The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1806-03-28

/, Mr.. Dana fGsgehed the expediency of letting
i lie for day, as.an important principle was
involved in, its adoption. =.
Mr.. Clark replied, that though ne felt the
ftronge6 difPofition to he obliging, he could
not agree TO the pofponement. The feilion
was prefting towards clofe, and there was no
time to be loft. The enquiry ought to be
made, that the officer implicated might, If in
nocent be acquitted and If guilty, be difmiG:
cd from Office.
Mr.. faction hoped the refolution would not
be permitted Ia lie unaSted on. II was certain.
ly duty due by gentlemen on this floor, as
well TO their conftitnsnts, rs TO the gentleman
incuipated, to call for an inveftigation. This
duty my colleague has now undertaken and !
rejoice at it-for when this fame officer was &C.
cuisd at former FELTON, and afl<ed for an en-
quiry into his condud, we were told ne ihould
not DC indnlged in that high honor. ItruR his
conduct will now be enquired into that Il
guilty, he will be removed from Office, or If in
nocent, he may be honnrably acquitted.
Mr.. Lyon was likewife in favor Of an imme-
diate agreement to the reiolution, and remark
ed thatit was exactly the thing folicited the
the lat FELTON, by the Poa-mafter general.
Mr.. Smile faid it was proper that an enqui.
ry Mould be made whenever there were any
allegations of criminality; without fuch acga.
tons he was not ready to vote for this enquiry
Should they be made he ihould be ready to vote
for il.
Mr.. CLARK faid he had ftated, what he though,
would have been difinefly heard throughout
the Houfc, that he had been we'll informed, &
which he believed could be eftablifhed by un-
exceptionable teitimony, thar the Poit-malter.
general had confpred agtiRft the representatives
ofthe people by attempting to feduce prefs
IN favor of a claim he had before the Hohfc.
Mr.. Smile obferved that he had not before
heard this allegation fated-Having heard it,
he was ready to vote in favor Of the enquiry.
| MIR. Sloan laid the refolution ought to unite
all descriptions of meynbers in its favor-thoCr
friendly to its objed, thofe inimical to il, and
1t there were my, thofe neuter to it efpecial.
ly after the retuef made by the Poft-malter-gc-
neral at the lat FELTON, to the fame effect.
The refolutbn was then agreed to wthou,
i'viion, ane a committee ofenquiry appoint.
81. conhiting Of Meflis. Clark, Roger NeIfon
BIdweli, ]. Chy, Pitkiu, ID. r. Williams, and
Clinton.
The bill auhori6ng the erection of n BRIDGE
aeroj tie POTOMAC was read the third time
on the pafiagt of which the yeas and nays were
taken' and wre-Yeas 6I-Nays So. So tina,
TINS long cortefted meaiurc has at length oh
tanned, 10 taras to receive the appreciation OF
the Houfe of2eprefentatives.
Inc reioluion agreed to yefcrday relative
to Mr.. NiGeL the DaniIh conful, was broueh
in enrolled, ard agreed to.
About o'clock Mr.. d. K. HilTa,u, fai,
ne had moti,n to make, which required tn,
galleries to becleared. They were according
ly cleared.
We have head much of the event, OF the Trpo,;,a
war, yet little that was fa,isfa Glory Of the re-,
cauies that Produced its cataftrophe. Was il pofIi
bic to replre the Ex-Bafhaw upon his throne
wasit Pofie to recover our prifoners w,hou,
raniom; and it theIe .Ds,e pofIible, to whom, ough
we TO attribute the failure of the expedition ,
thsie are qieitions that we have often alked bu
afked in van. Little, that we know of, has efcape
from the iudividua. concerned in that exnedt;op
The executive has laid certain documents b.for
| Congrefs. but thefe related not 70 much Z
the feeret events which moulded the fate Of th
expedition. as to the claims of Han,et Caran,ai
upon the jafiiee or gsnerofity of our government
The following Report, therefore, III the Senate q
the United states isa curious and inelimable dc
enment. 1t the sven.s which it developes, be re
ally taken from the truth, we need go no farther
enquire about the feerst hifory of the war. w
perceive at once wha, was the plan prepared b
our government, what was the fuccefs likely to al
tend II, and who was the unfortp a agen, IN.
rnarred thefa Profpeas. We hail De convince
that the eataitrophe of the war was not IF fuch
nature as to fupport the fcenes of valour tina, Or,
eeded il; that the treaty was by NO means 70 f.
vourable as the means and the agents employe
would have entitled US to expect; but tina, Il
burthsn Of reProaeh is to fall, not upon the az
u,iniitration, not upon Gen Eaton, no, upon o,
ally, but upon Mr.. Lear alone.1 E.E.
REPORT
4 OF the committee, to whom was referred the Me
fage Of the Prefdent of the United States, on Il
application of Hame. CaramaIli, referred to M
Bradley, MIR. Wright, Mr.. Baldwin, MIR. Sm
Of Maryland, and Mr.. Tracy.
IN SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES.
1 Mbacn II, l8oG.
MIR. BRADLEY, from the committee to whom was
ferred the application Of Hamet Caramalli, {.
Bafhaw Of TriPoG, fubnitted the following
REPORT
THE .K Bafhaw POUNDS his claim on the iuifice
the United States, from his fervices and fuf.ripgs
their caufe, and from his having been deceived al
amufed with the Profpea Of being placed on B.
throne. as legitimate ievereign of Trpoli, and fir
quently drawn from eligible htuations for the pu
pole Of being made the dupe and inflrument of p
Icy, and Gnay faericed to misfortune and wretche,
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