Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1800-12-23
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Tbe faHsagisg Committee bsOs 5eea ar 7.s.s9
il. roe Hsafe II R-pyyiaiatives of;bs u
A committee, eouiGing Of MsGr,, Thatcher,
yVooA, Claiborne, Dioki0n. and Nes,, 10 enquire !
whether any and what an'enduleua srs n,eel.ary
20 be made in TIE poi-o!i-s lay.
4 comm,ge OF Nlears. Il. Lee, I. Goodrich,
Auget, Powell, FoG,r, 5psigh, aad Bartlett 90
report proper meaiuses for carving into eyeeu,ioa
iS5 reiolu;ions psilsd lac ie!.iou Ia relation 20
George Warrington
A committee -oniilting Of Mel5s r. Lee, E.
vans, Craft, I'D AVID >. Lee TO report by bill 81
uthetvHle OF 10 mush OF chs Prcfdeng's Speech
as ipeSs ,he DatrI6l Of Columbia.
A committee, confiiting of MeiIr' t5r;fsod,
Nicholas. Kitters, Ni,holion, and EenderCon 70
report by bail or otherwifg or 10 much OF the Pre-
lidcnt's Speech as reiPsSs nc national adrlin;..
Grasien Of iultiec.
A committee, csufaing Of Mcfirs. Parker, o.
lis, Spaight, J. Davenport, Mott TaIisisrro, and
Holmes on that part of the fpeceh that relg-6,s
feaionsble and iytematio arrangements, proporti-
oRed to our national rclourceq, Tor Navy adapted
TO deIeniise purPoies.
committee conaling of Nltdls. OILS, Nicho.
las Edmond, Foiisr, ana Aliltor, OH 20 nlueh u
The fpceoh - IefpoGts the tostiics,chs u tee
PRINCIPAL poTt7 and hArbors Of tEe Unised States
"A committee cohGiting of NeGrs VAIN. She.
paid Cooper, Psge, and Woods on 10 much of the
fpeeeh Is Ielpeets the manufacture O. arms within
United States.
a committee, eOniifing of MeHrs. New. Ed"
mend, Stone S. I,ec, aud K. Morris, TO brins ia =
bill for regulating the grants .. land appropriated
for the refugees from the Bsit.ih province oi Ca
na6a aud Nova Scotia
A committee eonGRing OF &Ielrs Huger and
Inlay for The enrolment ofbilis unite with MIR.
-. , oA5r, committee the cart OF tine Senate.
TIE yeolsisg Psi,foAJ 5z0e Sc.a 6rsJsat11 81 ~.
FSyyea the peti;ions OF Wiii.am NieAo,s Ferdi-
nand Mullenhe;m, Benjamin Bird, Emory sudler
Jun. Alexander 2Oxburgh, Griffith Jones, David
Joaes, Philip Buih, Philip ri ION. Abraham Wat
Ion, Darby Millionaire, aud Nj. Muenserger,
IN SENATE, Friday Dec, S.
Refolvrd that 70 mush of the fpeeeh Of the Pre-
fdsnt OF the Unitei States, az relates the exer
ole Of the local powers over the DitT9 o: Column
bil, veGed by the eouit,turon ~ he Congreis Of
the United S,stes, BE referred 10 Mtdrs. Chapman,
Dayton, aad Mora
{ The ta'lo0viag qgfTies, concerning TIE Jews,
are eaira64d from tGs B1nLb Monibiy Gfa-
gazbt
AS the troubles which now agitate and the G.
ssnts y hieh are daily taking pise, IN she eaitern
part Of our hemii phsre ecm peculiarly calculated
TO dirs2 the attention of the Chr.lan Philosopher
towards that long deipGed, neglected, anc unhappy
people, the Jezgs permit me, through the meti
uIu of your widely circulated. and excellent micei-
laGy, to oieit from tome one Of your intelligent
eorTelpoadents, 40 elaciGation OF tb+ following
queries, relative that nation. 1t would confer
an addironal obligation upon me, j. any learned
member of chat body would favor me with srpPiy.
! win 70 be Informed
=. Is the division Of The Jews into twelve tribes,
diGin9ion sli kept up By that natisH il TO-
las e,eh family knowledge Of Inc particular tribe
20 which /. hclcngs--Suj is che Office OF the priei
hood hiil . dillrcl 5ppeGdage 70 that OF Levi
As th. old .eA1men, poGtvely aderte. aud
7 believe the Icgys thcmfslves acknowledge ;i1t
the Chrie was to defend from the nockoi David,
4, there any famjy OF families uow 10 eziaence.
acknowledged ~ their nation, or Conducted by
tbemlcyes, As the lincai defendants Of that mo-
march
q, What is their prevailing opinion relative 60
the fate Of thc art and do they give any credit 20
the Account contained in the hTit fevtn yerie, o.
the ieccnd chapter Of che Maseabee'
In ono Of cur Paris papers we find the following
intCfcillng arttit:
% Pari, g Vmd,mairs--8ib ga.
awhile The fra Conlul va. a. Morfontaine,
az the cnfcytainmen, given by Joeph BuonsPsrte
20 the American Peufo'cnt.lne', C'u7en Cam
bry. Preflt OF thc Depsrimep, Of Oiis, Preienicd
him isveral golden medals, which had been istely
found by country people IN lis department.
They were concealed IN ~ e7r:hcn vetel large
enough 10 contain 6oo,yoc !y.Ci wofth--wese
..-.f.Qf- cell ,frfrrve| and OF vgrious spochs
Tome OF ,hcm dlttd from an early period Of the Ro-
man Empifc. others dpfing the time q toe TePub-
iie.
Tic Prefet obfsryed TO the Coifgi IA, il was
difficult 20 procure theie medal b,csuls The peo.
pie who found them, were fearful len they might
be- taken from them, "a according % the ancient
Avs Of France, az tcaiarcs iouut DO this car be-
longrd by rieh, % the Oovernment--At prcfent,
replied the 81, Ccnlul Buoasparte, government