The Republican ledger — Portsmouth, N.H., 1800-12-02 00:00:00, page 3

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''CongreW of the Unites States,
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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
~ MONDAY, NOV. >„ ' '
THlSbring the day fixed by law for ffie meet
ing o(Congrels, forty -four members assembled in
The Capful,fete. ' .
Mefrs. Fofler, Freeman, Shephard, Reed, Veer
num, Sedgwick, Wadsworth, Silas, Lee, Williams,
Bijhop, John C. Smith, Davenport, John Smith,
©rtlartd, Platt, Glen; Thompjen, Bailey, Leib,
Thomas, Heifler, "Brown, Muhlenberg, Woods,
Smilie, Dent, Bear, Craik, Chrtfie, John C.-Thom
as, Ngcholjon, Powel, Page, Nicholas, Dawjm,
New, Jackson, Holmes, Macon, Stanford, AllQon,
Sumpter, Huger, W. C. C. Claiborne,
The Speaker observed that it had heretofore
been the invariable practice of the House to ad
mit hew members to take their feats previously to
being sworn, though the ConUitution directed di,
rectly the reverse. As there was a new member
present, he faggeded the propriety of administer
ing the o^thto him before be took his feat.
MG Macon thought fitch a ttep premature. He
was of opinion that no inconvenience &ould arise
ffom.delayiog to administer the oath until a house
was forjned^nd he thought great caution should
attend an! innovation nnpofed to all precedent,
Mr. NICHOLAS Uked, Avhether it had hereto
fore beeiVu(hal in the cafeof a new house to swear
the members before the choice of a Speaker^ ..
Me. SPEAKER, replied that it had not.
Mr, NicWoLAS said, that though n'n firft
thoughts he was favorable to administering the
oatfi at the pfefent time, yet this precedent iriciiti
edthirt )ft think filch a Rep improper#
The SPEAKER waved the question.
The members present not being fuffici'ent to
forth a quotum, the Speaker adjourned die body
till to-morrow. >
SENATE.
Thirteen members appeared; viz.
, Mefrs. Anderson, > Baldwin, Brown, Chipman,
tocke, Foflere; Hillhoufe, Howard, Langdon, Liv
ermore, Suchureman, Tracy, Wells.
But not forming a quorum, adjourned till to mor
row. ° _
Tg tbe#mte
. .„CHARLESTON, NOE.S,
Extrd£l of a letter from Savannah.
^ The inhabitants on the river St. Mary appear
taha^ been alarmed by some Indians belonging
to Bowles whefc have threatened "to borrow fame
arms and cOTzm^ffifrom Fort Pickering,
(Coleraine.), In. cohfequence of this threat, Ma
jor King Cent captain M'Gillis'S troopof horse tn
porfuit of the Indians ; the troop came up with
with them on Frady's Hill, broke up their camp
r and drove them • into- E^lkElorida. One negro
-- wasfouhd fa the . camp, who could got cross the
' river %YUh.them ;borfes arid ketties, guns, &c.
were also found, which foews that they fled with'-
precipitation;
jColumbia, rs. c.) Qft. 17.
" Mr. Editor, . .
" General Sumpter, our republican member of
Congress, is-re-eletled by a majority of 560 votes,
,' rind it is almost reduced to a certainty-, that John
Rutledge will be onßed by Colcock, the republi
can candidate."
* The eteaforts of Georgia have been generally
republican; and, fays the Louisville Gazette,
" there cabnot be a doubt entertainedfbut elec
tors will be chosen who will give Mr. Jefferfon a
unanimous vote,". /
The members of Congress arb; Messrs. Jones
rind Taliafferro.
.-i % -^ frederichfourg Courier.
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4 PHILADELPHIA ,^or. 26.
An article prepared for thi, day, was about to
fed tq press, when an express fenl from Lancdlier
arrived, and the Editor by that medium, learns
that the House bf Repr^fentatives had undertaken
to make another effort, to. save the date from dis
, Tfanchifement. ~„.
The conferences of b,[h honfa had five several
meetings, 'dn the immediate burners of their con^
Ilitd'entt... r
We fubjoln the proportions, of the popular
branch of the. Legislature : for Grange to tell, the
Sife of repfentatiyes have sited rather like fop
r^nts,arid have been treated as interiors through
whole ,ranfattion.
. The,following are the »RpfrOsrTioM3 arid the
REPLY/"
Propositions.
O behalf of the Committee of Conference of the
^/Houfeof Reprefaitativesnoform the bafiiaf a
free Conference on the Electoral Bill. Y
L That thb choice of electors (hall be made
tydjoint tote.of .the two branches of the Legi
slature, but the above (halt be To regulated as to
give teach branch a portion of the number chosen.
