/< py of thi* ptoanlmg before the Prtfi dent of the United States. The Senate adjourned to 11 o'clock to-morrow morniug. Friday, Way 16th, 1794- 7 Mr. Foiier reported from die commit tee on enrolled bilk, that they had exam ined the bill, entitled, " Ao a& for the relief of Reuben Smith, and Nathan Strong," and that it was duly enrolled. A message ft urn the House of Re presentatives by Mr. Beckley their Clerk : " Mr. Ptefiilent—The Houle < f Re presentatives have appointed a committee to join fych committee as the Senate (hall appoint, to report what bulineis is iie i cfiary to i>e done before the c!o I am sure, Lyfander, that no counterfeit com can long continue to circulate, with out losing the gilding that concealed its baseness. The fun had nearly arrived at the gold en doors of the weft, and the throng and the difputers were fall leaving the Lyce um. Let us feat ourselves for a moment on this vacant bench, said Lyfander, and beg Agathon to indulge us with the con clusion of the remarks, which our en trance here has suspended. You forget, laid Agathon, that we are to sup w ith Anarchus, and that it is time to put our selves in motion, if we would avoid being the la(l of his gnefts- As to what I have to fay, it can as well be talked over | dunng our walk thither, and will serve to | give a greater relilh to the animated fai lles we may expert to have from the firft wits of Athens we are to meet at supper. • Ihe accounts received yesterday, from a neighboring republic, contain the sum mary a„ de ff en f R [ a, f °" the f "¥ct of our investigation. Behold that republic, continued Agathon so justly celebrated for the consummate dillnbut.on of its powers, prostate and ..ruins by the usurpations of the people. Its fundamental ordinances vested in an as sembly the right of making law ß , aild in fe P V ds£ ; , i httoap p°i"t its mem. * " afS^ned to the people freedom of opinion, and the right to state to the a (Terribly their opinions and grievances ; and to the assembly freedom of debate and the iihcontrouled excrcife of their judg ment. Some of the rhetoricians held, th it freedom of opinion meant fretdomof abuse, and the right of the people to state their opinions a right to dictate and control. In time, the people believed the new do&rine, and put themselves under the banners of the rhetoricians. The fun damental ordiance, veiled in a feledt body, chosen by the people, the sole right to make treaties ; the rhetoricians contended that a different body might prescribe the conditions. In time, the people believed this too, and celebrated the difcOvey by public rejoicings. The fundamental ordi nance? defined the court in which, and the persons by whom, the thief magistrate might be impeached : The rhetoricians said he might be impeached by clubs. If the republic was threatened with war, the rhetoricians declared againlt navies, and armies, and taxes, as dangerous to liber ty. Did the preservation of peace com poit better with the welfare of the repub lic, they urged the necefTity of meafure-s calculated to prevent accommodation. If the fitted man in the republic was appoint ed ambassador on fiich an occasion, the rhetoricicns invieghed bitterly against fending any, and called upon the clubs for their opinion. The rhetoricians held that a proiperous state of the republic,- by ren dering the people content, was the sure forerunner as tyranny. To demolish this ■barrier against their power, it was necef lary to render the mcafures which had been inrtaumental to this prosperity, and upon which much of it depended, odious and detested. This was attempted by falfehoods incefiantly repeated, and ascrib ing the most mischievous intentions to the most virtuous citizens. The weak, with whom suspicions are always proofs, and the wicked, in whom proofs of innocence produce no change of conduct, oonfpired alike to propagate the clamour, till, by its violence and progress, it acquired a kind of certitude in the minds of the multitude. Their confidence in the most tried patriots was converted into diftrull, obedience to the laws into an intolerable burden ; clubs into assemblies ; and every citizen into a legislator. The crisis of their fate was nearly arrived. Virtuous men gradually disappeared from the pub lic- cum.tila, -nirafalc xo ft em the Torrent of disorder, or defparing to save the repub lic. The rhetoricians composed toasts on the occasion for the clubs, and took their place, amidst the acclamations of thg- peo ple. Thele, however, did not long ex ercise the authority thus acquired. They split into factions. Civil diflentions en sured, and— At that moment we arrived before the house of AmarchuSj who was conveifing under the portico with Timoleon the po et. Let us thank God, whifpercd Aga thon, as we approach them, that we find none of these symptoms of disorder and diflblation at Athens. Baltimore, May 12, 