' ■*"' ■ ■" ' ' "V t ■■ Congress of the United States- Howje of Reprejenidtivcs March 10. Mr. Giles's Speech Concluded, All this machinery leflens the number of the productive* and increases the num ber of unproductive hands of the nation in Great Britain. The operation "has been extended so far, that the poor rates alone, probably afforded a greater tax per capita than the whole taxes paid fn the United States. He was altonifhed with these fatal examples before our eyes, that there should be any gentlemen, who would wish to enter into this falhionable system of politics. He said the United States had already progressed full far enough in to this system. For-executively of the ordinary expence of the civil lift a debt had been funded upon principles of duration. An army had been raised at an immense expense, and now there was a proportion for a na vy. He obfjrved that for several years pjft the appropriations for the support of the military establishment, had exceeded a million of dollars per annum, from o.ne million to one million and a half annually. He believed that if the expenca had been foremen, there would have been more ac tive efforts to have avoided it. It was a policy at this day very generally condemn ed : yet we are now to exhibit a counter pait of this policy upon the ocean, with this aggravation: that it will commence with greater certain expence, and with a more uncertain obje£t. The system of governing by debts he conceived the most l-effned iyitem of tyranny. It seems to have been a contrivance devised by politi cians, to succeed the old system of feudal tenures, both systems were tyrannical, but • the objects of their tyranny were different. The system of feuds operated upon the perfQti ot the individual—the system of debts operates upon the pockets of the individual. In the feudal lyftem th* tenant often received some indulgence and lenity from the martial generosity which generally characterized the Lord. The Lord was gratified with the acknowledg ment of the tehant, that he was a slave, and the rendition of a pepper corn, as an evidence of it ; the product of theten ant'slabor,wasleftforhis awn support. The fyftemof debtsaffords no such indtilgencies; its true policy is to devise objudts of ex pence, and to draw the great,Jl pofftllefum frorp the people in the leqfi mode.— It boalts not of ceconomifmg in calls upon the people for contributions.—lt boasts not of ceconomifmg in the objects of ex penditure.—lt consults the obedience and not the happiness of the people. There is no device which facilitates the system of expence and debts so much as a navy ; and he declared from that conlideration, he should value his liberty at a lower price than he now did, if the policy of a per manent naval establishment, should obtain in the United States. He saw another strong objection to the establishment of a navy. He deemed it a hoftageto its full value, for our good be haviour, to the great naval powers, until it should be able to contend with* them for the ocean. It will encreafe rather than lefTen our dependance upon them. With refpeft to the other confidertitions, their utility in affording an additional se curity for the collection of the revenue, he should make but one observation ; When revenue is laid, the expence of the ma chinery employed irt the collection, is the primary consideration. These vessels may therefore be considered as aquatic Jberiffs ; but of the most expertfive order, they will be an additional cost of at least 20 per cen tum upon the whole revenue colk&ed ; the expence incurred therefore will exceed the security afforded, and of course ought not to be incurred. Upon the whole if these considerations were not fufficient to induce the house to negative the bill, he conceived the impres sions produced upon his own mind by them, would furnifh a juftffication for his opposi tion. He said if thebillfhouldpafs,he should however find a consolation in a consciousness of his own fallibility, and a rdpeft for the opinions of the majority who advocated it; but imprefTedas he was with the fubjedt, he felt it a duty, as far as he could,, to give a veto to the measure. "A CARD. Mr. S. finding the ritizeh entkely mis- taken in some of the ideas lie has taken up in perufiug the last note- Mr. S. had ttic honor to addref3 him, he is induced o'ude more to eildeavtV ta set him right, on the puiutin yiiich he thinks him at \a rience with the flatetrent; the Adtive was not carrying -p.ovifions to France when taken into Falmouth—{hewas loaden from Philadelphia