Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1822-03-06

Naval Affairs, reported, III part, pursu'
| ant to certain resolutions submitted to
them, respecting the piracies commit
ted in tho Gulph of Mexico and the con
tiguous seas-setting forth the measures
that had been resorted to to suppress
them, and the views of the committee in
relation to further measures that were
necessary for that purpose The report
concludes with the following resolution
Resolved, That it is expedient forth
with to fit out, and put in service, the
Corvsttes Cyane and John Adams, and
the sloops of war Peacock and Erie, for
the protection ofcommerce, and the sup
preston of piracy, in the West India
| seas and the Gulph of Mexico; and, also,
to employ the frigate Constellation,
should the President of the United
States deem the employment ola frigate
necessary for the purposes aforesaid.
The report and resolution, on motion
Of Mr. McLane, was laid on the table,
and ordered to be printed.
Mr.. WAlworth, from the Committee
on Military Affairs, reported unfavora-
bly, upon the petition of James Greer;
which report was concurred in.
The resolution submitted yesterday
by Mr.. J. Speed Smith, on tho subject
of committing the pay, sc of the Cadets
at West Point, was taken up; when
Mr.. Cannon offered, as an addition or
modification thereof, the following:
Sand also the number of cadets in his
opinion necessary to be educated for the
army"
The modification was accepted by the
mover.
Considerable debate took place on this
resolution, when J. S. Smith moved that
it lie Oh the table
The resolution was laid on the table
accordingly.
MIR Randolph, agrssably to notice
heretofore given, introduced joint re
solution tor the double purpose of raj
sing committee to select and arrange
such business as might be deemed indis
pensably necessary to be acted on at this
session-and also to fix an early day for
auJouinulcht.
After some debate on the merits Of
the resolution, tho question was taken
on the motion to lay the subject OH the
table, and decided IN the negative, by a
small majority.
A motion was then made that the
house do now proceed to the Orders of
the day, (Which question supers6des all
al! new business land it was dstermin
ed in the affirmative. So the house pass
ed on to the Orders of the Day.
A bill entitled an act supplemental
to an act, entitled, "an act to authorize
the appointment of Commissioners to
lay out the road therein mentioned, (the
Cumberland Road was read first and
second time, and referred 10 the Com
mittse on Roads and Canals. !
A bill from the Senate, entitled ''an
act to provide for the due execution of
the laws of the United States within the
state of Missouri. and for the establish.
ment of District Court therein, was re-
ferrsd to the committee on the judicia
~.
The next subject in the Orders of the
day. was theIreport of the Committee on
Military A fairs on the petitions Of the
Spanish officers confined in Pensacola,
which report recommended that the
Military Committee be discharged from
the further consideration thereof. The
motion depending when this subject was
last under consideration, was to lay 1t
on the tabls-which would be in effect
to pat aside the subject. And
The question was taken Oh laying the
same on the table; and decided in the at
hrmatlve, without division.
The next business in order was the
consideration of the report OF the com
mittee of the whole on the bill making
certain appropriations for the support
of the Military Establishment.
The question which was under con-
sidsration, when this subject was last
up, Ton Friday week. was On agreeing
to the appropriation for the Military A
cademy.
To this appropriation. to the amount
proposed, objection was made by Mr..
Cooke; whose objact was to appropriate
enough for the Immediate support of the
Institution only, wishing to have full
view of the expenses &c. of this lnstltu-
ton. that the people might see how much
the United States paid for the support
of the sons OF tho richest men in the coun
try.
On this subject, there took place con-
siderable debate; and on motion to re