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( “ The inclofed Rcfolutions, which unanimously passed the
House of Rcprefentitives this day, will make known to you how
highly they have been gratified with the manner in which you
have performed the service assigned to you, in preparing and de
livering a funeral oration on the death of Gen. WASHINGTON.
That our cpnftituents may participate in the gratification we
have received, from your having so well expressed the tenements
of refped for the charader, of gratitude for the service, and grief
for the death of that illuitrious Personage ; I flatter myfelf you
will not hesitate to comply with the request of the House, by fur
nifhing a copy of your oration to be taken for publication.^Al
low me, while performing this picking talk of official duty, in
communicating an aft of the Representatives of the people, so
just to you, and so honourable to themfr.lves, to embrace the op
portunity to declare, that
"lam pertonally, with great esteem, and sincere regard, Dear
Sir. vour frl nd and obedient servant,
7 THEODORE SEDGWICK.
"The Hon. Maj. Gen. LEE."
'Franklin Court, Dec. aB, 179,.
“DEARSH?, '
“ 1 owe to the goodness of the House of Representatives, the
honor which their resolutions confer on my humble efforts to ex
ecute their with.
“I tan never disobey their will, and therefore will furnifh a
copy of the oration delivered on she late afflicting occasion, much
as I had flattered myfelf with a different disposition of it.
“ Sincerely reciprocating the perfonai considerations with'
which you honor me, I am refpedfully, Sir, your friend and
humble servant. HENRY LEE,
"'The Speaker of the House of Reprefentativer."
_=_ '
Mr. Otis from the committee to whom was re
committed the bill from the senate for the relief
of persons imprisoned for debt, reported the fame,
with amendments ; which was made the order ot
the day for to-morrow..
Mr. Otis called for the order of the day on the
bill to provide for the enumeration of the inhabi
tants of the United States. The House according
1, went into a committee of the whole on said
bill ; Mr. Parker in the chair. .
The firft feftion haring been read, Mr, Nicholas
moved to Grike out the words which give to the
Secretary of State the power of directing the mar
shals in the manner in which the census fha 11 be tak
en, so far as is not tn the bill particularly fpecified.
-Mr. N, said, this pfovilion was not to be found in
the former aft on this fubjeft, and he saw no rea
foa why a man who was Bound by a solemn oath
to aft in conformity to this act, should be fubjeß
to directions *hich the scrupulousness of his con
science might lead him t&refufeio abide by.
"'Mr. Olis thought it necessary the power of giv
ing direaiods ptirfuant t<> this aft (hopid be lodg
ed somewhere—he was indifferent whether with
rhe Secretary of State or any other proper officer;
in order that if any difficulty or embarrassment a
rose in the execution of the law, the marshals,
who were to execute it, would know where to
apply fit '™ a'' o necessary the returns should be
Uniform, which could not be expected to be the
case, were the words /truck out.
" The quedion was put, when there appeared in
the affirmative .56— negative 41.
HOUSE—FRIDAY, Dec. 27.1
Mr, Fowler, from Kentucky, appeared this day, 1
was qualified, and took his feat.l
The Speaker laid before the House, a Report of I
the Secretary of the Navy, oh'the'letter of the
French officers confined in gaol at Burlington, in
the State of NewJerfey ^relented on the firlt day
of the prefent'feffion.
The Secretary in his report Rates, that orders
were given to the proper officer, to admit them
to be at large on their parole; and that leave was
never refuted for the departure of French Officers,
(prisoners of war) to a foreign or neutral country,
whenever proper application was made for that
purpose. In reply to an insinuation contained in
the letter of the French Officers, the Secretary fays
_« that it is a faft, well known, that Americans,
prisoners in the' Weft-Indies, have been treated
with less indulgence than any French prisoners e
ver experienced in this country." The report is
a compleat refutation of the injustice of which the
officers complain.,
Mr. Marshall moved the following resolution,
with the preamble, which was unanimously adopt-,
ed by the House:
The' House of Representatives of the United
States, highly gratified with the manner in which
Mr. Lee has performed the service affigued to him
under the resolution desiring the President of the
Senate and the Speaker of the House ot 'Reprefen
tatives, to requeit one of the members of Congress,
to prepare and deliver a funeral oration on the
death of GEORGE WASHINGTON—And defir-:
ous of communicating to their fellow-citizens, :
through the medium of the press, those Sentiments
of refpe& for the character, of gratitude for the
services, and of grief for the death of that Hlultri
ous personage, which, felt by all, have, on this oc
casion, been so well expressed:
Rejolved, That the Speaker prefeint the thanks
of this House to Mr. Lee for the oration delivered
by him to both Houses of Congress, on Thursday,
the 26th inst. and request that he will permit a'
copy thereof to be taken for publication.
