Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1820-04-18

7, cIacpA The tariff of duties on. goods import
ed. will, view to moyefor lis lndehnite
oostponement. He proceeded to assign .ne
/ reasons for his motion. This bill, ne saiu'
had for its object essentially to change our
70 . n,,e system. and to change it, in his opl-
MON for the worse. The time, loo, Tor ma.
| king this experiment was, ne sald' OF al
/ times. the most unfortunate, at a momenl
| when il is knownt that the treasury IS or3ineu
| to the very dregs--
Mr.. Speaker here arrested Mr.: Liver
more's speech, by declaring that debate, on
The merits of the bill was not in order on
this notion, according to the rules Of the
house. ~
Mr.. Ba rbour, with view to bring Inc
question into shape susceptible OF debate,
moved to amend Mr.. Livermore's notion SO
as to add to it provision to postpone tne
bill Indefinitely,
This motion, and debate on it. were also
pronounced irregular, for reasons winch inf.
Speaker assigned.
After some observations on the point OF or
dor from Messrs. Barbour, Liyermore and
+ Lowndes.
The question on Mr.. Lyermore's motion
was taken, without debate, on the merits OF
the bill, and decided as follows:
Yeas, 7I.--Nays, Sc.
So the House refused to discharge the
committee CT the whole from The cohsldera-
tion of the said bill. Whereupon,
Mr.. Storrs offered the following resolution,
and moved that be committed 10 a com
mittee of the whole on the state OF the
Union.
RESOLVED, That il is expedient to pro-
vide, by law. for the establishment OF sys-
tenn of internal revenue"
This resolve was referred, as moved, with.
out debate.
The House then resolved itself into COM
mittee of the whole, MIR, Tomlinson in the
chair. on the bill for the relief of persons,
holding certain INDICATED claims to land, IN
the state of illinois; the object of which was
explained by Mr.. Campbell, and the bill
was reported to the House, aid ordered to be
engrossed for third reading
The bill supplementary to the act, provl-
ding for cases Of lost military land warrants
passed through committee of the whole, Mr..
Hill in the chair.
THE bill is TO extend the provisions OF the
law to Canadian volunteer land warrants.)
Whilst inscommittee of the whole, mo-
ton was made byMr. Campbell to amend the
Hill so asto embrace in its provisions the as
sipnees of military land warrants, as well as
the original holders but, this motion was
opposed by Mr.. Mclean, of Kentucky, and
| Mr.. Nelson of Va. on the ground OF its open
| ine door to evasion OF the law for the be-
neft of Canadian volunteers, and was mega
| lived.
The bill next in order was the bill to es-
tabIsh an Uniform System OF Bankruptcy
Mr.. Sergeant moved that the house do now
resolve itself into committee OF the whole
] on that bill. This motion was negatived,
ST to At; and the house being thin, and the
hour late.
The house adjourned.
From the .Neu- York Gazette, Apru IL.
/ Further items, selected from file OF
Hamburger translated by friend.
A water carrier, who recently died in Pa
ris. has left an estate of 800, 900 francs, about
$4,000 dollars.
The house OF a shoemaker at Venice,
having been consumed by fire, Lord Byron,
living in The same neighborhood; ordered
the house 10 be rebuilt at his expense.
DR.. Heinrich Marx, of Buden, who had
been confined al Vienna on suspicion oftrea-
son., has been lib. rated. He writes to a
friend thus have been treated by the
Austrian government With such tenderness
and respect, that shall ever nourish senti-
ments of the greatest gratitude towards
them
/ An article from Rome, of the 4th Janua-
ry. states that the learned Librarian of the
Vatican Mons, Mai, has informed the pope
that he has found, in two manuscripts of the
Vatican the works OF celebrated classics /;
which were supposed to have been lost.
G. &c