VI jnroe, Potts, Rutherford, and Taylor.
' Those who voted in the negative, ajt,
Messrs. 8.-adford, Bra3l£y, C?bt)t, Ellf
worth, Foster, Livermbrej Morris, Ro
birifon,. Strong-and Vlnlngl
Ordered, That the Secretstfj* desire
the concurrence of the House of Repre
sentatives irftSe amendment t6 this relolur
tion.
A me'ffage from the House of Repre
sentatives by Mr. B;ckley their clerk :
<< Mr. President—The House of Re
presentatives agree to the amendment of
the Senate to " The refutation to conti
nue the present embargo on (hips or vessels
in the ports of the United States, bound
to any foreign port or place"—And he
withdrew.
Tiie bill, sent from the House of Re
presentatives for concurrence, entitled,
" an act to establish the poll-office and
poaft-roads within the United States,
was 111 part read the third time.
Ordered, That the further considera
tion of the bill at this time be poltponed.
Mr. Foster reported from the commit
tee on enrolled bills that tliry had exa
mined " The resolution to continue the
present embargo on (hips-qr veflels in the
United States, bound to any foreign port
or place," and that it was duly enrolled.
A mefii'ge From the Ho life of Repre
fentates by Mr. Beckley their clerk.:
" Mr. President—The Speaker of the
House of Representatives having signed
an enrolled I am dire&ed to
bring it to the Senate for the signature of
the ViCe-Prelident"—And he withdrew.
The Vice-President signed " The refo
luticm to continue the present embargojon
ships or veflels in the ports of the United
States bound to any foreign port or place,"
and it was delivered to the committee to
be laid before the President of the United
States for his approbation.
After the consideration of the executive
business,
The Senate adjourned td i 1 o'clock to
morrow morning.
From the General Advertiser.
Mr.BACHE,
A writer in your paper of Thursday,
who communicates to' the public, two re
solutions relative to Mr. Jay's appoint
ment as "Envoy to England, observes, that
he had been informed that a majority of
the Senate appeared to be of opinion, that
it was not compatible with the character
of Judge, to accept the office of an Envoy,
*but that/ the friends of Mr. Jay secured
his appointment,- " by Urging, that his de
licacy and sense of .propriety, would cer
tainly induce him to resign his office of
Chief justice, when he (hould accept the
' " A Correspondent who
pofTelles accurate inforrflation of what pas
sed in the Senate on this occasion, denies
the allegation that the friends of Mr. Jay,
declared it to be their opinion that he
would, or ought to, resign his office .of
; Chief Justice.
A Senator from an Eastern State, is
said to have observed, that Mr. Jay's being
Chef Jufti6e. constituted no objection to
his appointment to another office ; fop in
cafe of incompatibility, the former would
be resigned, adding that probably he
would resign the office of Judge if appoint
ed Envoy.
This unpremeditated conjecture, was
exprefiitd by no other Senator, nor is it
believed that it had any influence in Mr.
Jay's appointment.
It is a just principle that offices, the
duties of which interfere with each other,
ftiould not be conferred upon one man ;
but the difficult fituatisn of public affairs,
the peculiar nature of thebufmefs, and the
acknowledged fitnefs of a particular cha
racter, will juftify an occasional, and tem
porary departure from this general rule.
A Judge of the Supreme Court is an as
sociate officer ; an Envoy Extraordinary,
is a character employed for a (hort time,
and upon an urgent occasion : The judi
ciary department will proceed* (hould one
of their corps be engaged a few months as
an Envoy Extraordinary and the precedent
will not prove injurious.
Those know little of Mr.- Jay's private
character, who insinuate that avarice ii a
passion, that harbours in his bosom ; his
friends will have no cccafion to regret his
want of delicacy, in respect to what some
may have deemed an object, the pecuniary
emoluments of this appointment. Mr.
Jay is neither " alieni appetens, nec fui
profufus, " plain republican manners, and
oeconemy, distinguish his public, as well as
private life.
From the AtHtricaa Minerva.
