The enquirer (Richmond, Va.), 1809-03-03 00:00:00

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ATTENTION!!! MANCHESTER REPUBLICAN BLUES You are ordered to attend at your usual parade ground on Saturday the 4th of March next, prepared with nine blank cartridges, to celebrate that day.
By order of the Captain, GEO: C. WILLIAMS, 1st Sergeant. February 28.
CONGRESS.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Debate on raising the Embargo, and authorizing Letters of Marque and Reprisal—Continued.
FEBRUARY 3.
Mr. Randolph said, that he had voted against filling the blank in the resolution with the 4th day of March, because, if possible, he could have wished an earlier day; reserving however in his own mind the right, when the question should come before the House, of agreeing to that day, if an earlier could not be obtained. He hoped—and the prospect which presented itself that morning gave him good cause to hope, that the committee would agree to that member of the resolution which was then before them. For some time past he had been an inactive, though not an inactive observer of the proceedings of Congress. He did not know whether he ought not to rejoice at the physical incapacity which had prevented him from taking a part in those proceedings. They had been such as (until now) to fill his mind with great apprehension and alarm, because they had hitherto indicated a great want of concert, not to say disunion among us. He would have deemed it one of the most calamitous events that could have befallen the country, if, after the progress which had been made in the consideration of the motion of the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Nicholas) the House could that day have refused further to consider it. And wherefore should he so have deemed it? Because it would have indicated not merely a want of concert and of union in the cabinet and councils of our country, but he feared it might have led to a state of things, which he would not then attempt to anticipate. The plain, broad, open road for every government to pursue was that of common sense and decision—common sense in theory; decision in execution. If, as they had been told, there existed dissatisfaction, murmuring discontent; a spirit—if not of insurrection, at least leading to insurrection against the laws—wisdom and policy required either a prompt subduing of that spirit, or an immediate yielding to it; or the other. It was the halting between these extremes, an oscillating, hesitating, temporizing, tampering, patching up policy, that brought ruin on every nation, so situated. The history of our own revolution taught this. The conduct of the British ministry to the American colonies, he supposed, would have impressed this principle on the mind of every man. What was that conduct? Marked by a spirit of irritation and indecision. Whilst we were irritated on the one hand, we were uncultivated by power on the other—and after years of excitement and blood, the event is known to all. He therefore congratulated the House and the nation that this system—if system it could be called—was about to be given up; that the hopes, the wishes, the fears—every strong passion of the public—were no longer to be sported with—that the example of Lord North was not so soon to be lost upon us. Sir, (said he) if my voice will permit me, I will state another subject of congratulation to you and the committee. It is, that during this period of general reaction—I hope no gentleman will attach any bad, or wrong sense to the word, but that it will be taken (as I utter it) to mean a difference, a contrariety of views and opinions; there being hitherto perhaps no ten men to be found in this House who could agree upon any affirmative proposition; amidst this public distraction it is a subject of consolation to me that we have not, as yet, compromised the safety of the state; that during this long and tedious political malady under which we have been; and not without some shadow of reason; so extremely peevish and fretful, the body politic has sustained perhaps no radical injury; and that now, by a happy determination to the surface, the disease is likely to be wholly thrown off.
By some it might be thought that in the wide, and perhaps wild range, which he should take up the subject, he was violating the rules and orders of the House. On this subject he must be permitted to say that there was not a single question; not even that of filling a blank, in the resolution under consideration, that did not involve every foreign; and he might almost say every domestic relation of this nation. It was impossible to discuss a subject of that great and momentous national importance with the dry minuteness of a special pleader; not to travel out of the record, or to be tied down to the matter contained in the declaration. And permit me, sir, (said Mr. Randolph) to add that so long as I escape the correction of the chair, I shall feel myself at liberty to proceed, whenever I may be the opinions as to order of other gentlemen. There are occasions in which to speak of any man to his face in a certain strain, ought to be reprobated and stamped as the vilest adulation; but there are other occasions in which not to speak; to restrain the feelings of a full and overflowing heart, subjects perhaps to colder, but for bitterer censure. I shall dismiss this topic, then, by saying, that you, sir, have not so long presided in this assembly, with so much reputation to yourself and benefit to the state, to be new schooled in your duty by the younglings of yesterday. And I say it, because a chairman of this committee would certainly very grossly depart from rule and order were he to rise to vindicate his conduct in
this assembly, from any arraignment of it by a member.
In the train of argument which he should pursue, Mr. R. really did not think it at all necessary with his friend from South Carolina, (Mr. D. R. Williams) or the learned gentleman from Connecticut, (Mr. Pitkin) to go into a minute calculation on the subject of the revenue or debt of Great Britain or of the gross products of duties derived by her from the importation of West India commodities. Such calculations ought not to enter into any determination of that House—for however they might be made to appear on paper, and whatever might have been said on the subject from the days of David Hume, and Dr. Price, to the present hour, the continental enemy of that power had, for at least half a century, been deceived in his reckoning as to her time of bankruptcy. The subject had baffled all the calculations of political economists. And really, sir, (said Mr. R.) it is hardly worth our while, after Bonaparte, like Canute of old, has sat down on the sea shore at Boulogne, vainly waiting for the great tide of British wealth to recede; to take measures, here, bottomed upon calculations of her being unable to carry on the war for want of capacity to raise the supplies. It is a well established fact, that the gross revenue of that kingdom was for the year 1807 (exclusive of loans and the revenue derived from Ireland) sixty millions sterling; and that collected at an expense of £ 4 5s. per cent. This is answer enough to us, on the subject of her being unable to carry on the war for want of resources, particularly when we look back to our own revenue, the expense at which it is collected; and more especially when we look at the proposition of our chancellor of the exchequer, the Secretary of the Treasury, to carry on the war (should we engage in one) with loans, exclusively. It is an ample, a redundant answer. Shall we calculate upon the failure, for want of revenue, of a nation whose annual loans bear so small a proportion to her whole receipt (in the year which I have quoted, about a fourth) whilst we ourselves are told that loans must constitute nearly the whole of our revenue. There, then, can be no doubt that this subject, not only, ought not to enter into our views upon the great question of war; but perhaps had better not be stirred at all; that our measures ought to be taken in reference to our own capacity and disposition for exertions, and not grounded on flattering, perhaps delusive, hopes of our adversary, weakness. Another point it might be as well, in passing, to notice; the small proportion which the customs bear to the revenue of that state, and that proportion decreasing, although their aggregate amount be actually increasing; whilst the revenue from internal sources has been rapidly increasing, every year, as well in proportion to the whole receipt as in aggregate amount.
But, sir, (said Mr. Randolph) amidst the various causes which I find for felicitating you and the nation, the recent change in the aspect of our affairs is not the least; that we are at least to settle upon some system; and I listened, I confess, with very great pleasure the other day, to the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Bacon) and my worthy colleague (Mr. Burwell) although perhaps I may not have exactly agreed with either, certainly not with both of them. I listened to them because they held out to us the prospect of a happy termination of the present state of things; a state of things, which, after the vote of yesterday and today, I might almost be tempted to pronounce cannot last beyond the fourth of March. A great deal had been said about the patriotism of the country under the operation of this system. In Mr. Randolph's opinion, never did any people exhibit so striking an instance of patriotism as the people of the United States had done since December, 1807. He believed that their patriotism had in that period been put to a test more severe than during the revolutionary war; because whatsoever of suffering the people then felt, they saw that it was inflicted by the immediate hand of the enemy; and it operated only to goad to a still higher pitch their fury against that enemy. But in this case (whether right or wrong was perfectly immaterial) the system had been such as to impress a great portion of the public with the opinion that their sufferings proceeded from the government; and it ought not to be matter of surprise that the popularity of the government should have been diminished. It called for the exercise, by all classes and descriptions of men, of the rarest virtues; patience, forbearance self-denial, long suffering without repining. It presupposed the existence of a state of society in which there was no occasion for government itself. Was it wonderful that those who could not see wisdom in the measures should murmur, when suffering under it?—inate his provisions?—that under the severity of its operation the administration should lose somewhat of their former popularity? Mr. R. was not, never had been, and he trusted never would be in the habit of paying compliments to men who have much at their disposal—but he would declare his belief that the popularity of no man whom God ever made could have endured the test which that of the President of the United States had not merely endured, but gone through so strong a proof of the deep seated love and unqualified approbation of that man, as his having been, politically able to support the weight of that experiment. It was a trophy of which he never could be divested, let him die when he would—whatsoever might be the course of his future life. Yes, sir, (said Mr. R.) after the vote of this committee I do consider the embargo as substantially repealed. It is something like a vote of credit—it has not gone through all the forms of a law, but no banker would be so state to advance money upon it. Gentlemen shake their heads, sir; and heads of them myself—I had supposed that the embargo was all but repealed—in point of fact I believe that it is already repealed. A member of this House has cited the embargo as a strong proof of the stamina of that immortal Hercules, who had been so long able to
bear what would have crushed (as he says) any other nation in six months. I believe, sir, that it would have crushed the popularity of any ministry of any other nation than this, in less than six months, supposing that nation to have half the pretensions to freedom that we have. He remembered to have read a great while ago in an extremely beautiful epic poem, that the natives of Chili, when they threw off the Spanish yoke, proposed to choose their captain by this test: a very heavy beam of wood was produced, & he could support it on his shoulders the longest time, was to be selected as their general. One of the chiefs stood under the burthen such an amazing number of hours, that they were like never to come to a conclusion, and (if he remembered rightly) they had to abandon their experiment. Whatsoever proof we had given of our wisdom, we had indubitably borne away the palm of bodily strength, any thing in the observations of a gentleman from New-York (Mr. Gardener) about our being puny and rickety, to the contrary notwithstanding; and Mr. R. hoped we should give perhaps not quite so strong a proof of our wisdom, by throwing the beam off from our shoulders, now that we had ascertained our strength by the experiment.
But it was asked, what substitute would he propose for the embargo. None. He hoped he would not be misapprehended. Considering the embargo in its operation as mischievous and even ruinous, it would be fool indeed if he should require a substitute for an evil that he proposed to get rid of. Shall a man refuse to be cured of a cancer unless you will provide him with a substitute? But if he were asked what the nation is to do after repealing the embargo? His answer was ready. To be sure, sir, (said he) it is a very old one, and therefore may not take with the fashions of the day—but in matters of policy, old systems which have been sifted and tried by experience, are not, in my judgment, the worst; and the longer tried, perhaps, the better. So far, therefore, from its being an objection with me, that a proposition is old and trite, it is a recommendation; as it is precisely the reverse with respect to new projects, however ingenious, however calculated to catch or dazzle the eye—like the room in which we sit, where I at this moment discern the fissures which, perhaps, are to reduce us to the situation of poor Lenthal. We had as well stuck to our old apartment (I don't mean the library) where we had every convenience and comfort—and saved our money.
