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I. Ncw-Hampfhire Tribe, headed by the
Warrior, bearing the banner ere H—then the
sachem followed by the body of the tribe four
abreast, each Brother with the Buck's tail in his
hat, and crape round his left arm.
9. Maryland Tribe, do.
10. Virginia Tribe, headed by the Warrior
bearing the banner reversed. (Our beloved
brother Washington being a native of Virginia,
and always cenfidered as an honorary member
of that tribe.)
It. North-Carolina Tribe, the banner ere<ft
12. South-Carolina Tribe, do.
13, Georgia Tribe, do.
4th, The Father of the Council in black, wear
ing his badge of office and carrying the Great
Calumet of Peace, decorated in the most solemn
and appropriate manner, agreeable to the
aboriginal custom.
sth, The Thirteen Tribes —the Banners
(which arc beautifully painted with the Arrno
ral bearings of the Thirteen States) covered with
black clothandornamented with knots of crape.
Onthefrontofoach a black marble Urn on a white
field, representing the sacred repository of the
ashes of the departed Heroes and Statesmen
who were the companions of our Washington
in the late Glorious and Revolutionary War,
viz. Warren, Montgomery, Mercer, Franklin.
Hancock, Green, Wooster, Laurens, M'Dougal,
Livingston, Putnam, Stuben, Suilivan.
6th, The Scribe of the Council carrying the
Constitution, and supported on the right and
left by two of the Alanks in the badges of their
office.
Mechanic Society,
Masonic Lodges,
To the following order :
The Knights Templars.
The Lodges under the jurisdiction of the
Grand Lodge of the State of New-York in the
city of New-York, viz.
I. Lodge L'Union Franeaife, No. 14.
The Tyler with a drawn sword, the handle
covered with black crape.
The Members, two and two.
Secretary and Treasurer.
Patt Maftcrs.
Senior and Junior Wardens.
A' Matter Mason, carrying the Warrant of the
Lodge on a blurt Cushion.
Deacon. Master. Deacon.
The other Lodges in the order above described.
2. Phenix Lodge, No. 11.
3. Trinity Lodge, 10.
4. Howard Lodge, 9.
5. Holland Lodge, 8.
6. Hiram Lodge, ,•
7. St. John's Lodge, 6.
8. St. Andrew's Lodge, 3.
9. Independent Royal Arch Lodge, 2.
10. St. Lodge, I.
Three masters, each carrying a Standard, on
which was a Pendant of white, bordered with
black, ard written thereupon the Cardinal Vir
tues of Masonry.
Faith, Hope, Charity.
The Rev. Chaplains of the Grand Lodge.
Three Master Masons, each carrying a stand
ard, on which was written the charaderiftics
of Masonry.
, Wifotom, Strength, Beauty,
The worfhipful Brother Cadwallader D.
Colden, in mourning, holding in his hand a
short Standard, with a white Pendant, trimmed
with black, on which was written,
Brother WaJhington—^e Great—the Wife—
the Virtuous ; expelling also, the figure of an
Honr-Glafs run out, and a Side.
The Grand Tyler, in mourning, carrying a
Fvord. rhe hardO covered v r h crape.
jd, The Grand Sachem wearing the In
signia of his Office ; on his right the Trea
surer carrying a Golden Key and string of
Wampum, on his left the Secretary with the
Book of Laws, all decorated with Symbols of
mourning.
2d, The Sagamore bearing the great flandard
cf the Society, covered with black cloth; on
the front the representation of a marble monu
ment founded on a rock. f r teen pillars sup
porting a Dome, the center of which falling in
ward, rests on rhe thirteen columns within, em
blematical of the thirteen original States.' The
Tomb which contains the mortal part of our
Great Chieftian appears thro' the columns in
the centre of the thirteen. On a circular pedef
(al on the top of the Dome, is an Obelisk, its
weight resting on the thirteen inner pillars. On
the table of the obelise and round the pedestal
are inferred the most remarkable events in the
life of the Heroic Washington.—-On the re
verse of the great Standard, the Arms of the U
nited States incircled with black—the two
Baders of ceremonies, on either fide the Sagamore,
bearing the silken label (entwined with mourn
ing) on which was written the name of the Or
der.
