%\)t oppose, thwart, misrepresent, and defame a government, refling on Confidence \ alone, thereby to dejlroy this confidence, has been a. game as.of ten repeated as free govern ments ha ve been deflroyed. The late President, fiduced ly hie own consciousness of integrity, and mijed by the hypocritical pretensions of'the Antifederalifls, to superior attachment to liber ty, the Conjlant tant of diforganizers, appoiv,'- ed to 9 many of them to offices of importance. And whr.( have been the returns ? While he continued in office, they confiantly endeavored to ■'excite opposition, ty mifreprifentation andfalfe hood;—their malignity has folk-wed that father cf his country to his hallowed retire ment. And this friend of General Washing ton, as the honest Bache wijhes he should be believed, endeavors, bycajling " all the blame on the late President", to give himfelf conse quence, ly " exciting ike savages againfl our country. 0 shame I'when wilt thou rejlrain the votaries of feditioei ? This infamous tranfaaion is, at present veil ed, iV fame degree, with myflery When the whole of the Prrfident'f communications /hall be published, it will be obvious, that the objects of the traiterous combination were not confined to the application to the British Mvificr, but that that application ttfelf was dfigned to produce ej?Bs which should defeat the execution of our treaty with Spain, and it has. fa far, at leafl for the present, succeeded. The probability is, that the principal agent, Blount, -was an in s rumen.' in the hands of wily Frenchmen. That it was hoped the bait would succeed as it refpecled Great-Britain, and thereby involve us in hof.ility with that country ; and for this it is probable they relied upon our prejudices a gairflthat nation—At any rate, it was believ ed, that it could not fail to excite fear and jea lousy in the Span 'tfh government, and probably might facilitate the cession of territory to France, of which we have heard so much, and which we know is so ardently desired. Refpeaing Mr. Blount, it is a faß well known, that he has invariably attached himfelf to the oppofers of the admimflration—that on no national quejlion has he ever voted with its friends —that his personal associations have ev er been consonant with his votes—that during the laH winter his house was the rendezvons of those who were canvassing for the eleßion of the Correfponaent of Mazzei to the Preftdency —that there has been a corfiant and open inti macy between him and the French and Spanish agents here ; and it is believed that he is not e ■«en personal ly known to the British Minifies, but that all bis applications to him were made by other men andin other names. ' Juflice demands that it should be added, that Mr. Liflon gave no encouragement to the proposals, but repressed the firfl advances ; and that in his official communications, the reasons \ which influenced him in declining, produced a rejection of the proje3 by the Britijh admiuif tration. July 6. • COMMUNICATIONS. That pure and incorruptible patriot, th« Editor of thd Aurora, in order to raise a dust to cover the ignominious flight of one of tii * faction, and di vert the public attention from the objed to which < _ .it ought, and r.eyerthelcfs will be dirt ded, viz. the urifafe misrepresentation refpediing the Bri ' rift) miniftcr. No other refutition is necelfary, than the publicatian of Mr. Dillon's letter.' One , thing in Bache'silatcment is remarkable. " What are we to think (fays he) of -those Americans, who have been 01110 iamiiiar a footing with him," (the British mihiftar.) Hah ! it is something fulpi ciousthen, to he 011 a familiar footing with an am balTador ! 1 hose who know that Bache never made love to all the French ministers that have come to America since their revolution; that his houfc was not open to and frequented by them, and theirs by him at all h?urs, and particularly at midnight— will at once perceive the peculiar propr : ety with which a remark of this kind comes from .him. Men ef glass ! throw no stones. *lt h believed that this Mwtb P'uteof the Ja cobin Fiflion is father confeffor and privy counfel to mod cf illc tejftr gudgeons ami.ng the Rrprr ftmtttin tf frjnu in an American Council of One Hundred. ■ fkefublhnc Theory of the celebrated irankkfi realised. ' ' MR. MAISON, lhcw his gratitude t3 the refpetftable Companies who do him the honor to be present every evening at the Philo fcphical and Jdtchanical Expedients, executed by three artificial per/ons, informs the lovers of arts and fciencen, that THIS tViiNING, the 7th inft the're will be a furpriftog addition to the Phllofo phicat Experiments, which are ioalily exccuttd by the artificial Lady: after having fired the Cannons de Valta, Incited metals through means of her in flamed brcaft, &c. &c. (he wijl direct the eledtric fire os. a building, which, being provided with a pointed will remain perfedly'l'afc, but 1 Suving applied alnetalic ball to the point, a fecpnd , ilroke of tht elcdtric fre will fa 1 011 the fame, and lieftroy it imlantaneoufly. This oifcoveiy alone is fufficientto insure to the 1 celebrated Franklin an undoubted right to