The disasters of this state took their rise—6. We were then a flourishing, united and happy people. The government permitted themselves—and I believe they now sorely repent of it, sir, indeed some of them have told me so—to be urged by mercantile clamor and cupidity into collision with powerful European states. From that day we have been going on from bad to worse, until we have arrived at this superlative state, which can no longer be borne, for which a remedy must be found—gentle if you will, alternatively if you please—but at any rate a remedy, however desperate. That which I would now propose, is what I had the honor of proposing at the last session of Congress, and I think of mentioning more than once, on Saturday morning, the 18th of December last:—a remedy, which, without pledging the state, without mortgaging every foot of land in the country for the protection of the mercantile flag, in the most remote seas, would permit our merchants to protect themselves, if they pleased; and if not, stay at home, at their option. This was my opinion as far back as 1805-6, and I think it will be found, although not in detail, in a report made during that session of Congress, which proposed raising a military force for the purpose of commanding, within the United States, obedience to the laws, not from ourselves, but a foreign power. And here suffer me to say, that I really think we are coming back again, slowly—for large bodies (even such as move in eclipis) move slowly—after having been long in aphelion, we are returning back to the day light of those good old republican principles, of which (as I think, and as I would endeavor to show, if it could answer any good purpose) we have too long lost sight. And after being for years, one of the proscribed and denounced, I am not without a saving hope, that I shall die in the good old political church, at least—certain I am, die, that I shall die in the faith , whether I believe, principally, from perceiving that scarcely a sentiment is contained—I beg pardon of the committee for this egotism—I believe it to be warranted in any human being, I might fairly challenge a right to it now; scarcely a sentiment is expressed in either of those speeches of which I was the author (unfortunately as it would seem) that I have not heard, during the present session of Congress, from lips the most orthodox in this House. They amounted to this:—Before you begin this contest, count the cost: calculate your means of annoyance as well as of resistance; your enemy (if she becomes such) is all powerful at sea: if she strikes you will feel; bring matters to extremity and you will have to recede; not from your claims, but in point of fact, from the ocean. All this, and more, I have heard urged, not only by the chairman of the committee of the whole House, but repeatedly by other gentlemen, nearly as orthodox as himself, on various questions; the navy bill in particular, and I hope to hear sentiments of the same sort when the other bill (army bill) is taken up, which was laid down in order to act on the present subject. The embargo, and the course pursued by the administration generally, have, during this session, been defended and eulogized on positions admitted on all hands to be inapplicable to us, for years ago. Then, it was little short of treason to magnify (as it was said) the resources of our rival and depredator; these of our own country; now, it is madness not to perceive our inability to cope with her on the ocean; the theatre of our wrongs, where redress, to be effectual, must be obtained. Was it not wiser to make a just estimate of our strength, or even to underrate it a little, before plunging into a conflict;
than afterwards have to abate from our sanguine, overcharged expectations? We suffer ourselves to be driven, step by step, by mercantile clamor into a situation which has raised (whether rightfully or not) more clamor, from the same parties too, than all the foreign injuries about which they beset the government. I now, therefore, propose, that they be restored to that situation which, according to their own shewing, is so enviable a one, and again the evils of which, I hope, they will never again have the hardihood to complain to this House, or apply for means of redress. It will, therefore, at once be perceived, that I am not friendly to that part of the resolution, from which my worthy colleague on my left (Mr. Burwell) anticipated so much benefit; and for the plainest of all reasons; because I do not conceive a threat to be the best means of patching up a reconciliation, (and as such, a hope has been expressed from that quarter, I may be at liberty to name it) between two parties who look at each other already, perhaps, with too jealous an eye; and for another reason—because I do not choose to put out a distant threat, to the execution of which, either the capacity or disposition of the country may be doubted. Sir, we have dealt in the minatory sort of traffic long enough and I have no disposition to be any longer laughed at. We began with the non importation law. That was undoubtedly a threat; for a power was given to suspend it, in case our terms were complied with. Next came the embargo; that too was to be suspended in case—and so forth. Now we are called upon to hang, by a single hair, over the head of the belligerents, the sword of Damocles, to be cut some time in June next. It is all a threat, sir, and as such, must have a bad operation on any negotiation which government, in its wisdom, may think fit to commence (and we have had an intimation of that sort) for the purpose of settling our differences. Nay, more, it is war to commence in June next; and really, to my apprehension, we might as well make a declaration of war, to take effect in the next century, as in next June. I speak as to the power of this House, as well as to the policy of the thing.
"Will you then submit?" Say gentlemen. "Have you not recorded a vote that you will not submit?" Undoubtedly I have, and I will not submit. What is submission, and what resistance? By submission, I understand either a formal renunciation of the thing in dispute, or a passive acquiescence in the claims of your adversary. When you say that you will not submit, what do you mean? That you will make the best resistance that you can. And when we have made this determination, we come to the great question of expediency, as to what is that best resistance? Now, if you permit the merchantmen to arm in their defence, instanter , and not tell the British ministry that you mean to arm next year, and go out and fight the English and French, until they revoke their orders and decrees—what follows? Why, sir, you not only make resistance, but you do it in the most honorable, manly and effectual way, and therefore in the way leading most directly to a restoration of peace—not to a good understanding, for that I fear we shall never have, but to your system, Mr. Chairman, of "hands off." Can Great Britain under take for a moment to consider, that as war upon her, which she requires of us to do, in order to maintain our fair neutrality; viz: to resist the decrees of Berlin, Milan, Bayonne, or any where else, non-resistance to which, is the plea for her orders in council? What offence can it be to her? None, sir; and yet to all the piratical, beneficial effects of war, such a system would be as efficient as any you can devise as war itself. Can France; although indeed there be a sort of system within a system there, which I do not very well understand—can France say, that your resistance to what she calls the tyranny of the seas, justifies her in taking any hostile steps against you, supposing it to be in her power? Unquestionably not. France claims the power to issue certain decrees on the ground of England's having usurped the empire of the ocean. You resist that usurpation. These decrees then, are not, in any respect, applicable to you; for I understand your non-resistance to be the sole alleged cause of those decrees. England retaliates the system:—Why? Because (as she says) you do not resist it. France issues her decrees because you do not resist (as she alleges) the British orders; England issues her orders because you do not resist the French decrees. Now, I would resist both; and if either country called that resistance (which they have both called upon you to make) into war, and I, notwithstanding, capture your armed ships, why, then, sir, you have nothing left but to annoy them by every means in your power. It will be they who make the war and not yourself; and that circumstance will mitigate every heart and hand, throughout the country, in your cause. But, sir, I believe (altho' I have not so much confidence as some gentlemen have in the wisdom of these nations) that they have rather too much good sense thus to act—thus to drive you into the arms of the other party. Let your merchants then, go and arm in defence of their lawful trade against French decrees, British orders in council and any thing else of a similar stamp, and let the nation which by force shall attempt to execute them, know that it is war. Your resistance, according to their own shewing, is lawful; they have called for it—the withholding it has been the pretext for their aggressions—and the first gun fired on you, when so resisting, is actual, aggravated maritime war. You then throw the onus on them. You shew the people (it is not within the power of human wisdom to have devised a mode of keeping out of war with them—that our fair neutrality (resistance to each other's monstrous pretensions) have provoked their hostility; that there was no alternative but war or embargo—and who knows, sir, but the embargo may thereby become so popular a measure, that we may put it on never to be pulled off again; that like our winding sheet we shall be buried in it. To the course which I propose, one of the strongest objections has been taken, that human ingenuity could have devised; "that if you authorize the merchant vessels to arm and make resistance, they will not arm;"
(which proves that there is no occasion for arming of any sort)—"or, that they will arm and yet go to England and take licenses—pay tribute." If a reason of this kind is to govern us, as we have fitted out the navy, the best use that I know for it will be to fight the French and English. Suppose you issue letters of marque and reprisal, or declare war and commission privateers—the same thing may be said, that they will not fight; that they will go to London with cotton; and pay tribute. You must then invent some mode of making men fight against their will; there has been none yet ever devised, nor ever will be. Do gentlemen know so little of mankind? Are they so ignorant of the character and composition of that mixed assemblage, a nation; so little read in the history of our revolution, as not to know that when the crisis—(Sir, this is a poor worn out word, I hope to be pardoned for using it—it s'll be the last time) was over, the American patriots began to trade with the British at N. York, and elsewhere. It is an established fact, that they engaged in what was well known as the London trade , men, too, who fought and bled, and gained renown in the battles of their country. No sooner was all prospect of subjugation over—they did not wait for preliminary articles of peace—than they traded with the English—and they will do it now, even if you go to war; except it be a part of the system that they shall not trade at all, not even among themselves. Another strange objection is made to this system. It is said that American vessels will go to St. Bartholomew's or Gottemburgh, no matter where, so all they want is an entrepot , no matter who the buyers or sellers—that at this place of deposit, your produce will be lodged—that the English will buy it—that France having no navy, will come in for no part of the trade, and that therefore it will operate, partially, against her. We have carried our ideas of impartiality to strange length, sir. We must fight impartially , and trade ditto . But the substance of the objection is this—that because one of your enemies, against whom you are making resistance, (such as it is) has not a powerful navy to take her share of your trade from neutral ports, you ought not to trade at all. If France were our friend, ally, benefactor, gentlemen could state this, and it might have some weight. But to offer it as a reason for abstaining from all trade that a power—assumed to be your enemy, and against whom you profess to make such resistance, lamenting that it is in your power to do so little—"with very much, sir, that Florida belonged to her, or that she had some province on our frontier—very sorry indeed, that she presents no vulnerable point to us—but that's not our fault"—that we should abstain from all trade, because this power cannot reap an advantage from it, is a novel argument, indeed. So be it. It then seems, sir, that by a strange derangement of intellect, by some strange sort of logic, which I do not understand, and hope I never shall—when you are reduced to such a situation, in which you cannot injure a powerful foe, you are bound to render her all the benefit you can; and her not receiving her full and impartial share of all the benefits which may incidentally accrue from any of your measures, taken purely with a view to your own advantage, is to be a good and valid reason why you should forego those measures! That you must continue to suffer, because, if you get relief, one of your greatest foes will derive no benefit from it! This cannot be too much insisted on; it should, if possible, be driven into the skull of every head in the country.
But this plan, it seems, does not suit the ideas of some gentlemen, who think very highly of the point of honor, who think that we must fight; that we must draw a little blood from the sword arm to gratify this punctilious itching; that one of two courses must be taken; either that we must set too to drawing it from our own citizens, or march forthwith to Canada. This, sir, was the only part, as I could apprehend it, of my worthy colleague's argument, the other day, that did not precisely suit my conception of the true interests of the country; and if he would permit me, I would observe, that supposing his statement to be true, he did, most unquestionably demonstrate that the embargo would have been a wise, an efficient and salutary measure by way of rider to the reduction of Canada; that if we had first of all overrun Canada, stormed Quebec, reduced the provinces of Nova Scotia and Brunswick, and then laid an embargo, it would have had a very salutary operation. Having, however, thus unluckily put the cart before the horse, the embargo before the conquest of Canada, before we go to mending the broken gear, and making preparation for a new set out, a little rest and some consideration would not be amiss—I am willing to take up some of the ideas, I could almost say all, which fell from the gentleman from Massachusetts, and my colleague.
[Mr. Burwell said that Mr. R. had misunderstood his argument as presumed. I endeavored (said Mr. B.) to give my opinion that it would not be proper to go to war to take possession of Canada; but if we were forced to go to war, there are other considerations connected with the means of coercing the enemy to do us justice which would make it expedient to take the British provinces; and my argument in relation to Canada was in reply to an observation of a gentleman from Connecticut, that Canada had obviated much of the effect of our embargo; if so, it would be important, were we to go to war, that we should take possession of it, though I do not precisely admit his position.] My colleague (said Mr. Randolph) is mistaken. I think I have not misunderstood him, even though his argument was addressed to the gentleman from Connecticut by way of reply. The embargo has not been operative, through the intervention of Canada. Whether by furnishing supplies of her own production or as the instrument of drawing them from us, or immaterial—Canada is the cause. The embargo would have operated, it is said, but for the British having possession of Canada. Therefore, sir, the taking of Canada ought (by the statement) to have preceded the embargo, as I trust in God it will precede the next that is laid.
[To be continued.]

FIRST BULLETIN OF THE ARMY OF SPAIN.
VITTORIA, Nov. 9.
Position of the French army on the 25th October:
Head-Quarters at Vittoria. The Marshal Duke of Cornegliano, with his left wing along the banks of the Ebro and the Ebro. His head-quarters at Vittoria. The Marshal Duke of Elchingen is with his head-quarters at Guardia. The Marshal Duke of Istria has his head-quarters at Miranda, with a garrison in Fort Pancorva.
The General of Division Merlin occupies with one division the heights of Durango, and presses upon the enemy, who seem disposed to attack the heights of Mondragon.
The Marshal Duke of Dantzig, having arrived with the divisions of Sebastiani and Laval, the King was pleased to order the division of Merlin to return.
The enemy being in the mean time in force at Lerin, and having occupied Viana, and several posts on the left bank of the Ebro, the King ordered the Duke of Cornegliano to advance against the enemy. General Walter, commander of the cavalry, and the brigades of Generals Habert, Brune and Razont, proceeded against the enemy's posts. On the 27th of October the enemy were defeated at all points. Twelve hundred men, who were surrounded in Lerin, at first shewed a disposition to defend themselves; but General Grandjean having made his arrangements, defeated them completely, making prisoners 1 colonel, 2 lieutenant-colonels, 40 officers and 1200 soldiers. These troops formed part of the camp of St. Roque, before Gibraltar. At the same time, Marshal the Duke of Elchingen marched for Logrona, passed the Ebro, took 300 of the enemy's prisoners, pursued them several miles, and re-established the bridge Logrona. In consequence of this event, the Spanish General Pignatelli, who commanded the insurgents, was stoned by them.
