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AMERICAN CnNGRESS. YIJSE pF ILLPRESFNTATIVE, FEB. 17. l i kr • B ACO N , fi - orn the ommittee of Ways and ea lS, made the fullowin C 4 REPORT: •- - • The Committee of Ways and Means having taken !I to consideration the stihjeti of the revenue and "Penditure of the United States for the present and ,two succeeding years, in particular reference '() a state of COrfltlli ph war during a greater por tinn orthat Period, ask leave to report— . ' [Then follows the project. for raising sufficient to betray intere s t the ordin a ry exrences of Government, and `e intere upon the public dbt, including the in terest' also on such new Loins as may be autho rised _ . a These loans it estimates at 17,560,0n0 dollars : ar it)g the year 1813, and 18,220,000 during the 1 814. The Report then proceeds thus : 7 And for this purpose the Committee recommend to the House the following ResolutionS,Viz. be Resolved, That an addition of No per cent. 1 7 made t o -th e s e vera l r a t es o f p e r m a n e n t duties 4 ' imposed by law on all goods, wares, and mei 01° andize, imported into the United Stares. re [ The f0110%4 ins; eleven Resolutions contain only Nations of a local nature.] ta l3 . Resolved, That all the duties above enume. to ted, and t h e tax ~af Ore sai d, s hall . be laid. and be be tllele payable only atter the United States shall have e : s Ene engaged- in a war with a foreign European , IP", or shall have authorised the issuing of letters in arque and reprisal against the subjects of such Ntion. 14 . Resolved, That the said duties and tax shall wuntilone year after the conclusion of peace th such foreign nation, and no longer.. n :The Report, being read, was ordered to be printed Ltnade the or de r of the day for Monday next. 1 6 ' 4 r. BACON then introduced a Bill to authorise a d ;it i t for a s u m no t ex ce e ding • millions of w l ars, Which was twice read and committed. b r ;,"lr•Pottr E t t gave notice, that he would to-morrow u n tg in a Bill to ra ise a provi s ional milit a ry force of. v ' ° °o men. The House resumed the consideration of the Bill 4, 1 1 ' arming: the Mtlitia of the United States; when M. Clay'S motion to re-consider the amend nt which has been agreed to, putttng it io the •Ir Pow er of the respeetive States to distribute the aim s as they thought proper, came under discus- Stn'o was'supporied by -Messrs. Macon, Smilie, 17. Fisk, and Little : and opposed by Messrs. T e i tts, Talmadge, Widgery, Rhea; and M'Coy. c t 9e question for re-consideration was negatived 1012. TUESDAY, FEB. 18. ' t tr- *PORTE offered the following Resolution : i:ogesol,ved, that a Committee be appointed . to re., g i r ,t a Bill, : authorisibg the President of the United 4 C 6 t 's to engage, commission, and organize 20,000 ,OHO regular calculated that - tl'ere were 5,000 or L vO 'regular troops at Quebec, and about ( 2,000 ir e 'scattered all 'over Canada ; and about 20,000 le au llt llled militia. The troops at Quebec cannot there, and thus expose Quebec. Take 15,000 R114.' from the Northern States,and bor 6,0_00 re- C an a 4 troops, and you may easily overrun _upper of t h e . starting in-season, i. e. before, on account by ice in the Sr. Lawrence, the British can send , reinfor cemen t s . Th en l e t our army be joined Q ( tote, and lay s i ege to Q ue b ec. Af ter t a ki ng Y7ebec, p rocee d to N ova Scotia and New Bruns iek, which, will soon fall into our hands. 'New alone, if invited or suffered, could have taken ‘ L uebee while we have'talked about it. ft Mr. P. t h ere went i n t o a l ong , argument to s h ew a t C ongress h as a right t o marc h t h e m ili t i a out o f t hat Congress p NO reply was made to the arguments of Mr. I . °l ter, and th e y eas an d nays were- immediately daysher. th e p assage of t h e Resolution.