CONGRESS. IN SENATE, Friday, May 23. Mr. Ellfworth from the committee ap pointed yesterday, for the purpose, re- 1 ported the three following bills: a bill, to continue in force the ad for the relief of persons imprisoned for debt : a bill, fur ther -extending the time for receiving 011 loan the domellic debt of the United States : and a bill, authorizing a fettle raent of certairt exper/es of the Commiffi- • oners of Loans ; which bills were fcveral ly, read the firft time. Ordeied, That these bills federally pass to the second reading. The engrolfed bill for extending the be nefit of a drawback and terms of credit in certain cases, and for other purposeS, was read the third time. On motion, Ordered, That this bill lie for further confederation. Mr. Jnckfon from the committee to whom was referred the bill to authorize the Preiiderit of the United States, during the reccfs of the present Congress, if he shall think the fame rieceflary, to cause to be built or purchased, vessels to be equip ped as gallics in the service of the United States, reported amendments, which were read. The bill, sent from the House of Re presentatives for concurrence, entitled, " An ast to alter the time for the next an nual rrfeeting of Cbngrefs," was read the third time. Rciolved, That this bill pass. Ordered, That the Secretary acquaint the House of Rcprefentatives with the concurrence of the Senate in this bill. The amendments reported to the bill, to authonle the President of the United States djiriug the recess of the present Congress to cause to be purchased or built a number of vessels to be equipped as gal lies in the service of the United States, were resumed. On motion to adopt the firft fe&ion, amended as follows : Be it ena&ed by the Senate and Honfe of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that the President of the United States be and he is hereby authorized, during the recess of the present Congress, if the fame shall ap pear to him necessary, for the protection of the United States, to cause a number of vessels to be built or purchased, and to be fitted out, manned, armed and equip ped as gallics in the service of the United States, the officers and men to be on the fame pay and to receive the fame subsist ence as officers of the fame rank and men are entitled to, in the navy of the United States. It pa/Ted in the affirmative—Yeas 10 Nays 9. The yeas and nays being required by one-rifth of the Senators present. 1 hoie who voted in the affirmative, are, Messrs. Cabot,Frelinghuyfen.Gunn, Hen < Iy, Jackion, Izard, Monroe, Morris, Potts" and Rntherfurd. >/n" Us n Uh ,°, VOted in the negative, are, Mcffns. Bradford, Brown, EHfworth, Fos ter, Hawkins, Livermore, Martin, Ro binson; .and Rofs. On motion to adopt the following ad ditional clanfe to the bill : "And be it further enacted, that there be appropriated for the purpose aforefaid," the Him of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars to be paid out of theproceeds of any revenue of the United States, which now are, or hereafter during the prefeni session lhall be provided, not being otherwiieappro priated. And that the President of the Unrted States be authorised, to take on loan of the Bank of the United States, t»r ot any other body politic or corporate, perfonor per [on s , the said s um of one hundred and hfty thousand dollars, to be fcimWicd principal and interest, out of the find proceeds,appropriated as aforefaid, !l°u or contracts, Messrs' O"h ? p OU r l^e affirmative, are, Messrs. Cabot,Frehnghuyfen, Gunn, Hen- RKi' ard ' Monr<)e . Morris, Potts Rob.nfon, and Rutherfurd ' Thoft. W h o vote(J iVthe Folfer Ha Br ° Wn ' Rofs. ' ' ermore > Martin, and And after agreeing to further amend ments, Orderix!, Thst this bill be engrossed tor a third reading. (To be cmil'inued.) FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. TOUR NAY, Mich 30 " The combined army feenis no# on the point of important blow. The head quarters of the [ rirtce of CSbotirg have been transferred to Eiigle-Fontaine. Gene , fa I Cfeirfait has left us, and all the troops under his orders, as well as a considerable corps of Britilh and Hanoyerian troops are advancing in the environs of Valenciennes. For thele last 5 days a very considerable train of English and H noverian artillery has pas sed through 6ur town, and taken the road to 8k A ma ad. " Wejearn, that the Prince of Hohen lohe and Gen. Count Kollowrath are, in a few days,, to leave the Imperial army in the Netherlands, and join that on the Rhine. PARIS March 31. Adjutant-General lola, in a letter dated Guataignerale the 7th inft. to General-' Bard, states, that on the preceding even inghe had, with i6ochaffeurs,defeated and cut in pieces a numerous body of rebels, who had assembled at Reaumuz. He had been equally fuscefsful at St. Mcfmin, in de feating 800 of the insurgents who had come to the afiiftance of their brethern, and had entered that place on all his fours, in spite of a very heavy fire, His cavalry feemcd for a moment to give up all for loft, but he had addressed them, and secured the victory. Upwards of 400 rebels had been killed in kfs than a hour. RATISBOJH, March 31. The Elector of Mentz has made a pro position in the Diet, importing that, in confequeoce of the delays and difficulties which have arisen on the fubjeft of the