The troops of the traitor Romana, and the Spanish prisoners in England, landed by the English in Spain, with the divisions of Galicia, making together a force of 30,000 men, threatened from Bilboa, Marshal the Duke of Dantzig, who, led on by a noble ardour, advanced upon them on the 31st of October, and drove them at the point of the bayonet, from all their positions. The troops of the Confederation of the Rhine, and particularly the corps of Baden, distinguished themselves.
The Marshal Duke of Dantzig, closely followed up his pursuit of the enemy, the whole of the 1st of November, as far as Guemes, and entered Bilboa. In that city very considerable magazines were found. Several Englishmen were made prisoners. The enemy's loss, in killed and wounded, was considerable; but we took very few of their prisoners. Our loss consists of only 50 killed, and about 100 wounded. However, praise-worthy this action was, it was to be wished that it had not taken place; the Spanish corps was in a situation to have been completely cut off.
The corps of Marshal Victor having just arrived, was detached from Vittoria to Orduna. On the 7th of November, the enemy, reinforced by fresh troops from St. Andero, occupied the height of Guemes. The Marshal Duke of Dantzig advanced against them, and broke through their centre. The 58th and 52d regiments distinguished themselves upon this occasion.
SECOND BULLETIN OF THE ARMY OF SPAIN.
BURGOS, Nov. 12.
The Duke of Dantzig entered Valmaseda in pursuit of the foe. On the 8th Gen. Sebastiani discovered the rear guard of the insurgents posted upon a high hill to the right of Valmaseda; he immediately advanced against them, defeated them, and took about one hundred of them prisoners.
In the mean time, the city of Burgos was occupied by the army of Estremadura, consisting of three divisions. The advanced guard was composed of Walloons and Spanish guards; and the students of the universities of Salamanca and Leon, divided into several battalions and some regiments of the line, with other corps raised since the insurrection of Badajoz, made the whole of this army amount to little short of 20,000 men. The command of the cavalry of the army was given to Marshal the Duke of Istria; and the Emperor confided the command of the 2d corps to Marshal the Duke of Dalmatia.
On the 10th, at daybreak, the latter Marshal marched at the head of the division of Mouton, to reconnoitre the enemy. On reaching Gamonal, he was received with the discharge of 50 pieces of artillery. This was the signal for advancing at the pas de charge; the infantry of the division of Mouton attacked them, supported by the artillery. The Walloons and the Spanish guards were defeated at the first onset. The Duke of Istria, at the head of his cavalry, attacked them in flank. The enemy were completely routed, 3000 of them being left on the field. We took 12 pair of colors, 25 pieces of cannon, and 350 prisoners. The remainder were completely dispersed. Our troops entered the city of Burgos, intermixed with the enemy, and the cavalry pursued them in all directions.
This army of Estremadura, which came from Madrid by forced marches, whose first enterprise was the assassination of their unfortunate General, Count Trefes, and which was completely equipped with English arms besides being in the pay of England, is no longer in existence. The Col. of the Walloon Guards, and a considerable number of the superior officers are prisoners. Our loss was very inconsiderable, consisting only of
12 or 15 killed, and at most 50 wounded; only one captain was killed by a cannon ball.
This affair, which we owe to the excellent dispositions of the Duke of Dalmatia, and the intrepidity with which the Duke of Istria led on the cavalry, does the greatest honor to the division of Mouton; though it is well known that this division consists of corps whose name alone has for a long time been a title of honor.
The castle of Burgos has been occupied, and was found in good condition; it contains considerable quantities of flour, wine and grain.
On the 11th the Emperor reviewed the division of Gen. Bonnet, and immediately detached it towards the entrance of the passes of St. Andero.
The position of the army this day is as follows:
The Marshal Duke of Belluna is in close pursuit of the remains of the army of Galicia, who are flying in the direction of Elarcayo and Reynosa, towards which points the Duke of Dalmatia is also marching. They can have no other resource than that of dispersing in the mountains, with the loss of artillery, baggage, and every thing that constitutes an army.
His Majesty the Emperor is with his guard at Burgos.
Gen. Milland is marching with his division upon Palencia. Gen. Lasalle has taken possession of Lerma.
Thus, in an instant, have the armies of Galicia been defeated and dispersed, and partly annihilated, notwithstanding that all the captains of our army have not yet come up. Three-fourths of the cavalry, and almost one half of the infantry remain behind.
The army of the insurgents exhibited the most singular contrast. In the pockets of the officers who were killed, were found lists of companies, having some of them the name of Company of Brutus, and some of them Company of the People. There were Companies of Students, and others that had the name of Saints.
Such were the military hands that composed the insurgent army of the peasants. Anarchy and confusion—these were what England sowed in Spain. What will she reap from them? The hatred of this brave people, when they are once enlightened, and under a good government; for the rest, the extravagance of the leaders of the insurgents is every where notorious. Among the standards that have fallen into our hands are some bearing a representation of the Lion of Spain tearing in pieces the imperial Eagle. And who are they that have indulged in such emblems? The worst troops that are in Europe.
The cavalry of the army of Estremadura could not even so much as face us. The instant the 10th regiment of chasseurs came in sight of them they were put to the rout, and were no longer to be seen.
The Emperor reviewed the corps of the Duke of Dalmatia previous to its marching from Burgos in pursuit of the rear of the army of Galicia. His Majesty has made various promotions, distributed rewards, and is extremely well satisfied with the conduct of these troops. He has expressed his satisfaction to the conquerors of Medina, Rio Seco, and Burgos, the Marshal Duke of Istria, and gens. Merle and Morton.
THIRD BULLETIN OF THE ARMY OF SPAIN.
BURGOS, Nov. 13.
The army of Galicia is flying from Bilboa, and is pursued by Marshal the Duke of Belluna in the direction of Espinosa and Marshal the Duke of Dantzig in that of Villarayo—Marshal the Duke of Dalmatia has proceeded for Reynoso to cut off their retreat; so that very important events may be expected.
General Milhaud has entered Palencia with his division of cavalry, and sent detachments to the passes of Reynoso in pursuit of a park of artillery, belonging to the army of Galicia.
The young students of Salamanca, who thought of nothing short of the conquest of France and the fanatical peasantry that already dreamed of plundering Bayonne and Bordeaux, and conceived that they were every where conducted by Saints that had appeared to their cheating monks, now see their mischievous illusions vanishing; their despair and confusion are at the height; they lament over the misfortunes to which they have become a prey; the falsehoods they have been made to believe, and the causeless struggle in which they have involved themselves.
The whole plain of the Castilles is already covered with our cavalry; the ardor and zeal of our troops enable them to march 14 or 15 miles a day, with great ease. Our pickets are upon the Douro. The whole coast, from St. Andero to Bilboa, is cleared of the enemy.
The unfortunate city of Burgos, a prey to all the calamities of a city taken by storm, trembles with terror. Priests, Monks, and Inhabitants, took to flight upon the first tidings of the battle, apprehensive that the soldiers of the army of Estremadura would, as they gave out, defend themselves in their houses, and that they would be first plundered by these, and afterwards by our soldiers, who having driven out the enemy, would find no inhabitants there.
Such men as M. Vanstein, who from the want of troops of the line, themselves incapable of opposing our Eagles, encourage the extravagant idea of an insurrection en masse, ought to be sensible of the inconsiderable obstacles which such a resource can offer to regular troops.
In Burgos and the environs a quantity of wool has been found, to the amount of 30 millions, which his Majesty the Emperor has ordered to be put under sequestration. All the wool belonging to Monks, or any other persons who have joined the insurgents, will be confiscated and appropriated in the first instance to the indemnification of the losses sustained by the French; for even at Madrid, Frenchmen resident there for forty years, have been stripped of their property. Those Spaniards who have been faithful to their King were declared exiles. The property of the most virtuous and enlightened Minister Azanza, of the mostable seamen Massaredo, and of the best soldier in Spain O'Farrill, has been publicly sold. That of Campo O'Farrill, respectable for his virtues, his reputation and his wealth, being the owner of 60,000 Merinos, and having an annual income of three millions, has become the prey of these frantic proceedings.
Another measure ordered by the Emperor, is the confiscation of all English goods and Colonial produce, landed in Spain since the insurrection. The merchants of London do very well to send their merchandise to Lisbon, Oporto, and the ports of Spain. The more they send, the greater the contribution with which they supply us.
The city of Palencia, governed by a worthy Bishop, has received our troops with kindness. That city suffers none of the evils of war.
A virtuous Bishop who observes the doctrine of the Gospel, and who is inspired with Christian charity, and from whose lips flows nothing but honey, is the greatest blessing that heaven can bestow upon a people; but an ambitious, rancorous, and wicked prelate, who preaches nothing but insurrection, disobedience, and disorder, is a Minister that God has sent in his wrath to nations to mislead them, by polluting the very fountain of Morality.
In the prison of Burgos are a great number of Monks who were stoned by the peasantry. Wretches! (said they to them) it is you that have plunged us into this gulph of misery; perhaps we shall never again behold our wives & our poor children. Wretches! a righteous God will punish you in Hell for all the calamities you have brought on our families and our country."
FOURTH BULLETIN OF THE ARMY OF SPAIN.
BURGOS, Nov. 15.
His Majesty yesterday reviewed the division Marchand. He appointed the most meritorious officers and sub-officers, to fill the vacant commissions, and bestowed rewards upon the soldiers that distinguished themselves. His Majesty was highly pleased with these troops, who had just arrived, without a single halt, from the borders of the Vistula.
The Duke of Elchingen has set off from Burgos.
The Emperor reviewed his guard this morning upon the plain of Burgos. His Majesty afterwards inspected the division of Desolles, and filled up all the vacancies in that division.
Events are in preparation, and all is in progress. Nothing can succeed in war that is not the result of a well digested plan.
Among the prisoners were some who had on their buttons an eagle reversed, with two arrows, and the motto, "To the Conqueror of France." By this ridiculous bravado we may easily recognize the countrymen of Don Quixote. It would be impossible to find worse troops either in the mountains, or the plains. Clumsy ignorance, silly conceits, cruelty towards the weak, and baseness and cowardice towards the strong—such is the scene we have before us. The monks and the Inquisition have plunged this nation into barbarism.
Ten thousand light infantry and dragoons, with 24 field pieces, marched off on the 11th to attack the rear of the English division that was said to be at Valladolid. These brave fellows went over thirty four miles of ground in two days, but our hopes were disappointed. We entered Palencia and Valladolid, and advanced even six miles further, and found no Englishmen, but a abundance of promises and assurances.
In the mean time, it appears certain, that a division of their troops has disembarked at Coruna, and that another division, at the beginning of this month, entered Badajos. The day we fall in with them will be a day of festivity to the French army. May they moisten with their blood that Continent which they have desolated by their intrigues, their monopoly, and their horrible selfishness! May they, instead of 20,000 or 30, or 100,000 strong that the English mother may learn what the calamities of war are, and that the English Government may not always continue to sport with the lives and blood of the people of the Continent.
The greatest falsehood, the basest means, have been employed by English Machiavels to mislead the Spanish nation; but the bulk of it is still good. Biscay, Navarre, Old Castile, and the greater part of Arragon, are well disposed. The nation in general, beholds with the most profound sorrow, the abyss into which it is plunged, and will speedily curse the authors of so many calamities.
Florida Blanca, who is at the head of the insurgents, is the person who was Minister under Charles the III. He was always the sworn enemy of France, & the zealous partizan of England. It is to be hoped that he will, in the evening of his days, discover the errors of his political life. He is an old man, who, to the blindest attachment to the English, adds the most credulous superstition. His confidants and his friends are the most fanatical and stupid of the Monks.
Tranquility is restored at Burgos and the environs. To the first moment of joy confidence has succeeded. The peasants have returned to their villages, and are again pursuing their labors.
