tce on enrolled bills, that tLey had cxami- , -
ned the bill, entitled " an. act for tf.c re- j *
iiet of JLfffcn I.efferts and others, and
that it wasdu'y enrolled , • t
A meifage tVom the HouTe of Repfe- r
fentativ-s by Mr. Beckley their Clerk : t
tl Mr. Prefident —The Speaker of the
House of Representatives haying ligned , <
two enrolled bills, I am directed to briflff I J
thi.ni to the Senate for the fignatiire of (
the Vice-President" —And he withdrew.
The Vice-President signed the enrolled
bill, entitled, " an ast to authorise E
phiaiin I\ i ftibeilv to locate the land war
rant ill ned to him for fbrvices in the late
American army," And the enrolled bill,
entitled, " an ac\ for the relief of Ltffert
Lefferts and others," and they were de
livered to the committee on enrolled bills
to be laid before the Pi;efideiit of the
.United States for his approbation.
, Mr. Vinirig reported from the commit
tee that they had this day laid the last
mentioned enrolled bills before the Presi
dent tlf the United States, and also the
enrolled bill, entitled, " an ast limiting
the time for presenting claims for deftroy
,ed certificates of certain deforiptions."
After the confidtration of the executive
business
The Senate adjourned to 11 o'clock to
morrow morning.
Friday, April. 18.
The petitipn of Ebenezer Parsons and
•others, was presented and read, praying
that certain vefTels mentioned in the peti
tion on account of the peridiable nature of
their cargoes, may be exempted from the
embargo.
Ordered, That this petition lie on the
■table.
Two memorials, from Spencer Man, and
Frantz jieob Foltr, were presented and
severally read, praying allowance of the
, drawback on a quantity of exported cof
fee-and brandy, the petitioners being una
voidably prevented from compliance with
"the legal formalities requisite to entitle
them thereto.
Ordered, That these petitions severally
lie on the table.
(To le continued.)
ExtraA from the Executive Records of the
Senate ps the United States.
United States.of America.
In Senate, April' i6rh 1794-
The following written message was received
from the President of the United States
by Mr. Dandridge his secretary :
United States, 16th April 1794-
Gentleman of the Senate,
The communications which I have made
to you during your present fefiion, from the
dispatches or our Minister in London, con
tain a serious aspect of our affairs with
Great Britain. But as peice ought to be
pursued with unremitted zeal, before the
1 . lift resource, which has so often been the
scourge of nations, and cannot fail to check
the advanced prolperity ot the United States,
is contemplated, I have thought proper to
nominate, and do hereby nominate JOHN
JAY, as nvoy extraordinary of the United
States, to his Britannic majesty.
My confidence in our Minister Plenipoten
tiary in London continues uhdirtiiniflied. But
a million like this f while it corresponds with
the folemnjty of the occasion, will announce
to the world a solicitude for a friendly ad
justment of our complaints, and a reludlance
to hostility. Going immediately from the
United States, such an envoy will carry with
him a full knowledge of the existing temper
' and sensibility of our country ; and will thus
be taught to vindicate our rights with firm
nefs and to cultivate peace with sincerity..
Go. Washington.
■ The message was read,
Ordered, that it lie for consideration.
Thursday, April 17th 1794.
The Senate took into consideration the
nomination of John Jay to be envoy extra
ordinary to the court of London, made in
the meflage of the President of the United
States of the iAth inft. v
And on motl&u to poftpona the nomina
tion for the purpose of taking into consider
ation the following:
" Ordered, that the Secretary of State lay
before Senate, a copy of Mr. Jay's report of
the 17th of- October 1786, oppn a lefter of
Mr. Adams then' minister at the court of
Great Britain, of the 4th of March of the
fame year,"
It palled in the negative.
■ On motion,
" That previous'to going intp the confi
' deration of the nomination of a special en
voy to the court of Great Britain, the Presi
dent of the United States be requested to in
form Senate of the whole bus.ness with which
the proposed envoy is to be charged."
* It palled in the negative.
And .after debate
The Senate adjourned.
Friday, April 78th 1794.
