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of the Chesapeake, until the interdiction
was removed. He urged, that after the
friendly disposition manifested by his
government, the interdiction was unne
cessary as a measure of precaution; and
that he could view it in no other light,
than as an equivalent for reparation for
the time being, or as intended to compel
reparation. He contended, that if the
American government took the repara
tion into its own hands, which appeared
to him to he done by the proclamation,
:t exonerated the IVillsh government
*1°m mak ing any. lie added, that the
continuance ot the proclamation, for ei
ther ol the purposes which he conceived
were intended by it, manifested a de
cided character of hostility, and a want
ot conscience, inconsistent with amica
ble negotiation, and under w hich it did
not comport with the honour of his go
vernment to ncgociate.
Married—On Thursday last,by J.
Alexander, Esq. Mr. Victor S/unv to
Miss jSuiicy U y/ir, both ol this county.
^ c ifn ierstand th.it at the Election in
Brooke county,on Monday last, Messrs.
Congleton k Edgington v i re re-elcct
ed Delegates for Brooke county ; and
that the votes for senator were,
For Philip Doddridge, ISO
James Pindnll, 52
David Chambers, 0
After the election in Monongalia,
Mr. Chambers declined in favour cl'
Mr. Doddridge.
In Harrison county the polls were
kept open four days. Accounts from
all the counties in the district, but Ran
dolph, and the fourth day in Harrison,
give Mr. Doddridge a majority of .13
over Mr. Pindall.
•A Hint.
Two Borough Taxes ha\e been col
let ted from the inhabitants since the
Town of \\ healing was incorporated.
But how has the money been ap >ropri
ated V It appears that part of it has been
expended to the very great injury of a
number of those who paid taxes. In
place of the water being drained off their
lots, every heavy rain we h ive tin ir lots
arc more inundated, by iar, than for
merly. It was expected they wool 1
have been completely secured from
floods this spring: but the late rains
fou id them as they were last summer.
W ith due subrni >sion, it is earn* stly
hoped that the .Mavor will rail a ineet
ol liic Council, and that the situation
of those •whose houses and lots are thus
exposed, will be taken into considera
tion. A Citizen.
April 27th, 1808.
On the resolution to expel John
Smith from the Senate of the United
States,the yeas were 19,the noes lO. As
the concurrence of two thirds is neces
sary to expel a member, he retains his
seat by one t ote. Four members were
absent.
On the eighth of April Mr. G. W. ]
Campbell, in the House ol Kepresenta- i
lives of the United States, offered the
following resolution.
. Kc solved, X hat in the event of such
peace or suspension of hostilities be
tween the belligerent powers of Europe,
or oi such change in their measures af
fecting neutral commerce, as will in the
opinion of the president of the U. States,
re nder it expedient, he ought to be au
thoi ized to suspend the acc laying an
cmnargo, and the several laws supple
mentary thereto, prov ided such suspen
sion do not extend beyond days
alter the commencement of the next
session ot congress.
i his resolution had nGt been disposed
ol on the 13th.
On Monday tne 11th inst. a man the
name ol Dennison, travelling on foot in
company v.ith two l’renchmen, washy
them attacked on the Alleghcu\ inoun
iiiin, not more than A?(A) yards irom the
place where Mr. Pollock v/ns killed a
year ago this last winter. One of the
men first struck him in the forehead
" ith a stone, which knocked him down,
then cut a large gash in his neck w ith
a knife, and diagged h’m two or three
perches from the road, and supposing
him to he dead, took ten dollars from
h|s pockets, and left him. Fortunately,
those brutal savages in the ir hurryhnd rn't
succeeded in cutting any of the’arteries
in.Mr. Dennison’s neck, and in a few
miiu-.u s alter they left him, he recover
ed suflicienth from the blow he liad re
ceived to make to a house four or five
miles from the place he had been left by
th<- 1 1 enchmen ; they had it is suppos
ed, taken a circuitous route through the
eo ) .as they cone past the door of
the house where Mr. Dennison was, but
a few minutes after his arrival. A par
ty was soon raised, who immediately
apprehended them, and took them be
loie a justice, to whom thev confessed
tne fact, and said thev had l.a.l it in con
templation lor three days previously.—
They are lodged in Somerset jail.—
Hopes arc entertained of Mr. Denni
son s recovery. He lives near VV'il
mington, in the state of Delaware, was
coming out to see some relations in the
state ot OhW>, and first met with the
hrcnchmen at the Susquehanna river.
Tree of Liberty.
Trom the Pittsburgh Gazette.
Mr. Scull,
Having observed in the two last
Commonwealths, a panegyric on Cram
er s Pittsburgh edition of Brown’s Dic
tionary of the Holy Bible, subscribed by
A European Traveller,! think it is to be
regretted that the writer,who appears to
be an intelligent critic, had not bestowed
an equally merited eulogium on a work
published by the same editor, and which
it »s most probable the gentleman would
furnish himself with, particularly if his
ua\t !s were to he continued towards
^ 1 mean Cramer’s Ohio and
Jhssisstppi Navigator. I hat e recei ved
l)oth pleasure and profit from a former
edition of the Navigator, which I car
ried with me in my descent of those ri
vers last year, and it being mislaid, and
1 about to descend them again, I calle d
at Mr. Cramer’s to purchase another,
lie had just published a new edition,
which on examination, I found to be
much moi e copious than the former
one ; this one having a topographical
map of the Ohio, as well as of the Mis
sissippi, to suit the references. S vc
ral corrections were also made in the
directions for the navigation of those ri
vers, mostly from actual surveys which
■ nd 1 alien into his hands since the pub
lication of the former edition, particu
ui\ oi the Ohio, by the author of a
Western tour, which Mr. Cramer in
tends shortly to put to press, and from
which work he has enriched the Navi
gator bv some descriptions of places in
the western country. lie has also ad*
h c. a copious appendix, containing an
tccoti t > 3 »in? of the natural produc
tions uul curiosities of that country,
out more part cu.arly a compendious,
yet ample description of that much talk
ed of, hut hitherto little known country
Louisiana. He has also compressed
into the same appendix, the cream of
Clark and Lewis’s celebrated journey
across the continent to the Pacific o
conn.
The enterprising editor has now gi
ven to the world a work which will not
only he of the utmost use to every per
son descending the rivers west of the'A)