laid before tfce Se- | a letter from the Secretary for ..the. department of State; vexations and fpoilatiottrtta ji|s eoanfcejca of the United States; ; T * k '•' a The letter wds, wares and merchandise imported into the United States, and on the tonnage of (hips or vessels," reporied amendments, which were read— . Ordered, that the consideration thereof be poiiponed, The following written message was re ceived from the President of the United States by Mr. Dandi idge his Secretary : United States, 2llt May, 1794. Gentlemen of the Senate, and of the House of Representatives, I Lay before yon in confidence* fun di y papers, by which you will perceive the state of affairs between us and the fix na tions, and the probable cause to which it is owing. And also certain information* whereby it would appear that some en croachment was about to be mhde on our territory by an officer and party of Bri tilh troops. Proceeding upon a supposi tion of the authenticity of this informati* on, aLhough of a private nature, I have caused the representation to be made to the Biitilh minister, a copy of which ac companies this message. It cannot be neceflary to comment up on the very ftrious nature of such an en croachment, nor to urge that this new of things fuggeils the propriety of placing the United States in a posture of effectual preparation for an event which, notwithstanding the endeavors making to avert it, may by circumstances beyond our controul be forced upon us. G. WASHINGTON. r'nemeflage and papers therein referred to were read, Ordered, that they lie for conside ration. A message from the House of Repre sentatives by Mr. Beckley their Clerk : Mr. Prelident—The ftoufe of Repre sentatives do not concur in the bill, lent from the Senate entitled, "An ast to make provision for the widow and orphan chllren of Robert Forfyth, who was kil led in the service of the United States." " TIlt 7 have pa (Ted the following bills and refolutiop in which several bills and re solution they desire the concurrence of the Senate : The bill, entitled, "An Ast to compensate Arthur St. Clair," the bill, entitled, "An ast to authorize the set tlement of the accounts of Lewis Du bois for his ferviees iit the late army of the United States," the bill, entitled, " An ast to alter the tithe for the next an ni:a! meeting tof Ccrrgrefs," Ant! a refo- I'tion that Controls adjourn en the third Jay or June next." " The 'peaker of the Home of Re orefentatives having ligried an enrolled bill I am directed to bring it to the Senate for the signature of the Vice-Prefident.' Aild he withdrew. - ~Q ('Jo he,continued.) Extract from the Columbian Centincl. Speech of Mr. S. d.lhered kef are the Anar chy Club in Philadelphia, at a fpei'ui revolutionary fitting. Parties, Mr. Preiident, are prone to too far ; but on one fubjift the most jbvious and the molt likely in the world to kindle all their rags, they do not «o tar enough. Even the Virgininne do not know, or seem not to have fufficiently ronlidered. how completely Bi.iijh irjlu •n:e has made a Have of opinion. Nay, t appears that the very efforts to get fiee, lave multiplied the cords that restrain our lherty, while thev diminish the strength -if our resistance a*)d sharpen all the pangs )f jur impatience : As a fly, in a spider's iveb, only kicks himfelf into the toils of Jiis enemy, and uses his legs the more to confine them. I burn, Sir, 1 freeze, I "wont, I cnoak, while 1 give vent to my ieinocratic rage, in describing an evil ■vhich is aggravated by its ordinary reme dies. Britilh influence ; wherever I go, f fee it, I Infer it. It flicks as tight as he skin, nay tighter; for if a man were layed alive he would not get rid of it. Dur grand-mothers were British, our mo-' hers suckled in the poison which tainted >ur infant lips. Ccngrefs ought to pro vide French nurses if not French fathers "or our children, otherwise this inheritable juality of original fin will never be washed >ut. We do not now import British iires, jut we sprung from them, we speak rheir anguage, we follow their fafhions. Wit less breeches, they are not the French arte. They are againfl liberty because here is restraint in them ; they are a kind >t funding system which every man is hackled \Vitli ; a slavish order in focietv rhich fhotild be thrown off at a time of •e-generation, when the ideas of order and ill the fooleries of courtly etiquette are ibolifhed or abolilhing. What is there here fir, that is not Bri ifh ? Our debates what are they but Bri ifh, and the influence that arises from hem are corrupt, oppressive and degrad ng, which has increased, is increasing, ind ought to be diminifljed, nay, to be Jelfroyed by sequestrating. Ii they should grow up again, if the lead of that cursed hydra, credit, that nan-eater, or rather that monster that wallows an hundred negroes like so many ugar-plumbs, and that forbids by her ma fic, the coach wheels of a democratic Lord to turn round, I fay if that devil, ifter being killed by a fequefii ation a a hould come to life, kill him again. But