The Sun.
London, England, 1808-03-21 00:00:00

iIOUSE OF REPIif,SENTA,TIVES, lAN. 14.

offered two Resol 4tions,-authorising
the Presidentp lend to the State of Ohio, fOr:ihet
tertn.of seven years, lboo stand of arms, and twen-
ty pieces of field artillery, for -thepurpOse'of arming
the Militia Of..that; State ; read, anc,l committed for
Monday next:

Mr. M. CLAYtave notice, that, nn Mostday next,
he would call up the Bill. fur Arming the Militia of
the United States.

On the 28th of January, a Resolution, approving
of the measures of the General Government, passed
in the House of, Representatives of Massachusets.—
Ayes t7B—Nocs
An insurredioe bad taken place at Kennehuss,
Massachusets, which required the intervention of the,
miliriry. • The sailors in most of the maritime towns
. had been guilty of excesses. A Bill for Arming, the
Militia of the United States was about to be adopted.
Resolutions passed Congress on the 13th of January,
as to the expediency of raising an. additional number
of Regiments of Cavalry, Infantry, &c. as also an
• augmentation of the. Marine Corps. • •
Mr. JEFFERSON has declared, that if there should
be n war, he will accept again of the Presidency.
• WASH INGTON, JAN. 1 the Senate Mr. J.
(-I.AoAms -has proposed the tbHuwing Ailotiont viz.
Resolved, That a Committee be appointed to inquire
at what period the present Embargo tan, consistently
with the public interest, be removed ; and whether,
in what manner; and to what extent, upon its re-
moval, the 'Merchant Vessels of the:United States
shall, be permitted, indelence of their lawful Coin-
. merce, ,to be armed 'against and resist foreign ;ag•
gtessions.
Mi.•RAIPOLI'LI has so fai• succeeded in his attack
Upon WILKINsota, as to have induced Con-
gresl;, on the 12th of January, to appoint a Special
Committee to intoire into the charges.alledged.
against him. The bends of iceusation are, his- havi-
ing, while in the service of the United States, con"
rept ly received money from the Government of Spain,
or its agents, and of. having been an accomplice, or
otherwise concerned with the agents of a foreign
Government, or with A. Been, iu aprojea to dis-
member the United States.

A' terrible hre broke out at two o'clock on .Saeur-
day morning last, at Chelmsford, in Essex, which
burnt so furiously for a .considerable time as to
threaten the destritetion of the whole 'town. It
broke out at Mrs. Smith's, the milliners, formerly
Miss Jones's, the first hoUse of the middle-ro\v
the centre of the town, which It Consumed, tog,„ll,v
with the tour next adjoining houSes, viz. Mrs.
Mr. F. Hill's, Mr. Route's, and jr. Nash's. •;Ajn-
fortunately two young. Ladies (one a daught.r of
Mr. G. Williams, of Oogar), apprentices to Mrs.
Smith, perished in the flames;, and a third Aaiso
severely burnt, that her life is despaired of. Nothing
could equal, the generp.,l consternation of the inha-
bitants, awakened to a iir.ene- of such extreme hor-
ror in the deadof the nigli'!-4 IVO liscovery has yet
been made of the cause Of this dre.dful accident.
Providentially' the town qlas 'suppfte.i with run-
ning water through it *centre, and excellent en-
gines belonging to the several Insurance Offices,
'or the calamity must hive been' more exterkively
ruinous.

A dreadful fire broke iput on Thursday evening at
Clenton Range, Surrey, at the house of Mrs. Lacey,
which destroyed the sane in less than two hours.
The servant maid, who %las up stairs, had no op.
portunity of descending, .ind in jumping from the
window to the leads of an djoining house, she broke
her thigh. ,An infant, the grand-daughter of Mrs.
Lacey, who was sleeping in the room where the fire
broke out, perished in the flames.

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NWINCHESTER, MAtten o.—On Monday mprn-'
jug last, . about eigiit 0'4;4, Luis iierqujada, for
the wilful' murder of Franeisco Romero, WaS C 9117-
veyed'frOm his o:-A, in the new gaol, to the place of
execut lea, near this, city. He he ::aved with 'great
penitence after his condeAanatiop, and wade ae:o6-!
!essionef the oritnelpr which he i,v:is,going to sOffor.:
As the 'unfortunate inan could not speak any lan-
age but the Spanish, a Gtudeman, (iPriest) came
tram London on 1,11-pose to attend bira in his last
rnotitenti. At Ow piac• of execution he. vi•aYed
rtict fervently.