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Debates in Congress.
HOUSE 0F REPRESENTATIVES.
' FtaDsy, November g.
J2 EBATE on the bill making further ap-
propriation for the support of the vavy, du-
ring the year 1807.
(Continued.)
Mr. Hom tori said, he rose merely to state
'to the committee a matter of fact ; and
¦when he had stated that fact, he thought he
¦would be justified intbeinference he sho.uld
draw fionv it. Considerable preparations
Had been made in the part of the country
¦which he had the honour to represent,- in
consequence of the outrage which had been
committed. He knew it to be a fact, that
citizens from that district had furnished ar-
ticles^for the service of the United States,
and rendered important services, and that
they.were now anxiously waiting for the
¦passage of this law, that they might receive
tlir monies winch would become due to them
¦under its sanction. This being the fact in
t'S district, he had no d ubt the same f c. purchased or paid a cent fur salt.
p:tre ;'but as the U. States *¦. ere indebted
to citizens in his district, the probability wa-,,
that they were indebted in. other parts of the
•union.
Mr. G. ~W. Campbell said, he would
make but a f:w additional remarks on this
Subject ; the committee ol v>ays and means
Tiad conceived they had done their duty by
taking the . nly means iri their power to ac-
quire information. He was surprised that
there could be a division of sentiment a-
mongthe members of the house with regard
to the manner of making this appropriation.
He declared that he still held the same prin-
cip'ea he had always maintained &o far as
respected specific appropriations ; but a case
rnirjit I'»f pen in which they might be dis-
pensed with assesses of exigency required ex-
traordinary remedies. After making some
remarks oa what had been said respecting
heretical doctrines, and deviations from re-
publican principles, he assured the gentle-
man on his right, (Mr. Randolph) that he
was the last whose political principles he
would follow. The gentleman from Con-
necticut had said, the h use were called up-
on to make appropriations, but had not
been specifically informed uhat expendi-
tures they were to cover. The objects of
the appropriations had been detailed to the
house by the leiterfroro the secretary of the
navy, and by members on the floor. It did
not appear to be the desire of the gentleman
to km.w tor what particulars the expendi-
tures had been made, but whether they "ere
actually paid f r or not ; this, he must say.
appeared to him perfectly immaterial and
that if the occasion was sufficient to justify
the expences incurred, the appropriation was
proper and ought to bp made. He thought
the taking money from an appropriation to
one object, and applying it to another,
might be admitted in such an emergency,
¦which mi^ht also warrant the executive in
8 icumng expences noi authorised bylaw.
Mr. Randolph observed, that he under-
stood the gnrlem m trim Tennessee to say,
that he should not apply to him tor instruc-
tion for political principles. He weuld as-
Sure the gentleman he e asoneof the last per-
sons he should wish to instinct; and when
he wanted pupils be should not s licit him
to be one Mr, R. said, he had been in-
volved in this debate prematurely. He had
heard the order of the day stated from the
chair, and 110person called it up. He 'hen
walked out of theh u-e in search ot ;> bo> k ;
from the extraordinary echo of this laree
ro. m, there being gre >t difficulty in hearing
and being heard, when he letnrned he had
net distinctly understood the question.
