Mr. Uvingst.vj ?fi?n ca"c,l up the r«£>W ifviwSiiih h'eTtail laid upon the uhlc'JTor* a;>- ■ p >ir.*Hag a* ii'lo ileft-n-1 before the cbmMifft i -utri How Vitti ,»<*, the citizens of the United States the claim, made upon tb.'m by Great Britain, in pmlnanS* of the late treaty Mr. W, Smith fubm t'eil to tb< c«n|Mcra-. tion or the' nlovcr House, whether it would; not heft to place tint bufiiiciV under the Attor ney General. It might, In that cafe, be proper to afford hen a sum oi money to'enable liini to employ additional clerks for the jrni pile. Me. Livingston had no objection to modi fy the resolution in tfli-s way, " to appoint an a v'nt to ajjifi the Attorney Gwciut' in the defence if," yv- Mi'. Maconflid this might f.e a good propiofi tkm, but i' did ltot fir ike him as neceffjry. He thought the cemmiffiaiwu would be competent to do the bufmti's. Mr. Go iDriCh thought the business wo.ild be heft r«f.: trril to a feled committee. "Sir Li»inus7uN-faw no ufein referring the mitttrtO a felefl committee, except it were to rtjjdft aJiill. When gentlemen refieded upon -the nature of these debts, and the time at whirh tljey were cortradted, they would fee the op poriun;ty for collusion. He did not mean that an agent, ihoOld be appointed to re fide at Phila delphia, but a pei fiin who might be employed to tn veftigoff, in the bed manner, the juflice of the claims. The President might, perhaps, think jt mceffary to appoint a perlon near to the pla ces where the debts were con! railed. Mr. Nicholas thought this a more serious bufincfs than was ganerelly supposed, and that it would he found so, when the money came to paid. He knew not whether tw® or th:ee a gerrts would'riot be necefTary. The resolution was referred to a feled com mittee, to rrpoi I by bill orotherwife. Mr, LivungsTON, from th# committee ap pointed on the fubjed of fortifications, report ed sundry documents : together wil h a bill to provyV for the fortifications of the torts and fiarborj of the United State?, in which it is pro vided that the money neeeffary for carrying it into-efftd, (hall bt borrowed of the hank of the United States, or in luch other way as shall te found bed. * The bill was twice read and refer red te a committee of the whole on Monday. The House took up the resolution agreed to in the committee of the whole yeflerrlay, au thorising the President to call on the Executive the several States, to hold B®,ooo militia in readiness, apportioned acco ding to the number of white inhabitants in each State. Mr. W Smith. wi(hed one part of the reso lution to be modified or omitted. He meant that part which direded the men te be appor tioned according ta the number of white inhabi tants in each State: This, he said, might have an injurious effed. For, in cafe an invasion were to take place in a State arhert white popu lation was the weakest, the proportion of men detached would be so small as to be, in a great degree nfelefs; and in other States, the number would be greater than there was any necefiity for. For inflame, if Georgia were to be the place of attack (and if an invasion did take place that was the molt likely quarter for it) where the white population is small, there would not be a fufficiant number of men to afford any protedion, »n the plan proposed. He thought if they fixed upon the proportion, thecanftitu tional estimation would be best, viz. to add to the white population three-fifths of the number of negroes. He moved to strike out the appor tionment, in order te have the regulation to be inserted : n "he hill. Mr. Macon did not think there was a ny weight in the objeftion of the gentleman last up ; as, in cafe of invasion, the Execu tive of the State might call out more than the number he?e contemplated, or even the whole of the militia, until afG fiance could be got from the neighbouring states. The re solution, being iu the form of that agreed to on a former occasion, could not reason ably be objedted to. Mr. T hatch Est 1 enquired whether it had been cuflomary to train blacks to arms ? Mr. W. Smith said he was not under flood. He meant that the number of whitis to be detached, should T>e in proportion to the number of whites, wSh three fifths of the blacks added to the number. Mr. Venable did not think there would be in such a regulation, as the duty would lie heavier upon states thinly inha bited than upon others. In cafe of invasion he said, the neighbouring states would be called upon. Mr. M'Dowell said, that should the gentleman from South Carolina's proposition be jtgreeed to, the duty would fall heavier upoH his (Mr. S's) constituents than upon any other part of the Union ; besides, when so many yvhites were taken from home on this business, the reft would be cxpofed to the blacks. He truiled therefore he would not press it. Mr.