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long. 70,~9t, all well. April 17, at S, A..
M. 53 w a vessel with signal of distress, the
JvinCy-, of Boston, J fen Hall, master, froris
Btfjrfolk, bound to Ti;b.T>;o, cargo rice, corn
a .ti dour, all damaged ; having lost her fore-
mast below the cross trews, boats, &c. oVc.
arid much in distress—supplied her with a
Sjj.ir ; then in lat. 3,4, 50, Ion;.';. 71, .TO, out
SO days, and bore away for Norfolk. Same
day, at 4, P.M. spoke sefa.r, \:in Garner,
.A. Nt-vcily, of New-York, from Hiran;i,
bound to i3o.sr.on, out 10 days, having lost
liis m a in mast, though no other material
damage, wind, S. S. W.
Nassau (n. p.) March 30.
The ship Flora, Adams, from New-Or-
lear.s, bound to Glasgow, lately got ashore
on Florida Reef, where she was fallen in
with, by some wreckers from this port, who
ligllteii*d the vessel and got her off, with
some damage ; part of her cargo consisting
of, cotton, has arrived here and the ship is
hourly expected.
The schooner Volunteer, Turner, in 1!
days from Norfolk, arrived here on the
i28lh, inst.
Arrived on the 96th inst, from Guadalonpe,
the schooner Mary-Ann, Luce, with
the passengers that were on board the Snow
Thames, Burton from London to this port,
captured on the 31st of January, in lat. 22,
SO, long 3(5, W. Le Da GLueine, (late his
majesty's brig Netley.)
The brig St. Tammany, Ems ; the brig
Portlajvd, Sawyer ; and schr. Eliza, Win-
ter, of .Newport, sailed iVoui Lone, island on
ti:.' lSfth inst. for Rum Key, to take in salt.
NftW ORLEANS, March 23.
0Ml\' ANS LEGISL.VW Hie.
House. Of ft. piesentat'-ivs, Mj«rh 18, 1807.
House in committee«f the whole on a
MHMORi.VL' to congress, lvUtive to the
cortfiwtnf'GENER VL WILKINSON; Dr.
C-x i.-y in the chair.
[After some conversation, relative to re-
dbmrnitting the memorial, the house took up
The Question -'shall this, memorial he. for-
\yarded to congress ?" On which cotuitvene-
ed an animated debate, which continued two
days, w'.-.eu it was rejected.]
BEU vTE.
Mr. Hughes.—The-, motion proposed by
the gent 1 adia, is certainly one
that Shall have my most hearty disapproba-
tion. 1 am astonished sir, that the gentle-
man from/ic.vlia, or indeed any other in
this house, could have the boldness to rise
and support a motion, for the recommitment
of the memorial now under the consideration
of this house ; when I reflect sir, that the
same rneotorjal has been huxteied about from
Gil» committee to another, one of which
committees the gentleman himself was a
member for at least forty days ; that com-
mittee was discharged, and ano'iter appoint-
ed in its stead, and now upwards of twenty
days have elapsed, the memorial is brought
forward for consideration, and the gentle-
man ha,1! the good conscience to propose trie
postponement of irs consideration. I am in
hopes the proposition will have no effect,
a,i d in dr.io.ii it justly meirits.—
And now 1 am iip, if I am in order, I will
make some general remarks on the extraor-
dinary occurrences which produced the me-
myiat. They will be such 1 believe as no
Jx-fson in this house Will find easy to refute.
Instead of hearing the memorial submitt-
7 your committee, termed a libel, 1 ex-
pected to have heard it applauded for the
temperance and mildness of its language ;
instead of hearing it asserted that it contain
'.:¦¦{ charges unfounded and malicious, 1 was
myself prepared to accuse the committee of
having; overlooked many important causes of
complaint, and I was even tempted to offer
proofs of some, to be added by way of amend-
ment to the report. I confess, Mr. Chair-
roan, that f look around me with astonish-
ment—that 1 doubt the evidence of my sen-
ses, when I hear conduct, snch as that of
which we complain, palliated or excused ;
and I would rather bear the idea that a tem-
pi rary insanity had assailed me, than be
forced to the mortifying certainty, that these
palliations, these excuses, the mean, hum-
bling, half justifications, of arbitrary pow-
er, have been asserted by Americans, in a
free deliberative assembly ;—Frve Assembly !
pardon me, Mr. Chairman, the unguarded
t .-'j'resskm ; ',' is the bitterest irony in our
sanation. Are you safe, sir, in yourchair ?