^^urer^z^^r:
Municipal Honors.
—CTaMfIC3Vt ^.>ffraßbY--wQ
NEW-YORK, JAN. 3.
FUNERAL PROCESSION,'
AS A TRIBUTE TO T^E MEMORY OF
General GEORGE WASHINGTON.
ON the 31st of December, I 799, the Day ap
pointed by the citizens of N. York, to pay
the nioft Solemn Funeral Honors to the ME
MORY of their beloved Chief and Fellow-Ci
tizen General GEORGE WASHINGTON,
every kind of business ceafeJ, and every thought
was employed in preparation for the melancho
ly solemnity—-the order of which had been an
nounced on the preceding day, by the com
mittee of Arrangement. The Citizens, in their
Military and Civil Habiliments, with the
Foreigners of various Nations, all eager to join
in testimonies of veneration for the Great De
ceased, having assembled in their appointed or
der, the procession moved under the guidance
of Signals, to the mournf@ founds of Minute-
Guns and Muffled Bells, in the following or
der :
ift, The WiskinLie fuppoiting the Cap of Li
berty veiled in crape.
TAMMANY SOCIETY or COLUMBI-
Officers of the Army of the United States.
Adjutant-General of the U. States and Suite.
Major-Gen. Hamilton and Suite.
Citizens.
St. Stepherds Society.
Tammany Society.
In the foHonuing order :
Officer and Eight Dragoon.
Sixth Regiment, in Platoons, by the left,
With Arms and Colors reversed—Drums and
Fifes in Mourning.
Eight pieces of Field Artillery,
Taken in different Battles during the Revolu
tionary War from the Britilh.
Cavalry.
Rifle Company.
Military Officers.
Officers of the Navy of the United States.
3. Rhode-Bland Tribe, do.
4. Connecticut Tribe, do.
5. New-Yorli Tribe, do.
6. New-Jersey Tribe, do.
7. Pennsylvania Tribe ? do.
8. Delaware Tribe, do.
2. Massachusetts Tribe in the fame order.
AN ORDER.
ORDER.
Cols. Cols.
"Giles, Troup,
IJI
Fish, B. Livingflon.
n Ima
Gen '
Willet, ^flm Stevens,,
(Mayor oi City. Clarkfon,
Each Pall-Bearer was accompanied by a
member of the Cincinnati in full mourning,with
a white crape-bow on the outward arm, and
bearing a black Banner, denoting some import
ant a& of the deceased. The Pall-bearers and
members of the Committee of arrangement,
wore the badges of the Cincinnatti and black
fcarfs with white roses on the bows. THE
URN, with its attendant decorations, was flip
ported by eight Soldiers, (with others attend
ing for relief) upon a BIER in form of a Pa
lanquin, fix feet by four. This elegant assem
blage of Emblems, confided of a funeral URN,
three feet in height, of burnished gold, with the
name of WASHINGTON in black upon the
flatband; behind which the American Eagle,
four feet high, cloud-borne, with extended but
drooping wings, appeared to hover over the
a/hes of the Hero, holding in his beak a laurel
wreath; these figures were supported by a rich
Pedellal and cornifh of burnished gold—Un
derneath was a second pedestal, riling from
the Bier, covered with "black, on the front and
rear of which, the Laurel wreath was represent
ed, tied together by the American stripes, and
crowned by the American Conftellatien, the
whole on a ground of black—The sides were
adorned with military trophies, compdfed of
Military Standards, Cavalry and Infantry, with
the Standards of the United States, and of the
Society of the Cincinnati. In the centre of the
trophies was represented the Eagle, with the
other emblems and mottos of the Society, sur
rounded by branches of laurel—-the whole
decorated with black drapery, fringed and fof
tooned. This superb and appropriate ornament
formed an elegant Mass of thirteen feet in
height. The various colours of the floating
Standards, mingled with the metallic splendor
of the URN, and the mournful solemnity of the
surrounding black, formed one grand image
truly sublime and affeding.