* W. Smith wilhed only for the fub jeft to be left open, that the apportionment might have been left to the President. [He read the form of an amendment which he would have proposed.] He did not at pre fect contemplate an invasion, though it might be neceflary to adopt this cautionary measure. He withdrew his amendment. The question was about to be put on the resolution ; when Mr. Varnum said he did not fee any oc casion for this resolution. He did not think they had any reason to suppose an invasion probable ; but if it should take place, there was, Efficient power in the Executive of the different governments to call out the militia. He did not know how the militia was regu lated other States, but In the Eastern states, be knew it was always In readiness, *nd t&at "£o,ooo men could be landed in a few Says, at any point, from Portsmouth to Rhode Ifiaod. This being the cafe, he did not think it neceflary to make any detach ment from them. It was true, an invasion might take place from France, but hetho't it was'as probable it might come from Eng land ; though, he believed it was equally.pro bable It might be from Niotha Sound. It was said that this regulation would be co'cxpence to the United States : It might be »o expenee to the government, but it will he arferiouil expence to the people. He thought the situation of the United States very <*iffereiit now from what it was in 1794. The BritilK were at that time, not qily taking onr property at sea, but they nad large-provinces adjoining upon the United States, and could hare brought large bodies of trcops aga-iuft us. It alio appeared that they had hostile intentions 2gair.lt us ; it ap peared frcm the Proclamation of the Gover -Icr of Canada, tbnt Great • Britdin meant to/uccldre vrav ) tnat the Indians were pre pared to make attacks oh bur frontiers ; auJ - fortifications'were trcAing within cur ter ritory. In tliis cafe it bo."?me prudent to have a detachment of militia iff persist rea diness. But said Mr. V. the situation of the United States is povr very different.— Tite rmtiou with wnom we have now a mifunderftandiiig, had no poflelfions adjoin, , ing upon us,, and there was not much pro bability of troops being sent against us from France. He did not v'.fh', therefore, to go < into the present measure. It might be well to call uDon the Secretary at War to know the condition in which the militia was in the ' different-parts of the Union ; he did not think more was neceflary. Mr. Blount agreed with gentleftien in opinion, that they had 110 reason to expeft 1 ' any invasion. But.it was well known the 1 President of the Uhited States,in hisfpeech ' had spoken of raising a proviiional army ; but if he had not done this, he thought the* ■ measure now before them was at all times ' proper. The experrce would depend upon ' the time at which the regulation was carri ed into effect. If the States did not call extraordinary feflions, no expense would be incurred. He believed weought at all times j to have a military force standing in readiness, ; which would at any time convince the world that we were not a divided people. The best defence, he said, was to be always prepa red to meet the attacks of an enemy. When the measure was formerly gone into, he had as little apprehension of an invasion asat pre sent ; and if we had no misunderstanding with any nation, he should be in favour of it. Mr. Thatcher believed it was true (as his colleague had stated) that the Maflachu fotts militia could at any time be called out at a moments warning ; but if the Mi litia in the Souehern States were not in this readiness, he thought it would be well that they should be put into such a (late. Mr. J. Williams thought it would be proper to have afele£t corps of militia in readinefs ; but he denied that this could be done without expence. The expence of the corps which he commanded, when call ed but in 1794, was very considerable. If the gentleman from Mafiachufetts thought | there was no immediate necessity for Hie measure, he might move to have the power of making the call whenever the President should fee it neceflary. The question was put on the resolution and carried. The resolution reported by the committee of the whole, proposing to authorise the 1 President to provide gallies or other veflels j for the defence of our coast, was next tak en up. Mr. Gilks wished to have it clearly ascertained what was to be the employment of these vefTels. ca Conjt. he said was an indefinite phrase and lia ble to be mifunderftoed, He was decidedly against ■their being employed as a convoy In order to make the meaning clesr, he fheuid move to strike out the words " for defending our sea coast," to be emDloyed within the jurifdi&ion of the United •States." Mr. RutledCe supposed. if the refolutisn ftom! as it was reported, the veffeU w»uld be employed withia the jurifdidtion of the United States ; but hii thought it would be abfuni to fay, these veffsls should on no aceount'paft the limits of thejurifdic tion.