He wished to be understood as giving his
vole upon the same ground with his friend
and colleague who had just sat down. The
cxpence having been incurred by the patri-
otism of our citizens, it would be an indeli-
ble disgrace not to discharge it. But in
doing- this, he did not mean to commit him-
self as voting for a navy, or the expences
arising out of a navy, except in a case such
as the present, where a debt had been ac-
tually incurred-
The gentleman from Pennsylvania had
agreed with him perfectly in professions ;
lie had tlx refore nothing more to do than
to ask him, as he had heretofore done, to
act with him. This gentleman, as indeed,
every other gentleman had taken a wide
range on ihn .question. In the first place,
the expences wee not author.zed by law ;
an enquiry had bet n made why these were
incurred without authority, and a reason
assipned that there was a great crisis, and
insult had been received hich every man
' must feel—in short, the circumstances ¦ ere
such th.it the legislature ought to have been
convened. The gentleman from Pennsylva-
ad t.r^ed as a reason for their not be-
ing c> nvened, that our health might be en-
dar^r.red by coming here so early in the sea-
son. He wished his old friend from Penn-
sylvan.a, he hoped he might be permitted
to c-11 him so, would convey them to a
place where they taigl.t be convened with-
out danger. Another reason was, that they
wou'd have been convened at a time when
they would have felt a deep and particular
sense of national indignity. Mr. R. said
he thought they ought to have been sum-
K»>"i:sd then, and not to have suffered this
impression to be wcr.kcr.ed. Tliere -was a
time when that gentleman and some other
gentlemen, in discussing a subject which
they cal'ed British aggressions, were as
warm as lie was disposed to be temperate ;
now that gentleman was as temperate as he
was warm. Which had the better reason ?
He deemed it So be I ha na-
tion to preserve peace with all mankii
hold the balance of humanity with a
hand. He had before deemed it the inte-
rest of the CtsUnWy t > be at peace -ith
Great-Britain for reasons which he had be-
fore urged on that floor, and which he
would not state again, but r.aw, tempora
mutantiir. The nation had received a blow.
The president had been insulted in his pa-
lace by the minister, ofone foreign power
and now had received a blow on his cheek
from the navy ofariol
[To hi- Continued!]
S 'LEVI, November 17.
Arrived, ship Corurrwrce, Williams, S3
days Fi i and 42 fro in Gibraltar.
Lpft at Gibra! ir brig Paulina, Swasey* of
Boston, from Z.mt, hound to TqnnrVtgen,
detained, having a Danish cvgo ; ship Ar-
g->, Warner, of Newhuryport from Valen-
cia, for Engl and, detained on suspicion of
Oasiish property ; ship Eagle. Shaler, of
New-York, Brora England, . for Palermo,
brought in for salvage, on account of a
Spanish gunboat going ah;n^ side, but not
boardiuir, tried ami cleared, captors appeal-
ed ; brie; R'wer. Liviilgiron, of Philadel-
phia, from Genoa, condemned, hull and
cargo, 22d Slept. ; ship Pilg;i!:n, Wei stir,
of Newhuryport. from Carthageha, for the
Hay of Roses, to e-nnplete a cargo for Bug
land, had been detained one month, but
cleared October 1, paying charges, and not
allowed to return to Roses to get her cae;o,
hut obliged to go direct for Hull, which
placo his freight was for ; brig Olympus,
Smith Boston, sailed with the Commerce
hound up ; brig Matilda, 0:ri!vie, New-
York, bound to Cadiz was turni d oft and
sent to Gibraltar ; brig Decatur, Jewet.t, of
Bath from Baltimore ; ship Abula, Dilling-
ham. New York, at quarantine ; brig Ju-
no, Edwards, Norfolk, from Barcelona, for
England, was to sail the same day ; sclir.
---------, from Marseilles, (late capt. Tit-
comb died at M.) stopped in for water, to
sail same day.
The accounts of the fate of Copenhagen
had reached Leghorn, and the following af-
fecting circumstance wjis related. That
just hefore the capitulation a sortie was made
by the Danes, with a view of retaking Fre-
denckstadt by storm ; that among the
troops that made the sortie was a fine batta
lion of young Cadet Volunteers from the
military academy at Copenhagen, composed
of sons of the first families, who pledged
themselves never to return unsuccessful from
the sortie ; that, (%,\d to relate) the whole
of the battalion was destroyed ; either kill-
ed, wounded or prisoners—not one return-
ing !