Immediately followed,
The General's Horse, in Mourning,
w rotten,
Temple of Virtue, Seat of ATfnry.
On the front of the fquare—"Bleffed are the
dead who die in the Lord"—On the one fide—
" They rest from their Labor"—On the other
—" Their works follow them."
The Dome carried by four Masons of the
Superior Degrees.
The Grand Treasurer, in mourning, holding
in one hand, Incense ; in the other flowers.
The I'd(t Grand Officers.
The Senior and Junior Grand Wardens.
The Grand Putfuivant, carrying the Bible,
Square, and Compass, on a black Cushion, sup
ported by two Deacons^—the Bible carried on
this occasion, was the Bible upon which Gen.
Washington took his oath of office when firft
inaugurated as President of the United States.
The Grand Master & his Deputy, supported
by two Deacons.
Manhattan Company.
New-York Infuranep Company.
United Insurance Company.
Branch Bank.
Bank of New-Yorfc.
Chamber of Commerce.
Marine Society.
Collegians.'
Regents of the University
Trustees of Columbia College.
President and Profeffors of ditto.
Pbyficians and Surgeons.
Gentlemen of the Bar.
Civil Officers of the City.
Civil Officers of the State.
Members of Congrcfs.
Lieutenant-Governor.
Civil Officers of the United States Government.
His Catholic Majesty's Consul and Gentlemen
of that Nation.
His Britannic Majesty 's Consul, and Gentlemen
of that Nation.
Mtific.
Anacreontic and Philharmonic Societft.
In complete Mourning—the grand officers
bearing Wadds, decorated with crape—the
Members wearing their Badges with Crape
and Bows of Love Ribbon.
Clergy, in full dress, with white Scarfs.
Twenty-four Girls,
In white robes, with white furpluffes and turbans,
strew ing laurels during the Procession.
Committee of Arrangement.
BIER.
After the Funeral Oration, and other solemn
fcrvices of the Temple, the Bier was deputed
in the Cemetery, and the last Military Honors
performed over it.
Led by two black Servants in compleat mourn
ing, with white Turbans.
Cincinnati as Chief Mourners,and other Officers
On the arrival of the procession at St. Paul's
Church, the Military halted, and opening their
ranks, made an averue, through which the
Bier and those immediately attendant on it pall
ed into the Church—The Troops leaning on
their reversed Arms.
The following are the words of Sacred Mafic per
formed on the gif &lt. at St. Paul's Church, by
the Anacreontic and Philharmonic Societies :
SOL O.
Sons of Columbia, now lament,
Your Spear is broke, your Bow's unbent.
Your glory's fled
Amongst the dead; c
Your Hero lies .L
Ever, forever clos'd his eyes, 'f
cno&us.
Columbians weep ! weep fill in loader moan,
Tour Hero, Patriot, Friepd and Father's gone.
DEAD MARCH.
RECITATIVE SOLO.
The Body comes !—we'll meet it on the way,
With laurels ever green, and branching Palm,
Then lay it on his Monument : hung round
With all his trophies and great a&s enroll'd
In Verse Heroic, or sweet lyre Song.
There ffiall Columbia's valiant Youth rafort;
And from his memory, inflame their breasts
To matchiefs valor, whilst they sing hupraife.
FEMALE VOICES.
Bring the laurels, bring the bays;
Strew his Hearse, and drew the ways.
GENERAL CHORUS.
Glorious Hero, may thy Grave,
Peace and honor, ever have „
After all thy pains and woes,
Rest eternal, sweet repose.
conclusion.
Mourn, mourn, Columbians ! Mourn in so
lemn (trains.
The Grand Sectary, in mourning carrying
in his hands an Urn, walking under the Dome
of a Temple, supported by five columns on an
equal fqu^re: at the circle of the Dome was
of the late War.
Corporation of the City.
Light Dragoons.
Officer.
2d. That the Lieut. Governor, the Council,
& the two branches of the General Court, will,
in compliance with the recommendation of Con
gress, in their Resolve of the 30th Dec. last,
" teftify our grief for the death of Gen. GEO.
