Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1817-12-10
FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.
CONGRESS.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,,

WAsHIse4os, Monday, Dec. 8.
A bill from the select committee ap-
pointed to enquire into the expediency OF
a Communication Of money for the Bounty
Lands granted to soldiers, was reported
by Mr.. Johnson, read twice, referred to a
committee Of the whole, and ordered to
be printed.
Mr.. Rhea Of Tennessee, then proposed
the following resolution:
Resolved, That the President of the
United States be requested to lay befo
the House Of Representatives any inior-
nation he may possess and think proper
to communicate, relative to the proceed
ings of certain persons whe took posses.
sion of Amelia Island, at the mouth of
st. Mary's river, near the boundary of
the state Of Georgia, in the summer Of
the present year, aud made an establish
ment there-and also any information he
has and may think proper to communi.
cate relative toan establishment made at
an earlier period by persons of the same
description, in the Gulf of Mexico, at a
place called Galvestown, within the IL
mits OF the United States, as we contend
under the cession of Louisiana-togefher
,cith the REASON why they are ordered TO
be Suppressed.
Nj. Rhea said few words ezplanatc-
ny Of his object in this resolution, which
we could not distinctly hear.
Mr.. Forsyth considered the last pat
of this proposition as very extraordinary
after what The President had stated re-
specting the circum. lance in his Message.
In his opinion, TO pass such q resolution,
in such circumstances, would be to avow
doubt of the President, and want of
confidence in him, which were By 10
means entertained by that House. He
therefore moved to strike cut that part Of
the resolution.
Mr.. .Nslsoa thought it would be better
to limit the terms Of the resolution to the
evidence upon which the President had
proceeded. That evidence, he was per-
suaded, would convince the House tEat
by the suppression Of those establish
ments, the interests of the Patriots was
most essentially promoted. For his own
part, Mr.. Nelson was so convinced of the
wisdom and good conduct Of government,
that he wanted no information to satisfy
him on the subject, but he wished TO shew
the world that our government would on
no account or pretext give countenance
to pirates and buccaneers.
The Speaker interrupted Mr.. Nelson,
and told him he was going aside from the
question.
Mr.. Holmes, Mass. said that he con.
sidered the resolution OF Mr.. Robertson
sufficiently broad to comprehend the
whole information desired by the reso-
luton now proposed. He dared to say
that within two or three days at most the
Presidents report on the FIRST of those
resolutions would be before tie House
He therefore recommended waiting for
it, and 10 that end moved that the res0-
luton should be laid upon the table.
| Mr. Nelson did not think The subject
matters of the two resolutions so neces.
sarily connected, as that an answer to
one would include an answer to the o.
Their. He was DESTROYS that the nation
and the whole world should witness the
conduct and the motives of the President
being assured that they would therein per-
ceive the strongest disposition on the ar
Of the President to promote the iutere,t
of the Patriots, which he could not more
effectvally 40 than by absolyipg them
from tie suspicion and foul stain Of la
wing any connection with those free boo
tiers. Not only in this, but in every cas'
that occurred, had our government mani
tested an earnest desire to fufther tht
glorious cause in which the Province
, we're embarked and in what way was i
possible, under existing circumstances