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-:ey are resolved into commercial enter*
prizes and speculations, I had the best
opportunity ol being acquainted with
them, as I was, during the period refer
red to, the agent of the house who were
the consignees of tVfe General at New
Orleans, and who had an interest in I.is
shipments, and whose books are in my
possession,
Daniel Clarke.
Washington City, Jan. 11, 1808.
District of Columbia, to xuit :
January 1 lih, 1808.
Personally appeared before me Wil
liam Cr inch, chief judge of the circuit
court of the district court of Columbia,
la miel Clarke,Esq. who,being sol mnh
sworn on the Holy Evang lists m Al
mighty God, doth depose and say, that
the ioregoing statement, made by him
under the order of t:: i House of Repre
sentatives, so far as i gards matters of
ii:s own knowledge, i> true, and so far
as regards the matters whereof he was
informed by others, L believes to be
true. Sworn before me,
W. Cp. ANCir.
WHEEL IN Gy
Phurspay, 4th February, 1808.
Mr. Rose, the British Envoy Extra
ordinary, had an interview with the Se
cretary of State, on the 15th ult. and with
the President on the 16th. It is said
that our government have agreed to en
ter into a separate discission of the af
fair of the Chesapeake.
It appears from a list published some j
weeks ago, that the state of Ohio is at
present divided into twenty-three coun
ties, and contains 31,308 free white male
inhabitants, above the age of 21 jears.
A similar list published in Kentucky,
shews that that state is divided into 49
counties, and contains 49,212 free white
males above the age of 21 years.
On the 13th ult. after the resolution
requesting an inquiry into the conduct
ol Gen. Wilkinson, was adopted in the
House of Representatives of the United
States, Mr. Eppes, of Virginia, offered
the following resolution, which was
passed by an unanimous vote.
Resolved, That the President of the
United States be requested to lay be
fore this house, all the information
which, from the establishment of the
government to the present time, may
have been forwarded to any department
<if the government, touching any com
bination between the agents.of any fo
reign power, and citizens of the United
States, to dismember the union; and
also all inform *tion which may go to
shov. that any officer of th TJ. States
has corruptly received money from the
government or any agents of any fo*
reign power ; distinguishing as far as
possible, the names ot those who have
given such information, and the time
when it was given.
Tlu.. Speaker named Messrs. Ran
dolph and Eppes, a committee to pre
sent to the President die resolution re
questing th • inquiry, and the above re
solution. On the 15th, Mr. Randolph
reported that the committee had per
formed that service, and had received
for answer, that the President would, on
the subject of the first resolution, make
a communication to the house in writ
ing, and that in pursuance ol the second
resolution he would transmit all the in
formation, proper to be divulged, in pos
session of the executive department.
The Court of Enquiry upon General
W ilkinson, have requested Messrs.
Rowan, Randolph and Clarke to appear
before them and give testimony. These
gentlemen have declined attending, on
the ground that, as the Court cannot en
force the attendance of witnesses, they
might possibly be placed in an unplea
sant situation lor the .want of corrobo
rating testimony. The Court have de
cided that no person but the Judge Ad
vocate, the Defendant, or a member,'
can be permitted to take notes of the
proceedings. The^Court adjourned on
Wednesday the 2oth ult. to meet on the
2Jth. They had not done any business
of consequence.
The Senate of the United States ha*e
allowed Tohu. Smith, of Ohio, until the
first of March; to colJtCt testimony for
his defence. Mr. Smith
ing last night.
A resolution requesting the President
of the U. S. to institute an inquiry into
the conduct of Gen. W ilkinson, was or»
the 9th ult. introduced in'the Virginia
House of Delegates.
On the 11th ot October, the British
cabinet issued an order prohibiting all
commercial intercourse with France
and the countries under her controul.
1 his order is intended to counteract the
t reiich blockading decree, of Novem
ber 1806. It prohibits all trade of every
description, not only with France and
her. dependencies, but in articles the
growth or manufacture of those coun
tries. Ships and cargoes which were at
sea before the order was issued, are ex
empted Irom its provisions. A subse
quent order of the same day, declares
that ail vessels sold by a belligerent to a
neutral, shall be subject to confiscation
as enemy’s property.
The English have taken possession
of the Danish Islands in the West-In
dies.
The Danes have taken a convoy of
12 of 14 merchant vessels, which were
passing the Sound.
The Spaniards with 9000 troops, have
commenced the siege of Gibraltar.—
4o,ooo French troops were marching
through Spain to join the besiegers.
An army of French and Spaniards
were about marching into Portugal—
which kingdom is to be annihilated.—
The destruction of Portugal is much
in the style of the late attack on Copen
hagen by the English.
[From the Baltimore Federal Gazette.}
From our correspondent,
Washington, Jan. 21.
The further consideration of the bill
for extinguishing the State-balances,
which has been for some time before
the Senate, was this.day postpone*
til the first Monday in December
aj'es 17, noe* 16.—-And then the __
nate proceeded to a consideration of ex
ecutive business with closed doors.
“ The next President
Tin; follQwing singular Notes were
this day stuck up in the house of repre- .
sentatives. The first was printed, and