The House then went into a committee of the
whole on the report of the feled committee to
whom were referred the bill from the Senate for
the relief of persons imprisoned for debt, Mr. Ru
tledge in the chair:
The bill and the amendments proposed to be
made thereto having been read, and agreed to by
the Committee, Mr. Taliaferro moved to amend
the fame so as to prevent debtors from defrauding
their creditors by alignments of property ; which
produced a long difculiion—after which, on mo
tion of Mr. Griswold, the Committee rose, and the
bill was again referred to the Select Committee
who reported the amendments.
A medage from the Senate by Mr. Otis, their Se
cretary, informed the House that the Senate had
paged the bill entitled, “An act for extending the
privilege of franking to William Henry Harrison,
a Delegate from the Territory of the United States,
North-Weft of the River Ohio, and making pro
vilion for his coinpenfation'."
Mr. Harrison presented three several petitions—
the firft signed by all the members of the Legifla
t'ure of the Territory of the United States N. W.
of the River Ohio—the 2d of a number of the in
habitants of that territory, praying for a revifal of
the laws authorizing the faie of the public lands
the 3d of a number of the inhabitants of the county
of Hamilton, of the fame territory, praying for a
confirmation of the title of certain lands fold to
them by judge Symms, which they had improved
and fettled, under the idea that his contrast was
valid with the United States : which were read
and referred to the Committee appointed to en
quire whether any and what alterations are neces
sary to be made in the existing laws for the fate of
the public lands of the United States.
And then the House adjourned till Monday
morning it o'clock.
MONDAY, Dre. 30.
The Speaker communicated to the House the
following letters :,
“ DEAR SIR,
Philadelphia, Dec. 27, „„.
[The bill having been gone through, and the
blanks filled up, the committee rose and reported
the fame#-when
Mr. Christie renewed the motion made in the
committee by Mr. Nicholas; which produced a
long difeuffion. The question was finally 1011, by
yeas and nays, as follows :
,YEAS-39, NAYS— 45.
And the bill was ordered to be engrofled for a'
third reading to-morrow.
Mr. Speaker laid before the House a letter from
the Treasurer of the United States, containing a
datement of his specie account as palled by the
proper officers, whidh was ordered to be printed.
Mr. Marshall, from the joint committee appoint
ed to confider and report what measures ought to
be adopted in honor : of^he memory of General
WASHINGTON, made another report in part,
winch was unanimous, agreed to by the House,
in the words following to wit :
Refolded, by the Senate a^d House of Representa
tives of the United States in Congrejs ajjembled—
That it be recommended to the people of the U
nited States, to aflemble on the 22d day of Febru
ary next) in such numbers and manner as may be
convenient, publicly to teftify their grief for the
death of General George Washington, by fnitable
eulogies, orations and difcourles ; or by public
prayers.
And be it further refolded, That the President of
the United States be requeued to recommend the
fame by a proclamation for that purpose.
Extract of a letterfroh Con Jul Matra, dated Gib
ralter, dug, ~ 79g, to bis Grace the Duke of
Portland.
'' IN my last ntmferjl had the honor to inform
your Grace With the % ogress the plague was mak
ing in Barbary ; as there has been no communica
tion with the garrison since I wrote lalt,it was not/
until yesterday that I received any intelligence to.
be depended on. Muly Sulleman, by his marching
an infected army to the Sonto, has spread the difl
ease over the whole Empire. Morocco lam told, 1
is a perfeft defart, the mortality generally was a-l
bout 3000 a day, and as no one would bury the
dead, the bodies were dragged by hooks into the!
