The Sun.
London, England, 1803-01-29 00:00:00

.P R ISI AN FASIIIONS.

CAPS of black velvet are much worn, and fre.
quently surmounted by on'e or two black plumes,
placed nearly Rerpendicularly. The front cf the
satin hats is still pushed far back ; these hats are
either white, orange, or rose.colour ; sometime; the
bottler is very lirge, particularly on the right side.
The hair of the.neek is hidden, and the forehead is
shaded with ringlets. In the half dress; we see
nothing but small bonnets of dente& or embroi.,
dered`tale ; Ihese h,:vfbrm e the of a ;Alone, some..
times they are surmounted by an handkerchief, and
they are commonly embroideTed with a little tulle.
A few veils are worn, which, after having taken
the contour of the visage and the form of the head,
are hidden under the shawl. The long tunics for
full dress, are either of amaranth colour or scarlet.

Out of every fifty young men, foriyleisht are:
crops, who, even jnl;4llJli.e4, wear their hair with-
out powder. Chapeaux de bras are become very
common.

'MARL R 0 ROU,C 11-ST R ET. Yesterday Ditesiid
Griffiths was brought beiore the Sitting Magistrate
at this Office, charged by a Gentleman with being
an impostor.- It appeared, that this Gentieman
passing some time since along the streets, saw the
Prisoner in a fit, and when he,was a little recovered,
gave him what silver he had in his pocket, and left
hini; some time afterwards he saw bias in another
fit, ,at a different part of the town, when he
had him conveyed imam to his Judging, -in New
Peter-street, Westminster, when the people of the
house informed him, that this person's fits were Ml
pretended, and that, he had fregently emit homes
and called them a parcel of boob for working and
slaving in the manner they did, at the same time
putting his hands in his pockets, and taking.out
a parcel of silver, said, 44 See what I have got by
my fits." This Gentleman, going along Mill-
street, Hanover-square, saw the Pri.Amer in another
of his fits, when he gut a person to watch him,
while he came up to' this Office to the Ma iS:r rte,
who immediately dispatched two men to bring up
this pest to,socicry. They accordingly disturbed
him in the middle of his avocation, and brought
him to the Office. The Magistrate committed him
to the Howie ofCorredion as a rogue and vagabond.
There Will be two Institutions for the propaga-
tion of the Vaccine System in this Metropolis. It
is to be hoped, however, that no invidious rivalry
will appear on the occasion, but that they will anti.
cably co-operate in promoting one of the most in-
teresting discoveries, conoetted with the welfare of
Mankind,

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CONGRESS; Wztisv.snAi, 13sa. t 5.

'hit following I.lletslge way delivere4 tci e; t
House by Mi. Lk %vitt', Seeretiry to the Piesi,leot
" To the Senate and: Holae of Rii.reien,i'airves of
rbe United Stitt's,

I( 'When we assemble fogether,
,
to consider the state of our beloved Country; our
just attentions ,are drawn to thOse plc:tan:l4 cir-
cumstances...which mark the glodii6i
from Whose favotii they fl,,w ; ;nit, the huge meal
sure of thankfulness we owe tot his bounty.-;:;
Another year has conic,rotind; and finds us
bletied with Peace and Friendship abroad t
Order, and Religion at home ; good affeetiqn anti
harniony with our Tndhin ritighbouis, our buitlicti%
lightened, yet our income sufficient for the ptiblic
wanti, and the produce of the yet.ir great beyond
eicatnple. 'These, Ftdrow Citizens, are the clicitm..
stances under which we tr.eet ; and we remark, witti
special satisfaftion, those which, tinder the stnilot
of. Providence, re,ult from the skill, industry, anti
order of our "Citizens, v.:magi-I,g. their own altirs
in. their own way, and for their own u.e; unetnhar;
rassed by 'too much regulation} unopprest.ed by fiscal
exaCtions:

an the restoration of Peace in Etirope, that
portion, of the Carrying Trade which hatt tci
our share during the. War, was abtidgeJ .by the re_
turning competition of the .Belligetent Powers,—;
This was to be expeaed,•• and was just. But, in
addition, we find, . in some parts of Europe, Mono.
polizing diseritninadoris, „which,- it; the foi.in of
duties, tend effettluslly to prohibit the c.irryiog
thither our own prtaluee in our own Ve,sels. From
existing amities, antra spirit of justice, it is hopes'
that 'friendly dismission will produce A fair ,inci tide.
quate reciprocity. .But Should 'false cihnlatioii.; ref
interest defeat our hope, it • rests with the
tore to decide whethir 'they will meet inequAlitiei
abroad with countervailing inequalities at home, or
provide foe the evil in any ()the% way.
'' It is with salisfadion I lay before Ydu ari Art
of the British Parliament, anticipating this subject,
so far as to authorise a mutual abOlititin of the. do
ties, and countervailing duties, permitted under the
Treaty of 17§4.. It shews, on their part, 'a spirit
of justice and friendly accommodation, which it it
our duty and our interest in cultivate with all na:
tioris. Whether this would produce a due equality.
in the navigation between the two countries, is it
subjenfor your consideration.
" Another circuttistince which claims attention;
as direaly affecting the very source of our riaviga.
tion, is the deka or the evasion of the law pro.
viding for the return of seamen, 'and particularly
of tiose belonging to vessels sold abroad. Num.:
bet's of them, dinharged in foreign ptit Is, have been
thrown on the bands of our Consuls, whii, to rescue
them from the dangers `into which their distresses
Might plunge them,,and save them to their Country,
have hound' t .necessary, in some viseS, to rettoli
them at the public charge.
" The cession of the tipari4ll 'Province of Louisi-
ana to France, which took 'place in the course of
the late War, will, if carried into efii:4,- mike
change in the *ea of our foreign telations,
will doubtless have just weight in any delii)er,ition,
of the Legi,lature connected with that tubjea.,
" There was reason, riot long 4ince, to appt,e..;
bend that the warfare in which we wore enga4,e(l
withmight' be taken up by ,s,:ittre other of
the Barbary Powers. A reinforeetnerac'tberefotei
Was immediately ordered to 'the Vessels' already
there, 'Subseqtient irifimnation hovt,ei(et has te.
moved these apprehensions for the present'. se.:
cure our , commerce' in 'that sea, with the sin;Okst
force .competent, have supiklsed it bisit'in'w.l4.:ll
strillly tjic.birbour of Tripoli. Still,' host vet.; rhi
shallowness of thelr coast, and the want of smaller
vessels on our part, h: peimitted home critizers to
escape unobserved; And to one Of these an Attiericaci
vessel unfortunately fell a prey. The Captain, one
American Seafilan, and two others of 'Colour, remtiin
prisoners 'with theM, unlesS eitchanged twat. ati
agreement formerly made with the Bashawi to whotri,
on the faith of that, some of his captive subjeCtS had
been restored.

" The Convention with the State ill* Georgia
•has been ratified by their Legttlaturt., and a , repot.
chase from the Creeks has been conseqUently madei
of a part' of the Tallasscee county. In thil purchase
has been also comprehended a part of the landi with.
in the fork,of Oconee and Oakmulgee rivers. Thti
pattkulars of the contr,cl will be 'laid before Con.
grtss so soon as they shall b int a state for cointrw.
nication.

In order to remove every ground of difference
pos-,sible with our Indian neighbours, I have' pro.,
cecded in the work of settling with them, and
marking the linundariti between us. That with
the Cho taw Nation 13 fixed in tine part, and ;viii
be through the kvhole within shorc time, "fly
country to which their title had been extinguished
before the Revolution is sufficient td receive a very
respeetable population, which Congietk will pro.
bably see the expediency of encouraging' do soon
as the limits shall he declared. We are to view
this position as an outpost of the United States,
surrounded by strong neighbours, and distant from
'its suppott. And how tar that mer.opoly, which
pre V entS populit. tiou, should here be guarded
against, and actual liftbitarion matie a condition
of the continuzinee of title, will bt,: foi your ennsi.
deration. A prompt settletnent too, of all exist-
ing righri and. elartris within this territhryi pre.
sews itself as a preliminary operation.
4t In that part‘. of the incliati territore which in.
dudes Vincennes, the lines settled 'Oil the
bgaring tribes fix the extinOion &d their title at a
beeatith of x 4 leagues from East to West and
about the same length parallel, with and indlliilog
the Wabash. They have also ceded a track of four
miles square, including the Salt Springs neat the
tnnutn.tif tnat ricer:

'6 In the departthent of Finance it 13 with plr,t.
sure I if:form you,that-the rcceivis of external dn.
ties, for the last twelve months, have cm:cede%
those of any former year, and that the ratio of
increase has been also greater than usunl. 'l'l is laws
enabled us to answer all the regular exigencies of
Government, to pay from the Treasuty, within
unt year, upwaids of eight millions of doll:ITN

principal and interest, of the public debt, exclusive
of upwards. of one million paid by the sale of hank
stock,- and making in the whole a reduftion of
teary five millions and a half of principal, and
to have now. in the Treasury four millions and a'
halt of dollars, which are in a course of application
to the •further discharge of debt and current de-
rnands. Experience, too, so. far u tho rise s us to
believe, if no extraordinary event supervenes, abd
the expel-ices which will be aftually incurred shall
not be greater than were contemplated by Con-
, gress at their last Session, that we shall not be dis-
appointed in the exreEtations• then formed. But,
nevertheless, is the ;fled of peace on the amount
of duties is not yet fully ascertained, it is the more
. necessary to practise every useful economy, and to
incur no cxpence, which may be' avoided without

prejudice. - • - • . .
" The collection of the internal Taxes having
been compleated in some of the States, the Officers
employed in it are of course out of commission.—
In others they will be so shortly. But, in a few,
whrre the atrangoments.foi' the dire& Tax had been
rctarded, it will still 'be 59111 C rime before the sys-'
tent is closed. It has not Yet been thought neceS
sary to employ the Agent authorised by an An of
fie last Session, for transafting business in Europe
relative to Debts and Loaps.. Nor have we used 'the
Tower confided by: the same. ACI, of prol,nsing
file. Foreign Debt by re.loans,•and of iedeemiog in,
stead thereof, an equal sum of the domestic debt.
:Should, however, the difficulties of remittance. on
so. large a scale,'. render it-necessary at any time,
the power shall be executed,' and the money thus
unemployed abroad .shall, in conformity with that
law, be faithfully employed here in an equivalent
sxtinClion of domestic debt. When areas so salu,
tary result from the plans you have already sane.
tioned, when merely by avoiding false ()Weds of
expence, we are able, without a direct tax, without'
internal taxes, and without borrowing, to make
large .and effettual payments towards the diScharge
of our Public-. Debt, and the emancipation of our
posterity from that mortal canker, it is an eneou-
ragement, Fellow Citizens, of the highest order, to
proceed as we have begun in substituting economy
for taxation, and pursuing what is useful for a
Nation, placed as we are, whet than what is prac-
tised -.by others under different circumstances.
And whensoever we are destined to meet events
which shall call forth all the energieS.of our Cnun.
i!•ymen, we haVe • the firmest reliance on those
energies, aid the comfort of !piying for calls like
these, the extraordinary 'resources of loans and in,
tem,' titses, in the me ;:n time, by payineots cif
the principal of our debt, *4' are liberating, .antu;
ally, portions of the external taxes, and forming
from thLio a growing* funl, still further .to lessen
the necc.isity of reLtitriog to extiaordinary
sources.

''. The usu.)! account of receipts and expendi.
tines for ale last year, with an estithate of the ex.
peni:es of.the cip,oing one, will be bid before you
by the 'Secretary of the .Treasury.
" No change being deemed necessary in our
Military Esta,blishinenr, asVestirnate of it.,sexpences
for, the ensuing year, on 'lib present fonting, as also
of the sum* to be employed in ,fortifizations, and
otherobjech within that department, bas hien pre.
pared by . the secretary at War, and, will 'make a
part of the general estimates wlticit will be presented
tki

Considering that' our regular Troops are ern•
ployed for local purposes, and that the Militia is
our general relianee for great and sudden emergen.
ties, you will doubtless think this institution war-
thy of a revie *, iincl,givi! it those improvements of
vort find it mpg ~;nible.