It was reported, that immediately after
the peace between Russia and France, the
Russians also suddenly made peace with
Persia ; that the Russian army employed
against the Persians had now formed a junc-
tion with them, and thus combined weix,
marching toward the ancient Mogul Empire,
now possessed by the British, and upon the
\ borders of which they had arrived ; that
with the Persian army the French emperor
had numerous intelligent officers of artille
ry and engineers ; that the grand Bpnapar
tean plan was to form two great independ-
ent kingdoms in India, stipulating with
them a free trade with all rhe nations of the
earth, -very cunningly excepting i.ngl ind.
Whatever may be reality, this shows how
rumor is busied.
four men belonging to Hie privateers were
in jail, in consequence of taking and run-
ning the'ship on shore. aptain T. has pro-
secuted tire dvftiets of the privateers for
amount of ship 2nd cargo, or for clamages*.
The ship Abala, Dillinaham ; and sch'r
Ocean, Barnard, from New York, passed
Up the. Straights the 19th Sept. The ship
Connecticut; Loyett ; and Schr. Clarissa,
Henshaw, from New York, have arrived at
Cadiz.
By tkis arrival information is received,
that the English will capture and send into
Gibraltar, any American vessel boil id from
one enemy's port to another even inbrlast.
.Several vessel; which were destined to Mala-
ga, had concluded to return home. The
Spaniards are capturing all vessels bound to:
or from an English port, under Bonaparte's
blockading decree.
Schr. David, L'Hornmedieu. 4 davs from
Philad Ipliia, iron, gin. cotton, dry goods,
Krc. The schr. Hero, sailed the day before
for New York.
Below last night, one 'hip.
("leaved ships Gold Hunter, FairchiWs,
Bordeaux ; Science Howard, London ;
Crawford, Bonnifous, Amsterdam ;
cord, Rassel, Lisbon ; Sampson, Rogers,
Cherbourg,
The Ship Susan and Amity, from New-
York, have both arrived at Bordeaux.
Extract.of a letter from Leghorn, dated IStk
September, 1807.
" The Vermont, Lyman, is liberated, cap-
tors condemned in all charges and damages,
by the tribunal des Prises at Paris.
'¦ The Catharine, for New York, two
vessels for Philadelphia, and one for New-
London, will sail in a few days. Since the
entrance of the troops into this place, trade
has been rather dull, more from want of
system than from the severity of the military
measures adopted in the search for English
manufactures. Vessels sail . by, whei
send out their vessels, or not, I mentioned
it to such of my republican friends as called
to see me ; and that the information, if so
useful, might not ha confined to one dis-
tinction of men only, I mentioned it also to
Mr. Coleman of the Evening Post, who
came t" me on account of a peicfi I sent
him concerning Chee*ham*s iasulting mes-
sage to Mr. Frank of the Public Advertiser.
How it got into the newspapers I know not.
Mr. Coleman, I suppose, can give, the best
account of that.
Cheetham then published a most abusive
peice in iiis paper, and in his vulvar styie
of lanjjua^e said " Paine has to!J a lie," and
then insinuated as if I had ' • *,ed tiie letter.
It is by his propensity to blackguarding and
lying that he has brought so many prosecuti-
ons on his back. He says he has nine.—
HARTFORD, November 18.
Extract of a letter from captain Cary, of the
sch'r Two Fiiends, of Hartford, to his
friend in this city, dated Block Island,
November 10.
" I left the Vineyard, last Thursday night
at 12 o'clock, with a moderate breeze which
seen increased to a violent gale. The night
was dark and rainy. At four o'clock on
Friday morning, »e made the land, which
was so near, that it was impossible fo» us to
crawl off; and at hall past 4 we went on
shore. The sea broke over us beyond con-
ception ; our decks were cleared at once, &
our only concern was tor our lives. We
staid by the wreck until she was full of wa-
ter and tvtre then hauled on shore by a line.
A considerable part ol my valuable cargo,
with all papers, will be lost. Two other
vessels were driven on shore at the same
time, viz. the sloop Lively, of Salem, and
the schooner John, of Bridgepi rt, from
Boston; the captain of the former. Gale,
and his son, were drowned. From the lat-
ter, one of the cre«- was lost."
NEW-YORK. November 20.
