Congress vj the United Stjtes.
IN SENATE,
fCQMTINOED.J
And fnbjomed. ii the Hatcmcnt of fa£t*
exhibited bj Mir. Gallatin, and agreed to
b.-t ween h'.m and the couufel for the peti
tioners, as mentioned the 20t.11 instant.
A'bert Gallatin was born at Genevaon
the 39th day of January, 17&1. —He left
tl) t ;,!acc for the United States in April
or May 1780, arrived in Bolton (<Malfa
c'tuifetts) on the 14th-! sth July of the
fame year, and has cvet since resided with
in the United States. In October, 1780,
lie removed from Boston to Machias in
the Province of Maine, in which place and
its neighborhood he rclided one year and
commenced a fcttlement on a trail of va
cs-it land. During that time, he furnifh
ed out of his own funds, supplies (amount
ing iii value to more than sixty pounds
Massachusetts currency to Col. John Al
len (who was the commanding officer Ra
tioned there and also fuperintendaht of
Indian affairs for the eaitern department)
for the ule of the American troops,& on
several ocealionsaCled as a volunteer under
the l:.me officer's command. For the said
supplies, he received one year after, a
warrant on the JTreafury of the state of
Maflachufetts, which he fold at a conii
derab'e depreciation. In October, 1781,
he returned to Boston ; and in the spring
of was, by a vote of the corpora
tion of the nniverfity of Cambridge (other
wise called Harvard College) chosen in-
Urucloroi the French language of the said
university, By the fame vote he was al
lowed a room in the college,' the privilege
of the commons at the tutors' table, the
life of the library, and also the right of
having his pay (which depended on the
\oluntary fubfeription and attendance of
the Audeats) collected by the steward of
the iuftitution together with the other
charges again ft the Undents fur board and
education. Those terms he accepted, and
remained in that station for the term of
one year. In July, 1783, he removed to
FeJinfylvailia, and in November of the
fame year proceeded to Virginia, in which
state he had purrhafed more than 1060
acres of land (and amounting to more than
one hundred pounds Virginia currency in
value) some time between July and No
vember, 1783. Between this last menti
oned period and the month of October,
1785, he purchased other lands in the said
state to a very large amount, and in the
said la I mentioned month he took an oath
of allegiance to the said ftate—ln Decem
ber 1785, he purchased the plantation in
Fayette country in Pennsylvania on which
ke has lived ever fincc. In October, 1789,
he was elected member of the Convention
lo amend the Constitution of Pennsylvania,
and in October, 1790, 1791, and 1792,
he was elected member of the Lcgiflature
pi the fame state. On the 28th February,
J 793, he was chosen Senator to represent
the said state in the Senate of the United
States and took his feat in December sol-
lowing.
The Senate adjourned until 11 o'clock
On Monday morning.
Monday, March 3.
The communications referred to in the
meflage of the President of the United
States of the 26th February, were in part
read.
On motion.
Ordered, That the further reading of
them at this time be postponed.
The following written meflage was re
ceived from the President of the United
States by Mr. Dandridge his Secretary.
United States 3d.March, 1794.
Gentlemen of the Senate, and of
the House of Representatives,
I transmit to you, an extract from a
letter of Mr. Short, relative to our affairs
with Spain ; and copies of iwo letters
from our Minister at their
enclcfures, containing intelligence from
Algiers—The whole of these communica
tions are made in confidence, except the
paflage in Mr. Short's letter, which ref
pefts the Spanilh convoy.
G. Washington.
The meflage and papers therein referred
to, were read.
ordered, That they lie for considera
tion.
A meflage from the President of the
United State* by Mr. Dandridge hit Se
cretary.
" Mr. President—The President of the
United States hath this day approved and
signed the ast entitled, " Art ast in alter
ation of the ast cftabliftiing a mint and re-
gn*i>tiiij the coins of tlie United States."
lOrdered, T.nat the S-'eretary commu
nicate this notification to the lluufe of
Representatives.