—Yeas_ 49, 5 8. Su it died at its birth. FRIDAY, FEB. 21. SOr n • e trifling business was translated, when the I for arming the Militia was taken up, discussed, I Passed, 67 to 51. Ll 't he story of the departure of the Essex is un- Cnded. A majority cannot be found tor adjourn % for two months.] FRIDAY, FEB. 28. Thel 4 resolutions for taxes, &c. were considered. . 44 th resolution,. duty on salt, before the House. I\' ter two or three hours debate, the Ayes and e e s were taken on th e R eso l u tion—Ay e s, 57 0 ,,e,5, Go. L e 4 tle Whiskey tax came n e xt. Mr. S EYBERT said etAlld not sit till alter the vote just . given. The t l e x leled war was in support of honour, indepen i, 4 e, and agriculture, not merely commerce; it v h ot to be supported entirely nor instantly by the r ' a ntic and Commercial part of the country. The ot "Just passed would explain his reasons for saying, b i at o," to the Whiskey Tax, to many others, pro to all of them. Pan e d Ile 100 per cent. additional duty on imports, `"!,,ed 71 to 40. The loan is stated to be 11,000,000 dollars. a first battalion of the Ist regiment of Guards ire under ord e rs for Portugal, consi s ting o f t we l ve t'undrecl healthy, effet-tise men, to reinforce the B ri e ` troops under the command of Earl WEL 'INGTON. Three hundred men of the 2d battalion of the Ist f''giment lying in the Tower, are also under orders ° l * forei gn . set v i ce , to re i n f orce t h e third battalion ti t Cadi z; t h ey ate to marc h i n a few days under the command of Lieutenant-Colonels T OWNSE N D 3 UDNEY, Captains DAVIS and ELLIOT, and En 116Lls THOR NTON , BR I DG MAN , and S TARK ; r "ops thus destined ate all of them picked young and of daring spirits. Sod, for the 24th Light Dragoons, e4th, Cd, 67th, an d. 6 . 9 th Foot, ernbativd iin Thursday fro m the Isle of Wight, on board the City of London 4 , 1 ( 1 Sir William Bensley, East Indiamen, at the 410 tlierbank, tor the East Indies. ,The Worcester Militia, commanded by C o l one l ;-`twyoßT, have arrived in Portsmouth Garrison, r esch Bristol. The Dublin Militia marched to Chichester on it "IGnday and Tuesday lasi, and the Hereford Militia arr ived at Gosport on Tuesday and Wednesc!Ffy. ityTh, 2d Battalion of the 4th Regiment is now on N\ al from Gibraltar to Lisbon. ii4Elvbii - thih. . BassT, MARCtI 29.—Vice Admiral Allemand; Who, on ..the 9th instant, left L'Orient with four sail fof the.line, dnd two Corvettes, after taking se verai•prizes,. anchotcd in our road on the 29th.. . BERLIN, MARCH 19 —The folloWitig Decree haS been published here:— (t At the moment when the navigation is upon the point of being opened, we by these preSenti re cal-to the remembrance of the commercial world the ordinances which his Majesty has, from time to time, renewed, for the maintenance of the Conti nental System, and to prohibit, in the most rigid manner, all commerce and communication with. England and its colonies, particularly the regulation of the tith 'June, 1808, the Decrees of the 28tbof. oclober, 1810, and Bth of March, 1811, which prohibit, under the penalties stated in the said or dinan,ces, an entire forbearance from all prohibited commerce; on the one hand, to render more im p: ssible all intraaions of his Majesty's ordinances, and:on, the other, to protect, as much as possible,. navigation along the coast, which is conformable to existing laws, his Majesty ,has given directions to. equip, as soon as possible, in the principal ports of the monarchy, revenue cutters and guard de costas, which shall be destined to see the laws of commerce, &c. observed in all the ports and roads ; proteo legal commerce against every hOstile attack ; prevent till contraband commerce,, for . which purpose they will sail along the coast from station to station, and stop and condua to the nearest or most convenient Prussian port every vessel, suspeCted of illicit com merce. " This order his Majesty will have carried into execution as promptly a's possible, tor which the_re quisite measures have been . taken. The commercial world are hereby informed of it in order to afford them a new proof that his Majesty incessantty hours to employ all the means in his power to pro tect the lawful commerce of his faithiul subjects; whilst, on the other hand, every attempt tending to : violate or elude the Decrees resneCting the Conti nental System, will be punished according to all the rigour of the laws.. - " DE HARDENBEIicL" " Berlin, zoth March, 181 z." PARIS, MARCH 31.