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London, England, 1806-05-20 00:00:00

AMERICA

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, JAN. t 6.
'SCALY 105151155.
A motion wet made, that a Committee be ap-
pointed to carry to the Senate the following Meffage
"Gentlemen ditto Renate.
" We marlin you a Bill whkh has palled this Houk, entitled
'Au Aft making provifion fordefrayirg any extraordinary expences
encoding the Intercourfe between the United tiutes and Foreign
Nations, and in which we reguidt your concurrence. This MI
has been paired by us, to cubic the Prelident of the United Sri.
to commence with more effeft a Negotiation fie the purchafe t.
the Spandh territories lying on the Atlantic Ocean and Gulph of I
Mralco, and Eaftward of the river Mliftflippl. The nature and I
importance of the mature have induced us to aft upon the fub•
jet with chafed doors. You will,of murk, confider this conunu•
cation as confidendal."
This motion was carried in the affirmative.
TUBIDAY, MI. 18.
A Mefage in writing was received from the Pre-
fident of the United States by Mr. Coles, his Secre-
tary, as follows :
" To the Houfe of Reprefentatives of the United States,
• On the t 7,th initant I approved and aped the Aft, entitled
An Aft making Prnvidon for &untying any extraordinary Es •
Fences attending the Intercourfe between the United States and
Foreign Nations,' which originated in the Houk of Reprefenta.
tires, and 116111 in due rearm depoik it among the Rolls in the
Office of the Secretary of State. 711. JIL/f WON.
4. Feb. a, 'Soo."
(On the 3111 of March, the injunflion of Secrecy
wat, on the motion of Dr. Leib, removed, and the
whole of the proceedings are now publithed.)
NEW YORK, APRIL t.
We are informed (lays the Wybiven Fedora.';?),
and we believe the information to be c •rreet, that ,lic
United States Hoop of war Hornet, which failed lately
from New York, carried two millions if dollars in
fpecie (1 zo.ooolbs. or 6o tons, of precious raver) part
of it borrowed by Government, it is faid for the rur-
chafe of the Florida...-. Reader, bear in mind that
this vefel is riot bound for Spain, to whom the Flo-
rida' belong. but to France. Reculleet alto the de-
claration of John Randolph, Efq. made with closed
doors :
That the Secretary of State told him that our differ( nets with
Spain could not be fettled—that France would not permit an ad-
j uftsnaut With Spain—that France wanted money—that the mat
have it—and that we maw give it.'
Arc we indeed then a free people ? or are w- a tri
binary nation ? Do we not truckle to France ? And
is it poffible to believe, after this, that we (hall not
have more to pay whenever it Ocala that nation to
want it ?
We learn by a Gentleman arrived from Wafhing-
ton, (lays a Philadelphia Paper), that in a debate
in the Houfe of Reprefentatives, on Saturday lift,
Mr. J. CLAY obferved, that' he had been induced
to vote for the appropriation of two millions of dol-
lars, in confequence of the intimation given by the
Government of France, that hoflilities mull take
place with the United States—unlefs loch an appro-
priation was made!' Mr. Czav was here interrupted
by the Speaker for prematurely making this clifclolure.
Captain Jom ss who has arrived at Philadelphia
from Canton, on the toth of December lafi, off Pulo
Ore, law a fquadron of (even Mips of war, one of 8o
guns, the other frigates, which be fuppofed to be
French.
The French frigates and the corvette which creep-
ed from the battle of St. Domingo, have been fpoken
with bound to the United States.
A Louifville Paper, of the Bth infant, Pays—' We
hear from Sr. Louis, that party fpirit has viten to
fo high a degree, that the citizens attack each other
with (words and pifols in their own hooks.'
By an arrival at Baltimore from St. Domingo, we
learn, that Miranda was aflually at Jacquemel, re-
cruiting for the Spanifh Main.
Whatever Miranda's defigns may be, the Britifh
are probably not in the fecret, as their c,&zers that
fell in with the expedition impreffed feveral of its men.
A Naffau Paper of the s ith of March Pays—" On
the 2d inilant the fchooner Decouvert fill in with the
American brig Bounty, from Portland for Havanna,
who had been boarded on the sit inflent by three
French frigates, and on the sd fell in with the Ame-
rican fehouner Milieus, who had pallid the fame fri-
gates in lat. 27. 54. long. 76. 46, [leering callward,
under a heavy peels of fail."
•PIII. 12.
lITIACT OP • LITTIA PIMA WASHINGTON, DAVID
•PILIL 5.
• 00 The Honfc of Reprefentatives was this morn-
ing in a Sate of diforder and confufion that is a dif:
grace to the nation. Mr. RANDOLPH moved to hive
the fecret journals amended, by inferting a confiden-
tial Meffage of the Prefident that had been omitted.
Upon which motion he came out in a very fpitited
and animated flyle againft the whole fecret proceed-
ings, againft the Executive, and " his dirty under-
lings in the Houk." He particularly denounced
Maos.oe-, and declared, that his confidence in him
bad ceafed for ever ; that Maoisms told him early in
the feffion, " Fraote wanted money, and would not
let Spain treat with us till we gave it her." He faid
the money was not given for land, but for peace.,
There were a great variety of motions made in order
to get rid of Mr. Rant:metes. Appeals were made'
from the decifions of the Speaker. Seven, eight, and
ten Members were up at once, till they became a
complete Nati .nal Convention, and had to acijoutn
f,om neceffity ; every fpeltator in the Houfe crying
out " Shame I Shame !"
WASHINGTON, APRIL 6.
The accounts from Mr. Mumma are raid to be
higl.ly favourable to the honourable accommodation
of our differences with Great Britain. For fome
time previous to the death of Mr. PITT, no captures
had been made of American and fince the
accellion of the new Minillty, nor Atobtfladur has
been in high repute at St. James's.
Whilft our pr foe& brightens in one part of the
European fiemirphete, frefla clouds are &riling in an-
other. Spain, though but a valid of France, pitches
her tone to die pipe of Bonaparte ; and it is ex-
.peCled her Infolent Government will cake the fame
ground with reipth to the difpute with America,
that tile Spanifh Marquis here has not quitted How
fee the Two Millions of Dollars tribute money, which
Szttertira has carried with film to Frame. in the
Hornet, in folid crin, will go to temil:fr the 'laugh-
finefs of Spain's Maftcr in Paris, difeover.
Li the good dyes of dre•Federall Aebniniarations the
(brag wass." Millions for defence, but not a cent for
oritone :" Now the tune is--gr Millions for tribute,
t;a: net a cent for &frac. In