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ALVER.4OI,GRESS.
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110 LIE OP ItilltlPl' EiNTATIV6
WAsletwoTovt.,llc. 3.
The Bill from the Senate, for inaintaitung peace.
and preserving the authority of the United States
in their ports and harbours, was read twice, and
referred to a Committee of the whole on Monday.
A message war received front the Senate, notify-
ing that they had passed an Act making appropria•
lions for the building a sufficient nand) .r of Fun-
boats, in which they desired the concurrence of this
House. Mr. RANDOLPH called for the order of
the day on the Resolution submitted by him on
Tuesday.
Mr. ePHAM moved, that the Committee of the
whole be discharged from the farther consideration
of those Resolutions, on the ground that the sub-
jects embraced by them were already before dif-
ferent Committees of the House.
This motion was lost.
The House then went into a Committee of the
whole on the Resolutions.
The first Re.olution was agreed to.—Yeas 60,
Nays 51.
Mr. Berta said, that the whole number of the
militia was 640,000: and estimating the price of
guns at 10 dollars; they would cost upwards of six
millions of dollars. He therefore moved, to strike
out the words "whole body of the" (in the second
reclution),•and insert "the 100,000 men held in
requisition by the law of tanti, and the 30,000
volunteers, by the law of 1807."
Mr. Rsmisotrn said, that he should consider
an agreement to this amendment as equivaleut to
an indirect rejection of the resolution; because, if
adopted, it would turn out in fact, that in order to
arm those troops (the greater part of whom were
already armed) it would not be necessary to expend
a single dollar. He had no intention of drawing
on the Treasury for six millions of dollars ; his
idea was, that an appropriation, and he hoped a
liberal one, would be made towards arming the
militia ; and that at the same time the nation should
pledge itself to put arms into the hands of every
man capable of baring them. He believed, that
all the laws for regulating the militia were futile,
until arms were procured ; it was of no use to pass
such laws, as long as men mustered with walking
canes. Nevertheless he thought that uuless out,
militia laws were altered, they would, when the
militia wats called into service, be nugatory. He
would venture to say, that if the same rules were
put in practice over freemen, as were adopted over
the hirelings of despots, they would occasion dis 7
content, and perhaps mutiny.
Mr. CHANDLER moved to amend the amend-
ment, by adding the words " when called into ac-
tual service," that the resolution would then read,
" Resolved, that provisions ought to be made by
law for arming the one hundred thousand militia
requited by the law of February, 1807, und the
thirty thousand volunteers required by the law of'
1807, when called into actual service."
The question was taken on the amendments of-
fered by Messrs. EPPES and CHANDLER, and they
were lost.
The resolution, as it originally stood, was agreed
to—Ayes 66.
The third resolution (that provision ought to be
made by the law, for procunng a formidable train
of field artillery), was also agreed to without a
vision.
The Committee of the whole, then rose, and
reported their agreement to the resolution.
Mr. RANDOLPH called for the ayes and noes, on
concurring with the Report of the Committee of
the whole ; but before they were taken, the I louse

adjourned (four o'clock).
BEI-LUSE& 4.
The Bill from the Senate, appropriating a sum
of money (upwards of 800,000 dollars) for building
a sufficient number of gun-boats, was read twice,
and referred to the Committee of the whole; to
whom was referred, a Bill on the saute subject, re-
ported by the Committee of aggressions.
The House then took up the unfinished business
of yesterday. The question was, to concur with
the report of the Committee of the whole in their
agreement to the 2nd resolution of Mr. Randolph.
Mr. WITHERALL, Mr. SOUTHWARD, and Ntr.
spolke in favour of the resolution ; and
Mr. ALsroe, Mr. TALMADGE, and Mr. ELY,
against it; when the question was taken by ayes
and noes on the resolution as it originally stood, mud
it was,ared to. Ayes, 72, Noes, 63.
The third resolution, (for the purchase of a for-
midable train of artillery) was also agreed to,
a it 'lout a division.
SEDATE OF THE UNITED STATE.C.
Dr.cIJISE& 1.
The Bill reported by Mr. Adams, tt For the
peeservation of peeve, and maintenance of the
authority of the United States, in the ports, har-
bours, and waters under their jurisdiction," after
underpins; a slight amendment, was ordered to a
third reading without a division. The question
was taken on striking out the 6th section, which
interdicts the entailer of all British armed vessels
into the ports and waters of the United States, and
vests the President with power to take off the pro-
hibition whenever, in his opinion, due reparation
shall be made, and lost.—Yeas, 3—Nays, 26.
DECEMBER 3.
The Bill, making an appropriation for the more
effectual der:ire of the ports and harbours of the
• United States, was passed with but littic division.
DEC I.NIIIIR 4.
The Bill to enable the President to raise a Re-
, wiment of Infantry and a Battalion of Cavalry, was
passe/l.