ARRIVED,
Schr. Dolly, Williams, 5 days from Wil-
mington. N. C. corn meal.
Bel w still, the ship Vigilant, from Alge-
siras, Wind N. W.
Cleared, ship Maria, Havana, Barcelona ;
Hare, Bany, Lisbon ; Commerce, Webb,
West Indies.
A* letter from Leghorn, of the »Sth of
September, to the owners of the ship Ver-
mont, says " We have at length received
advice from Paris, thst the prize Court final
ly passed judgement in the Vermont's cause
on the 2d instant, ordering not only the res-
titution of the ship and cargo, but condem-
ning the captors in all QhargCS ''
November St..
Arrived, ship Vigilant, Clay, PO days
from / Igrziras sherry wine. Lett ship
Hibecca, of Norklk, captain at Madrid,
prosecuting his appial ; ship Iris, Conway,
ol Salt m, from boston for Malta, taken by
a Spanish gunboat, cargo condemned (the
ship cleared) by the court of Algt-zirns ; the
captain has appealed to the court at Madrid ;
brig Nancy, Mom, of and from Ports-
mouth, (Virg.) via Cork, for Barcelona, cap-
tured, and waiting trial ; brig Minerva,
Gunion, of Charleston, from Monte-Video
for Barcelona, captured by a gun boat, brig
and cargo cleared, since which captain G.
has discharged her cargo at Algeziras ; brig
Elizabeth, Tredwell. of and from New-
York fpr Trieste, sent in the 25th Septem-
ber, by a Spanish gnn-bcat, and immediate-
ly liberated. Ship General Hamilton, Brown,
had arrived ill 80 days from New-York.
Ship Juno, Toby, of New-Bedford, from
Amsterdam, for Leghorn, was captured by
two Spanish gun-boats on the &tb Septem-
ber, and the same day stranded and totally
lost, (cargo partly saved) oh Green Island or
fort Reeie ; the captain (Lingester) and
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 21.
An association is forming to establish a
cotton manufactory in Bordentown, New-
Jcsey. •
A letter from Halifax contains the follow-
ing :
" You will excuse my bravity, when you
learn, that I am twice a week on duty as a
militia man, and that the past week, I have
besides been one.day at work-uit the fortifi
cations."
Another letter from Halifax observes,
'' Whatever may be the eve'U of the present
misunderstanding between England and
America, it appears very plain that prepa-
rations are making by the British in every
cjuarter for the worst. The organizing of
the militia m these provinces, repairing the
fortifications, &c. Sec. are all in c nse-
quenceof express orders from Great Britain ;
and large reinforcements of troops and ship-
ping are expected hither.
FEDERAL GAZETTE.
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23.
(jj* Several con.mmi'r ations to morrow.
tf? We thank the (unknown) gentleman
at Washington, who has right merrily treat-
ed his subject with the proper attention.
From our Correspondent.
hlciv York, Nov. 2l, (i2 o'clock.)
Various letters by the Eastern mail, state
the arrival of the ship Frances, from Liver-
pool at Boston ; that Mr Mimroe took leave
of the king on the 7th October, and was to
sail either in the Revenge or a merchant ves-
sel, about, the 11th -some say he had sailed.
Everv thing relating to America was pro-
gressing pacifically. Mr, M's powers were
said to be too limited to make a treaty, and
that the British government had sent its
ultimatum to its minister here.
Prussia has shut her ports against the
Eng'ish. This is official.
There is no truth in the English blockad-
ing decree, in imitation of Bonaparte's.
Russia is said to be on the eve of a war
with Great Britain.
Arrived here, ship Hudson, Tombs, Li-
verpool.
It will be remembered that a correspond-
ence, said to have taken place between the
president and Thomas Paine, lately spoken
of in the New York papers, was denied by-
many who believed such a circumstance in-
compatible with Mr. Jefferson's prudenee.