Are either of. us in our seats free from the
f ar of actual violation ? The sword of pow-
er is waved over our heads—the bayonets of
military despotism are at yourdoor, and the
adoption of that memorial may he the sig-
nal for your immediate seizure, banishment
or death ! And pray sir, to what quarter will
you look for protection ? To the executive
of the territory ? He has been under the ne
o-ssity of delegating certain powers to our
dictator !—To your constituents ? Your
tame submission to these outrages—your
wretched time-serving delay -the want of
character and energy we have for two long
months displayed,—has destroyed all conn,
derrce in us, or sympathy for our sufferings.
But there is no Hanger ; the storm has blown
over; the clouds are dispersed, and we are
new to enjoy the full sunshine of liberty and
peace,
i will now, sir, proceed to inquire what
security have we that the momentary calm
•will last ? It is true that for two or three
¦weeks past, we have not seen any of our
constituents dragged from their families and
friends ; that the guard which insulted even
ribers of this house, and violated its pri-
uilegx-s, is withdrawn; that a citizen may
now fide a few miles out of the city with-
out having his pockets searched, and the
secrets of his friends and family exposed to
the insulting scrutiny of a subaltern ; that
defenceless women and children are no lon-
ger made prisoners of state ; and that the
business of the court is no longer confined
to the nugatory writs of habeas cor/ius, or
the reception of insulting returns.
But sir, these seem attended with a thou- l
sand aggravating circumstances, which have
but just passed before our eyes ; and what
security have you, 1 repeat, that they will
not be renewed ? The same force that was
employed ; the same tyranny that directed
it, are yet in your city. An eye is kept
ever all your proceedings ; every word ut-
ti red her;, is, I most religiously believe, car-
nal to your oppressor ; and upon his will
alaue depends our future fate. We know
this ; '-ve feel it, and yet we do not blush to
to say we are Free ! No sir, we are not free ;
and our constituents will, I hope, ascribe to
r, and nothing but tear, the evejnt which
I anticipate with mortification and horror,
¦when rity of the members of this
l)'ouse shall reject that memorial; and whtu
that -fame majority shall adopt m Its stear!,
an ar'dressexcusing, palliating, or even justi-
fying the conduct that has wantonly des-
troyed your constitution, and impudently
violated your laws ; when we shall crawl
in the dust beneath the feet of our oppressor,
and shew the weakness, but surpass the for-
bearance of the poor reptile that turns when
trodden on.
Sir, will it, -can it be said, that real or ap-
parent danger rendered this conduct necessa-
ry 1 If I am answered in the affirmative, 1
say the assertion is a lihel on our constituents
—I will never sanction it by my voice.
What sir ! was the political body so con-
taminated here, that justice could not be ad-
ministered ? Where were the traitors ? Have
they fl"d from justice ? Hive they made
their escape from this city ? Why are they
not now dragged to justice ? Why are then-
names concealed from an indignant public \
Because neither treason nor traitors existed
in the country thus calumniated ! because
the idea originated in the mind of a man,
who wanted by the excess of ra newborn
zeal, to cover the suspicions of guilt, and
who hoped to stop the investigation of his
own conduct, by magnifying the danger
from which he wished to have us believe his
services had delivered us !
The letters, the papers and the persons,
nay even the private conversations of the
inhabitants of this territory, have for three
months been under the absolute control of
the public officers. If treason had existed
in this territory, it would ;'. vain have en-
deavored to escape detection—If the peo-
ple were so disaffected, that they were rea-.
dy to snatch the culprit from the hands of
justice—if the judges could not be trusted
to commit, nor juries to pronounce on the
guilt of the delinquents,' surely with such
means, and so inqnisitorially examined,
some evidence of the fact would have been
produced ; some document, some declara-
tion ; some bottle conversation ; some con-
fidential communication would have been
drawn forth from the secrecy in which
friendship and honor had buried tliem, to
beir testimony of guilt, so as 2t least to
justify suspicion.