respective contingents, the troops of his Prufiian majesty have been taken Into the pay of the empire, to complete the armies of the circles. For this purpose a loan had been made, under guarantee of the empire, and on the balls of the future in demnities which may ariltj from con ' quells. «_ HAGUE, April 2. A (hocking in dance of brutality was exhibited in a foldierof the 14th regiment, on. the night of Saturday lalt : he, with two of his comrades, went to a peasant's house in Wallaing with an intent of plun dering it; but, on the peasant's remon- Inating, and declaring he would complain to the commander in chief, he drew a pis tol and (hot him through the shoulder, of winch wound he langui/hed till Monday morning, when he diejl. His royal hi?h nels, the commander in chief, on being informed of the circumstance, offered a reward of 30 guineas and a free pardon, with his chlcharge, to either of the men who were his accomplices, or the money to any one who could discover the offend er. One of them immediately turned king s evidence, and a general court mar tral is ordered to fit to-morrow, when there is not a doubt remaining but that he will meet with his deserts. PARIS, April 3. 1 ♦l, u S u ft' n Maupon, the son cf thechaucdlor of that name, has been ar retted m his house at Thui, near Andelys, m the department of Lower Seine, and they found 11,000,000 of livres i„ his portmanteau He has been fafely lodged in the pnfon de la Force. ~ln ' he , si, r tin S of the Municipality on the 3'ft ult. fereral epicures were denoun ced for having purchased veal at 4 c livres ' per pound! f* .national convention Sitting of March 29. . It was announced, that a -report would be Z' pTir d ,t y ,„V % lie pall age tolls, mills and other eftabllfli mentj. It was also proposed to establish four great communications, by means of ;«t canals, between the OceanTnd the MediteT ranean sea, ahd between the Rhone and .he" of Bourdeaux, by which agriculture would save millions of acres. It v.&uld be proved that Paris could be rendered a mari time port by altering the direction of the Seine. A deputation of Jacobins preftnted three ripened cars of corn, transmitted by the So ciety of Nifines. " Let th£ tyrants tremble," exclaimed the t)epbties; "we have iron and faltpetre—atid early Nature announces to us an abundant harveit?' Gen. Balland annonnced, that the differ ent corpi of his division had made a facri fice of their meat in favor of the Republic. Their Example had been followed by fevcral other corps of the Northern Army. —Ho- norable mention. Sitting of March 30. Legendre denounced several pretended In fpeclors of the Police, who had noised abroad, that they had jull discovered fadls againit Marat and Chalier, whose busts they order ed the citizens to break or conceal. He con ceived that this outrage belonged to the con fpiracv which had been defeated, aiid which, not being able to conlnmrfiate the designs it had meditated, wished, in return, to tarnish the memory of the principal martyrs of li berty, and thus drive the people to despair, by iifiprefling them with an idea, that we could no where repose any confidence.—Ap plauded. Carrier demanded, that the Citizens fho'uld be entreated to keep a watch on those who may broach such docTincs, and cause them to be brought before the Constituted Autho rities. Jean de Brie observed, that the Hew max imum on linens and cambricks had reduced to three millions of livres, in the Depart ments of I'Aifne, la Somme, and of the A'oith, the trade in these articles which used to amount to 15 millions. An address from the inhabitants of St. Quentia 011 this fub jedl whs referred to a committee. Declaration of the King of PruJJia, to the German Empire, on his fecejfwnfrom the present Continental Confederacy. 1 Ihe period being arrived 111 which li-'s s Pruflian Majesty is forced to discontinue taking that active part in the present war, which hitherto has been the effect of his generosity and pure patriotism ; on ac count, and in consideration of what, is owing by Ins Majesty, to the preferva tron of his own eltates, and to the welfare of his fubjefts, his Majesty thinks it par ticularly his duty to lay-before their High nesses the Co-States of the German Em pire, tht real caules and'true motives by which he was induced to take such a re , solution. , At the time when the French nation, in the unfortunate delusion of imaginary liberty, had not only diffolvcd every tie of civic ovder amongst themselves, but also meditated the subversion of the re pole and welfare of other nations, by tilt introduction of their Anarchic Horrors and in fact, had already fallen in an hos tile manner on such territories of his Im perial Majesty, and of the German Em pire, as were nearest to them, his majes ty thought proper to unite his just arms with those of his Imperial Majesty, and afterwards with those of the whole Ger man Empire, and those of his other al lies, in order to set bounds to the deftn.c ti.ve enterprizes of a delirious nation, and to restore peace and happiness to those as guiltlels as highly endangered dates,— object was ever the guide of the aims of his Majesty down to this present moment, and more impreflive on his mind; m proportion as the maduefs of the trench augmented, and the danger of all Germany hecame more imminent. The