the gra titudc of the public : it is ill the country of this great man that an European I'hilofoph r (who al ready at Palis obtained marks of his efteern) will repeat thio beautiful experiment, beiarc his worthy fel'ow citizens, in order to celebrate and horior the men. "y of its author Thefc experiments will continue every Monday, Wednesday, a-r.d Friday evenings, at 8 o'clock rre cifcly, in the dancing-room of Mr. M DouclaH, in Fourtli-ftrect, between Chefnut and Walnut greets, and will be varied and augmented. Entrance half a dollar—Children, one quarter ol *4«fer July 7. —oiw&ftf OF THE UNITED STATES. Piiblijhed by Authority. FIFTH CONGRESS OP THE UNITED STATES. I ♦ AT THE FIRST SESS;OT>", ' Piq'un and held at the City of Philadelphia, ir. the State of Pennsylvania, on Mon day, the fifteenth day of May, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven. , An Aa for reviving and continuing Suits arid ( Process in the Circuit Court for the Diflrlß , of North-Cdrolina. WHEREAS, a fulTicient quorum of judges did not attend to lipid the • circuit court, for the diftridt of North-Caro • lina, for the purpose of doirtg bufmefs in ' June term, one thousand seven hundred and - h:nety-feven, in consequence whereof, cer t tain provisions are now become neceflary and - expedient, to prevent a failure of juftire in - the said court. • f Sedlion 1. BE it therefore enaUed by the t Senate and House of Representatives of tfe United States of America, in Congress affem r bled, I'hat it ihall and mgy be lawful for the 1 diftrift judge of the slate of North-Carolina, to direct the clerk of the said court, to issue - such process for the purpose of causing per f sous to be summoned to serve as jurymen at - the said courts at the term to commence the t thirteenth day of November next, as has » been before iff tied by the- clerk faid f court for the like purpose, returnable to ■ June term, one thousand feyen hundred and ninety-Jeveri ; that the persons ordered by ? the said process to be summoned for the said > purpose, shall be ordered to be summoned ■ | in the fame proportion, and from the fame • counties, as those persons who were ordered ' to be summoned for the like purpose, by. - process returnable at June term, one thousand ' seven hundred and ninety-seven : Provided, • that if it shall appear expedient, to the said - ' diftrid judge, that a different time of ro - ! tice shall be prescribed, than that hitherto ' : prescribed, he may cause such other time of > notice to be direfted to be given, as to him ' ftiall appear mod conducive to justice, aud convenient to the persons to be summoned : I And. the marshal is-hereby directed to cxe ' cute the said process, so to be issued ; and '■■ j. the persons who shall be legally summoned ' to attend as jurymen, in consequence there • ; of, are 1 ereby required to attend the said ' court, under the like penalties for difebedi r ence, as if the said process had been ordered r to be issued by the said court, in the ordina ' ry method of proceeding ; and the marshal ■ and the persons who (hall attend-as jutymen, 1 • in virtue of the said process, so to be issued, ■ i shall be entitled to the like allowances for > ; their services, refpedtively. Scftion 2. And be it further enaHed, That all suits and proceedings, of what nature or kind soever, which have been commenced ' in the said court, and not fmifhed, shall be proceeded on at the ensuing term, in the | fame manner, and to the fame effeft, as if : the said circuit court had been regularly held for the purpose of business in June term, one thousand ' seven hundred and ninety feven, and continuances had been regularly entered, of all suits and proceedings of the said term, in which they were depending, in the usual manner of proceeding, as the cafe might be. Section 3. J!nd be it further enaded, That ; all writs and other process sued out of the clerk's office of the said circuit court, accord ing to the accustomed method, bearing test in November term, one thousand seven hun dred and ninety-fix, or J%ne term, one thou sand seven hundred and ninety-seven, shall be held and deemed of the fame validity and effeft as if the term of June, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven, had been regularly held by a judge or judges compe tent to do business, and continuances in ,re fpeft to suits or other process returnable to the last mentioned term, had been regularly entered. JONATHAN DAYTON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS JEFFERSON, Vice Prefideilt of the United States, and President of the Senate. JlpproveJ, July. <,' 17Q7 : JOHN ADAMS/ President of the United States. Deposited among the Rolls in the Office of the Department of State. TIMOTHY PICKERING, Secretary as State. An A& to continue in force', to the end of the next Session, cersSin Aas, andparts of ABs, of limited duration. BE it enaßed by the Senate and Hoife of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That all laws of the United States, and parts of laws now in force, and which, by the terms of their limitation, will'expire with the end of this session of Congress, shall be, and hereby