WASHINGTON," by uniting in public solemn
worship of the Deity, in the Church in Brattle
ftreet, in Boston, (with 4he consent of the pro
prietors) on Saturday, the %2d day of Feb. next,
at II of the clock in, the forenoon—[if the
General Court ffiall then be in session] — and will
then bow, in humble Adoration and Prayer, before
the Supreme disposer of all events, and attend
upon a Discourse to be adapted to the occafion—
that we will suspend our usual bufinefe for this
purpose ; and that the Chaplain of the General
^Court be requeued to deliver that Discourse,
and to lead in the other religious exercises of the
day :—
And we have confidence, that our fellow^ci
tizens, of all denominations throughout the
Commonwealth, will then unite in like ser
vices---so that the whole people, with one heart,
and one voice, may at the fame time duly ex
press their fenfatiens on this mournful occasion.
Tbfe Resolutions were unanimously concurred in.
WEDNESDAY, JAN. Is.
A joint Committee was raised to report a
mendment s to Jurors Laws.
Glouceftcr Bank Incorporation Bill was read
a second time.
A Committee was raised to confider the ex
pediency of increasing the Governor's and Su
preme Judges' falarics.
A Committee was raised to confider of alter
ations in the code of Criminal justice, and the
enforcements of Municipal regulations within
the town of Boston.
A joint Committee was raised w confider the
propriety of having Time-Pieces eroded in
Suitable places in the New State-House, for the
accommodation of the Legislature.
Joint Committees were railed to report the
necessary alterations to be made in the Act pro
viding for the due observation of the Lord's
D^y.—And in the fcveral laws receding the
Militia of this Commonwealth.
The Committee on the petition of Dudley
A. Tyng, and others, praying for an A& for
Incorporating a Bank at Newbury-Port, re
ported, that the petitioners have leave to bring
in a bill. Alter a lengthy debate, the question
to accept the report passed in the negative—
For it 55 —Against it 6,5.
Messrs, Tillinghaft, Storer, Russel, Wilde and
King, Were appointed a Committee to confider
the state of the unincorporated Bank, in New
.bury-Port, and whether any measures ihall be
adopted for their relief ; and also whether any
measures fliall be adopted to prevent the circu
lation with this State of Bank Bills of other
States, of a kli denomination than Five Dollars
The House passed a Resolution for erecting
a Penitentiary Houle, for the 'confinement of
convi&s; and voted 30,000 dollars to defray
the expense.
MONUMENT TO WASHINGTON.
The following Resolution puffed the Senate
and House, unanimously : —
Refolded I. " That a STATUE or Monu
ment of Marble be ere&ed on the centre of the
lower hall in the New State-House in memory
of Gen. George Washington, with inferip
tions and devices adapted to impress a due sense
of his sublime virtues, to extend and perpetuate
their influence ; and to express the public gratitude
for his eminent Jervices.
2. That the Secretary be and he is hereby
directed to cause copies of the Proclamation of
the President of the United States, bearing
date, the 6th January current, and of the Re
solve of this Court passed on the 14th day of
the present month, on the fubje& of that Pro
clamation, to be forthwith printed and trans
mitted through the hands of the Sheriffs, to the
several Ministers of the Gospel of every deno
mination, in this Commonwealth, and to the
Deacons or Elders of those Churches which are
destitute of such a minister."
SATURDAY, JAN. 18.
An accepted report on the fubjed of the Ju
diciary, came down from the Hon. Senate.
A variety of private business, daily occupies
attention.
Refold, 1. That an Oration, on the sublime
virtues of Gen. GEORGE WASHINGTON,
be delivered before the Lieut. Governor, the
Council, and the two branches of the General
Court, in the Old South Meeting-house, in Bos
ton, (with content of the proprietors thereof)
by such person and at such time, as His Honor
the Lieut. Governor, the President of the Senate,
and the Speaker of the Houfeof Representatives,
shall appoint for that purpose, and that the Chap
lain of the General Court be requested to intro
duce the exercises with prayer to O.e Throne
of Grace.
