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 w<y read.
Ordered, that the letter and abiiratt
th ereln referred to; lie for conlideration.
Mr. Cabot from the comrrii.tee to whom
was referred, on tlie 16th instant, the pe
tition of Moses Brown and others, report
ed a bill, stir extending the benefit of a
drawback and terms of credit in ceitainr
cases, and for other purposes, which war
read the firff time
Ordered, that this bill pass to th? fe
:ond reading:
The Senate proceeded to consider
he resolution; sent from the House of
Reprefehtatives for concurrence," for fur
nifhing the executives of the fc'veral dates
pvith a copy of the book marktd A, depo
sited in the Treafiiry department, by ths
rommiffibners who fettlfcd the accounts be
tween the individual Hales and the Unittc
On motion to refer the rcfolution, to j
committee to consider and report thereon,
It pasTed in the negative Yeas—9. —
Nays— 11.
The yeas and nays being required b}
one fifth of the Senators present,
Tltofe who voted iu the affirmative, are
,Meffieiir» Brown, Foiler* Hawkins
Martin, Monroe, Potts, Robinson, Rofs
and Vising—
Those who voted in the negative, are
Melfrs. Bradford, Cabtft, EllfWorth
Frclingtiuyfen, Gunn, Henry,' JacklOn
iliard, Livcrmore, Morris, and Ruther
On motion*
It was agreed to poltpone the further
confideiation of this resolution.
The bill, to authorize the President of
the United States during the recess of the
present Congress, if he ftvill think the
l.ime rteceiTaiy, to cause to be built or pur
chaied vefiels to be equipped as
gallies in the service of the {Jiiited States,
was read the second time. •
Ordered, that this bill be referred to
Mr. Jackson, Mr. Rutherftfrd arid Mr.
Cabot, to consider and report thereon to
the Senate^
Mr. Gunn from the committee to whom
whs referred the bill, entitled, "An ad
laying additional duties on got>ds, 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 <set out o.) their wav to Pa
lis, to communicate the rel'ult of tluif
legociatioijs.
QUESNOV, Mnrch 30.
ibe eiKiu> atta»kru ourv'hain
A. S.
A MANUFACTURER.
A. M.