Greets, and left there ; at length 100 men were,
daily employed in cleaning the Greets, but as the
service was Certain death, it was difeontinued on
the decease of Muly Tail, who with all his friends
have perished. Many of the remaining inhabit
tants deserting to Sier, and towards the coast of
Guinea, have carried the difordef to the very bor+
ders of the Great Defert.'\ , 1
« In Magador, although the disease was in it&
infancy, the daily lass was 70 to 80, and all towns
on the sea coaG, thence northward, including La
rache, are equally infested. Arzilla, Tangiers
and Tetuan, yet remaining free, and it appears
to have ceased in Fez and Maquinez.
“ Fez is depopulated—by the 20th June, the
Moors reckoned the loss in that city and its depen
dant villages, at 274000, in which they included
upwards of 36,000. of the principal Talbs and Mer,
chants of the country ;'and if thejr eflimate can be
depended on, one third of the inhabitants of the
thred empires have periled ; a depopulation; that
may most juftlf be, attributed to the bigotry of
the emperor, and the inhuman policy cf Ben Haf
fen.
“ Enough was said to Muly Sulleman on the
danger of traversing the whole country with the
plague in his train ; but Ben Ottoman acknowl
edged that his Imperial MajeGy,-coifidering all
precaution as a direct violation of ifa religion,
would not listen to any rcmonftranceon the fub
je^t. Had Ben Haffen objected to his paflage
through Duguella and Abda; which IE positively
assured me he would do: the attempt could not
nor would not have been made. Immediately af
ter, he acknowledged that the hope of Muly Sulle
man's Idling his intcreft with the People, by poi
soning the country /was his only .inducement to
conclude the negotiation. ~, ~
The question was put and negatived, aye's 37—
nays 39.
it was then moved to recommit the bill for the
special purpole of considering the Bth fettion on
ly $ which caused a warm debate—Messrs. Jones,
Smilie, MarfhaU and Nott spoke in favour of the
motion ; and Messrs. Thatcher, Dana and Otis,
against it—Upon tffie question there were in the
affirmative 41 —negative 43.
And then the bill passed.
A menage was received from the Senate, by Mr.
Otis, their secretary, informing the House that the
Senate had concurred in the resolution passed yes
terday, for paying suitable honour to the memory
of Gen. WASHINGTON.
Mr. Otis, called for the order of the day on the
report of the committee to whom was re commit
ted the bill from the Senate for relief of persons
imprisoned for debt—and the House having fe
foived itfelf into a Committee on that fubjeft, Mr.
Rutledge in the chair, the bill and amendments
were read, and agreed by the Committee—and
having been reported, were passed by the house—
Whereupon it was
Ordered, That the said bill be read a third time
to-morrow.
On motion of Mr. Sewall, the House went in
Committee of the Whole on the bill providing for
salvage in cases of re-capture—which was agreed
to without amendment and ordered to receive its
third reading to-morrow.
And the House adjourned till to-morrow morn
ing it o'clock.
TUESDAY, DEC. 3Y.
The engrossed bill intitled "An a& so provide
for the enumeration of the inhabitants of the U
nited States, was reada third time—and the ques
tion being put, shall this bill pajs ?
Mr. Page moved for the re-commitment of the
bill to a committee of the whole House, for the
purpose of introducing an amendment to reftri&
the Secretary of State in the directions which he
fliall give, purfuantitfthe act. He considered this
one of the molt important fubjefts which could oc
cupy the attention of tlte legillature, and was of
opinion the time of the House would not be mis
spent in re-confidefing the bill in the manner which
he proposed. Experience, he said, was ever the
belt guide on which a legislature could all—the
power now proposed to be given was not to be
found in the former ad—nor had that aft been
found objectionable.
- This motion produced a short debate ;in which
Mr. Nott said, he voted against the motion for
striking out; yesterday, under an impression that
the Bth fe&ion of the bill which he then thought
objettionable, and supposed would be afterwards
liable to amendment, could be so altered, as to
meet the ideas of gentlemen who wished the a
mendment.
PLAGUL IN MOROCCO.
mr. editor,
I cannot deprive myfelf of the pleasure of tel
ling you, though you know it already, that Buona
parte has civilized Egypt and renirned to Paris.