The TIMES, No. VI.
New-England people turned ariftocratal
fay the southern gentlemen. This is v<ly
Let lis exarfjine the fa£l,and cpm
pare New-England ariltocracy with
ther.ii democracy An eaftera aristocrat
is a New-England farmed Nine oCit of
ten of all these people are men of fftiall
landed consisting of from 50 to,
200 acres of land, and worth from 1000
to 3000 dollars. There is not one in
twenty of theiri that ever owned a (lave ;
and those who hstve them are getting rid
of them as fail as they can, without in
jury to the slaves. The farmer himfelf,
his wife, his sons and daughters all labor
in pcrfom, oh the farm or at the spinning
wheel. A farmer in New-England who
does got labor in person, is no more to be
found than.a planter in Virginia or Caro
lina who does. If they have occasion to
hire men, they aflociate with
them, arid eat..at the fame table. In a
whole village there is little or no distinc
tion of rank—the and mechanics,
the justice of peace and thd blacksmith
all aflociate on equal terms. There is nb
such. thing a3 a farmer's commanding his
workmen—he treats them all as his equals.
These people are generally very civil and
obliging—they make bovfrs to each'other,
and teach their children to do the feme.
This is New-England aristocracy. r
Virginia democracy is a very different thing
—A democrat in the southern states is. a
planter, or other perfion, who owns a
large number of slaves; who is above.la
bor himfelf, and _not only so, but is above
the diudgery of oyerfeeing his own busi
ness. He commits it to a steward and a
negro driver. He eitabliflies all the ranks
of the feudal system in his own family.
The planter is king, or tord paramount
—his children are nobles—-the tutor, the
{teward and clerk are the commons' —and
the laboring people and blacks are the
vaflals. Yet this planter is a mighty de
mocrat —a warm (tickler-for the rights of
men—for liberty—and what is more, e
' quality. This little domestic monarch
writes and spouts inceflantly about the
funding system and the danger of power.—
He will not labor—not he—-.that is the
business of slaves.—He will not aflociate
with laboring people—he will not eat at
the fame table. His sons must not labor,
this would difgracc them—"they are seen
at a tavern from morning to night, saw
ing on a fiddle, and playing at billiards.
A New-England artflocrat, on Sunday
puts saddle and pillion on his team-horse,
takes his wife behind him, and his child
on a pillow before him, and rides to
church, and when he gets home, he reads
a sermon, or a chapter in the Bible, and
teaches h(s children some catechism.
The fouthem democrat on Sunday gets
into his coach, if he has it, or can borrow
one, and accompanied with two or three
dirty, ragged* half naked slaves, rides to
/ some friends, or to some amnfement. It is
idle to deny these things—thousands of eye
witnefles can attest them. Let the truth then
be acknowledged. Let the charge of ari/lo
oracy fall where it ought. The northern
people are the mod democratical in the uni
verfe —equality reigns among them in reali
ty —but they refpeft law and order, and when
they have a government, they wish to keep it.
Foreign Intelligence.
COPENHAGEN, March I.
About four o'clock last Wednesday
evening, an alarm of fire was given from
the palace. It firll appeared in tfye upper
{lory of the south corner of the fiont fide,
which'is to the westward ; and, although
every endeavor was used to extinguish the
flames, they soon began to spread to the
northward. About half past fix the Royal
family were told that little or no hopes of
favtng the palace were left: they retired
to another quarter of the town.
The flames were affilted by a frefh gale
of wind from the fouth-ealt, and about
half past eight the spire was burnt down*
At ten o'clock, the whole boc!y of this
immense building was in a blaze, which
at once exhibited a very grand but awful
scene In Ihort, the whole palace of
Chriltianburgh was reduced to the b; r;
walls, in the course of fix hours. Both
th; wings were also 011 fire, and the north
one reduced ; but, by the great exertions
of the burghers, the south wing, although
burnt down, was prevented from commu
nicating to the Chancery and Museum
Had the fire caught either the one or tl e
pther, jt would have beeH impoflible to
have saved the bank or magazines.