Extract of a letter from a respectable gentleman at Cadiz, to a merchant in Salem, dated Cadiz, Dec. 4, 1808.
"Every thing in Madrid is in the greatest confusion. The French armies are advancing and every thing is taken up for the object of checking the advance of the enemy, in fact nothing else is attended to, or can it be expected in the present state of things."
NORFOLK, February 22.
By the Spanish brig General Palafox, just arrived here from the Havanna, in 11 days, we have received papers of that place to the 10th instant. The following account, being very important, we hasten to lay it before our patrons just as we received it.
Translated for the Herald, from an Extra Gazette, published at the Office of the Havanna Aurora, of the 8th of February.
HAVANNA, Feb. 8.
The day before yesterday, at half past four o'clock, the brig Hope entered this port, consigned to Don Santiago Drake, merchant, which sailed from Jamaica the 28th ult. Besides the News which a passenger gives, the said Drake has received a letter from his correspondent, as a corroboration, in which it is said, that on the 26th of January, the Packet from England had arrived at Jamaica, which sailed from Falmouth the 21st of December, bringing the most agreeable news, that just before she sailed, a vessel had arrived from Coruna, by which it was reported, that the generals Castanos and Romana, and a part of the English army, had given battle to Marshal Ney, who had an army of 65,000 men; that it had been a most bloody action, in which the victory was decided for the Spaniards, the French having lost 40,000 men, between killed, wounded and prisoners, and of course were completely defeated.
We publish this news with the more satisfaction, because it is a confirmation of what we have before published, grounded upon vague reports, whereas this appears to rest upon better authority, to satisfy the curiosity of our readers.—Herald.
Gibraltar, December 10, 1808.
It is stated, in letters from Marseilles, that Charles IV. and the Prince of Peace are in that city.
The general mail, which became due on Thursday last, has not been received.
On that day, capt. Kitter, of his majesty's ship Sabrina, whose departure for Madrid was announced a fortnight ago, returned to the garrison. We understand, that, on the morning of the 1st inst. when capt. Kitter set out, the French were within a few leagues of the captain, their numbers not known. The inhabitants were preparing to defend themselves with the greatest resolution: detachments of foot and horse were met on the road by capt. Kitter, fleeing from all.
quarters to their assistance.—The central board had successively removed from Arranjuez to Toledo, and from Toledo to Badajoz. [Wash. Mon.]
The following is an account of the total supplies (sent and ordered) of the description under-mentioned, for the Spanish armies as transmitted by the chancellor of the exchequer to the lord mayor, and read at the city meeting yesterday by Mr. Raper:
  Coat for 21,400 men 21,400   Cloth for 150,000 do. 150,000   Great Coats 50,000 50,000   Cloth for Great Coats 50,000 100,000   Shirts 55,000   Sheeting 100,000 yards.   Calico 582,000 do.   Linens 113,060 do.   Shoes—as many as can be procured. 
  Uniforms complete for 58,500 men   Cloth for do. 50,000 do.   Linens for do. 209,000 yards.   Great Coats 35,750   Shirts 23,000   Shoes 73,000 pair. 
CONGRESS.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
THURSDAY, Feb. 23, 1809.
Pursuant to an order of the 18th inst. the clerk proceeded to a call of the House, and a quorum being present.
Mr. Rhea (of Tennessee) moved the following resolution:
Resolved, That an order of the House of the 18th instant, directing that until the end of the Present session, the daily hour of meeting shall be ten o'clock, and should a quorum not appear, the names of the members shall be called, and those present noted in the journal of each day, be rescinded.
Ordered to lie on the table.
Mr. Hoge obtained leave of absence from Wednesday next for the remainder of the session.
The house proceeded to consider the amendments of the senate to the bill for the disposal of certain tracts of land in the Mississippi territory, claimed under the Spanish grants reported by the land commissioners as antedated, and the same being read were agreed to.
Mr. Jeremiah Morrow presented the petition of Jacob Cozac, of Ohio, praying to be allowed to purchase a reserved section of land in that state at the usual price per acre.
Referred to the committee on the public lands.
The house resolved itself into a committee of the whole house on the engrossed bill concerning invalid pensioners—and after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the chair, and Mr. Trigg reported an amendment to strike out the fourth section, which proposes to allow persons already and hereafter placed on the pension list, "a sum equal to the aggregate amount of such pension calculated from the time when the disability (in consequence of which it was granted) was incurred to the time of his admission on the pension list."
The question was taken for concurring with the committee of the whole house on striking out the said section, and negatived—Yeas 48, Nays 50.
The bill was then read a third time, when it was again committed to a committee of the whole house for to-morrow.
The house then again went into committee of the whole house on the bill from the senate for the repeal of the embargo, and to interdict commercial intercourse with France and Great Britain, &c. and after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the chair and Mr. Bassett reported progress.
A motion was made to strike out so much of the second section, as authorizes under certain stipulations, the issuing of letters of marque and reprisal, and carried.
FRIDAY, Feb. 24.
Mr. Rhea (of Tenn.) moved to consider the resolution submitted by him yesterday. Negatived.
A message from the senate by Mr. Otis, notifying the passage of a bill making further provision for the corps of engineers.
The house again went into a committee of the whole house on the non-intercourse bill from the senate.
Mr. Bassett in the chair, who reported the bill with several amendments.
The second amendment reported by the committee of the whole house, for striking out that part which relates to issuing letters of Marque and Reprisal was agreed to, Yeas 74 Nays 33.
It was then moved by Mr. Gholson to strike out in the 12th section the words 4th of March next, and insert the 20th of May next, when
Mr. Macon proposed to strike out the whole of the 12th section which repeals the embargo after the 4th of March next except as relates to Great Britain and France. Mr. Macon's proposition was rejected. Yeas 33—Nays 82.
The question recurred on Mr. Gholson's motion to strike out the 4th of March next, for the purpose of inserting the 20th of May next, and put. Yeas 47—Nays 66.
Mr. Jackson then moved to strike out so much of the 11th section as authorises the President in case either France or Great Britain shall revoke or modify her edicts as that they shall cease to violate the neutral commerce of the United States, to declare the same by proclamation; after which the trade of the United States suspended by this act, and by the act laying an embargo, and the several acts supplementary thereto, may be renewed with the nation so doing, and to cause to be issued under suitable pledges and precautions, letters of marque and reprisal against the nation thereafter continuing in force its unlawful edicts against the commerce of the United States, and to insert the following: "That in case either Great Britain or France shall revoke her edicts alleged to have been made in retaliation of the edicts of the other power, and violating the lawful commerce and neutral rights of the United States, the operation of this act, and also of the act laying an embargo, and the several acts supplementary thereto, shall cease in relation to the nation so revoking from the date of the notice of such revocation to be given by proclamation of the President of the United States, and letters of marque and reprisal shall at the same time be issued against the nation which shall continue in force its unlawful edicts violating the lawful commerce and neutral rights of the U. States."
An adjournment was then called for, when the house adjourned at half past 5 o'clock.
NAVY AND ARMY APPROPRIATION.
On motion of Mr. W. Alston, the unfinished business was ordered to lie on the table. When the House resolved itself into a committee of the whole, Mr. Desha in the Chair, on the bill for amending the acts establishing the war and naval departments, and making an appropriation for the support of the military and naval establishments for the year 1809.
Amongst other appropriations proposed by the bill, is one for fortifications, in addition to the sum already appropriated at this session. Mr. Alston proposed to appropriate one million of dollars. It was observed by Mr. Blount that all the money had been already appropriated which was required by the department of war. The appropriation was supported by Messrs. W. Alston, Van Cortlandt, Cook, Masters, Troup, Nichols and Smilie, and opposed by Messrs. Blount, Stanford, Boyd and D. R. Williams.
The arguments in favor of this appropriation were the importance of permanent defence; the defenceless state of many ports, particularly of New York, which was the pride and boast of the state; the probability of war, which appeared now only to be delayed on our part from the defenceless state of the sea ports; that if war was now to take place, the people of the cities must fly to the mountains; that it might be sufficient to complete them all, and would be the last appropriation asked for.
The arguments against it were that as much had been appropriated as could be expended with ordinary exertions; that the House appeared to be taking a course of recession, instead of resistance, and there was therefore no extraordinary appropriation for fortifications against attack necessary; that there were about 700,000 dollars liable to expenditure for this object previous to the next session of Congress; that even were twenty millions appropriated, there was no evidence that New York could be sufficiently fortified; or that gentleman would be satisfied; that war was not delayed by the defenceless state of the seaports, but by the indisposition of mercantile men to go to war against foreign taxation on the produce of the soil—if it had been on ships or the shipping interest they would have been clamorous for war.
The committee agreed to insert one million of dollars by a majority of 11 votes.
The bill being gone through, the committee rose and reported it.
The question on the appropriation of one million of dollars for FORTIFICATIONS was taken by Yeas and Nays as follows:
YEAS—Messrs. Alexander, L. J. Alston, W. Alston, Bacon, Blackledge, Blake, Boyle, Champion, Chittenden, Cook, Cuts, Davenport, Dawson, Elliot, Ely, Findley, Gardner, Harris, Helms, Holmes, Howard, Humphreys, Isley, J. G. Jackson, R. S. Jackson, Jenkins, Kelly, Lewis Livermore, Masters, McCreery, Milner, J. Montgomery, N. R. Moore, T. Moore, Mosely, Mumford, Newbold, Newton, Nicholas, Quincy, Riker, Rowan, Russell, Sloan, Smilie, Steedman, Storer, Sturges, Swart, Taggart, Tallmadge, Thompson, Upham, Van Allen, Van Cortlandt, Van Dyke, Van Horn, Van Rensselaer, Verplanck, Wilbour, N. Wilson—61.
NAYS—Messrs. Bard, Barker, Bibb, Bount, Boyd, Brown, Burwell, Butler, Calhoun, Clay, Culpepper, Deane, Desha, Durrell, Eppes, Fisk, Franklin, Gholson, Goodwyn, Green, Heister, Hoge, Holland, Keane, Lambert, Lloyd, Macon, Marion, Jr. Morrow, John Morrow, Porter, Rea of Pen. Rhea of Ten. M. Richards, Say, Seaver, Shaw, J. K. Smith, J. Smith, Stanford, Taylor, Whitehill, D. R. Williams, M. Williams, A. Wilson—45.
The appropriation of 445,000 for repairing the frigates was objected to by Mr. Macon, but concurred in—yeas 68.
Mr. Blount moved to amend the section, appropriating for fortifications, by striking out the words "in addition to," and inserting "including"—so as to include in the appropriation, the sum of 450,000 dollars already appropriated, instead of adding one million to that sum. He afterwards withdrew this motion, and moved an amendment, so as to authorize the contemplated line of blocks and chains across the harbor of New-York. He said this to ascertain the sense of the House on this point; for he should not have the same objection to this appropriation, if that were the object of it. A sufficient number of members not rising to give the yeas and nays on this question, Mr. Blount withdrew the motion, and renewed his former motion; which was negatived, by yeas and nays—62 to 49.
The bill was then ordered to a third reading.
NON-INTERCOURSE.
The House resumed the consideration of the unfinished business of yesterday.
Mr. J. G. Jackson withdrew his motion of yesterday, with a view to

and he is hereby authorized and required, after demand and refusal as aforesaid, to grant to the owners of private armed vessels or to the United States, who shall make application to him, special commissions in the form which he shall direct, and under the seal of the United States, and such private armed vessels, when duly commissioned as aforesaid, shall have the same license and authority for the subduing, seizing and capturing any armed or unarmed British vessel, and for the recapture of the vessels, goods and effects of the United States, as the public armed vessels of the United States may by law have; and shall be, in like manner, subject to such instructions as shall be ordered by the President of the United States for the regulation of their conduct. And the commissions which shall be granted, shall be revocable at the pleasure of the President of the United States.
"Sec. 21. And be it further enacted , That after demand made and refusal on the part of the Emperor of France to withdraw his decrees and orders infringing the lawful commerce of the United States, the President of the United States shall be authorized and required to instruct the commanders of the public armed vessels, which are or shall be employed in the service of the United States to subdue, seize, and take any armed or unarmed French vessel on the high seas, or elsewhere, and such captured vessel with her apparel, guns and appurtenances, and the goods or effects which shall be found on board the same, being French property, shall be brought within some port of the United States, and shall be duly proceeded against and condemned as directed, and shall accrue and be distributed as by law is or shall be provided respecting the capture which shall be made by the public armed vessels of the United States.