—The pirates would know th's, and our vel fels might have the mortification of feeing our merchant ships taker, or plundered, without hav ing the power of affording them relief. Or, if one of these pirates were to come within the line, and be pursued by one of these vessels, though the might be on the point of taking her, yet ftie mud no' venture acroft the line. He did not wish these veffets to be employed as convoys ; but he thought their destination might be fafely.left to the execut ive ; and had no notion of doing the business by balv.ix. Mr. Brooks said, it appeared to him, that this principle hud been decided yesterday, and did r.ot require farther difcuflion Mr. Nigholas supposed it was not from an apprehension that tf e executive would not do his duty, that it was wished this tfcifinefs should be put into a definitive form. No one, he believed, would put the fame contfru&ion upon the amend ment that the gantleman from S Carolina had done. It could not be supposed to be the intention of the supporters of this amendment, th ;t these vessels should be prevented from crofting the line in pursuit of a pickaroon which had come within ■he jurifdidion of the United States lu.'eed the gentleman himfelf had concluded, that such an idea would be atfurd. To do away all objection, he proposed to insert the words, " Jor th- define! tj the ftei ctaji ivithin the jl/rifJiflion of the United States" instead of Mr. Giles's amendment- Mr. Gll.Bs thought the phrase sea eouft indefi nite. It might be supposed, perhaps, to extend to Bermuda. Mr. W. Smith the gentleman last up had Tuppafad the sea coast might extend to Eermuda, vet our vessels were not to go beydnd the jurif didion of th» United States, for th« defence of the coast. This, he said, involved a cnntradi&ion. - -e wilhed the gentleman to define what he meant by ju'ifdiilion of the United States; he believed it was not decided whether it extended three or nine miles. If it were even nine miles, he said, these vessels might fometinies be obliged to go be yond the line mer«ly for the purpose of avoiding shoals Why, then, confine them so very tightly, When tlw purpose was expressly for the defence of the coast, it could not be expeded they would he employed in any other way j to employ them a, convoys would be unlawful v Mr. S p.wall proposed the following—" Ta de fend the fern coajl of the United States, and to repel any bojlility to tbeir vrfftls and commerce ivithin their jurif diMion. Mr. R. William* thought this amendment more objedionable than any other which had been proposed. . The jurifdidion not being afeertiined, disputes would of courfc be the conlequence. He thought Ihe resolution bettei without any of its amendments. He was difpefed to defend ourcom ajercewherever attacked ; but, if we had not the means to do this, he w .-uld not do any thing which wp'uld fetmto infer that we had not the wiih to do it, by confining our defence of it without our own territory. Mr. Nicholas was in favor of the amendment, • Mr. Allen thought the whole of t' c business triji'nf, *nd wished to postpone the kufraefs. until the bill came down from the Senate;-or, if they did pa&ihercfolutioo, they ought not to confine it within such narrvw 'bqiinds. After alluding to the vlino'ts amendn ents which had been proposed and rtppofi-d, nhich he Called " catches at /'Lrafet he moved to poftpuue the fubjed till M'oh- Mr, S. Smith agreed with the .gentleman from C&nncAicut that the prtfctit was a trifling business, and he would agfee to extend his motion till rtrxt feftion. It was a liUifutijii concetM. It was tifli navy, he said, which kept pofitfiion of our coast, ar.d what el ed.heafktd,»«uUl thefefmall vessels have upon them ? Some of our deserters had lately gone ou hoard" ir.e of the Britlffc-fhij i of war at Noifolk, and when thtff Were Jflii:aJed hack, they were refufed; fuppofc, said fce, one of thtfe vcfftls had been there to fcaveenfore- t cd the demand, could any ope fttppofe, it would • s have p -oduced any thing more than iiifult upon in- j fult ? They couM not ? He wilhed to leave these trifluig fubjetfis for the Senate, and to go on to . fti-tftrfTttiM bufmek; he meant the ftnantas of the ctuntry Mr. Bilookes was in favor of coojng to a de cision at present, fiilce the business had bee» fully di/eutfeck Mr. Allen wrlhed it portponed till Mon day ; by that time, he thought, the House would have come to its ftnfes. Mr. Giles also thought the business trifling, and proposed to poilpohe it till the firft Monday in November next. Mr. Hamper said, if he was of opinion with the gentleman from Conhe&ieut, that the Hoofe would have more under]} ancling on Monday than at present, he would agree to pollponc the question till that time ; but he believed gentlemen mufl receive some