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I remember taking notice of a fpcecb
in what is called the English House of
Peers, by the then Earl of Shelburne,
and I think it was at the time he was
Minister, which is applicable to this
case. Ido not directly charge my me
mory with every particular ; but the
words arid the purport, as nearly as I
remember, were : That the form of a
Government mitamatter <wholl, at the
vain of a Nation at all timet ; that if it
cbofe a monarchal form,it had a right to
have it jo; and if it Efrcravards ebfe to
be a Republic, it had a right to he a Re
public, and to jay to a R^g, d^e have no
longer an, occaficn for,:u:
[To be Continued]
On motion of Mr. Lee, ordered, that
the committee on the petition of Josias
Clapham, refeafog a certificate loft
-and destroyed, be discharged ; and that
said petition, together with the petiti
ons of Daniel Robbins, Phineas Ware
and Phillip Boffi, on the fame fubjed,
be referred to the Secretary of the
Treasury. Adjourned untirMonda, 11
o'clock.
Mr. Ames presented the petition of
Jonathan Haskell, a Lieutenant in the
service of ibt United States, faring the
loss of a sum of money entrusted to : hit
care for publick use, as also a sum of
money, his own property ; and praying'
-that he may be indemnified for said
1018 ; which was read, and referred to
the secretary at War.
~dnfequently, if there is not a right to
a vote in any of the characters, there
can be no right to any either in the
nation or in its Parliament. This ought
to be a caution to every country, how it
imports foreign families to be Kings.
It is somewhat curious to observe, that
altho' the people of England have been
in the habit of talking about Kings, it
is always a foreign house of Kings;
hating foreigners,yet governed by them.
It is pbw the house of Brunswick, one
Cfdie petty tribes of Germany.
It has hitherto been the practice of
the English Parliaments to regulate
what was carfed.the succession, (taking
it for granted,!hit, the nation then con
tinued to accord to the form annexing
a monarchical branch to its govern
ment ; for without, this, the Parlia
ment could hot have had authority id
have sent either to Ho'lar.d or to Hano
ver, or to impose a King upon the na
tion against its will.) And this must be
the utmost limit to which Parliament
cad go upon the case; but the right of
the nation goes to the vjbele case be
cause it has rhe right of changing i;s
tvhole form of government. The right
of a Parliament is only a right in trust,
a right by delegation and that but froift
a very small part of the nation ; and
one of its hoafes has not even this. But
the right of the nation is an original
right, as univterfel as taxation. The
nation is the paymaster of eyby thing,
and every thing iriuft conform to its ge
neral will.
Well in its origonal, as in its referejenta- I
:ive charader; and he has taken care l
to make himfelf underflood, by faying
that they have not a vote either indi
vidually or collectively. The Revolu
tion Society is composed of citizens of
g! denominations, and of members of
both the Houses of Parliament ; and
Mr. Ames, from the committee to
whom was referred the petition of Gen.
,am& 5 %% made report, which was
read arid offered to'lie On the table.
„ Mr. LAWRENeg presented a memo
rial from the commissioned officers ser
ving in the army of the United States,
praying an increase of their pav, &c.
which was read Preferred to a fele& com
mittee of Messrs. Laurence, Wilhamjen'
and Kitchell.
MR Livermore, from/ the Handing
committee of ebaibns. to whom
was referred a letter from the executive of
the Rate ofMaryland,notifying therefig
nation oHTilliam Pinckney, who was re
turned to serve as a member of this
house, and the appointment of John
Francis Mercer to fill that vacancy, made
a report, which was read arid ordered to
lie on the table. *
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
CONGRESS.
Friday, nov. rS.
<.Mr, Williamson said the motion
Ought to be for a general reference.
This motion being put, wks negativ
ed ; and a mo,idn to reject the petition
Was put ana. carried.
/ The petition of J. E.Moore, refpea
ting a number of certificates nf publick
debt, ;which were destroyed, praying
they may be renewed,, was read—and
with fomeothers of a fimil^r Nature, re
fe/redto the Secretary oftheTreafury.
The resolution for extending the time
limited for fettling the accounts be
tween the United States and individual
States, was agreed to ; and a committee,
confiding of Messrs. Dayton Griffin and
Hartley, appointed to report A bill ac
cordingly. .
The order of the day—on the bill
apportioning the reprefentatioql, of the
inhabitants of the United States, accor
ding to the firft enumeration—— Mr.
M^hnhurg in the chair. ;
The bill was read by the Clerk.
Mr. Macon moved that the firft lec
tion be amended, by in ferting the word
five before the word thousand.
Mr, Lawrance reported a.bill
making appropriations for the fopport
of government for the year 1792— -read
the firft and second time, and referred
to a committee of the whole honfe, to
to be made the order of the day on
Wednesday next.