are continued in force, until the end of the next session. JONATHAN DAYTON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS JEFFERSON, Vice-President of the United States, and President of the Senate. AptruVed, July 5, 1707 : JOHN ADAMS, President of the United States. Deposited among the Kelts m the Office of tie Department of Slate. Timothy Pickering, Secretary of Stats. C a N ,G K £ S S. HOUSE of representatives, Monday, July 3. Mr. W. Smith, proposed a resolution, appropriating a sum of money for creating goals iu those States, in which there are not fufficient ones at present, for containing the prisoners of the United States. Thispropofitionvvasoppofedonihe ground of its being no way conne&ed with the pre f-nt session, and -negatived without a Ci vilian. The bill for laying a (lamp duty was read a third time, and the blanks filled up, viz. that for fiijng the time of the a£t's taking effe£t, with the 31ft d n y of December next —the fine ami imprisonment for counter feiting stamps, See. with 1000 dollars and 7 years iraprifonpiAt ; and the time for which the duration of the act was limited, with five years. The yeas and nays upon the palling of the bill were'as follow : YEAS. Mtffrs. Aljen, Bayafd, Brookes, Coch ran, Coit, Craik, Dana, Davenport, Den nis, Der.t, Evans, A. Folter, D. Foster, J. Freeman, Gillefpje, Glenn, Goodrich, Gordon, Grifvrold, Hanna, Harper, Hart ley, Hindman, Holmer, S. Lyman, Ma chir, Matthews, Morgan, Morris, Otis, Potter, Reed, Rutledge, Schureman, Sew all, Shepard, Sinnickfon, Sitgreavss, J. Smith, N. Smith, W. Smith, (Charles.) Thatcher, Thomas, Thompson, Van Alen, Wadfworth, J.. Williams- 47. NAYS. Messrs. Baer, Baldwin, Baird, Benton, Blount, Bryan, Burgess, Cabell, Champ lin, Claiborne, Clopton, Clay, Davis, Daw lon, Elmendorf, Fowler, Gallatin, Havens, Holmes, Jones, Livingiton, Locke, Lyqn, Macon, M'Clfuachan,M'Dovvell, Milledge, New, Nicholas, Parker, Skinner, W. Smith, (P.) Sprigg, Standford, Sump ter, A. Trigg, J. Tiigg, Van Cortlandt, Varnuni, Venable, R. Williams— 41. Mr. Gallatin moved the order of the day on the bill making additional appropri ations for the year j 797. The houfc accordingly went into a com mittee of the whole on this fubjeft, and the blanks of the bill were filled. The firft five items were agreed to with out objeftlon. On Mr. W. Smith's pro poling to fill the 6th item with 60,000 dollars, Mr. Nicholas, called for the reading of the particulars which composed this sum. They confilted of the falai-y and outfits of Ministers to France ; to Prulfia, and to the Barbary powers. Mr. N, wilhed the sum mentioned to be forthe tyfinifter of Ber lin, viz. 13,500 dollars to be deducted from the 60,5 ro, as he knew of no pollible use that a Minister to Berlin could be of. He thought the present extension of foreign in tercourse was far too great ; he wished much to fecit narrowed, andtrultcd it would be done at the ne*t feflion, as the law on that fubjeft would then expire. He "wish ed, therefore, to reduce this sum, in order to to fliew their wish to have the business of foreign intercourse circumscribed. He mo ved to fill th>; blank with 47,000 dollars. Mr. Harper thought it was too late for the gentleman to talk in this manner, bc caufe a sum of money . had uniformly beeu appropriated for the purpose of foreign in tercourse. It. was extraordinary, therefore, that at this day, if there were no good reasons for it, that lhey (hould now be called upon to depart from their usual praftice. He hoped it would not meet with the approba tion of the house. Mr. M'DoweLl was opposed to voting any considerable sum for this purpose. It might have been proper heretofore : but he could fee rio reason at present for entering into treaties with nations with whom we neither had, nor could have any considera ble connection. He wished to pAuse before they agreed to this measure ; because, if a greed to, he expected it would hereafter be produced as a reason why they should extend the business Hill farther. Mr. Nicholas said, the gentleman from S. Carolina seemed' to have miltaken him. He did not propose to ftr/ke out any thing which had heretofore been agreed to, but whpt related to a further extension of our foreign intercourse. Of the four northern powers, he thought it was least necelTary to have any connection with Prufiia j Ihe Was in a situation to favor us less than any other power. If a new treaty were entered into with Pruflia, he supposed it would be next proposed to have one with Sweden, Den mark and Rufiia, as we had a much greater commercial conn«£tion witb those powers than with Prulfia. As to their having once agreed to go into this business of foreign in tercourse, it was no reason for continuing it after they were convinced the fylletn was injurious to the welfare andhappinefs of this country. Mr. W. Smith said, this motion invol ved in it a very delicate conlideration. They were called upon to vote for a less sum thai! that estimated, upon the ground that President had done wrong in fending a min ister to Berlin. His colleague was right, when he said this was running counter to ef tablilhecLrule. He thought it