2.. That before the joint nteetln&each. branch
fell nominate a number ,of persons, equal to the
Whole number of electors to be chosen ; and at.
1 the joint meeting each members bf the two
branches IhaJl vote for fifteen electorsof
whom ihali be taken from the nomination of the
senate and .from the domination # of the
Route of representatives.
g-That the Senate recede from their amend
ments to the bill; and that the biKbe so enabled
in, the House of .representatives as to conform to
th^firft and second proportions.
Reply.,
-Tk^Cemmittee of Conference on^he part of.the •
'/ Senate, delivered to the Conferreet on the part
'- • ofthe Houje /f Reprefentati^es upon the Propo
)\faiop on Monday-evening, 17th Nov. in the afi
r .ternoon. . . . ~
.The.committee Os conference on the part of
the Senate, have considered the proportions
of the committee . of # the House of Represen
tatives, to which the following exceptions occur.
•The firft cantot beadmitted becanfeit is de
':Preying the principle on which the amendments
'of the Senate are founded, vizi preferring to, the
several branches of the Legislature their refpettive
confiitotiopal rights; . ~
/ .This exception retting ag^nft the principle
? therein contained, dt is unneceffat, to notice the"
- other proportions, as they of tohrfe will be re
jetted ; bat if the principles were conctdad, the
feGond proposition ii not Tufttely explicit, the
.number to be taken from each branch of the lcgi-
Daturfe hot being inferred. On the whole the cotn
t nifttee does not difeover that any advantage can
revolt from changing the principle.,
§Th^onl, object would appeal to reaped the.
nuhibcr- to be fypoinfal by each branch, and,pie
fentimerits of the committee have already so
unequivocally expressed on that point.
; Repeated conferences having already been had
on the fubjed, the Committee on the part of the !
Senate cannot consider the proportions made by ,
the Committee on the part of thg House of Re
presentatives as framing the bafta of a free confer
ence on the electoral bill, but Father as a conclu
liv, opinion. ;
This opinion having beeb opposed to their sen
timents, the Committee of the Senate cannot a
gree toTecommend to that body to recede from
their amendments
Ufcnthe receipt of this reply the committee,
conceiving time all hopes'of fulfilling the obliga
tions which they were bound, to fulfil by their
oaths to the State and Federal Conllitutiotis, pre
pared and presented their report of, Thursday
morning. We (hall, to-morrow, publish the re
port at large.
A few members of the republicans; in the hope;
of (till obtaining a vote for the State, haffily pre
pared and offered to the house, another bill,
founded on a spirit of accommodation and con
ciliation—the basts of which was to allow the se^
nate the,choice of a number of peffons aS electors,
upon the condition of the constitutional mode of
joint vote, which they had already acknowledged
to be constitutional, being adopted.
The expediency of the case, and the shortness of
the period, induced the proposers of the bill to
move for a third reading the fame day, and to
difpenfewith the printing.
The bill was hastily read, but feme members of
the republicans not approving of an idea which
prevailed; that the bill went to rmrender the
principle .of a joint vote, upon a division on
the tirft feition, the bill was 1011, ayes 30 noes 36.
And tl,e houfei immediately adjourned.
Such was the Hate of things on Tuefday after
noon.
We learn that the bill was again bro't forward
yesterday, and ordered to be printed. A,>py of
-the bill we expert this day from La'cafter,
fhonld this measure not succeed, there is an end
to the weight of this flute in the union. Thirteen
men devoted to Alexander Hamilton, can-trample
upon the positive injunctions of the federal con
futation —the vote of, the majority of their fel
low-citizens—and set this fate and people hither
td admired for the mildness of its laws, and the
uniformity of its politics as the original principles,
of the revolution.
The persons who oppose the Voice of the Peo
ple are,
Meffis. Gurney, Pofllethwaite, Ewing, sanes,
Potts, Whelen, M.Barton, M'Clollan, fohnjion,-
R. Smith, King, Woods, Carpenter.
^ The free in Italics were the Committee of
conference ; Jome curious anecdotes of whichfhall
be given.