Mr. Williamson presented the
remonstrance and petition of a yearly
meeting of the people called Quakers
in the State of Northcarolina, against
the duties arid penalties of the militia
law—read arid referred to the commit
tee of the" whole house to whom the
militia law was referred.
A letter from the Secretary of State,
inclofing a report on the petition ofJacob
Isaacs, of Newport, (R. I.) who had
prayed for areward from government,
for difeovering the art of converting
salt water into frefli, by an easy pro
cess—This report stated an account of
certain procelles made by the petit ion
er'in presence of the Secretary of State,
to afeertain his pretensions—the refolt
was, that rimple distillation, without
Mr.lfaacs' discovered mixture, produ
ced as great a quantity of frelh water,
as with it;
Mr. Sylvester presented the pe
tition of Reuben Murray and Daniel
Shermehorn—read, and referred to the
Secretary of the Treasury.
Sundry other petitions were read and
referred.
The address from the General Assem
bly of £r. Domingo, to the Congress
of the United States was read.
Mr. Wadsworth, of the committee
appointed for that purpose, reported a
bill more effectually to provide for the
national defence, by eftaßlifhing a uni
form militia throughout the United
States—read the firft and second time,
and referred th a committee of the whole
house, and made the order of the day
for Monday next—to be printed in the
interim..
The report of the committee on the
petition of Jame Jackson, was referred
to the committee of the whole, and
made the order of the day for Thursday
next —Report to be printed in the in
terim.
The petition of sundry furg'eons of
the late army, praying a fair and e
This motion after some debate, was
negatived —as were also motions ;o in
sert four and three.
Mr. Benson then moved to strike
obi the whole of the firfl: Tedion, in or
der to substitute another which he
had prepared: ~
This motion refpeaed,a different mo
dification of the feaion,ftill retaining the
ratio of one re pre Tentative to thirty thou
sand. Farther debate endued, and the
committee rose and reported progress.—
Adjourned.
The report of the committee on the
election of John Francis M.rcer, was a
gain read, and after some debate, refer
red to a committee of the whole house
to morrow.
Mr. Smith (N. H.) presented the
petition ofJaifon Waite—read and refer
red to the Secretary of War.
Mr. Boudinot moved that the pe
tition of James Weeks should be refer
red to the Secretary of Wir which
was objected to.
TUESDAY, NOV. 22.
MONDAY, NOV. 21.~
The hou^ then proceeded to the con
liberation of the amendments reported
yesterday by the committee of the whole
house to the bill apportioning the re
prefentaiion of the people of the United
States, according to the firft enumerati
on." • & :<
After some time spent in debate, the
bill was ordered to be engrossed for a
third reading to morrow.
According to the order of the day,
the house refolded itfelf into a commit
tee of elections, relative to Mr. Pink
ney's resignation, and Mr. Mercer's
certificate of election in his room, from
the executive of the date of Maryland.
It was finally " Resolved, that it is
the opinion of this committee,that John
Francis %rcer is entitled to take a
feat in this noufe, as one of the repre
sentatives for the fate of Maryland, in
the room of William Pinkney." Adj.
thursday, NOV, 24.
A number of Petitions were read,
and severally referred, some to the Se
cretary at war,, and others to the Se
cretary of the Treasury, to report there.
O"'.
A petition of Hendrick Doyer, Ge
neva distiller, in Newyork, praying
that the a& for laying a duty on distill
ed spirits may be so modified arid a
merided, that the duty on Geneva, im
ported from abroad, may be augment
ed; and the duty on the said article,
distilled, within the United States, re
duced. — Referred to the Secretary of
the Treasury, for his information.
Mr." Dayton, from the committee,
presented a bill to extend, the time li
mited for the fettling of the accounts of
.the United States with the particular
states—Read a firft and fecond' time,,
end committed to a committee of the
whole on Tuefday next.
qoitable settlement es their accounts,
was read.
In committe of the whole, on the
report of the fcled committee on the
election of ,ccn Francis Mercer.
It was moved that the report should
be accepted.—Mr. Giles objected to the
motion, and in a fpcech of considerable
length, dated the reasons of his dis
sent from it— He was replied to by
Messrs Smith (S, C.) Murray,Gerry and
Seney. Mr. Sedgwick fuggeded feme
difficulties in the case—The question
being called for, Mr. Lee moved that
the committee should r:fe and report
progief -rthis motion obtained, and the
committee rose, and alked leave to fit
again.'
In committee of the whole on the
bill apportioning the representation of
the inhabitants of the United States.