with sugar and coffee, war ranted as was be'Syre ltated, to he Ameri can property —ihe has now however been 6 or 8 months lying in England, her char ges and lots of time considerable, and her final fate totally uncertain—depending perhaps on the doubtful conftrudion of what the meaning may be of adjudication in a British admiralty court—The Mercu ry was as unwarrantably seized and carried into Jamaica, and it was lucky for Mr. S. she escaped before the adjudicatory decree had found its way thither—or perhaps the valuable returns the citizen speaks of had never been made—hut as it is, there was a long detention sustained, and many expences incurred for which the brig was acquitted, no compensation was made.— With refpedt to the John, her cafe was peculiarly hard—she was cleared out with a cargo of American wheat from Falmouth to St. Maloes, befoie any war or ail of parliament or proclamation of ,the British king had rendered the doing so yet she was flopped on putting into Guern sey for a pilot—the 'cargo was taken on account of the British government at the price the French were to pay for it, but the cargo deliverable at the Island of Jer sey ; on going thither a British sloop of war appointed'to convoy the brig, sent a boat on board of her and tot>k the com mand from tire Captain and crew, and pro ceeding on the voyage, stupidly rtin the brig on the rocks, wherfe she was io com pleatly wrecked, that it colt near 9001. flerling to repair her, and near 8 months detention, for all which.the British court refufed to make any compensation—with what justice the citizen will judge. I After all, it is but a sorry way of rec | koning, to set off the wrongs we sustain from one nation, in defiance of all law and reason, by throwing into the scale tempo rary inconveniences fuffered in the course of an arduous revolution from another— yet the French depredations have been few in number, and not that Mr. S. knows of, sustained without suitable reparation being made when demanded: whether this can be said with juflice of Britain, a few months will enable all of us fully to decide —Mr. S. has certainly not so far done with them, but to have fmcerely the wish, that they may speedily discover—how vain are their projedts of starving or conquering the French ; and consequently how much more beneficial it would be even for them selves, politically considered, tq fuffer our commerce to proceed on without inter ruption, since its riches at'laft, however circuitoufly, center in the recompence of their own artizans and induftrioiis rtianu facturers. For the Gazette of the United States. Mr. Fenno, Difeuffions on public men and meafuret while conducted with decency and pursued with candor, merit attention, as the pub lic have a right to be vigilant arid inform ed as to the condudfc of their servants—but how far Mr. Fenno your cofrefpondent Honeftus comes under this description, the public will judge, since he has ventured in disguised allusions to arraign the character of one, who, though he is pleased to stile him an orator lately sprung up among us —he hath probably better, or at least as well founded claims of public ufefulnefs as moil of his age—ln 1776, from the early period of the life of the Orator, it was certainly not in his power to take an ac tive part in the field with his American brethren, but his taking the oath of alle giance to the government in 1777, was cer tainly fufficiently indicative of his disposi tion to prove serviceable when he could to the cause of American independence and freedom : In 1781, he was appointed re ceiver of taxes for Pennsylvania, and trea surer to the departmentof finance,in which Actions of great importance at that day, he was happy to have a power of lending an aiding hand ia the trsnfadtions which led to the peace of 1783. —Ever since em ployed in adtive and extensive scenes of commerce, beneficial at once to the coun try and himfelf, he has never concerned himfelf with politics, further than to as sist and support men and measures, he thought calculated for public ufefulnefs on the plan of 1776, & in this independent , I carccr," neither the renom of private malic nor the rage of public factions flia interrupt him—no, nor even the polit iiifißiiations of good Mr. Honellus. Z. Foreign Intelligence. RECEIVED BY THE BRITISH JANUARY PACKET. COPENHAGEN, December 34. THE ministers of the powers adhiallv al war with the French Convention, having ften a Note appear, printed and addrefled tc those engaged in commerce in the north, signed Ph. Grouvelle, who