would be con trary to the spirit of the constitution, be cause the power of judging of the propriety of fending mi Mitel's to foreign 'countries rest ed with the'Prefident and Senate ; but this house conceiving they had made an injudi cious exercise of that right, fay they will withhold the necessary appropriations ; which, he said, would be fxercifing a pow er over th.t branch of government in which the constitution had alone placed the power of doing the that the President having sent a minister to Berlin, they were as much bound to appro priate money to pay the expense, as they were bound to provide for the salary of the President, or of the judges. Some gentle men, however, thought, that fueh a litua ticn might exilt, rt> would juft'fy the with holding of epprojniiftons. Admitting that there might be fueh a situation, a question would arise whether it should be done by withholding an, appropriation, by impeach ment, or by a vote of eenfure on the Presi dent. For if that House were to arrest an appropriation, be supposed the Senate would not fuffer the bill to pass without it, and un lesS they came into the opinion of the Sen ate, no bill could pass. He found Ir.mfelf embarrassed in discus sing this question, bccaufe it was not their province to adduce reasons for fending a min ister to any particular place ; but he thought if it were desirable we lliould have a minis ter at any foreign court, it was that of Prus sia ; and from the connexion which fublift ed between that monarch and the French republic, he should have supposed that those gentlemen who wilhed so much to harmo nize with the French Republic, would not have objedted to the fending of a minister there. The treaty we formerly had with Pruflia was expired, and he believed that court had requeued a renewal of it ; the President had also recommended it in his speech at the opening of the feflion ; and there might exist j reasons for it which were not proper laid before that house. He agreed frivA pri ma facia there appeared to be a jjifeter pro priety for us to enter into tre; / with Den mark, Sweden and Ruflia than with Pruflia. We had a treaty with Sweden about to ex pire ; and it was riot improbable that the gentleman fer,t to Berlin, might also be em ployed in making a treaty with Sweden. If gentlemen had intended to make the present ferions opposition to the measure, he thought it would have been more candid to have given notice of the intention, that gen tlemen might have been prepared to meet it. Mr. Gallatin said, it was rather An gular that the chairman of the committee of ways and means should be unprepared to meet any opposition to this measure, since he knew that several members of that com mittee were opposed to it, and he mult there fore have expedted that they would have moved to appropriate a less sum. But it appeared as if the gentleman wilted to make a very serious question of what he considered as merely incidental, viz. whether they should vote so much money, or a less sum. He believed he should shew it was of little importance. I In relation to the constitution, it was merely said that the Prefi dent should have \ ppwer to appoint ministers, ambafiadors, &c. but, by the power to appoint ministers, could never be meant that he had the power to fend ministers to all the courts of Eu rope, and to all the principalities of Germa ny, and call upon that house only in an indi rect way to agree to the appropriation. As to the'power of appointing ministers, it was a new power gfiven to the Executive by the present constitution. The firft Congress took up the fubjeCt. They might have said there should be four or fix ministers employ ed. They did not do this ; but they de clared that the salary of a minister lliould not f :ceed 2,000 dollars, nor his out fit a similar f n, nor the whole 1 annual expense 40,000 dollars. By this check they divided the power with the Executive ; and if this pow er were not ailed upon, it would have been absurd to have given it to them. He did not look upon the present question as by any means a constitutional one. The President had appointed a minister for Berlin, for rea sons best known to himfelf; and the question betwixt them was, whether the appointment was a proper one. They had been yearly called upon for additional appropriations for this object : if they thought it necelTary to check this fnirit for foreign connections, or were de termined not to renew the law relative to foreign negociations, it would be right to agree to the proposed reduction. As to impeachment, or eenfure, they were out of the question. The President thought a mi nister to the court in question would be of some use ; they thought differently, and that the money would be more valuable. Where was the cause of acufation ? It was merely a difference of opinion. Another collateral argument of the gen tleirtan from S. Carolina, related to what the Senate would do. He did not think it par liamentary to fay the Senate would do this or that. 1 - To enforce the propriety of fending a minister to Berlin, the gentleman from S. Carolina had suggested two reasons, viz. the 'of the President, and the of renewing our treaty. He did not think a renewal of that treaty would be of any advantage to us ; nor did he think any gentleman was anxious about it. By that treaty the United States were prohibit ed from fitting out privateers in any cafe. But he thought that gentleman had used a strong argument againji fending a minister to Berlin. He did not know how far the the gentleman was well informed ; bi)t if the object of the minister was to prevail upon the king of Pruflia to obtain an accommo dation for us' with France, he thought it would be the worst policy which could be adopted. Such an offer of mediation would not be likely to produce an accommoda tion. [Mr. S. said he had mentioned this merely as a suggestion of his own, without any authority.