I therefore repeat, and so long as my fee-
ble voice crm be heard, I will continue to
proclaim, that our constituents have been
vilely calumniated, as well as cruelly oppress-
ed ; that insult has been added to injury';
and that their imaginary disaffection has
been slanderously ailedged as an excuse for
their real opp-es?ion. Away then iir, with
the degrading excuse derived from domestic
treason or disaffection. It is one that will
surely find no favor with the executive of
the United States, who has borne honorable
testimony to the readiness with which the
force of the territory was, in a moment of
danger, offered to support the Union ; nor
will it be believed here, when we have seen
our most respectable citizens performing the
drudgery of garrison duty, and condescend-
ing, even on the mere allegation of the ge-
neral, to undertake the tasitof executing or-
ders odious in themselves and which lam
sure must have been doubly disagreeable to
tlumi. both as free citizens, and men of-res-
pectability in society.
If there was no dangerfrom domestic insur-
rection, did any pressing peril from without,
Uneaten uswith such immediate destruction,
that no time was given to deliberate, or con-
sul the tconstitutional organs of accusa-
tion ? From wlier.ee did it arise ? We have
been told but of one quarter from -whence
it was expected ! yet it is extremely
difficult to reconcile the existence of any
such danger, with the measures pursued to
avoid it. If the commander in chief of the
American forces was really in earnest, when
he told us Burr was expected at Natchez on
the 20th December, with 2000 men, would
he have dismantled Fort Adams ? would he
have endeavored to weaken the Mississippi
territory, by demanding 3O0'men from thence,
to be brought to this place ? would he have
thrown his whole force into a defenceless
town, and left the whole upper country o-
pen to invasion ? and would he, I ask it se-
riously, and of his advocates in this house to
give a satisfactory answer—would he have
concealed his knowledge of the dangerfrom
the governor of the country which was to
be the tirst invaded ,? of that in which the
force was to have been collected ? Would he
not instantly have requested gov. Meade to
put himself on his defence? would he not
instead of endeavoring to weaken that terri-
tory, by a requisition of militia have march-
ed there with his regular force, and thus
checked the first effort of rebellion? or would
he not have nipped it in its bud, by sending
a copy of his cypher letter to the gov. of
Kentucky, before any force could possibly
have been embodied, or while the juries of
the upper states and territories were grop-
ing in the dm k, and for want of proof pro-
nouncing the mighty culprit innocent ?
Would he not have furnished that evidence
which he had in his possession, and which
would have exposed the schemes of the trai-
tor and himself to detestation and ruin.
If the object of mr. Burr was to plunder
this place of its wealth, and to seize on its
shipping, would he, 1 ask, have laid an em-
bargo to keep both within his reach ? If he
had not had some other scheme than mere
defence against this hortliern rebeliion,would
he have expended the treasure of the public
in erecting fortifications in the centre of
your city, useless against a foreign foe—ef-
ficient only to overawe your citizens, and to
ruin their property in the suburbs ? Would,
in fine, the naval force have been stationed
along the river in small detachments ? or
would they not have been collected so as to
act \vilh some advantage against the descend-
ing force ? It is notorious, that at the mo-
ment when he announced the greatest dan-
ger, of the four gun-boats in the river, .01113'
two were stationed as high up as Point-Cou-
pee, and the two others at long intervals on
the river, so that they might successively
have been taken, if half the supposed force
had descended with the hostile army ; and is
it possible to suppose, that if the object had
been to interrupt the invasion of Mexico,that
no part of the naval force should have been
stationed above Red River, and that Nachito.
ches would have been left almost without a
garrison ? It is plain therefore, from these
acts, from these omissions, from these ar-
rangements, that no serious danger was ap-
prehended ; but thatfor purposes best known
to the General himself, & to his coadju-
tors, it was deemed necessary to keep up
the alarm ; to divide and weaken the coun-
try ; to curb the town ; to keep all its
wealth in his power ; to scatter the naval,
and render the military fore? useless ; to
magnify the force of the '-iieiuv, and to
( terrify fhc awcufive, iWlegislafure and the
' judiciary into a dereliction of their rights.