lessons of experience before they could be convinced of their error. The arguments of the gentleman from Maryland went to this ; if we cannot refill a Britilh 74, we will not refill a French pirate. But Mr. H. trulled they fhouM not be diverted by a jeji from doing what he believed good sense and good policy require them to do. Mr. S. Smith said he did not mean to make a jell of the business ; but merely to express his delire to go on to more import ant business. Mr. Thatcher asked, if this business was pollponed, whether when the bill came from the Senate, they could not proceed with it ? The Speaker answering in the affirma tive, Mr. Giles recalled his motion. Mr. Sewall said the bill in the Senate had not the fame objeft in view with this measure. It wastheir intention to provide veflels as a convoy. Mr. Gile6 believed it was not very or derly to refer to business doing in the Senate. He believed that bill was recommitted. The question for postponing the business 1 till Monday was put and negatived ; Mr. Sewall's amendmeut was then put and car ried without a division. The question ;vas then taken on the re- i solution as amended, 'by yeas and nays, as follow : YEAS. Meflrs. Allen, Baer, Balckvin, Bayard, Bradbury, Brookes, Bullock, Cabell, Cham plin, Clay, Clopton, Cochran, Craik, Dana, Davenport, Dennis, Dent, Ege, Elmen > dorff, Evans, Findley, A. Fofler, D. Fof j ter, Fowler, J. Freeman, Gallatin, Gillef pie, Glenn, Goodrich, Gordon, Hanna, I Harper, Harrifon, Hindman, Holmes, H°f mer, Iml'ay, Livingfton, S. Lyman, Ma chir, Mathews, M'Clenachan, Milledge, Morgan, Nicholas, Parker, Potter, Reed, Rutledge, Sewall, Shepard) Skinner, Sin nickfon, jer* Smith, N. Smith, S. Smith, W. W. Smith, (P.) Stanford, Swanwick, Thatcher, Thomas, Thompson, Van Allen, Van Cortlandt, Wadlworth, J. Williams, R. Williams.—6B. NATS... MelTrs. Blount, Brent, Bryan, Chapman, Clairborn, Coit, Dawfon, N. Freeman, Giles, Gregg, Grifwold, Havens, Jones, Locke, Lyon, Macon, M'Dowell, New, Sprigg, Varnum, Venable..—2l Committees were appointed to report bills in pursuance to the two refoluticins which had been agreed to. Mr. Varnum said there was a.fubjedt of importance referred to in the President'S speech, which had not yet been touched upon, he meant the re vi lion of the militia laws. In order to bring the business before the House, he moved a resolution for tho appointment of a committee to report whe ther any and what alterations in them were riecelTary. Agreed to, and a committee appointed. Mr. W. Smith called for the order of the day on the bill from the Senate for railing an additional corps of artillerists and engineers. . Mr. Blount allied whether it was not neceflary, when they were going iulo these espences, to go into an enquiry on the fub je£t of ways and means. He moved that a Committee of Ways and Means be ap pointed. Mr. W. Smith thought it better to pro ceed with the business in the way he propo 'fed. Before they went into the fubjeA of ways and meanS, he thought it was neceflary they Ihould know what money would be wanted, that they might provide according ly ; and they could not know this, until they had. gone through the several measures which lay before them. Mr. Nicholas said if it was neceflary to have additional revenue, it would be well to appoint a Committee to be calling about as to the proper way of raising it. If the mo ney were to be borrowed, they might be en quiring upon what terms it could be got— If they did not do this, when all the other business was done, they would have to wait until these enquiries were made. Mr. Giles thought the bill for raising additional troops might be very well put off till next session. He did not believe there was any necessity at present for an increase of the military establishment. He thought this t was the proper time for taking up the j fubjett of the revenue, since they mull ei ther borrow, or -raise money by taxes, and he trulled a Committee would now be ap pointed. Mr. W. Smith withdrew his motion, to give way to the appointment of a Commit tee of Ways and Means-. Mr., Blount said money woul<* certain ly be wanted. It was presumed it might be borrowed ; but no enquiry had been made on.the fubjeiEl. He was of opinion that the difficulties which would prejfeHt them- Celves on this fubjeft, would throw out of view a number of meafures'whichhe thought might very well be difpefifed With'. Mr. J. Williams thought if they ap pointed a Committee of Ways and Means, : I and were to go into the Militia Laws, tfity might fit all summer. He hoped they Ihould have gone otfi with the bill lor rtutuig i.»c" 1 and if'they had rejected that, and declined furnilhing cdrrVoys, and the measure of pur chasing vefiels for the defence of the coast, was left to the discretion of the Prefidcnt, that a Committee of Ways and Means would not have been neceflary. .1 A Committee of Ways and Means, con fining of seven members (after 15.and 13 had been proposed and negatived) was ap pointed. Adjourned. By this day's Mail. BOSTON, June 8 Late Important Intelligervce ! j Yesterday afternoon, arrived here the fliip ' Tf.lemachus, Capt. in thirty days from Liverpool, by whom, we have re ceived London papers to May 4th—which j contain Paris news to April 28th—much later than before received.