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SATURDAY, FEB. 20.
Mr. Bayard finished his remarks ;
when Mr. Randolph followed in sup
port of the bill. The House then ad
journed to Tuefday ; on the intima
tion Os the Speaker that a day would
be required to have a ventilator put up.
TUESDAY, FEB. 23.
The discussion of the bill from the
Senate was again continued, Mr. Huger
spoke against, and Mr. Macon for the
bill. At three o'clock a motion was
made for the committee to rife, &c.
Mr. Gregg opposed the Committee's
rising. He laid it must be evident that
the subject was exhausted ; and other
tufinefs of importance claimed the at
tention of the house.
Messrs. Goddard, Bacon, and Nich
olson were in favour of the motion.-—
Which was carried.—Yeas 60.
SATURDAY, FEB. 2,.
,Mr.Nicholfon concluded his speech in
favor of repealing the judiciary ad of
the lad feflion,about half past 2 o'clock.
He was followed by Mr. Dennis, on the
other fide, who fpeke till fix o'clock,
when Gen. Smith spoke till half part
-seven in favor of the repealing a&
A motion was then made that the
committee should rife, which was flip
ported by Mefirs. Hill, Huger, Dana,
Bayard, Macon, Holland, Grifwoid,
Bacon, Claiborne, and Plater ; and op
posed by Messrs, Alston, Giles, and
Smilie.
At 8 o'clock the question was taken,
Yeas 46 —Nays 43. — The committee
frofe, and asked leave to fit again ; on
granting which there was a division,
leas 48— -Nays 37.
MONDAY, MARCHt.
The debate on the judiciary bill was
continued./
Messrs. Gregg and Holland spoke in
favor of the bill: and Messrs Hill,
Cutler, and Halting, against it ; the
last gentleman closed his remarks at 4
o'clock, when Mr. Rutledge moved,
that the committee should fife ; he was
supported by Mr. Grifwoid.
The motion was opposed by Messrs.
Newten, S,. Smith, and Mitchell.
'The question for the rising of the
committee was loft—ayes 31 —noess4.
Mr. Dana then^ofe at 20 minutes
naft a. o'clock, and closed his remarks
The bill was read ; —and at a quar
ter past 4 o'clock, the committee rose
and asked leave to fit again.
TUESDAY FEB. 16.
# Two Memorials from Philadelphia,
one for, and the other against the repeal
of the Judiciary Law, were presented
by Mr. Leib ; and one from the Cham
ber of Commerce of New-York, against
the repeal, by Dr. Mitchell, all which
were read, and referred.
Dr. Leib offered a resolution, " That
a committee be appointed to enquire wheth
er it is expedient to repeat the all for the of
tabifoment of a Navy Department." Dr.
L. observed that he introduced the ref
olution,not for an immediate decision,
but for the purpose of enquiry on the
fubjed.
THE JUDItIA ?r BILL
Was again taken up in Committee ;
when Mr. Henderson (of N. Carolina)
moved to strike out the firft fedion, in
order to try tl>e principle of the bill—
He spoke against the bill at considera
ble length—He was followed by Mr.
R. Williams, (of N. Carolina, who was
in favor of the bill $ and by Mr. Hemp
hill, (of Pennsylvania) against it. Mr.
H. very modestly prefaced his speech
with faying, that his object, rather than
otherwise, would be to arrange the ar
guments already given by others ; —he,
however, introduced many new and ufr
answerable arguments. He spoke with
much ease, yet with order, with clear
hefs, and with a full knowledge of his
fobject.
Mr. Rutledge moved, that the com
mittee rife, report progress, &c. that
the House might attend to some other
business that required dispatch.
Mr. Giles was also in favor of the
committee's rising. He had, he said,
heard with great fatisfadion the gentle
man from Pennsylvania ;—his argu
ments merited much attention ; he
Should endeavor the next day to reply.
The committee then rose.
WEDNESDAY, FEB. 1,.
A Memorial from New-Jersey against
the'repeal of the Judiciary fylteto, was
read and referred.