1794. CONGRESS. House of Reprefntatives. Friday, May 9. On the report of the committee on Ways and Means—A motion being made by Mr. Nicholas to ftrikeoutall the stamp JDuties. Mr. Smith, S. C. chairmanof the com mittee observed that in the present fitua tipti of our affairs very considerable addi tional revenues w*re neceflary for the sup port of government and to defray the ex- i pences which had been or were likelv to be incurred this fefiion. He stated that the attual probable appropriations for the 1 current year, would amount to the sum / >694,217 dollars, while the revenues to meet them would notexceed the sum of 1 5.3 '8,584 dollars, leaving a deficit of , 2 >3/5>633 dollars—But as one of the i- 1 terns in the expenditures, viz. the million | tor foreign mtercourfe wonld probably not , be wanted, or if wanted, might pe.haps ' be borrowed, the committee had onlv ftat- 1 ed the interest on that sum, namely 60,000 c dollars, which therefore left to be provid- f ed this fcflion the sum of 1,435,633 dol- v lars. And he was clearly of opinion that r CongreU ought not to rife until they had a provided that sum. He was within bounds c when he lated that sum as fufficient; for f it the million above alluded to (and which 0 was deftmed for an objedt which, the phi- ' c lanthropy of every member would urge the ii J > e employment of, if judicable) HlonUv t wanted, and there Ihould be auvduii i in borrowing it, an event not - the house would regret the a «l e A 'f /' , interelting an object. The ° of io f however, calculating on the imn 1 and on the profpeft of a 1 0 J- n > ' ' lln S to impoie any fuul.er i>un|, tlls U ' t T r were ablolutely eifential, had \rm , - depend on the interelt alone th! k-° , might have been more expedient r!!l " ! P ro yided for a part of the pnnci| h j vt 1 bmith said that in the report t L r , : 650,000 dollars was ftatcd bsf ur ° f 1 gent expences which might, orwhU ■ not be incurred ; since tVre^ h fe ht - made, a law had adually fc 1 men ting the military eflablifhtnent b : addition of a corps of artillerists a „'d l* ' neers ' for g/"*(oi«ng the fortification, i \ expences of which he estimated at 1 - o ' c : dollars; another law had paiTed 1 the Prelident to call into favicc 800 militia; although this was a continJm ; expcnce, yet a, the Prtfideht was autho. ! riled to incur it, a provifio i ought to be . made for discharging it, this was cltimsM 1 at 150,000 dollars, the only item then | lemaining under the head of contingencies j was the provisional force; it was probable this might not be wanted; it would reft with the house to determine whether the present crisis did not require fucna mea lure, and in that event, whether pvovifion ought not now to be made to carry it into execution. He confeffed he was among those who thought that a vigorous p r(pa . ration for war was one of the bell means to avert it; at all events, if it was thedc sign of any nation to force us into it, we ought to be prepared for it both as to mi. litary strength and pecuniary resources; admitting however that,this measure was not contemplated it only produced a re duction of 330,000 dollars from the sum total of appropriations and would itill leave a deficit in our ways and means of 1,105, r * observed that the appropri ations of the current year would exceed those of any former year by upwards of two millions and a half of dollars; The several items which occasioned that excess were as follows: Building and equipping fix frigates, 700,000 Fortifications of ports and Building additional arsenals and pu,chafe of military stores, 350,000 Appropriation for foreign intercourse, 1,000,000 Corps of artillerists and en gineers, 170,000 Expences of militia, 150,000 v Dolls. 2,670,000 Deducing the expenses of the mili tia, which was a war expence, still there remained the sum of 2,520,000 dolls, as an excess beyond any former expenles for our peace ejlab!i/hment, for there was not an item of expence in the foregoing statement which would not, or might not be incurred, even if peace Ihould conti nue. It was a fortnnate circumstance, at this moment of public exigency, that tha national treasury was in poifefiion of a surplus, ariling . from the revenue of former years, which furpafled our molt sanguine expectations. This surplus amounted to the important sum of 1,618,584 dollars, and was a mofl fatif faftorv evidence of the growing produo tivenels of our revenues in times ot peacc and tranquility, and while it helped to enable us to face the increafcd expendi tures of the country, it taught us to che rish that state of things, which was pro ductive of such national blcllings. But we could not flatter ourselves that the re venues of this year would be as produc tive as those of the preceding year; ma ny circumstances would contribute to di minilh them considerably, even if peace Ihould not be interrupted ; the very prof pe