} Another consideration, Mr. G. laid, in duced him to be in favor of reducing the ap priation was, that the money was altogether, unnecessary. He did not suppose the gen tleman from S. Carolina vvilhed to appro priate for ministers/ which had no existence, and the money now asked had been appro priated already in full. It was true it was appropriated for a minister to be sent to Por tugal ; but none had been sent there, so that the money remained unexpended, and the fame gentlemen intended for the former em bassy, was now employed on this. The fact was that their appropriations for foreign in tercourse were not particularized, but made in gross. There was. therefore, a fufficient sum of money in hand, iince the oEjeci ha 3 merely been changed. Mr. J. Williams argued in favor cf tits larger fuhi, as it had been' usual to- appro-' prial< money to pay the expense of any mi- 1 nitter Vvhi'ch the Prefiden - . (accordingto the ' power placed in him by the conft't-utioii) though? it neteifary to fend abroad. He thought it might He attended with bad'ccn ftquences to withold the appro- - priations for this [purpose, especially when a miniiler had already been appointed. Mr N. Smith iai 1 tTi*i> had agitajed i\c house ever since the gentleman fiom Pennfyl,vania came into five government ; as it had been ins eonjtant endeavour to swallow up the executive power in that lioufe- For cer tainly, if that hoUse had the powir to approp-i ---ate'or r.ot to appropriate, to deflroy, or support the appointment of a miniiler, at their pleal'ure, it was terta'|i that the executive was r-o longer an independent branch of government. Mr. S. 'said, as he wilhed to preftrve the government pure, he should always bear teitimonv ag.inft such a doQrine. He considered the executive as the sole judge as to the propriety of appoint ing fc tien ministers ; and being sole judge, that houfc had no rtgh-t to judge over his head, any mote tljan over the head of the judiciary ; and w>. *-?ver any one branch of government fhalJ ptciume to judge over the head of another, 'liore was an end to 1 lie' puritv of ouf' system. , Mr. Baldwin spoke < f the ground upon which this business was originally fettled. He laid '.hey determined not to lay to the President to what place a miniftej should be fern, or what quality of miniiler fhou.ci be appointed; but t}iey stipulated the quantity of money to be expended. At the tim* the furn was firft enlarged, a parti cular urgency ex'ift: d. He looked upon the ex tension of this power as unfortunate for this country, and he IhouM be against its going far ther. The gentlemap from Conuedticut had therefore difturbedhiralelfunneceffarily, when he thought this doilrine was of recent date ; it waa certainly as old as the government. Mr. Thatcher. thought'the gentleman last up was mistaken. He did tiot believe that bv confiniug the expenditure in'rdpefl 1o fpfeigu neget iations to 40,000 dollars,- it was. meant to irammel the powers of the President; but that the ftm was granted because it was thought it would be fuflkiem for.tl»e purpose. He had no idea that they had a light to 1 the Presi dent in this refpeift. Mr. SeWAll ct nfidered this qurtiion of so much important* that heccpld not refrain from delivering his opinion upch it. He mGft«d upon the conllitutien being char in placing the pow er in the executive, and that the appointment of miniftera liood upon the fame ground as the ap pointment of the judges of the federal »ourt. The question, he said, l'eemed to c6nie to this: Whether the Prelkeflt Ihould obtain an appro priation from that lioufe, before he proceeded.to appoint a irinilter A dosrir.e cf th; 3 kind would beextrem ly inconvenient, finite Congress Were only in feffi&n at certain period., whereas it could not be said at what precift time it should be neceflary 10 fend a miniiitr to a foreign coun try. If the President should be guilty of exces sive ill conduiH, gentlemen would do well to come forward and fay he had done wrong ; but even in that cafe, he should be doubtful whether that house would be juftified in refefing an ap propriation ; as it would be neeeflary to punish the Prefioeot in a different way .• for in refufijig the neccifary money, the perfon 1 employed on the embalf) would be punilhed, and not the Pre sident. Mr. Gallatin wilhed the gentleman from Connefl'u ut instead of being angry, had attend ed to the fa