The following letter, from a New-Ycrk pa-
per, will shew that such a correspondence
did take place ; and at a time, as complain-
ed of, when the administration studiously
avoided giving any information to the mer-
cantile community, by which to regulate
their operations,
" To the Citizens of New-York.
In a letter from the president of the IT.
S. of October 9, after his mentioning that
he did not expect the Revenge back under a
month from that date, add-, " /*; the mean
Hie emperor, in which, among other things,
it was -aid, ¦' What ! compared with thee
esar, and Philip's unconquered son ?
I.i.ht drops ..f dew compared ith waters
of the ocean." The emperor was very at-
tentive to the prologue ; but.when the first
act of the opera was over, and the curtain
dropped, he suddenly rose, and, bowing to
the royal pair, went away ; they, however
and the whole court foil wed him."
[London p, >per.~-\
Baltimore college-
November .1, 1807;
It formsone of the most^bonorable traitsiri
the fair historical character of our country,
that whether engaged in peace Or in war,'
it has ever been ready to extend a fosie>ing
hand to seminaries of instruction, and th:
early nurture of tiie human mind.
1 Even during the revolutionary struggle the
genius of Maryland never Inst sight of thi*
important object. It is ever to be remem-
bered to the glorious memory of Washing*
He will now have one more. ¦ If an un- ton, that even amid-.t all the toils and perils
principled bully cannot be reformed he can of the ' tented field ' he extended his gene
punii
hod.
LTIOMAS PAINE.
COMMUNICATION.
Mr. II wes.
Permit me to c rrect a mistake which
has crept into a communication in your pa-
per of Saturday last, < ver th«f signature of
" Sting." However severely the subject of
your o rrespondtut siiouid be stung, you
will, I kno « agree with me that the inno-
cent should not suffer with the guilty. Your
correspondent, for want of more general
knowledge of the character he alludes to
: confounds the Deposer, and the publisher of
" f£e Bible Explained*." The fact is, the
, latter, Mr. Henry S. Keatinge, is generally
reputed & among his acquaintance known, as-
a remrakably s ber, honest, industrious, well
meaning man, and has been for many years,
a citizen c f the United States. , His bro-
ther tiie deposer. has for some years held the
commission f captain 111 the 3d brigads of
Maryland militia, and was at a late election
prevented fr m voting on the plea of his be-
ing an alien.
One who knows them both.
* Permit me to add that this is a work of
merit and patronized by most of the revd.
clergy of thiocity, as well as by a lung list
of serious christaius.
Extract from tlx governor's Communication to
the Legislature,
" At the same tine that I informed you
of the chhgence and activity of tl.e officers
generally in organizing the militia, and
their patriotism in prom ting voluntary asso
cations. 1 am bound in ju.-ixe to my own
-, and the m.tits ot ihe brigade,
commanded by brigadier gen.Stncker, 1 m-
tonn you, thai 011 the lyih day of Octo-
ber last, by tht. invitation ot tht gen. 1 re-
vie .veu his brigade ; consisting of upwaids
of two thousand men, composed of the re-
giments coinfflanaed by colonels Mosiier,
H ^^ _
Artillery, couutijnocd by enpts. David Har-
ris and Thomas Tennaal ; and the Caval-
ry and Hussars commanded by capts. Biays,
UuUi'ng'swortlt, W. B.Barney, & Reese—
that no wnole brigade was in lull uniform,
well a.med, and toe cavalry and Hussars
well mounted. That: they performed the
van. us evolutions ot the rdered at the bottom ia
rich fancy vandjke ; French back, and bo-
som cut very low, and rnamented with the
sama ; Circassian sleeve very short. The
Moorish boot, or high pompesa, of bright
yellow kid, laced with purple. S
correspond, tied in short bows and en.
hind.
PARISIAN COSTUME.
A PARISIAN DANCING FIGURC.
A round frock of Italian crape, over a,
white satin slip, 1 rnamented at the bottom,
with a pink & silver ribband. Long waist Jae-
hc applauded, and then the genius came edup the back with pink or silver cord; a
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