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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, NOV. &
Mr. DAwsoss rose to snake a motion. He said, I
take this early moment to present to you a Remlo-
tion, which I feel pleasure and pride in believing will
meet the general approbation not only of this House,
but of the nation. The President of the United States

in his Message, which was read yesterday, has, in "
terms eloquent and appropriate, made mention of an
engagement which has taken place between an Ame-
rican frigate and one of his Britannic Majesty's; an
engagement in which American tars have proved to
the world, that when commanded by officers of skill, '
valour, and fidelity, they are capable of contending
with and vanquishing those of any nation on the
earth upon any element, even on that element where
British skill has acquired so much celebrity ; and
that the American flag, when authorized by the
Constituted Authorities of our Country, will com-
mand respect on the high road of nations. Far, very
far be it from me to boast; it ill becomes an indivi.
dual or a nation, and is never the concomitant of

true courage ; but on the present occasion it seems
to me proper that we should express our sentiments,
our feelings, and thereby the feelings of the nation.
I shall, therefore, without farther comment, offer to
fou the following Resolution, observing, that the
acts therein stated have been ascertained at the pro-
per Department, and the proofs are on the table :
" Resolved by the Senate and Thisse4et litspresentadves of
the United States of America, ia Congress assembled, that the
President of the United States be, and is hereby requited, to
present, in the name of Congress, to Captain Isaac Hull, a gold
medal, with suitable emblems andllevices ; and that the sans of
thousaml dollars be, and the same is hereby appropri-
ated to be distributed as prize-money to the officers and crew of
the United States frigate Constitution, of forty-four guns, accor-
ding to the provisions of the Act for the better Government of
the Navy of the United States, in testimony of the high sense I
entertained by Congress of the gallantry, good conduct ant ser-
vices of Captain Hull, the officers, and crew of the said frigate
Constitution, in attacking, vanquishing, and capturing the Bri-
tish frigate the Gnerdere, mounting fifty-four carriage-Po%
thereby exhibiting an example highly honourable to the Ameri-
can character, and instructive to our rising navy."
Some conversation passed on the proper mode of
disposing of this subject, in the course of which
Mr. SEYRICRT suggested the propriety of also giv-
ing some distinction or medals to the crew of the
Constitution, who, he thought, were too generally
overlooked in such cases.

Mr. WRIGHT approved the spirit of the Resolu.'
Lion, but hoped the other officers would receive
swords, and the men suitable rewards.
The Re solution was eventually ordered to lie on
the table, till a Committee be appointed to whom it
should be referred.
NOVEMBER 6.

ESPORTATION OF BREAD-STIIFFL-41T. HARPER
having stated that he had a motion to make, which,
in his opinion, required secrecy, the House was clear.
ed of strangers, and so remained till three o'clock,
when the House adjourned, and it appeared that the
injunction of secrecy on the proceedings had been re-
moved : and that the motion submitted by Mr. Har-
per was as follows :
Resolved, That the Committee of Commerce and Mans.
factures be instructed to inquire into the expediency of prohi-
biting by law the exportation of flour and deter bree‘stuffs.
from the United States and the tentacles thereof, sad that they
report by bill or otherwise."
The question was taken on the passage of the Re-
solution, and negatived by a large majority.
EXTRACT OP A LETTER TO THE EDITORS OF THE BALTI-
MORE AMERICAN (DEMOCRATIC), DATED WASHING-
TON, NOV: 11.
4, The Senate sat with closed doors a part of this
morning, it is presumed on executive nominations.
4, Merchants concerned in the late importation of
British goods, are beginning to petition Congress for
a remission of the penalties and forfeitures incurred
under the Non-importation Act. A memorial from
a number of merchants in New York was presented
this morning, and will be found at length in the daily
report. These applications to the equity of Govern-
ment, though they will probably be pertinacious)y
resisted by a number of members, will, it is believed,
prevail by a great ninjority. The Committee of
Ways and Means is composed of Members who are
intelligent and friendly to the just interests of Cora-
-1 merce ; a favourable report on the petitions may be
expected from it. The Executive has manifested,*
disposition to favour the late importers ;-and the jus-
tice and policy of not condemning an immense amount
of merchandize, a great part of which at least was
innocently imported, are so obvious, that the Go-
vernment will hardly think of retaining more than
the duties on it.
" A mistaken idea prevails among some of the
members from the interior, inculcated by the country
merchants in that quarter, that the importers of the
British goods received by the late arrivals, have, in
selling them, laid such a per centum on their ori-
ginal invoices, as to secure themselves even if their
bonds should be forfeited. Those members 'use this
s as an argument against exempting the importers from
the penalties of the Act of Non-importation. But
the fact cannot be true. A few small articles may
have been sold at double the price they cost the coun-
try merchants, but the valuable articles of British
manufactures, which constitute the chief part of every
cargo, would not, even in the present situation of our
Iforeign trade, bear 100 per cent. on the original in-
' voices; and it is, therefore, fair to conclude, that they
have not been sold at such enormous advance."
ADDITIONAL DOCUMEN I. ACCOMPANYING THE
PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE.
THE SECRETARY OF STATE TO MR. RUSSELL.

(Eat ract.) " Department of State, August 21, 1812.
" My last letter to you was of the '27th of July,
and was forwarded by the British packet, the Althea,
under the special protection of Mr. Baker. The ob-
ject of that letter, and of the next preceding one of
the '26th of June, was, to invest you with power to
suspend by an armistice, on such fair conditions as
it was presumed could not be rejected, the operation
of the war, which had been brought on the United
States by the injustice and violence of the British Go-
vernment. At the moment of the declaration of war,
the President, regretting the necessity which pro.
duced it, looked to its termination and provided for
I it ; and happy will it be for both countries, if the
disposition felt, and the advance thus made on his
part, are entertained and met by the British Govern.
ment in a similar spirit.
6' You will have seen by the note forwarded to you
by Mr. Graham, of Mr. Baker's communication to
him, that Mr. Foster bad authorised him to state,
that th.i.C.Ammaympra of eh. 14.41.1. et