NEW-rokr,NVr.at. -
It has been publicly notified from the Treasury
Department, that a General Stamp Office ismow
etlatyufhed at the feat of Government,, in the city
of Wafhingtoh, from whence will issue in future
(upon the application of the Supervisors of the
: Revenue Under whose management the collection
of'fbe duties is placed) all paper, parchment or
vellum, marked or damped, aAd duly counter
flamped, according to a law of Congress. By
virtue of which law, the powers of the Sopervi
fors of the Revenue to mark or flamp any vellum,
parchment, or paper, chargeable with duly will
cease and determine from and after the last day of
February, 1801, have in their custody or Doffef
fiori, apy vellum, parchment, or piiper marked or
damped by the Supervisors of the Revenue, upon
which any matter or thin^, charged with duty,
(hall not have-been .written or printed, they may
at qnv tripe within thejpace offixty day's after the
faidtafl day of February 1801, bring or fend such
vellum, parchment, and paper, unto some office,
of infpeftion, and iff lieu thereof; receive a like
quantity or value ot vellum, parchment and pa
per, Quly slumped in pursuance of the aft herein
recited.
And in case any person ihall hegte& or refufe,
within the titoe aforefaid, to bring or cause to be
brought Unto some officer of infpeftion any fact
vellum, parchment or paper; it is declared, that
the fame will thereafter & of no other effect or
tife than if it had never been marked or damped,
and that all matters and things which may alter
that time be written or printed upon any Vellum,
parchment; or paper, authorized to be exchanged
in manner aforefaid, will be to no ptber effect
than if they had been Written or printed nn paper,
parchment or vellum, not marked or Damped —
And fa the Convenience of those persons who
may'be inclined tn have their own ve||um, parch
merit and paper stamped or marked, it is declar
ed that when any person Ihall deposit any vellum,
parchment or paper, at the office of a supervisor,
accompanied with a lilt fpecifying the number
and denomination of (lamps pr marks which are
detirtf to be thereto affixed, the fame will be
transmitted to the General Stamp Office, and
there properly marked or damped, and forthwith
lent bask to the fame supervisor; who will there
upon collect the duties and deliver the paper,
parchment or vellum to the order of the person
from whosy the fame was received#
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: 4 > CONCORD, NOK 21
GENERAL COURT.
• On Wedhefday last the General Court convened
in this towri/ His Excellency the Governor ar
rived on Tuesday—a quorum of the two Branch
es formed on Wedriefday afternoon—and on.
Thursday a joins cotrimittee waited on his Excel
lency, to receive bis communications. Yellerdny
at 12 o'clock was assigned-; when the Governor,
attended by the Council, met both branches in the
^representatives' chamber, and addressed them in
the following .A
.Speech:
Mr. Prudent, and Gentlemen of the Senate,
Mr. Speaker, and G entlemen of the
Htaffeof Reprefentqthes,
ASSEMBLED at this time as the Reprefenta
tivesof a free people, for the purpafe of trafaft
ing fitch bnfinefs as the public good may require,
fit mqft afford greaf fetitfaaion to observe the
general prafperity of our fellow-citizens, add the \
good order ahd tranquility which prevail thro'-
out the State. These pleifiog circumstances ate
a strong incentive anew In the duties of your re
fpettive (latlons. .^1 t '
The conftitMionJa given as our general rule,
and a frequent recurrence to it is a duty ; in this
it is declared to be the duty of Legislators and
Magiffrates; to cherish the interests of Literature
and the Sciences, and all feminari^s and public
schools—to encourage private and public imtito
tigns,rewards and immunities, for the promotion
of Agri epicure, Arts, Sciences, Cornmerre ,Tm!les,l
Manufactures, and Natural Hittor, of the couo-R
try.—to countenance and ibcufc'at, tire principles^
of Humanity and general Benevolence, public and l
private; charitv, industry and economy, honetiyl
and pfoMuality, sincerity, sobriety, and all foefl
<affections and generous fentimriit's, among The^
(people.'
In * free government, those duties are h@ly
important at all times; and some of them pre
peculiarly so in tfe prelent times, when a revolu-j
lionizing spirit, not only in tyfepp of govern-)
merit, but in manners add morals, have been so,
prevalent in Tome foreign countries ; and when it^
is much to be feared, that bur country is m dan-i
ger from the Infection : If fd how important is it#
that Legislators and Magistrates fhonld feriotifly,
and deliberately Contemplate the precepts they'
may give, and be equally , careful to set a gpod
example tQ all abound them ! How important is it§
to our exigence as a free people, that morality 1
andfrefigion (hou|d be prefer ved in theit purity !,
Tire present region of the Legislature is peculiar- -.
ly interefling, from the con(iderafion that they'"
have to nan,e Electors on the part of this date, so
chufing a Frefident and Vice-President of the U.
