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Not a single Member supported the Resolution, but all
censured its imprudence. The general opinion was, that
if persisted in by the Mover, the doors should be instantly
opened, and the resolutions rejected in public.
Mr. Lyon then withdrew the Resolution, and the balk•
ries were opened, under the understanding that all secrecy
was at an end.

Nov. 27.—Mr. J. Clay presented a Memorial from sun-
dry inhabitants and traders of the city of Philadelphia,
praying that the Act prohibiting the importation of certain
goods, wares, and merchandize, passed the Isth April, 1806,
may be repealed.
Mr. Clay moved, that the Memorial be referred to the
Committee of Commerce and Manufactures.

Mr. Rowan hoped the Petition would not be referred to
any Committee. lie thought it would be beneath the dig-
nity of the House to give it any consideration. had Le
hee►t in Congress at the time the law passed, he would have
voted against it ; but as it had passed, arid as we had re-
ceiN ed a fresh insult from Great Britain in the attack on
the Chesapeak, he would not Note for its repeal.

Mr. Crowninshield said, that from the rumours which
were afloat, and the disposition of Great Britain, he enter-
tained no hope that she would do America justice. She
was making great preparations, endeavouring to decoy the
Indians on our frontiers, and was arming her Militia in
Canada and Nova Scotia.

Mr. Randolph said, if the prayer of the petitioners was
improper, would it not be better to expose their errors in a
masterly Report from a Committee, than to slain the door
in their faces, and affecting all the airs of an Asiatic Sove-
reign, refuse to hear them ? We were, he believed, on the
eve of a war with Great Britain ; and we were treading in
the very footsteps of the British Ministry on the eve of an
American War, and on the eve of the French War.—The
House, Mr. R. said, had now been in session five weeks;
and, on the eve of a war, they were discussing whether we
should import locks with brass nobs or locks with iron
nobs; they were sitting there looking; at one another, read.
in; newspapers, writing letters, receiving bank checks, and
counting their money; and the nation was precisely in the
same situation as it was when the Ilouse first assembled.
If we were to have a war Kith Great Britain, as he believed
we were, it would become the House at the outset to con.
ciliate those by whom that war was to be carried on ; he
meant by those, the great body of the American people,
and not the rich merchant more than the landholders, but
not less.

After a long debate, the question was then taken for re-
ferring tte Petition to a Committee of the whole House,
and it Naas lost.---Ayes 50—Noes SO.
The r elit ion was ordered to lie on the table,

NEw YonE, DEC. 3.—The visit of General Moreau to
the westward, and the expedition of his travelling, has ex-
cited a variety of conjecture in the political world. A
friend of the General has handed us the following account
of the moll% es of his journey, which will fully satisfy the
curioslty, , and allay the suspicions of those who aro always
watching the movements of great characters:—

" The tieneral had some time ago, the misfortune of losing
his only son. His Lady has also been under the necessity of
returning to France, in order finally to settle some fat►miis con-
cerns. Such painful separation, added to the dreadful loss
which he had ju,t experienced, have rendered his house so to-
tally disagreeable to him, that in order to divert his griefs, he
has determined to undertake this excursion, and visit the Ohio
and Mississippi, as far down as New Orleans. His intention is

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