The committee agreed to fondry a
mendments to the bill—then rose, and
the houle adjourned.*'
Petitions were read from Peter Hu
ber and James Pettigrew, praying the
renewal of certificates loft and destroy
ed. Referred to the Secretary of the
Treasury.
Petitions from John Blake and Mi
chael Ripp, praying compensation for
advances and luoplies, during the war.
r A petition from Paul Weyandt, of
pennfylvania praying receipt of the
pay due to h : bn, Lieut. Jacob Wey
andt, Who died in the United States'
fervjet during the war.
A petition from Juliana Shplz and
Phillip Z-iber, executors of George
Shulz, deceased, for the allowance of
the rent of a tenement, the property
of said Shulz, appropriated for the use
of the medical department during the
war. .'
Referred to 'the committee for ma
king compensations to widows,orphans,
and invalids.
A memorial was read from the peo
ple called Q_^kers, in Virginia, flat
ing their objeaions to certain parts of
the militia bill, now depending. Re
ferred to the committee of the whole
house on fard bill. .;
Ordered, severally, to lie on the ta
ble.
WEDNESDAY, NOV 2fr =
A report was read from the Secreta
ry at War,on the petitions of the legal
representatives of William Bond,Wad
leigh Noyes, Charles Motte, Barnard
Elliott, Samuel Wife, Benjamin Huger,
John Bush, and Richard Shubrick, of
ficers (lain in the lervice of the United
States during the late war.
nov. 7. 1791. -
"11 fl. DR Tovsard, with a large
Mdetachment, has just returned
from Port- Margot, from whence he
came by land through the body of th,
enemy, at Limbe —he took their camp
by storm—and left 231 chosen negroes
dead in the entrenchments —how man,
fell in the rout, or the number wounded
we cannot afeertain ; but they muff be
proportionate to the slain. Several
pieces of cannon were taken—and what
has rejoiced the hearts of every one, 60
white women and children are refcoed
from the banditti. Our loss, two kill
ed, and fix wounded. Their (offerings
have been inconceivably fhecking. M.
de Cambfort is now out at Lacul "with
500 men: His objed is to attack and
destroy one of their strong holds.
" The Mulattoes, to the number of
2,000, entered Port-au-Prince a few
Referred severally ter the Secretary at
War, to report thereon.
"According to the order of the day,
the house, in committee of the whole,
refunded the consideration of the report
of the feled committee,on the contested
election of Anthony Wayne, from
Georgia.
After force debate on this fubjed, the
committee frofe, and reported amend
ment to thefaid report, which were read,
and, in parr, agreed to. ;
The report being further amended,
and the question put thereupon, was a
greed to.
The feyerat orders of the day were
postponed until Monday next. Adj.
A petition of William Dolby was read,
praying relief in consideration of a wound
received in the United States' service,
during the war./
Also a petition of Alice Weir, late
relift of lieutenant Samuel Kenny, de
ceased praying to receive the pay due
to her said husband, who died in capti
vity, during the war.
A memorial of John Eliot and Abner
Prior, praying farther compezifation for
their services, as fergeons mates in the
late army of the United States.
Further particulars of th©
Hispaniola Infurredion,
In Letters from JAMES PERKINS,
Esq. resident at Cape-Francois.
FRIDAY, NOV. 2f.
-Mr. Philip Key, a new member
from Maryland, appeared and took his
fear.
Mr. WadsworTh, from the commit
tee, presented a bill for making ccm
penfation to widows, orphans, and in
valids, in certain.cafes.
Read a firft and second time,and com
mitted to a committee of the whole house
on Monday next.
Mr.Wadsworth > from the commit
tee for com penfaticns for invalids, &c.
presented a bill for the relief of David
Cooke.
According to the order cf the day,the
house then resolved itfelf into a com
mittee of the whole, on thecpmmittee's
report relative to James Jackfoa's pe
tition, complaining of the undue electi
on and return of Anthony Wayne from
Georgia.—Mr. Muhlenberg in the
chair.
After some time the Speaker resumed
the chair, and Mr. Muhlenberg repor
ted.. that the committee had taken the
report into consideration, and made
considerable progress therein.
ration.
Resolved, that the house will again
tomorrow, take the report into confide.
Mr. White, from the committee,
presented a bill to regulate trade and
intercourse with the Indian tribes—read
a firft Ind second time, and committed
to a committee of the whole house on
Monday nett.
The engrossed bill, apportioning the
representation of the people of the Uni
ted States, according to the firft enu
meration., (of one re prefentative to
thirty thousand inhabitants) was read
the third time ; and on the question be
ing put, it was carried in the affirma
tive ; —Yeas 45— Nays 12.
Ordered that the clerk carry the said
bill to the Senate for their concur
rence.
BOSTON DEC. 14.