The first ! leave you to judge whether or
not he has not succeeded ; the last remain
yet at their posts, and this day is to deter-
mine whether we are to partake tha disgrace
of the one, or share in the credit due to
the others. For let us not deceive our-
selves as to the effect which our approbation
of these measures, or even our silence will
produce—A sacred trust has been commit-
ted to our keeping ; a personal honor ; na-
tional dignity and the solemn sanction of an
oath, concur in pointing out our duty.
Should we betray this trust ; should we dis-
regard what we owe to ourselves, our coun-
try, and our God ; should we be bold enough
to bear the reproaches of that internal moni-
tor, which Ho sophistry can refute, no pre-
tender! necessity silence, no power overawe ;
should we have the hardihood to do this, I
ask, can the boldest of us meet his consti-
tuents with composure, before they appear
at their tribunal ? The effects of this vain
terror, if it ever posseesed their minds, Will
be dissipated- When we render an account
of this winter's transactions, will they, I
say, be satisfied with our list of divorces ?
with our militia arrangements ? or even
with our grand reforms in the judicia
ry, if they should be effected ? No,
sir, they will inquire of us respecting
events which more nearly concern them ;
they will inquire of their violated^ rights;
they will ask about their constitution, com-
mitted to our care ; and in a stern accent,
in which the voice of the people must appear
to us the 'voice of Cud, they will demand
whether we did not, in his awful presence,
swear that we would preserve that constitu-
tion inviolable forever? They will then
point to the open, avowed, undisguised in-
fractions it has received in our presence ;
before our eyes ; in our own persons ; in the
very sanctuary of cur legislature ; and ask
us what measure we took to preserve the
constitution ? what steps to avenge the in-
juries it received ? What answers shall we,
can we give to those inquiries ? shall we re-
ply, " It is true we have sworn to preserve
your constitution and rights ; it is true we
have seen them openly violated and despis-
ed ; we saw the commerce of your country
endangered ; its citizens dragged disgracefully
through the streets, first to a military dun-
geon, then to banishment and ruin ; it is
equally true we saw the peaceful traveller
stopped oft the high way; searched like a
f Ion, and forced by violence to ask protec-
tion in passports, unknown and unauthoris-
ed by our laws ; that private papers have
been seized, private letters examined ; that
women and children have-suffered imprison-
ment, exposed to cold ;.;id banger : that our
own privileges have been infringed ; that
our own dignity has been destroyed ; that,
our country 1 as been standi red; that your
known loyalty has b<:ei> questioned; and
that your representatives have been insulted
by a solemn proposition to violate their
oaths, and join in the unrighteous work of
destruction ! I" All this we must proceed
to say ; behold with tame submission, all
this ; some of it countenanced and admit-
ted ; and-when solemnly called by theindig
nant voice of our country/ to express in our
legislative capacity, the feelings Which-ought
to glow in the breasts of freemen, we excus-
ed these illegal acts ; we palliated these enor-
mities ; we threw the mantle of legislation
upon the nakedness, the folly, the vice of
executive acts. Though we could not lessen
the horror so considerably felt, we merely
undertook to decide the odium : we have
humbled ourselves in the presence of a petty
officer, and terriiied by the bayonets of a
single regiment, we kissed the rod and jus-
tified the common saying by our mean sub-
mission and flattery, that " you Aet not'
FIT TO BE FREE !"