effort* of Jus Majesty to set a boundary againit this mighty toirent of iU-forrune on the German Territories, were, it is true, at firft but proportioned to the dan ger, but soon exceeded the utmost of his ability Jhe war was not a war with a nation, and well difeiplincd ar mies, bat a war with a delirious and nav.r diminifhing swarm. of men, with a h.nhlv populous nation, provided with every re- ?i°O atk them - a fct Who did not fight merely for victory, but who fought, by fire, f-.vord, and the poi f t ,1, 7?' n r" n,S doctrines, to fub [ the ' whole social edifice of Germa- To oppose this almost unconquerable Intolh si u S ' °" h,S part ' bro "S ht .into the hdd 70 , 000 men , an d those his cho lceft , . w;th , !irfe has ■ com bated, even until this third cam paign, uuder ev.ry imaginable oblkcle, fa. from the Pruflian Dominions, amidst ready e xha , lft d lands> J" mSvT thc ' r ° J un P aral,e e7orts, His eZ/Jr; c : 0,1,e CoTrm '" m ■ P°®We facnfice which the National v., ' , . strength of Prussia would permit. » has-he hesitated to expose even ] *Zt every danger by which the fafety of Geimany could be co,,n Ufl . from the Enemy. Foe this - has so much P.uffm,, blood bee, for th.s, such immcnle treasures Z.C from his dominions. Such a w * neceflanlv have more exhaled his " lources than those of powers whose do' min.ons lay more contiguous to the fc, i;c of hostility ; and thus his Majeftv Ml to an abiolute impossibility of t ' k , ' ny longer that active par, f rom his f * means, without utterly ruining his * dominions, and entirely exhausting th property of his Subje&s. h c His Majesty, however, Ml temafned deeply impressed with a patriotic hoj* J being able ft,ll to lend help and * eft,on, and that with ii.creased force to he German Empire; and to be enabled to do this, he entered into a ne^ociat, with the Confederate Powers," certain arrangement to them, the D ,„f cipal points of which were, beUs tf, Sr?h '°c h,m > a of tV P £ &encc of the par: the Pruflian army Ihould be provided for by the Empire ,n general; and, that rht / hoUl[! bt co "cluded to bis effect, that the bix /.Interior Circlet of ff m P>re, who Jay mojt to danrcr and -who reaped immediately Benefrt f rm the defence, Ihould be charged p,m,iui la l. ly with the furmftimg of the fame; 3 . i it was also declared to the Diet of ,W ! Empire, and the Circles above mention, ed, that in cafe these frank and free pro pofals were not acceded to by the £,W ror, his Ma,efty would be compelled to withdraw the greatest part of J,is troo. ■ and to leave the empire to its Fate. ' Several States have made Declaration, fiiitable to the pre/ Ting circumltaDces in which they, and the whole Empire „ cx placed ; ,n particular his EMora! High ness of Mentz, full of exalted and patrio. tic lentiments towards the Empire, cpm . plied w,th every requisition relative (o t t,e uibfiftence of the Pn:fiian Troops which dependw upon him, and iumMnpedin im mediate Congress of the Six Circles. His Majesty entertained a just txpefta- Hon, that Jimilar good conferences would every where have flowed from h : s Patriotic intention and his hard .earned merits in his iormer defence of the whole 1 ■ Empire. Every retrofpeft 'fefemed to confirm these hopes; op one fide, thepaft afforded the admonifhingpiftufe of the dreadful torrent of an all subverting ene my ; on the other, the noble and heroic stand of the Pruflian army, and the im merife facrifices of the blood of his war riors, aud the tfcafurtes of Ms domin'oris, made by the magnanimity of his Pruflian t ajeity. Even then that army was (landing on the banks of the Rhine, the Bulwark of the whole empire, and to which the enemy did not dare to pene- Irate ; but the subsistence of that anny t undertaken by the whole Empire, was the sole condition under which it long er cou'd be effective, and which the phy sical impofliUility of Pruflia alone bearing the burthen, did abfoliTtely oblige Prufiia to infill upon. Was it acceded to, so as the future afforded the consolatory prof peft of his Majesty acting with that known alacrity-»-rhat well proved fidelity, in the defence of the Empire, and the protection of its Conflitution, to the ut most of his power ? But every Impartial Obfe n-er might have easily anticipated jh£- confcquences of the refufal rtf the requit ed subsistence, and the return of the Prus sian troops into his Majesty's own Hates. I hen might the over-powerful and dcliii ous enemy ravage, u controlled, through out the Empire, and with plundering ar.d murderous hands, unbridled and unlimit ed, bear down the Germans, their huf banjry, all law, order and propeitv, fhb vert with anarchic abominations, the con stitutions of more Imperial (tates, anni hilate Pi inccs and Nobles, erase the Tem ples of religion, and drive from the nearli of Germans their natural love of virtue order, by the aids of the feducHve allurements of licentiousness, and the pre cepts of an unfeeling immorality. All these and limilar observations, so simple and so obvious as they were, did, nevertheless not fuccttd in bringing the ar rangement for the fjibftftrnce of the army to a just couchiiion. This proposal was, besides this, fufficiently connected with anoiher arrangement, which his Majeity had clefigned to offer the confederate pow ers, but which it did notfeem good to his - fr