A petition, for the Incorporation of an In
surance Company , at Portland, was committed.
A joint Committee was raised to confider the
expediency of a law to prevent the sale of Lot
tery Tickets within this Commonwealth.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, JAN. 14.
n 'HE following Resolutions having passed
the Senate, unanimously, came down for
concurrence :
SO N G.
Picus orgias, pious airs
Decent sorrow, decent prayers,
Will to the Lord ascend,
And move his pity, and regain his love.
GRAND CHORUS.
The Lord God Omnipotent reigneth 5
For the kingdom of this world is become
The kingdom of our Lord and his Christ,
And he /half reign, for ever and ever.
Halleluiah !
Mafochujets LegiJlature
A Committee wasraifed to prepare a Tax Aft.
THURSDAY, JAN. 16.
The Name of Him yo tlov'd, alone remains!
Your hopes jn his support, from hence give o'er,
Your Hero, Friend and Father, is no more.
SECOND PART.
ELEGY.
How sleep the brave, who fink to rest,
By all their Country's wishes bled ?
By Fairy hands, their knell isfung,
By forms unseen, the Dirge is Sung:
There honor comes f a Pilgrim grew,
To bless the turf that wraps their clay ;
And Freedom, shall awhile repair,
To dwell a weeping Hermit there.
When Spring, with dewy lingers cold.
Returns to deck their hallow'd mold ;
She there shall drcis a sweeter sod,
Than fancy's feet have ever trod.
RECITA TIVE SOLO.
How vain is all this storm of grief,
To vent our sorrows, give relief;
But yet, let not Columbia's Race,
Misfortune, with defpondmg arms embrace,
Diffracting doubt and desperation,
111 become the chosen Nation ;
Chosen by the great I AM,
The Lord of Hosts, who, llill the fame,
We trust, will give attentive ear,
To the finecrity of Prayer.
TUESDAY, JAN. 2T.
FRIDAY, JAN. 17.
MONDAY, JAN. 20.
DISBANDING THE NATIONAL ARMY
Messrs. Kitchell, Gallatin and Ran
dolph spoke in favour of the motion.—
Gen. Smith, Mr. Harper, and Gen.
Lee, against it.
The queflicn was then taken, “ Shall
ibis motion be agreed to ?" —When it was
negatived,—6o to 39.
The Committee rose, and the House
-concurred, as follows : —
} EAS—Mfrs. Alfon, Baer, Bartlek, Bayard,
Bird, Brace, j. Brown, Champlin, Cooper, bana,
J. Davenport, F. Davenport, Dennis, Dent, Dixon,
Edmond, Evans, A. Fefer, D. Fefer, Freeman,
Glena, Goode, C, Goodrich, E. Goodrich, Gordon,
Grifwold^ Grove, Harper, Hartley, Henderson,
Hill, Huger, Imlay, Kittera, H. Lee, 8. Lee, Ly
man, Finn, Maifsall, Morris, Nott, Otis, Page,
Parker, Platt, Powel, Read, Rutledge, Sewal, Sheafe,
Shepherd, Smith, Talliafero, Thatcher, f.C, Thom
as,Wadsworth, Waln, L. Williams, Woods. —6o.
NAYS—Messrs. Bailey, Bijhop, R. Brown,
Cbrfie, Clay, Claiborne, Condit, Davis, Dawson,
Egglefon, Elmondorpb, Fowler, Gallatin, Gray,
Gregg, Hanna, Heifer, Holmes, Jackson, Jones,
Kitchel, Leib, Lyon, Macon, Muhlenberg, New,
Nicholas, Nicbolfon, Smilie, Sandford, Stone, Sump
ter, Thompson, A. Trigg, J. Trigg, Van Cort
tesdt, Farnum. R Williams, Randolph —39,
Mr. Nicholas's motion, to the effed,
was re-difeuffed in Committee of the
whole. Messrs. Nicholson, R. Wil
liams, Randolph, Jones, and Claiborne,
spoke in favour of the Resolution :—
Messrs. Shephard, Otis, Harper and
Hill, against it.