"Sec. 22. And be it further enacted , That the President of the United States shall be, and he is hereby authorized and required, after demand made and refusal aforesaid, to grant to the owners of private armed ships and vessels of the United States, who shall make application therefor, special commissions in the form which he shall direct and under the seal of the U. S. and such private armed vessel, when duly commissioned as aforesaid, shall have the same licence and authority for the subduing, seizing and capturing any armed or unarmed French vessel, and for the recapture of the vessels, goods and effects of the people of the United States, as the public armed vessels of the U. S. may by law have; and shall be, in like manner, subject to such instructions as shall be ordered by the President of the U. S. for the regulation of their conduct, and the commissions which shall be granted as aforesaid, shall be revocable at the pleasure of the President of the U. S. States."
Mr. Eppes said, that this was a proposition which he hoped might unite all parties in the House. It authorised the President to demand the recall of the injurious acts of the belligerents, and on a refusal, it declared that we would use all the force which we possess against the decrees and orders, which, under whatever aspects they could be viewed, were calculated to produce total ruin to all the great interests of the country. The bill under consideration, he feared, would afford no relief to the Southern country; their produce would still be lying on their hands. And indeed take three dollars a hundred from the price of tobacco, (as the orders in council do) and the cultivation of it is out of the question. If we allowed Great Britain to say that we shall not trade with you coming & paying her a tax, where would be the limit to her extortion? It would such dastardly wretches as to permit her to tax at will the great staples of the country, could it be supposed that she would ever allow us hereafter even to be the carriers of our own produce? Whatever present relief, the bill might afford to the shipping interest, would ultimately fall on every man who had any thing at stake in the country. If we took no means to resist taxation, he should be compelled to believe that what had been said was correct: that "the majority cannot be returned to a war." And if some such measure as that proposed was not adopted, the assertion would stand as a damnable record to future ages. If we should hereafter be refractory, a foreign nation ought therefore not to send troops but men armed with whips to scourge us into obedience. He concluded by saying, that he hoped the House would agree to postpone the consideration of the subject till Monday, that the amendments might be printed.
Mr. Bassett also expressed his approbation of the proposition. There must be one of two intentions in the House, either to glide smoothly down the current of submission or to take a higher ground, which must be war. Could it be believed, that if G. Britain maintained her system of excluding our commerce from the ocean, or subjecting it to heavy taxation, war was not inevitable? No man could conceal this fact from himself or from the nation.
Mr. D. R. Williams wished to offer an amendment to the amendment, for the purpose of ascertaining the sense of the House on the subject of fighting. For this purpose he moved to amend the bill as to authorize the President forthwith to use the public force, &c.
Mr. Masters opposed the postponement; he hoped the business would be finally concluded to-night.
The question being taken by yeas and nays on Mr. Eppes motion for the postponement of the further consideration of the subject till Monday, the yeas were for it 60—against it 60.
The House being equally divided, the Speaker decided in the negative.
Mr. J. G. Jackson wished to postpone the consideration of this amendment, so as not to delay the progress of the bill. The Speaker declared that a part of a subject before the House could not be postponed.
Mr. D. R. Williams rejoined in the opportunity of registering his vote for war. He observed, that the embargo must be considered as perfect, by failing, except as the precursor of war. We had a much greater hold now on the belligerents than we should ever have again. We had changed the balance of the ledger completely during the embargo. They had before an immense property of ours in their hands; we now had theirs. Permit the embargo to be removed, and they would again have the same hold on us, and we should not go to war next session. Rather than give them notice that we meant to make war upon them at a certain time, he would seize all their citizens and set them to work on our fortifications—act the Algerine on them. Their governments played the Algerine on us, & would not we do the same to them? He would seize every thing but the funds. If the House could abandon our rights in this manner, when every square foot of our ground was laid under contribution, they deserved to be scoffed at by the sword.
Mr. Gardener declared the amendment offered by Mr. J. G. Jackson , to be unconstitutional; because the power of declaring war belonged to Congress, and was a power which they could not delegate.
The question being about to be put on Mr. Williams amendment, a division of the question was called for, so as to take it first on striking out.
Mr. Randolph observed, that he should vote for striking out, to destroy the hypothetical character of the proposition. If we were to have war at all, it ought to be direct.
Mr. Eppes observed, that the proposition of Mr. Jackson was not contingent, but complete—"withdraw your orders or decrees." If not, it was war and immediate war. Means for it were at hand; and nothing was wanting but spirit on the part of the House to use them.
Mr. Lyon was in favor of striking out. If we were to have war, he wanted to have the first blow.
The question on striking out a part of Mr. Jackson motion, to make way for Mr. Williams amendment, was negatived by Yeas and Nays, 67 to 56.
Mr. Jackson renewed his motion for postponement for 61, against it 61. Another count being called for it 64, against it 62. Another count being called for, tellers were named by the Speaker, who reported that there were for it 62, against it 63.
Mr. Burwell moved, that the bill be on the table. For it, by yeas and nays, 64 to 63. The Speaker (Mr. Varnum ) observed, that the subject had been so long under debate and so many questions had been taken on it, that he felt compelled, by duty, to vote in the negative. So that the motion was lost.
Mr. G. W. Campbell moved an adjournment—For it by Yeas and Nays, 57, against it 70.
Mr. D. R. Williams moved to strike out the words in Index in Mr. Jackson motion and insert "to adjust the disputes with the U. S." For the motion by Yeas and Nays 23 against it 94.
Mr. S. Montgomery , moved to adjourn—Yeas 50—Nays 70.
The question was next taken on the first section of Mr. Jackson amendment as follows: Yeas—Messrs. W. Alston , Bard , Bassett , Bibb , Blackledge , Blount , Boyle , Brown , Burwell , Butler , Calhoun , Clay , Cutts , Dawson , Deane , Deshia , Eppes , Franklin , Gholson , Goodwyn , Holland , Holmes , Howard , J. G. Jackson , Johnson , Kenan , Love , J. Montgomery , Jer. Morrow , Newton , Nicholas , Potter , Pugh , Rea of Pen.  Rhea of Ten.  J. Richards , Sawyer , Say , Seaver , Shaw , Smilie , J. K. Smith , J. Smith , Taylor , Troup , Whitehill , M. Williams , Winn —43.
Nays—Messrs. Alexander , Bacon , Barker , Blake , Boyd , J. Campbell , Chamption , Chittenden , Cook , Culpepper , Dana , Davenport , Durell , Elliott , Ely , Gardener , Gardner , Garnett , Gray , Green , Harris , Heister , Holmes , Hoge , Humphreys , Isley , R. S. Jackson , Jenkins , Kelley , Key , Lambert , Lewis , Livemore , Lloyd , Lyon , Macon , Masters , McCrea , Milner , N. R. Moore , Mumford , Moseley , Munford , Newman , Russell , Sloan , S. Smith , Stanford , Stedman , Storer , Sturges , Swart , Taggart , Tallmadge , Thompson , Trigg , Upham , Van Allen , Van Cortlandt , Van Dyke , Van Horn , Van Rensselaer , Verplank , Wilbour , D. R. Williams , A. Wilson , N. Wilson —74.
Mr. Fitzhugh entering after his name was called, was not permitted to vote. He wished to vote in the affirmative.
No question was taken on the remaining sections offered by Mr. J. G. Jackson .
Mr. Blount offered a new section in substance declaring the first capture of any vessel under the decrees and orders to be an act of war, authorizing the President of the United States to issue letters of marque and reprisal against the nation so committing war. The question on agreeing to this amendment was decided as follows:
Yeas—Messrs. Alexander , Bard , Bassett , Blake , Blount , Boyle , Brown , Butler , Calhoun , Deane , Deshia , Eppes , Fisk , Franklin , Gholson , Green , Holmes , Howard , J. G. Jackson , Johnson , Kenan , Kirkpatrick , Love , J. Montgomery , N. R. Moore , Mumford , Moseley , Newman , Newton , Nicholas , Potter , Pugh , Rea of Pen.  Rhea of Ten.  J. Richards , M. Richards , Sawyer , Say , Seaver , Shaw , Smilie , J. K. Smith , J. Smith , Taylor , Troup , Wharton , Williams , M. Williams , A. Wilson , Winn —49.
Nays—Messrs. W. Alston , Bacon , Bibb , Blackledge , Boyd , Burwell , J. Campbell , Chamption , Chittenden , Clay , Cook , Culpepper , Dana , Davenport , Dawson , Durell , Elliott , Ely , Findley , Gardener , Gardner , Garnett , Goodwyn , Gray , Harris , Heister , Holmes , Hoge , Hollins , Humphreys , Isley , R. S. Jackson , Jenkins , Kelley , Key , Lambert , Lewis , Livemore , Lloyd , Lyon , Macon , Masters , McCrea , Milner , P. T. Moore , John Morrow , Moseley , Mumford , Quincy , Randolph , Riker , Rowan , Russell , Sloan , S. Smith , Stanford , Stedman , Storer , Sturges , Swart , Taggart , Tallmadge , Thompson , Trigg , Upham , Van Allen , Van Cortlandt , Van Dyke , Van Horn , Van Rensselaer , Verplank , D. R. Williams , N. Wilson —73.
Mr. Macon moved to strike out that part of the bill authorizing a suspension of it on the rescinding of the orders and decrees; with a view to have no intercourse with the belligerents till all our differences were redressed—Yeas 24.
Mr. J. G. Jackson moved to amend the bill so as to make a total revocation of the orders and decrees, necessary previous to a renewal of intercourse. For it 48 against it 66.
Mr. J. G. Jackson renewed this motion in substance for the purpose of getting the Yeas and Nays on it. Yeas 31, Nays 91.
Mr. Eppes moved to strike out of the bill the section for the repeal of the non-importation act. Yeas 50, Nays 70.
Mr. Dawson moved to adjourn—Yeas 40.
Mr. Bibb moved to strike out the fourth of March and insert the 15th. A division of the question being called for, the question was taken on striking out and carried, Yeas 59, Nays 56. The 15th of March was then inserted, Yeas 86, Nays 30.
Mr. Randolph moved to strike out "March next" and insert "March 1809."
Mr. Macon moved to amend this motion by inserting September instead of March. Motion lost, Ayes 25.
Mr. Randolph motion was then agreed to, Ayes 79.
Mr. Wharton moved to strike out the section limiting the duration of this act and the several embargo laws to the end of the next session of Congress—Ayes 12.
Mr. J. G. Jackson moved to strike out "till the end of the next session of Congress," the term to which the law is limited, and insert "till the first day of January next." For it 42, against it 60.
The bill was then ordered to a third reading on Monday next. And the House adjourned at half past eleven, after a session of thirteen hours and a half.
DOMESTIC. Copy of a letter from a respectable house in Cork, to Messrs. Wilson and Sons of Baltimore, dated Cork, Dec. 3. "We have received your much respected favor of the 29th September, and fully coincide with you in opinion, relative to the policy as well as propriety of your embargo; it is the act of an independent yet pacific government, and we cannot look to its being raised, except through the concession, in some degree, of one or both the European belligerent powers. Viewing your Congress in the consistent light we wish them to appear in, we hope our ministers will relax the orders in council, and thereby remove this grand objection, for we consider it highly detrimental to the interests of both countries to have their commercial intercourse restricted. "Your produce has advanced to prices unprecedented. We got 47s. and 94s. per thousand (from 100 to 376 dollars) a—for a few thousand New-York barrel and pipe staves this week, and our coopers will soon be idle if the embargo continues. Upland cotton 3s. (67 cents) b—tobacco of good quality 2s. 6d. per lb. (56 cents per lb.) a—tea 50s. (11 dollars 74 cents) d—rosin 70s. per bbl. (15 dollars 30 cents) e—pine timber 6s. per foot (1 dollar 33 cents) f—We shall be very bad
by off for flaxseed also. A spirited bidder in Dublin refused 10 guineas per hhd. (46 dollars) for 250 hhd. last year's import." NOTE.—The following, we are advised, are the usual prices of the above articles in this country.