The Vice-Prefiiknt laid before the Se
nate a Lttei 1 from the Secretary for the
Department rff T-'c'iiury, tranl'mitting re
ports on the petitions of.Barent I. Staars,
and of £li(ha Sennet, which were lev dal
ly read.
O. dered, That they lie forconfideration.
The petition of Peter Trezevant, of
the State of South-Carolina, was lead,
piaying compeniation Tor certain goods
bought of Robert larqnhar, and stated to
be for the use of the United States, thb'
purchased by order and appropriated to
the moie immediate use of the state of
Georgia.
Ordered, That this petition lie on the
table.
Mr. Cabot reported from the commit
tee to whom was referred the bill, sent
from the House of Representatives for
concurrence, entitled, " an ast for the
remission of the duties ariiing on the ton
nage of sundry French vessels which have
taken refuge in the ports of the United
States," that this bill pass the Senate;
and the bill was read the lecond time.
On motion,
Ordered, That the rule be dispensed
with, and that tl.is bill now have the
third reading.
Refolvcd, That this bill pass.
Ordered, That the Secretary acquaint
the Houte of Representatives with the
concurrence of the Senate in this bill.
The Senate adjourned until 11 o'clock
to morrow morning.
Tuesday, March 4th, 1794.
The Senate resumed the reading of the
communications referred to in the mes
sage of the President of the United States,
of the 26th of February, and afte*>pro
grefs, the further reading thereof was
poltponed.
Mr. Martin from the committee ap
pointed the 22d of February, to consider
the report of the Secretary of the Trea
sury refpe&ivg a light house on Cape
Hatteras, reported " a bill to erect a
light houfeon the head land, and Cape
of Hatteras; and a lighted beacon oil
Occacock Illand in the State of North
Carolina," which was read the firfl time.
Ordered, That this bill pass to the fe
cond reading.
The Senate adjourned to 11 o'clock to
morrow morning.
Wednesday, March Jth, 1794
A meflage from the House of Repre
sentatives by Mr. Beckley, their Clerk :
" Mr. President—the House of Repre
sentatives have pal Ted the resolution sent
from the Senate for concurrence, propo
sing to the several States an amendment
to the constitution of the United States,
refpefting the judicial power."
" They have passed n bill, entitled " an
ast authorizing a'loan of one million of
dollars," in which they delire the concur
rence of the Senate." And he with
drew.
The following written meflage was re
ceived from the Prelident of the United
States, by Mr. Dandridge, his Secreta
ry
United States, sth March, 1794.
Gentlemen of the Senate, and
of the House of Representatives,
" THE Secretary of State, having re
ported to me upon the several complaints
which have been lodged in his office, a
gainll the vexations and spoliations on
our commerce, since the commencement
of the European war : I transmit to you
a copy of his (latement, together with
the documents upon which it is founded.
G. WASHINGTON.
The meflage and papers therein refer
red to, were read.
Ordered, That they lie for considera
tion.
The Senate resumed the reading of the
communications referred to in the meflage
of the President of the Unfted States, of
the z6th of February last.
Ordered, That they lie for confidcra
tion.
The bill sent from the House of Re
presentatives for concurrence, entitled,
" an ast authorizing a loan of one mil
lion of dollars," was read'the firft time.
Ordered,. That this bill pass to the ftf -
cond reading.
The bill to erect a light house on the
head land, and Cape of Hatteras, and a
lighted beacon on Occacock I(land in the
State of North Carolirta, was read the
second time.
Ordered, That Monday next be assign-
fof the further consideration cf this
Wii.
After the consideration of the execu
tive buiiiftfs,.
The Senate adjourned until 11 o'clock
tu moriOw morning.
Tliurfday, March 6th, 17.94.
