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fncesterlng into teecuttee enerete or to go i oto the
office if rue Seeretory of Statce lie merely wished
on inquiry into the petition. i
Mr.,..Katt osstrii--.The right of petition s an
inhereut right of the eitiseie recogisisied by the
Coustitutem, utid during the time that lit bad
held a mat io that Itouse. he remembered but a
stogie easseitt which the refereutv of a petition had
been refuted. it was Vegaotsctitiosi which
had been mentioned. intuit /5.44ni51e0 had been
brought tOrward, on this oecaston,
to treat the petition of (sus- iudfgettQVl citizenewith '
calibuipt ? The example of that Parliament,
whore invetenite corruption and stupidity laid'
diemanbered the British Empire. llad lie eter
expected to hear the conduct of Parliummit untll-r •
Lord' North's Adatieistration roe Ards these then
colonic., cited to juaity any proadure of that
Home, in relation to its own pititeese 'pie
frceruen of America had a tight to petition,
to retire amoral, mid udeise, not snit w th respect to
the past, hut to the future also. if thee dill not
polies this right, how our the nation to Le unde-
ceived if one it should be plunged into error
Suppose a motion brought frowned in that !louse
for a deelaration of war egainst Britain, should it
not be competent to the people to 'lmmo atrium.
Dull and temonstrances for or at rtiu4t it ? And
could tiny man pretend to sav that the national wel-
fare and dignity would be loos involved in such a
roc, torn iis u proposition to repeal that "thing
of Aired% and leaches." the ion-importution
which to this hour had never been put intoaewrm
tion Ttei consideration of a memorial it one
thing, compliance is soother. The suggestion
of the 4:entlentan from South Cameos (Mr.
D. It. Williams) was mellower:elite. if the petition
is unreasonuble, if it requires. what it would
be impolitic and • untlignitted in them to
grant, it its weakness be exposed in a well &awe,
masterlyreport, which might receive the enaction
of the Horse. Wenld not this be more digniiked,
in reality, as well as more satiefaetore,to all parties,
than to skip the doors in the, petitioners feces.
affecting the airs of Asiatic monerults..refusiug to
listen tothe pruyessof their suleeetiwfor.ref4seds he
must be allowtekto culrthem, if 'the Moue per-.
shoed to treat them as dU:11. , • 4 •
On the eve of a foreign war. they were trendiest.
in the footsteps of the Brithilt. Mittistry at the Com-
mencemeist of our tevolutionary struggle, awl of
the war with France,rbitth was-stispended by the
truce of Amiens, turtling a slaw( esti to the prayers
of their own people. The British Parliament would
not listen to the petitions against the war. The
commanding eloquence of Mr. Fox himself could
not obtain a hearing---ho was obliged to quit the
!louse of Commons: What followed ?--Ois the
verge of the grin e. hew.* called, be the unanimous
voice of his country, to repair, it possible,, those
mischiefs against which he had vainly protested,
and which he had fruitlessly laboured to avert.
The Non-importation Act was a thing at this
time so contemptible, that were a proposition made
fol. its repeal, he would hardly gyve himself the
trouble to vote for or against it. Did the Non-
importation law eonstiotte allttheir preparation for
a war with Great Britain ?i' It was idle to attach
any ire to its • . If they were. as he moist or
lemnlvt=. to have a war with (Seem Britain,
itiwisiood thaw, at the outset, to conciliate Pew
by whom it weeto.be carried on—the whole body
of the Allatitiellt people. Let us not, said Mr. IL,
if we that have war, *et out on the principles with
whi it Mr. Pitt end his majority began their war
wit i France--ptineiples of proscription to all in-
cubi. Let nerthsehniesple of their arrogance and
its bemillatiou be bet upon us.
Mr. Lama patine LLD did not consider the pro-
priety of repealing the.set or not ; rhe cbuctused
that would &rend alogether on the nature of the
dispatches obeli might he received. Ile thought it
peeper immure when it pawed, thou gk he wish-
to have gene farther t he was one of those who
wished to pass a total non-importation law.
The qmostimi of reference to the eninutittee of
Commerce and Nlanufarturee was then taken by
yeas dad nays :—Yees ho—,Asyt
So the question far referenow.wws 105 t..,
The SPLAKER said, if Ulf • further esiebe were
taken on the suen iorial. it would lie 011thnitsdila of
course.
No further order being take% it woe beistrel .SO
lie on the table. . •
...; elf • DEC. 10.
The Bill from the Senate. eggeopriating a sum
of money for the construction „of an additional
number of gun-boats, was reud a third time. A
deleite commenced, which continued till four
teelterk. when the hone adjourned *idiom coming
_to a decision. The noose did no other business.

we. 11..

The della! e on the pasence of the Bill from the
Spur, approffiat IN a snni of money for protiaing
her of gte nn-boa. was reFutnetl
awl COI ii tt Until nesethree o'clock. The ques-
tion ou its 11101111gP wits then talen, and curried—
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Mr. DAvi SON, from the Committee nppois2ell
on the military and naval establivlinitsist4 of the
Tnited State's. and to whore war referred the peti-
tion of the ()Hirer's of the American army praying
for an anipnentatinn of their pay, reported the f -
ro. Items' utioo
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Resolvrel, That the prayer ut• the pet deters is reasonably
and ought is le pimpled.
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Referred to• Coulmiftee of the whole flunw, and
made the order for Momilay.—The !louse then ad-
journed tilt Monday morilllh eleven o'clock.

14 11"1".Y01111, DEC. 15.
A Rll.l,
Surflrosenttiry to the Art, iutitiiled rr An Act to prohibit
Ilyr importatioe of orrtriu Goo d% Wares, and N.ichait-

(haid the first and amid tiwe, old eimiseittea to a Oouirr.
thr spiltelt Homes « TlNersdep wet.)
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Ssc. I.—& it enacted by the Senate and I Intise
ist'llepreisentatives of the United States of America,
is That aathing the Act to
*Well t is is a Suf ',phloem, shall be .o const Pie 3at
to prohibit the importation of the follow iag artictri,
that Sr to am :•-•-•
Fina,Wrapper. and nut vide packages, in which
Nose, the importation of which is not prohibited,
aauatly are and shall be wrapped or packed at the
the. if their importatiton.
Sossowil..--Hegl or sailLs iA which salt *hull be
imported.