—Their Majesties have been .at St. Cloud since yesterday.. COPENHAGEN, MARCH 18.—On the 24th of, Fe bruaiy was received at Christiao,and, the onexpeded intelligence, that am enemy's flotilla, consis:ing ,of three frigates and tour brigs, had appeared three miles to the west. VIENNA, MARCH 18:=—The Russian Army in Wallachia, which has been weakened this winted by the numerous, detachments sent to'the interior of Russia, has lately received some reintorcements in recruits ; but these reinforcements are not suffi, cient ; there is reason to suppose the Rus , im. Ge neral in Chief" will, next campaign, conti:e him self to the occupation of both banks of the Danune, end that his intention is not to penetrate into Bu:gari,l. 'VIENNA, MARCH is reported that great discontent prevails in bervia, and • that Czerni Gcorgt.s appeared more than 'usually unquiet.. The inurgenis are not unanimous, and it .is to be feared tor them, that the "Folks will take advantage of this circumstance, and attack them. MARCH 15.-It was yesterday pretended, upon 'Change, intelligence had been received from Tur key, that an English squadron, arrived near the Island of Tenedos, had passed the Dardanelles, and appeared bafure"Constantinople ; but reports of this sort ►nay have no other foundation than mercan tile speculations, and a wish to raise the price oi cotton and other articles from the Levant. BERLIN, MARCH 2,t.--The French General Naosouty lately' arrived here. On the 13th the King published an EdiCt, allowing the coutin , ,tance of the exportation of ail kinds of provision A and foray to friendly States, but prohibiting riie ex portation of grain or provisions, by sea, unCi e . r p a i n of confiscation. HE;RMANSTADT, MARCH 3.—11 is supposed aim the !'u►kish Plenipotentiaries will suon suit Ruds chuck. The reinforcements exi.ected by the Rus sian army arrive but slowly, and are almost entirely co►nposrd of recruits. VIENNA, MARCH 18.--Ptivate intc;lligence states, that symptoms of the plague have• made their ap pearance in Bosnia. In Scullin, aild other places, precautions have been taken to - guard against it. STUTGARDT, MARCH 22.—Yesterday an Austlion and two French Couriers passed through this city, on their way from Paris to Vienna. [FURTHER EXTRACTS.] MADRID, MARCH 18.--The civil and ecclesiasti cal deputation of the to'.vti of Requena had to-day the honour of presentinz its homages to his Majesty the King, who replied with much goodness to the President's discourse. His Majesty told the Mem bers of the deputajan he was sensible of ihe wishes they expressed ; that his only desire, since the commencement of his reign, was to contribute all in his power to the happiness of his people, and that he would negle& nothing to obtain so desirable an end. His Majesty, informed of the state of manu factures in that country, has taken into considera tion the means proposed by the deputation to restore them to their ancient splendour. PETERSBURGH, .MALiCH 3.—ln order to facilitate the raising of recruits,, men between the ages of I 8 and 37 years, above four feet nine inches high, are allowed to be received. , BERLIN, MARCH 21 . —Our 'political relations be come more and more satisfaaory. M. de KNISEBUK, Aid-de-Catnp to the King, is upon his return from St. Petersburgh. Lieutenant- General DE GROWERT, Governor of Silesia, and Major-General DE KLUST, have arrived here. PETERSBURGH, MARCH 6.—The course of Ex change upon Fans is 11Q centirrics ; on Amster ,►am, t 1 stiv , 2.rs ; and on Hamburgli, l 0 schillings. COPENHAGEN, MARCH 17.