The Senate resumed the consideration of
tis nomination of John Jay, to be envoy
i istraorJinary to the court of London.
On motiun, •
v It was agreed to postpone the consideration
thereof for the purfofe'-of cortfldering the
resolution refpeil:ng ine continuance of the
embargo.
On motion, further to postpone the confi
\ deration of the nomination ot Mr. Jay as
eivoy extraordinary to Jiis liritannic majel
ty, for the purpose ot paflinj on the bill
eftiblilhmg the poll ojfice and post roads.
It palled in the negative.
On motion, to postpone the further consi
deration thereof until Monday next.
It pafled in the negative.
On motion,
Refolded, that the President of the United
States be requested to can!e to be laid before
the Senate the reports of John Jay to Con
gress, while secretary of foreign affairs ; arid
in cafe the books in tfhich the fame are re
cordtd are tranfmitte.d to the Senate, that
the fame be returned bv the secretary of the
Senate, to the office of the secretary of State.
Saturday, April 19.
The Vice-Prcfident laid before the Se
nate a letter from the Secretary for the
Department of State, accompanying the
reports of John Jay while secretary of fo
reign affairs ; in purfua#ice of the resolu
tion of the 18th instant, requesting the
President of the United States to that
purpose, which was read.
The Senate resumed the consideration
of the meflage from the President of the
United States of the 16th inft. containing
the nomination of John Jay, to be envoy
extraordinary of the United States to his
Britannic Majesty.
On motion, to postpone the considera
tion of the nomination for the purpose of
eonfidering the following motion :
" Refolded, That any communications /
to be made to the Court of Great Britain
I may be made through our minilter now
at that court, with equal facility, and tf
feft, and at much less expense, than by
an envoy extraordinary; and that such. an
, appointment is at present inexpediept and
unneceflary.
"That to permit Judges of the Su
. preme Court to hold at the fame time any
other office or employment emanating
from, and holden at the pkafure of the
executive, is sontrary to the spirit of the
coriftitutiori, ancl, as tending to expose
them to the influence of th? executive, is
mischievous and impolitic." ■ ■ i~
It paflfed in the nJY*a» 10—
Nays 17.
:d The yeas and nays being required by
;s one-fifth of the Senators present. '
Tliofe who votedin the affirmative, are,
Meflrs. Brown, Burr, Butler, Edwards, •
Gunn, Hawkins, Martin, Monroe, Ro
binson, and Taylor.
Those who voted in the negative, are,.
Meflrs. Bradford, Bradley, Cabot, Ellf
worth, Fofttr, Frelinghuyfen, Henry,
Jackfoji, Jzard, King, Langdon, Lii>er
more, Morris, Potts, Rutherfurd, Strong,
and Vining.
On motion to agree to the nomination.
It pafled in the affirmative—Yeas 18-.—
Nays 8.
The yeas and nays being required by
ojie-fifth of the Senators present—-
Those who voted iu the affirmative, are,.:
Meflrs. Bradford, Bradley, Cabot,.EUf
worth, Folter, Frelinghuyfen,Gunn, Hen
ry, Jackson, Izard, King, Langdon, Li
vermore,Morris, Potts, Rutherfurd,Strong
and Vining.
Those who voted in the negative, aie,
Messrs. Brown, Burr, Butler, Edwards,
Hawkins, Martin, Monroe, and Taylor.
So it was
Resolved, That the Senate do advise
and consent to the appointment of John
Jay as envoy extraordinary of the.United
States to his Britannic Majelty, -agreeable
to the nomination.
Ordered, That the secretary lay this 1 re
solution before the President of the United
States.
A motion was made as follows :
" Refolded, That upon all executive
business, the minority on any quefijion,
may enter their reasons on the journals."
Ordered, that the motion lie for consi
deration.
Monday, April 21. 1
The Senate resumed the consideration
of the motion made the 19th instant, that
it be
" Rejoined, That upon all executive
bufinels the minority, on any question,
may enter their reasons."
And on the question to agree to this re
solution it passed in the negative.
Extract from the executive records.
Attest, v
Samuel A. Otis, Secretary.