The houses on the Strand were also
much endangered, as the wind blew di
rectly upon them ; and large pieces of
burning wood were flying about in the
streets. The conflagration mult have been
seen all over the island, I suppose, such a
fccne was never beheld in the world ; —fo
great a pile of building dellroyed in so
(hort a space of time. It rs said, that ma
ny of the people.have been burnt, but as
yet there are no particular accofunts of the
number. Very little of the furniture or
effects were saved. The King's private
library was destroyed, as were moll of the
papers and books in the high court. The
damages will amount to many millions.
* ' V
The royal family are universally pitied,
and much praise is due to the prince royal,
who was all the night walking about, with
out any attendants, to prevent disorders
—This (hewed his confidence in the peo
ple.
FRA.NKFORT, Feb. *8.
The names of the French commiflaries,
which arrived here on the 15th inft. are O
chet,Paris and Fitterman ; they were escort
ed by a body of Prussian hufiars, and rode in
a ccfach, on each corner of which was a red
cap, and before the tri-colour flag.
Just before they got to the White Swan
Inn, at which they alighted, a foreigner tore
down the latter, but he was immediately seiz
ed, and ca-iried to the Guard House. The
populace appeared in tumultous' numbers,
but the guards prevented their insulting the
Comm flaries, and a Prufiian Sentinel does
duty at the door of the White Swan Inn,
whilst they remain here.
\ • v ; r^'
BERLIN, March 1.
No extraordinary preparations are yet
making in any of our arsenals of a warlike
appearance, and every thing remains at pre
sent in a state of suspense.
NATIONAL CONVENTION.
Fepruary 15.
Barrere communicated the following arti-
cles relative to the armies
ROYALISTS DEFEATED.
General Duquefnoy thus writes from
Pont de Noyers, the 2 2d, of Pluviofe
(ioth February.)
* " At last 1 have met the famous army
of Charette, a quarter of a league from
Pont de Noyers 011 the great road to Nantes.
My light troops on the left, engaged in a
briik fire with their advanced guard. At
two o'clock in the afternoon, I repaired
to the field of battle ; as fact as my 'batta
liogs arrived, 1 drew them up, and the
fire was very hot on both fides. In the
onset these vagabonds not only refilled,
but advanced upon us—when seven of my
battalions were ranged, the charge was
beat. The enemy, on their fide, produ
ced three new battalions that had been
concealed in a wood. The combat lasted
an hour, and was very hot. Our' troops
at length - repulsed the Rebels, in every
part, the gveateft part of whom threw a
way their arms and fled into the wood ;
about eight hundred bit the dust. I
have, in the -whole, almolt one hundred
.men killed and wounded. My Aid-de
camp L'Anglojs had his horse killed un
der him. We know not whither the Re
bels are fled."
Gen. Tureau writes from Saumur, the
2Jth, and confirms this news. He adds,
" we arefeid to have been beaten at Cho
let, whereas we have gained-there a com
plete victory. 1 was at Angers the 33d,
and they said here yelterday, that Pont
de Ce was taken 011 the 23d, &c. Gen.
Cordelier, who has beaten the enemy at
Cholet, has orders to pursue them with
out intermission.
" He tells rae, that Laroche Jaquelin
is killed, and buried at Trementrin.
Thirtyreports have been made of that
event, and they all agree. It is however,
certain, that he was not present at the
battle of Cholet, and that it was his ar
my which attacked that town, command
ed by Stofflett. 1 have ordered General
Cordelier to cause the body of Laroche
Jaquelin to be disinterred, and to try to
gain a certain proof of his death.
A SKIRMISH.
General Pichegru writes from head
quarters at; Reunion fur Oife, that he has
visited many of the cantonments, and
finds the foldieiy in the highest lpirits.