-According 10 reports which appear authentic, the-enecoy's force now be iii;rd'en AtiltOlt anti Rltilled, consists of the iolloWini P:yramui; 36 guns ; .Daphne, 22 ; 1 8 ; Raleigh,' ig ; Fly; 18 ; and Sheldrake, of Jo guns. At the depatture of the last accounts, there were no enemy's vesseli in the. Belt Or Sourid. LEtrzte.3, MAttbu 2 i .—The Anhiveisary of the birth of the King of Roa B has beeb celebrated heie tvith the greatest aplendobr. His Eiteellency Marshal Doke of ELcuttidErt, gave a grand dinner to the Generals andOtEcers of the Staff who are here, 'avwell as to the Civil and, Military Authorities or the country. At night all the town was illuminated: . • VIENNA, MAacn 18.—It is generally thought thc; Hungarian Diet will close towards the end of this • month. It is added, that the Archduke PALATINE has 're turned to Presburg, to notify this resolution. to the • Emperor. VIENNA, MARCH 18.—The last courier from Hermanstadt brings intelligence froM . LoWer Wa lachia to the end of February, the most import4nt which is, the right wing of theltusSian a7rny which was in that province, and had been com manded all the campaign of 1811, by. General, SASS, was likely to pass under the orders of another General. General SAss, whose health is continu^aly shaken by the fatigues of war, and determined by other motives, has demanded permission fro.m the Empe ror to return to Petersburgh, and t:entains at Bti charest' waiting an answer. Lieutenant-General Count MP.R . KOW has been appointed Commander in Chief r i f the right wing of the army.' He has, like his predecessor, established his head-qUarters at Crajowa ; his advanced Posts occupy .t he banks of the Drin, 1, opposite Widden.— Nothing has occurs rd on tbis side. The Turkish corps- d'artnee, stationed at Widden and its neigh bourhood, has received reinforcements. It appears that till fresh instruaio'is are received, if will remain on the defensive. The course of exenange on Augsburg is to day at 260. LONDON SESSIONS. MONDAY, APRIL 6 • The Sessions for the Cliy of London commenced this day, ,before the LORD MAYOR, Al:lei-man Sir J. W. ANDERSON, the RECORDER, and Other City Officers. Robert Towers was indiBed for endeavour,ing, by every n-mans in his power, to seduce, - entice, and corruo, Samuel Davis, a Turnkey, in the employ ment lA - Mr. Newman, Keeper of the Jail of New ga!e, to favour the escape from prison of the late unfortunate Mr; George Skeene. M r. KNAPP having opened the case on the part of are prosecution, evidence was adduced. to prove that Mr. Newman was Keeper of the Jail of Neu/gate,- &c. Samuel Davis was then examined, and proved that the prisoner, with whom he had not previously been acquainted, but whom he had seen visiting Mr. Skeene,-invted him, in the evening, about a fortnight after Mr. Skeene's being com m itt e d to their tn custody, to drink with him.. Th e y went to or the New Inn, Old Bailey, and being seated in the public room, the defendant proposed that they should have-a private room. 'This the witness said was nanecessary. The defendant then drew his chair close to the witness ; first asked him what familye and being i n f orme d t h at h e h a d a w and three children, said, that if h e wou ld . d o lead,rhim (the defendant) a ftvour, he. would have it in his power to make them all comfortable. The wit ness asked of what nature that favour was, and was informed that it regarded Mr. Skeene. Supposing that it related to his accommodation, or indulgence, in prison, the witness told the defendant that he should have every accommodation consistent with the rules of the house. The defendant, however, was not long in undeceiving the witness, but on their way from the public-house to the prison, gave the witness clearly to understand, that he stipulated for nothing short of Mr. Skeene's escape ; inform ing him, that if he would oblige him by favouring it, his-reward should be equal to his most sanguine expedations ; that it should be paid, not in Bank notes, but in gold, and should be so ample, as would put him and his family above the necessity of his continuing .a turnkey. - This, evidence was confirmed by Mr. Newman, and by