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THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

ll.eyant, and that which, at a more distant period, we shall reap
from our indigenous culture, not unsuccessfully essayed, will
suffice to support, in a great measure, our manufactures ; but in
the expectation that some of them may experience privations,
we must have recourse, as far as possible, to hemp and flax, in
order to provide occupation for those manufacturers who would
no longer he employed with amides of cotton. It were desir-
able that we would circumscribe our consumption within the
products of the materials the growth of our soil, and restrain the
unhappy etlects of habits and taste contracted for manufactures,
that would render us dependent upon foreign countries.
" The materials for dying may become scarce—but many of
them may he replaced by the productions of our soil. We will
dispense wit!) the rest by a slight sacrifice of some colours,
which may please from their apparent greater beauty, without
adding any thing to the intrinsic goodness of the article. Be-
side. no small reliance is to he placed on the genius of our ma-
nufacturers : it will triumph over those difficulties.
`b The channels, which in spite of thew usurpations, will
remain open to importation, may not suffice for the consumption
of sugar and cotf:,e. ; these objects of o secondary utility may
become scarce ; but the great mass of the nation will not suffer
from this temporary privation : habits of indulp,ence too widely
indulged will be counteracted and restrained by the rise in the
price.
" And besides, is it to he supposed that the Great Nation
will allow itself to he intimidated by the privation of some
futile enjoyments? Her armies have endured, without a mur-
mur, the most pinching wants : that great example will not
have been held out in vain : and when we have in view to re-
conquer the independence of the seas ; when we have in view to
rescue and redeem commerce from the ruinous acts of piracy
that are juridically exercised against it; when we have in view
the vindication of the national honour, and the breaking down
of those "'un- court/ow which England is attempting to erect
upon our coasts, the French people will support with the dig-
nity and courage that belong to their great character, the mo-
mentary sacritit es that are imposed upon their taste, their
habits, and their industry. The commerce of Europe will snon,
no doubt, be rescued from oppression, The interests of nations :
the honour of Sovereigns ; the magnanimous resolutions of the
most powerful of the Allies of France ; the power and wish of
the hero who rules over us ; the justice of a cause to which
Heaven will grant its protection; every motive concurs to de-
cide the contest ; nor can its issue remain uncertain. Accept,
Gentlemen, the assurance of my sincere eitecm.
(signed)

CRErET."

AMERICA.

SEN4TE.-, •SIIINGTON CITY, NOV. 25.

Mr. Adams submitted the following resolution for consi-
deration :

" Resolved, That the President of the United States be re-
quested to cause to be laid before the Senate, a return of the
number of American Seamen impressed or detained by British
armed vessel-, whose names have been reported to the depart-
ment of State, sitter the last statement made to Congress, men-
tioning the names of the persons impressed, the time and place
of their impressment, the names of the ships, and as far as may
be known of the officers by whom they were impressed, toge-
ther with any material facts or circurnitanees in relation to
the same : stating also the whole number of seamen impressed
since the comm.:nement of the present war, what number of
persons impressed according to the last statement of the Secre-
tary of State, has since been restored, and the numbers still de-
tained since demand of their restoration made, with the reason
tssigned for their detention."

JAN. 4.

expression of sensibility at this outrage ; states the receipt
of information relative thereto from the State and Navy
Departments; presents a general view of the circumstances,
observing that it might be said to have been incontestibly
proved, that William Ware, John Strachan, and Dan Mar-
tin (three of the four persons taken out of the Chesapeake)
are Citizens of the United States; but the Committee add,
that they conceive it unnecessary for them or the House to
go into any enquiry on that part of the subject, as, in their
opinion, whether the men taken from the Chesapeake were,
or were not Citizens of the United States, and whether the
Chesapeake was, or was not within the acknowledged
limits of the United States at the time they were taken, the
character of the act of taking them remains the same.
From the foregoing facts, it appears to your Commit-
tee, that the outrage committed on the frigate Chesapeake,
has been stamped with circumstances of indignity and in-
sult, of which there is scarcely to be found a parallel in the
history of civilized nations, and requires only the sanction
of the government under colour of whose authority it was
perpetrated, to make it just cause of, if not an irresistible
call for, instant and severe retaliation, Whether it will
receive that sanction, or be disavowed and declared an un-
authorized act of a subordinate officer, remains to be de-
termined by the answer which shall be given to the demand
of explanation; that answer, now daily expected, will
either sink the detestable act into piracy, or expand it to
the magnitude of premeditated hostility against the sove-
reignty and indepel.dence of this nation; and until its true
character shall be fixed and known, your Committee deem
it expedient to decline expressing any opinion as to the
measures proper to be adopted in retaliation to it. But the
Committee adds, as other acts of aggression have been
committed within our ports and waters, such as those men-
tioned in the President's Message, the Committee are of
opinion, that it is expedient to provide more effectually for
the protection of our ports and harbours ; but not being
prepared to report specifically upon that subject, they ask
further indulgence of the House, and submit the following
Resolution :

" Resolved, That the attack of the British ship of war Leo-
pard on the United States' frigate Chesapeake, was a flagrant
violation of the jurisdicticn of the United States ; and that the
continuance of the British squadron (of which the Leopard was
one) in their waters, after being notified of the Proclamation of
the President of the United States, ordering them to depart the
same, was a farther violation thereof."
Nov. 18.—Yesterday the Hon. Mr. Lyon stated in the
House of Representatives, that he wished the gallercis
cleared, and the doors closed, bolted, and barred, as he
had some highly important matters to communicate. The
House having gratified his wishes, he observed that Mr.
Erskine, the British Minister, had recently transferred
Stock, possessed by his father, to a large amount, in the
American Funds, and in consequence proposed the follow-
ing Resolution :
" That provision ought to be made by law, forbidding all
transfers of right of action, and all monies, and other property,
either real or personal, to or by any subject of the Cron of
Great Britain ; and also forbidding any Citizen or Resident of
the United States paying any debt or demand upon any such
subject."
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 galle-
ries were opened, under the understanding that all secrecy
was at an end.