Shall we be obliged to make this humiliat-
ing confession ? No, sir! It is yet in our
power to retrieve the credit we .have lost ; to
assume the character, that befits us ; to ad-
dress the legislature of our coirntry, in the
language of manly freedom ; to shew to the
executive how much he has been deceived
and betrayed, by the civil and military chiefs
—and to give him an opportunity of dismis-
sing the weakness which degrades, and the
tyranny which ruins his service in this terri-
tory. And yet) sir, it is principally for our
own credit, that we ought to seize this
occasion of shewing that we are not the un-
worthy representatives of a patient and pa-
triotic people. For, whatever ideas we may
have of our duty, the representatives of the
¦United States will know theirs ; though we
may be silent, tliey will speak ; they are
fearless, though we may tremble ; and
should we flatter, they will never .cringe.;
and next to the consolation of having done
my own Iduty, I find one in the certainty
that there'are at least one hundred and thir-
teen independent men in our councils, who
have remembered their oaths and will punish
the betrayers of their country.
[To be continued."]
FE1)E RA L GAZETTE.
THURSDAY, APRIL 23.
Oy Only Philadelphia papers by the eas-
tern mail to-day.
" Tablet" No. 4, to-morrow.
NORFOLK, April 16.
Arrived, schr. Welcome Return, Hurst,
24 days from Kingston, (Jam.) Left brig
Ceres, Dickson, of this port. Spoke 30th
ultimo, in lat. 23, 48, long. 82, the ship
South Carolina, Sandford, 6 days from N.
Orleans for Marseilles. 12th inst. in lat. 36,
22, long. 75, spoke brig Clarissa, Lee, 17
days from St. Thomas's for New-York.
Cleared, barque Petersburg Davis, Ma-
deira , sch'r Beaver, Jordan, St. Croix.
ALEXANDRIA, April 2£3.
The counties of Prince William, Lou-
doun and Fairfax form one congressional
district. The candidates were Joseph Lewis,
junr. (federal) who has represented the dis-
trict for the last four years, and John Little
John, esq. (democratic.) The following is
the result :
In Prince William Mr. Littkjohn
had 1 majority of 70
ianfax, do. do. 33
106
In Loundoun Mr. L( -vis had a ma-
jority of 231
Majorjty in the district for Mr. Lewis 12 j
PORT OF BALTIMORE.
Enteked,
Ship Diana, Holbrook, Liverpool
From the Merchants' Cnffee-JJouse Books.
April 23.
Arrived, ship Diana, Holbrook, 48 days
from Liverpool—salt, crates and goods —
Win. Wilson and Sons. Sailed the 12th
March, in company with the Ploughboy,
Collard, for Baltimore. Left there ships
John Adams and Adriana, for Baltimore, in
2 or 3 days ; Philip, Williams, for do. in
a few days. March 23, lat. 45, long. 3S,
spoke brig Leopard, for Bath from Liver-
pool. In sight of Cape-Henry light house,
was boarded by the British frigate Melam-
pus, and detained 3 hours in a fail wind, and
pressed John Murray, with a protection.
Also, ship Globe, Bailey, 40 days from
London—dry goods, &c.—sundry persons.
MarcTi 24, lat. 42, 86, spoke brig Hannah,
of Cohasset, 10 days from Boston, for Am-
sterdam. April-2,1, within G miles of Cape-
Henry, was boarded by an officer from the
British frigate MeJampus, captain Hawk,
who impressed Nicholas Workman, a Ger-
man, with a protection, who has sailed out j
of this port for nine years ; Thomas Ma-
lone, born in New-York, with a protection,
and Charles Turner, born in Philadelphia,
without a protection all kidnapped within I
the territory of the United States. aptain j
B. had So many hands pressed from him,
that he could not have navigated the ship,
had he not have received assistance from his
passengers.
Also, the ship New-Guide, Crcagh, 21
days, from New-O.leans -sugars - William
Taylor. Spoke nothing.
Below, ship Six Sisters, Wirgman, in 30
days from Bristol, and'a number of others.
Notice.
The stockhoders in the Baltimore East In-
dia Company, are requested to At. et at the
Coffee-House, tomomiv evening, Friday the
<2.ith inst. at 7 o'clock.
.• pril 23, 1307.
Sale by Auction.