No question was taken ; and the
Committee rose, reported progress, and
had leave to fit again.
Mr. Otis, from the Committee of
Defenfe, reported a proposition for sus
pending the Recruiting Service, until,
in the opinion of The President, immi
nent danger of invasion be deemed to
exist. Ordered to lie on the Table.
A petition of certain Merchants of
Baltimore was read.—lt Rated, they
had fuffered a damage of 13,090 dol
lars, in the unlawful detention, by the
Colledor of Edgartown, (Massachu
setts) of the ship Flora, from the Isle
of France, for the United States, after
the palling of the non-intercourse law ;
and prayed relief. Referred to Com
mittee of commerce and manufactures.
Several other private or local peti
tions, though of importance to indi
viduals, wholly uninteresting to feven
eighths of our readers, were presented
and a^ed on.
National Armourv.
Mr. Reed moved, that the Commit
tee of Defenfe report on the fubje& of
the National Armoury, at Springfield,
Massachusetts.
The Mint.
Mr. Macon then spoke in support of
the motion ; after which Mr. Egglef
ton again moved the Committee to
rife ; he hoped that gentlemen, though
they were in the majority, would not
lose fight of that civility which ought
to charafterife them. It was an old
adage he said, that "hunger made men
peevish." He conceived, from the man
ner gentlemen had treated a solicitude
that the difeuflion might be postponed,
that it was verified in them. He hop
ed the present motion for postponement
would not be treated with the fame
incivility ; if it was, probably he (Mr.
Egglefton) might obtain the fame
peevish spirit, and though at that late
hour might be induced to speak on
the question.
THURSDAY, JAN. 9.
Mr. Thatcher presented a petition of
Nathaniel Pelican, praying for com
pensation for having procured the con
demnation of a vessel employed in the
Slave Trade.
DISBANDING NATIONAL ARMY.
After the usual local and private bu
siness was disposed of, the House went
into Committee of the whole, on Mr.
Nicholas's motion for
The President's Message on this fubjedt was
referred, on motion of Mr. D. Foster, to a fe
le& committee.
Mr. Macon, after a few observations , in
which he noticed the two unfuccefsful attempts
on the fame fubjedt, already decided, laid the
following Resolution on the table, viz.
" Refolded, That the 2d fermion of the A&,
passed July 14, 1798, entitled, “ An Aa, in ad
dition to an Afl, intitled, an AR for the punifment
of certain crimes againfl the UtMed Skates, ought to
be repealed."
The Fisheries.
On motion of Mr. Sewall, a Committee was
inftruaed to report on the laws relative to the
FISHERIES of the United States.
The Ayes were 48, Noes 46.
So that the committee rose and ob
tained leave to fit again, and the House
adjourned at a quarter part five.
Mr. Bayard spoke against, and Mr.
Gallatin in support of the Resolution.
At the usual hour of adjournment, a
motion therefor was 101 l to 46.
Mr. H. Lee, then spake, at length,
against the Resolution. Motion was
made for the Committee to rife.—Neg
atived 52 to 4.0. Mr. Nicholas replied
to the gentleman who had spoken a
gainst his resolution. Motion for the
Committee's riling, again negatived—
-50 to 44.
DISBANDING NATIONAL ARMY.
MR NICHOLAS'S m otion for
dilbanding the National Army,
was taken up, in Committee of the
whole,
Mr. MORRIS in the Chair.
Sixth (- 4 0^GR£d$ 0/ the
UNITED STATES.
MONDAY. JAN. IJ.
National Army.
Sedition T.acws.
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 8.
FRIDAY, JAN. 10.
Mr,-Kittera moved its reference ton
Select Committee.
Mr. Randolph hoped it would not-
It was very far, he said, from his ex
pectation, when he addressed the Presi
dent of the United States on the fub
jed of the abuse he had received, that
he would have referred the letter to
this House, because he considered it
could not provide a remidy for the e
vil, otherwise he should have made an
immediate application to the House.