States—No dqubt can be entertained of your giv
ing to this fubjeft all that consideration which its
high importance demands, and.that such men
will be fei^&d as the public may fafely confide
in ;. men who have given unequivocal proofs of,
their attachment fro our National Government. J
If we look back to the circumflancts of our
common country previous to the adoption of this
system, and contrast them with the present, is. not
such a view fufficienc to determine the wife and
virtuous in a drift adherence to the laws and gov
ernment under which we have had fd much petite
and prafperity, wars, internal commotions, and
daughter, unparalleled I A view of the dreadful
effects of the - demoralizing and revolutionary,
principles in( the French nation, (hould excite us!
to hold faft out Ancient principles and present!
fyflems of government.
The arts and intrigues bf foreign Nations, un
doubtedly have been, and will continue to be, ex
erted in our country ; and de ought to be con
dant'y on brir guard againff them.
The repeated evidences given by our fellow
citizens throughout this State, and by the succes
sive legislators of their flrong attachment to the
national government, are fourecs from whence I
have the highest fathfaftion..
The date of the Treafnry will be laid before
you, from which an opinion may be formed re
fpe&ing the Revenue, and whether further sup
plies are oeceffary.
It has been suggested, that the aft “to regulate
the exportation of Beef and Pork,' 'does not fully
aufwer the purpose intended ; a revllion of this
(A ft may perhaps be ufefol.
Whatever measures yon utay j,4£e necessary
for promoting the welfare of our fellow-citizerts,
will so far as depends on me, be attended to with
much pleasure.—May the fuprerae governor of
the univerre guide us all in the way & peace arid
happiriefs.
.^'Jotiri Tafl Giltriaril
State <f New-Hampfh:re,
Nov. 21, 1800.
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0t EcpubUtin Lebget
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, Portsmouth, December 2, 1806.
The Hon. Samuel Tenney, Esq, of Exe
ter, is 6hofen a Representative to Congress,
for this State, in place of Mr. Gordon.
The following ate alift of Ele&ors for
President and Vice President, chosen by the
Legislature of this State. - ,
For RockinghaWt. r
Hon. Oliver Peabody, gfq,
Hon. John Prentice, Esq; ~
Strafford.
Hon. judge Thompson;
Chefbir'e. °
}Gen. John Bellows.
"Hillfborou^.
H°n. Judg^ Timothy Fatrier. ,_ 1
Grafton.
'Judge Arthur Livermore. ! ";
- All " Adams & Pinthhey.”
^.J'A -<,4"" fc '
(The following important informatiah from the
Aurora, if true and we think it bears the mark
of authenticity, will (etedtifae of the totes of
Perinjylaauia) enjure the election of BW. JEF
FEKSUN-.) - ''••
" In the legislature of North Carolina,
w£ have a majority of twelve .whigs.- The
eleaions do not take place till it is late..
Five dtftrias have already ele&ed all re
publicans, and Jefferfod and Burr are the
favorite candidates in four other diUrias
The fame tlifap,ointment to the poor feds
in South Carolina. From this Information
which is authenth:, you canjudge of cer
tain profpeasof affairs iu the South, so that
whether our friends in Penufylvania may
meditate for us, we can do without them."
Atiother letter, dated Wa&ngtlfy^ov.
<6, fay, after mentioning particulate exad
ly corresponding with the above—From
this information, which is indisputable/ you
^ n jitdge of the certain profpeas of Mr.
Jefferfon 'seleaion, without Penhfylvania.
I haveconvef fed with several members from
that part of the Union, ahd received from
their own lips the intelligence 1 now com
municate. Whether the federal senators in
your legislature bill continue to oppose the
known wilhes and fentitoents of the great
majority of their cohftituents in the (trite at
, large, as well as if at least two thirdsbf the
people of the United States, will be for
tiiemfeivts to determine, but it can nov
thank God, have no effea to defeat Mr Jef
ferfon's election, nor even that of Mr. Burt,
and will bfily tend by the attempt to dep
rive Penofylvania of her right oftyffrage n
the Election of a President, to encreate te
personal tefponfibitify pl the senators, ,d
conunpe alive thyfc feuds and animoGifu
hate, whUh for tile
1 peace, and concord, it were to be wiihed
I bright be buried ,ri oblivion.
, . " Since Writing the foregbihg; General
iSrimpter from Smith Carolina called in, to
pay meavifit., He fays, fivecights of their
;State Legiflatute are decided Repnbtfcabs,
; and that Jefferfon &nd Butt will have every
; vote. Alfool^t himfelf, Butler in plice of
I Harper, Moore in the place of Nott, all Re
' publicans ^r,eleae'd tor that State to Con
gress, ; that Huger is expc&ed to be turned
out by a Republican), „
" Returns from Alleghany Arid \Vafr
ington diftr& in Maryland gave a majority
of one hundred.and twenty for the Republic
can electors, which fecutes fik Votes for JeF
ferfon and Bur, Mr. Baer, the federal
member of Congress, From Frederick, in
this State, brings this infot matiriri.