On SATURDAY NEXT,
Tin 25th instant at 12 o'clock, at Brown's wharf,
Feli'i-Pohit, will be so!d on 9 J and 120 clays
credit, for account of the underwriters,
4 f The Schooner
&SSL. INTERMEDIATE,
Sj i,d\> Burthen about 135 tons, with
*??*-_¦« all her materials. She is well
found, and sails remarkably fast. Her in-
ventory will be shewn at the time of sale.
VAN WYCK & DORSET, Auct'rs.
April 2.">.___________________
Sale by Auction.
In pursuance of an order of the Orphans' Court
villi be sold at the auction room at the head of
Gay-street dock, on MONDAY NEXT, the
'27th instant, at 12 o'clock,
The. CARGO of schooner Brutus, from
Trinidad,
¦Consisting of
50 hlids. -\
.15 tierces '
f6 barrels
4. boxes
3 hbds.
2 barrels
And at one o'clock precisely, on terms thtrtivill
then he made known,
¦ rf^," > Tlie hlltll,hl built Schooner
fcHKSSRK.'- BkUTUS,
*£Jxd& V'th all her tackle and appa
-^tsSfiS^Stwe rel as she arrived from sea,
and now iies in Smith's dock, burthen 98 tons ;
she is in good.order, and ranks amongst the
fleetest vessels out of the p-/i-t.
. K. LEMMON &. CO. Auct's.'
april 23,
Pi-ime Muscovado STJGAR
£-Pr
? First quality ¦
,3 GREEN COFFEE.
The
Sale by Auction.
On ¦FRIDAY,
a cargo
he 1st of Mnv, at half p'rUt 9 o'clock; at Mr.
Humphrey Pie: re's iwirehduse, North Charles-
street, tvill commence the sale (on a liberal
credit J of
The entire Stock of DRY GOODS, that
were oarefully selected by Mr. A. M'Cul-
loh. Tlie particulars of which will appear-
in handbills previous to the sale.
THOMAS CHASE, Auct'r.
april 23.___________________________________
l'cr Sale or Charter,
.1 F^ , The Schooner
REWASTICO,
500 bbls. burthen, now In
complete order for receiving
Appl) to
G. HASKINS.
april .3. ________________ dot!
Wanted to Hire,
A negro MAN to serve as waiter in a small
family, who can produce good recommen-
dations. Apply at this Office.
april 93._____________________________-d4t||
Rhode-Island Scythes,
Just received and for sale by
IZAK PROCTER.
38 dozen Passmore's Grass Scythes, of the
very first qualiyt.
april 23. eo
To Let,
And immediate possession given,
The Store and Cellar, No. 4, North How-
ard-street, in complete order. For terms ap-
ply to ANTHONY KIMMEL St SON.
april 23. __________________ d
Luke Tiernan and Co.
Have received by the late arrivals from London
und Liverpool, a general assortment of
Spring GOODS.
LUttWlSB,
Rnse, DujTell and Point Blankets, Coatings,
Plain, &c.
20 quarter chests H3 son Tea, and
A few cases Manchester Goods, or. very
low terms.
apf-il 23. eo3ot$
For Sale,
Best Liquid Ivory Blacking
AND
BOOT-TOP VARNISH,
At the Blacking Cellar No, 5, South-street.
Win re Gentlemen's Boots and. Sboej, may
be elegantly Blacked, on the most reasonable
terms. Also Ladies Shoes highly polished by
H. HOWARD & CO.
N B. Travellers can be supplied with any
thing in their ijne at the shortest-notice,
-april 23- lawStlj
Campeacliy Logwood,
Bow landing from on board of the ship
Commerce at Waters' wharf. For terms ap.
ply to JOHN CARREKEV
rpril ?3___________________________< „4t
Charles Giiequiere
BEGS leave to inform his Friends particu-
larly, and the Public iu general, that In; has
opened
A Broker's Office,
In Water-street, opposite the office of th»
Baltimore Insurance Company, and havin*
given tbs most respectable security"-for his
faithful conduct, he flatters himself with a.
hop: of receiving .a portion of public patron*
arre.
lie buys and sells ail kinds of Stock, To.
b;:c-.o, and other Merchandize, Bills of Ex.
chuno-e, Alnmiities, t |