A message from The President in
clofing a report from the Director of
the Mint ; and statements in relation to
the Barbary Powers, containing ac
counts of all the expences incurred with
them since the commencement of the
government, was received.
JUDICIART BILL.
The House in Committee, again took
up this bill.—Messrs Thompfon,Davis,
and Bacon fpoke.in favour of the bill
—Mr. Thomas Morris against it.
THURSDAY, FEB. 18.
Several memorials from Philadel
phia, in favour of the repeal of the ju
diciary system, were read and referred.
JUDICIARY BILL.
The House, in committee, again dis
cussed this bill.—Mr. Stanley Ipoke a
gainst it, and Mr. Giles in favor ofit.
FRIDAY, FEB. 19.
ypDicmr bill.
Mr. Bayard occupied the whole of
the day in opposing this bill without
concluding his remarks.
A Farmer from the interior of the coun
try, the other day, expressed his aftoniJhment
at not being able to obtain more than zof.
per cwt. for bis far;fa, be said be mas
told some time ago, if be mould vote for tbofe
persons mho mould get Mr. Jefferfon Prefi
dent§ he mould keep peace with France, and
then, this winter be Jbould get ten dollars
a cwt.fir bis flour, as quick as be mould
aft it ; but now, continues be, I fee it is
all a cheat, and they never fall catch me
so again. [Newburyport pap.
9'clock.-.
When Mr. Bayard moved the rising
of the committee. Motion loft—ayes
32 —noes 58.
Mr. Plater then spoke against the bill
for about 15 minutes.
Mr. Foster moved, that the commit
tee fliould rife. The motion was sup
ported by Mr. Goddard, and opposed
by Mr. Dawson.
For riling, yeas 33 —nays 57.
Mr. Tallmage rose at a quarter be
fore io o'clock, and concluded his re
marks against the bill, a quarter before
11,after which Mr. Lowndes spoke for
a few minutes against the passing of the
bill.
When the Main %eflion was taken
on striking out the id feCtion of the
bill, and loft—yeas 3[---noes 60.
Mr. Bayard rose and stated his desire
to offer certain amendments, the ob
je&s of which he fpecified ; and his
preponderating wifi that they fhotild
be difeuffed in the Committee of the
whole. But he added, thathe ffiould
not obje& to the Committee rising and
reporting the bill, provided an oppor
tunity were allowed in the house to of
fer them.
Mr. Griswold was of opinion that it
was most proper, that the amendments
fliould be made in the committee ; he
therefore moved, that the committee
rife and ask leave to fit again, in Q br
that the amendments might be submit
ted tomorrow. The quettion on rising
was taken afid loft—-Yeas 37: —Noesj,
The remaining 'fe&ions~cf the bill
were then read, without any amend
ment being offered. When the com
mittee rose, and reported the bill with
out amendment ; and then the house
adjourned at a quarter past iio'clock.
TUESDAY, MARCH 2.
The judiciary bill, as reported from
the Committee of the Whole was taken
up; when Mr. Bayard moved to strike
out the firft section.
Several other amendments met the
fame fate ; the majority appearing de
termined that no amendments to the
bill Should be made ; and at length
the bill parted for a third reading to
morrow. The Yeas and Nays were
called no less than seven times this day.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH %
The Judiciary Bill being read, Mr.
Lowndes, moved its postponement to
December next. After a long debate,
this motion also was negativedjp to 32.
The MAIN QUESTION, Shall this
bill poss? Was then taken by YEAS
and NAYS.—Yens 59 —Nays 32.
O The question ok the tafage of the bill
mas not taken until five o'clock. General
Shepard, Gena Mattoon, Mr. Bayard
and Mr. John C. Smith, mere prevented
by feknefs, from, attending. —Messrs.
Stratton, T. Morris, and E. Perkins
had leave ofabfence some time past, and
mere not in the city. Had they been present
the Nays mould have been 39.
