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and application to the great purpofes of the public
education, roads, rivers, canals, and, fuch other
objet of public improvement, as it might be thought
proper to add to the conftitutianat enumeration of
['Federal Powers. By theft operations, new channels
Of rommunication wilt be.ofoened between the Statei
—the lines of feparation wilt clifappear, their iuteretis
Will be identified, and their union cemented by new
and indiffolubfe ties.. Education is here placed among
the articles ofyoblic care, ism that it would be pro- .
poled to take its ordinary branches out of the hands
of private enterprize which manages fo much bettor
all the concerns to which it ii equal : but by a public
inftitution can alone fupply thole kences, which,.:
though rarely called for; are yet necedaFoer templet
the circle, all the parts of which contribute to the inli•
provement 9f the country, and Come of them to its
prefervation.
64 The fubjeEt is now propofed for the confidera-.
tion of Congrefs, beeaufe if appsoved, by the time
the State Legiflatures (hilt have 'deliberated onttif.
mention of the federal truth, and the laws fhall
paffed, and the arrangements made for their executioik.
the neceffary funds will be in hand, and without enti-.
ployment. I fuppofe an amendment of the Confti-
tution, bi confent of the States, neceffary ;Inca*
the objeds now recommended are nOt among thA
enumerated in the Conflitution, and to which it:per-
mits the public monies to be applied..
44 The prefent confideration of a national eka-
blifhment for education, particularly, is rendered pro-
per by this circumftance alto, that if Coagtefs, ap-
proving the propofition, (ball yet think it more eligi-
ble to found it en a donation of lands, they have it
now in their power to endow it with thofe which will
be among the earliefi to produce the neceffary income.
This foundation would have the advantage of being
independent on war, which may fufpent other im-
provements, by requiring for its own purpofes the
refourees deftined for them.

" This, Fellow Citizens, is the Rate of the public
interefls at the relent moment, and according to the
information now poireffed. But fuch is the fituation
of the nations of Europe, and fuch too the predica-
ment in which we Rand with Tome of them, that we
cannot rely with certainty on the prefent ;dm& of
our affairs, that may change from moment to mo-
ment, during the courfe of your Seffion, or after yon
fhall,have feparated, Our duty is, therefore, to-aft
upon the things as they are, and to make a reafonable
provifion for whatever they may be. Were armies
to be railed whenever a fpeck of war is vifible in our
horizon, we never fhould have been without than.—
Our refources would have been eahaufted on dangers
which bave never happened, inflead of Wog refereed
for what is really to take place. A Ready, perhaps
a quickened pace in preparations for the defence of
our feapert towns and waters, an early fettlement of
the molt expofed and vulnerable parts of the country;
a militia fo organized, that its of edite portions can
be called to any pint in the Union, or Volonieers
inflead of them, to ferve a fufficient time, are means
which tnay alwayi be ready, yet never preying upon
our relources, dntil a/Nally called into ufe. They
will maintain the public incerefts, while a more per-
manent force (hall be in a cuurfe of preparation.—
Butmuch will depend on the promptitude with which
thefemeans can be brought into aCtivity. If war be
forced upon us, in fpite of our long and vain appeals
to the jußice of nations, rapid and vigorous Move-
ments, in its outlet, will go far towards fecuring us
in its courfe and iffue, and towards throwing its bur.
dens en thole who render neceffary the retort from
reafon to force.
" The refult of our negociations, or fuch incidents
in their courfe, as may enable us to infer their :pro..
liable iffue fuch further movements alto on our
Weftern frontier as may Phew whether war is to be
preffed there, while negotiation is protralted
where, (hall be communicated to you from time to
time, as they become known to me ; with whatever
other information I pollefb, or may receive, which
may aid your deliberations on the great national in-
terefts committed to your charge. (Signed)
66 December 2,1806. " TH. JEFTEESOII."
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, DEC. 3,

7

M. J. Randolpit, Chains& of the
rhous ;was referred the Piefident's
lwreported a Rill for !Upending
A&. was twice. read, and
rnittee of the while to-morrow.
•The Report of the Dili for tufpend-
lation Alt, was taken into confi-

Mr. Sloan oppored the filling up the blank, with
the words D:cember 31, iBo7, and propofcd July t,
which was .greed to.
The Bill was then read a third time and paired,
upon a divilion—Ayes rot : Noes 5.
Nsw Yoae, Dec. t T.—Letters from Philadelphia
Rate, that the French frigate le Valeureur, of 44
guns, now at that place, will fhortly be condemned,
the French agents not being able t..) procure the menu
of repairing her.