, - f -i -- ■ ■■■ ■ t:
Foreign Intelligence. c
M V F-AklS, Feb. 27.
Irl.Jthe markets of the 25th and 26th, j
there was an entire want of several of the t
indispensable articles of life. Some of 1
the feftions Viade a proclamation by the 1
found of the trumpet, inviting the citi- i
zens to leave the butcher's meat for the
sick, women in child-bed, and wet-nurses.
Under the old regimen, more than half
the kingdom was supported by fill' du
ring Lent, according to the rites of the
ci-devant religion. Now, when an at
tempt is made to introduce a conformity
to this regulation, it is found to be im
-1 poflible, because the peasants, from the
very commencement of the resolution,
[ having been allowed to cut through the
| banks of the ponds and lakes, these have
no longer been kept up, and the fifh, that
abundant source of fupply> is confequent
[ ly deltroyed. This deficiency must be
1 supplied by meat, and this becomes one of
the many causes of the present scarcity.
In an address presented to the Com
munes the Section of Indivisibility has
made the following statement refpefting
the situation of the prisons :
" The prisons are 110 other than so ma
ny pleasurable residences. Choice enter
tainments, the moil exquisite food, deli
cious wines, music, concerts, plays, pro
menades, suspicious aflemjilages, unlawful
conversations—such are the enjoyments
and amusements of the prisoners. 1 hey
have even contrived to convey into the
jails, cattle, game, tame fowls, &c. It
is for them alone, that the nourishing ani
mal sheds his blood, while the Sans Cu
lottes, who, with their own blood have
cemented the basis of our Holy Liberty,
can obtain these articles of support at no
price whatever, or if they do procure
them now and then, it is not until the
trader, as counter revolutionary as our o
pen enemies, has insolently complained of
the maximum. To these good people the
butcher's lhops are (hut. The pork-fel
ler has no longer any meat to dispose of;
the grocers have neither oil nor sugar;
nor do the cows, as heretofore, supply
milk for use, or for the making of buU
ter; the hens have ceased to lay their
eggs ; and, finally, the earth no longer
yields up her fruits and her productions."
The Administration of Police is accu
sed of (haring in, and tolerating these a
buses. t
The Section of Indivisibility followed v
■ up its address by a refolnticn to demand t
• of thi Convention, the transportation <:
out of Paris of those imprisoned on sus
picion ; the sequestration of their effects
till two years after peace; and a prohibi
tion against any one entering the houses . r
in which they are to be confined in the ,
provinces, or corresponding with them. {
After the fequeftra,tion of their goods and
Revenues, the Section proposed that they
ihould have three livres a day for their ]
support, and ihould have but one com- (
man lodging with the indigent persons t
who might be confined in the fame hou
ses.
The Section also proposed, that the
Municipality or Administrators of Sup
ply lhall furnifh the cattle and other ani
mals to the butchers, poulterers, &c. wjio
(hall be allowed to fell no more than half i
a pound of flefh daily to each citizen, who ]
for that effect is to be provided by the
committees with a certificate, as in the
cafe of bread, &c.
Tin's business being ended, a long dif-
I cuffion arose during which it was obser
ved, that for upwards of four months
the Police had not granted permiflion to
any one to visit those who are imprisoned
I on suspicion ; and that for several days,
not one ounce of meat had been carried
to the prisons, unless for the sick.
March 3.
The scarcity of meat, butter, vegeta
) bles, &c. is (till the fame at Paris ; a
calf's caul fells for 20 livres, and a capon,
on the 27th of last month, fold for 47
livres ; a great quantity of rotten poul
try has again been thrown into the river.
1 A letter was received from one of the
1 Administrators of Rochelle, dated the
19th of February, stating that the 11a
e tional forces in La Vendee were difper
'» fed, and that some pieces of artillery had
fallen into the power of the rebels.
s We learn from Dunkirk, that the talk
of a descent on England prevails in every
part of the Weft Coast, where they pant
to atack proud Albion, and revenge the
crimes of Pitt. From L'Otient our ad
vices state, that the most eameft prepara- '
tions aie making For a deferr.t on Erg'knc!.