On which motion the yeas and hays
were called, and were yeas 30 —nays
55- Loft.
Mr. Bayard moved to amend the bill
so far as it affeded the salaries of the
diftricl judges ofKentucky and Tennes
see : on which the yeas and nays Mere
taken—yeas 40—-nays 53.
Mr. Bayard further moved an a
mendment to prevent the abatement of
suits depending before the circuit courts
brought for films between 400 and foo
dollars.
The Yeas and Nays were called---
Yeas 39 —Nays 49.
Mr. Grifwoid offered an amendment
for continuing certain suits in the dis
trict of Ohio, which, he dated would
be abated by the bill, on which a de
bate of some length ensued, in which
the propriety of at all amending the
bill was difeuffep.
Messrs. Grifwoid, Fearing, Dana,
Lowndes, Euftis, Bayard, Rutledge,
spoke in favour of amending, and
Messrs, Giles, Bacon, Elmendorff, S.
Smith, and Holland, spoke against a
mending the bill.
The question on tlie amendment of
Mr. Grifwoid was taken by yeas and
nays, and loft. Yeas 37 —Nays 52.
The House proceeded, to confider the
bill from the Senate for repealing cer
tain Ads refpeding the Courts of the
United States. A motion to Strike out
the firft fe&ion of the bill, was nega
tived, 5§ to 30.
Another motion, to amend the bill,
by adding to the firft fedion, these
words, " Except so much of the forty-firft
feßion of said ad, as provides for the aug
mentation of the salaries of the Diflrffl
Judges of Kentucky and Tennessee." This
was negatived 53 to 40.
Thursday, March 4.
The house Went into committee of
the whole on the naturalization Bill ;
In which progress was made.
M WASHINGTON, MARCH 8.
R. Milledge, (of Georgia) in die
debate on the repeal of the Judiciary
system, had the wickedness to fay be
fore Congress, and a crowd of fpeda
tors, "that Gen. Walhington, or rather
President Washington, was the firft that
broke down the barriers of the Consti
tution ;"Or in other words, violated it.
The scorn and indignation which were
depicted in the countenance of every
genuine American patriot who heard
this libel, can better be conceived than
described : What would they have
been, had the audience known, that this
fame John Milledge—this calumniator
of Patribtifm and Virtue, deserted the
interest Os his country, when Wafting,
ton was fighting her battles ; that he
took protection under the Britifo troops,
when they were in Georgia ; and that
he never difeovered himfelf an advocate for
American liberty, until after the town
of Augusta was retaken by the Ameri
can troops ? Such, MODERN DEMOCRA
CY, are thy champions ! Such are the ca
lumniators of FEDERALISM and Wash
ington.
MARINE HOSPITALS.
A melfage has lately been commu
nicated to Congress, on the fubjed of
the Marine Hospitals in the U. States.
These hospitals have been established
at Boston, Newport, Norfolk, Charles
ton, Baltimore, New-York and Phi
ladelphia.—Besides which, temporary
relief has been afforded to sick seamen
in Portland, New-London, Wilming
ton, (N. C.) Newburn, Edenton, Al
exandria and Savannah. The whole
fam received by the collectors, from
seamen, either in private or public fer
vree, amounts to 147,875 dolls. ; of
which 80,820 dollarshave been expend
ed in purchasing the hospital at Gof
poit, and for the relief of sick seamen ;
leaving a balance in the hands of the
collectors of 73,636 dollars.
THE MINT.
The Director of the mint, in an offi
cial communication to The President;
Rates, that there were coined therein,
in 1801, as follows i—Gold Coins,
29,254 Eagles, and 26,006 Half Eagle's.
—Silver Coins, 54,454 Dollars,
30,289, Half Dollars, 34,64$ Difmes,
and 33'9'° Half Difines — Copper
C0in5—1,362,837 Cents. Amounting
in the whole, to 510,956 dollars and
37 cents. He also mentions, that the
greatest part of the gold bullion was
received in ingots and lumps, imported
from foreign parts ; which, had it not
been for the Mint, would have been
exported as remittances to Europe, but
has now become an addition to the cur
rent coin of the United States.