He did not wilh on his account any
thing to be done by the House which
did not belong to it. He was opposed
to it as a bad precedent, which might
at some future time he prostituted to
purposes injurious to the country. He
had conceived the power of the com
mander in chief of the artny was ade
quate to afford a remedy fufficient to
retrain men under his command from
giving such personal abuse and insult.
He disclaimed all desire that the House
should eftablifli any improper measure
merely to protest his individual person
from insult or danger.
Mr. Kitchell hoped the gentleman
who had received the abuse would con
fider that it was not merely personal
to him, but a breach of privilege of a
member of the Houle. He conceived
this privilege was defined in the Con
stitution of the United States. A com
plaint has been made, which was pro
perly referred by the President to the
House for their investigation in some
mode or other. He conceived this
had been the uniform system of pro-,
ceeding heretofore.
Mr. Scwal said that as the President
had submitted the fubjeft to the atten
tention of the House, he conceived it
had a sole jurifdidion over it. On the .
other hand the gentlemen himfelf dis
claimed all desire for its legislative con
sideration. He thought that a fuffici
ent reason for its reference to a feleft
committee. It certainly was the pro
vince of the House to proted its own
members, and how far its attention
was necessary in this affair, that com
mittee could report,„•
Mr. Nicholas said whatever might
be the apprehension of his colleague as
to the extension of the power of the
House, he did confider it the duty
of the House jo confider & inv^ftigate
a breach of privilege on any of its
members. If there was no lafety, if
no right for the members publicly and
Mr. Griswold, from a ComnNttee,
made report, that the non-intercourse
Law with France, would expire in
Marcli next ; and as that law was essen
tially connected with the system of de
fenfe established in consequence of
French aggressions, which in the pre
sent Rate of things it would be impro
per to change, the Committee submit
ted a resolution for a Committee to re
port a bill to continue the fame.
General Stamp Office.
The Resolution on this fubjectwas
taken up, and, after debate, was carri
ed 47 to 32 : and the Committee of
Ways and Means intruded to bring
in a bill-
Breach of Privilege.
A Message from the President of the
United States was received, inclofing a.
letter from Mr. Randolph, in which he
alledges, that, in his' person, the inde
pendence of the Legislature of the U
nited States had been insulted by two
officers of the army or navy, who on
Friday night, at the Theatre, endea
voured by a course of influence, to pro
voke him to a conduct which might
juftify them in carrying on their " hos
tile intentions." With much “ inter,
locution," and naming one of the par
ty, he calls on the President to punish
and repress a licentiousness which, he
adds, threatens to introduce " the reign
of terror" into our country ; and con
cludes with alluring the President, that
he is, " with much truth his fellra-citi
&en.
The President, in communicating
this letter to the House, leaving it to
them to judge of its style and manner,
disclaims all right to interfere in a ques
tion which refpedts the privileges of its
members ; yet willing to evince his
judgment of the tranfaflion complain
ed of, he had ordered the Secretary of
War and of the Navy to make inqui
ry into its circumstances, and report a
statement of fads.
Gentlemen of the Senate, and
Gentlemen of the House of Refertfentatrott,
A Report, made to me on the fifth of thi4
month, by the Secretary of War, contains va
rious matters, in which the honor and fafety of
the nation are deeply interested. I traufmit it
therefore to Congress, and recommend it to their
serious consideration. JOHN ADAMS.
United States, fan. 13, 1800-
The Report of the Secretary ofWar,
which is very lengthy, recommends the
establishment of the following military
institutions ift. A Fundamental
School, for the inftru&ion of engineers,
miners, &c. the present plan of aflimi
lating artilleries and engineers, the Sec
retary conceives incomplete, and re
commends their separation.— 2d. A
School of Artillery.— 3 d. A School
for Cavalry and Infantry.— And 4th.
A School of the Navy.—Each to be
governed by a director, &c. The feite
of the school of artillery to be in the vi
cinity of a foundery of cannon, the
manufacture of small arms, &c. that of
the navy in a situation where practical
experiments may be made.
TUESDAY, JAN. 1,