" Estimates for the Naval Department, prepared
by the :.ectetaty of the Navy for another year,
will, in tike manner, be communicated with-the ge.
neral estimates. A small force in the Mediter-
ranean will still be necessary to restrain the Trip°.
line Ctoisers ; and the uecertain tenure of Peace
with some other of the Barbary Powers, may
eventually require that, force to be augmented.
Trio necessity of s.ro9uring some smaller ves,.els for
that service, will raise the estimate; but t};dif
ference in their maintenance will soon make it a
measure of economy.
41 Presuming it will be deemed expedient to ex.
peed annually a convenient sum towards providing
the naval defence which our situation may require,
I cannot but recommend that the first approrpiations
for that purpose, may go to
,the saving what we 41.
ready possess. No cares, no attentions, can pre-
serve vessels from rapid decay, which lie in water,
and exposed to the sun. That decays require
great and constant repairs, and will consume,
cantipued, a great portion of the 'monies destined
to naval purposes. To avoid this %Vtt! of our re-

sources, it is proposed to add to. our navy.yard
here. a. duck, within which our present vessels may
he laid up dry,
,linct under cover. from 'the sun.
!Antler these;circunistances, experience proves that
work of. wood Will remain scarcely at all affefled
by rime. The great abundance running water
valet this situation pollt.ekSefii, at heights fir above
level of the tide, if employed .as is poetised
navigation, furnishes the means for raising
laylng.up oup7vesscls, on a dry and ~shilrered
qed. Arm shboid lb; meactite be found useful here,
,depoSitorics fur laying up, as Well as-for
building and repairing. vessel, may hereafter be
undertakeu at other navy yards offering the same
incans. The !dans and estimates of the work, pre.
pared by a person & shill and:experience, will be
presented to, )/..04,. without delay; and from these
it will be.A,eett that iearcely more than has,bcen the

cost of one ves.,cl iv necessary to save the whole,
and that annual Itil 1p be employed towards its
completion miy be adapted to tl,e views of the Le.
g Nature a 3 to naval cxpenditu,re.
" To cultivate Peace and maintain•Cammeree and
Naviwit inn in all their lawful enterprises; to foster
ow Fisheries as nurseries of Navigation, andlor the
nurture of man, and rote& the Manufactures adapted
to our circumstances ; to preserve the Faith of the
Nation by an exact discharge of itsdebts and contraCts,
expend the Public Money with the same care and cco.
notny we would prJaise with our own, and impose on
our citizens no unnecessary burthens; to keep in all

:-thisiM within the 'pale of cur eoMtitutional powers,
and cherish the federal union, as the only rock of safe--
ty; these, fellow citizens, are the landmarks. by which
we are to guide Ourselves in all our 'proceedings. By
continuing to make these our-rule cif astion, we shall
endear to our countrymen the true principles of
their constitution, and •proinote an .union of senti-
ment and• of attion, equally auspicious to their hap-
pineso and safety. On my part yon may count on
a cordial concurrence in every measure for the pub.
lie good ; and on all the . information I possess
which may enable • you to_ discharge to advantage
the high furiEtions with which you are invested by
your country. (Signed) .

" THOMAS JEFFERSON."