Boston, March Is.
From the West-Indies.
Capt. Davis, arrived ' here on Satur
day last from Port Republican informs,
that the negroes, in evacuating that
place took with them a number of
white people, which they maflacred as
soon as they were out of the reach of
the enemy ; and that as they retreated
through the country, they burnt and
destroyed every thing in their way:—
The town Was not destroyed ; nor was
there much resistance opposed to the
landing of the French^ Capt. D. fur
ther informs, that previous to bis fail
ing, intelligence hr^u, "red there of the
entire deftruftion of the port of Leo
gane, and the martacre of the white
people.
In consequence of the arrival of the
French troops at Port Republican, pro
visions of all kinds were in great de
mand. ——o
Extract ^ a Letter from Port Republican, dated
February !%*
" On the 3d inst. we had the arrival
of a French frigate, on board of which
Were dispatcher for Touiffaint ; the of
ficer who was charged with the delive
ry of the packet, was immediately ar
rested on nis coming aShore. On the
4th, in the morning, five fail of the line
and two frigates more appeared under
the command of Admiral La Touche.
On the sth they landed four thousand
troops, under the command of Gen.
Boudet, who took possession of the town
and forts round it ; the negroes, made
some Small refinance, but did not stand
their ground more than free hours.
We further underßand, that Gen. Le
Clerc, brother-in-law re Bonaparte, is at
Ridicule is an efficient, but notafafe
remedy for moral disorders ; It pro
duces the opposite extreme. Cervan
tes (as Sir William Temple remarks)
cured the Spanards, not only of chival
ry, but of ^ive courage, Voltaire cured
the French not only of Puritanism and
Janfeuifm, but of morality and virtue.
o— —
It is with the deepest regret we an
nounce that authentic information is
received of the conflagration of Cape-
Francois by the blacks. But 60 houses
out of 600, escaped the flames. The
conflagration was attended by a great
maflacre of the whites. Mr. Lear,
with our countrymen, took refuge on
board the (hipping, and we have the fa
tisfaftion to state that but one Ameri
canperifhed. The French force had ar
rived, and affeded a landing after great
resistance. [N. Intel.\
United States.
DUTCH SMUGLERS.
25,000,000 pounds brown Sugar,
^2,000,000 do. Coffee, 3,000,000 do.
Cotton. The molasses exported in A
merican bottoms, valued at one million
Dollars.
Precious woods exported in French
fliips 200,000 dollars.
t^^ v^ - , .. .Q,
PLANTATIONS AND MANUFACTURES.
Sugar 792, Indigo 3097, Cotton 705.
Coffee 2810, Dißilieries 173, Brick and
Potters ware 63, Cocoa 69, Tanners, 3.
PRODUCTIONS EXPORTED TO FRANCE.
70227,709 pounds of white Sugar,
gs' 1 ??^ 1 " do brut or brown,
68,151,181, do. Coffee, 930,016 do.
Indigo, "6,286,i26d0. Cotton, 12,995
dressed Skins.
SOLD TO AMERICAN, ENGLISH AND
White People 27,717, vi±. 9699 men,
2401 males, above 12 years old, 2296
under 12 years old, 1269 husbandmen
of plantations, 1832 plantation mana
gers, 325 Sugar refiners,3oß physicians,
510 mechanics, 614 clerks, 2 white ser
vants, 8511 women and girls. Free
people of colour 21,808, of whomg493
were men, 2892 males above 12 years,
2892 under 12 years, 2,700 servants,
9833 women', and girls. Slates.
405,528.
The bloody feenes which have recent
ly been witnessed, in St. Domingo,
naturally draw the mind to a contem
plation of the flourishing condition
which that beautiful colony once enjoy
ed. The following is said to be an ac
curate Ratement of the Product, Pop
ulation, and Commerce of the French
patt of the Island, in the year i 788.