alas all this is a vision that has fled, ind left behind it, the weariness of over trained exertion and the deje&ion that ollows the diiappointment of the moil ex ulting confidence. Thus British influence grows stronger [>y rettriclion, as the quelling an insurrec tion Itrengthens government. Wc ourselves exhibit many damning proofs how close this centagion flicks to »ur proceedings. We talk and write a gainst the national government, as if it were British. Our paragraphs and efTays, if not exact copies are prodigiously like those works in England, which have so tie. voted and Iran/ported their patriotic au thors. All Grub-street bio, Toms, all fleet ditch breathes perfume, in the Genera Advtrtifer. Our government follows British exam pies, and we express our censures of it ii a form of words that is as thread-bare ii England as our coats, mi i - Ihe leaders of our body are, it must be owned, Britifli ; and that accounts for the force of British habits j thev abuse our government, as they have used to do their own, and indeed they seem to for get they have crossed the sea. It is re marked that a fubjciSt of Britain, will land for the firft time at a wharf in this city, and before he lleeps in it he will pen a paragraph representing the horrid op pression of the excise in the back coun try, where he proposes to reft his weary patriotism, or rather to eagage it in new labors. It is zeal against oppreflion and foreign influence will soon bring him for v.-ard into public life to speak oracles of mountain viit'dom concerning trade and navigation. All this is imit.ttiou of Bri tain. There, as well here, speech-making patriotifin fecks office as its prey. The beast is mod fierce when he is hungry and after being crarn'd he is arovvzy and tame. If even we are obliged to yield to the defpotiim of Brit Mb habits, let us no lon ger deceive ourselves with the expecta tion of success in. the trivial plans of re form we have adopted, no,- we must make great efforts to produce the radical and regenerating changes we have in contem plation. We must rife in mass and leave not one Hone upon another of all the fa bric which cur ancestors, in servile imita tion of -their ancestors, have erfccled, And which I will venture to call the temple of idolatry. Let lis deface the right an gled triangle of our abused atfedtioris, and form a circle—this club. No hocus fo cus of three branches in government.— J lius we may club America, so as to re vive a revolutionary energy 5 change the language and speak French, export our priefts—banifti the aristocracy of credit, public and piivate, and put all property into a state of requisition. Then the chains of British influence will melt then we ftiall exhibit the humanity of Algiers and the elegance and refinement of Caf frarie, the Psalms of David, a Britjlh hierarchial work shall give place to the hymn of Marfeillei, reason shall be wot fhipped and man shall be free ! For the Gazette of the United St at Mr. Fenno, The appointment of Mr. Monroe to 'he Em bafly to France, not bavin* produced ore ftngle complaint in a certain party paper, I muji attribute its Jilence to the absence of one of his correspondents, and to the en gagements of an other. As I have no doubt the friends oft Lit paper will be much difi appointed at its silence or. so important an occet/ion, I fend y6u some hints for a fcuu paragraphs, whteo the Editor of that pa per may republifh by desire or inclination, as bejl futs his tujir) -viz. A correspondent remark# that the late no mination of a certain Senator to a foreign Embafly, is a perseverance in that dangerous fyltem which goes to the deflruction'of all the barriers which our excellent conftiiution hath eredted. The appointment of a mem ber of the Federal Senate to a foreign million is a measure pregnant with the moll fatal consequences to the liberties of the people. What check shall we have on the conduct of the Executive, if he can l'educe from his poll a watchful cerberus, the guardian of our precious rights ? what l'ecurity for our pri vileges if their champions are, on account cf their inlluence, talents & opposition to the en croachments of power, snatched from that ilation where those talents were dreaded and sent into an honorable exile ? Will not such a practice, if countenanced, change the Se nate into a docile and iervile body, by ex t parting from it all thole pofleflcd or firmnefc, or independence and aversion to arbitral y authority ? What a door for faction, intrigue and cabal is opened by this precedent! a member of the Senate, ambitious and desir ous of a foreign appointment has nothing to do but to clamor against the Executive, thwart his views, intrigue with a foreign minister, call for the correspondence of the present Ambaflador, and censure it as hoflile to the country where he refidts, manoeuvre with the foreign minister here to have him recalled, and then the Executive, to get rid k ot so troublesome an opponent, will o.r.ain ly appoint him the fuccefior of the recalled Ambaflador.