  Dols. Cts.    (a) Barrel and Pipe Staves 10 —  (b) Upland Cotton — 20  (c) Tobacco — 6  (d) Tar 2 —  (e) Rosin 3 —  (f) Pine Timber — 2  (g) Flax-Seed 16 —  
The Essex Junt are treating the people as a jockey does a young horse, who, after having tried the whip to break the generous animal, and finding it ineffectual, secretes it for the present, and puts the creature on the shoulder, for liberty to mount, not doubting the efficacy of the whip when well mounted....Detector.
So corrupt has the Court of St. James become, that her embraces are death. Their friendship conveys a poison, deadly in the extreme, to that nation who shall court her amity. When peace has cooled the flame of patriotism, she quenches the remaining vital spark with her golden favors and sullen smiles. British friendship may yet prove the proud sons of Massachusetts too terrible for speedy recovery; but like the poisonous insect, she will prove this fatal instrument of annoyance, and its dangerous effects will subside by a Lexington or Bunkerhill bleeding, a common surgical operation....ib.
NEW-YORK, Feb. 20. We have seen a letter from Surinam, to a respectable commercial house in this city, dated January 13th, which quotes flour at 60 dollars per barrel, herrings 20 dollars, salmon 48 dollars, mackerel 6, salt 16, oil 3 dollars per gallon, tobacco 80 cents per pound, rice 24, codfish 20, pitch and tar scarce, and no lumber to be had. The produce of the island is quoted at the following prices:—molasses 16 cents, sugar 5 dollars per cwt. cotton 62 cents per lb. coffee 23, cocoa scarce.
February 21. A letter has been received in town from Antigua, dated the 26th of January, which states, that an expedition had just arrived at Barbadoes from England, consisting of 3 Major Generals and 1400 troops, to be commanded by Gen. Beckwith, destined against Martinique.
CASENOVIA. (N. Y.) Feb. 8. We recently had the pleasure of a conversation with Capt. Cook, commanding a company of men stationed at Sodas and Oswego, who informed, that the men showed no symptoms of discontent; were healthy and in excellent spirits; faithful to their officers; firmly attached to their government and country, and willing to endure any fatigue in the defence of its just rights. He fully contradicts the foul report in circulation, that the soldiers desert and go over, and enlist in the British service! From what we can learn, the Tories and smugglers will have but a poor chance to supply their friends the British, on this section of our frontier.
Letter from the Secretary of State, transmitting his report of the number of persons born in foreign countries, and naturalized as Citizens of the United States, who have been registered as American Seamen.
DEPARTMENT OF STATE, February 2, 1809.
Sir, I have the honor to transmit herewith a report, made in compliance with a resolution of the House of Representatives of ninth ultimo, and am with great respect and consideration, Sir,
Your most obedient servant, JAMES MADISON. The honorable the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
The Secretary of State, in compliance with the resolution of the House of Representatives of the ninth ultimo, directing him "to lay before the house a statement of the whole number of persons born in foreign countries, and legally admitted citizens of the United States, by naturalization, who have been registered as American seamen and returned as such to the department of state, according to the lists transmitted by the collectors of the customs, in pursuance of the law relative to the relief and protection of American seamen," has the honor to state that upon an examination of the returns of registered seamen, which have been received at this office, since the date of the above recited law to wit, the 26th of May, 1796, and up to this time, it appears by the abstract hereto annexed that of the whole number of persons registered as American seamen, and so reported to this department, four hundred and forty-nine are designated as naturalized citizens. It is necessary however, to remark, that there are not full returns from all the custom houses.
All of which is respectfully submitted. JAMES MADISON. Department of State, Feb. 2, 1809.
Abstract of the Naturalized Citizens, who have been registered as American Seamen at the different custom houses since the year 1796, to wit:
  In the year 1796 — 38  Ditto 1797 — 91  Ditto 1798 — 19  Ditto 1799 — 17  Ditto 1800 (estimated at) 34 —  Ditto 1801 — 16  Ditto 1802 — 21  Ditto 1803 — 71  Ditto 1804 — 33  Ditto 1805 — 24  Ditto 1806 — 22  Ditto 1807 — 35  Ditto 1808 — 28  Total number 449  
Note. The returns for the year 1800, having been mislaid, an average estimate is made for that year, it being thought better to do so, than longer to delay the report.
On the night of the first instant, the schooner Patnel , commanded by John Stephens, escaped from the port of Georgetown, S. C. with an intention of evading the embargo. On the morning following, it was discovered that she had sailed, and the Collector receiving information that she was armed and that the capt. was determined to make opposition, took with him a few of the militia in a canoe, overtook them on the bar, and returned at night with the vessel and crew.
Precious Confession! —A Federalist of eminence in this town, last week declared in conversation with a Republican, that he wished for an alliance with England! Every day increases the boldness & wickedness of the Tories....Nat. Register.
In Harrisburg (North Carolina) Gazette, we are informed, that the Bank-Notes some time since advertised to have been stolen from the pocket of a Mr. J. White, there at Wilmington, have been in part found concealed in a small earthen jug, which was thrown out of the earth by a Negro in digging a hole for a fence post. The sum stolen was about 13,000 dollars, and that found 3470 dollars, which has been deposited at the Bank.
CINCINNATI, (Ohio) Jan. 26. On Tuesday the 3d instant, a man by the name of Thomas Pleasant, was detected in attempting to pass a counterfeit Eagle to Mr. Jesse Galame, of Stone Lick, Clermont County, and being taken before Roger W. Waring, Esq., of Williamsburgh, was committed to prison for trial at the next court. He delivered to Mr. Waring, two pieces more of the same kind, and on searching his saddlebags there were found the necessary implements for making counterfeit money, which he acknowledged on examination, were of his own making. He says he worked nine months in the mint of the United States, and has lately resided about 14 miles from Williamsburgh, where it is supposed he has been made the tool of some designing persons, as much counterfeit money has lately been passed in the neighborhood.
A gentleman coming from Pensacola, has favored us with a list of the ministers appointed by the supreme central junta established at the royal palace of Aranjuez.
Minister of Foreign affairs—The signior Caballero.
Minister of the Treasury—The signior Saavedra.
Minister of war—The signior Cornet.
Minister of the navy—The signior Escanos.
Director general of artillery and member of the council of war—The signior Morla.
Minister of grace and justice—The signior Hermeda—Louisiana Gazette.
BRICK MAKERS.
New Invention.—Asa Frost, Casenovia has obtained letters patent under the seal of the U. S. for a machine called a Brick Machine. The advantages to brick makers to be derived from the use of this machine are numerous. The operation of preparing the mortar is simple and expeditious—which is performed by draft with horses or oxen. The brick yard which has heretofore been exposed, and the newly stricken brick liable to be demolished by sudden rain storms, are now perfectly secured by means of a covering which stands and moves on trestles, and can be thrown over or taken off a yard 50 feet square in the space of two minutes. The importance of this invention is acknowledged by the most eminent brick-workmen, and by all others who have seen its operations—Pike.
THE ENQUIRER. RICHMOND, MARCH 3, 1809.
REPEAL OF THE EMBARGO, AND A NON-INTERCOURSE!
Letters from Washington by yesterday morning's Mail, authorise an assertion that the EMBARGO will cease to exist on the 15th instant. A NON INTERCOURSE, however, with Britain and France, is believed to be the substitute for the embargo.
Extract of a letter from Washington, dated 28th ultimo.
"I have just time to inform you that the Non-Intercourse Bill yesterday passed the House of Representatives, 81 to 40, striking out the 11th section, and altering the time of raising the Embargo to the 15th March. The Senate have just concurred in the amendments, & it will no doubt, be signed by the President."
At a meeting of the citizens of Richmond at the Bell Tavern, on Tuesday the 28th of February 1809, convened agreeably to notification in the public papers, for the purpose of expressing their sentiments on the present state of our public affairs, a committee consisting of Messrs. Wm. Wirt , Wm. Wardlaw , Wm. F. Braxton , Wm. Munford , Wm. W. Henning , John Baker , Geo. W. Smith , Andrew Stephenson & Wm. Douche , senr. was appointed to prepare resolutions to be submitted to another meeting to be held on the succeeding evening.
And at a numerous and respectable meeting convened for the purpose of receiving the report of the said Committee on Wednesday the 1st of March, 1809.
COL. GEO. W. SMITH , was called to the Chair, and JOHN F. PRICE appointed Secretary: Whereupon the following Preamble and Resolutions were adopted.
We cannot look upon the present crisis of affairs without the most awful sensibility towards the happiness of our country. It is at a time like this, that the expression of public sentiment is peculiarly interesting. The free and unreserved communication of popular feeling, is the vital circulation of a republic, and when it languishes in indifference, it is one of the surest indications of declining patriotism. Yes, Fellow-Citizens, the gloomy times in which we are now involved, demand the tributary sentiment of every patriot, and the most determined energy of every nerve. The picture of foreign aggressions is too deeply stained with violence, rapine and atrocity, for any American to examine it with calmness and composure; and most particularly too, when he believes that the hand of bribery and corruption scatters its baleful largesses among us. Whether we turn our eyes abroad at foreign despotism, or

FROM SPANISH PAPERS. Proclamation of the Central Junta. on the advance of the French towards Madrid. "SPANIARDS!—The Central Junta, after having employed, and while it is employing all the means in its power to drive back and destroy those enemies, who with continued temerity have advanced to the neighborhood of Somosierra, now addresses itself to you, in order to apprise you of the artifices and intrigues with which the perfidious agents of Napoleon strive to spread alarm among us, exaggerating the number of the enemies, who scarcely amounted to 8600 men, according to the statement of the Generals whom the Junta had previously sent to defend that important post, and the others of Guadarrama."
"People of Madrid, the country stands in need of you, your circumspection and your welltried valor are a fortress upon which it relies for its defence, trusting that you will know how to assist the arrangement of your captain General and of the Tribunal of Vigilance, in order to detect and deliver over to the inexorable arm of the law, the traitors who will now, more than ever, have the opportunity of introducing disorder, and repressing the activity with which you ought to hasten to the points marked out for you; mindful of the 2d of May, when deprived of all assistance, and even of the liberty of defending yourselves, your valor and loyalty still attracted the applause of the whole nation."
"The Central Junta cannot express to you the confidence with which it has been filled by the enthusiasm of the soldiers of the nation, in preparing to combat the enemies of our beloved Ferdinand, our country and our religion. Our allies, the English, strongly impressed with the justice of the cause we are defending, and animated with the same enthusiasm, have been invited, and are ready to march likewise from Escurial, where they are in order to strengthen the positions which our wise Generals have taken and protect the operations of our vanguard, which will have already begun to drive back the slaves of the oppressor and tyrant of all nations."
"Spaniards—Cowardice alone, inspired by treason, will attempt by every means, to increase the dangers which the cowardly and the evil disposed exaggerate, in order to dishearten us, and which alone could be able to frustrate the exertions of the Junta, which however reposes confidence upon your tried obedience and unparalled fidelity."
"By Decree of the Supreme Junta, MARTIN DE GARY."
"Royal Palace of Aranjuez, Nov. 21."
ARANJUEZ, Nov. 20. The Supreme Governing Junta of the Kingdom has received the following dispatch from his Excellency Don Francisco Palafox y Melci:
"I have just received advices from Generals O'Neill and St. Merouque, that they occupied Caparoz yesterday (the 14th) at 10 in the morning, the enemy having precipitately evacuated it at seven, and retreated to Peralta. No details have been transmitted, and consequently I am unacquainted with the state of their force. I am just setting off to put the whole in motion, that we may follow up our advantages."
"May God preserve your Highnesses many years."
"FRANCISCO PALAFOX Y MELCI. Calafuria, Nov. 15."