Mr. Hardy, Mr. New Man's confidential Cl4rk, to whom Davis immediately communicated the attempt made upon hia'integrity. Mr. Newman also swore, that when the defendant next after the conversation alluded to called upon Mr. Skeene, he (Mr. Newman) called the defendant into a private room, and confronted him with Davis ; the defen dant did not deny the charge, but contented him self with stating, that he had otieted to Davis no specific sum. Mr. ALLEY, Counsel for the defendant, contend ed, that there were no words on the face of the in dialment to support the present charge. There must be a specific criminal ad alleged and set forth, in intelligible language, on the face of the indictment. Here the crime charged was the endeavouring, " by every means in the defendant's power," to seduce, &c. Now, it might so happen, that all the means in the defendant's power, though exerted by him to the utmost, might not be sufficient to constitute a charge of 'felony, in which case there would not be on the face of the indidment such a charge as would. support it.. Such being the case, and there being here no specific words which necessarily in ferred criminality, the indi&ment, he submitted, must fall to the ground. In respell to charader, Mr. Tower was prepared to shew a most unexcep tionable one. He was from the same land as Mi. Skeene, and was also his townsman, and from all in telligence that he could procure concerning him, he possessed a most noble and generous heart. No Wonder, then, titt he s i ticuld be found ener to aile-; Viate the sufferinss of a Man, who,, whatever faulis he might have comnitted, was forrne i l v a p erson every way worthy to,be,a companion to suc h a man as his client. Mr. T o , ver had pl i,p;i a ll th e a c ti ve part of his life in the service of 3 country ; and passing over feats o' uncommon braverV, which he performed in themidst of his enemies a; sea, he had twice; at fhe imminent hazard o 1 his , ovtn life, plunged 'regardless into a terupestunus - iei; and res . - cued two men frOm perishing in the waves. Sochi BeneVOlence, chewed him to, posse, s a mind attem pered . to th,6 ex erc i se o f v i rtue, and One who bL-Ireld . with sorrow the suffetings of the iinfortunate. What tt, to must his agitation have been, when he beheld a. man,'grown up with him-in lici!;(i!ii• froni, his childhood to the dignity Oa than, all at once plucked 1 from his rriends,. and about to suEr an nornin'ious punishment ! He certain'y artist hav e wished,nay yearned, to'see his situation amellorat.;. ed. But even granting the whole - of the rime hie which he stood accused,•his was not an offence of that, heinous complexion - whiCh those persons aim-. mi , ;ted who endeavoured to rescue a murderer from the bands of Justice ; lie honed; therefore, for mild sentence from a feeling Court.- The. RECO . RDER, in addressing the Jury, expresi ed it as his opinion, that there was nothing in the objeCtion to the wording of the inditimcnt, which sufficiently pointed out an offence, and which of-i fence had been clearly- proved in evidence. As to the situation of Mr. Skeene, his rank and prospecia in life, ancithe powerful friends he had—they were all aggravations of his guilt, and of the offence of the present defendant, who would have favoured. his es cape from public justice. What would have been said •of the law of this country, the proudest boast of which was, that it took equal cognizance of the, rich and of the poor, if this .pOwerful and richly allied man had been suffered to escape, While s poor man, for the same offence, incurred certain death. The Jury found the defendant Guilty. The RECORDER declared the sentence of the Court to be, after due consideration of the circumstances of the-case; and to deter others from the cormis sion of similar otfences, that the defendant do par a tine of .501. ; be imprisoned in the Jul.i of New-, gatelor twelve calendar moat hs, and do, at the ex piration of that time, find sureties to keep the peace for one year. The defendant