—Befides, this courting system will be a bounty to fadtion and a discourage ment to the friends of good government — hen opposition to the measures and views of the Executive is rewarded with honors, and the lteady and patriotic friends of order are palled by with neglecl, a premium is of fered tor anarchy and antifederalifm. Every man, whose talents exceed his virtues, will seek that path, however injurious to his country, which certainly leads to honor and emolument. Again, is it proper that the man, who, in • s Senatorial capacity, has voted for or againit the exifttnce ol an office or regulated v? emo!umen ? s > *h°»ld be feletfed to fill it ? May not an interested man threaten that he will not vote for the exiitence of a particular embally unless he be appointed to it ? What must we think of the appointment of a man to an officc, which, when another person was appointed, he aflerted to be unnecelury > Is it refpe&ful to the state, which ejected a Senator for fix years, before the expiration or halt that period, to deprive the slate of his>lervices and fend him abroad ? These hints, however prepoilerous thev may appear to reasonable minds, if properly cooked up, may fill as many columns of a paper as Mr. Jay's appointment occasioned, and ft) -v? as a counterpart to them, For the Gazstth uT^J^ ! EXCISE. r W*re„ is at leafl mitfaken when h« J ■ ferts that the manufactories and ' fnuff owe their profpenty to the protcc • ting dunes of the prefect rowrmnent ■ the truth is different ; they were maintain! ■ Ed under great expence, much faerifiee „r intereit, and the consequent rifqne attend ■ ant on tae advancement of large capita! i Z77^ m Go mhaures ' the federal Govei nment was dtablifttc ■ Wu.ren, the Otloved of bis county would' never h ave endeavored to injure by diiingenuous ilatements. The contemplated tax on fnuffand fu. gat, however eligible ,t may he on them as luxuries on the opulent consumer, is exceptionable hum the mode necessary f, r ' C ° lieftlon .-7't mult be effect,d in one or two ways, either by the coercivc vigi Ja^e of revenue othcers under their ptop" efta . biilhments, or on oath of the manutafturer the former is too repugnant to the prin ciples c, a republican government, to be I hope ever attempted; it ca ,mot be mail, -atned without aeipotifm-_the latter not ° ,n c |; " to violation of oaih, but L,- comes irmnc.Jun.lv a y U) the Mi !; VC " CI ' ; '. tilL ' te c! a the manufacturer. liut-it is alk-dged that all !a e;arclia. to t. i;S a;,:,;,-—i.i „„ „; lc Ml - C ; s tiie ®" K f C *Kh the fame «feflraAi»e eonfequences; it Operate* as a peifca an n»uiat;on 01 the bulinefsof the fair dealer and terminate, in his ruin, as he Can no rj -7: ' 'Pf'y : » s at the price ,i 1..; neighbor. Wffl then a law be ena&ed v.-inoii ti«:a i.j inefficiency toward its own lupport will become unpruduftive, and which shall oblige the manufn'dlurer (at icaft the honest one) -instead of the con. urner to pay the excise—-which shall er.- :ouiage fraud and dtfftroy industry ? W ere I the vericjt enemy to my country .hat it ever produced, I would but wish or a revenue founded on a system of cx :ife on its manuia£turcs. It is not only to feel for the fufTcrings if our fellow men in captivity, but to al cviate them :s our peculiar duty; o£thofe •vlio are LlefTed with abundance much is cquired ; ftom those who are in the more lumble rank of wealth, among' whom are he manuta&up r., a proportion equal to :heir taxation in its fuilelf (bare, will not De denied toward their restoration it is not the fetters of Algiers at which they (hudder, more than at that Slavery which ex ills in the bosom of this iavored country —and that it may be fpeeddy banilhed from the knowledge of the foiis of huma nity, and exist bit in memory, 110 one more liiicerely prays, than docs At the cLfL- of tlie American war, the refiners of sugar in order to prevent the trade in that article from Great Britain, &c. from overwhelming them, were fre quently obliged to convene together and vend their goods below prime coi'i, which at length had the desired eiTefi With rcfpeii ;o fnnfF, the length of the war with Great Btitain was the caule of its efta- blilhment. FOREIGN INI'ELLIGENCF. FRANKFURTH, March 18. Already 43,000 pcaunta of the Pafa tinate have enrolled themselves for tl e protc&ion of the empire. In the ciicle of Franconia their number amounts al ready to 86,000, and so in proportion in th; neighboring circlcs. An army of 100,000 volunteers, therefore maybe de pended on, who aie ready to defend Ger many against any attack of the FrenJ's VIENNA, Marcli 15. According to letters from Conftant'uo ple, the difference between the Empress of Ruffia-aivJ the Grand Signior, are en tirely fettled. The leprefeutations of our Internuncio; 'Baron Herbert, and forae other foreign ambatladors at Conftantino pie have made at last a change in the opi nion of the Divan. MAYENCE, Mnrch 25. The French Cotwniilioncrs have tc turned here from Fra.ikfoit ; They will immediately atta»kru ourv'hain A. S. A MANUFACTURER. A. M.