Mr. Cabot, from the committee to
whom was referred the bill, sent from the
House of Representatives for concur
rence, entitled, an adt "making appropria
tions for thefupportot government, for the
year one thoufaod (even hundred and
ninety four," reported amendments, which
were read and adopted.
Ordered, That this bill pass to the third
reading.
The bill sent from the Honfe of Re
presentatives for concurrence, entitled " an
ast authorizing a loan of one million of
dollars," was read the second time.
On motion,
Ordered, That this bill be referred to
Mr. liutler, Mr. Cabot, and Mr. Haw
kins to corifider and report thereon to the
Senate.
After the consideration of the executive
bufmefs,
The Senate adjourned until 11 o'lock
to morrow morning.
CONGRESS
House of Rcprefmtat'ives.
Monday, March 10.
( Continued. J
Mr. Parker presented the resolutions of
several Towns and Counties, in the State
of Virginia, relative to the measures new
pending before Congress respecting- Com
merce—the general import of which were
in favor of the principles contained in Mr.
Madison's Resolutions—these were read
and laid on the Table.
Thebill providing for fortifying the poits
and harbors of the United States was re
ported, read twice, and committed for to-
morrow.
The bill providing a naval armament
for the protection of the commerce of the
United States, was brought in engrafted
and read.
A motion was made to recommit it to
the committee of the whole house.
This motion was principally supported
on the ground of the feleft committee's
having deviated from the report of the
committee bf the whole—which report
conncfted the ways and means of defray
ing the expence of the armament with
the details of the armament, whereas the
bill contains 110 such c'timate—for the
fake therefore of order and regularity in
conducting the public business it was said,
it is proper to agree to the motion—lt
was further observed, that no injury could
pofiibly result from a ihort delay, equal
to what would be the cur, Sequence of sanc
tioning such a flagrant deviation on the
part of the felefl: committee from the ef
tablilhed rules of the house—That it was
quite a new thing to drive a business of
such magnitude with such impetuosity
thro' the house. '
In opposition to the motion it was iro
nically observed, that as the carrying trade,
and the trade to the mediterranean
were of so triflng importance, it was real
ly Surprizing that the business of providing
a protection for the commerce of this coun
try, exposed at this moment to the depre
dation of the Algerines, (hould be hurried
with so much impetuosity, thro' the house
—three months have already elapsed,
great part of which this fubjeft has been
under consideration—to steer clear there
fore of impetuosity in conducing the bu
siness, three months more ought to be fuf
fered to pass before any thing is done—
With refpeft to the conduct of the fe
left committee it was said that in the iirft
difcuilion of the fubjeft the report was
objected to on account of the ways and
means being connected with it—to remove
this objv&ion the bill was reported in the
form before the house.
The motion being put for rccommft
ting—it pafled in the negative, 48 to 41.
The hcufe then proceeded to fill up the
blanks—ln the course of filling up the
blanks, the opposition to the bill was re
vived on old and new grounds—the fiift
were, on account of its incompetency to
the objeft—confidcring the resources of
the Algerinef—and the flipenor policy of
having recoiirfe to negoci.ition, and pur
chase of a peace—the new ground wns de
rived from rec;nt confidential communica
tions, from which it was inferred that the
.eligibility of tfie mode of pvocuring' a
pcace by purchafc was greatly ftrength
cned—From this view of the 'iiibjeti, a
tranStion was made to the fubjfft of na.
vies generally—in which the bad ponfe
quences qonnefted with their dlabjjfliment
were depicted in animated iotbs—Tbe
blanks were at length all filljxf, and on the
question shall the bill —the yeas and
nays were as follow :
AYES.
Mefirs. Ames, Beatty, Boudinot, S.
