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national affair., he aeela ^trac
non of the public^ councils, to promote
a sinister aml-„tion and ;ndJ|ge hu
chizen—tb S '‘lp,,s—the other scarcely a
, enemy of our government
*1 y, hsturberof the publick repose—
wno h'ts sought to embroil us in the face
° -reaties, and in face of law, with a fo
reign power, for the promotion of those
infamous designs,which he now charges
upon me, and which with inflated zeal
he now affects to reprobate——and
who when stript of imposture will pre
sent a spectacle to the world, from
which the eye and the mind will revolt
with detestation and abhorrence.
In your honour and independence,
gentlemen, however they may be ques
tioned by those, who do not feel the
force of those sacred bonds by which
military men hold, I have an infallible
guarantee for all I can desire, a patient,
impaitial, and I trust rigorous scrutiny
in which I hope the nature of the ac
cusation—the remoteness of the time—
the hostility of the. witness—the com
Pl-i°n °f the first attack—and the
shliftings, changes and prevarications
which have ensued, may be strictly
compared and combined.
Permit me to express the further de
sire, that this court may insist on know
mg, irom whence the documents sub
mitted oy my accuser and his accom
plice, have been derived, as this fact
may furnish a clue by which to trace
the foul combination to its infamous
souice, and to identify, in this murder
ous assault of my honour, the ministry
of Mat Mexican association, formed at
N v Orleans (and referred to by Blan
n - *hasset) ior the purpose of co-opera
ting with Aaron Barr, and which it has
b. a my crime to detect, expose and
put down.
IV H E E L 1 N Gy
1 HURSDAY, 11th Fehruary, 1808.
Nothing certain is yet known relative
to the negociation, between the Execu
tive and Mr. Rose, at Washington city.
Excepting a bill for classing the mi
litia, and resolutions for increasing the
annv, for employing 1300 additional
■iMinen, and for loaning arms to the
./tate of Ohio, the late proceedings of
Congress present but little matter of an
interesting nature.
On the 20th Jan. the President com
municated a message to the House of
Representatives of the United States,
stating that a - Court of Enquiry had
been ordered in the case of Gen. Wil
kinson ; that die Executive had received
no direct information to support the
charge of receiving a foreign pension
against Wilkinson, until the receipt of
the papers transmitted by the House ;
and that the duties which this informa
tion devolved upon him should be exe
cuted with vigorous impartiality. The
message and some documents which ac
companied it, were referred to a select
committee, who were to enquire into
the expedeincy of investing the Court
ol Enquiry with power compel the at- i
tendance of witnesses and the produc
tion of testimony.
Next President—A caucus held
by about one half of the members of
Congress, have nominated James Ma
dison for President, and Geo. Clinton
lor Vic --President of the United States
after the 4th of March, 1809. * Those
who attended the caucus (at which only
one of the members from New-York
was present) were nearly unanimous in
this nomination. •.
The members of the Virginia Legis
lature have also had meetings to nomi
nate a President. The friends of Ma
dison, to the number of 120, met at the
Bell tavern, agreed to support him, no
minated Electors, and appointed a cor
responding committee in each county.
The delegates from this county attend
ed. .1 he corresponding committee for
this county are, Thomas Evans, Henry
Smith, and Jonathan Zanc.
Sixty-seven members of the Legisla
ture met the same evening, at another
place. They nominated James Mun
hoe for President, ayes 5 5% noes 10_
They also nominated Electors and ap
pointed corresponding committees.—r
William M‘Kinly, x>f West-Liberty, is.-1
nominated &n Elector in this district 9n
the Madison ticket: John Prunty, of
Harrison, is nominated by the friends
of Munroe. .
The resolution to amend the consti*"
tution of the United States, in the arti
cles respecting the Judiciary and the
Senate, which passed the House of De
legates ol this state by very large ma
jorities, have been lost in Senate, 13 to *
6.
A resolution to alter the tenure of the
Federal Judiciary, has been rejected in
the House of Representatives of Penn
sylvania.
A resolution which has been for some
time before the Pennsylvania House of
Representatives, for impeaching Gover**
nor M‘Kean, has been negatived, 44 t3
41. . ^
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fhe 12th ult. the Revenue cutter
at Savanna, fired upon a merchant vea
sel that had cleared out for a port with
in the United States after the embargp
was laid. One man was killed and one
wounded on board the ship, and the
ship received considerable injury. The
cutter had ordered the ship to heave tq,
or come to anchor, which she either
could not or would not do. .
On the 30th of October last, the King
of Spain published a decree, in which
his son was accused of participating in
a plot to dethrone him. .The King has
since been induced to pardon his son,
and restore him to favour. A letter
from Cadiz, of Nov. 18th, imputes the
conspiracy to the. enmity which subsists
between the King s son and the Prince
ol Peace,the King’s principal favourite.
This letter also states, that the distur
bances havp occasioned a suspensioij of
every kind of business. .