Star.
London, England, 1809-02-04 00:00:00

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• NEW-YORK, JANUARY s.
The Senate has' passed a Bill to enforce the Ent•
bargo, and it has been sent to the House of Repre-
sentatives for their approbation. It prohibits all per-
sons from exporting to any foreign State any spec:e,
or goods, either domestic or of foreign growth, under
the penalty of paying treble the value of such articles.
Informers to be paid one-half of such fine. Every
owner of any vessel evading this Act, every super-
cargo or seaman employed, every owner of such
merehandize, every owner of carts or waggons em-
ployed in transporting articles, knowing the same are
to be carried out of the United States, shall be
deemed aiding and abetting. It is declared unlawful
to ship any specie or goods without a permit, and a
bond, for six times the value of the vessel and cargo,
that she shall not proceed to a foreign port. Cargoes
are to be discharged, or bond given for them, as soon
as notice of the Act shall be-received at the different
Custom-houses.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, DEC. 17.
The following Resolution again under considera-
tion :
Resolved, That it is expedient to prohibit, by law,
the admission into the ports of the United States, of
all public', i!'sf private; armed or unarmed ships or ves-
sels belonging to Great Britain, or France, or to any
ether of the Belligerent Powers, having in force Or-
ders or Decrees.vicilating the liwful commerce and
neutral rights of the United States ; and also the im-
portation of any goods, wares, or merchandize, the
growth, produce, or manufacture of the dominions
of any of the said Powers, or imported from any
Owe in the possession of either.
After several divisions on parts of the Resolution,
the question was, at twelve o'clock, taken on the whole
Resolution, and carried, 84 to 30.
The question was then put on the following Reso-
lution..6,—
" Resolved, that measures ought to be immediately
taken for placing the country in a more complete state
of defence. '—Carried unanimously.
DECEMBEA gm-A Bill was reported for prohibit-
ing Commercial Intercourse between the United States,
and Great Britain and France. By the 11th Section
of the Bill, the operation of the Act, and the Embar-
go Act shall cease, provided Great Britain and France
revoke or modify their Orders and Decrees.
•DEC'EMEIER 29.---FOREIGN LICENCES.—The House
resolved itself into a Committee of the whole, Mr.
Puma/ in the Chair, on the Bill for compelling ves-
sels now abroad to return home, and from preventing
any citizen.of the United States from taking from any
Foreign Power a licence to trade.
Various amendments were made to the detail of the
Bill. The second, which is intended to prevent ves-
sels from navigation under a foreign licence, was
amended, on a motion of Mr. Story, so as to make
the act a misdemeanor, to declare the vessel so Offen-
ding to be forfeited, and to impose a penalty on the
offender of a sum not exceeding ten thousand dollars.
The Ist of October was fixed as the day after which
the section should take effect.- -
The Committee then rose and reported the Bill as
amended.

DPICEMEER 900—The resolution for raising 50,000
Volunteers, was adopted in a Committee of the whole,
and debated at length in the Ho,: se.
The Embargo is now discussed upon every ques-
tion that is debased in the House, and indeed is
almost the ooly subject that undergoes discussion.
Neither the Non-Intercourse Bill, nor the new Em-
bargo. Bill is yet called up.
The language of the orators of the m;.jority yester-
day and to-day, even that of Mr. Eppes, is 4 We have
tried the Embargo almost long enouglk—No permae
r.t Embargo—War I wat I war I'
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