On the 14th took place one of the most pleasing and satisfactory proceedings, both to the English and Spanish nations; by the presentation of his Excellency Señor Don Juan Heckham Eyre, in quality of Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary from his Britannic Majesty to our beloved King, Ferdinand VII. and during his unfortunate absence, to the Supreme Governing Junta of the Kingdom. He was no sooner introduced, than addressing himself to the President, he delivered a short but elegant and expressive discourse in the Castilian language, stating the extraordinary complacency and flattering satisfaction which he felt in the honour granted him by the King his Master, in appointing him his representative near the august person of Ferdinand VII. and during his unfortunate absence, to the Supreme Governing Junta of the Kingdoms of Spain and the Indies; and that this satisfaction was greatly increased by the reflection that he came to witness the heroic efforts of the brave Spanish nation, to preserve their ancient freedom and independence.
The Most Serene President answered Señor Eyre's speech with the warmest expressions of friendship and grateful acknowledgement, towards the King of Great Britain, for the important succours which he had so generously afforded to Spain; and added that the latter, faithful to her friends, would ever be so to Great Britain, and would demonstrate the nobleness of her honorable character, being incapable of bellying the sentiments of her heart, which his Britannic Majesty had gained by means which it was as difficult to forget as it was to express them in words. The Minister then presented, and withdrew to return to his residence with feelings of the highest satisfaction of joy, which also animated all the members of the Supreme Junta.
The Supreme Junta, the 18th inst. issued a Royal Ordinance for the re-admission of Swedish vessels into the ports of Spain, and the renewal of commercial intercourse between the two countries, announcing at the same time their intention of taking further steps to draw closer their relations with the King of Sweden, who supports with so much glory the dignity of his throne, and the right of his subjects.
Don Francisco de Frias, Chief of division of the army of Estremadura, entered Somosierra on the 17th with the battalions of Valencia and Merida, and 60 of the Spanish chasseurs. On his retreat the preceding day from Aranda de Duero, a corps of the enemy showed a disposition to harass him; but anticipating their intentions, he attacked them and put them to flight, with the loss of 10 killed, 2 prisoners, 6 horses, and a great quantity of arms, which the fugitives threw away.
JOHN ALCOCK, informs his friends, and the public, that he is carrying on his CABINET MAKING BUSINESS, in all its branches where he makes all kind of Mahogany Furniture in the best manner, and on the newest fashions—Any gentlemen or ladies wanting any Furniture, will find good work executed, and on low terms as can be bought in New-York, or any other place. Any orders left at my shop, in the Cross-Street, adjoining Prusser and Mowat's Vendue Store, or at Mr. George Greenhow's where I keep my Ware-Room, will be pointedly attended to, and great care taken to deliver it in good order. N.B. Two Apprentices wanted at the above business, who can come well recommended. January 17.
(BY AUTHORITY.) LAW OF THE UNITED STATES.  AN ACT Making appropriations for the support of Government, during the year one thousand eight hundred and nine. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That for the expenditure of the civil list, in the present year, including the contingent expenses of the several departments & offices; for the compensation of the several loan officers, & their clerks, & for books & stationary for the same; for the payment of annuities & grants for the support of the mint establishment; for the expense of intercourse with foreign nations; for the support of light-houses, beacons, buoys and public piers; for defraying the expense of surveying the public lands; and for satisfying certain miscellaneous claims; the following sums be, and the same hereby are respectively appropriated, that is to say:
For compensation granted by law to the members of the Senate and House of Representatives, their officers and attendants, estimated for a session of four months and a half continuance, two hundred and one thousand four hundred & twenty-five dollars; For the expense of fire-wood, stationary, printing and all other contingent expenses of the two Houses of Congress, twenty-eight thousand dollars; For all contingent expenses of the library of Congress, and for the librarian's allowance for the year one thousand eight hundred and nine, eight hundred dollars; For compensation to the President and Vice-President of the United States, thirty thousand dollars; For compensation to the Secretary of State, clerks and persons employed in that department, including the sum of one thousand dollars for compensation to his clerks, in addition to the sum allowed by the act of the twenty-first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and six, thirteen thousand five hundred and sixty dollars; For the incidental and contingent expenses of the said department, four thousand two hundred dollars; For printing and distributing the laws of the second session of the tenth Congress, and printing the laws in newspapers, eight thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; For special messengers charged with dispatches, two thousand dollars; For compensation to the secretary of the treasury, clerks and persons employed in his office, including the sum of one thousand dollars, for clerks hire, in addition to the sum allowed by the act of the twenty-first April, one thousand eight hundred and six, sixteen thousand seven hundred dollars; For the expense of translating foreign languages, allowance to the person employed in transmitting passports and sea letters, and for stationary and printing in the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, one thousand dollars; For compensation to the Comptroller of the Treasury, clerks and persons employed in his office, including the sum of one thousand six hundred and thirty-nine dollars for compensation to his clerks, in addition to the sum allowed by the act of the twenty-first April, one thousand eight hundred and six, fourteen thousand six hundred and sixteen dollars; For expense of stationary, printing and incidental and contingent expenses of the Comptroller's office, eight hundred dollars; For compensation to the Auditor of the Treasury, clerks and persons employed in his office, twelve thousand two hundred and twenty-one dollars; For expense of stationary, printing & incidental and contingent expenses of the Auditor's office, five hundred dollars; For compensation to the treasurer, clerks and persons employed in his office, six thousand two hundred and twenty-seven dollars and forty-five cents; For expense of stationary, printing and incidental and contingent expenses in the treasurer's office, three hundred dollars; For compensation to the Register of the Treasury, clerks, and persons employed in his office, sixteen thousand and fifty-two dollars and two cents; For expense of stationary, printing and all other incidental and contingent expenses in the register's office, including books for the public stock, and for the arrangement of the marine records, two thousand eight hundred dollars; For fuel and other contingent and incidental expenses of the treasury department, four thousand dollars; For defraying the expense of printing and stating the public accounts for the year one thousand eight hundred and nine, one thousand two hundred dollars; For the purchase of books, maps and charts for the use of the Treasury department, four hundred dollars; For compensation to a superintendent employed to secure the buildings and records of the treasury department, during the year one thousand eight hundred and nine, including the expense of two watchmen, the repairs of two fire engines, buckets, lanterns and other incidental and contingent expenses, one thousand one hundred dollars; For compensation to the secretary of the commissioners of the sinking fund, two hundred and fifty dollars; For compensation to the secretary or war, clerks and persons employed in his office, eleven thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; For expense of fuel, stationary, printing and other contingent expenses of the office of the secretary of war, one thousand dollars; For compensation to the accountant of the war department, clerks and persons employed in his office, ten thousand nine hundred and ten dollars; For contingent expenses in the office of the accountant of the war department, one thousand dollars; For compensation to the clerks employed in the pay-master's office, two thousand eight hundred dollars; For contingent expenses in the said office, two hundred dollars; For compensation to the purveyor of public supplies, clerks and persons employed in his office, and for expense of stationary, store rent and fuel, for the said office, including the sum of five hundred dollars for compensation to clerks in addition to the sum allowed by the act of the twenty-first of April, one thousand eight hundred and six, five thousand one hundred dollars; For compensation to the secretary of the navy, clerks and persons employed in his office, nine thousand eight hundred and ten dollars; For expense of fuel, stationary, printing and other contingent expenses in the said office, two thousand dollars; For compensation to the accountant of the navy, clerks & persons employed in his office ten thousand four hundred and ten dollars; For contingent expenses in the office of the accountant of the navy, seven hundred and fifty dollars; For compensation to the post-master-general, assistant post-master-general, clerks and persons employed in the post-master-general's office, including the sum of one thousand five hundred and forty-five dollars, for compensation to clerks in addition to the sum allowed by the act of the twenty-first of April, one thousand eight hundred and six, sixteen thousand dollars; For expense of fuel, candles, house rent for the messenger, stationary, chests, &c. pertaining to the post-master-general's office, two thousand five hundred dollars; For compensation to the several loan officers, thirteen thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; For compensation to the clerks of the several commissioners of loans, & for allowances to certain loan officers, in lieu of clerk hire, and to defray the authorized expense of the several loan offices, fifteen thousand dollars; For compensation to the surveyor-general and his clerks, three thousand two hundred dollars; For compensation to the surveyor of the lands south of the state of Tennessee, clerks employed in his office, and for stationary, and other contingencies, three thousand two hundred dollars; For compensation to the officers of the mint— The director, two thousand dollars; The treasurer, twelve hundred dollars; The assayer, fifteen hundred dollars; The chief coiner, fifteen hundred dollars; The melter and refiner, fifteen hundred dollars; The engraver, twelve hundred dollars; One clerk at seven hundred dollars; And two clerks at five hundred dollars each, one thousand dollars; For wages of the persons employed in the different branches of melting, coining, carpenters, mill-wrights and smith's work, including the sum of one thousand dollars per annum, allowed to an assistant coiner and die forger, who also oversees the execution of the iron work, and of six hundred dollars per annum, allowed to an assistant engraver, eight thousand five hundred dollars; For repairs of furnaces, cast-rollers & screws, timber, bar-iron, lead, steel, pot-ash, and for all other contingencies of the mint, three thousand two hundred dollars; For compensation to the governor, judges and secretary of the territory of Orleans, thirteen thousand dollars; For incidental and contingent expenses of the executive officers of the said territory, two thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars; For compensation to the governor, judges and secretary of the Mississippi territory, seven thousand eight hundred dollars; For expense of stationary, office rent and other contingent expenses of said territory, three hundred and fifty dollars; For compensation to the governor, judges and secretary of the Indiana territory, six thousand six hundred dollars; For expense of stationary, office rent and other contingent expenses of said territory, three hundred and fifty dollars; For compensation to the governor, judges and secretary of the Michigan territory, six thousand six hundred dollars; For expense of stationary, office rent and other contingent expenses of the said territory, three hundred and fifty dollars; For compensation to the governor, judges and secretary of the Louisiana territory, six thousand six hundred dollars; For expense of stationary, office rent and other contingent expenses of the said territory, three hundred and fifty dollars; For compensation to the governor, judges and secretary of the Illinois territory, six thousand six hundred dollars; For expense of stationary, office rent and other contingent expenses of said territory, three hundred and fifty dollars; For the discharge of such demands against the United States, on account of the civil department, not otherwise provided for, as shall have been admitted in a due course of settlement at the treasury, two thousand dollars; For additional compensation to the clerks in the several departments of state, treasury, war and navy, and of the general post-office, not exceeding for each department, respectively, five per centum, in addition to the sums allowed by the act entitled "An act to regulate and fix the compensations of officers, and to authorize the laying out certain public roads, and for other purposes," thirteen thousand two hundred and sixty-nine dollars and thirty-three cents; For compensation granted by law to the chief justice, the associate judges and district judges of the United States, including the chief justice and two associate judges for the district of Columbia, to the attorney-general, and to the district judge of the territory of Orleans, fifty-nine thousand four hundred dollars; For the like compensation granted to the several district attorneys of the U. States, three thousand four hundred dollars; For compensations granted to the marshals for the districts of Maine, New-Hampshire, Vermont, New-Jersey, North Carolina, Kentucky, Ohio, East and West Tennessee, and Orleans, including the compensation allowed to the marshals of New-Jersey and North-Carolina, for the three last quarters of the year one thousand eight hundred and eight, by the act of the twenty-fifth of February, one thousand eight hundred and eight, two thousand six hundred and fifty dollars; For defraying the expenses of the supreme, circuit and district courts of the United States, including the district of Columbia, and of jurors and witnesses, in aid of the funds arising from fines, forfeitures and penalties, and for defraying the expenses of prosecutions for offences against the United States, and for the safe keeping of prisoners, forty thousand dollars; For the payment of sundry pensions granted by the late government, nine hundred and sixty dollars; For the payment of the annual allowance to the invalid pensioners of the United States, from the fifth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and nine, to the fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ten, ninety-eight thousand dollars; For the maintenance and support of light-houses, beacons, buoys, and public piers, steakeages of channels, bars and shoals, and certain contingent expenses, seventy-nine thousand and thirty-nine dollars and forty cents; For erecting two light-houses on Long-Island sound, one on Watch-Hill-Point, and the other on Sands or Watch-Point, the following sums, that is to say, the sum of two thousand six hundred and thirty-seven dollars and fifty cents, balance of a former appropriation for these objects carried to the "surplus fund," and the further sum of five thousand seven hundred dollars, in addition to the appropriations heretofore made for the same objects; For placing buoys and beacons on or near the shoals and rocks in the channel leading into the harbor of Salem, in the state of Massachusetts, in addition to the sums heretofore appropriated for that purpose, sixty-seven dollars and twenty-nine cents; For rebuilding two light-houses on Plumb Island, and in the state of Massachusetts, ten thousand dollars; For defraying the expenses of surveying the public land, within the several territories of the U. States, eighteen thousand two hundred and forty dollars; For expenses of the boards formed in the territories of Orleans and Louisiana, for investigating and adjusting titles and claims to land, in addition to the sum heretofore appropriated for that object, ten thousand dollars; For the expense of taking the second census of the United States, being the balance of a former appropriation for that object, and carried to the surplus fund, thirteen thousand eight hundred and ninety dollars and ninety-six cents; For the expense of returning the votes of President and Vice-President of the United States, for the term commencing on the fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and nine, one thousand five hundred and ninety-three dollars; For expenses of intercourse with foreign nations, thirty-three thousand and fifty dollars; For the contingent expenses of intercourse with foreign nations, seventy-five thousand dollars;
For the expenses of intercourse with the Barbary powers, fifty thousand dollars;
For the contingent expenses of intercourse with the Barbary powers, fifty thousand dollars;
For the relief and protection of distressed American seamen, five thousand dollars;
For the expenses of executing claims in relation to captures, six thousand dollars;
For defraying the expenses of regulating, laying out, and making a road from Cumberland, in the state of Maryland, to the state of Ohio, agreeably to an act of Congress, passed the twenty-ninth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and six, the balance of a former appropriation made by the aforesaid act, for that object, having been carried to the surplus fund, sixteen thousand and seventy-five dollars, and fifteen cents;
For defraying the expense of opening a road from the frontier of Georgia, on the route from Athens to New-Orleans, until the same intersects the thirty-first degree of North Latitude, agreeably to an act of Congress, passed on the twenty-first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and six, the balance of a former appropriation made for that object, having been carried to the surplus fund, two thousand four hundred dollars, and a fund of five thousand dollars in addition to the sums heretofore appropriated for that object;
For defraying the expense of opening a road or roads through the territory lately ceded by the Indians to the United States, from the Mississippi to the Ohio, and to the former Indian boundary line, which was established by the treaty of Greenville, agreeably to the last above recited act; the balance of a former appropriation made for that object having been carried to the surplus fund and one thousand eight hundred dollars, and forty-eight cents;
For defraying the expense of opening a road from Nashville in the state of Tennessee, to Natchez, in the Mississippi territory, agreeably to the aforesaid act of the twenty-first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and six, the balance of a former appropriation for that object having been carried to the surplus fund, three thousand dollars;
For the discharge of such miscellaneous claims against the United States, not otherwise provided for, as shall have been admitted, in due course of settlement, at the treasury, four thousand dollars;
SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the several appropriations herein before made, shall be paid and discharged out of the fund of six hundred thousand dollars, reserved by an act making provision for the debt of the United States; and out of any monies in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
J. B. VARNUM. Speaker of the House of Representatives. J. N. MILLEDRGE. President of the Senate pro tempore. February 17, 1809. APPROVED, TH: JEFFERSON.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. THE Co-Partnership of Hancock & Wilson is this day dissolved, by mutual consent. All debts due to the said firm of Hancock and Wilson, must be paid to John Hancock, as he is the only person authorized to receive and give receipts for the same: Also, all debts due from the said firm will be paid by said Hancock, to whom application may be made for the same. JOHN HANCOCK, Wm. H. WILSON. February 10.