Bourne, B. Bourn, Cadwallader, Cobb,
Coffin, Coit, Dearborn, Dent, Dexter,
Fitzlimons, Folter, Gilbert,Giiman, Glen,
Goodhue, Gordon, Griffin, Hancock,
Hillhoufe, Hinaman, Holten, Kitten,
Learned, Lee, Lyman, Malbor.e, P. Muh
lenberg, Murray, Parker, Scot, Sedgwick,
J. Smith, S. Smith, W. Smith, Sprigg,
Swift, Talbot, Thatcher, Tracy, Trum
bull, Van Alen, Van Gaafbeck, P. Wadf
worth, J. Wadfwcith, Ward, Watts,
Winn—50.
NOES,
Mefirs. Bailey, Baldwin, Bionnt,Carnes>
Chriflie, CLiiborne, Coles, Findley, Giles,
Gillefpie, Greenup, Grove, Harrifon,
Heath, Heitter, Kunter, Irwine, Locke,
Macon, Madison, M'Dowe!!, Msrhane,
Montgomery, Moore, Nevil, New, Nicho
las, Niles, Page, Preston, Smiley, 1. Smith,
Treadwell, VanCortlandt, Venable, W.ilk
er, Williams, Wingate, Winfton— 39.
UNITED STATES.
NEW-YORK, March 7,
Copy of a letter from Captain Olrien, to
James Simpfon, Esq. at Gibralter, dat
ed Algiers, the 2 Sth November, gib
captivity.
Dear friend,
Your letter of the I2thinftant, I re
ceived the 25 th. It is a long period since
I heard from you ; but hope you will be
this way Ihortly from Toulon.
The Algerines, in their October expe
dition, captured 10 fail of American
vefTels ; g of them have fafely arrived.
The crews of tfiofe 10 veJTels, amount
ing to 102 men, are at present in Algiers,
experiencing what we have fuffered for
upwards of 8 years.—l have repeatedly,
for the r e five years part, forewarned the
United States of the impending danger ;
for the Portug use have been trying a
long time to effect a peace with Algiers;—
but the Americans in genjral would put
but little confidence in the assertions of a
poor victim captive; but they now find
that they contained the truth.
On the nth instant, Mr. Humphreys,
the ambaflador for Algiers, sent hither a
con. ier to obtain the Dtfv's p,-i million to
come hither in order to make a peace.
The Dey answered, that he would not re
ceive him, either to make peace or redeem
the American (laves—that he had been
soliciting the Americans to come and make
a peace with this regency for three years
palt, and they had treated his proporti
ons with neglect and indifference ; and
that finci he had made a truce with the
Dutch and Portuguese, and captured 10
fail of Americans, and like to take many
more, he could not and would not make
peace with them : That he had made the
truce with Portugal for thepurpofc of cap
turing American vefTels, and could not
therefore be at peace with all the na ions.
The courier returned to Mr. Humphreys
at Alicante with the Dey's reply—but
we have heard nothing more since.
The terms preferred by the Dey for
the reliefof the Portuguese, is as follows:
1,200,000 Mexican dollars for thetreafu
r;r; 600,000 dollars for the Dey's voice
and the great officers of the regency, am.
bafiadorial and consular prefcnts—equal
to what Spain gave ; and the redemption
of 7 J Portuguese captains at 2000 dol
lars each. On the 7th instant, the Portu
guese frigate failed from Algiers for Lis
bon with the Dey's propositions.
The day following, the Dey called
for Captain Logic, and desired he would
immediately write to Portugal, and in
form that he demanded for his family and
friends 600,000 dollars in addition to the
terms above exprefled.
The A!; serine politicians are of opini
on that Portugal will not agree to the
Dry's demands; but, fir, I think they,
w.ll, as they wirti to extend their com
merce, and well know the difficulty of
blocking l: p the Streights, and the vafV
Aims they expend in keeping up the fleet*
the Barbary states.
I enclofc to your care tjhe letters of the
Cr.pt :i:ns, who desire me to <%t>k you for
your kind offer. I a lift, as
c(,rre£l as my situation w3l admit of.
Please to make this public. A camp on
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