On Wednesday morning last a Gentleman Of fa.
wily, and fortune put an end to his existence in a fit
of insanity,- at the Portland Coffee.house, Portland.
street. Thi way in which he effedtd his death
was the most shocking it is possible-to describe. He
had retired to bed early the preceding evening, de:,
siring he might not be disturbed in, the morning, as
he was fatigued, having just come off a journey;
and might probably sleep after his usual hour. The
'anornieg came, when a Gentleman who had slept,in
the adjoining room to the deceased, asked the
Waiter,
,while he was taking his breakfast, what
kind of being his master had lodged on the same
flour with him, as he had been kept awake the
greater part of the night by his keeping up an
incessant murmuring and talking ; at times
gearing to be in earnest conversation with some
friend, and ar others railing 'against the miseries
of life. The waiter replied, that the Gentlethan was
frequently 'at that house; that he resided at some
distance from London, and whenever he came to
town'on business, slept there. He added, that he
had never heard any complaint of his'being restless
before, and, that on the present occasion it might be
owing to the fatigue of travelling. Nothing more
was said till near r 2 o'clock in the day, Wlien the
waiter was ordered to knock at Mr. C.'s door, and
inform him the time. of the day. The waiter went
up, and finding the chamber unlockCd, opened the
door, when he di.seovered the unfortudate Gentleman'
in bed with his throat cut, still bleeding from the
wound., -He ran down and alarmed the family, who
instantly dispatched a servant 'to Mr. jotiNsoN, the.
Surgeon, in Queen.Ann.street; aCquainting him
with the melancholy fad. When Mr. j. entered
.the Chamber he found the .unfortunate man still
alive, and apparently, sensible, thought incapable of
utterance. He immediately sewed up the wound
in the throat ; but, while he was doing it, disco.
. vered a wound bi the arm, which had separated the
sinews &cirri the bone. Still he imagined there was.
a hope of preserving life, till the deceased himself,
in,. a convulsive effort, threw the bed.eloaths from'
off him,. and a Most shocking.spenaele pieserited
itself. Besides the former
.woUnds he had :in.
another .across the lower part of his belly,-
from whence mime - bowels were hanging out. TN
Surgeon did every thing his profssloo Suggeked,
but 'without effect, the
runfortunate man ,dying
shortly after. The razor with which he inflidted
the wounds was lying in the bed by his side; he
was completely undressed, and is supposed not to
have committed' this horrid ad' till late, in the
morning. ,We underitand he has not been married
more than a twelvemonth, and has left a wife ready
to lie in with her first child.

Ilow.S+arET. —On 'Thursday evening, about
eight o'clock, as the
,Chiswick Etrand.cart was
passing through Hammersmith, a box, belong.
ing to Mr. Dickens, of Aldersgate.street, was
cut •from behind it ; and the robbery being ilk-
covered by the boy who was driving the cart, he
gave an alarm to several, persons, who went in
pursuit of the robbers, and when they, got into
Black Lyon-lane, they found the box in the posses.
sion of two men, who said they had just found
it ; but the persons who had joined in the pursuit of
the robbers net believing the account, werefflbout to
take them into custody, when the men ran off. They
were,pursued, and the cry of stop thief raised, and
'as they passed through Hammerstnith, one of the,
men who had been in possession of the box, exclaim.
ed to his companion, with a most horrid oath, " he
,would do them both," meaning the two men who
Avert pursuing him, and immediately closed with one
of ,there opposite the four mile stone at the end
of Hammersmith, when a desperate scuffle ensued,
and unfortunatelY the villain proving the strong.
est man, threw his pursuer down, got upon
him, and was endeavouring to murder him in
the most deliberate and barlwous manner, till as.
sistance came up and secured the villain. It
was some time before it could he ascertained who
the wounded man was, on ,account of time bloody
state his face was in. He proved to be a man
of the' name of Pidgeon, a servant to 'a gentle..
man in that neighbourhood. A surgeon was 4n-inc_
diately procured.ro dress his wounds, when on exa.
initiatiore he proved to have a desperate cut from his
forehead to the back part of his head, which was
crossed with :mother desperate cut across his head,
and several cuts on his eyes, nose, and hands ; the
villain not content with this blood-thirsty conduct,
had endeavoured to' cut the inside of his Mouth, in
,ioing which he dually broke a large knife in hi,
month. The loin man's life is despaired of.' The
villain's accomplice was also secured; and yesterday
they were examined at the Public-Office, How.street,
and committed for further examination,

A yotmg mao was charged before the Magip_
traces`, with getting into the service of a•Lady as a
footman, by means of 'a false charaaer : this being
clearly proved, he was convicted in the penalty of
twenty pounds, which he not bring able to pay, wa,
committed to the House of Cutredion for hix.
weeks.

DIED.

YeSterday morning, at henhouse in Great Russell-street,
PiloOmsbury, in the 74th yelir of her age, M Mary Ann
eittit, :sister of thelate Dr. Petit.

.Sattirday last, in. Hollestreet, Cavendish square,
!qrs. agtd 76, mother of Colonel Byde,
f 111 Satorday last, at Rooms, in Trinity Colfrge, Cam-
bridge, in the i9th year of his age, I::(lmutin Parry, Esti, only
Son of Edward_ Lsq. one .of the Direeio4. of the
East India Company, of a scarlet fever.