On. the 27th, the guillotine struck off
sixteen heads. The viftiir.s were men ana
women of the lower ranks.
The ci-devant Cardinal de Biienne,
Archbishop of Sens, one of the Fathers
of the Constitutional Church, diljinguiihed
by his intrigues, & t»y his connection with
the pretended philofophcrs wliofe harangues
have contributed so much to the deftruc
tioii of France, hasjuft anticipated the pun
lfhment of the guillotine f>y dying in his
bed.
Addresses, out of all number, are daily
handed to the convention, praying it not
to lilten to terms of pet.ee, till all the ty
rants of the earth have bit the dust. The
moll remarkable is that from Rochelhr,
which contains the following paflage:
« Let us place Kings in the lb.te we
are in—let us ftippofe them to have been -
favoured by victory ; we aik the Univerft,
would those despots have thought to have^
ever fned blood enough to alfuage their
rage ? NoT- Maries, death jnalfacre fire
coveting all France. Irons! Irons! the
Republic dettroyed!—let us tremble at
those images. No—no truce with the ty
rants of nations. Let 100,000 Sans Cu.
lottes go.over and deal their blows k Ensr.
land. Yes 1 London must become a Car
thage for us—and let tiumphant Liberty
inferibe in her records the united names of
England and France. "
Roufin denounced a new faction in the
Convention,' which, he said, was worse
i than the Briflotine party ; and denounced
Philippeaux asan oppreftbr of the Patriots.
The Cordeliers then took the resolution
to appoint Commiflioners to collect the
different charges against the new faction,
and to read their names in its iittings.
The grand rotal oFprifonets in tile dif
ferent goals of Paris, amounts to ?866.
LEYCEN, March j.
The news from the Empire does not
contain any fact or article worth mention
ing.
Various are the conje&ures on the ar
rival of the Commiflioners from France,
refpefting their errand ; bnt nv>re at the
kind, reception they met yvith at Maycnce
and at Frankfoit, at which latter place
the Prussian general Kalkroith behaves to
two of them in a most diftiijguifhed man,
ner. «*'■ R
It appears the French army on the
Rhine* under general Michaud, is pelted
to ast purely on the detenfive, owing to
the great detachments drawn from hirti,
which have joined Pichfgru, to ast against
the (Combined Armies in a in Flan
ders.
COURT RAY, February 30.
Previous to the French army of the
north taking the field, General Pichegru
wrote the following to the Prince de Co
bourg :
"General,
'• I futpmon you, in the nair.e of the
French Republic, to give up immediately,
Quefnoy, Valenciennes, and Conde, 0-
therwife I shall attack and vanquish yon.
PICHEGRU."
WARSAW, Ft bri ary 15.'
The Ruffian troops of the Ukraine and 1
Podolia are in motion, as also those who
are quartered in Tartary ; they are mak
ing dispositions which seem to announce a
speedy war with the' Turks; and unfortu
nately our advices from Conftantniople
give us room to believe peace will soon be
at an end between those two powers-
LONDON, March 6—14.
Letters from Genoa of the Bth ult. slate
the arrival of a British meffen«r'r in tMt
harbour, with orders from the court of Lon
don to Admiral Lord Hood, to raise the
blockade, which has been done accordingly.
Letters from Paris which have eftaped
the vigilance of the committees, tlate, that
the difficulty of procuring provifion-'in th; t,
metropolis has given rife to much uneafineft.
The people demand a king and bread ; and
the deputies dare no longer (hew themfelvcs
in public, unless in repairing to the Conven
tion, where they daily hear very unpleaafant
complaints. The two commiflioners who
were represented as sick at Angers, were_
taken and killed by the Royalists in the ac
tion of St. Fulgent. These letters farther
Hate, that General Moulin did not, as h's
party have represented, kill himfelf a
ftauneh republican, but was dispatched with
a pistol by La Roche Jaquelin ; and that
the infeflion v.-hich broke out at Nantz, by
the putred exhalation of the dcid bodies of
9900 of the royalists of La Vendue, who had
: been either guillotined or ihijt there, has oc
■ rjafiened in that city an epidemic disorder
which carries otf a greatt number of the in- |
habitants.