Poor Buonaparte, the ton of Misfortune,has Offer
ed fifty Engli/h, or fabulous, deaths— and, behold,
he yet lives ! !!.
Qiere, Mr. Editor, what kind of materials js he
made of? Is he material of immaterial ? 'mortal
or immortal? Or must he not havadefcended from
some of the invulnerable deities ^ So Suwarrow
the old original bear, the proverbial conqueror.
The representatives of the good people of this
Commonwealth in general assembly convened,
have maturely considered the answers of sundry
States in the Union, to their resolutions palled at
the last session, refpefting certain pnconpitutional
laws of Congress, commonly called the alien and
sedition lawtwould be fa'ithlefs indeed to fhem
felves, and to those they represent, Wtre they li
lently to aeqiuefee in the principles and doctrines
attempted to be maintained in all those answers,
that of Virginia only excepted. To again enter
the field of argument, and attempt more fully or
forcibly to expose the Unconstitutionality of thele
obnoxious laws, would, it is apprehended, be as
unnecessary as unavailing We cannot, however,
but lament, that in the difculiion of those interest
ing fubjefts, by sundry of the Legislatures of our
filler states, unfounded suggestions, and urtcandid
insinuations, derogatory of the true character and
principles of the good people of this Common
wealth, have been substituted in place of fair rea
oning and found argument. Our opinions of
those alarming measures of the general govern
ment, together with our reasons for those opin
ions, were detailed with decency and with tem
per, and Submitted to the difeuffion and judge
ment of our fellow-citizens throughout the Union.
Whether the like decency and temper have been
observed in the answers of molt of those Hates
who have denied or attempted to obviate the
great truths contained in those resolutions, we have
now only to submit to a candid world. Faithful
to the true principles of the federal Union, uncon
feious of any deSign to disturb the harmony of that
Union, and anxious only to escape the fangs of
despotism ; the good people of this common
wealth are regardless of censure or calumniation.
Least, however, the silence of this commonwealth
Should be construed into an acquiescence in the
doctrines and principles, advanced and attempt
ed to be maintained by the said answers, or least
those of our fellow-citizens throughout the Union,
who so widely differ from us on those important
fubjetts, Should be deceived by the expectation,
that we Shall be deterred from what we conceive
our duty ; or Shrink from the principles contain
ed iu those resolutions : therefore
Refold, That this commonwealth considers the
federal union, upon the terms and for the purpos
es specified in the late compact, as conducive to
the liberty and happiness of the several states :
That it does now unequivocally declare its attach
ment to the Union, and to that compaa, agreea
ble to its obvious & real intention,& will be among
the last to seek its dissolution : That if those who
administer the general government be permitted
to transgress the limits fixed by that compact, by a
total disregard to the Special delegations of pow
er therein contained, an annihilation of the State
governments, and the erection upon their ruins,
of a general consolidated government will, be the
inevitable.confequence : That tire principle and
constitution contended for by Sundry of the date
legislatures, that the general government is the
exclusive judge of the extent of the powers dele
gated to it, step nothing short of despotism ; since
the diferetion of those who administer the govern
ment, and not the Constitution, would be the
measure of their power : That the several Slates
who formed that instrument, being sovereign and
independent, have the unquestionable right to
judge of its infraction ; and that nullification, by
those Sovereignties, of all unauthorised afts done
undef colour of that Instrument is the rightful
remedy : That this commonwealth does, upon
the molt deliberate re consideration, declare that
the said alien and sedition [law,, are, in their o
pinion,palpable violations of the said constitution ;
and however cheerfully it may be disposed to sur
render its opinion to a majority of its fitter States
in matters of ordinary or doubtful policy ; yet,
in momentous regulations like the present, which
so vitally wound the belt rights of the citizens, it
would confider a silent acquiefeence as highly
criminal : That although this commonwealth, as a
party to the federal compact, will bow to the
laws of the union, yet it does a,the fame time de
clare, that it will not now , nor never hereafter,
cease to oppose in a constitutional manner, every
attempt, from what quarter soever offered, to vi
olate that compass And finally, \n order that
no pretexts or arguments may be drawn from a
supposed acquiescence on the part of this com-)
monwealth in the constitutionality of those laws,
and be thereby tiled as precedents for Similar fu
ture violations of the federal compact ; this com
monwealth does now enter against them, its Sol
emit Protefl..\
ben Ottoman died jutt as the Court left Moroc
co. Moly Hefliein, the emperor's elder brother,
and who for a few years was Emperor of Moroc
co, Muly Taib, and Muly Eb Huliuir, Ben-Naiier's
Son in law, are dead. The firft was an inlipid,
inoffensive character, but by the loss of the other
two I confider the Emperor's interell as Strength
ened. Bafhaw Beiaroft, ut Duguella "(the associ
ate of Ben Nafler) and all his family, have perifir
ed. OPBbn Nafler 1 have no account, but a lilt
of names of those who had already periled was
circulating, which included almolt every man of
known abilities in the country. The Emperor
marched from Morocco the 4th )uly, he remained
a while in Mogadore, then encamped' between
Reban and Fez. On hearing that the plague had
ceased in MequtaCz he returned to that 'Capital."
