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"
<hine, To as to facilitate the of tv"
proposed tljat other c-mali fK u *v was
communication between at th* ° P / n 3
Ocean, and thus J*
>
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
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