The following is the Pioclamation
of the French Government, to the in
habitants of St. Domingo, which by the
orders of the Capt. Gen. Le Clerc, and
Gen. of Division, Boudit, was publiffi
ed and polled up at the found of the
trumpet, throughout the Island, (i. e.
where the negroes would fuffer the
trumpeters to come.)
Rally round the Captain General—
he restores you abundance and peace.
Rally round him—he who fliall dare to
Separate himfelf from the Captain Gen
eral will be a traitor to his country, and
the vengeance of the Republic fliall
devout him as fire devours your dried
canes.
France, like St. Domingo, has been a
prey to fadions, and torn by civil and
foreign wars. But all is changed ? Eve
ry people have embraced Frenchmen, and
have sworn to them peace and friend
fhip !—All Frenchmen have likewise
embraced each other, and have sworn
to be all friends and brothers. Come
ye also, and embrace Frenchmen, and
rejoice to fee again your friends and
your brothers of Europe.
The Government fends you the Capt.
Gen. Le Clerc ; —he carries with him
great forces to prote& you against your
enemies and against the enemies of the
Republic. If it Should be told you that
these forces are intended to tear from
you your liberty—Answer ! The Re
public has given its liberty — TZ'e repub
lic mill not faffer that it foould be taken
from us.
A letter from the Weft-Indies, to a
member of Congress, Rates, " That
Geh. FouiiTaint had completely thrown
off the mask, and declared a renuncia
tion of all connexion with France, by ah
indiferirr.inate massacre of all the whites
who were to be found § that he had or
dered all provisions and stores to be re
moved inland, and destroyed every
thing which might appear likely to give
aid or comfort to the expe&ed army."
Paris, the 17th Br'umaire, ioth year of the
French Republic, one & indi^ifible, (Bth Nov.)
The Conjuls of the Republic, to the Inhab
itants of St. Domingo.
Inhabitants of St. Domingo,
WHATEVER may be your origin
and your colour ye are all Frenchmen,
ye are all fre^ and all equal before
God and the Republic.
It is stated in a Newyork paper, "that
on the arrival of the French ships before
Cape Francois, the commander of the
fleet went on shore, and had an inter
view with Touiffaintt that they sepa
rated abruptly, without adjusting the
obstacles to an accommodation ; and
that the squadron was thereupon im
mediately divided, so as to enable them
to blockade all the ports of St. Domin
go; it is also added, that Touiffaint
was determined to oppose their landing
at the point of the bayonet.
Given at Paris, in the Palace of Gov
ernment, the 17th Brumaire letb
year of the French Republic.
(Signed) BONAPARTE.
By the First Confnl. (Signed)
Hugues Il_MAßjmSec^a„ e s State.
Cape Francois with 25 fail of the line,
?°r{?'°°° tro °ps ;he is Commander
in Ch le f of the expedition, and will also
ad as Captain General of the Island of
St. Domingo. We are just informed,
they have effe&ea a landing of the troops
at the Cape ; but that the negroes have
destroyed part of the town. From the
great force already landed-in the differ
ent parts of the Island, and a second di
vision which is hourly expected,we hope
every thing will be tranquil here in a
short time."
POPULATION.
LAMA TTON.
TRADE.
580 large ships, carrying 189,679
tons, in which the imposts amounted to
12 millions dollars, of which more
than 8 millions were in manufactured
goods from France, and th< other 4 ,
millions in French produce.
Spanish ships exported in French
goods or money, 1,400,000.d011ars for
mules imported by them into the colony.
Ninety eight French ships carrying
40,130 tons, imported 29,506 negroes;
which fold for 8,000,000 of dollars.
On Sunday last, at half past one o'clock, 3%
Stillman's meeting-hovfe Wag discovered to
be on fire, occasioned by a stove, through the
bottom of which a large hole had burned and
caught the floor, though unnoticed by the fez
toh at the time of its removal. The exten Gon
of the fire was such, when firft perceived as to
authorize a persuasion, that, isa few minutes
more, the house would have been involved in a
common flame carrying deftrudion to all around
it, as the wind blew strong from the northwest.