—These papers a- j bound with events of the greatell magni tude, .The articles'mod intereflingto Americans contain well corroborated accounts, that pre liminaries of peace had been signed between the Emperor and French Republic ; having been concluded by the Archduke Charles, and Gen. Buonaparte. The events which led to this measure were an unexampled se ries of vi&ories by the French army of Italy over the Auftrians, in which the latter 101 l between 15 and 20,000 men in killed and wounded, and prisoners ; great quantities of ammunition, military ftore3, provisions, &c. and two millions worth of Qmcklilver from the mines of Idria. Our corroborat ing intelligence are :—Firft, Mr. Fox, in the Britilh House of Commons the 3d of May, announced the event, and Mr. Pitt did not contradict it.—Second, the French Executive Directory, on the 26th April, in a mefiage to the Council of Five Hundred, fays a dispatch from General Moreau is ter minated by the followir.gpoltfcript :: " A Courier which I received this moment from Gen. Buonaparte, announces me the signing of the Preliminaries of Peace with the Em peror." This meflage 'created the liveliefl emotions of joy as the harbinger of a speedy peace. Third, The Directory in another meflage on the fame day, to the Council of Five Hundred, refpecling the French Co lonies, fay, " The Conllitution ought not to be put in activity until after the Peace ; but every thing announces that this peace will be concluded in less than a month." [tC? It may be neceflary here to state, that that the reason why the Directory did not receive a Courier from Buonaparte, announ cing the above event, as early as General Mo reau, was, that General Buonaparte in or der to Hop the useless effufion of blood, di refted the Courier he sent with the intelli gence to proceed to Moreau's and Hoclie's armies on theßhine before he wenttoParis.[ —Fourth, Gen. Vernier, Governor of Strafburg, announced by the found of trum pet, on the 24th April, a letter from gen eral Regnio, to Gen, Vandamme, as fol lows : " I have the pleasure to inform you, General, that the preliminaries of a peace have just been.signed by the arniy of Italy; and an armistice has just been proclaimed between the Aultrian army and that of the Rhine and Moselle ; and 111 consequence you will cease all hoftil?ties, and the advanced polls will remain in the fame polkion." This event caused unusual demonflra tions of joy at Strafbourgv which was brilli antly illuminated. At Paris numerous dis charges of artillery announced the peafe— bufinefs was suspended—and the streets and garden's resounded with the shouts of vi-ve la Paix wve la Republic ! Fifth* General i Leckrc, arrived at Paris, from the army, left the two generals fettling the preliminary terms of peace. Gen. B. required, that | the formal acknowledgment of the French Republic, by the Emperor, should be ex punged from the treaty, as the Republic Hood not in need of it, for its exillencc.— A number of less prominent occurrences, convince us, that Peace. not ftde of the Rhine, after a pitched battle, and three ac tions, in which he took "v rical and heroicalPantomimePlEßß' depßC' rENCE, and HANDSOME MAC USLOAE —With Militsry rvolut'ons, Battlo, Tourna ments, and three Sc.-nes j ainted by JM. Per®- nauy. (Thfe particid rs will be given in the bills of the ')av ) For Sale, -The fine and remarkably faft Virginia and Philadelphia burthen about 100 tons. For terms apply to Rofs & SiDtfon. June ii. . dtf_ The sale of 40931 1-2 acres of Land on the waters of \V healing and Fiihing Creeks, in Washington county, adverted for 15th inft. is postponed to a future day, of which due nctice will be given, if a private sale does not take place. 3t 'une 12. St. Übes Salt. 3000 bushels St. Übes SALT, for sale by Philips, Cramond, & Co. T7. ?t For Sale, a new threeJlory Brick House. A T the Merchants Coffee Hotife, on Friday lA. next, the i/ith inft. at half past S o'clock to the evening, will be fold by Public Vendue, a genteel three story brick KoUle ; it is plfSfsnt ly litiutcd on the South fide of rch Street, th« fourth house above Fourth street. It may be viewed any time before she fi»!e. , Terms arc, one fourth in approved notes »f Sq days, and the refidne if required may re man ("even yesrs, «..i security ar.d interest annually, Sold clear of all incumbrances, and imiatdt * ate poflefiion maybegiven. 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