Government have, in consequence of the pre
ceding information, with a promptitude that does
them credit, given orders at all the ports to en
force the Quarantine Laws with the greatest ftrift
nefs; and indeed they could not poltibly have tak
en a more efficacious way to ensure vigilance on
the part of the proper Officers than the one they
have adopted—that of furnishing them With a co
py of the letter itfelf, which mutt impress their
minds so firongly with the terrible calamity that
may refultto their country, their friends, connec
tions, and families.
From the Wilmington (Del.) Mirror.,
„ KENTUCKY—LEGISLATURE.
'HOUSE OF kEPRESENTAIYES.
Thursday, Nov. 14.
IFO* THERE IS HOPE OF A TREE, IE IT EE
CUT DOWN, THAT IT WILL
SPROUT AGAIN.
THIS allusion of Job, designed to represent the
falling state of man, will forcibly apply to the
Tree of Liberty. It has, indeed been literally cu
down—it has in a manner been dedroyed ; am
nothing but the root remained. The dreams ano
channels which afforded nourishment to it have bees
in some instances, poisoned ; in others diverted.
Those who used to repose under its wide-spread
ing branches, have been obliged to solace them
selves elsewhere. The daughters of Liberty have
mourned in sackcloth ; yea, they have hung theii
harps upon the willows, when they rememberer
its former prosperity ; and when those, who were
the cause of its humiliation, required of them :
song ! But, what faith the preacher—77/ere is
hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will fpro^
again, and that the tender branch thereof will no?
ceaje." This hope has animated, has enlivened
the friends of this venerable Tree. They hav<
mourned indeed, but they have not been difconr
aged. They hade anticipated the time, “ when
through thejeent of water, it would bud, and bs ing
forth boughs like a plant." They have teen al
hands employed in its deftru<ftion—Anglo-Federal
ills, Old Tories, ApoGate Wigs, and some of th
Rev: Clergy in the bargain—Some with one Wet.
pon and some with another—Anathemas, prayers,
tire, sword, and in Ihort every thing they coulc
, pick up. They have seen the enemies of Repub
licap Liberty rejoice when thay saw the lacerates
trunk, when they beheld its limbs falling to tlr
ground: and have heard them excitingly ch
a ha, so would we have it—so fall all the enende:
of Dagbn our God !—fo fall all the enemies oft,
ranny and arifiocratic power. But happily lot
our country, though the branches were lopped of
and destroyed, and the trunk levelled with th<
ground-—the root has remained firm in the
earth. This they have not been able to destroy
and now we have the happy profpeft before us 0
feeing, that “ tho\the foot thereof was old in iht
earth, and the root die in the ground, yet thro' tht
feent of whter it will bud and bring forth boughs
like a plant." This, we have no doubt, will be
the case. ) ,
Happy, happy, noble free,
Soon thy branches we (hall fee
Spreading far, and Spreading wide.