addressed the Court, beging that they would have the gOOdness to revise their sentence, and to banish him at once to Botan.y Bay. It had been trulfsaid, that no man, however pure his prin ciples, could expel, on his return from confinement for any length• of time in • a common prison, to be an objet of trust or confidence. For his own part,- he was swished he could not long exist among suck people as he had seen in Newgate. As to the fine, though he was a poor man, and wrought hard for what little he possessed, which was all earned by his own ten fingers, that he considered, comparatively speaking, as of no moment. • The Recoerett informed the defendant that the Court had already considered the case in all its bear ings, and deemed the sentence which had been pro nounced, the lightest of which the case wituld ad. nit, not in relation to the delencnt, whose situa tion they deplored, but as holding out an example to whets to beware Of such attempts in the City of, London. Mr. ALLEY, on reckoning the Jury, observed that they consisted of 13, whereas 12 ;s the legal and evablished number. On this ground he sub mitted, that the verdidt was void. The RECORDER said, the prisoner had the 13th in addition. One too few would have been fatal to the verdi&, hut one too many did not in validate it. MARLBOROUGH•STREETo—A man, named Mar din,e, who resides in' Charles•stree', Drury-lane, and a woman, who passed for his wife, who called herself Mary Ann Derry, were charged with. beat ing, and treating with various atis of cruelty, Har-, diuge's daughter, a child seven or eight years old, and also withholding from her necess try food. The prosecution had been laudably instituted by the Pa-, rich Officers of Si. Giles's, from the representations of many respectable inhabitants of the neighbour. hood where Hardinge lived, the testimony duced on the occasion went to probe, that the neigh bourhood had been much disturbed by the moanings and shrieks of the child, - and it was Played that the woman beat her unmercifully ; and the landlord of the house proved the child having been shut up for hours without food. The child, who appeared in a deplorably emaciated state, had one arm tied up, which she had been deprived the use of front the barbarity of the woman prisoner. On it having been ascertained that the woman was not married to Hardinge, he was sworn to give evidence against her, but he cloaked, as much as possible, her con duct. She had borne him se% eral children, bat the sufferer was by a wife who is dead. T►he woman was committed (or bail, and the child was taken under the proteClion of the Parish Officers. A Nobleman's servant gave information at this Office of hi& havirig been wounded and lobbed ,of his watch, in Lansdowne-passage, Berkeley-square, on Sunday night. Apart of his hand was nearly cut off by the robber, who wins alone. At Gloucester Assizes, S. Bryant and R. Stock well, for highway robbery ; I. Jobbins, for sheep stealing '; J. Evans, for horse-stealing ; and Dan. Bishop, for a like offence, were condemn ed. The last-named prisorier pretended idiotcy during the ttial, but on - condemnation, bei n g pass ed, made use of the most horrible exnniions to the Judge, and said. " I wish I was near thee, that I may give the a bolter ;" and on quilting the Court, whirled his hat at one of the witnesses ! Maxemen Broneville, a chiimiey-sweeper, was found guilty of the murder of his apprentice, by brutal usage, and sentenced to be executed yester day morning. At the above Assizes an action was brought by George Webb Hall, Esq. of Sueed-park, Against Colonel Berkeley, of Berkeley Casti,, for a wUid. trespass with his fox-hounds, and drawiag the plan tirri covers, without his permission ; when, after hearing of six hours, during two of which Mr. Dauncey exerted his best abilities in defence of his chew, the Jury found a verdict for the phintiff, with 2.85. damages ; and the Jodge declared he was hound to certify in this c;ise, which lixes the defen dant with all cwis.