therein calls hintfelf Minister Plenipotentiary of the French Republic, were not less furprizjd at it than was the public in general. Whatever may be the pol cy »f the Danilh government, of which the form is so abso lute, in permitting the French milJionaries to propagate here, under pretewt of negocia tions of commerce, their fyltem, whole end is to separate the people from their govern ment, they thought it their dufy not to fee with indifference a step so bold and remark able. In confcqucnce thereof, they presented, in a body, a Note, to be informed wh ther the said Grouvelle had really been acknow ledged as ft:rh by his Danilh Majesty : which note the minister, Count de Bernftorft', an swered by a formal difavowa!.—The public will wife to fee the official notes which pas sed on the occasion. STATE PAPERS. Note of thi Foreign Minijiers to M. Rernjlorff. " The ministers of the powers at present at war with France, at the Court of His Da nilh majesty, having been made acquainted with a paper, printed and addrefied to the Danilh merchants, signed by Grouvelle, sty ling himfelf minister plenipotentiary of the foi d'tfant French Republic, have the honour to transmit a copy of it to his excellency the Count de Bernftorft', praying him to be pleat ed to inform them, whether the paper is au thentic and authorized, and if, in reality, the said Grouvelle is authorized by his Danilh majesty in that charafler, at this public ast makes them presume, (Signed) "J. Fagtl, D. Hailes, " Goi/xj Breiirtncr, " Kmrdentr'. Mufquin. " Coptn/Mgen, Dec. 13, 1793." Anfiver of the Dani/h Mini/lcr, Count de Bernjlorjf. " Having given an account to the King, my milter, of the note transmitted to me ou the xjth instant, by the ministers of the pow ers at war with Prance,hi'3 majesty has or dered me to anfiver, that lie had seen in l the note, with pain, a proof of that diftruit for which he was certain he had given no occa sion ; that, if it was notorious that the Na tional Convention had appointed Grouvelle minister plenipotentiary in Denmark, it was equally known, that he had neither been re ceived nor acknowledged in Denmark in that quality; and such an acknowledgment, which, by its nature, is a public a<3, could net but be generally known. His .majesty, always faithful to his declarations, cannot and ought not to be fufpe&ed of having any intention of failing in them. I ought to make one re mark—no truth is more evident, nor more universally acknowledged, than this, that no body can be answerable for the actions of an other ; and still more, when it relates to a step unforefeen, unknown, and-with which it \vas impofiible to have any toncirn. (Signed) "Brums torff. " Copenhagen, Dec. 18, 179 J." Reply of the Britifb Mini/far to the answer of Mr. Heniflorjf* " The Note of Count de Bernftorff, in answer to that from the Ministers of the pow ers actually at War with France at ike Court of his Danilh Majesty, in fatisfying the En voy extraordinary of' his Britannic Majesty, individually, as to the objtifl which had oc calicned, about eighty years ago, their Note, , which only contained a simple qucllion on the real or supposed cxiftenee of a fs<£t, im plies, in the terms used in it, db accusation against which he prctefts for himfelf ( « hile those with whom he had the honor to a provide for the erecting and Repair ing of arsenals and magazines and for o thcr piu^ofc3," was read the second time. Ordered, i hat this bill be referred to Mr. Gunn, Mr. King and Mr. Bradley, to conikler and report thereon to the Se nate. On motion, Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a bill to uutKoriic the Preiident of the United States in certain cafe», to alter the place for holding a iefiion of Con gress. The bill was accordingly laid on the table and read the firjt time. Ordered, That this bill pass to the se cond reading. A meflage from the House of Repre sentatives by Mr. Beckley their Clerk : " Mr. Prefidcnt—The House of Re presentatives agree to the amendments of the Senate, to the bill entitled " an ast to provide a naval armament."—And be withdrew. Mr. Vining repotted from the commit tee on enrolled bilk, that they had exami ned the enrolled " Refaction authorizing the Prefidcnt of the United State* to em ploy as dispatch boats, focfi of the reve nue ciittcrs as the public exigencies may require," and that k was duly enrolled. A mcfiage from the House of Repre sentatives by Mr. Ecckky tL*ar Cleik: '■ Mr. Prefulent—Xiie Speaker of tk House ol Reprelvrttaiives baring" figwfHi an enrolled retiution, I am