Y. ^Q^
ExtraEl of a letter from a merchant in Hatimmh,
to his cotrejpondent in' Baltimore, dated 17th
October.
“ I have just heard fiat difpatche s have been
received by the government in this city, of the
French and Spaniards, with 14 fliips of the line
and 17 frigates, having taken Trinidad, hnd that
their present object is Jamaica — and have requeft
,ed a supply of provifiup, for, 20,00 b men , thjs
may probably produce some alteration in our mar
ket for the better'."
ORbAINED]—At Lee, Mr. John Osborne, for.
merly of thisAown.
MARRIED, in this town, Mr. David Bartlett, to
Mis Eliza" MuFiueaux. Mr. fofeph Blaney to
Miss Dorothy Binkley.
Ratine Lift.
ratrob at CufcrtQufe.
^ng Little Cherub, Appleton, Tobago, „
Sch"r. Diana, Blunt, StThomas
Brig Hirain, Brown, Trinidad.
CTarcto•
: — 1
Prig Pallas, ' P^gg, Jamaica.
Brig Enterprize, Henderson, Hilboa.,
Brig Rebecca, A^'Clintock, Tobago.
.<rt^>. F
On Sunday evening the ,6ft nlt. the light-honfe
on Brandt Point (Nantucket) was blown down.
, A^>4-
'PORTLAND, DEC. 1.
Arrived the 23d ult. brig — —,'Capt. LX Smith.
By him canfe passenger Capt. Benjamin Chandler,
of the brig Franklin, of Pepperelborough, who
failed from Surrinam the 2d, of October, and on
the 2tft was captured by a French privateer, who.
took out the Captain, mate, and all the hands,
except three, who were lick The veflfcl was then
plundered, & ordered to Guadeloupe. On the
27$h, fell in with a schooner under Swedish col
.ours, bound to Borton, on board which the priva
teer put Capt.,C, and the people.
Arrived last Wednesday, the (hip Thomas|
Ruftell, Captain Jackson, ot Boftoni 4, days front
Leghorn. Capt. J. brough't ditpatchesdiredted to
the Secretary ot State of the United States
which were immediately forwarded.
New-York, Nov. 21.
Capt. Worth, arrived From Gibraltar, who fail
ed Sept. 25, informs, that there was a large En- :
glifh fleet then at that place, with 20,000 troops
on board,
COMMERCIAL INFORMATION,
Extract of a letter from P. Merchant, EJq. Amer
ican Consul at Guernsey, to a rejpedable house
in this city, dated, Sept, 20, 1800,
" I think it incumbent on me to inform you,
there ibtoo much teafon to fear that governments
will flop the smuggling bulineW from here ; and
though it were otherwise, it is next to certain A-r
merican veflels with Tobacco would not any lon-,
ger be connived ah This for your direction. Pit
thank you to make the above known, in case any
speculations for this pl ace are i0tended,"
'Charleftoh, Nov. 4.
Brig Mariner, of Kennebm.k, taken by the
French; has been retakeh. Ihe Neptune, Barr.
I of Salem, has been taken by the French and sent
to Porto Rico ;alfo sch. Nancy, Harthorn, ot BoG
ton f prig Polly, Field,, of Salem ; sch, Hannah,
Dighton, of Kennebunk. Several prize vessels
(Have been recently,burnt at Porto Rico, becatrfe
<as the French iaid fehe harbour was not well forfeit
fied, and they might be Cut out.
TO BE SOLD/ 1
At Public ° Auaion,
Ori Tuefday the §th inst. (if not ^revioufly dfc
posed of at' private jale) thefaft failing
Schooner ATLANTIC,
107 tons burthen about 6 years old, now ly
ing at Mr. Law's wharf, conditions w ill
be made known at the time and place of
file. An inventory may be seen by apply
ing to
Thomas Chadbourne, jr. °
Poftfinoutti, Dec.l, t^o.'.
—HATS
— era—T
fames Rundlet,
Has just received f er the Minervafrom Lon
don, a largejfJortment of
Mtfs and Women's Beaver
HATS— other Goods as usual.
Dec, 1, 1800. t? . , ~
•v^feM^Mi,- t ^-...uiiii.i*i;;>in r^^ :
ATAKE NOTICE!
A reward of Twenty Dollars
s hereby offered to any perlon who will de
liver the note alluded to in the advertisement
of Samuel H. &w, in the laft,page of
his paper. ^<.2,1800.