• COLONEL acme.
WASHINGTON, Dec. I.—We haveveceived from a
gentleman of the &HI refpetlability, foil- arrived from
'Kentucky, the following (Imminent of liar relative to
the judicial proceedings in the cafe of Colonel Burr :
• judge trines having taken time to confider the applieatioo of.
the Attorney of the.Dfttridt, which waits ifrue weeds to enforce •,
the attendance of Mr.. Burr; to answer interroxabities wirethkr he
was engaged in the (chime afcribed to him, tatty ;to enforce 'the at-
tendance of witnefcs to give teftimony Nicht Cone -point; on the
lib or the Bth of November (oUr informant is not eentin.whlch
dap) pronounced the 44m1fien of the Conn, width was,,,titat the
Court did not poffefi the priirter to rant the piotion*,; and If they
did. that the affidavit was not ftifilelent ground for It. r.; •
" On thiwiotion of the Attorney of the Diitria,tboennt then
ordered a Grand Jury to he fummoned ;Outer, which was teem-
; dingly formed during the fitting of the Court. At this point of
time Mr. Burr; attended by his Connie!, appeared in Court. Mr.
Burr addreffed the Court, and fitid,that•baviug underftood, juft as
'be was about to leave the State, that certain charges had been pre-
ferred againft him, he had come from Lexington for the purpofe
of et:quelling an immediate inveftigation might be had.
",Mr. Cravats, the Diftriet Attorney, bid be was not prepared
`to
fir into an immediate inveitigation before the Grand Jury, and
Moved that they &mild be diftniffed until the Wedneiday
log, to givahim an opportunity, in the mean dote, to summon his
witneffes. The Court granted the motion. On Wednefday the'
Court met. Of thirteen witneffes funtmerfrad,tw.elve appeared.---'
The only abfent witnefs was a Member of the Legitlature of the •
Indiana territory, then bid to be fitting. The Grand Jury like-
wife attended.
" In this Rage of the bafinefs, Mr. Daveifs, it is laid, without
aligning any nation, informed the Court that be was not prepared
th carry theca& before the Grand Jnry,and moved their difcharge,
which accordingly took place. No rufous were aifigned for this
molt extraordinary; course of procedure. Our informant adds,
that the Rate of the public mind at Kentucky was tranquil, and
not avolee was heard in favour of reparation."

RETRACT OF A LETTER, DATED WASHINGTON, DEC. 6
4, You have beard that the Prcfident recommended a fufpcnfion
of the Non-Importation Law. It has been the fuhjed of much
eonverfation here. Some of the democrats, and more particularly
Mr. Crowninfhiehl and Mr. Sloan, were againft fulpending it.—
Mr. Crowninfhield was of opinion that it ought not to-be fufpend-
ed at all. Mr. Sloan was of the fame opinion, but was willing
that a power to that vied should he lodged in the Prefident. Mr.
Sloan thought that if it were forpended by Ad of Congrefs, the
term of fofpenfion should not laft beyond the month of February.
" This Mr. Sloan was the Gentleman who pubilihed tome years
ago, In the New Jerky Papers,that he withed to fee a French army
in America; and this Mr. Crowninflfteld is the Member Pram
Salem, who laft hellion advocated fo Itroagly the Refolutiona of
Mr. Gregg, which went to the abrogation of all inttrcourfe with
America. and who Rated that the American privateers could take
~more of Brit& property than the Bad& could take of our's.
" On the morning of the 6th, Mr. Randolph moved the confi
deration of the Pre dent's Meffage as to the Sufpenfion of the Non-
Importation Ad, and alto the reading of the Bill which the Com-
mittee had reported for fofpendirg it. He Paid that he had ander-
ftood the fellet of the Houfe to be, that the law Mould not be fur-
vended fo tont se the gosh apes sett; be had, however. named
that day.

" It now feemed from the documents before them,that the con
dudt of Great Britain towards us, was more friendly than at the
bet Salon, when it *as Bated to be extremely bonne' and when
the Non-Importation Law was, notwithßanding, fufpcnded until
the Ilth of November. He would, therefore, now move, that the
blank mould be Riled with the ;tit of December next.
" Mr. Elliot feconded the motion, and was in favour of an en-
tire repeal. Coogrefs would rife before the 3ctb of June. Their
Scion would conititutionslly clofe on the 3d of' March. The
merchants would not know what to di with their orders--tbe
farmers would be at a lots to difpofe of their produce. Another
nation had Invaded us, and we mould not wantonly quarrel with
Great Whale.