N. B. The business will, in future, continue to be carried on by John Hancock. J. H. March 3. 3w
I AM desirous of renting out the Houses, Yards and Gardens, which are extremely spacious and pleasant, whereon I now live, known by the name of Belle Grove, in the county of King George, and laying immediately on the banks of the Rappahannock, opposite the town of Port-Royal. Possession may be had on the 1st day of May next. This situation is well calculated for a professional gentleman, and should it be desired, I will annex ten or fifteen acres of very highly improved land; upon a part of which is a most excellent Orchard of choice Apples, containing about 200 trees. With respect to the healthiness of this place, I believe it is exceeded by none, on this side the ridge. Adjoining, I will also rent as above, an excellent Shad and Herring Fishery.
Having experienced considerable injury from persons hunting on my farms, in Richmond county, King George, and especially through the one belonging to the estate of the late Mr. John Hopkins near Port-Royal, I am constrained to forward all who have been in the habit of hunting, shooting, riding through and leaving down my enclosures, to discontinue such practices, being determined to prosecute such as may continue after this notice, in doing so to the utmost rigor of the law. Wm. BERNARD. February 28. 2t
THE Subscriber will practice LAW, in the Superior and Inferior County Courts, of King & Queen, Essex and King-William. Those who favor him with their business, may rely on his attention and punctuality. G. R. TRANT. King William, Feb. 10. oaw4w
VIRGINIA. TO ALL WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, At a Chancery District Court, held in Williamsburg, the 5th day of November, 1808. Samuel Coleman, executor of John McLean, Plaintiff against Richard Fletcher, executor of Francis Ruffin, who was executor of Robert Newsam, Samuel Butler and Martha his wife, late Martha Cooke, Martha Cooke, infant daughter of Robert Cooke, and Martha his wife, by John Newsam her guardian, John Newsam, administrator of Robert Cooke, deceased, George K. Taylor, Richard F. Taylor, Robert Burchell and Ann his wife, Watson Stott and Sarah his wife, and Elizabeth Taylor—which George K. Taylor, and Elizabeth Taylor, and Elizabeth are children of Richard Taylor, deceased, who was a partner of Richard Taylor and Company; and George Wrey heir devisee and executor of Jacob Wrey, who was executor, heir, devisee & legatee of James Wrey, who was a partner of Richard Taylor and company. Defendants.
The defendants Watson Stott & Sarah his wife not having entered their appearance and given security according to the Act of Assembly, & the rules of this court, & it appearing to the satisfaction of the court, that they are not inhabitants of this Country, on the motion of the Plaintiff, by their counsel, it is Ordered That the said defendants, do appear here, on the first day of the next terms and answer the bill of the Plaintiff; and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in some newspaper, of the city of Richmond, for two months successively, and posted on the front door of the former Capitol, in this city. Attest, ANTHONY ROBINSON, C. C. January 21. oaw8w.
NOTICE.—All persons having claims against the estate of Samuel Poinsett, deceased, are requested to exhibit them, properly authenticated, to the Subscriber; and those indebted are solicited to make immediate payment, as it will be indiscriminately instituted against all delinquents. BENJAMIN WOLFE, only Executor. January 24. oaw2m
A YOUNG MAN, who can come well recommended, for industry, honesty and sobriety, that understands the management of Negroes, may hear of employment, on application at this office. February 14. 4t
PROPERTY FOR SALE.—The subscriber, desirous of removing to the western country, offers for sale his HOUSES & LOTS, in Richmond. He deems a particular description unnecessary, and wishes those inclined to purchase, to view the property. The dwelling-house, for elegance and convenience, is certainly not inferior to any in the city; the offices are commodious; the garden and yard will be laid out in a style adapted to the buildings, and the situation combines the advantage of privacy and retirement to that of proximity to the scene of business. A small portion only of the purchase money will be required at the time of the sale, and the residue in such instalments as may be agreed on, or slaves will be received in payment, for a part or the whole of the property. JOHN BROCKENBROUGH. January 27. 4w8t
IN Pursuance of a decree in Chancery, made by the Court of the U. States for the 5th circuit, in the district of Virginia at the November term, in the year 1803, we shall expose to Public Auction, at the time and place herein after mentioned: Two TRACTS of land in the county of Goochland, on the Beaver Dam Creek, containing nine hundred acres; and the other called Little Island, containing 10 acres, at Goochland courthouse on the court day thereof, on the 3d Monday in April. The decree of the said Court, on which the said land are directed under the commutation on the day of sale. The terms of payment will be as follows: one fourth of the purchase money to be paid in cash, and the remaining three fourths in three equal instalments of six, twelve and eighteen months credit. In all other respects the aforesaid decree will be pursued. WM. BERKELEY, JOSIAH ELLIS, Wm. MANN, Commissioners. [law2m]
CASH will be given for four or five Negro MEN, and as many good work HORSES Applicable to the Editor of this paper. February 14. 4t
LANDING from the Schooner RICHMOND, Isaac Seaman, Master:— 50 Boxes Raisins, 10 Bales Soft Shelled Almonds, 5 Casks Green Coffee, 19 Barrels Prime Pork, and 1 Pipe London Particular Madeira Wine. IN STORE. 17 Hogsheads Brown Sugar, 25 do. Molasses, 5 Barrels Green Coffee, 75 Boxes Havana Segars, 3 Bales Welch Flannel, Family Flour in barrels and half barrels, Young Hysan, Hysan Skin and Souchong Tea, 10 Boxes Mould Candles, FOR SALE BY, GEORGE WATT. January 17. 4t
NOTICE.—Cash given for Northern & Southern Bank NOTES at a moderate discount by SIMPSON MORRIS. Richmond Dec. 14.
WILL be offered for sale, to the highest bidder, on the premises, on the 9th day of March, if fair, otherwise the next fair day, two Tracts of LAND, containing ninety-two acres & a half acre, in the upper end of Henrico county, being a part of the Mansion tract of R. John Ellis, deceased. Any person wishing to view it may apply to Mr. Milner Redford, who owns a part of said tract. There are also two TRACTS in the lower end of Goochland county, same number of acres as above. Any person wishing to purchase the same, it will be shown them by Jesse Curd, which Land joins him. ALSO, fourteen or fifteen NEGROES, consisting of Men, Women and Children. Also, some household FURNITURE, &c. Twelve months credit on all sums above ten dollars, and bond with approved security to the commissioners will be required by them, approved of by THE ATTORNEYS. February 17. 5t
FOURTEEN tracts and eight hundred and sixty acres of LAND, for sale on Seneca creek, in the county of Pendleton—By virtue of a Deed in Trust, executed by Robert Barklay to Richard Gaines, to secure the payment of the sum therein mentioned, I shall, on the 17th day of March next, before the door of the Eagle-Tavern, in the city of Richmond, sell to the highest bidder, for cash, the aforesaid land being in one entire tract. An unquestionable title will be made to the purchaser. HARRY GAINES, Trustee. February 10. 4t
JOHN KING, has just received an additional supply of Fancy and other GOODS, which he will sell at his usual cheap rates for cash. February 7. 4t
WANTED to hire, for the present year, a Girl that can do plain COOKING, & a Girl that has been accustomed to wait in the House. Apply at this office. February 24. 3t
RICHMOND TURNPIKE COMPANY.—At a meeting of the Directors of the said Company, on Saturday evening, the 18th February, 1809: Resolved, That the Shares of all delinquent Subscribers, to the said company, be sold, at the Bell-Tavern, in the city of Richmond, on the 25th of next month. N. SHEPPARD, Secretary. February 24. 4t
TO be rented, a large and commodious TENEMENT, adjoining the house in which Mr. Thomas Wilson resides, on Shockoe-Hill. For terms enquire of Wm. MUNFORD. February 24. 4t
FOR SALE, six NEGROES. Enquire at this Office. February 24. 3t
ON Thursday, the 16th day of March next, will be sold, to the highest bidder, in the town of Manchester, at the tavern of Zachariah Brooks, upon a credit of twelve months, the following PROPERTY, belonging to the estate of Wm. Friend, dec'd. viz. twelve or fifteen likely SLAVES, consisting of men, women, boys and girls, a WAGON and harness, a GIG and harness, sundry articles of Husbandry, a few valuable Books, & a handsome Towing Piece. Bond and approved security will be required of the purchasers. THOMAS BRANCH, Executor. At the same time and place, will be sold, on a credit of twelve months, sundry articles of valuable mahogany FURNITURE and PLATE, the property of Mrs. Ann Friend. All persons having claims against the estate of Mr. Friend, dec'd. are again invited to bring them forward properly authenticated, and those indebted thereto, will please make payment without delay. THOMAS BRANCH, Executor. February 10. 9t
Merchant's, Lawyer's, Sheriff's and Constable's BLANKS, For Sale at this Office.