He fends a letter of Brigadier-Geueral
Moreau, dated from CafTel, which an
nounces, that on the 13th (Feb. 1) 700
men who set out from Ypres, attacked the
poll of Botfjhequefie, defended by no more
than 350 of our Chafleiirs. The enemy
entered the village ; our troops retreated
into the Church, from the tower of r.hich
they kept up such a fire on the Slaves,
that they were obliged to retiie, leaving
thirteen killed in the burial place, befidc*
eight found afterwards near the road to
Veftrade, —we took also nine prifojiers
and twenty one fufils.
ATTEMPT of the ENGLISH on''
CORSICA. v
LacombeSt. Michel, Representative of
the people, at Batia, in Corsica, writes,
uuder date of the 2d Pluviofe, that an
English squadron menacfd these coalts.
On the preceeding evening three large vcf
fels approached Nouza, in the Gulph of
St. Florefit, and attempted to land tome
troops to burn the mills ; but.some (loops
with grenadiers, and an armed felucca put
off, and the English retired.
The frigate Melpomene, being becalm
ed, was attacked by two English frigates,
two leagues from Calvi. The English, as- -
ter three hours fight, left the French (hip.
It appears that the principal delign cf
the English at this moment, is to take
from us those towns in Corsica that re
main faithful to the Convention, but
chance has not favored their efforts.—
Grain comes in to us from many parts.
February 28.
Two recent advantages have been gain;-
ed over the enemies of the Republic.—
-The fii-ft took place on the 14th of Feb.
near Beken, Brigadier General,Dnmon
ceau, and Col. Wattiil commanding at
Poßt a Bruck, at the? head of a detach
ment of the 10th regiment of Calvados,
and another of the. chafTeurs of the 13th
forming-in all a coips of 100 men, met,
in patroling, a body of the enemy, in
number Ht least fix times greater, cornpo
fed of English cavalry and Austrian in
fantry. They made the attack, with Re
publican courage, and the event was'not
doubtful, they made at ler.ft fifty of
the enemy bite the dnft, took
number of and 28 horses. We
loft only a lingfc.man, a quarter-matter,
who is regretted'by the whole corps.
11 \ '
LONDON, Feb. 27.
ARMY OF THE WEST.
This army is receiving daily reinforce
ments. A large detachment has been
sent off to qurll the dilhubances which
have been occasioned by a body of royal
ifls.
A French frigate has sent into Brest,
a Spanifti veftcl laden with 78,800 pias
tres. Within the (pace of one mouth,
x Bo British (hips have been sent into this
harbor. The fauadron commanded hy
Keranguen, and which was sent to con
voy the expedition to America to a cer
tain latitude, returned the 10th instant,
without having met witli any interrupt
. tion from the fleet of the enemy. The
squadron brought 16 prizes laden with
corn, and destined for Spain.
The army of the North, tho'
the Committee of Public Safe
ty, has fixed its increase at
180,000 will be augmented Men.
to - ' - - 220,000
The united armies of the Rhine
and the Moselle, to
The army of the Alps, to
The army of the Eailern Pyren
nees, to
The army of the South, to
The army of the Weil, to
This augmentation will be produced,
without having recouife to the men of
the fccond requifilion.
At Vienna every coffee-houfe and ta
vern-keeper is obliged to give up one of
the waiters ; the fame is done by every
publican. All are obliged to enter into
military service, and their places are to be
supplied with women.
Cairiere, in a late fitting of the Jaco
bins, acknowledged that there might Itill
be 20,000 rebels in La Vendee, though
scattered over 40 Jquare leagues of ground.
This fhtt, he said, gave him no uneasi
ness, because he knew that the Conventi
on had 40,000 men in'the country, who
would fojn put the orders of the commit
tee of Public Safety in execution, as his
Colleague, Garau and Hentz, were full
of Zealand activity. But, added he,
long as there is one robber in La Vendee,
the cor.fpiiators will talk of a Catholic ar
my !
OnTucfday fe'night five Roman Ca
tholic Clergymen .were admitted to De
grees in the Univeriity 'of Dubun bung
Brest, Feb.
280,000
6ojOoo
80,000
do,ooo
80,000
780,cc0
Total
March It.