Freemen's glory, freemen's pride. ~
, We /hall fee its towering trunk, its widespread
ing branches, and its beautiftil foliage once more
It will once more afford a happy Shelter to (h<
weary traveller—the di(lreffed pilgrim, and .t^
opprelfed alien, from the ttorms of tyranny, 'am
rage of ambition. Then Republicans, tel low fit
izens, continue to venerate the noble tree. Pl^i
ed by your ancestors, it behoves you to guard tin
deposit. The voice of reason and nature call t<
this,and every motive ought to urge you to douhk
attention. It has certainly been Wounded by ir.
friends. It has certainly been roughly handled b)
those who ought to have been its guardians ! Set
that the channels, deftiued for its nourishment, sir
not any more diverted. Next to the tree of Lift
it is the molt valuable, for fays the poet,
"— —, - 0 give me Liberty, ',
For were e'en Pmdifc itfelf my prison.
Still I thould long to leap the chtytal walls."
No more let the venerable Tree be marred and
abused by facrilegiJus hands—so shall it t^riv<
with frefh and undecaying verdure—lor the we
ters may, and dial! foil iron) the seas of tyranny
and the floods thereof be dried up, but this noble
Tree Shall continue to flourish
Till nature in cemfefion fall,
And ditlolution wrap the bait
WANTED—A convenient 'Tenement in tht
centre of the town —inquire of the Printer..
QtoOg^QQQ.—j^^
tile knight ot Italy, is marching bear lahfon, tan
ioremott down hill. Oh, fates, what a reverie !
The, world's turn'd uplide down, tho' the Turk:
and John Bull are lighting for Christianity !
But the end is not yet !
The invincible Aultrio-Ruffio-o-o-o Christians
have loft 30^000 men by the infidel French ! the
vile 'Dutch, it is said, have 'taken Holland, in de
spite of the molt puiffaut Duke of Dunkirk !—Ann
the qnaker-kiriing M' Kean, and Frenchified Jaco
bin Munroe, are governors ; and American ari;
tocracy on her death-bed ! ! !
The honed, challe, and enlightened Porcupine,
is hurled to his den by his own native talent—fcnr=
rility ; and he mull pay 5000 dollars to Dr Rulh,
out of his winnings on M Kean's election, and I.ll'
ton's Secret service money ! HuW are the mighty
fallen ? O tempera, 0 mores !
Alas ! alas! aud alas !—will not all nature feel
the shock ! arid is there noLdanger of earth-quakes
and volcanoes!
I hope, Mr. Printer, you will endeavor to ac
count for these Phenomena,and 'quiet the fears of
your friend SQUjB.
Fear-town, Wonder the 9th.
[I know Squib, well enough—he is a queer fel
low—l wish 1 could give him the information be
desires refpefting Buonaparte—l should fuppolc
him to be a Lufus Natura, belonging to the cat
kind. This general,who was neter Swallowed by a
whale, has had many a whale of a Itofy told ot
him. fn palling through the deserts of Arabia, a
hot & poisonous whirls ind buried him a thousand
fathom deep, under burning hot land, where, a!
paddy would fay, after being Jmothered to death
he was roasted alive. In wandering over the fol
itary plains of Egypt, he was iurrounded by tei
thousand Arabs, and cut into twice ten thoufanc
pieces. After a (eVere and and almott total de
feat, fin a paroxifm of despair, he precipitated
himfelf into the river Nile, where he was drown
ed, add afterwards eaten' up by the crocodiles,
while he and a number ofhis officers were holding
a council of war he fell by the hand of an assassin,
who rushed upon him like " many waters." The
news of this last death, was sent to Conflantiho
ple, or some other outlandish place, by fevrn 01
eight exprefles, every of whom (1 suppose, Squib
we may except the tirit one,) added confirmation,
strong as proofs of holy writ," of the death of this
two legged animal, Buonaparte.
[After all these n>elahcholy deaths he has attu
ally arrived at Paris, in tolerable health ! ! pud
it is expected the Direftury will deposit >OO in
the grand museum of Paris -, for surely he is one
of the mod extraordinary bipeds of the 18th, or
any other century !
<be Republican Lap preatta,
No. IQ.
[Soothe thy fears, Squib, the Ruffian Tyger if
“ howling" With despair on the mountains 01
Switzerland, and “ calling on the rocks to hide
him" from the fatal grasp of MaffenaJ