Statenivit exhibiting the number and condition
of the frigate,* uad other vessel.: of war of the
United States, &e. hid, rierensent to order, before
Congreeo, by the Secretory of the Norte.::shimbie
la mire—frigates,-itintios, repairing
. sad Chesapeake, both 131' 44 Less ; ship Wimp, 101 ma. rWere and Argo., both of R.,: schooner Reveal*, 14
ketrbis Spitfire, 7;* ;.• Arks, 11 Vesaviss,
11 ;•—,/no-loiats, sixty, and si-veu tmdde, 5,7 s ism
Ready fur service.—Frigaies, constellation, of 46, awl
Adam., of 32 gee; brag Slioris„ It; selesonar Euterpriae,
IJ guns, siol Yee viii-boat.
R.:pairing, and rirvrty ready fug servirr —Frigates, t toted
State,, Al ; F‘sex, / did dubs Adams, 12 guns
K.-gamins ineemnieralits repsir.—Brig Vixen, is ; sod
'eh .er Nautilus, 14 gem.
cousiderabie rriatir —rrigates, President, 44;
sod New-Yurk, boob of 36 row:
• hichiJiwg one 1J uttu avert r.

NEW.YOM, DEC. 7.
We ate told, that on Sunday inoniing, a Britith
74, and two frigates, anchored in LynNivea Daley
that the Officers every day since then, land
from them near the Pleasure House; that an in-
habitant in the neighbourhood of the Pleasiite
House (whose name we do not at present wish to
Mention), has had the temerity of supplying them
with some necesearies ; "intimation of which has
been given to Brigadier-General Mathew..
DEC. $.
Dispatches from Mr. Irvine, our Minister at
Madrid, were received at Norfolk on the 28th ult.
by the Superior, Forbes, from Barcelona. •
Capt. Young. in 12 days, from Port-au-Prince,
inform., that things remained nearly in the same
state they were two months ago ; that between the
two armies of Christophe and Petion, each con-
sisting of nearly the same number of men, several
skirmishes bad taken place, but that no decisive
action had been fought.
A Gentleman arrived in Boston a few days since
from Cape Cod, reports, that there had been forty-
seven human bodies taken up on that shore since
the late stOrm.

DEC. 10.

The Non-linportation Act goes into operat►on
on Monday next, unless Congress, during the pre-
sent week, repeal or suspend it for a further pe-
riod.
The House of Representatives of Pennsylvania
have refused to answer the Governor's Speech, 43
to 42.

ALEXANDRIA, DEC. 7.
The Editor of The Daily Advertiser will confer
a singular. favour upon an injured fellow-citizen,
by inserting the following facts :
" On the lath of June last, I sailed in the ship
Royal Sovereign, of 44 guns end 75 men, bound
from Charleston to New Providence and St. Do-
mingo. Nothing material occurred until the 17th
July following, when we were boarded from His
Britannic Majesty's ship Chichester, of 44 guns,
bound for the Island of ()Alm, who immediately.
impressed all the Royal Sovereign's officers, (the
surgeon, gunner and steward only excepted) toge-
ther with 22 seamen, chiefly Americans, and my-
self, although not -in the capacity of a seaman,
not giving us tune to procure the smallest article
more than had on; in this situation they hur
'tied us on board the 44, iind made sail for Barra-
coe, in the Island of Cuba, against. 'Which place
they were ordered with a detachment from the
119fh ,Tiffferary Regiment of Infantry. • The
SPanis". as we bore up to attack the port and
batteiiesropened with a heavy tire of langridge and
grape from five different points, which so disabled
the ship in hull and rigging, that, after four, hours
unsuccessful efforts to regain the soldiery we hail
landed, we ureic compelled to retreat, and bear away
for New Providence, with both chain-pumps con-
stantly going. We watered at Providence, and
made sail for Jamaica, the ship wanting imme-
diate repair. .
" Having arrived at the King's Dock-yard, on
the 20th of August, in Port Royal, the people
were placed under ceotinels night and day; but
fortunately, on Sunday night, 1...5t11 o:tolier last, I
found the means of snaking my escape from Bri-
tish oppression, and arrived safeatKingston, where
I was receive'lwith every mark of hospitality and
disinterested friendship, by Captain F. Lucke(' of
the ilkrt, bound to Alexandria' and through
whose unexampled goodness, I have been once
more safe landed in America.
I am, Sir, with respect,
" Your Fellow Citizen,
" Dec. 7,1807." MISS COOILE."

FRENCH DECREE.

(TRANSLATION.)
EITRACT FROM THE MINUTES OF THE OFFICE