" Mr. Bidwell was infavour of the 3cth of June; fo was Mr.
Sale, who thought that the researdre had had a falutaty effed !
" Mr. Randolph declared, thLt although in the Select Com-
mittee he had propofed the 3oth. of June, he was now clearly con•
oilseed, from the fubfecient repreferaatinta which hod been
trade,' that much commercial embarrAffmein would proceed front
the period taking place during the reeds of Congrefs, without any
power being vetted in the Adminiftration to prolong it.
! On the motion being taken for fining the blank with De-
cember 31: there were for it 46—againft it 94 le was then moved
and feconded, that the Bill fhould be recommitted, in order to give
to the Prelident the right of fisfpending the operation of the law,
this motion was loft, and oo the third reading of the Bill it patted
in the affirmative 7-8 noes. I thaU not pretend to fay at prefent
what will he done in the Senate, but it is generally fuppofed that an
Amendment to the laft mentioned aka will there take plies."

PARMAMENTART PROCEEDINGS.

HOUSE OF LORDS, FRIDAY, JAN. i 6.

in the further hearing of the Appeal Caufe, Page and others v.
Hamilton, the Solicitor General was heard in reply. The furthCr
coofideration was appointed for Thurfday fe'nnight.
The Duke of Richmond, Bifhop of Ely. Earl of Dartmouth, and
Lord Carteret, took the oaths and their feats.

The Deputy Unser of the Black Rod bt?og fent to require the
attendance of the Gentlemen of the Houfe of Commons, and they,
with the Speaker, *baying appeared at the Bar, the Royal Affent
was given, by Commiffion, to the Exchequer Bills till, and to •.
Bill of Naturalization. •

The Commiffioners were, the Lord Chancellor, Lord, 'Aoch-
land, sod Walfingham.
Lord WALSINGHAM prefeoted the Report of the Commit-
tee of Privileges, op the claim to the Barony of Howard de Wei.,
len —Ordered to be printed.
Mr. GRAHAM, the lapeetor General of Conviefs, prefented
the annual report of the (Late of the Hulks on the River Thames
and at Portfmouth.—Ordered to lie on the table. •
Adjourned until Tuefday next.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
A &left-age from the Lords required the atendanee of the Houfe
in the Hourc of Peers, to hear the Royal Agent given to certain
Bills. On the return of the Speaker, he informed the Houfe, that
the Royal Arent bad been given to the Exchequer Bills Bill.
The SPEAKER informed the Houfe, that he bad received from
the Clerk of the Crown in Ireland, a lift. purfusat to the order of
the Houfe, of fueh Barrifters as *ere willing to Comminio-
ben under the Irith kledion Bill.
The order for taking into confide:ration the Petition for New-
eagle under Line, was difcharged, as the parties bad not entered
Imo. the ufual recognizances.
Similar .orders were made on the fame ground, nfpeding the
Petitions for the County of Mayo, and the towns of Mshufbury
and Hythe.
'Lord CASTLEREAGH moved, thaithe abitracils of the Army
Eftimates prefcritcd, on the .tech, by the Secretary at, War, Would
be printed, which was ordered accordingly. •
Mr. T. GRENVILLE prefented an account of the Debt of the
Navy, as it Rood on the tats September, 111060.4ardatti to lie
upon the ftble. . _
Alin. GRENVILLE then gm notice, that los *ad move that
account in the Coinmittee of Supply on Fri* ant ; as a) for
10,.t oo kanten, iq gd.lition to the isoppeaksitrmided
IllsjOnt4 NEWPOR_ *ought Mrs.lllllittrillilithing certain
Oileefin the Cutters* Depardnent in Ireland, which was read .a
ame, 3#4 erdaccl tc Der#44 # recond time Qo T 10427 nose,

, ipoli, an; C't that auratT;gpto, us..* P., . to 4.-14.
ethic plasm ores ?On a •. • - ' to who
allitit 4iteelfary ufe, tha f stank ~„ ...e . yefterday,
Wrilldnobtleri be right !.. 'but dit grOlt • portation
picles o• wh;ch import a paid,vaatjhri eed to the Coma
papshafed by thole only who are Ads . tics mast 6.—Th
Ord themfelves the de of them. Their- itig the Non-importai
uld certainly prefer its continuance, deration. _