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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Du 1.

of New Jersey, offered the following
Resolution :

" Resolved, That the Committee appointee' on sn ninth
of the Message of the President of the United States as re.
'ales to the unlawful introductiou of tilsves into the Uteittel
Slates, br instrncted to inquire into the expediency of pays.
int a Law, prohibiting the emigration or tramvertation
of Slaves ur Sicvaiitv of Colour from any State to atm other
part of the United States, iu cases where, by the Laws of
such State, such transportation is prohibited; and that th, y
bate leave ►o report by Bill or otherwise."

Mr. Lion said, in introducing his Resolutioo,
that it related to a subject of such interest in h
put of the country, and, us the Resolution only
proposed an inquiry, he hoped it would not be ob.
jected to.
_ _ _

Mr. Poindexter objected to the Resolution.—
Any man, he said, had a right to remove his
perty from one State to another, and slaves as well
as any other property.
The Resolution was negatived—Ayes 6n
Noes CO.

NEW YORK, DECEMBER 3.

The Rink of Washington has pul,licly and offi-
cially announced that they have sucpended spec e
payments, until the Legislature have time to take
the subject into considt-ataun.
General Lefebvre Devnouettes is at preseo tt
a visit to Washington ; he was our of the y0tp.0,4
and most (li.tinguiblied of Napoleon's Geuer“l Offi-
cers, and much respected.

(From the Nashville Clarion, November 17.)
SUPPRESSION OF THE FRENCH SETTLEMENT.

A Gentleman immediately from Louisiana in.
forms, that General Ripley is cuticentrating a re-
spectable force et Baton Rouge, to ascend Red
River, and, he understood, thence to proceed arid
occupy the country iii dispute between the Unin,t
State* and Spain, lying between the Sabine tied
Rio del Norte. Tl,e necessity for this movernert,
at this time, is the attemhlage of a large
and naval force there, which is said to be piratital
in its character.

( From the Neze York Everting Post of the sth.
ATTACK UPON LALLEIIAN WS ESTABLISHMENT
AT GA LVESTON.

Froiti the Noe ()deans Gazet:e of the 7ili
we copy the following extract of a letter him!) a
Gentleman at Natchitoelles, under date of ilia
28th October :—" Joao Beraniendi and J. se
Angel Navarro arrived here last night, and confirm
the news of the arrivol at Altascosits of the expe-
dition which I alluded to in my last. It is coos.
posed of 500 men, under the orders of Oini Joan
de Castimeda. Two hundred melt had made
thetni.elres musters of a fort belangiog to Ort,eral
Lalleinand ; and Castaneda had sent a flag of truce
to Galveston, which had not returned at the depar-
ture of Berantendi. The object of the expedition
appeals to have been to destroy this fort and Gal.
veom', Bud to intercept, as much as poshiMe, the
trade of the Comoncliez. They have lift 100 men
on the Trinity, at a plantation called the Salt',
leagues no the main road. It would seem that Uwe
Coinsuander does not wish to approach hearer to

the frostier. for fear of desertions: focr deserters
have already come iii."
(From the Churkston Courier of the 48th.)
NASSA4.I. OCT. 26.

By late arrivals from the ►'oast of Florida, in-
fArtnation has been received here, that a brig named
she Eliza, of Kass, had been found on the shore
there. in, 'person bring on board, and having serer
rii •pprarattee!a of blood oat the deck. Not far
..nut the brig were serf► several persons ill 11 ?Mid,
'Mho, on the apprtt•clt of • boa from our of the
w;r.•kers, snide off in a boat which they had w►tl►
kitting their 'bedding, &c. lit the lent. There
to mason to suspect this'sesse: io the 1 !ha. or Hali-
fax, Murphy, master, which sailed from► Kingston,
.ca, 011 the 111th ta:t. hum fl..ht'dx, sad that the
sew had destroyed the master oilier, and malt off
with w►me money supposed to, hair hero m► board :
the br;g had no cargo when found. The crew of
the wreckers being kw its nember, and haynig tur
arms, did Hot !Humor the hoot; 'but on going to the
-tent, found the fellows had kit behind some bed-
ding and clothes, as above stated.

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