortin, ILI.Ea, from Louden ; Argyll, Cater , Egy.; Ceres, MOLT NEAUX , Blew std. CON . N 4E4 Princess Amelia, Meat N sow ; Wilikras !bah toter '— ; Mersey, —; Kitty's Ainefia, —; talthtieree American vessels from Charleston, were at Illinny (Africa) on the stli Au last. Tile Nelms, W ATER% ; end the Velocity, Coe rce, from Cork, for London, are captured be French:veneerers. 'llse former vessel is carried into St. Malmo, the latter into Calais. The iffirserea,S4sta los, from London, for Su rinam, put back to Falmouth on the ftnli instant. She parted from the fleet on the 2isth ult. in let. 4ti, long. 11, 14, with the wind strong at W.24.14'. The Joseph and Edward, LT nett., from Guern sey for Geyer, was taken on the sth instant, off tiovet,Pier, and carried into Calais. Several other vessels have been lately Carried in there; among them three American* ; one of them, the Hyades, from Charleston and Cowes for London, which was capturedon the j Ist ult. the. Captain and crew of which were takeu out of the ship, and put under a guard. The Lydia, Captain WITTLE, was to sail from St. Kitts, tin the sth Deceuiber, His MAJESTY'S ship St. Christopher to see her clear of the island. The lloratio, (an American), Rowtsts a, from New York, for Honduras ,• the Wilmington, —, from Wilmington ; the Joke and James, —, of Halifax, from Cape Francois, for Gonaive-i ; the St. Bride, —, from New York ' • the James mid William, (an American) DAWSON ; and the Pomona, of Greenock, NltNaeunv, from Jamaica, for Port-au-Prince, are detained sod sent iuto Ja maica. The latter vessel in consequence of having 9.50 doubloons on (ward; the vessel has been libel ' ated, but the douhloons are expected tribe libelled. Thursday se'nitight the tragedy of Douglas, and the etitertamment of '!fie all a Farce, were per formed at Gloucester Theatre, by a party of Ama teurs, far the benefit of the hifirenery, The re ceipts amounted to 931. Mrs. LITCEFIELL) per formed the part of Lady Rarthdpls. Mr. and Mrs. BUCK i.e., u ho attended from Cheltenham, declined reseirring • dm susallettpuesusiary rentungsatiaa ; awl it was with great reluctance Mrs. Lttcarier,o could be prevailed upon to accept her travellit.4 expenses. The Earl and Countess of BERKELEY were present, and all the fashion of the country. The American ship Chesapeake has been treat ing the French ship Petiole in remethiu liV esa ;: epa the same manner in which we treated the C v. a A French seaman belonging to the irepetareart which we destroyed on the American emit, bed entered on board one of the American gate boats—he deserted and went on board the Foretell ship Parriate's tender, desiring to rerun to the service of his country—the American Oft Beer. commanding the gun-boat, demand's' that he should be delivered up. This was re fused, and the seaman was sent off in the Patriot"' boat.--('ommodore I)ite Ave' ordered him to lie pursued awl brought hack at ell treats. A rortvapundene.e ensued between the Commodore and the Captain of the Patriorr—and In the cad the man was forcibly taken and carried on board the Chesapeake. Sonic of the Papers allege, is escrow for the Matiesct of the Unrest:its, that two Anirriesa seatnen, belonging to the United States frigate, had been taken damn en board the I'v Ohne, Tim Coroner's Inquest set on Tuesday . eveni et at Monoxide, no the body of' the untri-timai • C w asia nests, who shot hinsaelf at that 1 ,1,„... and (nought in their ver9lo—Lasorey. Mr. Sr Thsir en id id even pert: rarbl.ag rent of Rr mo 4 w litre puied rcd&l thing.' liariec osid it his re *dare' the gf front I pal of shuim intim etc ge,b), Ye a fun Y 4 CeSS I .11114 T whic Cola Su o to Id to