Mr. Lilie Editor of the (Boston) Telegraph,
has been sentenced to there months imprison
ment, for a libel on the Chief Justice of the
Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth
of Maffachufetrs.
The President of the United States has grant
ed a Patent to Mr. Simon Willard of Roxbun,
for his ingenious invention of a time-piece, call,
cd a Regulator.
We learn that all the federal votes,
at the coining election of Federal Re
presentative in the First Eastern Dif
trid, will be united in favor of Orchard
Cook, Efa.
Capt. Weeks, arrived at New-York,
from Goree, informs, that just before
he failed, an infurre&on among the
natives took place at Sierra Leona,
which was quelled by the militia from
Goree, after feme bleed had 1& &&
"In the passage, of the bill for re
pealing the judiciary law, Dr. Euftis,
of Borton, voted against the repeal. I
underhand, he has aiferted, that how
ever constitutional the measure o& re
peal may be, it is both impolitic Ind
Unnecessary . Ihe majority, however,
feel so fore at the measures of the last
Congress, that they are determined to
prostrate them, right or wrong ! Ex
cellent legislators ! ! The objections to
the bill, as it is, are so forcible, that the
minifterialifts will be forced to intro
duce a rider, to admit the amendments
which they have pertinaciously, oppos
ed being inserted in the bill.
“ The vote of the Doctor has excite
led the chagrin and mortification of a
number of the ministerialists :—But
they dare not abuse him. He has a
perfect command over them ; and cam
dictate any measure he fees fit. It was
in his power to have prevented the re
peal of the judiciary system. This you
will fay, is round assertion ; but I
facfedly believe it is the truth."
" marc h, 5. Yesterday, the “ Re
publicans" kept it up at Stelle's in honor
of the day ; consequently there was
Very little business done in Congress.-
The House went into committee on
the naturalization bill, but did noth
ing ; and adjourned at half past one.
" This day the Naturalization Bill
was agreed to, in committee of the
whole. Mr. Grifwoid called up the
resolution laid on the table by Dr.
Leib, for abolishing the navy Department.
I his was feebly opposed by the economi
cal MeSfs. Giles and Leib, —-The
house, however, determined to take it
up—when, strange to tell—the repub
lican Dr. Leib WITHDREW bis re
foh&nt!"
From WaJhington, March, 2, 1802.
"THE die is cast ; and that
Constitution which Wafbington fram
ed and nurtured ; and the people a
dopted, has become a dead letter ; —no
better than a !aft year's almanac. The
bill to repeal the judiciary law, has
pahed the house by the usual majority.
3ic tranftgloria American?. I know not
what are the feelings of the people of
New-England on this measure of the
minifterialifts ; but if they bear any
proportion to those experienced here,
they are of the most disagreeable kind.
However we do not mourn, like those
who are bereft of all hope. The belt
informed democrats, out of Congress,
condemn this measure of the triumph
ant majority openly and boldly. I can
perceive that many, very many, are
withdrawing their confidence from Mr.
Jefferfon, and his party ; whom they
'^ thus wantonly tyrannizing over
principles and compacts. The great
body of the southern people have been
cheated out of their senses :—But as
the people always mean right ; and
when time is allowed them for informa
tion and reflection, always aft right;
as soon as they recover their reason,
they will fee the turpitude of,their pre
sent cajolers, and will despise and de
teftthem. They have b& stunned
with the bellowings of passion and ar
tifice ; their sober, second-thoughts
will Portly return—and the re-aCtion
will be irrefittible. Those who have
children and families, will review the
public tranfa&ions ; and will endea
vour to arrest their progefs before they
entail slavery on them.
" The Vice-President supports more
the ft^e of a gentleman here than any
Uther/ot his "fe&" Heis extremely
unpopular amongst the jacobins ; and
I greatly mistake, if he does not give
"the greatest man in America" much
'difcomfiturej before the year 1805."